September 2006 - Cfp - lists.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de

[Fwd: [Tccc] ICMAN'07 Deadline Extended to Oct. 10]
by Lars Wolf 30 Sep '06

30 Sep '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] ICMAN'07 Deadline Extended to Oct. 10 Datum: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:59:06 -0500 (CDT) Von: Dr. Hongyi Wu <wu(a)cacs.louisiana.edu> An: manet(a)ietf.org, <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> Paper submission deadline is extended to Oct. 10. [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on Intermittently Connected Mobile Ad hoc Networks in conjunction with IEEE PerCom 2007, White Plains, NY March 19-23, 2007. http://www.cacs.louisiana.edu/~wu/ICMAN/ For close to quarter of a century, mobile communication has experienced an explosive growth, especially in the last decade or so. In particular, one area of mobile communication networks, the ad hoc networks, has attracted significant attention due to its challenging research problems. The ad hoc networks technology has spun off new research areas, such as mesh-based mobile networks and sensor networks. What characterizes nearly all of those mobile technologies is that during the exchange of information between the source and destination terminals, there exists a set of links which constitutes an end-to-end path over which the information can be exchanged. However, in some application scenarios, the connectivity between the mobile terminals does not always allow for creation of such a path. This could be due to very sparse network conditions (low node density) or due to unstable connectivity conditions (interference, fading, etc). Thus, in such scenarios, it would be often difficult, or even impossible, to form a well-connected mesh network for transmitting data through established end-to-end connections. In fact, even if there temporarily exists a path in the network for some portion of the communication, it is likely that the terminals will only be intermittently connected due to mobility. A simple example is that in a WLAN environment, mobile users may be connected to an AP for a while before moving out of its coverage, and then getting connected to a different AP. More examples are found in environments without access to infrastructure at all. In this workshop we aim to explore novel research issues related to intermittently connected mobile ad hoc networks (ICMAN), which encompasses the scope of delay or disruption tolerant networks (or DTN), and bringing together state-of-the-art contributions in this emerging area. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - New architecture design - Novel transport and routing protocols - Reliability and fault tolerance - Energy, processing power and storage requirement - Mobility modeling and mobility management - Localization and node synchronization - Security, privacy and incentives for co-operation - Resource allocation and QoS support - Performance analysis and evaluation - Delay-tolerant applications - Testbed implementation and experimental results Important Dates: - Submission deadline: Oct. 10, 2006 - Notification of acceptance: Nov. 22, 2006 - Camera-ready papers due: Dec. 22, 2006 - Workshop date: March 19-23, 2007 Submission Instructions : Papers are solicited in the IEEE proceedings format with up to eight (8) pages. Blinded submissions in PDF format must be sent to wu(a)cacs.louisiana.edu no later than September 29, 2006. Please include the authors' names and affiliations in the email body only. You will receive a confirmation within 24 hours. All submissions must be original prior unpublished work and not under review elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed blindly and selected based on their originality, merit, and relevance to the workshop. Accepted papers must be presented at the workshop, and will appear in the IEEE PerCom workshop proceedings. Please email wu(a)cacs.louisiana.edu if you have any questions. General Chair -Zygmunt J. Haas, Cornell University Program Co-Chairs - Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge - Chunming Qiao, State University of New York at Buffalo - Hongyi Wu, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Program Committee (To be updated) - Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA - Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA - Augustin Chaintreau, Thomson, France - Mooi Choo Chuah, Lehigh University, USA - Marco Conti, Institute for Informatics and Telematics, Italy - Timur Friedman, Universit Pierre et Marie Curie, France - Mario Gerla, University of California, Los Angeles, USA - Dipak Ghosal, University of California, Davis, USA - Srinivasan Keshav, University of Waterloo, CA - Minkyong Kim, Dartmouth College, USA - Brian Levine, UMass Amherst, USA - Cecilia Mascolo, University College of London, UK - Hung Ngo, SUNY Buffalo, USA - Kaustubh S. Phanse, Lule? University of Technology, Sweden - Konstantinos Psounis, University of Southern California, USA - James Scott, Intel Research Cambridge, UK - Kun Tan, Microsoft Research Asia, China - Zhensheng Zhang, San Diego Research Center, USA --Hongyi ======================================================================== Dr. Hongyi Wu, Assistant Professor The Center for Advanced Computer Studies (CACS) University of Louisiana (UL) at Lafayette P.O. Box 44330, Lafayette, LA 70504-4330, U.S.A. Tel: 337-482-5779, Fax: 337-482-5791 E-mail: wu(a)cacs.louisiana.edu http://www.cacs.louisiana.edu/~wu ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP - Special Issue on Distributed Systems of Sensors and Actuators - March 1, 2007 (Revised)]
