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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP - 1st IEEE INFOCOM 2016 Workshop on Software-Driven Flexible and Agile Networking (SWFAN)
by Lars Wolf 04 Nov '15

04 Nov '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP - 1st IEEE INFOCOM 2016 Workshop on Software-Driven Flexible and Agile Networking (SWFAN) Datum: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 19:35:34 +0200 Von: Lefteris Mamatas <emamatas(a)UOM.EDU.GR> Antwort an: Lefteris Mamatas <emamatas(a)UOM.EDU.GR> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Dear colleagues, You can find below the CFP for the 1st International IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Software-Driven Flexible and Agile Networking (SWFAN). We apologise in case you received multiple copies. The workshop website is: http://www.swfan.org <http://www.swfan.org/> Best Regards, Lefteris Mamatas 1st International Workshop on Software-Driven Flexible and Agile Networking (SWFAN 2016), 10-15 April, San Francisco, CA, USA (in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2016) Scope and Topics of Interest The NFV/SDN paradigms promote the deployment of Network Functions (NF) as software components into cloud infrastructures, and the identification of relevant abstractions for their configuration, control and management. Such NFs can comprise processing elements in the data plane (e.g., packet inspection, filtering, flow-level monitoring, or access control) as well as control-plane components (e.g., signaling, routing, dynamic load balancing). This paradigm shift essentially enables new cloud service models, i.e., NF-as-a-service (NFaaS), which can lead to significant operational and technology investment cost savings for service providers. Beyond that, telecom operators can greatly benefit from NFV/SDN, considering the increasing trend to implement mobile communication network functions in software. NFV/SDN orchestration can satisfy the evolving requirements of service and infrastructure providers with respect to the resource constraints, dynamic network conditions and service environments. Virtualized NFs should be deployed, located, scaled, and orchestrated in a holistic manner to realize novel services, through exposing their configurations using standardized interfaces, whereas SDN can provide a flexible network plane along these lines. Furthermore, the integration of protocol and application/service processing creates opportunities for enhancing the performance of cloud applications and services when accessed by mobile users. In this respect, SWFAN aims at bringing together researchers, engineers, and practitioners to discuss challenging aspects of NFV/SDN orchestration, such as the elastic provisioning of computing, storage, and network resources for NF deployment and scaling in the cloud, the development of new models, protocols, algorithms, and abstractions for more flexible and agile network control, management and operation, as well as NFaaS negotiation, contracting, billing, and SLA management. We solicit submissions of previously unpublished work on the following topics of interest (but not limited to): - Resource allocation for NF consolidation in clouds - Algorithms and methods for network service embedding - Interoperability among cloud providers for network service embedding - Abstractions and techniques for network service reconfiguration and scaling - Service chaining for policy enforcement - Architectures and interfaces for NF configuration and control - NF verification, systematic testing, fault management, protection - NF migration and state management - SDN for network service deployment - New models, protocols, and abstractions for flexible and agile network operations - Design and implementation of NF stores - NFaaS negotiation and contracting - Resource pricing and billing for NFaaS - SLAs for NFaaS - Mobile Edge Computing - Applications of NFV in cellular and mobile networks - Experiences from NFV/SDN deployments in production networks Submission Instructions Submitted papers should not exceed 6 pages in IEEE format (double-column, 10pt font). Papers should be submitted via EDAS. All accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and on IEEE Xplore. Important Dates Submission deadline: December 6, 2015 Acceptance notification: January 18, 2016 Camera ready paper submission: February 2, 2016 Workshop Organizing Team Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy Nicola Blefari Melazzi, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland Lefteris Mamatas, University of Macedonia, Greece Panagiotis Papadimitriou, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany Danny Raz, Technion / Bell Labs, Israel TPC Co-Chairs Erez Biton, Alcatel Lucent, Israel Panagiotis Papadimitriou, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany Publicity Chair Lefteris Mamatas, University of Macedonia, Greece ______________________________________________________________ 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: ACM TCPS Special Issue on Smart Homes, Buildings, and Infrastructures
