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[Tccc] IEEE Mobile Video Delivery (MoViD) 2008: Call for Papers
by shamik＠cs.ucf.edu 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

(Apologies for multiple copies. Appreciated if you can forward to potentially interested persons) *********************************************** IEEE MoViD 2008 First IEEE Workshop on Mobile Video Delivery In conjunction with IEEE WoWMoM 2008 http://eecs.ucf.edu/movid/ 23 June 2008 Newport Beach, CA, USA *********************************************** The unprecedented growth in video content generation and delivery has created the new era of video Internet where video-based applications have gained tremendous popularity. This trend has forced the network and service providers to understand the limitations of current Internet and bring new technologies for delivering the video content to the end-user. Furthermore, criticality of the wireless networks pose new challenges in video delivery specific to the diverse set of underlying network technologies including Wi-Fi, WiMax etc. The focus of this workshop is to present and discuss recent advances in the wireless network technologies and video delivery mechanisms for supporting the broad spectrum of emerging video-centric applications. The workshop will have the goal of understanding the research and deployment challenges in building the Next Generation Mobile Video Internet. Specifically, the workshop intends to address the following topics: a) Research challenges in developing new methods for delivering rich video experience to users over existing wireless technologies; b) New visions and concepts that will drive evolution of wireless access technologies to support high definition video content with diverse QoS requirements; c) Deployment challenges in new video delivery models (broadcast/multicast) to mobile users. The workshop aims to foster interaction among researchers and exchange new ideas by bringing together members of the video and networking communities. The workshop will provide an interesting venue to discuss widely varying beliefs and understanding being formed among the academic and industrial communities in terms of how next generation mobile video content should delivered to end-users. The technical program committee invites the submission of original, unpublished technical papers in the following areas (but not limited to): Application-specific technologies in supporting **Mobile VoD, SDV, IPTV **Mobile video conferencing **Mobile video gaming **Video surveillance and sensing Performance **Quality of experience metrics **Video quality measurement **Performance analysis **Experimental results from testbed/deployments Encoding and Transport **Wireless video coding techniques **Adaptive media coding **Link adaptive transport mechanisms Wireless network techniques and protocols **802.11 WLAN/802.11n **802.16 WiMax **3G cellular networks **DVB-H **MAC/PHY layer techniques Wireless delivery models **Broadcast/multicast/simulcast **P2P mobile video **Vehicular video delivery Submission Instructions ======================= Papers should contain original material and not previously published, or currently submitted elsewhere. Manuscripts must be limited to 6 pages in IEEE 8.5x11 conference format, and formatted in strict accordance with the IEEE Computer Society author guidelines. All submissions will be handled electronically. Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press in the combined WoWMoM 2008 workshop proceedings. Important Dates =============== Submission Deadline: Feb 11 Accept/reject notification: Mar 15 Camera ready paper due: Apr 02 Workshop Organizers =================== Mainak Chatterjee, University of Central Florida Samrat Ganguly, NEC Laboratories, America Technical Program Committee (List incomplete) =========================== Suman Banerjee, University of Wisconsin-Madison Suchi Bhandarkar, University of Georgia Siddhartha Chattopadhyay, Google, Inc. Sujit Dey, University of California, San Diego Pascal Frossard, EPFL Dilip Krishnaswami, University of California, Davis Giridhar Mandayam, Qualcomm Kiran Mukkavilli, Qualcomm Raja Neogi, Radisys Inc. Thinh Nguyen, Oregon State University Vikram Srinivasan, Bell Labs, India Deepak Turaga, Nokia Research Stephan Wenger, Qualcomm Magda El Zarki, University of California, Irvine Jian Zhang, University of New South Wales Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore Publicity Chair =============== Shamik Sengupta, Stevens Institute of Technology Web Chair ========== Wenjing Wang, University of Central Florida =============================================== http://eecs.ucf.edu/movid/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] cfp: Mobile Computing Symposium of IWCMC2008 - deadline extended to 1st of March
by Kun Yang 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers Mobile Computing Symposium of The 2008 International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC2008) August 6-8, 2008 in Chania Crete Island, Greece http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~kunyang/Services/IWCMC08/MC-IWCMC08.html Deadline extended to 1st March 2008! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scope and Topics of Interest ----------------------------------- The IWCMC2008 Mobile Computing Symposium focuses on the recent research results on mobile computer system. Perspective authors are invited to submit full papers presenting original research related to the theory or practice of mobile computing and networking. All submissions must report high-quality and previously unpublished work. Areas of interest mainly focus on mobile computing, including, but are not limited to: * Mobile Computing Infrastructure and Middleware * Adaptive Service Engineering, including Service Creation, Service Composition, Service Adaptation, Service Discovery, Service Deployment, Service Management, etc. * Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing and Service Engineering * Novel Methodologies, Techniques or Toolkits for Pervasive Service Engineering in Mobile Environments * Web caching and services * Context-awareness * Peer-to-peer Networks and Computing * Grid Computing in Mobile Environment * Security Issues in Mobile Computing * Accounting and Pricing * Practical applications However, research papers on mobile networks and wireless communications that underpin