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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Extended Deadline, IEEE INFOCOM'14 Call for Demos/Posters, Dec-23-2013
by Lars Wolf 17 Dec '13

17 Dec '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Extended Deadline, IEEE INFOCOM'14 Call for Demos/Posters, Dec-23-2013 Datum: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 01:55:00 -0500 Von: Stefano Salsano <stefano.salsano(a)UNIROMA2.IT> Antwort an: Stefano Salsano <stefano.salsano(a)UNIROMA2.IT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Dear Colleagues, The submission deadline for the IEEE INFOCOM 2014 DEMO/POSTER session has been extended to December 23rd, 23:59pm, PST, 2013. Detailed information is available at: http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2014/Author_C4DP_ToI.html IEEE INFOCOM 2014 CALL FOR DEMOS/POSTERS --------------------------------------------------------------------- We are soliciting technical demonstrations or posters showing innovative and original research. IEEE INFOCOM is interested in demonstrations of technology that validate important research issues and results, or showcase realistic applications. Topics of interest are the same as research topics of IEEE INFOCOM - see the main conference call for papers at http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2014/INFOCOM%202014%20CFP%20Final.pdf Abstracts describing the Demos and Posters will be indexed by IEEE-Xplore and will be distributed with the official conference proceedings. Authors must be present during the Demo and Poster sessions. No show will preclude publication in IEEE-Xplore. Please consult the Demo/Poster Co-Chairs if you are uncertain whether your demo/poster falls within the scope of the conference. DEMO/POSTER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions should be a two-page proposal/abstract in PDF format adhering to INFOCOM submission instructions that are available at the following URL: http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2014/Author_C4P_MP.html. Be as specific as possible in describing what you will demonstrate or post. In particular, the demo session will have power and wireless Internet connectivity available. If a demonstration requires special arrangements, please send an email to Local Arrangement Co-Chairs Dr. Lian Zhao (lzhao(a)ee.ryerson.ca) and Dr. Xiaodong Lin (xiaodong.lin(a)uoit.ca) to ensure it can be arranged. Abstracts of accepted demos/posters will be included in the INFOCOM 2014 Proceedings CD. Submissions should be made via EDAS conference management system. The submission link is: http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=15829. In submission, please select one of two tracks: Live/Video Demonstration or Poster Presentation. IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------- Two-page demo/poster abstract due by: 11:59pm (PST), December 23, 2013 Notification of acceptance: February 1, 2014 IEEE INFOCOM 2014 Demo/Poster Session dates: to be announced IEEE INFOCOM 2014 Demo/Posters Co-Chairs Yu Cheng, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA (cheng(a)iit.edu) Stefano Salsano, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy (stefano.salsano(a)uniroma2.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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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFPs: The 1st Mobile Sensing, Mining and Visualization for Human Behavior Inference Workshop, co-located with PAKDD 2014.
by Lars Wolf 17 Dec '13

17 Dec '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFPs: The 1st Mobile Sensing, Mining and Visualization for Human Behavior Inference Workshop, co-located with PAKDD 2014. Datum: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 09:13:57 +0800 Von: Fang-Jing Wu <uklittlemoon(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Fang-Jing Wu <uklittlemoon(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Apologies if you received multiple copies of the 1st Mobile Sensing, Mining and Visualization for Human Behavior Inference Workshop CFP. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 1st Mobile Sensing, Mining and Visualization for Human Behavior Inference Workshop, co-located with PAKDD 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers for the 1st Mobile Sensing, Mining and Visualization for Human Behavior Inference Workshop co-located with PAKDD 2014: The 18th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data (PAKDD 2014) Organizers: Edward Y. Chang, HTC Corporation Fang-Jing Wu, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) Zhenhui Jessie Li, Pennsylvania State University Venue & Dates: May 13, 2014, Tainan, Taiwan Conference Website: http://hscc.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~fangjing/index.html Introduction The massive data streams and diverse modalities of digital information sources being captured at an incredible rate have enriched the confluence of ubiquitous computing, networking technologies, wireless sensor networks (WSNs), data mining, machine learning, and data visualization and also boosted many promising applications in environmental sensing, urban mobility, transportation, emergency response, social networks, healthcare, security, and IT infrastructure. However, the captured big data is usually sparsely collected, noisy, incomplete, and untrustworthy. Moreover, the sheer volume of sensor data, as well as its streaming and distributed nature, raises many technical challenges of mobile sensing, data mining, data visualization, and real-world applications. Government organizations, commercial enterprise, and individuals rely on different technologies form conventional wireless sensor platforms to smartphones to collect big sensing data, extract knowledge from the big data, and visualize big data from several perspectives so as to develop the expected applications in pervasive environments. Several successful applications attract not only the research efforts but also the industry investments for big data science. As the big data science involved in developing applications for these classes of problems lies at the intersection of several diverse disciplines, the workshop aims at several important research topics, including (1) data sensing : how to collect multi-dimensional and high-quality data effectively, how to collect data without compromising personal privacy, and how to design incentive sensing models which may incorporate participatory sensing, crowdsourcing, cooperative and opportunistic sensing technologies for Novel Applications; (2) data mining : how current data mining, machine learning and knowledge discovery methods can be extended to mining solutions for dealing with real-world problems, how to infer human intentions, recognize activities and extract knowledge from unstructured data, and how to design distributed, parallel, and scalable mining algorithms to handle large, multi-modal, heterogeneous and distributed streams of data; and (3) data visualization : how to visualize heterogeneous streaming data in a real-time way, how to represent data in a more intuitive