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Cellular Networks: Operations, Challenges, and Future Design (CellNet)
Helsinki, Finland (Monday August 13, 2012)
http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2012/cellnet.php
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Call for Papers
With the popularity of smart phones and tablets, we are living in an
increasingly mobile world. Third-party mobile applications such as Apple Siri,
iCloud, and Yelp are rapidly growing everyday and greatly enrich our lives. The
eco-system for mobile applications is vibrant and conducive to open innovation.
Even one of the most popular mobile OS -- Android operation system is open
source. This allows many phone and tablet vendors to innovate on the hardware
and firmware. Underpinning this mobile world, it is the cellular networks.
Unfortunately, the cellular networks present a rather disheartening picture.
They are closed, mostly proprietary, and constructed using closed monolithic
equipments. The innovation is limited to a very small number of equipment
vendors, not open to the general research community. As a result, cellular
networks are prone to outages, dropped calls, performance problems, and hard to
manage. The closed nature of cellular networks threatens to derail the mobile
revolution or limit its true potential.
Research innovation in mobile cellular networks is hampered by the fact that
most academic researchers have no access to cellular radios, source codes of
cellular network equipments, cellular network management tools, and realistic
network traces at scale. As a result, most wireless research is conducted using
WiFi. We believe this situation much change. To effect change, this workshop
brings network operators, and academic researchers together to address the
problems. First, we would like academic researchers to understand operational
aspects of cellular network. Second, we would like researchers from academia
and industry to jointly identify the challenges, and propose future designs so
that cellular networks can evolve to meet the growing challenges of a mobile
world.
We encourage submission of both position papers and work-in-progress papers on
previously unpublished work on cellular networks.
- Topics
We solicit submissions on topics including, but not limited to, the following:
• Operation aspects:
• Radio resource allocation and usage profiling
• Cellular network architecture characterization
• Understanding and modeling cellular data traffic
• Cellular network security
• Challenges facing today's cellular networks:
• Cellular network management
• Mobility
• Energy efficiency
• Spectrum shortage
• Future cellular network design:
• Architectures
• Protocols
• Algorithms
• Security and privacy
- Submission Instructions
Each submission must be a single PDF file no longer than six (6) pages in
length (in two-column, 10-point format) including references, following the
LaTeX style file. Papers should be submitted via thesubmission site. 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.
- Important Dates
Paper Registration March 23, 2012, 11:59 p.m. GMT
Submissions due March 30, 2012, 11:59 p.m. GMT
Notification of acceptance May 11, 2012
Camera ready version due June 1, 2012
Workshop date August 13, 2012
Please email the general chairs with any questions you may have.
- Organizers
Program Committee Co-Chairs
Li Erran Li (Bell Labs)
Z. Morley Mao (Univ of Michigan)
Program Committee Members
Suman Banerjee, Wisconsin
Andrew Campbell, Dartmouth College
Xu Simon Chen, AT&T Research
Zihui Ge, AT&T Research
Marco Gruteser,Winlab/Rutgers University
Edward Knightly, Rice
Ulas Kozat, Docomo
Kobus Van Der Merwe, AT&T Research
Ram Ramjee, Microsoft Research
Jennifer Rexford, Princeton
Cedric Westphal, Huawei
Yongguang Zhang, Microsoft Research
- Thanks to our supporters (in alphabetical order):
AT&T Labs Research, Aalto University , Bell Labs Alcatel-Lucent, Comcast,
Cisco, HP, Internet Society, Microsoft Research, NetApp, Nokia, OY L M ERICSSON
AB, Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo S.A. Unipersonal, Verisign Labs
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