MobiArch 2012 - The Seventh ACM International Workshop on Mobility in the Evolving Internet Architecture (MobiArch 2012)

As the number of mobile users proliferates, there is an ever increasing appetite for innovative mobile services. Service providers are often under tremendous pressure of deploying new services to users quickly and cost effectively. This requires us to critically rethink the mobile services architecture that will lay the foundation for a futuristic mobile Internet and a growing revenue base. The aim of this proposed workshop is to have an open forum discussing cutting edge research contributions to economic and incentive issues in mobile networks and systems. Mobile operators cannot compete solely on higher bandwidths supported by the underlying technology (e.g. HSPA+, LTE). Service differentiation using innovations along other dimensions like pricing, incentives, QoS, etc. is turning out to be essential to compete.
Challenges

In this context, challenges for mobile services research will include, among others:
How do we create service differentiation with mobile pricing and economic incentives in mind?
What are some of the new incentive-aware mobile network architectures?
How do we rethink mobile services in the face of emerging cloud technology?
Web, Mobile and Cloud services are complementary. What is the intersection and how do we design innovative applications?
What are some of the strategies for monetizing mobile cloud services?
How do we address issues of energy, security and privacy, user behavior and online experience concerned with new mobile services like mobile social networking and mobile advertisements?
Topics of Interest

Main topics of interest for the envisioned workshop contributions include (but are not limited to) the following:
Mobile pricing, incentives, network economics
Technological and socio-economic aspects of mobile architectures, protocol design
Network pricing and congestion control
Wireless network neutrality
Cooperative schemes leveraging incentives
Economics of dynamic spectrum sharing
Incentive-aware wireless resource scheduling
Economics of deployment (infrastructure, devices and services)
Challenges and innovative pricing opportunities of mobile applications, social networking, advertisements
Performance and Fairness issues for an incentivized mobile network
Incentive mechanisms for mobile network security and privacy
Economic considerations in offering mobile computing services
Mobile cloud technology and services
Mobile platforms, systems, applications, and services integrating with the clouds
Performance evaluation, measurement, and modeling of cloud based mobile services and applications
Resource discovery, allocation, scheduling, and management for cloud based mobile services
Partitioning technologies distributing computing workloads between clouds and mobile devices
Mobile web services integrating cloud computing infrastructure
Security and privacy issues for integrating clouds with mobile services
Mobile virtualization techniques and platforms
Economic analysis, revenue models, billing techniques for cloud based mobile services
Network and storage architectures for mobile clouds
Processing, mining, and storage of mobile context data using clouds