-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: ExtremeCom - Extreme Workshop on Communication - The Midnight Sun Expedition Datum: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:39:28 -0000 Von: Eiko Yoneki eiko.yoneki@cl.cam.ac.uk Antwort an: eiko.yoneki@cl.cam.ac.uk Organisation: University of Cambridge An: tccc@lists.cs.columbia.edu

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ExtremeCom 2009 - http://www.extremecom.org

Call for Papers and Demos for 1st Extreme Workshop on Communication - The Midnight Sun Expedition

The Extreme Workshop on Communication (ExtremeCom) intends to bring together researchers and practitioners in areas related to delay tolerant networks and other networking paradigms for rural and remote areas, in order to gain experience and insight into the challenges that such environments pose for the network and the users.

We aim to do this through real-life experience in the Arctic Circle region. The Padjelanta national park in Laponia, Sweden is a UNESCO World Heritage site, and the home of the Saami population of semi-nomadic reindeer herders. Due to the lack of infrastructure in this area, a DTN-based networking system for the area has been developed by the SNC and N4C projects. During the summer of 2009, the fourth summer of deployment and testing for this system will take place, which makes this a unique opportunity to experience a real deployment of a DTN system.

The workshop will start with a 5 day field trip into the mountain regions where the DTN system is deployed. During this time, participants will be given the opportunity to hike along the trails in the mountains and visit the Saami settlements to meet the local population and users of the system. Not only will this give a better idea of both the technical and user requirements of such a system, but it will also give many opportunities for informal research discussions between the participants. Participants that have their own software for scenarios like this will also, to as great an extent as possible, be encouraged to test and demonstrate it within this environment. (We are currently planning the mountain-based part of the workshop together with the local population, and some details are subject to change.) Upon reaching the end of the hike, there will be two days of paper presentations and demos in a more traditional conference venue. Focus will still be on informal research discussions, with the hope that the field experience will give participants the ability to discuss the topics in a new light.

Participants should submit 2-page position papers about ideas and visions about the topics of the workshop or demo proposals to be shown during the workshop. Visionary and thought-provoking papers that are likely to generate much discussion during the workshop are especially solicited. The aim of the workshop is to maintain an informal environment, where new research ideas can be discussed and developed.

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

* Testbeds for large-scale sustainable testing of DTN systems * Real deployments of networks in extreme environments * Business and service models for networks in rural, remote, and other challenging environments * User experience research * Delay tolerant networking * Low-power and intermittent-power protocols * Mechanisms for emergency and urgent communications * Networked applications and services

Due to logistics and the need to conduct the workshop in harmony with the local population and the environment, the number of participants will be limited. Priority will be given to authors of papers.

Important dates --------------- Workshop dates: August 8-14, 2009 Submission deadline: April 10, 2009 Notification of acceptance: April 24, 2009 Registration deadline: May 10, 2009

Organizers ---------- General co-chairs: Pan Hui, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories and TU Berlin, Germany Anders Lindgren, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden

Local arrangements: Karin Kuoljok, Tannak AB, Sweden Anders Lindgren, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden Susanne Spik, Tannak AB, Sweden Maria Uden, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden

Publicity chair: Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge, UK

Web chair: Fehmi Ben Abdesslem, University of St. Andrews, UK

Technical Program Committee: Bengt Ahlgren, Swedish Insitute of Computer Science Kevin Almeroth, University of California Santa Barbara, USA Elizabeth M. Belding, University of California Santa Barbara, USA Elwyn Davies, Folly Consulting, UK Nathan Eagle, MIT and Univ of Nairobi, Kenya Kevin Fall, Intel Research Berkeley, USA Stephen Farrell, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Tristan Henderson, University of St. Andrews, UK David Johnson, CSIR, South Africa Srinivasan Keshav, University of Waterloo, Canada

Steering Committee: Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK Avri Doria, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden Tristan Henderson, University of St. Andrews, UK Pan Hui, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories and TU Berlin, Germany Anders Lindgren, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden

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