Call for Papers
Due to Coronavirus outbreak, submission deadline has been extended to March 21st for abstracts submissions and March 25th for papers submissions. The ACM MobiCom conference seeks papers describing significant research contributions in the field of wireless networking and mobile computing. MobiCom solicits papers that address important research challenges, including but not limited to communication networks, energy, computing, security and user experience. Successful papers should propose novel ideas to attack such problems through rigorous analysis, system design, and/or real-world measurement and deployment of mobile networks, systems and applications.We want MobiCom’20 to be daring and emphasize novelty and creativity. The more novel the concept, the harder it can be to fully develop or evaluate all aspects, and the review process will take this into account. We encourage authors to discuss not only the significance but also the limitations of their ideas. We strongly encourage authors to describe how they will provide access to well-documented datasets, modeling and/or simulation tools, and codebases to support the reproducibility of their methods. MobiCom continues the two-deadline model and the reviewing process with one-shot revision piloted last year to improve the quality and timeliness of publications.
We invite submissions on a wide range of mobile computing and wireless networking research, including but not limited to:
- Applications of machine learning to mobile/wireless research
- Backscatter communication and wireless power
- Edge computing
- Embedded and energy-harvesting systems
- Experimental platforms and infrastructures for wireless/mobile research
- Implanted and wearable computing
- Intersection between mobile/wireless research, cloud computing, and software-defined networking
- Long-range/Low-power wide-area wireless networking
- Low-latency networking
- Machine-to-machine communications
- Millimeter wave and terahertz communications
- Mobile data science & analysis
- Mobile health
- Mobile web, video, virtual reality, and other applications
- Next-generation 5G mobile networks
- Novel applications of wireless signals
- Robotic and drone-based networking
- Security and privacy issues/solutions for mobile/wireless systems
- Sensing with radio, light, sound, and acoustics
- Ubiquitous computing and mobile human computer interaction
- Visible light communications
- Wireless localization and tracking
Challenge Papers
The conference invites submissions of short papers (limited to eight 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. Challenge papers will be reviewed by the program committee and if selected, become part of the conference technical program and be published in the conference proceedings. Challenge papers should be submitted using the same submission procedure adopted for the full papers. The title of these papers must bear a "Challenge:" prefix.
Experience Papers
The conference invites submission of short papers (limited to eight 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 program committee, primarily for (i) richness of their data or experiences, (ii) inferences drawn or lessons learned, (iii) discovery of new problems, and (iv) their impact/potential impact on current and future mobile systems and wireless networks, as well as on society. Note that a paper that builds a system and presents a limited experimental evaluation is NOT suitable as an experience paper. Selected experience papers will become a part of the conference technical program and will be published in the conference proceedings. Experience papers should be submitted according to the same submission procedure as full papers, and their title must bear an "Experience:" prefix.
Verification Papers
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 eight pages excluding references) with "Verification:" as a prefix in the title. Selected verification papers will become a part of the conference technical program and will be published in the conference proceedings. Verification papers should be submitted according to the same submission procedure as full papers.
Two Deadlines and Reviewing Process with One-shot Revision
MobiCom’20 offers authors the options of two deadlines and adds a one-shot revision process to enhance the timeliness and quality of the scientific results from the research community. Each paper will go through the same rigorous reviewing process as in previous MobiCom conferences. 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 website.
- Reject: Rejected papers cannot be resubmitted until 11 months have passed since the last MobiCom deadline they were submitted to. We strongly encourage the authors to consider the feedback they got before submitting the paper to MobiCom 2020.
- 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.
Paper Submission Instructions
All paper submissions will be handled electronically at the MobiCom’20 paper submission website. Authors should prepare a PDF version of their full paper.Before final submission, you are expected to make sure that your paper complies with the following requirements. You are strongly discouraged from violating these requirements with the aim of including additional material: submissions that violate the formatting requirements may not be reviewed. You can visually inspect a page-by-page report of your paper format using the same tool as the submission system via a separate online form. After the submission deadline, we will use the same tool to check the conformance of papers. The format checking tool uses heuristics and can make mistakes. The PC chairs will manually inspect and possibly reject those papers with evident format violations. However, no paper will be rejected due to format violations without first being checked by hand.
