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[Fwd: [Tccc] 1st Int. Summer School on Network and Service Management]
by Lars Wolf 13 Jun '07

13 Jun '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] 1st Int. Summer School on Network and Service Management Datum: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:56:49 +0200 Von: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder(a)jacobs-university.de> Antwort an: j.schoenwaelder(a)jacobs-university.de An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu 1st International Summer School on Network and Service Management July 9-13, 2007 organized by EMANICS and hosted by the Jacobs University Bremen, Germany http://emanics.org/content/view/80/135 Scope: ------ The 1st international summer school on network and service management provides advanced classes on selected advanced topics in network management. The courses will be accompanied with practical hands-on labs in order to combine the theoretical background with some practical experience. The instructors are well known members of the academic and industrial community. Overview: --------- Courses and associated practical labs will be organized by instructors who are well known experts. The courses introduce technologies, which are later further studied by the students in a series of exercises of lab experiments. * Topic #1: Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) - Border Gateway Protocol BGP (Iljitsch van Beijnum) - BGP Analysis and Simulation (Bruno Quoitin) * Topic #2: Packet Capturing and Time Series Storage (CAPTIME) - Round Robin Databases (RRDs) (Tobi Oetiker) - Monitoring Traffic with ntop (Luca Deri) * Topic #3: Flow Export and Visualization (FLOWVIZ) - NetFlow and IPFIX (Maurizio Molina) - NetFlow Sensor (NfSen) (Peter Haag) The labs will assume working experience with Unix/Linux systems and there might be further lab specific prerequisites. Participants are expected to bring personal notebooks (preferably with a CD-ROM) and they are expected to know how to install software and how to administrate their system. More details will be provided by each lab instructor. Location: --------- Jacobs University Bremen is a highly selective, private institution for the advancement of education and research. It is located on a green campus in the city of Bremen, Germany. The campus has ideal meeting facilities and can host a large number of people during the summer on campus. The city or Bremen is well connected. The local airport provides connectivity to the major airports in Europe and the airports in Hannover and Hamburg are about an hour by train from the city center. Schedule: --------- The overall schedule for the week is show below. The summer school will start on Monday after lunch time and close on Friday at lunch time. [Lunch] Monday: 14:00 - 15:00 Welcome and Overview (Lecture Hall R2) 15:30 - 17:00 Lab Setup and Introduction (Computer Hall R1) 17:30 - ..... Trip to Bremen Downtown Tuesday: 09:00 - 10:30 Course Slot #1 (BGP) (Lecture Hall R2) 11:00 - 12:30 Course Slot #2 (BGP) (Lecture Hall R2) 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch 14:00 - 18:00 Lab Exercises (BGP) (Computer Hall R1) Wednesday: 09:00 - 10:30 Course Slot #3 (CAPTIME) (Lecture Hall R2) 11:00 - 12:30 Course Slot #4 (CAPTIME) (Lecture Hall R2) 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch 14:00 - 18:00 Lab Exercises (CAPTIME) (Computer Hall R1) Thursday: 09:00 - 10:30 Course Slot #5 (FLOWVIZ) (Lecture Hall R2) 11:00 - 12:30 Course Slot #6 (FLOWVIZ) (Lecture Hall R2) 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch 14:00 - 20:00 Excursion to Relax and Interact Friday: 09:00 - 13:00 Lab Exercises (FLOWVIZ) (Computer Hall R1) [Lunch] Accommodation: -------------- Jacobs University Bremen is a campus university and has all facilities available on campus to host students and instructors, including a student bar or the university club for the evenings. We have allocated rooms in our new and comfortable student colleges to host summer school participants and instructors. The first option is a single room in a double apartment with shared ensuite bathroom and the slightly more expensive option is a single room with ensuite bathroom. All rooms include full board. Registration: ------------- The number of students that can participate is limited to 40. It is therefore important to register early. Preference will be given to PhD students. Registration fees, including room and board, shared bathroom: Early bird rate (until May 15st): 320.- Euro Normal rate (after May 15st): 350.- Euro Registration fees, including room and board, ensuite bathroom: Early bird rate (until May 15st): 350.- Euro Normal rate (after May 15st): 380.- Euro Registration fee, excluding room and board: Early bird rate (until May 15st): 170.- Euro Normal rate (after May 15st): 200.- Euro To register, you have to fill out a online registration form: http://www.eecs.iu-bremen.de/emanics/index.php Once accepted, you will receive a bill which you have to pay via bank transfer. Instructors: ------------ * Iljitsch van Beijnum (www.bgpexpert.com, Netherlands) Iljitsch van Beijnum is a networking consultant and writer who focuses on BGP and IPv6. After working for several Dutch ISPs and starting one with a group of others in the 1990s, he became a freelance consultant and wrote a book about BGP (O'Reilly, 2002) and one about IPv6 (Apress, 2005) and started contributing to the IETF multi6 and shim6 working groups. * Bruno Quoitin (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium) Bruno Quoitin is a research fellow within the Computer Science and Engineering Department at Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) in Belgium. His main research interests are interdomain routing and large scale network modeling. He is the main author of C-BGP, an open-source BGP routing solver (http://cbgp.info.ucl.ac.be). * Tobias Oetiker (Oetiker + Partner, Switzerland) Tobias Oetiker is an electrical engineer by education and a system administrator by vocation. For the last ten years he has been working for the ETH Zurich, making sure students and staff get ahead with their computers. Last year he started to work for his own company OETIKER+PARTNER, spending amongst other things much more payed time on his pet open source projects MRTG, RRDtool, and SmokePing. In November 2006, Tobias received the prestigious SAGE Outstanding Achievement Award for his work on MRTG and RRDtool. Find out more about Tobi