ACM MobiCom

The Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom) has been held every year since 1995. The conference serves as the premier international forum addressing networks, systems, algorithms, and applications that support the symbiosis of mobile computers and wireless networks. The conference covers all areas of mobile computing and mobile and wireless networking. It is sponsored by SIGMOBILE.

Starting from the 25th MobiCom conference in 2019, we will adopt a multi-deadline model for the paper submissions. Please check out details on the new submission model .

MobiCom conferences have been held in locations around the world:

• MobiCom 2024, Washington D.C., United States, October 2024
• MobiCom 2023, Madrid, Spain, October 2023
• MobiCom 2022, Sydney, Australia, October 17 - October 21, 2022
• MobiCom 2021, New Orleans, United States, October 25 - October 29, 2021
• MobiCom 2020, London, United Kingdom, September 14 - September 18, 2020
• MobiCom 2019, Los Cabos, Mexico, October 21 - October 25, 2019
• MobiCom 2018, New Delhi, India, October 29 - November 2, 2018
• MobiCom 2017, Snowbird, Utah, USA, 16-20 October 2017
• MobiCom 2016, New York, USA, 3-7 October 2016
• MobiCom 2015, Paris, France, 7-11 September 2015
• MobiCom 2014, Maui, Hawaii, USA, 7-11 September 2014
• MobiCom 2013, Miami, Florida, USA, 30 September-4 October 2013
• MobiCom 2012, Istanbul, Turkey, 22-26 August 2012
• MobiCom 2011, Las Vegas, NV, USA, 19-23 September 2011
• MobiCom 2010, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 20-24 September 2010
• MobiCom 2009, Beijing, China, 20-25 September 2009
• MobiCom 2008, San Francisco, California, USA, 13-19 September 2008
• MobiCom 2007, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 9-14 September 2007
• MobiCom 2006, Los Angeles, California, USA, 23-29 September 2006
• MobiCom 2005, Cologne, Germany, 28 August-2 September 2005
• MobiCom 2004, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 26 September-1 October 2004
• MobiCom 2003, San Diego, California, USA, 14-19 September 2003
• MobiCom 2002, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 23-26 September 2002
• MobiCom 2001, Rome, Italy, 16-21 July 2001
• MobiCom 2000, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 6-11 August 2000
• MobiCom 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA, 15-20 August 1999
• MobiCom 1998, Dallas, Texas, USA, 25-30 October 1998
• MobiCom 1997, Budapest, Hungary, 26-30 September 1997
• MobiCom 1996, Rye, New York, USA, 10-12 November 1996
• MobiCom 1995, Berkeley, California, USA, 13-15 November 1995

Multi-Deadline Model

Starting from the 25th MobiCom conference in 2019, we will adopt multiple deadlines and add a one-shot review process to enhance the timeliness and quality of the scientific results from the research community. Submission deadlines in subsequent years will be similarly set during similar timeframes in July/August and February/March. We expect no difference in the submission format and conference format.

Submission deadlines:

For MobiCom'23, we will adopt the following two paper submission deadlines:

• Summer deadline: August 19, 2022
• Summer author notification date: November 18, 2022
• Winter deadline: March 17, 2023
• Winter author notification date: June 20, 2023

Papers accepted through both submission processes will appear in the MobiCom'23 conference.

New reviewing process

Each paper will go through the same rigorous reviewing process as in previous MobiCom conferences. We will continue to have in-person PC meetings, and will hold two PC meetings corresponding to the two submission deadlines. Each PC member needs to attend in person at least ONE of the two PC meetings, and join the other through online conferencing.

The review decisions will be one of the following:

• Accept: Accepted papers will be presented at the MobiCom conference and appear as part of the proceedings. In the meantime, authors are permitted to talk about these upcoming publications, e.g., listing them on CVs. The publications will also be put on the MobiCom and ACM websites.

• Reject: Rejected papers cannot be resubmitted until 12 months have passed since the last MobiCom deadline they were submitted to.

• One-Shot-Revision: Papers where a revision is required will be given specific action points and can be resubmitted for the next deadline. For such papers, the reviewers will be required to articulate a maximum of three changes/clarifications that they would like to see. After the resubmission, the same reviewers will evaluate the paper based on whether the authors have properly addressed the reviewers' requests. Unlike in the shepherding process, the requested action points may include running additional experiments that obtain specific results. During this revision period, the paper is still considered under review to MobiCom and therefore cannot be submitted to other conferences unless the authors first withdraw it from consideration. We expect the one-shot revision to be used only for a small fraction of the papers.

Expected benefits and impacts

We expect the multi-deadline model will lead to papers with higher quality, because authors would have more flexibility to submit right after their work is ready, and because of the specific guidance to revise their papers (for the one-shot revision paper). We do not, however, intend in any way to lower MobiCom's high expectations for published results.

On the other hand, the new submission model will lead to higher-quality reviews as well, because spreading the reviewing load across multiple deadlines should make it easier for reviewers to find time in their schedules to complete a quality review; and specific to the one-shot revision paper, the randomness of reviews will be reduced as the same set of reviewers will read and supervise the revision.

We may see a slight increase in the acceptance rate, owing to our ability to use the one-shot-revision process to bring a few papers up to our standard that otherwise would not have reached it. But, since we're applying the same standard for publication as in past years, we do not expect any change in the prestige associated with the conference.