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. Submissions should not be under review at other venues, though they may have some technical overlap with previously published work or work under submission elsewhere.

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

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)