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[Fwd: [Tccc] IEEE Mobile Video Delivery (MoViD) 2008: Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 08 Jan '08

08 Jan '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] IEEE Mobile Video Delivery (MoViD) 2008: Call for Papers Datum: 07 Jan 2008 20:43:35 -0500 Von: shamik(a)cs.ucf.edu An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu (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 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, IBM Research Stephan Wenger, Nokia Research 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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[Fwd: [Tccc] ACM SIGCOMM 2008 -- Call for Posters and Demos]
by Lars Wolf 08 Jan '08

08 Jan '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] ACM SIGCOMM 2008 -- Call for Posters and Demos Datum: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 15:00:01 -0600 (CST) Von: Yin Zhang <yzhang(a)cs.utexas.edu> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu [We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this message] ACM SIGCOMM 2008 -- Call for Posters and Demos ============================================== 1. Call For Posters ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This year we will be repeating the very popular poster session aimed at showcasing work in progress. This is an opportunity to present and discuss current work in an informal setting during the SIGCOMM 2008 conference. Topics of interest are the same as research topics in the SIGCOMM conference CFP. Although anyone can submit a poster, preference will be given to posters where the primary contribution is from one or more students. Posters will be reviewed by members of the SIGCOMM Poster Session Committee. At the conference, student posters must be presented by a student. Authors of accepted papers in SIGCOMM 2008 may not submit a poster on the same work in those papers. Why Should You Submit a Poster? ------------------------------- This is a great chance especially for students to obtain interesting and valuable feedback on ongoing research from a knowledgeable crowd at the conference. In addition a small number of submissions will be forwarded for publication to ACM SIGCOMM's newletter, the ACM Computer Communication Review (CCR). Travel Grants for Student Posters --------------------------------- Students who are submitting posters are highly encouraged to examine if they are eligible for student travel grants. What is a Poster? ----------------- We define a poster to be A0 paper size to which you can affix visually appealing material that describes your research. Alternatively you can use the space as a continuum. You can arrange the space and orient the poster either horizontally or vertically. You should prepare the best material (visually appealing and succinct) that effectively communicates your research problem, techniques, results, and what is novel and important about your work. What and Where to Submit ------------------------ You need to submit a two-page abstract (font at least 11pt) describing the work to "sigcomm08-posters at maillists.intel-research.net". The decision will be taken primarily by reading the abstract. Optional: if available, the poster itself can be included in the email if it is small (<1.5M) else it can be made available at a URL in pdf format. The poster may be consulted at the discretion of the reviewers. The abstract should identify the key contribution of the work being presented in the poster. In addition, it should describe the particular problem being addressed, what makes this problem interesting or important, and what your approach is to the problem. We recommend that you use the ACM conference style for preparing your abstract. Include the title, authors, institutional affiliations, status (student, faculty, and so on) of each author and an email address of the contact author. In the final version of the abstract, you should also include a URL that will provide additional information about your work to the attendees. Your abstract should not exceed the page limit; longer submissions will not be considered for review. Your submission will be acknowledged by email within four days after you submit. Please remember that the abstract should be within the page limit and in PDF format. Word documents will not be accepted. At the conference, we will distribute the abstracts to all conference attendees in addition to the conference proceedings. Accepted poster authors will have about a month to revise their abstract prior to printing. For the posters, we will provide poster board and glue for mounting the posters. The SIGCOMM 2008 Poster and Demo Committee will select between 15 and 30 of the most interesting and thought-provoking posters. Posters Important Dates (Tentative) ----------------------------------- * Submission Deadline May 2, 2008 * Acceptance Notification May 30, 2008 2. Call for Demos ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Proposals for research demonstrations and exhibits are strongly solicited. Research demonstrations should be innovative research prototypes that show new research related to the topics included in the SIGCOMM conference CFP. Demos Submission Instructions ----------------------------- Submit a summary of the proposed demo (maximum of 3 pages, including figures if needed) to sigcomm08-demos at maillists.intel-research.net. Your submission will be acknowledged by the SIGCOMM 2008 Poster and Demo chair, Dina Papagiannaki. The summary should include: * Goals of the demo and the basic idea that it supports. * Any related publications or technical reports. * Equipment to be used for the demo. * Space needed. * Setup time required. * Additional facilities needed including power and Internet/wireless access. * Indicate a URL with any extra information, if needed. * Indicate whether the demo is eligible for the student travel grant by identifying the lead student(s) and their affiliations. In addition to student submissions, we also solicit non-student demos and exhibits that will be of interest to the community. All demo proposals will be reviewed by the SIGCOMM 2008 Poster and Demo committee. A number of demos may be invited for publication as extended abstracts at ACM SIGCOMM's newsletter, the ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR). Demos Important Dates (Tentative) --------------------------------- * Submission Deadline May 2, 2008 * Acceptance Notification May 30, 2008 3. Poster and Demo Committee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Poster/Demo Chair Konstantina Papagiannaki Intel Research * Committee Members Kevin Almeroth UC Santa Barbara Suman Banerjee University of Wisconsin at Madison Jon Crowcroft University of Cambridge Michaelis Faloutsos UC Riverside Christos Gkantsidis Microsoft Research, Cambridge Ben Greenstein Intel Research Tristan Henderson University of St Andrews David Malone Hamilton Institute Pablo Rodriguez Telefonica Stefan Saroiu University of Toronto Ivan Seskar WINLAB, Rutgers University Peter Steenkiste Carnegie Mellon University 4. Related Links ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * This Call for Poster is also available at http://www.sigcomm.org/sigcomm2008/cfposter.php * This Call for Demos is also available at http://www.sigcomm.org/sigcomm2008/cfdemo.php * The SIGCOMM 2008 Call for Papers is available at http://www.sigcomm.org/sigcomm2008/cfp.php * More information about ACM SIGCOMM 2008 is available at http://www.sigcomm.org/sigcomm2008/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] ACM SIGCOMM 2008 -- Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 08 Jan '08

