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2nd Call For Paper: e-Energy 2014. Deadline January 15th, 2014
by Jean-Marc PIERSON 04 Nov '13

04 Nov '13

Call for Papers: ACM e-Energy 2014 Cambridge, UK, June 11-13 2014 Computing and communication technologies impact energy systems in two distinct ways. The exponential growth in deployment of these technologies has made them large-scale energy consumers. Therefore, new architectures, technologies and systems are being developed and deployed to make computing and networked system more energy efficient. Additionally, and perhaps more importantly, these technologies are at the center of the on-going revolution in next-generation "smart" and sustainable energy systems. They measure, monitor and control energy systems such as the smart grid; inform and shape human demand; aid in the prediction, deployment, storage and control of energy resources; and determine how utilities, generators, regulators, and consumers measure, analyze, and collectively control system elements. The fifth International Conference on Future Energy Systems (ACM e-Energy), to be held in Cambridge UK in June 2014, aims to be the premier venue for researchers working in the broad areas of computing and communication for smart energy systems (including the smart grid), and in energy-efficient computing and communication systems. By bringing together researchers in a high-quality single-track conference with significant opportunities for individual and small-group interaction, it will serve as a major forum for presentations and discussions that will shape the future of this area. We solicit high-quality papers in the area of computing and communication for the Smart Grid and energy-efficient computing and communications. We welcome submissions describing theoretical advances as well as system design, implementation and experimentation. ACM e-Energy is committed to a fair, timely, and thorough review process providing authors of submitted papers with sound and detailed feedback. Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to the following: . Advances in monitoring and control of smart homes and buildings . Sensing, monitoring, control, and management of energy systems . Energy-efficient computing and communication, including energy- efficient data centers . The impact of storage integration on the smart grid . Electric Vehicle monitoring and control . Distribution and transmission network control techniques . Microgrid and distributed generation management and control . Modeling, control, and architectures for renewable energy generation resources . Smart grid communication architectures and protocols . Privacy and security of smart grid infrastructure . Innovative pricing and incentives for demand-side management . Novel technologies to enhance reliability and robustness of energy systems . HCI for energy monitoring, management, and awareness . User studies and behavioral change enabled by computing and communication technologies . Data analytics for the smart grid and energy-efficient systems . Modeling, management and control of variability and uncertainty in energy supply and demand Two type of contributions are solicited: . Full papers, up to 12 pages in ACM double-column format, should present original theoretical and/or experimental research in any of the areas listed above that has not been previously published, accepted for publication, or is not currently under review by another conference or journal. . Poster/demo descriptions, up to 2 pages in ACM double-column format showcasing works-in-progress; accepted posters/demos will be presented at the conference. Topics of interest are the same as research topics listed above. Preference will be given to posters/demos where the primary contribution is from one or more students. Full submission details can be found at the conference website: http://conferences.sigcomm.org/eenergy/2014 Important Dates: . January 15, 2014: paper submission deadline . March 21, 2014: Author notification . April 7, 2014: Camera ready papers due . June 11-13, 2014: ACM e-Energy conference, Cambridge, UK Organizing Committee: General Chairs: Jon Crowcroft, Richard Penty (U. Cambridge, UK) TPC Co-chairs: Jean-Yves Leboudec (EFPL), Prashant Shenoy (U. Massachusetts) -- Prof. Jean-Marc Pierson, +33 (0) 5 61 55 7226 Laboratoire IRIT UMR 5505, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse 3, http://www.irit.fr/~Jean-Marc.Pierson - Tout le monde savait que c'était impossible. Puis vint un imbécile qui ne le savait pas et qui l'a fait -- M. Pagnol - Everyone knew it was impossible. Then came a fool who did not know it, and who made it -- M. Pagnol

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: The 3rd Workshop on Physics-Inspired Paradigms in Wireless Communications and Networks (PHYSCOMNET 2014), Hammamet, Tunisia, May 16, 2014
by Lars Wolf 30 Oct '13

30 Oct '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: The 3rd Workshop on Physics-Inspired Paradigms in Wireless Communications and Networks (PHYSCOMNET 2014), Hammamet, Tunisia, May 16, 2014 Datum: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 11:20:41 +0100 Von: Ignacio Santamaría <nacho(a)GTAS.DICOM.UNICAN.ES> Antwort an: Ignacio Santamaría <nacho(a)GTAS.DICOM.UNICAN.ES> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] **************************************************************************** *CALL FOR PAPERS - PHYSCOMNET 2014* The 3rd Workshop on Physics-Inspired Paradigms in Wireless Communications and Networks *May 16th, 2014, Hammamet, Tunisia* In conjunction with the 12th Intl. Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt 2014) Conference Website: https://xserve.nt.tuwien.ac.at/physcomnet/ **************************************************************************** ** OVERVIEW* Current wireless networks are reaching a level of complexity in which conventional models and design tools are no longer valid, and fail to provide the ever-growing performance requirements in terms of peak rates and mobility that users demand nowadays. Delay constraints, scaling laws, parameter estimation (e.g., in massive MIMO networks), interference management and modeling techniques, and distributed implementations are some of the challenging aspects to be researched for next-generation wireless networks. This calls for creative cross-disciplinary methods to analyze, model, understand, and design algorithms for future wireless networks, which will be characterized by denser and heterogeneous deployments. Recently, there have been several fruitful insights and approaches inspired from the areas of physics and mathematics, including statistical mechanics, elementary particle physics, algebraic and stochastic geometry, machine learning, electrostatics, game theory, and random matrix theory, among others. This interdisciplinary workshop aims to bring together active researchers with different backgrounds interested in research on future wireless communications and networks. ** SPECIFIC TOPICS OF INTEREST*include but are not limited to: • Statistical mechanics methods for the derivation of performance bounds and the development of iterative algorithms • Design of distributed and diffusion-based algorithms • Parametric and nonparametric methods in machine learning • Algebraic-geometric methods for code, signal, and receiver design • Compressed sensing and sparse modeling • Networks with feedback and/or delay constraints • Applications of random matrix theory methods to large systems • Analysis of networks via analogy to electrostatics, optics, and percolation theory • Network optimization using game theory • Graph theory concepts for analyzing connectivity, scalability, and routing issues • Interference management techniques • Statistical tools for interference modeling ** IMPORTANT DATES* - Paper submission deadline: *January 5th, 2014* - Notification of acceptance: *February 15th, 2014* - Camera-ready paper: *March 1st, 2014* ** SUBMISSION OF PAPERS* Papers must be in PDF format, 10 pt character size, two column text, one-and-a-half line spacing. The manuscripts must not exceed 8 pages in length. Submissions should be of sufficient detail and length to permit careful reviewing. The submission will be handled via the EDAS system <http://edas.info/>using the Physcomnet'14 - WiOpt'14 <http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=16183>track. For more information visit the workshop homepage: https://xserve.nt.tuwien.ac.at/physcomnet/ ** WORKSHOP CHAIRS* Erwin Riegler, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Ignacio Santamaría, University of Cantabria, Spain ** TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE* Baltasar Beferull-Lozano, Universidad de Valencia, Spain Carlos Beltrán, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain Laura Cottatelucci, EURECOM, France Giuseppe Durisi, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Bernard Fleury, Aalborg University, Denmark Maxime Guillaud, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Eduard Jorswieck, Dresden University of Technology, Germany Olivier Leveque, Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne, Switzerland Shaowei Lin, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Angel Lozano, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Aris Moustakas, University of Athens, Greece Ralf Müller, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE ISSNIP 2014 Symposium on Participatory Sensing and Crowdsourcing (21-24 April 2014, Singapore)
by Lars Wolf 30 Oct '13

30 Oct '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE ISSNIP 2014 Symposium on Participatory Sensing and Crowdsourcing (21-24 April 2014, Singapore) Datum: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 10:22:32 +1100 Von: salil kanhere <salilk(a)CSE.UNSW.EDU.AU> Antwort an: salil kanhere <salilk(a)CSE.UNSW.EDU.AU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ******************************************************************************* IEEE Symposium on Participatory Sensing and Crowdsourcing http://issnip2014.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/symposium.php#psc April 21-24, 2014 - Singapore in conjunction with IEEE ISSNIP 2014 (http://issnip2014.i2r.a-star.edu.sg <http://issnip2014.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/>) ******************************************************************************* IMPORTANT DATES: Paper Registration Deadline: 17 Nov 2013 Paper Submission Deadline: 24 Nov 2013 Paper Acceptance Notification: 05 Jan 2014 Camera Ready Manuscript Deadline: 02 Feb 2014 SCOPE The recent wave of sensor-rich, Internet-enabled, smart mobile devices has opened the door for a novel paradigm for monitoring the urban landscape known as participatory sensing. Using this paradigm, ordinary citizens can collect multi- modal data streams (e.g., audio, video, sound, location coordinates, etc.) from the surrounding environment using their mobile devices and share the same using existing communication infrastructure (e.g., cellular services or WiFi access points). The data contributed from multiple participants can be combined to build a spatiotemporal view of the phenomenon of interest and also to extract important community statistics. Given the ubiquity of mobile phones and the high density of people in metropolitan areas, participatory sensing can achieve an unprecedented level of coverage in both space and time for observing events of interest in urban spaces. The Participatory Sensing and Crowdsourcing symposium at ISSNIP 2014 is designed to attract diverse participation from researchers and practitioners working at the leading edge in participatory sensing and crowdsourcing technologies. This necessarily covers a broad spectrum of topics, representative of the cross-cutting nature of the area -- from novel applications, to making sense of large-scale sensor data, to human computer interaction, to practical experiments. We solicit original and unpublished manuscripts on various aspects of participatory sensing, including (but not limited to) the following topics: - Novel applications - Participatory sensing, opportunistic sensing and crowdsourcing paradigms - Middleware support and programming models - Mining large scale multi-modal sensor data - Intersections with cloud technologies - Interactions between mobile devices and humans - Novel user interfaces - Energy-efficient sensing - Activity recognition and high-level inferences - User privacy issues - Incentive mechanisms to motivate participation - Assessing data trustworthiness - Synergies between online social networks and participatory sensing - Application deployment issues and experiences with large-scale deployment FORMATTING GUIDELINES Please follow the IEEE ISSNIP 2014 Formatting: http://issnip2014.