Oetiker on http://tobi.oetiker.ch/ * Luca Deri (ntop.org, Italy) Luca Deri is the leader of the ntop project (http://www.ntop.org/) aimed at developing an open source monitoring platform for high speed traffic analysis. He currently shares his time between NETikos S.p.A. and the University of Pisa where he has been appointed as lecturer at the CS department. His home page is http://luca.ntop.org/. * Maurizio Molina (Dante, United Kingdom) Maurizio Molina graduated in Electronic Engineering (Italian Laurea) from the Polytechnic of Turin in 1993. Since then, he has worked in the telecommunications industry, mainly in research centres, including Telecom Italia Labs (Turin, Italy) and the NEC Network Laboratories (Heidelberg, Germany). He published several papers about IP and ATM traffic modeling and network measurements. He contributed to the ITU-T ATM standardization process, and to working groups in the IETF (on IPFIX and PSAMP). He joined DANTE's Systems group in November 2004, working on performance monitoring, security and authentication and authorization infrastructures. * Peter Haag (Switch, Switzerland) Peter Haag is a member of SWITCH-CERT, the Swiss Education & Research Network CERT. He received a master's degree (1991) in electrical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and worked as a digital hardware design engineer for four years. In 1995, he changed into the design, development and operation of Internet Server Systems. In 2002, Peter Haag joined SWITCH as an network security engineer. Within SWITCH-CERT he is in charge of incident handling, computer forensics, malware analysis and security tool design. He is the author of the open source netflow tools nfdump and NfSen. At the moment he is actively involved in several projects doing netflow and traffic analysis. Topics: ------- Below is a brief description of the topics covered in the summer school. Topic #1: Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) * Border Gateway Protocol BGP (Iljitsch van Beijnum) This session will provide an introduction into BGP and how it is used in the current internet for global policy routing. Some hands one experiments will give students a practical understanding how BGP is being used by Internet Service Providers. * BGP Analysis and Simulation (Bruno Quoitin) The purpose of the BGP Analysis and Simulation session is to get some hands on real world BGP data and analysis/simulation tools. In a first step, we will briefly review the prominent BGP-related data formats and analysis/simulaton tools. We will show what kind of analysis they allow to perform, what research results have been published and what are the limitations. In a second step, we will perform some basic analysis of data collected in the Abilene backbone as well as by the RouteViews and RIPE RCC projects. Basic notions of one scripting language such as Perl or Python are assumed for this part. Finally, we will learn step-by-step how to build a model of a BGP network. For this purpose, we will rely on the C-BGP simulator. We will build a model of a simple transit network (the Abilene backbone network) as well as a model of a large-scale Internet-like network. Based on these models, we will experiment advanced traffic engineering configurations. Topic #2: Packet Capturing and Time Series Storage (CAPTIME) * Storing time series data with RRDtool (Tobi Oetiker) The first step is to find ways to acquire interesting data. Once the data is here, the challenge is to find a sensible way to store, analyze and present it. RRDtool helps you with these tasks. The class will give you an overview of RRDtool's capabilities and some insights into the finer points of this tool. The lab exercises will focus on applying RRDtool to store and graph data you acquired yourself, allowing you to quickly write your own monitoring application. * Monitoring Traffic with ntop (Luca Deri) This class will introduce students to network traffic monitoring and cover the design and implementation of ntop, a popular open-source application developed by the instructor. ntop is able to collect traffic from various sources including packet traces, live network feeds, NetFlow and sFlow sources. Traffic metrics and statistics are saved on disk in RRD format for historical and trend analysis. The lab exercise will show students how to use ntop for effective traffic monitoring. Topic #3: Flow Export and Visualization (FLOWVIZ) Netflow data is information collected and exported by routers about IP flows transiting through them. The most classical definition of a flow (although not the only one) is "packets with the same 5-tuple: src IP, dst IP, src port, dst port, protocol". Information about the volume and duration of flows can be used for several different applications, ranging from billing, to traffic engineering and planning, to performance troubleshooting, and security. All these applications can rely on a common Netflow exporting and collection platform, while the Netflow processing tools may differ. In this FLOWVIZ module we first give the high level picture of what Netflow data is, and what are the fundamental functional blocks involved in its generation, collection and analysis. We then enter in some details about the main challenges associated when these modules have to be mapped with real equipments, particularly in high-speed networks. After that, we look in more detail at the current and forthcoming standards for representing per flow information: we will explore the main evolution of Cisco Netflow through its most used versions (v5, v8 and v9) and how the IETF IPFIX (IP Flow Information eXport) Working Group undertook the challenge of evolving a proprietary (though widely deployed) industry standard (Netflow) into an official IETF standard. We then move to presenting how Netflow data is collected, bringing the concrete examples of SWITCH (the Swiss National Research and Educational Network) and GEANT2 (the European backbone network for education and research). The collected Netflow data needs then to be analysed by appropriate tools. Since there are tenths of such tools, both commercial and open source, sometimes very application specific, we can just give a quick overview and adequate references. We get on the contrary in the details of nfdump-NfSen, the flow collection, visualization and analysis tool developed by Peter Haag at SWITCH. Nfdump and NfSen were developed with the daily security tasks of a CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) in