SIGCOMM COMMUNITY FEEDBACK MEETING

August 16, 2011

Agenda

  Intro   SIGCOMM 2011 Highlights   Travel Grant Expansion   Doctoral Dissertation Award   Computer Communications Review   Education Chair   Sigcomm Conference   Open Discussion

SIG Officers

Bruce Davie Chair

Henning Schulzrinne Vice-Chair

Tilman Wolf Secretary/Treasurer

S. Keshav EIC, CCR

Mark Crovella Past Chair

See http://www.sigcomm.org/about/what-does-the-ec-do/

Neil Spring Information Director

Jau de Oliveira Conference Coordinator

Joe Touch Conference Coordinator

Emeritus

Bruce Maggs Awards Chair

Olivier Bonaventure Education Chair

SIG Finances

  ACM Guidelines  Maintain a minimum fund balance, as a fraction of expected

expenses for the year ($340k approx.)   The SIG’s budget is healthy

 More than double fund-balance requirements   This year’s events on balance made a moderate profit  We use those profits for SIG activities such as awards,

geodiversity grants, regional conference support, travel grants, publications, etc.

 We’ve actively increased the amount we’re putting back into the community this year

SIGCOMM Sponsored Conferences

  CoNEXT   SIGCOMM sponsored; European roots, broad scope; student workshop   December 6-9, 2011, Tokyo, Japan

  Internet Measurement Conference   SIGCOMM, SIGMETRICS in cooperation with USENIX   November 2-4, 2011, Berlin, Germany

  HotNets Workshop   Emphasis on emerging research directions   November 14-15, 2011, Cambridge, MA, USA

  Architectures for Networking and Communication Systems (ANCS)   Joint with SIGARCH, IEEE   October 3-4, 2011, Brooklyn, NY, USA

  Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys)   Joint with SIGMOBILE, SIGARCH, SIGOPS, SIGMETRICS, SIGBED and NSF   November 1-4, 2011, Seattle, WA, USA

Connecting with the Global Community

  Geodiversity grants   Support attendance at SIGCOMM from under-represented regions   Increased pool to $30k per year   Expanded eligibility to include grad students (as well as junior faculty)

  For several years we’ve supported AINTEC (Asian Internet Engineering Conf.) and LANC (Latin American Networking Conf.)   Invited speaker support   LANC Best paper winners received geodiversity grants

  Following SIGCOMM 2010 in India, extended support to COMSNETS   January 3-7, 2012, Bangalore, India   Best local paper authors receive geodiversity grants   Travel grants for students travelling from outside region

  We provide unrestricted student travel support to SIGCOMM, CoNEXT and ANCS conferences

Conferences “In Co-operation”

  Networked Systems Design & Implementation (NSDI)   USENIX, in cooperation with SIGCOMM & SIGOPS   March 30-April 1, 2011, Boston, MA, USA

  E-Energy: Energy efficient computing and networking   May 31-June 1, 2011, New York, NY, USA

  NOSSDAV   SIGMM, in cooperation with SIGCOMM & SIGOPS   June 1-3, Vancouver, Canada

  IPTComm: Principles, Systems and Applications of IP Telecommunications   August 1-2, 2011, Chicago, IL, USA

  ExtremeCom Workshop   September 28-30, 2011, Manaus, Brazil

  NetGames Workshop   in cooperation with SIGCOMM, SIGMM and IEEE ComSoc   October 6-7, 2011, Ottawa, Canada

  MMSYS: Multimedia Systems Conference   Sponsored by SIGMM   February 22-24, 2012, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Awards

  SIGCOMM   Test of Time   SIGCOMM Best Paper

  Best Student Paper was also best paper this year   SIGCOMM Rising Star

 Continuation of CoNEXT’s Rising Star Award   “recognizing a young researcher - generally, an individual

who has completed a PhD roughly within the past seven years - who has made outstanding research contributions during this early part of their career.”

