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HotNets 2026

ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks

ACMNetworking

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Paper submissionJul 16, 2026✓ verified

From past proceedings

Papers in HotNets's main DBLP volume each year, not official acceptance counts.

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Papers in 2025

50

main DBLP volume

5-year change

+67%

vs 2020

Papers, all years

566

20 years since 2006

Authors per paper

4.5

4.4 in 2015

By an entirely new team

16%

of 2025 papers

Papers per year2006 to 2025
2006: 25 papers2007: 22 papers2008: 22 papers2009: 21 papers2010: 22 papers2011: 24 papers2012: 23 papers2013: 26 papers2014: 26 papers2015: 26 papers2016: 30 papers2017: 28 papers2018: 26 papers2019: 20 papers2020: 30 papers2021: 31 papers2022: 32 papers2023: 38 papers2024: 44 papers2025: 50 papers
Read the 2025 proceedingsProceedings ↗DBLP ↗

Top keywords, 2025

networkinternetaidatacentersageai datacenterscloudcodecommunicationdoesn endmeasurementsml

Top topics

  1. Software-Defined Networks and 5G14%
  2. Cloud Computing and Resource Management13%
  3. Software System Performance and Reliability9%
  4. Network Traffic and Congestion Control8%
  5. Caching and Content Delivery5%

Venues like HotNets

  1. ICNP IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols0.33congestion controlcongestionin-networkcontrol algorithms
  2. APNet Asia-Pacific Workshop on Networking0.31congestion controlcongestionin-networkdatacenter
  3. SIGCOMM ACM SIGCOMM Conference0.30congestion controlcongestionin-networkdatacenter
  4. IWQoS IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service0.25congestion controlcongestionnetworkingpacket

Most published at HotNets

  1. Scott Shenker2006 to 202535
  2. Sylvia Ratnasamy2006 to 202523
  3. Vyas Sekar2010 to 202516
  4. Aditya Akella2006 to 202515
  5. Jennifer Rexford2006 to 202414

Who publishes here

2025 · papers count once per institution on them

Academia 87%Industry 9%Government and other 4%

Institutions

  1. 1University of California, Berkeley🇺🇸9
  2. 2Columbia University🇺🇸5
  3. 3Microsoft (United States)🇺🇸4
  4. 4The University of Texas at Austin🇺🇸4
  5. 5International Computer Science Institute🇺🇸3
  6. 6University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign🇺🇸3
  7. 7Princeton University🇺🇸3
  8. 8Cornell University🇺🇸3

Countries

  1. United States38
  2. China4
  3. Hong Kong SAR China3
  4. South Korea3
  5. Switzerland2
  6. Germany2

Affiliations from OpenAlex for the papers DBLP lists. A paper with authors from three institutions counts for each of them; the split above is over the top institutions.