mind. We will explain nfdump, the command line tool, and how to look at the traffic. NfSen, on top of nfdump, is the web based graphical interface, as well as the toolbox for further flow processing. We will give an overview on how to use the web interface, including how plugins work and how to write them. The Lab part of the FLOWIZ module consists of two different sections - the nfdump hands-on part and the NfSen hands-on part. Each students will have it's own environment based on UBUNTU Linux (VMware Image) with all tools and netflow data preinstalled. All netflow data is taken from a real live network and is anonymised. The students get used to work with nfdump, the command line tool, to search for top talkers, bandwidth consumers and further more. NfSen will run in simulation mode, so all NfSen exercises can be repeated many times. Students will have the opportunity to investigate unusual network behaviour, digging into the details with nfdump and NfSen. Organizers: ----------- * Juergen Schoenwaelder, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany * Bendick Mahleko, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany * Radu State, LORIA - INRIA Loraine, Nancy, France Sponsors: --------- * EMANICS <http://www.emanics.org/> /js -- Juergen Schoenwaelder Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH Phone: +49 421 200 3587 Campus Ring 1, 28759 Bremen, Germany Fax: +49 421 200 3103 <http://www.jacobs-university.de/> _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Call for papers -- Elsevier's Computer Communications Journal, Special Issue on Wireless Mesh Networks]
by Lars Wolf 13 Jun '07

13 Jun '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Call for papers -- Elsevier's Computer Communications Journal, Special Issue on Wireless Mesh Networks Datum: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 11:28:09 -0400 Von: Zhang, Liqiang <liqzhang(a)iusb.edu> An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue on Wireless Mesh Networks Elsevier's Computer Communications Journal http:/www.cs.iusb.edu/~liqzhang/comcom/wimesh.htm Full papers due: August 31, 2007 ************************************************************************ **************** Recently, wireless mesh networking is attracting significant interest from academia, industry, and standard organizations. With several favorable characteristics, such as dynamic self-organization, self-configuration, self-healing, easy maintenance, high scalability and reliable services, wireless mesh networks have been advocated as a cost-effective approach to support high-speed last mile connectivity and ubiquitous broadband access in the context of home networking, enterprise networking, or community networking. Despite recent advances, and the technical accumulations from more than a decade research efforts in mobile ad hoc networks, many research issues remain in all protocol layers of wireless mesh networks. For example, the introducing of mixed (infrastructure and ad hoc) architecture, multi-radio, multi-channel, and multi-antenna, have brought new challenges in the design of physical, MAC, and routing protocols. New application scenarios, such as all-wireless office, are urging researchers to address enhanced QoS support and various security issues in the design of different protocol layers for wireless mesh networks. The special issue seeks original and unpublished papers that address theoretical and experimental work at all layers of wireless mesh networks. Papers are solicited from, but are not limited to, the following topics: Multi-radio and multi-channel wireless mesh networking MAC protocols (IEEE 802.11, 802.15, 802.16, 802.20, and beyond) Routing, scheduling, and channel assignment protocols Topology construction and maintenance Physical layer techniques Cross layer optimizations Testbed, prototype, and practical systems Methods and tools for wireless mesh networks simulation Modeling and performance evaluations for wireless mesh networks Security-related issues in wireless mesh networks Quality of Service and multimedia communications over wireless mesh networks Intelligent system techniques for wireless mesh networks Novel applications of wireless mesh networks Multi-hop wireless communications and ad hoc networking Power-aware and energy-efficient protocols and algorithms Self-organization, self-configuration network architectures Wireless LAN, PAN, MAN and WAN Wireless ad hoc and sensor networks IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Full papers due: August 31, 2007 Notification of acceptance: December 31, 2007 Cameral-ready due: February 29, 2008 Publication date: Spring/Summer 2008 SUBMISSION FORMAT AND REVIEW GUIDELINES --------------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting recent developments in the topics related to the special issue. The submitted papers must be written in English and describe original research not published nor currently under review by other journals or conferences. Parallel submissions will not be accepted. All submitted papers, if relevant to the theme and objectives of the special issue, will go through an external peer-review process. Submitting a paper implies the willingness of reviewing one paper submitted to the special issue. Submissions should include an abstract, 5-10 key words, the e-mail address of the corresponding author. The paper length should not exceed 30 double-spaced pages including figures and references on 8.5 by 11 inch paper using at least 11 point font. For more information, please contact guest co-editors. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES --------------------- All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted via the journal's online submission and peer-review system at http://www.ees.elsevier.com/comcom. A prospective author should 1. Register in EES (follow the instructions on the site) 2. Select: Submit Manuscript from Main Menu 3. When choosing Article Type, please select the title of the special issue ("Wireless Mesh Networks" for this Special issue submission) you are submitting to. GUEST EDITORS ------------- Dr. Xiaobo Zhou Dept. of Computer Science University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Colorado Springs, CO 80933 Email: zbo(a)cs.uccs.edu Dr. Liqiang Zhang Dept. of Computer and Information Sciences Indiana University South Bend South Bend, IN 46615 Email: liqzhang(a)cs.iusb.edu ************************************************************************ **************** _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: HotNets-VI Call For Papers]
