The conference received 513 submissions, an increase of 52 from last year, from 368 distinct institutions. The program committee consisted of 167 members, who collectively produced more than 2,200 reviews.
Among the different topics, Net4AI and AI4Net received the largest number of submissions, while Design, Deployment, Operation, Reliability, and Diagnosis of Networked Systems had the largest number of accepted papers.
The ACM SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award was presented to Pooria Namyar of Microsoft for his dissertation, Optimizing Cloud Network Performance and Availability: Scalable Algorithms and Analytical Frameworks.
The Doctoral Dissertation Award Runner-Up honors were presented to Fabian Ruffy of Xsight for his dissertation, Static Analysis Tools for Network-Device Stacks, and Sayed Saad Afzal of Apple for his dissertation, Wireless Systems for a Sustainable Future: From Battery-Free Subsea IoT to THz-Based Agriculture Monitoring.
The Test of Time Award was presented to the following two papers: A Control-Theoretic Approach for Dynamic Adaptive Video Streaming over HTTP, by Xiaoqi Yin et al., published at SIGCOMM 2015; and A Buffer-Based Approach to Rate Adaptation: Evidence from a Large Video Streaming Service, by Te-Yuan Huang et al., published at SIGCOMM 2014.