the upper layer computing are also welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Mobile wireless QoS * Mobile wireless Internet, IPv6 * Mobile ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks * 4G, 3.5G, 3G, ... wireless systems * Satellite-based systems * Ultra-wide band communications (UWB) * Routing, multicasting, ... * Location-based service, GPS * Resource management * Heterogeneous wireless networks, radio access networks * Multiple access * Mobile agents * Wireless applications, mobile e-commerce, multimedia * Power aware computation and communication * Multi-user detection * Power management & control, low-power protocols * Transport-layer issues * Wireless security * Distributed algorithms for wireless networks * High altitude platform * Wireless network architectures * Wireless multimedia, QoS adaptation * Wireless communication around human body * Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) * Personal area networks, body wireless networks, Bluetooth * Coding & modulation * MIMO, adaptive antenna * W-CDMA, CDMA2000, TD-SCDMA * Software-defined radio, reconfigurable radio networks * Modeling, simulation Important dates --------------- Full Paper Submission March 1, 2008 Notification of Acceptance May 15, 2008 Camera-Ready Version and Copyright Form Submission June 8 Registration Deadline for Authors June 8 Hotel Reservation Deadline July 10 Paper Submission Web Site http://www.edas.info/Conferences.cgi Submission Guidelines --------------------- For this symposium, authors are invited to submit full papers presenting new research related to the theory or practice of mobile computing and networking. All submissions must describe original research, not published or currently under review for another conference or journal. All papers are limited to six printed pages, including text, figures and references, and must be written in English and follow the standard IEEE double-column format. The font size must be at least 10 points. All submissions will be handled electronically through EDAS system at http://www.edas.info/Conferences.cgi and must be in PDF format. All submitted papers would be judged based on their quality through a double peer-reviewing process. Accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings of IWCMC2008. Symposium Co-Chairs ------------------- Jie Li: University of Tsukuba, Japan Kun Yang: University of Essex, UK Pingyi Fan: Tsingha University, P. R. China Xiaohua Jia: City University of Hong Kong, Hongkong Changcheng Huang: Carleton University, Canada Technical Program Committee ------------------------------------- (Listed in the Alphabetic Order of Last Name) Jiannong Cao Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong Zhining Chen Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) Singapore Yen-Wen Chen National Central University Taiwan Komosny Dan Brno University of Technology Czech Republic Ken Guild University of Essex UK Andreas Heiner Nokia Finland Liang Hu Jilin University China Yeonkwon Jeong Information and Communications University Korea Qun Jin Waseda University Japan Chonggun Kim Yeungnam University Korea Laurent Lefevre INRIA RESO - LIP France Minglu Li Shanghai Jiantong University China Wanjiun Liao National Taiwan University Taiwan Geyong Min University of Bradford UK Shumao Ou University of Essex, UK Jianping Pan University of Victoria Canada ChangWoo Pyo National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) Japan Yi Qian National Institute of Standards and Technology USA Matthew R McKay Hong Kong University of Science and Technology China Joan Serrat UPC - Bacelona Spain Gangxiang Shen University of Melbourne Australia Liansheng Tan Central China Normal University China Guojun Wang Central South University China Jiahong Wang Iwate Prefectural University Japan Xianbin Wang CRC Canada Kui Wu University of Victoria Canada Jiang (Linda) Xie The University of North Carolina at Charlotte USA Hidetoshi Yokota KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc. Japan Tingting Zhang Mid Sweden University Sweden Yan Zhang Simula Research Laboratory Norway Naor Zohar University of Haifa Israel _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] MobiCom'08 CFP]
by Lars Wolf 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] MobiCom'08 CFP Datum: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:24:45 -0800 Von: Cedric J A. Westphal <cwestphal(a)docomolabs-usa.com> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Papers. Please note that the CFP deadline has changed from the preliminary CFP, and is now March 7 (paper registration) and March 14 (manuscript upload). Regards, Cedric Westphal, Ryuji Wakikawa, Mischa Dohler MobiCom'08 Publicity Chairs. CALL FOR PAPERS MobiCom 2008 The Fourteenth Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking September 14-19, 2007 San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2008/ Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE ACM MobiCom is the premier international conference dedicated to addressing the challenges in the areas of mobile computing and wireless and mobile networking. It has served as an exciting international forum since 1995, addressing networks, systems, algorithms, and applications that support the symbiosis of mobile computers and wireless networks. This year, we will continue this tradition, but we especially encourage the submission of papers in the experimental systems area. This area has seen exciting developments in recent years and explicit efforts will be taken to represent it strongly at MobiCom this year. Authors are invited to submit full papers, challenges papers, student posters, and research demos and exhibits, presenting new research related to the theory or practice of mobile computing and/or wireless and mobile networking. All submissions must describe original research, not published or currently under review for another conference or journal. