[Coin] Call for Papers -- ACM SIGCOMM 2022 Workshop on Network-Application Integration (NAI 2022)

["Luis M. Contreras" <[e-mail]>]

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== ACM SIGCOMM 2022 Workshop on Network-Application Integration (NAI 2022)
==



https://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2022/workshop-nai.html

Paper submission deadline -- May 11, 2022

Amsterdam, the Netherlands



= Call for Papers =



Some emerging applications are sophisticated enough and then challenging
the prevalent best effort delivery mode of the public Internet.
Conventional approaches, such as capacity overprovisioning, are a
non-sustainable approach of addressing the constraints imposed by such
applications to the underlying networks (including, ensuring service
performance expectations). The underlay network should deal with a large
set of requirements (usually, structured as Service Level Objectives
(SLOs)), targeting multi-service support in an efficient, optimized, and
scalable manner.



In such a context, a tighter Network-Application Integration (NAI) is
foreseen as the way to enable information-driven management of the
application needs consistent with the changing network circumstances at a
given point of time. Different NAI approaches are being considered at
different levels (protocol development, in-band and out-of-band
capabilities interchange, etc.) and their deployment considerations in
operational networks are motivating extensive work within standardization
developing bodies for both specification and feasibility prototyping.



This workshop builds on the two former editions (co-located to SIGCOMM 2020
and SIGCOMM 2021) and intends to accompany the latest NAI advances with the
recent developments in both the industry and the academia, including
architectural work and experimental implementations in the fields of either
application-aware networking (AAN) or network-aware application (NAA), as
the two possible approaches to achieve NAI. In addition to workshop paper
sessions, selected keynotes will be included to complement and set the
research agenda, debate the issues, and share the most recent progress.



= Topics of Interest =

-              Service models and interactions

-              Hurdles for efficient application-network integration

-              Implementation approaches to ease NAI-enabled applications

-              Dynamic negotiation models

-              Network abstraction models (e.g., resource, state)

-              Exposure of network information and control interfaces

-              Abstract expression of application needs for consideration
by networks

-              Data collection (e.g., measurement) for network abstraction

-              Coordination of information and decisions across multiple
domains (regions and technology layers)

-              Data processing techniques to generate network abstraction
(e.g., low-level, filtering)

-              Data distribution techniques (i.e., how, when, and where to
make data available for processing/analysis) for real-time network
information exposure

-              Abstractions and architectures for
performance-aware/performance-driven routing (e.g., semantic routing)

-              Validation of network abstractions (e.g., conforming to
model)

-              Privacy analysis of exposing network and application
information together with mitigation means

-              Threats against NAI models

-              Economical/game-theoretical analysis of network
information/service exposure

-              Stability design and analysis of application-network control
loop

-              Optimality design and analysis of application-network
control loop

-              Condition management and conflict resolution in complex
closed-loop systems

-              Control with multiple dimensional constraints (privacy,
policy, beyond networking)

-              Co-design for specialized applications (e.g., video, IoT)

-              Integrating learning and big data analytics (e.g., wide
area, application, and user)

-              Experience and deployment of application-network co-design
and integration

-              Application adaptation to network information/service models



= Submission Instructions =



Submissions must be original, unpublished work, and not under consideration
at another conference or journal. Submitted papers must be at most six (6)
pages long, including all figures, tables, references, and appendices in
two-column 10pt ACM format. We also encourage industrial demos for which a
two-page extended abstract must be submitted in the same format as the
workshop papers. Papers and extended abstracts must include author names
and affiliations for single-blind peer reviewing by the PC. Authors of
accepted submissions are expected to present and discuss their work at the
workshop.

Please submit your paper via https://nai22.hotcrp.com/.



= Important Dates =



May 11, 2022 -- Paper submission deadline

June 17, 2022 -- Workshop paper notification

July 1, 2022 -- Camera-ready deadline



= Committees =

Chair

Luis M. Contreras, Telefonica, Spain



Steering Committee

Yang Richard Yang, Yale University, USA

Kai Gao, Sichuan University, China

Sabine Randriamasy, Nokia, France

Georgios Smaragdakis, TU Delft, The Netherlands

Qin Wu, Huawei, China



Program Committee

Richard Alimi, Google, USA

Mohamed Boucadair, Orange, France

Adrian Farrel, Old Dog Consulting, UK

Kai Gao, Sichuan University, China

Jianfei He, City University of Hong Kong, China

Chi-Yao Hong, Google, USA

Mazhem Khaddam, Cox, USA

Danny Lachos, Benocs, Germany

Håkon Lønsethagen, Telenor, Norway

Inder Monga, ESnet, USA

Tommy Pauly, Apple, USA

Sabine Randriamasy, Nokia, France

Jordi Ros-Giralt, Qualcomm, USA

Christian E. Rothenberg, University of Campinas, Brazil

Georgios Smaragdakis, TU Delft, The Netherlands

Rui Wang, Google, USA

Qin Wu, Huawei, China

Qiao Xiang, Xiamen University, China

Richard Yang, Yale University, USA

Zhi-Li Zhang, University of Minnesota, USA

Thomas Zinner, NTNU, Norway





Thanks,



Best regards



Luis



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