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Elections for new SIGCOMM officers are underway, to elect a new Chair, Vice-Chair, and Treasurer. Please vote! If you are a SIGCOMM member, you should be receiving an email with your ten-digit PIN, which you'll need to cast your votes. http://www.acm.org/sigs/elections 

See the bios and statements of the candidates at http://www.acm.org/sigs/elections/sigcomm-2013/sigcomm-2013-slate

This award to Teemu Koponen is in recognition of outstanding research contributions, early in his career, on Information Centric Networking, Accountable Internetworking, and Software Defined Networking. His architectural ideas are deep, have improved practice, and crucially, he has put in significant effort in figuring out how to actually make them happen.

Teemu gave the Keynote address at CoNEXT 2012 in Nice. More information about the Rising Star Award can be found here.

SIGCOMM Rising Star Award Nominations

The annual SIGCOMM Rising Star Award recognizes a young researcher who has made outstanding research contributions to the field of communication networks.

Description

Each year, ACM SIGCOMM will present a "Rising Star" Award, recognizing a young researcher - an individual no older than 35 - who has made outstanding research contributions to the field of communication networks during this early part of his or her career.  Depth, impact, and novelty of the researcher's contributions will be key criteria upon which the Rising Star award committee will evaluate the nominees.  Also of particular interest are strong research contributions made independently from the nominee's PhD advisor.

Nominations for the SIGCOMM Rising Star Award are due November 1, 2012.  Please see http://sigcomm.org/awards/sigcomm-rising-star-award for details on how to make a nomination.

Professors often rely on textbooks to teach undergraduate and graduate networking courses. While there are many good introductory textbooks, there are very few books on advanced networking topics that could be suitable to advanced graduate courses in networking. To fill this gap, SIGCOMM Education Committee launches a community project to develop a high-quality, open-source, edited ebook on “Recent Advances in Networking”. This ebook will be distributed online via the SIGCOMM website and released under a creative commons license.

The ebook developed within this project will be composed of chapters covering advanced networking topics and accompanying teaching material (slides, labs, exercises, …). All the source code of the ebook and the teaching material will on a version controlled repository that will be accessible for the entire SIGCOMM community. We expect that releasing such high quality teaching material will be beneficial for a large number of students and professors. The teaching material will be updated on a regular basis to reflect new advances in our field.

We invite submissions on a wide range of networking topics, including, but not limited to:

• Economic aspects of the Internet
• Enterprise, datacenter, and storage area networks
• Formal methods applied to networking problems
• Network architectures and algorithms
• Network management, operation and traffic engineering
• Network measurement and modelling and simulation
• Network security, vulnerability, and defenses
• Operating system and hardware support for networking
• Peer-to-peer, overlay, and content distribution networks
• Routing, switching, and addressing
• Technical aspects of online social networks
• Wireless, mobile, ad-hoc, and sensor networks

In order to aid with synchronisation of activities and coverage of material, at the first stage, we wish to collect Expression of Interest (EoI) for proposed chapters in the ebook. These EOIs can either be surveys that provide a broad introduction to a subfield or detailed descriptions of new techniques/protocols/... An EoI should be an extended abstract of few pages that describes the proposed chapter and references experience in teaching this topic at a graduate level and references existing material (slides, references, …). The ebook chapters will have to be original unpublished material. Prospective authors are encouraged to contact the editors by email to check the suitability of material and the fit within the scope. The received EoI and the submitted chapters will be reviewed by members of the editorial board and external reviewers.

Deadlines :

• October 15th, 2012 : EoI submission on http://crp.info.ucl.ac.be/SIGCOMM-ebook/
• November 15th, 2012 : Notification of acceptance for EoIs
• March 1st, 2013 : Submission deadline for ebook chapters
• Second quarter 2013 : Publication of the ebook after reviews of the submitted chapters

For more information about the scope and suitability of teaching material, please email:

Hamed Haddadi          hamed@eecs.qmul.ac.uk
Olivier Bonaventure    Olivier.Bonaventure@uclouvain.be

Review Committee (to be updated)

Ernst Biersack, Eurecom, France
Olivier Bonaventure, UCL, Belgium
Jon Crowcroft, Cambridge University, UK
Walid Dabbous, INRIA, France
Bruce Davie, Nicira, USA
Anja Feldmann, TUB/Deutsche Telekom Labs, Germany
Krishna Gummadi, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany
Timothy Griffin, Cambridge University, UK
Hamed Haddadi, QMUL, UK
Srinivasan Keshav, University of Waterloo, Canada
Jim Kurose, University of Massachussets, USA
Jean-Yves Le Boudec, EPFL, Switzerland
Nick McKeown, Stanford University, USA
Larry Peterson, Princeton University, USA

Jennifer Rexford, Princeton University, USA

David Wetherall, University of Washington, USA

Walter Willinger, AT&T Research, USA