SIGCOMM News

  • October 1, 2019

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    Contents
    Call for Papers, ACM SOSR 2020
    Call for Papers, Workshop on Buffer Sizing (BS’19)
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    Call for Papers, ACM SOSR 2020
    More than 10 years have now elapsed since the beginning of Software-Defined Networking (SDN). Over the course of a decade, SDN has fueled incredible innovation, revolutionizing virtually all networking areas. SDN is now deployed in a growing number of production and experimental settings, including data centers, enterprise networks, content providers, and Internet Service Providers.

    The ACM SIGCOMM Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR) is the premiere venue for research publications on SDN, building on past years' successful SOSR and HotSDN (Hot Topics in Software Defined Networking) workshops. New to this year, SOSR will be co-­located with the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit on March 3, 2020 in San Jose, CA.to foster interaction between academic and industrial attendees.

    We invite submissions on a wide range of research on the broad area of software-defined, programmable networks, and more. 

    Paper registration(with abstract): November 8, 2019 (AoE)
    Paper submission: November 15, 2019 (AoE)
    More details https://conferences.sigcomm.org/sosr/2020/calls.html

    Call for Papers, Workshop on Buffer Sizing 2019 (BS’19)
    Buffer Sizing, Stanford University December 2-3, 2019
    http://buffer-workshop.stanford.edu/

    Despite lots of discussion in academia and industry, there isn’t consensus about how big a router buffer should be. Choosing a buffer size is inherently complicated: It depends on (at least) the congestion control algorithm, AQM (marking and dropping policies), load-balancing, traffic engineering and the applications generating the traffic. So far, there has been some measurement and theory, but little consensus.

    Involving academics and industry stakeholders, the goal of this workshop is to improve our understanding of how to pick buffer sizes in different parts of the network (e.g. DC, WAN, last mile, WiFi, cellular), for different applications (video, HPC, Hadoop-like, financial) and for different congestion control algorithms. Ideally, we would like to establish, from a mix of theoretical and experimental results, guidelines that can be used in practice to size routers’ buffers, and provide guidance to semiconductor and equipment providers.

    Register paper or talk proposal on website: Before October 15 at 11.59pm Pacific Time.
    Submit 4-6 page paper or 2 page proposal: Before October 22 at 11.59pm Pacific Time.
    More details: http://buffer-workshop.stanford.edu/cfp/

  • August 31, 2019

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    Contents
    Announcement: Passing of Sally Floyd
    Congratulations to Ethan Katz-Bassett on winning the 2019 SIGCOMM rising star award
    Call for site proposals for SIGCOMM 2021
    ACM ICN’19: Call for Participation / Registration
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    Announcement: Passing of Sally Floyd

    We are sad to announce the passing of Sally Floyd, a long-time SIG member and past SIGCOMM Award winner (2007) for her far-reaching contributions to Internet architecture and her work in identifying practical ways to control and stabilize Internet congestion. Sally also held the position of SIG Vice-Chair from 1995 till 1999, and served as Program co-Chair of the 1996 SIGCOMM conference. She is also remembered as a caring mentor and thoughtful collaborator to many members of our community.

    Congratulations to Ethan Katz-Bassett on winning the 2019 SIGCOMM rising star award

    The award is in recognition of outstanding research contributions, early in his career, in improving the reliability and performance of Internet services. His practical and principled measurement-driven approach has led to innovative high-impact contributions across academia and industry.

    The rising star award committee, comprised of Lixin Gao (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Thomas Karagiannis (MSR Cambridge, chair), Craig Partridge (Colorado State University), Lili Qiu (University of Texas at Austin).
    Call for site proposals for SIGCOMM 2021

    The SIGCOMM Executive Committee is soliciting proposals for hosting SIGCOMM 2021, which will be held in Europe. Information about the conference and the format of site proposals as well as instructions for site proposals can be found on the web at:
    http://sigcomm.org/events/sigcomm-conference
    and
    https://www.sigcomm.org/conference-planning/sigcomm-planning/site-propos...
    The deadline for full site proposals is October 15, 2019, but proposers are encouraged to let the Executive Committee know about their intent to propose earlier. Please e-mail site proposals, intent to propose, and questions to the EC conference coordinator, Steve Uhlig (steve.uhlig@qmul.ac.uk).

    ACM ICN’19: Call for Participation / Registration

    ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking 2019, Macau, SAR China, September 24-26, 2019

    The organizing committee is delighted to invite you to the 6th ACM conference on Information-Centric Networking (ICN), to be held in Macao, SAR China from September 24-26, 2019. ACM ICN 2019 is focusing on significant research contributions to ICN as broadly defined, and featuring paper presentations, posters, and demonstrations.

    **Change of Venue**
    In contrast to previous announcements, ICN '19 has been moved to Macau University in Macau due to the continuing concerns regarding events in Hong Kong.

    More details: https://conferences.sigcomm.org/acm-icn/2019/

  • August 1, 2019

    July 2019 SIGCOMM Newsletter
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    Contents
    SIGCOMM 50th Anniversary panel
    Announcing changes to the SIGCOMM Executive Committee
    Computer Communication Review (The ACM Newsletter), The July 2019 Issue
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    SIGCOMM 50th Anniversary panel
     
    As part of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of SIGCOMM, a panel discussion on "Past and Future Directions in Networking Research" will be held during the first session of the SIGCOMM conference on Wednesday, August 21. The panel will start with a brief introductory video by Vint Cerf before opening up to discussions with our panelists. The panelists will be Dah Ming Chiu (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Manya Ghobadi  (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Mark Handley (University College, London) , Jennifer Rexford (Princeton University), and Lixia Zhang (University of California at Los Angeles), and the discussion will be moderated by Bruce Maggs (Duke University and Akamai Technologies).
     

    Announcing changes to the SIGCOMM Executive Committee
     
    After serving for a little over two years as SIGCOMM vice-chair, Aditya Akella has asked to step down.  We would like to thank him for his efforts in promoting the SIG and advancing its agenda during that period.  It represents a non-trivial amount of time and energy.
    As per the SIG's bylaws regarding vacancies and appointments, in such instances the board is tasked with selecting a replacement, and while we are sad to see Aditya go, we are delighted to announce that Sujata Banerjee has agreed to serve as the new SIG vice-chair. 
    Please join us in thanking Aditya for his service and welcoming Sujata in her new role.

