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[Fwd: IEEE CCNC 2010 Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 26 May '09

26 May '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: IEEE CCNC 2010 Call for Papers Datum: Tue, 26 May 2009 11:47:56 -0400 Von: ComSoc Conferences <Meetings(a)comsocconferences.org> Antwort an: <meetings(a)comsocconferences.org> An: <wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> CCNC10 <http://ieee.xert.net/d.cfm?m=90204.712.0.20196> Â IEEE CCNC 2010 Call for Papers <http://ieee.xert.net/d.cfm?m=90204.712.0.20197> *IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference <http://ieee.xert.net/d.cfm?m=90204.712.0.20198>* - the 7th annual international conference - will present the latest developments and technical solutions in the areas of home networking, consumer networking, enabling technologies, and novel applications and services. *â¢ Technical Program <http://ieee.xert.net/d.cfm?m=90204.712.0.20199>* features presentations in all areas of consumer communications and networking, including â¢ Wireless Home Communication and Networking â¢ Smart Spaces and Personal Area Networks for CE â¢ Multimedia Communication and Services â¢ Content Distribution and Peer-to-Peer Networks â¢ Security and Content Protection for CE â¢ Pervasive and Ambient Applications * Technical paper submissions due June 15, 2009. * *â¢ Tutorials <http://ieee.xert.net/d.cfm?m=90204.712.0.20200>* complement research reports of the technical sessions by providing participants with broad and comprehensive overviews of emerging fields. Proposal submissions due September 1, 2009. *â¢ Demonstrations <http://ieee.xert.net/d.cfm?m=90204.712.0.20201>* provide an exciting forum of researchers, developers, and entrepreneurs to present and discuss new applications and techniques, research demonstrations, recent research/implementation results, upcoming research challenges, practical implementations, commercial developments, and future directions. *Proposal submissions due September 1, 2009.* *â¢ Special Sessions <http://ieee.xert.net/d.cfm?m=90204.712.0.20202>* complement the regular technical program with emerging topics of interest in consumer communications and networking. Featured sessions include Beyond GPS, Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks, IPTV, and P2P Overlay. *Proposal submissions due June 1, 2009. Paper submissions due July 30, 2009. * *â¢ Short Papers <http://ieee.xert.net/d.cfm?m=90204.712.0.20203>* are related to any of the conference technical topics that summarize speculative breakthroughs, work-in-progress, industry featured projects, open problems, new application challenges, visionary ideas, and preliminary studies or recent achievements that are not quite for a regular full-length paper. *Paper submissions due September 1, 2009. * *â¢ Industry Technical Panels <http://ieee.xert.net/d.cfm?m=90204.712.0.20204>*include, but are not limited to 4G Networking and beyond; Body Area Networking; Mobile Multimodal Sensing and Context; Contextual Media; Automotive Multimedia; Peer-to-Peer Content Distribution and Business Models (including copyright issues); Novel Consumer Applications and Services; Home Networking; (Wireless) Power Line Communications; Next Generation IPTV; Social Media, User-Generated Content and Networks; (Personal) Broadcasting and Streaming; Conversational Multimedia; Transport Protocols for Real-Time Media; Multiplayer Networked Games; Networking and Transport of High Definition, Scalable and 3D+ Multimedia Streams; Distributed/Network Coding; Green Computing and Networking; Standardization and Regulation Issues. *Paper submissions due September 17, 2009. * For a list of potential topics and submission requirements, *click here* <http://ieee.xert.net/d.cfm?m=90204.712.0.20205>. To unsubscribe from this list, please *click here* <http://ieee.xert.net/act_optout.cfm?cid=90204&email_id=%23%249%5FM%0A>. Â

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[Fwd: [Mycolleagues] Wireless for The Future Internet - Computer Metworks Journal]
by Lars Wolf 26 May '09

