The design of systems that maximize the potential for new technologies while protecting security and privacy requires expertise in fields such as verification, distributed computing, probability, coding theory, number theory, cryptography and security. This special focus is intended to foster closer working relationships between the algorithms and networking technology communities. With the help of such relationships, we will pursue the development of the fundamental theory, models, and scalable algorithms that cut through a variety of application domains and will enable us to manage the present technology and design the future technology, from the physical layer to the application layer. Foundational work is required to solve existing problems and to lay the groundwork for the next generation networks technologies and applications, and our special focus is aimed at pinpointing the opportunities for theorists to make a contribution and at stimulating the research needed to take advantage of these opportunities. There will be a mix of research talks and practitioner presentations.
Some funds are available for travel and local support.