SIGMOBILE FY'11 Annual Report

July 2010 - June 2011
Submitted by: Roy Want, SIGMOBILE Chair

Introduction

The current elected officers in SIGMOBILE's Executive Committee are:

• Chair: Dr. Roy Want (Google Inc, USA);
• Vice Chair: Prof. Robert Steele (University of Sydney, Australia);
• Secretary: Prof. Ramesh Govindan (University of Southern California, USA); and
• Treasurer: Prof. Lili Qiu (University of Texas at Austin, USA).

Committee Appointed Positions

• Editor-in-Chief (EIC) for SIGMOBILE's journal/newsletter for our members (Mobile Computing and Communications Review or MC2R), Prof. Suman Banerjee (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, USA)
• Information Director Prof. Robert Steele (University of Sydney, Australia),
• Workshop Coordinator Prof. Ahmed Helmy (University of Florida, Gainesville, USA),
• Digital Library Coordinator: Dr. Guanling Chen (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA).

Sponsorship for the Mobile Computing Research Community

• The Community Resource for Archiving Wireless Data At Dartmouth (CRAWDAD) continues to be a thriving resource for the SIGMOBILE community. As of July 2011 it contains 70 datasets, each containing one or more traces about wireless networks or mobile users, and 23 tools, many of which are designed to help researchers work with such datasets. There are currently 4 datasets in pipeline for publication. There are 3,151 users from 77 countries around the world. CRAWDAD continues to be increasingly popular, with more than 800 new users registering within the past year. Although the primary archive is at Dartmouth, the CRAWDAD site and data are mirrored on servers located in UK and Australia, to guarantee uninterrupted service and fast downloads to users all around the world.

  CRAWDAD data has supported at least 318 papers in the field, and continues to be the go-to place for authors wishing to share data they've collected, or to obtain data they can use for testing their system prototypes and algorithms. SIGMOBILE support makes it possible for the CRAWDAD project to retain a technical staff person (part time) to add new data sets, maintain the site, and develop new features.

• Networking Networking Women (N2 Women) is a discipline-specific community for researchers in the communications and networking research fields. The main goal of N2 Women is to foster connections among the under-represented women in computer networking and related research fields. N2 Women allows women to connect with other women who share the same research interests, who attend the same conferences, who face the same career hurdles, and who experience the same obstacles. To assist in its networking goals, N2 Women has an email list for the group: N2Women@acm.org, and there are currently over 480 members.

  N2 Women is an ACM SIGMOBILE program that has been financially supported by SIGMOBILE, Microsoft Research and HP Labs. In the past year, funds from SIGMOBILE were used for the N2 Women Student Fellowship program. A student applies for a Fellowship and, if selected, N2 Women partially covers the student's travel cost (up to $500) to a conference where an N2 Women event will be held. In exchange, the student must help organize the N2 Women meeting. The benefit of doing the organization, in addition to the travel funds, is for the student to connect with the organizers of the conference who are, typically, leaders in the research field. The organization also arranges for a senior member of N2 Women to assist/mentor the student in this task.

  Since June 2010, there have been 11 N2 Women Student Fellows who organized N2 Women events at the following conferences:

