From bdavie at cisco.com Fri Dec 16 11:32:37 2011 From: bdavie at cisco.com (Bruce Davie) Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:32:37 -0500 Subject: [sigcomm] CFP: HotSDN workshop References: <553BEF9B-8110-409F-AFC9-FF13548B0644@CS.Princeton.EDU> Message-ID: <015093B5-7698-4413-AEB0-25B06A19D981@cisco.com> There will be a number of workshops at SIGCOMM 2012 - here is the CFP for one of them. --------------- ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Defined Networking (HotSDN) Co-located with ACM SIGCOMM'12 August 13 or August 17, 2012 Helsinki, Finland Software Defined Networking (SDN) refactors the relationship between network devices and the software that controls them. Open interfaces to network switches enable more flexible and predictable network control, and they make it easier to extend network function. During the past few years, several router vendors have introduced software development kits for programming their network devices, and several commercial switches now support the emerging OpenFlow standard. Researchers have proposed new applications that can run on top of a software defined network, including dynamic access control, server load balancing, energy-efficient networking, and seamless client mobility and virtual-machine migration. Many research and industry groups worldwide are pursuing different aspects of software defined networking, and experimental and production deployments exist. Still, many important research challenges remain: how to design switches and APIs that offer greater flexibility without compromising performance; how to design a software platform for the control and management of software defined networks; how to design new applications that capitalize on the programmability of the network; how to lower the barrier to creating, testing, and evaluating new applications; how to transition an existing network to SDN, and how a software defined network can interoperate with existing protocols and devices; and many others. The goal of the workshop is to explore recent research and developments related to SDN; to allow an exchange of ideas; to encourage broad interaction between industry and academia; and to help build a wider community to explore and realize the potential of SDN. Topics We encourage submission of both position papers and work-in-progress papers on Software Defined Networking. We solicit previously unpublished work on topics including, but not limited to the following: - Applications of SDN in home, wireless, cellular, enterprise, data-center, and backbone networks - Application of SDN to network management, performance monitoring, security, etc.) - Virtual appliances (e.g., firewalls, intrusion detection systems, load balancers, etc.) on SDN - Virtualization support in software-defined networks - Switch designs for SDN - Application Programming Interfaces for SDN - Control and management software stack for SDN - Programming languages, verification techniques, and tools for SDN - Performance evaluation of SDN network elements and controllers - Experiences deploying SDN technology and applications in operational networks - Hybrid SDN approaches (integration with other control planes) - Transitioning existing networks to SDN - Placement and factoring of SDN control logic Important Dates - Registration of abstracts: March 30, 2012 - Submissions due: April 6, 2012 - Notification of acceptance: May 16, 2012 - Camera ready version due: June 8, 2012 - Workshop date: August 13 or 17, 2012 For more details, see the SIGCOMM'12 Web site: http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2012/index.php PC Co-Chairs - Nick Feamster (Georgia Tech) - Jennifer Rexford (Princeton) Program Committee Members - Katerina Argyraki (EPFL) - Marco Canini (EPFL) - Martin Casado (Nicira) - Bruce Davie (Cisco) - Anja Feldmann (T-Labs/TU-Berlin) - Nate Foster (Cornell) - Yashar Ganjali (U. Toronto) - Sachin Katti (Stanford) - Teemu Koponen (Nicira) - Jeff Mogul (HP Labs) - Richard Mortier (University of Nottingham) - Nick McKeown (Stanford) - Amin Vahdat (UCSD/Google) - Andreas Voellmy (Yale) - Dave Ward (Juniper) Steering Committee members - Martin Casado (Nicira) - Bruce Davie (Cisco) - Nick Feamster (Georgia Tech) - Guru Parulkar (Stanford) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.postel.org/pipermail/sigcomm/attachments/20111216/1535a52a/attachment-0001.html From Sharad.Agarwal at microsoft.com Fri Dec 16 15:57:02 2011 From: Sharad.Agarwal at microsoft.com (Sharad Agarwal (MSR-REDMOND)) Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 23:57:02 +0000 Subject: [sigcomm] CFP: ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Mobile Gaming Message-ID: ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Mobile Gaming (Mon Aug 13 or Fri Aug 17, 2012) Helsinki, Finland While they are a relatively new phenomenon, games on smartphones have become wildly popular with users. Games consistently dominate the top purchases on mobile app marketplaces. With the intense competition that has ensued in this industry, games are now rapidly incorporating sophisticated technologies that have been adapted to the mobile computing environment, many of which are of growing importance to researchers. There are many research challenges across graphics, energy consumption, network latency, HCI, security, and sensor networking. While this field is interdisciplinary by nature, many proposed ideas have direct impact on how networking protocols and infrastructures are designed and managed. In this first Mobile Gaming workshop at SIGCOMM, we will bring together practitioners as well as interested researchers to discuss the latest developments in this growing field. We will identify what we have already achieved, the challenges that lie ahead, and promising avenues forward. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * cheating in networked mobile games * reducing the energy consumption of mobile games * increasing the quality of graphics on phones * tolerating limited bandwidth and high latency on wireless links in games * impact of device limitations on mobile game players * mobile games that interact with other devices in the vicinity such as TVs, sensors, and other phones * protocols and architectural designs or concerns for next generation mobile games * optimizing game servers and transport for mobile users * cross-device gaming (e.g. phones, slates, PCs, consoles) * novel game types and/or interaction modalities * matchmaking for mobile multiplayer games * detailed traffic measurements or usability studies of mobile games * massively multiplayer mobile gaming All submissions must be original work not under review at any other workshop, conference, or journal. The workshop will accept papers describing completed work as well as work-in-progress, so long as the promise of the approach is demonstrated. Radical ideas or position papers, potentially of a controversial nature, are strongly encouraged. Submissions must be no greater than 6 pages in length and author names and affiliations should be included in the submission. Submissions must follow the formatting guidelines at http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2012/ Program Committee Sharad Agarwal (Microsoft Research) Aditya Akella (U. Wisconsin-Madison) Rajesh Balan (Singapore Management University) Suman Banerjee (U. Wisconsin-Madison) David Chu (Microsoft Research) Janne Lindqvist (Rutgers University) April Slayden Mitchell (HP Labs) Jeffrey Pang (AT&T Labs) Junehwa Song (KAIST) Lin Zhong (Rice University) Workshop Chairs Sharad Agarwal (Microsoft Research) Rajesh Krishna Balan (Singapore Management University) Important dates: Submission deadline: 15 March 2012 Author notification: 15 May 2012 Camera ready: 1 June 2012 Workshop: 13 or 17 August 2012 URL for submission will be available as a link for workshops from http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2012/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.postel.org/pipermail/sigcomm/attachments/20111216/922a1c26/attachment.html