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[Fwd: CFP: INSS 2006 - 3rd International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems]
by Lars Wolf 31 Oct '05

31 Oct '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CFP: INSS 2006 - 3rd International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 09:52:52 +0100 From: announce(a)teco.edu To: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de [Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] -------- Submission deadline: December 1, 2006 ------------ ***************************************************** * CALL FOR PAPERS * * * * INSS 2006 * * * * May 31-June 2, 2006 * * Chicago, USA * * http://www.unl.im.dendai.ac.jp/INSS2006/ * * * ***************************************************** INSS 2006 provides a unique and interactive environment to bring together researchers from the backgrounds of sensor technology, wireless networking and application of wireless sensor networking. This conference is the first after a series of annual workshop meetings with a highly selective single-track technical program. Its aim is to provide a platform where researchers from academia and industry come together to discuss and address technical problems and solutions in these research areas. We see that rapid technology advancements in miniature sensors, low power micro- electronics, wireless communication and network have brought researchers from various fields to develop an emerging multidisciplinary of networked sensor systems and applications. Such technology is expected to change the way how information is generated, processed, and communicated based on a large number of sensor nodes deployed for a specific application. Addressing these critical issues requires researchers from various disciplines to communicate effectively and collaborate together. The International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems invites outstanding research papers from the field of sensor technology, wireless networking or application of networked sensor systems. The conference especially encourages submissions that are suitable and should be of interest for the researchers from all three fields. June is a busy time in Chicago in the sensors world. Following INSS 2006 is the Sensors Expo & Conference, June 6-8, 2006. Sensors Expo is a leading sensors event in North America, featuring a conference program exploring the most up-to-date innovations in sensor technology including physical sensors, sensor networks, biosensors, MEMS/Nanotechnology, instrumentation and controls, intelligent systems, machine-to-machine communication, wireless sensing and IT technology. Combined with a showcase of hundred of products and services, it is an event worth placing on your schedule. Please visit our web-site for the link to Sensors Expo 2006. INSS 2006 attendees will receive a registration discount to Sensors Expo 2006. Topics include but are not limited to: 1. Sensors Materials and Fabrication (new materials, smart structures, MEMS and Nano fabrication technologies, sensors and sensor system packaging) 2. Sensor Phenomena and Modeling (sensor operation theory, characterization, CAD design and modeling) 3. Sensors (physical, mechanical, chemical, biological, optical sensors and actuators at micro and nano scales) 4. Sensing Systems (wireless sensor system architecture, sensor-based system-on-chip design, multiple-sensor array and system, intelligent sensing, integration of sensors and microelectronics, low power sensor interface electronics design, sensor system packaging and environmental compatibility, environmental energy harvesting, sensor system design trade-offs and techniques, bio-implantable sensor networks, data acquisition, telemetry, wakeup radio, system integration, process and cost of manufacturing, energy scavenging and RF-ID tags) 5. Communication protocols (MAC and link layer problems, routing and transport protocols tailored for networked sensor system, redundancy, data aggregation, and mobility support; gateways to fixed Internet) 6. Middleware (Configuration and installation support, service discovery, distributed algorithms in WSN, harmonizing node-centric and data-centric addressing, sensor calibration, localization and synchronization) 7. Security (primitives for appropriate cryptographic protocols, secure system engineering) 8. Applications (wireless environmental monitoring, harsh environment sensing, transportation, automotive, aeronautical and space sensor systems, bio-robotics sensing and communication, homeland security, military, civil and industrial infra-structures safety, intelligent biomedical and improved healthcare system, ubiquitous computing with networked sensing) 9. Prototypes, field studies, and testbeds (novel sensor node prototypes, measurements within sensor network testbeds) [PAPER SUBMISSION] INSS 2006 invites the submission of both regular and late-breaking result papers. Regular papers must be 4-8-page two-column papers long and include an abstract of 100 - 150 words. Late-breaking result papers must be no more than 4 two-column pages long and include an abstract of 100-150 words. INSS 2006 is seeking papers interesting to the interdisciplinary community represented at the conference. Papers will be evaluated on the basis of originality, significance of the contribution to the field, technical correctness and presentation. Papers will be peer-reviewed. Papers submitted must not be under simultaneous review for any other conference, journal, workshop or other publication. Papers should be formatted according to IEEE transaction format (http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/transactions/stylesheets.htm). Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings. Authors are required to attend the conference to present their work. All paper submissions will be handled electronically by the EDAS system. Note that submission is a two-stage process - authors need to register their paper first and then submit the final manuscript. Submissions must be in Adobe PDF format and conform to the guidelines specified in the call for papers. Authors without EDAS user names will be required to register with the system using the same link as above. Reviewers will be instructed to maintain the confidentiality of all materials for submitted papers throughout the entire reviewing process. Submissions should contain no information that will be proprietary or confidential at the time of publication. [IMPORTANT DATES] Submission deadline: December 1, 2005 Notification of acceptance: January 20, 2006 Camera-ready papers: February 19, 2006 [ORGANIZATION] General Chair: Sang Hyuk Son, University of Virginia, USA General Co-chairs: Hide Tokuda, Keio University, Japan Robert Puers, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium Program Chair: Michael Beigl, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Program Vice-chairs: Darrin Young, Case Western Reserve University, USA Yoshito Tobe, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Marc Langheinrich, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Publicity Co-chairs: Tian He, University of Minnesota, USA Hidekata Hontani, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan Christian Becker, University of Stuttgart, Germany Program Committee: Shigeru Ando, University of Tokyo, Japan Mitsuru Baba, Ibaraki University, Japan Yoshito Bando, Shimizu Corp., Japan Christian Becker, Universit?t Stuttgart, Germany Jan Beutel, Computer Engineering and Networks Lab, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology(ETH), Switzerland Nico de Rooij, IMT, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland Arjan Durresi, Louisiana State University, USA Steven Garverick, Case Western Reserve University, USA Tian He, University of Minnesota, USA Satoshi Honda, Keio University, Japan Hidekata Hontani, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan Hideto Iwaoka, Yokogawa, Japan Holger Karl, University of Paderborn, Germany Daeyoung Kim, Information and Communications University, Korea Satoshi Kurihara, Osaka University, Japan Koen Langendoen, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Pedro Marron, University of Stuttgart, Germany Masateru Minami, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan Pedram Mohseni, Case Western Reserve University, USA Taketoshi Mori, The University of Tokyo, Japan Takuichi Nishimura, Cyber Assist Research Center, AIST, Japan Silvia Nittel, University of Maine, USA Tomoaki Ohtsuki, Keio University, Japan Marcelo Pias, Cambridge University, UK Kay Roemer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Jochen Schiller, FU Berlin, Germany Hiroyuki Shinoda, University of Tokyo, Japan Kazunori Takashio, Keio University, Japan Norman Tien, Case Western Reserve University, USA Woontack Woo, GIST, Korea Martina Zitterbart, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

