Lipari School on Network and Computer Sciences

Aim and scope:
To face the emerging needs for service flexibility, network efficiency, traffic diversification, and network security and reliability, today's networks are called to support an unprecedented degree of flexibility and programmability. Goal of the summer school is to provide a comprehensive overview of the emerging methodologies and technologies for network programmability and their impact on modern application scenarios, as well as identify and address major open issues and challenges behind the current network softwarization trend.

With the help of four distinguished international renowned guest lecturers and with a further set of invited high quality targeted tutorials, the students will be provided with an introduction to a variety of hot topics in this field, including (but not restricting to) control and management of software defined networks, network function virtualization paradigms, principles of network service orchestration, deployment approaches, insights on emerging data plane programming technologies and underlying HW architectures, network programming languages and verification techniques, and so on.

Besides frontal lectures and tutorials, the schedule further comprises hands-on sessions, to permit the students to gain concrete experience with selected methodologies and programming technologies.

Lecturers

• Holger Karl
  A path to the Future Internet: Networks controlled by software and softwarized networks
  Paderborn University, Germany
  Abstract
• Ali Al-Shabibi
  Distributed ONOS Application Implementation
  ON.Lab, USA
  Abstract
• Gianni Antichi
  SDN at IXPs: practical challenges
  Cambridge University, UK
  Abstract
• Nikolaj Bjorner
  Tools and Algorithms for Network Verification
  Microsoft Research, USA
  Abstract

Invited Talks

• Stefano Paris
  A view to Software Defined Network through an Algorithmic Perspective
  Huawei, France
• Giuseppe Bianchi¹, Antonio Capone²
  Stateful data planes in Software Defined Networks
  ¹ University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
  ² Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Giacomo Morabito
  Wireless Software Defined Networks
  University of Catania, Italy
• Roberto Bifulco
  Rethinking the design of software network functions: challenges and opportunities
  NEC Labs Europe, Germany

Schedule

Tentative Program

The official language is English.

Travel and accomodation

Participants will be arranged in comfortable hotels at very special rates. The conference room (very close to the same hotels) is air-conditioned and equipped with all conference materials. Special areas are reserved to students for the afternoon coursework and study. The island of Lipari can be easily reached from Milazzo, Palermo, Naples, Messina and Reggio Calabria by ferry or hydrofoil (50 minutes from Milazzo).

Registration

Two kinds of participants are welcome.

Students: Participants who are expected to do afternoon coursework and take a final exam (The grades will be given following the ECTS grading scale). The course will involve a total of 24 hours of teaching. Passing the final exam gives right to an equivalent of 6 ECTS credits in any Ph.D. program.

Auditors: participants who are not interested in taking the final exam.

Registration fee is 500 €. The fee covers the course material, bus+hydrofoil Catania airport-Lipari-Catania airport, social events and coffee breaks. Late registration is 600 €. 
Early registration applications can be submitted from January 31st, 2017 up to  May 30th, 2017. Late registrations will be accepted until May 30th, 2017. Admission notification will start on March 1st, 2017, according to registration time. Applicants must include a short curriculum vitae.