<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><span class="">(Apologies if you received duplicate copies of this email)</span></div><div class=""><span class="">________________________________________________________________</span></div><div class=""><span class="">________________________________________________________________</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class=""> IEEE NFV-SDN 2021</span></div><div class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class=""> The 7th IEEE Conference on Network Functions Virtualization </span></div><div class=""><span class=""> and Software-Defined Networking</span></div><div class=""><span class=""> November 9-11, 2021 – Heraklion, Greece</span></div><div class=""><span class=""> <a href="https://nfvsdn2021.ieee-nfvsdn.org/" class="">https://nfvsdn2021.ieee-nfvsdn.org/</a></span></div><div class=""><span class="">________________________________________________________________</span></div><div class=""><span class="">________________________________________________________________</span></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">It is our pleasure to announce three keynote speeches that will offerred at NFV-SDN 2021 by world-renowned professors and industry leaders. </div><div class="">The detailed information are available online at <a href="https://nfvsdn2021.ieee-nfvsdn.org/program/keynote-speakers/" class="">https://nfvsdn2021.ieee-nfvsdn.org/program/keynote-speakers/</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Keynote talk #1</b></div><div class=""><b class="">Speaker:</b> Dr. Georgios Gardikis, R&D Manager</div><div class=""><b class="">Organzation: </b>Space Hellas S.A., Greece</div><div class=""><b class="">Title:</b> Securing software-driven networks: threats and opportunities</div><div class=""><b class="">Abstract:</b> <span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">In addition to their obvious technical and business value, software-driven networks are accompanied by various side-effects, one of the most important of which is the drastic increase in the attack surface compared to legacy network infrastructures. At the same time, the agility and reconfigurability of NFV/SDN networks enable novel security control mechanisms, such as dynamic traffic steering and on-the-fly deployment of security appliances. The ambition of this keynote is to highlight the security-related threats and opportunities of software-driven networks and stimulate a discussion on the most promising research directions in the domain.</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Keynote talk #2</b></div><div class=""><b class="">Speaker:</b> Zuqing Zhu, Professor in Electrical Engineering and Information Science</div><div class=""><b class="">Organization:</b> University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China</div><div class=""><b class="">Title: </b>Knowledge-defined Network Virtualization: When Programmable Data Plane meets Artificial Intelligence</div><div class=""><b class="">Abstract:</b> <span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">In this talk, we discuss recent advances on the network slicing technologies for effectively supporting emerging applications such as high-definition video streaming, virtual reality, remote surgery, etc, in future networks. Specifically, in order to satisfy the stringent quality-of-service (QoS) requirements of such applications, one needs innovation in at least three aspects, i.e., the data plane, virtualization layer, and control plane. For the data plane, we introduce the programmable data plane (PDP) techniques that can make packet processing and forwarding protocol-independent. Hence, PDP enables improved programmability, flexibility, and application-awareness in substrate networks, which are the fundamental elements of network slicing. The virtualization layer needs to virtualize, allocate and isolate the resources in the substrate network to build virtual network slices according to applications’ QoS demands. Here, we discuss the open-source platforms to make the virtualization layer work seamlessly with PDP. Finally, the control plane needs to be adaptive for dynamic slicing. Therefore, we consider how to implement a smart control plane by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI), which can analyze telemetry data from the data plane, and make smart and timely decisions to support various applications well.</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Keynote talk #3</b></div><div class=""><b class="">Speaker:</b> Dr. Joan Triay, Network Architect and Manager, </div><div class=""><b class="">Organization:</b> DOCOMO Euro-Labs</div><div class=""><b class="">Title:</b> NFV for 5G and beyond: current state and technology trends</div><div class=""><b class="">Abstract:</b> <span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">In this talk, we discuss recent advances in network slicing technologies for effectively supporting emerging applications such as high-definition video streaming, virtual reality, remote surgery, etc, in future networks. Specifically, in order to satisfy the stringent quality-of-service (QoS) requirements of such applications, one needs innovation in at least three aspects, i.e., the data plane, virtualization layer, and control plane. For the data plane, we introduce the programmable data plane (PDP) techniques that can make packet processing and forwarding protocol-independent. Hence, PDP enables improved programmability, flexibility, and application-awareness in substrate networks, which are the fundamental elements of network slicing. The virtualization layer needs to virtualize, allocate and isolate the resources in the substrate network to build virtual network slices according to applications’ QoS demands. Here, we discuss the open-source platforms to make the virtualization layer work seamlessly with PDP. Finally, the control plane needs to be adaptive for dynamic slicing. Therefore, we consider how to implement a smart control plane by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI), which can analyze telemetry data from the data plane, and make smart and timely decisions to support various applications well.</span></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; 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