Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)
Mission
The Internet Measurement Conference is an annual conference focusing on
Internet measurement and analysis, sponsored by
ACM SIGCOMM and ACM SIGMETRICS
in cooperation with
USENIX.
The aim is that papers presented at the
conference contribute to the current understanding of how to collect or
analyze Internet measurements, or give insight into how the Internet
behaves.
IMC was begun as a workshop in 2001
in response to the difficulty at that time finding appropriate
publication/presentation venues for high-quality Internet measurement
research in general, and frustration with the annual ACM SIGCOMM conference's
treatment of measurement submissions in particular.
The conference is generally held in late October or early November.
In its first two years as a Workshop, attendance was limited,
but now as a conference it is open to all interested in attending.
Papers are submitted in May with notifications in July and camera-ready
papers due in
August. The acceptance rate to date has been around 25%. IMC is usually
open to both full-length papers and extended abstracts, with the latter
being significantly shorter and intended to convey work-in progress and less
mature results.
To encourage broader data sharing in the community, each year IMC will present a best paper award for the top paper that makes its data sets publically available by the time of the camera ready submission. Several papers are selected
for "fast-track" submission to IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
In addition, IMC is committed to offering a number of student travel
grants to foster the participation of students.
Next Conference
- IMC 2012 held November 14-16, in Boston, USA.
General chairs: Jim Kurose (UMass) and John Byers (BU)
Program chairs: Ratul Mahajan (Microsoft), Alex Snoeren (UCSD).
Previous Conferences
- IMC 2011 held November 2-4, in Berlin, Germany.
Sponsors: NSF, Endace, Akamai, At&T, Technicolor, HP, Telefonica, Narus, Sprint, IBM Research
Local arrangements chair: Anja Feldmann, Steve Uhlig, Georgios Smaragdakis (TU Berlin/Deutsche Telekom Laboratories)
Program chair: Patrick Thiran (EPFL), Walter Willinger (AT&T).
- IMC 2010 held November 1-3, in Melbourne, Australia.
Sponsors: NSF, Google, NICTA, Akamai, HP, At&T, Technicolor, Intel, Telefonica
Local arrangements chair: Darryl Veitch (CUBIN, University of Melbourne)>
Program chair: Mark Allman (ICSI).
Technical program
- IMC 2009 held November 4-6, in Chicago, Illinois.
Sponsors: Endace, Akamai, AT&T, Intel, and the National Science Foundation.
Local arrangements chairs: Yan Chen (Northwestern Univ.), Aleksandar
Kuzmanovic (Northwestern Univ.) and Fabian Bustamante (Northwestern Univ.).
Program chairs: Anja Feldmann (Deutsche Telekom Laboratory) and Laurent
Mathy (Lancaster Univ.).
Technical program
- IMC 2008 held October 20-22, in Vouliagmeni, Greece.
Sponsors: Thomson, Intel, Akamai, Cisco, Microsoft Research, and the National Science Foundation.
Local arrangements chairs: Christophe Diot (Thomson).
Program chairs: Konstantina Papagiannaki (Intel Research) and Zhi-Li Zhang
(University of Minnesota).
Technical program with accepted papers.
- IMC 2007 held October 24-26, in San Diego, CA, USA.
Sponsors: Thomson, Intel, Sprint, and the National Science Foundation.
Local arrangements chairs: Colleen Shannon (CAIDA).
Program chairs: Constantine Dovrolis (Georgia Tech University) and Matt
Roughan (University of Adelaide).
Technical program with accepted papers.
- IMC 2006 held October 25-27, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Sponsors: Thomson, Intel, Akamai, USENIX, and the National Science Foundation.
Local arrangements chairs: Jussara Almeida and Virgilio Almeida, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG).
Attendees: 108
Papers: 155 submissions, 34 accepted (22%); extended abstracts: 63 submitted, 15 accepted (24%); full papers: 92 submitted, 19 accepted (21%).
Program chair: Paul Barford, University of Wisconsin (Madison).
Technical program with accepted papers.
- IMC 2005 held October 19-21, in Berkeley, CA, USA.
Sponsors: Cisco, Intel, Microsoft Research, USENIX, National Science Foundation.
Local arrangements chair: Nina Taft, Intel Research Berkeley.
Attendees: 135
Papers: 148 submissions, 36 accepted (24%); extended abstracts: 66 submitted, 14 accepted (21%); full papers: 82 submitted, 22 accepted (27%).
Program chairs: Venkat Padmanabhan (Microsoft Research) and
Darryl Veitch (University of Melbourne).
Technical program with accepted papers.
- IMC 2004
held October 25-27, 2004, in Taormina, Sicily, Italy.
Sponsors: Cisco, IBM, Intel, Microsoft Research, USENIX, National Science Foundation.
General Chair: Alfio Lombardo, University of Catania.
Attendees: 109.
Papers: 157 submissions, 38 accepted (24%); extended abstracts: 59 submitted, 19 accepted (32%); full papers: 98 submitted, 19 accepted (19%).
Program chair: Jim Kurose, University of Massachusetts.
Student travel grants: 18 awarded.
- IMC 2003,
held in Miami, Florida, USA.
Sponsors: Cisco, Intel, Sprint, Microsoft Research, USENIX,
National Science Foundation.
Attendees: 114.
Papers: 109 submissions, 33 accepted,
of which 73 were full paper submissions with 19 accepted (26%).
Program chair: Mark Crovella, Boston University.
Student travel grants: 22 awarded.
- IMW 2002,
held in Marseille, France.
Sponsors: Cisco, Sprint, AT&T, USENIX, Gemplex.
Attendees: 103.
Papers: 93 submissions, 41 accepted,
of which 62 were full paper submissions with 15 accepted (24%).
Student travel grants: 22 awarded.
- IMW 2001
held in San Francisco, California, USA.
Sponsors: netVMG, Sprint.
Attendees: 60.
Papers: 53 full paper submissions, 14 accepted (26%).
A Note About IMC's Sponsors
A primary reason IMC is able to keep registration rates low and enable
many students to travel and attend the conference is due to the generosity
of our many corporate sponsors and NSF's support of travel grants,
for which we are grateful.
Steering Committee
- Mark Allman, ICSI
- Paul Barford, University of Wisconsin - Madison
- Chen-Nee Chuah, University of California - Davis
- Renata Teixeira, CNRS and UPMC Sorbonne Universites
Steering Committee Past Members
- Bruce Maggs, Duke University (2005-2010)
- Nina Taft, Intel Research (2004-2008)
- Kevin Jeffay, University of North Carolina (2005-2008)
- Mark Crovella, Boston University (2004-2006)
- Jennifer Rexford, AT&T Labs - Research (2001-2003)
- Christophe Diot, Intel Research (2001-2004)
- Vern Paxson, ICSI and LBNL (2001-2004)
- Balachander Krishnamurthy, AT&T Labs - Research (2001-2005)