We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this note. ************************************************************************* Call for Presentations: Research Track at the Open Networking Summit 2013 *************************************************************************
Software Defined Networking (SDN) refactors the relationship between network devices and the software that controls them. Open interfaces to network switches enable more flexible and predictable network control, and they make it easier to extend network function. Several router vendors have introduced software development kits for programming their network devices, and many commercial devices support the emerging OpenFlow standard. Open Networking Summit (ONS) has emerged as the premier OpenFlow and SDN event. The first two ONS events were very well received. The events showcased invited presentations on SDN from industry and academic leaders; 20+ exhibits that demonstrated SDN technologies and products; and, two day-long tutorials for engineers and managers. The research community is actively pursuing a variety of important open issues in SDN. Examples include switch design and APIs that balance flexibility and performance; new applications to capitalize on the programmability of the network; transitioning an existing network to SDN, and many others. ONS 2013 will feature a new **Research Track** where researchers can present their cutting edge SDN work. The Research Track is designed to leverage the strong industry presence at ONS to bring to focus research problems that are highly relevant to the larger SDN community, to allow a free exchange of ideas, and to help build a focused community effort to explore and realize the potential of SDN. We encourage interested presenters to submit a two-page extended abstract describing their SDN research. While we are particularly interested in early stage work, we also welcome submissions that summarize published results. Submissions will be selected based on originality of the work, likelihood of spawning insightful discussion, and technical merit. Each accepted submission would be granted a long (20 minutes) or short (10 minutes) presentation slot. We solicit submissions on topics including, but not limited to, the following: - Applications of SDN in home, wireless, cellular, enterprise, data-center, and backbone networks - Application of SDN to network management, performance monitoring, security, etc. - Virtual appliances (e.g., firewalls, intrusion detection systems, load balancers, etc.) on SDN - Virtualization support in software-defined networks - Switch designs for SDN - Control and management software stack for SDN - Programming languages, verification techniques, and tools for SDN - Performance evaluation of SDN network elements and controllers - Hybrid SDN approaches (integration with other control planes) - Transitioning existing networks to SDN - SDN control plane abstractions Important dates Submission deadline: Feb 11, 2013 Acceptance notifications: Mar 1, 2013 Final version due: Mar 15, 2013 Research Track dates: Apr 16 and 17, 2013 Program Committee Aditya Akella, UW-Madison (Co-chair) Martin Casado, Nicira/VMWare Nate Foster, Cornell Albert Greenberg, Microsoft Guru Parulkar, Stanford Nick Feamster, Georgia Tech Atsushi Iwata, NEC Jeffrey Mogul, HP Labs Vijoy Pandey, IBM Jennifer Rexford, Princeton Prodip Sen, Verizon Amin Vahdat, Google/UCSD (Co-chair) For further details, please see http://opennetsummit.org/research-track.html _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
