Student Workshop

Call for submissions

Following the success of previous years, the main conference will be accompanied by a one-day Student Workshop. The ACM CoNEXT 2023 Student Workshop aims at providing a platform for graduate students in the area of computer networks and communications to learn from senior researchers in the field and present their ongoing research efforts. The venue also represents a unique opportunity for students to network with other junior researchers as well as more experienced ones, receive constructive feedback, guidance, tips, and learn about cutting-edge research problems being tackled by the community.

We encourage submissions from graduate students about research at an early stage as well as more advanced dissertation-level research. Research addressing nonstandard topics, controversial problems and approaches are of particular interest. The scope of the workshop is broad and covers all aspects of networking research.

Example topics include (but not limited to):

• All types of networks such as mobile, wide-area, data-center, home, enterprise networks, internet-of-things, and social networks.
• All types of network technologies such as wired, wireless, visual, and acoustic.
• All types of network applications and services, such as the web, video streaming, data processing, and networked mobile apps.
• All aspects of networks and networked systems such as architecture, packet-processing hardware and software, virtualization, mobility, sensors, resource management, performance, energy consumption, topology, robustness, security, diagnosis, verification, privacy, economics and evolution.
• All types of network design and experimental approaches such as theory, simulation, measurements, and machine learning-based techniques.

Submission Formats

Please follow the ACM CoNEXT 2023 Formatting Guidelines for short papers; with the following added requirements:

Submissions are limited to two pages. Note that the two-page limit includes ALL figures, tables, and references. Every submission should answer the following questions (closely following J. Wilkes, "CSP project startup documents"):

• Problem statement: What is the problem that this project is going to address? Why is the problem important? Who will benefit when the problem is solved?
• What is the basic approach, method, idea or tool that’s being suggested to solve the problem?
• What exactly are the expected effects of the proposed solution? What are plausible alternatives? How likely are they? What’s good and bad about them by comparison with what’s proposed? What have others done already? What did they learn?
• What will be done to test out the hypotheses? How will this confirm (or deny) the hypotheses? Why will the conclusions be believable?
• What are the measures for success? How will we know to declare the project a success?

The review process is double blind and therefore submissions must be anonymous (i.e. no authors or affiliations should be mentioned in the PDF). Please see the CoNEXT main track CFP for further details on double blind preparation.

When registering the paper, the student should be the first author and it can be followed by one or more advisers. Please submit your paper to: http://conext23-sw.hotcrp.com

The accepted paper will be included in the ACM Digital Library and made available via the workshop website.

Important Dates

• Submission deadline: 20th Sep 2023 (11:59pm AoE)
• Notification: 16th Oct 2023
• Camera ready: 25th Oct 2023

Technical Program Committee Co-chairs

Name	Affiliation	E-mail
Gareth Tison	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK	gtyson_at_ust.hk
Matteo Varvello	Nokia Bell Labs, US	matteo.varvello_at_nokia.com

TPC Members

Name	Affiliation
Aruna Balasubramanian	Stony Brook University, US
Theophilus Benson	Brown University, US
Ignacio Castro	Queen Mary University of London, UK
Anna-Maria Mandalari	University College London, UK
Ryo Yanagida	University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Philipp Richter	Akamai/MIT, US
Matthias Wählisch	TU Dresden, Germany
Pedro Marcos	FURG, Brazil
Georgios Smaragdakis	TU Delft, Netherlands
Stephen McQuistin	University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK
Gianni Antichi	Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Marcel Flores	Verizon/Edgecast, US
Walter Willinger	NIKSUN, US
David Choffnes	Northeastern University, US
Jon Crowcroft	Cambridge University, UK
Quentin De Coninck	UC Louvain, Belgium
Oliver Gasser	Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany
Thomas Schmidt	HAW Hamburg, Germany
Fernando Ramos	Univeristy of Lisbon, Portugal
Yasir Zaki	NYU Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Aravindh Raman	Telefonica Research, Spain
Andra Lutu	Telefonica Research, Spain
Oliver Hohlfeld	University of Kassel, Germany
Ilias Leontiadis	Meta, UK
Dave Levin	University of Maryland, US
Hasan Ashgar	Macquarie University, Australia
Ishaku Anaobi	Queen Mary University of London, UK
Adisorn Lertsinsrubtavee	Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
Colin Perkins	University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK