Important Dates: Workshop takes place July 11th and 12th, 2007.
July 2nd, 2007 accepted paper due date.

The 2nd International Workshop on Real Overlays And Distributed Systems (ROADS) will bring together people who are interested in exploring the new challenges of building overlay networks and distributed networked systems. The ROADS workshop series is a place to share new ideas, experiences, and work in progress. The Real in ROADS refers to systems that are run on a real platform for a period of time. Such systems might be research projects, teaching exercises, or more permanent services, but they should address technical issues of actual overlays and distributed systems. We also welcome works that explore the extent to which results obtained from simulation (e.g., ModelNet) or testbed deployments (e.g., EmuLab) retain validity when transferred to more representative network environments. The ROADS workshop series emphasis is on overlays and distributed systems that are designed to be spread out over a large number of sites (e.g., PlanetLab). The workshop program will include invited speakers and presentations of peer-reviewed papers. Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract. This can be for an eventual technical paper, a demonstration, a work in progress, or for an eventual position paper. Work should describe a new problem, advocate a specific solution, or report on actual experience.

Authors are invited to submit a proposal to present a technical paper, demonstration, or a new idea that exposes a new problem, advocates a specific solution, or reports on actual experience. Proposals are your chance to sell the topic to the review committee, which will assess the relevance of your topic to ROADS.