08 Jan '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] ACM SIGCOMM 2008 -- Call for Papers Datum: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 14:59:42 -0600 (CST) Von: Yin Zhang <yzhang(a)cs.utexas.edu> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu [We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this message] ACM SIGCOMM 2008 -- Call for Papers =================================== The organizing committee is delighted to invite you to ACM SIGCOMM 2008, to be held at the Grand Hyatt Regency in Seattle, WA, USA between August 17-22, 2008. SIGCOMM is the flagship annual conference of the Special Interest Group on Data Communications, a special interest group of the Association for Computing Machinery. The SIGCOMM 2008 conference seeks papers describing significant research contributions to the field of computer and data communication networks. We invite submissions on network architecture, design, implementation, operations, analysis, measurement, performance, and simulation. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * Analysis and design of network architectures and algorithms * Experimental results from operational networks or network applications * Fundamental insights into network and traffic characteristics * Network fault-tolerance and reliability, debugging, and troubleshooting * Network management and traffic engineering * Network security, vulnerability, and defenses * Network, transport, and application-layer protocols * Networking issues for Web-hosted applications, VOIP and gaming * Operating system and other host support for networking * Peer-to-peer, overlay, and content distribution networks * Resource management, quality of service, and signaling * Routing, switching, and addressing * Tools and techniques for network measurement and simulation * Unique issues relating to enterprise, datacenter or storage area networks * Wireless, mobile, ad-hoc, and sensor networks Submissions can be up to 14 pages in length, in two-column 10pt format. Please see submission instructions (coming soon) for details. Note that accepted camera-ready papers will be 12 pages in length, in two-column format with 9pt font. SIGCOMM is a selective conference where full papers typically report novel results firmly substantiated by experimentation, simulation, or analysis. As in previous years, SIGCOMM 2008 will have workshops, a poster session, a student travel grant program, and a Best Student Paper Award. Important Dates --------------- Paper Title and Abstract submission January 25, 2008 Full paper submission February 1, 2008 Acceptance notification April 30, 2008 Camera ready due May 30, 2008 Conference August 17-22, 2008 Program Committee ----------------- * PC Chairs Stefan Savage UC San Diego Ion Stoica UC Berkeley * PC Members Dave Andersen Carnegie Mellon University Flavio Bonomi Cisco Peter Druschel MPI-SWS Cristian Estan University of Wisconsin Nick Feamster Georgia Tech Anja Feldmann T-Labs, TU-Berlin Paul Francis Cornell Albert Greenberg Microsoft Research Krishna Gummadi MPI-SWS Mark Handley UCL Dina Katabi MIT S. Keshav University of Waterloo Eddie Kohler UCLA Yoshi Kohno University of Washington Jim Kurose University of Massachusetts Phil Levis Stanford Ratul Mahajan Microsoft Research Allison Mankin National Science Foundation Z. Morley Mao University of Michigan Nick McKeown Stanford Greg Minshall University of Washington Robert Morris MIT Eugene Ng Rice University Dina Papagiannaki Intel Research Lili Qiu University of Texas at Austin Sanjoy Rao Purdue Sylvia Ratnasamy Intel Research Luigi Rizzo Universita di Pisa Matthew Roughan University of Adelaide Michael Reiter UNC Alex Snoeren UC San Diego Lakshmi Subramanian NYU Nina Taft Intel Research Renata Teixeira CNRS George Varghese UC San Diego Klaus Wehrle Aachen University David Wetherall Intel / University of Washington Xiaowei Yang UC Irvine Y. Richard Yang Yale Ellen Zegura Georgia Tech Organization Committee ---------------------- * General Chairs Victor Bahl Microsoft Research David Wetherall Intel / University of Washington * PC Chairs Stefan Savage UC San Diego Ion Stoica UC Berkeley * Workshop/Tutorial Chairs Suman Banerjee University of Wisconsin at Madison Alex Snoeren UC San Diego * Publicity Chair Yin Zhang University of Texas at Austin * Local Arrangements Chair Ratul Mahajan Microsoft Research * Poster/Demo Chair Dina Papagiannaki Intel Research * Industrial Support Chair (Asia/Pacific Region) Kenjiro Cho IIJ Research Laboratory * Travel Grant Chair Karen R. Sollins MIT * Web Chair Tristan Henderson University of St Andrews Related Links ------------- * The Call for Paper is also available at http://www.sigcomm.org/sigcomm2008/cfp.php * More information about ACM SIGCOMM 2008 is available at http://www.sigcomm.org/sigcomm2008/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] [CFP] Workshop on Smart Sensing and Situation Awareness in Sensor Networks
by WenZhan Song 07 Jan '08

