Passive and Active Measurement Conference 2006 Preliminary Call For Papers Conference Information The sixth Passive and Active Measurement conference will be held March 30-31, 2006 in Adelaide, Australia. This event focuses on research and practical applications of network measurement and analysis techniques. The conference's goal is to provide a forum for current work in its early stages. Original papers are invited from the research and operations communities on topics including, but not limited to: * Active Network Measurements * Passive Network Measurements * Performance Metrics * Traffic Statistics * Measurement Visualization * New Measurement Approaches & Techniques * Deployment of Measurement Infrastructure * New Measurement Initiatives * Applications of Network Measurements * Network Measurements and Security * Network Troubleshooting using Measurements * New Network Measurement Tools The PAM steering committee believes that releasing measurement data allows for better science to be conducted in the field of network measurement. Therefore, for the first time, an award will be given at PAM 2006 for the best paper based on a new dataset that the authors are releasing for community use in subsequent research. To qualify, a paper must significantly utilize a dataset that has been collected for the work presented in the paper. Further, the dataset must be freely available to any researcher. Authors should flag papers they wish to be considered for this award with a footnote on the first page of the paper. Novel datasets are especially encouraged. The awarded paper will be chosen from the set of qualifying papers accepted for the conference by a committee made up of a subset of the program and steering committees. Conference Web Page http://www.pam2006.org/ Submission Information To ensure PAM 2006 is fresh and interesting, we are soliciting short papers. Unlike in previous years, authors are asked for full papers and not extended abstracts. No additional space will be given once a paper has been accepted. Papers must be submitted in the Springer LNCS format and must not exceed 10 pages. Formatting guidelines are available here: http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,4-164-2-72376-0,00.html Authors are, as always, asked to refrain from submitting papers submitted to PAM to other venues during the reviewing period. Paper submission instructions to be announced. Important Dates Paper Registration: October 2, 2005 Paper Submission: October 9, 2005 (HARD deadline) Author Notification: December 9, 2005 Camera Ready: TBD (likely mid-late January 2006) Conference: March 30-31, 2006 Conference Organization General Chair: Matt Roughan, University of Adelaide Program Committee Mark Allman, chair ICSI Grenville Armitage Swinburne University of Technology Steven Bellovin Columbia University Ethan Blanton Purdue University Randy Bush IIJ Mark Claypool WPI Anja Feldmann Technical University, Muinch Timur Friedman University P. & M. Curie Simon Leinen SWITCH Z. Morley Mao University of Michigan Alberto Medina BBN Technologies David Meyer University of Oregon/Cisco Andrew Moore University of London David Moore CAIDA Shawn Ostermann Ohio University Dina Papagiannaki Intel Matt Roughan University of Adelaide Anees Shaikh IBM TJ Watson Research Center Nina Taft Intel Steve Uhlig Universite catholique de Louvain Steering Committee Mark Allman ICSI Chadi Barakat INRIA Nevil Brownlee University of Auckland Mark Crovella Boston University Constantine Dovrolis Georgia Tech Ian Graham Endace Ian Pratt University of Cambridge Matt Roughan University of Adelaide For any additional information, please contact Mark Allman (mallman@icir.org).