From Olivier.Bonaventure at uclouvain.be Fri Apr 8 05:34:49 2011 From: Olivier.Bonaventure at uclouvain.be (Olivier Bonaventure) Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:34:49 +0200 Subject: [sigcomm] SIGCOMM education : 2011 workshop and CoNEXT2011 shadow TPC Message-ID: <4D9F00E9.9090405@uclouvain.be> Hello, As you probably know, we have restarted new educational activities within SIGCOMM. The first activity was the launch of the education website on http://education.sigcom.org that allows networking educators to share information about networking courses. Another educational initiative is the SIGCOMM 2011 Education workshop. This workshop will be an excellent opportunity to discuss and provide recommendations on how to best provide networking education. We encourage all members of the community to have a look at the position papers posted on the education web site and submit their own position papers. See http://education.sigcomm.org/Workshop2011 Furthermore, in parallel with the CoNext 2011 conference, we organise a shadow TPC for recent PhD graduates. Reviewing and selecting papers by participating in Technical Program Committee (TPC) are important aspects of a researcher's work. These are not formal parts of a PhD curriculum, and most young researchers are only trained on the spot. Opportunities to participate in TPCs for highly selective conference are very scarce in an early career. As a result, for many young researchers, the paper selection process at major conferences is almost opaque and this lack of understanding can even be, in some cases, the cause of great frustration. Meanwhile, the community strives to maintain a high quality review process. The CoNEXT 2011 shadow TPC is an educational experience for young PhD graduates, post docs and junior researchers. Participants will write real reviews for real papers submitted to CoNEXT 2011, which are then discussed in a Shadow TPC meeting organized in Toronto on Friday August 19th, 2011. Young researchers who are willing to participate to the CoNEXT 2011 shadow TPC are invited to register by April 25th, 2011. Additional information is available at : http://education.sigcomm.org/News/Conext2011ShadowTPC Olivier Bonaventure SIGCOMM Education director From nicolasc at gmail.com Sun Apr 24 07:56:39 2011 From: nicolasc at gmail.com (Nicolas Christin) Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 10:56:39 -0400 Subject: [sigcomm] ACM SIGCOMM 2011: Call for Posters Message-ID: SIGCOMM 2011 - Call for Posters [Note updated deadline -- less than a month ago] The SIGCOMM poster session showcases works-in-progress. The setting is informal. Topics of interest are the same as research topics in the SIGCOMM conference call for papers. Although anyone can submit a poster, preference will be given to posters where the primary contribution is from one or more students. The SIGCOMM 2011 Poster and Demo committee will review all demo proposals. At the conference, a student must present student posters. Authors of accepted papers in SIGCOMM 2011 may not submit a poster on the same work in those papers. Student Research Competition The SIGCOMM poster session will also serve as an ACM student research competition. Qualified entrants must have current ACM student membership, have graduate or undergraduate student status at the time of submission (May 2011, below), and be submitted by a single student author. Supervisors are not permitted to coauthor the poster. (Please contact the poster chairs if this restriction represents a hardship.) Undergraduates and graduate students will be treated in separate divisions. (Students starting their first year of graduate school at the time of the conference will be considered as undergraduates.) A small travel supplement is made available to accepted entrants: please also submit applications for travel grant support. The ACM SRC program is sponsored by Microsoft Research. Winners will advance to ACM Grand Finals of the Student Research Competition to compete against the winners of other ACM conferences. Why Should You Submit a Poster? This is a great chance especially for students to obtain interesting and valuable feedback on ongoing research from a knowledgeable crowd at the conference. In addition, top few submissions will be forwarded for publication to ACM SIGCOMM's newletter, the ACM Computer Communication Review (CCR). Travel Grants for Student Posters