Welcome Session Phoenix, AZ, Tue, Apr 15, 2008

TPC Co-Chairs

Jennifer Hou (UIUC)

Shiv Kalyanaraman (IBM IRL, Bangalore, India / RPI, USA)

Krishna Sivalingam (Univ of Maryland, Baltimore County / IIT Madras)

TPC Vice-Chair for Information Systems (EDAS)

Byrav Ramamurthy, Univ of Nebraska-Lincoln

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In Memory of Jennifer Hou

We mourn the passing of Jennifer Hou, who contributed greatly to the success of

INFOCOM 2008 in her role as TPC Co-Chair.

Thanks to…

Byrav Ramamurthy, TPC Vice Chair, Information Systems/EDAS 285 TPC members for reviews and TPC discussion summaries. 31 Area TPC Chairs for their oversight & recommendations 20 Designated reviewers for their reviews 115 TPC members who attended the TPC Meeting in

Washington, DC in Oct. 2007 Henning Schulzrinne and EDAS Staff K.K. Ramakrishnan and Byrav Ramamurthy, mini-conference

co-chairs Suresh Subramaniam and Susan Cheng: TPC meeting hosts Sergey Gorinsky and Aleksandar Kuzmanovic: Publications Co-

Chairs Outstanding Papers Selection Committee Harvey Freeman, Kazem Sohraby and others on the INFOCOM

Standing Committee Session chairs, presenters, student volunteers and attendees

Review process

Each paper reviewed by 3 TPC Members Online discussion phase followed review submissions TPC Summary and Recommendation forwarded to Area TPC

Chairs Area TPC Chairs obtained additional reviews for

controversial/borderline papers (>350 papers had 4+ reviews)– All papers (except those rejected early) received at least 3

reviews, with some papers receiving as many as 6 reviews Area TPC Chairs provided their recommendation based on TPC

reviews/recommendation, extra reviews and their opinion At TPC meeting in Oct. 2007, the paper selection was finalized

(Approx. 110 TPC members attended)– Around 288 papers were discussed at TPC Meeting, besides

84 papers that were directly recommended for Accept by ATPC Chairs

Data on submitted papers

1152 papers were reviewed, after post-submission withdrawals– Total of 236 papers accepted for the main-

conference– Total of 75 papers accepted for the mini-

conference, chaired by K.K. Ramakrishnan and Byrav Ramamurthy

Mini-Conference

Chairs: Drs. K.K. Ramakrishnan and Byrav Ramamurthy Started last year (as INFOCOM 2007 Mini-Symposium) All INFOCOM submissions were automatically considered for the

Mini-Conference. Mini-Conference program used the same TPC and process as the

selection for the main program.– TPC was asked to recommend papers for mini-conference

Mini-Conference papers had a 5-page limit on camera-ready version (from 9-page submission): – To highlight important contributions. – Provide authors opportunity to obtain feedback to improve

their paper and publish an extended version later. Mini-Conference attendance was free to all INFOCOM registered

attendees.– Average attendance was 55 people/session (range:35-100).

Mini-Conference was very successful this year: 75 papers were arranged in four sessions across four parallel tracks.

% authors by region (1152 papers)

Region # %2007 (%)

North America 1853 52.8 60.3

Asia/Pacific 813 23.2 20.6

Europe, Middle East, Africa 685 19.5 18.7

Canada 142 4.0 -

Latin America 14 0.4 0.5

Unknown 3 0.1 0.0

Number of papers by topic

Area Number

Ad Hoc Networks 321

Internet/Wired Networks 536

Network Security 176

Optical Networks 65

Sensor Networks 331

Wireless 561

Note: Each paper selected on average 1.7 topics

Accepted Paper: Author Stats. (from EDAS)

Region Authors (%)

United States 65.0%

Europe, Middle East, Africa

18.1%

Asia/Pacific 12.9%

Canada 3.6%

Latin America 0.5%

Top Three Outstanding Papers Award

Top Three Outstanding Papers: Selection Committee

Don Towsley K.K.Ramakrishnan Steven Low Mingyan Liu Jorg Liebeherr

Top Three Outstanding Papers are … (in no particular order)

Understanding the Capacity Region of the Greedy Maximal Scheduling Algorithm in Multi-hop Wireless Networks– Changhee Joo (The Ohio State University, US); – Xiaojun Lin (Purdue University, US); – Ness Shroff (The Ohio State University, US)

On the Feasibility of the Link Abstraction in (Rural) Mesh Networks– Dattatraya Gokhale (IIT, Kanpur, IN); – Sayandeep Sen (University of Wisconsin

Madison, US); – Kameswari Chebrolu (IIT Kanpur, IN); – Bhaskaran Raman (Indian Institute of

Technology, Bombay, IN)

Top Three Outstanding Papers are … (in no particular order)

 Theoretical Results on Base Station Movement Problem for Sensor Networks– Yi Shi (Virginia Tech, US); – Thomas Hou (Virginia  Tech, US)

Top Three Outstanding Papers are … (in no particular order)

Technical Program

Organized in parallel tracks (between 5 to 6 simultaneous tracks) in 59 sessions of 90 minutes each

Each session has 4 papers– 18 minutes for presentation– 3 minutes for questions– 1 minute to transition between speakers

Presenters: Please contact your session chairs well ahead of session

Session chairs: Presenter name and brief bio, available on EDAS, for most papers

Panels and Demos

Panel 1: All-Conference Panel: DoD Research in Networking, Tue, 11am, (Dr. Robert Bonneau, AFOSR, moderator)

Panel 2: Entrepreneurship in Networking Research, Wed, 8:30am, (Prof.Steven Low, Caltech, moderator)

Panel 3: Networking in Challenging Environments: Hype or Reality, Thu, 10:30am (Prof. Jie Wu, NSF/FAU, moderator)

Demos: @The Atrium, Tue & Wed, 1pm-6 pm