From sunshine at cis.udel.edu Wed May 9 20:30:17 2007 From: sunshine at cis.udel.edu (Jelena Mirkovic) Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 23:30:17 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [sigcomm] SIGCOMM student posters and travel grants - deadline approaching In-Reply-To: References: <20060314211751.GA3591@beaver.cs.dartmouth.edu> Message-ID: POSTERS Student posters are due on May 14. Although anyone can submit a poster, preference will be given to posters where the primary contribution is from one or more students. Posters will be reviewed by members of the SIGCOMM Poster Session Committee. At the conference, student posters must be presented by a student. Authors of accepted papers in SIGCOMM 2007 may not submit a poster on the same work in those papers. URL for poster CFP is http://www.sigcomm.org/sigcomm2007/poster.html. TRAVEL GRANTS Travel grant applications are due on May 21. Thanks to the supporting organizations, SIGCOMM2007 has three travel grants programs: GeoDiversity Travel Grants for faculties and researchers, US Minority Faculty Travel Grants and Student Travel Grants. The application processes are the same for the three travel grants. ACM SIGCOMM GeoDiversity Travel Grants are for people holding faculty and researcher positions in their early career (at most five years of full-time, full-level [non-postdoc] post-PhD employment) from under-represented countries. Roughly 5-10 awardees will be selected. US Minority Faculty Travel Grants are for US-based minority faculties. Roughly 2 awardees will be selected. Student Travel Grants are for students only. Roughly 15-20 awardees will be selected. The committee strongly prefers applicants who are not paper authors (the committee believes that authors' home organizations should cover costs for authors). Here, 'author' means any named author on a conference or workshop paper. URL with more details about travel grants is: http://www.sigcomm.org/sigcomm2007/travelgrants.html For SIGCOMM organizers: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jelena Mirkovic, Assistant Professor CIS, University of Delaware 412 Smith Hall, Newark, DE 19716 phone: 302-831-6052, fax: 302-831-8458 http://www.cis.udel.edu/~sunshine ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From christophe.diot at thomson.net Wed May 16 11:03:09 2007 From: christophe.diot at thomson.net (Christophe Diot) Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 20:03:09 +0200 Subject: [sigcomm] SIGCOMM 07 announces a Karaoke outrageous opinion session Message-ID: <464B475D.1020805@thomson.net> The 2007 vintage of the outrageous opinion session will offer you two different ways to deliver your outrageous message: - As usual, you will be able to use a 5mns slot with as many slides as you want to bash Sigcomm, gossip on some community member(s), etc. Whatever, as long as it is not boring and makes us laugh. - If you're not sure about your skills to make us laugh, you can sing or speak your outrageous opinion on a popular song. Karaoke OOS speakers will be offered a sake warm-up and a gift at the end of the session. We inform early so that you can prepare yourself! If you interested in any of the two options, please send an email message to christophe.diot at thomson.net to register and, in case of the karaoke option, to notify us with your song selection. The session will last one hour priority will be given to outrageous karaoke opinions! -- http://thlab.net From jrex at CS.Princeton.EDU Sun May 20 14:58:59 2007 From: jrex at CS.Princeton.EDU (Jennifer Rexford) Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 17:58:59 -0400 Subject: [sigcomm] DIMACS Tutorial on Algorithms for Next Generation Networks Message-ID: <005c01c79b2a$13a80a60$6601a8c0@LapCat> DIMACS Tutorial on Algorithms for Next Generation Networks August 6 - 8, 2007 DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University Organizers: Graham Cormode, AT & T Labs, graham at dimacs.rutgers.edu Marina Thottan, Bell Labs, marinat at lucent.com Presented under the auspices of the Special Focus on Algorithmic Foundations of the Internet. ************************************************ Because of the tremendous success of the Internet, data networking now plays a major role in everyday life, and new applications