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Call for Papers and Demos for 1st Extreme Workshop on Communication - The
Midnight Sun Expedition
The Extreme Workshop on Communication (ExtremeCom) intends to bring together
researchers and practitioners in areas related to delay tolerant networks
and other networking paradigms for rural and remote areas, in order to gain
experience and insight into the challenges that such environments pose for
the network and the users.
We aim to do this through real-life experience in the Arctic Circle region.
The Padjelanta national park in Laponia, Sweden is a UNESCO World Heritage
site, and the home of the Saami population of semi-nomadic reindeer herders.
Due to the lack of infrastructure in this area, a DTN-based networking
system for the area has been developed by the SNC and N4C projects. During
the summer of 2009, the fourth summer of deployment and testing for this
system will take place, which makes this a unique opportunity to experience
a real deployment of a DTN system.
The workshop will start with a 5 day field trip into the mountain regions
where the DTN system is deployed. During this time, participants will be
given the opportunity to hike along the trails in the mountains and visit
the Saami settlements to meet the local population and users of the system.
Not only will this give a better idea of both the technical and user
requirements of such a system, but it will also give many opportunities for
informal research discussions between the participants. Participants that
have their own software for scenarios like this will also, to as great an
extent as possible, be encouraged to test and demonstrate it within this
environment. (We are currently planning the mountain-based part of the
workshop together with the local population, and some details are subject to
change.) Upon reaching the end of the hike, there will be two days of paper
presentations and demos in a more traditional conference venue. Focus will
still be on informal research discussions, with the hope that the field
experience will give participants the ability to discuss the topics in a new
light.
Participants should submit 2-page position papers about ideas and visions
about the topics of the workshop or demo proposals to be shown during the
workshop. Visionary and thought-provoking papers that are likely to generate
much discussion during the workshop are especially solicited. The aim of the
workshop is to maintain an informal environment, where new research ideas
can be discussed and developed.
Topics for the workshop include, but are not limited to:
* Testbeds for large-scale sustainable testing of DTN systems
* Real deployments of networks in extreme environments
* Business and service models for networks in rural, remote, and other
challenging environments
* User experience research
* Delay tolerant networking
* Low-power and intermittent-power protocols
* Mechanisms for emergency and urgent communications
* Networked applications and services
Due to logistics and the need to conduct the workshop in harmony with the
local population and the environment, the number of participants will be
limited. Priority will be given to authors of papers.
Important dates
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Workshop dates: August 8-14, 2009
Submission deadline: April 30, 2009
Notification of acceptance: May 14, 2009
Registration deadline: May 28, 2009
Organizers
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General co-chairs:
Pan Hui, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories and TU Berlin, Germany
Anders Lindgren, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden
Local arrangements:
Karin Kuoljok, Tannak AB, Sweden
Anders Lindgren, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden
Susanne Spik, Tannak AB, Sweden
Maria Uden, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Publicity chair:
Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge, UK
Web chair:
Fehmi Ben Abdesslem, University of St. Andrews, UK
Technical Program Committee:
Bengt Ahlgren, Swedish Insitute of Computer Science
Kevin Almeroth, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Elizabeth M. Belding, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Elwyn Davies, Folly Consulting, UK
Nathan Eagle, MIT and Univ of Nairobi, Kenya
Kevin Fall, Intel Research Berkeley, USA
Stephen Farrell, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Tristan Henderson, University of St. Andrews, UK
David Johnson, CSIR, South Africa
Srinivasan Keshav, University of Waterloo, Canada
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