For more information, please visit: http://www.cs.umsl.edu/~encp19/

Call for Submissions

The integration of computing and networking is considered a promising direction to fulfill the strict low latency and high data exchange requirements of a number of new and innovative application use-cases (e.g., augmented/virtual reality, autonomous driving, drone coverage). Context-aware networking can help maximize the compute utilization at the edge increasing the network capacity. For instance, network functions may enable intelligent distribution of tasks to resources, the reuse of results from previously executed tasks, adaptability to the dynamic nature of edge ecosystems (e.g., network dynamics, bursty rates of tasks, dynamic resource availability).

The ENCP workshop has the integration of networking and computing as the central theme with a focus on mechanisms for the joint optimization of networking and computing resources, infrastructure virtualization, in-network caching, compute reuse, and security and privacy concerns.

Topics of Interest

The ENCP workshop has the goal of serving as a venue, where minds from the Distributed Computing, Information-Centric Networking (ICN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Edge Computing communities meet to advance the state-of-the-art in the area of systems for In-Network Computing. We also encourage work-in-progress and position papers that describe original ideas, present new directions, or have the potential to stimulate insightful discussions. ENCP invites submissions of unpublished work on the following topics (but not limited to):

• Architectures of in-network computing
• In-network caching solutions
• Virtualization for in-network computing systems
• Network Function Virtualization (NFV) for in-network computing
• Security, privacy, trust management, and access control in in-network computing architectures
• Information-Centric Networking (ICN) for in-network computing
• Software-Defined Networking for in-networking computing
• In-network computing for challenged networks (e.g., diaster scenarios)
• Deployment and interoperability with traditional network architectures/functions
• Network slicing for in-network computing systems
• Internet of Things (IoT) for in-network computing
• Pricing and billing in in-network computing systems
• Highly available in-network computing systems
• Management of in-network computing systems
• In-network computing in the era of 5G
• Scalability, performance advancements, and fault-tolerance
• Tools for troubleshooting, monitoring, and validation of in-network computing systems and architectures
• Innovative applications that in-network computing enables
• In-network computing in public and private clouds, as well as edge computing paradigms
• Resource allocation, modeling, and analysis
• Applications of machine learning to in-network computing
• Microservice architectures
• Distributed consensus algorithms
• Data processing frameworks

Submission Instruction

The workshop solicits papers written in the standard (2-column, 10pt ACM format). All the submissions will be double-blind and will be peer-reviewed. Per the anonymity guide, authors must remove their own names and any other information that may identify themselves to the reviewers. Submissions should be no more than 6 pages (including references, appendix, and all figures). Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their papers at the workshop.

Register and submit your paper at https://encp19.hotcrp.com/

TPC Chairs

Name	Affiliation
Dirk Kutscher	University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer
Spyridon Mastorakis	University of Nebraska, Omaha
Abderrahmen Mtibaa	University of Missouri-St. Louis

Steering Committee Members

Name	Affiliation
Jon Crowcroft	University of Cambridge
Satyajayant (Jay) Misra	New Mexico State University
Dave Oran	Network Systems Research and Design

TPC Members

Name	Affiliation
Alexander Afanasyev	Florida International University
Mostafa Ammar	Georgia Institute of Technology
Lotfi Benmahmoud	NIST
Jeff Burke	University of California, Los Angeles
Aaron Ding	Technical University of Delft
Fred Douglis	Perspecta Labs
Serge Fdida	Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Dali Kaafar	Data61-CSIRO
Jussi Kangasharju	Helsinki University
Vinay Kolar	Cisco
Vasilis Maglaris	National Technical University of Athens
Evangelos Markatos	University of Crete and FORTH
Satyajayant (Jay) Misra	New Mexico State University
Marie-José Montpetit	MIT
Ravi Netravali	University of California, Los Angeles
Jörg Ott	TU Munich
Yiannis Psaras	University College London
Taqi Raza	University of Arizona
Eve Schooler	Intel USA
Susmit Shannigrahi	Tennessee Tech
Reza Tourani	Saint Louis University
Christian Tschudin	University of Basel
Eirini-Eleni Tsiropoulou	University of New Mexico
Klaus Wehrle	RWTH Aachen
Mohamed-Faten Zhani	ETS

Web Chair

Name	Affiliation
Tianxiang Li	University of California, Los Angeles

Publicity Chairs

Name	Affiliation
Reza Tourani	Saint Louis University
Hila Ben Abraham	Washington University in St. Louis