PRESTO 2009 - The Second ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Programmable Routers for Extensible Services of TOmorrow PRESTO 2009

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Category PRESTO 2009

Deadline: March 13, 2009 | Date: August 21, 2009

Venue/Country: Barcelona, Spain

Updated: 2010-06-04 19:32:22 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

-- PRESTO 2009 --

The Second ACM SIGCOMM

Workshop on Programmable Routers for Extensible Services of TOmorrow

August 22nd 2009

Co-located with ACM SIGCOMM 2009 in Barcelona, Spain.

http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2009/workshops/presto/

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.

Specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

- 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/

Important Dates

Abstract submissions due: Friday, March 6 2009

Paper submissions due: Friday, March 13 2009

Acceptance Notification: Monday, April 13 2009

Camera Ready Due: Friday, May 8 2009

Workshop: Friday, August 21 2009

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

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