S. Keshav
This article discusses the events that led to the publication of my paper ’A Control-Theoretic Approach to Flow Control’ that won the Best Student Paper Award in 1991 and a Test-of-Time Award in 2007.
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XORs in the past and future
Muriel Médard, Sachin Katti, Dina Katabi, Wenjun Hu, Hariharan Rahul, Jon Crowcroft
While placing the paper “XORs in the Air” in the context of the theoretical and practical understanding of network coding, we present a view of the progress of the field of network coding, In particular, we examine the interplay of theory and practice in the field.
‘Capture it While You Can’: Revisiting SIGCOMM 99’s Technical History of the Internet
Frances Corry, Anna C. Loup
This editorial gives a brief overview of a project historicizing the “Technical History of the Internet,” a tutorial held at SIGCOMM’s 1999 meeting at Harvard University. Organized in part by the late computer scientist and historian Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan, the tutorial brought together 19 key players from the development of the Internet to reflect on their foundational work. Using both digi- tal and physical records from Edmondson-Yurkanan’s archive, we discuss the importance of this event in generating a robust discus- sion and historical record about the Internet’s technical evolution. Historical work about this tutorial also raises important questions on the ways in which records about the Internet’s development are preserved or neglected.
Lessons from “On the Self-Similar Nature of Ethernet Traffic”
Walter Willinger, Murad S. Taqqu, Daniel V. Wilson
This editorial is an outgrowth of our research efforts that resulted in the SIGCOMM’93 paper [1] entitled On the self-similar nature of Ethernet traffic. We discuss some lessons we have learned as we have watched the published findings being absorbed by the scientific community in general and the networking community in particular. We focus on aspects that have remained relevant today, especially at a time when, with the proliferation of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, networking research has become increasingly data-dependent and data-driven.
Don’t Mind the Gap: Bridging Network-wide Objectives and Device-level Configurations
Ryan Beckett, Ratul Mahajan, Todd Millstein, Jitendra Padhye, David Walker
We reflect on the historical context that lead to Propane, a high-level language and compiler to help network operators bridge the gap be- tween network-wide routing objectives and low-level configurations of devices that run complex, distributed protocols. We also high- light the primary contributions that Propane made to the networking literature and describe ongoing challenges. We conclude with an important lesson learned from the experience.
Reflections on a clean slate 4D approach to network control and management
Albert Greenberg, Geoffrey Xie, David A. Maltz, Jibin Zhan, Jennifer Rexford, Hui Zhang
It’s been 15 years since what we now call Software Defined Network began emerging out of a set of ideas in the networking research com- munity. This editorial note traces how the ideas in one particular paper from that time have evolved and found practical applications.
It’s Not About the Internet
Lyman Chapin
In the policy realm what we call “Internet issues” are not actually “Internet” issues-they are well-pedigreed social, political, cultural, and economic issues, for which we clever technologists have pro- vided a rich new environment in which to grow and multiply. It follows that the people best prepared to tackle “Internet” issues may be thoughtful professionals in fields such as behavioral psychology, linguistics, sociology, education, history, ethnology, and political science-not (exclusively) “Internet experts”.
NDP: Rethinking Datacenter Networks and Stacks Two Years After
Costin Raiciu, Gianni Antichi
NDP is a datacenter network architecture and stack that was awarded best paper at Sigcomm 2017; it is also one of the first works that explicitly aims at providing both low latency and high through- put simultaneously. We describe the progress of the field since the publication of this article.
My view of Computer Communication Review, 1969–1976
David Waledn
Brief notes relating to the Computer Communication Review in 1975–1976.
Recalling the Early Days (First Decade) of SIGCOMM and Thoughts on Future Research Directions
Wesley Chu
ACM SIGCOMM has reached its fiftieth birthday. The field is still remarkably strong, expanding into new disciplines as well as new application areas. Since I was an early SIGCOMM chair (1973-1977), I have been asked to recall the early days and discuss possible future directions.