sigcomm-related-work

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Use when positioning an ACM SIGCOMM submission against the networking literature — sweeping SIGCOMM, NSDI, MobiCom, CoNEXT, IMC, and SIGMETRICS plus journals, proving each placement via dblp and the ACM Digital Library, distinguishing main-track papers from CCR editorials, handling concurrent work, and keeping self-citation double-blind-safe.

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SIGCOMM Related Work

Use this to audit novelty and placement. SIGCOMM is the broad networking flagship, so a paper is read against the strongest prior work in its exact subarea — and against results scattered across sibling venues. Reopen the current CFP for concurrent-submission and anonymity rules before advising.

Positioning checks

Separate the mechanism you contribute from engineering polish: a new protocol, transport signal, forwarding architecture, measurement-driven design, or programmable-data-plane technique.
Sweep the whole networking literature, not just SIGCOMM: the nearest prior work may sit in NSDI, MobiCom, CoNEXT, IMC, SIGMETRICS, INFOCOM, or a journal like IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. A bibliography that cites only SIGCOMM signals a narrow read.
Prove each placement. Verify the venue and year on dblp and the ACM DL before you assert it; do not rely on memory for where a famous result appeared.
Distinguish main-track proceedings from CCR editorial notes — OpenFlow's famous CCR note is not a SIGCOMM conference paper, and citing it as one is a checkable error.
Handle concurrent and prior versions honestly, and keep every self-citation phrased so double-blind review survives.

Venue-coverage table

Literature lane	Typical venues	What SIGCOMM reviewers check
Networking design flagships	SIGCOMM, NSDI, CoNEXT	Whether the nearest deployed mechanism is compared or distinguished
Wireless / mobile	MobiCom, SIGMOBILE venues	Whether relevant PHY/mobility work is acknowledged when adjacent
Measurement	IMC	Whether the motivating measurement rests on the right prior characterizations
Performance analysis	SIGMETRICS	Whether known models/bounds are credited
Archival journals	IEEE/ACM ToN, JSAC	Whether classical results are not being rediscovered

A missing state-of-the-art comparison from the right venue is a recognizable SIGCOMM reject pattern that benchmark strength alone does not repair.

The misattribution guard

Before citing "X appeared at SIGCOMM YYYY":
  1. Find it on dblp.org/db/conf/sigcomm/  -> confirm the edition and page range
  2. Confirm ACM DL lists it in the SIGCOMM conference proceedings, not CCR editorial
  3. Rule out the sibling: Hedera is NSDI, RED is ToN, BBR is CACM
  4. If unresolved -> mark 待核实 and do not assert the venue

Positioning vignette

A paper proposes a data-center transport that schedules flows in the fabric. Its nearest neighbors: an earlier SIGCOMM congestion-signal paper (DCTCP), a fabric-scheduling paper in the same lineage (pFabric), and an NSDI flow-scheduling system that is often confused with it. The novelty sentence should name all three contrasts — a different signal than the first, a different scheduling granularity than the second, and a design rather than the deployed-system framing of the NSDI neighbor — with each venue verified.

Concurrent-work judgment calls

Independently concurrent work at another venue: cite neutrally, state the technical difference, and avoid priority claims reviewers cannot verify under blinding.
Your own prior workshop or preprint version: cite in a blind-safe third person and confirm the current CFP's stance on overlap before relying on it.
When a venue's archival status is unclear, declare the overlap in the submission rather than gambling on a chair's reading.

Output format

[Eligibility] clear / needs declaration / risky
[Closest venues] <SIGCOMM / NSDI / MobiCom / CoNEXT / IMC / journal>
[Nearest 3 works] <work -> distinction, each venue verified>
[Misattribution risk] <CCR-vs-main-track / sibling-venue traps checked>
[Novelty sentence] <SIGCOMM-ready mechanism contrast>