  • Farhana Ashraf, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (SECON 2011)
  • Ouldooz Baghban Karimi, Simon Fraser University (SIGCOMM 2011)
  • Yue Liu, University of Michigan) (MobiSys 2011)
  • Yan Qiao, University of Florida (INFOCOM 2011)
  • Yu-Han Chen, National Taiwan University (SenSys 2010)
  • Minlan Yu, Princeton University (SIGCOMM 2010)
  • Afra Mashhadi, University College London (MobiCom/MobiHoc 2010)
  • Lara Deek, UC Santa Barbara (MobiCom/MobiHoc 2010)
  • Michela Papandrea, University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), (WoWMoM 2010)
  • Pegah Sattari, UC Irvine (MobiSys 2010)
  • Devu Shila, Illinois Institute of technology, Chicago (ICDCS 2010)
  Also thanks to support from SIGMOBILE, N2 Women held the 1st Networking Networking Women Workshop on September 20, 2010 in conjunction with MobiCom/Hoc in Chicago, Illinois. The breakdown of the 65 female attendees is as follows: 33 students (51%), 17 senior researchers (26%), and 15 junior researchers (23%). Overall, there were 47 institutions represented by the attendees. Participants came from all over the US and from as far away as Europe and India, with the following countries represented: Canada, France, India, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. We had several participants who attended the conference because they were coming to the N2 Women workshop and several others who attended the N2 Women workshop only (i.e., they did not attend the co-located MobiCom/Hoc conferences). In fact, a few participants traveled from Europe just to attend the N2 Women workshop!

  In all N2 Women announcements, SIGMOBILE (and other sponsors of N2 Women) are thanked. Further details of N2 Women are available at: http://committees.comsoc.org/n2women/.

• ACM-W: In 2011 SIGMOBILE has become a sponsor for ACM-W (ACM's Women in Computing organization). "ACM-W's mission is to celebrate, inform and support women in computing, and work with the ACM-W community of computer scientists, educators, employers and policy makers to improve working and learning environments for women." This is an organization that the Executive Committee whole-heartedly supports. This means that women in CS education can request sponsorship for SIGMOBILE conferences, and we will provide sponsorship for travel and registration.

SIGMOBILE Conferences and Workshops

• MobiCom: The Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, covers all areas of mobile computing and mobile and wireless networking at the link layer and above. MobiCom has been held every year since 1995.
• MobiHoc: The ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing, addresses the challenges emerging from wireless ad hoc networking and computing, with the focus being on issues at and above the MAC layer. MobiHoc has been held every year since 2000.
• MobiSys: The International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, addresses broad systems research issues in mobile computing and mobile networking, particularly valuing the practical experience gained from designing, building, and using mobile systems, applications, and services. MobiSys has been held every year since 2003.
• SenSys: The ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, focuses on systems issues in the emerging area of embedded, networked sensors, spanning multiple disciplines, including wireless communication, networking, operating systems, architecture, low-power circuits, distributed algorithms, data processing, scheduling, sensors, energy harvesting, and signal processing. SenSys has been held every year since 2003.
• Ubicomp: The International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, addresses the interdisciplinary field of ubiquitous computing, which utilizes and integrates pervasive, wireless, embedded, wearable and/or mobile technologies to bridge the gaps between the digital and physical worlds. Ubicomp has been held every year since 1999, and SIGMOBILE began sponsoring it in 2009.

MobiHoc 2010 was co-located with MobiCom 2010, sharing in common the General Chair, hotel, keynotes and workshop sessions. The MobiHoc 2010 Program Co-Chairs were: Christoph Lindemann (Universität Leipzig) and Jitendra Padhye (Microsoft Research, USA).

The MobiCom/MobiHoc 2010 technical program featured an opening keynote talk, "The State and Evolution of Broadband Wireless Technologies" by Bill Payne, Vice President and CTO Motorola Networks Wireless Broadband Systems And Technologies. The MobiCom/MobiHoc 2010 program also included two days of workshops, a total of 7 in all.

There were 3 workshops on September 20th:

• W1: CoRoNet 2010: The ACM International Workshop on Cognitive Radio Networks
• W2: WiNTECH 2010: The Fifth ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation and Characterization
• W3: S3 2010: The Second International Workshop on Wireless of the Students, by the Students, and for the Students

• W4: The Fifth Workshop on Challenged Networks (CHANTS 2010)
• W5: International Workshop on mmWave Communications: from Circuits to Networks (mmCom 2010)
• W6: The Fifth ACM International Workshop on Mobility in the Evolving Internet Architecture (MobiArch 2010)
• W7: The Seventh ACM International Workshop on VehiculAr Inter-NETworking (VANET 2010)

MobiCom 2011 will be held September 19-23rd, 2011, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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MobiSys 2011, the 9th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, was held June 28^th-July 1st, 2011, in Washington, DC, USA and in-cooperation with SIGOPS. Ashok Agrawala (University of Maryland, USA) served as the General Chair, and Mark D. Corner (UMass Amherst, USA) and David Wetherall (University of Washington & Intel Labs, USA) served as the Program Co-Chairs.

