Links

Bibliographies

Virtual Institute of Information: Cybercommunication and Mass Media Research
The network bibliography contains a large number of references to papers in networking, multimedia and performance evaluation.
Queueing Literature Database: traffic engineering, performance analysis of systems and networks
Bibliography on group communications
Networked Computer Science Technical Reports Library
Papers on the Foundations of Networks: suggested in response to a request for “30 papers that every PhD in the field of networks should know”

Acronyms, Abbreviations, Glossaries

Dictionary of Acronyms in Communications and Informatics

Textbooks

Computer Networks (Andrew S. Tanenbaum)
Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach (James F. Kurose and Keith W. Ross)
Computer Networks: A Systems Approach (Larry L. Peterson and Bruce S. Davie)

IEEE Policy and Opportunities

IEE publishing policy FAQs (e.g. dual submissions, plagiarisms)
Ref. Moshe Kam’s email in TCCC on a number of IEEE policy issues, dated Dec 23, 2009:
- IEEE ombudsperson who is authorized to investigate complaints on alleged deviation of IEEE from its own governing rules or applicable law
- IEEE Ethics and Member Conduct; a slideset about IEEE Code of Ethics; please find here if a member seeks for IEEE ethical support
IEEE Distinguished Lecturer program
IEEE Fellow, Senior Member grades; search one’s membership status via IEEE MemberNet
IEEE Awards, ComSoc Awards (e.g., Technical Achievement & Service Awards, Paper Awards)

Organizations and Technical Committees

IEEE
- The IEEE Computer Society
  Technical Committee on Computer Communications) which is distinct from our (Communications Society) TCCC
- The IEEE Communications Society
- The IEEE Communications Society Technical Committees, Networking related TCs:
- The IEEE Communications Society Standing Committees which includes Awards, DL Selection, GITC and GIMS(which selects the location of GLOBECOM/ICC among other tasks), as well as
  - Emerging Technologies Committee which contains a number of Emerging Technical Subcommittees :
    - Applications of Nanotechnologies in Communications
    - Autonomic Communications
    - Consumer Networking
    - Human Centric Communications (HCCTC)
    - Integrated Fiber & Wireless Technologies (TCFiWi)
    - Nano-Scale, Molecular, & Quantum Networking
    - Peer-to-Peer Networking
- The IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE): its mission is to inspire, engage, encourage, and empower IEEE women worldwide. Note that WIE membership is not restricted to only women.
- IEEE Conflicts of Interest (COI) form
ACM
- ACM Special Interest Group on Communications
- ACM Special Interest Group on Mobility of Systems, Users, Data, and Computing
USENIX
International Teletraffic Congress
IFIP

Conferences

IEEE (ref. Fred Bauer’s email in TCCC on IEEE Conference issues, dated Dec 17, 2009)
- IEEE Conference Publications Requirements, which specifies two choices of publishing conference proceedings (see their differences here):
  - Self-service (IEEE PDF express)
  - Pay for service (IEEE eXpress or Conference Publishing Service)
- IEEE Conference registration requirements
- IEEE ComSoc Portfolio Events
  - INFOCOM
  - Globecom
  - ICC, etc
- ICNP
- ICDCS
- IWQoS
- S&P
ACM
- SIGCOMM
- CoNEXT
- IMC
- HotNets
- MOBICOM
- MOBIHOC
- MOBISYS
- SENSYS
- SOSP
- SIGMETRICS
- CCS
USENIX
IFIP
- Networking
- Performance
Network conference statistics maintained by Kevin Almeroth

Journals and Magazines

Network Simulation

Network Experiments

Standardization and Non-Profit Organizations