Mobile phone
applications are exploding in popularity, and can strongly benefit from
services and resources offered by cloud computing. This workshop
seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the
intersection of mobile computing and cloud computing. The scope
of the MCS workshop will encompass system and networking topics such as
mobile cloud computing platforms and services, mobile social networks,
device virtualization, notification services, data mining services and
location services.
Mobile
phone applications demand
greater resources and improved interactivity for better user
experience.
Resources in cloud computing platforms such as Amazon EC2, Microsoft
Azure, and
Google AppEngine are a natural fit to remedy the lack of local
resources in
mobile devices. Mobile cloud
computing refers to an infrastructure where data storage and data
processing
happen outside of the mobile device enabling a new class of
applications
previously not possible, e.g. context-aware mobile social
networks.
Mobile cloud computing is poised to
become a disruptive force in the mobile world.
While
prior work on thin client
related research is relevant, the availability of cloud computing
resources on
a pay-as-you-go basis, the advances in virtualization, the emergence of
LTE and
WiMAX, IEEE 802.11n and 60 GHz, and mobile application programming
platforms
create a new set of rich problems that require re-thinking old issues
with a
new lense.
Suggested
topics
for
paper
submissions
include
but
are
not
limited
to:
- Mobile cloud computing programming model
- Mobile social networks: applications and experiences,
system design and architecture
- Data services and architectures
- Cloud-assisted energy management of mobile devices
- Mobile device virtualization
- Fairness and isolation of mobile devices in the cloud
- Large scale mobile cloud applications
- Data privacy and security
- High availability and reliability
- Economic considerations in offering mobile cloud computing
services
- Distribution of resources and computation between mobile
devices and the cloud
- Data mining and machine learning in mobile cloud computing
- Context-aware services and computing
Important
Dates
- Paper submission deadline: April 9, 2010 (extended) by 11:55 pm ET
- Notification of acceptance: May 3, 2010
- Final camera-ready paper: May 17, 2010
Submission
Instructions
Authors are invited to submit
original papers that are not being considered for publication in any
other
forum. Manuscripts would be submitted in PDF format using the ACM
camera-ready
templates available at
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. In addition
to the full-length research
papers (limited to 8 pages), the workshop invites vision papers
(limited to 5
pages). Authors submitting vision papers should identify such papers
with the
title starting with “Vision: ”.
We highly encourage industrial participation.
Please submit your papers via the
following link.
Please send questions and
feedback to rhan AT cs dot colorado dot edu and/or erranlli AT research
dot bell-labs dot com