Track A: Network IT-isation and 5G
Session Chair: Prosper Chemouil (Orange Labs, France)

New paradigms for network architectures and operations

Cloud technologies and network functions virtualisation (NFV)

• Applying new software paradigms to network functions and network OS (e.g., micro-services, API management, DevOps)
• Virtualization technologies (e.g., hypervisor-based versus Containers)
• Mobile Edge Computing
• Network as a service, third-party openness
• Service chaining
• Impact on OSS/BSS, towards real-time OSS
• Energy efficiency, performance and availability

5G

• Multi-access (e.g., fixed-mobile convergence, overarching resource & mobility management, new access types, network ID management), IoT networks
• Evolutions of the core network, use cases for modular control planes
• Network slicing
• Flexible Cloud-based RAN architectures

Software Defined Networking (SDN)

• Control and forwarding plane separation
• SDN for real-time communications
• SDN and NFV cross-fertilisation
• Relation to policy-based management

Policy-based and Intent-based networking

Cross-layer solutions in existing and future networks, e.g. SPUD

Flexible and autonomic network management, new operation models

Evolution of business models, business cases for NFV

Managing the transition from legacy to the fully virtualized networks; case study, test-beds, field trial experiences, implementation roadmaps

Track B: Big data insights for networking 
Session Chair: Françoise Soulie (Tianjin University, China)

Mining cloud and network data, probes and storage

Data analytics algorithms and platforms

Predictive approaches for multimedia service delivery

Cross-layer topology awareness

Optimization of network services

Big data usage for third-parties

Security and privacy

Business models and regulation

Track C: Real-time communication platforms and services
Session Chair: Axel Kupper (TU Berlin, Germany)

New paradigms for real-time communication and/or large-scale streaming

• WebRTC and http-based signalling
• Trustful Identity Management
• Context awareness
• High performance real-time infrastructures
• QoE probing and assessment
• Application-Network collaborations, requirements on network services
• Business aspects
• Security and privacy implications
• Future of emergency communications

Media processing

Full stack approaches

New design and programming models, e.g. micro-services, containers

Innovative services and applications, impact on business models, enterprise market

User interface design innovations, human computer interface (HCI), usability

Track D: Internet of Things
Session Chair: Payam Barnaghi (University of Surrey, UK)

IoTPS (Internet of Things, People and Services)

• Social IoT
• Objects architecture and middleware
• Data mining and big data, distributed storage, data fusion, distributed sensing and control, sensors data management
• Business and delivery models
• Security, trust and privacy, identity management

Test-beds and business cases; field trial experiences in the domain of smart cities, building automation systems, e-Health, intelligent transport systems, energy management, personal medical monitoring, vehicular systems, residential appliances and systems, structural monitoring of infrastructure

Short paper sessions:

Special Session: Research agenda for 2020-2025 (short papers)
Session Chair: Roberto Minerva (Telecom Italia, Italia)

Future challenges for Industry, future directions for Academia: What should be the main topics for research in the forthcoming years?

Impact of disrupting actors and technologies, e.g.

• New organizational models (e.g. DevOps, agility…),
• New ecosystems,
• Market structure, multi-sided business competition, value chain,
• Regulatory stakes,
• Future of standardization, open source models…

Future of mass market, e.g.

• New needs of individuals,
• Who care about privacy?
• Future of universal telephony…

Future of enterprise market, e.g.

• New needs of corporations, future of IT departments, servitization,
• BYOD, IT consumerization, IT governance,
• Collaboration and Enterprise Social Systems (ESS),
• Evolution of networking needs, security and privacy…

Demo Track (short papers)

ICIN 2016 invites proposals for research prototypes and demonstrations on all the topics from tracks A, B, C and D. Prospective contributors are expected to write a short paper proposal, preferably including a system architecture illustration.