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Fwd: [Tccc] CfP for VANET 2011 - Deadline April 22, 2011
by Lars Wolf 23 Feb '11

23 Feb '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CfP for VANET 2011 - Deadline April 22, 2011 Datum: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 20:21:00 -0700 Von: Jason Haas <jasonhaas(a)ieee.org> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu ========================================================= Call for Papers for VANET 2011 The Eighth ACM International Workshop on VehiculAr Inter-NETworking September 2011, Las Vegas, NV, USA http://husky.crhc.illinois.edu/vanet2011/ Tentatively in conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2011 ========================================================= Important Dates ----------------------- Paper Submission Deadline: April 22, 2011 Notification of Acceptance: June 24, 2011 Camera-Ready Deadline: July 14, 2011 PDF version - http://husky.crhc.illinois.edu/vanet2011/vanet2011cfp.pdf TXT version - http://husky.crhc.illinois.edu/vanet2011/vanet2011cfp.txt Scope --------- Wireless vehicular communications has been identified as a key technology for increasing road safety, transport efficiency, and providing Internet access on the move to ensure wireless ubiquitous connectivity. Based on short- and medium-range communication like DSRC or WiFi as well as long-range cellular systems, vehicular networking will enable vehicular safety applications (including collision avoidance and safety warnings), efficiency applications (e.g., real-time traffic congestion and routing information), and other commercial or public authority applications (high-speed tolling, mobile infotainment, and many others). The ACM VANET 2011 workshop intends to cover a widening range of research topics, which are related to vehicular networking applications, services, and systems. Beyond systems that are integrated into vehicles, the workshop scope includes, e.g., vehicle- or traffic-related smartphone applications. The great potential of this technology has been acknowledged with the establishment of ambitious research programs on vehicular communication systems worldwide, such as the current InteractIVe and eCoMOVE projects within the European eSafety framework, various US programs derived from USDOT projects, and the Japanese Smartway and Advanced Safety Vehicle programs. Furthermore, vehicular communication and networking also present a very active field of standardization activities worldwide, like ISO TC204, IEEE (802.11p and 1609.x), and SAE J2735 in the US, ETSI TC ITS and CEN WG278 in Europe and ARIB T-75 in Japan, as well as field trials like the large-scale Safety Pilot in the US, simTD in Germany and SCORE-F in France. The Eighth ACM International Workshop on VehiculAr Inter-NETworking (ACM VANET 2011) will cover all vehicular wireless networking aspects using a variety of wireless communication techniques (from short-range DSRC/WiFi to long-range cellular communication). The topics not only cover the design and implementation of vehicular communication systems and applications but also include the potential implications on transport efficiency and safety, liability issues, standardizations efforts, and spectrum assignment. - Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: - Channel modeling, modulation and coding - Congestion control and scalability issues - Medium access control protocols - Multi-channel organization and operation - Communication protocol design and network management - Safety and non-safety applications - Vehicle-to-vehicle/roadside/Internet communication - Simulation frameworks - Field operational testing - Security issues and countermeasures, and privacy issues - Telematics applications - Electric vehicle applications - Networking to reduce energy consumption - Wireless in-car networks - Systems that reduce driver distraction - "Reduced functionalities" DSRC systems for pedestrians, road workers, etc. - Vehicle or traffic-related smartphone apps Organizing Committee -------------------------------- General Co-Chairs: John Kenney, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, USA Marco Gruteser, Rutgers University, USA Technical Program Co-Chairs: Marc Torrent-Moreno, Barcelona Digital Centre Tecnològic, Spain Fan Bai, General Motors Research, USA Publicity/Website Chair: Jason Haas, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Please contact the General Chair or Technical Program Co-Chairs for more information. _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: CFP: ACM MobiCom 2011 - Deadline fast approaching: March 2, 2011!
by Lars Wolf 23 Feb '11

