Paper Submission Guidelines

SIGCOMM requires that papers not be submitted simultaneously to any other conference or publication, and that submissions not be previously published. All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality and relevance through double-blind reviewing, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. Authors of accepted papers will need to sign an ACM copyright release form. Electronic copies of the camera-ready papers will be published on the conference web site before the conference, unless authors specifically request that this not be done.

The formatting requirements and step-by-step submission instructions for SIGCOMM'05 papers are given below. These instructions do not apply for workshop or poster submissions; please check the main conference website for these.

Anonymity Guidelines

All papers submitted to the SIGCOMM conference undergo double-blind reviewing -- the authors do not know the identity of the program committee members and referees who review the paper, nor do the program committee members and referees know the identity of the authors. As an author, you are required to make a good faith effort to preserve the anonymity of your submission while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Common sense and careful writing will go a long way towards preserving anonymity. You should also take the following  steps when preparing your submission:

  • Remove authors' names and affiliations from the title page.
  • Remove acknowledgement of identifying names and funding sources.
  • Use care in naming your files.  Source file names, e.g., Joe.Smith.dvi, are often embedded in the final output as readily accessible comments.
  • Use care in referring to related work, particularly your own. Do not omit references to provide anonymity, as this leaves the reviewer unable to grasp the context. Instead, a good solution is to reference your past work in the third person, just as you would any other piece of related work.

The requirement for anonymity is not meant to extend beyond the submission process to the detriment of your research. In particular, you may circulate your submission among colleagues or discuss it on a mailing list if you see fit. If you choose to disseminate it more widely (such as, for example, putting it up on your web page), we ask that you make a good-faith effort to preserve anonymity (e.g. putting up a bit-mapped PDF or changing commonly used acronyms so that search engines cannot readily be used to unearth the paper).

Formatting Guidelines

  • Submissions must be no longer than fourteen (14) pages in double column format with 1" margins and at least a 10 point font, larger if possible. This length includes everything: figures, tables, references, appendices and so forth. Longer submissions will not be reviewed, and your goal as an author is to produce a clearly readable submission within these constraints.
  • Provide an abstract of fewer than 200 words.
  • Number the pages.
  • Do not identify the papers' authors, per the Anonymity Guidelines above.
  • On the front page, in place of the authors' names, the paper should indicate: the paper ID number assigned during the paper registration process and the total number of pages in the submission.
  • The paper must be submitted in PDF or Postscript format. We must be able to display and print your submission exactly as we receive it and using only standard tools (Adobe Acrobat Reader for PDF and Ghostview for PS, with no loading of special fonts) and a postscript printer; please note that most personal printers (e.g., inkjet) are not postscript printers.
  • Make sure that the paper prints well on black-and-white printers, not color printers. This is especially true for plots and graphs in the paper.
  • Make sure that the output has been formatted for printing on LETTER (8.5" by 11") size paper.
  • Make sure that the size of the file is less than 15 MB, if at all possible.

Submission Instructions

To submit papers to Sigcomm 2005, please go to http://sigcomm05.usc.edu.

If you have any trouble accessing this site, please send email to sigcomm05-admin@enl.usc.edu.

Please note the following deadlines.

  • The deadline for registering a paper, with abstract, is 11:59:59pm PST, Monday January 31, 2005.
  • The deadline for submitting the paper itself is 11:59:59pm PST, Monday February 7, 2005.
  • These are hard deadlines and no extensions will be given.

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