C a l l   f o r   P a p e r s

                      First Workshop on 
                    HOT TOPICS IN NETWORKS 
                         (HotNets-I)

                      28-29 October 2002
                  Princeton, New Jersey, USA
                 http://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, ICIR
	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