23 Feb '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP: ACM MobiCom 2011 - Deadline fast approaching: March 2, 2011! Datum: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:24:33 -0800 Von: Habib M. Ammari <Habib.M.Ammari(a)hofstra.edu> An: itc(a)comsoc.org <itc(a)COMSOC.ORG> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies.] Call for Papers for MobiCom2011 The Seventeenth Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking September 19-23, 2011, Las Vegas, NV, USA http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2011/ Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE ACM MobiCom2011, the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, is the seventeenth in a series of annual conferences sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILEdedicated to addressing the challenges in the areas of mobile computing and wireless and mobile networking. The conference will be held at the Cosmopolitan Resort in Las Vegas, NV, USA, during September 19 -23, 2011. The MobiComconference series serves as a highly selective, premier international forum addressing networks, systems, algorithms, and applications that support mobile computers and wireless networks. Besides the regular conference program, MobiCom2011 will also include a set of workshops, panels, research demonstrations, and a poster session that includes the ACM Student Research Competition. More information on these activities, including submission deadlines, can be found at /http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2011/. ** * * *PAPERS: *Authors are invited to submit full papers presenting new research related to the theory and practice of mobile computing and wireless networking that pertain to the layer two or above of the OSIprotocol stack. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to the following. * Architectures, protocols, and algorithms for various wireless and mobile networks, such as wireless LANs, wireless mesh networks, cellular data networks, delay-tolerant networks, mobile ad hoc networks, sensor networks, personal area networks, and vehicular networks * System design, implementation, and evaluation of wireless systems and mobile applications * Real-world measurements and characterization * Performance-oriented design and evaluation focused on networks and mobile applications * Foundational underpinnings of wireless networks * Testbeddesign and implementation * Cross-layer design for mobile and wireless networks ranging from the PHY layer to applications * Networks involving novel technologies such as UWB, MIMO, directional antennas, software radios, visible light communications and underwater networking * Architectures, algorithms and protocols for dynamic spectrum usage, white spaces, and cognitive networks * Techniques that deal with low power and energy limitations * Operating system and middleware support for mobile computing and networking * Security, privacy, and trustworthiness of mobile and wireless systems * Emerging topics, e.g., robotic swarms, 60 GHz networking, social networking and novel applications enabled by mobile and wireless networking systems MobiCom’11 will be a diverse conference and we strongly encourage the submission of mobile systems, experimental and theoretical papers. The program committee will evaluate each paper using metrics that are appropriate for the topic area. For example, a systems or experimental paper in the protocol area will be evaluated based on the innovations in the protocol design, practical implementation, and realistic evaluation, whereas a more theoretical paper may be evaluated mostly based on innovation within the design of the algorithm and its provable properties. At the same time, the evaluation of wireless and mobile networking technologies is challenging because of the significant impact that the physical environment has on performance. For this reason, all papers must carefully describe and justify the evaluation methodology that is used and identify its strengths and weaknesses. The program committee will referee all papers, and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Selected outstanding papers will be fast-tracked for publication in a special section of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. ** *CHALLENGES PAPERS: *The conference strongly encourages the submission of short papers in the field of mobile computing and wireless networking that present revolutionary new ideas or that challenge existing assumptions prevalent among the research community. These challenges papers should provide stimulating ideas or visions that may open up exciting avenues and influence the direction of future research. Descriptions of new products or evolution of existing work are not appropriate topics for papers in this category. While an exhaustive evaluation of the proposed ideas is not necessary, insight and in-depth understanding of the issues is expected. Challenges papers will be reviewed by the MobiComprogram committee and will be part of the technical program and published in ACM MobiComproceedings. They should be submitted using the same submission procedure adopted for the full papers. The title of these papers must start with the word "Challenge:" i.e., "Challenge: Rest of the Title." ** * * *SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: *All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Authors should prepare a PDF version of their full paper. Papers must /(i) /be no longer than 12 pages (8 pages for "Challenges" papers), /(ii) /be in font size no smaller than 10 points, /(iii) /have pages in double column format with each column having dimensions 9.25” X 3.33”, a space of 0.33” between the two columns, and with no more than 55 lines of text per column, and /(iv) /fit properly on US letter-sized paper (8.5” X 11”). More detailed instructions will be available in the conference web pages. All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality through double-blind reviewing, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. See the Mobicom2011 website for detailed instructions to authors on preparing a double-blind manuscript. Authors' names must not appear anywhere in the paper or in the PDF file. Submitted papers must be original work, and a paper with substantial similarity must neither be already published, nor be currently under review for publication in any other venue. Please direct any questions about the paper submission process to the Program Co-Chairs at mobicom_pcchairs(a)acm.org <mailto:mobicom_pcchairs@acm.org>. ** * * *BEST PAPER AWARD: *All papers will be considered for the /Best/ /Paper Award/. The program committee will select a number of candidates for the award among accepted papers. The winner will be selected at the conference, considering both the paper and the presentation. The winner will receive a plaque and a cash award. *IMPORTANT DATES: *Abstract submission due: March 2, 2011 (11:59PMEST) Paper submission due: March 9, 2011 (11:59PMEST) Notification of acceptance: June 9, 2011 Camera-ready version due: June 30, 2011 General Chair Parmesh Ramanathan, University of Wisconsin-Madison Program Co-Chairs Brian Neil Levine, Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst Thyaga Nandagopal, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent Steering Committee Victor Bahl Imrich Chlamtac David B. Johnson ACM Program Coordinator Fran Spinola ** *FOR MORE INFORMATION:* ** Please contact the General Chair or Program Co-Chairs for more information. For information on ACM SIGMOBILEand the MobiCom series of conferences, see /http://www.sigmobile.org /or contact ////////////////////////////////////mobicom_info(a)acm.org <mailto:mobicom_info@acm.org>//////////////////////////////////// ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC'11): CfP
by Lars Wolf 22 Feb '11

22 Feb '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC'11): CfP Datum: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:01:18 +0100 Von: Prof. Dr. Bernd E. Wolfinger <wolfinger(a)INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.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 We apologize if you receive multiple copies. ====================================== Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results. ============================================ *PIMRC'11 <http://www.ieee-pimrc.org/>* *22nd IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications * *11. - 14.9.2011 in Toronto, Canada * /*IEEE PIMRC'11 CALL FOR PAPERS*/ The 22nd IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor, Mobile and Radio Communications (PIMRC 2011) will be held in The Westin Harbour Castle in Toronto, Canada. Toronto is about an hour and half away from Niagara Falls, and Niagara‐on‐the‐lake, a renowned wine country, and about two hours away from Thousand Islands. Toronto is an intimate metropolis featuring the best the world has to offer in dining, shopping, creativity, architecture, entertainment and sports. Toronto has over 7,000 restaurants, is the world’s third largest centre for live theatre, and is one of the world’s great shopping destinations. PIMRC 2011 will overlap with the Toronto International Film Festival, which will give an opportunity to the attendees to also enjoy this major event. The symposium program will include a broad range of topics from physical layer to emerging application technologies. The following is a preliminary list of the conference tracks: <http://www.ieee-pimrc.org/crsm.html>Tracks: • Wide Area Cellular Communications • Autonomous Infrastructure Deployment • Local and Personal Area Networks • Security and Localization • Intelligent Transportation Networks • Wireless Networks and Health Care • Cognitive Radio and Spectrum Management Important dates: *Paper submission: March 21st, 2011* Acceptance of notification: June 3rd, 2011 Final manuscript due: June 30th, 2011 Workshop and panel proposals due: February 4th, 2011 Tutorial proposals due: February 28th, 2011 All submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of five (5) printed pages (10‐point font) including figures. For details cf. : http://www.ieee-pimrc.org/index.html ======================================================================= Beste Grüße, Bernd Wolfinger ******************************************************** Prof. Dr. Bernd E. Wolfinger -- Telecommunications and Computer Networks Division -- Computer Science Department University of Hamburg Vogt-Koelln-Str. 30 D-22527 Hamburg (Stellingen) Tel.: +49-40-42883-2424 (direct) +49-40-42883-2422 (Mrs. Koester, secretary) Fax: +49-40-42883-2345 E-mail: wolfinger(a)informatik.uni-hamburg.de URL: http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TKRN ***************************************************** * In theory, theory and practice are the same. * In practice, they're different. *****************************************************

