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Use when deciding whether a networking project belongs at IEEE INFOCOM or should be routed to SIGCOMM, NSDI, MobiCom, ICNP, or an IEEE/ACM networking journal (ToN, JSAC), distinguishing INFOCOM by its breadth, its analytical/optimization tradition alongside systems, and the modeling-vs-building axis.

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# INFOCOM Topic Selection

Decide the venue before drafting. INFOCOM — the IEEE International Conference on Computer
Communications, the IEEE ComSoc networking flagship — is the **broad, large-scale** networking
venue. Its defining feature relative to its siblings is **breadth plus a living analytical
tradition**: a well-posed model with a theorem and a convincing evaluation is a first-class INFOCOM
paper, not a second-class one. A pure systems-building paper is welcome, but so is a
scheduling/optimization/queueing/game-theory result that SIGCOMM or NSDI would push to a journal.

## The routing question that matters most

The decisive question is rarely "is this networking?" but **"is the contribution a model/analysis, a
built system, or a measurement — and which community rewards that shape now?"** INFOCOM is the safe
home for the analytical and the broad; SIGCOMM/NSDI pull toward built-and-measured systems with a
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