Call for Papers: MobiCom 2025

The ACM MobiCom conference seeks papers describing significant research contributions in the field of wireless networking and mobile computing. MobiCom solicits papers that address important research challenges and build practical working systems.

Submission Categories

• Regular Papers: Focus on novel ideas, rigorous analysis, system design, real-world measurements, or deployments. Emphasizes intellectual merit and novelty.
• Challenge, Experience, and Verification Papers: Full papers providing detailed technical insights from real-world deployments, especially in settings difficult to duplicate.

Deadlines

Summer Deadlines:

• Abstract Registration: August 29, 2024
• Paper Submission: September 5, 2024
• Early Notification: October 25, 2024
• Final Notifications: December 10, 2024

Winter Deadlines:

• Abstract Registration: March 11, 2025
• Paper Submission: March 18, 2025
• Early Notification: May 10, 2025
• Final Notifications: June 24, 2025

Topics of Interest

We invite submissions on a wide range of mobile computing, mobile systems, mobile applications, and wireless networking research, including but not limited to:

• Edge and cloud computing
• Embedded and energy-harvesting systems
• Backscatter communication and wireless power
• Implantable and wearable computing
• Millimeter-wave and terahertz communications
• Mobile health
• Applications of machine learning (on-device ML, federated/decentralized ML) to mobile/wireless research
• Transfer learning and domain adaptation for mobile applications
• Large language models (LLMs) and generative AI for mobile and wireless systems
• Next generation of mobile networks (5G, 6G and beyond)
• Mobile web, video, virtual reality, augmented reality and other applications
• Novel applications of wireless signals
• Practical quantum applications and systems (quantum sensing, quantum programming, quantum machine learning, etc.)
• Vehicular, robotic and drone-based networking
• Communication with reconfigurable and intelligent reflective surfaces, meta materials, and flexible surfaces
• Satellite networks and integrated satellite-terrestrial networks
• Security and privacy issues/solutions for mobile/wireless systems
• Sensing with radio, light, sound, and acoustics
• Smart cities and smart spaces (e.g. smart factories, smart workspace, smart agriculture, urban mobility)
• Ubiquitous computing and mobile human-computer interaction
• Underwater networking and sensing
• Visible light communications
• Wireless localization and tracking
• Reducing carbon footprint of wireless networks and mobile devices

Review Process

• Double-blind reviewing: Authors' identities are withheld from reviewers.
• One-shot revision: Papers may require revisions to address reviewer feedback.
• Early notifications: For papers rejected in round 1.
• Shepherding: Conditionally accepted papers undergo a rigorous shepherding process.
• Artifact Evaluation: Voluntary process to assess supporting materials for accepted papers.

Submission Instructions

• All submissions are handled electronically at the MobiCom 2025 paper submission website.
• Prepare a PDF version of your full paper.
• Experience submissions should prefix ‘Experience Paper:’ to their title.
• Formatting Requirements:
  • No more than twelve (12) single-spaced pages (excluding bibliography).
  • Font size no smaller than 10 points.
  • Double column format.
  • US letter-sized paper (8.5" x 11").
  • PDF format only.
  • No author names or affiliations in the paper or PDF file.
  • No embedded hyperlinks.
  • File size limit of less than 15 MB.
• Templates: Use ACM provided templates (e.g., \documentclass[sigconf,10pt]{acmart} for Latex).

Submission Policies

• Previous Publications: Submissions extending prior workshop papers are allowed but must acknowledge the prior work anonymously and explain the differences.
• No Simultaneous Submissions: Papers must not be under review for any other conference or journal.
• Double-blind Submissions: Strictly adhere to anonymity requirements. Avoid identifying yourself, your institution, or your prior work in a way that compromises anonymity.
• Conflict of Interest (CoI): Authors must identify any CoIs with Program Committee members on the submission website.

Contact

Program Co-Chairs: Ganesh Ananthanarayanan and Kate Lin
Email: mobicom25-pc-chairs@acm.org