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * Operating system and middleware support for mobile computing and networking * Architectures, protocols, and algorithms to cope with mobility, limited bandwidth, limited power and/or intermittent connectivity * Fundamental understanding of mobile computing and wireless networking * Wireless and mobile techniques for delay tolerant, mobile ad hoc, and wireless sensor networks * Security, privacy, and trustworthiness of mobile and wireless systems * Wireless access technologies (e.g. mesh systems, PANs) * Integration and interworking of wired and wireless networks * Protocols exploiting novel technologies such as UWB, MIMO, directional antennas, and software radios * Techniques for dynamic spectrum use * Architectures, algorithms and protocols for cognitive wireless networks and their integration in the Internet * Modeling, measurement and simulation of mobile networks * Experimental test-beds for mobile/wireless networks * Performance evaluation of mobile and wireless networks, protocols, and systems * Next generation (beyond 802.11) wireless technologies and related systems and protocols Submission Instructions Detailed instructions on how and where to submit your paper can be found at http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2008/cfp.pdf Important Dates Abstracts submission due: March 7, 2008 Paper submissions due: March 14, 2008 Notification of acceptance: TBD Camera-ready version due: TBD General Chair - jj(a)soe.ucsc.edu: J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, UC Santa Cruz and PARC Technical Co-Chairs - mobicom08_pcchairs(a)acm.org: Raghupathy (Siva) Sivakumar, Georgia Tech Peter Steenkiste, Carnegie Mellon University FOR MORE INFORMATION: Please contact the General Chair or Program Co-Chairs for more information. For information on ACM SIGMOBILE and the MobiCom series of conferences, see http://www.sigmobile.org/ or contact mobicom_info(a)acm.org. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[New2an-pc] NEW2AN 2008, St.Petersburg, Russia
by Yevgeni Koucheryavy 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

Sincere apologies for receiving this CFP more than once The 8th International Conference on Next Generation Teletraffic and Wired/Wireless Advanced Networking NEW2AN 2008 http://www.new2an.org/ CALL FOR PAPERS About the Conference Next-generation mobile networks will evolve out of existing wired and wireless networks of different nature by means of convergence, fusion and mutual penetration; next-generation multimedia services in turn pose new requirements and challenges on treatment of traffic within communication systems – a certain degree of multilayer co-operation has to be achieved. This forms a framework on harmonization of results obtained separately in different areas of network research like network performance evaluation, architecture and protocol design, and low layer network design. The conference goal is in the identification, investigation and integration of new algorithms, approaches, architectures, methods and mechanisms to enable proper and efficient operation of a next-generation IP-based wireless network. Special emphasis will be given to next-generation traffic issues, it indeed remains true that much uncertainty surrounds the future traffic features and volumes, mainly because of converged type of traffic resulted from converged network operation under converged services and applications. Moreover, wireless access networks and their interaction shall be widely examined and addressed throughout the conference. The history of NEW2AN dates back to 1993, today it is an established conference featured by proceedings published by Springer LNCS and distinguished invited speakers. The NEW2AN and ruSMART will be held in St. Petersburg, Russia - the meeting point of East and West. Through its stunning architecture and wonderful art galleries and museums, among a number of other attractions, the wealth of history of East and West can be seen and felt in this beautiful city. Topics of interest Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * New Teletraffic and Network Traffic Challenges and Paradigms * Emerging Teletraffic Models and Tools * Future Internet Services: Teletraffic and Performance Issues * Traffic Classification and Characterization * Performance Evaluation of Mobile and Wireless Networks * Multidisciplinary Approaches for Traffic Analysis and Management * Traffic Engineering & QoS in all-IP Networks * Network Modeling, Simulation, Emulation and Tomography * Network Planning and Network Engineering * Resource Management and Congestion control * Traffic and performance monitoring in Future Networks * Overlay Networks * 3G and Beyond Networks * Autonomic Communications * Ad hoc and Sensor Networks * Wireless Mesh and Multi-Hop Networks * Heterogeneous Wireless Access Networks * Wireless Protocols * Mobility Management * Medium Access Control Protocols and Scheduling Techniques for Wireless Systems * Cross-layer Interactions * Applications for Multimedia-enabled Wired And Wireless all-IP Networks * Network Security * AAA, pricing, charging and billing for Wireless Technologies Paper submission Authors are invited to submit full papers in English of not more than 20 double-spaced pages, 12 pt font size. All papers must include a title, complete contact information for all authors, and keywords on the cover page. The corresponding author should be identified clearly. Papers must be submitted electronically (in PDF format) via on-line submission procedure. Proceedings will be published by LNCS Springer (pending). Selected best papers will appear in a journal special issue. Important dates Paper submission April 07, 2008 Notification of acceptance May 26, 2008 Camera ready version June 09, 2008 Conference dates September 1 - 5 , 2008 The Conference is organized by Tampere University of Technology (Finland) and BalticIT (Russia) in cooperation with ITC (International Teletraffic Congress), IEEE Russia Northwest BT/CE/COM Chapter, Popov Society, and support of NOKIA. For further and up-to-date information please visit official web page of the Conference http://www.new2an.org _______________________________________________ New2an-pc mailing list New2an-pc(a)cs.tut.fi https://mailman.cs.tut.fi/mailman/listinfo/new2an-pc

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[Tccc] Call For Papers: WSUPT-08 in Brazil
by ltyang＠gmail.com 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

