INFOCOM Paper
For the last two weeks, I've been working on a paper submission to INFOCOM 2008 in Phoenix, the "27th Conference on Computer Communications" sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society. It was basically a reworking of the rejected paper, which is the only way I could have gotten something together in two weeks.
I worked all last weekend on the paper. It was due last night (Monday night) at midnight. Around midnight Sunday, when I gave up working on it for the day, I was ready to give up completely. It really lacked focus, it was all disjointed, and it was way short (6 out of 9 pages). Monday, though, Colleen and David got to work on it. They are so sharp! Colleen figured out the points I was trying to make and made them very eloquently. (She used the word "neoteric"!) David sorted out the jungle of results that I had and helped with some LaTeX and postscript wizardry. Basically, it all came together in about 14 hours. It was really quite amazing.
It's still a bit short (barely more than 7 of 9 pages), but I think it has a chance. The paper is titled "Exposing application behavior to network managers through passive network measurements." I'll find out in November whether it was good enough. For now, though, I'm very happy we pulled it off, and I'm looking forward to my "weekend" tomorrow. :-)
Also, I learned a few lessons: I'm not as good a writer as I think I am; technical writing always takes longer than you think it will; and technical writing is very tedious and boring.
I worked all last weekend on the paper. It was due last night (Monday night) at midnight. Around midnight Sunday, when I gave up working on it for the day, I was ready to give up completely. It really lacked focus, it was all disjointed, and it was way short (6 out of 9 pages). Monday, though, Colleen and David got to work on it. They are so sharp! Colleen figured out the points I was trying to make and made them very eloquently. (She used the word "neoteric"!) David sorted out the jungle of results that I had and helped with some LaTeX and postscript wizardry. Basically, it all came together in about 14 hours. It was really quite amazing.
It's still a bit short (barely more than 7 of 9 pages), but I think it has a chance. The paper is titled "Exposing application behavior to network managers through passive network measurements." I'll find out in November whether it was good enough. For now, though, I'm very happy we pulled it off, and I'm looking forward to my "weekend" tomorrow. :-)
Also, I learned a few lessons: I'm not as good a writer as I think I am; technical writing always takes longer than you think it will; and technical writing is very tedious and boring.