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[Fwd: [Tccc] European Wireless 2006 - Deadline: November 11, 2005]
by Lars Wolf 31 Oct '05

31 Oct '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] European Wireless 2006 - Deadline: November 11, 2005 Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:27:14 +0200 From: Rouskas Aggelos <arouskas(a)aegean.gr> To: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) Call for Papers 12th European Wireless Conference (EW2006) Enabling Technologies for Wireless Multimedia Communications April 2-5, 2006, Athens, Greece National Technical University of Athens http://www.telecom.ece.ntua.gr/EW2006 Wireless communications is today one of the most dynamic sectors of our global economy. The introduction of third generation mobile communications is no longer imminent but incident in Europe, and throughout the world. At the same time, research for wireless communication systems beyond the third generation is in full swing. The 12th European Wireless 2006 Conference continues its long tradition in promoting the latest technical results in wireless communications and focuses on technologies, protocols, services and applications that will enable a full seamless and nomadic user access to new classes of multimedia services with a user-centric focus. Service provision will occur at the home, at the workplace, at leisure and during travel. The vision is to integrate the wireless local area and next generation cellular networks and develop the next generation of future wireless communication. Such networks will enable the provision of ubiquitous wireless services, which will become more and more innovative as they are driven by the consumer demands of the user and as a result of competition between the service providers. The main theme chosen for the European Wireless 2006 Conference, will be the technical challenges which need to be met in order to make the vision of Wireless Multimedia Communications a reality. EW2006 will be hosted by National Technical University of Athens in Athens, Greece, on April 2-5, 2006. PAPERS Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research results are solicited. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * 2G - 3G - 4G Migration and Evolution * B3G/4G Bandwidth on Demand * Radio Channel Modelling (Wave Propagation and Measurements) * Coexistence of Mobile Radio Networks * Convergence of 3G wireless and Internet * Cross-layer Design in Mobile and Wireless Networks * Fixed/Mobile Networks Integration and Interworking * Heterogeneity in Future Networks * High Altitude Platforms and Satellites * Interference Mitigation and Management Techniques * Location-based Services and Positioning * Mobile and Wireless Applications * Mobile/Wireless Networks Modelling and Simulation * Mobility Management and Billing Technologies * Multiple Access Schemes * Power and Interference Control * Power Management for Small Terminals * Protocols for Air Interfaces and Networks * QoS and Resource Allocation in Mobile and Wireless Networks * Radio Resource Management * Radio Transmission Technology * Security and Robustness in Wireless Networks * Sensor Network Planning and Deployment * Smart Antennas, Adaptive Antennas, MIMO and Beam Forming * Software Defined Radio & Re-configurability * Spectrum Efficiency Analyses * Transport Layer Issues in Mobile and Wireless Networks * Ultra-Wideband and Short-range Networks * Wireless Ad-hoc Networks, MANET * Wireless Broadband Mobile Access * Wireless LAN/PAN PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS All paper submissions will be handled electronically, using the EDAS system (http://www.edas.info), following the instructions found at: http://www.telecom.ntua.gr/EW2006/authors.php IMPORTANT DATES Full papers due: November 11, 2005 Notification of Acceptance: February 1, 2006 Camera Ready due: February 24, 2006 CONFERENCE CHAIR Emmanuel Protonotarios, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, protonot(a)cs.ntua.gr STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIR Bernhard Walke, RWTH, Aachen University of Technology, Germany, walke(a)comnets.rwth-aachen.de TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIRS George Karetsos, Center for Technological Research of Thessaly, Greece, karetsos(a)teilar.gr Angelos Rouskas, University of the Aegean, Greece, arouskas(a)aegean.gr WORKSHOP CHAIR Stefan Mangold, Swisscom Innovations, stefan.mangold(a)swisscom.com TUTORIAL CHAIR Angeliki Alexiou, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, alexiou(a)lucent.com LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE Nikos Dragios, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Evangelos Groustiotis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Charis Kechagias, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Elias Tragos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP for SPECTS06]
by Lars Wolf 29 Oct '05

