Announcement and Call for Papers
MobiCom '99
The Fifth Annual International Conference on
Mobile Computing and Networking
August 15 - 19, 1999
Seattle, Washington, USA
Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE
Technically Co-sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society
In cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM, SIGOPS, SIGMETRICS, and SIGMOD;
the USENIX Association; the IEICE; and the IEE
http://www.acm.org/sigmobile/conf
PAPERS:
Technical papers describing previously unpublished, original,
completed research, not currently under review by another conference,
journal, are solicited on the following topics:
* Applications and computing services supporting mobile users
* Network architectures, protocols or service algorithms to cope
with mobility, limited bandwidth, or intermittent connectivity
* Database and Data Management Issues in Mobile Computing
* Design and analysis of algorithms for mobile environments
* Security, scalability and reliability for mobile/wireless systems
* Performance of mobile/wireless networks and systems
* Integration and interworking of wired and wireless networks
* Influence of lower layers on the design and performance of higher
layers
* Mobile network protocols
* Mobile agents
* Push and Pull Data Dissemination Systems
* Power management
* Wireless multimedia systems
* Satellite communication
* Location-dependent applications
* Distributed system aspects of mobile systems
* Adaptive applications interfaces for mobile systems
* Architectures of mobile/wireless networks and systems
* Traffic integration for mobile applications
All papers will be refereed by the program committee. Accepted papers
will be published in the conference proceedings. Papers of particular
merit will be selected for publication in the ACM/Baltzer journals
Wireless Networks (WINET) and Mobile Networks and Applications
(MONET).
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NEW! SPECIAL PAPERS FOR THE MobiCom "NEXT CENTURY CHALLENGES" SESSION
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MobiCom solicits short papers (8 pages max.) that challenge the
mobile computing community with new technologies or visionary
applications. Such papers should provide stimulating ideas or visions
that may open up exciting avenues of mobile computing research. Papers
will be reviewed and should be submitted as regular MobiCom
submissions (although they do not have to be as technical as regular
submissions). However, the cover letter that accompanies the
submission should be clearly marked for "MobiCom Challenges".
HOW TO SUBMIT:
All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Authors should
E-mail a PostScript version of their full paper to
mobicom99@cs.rutgers.edu. This E-mail address will become operational
by December 15, 1998. In order to ensure that the PostScript versions
of the papers can be printed, authors should be careful that their
papers meet the following restrictions:
* PostScript version 2 or later.
* No longer than 15 pages.
* Fits properly on US Letter; size paper (8.5X11 inches)
* Reference only Computer Modern or standard Adobe printer
fonts (i.e. Courier, Times, Roman, or Helvetica); other
fonts may be used but must be included in the PostScript
file.
In addition, authors should separately E-mail the title, author names
and full address, and abstract of their paper to the Program Chairs,
Tomasz Imielinski (imielins@cs.rutgers.edu) and Martha Steenstrup
(msteenst@bbn.com). 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 should not
appear in the paper or in the PostScript file.
TUTORIALS:
Proposals for tutorials are solicited. Evaluation of proposals will
be based on the expertise and experience of the instructors, and on
the relevance of the subject matter. Potential instructors are
requested to submit a tutorial proposal of at most 5 pages, including
a biographical sketch, to the Tutorial Co-Chairs, Michele Zorzi
(zorzi@cwc.ucsd.edu) and Krishna Sivalingam (krishna@eecs.wsu.edu) by
January 15, 1999.
PANELS:
Panels are solicited that examine innovative, controversial, or
otherwise provocative issues of interest. Panel proposals should not
exceed 3 pages, including biographical sketches of the
panelists. Potential panel organizers should contact the Panels Chair,
Roy Want (want@parc.xerox.com).
STUDENT PARTICIPATION:
Papers with a student as a primary author will be considered for a
cash award of $500 US Dollars for the best student paper
competition. Student authors should clearly indicate with their
submission that they would like to be considered for this award.
