3rd International Workshop on Intent-Based Networking (WIN'2023)
June 19, 2023 // Madrid, Spain
Program
Monday June 19, 2023
14:30 — Welcome and Workshop introduction
14:40 — Keynote talk
Chair: Sabine Randriamasy
Walter Cerroni (University of Bologna, Italy)
Walter Cerroni is an Associate Professor of communication networks at the University of Bologna, Italy. Previously, he was a Junior Researcher with Alcatel, Dallas, Texas, USA, a Research Associate at the National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT), Italy an Assistant Professor at the University of Bologna, Italy, and a visiting Assistant Professor at the School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. His recent research interests include software-defined networking, network function virtualization, edge/fog/cloud computing, service function chaining, intent-based service and network management. He co-authored more than 140 articles published in the most renowned international journals, magazines and conference proceedings. He serves as Lead Series Editor for the IEEE Communications Magazine Series on Network Softwarization and Management, and served as Associate Editor for the IEEE Communications Letters and as Technical Program Co-Chair for IEEE NetSoft 2020, CNSM 2022, as well as for other IEEE-sponsored international workshops and conferences. He is also serving as Chair of the IEEE NetSoft Steering Committee for the 2023-2025 term.
15:25 — Technical Session 1: IBN Formalization Efforts
Chair: Molka Gharbaoui
Ontology Driven Closed Control Loop Automation
Alex Randles (ADAPT Centre for Digital Content & Trinity College Dublin, Ireland), Declan O'Sullivan (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland), John Keeney and Liam Fallon (Ericsson, Ireland)
On helping users in writing network slice intents through NLP and User Profiling
Roberto Caldelli (CNIT Florence Research Unit, Italy), Piero Castoldi, Molka Gharbaoui (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy), Barbara Martini, Modestino Matarazzo and Filippo Sciarrone (Universitas Mercatorum, Italy)
16:10 — Coffee break
16:35 — Technical Session 2: IBN Prototyping Initiatives
Chair: Danny A. Lachos Perez
Chat-IBN-RASA: Building an Intent Translator for Packet-Optical Networks based on RASA
Celso Henrique Cesila, Christian Esteve Rothenberg, Rossano P. Pinto, Darli Mello, Kayol S. Mayer, Dalton Arantes and Andrés Felipe Escallón Portilla (University of Campinas - UNICAMP, Brazil)
Declarative Provisioning of Virtual Network Function Chains in Intent-based Networks
Jacopo Massa, Stefano Forti, Federica Paganelli, Patrizio Dazzi and Antonio Brogi (University of Pisa, Italy)
AppleSeed: Towards Intent-Based Automatic Multi-Domain Infrastructure Management via Few-Shot Learning and Program Materialization
Jieyu Lin, Kristina Dzeparoska (University of Toronto, Canada), Ali Tizghadam (TELUS & University of Toronto, Canada) and Alberto Leon-Garcia (University of Toronto, Canada)
17:40 — Experts panel
Chair: Luis Contreras
Walter Cerroni (see bio above)
Yacine Ghamri-Doudane is a Full Professor at the La Rochelle University in France. He received a Ph.D. degree in computer networks from University Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris 6, France, in 2003, and a Habilitation to Supervise Research (HDR) in Computer Science from Université Paris-Est, in 2010. His current research lays in the area of wireless networking and mobile computing with an emphasis on topics related to the Internet of Things (IoT), Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, 5G and Beyond as well as Digital Trust. Yacine holds three international patents, authored or co-authored eight book chapters, 51 peer-reviewed international journal articles and about 177 peer-reviewed conference and workshop papers. Yacine chairs the IEEE Smart Cities Technical Community 2.0 Meetings and Conferences Committee since May 2022. He chaired the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Technical Committee on Information Infrastructure & Networking (TCIIN) from 2010 to 2013, and also the IEEE ComSoc Humanitarian Communications Technologies Ad hoc Committee (HCTC) from 2012 to 2015. Yacine was also in the IEEE Smart Cities Initiative Steering Committee from 2014 to 2017 and since 2022, and is Member-at-Large of the GLOBECOM/ICC Technical Content (GITC) Standing Committee, the two flagship conferences of the IEEE ComSoc. Yacine is a Senior Member of the IEEE since 2019.
Barbara Martini is a Professor and coordinator of the PhD program "Big Data and Artificial Intelligence" at Universitas Mercatorum and Affiliate Professor with Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy. After her Master Degree at University of Florence in Electronic Engineer, she worked as software designer, developer and product integrator for two large telco companies, Italtel and Marconi Communications (currently, Ericsson), from 1999 to 2003. She was with the Italian University Consortium for Telecommunication (CNIT) from 2003 to 2022 with leading roles from 2009, coordinating research activities in the field of network virtualization and orchestration in 5G, network control/management architectures and programmability, service platforms for networking, intent-based networking and security solutions for multi-domain networks and NFV deployments. The research is carried out in several application scenarios, from Logistics, Genomics to E-health, to name a few. Prof. Barbara Martini co-authored over 100 papers in top-notch scientific journals and international conference proceedings.
She has been involved in several national/EU research projects, the recent ones 5GPPP 5GEx, 5GTRANSFORMER, 5GROWTH in 5G/SDN/NFV, ICONET in Physical Internet for Logistics, and in several FIRE projects (OFELIA, Fed4FIRE+, TRIANGLE, 5GINFIRE) with leading roles.