SIGCOMM News

  • November 2015 SIGCOMM Newsletter
    October 31, 2015

    November 2015 SIGCOMM Newsletter
    Dear SIGCOMM Community Members,
    Here is the news for this month:
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    1. IMC 2016
    2. Nominations solicited for the 2015 SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award
    3. SIGCOMM 2017 will be at UCLA, Los Angeles
    4. New CCR Editor
    5. 4th Heidelberg Laureate Forum
    6. RAIM 2015 Highlights
    7. CoNext 2015 participation
     
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    1. The ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2016 conference will be held in Santa Monica, California, USA (near Los Angeles) 31 October to 2 November 2016. General Chairs are John Heidemann (USC/ISI) and Phillipa Gill (Stony Brook University); Program Chairs are Ramesh Govindan (USC) and John Byers (Boston University). The website is now up with more information.
    http://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2016/index.html
     
    2. Nominations are now open for the SIGCOMM doctoral dissertation award. To be eligible, the final dissertation defense should take place at the nominee’s host institution during the 12 months before the submission deadline. Submissions must be received by the current SIGCOMM Awards Chair, (Bruce Maggs) by November 30. Please see the nominations page for more information:
    http://sigcomm.org/content/doctoral-dissertation-award-nominations
     
    3. Sigcomm 2017 will be held in UCLA/Los Angeles, the week of Aug 21, 2017. General Co-Chairs are Lixia Zhang (UCLA) and K.K. Ramakrishnan (UC Riverside). Local Arrangement Chair is Peter Reiher (UCLA).
     
    4. Dina Papagiannaki ends her service as the Editor of SIGCOMM's Computer Communication Review  in January 2016. Thanks, Dina, for all your hard work! Olivier Bonaventure will be the new editor, handling papers submitted by the next deadline (i.e. December 1st, 2015).
     
    5. The Fourth Heidelberg Laureate Forum will be held September 18-23, 2016.  
    http://www.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org/
    The application process for the 4th Heidelberg Laureate Forum began November 1, 2015.
    To be considered for the Heidelberg Forum, young researchers can either apply directly at  www.application.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org  or be nominated by a colleague (or professor, mentor or manager) who can attest to the quality of their work.  Nominations will likely carry a bit more weight within the selection process and can be made at  
    https://application.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org/intern/reg_nom_registration_for.php  
    If you or a colleague would like to make a nomination, the ACM "Organization Number" is ACM72967.  Applications and nominations must be completed by February 3, 2016.
     
    6. Notes from the 2015 IRTF & ISOC Workshop on Research and Applications of Internet Measurements (RAIM) in cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM are available online at http://tid.isoc.org:9001/p/raim-2015 and the videos are avaialble on the workshop page: https://irtf.org/raim-2015
     
    7. There’s still time to register and attend CoNext 2015 in Heidelberg, Germany, December 1-4 2015. See the program and details on : http://conferences2.sigcomm.org/co-next/2015/#!/home
     
    That’s all for now!

  • October 2015 SIGCOMM Newsletter
    September 30, 2015

    October 2015 SIGCOMM Newsletter
    Dear SIGCOMM Community Members,
    In the last weeks we have seen potentially major disruptions to the Internet economy landscape, with the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) calling off the [far-from-perfect] EU-US Safe-Harbour agreement. The implications are roughly translatable to transatlantic data transfers made under the agreement being ruled illegal across the EU under the Privacy Directive. US and EU have vastly different interpretation of personal data ownership, privacy, and ethics; hence this new ruling can have severe impact on the operation of many of the largest Internet organisations which are centred around personal data harvesting. Some of these corporations have started developing their own alternative solutions (and the associated PR), albeit it remains to be seen what legal challenges they will face in the EU.
     
    Here is the news for this month:
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    1. SIGCOMM Rising Star Award Winner 2015
    2. Nominations solicited for the 2015 SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award
    3. ACM SIGCOMM 2016 Call for Workshop Proposals
    4. CoNext 2015 Program, travel grants, and early registration
    5. SIGCOMM 2015 session recordings
     
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    1. The SIGCOMM Rising Star Award 2015 winner is Brighten Godfrey (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). The award to Brighten Godfrey is in recognition of outstanding research contributions, early in his career in network architecture. His work has brought a synergy of algorithmic and systems insights to make significant contributions in problems such as pathlet routing, data center architectures, and network verification. Congratulations, Brighten!
     