29 Oct '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP for SPECTS06 Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:38:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Guoping Zeng <guopingtx(a)yahoo.com> To: Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu CC: abdelmajid.khelil(a)informatik.uni-stuttgart.de, wgshi(a)cs.ualberta.ca, ysu(a)masergy.com, obaidat(a)monmouth.edu ================CALL FOR PAPERS ================= (We apologize if you receive multiple copies) 2006 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems SPECTS 2006 http://www.scs.org/summersim/spects July 31 – August 2, 2006 The Coast Plaza Hotel and Conference Center, Calgary, Canada This annual international conference is a forum for professionals involved in performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. Performance evaluation of computer systems and networks has progressed rapidly in the past decade and has begun to approach maturity. Significant progress has been made in analytic modeling, simulation, and measurement approaches for performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Networking and Telecommunication Systems • Internet Technology Quality of Service (QoS) DiffServ/IntServ MPLS TCP World Wide Web (WWW) Technology • Networking Techniques Unicast and Multicast Routing Congestion Admission and Control Switching Techniques Tele-traffic Network Protocols Network Management and Control Network Capacity Planning Network Architecture Evaluation Service and QoS Pricing Security and Authentication • Broadband Networks High-Speed Networking ATM Optical Networks • Wireless Systems and Networks Satellite Systems UMTS Mobile Networks/Computing Ad-hoc Networks Sensor Networks • Multimedia Communications and Applications Computer Systems • Distributed Architectures Client/Server Distributed Systems and Agents Parallel and Distributed Computing Massively Parallel Systems Cluster Computing Grid Computing Interconnection Networks • Computer Architectures Microprocessors/Microcomputers Memory Systems High Performance I/O Real-time Systems Scheduling Schemes • Software Software Performance, Evaluation, and Testing Parallel Algorithms and Languages • Electronic Commerce • Hardware and Software Monitors • High-Performance Computing • Information Assurance • Reconfigurable Computing • Scientific Computing Algorithms • Workload and Traffic Characterization Tools, Methodologies, and Applications • Parallel and Distributed Simulation • Verification and Validation • Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic Applications • Performance Optimization, Bounds, and Models • Queuing Systems and Networks • Scalability Studies • Integrated Modeling and Measurement • On-Line Performance Adaptation and Tuning • Process Algebra-Based Models • Mathematical Aspects and Integrated Design of Performance • Case Studies 2006 Workshop on Performance of Wireless Networks and Communication Systems, WiNCS’2006 http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~vmisic/pubs/WiNCS06.pdf http://www.scs.org/summersim/spects General Chair Mohammad S. Obaidat Dept. of Computer Science, Monmouth University W. Long Branch, NJ 07764, USA Tel +1-732-571-4482 Fax +1-732-263-5202 E-mail: obaidat(a)monmouth.edu Vice General Chair Franco Davoli DIST-University of Genoa Via Opera Pia 13, I-16145 Genoa, Italy Tel +39-010-353-2732 Fax +39-010-353-2154 E-Mail: franco(a)dist.unige.it Program Chairs Jose L. Marzo University of Girona, Spain E-mail: joseluis.marzo(a)udg.es Ljiljana Trajkovic Simon Fraser University Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada E-mail: ljilja(a)cs.sfu.ca Local Arrangement Chair Carey Williamson University of Calgary, Canada E-mail: Carey(a)cpsc.ucalgary.ca Tutorial Chair John Fox Foxband Consultancy, UK E-mail: fox.conf(a)btinternet.com Publicity Committee: Chair: Guoping Zeng, Nortel Networks, USA, zenggu(a)nortelnetworks.com Vice Chair: Yi Su, Masergy Communications, Inc., USA, ysu(a)masergy.com Vice Chair: Weiguang Shi, Uinversity of Alberta, Canada, wgshi(a)cs.ualberta.ca Vice Chair: Abdelmajid Khelil, University of Stuttgart - IPVS - VS, Germany, abdelmajid.khelil(a)informatik.uni-stuttgart.de Web Master Michael J. Chinni U.S. Army TACOM-ARDEC E-mail: mchinni(a)pica.army.mil Technical Program Committee Rachid El Abdouni Khayari, University of the Armed Forces Munich, Germany Abdullah Abonamah, Zayed University, UAE Tricha Anjali, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Noureddine Boudriga, University of Tunis, Tunisia Maria C. Calzarossa, University of Pavia, Italy Haitham Cruickshank, University of Surrey, UK Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Laurent Franck, Telecom Paris, France Sebastia Galmes, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK Sami Habib, Kuwait University, Kuwait Omar Hammami, ENSTA, France Jarmo Harju, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Xavier Hesselbach-Serra, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain Raj Jain, Nayna Networks, Inc. and Ohio Sate Univ., USA Carlos Juiz, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Ingemar Kaj, Uppsala University, Sweden Krishna Kant, Intel, USA Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessalonici, Greece Ulrich Killat, Tech. Univ. of Hamburg, Germany Michalis E. Kounavis, Intel Research, USA Kevin Kwiat, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA Veronica Lagrange M. Reis, HP Corp., USA Axel Lehmann, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany Sam Makki, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Krzysztof Malinowski, Warsaw Technical University, Poland Marek Malowidzki, Military Communication Institute, Poland Mario Marchese, University of Genoa, Italy Pascale Minet, INRIA, France Jelena Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada Vojislav Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa, Canada Ibrahim Onyuksel, Northern Illinois University, USA Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, UK Elena Pagani, Università di Milano, Italy Georgios I. Papadimitriou, Aristotle University, Greece Achille Pattavina, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Krzysztof Pawlikowski, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Antonio Pescape', Universita' di Napoli "Federico II," Italy Gregory D. Peterson, University of Tennessee, USA Stephen Pink, Lancaster University, UK Desa Polajnar, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada Jernej Polajnar, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada Ramon Puigjaner, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Kaliappa Ravindran, CUNY, USA Vicente Santonja, Technical University of Valencia, Spain Tatsuya Suda, University of California, Irvine, USA Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Kishor Trivedi, Duke University, USA Tracy Tung, University of Sydney, Australia Pere Vila, University of Girona, Spain Manuel Villen-Altamirano, Telefonica, Spain Bernd E. Wolfinger, Hamburg University, Germany Michele Zorzi, Università di Ferrara, Italy Paper Submission Please submit your complete papers electronically to: http://www.scs.org/confernc/submit.asp. Instructions for authors will be posted on the paper submission web site. Submissions should not exceed 25 double-spaced, 8.5x11 inch pages (including figures, tables, and references) in 10–12 point fonts. Please include five to ten keywords, complete postal and e-mail address, and fax and phone numbers of the corresponding author. If you have difficulties with electronic submission, please contact the Web Master, Program Co-Chairs, or the Conference Coordinator, Steve Branch, The Society for Modeling and Simulation International, 4838 Ronson Court, Suite L, San Diego, CA 92 111, USA, Tel. (858) 277-3888, Fax (858) 277-3930, E-mail: sbranch(a)scs.org. Extended versions of selected accepted papers at SPECTS 2006 will be considered for possible publication in scholarly journals. Proposals for tutorials should be sent to the Tutorial Chair. Proposals for special sessions and panel sessions should be submitted to the Program Co-Chairs. Deadlines Submission of papers: February 26, 2006 Notification of acceptance: April 23, 2006 Submission of camera-ready papers: May 28, 2006 Sponsored by The Society for Modeling and Simulation International Technically Co-Sponsored by the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Society --------------------------------- Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] International Conference on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing - Symposium on "Next Generation Mobile Networks"]
by Lars Wolf 29 Oct '05

