PlanetLab Europe researchers are being encouraged to submit proposals to ROADS '09: 4th Workshop on Real Overlays and Distributed Systems.

Organizers welcome papers that explore the interaction between simulation, emulation, and more realistic deployment settings to better predict performance or architectural bottlenecks when scaling up a distributed service on experimental environments. These services might be existing, widely deployed systems, new research prototypes, or more permanent services. Submissions should address the technical and research challenges they present during the design, deployment, and evaluation phases.

ROADS '09 is co-located with the ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, in Big Sky, Montana, October 14, 2009.

For more information, see the ROADS website.