Any papers that do not adhere to the following guidelines may be immediately rejected:
- Full papers: Contain no more than twelve (12) single-spaced and numbered pages, including figures, tables, any appendices, and any other material, followed by as many pages as necessary for bibliographic references. Papers whose non-bibliographic content is longer than 12 pages will not be reviewed.
- Experience/Verification/Challenge Papers: Contain no more than eight (8) single-spaced and numbered pages, including figures, tables, any appendices, and any other material, followed by as many pages as necessary for bibliographic references. Papers whose non-bibliographic content is longer than eight pages will not be reviewed.
- 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.
- Submissions must be in PDF (Portable Document Format) authors should ensure that they are compatible with Adobe Acrobat (English version). Any other formats, including Postscript and MS-Word, will not be accepted.
- Fit properly on US letter-sized paper (8.5 inches by 11 inches).
- Authors' names must not appear anywhere in the paper or in the PDF file. The PDF file must also not contain any embedded hyperlinks, as these may compromise reviewer anonymity.
- Limit the file size to less than 15 MB: contact the PC chairs if you have a file larger than this limit.
You may find these templates useful in complying with the above requirements, but as an author you bear the final responsibility to verify (manually or through the above online paper checker) that your submission is format-compliant.
All submitted papers will 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 Bozidar Radunovic and Qian Zhang at mobicom20-pc-chairs __at__ acm.org.
Awards
All accepted regular papers will be considered for the Best Paper Awards. We will also have a Best Community Paper Award. Among all accepted 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 other artifacts.Video Presentation
The authors of each accepted paper will be asked to submit a one-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.Important Dates
| Deadlines | Winter UTC |
Summer UTC |
|---|---|---|
| Abstract and title registration | March 21, 2020 | August 14, 2019 9:59 PM |
| Paper submission | March 25, 2020 | August 18, 2019 9:59 PM |
| Notification of acceptance | June 5, 2020 | October 23, 2019 |
| Reviews available to authors | June 10, 2020 | October 27, 2019 |
Important Notes
All submissions must describe original research not published or currently under review for another conference or journal. It is ACM policy (ACM Author Rights and Publishing Policy, Prior Publication and Simultaneous Submissions) 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.Submissions will be kept confidential until accepted. Rejected submissions will be kept confidential permanently.
In case of any similarity between a current Mobicom submission and another ongoing submission on a different conference, please email a detailed list of differences and if possible a copy of a previous submission to the chairs.
Call for Demos
The ACM MobiCom 2020 demo session solicits the submission of research, platform, and product demonstrations, and exhibits from both academia and industry.Demonstrations should showcase innovative research or product prototypes, platforms, and applications in the areas of mobile computing and wireless and mobile networking. We strongly encourage demos based on novel applications in the domain of mobile computing and wireless systems. We also welcome live demos reproducing evaluation results of papers appearing in ACM Mobicom 2020 or past editions as well as other relevant venues. Please refer to the main conference introduction and CFP for the general areas that are relevant to the typical MobiCom audience.
The MobiCom 2020 Demo committee will review all submissions to select the accepted demos.
Submission instructions
Please submit a proposal of your demo or exhibit at https://mobicom20demos.hotcrp.com. It should be a summary or extended abstract describing the research to be presented, details about what will be actually shown to the audience, maximum 2 pages in US letter size (8.5 x 11 inches) with fonts no smaller than 10 point size, in PDF file format with one extra page for references.The submission should indicate whether you would like the submission to be considered for the Student Research Competition and, if this is the case, indicate whether any of the student authors is an undergraduate student.
Why should you submit a demo or exhibit?