26 May '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Mycolleagues] Wireless for The Future Internet - Computer Metworks Journal Datum: Fri, 22 May 2009 12:59:00 +0200 Von: Luciano Lenzini <l.lenzini(a)iet.unipi.it> Antwort an: l.lenzini(a)iet.unipi.it Organisation: DII An: <mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br> [we apologize if multiple copies are received] CALL FOR PAPERS COMPUTER NETWORKS JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE ON WIRELESS FOR THE FUTURE INTERNET The Internet has grown from being a network linking universities and research institutions to an infrastructure that supports the economy and society in general. But the Internet, as originally designed, may not have the capabilities to support the sheer number of new usage patterns and requirements. Around one billion people currently use the Internet and they will soon be joined by several billion mobile online devices. There will also be a shift from developed to developing countries. A fully pervasive anytime/anywhere and secure wireless Internet infrastructure will support and drive this trend. Therefore, the so called Future Internet (FI) needs to be able to match this growing demand and this will entail more than merely patching or upgrading the underlying network and service infrastructure. A profound change is required, leading to a range of technical, financial, society and governance challenges. There appears to be a common understanding that the FI will be at the heart of the future networked society. However, there is no agreed definition as to what a FI should cover in terms of research and non research topics. As well as being an Internet of Networks, FI is perceived of as being an Internet of Services and an Internet of Things that will integrate common objects into our lives. It is also regarding as being an Internet of Contents & Knowledge and an Internet of People. Developing the FI involves huge challenges regarding usability, reliability, mobility, scalability, interoperability, user acceptability, and trust and confidence. In addition, Internet governance, intellectual property, and education i.e. non-technical aspects - also need to be addressed. Early research work on FI focussed above all on networking issues, and on the need to support a range of innovative applications with enhanced management capabilities and a great capacity to deal with increased security issues. Alongside this, the FI is being driven by a vast set of new application requirements. This means that the FI should be approached in a holistic manner, beyond simply a "network" perspective. This special issue aims to intercept the strategies and trends related to the wireless segment of the development of the FI and to present new ideas and concepts in this area. These trends have a significant impact on the underlying network and service technologies and consequently drive research and technology requirements towards a Future Internet, hence continuing to shape future actions at a world level in a domain that has now become global. Original papers are called for on advanced research topics including, but not restricted to: - Delay Tolerant and Opportunistic Networks - Wireless Enabled Context Awareness in Networks - Network Coding as an Alternative to TCP and as Part of Network Protocols or Crosslayer Design - Support for Cognitive Radio Technology - Neighborhood and Local Resource Discovery - Cross-Layer Protocol Support - Wireless Body Area Networks and Wireless Sensor Networks - Spontaneous Information Exchange Among Mobile Devices - Infrastructure Free Communications and Self-organization - Greening of the Wireless Access - Wireless Based P2P Networks - Socio-economic and Legal Aspects of Wireless Based Services - Wireless of Future Internet Experimental Test-beds Note that the above topics should be developed in terms of a Future Internet perspective and not as isolated topics. Authors should follow the Computer Networks (Elsevier) manuscript format described at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/comnet. IMPORTANT DATES To speed up the review process, authors are requested to submit a one-page abstract which should clearly identify the key contribution of the work that will be presented in the full paper. The abstract should succinctly describe the particular problem being addressed, and how it will impact on the Future Internet. The Guest Editors will select the most interesting and thought-provoking papers. Abstract Submission Deadline: 1 July, 2009 Abstract Acceptance Notification: 10 July, 2009 Submission Deadline for the full paper: 15 September, 2009 Notification of Acceptance: 30 November, 2009 Submission of Revised Version: 30 January, 2010 Publication of the Special Issue: Second Half 2010 The one page abstract, in pdf format, should be sent as attachment in a message addressed to wffi(a)iet.unipi.it. GUEST EDITORS Eitan Altman INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France e-mail: Eitan.Altman(a)sophia.inria.fr Sajal Das Department of Computer Science and Engineering University Texas at Arlington P.O. Box 19015 Arlington, TX 76019, USA e-mail: das(a)cse.uta.edu Luciano Lenzini Department of Information Engineering University of Pisa 56126 Pisa, Italy e-mail: l.lenzini(a)iet.unipi.it Adam Wolisz Technische Universität Berlin, Dept. of Electrical Engineering Telecommunication Networks Sekr. FT-5, Einsteinufer 25, 10587 Berlin, Germany e-mail: aw(a)ieee.org _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Call for Papers: LOCAN 2009 (Submission Deadline May 29, 2009)]
by Lars Wolf 25 May '09

