[IRTF-Announce] ANRW 2024 Call for Papers

[Colin Perkins <[e-mail]>]

# Call for Papers

**ANRW submission deadline: 15 April 2024 (11:59pm AoE) via 
https://anrw2024.hotcrp.com**

The [ACM/IRTF Applied Networking Research Workshop 
2024](https://www.irtf.org/anrw/2024/) (ANRW’24), co-located with 
[IETF 120](https://www.ietf.org/how/meetings/120/), is the ninth edition 
of an academic workshop that provides a forum for researchers, vendors, 
network operators, and the Internet standards community to present and 
discuss emerging results in applied networking research.

The workshop combines presentations of new research in the form of short 
papers and lightning papers. ANRW’24 accepts the following types of 
submissions:

* Short papers are publications that present new research that has not 
been previously published. For a short paper to be considered for 
publication, please submit work describing early/emerging results in a 
relevant topic area. Position papers are also welcome. There is a 6-page 
limit for short papers, including figures, tables, and any appendices, 
optionally followed by unlimited additional pages for references.

* Lightning papers can provide a summary of early, emerging, or on-going 
work as well as short updates of previously published work. Position 
papers are also welcome. This type of submission will be presented in a 
short, lightning-talk style. For a lightning paper to be considered for 
presentation, please submit an extended abstract that is no longer than 
2 pages, with a maximum of one additional page for references only.

Paper topics are not restricted to current standardization activities of 
related IETF working groups or activity in related IRTF research groups. 
We welcome papers on topics the IETF/IRTF should be looking at.

We note that the structure and use of the Internet, and Internet 
services, are constantly evolving. The list is long, including but not 
limited to shifts in traffic patterns and demands with remote work over 
broadband access networks, operational responses to large-scale physical 
and socio-political events, also trends towards increased multiplexing 
of connections over fewer IP addresses for various reasons that include 
scale, adaptability, and privacy.

* Development and deployment experience of new or enhanced Internet 
protocols (e.g., for transport, security, or routing).

* Improvements, measurements, and analysis of the security and privacy 
of new and existing Internet protocols and privacy enhancing 
technologies.

* Evolution of interconnection, and new approaches on network 
management, operations, and control.

* Practical congestion control for heterogeneous networks and novel 
applications.

* Better ways of specifying protocols, including usable techniques for 
protocol verification.

* Interactions between CDNs, anycast, and edge services such as DNS and 
Firewalls.

* Research and analysis of consolidation and centralization of the 
Internet.

* Techniques for logging/monitoring of Internet traffic and root-cause 
analysis, as well as debugging of (encrypted) Internet protocols.

* Measurement and analysis of the performance of networks, including the 
performance or quality of experience of networked applications.

* Design, measurement, analysis, or deployment of wireless, mobile, and 
cellular networks.

* Internet resilience and recovery in physically challenging 
environments and events (e.g., remote areas, natural disaster 
situations).

* Approaches and efforts towards decentralizing and democratizing the 
Internet.

* Understanding the impact and interoperability of diverse clients 
(e.g., IoT, robotics, manufacturing).

* The changing semantics of IP addresses and connection-level metadata 
at large-scale (e.g. Addressing Agility, Private Relay).

* Formal verification of protocols.

*  Topics relevant to the standardization activities of related IETF 
working groups.

  *  Topics relevant to activity in related IRTF research groups.

ANRW’24 is co-located with IETF-120 in Vancouver, and takes place in 
the week of July 20-26, 2024. This gives IETF as well as workshop 
attendees the opportunity to exchange ideas on topics and open problems 
discussed at the workshop and the IETF.

ANRW’24 will be a hybrid event. Remote participation options will be 
available.

ANRW’24 particularly encourages the submission of results that could 
form the basis for future engineering work in the IETF, by, for example 
providing input and analysis on Internet protocols or operational 
Internet practices, as well as influence further research and 
experimentation in the IRTF.

**The paper submission deadline is 15 April 2024 (11:59pm AoE)**


Submission site: https://anrw2024.hotcrp.com