## Paper Submission

CoNEXT welcomes the submission of both long and short papers (2-column, 10pt ACM format). All the submissions should be double-blind (more instructions below) and will be peer-reviewed. Per the anonymity guidelines, you must remove any author names.

Long papers are the more traditional form to present technical work and should be no more than 12 pages (up to two additional pages for appendices and unlimited pages for references). Upon acceptance, long papers will be scheduled for publication in the closest issue of the Proceedings of the ACM on Networking (PACMNET).

Short papers are the preferred vehicle for contributions whose novelty and impact show the same technical excellence, but whose description fits within 6 pages (one additional page for appendices and unlimited pages for references). Short papers will be reviewed with a more open mind towards the scope of evaluation or breadth of topics compared to long papers. Note that position papers, critiques of networking research, and ideas that are not yet fully complete or evaluated are a better fit for the HotNets workshop. Short papers will only appear in the Proceedings of the CoNEXT conference.

We welcome experience submissions that clearly articulate lessons learned, as well as submissions that refute prior published results.

### Submission portal

Submit your contributions to https://conext23.hotcrp.com

## Submission Template (UPDATED on May 28th, 2023)

There are two different templates depending of the submission lenght. Both types of submission needs to be double-blind.

### Long papers / PACMNET papers

Long papers are the more traditional form to present technical work.

Long papers need to adopt the single-column, 10pt, ACM `acmsmall` template. ACM has partnered with Overleaf, a free cloud-based, collaborative authoring tool, to provide an ACM LaTeX authoring template. You can find it at this link.

When opening the template in overleaf, please checkout the `sample-acmsmall.tex` and set up the latext class as `\documentclass[acmsmall,anonymous,review]{acmart}` (by default the template is already with 10pt font size).

Complementary to the new template, the following rules apply

- Submission can have max 16pp for main content, max 4pp for appendices, and unlimited pages for references
- 2 extra pages for camera ready tolerated to accomodate revisions/shepherding
- Final CR preparation handled directly by Sheridan - that will provide also detailed instructions
- Accepted papers will appear to the designated PACMNET issue

### Short papers

Short papers are the preferred vehicle for contributions whose novelty and impact show the same technical excellence, but whose description fits within 6 pages, with 1 additional page for appendices and unlimited pages for references.

Short paper needs to follow the traditional the 2-columns, 10pt ACM `sigconf`. You can find the template at this link.

When opening the template in overleaf, please checkout the `sample-sigconf.tex` and set up the latex class as `\documentclass[10pt,sigconf,letterpaper,anonymous,nonacm]{acmart}`

Short papers will be reviewed with a more open mind towards the scope of evaluation or breadth of topics compared to long papers. Note that position papers, critiques of networking research, and ideas that are not yet fully complete or evaluated are a better fit for the HotNets workshop. Short papers will only appear in the Proceedings of the CoNEXT conference. We welcome experience submissions that clearly articulate lessons learned, as well as submissions that refute prior published results.

### Double-blind requirements

All submitted papers will be assessed through a double-blind review process. This means that the authors do not see who are the reviewers and the reviewers do not see who are the authors. As an author, you should do your best to ensure that your paper submission does not directly or indirectly reveal the authors’ identities. The following steps are minimal requirements for a double-blind submission:

- Remove all personal information about the authors from the paper (e.g., names, affiliations)
- Remove acknowledgements to organizations and/or people
- When referring in the paper to your previous work, this should be done similarly to any other work, as if you are not an author of that work.
- Do not add references to external repositories or technical reports that can be used to identify any of the authors or institutions/organizations. You are encouraged to mention that your code will be made available during your submission.
- Uploading a version of the paper to a non-peer-reviewer location is acceptable. The authors should however avoid advertising the paper on popular mailing lists and social media.

At the same time, PC members should not actively try to de-anonymize the authors’ identities. Any violation of the double-blind reviewing process should be reported to the PC chairs.