The 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. This year's test-of-time awardee is the paper
titled: "A digital fountain approach to reliable distribution of bulk
data", by John W. Byers, Michael Luby, Michael Mitzenmacher, Ashutosh
Rege, which appeared in SIGCOMM 1998.