[Announcements] 4th International Workshop on Edge Network Softwarization (ENS 2025), co-located with IEEE NetSoft 2025

[Marco Savi]

4th International Workshop on Edge Network Softwarization (ENS 2025)

co-sponsored by IEEE Young Professionals - Italy Section
co-sponsored by SAMOTHRACE Foundation
co-sponsored by IEEE Network Intelligence Emerging Technologies initiative
(IEEE NI ETI)

Link to the official website: https://sites.google.com/view/ens2025/

Workshop co-located with the IEEE International Conference on Network
Softwarization (NetSoft 2025)
Budapest, Hungary, 23-27 June 2025

***ENS 2025 CALL FOR PAPER***
Call for papers: https://sites.google.com/view/ens2025/call-for-papers

*Aim and Scope*
The 4th International Workshop on Edge Network Softwarization (ENS 2025)
will be co-hosted at the
11th IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization that will be
held from June 23th to
June 27th, 2025 in Budapest, Hungary. The workshop aims at providing an
overview of the
softwarization process and application of AI that has started occurring in
recent years and is
involving the network edge, with focus on future-proof approaches that will
be part of the advanced
5G&B and 6G network solutions. Edge network softwarization is a fundamental
topic that has to be
thoroughly investigated to allow the deployment of future networks
characterized by reliability
and robustness.

*Topics of Interest*
The topics of interest for ENS 2025 include, but are not limited to:
- SDN and NFV distributed solutions for the network edge in 5G&B and 6G
network;
- Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) solutions for network edge;
- Service and network orchestration at the edge;
- Novel solutions for data-plane programmable (e.g. P4, eBPF, XDP) edge
devices;
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at the edge;
- Serverless computing and Function-as-a-Service in edge and fog network
architectures;
- Network-aware resource provisioning in Fog Computing;
- Advances to end-to-end tunneling technologies (e.g. VxLAN, IPSEC/GRE);
- Edge computing energy efficiency and resource optimisation;
- Support for low latency applications at the edge (e.g. Tactile Internet);
- Edge-driven use cases (e.g. Agriculture 4.0, Industry 4.0, etc.);
- Privacy and security for the network edge (e.g. zero trust networks);
- Multi-tenancy of edge networks;
- Network edge availability and protection;
- Open Hardware and Software solutions;
- Converged optical and wireless architectures at the edge;
- AI-powered resource allocation and energy optimization at the edge;
- AI for automatic fault recovery of edge computing resources;
- AI-based Digital Twin application for networked services.

*Important Dates*
Paper Submission: March 14, 2025
Paper Notification of Acceptance: April 11, 2025
Camera-ready Submission: May 2, 2025
Workshop Date: TBD (June 23, 2025 or June 27, 2025)

*Paper Submission*
Authors are invited to submit original contributions for presentation at
the workshop. All submissions
must be written in English. Papers should be up to 6 pages (regular) or to
4 pages (short), including
references and all other material. They must use the standard IEEE
two-column conference template, which
can be downloaded from www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html.
Accepted and presented papers will be included in the IEEE NetSoft 2025
Proceedings and published on
IEEE Xplore.
Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process and all manuscripts
must be electronically
submitted through EDAS: https://edas.info/N33480
Further information can be found on the official website of ENS 2025:
https://sites.google.com/view/ens2025/home

*Workshop Organizers*
General Co-Chairs:                                            TPC Co-Chairs:
Gianluca Davoli, University of Bologna, Italy         Sebastian Troia,
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Christian Grasso, University of Catania, Italy        Omran Ayoub,
University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland
Marco Savi, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy     Alessio Sacco,
Politecnico di Torino, Italy

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Marco Savi, PhD
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor
Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication (DISCo)
University of Milano-Bicocca
Building U14, Viale Sarca 336, 20125, Milano (Italy)
Email: marco.savi at unimib.it
Skype: marco.savi at outlook.it
Department Website: https://www.disco.unimib.it/
Personal Website: https://marcosavi.altervista.org/
LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcosavi/
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