Announcement and Call for Papers

 

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The Third Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom'97)

Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE and SIGCOMM, IEEE Communications Society,
and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

September 26-30, 1997
Budapest, Hungary

This Call For Papers is also available as a one-page PostScript or PDF file and in plain text.

The wireless communication revolution is bringing fundamental changes to telecommunication and computing. Wide-area cellular systems and wireless LANs promise to make integrated networks a reality and provide fully distributed and ubiquitous mobile computing and communications, thus bringing an end to the tyranny of geography. Furthermore, services for the mobile user are maturing and are poised to change the nature and scope of communication. This conference, the third of an annual series, serves as the premier international forum addressing networks, systems, algorithms, and applications that support the symbiosis of mobile computers and wireless networks.


Papers:

Technical papers describing previously unpublished, original, completed research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, are solicited on topics at the link layer and above. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: All papers will be refereed by the program committee. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Papers of particular merit will be selected for publication in the ACM/Baltzer journals Wireless Networks (WINET) and Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET).


How to Submit:

All paper submission will be handled electronically. Authors should E-mail a PostScript version of their full paper to mobicom97 @ monarch.cs.cmu.edu. This E-mail address will become operational on March 1, 1997. In order to ensure that the PostScript versions of the papers can be printed, authors should be careful that their papers meet the following restrictions: In addition, authors should separately E-mail the title, author names and full address, and abstract of their paper to the Program Chairs, David Johnson (dbj @ cs.cmu.edu) and Christopher Rose (crose @ ece.rutgers.edu). All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality through double-blind reviewing, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. Authors' names should not appear on the paper or in the PostScript file.


Tutorials:

Proposals for tutorials are solicited. Evaluation of proposals will be based on the expertise and experience of the instructors, and on the relevance of the subject matter. Potential instructors are requested to submit a tutorial proposal of at most 5 pages, including a biographical sketch, to the Tutorial Chair, Wassim Matragi (wassim @ lucent.com).


Panels:

Panels are solicited that examine innovative, controversial, or otherwise provocative issues of interest. Panel proposals should not exceed 3 pages, including biographical sketches of the panelists. Potential panel organizers should contact the Publicity Chair, Sirin Tekinay (stekinay @ lucent.com).


Student Participation:

Papers with a student as a primary author will be considered for a cash award of $500 US Dollars for the best student paper. A cover letter must identify the paper as a candidate for the student paper competition.


Important Dates:

Submissions due:     April 21, 1997
Notification of acceptance: June 30, 1997
Camera-ready version due: August 15, 1997


For More Information:

Please contact either of the Program Co-Chairs: David Johnson (dbj @ cs.cmu.edu), Tel: +1 412 268 7399, Fax: +1 412 268 5576; or Christopher Rose (crose @ ece.rutgers.edu), Tel: +1 908 445 5250, Fax: +1 908 445 2820.

This Call For Papers, as well as other MobiCom'97 information, is available on the World Wide Web at http://www.monarch.cs.cmu.edu/~mobicom97/   and on the ACM SIGMOBILE Home Page.


Conference Committee:

General Co-Chairs:     Program Co-Chairs:
  László Pap
Technical Univ. of Budapest (HU)
Department of Telecommunications
pap @ tsys.hit.bme.hu 		  David B. Johnson
Carnegie Mellon University (US)
Computer Science Department
dbj @ cs.cmu.edu
Kazem Sohraby
Bell Laboratories (US)
Lucent Technologies
sohraby @ lucent.com 		Christopher Rose
Rutgers University (US)
Department of ECE  /  WINLAB
crose @ ece.rutgers.edu
General Vice Chair: Program Vice Chair:
  Parviz Kermani
IBM T.J. Watson (US)
kermani @ watson.ibm.com 		  Maurizio Bonuccelli
University of Pisa (IT)
bonucce @ di.unipi.it
Tutorial Chair: Publicity Chair:
  Wassim Matragi
Lucent Technologies (US)
wassim @ lucent.com 		  Sirin Tekinay
Lucent Technologies (US)
stekinay @ lucent.com
Panel Chair: Treasurer:
  Irene Katzela
University of Toronto (CA)
irene @ comm.toronto.edu 		  Svetislav Maric
University of Cambridge (UK)
svm @ eng.cam.ac.uk
Local Chair: Local Vice Chair:
  András Pataricza
Technical Univ. of Budapest (HU)
pataric @ mmt.bme.hu 		  György Pongor
Technical Univ. of Budapest (HU)
pongor @ hit.bme.hu
Steering Committee Chair:
  Imrich Chlamtac
Univ. Texas at Dallas (US)
chlamtac @ utdallas.edu
Program Committee:
  Prathima Agrawal, AT&T Labs (US)
Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Tech. (US)
Rafael Alonso, Sarnoff (US)
B.R. Badrinath, Rutgers (US)
Victor Bahl, DEC (US)
Mary Baker, Stanford (US)
Amotz Bar-Noy, Tel Aviv Univ. (IL)
Ramón Cáceres, AT&T Labs (US)
Ray Chaudhuri, NEC (US)
Imrich Chlamtac, U.T. Dallas (US)
Gyula Csopaki, T.U. Budapest (HU)
Nigel Davies, Univ. Lancaster (UK)
Maurizio Decina, CEFRIEL (IT)
J.J. Garcia-Luna, UCSC (US)
László Györfi, T.U. Budapest (HU) 		  Zygmunt Haas, Cornell (US)
Joachim Hagenauer, T.U. Munich (DE)
Pierre Humblet, Eurécom (FR)
Ravi Jain, Bellcore (US)
Jay Kistler, DEC SRC (US)
Jason Yi-Bing Lin, NCTU (TW)
Charles Perkins, Sun Microsystems (US)
Ray Pickholtz, GWU (US)
Stephen Pink, SICS (SE)
Krishan Sabnani, Bell Labs (US)
Srinivasan Seshan, IBM T.J. Watson (US)
Martha Steenstrup, BBN (US)
Marvin Theimer, Xerox PARC (US)
Roy Yates, Rutgers (US)
On-Ching Yue, Bell Labs (US)


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