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/authors.php SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS Salil Kanhere, The University of New South Wales, Australia Tony Tie Luo, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore TECHNICAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE MEMBERS (in alphabetic order) Delphine Christin, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany Chun Tung Chou, The University of New South Wales, Australia Pradipta De, SUNY, Korea Raghu Ganti, IBM Research, USA Vana Kalogeraki, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Ioannis Krontiris, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany Kun-Chan Lan, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Archan Misra, Singapore Management University, Singapore Thanasis Papaioannou, EPFL, Switzerland Venkataraman Ramakrishna, IBM Research, India Rajib Rana, CSIRO, Australia Andreas Reinhardt, The University of New South Wales, Australia Paul Roe, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Vijay Sivaraman, The University of New South Wales, Australia Aniruddha Sinha, Tata Consultancy Services, India Chen-Khong Tham, National University of Singapore, Singapore Kuldeep Yadav, Xerox Research, India Zhixian Yan, Samsung Research, USA Dejun Yang, Colorado School of Mines, USA Demetris Zeinalipour, University of Cyprus, Cyprus ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [Comsoc-ETC-sub-IOT] Pervasive and Mobile Computing J.: SI on the Internet of Things
by Lars Wolf 29 Oct '13

29 Oct '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Comsoc-ETC-sub-IOT] Pervasive and Mobile Computing J.: SI on the Internet of Things Datum: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 18:13:10 +0100 Von: Enzo Mingozzi <e.mingozzi(a)iet.unipi.it> Antwort an: e.mingozzi(a)iet.unipi.it Organisation: University of Pisa An: <comsoc-etc-sub-iot(a)ipv6forum.com> *CALL FOR PAPERS* Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal *Special Issue on the Internet of Things* *Deadline: November 15, 2013* http://goo.gl/cMLfsU SCOPE ----- In recent years, Internet has become increasingly ubiquitous. Besides allowing people to connect anytime and everywhere, the Internet is evolving into the communication medium for objects that are embedded in the physical world. The coupling between such objects and a worldwide standard-based communication infrastructure constitutes the Internet of Things (IoT) and is characterized by machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. The IoT enables a detailed characterization of the physical environment, as well as a rich set of interactions with the physical world. As such, the IoT has the potential to revolutionize pervasive computing and its applications. Indeed, the realization of a ubiquitous IoT poses several challenges about seamless integration, heterogeneity, scalability, mobility, and many others. This special issue solicits high-quality papers presenting original research results on the IoT that are tightly related to pervasive and ubiquitous scenarios. Submissions could consist of theoretical and applied research in topics including, but not limited to: * System architectures for the IoT targeted to pervasive scenarios * Adaptive and autonomic computing in the IoT * Middleware and service platforms for ubiquitous IoT applications * Security and privacy in pervasive IoT scenarios * Ubiquitous computing solutions exploiting the M2M paradigm * Context awareness in the IoT * Mobility management in the IoT and in M2M communications * Experiences in building ubiquitous IoT platforms * Pervasive applications built on top of the IoT * Enabling technologies and standards for the IoT and M2M communications * Sustainable design and solutions for the IoT All submissions must be prepared according to the Guide for Authors as published by the Pervasive and Mobile Computing journal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/pmc). Authors should select the SI: Internet of Things, from the pull-down menu during the submission process. All contributions must not have been previously published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. A submission based on one or more conference papers that appeared elsewhere must have major value-added extensions over what appeared previously (at least 30% new material). In this case, authors are requested to submit their relevant previously published articles and a summary document explaining the enhancements made in the journal version. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Paper submission deadline: November 15, 2013 First notification to authors: February 28, 2014 Final notification to authors: May 30, 2014 GUEST EDITORS ------------- Dr. Mario Di Francesco, Aalto University (mario.di.francesco(a)aalto.fi) Prof. Jian-nong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (csjcao(a)comp.polyu.edu.hk) Prof. Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pisa (e.mingozzi(a)iet.unipi.it) --- Questa e-mail è priva di virus e malware perché è attiva la protezione avast! Antivirus. http://www.avast.com _______________________________________________ Comsoc-ETC-sub-IOT mailing list Comsoc-ETC-sub-IOT(a)ipv6forum.com http://lists.ipv6forum.com/mailman/listinfo/comsoc-etc-sub-iot

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] SIGCOMM 2014 Call for Papers
by Lars Wolf 28 Oct '13