07 Jan '08

Workshop on Smart Sensing and Situation Awareness in Sensor Networks http://conferences.theiet.org/ie08/workshop.htm#smart Submission deadline: January 31th, 2008 Conference date: July 21-22, 2008, Seattle WA, USA The aim of this workshop is to stimulate research on smart sensing and situation awareness related topics in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Sensor network can be said to be the nerve system of our engineering network world, extracting and transmitting useful and timely information reliably for efficient decision support and quick corrective actions. Examples of end-to-end sensor applications include: cargo monitoring systems in a harbor that check containers in a WSN equipped ship for detecting dangerous chemical substances, locating stowaways, or calculating import duties; environmental monitoring systems, such as volcano monitoring and structure monitoring sensor network, that provides domain scientists high resolution views of environments; transport systems that route traffic using real-time data monitored by sensor-enabled cars; emergency management systems that can detect bushfires; smart home environments that enable remote monitoring of residents, early detection of emergency situations and enhancement of quality of life and safety. However, different applications have different context and mission needs, hence developing and deploying end-to-end applications for sensor networks in a realistic business context remains highly complex. Unlike traditional communication networks, a sensor network is to provide a high degree of visibility into environmental physical processes, not to provide any-to-any communications. Consequently, it requires an end-to-end approach that handles the WSN as a whole rather than as a group of individual nodes. The sensor network design therefore shall be fully context and situation-aware, and target to maximize mission returns with given resource constraints. We seek technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research results. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Environmental context and situation awareness Resource discovery and management Cross layering and resource awareness (Distributed) compressed sensing and data aggregation Data fusion, storage and management Effective naming and device/service discovery in end-to-end WSNs Failure resilience and fault isolation Sensor network management Overlay and topology management Sensor mobility and heterogeneity, and smart sensor device drivers Localization, time synchronization Security and privacy Integration with back-end systems such as web-based information systems, process control, and enterprise software Sensor network planning, provisioning, calibration and deployment Deployment experience and testbeds Experimental methodology, including measurement, simulation, and emulation infrastructure Analysis of real-world systems and fundamental limits Technical Program Committee Matt Welsh, Harvard University, USA Guanling Chen, University of Massachusetts at Lowell, USA Yu Wang, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Xiuzhen Cheng, George Washington University, USA Guihai Chen, Nanjing University, China Weicao Wang, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Gianluca Bontempi, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Prasanta Bose, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, USA Ali Hurson - Penn State University, USA Mohan Kumar - University of Texas at Arlington, USA Yu Jiao - Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Ben Lee - Oregon State University, USA HB Chen - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Krishna Kavi, Univ of North Texas, USA Instructions for Manuscripts Authors are requested to submit a PDF file for their manuscript following the submission guideline available at http://conferences.theiet.org/ie08/author.htm . All manuscripts should be submitted through the conference submission system and choosing the workshop title. The papers should also be emailed to the workshop organizer for reference. All manuscripts should be received by the conference deadline for paper submission which is the 31 January 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: MCN-Infocom'08]
by Lars Wolf 07 Jan '08

07 Jan '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: MCN-Infocom'08 Datum: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 15:58:45 -0500 Von: Mohamed Younis <younis(a)cs.umbc.edu> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> CC: 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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[Tccc] The deadline is fast approaching Jan 31st 2008 Fwd: CFP: SPRINGER - ANNALS OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Special Issue on Inter-Domain Routing and QoS over Heterogeneous Networks, Deadline: January 31st, 2008.
by Abdelhamid Mellouk 06 Jan '08

06 Jan '08

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SPRINGER - ANNALS OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS Special Issue on Inter-Domain Routing and QoS over Heterogeneous Networks http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/CFP-Annal… Important Dates Manuscripts Submission: January 31st, 2008. Acceptance Notification: April 30, 2008. Final Revised Manuscripts Due: June 1st, 2008. Expected Publication: Fall 2008. Call for Papers Today, the Internet is the most important communication infrastructure of our society. It enables users across the world to access and exchange information. Intra-domain routing protocols, such as Routing Information Protocol (RIP), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), and Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS), that work within an Autonomous System (AS) or domain have been studied extensively by the scientific community. The other class of routing protocols, such as Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR), or Inter-Domain Routing Protocol (IDRP), which recently received a lot of attention, is inter-domain routing, where traffic needs to be routed among distinct AS. Many types of intra-domain routing algorithms have been proposed, including those based on shortest-path, centralized, distributed, flow-based, state-dependent, etc., to solve the challenge of optimal use of network resources. This challenge is further exacerbated by emerging QoS requirements of end-to-end applications (such as VoIP, Video conferencing, etc) for highly heterogeneous environments consisting of distinct AS. Due to the increasing number of AS, and the large number of connections per AS to the network, inter-domain routing solutions, based largely on routing protocol such as the BGP, suffer from several limitations when applied to deploy global QoS routing protocols. Such solutions often show serious insufficiencies in a highly heterogeneous Internet infrastructure consisting of different wired or wireless AS. The QoS routing over different types of AS should handle both, the different QoS provisioning mechanisms as well as the required service specifications. However, cooperation among AS is generally based on independent management relationships amongst organizations and are often expressed as a simple policy-based routing with different understandings of QoS. This requires that inter and intra routing schemes have to be coordinated to guarantee QoS requirements with respect to service level agreement, which is a highly limiting factor on the scalability of future solutions. This special issue focuses on QoS routing, control policies, traffic engineering and explore their effectiveness when deployed over heterogeneous AS (for more details, see Scope of Contributions Section). We hope that the state-of-the-art results presented in this issue will provide further insight into novel QoS approaches that support mobility, scalability, connectivity and safety over the heterogeneous Internet infrastructure composed of multiple different AS. For this Special issue, we seek original research or survey articles that explore novel approaches, algorithms, architectures, designs, and implementations to address research issues and challenges in the area of inter-domain QoS routing. Scope of Contributions Authors are encouraged to submit papers addressing all aspects of inter-domain Quality of Service (QoS) routing approaches and related topics with concrete experimental studies to show the validity of their approach using different types of Autonomous Systems (AS). Papers submitted for consideration should describe original research not published or currently under review by other journals and conferences. Parallel submissions will not be accepted. We solicit papers covering the following topics but not limited to: · Hierarchical QoS Routing · Inter-AS QoS Adaptation and Measurements, Inter-AS QoS Analysis and Modeling · Policy-Based Management in inter-AS QoS Routing and Security · Inter-AS QoS specification, translation, and adaptation · Inter-AS Service Level Agreement (SLA) and Service Level Specification (SLS) issues · Dynamic state-dependent QoS Policies · Stateless QoS Routing Frameworks · Constraint-based Path Selection Algorithms · Inter-AS QoS Traffic shaping and Traffic Management · Complexity, Stability, Performance of Inter-AS QoS Routing Approaches · Inter-AS QoS Constraints, Scalability, Robustness, and Reactivity · Economic models of Inter-AS Routing Policies on Pricing and Billing · Standardization issues Manuscript submission: Authors must submit their manuscript (single column, double-spaced) electronically in PDF format by email to the corresponding guest editor (mellouk(a)univ-paris12.fr) before the deadline. Please also include information about the manuscript (title, complete list of authors, corresponding author's contact, abstract, and keywords) in the body of your submission email message. Articles are expected to be in English, 15-25 pages each and will be peer reviewed by at least three experts working in the areas. Guest Editors Abdelhamid Mellouk (corresponding guest editor) Department of Network and Telecommunication, LISSI/SCTIC Laboratory, IUT Creteil/Vitry, University of Paris XII-Val de Marne, France mellouk(a)univ-paris12.fr Sherali Zeadally Network Systems Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of the District of Columbia, USA szeadally(a)udc.edu Peter Mueller IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland pmu(a)zurich.ibm.com _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP--IEEE ISCC 2008, July 6-9 Morocco
by Nidal Nasser 06 Jan '08