way, and how to abstract key information to visualize the relationship between data. The 1st workshop on Mobile Sensing, Mining and Visualization for Human Behavior Inference will serve as a forum for researchers and technologists to discuss the state-of-the-art, present their contributions, and set future directions in big data science. This workshop encourages authors to develop real-world applications and evaluate their methodologies using the real big datasets and investigate challenging problems based on large-scale deployment in the real world. The topics of interest related to this workshop include, but are not limited to: - Mobile data collection models - Participatory, opportunistic and collaborative sensing - Mining large scale sensor data - Activity recognition and subjective sensing for mobile and pervasive applications - Data mining techniques for real-world pervasive computing applications - Unsupervised methods for discovering interesting patterns - Supervised machine learning methods for analyzing data in pervasive environments - Streaming data visualization - Visual search and recommendation - Big data storytelling using visualization - Scalable parallel visualization methods - Test-beds and real-world deployments - Big data sensing, mining, and visualization applications including cyber intelligence, cyber security, business intelligence, e-commerce, scientific data analysis, education, etc. Submission Guidelines The submitted paper should adhere to the double-blind review policy . All papers will be double-blind reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to the workshop scope, originality, significance, and clarity. All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Detailed instructions are provided on the workshop home page. Papers that do not comply with the Submission Guidelines will be rejected without review . Each submitted paper should include an abstract up to 200 words and be not longer than 12 single-spaced pages with 10pt font size. Authors are strongly encouraged to use Springer LNCS/LNAI manuscript submission guidelines (available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html ) for their initial submissions. All papers must be submitted electronically through the paper submission system in PDF format only. The submitted papers must not be previously published anywhere, and must not be under consideration by any other conferences or journal during the workshop review process. Submitting a paper to the workshop means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should attend the workshop to present the paper. For no-show authors, their affiliations will receive a notification. The program committee chairs are not allowed to submit papers to the conference for a fair review process. We will reach Springer to include outstanding papers from PAKDD workshops in a LNCS/LNAI post Proceedings of PAKDD Workshops. The detailed information will be announced later. Thus, each workshop is expected to attract as many paper submission as possible in order to have high quality of workshop papers. The paper submission website is available ( https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/HBI2014/). Before submitting your paper, please carefully read and agree with the above submission policy and no-show policy. Important Dates Paper Submissions: Jan. 13, 2014 (midnight PST) Notification of Acceptance: Feb 12, 2014 Camera-Ready Due: Feb 28, 2014 Workshop Date: May 13, 2014 Contact Please email inquiries concerning the 1st Mobile Sensing, Mining and Visualization for Human Behavior Inference Workshop to: Fang-Jing Wu: wufj AT i2r DOT a-star DOT edu DOT sg. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________________________ 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 WoWMoM workshop on Smart Vehicles: Connectivity Technologies and ITS Applications (SmartVehicles 2014) - paper registration February 1, 2014
by Lars Wolf 16 Dec '13

16 Dec '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP - IEEE WoWMoM workshop on Smart Vehicles: Connectivity Technologies and ITS Applications (SmartVehicles 2014) - paper registration February 1, 2014 Datum: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 18:46:01 +0100 Von: Valerio Arnaboldi <valerio.arnaboldi(a)IIT.CNR.IT> Antwort an: Valerio Arnaboldi <valerio.arnaboldi(a)IIT.CNR.IT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS The 1st IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Smart Vehicles: Connectivity Technologies and ITS Applications (SmartVehicles 2014) June 16-19, 2019, Sydney, Australia http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/smartvehicles2014 **** Paper Registration Deadline --- February 1, 2014 **** **** Paper Submission Deadline --- February 7, 2014 **** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE AND OVERVIEW -------------------------------- The development of smart vehicles and more sustainable transportation systems has emerged as one of the most fundamental societal challenges of the next decade. At the same time, automotive manufacturers are striving to make vehicles safer and more environmentally friendly to fulfil consumers' expectations and new regulations. To revolutionise our mobile lifestyle towards a more sustainable and connected future it is of paramount importance to develop innovative cooperative systems enabling road users and other actors to exchange information in real time and in an autonomous manner, pervasive sensing to monitor the status of vehicles and the surroundings, big data analytics for the processing of sheer amount of data coming from the transportation infrastructure, middleware platforms for information management and sharing, and appropriate interaction interfaces between drivers and vehicles. Clearly, the seamless integration between mobile devices, vehicular communication netw! orks, and information and transportation systems will face a number of technical, economical and regulatory challenges. Authors are encouraged to submit full papers presenting recent developments, current research challenges and future directions in the use of networking, communications, data management, and applications to realise vehicular mobility systems that are more connected, sustainable and safe. Topics of interest for SmartVehicles 2014 include, but are not limited to: + Vehicular Network as a Sensor Network; + V2V, V2I and V2X communications + Vehicular mobility support in next-generation wireless technologies + Communications protocol design (MAC, routing, data dissemination) + Data storage, management, and retrieval in vehicular networks + Solutions to connect vehicles with the Internet + Big data analytics for ITS applications + Security and privacy in ITS applications + Multimedia applications, infotainment + Cooperative driving, autonomous and smart vehicles + Traffic management and efficiency applications + Electrification of transportation systems + Simulation environments, experimental testbeds, field operational tests + Mobile (smart) device integration in vehicles and transport systems + Integration of cloud technologies in ITS applications PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION -------------------------------- Papers should neither have been published elsewhere nor being currently under review by another conference or journal. Manuscripts are limited to 6 pages, single spacing, double column, and must strictly adhere to the template format. Guidelines on paper submission and formatting are available at: http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/smartvehicles2014 Accepted papers will appear in the symposium proceedings published by IEEE. Workshop papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE Digital Library (IEEEXplore), showing their affiliation with IEEE WoWMoM. