brycewang-stanford MobiCom Camera-Ready
Acceptance turns the paper from an anonymous 12-page argument into a published, attributed ACM record. Camera-ready is where the double-blind wrapper comes off, where every promise made during review comes due, and where ACM's publishing machinery — rights, metadata, badges — has to be completed on a fixed clock. Treat it as an audit, not a formatting pass.
De-anonymize deliberately
The final version restores what the submission hid:
| Item | Action |
|---|---|
| Author names and affiliations | add in the ACM double-column author block |
| Acknowledgments and funding | restore, with correct grant numbers |
| Self-citations | convert third-person ("prior work [12]") back to first person where appropriate |
| Repository / dataset URLs | make real (they were anonymized or withheld at submission) |
| PDF metadata | set author/title fields correctly |
Do a reverse of the blindness sweep (mobicom-submission): confirm nothing that should now
be attributed is still anonymized, and nothing that should be a working link is still a
placeholder.
Discharge every review promise
Continuing reviewers and readers hold you to the record. Before finalizing:
- Fold in every change committed in the rebuttal and every required item from a one-shot
revision (
mobicom-author-response); a promise that silently vanishes is a credibility loss the community remembers. - Re-check that headline numbers in the abstract and introduction still match the final
experiments after any revision re-runs (
mobicom-experiments). - Keep the strongest result in the body — camera-ready is not the moment to demote it to an appendix to make room.
Format holds at 12 double-column pages
The final paper keeps the double-column geometry and the page discipline (the exact final
page allowance and any extra-page option are 待核实 — confirm on the acceptance instructions).
Figures still count; references and appendices remain outside the body cap
(mobicom-supplementary). Do not let de-anonymization (a longer author block, added
acknowledgments) silently push the body over.
ACM rights, metadata, and badges
Publication checklist (dates on the acceptance instructions, 待核实 per cycle):
[ ] ACM eRights form completed; correct copyright/licensing selected
[ ] title, authors, affiliations, abstract entered to match the PDF exactly
[ ] ACM classification / keywords set
[ ] artifact badges coordinated: AEC outcome reflected on the paper (Available /
Functional / Reproduced) per the artifact timeline (`mobicom-artifact-evaluation`)
[ ] camera-ready PDF passes the publisher's format validation
The artifact-badge timeline may run separately from the paper deadline; confirm both clocks so a badge you earned actually appears on the published version.
Plan the in-person talk
MobiCom 2026 is in Austin, October 26-30, 2026; accepted papers are presented in person (exact presenter and registration requirements are 待核实 — read the author instructions). Plan early:
- Designate the presenter and confirm travel and registration against the program dates.
- Build the talk around the mechanism and its measured evidence, the same arc as the
paper's first page (
mobicom-writing-style) — a demo or a short over-the-air video often lands harder than a results table. - Prepare for the wireless-specific questions reviewers raised: channel conditions, mobility realism, energy boundary.
Final checklist
- De-anonymized fully; reverse blindness sweep passed.
- Every rebuttal/revision promise folded in and consistent.
- Headline numbers match final experiments.
- Double-column format holds; body within the page allowance.
- ACM rights + metadata complete; badges coordinated.
- Presenter designated; talk built on the mechanism→evidence arc.
Output format
[De-anon] author block / ack / links / metadata restored — gaps flagged
[Promises] rebuttal + revision commitments discharged? each listed
[Format] page/column check after de-anon
[Publishing] rights / metadata / badge status
[Talk] presenter + registration + demo plan