Please apologize for multiple copies. ==================== WSUPT'08 CALL FOR PAPERS ========================== The 2008 Workshop on Simulation of Urban Planning and Transportation Systems(WSUPT'08) (http://www.cc.chu.edu.tw/~sclo) in conjunction with The 2008 IEEE 11th International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE 2008) Sao Paulo - Brazil July 16-18, 2008 Welcome Message The 2008 IEEE 11th International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering is mainly intended to be an open forum for discussion on the current trends and future directions of advanced computing for science and engineering application. This workshop focuses on the area of simulation techniques and application for urban planning and transportation systems. The aim of this workshop is to provide original material and up-to-date synthesis of the state of modern transportation analysis, simulation of urban planning and strategies, simulation of urbanization and regional development, logistics and interdisciplinary application of scientific computing in urban and transportation studies. We therefore invite urban and regional planners, transportation researchers, computational scientists and engineers, computer scientists and applied mathematicians to present their recent advances, ideas, results and to exchange experiences in the areas of modeling, simulation, optimization and other support for problems in urban planning and transportation systems. This workshop is considered as a special workshop in conjunction with the 2008 IEEE 11th International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE 2008). We welcome contributions from researchers of academia and industry. Best Regards, Workshop Chair Prof. Shih-Ching Lo Department of Transportation Technology and Logistics Management, Chung Hua University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan Workshop Topics Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Urban Planning Strategy, development and management - Social differences and urbanization - Financial Topics on Urban Planning - Modeling and Simulation of transportation systems - Transportation demand analysis - Land use and transport integration - Collaboration of Public and Private Sector - Theories and method from operational research - Investment and optimum use of transport infrastructure and regional development - Environmental Protection, risk and impact - Logistics and operations models, especially with application; - Logistics and supply-chain management topics; Program Co-chairs - Yiming Li, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan - Tzu-I, Tseng, National Center for High-performance Computing, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan Important Dates - Full papers submission: March 1, 2008 - Notification of acceptance of papers: April 1, 2008 - Camera ready papers: April 25, 2008 - Workshop: July 16-18, 2008 Paper Submission Authors are expected to submit a paper in PDF format with 5-10 keywords following the IEEE CS format. (http://www.computer.org/portal/site/cscps)Program committee members and external reviewers will provide authors with at least three technical reviews. Submitted papers will be ranked based on relevance to the Conference and technical merit. Final version of accepted papers should at most 6 pages and will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press as CSE-08 workshop proceedings. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will be removed from the IEEE Digital Library after the conference. Please submit your paper to the workshop through the submission page of the workshop (http://cse.stfx.ca/~cse08workshops/sub/). Please select the The 2008 Workshop on Simulation of Urban Planning and Transportation Systems (WSUPT 08) in the frame of Workshop. For any questions, please contact Prof. Shih-Ching Lo via e-mail (sclo(a)chu.edu.tw). _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] ACM FOWANC -- 2 weeks to go
by Rong Zheng 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of the CFP. -------------------------------------------------------- The First ACM International Workshop on Foundations of Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networking and Computing (FOWANC 2008) In conjunction with ACM MobiHoc 2008 May 26, 2008 Hong Kong SAR, CHINA http://nrl.uncc.edu/FOWANC/ IMPORTANT DATES Submission of Papers: 10 February 2008 Notification of Acceptance: 18 March 2008 Final version: 26 March 2008 CONFERENCE THEME Recent research in 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, raises a number of interesting, and difficult, theoretical and algorithmic issues. This workshop is devoted to distributed algorithms and theoretical methods in the context of mobile ad hoc and sensor networking and computing. The workshop is intended to foster cooperation among researchers in mobile ad hoc and sensor networking and theoreticians in algorithm and theory, and push the theoretical research forward for a deeper understanding about ad hoc and sensor networking and computing. This workshop covers the all areas of ad hoc and sensor networking and computing, from physical issues up to applications, with a focus of theoretical and algorithmic aspect. In particular, it will cover distributed algorithms, optimizations, analysis and modeling, randomized algorithms, mechanism design, and theoretical methods in ad hoc and sensor networking and computing. Typical topics include (but not limited to): Channel assignment and management Coding theory and network coding Cryptography, security and privacy Distributed algorithms Dynamic and random networks Dynamic graph algorithms Energy conservation methods and protocols Localization and location tracking Mechanism design and game theory Modeling and complexity analysis Routing, multicast and broadcast Scheduling Selfish behavior and cooperation Synchronization Protocol optimization SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS FOWANC 2008 will only accept electronic on-line submissions. Detailed instructions can be found in the workshop web page. Accepted papers will be published by ACM. Simultaneous submissions to other conferences with published proceedings are not allowed. PROGRAM CO-CHAIRs: Xiang-Yang Li, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Yu Wang, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA PUBLICITY CHAIR: Rong Zheng, University of Houston, USA PUBLICATION CHAIR: Xinbing Wang, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Stefano Basagni, Northeastern University, USA Stephan Eidenbenz, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA Andras Farago, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Jie Gao, University of SUNY Stony Brook, USA Santosh Kumar, University of Memphis, USA Qun Li, College of William and Mary, USA Zongpeng Li, University of Calgary, Canada Benyuan Liu, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Jiangchuan Liu, Simon Fraser University, Canada Yunhao Liu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China Archan Misra, IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA Thomas Moscibroda, Microsoft Research, USA Thyaga Nandagopal, Bell Labs, USA Srinivasan Parthasarathy, IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA Chiara Petrioli, University of Rome, Italy Rajmohan Rajaraman, Northeastern University, USA Yi Shi, Virginia Tech, USA Wen-Zhan Song, Washington State University, USA Martha Steenstrup, Stow Research, USA Subhash Suri, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Xinbing Wang, ShangHai JiaoTong University, China Chih-Wei Yi, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Rong Zheng, University of Houston, USA _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] Last CFP Med-Hoc-Net 2008 [Deadline January 30] 7th IFIP Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop
by Carlos Guerrero Tomé 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

******************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS The 7th IFIP MEDITERRANEAN AD HOC NETWORKING Workshop (Med-Hoc-Net 2008) June 23-27 2008, Palma de Mallorca, Spain http://medhocnet08.uib.es ******************************************************************** Ad hoc networks have attracted the attention of the research community in the last several years. Now that some of the fundamental issues and challenges of ad hoc networking have been clearly assessed, the focus is partially shifting to new issues, which include application scenarios (road safety, disaster recovery, sensors and actuators, etc.), autonomous organization and operation, optimization and control, service creation and support, middleware. Moreover, wireless MESH networking is emerging as an "ad hoc spin-off" aimed at extending and integrating the multi-hop paradigm with more traditional networking, which poses new and exciting technical challenges. Med-Hoc-Net 2008 is the major annual international workshop aiming to serve as a platform for researchers and visionaries from academia, research labs, and industry from all over the world. Sharing ideas, views, results, and experiences in the field of wireless multi-hop networking is what Med-Hoc-Net 2008 intends to be about. Anything from theoretical and experimental achievements, to innovative ad hoc systems, prototyping efforts, and case studies is of interest to the Med-Hoc-Net community. The papers solicited in Med-Hoc-Net 2008 cover a variety of topics related to ad hoc and MESH networks, including but not limited to: - Novel multi-hop wireless network architectures - Routing algorithms and protocols - MAC protocols, scheduling, power control and radio resource sharing - Transport layer protocols for multi-hop networks - Middleware for ad hoc networks - Application driven architectures and protocols - Sensor network applications and protocols - Vehicular networks - Integration of ad hoc networks with wireless access networks - Implementations, testbeds, and prototypes - Technology related issues (IEEE 802.11, Bluetooth, ZigBee, IEEE 802.16, IEEE 802.20, etc.) - Self organization and network reconfiguration - Optimization models and algorithms - Resource and service discovery - Call admission and traffic shaping policies for ad-hoc networks - Use of advanced antenna technologies (MIMO, beam forming, etc.) - QoS support - Security and privacy The members of program committee will referee all papers, and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by Springer Science-Business Media (SSBM) in LNCS or IFIP Series. Submitted manuscripts must be formatted according to the SSBM IFIP Series formats (URL: http://springer.com/series/6102). Authors should submit a paper in English of up to 12 pages, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling. Submitted papers should address original work not published or under revision elsewhere. All submissions will be refereed by experts in the field based on originality, significance, quality, and clarity. Papers should be submitted in PDF format according to the timetable below. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- *** New deadline for full paper electronic submission: January 30, 2008 *** *** Tutorial proposal submission: February 15, 2008 *** Paper notification of acceptance/rejection: February 29, 2008 Camera ready submission of full papers: March 20, 2008 Tutorial date: June 23 and/or June 24, 2008 Contact: Ramon PUIGJANER Universitat de les Illes Balears E-mail: medhocnet08(a)uib.es Check our Web page at http://medhocnet08.uib.es for the latest information concerning the conference GENERAL CHAIR ------------- R. Puigjaner, Universitat de les Illes Balears, ES PROGRAM CHAIR ------------- P. Cuenca, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, ES ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIR -------------------------- B. Serra, Universitat de les Illes Balears, ES PUBLICITY CHAIR --------------- C. Guerrero, Universitat de les Illes Balears, ES STEERING COMMITTEE ------------------ I. F. Akyildiz, Georgia Institue of Technology, US K. Al Agha, Université Paris-Sud, FR M. Gerla, UCLA, US F. Kamoun, ENSI, TN G. Pau, UCLA, US G. Pujolle, Université Paris 6, FR PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ------------------- O. Altintas, Toyota IT Center, JP O. B. Akan, Middle East Tech. University, TR A. Azcorra, Universidad Carlos III, ES B. K. Bhargaya, Purdue University, US C. Blondia, University of Antwerp, BE A. Boukerche, University of Ottawa, CA J. C. Cano, Universitat Politècnica València, ES R. Cardell-Oliver, University of Western Australia, AU M. Cesana, Politecnico di Milano, IT T. Chahed, INT. Evry, FR S. Chandran, MIMOS, MY C. Chaudet, ENST, FR M. Conti, CNR, IT F. de Rango, Universita di Calabria, IT C. Douligeris, University of Piraeus, GR B. Dudourthial, UTC, FR E. Ekici, Ohio State University, US A. Farago, University of Texas, Dallas, US L. Fratta, Politecnico Milano, IT S. Galmés, Universitat de les Illes Balears, ES J. García-Vidal, Universitat Poliècnica Catalunya, ES A. Garrido, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, ES I. Guerin-Lassous, INRIA, FR G. Haring, Universität Wien, AT S. Heemstra de