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[1st CoNEXT GNNet Workshop] Graph Neural Networking Workshop, co-located with CoNEXT 2022, Rome, Italy, December 9, 2022 -- Register your paper by Friday!
by Jordi Paillissé 08 Sep '22

08 Sep '22

[Apologies for cross-posting] 1st GNNet Workshop Graph Neural Networking Workshop Co-located with ACM CoNEXT 2022 December 9, 2022 https://bnn.upc.edu/workshops/gnnet2022/ We are glad to announce the first edition of the “Graph Neural Networking Workshop 2022”, which is organized as part of ACM CoNEXT 2022, to be held in Rome, Italy. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and be made available in the ACM Digital Library. SPECIAL SESSION ============== GNNet would include a dedicated special session where the top teams competing at the third edition of the Graph Neural Networking Challenge (https://bnn.upc.edu/challenge/gnnet2022/) would be invited to present the winning solutions of the challenge, providing an excellent complement to the main program. IMPORTANT DATES ================ Paper registration deadline: September 9, 2022 Paper submission deadline: September 16, 2022 Paper acceptance notifications: October 17, 2022 Camera ready due: October 25, 2022 Submissions’ site -- https://conext-gnnet2022.hotcrp.com/ MOTIVATION =========== While AI/ML is today mainstream in domains such as computer vision and speech recognition, traditional AI/ML approaches have produced below-par results in many networking applications. Proposed AI/ML solutions in networking do not properly generalize, can be unreliable and ineffective in real-network deployments, and are in general unable to properly deal with the strong dynamics and changes (i.e., concept drift) occurring in networking applications. Graphs are emerging as an abstraction to represent complex data. Computer Networks are fundamentally graphs, and many of their relevant characteristics – such as topology and routing – are represented as graph-structured data. Machine learning, especially deep representation learning, on graphs is an emerging field with a wide array of applications. Within this field, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been recently proposed to model and learn over graph-structured data. Due to their unique ability to generalize over graph data, GNNs are a central tool to apply AI/ML techniques to networking applications. GOALS ====== The goal of GNNet is to leverage graph data representations and modern GNN technology to advance the application of AI/ML in networking. GNNet provides the first dedicated venue to present and discuss the latest advancements on GNNs and general AI/ML on graphs applied to networking problems. GNNet will bring together leaders from academia and industry to showcase recent methodological advances of GNNs and their application to networking problems, covering a wide range of applications and practical challenges for large-scale training and deployment. We expect GNNet would serve as the meeting point for the growing community on this fascinating domain, which has currently not a specific forum for sharing and discussion. The GNNet workshop seeks for contributions in the field of GNNs and graph-based learning applied to data communication networking problems, including the analysis of on-line and off-line massive datasets, network traffic traces, topological data, cybersecurity, performance measurements, and more. GNNet also encourages novel and out-of-the-box approaches and use cases related to the application of GNNs in networking. The workshop will allow researchers and practitioners to discuss the open issues related to the application of GNNs and graph-based learning to networking problems and to share new ideas and techniques for big data analysis and AI/ML in data communication networks. TOPICS OF INTEREST ================= We encourage both mature and positioning submissions describing systems, platforms, algorithms and applications addressing all facets of the application of GNNs and Machine learning on graphs to the analysis of data communication networks. We are particularly interesting in disruptive and novel ideas that permit to unleash the power of GNNs in the networking domain. The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics: * GNNs and graph-based learning in networking applications * Representation Learning on networking-related graphs * Application of GNNs to network and service management * Application of GNNs to network security and anomaly detection * Application of GNNs to detection of malware, botnets, intrusions, phishing, and abuse detection * Adversarial learning for GNN-driven networking applications * GNNs for data generation and digital twining in networking * Temporal and dynamic GNNs in networking * Graph-based analytics for visualization of complex networking applications * Libraries, benchmarks, and datasets for GNN-based networking applications * Scalability of GNNs for networking applications * Explainability, fairness, accountability, transparency, and privacy issues in GNN-based networking * Challenges, pitfalls, and negative results in applying GNNs to networking applications SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ======================= 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. Papers must include authors names and affiliations for single-blind peer reviewing by the PC. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their papers at the workshop. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and be made available in the ACM Digital Library. WORKSHOP CHAIRS ================ * Pere Barlet-Ros, BNN-UPC, Spain * Pedro Casas, AIT, Austria * Franco Scarselli, University of Siena, Italy * Xiangle Cheng, Huawei, China * Albert Cabellos, BNN-UPC, Spain PROGRAM COMMITTEE =================== * Lilian Berton, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil * Albert Bifet, Télécom ParisTech & University of Waikato, New Zealand * Laurent Ciavaglia, Rakuten, Japan * Constantine Dovrolis, Georgia Tech, USA * Lluís Fàbrega, UdG, Spain * Jerome François, INRIA, France * Fabien Geyer, Technical University of Munich, Germany * Matthias Herlich, Salzburg Research, Austria * Zied Ben Houidi, Huawei Technologies, France * Wolfgang Kellerer, Technical University of Munich, Germany * Federico Larroca, Universidad de la República, Uruguay * Alina Lazar, Youngstown State University, USA * Gonzalo Mateos, University of Rochester, USA * Christoph Neumann, Broadpeak, France * Diego Perino, Telefonica Research, Spain * Alejandro Ribeiro, University of Pennsylvania, USA * Dario Rossi, Huawei Technologies, France * Krzysztof Rusek, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland * José Suárez-Varela. BNN-UPC, Spain * Stefano Traverso, Ermes Cyber Security, Italy Thanks, Jordi Paillissé

