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Welcome
SIGCOMM is ACM's professional forum for discussing communications and computer networks.
SIGCOMM members include scientists, engineers, educators and students. They study all aspects of computer communications and networks: analysis, technical design, engineering, measurement and management. Our members are particularly interested in the systems engineering and architectural questions surrounding computer communication.
SIGCOMM supports a wide variety of activities in the field:
Professional meetings
- The annual SIGCOMM Conference
- Other SIGCOMM-sponsored or cosponsored conferences and workshops: CoNEXT, IMC, Hotnets, Sensys, and ANCS.
- Conferences and workshops in cooperation with SIGCOMM.
Publications
Recognition and support for computer networking professionals
- Awards: the SIGCOMM Award, the Test of Time Award, the Rising Star Award, and the Best Paper and Best Student Paper Awards.
- Travel Grants
Resources for the community
More information about SIGCOMM: its membership, annual reports, and officers.
Discussions of interest to the SIGCOMM community are held on the SIGCOMM Blog.
If you are a computer networking professional, please make use of SIGCOMM, and consider joining ACM SIGCOMM: Join online here.
Recent News
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April 4, 2013
Elections for new SIGCOMM officers are underway, to elect a new Chair, Vice-Chair, and Treasurer. Please vote! If you are a SIGCOMM member, you should be receiving an email with your ten-digit PIN, which you'll need to cast your votes. http://www.acm.org/sigs/elections
See the bios and statements of the candidates at http://www.acm.org/sigs/elections/sigcomm-2013/sigcomm-2013-slate
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February 6, 2013
The Executive Committee has selected Chicago as the city for SIGCOMM 2014. Fabian Bustamante (Northwestern University) and Y. Charlie Hu (Purdue University) will be the general chairs. More details including precise dates of the conference will come shortly.
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December 17, 2012
This award to Teemu Koponen is in recognition of outstanding research contributions, early in his career, on Information Centric Networking, Accountable Internetworking, and Software Defined Networking. His architectural ideas are deep, have improved practice, and crucially, he has put in significant effort in figuring out how to actually make them happen.
Teemu gave the Keynote address at CoNEXT 2012 in Nice. More information about the Rising Star Award can be found here.
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October 15, 2012
SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis in Computer Networking and Data Communication
Description
This annual award was created by SIGCOMM in 2011, and will recognize excellent thesis research by doctoral candidates in the field of computer networking and data communication. The SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award winner and up to two runners-up will be recognized at the ACM SIGCOMM conference. The award winner will receive a plaque, a $1,500 honorarium and a complimentary registration to the following year’s ACM SIGCOMM Conference. The runners-up each will receive a plaque.
Eligibility
Nominations are limited to one doctoral dissertation per department.
The final dissertation defense should take place at the nominee’s host institution during the 12 months before the submission deadline (see below).
Nominations are due November 30, 2012. Please see http://sigcomm.org/awards/dissertation for details.
