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[Tccc] Call for Papers (VINT - 08)
by Jensen Chou 28 Jul '08

28 Jul '08

================================================================== Call for Papers The First International Workshop on Wireless Vehicular Networking Technology (*VINT-08*), November 17-19, 2008, Maui, Hawaii, USA http://nrl.iis.sinica.edu.tw/VINT08/ To be held in conjunction with The Fourth Annual International Wireless Internet Conference (WICON 2008) ================================================================== Aims and Scope --------------- The goal of this workshop is to present and discuss recent advances in the development of wireless vehicular networking technologies. Based on short- to medium-range communication systems (vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-roadside), vehicular networks will enable vehicular safety applications including collision and other safety warnings as well as non-safety applications like real-time traffic congestion and routing information, high-speed tolling, mobile infotainment, and many others. The creation of high-performance, highly reliable, highly scalable, and secure vehicular networks technologies, though, presents an extraordinary challenge to the wireless research community: a high degree of communication reliability is needed under unfavorable channel conditions. Clearly, the specificity of vehicular networks in terms of mobility behavior and applications scenarios and requirements makes vehicular networks research an exciting and demanding application- and purpose-driven sub-discipline of wireless networking. Topics of Interest ----------------- Original papers addressing applications and architecture, systems and protocols design, development and analysis, in all areas related to Vehicular Networking are solicited. Papers that bring out interesting and novel ideas at an early stage are favored over highly-polish journal-style results. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Vehicular mobile ad-hoc networks - Routing protocols for V2V communications - MAC layer technologies - Physical layer and RF level technologies - Antenna technologies - Role of V2V communications in Intelligent Transportation Systems - Safety and non-safety applications - High-speed mobility management - Radio resource management and QoS support - Roadside-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-vehicle communication - Algorithms, protocols and systems for data dissemination - Channel modeling - Modulation and coding - Power control and scalability issues - Multi-channel organization and operation - Security issues and countermeasures - Privacy issues - Network management - Simulation frameworks & real-world testbeds Submissions and Proceedings ------------------------------ Authors are invited to submit an electronic version of original, unpublished manuscripts via ISAS website (http://nrl.iis.sinica.edu.tw/VINT08/ISAS/). The manuscript should be written in English and follow ACM two-column format with single-spaced, ten-point font in the text. The maximum manuscript length is five (5) pages including figures and references. All submitted papers will be refereed by reviewers in terms of correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and quality of presentation. Accepted papers will be made available in the ACM Digital Library. Important Dates ---------------* Submission deadline: August 20, 2008 Notification of acceptance: September 15, 2008 Camera-ready version: October 15, 2008* General Chair Kun-chan Lan, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Program Chair Ling-Jyh Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan -- Jensen, C.-M. Chou Laboratory for Experimental Network and System (LENS) Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering National Cheng Kung University http://lens1.csie.ncku.edu.tw/ +886 6 2757575 ext 62500#35 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] SPECIAL ISSUE for AD HOC NETWORKS (Elsevier) Journal - Deadline: Oct 20, 2008
by Wensheng Zhang 25 Jul '08

25 Jul '08

Call For Papers Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier) Journal SPECIAL ISSUE: "Privacy and Security in Wireless Sensor and Ad Hoc Networks" Wireless sensor and ad hoc networks have many applications in military, homeland security and other areas. Security is critical for such networks deployed in a hostile environment. In civilian applications, however, privacy concerns of these networks could become a more serious impediment to their popular adoption. Providing privacy and security in wireless sensor and ad hoc networks is more challenging than those in traditional wired networks because wireless communications use shared medium and thus are vulnerable to many attacks. Providing privacy and security in sensor networks is further complicated by the network scale, the highly constrained system resources and the difficulty of dealing with node compromises. The main purpose of this special issue is to promote further research interests and activities on privacy and security in wireless sensor and ad hoc networks. We are interested in analytical, experimental, and systems-related papers in various aspects of privacy and security in wireless sensor and ad hoc networks. Topics of interest include: * Privacy issues in wireless sensor networks * Privacy issues in vehicular ad hoc networks * Location privacy and source anonymity * Secure localization and secure routing protocols * Key distribution and management * Trust management * Secure data aggregation * Authentication and authorization * Study of attack strategies, attack modeling * Study of tradeoffs between security and system performance * Denial of service attacks and prevention * Cross layer security and privacy attacks and solutions Authors are requested to prepare their papers according to the Guide For Authors on http://www.elsevier.com/locate/adhoc and to submit their paper to the online submission and reviewing system, at http://ees.elsevier.com/adhoc. They should choose the article type, Special Issue-Privacy & Security in WSN. Important Dates: Submission Deadline: October 20, 2008 First Round of Review: February 20, 2009 Notification of Acceptance: March 31, 2009 Publication Date: June 2009. Guest Editors: Wensheng Zhang Iowa State University Email: wzhang(a)cs.iastate.edu Sencun Zhu The Pennsylvania State University Email: szhu(a)cse.psu.edu Guohong Cao The Pennsylvania State University Email: gcao(a)cse.psu.edu _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Elsevier, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JVCI), Special Issue on Network Technologies for Emerging Broadband Multimedia Services]
