[sigcomm] CFP: The First Workshop on Urban Networking - UrbaNe’12, in conjunction with ACM CoNEXT 2012

[Marco Fiore]

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UrbaNe'12 - The First Workshop on Urban Networking
Nice, France, December 10, 2012
http://conferences.sigcomm.org/co-next/2012/workshops/urbane
in conjunction with ACM CoNEXT 2012
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Overview
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The urbanization of society continues to increase: in 2009, the fraction
of world population living in urban areas was above 50% (more than 75%
in developed countries). It is forecasted that another 10% of the world
population will move to metropolitan regions within the next 15 years,
leading us into the so-called "urban millennium".

The scale and the pace that characterize the phenomenon of urbanization
raise evident questions on its sustainability. For metropolitan areas to
be able to accommodate the current population growth rate and avoid the
risk of creating "urban wastelands", the overall management of city
resources has to be reconsidered for greater efficiency (and possibly
fairness). Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are expected
to play a key role in such a process, their capillary integration in
urban environments giving birth to "smart/digital cities".

This workshop aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners
from both industry and academia to promote the discussion on networking
solutions for upcoming smart/digital cities. It aims at fostering the
debate among participants on (i) the identification of the urban features
that are the most critical to networking, (ii) the definition and the
classification of networking challenges deriving from such features, and
(iii) the proposal of original network solutions that can cope with these
challenges.


Topics of interest
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We invite submissions on all aspects of networking research that have a
strong focus on urban environments. Topics include, but are not limited to:

- models of human mobility in urban regions
- sensor/actuator networks for urban sensing
- urban data collection and dissemination
- content dissemination to metropolitan mobile users
- opportunistic/spontaneous/delay-tolerant networking in urban environments
- self-configuring and self-healing autonomous urban networks
- protocols for capillary urban networks
- infrastructure deployment in urban environments
- cellular networks for urban areas
- intelligent urban transportation systems
- management of critical resources in urban environments (water, energy, etc.)
- internet of things and augmented reality for urban environments


Submissions guidelines
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Submitted papers must be at most six (6) pages long, including all
figures, tables, references, and appendices. They must be formatted
according to the standard alternate ACM double column format and must
use a font size of 10 pt or larger. Longer submissions will not be
reviewed. You are strongly encouraged to use the modified 10 pt ACM
sig-alternate-10pt latex template. Submitted papers must not have been
previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication
elsewhere.

Accepted papers will be published in CoNEXT 2012 proceedings, and available on
the ACM Digital Library.

Paper registration and submission at:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=urbane2012


Important dates
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Abstract submission: July 13, 2012
Paper submission: July 20, 2012
Notification of acceptance: September 15, 2012
Camera ready version of paper: October 12, 2012
Workshop: December 10, 2012


Committee
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Workshop Co-Chairs:
- Marco Fiore (INSA Lyon and INRIA UrbaNet, France)
- Catherine Rosenberg (University of Waterloo, Canada)

Program Committee Members:
- Sujata Banerjee (HP Labs, USA)
- Dominique Barthel (Orange Labs, France)
- Giuseppe Bianchi (University of Rome, Italy)
- Claudio Casetti (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
- Marcelo Dias de Amorim (CNRS, France)
- Antonio Fernandez Anta (Institute IMDEA Networks, Spain)
- Mario Gerla (UCLA, USA)
- Suresh Goyal (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, USA)
- Hannes Hartenstein (KIT, Germany)
- Pan Hui (Deutsche Telekom, Germany)
- Srinivasan Keshav (University of Waterloo, Canada)
- Edward Knightly (Rice University, USA)
- Jim Kurose (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA)
- Franck Legendre (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
- Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge, UK)
- Mehul Motani (NUS, Singapore)
- Herve Rivano (INRIA UrbaNet, France)
- Deva P. Seetharam (IBM Research, India)
- Fabrice Valois (INSA Lyon and INRIA UrbaNet, France)
- Jean Philippe Vasseur (Cisco and IPSO, USA)
- Moshe Zukerman (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)


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Marco Fiore
Assistant Professor
INSA Lyon - INRIA
http://perso.citi.insa-lyon.fr/mfiore