by Lars Wolf 29 Sep '06

29 Sep '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP - Special Issue on Distributed Systems of Sensors and Actuators - March 1, 2007 (Revised) Datum: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 00:08:57 -0500 Von: Yi Shang <shangy(a)missouri.edu> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu [Our apologies if you have received multiple copies.] ------------------------------------------------------------------- - CALL FOR PAPERS - Special Issue on Distributed Systems of Sensors and Actuators WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND MOBILE COMPUTING JOURNAL, WILEY Submission Deadline (Revised): March 1, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Sensor and actuator systems are rapidly evolving towards a physically heterogeneous and distributed but functionally integrated environment consisting of both wired and wireless components. Furthermore, battery-powered networked devices are becoming increasingly more common, and mobile ad-hoc and wireless sensor networks are receiving considerable attention. Distributed systems of sensors and actuators, however, pose many challenges and call for systems solutions that are efficient, robust, scalable, and easily deployable. This special issue seeks original contributions in the design, analysis, and experimental evaluation of distributed systems of sensors and actuators, particularly the ones connected through wireless networks. Papers on practical as well as on theoretical topics and problems are invited. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to): • Middleware for sensor/actuator networks • Efficient multicast and convergecast for query processing • Resource management for sensor/actuator systems • Real-time learning in sensor/actuator systems • Self-healing, self-organized systems • Artificial intelligence in sensor/actuator systems • Novel applications of sensor/actuator networks • Theoretical foundations of sensor/actuator networks Submitted papers are considered in 3 categories: Review/Survey papers, Research/Technical papers, and Industrial/Application papers. The guest editors encourage the authors to submit their manuscripts as an email attachment to one of the guest editors, or to provide a URL with a PDF or postscript version of their manuscript. Detailed instructions to authors can be found in: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jabout/76507157/ForAuthors.html Important Dates: Manuscript submission due: March 1, 2007 Acceptance notification; May 1, 2007 Final manuscript due: June 1, 2007 Publication: August 2007 Guest Editors: YI SHANG, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA, shangy(a)missouri.edu HONGCHI SHI, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA, shih(a)missouri.edu YING ZHANG, Palo Alto Research Center, USA, yzhang(a)parc.com CHRISTOPHE GUETTIER, USAGEM SA, France, christophe.guettier(a)sagem.com _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] IEEE TVT Special Section on Vehicular Communications Networks]
by Lars Wolf 29 Sep '06

29 Sep '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] IEEE TVT Special Section on Vehicular Communications Networks Datum: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 20:47:31 -0700 (PDT) Von: Lin Cai <cai(a)ECE.UVic.CA> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu [ Our apologies for possible duplicates of this message ] ----------------------------------------------------------------- Call For papers IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology Special Section on Vehicular Communications Networks Traffic congestion, delays, and accidents in the transportation systems have caused significant loss of lives, waste of energy, and loss in productivity. To improve the safety, security and efficiency of the transportation systems and enable new mobile services and applications for the traveling public, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) have been developed, which apply rapidly emerging information technologies in vehicles and transportation infrastructures. The development of inter/intra-vehicle and infrastructure-to-vehicle mobile mesh and ad hoc networks is one of the most challenging and critical issues for the ITS industry, which also sparks numerous interests in the communications and networking research community. The objective of this special section is to disseminate the state-of-the-art R&D results in this fast-moving research area, to facilitate the deployment of vehicular communications networks, and to bring together people from both academia and industry, with the goal of fostering interaction among them to promote further research interests and activities to enable new transportation products and services, e.g., advanced traffic management, vehicle control, safety control, and networking and information services for users on the road. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Emerging inter/intra-vehicle and infrastructure-to-vehicle wireless communication technologies - Vehicular network architecture and protocol - Vehicular network performance modeling and analysis - Vehicular network medium access control and routing protocols - Vehicular network flow and congestion control - Quality of Services (QoS) provisioning in wireless-enabled ITS systems - Traffic management, vehicle control, and safety related applications for ITS systems - Networking and information services for users on the roads (by automobiles, trains, planes, or ships) - Cross-layer design and optimization for vehicular networks - Mobility management and intersystem handovers - Simulations models and testbeds for ITS - Implementation and field tests of ITS systems - Network self-organization and self-configuration - Network security and trustworthy networks - Incentives, cooperation, and reputation systems Submission: We seek original contributions not currently under review by other journals. All papers for this section must be submitted in PDF format through IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology Manuscript Central (http://tvt-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/). When submitting the paper, select the category "Special Issue Paper". Guest Editors: Prof. Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, University of Waterloo, Canada xshen(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Prof. Nick Maxemchuk, Columbia University, USA nick(a)ee.columbia.edu Prof. Lin Cai, University of Victoria, Canada cai(a)ece.uvic.ca Paper Submission Deadline: February 1, 2006 First Reviews: April 15, 2007 Revised Paper Deadline: May 15, 2007 Final Reviews: July 1, 2007 Final Manuscripts: August 1, 2007 Publication: November 2007 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: E-NEXT.members: E-NEXT.all: CoNext Student Workshop 2006 - last call]
by Lars Wolf 28 Sep '06

28 Sep '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: E-NEXT.members: E-NEXT.all: CoNext Student Workshop 2006 - last call Datum: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 23:14:05 +0200 Von: Serge Fdida <serge.fdida(a)lip6.fr> An: Serge.Fdida(a)lip6.fr --------------------------------------------- CoNext Student Workshop 2006 Lisbon, Portugal 4 December, 2006 -------------------------------------------- Call for Abstracts The CoNext Student Workshop is a forum for graduate students around the world to interact with their peers, publicize and exchange feedback, share experiences, make contacts, and learn about networking problems that other students from around the world are working on. Students will not only learn about other students' work, but also meet and interact with established networking researchers, who will participate in the workshop as panelists and organizers. Students will have the opportunity to establish connections in the networking community and help shape its future. The workshop will be a day-long program organized in a way that promotes interaction and lively discussion. The CoNext 2006 Student Workshop organizing committee is encouraging the submission of abstracts describing ongoing thesis research in all areas of computer networking and data communications (for a list of topics, please refer to the CoNext 2006 call for papers). Student authors are asked to submit 1-2 page abstracts before the deadline below, using the CoNext 2006 format. Please visit http://www.co-next.net <http://www.co-next.net/> and follow the link to the Student Workshop to submit your abstract. Submissions will be reviewed by the program committee, from which a number of abstracts will be selected for inclusion in the workshop program. The workshop abstracts will appear in the CoNext 2006 proceedings. CoNext 2006 offer students the opportunity to apply for travel grants. Information on travel grants are available from http://www.co-next.net <http://www.co-next.net/>. Important dates: ---------------- Submission: September 29th, 2006 Notification: October 13th, 2006 Final version: October 20th, 2006 Student Workshop chairs: Nick Feamster, Georgia Tech, USA Renata Teixeira, LIP6-CNRS, France Program Committee: Aditya Akella, University of Wisconsin, USA Ernst Biersack, Institut Eurecom, France Olivier Bonaventure, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium Luis Costa, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK Xenofontas Dimitropoulos, IBM Zurich Serge Fdida, LIP6-CNRS, France Jim Kurose, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA Olaf Maennel, University of Adelaide, Australia Morley Mao, University of Michigan, USA Aman Shaikh, AT&T Research, USA Geoff Voelker, University of California San Diego ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Serge Fdida http://www.lip6.fr/rp/~sf

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[Fwd: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE supplemental posting (NSDI deadline approaching)]
by Lars Wolf 27 Sep '06

27 Sep '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE supplemental posting (NSDI deadline approaching) Datum: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 22:14:08 -0700 Von: Geoff Voelker <voelker(a)CS.UCSD.EDU> Antwort an: Geoff Voelker <voelker(a)CS.UCSD.EDU> An: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers: 4th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '07) April 11-13, 2007 Cambridge, MA, USA http://www.usenix.org/nsdi07/cfpa Sponsored by USENIX in cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM and ACM SIGOPS Submissions Deadline: October 2, 2006 Co-located with SysML07 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear Colleague: The submissions deadline for the 4th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Designa nd Implementation is quickly approaching. Please submit your paper titles and abstracts by Monday, October 2, 2006. Complete paper submissions are due by October 9, 2006. NSDI '07 focuses on the design principles of large-scale networked and distributed computer systems. Systems as diverse as Internet routing, peer-to-peer and overlay networks, sensor networks, Web-based systems, and network measurement infrastructures share a set of common challenges. Progress in any of these areas requires a deep understanding of how researchers are addressing the challenges of large-scale systems in other contexts. Our goal is to bring together researchers from across the networking and systems community--including computer networks, distributed systems, and operating systems--to foster a broad approach to addressing our common research challenges. The Program Committee seeks a broad variety of work that furthers the knowledge and understanding of the networked systems community as a whole, continues a significant research dialog, or pushes the architectural boundaries of large-scale network services. We solicit papers describing original and previously unpublished research. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Highly available and reliable networked systems * Security and robustness of networked systems * Novel architectures for networked systems (e.g., for specific application domains) * Overlay networks and peer-to-peer systems * Mobile, wireless, and sensor network systems * Network measurements, workload, and topology characterization * Autonomous and self-configuring networked systems * Managing, debugging, and diagnosing problems in networked systems * Resource management and virtualization for networked systems * Distributed storage, caching, and query processing * Practical protocols and algorithms for networked systems * Application experiences based on networked systems * Novel operating system support for networked systems For more information and submission guidelines, please visit http://www.usenix.org/nsdi07/cfpa Important Dates: Paper titles and abstracts due: October 2, 2006, 11:59 p.m. GMT Complete paper submissions due: October 9, 2006, 11:59 p.m. GMT Notification of acceptance: December 22, 2006 Papers due for shepherding: January 26, 2007 Final papers due: February 20, 2007 The 4th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '07) will be held April 11-13, 2007, in Cambridge, MA, USA The symposium will consist of two and a half days of technical presentations, including refereed papers. Awards will be given for the best paper and the best paper for which a student is the lead author. We look forward to receiving your submissions! On behalf of the NSDI '07 Program Committee, Hari Balakrishnan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Peter Druschel, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems NSDI '07 Program Chairs nsdi07chairs(a)usenix.org P.S. The Second Workshop on Tackling Computer Systems Problems with Machine Learning Techniques (SysML07) will be held in conjuction with NSDI '07. The Call For Papers is now available. Submissions are due November 20, 2006. For more information and how to submit, see: http://www.cs.duke.edu/nicl/sysml07/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers: 4th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '07) April 11-13, 2007 Cambridge, MA, USA http://www.usenix.org/nsdi07/cfpa Sponsored by USENIX in cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM and ACM SIGOPS Submissions Deadline: October 2, 2006 Co-located with SysML07 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ____________________________________________________________ About SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE The SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE mailing list is intended to provide a low-volume channel that provides operating systems researchers and practitioners with information about upcoming events or other important announcements. In general, a message containing a group of such announcements will be sent about once per month with the subject line "SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting". 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[Fwd: [Tccc] [Fwd: [Fwd: WiOpt'07 CFP]]]
