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| SIGMOBILE | |
|---|---|
| Name | SIGMOBILE |
| Formed | 1995 |
| Type | Professional society special interest group |
| Headquarters | New York City |
| Parent organization | Association for Computing Machinery |
SIGMOBILE SIGMOBILE is the Association for Computing Machinery's special interest group for mobile computing, wireless networks, and sensing. The group fosters research communities around mobile systems involving venues such as MobiCom, MobiSys, SENSYS, UbiComp, and HotMobile, and connects scholars associated with institutions such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Its activities intersect with work by researchers from Microsoft Research, Google Research, IBM Research, Bell Labs, and Intel Labs and influence standards bodies like IEEE 802.11, 3GPP, IETF, ITU, and ETSI.
SIGMOBILE was formed in 1995 amid a surge of interest following demonstrations at conferences like SIGCOMM 1993, MobiCom 1995, and workshops convened at ACM 1994 and Usenix 1995. Early organizers included faculty from University of Southern California, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Washington, Princeton University, and Cornell University who collaborated with researchers from AT&T Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Nokia Research, Motorola Labs, and Qualcomm. The group helped incubate events that later became established forums alongside SIGCOMM, SIGGRAPH, SIGMETRICS, SIGCHI, and SIGPLAN, shaping mobile research agendas during the rise of GSM, CDMA, Wi-Fi, and later LTE. Throughout the 2000s and 2010s SIGMOBILE activities paralleled advances from projects at MIT Media Lab, Berkeley SETI Research Center, ETH Zurich, University of Cambridge, and Imperial College London.
SIGMOBILE operates under the umbrella of the Association for Computing Machinery with elected officers drawn from universities such as Yale University, Columbia University, University of Michigan, University of Texas at Austin, and Georgia Institute of Technology as well as industry laboratories including Apple Inc., Facebook AI Research, Amazon Lab126, Samsung Research, and Huawei Technologies. Membership categories follow ACM practices similar to those of ACM SIGGRAPH, ACM SIGPLAN, ACM SIGCOMM, and ACM SIGCHI and provide access to benefits parallel to IEEE Computer Society chapters and Royal Society fellowship networks. SIGMOBILE's governance includes a steering committee, program chairs, and local organizers who coordinate with associations like USENIX, IEEE Communications Society, IETF Mobile IPv6 Working Group, and regional chapters at ACM India and ACM Europe.
SIGMOBILE sponsors flagship conferences and co-located workshops including MobiCom, MobiSys, SENSYS, UbiComp, and HotMobile, and it has run workshops akin to WoWMoM, CoNEXT, IPSN, NSDI, and EuroSys. These events attract submissions from authors affiliated with Harvard University, Brown University, Duke University, Johns Hopkins University, and Rutgers University and feature keynotes from figures at DARPA, NSF, NICTA, European Research Council, and Google. Program committees often include editors and reviewers from outlets such as IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, and Nature Communications.
SIGMOBILE oversees proceedings published in association with ACM Digital Library and recognizes excellence through awards analogous to honors from ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, Turing Award, ACM Prize in Computing, and domain prizes like the SIGCOMM Award. SIGMOBILE-sponsored proceedings and workshop papers are frequently indexed alongside articles in Communications of the ACM, IEEE Spectrum, Science Advances, PNAS, and IEEE Internet of Things Journal. The group highlights best-paper awards, lifetime achievement recognitions, and dissertation awards that parallel accolades granted by ACM SIGCHI, ACM SIGMOD, and ACM SIGKDD.
SIGMOBILE's scope spans mobile computing, wireless networking, mobile systems, sensing, and pervasive computing with strong ties to research topics advanced at MIT CSAIL, Berkeley MLab, ETH Zurich Systems Group, University of Oxford, and University of Toronto. Specific technical themes reflect work on protocols influenced by TCP/IP, radio technologies from IEEE 802.15.4, localization methods similar to those in GPS research, power management techniques explored at Intel Labs Seattle, and mobile security topics linked to projects at NIST and ENISA. Outputs from SIGMOBILE venues have impacted deployments in products by Cisco Systems, Ericsson, Huawei, Samsung Electronics, and Apple Inc. and informed policy and spectrum decisions involving Federal Communications Commission, European Commission, and international standards organizations like ITU-R.
SIGMOBILE collaborates with academic consortia, industrial research labs, and standards groups such as IEEE, IETF, 3GPP, ETSI, and initiatives supported by NSF, DARPA, European Research Council, and corporate partners including Google, Microsoft, Intel, Qualcomm, and Amazon. Partnerships facilitate internships and joint programs with centers at Microsoft Research Cambridge, Google Research Zurich, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Bell Labs Research, and Samsung Research America, and enable technology transfer consistent with programs run by Stanford Research Park, Cambridge Science Park, and Research Triangle Park. SIGMOBILE's industry engagement supports testbeds and pilot deployments comparable to those coordinated by PlanetLab, GENI, OpenAirInterface, and ORBIT Laboratory.
Category:Association for Computing Machinery Category:Mobile computing organizations