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and present his/her work at the workshop in order for that paper to appear in the proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Paper Registration Deadline: February 1, 2014 (mandatory) Paper Submission Deadline: February 7, 2014 Notification Deadline: March 7, 2014 Camera Ready Due: April 15, 2014 Workshop Date: June 16-19, 2014 ORGANISING COMMITTEE -------------------- Workshop Co-Chairs Raffaele Bruno, IIT, CNR, Italy Salil Kanhere, UNSW, Australia John B. Kenney, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, USA Publicity Chair Valerio Arnaboldi, IIT, CNR, Italy Program Committee TBA ______________________________________________________________ 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: SECOTS 2014, submission deadline December, 30th (Fourth International Symposium on Security in Collaboration Technologies and Systems)
by Lars Wolf 16 Dec '13

16 Dec '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: SECOTS 2014, submission deadline December, 30th (Fourth International Symposium on Security in Collaboration Technologies and Systems) Datum: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 11:02:35 +0100 Von: Paolo Mori <paolo.mori(a)IIT.CNR.IT> Antwort an: Paolo Mori <paolo.mori(a)IIT.CNR.IT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG apologies if you receive multiple copies. ******************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS ******************************************************************** Fourth International Symposium on Security in Collaboration Technologies and Systems (SECOTS 2014) http://cts2014.cisedu.info/2-conference/symposia/symp-03-secots-2014 As part of The 2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2014) May 19-23, 2014, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA ******************************************************************** **SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES** Collaboration relies on distributed systems that combine different resources, often provisioned on-demand for the duration of the mission or project, and that typically interact through the Internet. Security is a fundamental aspect of collaboration systems in order to ensure normal un-interruptible reliable operation. Nowadays, collaborative systems use new technologies such as mobile devices, smartcards, wireless networks, high performance networks, cloud and grid computing, multi-agent systems. These environments introduce new needs, requirements and difficulties related to security. Hence, besides the well known threats of systems exposed on the internet, collaborative systems and technologies face several challenges in the field of security. This Symposium on Security in Collaboration Technologies and Systems, to be held as part of the 2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2014), will focus on security issues related to collaboration systems with emphasis on secure and trustworthy distributed environments, Grid and Cloud based resource virtualization and on-demand provisioning, multi-agent systems, mobile and wireless cooperation, and encryption for collaboration. The aim is to have a dedicated forum that fosters closer interactions among researchers and users communities, providing an excellent opportunity for them to meet and discuss their ideas. The symposium will address issues related to the security infrastructure and services design, implementation and operation. It intends to address new security challenges and present original ideas and solutions addressing new security requirements, specific methods of access control that should allow large scale multi-organizational cooperation, use of mobile technologies and smartcards, intrusion detection, system recovery and healing in the context of cooperative systems. We invite original contributions from researchers in academia, research institutions and industry on these emerging and important areas of information technology. Selected papers will be solicited from the best papers of SECOTS 2014 sessions for submitting an extended version of their papers to a special issue in a leading international journal. **TOPICS OF INTEREST** The SECOTS Symposium topics include (but are not limited to) the following: - Fundamentals and Frameworks for Security in Collaboration Systems - Intrusion and Attacks Prevention and Detection in Collaboration Systems - Access and Usage Control in Collaboration Environments - Reputation and Trust Management - Cross Domain Identity and User Attributes Management Systems - Security Standards - Encryption and Cryptography Systems Supporting Cooperative Systems - Privacy Protection for Collaboration Systems - Trusted Operating Systems for Distributed Environments - Middleware Security - Security Metrics and Measures - Collaborative Security Monitoring Schemes and Systems - Usability, Social Engineering, and Security - Security and Information Assurance Education and Curriculum Issues - Security in Cloud Computing - Security in Collaborative Multi Agent Systems - Security Using Collaborative Agents - Botnet Analysis - Biologically Inspired Cyber Security and Defense - Security of Grid and Cluster Architectures Supporting Cooperative Applications - Security in Workflow Management Systems - Policy Driven SLA Negotiation - Security in Mobile and Wireless Networks for Collaboration - Security Models for Coalition Networks - Security in Social Networks - Virtual Organizations and Dynamic Security Associations - Web Services Security - Web Vulnerability Analysis - Use of Smartcards in the Context of Collaboration **IMPORTANT DATES** Paper Submissions: December 30, 2013 Acceptance Notification: January 21, 2014 Camera Ready Papers Due: February 21, 2014 Conference Dates: May 19 - 23, 2014 **ORGANIZERS** Paolo Mori, National Research Council, Italy Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, The Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, USA **PROGRAM COMMITTEE** Farag Azzedin, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia Benjamin Aziz, University of Portsmouth, UK Lorenzo Blasi, HP IIC, Italy Barbara Carminati, University of Insubria, Italy Herve Chabanne, Morpho, France Francois Charoy, INRIA Lorraine, France Michel Cukier, University of Maryland, Maryland, USA Stefano Guarino, Università Roma 3, Italy Jens Jensen, STFC, UK Wael Kanoun, Alcatel-Lucent, France Nizar Kheir, Orange, France Adam Lee, University of Pittsburgh, USA Jean Leneutre, IT Telecom ParisTech, France Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Fabio Martinelli, National Research Council, Italy Joon Park, Syracuse University, New York, USA Federica Paci, University of Trento, Italy Marinella Petrocchi, National Research Council, Italy Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, Colorado, USA Kui Ren, University of SUNY Buffalo, New York, USA Abdullatif Shikfa, Alcatel-Lucent, France Mahesh Tripunitara, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Luca Vigano, King's College London, UK -- Paolo Mori, Computer Science PhD Istituto di Informatica e Telematica Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Via G. Moruzzi, 1 56124 - Pisa - Italy tel. +39 050 315 2069 mob. +39 348 4467100 ______________________________________________________________ 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] International Teletraffic Congress (ITC-26) - Call for Papers