by Lars Wolf 03 Nov '15

03 Nov '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: ACM TCPS Special Issue on Smart Homes, Buildings, and Infrastructures Datum: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 10:30:01 -0500 (EST) Von: Tei-Wei Kuo <pubs(a)acm.org> An: wolf(a)IBR.CS.TU-BS.DE Call For Papers <http://orange.hosting.lsoft.com/trk/click?ref=znwrbbrs9_5-e42cx3a679x027665&> *CALL FOR PAPERS* ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems (TCPS) /Special Issue on Smart Homes, Buildings, and Infrastructures/ Guest Editors Xin Li, Carnegie Mellon University Shiyan Hu, Michigan Technological University Qi Zhu, University of California, Riverside ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Introduction* Our physical living environment, from residential homes to commercial buildings and civil infrastructures, is becoming more and more intelligent, thanks to the rapid advancement of various cyber technologies. Examples include smart sensors and actuators, sophisticated control and communication algorithms, and efficient and reliable communication protocols. By integrating these technologies, smart homes, buildings and infrastructures can be built to improve service quality and reliability and to reduce energy and monetary costs. However, the design, implementation and operation of these cyber-physical systems still face many challenges that arise from the rapid increase of functional complexity, the significant uncertainty from physical environment and human activities, the increasing deployment of distributed and networked architecture, and the stringent requirements on system performance, safety, security, flexibility, reliability and fault tolerance. The purpose of this special issue is to present the state-of-the-art CPS research for building efficient smart homes, buildings, and infrastructures. The submissions should address the above challenges with a system perspective that includes both cyber and physical aspects, and should articulate how proposed approaches may be applied in practical CPS systems. *Scope, Description, and More Information* This special issue focuses on novel methodologies, techniques and tools for the design, implementation and operation of home, building and infrastructure cyber-physical systems. The topics to be covered include, but are not limited to: *Topics of Interest* include, but are not limited to: - Intelligent sensors and actuators for homes, buildings and infrastructures - Real-time control and optimization - Distributed, networked and collaborative systems - Big data and real-time data processing - Communication protocols and implementation - Design-time synthesis and verification - Modeling and analysis of physical components and environment - Modeling, analysis and integration of human activities - Security and privacy issues - Fault tolerance in critical buildings and infrastructures - Energy efficiency in homes, buildings and infrastructures - Practical deployment and case studies *Important Dates* * April 1, 2016: Manuscript submission due * July 1, 2016: First round of reviews completed * July 15, 2016: Notification to authors * September 1, 2016: Revised manuscripts due * November 1, 2016: Second round of reviews completed * November 15, 2016: Notification of acceptance * December 15, 2016: Final manuscripts due * April 1, 2017: Target publication date For further information, please contact xinli(a)cmu.edu <mailto:xinli@cmu.edu> or visit tcps.acm.org. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ If you do not want to receive future emails about publishing in ACM journals, send an email to mktg2(a)hq.acm.org <mailto:mktg2@hq.acm.org> with "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the subject. Association for Computing Machinery, Two Penn Plaza, Suite 701, New York, NY 10121-0701, USA Copyright 2015, ACM, Inc.