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CfP: ACM CoNEXT Student Workshop 2022
by Narseo Vallina Rodriguez 06 Sep '22

06 Sep '22

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACM CoNEXT Student Workshop 2022 (Co-located with ACM CoNEXT 2022) Rome, Italy on December 6 - 9, 2022 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call: https://conferences2.sigcomm.org/co-next/2022/#!/workshop-student Submission link: https://conextsw2022.hotcrp.com *Important Dates* Paper submission: Monday Sept 19, 2022 AoE (UTC-12) Notification: Thursday October 13, 2022 Camera-ready due: Monday October 24, 2022 Following the success of previous years, the main conference will be accompanied by a one-day Student Workshop. The ACM CoNEXT 2022 Student Workshop aims at providing a platform for graduate students in the area of computer networks and communications to learn from senior researchers in the field and present their ongoing research efforts. The venue also represents a unique opportunity for students to network with other junior researchers as well as more experienced ones, receive constructive feedback, guidance, tips, and learn about cutting-edge research problems being tackled by the community. We encourage submissions from graduate students about research at an early stage as well as more advanced dissertation-level research. Research addressing nonstandard topics, controversial problems and approaches are of particular interest. The scope of the workshop is broad and covers all aspects of networking research. Example topics include (but not limited to): - All types of networks such as mobile, wide-area, data-center, home, enterprise networks, internet-of-things, and social networks. - All types of network technologies such as wired, wireless, visual, and acoustic. - All types of network applications and services, such as the Web, video streaming, and networked mobile apps. - All aspects of networks and networked systems such as architecture, packet-processing hardware and software, virtualization, mobility, sensors, resource management, performance, energy consumption, topology, robustness, security, diagnosis, verification, privacy, economics and evolution. - All types of network design and experimental approaches such as theory, simulation, measurements, and machine learning-based techniques. - Network content manipulation, misinformation and censorship, social computing. Submissions should not be previously published in a workshop, conference, or journal. **Extended abstracts will be published with ACM**. Updates of previously presented poster and demo ideas are possible, as are descriptions of previously published tools/datasets that have new features. *Submission guidelines* See https://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2022/cfposters/ for further information. *Workshop organizers* General Chairs: Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, IMDEA Networks Institute If you have any questions, contact the workshop co-chairs by email: Jon Crowcroft <jon [dot] crowcrof [at] cl [dot] cam [dot] ac [dot] uk> or Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez <narseo [dot] vallina [at] imdea [dot] org> -- Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez Associate Research Professor, IMDEA Networks Personal web: www.narseo.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/narseo Twitter: https://twitter.com/narseo

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Student Session on 4 Oct and RIPE 85 Fellowship + CfP
by Gergana Petrova 30 Aug '22