The MobiSys 2011 technical program began with a keynote talk by Dr. Edward W. Felten (Federal Trade Commission) on "Making Progress on Mobile Privacy". Dr. Felten is the first Chief Technologist at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. He is on leave from Princeton University, where he is a Professor of Computer Science and Public Policy. The final day featured a second keynote by Dr. Douglas C. Sicker (Chief Technologist with the FCC) on "Technology Policy Issues at Federal Communications Commission" Dr. Sicker is the Chief Technology Officer of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and also the DBC Endowed Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder with a joint appointment in the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program.

On June 30^th (day 2), the SIGMOBILE 2010 Outstanding Contributions Award (OCA), the most prestigious SIGMOBILE technical award, was presented to Prof Mahadev Satyanarayanan (Satya): "For pioneering a wide spectrum of technologies in support of disconnected and weakly connected mobile clients". Satya's research has always been focused on mobile systems, and hence the choice to present the award at MobiSys, rather than MobiCom. The award was followed by a plenary talk entitled, "Mobile Computing: the Next Decade and Beyond". Satya is an experimental computer scientist who has pioneered research in mobile and pervasive computing. One example of his work is the Coda File System, which supports distributed file access in low-bandwidth and intermittent wireless networks through disconnected and bandwidth-adaptive operation. The Coda concepts of hoarding, reintegration and application-specific conflict resolution are seen in the hotsync capability of mobile devices today. Key ideas from Coda were also incorporated by Microsoft into the IntelliMirror component of Windows 2000 and the Cached Exchange Mode of Outlook 2003. Other examples of Satya´s work include Odyssey (which explored operating system support for application-aware adaptation to overcome resource limitations in mobile computing) and the Internet Suspend/Resume system (a hands-free approach to mobile computing that leverages virtual machine technology). Satya is a co-inventor of many technologies central to mobile and pervasive computing, such as cyber foraging, data staging, lookaside caching, and translucent caching. He is a Fellow of the ACM and the IEEE. He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Pervasive Computing and the founding program chair of the HotMobile workshop series.

The last day of the conference (Friday, 1^st July), also began with a Keynote from Dr. Douglas C. Sicker (Chief Technologist with the FCC) and a talk titled, "Technology Policy Issues at the Federal Communications Commission". Dr. Sicker has held various positions in academia, industry and government. Presently, Doug is the Chief Technology Officer of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Doug is also the DBC Endowed Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder with a joint appointment in the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program. Doug is a senior member of the IEEE, as well as a member of the ACM and the Internet Society. He has served as an advisory to the Department of Justice National Institute of Justice. After leaving the FCC, he was also the Chair of the Network Reliability and Interoperability Council steering committee and served on the Technical Advisory Council of the FCC. His research and teaching interests include network security, wireless systems and telecommunications policy.

The MobiSys program also featured 4 workshops and a PhD Forum on Monday, June 28th:

• W1: MobiArch 2011: The 6th ACM International Workshop on Mobility in the Evolving Internet Architecture
• W2: HotPlanet 2011: The 3rd ACM International Workshop on Hot Topics in Planet Scale Measurement
• W3: NSDR 2011: The 5^th International Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions
• W4: MCS 2011: The 2nd International Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing & Services: Social Networks and Beyond
• PhD Forum on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services

MobiSys 2012 is being planned for June 2012 in the Lake District, England. The General Chair will be Prof. Nigel Davies (Lancaster University), and Program Co-chairs: Lin Zhong (Rice University) and Srini Seshan (CMU).

