ReArch '09

ReArch '09 — Re-Architecting the Internet

The organizing committee is delighted to invite you to ReArch '09, co-located with CoNEXT 2009 in Rome, Italy.

Motivation

The Internet architecture has been remarkably successful in allowing a planet-scale internetwork to form. However, this architecture is losing its original simplicity and transparency as new classes of applications, business models, security mechanisms, scalability enablers and operational and management requirements give rise to point solutions that extend the architecture without regards to its original design principles.

Although these developments are necessary in the short term to allow the Internet to continue to operate under the present economical, technical and social conditions, in combination, they have significantly reduced the potential for longer-term evolution of the Internet architecture. This loss of flexibility is already being felt as the number of Internet nodes grows by another order of magnitude.

Several substantial Future Internet initiatives are underway in Europe, the Americas and Asia, and the vendor and network operator communities are also actively discussing the limitations of the current Internet architecture as well as its potential evolution. The first solution proposals in this space have already started to be analyzed.

ReArch'09 - the second instance of this workshop since its very successful debut at CONeXT 2008 - will discuss the underlying problems of the Internet architecture and protocols and debate how we might fix them in a way that regains us the original architectural simplicity and clarity of the Internet for another 30+ years.

This workshop solicits original, high-quality papers that analyze and discuss ideas for a new Internet architecture, including specific improvements to current Internet protocols, especially at the internetworking, transport and application layers, new internetworking components that integrate into the existing architecture and ideas for clean-slate internetworking architectures.

Topics

ReArch'09 covers all aspects related to the current and future Internet architecture including, but not limited to, the following impact:

New networking paradigms
New business models
New routing architectures
New traffic engineering and congestion control mechanisms
Measurements and analyses that characterize and quantify architectural limitations
New architecture proposals and their implications for research and operations
New protocols to address specific architectural limitations
Studies of interactions between stakeholders of the Internet and the architecture itself
Design principles and interfaces to accommodate the conflicting interests of stakeholders in the architecture
Principles of evolving future architectures
Discussions on interworking with the existing Internet and deployability

Papers that present interesting, fresh ideas at an early stage are more suitable for this workshop than highly polished results or incremental refinements of previous work. Submissions may include position papers that point out new directions and attempt to stimulate discussion; position papers should be clearly marked as such. Submission must be original and not already be published or submitted for publication elsewhere. The proceedings of the workshop will be published in the ACM Digital Library.

Submissions

Submitted papers must be at most six (6) pages long, including all figures, tables, references, appendices, etc. They must be formatted according to the standard ACM double column format except that all text must use a font size of 10 points or larger. Longer submissions will not be reviewed. The review process is single-blind. Submit papers via EDAS at http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=7673.

Important Dates

Submissions due	~~August 6, 2009~~ August 13, 2009
Notification of acceptance	~~September 10, 2009~~ September 17, 2009
Camera ready version due	~~October 1, 2009~~ October 8, 2009
Workshop date	December 1, 2009

Program Committee

PC Co-Chairs	Lars Eggert	Nokia Research Center & TKK, Finland
	Tilman Wolf	University of Massachusetts, USA
Technical Program Committee	Bengt Ahlgren	SICS, Sweden
	Mark Allman	ICSI, USA
	Jun Bi	Tsinghua University, China
	Bob Briscoe	BT Group, United Kingdom
	Brian Carpenter	University of Auckland, New Zealand
	Jon Crowcroft	University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
	Kevin Fall	Intel Research, USA
	Pierre Francois	UC Louvain, Belgium
	James Griffioen	University of Kentucky, USA
	Robert Hancock	Roke Manor Research, United Kingdom
	Mark Handley	University College London, United Kingdom
	Hiroaki Harai	NICT, Japan
	Daniel Massey	Colorado State University, USA
	Martin May	Thomson Research, France
	Akihiro Nakao	Univeristy of Tokyo, Japan
	Pekka Nikander	Ericsson Research Nomadiclab, Finland
	Craig Partridge	BBN Technologies, USA
	George Rouskas	North Carolina State University, USA
	Peter Steenkiste	Carnegie Mellon University, USA
	Christian Vogt	Ericsson Research, USA
	Klaus Wehrle	RWTH Aachen, Germany
	Rolf Winter	NEC Network Labs, Germany
	Martina Zitterbart	University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Steering Committee	Marcelo Bagnulo	University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
	Olivier Bonaventure	UC Louvain, Belgium
	Kenjiro Cho	IIJ, Japan
	Joe Touch	USC/ISI, USA