25 May '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Call for Papers: LOCAN 2009 (Submission Deadline May 29, 2009) Datum: Mon, 25 May 2009 10:08:14 +0200 Von: Hannes Frey <hannes.frey(a)uni-paderborn.de> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive duplicates of this posting. Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *********************************************************************** * CALL FOR PAPERS * * * * LOCAN 2009 * * * * The 5th International Workshop on Localized Communication * * and Topology Protocols for Ad hoc Networks * * http://libra.inf.um.es/~pedrom/locan2009 * * * * In conjunction with the 6th IEEE International Conference on * * Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Systems, MASS 2009 * * http://www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/mass09 * * Macau SAR, P.R.C., October 5 - 9, 2009 * * * * Paper submission deadline: May 29, 2009 * *********************************************************************** Subject and Purpose of the Workshop ----------------------------------- This workshop covers comprehensively the algorithmic issues in the hot area of ad hoc and sensor networking. In particular, sensor networks are currently recognized as one of the priority research areas and research activities are booming recently. The workshop scope includes network layer problems like data communication (routing, QoS-routing, geocasting, multicasting, broadcasting, etc.) and topology control (neighbor discovery, power adjustment, neighbor elimination, etc.). The main paradigm shift is to apply localized (or greedy) schemes as opposed to existing protocols requiring global information. Localized algorithms are distributed algorithms where simple local node behavior achieves a desired global objective. Localized protocols provide scalable solutions, that is, solutions for wireless networks with an arbitrary number of nodes, which is the main goal of this plan. Sensor and rooftop/mesh networks, for instance, have hundreds or thousands of nodes. The objective of the workshop is to present state of the art research results on data communication and topology control in rapidly growing area of ad hoc and sensor networks, with emphasizes on localized techniques Topics of Interest ------------------ We are seeking papers that describe original and unpublished contributions addressing various aspects of ad hoc networking. Possible topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Medium access control for ad hoc networks * Analytical, mobility and validation models for ad hoc networks * Hybrid networks and wireless Internet * Security in ad hoc networks * Data management, query processing, and data delivery in sensor networks * Unicast routing, multicasting, and broadcasting in ad hoc networks * Geocasting and anycasting in ad hoc networks * Energy-efficient and bandwidth-efficient protocols for ad hoc networks * Quality of service in medium access control and routing * Topology construction and maintenance in ad hoc networks * Neighborhood discovery and mobility management in ad hoc networks * Localized protocols for duty-cycled sensor networks * Auto-configuration and network formation protocols and algorithms * Relative positioning algorithms * Lower bounds on information exchange required for localized solutions * Network graph properties supporting localized protocols * Worst and average case analysis on the deviation from optimal solutions Submissions ----------- Papers must not exceed 6 single-spaced and two-column pages using at least 10 point size type on 8.5 x 11 inches pages. See style files, author guidelines and instructions at the conference website. Accepted papers will be included in the MASS main proceedings and will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. At least one author of each accepted paper must be registered for the conference in order for that paper to appear in the proceedings and to be scheduled for presentation. Authors are requested to submit their papers (PDF format) through EDAS: "http://edas.info/7623". For submission-related questions, please contact "pedrom [at] dif.um.es". Important Dates --------------- Paper deadline: May 29, 2009 Acceptance notification: Jun 22, 2009 Camera ready: Jul 24, 2009 General Co-Chairs ----------------- David Symplot-Ryl, Univ. Lille 1, INRIA Futurs, France Ivan Stojmenovic, EECE, Univ. of Birmingham, UK and SITE, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada Program Co-Chairs ----------------- Pedro M. Ruiz, University of Murcia, Spain Hannes Frey, University of Paderborn, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Hannes Frey | E-mail: hannes.frey at uni-paderborn.de University of Paderborn | Phone: +49 5251 60-5380 Pohlweg 47-49 | Fax: +49 5251 60-5377 33098 Paderborn | WWW: www.upb.de/cs/cn ------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP - IEEE Multimedia - Extended Deadline, June 15th]
by Lars Wolf 25 May '09

25 May '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP - IEEE Multimedia - Extended Deadline, June 15th Datum: Mon, 25 May 2009 08:32:32 +0200 Von: Dan Johansson <dan.johansson(a)ltu.se> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> CALL FOR PAPERS - IEEE Multimedia - Extended Deadline, June 15th 2009 We seek papers discussing novel and futureoriented research that focuses on the architectures, protocols, and algorithms developed to cope with mobility. We also seek papers on case studies, field trials, and evaluations of new applications and services; research in novel mobile user interfaces; and research in design and use of intelligent, aware, proactive, and attentive environments. Further, we invite papers presenting research on middleware and distributed-computing support for mobile and ubiquitous multimedia; mobile computer graphics, games, and entertainment; and mobile and ubiquitous multimedia in intelligent transport systems. Finally, we invite papers that discuss research on novel adaptive, context-aware, and wireless multimedia applications and systems, along with papers that cover mobile media management and mobile and ubiquitous multimedia in ad hoc networks. Submit your paper at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cs-ieee. When uploading your paper, please select the appropriate special issue title under the category "Manuscript Type". If you have any questions regarding the submission system, please contact Kristen Jarboe at mmma(a)computer.org. All submissions will undergo a blind peer review by at least two expert reviewers to ensure a high standard of quality. Referees will consider originality, significance, technical soundness, clarity of exposition, and relevance to the special issue topics. To submit a paper to the April-June 2010 special issue, please observe the following deadlines: - 15 June 2009: Full paper, which must be submitted using our online manuscript submission service and prepared according to the instructions for authors (please see the Author Resources page at http://www.computer.org/multimedia/author.htm). - 15 September 2009: Authors notified of acceptance, rejection, or needed revisions. - 15 October 2009: Revisions due. - 15 November 2009: Notification of final acceptance - 15 December 2009: Final versions due. For more info, please see the attached PDF document. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [MM-INTEREST] CFP - CoNEXT 2009]
by Lars Wolf 25 May '09

