ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time Paper Award
The ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time Award recognizes papers published 10 to 12 years in the past in Computer Communication Review or any SIGCOMM sponsored or co-sponsored conference that is deemed to be an outstanding paper whose contents are still a vibrant and useful contribution today.
The past recipients of the ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time Paper Award are:
2008:
- "Internet Routing Instability," by Craig Labovitz, G. Robert Malan, and Farnam Jahanian, Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM 1997.
- "The Macroscopic Behavior of the TCP Congestion Avoidance Algorithm," by Matthew Mathis, Jeffrey Semke, Jamshid Mahdavi, and Teunis Ott, CCR 27(3), 1997.
- "Modeling TCP Throughput: A Simple Model and Its Empirical Validation," by Jitendra Padhye, Victor Firoiu, Don Towsley, and Jim Kurose, Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM 1998.
2007:
- "Towards an Active Network Architecture," by David L. Tennenhouse and David J. Wetherall, CCR 26(2), April 1996.
2006
- "End-to-End Routing Behavior in the Internet," by Vern Paxson, Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM 1996.
The award is given annually and consists of a custom glass award
and reprinting the paper in Computer Communication Review.
The paper will be chosen by an award committee appointed by the
SIGCOMM Award Committee Chair.
We will
be taking nominations for the 2009 award in early summer 2009.
To assist in the process, below are links to the tables of contents of the eligible issues of Computer Communication Review and SIGCOMM proceedings.
- Computer Communication Review: 1997-1999 are eligible for 2009.
- Mobicom 1997 and 1998
