karn@jupiter.bellcore.com (11/28/89)
PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS
ACM SIGCOMM '90 SYMPOSIUM|-
Communications Architectures and Protocols
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
August 1990
The symposium provides an international forum for the
presentation and discussion of communication network appli-
cations and technologies, as well as recent advances and
proposals on communication architectures, protocols, algo-
rithms, and performance models. Authors are invited to sub-
mit full papers concerned with both theory and practice.
The areas of interest for the symposium include, but are not
limited to the following: analysis and design of computer
network architectures and algorithms, innovative results in
local area networks, computer-supported collaborative work,
network interconnection and mixed-media networks, high-speed
networks, resource sharing in distributed systems, distri-
buted operating systems and databases, protocol specifica-
tion, verification, and analysis.
Papers should be about 20 double-spaced pages long and
should have an abstract of 100-150 words. All submitted
papers will be reviewed and will be judged with respect to
their quality and relevance. Authors of selected papers
will be expected to sign an ACM copyright release form. The
Proceedings will be distributed at the symposium and pub-
lished as a special issue of SIGCOMM _C_o_m_p_u_t_e_r _C_o_m_m_u_n_i_c_a_t_i_o_n
_R_e_v_i_e_w.
Submit 5 copies of each paper to the Program Chairman:
Phil Karn
Bell Communications Research
Room 2P-357
445 South St
PO Box 1910
Morristown, NJ 07962-1910
USA
Tel: 1-201-829-4299
EMAIL: karn@thumper.bellcore.com
FAX: 1-201-984-0670
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|- Subject to ACM approval.
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For more information about the symposium, contact the Gen-
eral Chairman:
Professor David Farber
University of Pennsylvania
200 South 33rd St
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389
USA
Tel: 1-215-898-9508
EMAIL: farber@cis.upenn.edu
FAX: 1-215-274-8192
Papers on Networking In The Year 2000
One or more sessions of the conference will be devoted to
the subject of networking in the year 2000. Papers in these
sessions will focus on key issues in building very fast (1
gigabit per second and faster) and/or very large (200 mil-
lion end nodes or more) data networks. Persons interested
in submitting papers in this area are encouraged to contact
either the program chair, Phil Karn, or Craig Partridge
(craig@bbn.com), who will be jointly coordinating the papers
in this area.
Student Paper Award
Papers submitted by students will enter a student-paper
award contest. Among the accepted papers, a maximum of four
outstanding papers will be awarded (1) full conference
registration and (2) a travel grant of $500 US dollars.
IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for paper submission: March 1990
November 28, 1989