by Lars Wolf 16 Dec '13

16 Dec '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] International Teletraffic Congress (ITC-26) - Call for Papers Datum: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 04:32:58 -0500 Von: Florin Ciucu <f.ciucu(a)WARWICK.AC.UK> Antwort an: Florin Ciucu <f.ciucu(a)WARWICK.AC.UK> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Call for Papers 26th International Teletraffic Congress September 09-11, 2014, Karlskrona, Sweden "Teletraffic Contributions Towards a Sustainable World" http://www.itc26.org After years of traffic growth, network over-provisioning policies have shown their limitations. Thus, traffic modeling and analysis have regained an important role to the provisioning of performance models, evaluation methods, monitoring and management approaches that allow for efficient dimensioning of network resources for various network technologies and communication requirements. In fact, such tools are of utmost importance for increased sustainability of communication solutions, which in turn improve the sustainability of environment, society and businesses. The motto of ITC 26 has been chosen with these challenges in mind. Since 1955, ITC has successfully been integrating researchers and practitioners in striving for understanding and mastering network performance issues in an ever-changing landscape of communication technology and services that trigger new demands to accommodate. ITC 26 is bound to provide significant technological and methodological contributions to create a positive momentum in sustainable service delivery. Specific teletraffic-related topics in network technologies and applications of interest include, but are not limited to: Network technologies and applications ======================== Future networks design Green ICT Network virtualization Cloud networking Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) Data center networks Carrier networks Optical networks Cellular networks Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) Wireless ad-hoc and mesh networks Delay-tolerant networks Sensor networks Internet of Things (IoT) Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Application layer networks and overlays P2P and distributed lookup Content Delivery Networks (CDN) Information-Centric Networking (ICN) IPTV, WebTV, HTTP-based streaming Distributed, grid, and cloud computing Web-services and SOA Social networks and crowd sourcing Tele-medicine, -education, -metry Network planning, QoS, performance and sustainability =================================== Network design methods Energy efficiency Capacity planning methods and tools Planning for multi-carrier networks Cross-layer design and optimization Performance of wireless/wired networks QoE, QoS, SLA, and GoS Resource allocation and management Optimization techniques Game-theoretic models Random graph models Scheduling algorithms Queuing and traffic models Performance and reliability tradeoffs Robustness and reliability issues Simulation methods and tools Network coding Pricing and billing Business models for service deployment Traffic measurement, management, and security-related issues ======================================== Network tomography Big data traffic modeling and management Self-optimization Traffic engineering Dynamic bandwidth management Intelligent adaptive routing Location and mobility management Multi-domain issues Overload and congestion control Admission control Traffic and performance monitoring Protection, switching, and restoration Anomaly detection Detection of DoS attacks Attack mitigation methods Worm and virus propagation Epidemiological models Privacy and trust Important dates =========== Paper registration: March 01, 2014 Full paper due: March 08, 2014 Acceptance notification: May 08, 2014 Camera-ready paper due: June 08, 2014 Workshops and tutorials: See separate calls Submission site: http://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=16439 Papers must contain original work, must not be under review at other journals/conferences, and may comprise of max. 9 pages in 2-column IEEE conference style with minimal font size of 10 pt. Organization: Blekinge Institute of Technology, 371 79 Karlskrona, Sweden. Contact: itc26(a)bth.se Conference Co-Chairs: Åke Arvidsson (Ericsson AB, Sweden) & Ulf Körner (Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden) TPC Co-Chairs: Hiroshi Saito (NTT, Japan) & Markus Fiedler (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden) Keynote Co-Chair: Kurt Tutschku (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden) Tutorial Co-Chairs: Ron Addie (Univ. of Southern Queensland, Australia) & Krys Pawlikowski (Univ. of Canterbury, New Zealand) Workshop Co-Chairs: Franco Davoli (University of Genua, Italy) & Phuoc Tran-Gia (University of Würzburg, Germany) Publicity Co-Chairs: Florin Ciucu (University of Warwick, UK) & Minghua Chen (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China) Publication Co-Chair: Dragos Ilie (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden) Web / EDAS Co-Chair: Patrik Arlos (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden) International Advisory Council: Chair: Prosper Chemouil (Orange Labs, France); Vice-Chair: Phuoc Tran-Gia (University of Würzburg, 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: ICDCS'14 Workshop on Data Center Performance (DCPerf'14) (due on Jan 24)
by Lars Wolf 16 Dec '13

