CFP: IAB COVID-19 Network Impacts Workshop 2020
7 September 2020
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Please consider submitting a paper to the
IAB workshop on COVID-19 Network Impacts. The workshop is organised
by the Internet Architecture Board,
and will be held online in the week starting 9 November 2020.
Paper submissions are due on 9 October 2020.
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a tremendous impact on people’s lives,
societies, and economies around the globe. But it also had a large
impact on networking. With large numbers of people working from home
or otherwise depending on the network for their daily lives, network
traffic has surged.
In general, the Internet has coped relatively well with this traffic
growth. While the situation has not been perfect, it's been interesting
to see how the technology, operators, and service providers have been
able to respond to large changes in traffic patterns, and to continue
to provide good Internet service.
It would also be interesting to understand what types of network
management and capacity expansion actions were taken.
Anecdotal evidence points to Internet and service providers tracking
how their services are used, and in many cases adjusting services to
accommodate the new traffic patterns, from dynamic allocation of
compute resources to more complex changes.
The impacts of this crisis are therefore a potential opportunity to
understand the impact of traffic shifts and growth more generally, or
to prepare for future situations, crisis or otherwise, that impact
networking. Or even allow us to adjust the technology to be even better
suited to respond to changes.
The IAB is holding this workshop to convene interested researchers,
network operators and network management experts, and Internet
technologists to share their experiences. The scope of the workshop
includes:
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measurements about traffic changes, user experience, service
performance, and other relevant aspects
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discussion about the behind the scenes network management and
expansion activities
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experiences in the fields of general Internet connectivity,
conferencing, media/entertainment, and Internet infrastructure
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lessons learned for preparedness and operations
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lessons learned for Internet technology and architecture
Interested participants are invited to submit position papers on the
workshop topics. The position papers form the background for actual
discussions in the workshop. The workshop itself will be virtual
meeting, focused on discussions based on the input rather than go
through each submitted paper.
Submissions are due on 9 October 2020, and the workshop will be held
online in the week starting 9 November 2020. Full details and
submission instructions can be found on
the workshop website.