Dear Colleague,
We would like to encourage you to submit research papers to SIGCOMM 2006--the premier conference on networking and computer communications--which will be held in Pisa, Italy on September 11th-15th. The CFP is attached below.
Our intent is for SIGCOMM 2006 to be very broad, inclusive of work across the entire spectrum of networking research, including wireless, network security, sensor networks, overlay, and peer-to-peer systems, in addition to more traditional SIGCOMM topics. To help encourage that breadth, we intend to accept approximately 50% more papers than in previous years. With your help, we believe this will lead to three very full, but also very interesting, days at the conference.
Further, we note that throughout the network research community, there is renewed interest in network architecture, and what the future Internet might be in 15-20 years. Fundamental "clean slate" approaches and radical new ideas are definitely encouraged.
We look forward to reading your submissions and to seeing you in Pisa in September.
Regards,
Tom Anderson & Nick McKeown PC Chairs, SIGCOMM 2006
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CALL FOR PAPERS ACM SIGCOMM 2006 Conference Pisa, Italy September 11th-15th, 2006
IMPORTANT DATES Workshop/Tutorial Proposals: November 15th, 2005 Paper registration/abstract: February 3rd, 2006 (required, hard deadline) Paper submission: February 10th, 2006 (hard deadline) Paper notification: May 1st, 2006 Camera-ready papers: June 21st, 2006
Please note that notifications to authors will occur in "rolling" fashion; that is, authors may receive decisions anytime between the submission deadline and notification date.
The SIGCOMM 2006 conference seeks papers describing significant research contributions to the field of computer and data communication networks. We invite submissions on network architecture, design, implementation, operations, analysis, measurement, and simulation.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Analysis and design of network architectures and algorithms * Experimental and measurement results from operational networks * Fundamental insights into network and traffic characteristics * Network fault-tolerance and reliability, debugging, and troubleshooting * Network management and traffic engineering * Network security, vulnerability, and defenses * Network, transport, and application-layer protocols * Networking issues for Web, multimedia, and gaming applications * Operating system and other host support for networking * Peer-to-peer, overlay, and content distribution networks * Resource management, quality of service, and signaling * Routing, switching, and addressing * Tools and techniques for network measurement and simulation * Wireless, mobile, ad-hoc, and sensor networks
SIGCOMM 2006 solicits full papers up to 12 pages in length, in two-column ACM conference format. SIGCOMM is a selective conference where full papers typically report novel results firmly substantiated by experimentation, simulation, or analysis.
We intend to publish public reviews of each accepted paper, to be written by the program committee. We also plan to host an open web discussion board for accepted papers prior to the conference.
As in previous years, SIGCOMM 2006 will have tutorials, workshops, a poster session, a student travel grant program, and a Student Paper Award. Details will be posted as they become available on the conference web site: http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm2006/
The conference will begin with a keynote by the 2006 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 Jennifer Rexford, jrex at cs.princeton.edu.
ORGANIZATION General Chair: Luigi Rizzo, Universita di Pisa
Program Chairs: Tom Anderson, University of Washington Nick McKeown, Stanford University
Conference Coordinator: Joe Touch, USC/Information Sciences Institute
Local Organization Chair: Giovanni Stea, Universita di Pisa
Treasurer: Gianluca Iannaccone, Intel Research Cambridge
Publicity Chair: Brad Karp, University College London
Workshop Chairs: Christophe Diot, Thomson, Paris Serge Fdida, University Paris 6, France
Tutorial Chair: Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Pisa