29 Oct '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] International Conference on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing - Symposium on "Next Generation Mobile Networks" Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 23:59:20 -0400 From: Shahrokh Valaee <valaee(a)comm.utoronto.ca> Reply-To: valaee(a)comm.utoronto.ca To: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> --------------------------------------------------------------------- We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers International Conference on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (ICWCMC 2006) Sheraton Wall Centre, Vancouver, Canada, July 3-6, 2006 http://www.iwcmc2006.cs.wmich.edu/ Symposium on “Next Generation Mobile Networks” http://conferences.ece.ubc.ca/ngmn2006/ CALL FOR PAPERS Scope: Next generation wireless mobile networks are characterized through the integration of different wireless access technologies and convergence of wired and wireless networks. Third generation wireless cellular systems such as UMTS and cdma2000 are expected to interwork with other broadband Internet access technologies such as hot spot services or multi-hop access networks (e.g., wireless mesh networks), to provide a wire-line compatible service to mobile Internet users. Standards such as IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX), IEEE 802.20, and IEEE 802.21 are emerging to provide new broadband wireless access services. Network convergence is regarded as a major challenge in the evolution of next generation wireless mobile networks. In general, due to the heterogeneity in the wireless access techniques and the requirement of providing multimedia services, the issue of QoS provisioning and enforcement in the future generation mobile networks will become a critical issue for the wireless access equipment vendors, networks service providers, and customers. Cross-layer transmission protocol engineering along with application-oriented signaling protocols, and creation of new services will be required for efficient network resource utilization and bring profitability to the service providers. The symposium on “Next Generation Mobile Networks” will focus on all aspects of next generation mobile network architecture and try to gather the state-of-the art research activities in this area. It will focus on network architecture, protocols and service platforms, addressing areas such as the evolution towards the so-called 4G mobile networks; the integration of heterogeneous network technologies such as fixed, mobile and satellite access; operational aspects of next generation networks such as resource management, mobility management, charging and QoS provisioning; performance analysis and optimization models. Symposium Topics: Topics include but are not limited to: * Next generation broadband wireless mobile network architectures and protocols * Heterogeneous wireless mobile networks * Internetworking among heterogeneous wireless and wire-line networks * Integration of 3G and broadband wireless networks (e.g., IEEE 802.16a) * Integration of 3G and meshed (multi-hop) wireless networks * Scheduling, call admission control, bandwidth adaptation, and error control protocols * Solar powered wireless mobile networks and protocols for energy efficiency * Pricing models for broadband mobile multimedia networks * Service provisioning through IP multimedia subsystem * Application-oriented protocols * Modeling, performance evaluation, and optimization techniques * Mobility, location and handoff management in heterogeneous mobile networks * QoS specification and metrics for mobile multimedia networks * Multimedia QoS and traffic management in mobile networks * Network resource management and QoS provisioning * Multi-protocol architectures and devices * Network control and signaling * Proxies and middleware for wireless mobile networks * Next generation broadband satellite systems * Terrestrial-satellite integration scenarios & techniques * Cross-layer protocol engineering for wireless mobile networks * Mobile multicasting * Wireless mobile network security and privacy * Authentication, Authorization, Accounting (AAA) over heterogeneous mobile networks * Emerging applications of wireless mobile networks (e.g., wireless telemedicine) Schedule: * Paper submission deadline: December 15, 2005 * Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2006 * Final manuscript due: May 30, 2006 Symposium Chair: Victor C. M. Leung The University of British Columbia, BC, Canada vleung(a)ece.ubc.ca Symposium Co-Chair: Ekram Hossain University of Manitoba ekram(a)ee.umanitoba.ca Javan Erfanian Bell Canada javan.erfanian(a)bell.ca Publicity Chair: Shahrokh Valaee University of Toronto valaee(a)comm.utoronto.ca Technical Program Committee: Alhussein A. Abouzeid, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA (abouzeid(a)ecse.rpi.edu) Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, Politecnico Di Torino, Italy (chiasserini(a)polito.it) Gianluigi Ferrari, Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy ( <mailto:gianluigi.ferrari@unipr.it> gianluigi.ferrari(a)unipr.it) Ahmed Kamal, Iowa State University, USA (kamal(a)iastate.edu) Thierry E. Klein, Bell Laboratories – Lucent Technologies, USA (tek(a)lucent.com) Can Emre Koksal, EPFL, Switzerland (emre.koksal(a)epfl.ch) Alberto Leon-Garcia, University of Toronto, Canada (alberto.leongarcia(a)utoronto.ca) Baochun Li, University of Toronto, Canada (bli(a)eecg.toronto.edu) Ben Liang, University of Toronto, Canada (liang(a)comm.utoronto.ca) Jelena Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada (jmisic(a)cs.umanitoba.ca) Asis Nasipuri, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA (anasipur(a)uncc.edu) Ioanis “Yannis” Nikolaidis, University of Alberta, Canada (yannis(a)cs.ualberta.ca) Samuel Pierre, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada (samuel.pierre(a)polymtl.ca) Radha Poovendran, University of Washington at Seattle, USA (radha(a)ee.washington.edu) Behcet Sarikaya, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada (sarikaya(a)unbc.ca) Young-Joo Suh, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea (yjsuh(a)postech.edu) Kui Wu, University of Victoria, Canada (wkui(a)cs.uvic.ca <mailto:wkui@cs.umanitoba.ca> ) Xiang-Gen Xia, University of Delaware, USA (xxia(a)ee.udel.edu) Dongmei Zhao, McMaster University, Canada (dzhao(a)mail.ece.mcmaster.ca) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Professor Shahrokh Valaee Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Univeristy of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3G4 Phone: (416) 946-8032 Fax: (416) 978-4425 Web: http://www.comm.utoronto.ca/~valaee %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: E-NEXT.members: Second International Workshop on Wireless Network Measurement (WiNMee)]
by Lars Wolf 28 Oct '05

