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[Tccc] CFP: Wireless Local Networks 2009
by Abd-Elhamid M. Taha 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

9th IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Local Networks 2009 http://www.wln09.prism.uvsq.fr/ held in conjunction with The 34th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN) 20-23 October, 2009, Zurich, Switzerland "Global Sustainability through Local Functionalities" || Scope || Wireless Local Networks (WLNs) play a major role in today’s world. From providing rich connectivity to realizing sensory and actuary applications, WLNs serve a wide range of applications. In its 9th year, the WLN workshop would like to focus on how such networks can be made to be energy efficient and cost effective, while maintaining high levels of service delivery quality. It is hence our aim to focus on both design and implementation aspects in networks that are sustainable, or that can be utilized to in making sustainable system. At the same time, we will maintain our open call in topics relevant to WLNs. With this spirit, we are soliciting works describing both theoretical and practical research endeavors. We also encourage visionary and experimental descriptions. Short reports on work- in-progress and demos will also be accommodated. || Topics || The following is a non-exclusive list of topics of interest: * Design and deployment guidelines. * Implementation and testbed issues. * Network management architectures. * Protocol design, including cross-layer and opportunistic approaches. * Wireless multihop networks, including mesh, ad hoc and sensor networks. * Wireless relay, including fixed and mobile elements. * Integration and coexistence issues. * Mobility management in both homogeneous and heterogeneous settings. * Resource management functionalities (CAC, reservation, scheduling, etc.) * Cognitive radios and dynamic spectrum networks. * Performance evaluation, including analytical, simulation and testbed approaches. || Important Dates || Submission registration May 12th, 2009 Submission deadline May 19th, 2009 Notification of acceptance July 7th, 2009 Camera-ready copy due July 28th, 2009 Registration Deadline July 28th, 2009 || Submission Guideliness || We seek original contributions that are have neither been previously published or currently under review. Authors can submit in either of the following categories: * Paper submissions. (up to 8 pages) Should describe complete works in a self-contained manner with the intent to give an oral presentation. * Poster submissions. (up to 2 pages) Reports on high-value recent results or work-in-progress with the intent to provide a poster presentation. * Proposal for demonstration. (up to 2 pages) Showcases practical and experimental implementations intended for industrial or commercial development in workshop’s general. Both posters and demonstrations will be presented in a joint session. All accepted submissions will be published in the LCN’09 proceedings and the ieeeXplore portal. || Workshop Cochairs || Jalel Ben-Othman PRiSM Laboratory,University of Versailles, France Abd-Elhamid M. Taha School of Computing, Queen’s University || Technical Program Committee || Mostafa Bassiouni, University of Central Florida Tarek Bejaoui, Mediatron Lab, Carthage University Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna Chun Tung Chou, University of New South Wales Ehab Elmallah, University of Alberta Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virginia Tech Essia H. Elhafsi, University of California Riverside Ashraf Hamad, Microsoft Corporation Mounir Hamdi, HKUST Jianku Hu, RMIT University Salil Kanhere, University of New South Wales Ashfaq Khokhar, University of Illinois at Chicago Justin Lipman, Intel Corporation Madjid Merabti, Liverpool John Moores University Lynda Mokdad, Université de Paris Dauphine Jogesh K. Muppala, HKUST Farid Naït-Abdesselam, Uni. of Sciences and Technologies of Lille Nidal Nasser, University of Guelph Ioanis Nikolaidis, University of Alberta Guevara Noubir, Northeastern University Octavio Ramirez, Univ of versailles Samer Samarah, University of Ottawa Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University Vassilis Tsaoussidis, Demokritos University Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida Véronique Vèque, University of Paris-Sud 11 Kui Wu, University of Victoria Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County Sherali Zeadally, University of the District of Columbia Zonghua Zhang, National Inst. of Info. and Comm. Technology _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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FWD: CfP "9. Innovative Internet Community Services"
by Lars Wolf 03 Feb '09