Presenting a demo is a great opportunity, especially for students and industry, to obtain valuable feedback on ongoing research from the knowledgeable crowd at the conference. Accepted demos will be posted on the conference website and published as a two-page abstract for the archived conference proceedings and the ACM digital library.DEMO presentation
For all accepted submissions, authors will be required to prepare a long video of the demo (5-10 mins), as well as a short pitch (1 mins) with a single slide support. The short version will be also presented during the days of the conference in a virtual demo session followed by a Q&A and discussion session.Important Dates:
| Deadlines | Dates |
|---|---|
| Submission | July 13th |
| Notification of acceptance | July 30th |
| Camera-ready | August 7th |
TPC
| Diego Perino | Telefonica Research (co-chair) |
| Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez | IMDEA Networks (co-chair) |
| Andra Lutu | Telefonica Research |
| Aruna Balasubramanian | Stony Brook University |
| Claudia Campolo | University “Mediterranea” of Reggio Calabria |
| David Choffnes | Northeastern University |
| Ella Peltonen | University of Oulu |
| Florian Wamser | University of Würzburg |
| Ozgu Alay | University of Oslo/Simula |
| Pan Hui | HKUST |
| Roberto Calvo | IMDEA Networks |
| Suranga Seneviratne | The University of Sydney |
Call for Posters
Following the long tradition of poster presentations, ACM MobiCom 2020 solicits submissions for the Virtual Posters Program that feature early research work and preliminary results. The MobiCom 2020 Poster Session will provide an excellent opportunity for initial feedback on your early research results and give your ongoing projects early visibility. The presenters are strongly encouraged to include their poster submission in the ACM MobiCom Student Research Competition.We invite submissions on a wide range of mobile computing and wireless networking research, including but not limited to:
- Fundamental understanding of mobile computing and wireless networking
- Applications of machine learning to mobile/wireless research
- Backscatter communication and wireless power
- Mobile edge computing and cloud computing for mobile services Embedded and energy-harvesting systems
- Experimental platforms and infrastructures for wireless/mobile research
- Implanted and wearable computing
- Intersection between mobile/wireless research, cloud computing, and software-defined networking
- Long-range/Low-power wide-area wireless networking
- Low-latency networking
- Machine-to-machine communications
- Millimeter wave and terahertz communications
- Mobile data science & analysis
- Mobile health
- Mobile web, video, virtual reality, and other applications
- Next-generation 5G mobile networks
- Novel applications of wireless signals
- Robotic and drone-based networking
- Security and privacy issues/solutions for mobile/wireless systems
- Sensing with radio, light, sound, and acoustics
- Ubiquitous computing and mobile human computer interaction
- Visible light communications
- Wireless localization and tracking
- Experimental large-scale testbeds for mobile networks
- Performance evaluation of mobile networks, protocols, and systems
Poster Submission instructions
The posters should be submitted via hotCRP: https://mobicom20posters.hotcrp.com/ The submission should be formatted as a paper or extended abstract, describing the research to be presented in the poster and should be submitted as a PDF file of at most 3 pages, including all figures and references. Paper text blocks must follow ACM guidelines: double-column US letter size of 8.5 x 11 inches with fonts no smaller than 10 point size. The extended abstract must include the authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses. Any submission should include also the following:- Whether you would like the submission to be considered for the Student Research Competition
- If you would like your submission to be considered for the SRC, there is the additional need to indicate whether any of the student authors is an undergraduate student. Note that if any of the authors is a graduate student, then the submission will be considered under the graduate category
Virtual Poster Session Instructions
We will organize a virtual poster session as part of the conference program. For each of the selected submissions for the poster session, we ask you to prepare the following:- A pre-recorded 1-minute presentation to be played during the poster session (part of the conference program); we will organize a live chat channel (e.g., using Slack), where the authors can receive questions and engage in discussions with the attendees.
- A pre-recorded video of maximum 5 minutes explaining the poster at length, to be available offline on the conference webpage. This is mandatory for all poster, and specifically for those submissions entering in the SRC.
Important Dates:
| Deadlines | Dates |
|---|---|
| Poster Submission Deadline | July 15th |
| Notification | August 7th |
| Camera-ready | August 14th |
Contact
For further questions, please contact the Poster co-chairs:Giovanni Pau (giovanni.pau _at_ unibo.it)
Andra Lutu (andra.lutu _at_ telefonica.com)
TPC
| Aaron Yi Ding | TU Delft |
| Ana Aguiar | University of Porto |
| Andres Garcia Saavedra | NEC Labs Europe |
| Anna Maria Mandalari | Imperial College London |
| Aravindh Raman | Kings College London |
| Catia Prandi | University of Bologna |
| Diego Perino | Telefonica Research |
| Francesco Bronzino | Nokia Bell Labs |
| Luca Cominardi | ADLINK Technology |
| Marco Gramaglia | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid |
| Ozgu Alay | University of Oslo/Simula |
| Qing Wang | Delft University of Technology |
| Roberto Girau | University of Cagliari |
| Shuban Jain | ODU |
| Simone Ferlin | Ericsson Sweden |
| Yuanchao Shu | Microsoft |