by Lars Wolf 12 Jun '07

12 Jun '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: HotNets-VI Call For Papers Datum: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:08:29 -0400 Von: Erich Nahum <nahum(a)turing.acm.org> Antwort an: Erich Nahum <nahum(a)turing.acm.org> An: SIGCOMM-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG Call for Papers The Sixth Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets-VI), to be held in Atlanta, GA, will bring together researchers in the networking systems community to engage in lively discussion of future trends in networking research and technology. The workshop, which is sponsored by ACM SIGCOMM, provides a venue for researchers to present and discuss ideas that have the potential to significantly influence the community in the long term; the goal is to promote community-wide discussions of those ideas. Each potential participant should submit a short position paper describing such an idea. The paper could, for example, expose a new problem, advocate a new solution, or re-frame or debunk existing work. We encourage submissions of early work, with novel and interesting ideas, across the broad range of networking systems research. We expect that work introduced at HotNets-VI, once fully thought through, completed, and described in a finished form, may be relevant to conferences such as SIGCOMM, NSDI, SOSP, OSDI, SenSys, or MobiCom. Topics of interest include, but are by no means limited to: A research agenda for Web 2.0 Architectural support for security or availability Computing in the cloud: what role for networking research? Ensuring correctness for distributed protocols Evolution of storage area networks Lessons drawn from failed research, and controversial or disruptive topics Measurement and management of metro-area WiFi networks Network coding: hype or reality? Power as a first-class design property; "green" protocols/implementations Protocol design for optical switching The future role of network processors Third-world networking challenges Understanding the economics of operational costs Unique challenges of massive multi-player game systems Validation of measurement-based research: what are our standards? Position papers will be selected based on originality, likelihood of spawning insightful discussion and technical merit. Online copies of accepted position papers will be made publicly available via the Web prior to the workshop, and printed proceedings will be published. Additionally, a workshop summary will be published in ACM SIGCOMM's Computer Communication Review (CCR), widely disseminating the ideas discussed at the workshop. Attendance will be limited to around 60 people in order to ensure an interactive workshop atmosphere. Invitations to attend the workshop will be extended according to the following priorities: o the Program and Steering Committees, one author per paper, and any speakers invited by the Program Committee o co-authors of accepted and submitted papers, preferring students as available scholarships allow o event-sponsor representatives and additional authors of submitted papers at the discretion of the Program Committee The workshop will be held at the Klaus Advanced Computing Building, which is the new home of the School of Computer Science at Georgia Tech (http://www.cc.gatech.edu/klaus/), in the Midtown area of Atlanta. Hotnets-VI is sponsored by ACM SIGCOMM and NSF. Submission Instructions Submitted papers must be no longer than 6 pages (10 point font, 1 inch margins). Authors may choose to submit a blind or non-blind paper. A blind submission will not indicate the names or affiliations of the authors in the paper; a non-blind submission will include the names and affiliations of each author on the first page of the paper. Only electronic submissions in PostScript or PDF will be accepted. Submissions must be written in English, render without error using standard tools (Ghostview or Acrobat Reader), and print on US-Letter sized paper. Please number your pages. HotNets-VI reviews will follow standard academic practice, although some rejected papers may not receive full-length reviews. Submission information will be posted by mid-July at http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/HotNets-VI Important Dates Submissions due: Friday, 3 August 2007 (11:59pm Pacific Daylight Time) No extensions will be granted. Notification of acceptance: Monday, 1 October 2007 Camera-ready copy due: Wednesday, 24 October 2007 Workshop (Atlanta, GA): Wednesday-Thursday, 14-15 November 2007 Organizers: General Chair Constantine Dovrolis, Georgia Tech Program Committee David Andersen, CMU Dave Clark, MIT Krishna Gummadi, MPI-SWS Kevin Jeffay, UNC Z. Morley Mao, University of Michigan Craig Partridge, BBN Vern Paxson, ICSI/LBNL (co-chair) Stefan Savage, UCSD (co-chair) Nina Taft, Intel Research Alec Wolman, Microsoft Research

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CAMAD 2007 - LAST Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 12 Jun '07

12 Jun '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CAMAD 2007 - LAST Call for Papers Datum: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:14:10 +0300 Von: Helen Karatza <karatza(a)csd.auth.gr> An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP **************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS 12th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD '07) Athens, Greece, 7 September, 2007 Part of the 18th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2007) Athens, Greece, 3-7 September, 2007 www.pimrc2007.org Endorsed by Communications Systems Integration and Modeling, and Satellite and Space Communications Technical Committees of IEEE ComSoc **************************************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES Full papers due: 15 June 2007 Notification: 15 July 2007 Camera Ready due: 30 July 2007 Scope of CAMAD 2007: ==================== The 12th International Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD) provides a forum for discussion of recent developments on analytical and simulation tools and techniques for the performance evaluation of communications systems. The workshop launched in 1986 and organized every 2 years thereafter is often held in cooperation with flagship IEEE Communication Society conferences (Int. Conference on Communications - ICC, Global