NSDI 2008

The 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '08) Program Committee would like to remind you that the deadline to contribute to the refereed papers is quickly approaching. Paper titles and abstracts are due October 2, 2007.

NSDI focuses on the design principles and practical evaluation of large-scale networked and distributed systems. Systems as diverse as Internet routing, peer-to-peer and overlay networks, sensor networks, Web-based systems, and measurement infrastructures share a set of common challenges. Progress in any of these areas requires a deep understanding of how researchers are addressing the challenges of large-scale systems in other contexts. Our goal is to bring together researchers from across the networking and systems community--including communication, distributed systems, and operating systems--to foster a broad approach to addressing our common research challenges.

The Program Committee seeks a broad variety of work that furthers the knowledge and understanding of the networked systems community as a whole, continues a significant research dialog, or pushes the architectural boundaries of large-scale network services. We solicit papers describing original and previously unpublished research. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to:


 * Novel architectures for communications systems
 * Mobility and wireless system architecture challenges
 * Sensor networking and other energy-constrained systems
 * Novel operating system support for networked systems
 * Virtualization and resource management for networked systems
 * Highly available and reliable networked systems
 * Security and resilience of networked systems
 * Overlays and peer-to-peer systems
 * Distributed storage, caching, and query processing
 * Federated, autonomous, and self-configuring networked systems
 * Large-scale networked systems testbeds, design, and evaluation
 * Network measurements, workload, and topology characterization
 * Managing, debugging, and diagnosing problems in networked systems
 * Practical protocols and algorithms for networked systems
 * Application experiences based on networked systems

For more information and submission guidelines, please see http://www.usenix.org/nsdi08/cfpb

Important Dates: Paper titles and abstracts due: October 2, 2007 Complete paper submissions due: October 9, 2007 Notification of acceptance: December 21, 2007 Papers due for shepherding: January 25, 2008 Final papers due: February 19, 2008

The 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '08) will be held April 16-18, 2008, in San Francisco, CA, USA.

The symposium will consist of two and a half days of technical presentations, including refereed papers. Awards will be given for the best paper and the best paper for which a student is the lead author.

We look forward to receiving your submissions!

On behalf of the NSDI '08 Program Committee,

Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge Mike Dahlin, University of Texas at Austin NSDI '08 Program Chairs

Call for Papers: 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '08) April 16-18, 2008 San Francisco, CA, USA http://www.usenix.org/nsdi08/cfpb Sponsored by USENIX in cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM and ACM SIGOPS Paper titles and abstracts due: October 2, 2007 Complete paper submissions due: October 9, 2007 This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP