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ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Mobile Gaming
Helsinki, Finland (August 15, 2012)
http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2012/mobigame.php
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While they are a relatively new phenomenon, games on smartphones have become
wildly popular with users. Games consistently dominate the top purchases on
mobile app marketplaces. With the intense competition that has ensued in this
industry, games are now rapidly incorporating sophisticated technologies that
have been adapted to the mobile computing environment, many of which are of
growing importance to researchers. There are many research challenges across
graphics, energy consumption, network latency, HCI, security, and sensor
networking. While this field is interdisciplinary by nature, many proposed
ideas have direct impact on how networking protocols and infrastructures are
designed and managed.
In this first Mobile Gaming workshop at SIGCOMM, we will bring together
practitioners as well as interested researchers to discuss the latest
developments in this growing field. We will identify what we have already
achieved, the challenges that lie ahead, and promising avenues forward.
- Topics
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• cheating in networked mobile games
• reducing the energy consumption of mobile games
• increasing the quality of graphics on phones
• tolerating limited bandwidth and high latency on wireless links in
games
• impact of device limitations on mobile game players
• mobile games that interact with other devices in the vicinity such as
TVs, sensors, and other phones
• protocols and architectural designs or concerns for next generation
mobile games
• optimizing game servers and transport for mobile users
• cross-device gaming (e.g. phones, slates, PCs, consoles)
• novel game types and/or interaction modalities
• matchmaking for mobile multiplayer games
• detailed traffic measurements or usability studies of mobile games
• massively multiplayer mobile gaming
- Workshop chairs
• Sharad Agarwal (Microsoft Research)
• Rajesh Krishna Balan (Singapore Management University)
- Program Committee
• Sharad Agarwal (Microsoft Research)
• Aditya Akella (U. Wisconsin-Madison)
• Rajesh Balan (Singapore Management University)
• Suman Banerjee (U. Wisconsin-Madison)
• David Chu (Microsoft Research)
• Janne Lindqvist (Rutgers University)
• April Slayden Mitchell (Hewlett-Packard Labs)
• Jeffrey Pang (AT&T Labs)
• Junehwa Song (KAIST)
• Lin Zhong (Rice University)
- Submission Instructions
All submissions must be original work not under review at any other workshop,
conference, or journal. The workshop will accept papers describing completed
work as well as work-in-progress, so long as the promise of the approach is
demonstrated. Radical ideas or position papers, potentially of a controversial
nature, are strongly encouraged. Submissions must be no greater than 6 pages in
length and author names and affiliations should be included in the submission.
Submissions must follow the formatting guidelines
athttp://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2012/. Submit your work
athttps://apollo.smu.edu.sg/mobigames12/.
- Important Dates
Submissions due 15 March 2012
Notification of acceptance 15 May 2012
Camera ready due 1 June 2012
Workshop date 13 August 2012
- Thanks to SIGCOMM2012 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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