1. SIGMOBILE Program Review http://www.sigmobile.org David B. Johnson SIGMOBILE Chair dbj @ cs.rice.edu July 2007 SGB Meeting

2. SIGMOBILE Mobility of Systems, Users, Data, and Computing: Founded in 1996 (we started MobiCom, our first conference, in 1995) Mobile computing, wireless and mobile networking, sensor networking, … Executive Committee officers extended in 2007 for second 2-year term: Chair: Prof. David B. Johnson (Rice University) Vice Chair: Dr. Jason K. Redi (BBN Technologies) Treasurer: Prof. Tracy Camp (Colorado School of Mines) Secretary: Prof. Chiara Petrioli (University of Rome La Sapienza) Two local international SIGMOBILE Chapters: Nanyang Technological University Student Chapter (Singapore) Sydney Professional Chapter (Australia) SIGMOBILE awards: Outstanding Contribution Award: a single research contribution or lifetime Distinguished Service Award: service to SIGMOBILE or community MobiCom Best Student Paper Award MobiSys Best Paper Award

3. Conferences and Workshops SIGMOBILE sponsors 4 healthy annual international conferences: MobiCom: Mobile Computing and Networking (since 1995) MobiHoc: Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (since 2000) MobiSys: Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (since 2003) SenSys: Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (since 2003) –Co-sponsored by SIGMOBILE and SIGCOMM (30% each); SIGARCH, SIGOPS, SIGMETRICS, SIGBED (10% each) All are widely recognized as the premier conferences in the field MobiCom ranked by CiteSeer as 5th highest impact publication venue Also many sponsored workshops and in-cooperation events: 12 sponsored co-located workshops at our conferences in past year Plus 13 in-cooperation conferences/workshops in past year New this year: Experimenting with co-locating MobiCom and MobiHoc 2007 (September) Now sponsoring HotMobile 2008 (formerly IEEE Computer Society)

4. Publications SIGMOBILE is a major contributor to the ACM Digital Library Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R): Quarterly newsletter and scientific journal for SIGMOBILE members High-quality peer-reviewed research papers (double-blind reviewing) Plus news, standards updates, CFPs, features, book reviews, etc. All content is indexed in IEE INSPEC, increasing visibility and impact Editor: Prof. Mani Srivastava (UCLA) Associate Editor: Prof. Srikanth Krishnamurthy (UC Riverside) 16 international Area Editors 2 Feature Editors Fast turn-around time, generally less than 6 months to publication SIGMOBILE E-Mail Newsletter sent monthly to members: SIGMOBILE announcements, pointers to news articles, calendar of events, and pointers to articles for active developers Editor: Information Director Dr. Robert Steele (UT Sydney, Australia)

5. Membership SIGMOBILE membership is healthy: Membership total has been about constant past 2 years, after rising Now 784 total members (641 professional, 75 affiliate, 68 students) Total retention now 68.7% (between 63.7% and 71.4% since 2000) 2+-year retention now at 80.3%; 1-year retention now 44.2% and rising Volunteer development: Annual open SIGMOBILE business meetings are very well attended We have many volunteers seeking to get more involved in SIGMOBILE: –General Chairs, Program Chairs, Program Committees, etc., of our many conferences and workshops –Large active group of volunteers operating MC2R; E-News Editor –Solicitation of volunteers at annual open SIGMOBILE business meeting Recent example: Prof. Guanling Chen (UMass Lowell) has been auditing SIGMOBILEs entries in ACM Digital Library, finding and helping ACM correct many errors

6. Financials SIGMOBILE finances are strong and growing: Now over $72,000 above required fund balance and growing steadily Loss from MobiCom 2002, but other conferences have been profitable We have been being very careful and conservative with budgeting (2005 bump in required fund balance was due to MobiSys 2004 expenses: MobiSys expenses in even years were SIGMOBILE, odd years were USENIX, but MobiSys is 100% SIGMOBILE since 2006) Continuing strong Industry support: Past year conference/workshop donations include Boeing, Cisco, Crossbow, DiamlerChrysler, Google, HP, IBM, Intel, Moteiv, Microsoft Research, Nokia, RSA, Telecom Italia, Toyota, Verizon Wireless, … Required Balance