2014 Proceeding- Program Chairs:
- Yuvraj Agarwal,
- Lin Zhong
We are pleased to welcome you to the fifth ACM Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing and Services, co-located with ACM MobiSys 2014.
The workshop had an open call for papers; the TPC Co-chairs and TPC members also reached out to their colleagues for potential invited papers. In the end, all authors opted for the open call and all submissions underwent the standard peer review process by the TPC. We received nine submissions. The reviews were double-blind but we allowed the authors to disclose their identities if they so preferred. Each submission received at least four reviews in a single round; most submissions received five. This was followed by on-line and email discussion by the reviewers to reach a consensus. One of the submissions was co-authored by a TPC Co-chair and was therefore handled by the other Co-chair out of the band. The reviewers were instructed that the submission should not be accepted if it was borderline.
We ended up accepting six submissions with half of them being Vision papers. We are very pleased by the quality of the accepted papers. The papers cover a wide range of technological problems about using cloud for mobile services, from networking to novel applications in home automation. The workshop program also includes one keynote and three invited talks that feature speakers from academia, industry, and non-profit organization.
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Vision: the case for cellular small cells for cloudlets
Today's cellular networks are built with``macro cell'' basestations connected to the Internet via a rigid, complicated backhaul. Even with state-of-art technologies like LTE, users get limited throughput and high latency, with high variance. Performance ...
meSDN: mobile extension of SDN
- Jeongkeun Lee,
- Mostafa Uddin,
- Jean Tourrilhes,
- Souvik Sen,
- Sujata Banerjee,
- Manfred Arndt,
- Kyu-Han Kim,
- Tamer Nadeem
Mobile devices interact wirelessly with a growing proliferation of cloud-based applications. Due to significant traffic growth and a wide variety of multimedia solutions, enterprise IT departments are demanding more fine-grained visibility and control ...
Reducing the cloud cost of mobile reverse-geocoding
Reverse-geocoding performs an important function for many mobile applications, converting geographic latitude & longitude coordinates into real-world physical locations. While the resulting reverse-geocoded locations can be invaluable for many mobile ...
Vision: cloud and crowd assistance for GPS urban canyons
Location is a core component of today's mobile devices and apps. While GPS is widely used, it continues to perform poorly when satellite visibility is obscured, e.g. in urban canyons. This paper explores the potential benefits of cloud- and crowd-...
Vision: smart home control with head-mounted sensors for vision and brain activity
- Pieter Simoens,
- Elias De Coninck,
- Thomas Vervust,
- Jan-Frederik Van Wijmeersch,
- Tom Ingelbinck,
- Tim Verbelen,
- Maaike Op de Beeck,
- Bart Dhoedt
Today, an increasing number of household appliances is being connected to the Internet to form a smart home. Intelligent control algorithms in the cloud adapt the configuration of this Internet-of-Things to our daily routines and personal preferences. ...
Vision: towards an extensible app ecosystem for home automation through cloud-offload
Home security and automation---temperature, lighting and energy management, access control, and alarming---is an area of growth in residential and office settings. These systems typically include a number of sensors and actuators connected to a ...