    2. Nominations are now open for the SIGCOMM doctoral dissertation award. To be eligible, the final dissertation defense should take place at the nominee’s host institution during the 12 months before the submission deadline. Submissions must be received by the current SIGCOMM Awards Chair, (Bruce Maggs) by November 30. Please see the nominations page for more information:
    http://sigcomm.org/content/doctoral-dissertation-award-nominations
     
    3. SIGCOMM 2016 will hold multiple one-day workshops in conjunction with the conference, to be held in Salvador, Brazil from August 22 to 26, 2016. Workshops will take place on Monday, August 22 and Friday, August 26.  http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2016/cfwp.php
    IMPORTANT WORKSHOP DATES:
       November 23, 2015   Workshop proposals due
       December 4, 2015    Announcement of workshops selected
       December 22, 2015   Workshop Call for Papers due
     
    4. CoNext 2015 program is up  http://conferences2.sigcomm.org/co-next/2015/#!/program
    Early regitration deadline is 2nd November http://conferences2.sigcomm.org/co-next/2015/#!/registration
    A number of student travel grants are also available http://conferences2.sigcomm.org/co-next/2015/#!/travel
     
    5. The SIGCOMM 2015 main session recordings are now available on the ACM DL
    http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2785956
     
    That’s all for now!

  • September 2015 SIGCOMM Newsletter
    August 31, 2015

    September 2015 SIGCOMM Newsletter
    Dear SIGCOMM Community Members,
    Last month over 600 members of the community gathered in London for SIGCOMM 2015, with a packed program of papers, posters, research demos, industrial demos, workshops, tutorials, preview talks, N2Women meetup, community meetings, projects meetings, mentoring, and, most importantly, social events. On behalf of the organising committee, I wish to thank all who helped with organisation and  those who attended, and I really hope you all had a great time! For those who couldn’t make it, video recordings of the conference talks for each paper will soon appear in ACM DL.
    Here is the news for this month:
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    1. SOSR 2016 Call for Papers
    2. Nominations solicited for the 2015 SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award
    3. SIGCOMM preview talks
    4. IMC program now online.
    5. DTL conference 2015
     
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    1. The Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR) is the premiere venue for research publications on SDN, building on past years' successful SOSR and HotSDN (Hot Topics in Software Defined Networking) workshops. This year, SOSR will be co-located with the Open Networking Summit (ONS) and the USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI'16), providing greater opportunity for industry and academia to jointly explore and debate recent developments related to all aspects of SDN.  http://opennetsummit.org/conference/
    Important Dates
           • 5pm PST Monday October 26 (midnight GMT):  Abstract registration
           • 5pm PST Friday October 30 (midnight GMT):  Paper submission
           • December 18:  Notification
           • March 14-15: Symposium
     
    2. Nominations are now open for the SIGCOMM doctoral dissertation award. To be eligible, the final dissertation defense should take place at the nominee’s host institution during the 12 months before the submission deadline. Submissions must be received by the current SIGCOMM Awards Chair, (Bruce Maggs) by November 30. Please see the nominations page for more information:
    http://sigcomm.org/content/doctoral-dissertation-award-nominations
     
    3. We held preview talks to give background for the technical sessions at SIGCOMM 2015. Especially if you attended the sessions--but even if you didn't--we'd appreciate if you filled out this short survey to help us plan for future years: http://goo.gl/forms/omNr4T6fBA
     
    Thanks to Ethan Katz-Bassett, Justine Marie Sherry, Te-Yuan Huang, Maria Kazandjieva, Hamed Haddadi, Craig Partridge, Steve Uhlig, Olaf Maennel, and others for help organizing. Thanks to Phillipa Gill, George Porter, Laurent Vanbever, Aaron Schulman, and Nandita Dukkipati for presenting.
     