Groot, Delft University of Technology, NL H. Hellbrück, Universität Lübeck, DE O. Koné, Université Paul Sabatier-IRIT, FR H. Liu, University of Ottawa, CA M. López, UAM-I, MX M. Lenardi, Hitachi Europe, Sophia Antipolis Lab., FR P. Lorenz, Université d'Haute Alsace, FR M. Lott, Siemens AG, DE P. Manzoni, Universitat Politècnica València, ES C. Mascolo, University College London, UK D. Meddour, France Telecom, FR P. Minet, INRIA, FR A. Murphy, Universita di Lugano, IT S. Nikoletseas, CTI/University of Patras, GR L. Orozco-Barbosa, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, ES M. Pérez, Universidad Miguel Hernández, ES E. Rosti, Universita di Milano, IT P. Ruiz, Universidad de Murcia, ES P. Santi, CNR, IT B. Serra, Universitat Illes Balears, ES D. Symplot-Ryl, Université de Lille, FR V. Syrotiuk, Arizona State University, US D. Turgut, University of Central Florida, US J. Villalón, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, ES L. Villaseñor, CICESE, MX T. Watteyne, France Telecom, FR S. Weber, Trinity College Dublin, IE J. Wozniak, Technical University of Gdansk, PL H. Yomo, Aalborg University, DK _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: MCN-Infocom'08 -- Abstract Submission Deadline Feb-7]
by Lars Wolf 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: MCN-Infocom'08 -- Abstract Submission Deadline Feb-7 Datum: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:08:18 -0500 Von: Mohamed Younis <younis(a)cs.umbc.edu> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> CC: 'Silvia Giordano' <silvia.giordano(a)supsi.ch>, 'Moustafa Youssef' <moustafa.youssef(a)gmail.com> 2nd IEEE Workshop on Mission-Critical Networking (MCN'2008) http://www.criticalnet.org/ In conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM'2008 Phoenix, Arizona, April 13-18 "Mission-Critical Networking (MCN)" refers to networking for application domains where life or livelihood may be at risk. Typical application domains for MCN include critical infrastructure protection, emergency and crisis intervention, and military operations. Such networking is essential for safety, security and economic vitality in our complex world characterized by uncertainty, heterogeneity and emergent behaviors. MCN should comprise the best possible networking technology, infrastructure and services that may alleviate the risk and help save the lives of both the general public and the network users. As advances in pervasive computing, wireless communication, ad hoc and mesh networking and networked sensor systems continue, more opportunities are being opened to mission-critical networks to benefit from these technologies. A primary challenge to the operations of mission-critical networks is to deploy a communication network that is dependable, autonomic, secure, and rapidly deployable. In order to operate effectively, the deployed networks should support services such as location determination of authorized and unauthorized entities, audio and video communication, secure emergency calling and alerting, and in-situ and remote sensing and control in a secure and dependable manner. In addition, efficient operation of such networks that typically include numerous resource-constrained components may benefit from cross-layer optimization, cognition, resource engineering, visual analytics, and service-oriented architecture. Another key feature for mission-critical networking is to support interactions among multiple heterogeneous networks. This workshop solicits high quality technical contributions to the area of mission-critical networking. The manuscript must explicitly address relevance to MCN. Topics include, but are not limited to the following: . Smart environments and infrastructures . Rapidly deployable services and networks . Vehicular networks . Body sensor networks . Cognitive and autonomic networks, protocols, and services . Ubiquitous networking and services . Security, dependability, privacy, QoS and performance awareness and trade-offs . Sensor and actuator networks for information gathering and real-time control . Decentralized and peer-to-peer resource management and allocation . Trust management, security, interoperability, survivability and QoS support . Context-aware network and service management . Location determination and tracking . Energy efficiency . Admission, load and flow control . Visual analytics . Critical traffic and mobility analysis . Cross-layer design and optimization . Components and architectures for next-generation emergency calling and alerting . Network policy management . Testbeds, benchmarks, performance and experimental studies General Chairs . Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virginia Tech, USA . Henning Schulzerinne, Columbia University, USA Program Chairs . Hannes Tschofenig, Siemens AG, Germany . Moustafa Youssef, Alexandria University, Egypt Publicity Chairs . Silvia Girodano, University of Applied Science, Switzerland . Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Panels Chair . Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA Awards Chair . Ashok Agrawala, University of Maryland, USA . Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas, USA Technical Program Committee * Ehab Al-Shaer, DePaul University, USA * Nils Aschenbruck, University of Bonn, Germany * Cory Beard, University of Missouri Kansas City, USA * David Du, National Science Foundation (University of Minnesota), USA * Hossam Hassanein, Queens University, Canada * Wendi Heinzelman, University of Rochester, USA. * Sushil Jajodia., George Mason University, USA * James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA. * Deepa Kundur, Texas A&M University, USA * Victor Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada * Scott Midkiff, Virginia Tech, USA. * Nader Moayeri, NIST, USA * Farid Nait-Abdesselam, Univ. of Sciences and Tech. of Lille, France * Cristina Pinotti, University of Perguia, Italy * Jean-Jacque Quisquater, Catholic University, Belgium * Pedro M. Ruiz, University of Murcia, Spain * Krishna Sivalingam, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA * Robin Sommer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA * Doru Tiliute, University of Suceava, Romania * Gene Tsudik, University of California Irvine, USA * Stephen D. Wolthusen, University of London, UK * Naoki Wakamiya, Osaka University, Japan * Michele Weigle, Old Dominion University, USA Manuscript