[sigcomm] CFP: ACM SIGCOMM 2012 Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC)

[Ryuji Wakikawa]

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MCC: Mobile Cloud Computing
Helsinki, Finland (August 17, 2012)
http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2012/mcc.php
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Call for Papers

Today the Internet Web Service is the main way we access any kind of information from fixed or mobile terminals. Some of the information is stored in the Internet Cloud, where computing, communication, and storage services are main services provided for Internet users. In a non-distant future many of our queries will be beyond current Internet scope and will be about the people, the physical environments that surround us, and virtual environments that we will be involved. Having witnessed the phenomenal burst of research in cloud computing, Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) is to extend cloud computing functions, services and results to the world of future mobile applications. MCC will address issues that current Internet Clouds or Mobile Computing Technologies alone cannot effectively or efficiently address.

The MCC workshop is intended to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners in current mobile computing and cloud computing from academia, industry, and service providers, to share ideas, experiences, and practical implementations related to new MCC technologies and applications. Both position and working-in-progress papers are encouraged. Workshop participants will discuss emerging and future trends in research and application that integrate the cloud computing paradigm into mobile devices, mobile applications, security and privacy, and mobile services, evaluating the impact of mobile applications on cloud computing techniques. To that end, papers are solicited from all MCC related areas involving the interactions or integrations of mobile techniques and cloud computing solutions, including, but not limited to the following topics.

- Topics

• MCC service architecture and designs
• MCC data and storage architecture
• MCC performance evaluation and measurement of MCC services and applications
• MCC software development platform and enabled new applications
• MCC service platform and Quality of Experience (QoE) studies
• MCC content/context-based sensing, routing, and networking
• MCC enabled individual and collective sensing and applications (e.g., in the application domains such as environment, energy, transportation, smart grid, healthcare, etc.)
• MCC security and privacy protection related research issues
• MCC data and information management for MCC service providers and end users
• MCC supported social media and networks, virtual community and virtual humans
• MCC supported multimedia services, advertisements, games, and entertainments
• Virtualization and programmable infrastructure for MCC

- Submission Instructions

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. 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://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2012/.

- Important Dates
Submit papers through EADS.

Paper Registration	March 19, 2012
Submissions due	March 26, 2012
Notification of acceptance	May 7, 2012
Camera Ready	May 28, 2012
Workshop date	August 17, 2012

- Program Committee

TPC Co-Chairs:
Mario Gerla, University of California Los Angeles 
Dijiang Huang, Arizona State University

Committee Members:
Nath Badri (Rutgers, USA)
Paolo Bellavista (DEIS University of Bologna, Italy)
Samia Bouzefrane (CNAM, France)
Andrew T. Campbell (Rutgers, USA)
Marco Conti (IIT-CNR, Italy)
Christophe Diot (Technicolor, France)
Falko Dressler (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
Serge Fdida (Paris VI, France)
Jeffrey R. Foerster (Intel, USA)
Silvia Giordano (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
Robert Greens (ASU, USA)
Myong Kang (Naval Research Lab, USA)
Andreas Kassler (Karlstad University, Sweden)
Robin Kravets (UIUC, USA)
Jeongkeun Lee (HP Lab, USA)
Gérard Le Lann (INRIA Paris, France)
Liviu Lftode (Rutgers, USA)
Huan Liu (ASU, USA)
Songwu Lu (UCLA, USA)
Gregorio Martinez (University of Murcia, Spain)
Peng Ning (NCSU, USA)
Giovanni Pau (UCLA, USA)
Guy Pujolle (Paris VI, France)
Marco Roccetti (University of Bologna, Italy)
James C. Ramming (Intel, USA)
Kishor S. Trivedi (Duke, USA)
Cliff Wang (Army Research Office, USA)
Lixia Zhang (UCLA, USA)
Haojin Zhu (Shanghai JiaoTong University, China)

- Thanks to our supporters (in alphabetical order): 
AT&T Labs Research, Aalto University , Bell Labs Alcatel-Lucent, Comcast, Cisco, HP, Internet Society, Microsoft Research, NetApp, Nokia, OY L M ERICSSON AB, Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo S.A. Unipersonal, Verisign Labs