ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review

ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review is the quarterly title of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communications, it carries peer reviewed technical papers alongside editorial material that is not peer reviewed, and it is published from New York for the networking community that grew out of the group.《ACM SIGCOMM 计算机通信评论》是美国计算机学会数据通信专业组的季刊，在纽约出版，同行评议的技术论文与未经评议的编辑类内容并列刊出，承接了该组网络研究社区的会刊传统。

Scope

• The journal presents itself as the online magazine of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communications and publishes articles on topics inside the field of interest of that group.该刊自述为美国计算机学会数据通信专业组的在线刊物，发表该组兴趣领域内的文章。

• It publishes peer reviewed technical papers as well as editorial content that goes through no peer review.刊物既发表同行评议的技术论文，也刊载不经同行评议的编辑类内容。

• Keeping to the historical mission of serving as a newsletter for the group, it also acts as a forum for reports from workshops and conferences in the general area of computer communication.承袭作为该组会刊的历史使命，它同时充当计算机通信领域各类工作组与会议报告的发表园地。

• Technical papers accepted there typically report on practical advances or on the practical applications of theoretical advances.录用的技术论文通常报告实际进展，或者理论进展的实际应用。

• The journal describes itself as a forum for interesting and novel ideas at an early stage in their development and it puts the focus on timely dissemination of new ideas that may trigger further investigation.该刊把自己定位为让处于早期阶段的新奇想法得以曝光的园地，重点在于及时传播可能引发后续研究的新思路。

• Innovation and timeliness are the major criteria for acceptance while technical robustness and readability are also weighed in the review process.创新性与时效性是录用的主要标准，技术上的稳健与可读性同样纳入评审考量。

• Authors are particularly encouraged to submit papers that carry early evaluation or feasibility studies.刊物特别鼓励作者提交带有早期评估或可行性研究的论文。

• The group behind the title covers network architecture including the Internet and other architectures, network protocols, distributed systems, and publication and standards news.所属专业组的研究范围涵盖网络体系结构（含互联网及其他体系结构）与网络协议，还包括分布式系统以及出版与标准方面的动态。

• The areas of special interest of the group are design, analysis, measurement, maintenance, regulatory policy, standards, applications, multimedia, networked graphics, mobile networks and the social impact of computer network and computer communications equipment.该组列出的重点关注领域有设计与分析，也涵盖测量与维护，还有监管政策与标准。此外是应用以及多媒体、网络图形与移动网络，最后是计算机网络与计算机通信设备的社会影响。

• The journal also carries editorial contributions, which the submission guide describes as shorter and less formal pieces on topics of broad interest to the research community.刊物也刊载编辑类稿件，投稿指南把它们描述为就研究社区普遍关心的话题所作的更短、更不正式的写作。

• The scope of those editorial pieces covers interviews with research scientists and industry leaders, editorials, conference reports, summaries of standards, user manuals from funding agencies, arguments on a research topic, opinion columns, timely tutorials and a column of recommended reading, and letters from readers are welcome as well.这类编辑稿件的范围包括对研究学者与产业界领袖的访谈、社论以及会议报告，还包括标准摘要与资助机构的用户手册。此外是就某个研究议题的论辩与观点专栏，还有及时推出的教程以及一个推荐阅读专栏，并且也欢迎读者来信。

• The submission guide for editorial pieces lets authors contact the editor first for advice on whether the piece they have in mind fits.编辑类稿件的投稿指南允许作者先联系主编，征询手头的稿件是否合适。

• Papers accepted for publication are reachable through the online site of the journal and through the ACM Digital Library.录用的论文既可在该刊自己的在线站点读到，也收入美国计算机学会数字图书馆。

• The title is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection and in Scopus, while a query against the Directory of Open Access Journals returns no record for either of its two identifiers.该刊被 Web of Science 核心合集与 Scopus 收录，用两个刊号去查开放获取期刊目录都查不到记录。

• The Clarivate record gives the title a single subject category, computer science, information systems, in which the journal sits in the second quartile.Clarivate 的记录只给出计算机科学信息系统这一个类目，该刊在此类目中位于第二分区。

• The journal keeps each issue small, the October 2026 issue contains five papers and the July 2026 issue contains three technical papers.该刊每期篇幅都很小，2026 年 10 月一期共五篇论文，2026 年 7 月一期有三篇技术论文。

• The Journal Citation Reports counts ten citable items for the title in the reporting year and gives it a cited half life of 13.0 years.Journal Citation Reports 记录该刊当年只有十篇可计引文献，其被引半衰期为 13.0 年。

