As the premier conference on mobile computing and wireless networking,
MobiCom 2017 solicits full papers (limited to 12 pages excluding
references) that focus on the system, practice, theory, and challenge of
providing users with an enriched and ubiquitous mobile or wireless
experience. At its core, we solicit papers that address important
challenges in access/communication, energy, systems, security and user
experience as it applies to wireless networking and mobile computing. We
strongly encourage papers on emerging mobile/wireless topics including
but not limited to next generation (5G) mobile networks, internet of
things (IoT), machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, novel access
paradigms/modalities, smart devices, wearable computing, mobile data
science/analysis, communications for embedded and energy harvesting
systems, and the mobile web. We also invite papers that integrate
mobile/wireless research with innovations in cloud computing and
software defined networking.
Successful papers will address real research challenges through
rigorous analysis, novel system design, and/or real-world measurement
and deployment of mobile networks, systems and applications. The program
committee will evaluate each paper using metrics that are appropriate
for the topic area. The accepted papers will be published in the
conference proceedings. All submissions must describe original research
not published or currently under review for another conference or
journal.
In addition to regular, full research papers, the conference also invites submission in the following categories:
Experience Papers
The conference invites submission of short papers (limited to 8
pages excluding references) that present extensive experiences with
implementation, deployment, and operations of mobile systems and
wireless networks. Desirable papers are expected to contain real data as
well as descriptions of the practical lessons learned. The experience
papers will be evaluated by the MobiCom technical program committee,
primarily for (i) the richness of their data or experiences, (ii)
inferences drawn or lessons learned, (iii) discovery of new problems,
and (iv) their impact on current and future mobile systems and wireless
networks as well as on the society. Note that a paper that builds a
system and presents a limited experimental evaluation is not suitable as
an experience paper. The selected experience papers will be a part of
the MobiCom technical program and will be published in the conference
proceedings. They should be submitted using the same submission
procedure adopted for the full papers. The title of these papers must
have the prefix "Experience:".
Challenge Papers
The conference also invites submissions of short papers (limited to 8
pages excluding references) that present revolutionary new ideas or
that challenge existing assumptions prevalent among the wireless
research community. These "challenge papers" should provide stimulating
ideas or visions that may open up exciting avenues and/or influence the
direction of future research. Descriptions of new products or evolution
of existing work are not appropriate topics for papers in this category.
While an exhaustive evaluation of the proposed ideas is not necessary,
insight and in-depth understanding of the issues is expected. Challenges
papers will be reviewed by the MobiCom technical program committee and
will be part of the technical program and published in the MobiCom
proceedings. They should be submitted using the same submission
procedure adopted for the full papers. The title of these papers must
have the prefix "Challenge:".
Verification Papers
Finally, MobiCom welcomes contributions that seek to verify and/or
characterize recent breakthrough results in mobile computing using
rigorous experimental methodologies with the goal of extensively and
thoroughly characterizing the operating parameters under which these
results can be reproduced. Such submissions should be short papers
(limited to 8 pages excluding references) with "Verification:" as a
prefix in the title.
MobiCom strongly encourages authors to describe how they will
provide access to well-documented datasets, modeling and/or simulation
tools, and codebases to support reproducibility of their methods.
Paper Submission Instructions
All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Authors should
prepare a PDF version of their full paper. Any papers that do not
adhere to the following guidelines will be immediately rejected:
• Full papers - Maximum of 12 pages excluding references (i.e.
submissions may include as many additional pages as needed for
references)
• Experience/Challenge/Verification Papers - Maximum of 8 pages excluding references
• Font size no smaller than 10 points
Double column format with each column having dimensions 9.25 inches x
3.33 inches, a space of 0.33 inches between the two columns, and with
no more than 55 lines of text per column
Fit properly on US letter-sized paper (8.5 inches x 11 inches).
Authors' names must not appear anywhere in the paper or in the PDF file. The PDF file must also not contain any hyper-links.
All submitted papers would be evaluated through a double-blind
reviewing process, with the identities of the authors withheld from the
reviewers.
Please direct any questions about the paper submission process to
the Program Co-Chairs (atmobicom2017 "dot" tpcchairs "at" gmail "dot"
com).
Awards
All accepted regular papers will be considered for the Best Paper
Award. The program committee will select a number of candidates for the
award among accepted regular papers. The winner will be selected at the
conference, taking into consideration both the paper and the
presentation.
We will also have an award called the Best Community Paper Award.
Among all accepted regular papers, the program committee will select one
that contributes the most to the broader research community in terms of
real data or new software/hardware or artifacts.
Video Presentation
The authors of each accepted paper will be asked to submit a short
1-minute video to introduce the research presented in their paper to the
general public. These videos will be placed on the conference website
up to two weeks before the conference, and will be played during the
conference. A selected set will be featured by the social media channels
related to the conference. A Best Video Award will be given at the
conference.
Important Dates
Abstracts submission due: 5PM EST, March 9, 2017
Paper submissions due: 5PM EDT, March 16, 2017
(Note the switch to daylight savings time on Mar 12 in the US)
Notification of acceptance: June 8, 2017
Camera-ready due: July 17, 2017
Video submission due: Sept 8, 2017
Proceedings publication date: TBD
Important Notes
It is ACM policy (ACM Author Rights and Publishing Policy) not to
allow double submissions, where the same paper is submitted to more than
one conference/journal concurrently. Any double submissions detected
will be immediately rejected from all conferences/journals involved.
AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: The official publication date is the date the
proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may
be up to two weeks prior to the first day of your conference. The
official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings
related to published work. (For those rare conferences whose proceedings
are published in the ACM Digital Library after the conference is over,
the official publication date remains the first day of the conference.)
Please consider submitting your best work to MobiCom’17.
Look forward to seeing you at Snowbird, Utah, USA!
Sincerely,
Ahmed, JeongGil (John), Chunyi
MobiCom’17 Publicity-Chairs