by Lars Wolf 26 Sep '06

26 Sep '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] [Fwd: [Fwd: WiOpt'07 CFP]] Datum: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 01:20:58 +0300 Von: Christos Panayiotou <christosp(a)ucy.ac.cy> Organisation: University of Cyprus An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu WiOpt07: Call for Papers 5th Intl. Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks http://www.wiopt.org April 16-20, 2007, Limassol, Cyprus Scope of the Symposium =================================== The design of wireless networks offers challenges not present in fixed networks: both the offered traffic and the network capacity depend on the mobility of the nodes. The designs should not only be functioning correctly, they are also expected to optimize the performance with respect to many criteria, such as energy efficiency, quality of service, and capacity utilization. This symposium intends to bring together researchers and practitioners working on optimization of wireless network design and operations. It welcomes different perspectives, including performance analysis, protocol design, wireless communication, and optimization theory. Contributions to this conference should improve the state-of-the-art in design, analysis, dimensioning and operations of wireless network by providing insights into theoretical aspects as well as providing practical methods and tools. All forms of wireless networks are of interest: from cellular wide-area and local-area networks to dense and sparse ad-hoc networks; domain specific vehicular, public-transport and personal-area networks as well as application-specific sensor networks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ** Modeling of mobility and its influence on systems performance ** Approaches to dynamic spectrum allocation ** Interference control for unlicensed spectral bands ** Effective techniques for simulation of large wireless networks ** Delay and disruption tolerant wireless communication ** Fundamental performance limits ** Analysis and modeling based on measurements ** Protocol design for optimal system performance ** Pricing and incentives in mobile and ad-hoc networks ** Security and co-operation models and analysis ** Optimization techniques for performance, scalability and manageability ** Energy efficiency in mobile and sensor networks ** Measures of quality with associated performance evaluation Submissions ============ Papers should be submitted as extended abstracts of up to 8 pages with single column format and one-and-a-half line spacing, and contain sufficient information to allow for a detailed review. Papers should be submitted in pdf or ps format (see the conference website www.wiopt.org for details). The final manuscript will be 10 pages in double column format. The proceedings will be published by IEEE and accepted papers will be available online via the IEEE website. Adjunct Workshops ================== Several one-day workshops will accompany the main WiOpt Symposium: *** WiNMee/WiTNeMo 2007 : International Workshop on Wireless Network Measurements *** RAWNET 2007 : Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks *** SPASWIN 2007: Spatial Stochastic Models for Wireless Networks *** CONCOM 2007 : Control over Communication Channels *** WNC3 2007 : Wireless Networks: Communication, Cooperation and Competition Important Dates =============== Submission deadline: October 6, 2006 Notification of acceptance: December 18, 2007 Camera-ready copy: January 19, 2007 Steering Committee ================== Imrich Chlamtac, CREATE-NET Italy Eitan Altman, INRIA, France Tamer Basar, UIUC,USA Jon Crowcroft, Cambridge Univ, UK Anthony Ephremides, Univ. of Maryland, USA Daniele Miorandi, CREATE-NET, Italy Organizing Committee ==================== General Chair: *Leandros Tassiullas, Univ. of Thessally, Greece Technical Program Co-Chairs *Leonidas Georgiadis, Aristotle Univ. Greece *Gunnar Karlsson, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden General Vice Chair *Andreas Pitsillides, University of Cyprus Local Arrangements Chair *Stavros Toumpis, University of Cyprus Finance Chair *Karen Decker, ICST Workshops Chair *C. D. Charalambous, University of Cyprus Publicity Chair *Christos Panayiotou, University of Cyprus Conference Coordinator *Zsuzsanna Lanyi-Kaszab, ICST Sponsorship =========== Wiopt'07 is co-sponsored by Create-net, ICST, IFIP TC6.3, IEEE Information Theory, Control and Communications Societies (approval pending) _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] 1st CFP - IEEE Communications Magazine: Feature Topic on QoS Control in Next Generation Networks]
by Lars Wolf 25 Sep '06

