[Announcements] Call for Papers ACM CHANTS 2018 – 13th Workshop on Challenged Networks (Co-located with ACM MobiCom 2018)

[CHANTS 2018]

  Call for Papers
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ACM CHANTS 2018 – 13th Workshop on Challenged Networks
Co-located with ACM MobiCom 2018
October 2018, New Delhi, India

http://acm-chants.org
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SCOPE AND OVERVIEW
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Challenged networks comprise those situations where communication is
desired, but traditional Internet architectures fail to provide it
effectively. Such networks may be characterized by intermittent
connectivity, a heterogeneous mix of nodes, frequent nodal churn, and
widely varying network conditions. The applications of challenged networks
range from time-critical communications such as for disaster relief to
delay-tolerant transmission in poorly connected regions or where censorship
should be counteracted. However, challenged networking has also found many
applications in everyday settings, for which they were not initially
conceived, such as opportunistic networking supporting data-centric
communications, traffic offloading from cellular networks, mobile
cloud/edge computing, opportunistic and participatory sensing as well as
challenged IoT.

This workshop builds on the success of the twelve previous CHANTS
workshops, and WDTN 2005, and aims to stimulate research on the most novel
topics of challenged networking research. This year’s edition encourages
submission of theoretical and experimental work (including studies of real
deployment), with a primary interest in new directions of challenged
networking in concrete application scenarios and demonstrators in areas
such as autonomous driving, underwater robots, emergency response
operations, underground mining, interplanetary missions, polar research and
unmanned aerial vehicles. The workshop seeks original work presented in the
form of research papers describing new research approaches and results, as
well as demo and poster submissions. Highly disruptive work-in-progress and
position papers are also welcome, provided they focus on particularly
innovative solutions or applications for challenged networks. All papers
shall be forward-looking, describe their relationship to existing work, and
shall argue their impact and implications for ongoing or future research.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

   - Delay/disruption-tolerant networks (DTNs), opportunistic communication
   and computing


   - Architecture, design, and implementation of communication systems for
   challenged networks


   - Communication systems and networks for underground mining


   - Underwater communication systems and networks


   - Security/trust/privacy concerns and solutions in challenged networks


   - Networking in polar regions


   - Millimeter Wave Networking


   - Modeling, analysis, and characterization of challenged networks and
   protocols


   - Challenged networking techniques for mobile cloud computing


   - Mobile data offloading via challenged networks


   - Challenged networking techniques for participatory and opportunistic
   sensing


   - Challenged networking in the Internet of Things


   - Challenged networking in Cyber-Physical Systems


   - Software-defined networking in challenged environments


   - Energy-efficient communication in challenged networks


   - Space-terrestrial networks, lunar networks as well as interplanetary
   networks


   - Information centric and content-centric networking in challenged
   networks


   - Real-world mobility trace collection, analysis, and modeling for
   challenged environments


   - Network coding in challenged networks


   - Real deployment and case studies in various stages of use


   - Disrupted scenarios for challenged networks (e.g., disaster relief and
   emergency management)


   - User Interfaces and interactive applications optimized for Challenged
   Networks


   - Test and simulation tools for evaluating challenged network systems


   - Configuration, management, and monitoring of challenged networks.

PAPER FORMAT AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
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General Paper Format:
Submitted papers must be no longer than 6 pages, and should adhere to the
standard ACM conference proceedings format. Authors must register the
abstract 1 week prior to the full paper submission.

Demo/Poster Format:
Demo and poster proposals will be published as part of the proceedings and
must not be longer than 2 pages. For demos, an additional page must
describe the precise setup and requirements (the 1-page setup description
will not be published in the proceedings).

Submission:
Reviews will be single-blinded. Papers should neither have been published
elsewhere nor being currently under review by another conference or journal.


EDITORIAL FOLLOW-UPS
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Extended versions of the selected workshop papers will be considered for
possible fast track publication in well-known journals. Candidate journals
are, e.g., Computer Communications (Elsevier) or the ACM GetMobile.

IMPORTANT DATES (TENTATIVE)
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Abstract Registration (General Paper):                   07 June 2018
Submission Deadline:                                             14 June
2018
Acceptance Notification:                                           20 July
2018
Camera Ready Due:                                                 31 July
2018
Workshop:                               29 October or 02 November 2018

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Program Committee Chairs

   - Marius Feldmann (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)


   - Mahbub Hassan (University of New South Wales, Australia)

Workshop Web Chair

   - Fehmi Ben Abdesslem (SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden)

Publicity Chairs

   - Guohao Lan (University of New South Wales, Australia)


   - Felix Walter (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)

Steering Board

   - Kevin Almeroth (UC Santa Barbara, USA)


   - Kevin Fall (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)


   - Stephen Farrell (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)


   - Jörg Ott (Technische Universität München, Germany)


   - Andrea Passarella (IIT-CNR, Italy)

For more information, please check out the workshop homepage:
http://acm-chants.org
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