03 Feb '09

[apologies for cross-posting, please forward to interested colleagues ] ************************* 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS ************************* 9th International Workshop on Innovative Internet Community Systems I2CS 2009 http://www.i2cs-conference.org/ Jena, Germany, June 15-17, 2009 *********************************************************************** !!!!!!!! Paper submission is open - Deadline: Februar 15, 2009 !!!!!!!! Scope ----- "Tradition meets Innovation" is the promising motto of the 9th I2CS, dedicated to a bundle of interesting aspects around modern community systems. Discuss state of the art in an atmosphere of grand tradition: In Jena, Goethe, Schiller, Hegel, and Fichte left their mark on intel- lectual life, Abbe, Zeiss and Schott laid the foundations for economic prosperity. Germany's "Science City 2008" will provide an excellent venue for I2CS's conference and workshop topics. Due to the rapid evolution of web technologies and rich mobile devices ICT support for communities is possible on next quality level. Trying to achieve this, we challenge new research questions in a wide range of connected fields. In search of innovative solutions multi-discipli- nary collaboration among researchers and industry partners is essential. Hence, the goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers, experts, and practitioners from various areas related to novel Internet Community Systems. Topics ------ The selection of I2CS topics encompasses aspects of Internet Community Systems: foundations, technology, applications and socializations. The topics include, but are not limited to original work in the following areas: A) Foundations - Theories, models, algorithms for communities ---------------------------------------------------------- - Distributed algorithms and simulation models - Game theory, graph theory and cost models - Innovative communication protocols - Self organization and self stabilization - Security and privacy protection - Interoperability and IT-governance B) Technology - Distributed architectures and frameworks ----------------------------------------------------- - Service-oriented architectures for communities - Peer-to-peer and grid architectures - Distributed community middleware for Web x.0 - Software agents for community support - Adaptive cooperative information systems - Community management in ad-hoc environments - Information retrieval and distributed ontologies C) Applications and socialization - Communities on the move -------------------------------------------------------- - Mobile Internet applications' experiences - Context and location awareness - Personalization of components and tools - Personal social networks and user behavior - Social and business aspects of user generated content - Expert profiles, collaborative filtering and matching - Domain specific languages for semantic design Submissions ----------- We solicit submissions of unpublished papers presenting research results, industrial experiences and applications, as well as de- tailed specifications of open problems. Electronic submission is required. Full papers of no more than 10 pages written in English should be submitted as PDF files using the EasyChair conference system accessible via http://www.i2cs-conference.org/ (submission section) All submitted papers will be subject to a double reviewing process by the program committee. All accepted contributions will be included in the pre-proceedings of the I2CS 2009 in the series Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI) by the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI). Important Dates --------------- * Paper submission deadline : February 15, 2009 * Notification of acceptance : March 23, 2009 * Camera-ready copies : April 7, 2009 * Author/early registration : April 15, 2009 * Conference date : June 15 - 17, 2009 Organizing Committee -------------------- * Christian Erfurth, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany * Gerald Eichler, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Berlin, Germany * Volkmar Schau, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany Program Committee ----------------- S. Albayrak, TU Berlin, Germany H. Arnold, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany G. Babin, HEC Montreal, Canada A. Böhm, T-Systems, Germany T. Böhme, TU Ilmenau, Germany D. Chase, T-Mobile International, United Kingdom G. Eichler, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany C. Erfurth, FSU Jena / GI, Germany H. Fouchal, U Antilles-Guyane, France W. Halang, FU Hagen / GI, Germany G. Heyer, U Leipzig, Germany H. Höpfner, International U Bruchsal / GI, Germany P. Hunel, U Antilles-Guyane, France J. Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Science, Poland V. Kirova, Alcatel-Lucent, U.S.A. P. Kropf, U Neuchatel, Switzerland K. Kyandoghere, U Klagenfurt, Austria U. Lechner, UBW Munich, Germany F. Lehner, U Passau / GI, Germany P. Meesad, King Mongkut's UoT North Bangkok, Thailand A. Mikler, U Northern Texas, U.S.A. C. Prehofer, Nokia Research Center, Finland L. Rokach, Ben-Gurion University, Israel W. Rossak, FSU Jena, Germany H. Sack, HPI, U Potsdam, Germany V. Schau, FSU Jena, Germany H. Schilder, nexum AG / GI, Germany H. Unger, FU Hagen, Germany K.S. Tang, CityU Hong Kong, Hong Kong M. Welsch, IBM, Germany L. Wienhofen, SINTEF, Norway I2CS is organized by FSU and T-Labs and supported by Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI), Regionalgruppe Ostthüringen/Jena and Fachgruppe Mobilität und Mobile Informationssysteme (GI-MMS). For further details please check http://www.i2cs-conference.org/ regularly. Have a look at the preliminary program, now available. Kind regards Christian Erfurth, Volkmar Schau and Gerald Eichler

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[Fwd: CfP IWSNE'09]
by Lars Wolf 03 Feb '09

03 Feb '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP IWSNE'09 Datum: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 09:48:19 +0100 Von: Stefan Fischer <fischer(a)ITM.UNI-LUEBECK.DE> Antwort an: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE ============================================================================ IWSNE 2009 Call for Papers The 2nd International Workshop on Sensor Network Engineering (IWSNE'09) co-located with the 5th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Distributed Computing In Sensor Systems (DCOSS'09), June 8th-10th (workshop day: June 10th), Marina Del Rey, CA, USA http://www.itm.uni-luebeck.de/events/iwsne09/ ============================================================================ Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are heterogeneous networks that comprise tiny, resource-constraint sensor nodes, gateways and backend systems. Embedded into the environment, sensor nodes measure ambient parameters such as temperature, motion, etc. and gateways provide the integration with traditional networks while backend systems process and visualize received data. Application development for WSNs is complex as it unites the challenges of distributed applications and embedded programming. In addition, heterogeneity, unpredictable environmental influences and the size of the networks further complicate this situation. To master these issues, an engineering approach to all phases of a sensor network's life cycle is necessary. Developers and application providers require powerful development support including IDEs as well as debugging, simulation and visualization tools to develop, test, optimize, and deploy their algorithms, applications and protocols. Today, many of these issues are still unsolved; at least an integrated approach is missing. Particular topics of interest for papers to be submitted include, but are not limited to: * Hardware and software platforms * Analysis and design support * Middleware approaches * Simulation and testing environments * Deployment support * Integrated approaches * User-oriented approaches * Integration of multiple and hybrid sensor networks * New architectures ----------------------------------------- Important Dates ----------------------------------------- * Submission: March 15th 2009 * Notification: April 15th, 2009 * Camera-ready: April 25th, 2009 ----------------------------------------- Workshop Chairs ----------------------------------------- Stefan Fischer, University of Luebeck, Germany Dennis Pfisterer, University of Luebeck, Germany ----------------------------------------- Technical Program Committee ----------------------------------------- Thomas Michael Bohnert, SAP Research, Zürich, Switzerland Torsten Braun, University of Berne, Switzerland Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, RACTI, Patras, Greece Geoff Coulson, Lancaster University, UK Mesut Günes, FU Berlin, Germany Manfred Hauswirth, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Galway, Ireland Alexander Kröller, Braunschweig Institute of Technology, Germany Koen Langendoen, TU Delft, Netherlands Norbert Luttenberger, University of Kiel, Germany Peter Martini, University of Bonn, Germany Kay Römer, ETH Zürich, Switzerland Dirk Timmermann, University of Rostock, Germany Volker Turau, TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany ----------------------------------------- Submission Instructions ----------------------------------------- Full Papers (no more than 12 pages): This workshop will only accept for review original papers that have not been previously published and are not currently under review by any other conference or journal. Submissions must be in Adobe PDF format and not exceed 12 pages, including text, figures and references. We require that submissions conform to the IEEE Transactions journals and conferences style (cf. http://www.ieee.org/pubs/authors.html). All submissions will be handled electronically by sending an e-mail to iwsne09-submission(a)itm.uni-luebeck.de. The organizers can be contacted at iwsne09-chairs(a)itm.uni-luebeck.de. -- Prof. Dr. Stefan Fischer Universität zu Lübeck Institut für Telematik Ratzeburger Allee 160 D-23538 Lübeck, Germany Phone: +49 451 500 5380 Email: fischer(a)itm.uni-luebeck.de Fax: +49 451 500 5382 WWW: http://www.itm.uni-luebeck.de

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[Fwd: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] CFP: ACM NOSSDAV 2009 --- Deadline extension: Feb 16, 2009]
by Lars Wolf 03 Feb '09

03 Feb '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] CFP: ACM NOSSDAV 2009 --- Deadline extension: Feb 16, 2009 Datum: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:22:03 +0800 Von: Kuan-Ta (Sheng-Wei) Chen <swc(a)iis.sinica.edu.tw> Antwort an: swc(a)iis.sinica.edu.tw Organisation: Academia Sinica An: icec(a)listserver.tue.nl ** 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 **************************************************** [Apologies if you receive this more than once] === [ ACM NOSSDAV 2009 ] === The 19th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video Williamsburg, Virginia June 3-5, 2009 http://www.nossdav.org/2009/ SPONSORED BY: ACM SIGMM in cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM and ACM SIGOPS * Important Dates Paper Deadline: Extended to 16 February, 2009 Notification: 20 March, 2009 Camera Ready: 6 April, 2009 * About NOSSDAV NOSSDAV 2009 will continue the workshop's long tradition of focusing on emerging topics, controversial ideas, and future research directions in the area of multimedia systems research, held in a setting that stimulates lively discussions among the senior and junior participants. It is also an established practice for NOSSDAV to encourage experimental research based on real systems and data sets. Public availability of source code and data sets is highly encouraged. The scope of NOSSDAV has evolved over the years. For NOSSDAV 2009, we would like especially highlight two new topics of interest: unconventional use of GPU for multimedia and multi-core processors support for multimedia. NOSSDAV 2009 continues to welcome submissions in the traditional topics of networked multimedia systems, operating system support for multimedia, and multimedia security and rights management. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * OS, middleware and network support for multimedia * Overlay networks for multimedia * Media streaming, distribution and storage * Web 2.0 systems and social networks for multimedia * Wireless and mobile multimedia systems * Media sensor and ad hoc networks * Grid/cloud computing support for multimedia * Embedded systems for multimedia * Multicore architecture support for multimedia * GPU for multimedia * Network processor support for multimedia * Tele-immersion and mixed-reality systems * Networked graphics and virtual environments * Networked games * Multimedia communications and system security * Digital rights management A broad view will be taken in deciding what topics are within scope. Please contact the workshop co-chairs if you are unsure and wish to check if a particular topic is within the scope of NOSSDAV. Submissions should be at most SIX pages in length using standard ACM proceedings style. We expect these submissions to be the kernel of what will eventually lead to full-length papers at high-quality conferences or journals. Authors of selected, high quality papers from NOSSDAV 2009 will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers to a special issue of ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal (MMSJ). ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Workshop Co-Chairs Dongyan Xu, Purdue University, USA Wei Tsang Ooi, National University of Singapore Local Arrangement Chair Ketan Mayer-Patel, UNC Chapel Hill, USA Publicity Co-Chairs Tristan Henderson, University of St. Andrews, UK Kang Li, University of Georgia, USA Kuan-Ta Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Technical Program Committee Kevin Almeroth, UC Santa Barbara, USA Grenville Armitage, Swinburne U. of Tech, Australia Ernst Biersack, Institute Eurecom, France Surendar Chandra, University of Notre Dame, USA Kuan-Ta Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Songqing Chen, George Mason University, USA Mark Claypool, WPI, USA Wu-chang Feng, Portland State University, USA Wu-chi Feng, Portland State University, USA Romulus Grigoras, IRIT-Toulouse, France Carsten Griwodz, University of Oslo, Norway Pal Halvorsen, University of Oslo, Norway JongWon Kim, GIST, Korea Baochun Li, University of Toronto, Canada Kang Li, University of Georgia, USA Yong Liu, Polytechnic University, USA Andreas Mauthe, Lancaster University, UK Klara Nahrstedt, UIUC, USA Ketan Mayer-Patel, UNC Chapel Hill, USA Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Purdue University, USA Sanjay Rao, Purdue University, USA Reza Rejaie, University of Oregon, USA Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech, USA Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University, USA Prashant Shenoy, UMass, Amherst Shervin Shirmohammadi, University of Ottawa, Canada Ralf Steinmetz, TU Darmstadt, Germany Lars Wolf, TU Braunschweig, Germany Zhenyu Yang, Florida International University, USA Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore **************************************************** ** To send and receive IFIP-EC-NEWS, go to ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** and subscribe directly **************************************************** ** News archives: ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/private/icec/ **************************************************** ** To join the IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING Group ** contact: g.w.m.rauterberg(a)tue.nl ****************************************************

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[Fwd: CFP ADHOCNETS 2009]
by Lars Wolf 03 Feb '09

03 Feb '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP ADHOCNETS 2009 Datum: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 19:38:24 +0100 Von: Abdelmajid Khelil <khelil(a)INFORMATIK.TU-DARMSTADT.DE> Antwort an: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE [Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ************************************************************** * CALL FOR PAPERS * * * * ADHOCNETS 2009 * * First International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks * * Sept.23-25, 2009, Niagra Falls, Ontario, Canada * * http://www.adhocnets.org * * * ************************************************************** Sponsored by ICST OVERVIEW: Ad hoc networks, which cover a variety of network paradigms for specific purposes, such as mobile ad hoc networks, sensor networks, vehicular networks, underwater networks, underground networks, local area networks, personal area networks, home networks, etc., promise a broad range of applications in civilian, commercial, and military areas. The aim of the annual International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks (AdHocNets) is to provide a forum that brings together researchers from academia as well as practitioners from industry to meet and exchange ideas and recent research work on all aspects of ad hoc networks. AdHocNets¡¯09 is the first edition of this event, which will be held in Niagara Falls, Canada, in September 2009. The conference will consist of technical sessions, panels, and workshops. The technical sessions will present original and fundamental research advances while the panels and workshops focus on development and application issues in this hot field. HIGHTLIGHTS: * Prof. Ian F. Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology, will deliver a keynote address. * The best papers will be considered for publication in Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal. TOPICS: The conference solicits original technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Mobile Ad Hoc networks * Sensor networks * Vehicular networks * Underwater networks * Underground networks * Local area networks * Personal area networks * Body area networks * Home networks * Network architectural design * Network protocol design * Cross-layer design * MAC, routing, and transport protocols * Resource allocation and management * Network control and management * Power control and management * Topology control and management * Quality of service provisioning * OFDM techniques * MIMO techniques * Service discovery techniques * Node localization techniques * Data aggregation techniques * Time synchronization techniques * Network scalability issues * Reliability and fault tolerance issues * Security and privacy issues * Applications for ad hoc networks * Performance modeling and analysis * Experimental prototypes and testbeds PANELS AND WORKSHOPS: We solicit panel and workshop proposals on hot and controversial topics in ad hoc networks. Proposals should be submitted to the panel and workshop co-chairs, respectively. Please visit the conference website for detailed instructions. PAPER SUBMISSION: Please visit the conference website (http://www.adhocnets.org) for detailed instructions. Paper Publication: All submitted papers will go through a peer-review process. All accepted papers will be included in the Proceedings of AdHocNets 2009. The best papers will be considered for publication in Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper registration due March 25, 2009 Paper submission due April 1, 2009 Notification of acceptance June 30, 2009 Final manuscripts due July 15, 2009 CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE GENERAL CHAIR Jun Zheng University of Ottawa, Canada TPC CO-CHAIRS Scott F. Midkiff NSF and Virginia Tech, USA Shiwen Mao Auburn University, USA PANEL CO-CHAIRS Louise Lamont Communications Research Centre, Canada Tommaso Melodia SUNY at Buffalo, USA WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Charles E. Perkins WiChorus Corporation, USA Yan Zhang Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Tutorial Chair Xavier Fernando Ryerson University, Canada PUBLICATION CHAIR Hua Zhu ArgonST, Network Systems, USA PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS Dario Pompili Rutgers University, USA Fikret Sivrikaya Technical University of Berlin, Germany Xinbing Wang Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China CONFERENCE COORDINATOR Robert Varga ICST LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR Mieso Denko University of Guelph, Canada STEERING COMMITTEE Imrich Chlamtac (Chair) Create-net, Italy Jun Zheng (Co-Chair) University of Ottawa, Canada

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[MM-INTEREST] IEEE ICME 2009 Call for Workshop Papers
by Lexing Xie 03 Feb '09

03 Feb '09

IEEE ICME 2009 Call for Workshop Papers http://www.icme09.org/workshops.html ===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===--- Workshops at-a-glance (Name: paper submission deadline) Workshop on Media Information Analysis for Personal and Social Applications: Feb 14, 2009 Workshop on Multimedia Security and Content Protection: Feb 14, 2009 Workshop on Multimedia Aspects in Pervasive Healthcare: Feb 15, 2009 Workshop on Internet Multimedia Search and Mining: Feb 15, 2009 Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing and Novel Parallel Computing: March 1, 2009 ===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===--- 1st IEEE Workshop on Media Information Analysis for Personal and Social Applications (W’MAPS 2009) < http://www.icme09.org/workshop/WMAPS09> July 3rd, 2009 Hilton Cancun, Cancun, Mexico in conjunction with 2009 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) The proliferation of mobile multimedia devices and social networks has led to an explosion of digital media content being created, resulting in large personal and public multimedia databases in which it has become increasingly difficult to retrieve specific content and browse the large collections. In the absence of manual annotation specifying the content of the media (in the form of captions or tags), most current content management software only allow simple browsing and navigation options; which severely limits the search and other advanced functionality. This is complicated by the available types of media such as images, video, music, speech, text, and graphics, and the relationship and interactions among them. In addition to personal collections located at home PCs and laptops, the wide spread popularity of media and social networking sites such as Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, Easyshare Gallery has enabled users to share and browse images and videos. However, due to the huge magnitude and variety of media content, it is increasing difficult for users and consumers to easily navigate, search, compose, and share their content and memories. When we consider the multimedia information available on public web sites, we will be confronting with a big scalability issue with many existing techniques and algorithms. Solutions that address the broad spectrum of personal and social multimedia applications are needed. The goal of this workshop is to provide a technical forum for researchers from academy and industry to discuss the advances and challenges of information processing, analysis, and retrieval for multimedia applications in personal and social domains. We propose to explore emerging areas of research such as cross-media and cross-domain information analysis and extraction, which will enhance current capability of information management applications and enrich the overall multimedia experience. Another area is to leverage rich metadata and contextual information associated with the media content. These include GPS, date/time, captions/tags, camera settings, face and other biometric information. The advances in user interface technologies incorporating speech and gesture recognition will also play an important role in enabling more user friendly and easy to use multimedia applications in the consumer domain. We welcome papers that address fundamental research issues in this challenging area, with emphasis on personal and social applications. We also encourage papers to report on system level research related to multimedia and cross-media analysis, processing, and retrieval. A number of invited papers will also be solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Cross-media information analysis and extraction - Machine learning algorithms for media information analysis and extraction - Object, feature, and relation extraction from media - Semantic content understanding and recognition - Context-aware analysis of media and cross-media content - High dynamic range image processing and retrieval - Reasoning and cross-domain learning methodologies - Intra- and inter-media representation and ontology for cross media - Multimedia browsing/visualization tools and cross-media query - Metadata analysis for semantic annotations of multimedia content - Semi-automatic and automatic annotation methods for media content - Media information processing, delivery, and management - Synchronization of media objects for cross media analysis - User interface method for media browsing and search - Speech and gesture interface for consumer multimedia applications - System level research for media and cross-media applications Important Dates Paper submission deadline: Feb. 14, 2009 Notification of acceptance: March 20, 2009 Final camera-ready paper deadline: March 31, 2009 Workshop date: Friday, July 3, 2009 Alexander Loui and Susanto Rahardja Workshop Co-Chairs Lekha Chaisorn and Daniel Gatica-Perez Technical Program Co-Chairs ===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===--- Workshop on Multimedia Security and Content Protection July 3, 2009 Scope and Topics Today we live in a digital world. The advent of digital technologies has made the creation and manipulation of multimedia content simpler. It offers higher quality and a lot more convenience to consumers. For example, it allows one to make perfect copies. Together with the growing volumes of digital data, increasingly the Internet is used for the distribution of the digital data. The ease with which digital goods can be copied and redistributed makes the Internet well suited for unauthorized copying, modification and redistribution. The rapid adoption of new technologies such as high-bandwidth connections, wireless networks, and peer-to-peer networks is accelerating this process. Multimedia security and content protection technologies and systems are intended to protect the intellectual property rights of content owners in scenarios in which the participants have conflicting goals and are not fully trusted. However, developing secure multimedia applications and solutions in a distributed environment with competing technologies and emerging standards is an enormous challenge. This workshop intends to provide a forum that researchers, developers and practitioners from multimedia security communities come together to share the vision of “multimedia security and content protection in this rapidly growing digital world”. That is from reporting latest technology advances, identifying new high impact problems that can shape the future of research, finding applications for the identified technologies, as well as legal and business issues related to multimedia security. The workshop seeks submissions in the general areas of multimedia security in its processing, transmission and consumption. We welcome submissions on emerging standards, interoperability and practical application issues. Topics include, but are not limited to: Content Protection: ? Architectures for content protection systems ? Broadcast encryption and revocation schemes ? Traitor tracing and forensics ? Digital Rights Management ? Network protection and security ? Attacks and protocol security ? Security evaluation and benchmarks ? Software/hardware tamper resistance (including software watermarking and code obfuscation) ? Trusted computing Multimedia Security ? Authentication and encryption ? Multimedia watermarking, fingerprinting and identification ? Multimedia forensics ? Privacy and anonymity ? Steganography and steganalysis Applications, Standard, and Formats: ? Emerging applications including secure home network ? New business models in multimedia security and content protection ? Multimedia security related standards ? Legal and policy issues and their interactions with technological development ? Implementations, demonstrations and prototypes of secure multimedia application systems This workshop will contain some invited presentations and presentations accepted by open submission to report latest academic research and recent industrial progress on digital rights management (DRM), multimedia security and content protection technologies and standards. The format will be a series of presentations held in a panel/forum type of environment to encourage interaction and discussion of topics and issues. Guidelines for Submission Authors are invited to submit regular technical papers or position papers. The position papers should present novel technologies at an early stage of development or share future vision. Manuscripts should not exceed four (4) pages in double-column IEEE format. Please visit the ICME 2009 website, www.icme09.org, for the submission instructions. All submissions should describe original, previously unpublished research or engineering work, not currently under review by another conference or journal. Please note that dual submissions to both the main ICME conference and workshop will not be accepted. Important Dates Paper submission deadline: Feb. 14, 2009 Notification of acceptance: March 20, 2009 Final camera-ready paper deadline: March 31, 2009 Workshop date: Friday, July 3, 2009 Workshop Chairs Dr. Xin Wang, ContentGuard, Inc., USA xin.wang(a)contentguard.com Dr. Li Zhao, Tsinghua University, China zhaoli(a)tsinghua.edu.cn Dr.. HongXia Jin, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA jin(a)us.ibm.com Workshop Technical Program Committee William Knox Carey (InterTrust, USA) Kai Chen (Intel, China) Diehl Eric (Thomson, France) Changlong He, (Jilin University Information Technologies Co., Ltd., China) Zhongyang Huang (Panasonic, Singapore) Eunjin Jung (University of Iowa, USA) Antonius Kalker (Hewlett-Packard, USA) Xu Li, Tsinghua (University, China) Earnest Ma (Philips, China) Ginger Myles (Apple Computer, USA) Yongdong Wu (I2R, Singapore) Heather Yu (Huawei Technologies, USA) Wenjun Zeng (University of Missouri, Columbia, USA) Bin Zhu (Microsoft Research, China) Sencun Zhu (Penn State University, USA) ===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===--- Workshop on Multimedia Aspects in Pervasive Healthcare July 3, 2009 Workshop webpage: http://multimedia.utdallas.edu/mmph09/index.html) ----------------- Workshop Scope: --------------- Human health and performance are broad terms that describe the quality of life but are difficult to quantify. Human health can be broadly identified by two components: physical health and mental health. While there is no "official" definition for mental health (considering cultural differences and subjective assessments), physical health is typically attributed to health of various body organs including muscles, bones, and joints. Human performance can be considered as "focused behavior" or "purposeful work" and hence performance is typically domain specific such as sports performance, or performance of a physically challenged person. Recent advances in various technologies for medical sensors, computing, and wireless communication have resulted in monitoring, tracking, and quantifying the physical health. Providing ubiquitous health care and performance monitoring have thus become feasible, affordable, and in many cases indispensable. The proposed workshop will be multi-disciplinary, focusing on innovations in information processing and system aspects of health care and performance. The topics of interest for this workshop include but are not limited to: * Information processing aspects of human health and performance - Data processing, storage and management - Detection, classification, and tracking - Distributed algorithms and reasoning - Programming models and languages * Body sensor networks: Systems and Technology - Novel communication techniques and protocols - In-vivo, on-body, near-body networks - Location, time, and other network services - Network health monitoring and management - Performance modeling * System design issues of Medical Digital Devices - Operating systems and runtime environments - Power - Reliability and fault-tolerance * Assistive Technologies for aged and disabled - Longitudinal studies showing impact on health care and performance * Security and privacy, including HIPAA for medical applications * HCI/Wearable Computing for Medical Applications - Social impacts - Usability - Brain Computer Interactions - Wearable system design issues - Entertainment * Medical Applications - Pervasive health care and patient monitoring within hospitals and other healthcare delivery settings in residential and other non healthcare delivery settings - Prosthetics and other novel medical applications We will have a special issue based on this workshop in a leading journal. Important Dates: ---------------- Paper Submission Due: Feb 15, 2009 Notification of Acceptance: March 15, 2009 Camera-Ready Paper Due: March 31, 2009 Workshop Chairs: ---------------- 1. Dr B. Prabhakaran Department of Computer Science University of Texas at Dallas MS EC 31, PO Box 830688 Richardson, TX 75083 Email: praba(a)utdallas.edu 2. Prof Klara Nahrstedt Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign 3104 Siebel Center, 201 North Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801 Email: klara(a)cs.uiuc.edu 3. Dr Roozbeh Jafari Department of Electrical Engineering University of Texas at Dallas MS EC 31, PO Box 830688 Richardson, TX 75083 Email: roozbeh(a)utdallas.edu ===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===--- Workshop on Internet Multimedia Search and Mining (IMSM'09) July 3, 2009 Paper Submission Due: Feb 15, 2009 Notification of Acceptance: March 15, 2009 Camera-Ready Paper Due: March 31, 2009 With the explosion of video and image data available on the Internet, online multimedia search becomes more and more important. Moreover, mining semantics and other useful information from large-scale Internet multimedia data to facilitate online and local multimedia content analysis, search, and other related applications has also gained more and more attention from both academia and industry. On the one hand, the rapid increase of online multimedia data brings us new challenges to multimedia content analysis and multimedia retrieval especially in terms of scalability. Both computational costs and accuracy are still far from satisfactory. While on the other hand, Internet also provides us new opportunities to attack these challenges as well as conventional problems in media analysis and computer vision. That is, the massive associated metadata available on the Internet, as well as the massive grassroots Internet users, are valuable resources that can be leveraged to solve the aforementioned difficulties. Recently, more and more researchers are realizing both the challenges and the opportunities for multimedia research brought by the Internet. This workshop aims at bringing together high-quality and novel research works on “Internet Multimedia”, or more specifically, Internet-based multimedia search as well as Internet-based multimedia mining. Topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to: 1. Internet video/image search ranking and reranking by combining textual description and video/image content. 2. General video/image search ranking and reranking by exploiting Internet data and/or users. 3. Internet video/image classification, annotation, and tagging. Approaches which can handle large-scale data are more preferred. 4. General video/image classification, annotation, and tagging by leveraging Internet data and/or users. 5. Internet video/image search result presentation and management, such as clustering, summarization, and browsing. 6. Video/image processing using Internet data as a knowledge base. 7. Tag recommendation, filtering, and ranking based on image/video social tagging. 8. CBIR for large-scale datasets (i.e., high-dimensional feature indexing). 9. Query suggestion for video/image search based on both text and image/video data. 10. Knowledge mining from Internet multimedia data, such as mining semantic distance of keywords or images, and mining video/image copy relationships (e.g., given a video/image, to find all videos/images on the Internet that have the same content with the video/image, either entirely or partially). Submissions for this workshop are required to use the same format as regular ICME papers. All submitted papers will go through a peer review process. Extended version of selected papers will be invited to submit to a special issue of a top journal in multimedia area (pending). Workshop Chair Xian-Sheng Hua (Microsoft Research Asia, China) Marcel Worring (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Program Committee Tat-Seng Chua (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Winston Hsu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Lyndon Kennedy (Columbia University, USA) Zhu Li (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China) Tao Mei (Microsoft Research Asia, China) Vanessa Murdock (Yahoo! Research, Spain) Chong-Wah Ngo (City University of Hong Kong, China) Cees Snoek (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Bo Tao (Google China, China) Dacheng Tao (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Adrian Ulges (DFKI, Germany) Rong Yan (IBM TJ WatsonResearch Center, USA) Lei Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia, China) More information please visit: http://research.microsoft.com/~xshua/imsm ===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===--- Call for Poster Papers Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing and Novel Parallel Computing at 2009 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo July 1, 2009 (second day of the ICME conference), Cancun, Mexico http://www.icme09.org/workshops.html The goal of this workshop is to give the attendees (1) an overview and trend of the emerging MMSP applications and (2) a deep-dive into the interaction between multimedia application and novel parallel architecture. In particular, the increasing architectural complexity and application sophistication make it essential to have an inter-disciplinary research between algorithms and hardware designs. The workshop is to bridge the gap between algorithms and architecture designs for the development of future computer and multimedia systems. In particular, multi-core processors are now prevalent everywhere from desktops and graphics processors to laptops and embedded systems. Technology predictions indicate that this trend will continue and that there will be increasing numbers of cores (homogenous or heterogeneous) in future systems. It is clear that multimedia systems of tomorrow will be (and must be) implemented on platforms with multiple cores. While the challenges of designing multi-core systems in hardware are many, writing efficient parallel applications that utilize the computing capability of many processing cores may reveal to be even more challenging. Existing serial algorithms will need to be redesigned -- the best sequential algorithm is not necessarily the best parallel algorithm. Signal processing algorithm designers must understand the nuances of a multi-core computing engine. Only then can the tremendous computing power that such platforms provide be harnessed efficiently. We are organizing a poster session in the workshop. We would like to attract both tutorial-like and non-tutorial, research-oriented poster papers on (1) novel multimedia applications that can be enabled by platform with multiple cores, and (2) design examples of multimedia signal processing on platforms with multiple cores that demonstrate the techniques or algorithm changes for efficient implementations. *****Submission Procedure***** Prospective authors should submit 2-page white papers to the workshop chairs according to the following timetable. The white paper should summarize the key takeaway messages (“What can the attendee learn from the poster?”), the motivation (“Why should a attendee care the poster?”), the significance of the topic (“Why is this topic important?”), a brief history (“What are the related work and authors’ prior publications in this topic?”), and the outline of the content (“What do you plan to explain the poster?”). The authors should properly answer all the questions above so that the white paper can be reviewed efficiently. After answering the above questions, the authors can selectively describe some details within the rest of page limit. The white paper should be no more than 2 pages in the IEEE single-space double-column format. Please note that a special issue on “Signal Processing on Platforms with Multiple Cores” that focuses on design and applications is planned for IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (http://apollo.ee.columbia.edu/spm/?i=cfp/Mar10). Prospective authors are encouraged to submit the tutorial-like whitepapers to both the workshop and the Magazine. *****Schedule***** 2-page summary due: Mach 1, 2009 Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2009 Camera-ready paper due: March 31, 2009 *****Workshop Chairs***** Li Deng, Microsoft, USA (deng(a)microsoft.com) Zhengyou Zhang, Microsoft, USA (zhang(a)microsoft.com) Yen-Kuang Chen, Intel Corporation, USA (yen-kuang.chen(a)intel.com) *****ICME and Workshop Keynote Speaker (Invitation Pending)***** Wen-mei W. Hwu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA: Parallelization of Video Processing *****Confirmed Workshop Speakers***** * Li Deng, Microsoft, USA: Speech Signal Processing * Ling Guan, Ryerson University, Canada: Multimodal Media Fusion and 3D Data Analysis and Visualization * Fernando Pereira, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal: Distributed Video Coding * Stefano Tubaro, Politecnico di Milano, Italy: Image and Video Analysis for the Geometric and Radiometric Modeling of 3D Scenes * Zhengyou Zhang, Microsoft, USA: Multimodal Collaboration and Human-Computer Interaction