25 May '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [MM-INTEREST] CFP - CoNEXT 2009 Datum: Sun, 24 May 2009 23:10:53 +0200 Von: Giuseppe Bianchi <giuseppe.bianchi(a)UNIROMA2.IT> Antwort an: Giuseppe Bianchi <giuseppe.bianchi(a)UNIROMA2.IT> An: MM-INTEREST(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ******************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS CoNEXT 2009 The 5th ACM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies http://conferences.sigcomm.org/co-next/2009/ Rome, Italy, December 1-4, 2009 Sponsored by ACM SIGCOMM ******* Registration Deadline --- June 12, 2009 ******* ******* Submission Deadline --- June 19, 2009 ******* The 5th ACM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (ACM CoNEXT), to be held in Roma, will continue his approach to foster scientific and technological exchanges between various international research communities in Networking. The main conference will be preceded by a one-day workshop, and will be a major forum for presentations and discussions of novel networking technologies that will shape the future of Internetworking. To improve interaction among participants, the conference is single-track. It will feature a high-quality technical program with significant opportunities for individual and small-group cooperation, from both technical and social viewpoints. ACM CoNEXT aims to encourage open discussions on technology alternatives and to be a forum accommodating multiple viewpoints, and is committed to a fair, timely, and thorough review process providing authors of submitted papers with sound and detailed feedback. ACM CoNEXT 2009 welcomes submissions based on implementation and experimentation, as well as simulation and analytical approaches. We solicit papers on emerging networking experiments, measurements, paradigms, with particular emphasis on creative, out-of-the-box thinking. Papers reporting on the deployment and performance of services or exploring network functionality aimed at better supporting new services are also appreciated. Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to the following: - Internet measurement and modeling - Wireless networks - Mobile and cellular networks - Ad hoc and sensors networks - Economic aspects of the Internet - Network security issues - Data center networks - Peer-to-peer and overlay networks - Routing and traffic engineering - Delay and disruption tolerant networks - New networking protocols and architectures Submissions must be original, unpublished work, and not under consideration at another conference or journal. Conformance to the 12 pages, 10pts ACM SIGCOMM format will be strictly enforced. Electronic proceedings will be published by ACM, and the best papers forwarded to the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking for possible fast-track publication. Travel grants will be available to support student attendance at the conference. Important dates - Conference Paper Title and Abstract submission June 12, 2009 - Conference Paper Paper submission June 19, 2009 - Notification of Conference Paper Acceptance September 4, 2009 - Conference December 1-4, 2009 Organization committee - Conference Chairs * Jörg Liebeherr University of Toronto * Giorgio Ventre University of Napoli - TPC Chairs * Ernst Biersack EURECOM * S. Keshav University of Waterloo - Steering Committee * Arturo Azcorra Univ. Carlos III and IMDEA Net. * Kenjiro Cho IIJ Research Labs * Serge Fdida University Pierre and Marie Curie * Roch Guérin University of Pennsylvania * Jim Kurose University of Massachusetts * Laurent Mathy Lancaster University Program Committee Members - Sharad Agarwal Microsoft Research, USA - Jussara Almeida Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil - Kevin Almeroth University of California, Santa Barbara, USA - Jorn Altmann Seoul National University, South Korea - Giuseppe Bianchi University of Rome Tor Vergata - Torsten Braun University of Bern - Andrew Campell Dartmouth College, USA - Matthew Cesar University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,USA - Augustin Chaintreau Thomson, France - Jon Crowcroft University of Cambridge, UK - Andrzej Duda Grenoble INP - Nick Feamster Georgia Tech, USA - Lixin Gao University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA - Paolo Giaccone Politecnico di Torino - Albert Greenberg Microsoft Research, USA - Krishna Gummadi MPI-SWS, Germany - Urs Hengartner University of Waterloo, Canada - Charlie Hu Purdue University, USA - Holger Karl University Paderborn, Germany - Martin Karsten University of Waterloo, Canada - Boon Loo University of Pennsylvania - Ibrahim Matta Boston University, USA - Katia Obraczka University of California, Santa Cruz, USA - Max Ott NICTA, Australia - Venkata N. Padmanabhan Microsoft Research, India - K.K. Ramakrishnan AT&T Labs, USA - Bhaskaran Raman Indian Institute of Technology, India - Sanjay G. Rao Purdue University, USA - Narasimha Reddy Texas A&M University, USA - Luigi Rizzo Universita' di Pisa - Pablo Rodriguez Telefonica Research, Spain - Dan Rubenstein Columbia University, USA - Angelos Stavrou George Mason University, USA - Renata Teixeira UPMC, France - Kobus van der Merwe AT&T Labs, USA - Joerg Widmer DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany - Yin Zhang University of Texas at Austin, USA - Zhi-Li Zhang University of Minnesota, USA - Yongguang Zhang Microsoft Research, China