by Lars Wolf 25 Jul '08

25 Jul '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Elsevier, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JVCI), Special Issue on Network Technologies for Emerging Broadband Multimedia Services Datum: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:43:39 +0800 Von: Cai Jianfei <ASJFCai(a)ntu.edu.sg> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this cfp. Regards, Jianfei Cai ----------------------------------------------------------------- Special Issue on "Network Technologies for Emerging Broadband Multimedia Services" Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JVCI) With the rapid proliferation of multimedia data, including audio, image, video and graphics, and the great advance of multimedia technologies such as the JPEG and MPEG standards, more and more network-based multimedia Applications (e.g. IPTV, VoD, VoIP etc.) emerge and they have become part of our daily life. All these applications share a basic requirement, i.e. broadband services. Indeed, driven by the rapid growing demand of multimedia service, broadband Internet access is now a common setup for many Internet users in modern cities. In May 2008, US broadband penetration has reached 89.3% among active Internet users. Nevertheless, despite the high data rate, the broadband multimedia services are not satisfactory. For example, a computer may enjoy a 100Mbps of data rate connection to the Internet. However, even streaming 500kbps of a video clip may still suffer from occasion playback interruptions. This is mainly due to lack of QoS support in the Internet. Here is just one example to show the challenge of providing good-quality broadband multimedia services. The situation becomes even more challenging when we consider a variety of networks, diverse end users, notorious wireless channels, mobility, inter-networking, co-existence of different types of traffic, etc. The goal of this special issue is to solicit the state-of-the-art approaches and technical solutions in the area of network technologies for emerging broadband multimedia services. The issue will provide a convincing forum for researchers and practitioners to present their latest research results. Scope The scope of this special issue is to cover all aspects that relate to network technologies and media control technologies for emerging broadband multimedia services. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * New protocols for multimedia services * New multimedia architectures/platforms * Network security for multimedia services * Performance evaluation of multimedia services * Network measurement/monitoring for multimedia services * Pricing, accounting and billing for multimedia services * Reliability, availability, serviceability of multimedia services * Seamless mobility of multimedia services * Management of multicast and broadcast multimedia services * Multimedia management in next generation networks * Multimedia services in mobile and broadband wireless networks * P2P multimedia streaming * QoS management in multimedia networks * Cross-layer optimized multimedia networks * IPTV and emerging applications * Network coding technology for multimedia delivery * Cooperative or collaborative communications for multimedia services * Adaptation, reconfiguration and transcoding of multimedia services Information for Authors Authors should prepare their manuscript according to the Guide for Authors available from the online submission page of the 'Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation' at http://ees.elsevier.com/jvci/. When submitting via this page, please select "Network Technology_EBMS" as the Article Type. Prospective authors should submit high quality, original manuscripts that have not appeared, nor are under consideration, in any other journals. All submissions will be peer reviewed following the JVCI reviewing procedures. Important Dates: Manuscript Submission Deadline: December 1, 2008 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: March 1, 2009 Final Manuscript Due to JVCI: April 1, 2009 Expected Publication Date: June, 2009 Guest Editors: Jianfei Cai, School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. (asjfcai(a)ntu.edu.sg) Shivkumar Kalyanraman, Department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Institute of Technology, USA. (shivkuma(a)gmail.com <mailto:shivkuma@gmail.com> ) Marco Roccetti, Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, Università di Bologna, Italy. (roccetti(a)cs.unibo.it <mailto:roccetti@cs.unibo.it> ) Hwangjun Song, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, POSTECH(Pohang University of Science and Technology), Korea. (Hwangjun(a)postech.ac.kr ) Dapeng Oliver Wu, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Florida. USA. (wu(a)ece.ufl.edu ) _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: 6th IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Peer-to-Peer Computing (MP2P'09)
by Li Li 25 Jul '08

25 Jul '08

CALL FOR PAPERS 6th IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Peer-to-Peer Computing (MP2P'09) http://www.samrg.org/mp2p/2009 Dallas, Texas, USA, March 16-20, 2009 In conjunction with the 7th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom'09) http://www.percom.org/ Technical funding by EuroNGI (*): http://www.eurongi.org/ (*) Final approval pending ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Peer-to-Peer (P2P) computing is a networking and distributed computing paradigm which allows the sharing of computing resources and services by direct, symmetric interaction between computers. The advance in mobile wireless communication technology and the increasing number of mobile users, extend the arena of P2P computing to encompass mobile devices and wireless networks. The special characteristics of mobile environments, such as highly variable connectivity, disconnection, location-dependency, resource contraints, and diversity in wireless networks as well as carrier-grade performance requirements bring new challenges for research in mobile P2P communication and computing. MP2P'09 is intended to serve as a continuing forum for scientists and engineers in academia and industry to exchange and discuss their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects of mobile P2P computing and communications. It will address the challenges, technologies, and architectures leading to real-world solutions that provide users with direct access and control of their critical peer-based information and services, regardless of location or device. The principal theme of MP2P'09 is the peer-to-peer paradigm as used in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETS), sensor networks, and large-scale heterogeneous overlays. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: - Peer-to-peer overlays for MANETs and sensor networks - Hybrid P2P architectures for integrated MANETs and wide-area networks - Large-scale heterogeneous P2P systems - Mobility in federated overlay architectures - Impact of network mobility on P2P systems and services (mobile IP / MANET) - P2P-based information sensing and fusion - MP2P performance & measurement studies - Semantic routing & overlay routing in MP2P - Delay tolerant MP2P systems - Resource and service discovery in MP2P - Resource exchange mechanisms in MP2P - Peer access and control in mobile environment - Data exchange and rendering techniques for mobile P2P devices - Secure communication protocols for MP2P - Nature-inspired algorithms for MP2P - Novel MP2P applications & services - Theoretical issues on mobile information diffusion - MP2P SIP - MP2P messaging systems, monitoring systems, searching systems, games, etc. - Location dependent MP2P services - MP2P over different bearer services: 2.5/3G (GPRS/UMTS) / 802.11 (WLAN) - MP2P & operator/provider requirements - Reliability and carrier-grade performance of MP2P services Paper Submission: ----------------- Papers must be written in English and should not exceed 5 pages in IEEE proceedings style. Authors MUST submit their papers through the EASYCHAIR web site (http://www.easychair.org/MP2P2009/) in three steps: * Creation of a personal account on EASYCHAIR (if the author does not already have one) * Registration of the paper (requiring a short abstract of up to 150 words) * Upload of the paper. Only in pdf format Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. All submissions will be reviewed and selected based on their originality of the paper. Accepted papers must be presented at the workshop and will appear in a combined PerCom 2009 workshop proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Paper must not be submitted elsewhere. Authors that present a system in their paper are highly encouraged to demonstrate also the system in the demo session of the workshop. Important Dates: ---------------- Papers due: September 22, 2008 Notification of acceptance November 18, 2008 Camera-ready papers due December 15, 2008 Organizing Committee, Program Co-chairs: --------------------------------------------------------------- John Buford, Avaya Labs, USA. Li Li, Communications Research Center Canada, Canada. Kurt Tutschku, Department of Computer Science, University of Vienna, Austria Steering Board ----------------------- - Frank-Uwe Andersen, Siemens Communications, Berlin, Germany. - Jiannong Cao, Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. - Y. Charlie Hu, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University - Cecilia Mascolo, Department of Computer Science, University College London - Maria Papadopouli, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Publicity Chair --------------------- Li Li, Communications Research Center Canada, Canada. Program Committee Members (Pending Approval) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - John Buford, Avaya Labs, USA. - Jiannong Cao, Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University - Hermann de Meer, Department of Computer Networks & Computer Communications, University of Passau, Germany. - Krishna Kishore Dhara, Avaya Labs Research, Lincroft, NJ, USA. - Babak Esfandiari, Carleton University, Canada. - Stephen Hailes, Department of Computer Science, University College of London, UK - Y. Charlie Hu, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University. - Norihiro Ishikawa, NTT Docomo, Japan. - Valerie Issarny, INRIA, France - Wolfgang Kellerer, DoCoMo DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe, Germany. - Mario Kolberg, University of Sterling, UK. - Thomas Kunz, Dept. of Systems and Comp. Engineering, Carleton University, Canada. - Li Li, Communication Research Center Canada, Canada - Christoph Lindemann, University of Leipzig, Germany. - George Roussos, School of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. - Jochen Schiller, Institute of Computer Science, FU Berlin, Germany. - Hans-Peter Schwefel, Department of Communication Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark. - Shervin Shirmohammadi, School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE), University of Ottawa, Canada. - Kurt Tutschku, Department of Distributed Systems, University of Würzburg, Germany. - Klaus Wehrle, Distributed Systems Group, RWTH Aachen, Germany. - Chansu Yu, Dept. Of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH, USA. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] IEEE Network - Special Issue on Multi-hop Cognitive Networks
by Matteo Cesana 25 Jul '08

25 Jul '08

Our Apologies in case of multiple receptions IEEE Network Special Issue on Networking over Multi-Hop Cognitive Networks Background In recent years, the exponential growth of unlicensed band usage has prompted possible wireless spectrum shortage. Moreover, today's wireless networks are characterized by fixed spectrum assignment policies, which often lead to wasting large spectrum portions due to sporadic utilization of the licensed users (according to FCC, only 15% to 85% of the licensed spectrum is utilized on the average). This situation has motivated and pushed forward the development of novel low-power wireless Cognitive Radio transceivers with the capability of changing their transmitter parameters (operating spectrum, modulation, transmission power and communication technology) based on interaction with the surrounding environment. Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs) based on nodes equipped with cognitive transceivers have consequently emerged as viable architectural solutions to solve current wireless network problems resulting from the limited available spectrum and the inefficiency in the spectrum usage by exploiting the existing wireless spectrum opportunistically. Scope and Contributions This special issue aims to consolidate and disseminate the latest developments and advances in the emerging area of Multi-hop CRNs, which is defined as a collection of cognitive transceiver-equipped nodes forming a multi-hop communication network. The main focus of this special issue is on networking aspects of multi-hop CRNs where the information needs to be relayed over multiple wireless links. The operation of Multi-hop CRNs is not limited to the discovery and allocation of wireless resources while avoiding service disruption for primary users. Additional tasks must be accomplished to sustain end-to-end communication, including identification of sets of relay nodes, ensuring that required bandwidth is available over all necessary links, and regulating resource sharing among all flows in the network. Most importantly, these goals must be achieved while coping with negative effects of frequent link outages due to primary user access. Preferably, the multi-hop CRN must also ensure that flow requirements, such as bandwidth, delay, and jitter bounds, are met. This special issue provides opportunities for the research community, the standardization bodies, and the industry to showcase the-state-of-the-art of the research on networking aspects of Multi-hop CRNs, implementation studies, and feasibility analyses. Moreover, since the success of CRN also depends on spectrum regulatory aspect, we also solicit critical contributions addressing the Multi-hop CRM architecture as it relates to spectrum competition under regulated, partially regulated or unregulated competitive environments. While the nature of the multi-hop CRNs necessitates high levels of interaction and dependency between the physical layer and protocols and solutions at MAC layer and above, the main focus of this special issue is the networking aspects of multi-hop CRNs. Therefore, the design of cognitive transceivers and hardware, signal processing techniques, modulation and coding methods, physical layer channel models, as well as networking issues primarily concerning single-hop CRNs fall outside the scope of the special issue. We solicit papers written in a tutorial and survey style, accessible to the non-expert, presenting the state of the art. Specifically, we seek submissions on the topics of: o Medium access control for multi-hop CRNs o Routing solutions for multi-hop CRNs o Real-time communication protocols for multi-hop CRNs o Cross-layer design of communication protocols for multi-hop CRNs o Centralized and distributed dynamic spectrum management and spectrum leasing o Performance evaluation and modeling of multi-hop CRNs o Regulatory Aspects and CRN Architectures o Experiences from testbed and proof-of-concept systems Schedule for Submission Paper Submission Deadline: November 15, 2008 Feedback to Authors: February, 15 2009 Publication of the Special Issue: Second Half of 2009 Authors must follow the IEEE Network Magazine guidelines regarding the manuscript and its format. For details, please refer to the "Author Guidelines" at the IEEE Network Magazine Web site at http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/net/ntwrk/authors.html. The manuscripts must be written in English and submitted electronically in PDF format with a separate cover letter, which contains the paper title, authors, affiliations, contact information, a 250-word abstract and 3-5 keywords, via email to ieee-network-si(a)ece.osu.edu before the deadline (November 15th 2008). Accepted papers will also be included in Network Interactive (NI) the online version of Network Magazine. Guest Editors Prof. Matteo Cesana Dip. di Elettronica e Informazione Politecnico di Milano, Italy cesana(a)elet.polimi.it Prof. Eylem Ekici Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering The Ohio State University , US ekici(a)ece.osu.edu Prof. Yeheskel Bar-Ness Center for Communications and Signal Processing Research New Jersey Institute of Technology, US barness(a)yegal.njit.edu <mailto:barness%20(at)%20yegal%20(dot)%20njit%20(dot)%20edu> _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Only a few days till IEEE ANTS deadline]
by Lars Wolf 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Only a few days till IEEE ANTS deadline Datum: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:35:18 -0400 Von: Rudra Dutta <dutta(a)csc.ncsu.edu> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Dear Colleague, The paper submission deadline for IEEE ANTS 2008 is getting close. Please consider submitting your work to this conference of emerging importance and a strong a2b focus. The earlier notice with a few pertinent points of information is quoted below. Full CFP is attached at the end - please circulate as appropriate. Updates: - EDAS submission open since mid-June - Arun Netravalli and Kishor Chaukar to be the 2 lead keynotes for IEEE ANTS 2008 - "How to write effective IEEE ANTS papers" - by Prof. Biswanath Mukherjee posted on the website to aid beginning authors - See half-page ad in IEEE Communications Magazine, July issue Thanks! ---------------------------------------- Dear Colleague, As the paper submission deadline for IEEE ANTS 2008 approaches, we wanted to quickly share with you the a few points of information. Full CFP is attached after these remarks. ANTS is now a fully recognized and sponsored IEEE conference. In fact, if you go to the ComSoc website, and select "Conferences->Major Conferences" from the top bar, you will see IEEE ANTS in the list. Conference papers will of course be archived in IEEE Xplore (ANTS 2007 papers are also available from Xplore). IEEE Communications Magazine featured a conference report on ANTS 2007 in its May issue - follow the link from the ANTS homepage (www.antsconference.org) if you missed it. And in the July issue, watch for a full page informative ad. Industry-university connection is emerging as a defining characteristic of ANTS. In south-east Asia and especially India, a huge telecom and datacom initiative is building. There is a need for industry-academia exchange of views to define research problems and agendas that have intellectual value and also address practical burning issues. ANTS 2007 facilitated this process to a level well beyond the usual for academic conferences. IEEE ANTS 2008 is planned to continue this process, with special sessions targeted toward identifying fruitful issues for collaboration. ANTS is the Indian academic conference where industry comes to listen and talk. As before, ANTS will have some resources for offsetting registration costs on a need basis. The registration costs are already low - last year's figures were USD 250 for IEEE members (300 for non-members), and USD 125 for students (lower for domestic students - as low as USD 40). This year's details will be announced soon - watch the website. Acceptance rates are expected to be similar to last year, when 20 out of 59 total peer-reviewed papers were accepted. The total number of papers is likely to go up a little, as the conference goes to three instead of two days. Please consider publishing your work in this young but already distinct conference (and coming on a city tour of one of the most colored and textured cities of the world in the bargain). Hope to see you in Mumbai! - Rudra and Jianping (Publicity co-chairs) ----------------------- 2nd International IEEE Symposium on Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems (ANTS) IEEE ANTS 2008 December, 15-17, 2008, Bombay (Mumbai) India http://www.antsconference.org Scope: Broadband networks are witnessing a convergence in both technologies and delivered services. Next-generation services require unified and scalable technologies spread across the network protocol layers facilitating a converged service model across all partitions of the network. Advanced integrated systems and network platforms have benefits in terms of deployment cost as well as the ability to provision new services. Motivated by the tremendous success of the first ANTS (2007) event which highlighted advances in systems and networking, the theme of ANTS 2008 is on communication systems and networking technologies for Realizing converged ubiquitous broadband connectivity. To achieve this goal, the symposium will feature a technical program of previously unpublished papers, tutorials, talks and panels on relevant topics bringing together experts from academia, industry, government and the user community who are involved in the research, design, development, deployment, regulation and application of communication and networking technologies. The symposium will cover technologies that facilitate broadband connectivity ñ both wire-line and wireless ñ and cover advances in the service, networking, transport and user equipment domains. Making ubiquitous broadband affordable is driving service providers, network operators, and OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers) towards converged network solutions and services as a way to reduce CAPEX and OPEX. Further, cost-effective research and development partnerships with knowledge economies in India, China, and Eastern Europe are being increasingly leveraged as can be gauged by the growth of ODMs (Original Design Manufacturers) and software service providers. ANTS 2008 provides a common meeting point for the confluence and exchange of ideas with a rich mix of participation from the academia, global industry and other stakeholders. The symposium will be held in the commercial and entertainment capital of India ñ Bombay ñ on December 15-17, 2008. ANTS 2008 will cover the following topics consistent with the theme of Realizing Converged Ubiquitous Broadband Connectivity: Network, Services and Terminal Convergence Home Networks and Media Gateways SMB & Enterprise Networks & Systems Wireless Access Networks and Systems Wire-line Access Networks and Systems Metro Networks and Systems Core Networks and Systems Storage Networks and Systems Network Virtualization Application Aware Networking Data Security, Content Processing/Billing IPTV, VoD and Mobile Video Digital Rights Management First mile access networks, Passive Optical Networks (PON) Powerline Communications (PLC) Long-Reach Broadband Access Carrier Ethernet Metro Ethernet, PBB, PBT, PBB-TE, T-MPLS MPLS, VPLS, VPNs Optical networks Network architectures and protocol Routing, traffic, services over optical networks Survivability and service level agreements (SLA) Futuristic technologies for emerging economies Equipment provider experiences, planning and future designs Service provider experiences, planning and future designs ITU, OIF, IETF activities Submissions: Authors are encouraged to submit a three-page extended abstract via EDAS (http://edas.info). Papers will be reviewed for technical content and scope by a technical program committee. All accepted papers would be digitally archived through IEEE Xplore. To achieve wide participation, no author may submit more than 2 papers to the conference. The Industry Session will be organized as a set of panels and will afford a unique opportunity for industry leaders to present their perspectives and share their views on design, development, deployment and regulatory aspects as it pertains to functioning in the global economy. The theme of these panels would be on Realizing converged ubiquitous broadband connectivity. Those interested in proposing/organizing panels should submit their proposals in the form of a one-page summary to the Industry Chair before September 1, 2008. Important Dates: Paper submissions: July 31, 2008. Notification of authors: October 1, 2008. Registration for authors: October 31, 2008. Symposium dates: December 15-17, 2008. Some highlights about ANTS 2008 include: - opportunity to interact with industry stalwarts and leading academics. - a world-class technical program - social program, day-long trip through Bombay (Mumbai) city. General Chairs/Steering Committee: Biswanath Mukherjee, UC-Davis, USA Ashwin Gumaste, IIT Bombay, India Nasir Ghani, UNM, USA Technical Program Chairs: Admela Jukan, TU Braunchwieg, Germany Suresh Subramaniam, GWU, USA Industry Chair: Deepak Kataria, LSI Logic Inc, USA Samrat Ganguly, NEC, USA Publicity Chairs: Rudra Dutta, NCSU, USA Jianping Wang, CityU, Hongkong PRC Sridhar Iyer, IIT Bombay, India Keynote and Tutorial Chairs: Girish Saraph, Vegayan and IIT Bombay, India Bishnu Pradhan, IIT Bombay, India Abhay Karandikar, IIT Bombay, India Local Arrangements: Gigabit Network Laboratory, IIT Bombay, India -------------------------------- ---- Rudra Dutta Associate Professor, Computer Science Dept. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC dutta(a)csc.ncsu.edu http://dutta.csc.ncsu.edu/ ----------- _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[IFIP-EC-NEWS] Special Issue: Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Elsevier
by Marco Roccetti 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

** IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING NEWS SERVICE ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** Send all news to: icec(a)listserver.tue.nl **************************************************** ** NOTE: Please reply to article's originator, ** not this IFIP EC News Service **************************************************** [many apologies if you receive this more than once] regards Marco Roccetti ----------------------- Special Issue on Network Technologies for Emerging Broadband Multimedia Services Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JVCI) Elsevier With the rapid proliferation of multimedia data, including audio, image, video and graphics, and the great advance of multimedia technologies such as the JPEG and MPEG standards, more and more network-based multimedia Applications (e.g. IPTV, VoD, VoIP etc.) emerge and they have become part of our daily life. All these applications share a basic requirement, i.e. broadband services. Indeed, driven by the rapid growing demand of multimedia service, broadband Internet access is now a common setup for many Internet users in modern cities. In May 2008, US broadband penetration has reached 89.3% among active Internet users. Nevertheless, despite the high data rate, the broadband multimedia services are not satisfactory. For example, a computer may enjoy a 100Mbps of data rate connection to the Internet. However, even streaming 500kbps of a video clip may still suffer from occasion playback interruptions. This is mainly due to lack of QoS support in the Internet. Here is just one example to show the challenge of providing good-quality broadband multimedia services. The situation becomes even more challenging when we consider a variety of networks, diverse end users, notorious wireless channels, mobility, inter-networking, co-existence of different types of traffic, etc. The goal of this special issue is to solicit the state-of-the-art approaches and technical solutions in the area of network technologies for emerging broadband multimedia services. The issue will provide a convincing forum for researchers and practitioners to present their latest research results. Scope The scope of this special issue is to cover all aspects that relate to network technologies and media control technologies for emerging broadband multimedia services. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - New protocols for multimedia services - New multimedia architectures/platforms - Network security for multimedia services - Performance evaluation of multimedia services - Network measurement/monitoring for multimedia services - Pricing, accounting and billing for multimedia services - Reliability, availability, serviceability of multimedia services - Seamless mobility of multimedia services - Management of multicast and broadcast multimedia services - Multimedia management in next generation networks - Multimedia services in mobile and broadband wireless networks - P2P multimedia streaming - QoS management in multimedia networks - Cross-layer optimized multimedia networks - IPTV and emerging applications - Network coding technology for multimedia delivery - Cooperative or collaborative communications for multimedia services - Adaptation, reconfiguration and transcoding of multimedia services Information for Authors Authors should prepare their manuscript according to the Guide for Authors available from the online submission page of the 'Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation' at http://ees.elsevier.com/jvci/. When submitting via this page, please select Network TechnologiesforEmergingBroadbandMultimediaServices as the Article Type. Prospective authors should submit high quality, original manuscripts that have not appeared, nor are under consideration, in any other journals. All submissions will be peer reviewed following the JVCI reviewing procedures. Important Dates: Manuscript Submission Deadline: December 1, 2008 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: March 1, 2009 Final Manuscript Due to JVCI: April 1, 2009 Expected Publication Date: June, 2009 Guest Editors: Jianfei Cai, School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. (asjfcai(a)ntu.edu.sg) Shivkumar Kalyanraman, Department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Institute of Technology, USA. (shivkuma(a)gmail.com) Marco Roccetti, Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, Università di Bologna, Italy. 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[Fwd: [Tccc] The 3rd IEEE Workshop on Automotive Networking and Applications]
by Lars Wolf 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] The 3rd IEEE Workshop on Automotive Networking and Applications Datum: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:57:22 -0400 (EDT) Von: Ratul Guha <rguha(a)research.telcordia.com> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu (AutoNet 2008) Apologies for Multiple Copies Call for Papers The 3rd IEEE Workshop on Automotive Networking and Applications (AutoNet 2008) Co-located with IEEE GLOBECOM 2008 December 4, 2008 (Thursday) - New Orleans, LA, USA Coupled with advances in wireless communications and computing technologies, there have been significant recent efforts to enhance and integrate the communications and computing technologies into the vehicle and transportation systems to enhance vehicle safety, reduce traffic congestion, and protect environment. Significant industrial and governmental efforts are underway to push for vehicle-to-vehicle / vehicle-to-infrastructure networking functions in vehicles and highway infrastructure. When such communications and networking capabilities are integrated into vehicles and the infrastructure, not only safety but many other emerging applications can be supported for intelligent interactions with the transportation system, with other vehicles, and inside vehicles, to help with traffic management, vehicle diagnostics, mobile commerce, and much more. This one-day workshop intends to bring together researchers, professionals, and practitioners to discuss and address recent developments and challenges in deploying vehicle-to-vehicle / vehicle-to-infrastructure networking technologies and their applications. Specifically, we solicit original research contributions addressing the following areas: * Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications * Vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications * Vehicular ad hoc networks * Potential applications of V2V and V2I communications including ITS * Protocols for V2V and V2I communications (MAC, routing, mobility management, etc.) * Security and privacy issues in V2V and V2I networks * Physical layer and RF level technologies for V2V and V2I communications * Antenna technologies for V2V and V2I communications * Radio resource management and QoS support for V2V and V2I communications * Information networking over V2V, V2R and next-generation networks * Simulation / performance evaluation techniques for V2V and V2I communications * Algorithms, protocols and systems for data dissemination in V2V and V2I communications * Experimental systems and testbeds for V2V and V2I communications * Standardization updates on V2V and V2I communications All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will appear in the Workshop proceedings (CD-ROM and booklet of papers) as well as on the IEEE Xplore. Workshop URLs: http://www.ieee-globecom.org/ (workshops) or http://autonet2008.research.telcordia.com/ EDAS URL: http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=5783&track=4681 Submission Instructions Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 20 double-spaced pages, including references, figures and tables. All submissions should be submitted electronically in Postscript or Adobe PDF format on EDAS http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=5783&track=4681 Please direct questions regarding the submission procedure to: Wai Chen (wchen(a)research.telcordia.com) Onur Altintas (onur(a)jp.toyota-itc.com) Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: September 1, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: October 1, 2008 Camera-Ready Submissions: October 15, 2008 Workshop Co-chairs Dr. Wai Chen, Telcordia Technologies, USA Dr. Onur Altintas, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan Program Advisor Prof. Tadao Saito Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo, Japan CTO, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan Technical Program Committee Subir Biswas Michigan State University, USA Fan Bai GM R&D Center, USA Luca Delgrossi Mercedes-Benz Research Lab, USA Eylem Ekici Ohio State University, USA Andreas Festag NEC Lab, Germany Marco Gruteser WINLAB, Rutgers University, USA Ratul Guha Telcordia Technologies, USA Jerome Harri University of Karlsruhe, Germany Teruo Higashino Osaka University, Japan Hariharan Krishnan GM R&D Center, USA Tim Leinmuller Denso Automotive Deutschland GmbH, Germany Thomas Luckenbach FOKUS, Germany Michela Meo Politecnico di Torino, Italy Rahul Mangharam University of Pennsylvania, USA Nick Maxemchuk Columbia University, USA Guevara Noubir Northeastern University, USA Umit Ozguner Ohio State University, USA Ai-Chun Pang National Taiwan University, Taiwan Chirag Patel Qualcomm, USA Panagiotis Papadimitratos EPFL, Switzerland Cem Saraydar GM R&D Center, USA Chien-Chung Shen University of Delaware, USA Daniel Stancil Carnegie Mellon University, USA Marcus Strassberger BMW Group, Germany Kazunori Takeuchi KDDI R&D Lab, Japan Kemal Tepe University of Windsor, Canada Christian Wewetzer Volkswagen Group, Germany Benjamin Weyl BMW Group, Germany Richard Wolff Montana State University, USA Daniel Wong Malaysia University of Science and Technology, Malaysia _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] The 3rd IEEE Workshop on Automotive Networking and Applications]
by Lars Wolf 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] The 3rd IEEE Workshop on Automotive Networking and Applications Datum: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:57:22 -0400 (EDT) Von: Ratul Guha <rguha(a)research.telcordia.com> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu (AutoNet 2008) Apologies for Multiple Copies Call for Papers The 3rd IEEE Workshop on Automotive Networking and Applications (AutoNet 2008) Co-located with IEEE GLOBECOM 2008 December 4, 2008 (Thursday) - New Orleans, LA, USA Coupled with advances in wireless communications and computing technologies, there have been significant recent efforts to enhance and integrate the communications and computing technologies into the vehicle and transportation systems to enhance vehicle safety, reduce traffic congestion, and protect environment. Significant industrial and governmental efforts are underway to push for vehicle-to-vehicle / vehicle-to-infrastructure networking functions in vehicles and highway infrastructure. When such communications and networking capabilities are integrated into vehicles and the infrastructure, not only safety but many other emerging applications can be supported for intelligent interactions with the transportation system, with other vehicles, and inside vehicles, to help with traffic management, vehicle diagnostics, mobile commerce, and much more. This one-day workshop intends to bring together researchers, professionals, and practitioners to discuss and address recent developments and challenges in deploying vehicle-to-vehicle / vehicle-to-infrastructure networking technologies and their applications. Specifically, we solicit original research contributions addressing the following areas: * Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications * Vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications * Vehicular ad hoc networks * Potential applications of V2V and V2I communications including ITS * Protocols for V2V and V2I communications (MAC, routing, mobility management, etc.) * Security and privacy issues in V2V and V2I networks * Physical layer and RF level technologies for V2V and V2I communications * Antenna technologies for V2V and V2I communications * Radio resource management and QoS support for V2V and V2I communications * Information networking over V2V, V2R and next-generation networks * Simulation / performance evaluation techniques for V2V and V2I communications * Algorithms, protocols and systems for data dissemination in V2V and V2I communications * Experimental systems and testbeds for V2V and V2I communications * Standardization updates on V2V and V2I communications All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will appear in the Workshop proceedings (CD-ROM and booklet of papers) as well as on the IEEE Xplore. Workshop URLs: http://www.ieee-globecom.org/ (workshops) or http://autonet2008.research.telcordia.com/ EDAS URL: http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=5783&track=4681 Submission Instructions Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 20 double-spaced pages, including references, figures and tables. All submissions should be submitted electronically in Postscript or Adobe PDF format on EDAS http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=5783&track=4681 Please direct questions regarding the submission procedure to: Wai Chen (wchen(a)research.telcordia.com) Onur Altintas (onur(a)jp.toyota-itc.com) Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: September 1, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: October 1, 2008 Camera-Ready Submissions: October 15, 2008 Workshop Co-chairs Dr. Wai Chen, Telcordia Technologies, USA Dr. Onur Altintas, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan Program Advisor Prof. Tadao Saito Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo, Japan CTO, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan Technical Program Committee Subir Biswas Michigan State University, USA Fan Bai GM R&D Center, USA Luca Delgrossi Mercedes-Benz Research Lab, USA Eylem Ekici Ohio State University, USA Andreas Festag NEC Lab, Germany Marco Gruteser WINLAB, Rutgers University, USA Ratul Guha Telcordia Technologies, USA Jerome Harri University of Karlsruhe, Germany Teruo Higashino Osaka University, Japan Hariharan Krishnan GM R&D Center, USA Tim Leinmuller Denso Automotive Deutschland GmbH, Germany Thomas Luckenbach FOKUS, Germany Michela Meo Politecnico di Torino, Italy Rahul Mangharam University of Pennsylvania, USA Nick Maxemchuk Columbia University, USA Guevara Noubir Northeastern University, USA Umit Ozguner Ohio State University, USA Ai-Chun Pang National Taiwan University, Taiwan Chirag Patel Qualcomm, USA Panagiotis Papadimitratos EPFL, Switzerland Cem Saraydar GM R&D Center, USA Chien-Chung Shen University of Delaware, USA Daniel Stancil Carnegie Mellon University, USA Marcus Strassberger BMW Group, Germany Kazunori Takeuchi KDDI R&D Lab, Japan Kemal Tepe University of Windsor, Canada Christian Wewetzer Volkswagen Group, Germany Benjamin Weyl BMW Group, Germany Richard Wolff Montana State University, USA Daniel Wong Malaysia University of Science and Technology, Malaysia _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Mycolleagues] CfP: ROADS'08, Madrid, 9 December 2008
by Timur Friedman 22 Jul '08

22 Jul '08

CfP: ROADS'08 - Madrid, Spain, 9 December 2008 http://www.sigcomm.org/co-next2008/roads.html The 3rd International Workshop on Real Overlays And Distributed Systems (ROADS) seeks papers on the challenges in building large-scale distributed systems and networking overlays. ROADS is a place to share new experiences, and work in progress, with an emphasis on systems that actually run in the wide-area Internet. The Real in ROADS refers to systems that are deployed on a real platform for a period of time. They might be existing widely deployed systems, new research prototypes, or more permanent services, but submissions should address technical challenges they present for designers and researchers. We also welcome papers that explore the extent to which results retain their validity when moving from simulation (e.g., ModelNet) to emulation (e.g., Emulab), and/or to more realistic deployment settings (e.g., PlanetLab). The workshop program will include invited speakers and presentations of peer-reviewed papers. Papers will be selected based on originality, likelihood of stimulating a lively discussion, and technical merit. We encourage submissions of early work containing novel and interesting ideas. We envision ROADS as a forum where participants can receive early feedback on the design and implementation of systems that may later form the core of submissions to conferences such as CoNEXT, SIGCOMM, NSDI, SOSP, OSDI, MobiCom, or MobiSys. Topics of interest include, but are by no means limited to: * Self-organizing, autonomous, and federated networked systems * Overlays and peer-to-peer systems * Online social networks: privacy, reputation, content sharing, search * Video-On-Demand and other advanced content distribution systems * Cloud computing and data center networks * Managing, debugging, and diagnosing problems in distributed systems * Virtualization and resource management for networked systems * Architectural support for improving security or availability * Design and evaluation of Internet-scale testbeds * Experiences with deployed systems (e.g., CDNs, metro-area Wi-Fi networks, massive multiplayer game systems) * Addressing novel challenges for the developing world * Energy efficient computing in networked environments Important Dates Submission deadline: September 12th, 2008 (Friday, 23:59 CEST) Notifications of acceptance: October 20th, 2008 Final versions due: November 14th, 2008 Submissions Submissions should be at most 6 pages in length (including figures, tables, and references), in standard ACM two-column format, using at least 10 point type. Longer submissions will not be reviewed. Submissions should expose a new problem, advocate a specific solution, or report on actual experience. Instructions regarding the submission process can be found on the ROADS'08 web site. Papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library and will be included in the ACM CoNEXT 2008 electronic proceedings. Program Committee Nick Feamster, Georgia Tech, USA Bryan Ford, MIT, USA Mike Freedman, Princeton University, USA Arvind Krishnamurthy, University of Washington, USA Ratul Mahajan, Microsoft Research, USA Sue Moon, KAIST, Korea Dushyanth Narayanan, Microsoft Research, UK Stefan Saroiu, University of Toronto, Canada Workshop Chairs Andy Bavier, Princeton University, USA Krishna Gummadi, MPI-SWS, Germany Pablo Rodriguez, Telefonica Research Lab, Spain _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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