    Computer Communication Review (The ACM Newsletter), The July 2019 Issue
     
    This July 2019 issue contains two technical papers and three editorial notes. In ”Securing Linux with a Faster and Scalable IPtables”, Sebastiano Miano and his colleagues revisit how Linux firewalls work. Since version 2.4.0 of the Linux kernel, iptables has been the standard way of defining firewall rules in Linux. These iptables are widely used, but writing and maintaining them can be difficult. Furthermore, they have some limitations in terms of performance. This paper leverages the eBPF virtual machine that is included in the Linux kernel to propose a replacement for iptables that preserves their semantics while providing im- proved performance. They release their implementation and evaluate its performance in details.
     
    In ”Towards Passive Analysis of Anycast in Global Routing: Unintended Impact of Remote Peering”, Rui Bian et al. analyse the deployment of anycast services. For this, they rely on different BGP routing information and highlight the impact of remote peering on anycast performance. They release their data and analysis scripts.
     
    In addition to these two peer-reviewed papers, this issue contains three editorials. In ”Privacy Trading in the Surveillance Capitalism Age: Viewpoints on ‘Privacy- Preserving’ Societal Value Creation”, Ranjan Pal and Jon Crowcroft reconsider the current Mobile App ecosystem from an economical and privacy viewpoint. They show that the current model is not the only possible one and propose the idea of a regulated privacy trading mechanism that provides a better compromise between privacy and the commercial interests of companies. In ”Datacenter Congestion Control: Identifying what is essential and making it practical”, Aisha Mushtaq et al. take a step back at the datacenter congestion control problem. They argue that congestion control mechanisms that use Shortest-Remaining- Processing-Time are the best solution and discuss in the paper how commodity switches could be modified to support it. Finally, in ”The 11th Workshop on Active Internet Measurements (AIMS-11) Workshop Report”, kc Claffy and Dave Clark summarise the discussions at the latest AIMS workshop. They mention several new measurement ini- tiatives and interesting research projects.

  • July 26, 2019

    June 2019 SIGCOMM Newsletter
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    ACM SIGCOMM 2019 lifetime award goes to Prof. Mark Handley
    ACM SIGCOMM 2019 Test of Time award
    ACM SIGCOMM 2019 lifetime award goes to Prof. Mark Handley
    Call for Participation, ACM SIGCOMM 2019 (Early registration deadline: July 12th, 2019)
    Call for Site Proposals, ACM CoNEXT 2020
    Call for Papers, The 15th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and 
    Communications Systems (ANCS '19)
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    ACM SIGCOMM 2019 lifetime award goes to Prof. Mark Handley
     
    The annual SIGCOMM Award, presented at the SIGCOMM Technical Conference, recognizes lifetime contribution to the field of communication networks. Congratulations to Prof. Mark Handley, who is recognized “for fundamental contributions to Internet multimedia, multicast, congestion control, and multi-path networks, and the standardization of Internet protocols in these domains”.
     
    The ACM SIGCOMM 2019 lifetime award committee comprised: Anja Feldman (MPI), Ellen Zegura (Georgia Tech), Hari Balakrishnann (MIT), Srinivasan Keshav (University of Waterloo), and Sujata Banerjee (VMWare, chair).
     

    ACM SIGCOMM 2019 Test of Time award
     
    The ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time Award recognizes a paper published 10 to 12 years in the past in Computer Communication Review or any SIGCOMM sponsored or co-sponsored conference that is deemed to be an outstanding paper whose contents are still a vibrant and useful contribution today. For 2019, the selected paper is "VL2: A Scalable and Flexible Data Center Network" by Albert Greenberg, James Hamilton, Navendu Jain, Srikanth Kandula, Changhoon Kim, Parantap Lahiri, Dave Maltz, Parveen Patel, and Sudipta Sengupta.
     
    The ACM SIGCOMM 2019 test of time award committee comprised: Hitesh Ballani (MSR, chair), Mark Handley(UCL), Z. Morley Mao (UMich), and Mohammadreza Alizadeh Attar (MIT).
     

    ACM SIGCOMM 2019 Networking Systems Award
     
    The SIGCOMM Networking Systems Award is awarded to an institution or individual(s) to recognize the development of a networking system that has had a significant impact on the world of computer networking. For 2019, the award goes to: "Multipath TCP implementation in the Linux kernel".
     
    The main developers were: Christoph Paasch, Sebastien Barre, Gregory Detal.
     
    However, any recognition should also mention the other researchers who have contributed to the code. Based on the published change logs, these include (in alphabetical order) :
    Andreas Ripke (NEC), Andreas Seelinger (RWTH Aachen), Andrei Maruseac (Intel), Baptiste Jonglez (Univ. Grenoble Alpes), Benjamin Hesmans (UCLouvain), Brandon Heller (Stanford University), Catalin Nicutar (PUB Bucharest), Christian Pinedo (University of the Basque Country), Cristina Ciocan (Intel), Doru Gucea (Intel), Duncan Eastoe, Enhuan Dong, Evelina, Fabien Duchêne (UCLouvain), Fabrizio Demaria (Intel), François Finfe (Tessares), Irina Tirdea (Intel), Jaehyun Hwang (Bell Labs and Samsung Electronics), Jakko Korkeaniemi (Aalto University), John Ronan (TSSG), Jorge Boncompte, Kenjiro Nakayama (Red Hat Japan), Kristian Evensen, Lavkesh Lahngir, Matthieu Baerts (Tessares), Mihai P. Andrei (Intel), Niels Laukens (VRT Belgium), Niels Möller (SouthPole), Octavian Purdila (Intel), Per Hurtig (Karlstads University), Savvas Zannettou, Sebastien Duponcheel (OVH), Stefan Sicleru (Intel), Takumi Shinkai, Tim Froidcoeur (Tessares), Valentin Ilie (Intel), Viet-Hoang Tran (UCLouvain), Vlad Dogaru (Intel)
     
    The 2019 networking systems award committee comprised: Ratul Mahajan (University of Washington), Kun Tan (Huawei), Xiaowei Yang (Duke University).
     
    You can find more details about the award at http://www.sigcomm.org/content/sigcomm-networking-systems-award.
     

