[MCTG] Fwd: [MCN-Announce]- Extremecom comes to the Mendocino Coast in August

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Subject: 	[MCN-Announce]- Extremecom comes to the Mendocino Coast in August
Date: 	Sat, 27 Feb 2016 14:23:31 -0800
From: 	Gary Levenson-Palmer <glevpalmer at gmail.com>
To: 	announce <announce at lists.mcn.org>



The Extreme Conference on Communication and Computing (ExtremeCom) brings
together researchers and practitioners in areas related to communications
in rural, remote or other extreme environments, and computing in extreme
operating conditions such as extreme temperatures, energy constraints,
involving extreme quantities ("big data") and/or extremely large-scale
systems, and extreme levels of threat and uncertainty, in order to gain
experience and insight into the challenges that such environments pose for
the system, the network and the users.

We welcome a broad range of topics concerning both technical and economical
aspects, for example wireless communication, mobile computing, low power
devices and protocols, delay tolerant networks and other networking
paradigms, distributed computing paradigms, big data, distributed systems,
cloud computing, business and services models, user experiences and web
applications. Researches addressing computing challenges in general mobile
environments (even not completely extreme) are also welcomed by the
conference.
Following on from the success of ExtremeCom 2009 - The Midnight Sun
Expedition <http://symlab.ust.hk/extremecom/2009/> in Laponia, Sweden,
ExtremeCom
2010 - The Himalayan Expedition <http://symlab.ust.hk/extremecom/2010/>in
Dharamsala, India, ExtremeCom 2011 - The Amazon Expedition
<http://symlab.ust.hk/extremecom/2011/> in Manaus, Brazil, ExtremeCom 2012
- The Swiss Alps Winter Expedition <http://extremecom2012.ee.ethz.ch/> in
Zurich, Switzerland, ExtremeCom 2013 - The Volcanic Expedition
<http://symlab.ust.hk/extremecom/2013/> in the Eyjafjallajökull Volcano
region in Iceland, and ExtremeCom 2014 - The Galápagos Expedition
<http://symlab.ust.hk/extremecom/2014/>, we present the *ExtremeCom 2016
edition: The Mendonoma Expedition.* The conference will contain 3 days of
excursions in the stunning nature of coastal northern California (Mendocino
county). Along the way, participants will get to see and experience the
varying landscape and visit coastal areas, explore the Stornetta lands
national monument, and hike to the Point Arena hot springs along the Garcia
river. During these excursions, we will visit the landing site of the
original trans-pacific coaxial cables, which is today one of
North-America's most important transoceanic fiber landing stations, as well
as several deployment sites of the FurtherReach.Net
<http://furtherreach.net/> rural network where participants will interact
with subscribers, operators and developers of this service to learn from
their experience. The immersion will not only give a better idea of both
the technical and user requirements of such rural deployments, but it will
also give many opportunities for informal research discussions between the
participants. Participants that have their own software for scenarios like
this will also, to as great an extent as possible, be encouraged to test
and demonstrate it within this environment. After the excursions, there
will be two days of paper presentations and demos. Focus will still be on
informal research discussions, with the hope that the field experience will
give participants the ability to discuss the topics in a new light.

It would be great for some Mendocino'ians  to submit papers and be part of
this conference.  Please link to website and Facebook pages to get the word
out.

Topics for the conference include, but are not limited to:

    - Testbeds for large-scale sustainable testing of mobile communication
    systems
    - Real deployments of networks in extreme environments
    - Business and service models for networks in rural, remote, and other
    challenging environments
    - Delay tolerant networking
    - User experience research
    - Big data research such as mining and modeling of mobility and social network
    - Cloud computing for extreme scalability
    - Mesh networks and sensor networks
    - Low-power and intermittent-power protocols
    - Mechanisms for emergency and urgent communications
    - Distributed computing for mobile environments
    - Networked applications and services
    - Operating system and middleware support for mobile computing and
    networking
    - Security, privacy, and trustworthiness of extreme communications
    - Underwater networking
    - Robotic communications and mobile augmented reality
    - Protocols, architectures, and applications for the Internet of Things

Due to logistics, the number of participants will be limited. Priority will
be given to authors of papers and those who register first.

Here's the link to the conference.

http://extremecom.org/

Here's the link to the Facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1187138861297741&id=212096018802035&fref=nf



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