28 Oct '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] SIGCOMM 2014 Call for Papers Datum: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 16:07:40 +0100 Von: Xiaoming Fu <fu(a)CS.UNI-GOETTINGEN.DE> Antwort an: Xiaoming Fu <fu(a)CS.UNI-GOETTINGEN.DE> Organisation: University of Goettingen An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Sent on behalf of Bin Liu <liub(a)tsinghua.edu.cn>: ---- Call For Papers ACM SIGCOMM 2014 Chicago, IL, August 7-12, 2014 http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2014/ The ACM SIGCOMM 2014 conference seeks papers describing significant research contributions to the field of computer and data communication networks. We invite submissions on a wide range of networking research, including, but not limited to: - Design, implementation, and analysis of network architectures and algorithms - Enterprise, datacenter, and storage area networks - SDNs and network programming - Experimental results from operational networks or network applications - Economic aspects of the Internet - Energy aware communication - Insights into network and traffic characteristics - Network management and traffic engineering - Network security and privacy - Network, transport, and application-layer protocols - Networking issues for emerging applications - Fault-tolerance, reliability, and troubleshooting - Operating system and host support for networking - P2P, overlay, and content distribution networks - Resource management, QoS, and signaling - Routing, switching, and addressing - Techniques for network measurement and simulation - Wireless, mobile, ad-hoc, and sensor networks Submissions SIGCOMM is a highly selective conference where full papers typically report novel results firmly substantiated by experimentation, deployment, simulation, or analysis. Submissions can be up to 14 pages in length, in two-column 10pt format. The submission instructions will be posted on the conference website in some time. Note that accepted camera-ready papers will be 12 pages in length, in two-column format with 9pt font. In addition to the main conference, SIGCOMM 2014 will have a series of co-located workshops, tutorials, a poster and demo session, a travel grant program, and conference best paper and SIGCOMM awards. Important Dates - Friday January 24, 2014 (21:00 EST) Paper title and abstract registration - Friday January 31, 2014 (21:00 EST) Main conference full paper submission - August 17-22, 2014 ACM SIGCOMM 2014 conference -- Prof. Dr. Xiaoming Fu http://user.informatik.uni-goettingen.de/~fu Computer Networks Group http://www.net.informatik.uni-goettingen.de/ Institute of Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics & Computer Science University of Goettingen E-Mail: fu(a)cs.uni-goettingen.de Goldschmidtstr. 7 Tel/Secr: +49-(0)551-39-1720 23/20 37077 Goettingen, Germany Fax: +49-(0)551-39-14416 ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Paper IEEE WoWMoM 2014
by Lars Wolf 25 Oct '13

25 Oct '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Paper IEEE WoWMoM 2014 Datum: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 02:17:59 -0400 Von: Parth H. Pathak <phpathak(a)UCDAVIS.EDU> Antwort an: Parth H. Pathak <phpathak(a)UCDAVIS.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS WoWMoM 2014 Fifteenth International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks http://wowmom14.conference.nicta.com.au/ sponsored by IEEE Computer Society (pending), Missouri University of Science and Technology, IEEE Computer Society TC on Computer Communications (TCCC) (pending) June 16-19, 2013 Sydney, Australia ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **** ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 22, 2013 ******* **** FULL MANUSCRIPT DUE: NOVEMBER 29, 2013 ******* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IEEE WoWMoM 2014 is soliciting original and previously unpublished papers addressing research challenges and advances towards a world of wireless, mobile, and multimedia pervasive communications. The evolution of wireless networking technologies and their key role in future Internet scenarios offer an increasing wealth of opportunities for distributing multimedia contents over wireless networks, enabling dissemination of professional contents to mobile users as well as sharing user-generated contents among them. Users will be able to retrieve, publish, and manage information, communicate with other users or devices, access and author services, create and exploit context- awareness and so on. Papers that present original work, validated by experimentation, simulation, or analysis, are solicited. Practical experiences and experimental efforts from both industry and academy, duly documenting the lessons learned from testbeds, field-trials, or real deployments, are also welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Wireless multimedia systems, services and applications - Opportunistic and delay-tolerant networks - Ad-hoc, sensor, mesh and vehicular wireless networks - Wireless BAN, PAN, LAN, MAN and WAN - Machine-to-machine (M2M) communications and the Internet of Things - Middleware services for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Context-awareness in wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Content-centric architectures, multimedia content management and distribution for mobile networks - Localization mechanisms and services - Participatory and urban sensing - Mobile social networking - Resource management and QoS/QoE provisioning - Multicasting and broadcasting issues - Handoff and mobility management - Network management and control - Dependability, reliability and survivability issues for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Security and privacy issues for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Energy-efficient protocols and power management - Seamless internetworking and self-organization - System prototypes, measurements, real deployment, and experiences - Modeling, analysis, and performance evaluation AWARDS AND EDITORIAL FOLLOW-UP ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Papers presented at the Symposium will be considered for a Best Paper Award. Papers of particular merit will be considered for a fast track publication in the Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal. PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ------------------------------------------------------------------------ All submissions must describe original research, not published or currently under review for another workshop, conference, or journal. Papers must be submitted electronically through EDAS. You can find detailed submission instructions at: http://wowmom14.conference.nicta.com.au/authors/submission-instructions/ ************************************************************************ *Submission implies the willingness of at least one author to attend * *the conference and present the paper. Accepted papers will be included* *in the proceedings of IEEE WoWMoM 2014 and published in the * *IEEE Digital Library. WoWMoM organizers reserve the right to exclude * *a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from * *IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the conference. * ************************************************************************ IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Abstract submission deadline: November 22, 2013. - Full manuscript due: November 29, 2013. - Acceptance notification: March 14, 2014. CONTACTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For further information, please visit the conference website at http://wowmom14.conference.nicta.com.au/, or contact the PC Chairs. WORKSHOPS AND AFFILIATED EVENTS: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Several workshops will be held in conjunction with the main conference. Workshop papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE Digital Library (Xplore), showing their affiliation with IEEE WoWMoM. WoWMoM 2014 will also feature an Industry Track, PhD Forum and a Demonstrations Session. Please visit the conference website for details. ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Deadline Extension: Ad Hoc Networks Special Issue on Routing in Smart Grid Communication Networks
by Lars Wolf 23 Oct '13

23 Oct '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Deadline Extension: Ad Hoc Networks Special Issue on Routing in Smart Grid Communication Networks Datum: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 18:49:10 -0500 Von: Kemal Akkaya <kemal(a)CS.SIU.EDU> Antwort an: Kemal Akkaya <kemal(a)CS.SIU.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Deadline Extended to November 22, 2013. ------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue of Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal "Routing in Smart Grid Communication Networks" http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ad-hoc-networks ------------------------------------------------------------ With the recent initiatives to upgrade the existing power grid to a Smart Grid, there has been a significant interest in the design and development of an efficient communication infrastructure for connecting different components of the Smart Grid. In addition to currently used underlying networks and protocols, new wired/wireless networks and protocols are planned to be deployed for different components/applications of the Smart Grid. Based on the data requirements of the applications, new challenges have arisen at the network layer of the protocol stack with respect to routing and data forwarding. Smart Grid is expected to be a multi-tier network supported by a hybrid mesh of different communications technologies to provide efficient and reliable access to grid components in diverse environments. Mainly, there will be three components of this multi-tier network which can be deploying a variety of communications networks. These networks are known as Home Area Network (HAN)/ Field Area Networks (FAN), Neighborhood Area Network (NAN) and Wide Area Network (WAN). Recent research on Smart Grid mostly focused on the security and privacy aspects of its applications. While some of the current routing protocols designed for wireless networks can be partially used in some of the Smart Grid networks, unique characteristics of Smart Grid applications as well as the large-scale size of the infrastructure necessitates new research at the network layer. In particular, there are several key issues need to be addressed in order to support network interconnectivity across the Smart Grid communication infrastructure that consists of HANs, NANs and WANs. For instance, scalability is an issue if a wireless infrastructure is to be used given that current wireless networking protocols are geared for small-size networks. In this respect, employment of power-line communications requires careful adaptation of the current routing protocols to address interference issues on power-lines. Another important issue is security since Smart Grid will consist of multiple-interconnected networks with diverse underlying communication technology, ownership and management. The availability and reliability of the Smart Grid as well as certain privacy information such as power usage data from each household need to be protected en route to the destination. Furthermore, the communication infrastructure will require status monitoring, fault detection, isolation, and recovery that pertain to rerouting. Finally, the ability to uniquely identify elements in the network and routing capabilities to all network end points for a wide range of applications with different quality of service (QoS) requirements will need to be addressed. The goal of this special issue is to collect papers in the area of routing in several networks of Smart Grid with different goals, characteristics and limitations. We solicit papers which will address routing challenges that are unique to Smart Grid and address major issues such as security, privacy, reliability, QoS, interference and scalability which pertain to Smart Grid applications. In particular, the topics of interest include but are not limited to - Scalable routing protocols for NANs and FANs - Efficient routing protocols in HANs - Novel routing protocols in powerline communications - Adaptation of existing routing protocols for powerline communications - QoS routing on NANs for Demand Response and WASA (Wide Area Situational Awareness) applications - Secure routing protocols in HANs