[Tccc] Submission deadline in 1 week : ACM LCDNet MobiCom Workshop 2013

Emmanuel Lochin emmanuel.lochinatisae.fr
Fri May 24 02:22:55 EDT 2013



 The 1st ACM MobiCom Workshop on Lowest Cost Denominator Networking for 
Universal Access (LCDNet 2013) will be held jointly with ACM MobiCom on 
September 30, 2013, in Miami, Florida. It is aimed at bringing together 
researchers from academia and industry.  


Internet has crossed new frontiers with access getting faster and 
cheaper. New applications and services are being offered  and their 
impact omnipresent. The Internet Societys recent global Internet survey 
reveals that the Internet should be considered as a basic human 
birthright. On one end, we have the developed world where access is 
getting faster and services being developed to utilize faster access. On 
the other end, there are people who do not have access to the Internet 
at all. Some may not be able to get it due to lack of infrastructure 
support (which accounts to the notion of digital divide problem faced by 
most people in developed countries). There have been signicant 
initiatives to solve the problem of affordable infrastructure. 
Crucially, most of these approaches address infrastructural barriers 
without addressing economic ones. Leaving connectivity for all to be 
governed by market economics is a major impediment to achieving the full 
benefits of the Internet, and that basic Internet access should be made 
freely available to all due to its societal benefits. The current 
Internet access model which is governed by market economics makes it 
practically infeasible for enabling universal access especially for 
those with socio-economic barriers. The value chains do not reflect the 
technical development  as made obvious by recent debates between 
operators and content providers.

There are both research and policy challenges to the realization of a 
future Internet capability that will offer appropriate access to all 
parts of society. The current Internet architecture is progressively 
reaching a saturation point in meeting increasing user's expectations 
and behaviors as well as progressively showing inability to efficiently 
respond to new technological challenges (in terms of security, 
scalability, mobility, availability, and manageability) but also 
socio-economical challenges. This widening range of requirements imposed 
on the Internet architecture leads to a growing collection of solutions, 
which each in their own right address a set of requirement while driving 
forward the fragmentation that ultimately stands in the way of achieving 
the digital inclusion vision. In contrast to the way the current 
Internet has evolved, the development of the next generation network 
will demand both collaboration and a shared vision between researchers, 
corporations, community groupings and governments. There can be no 
single uniform solution that embraces all types of user and all 
locations. We need an infrastructure that combines different 
transmission technologies, while at the same time support an 
increasingly diverse range of Internet applications. The research 
community should also encourage, identify and architect new modes of 
access that could increase the efficiency of the usage of existing 
communication resources, enhance cooperation among operators, 
cooperation among end users, improving access/accounting on a per 
service basis rather than on a per volume basis, enable sponsoring of 
access to communication as such as well as to selected services.

This workshop will address the problem of digital exclusion due to both 
geographical and socio-economic disparity. We would like also to pay 
attention to specific types of exclusion  like temporal exclusion 
caused by catastrophes (in terms of an earthquake or tsunami) and 
malicious activities. In such situations, the poorest communities suffer 
the most. Technologies that require an infrastructure setup may 
sometimes be not feasible due to cost, accessibility or availability. 
Hence the use of alternate technologies that enable cooperative 
networking  e.g. multi-hop ad-hoc set-ups, or delay tolerant 
communication based approaches might save lives, and mitigate suffering 
of numerous victims.

ACM LCDNet 2013 will address a range of research questions (feasibility, 
scalability, security, new privacy challenges, robustness, resource 
allocation, sustainability, performance etc.). We solicit contributions 
on state-of-the-art, results of ongoing research, open issues, trends 
and new ideas. We strongly encourage out-of-the box thinking and the 
workshop will have a dedicated session focusing on blue-skies research 
within the context of the workshop.


Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

1. Innovations in wireless and satellite technologies that enable 
efficient low cost spectrum use
2. Characterising broadband performance
3. Advancements in Information-centric networking, delay-tolerant 
networking, cloud onloading/offloading to improve access and reduce 
average transmission cost per service access
4. Effectively utilising unused capacity using state of art network 
virtualization techniques to realize low-cost access
5. Multi-layer resource pooling
6. Social networking based communications during disasters
7. Supporting effectively different service classes, with 
authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) for different 
traffic/service types
8. Security and privacy concerns
9. New applications and services utilising low cost models
10. Socio-economic models for adoption and deployment
11. Related projects and reports of experience


Organizing Committee

Jon Crowcroft (University of Cambridge, UK)
Arjuna Sathiaseelan (University of Cambridge, UK)
Emmanuel Lochin (ISAE, France)


Program Committee

Adam Wolisz (TKN, Berlin)
Scott Burleigh (JPL, NASA, USA)
Dirk Trossen (University of Cambridge, UK)
Michael Welzl (University of Oslo, Norway)
Mahesh Marina (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Richard Mortier (University of Nottingham, UK)
Joerg Ott (Aalto University, Finland)
Eiko Yoneki (University of Cambridge, UK)
Achilles Petras (BT, UK)
Roksana Boreli (NICTA, Australia)
Laurent Franck (Telecom Bretagne, France)
Balaji Rengarajan (IMDEA, Spain)
Milena Radenkovic (University of Nottingham, UK)
Pasi Sarolahti (Aalto University, Finland)
Pierre-Ugo Tournoux (Reunion Island University, France)
Marcelo Dias de Amorim (LIP6, France)
Vassilios Tsaoussidis (DUTH, Greece)


Important Dates

Paper/Poster Submission Deadline: May 30, 2013, 11.59 PM EDT
Notification Deadline: July 15, 2013
Camera-ready: July 30, 2013
Workshop date: September 30, 2013


Website

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~as2330/lcd/lcdnet-2013.html


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