<h2>CoNEXT 2025 Call for Papers</h2>
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        <p>The Proceedings of the ACM on Networking (PAMCNET) journal is seeking papers containing significant and novel research results on emerging computer networks and its applications. All accepted papers will also be presented in the ACM CoNEXT 2025 conference. This is a new model that strives to combine the benefits of
            both conference and journal-based publication.</p>
        <p>We especially encourage submissions that present novel experimentation, creative use of networking
            technologies, and new insights made possible using analysis. We invite submissions on a wide range of
            networking topics. The list of topics includes (in alphabetical order):</p>
        <ul>
            <li>Content distribution and caching, e.g., CDN, peer-to-peer, overlays</li>
            <li>Design, analysis, and evaluation of network architectures</li>
            <li>Experience and lessons learned by deploying large-scale networked systems</li>
            <li>Experience with applying machine learning, large language models (LLMs) and generative AI to networking problems</li>
            <li>In-network computing, NFV and network programmability</li>
            <li>Innovative uses of network data beyond communication</li>
            <li>Network measurements and modeling</li>
            <li>Internet economics and policy</li>
            <li>Mobile and wireless network protocols and applications</li>
            <li>Machine learning as applied to all layers of networking</li>
            <li>Networked applications including web, video, and online social networks</li>
            <li>Network and systems for AI</li>
            <li>Network aspects of datacenters, cloud computing, operating systems, virtualization</li>
            <li>Network aspects of IoT</li>
            <li>Network control and management, including SDN</li>
            <li>Network, transport, and application-layer protocols</li>
            <li>Next generation mobile networks</li>
            <li>Reliability and availability of networks, protocols, and applications</li>
            <li>Reproducibility of networking research</li>
            <li>Routing and traffic engineering</li>
            <li>Security and privacy aspects of network applications, protocols and systems</li>
            <li>Sustainable (e.g., energy-efficient, carbon-efficient) computing and networking</li>
        </ul>
        <p>We are open to other contributions that stretch networking research outside of these topics, present new
            emerging computing trends, or potentially involve unfamiliar techniques. We welcome experience submissions
            that clearly articulate lessons learned, as well as submissions that refute prior published results.</p>

        <p>We emphasize that the focus of CoNEXT is networking and its impact on networked applications. For example,
            papers focusing on the wireless physical layer without considering the impact on the network (e.g.,
            quantitative performance benefits, deployment challenges) are out of scope. Similarly, <b><em>contributions that focus on improvements and applications of AI models are welcome if they present a critical and in-depth analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of the proposed solutions, with a clear take-home message.</em></b> Potential authors who are unsure
            of the scope are encouraged to contact the PC chairs before submission.</p>
        <p>The CoNEXT conference will present all papers that have been accepted to appear in the Proceedings of the ACM
            on Networking (PAMCNET). There are two deadlines to
            submit your work in time for a presentation at the conference (see below).</p>


        <h3>Important Dates</h3>

        <p>
            There are two submission opportunities over the course of the year:
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        <p>
            <b>December submission:</b>
        <ul>
            <li>Paper Registration: November 28th, 2024</li>
            <li>Paper Submission: December 5th, 2024</li>
            <li>Early reject notification: February, 2025</li>
            <li>Notification of Acceptance: April 4th, 2025</li>
            <li>Camera Ready for accepted papers: April 30th, 2025</li>
            <li>Publication of accepted papers: June 2025 issue of PACMNET</li>

        </ul>
        <p>For papers given the <u>one-shot major revision</u> option</p>
        <ul>
            <li>Major revision due: May 29th, 2025</li>
            <li>Final decision: June 23rd, 2025</li>
            <li>Camera Ready for accepted papers: July 24th, 2025</li>
            <li>Publication of accepted papers: September 2025 issue of PACMNET</li>
        </ul>
        </p>
        <p>
            <b>June submission:</b>
            <ul>
            <li>Paper Registration: May 29th, 2025</li>
            <li>Paper Submission: June 5th, 2025</li>
            <li>Early reject notification: August, 2025</li>
            <li>Notification of Acceptance: September 12th, 2025</li>
            <li>Camera Ready for accepted papers: October 8th, 2025</li>
            <li>Publication of accepted papers: December 2025 issue of PACMNET</li>
            </ul>
            <p>For papers given the <u>one-shot major revision</u> option</p>
            <ul>
                <li>Major revision due: November 14th, 2025</li>
                <li>Final decision: December 12th, 2025</li>
                <li>Camera Ready for accepted papers: January 20th, 2026</li>
                <li>Publication of accepted papers: March 2026 issue of PACMNET</li>
            </ul>
        </p>
        <p>All deadline times are at 24:00 Anywhere on Earth (AoE).</p>