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SenSys 2010, the 8th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, was held November 3-5, 2010, in Zurich, Switzerland. Jan Beutel (ETH Zurich) served as the General Chair, and Deepak Ganesan (UMass Amherst, USA) and John Stakovic (University of Virginia, USA) served as the Program Co-Chairs. SenSys is co-sponsored by SIGMOBILE and SIGCOMM (30% each); and SIGARCH, SIGOPS, SIGMETRICS, and SIGBED (10% each) and the NSF.

A keynote presentation launched the technical sessions "Building a Nervous System for Humanity", by Prof. Sandy Pentland (MIT, USA). Alex `Sandy' Pentland directs MIT's Human Dynamics Laboratory and the MIT Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program, and advises the World Economic Forum, Nissan Motor Corporation, and a variety of start-up firms. He has previously helped create and direct MIT's Media Laboratory, the Media Lab Asia laboratories at the Indian Institutes of Technology, and Strong Hospital's Center for Future Health. Profiles of Sandy have appeared in many publications, including the New York Times, Forbes, and Harvard Business Review.

There were two workshops and a Doctoral Colloquium held on Monday, 2^nd November.

• W1: BuildSys'10: The Second ACM Workshop on Embedded Sensing Systems for Energy Efficiency in Buildings
• W2: PhoneSense'10: The First International Workshop on Sensing for App [Smart] Phones
• 2010 Doctoral Colloquium: a forum to provide a friendly, supportive, and constructive atmosphere where PhD students can present their research-in-progress for an open discussion, guided by a panel of experienced researchers and practitioners.

SenSys 2011 will be held November 1-4^th, 2011, in Seattle, Washington. General Chair: Jie Liu (Microsoft Research), Program Co-Chairs: Philip Levis (Stanford University), Kay Romer (University of Luebeck, Germany).

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Ubicomp 2010, the 12th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing was held September 26^th- 29^th, 2010, in Copenhagen, Denmark, and co-sponsored with SIGCHI. Jakob E. Bardram (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) and Marc Langheinrich (University of Lugano (USI), Switzerland), served as the General Co-Chairs, and Kai Truong (University of Toronto, Canada) and Paddy Nixon (University College Dublin, Ireland) served as the Program Co-Chairs.

A keynote presentation launched the conference: Dr. Morten Kyng presented "Making dreams come true - or how to avoid a living nightmare". Dr. Kyng is professor of Pervasive Computing at the Department of Computer Science at Aarhus University. He heads the Centre for Pervasive Healthcare, which researches how to make healthcare available where and when it is needed through pervasive computing. The current focus of his research is on co-development of ICT, organization of activities and physical infrastructure in healthcare. His research is based on participatory design/user driven innovation and he has directed and co-directed major national and international projects on CSCW, web-technology and more recently software architecture.

Ubicomp'10 also supported a Doctoral Colloquium along with 14 all-day workshops on Sunday, 26^th September.

• W1: Mobile Context-Awareness: Capabilities, Challenges and Applications
• W2: Designing for Performative Interactions in Public Spaces
• W3: Transnational Times: Locality, Globality and Mobility in Technology Design and Use
• W4: SISSI 2010: Social Interaction in Spatially Separated Environments
• W5: PaperComp 2010: 1st International Workshop on Paper Computing
• W6: UBI Challenge Workshop 2010: Real World Urban Computing
• W7: Ubiquitous Crowdsourcing
• W8: Research in the large: Using App Stores, Markets and other wide distribution channels in UbiComp research
• W9: CASEMANS: The 4th ACM International Workshop on Context-Awareness for Self-Managing Systems
• W10: PerEd 2010: The Third Workshop on Pervasive Computing Education
• W11: UbiHealth 2010: The 5th International Workshop on Ubiquitous Health and Wellness
• W12: UCSE2010: Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing for Sustainable Energy
• W13: DOME-IoT 2010: Digital Object Memories in the Internet of Things
• W14: Context awareness and information processing in opportunistic ubiquitous systems

