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| IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications | |
|---|---|
| Name | IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications |
| Abbreviation | IEEE PerCom |
| Discipline | Ubiquitous computing, Wireless sensor networks, Mobile computing |
| Publisher | IEEE Communications Society |
| Country | International |
| Established | 2003 |
| Frequency | Annual |
IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications is an annual scientific conference focusing on pervasive computing, mobile systems, and wireless communications, combining research from academia, industry, and standards bodies. It convenes researchers, engineers, and policymakers from institutions such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Oxford and organizations including Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE Communications Society, ACM, IETF and ETSI. The meeting has fostered collaborations among contributors affiliated with Nokia, Intel Corporation, Google, Microsoft Research, IBM Research, Siemens and Huawei Technologies.
The conference originated in the early 2000s amid parallel developments at MIT Media Lab, Xerox PARC, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies and IBM Research and alongside events such as ACM SenSys, ACM MobiCom, ACM UbiComp, IEEE INFOCOM and USENIX. Early editions featured keynote speakers from DARPA, National Science Foundation, European Commission and leaders from Bell Labs Research and Microsoft Research Redmond, reflecting intersections with projects sponsored by DARPA Urban Challenge and funded initiatives like the Horizon 2020 programme. Over time the conference evolved in response to breakthroughs at laboratories such as SRI International and Honeywell, and influential research from groups at University of Cambridge, ETH Zurich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Peking University, Tsinghua University and National University of Singapore.
PerCom covers topics tied to work at institutions including Bell Labs, IBM Watson Research Center, MIT Lincoln Laboratory and companies such as Cisco Systems and Ericsson. Typical topics intersect with research streams represented at ACM SIGCOMM, IEEE Globecom, IEEE WCNC and Eurosys: sensor networks and participatory sensing associated with USGS and NOAA deployments; location and indoor positioning linked to standards from 3GPP and Bluetooth SIG; mobile human-computer interaction overlapping with projects at Samsung Research America and Apple Inc.; and privacy, security and trust themes influencing work at Electronic Frontier Foundation and International Telecommunication Union. The program often reflects techniques used in publications from Cornell University, Princeton University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Washington and Caltech.
The conference is organized by committees comprising representatives from universities such as Imperial College London, King's College London, University of Toronto, McGill University and University of Melbourne and industry partners including Qualcomm, Broadcom, ARM Holdings and Texas Instruments. Sponsorship and endorsement have come from IEEE Standards Association, IETF working groups, regional entities like European Commission Directorate-General for Communications Networks, and corporate labs including Google DeepMind and Amazon Web Services. Program chairs have historically been drawn from laboratories at Microsoft Research Cambridge, Facebook AI Research, Bell Labs Paris and national labs such as Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Typical activities mirror formats used by ACM CHI, NeurIPS, ICML and CVPR with paper sessions, poster sessions, workshops, tutorials and panels; industry tracks have included demonstrations by Intel Labs, Nokia Bell Labs and Samsung Electronics. Workshops have explored themes similar to those at ACM HotMobile and USENIX Enigma, often co-located with policy discussions involving OECD and World Bank representatives. Tutorials taught by faculty from University College London and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne complement hands-on demos from startups incubated at Y Combinator and accelerators like Techstars. Special sessions have included collaborations with standards organizations such as 3GPP and Bluetooth Special Interest Group.
The conference has published influential work that intersected with foundational results from ACM MobiSys, IEEE INFOCOM and ACM SenSys: early pervasive sensing architectures inspired by MIT Media Lab prototypes; localization algorithms extending research from UCLA and University of Southern California; and privacy-preserving frameworks building on theories by Harvard University and Columbia University. Contributions have influenced standards and products at Apple Inc., Google, Samsung, Qualcomm and Huawei Technologies and have been cited alongside landmark papers from Bell Labs, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center collaborations, and research programs at NASA Ames Research Center. Papers addressing energy-efficient protocols echoed work from UC San Diego and University of Pennsylvania research groups.
PerCom best paper and best student paper awards have honored researchers affiliated with ETH Zurich, EPFL, University of Cambridge, Imperial College London and Tsinghua University; awardees have later received honors such as the ACM SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Award and appointments at institutions like Princeton University and MIT. Distinguished keynote speakers have included leaders from DARPA, National Institutes of Health, European Research Council and corporate labs like Microsoft Research and IBM Research. The conference proceedings are indexed in databases alongside publications from Springer, IEEE Xplore and are considered in evaluations by funding agencies such as NSF and ERC.
Venues have rotated among cities with strong research presence such as Boston, San Francisco, Barcelona, Rome, Hong Kong and Singapore, echoing choices made by conferences like IEEE INFOCOM and ACM SIGCOMM. Attendance has varied with global trends in computing research and industry cycles, with spikes during periods of investment by Sequoia Capital-backed startups and technology drives from Chinese Academy of Sciences and Indian Institute of Technology. The conference has adapted to virtual formats used by NeurIPS 2020 and ICLR 2020 in response to public health events, while resuming in-person editions aligned with large regional hubs such as Silicon Valley and Cambridge, UK.