MobiHeld 2009 (formerly called MobiHand) — The First ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Networking, Systems, Applications on Mobile Handhelds
The organizing committee is delighted to invite you to MobiHeld 2009, co-located with ACM SIGCOMM 2009 in Barcelona, Spain. The workshop program will consist of technical talks, a demo session, and a special "elevator-pitch" session. Please see individual calls for papers, demos, and elevator-pitch participants, below.
Call for Papers
Mobile handhelds are the computing and communications devices that will pervade all users worldwide, much more than desktop-based systems. Mobile handhelds come in many forms, ranging from traditional cellular phones, to smart phones, music players, electronic book readers, computation capable watches, and many more. This platform has grown in both in numbers and their programmability in the recent years and are likely to change the computing, communications landscape in a radical ways in the years to come. With increasing capabilities come increasing challenges spanning a wide range of domains, e.g., in design of effective networking mechanisms, in applications design, in user interfaces, in energy efficiency, and in management of these devices.
The goal of the first MobiHeld workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners to investigate challenges in designing and utilizing this platform for the Internet of tomorrow.
Topics
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following (all of which are in the context of mobile handhelds):
- Wireless protocols and services, especially dealing with limited power, limited bandwidth, and unpredictable connectivity of mobile handhelds
- Design, implementation, and evaluation of services for mobile handhelds
- Security, privacy, and trust for mobile handhelds
- New applications for mobile handhelds
- Mobile handheld management
- Energy management
- Virtualized services
- Cloud-based services
- Emerging applications, including media applications
- Social networking using mobile handhelds
- User interface issues
- Operating systems and middleware support
- Multi-radio mobile handhelds
- Platforms and testbeds for experimenting with mobile handhelds
All submissions must be original work not under review at any other workshop, conference, or journal. The workshop will accept papers describing completed work as well as work-in-progress, so long as the promise of the approach is demonstrated. Radical ideas, potentially of a controversial nature, are strongly encouraged.
Submission Instructions
Submissions must be no greater than 6 pages in length and must be a pdf file. Reviews will be single-blind: authors name and affiliation should be included in the submission. Submissions must follow the formatting guidelines at http://www.sigcomm.org/sigcomm2009/.
To facilitate authors better illustrate various aspects of their systems, we are encouraging authors to create easy-to-view videos demonstrating their system, and to post them on either public websites (such as, YouTube) or private ones (in their own webspace). The authors can indicate the URL of such videos in the submitted papers, if they would like the reviewers to view them, as part of the evaluation process. We can make videos for the accepted papers available from the workshop website. In addition, authors are also encouraged to submit their work to the demo session.
Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their papers at the workshop.
Papers can be submitted through the submission site http://www-dyn.cl.cam.ac.uk/~fmv21/hotcrp/.
Important dates for papers
| Workshop date | Monday, August 17, 2009 |
Call for demos
MobiHeld 2009 will host a demo session that will allow participants to showcase the latest research prototypes involving mobile handhelds.
Submissions should be in 2 parts:- A demo abstract, not more than three pages long, describing the demo. This will be published in the workshop proceedings. The submission must be a pdf file and must include authors' name and affiliation Submissions must also follow the formatting guidelines at http://www.sigcomm.org/sigcomm2009/.
- A demo abstract addendum, not more than two pages long, describing any additional aspects of the demo, including any special requirements for setting up the demo. This component will not be published in the workshop proceedings. This component should use a font size of 10 point or more and reasonable margins, but there is no other formatting restrictions.
Submissions should be emailed to the demo chair, Ranveer Chandra at: ranveer AT microsoft.com. The email should use the subject "MobiHeld09 demo submission" and contain clear contact information for the authors. Authors with papers under review for the MobiHeld 2009 workshop are strongly encouraged to submit a related demo.
If appropriate and desired, we will consider a demo presentation without a published abstract. Please contact us if you wish to take this route.
Important dates for demos
Call for elevator-pitch session participants
Details and format of this session coming soon. Please stay tuned.Program Committee
| MobiHeld Steering committee | Victor Bahl | Microsoft Research, Redmond |
|---|---|---|
| Suman Banerjee | University of Wisconsin-Madison | |
| Jon Crowcroft | University of Cambridge | |
| Lars Eggert | Nokia Research, Finland | |
| Dan Siewiorek | Carnegie Mellon University | |
| PC Chair | Suman Banerjee | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Demo Chair | Ranveer Chandra | Microsoft Research, Redmond |
| PC Members | Victor Bahl | Microsoft Research, Redmond |
| Rajesh Balan | Singapore Management University | |
| Ramon Caceres | AT&T Labs - Research | |
| Ranveer Chandra | Microsoft Research, Redmond | |
| Jon Crowcroft | University of Cambridge | |
| Nigel Davies | Lancaster University | |
| Lars Eggert | Nokia Research, Finland | |
| Jason Flinn | University of Michigan | |
| Jeffrey Hightower | Intel Research, Seattle | |
| Srinivasan Keshav | University of Waterloo | |
| Patrick McDaniel | Penn State University | |
| Arunesh Mishra | ||
| Chandra Narayanaswami | IBM Research, New York | |
| Jason Nieh | Columbia University | |
| Dina Papagiannaki | Intel Research, Pittsburgh | |
| Ram Ramjee | Microsoft Research, Bangalore | |
| Pablo Rodriguez | Telefonica Research, Barcelona | |
| Christian Rohner | Uppsala University | |
| Romit Roy Choudhury | Duke University | |
| James Scott | Microsoft Research, Cambridge | |
| Alex Snoeren | University of California San Diego | |
| Lin Zhong | Rice University |