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ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Networking Networking Women Professional Development Workshop (N2Women’21)

The 11th N2Women workshop aims to foster professional networking among women in computer networking and related research fields in which women are traditionally underrepresented. The workshop welcomes women, but also men who share the same research interests and face the same career hurdles. The program of the workshop will include keynotes and discussions on careers in networking, but also technical sessions, where in particular junior researchers are welcome to present their research as poster presentations.

Register for the N2Women workshop (free of charge)

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Program Highlights

The keynote will be given by Jennifer Rexford, Princeton University.

The panel will consist of

  • Anja Feldmann, Head of Max Planck Institute for Informatics
  • Gabriele Kotsis, Prof. at JKU Linz and President of the ACM
  • Robin Hillary Kravets, Prof. at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Xia Zhou, Prof. at Dartmouth College and ACM SIGMOBILE 2019 Rockstar

The mentoring sessions will be held by

  • Mirja Kühlewind (Ericsson Research Eurolab)
  • Mariam Kirian (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
  • Grace Liu (CMU)
  • Michelle Zhu (Montclair State University)
  • Sofie Pollin (KU Leuven)
  • Aruna Balasubramanian (Stony Brook University)

Post-workshop announcements

We are happy to announce the winner and runner ups for the N2Women workshop for the best poster. The selection criteria were based on the original contribution in the extended abstract, the poster layout and clear message as well on the presentation and interactions with the public during the workshop.

The Best Poster Award goes to "Measuring Internet latency from Gaming Footage" by Catalina Alvarez (ETH Zurich), Katerina Argyraki (EPFL), Ankit Singla (ETH Zurich)

The two Runners-Up for the Best Poster Award are
  • "What Exactly Do Traffic Fingerprinting CNNs See? Improved Defenses Against Traffic Fingerprinting" by Thilini Dahanayaka (The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia), Guillaume Jourjon (Data61, CSIRO), Suranga Seneviratne (The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia)
  • "Impact of Multi-connectivity on Channel Capacity and OutageProbability in Wireless Networks" by Lotte Weedage (University of Twente), Clara Stegehuis (University of Twente), Suzan Bayhan (University of Twente)

Congratulations to all the authors of the winning posters!

We are collecting feedback for our workshop. Please visit the feedback form!

Workshop program

  • Monday, August 23, 2021 EDT

  • 10:00 - 10:10 EDT Welcome:

  • 10:00 - 10:10 EDT

    Speakers: Paola Grosso (University of Amsterdam) and Karin Anna Hummel (JKU Linz)

  • 10:10 - 11:00 EDT Keynote

  • 10:10 - 11:00 EDT

    Closing the Network Control Loop

    Speakers: Jennifer Rexford (Princeton University)

  • 11:00 - 12:00 EDT Poster Session 1: Networking Studies and Technologies
    Chair: Michelle Zhu (Montclair State University)

  • GRU-EdgeQL: Traffic Prediction based Scaling and Placement of SFC

    Suman Pandey (Pohang University of Science and Technology), Jae-Hyoung Yoo (Pohang University of Science and Technology), James Won Ki Hong (Pohang University of Science and Technology)

  • State-of-the-art Edge-assisted Techniques for Connected Healthcare Systems

    Vahideh Hayyolalam (Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey), Oznur Ozkasap (Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey), Moayad Aloqaily (Qatar University, Doha, Qatar), Mohsen Guizani (Qatar University, Doha, Qatar)

  • Flexible Topology and Configuration Generation as a Resource for Networking Research

    Aishwarya Wesanekar (University of Pennsylvania), Nik Sultana (University of Pennsylvania)

  • Optimal Task Offloading For Deep Learning Services In Edge-enabled Systems: An Accuracy-Time Trade-off

    Minoo Hosseinzadeh (University of Kentucky), Andrew Wachal (University of Kentucky), Hana Khamfroush (University of Kentucky), Daniel E. Lucani (Aarhus University)

  • Measuring Internet latency from Gaming Footage

    Catalina Alvarez (ETH Zurich), Katerina Argyraki (EPFL), Ankit Singla (ETH Zurich)

  • What Exactly Do Traffic Fingerprinting CNNs See? Improved Defenses Against Traffic Fingerprinting

    Thilini Dahanayaka (The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia), Guillaume Jourjon (Data61, CSIRO), Suranga Seneviratne (The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia)