30 Aug '22

Dear colleagues, I want to bring to your attention three upcoming dates: RIPE 85 Fellowship Applications - 6 Sept -------------------------- The RIPE 85 meeting is taking place 24-28 October in Belgrade. Through the fellowship program, we provide the meeting ticket, travel and accommodation to participants from underrepresented groups (both georgraphical and field of interest). If you are interested, apply by 6 September: https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/ripe-fellowship/ripe-fellowship RIPE 85 Call for Presentations - 11 Sept -------------------------- The final deadline for the call for presentations closes on 11 September. We are looking for presentations on a number of topics (IPv6 deployment, managing IPv4 scarcity, data centre technologies, network and DNS operations, Internet governance and regulatory practices, network and routing security, content delivery, Internet peering and mobile data exchange, IoT, sustainable technologies. If you have interesting research that you'd like to share with the RIPE Community, please make a submission here: http://ripe85.ripe.net/cfp Online Student Session - 4 Oct --------------------- On Tuesday, 4 October, 17:00 – 18:30 CEST we are organising an online session for Computer Science students. Three leading experts will give their thoughts on who controls the Internet, equity and ethics of the Internet and how to participate in running the Internet. The event is free of charge. Please share the link with your students. More info and registration: https://ripe85.ripe.net/programme/parallel-events/student-event/ Looking forward to hearing from you! Have a lovely day, Gergana -- Gergana Petrova Community Development Manager RIPE NCC

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[IMC 2022] Travel Grant Application for ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2022 @Nice, France (deadline September 12)
by Oliver Hohlfeld 20 Aug '22

20 Aug '22

ACM Internet Measurement Conference – IMC 2022 Nice, France on October 25 - 27, 2022 https://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2022/travel-grants/ ACM IMC is providing travel grants to support attendance this year in Nice, France. The purpose of this program is to encourage graduate student participation at the conference by funding the travel cost for students who would otherwise be unable to attend. The expectation is that a student travel grant will significantly offset air fare, shared hotel accommodation, and registration. Note, we will prioritise students who authored rejected IMC papers. The application deadline is *September 12th*, and you will receive a notification after a week. Full details can be found here: https://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2022/travel-grants/ If you have any queries, you can contact Gareth Tyson or Taejoong Chung! Gareth Tyson <g.tyson(a)qmul.ac.uk> Taejoong Chung <tijay(a)vt.edu> -- Prof. Oliver Hohlfeld Chair of Computer Networks Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg https://www.b-tu.de/en/fg-rechnernetze twitter.com/ohohlfeld www.ohohlfeld.com

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[IMC 2022] Call for Posters: ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2022 @Nice, France (deadline August 19 AoE)
by Oliver Hohlfeld 17 Aug '22

17 Aug '22

ACM Internet Measurement Conference – IMC 2022 Nice, France on October 25 - 27, 2022 Call: https://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2022/cfposters/ Submission link: https://imc22posters.hotcrp.com/ *Important Dates* Paper submission: Friday August 19, 2022 AoE (UTC-12) Notification: Friday September 2, 2022 Camera-ready due: Monday September 12, 2022 The 2022 Internet Measurement Conference will include a poster session. Topics of interest include all topics listed on the general IMC 2022 call-for-papers. The poster track is an opportunity for researchers to discuss their early/ongoing work, tools, and datasets with attendees of IMC. The goal of the IMC Poster session is to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas with peers from the community. We look for early work of interest to the community, even if it is not yet complete, and for tools or datasets that are of use to the community, even if the tool or dataset by itself may not warrant a paper. Submissions should not be previously published in a workshop, conference, or journal. **Extended abstracts will be published with ACM**. Updates of previously presented poster and demo ideas are possible, as are descriptions of previously published tools/datasets that have new features. *Submission guidelines* See https://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2022/cfposters/ for further information. -- Prof. Oliver Hohlfeld Chair of Computer Networks Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg https://www.b-tu.de/en/fg-rechnernetze twitter.com/ohohlfeld www.ohohlfeld.com

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Conference announcement: SINCONF 2022
by Mehmet Tahir SANDIKKAYA 08 Aug '22

08 Aug '22

Dear all, Sorry for the repetition, just a correction. The conference is face-to-face; but depending on the current pandemic situation, online participation will be likely. The 15th IEEE International Conference on Security of Information and Networks (SINCONF 2022) have a close deadline on 14th of August. Call for papers is available at: https://www.sinconf.org/sin2022/#call The conference will be held face-to-face (online contributions is possible) on 11th to 13th of November in Tunisian city of Sousse on the Mediterranean. Regards, Mehmet Tahir SANDIKKAYA Asst. Prof. Dr. Istanbul Technical University Computer Engineering Department

