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Call for Papers: COVID-19 Network Impacts Workshop
Deadline for the January issue of ACM SIGCOMM CCR extended to September 10
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Call for Papers: COVID-19 Network Impacts Workshop
 
An IETF Internet Architecture Board virtual workshop:
https://www.iab.org/activities/workshops/covid-19-network-impacts-workshop-2020/
 
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a tremendous impact on people's lives and the societies and economies around the globe. But it also had a big impact on networking. With large numbers of people working from home or otherwise depending on the network for their daily lives, network traffic has surged.  Internet service providers and operators have reported 20% traffic growth or more in a matter of weeks. Traffic in Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) is similarly on the rise. Most forms of network traffic have seen an increase, with conversational multimedia traffic growing in some cases more than 200%. And user time spent on conferencing services has risen by an order of magnitude on some conferencing platforms.
 
In general, the Internet has coped relatively well with this traffic growth. The situation is not perfect: there has also been some outages, video quality reduction, and other issues. Nevertheless, it is interesting to see how the technology, operators and service providers have been able to respond to large changes in traffic patterns. Understanding what actually happened with Internet traffic is of course interesting by its own right. The impacts of this crisis are also a potential opportunity to understand the impact of traffic shifts and growth more generally, or to prepare for future situations -- crisis or otherwise - that impact
networking. Or even allow us to adjust the technology to be even better suited to respond to changes.
 
The IAB is holding this workshop to convene interested researchers, network operators, and network management experts, and Internet technologists to share their experiences. More details: https://www.iab.org/activities/workshops/covid-19-network-impacts-workshop-2020/. Send Submissions to: covidimpacts-workshop-pc@iab.org.
 
Important dates:

• Submissions Due: 9 October 2020
• Invitations Issued by: 15 October 2020
• Workshop Date: This is an over the Internet virtual workshop. Several sessions will  be scheduled for the different topics on the week of November 9, 2020, based on input from the participants.

Deadline for the January issue of ACM SIGCOMM CCR extended to September 10
  
The ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR) newsletter is published every quarter. The deadline for the submission of technical papers, education papers and editorials for the January issue of CCR has been extended to September 10, 2020. 
 
You can find submission details at https://ccronline.sigcomm.org/instructions-for-submission/