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awards:
  - type: 2017 SIGCOMM Award Winner
    link: http://www.sigcomm.org/awards/sigcomm-awards
    people:
    - name:        Raj Jain
      affiliation: Washington University in St. Louis
      homepage:    http://www.cse.wustl.edu/~jain/
      info:        "For life-long contributions to computer networking including traffic management, congestion control, and performance analysis."

  - type: 2017 SIGCOMM Test of Time Award Winners
    link: http://www.sigcomm.org/awards/test-of-time-paper-award
    papers:
      - title: "Ethane: Taking control of the Enterprise, SIGCOMM 2007"
        authors: "Martin Casado, Michael J. Freedman, Justin Pettit, Jianying Luo, Nick McKeown, Scott Shenker"
        abstract: "Ethane ushered in the age of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and a new generation of research that inspired both academia and industry to design network control planes that we can reason about."
        link: ""
        
      - title: "Measurement and analysis of online social networks, IMC 2007"
        authors: "Alan Mislove, Massimiliano Marcon, Krishna P. Gummadi, Peter Druschel, Bobby Bhattacharjee"
        abstract: "This is one of the first papers that examine multiple online social networks at scale. By introducing novel measurement techniques, the paper has had an enduring influence on the analysis, modeling and design of modern social media and social networking services."
        link: ""

  - type: 2017 SIGCOMM Best Paper Award Winners
    papers:
    
    - title: Re-architecting datacenter networks and stacks for low latency and high performance
      authors: Mark Handley (University College London), Costin Raiciu, Alexandru Agache,
        and Andrei Voinescu (University Politehnica of Bucharest), and Andrew Moore, Gianni
        Antichi, and Marcin Wójcik (University of Cambridge)
      abstract2: |
        <p>Modern datacenter networks provide very high capacity via redundant Clos topologies and low switch latency, but transport protocols rarely manage to deliver performance matching the underlying hardware. We present NDP, a novel datacenter transport architecture that achieves both near-optimal completion times for short transfers and near-optimal throughput in a wide range of scenarios including incast. NDP builds upon Cut Payload (CP) which cuts packet payloads when switches overflow, but remedies CP’s shortcomings, and implements a novel high performance multipath-aware transport protocol. Headers of packets whose payload was cut due to congestion give the receiver a complete view of instantaneous demand from all senders. NDP is primarily a receiver-driven transport protocol, as the receiver is the only entity that can accurately manage this demand and prioritize between traffic from different senders during incast scenarios.</p>
        <p>We implemented NDP in Linux end systems, in a software switch and in hardware switches based on the NetFPGA-SUME platform. We evaluate NDP’s performance both in our implementation and in large-scale simulations. NDP achieves slightly lower short-flow completion times than DCTCP running over lossless Ethernet using PFC, while having better ability to prioritize traffic from stragglers. At the same time, for large transfers in heavily loaded Clos topologies, it can achieve more than 95% of the available network capacity due to its excellent multipath capability, beating DCTCP by approximately 40%.</p>
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      link: http://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=3098825&ftid=1898916&dwn=1&CFID=776908660&CFTOKEN=29525737
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    - title: Language-directed hardware design for network performance monitoring
      authors: Srinivas Narayana, Anirudh Sivaraman, Vikram Nathan, and Prateesh Goyal
        (MIT CSAIL), Venkat Arun (IIT Guwahati), Mohammad Alizadeh (MIT CSAIL), Vimalkumar
        Jeyakumar (Cisco Tetration Analytics), and Changhoon Kim (Barefoot Networks)
      abstract2: |
        <p>Network performance monitoring today is restricted by existing switch support for measurement, forcing operators to rely heavily on endpoints with poor visibility into the network core. Switch vendors have added progressively more monitoring features to switches, but the current trajectory of adding specific features is unsustainable given the ever-changing demands of network operators. Instead, we ask what switch hardware primitives are required to support an expressive language of network performance questions. We believe that the resulting switch hardware design could address a wide variety of current and future performance monitoring needs.</p>
        <p>We present a performance query language, Marple, modeled on familiar functional constructs like map, filter, groupby, and zip. is backed by a new programmable key-value store primitive on switch hardware. The key-value store performs flexible aggregations at line rate (e.g., a moving average of queueing latencies per flow), and scales to millions of keys. We present a Marple compiler that targets a P4-programmable software switch and a simulator for high-speed programmable switches. Marple can express switch queries that could previously run only on end hosts, while Marple queries only occupy a modest fraction of a switch’s hardware resources.</p>
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      link: http://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=3098829&ftid=1898917&dwn=1&CFID=776908660&CFTOKEN=29525737
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  - type: 2016 SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award
    link: http://www.sigcomm.org/awards/dissertation
    people:
    - name:        Justine Sherry
      info:        'Dissertation "Middleboxes as a Cloud Service" proposes that advanced network functions be implemented as software services running in the cloud, and develops in depth the algorithms and system designs needed to realize this vision in practice.'

    - name:        Vamsi Talla
      info:        'Dissertation "Power, Communication and Sensing Solutions for Energy Constrained Platforms" introduces techniques that make it possible to build low-power sensors and devices that consume no energy beyond what is already in the air, in ambient RF signals such as cellular, TV, and Wi-Fi.'

  - type: 2017 ACM Student Research Competition Winners (Graduate Track)
    link: http://src.acm.org/
    people: 
    - name:        "First Place: Kazem Cheshmi"
      affiliation: Rutgers University
      homepage:
      info:        'ACM CGO 2017 Conference, for his research project <a href="http://src.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/src/2016/kazenchesmi.pdf" target="_blank">Decoupling Symbolic from Numeric in Sparse Matrix Calculations</a>'
  
    - name:        "Second Place: Omid Abari"
      affiliation:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
      homepage:
      info:        'ACM MobiCom 2016 Conference, for his research project <a href="http://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/src/2016/omidabari.pdf" target="_blank">Cutting the Cord in Virtual Reality</a>'
  
    - name:        "Third Place: Calvin Loncaric"
      affiliation: University of Washington
      homepage:
      info:        'ACM FSE 2016 Conference, for his research project <a href="http://src.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/src/2016/calvinloncaric.pdf" target="_blank">Cozy: Synthesizing Collection Data Structures</a>'

  - type: 2017 ACM Student Research Competition Winners (Undergraduate Track)
    link: http://src.acm.org/
    people:
    - name:        "First Place: Victor Lanvin"
      affiliation: ENS Paris Saclay
      homepage:
      info:        'ACM POPL 2017 Conference, for his research project <a href="http://src.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/src/2016/victorlanvin.pdf" target="_blank">Gradual Set-Theoretic Types</a>'
  
    - name:        "Second Place: Jennifer Vaccaro"
      affiliation: Olin College of Engineering
      homepage:
      info:        'ACM ICCAD 2016 Conference, for her research project <a href="http://src.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/src/2016/jennifervaccaro.pdf" target="_blank">Applying Computer Modeling to Post-Silicon Electrical Validation</a>'
  
    - name:        "Third Place: Martin Kellogg"
      affiliation: University of Washington
      homepage:
      info:        'ACM FSE 2016 Conference, for his research project <a href="http://src.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/src/2016/martinkellogg.pdf" target="_blank">Combining Bug Detection and Test Case Generation </a>'

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<h1>Awards</h1>

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