MOBICOM

Welcome to ACM MobiCom '17, the 23nd Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking.

MobiCom is the premier forum for cutting-edge research in mobile systems and wireless networks. This year's technical program features 35 outstanding papers, covering a wide variety of topics:

• Wireless access and backhaul

• Cellular systems

• Light communication

• Near field communication

• Localization

• RFID

• Wireless privacy and security

• IoT and wearables

• Data management

• Virtual reality

• Mobile applications and Web

We again had a heavy PC (30 members) and a light PC (30 members). The two-tiered PC balanced the goals of broader inclusivity and running an effective TPC meeting. The TPC was made up of experts from diverse research areas, and TPC selection also took into account gender, seniority, institution, country, expertise, and academic or industrial background. The TPC included researchers from 10 countries: France, India, Italy, Singapore, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, U.K., and the U.S. Twenty percent of the TPC members were female. The TPC also had broad industry participation, with members from Cisco, Google, IBM, Microsoft, and NEC.

The paper review process was double-blind. It was carried out in three phases: First, each paper was reviewed by at least three TPC members, and the top 107 papers were advanced to the second phase. Review scores, in addition to reviewer confidence and normalization with respect to other papers by the same reviewer, were considered in the selection process. In the second phase, each paper was reviewed by at least two more reviewers, followed by an online discussion; that produced 68 papers for the TPC meeting on June 1 and 2 in Seattle, which was the final phase. These 68 papers were discussed at length at the meeting. Eventually, 35 papers were conditionally accepted into the program. The heavy PC participated in all three phases; the light TPC participated only in the first phase.

Each of the 35 papers was assigned a shepherd from the heavy PC. Shepherds' identities were provided to authors, unlike in the previous year. Reviewers remained anonymous. Shepherds coordinated with reviewers to address the review comments and they approved the final versions for publication. The result of this process is a strong and diverse technical program consisting of 35 high-quality papers.