    Call for Participation: ACM SIGCOMM 2019 (Early registration deadline: July 12th, 2019)
     
    ACM SIGCOMM 2019, Beijing, China, August 19th – 24th, 2019
    https://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2019/
     
    The organizing committee is delighted to invite you to ACM SIGCOMM 2019, to be held in Beijing, China on August 19-24, 2019. SIGCOMM is the flagship annual conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM) on the applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication.
     
    This year presents the following shining features:
     
    - The first time for SIGCOMM to be held in mainland China
    - The 50th anniversary of SIGCOMM
    - Keynote speech by Mark Handley, who will receive SIGCOMM Lifetime Achievement Award for fundamental contributions to Internet multimedia, multicast, congestion control, and multi-path networks, and the standardization of Internet protocols in these domains.
    - 32 high quality papers and a number of attractive demos and posters
    - 6 workshops, 4 tutorials, a Hackathon covering a wide range of interests
    - The mix of modern and historic buildings and culture in Beijing; We have a number of exciting events, e.g., banquet, student dinner, and recruitment booths supported by from a large number of premier sponsors
     
    We hereby encourage you to note the early registration deadline: July 12th, 2019 (registration details at http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2019/registration.html) and book your trip early (Hotel info at https://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2019/hotel.html)

     

    Call for Site Proposals, ACM CoNEXT 2020
     
    The CoNEXT Steering Committee is soliciting proposals for hosting ACM CoNEXT 2020.  The 2020 site is a wildcard, which means it can be held anywhere in the world. Site proposals can be short (about a page), covering the information described here:
    http://www.sigcomm.org/events/conext-conference/site-proposals
    More information about the CoNEXT conference can be found at http://sigcomm.org/events/conext-conference
     
    The deadline for full site proposals is October 15, 2019, but proposers are encouraged to let the steering committee know about their intent to propose earlier.  Please e-mail site proposals, intent to propose, and questions to the SC Chair, Peter Steenkiste (prs@cs.cmu.edu).
     
     

    Call for Papers, The 15th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS '19)
     
    http://www.ancsconf.org
     
    ACM/IEEE ANCS will be held 24th and 25th of September, 2019 in Cambridge, UK, and is the premier forum for presenting and discussing original research that explores the relationship between the algorithms and architectures of data communication networks and the hardware and software elements from which these networks are built. ANCS focuses on architectures for networking and communication in the broad sense, including novel architectures, architectural 
    support for advanced communication, algorithms and protocols for advanced architectures, software and applications for next-generation networking architectures, co-design of computer and network systems, and methodology and benchmarking for evaluating advanced communication architectures.
     
    The conference seeks an emphasis on the applicability and feasibility of approach,  and will prioritize implementation and measurement-led submissions. Authors are invited to include artifacts and data sets as part of their submission, and those would be looked favourably by the committee. Submissions are double blind (details http://www.ancsconf.org). 
     
    IMPORTANT DATES
    Abstract submission deadline: July 7th, 2019
    Full paper submission deadline: July 15th, 2019
    Author notification: August 9th, 2019

     

  • July 26, 2019

    May 2019 SIGCOMM Newsletter
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    Call for Nominations, the SIGCOMM rising star award
    Call for Participation, SIGCOMM 2019
    Call for Papers, ACM CoNEXT 2019
    SIGCOMM 2019 Hackathon on "Measuring and debugging real network systems"
    Workshop on Foundations of Routing (WFR)
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    Call for Nominations, the SIGCOMM rising star award
     
    Nominations for the SIGCOMM Rising Star Award are due by July 15th 2019.
     
    Each year, ACM SIGCOMM presents a "Rising Star" Award, recognizing a young researcher - an individual within 10 years from receiving their Ph.D. or equivalent degree - who has made outstanding research contributions to the field of communication networks during this early part of his or her career. Depth, impact, and novelty of the researcher's contributions will be key criteria upon which the Rising Star award committee evaluate the nominees. Also of particular interest are strong research contributions made independently from the nominee's PhD advisor.
     
    All nominations should be sent to the SIGCOMM awards chair.
     

    Call for Participation, SIGCOMM 2019
     
    The organizing committee is delighted to invite you to ACM SIGCOMM 2019, to be held in Beijing, China on August 19-24, 2019. Registration is open. For more details, please see https://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2019/registration.html. Details on visa requirements and visa support letter can also be found here: https://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2019/visa.html.
     

    Call for Papers, ACM CoNEXT 2019: The 15th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies
     
    Orlando, Florida, U.S.
    December 9-12, 2019
    Website: https://conferences2.sigcomm.org/co-next/2019
     
    Important Dates (hard deadlines, no extensions will be given):
    Abstract Registration: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 (6PM EDT)
    Paper Submission: Wednesday, June 26, 2019 (6PM EDT)
    Please submit your papers at: https://conext19.hotcrp.com/

    SIGCOMM Hackathon on "Measuring and debugging real network systems"
    We would like to invite you to the first SIGCOMM Hackathon on "Measuring and debugging real network systems", to be held on August 24, 2019 in Beijing, China, as part of the SIGCOMM 2019 conference: https://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2019/hackathon.html
     
    Students (undergraduates and graduates, junior and senior PhDs), researchers (research assistants, post-graduates, research scientists), developers, and network engineers are invited to participate. Registration for the Hackathon is separate from the SIGCOMM conference; conference registration is not required.
    Apply by filling out this form:
    https://forms.gle/yzntS1VFoSLE2NEo6
     
    For any further queries, please email the Hackathon team at:
    Hongqiang Liu <hongqiang.liu@alibaba-inc.com>, Alibaba Group, US
    Hongbin Luo <luohb@buaa.edu.cn>, BUAA, China
     

    The April 2019 issue of Computer Communications Review is available 
    The last issue of SIGCOMM’s newsletter is available on CCROnline and the ACM Digital Library:  https://ccronline.sigcomm.org/2019/the-april-2019-issue/
     

    Workshop on Foundations of Routing (WFR)
    Workshop on Foundations of Routing at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY on June 19th and 20th, 2019.
     
