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(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of
this CFP.)
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 7 2016, New York, USA
IMPORTANT DATES
*** Paper submission deadline (firm): June 28, 2016 ***
Acceptance notification: July 29, 2016
Camera-ready due: August 5, 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