Message from TPC co-chairs

On behalf of the Technical Program Committee (TPC), we are proud to present to you an excellent technical program covering a wide range of topics focused on the design, analysis and control of communication networks and computer systems. This year the program includes sessions on new methods and tools for traffic monitoring, bandwidth sharing and caching, content delivery and peer-to-peer, wireless and coding, cloud computing, and queuing models. The technical program is highlighted by three keynote talks to be given by Prof. Hisashi Kobayashi (Princeton University & NICT), Dr. Jean-Pierre Hamaide (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent) and Prof. George Pavlou (University College London, UK) who will present their visions of the future of communication networks and systems. This year 73 papers were submitted by authors from 27 countries, with about 60% of the submissions from Europe, 20% from USA and Canada, 15% from Asia/Pacific and 5% from Africa/Middle East/Latin America. We accepted 24 papers in total, resulting in the acceptance rate of 33%. The review process involved 90 TPC members from both academia and industry. Most papers received 4 reviews. An oversight committee consisting of 15 TPC members led the online discussion phase and made preliminary recommendation through meta-reviews. Based on the reviews and meta-reviews, the TPC co-chairs recommended to accept 14 papers and to reject 26 papers, leaving 33 papers for further discussion.