Telecommunication Conference - GLOBECOM). Last CAMAD'06 was a two days stand-alone event, held in the beautiful city of Trento, just before ICC 2006 (Istanbul, Turkey). CAMAD '07 is an effort to establish the workshop as an annual event motivated by the ever increasing interest in this hot research and development field. The workshop is soliciting papers describing original work, unpublished and not currently submitted for publication elsewhere, on topics, including but not limited to, the following: * Modeling and Simulation techniques for Integrated Communication Systems * Traffic Engineering and Analysis * Traffic Modeling * Network Measurements * Simulation techniques for large-scale Networks * Simulation and Fast Simulation Techniques for Communication Networks * Validation of Simulation Models with Measurements * Network Optimization and Resource Provisioning * Next Generation Internet * Overlay and Virtual Networks * Autonomic Communication Systems * Cross-Layer & Cross-System Protocol Design * Network Monitoring * Modeling and Design of Network Services and Systems * Wireless, Mobile, Ad hoc and Sensor Networks * Modeling and Design of Wireless Ad Hoc Networks * Seamless Integration of Wireless, Cellular and Broadcasting Networks with Internet * Design of Satellite Networks * Integration of Terrestrial and Satellite Networks The event is Part of IEEE PIMRC 2007, and is endorsed by the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committees on Communications Systems Integration and Modeling (CSIM) and Satellite and Space Communications (SSC). Submission Information: ======================= Prospective authors are invited to submit full paper of not more than eight (8) IEEE style pages including results, figures and references. For submission please go to PIMRC 2007 website (http://www.pimrc2007.org/) and select 'Workshop paper submission instructions' ( that can be found at http://www.pimrc2007.org/econf2/en/site.action?contentid=41&module=) for directions on submitting your contribution. Papers will be reviewed with the standard reviewing procedure (each paper being sent to at least 3 independent anonymous reviewers). Accepted papers will be published within PIMRC 2007 proceedings and on IEEExplore. The best accepted paper will receive the Best Paper Award, sponsored by IEEE ComSoc CSIM Technical Committee. General Chair ============== Charalabos Skianis, NCSR 'Demokritos', Greece Technical Program Co-Chairs =========================== Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Mario Marchese, University of Genoa, Italy Publication Chair ================= George Kormentzas, University of Aegean, Greece Steering Committee Chair ======================== Michael Devetsikiotis, North Carolina State Univ., USA Steering Committee ================== Nelson L.S. da Fonseca, UNICAMP, Brazil Fabrizio Granelli, Univ. of Trento, Italy Pascal Lorenz, Univ. of Haute Alsace, France Hussein Mouftah, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada Technical Program Committee ============================ Fatih Alagoz (Bogazici Univ., Turkey) Igor Bisio (Univ. of Genoa, Italy) Giulia Boato (Univ. of Trento, Italy) Stephen Bush (GE Global Research Center, USA) Carlo Caini (Univ. of Bologna, Italy) Periklis Chatzimisios (TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece) Nelson Fonseca (State Univ. of Campinas, Brazil) Luiz A. Da Silva (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA) Tomaso De Cola (CNIT - Univ. of Genoa, Italy) Spyros Denazis (Hitachi Europe, France) Michael Devetsikiotis (NCSU, USA) Christos Douligeris (Univ. of Piraeus, Greece) Rachid El Azouzi (Univ. of Avignon, France) Marc Emmelmann (Tech. Univ. of Berlin, Germany) Victor Frost (Univ. Kansas, USA) Stefano Giordano (Univ. of Pisa, Italy) Fabrizio Granelli (Univ. of Trento, Italy) Rose Qingyang Hu (Mississippi State Univ., USA) Changcheng Huang (Carleton University, Canada) Abbas Jamalipour (Univ. of Sydney, Australia) Athanasios Kanatas (Univ. of Piraeus, Greece) Dzmitry Kliazovich (Univ. of Trento, Italy) Kimon Kontovasilis (NCSR 'Demokritos', Greece) Anastasios Kourtis (NCSR 'Demokritos', Greece) Fotios Lazarakis (NCSR 'Demokritos', Greece) Georgios Lazarou (Mississippi State Univ., USA) Jie Li (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan) Renato Lo Cigno (Univ. of Trento, Italy) Pascal Lorenz (Univ. of Haute Alsace, France) Alexander Markhasin (Siberian State Univ. of Telecom. and Information Sciences, Russia) Ahmed Mehaoua (U. of Paris - Rene Descartes, France) Mohammad S. Obaidat (Monmouth Univ., USA) Ibrahim Onyuksel (Northern Illinois Univ., USA) Evangelos Pallis (CTRC, Greece) Otilia Popescu (Univ. of Texas at Dallas, USA) Neeli Prasad (Aalborg Univ., Denmark) Helena Szczerbicka (Univ. of Hannover, Germany) Petia Todorova (Fraunhofer-FOKUS, Germany) Ahmed Toufik (LaBRI-Univ. of Bordeaux I, France) Ljiljana Trajkovic (Simon Fraser Univ., Canada) Vassilis Tsaoussidis (Demokritos Univ., Greece) Maria-Angeles Vazquez Castro (UAB, Spain) Steven Wright (BellSouth, USA) ----------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [MM-INTEREST] Call for papers for MultiMedia Modeling (MMM 08)]
by Lars Wolf 08 Jun '07

08 Jun '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [MM-INTEREST] Call for papers for MultiMedia Modeling (MMM 08) Datum: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 08:19:36 +0200 Von: Frank Nack <Frank.Nack(a)CWI.NL> Antwort an: Frank Nack <Frank.Nack(a)CWI.NL> An: MM-INTEREST(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG CALL FOR PAPERS The 14 th International MultiMedia Modeling Conference (MMM2008) Kyoto, Japan, 9 - 11 January 2008 http://research.nii.ac.jp/mmm2008/ The International MultiMedia Modeling (MMM) Conference is a leading international conference http://research.nii.ac.jp/mmm2008/ for researchers and industry practitioners to share their new ideas, original research results and practical development experiences from all MMM related areas. The conference calls for original high-quality papers in, but not limited to, the following areas related to multimedia modeling technologies and applications: 1. Multimedia Content Analysis * Image/Video/Audio Content Analysis * Media Assimilation and Fusion * Content-Based Multimedia Retrieval and Browsing * Multimedia Indexing * Multimedia Abstraction and Summarization * Semantic Analysis of Multimedia Data * Statistical Modeling of Multimedia Data 2. Multimedia Signal Processing and Communications * Media Representation and Algorithms * Audio, Image, Video Processing, Coding and Compression * Multimedia Database, Content Delivery and Transport * Multimedia Security and Content Protection * Wireless and Mobile Multimedia * Multimedia Standards and Related Issues 3. Multimedia Applications and Services * Real-Time, Interactive Multimedia Applications * Ambiance Multimedia Applications * Multi-Modal Interaction * Virtual Environments * Personalization * Collaboration, Contextual Metadata, Collaborative Tagging * Web Applications * Multimedia Authoring * Multimedia-Enabled New Applications (E-Learning, Entertainment, Health Care, Web2.0, SNS, etc.) Paper Submission Guidelines Papers should be less than 10 pages in length, conforming to the formatting instructions of Springer Verlag, LNCS series www.springer.com/lncs. Papers will be judged by an international program committee based on their originality, significance, correctness and clarity. All papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format through the MMM2008 Paper Submission Website: http://research.nii.ac.jp/mmm2008/. To publish the paper in the conference, one of the authors needs to register and present the paper in the conference. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to "The Visual Computer" journal. Important Dates Submission of full papers : 6 Jul. 2007 (23:59 Japan Standard Time (GMT+9)) Notification of acceptance : 10 Sep. 2007 Camera-ready Copy Due : 5 Oct. 2007 Author registration : 5 Oct. 2007 Conference : 9 -11 Jan. 2008 General Co-Chairs Kiyoharu Aizawa, University of Tokyo, Japan Noboru Babaguchi, Osaka University, Japan Program Co-Chairs Shin’ichi Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Minoru Etoh, NTT DoCoMo Research Laboratories, Japan Frank Nack, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France

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[Fwd: [MM-INTEREST] [ACM EMME 2007] 2nd CfP (Short Papers & Demos)]
by Lars Wolf 08 Jun '07

08 Jun '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [MM-INTEREST] [ACM EMME 2007] 2nd CfP (Short Papers & Demos) Datum: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 17:46:45 -0400 Von: Wolfgang Huerst <huerst(a)INFORMATIK.UNI-FREIBURG.DE> Antwort an: Wolfgang Huerst <huerst(a)INFORMATIK.UNI-FREIBURG.DE> An: MM-INTEREST(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG Our apologies if you have received multiple copies of this mail. ======================================================================= ACM Workshop on Educational Multimedia & Multimedia Education (EMME 2007) in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2007 Sept 28, 2007, Augsburg, Germany ======================================================================= 2nd Call for Papers: SHORT PAPERS & DEMONSTRATIONS ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The question about how multimedia can really make learning more exploratory and enjoyable is as yet unanswered. We are just beginning to understand the real contribution of multimedia to education. In addition, new trends, such as multimedia on handheld devices or advanced approaches for the automatic analysis of multimodal signals, offer novel and exciting opportunities for teaching and learning. The goal of this workshop is thus to identify current and evolving trends, specify open problems, and discover challenges and prospects for new research in the broad topic of multimedia-based education. We invite contributions on any kind of education-related technology where new media are involved. Truly innovative research on a single media is welcome as well. We are interested in innovative ideas, work in progress as well as in contributions about existing and established systems. TOPICS OF INTEREST include, but are not limited to: General educational multimedia applications, e.g.: * Repurposing and reuse of educational multimedia material * Authoring and content creation process * Classroom note taking and whiteboard analysis * Automated analysis of participant interactions in lectures & discussion * Indexing and multimedia information retrieval for educational uses * Intelligent search and navigation in e-learning portals Semantic Computing, e.g.: * Speech and handwriting recognition * Image and video understanding * Text and natural language understanding * Automatic classification and categorization Human-Computer Interaction, e.g.: * New input devices * Interface design for educational applications * New interaction styles and paradigms * Knowledge and information visualization * Interfaces for "intellig. classrooms" & ubiquitous computing environments * Usability issues * Personalization Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing, e.g.: * Mobile learning applications and services * Integration of mobile devices into wired learning environments * Mobile collaborative learning * Visualization for information access * Delivery of educational material on handheld devices SUBMISSIONS: Short paper submissions should be up to 4 pages in ACM format. Accepted contributions will be presented at the workshop as posters in a special poster session. Demo submissions should contain an extended abstract for publication in the proceedings (1-2 pages in ACM format) as well as a short, informal description of the demo itself, the required hardware, etc. Accepted demos will be presented during the poster session. It is the responsibility of the authors to provide the required hardware for their demos. Both kinds of contributions will be published in the workshop proceedings as well as the ACM Digital Library. WORKSHOP CHAIRS Gerald Friedland, ICSI, Berkeley, CA, USA Wolfgang Hürst, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany Lars Knipping, Berlin University of Technology, Germany IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for submissions: June 24, 2007 (11:59pm, Eastern Time) Notification of acceptance: July 5, 2007 Final, camera ready version: July 11, 2007 Workshop: September 28, 2007 Further information & submission instructions at http://emme2007.informatik.uni-freiburg.de

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[Fwd: [Tccc] [Mass 2007]: Call for Demos]
by Lars Wolf 08 Jun '07

