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The 1st International Workshop on
Mobile Peer-to-Peer Information Services (MP2PIS)

In conjunction with the 10th International Conference on
Mobile Data Mangement (MDM'09)
Taipei, Taiwan, May 18-21, 2009

http://mpclab.ce.ncu.edu.tw/mp2pis/

***** CALL FOR PAPERS *****


Theme of the Workshop
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Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks undoubtedly receive wide attention because of their
broad applications such as file sharing and media streaming services.
Substantial research efforts have contributed to the success of P2P paradigms in
the wired network environments. As broadband wireless connections (e.g., WLAN,
WiMAX, 3G, 3.5G, and emerging 4G) become affordable and popular, mobile users
now have increasing interests to participate in P2P services anywhere, anytime
through their handheld devices.

The special characteristics of wireless mobile environment such as highly
variable connectivity, energy and resource sensitivity, and communication
asymmetry render new challenges, problems and issues for research in mobile P2P
computing. The techniques developed for the wired P2P networks may not be
applied directly in such environments. New derivatives or modification to
present P2P data dissemination and management strategies are required. As a
result, research works should propose promising solutions that enable efficient
and reliable mobile P2P information services in the province of mobile P2P
computing.


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
- MP2P Data management (Schedule/Cache/Replica/Index/Query)
- Impact of network 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
- MP2P messaging systems, monitoring systems, searching systems, etc.
- Location dependent MP2P services
- Novel MP2P applications & services

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 no longer than 8 pages
in IEEE conference style format.

Online submission:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mp2pis2009

Submission foramt information:
http://mpclab.ce.ncu.edu.tw/mp2pis/papersubmission.php

Note: Proceedings will be printed in hardcopy with IEEE Press and included in IEEE Explore.


Important Dates (Tentative)
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Paper submission due: December 15, 2008
Acceptance notifications: February 1, 2009
Camera-Ready Copies Due: March 15, 2009
MP2PIS Workshop date: May 21, 2009


Workshop & PC Co-Chair
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Hong Va Leong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Chih-Lin Hu, National Central University, Taiwan
Ying Cai, Iowa State University, USA


Programme Committee Members
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Angelo Brayner, University of Fortaleza, Brazil
Naveen Chilamkurti, La Trobe University, Australia
Anwitaman Datta, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Jiun-Long Huang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Polly Huang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Wei-Shinn Ku, AUBURN University, USA
Guanling Lee, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan
Ivan Lee, University of South Australia, Australia
Max Haifei Li, Union University, USA
Yao-Nan Lien, National Ceng Chi University, Taiwan
Mohamed F. Mokbel, University of Minnesota, USA
Antonio Si, NASA Ames Research Center, USA
Makoto Takizawa, Seikei University , Japan
Zahir Tari, RMIT, Australia
Savio Tse, Bilkent University, Turkey
Man Hon Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Chih-Wei Yi, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan