PRESTO 2009 — The Second ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Programmable Routers for Extensible Services of TOmorrow
The organizing committee is delighted to invite you to PRESTO 2009, co-located with ACM SIGCOMM 2009 in Barcelona, Spain.
Call for Papers
PDF version; Text version.There continues to be great interest in the networking research community in re-architecting the distribution of functions in IP networks. These efforts can be described as a dis-aggregation of router and switch functionality into various components and well-defined interfaces, towards the goal of deploying richer services and easing management of the network. Efforts in this space span the range from more sophisticated configuration interfaces, to open application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow specialized control and data plane functions on commercial routers, to open software, open firmware, and open hardware platforms that enable tremendous flexibility in the functionality of network equipment.
While these open interfaces continue to evolve, many have reached a level of maturity that allow practitioners to create holistic network centric functions and services by leveraging the available low level per-device mechanisms. Indeed, programmable network elements hold the promise of accelerating innovation and service deployment. At the same time, programmability could exacerbate already challenging network management tasks.
As with previous PRESTO workshops, this session 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 and switch architectures.
Topics
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
- Abstractions for programmable network elements. (Do we need programmability? How close to the "metal" should programmability be? E.g., configuration interfaces versus open APIs versus completely open platforms. Programming languages for programmable network elements.)
- Architectures for open/programmable network elements, including transport, wireless and packet forwarding devices.
- Efficient and flexible data plane programmability. (E.g., firmware versus multi-core platforms.)
- Cross-layer aware programmability.
- Network element virtualization and the interaction between programmability and virtualization.
- Network composition, configuration and provisioning in virtualized environments.
- Architectures, services and/or service features enabled by programmability.
- The impact of programmability on network management and operations.
Submission Instructions
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, as are papers that describe industry efforts related to the CFP.
Submissions must be no greater than 6 pages in length, must be a PDF file and must follow the formatting guidelines at http://www.sigcomm.org/sigcomm2009/. Submissions that deviate from these guidelines will be rejected without consideration.
Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their papers at the workshop. Submissions must be original work not under review at any other workshop, conference, or journal.
Papers can be submitted through the submission site at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/PRESTO09/.
Authors of accepted papers should follow the instructions at http://www.sheridanprinting.com/typedept/presto.htm in preparing their papers for publication.
Important dates
| Workshop date | Friday, August 21 2009 |
Program Committee
| Program Chairs | Patrick Crowley | Washington University in St. Louis |
|---|---|---|
| Dave Maltz | Microsoft Research | |
| Kobus Van der Merwe | AT&T Labs - Research | |
| Program Committee | Rahul Aggarwal | Juniper Networks |
| Fred Baker | Cisco Systems | |
| Patrick Crowley | Washington University in St. Louis | |
| Bruce Davie | Cisco Systems | |
| Nick Feamster | Georgia Tech | |
| Paul Francis | Max Planck Institute for Software Systems | |
| Tim Griffin | University of Cambridge | |
| T.V. Lakshman | Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Labs | |
| Vasilis Maglaris | National Technical University of Athens | |
| Dave Maltz | Microsoft Research | |
| Martin May | Thomson Paris Research Lab | |
| Nick McKeown | Stanford University | |
| David McDysan | Verizon | |
| Eugene Ng | Rice University | |
| Cornel Pampu | Huawei Technologies | |
| Sylvia Ratnasamy | Intel Research | |
| Jennifer Rexford | Princeton University | |
| Henning Schulzrinne | Columbia University | |
| John Scudder | Juniper Networks | |
| Jonathan Smith | University of Pennsylvania | |
| Kobus Van der Merwe | AT&T Labs - Research | |
| Steering committee | Patrick Crowley | Washington University in St. Louis |
| T.V. Lakshman | Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Labs | |
| Dave Maltz | Microsoft Research | |
| Nick McKeown | Stanford University | |
| Jennifer Rexford | Princeton University | |
| Kobus Van der Merwe | AT&T Labs - Research |