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| ACM HotNets | |
|---|---|
| Name | ACM HotNets |
| Discipline | Computer networking |
| Abbreviation | HotNets |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
| Country | International |
| Frequency | Annual |
ACM HotNets is an annual symposium focused on provocative ideas in computer networking and distributed systems. The workshop convenes researchers and practitioners from institutions, companies, and laboratories to present early-stage concepts, foster debate, and seed new directions in Internet Research Task Force-adjacent work. Attendees have included contributors from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, and University of Cambridge.
HotNets was established in the early 2000s amid shifts in research emphasis at institutions such as Bell Labs, Xerox PARC, IBM Research, AT&T Labs Research, and Microsoft Research. Founders and early participants included faculty and researchers affiliated with University of California, Los Angeles, Princeton University, Cornell University, Harvard University, and ETH Zurich. The symposium evolved alongside milestones at Internet Engineering Task Force, World Wide Web Consortium, DARPA, National Science Foundation, and European Research Council initiatives. Over time HotNets intersected with events and venues like SIGCOMM, NSDI, SOSP, OSDI, CoNEXT, and INFOCOM while attracting contributors from corporations such as Cisco Systems, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple Inc., Juniper Networks, Intel, NVIDIA, and Qualcomm.
HotNets emphasizes concise, provocative position papers and posters that propose novel architectures, protocols, or measurements. Typical topics have spanned overlays rooted in work from MIT CSAIL, UC San Diego, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Washington, Yale University, and University of Toronto; security themes influenced by research at SRI International, Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory; and measurement campaigns resonant with datasets from RIPE NCC, CAIDA, Team Cymru, and Speedtest by Ookla. The format encourages brief presentations, moderated panels, and open discussion, bringing together attendees from IETF Working Groups, European Telecommunications Standards Institute, 3GPP, and ITU-T.
Submissions to HotNets are typically short papers with a focus on ideas rather than complete evaluation, echoing practices at HotCloud, HotOS, HotStorage, and HotMobile. The review process includes program committees composed of members from ACM SIGCOMM, IEEE Communications Society, IEEE INFOCOM, USENIX, SIGOPS communities and researchers from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Peking University, National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University and Australian National University. Papers are selected via peer review and shepherding, with authors coming from labs such as Bell Labs Research, Facebook AI Research, Google Research, Microsoft Research Redmond, and Amazon Science.
HotNets has seeded ideas that later matured into systems and standards influenced by work at NetLab, Emulab, PlanetLab, OpenFlow, Software-Defined Networking Research Group, and projects affiliated with IETF QUIC Working Group, IETF Multipath TCP Working Group, Google QUIC, Facebook Connectivity Lab. Concepts first aired at HotNets informed follow-up research at SIGCOMM 2010, NSDI 2012, SIGCOMM 2015, and influenced deployments at companies like Akamai Technologies, Cloudflare, Limelight Networks, and Fastly. The symposium has also amplified interdisciplinary connections involving Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and initiatives supported by European Commission frameworks such as Horizon 2020.
HotNets editions have been hosted at universities, conference centers, and research campuses across North America, Europe, and Asia, including venues near Cambridge, Palo Alto, Seattle, New York City, San Diego, Toronto, Paris, Berlin, Barcelona, Singapore, Kolkata, Beijing, and Sydney. Past program chairs and local organizers have been drawn from institutions such as University College London, Imperial College London, Technische Universität München, École Polytechnique, and Politecnico di Milano. The workshop schedule often coincides with related events like ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Future Directions in Network Architecture and regional symposia organized by IEEE Communications Society chapters.
HotNets has been organized by program committees and steering committees comprising faculty and industry researchers from MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, CMU, Princeton, Yale, Columbia University, Duke University, and Rutgers University. Sponsorship and support have come from Association for Computing Machinery, ACM SIGCOMM, IEEE, USENIX Association, National Science Foundation, Google, Facebook, Cisco, Microsoft, Intel Labs, and regional funding agencies including Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
HotNets has faced critique concerning selection bias, interpretive framing, and reproducibility of early-stage claims, echoing debates in venues such as Nature Communications, Science Advances, Communications of the ACM, and editorial discussions involving ACM Publications Board. Controversies occasionally involved high-profile debates about network measurement ethics linked to incidents referenced by actors from EFF, ACLU, Center for Democracy & Technology, and regulatory scrutiny by Federal Communications Commission, European Commission Directorate-General for Competition, and national agencies. Discussions at HotNets have at times sparked follow-on controversy in public forums hosted by Ars Technica, Wired, The Register, and academic blogs affiliated with LSE and Harvard Kennedy School.
Category:Computer networking conferences