Call For Papers
Recent years have witnessed mobile
devices surpassing stationary Internet hosts in
numbers and exponential growth of mobile data
traffic. Wireless has quickly become the dominant
last-hop access to the Internet. The mobility of
users, devices and networks has become an integral
part of today’s Internet. In the meantime, the
network infrastructure is the process of
transforming from a hardware dominated landscape to
an increasingly virtualized and software-defined,
cloud-based system with decreasing dependency on
hardware. The increasing ability to collect and
process large amount of data pertaining to network,
devices, and users is posing new challenges to
network design. As these trends continue in the near
future, a reexamination is urgently required for the
architecture of the mobile-centric Internet.
Particularly, there is a need to deal with new
opportunities and challenges as a result of the
support of information and contents, the
availability of software defined architecture, the
computational support from the cloud, the emerging
spectrum access techniques and the massive amount of
data.
MobiArch 2016 has mobile Internet
data analysis as the central theme, a new rising and
challenging networking environment that mixes the
mobility of users and the design of mobile services
and networks with the analysis of data coming from
the network, the devices and the applications. The
emergence of Cloud-dependent mobile services and the
widespread growth of user-generated data, as well as
the ever increasing use of cellular and wireless
technologies, are leading to the collection of a
vast amount of user mobility data as well as
measurements of network states and service
provisioning elements. In this context, various
networking challenges rise such as seamless IP
mobility management, the definition of algorithms
correlating user mobility and application usages,
the online or offline exploitation of large amount
of mobility and usage data from the access network
and user devices, the possibility of offload
computing tasks, whole application or part of device
operating system to the cloud, possible algorithm
correlating traffic offloading to content offloading
and application offloading as a consequence of
mobile data analysis, pattern inference and
estimation, etc. To tackle these challenges, various
issues need to be addressed, such as efficient
mobility management and optimization, security and
privacy, multi-homing, transport over wireless
access, user incentives to reduce network
congestion, incentives for network providers to
deploy new/alternative mobile Internet
infrastructure, incentives for service
developers/providers to define new mobile services,
efficient multimedia content distribution,
information centric networking solutions, collection
and management of data, new business models for
mobile data, to related operational concerns and
legal issues.
MobiArch 2016 welcomes submissions
from both researchers and practitioners from
academia and industry that explore challenges and
advances in architectures, protocols, and
technologies in the current Internet or in the
future clean-slate Internet. The workshop supports
all topics that target to support mobility, with an
emphasis on new network design for high performance
mobile applications and services, efficient support
of mobile contents, software defined architecture,
data-driven mobile network management, as well as
cloud-aware architecture and services. Besides
technical papers, we also encourage work-in-progress
papers, and welcome position papers that describe
highly original ideas, present new directions, or
generate insightful discussion at the workshop.
Topics of Interest
All aspects around architectural issues and system support for mobility in the Internet, including but not limited to:- Architectures and protocols for mobility support at all layers of the Internet protocol stack, as well as cross-layer approaches
- Future Internet architecture for
efficient mobility support
- Mobile network management and architecture design with data analysis and learning
- Software defined and/or cloud–assisted
mobile networking
- Network virtualization in mobile
Internet architecture
- Impact of connected vehicles on Internet
architecture design
- Impact of device-to-device
communications on Internet architecture design
- New wireless technologies and services
and their impact on the Internet architecture
- Mobile data sensing and fusion
- Impact of Information Centric Networking
on mobile and wireless networks
- Seamless mobility in heterogeneous
networks
- Location management, positioning and
data management for wireless and mobility
- Accounting, access control, security
and privacy issues and their impact on the
Internet architecture
- Social, economic, scalability and deployment issues
- Cognitive networks design
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