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[InternetTC] 2nd CFP: IEEE Network Special Issue on Improving Quality of Experience for Network Services
by Jahan Hassan 25 May '09

25 May '09

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP) CALL FOR PAPERS: IEEE Network Special Issue on Improving Quality of Experience for Network Services Manuscript Submission Deadline: 31 July 2009. CFP in PDF: http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/ni/info/cfp/CFP_SI_v4.pdf In pursuit of new revenue opportunities and to improve competitiveness, network service providers are offering new value- added network services, such as VoIP, video on demand, IPTV, and so on. With the increased competition, improving the quality of the offered services as perceived by the users, commonly referred to as the quality of experience (QoE), becomes very important to providers in order to reduce customer churn and maintain and increase their competitive edge. There are many issues that may impact users perception in many different ways. For example, government regulation on viewing IPTV may impact QoE in a way that may be difficult to measure with traditional tools and techniques. Similarly, the pricing strategy selected will likely to impact the QoE irrespective of the technical performance of the underlying network. Developing tools and techniques for accurately measuring, monitoring, and improving QoE in complex end-to-end networking infrastructure has become the focus of many industry R&D initiatives. QoE standardization is actively pursued by International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and industry consortia. At the same time, despite the considerable foundational progress already made, engineering QoE for existing and future network- based services remains a challenging research topic, hence, attracting significant interest from academia as well. This timely special issue will bring together researchers from industry, academia and standard bodies to present and analyze this challenging and important area of improving QoE for existing and future network services. We are soliciting original research and survey articles written in a tutorial style comprehensible to all readers of the magazine regardless of their speciality. Submissions will go through an open call-for- papers and will undergo rigorous peer review process. Topics of interest include, but not limited to: * QoE measuring, monitoring and performance improvement strategies for network services (e.g., IPTV, VoIP, VoD, Internet) * Modeling of user satisfaction and tolerance to quality degradation * Test-bed studies of QoE for networked applications * Impact of user mobility on QoE * Impact of radio and network resource utilization and management on QoE * Impact of billing and pricing on QoE * Impact of regulatory issues on QoE * Measurement and optimization of end-to-end QoE Prospective authors must prepare their original submissions in accordance with the IEEE Network guidelines to authors, see http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/ni/info/authors.html . Authors should submit their single column, double-spaced manuscript electronically in PDF format by email to the corresponding guest editor (with cc to all the other guest editors) according to the following timetable (authors are encouraged to notify at least 15 days before deadline, their intention to submit a paper indicating title, authors and keywords): * Paper Submission Deadline: 31 July 2009 * Acceptance notification to authors: 01 November 2009 * Final Manuscripts due: 01 January 2010 * Publication of Special Issue: First half of 2010 Guest Editors: Dr. Jahan A. Hassan (Corresponding Editor), University of New South Wales, Australia, E-mail: jahan(a)cse.unsw.edu.au Prof. Sajal K. Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA, E-mail: das(a)cse.uta.edu Prof. Mahbub Hassan, University of New South Wales, Australia, E- mail: mahbub(a)cse.unsw.edu.au Dr. Chatschik Bisdikian, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA, E- mail: bisdik(a)us.ibm.com Dr. David Soldani, Huawei Technologies Co.,Ltd., Germany, E-mail: david.soldani(a)huawei.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Jahan A. Hassan Senior Research Associate School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia. Tel: +61-2-9385 6922, Fax: +61-2-9385 5995 Email: jahan(a)cse.unsw.edu.au

