Call For Papers

The PAM conference assembles researchers and practitioners focused on measuring and analyzing networks and networked systems. The venue welcomes submissions advancing measurement techniques, offering fresh analytical insights, or demonstrating novel measurement applications across various domains.

PAM 2027 will be organized as a virtual meeting, with attendees only participating remotely.

Topics of Interest

• 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

Important Dates

All deadlines are AoE (Anywhere on Earth).

Submission Guidelines

Submissions must be original and unpublished. PAM accepts both formats:

• Short papers: up to 11 pages for technical content (up to 5 pages for appendices and references)
• Long papers: up to 24 pages for technical content (up to 5 pages for appendices and references)

All submissions must follow the Springer LNCS format (see here). Reviewers are not obligated to examine appendices; all evaluation materials should fit within the primary page counts.

Double-Blind Review Process

Reviewing will be double-blind:

• Exclude author names and institutional affiliations
• Reference your own previous work in the third person
• Anonymize system identifiers where feasible
• Contact the PC chairs with anonymization concerns

Ethical Considerations

Each submission requires a marked ethical statement. Papers involving human subjects or sensitive data (network traffic, passwords, social information) must adhere to fundamental ethical research standards including privacy protection, secure data handling, informed consent, avoiding deception when unnecessary, maximizing societal benefit while minimizing harm, and risk mitigation.

The Menlo Report and the Allman/Paxson IMC 2007 paper offer guidance. If IRB/ethics committee review occurred, reference the approval number.

Awards

Best Paper Award: recognizes the highest-merit submission overall.

Community Contribution Award: honors papers providing publicly accessible datasets, source code, or platforms in well-documented, long-lived repositories (GitHub, Bitbucket, CRAWDAD) by camera-ready submission.

Submission

Submission portal: coming soon