Submission Submitted papers must be unpublished and must not be currently under review for any other publication. All paper submissions will be handled electronically in EDAS. Authors should prepare a Portable Document Format (PDF) version of their full paper. Papers must be no longer than 6 pages and in font size no smaller than 11 points. Please refer to the INFOCOM manuscript preparation page for details and make sure the manuscript conforms to the format/font/page requirements. Manuscripts that are not compliant with the requirements may be declined without review. All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality through peer reviewing, where TPC members are invited to assess the scientific contributions of papers. For more information send email to info(a)criticalnet.org. Manuscript Submission Submitted papers must be unpublished and must not be currently under review for any other publication. All paper submissions will be handled electronically in EDAS. Authors should prepare a Portable Document Format (PDF) version of their full paper. Papers must be no longer than 6 pages and in font size no smaller than 11 points. Please refer to the INFOCOM manuscript preparation page for details and make sure the manuscript conforms to the format/font/page requirements. Manuscripts that are not compliant with the requirements may be declined without review. All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality through peer reviewing, where TPC members are invited to assess the scientific contributions of papers. Proceedings will appear in IEEE Xplore and INFOCOM CD. For more information send email to info(a)criticalnet.org. Important Dates Abstract Submission: February 7, 2008 Paper Submission: February 15, 2008 Acceptance Notification: March 10, 2008 Camera Ready Due: March 18, 2008 Workshop Date: April 18, 2008 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE Network Special Issue on Implications and Control of Middleboxes in the Internet]
by Lars Wolf 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE Network Special Issue on Implications and Control of Middleboxes in the Internet Datum: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:51:54 +0100 Von: Xiaoming Fu <fu(a)cs.uni-goettingen.de> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Our apologies if you receive multiple copies. Please feel free to forward this CFP to related colleagues and students for information. --------------------------------------------------------- Submission deadline is due in 5 weeks! Call for Papers IEEE Network Magazine Special Issue on Implications and Control of Middleboxes in the Internet Important Dates =============== Manuscript Submission Due: March 1, 2008 Acceptance Notification: June 1, 2008 Final Manuscript Due: July 15, 2008 Special Issue Publication Date: September/October 2008 Call for Papers =============== Network Address Translators (NAT) and IP firewalls have been introduced to the Internet some time ago, and over the time become an integral part of the Internet architecture. Moreover, there are also other types of middleboxes, such as Virtual Private Network (VPN) gateways, Application Layer Gateways (ALG), Performance Enhancing Proxies (PEP) and web proxies. These intermediary boxes perform functions different from normal IP packet treatment, which can even change the content of packets or do rerouting of IP packets. There have been diverse views on the value of middleboxes. Some believe that middleboxes introduce problems for network applications as well as challenges to the traditional end-to-end Internet architecture. These issues range, for instance, but not limited to, from naming and addressing of nodes behind NATs, directionality of communication establishment, and performance impairments. On the other hand, many administrators and operators see the middleboxes represent an important part for their network operations. For example, firewalls are widely deployed with the intention of securing enterprise, campus and home networks, so as to block attacks to nodes or keep nodes from sending malicious traffic. The Internet community has acknowledged the emergence of the middleboxes and developed middlebox control and coordination protocols that allow end hosts (or application proxies) to learn about the presence of middleboxes and communicate their needs (i.e. required packet treatment) to those devices. A number of middlebox control protocols, such as UPnP, MIDCOM and STUN, have been developed over the years and are partially used in current deployments. The papers in this special issue will focus on the state-of-the-art research in various aspects of middleboxes and middlebox control mechanisms, which help to understand their impact to the Internet architecture and network operations, and how they can be further integrated, or leveraged for different purposes, such as load balancing and mobile network environments, among the others. Specifically, within the aforementioned context in Internet middleboxes and their control mechanisms, the special issue will present tutorials, surveys and original research articles (written in a tutorial manner readable by non-specialists) that cover the following subjects, but not limited to: * Middlebox-supported network architectures vs. other Internet evolution alternatives (e.g., IPv6) * Design and/or performance evaluation of middlebox software architectures * Control and coordination across middleboxes and their traversal mechanisms * Security, including authentication, authorization and accounting issues with middlebox control/traversal mechanisms * Scalability and performance studies of middlebox control/traversal mechanisms * Deployment scenarios and case studies (corporate, ISP, content providers, mobile environments etc.) based on middleboxes * Interaction and implications with other network protocols and components * Interaction and implications with end-to-end applications and services * Related standardization efforts Manuscript Submission ===================== With regard to both the content and formatting style of the submissions, prospective contributors must follow the IEEE Network guidelines for authors that can be found at http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/net/ntwrk/authors.html. Submitted papers must be original and must not be under current consideration for publication in other venues. Authors should submit a PDF format of their complete papers via http://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6198. Guest Editors ============= Prof. Xiaoming Fu Institute for Computer Science University of Goettingen Goettingen Germany Email: fu(a)cs.uni-goettingen.de Martin Stiemerling NEC Europe Laboratories Network Research Division Heidelberg Germany Email: stiemerling(a)netlab.nec.de Prof. Henning Schulzrinne Department of Computer Science Columbia University New York, NY USA Email: hgs(a)cs.columbia.edu ---------------------------------------------------- Any inquiry to this CFP? mailto:ieeenet-si@cs.uni-goettingen.de _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[KuVS ELG] Preliminary Call for Papers - P2P'08 - 8th Intern. Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing
by Klaus Wehrle 27 Jan '08

27 Jan '08

====================================================================== Preliminary Call for Papers -- P2P'08 8th International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing "Distributed Computing/Networking/Services at the Edge of the Internet" Aachen, Germany September 8-11, 2008 http://www.p2p08.org/ ====================================================================== SCOPE P2P'08 is the eighth conference in a series of annual conferences concerned with overlay network technologies and massively distributed systems & applications. Peer-to-Peer systems benefit from and share the resources owned by systems that are distributed around the Internet. Examples of such technologies include peer-to-peer applications and grids, and in general, any large-scale distributed system characterized by decentralization and sharing of resources. Recently, interesting applications of P2P technology have begun to emerge, together with new platforms for application development. We invite papers that reflect experience with practical applications of the current state of the art, or that explore new application areas. We are particularly interested in real, large-scale, deployed systems and applications, rather than small-scale examples composed of a few nodes. The key issues to be considered are scalability, robustness, and security; we believe that these aspects are fundamental issues that must be solved before Peer-to-Peer and Grid services will become mainstream. Consistent with the previous occurrences of this conference, we would like to promote collaboration in research among academic institutions, government organizations, and business enterprises that are concerned with the research and implementation of peer-to-peer networks, grids, and large scale distributed systems. TOPICS Topics that relate to Peer-to-Peer systems, Peer-to-Peer applications, Grid systems, large-scale distributed systems, and overlay networks are open for consideration. We would like to give special encouragement to experience reports with applications, with particular emphasis to those that treat problems related to scalability, robustness and security. Topics of interest for the conference include, but are not limited to: * P2P applications and services * Industrial applications / P2P in use * Security in P2P systems * Performance and robustness of P2P systems * Self-organization in P2P systems * P2P Information retrieval * Higher-level query support in P2P systems * Semantic overlay networks and semantic query routing in P2P systems * Trust and reputation management in P2P systems * Overlay architectures and topologies * P2P overlay interworking with underlying infrastructure * Overlay monitoring and management * Social networks * P2P Systems over MANETs * Delay Tolerant P2P systems * P2P economics * Cooperation in P2P systems * P2P workload characterization and simulation * P2P grids The P2P'0x conference series has developed to a highly selective conference on all topics of Peer-to-Peer research. The acceptance rate of the previous conferences was around 20%. All papers will be reviewed by at least three experts from the mentioned areas. The proceedings will be published by IEEE Press. A hardcopy will be available at the Conference. IEEE technical sponsorship is currently pending. INDUSTRY TRACK We are especially interested in experience with practical, large-scale, industrial, deployed applications. Therefore P2P'08 is going to set up a special industry track in its program. Please indicate when submitting your paper if you wish your submitted paper to be considered into an industry track. DEMO PROPOSALS P2P'08 is encouraging the P2P community to demonstrate their latest system developments and P2P applications at the P2P 2008 conference site. In addition to the demo presentation announced in the official conference program, a two page abstract will be published in the proceedings. For further and most up-to-date details check the P2P'08 web site: http://www.p2p08.org IMPORTANT DATES* Abstract submission deadline: April 13, 2008 Full paper submission deadline: April 20, 2008 Notification of acceptance: June 9, 2008 Camera ready papers due: June 16, 2008 Conference: September 8-11, 2008 *preliminary dates. SUBMISSION DETAILS For further details check the P2P'08 web site: http://www.p2p08.org/ The submission system will be available by end of March. COMMITTEES General Chair: - Klaus Wehrle, RWTH Aachen University Program Committee Co-Chairs: - Wolfgang Kellerer, DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany - Sandeep K. Singhal, Microsoft Corporation, USA - Ralf Steinmetz, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany Industrial Liason Chair: - Oliver Heckmann, Google Labs Zurich Program Committee: - To be announced Subscribe to our P2P mailing list and we will keep you posted regarding major additions to the schedule and other late breaking news. To subscribe to the P2P info mailing list (p2p08-info @ nets.rwth-aachen.de) subscribe at the following website: http://mail-i4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/mailman/listinfo/p2p08-info CONTACT US Contact us by e-mail at p2p08 @ nets.rwth-aachen.de Links to the previous editions of this conference can be found at the homepage of the P2P conference series at http://www.p2p-conference.org. _______________________________________________ ELG mailing list ELG(a)nets.rwth-aachen.de http://mail-i4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/mailman/listinfo/elg

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