Mobile handhelds are the computing and communications devices that will pervade all users worldwide, much more than desktop-based systems. Mobile handhelds come in many forms, ranging from traditional cellular phones, to smart phones, music players, electronic book readers, computation capable watches, and many more. This platform has grown in both in numbers and their programmability in the recent years and are likely to change the computing, communications landscape in a radical ways in the years to come. With increasing capabilities come increasing challenges spanning a wide range of domains, e.g., in design of effective networking mechanisms, in applications design, in user interfaces, in energy efficiency, and in management of these devices.

The goal of the first MobiHand workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners to investigate challenges in designing and utilizing this platform for the Internet of tomorrow.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following (all of which are in the context of mobile handhelds):

* Wireless protocols and services, especially dealing with limited power, limited bandwidth, and unpredictable connectivity of mobile handhelds
* Design, implementation, and evaluation of services for mobile handhelds
* Security, privacy, and trust for mobile handhelds
* New applications for mobile handhelds
* Mobile handheld management
* Energy management
* Virtualized services
* Cloud-based services
* Emerging applications, including media applications
* Social networking using mobile handhelds
* User interface issues
* Operating systems and middleware support
* Multi-radio mobile handhelds
* Platforms and testbeds for experimenting with mobile handhelds

All submissions must be original work not under review at any other workshop, conference, or journal. The workshop will accept papers describing completed work as well as work-in-progress, so long as the promise of the approach is demonstrated. Radical ideas, potentially of a controversial nature, are strongly encouraged.
Submission Instructions

Submissions must be no greater than 6 pages in length and must be a pdf file. Reviews will be single-blind: authors name and affiliation should be included in the submission. Submissions must follow the formatting guidelines at http://www.sigcomm.org/sigcomm2009/.

Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their papers at the workshop.