    4. IMC 2015 Program is now online : http://conferences2.sigcomm.org/imc/2015/program.html
     
    5. The Data Transparency Conference 2015 (Nov 15th-17th, MIT Media Lab) will gather world-class researchers, industry leaders, policy makers, developers and communicators who are leading the development of a more transparent Internet that is more respectful to personal data online. The Data Transparency Lab (http://www.datatransparencylab.org ) is a community effort founded by MIT Connection Science, Telefonica, Mozilla Foundation, and the Open Data Institute. For more information about the event, including registration and program, visit http://www.dtlconferences.org
     
    That’s all for now!

  • August 2015 SIGCOMM Newsletter
    July 31, 2015

    August 2015 SIGCOMM Newsletter
    Dear SIGCOMM Community Members,
     
    We are just over a week away from SIGCOMM 2015, with a packed program of exciting papers, workshops, tutorials, and really fun social events. We look forward to welcoming over 500 of you in London:                                                                     http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2015/
     
    If you can’t attend, you can still watch the event live at http://www.meetecho.com/sigcomm2015/
     
    Here is the news for this month:
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    1. SIGCOMM 2015 Test of Time award
    2. GENI Transition Planning
    3. IMC travel grants
    4. Industry day on measurements between IMC and IETF
    5. ACM-W Europe womENcourage Celebration of Women in Computing
     

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    1.  SIGCOMM 2015 Test of Time awards winners are:
     
    “A clean slate 4D approach to network control and management”, Albert Greenberg, Gisli Hjalmtysson, David A. Maltz, Andy Myers, Jennifer Rexford, Geoffrey Xie, Hong Yan, Jibin Zhan, and Hui Zhang.
    CCR October 2005.
     
    This paper led to a resurgence of interest in the topic of separated data and control planes to better manage networks that developed into Software Defined Networking (SDN).
     
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    “Sizing router buffers”, Guido Appenzeller, Isaac Keslassy, and Nick McKeown. SIGCOMM 2004.
     
    This paper questioned the old rule-of-thumb for buffering at routers and contributed theory and experiments to show much less buffering is needed.  It has ongoing relevance to issues such as bufferbloat and small buffers in commodity switching chips.
     
    2. The National Science Foundation (NSF), Computing Community Consortium (CCC), and GENI project office (GPO) are seeking community input to plan the future governance and direction of the Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI). Submissions are invited via email to future@geni.net by August 15. For background information and full details, see this CCC blog post: http://www.cccblog.org/2015/07/15/call-for-community-input-and-participation-nsf-geni-sustainment-governance-and-future-network-research-cyberinfrastructure/
     
    3. The IMC travel grants deadline is Aug 14. This year we are also offering geodiversity grants in addition to the usual student travel grants:              http://conferences2.sigcomm.org/imc/2015/stg.html
     
    4. To increase collaboration between industry and academia in the field of networking, the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) and the Internet Society (ISOC) in cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM are organizing a workshop on Research and Applications of Internet Measurements (RAIM), scheduled for the Saturday in between the 2015 ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) in Tokyo and the 94th Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meeting in Yokohama. Details and submission instructions at https://irtf.org/raim-2015. Submission deadline: August 7.
     
    5. The ACM-W Europe womENcourage Celebration of Women in Computing is a scientific event, and also an event aimed at networking and exploring career opportunities for women in computer science and related disciplines. This conference brings together researchers and professionals, as well as students in all levels of education, to present and share their achievements and experience in computing. Register by 08/08 before early bird ends! Should you have any questions, you may find answers on the event website or by emailing me (vgrande@acm.org).  http://womencourage.acm.org/
     
    That’s all for now!

  • July 2015 SIGCOMM Newsletter
    July 31, 2015

    Dear SIGCOMM Community Members,

    SIGCOMM 2015 is fast approaching! This year will introduce several new programs including student mentoring, and industrial demos (running for the second year), besides the usual workshops and poster sessions. The early registration deadline is July 15, only a few days away. The details of the program can be found at: http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2015/ . Do plan to attend the community feedback session to share your concerns with other community members and to give your input to the EC!