28 Oct '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: E-NEXT.members: Second International Workshop on Wireless Network Measurement (WiNMee) Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:09:06 +0200 From: Kave Salamatian <Kave.Salamatian(a)lip6.fr> To: members(a)ist-e-next.net The Second International Workshop on Wireless Network Measurement (WiNMee) (co-located with WiOpt) April 3, 2006 Boston, Massachusetts, USA http://www.winmee.org/ WiNMee 2006 will be the second international workshop on Wireless Network Measurement. The first workshop, WiNMee 2005, was held in Lago di Gardi, Italy, and was highly successful with 32 submissions and 13 accepted papers. This year we hope to build on the success of last year by bringing researchers together to discuss the next generation of wireless network measurement research. Wireless networking has attracted much recent interest. Nonetheless, performance evaluation of wireless protocols, networks, and applications are still largely based on simulations. Only recently have researchers turned their attention to measuring real-world networks; building models based on real-world data, and using testbeds to more realistically evaluate their proposed ideas. Accurate network measurements have proven to be a different and a greater challenge than in wired networks. Accurate data models that reflect the unique characteristics of wireless networks have also proven to be more of a challenge. Wireless network testbeds have proven to be yet another difficult environments in which to work due to the many unique properties of the wireless medium. For example, results in wireless testbeds are often difficult to reproduce due to performance variations caused by location, weather, time of day, and other uncontrollable external variables. Testbeds are also challenging because implementing novel solutions often requires significant changes to the network as well as careful observation and measurement. The committee for WiNMee 2006 is soliciting 6 page papers that report on experiences obtained from operational wireless experiments, either in testbeds or in the field. Topics include: * Operational experience on the performance of wireless networks * Challenges with wireless measurements * Experimental (in)validation of assumptions in a wireless environments * Metrics for wireless network for performance evaluation * Wireless network troubleshooting techniques and recommendations * Experience with building/designing wireless networks * Description of tools for building and/or managing wireless testbeds * Techniques for testbed scaling * Techniques for improving experiment repeatability * Techniques for validating results obtained from wireless testbeds * Methods for simplifying experiment setup and reconfiguration * Mobility pattern implementation Important Dates Submission deadline: December 4, 2005 Notification deadline: January 26, 2006 Camera-ready due: February 26, 2006 Workshop: April 3, 2006 Submission Instructions Submitted papers should not exceed 6 pages in length and should be formatted in two columns with a point size greater or equal to 10. Workshop Chairs Kevin Almeroth (University California, Santa Barbara) Kave Salamatian (LIP6-University Pierre et Marie Curie) Technical Program Committee Kevin Almeroth, UC-Santa Barbara, USA Anish Arora, Ohio State, USA Chadi Barakat, INRIA , France Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer, UC-Santa Barbara, USA Andrew Campbell, Dartmouth , USA Ahmed Helmy, USC, USA Tristan Henderson, Dartmouth, USA Ed Knightly, Rice University , USA Josep Mangues, CTTC, Spain Konstantina Papagiannaki, Intel Research, UK Ashu Sabharwal, Rice University, USA Kave Salamatian, LIP6 , France Suresh Singh, Portland State University, USA Aruna Seneviratne, National ICT, Australia Thierry Turletti, INRIA, France Thomas Ziegler, FTW , Austria +++ Posted to members-istenext by Kave Salamatian <Kave.Salamatian(a)lip6.fr> +++

