CALL FOR PAPERS

 2^nd International Workshop on

Mobile Peer-to-Peer Computing (MP2P'05)

Kauai Island, Hawaii, March 12, 2005

In conjunction with the 3rd IEEE International Conference on

Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom’05)

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) computing is a networking and distributed computing paradigm which allows the sharing of computing resources and services by direct, symmetric interaction between computers. With the advance in mobile wireless communication technology and the increasing number of mobile users, P2P computing, in both academic research and industrial development, has recently begun to extend its scope to address problems relevant to mobile devices and wireless networks. The special characteristics of mobile environments, such as highly variable connectivity, disconnection, location-dependency, and energy and resource sensitivity, and the diversity in wireless networks bring new challenges for research in mobile P2P computing.

MP2P’05 is intended to serve as a forum for scientists and engineers in academia and industry to exchange and discuss their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects of mobile P2P computing. It will address the challenges, technologies, and architectures leading to real-world solutions that provide users with direct access and control of their critical peer-based information and services, regardless of location or device. The principal theme of MP2P’05 is the development of protocols, systems and applications for mobile P2P computing. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

·         Architecture and platforms for mobile P2P computing

·         Measurement studies on mobile P2P systems

·         Resource and service discovery in mobile P2P computing

·         Peer access and control in mobile environment

·         Data exchange and rendering techniques for mobile devices

·         Secure communication protocols for mobile P2P computing

·         Mobile P2P messaging systems

·         Peer-to-peer broadband wireless communications

·         Applications of mobile P2P

·         Nature-inspired algorithms for mobile p2p computing

·         Theoretical issues on mobile information diffusion

·         Mobile video games

·         Stimulating cooperation in mobile computing

MP2P Workshop Schedule: (html) (PDF)        *new

Paper Submission:

Papers must be written in English an should not exceed 6 pages in IEEE proceedings style. Authors should submit a PostScript (level 2) or PDF file that will print on a PostScript printer at mp2p-submissions@cs.unc.edu. The names of the authors should NOT appear on the paper, instead include them in the email. Hard copies will be accepted only if electronic submission is not possible. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper.

All submissions will be reviewed blindly and selected based on their originality, merit, and relevance to the workshop. Accepted papers must be presented at the workshop and will appear in a combined PerCom 2005 workshop proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press.

There will be a Best Paper Award .  More information about will be available soon at this web page.

Authors that present a system in their paper are highly encouraged to demonstrate also the system in the demo session of the workshop.

Important Dates:

Papers due   ------------------------- 5pm EST, September 15, 2004

Notification of acceptance -------- November 15, 2004 (November 22, 2004)

Camera-ready papers due ---------- December 18, 2004

Organizing Committee

• Maria Papadopouli, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
  maria@cs.unc.edu
• Jiannong Cao, Internet and Mobile Computing Lab Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  csjcao@comp.polyu.edu.hk
• Y. Charlie Hu, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, USA
  ychu@purdue.edu
• Cecilia Mascolo, Department of Computer Science, University College London, UK
  c.mascolo@cs.ucl.ac.uk

Publicity Chair

• Manolis Spanakis, Department of Computer Science, University of Crete, Greece
  spanakis@csd.uoc.gr

Program Committee:

• Jiannong Cao, epartment of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• Geoff Coulson, Computing Department, University of Lancaster, UK
• Stephen Hailes, Department of Computer Science, University College of London, UK
• Felix Hernandez-Campos, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
• Yih-Chun Hu, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, USA
• Y. Charlie Hu, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University
• Valerie Issarny, INRIA, France
• Eyal de Lara, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada
• Karen Lawson, Kodak Ltd. R&D, UK
• Haiyun Luo, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
• Cecilia Mascolo, Department of Computer Science, University College London
• Maria Papadopouli, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Rudolf Riedi, Department of Statistics, Rice University, USA
• George Roussos, School of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
• Apostolos Traganitis, Department of Computer Science, University of Crete, Greece

Previous workshops:
1^st International Workshop on Mobile Peer-to-Peer Computing (MP2P04), March 14, 20004, Orlando Florida. In conjunction with 2nd IEEE International Conference in Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom).  MP2P’04 received 22 papers. Each paper was reviewed by two to three members of the Program Committee. The final program includes 11 papers, which cover a range of different topics related to mobile peer-to-peer. In that workshop, we had also an invited speaker.