mobisys-related-work
ResearchUse when positioning a MobiSys submission against the mobile-systems literature — offload, on-device ML, mobile OS and runtimes, sensing services, and energy — covering the right lanes, handling concurrent work, verifying that cited "MobiSys papers" are MobiSys rather than MobiCom/SenSys/OSDI, and self-citing without breaking double-blind.
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MobiSys Related Work
Use this to audit novelty and coverage. Reopen the current CFP for dual-submission, anonymity, and prior-publication rules before advising authors. At MobiSys the failure mode is usually a too-narrow related-work section that misses a sibling-venue predecessor.
Positioning checks
- Separate the system contribution from an engineering improvement: a new runtime mechanism, scheduling policy, on-device inference system, sensing service, or platform.
- Cover the mobile-systems lanes below; a bibliography that cites only machine-learning papers tells a systems reviewer that known mobile-systems work may be getting rediscovered.
- Treat ACM DL, USENIX, and IEEE proceedings as archival unless current rules say otherwise.
- Cite arXiv and workshop versions in a way that preserves double-blind review; do not point reviewers to identity-revealing pages.
- Use related work to sharpen what is new: a tighter energy budget, a lower latency tail, an on-device capability that previously required the cloud, or a deployment others only simulated.
Literature lanes to sweep
| Lane | Typical venues | What MobiSys reviewers check |
|---|---|---|
| Computation offload / edge | MobiSys, MobiCom, NSDI, EuroSys | Whether the nearest offload system is compared or distinguished |
| On-device ML systems | MobiSys, SenSys, MLSys, ASPLOS | Whether prior on-device runtimes/schedulers are acknowledged |
| Mobile OS / runtime | MobiSys, OSDI, SOSP, EuroSys | Whether the platform mechanism has an OS-systems predecessor |
| Mobile sensing / ubicomp | MobiSys, SenSys, IMWUT | Whether the sensing-service line is covered without misfiling |
| Energy / measurement | MobiSys, SenSys, IMC | Whether energy methodology follows established practice |
A related-work section that ignores the SenSys or OSDI predecessor of a mobile-systems idea is a recognizable MobiSys reject pattern that no amount of on-device polish repairs.
Venue-verification discipline
The mobile-systems canon is easy to misattribute because MobiSys, MobiCom, and SenSys share the SIGMOBILE umbrella:
- Verify each cited "MobiSys paper" on the ACM DL and dblp by matching the
conf/mobisysrecord; TaintDroid is OSDI, CenceMe is SenSys, RF-sensing classics are MobiCom/SIGCOMM (see../../resources/exemplars/library.md). - Do not cite a paper as MobiSys from memory; a misattributed venue signals careless scholarship to a specialist reviewer.
Concurrent-work judgment calls
- Independently concurrent arXiv work: cite neutrally, state the technical difference, and avoid priority claims reviewers cannot verify.
- Your own workshop (e.g., HotMobile) version: typically non-archival and citable, but verify against the current CFP and phrase the citation so double-blind review survives.
- When in doubt about the archival status of a venue, declare the overlap in the submission form rather than gambling on a chair's interpretation.
Positioning vignette
Imagine the paper proposes a thermal-aware on-device inference runtime. Its nearest neighbors: an on-device DNN scheduler at MobiSys with no thermal model, a mobile-GPU inference framework at MobiSys tuned for peak not sustained load, and an OS-level DVFS mechanism at OSDI. The novelty sentence should name all three contrasts — thermal-awareness where the scheduler had none, sustained-load stability where the GPU framework optimized peak, and application-level control where the OS mechanism was generic.
Output format
[Eligibility] clear / needs declaration / risky
[Closest lanes] <offload / on-device ML / mobile OS / sensing / energy>
[Nearest 3 works] <work -> distinction>
[Venue-verification risk] <none / misattribution issues>
[Novelty sentence] <MobiSys-ready contribution contrast>