History

• The serial began as the newsletter of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communications and the National Library of Medicine catalogue starts it at volume 1 number 2 dated March 1971 with a publication place of New York.该刊最初是美国计算机学会数据通信专业组的会刊，美国国立医学图书馆的目录从 1971 年 3 月的第 1 卷第 2 期起著录，出版地为纽约。

• That catalogue notes that the newsletter was suspended with volume 2 number 1 in January 1972 and resumed with volume 3 numbers 1 to 4 in October 1973.目录记载该刊在 1972 年 1 月的第 2 卷第 1 期处停刊，1973 年 10 月以第 3 卷第 1 至 4 期恢复出版。

• The ISSN Portal places the first volume across 1970 and 1971 with three issues, and the print and electronic identifiers of the title are 0146-4833 and 1943-5819 with the print number acting as the linking key.ISSN 门户把第一卷记为跨 1970 与 1971 年共三期，该刊的印刷刊号为 0146-4833，电子刊号为 1943-5819，前者兼作链接刊号。

• For several decades the title stayed a newsletter before it turned into a full journal carrying peer reviewed technical papers, and the volume number reached 55 in 2025.该刊在最初几十年以会刊形态出版，后来转为刊载同行评议技术论文的完整期刊，卷号在 2025 年到达第 55 卷。

• The group co-sponsors the ACM and IEEE Transactions on Networking journal with the IEEE, which leaves this title as one of the two journals the group publishes.该专业组与 IEEE 共同主办 ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking，本刊因此是该组所办的两本期刊之一。

• Since 2012 the best papers accepted here are also presented at the ACM SIGCOMM conference.自 2012 年起，本刊录用的优秀论文同时在 ACM SIGCOMM 会议上宣读。

• Starting with the July 2016 issue the print version was dropped and the title has been available only online through its own site ever since.自 2016 年 7 月一期起，印刷版停办，该刊此后只通过自己的在线站点提供。

• The online archive of the journal keeps the issues of every year under the four issue names of January, April, July and October.该刊的在线档案按每年四期的期名归档，期名分别是 1 月、4 月与 7 月，以及 10 月。

• The digital object identifiers of the articles carry the prefix 10.1145, the same prefix the ACM Digital Library uses for its whole corpus.该刊文章的数字对象标识符采用 10.1145 前缀，与美国计算机学会数字图书馆整个体系的取前缀缀方式一致。

• (Steve Uhlig) served as editor of the title from January 2020 and announced in the July 2025 issue that he would step down as of January 2026, with (Robert Soulé) of Yale University taking over.（Steve Uhlig）自 2020 年 1 月起担任该刊主编，并在 2025 年 7 月一期的社论中宣布将于 2026 年 1 月卸任，由耶鲁大学的（Robert Soulé）接任。^[1]

• In the same period the editors published an editorial note that set out the reviewing process then in force at the journal and announced plans to make it a more open and welcoming venue.同一时期编辑部还发表了一篇社论，说明当时在用的评审流程，并宣布要把该刊办成更开放、更友好的场所。^[2]

• The current call for papers asks for editorial papers on the use of generative artificial intelligence in the networking community, with the theme issue planned for April 2027.当前的征稿面向网络社区中使用生成式人工智能的编辑类稿件，专刊计划于 2027 年 4 月出版。

• The ISSN Portal records the title as preserved by the CLOCKSS Archive and by Portico, and the two archives hold the run from volume 1 through volume 55.ISSN 门户记录该刊由 CLOCKSS 档案库与 Portico 长期保存，两家保存的卷次从第 1 卷一直到第 55 卷。

Editors

• The journal is edited by (Robert Soulé) of Yale University, who took over at the start of 2026.该刊主编是耶鲁大学的（Robert Soulé），他于 2026 年初接任。

• Nine area editors sit under the editor, among them (Gianni Antichi) of Queen Mary University of London, (Joseph Camp) of Southern Methodist University and (KC Claffy) of the Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis.主编之下设九位领域编辑，其中伦敦玛丽女王大学的（Gianni Antichi）、南卫理公会大学的（Joseph Camp）与互联网数据分析应用中心的（KC Claffy）都在其列。

• (Ralph Holz) and (Anna Sperotto) both come from the University of Twente in the Netherlands while (Noa Zilberman) is listed with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.（Ralph Holz）与（Anna Sperotto）都来自荷兰特温特大学，（Noa Zilberman）则登记在英国的牛津大学。

