[hpc-announce] CFP - IEEE CommMag Serverless Mobile Computing - Deadline extended (Apr 30)

[Adel N. Toosi]

Dear colleagues,

Due to various requests, the deadline for the IEEE Communication Magazine
Feature Topic on **Serverless Mobile Computing: From Theory to Practice**
has been extended.

New deadline: 30 April 2023 <<< FIRM

https://www.comsoc.org/publications/magazines/ieee-communications-magazine/cfp/serverless-mobile-computing-theory-practice

Details below.
Adel

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Call for Papers

Networking technology is slowly but steadily adopting two key principles
from cloud computing, namely, softwarization and modularization. This has
resulted in the success of technologies such as Software Defined Networking
(SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV), which are being adopted by
mobile networking as well. On the other hand, serverless computing has
revolutionized cloud computing and brought to attention
Function-as-a-Service (FaaS), which is convenient to programmers and
enables extreme scalability.

In principle, convergence of the modularized and softwarized networks and
serverless computing technologies could benefit both: future network
architectures would take advantage of the leading technologies and best
practices in the cloud ecosystem, which already today can manage
efficiently a massive amount of services worldwide; cloud solutions would
expand the portfolio of their target applications by also including
real-time, reliable, and very high throughput applications that are not yet
supported. However, there are a number of challenges that need to be
addressed and require the attention of the research community, for
instance: current VNFs are not truly agnostic to the underlying NFV
infrastructure; the ability to operate at wire speed is challenged by
kernel bypassing techniques; emerging mobile applications with strict
service level agreements (SLAs) along with this native cloudification of
networks results in a management problem of unprecedented complexity.

Operators and stakeholders need extensive validation of these automation
solutions when providing strict SLA (e.g., mission critical, ultra reliable
low-latency) prior to their adoption. This FT/SI calls for recent advances
of practical work on the adoption of the serverless paradigm in the above
areas. The objective is to have a selection of high-quality technical
papers, with experimental validation, to assess the maturity of the
technology towards its adoption by the mobile communication industry.

Prospective authors are invited to submit articles on topics including, but
not limited to:
Functional programming for NFV
Serverless computing in edge, fog, and cloud architectures
Implementation of virtual network functions with FaaS
Protocols for distributed serverless computing in the networks of the future
Serverless computing in 6G network architectures
Performance evaluation of serverless mobile computing
Modelling, analysis, and simulation of serverless mobile computing
Serverless computing for Internet of Things applications
Technical-economic analysis of serverless mobile computing business cases
Ultra low latency serverless computing technologies
Serverless computing for the control/management network planes and SDN
Novel virtualization paradigms for extreme serverless computing in mobile
networks
Dependable and consistent state management for FaaS workflows
Wire-speed function call invocations
Dynamic and automated interconnection of serveless environments
Serverless-based network slicing

Submission Guidelines

Manuscripts should conform to the standard format as indicated in the
Information for Authors section of the Manuscript Submission Guidelines (
https://www.comsoc.org/publications/magazines/ieee-communications-magazine/author-guidelines/manuscript-submission
).
Please, check these guidelines carefully before submitting since
submissions not complying with them will be administratively rejected
without review.

All manuscripts to be considered for publication must be submitted by the
deadline through Author Portal (
https://ieee.atyponrex.com/journal/COMMAG-IEEE). Select the FT-2225 /
Serverless mobile computing: from theory to practice topic from the
drop-down menu of Topic/Series titles. Please observe the dates specified
here below noting that there will be no extension of submission deadline.

Important Dates

Manuscript Submission Deadline: 30 April 2023
Decision Notification: 15 July 2023
Final Manuscript Due: 1 September 2023
Publication Date: October 2023

Guest Editors

Pablo Serrano (Lead Guest Editor)
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

Claudio Cicconetti
IIT-CNR, Italy

Meryem Simsek
Nokia Bell Labs, USA

Adel N. Toosi
Monash University, Australia

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