[sigcomm] CFP: HotSDN workshop

[Bruce Davie]

There will be a number of workshops at SIGCOMM 2012 - here is the CFP for one of them.
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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 We solicit previously unpublished work on topics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)


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