ICCCN

ICCCN
Name	International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks
Abbreviation	ICCCN
First	1992
Frequency	annual
Fields	Computer networking, telecommunications, distributed systems

ICCCN is an annual academic conference focusing on computer communications and networking research. It brings together researchers, engineers, and practitioners from institutions, corporations, and government laboratories to present advances in networking, wireless systems, and networked applications. The conference has served as a forum for collaboration among contributors from universities, standards bodies, and industry leaders.

History

The conference series originated in the early 1990s amid rapid advances in packet switching, prompt by developments at institutions such as Bell Labs, Xerox PARC, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Carnegie Mellon University. Early meetings featured work related to protocols from IETF working groups, experimental systems from DARPA programs, and implementations influenced by technologies from Cisco Systems, IBM Research, AT&T Bell Laboratories, and Lucent Technologies. Over time the program incorporated topics pioneered at University of California, Berkeley, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, and University of Cambridge, reflecting shifts driven by milestones such as the commercialization of Ethernet, the spread of Wi-Fi, and the emergence of mobile telephony standards by bodies like 3GPP.

Scope and Topics

Subjects covered span wired and wireless networking, routing and forwarding, congestion control, network security, and quality of service, often intersecting with work from IEEE, ACM SIGCOMM, USENIX, IETF, and ITU. Technical areas include protocol design evaluated against benchmarks used at NIST labs, performance analysis employing models from scholars affiliated with Princeton University and Cornell University, and experimental testbeds exemplified by projects at PlanetLab and Emulab. Research presented frequently references standards and deployments by ETSI, 3GPP, IEEE 802.11, and platform ecosystems from Google, Apple Inc., and Microsoft Research.

Conference Organization and Governance

The conference is organized through program committees populated by academics and industry experts from institutions such as Harvard University, Yale University, University of Toronto, Tsinghua University, and Peking University. Sponsorship and co-sponsorship often involve IEEE Communications Society, ACM, corporate partners including Intel Corporation, Qualcomm, Nokia, and research consortia funded through grants from agencies like National Science Foundation and European Research Council. Governance structures follow standard academic conference practices with elected chairs, steering committees that include representatives from SIGCOMM, and ethics policies informed by guidelines from Association for Computing Machinery.

Notable Conferences and Locations

Conferences have been hosted in major technical hubs and academic centers such as Honolulu, Chicago, Boston, San Diego, Las Vegas, Washington, D.C., Beijing, Shanghai, Berlin, and Vancouver. Landmark editions featured keynote addresses by luminaries associated with MIT Media Lab, Stanford Research Institute, and leading corporate labs like Google Research and Facebook AI Research. Special sessions and workshops have highlighted collaborations with events organized by SIGMETRICS, ICNP, and INFOCOM.

Publications and Proceedings

Accepted papers are published in proceedings often distributed through outlets affiliated with IEEE Xplore and indexed in bibliographic databases maintained by Scopus and Web of Science. Selected extended papers have appeared in journals such as IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Computer Networks, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, and ACM Transactions on Networking. Datasets and software artifacts accompanying papers sometimes reference repositories hosted by GitHub and archival services used by Zenodo.

Awards and Recognition

The conference presents awards for best paper, best student paper, and outstanding service, adjudicated by panels including members from ACM Fellows and IEEE Fellows. Past awardees have included researchers affiliated with University of California, Los Angeles, ETH Zurich, University of Michigan, National University of Singapore, and industrial innovators from Cisco Systems, Huawei Technologies, and Ericsson. Recognition at the conference has influenced career trajectories and standards contributions within forums such as IETF and 3GPP.

Category:Computer networking conferences