    The workshop will feature invited talks from an all-star lineup representing the networking and theory communities including:

    • Marco Chiesa (KTH)
    • Michael Dimitz (Johns Hopkins)
    • Monia Ghobadi (MIT)
    • Hongqiang Liu (Alibaba)
    • Harald Räcke (Munich)
    • Jennifer Rexford (Princeton)
    • Aaron Sidford (Stanford)
    • Vyas Sekar (CMU)

    Further details are available on the workshop website:
    http://network-programming.org/wfr/
     
    If you are interested in the theory and practice of routing, please register and join us in Ithaca in June!
     

  • July 26, 2019

    April 2019 SIGCOMM Newsletter
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    ANRW 2019 Call for Papers
    Deadline Extension for ACM SIGCOMM EPIQ 2019
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    ANRW 2019 Call for Papers
    The ACM, IRTF & ISOC Applied Networking Research Workshop 2019 (ANRW’19) is an academic workshop that provides a forum for researchers, vendors, network operators, and the Internet standards community to present and discuss emerging results in applied networking research. The workshop offers an opportunity for academics to transition research back into IETF standards and protocols and to find inspiration from topics and open problems discussed at the IETF. The workshop will consist of a mix of invited talks, submitted talks, and submitted short papers.

    • Submitted talks are not-for-publication resubmissions of works that have been published elsewhere during the last 12 months. The goal here is to increase impact of previously published work. For a talk to be considered for presentation, please submit an extended abstract that is no longer than 2 pages.
    • Short papers are publications that present new research that has not been previously published. For a short paper to be considered for publication, please submit work describing early/emerging results in a relevant topic area. There is a 6-page limit for short papers.

    ANRW ’19 particularly encourages the submission of results that could form the basis for future engineering work in the IETF, that could help better specify Internet protocols, that could change operational Internet practices, or that could influence further research and experimentation in the IRTF. ANRW ‘19 is sponsored by ACM SIGCOMM, and the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF).
     
    More information: https://irtf.org/anrw/2019/cfp.html
     

    Deadline Extension for ACM SIGCOMM EPIQ 2019
    The paper, poster and demo submission deadline for the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on the Evolution, Performance, and Interoperability of QUIC (EPIQ 2019) has been extended! The new timeline is as follows:
     
    May 6, 2019 Submission deadline
    May 31, 2019 Notification deadline
    June 20, 2019 Camera-ready deadline
    August 19 or 23, 2019 Workshop
     
    Please see http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2019/workshop-epiq.html for more information.

  • July 26, 2019

    March 2019 SIGCOMM Newsletter
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    SIGCOMM 2019 Workshops Call for Papers
    CoNEXT 2019 Call for Papers
    Call for abstracts for the SIGCOMM 2019 Workshop on Optical Systems Design (OptSys 2019)
    SOSR 2019 call for participation
    ACM Internet Measurement Conference – IMC 2019
    ACM MobiSys 2019 Call for Demos/Videos
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    SIGCOMM 2019 Workshops Call for Papers
     
    All six SIGCOMM workshops are online. Please consider submitting your papers to:
     
    Workshop on the Evolution, performance, and Interoperability of QUIC (EPIQ 2019)
    Workshop on Networking for Emerging Applications and Technologies (NEAT 2019)
    Workshop on Networking and Programming Languages (NetPL 2019)
    Workshop on Network Meets AI & ML (NetAI 2019)
    Workshop on Optical Systems Design (OptSys 2019)
    Workshop on Mobile Air­Ground Edge Computing, Systems, Networks, and Applications (MAGESys 2019)
     
    Please find the workshops in https://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2019/
     

    CoNEXT 2019 Call for Papers
     
    The CoNEXT 2019 conference seeks papers presenting significant and novel research results on emerging computer networks and its applications. CoNEXT especially encourages submissions that present novel experimentation, creative use of networking technologies, and new insights made possible using analysis. CoNEXT welcomes submission of both long and short papers (2-column, 10pt ACM format). Note that position papers, critiques of networking research, and ideas that are not yet fully complete or evaluated are a better fit for the HotNets workshop. CoNEXT welcomes experience submissions that clearly articulate lessons learned, as well as submissions that refute prior published results. CoNEXT values submissions more highly if they are accompanied by clearly defined artifacts not previously available, including traces, original data, source code, or tools developed as part of the submitted work.
     
    Abstract Registration: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 (6PM EST)
    Paper Submission: Wednesday, June 26, 2019 (6PM EST)
     
    More details: https://conferences2.sigcomm.org/co-next/2019/#!/cfp

    Call for abstracts for the SIGCOMM 2019 Workshop on Optical Systems Design (OptSys 2019)
     
    Optical equipment is a fundamental component of modern systems. The OptSys workshop focuses on the design and implementation of optical networked systems for the next-generation Cloud infrastructure. These systems pose a number of research challenges spanning multiple research areas, e.g., physical layer, scheduling, synchronization, congestion control, orchestration, and topology reconfiguration, which require cross-layer and cross-disciplinary solutions. The workshop aims to bring together participants across the optics, networking, systems, and distributed algorithms community to jointly tackle these challenges and foster discussions and collaboration opportunities across these communities.
     
    Important Dates:
    May 7, 2019: 1-page extended abstract submission deadline
    May 24, 2019: Acceptance notification for presentations
     

    SOSR 2019 call for participation
     
    ACM SOSR 2019 will be held in San Jose, CA, USA on April 3-4 2019. The ACM Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR) is the premiere venue for research publications on software-defined networking (SDN). Like previous years, SOSR will be held at same time as the Open Networking Summit (ONS). The SOSR technical program features many exciting papers, with innovations in cellular and 5G networking, SDN, cloud computing, network security, application-centric networking, P4 networking, distributed computing, and software-defined infrastructures. In addition, the program will feature two keynotes and invited speakers whom have been awarded the ACM SIGCOMM SOSR Software Systems Award, which is given to an individual or an institution to recognize the development of a software system that has had a significant impact on SDN research, implementations, and tools. A poster and demo session will also be included in the program.
     
    Website: https://conferences.sigcomm.org/sosr/2019/
    Registration: https://conferences.sigcomm.org/sosr/2019/register.html
     

    ACM Internet Measurement Conference – IMC 2019 
     
    The Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) is a highly selective venue for the presentation of measurement-based research in data communications. The focus of IMC 2019 will be on research that improves the practice of network measurement, illuminates some facet of an operational network, or both. IMC encourages authors to discuss the implications of their results to future research and/or to operations. IMC also encourages authors to discuss representativeness and limitations of their work due to coverage of their measurements across space and time.
     