and NANs - Reliable routing in lossy environments - User privacy and routing trade-offs in HANs and NANs - QoS and security tradeoffs in routing HANs and NANs - Interoperability, standardization and node heterogeinty in routing across HANs, NANs and WANs - Node placement and routing performance issues - Routing protocols for fault-detection and recovery - Data aggregation and routing - Cross-layer routing via multiple channels and MIMO - Routing experiences in testbeds and real-life applications - Support for aggregation and disaggregation of Smart Grid data in support for temporal and spatial visibility - In-network processing and sharing of distributed generation and renewable energy source and its communications infrastructure - Routing support for bad data detection - Interference and routing interrelations and techniques to mitigate the performance Degradations - Routing techniques to deal with massive data from Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) and smart meters Submission Format and Guideline All submitted papers must be clearly written in excellent English and contain only original work, which has not been published by or is currently under review for any other journal or conference. Papers must not exceed 25 pages (one-column, at least 11pt fonts) including figures, tables, and references. A detailed submission guideline is available as Guide to Authors at http://www.elsevier.com/journals/ad-hoc-networks/1570-8705/guide-for-authors All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through Elsevier Editorial System (EES). The authors must select as SI SG Routing when they reach the Article Type step in the submission process. The EES website is located at: http://ees.elsevier.com/adhoc All papers will be peer-reviewed by three independent reviewers. Requests for additional information should be addressed to the guest editors. Important Dates Manuscript submission: November 22, 2013 Acceptance notification: March 7, 2014 Final manuscript due: April 4, 2014 Editor in Chief Ian Akyildiz Georgia Institute of Technology Guest Editors Kemal Akkaya Southern Illinois University Carbondale, IL, USA Suleyman Uludag TOBB University of Economics and Technology Ankara, Turkey Xiuzhen Cheng The George Washington University Washington, DC, USA King-Shan Lui The University of Hong Kong Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong -- Kemal Akkaya Associate Professor Department of Computer Science Southern Illinois University Carbondale, IL 62901 Tel: 618-453 60 54 Fax: 618-453 60 44 URL: http://www.cs.siu.edu/~kemal ADWISE Lab URL: http://www.cs.siu.edu/~adwise ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE Communication Magazine Special Issue on Mobile Crowd Sensing
by Lars Wolf 23 Oct '13

23 Oct '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE Communication Magazine Special Issue on Mobile Crowd Sensing Datum: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 15:24:58 -0400 Von: Emiliano Miluzzo <miluzzo(a)RESEARCH.ATT.COM> Antwort an: Emiliano Miluzzo <miluzzo(a)RESEARCH.ATT.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ==== apologies if you received multiple copies of this message ==== *** C a l l f o r P a p e r s *** IEEE Communications Magazine Special Issue on Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS) http://www.comsoc.org/files/Publications/Magazines/ci/cfp/cfpcommag0814.html /Introduction/ Successful city management relies on urban dynamics and social event monitoring to provide essential information for decision making. In traditional sensing techniques such as wireless sensor networks (WSNs), distributed sensors are leveraged to acquire real world conditions. However, static sensing is affected by several conditions, such as insufficient node coverage, high installation/maintenance cost, and lack of scalability. Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS) presents a new sensing paradigm based on the power of various mobile devices/objects (e.g., smartphones, wearable devices, sensor-equipped vehicles, etc.). The sheer number of mobile device users and their inherent mobility enables a new and fast-growing sensing paradigm: the ability to acquire local knowledge through sensor-enhanced mobile devices ®C e.g., location, personal and surrounding context, noise level, traffic conditions, and in the future more specialized information such as pollution ®C and the possibility to share this knowledge within the social sphere, practitioners, health care providers, and utility providers such as municipalities for example. The information collected by the mobile devices on the ground combined with the support of the cloud where data fusion takes place, make mobile sensing a versatile platform that can often replace static sensing infrastructures, and enabling a broad range of applications from urban dynamic mining, public safety, environment monitoring, just to name a few. Numerous and unique research challenges arise from the mobile crowd sensing paradigm ranging from participatory and opportunistic data collection, proper incentive mechanisms, transient network communication, and big data processing. By having human participation in the loop, several other issues regarding to the privacy and security of data (e.g., sensitive information such as human voice, location may be revealed), quality/trust of the data contributed (e.g., there might be fake or malicious nodes involved) should also be addressed. This feature topic issue provides the opportunity for researchers, practitioners, and application developers to review and discuss the state-of-the-art and trends of MCS techniques and applications or propose new solutions. In the light of the above, the main purpose of this feature topic on Mobile Crowd Sensing is threefold: -to promote unprecedented approaches and techniques in participatory and opportunistic data collection, communication, analysis, and visualization; -to identify open issues which remain a challenge towards the convergence of information and communication technologies, privacy protection methods, social and psychological theories in MCS; -to exploit novel application