[Maprg] [TMA Conference 2024] 8th Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference, Dresden, Germany, 21-24 May 2024 (paper submissions by March 8, 2024)

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**Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference**
**Where:** Dresden, Germany (in-person event)
**When:** May 21-24, 2024
**Details:** https://tma.ifip.org/2024/

**Important Submission Dates:**
Paper registration: March 1, 2024
Paper submission: March 8, 2024
Author notification: April 19, 2024

TMA 2024 is hosted by the TUD Dresden University of Technology. The 12th
TMA PhD School will be co-located with TMA 2024, stay tuned for upcoming news. 

**What is TMA 2024 about?**
TMA 2024 invites submissions presenting concepts, experiences, and of
course results in collection, processing, analysis and visualization
of network traffic data to enable traffic classification, anomaly
detection, performance enhancement, monitoring, management, security,
privacy or other uses of network data. The focus is on improving
network measurements across the entire network stack up to application
layers, with an emphasis on diverse areas of network communication
such as data centers, satellite networks, mobile networks, IoT devices
as well as devices connected to multiple networks. 

To further encourage the results’ faithfulness and avoid publication
bias, the conference will particularly encourage negative results
revealed by novel measurement methods or vantage points. All regular
papers are hence encouraged to discuss the limitations of the
presented approaches and also mention which experiments did not work.
Additionally, TMA will also be open to accepting papers that
exclusively deal with negative results, especially when new
measurement methods or perspectives offer insight into the limitations
and challenges of network measurement in practice. Negative results
will be evaluated based on their impact (e.g. revealed in realistic
production networks) as well as the novelty of the vantage points
(e.g. scarce data source) or measurement techniques that revealed
them.

**Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:**
 *  Measurements of network performance and network topology
 *  Measurements of the deployment, performance, and security of 
    Internet infrastructure including the use of the Internet Naming
    system
 *  Measurements of energy consumption of Internet infrastructure and
    data centers
 *  Measurement of the deployment and use of protocols (e.g. TCP,
    MPTCP, IPv6, HTTP/2, QUIC) 
 *  Identification and classification of traffic, including encrypted
    and proprietary protocols
 *  Techniques for privacy preservation and anonymization of traffic
    measurements
 *  Traffic analysis for anomaly/vulnerability/attack detection,
    including measuring the economic/financial impact of cyber attacks
 *  Measurement and analysis of deployed techniques for censorship
 *  Application-layer measurements, including web services, social
    networks and  identity management systems
 *  Measurements of quality of service and quality of experience for
    audio/video streaming, video conferencing, virtual/augmented
    reality and gaming
 *  Use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in network
    measurement and analysis
 *  Visualization of measurement data including novel representations
    based on learning methods
 *  Measurements of data centers or cloud-based systems,
    Software-Defined Networks (SDN) and Virtual Network Functions
    (VNF)s
 *  Measurements of mobile and wireless traffic including devices with
    multiple network paths
 *  Measurements of satellite communication systems and impacts on
    performance
 *  Measurements of IoT devices, their traffic patterns as well as the
    use of protocols, and in home networks
 *  Measurements on testbeds, experimental networks, or prototype
    networks
 *  Platforms for measurement, troubleshooting, and management of
    operational networks
 *  Simulation and modeling for network measurements, analysis, and
    visualization
 *  Current and emerging regulatory frameworks for measurement,
    analysis,  privacy.
 *  Measurements of fragmentation as well as consolidation and
    centralization effect on the Internet
 *  Validation and repeatability of measurements, shared datasets, and
    measurement tools
 *  Negative results revealed by novel traffic measurements


IMPORTANT: The review process is DOUBLE-BLIND, hence do not include
authors’ names and affiliations in the paper. Papers must print
clearly and legibly, including all the figures, on standard
black-and-white printers.

**Submission Instructions:**
* Details: https://tma.ifip.org/2024/submission-instructions/
* Submission: https://hotcrp.info.ucl.ac.be/tma2024

**General Chair:**
* Matthias Wählisch, TU Dresden, Germany

**TPC Chairs**
* Mirja Kühlewind, Ericsson, Germany
* Nitinder Mohan, TU Munich, Germany

**Additional Visibility for Accepted Papers**

Papers accepted for presentation will be published in the IFIP Open
Digital Library [1], with open access, and submitted to IEEE Xplore.

TMA Conference 2024 will present a Best Paper Award to the best 
contribution. Authors of selected top TMA 2024 papers will be invited 
to submit an  extended version of their paper to IEEE Transactions on
Network and Service Management [3] (Impact Factor 5.3) for fast-track processing.

Best,
Johannes

[1] https://dl.ifip.org/db/conf/tma/index.html
[2] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/
[3] http://www.comsoc.org/tnsm

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Johannes Zirngibl
Network Architectures and Services
Technical University of Munich
Web: https://www.net.in.tum.de/members/zirngibl/