extremecom 2012 - 4th Extreme Conference on Communication - The Alpine Expedition ExtremeCom 2012

4th Extreme Conference on Communication - The Alpine Expedition
ExtremeCom 2012
March 10-14, Zurich, Switzerland
http://www.extremecom.org/


Important dates

Submission deadline: December 21, 2011
Notification of acceptance: January 21, 2012
Registration deadline: March 1, 2012 (early registration before February 15,
2012)




Scope

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

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.




Organizers

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, Lule? 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