Call for Papers
The diffusion of lightweight, powerful portable devices,
also enriched with a variety of sensing capabilities, is enabling new
ways for users
to communicate, and is laying the foundation for the ubiquitous
networking idea to become a reality. Risen from the ashes of
traditional MANETs, which
failed to cope with the variability of a network solely made up from
mobile users, opportunistic
communications have recently stood out and gained a lot of
research attention.
Opportunistic networking is the enabling strategy for communications in
a mobile
network. The idea of opportunistically exploiting
extemporary contacts among
the users of the network poses new
and challenging problems, as well as
providing with novel and promising opportunities, to
the networking research
community. The AOC 2011 workshop will be a meeting point
for people working in
the area and it will constitute a forum to exchange
ideas, discuss solutions,
and share experiences among
researchers, professionals, and application
developers, both from industry and academia. The AOC 2011
workshop will have a
primary interest in the new
directions of opportunistic communications
represented by mobile social
networking, content-centric networking, and
participatory sensing. More in general,
papers tackling issues related to
opportunistic networking and computing are welcome.
Original papers addressing
both theoretical and practical
aspects of autonomic and opportunistic
communications are solicited, as
well as papers describing prototype
implementations and deployments.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Architectures and models for autonomic and opportunistic communications
- Advanced technologies for enabling autonomic and opportunistic communications
- Tools and techniques for designing, analysing and building autonomic and opportunistic networks
- Scaling laws and fundamental limits in autonomic and opportunistic communications
- Performance modeling of autonomic and opportunistic communications
- Autonomic and opportunistic communication testbeds and measurements
- Algorithms, models, and architectures for opportunistic computing
- Mechanisms, algorithms and testbeds for service provisioning in autonomic and opportunistic networks
- Algorithms, models, and architectures for content centric autonomic and opportunistic networks
- Mobile social networking in autonomic and opportunistic communications
- Participatory and urban sensing in autonomic and opportunistic networks
- Resource management techniques applied to autonomic and opportunistic communications
- Context and social awareness in autonomic and opportunistic networks
- Routing, transport, and reliability issues in autonomic and opportunistic communications
- Techniques for data dissemination and replication in autonomic and opportunistic networks
- Applications and middleware support for autonomic and opportunistic communications
- Mobility models and statistical analysis of mobility traces
- Trust, security, and reputation in autonomic and opportunistic communications
- Socio-economic models for autonomic and opportunistic communications
PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
Papers should neither have been published elsewhere nor being currently under review by another conference or journal. Guidelines on paper submission and formatting are available here.
Accepted papers will appear in the symposium proceedings published by IEEE. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and present his/her work at the workshop.
Extended versions of workshop selected papers will be
considered
for possible fast track publication on the Computer
Communications Journal (Elsevier).
IMPORTANT DATES
Full papers due: January 31, 2011
Full papers due (EXTENDED): February 14, 2011
Notification: April 4, 2011
Call for
Papers [PDF]
