BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241103T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240626T210052Z UID:956D3B69-A1F5-40E5-90D8-99EC2AA66561 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240625T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240625T183000 DESCRIPTION:[]\n\nTitle: Advancing Network Sustainability - Challenges and Solution Approaches\n\nReducing humankind’s carbon footprint and greenho use gas emissions to slow climate change is one of humanity’s Grand Chal lenges. Communication networks play a key role in addressing that challeng e\, enabling applications that reduce the need for physical travel as well as solutions that optimize efficiency of resource and energy usage. Examp les range from teleworking to remote operations\, from smarter agriculture to more energy-efficient factory floors. However\, for all their benefits \, networks also have a significant environmental footprint themselves tha t collectively rivals that of entire countries. It is thus becoming import ant to make networks themselves "greener" and devise solutions that allow networks to be operated in ways that make them more sustainable while cont inuing to meet increasing traffic demands and service requirements.\nMany of today’s network sustainability improvements relate to general advance s in energy efficiency of computing hardware as well as in transmission te chnology (antennas\, lasers). While this is where arguably the biggest opp ortunities lie\, the question arises regarding the role that other layers in the networking stack can play in advancing network sustainability. For example\, can data planes be designed in ways that make them inherently mo re energy-efficient? What protocol advances might enable greener networkin g solutions? How can networks be optimized not just for QoS or utilization but for carbon and what novel tools are needed to operate networks more s ustainably? How can we even properly account for energy usage and other su stainability parameters to be optimized? In which ways can network program mability\, faster control loops\, and AI- or intent-based networking help? \nThis presentation will provide a brief introduction into network sustain ability and discuss some of the key challenges that solutions need to addr ess. A number of solution approaches will be presented and opportunities f or further research and engagement on this topic pointed out. The presenta tion will draw on some of the activities that are currently taking place i n the IETF and the Internet Architecture Board's E-Impact program.\n\nBio: Dr. Alexander Clemm is a recognized expert in network management technolo gy and networking software in which he has been involved throughout his ca reer. His most recent activities have been in the areas of sustainable net working\, future networking services\, intent-based networking\, service a ssurance\, and telemetry. After 7+ years as a Distinguished Engineer at Fu turewei and prior to that 18 years at Cisco\, he recently decided to pursu e an academic sabbatical and embark on new adventures. Alex has for many y ears been regularly serving on the committees of IEEE conferences\, includ ing NOMS/IM and NetSoft as a member of the steering committee and on sever al occasions as general co-chair or TPC co-chair. He is the recipient of t he 2020 Salah Aidarous Award given by IEEE CNOM and IFIP TC6.6 to "an indi vidual who has provided unremitting service and dedication to the IT and T elecommunications Network Operations and Management community." Alex has a n extensive publication record including 70+ papers\, 70+ patents\, and 15 RFCs. He holds an M.S. degree from Stanford University and a Ph.D. from t he University of Munich\, Germany\, both in Computer Science.\n\nVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/423149 LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/423149 ORGANIZER:westphal@ieee.org SEQUENCE:21 SUMMARY:Advancing Network Sustainability - Challenges and Solution Approach es URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/423149 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p><img style="display: block\; margin-left: auto\; margin-right: auto\;" src="https://events.vtools.ieee.org/vtools_ui /media/display/3258f9c5-d517-4188-bde7-d03ec46a0ff6" alt="" width="800" he ight="418"></p>\n<p style="text-align: justify\;">Title: <strong>Advancing Network Sustainability - Challenges and Solution Approaches</strong></p>\ n<p>Reducing humankind&rsquo\;s carbon footprint and greenhouse gas emissi ons to slow climate change is one of humanity&rsquo\;s Grand Challenges. C ommunication networks play a key role in addressing that challenge\, enabl ing applications that reduce the need for physical travel as well as solut ions that optimize efficiency of resource and energy usage. Examples range from teleworking to remote operations\, from smarter agriculture to more energy-efficient factory floors. However\, for all their benefits\, networ ks also have a significant environmental footprint themselves that collect ively rivals that of entire countries. It is thus becoming important to ma ke networks themselves "greener" and devise solutions that allow networks to be operated in ways that make them more sustainable while continuing to meet increasing traffic demands and service requirements.<br>Many of toda y&rsquo\;s network sustainability improvements relate to general advances in energy efficiency of computing hardware as well as in transmission tech nology (antennas\, lasers). While this is where arguably the biggest oppor tunities lie\, the question arises regarding the role that other layers in the networking stack can play in advancing network sustainability. For ex ample\, can data planes be designed in ways that make them inherently more energy-efficient? What protocol advances might enable greener networking solutions? How can networks be optimized not just for QoS or utilization b ut for carbon and what novel tools are needed to operate networks more sus tainably? How can we even properly account for energy usage and other sust ainability parameters to be optimized? In which ways can network programma bility\, faster control loops\, and AI- or intent-based networking help?<b r>This presentation will provide a brief introduction into network sustain ability and discuss some of the key challenges that solutions need to addr ess. A number of solution approaches will be presented and opportunities f or further research and engagement on this topic pointed out. The presenta tion will draw on some of the activities that are currently taking place i n the IETF and the Internet Architecture Board's E-Impact program.<br><br> <br><strong>Bio: </strong>Dr. Alexander Clemm is a recognized expert in ne twork management technology and networking software in which he has been i nvolved throughout his career. His most recent activities have been in the areas of sustainable networking\, future networking services\, intent-bas ed networking\, service assurance\, and telemetry. After 7+ years as a Dis tinguished Engineer at Futurewei and prior to that 18 years at Cisco\, he recently decided to pursue an academic sabbatical and embark on new advent ures. Alex has for many years been regularly serving on the committees of IEEE conferences\, including NOMS/IM and NetSoft as a member of the steeri ng committee and on several occasions as general co-chair or TPC co-chair. He is the recipient of the 2020 Salah Aidarous Award given by IEEE CNOM a nd IFIP TC6.6 to "an individual who has provided unremitting service and d edication to the IT and Telecommunications Network Operations and Manageme nt community." Alex has an extensive publication record including 70+ pape rs\, 70+ patents\, and 15 RFCs. He holds an M.S. degree from Stanford Univ ersity and a Ph.D. from the University of Munich\, Germany\, both in Compu ter Science.</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR