<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">IEEE INFOCOM 2022</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Call for Workshop Proposals</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">2-5 May 2022</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Virtual Conference</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://infocom2022.ieee-infocom.org/" target="_blank" style="color:blue">https://infocom2022.ieee-infocom.org/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">The IEEE INFOCOM 2022 conference will be held virtual on 2-5 May 2022. In addition to the main conference technical program, the conference will include a set of workshops.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">The goals of the workshops are to explore emerging research topics, and to provide a forum for authors to present early research results on these topics. We would like to have a limited number of workshops, with a high quality program dominated by contributed papers. Contributions to the workshops would be for presenting novel ideas in a less formal setting, possibly more focused on a particular topic than the regular conference sessions do. While we expect that workshop papers would be less mature than a typical INFOCOM conference paper, they should present particularly novel ideas and approaches, which have the potential to make their way to full conference papers in future editions. Therefore, we expect that workshops will run a rigorous review process, to make sure programs will be of high quality. We will interact with the chairs of the selected workshops after the review phase, to discuss with them about a suitable acceptance rate and format of the workshop, based on the set of submitted and accepted papers. We seek proposals from individuals and teams interested in organizing strong workshops. Ideally, each workshop will be a full day, with 4-5 sessions of 1.5 hours each, or half day. The dates for paper submission, notification, camera-ready version, and session times will be coordinated across the selected workshops. Papers submitted to the individual workshops should be due on <b><span style="color:red">December 20, 2021</span></b><span style="color:red"> </span>(tentative, the notification of acceptance date of the INFOCOM main conference is <span style="color:black">December 3, 2021</span>), with the paper acceptance notification due on <b><span style="color:red">February 6, 2022 </span></b>(tentative)<span style="color:red"> </span>and camera-ready version due on <b><span style="color:red">February 28</span></b>, <b><span style="color:red">2022 </span></b>(tentative).  All workshop papers will be submitted for inclusion to IEEE Xplore as well as various Abstracting and Indexing databases.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">The workshop proposal, in PDF, should provide the following information, in the following format:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">HEADING:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">1. Title of the workshop</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">2. Names and affiliations of the organization team</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">INTRODUCTION:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">3. Scope and topics of the workshop</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><br>RATIONALE:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">4. Rationale</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">a. Why the workshop is related to INFOCOM 2022;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">b. Why the topic is timely and important;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">c. Why the workshop may attract a significant number of submissions of good quality;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">d. Why the workshop may attract a large number of attendees, in addition to the authors;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">e. Why the workshop differs from others; i.e., related workshops and conferences of similar topic;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"> <br>WORKSHOP DETAILS:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">5. Tentative committee lists (organizers, steering committee if any, etc.)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">6. A draft call for papers</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">7. Workshop tentative internal and external schedule (expect adjustments by the workshops chairs to align all workshop schedules)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">a. Submission deadline;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">b. Review deadline;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">c. Acceptance deadline;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">d. Camera ready;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">e. Program ready;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">8. Workshop format planned (keynote, papers, demos, panels, etc.)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">WORKSHOP HISTORY:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">9. If the workshop has past editions, the history of the workshop (where held, number of papers submitted and accepted, peer reviewed or invited, number of attendees)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><br>SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Please send a whole copy of your proposal in PDF format to: <span style="color:rgb(38,40,42);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><a href="mailto:infocom2022workshop@gmail.com" target="_blank">infocom2022workshop@gmail.com</a></span> with subject "Submission of INFOCOM 2022 workshop proposal: XXX", where XXX should be replaced by the short name of your workshop.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><br>IMPORTANT DATES</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Submission Deadline:            October 25, 2021</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Acceptance Notification:        November 5, 2021, or earlier</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><br><b>IEEE INFOCOM 2022 Workshops Chairs</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Dejun Yang (Colorado School of Mines, USA)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Lu Su (Purdue University, USA)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><br>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</span></p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Should you need any additional information or clarifications, feel free to contact us at <span style="color:rgb(38,40,42);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><a href="mailto:infocom2022workshop@gmail.com" target="_blank">infocom2022workshop@gmail.com</a></span></span><br></div>