16 Dec '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: ICDCS'14 Workshop on Data Center Performance (DCPerf'14) (due on Jan 24) Datum: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 03:57:15 -0500 Von: Robert Birke <birke(a)IEEE.ORG> Antwort an: Robert Birke <birke(a)IEEE.ORG> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG **************************************************************************** Call for Papers - Submission Due Date: January 24, 2014 The 4th IEEE International Workshop on Data Center Performance (DCPerf'14) Madrid, Spain, June 30 - July 3, 2014 http://www.zurich.ibm.com/dcperf14 in conjunction with ICDCS'14: The 34th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems http://lsd.ls.fi.upm.es/icdcs2014 Data centers have become an integral part of the backbone infrastructure for information technology. In particular, they provide a cost efficient solution for provisioning a wide range of computing resources in diverse environments such as business, scientific, and mobile. Due to the rapid growth of user-defined and user-generated programs, applications and content, the complexity of deploying and operating data centers continues to increase. Considering the high volume of mixed workloads, the diversity of services offered, and the increasing mobility of users across geographically distributed areas, the performance optimization of data centers has become ever more necessary and challenging, especially in view of criteria such as scalability, reliability, manageability, power efficiency, area density, and operating costs. The goal of this workshop is to promote a community-wide discussion to find and identify suitable strategies to enable effective and scalable data center performance optimizations. We are looking for papers that present new techniques, introduce new methodologies, propose new research directions, or discuss strategies for resolving open performance problems of data centers. Topics of Interest ================== Topics include (but are not limited to) the following: - System performance Hardware & software architecture Resource management & middleware Evaluation / modeling methodologies Empirical studies - Communication performance Intra- / inter-DC communication Open-flow based networks DC network architecture & protocols - Storage and I/O performance Storage architecture I/O scalability and performance - DC power and thermal issues Power and thermal modeling Power-constrained performance - Security and robustness Performance of security solutions Intrusion & misconfiguration monitoring Variability & reliability modeling - Virtualization and cloud computing Hypervisors & HW virtualization support Virtualized networking and storage Outsourcing issues Cloud scalability and management - Performance of DC applications Cloud computing Content distribution Hadoop applications Real-time analytics Important Dates =============== Paper submission: January 24, 2014 Notification of acceptance: March 7, 2014 Final manuscript due: March 21, 2014 Submission Guideline ==================== Manuscripts must be limited to 6 pages in IEEE 8.5"×11" double-column format. Accepted papers will be published in the combined ICDCS 2014 workshop proceedings and will be available through IEEE Xplore. Manuscripts should be submitted via https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dcperf14 General Chair ============= Dilip Krishnaswamy, IBM Research Labs Bangalore, India TPC Chairs ========== Robert Birke, IBM Research Zurich Lab, Switzerland Len Wisniewski, IQSS, Harvard University, USA Publicity Chair =============== Marco Beccuti, Università di Torino, Italy Program Committee ================= Souheib Baarir, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France Gianfranco Balbo, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy Gergely Biczók, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Luca Bortolussi, University of Trieste, Italy Andrea Bracciali, University of Stirling, UK Giuliano Casale, Imperial College London, UK Herve Chabanne, Morpho, France Salvatore Distefano, University of Messina, Italy Victor Govindaswamy, Texas A&M University-Texarkana, USA Peng He, Ciena, USA Jeong-Hyon Hwang, State University of New York - Albany, USA Samee Khan, North Dakota State University, USA Masayuki Murata, Osaka University, Japan Panagiotis Papadimitriou, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany Juan F. Perez, Imperial College London, UK Alma Riska, College of William and Mary, USA Roberto Rojas-Cessa, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Sriram Sankar, Microsoft, USA Sanjeev Setia, George Mason University, USA Seonghan Shin, AIST, Japan Marko Vukolić, Eurecom, France Miki Yamamoto, Kansai University, Japan Yanjiang Yang, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Shucheng Yu, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA Steering Committee ================== Jian-Nong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Alok Choudhary, Northwestern University, USA Peter Mueller, IBM Research Zurich Lab, Switzerland Martin Schmatz, IBM Research Zurich Lab, Switzerland Anand Sivasubramaniam, Penn State University, USA Larry Xue, Arizona State University, USA (We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this email) ______________________________________________________________ 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 extended to 12/22/2013, 11:59 PM PST] CFP: 17th IEEE Global Internet Symposium (GI 2014)
by Lars Wolf 16 Dec '13

16 Dec '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [Deadline extended to 12/22/2013, 11:59 PM PST] CFP: 17th IEEE Global Internet Symposium (GI 2014) Datum: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 00:24:43 -0800 Von: Jun Li <lijun(a)CS.UOREGON.EDU> Antwort an: Jun Li <lijun(a)CS.UOREGON.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG The deadline for GI 2014 has been extended to December 22nd, 11:59 PM PST. Please consider submitting your work to GI. **************** Call for Papers 17th IEEE Global Internet Symposium (GI 2014) In conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2014 Toronto, Canada April 27--May 2, 2014 http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2014/Workshops_GI.html The 17th IEEE Global Internet Symposium will be co-located with IEEE Infocom 2014. All relevant dates, location, and travel information are available from the IEEE Infocom 2014 conference site: http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2014/. The IEEE Global Internet Symposium aims to provide a top forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss advances in Internet-related technologies. The focus of the symposium is on experimental systems and emerging future Internet technologies, and especially on scaling such systems to a global scale. Research on understanding Internet protocols, services, and applications at global scale is also encouraged. The Program Committee also welcomes position papers (which should be clearly marked as such). The topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: * Routing, switching, and addressing * Resource management and quality of service * Software defined networks and network programming * Content delivery and management * Energy awareness * Next-generation network architectures * Distributed Internet applications including games, VoIP, and video conferencing * Online social networking * Peer-to-peer networks * Novel applications and new paradigms * Internet measurement, modeling, and visualization * Large-scale network operation and performance monitoring * Privacy and/or security issues on the Internet * Anomaly, intrusion and attack detection * Interface among networking, communications and information theory * Applications of network science in communication networks * Economic aspects of the Internet Important Dates * Paper submission: 15th December 2013, 11:59 