    In other news, the EU recently released a somewhat convoluted draft proposal supporting net neutrality for an Open Internet, yet simultaneously supporting fast lanes. Read more on the controversy at:

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/02/eu-proposal-adopts-net-neutrality_n_7717390.html

    Here is the news for this month:

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    1. SIGCOMM 2015 award

    2. New IEEE fellows/awards for SIGCOMM community members

    3. Workshop on Research and Applications of Internet Measurements (RAIM)

    4. News from the EC

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    1. We are delighted to announce that SIGCOMM 2015 awardee is Albert Greenberg (Microsoft Research) for pioneering the theory and practice of operating carrier and datacenter networks. Congratulations, Albert!

    2. Congratulations to many members of our SIGCOMM community have who been elected as IEEE Fellows; to Kimberly Claffy and Vern Paxson for winning the IEEE Internet Award; and to Albert Greenberg who also won the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award.

    For the full list of announcements and awards see http://delivery.qmags.com/d/DefaultV1.aspx?pub=IEEEAwards&upid=19422&S=ML&fl=others%2fIEEEAWARDS%2fIEEEAwards_2015.pdf

    3. To increase collaboration between industry and academia in the field of networking, the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) and the Internet Society (ISOC) in cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM are organizing a workshop on Research and Applications of Internet Measurements (RAIM), scheduled for the Saturday in between the 2015 ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) in Tokyo and the 94th Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meeting in Yokohama.

    Submission deadline: Friday, August 7, 2015

    Notifications: Friday, August 28, 2015

    Workshop date: Saturday, October 31, 2015

    Details and submission instructions at https://irtf.org/raim-2015

    4. Some news from the EC

    • The EC has contracted with a meeting organiser called MeetGreen to help with the registration, budgeting, and planning process for SIGCOMM-sponsored conferences.

    • SIGCOMM 2015 talks will be recorded and made available online.

    • SIGCOMM 2016 preparation is on the way already, details at http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2016/

    • We are requesting PC chairs of each conference to nominate one or two papers for CACM Research Highlights.

    That’s all for now!

  • June 2015 SIGCOMM Newsletter
    June 15, 2015

    Dear SIGCOMM Community Members,

    Here is the news for this month:

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    1. SIGCOMM 2015 registration now open

    2. SIGCOMM 2015 Child Care program

    3. Geo-diversity grants

    4. SIGCOMM Rising Star Award Nominations

    5. ACM ICN Call for Demos and Posters: Deadline June 26, 2015

    6. Nominations solicited for Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of the ACM

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    1. Registration for SIGCOMM 2015 is now open at

    https://www.regonline.com/acmsigcomm2015 . Early registration ends on July 14th.

    2. SIGCOMM 2015 will offer a childcare program similar to last year’s. Please see the details at http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2015/sigcommkiddie.php

    3. Geo-diversity grants now have more extensive coverage. See http://sigcomm.org/for-authors/geodiversity-travel-grants for details of the application process.

    4. The annual SIGCOMM Rising Star Award recognizes a young researcher who has made outstanding research contributions to the field of communication networks. Each year, ACM SIGCOMM will present a "Rising Star" Award, recognizing a young researcher - an individual no older than 35 - who has made outstanding research contributions to the field of communication networks during this early part of his or her career.  Depth, impact, and novelty of the researcher's contributions will be key criteria upon which the Rising Star award committee will evaluate the nominees.  Also of particular interest are strong research contributions made independently from the nominee's PhD advisor. The award will be presented at the annual ACM CoNEXT conference, where the award-winner will deliver a keynote address. Conference registration, travel, and lodging for the awardee will be paid by ACM SIGCOMM. Nominations must be sent to Bruce Maggs by August 15, 2015, 11:59pm EDT. http://www.sigcomm.org/awards/sigcomm-rising-star-award

     

    5. The 2nd ACM ICN conference will take place in San Francisco this year. We are soliciting posters and demos intended to showcase work-in-progress research. Topics of interest include ICN design, implementation and evaluation, as well as others listed here. We strongly encourage student and industry submissions. Both demos and posters should be accompanied by a 2 page extended abstract, which will be published in the conference proceedings. Further details can be found at: http://conferences.sigcomm.org/acm-icn/2015/cfd.php

     

    6. The term of Victor Vianu, the current Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the ACM (JACM), is coming to an end.  A search committee has been formed to identify candidates for the next Editor-in-Chief and to recommend the most suitable one to the ACM Publications Board. The position is for a term of three years, renewable once, starting on September 1, 2015.  The duties of ACM Editors-in-Chief are summarized in the ACM Volunteer Editors. Nominations should be sent by email to Joe Halpern (halpern@cs.cornell.edu).  The committee accepts self-nominations.  Nominations (whether of a colleague or oneself) should include a summary of the candidate's relevant research contributions and editorial qualifications. The committee will start evaluating candidates after July 1, 2015.

