Subject: [nsc] Fwd: HotMiddlebox workshop co-located with ACM CoNext 2013

From: "Diego R. Lopez" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 15:34:59 +0000

Hi,

Though you probably know about it, I think this can be of interest to those around the NSC idea...

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From: Vyas Sekar <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Subject: HotMiddlebox workshop co-located with ACM CoNext 2013
Date: 1 August 2013 02:27:04.000 GMT+02:00
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Cc: Felipe Huici <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>

Dear colleague,

We would really appreciate your help to spread the word about the HotMiddlebox workshop co-located with ACM CoNext 2013 at your institutions and  among colleagues you know working in the space of middleboxes and network function virtualization for whom this would be a good fit to submit early stage research.

Below is a small blurb with the key information and we have also attached the full CFP as a PDF.

Thanks for your help!

Felipe Huici (NEC Europe) and Vyas Sekar (StonyBrook University)

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Workshop URL: http://conferences.sigcomm.org/co-next/2013/workshops/HotMiddlebox/index.html

Workshop Deadline: Aug 30, 2013, 5 pm ET

Submission format: 6 pages (including refs), ACM two-column conference 10 pt

Workshop submission site: http://hotmbox.wings.cs.sunysb.edu/2013/index.php

Text CFP:

Modern networks increasingly rely on advanced network processing functions for a wide spectrum of crucial functions ranging from security (firewalls, IDSes, traffic scrubbers), traffic shaping (rate limiters, load balancers), dealing with address space exhaustion (NATs) or improving the performance of network applications (traffic accelerators, caches, proxies), to name a few. Such "network appliances" or "middleboxes" are a critical piece of the network infrastructure and represent, to a first-order approximation, the de-facto approach for network evolution in response to changing performance, security, and policy compliance requirements.
However, most of this functionality is implemented in costly, hard-to-modify dedicated hardware, making the network difficult to evolve or adapt to changing traffic requirements. Recent work seeks to address this issue by shifting network processing from a world of dedicated hardware to one built on software-based processing running on (sometimes virtualized and shared) platforms built on commodity hardware servers, switches, and storage. This vision of "software-based" network services enables new in-network functions to be rapidly instantiated, on-demand, and at places in the network where it is most needed, without having to modify the underlying hardware. The scope of this workshop focuses both on the design of the data plane to support advanced services as well as the control plane functions necessary to manage these advanced data plane functions. In some sense, this vision is complementary to ongoing efforts in the SDN community, where the focus has largely been on the control plane and assuming a commodity data plane.

The HotMiddlebox workshop will serve as an avenue to showcase and discuss ongoing work from both academic and industry efforts in this space and to identify key challenges and potential solutions, with the ultimate goal of providing a roadmap for practical deployment in operational networks.
We encourage the submission of work-in-progress papers in the area of middlebox design, implementation, measurement, management, and deployment. We look for submissions of previously unpublished work on topics including, but not limited to, the following:

  *   Performance optimizations of network stacks on virtualized systems
  *   Verification of unknown code running on shared middlebox platforms
  *   Extensible software stacks for rapid implementation of new middlebox functions
  *   Mechanisms for migration of stateful middleboxes
  *   Resource allocation mechanisms for shared/virtualized middlebox platforms
  *   Integrating new software middleboxes into legacy networks
  *   Backend storage/memory architectures for middleboxes
  *   Management abstractions and policy language frameworks for middleboxes
  *   Experiences in deploying software-based middleboxes in operational networks
  *   Connections to Software-Defined Networking
  *   Deployment and use of middleboxes in the cloud
  *   Measurements of middleboxes in enterprise, ISP, and data center networks.
  *   Novel security, performance, and monitoring applications atop middleboxes
  *   Challenges for policy verification in the context of middlebox services.

PDF CFP:  Attached

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