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[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

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                           SIGCOMM 98 CALL FOR PAPER


                     Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
                                        
                     TUTORIALS: August 31 to September 1
                     CONFERENCE: September 2 to September 4


IMPORTANT DATES
                    Paper submissions: 30 January 1998
                    Tutorial proposals: 27 February 1998
                    Notification of paper accept: 17 April 1998
                    Camera ready papers due: 22 May 1998


FOR MORE INFORMATION ACCESS THE HOME PAGE AT: www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm98
         
Sigcomm 98 is an international forum on computer communication network 
applications and technologies, architectures, protocols, and algorithms.


SIGCOMM'98 seeks papers about significant contributions to the broad field of 
computer and data communication networks. Authors are invited to submit full 
papers concerned with both theory and practice. Papers specifically
focusing on 
network infrastructure, management, and distributed application services are 
particularly encouraged. The areas of interest include, but are not limited
to:


* Distributed application infrastructure paradigms;
* Distributed common application services, middleware protocols, open
signaling;
* High-speed networks, routing and addressing;
* IP switching and layer-3 bypass mechanisms;
* Resource sharing, quality of service, multi-media networks, O.S. Support; 
  Heterogeneous interworking,large scale networks;
* Network management; Active network architectures and protocols;
* Experimental results from operational networks, lessons learned from 
  prototype implementations;
* Wireless networking, support for mobile hosts;
* Analysis and design of computer network architectures and algorithms, and 
  Protocol specification, verification, and analysis.


SIGCOMM'98 is a single-track, highly selective conference where successful 
submission typically report results firmly substantiated by experiment, 
implementation, simulation, or mathematical analysis.


The SIGCOMM'98 committee is planning both an excellent technical program and 
related activities. In addition to the presentation of papers and results, 
SIGCOMM'98 will offer tutorials by noted instructors on the two days
preceding 
the actual conference. We also plan an evening session where speculative 
results and outrageous opinions can be presented and discussed.


SIGCOMM'98 will begin with two days of tutorials, each of which is intended
to 
discover a single topic in detail. Proposals are solicited from individuals 
interested in presenting a tutorial, which may be either a half day (4 hours) 
or a full day in length and cover topics at an introductory or advanced
level. 
Tutorial submissions should  be made to the Tutorial Chair and include an 
extended abstract and outline (2-4 pages), and an indication of length, 
objectives, and intended audience.


General Chair:
 Gerald Neufeld
 Dept. of CS, University of British Columbia


PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:
 Jonathan M. Smith
 CIS Dept., University of Pennsylvania
 
 Gary S. Delp
 IBM AS/400 Division


TUTORIAL CHAIR:
 Bernhard Plattner
 Computer Eng. & Networks Laboratory, ETH Zurich




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