An ACM SIGCOMM 2008 workshop
AUGUST 22, SEATTLE, WA, USA
The organizing committee is delighted to invite you to PRESTO '08, co-located with ACM SIGCOMM 2008 in Seattle, WA, USA.
Recently, there has been renewed interest in the networking research community in re-architecting the distribution of functions in an IP network. These efforts can be described as a dis-aggregation of router functionality into various components and well-defined interfaces, to enable deployment of richer services and easier management of the network. In addition, researchers and practitioners in industry have been exploring the notion of open routers, which allows new functionality to be easily added into routers, as well as exploring router virtualization as a way to support a diverse set of applications and users. These efforts span the range from building open-source routing software, to making routers third-party-developer friendly by exposing router APIs, as recent industry announcements indicate.
Programmable network elements hold the promise of accelerating innovation and service deployment. At the same time programmability could exacerbate already challenging network management tasks. This workshop will provide a forum for the exchange of ideas between researchers and industry practitioners with a goal of driving service innovation in IP networks using novel extensible router architectures.
Specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
The workshop solicits original papers on completed work, position papers, and/or work-in-progress papers on the challenges raised above. Papers that bring out new and interesting approaches at an early stage of their development are very welcome.
Submissions must be no greater than 6 pages in length, must be a PDF file and must follow the ACM formatting guidelines. Peer review is single-blind; the authors names and affiliations are to be included on the submission. Submissions cannot be previously published or be under concurrent review elsewhere. Submissions that deviate from these guidelines will be rejected without consideration.
Registration of paper abstract | Extended to March 5, 2008 (1700 EST) |
Submissions due | Extended to March 12, 2008 (1700 EST) |
Notification of acceptance | April 21, 2008 |
Camera ready version due | May 9, 2008 |
Workshop date | August 22, 2008 |
PC Chairs | T.V. Lakshman | Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Labs |
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Jennifer Rexford | Princeton University | |
Kobus van der Merwe | AT&T Labs — Research | |
PC Members | Fred Baker | Cisco Systems |
Bob Briscoe | BT | |
Jon Crowcroft | University of Cambridge | |
Patrick Crowley | Washington University | |
Nick Feamster | Georgia Tech | |
Tim Griffin | University of Cambridge | |
David Maltz | Microsoft Research | |
David McDysan | Verizon | |
Nick McKeown | Stanford University | |
Eugene Ng | Rice University | |
Sylvia Ratnasamy | Intel Research | |
Dipankar Raychaudhuri | Rutgers University | |
John Scudder | Juniper Networks | |
Lixia Zhang | UCLA | |
Submissions Management | Elliott Karpilovsky | Princeton University |