Emerging Automation Techniques for the Future Internet
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Deadline: October 31, 2017 | Date: October 31, 2017
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CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALSEmerging Automation Techniques for the Future InternetA book edited by M. Boucadair and C. JacquenetContact: mohamed.boucadairorange.com; christian.jacquenetorange.comOrangeTo be published by IGI Global: [https://tinyurl.com/y7xh743p]INTRODUCTIONService portfolios proposed by service and network operators havedramatically expanded over the past ten years, at the cost of extracomplexity. The diversity and the complexity of these services havebeen raising technical challenges for many years, not only during theservice design phase but also during the service operation phase.The emergence of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) techniques such asdynamic resource allocation schemes, as well as network functionvirtualization techniques has often been the opportunity for somevendors to make debatable promises about their so-called flexibilityor their intrinsic ability to facilitate the automation of theservice delivery procedures.Reality is much different. As a matter of fact, process automationis often restricted to dynamic configuration tasks, whose steeringrelies upon decision-making procedures that remain "manuallydeclarative": the data that are used to feed the computation logicthat will drive the execution of configuration tasks are staticallydeclared. In addition, this rather embryonic automation only dealswith tasks that remain local to a device to the detriment of aglobal, systemic view that would be able to guarantee the overallconsistency of the actions taken by the said computation logic todeliver a service.Automation is actually far more protean: from the dynamic exposureand negotiation of service parameters to feedback mechanisms that aremeant to assess that what has been allocated complies with what hasbeen negotiated, the automation of service delivery and operationalprocedures relies upon a set of functional meta-blocks (dynamicdiscovery of the network, its topology, its components, dynamicnegotiation techniques, dynamic resource allocation and policyenforcement schemes, autonomous back-up mechanisms, etc.) coupledwith control loops that interact in a deterministic and sometimesautonomic fashion.The need for such automation is even more critical in the so-called5G networking era where (high bandwidth) services are supposed to bedelivered on-the-fly, at the granularity of the requirementsexpressed by a single customer. In addition, the ability of an end-user to dynamically customize the service he/she has subscribed to asa function of the evolution of the service usage over time is verylikely to distort legacy, statically-conceived, service designschemes: automation techniques can help addressing such newchallenges, while facilitating dynamic service and resourceadjustments for the sake of optimized network usage.Of course, automation does not come for free: besides the humanimplications that will inevitably question the role of networkdesigners and administrators because of the progressive blurring ofIT/network borders, automation is likely to dramatically impact theway network, CPU and storage resources are allocated and managed. Inparticular, determinism is critical for the proper operation ofautomated networking infrastructures to minimize the risk of the madrobot syndrome and other possible collateral effects, such assecurity and robustness implications.OBJECTIVE OF THE BOOKThe book is meant to provide a detailed and comprehensive landscapeof the automation techniques that are meant to facilitate thedelivery of flexible, agile, customized connectivity servicesregardless of the nature of the networking environment (5G, IoT,legacy IP networking infrastructures).The book will focus on means for delivering and operating servicesover robust, new Internet architectures that combine advancedforwarding and routing schemes, mobility features and customer-adapted resource facilities (bandwidth, security, etc.).The book is meant to provide a detailed state-of-the-art as well asevolution perspectives of the set of techniques that can be used forautomated networking purposes. In particular, the book will discuss:o Automated service delivery and invocation procedures by end userequipment (CPE, User Equipment), including automated procedures toundertake Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance andSecurity (FCAPS) functions.o Network bootstrapping procedures:Including (but not limited to) the ability to dynamically discoverthe network nodes, CPU and storage resources, the networktopology, the network functions and their status, as well as theappropriate security mechanisms that are meant to provide someguarantees about the robustness of exchanges between networkcomponents and the computation logic that is at the core ofautomated service delivery and operational procedures.o Dynamic service parameter exposure and negotiation capabilities:A customer (including, but not limited to, a network API, aservice subscriber, a 3rd party) may have the ability todynamically express service requirements (from various, possiblycombined, standpoints: quality of service, security, servicescope, etc.) and thus negotiate with the service provider so thatthe latter can best accommodate the said requirements given avariety of inputs that include (but are not limited to) the amountof available resources, their location, the network planningpolicy, network-originated notifications, etc. The outcomes ofsuch negotiation are then used by the aforementioned computationlogic to make decisions accordingly (about resource allocation andpolicy enforcement, in particular).o Dynamic resource allocation and policy enforcement schemes:Based upon (standard, service-inferred) data models, thecomputation logic that resides at the core of the automatednetworking infrastructure dynamically derives negotiation outcomesinto configuration tasks and policy provisioning information thatare processed by participating components to automatically deliverthe connectivity service subscribed by the customer.o Service fulfillment and assurance:The need for feedback mechanisms and control loops along theservice delivery process is crucial to make sure that what hasbeen delivered complies with what has been negotiated.o Security:Automated networking infrastructures raise new security challengesbesides the aforementioned mad robot syndrome. The ability toprovide guarantees about the clearance of a customer to design,negotiate, allocate, or access network resources or to make surethat a third party provider is entitled to modify the amount ofresources required to deliver a service are among the numerousexamples of security issues raised by the introduction of a highlevel of automation. A particular focus will be on automateddetection and mitigation of denial of service attacks.RECOMMENDED TOPICS INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO, THE FOLLOWING:o Automated network discovery and setupo Dynamic service parameter exposureo Dynamic service subscription and deliveryo Data and Information modelso Dynamic resource allocationo Dynamic policy enforcemento Dynamic DDoS detect and automatic mitigationo Service discovery and dynamic negotiationo Security challenges for Automationo Service Function Chainingo Automation within home LANs and enterprise networkso Advanced network service production schemes by means of automatedtasks and procedureso Automated and dynamic Interconnect design schemeso Automation for Internet of Thingso Internet measurement, modeling, and visualization at largeo CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) serviceabilityo Automated power-aware networkingo Automatic Service Assurance and Fulfillmento Software-Defined Networking (SDN) & Automationo Network Function Virtualization (NFV) & Automationo Novel zero-touch Data Center architectureso Operation & Maintenanceo Assessment of how Self-* (self-configuring, self-healing)architectures can be deployed at the Internet scaleo Tech-eco analysiso Assessing performance of automation: metrics, metrology,benchmarking techniqueso Regulatory aspects and human implicationsSUBMISSION PROCEDUREYou are invited to submit to the editors a 2-page extended abstractof the chapter you propose. Full manuscripts will be solicited uponthe acceptance decision based on the initial proposals. A secondround of review of the full manuscripts will be organized beforetheir final versions are produced for publication.The initial extended abstract must contain the following information:- Title- Full list of authors with affiliations and contact information- 2-page description of the chapter contents: problem statement,technical options, evolution perspectives, etc., along withthe foreseen chapter organization.IMPORTANT DATES- Submission of initial extended abstract: October 31, 2017- Notification of acceptance: November 30, 2017- Submission of full manuscript: March 16, 2018- Return of final review: April 30, 2018- Submission of final version with revisions: May 18, 2018- Target date for publication: Q4 2018
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