The 2010 ACM SIGCOMM organization and program
committees are delighted to invite you to submit your
original and innovative work to the first ever SIGCOMM in
India. SIGCOMM 2010 is the annual conference of the ACM
Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM)
on the applications, technologies, architectures, and
protocols for computer communication.

Important Dates
Paper Title and Abstract: January 22, 2010
Full Paper Submission: January 29, 2010
Acceptance Notification: May 10, 2010
Camera Ready Due: June 28, 2010
Conference: August 30 – September 3, 2010

Submissions
SIGCOMM is a highly selective conference where full papers
typically report novel results firmly substantiated by
experimentation, simulation, or analysis. Submissions can be
up to 14 pages in length, in two-column 10pt format. Please
see the submission instructions on the conference Web site
for complete details. Note that accepted camera-ready
papers will be 12 pages in length, in two-column format with
9pt font.
Continuing conference tradition, SIGCOMM 2010 will have a
series of co-located workshops, a poster and demo session,
an extensive travel grant program, and conference best paper
and SIGCOMM awards.

Call for Papers
The SIGCOMM 2010 conference seeks papers describing
significant research contributions to the field of computer
and data communication networks. We invite submissions on
a wide range of networking research, including, but not
limited to:
• Design, implementation, and analysis of network architectures and algorithms
• Experimental results from operational networks or network applications
• Insights into network and traffic characteristics
• Network management and traffic engineering
• Network security, vulnerability, and defenses
• Network, transport, and application-layer protocols
• Networking issues for Web applications, VoIP, gaming
• Online social networks
• Operating system and host support for networking
• Peer-to-peer, overlay, and content distribution networks
• Fault tolerance, reliability, and troubleshooting
• Resource management, quality of service, and signaling
• Routing, switching, and addressing
• Techniques for network measurement and simulation
• Enterprise, datacenter, and storage area networks
• Wireless, mobile, ad-hoc, and sensor networks

General Chairs
Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, IBM India Research Lab, India
Venkat Padmanabhan, Microsoft Research, India

Vice Chairs
K.K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T Labs – Research, USA
Rajeev Shorey, NIIT University, India

Technical Program Committee Chairs
K.K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T Labs – Research, USA
Geoffrey M. Voelker, U.C. San Diego, USA

Local Arrangements Chairs
Anukool Lakhina, Guavus Network Systems, India
Vinay Ribeiro, IIT Delhi, India
Sudipta Maitra, IBM Daksh, India

Workshop Chairs
Christophe Diot, Thomson, France
Jim Kurose, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

Publicity Chairs
Ranjita Bhagwan, Microsoft Research, India
Sue Moon, KAIST, South Korea

Poster/Demo Chairs
Bhaskaran Raman, IIT Bombay, India
Neil Spring, University of Maryland, USA

Travel Grant Chairs
Kevin Almeroth, U.C. Santa Barbara, USA
Huzur Saran, IIT Delhi, India

Publication Chair
Sergey Gorinsky, Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies in
Networks (IMDEA Networks), Spain

Registration Chairs
Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Krishna Sivalingam, IIT Madras, India

Web Chair
Partha Dutta, IBM India Research Laboratory, India

Academic Advisory Committee
B.N. Jain, IIT Delhi, India
Anurag Kumar, IISc, Bangalore, India

Program Committee
Kevin Almeroth, U.C. Santa Barbara, USA
Jean Bolot, Sprint Labs, USA
Ramon Caceres, AT&T Labs – Research, USA
Augustin Chaintreau, Thomson, France
Reuven Cohen, Technion, Israel
Bruce Davie, Cisco, USA
Cristian Estan, NetLogic Microsystem, USA
Ramesh Govindan, University of Southern California, USA
Timothy G. Griffin, University of Cambridge, UK
Chuanxiong Guo, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Mark Handley, University College London, UK
Kyle Jamieson, University College London, UK
Kevin Jeffay, University of North Carolina, USA
S. Keshav, University of Waterloo, Canada
Murali Kodialam, Bell Labs, USA
Arvind Krishnamurthy, University of Washington, USA
Srikanth Krishnamurthy, U.C. Riverside, USA
Joy Kuri, Indian Institute of Science, India
Jinyang Li, NYU, USA
Michael Mitzenmacher, Harvard University, USA
Jeff Mogul, HP Labs, USA
Sue Moon, KAIST, Korea
Robert Morris, MIT, USA
Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Purdue University, USA
David Oran, Cisco, USA
Jitu Padhye, Microsoft Research Redmond, USA
Balaji Prabhakar, Stanford University, USA
Niels Provos, Google, USA
Bhaskaran Raman, IIT Bombay, India
Ram Ramjee, Microsoft Research, India
Jennifer Rexford, Princeton University, USA
Pablo Rodriguez, Telefonica Research, Spain
Matthew Roughan, University of Adelaide, Australia
Antony Rowstron, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
Srinivasan Seshan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Aman Shaikh, AT&T Labs – Research, USA
Prashant Shenoy, Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Emin Gün Sirer, Cornell University, USA
Neil Spring, University of Maryland, USA
Renata Teixeira, LIP6 / CNRS, France
Patrick Thiran, EPFL, Switzerland
Don Towsley, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Jon Turner, Washington University, USA
Amin Vahdat, U.C. San Diego, USA
Anwar Walid, Bell Labs, USA
Matt Welsh, Harvard University, USA
Walter Willinger, AT&T Labs – Research, USA
Yinglian Xie, Microsoft Research SVC, USA
Yin Zhang, University of Texas at Austin, USA