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[Fwd: [Tccc] [CFP] Special Issue on Seamless Handover in Next Generation Wireless/Mobile Networks (Springer's International Journal on Wireless Personal Communication)]
by Lars Wolf 13 Mar '06

13 Mar '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] [CFP] Special Issue on Seamless Handover in Next Generation Wireless/Mobile Networks (Springer's International Journal on Wireless Personal Communication) Datum: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 10:20:09 +0900 Von: Sunghyun Choi <schoi(a)snu.ac.kr> An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> CC: 'Aissi, Selim' <selim.aissi(a)intel.com>, 'Sunghyun Choi' <schoi(a)snu.ac.kr>, 'Ravikumar' <jravikumar2002(a)yahoo.com> Aplogies if you recieved this CFP multiple times. ---- Springer's International Journal on Wireless Personal Communication Special Issue on Seamless Handover in Next Generation Wireless/Mobile Networks Guest Editors Anand R. Prasad, DoCoMo Comm. Labs. Europe GmbH, Munich, Germany Selim Aissi, Intel Corporation, Portland, USA Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea Jeevarathinam Ravikumar, Consistel, Singapore Scope of Special Issue Mobile communication has evolved in a rapid pace from the introduction of Analog Cellular networks in 1980s. Technology has gone through tremendous changes in terms of security, access techniques, protocol stacks, bandwidth usage and also convergence into packet switching based on All-IP network from the conventional circuit switched techniques. Complexity has increased due to the introduction of different access technologies, available services, and other aspects as mentioned above during the telecom evolution for the past 20 years. Pressure is mounting to harmonize various technologies under a common IP backbone so that seamless handover can be provided that exploits the benefits of available radio access technologies. Seamless handover should be achieved not only for Inter-Technology but also for Inter-Operator handover. Operators and the consumers will be greatly benefited in terms of cost effectiveness, enhanced features, location independence and ease of use through the introduction of seamless heterogeneous handover mechanisms. Several standardization activities have already started working on technical solutions for seamless handover. One of the well known activities is that of next-generation networks (NGN) making use of IMS based solution for service provisioning and handover between fixed and mobile operators. Within 3GPP and 3GPP2, activities are on-going to provision handover between different technologies and recently, in 3GPP, between different domains. This activity within 3GPP falls under All-IP Network (AIPN) System Architecture Evolution (SAE)/Radio Access Network (RAN) Long Term Evolution (LTE). IEEE 802 is also looking into media-independent handover (MIH) in 802.21 while 802.11u is working on inter-technology handover. Handover enhancement within IEEE 802.11 is taking place within Task Group R (TGr). IETF has produced some solutions in the seamoby working group while further enhancements are being done in various other groups including mobopts, mipshop and mobike. Along with standardization activities, various operators and vendors are also involved in developing harmonized solution for heterogeneous networks, like, UMA. At the same time a lot of research and development activities are taking place by academia, research institutes and industries too. So far, the work has focused on one specific topic of handover such as security, QoS, and routing. However, the focus should be on developing an end-to-end network perspective that covers the whole span of the network from radio aspects to OSS aspects that includes value added services. With the above background, this special issue invites people to present papers on seamless handover in heterogeneous networks in the following (but, not limited to) areas: - Handover security - Solutions for mobility support - Charging and billing, and AAA infrastructure - Fraud Management across various networks - Access Control techniques in heterogeneous networks - QoS provisioning for inter-technology and intra-/inter-domain handover - Content provisioning and seamless use of VAS across different networks - Standardization activities - Testbed or measurement results Important dates Deadline of paper submissions: 15th May 2006 Notification of acceptance: 1st October 2006 Final Manuscripts Due: 1st November 2006 Publication of Feature Topic: February 2007 Submission Papers should follow the Springer format (11pt, single column, double spaced) and not exceed twenty pages including figures and tables. Manuscript should be submitted on-line at: <https://www.editorialmanager.com/wire/> https://www.editorialmanager.com/wire/ You MUST select article type: "Special Issue: Seamless Handover" Author information is available at: <http://www.springer.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-40109-70-35706624-000.h tml> http://www.springer.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-40109-70-35706624-000.ht ml Guest Editors Contact Information Anand R. Prasad DoCoMo Comm. Labs. Europe GmbH Landsbergerstrasse 308-312 80687 Munich, Germany E-mail: <mailto:prasad@docomolab-euro.com> prasad(a)docomolab-euro.com Selim Aissi Mobile Platforms Group Intel Corporation CO5-166, 15400 NW Greenbrier Parkway Beaverton, Oregon, 97007, USA E-mail: <mailto:selim.aissi@intel.com> selim.aissi(a)intel.com Sunghyun Choi School of Electrical Engineering Seoul National University Kwanak P.O.Box 34 Seoul 151-600, Korea E-mail: <mailto:schoi@snu.ac.kr> schoi(a)snu.ac.kr Jeevarathinam Ravikumar Consistel (Singapore) Pte Ltd 5 Jalan Kilang Barat, #08-01/03 Petro Centre Singapore 159349 E-mail: <mailto:jravikumar@consistel.com> jravikumar(a)consistel.com --- Sunghyun Choi, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Multimedia & Wireless Networking Laboratory (MWNL) School of Electrical Engineering Seoul National University Office: +82-(0)2-880-1753 Mobile: +82-(0)11-798-0180 Email: <mailto:schoi@snu.ac.kr> schoi(a)snu.ac.kr URL: <http://ee.snu.ac.kr/~schoi> http://ee.snu.ac.kr/~schoi _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: March SigComm-Members Monthly Digest]
by Lars Wolf 12 Mar '06

