The SIGCOMM 2006 conference seeks papers describing significant research contributions to the field of computer and data communication networks. We invite submissions on network architecture, design, implementation, operations, analysis, measurement, and simulation.

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 2006 solicits full papers up to 12 pages in length, in two-column ACM conference format. SIGCOMM is a selective conference where full papers typically report novel results firmly substantiated by experimentation, simulation, or analysis.
Submissions are now closed, but if you want to see the Paper Submission Guidelines you can go here.

We intend to publish public reviews of each accepted paper, to be written by the program committee. We also plan to host an open web discussion board for accepted papers prior to the conference.

As in previous years, SIGCOMM 2006 will have tutorials, workshops, a poster session, a student travel grant program, and a Student Paper Award.

The conference will begin with a keynote by the 2006 winner of the ACM SIGCOMM Award for lifetime contributions to the field of computer communication. Procedures for nominating candidates for the SIGCOMM Award can be obtained from Ellen Zegura.

Please note that notifications to authors will occur in "rolling" fashion; that is, authors may receive decisions anytime between the submission deadline and notification date.