Today, most of the safety and efficiency features in vehicles are supported by on-board sensors, which are limited to visual line-of-sight. Connectivity offers a good complement to the on-board sensors by extending the vision and detection range even when visual line-of-sight is not available, while deploying Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility (CCAM) services.
It was the end of 2021 when we were completing the testing of the first release of our cloud-native SDN controller in TeraFlow H2020 project and when we realised that the produced software had a huge potential for the industry. We did not want to simply make our git repository publicly available, but we wanted to increase the pool of users and developers of the SDN controller. To succeed on both targets is not always an easy challenge, so we queried our Advisory Board on the topic and asked them for their recommendations to generate real impact and drive innovation in the SDN arena.
Permissionless blockchains such as Bitcoin have long been criticized for their high computational and storage overhead. Unfortunately, while a number of proposals address the energy consumption of existing Proof-of-Work deployments, little attention has been given so far to remedy the storage overhead incurred by those blockchains. In fact, it seems widely acceptable that full nodes supporting the blockchains have to volunteer hundreds of GBs of their storage, to store and verify all transactions exchanged in the system.
The European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) is the continent’s largest event in the field and one of the most prestigious and traditional events on optical communications worldwide.
Two papers from TeraFlow were accepted for this event: "Experimental Demonstration of Transport Network Slicing with SLA Using the TeraFlowSDN Controller” and “Dynamic Upgrade/Downgrade of WDM Link Capacity in SDN-enabled WDM”.
The ACM SIGCOMM 2022 conference seeks papers describing significant research contributions to the field of communication networks and networked systems.
The conference took place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on August 22 - 26, 2022.
In the framework of this conference, Daniel King from Old Dog Consuting in TeraFlow chaired the FIRA’22 Workshop on Future of Internet Routing & Addressing on 22nd August. All accepted papers were published in the proceedings by ACM SIGCOMM (see the list of the papers in the attachments).
Solving the convergence issues of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) is one of the most outstanding problems in generative models. In this work, we propose a novel activation function to be used as output of the generator agent. This activation function is based on the Smirnov probabilistic transformation and it is specifically designed to improve the quality of the generated data.
The paper "End-to-end Interdomain Transport Network Slice Management Using Cloud-based SDN Controllers" by Ricard Vilalta (CTTC), Lluís Gifre (CTTC), Min Xie (Telenor), Jane Frances Pajo (Telenor), Håkon Lønsethagen (Telenor), Harald Øverby (NTNU), Stanislav Lange (NTNU), Thomas Zinner (NTNU), Raúl Muñoz (CTTC), Ramón Casellas (CTTC) and Ricardo Martínez (CTTC) was presented in the framework of the 27th OptoElectronics and Communications Conference (OECC 2022), held jointly with the 2nd International Conference on Photonics in Switching and Computing 2022 (PSC 2022) at Toyama, Japa
On this third issue of the TeraFlow Newsletter, read about the ETSI official announcement of their hosting of the TeraFlowSDN open-source group! ETSI is officially recognized by the European Union as a European Standards Organization (ESO).