[e2e] ACM SIGCOMM 2006 Call for Papers

[SIGCOMM 2006]

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