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ACM SIGCOMM'99 Call for Papers

  • From: Paul Skelly <pauls@gte.com>
  • Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 15:11:51 -0500

Please accept my apologies if you have already received a copy of this
posting...

The ACM SIGCOMM'99 Call for Papers posted below is
also available online at
http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm99/cfp.html.

paul skelly
pauls@gte.com
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                          Call for Papers
                     ACM SIGCOMM'99 Conference

Applications, Technologies, and Protocols for Computer Communication

                        Harvard University
                  Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

                       September 1 - 3, 1999
                    (Tutorials August 30 - 31)

               http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm99

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SIGCOMM'99 seeks papers describing significant contributions to the
broad
field of computer and data communication networks. Authors are invited
to
submit full papers concerned with both theory and practice. Papers
specifically focused on network infrastructure, management, and
distributed
application services are particularly encouraged. The areas of interest
include, but are not limited to:

   * Distributed application infrastructure paradigms
   * Distributed common application services, middleware protocols, and
     open signaling
   * High-speed networks, routing, and addressing
   * Layer-4 switching and layer-3 bypass mechanisms
   * Resource sharing, quality of service, multimedia networks, and OS
     support
   * Heterogeneous interworking, large-scale networks
   * Network management
   * Active network architectures and protocols
   * Important experimental results from operational networks and
lessons
     learned from prototype implementations
   * Wireless networking and support for mobile hosts
   * Analysis and design of computer network architectures and
algorithms
   * Protocol specification, verification, and analysis

Prospective authors should read How to "Increase the Chances Your Paper
is
Accepted at ACM SIGCOMM," at
http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/conference-misc/author-guide.html.

SIGCOMM'99 is a single-track, highly selective conference at which
successful submissions typically report results firmly substantiated by
experiment, implementation, simulation, or mathematical analysis. The
Program Committee may select a small number of submissions describing
promising work in progress. Authors should clearly identify such
submissions in their accompanying cover letter.

The SIGCOMM'99 committee is planning both an excellent technical program

and related activities. In addition to the presentation papers and
results,
SIGCOMM'99 will offer tutorials by noted instructors on the two days
preceding the actual conference, and a session during the conference at
which speakers may present outrageous opinions.

Submission Instructions

Authors must submit papers electronically, preferably via the web using
the
online instructions at http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm99/submit, or
alternatively by e-mail to <sigcomm-99@arl.wustl.edu>. Authors may make
hard
copy submissions only if they receive special permission from the
Program Co-Chairs.

Papers must be less than 20 double-spaced pages long (formatted for
printing in the Proceedings, papers may not be longer than 12 pages),
have
an abstract of 100 - 150 words, and be original material that has not
been
previously published nor is currently under review by another conference
or
journal. Any previous or simultaneous publication of related material
should be explicitly noted in the submission.

                              Important Dates
               Paper submissions           January 29, 1999
               Tutorial proposals         February 26, 1999
               Notification of acceptance    April 16, 1999
               Camera-ready papers due         May 21, 1999

Due to the high number of anticipated submissions, authors are
encouraged
to strictly adhere to the paper submission deadline. The Program
Committee
will not accept papers submitted after the deadline without an extension

granted by the Program Co-Chairs.

All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality and relevance

through double-blind reviewing, where the identities of the authors are
withheld from the reviewers. Authors' names should not appear on the
paper
or in the PostScript file for electronic submissions. E-mail submissions

require a cover letter that identifies the paper title and lists the
name,
affiliation, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address of all
authors.
Authors of accepted papers will need to sign an ACM copyright release
form
and present their paper at the conference. The Proceedings of the
conference will be published as a special issue of ACM SIGCOMM Computer
Communication Review. The Program Committee may also select a few papers

for possible publication in the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
Note
that electronic copies of the accepted papers will be published on the
SIGCOMM'99 web site prior to the conference unless authors specifically
request that this not be done.

