The Scottish Autonomous Networked Systems (SANS) event brings together researchers from different areas to share ideas and learn about ongoing work in relation to autonomous networked systems.

If you would like to participate or share your work relating to autonomous networked systems, go here.

This version of SANS is sponsored by SICSA.

Thursday 2nd May and Friday 3rd May 2024

The Scottish Autonomous Networked Systems (SANS) event is an opportunity to bring together researchers from different areas to share ideas and learn about ongoing work in relation to autonomous networked systems.

If you would like to share your work relating to autonomous networked systems, we are looking for short form presentations. The goal is information sharing and communitiy awareness!

Topic of relevance can include:

• Applying novel AI & ML techniques in an innovative manner to create evolvable and autonomous compute and network infrastructure.
• Repurposing robotic operation techniques to distributed and federated software control to achieve runtime operational assurance.
• Investigating new programming interactions between user, system, and network to achieve trust for autonomous operation.
• The use of formal methods to help achieve trustworthy operation in the face of dynamic and adaptable operational environments.
• Or more….

If you want to participate in SANS 2024, please register here!

(more info about the venue here)

Schedule

Day 1: Thursday 2nd May 2024

Day 2: Friday 3rd May 2024

Keynote

Prof Albert Cabellos-Aparicio, UPC

Prof. Albert Cabellos (PhD 2008), Full Professor at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. In 2019 he co-founded the Barcelona Neural Networking (BNN) Center (https://bnn.upc.edu) where he is the Director. BNN’s has been created with the main goals of carrying fundamental research in the field of Graph Neural Network applied to Computer Networks and educating and training the new generation of students. He has also founded the Open Overlay Router open-source initiative (http://openorverlayrouter.org) along with Cisco. He has been a visiting researcher at Cisco Systems and Agilent Technologies and a visiting professor at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), National Institute of Informatics (Tokyo) and UC Berkeley. He has participated in several national, EU (FP7, H2020), USA (NSF) and industrial R&D projects.

Abstract

Network Digital Twins (NDT) are a key technology for future telecommunication networks. As exemplifying features, NDT are expected to estimate future traffic load and automatically optimize the network to use minimal resources while fulfilling stringent SLAs. NDT should also be able to predict failures before happening, and take the appropriate actions. Overall, NDT offers unprecedented performance with ultra-efficient use of the hardware resources, resulting in very low CAPEX and OPEX. However, there is a certain lack of specificity in the literature that describes how to build it. In this talk we will describe how we can build a NDT and we will compare different technologies: simulation, emulation and ML techniques as well as the advantages and disadvantages that they provide.

Speakers

We are looking for speaker and presentations for SANS 2024. If you are interested please get in touch paul.harvey@glasgow.ac.uk.

Registration

To arrange catering, please register for SANS 2024 here.

Cost

Participation at SANS is FREE 😀.

• SANS 2022 can be found here.