IMC 2025 Student Workshop
Call for Submissions
This year, the main conference will be accompanied by a one-day Student Workshop. The ACM IMC 2025 Student Workshop provides an interactive platform for graduate students to engage, learn, and explore collaborations with each other and more importantly senior members of the community. The workshop distinguishes itself from the poster session in several ways: first, the workshop includes a number of instruments (e.g., panels, keynotes) through which senior members of the community provide guidance, tips, and advice; second, the workshop provides students with a unique opportunity to present (e.g., lightening talks) and receive constructive feedback. More broadly, the workshop represents a unique to further integrate junior researcher Into the network measurements community.
We encourage submissions from graduate students about research at an early stage as well as more advanced dissertation-level research. Research addressing nonstandard topics, controversial problems and approaches are of particular interest.
The scope of the workshop is broad and covers all aspects of networking research with an emphasis on the topics the main conference focuses on. Below are example topics taken from the main conference website:
- collection and analysis of data that yield new insights about network structure and network performance (e.g., traffic, topology, routing, energy utilization, performance)
- collection and analysis of data that yield new insights about application and end-user behavior (e.g., economics, privacy, security, application interaction with protocols)
- measurement-based modeling (e.g., workloads, scaling behavior, assessment of performance bottlenecks, causality)
- methods and tools to monitor and visualize network-based phenomena
- systems and algorithms that build on measurement-based findings
- theoretical analysis and modeling of networked-systems and measurement techniques
- novel methods for data collection, analysis, and storage (e.g., anonymization, querying, sharing)
- reappraisal of previous empirical network measurements and measurement-based conclusions
- descriptions of challenges and future directions the measurement community should pursue
Submission Formats
Please guidelines regarding anonymity, ethics, use of generative AI, and paper formatting—please see the main conference’s Detailed Submission Instructions page with the following added requirement:
Submissions are limited to two pages. Note that the two-page limit includes ALL figures, tables, and references.
The review process is double blind and therefore submissions must be anonymous (i.e. no authors or affiliations should be mentioned in the PDF). Please see the main track CFP for further details on double blind preparation. When registering the paper, the student should be the first author and it can be followed by one or more advisers
Important Dates
| Paper submission | July 14, 2025 |
| Notification | Aug 11, 2025 |
| Camera-ready due | TBD |
| Workshop Date | Oct 27, 2025 |
Workshop Program
| 9:00-10:00 | Opening remarks/Keynote |
| 10:00-10:30 | Break |
| 10:30-12:00 | Tech Session #1: Measurements & Security |
| Passively Inferring Network Availability and Configuration from NTP Pool Clients – Paul Chung [UC San Diego], Stefan Savage [UC San Diego], Geoffrey M. Voelker [UC San Diego] | |
| ASINT: Learning AS-to-Organization Mapping from Internet Metadata. – Yongzhe Xu [Virginia Tech], Weitong Li [Virginia Tech], Eeshan Umrani [Virginia Tech], Tijay Chung [Virginia Tech] | |
| When Blocks Go Missing: The Timeliness and Trustworthiness of Blockchain RPC Providers – Ye Shu [UC San Diego], Deian Stefan [UC San Diego], Stefan Savage [UC San Diego], Geoffrey M. Voelker [UC San Diego], Enze Liu [UC San Diego] | |
| How Do You Know My Name? Investigating The Role of Domain Names for Target Reconnaissance among Web and IPv6 Scanners – Sebastian Kappes [Max Planck Institute for Informatics] | |
| Towards a systematic benchmark framework for evaluating darknet-analysis methodologies – Max Gao [CAIDA/UC San Diego], Esteban Carisimo [Northwestern University], Ricky K. P. Mok [CAIDA/UC San Diego], kc Claffy [CAIDA] | |
| The Potential of Erroneous Outbound Traffic Analysis to Unveil Silent Internal Anomalies – Andrea Sordello [Politecnico di Torino], Zhihao Wang [University of Electronic Science and Technology of China], Kai Huang [Politecnico di Torino], Alessandro Cornacchia [KAUST], Marco Mellia [Politecnico di Torino] | |
| Identifying Disruptive Patterns in Internet Background Radiation – Xie Qiu [Georgia Tech], Zachary S. Bischof [Georgia Tech], Shane Alcock [Alcock Network Intelligence Ltd], Alberto Dainotti [Georgia Tech] | |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00-14:30 | Tech Session #2 : Access Networks & Routing |
