acm sigcomm

SIGCOMM is our flagship annual conference. This page links to previous SIGCOMM conferences.

Mission

SIGCOMM is the flagship annual conference of the Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM), a vital special interest group of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

The annual SIGCOMM 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.

Full papers are no more than 14 pages long and typically report novel results firmly substantiated by experimentation, simulation, or analysis. Posters present ongoing work on one 30" x 40" (75cm x 100cm) page. Student poster submissions will be favored.

Papers are double-blind reviewed (no author identification) by a technical program committee (TPC). Depending on the year and the program chairs, the TPC can have between 20-40 researchers. The paper acceptance ratio also varies year to year, from between 8-16%, on average accepting 30-35 papers out of 300-350 submissions.

The meeting is 3 days, single-track. It is accompanied by 2 days of tutorials and related workshops which vary each year. The conference occurs once a year in the late summer, with the location varying internationally, typically including locations in North America and Europe every three years.

Attendance is open, and there are some limited student travel grants available.

Steering Committee

• Arvind Krishnamurthy (term ending January 2023) 
• Katerina Argyraki (term ending January 2023)
• Hari Balakrishnan TSC Chair for 2020 (term ending January 2022)
• Mark Handley (term ending January 2022)
• Alex C. Snoeren (term ending January 2021)
• Ellen Zegura (term ending Janary 2021)

EC members

• Roch Guerin (SIG Chair)
• Christophe Diot (SIG Conference Coordinator)

Upcoming Conference

ACM SIGCOMM 2021 will be held virtually (online) during August 23–27, 2021.

Previous SIGCOMM Conferences

The proceedings of the following past SIGCOMM conferences are available online:

• SIGCOMM 2020 virtually (online).
• SIGCOMM 2019 in Beijing, China.
• SIGCOMM 2018 in Budapest, Hungary.
• SIGCOMM 2017 in Los Angeles, CA.
• SIGCOMM 2016 in Florianópolis, Brazil.
• SIGCOMM 2015 in London, UK.
• SIGCOMM 2014 in Chicago, Illinois.
• SIGCOMM 2013 in Hong Kong.
• SIGCOMM 2012 in Helsinki, Finland.
• SIGCOMM 2011 in Toronto, Canada.
• SIGCOMM 2010 in New Delhi, India.
• SIGCOMM 2009 in Barcelona, Spain.
• SIGCOMM 2008 in Seattle, WA, USA.
• SIGCOMM 2007 in Kyoto.
• SIGCOMM 2006 in Pisa.
• SIGCOMM 2005 in Philadelphia.
• SIGCOMM 2004 in Portland.
• SIGCOMM 2003 in Karlsruhe.
• SIGCOMM 2002 in Pittsburgh.
• SIGCOMM 2001 in San Diego.
• SIGCOMM 2000 in Stockholm.
• SIGCOMM 1999 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• SIGCOMM 1998 in Vancouver.
• SIGCOMM 1997 in Cannes.
• SIGCOMM 1996 in Palo Alto.
• SIGCOMM 1995 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• SIGCOMM 1994 in London, UK.
• SIGCOMM 1993 in San Francisco, CA, USA.
• SIGCOMM 1992 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
• SIGCOMM 1991 in Zürich, Switzerland.
• SIGCOMM 1990 in Philadelpia, PA, USA.
• SIGCOMM 1989 in  Austin, Texas, USA.
• SIGCOMM 1988 in Stanford, CA, USA.
• SIGCOMM '87 Workshop