PM PST. * Notification of acceptance: 7th February 2014 * Final manuscripts due: TBA * Symposium: TBA Submission Instructions Submitted manuscripts must be formatted in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font) and must be submitted via EDAS as PDF files: http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=16281. The manuscripts must be no longer than 6 pages. The Program Committee reserves the right to not review papers that violate these formatting rules. Submitted papers must not have been previously published, or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. All submitted papers will be reviewed and judged on originality, technical correctness, relevance, and quality of presentation. All accepted papers must be presented at the symposium by one of the authors. Steering Committee * Xiaoming Fu, Chair (University of Goettingen, DE) * Marcelo Bagnulo Braun (UC3M, Spain) * Tilman Wolf (UMass, USA) * Jorg Ott (Aalto U., Finland) * Colin Perkins (U. Glasgow, UK) Program Committee Chairs * Jun Li (University of Oregon, USA) * Rade Stanojevic (Telefonica Research, Spain) Technical Program Committee * Fred Baker (Cisco) * Fabian Bustamante (Northwestern University) * Kevin Butler (University of Oregon) * Luca Cittadini (Roma Tre University) * Ruben Cuevas (UC3M) * Wu-chang Feng (Portland State University) * Polly Huang (National Taiwan University) * Olaf Maennel (Loughborough University) * David Malone (Hamilton Institute) * Joerg Ott (Aalto University) * Colin Perkins (University of Glasgow) * Radia Perlman (Intel) * Ioannis Psaras (University College London) * Chen Qian (University of Kentucky) * Peter Reiher (UCLA) * Reza Rejaie (University of Oregon) * Michael Sirivianos (Cyprus University of Technology) * Arun Vishwanath (University of Melbourne) * Dan Wang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) * Mei Wang (Cisco) * Lenx Tao Wei (UC Berkeley and Peking University) * Tilman Wolf (U Mass Amherst) The Global Internet (GI) Symposium is the flagship event established and organized by the Internet Technical Committee (ITC), a joint committee of the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) and the Internet Society (ISOC). ======================================================================= Jun Li, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Computer and Information Science, University of Oregon Director, Network & Security Research Laboratory, University of Oregon Email: lijun(a)cs.uoregon.edu http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/~lijun ______________________________________________________________ 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: CFP: 3rd IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Communications and Control for Smart Energy Systems (CCSES)
by Lars Wolf 16 Dec '13

16 Dec '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] DEADLINE Extension: CFP: 3rd IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Communications and Control for Smart Energy Systems (CCSES) Datum: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 18:29:19 -0500 Von: Walid Saad <saad.walid(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Walid Saad <saad.walid(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG 3rd IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Communications and Control for Smart Energy Systems (CCSES) http://www.ieee-infocom.org/Workshops.html Call for Papers: The emerging smart energy system is expected to be a large-scale cyber-physical system that can improve the efficiency, reliability, and robustness of power and energy grids by integrating advanced techniques from power systems, control, communications, signal processing, and networking. For instance, advanced communications and networking technologies are expected to play a vital role in the future smart grid infrastructures by supporting two-way energy and information flow and enabling more efficient monitoring, control, and optimization of different grid functionalities and smart power devices. The efficient design of the forthcoming smart grid system faces a plethora of challenges at different levels ranging from communications and networking to control and power systems. In addition, the deployment of the smart grid will lead to several new multi-disciplinary research opportunities and potentials for collaborations with industries and various international smart grid standardization bodies. Building on the success of its 2012 and 2013 versions, the Workshop on Communications and Control for Smart Energy Systems is intended to provide a forum for discussion on all these most recent developments and bring together industry and academia, engineers and researchers. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the IEEE INFOCOM 2014 conference (http://www.ieee-infocom.org/) and it provides a unique occasion for the community to meet and share ideas and visions. Topics of Interest: • Communication architectures and protocols for smart grids • Advanced control of micro-grid distribution networks • Smart grids for green communications and green computing • Advanced metering infrastructure and smart meter technologies • Distributed generation and storage systems • Wide-area measurement and monitoring systems • Demand response management and load shaping • Power line communications and physical layer design for smart grid communications • Integration of green and renewable (wind, solar, geothermal, etc.) energy sources • Smart grid cyber security, intrusion detection, false data injection attacks • Sensor and actuator networks for smart grid • Dynamic pricing for networked constrained electricity markets and deregulation • Vehicle-to-grid networks and interconnection of electric vehicles • Distributed fault detection and communication-based robust control of smart grid • Home-area energy automation networks, ZigBEE and home-plug solutions • Cognitive radio and applications in smart grid communications • Time synchronization protocols for real-time smart grid operation • Transmission switching and routing technologies for smart grid • Quality-of-Service and service differentiation on power networks • Smart grid communications standardization regulation, and interoperability • Test-beds and field trials for smart grid communications and networking • Game-theoretic modeling and analysis of smart power grids • Consumer privacy protection and load altering attacks Steering Committee: Tamer Başar (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA) Peter W. Sauer (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) General Chairs: Merouane Debbah (SUPELEC, France) Lachlan Andrew (Swinburne University of Technology) Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA) Walid Saad (University of Miami, USA) Quanyan Zhu (Princeton University, USA) TPC Members: Raouf Boutaba (Univ. of Waterloo) Aranya Chakrabortty (NCSU) Mohammad Chaudhry (IBM) György Dán (KTH, Royal Institute of Technology) Jeff Dagle (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) Iñaki Esnaola (Princeton University) Aravind Kailas (Algorithms, Models, and Systems Solutions, LLC) Ghassan Karame (NEC Laboratories Europe) Himanshu Khurana (Honeywell Corporation) Deepa Kundur (University of Toronto) Albert Lam (Hong Kong Baptist University) Victor C.M. Leung (UBC) Husheng Li (University of Tennessee) King-Shan Lui (The University of Hong Kong) Miles McQueen (Idaho National Laboratory) Daniel Menasche (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) Hamed Mohsenian-Rad (University of California at Riverside) Craig Rieger (Idaho National Laboratory) Lalitha Sankar (Arizona State University) Dong Wei (Siemens Corporation) Jin Xiao (IBM Watson) Yan Zhang (Simula Research Laboratory and University of Oslo) Important Dates: Submission Deadline (EXTENDED/FIRM): Dec. 27, 2013 Author Notification: Feb. 7, 2014 Camera-Ready Deadline: Feb. 28, 2014 Workshop Date: May 2, 2014 Submission Guidelines: The authors are encouraged to submit full papers describing original, previously unpublished, complete research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, addressing state-of-the-art research and development. All submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of six (6) printed pages (10-point font) including figures. Submissions longer than 6 pages will not be considered. ______________________________________________________________ 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 extended: E2Nets'14 - Energy Efficiency in Wireless Networks & Wireless Networks for Energy Efficiency (at IEEE ICC)
by Lars Wolf 15 Dec '13

15 Dec '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Deadline extended: E2Nets'14 - Energy Efficiency in Wireless Networks & Wireless Networks for Energy Efficiency (at IEEE ICC) Datum: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 17:35:09 +0100 Von: Martin Jacobsson <jacobsson.martin(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Martin Jacobsson <jacobsson.martin(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this information] The paper submission deadline for E2Nets workshop has been extended to Dec 31, 2013. CALL FOR PAPERS *********************************************************************** The 5th Workshop on Energy Efficiency in Wireless Networks & Wireless Networks for Energy Efficiency (E2Nets'14) In conjunction with IEEE Intl. Conference on Communications (ICC'14) Sydney, Australia, June 14, 2014. http://e2nets.org/ *********************************************************************** Technical sponsorship by IEEE TSCGCC and IEEE TCCN and by iCore and ProFun projects Important Dates *************** Paper Submission Deadline: December 31, 2013 (Extended) Notification of Acceptance: February 20, 2014 Camera-Ready Submission: March 15, 2014 Accepted and presented papers will appear in the IEEE ICC workshop proceedings and IEEE Xplore. Submissions to be handled by EDAS at this link: http://edas.info/N16359 Scope ***** With ICT technologies, such as wireless networking, the Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber Physical Systems (CPS), Machine-to-Machine Communications (M2M), and cognitive networking, we have the opportunity to detect, prevent, and automate solutions for energy efficiency as well as creating a more sustainable society. However, for this to be a viable option, also the ICT technologies must be energy efficient. Instead of looking at these two problems in silo, we believe in a venue for researchers and practitioners in both these fields to come together and interact. This workshop aims to build this cooperation. Energy Efficiency in Wireless Networks: According to the GESI study, the ICT sector contributes around 2% of global greenhouse gas emissions. To increase the competitiveness, energy efficiency (E2) must also be a design criterion of the network and service architectures. Flexible networks that adapt their capacity to the requirements and context can lead to significant energy savings. Novel networking paradigms need to be introduced to assure that all components are used with maximum utilization. Green network architectures will be the cross- layer, cognitive and cooperative aggregation of techniques and mechanisms to provide a communication infrastructure where the energy consumption is minimized while guaranteeing the quality/grade of service required by the applications. Along with energy efficiency, spectrum utilization is to be optimized and radiation is to be minimized. Topics ****** In this workshop, the following topics of energy efficiency in wireless networks are considered: * Energy efficient Internet of Things (IoT) and smart cities * Energy efficient wireless sensor networks and their applications * Energy efficient ad hoc network services * Energy efficient algorithms/protocols and their implementations * Energy efficient service discovery and service provisioning * Cognitive techniques to control networking energy efficiency * Optimization of energy efficient networking * Physical layer techniques, channel/network coding for energy efficiency * Methodologies/architectures for energy efficiency * Energy-efficiency measures * Energy-efficient flooding/multicasting * Collaborative/cooperative/cognitive networking protocols for energy efficiency * Algorithms for energy efficient scheduling and resource management * Energy harvesting techniques and strategies * Cooperative green communications for energy efficiency * User mobility modeling to predict and adapt to patterns to reduce energy expenditure * Hybrid fiber-wireless networks for energy-efficient delivery of wireless signals To address the other 98% of the global CHG emissions, this workshop considers the following topics on wireless networks for energy efficiency: * ICT for minimization of the energy consumption of other systems, including transportation, houses, buildings, industrial processes, and smart cities. * Energy efficient cloud computing, smart grids and emerging applications, * Sensor networks for energy efficiency in industrial/harsh environments * Internet of Things (IoT) for making energy efficient systems * Vehicular networks to reduce the CHG emissions * ICT systems for a sustainable and green world * New designs of equipments/architectures for energy efficiency * Energy efficient virtualization of resources * Energy efficient radio resource management * Energy efficient smart homes and energy monitoring * Applications in smart grids and smart and sustainable cities * Optimization of smart, homes, cities, societies, and networks Tentative Committees ******************** General Chair * Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada General Co-Chairs * R. Venkatesha Prasad, TU Delft, The Netherlands * Abdur Rahim, CREATE-NET, Italy. Publicity Chair * Jinsong Wu, Bell Laboratories, Shanghai, China TPC Chairs * Martin Jacobsson, Uppsala University, Sweden * Kandeepan Sithamparanathan, RMIT, Australia TPC Committee * Ozgur Akan, Koc University, Turkey * Mário Alves, Politécnico do Porto, Portugal * Xueli An, DOCOMO, Germany * Joan Bas, CTTC, Spain * Abel Bravo Vicente, Universidad de Extremadura, Spain * Lin Chen, University of Paris-Sud 11, France * Guido Dolmans, Holst Centre / IMEC, The Netherlands * Lingjie Duan, SUTD, Singapore * Carlo