Subject: [p2prg] ACM/SIGMOBILE MobiOpp 2010: call for participation

From: Emilio Ancillotti <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:04:11 +0100

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PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
 
The Second ACM/SIGMOBILE International Workshop on Mobile Opportunistic 
Networking
 
*MobiOpp 2010 http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/mobiopp2010 *
*Pisa, Italy*
*February  22-23, 2010*

**** *Early Registration Deadline: January 29, 2010* ****

Sponsored by: ACM, SIGMOBILE
Technically co-sponsored by: IFIP TC6 - Working Group 6.3 "Performance 
of Communication Systems"
Sponsor & Organizer: Istituto di Informatica e Telematica (IIT) - CNR Italy
Other Sponsors: ELSEVIER: Computer Communications  (COMCOM) Journal and 
Pervasive
and Mobile Computing (PMC) Journal; EC Projects: Socialnets, Newcom++

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    Main Features:
 
    *** Two keynote speeches
 
    *** 9 full papers and 9 concise contributions
 
    *** Best Papers Session
 
    *** Thought Provoking Panel
 
    *** Poster & Demonstration Session
 
    *** PhD Forum
 
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*February 22*
 
9.00 - 10.00 Keynote Speech
 
Mobile Phone Sensing is the Next Big Thing!
Andrew Campbell (Dartmouth College, USA)
 
10.00 - 11.00 Session 1: Data Forwarding (Concise papers)
 
Human Mobility in Shopping Mall Environments
Adriano Galati and Chris Greenhalgh (University of Nottingham, UK)
 
RADON: Reputation-Assisted Data Forwarding in Opportunistic Network
Na Li and Sajal K. Das (The University of Texas at Arlington, USA)
 
On the Performance Modeling of Opportunistic Routing
Llorenç Cerdà-Alabern (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain), 
Vicent Pla (Universitad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain),
and Amir Darehshoorzadeh (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)

11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break
 
11.30 - 13.00 Session 2: Moving Data in Opportunistic Networks
 
Message Ferries as Generalized Dominating Sets in Intermittently 
Connected Mobile Networks
Bahadir Polat, Pushkar Sachdeva, Mostafa Ammar, and Ellen Zegura 
(Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
 
Virtual Data Mules for Data Collection in Road-side Sensor Networks
Diego Borsetti, Claudio E. Casetti, Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini 
(Politecnico di Torino, Italy), Marco Fiore (INSA Lyon, France),
and Jose M. Barcelo-Ordinas (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
 
Impact of Source Counter on DTN Routing Control under Resource Constraints
Xiaolan Zhang (Fordham University, USA), Honggang Zhang (Suffolk 
University, USA), and Yu Gu (NEC Labs America, USA)

13.00 - 14.00 Lunch break
 
14.00 - 15.30 Poster & Demo Session  (*)
 
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee Break
 
16.00 - 17.00 Session 3: Opportunistic Network Applications (Concise 
papers)
 
*Spectral Efficiency of Mobility-Assisted Podcasting in Cellular Networks
Vladimir Vukadinovic and Gunnar Karlsson (KTH, Royal Institute of 
Technology, Sweden)
 
Uttering: Social Micro-blogging without the Internet
Gualtiero Colombo, Roger Whitaker, and Stuart Allen (University of 
Cardiff, UK)
 
DTIPN: Delay Tolerant IP Networking for Opportunistic Network Applications
Hideya Ochiai, Kenichi Shimotada, and Hiroshi Esaki (The University of 
Tokyo, Japan)

17.00 - 18.30 Panel

Opportunistic Networks:  A Real Networking Opportunity or just (nice)
Academic Exercises?

Panel Organizer: Marco Conti (IIT-CNR, Italy)
Panelists:
-          Alhussein A. Abouzeid (NSF, USA)
-          Andrew Campbell (Dartmouth College, USA)
-          Jon Crowcroft (University of Cambridge, UK)
-          Ellen Zegura (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

20.00 Social dinner

*February 23*
 
9.00 - 10.00 Keynote Speech
 
Challenges of Opportunities
Jon Crowcroft (University of Cambridge, UK)

10.00 - 11.00 Session 4: DTN Technologies & Prototypes  (Concise papers)
 
Evaluation of a DTN Convergence Layer for the AX.25 Network Protocol
John Ronan, Kristian Walsh (Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland), 
and Darren Long (Thales Optronics, UK)
 
Secure Descriptive Message Dissemination in Disruption Tolerant Networks
Mooi Choo Chuah, Sankardas Roy, and Ivan Stoev (Lehigh University, USA)
 
Intelligent Autonomous Handover in iMANETs
Ben McCarthy, Panagiotis Georgopoulos, and Christopher Edwards 
(Lancaster University, UK)

11.00 - 11.30 CB
 
11.30 - 13.00 Session 5: Best Paper Award Session
 
Random Walks in Time-Graphs
Utku G Acer (INRIA, France), Alhussein A. Abouzeid (NSF, USA), and 
Petros Drineas (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
 
Efficient and Reliable Dissemination in Wireless Opportunistic Networks 
by Location Extrapolation
Adnan Agbaria (BOS Systems, Israel) and Roy Friedman (Technion, Israel)
 
Plausible Mobility: Inferring Movement from Contacts
John Whitbeck (UPMC, France), Vania Conan (Thales, France), and Marcelo 
Amorim (UPMC Paris Universitas)

13.00 - 14.00 Lunch break
 
14.00 - 15.30 PhD Forum (**)
 
15.15 - 15.45 Coffee Break
 
15.45 - 17.15 Session 6: Data Management in Opportunistic Networks
 
A Study of Information Dissemination Under Multiple Random Walkers and 
Replication Mechanisms
Konstantinos Oikonomou (Ionian University, Greece), Dimitris Kogias, and 
Ioannis Stavrakakis (University of Athens, Greece)
 