    That’s all for now!

    CFPs for Upcoming SIGCOMM-sponsored conferences:

    http://www.sigcomm.org/conferences/sponsored

    CFPs for Upcoming in-cooperation-with SIGCOMM conferences:

    http://www.sigcomm.org/conferences/cooperation

    https://twitter.com/acmsigcomm

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/sigcomm/

    https://www.linkedin.com/groups/ACM-SIGCOMM-7456557

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  • May 2015 SIGCOMM Newsletter
    May 7, 2015

    Dear SIGCOMM Community Members,

    We have a busy newsletter this month, so, let’s dive right into it!

    Here is the news for this month:

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    1. Sylvia Ratnasamy wins ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award

    2. SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award

    3. SIGCOMM Rising Star Award Nominations

    4. Mentoring Program at SIGCOMM 2015

    5. CoNext 2015 shadow TPC

    6. SIGCOMM 2015 registration now open

    7. HOTNETS 2015 CFP now online

    8. Data Transparency Lab Call For Proposals

    9. Call for Participation: ACM SIGCOMM Symposium on SDN Research

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    1. We are delighted to announce that Sylvia Ratnasamy, a faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley has won the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award for her seminal work on distributed hash tables, a fundamental contribution to the design of large-scale distributed and decentralized computing systems. Congratulations, Sylvia!

    2. In other good news, the SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award committee is pleased to announce that the 2015 winner is: Keith Winstein for his dissertation entitled “Transport Architectures for an Evolving Internet” This dissertation proposes and develops the idea of computer-generated congestion control, creatively solving both classical and new problems in network resource management.

    The Honorable Mention goes to Hongqiang Liu for his dissertation “Traffic Planning under Network Dynamics” Liu's dissertation presents the design and implementation of practical, uniform, automatic, and proactive techniques to prevent the link congestion commonly caused by network faults and maintenance.

    The award committee was comprised of Mark Crovella, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Nikolaos Laoutaris, Alan Mislove, Neil Spring (chair), and Arun Venkataramani.

    3. The annual SIGCOMM Rising Star Award recognizes a young researcher who has made outstanding research contributions to the field of communication networks. Each year, ACM SIGCOMM will present a "Rising Star" Award, recognizing a young researcher - an individual no older than 35 - who has made outstanding research contributions to the field of communication networks during this early part of his or her career.  Depth, impact, and novelty of the researcher's contributions will be key criteria upon which the Rising Star award committee will evaluate the nominees.  Also of particular interest are strong research contributions made independently from the nominee's PhD advisor. The award will be presented at the annual ACM CoNEXT conference, where the award-winner will deliver a keynote address. Conference registration, travel, and lodging for the awardee will be paid by ACM SIGCOMM. Nominations must be sent to Bruce Maggs by August 15, 2015, 11:59pm EDT. http://www.sigcomm.org/awards/sigcomm-rising-star-award

    4. We are trying a new mentoring idea at SIGCOMM 2015: an opportunity for students and postdocs to meet individually with teams of two mentors to talk about the student’s research.  The idea is to give graduate students (and postdocs) access to feedback from outstanding researchers from outside their university.  Applications are due June 15th.  More information can be found at the SIGCOMM 2015 conference website.

    http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2015/mentoring.php

    5. During the summer, we will be organising, again, a shadow TPC to train young researchers in how papers are reviewed and ranked at selective networking conferences. Selected researchers must have at least 3 years of experience in networking research and have published a few papers at workshops, conferences or in journals. During June, July and August, they will will evaluate a subset of the papers submitted to CoNext 2015. Most of the work (reviews, discussions) will be done online but the participants will also meet in an in-person TPC meeting on Friday August 21st in London (close to the SIGCOMM'15 conference location). Additional information about the operation of a shadow TPC may be found in a paper published in CCR in 2008 : http://goo.gl/EpSEnK

    To apply for the CoNext 2015 shadow TPC, please fill the following form before May 20th, 2015 : http://goo.gl/forms/TPiBMX1gtz

    If you have any questions, please contact the SIG Education Director, Olivier Bonaventure (UCLouvain) by email.