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Conference announcement: SINCONF 2022
by Mehmet Tahir SANDIKKAYA 08 Aug '22

08 Aug '22

Dear all, Sorry if you have received multiple copies: The 15th IEEE International Conference on Security of Information and Networks (SINCONF 2022) have a close deadline on 14th of August. Call for papers is available at: https://www.sinconf.org/sin2022/#call The conference will be held online on 11th to 13th of November in Tunisian city of Sousse on the Mediterranean. Regards, Mehmet Tahir SANDIKKAYA Asst. Prof. Dr. Istanbul Technical University Computer Engineering Department

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Request for help: academic study (questionnaire)
by Etienne-Victor Depasquale 29 Jul '22

29 Jul '22

Good day, I'm an academic (see my UM page <https://www.um.edu.mt/profile/etiennedepasquale> and my ResearchGate page <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Etienne-Victor-Depasquale>), with a research interest in standardizing architectures for the benefit of energy analysts (like me). I'm asking for help in distributing a questionnaire that forms part of an academic study that I'm carrying out <https://forms.gle/AAJokyg98JLW7Ti6A> to telecommunications operators (classical telcos, MSOs in particular). The survey data will form part of a study directed towards facilitating understanding of metro area networks, for analysts who approach from the perspective of energy consumption. The study is ***anonymous*** (no individual or company names are solicited), and individual responses will only be used in ***aggregate***. I shall publish aggregate data to this list (in September) and correspond with respondents who contact me for a copy of the paper which I intend to produce with the results. Thank you for taking the time to read this. Sincerely, -- Ing. Etienne-Victor Depasquale Assistant Lecturer Department of Communications & Computer Engineering Faculty of Information & Communication Technology University of Malta Web. https://www.um.edu.mt/profile/etiennedepasquale

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Two PhD positions in "Internet Measurement and Cybersecurity (Responsible Internet) - University of Twente
by Ralph Holz 27 Jul '22

27 Jul '22

Hi everyone, We are advertising two PhD positions at the University of Twente - fully paid (1.0 FTE): TWO PHD POSITIONS IN “INTERNET MEASUREMENT AND CYBERSECURITY (RESPONSIBLE INTERNET)” The Design and Analysis of Communication Systems (DACS) group at the University of Twente invites applications for two PhD positions. The positions are embedded in our broader research effort on the Responsible Internet, a novel security pillar for the Internet. - The research of one PhD student will focus on the data structures and algorithms required to capture and disseminate measurement results and the determined properties of networks and systems at Internet scale. - The objective of the second PhD project is to investigate, design, prototype, and evaluate scalable network-level mechanisms that address the balance between transparency and security. More about the project here: https://www.catrin.nl. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications regardless of personal background, and we encourage international applicants to apply! More information and online application: https://utwentecareers.nl/en/vacancies/651/two-phd-positions-in-internet-me… Please note the strict cut-off date of 14 August 2022. Ralph -- Ralph Holz Associate Professor Design and Analysis of Communication Systems University of Twente https://people.utwente.nl/r.holz https://ralphholz.planner.utwente.nl/

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Apply for the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund 31 July
by Gergana Petrova 19 Jul '22

19 Jul '22

Dear colleagues, For the fifth year in a row, the RIPE NCC is committing to support activities and projects for 'the good of the Internet'. We are pleased to invite applications for funding from the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund. Through the Community Projects Fund, the RIPE NCC distributes up to EUR 250,000 per year to support projects of value to the operation, resilience and sustainability of the Internet, with a focus on tools and services benefitting the technical community in the Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia. If you or your organisation are working on a new or existing project that fits the criteria below and need some financial support to get it off the ground or keep it going, we want to hear from you! Is your project of benefit to the Internet, particularly the RIPE community? Is your project non-commercial in nature? Do you have a clear project plan and timeline? Some things to keep in mind: - Funding may be used to purchase equipment, but this cannot be the sole expenditure - Funding cannot be used for humanitarian aid, donations, or to encourage political reform - Funding cannot be used to provide scholarships or cover tuition fees - Funding cannot be used to support any form of commercial activity The call for applicants will remain open until 23:59 (UTC), Saturday, 31 July 2021. You can find more details on the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund page: https://www.ripe.net/support/cpf Best regards, Gergana -- Gergana Petrova External Relations RIPE NCC

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