 Nick Feamster in 2010

Doctoral Dissertation Award

  Introduced this year; $1500 award   Follows similar process as ACM’s overall dissertation

award   Committee appointed by SIGCOMM awards chair   Deadline October 31   http://www.sigcomm.org/awards/dissertation

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Industry-Academic Collaboration

  Aim: improve information flow in both directions   Industry has lots of interesting problems that would

benefit from academic research  Academics have lots of ideas/projects likely to be of

value to industry

  Progress:  Panel session at CoNEXT’10 was well received  All-star industry panel here, Thursday lunchtime

Communication

  Desire for “transparency” of EC clearly expressed   Attempting to address that through all communication means

at our disposal   CCR, print and online, just revamped   www.sigcomm.org

  Minutes of all monthly EC meetings now posted   Annual report for 2011 available   www.sigcomm.org/news/RSS

  Email discussion: sigcomm@postel.org   SIGCOMM members mailing list:

SIGCOMM-MEMBERS@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG   Facebook (SIGCOMM, not to be confused with SIGCOMM 2010)   blog.sigcomm.org – rather quiet this year

CCR Online Changes

  CCR online moving under www.sigcomm.org   Thanks to Neil Spring, Moritz Steiner   Considering “online only” Sigcomm memberships for

2012  Pay less money, kill fewer trees  Print will continue to be available

  Feedback Solicited!   infodir_sigcomm@acm.org

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sigcomm.org/ccr/papers

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CCR Issues by Year/Month

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Paper page: share, comment

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Papers by Author

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RSS: and this one for all CCR

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sigcomm.org is searchable

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Add type:paper for papers

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Education Chair

  Olivier Bonaventure has now been in the role for almost 18 months

  http://education.sigcomm.org  Resources for educators; textbook information; slidesets,

etc.  Contribute material!

  Workshop yesterday   Running CoNext shadow TPC   Involved in ACM/IEEE CS Curriculum effort

Conference Selectivity

  Concern that very high selectivity (acceptance < 15%) isn’t healthy

  TSC chartered (in part) to foster fair and transparent paper selection

  Fostering additional high-quality venues   E.g. CoNEXT, etc.

  Support ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking   Some recognition that CS should use journals more   SIG will pay extra page charges for fast-tracked papers

from our conferences and for papers extended in response to reviews

SIGCOMM TSC

  Aim: make the PC composition and review process the best we can   A Technical Steering Committee composed of individuals with strong

PC expertise provides store of institutional knowledge   TSC has clear set of responsibilities around the Technical aspects of

the SIGCOMM Conference   Select PC Chairs   Maintain records on what has/hasn’t worked   Maintain dialog with the SIGCOMM Community   Advise PC Chairs on PC composition   Advise PC Chairs on review process issues   Set policies/guidelines as needed related to technical program (e.g.

double submission, etc.)   No overlap with EC responsibilities (budget, logistics)

  PC Chairs maintain autonomy

TSC Members

  3 Ex-PC Chairs:  Jeff Mogul  K. K. Ramakrishnan  Dina Papagiannaki

  3 Appointed Members  Scott Shenker  Ernst Biersack  Jen Rexford

  1 ex-officio – SIGCOMM Conference Co-ordinator  Jau de Oliveira

SIGCOMM Conference Locations

  Now on three-year cycle: North America, Europe, and “Wild Card”

  Future SIGCOMM Locations   2012: Helsinki, Finland   2013: “Wild Card”

  Currently seeking 2-page site proposals: due October 31   See www.sigcomm.org

  2014: North America   SIGCOMM conference dates

 One week between mid August & first Monday in Sept   Rotating dates to avoid scheduling collisions

Get involved in SIGCOMM

  More than an annual conference!   Submit papers to our other sponsored or in-coop

conferences   Contribute to CCR and ToN

  Don’t forget the editorial section of CCR   Comment online on CCR   Offer to review submissions

  Share resources on education.sigcomm.org, get involved in curriculum development

  You can propose workshops at SIGCOMM, CoNEXT, or standalone

  Contact any EC member for more ideas