06 Jan '08

------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Thirteenth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications ISCC 2008 July 6-9, 2008 - Marrakech, Morocco http://www.comsoc.org/iscc/2008 Sponsored by IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Computer Society ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Technical Topics *** Continuing the tradition of this series of symposia, ISCC 2008 will provide an international technical forum for experts from industry and academia to exchange ideas and present results of ongoing research in the areas listed below. This year, special focus will be on the challenging issues related to the creation, management, dissemination, and communication of information. You are invited to submit a full paper, or a proposal for a panel, invited session, or tutorial, related to the following topics: * Access Networks * Bioinformatics * Data Mining and Database Applications * Distributed Systems Architecture and Management * Digital Satellite Communications * E-Commerce and E-Services * Economic and Regulatory Issues * Fault-Tolerance and Error Recovery * Grid and Cluster Computing * Human Language Technologies * Image Processing and Visualization * Internet Services and Applications * Internet Protocols - Advances and Evolution * Management of Telecommunications Services * Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks * Digital Media Technologies * Modeling and Simulation * Network Design, Optimization, and Management * Network Reliability and Quality of Service * Optical Networking * Overlay and Programmable Networks * Peer-to-Peer Computing * Real Time Communication Services * Routing and Multicast * Security and Cryptography * Software Engineering * Standards * Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile Communications * Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures *** Important Dates *** Jan. 10, 2008 Submission Deadline (Extended) Feb. 22, 2008 Notification of Acceptance Apr. 12, 2008 Final Manuscript Due *** Submissions *** * Papers should describe original work and be 15 double-spaced pages or less in length. A concise and representative abstract should be included. The paper should clearly indicate the complete postal and electronic mailing addresses, as well as the phone number of the corresponding author. Please follow the submission guidelines at http://www.comsoc.org/iscc/2008 * Accepted papers up to 6 pages in the IEEE double-column proceedings format will be published with no additional charge. Papers that exceed that page limit will be charged an over length fee. * For additional information contact the technical co-chairs and local co-chairs. *** Organization Committee *** Conference General Chair: Adel Elmaghraby, U. of Louisville, USA adel(a)louisville.edu Technical Program Co-chairs: Abdelghani Bellaachia, George Washington University, USA, bell(a)gwu.edu Saad Biaz, Auburn University, USA, biazsaa(a)auburn.edu Local Committee Co-Chairs: Amine Bensaid, Al Akhawayn U. of Ifrane, Morocco, amine(a)alakhawayn.ma Driss Aboutajdine, School of Science, Rabat, Morocco, aboutaj(a)fsr.ac.ma Finance and Registration Chair: Reda Ammar, U. of Connecticut, USA Plenary Chair: Mahmoud Daneshmand, AT&T Labs Publication Chair: Chi-Ming Chen, AT&T Labs, USA Keynote Chair: Ahmed Tantawy, IBM, USA Web Chair: Abd-Elhamid M. Taha, Queen's U., Canada Publicity Chair: Nidal Nasser, U. of Guelph, Canada Steering committee: Reda Ammar, U. of Connecticut, USA Antonio Corradi, U. of Bologna, Italy Mahmoud Daneshmand, AT &T, USA Adel Elmaghraby, U. of Louisville, USA Hussein Mouftah, U. of Ottawa, Canada Sartaj Sahni, U. of Florida, USA Ahmed Tantawy, IBM, USA We hope to see you in beautiful Marrakech, Morocco! _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CfP: ICIW 2008 || The Third International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services || June 8-13, 2008 - Athens, Greece
by Abdelhamid Mellouk 06 Jan '08