    6. Registration for SIGCOMM 2015 is now active and accepting registrations. The URL is:

    https://www.regonline.com/acmsigcomm2015

    7. The Fourteenth ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets-2015) will bring together researchers in computer networks and systems to engage in a lively debate on the theory and practice of networking. HotNets will provide a venue for debating broad future research agendas in networking and for presenting innovative ideas that have the potential to significantly influence the community. The CFP is now online:

    http://conferences.sigcomm.org/hotnets/2015/

    8. The Data Transparency Lab (DTL) is a community-based effort among universities, businesses and institutions to support research in tools, data, and methodologies for shedding light into the use of personal data by online services, and to empower users to be in control of their personal data online. In order to support research in these areas, DTL will award in 2015 up to 10 research grants of 50,000 Euro per grant to academic institutions worldwide. The criteria for applications and further information about the application

    process are described in this document: http://datatransparencylab.org/docs/handbook.pdf

    9. Building on the success of the HotSDN (Hot Topics in Software Defined Networking) workshop, the Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR) is the premiere venue for research publications on SDN. Co-locating SOSR with the Open Networking Summit (ONS) provides an opportunity for more interaction between researchers and practitioners and more influence on the networking industry. In addition, registered SOSR attendees can attend shared keynote, plenary, and panel sessions, and the social event, on June 17-18 at ONS. The SOSR  program is now available at http://opennetsummit.org/conference/sosr/sosr-agenda/

    Registration prices increase on May 9 - register soon at

    http://opennetsummit.org/conference/sosr/sosr-register/

     

    That’s all for now!

    CFPs for Upcoming SIGCOMM-sponsored conferences:

    http://www.sigcomm.org/conferences/sponsored

    CFPs for Upcoming in-cooperation-with SIGCOMM conferences:

    http://www.sigcomm.org/conferences/cooperation

    https://twitter.com/acmsigcomm

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/sigcomm/

    https://www.linkedin.com/groups/ACM-SIGCOMM-7456557

  • April 2015 SIGCOMM Newsletter
    April 14, 2015

    Dear SIGCOMM Community Members,

    Open Access is becoming increasingly important for the scientific community. The SIG is working with ACM to enable ‘gold’ OA on all SIGCOMM-sponsored conferences. More news on that front will follow in due course. In the meantime, good luck to those of you awaiting results from SIGCOMM 2015, and to those submitting to IMC 2015.

    Here is the news for this month:

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    1. SIGCOMM Rising Star Award Nominations

    2. SIGCOMM 2015 call for posters, demos, and the ACM student research competition

    3. SIGCOMM 2015 call for industrial demos

    4. Call for Participation: ACM SIGCOMM Symposium on SDN Research.

    5. CCR April 2015 issue now online

    6. Nominations due for the ACM Sigmetrics Rising star award

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    1. The annual SIGCOMM Rising Star Award recognizes a young researcher who has made outstanding research contributions to the field of communication networks. Each year, ACM SIGCOMM will present a "Rising Star" Award, recognizing a young researcher - an individual no older than 35 - who has made outstanding research contributions to the field of communication networks during this early part of his or her career.  Depth, impact, and novelty of the researcher's contributions will be key criteria upon which the Rising Star award committee will evaluate the nominees.  Also of particular interest are strong research contributions made independently from the nominee's PhD advisor. The award will be presented at the annual ACM CoNEXT conference, where the award-winner will deliver a keynote address. Conference registration, travel, and lodging for the awardee will be paid by ACM SIGCOMM. Nominations must be sent to Bruce Maggs by August 15, 2015, 11:59pm EDT. http://www.sigcomm.org/awards/sigcomm-rising-star-award