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In addition to the conferences and co-located workshops above, SIGMOBILE also sponsors the HotMobile workshop (previously known as WMCSA) as a stand-alone event, not co-located with a conference. The HotMobile workshop series focuses on mobile applications, systems, and environments, as well as their underlying state-of-the-art technologies, in a small workshop format that makes it ideal for presenting and discussing new directions or controversial approaches. The Executive Committee encourages the MobiCom Program Committee meeting be collocated with HotMobile to ensure a representative selection of senior researchers attend the event. This workshop was previously sponsored each year by the IEEE Computer Society, but has been sponsored instead by SIGMOBILE since HotMobile 2008.

HotMobile 2011, the 12th Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, was held March 1-2^nd, 2011, Phoenix Arizona, USA. Anthony Lamara (Intel Labs, Seattle USA) served as the General Chair, and Landon Cox (Duke University, USA) served as the Program Chair. The HotMobile 2011 technical program featured a keynote by Betsy Masiello (Policy Manager, Google Inc) entitled, "Communication, Information and Organization: The evolving role of mobile technology". Betsy is currently with Google Inc, and has an MSc in Financial Economics from the Said Business School, Oxford University; and a BA in Computer Science and Economics from Wellesley College.

HotMobile 2011 also included a Doctoral Consortium, providing feedback on students' current research and guidance on future research directions, offering each student comments and fresh perspectives on their work from faculty and students outside their own institution, and promoting the development of a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research. The MobiSys 2011 program committee meeting was held the day following Hotmobile to encourage participating senior researchers to attend HotMobile, widen the discussions, and support the Doctoral Consortium.

HotMobile 2012 will be held February 2012, in San Diego, California, USA. The General Chair is Gaetano Borriello (University of Washington), and the Program Chair is Rajesh Krishna Balan (Singapore Management University, SG).

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SIGMOBILE also sponsored the following high-value events over the last year. These are annual decisions and sponsorship one year does not guarantee support in a following year. If the standard remains high, SIGMOBILE is likely to continue with its support.

• DIALM-POMC 2010: The Sixth International Workshop on Foundations of Mobile Computing, Sept 16^th, 2010, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
• WUWNet 2010: The Fifth ACM International Workshop on Underwater Networks, September 30^th - October 1^st 2010: Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA.

Each year, SIGMOBILE is also "in-cooperation" with a number of different events sponsored by other organizations. Events offered "in-cooperation with" SIGMOBILE allow its members to register at the same discounted rate as for members of other sponsoring organizations for the event, providing a significant savings to SIGMOBILE members. During this past year (July 2009 through June 2010), SIGMOBILE was in-cooperation with the following events:

• MobileHCI 2010: 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services. September 7-10th, 2010 in Lisbon, Portugal.
• Wireless Health 2010, October 4-7^th, 2010; Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines, CA, USA.
• COMSNETS'11: The 3rd International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS: The Chancery Pavilion Hotel, Bangalore, India, January 4-8th, 2011
• WiSec'11: The 4^th ACM Conference on Wireless Security: Hamburg, Germany June 15-17^th, 2011

SIGMOBILE continues to be fortunate to receive strong support for its conferences and workshops from leading-edge companies and organizations from around the world. This last year, the organizations that have contributed to SIGMOBILE conferences and workshops, helping to ensure their success, include: ??? AT&T Research, Microsoft Research (MSR), Intel Labs, HP Labs, Scandinavian Airlines (SAS), Autodesk, Creat-Net, IT University of Copenhagen, NSF, Usenix, Deutsche Telekom Inc. R&D Lab USA, Euro-NF, Google Inc., IBM Research, Motorola, NEC Laboratories America, Nokia, Shanda Innovations, Qualcomm, IGRS, HTC, Opzoon, Telezone, Tsinghua University, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Instituto di Informatica e Telematica, Elsevier, NEC laboratories America, International Technology Alliance (ITA). As always, SIGMOBILE is sincerely grateful for all contributions.

