***Call for Papers***

The Passive and Active Measurement (PAM) conference brings together researchers and operators to discuss novel and emerging work in the area of network measurement and analysis.

PAM is inclusive of all areas of network measurement, but focuses on systems-based research and real-world data. Indeed, measurement technology is needed at all layers of the network stack, ranging from power profiling of hardware components to virtualization in data centers to application profiling and even user experience. Work with operational impact or relevance to the broader network research community is especially welcome, as is early and promising measurement technique.

Original contributions that advance the state-of-the-art in the following areas are invited:
+ Applications, e.g., web, streaming, games
+ Data centers and cloud computing
+ Energy
+ IoT, e.g., SCADA, ICS, and embedded systems
+ Measurement tools and software
+ Network security and privacy
+ Overlays, e.g., P2P, CDNs
+ Physical Layer
+ Routing
+ Social networks
+ Topology
+ Transport/congestion control
+ User behavior and experience, QoE
+ Virtualization, e.g., SDN, NFV
+ Visualization
+ Wireless and mobile
Although PAM traditionally attracts early stage contributions, works that are a reappraisal or independent validation of previous results, or which enhance the reproducibility of network measurement research, for instance by publishing new datasets on an existing topic, are explicitly included in PAM’s scope.

***Important Dates***
+ Paper Registration: 25th October 2019, 22:59 EDT
+ Paper Submission: 1st November 2019, 22:59 EDT
+ Notification: 20th December 2018
+ Camera-ready Due: 31st January 2019

***Submission Guidelines***
Authors should only submit original work that has not been published before and is not under submission to any other venue. All submissions must satisfy the following requirements:
+ Follow Springer LNCS format (see https://www.springer.com/us/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines)
+ Up to 12 pages for technical content (+ up to 5 pages for appendices and references)
Note that reviewers are not required to read appendices. Everything needed to evaluate the paper should appear in the first 12 pages.
+ NOTE: Anonymization; as started in PAM 2019, 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.
+ Submit via HotCRP: http://hotcrp.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/pam2020/

***Ethical Considerations***
Following the standard set by the Internet Measurement Conference (from which we base this section), 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. When appropriate, authors are encouraged to include a subsection describing these issues. Authors may want to consult the Menlo Report (http://www.caida.org/publications/papers/2012/menlo_report_actual_formatted/) for further information on ethical principles and the Allman/Paxson IMC 07 paper (https://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2007/papers/imc80.pdf) 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.

***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 Best Dataset Award will be given to the best paper that makes datasets and corresponding code 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 described in the paper, and they must be placed in a sufficiently long-lived archival repository (e.g., Github, Bitbucket, or CRAWDAD).

***Poster Session***
As in previous years, PAM will include a poster session featuring peer-reviewed submissions.
Stay tuned for further details and the separate call for posters.

***Organization Committee***
+ General Chairs
TBD

+ Program Chairs
Anna Sperotto (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Alberto Dainotti (CAIDA, UC San Diego, USA)

+ Publicity Chair
Pedro Casas (AIT, Austria)

***Program Committee***
Amogh Dhamdhere (Amazon, USA)
Anja Feldmann (MPI Informatik, Germany)
Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany)
Brian Trammell (Google, Switzerland)
Casey Deccio (Brigham Young University, USA)
Cristel Pelsser (Universite of Strasbourg, France)
Cristian Hesselman (University of Twente, SIDNLabs, The Netherlands)
Dario Rossi (Huwaei, France)
Dave Levin (University of Maryland, USA)
David Choffnes (Northeastern University, USA)
Fabian Bustamante (Northwestern University, USA)
Georgios Smaragdakis (MIT/TU Berlin, Germany)
Giovane Moura (Delft University, SIDNLabs, The Netherlands)
Idilio Drago (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
Ignacio Castro (Queen Mary – University of London, UK)
Italo Cunha (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Jeroen van der Ham (University of Twente, National Cyber Security Center, The Netherlands)
Johanna Amann (ICSI, USA)
John Heideman (USC/ISI, USA)
Kensuke Fukuda (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Luca Vassio (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
Maciej Korczyński (Grenoble Institute of Technology, France)
Marinho Barcellos (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Mark Allman (ICSI, USA)
Matthew Luckie (University of Waikato, New Zealand)
Mirja Kühlewind (Ericsson, Switzerland)
Oliver Hohlfeld (Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany)
Philipp Richter (MIT, USA)
Ralph Holz (University of Sydney, Australia)
Ramakrishna Padmanabhan (CAIDA, UC San Diego, USA)
Ramakrishnan Durairajan (University of Oregon, USA)
Ramin Sadre (KU Louvain, Belgium)
Renata Cruz Teixeira (Inria Paris, France)
Ricardo de Oliveira Schmidt (University of Passo Fundo, Brazil)
Ricky Mok (CAIDA, UC San Diego, USA)
Robert Beverly (Naval Postgraduate School, USA)
Romain Fontugne (Internet Initiative Japan, Japan)
Roland van Rijswijk-Deij (University of Twente, NLNetLabs, The Netherlands)
Stephen Strowes (RIPE NCC, The Netherlands)
Steve Uhlig (Queen Mary – University of London, UK)
Taejoong Chung (RIT, USA)
Thomas Karagiannakis (MSR, UK)
Vaibhav Bajpai (TU München, Germany)
Xenofontas Dimitropoulos (FORTH and ETH Zurich, Switzerland)