Opening Session + Awards

Opening

• Event is a success. A lot of people registered for the conference. 
• All proceedings are online. Papers will be available online for perpetual access.
• Big thanks to the supporters. Visit the Illumination Rooms for exhibits and demos.
• Thanks to NSF for student grants, UCLA and the organizing committee.
• Thanks to authors, TPC members, tutorial speakers, and participants.

PC Chairs:

• Conference went back to single-tier PC model.
• 30% of the members were first-timers.
• Members reviewed 20-25 submissions and attended PC meetings.
• Submissions:
• 250 submissions (10% more than in 2016)
• 15 authors submitted more than 4 papers. 1 author submitted 7 papers.
• Reviewing process:
• Round 1: received 3 reviews. Submission moved on if more than 1 positive review.
• Round 2: 127 Submission received additional 3 reviews. 
• Round 3: 70 submissions received additional review by an expert (>=3 expertise).
• In-person PC meeting
• 1.5 day PC meeting at UCSD
• 65 papers discussed with 6-8 reviews for each paper
• 36 accepted papers (3 experience track papers)
• Each paper was shepherded by PC

Score vs #Authors:

• Single authored paper had a very hard time.

Conference:

• 215 authors got their submissions accepted.
• 40 academic institutes and 20 companies, 15 different countries on 5 continents
• 36 accepted papers. 2 CCR papers

Awards

Best Paper Awards:

(Chair: Dina Papagiannaki)

PC members nominate papers. Chair authored papers are not eligible.

The following papers received the best paper awards

• Re-architecturing datacenter networks and stacks for low latency and high performance
• Handley et al.
• Language-directed hardware design for network performance monitoring
• Narayana et al.

Test of time awards:

Has to have been accepted at an ACM conference before. Awarded to papers that have impacted a lot in the area.

      2017 Test of Time Awards:

• Ethane: Taking control of the Enterprise (SIGCOMM 2007)
• Casado et al.
• impacted the software-defined networking paradigm
• Measurement and analysis of online social networks (IMC 2007)
• Mislove et al.
• made an early contribution in the field of social networks

      2016 Test of Time Awards:

      Committee: Ratul Mahajan, Dina Papagiannaki, Jennifer Rexford, Vyas Sekar.

• Link-level measurements from an 802.11b mesh network (SIGCOMM 2004)
• Aguayo et al.
• A first-principles approach to understanding the Internet's router-level topology (SIGCOMM 2004)
• Li et al.

SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award:

for dissertations that were completed in 2016

• Middleboxes as a cloud service
• Justine Sherry
• Power, Communication and Sensing Solutions for Energy Constrained Platforms
• Vamsi Talla

SIGCOMM Rising Star Award:

Committee is still working on the nominations from last year.

Conference Organization Awards:

SIGCOMM 2017 General Chairs:

K. K. Ramakrishnan, Lixia Zhang

SIGCOMM 2017 Program Chairs:

Alex Snoeren, Walter Willinger

SIGCOMM Award Chair 2011-2017:

Bruce Maggs

SIGCOMM Conference Coordinators 2013-2017:

Yashar Ganjali

SIGCOMM Information Services Director:

Hamed Haddadi, 2013-2017

Recognizing exceptional service to the SIG:

Chris Edmondson-Yuranan

        Chris Edmondson-Yuranan Travel Grant awarded to a woman whose interest in and dedication            to SIG best exemplifies Chris

Recognizing a lifetime of contributions:

Prof. Raj Jain

        Industrial researcher, entrepreneur, teacher, academic mentor

        Jain fairness index

        Rate control algorithms

        Best selling book "Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis"