Monday, August 10, 2009

SiGCOMM Papers Are Up

The SIGCOMM conference takes place next week, and if you want to look at the papers, here they are, nicely available online.

Since I was on the PC, it might be impolitic to provide detailed comments, but here's a few thoughts. First, the key words for this year's conference seem to be "Data Center". There are a lot -- a LOT -- of data center papers. I leave the implications for next year's submission strategy to you. Second, I feel scooped by the Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison group for their PLUG paper, on how to implement flexible high-speed lookup modules in hardware. It's an idea I've been batting about for a while, but the devil is in the details of the implementation. Congrats on the paper! Third, congrats to Matt Welsh (of Harvard) for his paper on "White Space Networking".

Sadly, I won't be going... while I love the city of Barcelona, it seemed like a ways to go given that I've already read most of the papers. Perhaps it was a trip I should have made and brought the family along. Especially since next year's SIGCOMM is in New Delhi, which makes traveling to Barcelona seem easy by comparison.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

The PLUG paper seems one of the best this year.

It also seems to be Cristian Estan's swan song as a professor since he apparently quit academia:

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~estan

indian said...

Prof. Mitzenmacher,

I love reading your blog. Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us on a variety of topics.

Just a small nit about the post: Dehli is spelt Delhi. Just my tiny contribution to stem the deluge of misspellings (Ghandi, which should actually be Gandhi, is another).

Michael Mitzenmacher said...

indian --

Thanks for the correction (fixed now). I'm embarassed and will use the excuse of a tired typo to save face.