-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] All Things Cellular 2016 with ACM MobiCom Datum: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 12:40:37 +0000 Von: Mahesh K. Marina mahesh@ED.AC.UK Antwort an: Mahesh K. Marina mahesh@ED.AC.UK Organisation: The University of Edinburgh An: tccc-announce@COMSOC.ORG

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2016 Workshop on All Things Cellular: Operations, Applications and Challenges http://networks.inf.ed.ac.uk/atc

Co-located with ACM MobiCom 2016 http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2016/ October 3-7 2016, New York, USA

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper registration / Abstract submission: May 24, 2016

Paper submission: May 31, 2016

Acceptance notification: July 8, 2016

Camera-ready due: July 15, 2016

SCOPE

We are living in an increasingly connected mobile world, where smartphones and tablets are prevalent, wearable devices are growing, and the “Internet of Things” is permeating our lives. The number of mobile applications such as Apple Siri, Google Now, and Yelp is rapidly growing, and mobile connectivity is used for everything from Google Glass to vehicle fleet tracking. These applications and services have rapidly enriched our lives, particularly because much of the mobile ecosystem is vibrant and conducive to open innovation. An important part of this ecosystem is the underlying connectivity provided by cellular networks. While innovations in mobile applications have thrived, innovations in the underlying cellular systems are more limited. This is partially caused by the closed and monolithic nature of these networks, where the core design and operational challenges are typically not accessible to the broader research community.

Specifically, research in mobile cellular networks has been hampered by the fact that academic researchers typically do not have access to radios, mobile protocol stacks, management tools, and realistic cellular network traces. As a result, until recently most wireless networking research was limited to Wi-Fi. The emergence of cellular mobile test networks is slowly changing this state of affairs and there is widespread optimism in the research community that we are at a tipping point where the interest of the research community will align with commercial and regulatory interests to foster innovation in cellular networks. As mobile cellular networks becoming more software based and flexible to enable technology innovation towards next generation mobile networks, it also paves the way for a wider research community to focus on cellular networks.

To continue to nurture this scene change, this workshop aims to bring together mobile network operators, equipment vendors, regulators and industrial/academic researchers to discuss emerging problems, challenges, and potential solutions in this domain. To facilitate this discussion and engage stakeholders, we are soliciting technical papers, including position papers, that are no more than 6-pages long in the standard ACM two-column, 10 point format. Early work that stimulates discussions is also strongly encouraged.

Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. Publication at the All Things Cellular workshop does not preclude later publication.

The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics:

* Radio resource allocation and usage profiling * Cellular network architecture and its evolution * Understanding and modeling cellular data traffic * Billing and pricing models * Cellular network security and privacy issues * Cellular network management * Cellular network measurements and measurement frameworks * Mobility * Energy efficiency * Spectrum shortage * Protocol design * Algorithms to improve performance and efficiency * Software-defined networking in cellular networks * Mobile network specific abstractions for network programmability * Mobile network function virtualization * Mobile network slicing * Mobile and wearable applications on cellular networks * Machine-to-machine services on cellular networks * Internet of Things in cellular networks * Hetnets, small cell architectures, fronthaul and backhaul solutions

SUBMISSION

Each submission must be a single PDF file no longer than six (6) pages in length (in two-column, 10-point format) including references. Papers must include the author name and affiliation for single-blind peer reviewing by the program committee. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their papers at the workshop. Submissions must be original work not under review at any other workshop, conference, or journal. For further info on submissions, please visit http://networks.inf.ed.ac.uk/atc/submission.html

ORGANIZATION

Workshop Chairs: Mahesh K. Marina, The University of Edinburgh, UK Ulas C. Kozat, Huawei R&D (Futurewei), USA

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