    Paper registration: May 6, 2019
    Paper submission: May 13, 2019
     
    More details: https://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2019/
    Submission link: https://imc19.hotcrp.com/ 
     

    ACM MobiSys 2019 Call for Demos/Videos
     
    MobiSys 2019 is seeking two types of submission: 1) demo submission and 2) video submissions. Research prototypes and commercial products of mobile computing technologies are welcome. 
     
    Submission deadline: April 5, 2019, 23:59 AOE
    Notification of acceptance: April 21, 2019
    Camera-ready deadline: April 28, 2019
     
    More details can be found at Demo/Video Submission Site  https://mobisys19demovideo.hotcrp.com

     

  • July 26, 2019

    February 2019 SIGCOMM Newsletter
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    THE JANUARY 2019 ISSUE of CCR
    ACM SenSys 2020 Call for Hosting Proposals
    SIGCOMM 2019 Workshop on the Evolution, performance, and Interoperability of QUIC (EPIQ 2019)
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    THE JANUARY 2019 ISSUE of CCR
    2019 is a special year for SIGCOMM as your SIG will celebrate its 50th birthday at SIGCOMM’19 in August. During the last half century, the networking field has evolved a lot and SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR) contributed to this evolution by timely disseminating technical papers. CCR will celebrate SIGCOMM’s birthday with a special issue that will contain editorial notes that reflect on both the past and the future of your SIG. This special issue will be published in October 2019. Its detailed content is still being worked on, but we expect that you will find lots of interesting information in this issue. If you plan to submit papers to CCR, please note that the October 2019 issue will not publish any new technical paper. All the papers submitted between March 1st, 2019 and September 1st, 2019 will be considered for the January 2020 issue.
     
    This January 2019 issue contains one technical paper and four editorial notes. In “Parametrized Complexity of Virtual Network Embeddings: Dynamic & Linear Programming Approximations”, Matthias Rost et al. analyse the problem of mapping a virtual network on a physical one. They propose both theoretical experimental results.
     
    The first two editorial notes are position papers addressing different technical topics. In “Network Telemetry: Towards A Top-Down Approach”, Minlan Yu argues that we should view network telemetry from a different angle. Instead of using a bottom-up approach that relies on passively collecting data from various devices and then inferring the target network-wide information, she suggests a top-down approach and envisions the possibility of providing high- level declarative abstractions that would enable operators to define specific measurement queries. This editorial note could be of interest for many Internet measurement researchers.
     
    In “Thoughts on Load Distribution and the Role of Programmable Switches”, James McCauley and his colleagues take a step back at some usages of programmable network switches. More precisely, they wonder which type of functionality should be migrated to switches and which functionality should not. This is a very interesting question that should be answered when writing the motivation for many papers on programmable switches.
     
    The two other editorial notes were prepared at a recent Dagstuhl seminar that focused on the reproducibility of network research. In “The Dagstuhl Beginners Guide to Reproducibility for Experimental Networking Research”, Vaibhav Bajpai and his eight co-authors have assembled a very interesting and very useful guide filled with hints and recommendations for young researchers who begin to experiment with networks. This article will probably soon become a must read in many graduate schools. During the same seminar, another group of researchers lead by Alberto Dainotti brainstormed about our x pages two column papers. This format was interesting when articles were disseminated on real paper. Today, thirty years after the invention of the web, there are many other possibilities to disseminate scientific information. Many of these techniques are more collaborative and open than putting pdf files on web servers. “Open Collaborative Hyperpapers: A Call to Action” encourages the measurements community to collaborate on the preparation of hyperpapers. This editorial note explains the motivations for these hyperpapers and discusses some solvable technical challenges. An interesting point about this approach is that it could encourage both a faster dissemination of research results and a truly open model that encourages authors to collaborate. While brainstorming about the 50th birthday issue of SIGCOMM, we had an interesting teleconference with Vint Cerf who reminded us of the role that SIGCOMM Computer Communication played in allowing a fast dissemination of recent research results. He compared CCR with publications such as the Journal of the ACM that had much longer publication delays.
     
    The hyperpapers in the last editorial note of this issue could be a modern way of disseminating important research results. I would love to see researchers collaborating on hyperpapers in the coming months and submitting their work to CCR. Such a submission would violate the CCR submission guidelines that still assume that authors provide pdf files. If such an hyperpaper gets submitted to CCR, we will find a suitable reviewing process within the CCR Editorial board.

     

    ACM SenSys 2020 Call for Hosting Proposals
     
    On behalf of the ACM SenSys Steering Committee, please find below the ACM SenSys 2020 Call for Hosting Proposals
     
    The Steering Committee of ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys, http://sensys.acm.org/) calls for proposals on hosting the 2020 edition of the conference. SenSys is a highly selective, single-track forum for the presentation of research results on sensing systems, broadly defined. In addition to the core technical program, the conference also features poster and demo sessions, workshops, and a PhD forum. It typically draws ~200 attendees from universities, industrial, and government organizations around the world.
    The proposals will be considered in two phases. First, we call for pre-proposals that include:
    - Proposed city information, including local natural and cultural attractions.
    - A short description of local research and education communities related to SenSys.
    - Expected weather and transportation conditions around early November.
    - Type of conference facility in mind: university campus vs hotels.
    - Key organizers, such as General Chair and Local Arrangement Chair, and their experience organizing similar events.
    - Any additional information that may help the steering committee to make decisions.
     
    For entries that generate enough interests, the steering committee will further solicit full proposals that provide additional information, such as:
    - Possible facility setting, especially space arrangements for main program, demos and posters, and workshops.
    - Attendee cost estimate, such as hotel rate and transportation options.
    - Social functions, such as reception and banquet options.
    - Potential financial supports or risks. There is no geographical preference on locations.
     