06 Jan '08

====================== ICIW 2008, The Third International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services June 8-13, 2008 - Athens, Greece Site: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2008/ICIW08.html Submission deadline: January 20, 2008 Submissions will be peer-reviewed, published by IEEE CPS, posted in IEEE Digital Library, and indexed with the major indexes. Extended versions of selected papers will be invited for specialized journals. ICIW 2008 is featuring two workshops: SLAECE 2008: International Workshop on Social and Legal Aspects under Emerging Computing Environments http://www.iaria.org/conferences2008/SLAECE.html VEWAeL 2008 First International Workshop on Virtual Environments and Web Applications for e-Learning http://www.iaria.org/conferences2008/VEWAeL.html ICIW 2008 Main tracks: IWAS: Internet and Web-based Applications and Services WSSA: Web Services-based Systems and Applications ENSYS: Entertainment Systems P2PSA: P2P Systems and Applications ONLINE: Online Communications, Collaborative Systems, and Social Networks IWAS : Internet and Web-based Applications and Services Web technologies, frameworks, languages, mechanisms Web applications design and development Interaction with/from Web-based applications Web-based applications' features Management of Web-based applications Evaluation of Web applications Specialized Web applications Aggregating multimedia documents E-business, appliances, and services IP Grid Management and Grid Services IP-based convergent solutions and next generation networks Standards, case studies and special groups on web-based applications WSSA : Web Services-based Systems and Applications Web services foundation, architectures, frameworks, languages Web services architecture and business continuity Special Web services mechanisms Semantic Web, Ontology, and Web services Web service applications Data Management aspects in Web Services Autonomic e-Business integration and collaboration Web service based Grid computing and P2P computing Web services based applications for e-Commerce Multimedia applications using Web Services Automatic computing for Web services Web services challenges on trust, security, performance, scalability Enterprise Web services Web services discovery, announcing, monitoring and management Platforms, technologies, mechanisms and case studies Grid architectures, middleware and toolkits ENSYS: Entertainment Systems Developing entertainment systems and applications Platforms for entertainment systems Speech technology & its usability for entertainment systems Networking requirements for entertainment systems Traffic generated by entertainment applications QoS/SLA on entertainment systems Reliability and high availability of entertainment systems Identify aspects in entertainment systems Real-time access to entertainment systems Customized access entertainment systems Navigation and entertainment systems Integration and interoperability aspects in entertainment systems Entertainment systems and applications Networking and system support for entertainment systems Wireless and mobile technologies for entertainment Wireless multimedia for entertainment Systems for music and movie distribution Games on mobile and resource-constrained devices Mobile video entertainment systems Car/flight/train entertainment systems Ubiquitous entertainment systems Interactive television Technologies for sport and entertainment WiFi wireless home entertainment systems Wearable technologies for entertainment P2PSA: P2P Systems and Applications P2P architectures, techniques, paradigms P2P programming and data handling P2P security features Data and compute intensive applications P2P networks and protocols P2P management P2P Trust and reputation management Fault tolerance in P2P, quality of availability, accounting in P2P Self-adaptiveness in P2P overlay networks Self-configurable P2P systems Case studies, benchmarking Copyright and intellectual property, Electronic marketplace, Digital asset management and trading systems Platforms, environments, testbeds ONLINE: Online Communications, Collaborative Systems, and Social Networks Theory, frameworks, mechanisms, and tools for online communication Methodologies and languages for on-line communications Web services and XML use for online communications Tools for assessing online work, distributed workload Shared business processes Collaborative groups and systems Theory and formalisms of group interactions Group synergy in cooperative networks Online gambling, gaming, children groups Identity features, risks, jurisdiction for online communications Specifics emergency and e-coaching on online communications B2B and B2E cooperation Privacy, identify, security on online communications Individual anonymity, group trust, and confidentiality on online groups Conflict, delegation, group selection Community costs in collaborative groups Building online social networks with popularity contexts, persuasion, etc. Technology support for collaborative systems Techniques, mechanisms, and platforms for remote cooperation Abdelhamid Mellouk, TPC Co-chair. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] [WISTP2008] Second Call for Papers
by Damien Sauveron 05 Jan '08