        <h3>Submission</h3>
        <p>CoNEXT welcomes the submission of both long and short papers. All the submissions should be
            <b>double-anonymous</b> (more instructions below) and will be peer-reviewed. Per the anonymity guidelines,
            you must remove any author names.
        </p>
        <p><b><u>Long papers</u></b> are the traditional form to present technical work. Submissions should be no more than <b>16 pages</b>, with unlimited pages for references and up to four pages for appendices.</p>

        <p><b><u>Short papers</u></b> are the preferred vehicle for contributions whose novelty and impact show the same technical excellence, and whose description does not need 16 pages. Short papers should be no more than <b>10 pages</b>, with unlimited pages for references and up to two pages for appendices.</p>
    
        <p>Authors may be given up to two extra pages to address comments and requirements received during the review process.</p>
        
        <p>Authors shall use a single column, 10pt, ACM small template for articles following (more details <a href="https://conferences.sigcomm.org/co-next/2025/#!/submission">here</a>)</p>

        <p>Both long and short papers will be scheduled for publication in the closest issue of the <a href="https://dl.acm.org/journal/pacmnet" target="_blank">Proceedings of the ACM on Networking (PACMNET)</a>.</p>

        <p>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.</p>
        
        <p>Submission portal for both types of paper: <a href="https://conext25-june.hotcrp.com " target="_blank"
                rel="noopener">https://conext25-june.hotcrp.com</a></p>
        <p>For more details, please check the <a href="https://conferences.sigcomm.org/co-next/2025/#!/submission" target="_blank"
                rel="noopener">Submission instructions</a> page.</p>

        <h3>One-shot major revision</h3>
        <p>Each paper may be accepted, rejected, or given the option of one-shot “major” revision.</p>
        <p>The one-shot revision decision will be followed by a summary of the paper's merits and a list of minimum
            necessary changes that are required for the paper to be accepted at CoNEXT 2025. The authors will be given a
            deadline (about two months) to submit a version of their work addressing the issues. The paper will then be
            subject to the final decision of accept or reject, at which point, the paper will be reviewed to judge
            whether it addresses the requirements requested, to the extent possible, by the same reviewers as earlier.
            The reviewers will primarily judge the paper based on whether it has successfully addressed the requirements
            detailed in the document accompanied by the notification, but will factor in the independent merit of the
            revision. During this review period, the paper is still considered under review to CoNEXT and therefore
            cannot be submitted to other conferences or journals unless the authors first withdraw it from
            consideration.</p>
        <p>The one-shot revision option will be given to a select number of papers. Reviewers will be instructed to not
            offer a one-shot-revision option if they cannot determine that the paper sufficiently meets the bar after
            successfully addressing the required/proposed changes.</p>
        <p>Papers accepted following the one-shot major revision will be included in the program and proceedings of
            CoNEXT 2025 just as the papers that are accepted without a major revision.</p>
        <p>Authors given a one-shot-revision decision will be sent detailed instructions on how to proceed with the
            major revision. These instructions will include the list of minimum necessary changes required by the PC for
            the paper to be accepted. Authors receiving a one-shot-revision decision must either respond with a plan for
            the revision or an intent to withdraw the paper within the deadline (a week after the instructions are
            sent).</p>
        <p>By the revision deadline, the authors must submit the followings:</p>
        <ul>
            <li>A revised version of the paper</li>
            <li>A cover letter explaining the differences between the original submission and the revised version</li>
            <li>An additional version of the paper in which revision changes since the first submission are clearly
                marked</li>
        </ul>
        <p>Note that papers that have been rejected at any stage of the process may not be resubmitted to any ACM CoNEXT
            deadline within 12 months following the initial submission of the paper.</p>

        <h3>Early Reject Notification</h3>
        <p>The review process will consist of multiple rounds of scrutiny. In order to allow authors to submit an
            improved version of work to other venues, authors of submissions for which there is a consensus on rejection
            will be notified earlier.</p>