12 Mar '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: March SigComm-Members Monthly Digest Datum: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 20:56:49 -0500 Von: Erich Nahum <nahum(a)turing.acm.org> Antwort an: Erich Nahum <nahum(a)turing.acm.org> An: SIGCOMM-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG Dear SIGCOMM Community Members: This is the March 2006 List Digest. If you want an announcement relevant to the computer networks research community to appear in this forum, please send me a message before the 1st of each month. - Erich Nahum infodir_sigcomm (at) acm.org SIGCOMM Information Services Director ------------------------------------------------------------------ SIGCOMM News SIGCOMM GEODIVERSITY TRAVEL GRANTS ACM SIGCOMM has created a travel grant to increase the geographic diversity of its flagship "Sigcomm Data Communications Festival". The grant sponsors selected attendees in their early career (at most five years of full-time, full-level [non-postdoc] post-PhD employment) from under-represented countries based on need, distance to the conference venue, and impact of their attendance in increasing the diversity of conference participation. The grant covers travel, lodging, and registration to the main Sigcomm conference. The committee strongly prefers applicants who are not paper authors (the committee believes that authors' home organizations should cover costs for authors). Poster authors, however, are encouraged to apply. Other criteria will include evidence of a serious interest in networking, as demonstrated by project experience. In most cases, no more than one applicant will be funded from each organization. ACM SIGCOMM encourages participation of women and under-represented minorities. The program commenced with a $20,000 USD grant to sponsor attendees to Sigcomm 2006 in Pisa, Italy. Interested parties are encouraged to submit an application to the current travel grant chairs for Sigcomm 2006. What is covered? Support is intended to fully cover travel (economy airfare), registration for the conference, lodging at the conference hotel (four nights), meals, and local transportation. The specific costs will vary for each applicant, and are not expected to exceed $2500 USD. Reimbursement details will be announced to award recipients. Who decides? Applicants are selected by the Sigcomm Travel Grant Committee. Application Process An application consists of: A. a 2-page application B. a supporting letter from the applicant's supervisor C. a supporting letter from a colleague NOTE: the applicant should submit only (A); (B) and (C) should be sent directly from the letter authors A. Application: Page 1: 1. Indicate their affiliation and any other personal information the applicant feels is relevant to support their case. 2. Indicate evidence that the applicant meets the eligibility criteria above. 3. Include a brief summary of research interests and accomplishments to date, including a description of areas reflected in the SIGCOMM 2006 program that would impact the applicant's research. 4. Include their estimated expenses in U.S. dollars for attending the conference (total, and breakdown by conference registration, travel, lodging, and meals). When computing your estimated budget, please use $525 USD as the figure for early registration. Page 2: * Provide a short 1-page vita, focusing on current research interests and recent and pending publications. B. Letter from the applicant's current supervisor (e.g., post-doc supervisor, department chair), sent by the supervisor directly (NOT forwarded by the applicant), which: * Confirms the applicant's standing at their institution (date started, current job title) * Indicate current funding status, or explain why the applicant is in need of a travel grant. C. A separate letter of recommendation from a technical colleague, preferably from a different institution in a different location (i.e., different country), sent by the colleague directly (NOT forwarded by the applicant), which: * Describes the professional relationship between the applicant and colleague, e.g., discussing their collaboration * Indicates why the applicant would benefit from attending the conference. * Elaborate on the strengths and potential contributions of the applicant. Send application and recommendation letters by e-mail to Travel Grant chairs in English only, formatted as follows: - ASCII (preferable) 60 lines/page, 80 characters/line limit - PDF US letter or A4 pagesize 12 point, single-spaced, 1" margin ------------------------------------------------------------------ Upcoming deadlines of Conferences and publications financially supported and planned by SIGCOMM: Call for Papers -- SenSys 2006 Registration Deadline: March 30, 2006 Submission Deadline: April 6, 2006 Conference Dates: November 1-3, 2006 Location: Boulder, Colorado, USA URL: http://sensys.acm.org/2006/ Call for Participation -- Workshop 2 on Theory of Networked Computation Conference Dates: March 16-17, 2006 Location: Berkeley, CA, USA email: Judi.Paige(a)yale.edu Call for Participation -- NSDI 2006 Conference Dates: May 8-10, 2006 Location: San Jose, California, USA URL: http://www.usenix.org/events/nsdi06/ Call for Participation -- SIGCOMM 2006 Conference Dates: Sep 11-15, 2006 Location: Pisa, Italy URL: http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigcomm/sigcomm2006 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming deadlines of Conferences planned in cooperation with SIGCOMM: (Remember that you, as a SIGCOMM member, are eligible for the conference "member rate" even it it's an IEEE or USENIX conference.) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming deadlines of other conferences and journals related to the data communications area: Call for Papers -- ASPLOS 2006 Paper Registration: March 1st, 2006 Submission Deadline: March 8th, 2006 Conference Dates: October 21-25, 2006 Location: San Jose, CA, USA URL: http://www.princeton.edu/~asplos06/ Call for Papers -- Workshop on the Economics of Networked Systems (NetEcon) Submission Deadline: March 27, 2006 Conference Dates: June 11, 2006 Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA URL: http://www.cs.duke.edu/nicl/netecon06/ Call for Papers -- ICNP 2006 Paper Registration: May 9th, 2006 Submission Deadline: May 16th, 2006 Conference Dates: November 12-15, 2006 Location: Santa Barbara, CA, USA URL: http://www.ieee-icnp.org/2006/ Call for Papers -- IEEE LCN 2006 Submission Deadline: May 12th, 2006 Conference Dates: November 14-17, 2006 Location: Tampa, Florida, USA URL: http://www.ieeelcn.org Call for Participation -- IEEE Create-Net 2006 Conference Dates: Mar 1-3, 2006 Location: Barcelona, Spain URL: http://www.tridentcom.org Call for Participation -- IEEE Infocom 2006 Conference Dates: April 23-29, 2006 Location: Barcelona, Spain URL: http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2006 Call for Participation -- WWW 2006 Conference Dates: May 22-26, 2006 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland URL: http://www2006.org Call for Participation -- NOSDAV 2006 Conference Dates: May 22-23, 2006 Location: Newport, Rhode Island, USA URL: http://www.nossdav.org/2006/ Call for Participation -- ENGI 2006 Conference Dates: May 28-31, 2006 Location: University of Reading, UK URL: http://netlab.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn/~engi2006/ Call for Participation -- IWQoS 2006 Conference Dates: June 19-21, 2006 Location: New Haven, Connecticut, USA URL: http://westtemple.cs.yale.edu/iwqos06/ Call for Participation -- IEEE DSN 2006 Conference Dates: June 25-28, 2006 Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA URL: http://www.dsn.org ----------------------------------------------------------------- Removing Yourself from SIGCOMM Mailing List If your email address exactly matches the email address recorded on the SIGCOMM list (no forwarding), you can remove yourself with: mail listserv(a)acm.org with message body (not subject): unsubscribe SIGCOMM-MEMBERS If your email address does *not* match, mail me at infodir_sigcomm(a)acm.org, and I will work to remove you from the list.