05 Jan '08

******************************************************************* We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. Please disseminate it to your colleagues that could be interested. ******************************************************************* Workshop in Information Security Theory and Practices 2008: Smart Devices, Convergence and Next Generation Networks May 13-16, 2008, Sevilla, Spain Workshop URL: http://wistp2008.xlim.fr/ ******************************************************* WISTP2008 is: - Co-Sponsored by IFIP WG 11.2 Small System Security - Technical sponsorship of the IEEE Systems, Man & Cybernetics Society Technical Committee on Systems Safety and Security - Technical sponsorship of the IEEE Systems, Man & Cybernetics Society Technical Committee on Information Assurance & Intelligent Multimedia-Mobile Communications - Technical sponsorship of the IEEE Region 8 - Technical sponsorship of the IEEE Spain Section, Computer Society Chapter and the Signal Processing Society + ComSoc Joint Chapter - Technical sponsorship of the IEEE UKRI Section Systems, Man & Cybernetics Society Chapter - In cooperation with the ACM SIGBED - Supported by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC) - Supported by the European Workshop on Industrial Computer Systems, Technical Committee 7, Safety, Reliability and Security ******************************************************* WISTP2008 Background and Goals: With the rapid technological development of information technologies and with the transition from the common to the next generation networks, computer systems and especially embedded systems are becoming more mobile and ubiquitous, increasingly interfacing with the physical world. Ensuring the security of these complex and yet, resource constraint systems has emerged as one of the most pressing challenges. Another important challenge is related to the convergence of these new technologies. The aim of this second workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners in related areas and to encourage interchange and cooperation between the research community and the industrial/consumer community. The workshop will consist of technical paper presentations, one special session for student papers and six invited talks. ******************************************************* Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: A. Smart Devices * Biometrics, National ID cards * Embedded Systems Security and TPMs * Interplay of TPMs and Smart Cards * Mobile Codes Security * Mobile Devices Security * New Applications for Secure RFID Systems * RFID Systems Security * Smart Card Security * Smart Devices Applications * Wireless Sensor Node Security B. Convergence: Security Architectures, Protocols, Policies and Management for Mobility * Critical Infrastructure (e.g. for Medical or Military Applications) Security * Digital Rights Management (DRM) * Distributed Systems and Grid Computing Security * Industrial and Multimedia Applications * Information Assurance and Trust Management * Intrusion Detection and Information Filtering * Localization Systems Security (Tracking of People and Goods) * M2M (Machine to Machine), H2M (Human to Machine) and M2H (Machine to Human) Security * Mobile Commerce Security * Public Administration and Governmental Services * Privacy Enhancing Technologies * Security Models and Architecture * Security Policies (Human-Computer Interaction and Human Behavior Impact) * Security Protocols (for Identification and Authentication, Confidentiality and Privacy, and Integrity) * Security Measurements C. Next Generation Networks * Ad Hoc Networks Security * Delay-Tolerant Network Security * Domestic Network Security * Peer-to-Peer Networks Security * Security Issues in Mobile and Ubiquitous Networks * Security of GSM/GPRS/UMTS Systems * Sensor Networks Security * Vehicular Network Security * Wireless Communication Security: Bluetooth, NFC, WiFi, WiMAX, WiMedia, others ******************************************************* Submission Details: Authors are invited to submit original papers (written in english) not previously published nor submitted in parallel for publication to any other conference, workshop or journal. All submissions will be subjected to thorough blind review by at least three reviewers (if the paper involved a Program Committee member, the paper will be reviewed at least by five reviewers). All submitted papers should be anonymous with no author(s) names, affiliations, acknowledgements, nor obvious references. Each paper should begin with a title, a short abstract, and a list of keywords, following the template indicated by Springer at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html The papers will be in .pdf format, at most 10 pages long excluding bibliography and well-marked appendices, and at most 14 pages long in total, using at least 11-point fonts with reasonable margins. As the reader should not be required to read any appendices, the paper should be intelligible even without them. 20 papers will be accepted for presentation at the workshop (they will be included in the proceedings) and 12 additional papers will be selected to be presented as A1 poster at the workshop (they will NOT be included in the proceedings). If a submitted paper is mainly the result of the work of a student author, this paper could have the chance to be selected as "Best student paper" (even if the paper has been written with senior co-authors). To participate to this selection process, please add the word "STUDENT" in the affiliation field in the submission form. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register with the Conference and present the paper. For authors presenting multiple papers, one normal registration is valid for up to two papers. For electronic paper submission please use the following URL: http://wistp2008.xlim.fr/wistp2008/iChair/ The secure version is not yet available https://wistp2008.xlim.fr/wistp2008/iChair/ For further inquiries, please contact the secretariat at wistp2008sec(a)xlim.fr Workshop Proceedings: Like for the first edition, accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings, that should be published by Springer in their LNCS series. Camera-ready versions of the papers should not exceed 10 pages excluding bibliography and well-marked appendices (14 pages in total) and must comply with the "Authors Instructions" that can be found at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html We plan to index the proceedings to the DBLP, ISI Proceedings and Inspec. ******************************************************* Awards: * Best student paper: 800€ * Best workshop paper: 800€ + the Handbook of Computer Networks * Best innovative technology: 800€ * Each speaker of a selected papers will receive a kit containing a smart card reader, a card and several software ******************************************************* Important Dates: - Intention of submission: ASAP. Send a mail to wistp2008sec(a)xlim.fr - Intention of attendance: ASAP. Send a mail to wistp2008sec(a)xlim.fr - Paper submission: January 20th, 2008 (23h59 UTC) - Notification: February 20th, 2008 - Author Registration: March 3rd, 2008 - Camera-ready papers: March 5th, 2008 ******************************************************* WISTP2008 Committees and Chairs: ##### General chairs ##### * Jose Onieva. Computer Science Department, University of Malaga, Spain * Damien Sauveron. XLIM, University of Limoges, France - Local organisers: * Diego Lopez. Red.es - RedIRIS, Spain * Javier Lopez. Computer Science Department, University of Malaga, Spain ##### Workshop/panel/tutorial chair ##### * Konstantinos Markantonakis. ISG-SCC, Royal Holloway University of London, UK ##### Publicity chairs ##### * Claudio Ardagna. Department of Information Technologies, University of Milan, Italy * Samia Bouzefrane. CEDRIC, CNAM, France * Joonsang Baek. Cryptography and Security Department of Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore ##### Program chairs ##### * Serge Chaumette. LaBRI, University Bordeaux 1, France * Dieter Gollmann. Security in Distributed Applications, Institutes of the TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany ##### Program Committee ##### * Rafael Accorsi. IIG, University of Freiburg, Germany * Manfred Aigner. IAIK, Technical University Graz, Austria * François Arnault. XLIM, University of Limoges, France * Ioannis G. Askoxylakis. FORTH-ICS, Greece * Christophe Bidan. SSIR, Supélec, France * Pierre-François Bonnefoi. XLIM, University of Limoges, France * Stefano Campadello. Nokia Research Center, Finland * Sajal K. Das. CReWMaN, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA * Mads Dam. KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden * Estíbaliz Delgado, European Software Institute (ESI), Spain * Tassos Dimitriou. Athens Information Technology, Greece * Boris Dragovic. CREATE-NET, Italy * Pierre Dusart. XLIM, University of Limoges, France * Eduardo Fernández-Medina Patõn. Alarcos Research Group, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain * Theodoulos Garefalakis. Department of Mathematics, University of Crete, Greece * Stefanos Gritzalis. Info-Sec-Lab, University of the Aegean, Greece * Olivier Heen. Security Laboratory, Thomson R&D, France * Jaap-Henk Hoepman. TNO and Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands * Sotiris Ioannidis. FORTH-ICS & University of Crete, Greece * Sokratis Katsikas. Dept. of Technology Education & Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, Greece * Evangelos Kranakis. Carleton University, Canada * Jean-Louis Lanet. XLIM, University of Limoges, France * Christian Laforest. IBISC, University of Evry, France * Deok-Gyu Lee. Information Security Technoogy Division, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea * Javier Lopez. Computer Science Department, University of Malaga, Spain * Konstantinos Markantonakis. ISG-SCC, Royal Holloway University of London, UK * Fabio Martinelli. Information Security Group, IIT-CNR, Italy * Keith Mayes. ISG-SCC, Royal Holloway University of London, UK * Jan de Meer. smartspacelab.eu, Brandenburg Technical University (BTU), Germany * Sjouke Mauw. SATOSS of Computer Science and Communications, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg * Rolf Oppliger. eSECURITY Technologies, Switzerland * Pierre Paradinas. INRIA/CEDRIC, CNAM, France * Jong Hyuk Park. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kyungnam University, Korea * Erik Poll. SOS (Security of Systems) group of the Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands * Joachim Posegga. Security in Distributed Systems, University of Hamburg, Germany * Jean-Jacques Quisquater. DICE, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium * Kai Rannenberg. Chair of Mobile Commerce and Multilateral Security, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany * Konstantinos Rantos. GSPAEG at the Hellenic Ministry of Interior, Public Administration and Decentralisation, Greece * Pierangela Samarati. Department of Information Technologies, University of Milan, Italy * Damien Sauveron. XLIM, University of Limoges, France * Willy Susilo. CCISR, University of Wollongong, Australia * Michael Tunstall. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University College Cork, Ireland * Paulo Jorge Esteves Veríssimo. University of Lisboa, Portugal ##### Steering committee ##### * Angelos Bilas. FORTH-ICS & University of Crete, Greece * Konstantinos Markantonakis. ISG-SCC, Royal Holloway University of London, UK * Jean-Jacques Quisquater. DICE, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium * Damien Sauveron. XLIM, University of Limoges, France ******************************************************* Keynote Speakers: - TBA ******************************************************* Opportunities for students: To help the students looking for a PhD thesis or a postdoctoral position, we will propose them to add a colorized sticker on their badge. In the same way, we will propose to persons offering these positions to add a sticker with a different color. We hope this mechanism will help to support the exchanges between young and senior researchers. ******************************************************* Thanks to our main sponsors: Elopsys Limousin Expansion Nokia SCM Microsystems WILEY ******************************************************* We hope you will be interested by this event. For further inquiries, please contact the secretariat at wistp2008sec(a)xlim.fr -- Damien Sauveron _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Cost290] CFP Extension - WWIC 2008
by Vasilios Siris 05 Jan '08

