Authors are invited to submit full papers presenting new research
related to the theory and/or practice of mobile computing and/or
wireless and mobile networking at the link layer and above.
All submissions must describe original research, not published or
currently under review for another conference or journal.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Architectures, protocols, and algorithms for various wireless and mobile networks, such as wireless LANs, wireless mesh networks, cellular data networks, delay-tolerant networks, mobile ad hoc networks, sensor networks, personal area networks, and vehicular networks
- Design, implementation, and evaluation of wireless systems and mobile applications
- Algorithms and models for wireless networks and mobile applications
- Fundamental understanding of mobile computing and wireless networking
- Measurements and performance evaluation of mobile and wireless networks
- Cross-layer design for mobile and wireless networks ranging from the PHY layer to applications
- Networks involving novel technologies such as UWB, MIMO, directional antennas, and software radios
- Architectures, algorithms and protocols for dynamic spectrum usage, white spaces, and cognitive networks
- Techniques that deal with low power and energy limitations
- Operating system and middleware support for mobile computing and networking
- Security, privacy, and trustworthiness of mobile and wireless systems
- Integration and interworking of wired and wireless networks
- Emerging topics, e.g., social networking applications enabled by mobile and wireless networking systems
MobiCom 2010 will be a diverse conference and we strongly encourage the submission of mobile systems, experimental and theoretical papers. The program committee will evaluate each paper using metrics that are appropriate for the topic area. For example, a systems or experimental paper in the protocol area will be evaluated based on the innovations in the protocol design, practical implementation, and realistic evaluation, whereas a more theoretical paper may be evaluated mostly based on innovation within the algorithm design. At the same time, the evaluation of wireless and mobile networking technologies is challenging because of the significant impact that the physical environment has on performance. For this reason, all papers must carefully describe and justify the evaluation methodology that is used and identify its strengths and weaknesses.
The program committee will referee all papers, and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.
The conference strongly encourages the submission of short papers in
the field of mobile computing and wireless networking that present
revolutionary new ideas or that challenge existing assumptions
prevalent among the research community. These "challenges papers"
should provide stimulating ideas or visions that may open up exciting
avenues and/or influence the direction of future
research. Descriptions of new products or evolution of existing work
are not appropriate topics for papers in this category. While an
exhaustive evaluation of the proposed ideas is not necessary, insight
and in-depth understanding of the issues is expected. Challenges
papers will be reviewed by the MobiCom program committee and will be
part of the technical program and published in ACM MobiCom
proceedings. They should be submitted using the same submission
procedure adopted for the full papers. The title of these papers must
start with the word "Challenge:" i.e., "Challenge: Rest of the
Title."
All paper submissions will be handled electronically.
All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality through double-blind reviewing, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. Authors' names must not appear in the paper or in the PDF file. Submitted papers must be original work, and a paper with substantial similarity must neither be already published, nor be currently under review for publication in any other venue. Please direct any questions about the paper submission process to the Program Co-Chairs at mobicom_pcchairs acm.org.
This year, authors are being given the option of submitting three content slides that summarize their paper and its contributions. The slides will not be revealed to the reviewers until just before the TPC meeting.
A typical paper that is
under discussion at the TPC meeting is read by 3-6 TPC members or reviewers. The goal of the slides will be to
allow any other TPC member to quickly get an idea about the main contributions of the paper during the meeting.
This will allow him/her to follow the
ongoing discussion, and engage with the other more informed reviewers of the paper.
We believe this approach can
better facilitate discussions during the TPC meeting. If you decide to submit slides, you will have
an additional week after the paper submission deadline passes, i.e., until March 19, 2010 (11:59pm PST).
Detailed formatting instructions and templates
for both papers and slides have been made available.
All papers will be considered for the Best Paper Award. The program
committee will select a number of candidates for the award among
accepted papers.
The winner will be selected at the conference,
considering both the paper and the presentation.
The winner will receive a plaque and a cash award.
| Abstracts submission due: |
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March 5, 2010 (11:59 PM PST) |
| Paper submissions due: |
March 12, 2010 (11:59 PM PST) |
| Slide submissions (optional) due: |
March 19, 2010 (11:59 PM PST) |
| Notification of acceptance: |
June 21, 2010 |
| Camera-ready version due: |
July 15, 2010 |
It is ACM policy (http://www.acm.org/pubs/rights.html) not to
allow double submissions, where the same paper is submitted to more
than one conference/journal concurrently. Any double submissions
detected will be immediately rejected from all conferences/journals
involved.
Please contact the General Chair or Program Co-Chairs for more
information. For information on ACM SIGMOBILE and the MobiCom series
of conferences, see http://www.sigmobile.org/ or contact
mobicom_infoacm.org.
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