CALL FOR PAPERS

The 14th Workshop on Challenged Networks (CHANTS 2019)

http://conferences.ece.unm.edu/chants2019/



colocated with ACM Mobicom 2019,

the 25th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking

Oct 21-25, Los Cabos, Mexico



Scope and Overview

Challenged networks comprise those situations where communication is desired, 
but traditional Internet architectures fail to provide it effectively. Such 
networks may be characterized by intermittent connectivity, a heterogeneous mix 
of nodes, frequent nodal churn, and widely varying network conditions. The 
applications of challenged networks range from time-critical communications 
such as for disaster relief to delay-tolerant transmission in poorly connected 
regions or where censorship should be counteracted. However, challenged 
networking has also found many applications in everyday settings, for which 
they were not initially conceived, such as opportunistic networking supporting 
data-centric communications, traffic offloading from cellular networks, mobile 
cloud/edge computing, opportunistic and participatory sensing as well as 
challenged IoT.



CHANTS builds on the success of the thirteen previous CHANTS workshops and WDTN 
2005, and aims to stimulate research on the most novel topics of challenged 
networking research. This year’s edition encourages submission of theoretical 
and experimental work (including studies of real deployment), with a primary 
interest in new directions of challenged networking in concrete application 
scenarios and demonstrators in areas such as autonomous driving, underwater 
robots, emergency response operations, underground mining, interplanetary 
missions, polar research and unmanned aerial vehicles. The workshop seeks 
original work presented in the form of research papers describing new research 
approaches and results, as well as demo and poster submissions. Highly 
disruptive work-in-progress and position papers are also welcome, provided they 
focus on particularly innovative solutions or applications for challenged 
networks. All papers shall be forward-looking, describe their relationship to 
existing work, and shall argue their impact and implications for ongoing or 
future research.



Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

●    Delay/disruption-tolerant networks (DTNs), opportunistic communication and 
computing

●    Modeling and analysis of challenged networks and protocols for challenged 
networks

●    Communication systems and networks for underground mining

●    Underwater communication systems and networks

●    Security/trust/privacy concerns and solutions in challenged networks

●    Networking in polar regions

●    Millimeter Wave Networking

●    Challenged networking techniques for mobile cloud computing and mobile 
data offloading

●    Challenged networking techniques for participatory and opportunistic 
sensing

●    Challenged networking in the Internet of Things and in Cyber-Physical 
Systems

●    Energy-efficient communication in challenged networks

●    User behavior modeling and Quality of Service provisioning in challenged 
networks

●    Space-terrestrial networks, lunar networks as well as interplanetary 
networks

●    Information-centric and content-centric networking in challenged networks

●    Real-world mobility trace collection, analysis, and modeling for 
challenged environments

●    Network coding in challenged networks

●    Real deployment and case studies in various stages of use

●    Configuration, management, and monitoring of challenged networks

●    Disrupted scenarios for challenged networks (e.g., disaster relief and 
emergency management)

●    User Interfaces and interactive applications optimized for Challenged 
Networks

●    Test and simulation tools for evaluating challenged network systems



Program Committee Chairs

Suzan Bayhan (TU Berlin, Germany)

Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (University of New Mexico, USA)



Workshop Web Chair
Estefanía Coronado (FBK CREATE-NET, Italy)

Publicity Chair
Gürkan Gür (ZHAW, Switzerland)

Jim Plusquellic (University of New Mexico, USA)



Steering Board

Kevin Almeroth (UC Santa Barbara, USA)

Kevin Fall (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Stephen Farrell (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Jörg Ott (TU München, Germany)
Andrea Passarella (IIT-CNR, Italy)





Important Dates

Abstract Registration: June 28, 2019

Submission Deadline: June 28, 2019

Acceptance Notification: July 31st, 2019

Camera-ready:   August 12th, 2019

Workshop:  October 25th, 2019





Paper Format and Submission Instructions



General Paper Format

Submitted papers must be no longer than 6 pages, and should adhere to the 
standard ACM conference proceedings format.  All submissions must be written in 
English. Authors must register the abstract 1 week prior to the full paper 
submission.



Demo/Poster Format

Demo and poster proposals (to be published as part of the proceedings) must not 
be longer than 2 pages, for demos plus 1 page description of the precise setup 
and requirements (the 1-page setup description will not be published in the 
proceedings).



Submission

Reviews will be single-blinded. Papers should neither have been published 
elsewhere nor being currently under review by another conference or journal.



Editorial Follow-Ups

Extended versions of the selected workshop papers will be considered for 
possible fast track publication in well-known journals, e.g., Computer 
Communications (Elsevier) or the ACM GetMobile.


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