Welcome Session Phoenix, AZ, Tue, Apr 15, 2008

1. Welcome Session Phoenix, AZ, Tue, Apr 15, 2008 TPC Co-Chairs Jennifer Hou (UIUC) Shiv Kalyanaraman (IBM IRL, Bangalore, India / RPI, USA) Krishna Sivalingam (Univ of Maryland, Baltimore County / IIT Madras) TPC Vice-Chair for Information Systems (EDAS) Byrav Ramamurthy, Univ of Nebraska-Lincoln

2. In Memory of Jennifer Hou We mourn the passing of Jennifer Hou, who contributed greatly to the success of INFOCOM 2008 in her role as TPC Co-Chair.

3. Thanks to… • Byrav Ramamurthy, TPC Vice Chair, Information Systems/EDAS • 285 TPC members for reviews and TPC discussion summaries. • 31 Area TPC Chairs for their oversight & recommendations • 20 Designated reviewers for their reviews • 115 TPC members who attended the TPC Meeting in Washington, DC in Oct. 2007 • Henning Schulzrinne and EDAS Staff • K.K. Ramakrishnan and Byrav Ramamurthy, mini-conference co-chairs • Suresh Subramaniam and Susan Cheng: TPC meeting hosts • Sergey Gorinsky and Aleksandar Kuzmanovic: Publications Co-Chairs • Outstanding Papers Selection Committee • Harvey Freeman, Kazem Sohraby and others on the INFOCOM Standing Committee • Session chairs, presenters, student volunteers and attendees

4. Review process • Each paper reviewed by 3 TPC Members • Online discussion phase followed review submissions • TPC Summary and Recommendation forwarded to Area TPC Chairs • Area TPC Chairs obtained additional reviews for controversial/borderline papers (>350 papers had 4+ reviews) • All papers (except those rejected early) received at least 3 reviews, with some papers receiving as many as 6 reviews • Area TPC Chairs provided their recommendation based on TPC reviews/recommendation, extra reviews and their opinion • At TPC meeting in Oct. 2007, the paper selection was finalized (Approx. 110 TPC members attended) • Around 288 papers were discussed at TPC Meeting, besides 84 papers that were directly recommended for Accept by ATPC Chairs

5. Data on submitted papers • 1152 papers were reviewed, after post-submission withdrawals • Total of 236 papers accepted for the main-conference • Total of 75 papers accepted for the mini-conference, chaired by K.K. Ramakrishnan and Byrav Ramamurthy

6. Mini-Conference • Chairs: Drs. K.K. Ramakrishnan and Byrav Ramamurthy • Started last year (as INFOCOM 2007 Mini-Symposium) • All INFOCOM submissions were automatically considered for the Mini-Conference. • Mini-Conference program used the same TPC and process as the selection for the main program. • TPC was asked to recommend papers for mini-conference • Mini-Conference papers had a 5-page limit on camera-ready version (from 9-page submission): • To highlight important contributions. • Provide authors opportunity to obtain feedback to improve their paper and publish an extended version later. • Mini-Conference attendance was free to all INFOCOM registered attendees. • Average attendance was 55 people/session (range:35-100). • Mini-Conference was very successful this year: 75 papers were arranged in four sessions across four parallel tracks.

7. % authors by region (1152 papers)

8. Number of papers by topic Note: Each paper selected on average 1.7 topics

9. Accepted Paper: Author Stats. (from EDAS)

10. Top Three Outstanding Papers Award

11. Top Three Outstanding Papers: Selection Committee • Don Towsley • K.K.Ramakrishnan • Steven Low • Mingyan Liu • Jorg Liebeherr

12. Top Three Outstanding Papers are … (in no particular order) • Understanding the Capacity Region of the Greedy Maximal Scheduling Algorithm in Multi-hop Wireless Networks • Changhee Joo (The Ohio State University, US); • Xiaojun Lin (Purdue University, US); • Ness Shroff (The Ohio State University, US)

13. Top Three Outstanding Papers are … (in no particular order) • On the Feasibility of the Link Abstraction in (Rural) Mesh Networks • Dattatraya Gokhale (IIT, Kanpur, IN); • Sayandeep Sen (University of Wisconsin Madison, US); • Kameswari Chebrolu (IIT Kanpur, IN); • Bhaskaran Raman (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, IN)

14. Top Three Outstanding Papers are … (in no particular order) • Theoretical Results on Base Station Movement Problem for Sensor Networks • Yi Shi (Virginia Tech, US); • Thomas Hou (Virginia  Tech, US)

15. Technical Program • Organized in parallel tracks (between 5 to 6 simultaneous tracks) in 59 sessions of 90 minutes each • Each session has 4 papers • 18 minutes for presentation • 3 minutes for questions • 1 minute to transition between speakers • Presenters: Please contact your session chairs well ahead of session • Session chairs: Presenter name and brief bio, available on EDAS, for most papers

16. Panels and Demos • Panel 1: All-Conference Panel: DoD Research in Networking, Tue, 11am, (Dr. Robert Bonneau, AFOSR, moderator) • Panel 2: Entrepreneurship in Networking Research, Wed, 8:30am, (Prof.Steven Low, Caltech, moderator) • Panel 3: Networking in Challenging Environments: Hype or Reality, Thu, 10:30am (Prof. Jie Wu, NSF/FAU, moderator) Demos: @The Atrium, Tue & Wed, 1pm-6 pm

17. Thank You! We hope you enjoy the conference and all its activities Do not forget to explore the Phoenix area