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[Fwd: [Tccc] IWUAC 06 - deadline and research links]
by Lars Wolf 12 Mar '06

12 Mar '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] IWUAC 06 - deadline and research links Datum: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 00:57:25 +0100 Von: stefano salsano <stefano.salsano(a)uniroma2.it> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu One month left for paper submission... A page with links related to the workshop topics is available at: http://netgroup.uniroma2.it/Stefano_Salsano/IWUAC-06/research-links.html [Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement] ============================================================ INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON UBIQUITOUS ACCESS CONTROL http://netgroup.uniroma2.it/Stefano_Salsano/IWUAC-06/ To be held in conjunction with MOBIQUITOUS 2006 http://www.mobiquitous.org/ July 17-21, 2006 - San Jose, California, USA ============================================================ Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: April 10, 2006 Notification of Acceptance: May 10, 2006 Camera-Ready Submissions: May 30, 2006 (Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and the IEEE Digital Library) ============================================================ Background The access to resources or services located in "foreign" environments and owned by disparate entities is a painful process for mobile users. This is a significant deterrent to the ability to easily interconnect in a secure and spontaneous manner among disparate organizations. In fact, corporate wireless networks are generally run with severe access policies that do not offer access to guests. Public wireless networks typically do not support roaming agreements, so that users have to be a customer of the specific network provider or to "instantly" (and costly) buy access. Coalition access control encompasses mechanisms dealing with access between users and services of two or more different security domains. These mechanism are typically based on contractually or implicitly agreed collaboration between organizations. They are targeted to medium or long-term periods of inter-organizational coalition. Some real examples are supply chain management, international joint projects, logistics service, etc. The overhead to set up these mechanisms can be significant, as the access control mechanisms for resources of the participating partners require common inter-organizational agreements. The inter-provider agreements that allow users to roam across different wireless providers can be seen as a form of coalition access control. Work on the definition of architecture and protocols for inter-provider roaming is ongoing in several standardization fora or industry initiatives (3GPP, ETSI, ECMA, IRAP …) Spontaneous coalition access control investigates access mechanisms based on informally formed coalition scenarios. These informal coalition scenarios are strongly connected to particular contextual situations: for example communication sessions like calls, conferencing, and Instant Messaging (IM) or informal physical contacts that occur in meeting rooms, offices, and hallways. It is not possible to establish traditional "formal" cross-organizational agreements within these spontaneous coalition encounters. Anyway, access to local resources still need to respect corporate access policies. The notion of spontaneous coalition access implies an increase in the number of un-verified access points and presents a serious security issue. User mobility, wireless connectivity and the widespread diffusion of portable devices raise new challenges for ubiquitous service provisioning. Devices that participate in spontaneous coalition scenarios can introduce "new" foreign services into the environment; due to their mobility these device can change location changing the availability of resources and services un-predictably. Access control to resources is crucial to leverage the provision of ubiquitous services and calls for novel solutions based on various context information, e.g., user/device location, device properties, user needs, local resource visibility. ============================================================ Call for Submissions The workshop is interested in contributions addressing areas associated with mobile and ubiquitous architectures, infrastructure, data and services as related to Ubiquitous Access Control. Under the "Ubiquitous Access Control" definition, we encompass both the "traditional" inter-provider roaming scenarios and the more advanced "spontaneous coalition" scenarios. The workshop will bring together the more "practical" aspects of the former scenario with the more advanced research aspects of the latter. Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research, are solicited. Tutorial paper or papers reporting experiences of deployed systems or demonstrators are also welcome. The papers cannot be currently under review by another conference or journal. Topics include, but are not limited to the following: * Integration of Contextual Models with Security Models. * Models for Authentication, Trust, Authorization and Access Control in Ubiquitous Computing Environments. * Coalition Access Control Models. * Ontologies for Security Policies. * Distributed Access Control Architectures and Models. * Access Control and Trust Models for Ubiquitous Devices * Group management for ad-hoc communities * Peer discovery in Ubiquitous Computing Environment * Architecture and protocols for inter provider roaming in wireless networks * Experiences and test-beds for inter provider roaming A collection of links related to the workshop topics is available: http://netgroup.uniroma2.it/Stefano_Salsano/IWUAC-06/research-links.html ============================================================ How to submit a paper Information on paper submission procedure and page formatting instructions are available on the workshop web page. ============================================================ Co-organizers and TPC chairs Ramiro Liscano, University of Ontario, Oshawa, Canada Stefano Salsano, University of Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy Technical Program Committee Selim Aissi, Intel Corporation, USA Mahbubul Alam - Cisco Systems, San Jose, USA Michel Barbeau - Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Tim Finin - University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA Patrick Hung - University of Ontario, Oshawa, Canada Anupam Joshi - University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA Lalana Kagal - MIT, USA Larry Korba - National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada Markus Muck, Motorola Labs, France Filip Perich - Shared Spectrum Company, USA Anand Prasad - Docomo Eurolab, Munich, Germany Neeli Prasad - Aalborg University, Demmark George Prezerakos - Technol. Education Institute of Piraeus, Greece Fabio Ricciato - Telecomm. Research Center Vienna (ftw.), Austria Simon Pietro Romano - Universita' di Napoli Federico II, Italy Enrico Rukzio - Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Germany Michael Smirnov - Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Nick Tselikas - National Technical University of Athens, Greece Miquel Vargas - University of Ontario, Oshawa, Canada Luca Veltri - University of Parma, Italy Lixia Zhang - UCLA, USA -- ******************************************************************* Stefano Salsano Dipartimento Ingegneria Elettronica Universita' di Roma "Tor Vergata" Via del Politecnico, 1 - 00133 Roma - ITALY http://www.eln.uniroma2.it/Stefano_Salsano/ E-mail : stefano.salsano(a)uniroma2.it Cell. : +39 320 4307310 Office : (Tel.) +39 06 72597450 (Fax.) +39 06 72597435 ******************************************************************* _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Special Issue on Wireless Mesh Networks.]
by Lars Wolf 12 Mar '06

12 Mar '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Special Issue on Wireless Mesh Networks. Datum: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 15:05:51 -0500 (EST) Von: Xudong Wang <wxudong(a)ece.gatech.edu> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu (As requested by many researchers, submission due date is extended to March 30, 2006. Please don't miss the new deadline. Thanks.) ==================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS SPECIAl ISSUE ON WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier) Journal http://www.elsevier.com/locate/adhoc/ Guest editors: Xudong Wang, Kiyon, Inc. Edward Knightly, Rice University Marco Conti, National Research Council, Italy Anthony Ephremides, University of Maryland ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wireless mesh networks consist of mesh clients and mesh routers. Mesh routers form a wireless backbone via multi-hop ad-hoc networking but with minimal-mobility. The mesh backbone provides network access for both wired and wireless clients including mesh clients, and enables the integration of various wired and wireless networks. Mesh clients can run as a mobile ad hoc network. However, in order to achieve much better network performance, it is always preferable for them to work under the coordination of mesh routers. Due to the existence of a mesh backbone, wireless mesh networks possess many advantages over other wireless networks, and are expected to be one of the most promising wireless networking technologies. Despite recent progresses in wireless mesh networks, many research issues still remain. This special issue is dedicated to state-of-the-art research achievements in the area of wireless mesh networking. The papers must focus on research problems that are specific to wireless mesh networking, rather than on generic topics of ad-hoc or multi-hop networking. This special issue will cover all aspects of wireless mesh networking. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Mesh network architecture and performance analysis Mesh network capacity Scalability issues and solutions Medium access control and routing protocols Protocol design for MIMO, adaptive antenna, reconfigurable radios, software radios, and cognitive radios Cross-layer design and optimization QoS and multimedia traffic over wireless mesh networks Topology, power, and mobility management Interworking between heterogeneous networks and adaptive protocols Network self-organization and self-configuration Trustworthy networks and security algorithms Incentives, cooperation, and reputation systems Testbed, deployment, and application practice Authors must submit their manuscripts through Elsevier Editorial System at http://ees.elsevier.com/adhoc/, and must choose article type as Special Issue-Wireless Mesh Networks. For detailed formatting instructions, please refer to the guidelines available at the AD HOC Networks journal web site, http://www.elsevier.com/locate/adhoc/. The review process will be based on a pre-review phase for screening papers out of the scope of this special issue, and a single round of technical reviews. Acceptance will be limited to those papers requiring only minor revisions. The key dates are listed as follows: Manuscript Submission Due Date: March 30, 2006 Notification of Acceptance: July 30, 2006 Final Camera-Ready Submission: September 1, 2006 On-line Publication Date: November 1, 2006 Publication Date: November 2007 =================================================================== _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: Invitation to take part of the InSciT2006 Conference]
by Martin Gutbrod 11 Mar '06

