Internet Measurement Conference 2004
Sponsored by ACM SIGCOMM and in cooperation with USENIX
October 25-27, 2004
Taormina, Sicily, Italy
Gran Albergo Capotaormina Hotel

The Internet Measurement Conference will focus on Internet measurement and
analysis, following on the success of the 2001 Internet Measurement Workshop,
the 2002 Internet Measurement Workshop, and the 2003 Internet Measurement
Conference. We welcome the submission of papers that contribute to our
understanding of how to collect or analyze Internet measurements, or give
insight into how the Internet behaves. Examples of relevant topics are:

    * Workload and topology characterization; traffic analysis
    * Software tools and environments in support of measurement
    * Traffic engineering and measurement of traffic matrices
    * Web, CDN, peer-to-peer, and overlay measurements
    * Internet-oriented wireless, mobility, and sensor net measurement
    * Inter-domain and intra-domain routing
    * Multimedia streaming and gaming
    * Data-centric issues, including anonymization, querying, and storage
    * Measurement-based inference of network properties
    * Design of monitoring systems, sampling methods, and anomaly detection
    * Measurement assessment of simulation/testbed and previous measurement findings
    * Measurement-based modeling 

Papers that do not in some fashion rely on measuring Internet properties are
out of scope. There are two forms of submissions: (i) Full papers (up to 14
two-column pages) describing original research, with succinctness appropriate
to the topics and themes they discuss. (ii) Extended abstracts (up to 6
two-column pages), conveying work-in progress and less mature results, that
are expected to mature by the time of the workshop. Extended abstracts will
be subject to a 6-page limit in the proceedings.

Submissions must be in electronic form, as Postscript, or PDF documents. The
submission must conform to the page limits stated above, and the main text
body must be written in a 10 point (or larger) serif font. All manuscripts
must be in English. Submissions that do not comply with these requirements
will be unread. A PDF version of the CFP can be found here.

Important dates:

    * May 7, 2004: Registration of title and 250-word abstract
    * May 14, 2004: 11PM EDT HARD submission deadline
    * July 16, 2004: Notification
    * August 10, 2004: Camera Ready Copy due
    * October 25-27, 2004: Conference held in Taormina, Sicily, Italy 

All full papers and extended abstracts accepted for presentation at the
workshop will be published by ACM in proceedings. A few accepted papers may
be forwarded for fast-track submission to the IEEE/ACM Transactions on
Networking. There may also be an opportunity to present some papers that are
not accepted in a poster session.

The workshop will present a best student paper award for the top paper with a
student as the primary author and contributor. A limited number of travel
grants may be available to students who are unable to secure funding from
their advisors.

General Chair: A. Lombardo, U. Catania

Program Chair: J. Kurose, U. Massachusetts

Program Committee: M. Allman (ICIR), P. Barford (U. Wisconsin), K. Claffy
(CAIDA), M. Crovella (Boston U.), C. Diot (Intel), C. Dovrolis (Georgia
Tech), N. Duffield (AT&T), A. Feldmann (TU Muenchen), G. Iannaccone (Intel),
K. Jeffay (U. North Carolina), F. LoPresti (U. L'Aquila). S. Moon (KAIST), L.
Qiu (Microsoft), M. Roughan (AT&T), A. Shaikh (IBM), S. Seshan (CMU), D.
Wetherall (U. Washington).

IMC Steering Committee: C. Diot, Intel Research; B. Krishnamurthy, AT&T
Research; V. Paxson, ICSI and LBNL