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CHANTS '15: Proceedings of the 10th ACM MobiCom Workshop on Challenged Networks
ACM2015 Proceeding
Publisher:
  • Association for Computing Machinery
  • New York
  • NY
  • United States
Conference:
MobiCom'15: The 21th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking Paris France 11 September 2015
ISBN:
978-1-4503-3543-0
Published:
11 September 2015
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Abstract

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the Tenth ACM MobiCom Workshop on Challenged Networks (CHANTS'15). Motivated by the need to provide connectivity in situations where communication is desired but traditional Internet technologies fail to provide it effectively, challenged networks continue to attract considerable attention from the networking community. Building on the tradition of previous editions, CHANTS 2015 provides a premier forum for networking researchers from academia and industry to discuss advances and new directions in challenged networks.

The workshop features papers dealing with a variety of topics related to challenged network environments, ranging from system issues raised by disconnected operation, content distribution and data muling in device-to-device communication, performance studies, as well as analysis of social encounters and spatio-temporal features of challenged networks. Further, indoor localization as an enabling technology for mobile networks and applications such as disaster relief and emergency services are included.

The call for papers attracted 23 full paper submissions and four demo submissions. Out of these submissions we accepted seven full papers (~30% of full paper submissions), three work-in-progress papers, and five demo papers. The program consists of one inspiring keynote presentation by Kevin Fall entitled "Coping with Communications Challenges," followed by a work-in-progress session, two full paper sessions, and a demonstration session.

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SESSION: Work-in-Progress Session
short-paper
A Framework for Opportunistic Networking in Spontaneous and Ephemeral Social Networks

The C3PO project promotes the development of a new kind of social networks called Spontaneous and Ephemeral Social Networks (SESNs), dedicated to cultural or sports events. SESNs rely on opportunistic networks formed dynamically by the mobile devices of ...

short-paper
Experimental Characterization of I2V Wi-Fi Connections in an Urban Testbed

A city-wide platform of sensing devices, or Data Collection Units (DCUs), can harness vehicular networks installed in public transports to gather sensor data at a backend server. Selection of DCU deployment sites must consider connectivity patterns and ...

short-paper
Impact of Traffic and Mobility Patterns on Network Performance in Disaster Scenarios

First responders show specific movement and traffic patterns that are closely related to their current task during a disaster relief mission. In order to develop efficient communication systems both aspects should be considered. This is important ...

SESSION: Session on Opportunistic and Device-to-Device Networks
research-article
Considering Multi-Contact Encounters in Opportunistic Networks

Opportunistic networks, often characterized by their intermittent connectivity and sparsity of nodes, has sparked routing in these networks to focus on isolated contact opportunities. Routing has predominantly been viewed as an exchange of messages ...

research-article
On a Cloud-Controlled Architecture for Device-to-Device Content Distribution

It has been shown that the distribution of popular content can benefit from solutions that dynamically distribute copies of the content from the backend to a subset of subscribed users, and let these users spread the content with opportunistic ...

research-article
BLESSED with Opportunistic Beacons: A Lightweight Data Dissemination Model for Smart Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks

This paper introduces BLESSED, a universal opportunistic ad hoc networking model intended for smart mobile devices. It enables fast and lightweight data dissemination in wireless community networks through the complementary utilization of the IEEE ...

research-article
Understanding Opportunistic Networking for Emergency Services: Analysis of One Year of GPS Traces

Opportunistic networking can help emergency services in both their daily operation and disaster relief. This idea has been extensively explored in previous research, but most studies are based on little knowledge of real mobility. In order to support ...

SESSION: Session on Analysis of Challenged Networks and Enabling Technologies
research-article
A Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Mobile Internet Traffic in Public Transportation Systems: A View of Web Browsing from The Bus

Mobile devices are ubiquitous, and mobile-generated traffic is arguably a major component of today's web traffic. In particular, the use of smart-phones whilst commuting using public transport is a very popular and common practice in many countries. ...

research-article
DTN Congestion Control Unplugged: A Comprehensive Performance Study

Unlike TCP/IP networks, in DTNs end-to-end paths between nodes cannot be guaranteed at all times. This means that DTN nodes may have to store messages for long periods of time before they can forward the messages towards their ultimate destinations. As ...

research-article
TaLc: Time Adaptive Indoor Localization with Little Cost

Many emerging applications and the ubiquitous wireless signals have accelerated the development of WiFi-based indoor localization techniques. However, there is one primary issue, that is the environmental dynamics will greatly undermine the fingerprint ...

DEMONSTRATION SESSION: Demo Session
demonstration
Demo: C3PO: Spontaneous and Ephemeral Social Networks

The C3PO project promotes the development of a new kind of spontaneous and ephemeral social networks dedicated to cultural, festive or sports events. They rely on opportunistic communication networks formed dynamically by mobile devices carried by event ...

demonstration
Demo: RasPiPCloud: A Light-weight Mobile Personal Cloud

This paper introduces RasPiPCloud, a Raspberry PI based low cost and light weight personal cloud that allows the user to gather, store and share their data as well as run a range of everyday services in a fully private manner while retaining complete ...

demonstration
Demo: PotatoNet -- Robust Outdoor Testbed for WSNs: Experiment like on your desk. Outside.

We present PotatoNet, an outdoor testbed for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Its primary focus is robustness, reliability and flexibility. PotatoNet is designed to operate without on-site maintenance for extended periods of time. It can withstand heat, ...

demonstration
Demo: pSync: A Peer-to-peer Sync Tool for Challenged Networks

This paper gives the design and implementation of pSync, a P2P file syncing tool for challenged networks. pSync implements a number of advanced features over existing file syncing tools, such as - role based file transfer, device priority scheduling and ...

demonstration
Demo: DisToNet: Disconnection Tolerant Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks

Applications running over mobile ad-hoc networks (MANET) often can trade-off some delay versus reliability in case of spo-radic disconnection periods. However, existing solutions for network partition [1,2] usually focus on settings for which dis-...

Contributors
  • University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Johannes Kepler University Linz

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Acceptance Rates

CHANTS '15 Paper Acceptance Rate 7 of 27 submissions, 26%;
Overall Acceptance Rate 61 of 159 submissions, 38%
YearSubmittedAcceptedRate
CHANTS '1827933%
CHANTS '1716638%
CHANTS '16271452%
CHANTS '1527726%
CHANTS '14371541%
CHANTS '13251040%
Overall1596138%