ACM U-NET'09 — User-provided Networking: Challenges and Opportunities
Co-located with ACM CoNEXT 2009
Rome, Italy, December 1st, 2009
http://conferences.sigcomm.org/co-next/2009/workshops/unet/
*NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE*: August 13th, 2009 (U-NET web page to be
updated soon)
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.
*Technical Panel Discussion*
U-NET'09 aims to be a forum to debate the technical challenges and
impact of deploying user-provided networking technology. For this
propose, this first edition of U-NET will host a technical discussion
panel constituted by:
* Shivendra S. Panwar, Professor at Polytechnic Institute of New York
University, USA
* James Kempf, Senior Architect at Ericsson Research, USA
* David Kennedy, Director at Eurescom GmbH, Germany
* Jordi Vallejo, CTO at FON Wireless Ltd, Spain
* Dirk Trossen, Chief Researcher at BT Design and Innovation, United
Kingdom
*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 be
done via EDAS at http://edas.info/N7753.
*Important Dates*
Submissions due: August 13th, 2009
Notification of acceptance: September 14th, 2009
Camera ready version due: October 1st, 2009
Workshop date: December 1st, 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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