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4th Workshop on All Things Cellular: Operations, Applications and Challenges 2014

(Formerly named CellNet)

To be held on August 22nd, 2014 in Chicago, USA (co-located with ACM SIGCOMM 2014)

Technical Program

Call for Papers

We are living in an increasingly connected mobile world, where smartphones and tablets are prevalent, wearable devices are growing, and the “Internet of Things” is permeating our lives. The number of mobile applications such as Apple Siri, Google Now, and Yelp is rapidly growing, and mobile connectivity is used for everything from Google Glass to vehicle fleet tracking. These applications and services have rapidly enriched our lives, particularly because much of the mobile eco-system is vibrant and conducive to open innovation. An important part of this ecosystem is the underlying connectivity provided by cellular networks. While innovations in mobile services and applications have thrived, innovations in the underlying cellular systems are more limited. This is partially caused by the closed and monolithic nature of these networks, where the core design and operational challenges are not very accessible to the research community. But there are a large number of stakeholders — from app developers to smartphone manufacturers to “machine-to-machine” services — that are increasingly dependent on cellular networks. The goal of this workshop is to bring together network operators, as well as researchers from both industry and academia together to discuss emerging problems, challenges, and potential solutions in this domain.

To facilitate this discussion and engagement, we would like to solicit technical papers, including position papers, that are no more than 6-pages long in the standard ACM two-column, 10 point format. Early work that stimulates discussions is also strongly encouraged.

Topics

The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics:

  • Radio resource allocation and usage profiling
  • Cellular network architecture and its evolution
  • Understanding and modeling cellular data traffic
  • Billing and pricing models
  • Cellular network security and privacy issues
  • Cellular network management
  • Mobility
  • Energy efficiency
  • Spectrum shortage
  • Protocol design
  • Algorithms to improve performance and efficiency
  • Software-defined networking in cellular networks
  • Mobile and wearable applications on cellular networks
  • Machine-to-machine services on cellular networks

Submission

Each submission must be a single PDF file no longer than six (6) pages in length (in two-column, 10-point format) including references. Papers must include the author name and affiliation for single-blind peer reviewing by the program committee. 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.

The submission site is online at http://cellnet2014.cs.wisc.edu/submission/

Important Dates

  • March 21, 2014

    Paper Registration

  • March 28, 2014

    Paper Submission

  • May 9, 2014

    Author Notification

  • May 30, 2014

    Camera Ready

  • August 22, 2014

    Workshop date

Organizers

  • Workshop Chairs

  • Kun Tan

    Microsoft Research

  • Jeffrey Pang

    AT&T Research

  • Program Committee

  • Sharad Agarwal

    Microsoft Research

  • Rajesh Krishna Balan

    Singapore Management University

  • Suman Banerjee

    UW-Madison

  • Roger Piqueras Jover

    AT&T Security Research Center

  • Li Erran Li

    Alcatel-Lucent

  • Kate Ching-Ju Lin

    Academia Sinica, Taiwan

  • Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe

    University of Utah

  • Z. Morley Mao

    University of Michigan

  • Jeffrey Pang

    AT&T Research

  • Chunyi Peng

    Ohio State University

  • Feng Qian

    AT&T Research

  • Souvik Sen

    HP Research

  • Subhabrata Sen

    AT&T Research

  • Kun Tan

    Microsoft Research

  • Cedric Westphal

    Huawei

  • Matt Welsh

    Google

  • Xia Zhou

    Dartmouth College

  • Steering Committee

  • Suman Banerjee

    UW-Madison

  • Li Erran Li

    Alcatel-Lucent

  • Morley Mao

    Michigan

  • Jennifer Rexford

    Princeton

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