areas and demonstrate the benefits of MCS in contrast with more traditional static sensing approaches. Topics may include (but are not limited to): - Architecture/Framework Design - Participatory Data Collection (node selection, data sampling, scheduling sensing) - Opportunistic Sensing and Communication - Sensor Performance and Types for MCS - Incentive Mechanisms for MCS - Communication in Weak/Transient Networking Environments - Big Data Processing and Urban/Social Mining - Privacy, Security, and Trust Issues in MCS - Social and Psychological Issues in MCS - Energy Efficiency in MCS - Emerging/Novel Application Areas of MCS - Performance Evaluation of MCS Submissions Papers must be tailored to the problems of mobile crowd sensing and explicitly consider above issues. The editors maintain the right to reject papers they deem to be out of scope of this special issue. Only originally unpublished contributions and invited articles will be considered for the issue. The papers should be formatted according to the IEEE Communications Magazine guidelines (http://www.comsoc.org/commag/paper-submission-guidelines). Authors should submit a PDF version of their complete manuscript via Manuscript center (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/commag-ieee ) according to the timetable below. Select the category °∞August 2014/Mobile Crowd Sensing°± when submitting your manuscript. Guest Editors Bin Guo (Corresponding Guest Editor) Northwestern Polytechnical University, China guobin.keio(a)gmail.com <mailto:guobin.keio@gmail.com> Francesco Calabrese IBM Research Ireland, Ireland fcalabre(a)ie.ibm.com <mailto:fcalabre@ie.ibm.com> Emiliano Miluzzo AT&T Labs - Research miluzzo(a)research.att.com <mailto:miluzzo@research.att.com> Mirco Musolesi University of Birmingham, UK m.musolesi(a)cs.bham.ac.uk <mailto:m.musolesi@cs.bham.ac.uk> Important Dates Deadline for manuscript submission: Dec. 1, 2013. Author notification: Mar. 1, 2014 Final manuscript due: June 1, 2014 Publication date: August, 2014 Contact Information Corresponding Guest Editor, Dr. Guo (guobin.keio(a)gmail.com <mailto:guobin.keio@gmail.com>) *********** - Emiliano --- AT&T Labs - Research www.research.att.com/~miluzzo <http://www.research.att.com/~miluzzo> ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] 7th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference - WMNC 2014
by Lars Wolf 22 Oct '13

22 Oct '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] 7th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference - WMNC 2014 Datum: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 11:30:45 +0100 Von: Jorge Granjal <jgranjal(a)DEI.UC.PT> Antwort an: Jorge Granjal <jgranjal(a)DEI.UC.PT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG 7th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference - WMNC 2014 Call for Papers -------------------------------------------------------------- May 20-22, 2014 Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal http://wmnc2014.uc.pt/ Organized by: University of Coimbra, Portugal Sponsored by: IFIP -------------------------------------------------------------- WMNC 2014 - 7th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference -------------------------------------------------------------- The 7th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC 2014) is sponsored by IFIP TC6. WMNC 2014 combines PWC (Personal Wireless Communications conference), MWCN (Mobile and Wireless Communication Networks conference), and WSAN (Wireless Sensors and Actor Networks conference) into one event. It will be held from 20th to 22nd of May 2014 in Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal. WMNC 2014 provides a forum for discussion between researchers, practitioners and students interested in new developments in mobile and wireless networks, services, applications and mobile computing. WMNC 2014 includes three tacks focusing on (but not limited to) the following topics: Track 1: Wireless and Mobile Communications and Networks * Wireless technologies design and evaluation * Handoff management * Location management * Resource management * Network and service management and control * Energy management and efficiency of protocols and devices * Cognitive radio networking * Device-to-device communications * Routing and scheduling in mobile and wireless networks * Transport layer issues in mobile and wireless networks * Network security solutions and protocols * Subscriber privacy * Authentication, Authorization, Accounting * Traffic and network modelling * Analysis, and simulation in wireless/mobile networks * Virtualized and cloud-based wireless. Track 2: Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks, Ad hoc and Opportunistic Networks, Vehicular Networks * Machine to Machine communications (M2M) * Ad-Hoc networking and Delay tolerant networking * Cross-layer design and optimization * In-network processing and aggregation of information * Energy-efficient protocols and power management * Localization and tracking * Middleware for WSN and M2M * Self-organization and reconfiguration * Security for WSN and M2M * Physical architectures * Real-time communications in WSN * Vehicular networks * Robots as actor networks * Nano networks. Track 3: Applications and Services over Wireless and Mobile Networks * Wireless multimedia networking * Mobile cloud computing and applications * Multicasting and broadcasting issues * Multimedia session signalling in wireless/mobile environments * Digital radio and TV broadcasting * Mobile computing * Protocols and platforms for convergence * QoS and QoE for voice and video in wireless/mobile networks * Mobile and wireless applications: health, environmental protection * Wireless Internet applications * ITS (Intelligent transportation systems) * Infotainment, pervasive systems, RFID * Location-based services * Mobile services * Content management and distribution * Context-aware wireless multimedia applications * Context-aware services * Information centric networking * Social networking. PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES -------------------------------- WMNC 2014 technical