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Fwd: [Tccc] CfP: 4th IEEE WiVEC 2011 || San Francisco - Sept. 5-6, 2011
by Lars Wolf 22 Feb '11

22 Feb '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CfP: 4th IEEE WiVEC 2011 || San Francisco - Sept. 5-6,2011 Datum: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 07:16:00 -0800 Von: Yaser P. Fallah <yaserpf(a)berkeley.edu> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4th IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications IEEE WiVEC’2011 Sep. 5-6 2011, Hilton Hotel, San Francisco, USA http://www.ieeevtc.org/wivec2011/ Sponsored by the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wireless vehicular communications has been identified as a key technology for increasing road safety and transport efficiency, and providing Internet access on the move to ensure wireless ubiquitous connectivity. The potential of this technology has been acknowledged with the establishment of ambitious research programs worldwide in Europe, US and Asia. The IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) currently covers through its areas of interest (Mobile Radio, Transportation Systems and Automotive Electronics) all technical aspects needed to make wireless vehicular communications a reality. As a result, the IEEE VTS society decided to establish a technical symposium on wireless vehicular communications co-located with the reputed IEEE VTC conferences. The IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications (WiVEC) will cover all vehicular wireless communications aspects of Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V), Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) and Vehicle-to-Person (V2P) communications, including implications on transport efficiency and safety, implications on automotive electronics, liability issues, standardizations efforts and spectrum assignment. After the past successful WiVEC editions in 2007, 2008, and 2010, the fourth IEEE WiVEC symposium will be co-located with the 74th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference 2011 Fall, and will take place at the Hilton Hotel in San Francisco on the 5th and 6th of September 2011. Combined registrations packages will be offered for WiVEC and VTC events. All accepted papers (full length and demo papers) will be included in the VTC 2011-Fall conference proceedings and will be published on the IEEE Xplore database. Note: VTC Fall editions are traditionally located in North America, while VTC Spring is located in other areas of the world. Since WiVEC was originally launched co-located with VTC Fall editions, the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society decided that WiVEC would take place every year and a half in order to ensure that the conference is alternatively co-located with VTC Fall and Spring editions. This resulted in that there was no WiVEC edition in 2009. Topics of Interest ------------------ The WiVEC Symposium seeks original papers - not published or currently under review for another workshop, conference, or journal - in the area of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I), and vehicle-to-person (V2P) wireless communications. Vehicular communication areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * RF technologies, antenna design, physical layer and propagation models * Radio resource management and interference management * Spectrum assignment and EMC regulations * Vehicular Networking Architectures * Networking protocols (including ad-hoc communication, routing, geocasting, etc.) and their evaluation * Data aggregation and dissemination strategies * Simulation of Vehicular Communication Systems * Scalability issues in vehicular networks. * QoS and cross-layer optimization design * Security, liability and privacy * Testbeds, testing support, and field testing results * Interworking with sensor network technologies * In-car electronics and embedded integration of wireless vehicular communications * Roadside infrastructure * Mobility management, mobility and vehicle traffic models * Digital maps and location technologies * Human-Machine Interface * Applications (eCall, eTolling, traffic information systems, safety applications, wireless diagnosis, etc.) * Standards development, business models, policies * Assessment of impact on transport efficiency and safety Submissions ----------- Authors are encouraged to submit full length papers (maximum 5 pages) or demo papers (maximum 2 pages) following the submission guidelines provided at http://www.ieeevtc.org/wivec2011/ Submission website: http://wivec2011.trackchair.com Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE and will be included in the IEEE Xplore digital library. Important Dates --------------- Submission Deadline: 28 February 2011 Acceptance notification: 15 April 2011 Camera-ready papers due: 13 June 2011 Organizing Committee General co-Chairs: Raja Sengupta University of California at Berkeley) Daniel Jiang (Mercedes-Benz R&D, North America) Technical Program co-Charis Yaser P. Fallah (University of California at Berkeley) Frank Kargl (University of Twente, Netherland) ============================= Yaser P. Fallah Assistant Research Scientist College of Engineering (Institute of Transportation Studies) University of California, Berkeley Email: yaserpf(a)berkeley.edu Web: http://cpn.berkeley.edu/yaserpf _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: Call for Papers: NGI2011
by Lars Wolf 21 Feb '11