    Proposals from all regions are encouraged to submit. Key dates:
    - Deadline for pre-proposals: April 1, 2019.
    - Notification for full proposal requests: April 29, 2019
    - Deadline for full proposals: May 31, 2019
    - Location announcement: business meeting at SenSys 2019
     Please send pre-proposals to niki.trigoni@gmail.com
     

    Call for Papers, Posters & Demos for the ACM SIGCOMM 2019 Workshop on the Evolution, performance, and Interoperability of QUIC (EPIQ 2019)
    The transport protocol QUIC has emerged from a proprietary effort undertaken by Google to a next generation transport protocol being standardized in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). While its original motivation and design was to support next-generation Web traffic using HTTP/3, embedding QUIC into the Internet architecture raises exciting challenges beyond the necessary engineering efforts. Google QUIC has seen deployment and motivated research papers measuring, extending, and evaluating QUIC from various perspectives.
     
    The ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on the Evolution, Performance, and Interoperability of QUIC (EPIQ) seeks to foster this emerging community. We invite researchers from academia and industry as well as engineers to explore novel ideas and future directions of QUIC and its interaction with applications and networks. This is the second instance of EPIQ, following its debut at ACM CoNEXT 2018. EPIQ solicits two types of submissions for presentation and discussion at the workshop: academic papers and posters & demos.
     
    The paper submission deadline for all types of submissions is April 15, 2019 (hard). Please see http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2019/workshop-epiq.html for details.

     
    SIGCOMM CARES
     
    Discrimination and harassment are not to be tolerated within the SIGCOMM community. The SIGCOMM CARES – SIGCOMM Committee to Aid REporting on discrimination and haraSsment policy violations is a step forward to prevent and address any form of unacceptable behavior at events associated with the SIG.
     
    We recognize that reporting discrimination and harassment to a person in authority, e.g., conference chairs, SIG officers, or ACM staff, can be intimidating, especially in the face of an already traumatic experience.  CARES committee members can serve as an alternative and are also intended as a source of advice on how to approach such a situation and ensure it is investigated by ACM. Committee members are available to listen and help anyone who has either experienced or witnessed discrimination and harassment at any event promoted by the SIG, or needs counseling on how to handle it. Committee members will seek to be present in as many SIG events as possible, starting in 2019 with a presence at SIGCOMM, CoNEXT, IMC, and HotNets.  When attending an event in their capacity as CARES members, individuals will wear a badge that clearly identifies them as such. They can also be contacted online to facilitate and schedule initial discussions. The 2019 committee members are, in alphabetical order, Sujata Banerjee, Marinho Barcellos (co-chair), Craig Partridge, Jennifer Rexford, Justine Sherry, and Ellen Zegura (co-chair).
     

    Call for Abstracts Latin American Student Workshop on Data Communication Networks (LANCOMM 2019)
     
    The Latin American Student Workshop on Data Communication Networks (LANCOMM 2019) solicits stimulating and original ideas in all aspects of networking research, reflecting the ongoing research efforts of postgraduate students and junior faculty members in the form of 2-page extended abstracts.
     
    We encourage submissions about research at an early stage as well as more advanced dissertation-level research. Accepted presentations will not be published as proceedings, so postgraduate students can submit already accepted/published dissertation-level results and conversely results presented at the workshop can subsequently be submitted, in more complete form, for publication in a full-fledged conference or journal. Research addressing non-standard topics, controversial problems and approaches are of particular interest.
    The scope of the workshop is broad and covers all aspects of networking research.. 
     
    To prepare the extended abstract, please follow the ACM SIGCOMM formatting guidelines (LaTeX template for ACM conference proceedings), except for the following two differences:

    1. papers are limited to TWO (2) pages only, plus references. Note that the two-page limit includes ALL figures, tables but does not include references (add as many as needed);
    2. Please provide only author names and affiliations; it is not necessary to add PAPER ID and number of pages. Submissions must not be anonymous.

    Travel grants will be available to students and postdocs attending LANCOMM 2019. This support, provided by SIGCOMM, will assist a substantial number of attendees by covering their transport and accommodation costs. The request must be made together with the submission of the extended abstract. 
     
    More information at http://sbrc2019.sbc.org.br/en/lancomm-student-workshop-2019/

     

    Nominations for the SIGCOMM lifetime award, SIGCOMM networking systems award, and SIGCOMM Test of Time award are due by March 31st 2019
     
    For guidelines on the nomination process please see:
     
    SIGCOMM award for lifetime contributions: https://www.sigcomm.org/awards/sigcomm-award-nominations
    SIGCOMM Networking Systems award: https://www.sigcomm.org/content/sigcomm-networking-systems-award-guidelines
    SIGCOMM Test of Time award: please send your nomination to the SIGCOMM awards chair found at http://www.sigcomm.org/about/people/

  • July 26, 2019

    January 2019 SIGCOMM Newsletter
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    Contents
    Call for Proposals: Fellowships in ACM History, on Behalf of ACM History Committee
    MobiSys 2019: Call for Workshops, on Behalf of Sister SIGs
    Computer Communication Review : next submission deadline March 1st
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    Call for Proposals: Fellowships in ACM History, on Behalf of ACM History Committee
     
    http://history.acm.org/public/public_documents/acm_history_fellowship_announce.php
    The Association for Computing Machinery, founded in 1947, is the oldest and largest educational and scientific society dedicated to the computing profession, and today has more than 100,000 members around the world. The ACM History Committee will support research projects related to ACM's professional and educational activities and/or to ACM’s rich institutional history including its organization, publications, SIG activities, and conferences.
     
    We will support up to ***four research*** projects with awards of up to ***$4,000 each***. Successful candidates may be of any rank, from graduate students through senior researchers. See the list of past supported projects here.
     
    To Apply: Applicants should send a 2-page CV as well as a 500-word project description that [a] describes the proposed research; [b] identifies the importance of specific ACM historical materials, whether traditional archival collections or online historical materials (oral histories, digitized conference papers, ACM organizational records, et al.); [c] discusses project outcomes (e.g., journal article, book or dissertation chapter, teaching resource, museum exhibit, website); [d] outlines a timeline for completing the project; [e] agrees to write a one-page blog entry during the project and, on completion, to promptly report the project’s result.
     
    In preparing a proposal, applicants should examine the document "ACM Research Materials" posted at http://history.acm.org/content.php?do=links as well as "Sources for ACM History," CACM 50 #5 (May 2007): 36-41 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1230819.1230836. Other research materials relating to ACM may also be used.
     
