Subject: [tsvwg] SECOND WORKSHOP ON THE FUTURE OF INTERNET TRANSPORT (FIT 2020)

From: Karl-Johan Grinnemo <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 21:23:05 +0000

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CALL FOR PAPERS

The  Second Workshop on the Future of Internet Transport (FIT 2020 , https://networking.ifip.org/2020/workshops/fit-2020)
In conjunction with the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Networking 2020 Conference (NETWORKING 2020, https://networking.ifip.org/2020/)
June 22-26, Paris, France

Over the last several decades and since its conception, the Internet transport layer has gradually been ossified, where deployment of new protocols and mechanisms has been extremely hard if not impossible. Application developers have traditionally been bound to use either stream-oriented connection-based reliable communication using TCP or datagram-oriented connection-less unreliable communication using UDP, and middleboxes have been mostly configured to allow traffic from these two protocols only, and hence disincentivizing the application developers to use any novel transport protocols and services (e.g., SCTP, DCCP, etc). In recent years, this long-standing stalemate has been broken thanks to the rapid progress made on several fronts amongst them: (1) IETF’s Transport Services working group (TAPS) and several industry stakeholders’ efforts to introduce platform- and protocol-independent transport layer APIs (e.g., Apple’s Network.framework, the IETF TAPS API, and the NEAT API); (2) new transport protocols being deployed on the wire that run over UDP as a substrate (e.g., Google’s QUIC) to get around middleboxes; (3) new congestion control mechanisms other than NewReno and Linux’ CUBIC (e.g., Google’s BBR) and finally (4) HTTP3 that is an effort to port HTTP2 over QUIC. This has coincided with the introduction of new network technologies such as emerging 5G mobile networks currently being standardized by the 3GPP, and the network softwarization movement using virtualization and containerization techniques (e.g., SDN, NFV). With the emergence of networks that offer much faster PHY bitrates and aggregate capacity (e.g., 5G, WiFi6), and with emerging applications that require much more stringent latency requirements (e.g., AR/VR/XR or automotive V2X), the need for an efficient transport layer stack – that is likely to run in the userland instead of the OS kernel – will become much more significantly highlighted.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Technical issues and challenges that arise in the transport layer with the emergence of high-speed
   and  high-capacity networks (e.g., 5G)

• Transport protocols and their performance in emergent latency-sensitive and bandwidth-consuming
   application use-cases (e.g., V2X communication and high-fidelity AR/VR/XR)

• Design, deployment, and evaluation of state-of-the-art transport protocols (e.g., QUIC) and their
   congestion control mechanisms (e.g., BBR)

• The performance of transport protocols in virtual environments; especially novel userland transport
   protocols such as QUIC

• Design and evaluation of new transport layer APIs for future Internet and strategies for their
   deployment

• Design, evaluation, deployment, and measurement studies of transport-layer security mechanisms 
  (e.g., TLS 1.3)

PAPER FORMAT AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Submitted papers should be unpublished work and they should not be under review by any other conference or journal. They must be no more than 6 pages (IEEE two-column format, 10pt) in total including references and figures. Papers will be reviewed single-blind. Accepted papers will appear in the symposium proceedings published by IFIP and submitted to IEEE Xplore Digital Library. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and present the work in the workshop.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline: March 27, 2020
Notification: April 24, 2020
Camera Ready: May 7, 2020
Workshop: June 22, 2020

WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS

Dr. Naeem Khademi (University of Stavanger, Norway)
Dr. Karl-Johan Grinnemo (Karlstad University, Sweden)

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Fred Baker (ICANN, USA)
Prof. Michael Scharf (University of Applied Sciences, Germany)
Dr. Mirja Kuehlewind (Ericsson Research, Germany)
Prof. Michael Tüexen (FH Münster, University of Applied Sciences, Germany)
Dr. Yoshifumi Nishida (GE Global Research, USA)
Prof. Michael Welzl (University of Oslo, Norway)
Dr. Koen De Schepper (Nokia Bell-Labs, Belgium)
Dr. Colin Perkins (University of Glasgow, UK)
Prof. Carsten Griwodz (University of Oslo, Norway)
Dr. Simone Ferlin (Ericsson, Sweden)
Dr. Nicolas Kuhn (Centre national d’études spatiales, France)
Prof. Anna Brunström (Karlstad University, Sweden)
Prof. Emmanuel Lochin (ISAE, France)
Dr. Peyman Teymoori (University of Oslo, Norway)
Assistant Prof. Gianni Antichi (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
Dr. Thomas Dreibholz (Simula Research Labs, Norway)
Prof. Joerg Ott (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
Dr. Lawrence Stewart (Netflix, Australia)

Best Regards
Karl-Johan Grinnemo
Lektor/Senior Lecturer
Datavetenskap/Computer Science
Karlstads universitet/Karlstad university
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