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*** Extended Paper Submission Due: November 11, 2009 ***

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The Sixth International Workshop on Mobile Peer-to-Peer Computing (MP2P¡¦10)
                              
  In conjunction with The Eighth Annual IEEE International Conference on 
          Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2010), 
               Mannheim, Germany, March 29 - April 2, 2010 
                  
                  http://mpclab.ce.ncu.edu.tw/mp2p2010/
 
                     ***** CALL FOR PAPERS *****


Theme of the Workshop
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Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks have received great research interests because of 
their broad applications such as large-scale file sharing and media streaming 
services. Until now, the success of P2P paradigms has been mainly in traditional 
wired network environments. With the advance of modern wireless and mobile 
communications (e.g., WLAN, MANET, WiMAX, 3G, 3.5G, and emerging 4G), there is 
an increasing interest for mobile users with broadband access to participate in 
P2P services anywhere anytime through their mobile handheld devices. 

Wireless mobile networks have special characteristics, such as highly variable 
connectivity, disconnection, location-dependency, energy and resource 
sensitivity, communication asymmetry, high bandwidth expense, and so on. All 
these pose research challenges that do not exist in traditional network 
settings. New techniques are thus required in order to leverage mobile P2P 
computing for efficient and reliable applications and services. 

Mobile P2P is a cross-disciplinary research involving networking, information 
dissemination, databases, and security. The main goal of the workshop is to 
gather scientists from these areas together to foster collaboration and sparkle 
discussion on various aspects of mobile P2P, including but not limited to, 
mobile users' scenarios and usage cases, overlay design, development and 
deployment, mobile data dissemination, mobile database management, and location-
based information services. The workshop also aims to discuss mobile P2P in 
various networking environments such as vehicular, cellular and/or large-scale 
heterogeneous networks. 


Workshop Goals
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Mobile P2P is a cross cutting area as it crosses communications, networking, 
information dissemination, databases, and security. The main goal of the 
workshop is to gather scientists from these areas together to foster the 
collaboration among such interdisciplinary areas and sparkle discussion on open 
topics related to mobile P2P. 


Workshop Scope
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The scope of this workshop includes but is not limited to the following topics:

- Peer-to-peer overlays for wireless and mobile networks
- Hybrid P2P service architectures for integrated fixed and mobile wide-area networks
- Large-scale mobile P2P systems
- Delay tolerant MP2P systems
- MP2P Data management (Schedule/Cache/Replica/Index/Query)
- Mobility in federated overlay architectures
- Impact of mobility on P2P information services
- P2P-based Information sensing and fusion
- Data broadcast, dissemination in MP2P
- Publish/Subscribe in MP2P
- File Sharing in MP2P
- Media Streaming in MP2P
- Resource and service discovery in MP2P
- Peer access and control in mobile environment
- Privacy in MP2P services
- MP2P messaging systems, monitoring systems, searching systems, etc.
- Location dependent MP2P services
- Novel MP2P applications & services in newly emerging network environments.

Paper Submissions
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All submissions must be original unpublished work written in English that is 
currently not under review at another venue. Papers submitted must be formatted 
in IEEE CS paper format.  

Manuscript page limit: up to 8 pages. 
Camera-ready page limit: up to 6 pages 

Submission foramt information: 
http://mpclab.ce.ncu.edu.tw/mp2p2010/papersubmission.php

Online submission: 
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mp2p2010

Note: - Workshop Proceedings will be included and indexed in the IEEE digital 
        libraries (Xplore), showing their affiliation with IEEE PerCom 2010. 
      - All accepted papers need to have a Full Registration to the conference 
        (there is no workshop only registration). 
      - No-shows of accepted papers at the workshop will result in those papers 
        NOT being included in the IEEE Digital Library. 


Important Dates (Tentative)
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- Paper Submission Due: November 11, 2009 
- Notification of Acceptance : December 21, 2009 
- Camera-Ready Copies Due : January 29, 2010 
- MP2P Workshop date: April 2, 2010


Organization Committee
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Steering Board

Y. Charlie Hu, Purdue University, USA 
Cecilia Mascolo, University of Cambridge, UK 
Maria Papadopouli, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA 
Frank-Uwe Andersen, Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany 
Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong 


Workshop Co-chairs

Chih-Lin Hu, National Central University, Taiwan 
Ying Cai, Iowa State University, USA 
Hong Va Leong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong 


Publicity Chair

David Yates, Bentley University, USA 


Programme Committee Members
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Hong Va Leong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong 
Ying Cai, Iowa State University, USA 
Chih-Lin Hu, National Central University, Taiwan 
Antonio Si, NASA Ames Research Center, USA 
John Buford, Avaya Labs, USA
Wei-Shinn Ku, Auburn University, USA 
Yao-Nan Lien, National Ceng Chi University, Taiwan 
Angelo Brayner, University of Fortaleza, Brazil 
Jiun-Long Huang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan 
Polly Huang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan 
Ivan Lee, Southern Australia University, Australia 
Max Haifei Li, Union University, USA 
Mohamed F. Mokbel, University of Minnesota, USA 
Chih-Wei Yi, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan 
Norihiro Ishikawa, NTT Docomo, Japan
Hsiao Hung-Chang, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan
Franca Delmastro, CNR-IIT ,Pisa, Italy
Michele Amoretti, Universita degli Studi di Parma, Italy
Guanling Lee, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan 
Mario Kolberg, University of Sterling, UK
Thomas Kunz, Carleton University, Canada
Ling-Jyh Chen, Institute of Information Science Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Kurt Tutschku, University of Vienna, Austria
Anwitaman Datta, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Danny Tsang, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hsing Mei, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan
George Roussos, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
Shervin Shirmohammadi, University of Ottawa, Canada
Young Han Kim, University of Soongsil, Korea 
Chow-Sing Lin, National Tainan University, Taiwan
Chansu Yu, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH, USA
Hans-Peter Schwefel, Aalborg University, Denmark
John K. Zao, National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan
Babak Esfandiari, Carleton University, Canada
Wang-Chien Lee, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Valerie Issarny, INRIA, France