Call for the Doctoral Symposium
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Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: August 21st, 2023 September 4th, 2023
Notification of acceptance: September 21st, 2023 September 29th, 2023
Camera-ready deadline: October 9th, 2023
NFV-SDN Conference: November 7th-9th, 2023
Objectives
The Doctoral Symposium is an innovative feature of the IEEE NFV-SDN conference series. It provides an opportunity for PhD students to discuss and get valuable feedback on their research work from experienced researchers from both industry and academia. It will help to build and strengthen collaboration amongst the communities researching and working in the areas of NFV and SDN.
For PhD students at the beginning of their research, the Doctoral Symposium is a great occasion to expand on the horizon of current research trends and challenges surrounding NFV and SDN technologies. Likewise, the event enables more advanced PhD students to exchange experience with distinguished engineers and scholars and to learn about further career paths or open positions in specialized domains.
The doctoral symposium has the status of an IEEE workshop and provides an excellent opportunity for networking amongst all participants. PhD students are welcome to submit papers influencing the evolution and operation of virtualized and softwarized networks, including (but not limited to) NFV and SDN technologies. Accepted submissions are published in the conference proceedings and disseminated through the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.
Eligibility
The forum is open to all researchers whose PhD thesis is in progress, or was recently completed (i.e., during 2022 or 2023). We particularly welcome submissions from PhD students at the beginning of their work when they have a well-defined problem statement and are developing their ideas on how to approach the challenges. Likewise, we are also looking for contributions from PhD students in more advanced stages who want to present their research results and share insights coming from their experience which might help others to progress their work. The Doctoral Symposium Committee will require evidence of the status as a (former) PhD student. This can be a letter from the supervisor or other recognized authority within the university.
Structure of Contributions
Submissions should indicate whether their work should be considered to be early stage, or late stage. Contributions can be organized using a common structure for a research paper (e.g., abstract, introduction, related work, methodology/architecture, results, and conclusions) as well as variations thereof. Beyond this, please make sure that the following key aspects (as listed below) are fully covered and clearly discernible in order to stimulate discussion amongst the symposium participants.
Early Stage PhD Submissions
Early stage PhD submissions should address the following key aspects:
- Problem Statement: Describe the main research problem and motivation for choosing this particular topic.
- State of the Art: Outline how the research is novel and complementary to existing work.
- Challenges: Describe the research challenges and planned methodology to tackle them.
- Current Status: Present the current status of the work, including any open questions or early indicative results.
Late Stage PhD Submissions
Late stage PhD submissions should address the following key aspects and methodological components required for a sound research synthesis:
- Problem Statement: Describe the main research problem and motivation for choosing this particular topic.
- State of the Art: Discuss related work and how the research is novel and complementary.
- Approaches and Contributions: Describe the applied research methodology; present the current status of the work and the results achieved to date (which may be preliminary).
- Conclusions and Impact: Present the main conclusions, anticipated impact on the field and potential for industry adoption.
Submission Guidelines
Submitted papers must be written in English and formatted according to the standard IEEE double-column conference template (10-point font). Templates and examples in LaTeX and Microsoft Word are available for download at https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html.
Early stage PhD papers should be two (2) to four (4) pages in length. One additional page is available for an over length page charge of 100USD. Papers exceeding five (5) pages are not accepted.
Late stage PhD papers should be four (4) to six (6) pages in length. One additional page is available for an over length page charge of 100USD. Papers exceeding seven (7) pages are not accepted.
The number of authors must not exceed three (3) persons who are the PhD student and up to two (2) supervisors. Please clearly state the role of a supervisor in the author's affiliation. The PhD student of an accepted paper is required to register at the author rate and to present the paper at the conference.
The Doctoral Symposium Committee will require evidence of status as a PhD student. This can be a letter from the supervisor or other recognized authority within the university.
Manuscripts are only accepted as PDF files (Adobe's Portable Document Format) and must be submitted electronically through EDAS: https://edas.info/N31017. Please also upload an auxiliary PDF file containing a signed statement from the supervisor that certifies the status as (former) PhD student and approves the submitted manuscript.
Doctoral Symposium Co-Chairs
Dewang Gedia, Cisco Systems, USA (dewang.gedia@colorado.edu)
Helge Parzyjegla, University of Rostock, Germany (helge.parzyjegla@uni-rostock.de)