The Local Computer Networks Conference (LCN) is an annual international academic conference organized by the IEEE Computer Society. The first LCN was held in 1976, with the full name of "Conference on Experiments in New Approaches to Local Computer Networking". The second meeting in 1977 was called the "Conference on 'A Second Look at Local Computer Networking'" before it changed its name to "Third Conference on Local Computer Networks" in 1978. After that the conference was simply called LCN. The IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Communications has sponsored the LCN since 1979.
LCN has grown to be a premier conference on theoretical and practical aspects of computer networking and is ranked as an A conference according to the CORE Rankings Portal in 2017.
History of the conference
History of the LCN conference Year City Country (state) Date 2024 Caen France 8 October – 10 October 2023 Daytona Beach Florida, United States 2 October – 5 October 2022 Edmonton Canada 26 September – 29 September (hybrid) 2021 Edmonton (virtual host city) Canada 4 October – 7 October (virtual) 2020 Sydney (virtual host city) Australia 16 November – 19 November (virtual) 2019 Osnabrück Germany 14 October – 17 October 2018 Chicago Illinois, United States 1 October – 4 October 2017 Singapore Singapore 9 October – 12 October 2016 Dubai United Arab Emirates 7 November – 10 November 2015 Clearwater Beach Florida, United States 26 October – 29 October 2014 Edmonton Canada 8 September – 11 September 2013 Sydney Australia 21 October – 24 October 2012 Clearwater Beach Florida, United States 22 October – 25 October 2011 Bonn Germany 4 October – 7 October 2010 Denver Colorado, United States 11 October – 14 October 2009 Zürich Switzerland 20 October – 23 October 2008 Montreal Canada 14 October – 17 October 2007 Dublin Ireland 15 October – 18 October 2006 Tampa Florida, United States 14 November – 16 November 2005 Sydney Australia 15 November – 17 November 2004 Tampa Florida, United States 16 November – 18 November 2003 Königswinter Germany 20 October – 24 October 2002 Tampa Florida, United States 6 November – 8 November 2001 Tampa Florida, United States 14 November – 16 November 2000 Tampa Florida, United States 8 November – 10 November 1999 Lowell Massachusetts, United States 18 October – 20 October 1998 Lowell Massachusetts, United States 11 October – 14 October 1997 Minneapolis Minnesota, United States 2 November – 5 November 1996 Minneapolis Minnesota, United States 13 October – 16 October 1995 Minneapolis Minnesota, United States 15 October – 18 October 1994 Minneapolis Minnesota, United States 2 October – 5 October 1993 Minneapolis Minnesota, United States 19 September – 22 September 1992 Minneapolis Minnesota, United States 13 September – 16 September 1991 Minneapolis Minnesota, United States 14 October – 17 October 1990 Minneapolis Minnesota, United States 30 September – 3 October 1989 Minneapolis Minnesota, United States 1988 Minneapolis Minnesota, United States 10 October – 12 October 1987 Minneapolis Minnesota, United States 1986 Minneapolis Minnesota, United States 1985 Minneapolis Minnesota, United States 1984 Minneapolis Minnesota, United States 1983 Minneapolis Minnesota, United States 1982 Minneapolis Minnesota, United States 1981 Minneapolis Minnesota, United States 1980 Minneapolis Minnesota, United States 1979 Minneapolis Minnesota, United States 1978 Minneapolis Minnesota, United States 23 October – 24 October 1977 Minneapolis Minnesota, United States 13 October – 14 October 1976 Minneapolis Minnesota, United States 16 September – 17 September
Historical events The conference celebrated its 40th anniversary 2015 in Clearwater Beach, Florida where Robert Metcalfe (founder of 3COM and co-inventor of the Ethernet network technology) gave the keynote speech and held a panel session with Harvey Freeman (President of the IEEE Communications Society 2017), Howard Salwen ("father of the token ring" and founder of Proteon), and Peter Martini (Director of Institute Fraunhofer FKIE).
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