Following the success of previous years, the main conference will be preceded with a one-day Student Workshop. The ACM CoNEXT 2013 Student Workshop aims at providing a platform for graduate students in the area of computer networks to present their ongoing research efforts. The venue also represents a unique opportunity for students to network with other young researchers as well as more experienced ones, receive constructive feedback, guidance, tips, and learn about cutting-edge research problems being tackled by the community. As in previous years, we will have a keynote lecture and a panel from distinguished researchers in the networking community.
We encourage submissions from graduate students about research at an early stage and for more advanced dissertation-level research. The submission should describe the research in 2 pages and indicate whether this is early-stage (i.e., a Work In Progress submission) or dissertation research (i.e, a PhD Forum submission) for potential presentation at the ACM CoNEXT 2013 Student Workshop. Research that addresses non-standard topics and controversial problems and approaches is of particular interest.

The scope of the workshop is broad and covers all aspects of networking research. Example topics include (but not limited to) :
- Internet measurement and modeling
- Wireless networks
- Mobile and cellular networks
- Mesh, ad hoc and sensor networks
- Economic aspects of the Internet
- Network security
- Datacenter networks
- Peer-to-peer, overlay and content distribution networks
- Online social networks
- Routing and traffic engineering
- Network management, including energy issues
- Interface between networking, communications and information theory
- New networking protocols and architectures
- Applications of network science in communication networks

Selected abstracts will be published in the ACM CoNEXT 2013 proceedings and authors will be required to present their work through a poster session. Students may also be given an opportunity to give an “elevator pitch” to publicize their posters at the main conference.