*Call For Papers – ACM MobiCom 2021*


*Winter Deadline Approaching!*


*Important Dates (Winter Deadline)*

Abstract Registration: March 19, 2021 23:59 EDT

Paper Submission: March 26, 2021 23:59 EDT

Notification of Acceptance:  June 11, 2021





*Important Changes*



· *Double-blind.* This CFP has updated its double-blind review policy and
particularly added how to handle preprints (such as arXiv). Violated
submissions will be returned without reviews.

· *Conflict-of-interest (COI).* It is the authors’ responsibility to claim
the true COIs from the TPC members. Violated submissions will be returned
without reviews.

· *Resubmission.* We have added a new policy on previous submissions, which
may request the authors to additionally submit the summary of changes from
the previous version.

· *Anonymous shepherding.* Note that MobiCom performs an anonymous and
rigorous shepherding process for all conditionally accepted papers.
Shepherded papers will be accepted only after completing a successful
shepherding process, which usually takes 4-6 weeks.



The ACM MobiCom conference seeks papers describing significant research
contributions in the field of wireless networking and mobile computing.
MobiCom solicits papers that address important research challenges,
including but not limited to communication networks, energy, computing,
security, and user experience. Successful papers should propose novel ideas
to attack such problems through rigorous analysis, system design, and/or
real-world measurement and deployment of mobile networks, systems, and
applications.

We want MobiCom ’21 to be daring and emphasize novelty and creativity. The
more novel the concept, the harder it can be to fully develop or evaluate
all aspects, and the review process will take this into account. We
encourage authors to discuss not only the significance but also the
limitations of their ideas. We strongly encourage authors to describe how
they will provide access to well-documented datasets, modeling and/or
simulation tools, and codebases to support the reproducibility of their
methods. MobiCom continues the two-deadline model and the reviewing process
with a one-shot revision to improve the quality and timeliness of
publications.

*Topics*


 We invite submissions on a wide range of mobile computing and wireless
networking research, including but not limited to:

·         Applications of machine learning to mobile/wireless research

·         Backscatter communication and wireless power

·         Edge computing

·         Embedded and energy-harvesting systems

·         Experimental platforms and infrastructures for wireless/mobile
research

·         Implanted and wearable computing

·         Intersection between mobile/wireless research, cloud computing,
and software-defined networking

·         Long-range/Low-power wide-area wireless networking

·         Low-latency networking

·         Machine-to-machine communications

·         Millimeter wave and terahertz communications

·         Mobile data science & analysis

·         Mobile health

·         Mobile networks (5G and beyond)

·         Mobile web, video, virtual reality, and other applications

·         Novel applications of wireless signals

·         Robotic and drone-based networking

·         Security and privacy issues/solutions for mobile/wireless systems

·         Sensing with radio, light, sound, and acoustics

·         Ubiquitous computing and mobile human computer interaction

·         Visible light communications

·         Wireless localization and tracking



In addition to *full* research papers as described above, MobiCom also
invites submission in the following three categories:

Challenge Papers

The conference invites submissions of short papers (limited to eight pages
excluding references) that present revolutionary new ideas or that
challenge existing assumptions prevalent among the wireless research
community. These "challenge 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. Challenge papers will be reviewed
by the program committee and if selected, become part of the conference
technical program and be published in the conference proceedings. Challenge
papers should be submitted using the same submission procedure adopted for
the full papers. The title of these papers must bear a "Challenge:" prefix.

Experience Papers

The conference invites submission of short papers (limited to eight pages
excluding references) that present extensive experiences with
implementation, deployment, and operations of mobile systems and wireless
networks. Desirable papers are expected to contain real data as well as
descriptions of the practical lessons learned. The experience papers will
be evaluated by the program committee, primarily for (i) richness of their
data or experiences, (ii) inferences drawn or lessons learned, (iii)
discovery of new problems, and (iv) their impact/potential impact on
current and future mobile systems and wireless networks, as well as on
society. Note that a paper that builds a system and presents a limited
experimental evaluation is NOT suitable as an experience paper. Selected
experience papers will become a part of the conference technical program
and will be published in the conference proceedings. Experience papers should
be submitted according to the same submission procedure as full papers, and
their title must bear an "Experience:" prefix.

Verification Papers

The conference invites submission of short papers (limited to eight pages
excluding references) that seek to verify and/or characterize recent
breakthrough results in mobile computing using rigorous experimental
methodologies with the goal of extensively and thoroughly characterizing
the operating parameters under which these results can be reproduced.
Selected verification papers will become a part of the conference technical
program and will be published in the conference proceedings. Verification
papers should be submitted according to the same submission procedure as
full papers, and their title must bear a "Verification:" as a prefix.

Two Deadlines and One-shot Revision


MobiCom ’21 offers authors the options of two deadlines and adds a one-shot
revision process to enhance the timeliness and quality of the scientific
results from the research community. Each paper will go through the same
rigorous reviewing process as in previous MobiCom conferences. The review
decisions will be one of the following:

· *Accept*: Accepted papers will be presented at the MobiCom conference and
appear as part of the proceedings and the MobiCom website. Note all the
papers in this category will initially be *conditionally accepted*. The
papers that go through a successful *anonymous* shepherding process will
eventually be accepted.

· *Reject*: Rejected papers cannot be resubmitted until 11 months have
passed since the last MobiCom deadline they were submitted to. We strongly
encourage the authors to address the feedback they got before re-submitting
the paper to MobiCom.

· *One-Shot-Revision*: Papers, where a revision is required, will be given
specific action points and can be resubmitted for the *next* deadline. For
such papers, the reviewers will articulate a maximum of three major
changes/clarifications that they would like to see. After the resubmission,
the paper will be evaluated based on whether the authors have properly
addressed the reviewers’ requests. Unlike in the shepherding process, the
requested action points may include running additional experiments that
obtain specific results and could take more than 4-6 weeks. During this
revision period, the paper is still considered under review to MobiCom and
therefore cannot be submitted to other conferences unless the authors first
withdraw it from consideration.


Additional details on the paper submission process can be found at
https://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2021/cfp.html. Please refer to the Call
 for Papers page on the ACM MobiCom 2021 website for important information
regarding the paper submission and review process.
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