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[Tccc] CFP: WiNMee 2009 Workshop on Wireless Network Measurements
by Anmol Sheth 03 Feb '09

03 Feb '09

Apologies if you receive multiples copies of this CFP. CALL FOR PAPERS ============================= The 5th International workshop on Wireless Network Measurements http://cmclab.rice.edu/~winmee/ June 26th 2009, Seoul, Korea Important Dates: ================ Papers Due: March 1st, 2009 Notification: April 1st, 2009 Camera Ready: May 1st, 2009 Workshop: June 26th, 2009 Overview: ========= In recent years we have witnessed a rapid adoption of local and wide area wireless technologies like ZigBee, 802.11n, WiMAX and 3G which is making the edge of the Internet increasingly wireless. To better understand the nature of the edge, it is important to evaluate these technologies in an operational environment via empirical measurements. While analytic simulation-based approaches are useful, they are often limited by the simplistic modeling of the wireless protocols and the error-prone wireless channel. In this workshop we would like to solicit short 6-page papers that advance the understanding of operational wireless networks through measurements in testbeds or the field. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: =================================================== * operational experience of the performance of wireless networks * challenges with wireless measurements * experimental (in) validation of assumptions in a wireless environment * metrics required in a wireless network for performance evaluation or wireless network troubleshooting * experience from building/designing wireless networks * descriptions of tools for building and/or managing wireless testbeds * techniques for scaling testbed * techniques for improving the repeatability of tests * techniques for validating the results obtained in the wireless testbed * methods for simplifying experiment setup and reconfiguration * methods to study mobility patterns Paper submission guidelines: ============================ Paper submissions will be handled electronically via EasyChair. Authors should prepare a PDF or a PostScript version of their full paper. Papers must be no longer than 6 double-column pages, font size not smaller than 11 points, using the standard IEEE format. Link to EasyChair: ================== https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?ccc=sAUQbm20MmGQ932mgxRb;iid=11541 Organization Committee: ======================= Workshop Chairs: Ashu Sabharwal (Rice University) Anmol Sheth (Intel Research) Technical Program Committee: =========================== Kevin Almeroth (UCSB, USA) Ranveer Chandra (Microsoft Research, USA) Romit Roy Choudhury (Duke University, USA) Sayantan Choudhury (Sharp Labs of America) Marco Gruteser (Rutgers University, USA) Ramakrishna Gummadi (MIT, USA) Martin Haenggi (University of Notre Dame, USA) Sassan Iraji (Nokia) Kyle Jamieson (University College London, UK) Ahmad Khoshnevis(IRCOMM, USA) Ravi Kokku (NEC Labs Princeton, USA) Thanasis Korakis (Polytechnic Institute of New York University, USA) Ratul Mahajan(Microsoft Research, USA) Amin Mobasher (Research in Motion) Vishnu Navda (Microsoft Research, India) Kave Salamatian (LIP6, France) Karim Seada (Nokia Research Center, USA) Aruna Seneviratne (National ICT, Australia) Salonidis Theodoros (Thomson, France) _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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IEEE GLOBECOM 09: Call for Papers
by Meetings＠comsocconferences.org 02 Feb '09

02 Feb '09

.279.0.11250"> .279.0.11251">IEEE GLOBECOM 2009 Call for Papers IEEE GLOBECOM -- the premier telecommunications events -- covers the entire range of communications technologies, offering in-depth information on the latest developments in voice, data, image and multimedia. IEEE GLOBECOM will feature 11 Technical Symposia, Tutorials, Workshops, a Design & Developers Forum and the Communications EXPO, including various Business, Technology and Industry fora, and vendor exhibits. We invite you to submit papers for IEEE GLOBECOM's acclaimed .279.0.11252">Technical Program in the following areas of communications: .279.0.11253">- Ad Hoc, Sensor & Mesh Networking  .279.0.11254">- Next Generation Networking & Internet .279.0.11255">- Information System Security .279.0.11256"> - Optical Networks & Systems .279.0.11257">- Communication Theory .279.0.11258"> - Signal Processing .279.0.11259">- QoS, Reliability & Performance Modeling .279.0.11260"> - Wireless Communications .279.0.11261">- Communications Software & Services .279.0.11262"> - Wireless Networking - Selected Areas: .279.0.11263">Cognitive Radio Networks, .279.0.11264">Access Systems & Networks, .279.0.11265">  Consumer Networks, .279.0.11266">Data Storage and .279.0.11267">Satellite & Space Communications .279.0.11268">Submissions are also welcomed for Tutorials and Workshops. .279.0.11269">Tutorials: Proposals are invited for half- or full-day tutorials on conference topics. .279.0.11270">Workshops: Proposals are invited for half- or full-day workshops on conference topics. For a list of topics, proposal guidelines and submission instructions, .279.0.11271">click here Call for Papers and Proposals.279.0.11272">SUBMIT NOW >> PAPER SUBMISSIONMarch 15, 2009TUTORIAL PROPOSALMarch 15, 2009WORKSHOP PROPOSALMarch 15, 2009ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATIONJuly 1, 2009CAMERA-READY PAPERSAugust 14, 2009 IEEE GLOBECOM Â© 2009&email_id=%23%25%29GF%0A width=1 height=1>

