HKUST Internet Research Workshop (HKIRW) 2026
Workshop on Future Internet Research Directions
Mar 13, 2026
HKUST Shenzhen – Hong Kong Collaborative Innovation Research Institute (SHCIRI)
Room 4109, 41/F, Changfu Jinmao Tower, Futian, Shenzhen
(in local languange: 长富金茂大厦)
How to get there: Take a direct lift to 35/F first, then transfer to another lift to 41/F. There is a roadmap after getting out of the lift, where you can find Room 4109.
Built on the huge success of the HKIRW 2024 and HKIRW 2025, in the week before the IETF-125 meeting in Shenzhen, this workshop aims to bring together researchers in computer networking and systems around the globe to a live forum discussing innovative ideas at their early stages. The mission of the workshop is that promising but not-yet-mature ideas can receive timely feedback from the community and experienced researchers, leading them into future IRTF work, Internet Drafts, or IETF working groups.
The workshop will operate like a “one day Dagstuhl seminar” and will focus on discussion and ideas exchange and less on conference-style presentations. The objective is to identify topics and connect like-minded people for potential future collaboration.
Topics of Interest
Topics can be anything related to Internet research, but are expected be controversial – that’s the purpose of this workshop!.
How to Contribute
We extremely welcome suggestions for a discussion topic and/or a lightning talk. Please contact the organizers (see below).
Register
Please register here.
If you need an invitation letter, please contact us.
Program
| Time (UTC+8) | Event |
|---|---|
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Welcome, Logistics, Introduction by Zili Meng and Dirk Kutscher |
| 10:15 – 11:15 | Is the IoT Computing Continuum Eroding the End-to-End Principle? by Carlos Kamienski |
| 11:15 – 11:45 | Coffee Break |
| 11:45 – 12:05 | Sustainable ICT: Small Place, Better Insight by Wen Cai |
| 12:05 – 12:40 | Green Networking and Energy-Aware Security Protocols by Laura Soares |
| 12:40 – 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Source Buffer Management by Zili Meng |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30 – 16:30 | Research Challenges in Agentic AI Communication by Dirk Kutscher |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Any Other Topic – Open Discussion |
| 17:00 | Finish |
Hotel Information
Please visit IETF 125 Shenzhen for hotel information. The venue is 3km away from the IETF hotel (direction).
Organizers
- Prof. Dirk Kutscher, HKUST(GZ), dku@hkust-gz.edu.cn
- Prof. Yuhan Dong, Tsinghua SIGS, dongyuhan@sz.tsinghua.edu.cn
- Prof. Zili Meng, HKUST, zilim@ust.hk
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