Hot Topics in Planet-scale Measurement

It is well-known that successfully researching, designing and building new mobile, ad hoc, mesh and opportunistic networking systems and algorithms requires access to large-scale data on human mobility, encounter, and social network patterns. Unfortunately, the wireless and mobile research communities lack such data, with typical human contact traces consisting of less than 100 nodes. We believe that large-scale datasets are important, not only in communication network design, but also for fundamental study in other academic disciplines, e.g., epidemiology, urban planning, and social science. Complex networks research has flourished since 1989 when the first large Internet (and later WWW) datasets became available. To achieve similar improvements in mobile networking and related fields, large-scale, and ideally planet-scale, datasets must be collected and made available.

Following a successful introductory event at ACM MobiSys 2009, this year's workshop will challenge the community to collect large-scale human mobility traces. Our aim is to highlight the issues in collecting data on a planet-wide scale, so that the community can help develop mechanisms to collect, share and analyze such data.

Topics of interest include but are not restricted to:

Motivating applications for large-scale human mobility data collection, especially from other disciplines, e.g., epidemiology, sociology Methods for collecting large-scale human mobility datasets New analyses and applications of large-scale human mobility datasets, e.g., human dynamics characterisation and modelling Planet-scale data collection infrastructures Testbed federation for planet-scale data collection Incentive models for encouraging users and businesses to collect data and contribute on a planet-wide scale Regulatory, legal and ethical issues in planet-wide data collection

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Submission guidelines

All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on their originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. Accepted papers will be published by ACM and placed in the ACM Digital Library. Submissions must be in English, no longer than 6 pages and in PDF format, and use the ACM templates. All fonts must be embedded within the PDF and be Type 1 (scalable).

In order to allow papers to appear in the ACM Digital Library, authors of accepted papers will be asked to submit, together with their camera-ready, an ACM proceedings copyright transfer form. Failure to send the camera-ready and copyright transfer on time will prevent the publication of the paper and its inclusion in the ACM Digital Library.

Papers will be reviewed single blind.

Important dates

Paper registration deadline: March 14, 2010 Submission deadline: March 7 March 21, 2010 deadline extended! Authors notification: April 18, 2010 Camera-ready: May 7, 2010 Registration deadline: May 15, 2010 Workshop date: June 15, 2010 An iCalendar file with these dates will be available soon here: hotplanetconf10.ics.