SIGMOBILE Publications

The Editor-in-Chief for MC2R is Prof. Suman Banerjee (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA). The current Area Editors for MC2R are Prof. Aditya Akella (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA), Prof. Christian Bettstetter (University of Klagenfurt, Germany), Prof. Srdjan Capkun (ETH, Zurich, Switzerland), Prof. Landon Cox (Duke University, USA), Prof. Eylem Ekici (Ohio State University, USA), Prof. Adrian Friday (Lancaster University, UK), Dr. Michelle Gong (Intel, USA) , Prof. Bhaskar Krishnamachari (University of Southern California, USA), Prof. Prashant Krishnamurthy (University of Pittsburgh, USA), Prof. Panos Papadimitratos (EPFL, Switzerland), Prof. Andreas Terzis (Johns Hopkins University, USA), and Prof. Lin Zhong (Rice University, USA). In addition, MC2R currently has two Feature Editors: Dr. Ian Chakeres (The Boeing Company, USA), reporting on activities in the IETF MANET Working Group, and Prof. James C. Lin (The University of Illinois at Chicago, USA), reporting on health aspects of wireless communication.

MC2R publishes articles that provide a balance between state-of-the-art research and practice, with a thorough pre-publication review of every article by experts in the field. Beyond papers reporting the latest research results in all areas related to SIGMOBILE's scope, MC2R keeps the SIGMOBILE community apprised of relevant happenings in the area, by providing regular features on the status of major international mobile computing and communications standards, such as those from IETF, ITU, ISO, and IEEE. The journal also provides a variety of additional resources, such as bibliographies of recent publications in other journals, paper and book reviews, workshop and conference reports, calls for papers, information on research groups throughout the world, bibliographies and locations of technical reports, and other general news in the field.

MC2R places a strong emphasis on quick publication of interesting completed, or work-in-progress technical work; the average turnaround time for papers published in MC2R is about 6 months. Papers in MC2R are selected mainly from an ongoing open call for papers, plus special sections based on conferences and workshops, occasional special topic issues, and some invited papers. The acceptance rate for papers submitted through the open call for papers is quite selective, remaining under about 20%. All aspects of the journal's operation are run entirely by volunteers, including final assembly of each issue.

SIGMOBILE also publishes a monthly E-Mail Newsletter for its members. This electronic newsletter was started in 2004 and is edited by SIGMOBILE's Information Director, Prof. Robert Steele (University of, Sydney, Australia). The newsletter includes SIGMOBILE announcements, pointers to relevant mainstream news articles of interest to SIGMOBILE members, a calendar of upcoming events of interest to our members, and pointers to developer news for active developers in the area of mobile computing and wireless networking.

As an additional resource for our members and the community, SIGMOBILE maintains an extensive web site at http://www.sigmobile.org, including information about SIGMOBILE and its activities, information about our journal/newsletter MC2R, and information about membership in SIGMOBILE. This web site also contains archived copies of most SIGMOBILE conference web sites, including all previous years of MobiCom, MobiHoc, and MobiSys.

SIGMOBILE Local Chapters

• Nanyang Technological University Student Chapter: This is a Student Chapter of SIGMOBILE, organized within the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) ACM club in Singapore.
• Sydney Professional Chapter: This is a Professional Chapter of SIGMOBILE, organized in Sydney, Australia.
• Taiwan Chapter: This is a University Based Chapter organized by Institute of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National I-lan University (NIU), Taiwan

We encourage interested groups around the world to form a SIGMOBILE chapter in their local community, school, city, or region. For details about the benefits and procedures for forming a Local SIGMOBILE Chapter, see http://www.sigmobile.org/chapters/.