Token Based Algorithm for Supporting Mutual Exclusion in Opportunistic 
Networks
Sagar A Tamhane, and Mohan J. Kumar (The University of Texas at 
Arlington, USA)
 
Hide-and-Lie: Enhancing Application-level Privacy in Opportunistic Networks
Laszlo Dora and Tamás Holczer (Budapest University of Technology and 
Economics, Hungary)

17.15 - 17.30 Closing Session with Awards Announcements
 
(*) Poster & Demo Session Contributions
 
Poster Papers:
 
Theory of continuous polling systems applied to the Design of Message 
Ferry Routes in Sensor Networks
Veeraruna Kavitha and Eitan Altman (INRIA, France)
 
Social-Greedy: A Socially-Based Greedy Routing Algorithm for Delay 
Tolerant Networks
Kazem Jahanbakhsh, Ali Shoja, and Valerie King (University of Victoria, 
Canada)
 
Incentives and Algorithms for Broadband Access Sharing
Lefteris Mamatas (University College London, UK) and Ioannis Psaras 
(University of Surrey, UK)
 
An Evaluation of the Resource Discovery Process in IEEE 802.11 Networks
German Castignani (Institut Telecom / Telecom Bretagne, France), Andrés 
Arcia, (Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela),
and Nicolas Montavont (Institut Telecom / Telecom Bretagne, France);
 
Synthetic Map-based Mobility Traces for the Performance Evaluation in 
Opportunistic Networks
Nils Aschenbruck and Matthias Schwamborn (University of Bonn, Germany)
 
Using Triggers for Emulation of Opportunistic Networking
Per Hurtig (Karlstad University, Sweden), Tanguy Perennou (University of 
Toulouse, France), Johan Garcia (Karlstad University, Sweden),
and Anna Brunstrom (Karlstad University, Sweden)
 
Using Haggle to Create an Electronic Triage Tag
Abraham Martín-Campillo (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain), Jon 
Crowcroft, Eiko Yoneki (University of Cambridge, UK);
Ramon Martí, and Carlos Martínez-García (Universitat Autònoma de 
Barcelona, Spain);
 
On the Degree Distribution of Opportunistic Networks
Stefano Ferretti (University of Bologna, Italy)
 
Analysis of Opportunistic Localization Algorithms Based on the Linear 
Matrix Inequality Method
Francesco Zorzi, Andrea Bardella (University of Padova, Italy), Tanguy 
Perennou, Guodong Kang (University of Toulouse, France),
and Andrea Zanella (University of Padova, Italy)
 
Participatory Mobile-Social-Network Simulation Environment
Fawad Nazir (National ICT Australia)

Demonstrations:
 
Opportunistic Communication for Multiplayer Mobile Gaming: Lessons 
Learned from PhotoShoot
R. Kemp, N. Palmer, T. Kielmann, and H. Bal (Vrije Universiteit, 
Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
 
An Opportunistic Platform for Android-based Mobile Devices
P. Meroni, E. Pagani, G.P. Rossi, and L. Valerio (Università degli Studi 
di Milano, Italy)
 
Distributed Spectrum Sensing and Channel Selection in Opportunistic 
Wireless Personal Area Networks
H. Khaleel, F. Penna, C. Pastrone, R. Tomasi, and M. Spirito (Istituto 
Superiore Mario Boella (ISMB), Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
 
Extending the Reach of Online Social Networks to Opportunistic Networks 
with PodNet
B. Distl, G. Csucs, S. Trifunovic, C. Anastasiades, F. Legendre (ETH 
Zurich, Switzerland)
 
Ateneo On Fly: a System for Supporting Mobile Sharing Applications in 
Campus Scenarios D.
Mansella, L. Galluccio, A. Leonardi, G. Morabito, A. Pantò, and F. Scoto 
(University of Catania, Italy)
 
Experimental Localization Application in Opportunistic Scenario
F. Zorzi, A. Bardella, T. Pérennou, G. Kang, and A. Zanella (University 
of Padova, Italy,
Université de Toulouse, France and Northwestern Polytechnical 
University, China)

(**) PhD Forum Contributions

Evaluating the Spatial Dimension of Contacts in Opportunistic Networks
Nadjet Belblidia (Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, France)
 
Social Roles for Opportunistic Forwarding
Greg Bigwood (University of St. Andrews, UK)
Design and Analysis of Context-aware Forwarding Protocols for 
Opportunistic Networks
Chiara Boldrini (IIT-CNR, Italy)
 
Geostatistics-Inspired Sparsity-aware Cooperative Spectrum Sensing for 
Cognitive Radio Networks
Emiliano Dall'Anese (University of Padova, Italy)
 
ZebraNet and its Theoretical Analysis on Distribution Functions of 
Information Gathering Time
Akihoro Fujihara (/Kwansei/ Gakuin University, Japan)
 
Modelling Opportunistic Application Spreading
Ádám Horváth (Hungary)
 
Distributed Location-Aware Hovering Information Systems
Ossi Karkulahti (University of Helsinki, Finland)
 
Opportunistically Supported Ubiquitous Localization
Michela Papandrea (SUPSI, Switzerland)
 
Privacy-enhanced Opportunistic Networks
Iain Parris (University of St. Andrews, UK)
 
A Genetic Optimization of Multiband Cooperative Spectrum Sensing for 
Cognitive Radios
Michele Sanna (University of Cagliari, Italy)
 
Security Issues in Opportunistic Networks
Abdullatif Shikfa (Eurecom, France)
 
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Ing. Emilio Ancillotti, PhD

Pervasive Computing & Networking Lab. (PerLab)

Institute for Informatics and Telematics (IIT)

National Research Council (CNR)

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