25 Sep '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] 1st CFP - IEEE Communications Magazine: Feature Topic on QoS Control in Next Generation Networks Datum: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:45:37 -0500 Von: Widjaja, Indra (Indra) <iwidjaja(a)research.bell-labs.com> An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic on QoS Control in Next Generation Networks ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- In next generation networks, the service plane and the transport plane will be decoupled and independent. This is clearly evident from various emerging standards such as 3GPP IP Multimedia Subsystem, 3GPP2 Multi-Media Domain, ITU-T Next Generation Network, ETSI TISPAN, Packet Cable Multimedia Architecture and Multi Service Forum. All of these architectures have the following in common: (1) the service plane that transfers service information (e.g., SIP, HTTP) and manages service resources to enable advanced user services (e.g., IPTV, push-to-talk), and (2) the transport plane that delivers end-to-end user packets and manages transport resources. This architectural approach enables the service plane and the transport plane to be developed independently, and provides support for different access technologies based on fixed (twisted copper cable, coaxial cable, fiber) and wireless media. A critical component in these architectures is a logical entity that has a northbound interface to the service plane and southbound interface to the transport plane to provide the linkage between the two planes. This entity has been called by different functional names including policy server, policy decision function (PDF), policy and charging rules function (PCRF), resource and admission control function (RACF) and bandwidth manager. Although the entity also performs functions such as charging control and security control, this Feature Topic will only focus on QoS-related functions such as admission control, QoS mapping from service plane (e.g., SDP) to transport plane (e.g., DSCP marking, policing parameters, etc.), resource monitoring and resource reservation, and gate control. While the standards development organizations have been working on the protocol specifications, much work is needed in the design and performance aspects of this entity in order to provide end-to-end QoS services in a scalable manner. For example, it is of interest to have concrete designs to handle scenarios where end-to-end user packets traverse multiple domains, each of which is managed by its own PDF. Papers that are tutorial in nature are strongly recommended. Suggested areas include (but are not limited to) the following subject categories: * Overview and comparison of PDF functions in relevant standards such as ITU-NGN, ETSI TISPAN, 3GPP/3GPP2 and Packet Cable * Test beds, lab/field trials, and lessons learned from early deployment * Issues in overall QoS architectures with decoupled service and transport planes * QoS support at the service control function (IMS and non-IMS) or at the policy enforcement function * Multidomain admission control and end-to-end performance * Transport plane performance monitoring such as TRC-FE in ITU-NGN * Policy rules and policy decisions * Authorization, reservation and commitment of network resources in pull and push models * QoS mapping from service plane to transport plane * Algorithms for optimizing transport resources, service provisioning performance or other performance enhancement Schedule: Full manuscript due: March 1, 2007 Acceptance notification: May 15, 2007 Final manuscript due: July 1, 2007 Publication date: September 2007 Submission: Authors must follow the IEEE Communications Magazine's guidelines for preparation of the manuscript. Complete guidelines for prospective authors can be found at www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/sub_guidelines.html. All articles to be considered for publication must be submitted through IEEE Manuscript Central (http://commag-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com). Choose "September 2007/QoS Control in Next Generation Networks" from the drop down menu. Guest Editors: Indra Widjaja Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, USA iwidjaja(a)research.bell-labs.com Jun-Kyun Choi Information and Communication University, Korea jkchoi(a)icu.ac.kr Alberto Leon-Garcia University of Toronto, Canada alberto.leongarcia(a)utoronto.ca _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CfP: (WinMee/WiTMeMo'07) 3rd Int'nal Workshop on Wireless Network Measurement]
by Lars Wolf 25 Sep '06

25 Sep '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CfP: (WinMee/WiTMeMo'07) 3rd Int'nal Workshop on Wireless Network Measurement Datum: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 07:23:13 -0400 Von: Maria Papadopouli <maria(a)cs.unc.edu> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Call for Papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3rd Int'nal Workshop on Wireless Network Measurement (WinMee) jointly organised with the 3rd Int'nal Workshop on Wireless Traffic Measurements & Modeling (WiTMeMo) http://www.winmee.org April 20, 2007 Limasson, Cyprus in conjunction with the Int'nal Symposium on Modeling & Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc & Wireless Networks (WiOpt'07) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wireless networks are more complex and vulnerable than their wired counterpart. Furthermore, the interaction of different layers and technologies create challenging situations that cannot be foreseen during the design and testing stages of technology development. It is therefore critical to perform comprehensive empirical studies in a wide range of production environments to uncover deficiencies and identify possible optimizations and extensions. The availability of high-quality measurement and modeling studies would make it possible to develop wireless networks that are more robust, easier to manage and scale, and able to utilize scarce resources more efficiently. The objective of the workshop is to attract the most recent developments in the area of wireless network measurement and bring together active researchers in an environment that encourages discussion and exchange of ideas. The submitted papers will be up to 4-pages long in the IEEE double-column format. The final version of the accepted papers will be up to 6 pages long. Submitted papers should have measurement as their main subject or they should use measurements to validate their modeling/analysis results. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Characterization and modeling of wireless demand and network topology * Benchmarks for wireless networking algorithms, protocols and applications * Operational experience concerning the performance of wireless networks *Prediction and inference of user access, demand and mobility * Challenges with wireless measurements * Experimental (in)validation of assumptions in wireless environments * Metrics for wireless network performance evaluation * Wireless network troubleshooting techniques and recommendations * Experience with building/designing/expanding wireless networks * Description of tools for building and/or managing wireless testbeds * Techniques for improving experiment repeatability * Techniques for validating results obtained from wireless testbeds * Measurement-based guidelines for capacity planning IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: December 8, 2006 Notification deadline: January 31, 2007 Camera-ready due: March 1, 2007 Workshop date: April 20, 2007 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Submitted papers must not exceed 4 pages in length. Papers should be formatted in two columns with a 10-point font size. Paper submission will be through EDAS. More details will be posted in November. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Workshop Co-Chairs Maria G. Papadopouli, University of Crete, FORTH, UNC Constantine Dovrolis, Georgia Institute of Technology TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Jack Brassil, HP-Labs Mark Claypool, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Jordi Domingo-Pascual, Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya Constantine Dovrolis, Georgia Institute of Technology Philipp Hofmann, DoCoMo Euro-Labs Matti Latva-aho, University of Oulu Henrik Lundgren, Thomson Paris Research Lab Gerald Maguire, KTH Xiaoqiao Meng, UCLA Maria Papadopouli, University of Crete, FORTH, UNC George Polyzos, Athens Univ. of Economics & Business Pablo Rodriguez, Microsoft UK Lili Qiu, University of Texas-Austin Theodoros Salonidis, Intel Research Vassilis Siris, University of Crete, FORTH Peter Steenkiste, CMU Mark Yarvis, Intel Corporation John Zahorjan, University of Washington Hui Zang, Sprint ATL -- Maria Papadopouli http://www.cs.unc.edu/~maria http://www.ics.forth.gr/mobile _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] European Wireless 2007]
by Lars Wolf 25 Sep '06

25 Sep '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] European Wireless 2007 Datum: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 18:26:56 +0200 Von: Alain SIBILLE <alain.sibille(a)ensta.fr> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Final Call for Paper(full papers due: November 10, 2006) The 13th European Wireless Conference (EW 2007) April 1-4, 2007, Paris, France Enabling Technologies for Wireless Multimedia Communications Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées (ENSTA), Paris, France Visit http://www.ew2007.org for submission details CONFERENCE SCOPE The sector of wireless communications is today among the most dynamic ones of our global economy, and it brings a major contribution to the latters performance and productivity. The extraordinary progress of wireless technologies over the past decade, and their penetration deeply into society has generated both a technology push and a user demand, which meet in the solicitation from researchers further progress and more innovation. Not only higher bandwidth, higher mobility, better QoS are required at lower costs, but also novel multimedia services in order to cope with new societal needs. The integration of a variety of radio access technologies and networks, from cellular to local and personal or body area networks, is thus in the near future projected to provide individuals in the private or professional sphere more and more ubiquitous and rich content access to a wealth of interconnected information systems.the European Wireless 2007 Conference which will take place in Paris from April 1 to 4, 2007, will disseminate the most recent results on technologies, protocols, services and applications intended to make this goal a reality. CONFERENCE TOPICS * Modulation and Coding for Wireless