IMC Conference

Mission

The Internet Measurement Conference is an annual conference focusing on Internet measurement and analysis, sponsored by ACM SIGCOMM in cooperation with USENIX. The aim is that papers presented at the conference contribute to the current understanding of how to collect or analyze Internet measurements, or give insight into how the Internet behaves.

IMC was begun as a workshop in 2001 in response to the difficulty at that time finding appropriate publication/presentation venues for high-quality Internet measurement research in general, and frustration with th  annual ACM SIGCOMM conference's treatment of measurement submissions in particular.

The conference is generally held in late October or early November. In its first two years as a Workshop, attendance was limited, but now as a conference it is open to all interested in attending.

Papers are submitted in May with notifications in July and camera-ready papers due in August. The acceptance rate to date has been around 25%. IMC is usually open to both full-length papers and extended abstracts, with the latter being significantly shorter and intended to convey work-in progress and less mature results.

Each year, a Best Paper is awarded for the best paper with a student as primary author, and several papers are selected for "fast-track" submission to IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. In addition, IMC is committed to offering a number of student travel grants to foster the participation of students.

Next Conference

• IMC 2008 held October 20-22, in Vouliagmeni, Greece.
  Local arrangements chairs: Christophe Diot (Thomson).
  Program chairs: Konstantina Papagiannaki (Intel Research) and Zhi-Li Zhang (University of Minnesota).
  

Previous Conferences

• IMC 2007 held October 24-26, in San Diego, CA, USA.
  Sponsors: Thomson, Intel, Sprint, and the National Science Foundation.
  Local arrangements chairs: Colleen Shannon (CAIDA).
  Program chairs: Constantine Dovrolis (Georgia Tech University) and Matt Roughan (University of Adelaide).
  Technical program with accepted papers.

• IMC 2006 held October 25-27, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  Sponsors: Thomson, Intel, Akamai, USENIX, and the National Science Foundation.
  Local arrangements chairs: Jussara Almeida and Virgilio Almeida, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG).
  Attendees: 108
  Papers: 155 submissions, 34 accepted (22%); extended abstracts: 63 submitted, 15 accepted (24%); full papers: 92 submitted, 19 accepted (21%).
  Program chair: Paul Barford, University of Wisconsin (Madison).
  Technical program with accepted papers.

• IMC 2005 held October 19-21, in Berkeley, CA, USA.
  Sponsors: Cisco, Intel, Microsoft Research, USENIX, National Science Foundation.
  Local arrangements chair: Nina Taft, Intel Research Berkeley.
  Attendees: 135
  Papers: 148 submissions, 36 accepted (24%); extended abstracts: 66 submitted, 14 accepted (21%); full papers: 82 submitted, 22 accepted (27%).
  Program chairs: Venkat Padmanabhan (Microsoft Research) and Darryl Veitch (University of Melbourne).
  Technical program with accepted papers.

• IMC 2004 held October 25-27, 2004, in Taormina, Sicily, Italy.
  Sponsors: Cisco, IBM, Intel, Microsoft Research, USENIX, National Science Foundation.
  General Chair: Alfio Lombardo, University of Catania.
  Attendees: 109.
  Papers: 157 submissions, 38 accepted (24%); extended abstracts: 59 submitted, 19 accepted (32%); full papers: 98 submitted, 19 accepted (19%).
  Program chair: Jim Kurose, University of Massachusetts.
  Student travel grants: 18 awarded.

• IMC 2003, held in Miami, Florida, USA.
  Sponsors: Cisco, Intel, Sprint, Microsoft Research, USENIX, National Science Foundation.
  Attendees: 114.
  Papers: 109 submissions, 33 accepted, of which 73 were full paper submissions with 19 accepted (26%).
  Program chair: Mark Crovella, Boston University.
  Student travel grants: 22 awarded.

• IMW 2002, held in Marseille, France.
  Sponsors: Cisco, Sprint, AT&T, USENIX, Gemplex.
  Attendees: 103.
  Papers: 93 submissions, 41 accepted, of which 62 were full paper submissions with 15 accepted (24%).
  Student travel grants: 22 awarded.

• IMW 2001 held in San Francisco, California, USA.
  Sponsors: netVMG, Sprint.
  Attendees: 60.
  Papers: 53 full paper submissions, 14 accepted (26%).

A Note About IMC's Sponsors

A primary reason IMC is able to keep registration rates low and enable many students to travel and attend the conference is due to the generosity of our many corporate sponsors and NSF's support of travel grants, for which we are grateful.

Steering Committee

• Paul Barford, University of Wisconsin
• Kevin Jeffay, University of North Carolina
• Bruce Maggs, CMU
• Nina Taft, Intel Research

Steering Committee Past Members

• Mark Crovella, Boston University (2004-2006)
• Jennifer Rexford, AT&T Labs - Research (2001-2003)
• Christophe Diot, Intel Research (2001-2004)
• Vern Paxson, ICSI and LBNL (2001-2004)
• Balachander Krishnamurthy, AT&T Labs - Research (2001-2005)