Dear Colleagues, We encourage you to submit your papers to 2013 INFOCOM Workshop on Smart Data Pricing (SDP'13) to be held in Turin, Italy. The deadline for the paper submission is 14th December, 2012. A call for paper is attached below.
The Keynote Speaker of SDP 2013 will be Dr. Henning Schulzrinne, CTO of US Federal Communications Commission and Professor of Columbia University. Thanks, On behalf of the Organizing Committee --------------------- Soumya Sen Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 --------------------- 2nd Workshop on Smart Data Pricing (SDP 2013) ================================================================= To be held as part of Infocom 2013, April 19, 2013, Turin, Italy http://infocom.di.unimi.it/index.php/sdpwksp.html Scope and Topics ---------------- Demand for data in both wired and wireless broadband networks is doubling every year, forcing Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to use pricing as a congestion management tool. This changing landscape is evidenced by the elimination of flat-rate plans in favor of $10/GB overage fees in the US. Smart Data Pricing (SDP) will play a major role in the sustainability and future of mobile, broadband, and content. SDP can refer to (a) time/location/app/congestion dependent dynamic pricing, (b) usage based pricing with throttling/booster, (c) WiFi offloading/proactive caching, (d) two-sided pricing/sponsored content, (e) quota-aware content distribution, and any combination of the above. SDP can help create happier consumers/enterprise users, less congestion and better Quality of Experience, lower CapEx/OpEx, higher revenue/profit margin, less churn, more consumption and ad revenue to content/app providers. But all these require smart interfaces among pipe providers and content/app providers, effective user interface designs, and a combination of smart ideas, smart execution, and smart policy. SDP 2013 will provide a multi-disciplinary platform for researchers in engineering, economics, and business, to exchange novel ideas to jointly address the challenges and opportunities presented by the recent explosive growth in demand for broadband data. Call for Papers --------------- SDP 2013 workshop solicits contributions on the state-of-the-art, results of ongoing research, open issues, trends, standardization activities, and new ideas on smart pricing. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: * Theories, models, and analyses of access pricing * Use of incentives and economic mechanisms to alleviate network congestion * Economics of WiFi offloading, femtocells, heterogeneous networks * Empirical studies of user behavior in response to price incentives * New system implementation, deployment, or field trials of pricing mechanisms * Challenges in monetization of spectrum and emerging pricing trends * Two-sided pricing, billing, and sponsored content * Network neutrality and regulatory implications of pricing policies * Pricing of smart grids, cloud computing, satellite systems etc. * Architecture, hardware, and software requirements for enabling smarter pricing * Security and privacy issues in pricing practices * Human-computer interaction and psychological aspects of access pricing * Signaling protocols and standardization activities for smart pricing Submission Instructions http://infocom.di.unimi.it/index.php/wshopsubm.html Important Dates --------------- Abstract Registration Deadline: December 7, 2012 (preferred, optional) Full Paper Submission Deadline: December 14, 2012 (hard deadline) Author Notification: January 16, 2013 Camera-ready version: February 6, 2013 Workshop date: April 19, 2013 General Co-chairs: Soumya Sen, Princeton University Sangtae Ha, Princeton University TPC Co-chairs: Mung Chiang, Princeton University Krishan Sabnani, Bell Labs Alcatel-Lucent Steering Committee: Andrew Odlyzko, University of Minnesota Roch Guerin, University of Pennsylvania TPC Members: Matthew Andrews, Bell Labs Alcatel-Lucent, US Eric van den Berg, ACS Telcordia, US Randall Berry, Northwestern University, US Tian Bu, Bell Labs, US Augustin Chaintreau, Columbia University, US Robin (Yih-Farn) Chen, AT&T Research, US Marshini Chetty, University of Maryland -College Park, US John Chuang, University of California ? Berkeley, US Constantine Dovrolis, Georgia Institute of Technology, US Atilla Eryilmaz, Ohio State University, US Lixin Gao, University of Massachusetts, US Richard Gibbens, University of Cambridge, UK Jianwei Huang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK Russell T. Hsing, Postech Korea, KR Rahul Jain, University of Southern California, US Rittwik Jana, AT&T Research, US Carlee Joe-Wong, Princeton University, US Shivkumar Kalyanraman, IBM Research India, IN George Kesidis, Pennsylvania State University, US T. V. Lakshman, Bell Labs Alcatel-Lucent, US Tian Lan, George Washington University, US Patrick Loiseau, Eurecom Sophia-Antipolis, FR Peter Marbach, University of Toronto, CA Ravi Mazumdar, University of Waterloo, CA Vishal Misra, Columbia University, US John Musacchio, University of California ? Santa Cruz, US Dan Rubenstein, Columbia University, US Mihaela van der Schaar, University of California ? Los Angeles, US Sudipta Sengupta, Microsoft Research, US Srinivas Shakkottai, Texas A&M University, US Ming-Jye Sheng, Princeton University, US Chee Wei Tan, City University of Hong Kong, HK Edmund Yeh, Northeastern University, US Yung Yi, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, KR Zhi-Li Zhang, University of Minnesota, US _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