    2. The SIGCOMM poster and demo sessions showcase works-in-progress in an informal setting. Topics of interest are the same as research topics in the SIGCOMM conference call for papers. We strongly encourage student and industry submissions. The SIGCOMM poster session will also serve as an ACM Student Research Competition. The CFP is online here:

    http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2015/cfd.php

    3. The industrial demo session at SIGCOMM 2014 in Chicago had a great turnout and positive feedback, so it returns for SIGCOMM 2015. This session showcases demos from industry in the area of networking, networked systems, and networked applications, bringing industry and academia together around demos of innovative and cutting-edge networking products. Note the Submission Deadline of May 27. For details of the call see:  http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2015/cfid.php  

    4. Building on the success of the HotSDN (Hot Topics in Software Defined Networking) workshop, the Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR) is the premiere venue for research publications on SDN. Co-locating SOSR with the Open Networking Summit (ONS) provides an opportunity for more interaction between researchers and practitioners and more influence on the networking industry. In addition, registered SOSR attendees can attend shared keynote, plenary, and panel sessions, and the social event, on June 17-18 at ONS.  Details at http://opennetsummit.org/sosr/sosr-register/   (Early reg by  May 9th)

    5. April issue of Computer Communications Review, our community’s quarterly newsletter is now online! see the list of papers and access them openly on http://www.sigcomm.org/ccr/papers/2015/April/  

    6. The 2015 ACM SIGMETRICS Rising Star Research Award will be presented at the ACM SIGMETRICS 2015 conference http://www.sigmetrics.org/sigmetrics2015/, June 15-19, 2015, in Portland, OR, USA.  The award is given annually to recognize a rising star in our community who demonstrates outstanding potential for research in the field of computer and communication performance. The selection will be based on the impact of the candidate's work in the field in creating promising new ideas, paradigms and tools related to the performance analysis of computer and communication systems. Please submit all nominations via email by Friday April 24, 2015. For details about the nomination process see: http://www.sigmetrics.org/awards.shtml#risingstar

    That’s all for now!

    CFPs for Upcoming SIGCOMM-sponsored conferences:

    http://www.sigcomm.org/conferences/sponsored

    CFPs for Upcoming in-cooperation-with SIGCOMM conferences:

    http://www.sigcomm.org/conferences/cooperation

    https://twitter.com/acmsigcomm

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/sigcomm/

    https://www.linkedin.com/groups/ACM-SIGCOMM-7456557

  • March 2015 SIGCOMM Newsletter
    April 12, 2015

    Dear SIGCOMM Community Members,

    Who owns your research? What should be the role of associations like the ACM? Are they publishers who market science? Or should they strive to make it available to all for free? ACM SIGPLAN is running a poll on these questions in which we encourage you to participate:   http://goo.gl/vlCtn2
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    1. Nominations due for the ACM SIGCOMM Award for Lifetime Achievement

    2. SIGCOMM 2015 call for industrial demos

    2. Conext 2015 CFP

    3. Call for Participation: ACM SIGCOMM Symposium on SDN Research.

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    1. Nominations for the ACM SIGCOMM Award for Lifetime Achievement are due March 31. Read more about the award, the previous winners, and about the nomination process at:
    http://www.sigcomm.org/awards/sigcomm-awards
    http://www.sigcomm.org/awards/sigcomm-award-nominations

    2. The industrial demo session at SIGCOMM 2014 in Chicago had a great turnout and positive feedback, so it returns for SIGCOMM 2015. This session showcases demos from industry in the area of networking, networked systems, and networked applications, bringing industry and academia together around demos of innovative and cutting-edge networking products.
    Note the Submission Deadline of May 27. For details of the call see:
    http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2015/cfid.php

    3. CoNext 2015 will be taking place on December 1-4, 2015 in Heidelberg, Germany.
    Important Dates:
    Paper Registration: June 4, 2015 (20:59 PDT)
    Paper Submission: June 11, 2015 (20:59 PDT)
    Notification of Acceptance: September 4, 2015
    http://conferences2.sigcomm.org/co-next/2015/

    4. Building on the success of the HotSDN (Hot Topics in Software Defined Networking) workshop, the Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR) is the premiere venue for research publications on SDN. Co-locating SOSR with the Open Networking Summit (ONS) provides an opportunity for more interaction between researchers and practitioners and more influence on the networking industry. In addition, registered SOSR attendees can attend shared keynote, plenary, and panel sessions, and the social event, on June 17-18 at ONS.  Details at http://opennetsummit.org/sosr/sosr-register/

