Michael Adeyeye (Ph.D)

Below are the comments I got from the Tridentcom 2010 TPC members who reviewed my paper. I noticed that some visitors do read a similar past post – ICCCN rejects my paper for publication. So, I decided to share this review too.

Review #1
Science: 3 ([1] Strong Reject, [2] Weak Reject, [3] Weak Accept, [4] Strong Accept)
Originality: 3 ([1] Strong Reject, [2] Weak Reject, [3] Weak Accept, [4] Strong Accept)
Structure and Language: 3 ([1] Strong Reject, [2] Weak Reject, [3] Weak Accept, [4] Strong Accept)
References, State-of-the-art: 2 ([1] Strong Reject, [2] Weak Reject, [3] Weak Accept, [4] Strong Accept)
Scope: 4 ([1] Strong Reject, [2] Weak Reject, [3] Weak Accept, [4] Strong Accept)

Comments for the Author/s?
The paper presents a SIP based extension to web browsing. While this reviewer acknowledges a great amount of work involved to build up the proposed system, the resulting capabilities gained by it differs little from other solutions. Authors are encouraged to include more references to other technologies that enable the implemented capabilities such as content sharing and/or session transfers, and clarify differences from other existing solutions.

Candidate for Best Paper: No

Review #2
Science: 3 ([1] Strong Reject, [2] Weak Reject, [3] Weak Accept, [4] Strong Accept)
Originality: 3 ([1] Strong Reject, [2] Weak Reject, [3] Weak Accept, [4] Strong Accept)
Structure and Language: 4 ([1] Strong Reject, [2] Weak Reject, [3] Weak Accept, [4] Strong Accept)
References, State-of-the-art: 4 ([1] Strong Reject, [2] Weak Reject, [3] Weak Accept, [4] Strong Accept)
Scope: 4 ([1] Strong Reject, [2] Weak Reject, [3] Weak Accept, [4] Strong Accept)

Comments for the Author/s?
The paper proposes a solution to improve online user experience by integrating a SIP stack into the Web browser, thus enabling the execution of novel SIP-based applications directly at the client endpoint. The authors show how the browser extension coordinates with SIP-based Converged Application Server to enable session mobility and prevent abuses of the services available in the client. Besides that, examples of novel SIP-based Web 2.0 service mash-ups, including VoIP and stream media call service are discussed.
The authors discuss a relevant topic of research nowadays, and propose a good solution to manage multimedia services in Web 2.0 scenarios. They clearly introduce related aspects and show SIP background. They use application scenarios to detail the proposed architecture, examine the implementation insights, and show performance results. At last, they compare their solution with Google Wave project.
A suggestion to improve the paper is to justify why TransferHTTP memory consumption, CAS memory consumption under low traffic conditions and CAS performance under system overload were chosen as main performance parameters.

Candidate for Best Paper: No

Review #3
Science: 4 ([1] Strong Reject, [2] Weak Reject, [3] Weak Accept, [4] Strong Accept)
Originality: 4 ([1] Strong Reject, [2] Weak Reject, [3] Weak Accept, [4] Strong Accept)
Structure and Language: 4 ([1] Strong Reject, [2] Weak Reject, [3] Weak Accept, [4] Strong Accept)
References, State-of-the-art: 4 ([1] Strong Reject, [2] Weak Reject, [3] Weak Accept, [4] Strong Accept)
Scope: 2 ([1] Strong Reject, [2] Weak Reject, [3] Weak Accept, [4] Strong Accept)

Comments for the Author/s?
Interesting paper. But though experimental results are discussed, this paper is not about testbeds. Would be much more at place at a SIP related conference.
Investigating the performance impact of a CAS on a Mobicents platform has limited value. When performance matters, other platform technologies may be used instead (i.e. there are various SIP based platforms). Mobicents is more about flexibility.

Candidate for Best Paper: No

One question you might want to ask is “what successes have I made so far?”

1. I have got a journal paper, and it’s been published at the ELSEVIER COMCOM.
2. I have also got a conference paper, which was published in the IEEE NTMS 2009 Conference Proceedings .

One of the reasons I am posting my reviews on my blog is to encourage other students not to fear having their papers rejected. Another reason is not to stop trying or pushing their ideas through.