21 Feb '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Call for Papers: NGI2011 Datum: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 17:04:21 +0100 Von: Kurt Tutschku <kurt.tutschku(a)UNIVIE.AC.AT> 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 CFP - ************************ Call for Papers: NGI 2011 7th Euro-NF Conference on Next Generation Internet ************************ June 27 until 29, 2011 in Kaiserslautern, Germany Conference Website: http://www.icsy.de/conferences/ngi2011/ Overview: Following the past successful conferences, NGI 2011 focuses on the design, engineering, and operation of Next Generation Internet networks. It is organized by the Network of Excellence (NoE) Euro-NF, which was initiated by the European Commission during the 7th Framework Program. Euro-NF serves as its main platform for interaction, dissemination, and collaboration. To stimulate discussions, NGI 2011 invites scientists and practitioners from industry and academia, and especially welcomes contributions from outside Euro-NF. Original papers on recent advances in next generation networking are invited. In addition to full papers, we also encourage to present demonstrators. Topics of interest are but are not limited to the following areas: * Applications and Services - Grid computing - Cloud computing - Location-based and context-aware services - Network co-operation - Overlay networks and peer-to-peer * Optical Networks - Multi-layer networks - Routing & wavelength assignment - Traffic grooming and traffic engineering - Transport Ethernet, PON, WDM * Network Architecture - Access, metropolitan, and core networks - Environment-aware networking - Flexible and evolvable Network Architectures - Inter-domain and intra-domain routing - Network management and control - Security architectures and mechanisms - Network Virtualization - Energy-Efficient Networks - Mobility and nomadicity in evolved architectures - Testbeds and experimental evaluations * Wireless Networks - Ad hoc and sensor networks - Cellular networks - Cross-layer design - Integration of fixed and mobile networks * Traffic Engineering - Admission and congestion control - Performance evaluation of NG networks - Quality of service (QoS) and quality of experience (QoE) - Service differentiation and multi-service support - Traffic measurements, modeling and statistical characterization - Optimization algorithms and heuristics for network dimensioning * Socio-Economic Aspects - Cost models - Regulation, IPR, network neutrality and governance - SLAs, pricing and quality of experience - Trust, privacy and security ************************ Important Dates ************************ Paper submission deadline: March 14, 2011 Acceptance notification: May 02, 2011 Camera-ready version: May 16, 2011 Registration deadline: June 13, 2011 Conference dates: June 27-29, 2011 ************************ Submission Guidelines ************************ All conference papers are expected to follow the format of the IEEE templates. Submitted full papers must not be longer than 8 pages. The paper must contain a short abstract (up to 250 words), the complete list of authors including affiliations, and keywords. The layout of the papers must comply with the IEEE Transactions templates. For Demonstrators please submit an extended abstract of max. 2 pages. See also: http://www.icsy.de/conferences/ngi2011/guidelines.shtml --- Prof. Dr. Kurt Tutschku Chair of Future Communication (Endowed by Telekom Austria) Faculty of Computer Science University of Vienna Postal Address: Universitaetsstrasse 10/T11, A-1090 Vienna, Austria. Phone: +43 1 4277 39611 FAX: +43 1 4277 396 13 Mobile: +43 1 664 6027739611 E-Mail: kurt.tutschku(a)univie.ac.at <mailto:kurt.tutschku@univie.ac.at> WWW: http://www.cs.univie.ac.at/fc

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Fwd: DSP Workshop 2011: Call for papers
by Lars Wolf 21 Feb '11

