***MobiCom'98***

[capone at ganges.eas.asu.edu (Jeffrey Capone)]

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                   Announcement and Call for Papers

         The Fourth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on 
             Mobile Computing & Networking (MOBICOM'98)

	                Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE
		   In Co-operation with ACM SIGCOMM and 
			IEEE Communications Society

                         October 25-30, 1998                

			    Dallas, Texas

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PAPERS

Technical papers describing previously unpublished, original, completed
research, not currently under review by another conference, journal, 
are solicited on topics at the link layer and above. Possible topics 
include but are not limited to:

   * Applications and computing services supporting mobile users
   * Network architectures, protocols or service algorithms to cope 
     with mobility, limited bandwidth, or intermittent connectivity
   * Design and analysis of algorithms for mobile environments
   * Security, scalability and reliability for mobile/wireless systems
   * Performance of mobile/wireless networks and systems
   * Data management in mobile computing
   * Integration and interworking of wired and wireless networks
   * Influence of lower layers on the design and performance of 
     higher layers
   * Mobile network protocols
   * Mobile computing
   * Mobile agents
   * Power management
   * Wireless multimedia systems
   * Satellite communication
   * Location-dependent applications
   * Distributed system aspects of mobile systems
   * Adaptive applications interfaces for mobile systems
   * Architectures of mobile/wireless networks and systems
   * Traffic integration for mobile applications

All papers will be refereed by the program committee. Accepted papers will
be published in the conference proceedings. Papers of particular merit 
will be selected for publication in the ACM/Baltzer journals Wireless 
Networks (WINET) and Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET).

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HOW TO SUBMIT:

All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Authors should 
E-mail a PostScript version of their full paper to mobicom98 at ee.upenn.edu. 
This E-mail address will become operational by March 1, 1998. In order to 
ensure that the PostScript versions of the papers can be printed, authors 
should be careful that their papers meet the following restrictions:

   * PostScript version 2 or later.
   * No longer than 15 pages.
   * Fits properly on "US Letter" size paper (8.5X11 inches)
   * Reference only Computer Modern or standard Adobe printer fonts 
     (i.e. Courier, Times, Roman, or Helvetica); other fonts may be used 
     but must be included in the PostScript file.

In addition, authors should separately E-mail the title, author names 
and full address, and abstract of their paper to the Program Chairs: 
Prof. Magda El Zarki at magda at ee.upenn.edu and Dr. Arvind Krishna at 
akrishna at us.ibm.com. All submitted papers will be judged based on their 
quality through double-blind reviewing, where the identities of the 
authors are withheld from the reviewers. Authors names should not appear 
on the paper or in the PostScript file.

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TUTORIALS:

Proposals for tutorials are solicited. Evaluation of proposals will be 
based on the expertise and experience of the instructors, and on the 
relevance of the subject matter. Potential instructors are requested to 
submit a tutorial proposal at most 5 pages, including a biographical 
sketch, to the Tutorial Chair: S. Venkatesan at venky at utdallas.edu.

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PANELS:

Panels are solicited that examine innovative, controversial, or 
otherwise provocative issues of interest. Panel proposals should not 
exceed 3 pages, including biographical sketches of the panelists. 
Potential panel organizers should contact the Publicity Chair: Tom 
McDermott at mcdermot at aud.alcatel.com.

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STUDENT PARTICIPATION:

Papers with student as a primary author will be considered for a cash 
award of $500 US Dollars for the best student paper competition.

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IMPORTANT DATES:

SUBMISSIONS DUE: April 21, 1998

NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: JULY 14, 1998

CAMERA-READY VERSION DUE: AUGUST 22, 1998

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CONFERENCE COMMITTEE:

General Co-Chairs:      
- Prof. William P. Osborne, UT Dallas, USA
- Dahawal Moghe, Nortel, Texas, USA

General Vice Chair:
- Dr. On-Ching Yue, Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies

Program Co-Chairs:      
- Dr. Arvind Krishna, IBM T J Watson Lab, USA
- Prof. Magda El Zarki, U of Pennsylvania, USA

Exhibit Co-Chair:       
- Dr. George Liu, Ericsson, Sweden

Local Chair:            
- Prof. Gerald Burnham, UT Dallas, USA

Panel Chair:            
- Tom McDermott, Alcatel, Texas, USA

Publicity Chair:        
- Dr. C-K. Toh, Hughes, USA
- Prof. Jeffrey Capone, Arizona State U, USA

Registration Chair:     
- Prof. Ravi Prakash, UT Dallas, USA

Steering Chair:         
- Prof. Imrich Chlamtac, UT Dallas, USA

Treasurer:              
- Bo Piekarski, Ericsson, USA

Tutorial Chair:         
- Prof. S. Venkatesan, UT Dallas, USA

Workshop Chair:         
- Dr. Afonso Ferreira, INRIA, France



TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Arvind Krishna, IBM (US)              Co-chairperson
Magda El Zarki, U Pennsylvania (US)   Co-chairperson

Prathima Agrawal, AT&T Labs (US)
Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Tech. (US)
Rafael Alonso, Sarnoff (US)
B.R. Badrinath, Rutgers (US)
Victor Bahl, DEC (US)
Mary Baker, Stanford (US)
Amotz Bar-Noy, Tel Aviv Univ. (IL)
Ramon Caceres, AT&T Labs (US)
Tracy Camp, U. Alabama  (US)
Andrew Campbell, Columbia (US)
Imrich Chlamtac, U.T. Dallas (US)
Sajal Das, North Texas (US)
Nigel Davies, Univ. Lancaster (UK)
Maurizio Decina, CEFRIEL (IT)
Andras Farago, UTD (US)
J.J. Garcia-Luna, UCSC (US)
Zygmunt Haas, Cornell (US)
Pierre Humblet, Eurocom (FR)
Ravi Jain, Bellcore (US)
Dave Johnson, CMU (US)
Anthony Joseph, Berkeley (US)
Anupam Joshi, Univ. Missouri (US)
Jay Kistler, DEC SRC (US)
Richard LaMaire, IBM (US)
Thomas LaPorta, Lucent (US)
Jason Yi-Bing Lin, NCTU (TW)
George Liu, Ericsson (SE)
Murray Mazer, Opengroup (US)
Charles Perkins, Sun Microsystems (US)
Ray Pickholtz, GWU (US)
Stephen Pink, SICS (SE)
Ramesh Rao, UCSD (US)
Christopher Rose, Rutgers (US)
Krishan Sabnani, Bell Labs (US)
Srinivasan Seshan, IBM (US)
Deepinder Sidhu, UMBC (US)
Martha Steenstrup, BBN (US)
Carl Tait, IBM (US)
CK Toh, Hughes (US,UK)
Bharghavan Vaduvur, UIUC (US)
Roy Yates, Rutgers (US)
On-Ching Yue, Lucent Bell Labs (US)


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