[icnrg] [CFP] ACM ICN 2022 - Deadline 28 May 2022

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Call for Papers

ACM ICN 2022 - The 9th ACM Conference on Information Centric Networking
September 19-21, 2022
Osaka, Japan

Information-centric networking opens a new direction to construct networks by digital objects named by applications. This year, we particularly encourage submissions exploring naming in networks, security, lessons learned from design and implementations, economic incentives and new applications that may help steer the Internet away from further consolidation and move toward decentralization. We aim to form an interdisciplinary exploration on the future of networking.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
    - System naming: What are the lessons learned from the name and identifier space designs of the Internet over the last 40 years that can be applied to ICN naming solution development?
    - Security solutions from first principles: ICN enables securing data objects directly, which in turn requires security frameworks, trust establishment, and toolsets to enable automated key management.
    - Identifying the challenges facing the Internet today: What are the root causes and how can we quantify whether and to what extent ICN-based solutions can address these challenges?
    - Design and implementation of information-centric solutions, including domain-specific designs of namespaces, case studies of ICN-based applications and computation in various domains such as the Internet of Things, edge computing, and social media, together with empirical evaluations.

In addition to full (10 pages) and short (6 pages) technical papers, ACM ICN 2022 also encourages Systematization of Knowledge papers (10 pages), and short vision or position statements (2 pages; position papers may also inspire panel sessions). All submissions will be peer reviewed. Accepted submissions will be published by ACM in the Digital Library.
All submissions must follow the ACM SIGCOMM format (10pt font, sigconf option for acmart style). In case of acceptance, the camera-ready format will provide more space to address reviewer comments.

Papers can be submitted via https://icn22.hotcrp.com/ until May 28, 2022.
More and up-to-date details are available on https://conferences.sigcomm.org/acm-icn/2022.
If you have any questions about submitting papers to ICN 2022, or encounter problems with the paper submission site, contact the TPC chairs before the deadline via [e-mail].

Submission Types
ACM ICN 2022 solicits the following types of papers with page limits exclude references and appendices.:
    - Full technical papers (max. 10 pages) that present mature research, typically bolstered by extensive experiments, simulations, or analytical results,
    - Short technical papers (max. 6 pages) that present preliminary research, including less mature results but promising directions.
    - Systematization of knowledge (SoK) papers (max. 10 pages) that evaluate, systematize, and contextualize existing knowledge. Those papers provide an important new viewpoint on an established ICN research area, support or challenge long-held beliefs in an area with compelling evidence, or present a convincing, comprehensive new taxonomy of such an area. Survey papers without such insights are not appropriate. Submissions will be distinguished by the prefix "SoK:" in the title.
    - Vision or position statements (max. 2 pages) that present crisp statements to identify and scope future research directions. This may include lessons learned from past efforts, debating on different approaches in ICN solution developments, or identifying persistent problems in today’s Internet and their relations with the architecture. Those statements will provide valuable inputs to organizing panel sessions. Submissions will be distinguished by the prefix "Statement:" in the title.

Submission Compliance
Papers submitted for consideration must not have been already published elsewhere and must not be under review or submitted for review elsewhere during the consideration period. Specifically, authors are required to adhere to the ACM Policy and Procedures on Plagiarism and the ACM Policy on Prior Publication and Simultaneous Submissions.

Paper Anonymity
All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality and relevance through double-blind reviewing, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. As an author, you are required to make a good-faith effort to preserve the anonymity of your submission, while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Common sense and careful writing will go a long way towards preserving anonymity.

Important dates
Paper Registration Deadline: May 21, 2022
Paper Submission Deadline: May 28, 2022
Conference: September 19–21, 2022

General Chairs
Toru Hasegawa, Osaka University, Japan
Hitoshi Asaeda, NICT, Japan

Technical Program Committee Chairs
Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University, US
Matthias Waehlisch, FU Berlin, Germany
Lixia Zhang, UCLA, US

For more information, visit https://conferences.sigcomm.org/acm-icn/2022/