SIGMOBILE Membership

• The quarterly journal and newsletter Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R), serving both as a newsletter keeping SIGMOBILE members informed, and as a scientific journal publishing high-quality peer-reviewed research papers on mobile computing and wireless and mobile networking.
• A monthly e-mail SIGMOBILE newsletter, including SIGMOBILE announcements, pointers to relevant mainstream news articles of interest to SIGMOBILE members, a calendar of upcoming events of interest to our members, and pointers to developer news for active developers in the area of mobile computing and wireless networking.
• Qualify for the lowest registration rates at conferences and workshops sponsored by SIGMOBILE, and for the many events that are "in-cooperation" with SIGMOBILE. SIGMOBILE sponsors five conferences each year (MobiCom, MobiHoc, MobiSys, SenSys, and Ubicomp) and the HotMobile workshop.
• Opportunities to share ideas, learn new results and practices, network with colleagues, and be active in a vibrant community of professionals and students in all areas of mobility of systems, users, data, and computing.
• Through the Member Value Plus program, automatically receive a CDROM after each of SIGMOBILE's five conferences, containing the full conference Proceedings.

• Organization and sponsorship of five annual conferences (MobiCom, MobiHoc, MobiSys, SenSys, Ubicomp), and promotion of emerging new areas through sponsorship of numerous workshops each year.
• A range of full-day and half-day tutorials at many SIGMOBILE conferences, offering attendees an easy way to broaden their knowledge.
• Announcements via a moderated email distribution list about events of interest to those in the mobile computing and wireless networking community, such as conference Calls for Papers and Calls for Participation.
• The SIGMOBILE Outstanding Contribution Award, given to recognize an individual who has made a significant and lasting contribution to research on mobile computing and communications and wireless networking.
• The SIGMOBILE Distinguished Service Award, given to recognize an individual who has made exceptional contributions to ACM SIGMOBILE, its conferences, publications, or its local activities.
• Other awards including Best Paper awards and often also Best Demo or Best Presentation awards at SIGMOBILE conferences and workshops.
• Support for students at SIGMOBILE conferences and workshops, through reduced registration fees, student travel awards for some conferences, student poster sessions, and hosting the ACM Student Research Competition at some conferences.
• Continuing financial support and hosting meetings for the group "Networking Networking Women" (N2 Women), with the goal to foster connections among the under-represented women in computer networking and related fields of research.
• Sponsorship for conference travel and registration to Mobility related conferences through ACM-W.
• Financial support for CRAWDAD, the Community Resource for Archiving Wireless Data At Dartmouth, which archives wireless trace data and develops better tools for collecting, anonymizing, and analyzing the data.
• The SIGMOBILE web site at http://www.sigmobile.org, including a wealth of information for the community, such as complete details on SIGMOBILE conferences and workshops; information on SIGMOBILE membership, chapters, awards, and publications; and a Ph.D. thesis collection.

SIGMOBILE Awards

At MobiSys 2011, the Best Paper Award was given to two papers: 1) "SignalGuru: Leveraging Mobile Phones for Collaborative Traffic Signal Schedule Advisory" by Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Li-Shiuan Peh, and Margaret Martonosi, and 2) "Chameleon: A Color-Adaptive Web Browser for Mobile OLED Displays" by Mian Dong and L. Zhong. The Best Poster Award went to "You Driving? Talk to You Later" by Hon Lung Chu, Vijay Raman, Jeffrey Shen, Romit Roy Choudhury, Aman Kansal and Victor Bahl. The best Demo Awards were presented to "A System for Aligning Advertisement Delivery with Cellular Base-station Overloads" by Ravi Kokku, Rajesh Mahindra, Sampath Rangarajan and Honghai Zhang, and 2) "Avoiding the Rush Hours; WiFi Energy Management via Traffic Isolation" by Justin Manweiler and Romit Roy Choudhury.