Students who are submitting posters are highly encouraged to examine if they are eligible for student travel grants. What is a Poster? We define a poster to be A0 paper size in portrait mode (841x1189mm), to which you can affix visually appealing material that describes your research. Alternatively, you can use the space as a continuum. You should prepare the best material (visually appealing and succinct) that effectively communicates your research problem, techniques, results, and what is novel and important about your work. Note that you do not submit such a large-format image; only an abstract describing in text what the poster would present. What and Where to Submit Please submit a two-page abstract on the work to https://sigcomm2011posters.cs.wisc.edu. The decision will be taken primarily by reading the abstract. Submissions are single blind, so please include authors' names and affiliation. Content: The abstract should clearly state: ? the problem being addressed; ? what makes this problem interesting, important, and difficult; ? your approach to the problem; ? the key contribution In the final version of the abstract, you should include a URL that provides additional information about your work to the attendees. Formatting: Prepare your abstract using ACM conference style, modified to 10pt. Concretely, two columns, minimum 10pt times with 0.75 inch margins and 1/3 inch space between columns. The abstract must be within the page limit and in PDF format. Word documents will not be accepted. At the conference, we will distribute the abstracts to all conference attendees. Important dates Submission Deadline May 16, 2011 (11:59 PDT) Acceptance Notification June 5, 2011 Camera Ready Deadline June 15, 2011 Poster and Demo Committee Poster/Demo Co-Chairs Aditya Akella University of Wisconsin--Madison, USA Lili Qiu University of Texas at Austin, USA Committee Members Fabian Bustamante Northwestern University, USA Nick Feamster Georgia Tech, USA Rodrigo Fonseca Brown University, USA Saikat Guha Microsoft Research, India Sue Moon KAIST, Korea Sneha Kumar Kasera University of Utah, USA Li Erran Li Bell Labs, USA David Oran Cisco, USA Vyas Sekar Intel Labs at Berkeley, USA Neil Spring University of Maryland, USA Lakshminarayanan Subramanian New York University, USA Kun Tan Microsoft Research Asia, China Jia Wang Purdue University, USA Xiaowei Yang Duke University, USA From nicolasc at gmail.com Sun Apr 24 08:08:38 2011 From: nicolasc at gmail.com (Nicolas Christin) Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 11:08:38 -0400 Subject: [sigcomm] ACM SIGCOMM 2011: Call for Demos Message-ID: SIGCOMM 2011 - Call for Demos [Note updated deadline -- less than a month ago] The SIGCOMM demo session showcases technical demonstrations, exhibits, and prototypes. Research demonstrations should present innovative research prototypes that show new research related to the topics included in the SIGCOMM conference call for papers. What and Where to Submit Please submit a three-page abstract to https://sigcomm2011posters.cs.wisc.edu. The decision will be taken primarily by reading the abstract. Content: The abstract should include: ? Goals of the demo and the basic idea that it supports ? Any related publications or technical reports ? Equipment to be used for the demo (Note that we provide only the space and wireless Internet access.) ? Space needed ? Setup time required ? Additional facilities needed, including power and Internet access requirements ? A URL with any extra information, if needed ? Whether the demo is eligible for the student travel grant; if applicable, please identify the lead student(s) and affiliation(s) ? Submissions are single blind, so please include authors' names and affiliation. Accepted demos will be expected to contribute a two-page abstract for the conference proceedings or archive. Obviously, this will not include details about setup time and equipment, but should instead focus on the idea and include screenshots or other images from the live demonstration as needed. At the conference, we will distribute the abstracts to all attendees. Formatting: Prepare your abstract using ACM conference style, modified to 10pt. Concretely, two columns, minimum 10pt Times with 0.75 inch margins and 1/3 inch space between columns. The abstract must be within the page limit and in PDF format. Word documents will not be accepted. The SIGCOMM 2011 Poster and Demo