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CFP: Special Session on "Advances and Future Directions in WiMAX Networks" in MOBILIGHT 2009
by Periklis Chatzimisios 02 Feb '09

02 Feb '09

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) C A L L F O R P A P E R S ============================= Special Session on "Advances and Future Directions in WiMAX Networks" organized in conjunction with The 1st International Conference on Mobile Lightweight Wireless Systems (MOBILIGHT 2009) 18-20 May 2009, Athens, Greece http://www.mobilight.org/ Important Dates: ================ Full Paper submission due: February 25, 2009 Notification of acceptance by: March 9, 2009 Camera ready paper due: March 16, 2009 Scope: ====== In the fast-changing and promising field of wireless communications, researchers and industry try to come up with new technologies that satisfy the ongoing demand for faster data rates with longer transmission ranges. WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) is an emerging wireless communication system that can provide broadband access with large-scale coverage. This technology can be used as "last mile" or "first mile" broadband access to deliver various services to clients. Concurrently, WiMAX¢s attributes and properties open the technology to a wide variety of multimedia and high bandwidth-demanded applications. Thus, Quality of Service (QoS) is a crucial issue for multi-hop WiMAX networks. The Special Session will try to connect the broadband access communications industry, operators, producers, researches and academia to present novel ideas, protocols, algorithms, frameworks, advances and schemes in order to cover the uprising fields of future wireless communication. Topics: =================== Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - WiMAX Communication Standards, Services and Applications - Multimedia QoS and Traffic Management in WiMAX - Voice and Voice over IP in WiMAX Networks - Performance Analysis of WiMAX - Simulation Software, Models and Testbeds for WiMAX - Routing in WiMAX - MAC/PHY layer techniques - Radio Resource Management, Admission Control and Scheduling - Wireless Optical Broadband Access Networks based on WiMAX - User and Network Security in WiMAX - Interoperability aspects (fixed/mobile LANs/MANs, 3G/4G, WANs) - Mobile WiMAX and applications Paper submission: ================= All submitted papers should describe original, previously unpublished work and will be subject to a rigorous peer-review. Accepted papers will be published by Springer in the MOBILIGHT Conference Proceedings and made available online through the Lecture Notes of ICST (LNICST). Please visit http://www.mobilight.org/ for submission guidelines. The Best Paper of this Special Session will be invited to a Special Issue about WiMAX in prestigious International Journal. Special Session organizers: =========================== Panagiotis Sarigiannidis, University of Western Macedonia, Greece Periklis Chatzimisios, University of Macedonia, Greece

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CFP: Special Session on "Advances and Future Directions in WiMAX Networks" in MOBILIGHT 2009
by Periklis Chatzimisios 02 Feb '09

02 Feb '09

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) C A L L F O R P A P E R S ============================= Special Session on "Advances and Future Directions in WiMAX Networks" organized in conjunction with The 1st International Conference on Mobile Lightweight Wireless Systems (MOBILIGHT 2009) 18-20 May 2009, Athens, Greece http://www.mobilight.org/ Important Dates: ================ Full Paper submission due: February 25, 2009 Notification of acceptance by: March 9, 2009 Camera ready paper due: March 16, 2009 Scope: ====== In the fast-changing and promising field of wireless communications, researchers and industry try to come up with new technologies that satisfy the ongoing demand for faster data rates with longer transmission ranges. WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) is an emerging wireless communication system that can provide broadband access with large-scale coverage. This technology can be used as "last mile" or "first mile" broadband access to deliver various services to clients. Concurrently, WiMAX¢s attributes and properties open the technology to a wide variety of multimedia and high bandwidth-demanded applications. Thus, Quality of Service (QoS) is a crucial issue for multi-hop WiMAX networks. The Special Session will try to connect the broadband access communications industry, operators, producers, researches and academia to present novel ideas, protocols, algorithms, frameworks, advances and schemes in order to cover the uprising fields of future wireless communication. Topics: =================== Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - WiMAX Communication Standards, Services and Applications - Multimedia QoS and Traffic Management in WiMAX - Voice and Voice over IP in WiMAX Networks - Performance Analysis of WiMAX - Simulation Software, Models and Testbeds for WiMAX - Routing in WiMAX - MAC/PHY layer techniques - Radio Resource Management, Admission Control and Scheduling - Wireless Optical Broadband Access Networks based on WiMAX - User and Network Security in WiMAX - Interoperability aspects (fixed/mobile LANs/MANs, 3G/4G, WANs) - Mobile WiMAX and applications Paper submission: ================= All submitted papers should describe original, previously unpublished work and will be subject to a rigorous peer-review. Accepted papers will be published by Springer in the MOBILIGHT Conference Proceedings and made available online through the Lecture Notes of ICST (LNICST). Please visit http://www.mobilight.org/ for submission guidelines. The Best Paper of this Special Session will be invited to a Special Issue about WiMAX in prestigious International Journal. Special Session organizers: =========================== Panagiotis Sarigiannidis, University of Western Macedonia, Greece Periklis Chatzimisios, University of Macedonia, Greece

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