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Provides rigorous guidelines for conducting robust, verifiable, and reproducible evaluations in networking research. It emphasizes moving beyond simple simulations by demanding the use of real target platforms, documenting full system provenance (traces and configs), establishing honestly tuned baselines, and reporting detailed measurement statistics and uncertainty. Essential for authors aiming for top-tier conference submissions.

This guide outlines the rigorous methodology for ensuring that computational research results, especially those involving hardware architecture and simulation, are fully reproducible. It emphasizes pinning the entire result chain—from simulator commits and configuration files to workloads, sampling recipes, and statistics scripts—and mandates creating a manifest for every figure. Key practices include recording machine state for silicon runs and containerizing the environment to prevent data drift.