Co-located with ACM CoNEXT 2009
Rome, Italy, December 1, 2009
http://conferences.sigcomm.org/co-next/2009/workshops/unet/
Submission Deadline: July 17, 2009
Submit at: http://edas.info/N7753
*Motivation*
This workshop is dedicated to the debate of concepts, challenges, and
opportunities concerning user-provided networking, i.e., scenarios where
users cooperate by sharing wireless resources as well as Internet services.
To provide a specific example that relates to Internet access
(connectivity),
the end-user (or a community of end-users) is a micro-operator in the sense
that he/she shares his/her subscribed broadband Internet access based on
some form of incentive scheme. In addition, the end-user may or may not
provide other network functionality such as local mobility management, or
persistent storage and forwarding services. This new role is disruptive
in what
concerns Internet service models, since there is no distinction between
what is
today known as end-user device and network device: in the future, end-user
devices will actively participate as part of the network. In contrast,
the Internet
has been up to now mostly the means for end-users to obtain some form of
network
service, originally related to connectivity, person-to-person
communication, or
information retrieval. Such user-centric provider role is also
disruptive given that
the regular network boundaries of trust have to be extended in a way
that should
mimic social behavior: there is the need to form networks of trust in
order to
accommodate a robust network growth, given that the key to such growth
is the
willingness to cooperate.
Another disruptive aspect of user-provided networking is that due to the
nature of
the wireless media and the way that humans move, support for intermittent
connectivity as well as fast and transparent roaming between
micro-operators needs
to be considered. Finally, and given that user-provided networking
spreads dynamically
having as network elements regular end-user devices, there is the need
to consider
cases where information is opportunistically relayed instead of routed
based on topological
information.
Due to the disruptive aspects mentioned, user-provided networking seem
to have the
potential to provide a paradigm shift in Internet communication models,
given that such
novel functionality allow wireless networks to operate in a completely
autonomic way and
also given that the end-user becomes a provider of Internet services
(e.g. connectivity) based
upon cooperation incentives or rewards and based upon his/her own
mobility and social
patterns. Services are established on the fly, and do not necessarily
imply the use of multihop
technology or routing. For instance, connectivity may be, in most cases,
simply relayed.
The workshop program will include presentations of peer-reviewed papers
and a discussion
panel with guests from industry and academia. We envision U-NET as a
forum aiming to ignite
a debate concerning technical challenges and impact (negatively or
positively) that
user-provided networking may have on Internet communication models.
*Topics*
U-NET'09 solicits high quality technical contributions within the
context of user-provided
networking. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* Challenges and opportunities for access providers.
* Impact on Internet architectures.
* Internet connectivity.
* Trust models, incentives to share broadband access.
* Human behaviour and mobility patterns.
* Self-organization.
* Wireless cooperation.
Papers submitted are expected to be highly innovative and may
incorporate early stage ideas;
position papers (clearly identified as such) pointing to new directions
and capable of
generating discussion are also welcome. Submission must be original and
not already published
in any other conference proceeding or journal. Proceedings of the
workshop will be published
in the ACM Digital Library.
*Submissions*
Submitted papers must be at most 6 (six) pages long (including figures,
tables and references)
in the standard ACM double column format. All text must use font sizes
of 10 points or larger.
Longer submissions will not be reviewed. The review process is
single-blind. Submissions will b
e done via EDAS at http://edas.info/N7753.
*Important Dates*
Submissions due: July 17, 2009
Notification of acceptance: September 4, 2009
Camera ready version due: October 1, 2009
Workshop date: December 1, 2009
*Program Committee*
PC Chairs
Paulo Mendes, INESC Porto, Portugal
Olivier Marcé, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, France
Technical Program Committee
Rute Sofia, INESC Porto, Portugal
André Zúquete, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Vassilis Kostakos, University of Madeira, Portugal
Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Cecilia Mascolo, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Dirk Trossen, British Telecom Innovate, United Kingdom
Prosper Chemouli, France Telecom, France
Martin May, Thomson Paris Research Laboratory, France
Karen Sollins, MIT, USA
Lixia Zhang, UCLA, USA
James Kempf, Ericsson Research, USA
Dipankar Raychaudhuri, Rutgders University, USA
Bernhard Plattner, ETH, Switzerland
George Polyzos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Maria Papadopouli, FORTH/University of Creete, Greece
Anand Prasand, NEC, Japan
Gunnar Karlsson, KTH, Sweden
Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Marcus Brunner, NEC, Germany
Petri Mähönen, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
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Paulo Mendes, Ph.D
Area Leader, Internet Architectures and Networking
Telecommunication and Multimedia Unit
INESC Porto
Tel. +351 22 209 4264
Fax. +351 22 209 4050
http://ian.inescporto.pt
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