[Tccc] CFP: First ACM MobiCom Workshop on Lowest Cost...
LOCHIN Emmanuel
Emmanuel.LOCHINatisae.fr
Wed Mar 20 13:55:26 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
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