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Paper deadline (Cycle 1; rebuttal period January 26-February 2, 2027) · 23:59 AoE Confirmed
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- Abstract
- 10 November 2026
- Other dates
- 7 April 2027 (Cycle 2)
- Edition
- Oct 25-29, 2027
- Where
- Atlanta, GA, USA
Source: conferences.sigcomm.org
How much it publishes
Where its authors come from
Share of the 341 papers since 2023 with at least one author in each country.
| Country | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| United States | 52% |
| Germany | 16% |
| China | 15% |
| France | 8% |
| Netherlands | 7% |
Main subject areas of those papers:
| Subject area | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| Network Traffic and Congestion Control | 27% |
| Network Security and Intrusion Detection | 12% |
| Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting | 10% |
| Privacy, Security, and Data Protection | 6% |
| Web Application Security Vulnerabilities | 5% |
| Spam and Phishing Detection | 5% |
Most cited papers since 2023
- Ethereum's Proposer-Builder Separation: Promises and Realities (2023, 90 citations)
- Flocking to Mastodon: Tracking the Great Twitter Migration (2023, 86 citations)
- Performance of Cellular Networks on the Wheels (2023, 61 citations)
- Tracking, Profiling, and Ad Targeting in the Alexa Echo Smart Speaker Ecosystem (2023, 57 citations)
- RoVista: Measuring and Analyzing the Route Origin Validation (ROV) in RPKI (2023, 51 citations)
Past deadlines
When the paper deadline fell in recent years: a good guide to when the next call will close.
| Edition | Paper deadline | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2025-11-20 | Karlsruhe, Germany |
| 2025 | 2024-11-21 | Madison, Wisconsin, USA |
| 2024 | 2024-05-15 | Madrid, Spain |
| 2023 | 2023-05-26 | Montreal, Canada |
| 2022 | 2022-05-18 | Nice, France |
Official rankings
Computer science ranks its conferences. We don't reproduce the lists; check IMC on each:
- CORE conference ranking (A*, A, B, C): what CORE ranks mean
- CCF recommended list (A, B, C): what CCF classes mean
- Proceedings on DBLP
More networks deadlines
| Meeting | Deadline |
|---|---|
| MMSysACM International Conference on Multimedia Systems | 19 Nov 2026 |
| SECONIEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking | 30 Nov 2026 |
| WoWMoMIEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks | 1 Dec 2026 |
| CoNEXTInternational Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies | 4 Dec 2026 |
| MobiSysACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services | 4 Dec 2026 |
| NOSSDAVInternational Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video | 11 Jan 2027 |
| SIGCOMMACM International Conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication | 2 Feb 2027 |
| ICCCNIEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks | 19 Feb 2027 |
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