At MobiCom 2010, the Best Paper Award was presented for "The ?-factor: Inferring Protocol Performance Using Inter-Link Reception Correlation", by Kannan Srinivasan, Mayank Jain, Jung Il Choi, Tahir Azim, Edward S. Kim, Philip Levis, and Bhaskar Krishnamachari.

Featured at MobiCom 2010, The ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) - sponsored by Microsoft Research, had the following winners in the Graduate Category:

• First Place: Souvik Sen, Duke University "Listen Before You Talk, But on the Frequency Domain"
• Second Place: Shahriyar Amini, Carnegie Mellon University "Caché: Caching Location-Enhanced Content to Improve User Privacy"
• Third Place: Dan Levin, Deutsche Telekom Labs "TCPSpeaker: Clean and Dirty Sides of the Same Slate"

At MobiHoc 2010, the Best Paper Award was given to "Globs in the Primordial Soup: The Emergence of Connected Crowds in Mobile Wireless Networks" by Simon Heimlicher (ETH Zurich) and Kavé Salamatian (Université de Savoie).

At SenSys 2010, the Best Paper Award went to "Design and Evaluation of a Versatile and Efficient Receiver-Initiated Link Layer for Low-Power Wireless.", by Prabal Dutta (University of Michigan), Stephen Dawson-Haggerty (University of California, Berkeley), Yin Chen (Johns Hopkins University), Chieh-Jan (Mike) Liang (Johns Hopkins University), and Andreas Terzis (Johns Hopkins University).

At Ubicomp 2010, the Best Paper Award was given to "ElectriSense: Single-Point Sensing Using EMI for Electrical Event Detection and Classification in the Home", by Sidhant Gupta, Matt Reynolds, and Shwetak Patel (University of Washington).

Finally, SIGMOBILE presented a well deserved 2010 Outstanding Contributions Award to Prof. Mahadev Satyanayanaran (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), for pioneering a wide spectrum of technologies in support of disconnected and weakly connected mobile clients, presented at MobiSys 2011, June 30th, in Washington DC (see MobiSys'11 conference summary).

SIGMOBILE in the News

Additional Executive Committee Activities

Last year we established a new Editor-in-chief for MC2R, Prof. Suman Banerjee (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, USA), with a fresh agenda and new plans for the publication. At the same time there was a pipeline of prior papers and materials to publish. In the next issue we should see the first results of his planning, and new exciting content for our MC2R publication.

We have investigated adding the independent 'Pervasive Computing' conference to our existing five sponsored conferences, but it has not been a straightforward proposition. The historical advisory committee for Pervasive has been largely composed of European members, and they see less value in moving under the ACM umbrella. The Pervasive 'Town meeting' held at the June 2011 conference in San Francisco generated the following feedback:

• ~10% would like to move to ACM
• greater than 50% do not see any advantage and do not care either way
• a few people see disadvantages
• it was noted the ACM label does not make a difference for tenure cases in Asia (Korea, Japan), it's only Journals that count.
• the cost implications were noted (both in terms of overhead and discount for ACM members)

In the previous report we had talked about increasing SIG membership by looking for new chapters, creative advertising, or alliances with other SIGs such as SIGOPS. However, little progress has been made on this front. It is much harder that we had previously thought, and will be a subject of on-going discussion. However, it was noted that in terms of revenue, membership is much less significant than profits from our conferences, and monies from the ACM digital library, as a result of licensed readers downloading SIGMOBILE papers.

Our SIGMOBILE Workshop Coordinator, Ahmed Helmy (University of Florida, Gainesville, USA), has recently stepped down after many years of service. As mentioned earlier, we are very grateful for all his contributions, and will now begin a search for a new coordinator. We have successfully found a new chair for the Outstanding Contribution Award (OCA) search committee, Victor Bahl (Microsoft Research), will step down after 15 years of service, and the new Chair will be Edward W. Knightly (Rice University, EDE Dept). We extend many thanks to Victor for his considerable energy in this role, and commitment to maintaining high standards for awarding the OCA since its inception.

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