ACM SIGCOMM 2018 Morning Workshop on Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Network (VR/AR Network 2018)

Workshop Program

Friday, August 24, 2018, InterContinental

8:30 am - 8:40 am Opening

Location: InterContinental, Ballroom III

Opening

8:40 am - 9:40 am Keynote: The Near Future of Immersive Experiences: Where We Are on the Journey, What Lies Ahead, and What It Takes to Get There

Speaker: Arianne Hinds (CableLabs, USA)

Location: InterContinental, Ballroom III

9:40 am - 10:30 am Session I: Augmented Reality

Location: InterContinental, Ballroom III

Session I: Augmented Reality

9:40 am - 10:05 am

Adaptive Fog-Based Output Security for Augmented Reality

Surin Ahn, Maria Gorlatova (Princeton, USA), Parinaz Naghizadeh, Mung Chiang (Purdue, USA), Prateek Mittal (Princeton, USA)

10:05 am - 10:30 am

Supporting Augmented Reality: Looking Beyond Performance

Lemuel Soh, Jeff Burke, Lixia Zhang (UCLA, USA)

10:30 am - 11:00 am Tea/Coffee Break

Location: InterContinental, Pre-Function Area
Tea/Coffee Break

11:00 am - 12:15 pm Session II: 360 Video Streaming

Location: InterContinental, Ballroom III

Session II: 360 Video Streaming

11:00 am - 11:25 am

Smart Streaming of Panoramic Video

Hongwei Ma (CUHK, China), Xiaoke Jiang, Rui Ma, Zhiyou Ma (Kandao, China), Yizhen Cai, Dah Ming Chiu (CUHK, China)

11:25 am - 11:50 am

Predictive View Generation to Enable Mobile 360-degree and VR Experiences

Xueshi Hou, Sujit Dey (UCSD, USA), Jianzhong Zhang, Madhukar Budagavi (Samsung, USA)

11:50 am - 12:15 pm

Joint Rate and FoV Adaptation in Immersive Video Streaming

Dongbiao He (Tsinghua, China), Cedric Westphal, J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves (UCSC, USA)

12:15 pm - 12:30 pm Closing

Location: InterContinental, Ballroom III

Closing

Call for Papers

Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) are expected to be the next generation Killer-Apps in the future Internet. VR/AR is projected to form a $162 billion market by 2020. However, many technical bottlenecks and challenges still need to be overcome to facilitate the wide adoption of VR/AR. In particular, VR/AR applications increasingly require higher bandwidth, shorter delay, lower packet loss rate, and faster computation. Immersive VR/AR videos are the representative applications. High-throughput and low-latency video delivery, realtime video generation, processing and adaption call for significant engineering innovations, which can only happen through interdisciplinary research.

The ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Network will bring together experts from different fields, including video coding and analytics, wireless communication, computer networking, cloud and edge computing, and mobile systems to exchange ideas on novel system designs, and network architectures and protocols to support VR/AR, as well as innovative video coding, analytics and transmission designs to deliver immersive VR/AR experience in future networks. This workshop will serve as a meeting point for worldwide researchers and developers working on VR/AR and networking to share their experience, exchange views, and explore future research directions.

Topics of Interest

We solicit stimulating, original, previously unpublished ideas on completed work, position papers, and/or work-in-progress papers in the form of extended abstracts. We further encourage papers that propose new research directions or could generate lively debate at the workshop. We invite submissions on a wide range of VR/AR network research topics, including, but not limited to:

Networking requirements and challenges of VR/AR
Ultra-low-latency networking
High-throughput transport for VR/AR
Adaptive video streaming for network/user dynamics
Novel CDN architecture and caching algorithms for VR/AR
Mobile edge computing for VR/AR
Named data networking for VR/AR
Wireless and mobile video systems
VR/AR in 5G networks
Joint video coding and transmission design
Video analytics and smart offloading for VR/AR
Measurement study of existing VR/AR applications

Submission Instructions

Submissions must be original, unpublished work, and not under consideration at another conference or journal. Submitted papers must be at most six (6) pages long, including all figures, tables, references, and appendices in two-column 10pt ACM format. Papers must include author’s names and affiliations for single-blind peer reviewing by the PC. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their papers at the workshop.

Submit your paper at https://sigcomm18vrar.hotcrp.com/

Authors Take Note

The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to TWO WEEKS prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.

Registration

Attendance of the workshop is by open registration and subject to the same registration fees and rules as all the other SIGCOMM 2018 workshops. The registrants of the workshop may freely attend any workshop on the same day.