HotPlanet 2009

http://hotplanetconf.net

Date of event: June 22, 2009
Submission deadline: May 15, 2009
Registration deadline: June 12, 2009

HotPlanet 2009

The 1st ACM International Workshop on Hot Topics of Planet-scale Mobility Measurements

June 22, 2009, Kraków, Poland

Co-located with ACM MobiSys 2009, June 22-25, 2009

Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE
In-cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM

It is well-known that successfully researching, designing and building mobile systems
and algorithms requires access to large-scale mobility data.  Unfortunately, the wireless
and mobile research communities lack such data.  For instance, the largest publicly
available human contact traces contain only 100 very sparsely connected nodes, a
limitation of the experimental setup.  We believe that large-scale datasets are important,
not only in communication network design, but also for fundamental study in other
academic disciplines, e.g., epidemiology, urban planning, and social science.  An analogy
can be made to the field of complex networks research, which flourished since 1989
when the first large datasets from the Internet (and subsequently the World Wide Web)
became available.  To achieve similar improvements in mobile networking and other
related fields, relevant large-scale datasets must be made available.

In this workshop, we wish to challenge the community to collect large-scale human
mobility traces.  We will highlight some of the issues in the hope that the community can
help find solutions that can form the basis of practical experiments: the main aim is to
raise these issues to gain community support to meet this challenge.  Topics of interest
include but are not restricted to:

Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to): 

• Motivating applications for large-scale human mobility data collection
• Methods for collecting large-scale human mobility datasets
• Existing applications of large-scale human mobility datasets, e.g. human dynamics characterisation and modeling
• Reports of planet-scale infrastructure for data collection
• Proposed business models to incentivise involvement of network
• Operators in contributing data
• Issues concerning privacy and anonymity of data collection
• Regulatory and legal issues about data collection

The workshop proceedings will be archived in the ACM Digital Library.