• (Qingkai Meng) of Nanjing University in China and (Dario Rossi) of Huawei in France complete the area editor panel, and (Matteo Varvello) of Nokia is the ninth.中国南京大学的（Qingkai Meng）与法国华为的（Dario Rossi）补齐了领域编辑名单，第九位是诺基亚的（Matteo Varvello）。

• A review committee of about nineteen people backs the editors, among them (Jon Crowcroft) of the University of Cambridge, (Stefan Schmid) of the Technical University Berlin and (Keith Winstein) of Stanford University.编辑背后是一支约十九人的评审委员会，剑桥大学的（Jon Crowcroft）、柏林工业大学的（Stefan Schmid）与斯坦福大学的（Keith Winstein）都在其中。

• The committee also holds (Bruce Davie) of Systems Approach in Australia, (Patrick Eugster) of the Università della Svizzera italiana and (Romain Jacob) of ETH Zurich.委员会里还有澳大利亚 Systems Approach 的（Bruce Davie）、瑞士意大利联邦大学的（Patrick Eugster）与苏黎世联邦理工大学的（Romain Jacob）。

• (Ennan Zhai) of Alibaba, (Jeff Mogul) of Google, (Geoff Voelker) of the University of California San Diego and (Rob Sherwood) of Microsoft bring industry and measurement work onto the committee.阿里巴巴的（Ennan Zhai）与 Google 的（Jeff Mogul）让产业界的声音进入委员会。此外还有加州大学圣迭戈分校的（Geoff Voelker）与 Microsoft 的（Rob Sherwood），他们带来测量方向的工作。

• The journal also lists a member of staff, (Shlomi Helfgot), who works as the digital infrastructure lead.刊物还列出一名工作人员（Shlomi Helfgot），担任数字基础设施负责人。

• The submission guide asks for technical papers of at most six two-column pages and allows more pages when the authors supply the artefacts needed to replicate their results and describe in an appendix how the replication works.投稿指南要求技术论文不超过六页双栏排版，若作者提供复现实验所需的工件并在附录中说明复现方式，则允许超出页数限制。

• Submissions must be in PDF format, use the SIG Alternate ACM Proceedings template with nine point type, carry the CCS concepts and the keywords and include an abstract of about one hundred words.投稿须为 PDF 格式，采用 SIG Alternate ACM Proceedings 模板与 9 磅字号，标注 CCS 概念与关键词，并附约一百词的摘要。

• Files larger than four megabytes are not accepted, the papers should be set in US Letter and no graph may depend on colour to be legible.大于四兆的文件不予接受，论文应按美国信纸排版，任何图表都不应依赖颜色才能看清。

• Submissions go through the conference management site HotCRP, and a revision counts as a new submission with a comment that identifies the previous paper number.投稿通过会议管理网站 HotCRP 提交，修改稿按新投稿处理，并在备注中写明上一轮的稿件编号。

• The journal accepts submissions all year round but keeps four implicit deadlines, on the first of December, March, June and September, and a paper submitted just before a deadline goes through an eight to ten week review.该刊全年接受投稿，但设四个隐含截止日，分别是 12 月 1 日、3 月 1 日与 6 月 1 日，以及 9 月 1 日。紧贴截止日投稿的论文要经历八到十周的评审。

• A paper submitted between 2 December and 1 March is considered for the July issue, one submitted between 2 March and 1 June for the October issue, one between 2 June and 1 September for the January issue and one between 2 September and 1 December for the April issue.12 月 2 日至次年 3 月 1 日之间投稿的论文进入 7 月一期，3 月 2 日至 6 月 1 日之间的进入 10 月一期，6 月 2 日至 9 月 1 日之间的进入次年 1 月一期，9 月 2 日至 12 月 1 日之间的进入次年 4 月一期。

• The camera-ready version is due two weeks after the notification and editorial contributions have to reach the editor eight weeks before the publication date.最终稿在通知后两周内提交，编辑类稿件则须在出版日期前八周送到主编手上。

• Authors keep the copyright of their work and the guide asks them to grant ACM a non-exclusive, perpetual and worldwide right to publish the article in print and electronically and to include it in the ACM Digital Library.作者保留作品的著作权，指南要求作者授予美国计算机学会非独占的权利，这项权利是永久的，也覆盖全世界范围，即以纸质与电子形式发表文章并收入该学会的数字图书馆。

• A paper published in this journal may be submitted later to a workshop, conference, journal or magazine as an enhanced version, while a submission that simply extends work already published is turned away.在本刊发表过的论文日后仍可作为扩充版投往工作组、会议或其他期刊，也可以投给杂志。没有新增贡献的重复扩写稿件会被退回。