* Welcome and administrivia ~ 7.5 min + Scribe(s) and notetaker(s) + Agenda bashing + RG matters and other announcements * Introduction to research activities ~ 105 min + Rethinking NFV: Supporting Efficient Packet Processing (E. Jacob, UPV/EHU) The idea is to summarize the evolution of the original NFV in which every packet processing/manipulation needed to be done at the VM (computing) level, towards a SDN-Enabled NFV, in which part ot the processing is done at the switch (networking) level. The difficult part is that although the interest is clear, there have been approaches that try to cover this objective from both sides, either trying to make computing based solutions to perform better and better, mainly by clever approaches regarding interfacing to NICs on x86 platforms or by improving the datapath to allow a more extensible packet processing. Every approach has their own particularities and costs, but at the end of the day it appears that a superior abstraction is needed for describing/managing a networking element, in the same way the computing element has. Clearly we need to elevate the role of networking in the SDN/NFV framework, to integrate packet processing in the networking infrastructure to be able to deploy efficient solutions. + Elastic Adaptation of SDN/NFV Systems to Dynamic Service Demands (P. Martinez-Julia, NICT) The incorporation of SDN/NFV to current computer and network system infrastructures is constantly increasing, becoming essential for the particular case of edge/branch network systems. The systems supported by these infrastructures require to be adapted to environment changes within a period of time that escapes human abilities. Therefore, we are developing the Autonomic Resource Control Architecture (ARCA) to achieve the fast detection and adaptation of virtual computer and network systems to changes in their operation environments, also keeping close-to-optimum resource allocations to reduce monetary and operative cost as much as possible. In this presentation we report our approach to evaluate such architecture by building a multi-domain SDN/NFV infrastructure based on OpenStack and deploying ARCA to adapt a virtual system based on the edge/branch network concept to the operational conditions of an emergency support service, which is rarely used but that cannot leave any user unattended. + Network slicing support by dynamic VIM instantatiation (S. Clayman, UCL) There are some scenarios in which it is important to have a separate Data Center slice within a full Network Slice. These include services for which there are critical attributes that need to be met. We present the case for creating a VIM on-demand for these DC slices, show some of the attributes of such a slice, and the increased value of a per slice VIM. The architectural elements that are required to support such a model are shown. Finally a set of layered abstractions using slicing elements are presented, showing how they fit together for service provisioning. * Open mic on matters related to the RG ~ 7.5 min As a reminder, these are the matters the RG has agreed to focus on: - Re-architecting functions - New management frameworks - Techniques to guarantee dataplane features - Measurement and benchmarking