Fischione, KTH, Sweden * Christian Haas, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany * K.V.S. Hari, Indian Institute of Science, India * Frank den Hartog, TNO, The Netherlands * Mohammad Hassan, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia * Gaoning He, Huawei Technologies, China * Sonia Heemstra de Groot, TU/e, The Netherlands * Ghassan Karame, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany * Klaus Moessner, University of Surrey, UK * Chyrsa Papagianni, NTUA, Greece * TV Prabhakar, Indian Institute of Science, India * Vijay Sathyanarayana Rao, TU Delft, The Netherlands * Laurent Reynaud, Orange Labs, France * Zhefu Shi, Microsoft, USA * Akshay Uttama Nambi, TU Delft, The Netherlands Further Information ******************* For further information, please visit our website: http://e2nets.org/ Submissions are handled through EDAS: http://edas.info/N16359 ______________________________________________________________ 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] IEEE Communications Magazine - Feature Topic on Disaster Resilience in Communication Networks
by Lars Wolf 13 Dec '13

13 Dec '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE Communications Magazine - Feature Topic on Disaster Resilience in Communication Networks Datum: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 09:00:19 -0500 Von: Michele Nogueira <michele(a)INF.UFPR.BR> Antwort an: Michele Nogueira <michele(a)INF.UFPR.BR> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE Feature Topic on Disaster Resilience in Communication Networks *Aims and Scope* Society's increasing dependence on communication networks, the Internet and their services is evident from the wide range of activities that use electronic media, from entertainment to critical operations related to commerce, finance and life care. Humanity relies on the Internet to access information, obtain services, manage finances, and communicate with others. Businesses use the Internet to transact commerce with consumers and other businesses. Governments depend on communication networks for their daily operation and service delivery. The military depends on the Global Information Grid to execute network centric operations and warfare. Hence, in addition to transportation-infrastructure, power-generation, and distribution-grid public/private networks, the Internet and other publicly accessible communication networks are today critical infrastructures upon which our lives and prosperity depend. Given this dependence, vulnerabilities of communication networks and the Internet can significantly impact our lives. The dependence on communication networks and the Internet makes them an attractive target for attacks and intrusions attempting to either obtain information or disrupt service of individuals, businesses, government and military. These networks and services are also susceptible to accidents, faults or natural disasters that can disrupt service. Examples of natural disasters that compromised the network infrastructure are the hurricanes Sandy and Katrina. In the face of these difficulties, the need for greater resilience has been recognized for wireline and wireless networks and for the Internet. Resilience has classically been defined as the ability of the network to provide and maintain an acceptable level of service in the face of faults, accidents, attacks and natural disasters. This subject has attracted the attention of researchers, industry and governments around the world. Today, resilience can be considered an essential characteristic in the design and operation of networks to withstand the intrusions described above. Furthermore, we must now expand resilience to include new requirements, such as scalability, dynamic and opportunistic topologies, and global interoperation and interdependence among networks. This feature topic call-for-papers solicits recent, relevant works related to disaster resilience, especially in emerging networks. The main goal is to provide for the *IEEE Communications Magazine *an overview of the state-of-the-art of resilience, and to identify the new challenges from emerging network infrastructures in terms of scalability, heterogeneity, and dynamicity. Works addressing resilience issues in the context of new communication technologies, such as software-defined networks, cognitive radio and emerging optical technologies are of particular interest. *Topics* Articles describing original research and development as well as survey articles related to disaster resilience are solicited. The topics to be covered by this feature topic include, but are not limited to: * Disaster resilience for the following technologies: - LTE, LTE-A, 4G, Small Cells, femto-cells - Heterogeneous wireless networks - Access Networks - Flexible Optical Networks - Overlay and multi-layer networks - Virtualized Networks - Software-Defined Networks (SDN) - Datacenters, Cloud infrastructures, Networks for Big Data - Smart Grids, M2M - Green networks * Disaster resilience approaches coping with: - Mitigation and reconstruction of network infrastructure - Management for post disaster network infrastructure reconstruction - Network infrastructure adaptive capacity - Disaster risk reduction - Risk management and sustainability - Community and social engagement in providing communication infrastructure in disaster situation - Knowledge management and integration - Public policy and governance to build disaster resilient smart cities - Energy efficiency *Submission Guidelines* Articles should be tutorial in nature and written in a style comprehensible to readers outside the specialty of the article. Authors must follow the *IEEE Communications Magazine*’s guidelines for preparation of the manuscript. Complete guidelines for prospective authors can be found at http://www.comsoc.org/commag/paper-submission-guidelines. It is very important to note that the *IEEE Communications Magazine* strongly limits mathematical content, the number of figures and tables, and the number of references. Paper length should not exceed 4,500 words. All articles to be considered for publication must be submitted through the IEEE Manuscript Central (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/commag-ieee) by the deadline. Select “October 2014/Disaster Resilience” as the submission category. *Important Dates* Manuscript Submission Due: February 1, 2014 Acceptance Notification: June 1, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: August 1, 2014 Publication: October 2014 *Guest Editors* Michele Nogueira, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil Piotr Cholda, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Deep Medhi, University of Missouri - Kansas City, USA Robert Doverspike, AT&T Labs Research, USA *Further Information* http://www.comsoc.org/commag/call-for-papers -- ---------------------------------------------------------- Michele Nogueira <<michele AT inf.ufpr.br>> PhD in Computer Science www.nr2.ufpr.br/~michele ______________________________________________________________ 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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