IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks
7-9 November 2016 – Palo Alto, California, USA

Program

Below is the overview of the program. For exact start times please refer to the detailed program.

 

Schedule Monday, Nov 7 Tuesday, Nov 8 Wednesday, Nov 9
7.30 am Registration/Breakfast Registration/Breakfast Registration/Breakfast
Room: Spruce Oak Sequoia Cypress Cypress
8.30 am O4SDI Tutorial 1:
P4: A Hands-on Introduction
Tutorial 3:
NFV & Data Plane Optimizations
Keynote 1:
Geng Lin
Keynote 2:
Brian Skerry & Ilango Ganga
9.30 am Panel 1:
What’s the Right Deployment Architecture for NFV?
Panel 2:
The Role of NFV and SDN in 5G Network Transformation
10.15 am Break Break Break
10.30 am O4SDI Tutorial 1:
P4: A Hands-on Introduction
Tutorial 3:
NFV & Data Plane Optimizations
Break Break
10.45 am Technical Session S1:
NFV-SDN Distributed System Design
Technical Session S4:
Fault Tolerance and Flow Management in SDNs
12.15 pm Lunch (not provided)
12.30 pm Lunch (not provided) Lunch (not provided)
1.30 pm SNS’16 Tutorial 2:
Open Baton
Tutorial 3:
NFV & Data Plane Optimizations
1.45 pm Technical Session S2:
Best Papers Session
Technical Session S5:
Advanced Topics in NFV-SDN Systems
3.15 pm Break
3.30 pm SNS’16 Tutorial 2:
Open Baton
Tutorial 3:
NFV & Data Plane Optimizations
Break Closing Remarks
3.45 pm Technical Session S3:
Performance Analysis, Monitoring, and Security
5.30 pm Demonstrations
7.00 pm Reception

 

 

Download the detailed program here.

 


Workshops

The following workshops will be held on November 7, 2016:

The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Orchestration for Software Defined Infrastructure (O4SDI)

The First International Workshop on Security in NFV-SDN (SNS2016)

More details for authors here.

 

Tutorials

The following tutorials will be held on November 7, 2016:

P4: A Hands-on (1/2 day)

Open Baton – The first comprehensive and standard compliant NFV Framework (1/2 day)

NFV & Data Plane Optimizations – Tools and Tips (full day)

 


Main Conference Track

Keynote 1:

Geng Lin, Head – Infrastructure Engineering and Operations for Emerging Markets, Google

 

Keynote 2: Platform transformation for NFV and SDN

Brian Skerry and Ilango Ganga, Intel

 

Panels:

What’s the Right Deployment Architecture for NFV?

The Role of NFV and SDN in 5G Network Transformation

 

Technical Sessions