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[InternetTC] CFP - Healthcom2009
by Carlos Becker Westphall 25 May '09

25 May '09

The 11th International Conference on eHealth Conference on eHealth Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom2009) will be held in Sydney, Australia from Dec 16-18th. The papers submission deadline is June 12, 2009. Pl see the web site (www.healthcom2009.org<http://www.healthcom2009.org/>) for more details. The objective of the International Conference on e-Health Networking, Application and Services (Healthcom2009) is to bring together interested parties around the world in the health care field from academia, research, government and industry to exchange ideas, report learning, and discuss innovation and emerging solutions addressing challenges in e-Health. Participants include clinicians, hospital administrators, IT professionals, researchers, educators, healthcare solutions vendors, and consultants. Healthcom2009 is also an important forum for e-Health topics in world bodies such as ITU, WHO and APEC, particularly Ubiquitous Healthcare Initiative for Ageing Societies. In addition to the technical papers to be selected by the Technical Program Committee, the program will include keynote speakers from different parts of the world on some of the burning topics in eHealth: * eHealth for Ageing * eHealth for Pandemics and Biosecurity * eHealth for Developing Countries * Global Developments in m-Health * Intelligent Knowledge Management for Healthcare The proceedings will be published in IEEE Xplore and EI indexed. As in the previous years, best papers from Healthcom2009 will be published in major international refereed journals such as ISI-listed Telemedicine and e-Health Journal, Journal of Healthcare Engineering, and Journal of e-Health Technology and Application. Healthcom2009 is technically co-sponsored by IEEE Communication Society, IEEE NSW Section, IFMBE and AIMBE. A/Prof Pradeep Ray Director, Asia-Pacific ubiquitous Healthcare research Centre (APuHC), School of Information Systems, Technology and Management, Australian School of Business (ASB) University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia Tel: +61 2 93855890 Fax: +61 2 96624061 Email: p.ray(a)unsw.edu.au, URL: www.apuhc.unsw.edu.au Home page: www.apuhc.org/pradeep

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[Tccc] CFP: Wireless Personal Communications Journal, Special issue on: Adaptive Communication in Wireless Networks
by Sudip Misra 24 May '09

24 May '09

CALL FOR PAPERS Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal (Springer) Special issue on: Adaptive Communication in Wireless Networks Wireless communication technologies are undergoing rapid advancements. The last few years have experienced a steep growth in research on wireless networks having attractive claims. Researchers are currently envisioning different attractive properties of wireless systems such as the ability to self-organize, self-configure, self-heal, self-manage and self-maintain. These systems are increasingly becoming dynamic and they are expected to perform many tasks autonomously by adapting to the dynamics of the networks. With the wide range of applications that need to be supported in these systems, there exists increasing expectations about what the current and the future generation networks can do. Many of these requirements are pivoted in the ability of the networks to adapt to the network dynamism. Adaptation to changing environments, in turn, often leads to increased performance of the networks. This Special Issue aims to publish high quality research papers relating to different aspects of adaptive communication in wireless networks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, all aspects of adaptive communication in: • Broadband wireless access networks • Wireless Internet • Software defined radio • Bluetooth technology • Ultra-wide band radio • Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks • Wireless Mesh Networks • IEEE 802.11/802.20/802.22 • Emerging wireless network security issues • Wireless telemedicine and e-health • Emerging issues in 3G and 4G wireless networks • Emerging wireless network architecture • Multimedia over emerging wireless networks • Underwater sensor Networks • Supplying power to the distributed wireless sensors • Cognitive Radio Systems • Cooperative wireless communications • Multi-hop relay wireless communications Good quality survey/tutorial-type articles (but NOT purely a literature review) are also of interest to this Special Issue. Guest Editors: Sudip Misra School of IT Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur – 721302, West Bengal India E-mail: smisra.editor(a)gmail.com Issa Traore Department of ECE University of Victoria Victoria, British Columbia Canada E-mail: itraore(a)ece.uvic.ca Wei Song Dept. of EE & CS University of California Berkeley, California USA E-mail: wsong(a)eecs.berkeley.edu Submission Details: Original, high quality contributions that are not yet published or that are not currently under review by other journals or peer-reviewed conferences are sought. Manuscripts should be submitted by e-mail to smisra.editor(a)gmail.com. Please mention “WPC Special Issue Submission” in the subject line of your e-mail. After sending your manuscript, if you do not get a confirmation of receipt of your submission within 2-3 business days, please resend your original e-mail again. A guide for authors for preparing their papers is available at http://www.springer.com/engineering/signals/journal/11277 Contributing authors might also be asked to review some of the papers submitted to this special issue. Important Dates: Manuscript Due: August 1, 2009. Acceptance Notification: December 1, 2009. Camera-Ready Final Manuscript Due: January 1, 2010. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] Meeting of the VDE/ITG-Professional group
by Christian Philipp 22 May '09

