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Title: Publishing


1
Publishing or How to get Out of Grad School
  • Henning Schulzrinne
  • Dept. of Computer Science
  • Columbia University

2
Publications
  • Different kinds of publications
  • Think like a reviewer
  • Finding the right conference
  • Advertising your work
  • Paper types
  • What if my paper is rejected?

3
Publication types
  • Technical reports
  • Workshops
  • Conferences
  • Magazines
  • (Archival) Journals
  • RFCs

4
Finding out about conferences
  • CFP call for papers
  • Finding out about conferences
  • http//www.cs.ucsb.edu/almeroth/conf/stats/
  • TCCC announcement list (subscribe!)
  • Wenyu Jiangs conference list

5
Technical Reports
  • CS, IBM and BL TR
  • avoids being scooped
  • present additional details (simulation results,
    proofs, implementation details)
  • Can be used to advertise on mailing lists read
    more often than some conference papers

6
Workshops
  • Two kinds
  • invited (Dagstuhl)
  • topic-focused (Internet Measurements, NANOG)
  • Smaller, more focused than conferences
  • May not have formal proceedings, just copies of
    slides
  • Often, only once or twice, but some for years
    (ComSoc)
  • Selectivity varies from 100 to 10
  • Some events are called workshop, but are really
    conferences (NOSSDAV, IWQoS)

7
Conferences
  • Hundreds a year
  • Traditional ICC, Globecom
  • Semi-traditional Infocom, SIGCOMM, ICNP,
    Sigmetrics, Usenix, SOSP,
  • Newer WWW, NOSSDAV, IWQoS, SAINT, Mobicom,
    Mobihoc,
  • Submission size 5-10 pages

8
Conferences
  • Some have short submissions (extended abstract)
    and longer accepted papers
  • Some are effectively the same length (Infocom)
  • Few have long submissions and shorter final papers

9
Conference reviews
  • Either technical program committee (TPC) or TPC
    external reviewers
  • Reviews
  • blind (most IEEE conferences) author doesnt
    know reviewer, but reviewer knows author identity
  • double-blind (ACM) only the chair knows the
    author identities

10
Finding the right conference
  • Appropriate conference
  • layer/topic area
  • style (analysis, system)
  • selectivity
  • location (Australia vs. NY)

11
Traveling to conferences
  • Many larger conferences have student travel
    grants
  • often for authors
  • sometimes for non-authors (SIGCOMM)

12
Magazines
  • Examples
  • IEEE Network Magazine
  • IEEE Communications Magazine
  • IEEE Personal Communications
  • IEEE Multimedia Magazine
  • Large circulation -gt topics of broad interest
  • Written for non-specialist (30,000 readers!)
  • Originality not always most important

13
Journals
  • Every PhD thesis should result in at least one
    journal publication
  • Archival most libraries have them and keep them
    forever
  • Long review cycle
  • Selectivity varies greatly can be less
    selective than some conferences
  • Often, given second chance resubmit with major
    changes

14
Journals
  • Issued principally by
  • Societies
  • ACM
  • IEEE
  • Commercial publishers
  • Springer Verlag
  • Kluwer
  • North Holland

15
Journals
  • Examples
  • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
  • Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
  • Computer Communications Review
  • ACM Multimedia
  • Computer Networks
  • Journal of High Speed Networks
  • Journal of Communications and Networks

16
RFCs Internet Standards Documents
  • RFCs are not papers (and vice versa)
  • Can take a while, particularly for
    standards-track documents
  • Start with submitting Internet Drafts but most
    Internet drafts never make it to RFC
  • Specification vs. description

17
RFCs
  • Precision vs. novelty and performance
  • How does it work vs. how is this better than
    existing work
  • Good way to get impact
  • Good for industrial job interviews

18
Ways to advertise your work
  • Technical reports
  • Put link and abstract on web page (search
    engines!)
  • Relevant mailing lists (e.g., end2end)
  • Send pointer to authors of work that is closely
    related
  • arXiv for tech reports

19
Finding related work
  • netbib
  • citeseer
  • Google
  • web pages of well-known network research groups
  • Digital Library, IEEEXplore

20
Types of papers - content
  • Measurement
  • measure performance of real systems
  • test bed or real Internet
  • careful statistics how representative is your
    data?
  • Analysis of existing algorithm
  • TCP, FDDI, DQDB, RED, - not some obscure
    protocol
  • simulation or analysis
  • bad protocols are good news for authors

21
Types of papers, contd.
  • System description
  • implement interesting system
  • describe it in sufficient detail
  • whats new and interesting?
  • prototype, not industrial product
  • New algorithm or protocol
  • switching, routing, scheduling,
  • performance evaluation
  • highest risk/reward
  • dont describe bit fields

22
Think like a reviewer
  • Reviewers are volunteers
  • Reviewers are not English editors
  • Abstract and title have to ensure proper routing
    of paper (theory vs. systems)
  • Reviewers get mad if their work is not cited
  • Clearly state what your contribution is (and
    state other things in future work)

23
Think like a reviewer
  • Sufficient detail to evaluate, but not used gcc
    1.2.3 on a SPARC Ultra 10 called snoopy to
    simulate
  • Repeat main results in introduction and summary
  • Very carefully distinguish from prior work
  • Avoid overloading one paper (hard!)

24
Paper submission
  • Technical report (and RFCs) do no harm
  • Basic rule cannot submit same material to two
    venues simultaneously (including conference and
    journal)
  • Dont explore LPU
  • Conference paper refined(workshop paper
    detail)
  • Journal paper refined(? conference papers)

25
What if a paper is rejected?
  • Dont jump off the GWB - it happens to everyone
  • If not, youre not submitting to the right
    conferences
  • No point complaining if the reviews are
    superficial decisions are effectively final
    (except for discoveries of plagiarism, etc.)
  • Publish as tech report immediately (after taking
    reviews into consideration)
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