<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this note.<br><br>*************************************************************************<br>Call for Presentations: Research Track at the Open Networking Summit 2013<br>*************************************************************************<br><br>Software Defined Networking (SDN) refactors the relationship between<br>network devices and the software that controls them. Open interfaces<br>to network switches enable more flexible and predictable network<br>control, and they make it easier to extend network function. Several<br>router vendors have introduced software development kits for<br>programming their network devices, and many commercial devices support<br>the emerging OpenFlow standard. <br><br>Open Networking Summit (ONS) has emerged as the premier OpenFlow and<br>SDN event. The first two ONS events were very well received. The<br>events showcased invited presentations on SDN from industry and<br>academic leaders; 20+ exhibits that demonstrated SDN technologies and<br>products; and, two day-long tutorials for engineers and managers.<br><br>The research community is actively pursuing a variety of important<br>open issues in SDN. Examples include switch design and APIs that<br>balance flexibility and performance; new applications to capitalize on<br>the programmability of the network; transitioning an existing network<br>to SDN, and many others.<br><br>ONS 2013 will feature a new **Research Track** where researchers can<br>present their cutting edge SDN work. The Research Track is designed<br>to leverage the strong industry presence at ONS to bring to focus<br>research problems that are highly relevant to the larger SDN<br>community, to allow a free exchange of ideas, and to help build a<br>focused community effort to explore and realize the potential of<br>SDN. <br><br>We encourage interested presenters to submit a two-page extended<br>abstract describing their SDN research. While we are particularly<br>interested in early stage work, we also welcome submissions that<br>summarize published results. Submissions will be selected based on<br>originality of the work, likelihood of spawning insightful discussion,<br>and technical merit. Each accepted submission would be granted a long<br>(20 minutes) or short (10 minutes) presentation slot.<br><br>We solicit submissions on topics including, but not limited to, the<br>following:<br><br>- Applications of SDN in home, wireless, cellular, enterprise,<br> data-center, and backbone networks <br>- Application of SDN to network management, performance monitoring,<br> security, etc. <br>- Virtual appliances (e.g., firewalls, intrusion detection systems,<br> load balancers, etc.) on SDN <br>- Virtualization support in software-defined networks <br>- Switch designs for SDN<br>- Control and management software stack for SDN<br>- Programming languages, verification techniques, and tools for SDN<br>- Performance evaluation of SDN network elements and controllers<br>- Hybrid SDN approaches (integration with other control planes)<br>- Transitioning existing networks to SDN<br>- SDN control plane abstractions<br><br>Important dates<br><br>Submission deadline: Feb 11, 2013<br>Acceptance notifications: Mar 1, 2013<br>Final version due: Mar 15, 2013<br>Research Track dates: Apr 16 and 17, 2013 <br><br>Program Committee<br><br>Aditya Akella, UW-Madison (Co-chair)<br>Martin Casado, Nicira/VMWare<br>Nate Foster, Cornell<br>Albert Greenberg, Microsoft<br>Guru Parulkar, Stanford<br>Nick Feamster, Georgia Tech<br>Atsushi Iwata, NEC<br>Jeffrey Mogul, HP Labs<br>Vijoy Pandey, IBM<br>Jennifer Rexford, Princeton<br>Prodip Sen, Verizon<br>Amin Vahdat, Google/UCSD (Co-chair)<br><br>For further details, please see <a href="http://opennetsummit.org/research-track.html">http://opennetsummit.org/research-track.html</a><br><br><br><br><br></body></html>