Call For Papers

The PAM conference brings together researchers and practitioners working on the measurement and analysis of networks and networked systems. We welcome original contributions that advance the state of the art in measurement techniques, provide new insights through data analysis, or present innovative applications of measurement across diverse domains.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Internet and wireless network measurement and analysis
• Cloud, edge, and data center measurements
• Measurement of emerging architectures and applications
• Security, privacy, and resilience through measurement
• New methodologies, tools/software, and data sources for measurement
• User behavior and experience, QoE
• Virtualization (e.g., SDN, NFV)
• Physical layer, routing, transport, application layers, and congestion control
• Replicability and reproducibility (reproduce or replicate results that have been previously published in other networking conferences)

Important Dates

Submission Requirements

Submissions must be original, unpublished work and should follow the formatting guidelines outlined on the website. PAM welcomes both short (up to 11 pages for technical content with up to 5 pages for appendices and references) and long submissions (up to 24 pages for technical content with up to 5 pages for appendices and references) using the Springer LNCS format. Note that reviewers are not required to read appendices. Everything needed to evaluate the paper should appear in the first 11 pages for short and 24 pages for long papers. Papers planned for the replicability and reproducibility track, should check the definition on ACM’s website.

Anonymization

Reviewing will be double-blind:

• Do not include names or affiliations of authors in the submission.
• Refer to your prior work in the third person.
• Make a best effort to anonymize system names that would give you away.
• If you have any concerns about how to anonymize your paper while maintaining its integrity, contact the PC chairs.

Submission Site

Please submit your paper at https://cfp.wide.ad.jp/conferences/pam2026/

Ethical Considerations

Ethics will be considered during the review process. Each paper must include a statement detailing the ethical considerations of the work. If the authors believe the submission does not raise ethical concerns, authors must indicate so in a short statement that is clearly marked in the paper. The ethical considerations sections should either be included as a clearly marked appendix (entitled “Ethical considerations”) or a clearly marked section in the main body of the paper.

Papers describing experiments with users or sensitive user data (e.g., network traffic, passwords, social network information) must follow basic precepts of ethical research and subscribe to community norms. These include: respect for privacy, secure storage of sensitive data, voluntary and informed consent if users are placed at risk, avoiding deceptive practices when not essential, beneficence (maximizing the benefits to an individual or to society while minimizing harm to the individual), and risk mitigation.

Authors may want to consult the Menlo Report for further information on ethical principles and the Allman/Paxson IMC 2007 paper for guidance on ethical data sharing.

Note that submitting research for approval by each author’s institutional ethics review body is necessary, but not sufficient – in cases where the PC has concerns about the ethics of the work in a submission, the PC will consider the ethical soundness and justification of any paper, just as it does its technical soundness. Authors unsure about ethical issues are welcome to contact the program committee co-chairs. If work has been submitted to an IRB or ethics committee, the ethical considerations section or appendix should clearly indicate this and - if available - must include the reference number of the IRB/ethics committee approval.

Awards

There will be two awards for papers of exceptional merit. The Best Paper Award will recognize the paper that is deemed by the committee to have the highest merit of all the submissions.

The Community Contribution Award will be given to the best paper that makes relevant datasets, source code, or platforms available to the public by the time the camera-ready is submitted.

These artifacts must be sufficiently documented such that any researcher can use them to repeat the results or procedures described in the paper, and they must be placed in a sufficiently long-lived archival repository (e.g.,Github, Bitbucket, or CRAWDAD).