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Paper Submission Instructions

Submitted papers must be unpublished and must not be currently under review for any other publication. Authors of accepted papers will need to sign an ACM copyright release form and present their paper at the conference. The Proceedings of the conference will be published by ACM Press and distributed at the conference; copies of the Proceedings will also be available for sale after the conference. For more information about MobiCom 2005, please see the MobiCom 2005 Home Page.

Before submitting your paper, please check the description of the conference scope in the Call for Papers. MobiCom covers all issues in mobile computing and networking at the link layer and above. If you are unsure whether your work falls within the scope of the conference, please contact the Program Co-Chairs at mobicom_pcchairs at acm.org.

All papers being submitted to MobiCom 2005 must be registered in EDAS by 11:59 PM EST (US Eastern timezone) February 22, 2005. The deadline for actually then submitting all registered papers is 11:59 PM EST (US Eastern timezone) March 1, 2005. These are firm deadlines.

 Formatting your Paper for Submission

Please be sure your paper is formatted properly for submission. In particular, please note the following format requirements:

  • Your submission must be in either PDF or PostScript format. We cannot handle other strange formats such as Microsoft Word. Whatever text processor or formatter you use to write your paper (LaTeX, Microsoft Word, FrameMaker, etc.), please convert the output to PDF or PostScript before submission. Under Windows, for example, PDF files can be produced using the Adobe Acrobat product, and PostScript files can be produced using any Windows PostScript printer driver and checking the "Print to file" box in the "Print" window.


  • Your submission must be correctly formatted to fit on U.S. "Letter" size paper, which is 8.5 inches wide by 11 inches tall. Please be sure you have a reasonable margin (such as 1 inch) on all edges (top, bottom, left, and right) of each page.

    Under Windows, for example, in the "Page Setup" window, please select "Letter" (e.g., not "A4") for the paper size, and please set your margins appropriately for this paper size; also select "Letter" for paper size in the printer options (click on "Properties" from the "Print" window).

    Under Unix, if you are using "dvips" to produce PostScript, please be sure the paper size is set correctly (specify "-t letter" to force the paper size).


  • Paper submissions for regular papers must be limited to 15 pages; for submissions of Challenges papers, the limit is 8 pages. Either single-column or double-column, single or double spacing is fine for submissions.


  • The font size used in the text of your submission must not be smaller than 10 points.


  • As described in the Call for Papers, all papers will be judged through double-blind reviewing, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. Please be sure your name does not appear on the paper or in the submitted PDF or PostScript file. This means that before submission, you must remove from the paper the authors' names, authors' affiliations, acknowledgements of funding sources, etc. Also, be careful how you refer to your own prior work in the paper. For example, do not describe your prior work with phrases like:

         In prior work[3], we presented a routing protocol that ...

    Instead, refer to your work in the third person, such as

         In prior work, Smith[3] presented a routing protocol that ...

    With this method, the full citation to Smith can still be given,such as

         [3] Smith, J., "Analysis of ...

    In particular it is not acceptable to say

         [3] Reference deleted for double-blind review.


  • We must be able to print your paper once it is submitted. Due to the large variety of systems available for formatting papers and producing PDF or PostScript, this is not always possible for some systems. To maximize the chances that your paper will print correctly, please use only standard printer fonts (e.g., Times Roman, Helvetica, etc.) or standard TeX Computer Modern fonts; other fonts may be used but must be included in the PDF or PostScript file. The use of standard printer fonts is strongly preferred over TeX fonts, if possible.


  • The paper must be able to print clearly on standard black-and-white printers. Reviewers are not required to view your paper in color, and the final version of all accepted papers will be published in only black-and-white in the conference Proceedings.

 Actually Submitting your Paper

All papers for MobiCom 2005 must be submitted electronically through the EDAS Conference Management System.

Logging in to EDAS

  • Using EDAS requires logging in first. If you already have an account, enter your email address (or your numeric EDAS ID#) and password in the fields on the form on the EDAS home page.


  • If you do not know whether you have an account on this EDAS system, try entering your email address or name. EDAS will check for your account and let you know whether it knows about you.


  • If you have an account but have forgotten your password, leave the password field blank, and EDAS will mail your password to you.


  • If you do not yet have an account on the EDAS system, click on the link there to "create your new user account". Fill ithe resulting form and then click on the "New User" button there. Mandatory fields are listed in red; optional fields are listed in black. The password for accessing the EDAS system will be sent to you via email. Once you receive your password, you should return to EDAS and log in.

Registering your Paper

  • After logging in to EDAS, you will see your overall EDAS system homepage. Find "ACM MobiCom 2005" among the list of conferences accepting submissions. To begin the process of submitting your paper, click on "Submissions and management" for ACM MobiCom 2005. This will bring you to the MobiCom 2005 EDAS homepage.


  • You should then see the web form for registering your paper submission. Fill in the form:
    • Enter the authors of the paper. Enter each author using either their EDAS identifier or their last name. Each author must be registered in EDAS; if an author is not yet registered in EDAS, you will be prompted for the information to register them. You must also select one of the authors to be the correspondence author.
    • Enter the title and abstract of the paper.
    • Select the topics from the list of paper topics that best classify your paper.
    • Select whether the paper is a regular paper or a student paper (where a primary author is a student). Student papers will be considered for the best student paper award.

  • Once you have filled in all information for your paper, click on the "Submit" button at the bottom of that page. This will show you a page that acknowledges your paper's registration.

Submitting and Uploading your Paper

  • After registering your paper submission, you must upload your actual paper.


  • To upload your paper right after registering your submission, simply follow EDAS instructions on the acknowledgement page.


  • Alternatively, you can upload your paper later from your MobiCom 2005 EDAS homepage. From there, you can upload your paper by clicking on the icon in the line that shows your paper's listing, or via ftp, or email as per instructions on that page.


  • After you return to your MobiCom 2005 EDAS homepage, you will see your uploaded paper. If you click on the paper number, you will see the paper details. If you click on the paper under "Manuscript", you will see the PostScript or PDF version that you uploaded.


  • From your MobiCom 2005 EDAS homepage, you can see the status of your paper. Initially, when you are registered but yet to upload your paper, EDAS will show the status as to show that no version of your paper PostScript or PDF file has been uploaded yet. After your paper has been uploaded, the status will change to to indicate that the paper is under review.

Revising your Paper or Account

  • After you have submitted your paper, you can revise your submission at any time before the submission deadline of 23:59 PM EST, March 1, 2005.


  • To revise your submission, go to your MobiCom 2005 EDAS homepage. Just upload a new PostScript or PDF version the same way you did already for the previous version.


  • To revise your paper, please use the procedure here to upload the new revised version of your existing registered paper. Please do not instead register and submit the new version as if it were a separate new paper, since this will duplicate the paper registration records.


  • You can also revise your own EDAS account information from your MobiCom 2005 EDAS homepage. To do so, click on the link at the top to edit your profile.

 Actually Submitting your Paper

For general information on the MobiCom 2005 paper submission or the scope of technical papers solicited, please refer to the Call for Papers. For any other questions about the submission process or paper format, please contact the Program Co-Chairs at mobicom_pcchairs at acm.org. If you have any technical problems with EDAS, please contact edas at edas.info.

Thank you for submitting your paper to MobiCom 2005!