    Applicants should include ***a letter of endorsement from their home institution or an external scholarly reference***.
     
    Proposals are due by ***1 April, 2019***. 
     
    Proposals should be submitted as a single pdf-format document to history-webmaster@acm.org. 
     
    Since 2009, the ACM History Committee has supported 28 research projects. Results include the recent edited volume Communities of Computing: Computer Science and Society in the ACM (ACM Books 2016; DOI10.1145/2973856). ACM HC also sponsors workshops in oral history methods and archiving practices.
     
    The pdf-format document for this call for papers/proposals can be found here:
    http://history.acm.org/public/public_documents/ACM-fellowship.pdf
     

    MobiSys 2019: Call for Workshops, On Behalf of Sister SIGs
     
    MobiSys is a premier venue for researchers working in the area of mobile and wireless systems, middleware, services, and applications. Workshop papers will be included with the MobiSys proceedings and published in the ACM Digital Library.
     
    We solicit workshop proposals on new and emerging topics in the general area of mobile and wireless systems, services, and applications.
     
    Workshops are scheduled for June 21st, 2019. The ideal workshop proposal will focus on a timely and emerging topic, and be able to attract a number of interesting and high-quality contributions that spark discussions in an informal setting. The goal is to stimulate interactive conversations and inspire new research ideas.
     
    The proposal should be no longer than three pages and should clearly identify:

    1. The name of the workshop.
    2. The name, address, and short bio (up to 200 words) of each organizer (up to three).
    3. A brief description of the technical issues that the workshop will address, and the reasons why the workshop is of interest at this time.
    4. The list of names and affiliations of potential program committee members.
    5. The planned format of the workshop, including a strategy to facilitate lively discussions and attendee involvement.
    6. The expected number of submissions and participants.
    7. If previous editions have been held, a description of past versions of the workshop, including: number of submitted and accepted papers, and number of attendees.
    8. A description of the publicity plan.
    9. A call for papers with workshop deadlines (aligned with the relevant Important Dates below).

     
    Submissions
    Please send your proposal via e-mail to the workshop co-chairs at workshops.mobisys2019@umich.edu, including "MobiSys 2019 Workshop" in the subject line.
     
    Submissions must be received by the deadline below.
     
    Important Dates
    Proposal submission deadline: February 1st, 2019
    Notification of acceptance: February 8th, 2019
    Workshop Call for Papers submissions deadline: April 3rd, 2019
    Camera-ready workshop papers due: May 1st, 2019
    Workshops date: June 21st, 2019
     
    Workshop Co-Chairs
    Z. Morley Mao, University of Michigan, USA
    Seungwoo Kang, KOREATECH, KR
     

    Computer Communication Review
     
    Although SIGCOMM’s Computer Communication Review accepts submissions all year around, there are four implicit deadlines: December 1, March 1, June 1, and September 1. Papers submitted just before the deadline will experience a eight-to-ten week review process. Note that as the October 2019 issue of CCR will be devoted to the celebration of SIGCOMM’s 50th birthday, there will be no CCR deadline on June 1st in 2019. The papers submitted after March 1st 2019 will be scheduled for the January 2020 issue of CCR. See https://ccronline.sigcomm.org 

  • July 26, 2019

    December 2018 SIGCOMM Newsletter
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    Contents
    ACM Pubs Board Policy on Publication Withdrawal, Correction, Retraction and Removal
    Call for Nominations, SOSR Software Systems Award (2019)
    Call for Applications to ACM SIG Heritage Workshop
    Call for Papers, ACM e-Energy'19, Phoenix, AZ, United States
    Call for Workshop Proposals, ACM e-Energy – June 25th-28th, 2019
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    ACM Pubs Board Policy on Publication Withdrawal, Correction, Retraction and Removal
     
    The ACM Publications Board has approved new Conflict of Interest and Retractions policies. Both of these new policies are now posted on ACM’s website at:

    In particular, we want to draw your attention to how the Retraction policy addresses the issue of conference-author “no shows”. The Publications Board discussed the suggested remedies extensively and ultimately arrived at the language in the final version of the policy. Please note that it is possible to remove a paper, but only under very specific circumstances. For other situations, other solutions recommended by some SIGs, such as disallowing authors who do not show up to present their papers from submitting to next year’s conference, may be used as inducements.
     

    Call for Nominations, SOSR Software Systems Award (2019)
     
    The ACM SIGCOMM SOSR Software Systems Award is given to an individual or an institution to recognize the development of a software system that has had a significant impact on SDN research, implementations, and tools. The impact may be reflected in the widespread adoption of the system, or of its underlying concepts, by the wider SDN community, either in research projects, in the open-source community, or commercially. The award includes a prize and an invited talk. Self-nominations are accepted, please see the link below for nomination details.
     
    Nomination Deadline: January 12th, 2019
    Additional details: https://conferences.sigcomm.org/sosr/2019/award.html

     

    ACM SIG Heritage Workshop
    Organized by the ACM History Committee will be held  at the Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota (Minneapolis) on May 20-21, 2019 to educate, assist, and build community for those involved with ACM SIG archiving or other documentation/history projects (such as oral history), or those with ideas/plans for a future project.  
    One such sample project is the one organized by SIGGRAPH that has a large ongoing digital preservation project with its Annual Conference Art Show Archives, and smaller projects to collect and scan all (non-born digital) Conference Course Notes, and record major awardees (Coons Award) discussing their work.
     
    The SIG Heritage Workshop program will explore ACM Records, will focus on best practices in paper and digital archiving, and will include short presentations/discussion by participants. The ACM will provide travel support (air, lodging, meals) for accepted applicants (See below for application details)
     
    About the Charles Babbage Institute (CBI)
    CBI, founded in 1979, is a leading IT historical research center and archives.  The CBI Archives has more than 350 archival collections, including the ACM Organizational Records.  CBI is active in sponsored research (for NSF, DARPA, DOE, NHPRC), oral history, publishing, editing, professional society service/leadership, and serving diverse stakeholders to advance IT history research and education.
     