08 Jun '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] [Mass 2007]: Call for Demos Datum: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 20:12:49 +0200 Von: Andrea Passarella <a.passarella(a)iit.cnr.it> An: tccc tccc <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> [ Our sincere apologies for possible cross posting ] ----------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR DEMOS Fourth International Conference on Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems IEEE MASS 2007 http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/mass07 Sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society Oct. 8-11 Pisa, Italy Real experimentation has proven to be a fundamental methodology to evaluate mobile ad hoc and sensor systems. Furthermore, early prototyping is an outstanding way to understand real user requirements and help adoption of wireless ad hoc technologies by the mass market. In this view, IEEE MASS solicits demonstrations of mobile ad hoc and sensor systems showing real-systems prototypes at work, thus stimulating discussions among the attendees. Demonstrations from both academia and industry are welcome at most. ********************* HIGHLIGHTS ******************************* * * - Authors of all accepted demos will be invited to provide a * SHORT DEMO PAPER (3 pages) describing the demo features. * Short demo papers will be included in the MASS proceedings. * * - MASS 2007 will grant a "Best Demo Award" based upon both the * technical and innovation contribution. * **************************************************************** Demo proposals must be limited to 3 pages (IEEE conference template, font size no less than 10pt), describing the demo research framework, and what will be shown during the MASS demo session. The proposal must also include all the technical requirements for the demo. Demo proposals must be submitted as a SINGLE PDF FILE via e-mail to the demo chairs (mass07demo(a)iit.cnr.it). For more information, please refer to the demo section of the IEEE MASS 2007 official web site (http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/mass07). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Provisioning of wireless QoS in terms of bandwidth and delay assurance * Routing protocols (unicast, multicast, broadcast, geocast) and metrics * Data transport in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks * Power-aware and energy-efficient design * Topology construction and coverage maintenance * Cross layer design and optimization * Incentives and game theoretic approaches in wireless ad-hoc networks * Localization and synchronization in wireless sensor networks * Data gathering, fusion, and dissemination in wireless sensor networks * Operating system and middleware support * Mesh networking * Delay tolerant networks and opportunistic networking * Handoff, mobility management and seamless internetworking * Peer-to-peer, overlay, and content distribution wireless ad hoc networks * Reliability, security, and trustworthiness issues in ad hoc and sensor networks Important Dates: Submission deadline: July 2, 2007 Acceptance notification: July 16, 2007 Camera-ready deadline: August 1, 2007 Conference date: October 8-11, 2007 Andrea Passarella and Gergely Zaruba IEEE MASS 2007 Demo Chairs -- Andrea Passarella Mass 2007 Demo Co-Chair -- Pervasive Computing & Networking Lab (PerLab) Institute for Informatics and Telematics (IIT) National Research Council (CNR) Via G. Moruzzi, 1 voice: +39 050 315 3269 56124 Pisa, Italy fax: +39 050 315 2113 @/sip: a.passarella(a)iit.cnr.it mobile: +39 346 0082 540 http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/andrea _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] IPOM 2007 (Deadline Extended) - 7th IEEE International Workshop on IP Operations and Management]
by Lars Wolf 07 Jun '07

07 Jun '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] IPOM 2007 (Deadline Extended) - 7th IEEE International Workshop on IP Operations and Management Datum: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 22:33:42 -0700 Von: Sumit Naiksatam <snaiksatam(a)scu.edu> An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> (Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email.) 7th IEEE International Workshop on IP Operations and Management (IPOM 2007) (part of MANWEEK 2007) October 31 - November 2, 2007, San Jose, California http://magellan.tssg.org/2007/ipom/ipom.php CALL FOR PAPERS *Extended Deadline - June 11th 2007* The IPOM 2007 is the seventh in a series of dedicated events to Operations and Management in IP-based networks. Building on the success of the previous events, IPOM 2007 focuses on network management challenges for the current Internet as well as Future Internet Design (FIND). We are particularly interested in pressing network management issues related to virtualization, mobility, service provision, security, multimedia, and P2P applications. The overall theme of ManWeek 2007 is management for virtualization. PAPER SUBMISSION Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or experiences. Late-breaking advances and work-in-progress reports from ongoing research are also encouraged to be submitted to IPOM 2007. Papers under review elsewhere MUST NOT be submitted to IPOM 2007. Authors are requested to submit either long papers or short papers (work-in-progress reports): # Long papers (up to 12 single-spaced single-column pages, including figures, tables, references and annexes) # Short papers describing work-in-progress (up to 4 pages, including figures, tables, references and annexes ) Submissions exceeding the above mentioned paper size will not be reviewed and returned to the authors. Papers must be submitted electronically through the JEMS conference management system. (only PDF files are permitted). Topics of interest include but are not limited to: # Autonomic Network Management # Managing and Troubleshooting Network Mobility # Traffic Modeling, Measurement, Analysis, Engineering, and Visualization for IP Networks # Managing Virtualization and Managing via Virtualization # Management Issues related to GENI and FIND # Large-Scale Internet-based Attack Defense via Management # Botnet Management or Being Managed by Botnet # Management Issues for Intra-/Inter-Domain Routing # Self-Configuration, Self-Healing, and Self-Management # IPOM Interoperability # Management of Sensor and Ad-Hoc Networks # Grid Networking Management # IP services and network Provisioning & Restoration # Charging and Accounting for IP Services # Overlay Networks: Design, Operations & Management # IP Multimedia Subsystems: O & M PROCEEDINGS The IPOM 2007 proceedings will be published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. For more information regarding manuscript format please visit the author's instruction links at LNCS Springer. IMPORTANT DEADLINES # Submission:June 11th 2007 # Notification: July 7th 2007 # Camera ready: August 2nd 2007 # Workshop: October 31 - November 2, 2007 The best papers of IPOM will also get a chance to be published as an extended version in a special edition of the IEEE eTransactions on Network and Service Management - eTNSM. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)list.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP - 9th ACM MOBIHOC]