        <h3>Research Reproducibility</h3>
        <p>We value submissions that are accompanied by clearly defined artefacts not previously available, including
            traces, original data, source code, or tools developed as part of the submitted work. If the paper plans to
            release any associated artefacts, a summary must be included in the appendix. This should include a
            description of the artefacts and how they will be made available to the community. Any accepted papers that
            committed to artefact release will be checked upon the camera-ready deadline to ensure availability.</p>
        <p>Beyond this, CoNEXT 2025 will also run a reproducibility committee that is responsible for awarding accepted
            papers the optional ACM reproducibility badges (for details visit: <a
                href="http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/artifact-review-badging"
                rel="noopener">http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/artifact-review-badging</a>). For accepted
            papers to be eligible for ACM badging, the authors (1) must opt-in for ACM badging before the paper
            submission deadline, and (2) send one page to the reproducibility committee that clearly describes the
            artefacts and provide pointers to the code and other artefacts, within a week after the notification of
            acceptance. Artefact pointers and a description must be included at camera ready.</p>

        <h3>Double-anonymous requirements</h3>
        <p>All submitted papers will be assessed through a double-anonymous 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-anonymous submission:</p>
        <ul>
            <li>Remove all personal information about the authors from the paper (e.g., names, affiliations)
            <li>Remove acknowledgements to organizations and/or people</li>
            <li>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.</li>
            <li>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.</li>
            <li>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.</li>
        </ul>
        <p>At the same time, PC members should not actively try to de-anonymize the authors' identities. Any violation of the double-anonymous reviewing process should be reported to the PC chairs.</p>

        <h3>Ethical concerns</h3>
        <p><b>All papers must include a statement or subsection about ethical issues raised by the work.</b> In limited cases this could simply be a sentence disclaiming ethical issues, but work involving human subjects or potentially sensitive data (e.g., user traffic, social network information, censorship evasion) must clearly discuss the relevant issues. Papers that do not include an ethics statement may be rejected.</p>
        <p>Papers must follow basic precepts of ethical research and subscribe to community norms. Works must also show respect for norms around privacy, secure storage of sensitive data, voluntary and informed consent for human subjects and users who might be placed at risk, avoiding deceptive practices when not essential, beneficence (maximizing the benefits to an individual or to society while minimizing potential harm to an individual), and risk mitigation. Authors may want to consult the Menlo Report and the ACM ethics policy for further information on ethical principles, and they may find the Allman/Paxson paper in IMC 2007 helpful for a perspective on ethical data sharing. Authors should also consult ACM Publications Policies, especially those around Authors; Plagiarism, Misrepresentation, and Falsification; Research Involving Human Subjects; Prior Publication and Simultaneous Submissions; and Coercion and Abuse.</p>
        <p>Many organizations have an ethics review process, sometimes called an Institutional Review Board (IRB), and in many projects, IRB involvement is appropriate. IRB approval of research is an important factor and should be mentioned, but the program committee will independently evaluate the ethical soundness of the work just as they evaluate its technical soundness.</p>
        <p>The Program Committee takes a broad view of what constitutes an ethical concern, and the PC chairs may reach out to authors during the review process if questions arise.</p>

        <h3>PACMNET Open Access</h3>
        <p>PACMNET adheres to the ACM OpenTOC initiative. This enables visitors to download the definitive version of the contents from the ACM Digital Library at no charge in perpetuity starting from the publication start date. Downloads of these articles are captured in official ACM statistics, improving the accuracy of usage and impact measurements. More detailed information is available from the ACM OpenToc page. Authors of accepted papers may opt for the Hybrid OA that allows individual papers to appear as Gold Open Access. Please, check the Hybrid Open Access page for more details. Additionally, all corresponding authors from an institution participating in ACM OPEN will have their research articles published OA at the time of publication at no cost to the authors. To ensure eligibility for the program, corresponding authors from participating institutions must use their institutional email address upon submission. Further details can be found <a href="https://dl.acm.org/journal/pacmnet/author-guidelines" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.</p>
        <p>Papers may be submitted to any deadline. Upon acceptance, both short and long papers will be scheduled for publication in the closest issue of the <a href="https://dl.acm.org/journal/pacmnet" target="_blank">Proceedings of the ACM on Networking (PACMNET)</a>. Please see the <a href="https://dl.acm.org/journal/pacmnet/author-guidelines" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PACMNET author' guidelines</a> for details. Accepted papers will be presented at the ACM CoNEXT 2025 conference in fall 2025.</p>

        <h3>Contact us</h3>
        <p>If you have any questions, please email the TPC co-chairs:</p>
        <p>Ying Zhang (zhangying _at_ meta.com)</p>
        <p>Andra Lutu (andra.lutu _at_ telefonica.com)</p>
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