SIGCOMM Workshop on Network Troubleshooting
jon bennett
jcrb at yahoo.com
Wed Feb 25 04:29:31 UTC 2004
(Recent messages on the list suggest this announcement to be quite timely)
We hope that this workshop will be of interest to NANOG members and that
many of you will participate and/or submit material to it.
Jon Bennett and Mark Allman ( trouble04-chairs at icir.org )
http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm2004/netts.html
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To be held in conjunction with SIGCOMM '04
Network Troubleshooting:
Research Theory and Operations Practice Meet Malfunctioning Reality
Call For Papers
Network monitoring and measurement has received a great deal of attention
in the research community recently. While some research to-date has been
focused on finding problems, failures and anomalies in networks this
workshop endeavors to focus specifically on such topics. The workshop
seeks papers exploring several themes:
DETECTION: Mechanisms and techniques for detecting failures, imminent
failures and other anomalies in real time. The focus of this workshop is
research that can be used operationally to help the network in the
short-term. Techniques that require heavyweight off-line analysis to find
problems provide the community with an understanding of and an insight into
the dynamics and potential long-term solutions for network issues, but are
not the main focus of this workshop.
CORRECTION: While detecting problems (or imminent problems) and alerting
network operators is a good first step, techniques for automatically
mitigating problems as they occur are also sought.
COORDINATION: Detecting and solving problems in a multi-provider
environment inevitably involves communicating between distinct autonomous
entities. Mechanisms and facilities to streamline and automate such
communication are sought.
EXPERIENCE: Insight from network operators into network problems they
cannot easily detect (or, detect far too late) and tools that would make
network management much easier. Input from network operators on
non-obvious or non-technical considerations which impact technical
solutions are also sought.
This workshop invites two kinds of submissions:
Original papers on any area of network measurement, monitoring or
management specifically directed towards one or more of the above themes.
Poster presentation proposals. While posters on any of the above themes
will be accepted, posters on operational experience are highly sought.
Note: For this workshop, "networks" includes both physical networks and
virtual networks (CDNs, overlays, etc.).
Some of the specific problems of interest, include:
Protocol failures - link, routing, management
Detecting mis-configuration of network elements
Partial hardware failures - intermittent, unreported
Traffic engineering for overload control
Security - DDoS attacks, detecting compromised network elements, intrusion
detection (especially for non-edge networks since a large body of work
already tackles the problems at the network edge)
Submissions:
Submissions ranging from presentations of specific research to position
papers are welcome. Papers presenting interesting and novel ideas at an
early stage of development are preferred over completed journal-style
results. Selected papers will be forward-looking, with impact and
implications for both operational networks and ongoing or future research.
Original papers should be 3-6 standard SIGCOMM formatted pages (with the
expectation that position papers will be shorter and research papers longer).
Poster proposals should be sent in the form of 1-page abstracts.
The submission process and specific guidelines will be posted at a later date.
Important Dates:
Submission registration: April 8, 2004
Submission deadline: April 15, 2004
Notification deadline: May 15, 2004
Camera ready deadline: June 15, 2004
Workshop Co-Chairs (trouble04-chairs at icir.org)
Jon C.R. Bennett, Harvard University
Mark Allman, ICIR
Program Committee:
TBD
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