Call for Papers

The Sixth Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets-VI), to be held in Atlanta, GA, will bring together researchers in the networking systems community to engage in lively discussion of future trends in networking research and technology. The workshop, which is sponsored by ACM SIGCOMM, provides a venue for researchers to present and discuss ideas that have the potential to significantly influence the community in the long term; the goal is to promote community-wide discussions of those ideas.

Each potential participant should submit a short position paper describing such an idea. The paper could, for example, expose a new problem, advocate a new solution, or re-frame or debunk existing work.

We encourage submissions of early work, with novel and interesting ideas, across the broad range of networking systems research. We expect that work introduced at HotNets-VI, once fully thought through, completed, and described in a finished form, may be relevant to conferences such as SIGCOMM, NSDI, SOSP, OSDI, SenSys, or MobiCom. Topics of interest include, but are by no means limited to:

• A research agenda for Web 2.0
• Architectural support for security or availability
• Computing in the cloud: what role for networking research?
• Ensuring correctness for distributed protocols
• Evolution of storage area networks
• Lessons drawn from failed research, and controversial or disruptive topics
• Measurement and management of metro-area WiFi networks
• Network coding: hype or reality?
• Power as a first-class design property; "green" protocols/implementations
• Protocol design for optical switching
• The future role of network processors
• Third-world networking challenges
• Understanding the economics of operational costs
• Unique challenges of massive multi-player game systems
• Validation of measurement-based research: what are our standards?

Position papers will be selected based on originality, likelihood of spawning insightful discussion and technical merit. Online copies of accepted position papers will be made publicly available via the Web prior to the workshop, and printed proceedings will be published. Additionally, a workshop summary will be published in ACM SIGCOMM's Computer Communication Review (CCR), widely disseminating the ideas discussed at the workshop.

Attendance will be limited to around 60 people in order to ensure an interactive workshop atmosphere. Invitations to attend the workshop will be extended according to the following priorities:

• the Program and Steering Committees, one author per paper, and any speakers invited by the Program Committee
• co-authors of accepted and submitted papers, preferring students as available scholarships allow
• event-sponsor representatives and additional authors of submitted papers at the discretion of the Program Committee

Hotnets-VI is sponsored by ACM SIGCOMM and NSF.

Submission Instructions

Submitted papers must be no longer than 6 pages (10 point font, 1 inch margins). Authors may choose to submit a blind or non-blind paper. A blind submission will not indicate the names or affiliations of the authors in the paper; a non-blind submission will include the names and affiliations of each author on the first page of the paper. Only electronic submissions in PostScript or PDF will be accepted. Submissions must be written in English, render without error using standard tools (Ghostview or Acrobat Reader), and print on US-Letter sized paper. Please number your pages. HotNets-VI reviews will follow standard academic practice, although some rejected papers may not receive full-length reviews.

Submission information will be posted at http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/HotNets-VI.

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