ACM HotNets-VII
October 6-7, 2008
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
http://conferences.sigcomm.org/hotnets/2008/

Call for Papers

The Seventh ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets-VII),
to be held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 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, as done in previous HotNets workshops.

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-VII, 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:
 - Architectural support for security or availability
 - Computing in the cloud: what role exists for networking research?
 - Ensuring the correctness of distributed protocols
 - Evolution of storage area networks
 - Lessons drawn from failed research, and controversial/disruptive topics
 - Measurement and management of metro-area WiFi networks
 - Networking within the modern data center
 - Power as a first-class design property; "green" protocols/implementations
 - Protocol design for optical switching
 - Support for non-IP internetworking protocols
 - Technical aspects of and solutions to network neutrality
 - Third-world networking challenges
 - 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, technical
merit, and likelihood of spawning insightful discussion.  Online
copies of accepted position papers will be made publicly available
via the Web prior to the workshop, and printed proceedings will be
available at the workshop. 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 accepted paper,
   and any speakers invited by the Program Committee
 - co-authors of accepted and submitted papers, preferring students  
   as available travel support allows
 - event-sponsor representatives and additional authors of submitted
   papers at the discretion of the Program Committee

The HotNets-VII workshop will be held at the University of Calgary.
It is sponsored by ACM SIGCOMM, with additional financial and
in-kind support provided by iCORE and the University of Calgary.

Submission Instructions

Submitted papers must be no longer than 6 pages (10 point font,
1 inch margins). All submissions must be blind: submissions must not  
indicate the names or affiliations of the authors in 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-VII reviews will 
follow standard academic practice, although some rejected papers
may not receive full-length reviews.

Submission information is posted at:
   http://conferences.sigcomm.org/hotnets/2008/


Important Dates

Submission deadline: July 12, 2008 (11:59pm PDT)  NO EXTENSIONS!!!
Notification of decision: August 18, 2008
Camera-ready copy due: September 15, 2008 (11:59pm PDT)
Workshop: October 6-7, 2008


Organizing Committee:

General Chair: Carey Williamson (University of Calgary)

Program Chairs: David Andersen (CMU) and Steve Gribble (U. Washington)

Program Committee:
    Aditya Akella (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
    Victor Bahl (Microsoft Research)
    Mary Baker (HP Labs)
    Nick Feamster (Georgia Tech)
    Paul Francis (Cornell University)
    Brad Karp (University College London)
    Bruce Maggs (Carnegie Mellon University)