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CALL FOR PAPERS

2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions (NSDR 2008)
(with ACM SIGCOMM 2008) Seattle, Washington, USA
Monday 18th August, 2008. 

http://nsdr08.dritte.org

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Following on a successful workshop at SIGCOMM 2007, the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop
on Networked Systems for Developing Regions (NSDR'08) will provide a venue for
researchers to propose and discuss ideas concerning the deployment of Internet
and communication technologies for sustainable development of developing regions.

The benefits of the Internet and communication technologies are limited to a fraction
of the world's population. For example, according to the Internet World Stats 2007,
Internet penetration in North America is 69.7% of population compared to 3.6% for
Africa and 10.7% for Asia. Cost factors, low literacy, and limited access to power
and bandwidth in developing regions seem to suggest that there is a need for
communication technology research specifically aimed to meet the special needs
of developing regions.

Although the diverse challenges of developing regions along economic, social,
political, and educational dimensions necessarily call for a multi-disciplinary
approach, the focus of NSDR is on the technical side of communication and networking
research for developing regions (e.g., communication infrastructure in rural areas,
systems build using such infrastructure that solve some specific problem).

PAPERS

We encourage submission of position papers or the results of preliminary work
describing interesting, original, previously unpublished ideas pertaining to
networked systems for developing regions, which ... 

    * propose new research directions,

    * target a specific application,

    * have the potential to significantly enhance the design and sustainable
      deployment of networked systems in developing regions,

    * or could generate lively debate at the workshop. 

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

    * Delay Tolerant Networking: delay-tolerant Internet access in developing
      regions, DTN routing over wireless rural links

    * Rural wireless: long-distance 802.11, WiMaX solutions, directional
      antennas, designed for low-income rural areas or urban areas 

    * Sensor networks: sensor-net systems designed specifically for developing
      regions

    * Low-cost networking: devices, architectures, or systems which allow
      communication and networking at low cost 

    * Power-Efficient Systems: power-efficient computing architectures,
      power-efficient network infrastructure, power-efficient mobile systems

    * Applications of networking in healthcare, agriculture, disaster management,
      education, etc.


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Submissions must be no greater than 6 pages (six pages) in length (including figures
and references), must be a PDF file, and must follow the formatting guidelines at
http://www.dritte.org/nsdr08/submit.html.  Submissions that deviate from these
guidelines will be rejected without consideration. Reviews will be
SINGLE-BLIND: authors name and affiliation should be included in the submission.
All submissions will be handled electronically via EDAS (http://edas.info/).

Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their papers at the workshop.
Submissions must be original work not under review at any other workshop, conference,
or journal. NSDR'08 papers will be published by ACM SIGCOMM 
and will be indexed
by the ACM Digital Library.


IMPORTANT DATES

Submission: 		Sunday, 2nd March, 2008 (11:59pm PST) 
Notification: 		Friday, 18th April, 2008 
Camera-ready: 		Sunday, 18th May, 2008 
Workshop: 		Monday, 18th August, 2008 

ORGANIZATION

PROGRAM CHAIRS

Kentaro Toyama,		Microsoft Research, India     
Lakshmi Subramanian,	NYU, USA  
Muneeb Ali,		TU Delft, Netherlands  

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Philip Levis,		Stanford University, USA  
Eric Brewer,		UC Berkeley, USA  
Tom Anderson,		Univ. of Washington, USA  
Umar Saif,		LUMS, Pakistan  
S. Keshav,		Univ. of Waterloo, Canada  
Venkata Padmanabhan,	Microsoft Research, India     
Adam Dunkels,		SICS, Sweden  
Matthew Caesar,		UIUC, USA  
Jan Beutel,		ETH Zurich, Switzerland 
Rahul Tongia,		CMU, USA  
Joseph Polastre,	Sentilla, USA 
Bhaskaran Raman,	IIT Bombay, India 
Jinyang Li,		NYU, USA 
John Bennett,		Univ. of Colorado at Boulder, USA 
Arun Venkataramani,	Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, USA 
Nicolas Chevrollier,	TNO, Netherlands  
Tapan Parikh,		UC Berkeley, USA