21 Feb '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: DSP Workshop 2011: Call for papers Datum: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:42:10 +0000 Von: Schroeder, Lars Erik <L.Schroeder(a)tu-braunschweig.de> An: Benjamin Deppe (b.deppe(a)tu-bs.de) <b.deppe(a)tu-bs.de>, Benjamin Tilch (b.tilch(a)tu-braunschweig.de) <b.tilch(a)tu-braunschweig.de>, Carola Steinborn (c.steinborn(a)tu-bs.de) <c.steinborn(a)tu-bs.de>, Claas Hoyer (claas.hoyer(a)tu-bs.de) <claas.hoyer(a)tu-bs.de>, Dennis Dietrich (d.dietrich(a)tu-bs.de) <d.dietrich(a)tu-bs.de>, Dr. Annika Raatz (a.raatz(a)tu-bs.de) <a.raatz(a)tu-bs.de>, Dr. Hans-Werner Hoffmeister (h.hoffmeister(a)tu-bs.de) <h.hoffmeister(a)tu-bs.de>, Frank Nehuis (f.nehuis(a)tu-braunschweig.de) <f.nehuis(a)tu-braunschweig.de>, Kathrien Inderwisch (k.inderwisch(a)tu-bs.de) <k.inderwisch(a)tu-bs.de>, Marjam Eghtessad (m.eghtessad(a)tu-bs.de) <m.eghtessad(a)tu-bs.de>, Tim Mielke (tim.mielke(a)tu-bs.de) <tim.mielke(a)tu-bs.de>, PD Dr. Christoph Herrmann (c.herrmann(a)tu-bs.de) <c.herrmann(a)tu-bs.de>, Peter Vörsmann (p.voersmann(a)tu-bs.de) <p.voersmann(a)tu-bs.de>, Prof. Arno Kwade (a.kwade(a)tu-bs.de) <a.kwade(a)tu-bs.de>, Prof. Friedrich Wahl (f.wahl(a)tu-bs.de) <f.wahl(a)tu-bs.de>, Prof. Georg-Peter Ostermeyer (gp.ostermeyer(a)tu-bs.de) <gp.ostermeyer(a)tu-bs.de>, Prof. Jürgen Howe (j.howe(a)tu-braunschweig.de) <j.howe(a)tu-braunschweig.de>, Prof. Jürgen Köhler (j.koehler(a)tu-braunschweig.de) <j.koehler(a)tu-braunschweig.de>, Prof. Klaus Dilger (k.dilger(a)tu-bs.de) <k.dilger(a)tu-bs.de>, Prof. Mark Vollrath (mark.vollrath(a)tu-bs.de) <mark.vollrath(a)tu-bs.de>, Prof. Michael Kurrat (m.kurrat(a)tu-bs.de) <m.kurrat(a)tu-bs.de>, Prof. Nils Bandelow <nils.bandelow(a)tu-bs.de>, Prof. Peter Hecker (p.hecker(a)tu-bs.de) <p.hecker(a)tu-bs.de>, Prof. Rüdiger Böhmer <boehmer(a)uni-hildesheim.de>, Prof. Stephan Rammler (st.rammler(a)hbk-bs.de) <st.rammler(a)hbk-bs.de>, Prof. Susanne Robra-Bissantz (s.robra-bissantz(a)tu-bs.de) <s.robra-bissantz(a)tu-bs.de>, Prof. Thorsten Lang (t.lang(a)tu-bs.de) <t.lang(a)tu-bs.de>, Prof. Tim Fingscheidt (t.fingscheidt(a)tu-bs.de) <t.fingscheidt(a)tu-bs.de>, Prof. Uwe Dombrowski (u.dombrowski(a)tu-bs.de) <u.dombrowski(a)tu-bs.de>, Prof. Wolfhard E. Lawrenz (w.lawrenz(a)cs-group.de) <lawrenz(a)cs-group.de>, Wolf Rüdiger Umbach <praesident(a)ostfalia.de>, Asbeck, Julia <J.Asbeck(a)tu-braunschweig.de>, Kessler, Ines <I.Kessler(a)tu-braunschweig.de>, Nofz, Matthias <M.Nofz(a)tu-braunschweig.de>, Rose, Sebastian <se.Rose(a)tu-braunschweig.de>, Shakiryanova, Zilya <Z.Shakiryanova(a)tu-braunschweig.de>, Achim Schmiemann <a.schmiemann(a)ostfalia.de>, Andreas Ligocki <a.ligocki(a)ostfalia.de>, Andreas Simon <a.simon(a)ostfalia.de>, Detlef Justen <d.justen(a)ostfalia.de>, Dirk Sabbert <d.sabbert(a)ostfalia.de>, Hartmut Widdecke <h.widdecke(a)ostfalia.de>, Holger Brueggemann <holger.brueggemann(a)ostfalia.de>, Klaus Harbusch <k.harbusch(a)ostfalia.de>, Martin Müller <martin.mueller7(a)ostfalia.de>, Martin Rampke <m.rambke(a)ostfalia.de>, Peter Stuwe <peter.stuwe(a)ostfalia.de>, Rainer Bermbach <r.bermbach(a)ostfalia.de>, Robin Vanhaelst <r.vanhaelst(a)ostfalia.de>, Thorsten Ahrens <th.ahrens(a)ostfalia.de>, Volker Dorsch <v.dorsch(a)ostfalia.de>, Volker von Hold <v.von-holt(a)ostfalia.de>, Xiabo Liu-Henke <x.liu-henke(a)ostfalia.de>, Baerwaldt, Gunnar <G.Baerwaldt(a)tu-braunschweig.de>, Bartölke, Ann-Christin <A-C.Bartoelke(a)tu-braunschweig.de>, Bergmann, Lars <L.Bergmann(a)tu-braunschweig.de>, Friedrich-Ajbar, Jasmin <J.Friedrich-Ajbar(a)tu-braunschweig.de>, Labenski, Volker <V.Labenski(a)tu-braunschweig.de>, Pape, Michaela <Michaela.Pape(a)tu-braunschweig.de>, Schroeder, Lars Erik <L.Schroeder(a)tu-braunschweig.de>, Birgit Haupt (b.haupt(a)tu-braunschweig.de) <b.haupt(a)tu-braunschweig.de>, Dr. Roman Henze (r.henze(a)tu-bs.de) <r.henze(a)tu-bs.de>, Dr. Stephan Hoffmann <stephan.hoffmann(a)tu-bs.de>, Gertrud Neuhaus (g.neuhaus(a)tu-bs.de) <g.neuhaus(a)tu-bs.de>, Manuela Trümper (m.truemper(a)tu-bs.de) <m.truemper(a)tu-bs.de>, Prof. Axel Mertens (mertens(a)ial.uni-hannover.de) <mertens(a)ial.uni-hannover.de>, Prof. Bernd Ponick (ponick(a)ial.uni-hannover.de) <ponick(a)ial.uni-hannover.de>, Prof. Bernhard Friedrich (friedrich(a)tu-braunschweig.de) <friedrich(a)tu-braunschweig.de>, Prof. Eckehard Schnieder (e.schnieder(a)tu-bs.de) <e.schnieder(a)tu-bs.de>, Prof. Ferit Küçükay (f.kuecuekay(a)tu-bs.de) <f.kuecuekay(a)tu-bs.de>, Prof. Karsten Lemmer (karsten.lemmer(a)dlr.de) <karsten.lemmer(a)dlr.de>, Prof. Lars Wolf (l.wolf(a)tu-braunschweig.de) <l.wolf(a)tu-braunschweig.de>, Prof. Markus Maurer (maurer(a)ifr.ing.tu-bs.de) <maurer(a)ifr.ing.tu-bs.de>, Prof. Peter Eilts (p.eilts(a)tu-braunschweig.de) <p.eilts(a)tu-braunschweig.de>, Prof. Thomas Spengler (t.spengler(a)tu-bs.de) <t.spengler(a)tu-bs.de>, Prof. Thomas Vietor (vietor(a)ikt.tu-bs.de) <vietor(a)ikt.tu-bs.de>, Prof. Uwe Schröder (uwe.schroeder(a)tu-bs.de) <uwe.schroeder(a)tu-bs.de>, Prof. Wolf-Rüdiger Canders (w.canders(a)tu-bs.de) <w.canders(a)tu-bs.de>, Regine Stegemann (r.stegemann(a)tu-bs.de) <r.stegemann(a)tu-bs.de> Sehr geehrte Mitglieder, in der Hoffnung, dass sie auf Ihr Interesse stößt, möchte ich den Call for papers für den Workshop on digital signal processing weiterleiten, der vom 4.-7. September in Kiel stattfinden wird. Mit freundlichen Grüßen aus der NFF-Geschäftsstelle Lars Erik Schroeder

