Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2009
Sponsored by
ACM SIGCOMM
and in cooperation with
USENIX
November 4 - 6, 2009
Chicago, Illinois, USA
The Ninth Internet Measurement Conference is a two and a half day
event focusing on Internet measurement and analysis, building on the success
of past IMCs. We invite
submissions of papers that contribute to our understanding of how to
collect or analyze Internet measurements, or give insight into Internet
structure and behavior. Examples of relevant topics are:
- Internet traffic analysis
- Internet structure and topology characteristics
- Internet performance measurements
- Measurement-based network management such as traffic engineering
- Inter-domain and intra-domain routing
- Network applications such as multimedia streaming, gaming and on-line
social networks
- Measurements of content distribution, peer-to-peer, overlay, and social networks
- Data-centric issues, including anonymization, querying, and
storage
- Measurement-based inference of network properties
- Design of monitoring systems, sampling methods, signal processing
methods
- Network anomaly detection
- Network security threats and countermeasures
- Software tools and environments in support of measurement
- Measurement-based assessment of simulation/testbeds
- Measurement-based workload generation
- Measurement-based modeling
- Reappraisal of previous measurement findings
- Internet-oriented wireless, and mobility measurement
Papers that do not in some fashion relate to measuring Internet
properties are out of scope. Authors can contact the Program Chairs at imc09tpchairs@comp.lancs.ac.uk for clarification if they
are unsure whether their paper is in scope.
Ethical standards for measurement must be considered by all IMC authors. In
particular, authors must be aware of and conform to acceptable use policies
for individual domains that are probed or monitored, data privacy and
anonymity for all personally identifiable information, and etiquette for
using shared measurement data (see Allman and Paxson, IMC '07). If
applicable, authors are also urged to notify parties of security flaws in
their products or services in advance of publication. Adherence to ethical
standards for measurement will be a criteria for all submissions and
violations will be grounds for rejection.
Submission Guidelines
There are two forms of submissions:
- Full papers (up to 14 two-column pages) describing original
research, with succinctness appropriate to the topics and themes they
discuss.
- Short papers (up to 6 two-column pages for text and figures +
references), conveying, for example,
work that is less mature but shows promise, or that articulate a
high-level vision, describe challenging future directions, or
critiquing current measurement wisdom. Short papers will be subject to
a 6-page + references limit in the Proceedings.
Submissions must be in electronic form, as PDF documents. The
submission must conform to the page limits stated above, and with text
written in at least a 10-point font (Fonts used in Figures etc should
be no smaller than 9 pt) satisfying the requirements
specified below.
- use double column format
- the size of each column should be at most 9.25" by 3.33"
- the space between columns should be at least 0.33"
- use 10pt font
- use up to 55 lines of text per column
The
sig-alternate-10pt.cls style file should satisfy these
requirements.
- Please use -t letter when converting the .dvi file to pdf.
All manuscripts must be in English and do not need to be anonymized. Submissions that do not
comply with these requirements will not be read.
All full papers and short papers accepted for presentation will be
published in the Conference Proceedings produced by ACM. A few accepted
papers may be forwarded for fast-track submission to the IEEE/ACM
Transactions on Networking.
Important dates
- May 5, 2009: 10AM CEST (4AM EDT): Registration of title and 250-word
abstract
- May 12, 2009: 10AM CEST (4AM EDT) HARD
submission deadline
- July 17, 2009: Notification
- August 22, 2009: Camera Ready Copy due
- November 4-6, 2009: Conference held in Chicago, Illinois
To encourage broader data sharing in the community, the conference will
present a best paper award for the top paper that makes its data sets
publically available by the time of camera ready submission. For
example,
wireless-network data sets may be published through CRAWDAD. Authors that would
like their paper to be considered for this award should add a
footnote on the first page of their submission (and indicate this by
selecting the appropriate button on the paper registration/submission
page).
A limited number of travel grants may be available to students who
are unable to secure funding from their advisors.
Program Chairs
Anja Feldmann, Deutsche Telekom Laboratory
Laurent Mathy, Lancaster University
Program Committee
Mark Allman, ICSI, USA
Grenville Armitage, Swinburne U. of Technology, AU
Nick Bambos, Stanford U., USA
Paul Barford, U. of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Anwitaman Datta, NTU Singapore, SG
Bryan Ford, MPI-SWS, DE
Yashar Ganjali, U. Of Toronto, CA
John Heidemann, USC/ISI, USA
Kyle Jamieson, UC London, UK
Balachander Krishnamurthy, AT&T Labs-Research, USA
Ratul Mahajan, Microsoft Research, USA
Pietro Michiardi, Institut Eurecom, Fr
Sue Moon, KAIST, Korea
Christos Papadopoulos, Colorado State U., USA
Vern Paxson, UC Berkeley, USA
Joshua Robinson, Rice University, USA
Kave Salamatian, Lancaster University, UK
Rob Sherwood, Deutsche Telekom Inc, R&D Labs, USA
Oliver Spatscheck, AT&T Labs-Research, USA
Alberto Lopez Toledo, Telefonica Research Barcelona, Spain
Walter Willinger, AT&T Labs-Research, USA
Zhi-Li Zhang, U. of Minnesota, USA
IMC Steering Committee
Paul Barford, University of Wisconsin
Bruce Maggs, Carnegie Mellon University/Akamai Technologies
Local Arrangements Chairs
Fabian Bustamante, Northwestern University
Yan Chen, Northwestern University
Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, Northwestern University