22 May '09

The professional group of ITG 5.2.4 "Mobility in IP-based networks" organizes in Klagenfurt on June 29th (open worshop) and 30th 2009, in cooperation with the Institute for Networked and Embedded Systems (NES) from Klagenfurt University and Lakeside Labs GmbH a one day workshop on the topic: Cooperation and Self-Organization in Communication Networks The workshop will take place at Lakeside Labs GmbH (Klagenfurt, Austria) on June 29th, 2009. We solicit - Technical overview presentations - Project presentations - Presentations of results of ongoing research - Visionary (possibly provocative) presentations Today’s communication networks are becoming more and more large in scale, which results in increased complexity for their engineering, operation, and maintenance. To this end, the concepts of cooperative communications and self-organizing systems have recently attracted considerable attention. In cooperative communications, different nodes in a network share resources to establish collaboration through distributed transmission/processing. They assist each other to improve overall network performance and achieve better utilization of space- time resources without the need for a centralized authority. Self-organizing systems represent a paradigm shift, where the global service of a system emerges from the local interactions of a large number of autonomous components that act based on simple rules. In comparison to traditional, often centralized architectures, self- organizing systems are often advantageous regarding robustness, scalability, and adaptability. The integration of self-organizing and cooperation concepts into communication networks promises new approaches to solve problems of network complexity, spontaneous communications, and scalability, to mention a few. The objective of this workshop is to create a forum to exchange ideas and share experiences in these fields among researchers, professionals, and application developers both from industry and academia. Topics of particular interest include but are not limited to: • Biologically-inspired and evolutionary approaches for communications and networking • Management and control of self-organizing networked systems • Theory of cooperation and self-organization • Cooperation and self-organizing at the user/social and application level • Cooperative relaying in wireless systems • Cross layer cooperation and optimization • Network coding, as a form of cooperative communications • Robustness, dependability, and security issues • Resource utilization and coverage extension via cooperation • Use cases for self-organization and standardization activites in 3GPP, NGMN or ETSI • Practical experiences, testbeds or prototypes Please inform the workshop organisers about your planned contribution by April 30th, 2009. The workshop places are limited and assigned on a first come first serve basis. Participants should register by email by June 14th, 2009. More details about the ITG/VDE meeting will be available soon via the webpage. For further questions, please do not hesitate to contact the workshop organisers: Helmut Adam (helmut.adam(a)uni-klu.ac.at) Christian Müller (Christian.Mueller(a)ikr.uni-stuttgart.de) Dirk Staehle (dstaehle(a)informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de) 30th Meeting of the VDE/ITG-Professional group 5.2.4 Mobility in IP- based Networks in Klagenfurt on June 29th/30th, 2009. Organization: Helmut Adam Moderation: Dr. Klaus-D. Kohrt For further questions, please do not hesitate to contact the workshop organisers: Helmut Adam Institute for Networked and Embedded Systems (NES) Klagenfurt University Christian Müller Institute of Communication Networks and Computer Engineering (IKR) Stuttgart University -- Mag. Christian Philipp scientific communication / public relation Lakeside Labs GmbH Lakeside B04b, 9020 Klagenfurt, Austria P: +43 (0) 463 287 044 22 M: +49 (0) 175 582 590 6 F: +43 (0) 463 287 04 410 E: philipp(a)lakeside-labs.com Geschäftsführung: Mag. Claudia Prüggler Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christian Bettstetter Amtsgericht Klagenfurt, FN 306905g www.lakeside-labs.com _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: U-NET (User-provided networking) workshop, co-located with CoNext'09
by Paulo Mendes 21 May '09

