Track Chair

• Chacker Abdelazize Kerrache, University of Ghardaia, Algeria
• Roberto Beraldi, University of Sapienza, Italy

Scope

The Internet and network communications are so ingrained in our daily lives that we remain dependent on their availability and the quality of the services they offer. Because of this, natural and technological disasters could have a significant influence on our daily lives by affecting the availability of networks and services. Therefore, ensuring appropriate levels of resilience is a crucial challenge that upcoming network paradigms, like 5G, Network Function Virtualization (NFV), and Software Defined Networks (SDN) need to address in disasters context.

The Distribution and Virtualized Networks for Resilience in Disaster Context track aims to consolidate and disseminate the latest developments and advances in the emerging research areas relevant to virtualized networks and 5G and beyond networks to ensure high resilience in disaster contexts. This symposium invites participation from both academic and industry researchers working in the areas of mobile and virtualized networks, as well as communication and computing technologies enabling other networking solutions such as Internet of Things, cloud, fog, and edge computing services, and smart cities. Authors are invited to submit papers presenting novel technical research studies as well as broader position papers.

The Distribution and Virtualized Networks for Resilience in Disaster Context track seeks original contributions in the following topical areas, plus others that are not explicitly listed but are closely related:

• Virtualized networks communications management and operations
• Network Function Virtualization in disaster context
• Opportunistic communications and resiliency in disaster context
• Smart cities for disaster and emergency management
• Remote and virtualized sensing
• Communication infrastructures, technologies and services for crisis management
• 5G and beyond for resilience in disaster context
• Mobile and wireless communication in disaster context
• Networks modeling and simulation tools for crisis and disaster situations
• IoT, cloud, fog, and edge computing for crisis and disaster management
• Disaster relief logistics
• Interoperability of heterogeneous network systems in disaster context