======================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS Internet Network Management Workshop (INM) 2008 Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Communications Society Co-located with ICNP 2008 Orlando, Florida October 19, 2008 http://www.cs.rice.edu/~eugeneng/inm08 =======================================================================

New extended deadlines: Paper registration: 5:00pm EDT, July 7, 2008 Paper submission: 5:00pm EDT, July 14, 2008 Notification of acceptance: August 6, 2008 Camera ready submission: September 5, 2008

In many ways, computer network management remains the least understood aspect of computer networking. There is a lack of well-established principles for guiding the design of networks for manageability. There is also a lack of scientific theories for analyzing the state of a network and for the evolution of network state.

The Internet Network Management (INM) workshop provides an opportunity to elevate participants' collective experience with IP networks into ideas, principles, and theories that can be leveraged in today's networks, or can be carried forward into the clean-slate design of future networks that intrinsically support management, rather than treating management as a bolted-on afterthought.

The INM workshop seeks original and thought provoking ideas, case studies, experimental results, position papers, and clean-slate designs. Submissions concerning special-purpose networks, such as VoIP, content distribution, or mobile wireless networks are welcome. The workshop will provide a forum for the exchange of experience and work-in-progress discussions.

Topics of Interest: * new abstractions for network configuration management * new control plane architectures * data plane mechanisms to support management * autonomous network management systems with predictive/proactive behaviors * ensuring stability and coherent behavior in distributed and/or autonomous systems * management of backbone, access, enterprise and home networks and network-based applications * techniques and experiments for evaluating network management architectures * experimental platforms that support network management research * comparisons between IP network management and ATM, SONET, or telephony management * defining and enforcing network borders * automatic and adaptive control of networks * cross-layer interactions, including IP/optical or applications/IP * hitless planned maintenance * fault and performance management

Program Chairs: Timothy G. Griffin (University of Cambridge) T. S. Eugene Ng (Rice University)

Steering Committee: Albert Greenberg (Microsoft Research) Chuck Kalmanek (AT&T Labs) David Maltz (Microsoft Research) Richard Mortier (Vipadia) Geoffrey Xie (Naval Postgraduate School) Hui Zhang (Carnegie Mellon University)

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