<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>There will be a number of workshops at SIGCOMM 2012 - here is the CFP for one of them.</div><div>---------------<br><br><br>ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Defined Networking (HotSDN)<br> Co-located with ACM SIGCOMM'12<br> August 13 or August 17, 2012<br> Helsinki, Finland<br><br>Software Defined Networking (SDN) refactors the relationship between network<br>devices and the software that controls them. Open interfaces to network<br>switches enable more flexible and predictable network control, and they make it<br>easier to extend network function. During the past few years, several router<br>vendors have introduced software development kits for programming their network<br>devices, and several commercial switches now support the emerging OpenFlow<br>standard. Researchers have proposed new applications that can run on top of a<br>software defined network, including dynamic access control, server load<br>balancing, energy-efficient networking, and seamless client mobility and<br>virtual-machine migration. Many research and industry groups worldwide are<br>pursuing different aspects of software defined networking, and experimental and<br>production deployments exist.<br><br>Still, many important research challenges remain: how to design switches and<br>APIs that offer greater flexibility without compromising performance; how to<br>design a software platform for the control and management of software defined<br>networks; how to design new applications that capitalize on the programmability<br>of the network; how to lower the barrier to creating, testing, and evaluating<br>new applications; how to transition an existing network to SDN, and how a<br>software defined network can interoperate with existing protocols and devices;<br>and many others.<br><br>The goal of the workshop is to explore recent research and developments related<br>to SDN; to allow an exchange of ideas; to encourage broad interaction between<br>industry and academia; and to help build a wider community to explore and<br>realize the potential of SDN.<br><br>Topics<br><br>We encourage submission of both position papers and work-in-progress papers on<br>Software Defined Networking. We solicit previously unpublished work on topics<br>including, but not limited to the following:<br><br>- Applications of SDN in home, wireless, cellular, enterprise, data-center, and<br> backbone networks<br>- Application of SDN to network management, performance monitoring, security,<br> etc.)<br>- Virtual appliances (e.g., firewalls, intrusion detection systems, load<br> balancers, etc.) on SDN<br>- Virtualization support in software-defined networks<br>- Switch designs for SDN<br>- Application Programming Interfaces 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>- Experiences deploying SDN technology and applications in operational networks<br>- Hybrid SDN approaches (integration with other control planes)<br>- Transitioning existing networks to SDN<br>- Placement and factoring of SDN control logic<br><br>Important Dates<br><br>- Registration of abstracts: March 30, 2012<br>- Submissions due: April 6, 2012<br>- Notification of acceptance: May 16, 2012<br>- Camera ready version due: June 8, 2012<br>- Workshop date: August 13 or 17, 2012<br><br> For more details, see the SIGCOMM'12 Web site:<br> <a href="http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2012/index.php">http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2012/index.php</a><br><br>PC Co-Chairs<br>- Nick Feamster (Georgia Tech)<br>- Jennifer Rexford (Princeton)<br><br>Program Committee Members<br>- Katerina Argyraki (EPFL)<br>- Marco Canini (EPFL)<br>- Martin Casado (Nicira)<br>- Bruce Davie (Cisco)<br>- Anja Feldmann (T-Labs/TU-Berlin)<br>- Nate Foster (Cornell)<br>- Yashar Ganjali (U. Toronto)<br>- Sachin Katti (Stanford)<br>- Teemu Koponen (Nicira)<br>- Jeff Mogul (HP Labs)<br>- Richard Mortier (University of Nottingham)<br>- Nick McKeown (Stanford)<br>- Amin Vahdat (UCSD/Google)<br>- Andreas Voellmy (Yale)<br>- Dave Ward (Juniper)<br><br>Steering Committee members<br>- Martin Casado (Nicira)<br>- Bruce Davie (Cisco)<br>- Nick Feamster (Georgia Tech)<br>- Guru Parulkar (Stanford)<br><br></div></div><br></body></html>