MobiVirt: Workshop on Virtualization in Mobile Computing

New paper submission deadline: April 22, 2008, at 11:59pm EDT (extended one day)

The Workshop on Virtualization in Mobile Computing (MobiVirt) will bring together researchers and practitioners interested in virtual execution environments for mobile applications and systems. The workshop seeks original papers on virtualization at all levels of the mobile hardware and software stack. We are particularly interested in position papers that propose new directions of research, advocate nontraditional approaches to old (or new) ideas, or generate insightful discussion.

The workshop proceedings will be archived in the ACM Digital Library.

Topic Areas of Interest

• Virtual machine monitors for mobile devices
• Application-level virtualization on mobile devices
• Virtual machines for high-level languages on mobile devices
• Abstractions for mobile shared-resource infrastructures (e.g. GENI slivers and slices)
• Programming language support for virtualization suitable for mobile environments
• Novel techniques and applications of interpreters on mobile devices
• Virtualization for security, reliability, and isolation on mobile devices
• Operating system support for virtualization on mobile devices
• Applications of virtual wireless networks (e.g., Virtual WiFi)
• Mobile applications that use virtualization in novel ways
• Performance analysis and debugging for mobile virtual execution environments
• Other experiences with mobile virtual execution environments

Important Dates

• Abstract submission deadline: April 14, 2008, at 11:59pm EDT
• Paper submission deadline: April 22, 2008, at 11:59pm EDT (extended one day)
• Notification of acceptance: May 23, 2008
• Final papers due: June 6, 2008
• Workshop date: June 17, 2008

Submission Instructions

MobiVirt 2008 invites insightful new contributions that apply aspects of virtualization to problems in mobile computing. Titles, authors, and abstracts must be registered by 11:59 p.m. US Eastern Daylight Time on Monday, April 14, 2008. Complete papers in PDF format must be received by 11:59 p.m. US Eastern Daylight Time on Tuesday, April 22, 2008. Papers must be no longer than 5 pages including figures, tables, and references. Text should be formatted in two columns on 8.5-inch by 11-inch paper using 10-point fonts on 12-point leading (single-spaced) and 1-inch margins. Author names and affiliations should appear on the title page (reviewing is not blind). Pages should be numbered, and figures and tables should be legible in black and white without requiring magnification. Papers not meeting these criteria will be rejected without review or deadline extensions.

Submissions will be handled electronically at this site. Accepted papers will also appear on this website. Please direct any questions regarding submissions to the program co-chairs: Ramon Caceres and Landon Cox.

Organizers

Program Co-Chairs

• Ramon Caceres (AT&T Labs)
• Landon Cox (Duke U)

Program Committee

• David F. Bacon (IBM Research)
• Suman Banerjee (U of Wisconsin)
• Jorg Brakensiek (Nokia Research)
• Ranveer Chandra (Microsoft Research)
• Romit Roy Choudhury (Duke U)
• Mark Corner (U of Massachusetts-Amherst)
• Sam King (UIUC)
• Uli Kremer (Rutgers U)
• Jay Lepreau (U of Utah)
• Nitya Narasimhan (Motorola Research)
• Jason Nieh (Columbia U)
• Jens Palsberg (UCLA)
• Dipankar Raychaudhuri (Rutgers U)
• M. Satyanarayanan (Carnegie Mellon U)
• Peter Steenkiste (Carnegie Mellon U)
• Sang-bum Suh (Samsung)
• Matt Welsh (Harvard U)