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IMPORTANT DATES:
Submissions due: January 15, 1999
Notification of acceptance: April 5, 1999
Camera-ready version due: May 15, 1999
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FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Please contact the Program Co-Chairs, Tomasz Imielinski,
imielins@cs.rutgers.edu, Tel: +1 732 445-3546, Fax: +1 732 445-1003;
and Martha Steenstrup, msteenst@bbn.com; Tel: +1 617 873-3912, Fax: +1
617 873-6091; or the Local Chair, Randy Granovetter,
randygr@microsoft.com, Tel: +1 425 703-7446, Fax: + 1 425 936-7329.
This Call for Papers, as well as other MobiCom'99 information, is
available on the Web on the ACM SIGMOBILE Home Page at
http://www.acm.org/sigmobile/.
ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE
General Chair
Harel Kodesh
Vice President, Microsoft Corporation
One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399
harelk@microsoft.com
General Vice-Chair
Victor Bahl
Microsoft Research
One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399
bahl@microsoft.com
Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs
Tomasz Imielinski
Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Science
Rutgers University
110 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854
imielins@cs.rutgers.edu
Martha Steenstrup
Division Scientist, BBN Technologies
10 Moulton Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
msteenst@bbn.com
Panels Chair
Roy Want
Area Manager Embedded Systems, Xerox PARC
3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304
want@parc.xerox.com
Tutorial Co-Chairs
Michele Zorzi
Center for Wireless Communications
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive 0407
La Jolla, CA 92093-0407
zorzi@cwc.ucsd.edu
Krishna Sivalingam
Asst. Professor, Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-2752
krishna@eecs.wsu.edu
Workshops Chair
Rahul Tewari
Director, Network Operations, Teledesic Corporation
2300 Carillon Point, Kirkland, WA 98033
rahul@teledesic.com
Local Chair
Randy Granovetter
Business Development Manager, Microsoft Corporation
One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399
randygr@microsoft.com
Registration Chair
Sampath Rangarajan
Member of Technical Staff, Lucent Technologies Bell Labs
600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, NJ 07974.
sampath@research.bell-labs.com
Publicity Co-Chairs
Jason Redi
Senior Systems Engineer, BBN Technologies
10 Moulton St., Cambridge, MA, 02138
jredi@bbn.com
Jorge Cobb
Assistant Professor
The University of Texas at Dallas
P.O. Box 830688, Richardson, TX 75083-0688
jcobb@utdallas.edu
Steering Committee Chair
Imrich Chlamtac
Distinguished Chair Professor of Telecommunications
The University of Texas at Dallas
P.O. Box 830688, Richardson, TX 75083-0688
chlamtac@utdallas.edu
Treasurer
Aaron Woodman
Product Manager, Windows CE, Microsoft Corporation
One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399
aaronw@microsoft.com
IEEE Communication Society
Roch Guerin
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Yorktown heights, NY 10598
guerin@watson.ibm.com
Technical Program Committee
B.R. Badrinath Rutgers University
Rajive Bagrodia University of California, Los Angeles
Victor Bahl Microsoft Research
Mary Baker Stanford University
Hari Balakrishnan Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Daniel Barbara George Mason University
Ramon Caceres AT&T Research
Tracy Camp Colorado School of Mines
Andrew Campbell Columbia University
M. Scott Corson University of Maryland
Nigel Davies Lancaster University
Maurizio Decina Politecnico di Milano/CEFRIEL
Mike Franklin University of Maryland
James Freebersyser Office of Naval Research
J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves University of California, Santa Cruz
Pierre Humblet Eurecom Institute
Ravi Jain Bellcore
Dave Johnson Carnegie Mellon University
Anthony Joseph University of California, Berkeley
Anupam Joshi University of Missouri
Jay Kistler FORE Systems
Hank Korth Lucent Technologies
Thomas LaPorta Lucent Technologies
Murray Mazer Curl Corporation
Charles Perkins Sun Microsystems
Ram Ramanathan BBN Technologies
Ramesh Rao University of California, San Diego
Mani Srivastava University of California, Los Angeles
C-K. Toh Georgia Institute of Technology
Malathi Veeraraghavan Lucent Technologies
Kimberly Wasserman University of Michigan
Magda El Zarki University of Pennsylvania