SIGCOMM 1995

SIGCOMM 1995
Name	SIGCOMM 1995
Genre	Academic conference
Discipline	Computer networking
Organizer	Association for Computing Machinery
Frequency	Annual
Dates	September 1995
Location	Cambridge, Massachusetts
Participants	Researchers, engineers, students

SIGCOMM 1995 was the thirteenth annual conference of the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Data Communication held in the mid-1990s. The meeting convened leading figures from Internet Engineering Task Force, World Wide Web Consortium, MIT, Harvard University, and industry labs such as Bell Labs, Xerox PARC, IBM Research and Microsoft Research. The program reflected contemporary work on wide-area networks, routing, congestion control and multimedia over packet networks, drawing attendees from Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Cambridge, and corporate research centers like AT&T Research.

Overview

The conference assembled researchers, practitioners and policymakers associated with RFC authors, DARPA program managers, and representatives from standards bodies including IEEE and IETF to discuss advances in packet switching, protocol design, and performance measurement. Sessions juxtaposed foundational work from labs such as Bell Labs and Xerox PARC with emerging commercial efforts by Cisco Systems and Sun Microsystems, while graduate students from MIT and UC Berkeley presented experimental results alongside industrial demonstrators from Lucent Technologies. Panels addressed interoperability challenges involving implementations from Novell, Microsoft, IBM, and university testbeds coordinated with agencies like NSF.

Technical Program and Key Papers

The technical program featured peer-reviewed papers on congestion control, adaptive routing, and multimedia streaming that cited prior work from authors connected to Van Jacobson's congestion algorithms, Vint Cerf's protocol design lineage, and experimental platforms at Bellcore. Notable contributions included empirical evaluations of TCP performance referencing earlier studies at UC Berkeley and algorithmic proposals influenced by research at Carnegie Mellon University and Stanford University. Papers compared routing approaches related to architectures pursued at Cisco Systems and theoretical analyses tied to scholars affiliated with Princeton University and MIT. Results drew attention from implementers at Sun Microsystems and Microsoft Research and prompted discussion among standards participants from IETF and IEEE.

Workshops and Tutorials

Pre-conference workshops and tutorials attracted organizers from IETF, lecturers from MIT, and invited tutors associated with Xerox PARC and Bell Labs. Topics ranged from performance measurement tools developed at UC Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon University to implementation techniques popularized by engineers at Cisco Systems and Sun Microsystems. Sessions included demonstrations of network simulation platforms influenced by research at Stanford University and pedagogical presentations referencing curriculum efforts at Harvard University and Princeton University.

Notable Presentations and Demonstrations

Demonstrations showcased multimedia streaming prototypes related to projects at World Wide Web Consortium member institutions and interactive applications developed at Xerox PARC, while industrial exhibits featured routers and switches from Cisco Systems and experimental network appliances by Lucent Technologies. Presentations included system-level reports that built on protocol experiments previously disseminated through RFC series and pilot deployments coordinated with DARPA and NSF initiatives. Live demos by representatives from Microsoft Research and IBM Research illustrated practical implications for services promoted by Sun Microsystems and academic testbeds at UC Berkeley.

Attendees and Community Impact

Attendees included researchers from MIT, Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University, and University of California, Berkeley, engineers from Cisco Systems, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, and IBM Research, as well as standards contributors from IETF and educators from Harvard University and Princeton University. The conference influenced subsequent work funded by DARPA and NSF, informed standards deliberations within IETF and IEEE, and seeded collaborations among university groups at UC Berkeley, Stanford University, and MIT that persisted into larger-scale network research projects. Graduate attendees later joined industry labs such as Bell Labs and Xerox PARC or contributed to startups emerging from research at Carnegie Mellon University and MIT.

Venue, Dates, and Organizers

The event took place in September 1995 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with local coordination by faculty from MIT and administrative support from the Association for Computing Machinery. Organizing committee members included academics affiliated with Harvard University, MIT, and University of Cambridge and liaisons from industry labs including Bell Labs and Xerox PARC. Sponsorship and exhibition involvement featured corporations such as Cisco Systems, Sun Microsystems, Lucent Technologies, and academic partners from Stanford University and UC Berkeley.

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