by Lars Wolf 07 Jun '07

07 Jun '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP - 9th ACM MOBIHOC Datum: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 23:58:38 -0400 (EDT) Von: My T. Thai <mythai(a)cise.ufl.edu> An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> CALL FOR PAPERS =================================================== The 9th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing May 26-30, 2008, Hong Kong http://www.sigmobile.org/mobihoc/2008 Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE =================================================== ACM MobiHoc is the premier international symposium dedicated to addressing challenges emerging from the design and applications of wireless communication networks. This symposium will be held in Hong Kong during the week of May 26, 2008. It will bring together researchers and practitioners from a broad spectrum of wireless networking research to present the most up-to-date results and achievements in the field. The symposium will include a highly selective technical program, hands-on research demonstrations, a distinguished keynote address, panels, and tutorials. We invite paper, poster, and demonstration submissions on a variety of wireless ad hoc networks such as mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), wireless mesh networks, wireless sensor networks, wireless personal area networks, vehicular networks, RFID networks, and hybrid networks including unmanned aerial vehicles and underwater unmanned vehicles. The symposium solicits high-quality theoretical as well as practical works on a broad range of issues important to the design, performance control, and security of wireless ad hoc networks. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: - Transport, Network, and MAC protocol design - Cross-Layer Design and Control - Energy Efficiency - Modeling and Performance Analysis - Network control - Distributed algorithms - Computational Complexity and Approximability - Scaling Laws and Fundamental Limits - Network Coding - Optimization based techniques - Location Discovery - Functional Computation and Data Aggregation - Distributed Sensing, Coordination, and Control - Network Security, Privacy, and Trust - Resiliency, Fault tolerance, and Reliability - Quality of Service - System design and Testbeds - Measurements and Data Collection The symposium especially encourages the submission of exploratory studies that identify new challenges in the network design, innovative services, and applications that may stimulate far-reaching future research. This year's symposium will introduce a Best Paper Award among all the papers submitted to the conference. =========================================================== SUBMISSION GUIDELINES All submissions will be handled electronically and must be in PDF format. Papers must not exceed 10 pages (US letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches) including text, figures and references. The font size must be at least 10 points. Accepted papers will be published in the symposium proceedings. All submitted papers would be judged based on their quality through double-blind reviewing, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. Authors' names must NOT appear in the paper or in the PDF file. Submitted papers must not be currently under review for any other publication. Instructions on paper submission and formatting are available on the symposium webpage. Please direct any questions about the paper submission process to the Program Co-Chairs. ============================================================ IMPORTANT DATES Paper Abstract Registration: November 16, 2007 Paper Submission Deadline: November 22, 2007, 5pm PT Notification of Acceptance: Feburary 28, 2008 Camera-Ready Version Deadline: March 22, 2008 ============================================================ TPC CO-CHAIRS: Ness B. Shroff shroff(a)ecn.purdue.edu Peng-Jun Wan wan(a)cs.iit.edu === My T. Thai Assistant Professor CISE Department University of Florida _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)list.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: WCNC 2008 CFP]
by Lars Wolf 07 Jun '07

07 Jun '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: WCNC 2008 CFP Datum: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 12:47:00 -0400 Von: meetings(a)comsocconferences.org An: Conferencesx(a)comsocconferences.org ** ** *WCNC 2008 * *Call for Papers <http://www.ieee-wcnc.org/2008/cf_papers.html> * ** ** *IEEE WCNC ---- the premier wireless event ---- brings together industry professionals and academics from companies, governmental agencies, and universities from around the world to exchange information on advancements in wireless communications and wireless networking technology.* ** *We invite you to submit papers in all areas of wireless communications, networks, services, and applications. For a list of potential topics and paper submission instructions, visit www.ieee-wcnc.org/2008 <http://www.ieee-wcnc.org/2008>. Important Deadlines - Tutorial: Saturday, 1 September 2007 - Paper/Panel: Thursday, 20 September 2007 - Acceptance Notification: Monday, 3 December 2007 - Final Camera Ready Copy: Friday, 4 January 2008 ** **All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and in IEEE Xplore. For full Call for Paper and general conference information, visit www.ieee-wcnc.org/2008 <http://www.ieee-wcnc.org/2008>.* ** * * To unsubscribe from this IEEE Communications Society Meetings and Conferences mailing list, go to: http://www.comsoc.org/confs/unsubscribe.html or send a blank email message to conferencesx-remove(a)comsocconferences.org. You can also request removal by mail. Please send a note with your email address and the list name (Conferencesx(a)comsocconferences.org) to ComSoc List Removal - IT 3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor New York, NY 10016 USA

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