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CALL FOR PAPERS

ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions (NSDR 2007)
(with ACM SIGCOMM 2007)
Kyoto Japan, Monday 27th August, 2007. 

http://nsdr.dritte.org

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The ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions (NSDR)
will provide a venue for researchers to propose and discuss ideas and to
participate in the sustainable development and deployment of Internet and
communication technologies for developing countries.

Benefits of the Internet and communication technologies are limited to a
fraction of the world's population e.g. according to a 2006 survey Internet
penetration in North America is 69.1% of population compared to 3.6% for
Africa and 10.8% for Asia. Cost factors, low literacy, and limited access
to power and bandwidth in developing regions seem to suggest that there
is a need for communication technology research specifically aimed to meet
the special needs of developing regions.

The great and diverse needs of developing regions (e.g. economic problems,
social issues) call for a multi-disciplinary research agenda. However,
the focus of NSDR is on communication and networking aspects of developing
regions research (e.g. communication infrastructure in rural areas, systems
build using such infrastructure that solve some specific problem).

PAPERS

We encourage submission of early works (position papers) describing interesting,
original, previously unpublished ideas pertaining to networked systems for 
developing regions, which:

    * propose new research directions,

    * target a specific application,

    * have the potential to significantly enhance the design and sustainable
      deployment of networked systems in developing regions,

    * or could generate lively debate at the workshop. 

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

    * Delay Tolerant Networking: delay-tolerant Internet access in developing
      regions, DTN routing over wireless rural links

    * Rural Wireless: long-distance 802.11, WiMaX solutions, directional
      antennas

    * Low-cost Computing Devices: low-cost end-user devices which constitute
      the network, mobile phones as primary computing devices, task-specific
      devices

    * Sensor Networks: sensor-nets designed specifically for developing regions

    * Power-Efficient Systems: power-efficient computing architectures,
      power-efficient network infrastructure, power-efficient mobile systems

    * Sustainable Deployment: pricing models for sustainable deployment of
      communication infrastructure

    * Applications: healthcare, disaster management, education


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Submissions must be no greater than 6 pages (six pages) in length (including figures
and references), must be a PDF file, and must follow the formatting guidelines at
http://www.sigcomm.org/sigcomm2007/workshop-psg.html.  Submissions that deviate
from these guidelines will be rejected without consideration. Reviews will be
SINGLE-BLIND: authors name and affiliation should be included in the submission.
All submissions will be handled electronically via EDAS (http://edas.info/).

Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their papers at the workshop.
Submissions must be original work not under review at any other workshop, conference,
or journal. 

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission:	Fri, 13th April, 2007 (23:59 EDT Extended Deadline)
Notification:	Fri, 18th May,  2007	
Camera-ready:	Wed, 13th June, 2007
Workshop:       Mon, 27th Aug,  2007

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Eric Brewer,	  UC Berkeley, USA	    (PC Co-Chair)
Umar Saif,	  LUMS, Pakistan	    (PC Co-Chair)
Jon Crowcroft,	  Cambridge, UK	
Steve Ward,	  M.I.T, USA	
Andrew Campbell,  Dartmouth College, USA	
Kentaro Toyama,	  Microsoft Research, India   	
Zeeshan Syed,	  M.I.T, USA	
S. Keshav,	  Unv. of Waterloo, Canada	
Rahul Tongia,	  CMU, USA	
Koen Langendoen,  TU Delft, Netherlands	
Thiemo Voigt,	  SICS, Sweden	
Keiko Okawa,	  Keio University, Japan	
Bhaskaran Raman,  IIT Kanpur, India	
Kaustubh Phanse,  Uppsala Unv., Sweden	
Mike Hazas,	  Lancaster Unv., UK	
Adam Dunkels,	  SICS, Sweden	
Jan Beutel,	  ETH Zurich, Switzerland   (Publications Chair)	
Joseph Polastre,  Moteiv, USA	            (Industry Chair)
Muneeb Ali,	  TU Delft, Netherlands     (Publicity Chair) 

NSDR'07 papers will be published by ACM in the *joint* workshops proceedings of
SIGCOMM'07 (note this is different from the SIGCOMM'07 conference proceedings)
and will be indexed by the ACM Digital Library.