Announcement and Call for Papers 6th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI ’09) Sponsored by USENIX in cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM and ACM SIGOPS http://www.usenix.org/nsdi09

April 22–24, 2009 Boston, MA

Important Dates Steering Committee Paper titles and abstracts due: October 3, 2008, Thomas Anderson, University of Washington 6:00 p.m. EDT Brian Noble, University of Michigan Complete paper submissions due: October 10, 2008, Jennifer Rexford, Princeton University 6:00 p.m. EDT (hard deadline) Mike Schroeder, Microsoft Research Notification of acceptance: December 19, 2008 Chandu Thekkath, Microsoft Research Papers due for shepherding: February 5, 2009 Amin Vahdat, University of California, San Diego Final papers due: February 25, 2009 Ellie Young, USENIX Poster proposals due: March 1, 2009 Notification to poster presenters: March 15, 2009 Overview NSDI focuses on the design principles and practical evalua - Conference Organizers tion of large-scale networked and distributed systems. Sys - Program Co-Chairs tems as diverse as Internet routing, peer-to-peer and overlay Jennifer Rexford, Princeton University networks, sensor networks, Web-based systems, and measure - Emin Gün Sirer, Cornell University ment infrastructures share a set of common challenges. Prog- ress in any of these areas requires a deep understanding of Program Committee how researchers are addressing the challenges of large-scale Miguel Castro, Microsoft Research systems in other contexts. Our goal is to bring together re- Jeff Dean, Google, Inc. searchers from across the networking and systems commu - Nick Feamster, Georgia Institute of Technology nity—including communication, distributed systems, and Michael J. Freedman, Princeton University operating systems—to foster a broad approach to addressing Steven D. Gribble, University of Washington our common research challenges. Krishna Gummadi, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems Steven Hand, University of Cambridge Topics Farnam Jahanian, University of Michigan Dina Katabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology NSDI will provide a high-quality, single-track forum for pre - Arvind Krishnamurthy, University of Washington senting new results and discussing ideas that overlap these Bruce Maggs, Carnegie Mellon University/Akamai disciplines. We seek a broad variety of work that furthers the Petros Maniatis, Intel Research Berkeley knowledge and understanding of the networked systems com - Nick McKeown, Stanford University munity as a whole, continues a significant research dialog, or Greg Minshall pushes the architectural boundaries of large-scale network Michael Mitzenmacher, Harvard University services. We solicit papers describing original and previously Jeff Mogul, HP Labs unpublished research. Specific topics of interest include but Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Microsoft Research are not limited to: Pablo Rodriguez, Spain Telefónica • Self-organizing, autonomous, and federated networked Kobus van der Merwe, AT&T Labs—Research systems Geoffrey M. Voelker, University of California, San Diego • Scalable techniques for providing high availability and Matt Welsh, Harvard University reliability Hui Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University/Rinera • Energy-efficient computing in networked environments Yuanyuan Zhou, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign • Clean-slate approaches to communication systems • Distributed storage, caching, and query processing • Security, robustness, and fault-tolerance in networked environments • Overlays and peer-to-peer systems them. In some cases, program committees may share infor - • Systems and protocols for mobile and wireless systems mation about submitted papers with other conference chairs • Protocols and OS support for sensor networking and journal editors to ensure the integrity of papers under • Novel operating system support for networked systems consideration. • Virtualization and resource management for networked Previous publication at a workshop is acceptable as long systems as the NSDI submission includes substantial new material. • Design and evaluation of large-scale networked system For instance, submitting a paper that provides a full evalua - testbeds tion of an idea that was previously sketched in a 5-page posi - • Network measurements, workload, and topology charac - tion paper is acceptable. Authors of such papers should cite terization the prior workshop paper and clearly state the submission’s • Managing, debugging, and diagnosing problems in net - contribution relative to the prior workshop publication. worked systems Authors uncertain whether their submission meets • Practical protocols and algorithms for networked sys - USENIX’s guidelines should contact the Program Co- tems Chairs, [email protected], or the USENIX office, • Addressing novel challenges of the developing world [email protected]. • Experience with deployed networked systems Papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms will not be considered. All submissions will be treated as What to Submit confidential prior to publication on the USENIX NSDI ’09 Submissions must be full papers, at most 14 single-spaced Web site, http://www.usenix.org/nsdi09. 8.5" x 11" pages, including figures, tables, and references, One author per paper will receive a registration discount two-column format, using 10-point type on 12-point (single- of $200. USENIX will offer a complimentary registration spaced) leading, with a maximum text block of 6.5" wide x upon request. 9" deep with .25" intercolumn space. Papers that do not meet the size and formatting requirements will not be reviewed. Best Paper Awards Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, Awards will be given for the best paper and the best paper interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness. for which a student is the lead author. NSDI is single-blind, meaning that authors should include their names on their paper submissions and do not need to Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions obscure references to their existing work. Birds-of-a-Feather sessions (BoFs) are informal gatherings Authors must submit their paper’s title and abstract by organized by attendees interested in a particular topic. BoFs October 3, 2008, and the corresponding full paper is due by will be held in the evening. BoFs may be scheduled in ad- October 10, 2008 (hard deadline). All papers must be sub - vance by emailing the USENIX Conference Department at mitted via the Web form on the Call for Papers Web site, [email protected]. BoFs may also be scheduled at the confer - http://www.usenix.org/nsdi09/cfp. Accepted papers may be ence. shepherded through an editorial review process by a member of the Program Committee. Based on initial feedback from Poster Session the Program Committee, authors of shepherded papers will NSDI will be continuing its long-running tradition of show - submit an editorial revision of their paper to their Program casing early research in progress at a poster session. New, Committee shepherd by February 5, 2009. The shepherd will ongoing work, early findings from measurement studies, and review the paper and give the author additional comments. demonstrations of newly deployed systems are highly en- All authors (shepherded or not) will produce a final, print - couraged. We are particularly interested in presentations of able PDF and the equivalent HTML by February 25, 2009, student work. To submit a poster, please send a proposal, one for the conference Proceedings. page or less, by March 1, 2009, to nsdi09posters@usenix All papers will be available online to registered attendees .org. The poster session chairs will send back decisions by prior to the conference and will be available online to March 15, 2009. everyone starting on April 22, 2009. If your accepted paper should not be published prior to the event, please notify Registration Materials [email protected]. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple Complete program and registration information will be venues, submission of previously published work, and pla - available in January 2009 on the conference Web site. If you giarism constitute dishonesty or fraud. USENIX, like other would like to receive the latest USENIX conference infor - scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits mation, please join our mailing list at http://www.usenix these practices and may, on the recommendation of a pro - .org/about/mailing.html. gram chair, take action against authors who have committed

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