    That’s all for now!
    CFPs for Upcoming SIGCOMM-sponsored conferences:
    http://www.sigcomm.org/conferences/sponsored
    CFPs for Upcoming in-cooperation-with SIGCOMM conferences:
    http://www.sigcomm.org/conferences/cooperation

    https://twitter.com/acmsigcomm
    https://www.facebook.com/groups/sigcomm/
    https://www.linkedin.com/groups/ACM-SIGCOMM-7456557

  • February 2015 SIGCOMM Newsletter
    April 12, 2015

    Dear SIGCOMM Community Members,

    For those of you who submitted a paper to SIGCOMM 2015, I hope you appreciated the Friday evening deadline, giving you the whole weekend to spend quality time preparing your IMC 2015 submissions. If you narrowly missed the deadline, fear not! The CoNext 2015 deadline is around the corner, in addition to a number of interesting workshops, industrial demos, and poster sessions to be held with SIGCOMM 2015, providing you with plenty of opportunities to enjoy the European summer or winter. For a summary of the workshops, see http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2015/ and for CoNext 2015 details see item 4 below.

    Taking a broader view, it has been interesting to watch the net neutrality debate at the FCC (brief summary at http://www.cnet.com/news/fcc-and-net-neutrality-what-you-really-need-to-...). There seems to be an unexpectedly important role for comedians, TV presenters, and even adult video industry professionals in this debate, although many also believe that there’s no escape from first, business, and economy class data tariffs. I am certain that this year’s IMC will provide a forum for presenting new insight and thought-provoking results on this topic.

    Here is the news for this month:

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    1. Nominations due for the ACM SIGCOMM Award for Lifetime Achievement
    2. MeetGreen to help with SIGCOMM-sponsored conferences
    3. Cyber-security summer school to be held July 13-17 2015 in Estonia
    4. ACM CoNext 2015 details
    5. TMA Summer School

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    1. Nominations for the ACM SIGCOMM Award for Lifetime Achievement are due March 31. Read more about the award, the previous winners, and about the nomination process at http://www.sigcomm.org/awards/sigcomm-awards
    http://www.sigcomm.org/awards/sigcomm-award-nominations

    2. We are pleased to announce that that SIG has engaged MeetGreen <link goes here>, a meeting management company, to assist the general chairs and organization committees of our fully sponsored conferences.  MeetGreen will  reduce the strain on volunteers, ensure continuity across conferences, and contribute to sharing best practices  within and across conferences.

    3. A summer school on Information Security for PhD students and junior research is to be held in Estonia  from 13-17 July 2015. A number of researchers from the SIGCOMM community will attempt to answer questions on how to keep data safe, how to safely share it, how to anonymise it, what it takes to reverse engineer data, etc.. The event is supported by the Estonian government, EU metrics project, and ACM SIGCOMM, and is being conducted by Olaf Maennel (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia) and Jon Crowcroft (Cambridge University, UK). Details can be found at  http://studyitin.ee/c3s

    4. ACM Conext 2015 Conference will take place during December 1-4, 2015, in Heidelberg, Germany. Important dates and further info:

    Paper Registration: June 4, 2015 (20:59 PDT)
    Paper Submission: June 11, 2015 (20:59 PDT)
    Notification of Acceptance: September 4, 2015

    http://conferences2.sigcomm.org/co-next/2015/

    5. The program of the SIGCOMM-sponsored TMA school program is now available: http://tma-2015.cba.upc.edu/phd-school-program.
    The deadline for students to reserve rooms at the school rate is February 16, 2015. More information can be found at: http://www.tma-2015.cba.upc.edu/phd-school

    That’s all for now!

    CFPs for Upcoming SIGCOMM-sponsored conferences:
    http://www.sigcomm.org/conferences/sponsored
    CFPs for Upcoming in-cooperation-with SIGCOMM conferences:
    http://www.sigcomm.org/conferences/cooperation

    https://twitter.com/acmsigcomm
    https://www.facebook.com/groups/sigcomm/
    https://www.linkedin.com/groups/ACM-SIGCOMM-7456557

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