paper publication

i was not at all surprised to see my paper selected for publication at the IEEE conference held in IIT madras. me and anantha had worked day and night on this paper. we always wanted to publish our paper in IEEE or ACM.it took us more than a year to publish a paper in IEEE without any guidance and help from any one(except google). we had presented our paper in almost all the colleges in and around chennai. it was frustrating since not even a single soul could understand what we were saying or the gist of our paper. the questions they asked were very trivial and was not at all challenging for us. but as we were applying for every other college the paper was evolving and that was the only positive thing about presenting in so many colleges. we never gave up and were trying hard and also were analysing what really went wrong. we always knew that there was nothing wrong with the paper . there was no doubt about our presentation but something was missing. after many presentation we found out that the judges were never acquainted with TCP/IP.finally the break came. our paper got selected in IIT kanpur for presentation. after many hurdles(hod was not permitting me) we finally got the official signal to proceed with the presentation. it was a poster presentation. ananth as usual did the preparation for the poster in the last minute and we went to IIT. it was a awful place and with lots of participant. we didnt have proper accomadation there. we were ready for the presentation. and the judges came at 8 pm. we couldnt give our full presentation. the judge stopped us at the second minute and asked us "why are you using this method?". for the first time we had found our match. for the first time we felt some satisfaction that there was another person who could understand what we were doing and asked a sensible question. we were actually overjoyed by this response from the judge. we had no hope of winning any prize and by then were winding up. the event organizer asked us to wait till the results were announced . after the result was out, we went to the table where the result was put up and to our surprise found our name beside the first prize. we were kinda frozen and couldnt utter any word. even now thinking of that brings a smile to my face. after that incident we had realised that our paper was worth something more than mere presentation. after that we gave presentation a break(sem exam). we were working on the implementation of paper to extend our proposal and to come up with results. then we applied for the IEEE conference. it was selected for publication and presentation. it was one hellava experience for us from nothing to publication and the road was not at all easy.it took a lot of hardwork and our passion to achieve something had got us to this point.