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Fwd: Call for Papers: NOSSDAV 2011 -- Deadline Extended to March 3rd
by Lars Wolf 21 Feb '11

21 Feb '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Call for Papers: NOSSDAV 2011 -- Deadline Extended to March 3rd Datum: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 20:55:33 +0800 Von: Sheng-Wei (Kuan-Ta) Chen <swc(a)iis.sinica.edu.tw> Antwort an: swc(a)iis.sinica.edu.tw Organisation: Academia Sinica An: itc(a)COMSOC.ORG [Apologies if you receive this more than once] +++++++++++++++++++++ [ NOSSDAV 2011 Call for Papers ] +++++++++++++++++++++++ The 21th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video June 2-3, 2011 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada http://nss.cs.ubc.ca/nossdav2011/ NOSSDAV 2011 is the 21th anniversary of SIGMM's leading workshop on network and operating systems support for digital audio and video. The workshop, hosted at the University of British Columbia (UBC), will continue to focus on emerging research topics, controversial ideas, and future research directions in the area of multimedia systems research. As in previous years, we will maintain the focused single-track format a setting that stimulates lively discussions among the senior and junior participants. NOSSDAV encourages experimental research based on real systems and real data sets. Public availability of the source code and data sets discussed in papers presented at NOSSDAV is highly encouraged. For NOSSDAV 2011, we will accept papers on broad ranges of topics related to the transmission and presentation of digital audio/video objects. We are particularly interested in soliciting articles that discuss system-level support for distributed social media, as well as papers that focus on enabling multimedia applications in distributed cloud. Other topics of interest include (but are not restricted to): * OS, middleware and network support * Overlay networks * Media streaming, distribution and storage support * Web 2.0 systems and social networks * Media sensor and ad hoc networks / embedded systems * Multicore architecture support * Wireless and mobile multimedia systems / network processor support * Networked GPUs, graphics and virtual environments * Networked games / real-time immersive systems * Multimedia communications and system security * Grid/Cloud computing support Please contact the workshop co-chairs to check if your topic is within the scope of NOSSDAV. Papers will be judged on their relevance, technical content and correctness, and the clarity of presentation of the research. Papers should not be under review at another venue nor previously published elsewhere. Submissions should be at most SIX pages, 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. Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: 3 Mar 2011 (extended) Decision Notification: 24 Mar 2011 Camera Ready Due: 7 Apr 2011 For more information, please visit the workshop website at http://nss.cs.ubc.ca/nossdav2011/ ________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the itc list, click the following link: http://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=itc&A=1

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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP - 2nd International Workshop on Mobility in Wireless Sensor Networks (MobiSensor'2011)
by Lars Wolf 20 Feb '11