continue to appear at a blinding pace. Yet, we still do not have a sound foundation for designing, evaluating, and managing these networks. New algorithms and models can help us understand the behavior of existing networks, and guide us in designing future networks and protocols. With new research initiatives, such as FIND (Future Internet Design) and GENI (Global Environment for Network Innovations) at the NSF, these matters are highly relevant, with an opportunity for practical impact. This tutorial will begin the DIMACS Special Focus on Algorithmic Foundations of the Internet. The tutorial will cover topics at the intersection of algorithms and networking from experts in the area. The presentations will be suitable for graduate students or interested faculty looking for research topics, and will survey recent research and pose open questions. Topics planned include network design and provisioning; hardware issues from wireless and optical networks (access control and wavelength division multiplexing); layer-3 algorithms and MPLS, BGP and Inter AS routing; packet processing for routing, security, and network management; load balancing, oblivious routing, and stochastic algorithms; network coding for multicast; and overlay routing for P2P networking and content delivery. Planned tutorial titles include: * Spanning trees, ethernet issues, and layer 2 routing * Optical/wireless issues and other layer 1 factors * Packet processing and algorithms in the router: security, accounting and tracking * Overlay routing (P2P delivery, PlanetLab, consistent hashing, CDNs) * Load Balancing, queing and oblivious routing * Inter AS routing and BGP issues * Network design and provisioning * New issues in Coding and Information Theory, Network coding ******************************************************************** Limited Financial Support Limited financial support is expected to be available for students to attend the tutorial. How much we offer will depend on funds we raise for this purpose and on the number of applications received and might have to be limited to waiver of registration fees for some of the students. See website for application and complete details. ** Deadline for Applications: July 1, 2007.** ******************************************************** Workshop Program: (preliminary program) Monday, August 6, 2007 8:15 - 9:00 Breakfast and Registration 9:00 - 9:10 Introductory Remarks Fred Roberts, DIMACS Director 9:10 - 10:40 Next Generation Cellular Networks: Novel Features and Algorithms Harish Vishwanathan 10:40 - 11:00 Break 11:00 - 12:30 Optical physical layer issues in wavelength-division multiplexed networks Chris Doerr and Gordon Wilfong 12:30 - 2:15 Lunch 2:15 - 3:45 Network algorithms: routing and design Chandra Chekuri and Lisa Zhang 3:45 - 4:15 Break 4:15 - 5:45 Randomized Load Balancing and Oblivious Routing Peter Winzer and Marina Thottan 6:00 - 7:30 Reception / Dinner 7:45 Shuttle pick up to Holiday Inn Tuesday, August 7, 2007 8:30 - 9:00 Breakfast and Registration 9:00 - 10:30 Packet level algorithms: accounting and tracking Michael Mitzenmacher 10:30 - 10:50 Break 10:50 - 12:20 Data plane algorithms in routers: from prefix lookup to deep packet inspection Cristian Estan 12:20 - 1:50 Lunch 1:50 - 3:50 Network coding: An algorithmic approach Tracey Ho and Alex Sprintson 3:50 - 4:15 Break 4:15 - 5:45 Overlay Networks: Indirection and Virtualization Chen-nee Chuah 6:30 Shuttle pick up to Holiday Inn Wednesday, August 8, 2007 8:30 - 9:00 Breakfast and Registration 9:00 - 10:30 Inter-AS routing Nick Feamster 10:30 - 11:00 Break 11:00 - 12:30 An Overview of BGP Plus Connections to Stable Matchings Gordon Wilfong 12:30 - 2:15 Lunch 2:15 - 3:45 Panel discussion 3:45 - 4:30 Break / discussion 4:30 Close ******************************************************************** Registration: (Pre-registration deadline: July 30, 2007) Please see website for complete registration details. ********************************************************************* Information on participation, registration, accomodations, and travel can be found at: http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/NextGenerationNetworks/ **PLEASE BE SURE TO PRE-REGISTER EARLY** ********************************************************************