The paper submission deadline for the ACM/IRTF Applied Networking Research Workshop 2025<https://www.irtf.org/anrw/2025/> (ANRW’25) has been extended to April 29.
The workshop is co-located with IETF-123<https://www.ietf.org/meeting/123/> (July 2025) making it a perfect venue to interact and share your work with experts from both industry and academia. We accept both regular (6-page) and short (2-page) papers, so there is still time to prepare your submissions. Please see the Call for Papers below for more details. We look forward to your submissions! Anna Brunstrom and Ryan Beckett ANRW 2025 PC Chairs ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Call for Papers The structure and use of the Internet, and Internet services, are constantly evolving. This includes shifts in traffic patterns and demands with remote work over broadband access networks, operational responses to large-scale physical and socio-political events, also trends towards increased multiplexing of connections over fewer IP addresses for various reasons that include scale, adaptability, and privacy. The ACM<https://www.acm.org/>/IRTF Applied Networking Research Workshop 2025 (ANRW’25), co-located with IETF-123<https://www.ietf.org/meeting/123/>, is the tenth edition of an academic workshop that provides a forum for researchers, vendors, network operators, and the Internet standards community to present and discuss emerging results in applied networking research. The workshop combines presentations of new research in the form of regular papers and short papers. ANRW’25 accepts the following types of submissions: * Regular papers are publications that present new research that has not been previously published. For a regular paper to be considered for publication, please submit work describing early/emerging results in a relevant topic area. Position papers are also welcome. There is a 6-page limit for regular papers, including figures, tables, and any appendices, optionally followed by unlimited additional pages for references. * Short papers can provide a summary of early, emerging, or on-going work as well as short updates of previously published work. Position papers are also welcome. This type of submission will either be presented as a short talk or a lighting-style talk together with a dedicated poster session, depending on the number of accepted submissions. For a short paper to be considered for publication, please submit a short paper that is no longer than 2 pages, with a maximum of one additional page for references only. Paper topics are not restricted to current standardization activities of related IETF<https://ietf.org/> working groups or activity in related IRTF <https://www.irtf.org/> research groups. We also welcome papers on topics relating to applied networking research that may become relevant to the IETF<https://ietf.org/> and/or IRTF in future. All topics related to the development of the Internet, its infrastructure, protocols, services and governance are in scope. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Development and deployment experience of new or enhanced Internet protocols (e.g., for transport, security, or routing) or applications. * Improvements, measurements, and analysis of the security and privacy of new and existing Internet protocols and privacy enhancing technologies. * Evolution of interconnection, and new approaches on network management, operations, and control. * Practical congestion control for heterogeneous networks and novel applications. * Better ways of specifying protocols, including usable techniques for protocol verification. * Design or interactions between CDNs, anycast, edge services, and DNS. * Research and analysis of consolidation and centralization of the Internet. * Techniques for logging/monitoring of Internet traffic and root-cause analysis, as well as debugging of (encrypted) Internet protocols. * Measurement and analysis of the performance of networks, including the performance or quality of experience of networked applications. * Design, measurement, analysis, or deployment of wireless, mobile, cellular, or satellite networks. * Internet resilience and recovery, including physically challenging environments and events (e.g., remote areas, natural disaster situations). * Approaches and efforts towards decentralizing and democratizing the Internet. * Understanding the impact and interoperability of diverse clients (e.g., IoT, robotics, manufacturing). * The changing semantics of IP addresses and connection-level metadata at large-scale (e.g. Addressing Agility, Private Relay). * Applications of AI/ML to improve management, reliability, performance, security, or other aspects of networks. * Use of programmable networks, including software defined networks (SDNs) and programmable data planes such as P4, XDP, and eBPF. * Design of energy-efficient protocols, devices, and network architectures. * Efforts to prompt sustainability, including characterization of the Internet footprint and analysis of environmental limits within which the Internet and its applications should operate. * Topics relevant to the standardization activities of related IETF<https://ietf.org/> working groups. * Topics relevant to activity in related IRTF research groups, including the new SUSTAIN research group. <https://www.irtf.org/sustain.html> ANRW’25 is co-located with IETF-123<https://www.ietf.org/meeting/123/> in Madrid, and takes place in the week of July 19-25, 2025. This gives IETF<https://ietf.org/> as well as workshop attendees the opportunity to exchange ideas on topics and open problems discussed at the workshop and the IETF<https://ietf.org/>. ANRW’25 will be a hybrid event. Remote participation options will be available; please contact the chairs if you intend to submit work but know in advance that you will not be able to present the work in-person at the workshop. ANRW’25 particularly encourages the submission of results that could form the basis for future engineering work in the IETF<https://ietf.org/>, by, for example providing input and analysis on Internet protocols or operational Internet practices, as well as influence further research and experimentation in the IRTF. Formatting All submissions must satisfy the following requirements: * Regular papers: up to 6 pages for technical content (including appendices) + unlimited pages for references * Short papers: up to 2 pages for an extended abstract (including appendices) + a maximum of one page for references. * 10-point font for main text; font used in other places (e.g., figures) should be no smaller than 9 point * Two-column format, with the size of each column being at most 3.33 x 9.25 inches and the space between columns being at least 0.33 inches letter page size (8.5 x 11 inches) * We strongly encourage the use of the new ACM<https://www.acm.org/> LaTeX template, which satisfies these style requirements provided you specify a 10-point font size. The following settings should produce this output: \documentclass[10pt,sigconf,letterpaper]{acmart} * Author names and affiliations or other identifying information such as grant numbers must not appear. The text of the submission must refer to the authors’ own previous work in the third person. Submissions that do not comply with these requirements will be rejected without review. It is your responsibility to ensure that your submission satisfies the above requirements. Paper Novelty An accepted paper that is published must not be based on previously published work, and cannot describe work that is currently under submission to another venue. An accepted paper that is published also must not plagiarize the work of its authors or of any other authors. The ACM<https://www.acm.org/> Policy and Procedures on Plagiarism applies to the ANRW, and action will be taken against submitters who have engaged in such practices. Papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement requests will not be considered for review or publication, nor ever be disclosed. Important Dates Paper submission deadline 29 April 2025 (11:59pm AoE) Paper notification deadline 5 June 2025 Camera-ready paper deadline 15 June 2025 ANRW ’25 workshop Week of July 19-25, 2025 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Professor Anna Brunstrom Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Karlstad University 651 88 Karlstad, Sweden Phone: +46 54 7001795 E-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- När du skickar e-post till Karlstads universitet behandlar vi dina personuppgifter<https://www.kau.se/gdpr>. When you send an e-mail to Karlstad University, we will process your personal data<https://www.kau.se/en/gdpr>.