program committee invites authors to submit manuscripts with original research results that have not been previously published or that are not currently under review by another conference or journal. The following contributions are welcome: (i) Research papers reporting on new trends and developments, (ii) Application papers reporting on academia developments of technologies, products, services, systems and solutions, (iii) Performance evaluation and experimentation papers and (iv) Industry practice papers. Two types of submissions are solicited: Regular papers (limited to 8 double column pages with the IEEE eXpress Conference Publishing template) and Work-in-Progress and Industry practice (limited to 4 double column pages). Font size must be no smaller than 10-points. Manuscripts must be submitted electronically in PDF format through the EDAS system. Submissions will be judged based on originality, significance, clarity, relevance, and correctness. All submitted papers will be subject to peer reviews by Technical Program Committee members and other experts in the field. Papers presented at the symposium will be considered for a Best Paper Award. For more information please see the conference site http://wmnc2014.uc.pt/ or contact wmnc2014-chairs(a)edas.info. IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------------- Submission deadline: January 15, 2014 Notification of acceptance: March 10, 2014 Camera Ready: March 31, 2014 GENERAL CHAIRS -------------------------------- Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal TCP CO-CHAIRS -------------------------------- Geert Heijenk, University of Twente, The Netherlands Marilia Curado, University of Coimbra, Portugal KEYNOTE CHAIR -------------------------------- Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland STEERING COMMITTEE -------------------------------- Robert Bestak, Czech Technical University, CZ Augusto Casaca, Technical University of Lisbon, PT Pedro Cuenca, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, SP Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA Zoubir Mammeri, University of Toulouse, FR Dora Maros, Obuda University, HU Ignacious Niemegeers, Delft University of Technology, NL Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, CA Jozef Wozniak, Technical University of Gdansk, PL PUBLICATION CHAIR -------------------------------- Jorge Granjal, University of Coimbra, Portugal jgranjal(a)dei.uc.pt ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Pervasive and Mobile Computing J.: SI on the Internet of Things
by Lars Wolf 22 Oct '13

22 Oct '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Pervasive and Mobile Computing J.: SI on the Internet of Things Datum: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 11:55:41 +0200 Von: Enzo Mingozzi <e.mingozzi(a)IET.UNIPI.IT> Antwort an: Enzo Mingozzi <e.mingozzi(a)IET.UNIPI.IT> Organisation: University of Pisa An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG *CALL FOR PAPERS* Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal *Special Issue on the Internet of Things* *Deadline: November 15, 2013* http://goo.gl/cMLfsU SCOPE ----- In recent years, Internet has become increasingly ubiquitous. Besides allowing people to connect anytime and everywhere, the Internet is evolving into the communication medium for objects that are embedded in the physical world. The coupling between such objects and a worldwide standard-based communication infrastructure constitutes the Internet of Things (IoT) and is characterized by machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. The IoT enables a detailed characterization of the physical environment, as well as a rich set of interactions with the physical world. As such, the IoT has the potential to revolutionize pervasive computing and its applications. Indeed, the realization of a ubiquitous IoT poses several challenges about seamless integration, heterogeneity, scalability, mobility, and many others. This special issue solicits high-quality papers presenting original research results on the IoT that are tightly related to pervasive and ubiquitous scenarios. Submissions could consist of theoretical and applied research in topics including, but not limited to: * System architectures for the IoT targeted to pervasive scenarios * Adaptive and autonomic computing in the IoT * Middleware and service platforms for ubiquitous IoT applications * Security and privacy in pervasive IoT scenarios * Ubiquitous computing solutions exploiting the M2M paradigm * Context awareness in the IoT * Mobility management in the IoT and in M2M communications * Experiences in building ubiquitous IoT platforms * Pervasive applications built on top of the IoT * Enabling technologies and standards for the IoT and M2M communications * Sustainable design and solutions for the IoT All submissions must be prepared according to the Guide for Authors as published by the Pervasive and Mobile Computing journal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/pmc). Authors should select the SI: Internet of Things, from the pull-down menu during the submission process. All contributions must not have been previously published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. A submission based on one or more conference papers that appeared elsewhere must have major value-added extensions over what appeared previously (at least 30% new material). In this case, authors are requested to submit their relevant previously published articles and a summary document explaining the enhancements made in the journal version. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Paper submission deadline: November 15, 2013 First notification to authors: February 28, 2014 Final notification to authors: May 30, 2014 GUEST EDITORS ------------- Dr. Mario Di Francesco, Aalto University (mario.di.francesco(a)aalto.fi) Prof. Jian-nong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (csjcao(a)comp.polyu.edu.hk) Prof. Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pisa (e.mingozzi(a)iet.unipi.it) ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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