Topic 14

Mobile and ubiquitous computing

Description

The tremendous advances in wireless networks, mobile computing, sensor networks along with the rapid growth of small, portable and powerful computing devices offers opportunities for pervasive computing and communications. This topic will deal with cutting-edge research in various aspects related to the theory or practice of mobile computing or wireless and mobile networking, including architectures, algorithms, networks, protocols, modeling and performance, applications, services, and data management. The aim is to bring together computer scientists and engineers from academics and industry working in these exciting and emerging area of pervasive computing and communications to share their ideas and results with their peers. Specific topics include, but are not limited to:

Focus

• Architectures, infrastructures & protocols to cope with pervasive computing & mobile communication,
• Mobile ad hoc, sensor/actuators networks & RFIDs technologies,
• Security, privacy, and fault-tolerance of mobile/wireless systems,
• Hybrids systems, integration and interworking of wired and wireless networks, mesh networks,
• Positioning, tracking, location-aware services and applications,
• Context aware computing, applications and services for mobile users,
• Ressource management, interference management, mobility management and data management,
• Modeling, measurment, metrology and simulation aspects of mobile networks and ubiquitous computing,
• Experiences in the implementation of parallel computing algorithms in mobile/sensor nodes,
• Grid support for mobile and ubiquitous computing,
• Fundamental aspects of mobile computing and wireless networking.

Organization

Global Chair	Local Chair
Nuno Preguica Department of Informatics Faculty of Sciences and Technology Universidade Nova de Lisboa Lisba, Portugal	Eric Fleury CITI / INRIA ARES INSA de Lyon Lyon, France
Vice Chair	Vice Chair
Holger Karl University of Paderborn Germany	Gerd Kortuem Computing Department - Infolab21 Lancaster University Lancaster, United Kingdom
Vice Chair	Vice Chair
Carlos Baquero Departamento de Informática Universidade do Mínho Portugal	Marcelo Dias de Amorim LIP6/CNRS Universite Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris VI France
Vice Chair	Vice Chair
Pedro Marron University of Stuttgart Germany	Vasughi Sundramoorthy Computing Department Lancaster University United Kingdom
Vice Chair	Vice Chair
Andreas Willig Communication Systems Group Technical University of Berlin Germany	Artur Ziviani LNCC Petrópolis, Brazil