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• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • The SIGCOMM 2007 conference seeks papers describing significant research contributions to the field of computer and data communication networks. We invite submissions Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: • Analysis and design of network architectures and algorithms • Experimental and measurement results from operational networks • Fundamental insights into network and traffic characteristics • Network fault-tolerance and reliability, debugging, and troubleshooting • Network management and traffic engineering • Network security, vulnerability, and defenses • Network, transport, and application-layer protocols • Networking issues for Web, multimedia, and gaming applications • Operating system and other host support for networking • Peer-to-peer, overlay, and content distribution networks • Resource management, quality of service, and signaling • Routing, switching, and addressing • Tools and techniques for network measurement and simulation • Wireless, mobile, ad-hoc, and sensor networks SIGCOMM 2007 solicits full papers up to 12 pages in length, in two-column ACM conference format. SIG-COMM is a selective conference where full papers typically report novel results firmly substantiated by experimentation , simulation, or analysis. As in previous years, SIGCOMM 2007 will have tutorials, workshops, a poster session, a student travel grant program , a GeoDiversity travel grant program, and a Student Paper Award. We are also soliciting proposals for tutorials, In the spring of next year, SIGCOMM will be having elections for its three elected positions – chair, vice chair, and secretary-treasurer. have assembled an election committee. The committee, chaired by Jim Kurose from UMass-Amherst, will put forward a slate of at least two candidates for each office by the end of January 2007. The other members of the committee are Jon Crowcroft (U. Cambridge), Craig Partridge (BBN), Geoff Voelker (UCSD), and Ellen Zegura (Georgia Tech). Those of you with long memories will recognize Jon and Craig as past SIG chairs. If you have suggestions or feedback for the committee, we encourage you to get in touch with the committee members to share your thoughts. After the slate of candidates are presented to …