Communications * Cross-layer Design in Mobile and Wireless Networks * Signal Processing, Synchronization, Equalization * Mobility Management and Billing Technologies * Communication Theory, Fundamental Limits * QoS and Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks * Radio Channel Measurements and Modelling * Security and Robustness in Wireless Networks * Antenna Issues in Wireless Communications * Spectrum Efficiency Analyses * Smart antennas and MIMO systems * Cognitive Radio * Radio Transmission Technology * Power Management for Small Terminals * Multiple Access Schemes * Mobile/Wireless Networks Modelling and Simulation * Multiuser detection algorithms and Theory * 2G - 3G - 4G Migration, Evolution and Interworking * Interference Mitigation and Management Techniques * Wireless LAN/PAN/BAN * Wireless Broadband Mobile Access * Wireless Ad-hoc Networks (MANET) * Software Defined Radio & Re-configurability * Sensor Network Planning and Deployment * Network Coding and Cooperative Diversity * Convergence of 3G wireless, Broadcasting and Internet * Protocols for Air Interfaces and Networks * Heterogeneity in Future Networks * Transport Layer Issues in Mobile and Wireless Networks * Mobile and Wireless Applications * Radio Resource Management * Location-based Services and Positioning * Ultra-Wideband Communications * High Altitude Platforms and Satellites IMPORTANT DATES November 10, 2006 (full papers due) January 31, 2007 (notification of Acceptance) February 23, 2007 (camera Ready due) STEERING COMMITTEE Alain Sibille, ENSTA (general chair) Bernhardt Walke (RWTH, Aachen, SC chair) Luis Correia (IST, Lisbon) Jan Sykora (CTU, prague) Armin Wittneben (ETHZ, Zürich) Jens Zander (KTH, Stockholm PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR Michel Terré (CNAM, Paris) LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Emmanuel Jaffrot, ENSTA Christophe Roblin, ENSTA Alain Sibille, ENSTA _______________________________________________________________ Please receive our apologies for multiple reception of this announcement _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP for special issue on DTN]
by Lars Wolf 23 Sep '06

23 Sep '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP for special issue on DTN Datum: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 06:02:14 -0700 Von: Mooi Choo Chuah <mcchuah(a)gmail.com> An: Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Dear all, seems like the attachment doesn't go through* *so I repost this with the CFP as part of the email text. Mooi Choo ==================================== *Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing* *Special Issue Announcement* *Disruption Tolerant Networking for Mobile or Sensor Networks* * * *Guest Editors:* Professor M. Chuah, Lehigh University, chuah(a)cse.lehigh.edu Professor Kevin Almeroth, University of California, Santa Barbara, almeroth(a)cs.ucsb.edu Dr Mark-Oliver Stehr, SRI, mark-oliver.stehr(a)sri.com Traditional network architecture that works well for Internet may not work in many challenging environments e.g. sparsely connected ad hoc networks, mobile sensor networks, interplanetary or battlefield communications. In such environments, end-to-end paths may not exist or the path between a source and destination pair may be constantly disrupted or largely delayed. This special issue will provide a forum for academic researchers and industry professionals to present their latest research results on architectural and protocol designs that allow nodes in such environments to communicate. The submitted papers should focus on the state-of-the-art research in various important aspects of this exciting research area. Topics of interests include but are not limited to: - new architecture for delay/disruption tolerant networks for mobile nodes - protocol design and evaluation for message delivery in delay/disruption tolerant networks - Delay & Fault tolerance design for mobile or sensor networks - Modeling and analysis of delay/disruption tolerant networks - characterization of traffic and mobility patterns in delay/disruption tolerant networks - Security, privacy issues in delay/disruption tolerant networks - Declarative approaches to networking - Name management for disruption tolerant networks - Resource management and policy control for disruption tolerant networks - Machine learning techniques for disruption tolerant networks - Routing or topology formation algorithms for disruption tolerant networks. Submission: Manuscripts in PDF or zipped postscript format should be sent directly by email to one of the Guest Editors. Please also submit a separate cover letter via email, which contains the paper title, authors' names and affiliations, and an abstract. Please refer to this URL for the manuscript style http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jabout/76507157/ForAuthors.html *Schedule:* Submission deadline: 15th, Nov, 2006 Notification of acceptance: 30th, Dec, 2006 Camera-ready paper deadline: 15th, Jan, 2006 Schedule Publication Date: Feb , 2007 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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