11 Mar '06

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[Fwd: CFP - IEEE JSAC, Special issue on cross-layer optimized wireless multimedia communications]
by Lars Wolf 10 Mar '06

10 Mar '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP - IEEE JSAC, Special issue on cross-layer optimized wireless multimedia communications Datum: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 17:31:15 +0100 Von: Pascal Frossard <pascal.frossard(a)epfl.ch> Antwort an: <e-notice-reply(a)ieee.org> An: <multicomm(a)comsoc.org> CC: <pascal.frossard(a)epfl.ch> Referenzen: <A11319870705495640274.pascal.frossard(a)epfl.ch> Please apologize for any duplicates. ------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications CROSS-LAYER OPTIMIZED WIRELESS MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS Submission deadline: May 15, 2006 Recent advances in wireless and mobile communications provide ample opportunities for introducing new services. Supporting multimedia applications and services over wireless networks is challenging due to constraints and heterogeneities such as limited battery power, limited bandwidth, random time-varying fading effect, different protocols and standards, stringent quality of service (QoS) requirements. Cross-layer design methodologies hold great promise for addressing these challenges and providing reliable and high-quality end-to-end performance in wireless multimedia communications. This issue solicits the state-of-the-art approaches and technical solutions in the area of cross-layer optimized wireless multimedia communications and networking. The issue will provide a compelling forum for researchers and practitioners to present their results. Original contributions, previously unpublished and not currently under review by another journal, are solicited in relevant areas including (but not limited to) the following: - Architectures for wireless multimedia communications - Multimedia delivery over various types of wireless networks (3G, 4G, ad hoc networks, WLAN, WMAN, or hybrid networks) - End-to-end QoS support for wireless networks - Multimedia delivery to energy-constrained embedded devices - Caching and content management in WLANs and WMANs - Interaction among medium access control (MAC), radio link control (RLC), and routing protocols for media delivery over multi-hop wireless networks - Wireless video sensor networks - Multimedia delivery for broadband vehicular networks - Secure multimedia communications - System prototypes and experiences with broadband wireless multimedia delivery Please note that submitted papers must explicitly address cross-layer design issues. Prospective authors should follow the IEEE J-SAC manuscript format described in the Information for Authors, at http://www.argreenhouse.com/society/J-SAC/Guidelines/info.html. Authors MUST submit their manuscripts through the Microsoft Conference Management Toolkit (CMT) at https://msrcmt.research.microsoft.com/COWMC2006/CallForPapers.aspx, together with a short abstract (approximately 150 words) in the CMT website form. In addition, the mandatory cover page is not included in the page count. The cover page should include paper title, abstract, list of keywords indicating the paper's topic area, authors' full names, affiliations with complete addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses. Please note potential authors should create their own accounts through the CMT peer review website before submitting manuscript(s). CMT will accept manuscripts in PDF format only. There will be one round of reviewers and acceptance will be limited to those papers requiring only moderate revisions. The following timetable will apply: Manuscript submission: MAY 15, 2006 Acceptance notification: November 1, 2006 Final manuscript due: December 1, 2006 Publication: 2nd Quarter 2007 Guest Editors: Chang Wen Chen Dept Elect & Comp Engr Florida Inst of Technology Melbourne, FL 32901 cchen(a)fit.edu Pascal Frossard Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Lausanne - 1015, Switzerland pascal.frossard(a)epfl.ch Cormac Sreenan Dept of Comp Science Univ College Cork Cork, Ireland cjs(a)cs.ucc.ie K. P. Subbalakshmi Dept of Elect & Comp Engr Stevens Inst of Technology Hoboken, NJ 07733 ksubbala(a)stevens.edu Dapeng Oliver Wu Dept of Elect & Comp Engr Univ of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611 wu(a)ece.ufl.edu Qian Zhang Dept of Comp Science Hong Kong Univ of Science & Tech Hong Kong qianzh(a)cs.ust.hk

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[Fwd: Introducing IEEE Portable 2007]
by Lars Wolf 10 Mar '06

