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It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the UCLA Campus for SIGCOMM 2017, the flagship conference of the ACM Special Interest
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August 9, 2017, New York – The Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM), today announced highlights of SIGCOMM 2017, its annual flagship conference to be held at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) August 21 – 25, 2017.  
Group on Data Communications! This is the 50th Anniversary of ACM SIGCOMM and we are proud to organize this important edition of
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the conference in California. We have put together an inspiring technical program including 36 fulllength
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Communication networks and their underlying infrastructure continue to evolve with the rise of the information economy, bringing new challenges as well as new avenues for development. In addition to the main conference, SIGCOMM 2017 will also feature nine workshops and eight tutorials on the latest advances in communication networks, including kernel-bypass networks; Big Data analytics and machine learning; networking and programming languages; and virtual/augmented reality, among others.
papers, including 3 from the
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Experience Track; a keynote talk by the SIGCOMM Award winner, Raj Jain; the announcement of the SIGCOMM TestofTime
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This is the 50th Anniversary of ACM SIGCOMM and we are proud to organize this important edition of the conference in California.
Awards; 9 workshops; 8 tutorials; and 32 posters, 20 demos and 5 industrial demos.
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We continue the recent tradition of having “topic preview sessions” and “mentoring moments” as part of the SIGCOMM conference.
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Workshops and Tutorials
Topic previews give an introductory view about the topics to be addressed in depth during technical sessions. Mentoring gives graduate
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students an opportunity to meet with wellknown
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SIGCOMM 2017 also features nine full-day workshops and three full-day and five half-day tutorials.
researchers and receive feedback on their research ideas.
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The workshops cover the following
The conference venue is located at the UCLA campus, in the brand new UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center. The social
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==Topics=
program includes a welcome reception at the conference venue, a banquet to taste an eclectic mix of cuisines held at the Dickson Plaza on
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* Mobile edge communication
campus, and a student dinner that gives a chance for student participants to interact with industry representatives, members of the ACM
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* Kernel-bypass networks
SIGCOMM Executive Committee, the Program Committee, the Organizing Committee and other invitees from the community.
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* Big Data analytics and machine learning
We have made arrangements to allow members of the community unable to physically attend the SIGCOMM conference to participate
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* Internet Quality-of-Experience
remotely, by live streaming the talks from the main conference as well as all the workshops. We hope this added effort in allowing
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* Networking and programming languages
SIGCOMM to be more inclusive will widen interest in the technical area that is already a significant part of the fabric of our current
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* Container networking
connected society, and will enable us to cross boundaries and continue to communicate and interact socially.
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* Mobility in the evolving Internet architecture
It is a challenge to organize a large and increasingly complex event like SIGCOMM. A successful SIGCOMM conference is only made
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* Virtual reality and augmented reality networks
possible by voluntary contributions of many people. We thank Alex Snoeren and Walter Willinger for leading a dedicated program
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* Reproducibility
committee; Peter Reiher for local arrangements; Bruce Maggs and David Oran for organizing workshops; Bharathan Balaji for
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managing the video recording and streaming arrangements; Giovanni Pau for managing corporate support and fundraising;
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The tutorials introduce participants to topics such as:
Matthias
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==Topics==
Wahlisch, Jeff Burke, Nicholas Zhang, David Meyer and Puneet Sharma for jointly organizing posters and demonstrations (both
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* Millimeter-wave wireless networking and sensing
from the research community and industry); Sergey Gorinsky for singlehandedly
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* Named data networking
managing all publication matters; Jiasi Chen for
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* Adaptive streaming
handling registrations; Hamed Haddadi and Lan Wang for attracting and dealing with a record number of travel grant requests; Alex
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* P4 -> NetFPGA
Afanasyev, Mayutan Arumaithurai, and Dan Li for publicity of the various events; Lars Eggert and Lili Qiu for organizing tutorials;
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* Programming the data plane
Fahad Dogar for organizing mentoring sessions; Minlan Yu for her role as treasurer; Vishal Misra and Vyas Sekar for the student
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* Understanding latency
research competition; Ethan KatzBassek
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* The Netmap framework for NFV applications
and Justine Sherry for taking care of Topic Preview sessions; Radhika Niranjan Mysore for
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* Low latency communication for connected cars
organizing the N2Women workshop. Special thanks to Alex Afanasyev and Vahab Pournaghshband for managing the website so well,
 
and being so responsive. We also appreciate the help of Srinivasan Keshav and Yashar Ganjali, for helping with ACM matters; and the
 
ACM HQ staff (Abigail Sumandal) and Meetgreen (Shereen Vesalpour), with whom working has been a pleasure.
 
Last but not least, we would like to express our sincere appreciation to the SIGCOMM 2017 supporters. Cisco Systems, Facebook,
 
Ericsson, Huawei, Google, Intel, Alibaba Group, ThousandEyes, Barefoot Networks, Verizon Digital Media Services, Microsoft,
 
Amazon, Akamai, Telefonica, NetApp, VMWare, Comcast, BigDAMA
 
and NSF all generously contributed to SIGCOMM 2017. Their
 
support enabled us to provide a large travel program to help a large number of attendees (especially students) who would otherwise find it
 
difficult to attend. We also sincerely thank the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science for hosting SIGCOMM
 
2017 and being generous in allowing the use of their excellent facilities.
 
We hope you enjoy SIGCOMM 2017!
 
K. K. Ramakrishnan and Lixia Zhang
 
SIGCOMM 2017 General CoChairs
 

Latest revision as of 07:07, 11 May 2020

SIGCOMM 2017
Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication
Event in series SIGCOMM
Dates 2017/08/21 (iCal) - 2017/08/25
Homepage: http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2017
Location
Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Committees
General chairs: K. K. Ramakrishnan, Lixia Zhang
PC chairs: Walter Willinger, Alex Snoeren
Keynote speaker: Raj Jain
Table of Contents


August 9, 2017, New York – The Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM), today announced highlights of SIGCOMM 2017, its annual flagship conference to be held at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) August 21 – 25, 2017.

Communication networks and their underlying infrastructure continue to evolve with the rise of the information economy, bringing new challenges as well as new avenues for development. In addition to the main conference, SIGCOMM 2017 will also feature nine workshops and eight tutorials on the latest advances in communication networks, including kernel-bypass networks; Big Data analytics and machine learning; networking and programming languages; and virtual/augmented reality, among others.

This is the 50th Anniversary of ACM SIGCOMM and we are proud to organize this important edition of the conference in California.

Workshops and Tutorials

SIGCOMM 2017 also features nine full-day workshops and three full-day and five half-day tutorials. The workshops cover the following

=Topics

  • Mobile edge communication
  • Kernel-bypass networks
  • Big Data analytics and machine learning
  • Internet Quality-of-Experience
  • Networking and programming languages
  • Container networking
  • Mobility in the evolving Internet architecture
  • Virtual reality and augmented reality networks
  • Reproducibility

The tutorials introduce participants to topics such as:

Topics

* Millimeter-wave wireless networking and sensing
* Named data networking
* Adaptive streaming
* P4 -> NetFPGA
* Programming the data plane
* Understanding latency
* The Netmap framework for NFV applications
* Low latency communication for connected cars