> > 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 31st 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 > --------------- > Full Paper Submission Deadline: December 31, 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