  • 12:00 - 12:15 EDT Virtual Coffee Break

  • 12:15 - 13:00 EDT Panel

  • Establishing Professional Networks

    Speakers: Anja Feldmann (Head of Max Planck Institute for Informatics), Gabriele Kotsis (Prof. at JKU Linz and President of the ACM), Robin Hillary Kravets (Prof. at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Xia Zhou (Prof. at Dartmouth College and ACM SIGMOBILE 2019 Rockstar)
    Panel Moderator: Karin Anna Hummel (JKU Linz)

  • 13:00 - 14:00 EDT Mentoring Sessions

  • Group 1: What's your choice? - Research career paths in academia and industry for early stage researchers

    Mirja Kühlewind (Ericsson Research Eurolab), Mariam Kirian (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

  • Group 2: Family life or research career? - How to combine both in different phases of your career

    Grace Liu (CMU), Michelle Zhu (Montclair State University)

  • Group 3: Publish or perish? - How to contribute best to networking research and the networking community as an early stage researcher

    Sofie Pollin (KU Leuven), Aruna Balasubramanian (Stony Brook University)

  • 14:00 - 14:15 EDT Virtual coffee break

  • 14:15 - 15:15 EDT Poster Session 2: Wireless Communications
    Chair: Mariam Kirian (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

  • LATTE: Online MU-MIMO Grouping for Video Streaming Over Commodity WiFi

    Hannaneh Barahouei Pasandi (Virginia Commonwealth University), Tamer Nadeem (Virginia Commonwealth University)

  • Linear Architecture Mixed-Routing Scheme from Orchestrating to Reshaping 6G Based Wireless Sensor Networks Communication

    Amal Chaffai (Communications Department_Universidad Politecnica de Valencia)

  • Impact of Multi-connectivity on Channel Capacity and OutageProbability in Wireless Networks

    Lotte Weedage (University of Twente), Clara Stegehuis (University of Twente), Suzan Bayhan (University of Twente)

  • A 5G Multi-Slice Cell Capacity Framework

    Gabriela Pereyra (Universidad de la Republica), Claudina Rattaro (Universidad de la Republica) , Pablo Belzarena (Universidad de la Republica)

  • Minimum SINR Difference Based User Pairing for NOMA Systems with Imperfect SIC

    Nemalidinne Siva Mouni (IIT Hyderabad), Abhinav Kumar (IIT Hyderabad), Prabhat K. Upadhyay (IIT Indore)

  • Cross-layer Information Harvesting with Reinforcement Learning in the IoT

    Yi Hu (Carnegie Mellon University), Jinhang Zuo (Carnegie Mellon University), Carlee Joe-Wong (Carnegie Mellon University), Bob Iannucci (Carnegie Mellon University)

  • 15:15 - 15:30 EDT N2Women Rising Stars Award

  • N2Women Rising Stars Award

  • 15:30 - 15:45 EDT N2 Women Workshop Prizes and Closing

  • Prize announcement and closing by Paola Grosso (University of Amsterdam) and Karin Anna Hummel (JKU Linz)

Call for Posters

The 11th N2Women workshop aims to foster professional networking among women in computer networking and related research fields in which women are traditionally underrepresented. The workshop welcomes women, but also men who share the same research interests and face the same career hurdles. The program of the workshop will include keynotes and discussions on careers in networking, but also technical sessions, where in particular junior researchers are welcome to present their research as poster presentations.

Posters are solicited for research related to any aspect of networking and communications. All researchers in the networking and communications fields are welcome to submit their work for presentation at this workshop.

Posters will not be published and can therefore be under submission to other conferences or workshops. Authors of accepted posters will be required to present their work as part of a lightning presentation session. Presenting a poster is a great opportunity, especially for students and junior researchers, to extend the visibility of their work and to obtain interest

Workshop participation is free of charge. One author per accepted N2women poster is offered a free registration to SIGCOMM'21 conference (including workshops).

The best poster will be awarded a Best Poster Award and runners-up will receive an honorable mention.

Poster Submission

Each submission should be formatted as an extended abstract, describing the research to be presented in the poster. All submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of 2 printed pages including all figures and references. Authors must follow the standard ACM two-column conference format with 10-pt font size. The extended abstract must include the names, affiliations and email addresses of all authors and should be submitted as a single PDF file.

Submit your poster abstract at https://n2women21.hotcrp.com.

Important Dates

  • June 15, 2021

    Poster abstract submission deadline

  • July 6, 2021

    Notification of acceptance

  • August 23, 2021

    Workshop date

Committee

  • Workshop Co-chairs

  • Paola Grosso

    University of Amsterdam

  • Karin Anna Hummel

    Johannes Kepler University Linz

ACM SIGCOMM 2021, virtually (online)