ACM CoNEXT

ACM CoNEXT
Name	ACM CoNEXT
Discipline	Computer networking
Abbreviation	CoNEXT
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Country	International
Established	2005

ACM CoNEXT ACM CoNEXT is an annual international research conference focusing on computer networking and distributed systems research. The conference attracts researchers from institutions such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, and University of Cambridge, and from industry labs including Google, Microsoft Research, IBM Research, Bell Labs, and Cisco Systems. CoNEXT serves as a forum alongside conferences like ACM SIGCOMM, USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, IEEE INFOCOM, Internet Measurement Conference, and ACM MobiCom.

Overview

CoNEXT emphasizes cutting‑edge work in network architecture and network protocols with participation from researchers affiliated with ETH Zurich, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Princeton University, University of California, San Diego, and University of Toronto. Typical topics connect to projects and initiatives at European Research Council, National Science Foundation, DARPA, Cisco Research, and Intel Labs. The audience often overlaps with contributors to venues such as SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, and USENIX Security Symposium.

History and Evolution

CoNEXT was established in 2005 to complement established venues like ACM SIGCOMM and IEEE INFOCOM, offering a forum for emergent directions similar to those explored at POMACS, HotNets, IMC, and MobiSys. Early editions featured researchers from Cornell University, University of Washington, Yale University, University of Texas at Austin, and KAIST. Over time the program committee included members from Microsoft Research Cambridge, Facebook Core Data Science, Amazon Web Services, National Institute of Standards and Technology, and Tsinghua University. The conference has been held in diverse locations including Rome, Lisbon, Madrid, Nice, and Hong Kong, drawing connections to regional tech hubs like Silicon Valley, Shenzhen, and Bangalore.

Topics and Scope

CoNEXT covers topics such as software‑defined networking, network virtualization, content delivery networks, edge computing, mobile networks, and wireless sensor networks, intersecting with research from labs like Facebook Connectivity, Apple Machine Learning Research, Nokia Bell Labs, and Samsung Research. Work often references protocols and standards from Internet Engineering Task Force, IEEE 802.11, QUIC, and TCP/IP innovations influenced by projects at Google Brain, OpenAI, Cloudflare Research, and Akamai Technologies. Cross‑disciplinary submissions connect with efforts at MIT CSAIL, Harvard University, Columbia University, University of Michigan, and Purdue University.

Conference Structure and Activities

Typical CoNEXT programs include peer‑reviewed paper sessions, poster sessions, demonstrations, and workshops, attracting program committee members from ACM SIGCOMM Steering Committee, IEEE Communications Society, ACM SIGMETRICS, European Conference on Computer Systems, and Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks. Invited talks have been delivered by researchers from Stanford Computer Science, UC Berkeley EECS, Princeton Computer Science, ETH Zurich Systems Group, and Microsoft Research. CoNEXT also organizes panels featuring representatives from Google Research, Amazon Research, Netflix Engineering, NIST, and ITU. Student engagement includes doctoral colloquia similar to programs at SIGCSE, ICFP, and NeurIPS.

Publication and Proceedings

Accepted papers are published in conference proceedings curated by the Association for Computing Machinery and indexed alongside publications such as ACM Digital Library proceedings for SIGCOMM and CHI. Proceedings have included contributions by authors affiliated with Imperial College London, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, RWTH Aachen University, Technical University of Munich, and Seoul National University. Artifact evaluation and open data sets accompanying papers often reference repositories used by Stanford SNAP, UCI Machine Learning Repository, Kaggle, and datasets curated by RIPE NCC and CAIDA. Archival citations appear in journals such as IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, ACM Computing Surveys, and Communications of the ACM.

Awards and Recognition

CoNEXT presentations and papers have received awards and recognition acknowledged by entities like ACM SIGCOMM, IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Networking, Best Paper Awards committees, and sponsored prizes from industry partners such as Google, Cisco, Intel, and Microsoft Research. Notable awardees have been affiliated with University of California, Los Angeles, Brown University, University of Maryland, College Park, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, and University of Edinburgh. Distinguished alumni of the conference program have gone on to receive honors from ACM Fellows, IEEE Fellows, Turing Award‑level recognition among their peers, and leadership roles at Linux Foundation, Open Networking Foundation, and national research agencies.

Category:Computer networking conferences