    *         *         *         *         *
     
    ACM History Committee
    Call for Participation:
    Workshop on ACM SIG Heritage, 20-21 May 2019
     
    The Association for Computing Machinery, founded in 1947, is the oldest and largest educational and scientific society dedicated to the computing profession, and today has more than 100,000 members around the world. The ACM History Committee is sponsoring a SIG Heritage workshop to help diffuse knowledge of professional archival practices into ACM's membership and to others with an active interest in preserving our computer heritage/history.
     
    Applications are invited to a one-and-a-half day workshop to be held 20-21 May 2019 at the Charles Babbage Institute (CBI) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. For each successful application, one person's expenses for workshop travel, lodging, and meals will be paid by the ACM History Committee.
     
    A hands-on workshop with detailed examples
     
    Who should attend? ACM members and others who are planning or actually doing SIG history/heritage (archiving/documentation/oral history/publishing) projects.  The workshop should be of special interest to ACM officers and staff, SIG leaders, historically minded ACM members, and others working on SIG history projects. Priority will be given to ACM members and members of other national computer societies affiliated to the ACM, but others who are actively engaged in preserving ACM SIG-related history are also encouraged to apply.
     
    Workshop activities include:
    a)      presentations on basic SIG history preservation, including identification, ACM support, priorities, assessment, and example projects; privacy and legal issues; preparing for public deposit
    b)      hands-on individual exploration of CBI holdings, including ACM records
    c)      short presentations on each attendee's SIG heritage project/plans, with group discussion
    d)      CBI archival cavern tour
    e)      ample networking time, including lunches and workshop dinner
     
    Participants will leave with a "tool kit" of practical, useful procedures as well as insight into other SIG heritage techniques, projects, and practices.
     
    Small workshop format to maximize hands-on aspects and personal interaction. At most 20 attendees.
     
    Applicants should send a 2-page CV as well as a 250-word project description that
    ·         explains the significance of the existing or planned archiving/history project and its importance;
    ·         describes the archiving/history project's raw materials including types of images, documents, reports, publications, oral histories (including format of digital materials)
    ·         affirms the applicant’s willingness to make a short presentation to the workshop and participate fully in its day and a half  agenda
     
    The ACM History Committee will fund accepted invitees (travel, hotel, meals).
     
    Applications are due by 1 February 2019. Applications should be submitted as a single pdf-format document to history-webmaster@acm.org. Notification of project acceptance will be made within six weeks. (Questions about the workshop or requests for clarification may be directed, at any time, to history-webmaster@acm.org.)
     

    Call for Papers, ACM e-Energy'19, Phoenix, AZ, United States   
     
    June 25th-28th, 2019   https://energy.acm.org/conferences/eenergy/2019/ 
     
    ACM e-Energy is the premier forum for research at the intersection of computing and communication technologies with energy systems. It has established a strong track record for high-quality research in the    application of computing and networked systems to make legacy systems more energy-efficient and in the design, analysis, and development of innovative energy systems. The Tenth International Conference on Future Energy Systems (ACM e-Energy) will be co-located with the ACM Federated Computing Research Conference (FCRC), from the 25th to the 28th of June  2019 at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona. By bringing together researchers in a single-track conference designed to offer significant opportunities for personal interaction, it is a major forum for shaping the future of this area.
     
    We seek high-quality papers at the intersection of computing and communication technologies with energy systems. We welcome submissions describing conceptual advances, as well as advances in system design, implementation and experimentation. ACM e-Energy is committed to a fair, timely, and thorough review process with sound and detailed feedback.
     
    General Chairs: Xiaojun Lin (Purdue University, USA), Steven Low (Caltech, USA)   
    Program Chairs: Suman Banerjee (University of Wisconsin, USA), Sebastian Lehnhoff (University of Oldenburg, Germany)
     
    Key Dates: 
    Paper registration/abstract deadline: January 21th     
    Paper submission deadline: January 28th    
    Author notification: April 15th   
    E-Energy19 conference at FCRC: June 25-28th   
    (Poster/demo deadlines can be found on the webpage) 
     

    Call for Workshop Proposals, ACM e-Energy – June 25th-28th, 2019
     
    https://energy.acm.org/conferences/eenergy/2019/
     
    Every year, the international conference ACM e-Energy features co-located workshops on new trends or emerging topics of interest to the energy research community. Continuing this trend, ACM e-Energy 2019 will include a limited number of high quality, half- or full-day workshops on June 25, 2019. These workshops are aimed at exploring in-depth topics related to the areas of computing and communication for smart energy systems, as well as energy-efficient computing and communication systems. These workshops will provide international forums for scientists, engineers, and users to exchange and share their new ideas, experiences, and research results. The proceedings of the workshop program will be published by ACM Digital Library along with the conference proceedings. You are invited to submit a workshop proposal by December 10th, 2018 to the Workshop Chair, which should contain the following information:
     
    - Workshop title
    - Main contact details
    - Workshop organizers (including contact details)
    - Workshop theme
    - Intention for a half-day or full-day workshop
    - Suitability to e-Energy audience
    - Draft call for papers
    - A tentative list of TPC members
    - Expected number of submitted/accepted papers, papers sessions, keynotes, panels, etc.
    - If appropriate, a description of the history of the workshop, including the number of submitted/accepted papers, the number of attendees, the format, etc.
    - If the same (or similar) workshop was held in the past ACM e-Energy conference, what was the number of participants in each time? 
     
    Decisions to accept/reject workshop proposals will be made by the Workshops Chair in consultation with the Conference and Program Chair based on the overall quality and compatibility with the ACM e-Energy 2019 program.
     
    The organisers of accepted workshops will be responsible for their own publicity (e.g. website and call for papers) as well as the reviewing and paper selection process. For the ACM e-Energy proceedings publication they need to comply with publication guidelines and timing of the conference. They will be required to cooperate closely with the Workshops Chair and the ACM e-Energy 2019 local organisers to finalise all organisational details. Workshop registrations and payments will be made via the Conference registration system, and payments to the facilities will thus be taken care of by the local e-Energy organisers. In particular, local organisers may require that all workshops adhere to specific requirements regarding the general timetable, registration, and catering.
     
    Important Dates
     
    - Proposal submission deadline: December, 10th, 2018
    - Notification: December, 15th, 2018
     
    Please submit your proposal in PDF format via email directly to Dan Wang (dan.wang@polyu.edu.hk). Only complete proposals with all required information will be considered.

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