21 May '09

(Appologies if you get this twice) ACM U-NET'09 — User-provided Networking: Challenges and Opportunities Co-located with ACM CoNEXT 2009 Rome, Italy, December 1, 2009 http://conferences.sigcomm.org/co-next/2009/workshops/unet/ Submission Deadline: July 17, 2009 Submit at: http://edas.info/N7753 *Motivation* This workshop is dedicated to the debate of concepts, challenges, and opportunities concerning user-provided networking, i.e., scenarios where users cooperate by sharing wireless resources as well as Internet services. To provide a specific example that relates to Internet access (connectivity), the end-user (or a community of end-users) is a micro-operator in the sense that he/she shares his/her subscribed broadband Internet access based on some form of incentive scheme. In addition, the end-user may or may not provide other network functionality such as local mobility management, or persistent storage and forwarding services. This new role is disruptive in what concerns Internet service models, since there is no distinction between what is today known as end-user device and network device: in the future, end-user devices will actively participate as part of the network. In contrast, the Internet has been up to now mostly the means for end-users to obtain some form of network service, originally related to connectivity, person-to-person communication, or information retrieval. Such user-centric provider role is also disruptive given that the regular network boundaries of trust have to be extended in a way that should mimic social behavior: there is the need to form networks of trust in order to accommodate a robust network growth, given that the key to such growth is the willingness to cooperate. Another disruptive aspect of user-provided networking is that due to the nature of the wireless media and the way that humans move, support for intermittent connectivity as well as fast and transparent roaming between micro-operators needs to be considered. Finally, and given that user-provided networking spreads dynamically having as network elements regular end-user devices, there is the need to consider cases where information is opportunistically relayed instead of routed based on topological information. Due to the disruptive aspects mentioned, user-provided networking seem to have the potential to provide a paradigm shift in Internet communication models, given that such novel functionality allow wireless networks to operate in a completely autonomic way and also given that the end-user becomes a provider of Internet services (e.g. connectivity) based upon cooperation incentives or rewards and based upon his/her own mobility and social patterns. Services are established on the fly, and do not necessarily imply the use of multihop technology or routing. For instance, connectivity may be, in most cases, simply relayed. The workshop program will include presentations of peer-reviewed papers and a discussion panel with guests from industry and academia. We envision U-NET as a forum aiming to ignite a debate concerning technical challenges and impact (negatively or positively) that user-provided networking may have on Internet communication models. *Topics* U-NET'09 solicits high quality technical contributions within the context of user-provided networking. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Challenges and opportunities for access providers. * Impact on Internet architectures. * Internet connectivity. * Trust models, incentives to share broadband access. * Human behaviour and mobility patterns. * Self-organization. * Wireless cooperation. Papers submitted are expected to be highly innovative and may incorporate early stage ideas; position papers (clearly identified as such) pointing to new directions and capable of generating discussion are also welcome. Submission must be original and not already published in any other conference proceeding or journal. Proceedings of the workshop will be published in the ACM Digital Library. *Submissions* Submitted papers must be at most 6 (six) pages long (including figures, tables and references) in the standard ACM double column format. All text must use font sizes of 10 points or larger. Longer submissions will not be reviewed. The review process is single-blind. Submissions will b e done via EDAS at http://edas.info/N7753. *Important Dates* Submissions due: July 17, 2009 Notification of acceptance: September 4, 2009 Camera ready version due: October 1, 2009 Workshop date: December 1, 2009 *Program Committee* PC Chairs Paulo Mendes, INESC Porto, Portugal Olivier Marcé, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, France Technical Program Committee Rute Sofia, INESC Porto, Portugal André Zúquete, University of Aveiro, Portugal Vassilis Kostakos, University of Madeira, Portugal Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Cecilia Mascolo, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Dirk Trossen, British Telecom Innovate, United Kingdom Prosper Chemouli, France Telecom, France Martin May, Thomson Paris Research Laboratory, France Karen Sollins, MIT, USA Lixia Zhang, UCLA, USA James Kempf, Ericsson Research, USA Dipankar Raychaudhuri, Rutgders University, USA Bernhard Plattner, ETH, Switzerland George Polyzos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Maria Papadopouli, FORTH/University of Creete, Greece Anand Prasand, NEC, Japan Gunnar Karlsson, KTH, Sweden Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Marcus Brunner, NEC, Germany Petri Mähönen, RWTH Aachen University, Germany -- ----------------------------------------------------- Paulo Mendes, Ph.D Area Leader, Internet Architectures and Networking Telecommunication and Multimedia Unit INESC Porto Tel. +351 22 209 4264 Fax. +351 22 209 4050 http://ian.inescporto.pt _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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