ACM SIGCOMM 2018 Workshop on Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning for Data Communication Networks (Big-DAMA 2018)

Workshop Program

Call for Papers

Big data and machine learning are transforming the world, and the data communication networks domain is not an exception. Network operators, practitioners and researchers have at their reach today a matchless opportunity to ride on the success of the big data wave. The complexity of today networks has dramatically increased in the last few years, making it more important and challenging to design scalable network measurement and analysis techniques and tools. Critical applications such as network monitoring, network security, or dynamic network management require fast mechanisms for on-line analysis of thousands of events per second, as well as efficient techniques for off-line analysis of massive historical data. Besides characterization, making operational sense out of the ever-growing amount of network measurements is becoming a major challenge.

Despite recent major advances of big data analysis frameworks, their application to the network measurements analysis domain remains poorly understood and investigated, and most of the proposed solutions are in-house and difficult to benchmark. Furthermore, machine learning and big data analytic techniques able to characterize, detect, locate and understand complex behaviors and complex systems promise to shed light on this enormous amount of data, but smart and scalable approaches must be conceived to make them applicable to the networking practice. Last but not least, the explosion in volume and heterogeneity of data measurements generated across the entire network stack is opening the door to innovative solutions and out-of-the-box ideas to improve current networks, and many other networking applications besides monitoring and analysis are becoming more data and measurements driven than ever.

The Big-DAMA workshop seeks for novel contributions in the field of machine learning and big data analytics applied to data communication network analysis, including scalable analytic techniques and frameworks capable of collecting and analyzing both on-line streams and off-line massive datasets, network traffic traces, topological data, and performance measurements. In addition, Big-DAMA looks for novel and out-of-the-box approaches and use cases related to the application of machine learning and big data in Networking. The workshop will allow researchers and practitioners to share their experiences on designing and developing big data applications for networking, to discuss the open issues related to the application of machine learning into networking problems and to share new ideas and techniques for big data analysis in data communication networks.

Topics of Interest

We encourage both mature and positioning submissions describing systems, platforms, algorithms and applications addressing all facets of the application of machine learning and big data to the analysis of data communication networks. We are particularly interesting in disruptive and novel ideas that permit to unleash the power of machine learning and big data in the networking domain. The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics:

• Big networking data analysis
• Machine learning, data mining and big data analytics in networking
• Deep learning for networking
• Application of reinforced-learning in networking
• Data analytics for network measurements mining
• Stream-based machine learning for networking
• Big data analysis frameworks for network monitoring data
• Distributed monitoring architectures for big networking data
• Networking-based benchmarks for big data analysis solutions
• Learning algorithms and tools for network anomaly detection and security
• Network anomaly diagnosis through big networking data
• Machine learning and big data analytics for network management
• Big networking data integrity and privacy
• Big data analytics and visualization for traffic analysis
• Research challenges on machine learning and big data analytics for networking
• Collection and processing systems for large-scale topology and performance measurements

Submission Instructions

Submissions must be original, unpublished work, and not under consideration at another conference or journal. Submitted papers must be at most six (6) pages long, including all figures, tables, references, and appendices in two-column 10pt ACM format. Papers must include authors names and affiliations for single-blind peer reviewing by the PC. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their papers at the workshop.

Submit your paper at https://sigcomm18big-dama.hotcrp.com/

Authors Take Note

The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to TWO WEEKS prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.

Registration

Attendance of the workshop is by open registration and subject to the same registration fees and rules as all the other SIGCOMM 2018 workshops. The registrants of the workshop may freely attend any workshop on the same day.

Camera-ready instructions

For the final paper to be published, please refer to Camera-ready instructions for workshops.

Important Dates

• August 20, 2018

  Workshop

• June 10, 2018

  Camera-ready deadline

• May 7, 2018

  Acceptance notification

• April 1, 2018

  Paper registration/submission deadline (extended)

Committees

• Workshop Chairs

• Pedro Casas

  AIT, Austria

• Alberto Dainotti

  CAIDA, USA

• Marco Mellia

  PoliTo, Italy

• Tanja Zseby

  TU Wien, Austria

• Program Committee Members

• Vaibhav Bajpai

  TU Munich, Germany

• Arian Bär

  BMW, Germany

• Valentín Carela-Español

  Talaia, Spain

• Alessandro D'Alconzo

  AIT, Austria

• Constantine Dovrolis

  Georgia Tech, USA

• Idilio Drago

  PoliTo, Italy

• Pierdomenico Fiadino

  Eurecat, Spain

• Marco Fiore

  CNR-IEIIT, Italy

• Kensuke Fukuda

  NII, Japan

• Roberto Gonzalez

  NEC, Germany

• Félix Iglesias Vázquez

  TU Wien, Austria

• Hyunchul Kim

  SNU, South Korea

• Federico Larroca

  UdelaR, Uruguay

• Matthew Luckie

  Waikato, New Zealand

• Lorenzo Maggi

  Huawei, France

• Eric Medvet

  UNITS, Italy

• Pietro Michiardi

  EURECOM, France

• Jelena Milosevic

  TU Wien, Austria

• Philippe Owezarski

  LAAS-CNRS, France

• Ricardo de Oliveira Schmidt

  UPF, Brazil

• Matteo Varvello

  AT&T, USA

Contact the Big-DAMA chairs