| Measurements of Residential Broadband in a Midwest Town: Discerning Wi-Fi Performance Factors – Francis A. Gatsi [University of Notre Dame], Muhammad Iqbal Rochman [University of Notre Dame], Saeid Mehrdad [University of Notre Dame], Aaron D. Striegel [University of Notre Dame], Monisha Ghosh [University of Notre Dame] | |
| Do Library Internet Connections Deliver? A Study of Website Performance in Public Libraries – Humaira Fasih Ahmed Hashmi [University of California, Davis], Akhil Guntur [University of California, Davis], Ashutosh Kshirsagar [Northeastern University], Elizabeth Belding [University of California, Santa Barbara], David Choffnes [Northeastern University], Alexander Gamero-Garrido [University of California, Davis] | |
| A Socio-Economic Analysis of Internet Access – Shivani Kalamadi [University of California Davis], Alexander Gamero-Garrido [University of California Davis], Aditya Bej [University of California Davis] | |
| Internet Service Usage and Delivery As Seen From a Residential Network – Shuyue Yu [Columbia University], Thomas Koch [Columbia University], Ilgar Mammadov [Columbia University], Hangpu Cao [Columbia University], Gil Zussman [Columbia University], Ethan Katz-Bassett [Columbia University] | |
| Quantifying the impact of IXP peering disruptions – Nishant Acharya [University of California, Davis], Vasileios Giotsas [Cloudflare], Amreesh Phokeer [Internet Society], Alexander Gamero-Garrido [UC Davis] | |
| Forwarding Score: A New Metric for Assessing the Quality of Internet Route Surveys – Ufuk Bombar [Sorbonne University], Kevin Vermeulen [Ecole Polytechnique], Olivier Fourmaux [Sorbonne University], Timur Friedman [Sorbonne University], Kevin Vermeulen [LIX, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique] | |
| Unveiling Submarine Cable Paths: A Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning Approach – Riya Ponraj [University of Oregon], Alagappan Ramanathan [University of California, Irvine], Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi [UC Irvine], Amreesh Phokeer [Internet Society], Yu Wang [University of Oregon], Ramakrishnan Durairajan [University of Oregon] | |
| 14:30-15:00 | Break |
| 15:00-16:00 | Tech Session #3: Web & Web Security |
| Did I Just Browse A Website Written by LLMs? – Sichang He [University of Southern California], Ramesh Govindan [University of Southern California], Harsha V. Madhyastha [University of Southern California] | |
| Preliminary Measurement of Segment Routing Usage in Web Server Access – Florian Dekinder [University of Liège], Benoit Donnet [University of Liège] | |
| U.S. Hospital Ransomware Disclosures on Facebook – Seoyoung Kweon [UC San Diego], Stefan Savage [UC San Diego], Geoffrey M. Voelker [UC San Diego], Deepak Kumar [UC San Diego] | |
| Chunk-fu: Fingerprinting QUIC implementations using fragmented frames – Karthik Nishanth Sengottuvelavan [The University of British Columbia], Alexander Gamero-Garrido [UC Davis], Nguyen Phong Hoang [University of British Columbia], Karthik [UBC] | |
| Fingerprinting QUIC clients – Seungju Lee [Princeton University] | |
| 16:00-16:15 | Break (set up panel) |
| 16:15-17:00 | Panel |
Submission Site
Please submit your paper at https://imc25-sw.hotcrp.com.
For any further questions or concerns, please contact the Student Workshop TPC chairs:
- Theophilus A. Benson (Carnegie Mellon University)
- Phillipa Gill (Google)
Program Committee
- Amogh Dhamdhere (Amazon Web Services)
- Anna Sperotto (University of Twente)
- Arpit Gupta (UCSB)
- Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
- Cigdem Sengul (Brunel University London)
- Cristel Pelsser (UCLouvain)
- Dave Levin (University of Maryland)
- David Choffnes (Northeastern University)
- Gareth Tyson (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (GZ))
- Georgios Smaragdakis (Delft University of Technology (TU Delft))
- Ignacio Castro (Queen Mary University of London)
- Ioana Livadariu (Simula Metropolitan)
- Italo Cunha (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)
- Jelena Mirkovic (USC Information Sciences Institute)
- Marcel Flores (Netflix)
- Marwan Fayed (Cloudflare Inc., and University of St Andrews)
- Mirja Kuehlewind (Ericsson Research)
- Narseo Vallina Rodriguez (IMDEA Networks/AppCensus)
- Phillipa Gill chair (Google)
- Ranysha Ware (Carnegie Mellon University)
- Romain Fontugne (IIJ Research Laboratory)
- Srikanth Sundaresan (Meta)
- Stephen Strowes (Fastly)
- Theophilus A. Benson chair (Carnegie Mellon University)
- Tijay Chung (Virginia Tech)
- Vasileios Giotsas (Cloudflare)
- Yasir Zaki (New York University)
- Yixin Sun (University of Virginia)
- Zachary Bischof (Georgia Tech)