CALL FOR PAPERS AND DEMOS
4th Extreme Conference on Communication - The Alpine Expedition
ExtremeCom 2012
March 10-14, Zurich, Switzerland
http://www.extremecom.org/
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Important dates
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Submission deadline: December 21, 2011
Notification of acceptance: January 21, 2012
Registration deadline: March 1, 2012 (early registration before February
15, 2012)
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Scope
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The Extreme Conference on Communication (ExtremeCom) brings together
researchers and practitioners in areas related to communications in
rural and remote environments, in order to gain experience and insight
into the challenges that such environments pose for the network and the
users. We welcome a broad range of topics concerning both technical and
economical aspects, for example delay tolerant networks and other
networking paradigms, business and services models, low power devices
and protocols, user experiences and web applications.
Following on from the success of ExtremeCom 2009 - The Midnight Sun
Expedition in Laponia, Sweden, ExtremeCom 2010 - The Himalayan
Expedition in Dharamsala, India, and ExtremeCom 2011 - The Amazon
Expedition in Manaus Brazil, we now offer ExtremeCom 2012 - The Swiss
Alps Winter Expedition. In this first winter edition, we aim to explore
the challenges of the Swiss Alps during winter.
Hosted by the ETH Zurich, the conference will start with 3 days of
snowshoe hike in the Swiss Alps backcountry where the conference
participants will be experimenting with solar-powered experiments.
The immersion will not only give a better idea of both the technical and
user requirements of such an harsh environment, 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.
Upon reaching the end of the "field experience", there will be two days
of paper presentations and demos in a high altitude hut with no
electricity. We will rely on solar-panels to power laptops and beamers.
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.
Submission Guidelines
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Participants should submit 6 page papers about ideas and visions about
the topics of the conference or demo proposals to be shown during the
conference. Visionary and thought-provoking papers that are likely to
generate much discussion during the conference are especially solicited.
The aim of the conference is to maintain an informal environment, where
new research ideas can be discussed and developed. We also hope to have
a demo session where participants can show their implementations and
systems. If you want to show a demo, please submit a 2 page demo
proposal using the same submission system as for conference papers.
Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library.
Topics for the conference 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, the number of participants will be limited. Priority
will be given to authors of papers and those who register first.
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Organizers
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General and TPC co-chairs:
Anders Lindgren, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden
Pan Hui, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories and TU Berlin, Germany
Local arrangement committee:
Bernhard Distl, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Franck Legendre, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Sascha Trifunovic, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Publicity chair:
Aline Carneiro Viana, INRIA, France
Web chair:
Fehmi Ben Abdesslem, University of Cambridge, UK
Bernhard Distl, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Steering Committee:
Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK
Avri Doria, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Tristan Henderson, University of St. Andrews, UK
Pan Hui, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories and TU Berlin, Germany
Anders Lindgren, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden
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