MobiSys
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| MobiSys | |
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| Name | MobiSys |
| Discipline | Mobile computing, wireless systems |
| Abbreviation | MobiSys |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery, ACM |
| Country | International |
| Frequency | Annual |
| Established | 2003 |
MobiSys MobiSys is an annual academic conference focusing on mobile systems, mobile computing, and wireless networks, bringing together researchers from academia and industry. It serves as a venue for presenting peer-reviewed work on smartphones, sensors, vehicular systems, and distributed mobile applications, attracting participants from institutions such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, and companies like Google, Apple Inc., Microsoft, and Intel. The conference is associated with the Association for Computing Machinery and often co-located with other events in the field.
Overview
MobiSys promotes research in mobile platforms, mobile networking, sensing systems, and application-level frameworks, featuring submissions evaluated by program committees drawn from universities like University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, ETH Zurich, and research labs including Bell Labs, IBM Research, Nokia Research Center, and Samsung Research. Typical program content spans experimental evaluations, system prototypes, and theoretical designs evaluated using testbeds such as PlanetLab, Emulab, and deployments on devices like the iPhone, Android handsets, and specialized platforms from Qualcomm and Broadcom. The conference attracts attendees from government research bodies like DARPA, NSF, and NIST, as well as startups and established firms including Facebook, Amazon, Cisco Systems, and Huawei.
History and Development
Founded in 2003, the conference emerged alongside contemporaries such as MobiCom, SenSys, and IPSN to address emerging challenges in mobile and ubiquitous computing. Early editions featured pioneering work from researchers affiliated with University of California, Los Angeles, University of Washington, Princeton University, and Yale University, reflecting shifts driven by advances from industry innovators like Ericsson and Motorola. Over time MobiSys expanded its scope to include vehicular and cyber-physical systems intersecting with projects at Caltech, ETH Zurich, and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Key milestones include increasing acceptance of measurement-driven studies from groups at Microsoft Research and the introduction of industry tracks influenced by collaborations with Intel Labs and Google Research.
Conferences and Proceedings
Proceedings are typically published under the auspices of the Association for Computing Machinery in digital libraries alongside proceedings from SIGCOMM, OSDI, SOSP, and NSDI. Locations have varied internationally, with past venues hosted in cities where institutions such as University College London, University of Toronto, Seoul National University, and Tsinghua University operate major research groups. The program committee often includes faculty from Cornell University, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, University of Michigan, and researchers from Adobe Inc. and ARM Holdings. Workshops and tutorials at the conference have been organized in collaboration with events such as HotMobile and MobiHoc, and best-paper awards have recognized work later cited in journals like IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and published by Springer (publisher) and IEEE venues.
Topics and Research Areas
Research topics span mobile sensing, energy-efficient design, context-aware systems, mobile security, privacy, and mobile cloud offloading. Contributors frequently hail from labs at Brown University, Duke University, University of Pennsylvania, and University of California, San Diego, addressing problems involving protocols developed with influence from IETF standards and hardware trends led by ARM Ltd., NVIDIA, and Broadcom Corporation. Intersections with smart-city deployments link work to projects by Siemens, IBM Smarter Cities, and municipal pilots in cities like New York City, Singapore, and Shanghai. Cross-disciplinary collaborations involve robotics groups at MIT CSAIL, control researchers at Caltech, and human-computer interaction teams at Georgia Institute of Technology.
Notable Papers and Contributions
MobiSys has published influential papers on localization, energy profiling, sensor networks, and mobile security that have impacted follow-on work at Google Research, Microsoft Research, and Facebook AI Research. Landmark contributions include system prototypes later integrated into platforms from Apple Inc. and algorithms that informed standards used by 3GPP and research cited in venues such as CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems and ACM SIGPLAN workshops. Authors recognized at MobiSys have gone on to faculty positions at Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, ETH Zurich, and leadership roles at companies including Amazon Web Services and Tesla, Inc..
Organization and Sponsorship
The conference is organized by volunteer program and local committees drawn from universities and research labs including University of Cambridge, Imperial College London, University of Melbourne, and industrial sponsors such as Google, Microsoft, Intel, Qualcomm, and ARM Holdings. Funding and support frequently involve national agencies like National Science Foundation and corporate research units including Bell Labs and Nokia Bell Labs. Partnership and co-location arrangements have included collaborations with regional institutions such as HKUST, KAIST, and University of Sydney.