ACM SIGCOMM 2020 Workshop on Networking for Emerging Applications and Technologies (NEAT 2020)

Call for Papers

The best-effort Internet of today is well suited for traditional terminals and web-based applications. However, the new type of devices like handhelds, sensors, robots, and display technologies are changing the way machines and humans interact. The network resource demands from the applications attached to these terminals in the emerging verticals are changing accordingly. For example, the functions of networks such as low latency, responsiveness and bandwidth availability are not just inherent but more stringent to verticals such as Smart cities, Smart health, Smart agriculture, Industrial automation Remote-controlled operations, etc.

Because in large number of emerging applications, human beings are not involved at either end of the connection, the tolerance to network delays, packet losses or outages is extremely low, instead guarantees from the network for precise per-packet delivery become necessary. This type of accuracy in network services is known as High-Precision Communications (HPC). HPC mechanisms help in resolving challenges beyond the best-effort service delivery paradigm over the current (or classical) Internet. As an example, Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), the core enabling technology in both Industry 4.0 and Industrial internet, are a network of both digital systems and physical systems combined. The feedback loops in such delay sensitive CPS systems require guaranteed times of commands delivered to end systems reliably.

On the other hand, hologram-based applications are a natural progression to the evolution of media. The current network infrastructures just barely meet the demands of high bandwidth and low latency combined together for Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) but networked-holograms require a paradigm shift in a media communication methodology – termed as called Holographic Type Communications (HTC). Their influence is not just anticipated in the entertainment and gaming industry but inspire the next generation of immersive and visualization technologies in the fields of personal & social communications, education, design, medicine, etc.

Our future society mandates a tighter integration of the networks, the user interface and the application logic. We need to develop network technologies that blend in seamlessly and provide network resource guarantees of reliability, performance, throughput, short latencies, etc. as well as programmability, customizability, and trustability. The challenge is a non-trivial one and asks researchers to think beyond traditional techniques of coarse-grained quality of service, congestion / management / traffic engineering, and flow control.

The goal is to explore possibilities such as those beyond statistical resource scheduling in favor of deterministic packet delivery techniques, exploring new precision-based packet delivery, algorithms, switching and multiplexing technologies wherever necessary in large scale networks. Potential authors will be able to share their viewpoints, the latest research and project findings.

Topics of Interest

We solicit stimulating, original, previously unpublished ideas on completed work, position papers, and/or work-in-progress papers in the form of extended abstracts. We further encourage papers that propose new research directions or could stimulate lively debate at the workshop.

We invite submissions on a wide range of topics of interest, including, but not limited to:

• Architecture and frameworks for delivering high precision of services
• Convergence and optimizations of network protocols for Industrial and Tactile networks
• Investigations, survey and techniques in data plane for Industrial and Tactile internet.
• Scheduling in networks for high-precision applications
• Mechanisms to support ultra-low-latency in packet based networks
• Verification and proof of service delivery in high-precision networks
• Maximizing link utilization for high-throughput applications
• Architecture and protocols for reliable and lossless packet delivery
• Network security and privacy issues in Industrial and Tactile internet
• Resource allocation mechanisms for deterministic, reliable and lossless data transmission
• Requirements and challenges in Holographic type communications
• Networking requirements and challenges of VR/AR
• Media formats for holographic type communications
• Methods for transmission of multi-sensory holographic media
• High-throughput transport for VR/AR and Holographic type communications
• Adaptive video streaming for network/user dynamics
• Video analytics and smart offloading for VR/AR
• Measurement study of existing VR/AR and HTC applications

Submission Instructions

Submissions must be original, unpublished work, and not under consideration at another conference or journal. Submitted papers must use the new ACM template (using sigconf document type) from the 2018 ACM consolidated template package (you can also use this barebone LaTeX template). The font size must be 9 points. The length of the final paper with all its content except references must not exceed 6 pages. Papers must include author’s names and affiliations for single-blind peer reviewing by the PC. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their papers at the workshop.

Please submit your work via https://sigcomm20neat.hotcrp.com.

Authors Take Note

The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to TWO WEEKS prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.

Registration

Attendance of the workshop is by open registration and subject to the same registration fees and rules as all the other SIGCOMM 2020 workshops. The registrants of the workshop may freely attend any workshop on the same day.

Camera-ready instructions

For the final paper to be published, please refer to Camera-ready instructions for workshops.

Important Dates

• August 10, 2020

  Workshop program

• June 10, 2020

  Camera-ready deadline

• May 25, 2020

  Paper acceptance notification

• May 01, 2020 (23:59 PDT)

  Submission deadline (firm)

• May 01, 2020

  Paper registration deadline

Committees

• General Chairs

• Yong Liu

  NYU, USA

• Kiran Makhijani

  Futurewei, CA, USA

• Program Committee Chairs

• Richard Li

  Future Networks, Futurewei, CA, USA

• Tarik Taleb

  School of Electrical Engineering, Aalto University, Finland

• Stuart Clayman

  University College London, London, UK

• Technical Program Committee

• Barbara Martini

  CNIT, Italy

• Daphne Tuncer

  Imperial College. UK

• Diego R. Lopez

  Telefonica, Spain

• Federica Paganelli

  University of Florence, Italy

• Feng Qian

  UMN, USA

• Flavio Esposito

  Saint Louis University, USA

• Francesco Tusa

  UCL, UK

• Javier Rubio Loyola

  CINVESTAV, Mexico

• Larysa Globa

  Kiev Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine

• Lefteris Mamatas

  University of Macedonia, Greece

• Lixia Zhang

  UCLA, USA

• Mohamed Faten Zhani

  l'École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS), Canada

• Mostafa Essa

  Vodafone, Egypt

• Muge Sayit

  Ege University, Turkey

• Ning Wang

  University of Surrey, UK

• Panagiotis Papadimitriou

  University of Macedonia, Greece

• Pedro Martinez-Julia

  NICT, Tokyo

• Qiong (Jo) Zhang

  Fujitsu Laboratories, USA

• Rui Aguiar

  Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal

• Stefano Secci

  LIP6, France

• Stewart Bryant

  University of Surrey, UK

• Tao Huang

  BUPT, China

• Tim Wauters

  University of Gent, Belgium

• TV Lakshman

  Nokia Bell Labs, USA

• Walter Cerroni

  University of Bologna, Italy