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SIGCOMM 2026: Annual Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication

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Submission Date:
2026-02-06
Notification Date:
Conference Date:
2026-08-17
Location:
Denver, Colorado, USA
Years:
40
CCF: A   ICORE: A*   QUALIS: A1   Viewed: 243262   Tracked: 255   Attend: 18

Call For Papers

SIGCOMM 2026 (Annual Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication) is a CCF A / ICORE A* / QUALIS A1 conference held in Denver, Colorado, USA on 2026-08-17. The paper submission deadline is 2026-02-06.

The ACM SIGCOMM 2026 conference seeks papers describing significant research contributions or significant deployment experiences in communication networks and networked systems. SIGCOMM takes a broad view of networking which includes (but is not limited to): All types of computer networks, including mobile, wide-area, data center, embedded, home, and enterprise networks. All types of wired and wireless technologies, including optics, radio, acoustic, and visible light-based communication. All aspects of networks and networked systems, such as network architecture, packet-switched and circuit-switched hardware and software, virtualization, mobility, resource management, performance, energy consumption and environmental impact, topology, robustness, security, diagnosis, verification, privacy, economics, evolution, and interactions with applications. All parts of the network life cycle, including planning, designing, building, operating, troubleshooting, migrations, and end-of-life. All approaches and techniques applied to networking, including theory, analysis, experimentation, and AI/machine learning. SIGCOMM 2026 will accept submissions in two tracks: research and experience. Research track submissions should significantly advance the state of the art in networking by, for instance, proposing and developing novel ideas or by rigorously evaluating or re-evaluating existing ideas. Experience track submissions will present key insights found in the course of executing deployments of networking techniques, especially in settings that most in the community cannot duplicate (for instance, for reasons of scale). Please note there are significant changes to the experience track which are described below in the "new this year" section. Survey and tutorial papers are out of scope. All submissions must be anonymous, i.e., not reveal author names. Experience submissions, however, may reveal the name of the deploying organization or the deployed system. All authors must be listed in HotCRP before the submission deadline so that reviewer conflicts are handled properly. At paper registration time, authors must explicitly choose in the submission form whether their paper is to be considered for the research or experience track. Each submission will only be considered for the one track identified at submission time.
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Acceptance Ratio

Average acceptance rate: 20.2% over 33 years (1983–2016).

YearSubmittedAcceptedAccepted(%)
20162313916.9%
20152424016.5%
20142424518.6%
20132403815.8%
20122353113.2%
20112233214.3%
20102763312%
20092702710%
20082883512.2%
20072583513.6%
20062983712.4%
20052552710.6%
2004340319.1%
20033193310.3%
2002300258.3%
20012032311.3%
20002382610.9%
19991902412.6%
19982262711.9%
19972132411.3%
19961622716.7%
19951433021%
1994942930.9%
19931492818.8%
19921262721.4%
19911282821.9%
19901023130.4%
1989942930.9%
19881163227.6%
1987944244.7%
19861254536%
1984703347.1%
1983503468%

Best Papers

YearBest Papers
2024Expresso: Comprehensively Reasoning About External Routes Using Symbolic Simulation
2024The Next Generation of BGP Data Collection Platforms
2024Understanding the Host Network
2023Memory Management in ActiveRMT: Towards Runtime-programmable Switches
2022Software-Defined Network Assimilation: Bridging the Last Mile Towards Centralized Network Configuration Management with NAssim
2021Seven Years in the Life of Hypergiants' Off-Nets
2020Routing on Multiple Optimality Criteria
2019Underwater backscatter networking
2019PicNIC: predictable virtualized NIC
2018Inferring Persistent Interdomain Congestion
2017Language-directed hardware design for network performance monitoring
2017Re-architecting datacenter networks and stacks for low latency and high performance
2016Don't Mind the Gap: Bridging Network-wide Objectives and Device-level Configurations
2016Inter-Technology Backscatter: Towards Internet Connectivity for Implanted Devices
2016Eliminating Channel Feedback in Next-Generation Cellular Networks
2015Central Control Over Distributed Routing
2014CONGA: Distributed Congestion-Aware Load Balancing for Datacenters
2014Balancing Accountability and Privacy in the Network
2013Ambient Backscatter: Wireless Communication Out of Thin Air
2012Multi-Resource Fair Queueing for Packet Processing
2011They Can Hear Your Heartbeats: Non-Invasive Security for Implanted Medical Devices
2010Efficient Error Estimating Coding: Feasibility and Applications
2009White Space Networking with Wi-Fi like Connectivity
2008ZigZag Decoding: Combating Hidden Terminals in Wireless Networks
2001A scalable content-addressable network
2001Chord: A scalable peer-to-peer lookup service for internet applications
1988Congestion avoidance and control

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