10 Mar '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Introducing IEEE Portable 2007 Datum: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 01:02:53 -0500 Von: ComSocConferences(a)comsoc.org An: IEEEM&C(a)comsoc.org [] [] *CALL FOR PARTICIPATION * *IEEE PORTABLE 2007* will bring together communications, electrical, industrial, manufacturing, materials, mechanical, optical, and reliability engineers and business leaders involved in various types of Portable Information Devices (PIDs), to address and discuss state-of-the-art challenges, attributes and pitfalls in PID-related areas of engineering and applied science, with an emphasis on the interaction of the hardware and software, as well as their functional and physical (mechanical) performance, reliability and durability. Submissions are currently being accepted for: * Papers * Tutorials * Technology / Business Applications Panels * Demonstrations Visit: *www.ieee-portable.org/2007 * <http://www.ieee-portable.org/2007>*for complete * To unsubscribe from the IEEE Communications Society M&C mailing list send a blank email message to IEEEM&C-remove(a)comsoc.org. To subscribe to the IEEE Communications Society M&C mailing list send a blank email message to IEEEM&C-join(a)comsoc.org. You can also request removal by mail. Please send a note with your email address and the list name (IEEEM&C(a)comsoc.org) to ComSoc List Removal - IT 3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor New York, NY 10016 USA

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[Fwd: CFP: IFIP 5th International Conference on Entertainment Computing (ICEC 2006)]
by Lars Wolf 09 Mar '06

09 Mar '06

The 5th International Conference on Entertainment Computing (ICEC 2006) http://www.icec2006.org/ September 20, 21 & 22 September, 2006 Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK We are pleased to invite you to participate in the prestigious 5th International Conference on Entertainment Computing, under the auspices of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). The conference will be held in Cambridge, England, 20-21-22 September, 2006 Based on the very successful first international workshop (IWEC 2002) and the following international conferences (ICEC 2003, ICEC 2004, ICEC 2005), ICEC 2006 will be an international forum for the exchange of experience and knowledge amongst researchers and developers in the field of entertainment computing. Different submission types are invited that present scientific ideas or improvements to existing techniques in the broad multi-disciplinary field of entertainment and edutainment applications. Important Dates: Full paper submission due: Friday 30 March, 2006 Short paper, demo: Friday 7 April, 2006 Notification of acceptance: Monday 29 May, 2006 Camera-ready copy due: Monday, 19 June, 2006 Web site: http://www.icec2006.org/ TOPICS: Any research addressing entertainment computing is welcome, in particular we suggest (but not limited) the categories listed below: Interactive Design for Entertainment Aesthetics, Ontology and Social Reflection Art, Design and Novel Media Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality Computer Games and Game Based Interfaces Education, Training, and Edutainment Technologies Entertainment and Healthcare Novel and Evolutionary Platforms / Hardware Devices Social and Human Factors of Entertainment Interactive Digital Storytelling and Interactive Tele-Vision Mobile Entertainment via e.g. Mobile Phones, PDAs etc Narrative Environments and Intelligent Medias New Genres, New Standards Pervasive Entertainment and Game-Playing Robots and Cyber Pets Self Reflecting Entertainment Simulation Applications of Games, and Military Training Sound, Music, Creative Environments CASE STUDIES: Case studies are invited from any entertainment and edutainment application, including: Authoring Computer Games Cultural Heritage Home Entertainment Media System Design Service Robotics Affective Interaction Intelligent Environments Conference proceedings will be published with the Springer. **** Conference Committee ***** General Conference Chair: Richard Harper International Program Committee Chair: Matthias Rauterberg International Steering Committee: Marc Cavazza (University of Teesside, UK) Tak Kamae (Tokyo Women's Medical University, Japan) Lizhuang Ma (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China) Don Marinelli (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Stéphane Natkin (CNAM, France) Ryohei Nakatsu (Kwansei Gakuin University,Japan) Matthias Rauterberg (TU Eindhoven,The Netherlands) Peter Robinson (University of Cambridge, UK) Andy Sloane (University of Wolverhampton, UK) Bill Swartout (University of Southern California, USA) Organisation Chair Marco Combetto

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CHINACOM 2006 conference dates have been postponed to Oct.25-27, 2006
by Yabin Ye 09 Mar '06