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[Fwd: ACF-Members: CfP : 4th International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications (WWIC 2006), Bern]
by Lars Wolf 28 Oct '05

28 Oct '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: ACF-Members: CfP : 4th International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications (WWIC 2006), Bern Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:31:46 +0200 (MEST) From: Mikhail Smirnov <Mikhail.Smirnov(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de> To: acf-members(a)autonomic-communication-forum.org CC: braun(a)iam.unibe.ch FYI: Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:31:21 +0200 From: Torsten Braun <braun(a)iam.unibe.ch> Call for Papers 4th International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications (WWIC 2006), May 9-12 2006, Bern, Switzerland, www.wwic2006.org supported by COST Action 290, www.cost290.org approved by the IEEE Communications Society for technical co-sponsorship Next generation mobile networks will be based on Internet core networks and wireless access networks. The need for efficient merging of the wired and wireless infrastructure as well as the new multimedia services and applications of next generation networks call for novel network architectures, protocols and traffic-related mechanisms. WWIC addresses research topics such as the design and evaluation of protocols, the dynamics of the integration, the performance tradeoffs, the need for new performance metrics, and cross-layer interactions. The goal of the conference is to present high-quality results in the field, and to provide a framework for research collaboration through focused discussions that will designate future research efforts and directions. In this context, the program committee will accept only a limited number of papers that meet the criteria of originality, presentation quality and topic relevance. Selected best papers will appear in a journal special issue. The best conference paper as well will be awarded at the conference, based on reviewer comments and suggestions of the Technical Program Committee members. Papers should address one of the following topics. * Network design and network planning * Traffic engineering * Traffic characterisation and modeling * Mobile service level agreements / specification * Simulation technologies for next generation mobile networks * Transport protocols and congestion control * Cross layer interactions * Mobility management * End-to-end Quality of Service support * Heterogeneous wireless access networks * Integration and interworking of wired and wireless networks * Performance evaluation of mobile and wireless networks and systems * Handover techniques * Wireless multimedia systems * Service creation and management environments for mobile/wireless systems * Resource management and admission control * QoS signaling * QoS routing * Wireless Multi-Hop Networks * Wireless Mesh Networks * Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks * Economical issues of wireless networks * Pricing, charging and accounting in wireless networks * Wireless Sensor Networks * Network Security * Network Mobility * Wireless network monitoring Submission deadline December 8, 2005 Notification of acceptance February 15, 2006 Camera ready papers February 28, 2006 Conference May 9-12, 2006 +++++++++ posted to acf-members by Mikhail Smirnov <Mikhail.Smirnov(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de> +++++++++

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[Fwd: CFP: Inter-vehicular communications (special issue of IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine)]
by Lars Wolf 28 Oct '05