05 Jan '08

Dear COST 290 members, Due to the holiday vacation period and requests for an extension, we have decided to further extend the call for paper deadline. Please redistribute this CFP extension, and consider submitting your work to WWIC 2008. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WWIC 2008 6th International Conference on Wired / Wireless Internet Communications May 28-30, 2008 Tampere, Finland http://wwic2008.cs.tut.fi/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Extended submission deadline: January 18, 2008 *** FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Next generation mobile networks will be based on Internet core networks and wireless access networks. The need for efficient merging of the wired and wireless infrastructure as well as the new multimedia services and applications of next generation networks call for novel network architectures, protocols and traffic-related mechanisms. WWIC addresses research topics such as the design and evaluation of protocols, the dynamics of the integration, the performance tradeoffs, the need for new performance metrics, and cross-layer interactions. The goal of the conference is to present high-quality results in the field, and to provide a framework for research collaboration through focused discussions that will designate future research efforts and directions. In this context, the program committee will accept only a limited number of papers that meet the criteria of originality, presentation quality and topic relevance. WWIC is a single-track conference which has reached, within 5 years, the highest level of quality, which is reflected both in the level of participation as well as the acceptance ratio and the amount and quality of submitted papers. CONFERENCE TOPICS The conference objectives will be pursued through highly technical sessions organized thematically and keynote talks offered by recognized experts. Topics of interest to WWIC 2008 include (but are not limited to) the following: - AAA in mobile environments - Ambient networks - Ad-hoc mobile networks - Blended network configurations - Beyond 3G networks technologies - Cross layer interactions - Economical issues of wireless networks - End-to-end Quality of Service support - Handover techniques - Heterogeneous wireless access networks - Hybrid wired / wireless environments - Integration of wired and wireless networks - Mobile service level agreements / specification - Mobility management - Network design and network planning - Network mobility - Network coding in mobile networks - Network security in mobile environments - Performance evaluation of wireless systems - Pricing, charging and accounting in wireless networks - QoS routing in mobile networks - QoS signalling in mobile environments - Resource management and admission control - Service creation and management for wireless - Simulation for next generation mobile networks - Traffic characterisation and modelling - Traffic engineering - Transport protocols and congestion control - Wireless mesh networks - Wireless multi-hop networks - Wireless multimedia systems - Wireless network monitoring - Wireless sensor networks PROCEEDINGS The authors are encouraged to submit full papers describing original, previously unpublished, complete research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, addressing state-of-the-art research and development in all areas of computer networking and data communications. All papers will be reviewed and accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. Papers must be submitted electronically in the conference site. The maximum size of papers should be 5000 words including tables and figures. Please adhere to the formatting standard for a 12-page manuscript of Springer-Verlag LNCS. The cover page must contain an abstract of about 150 words, 3-5 keywords, name and affiliation of author(s) as well as the corresponding author's e-mail and postal address. There will be a Best Paper Award. GENERAL CHAIRS: Jarmo Harju, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Peter Langendoerfer, IHP Microelectronics, Germany TPC CHAIRS: Vasilios Siris, University of Crete / FORTH-ICS, Greece Geert Heijenk, University of Twente, The Netherlands LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Bilhanan Silverajan, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Jakub Jakubiak, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Saara Kallio, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Heikki Vatiainen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Sari Kinnari, Tampere University of Technology, Finland PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Sonia Aissa, Universite du Quebec, Canada Ozgur B. Akan, Middle East Technical University, Turkey Khalid Al-Begain, University of Glamorgan, UK Manuel Alvarez-Campana, Univ. Polit. de Madrid, Spain Leonardo Badia, IMT Lucca, Italy Mortaza Bargh, Telematics Institute, Netherlands Carlos Bernardos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University, USA Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal Thomas Michael Bohnert, Siemens CT, Germany Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland Rafaelle Bruno, IIT-CNR, Italy Wojciech Burakowski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Maria Calderon, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Xiuzhen Cheng, George Washington University, USA Hermann de Meer, University of Passau, Germany Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada Michel Diaz, LAAS-CNRS, France Adam Dunkels, SICS, Sweden Magda El Zarki, University of California, Irvine, USA Peder Emstad, Norwegian Univ. of Sc. & Tech., Norway Giovanni Giambene, University of Siena, Italy Sonia Heemstra de Groot, WMC / TU Delft, The Netherlands Markus Hofmann, Bell Labs / Alcatel-Lucent, USA Andreas Kassler, Karlstads University, Sweden Ibrahim Khalil, RMIT University, Australia Byung Kim, University of Mass. Lowell, USA Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland Rolf Kraemer, IHP Microelectronics, Germany Peter Kropf, University of Neuch?tel, Switzerland Leszek Lilien, Western Michigan University, USA Remco Litjens, TNO ICT, The Netherlands Hai Liu, University of Ottawa, Canada Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France Qusay Mahmoud, University of Guelph, Canada Christian Maih?fer, Daimler AG, Germany Lefteris Mamatas, Demokritos University, Greece Saverio Mascolo, Politecnico di Bari, Italy Paulo Mendes, INESC Porto, Portugal Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pisa, Italy Dmitri Moltchanov, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal Liam Murphy, University College Dublin, Ireland Marc Necker, Universit?t Stuttgart, Germany Ioanis Nikolaidis, University of Alberta, Canada Guevara Noubir, Northeastern University, USA Evgeny Osipov, Lule? University of Technology, Sweden Philippe Owezarski, LAAS-CNRS, France George Pavlou, University of Surrey, UK Aleksi Penttinen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland George Polyzos, AUEB, Greece Anand Prasad, DoCoMo Comm. Labs Europe, Germany Utz Roedig, Lancaster University, UK Theodoros Salonidis, Thomson - Paris Research Labs, France Guenter Schaefer, TU Ilmenau, Germany Jochen Schiller, Free University Berlin, Germany Arunabha Sen, Arizona State University, USA Patrick S?nac, ISAE, France Dimitrios Serpanos, University of Patras, Greece Dirk Staehle, University of W?rzburg, Germany Burkhard Stiller, Univ. of Zurich / ETH Zurich, Switzerland Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Vassilis Tsaoussidis, Demokritos University, Greece Ulrich Ultes-Nitsche, University of Fribourg, Switzerland Hans van den Berg, TNO ICT / Univ. of Twente, The Netherlands Thiemo Voigt, SICS, Sweden Miki Yamamoto, Kansai University, Japan Chi Zhang, Juniper Networks, USA Martina Zitterbart, University of Karlsruhe, Germany IMPORTANT DATES Extended submission deadline:...............January 18, 2008 Notification of acceptance: ...............February 28, 2008 Camera ready papers: .........................March 12, 2008 For more information please see the conference site wwic2008.cs.tut.fi or contact the Conference Secretariat at wwic2008(a)cs.tut.fi. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sponsored by COST 290 Sponsored by ERCIM Organized by Tampere University of Technology, Finland - _______________________________________________ Cost290 mailing list Cost290(a)cs.tut.fi https://mailman.cs.tut.fi/mailman/listinfo/cost290

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