09 Mar '06

[Apologies for possible duplicates] Dear Colleague, The conference dates of CHINACOM2006 have been postponed one week to Oct. 25-27, 2006. Thanks and best regards, Yabin +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CALL FOR PAPERS CHINACOM 2006: First International Conference on Communications and Networking in China Jointly co-sponsored by: Create-Net, ICST In cooperation with: ACM, SIGMOBILE, SIGSAC Technical co-sponsored by: IEEE, IEEE APS, IEEE CVTC, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), University of Science and Technology of China, OBS/OPS Forum, and IEE (pending), IEEE CS (pending), IEEE CSS (pending) October 25-27, 2006 Beijing, China http://www.chinacom.org <http://www.chinacom.org/> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CHINACOM 2006 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ================================================== INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ================================================== Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Tech., USA Yeheskel (Zeke) Bar-Ness, New Jersey Institute of Tech., USA Bob Brodersen, Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA Junliang Chen, BUPT, China Roberto Coisson, Italian Embassy in China, Italy Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK Leonard Kleinrock, UCLA, USA Hisashi Kobayashi, Princeton University, USA Byeong Gi Lee, Seoul National University, Korea Guangnan Ni, Institute of Computing Technology, China Hequan Wu, Chinese Academy of Eng., China Ya-Qin Zhang, Microsoft, USA ================================================== STEERING COMMITTEE ================================================== Imrich Chlamtac (Chair), Create-Net, Italy Bo Li (Co-Chair), HKUST, Hong Kong, China ================================================== GENERAL CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Jintong Lin, BUPT President, China Khaled Ben Letaief, HKUST, Hong Kong, China ================================================== GENERAL Vice CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Zheng Zhou, BUPT, China Yabin Ye, Create-Net, Italy ================================================== TPC CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Dongjin Wang, USTC, China UK Laurie Cuthbert, Queen Mary, Univ. of London, UK Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier Univ., Canada Chunming Qiao, SUNY at Buffalo, USA ================================================== WORKSHOPS CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Jing (James) Yang, UTstarcom, USA T. Russell Hsing, Telcordia, USA ================================================== INDUSTRY SPONSORSHIP CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Heather Yu, Panasonic, USA Xiongyan Tang, CNC, China Wenwu Zhu, Intel, USA ================================================== PANELS CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Pingzhi Fan, Southwest Jiaotong Univ., China Stephan Steglich, TU Berlin, Germany ================================================== PUBLICATION CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Zhensheng Zhang, San Diego Research Center, USA Tan Wong, Univ. of Florida, USA ================================================== PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Tee Hiang Cheng, NTU, Singapore Zhongcheng Hou, CIC, China Honggang Zhang, Create-Net, Italy ================================================== LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR ================================================== Luyong Zhang, BUPT, China SYMPOSIA CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Frontiers on Communications and Networking ================================================== Haniph A. Latchman, Univ. of Florida, USA Hui-Huang Hsu, Tamkang Univ., Taiwan, China Boon Sain Yeo, Wavex Technologies, Singapore ================================================== Optical Communications and Networking ================================================== Yuanyuan Yang, SUNY at Stony Brook, USA Xue Chen, BUPT, China Jun Zheng, University of Ottawa, Canada ================================================== Wireless Communications and Networking ================================================== Andreas F. Molisch, MERL,USA /Lund Univ. Sweden Sherman Shen, University of Waterloo, Canada Kazem Sohraby, University of Arkansas, USA Jianhua Lu, Tsinghua University, China ================================================== Advances in Internet ================================================== Hai Jin, HUST, China Qian Zhang, HKUST, Hong Kong, China ================================================== Communications Theory and Signal Processing for Communications ================================================== Ahmed H. Tewfik, Univ. of Minnesota, USA Jing Tiffany Li, Lehigh University, USA ================================================== Networking Security and Information Assurance ================================================== Madjid Merabti, Liverpool John Moores Univ., UK Thomas Woo, Bell labs, USA +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The aim of CHINACOM is to bring together Chinese and International players in networking and communications under one roof, building a showcase in communications and networking research in China. China's information technology industry and research have been developing at an enormous pace in the last 20 years. Currently China has the largest wireless mobile and the second largest Internet subscriber population in the world. By the end of 2005, the mobile phone users have reached 388 million (19% of the world market), and the number will be over 500 million by 2008 and over 150 million will be multimedia applications. Internet users have exceeded 100 million (half of them are broadband service subscribers). The total sale of optical cables & fibers reached 15 million kilometers in 2004, with the sale of the whole optical communication facility market reaching 1.5 billion USD. Furthermore, business/market factors in this area in China are unique since they are Government driven and mixed with culture, technology, and market forces. CHINACOM is being positioned as the premier international annual conference for the presentation of original and fundamental research advances in the field of Communications, Networks, and Internet Applications. The conference will consist of Technical Symposia, and Workshops. The Technical Symposia will describe significant research in all areas defined below; while the Workshops will focus on development, applications and related business issues. PAPERS: The conference invites original technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Topics include, but are not limited to: ================================================== Symposium-Frontiers on Communications and Networking ================================================== Bio-inspired networks Nano-Networks OSS/BSS/NGOSS Future internet architecture design Linear network coding Cooperation diversity and cooperative coding Autonomic communications/networking principles Multimedia broadband networking for smart homes Theory and algorithms of networking such as routing, congestion control, traffic engineering, peer-to-peer/overlay and security Power-line communications Detection and iterative processing techniques Theoretical foundations for network autonomics Tools and techniques for designing, analyzing and building autonomic networks and systems Adaptive security and safety mechanisms