Venue
L3S Research Center (15th floor)
Appelstaße 9A
30167 Hannover
Location: Google maps
Organizer
Panagiotis Papadimitriou, Leibniz University Hannover / L3S, Germany
Scope
The NFV Workshop is a forum for discussing ideas, challenges, and solutions on topics pertaining to NFV, such as service chaining, service mapping, virtualization support for network functions (NFs), network service scaling, architectures and interfaces for NF control and configuration, NFV orchestration platforms, dataplane optimizations and networks stacks for NFs, applications of NFV in mobile and cellular networks. The workshop will consist of invited talks from academia and industry.
Registration
Registration is free. Use the following link for registration:
https://fs22.formsite.com/ppapadim/form1/index.html
Program
9:30 – 9:35 Welcome
09:35 – 10:40 Network Service Embedding
Stefan Schmid, TU Berlin & T-Labs, Germany: Algorithmic Challenges in Network Function Virtualized Networks [Slides]
Ahmed Abujoda, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany: MIDAS: Middlebox Discovery and Selection for On-Path Flow Processing [Slides]
10:40 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:45 Wireless
Zhongliang Zhao, University of Bern, Switzerland: Mobile Cloud Networking [Slides]
Zhen Cao, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany: FreeSurf: Application-Centric Wireless Access [Slides]
Kostas Katsalis, University of Thessaly, Greece: Building Virtual Wireless Testbeds Towards Open 5G Experimentation [Slides]
12:45 – 13:45 Lunch Break
13:45 – 16:00 SDN and Programmability
Aaron Yi Ding, University of Helsinki, Finland: SoftOffload: An Open-source Platform to Augment Mobile Offloading [Slides]
Apoorv Shukla, TU Berlin, Germany: Substrate-aware SDN abstractions [Slides]
Tobias Jungel, BISDN, Germany: baseboxd – OpenStack integration [Slides]
Kimon Karras, Future Intelligence, Ireland: Enabling Programmable Logic in the Cloud [Slides]
16:00 – 16:15 Coffee Break
16:15 – 17:20 NFV State Management and Orchestration
Manuel Peuster, University of Paderborn, Germany: Distributed VNF State Management / Introduction of the 5GPPP project SONATA [Slides]
Lefteris Mamatas, University of Macedonia, Greece: Management Information Orchestration for SDN/NFV Environments [Slides]
17:20 – 17:30 Concluding Remarks
Photos
Directions
From Hannover Airport:
Taxi (Duration: 30 minutes, Cost: 35 EUR).
Suburban train line S5 to Hannover Central Station (Hannover Hauptbahnhof). From there, see the following section.
From Hannover Central Railway Station:
Take the tram line (U-Bahn/S-Bahn) to Kröpke, which is the next stop. Most trams passing through the central station travel via Kröpke, for example, you can take lines 3, 7 or 9 travelling in the direction Wettbergen or Empelde or lines 1 or travelling in the direction of Sarstedt or Rethen. Alternatively, you can walk to Kröpke from the front of the central station at Ernst August Platz via Bahnhofsstraße or the underground shopping passage Passarelle/Niki de St. Phalle (approx. 10 minutes on foot). From Kröpke, take one of the following tram lines from the underground station: Line 4 (Direction Garbsen) or Line 5 (Direction Stöcken) to the station Schneiderberg / Wilhelm-Busch-Museum.From the tram station, cross over to Schneiderberg at the traffic lights and continue until you reach Appelstraße (approximately 8 minutes on foot).
Travelling by car:
From the city centre, follow the signs for Herrenhausen or Universität. Appelstraße is located between the university campus at Welfengarten and the Nordstadtkrankenhaus (North City Hospital) and can be reached from Nienburger Straße and from Haltenhoffstraße via Schneiderberg.
Parking is available (for free) around the L3S building on Appelstaße.
Accommodation
The following hotels are recommended (sorted by proximity to the meeting venue):
Hotel Schlafgut ***
Kniestrasse 33, 30167 Hannover
Phone: +49(0)511-35356-0
booking@hotel-schlafgut.de
http://www.hotel-schlafgut.de/
Hotel Savoy ****
Schlosswenderstrasse 10, 30159 Hannover
Phone: +49(0)511-167487-0
E-mail: info@hotel-savoy.de
http://www.hotel-savoy.de/pages_en/haus.html
Concorde Hotel Am Leineschloss ***
Am Markte 12, 30159 Hannover
Phone: +49(0)511-35791-0
E-mail: leineschloss@concorde-hotels.de
http://www.concordehotel-am-leineschloss.de/
Hotel Kaiserhof ****
Ernst-August-Platz 4, 30159 Hannover
Phone: +49(0)0511-3683-0
E-mail: mail@centralhotel.de
http://www.centralhotel.de
General Information for Visitors in Hannover
Hannover tourist information:
http://www.hannover.de/en/Welcome-to-Hannover/Government-Service/Visitor-Service/Tourist-Information-Hannover
http://www.hannover.de/en/Welcome-to-Hannover/Tourism-Culture/Places-of-Interest-City-Tours
Tips on eating out:
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurants-g187351-Hannover_Lower_Saxony.html
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