[SANOG] SANOG 23 - Call For Paper Announcement

Tue Sep 24 05:44:31 UTC 2013

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SANOG 23  Call For Paper
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The following is an open call for papers/presentations for the 4 day
conference and tutorial sessions for 23rd South Asian Network Operators
Group (SANOG) Meeting being hosted from January 13, 2014 onwards at the
beautiful city of Thimphu in Bhutan.

Important dates regarding the Call for Papers:

Call For Paper 			: September 24, 2013
Deadline For Proposals		: November 15, 2013
Paper Confirmation 		: December 15, 2013
SANOG XXIII 			: January 13-21, 2014

Please submit Online at:
http://submission.sanog.org/papers/user/login.php?event=7

Note: Any marketing, sales and vendor proprietary content in presentations
is against the spirit of the SANOG and it is strictly prohibited.

Conference Presentation: The conference will be comprised of 6 session in
two days, including the plenary. The tracks are for general ideas, and
feel free to propose talks that you think are relevant to the operational
and Internet research community. The topics given below are not exclusive.
Presentations are expected to be 25 minutes long with technical content.

* Network Operations
* Routing in the IP Core, BGP, MPLS, IPv6
* Data Center, Switching Technologies, SAN & Virtualization
* Security, IDS, DoS mitigation
* Internet Exchange Point, transit & peering
* Mobile Internet, M2M, Internet of Things
* Any case studies or learning related to operational technologies that
you want to share with the community

Tutorial Proposals: Tutorial proposals are invited in the following
general areas. Please feel free to propose additional ideas and topics.
Tutorials generally are either half or full days.

* Routing in the IP Core, BGP, MPLS, IPv6
* Data Center, Switching Technologies, SAN & Virtualization
* Security, IDS, DoS mitigation
* Internet Exchange Point, transit & peering
* Mobile Internet, M2M, Internet of Things

Track 1: Network operations. In this session we invite papers, reports and
presentations from network operators, equipment vendors and academic
institutions conducting network research on operational issues. Possible
topics for this track are:

- Prevention and mitigation of Denial of Service attacks including
intrusion
- Routing policies and architecture for scalable IP and broadband networks
- Data Center Management and Operations
- MPLS and QoS implementation experiences
- Traffic management and measurement
- Network migration issues (IPv4 to v6, Layer 2 to IP etc.)

Track 2: Applications and Services. This track will discuss various
services that can be enabled on packet networks. Papers and presentations
are invited from developers, operators, equipment vendors and research
organisations on the following and related topics

- Voice and Multimedia over IP
- Managed network services including Security and VPNs
- Mail servers, Spam prevention and migitation
- Wireless Technology and Applications
- Data mining for performance enhancements/abuse control/QoS

Track 3: Peering and IXP. This is to cater to the growing demand on the
newly established Internet Exchange Points in the region. As local ISPs
are going international, we would like to invite both regional and
international experts to share their ideas and experience on these topics.

- Internet Exchange Points Operations
- Peering Techniques and Policies
- BGP Multihoming Techniques

Track 4: Regional updates. This track is fairly broad, and will include
updates from ISPs, regional Internet exchanges, APNIC, routing table
updates and such information that would be useful to the SANOG community.
You are also welcome to submit proposals for BoFs, tutorials and other
tracks.

Please submit Online at -
http://submission.sanog.org/papers/user/login.php?event=7

We are looking forward to see you at SANOG 23 at Thimphu, Bhutan.

Thanks and warm regards,

Santanu Dasgupta and Aftab Siddiqui
Program Committee Co-Chairs - SANOG
On behalf of SANOG Programme Committee