for self-protection and self-healing Applications and services such as location-based services, VoIP, IPTV, content services, L2/L3VPNs, Cognitive communications and networking ================================================== Symposium-Optical Communications and Networking ================================================== Routing and wavelength assignment ASON/GMPLS control plane Traffic grooming and traffic engineering Multicasting in optical networks Optical Packet /Burst Switching (OPS/OBS) Optical network protection and restoration Optical switches architecture and performance Optical grid Passive optical networks (A/B/G/EPONs) Optical network test beds and field trials Hybrid wireless-optical metro/access networks Signaling and monitoring in optical networks Ultra-high-speed transmission systems (>40 Gb/s) Modulation formats and coding Signal processing and forward error correction DWDM and CWDM transceivers and Transponders Optical regeneration (including all-optical) Fixed and reconfigurable OADMs Chromatic dispersion and PMD compensation Optical systems design and simulation OE and passive devices' applications Optical Ethernet and new service paradigms Impact of the physical-layer impairments on optical network design and traffic engineering ================================================== Symposium-Wireless Communications and Networking ================================================== PCS, GPRS, EDGE, 3GPP, UMTS, IMT2000 CDMA, TDMA, OFDM, air interfaces Handoff protocols & management Smart Antennas, cell & capacity planning Wireless LANs, mobile Internet Network topology control Flow & congestion control TCP over wireless Wireless multicasting Chaotic broadband (wireless) communications B3G/4G mobile network architectures Wireless multimedia Multiple and wireless access techniques Wireless switching and routing techniques Ultra-wideband (UWB) and Cognitive Radio Resource allocation and interference management Propagation and channel characterization MIMO techniques, Space-time coding Sensor and Ad hoc wireless networks WiMAX and beyond WiFi ================================================== Symposium-Advances in Internet ================================================== Provisioning and management of IP services Distributed Internet applications Novel applications and new paradigms Handling Internet dynamics/heterogeneity Traffic measurement, analysis, modeling China Next Generation Internet (CNGI) Multimedia and Internet application Pervasive/GRID computing Platforms for rapid creation and deployment of network services Design methodologies for Internet services Emergency services Services enabling protocols and extensions Peer-to-Peer applications and technologies leveraging/supporting peer-to-peer applications Middleware for new Internet based applications Converged networks and applications (including VoIP and 3G/NGN telecom networks) Applications leveraging content networking technologies delivering applications on the Internet Services over the wireless Internet Security and privacy management in hosted Internet applications ================================================================= Symposium-Communication Theory and Signal Processing for Communications ================================================================= Adaptive Antennas Adaptive Modulation and coded modulation Broadcast channels Channel estimation and modeling Communications electronics Channel Capacities Equalization Error Control Coding and ARQ Interference mitigation and signal separation Multiple access channels Multiuser systems and multiuser detection Network coding Receiver techniques Source coding and joint source-channel coding Space-Time codes and MIMO Speech and video signal processing Synchronization Signal processing algorithms Signal processing for UWB OFDM and multicarrier systems Image processing for communications Relay channels and user cooperation Signal processing for data storage Signal processing in wireless communications Speech and video signal processing Signal processing for multimedia ================================================== Symposium-Networking Security and Information Assurance ================================================== Power-reliability-security trade-offs in wireless networks Cross-layer approaches to security Mobile network security Location aware security in mobile networks Throughput-Security trade-offs in wireless networks Secure group multimedia communications Secure PHY/MAC/routing protocols Distributed security systems Secure cooperation in wireless networks Jamming and counter measures Attacks on security and vulnerability analysis Application layer encryption Digital watermarking and biometrics for secure information access Capacity and security analysis of covert channels Security Engineering Security in large-scale environments Security protocols Security of ad-hoc/sensor networks WORKSHOPS: Proposals for workshops are solicited. Potential chairs are requested to submit a workshop proposal of at most 5 pages, including a biographical sketch of each chair, to one of the Workshop Chairs by June 6th, 2006. Evaluation of workshop proposals will be based on the relevance of the subject matter, and the expertise and experience of the chair. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Conference language is English. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a PDF version of the full paper in IEEE conference proceedings format, which are limited to 5 two-column pages in a font no smaller than 10-points. All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Please submit the paper through the COCUS System, http://cocus.create-net.it/cocus/welcome.do. Please visit the conference website http://www.chinacom.org/submissions.html for detailed submission requirements and procedures. PUBLICATION: All submitted papers will go through a peer review process. All accepted papers will be included in the CHINACOM 2006 Conference Proceedings. All accepted papers will be made available in IEEE Xplore and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library and then be indexed by Engineering Information (EI). Accepted papers will also be recommended for a special issue of a top journal. ================================================== IMPORTANT DATES ================================================== Paper Submission Due, May 1st, 2006 (Monday) Notification of Acceptance, June 30th, 2006 (Friday) Camera Ready Versions Due, July 31st, 2006 (Monday) Conference Dates, October, 25-27, 2006 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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[Fwd: E-NEXT.members: Deadline Extension - Workshop on Content Caching and Distribution Networks]
by Lars Wolf 08 Mar '06

08 Mar '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: E-NEXT.members: Deadline Extension - Workshop on Content Caching and Distribution Networks Datum: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 15:46:39 +0100 Von: Walid Dabbous <walid.dabbous(a)inria.fr> An: Members E-Next Mailing List <members(a)ist-e-next.net> Dear collegues, We inform you that the (short) papers submission to the WG3 workshop on Content Caching and Distribution Networks is extended until March 15th. Here is the pointer to the workshop page : http://www2.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~lambrosl/wccdn/ Submission is by mail to wccdn(a)cs.ucy.ac.cy <mailto:wccdn@cs.ucy.ac.cy> Regards, Walid & Lambros

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