20 Feb '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP - 2nd International Workshop on Mobility in Wireless Sensor Networks (MobiSensor'2011) Datum: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:02:48 +0200 Von: Damianos Gavalas <dgavalas(a)aegean.gr> Antwort an: dgavalas(a)aegean.gr Organisation: University of the Aegean An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> CALL FOR PAPERS (CFP) 2nd International Workshop on Mobility in Wireless Sensor Networks (MobiSensor'2011) Barcelona, Spain June 29th, 2011 http://www2.aegean.gr/dgavalas/MobiSensor2011/ In conjunction with the 7th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS'11): http://www.dcoss.org/ Important Dates: - Paper Submissions: April 15, 2010 - Notification: May 5, 2010 - Final Version: May 23, 2010 Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) offer unprecedented capabilities for integrating sensing with computing and communication as well as for distributed sensing, coordination and control. While WSNs have been a subject of intensive research for about a decade, most research activities to date focused on sensor nodes typically deployed in static, pre-determined locations with sensor readings taken at regular intervals and multi-hopped to a static sink for subsequent storage and analysis. The next evolutionary step for sensor networks is to handle mobility in all its forms. That is, mobility of sinks, mobility of sensors and actuators as well as mobility of code (i.e. applications). The mobility extension represents a more recent research subject in sensor networking; mobility opens up a whole new level of research opportunities and challenges in WSNs, and significantly expands the types of applications for which WSNs can be used. This workshop aims to identifying the benefits and challenges from such a step and outline the state of the art in this particularly promising research area. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Sink mobility in Wireless Sensor Networks - Actuator networks - Mobile sensor-actuator networks - Code mobility in Wireless Sensor Networks - Mobile agent-based data aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks - Localization techniques in wireless sensor and actuator networks - Mobility issues in underwater Wireless Sensor Networks - Mobility-assisted communication in Wireless Sensor Networks - Mobility management in Wireless Sensor Networks - Connectivity maintenance in Wireless Sensor Networks with mobile elements - Mobility for maximizing network lifetime in Wireless Sensor Networks - Mobility models for sinks and actuators in Wireless Sensor Networks - Routing protocols for handling mobility - Distributed algorithms and reasoning in Wireless Sensor Networks with mobile elements - Data fusion techniques in Wireless Sensor Networks with mobile elements - Mobile GeoSensor Networks - Simulation of Wireless Sensor Networks with mobile elements - Applications and deployment experiences Program Co-Chairs: - Damianos Gavalas (dgavalas(a)aegean.gr), University of the Aegean, Greece - Grammati Pantziou (pantziou(a)teiath.gr), Technological Educational Institution of Athens, Greece - Charalampos Konstantopoulos (konstant(a)unipi.gr), University of Piraeus, Greece Paper submission instructions: This workshop will only accept for review original papers that have not been previously published and are not currently under review elsewhere. Papers should be formatted based on the IEEE Transactions journals and conferences style; maximum allowed camera-ready paper length is six (6) pages. Submissions must be in Adobe PDF format, including text, figures and references and sent through email to the Program Co-Chairs (see above). All accepted papers must be presented by a registered author. Proceedings - Journal Special Issue: Besides a hardcopy workshop proceedings volume, workshop papers will be included in the IEEE Digital Library. MobiSensor'2011 chairs are considering several options for organizing a Special Issue in an internationally reputed journal, where extended versions of selected workshop papers will be invited. Technical Program Committee: - Kemal Akkaya, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA - Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy - Giuseppe Anastasi, University of Pisa, Italy - Stefano Basagni, Northeastern University, USA - Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, CTI, Greece - Cheng Fu Chou, National Taiwan University, Taiwan - Martin Haenggi, University of Notre Dame, USA - Dimitrios Hatzinakos, University of Toronto, Canada - Chi-Fu Huang, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan - Victor Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada - Jun Luo, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore - Tommaso Melodia, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA - Sotiris Nikoletseas, University of Patras, Greece - Chiara Petrioli, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy - Hairong Qi, University of Tennessee, USA - Anthony Stefanidis, George Mason University, USA - Natalija Vlajic, York University, Canada - Pramod K. Varshney, Syracuse University, USA - Mohamed Younis, UMBC, USA _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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CFC - Achieving Federated and Self-Manageable Cloud Infrastructures: Theory and Practice
by Mario Fanelli 18 Feb '11

