PRESTO '08

An ACM SIGCOMM 2008 workshop
AUGUST 22, SEATTLE, WA, USA

PRESTO'08 — Workshop on Programmable Routers for Extensible Services of TOmorrow

The organizing committee is delighted to invite you to PRESTO '08, co-located with ACM SIGCOMM 2008 in Seattle, WA, USA.

Call for Papers

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.

Topics

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.

Submission Instructions

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.

Important Dates

Registration of paper abstractExtended to March 5, 2008 (1700 EST)
Submissions dueExtended to March 12, 2008 (1700 EST)
Notification of acceptanceApril 21, 2008
Camera ready version dueMay 9, 2008
Workshop dateAugust 22, 2008

Program Committee

PC Chairs T.V. Lakshman Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Labs
  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