28 Oct '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CFP: Inter-vehicular communications (special issue of IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine) Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 15:33:59 +0800 From: Daniel Wong <daniel_wong(a)ieee.org> To: dwong(a)must.edu.my Dear fellow researchers in inter-vehicular communications --------------- Call for Papers --------------- ************************************************* IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine Special Issue on "Inter-Vehicular Communications" ************************************************* pdf version of this CFP is available at <http://www.3g-wireless.net/IVC-CFP.pdf> Wireless communications technologies (cellular phones, wireless LANs, etc.) have enabled many of the conveniences in our lives, and also increased our day by day productivity. Another area where there is much potential for wireless technologies to make a tremendous impact is the area of inter-vehicular communications (IVC). The field of IVC is also known as vehicle-to-vehicle communications (V2V) and vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET). There are numerous emerging applications that are unique to the vehicular setting. For example, safety applications would make driving safer; driver information services could intelligently inform drivers about congestion, businesses and services in the vicinity of the vehicle, and other news. Mobile commerce could extend to the realm of vehicles. Existing forms of entertainment may penetrate the vehicular domain, and new forms of entertainment may emerge, all supported by the inter-vehicular communications capabilities. These emerging services are currently not well supported. Numerous research challenges need to be addressed in order for inter-vehicular communications to be widely deployed. The combination of unique features of inter-vehicular applications and networking opens new opportunities for many interesting research areas. The communications networking between cars has different characteristics from other communications networking problems. For example, because of the rapidly changing topology as cars move around, there are similarities with ad hoc networking scenarios. However, the constraints and optimizations are different. Power efficiency is not as important for inter-vehicular communications as it is for traditional ad hoc networking, since vehicles have a powerful and rechargeable source of energy. Vehicles in general are also constrained to move within roads (and within lanes most of the time). The purpose of this special issue is to showcase the variety of research being conducted in IVC and survey the state-of-the-art in this field. We solicit original unpublished manuscripts not currently being considered elsewhere for publication. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: + Service creation and management + Vehicular communications applications in general + Navigation safety applications + Content distribution to vehicles + Vehicle data collection and harvesting + Role of IVC in Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) + Link and physical layer issues, algorithms and protocols + Cross-layer protocol design + Network architectures, system architectures + Inter-working of vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications + Network protocols and algorithms, including clustering, routing, etc. + Vehicle movement simulation + Security for IVC + Network management for IVC + Mobility management Articles should be tutorial in nature and should be written in a style comprehensible to readers outside the specialty of the article. All submissions will be reviewed based on technical merit and relevance. Articles should have no more than 4,500 words, no more than 6 tables/figures, and no more than 15 references. Further submission guidelines are available online at http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/pcm/sub_guidelines.html. Please send PDF (preferred), Microsoft Word, or PostScript formatted papers to both Daniel Wong (daniel_wong(a)ieee.org <mailto:daniel_wong@ieee.org>) and Kemal Tepe (ktepe(a)windsor.ca <mailto:ktepe@windsor.ca>) no later than 15 February 2006. ========= Deadlines ========= Manuscript due February 15 2006 Acceptance notification April 15 2006 Final manuscript due June 15 2006 Publication date October 2006 ============= Guest Editors ============= K. Daniel Wong (daniel_wong(a)ieee.org <mailto:daniel_wong@ieee.org>) Malaysia University of Science and Technology Department of Information Technology GL33, Ground Floor, Kelana Square, 17 Jalan SS 7/26 47301 PJ, Selangor, Malaysia Kemal Tepe (ktepe(a)uwindsor.ca <mailto:ktepe@uwindsor.ca>) Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University of Windsor 401 Sunset Avenue Windsor, Ontario, N9B 3P4, Canada Wai Chen (wchen(a)research.telcordia.com <mailto:wchen@research.telcordia.com>) Telcordia Technologies, Inc. Applied Research One Telcordia Drive, RRC-1T209 Piscataway, New Jersey, 08854-4157, USA Mario Gerla (gerla(a)cs.ucla.edu <mailto:gerla@cs.ucla.edu>) 3732F BH Computer Science Dept UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA

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[Fwd: [ISCC06] 2nd CFP: ACM TOIT Special Issue on Middleware for Service-Oriented Computing]
by Lars Wolf 28 Oct '05

28 Oct '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [ISCC06] 2nd CFP: ACM TOIT Special Issue on Middleware for Service-Oriented Computing Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 12:27:10 -0400 From: Qusay H. Mahmoud <qmahmoud(a)cis.uoguelph.ca> To: undisclosed-recipients:; Second Call for Papers ---------------------------------------------- ACM Transactions on Internet Technology http://www.acm.org/toit/soa-middleware-cfp.pdf ---------------------------------------------- Special Issue on ----------------------------------------- Middleware for Service-Oriented Computing ----------------------------------------- Middleware is a distributed software layer that sits above the network operating system and below the application layer and abstracts the heterogeneity of the underlying environment. It provides an integrated distributed environment whose objective is to simplify the task of programming and managing distributed applications, and to provide value-added services such as naming and transactions to enable easier development and integration of applications and services. Middleware is about integration and interoperability of applications and services running on heterogeneous computing and communications devices. The role of middleware will continue to become increasingly important especially in emerging technologies such as mobile- and service-oriented computing and web services, where the integration of different applications and services from different wired and wireless businesses and service providers become increasingly important. Service-oriented computing is based on the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), which is an architectural style for building software applications that use services available in a network such as the web. It promotes loose coupling between software components so that they can be reused. Applications in SOA are built based on services, which is an implementation of a well-define business functionality, and such services can be consumed by clients in different applications or business processes. SOA provides a level of flexibility that was not possible before in the sense that services are software components with well-defined interfaces that are implementation independent, that services can be dynamically discovered, and composite services can be built from aggregates of other services. Especially applications running on mobile devices can benefit from the flexibility which is provided by SOA. All those benefits, however, raise challenges that need to be addressed by middleware. Middleware will play an essential role in managing and provisioning service-oriented applications. As a result, middleware will be everywhere! The aim of this special issue is be to present most recent research findings on “middleware for service-oriented computing”. We are seeking papers that are original, unpublished and not currently under review by workshops, conferences, or other journals. Possible topics include, but are not limited to the following: Middleware for selection and interaction among services Middleware for dynamic selection and composition of services/applications Middleware for dynamic coordination of services/applications Middleware for context-aware services/applications Middleware for managing services/applications Middleware for provisioning QoS-enabled services/applications Middleware for interoperable services Performance evaluation of middleware for service-oriented computing Submission Guidelines --------------------- All papers must be submitted by the midnight (EST) of December 1, 2005. The page limit is 50 double-spaced pages, with a 12pt font size. Please email your paper in PDF format to papers AT cis.uoguelph.ca. Important Dates --------------- Papers are due: December 1, 2005 Notifications: March 1, 2006 Revised papers: May 1, 2006 Notifications of final acceptance based on Editor-in-Chief’ comments: July 1, 2006 Final papers: September 1, 2006 Publication: First available issue (possibly third or fourth quarter of 2007) Guest Editors ------------- Qusay H. Mahmoud Dept. of Computing & Information Science University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1 Canada qmahmoud AT cis.uoguelph.ca http://snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca/~qmahmoud Peter Langendoerfer IHP-Microelectronics Frankfurt (Oder), Germany langendoerfer AT ihp-microelectronics.com http://www.ihp-microelectronics.com/~langend/home.html _______________________________________________ Iscc2005 mailing list Iscc2005(a)mail.ing.unibo.it http://calvin.ing.unibo.it/mailman/listinfo/iscc2005

