SOSP NSDR 2009
Call for Papers Workshop Website Important Dates- Submission Deadline:
June 15 - Notification:
August 5 - Camera-ready:
September 5 - Workshop:
October 11
Following on two successful workshops hosted with ACM SIGCOMM in 2007 and 2008, the 3rd Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions (NSDR '09) will provide a venue for researchers to present ideas and results concerning the design, implementation and evaluation of new computing and communications technologies serving developing regions.
The decreasing cost and increasing access to information and communication technologies (e.g., mobile phones) are rapidly enabling access to new services and markets for previously disconnected populations. However, due to a variety of factors, including cost, literacy, education, and organizational capacity, conventional approaches to technology design and implementation are often not relevant. Moreover, empirical evidence for the impact of such technologies is largely anecdotal, beyond a few well-known and well-cited examples.
Addressing this requires engagement of several disciplines, including but not limited to economics, sociology, anthropology, and political science, and expertise in a variety of application areas - including government, health, finance and agriculture. NSDR focuses on addressing significant technical challenges (e.g., communication infrastructure in rural areas, novel caching techniques for challenged networks, security issues arising in such contexts), and on the deployment and evaluation of novel technologies or applications that address a specific need (e.g. providing remote financial services or health care).
PapersWe encourage submission of position papers or the results of preliminary work describing interesting, original, previously unpublished ideas or results pertaining to the design, implementation and/or evaluation of networks and systems for developing regions.
Accepted papers will:
- propose new research directions;
- target a specific application;
- inform design and/or deployment;
- or generate lively debate at the workshop.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Low-cost wireless connectivity
- Intermittent systems
- Power-efficient systems
- Low-cost computing devices
- Mobile systems and applications
- Adapting content and applications for local languages
- User interfaces for low-literacy populations
- Design and evaluation of applications for public health, microfinance, agriculture, e-governance, education, monitoring, disaster management, etc.
Submissions must be no greater than 6 pages (six pages) in length (including figures and references), must be a PDF file, and must follow formatting guidelines and instructions at http://www.dritte.org/nsdr09/submit.html. Submissions that deviate from these guidelines will be rejected without consideration. Reviews will be SINGLE-BLIND: authors' names and affiliations should be included in the submission.
Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their papers at the workshop. Submissions must be original work not under review at any other workshop, conference or journal.
Program Committee- Vivek Pai, Princeton (co-chair)
- Tapan Parikh, UC Berkeley (co-chair)
- Muneeb Ali, Princeton
- John Bennett, Colorado
- Gaetano Borriello, U. Washington
- Eric Brewer, UC Berkeley
- Ravi Jain, Google
- S. Keshav, Waterloo
- KyoungSoo Park, Pittsburgh
- Bhaskaran Raman, IIT-Mumbai
- Umar Saif, LUMS
- Lakshmi Subramanian, NYU
- Bill Thies, MSR India
- Kentaro Toyama, MSR India
| Sunday, October 11 | |
| 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM | Breakfast |
| 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM | Session 1: Keynote & Introduction |
| 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Break |
| 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Session 2: Money and Power |
| 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Lunch |
| 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | Session 3: Eyes and Ears and Mouth and Nose |
| 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Break |
| 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Session 4: Plowing the Road Ahead |
Session 1: Keynote & Introduction
| To be announced |
Session 2: Money and Power
| Signet: Low-cost Auditable Transactions Using SIMs and Mobile Phones |
| Michael Paik (NYU) and Lakshmi Subramanian (NYU) |
| Secure Branchless Banking |
| Ashlesh Sharma (NYU), Lakshmi Subramanian (NYU), and Dennis Shasha (NYU) |
| An Energy-Flow Model for Self-Powered Routers and its Application for Energy-Aware Routing |
| Veljko Pejovic (UCSB), Elizabeth Belding (UCSB), and Mahesh Marina (Univ. of Edinburgh) |
| Implementation and Evaluation of a TDMA MAC for WiFi-based Rural Mesh Networks |
| Ashutosh Dhekne (IIT Bombay), Nirav Uchat (IIT Bombay), and Bhaskaran Raman (IIT Bombay) |
Session 3: Eyes and Ears and Mouth and Nose
| Message Phone: A User Study and Analysis of Asynchronous Messaging in Rural Uganda |
| Kurtis Heimerl (UC Berkeley), RJ Honicky (UC Berkeley), Eric Brewer (UC Berkeley), and Tapan Parikh (UC Berkeley) |
| Lo3: Low-cost, Low-power, Local Voice and Messaging for Developing Regions |
| Bhaskaran Raman (IIT Bombay) and Kameswari Chebrolu (IIT Bombay) |
| Crowd Translator: On Building Localized Speech Recognizers through Micropayments |
| Jonathan Ledlie (Nokia Research), Billy Odero (Nokia Research), Einat Minkov (Nokia Research), Imre Kiss (Nokia Research), and Joseph Polifroni (Nokia Research) |
| Development and Implementation of a Loosely Coupled, Multi-Site, Networked and Replicated Electronic Medical Record in Haiti |
| William B Lober (Univ. of Washington), Stephen Wagner (Univ. of Washington), and Christina Quiles (Univ. of Washington) |
Session 4: Plowing the Road Ahead
| Beating Netbooks Into Servers: Making Some Computers More Equal Than Others |
| Anirudh Badam (Princeton) and Vivek Pai (Princeton) |
| MyMANET: A Customizable Mobile Ad hoc Network |
| Ashwin Paranjpe (Georgia Tech) and Santosh Vempala (Georgia Tech) |
| Challenges In Communication Assisted Road Transportation Systems for Developing Regions |
| Rijurekha Sen (IIT Bombay), Vishal Sevani (IIT Bombay), Prashima Sharma (IIT Bombay), Zahir Koradia (IIT Bombay), and Bhaskaran Raman (IIT Bombay) |
| The C-LINK System for Collaborative Web Usage: A Real-World Deployment in Rural Nicaragua |
| Sibren Isaacman (Princeton) and Margaret Martonosi (Princeton) |
