A Few Words from Your TPC Chairs Renata Teixeira Ken Calvert

Thanks! General Chairs and Organizing Committee Authors Technical Program Committee All of you for attending!

Some Notes on the Process 196 papers reviewed – 136 long – 60 short 41 papers accepted – 32 long (23.5%) – 9 short (15%)

The Review Process Each paper received 3 initial reviews – 68 papers with uniformly low ratings rejected 128 papers progressed to Round 2 – Each paper received ≥ 2 additional reviews Online discussion phase after second round – 16 uniformly highly-rated papers marked “accept unless someone wants to discuss at meeting” 13 long, 3 short 51 papers discussed at TPC meeting – 25 papers accepted after discussion 19 long, 6 short

Distribution of Submission Times: Hours before deadline

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Question: Does having a colon in the title help your paper? Submitted papers with ‘:’ in title: 99/196 (50.5%) Accepted papers with ‘:’ in title: 21/41 (51.2%) Answer: Not really.

Best Paper Award Selection Committee: S. Keshav (chair) Tilman Wolf Sergey Gorinsky

Best Paper Award Nominated papers: – V. Talla, B. Kellogg, B. Ransford, S. Naderiparizi, S. Gollakota, J. Smith, "Powering the Next Billion Devices with Wi-Fi” – G. Nikolaidis, M. Handley, K. Jamieson, B. Karp, "COPA: Cooperative Power Allocation for Interfering Wireless Networks” – H. Liu, M. Mukerjee, C. Li, N. Feltman, G. Papen, S. Savage, S. Seshan, G. Voelker, D. Andersen, M. Kaminsky, G. Porter, A. Snoeren, "Scheduling Techniques for Hybrid Circuit/Packet Networks” – Y. Yuan, D. Lin, R. Alur, B. Loo, “Scenario-based Programming for SDN Policies” – V. Giotsas, S. Georgios, B. Huffaker, M. Luckie, k. claffy, “Mapping Peering Interconnections to a Facility"

Best Paper Award Winner “Mapping Peering Interconnections to a Facility” – Vasileios Giotsas (UCSD/CAIDA) – Smaragdakis Georgios (MIT/TU Berlin) – Bradley Huffaker (UCSD/CAIDA) – Matthew Luckie (UCSD/CAIDA) – kc claffy (UCSD/CAIDA)

Best Short Paper Award Selection Committee Roch Guerin (chair) Suman Banerjee Fabian Bustamente Sonia Fahmy

Best Short Paper Award Nominated papers – B. Han, F. Qian, S. Hao, L. Ji “An Anatomy of Mobile Web Performance over Multipath TCP” – N. Baranasuriya, V. Navda, V. Padmanabhan, S. Gilbert, “QProbe: Locating the Bottleneck in Cellular Communication” – A. Hari, T. Lakshman, G. Wilfong, “Path Switching: Reduced-State Flow Handling in SDN Using Path Information”

Best Short Paper Award Winner “QProbe: Locating the Bottleneck in Cellular Communication” – Nimantha Baranasuriya (National Univ. of Singapore) – Vishnu Navda (Microsoft Research, India) – Venkat Padmanabhan (Microsoft Research, India) – Seth Gilbert (National Univ. of Singapore)

SIGCOMM Rising Star Award Recognizing a young researcher—an individual no older than 35—who has made outstanding research contributions to the field of communication networks during this early part of his or her career. This year’s selection committee: – Constantine Dovrolis (chair) – kc claffy – Sue Moon – Patrick Thiran

SIGCOMM Rising Star Award The Rising Star 2015 Award goes to: P. Brighten Godfrey University of Illinois “The award to Brighten Godfrey is in recognition of outstanding research contributions, early in his career, in network architecture. His work has brought a synergy of algorithmic and systems insights to make significant contributions in problems such as pathlet routing, data center architectures, and network verification.”