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[Fwd: [ISCC06] Mobile Computing'06 cfp (within WirelessCom'06)]
by Lars Wolf 28 Oct '05

28 Oct '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [ISCC06] Mobile Computing'06 cfp (within WirelessCom'06) Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 12:45:13 +0200 From: Paolo Bellavista <pbellavista(a)deis.unibo.it> To: ISCC2005(a)mail.ing.unibo.it ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***OUR SINCERE APOLOGIES IF YOU RECEIVE MULTIPLE COPIES*** ***OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT*** ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *International Symposium on Mobile Computing (MC'06) * http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/PaoloBellavista/mc06/ Toronto, Canada within the International Conference on Wireless Networks, Communications, and Mobile Computing (WirelessCom'06) http://www.wirelesscom2006.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Recent years have witnessed an enormous growth in the development and applications of mobile computing environments and devices. Many practitioners envision a future empowered with context- and location-aware computation and communication infrastructures that allow users to access data and services at any place and any time. Compared to conventional platforms, the mobility of computing nodes introduces many challenges to the design of almost all systems components. This symposium will foster a forum for discussing and presenting recent research results on mobile computing systems. Original papers are invited in the broader area of mobile computing. Papers must report high-quality and previously unpublished work. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Adaptive resource management - Architecture and infrastructure support - Context-aware computing - Data consistency and synchronization protocols - Development platforms and environments - Efficient localization techniques - Emerging mobile applications - Middleware - Mobile agents - Mobile commerce - Mobile peer to peer - Operating system support for mobile computing - Performance metrics and studies - Pervasive computing - Power-aware computing and communication - Quality of service - Robust ad-hoc networking techniques - Security and privacy issues - Time-constrained mobile systems - Wearable computing devices and systems - Web caching and services - Wireless sensor networks ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Guidelines: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Original papers are solicited and must represent high-quality and previously unpublished work, not currently under review by another conference or journal. Prospective authors should submit their paper electronically through the general WirelessCom'06 submission server ( http://www.wirelesscom2006.org/submission.htm). All papers are limited to 6 pages in standard IEEE double-column format. Emails and hard copies will be accepted only if motivated reasons prevent electronic submission. In that case, contact first the Technical Chair: Paolo Bellavista DEIS, Università di Bologna Viale Risorgimento, 2, 40136 Bologna, Italy Phone: +39-051-2093866; Fax: +39-051-2093073 E-mail: pbellavista(a)deis.unibo.it ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DEADLINES: Paper Submission: January 6, 2006 Acceptance Notification: March 10, 2006 Camera Ready Manuscripts: April 7, 2006 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _Technical Program Committee (to be confirmed) _Ayman Abdel-Hamid, Arab Academy for Science and Technology, Egypt Emad Aboelela, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA Khaled Arisha, Honeywell International Inc., USA Mostafa Bassiouni, University of Central Florida, USA Lotfi Benmohamed, Applied Physics Lab, USA Erdal Cayirci, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey Antonio Corradi, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy Xiaojiang (James) Du, North Dakota State University, USA Arjan Durresi, Louisiana State University, USA Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virginia Tech, USA Sameh Elsharkawy, Catholic University of America, USA Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu, Ohio State University, USA Denis Gracanin, Virginia Tech, USA Hossam Hassanein, Queens University, Canada Mohamed Hefeeda, Simon Fraser University, Canada Michael Hinchey, NASA, USA Ibrahim Kamel, Zayed University, UAE Daeyoung Kim, Information and Communication University, Korea Turgay Korkmaz, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Thomas Magedanz, Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany Padmavathi Mundur, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Tamer Nadeem, University of Maryland College Park, USA Suku Nair, Southern Methodist University, USA Steve Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA Cristina Pinotti, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy Filip Perich, Cougaar Software Inc., USA Daji Qiao, Iowa State University, USA Dinesh Rajan, Southern Methodist University, USA Stefano Russo, Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy Ali Selcuk, Bilkent University, Turkey Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Joseph Thomas, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Adel Youssef, University of Maryland College Park, USA Moustafa Youssef, University of Maryland College Park, USA Albert Y. Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia _Publicity Chair _Luca Foschini, University of Bologna, Italy Ing. Paolo Bellavista, Ph. D. Associate Professor in Computer Science Engineering DEIS - Università degli Studi di Bologna Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna (ITALY) Tel# +39-051-2093866; Fax# +39-051-2093073 Email: pbellavista(a)deis.unibo.it Web: http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/PaoloBellavista/ _______________________________________________ Iscc2005 mailing list Iscc2005(a)mail.ing.unibo.it http://calvin.ing.unibo.it/mailman/listinfo/iscc2005

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CfP: First IEEE Workshop on,,“Adaptive Policy-based Management,,in Network Management and Control (A-PBM)”,, ,,Co-located with IEEE Infocom 2006, Barcelona, Spain, April 28, 2006
by Lars Wolf 27 Oct '05

27 Oct '05

and another one http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2006/A-PBM_CFP_v5.htm

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