18 Feb '11

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) Achieving Federated and Self-Manageable Cloud Infrastructures: Theory and Practice http://mdslab.unime.it/fsci11/ Editors: Dr. Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Dr. Massimo Villari, University of Messina, Italy Francesco Tusa, University of Messina, Italy Call for Chapters: Proposals Submission Deadline: March 15, 2011 Full Chapters Due: July 15, 2011 Submission Date: November 15, 2011 Introduction Cloud Computing presents a promising approach for implementing scalable ICT systems for private and public, individual-, community- and business-use. Resources are pooled and offered on-demand with ubiquitous network access to rapidly configurable and elastic IT capabilities. Resources are delivered following three basic delivery models: provisioning of remote applications (SaaS), provisioning of remote platforms to create applications (PaaS), and provisioning of remote infrastructures for processing, storing, and networking (IaaS). The key benefits of providing computing power using Clouds are (a) avoidance of expensive computer systems configured to cope with peak performance; (b) pay-as-you-go solutions for computing cycles requested on-demand; and (c) avoidance of idle computing resources, resulting in novel business models. Gartner, Inc. has identified Cloud Computing as the most important strategic technology for the year 2010. Looking toward the near future, T. Bittman has hypothesized that it will evolve in three subsequent stages (Gartner Blog Network): Stage 1 Monolithic (now), where cloud services are based on independent proprietary architectures - islands of Cloud services delivered by mega-providers (this is what Amazon, Google, Salesforce and Microsoft look like today); Stage 2 Vertical Supply Chain, where Cloud providers will leverage Cloud services from other providers - the Clouds will be proprietary infrastructure yet, but the ecosystem building will start; Stage 3 Horizontal Federation, smaller, medium, and large cloud providers will federate themselves to gain economies of scale and an enlargement of their capabilities in order to build up services. Thus, the current development of the Cloud computing markets results in the gap between the mega-providers like Amazon, Google etc. which have monolithic infrastructures provided to the public use and Small/Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Cloud providers which have to federate, in- or outsource their infrastructures, maybe combine on demand offers of different mega-providers and act as Cloud resellers providing guarantees not only on functional but also non functional properties of their services. The gap between the infrastructural development of Cloud mega providers and Cloud SMEs providers is reflected by the Cloud infrastructure developments in US and Europe. While US Cloud landscape is dominated by the mega scale providers like Amazon and Google, in Europe Cloud providers are generally Telcos developing their private Clouds and SMEs offering their Cloud infrastructures to specific user groups with specific needs (e.g. specific security infrastructures). Objective of the Book This book will overview current developments in Cloud computing concepts, architectures, infrastructures and methods, especially focusing on the needs of SMEs. On one hand, highly scalable infrastructures are required to comply with the varying load, software and hardware failures using Cloud federation scenarios. On the other hand autonomic management infrastructures are required to adapt, manage and utilize Cloud ecosystem in an efficient way. Cloud federation also allows to minimize the interaction among Cloud infrastructures, Cloud user and Cloud providers. Moreover, efficient market mechanisms are necessary where Cloud providers and consumers can advertise and sell their products. Thus, the contributions in this book should represent a triangle between the cloud federation, resource management and economic models (SLA management, business models) used to enforce the scale economy of the Cloud Computing infrastructures. Overview Our proposal mainly addresses the topic of Cloud computing at two levels: the first one introduces the fundamentals of Cloud Computing and its impact on the IT world; the second one, beginning from the previous concepts, provides an analysis of the main issues regarding the Cloud federation, autonomic resource management and efficient market mechanisms, while also supplying an overview of the existing solutions able to solve them. In order to federate different Clouds, in fact, several topics have to be taken into account: - The middleware that has to be employed: open source solutions, integration with proprietary systems. - Resource management for Cloud computing: discovering and match-making (i.e. to select the most suitable cloud which satisfy certain requirements). - Security and trust issues regarding data confidentiality and user authentication. - Cloud Interoperability and Inter-Cloud resource management: * Virtual resources migration; * Security management among different administrative domains; * SLA resource management among Cloud operators. In order to give an overview of current developments in the area of the autonomic resource management, chapters will cover following topics: - Cloud related monitoring and SLA management. - Knowledge management in Clouds. - Management of energy efficiency in Clouds. - Virtual resources management. The last part of the book will cover the novel market mechanisms as well es economic and business models for Clouds, including: - Theoretical developments of the Economic models. - Market mechanisms in Clouds. - Successful use cases of Cloud computing for economies of scale. - Business models and management. Target Audience Our publication is aimed at both enterprise business managers and research and academic audiences. Enterprise managers will gain knowledge about basic concepts in Cloud Computing, and become informed about Cloud federation issues and using distributed federated Clouds as an alternative to monolithic mega-providers. IT enterprise business managers will better understand how to migrate their own services on Cloud platforms in order to better optimize costs and resources usage, conceptualize new models of distributed federated Clouds instead on the monolithic one, and earn profit from a set of unused hardware resources building a federated Cloud. Researchers and academics will introduce new issues the Cloud computing as well as the main research topics related to Cloud federation. These frameworks will help researchers develop unique solutions and approaches. Potential Topics More specific recommended topics include, but are not limited to the following: - Resources discovery (from the federated Clouds). - Match-making to find the Clouds which best fit the federation requirement. - AAA (Authentication, Authorization and Accounting). - General Security issues: * Logging; * Auditing; * Data confidentiality; * Compliance. - Business management, SLA and billing. - Data storage and smart Virtual Environments allocation. - Resource location and naming. - Middlewares for implementing Clouds (mainly open-source solutions). - Autonomic Cloud management: * Cloud monitoring; * Cloud knowledge management; * Energy efficient Cloud computing; * Creation, Management and Deletion of Federation bindings. - Cloud markets: * Optimized management of human resources (maintenance costs, etc.); * Green computing and energy efficiency in large scale distributed systems; * Challenges but also opportunities for Cloud markets and economies; * Ability to satisfy more clients in a dynamic fashion. Submission Procedure Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before March 15, 2011, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by March 30, 2011, about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by July 15, 2011. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. Publisher This book is scheduled to be published in 2012 by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the Information Science Reference (formerly Idea Group Reference), Medical Information Science Reference, Business Science Reference, and Engineering Science Reference imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. Important Dates March 15, 2011: Proposal Submission Deadline March 30, 2011: Notification of Acceptance July 15, 2011: Full Chapter Submission September 15, 2011: Review Results Returned November 15, 2011: Final Chapter Submission December 15, 2011: Final Deadline Editorial Advisory Board Members: Young Woo Lee University of Seoul, South Korea Ignacio M. Llorente Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Philippe Massonet CETIC, Belgium Gabriel Mateescu National Center for Supercomputing Applications, US Omer Rana Cardiff University, UK Benny Rochwerger IBM, Israel Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document): Proposal and full Chapters submission through the FSCI11 easychair web page _________________________________________ Mario Fanelli, Ph.D. Student DEIS-LIA - Università degli Studi di Bologna Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna (ITALY) Ph.: (+39) 051 209 3541 Fax: (+39) 051 209 3073. E-mail: mario.fanelli(a)unibo.it or mario.fanelli(a)gmail.com Web: http://www-lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/MarioFanelli/ _________________________________________

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Fwd: [Tccc] Deadline approaching for SPECTS 2011===The Hague, Netherlands
by Lars Wolf 18 Feb '11

18 Feb '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Deadline approaching for SPECTS 2011===The Hague, Netherlands Datum: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:20:55 -0800 (PST) Von: Essia Hamouda <essia(a)cs.ucr.edu> An: asr-forum(a)cines.fr, tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu, mycolleagues(a)mailman.ufsc.br CC: hannes.frey(a)upb.de, nathalie.mitton(a)lifl.fr, Jose Luis Sevillano <sevi(a)atc.us.es> Our apologies for cross posting ================================================================== SPECTS 2011 2011 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems http://atc.udg.edu/SPECTS2011/ June 27-30, 2011, The Hague, Netherlands ================================================================== This annual international conference is a forum for professionals involved in performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. Performance evaluation of computer systems and networks has progressed rapidly in the past decade and has begun to approach maturity. Significant progress has been made in analytic modeling, simulation, and measurement approaches for performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. Spects 2011 is sponsored by SCS and technically sponsored by IEEE ComSoc and IEEE SMC societies. Deadlines Special sessions proposals: January 31, 2011 Submission of papers (and tutorials proposals): February 28, 2011 Notification of Acceptance: April 29, 2011 Final Camera-Ready Submission Due: May 27, 2011 ------------------------------------------ Essia Hamouda, Ph. D. web: http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~essia You can access some of my papers on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) at: http://ssrn.com/author=1168814 _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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