First Workshop on
                           Hot Topics in Networks
                                (HotNets-I)

                             28-29 October 2002
                         Princeton, New Jersey, USA
                       www.acm.org/sigcomm/HotNets-I


    

   The First Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets-I) will bring
   together researchers in the networking and distributed systems
   community to debate emerging research directions. The goal of the
   workshop is to promote community-wide discussion of ideas that are not
   yet mature with the expectations that (1) this will influence and
   foster ongoing research in the community, and (2) many of the HotNets
   position papers will grow into papers accepted at SIGCOMM or other
   quality conferences. Attendance will be limited to around 60
   participants.  HotNets is sponsored by ACM SIGCOMM and Intel Research;
   NSF sponsorship is pending.

   We hope that HotNets will become the place to present new ideas that
   have the potential to significantly impact the community in the long
   term, especially those that are architecture or design-oriented in
   nature. Each potential participant should submit a short position
   paper that exposes a new problem, advocates a new solution, or debunks
   existing work. We are broadly interested in the following areas:

   -        Middle boxes, Peer-to-Peer, overlays, and programmable
   network infrastructure

   -        Sensor networks, storage area networks, extreme networking,
   and other areas that are not Internet centric

   -        Lessons drawn from failed research, and controversial or
   disruptive topics

   -        Architectural insights or understanding of network behavior

   -        Network configuration, diagnosis, provisioning and traffic
   engineering

   -        Wireless networks, mobility, and pervasive computing

   -        Network fault-tolerance, reliability, and security

   -        Novel distributed applications and services, including
   systems for content distribution and real-time media.

   -        Traditional SIGCOMM topics (e.g., resource management,
   sharing, quality of service, protocols, algorithms or systems for
   routing, switching and signaling).

   Position papers will be selected based on their originality, technical
   merit, and topical relevance, and participants will be invited based
   on the likelihood that their presentations will lead to insightful
   technical discussions at the workshop. Online copies of the position
   papers will be made publicly available via the Web prior to the
   workshop. Printed proceedings, including a summary of the interactions
   at the workshop, will be published after the workshop as a special
   issue of ACM SIGCOMM's Computer Communication Review (CCR) to provide
   wide distribution to the networking community.

   Students: We expect to have a few travel grants to support student
   authors, who otherwise would not be able to attend.  Please check the
   website for updates.

Organizers

   General Chair:
     * Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan, Univ. of Texas at Austin


   Program Chairs:
     * Larry Peterson, Princeton University
     * David Wetherall, University of Washington


   SIGCOMM Advisors:
     * Geoff Voelker, UC San Diego
     * Craig Partridge, BBN


   Program Committee:
     * Deborah Estrin, UCLA
     * Larry Peterson, Princeton
     * Stefan Savage, UC San Diego
     * Srini Seshan, CMU
     * Scott Shenker, ACIRI
     * Ion Stoica, UC Berkeley
     * Amin Vahdat, Duke University
     * David Wetherall, University of Washington
     * John Wroclawski, MIT

Submission Instructions

   Full details will be provided on the workshop website. Position papers
   must be no longer than 5 pages (11 pt font, 1 inch margins). Only
   electronic submissions in PostScript or PDF will be accepted.
   Submissions must be written in English, render without error using
   standard tools (Ghostview or Acrobat Reader) and print on US-Letter
   sized paper. All submissions will be acknowledged within 24 hours of
   receipt.

IMPORTANT DATES:

   Submissions due:                                  1 July 2002
   Notification of Acceptance:                   1 September 2002
   Camera-ready copy due:                      1 October 2002
   Workshop:                                           28 October 2002