Tutorials

SIGCOMM'99 will begin with two days of tutorials covering single topics
in
detail. Proposals are solicited from individuals interested in giving a
tutorial. Tutorials may be half or full day in length and cover topics
at
an introductory or advanced level. Proposals for tutorials should be
submitted to the Tutorial Chair at the address listed in the left
sidebar.
Include an extended abstract describing the topic and objectives, a
detailed outline of content, a description of the intended audience, a
biography of the speaker(s), and an indication of length (full or half
day). Individuals interested in submitting tutorial proposals are
encouraged to contact the Tutorial Chair before the deadline to discuss
the
proposed content.

Student Paper Award

Papers submitted by students may be entered in a student-paper award
contest. From among the accepted papers, a maximum of four will be
awarded
full conference registration and a travel grant of $500. To be eligible,

the student must be the sole author of the paper, or the first author
and
primary contributor. A cover letter must identify the paper as a
candidate
for this competition.

SIGCOMM Award

The keynote speaker at SIGCOMM'99 will be the 1999 winner of the ACM
SIGCOMM Award for lifetime contributions to the field of computer
communication. Procedures for nominating candidates for the SIGCOMM
Award
can be obtained from David C. Wood <woodd@stc.nato.int>.

Conference Committee

Chair                         Vice Chair
Lyman Chapin                  James P.G. Sterbenz
BBN Technologies              GTE Laboratories
10 Fawcett Street             40 Sylvan Road, MS-47
Cambridge, MA 02138-1175 USA  Waltham, MA 02454-1120 USA
+1 617 873 3133  phone        +1 781 466 2786  phone
+1 617 873 3243  fax          +1 781 466 2082  fax
<lyman@bbn.com>               <jpgs@acm.org>

Program Co-Chairs
Guru Parulkar                 Jonathan Turner
Washington University         Washington University
Dept. of Computer Science     Dept. of Computer Science
Campus Box 1045               Campus Box 1045
One Brookings Drive           One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899 USA  St. Louis, MO 63130-4899 USA
+1 314 935 7534  phone        +1 314 935 8552  phone
+1 314 935 7302  fax          +1 314 935 7302  fax
<guru@arl.wustl.edu>          <jst@arl.wustl.edu>

Treasurer
Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan
Computer Sciences
University of Texas
Austin, TX 78712-1188 USA
+1 512 471 9546  phone
+1 512 471 8885  fax
<chris@cs.utexas.edu>

Tutorial Chair
Ellen Zegura
College of Computing
Georgia Tech
801 Atlantic Drive
Atlanta, GA 30332-0280 USA
+1 404 894 1403  phone
+1 404 385 0332  fax
<ewz@cc.gatech.edu>

Program Committee

Paul Amer, University of Delaware
Vaduvur Bharghavan, University of Illinois
Pei Cao, University of Wisconsin
Simon Crosby, University of Cambridge
Jon Crowcroft, University College London
Gary Delp, IBM Server Group
Christophe Diot, Sprint
Deborah Estrin, University of Southern California
Sally Floyd, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories
Roch Guerin, University of Pennsylvania
David Johnson, Carnegie Mellon University
Jim Kurose, University of Massachusetts
Ian Leslie, University of Cambridge
Bryan Lyles, Sprint
Derek McAuley, Microsoft
Steve McCanne, University of California, Berkeley
Nick McKeown, Stanford University
Dave Oran, Cisco Systems
Craig Partridge, BBN Technologies
Guru Parulkar, Washington University
Vern Paxson, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories
Radia Perlman, Sun Microsystems
Bernhard Plattner, ETH Zurich
K.K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T Labs Research
Jim Roberts, France Telecom - CNET
Krishan Sabnani, Bell Labs
Scott Shenker, Xerox PARC
Jonathan Smith, University of Pennsylvania
Jonathan Turner, Washington University
George Varghese, Washington University
David Wetherall, MIT
Thomas Woo, Bell Labs
Raj Yavatkar, Intel
Ellen Zegura, Georgia Tech
Hui Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University