ACM SIGCOMM Capacity Sharing Workshop (CSWS 2014)
http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2014/csws.php

In conjunction with ACM SIGCOMM 2014 conference, on August 18, Chicago, USA.
http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2014/index.php

Call for Papers
Changing usage behavior, increasing demand for bandwidth as well as a
continuous trend towards virtualizing networks and network functions raise
questions on how to share limited capacity resources fairly and more
efficiently while maintaining the best possible Quality of Experience
(QoE) for users. While efficiency is most important when resources are
spare, fairness need to be evaluated based on the different quality
requirements of the various Internet services that we have today. For
example, the Internet,
especially the mobile Internet, was mostly
engineered to provide a low loss service, low-latency services are not
well supported today. In data centers, virtualization and high utilization
promise economic benefits. However, effective, yet practical capacity
sharing between tenants and applications is an important requirement. This
has led to the development of enhancements in capacity sharing, especially
congestion control mechanisms  some of these mechanisms are
domain-specific, others lend themselves to adoption or generalization for
inter-connected networks.
The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers in the
area of network and transport protocols in the Internet as well as data
centers and their applications to advance the state of research on
capacity sharing. We solicit contributions on the state-of-the-art,
results of ongoing research, open issues, trends and new ideas. We want to
encourage researchers to consider the problem space over all layers.
Topics
Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

Network, transport, and application layer as well as cross-layer
solutions, e.g. in the area of AQM, congestion control, or connection
start-up

Application-layer models and requirements especially for interactive and
real-time media services in fixed and mobile networks

Context-aware resource allocation especially in cellular/fixed access
networks and fixed/mobile convergence

Multi-tenancy capacity sharing and isolation in virtual networks

Approaches to reduce latency with or without network support (e.g ECN)
and latency measurements

QoE/QoS mapping, metrics and measurements

Traffic management, classification and characterization in the Internet
and data centers

Fairness definitions and economic aspects on capacity
sharing

Related standardization activities, projects and regulatory constraints
Submission
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. Please use the following link
for paper submission: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=csws14

Important Dates
	March 14, 2014
Paper submission deadline
	April 25, 2014
Acceptance notification
	May 23, 2014
Camera-ready paper
	August 18, 2014
Workshop date

Organizers
Workshop Co-Chairs
Mirja Kühlewind
IKR University of Stuttgart, Germany
Dirk Kutscher
NEC Europe Labs Heidelberg, Germany
Technical Program Committee
Marcelo
Bagnulo Braun
UC3M, Madrid, Spain
Bob Briscoe
BT Research&Technology, UK
Anna Brunström
Karlstad University, Sweden
Phil Eardley
BT Research&Technology, UK
Lars Eggert
NetApp, Germany
Gorry Fairhurst
University of Aberdeen, UK
Matthew Ford
Internet Society, UK
Michio Honda
NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany
Janardhan Iyengar
Google, USA
Suresh Krishnan
Ericsson, Canada
Andreas Mäder
NEC Laboratories Europe
Andrew McGregor
Google, USA
Marco Mellia
Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Michael Menth
University of Tuebingen, Germany
Luca Muscariello
FranceTelecom, France
Yoshifumi Nishida
GE Global Research, USA
Piers OHanlon
Oxford Internet Institue, UK
Jörg Ott
Aalto University, Finnland
Colin Perkins
University of Glasgow, UK
David Ros
Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
Pasi
Sarolahti
Aalto University, Finland
Michael Scharf
Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Stuttgart, Germany
Meral Shirazipour
Ericsson, Canada
Martin Stiemerling
NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany
Brian Trammell
ETH, Zurich
Kurt Tutschku
Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH), Sweden
David Wagner
University of Stuttgart, Germany
Matthias Waehlisch
Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany
Ying Zhang
Ericsson, Canada
Thomas Zinner
University of Würzburg, Germany

-- 
Prof. Claudio Enrique Righetti
Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación -FCEyN
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Pabellon I, Ciudad Universitaria, 1428 CABA
Argentina

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