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Call For Papers -  7th ACM Workshop on Challenged Networks (CHANTS 2012)

Co-located with ACM MobiCom  August 22rd 2012, Istanbul, Turkey

Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE and Google

http://www.cambridgeplus.net/CHANTS2012/

IMPORTANT DATES:
 - Full paper abstract registration deadline: May 20, 2012
 - Full Paper Submission deadline: May 27, 2012
 - Demo Submission deadline: July 1, 2012
 - Authors notification: June 18, 2012
 - Camera-ready: July 2, 2012
 - Early conference registration deadline: July 2, 2012
 - Workshop date: August 22, 2012

In the face of complex and dynamic networking capabilities, networked
applications need to operate in very challenging environments. These
challenges stem from high delay, such as inter-planetary networks, limited
power, such as sensor and wildlife monitoring networks, new communication
environments, such as underwater networks, communication in settings that
lack infrastructure, such as rural and remote areas, and military
battlefields, or simply environments where it is difficult or expensive to
use the existing infrastructure, social and vehicular networks. Essentially,
challenged networks are found in everyday settings, when access to
traditional infrastructure is non-existent, restricted, expensive, overly
complex, or rapidly changing.

While users strive to communicate in these challenged environments,
traditional internet protocol architectures fail to provide effective
support. Given the expectation of intermittent connectivity, heterogeneous
mix of nodes, nodal churn, and widely varying network conditions, the goal
of the challenged network engineer is to design and implement communication
that expect and so operate effectively in this diverse range of conditions.


Topics for the workshop include, but are not limited to:

   * Delay/disruption-tolerant networks (DTNs)
   * Architecture, design, implementation, and evaluation of communication
systems for challenged networks
   * Case studies involving real challenged network solutions in  various
stages of development or use
   * Analysis and characterization of challenged networks and protocols
   * Applications in challenged networks (disaster relief and mobile social
networking, vehicular networks)
   * Configuration, management, and monitoring of challenged networks
   * Security/Privacy concerns and solutions in challenged networks
   * Real-world mobility traces of challenged environments
   * Test and simulation tools for evaluating challenged network systems
   * Applications challenged networking techniques to communication in
daily life

Selected papers will be forward-looking, will describe their relationship to
existing work, and will have impact and implications for ongoing or future
research. We aim to accept approximately 12 papers, and to have a highly
interactive workshop. In addition, demos have been an integral part of
CHANTS, and we aim to accept up to ten demos.

BEST PAPERS:
Google will sponsor up to two best-paper awards to  honor the author(s) of
papers of exceptional quality submitted to the CHANTS 2012 workshop.

Full paper submission guidelines
All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on their originality,
significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. Submissions
must be in English, no longer than 6 pages with 10 point font and in PDF
format, and use the ACM templates. All fonts must be embedded within the PDF
and be Type 1 (scalable).

Demo proposals submission guidelines
Real-world data gathering and measurement are at the heart of large-scale
human mobility data collection, processing, and modeling. Technical
demonstrations showing innovative and original practical solutions in the
above mentioned topics are solicited, showing working prototypes stimulating
discussion among the attendees. Demo proposals should be submitted following
the exact same guidelines of full papers, except for the page limit that is
fixed to 2 (two) pages. Accepted proposals will be included in the
proceedings.

ORGANIZERS
Program co-Chairs:
Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge, UK
Robin Kravets, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA

PCs:
- Ahmed Helmy (University of Florida)
- Anders Lindgren (SICS)
- Andrea Passarella (IIT-CNR)
- Aruna Balasubramanian (University of Washington)
- Brenton Walker (LTS University of Maryland)
- Christian Rohrer (Uppsala University)
- Earl Oliver (University of Waterloo)
- Franck Legendre (ETH Zurich)
- Joerg Ott (Helsinki University of Technology)
- Jon Crowcroft (University of Cambridge)
- Kevin Almeroth (UCSB)
- Kevin Fall (Intel)
- Marco Conti (IIT-CNR)
- Mooi-Choo Chuah (Lehigh University)
- Mostafa Ammar (Georgia Institute of Technology)
- Pan Hui Deutsche (Telekom Laboratories)
- Scott Burleigh (NASA/JPL)
- Stephen Farrell (Trinity College Dublin)
- Stratis Ioannidis (Technicolor Palo Alto)
- Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos (Institut Eurecom)
- Tristan Henderson (University of St Andrews)
- Vania Conan  (Thales Architecture Framework Centre)
- Vijay Erramilli (Telefonica)

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