NeXtworking '07

Registration

Registration desk will open on Wednesday 18. April at 4 p.m.

More information will be provided later.

Participation Guidelines

Participation is by invitation only and invitations are extended to recognized researchers we feel they can contribute to the objectives of this event and the definition of Future Internet research in general.

The workshop participants are expected to be involved lively in the discussions over the two days and are strongly encouraged (and expected) to give a short presentation as prescribed below.

Presentations should be prepared for about 5–10 minutes (the precise time is to be finalized later). The participants will be asked to send to Jennifer Rexford (jrex@cs.princeton.edu) and Anja Feldmann (Anja.Feldmann@telekom.de) the following material before the workshop:

  1. A tentative title of their talk about 4 weeks before the workshop, in order for the organizers to form sessions, etc.)

  2. A 1-page abstract of their statements/positions/talk/views about a week before the event. Please use .txt and include your complete affiliation and email and send the file (named: YourLastName.txt). These abstracts will be distributed to the participants a few days before the event, so that they get better prepared for the workshop discussions, or refine their talks in needed.

Panel-type, 2-minute statements and own research reporting (unless showing some new direction for the future) are not acceptable. Big, well-heard and rather obvious statements should be avoided (unless substantiated under a new perspective that points to new research directions), as the participants are expected to be aware of them and they would only consume useful time of the workshop.

Based on the expertise, each researcher is expected to focus primarily on one of the two themes: either fundamental research / new paradigms for the Future Internet, or on experimental approaches to facilitate Future Internet experimentation. Nevertheless, participants are encouraged to stretch their position to include aspects from the other theme if they can, provided that (and only when) they have solid arguments and ideas in that direction. Superficial arguments should be avoided.

The topics to be discussed are fairly open and the participants will shape them to some extent.

The presentations should try to bring up non-obvious or well-known challenges, attempt to shed some new light into the causes of today's problems, discuss whether weaknesses are intrinsic to the current Internet architecture, propose ways to go ahead and overcome them, new architectural and experimentation principles, approaches to evaluate the research ideas, what can be done on/over the existing Internet, what requires a testbed/emulation environment and what requires an experimental facility that carries real traffic and experiences real network conditions, modeling the internet and new communication paradigms (mobile, ad-hoc, opportunistically connected), etc.

Participation should aim to stimulate discussions and not refrain from bold statements. Participants should also try to give some answers to important questions, such as: What I would like from an experimental facility? My design for component x for the experimental facility. My crazy/new idea for e.g., naming, how to tackle routing, etc. Why that experimental facility is a waste of money? What should the experimental facility not include? Why idea x is not going to work? What historic lesson should we not overlook? Is multicast the basic principle of the network of the future? Is it role-based addressing? How important are disaster networks? What concepts to keep from the mobile world? Which Internet design principles should / should not be thrown out? Why trust is a stupid/good idea? One network or multiple parallel networks? etc.