{"id":196,"date":"2026-04-22T14:14:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nof.dnac.org\/2026\/?page_id=196"},"modified":"2026-04-22T14:48:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:48:23","slug":"ern","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nof.dnac.org\/2026\/ern\/","title":{"rendered":"ERN 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Workshop on Experimental Research on Networking (ERN)<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
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The networking research community has made tremendous strides in developing novel architectures, protocols, and management paradigms for next-generation communication networks. However, a number of results presented at major venues are grounded in analytical modeling and simulation-based evaluations. While these methodologies are essential, the field faces a critical and growing reproducibility and experimental validation gap: research outcomes that have not been tested on real hardware, real protocol stacks, or realistic testbed environments risk remaining disconnected from practical deployment realities.<\/p>\n

The Workshop on Experimental Research on Networking (ERN) aims to fill this gap by providing a dedicated forum for presenting experimental results, reproducible methodologies, prototyping efforts, and testbed-driven research at the networking layer and above. ERN specifically targets work that involves real-world experimentation, hardware-in- the-loop validation, and end-to-end system prototyping.<\/p>\n

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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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