2012 Proceeding- General Chairs:
- Aline Carneiro Viana,
- Ahmed Helmy,
- Program Chair:
- Aline Carneiro Viana
- Sponsor:
- sigmobile
It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 4th ACM International Workshop on Hot Topics in Planet-Scale Measurement -- HotPlanet'12. This year's workshop is motivated by the fact that successfully researching, designing and building new mobile, ad-hoc, mesh, and opportunistic networking systems and algorithms requires access to large-scale data on human mobility, encounter, and social network patterns. Unfortunately, the wireless and mobile research communities lack such large-scale data. 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. Complex networks research has flourished since 1989 when the first large Internet (and later WWW) datasets became available. To achieve similar improvements in mobile networking and related fields, large-scale, and ideally planet-scale, datasets must be collected and made available.
Following three previous successful editions of the workshop at ACM MobiSys 2009, 2010, and 2011, the fourth HotPlanet workshop will challenge the community to collect large-scale human mobility traces as well as to propose novel mobility data processing and knowledge discovery techniques.
The program committee accepted 7 papers that cover a variety of topics including emerging applications involving large-scale human mobility data collection, human dynamics characterization and modelling, knowledge discovery from mobility data, and methods for choosing and collecting large-scale human mobility datasets. In addition, the program includes a keynote speech on Through a Graph, Darkly by Jon Crowcroft, who has a lot of experience in collecting human mobility datasets and investigating social network patterns. We hope that these proceedings will serve as a valuable reference for large-scale wireless networking measurement.
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Through a graph, darkly
Social Media Data abounds. Industry plays fast and loose with our privacy, for profit. How can researchers lead the way to a more ethical, respectful world? In this keynote, I will discuss the problems and try to lead a discussion towards potential ...
A framework for realistic vehicular network modeling using planet-scale public webcams
Realistic design and evaluation of vehicular mobility has been particularly challenging due to a lack of large-scale real-world measurements in the research community. Current mobility models and simulators rely on artificial scenarios and use small and ...
Towards planet-scale localization on smartphones with a partial radiomap
- Andreas Konstantinidis,
- Georgios Chatzimiloudis,
- Christos Laoudias,
- Silouanos Nicolaou,
- Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti
The majority of smartphone localization systems use Assisted-GPS for fine-grained localization in outdoor spaces or WiFi-based RSS (Received Signal Strength) technologies for coarse-grain positioning in indoor and outdoor spaces. The former consumes ...
Collecting big datasets of human activity one checkin at a time
A variety of cutting edge applications for mobile phones exploit the availability of phone sensors to accurately infer the user activity and location to offer more effective services. To validate and evaluate these new applications, appropriate and ...
A global measurement study of context-based propagation and user mobility
Mobile phones are becoming a powerful platform for global-scale measurements due to their ever-increasing programmability and prevalence. Moreover, advanced sensing capabilities have allowed mobile phones to become aware of the user's context, ...
Big wireless measurement campaigns: are they really worth the price?
Performance evaluation of mobile wireless networking has to cope with two main issues: representativeness and feasibility. These two aspects are often contradictory because analyses must be thorough and, at the same time, neither costly nor time ...
Uncovering properties in participatory sensor networks
- Thiago Henrique Silva,
- Pedro Olmo Stancioli Vaz de Melo,
- Jussara Marques de Almeida,
- Antonio Alfredo Ferreira Loureiro
A fundamental step to achieve the Ubiquitous Computing vision is to sense the environment. The research in Wireless Sensor Networks has provided several tools, techniques and algorithms to solve the problem of sensing in limited size areas, such as ...
Insights on metropolitan-scale vehicular mobility from a networking perspective
The management of mobility is commonly regarded as one of the most critical issues in large-scale telecommunication networks. The problem is exacerbated when considering vehicular mobility, which is characterized by road-constrained movements, high ...
Index Terms
- Proceedings of the 4th ACM international workshop on Hot topics in planet-scale measurement
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Acceptance Rates
| Year | Submitted | Accepted | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| HotPlanet '13 | 20 | 11 | 55% |
| Overall | 20 | 11 | 55% |