committee will review all demo proposals. Top few demos may be invited for publication as extended abstracts at ACM SIGCOMM's newsletter, the ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR). Important dates Submission Deadline May 16, 2011 (11:59 PDT) Acceptance Notification June 5, 2011 Camera Ready Deadline June 15, 2011 Poster and Demo Committee Poster/Demo Co-Chairs Aditya Akella University of Wisconsin--Madison, USA Lili Qiu University of Texas at Austin, USA Committee Members Fabian Bustamante Northwestern University, USA Nick Feamster Georgia Tech, USA Rodrigo Fonseca Brown University, USA Saikat Guha Microsoft Research, India Sue Moon KAIST, Korea Sneha Kumar Kasera University of Utah, USA Li Erran Li Bell Labs, USA David Oran Cisco, USA Vyas Sekar Intel Labs at Berkeley, USA Neil Spring University of Maryland, USA Lakshminarayanan Subramanian New York University, USA Kun Tan Microsoft Research Asia, China Jia Wang Purdue University, USA Xiaowei Yang Duke University, USA From swc at iis.sinica.edu.tw Mon Apr 25 03:58:27 2011 From: swc at iis.sinica.edu.tw (Sheng-Wei (Kuan-Ta) Chen) Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:58:27 +0800 Subject: [sigcomm] NOSSDAV 2011 Call for Participation Message-ID: <000c01cc0337$b4c33b80$1e49b280$@sinica.edu.tw> [Apologies if you receive this more than once] ++++++++++++++++++++ [ NOSSDAV 2011 Call for Participation ] ++++++++++++++++++++++ The 21th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video June 2 -- 3, 2011 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada http://nss.cs.ubc.ca/nossdav2011/ *Registration now open!* Early registration deadline: May 1, 2011 We invite you to attend NOSSDAV 2011, the 21st anniversary of SIGMM's leading workshop on network and operating systems support for digital audio and video. The workshop, hosted at the University of British Columbia (UBC), will continue to focus on emerging research topics, controversial ideas, and future research directions in the area of multimedia systems research. As in previous years, we will maintain the focused single-track format a setting that stimulates lively discussions among the senior and junior participants. ** Technical Program: http://nss.cs.ubc.ca/nossdav2011/program.html ** Registration: http://nss.cs.ubc.ca/nossdav2011/registration.html If you have any questions, please get in touch with the co-chairs: Charles "Buck" Krasic (Google Inc., USA) Kang Li (University of Georgia, USA) (kangli at cs.uga.edu) NOSSDAV 2011 PROGRAM AT A GLANCE ================================ ** June 1, 2011 ** 1700 - 1900 Reception at Computer Science lounge ** June 2, 2011 ** Keynote Speech Jim Bankoski (Google Inc.) - Topic: WebM/VP8 Session 1: Streaming - LAN-Awareness: Improved P2P Live Streaming - In-Network Adaptation of H.264/SVC for HD Video Streaming over 802.11g Networks - Media-aware Networking for SVC-based P2P Streaming Session 2: Wireless & Mobile Media Delivery - Mobile Video Streaming Using Location-Based Network Prediction and Transparent Handover - The Impact of Inter-layer Network Coding on the Relative Performance of MRC/MDC WiFi Media Delivery - A Measurement Study of Resource Utilization in Internet Mobile Streaming Session 3: Social Media - Understanding Demand Volatility in Large VoD Systems - Sharing Social Content from Home: A Measurement-driven Feasibility Study - Load-Balanced Migration of Social Media to Content Clouds Banquet ** June 3, 2011 ** Session 4: Networking - Improving HTTP performance using "Stateless" TCP - A DTN Mode for Reliable Internet Telephony - Inferring the time-zones of Prefixes and Autonomous Systems by monitoring game server discovery traffic Session 5: Systems - GPU-based Fast Motion Estimation for On-the-Fly Encoding of Computer-Generated Video Streams - SAS Kernel: Streaming as a Service Kernel for Correlated Multi-Streaming - Managing Home and Network Storage of Television Recordings."I filled my DVR again! Now what?" Session 6: Media Adaptation - Moving Beyond the Framebuffer - Systems Support for Stereoscopic Video Compression - Accurate and Low-Delay Seeking Within and Across Mash-Ups of Highly-Compressed Videos Session 7: Foundation of Media Communication - Scalable Video Transmission: Packet Loss Induced Distortion Modeling and Estimation - Energy-efficient video streaming from high-speed trains - Celerity: Towards Low-Delay Multi-Party Conferencing Concluding Remarks