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP IEEE PERCOM 2016 Workshop on Security Privacy and Trust in the IoT (SPT-IoT)
by Lars Wolf 03 Nov '15

03 Nov '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP IEEE PERCOM 2016 Workshop on Security Privacy and Trust in the IoT (SPT-IoT) Datum: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 12:17:09 +0000 Von: Robin Ram Mohan Doss <robin.doss(a)DEAKIN.EDU.AU> Antwort an: Robin Ram Mohan Doss <robin.doss(a)DEAKIN.EDU.AU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG The 1st IEEE PERCOM WORKSHOP ON SECURITY PRIVACY AND TRUST IN THE INTERNET OF THINGS (SPT-IOT) 2016 In conjunction with IEEE PERCOM 2016 March 14-18, 2016 Sydney, Australia EDAS link: http://edas.info/N21137 The Internet of Things (IoT) is a novel design paradigm, envisioned as a network of billions or trillions of machines communicating with one another and rapidly gaining global attention from academia, industry, and government. Pervasive computing is at the heart of IoT and forms a fundamental building block necessary to realize the IoT. Equipped with pervasive technologies such as RFID and smart dust in addition to sensors, actuators and machine-to-machine (M2M) devices, IoT has the potential to offer innovative solutions to global challenges faced by ageing populations, climate change, growing cost of healthcare as well as how we manage our environment and natural resources.. The heterogeneous nature of the IoT as well as the computational constraints of many of the building blocks of the IoT make security, privacy and trust a challenging problem to solve on the one hand, while security, privacy and trust play a critical role for most if not all applications of IoT in doma ins such as surveillance, healthcare, security, transport, food safety, manufacturing, logistics and supply chain management. Without effective solutions for security, privacy and trust reliable data fusion and mining, qualified services with context-aware intelligence and enhanced user acceptance and experience cannot be achieved. The proposed IEEE Percom workshop on Security, Privacy and Trust for IoT aims to provide a forum that brings together researchers from academia as well as practitioners from industry, standardization bodies, and government to meet and exchange ideas on recent research and future directions for the IoT with a specific focus on IoT security, privacy and trust. The technical discussion will be focused on the communications and network security aspects of IoT and the key enabling technologies for IoT, especially M2M communications and networking, RFID technology and Near Field Communications (NFC), the challenges to security, privacy and trust presented and novel approaches to solving these challenges. The technical topics of interest to the workshop include, but are not limited to: - IoT secure access network technologies and capillary networks; - secure channel and traffic models; - secure spectrum management for M2M/IoT radio communications; - security of RFID, sensors, actuator technologies; - IoT secure network infrastructure; - IoT security protocols; - privacy in applications of the IoT; - IoT networking and communication security; - circuit and system design for secure smart objects in the IoT; - security, trust, and privacy issues for devices and services; - naming, address management and end-to-end addressability; - methods for secure by design IoT; - methods for IoT security analysis and audit; - privacy and anonymization techniques in IoT; - secure cloud of things; - trust management architectures; - lightweight security solutions; - authentication and access control in IoT; - identification and biometrics in IoT; - liability and policy enforcement in IoT; - security of Big data in IoT; - cyber physical systems security; - cyber attacks detection and prevention; - embedded platforms for cryptography (implementations for performance-optimized, resource constrained, energy-efficient platforms); - hardware security primitives; - secure pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing Software and Systems; - new Privacy and Security Techniques for Embedded Software and Systems; and - ethics and legal considerations in IoT. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers (up to 6 pages in length) electronically through the EDAS system using the standard IEEE template for conference papers. Papers must be original material not currently under review by another conference or journal. All submitted papers will be subjected to multiple independent peer reviews. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register for the IEEE PERCOM 2016 conference and present the paper. During the initial paper submission process via EDAS, it is the authors' responsibility to ensure that the author list and the paper title of the submitted .pdf file is an exact match to the author list and paper title on the EDAS registration page. In particular, the EDAS registration page must include all co-authors, not just the submitting author. Failure to comply with this rule might result in your paper being withdrawn from the review process. All submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of six (6) printed pages (minimum 10-point font) including figures. Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process and all submissions must be done through EDAS(http://edas.info/N21137) Manuscripts must be formatted in accordance with the IEEE Computer Society author guidelines. The IEEE LaTeX and Microsoft Word templates, as well as related information, can be found at the IEEE Computer Society website (http://www.computer.org/web/cs-cps/authors). All papers included in the PerCom 2016 Workshops will appear in the conference proceedings published by IEEE. IMPORTANT DATES Workshop papers submission: November 27, 2015 Workshop papers notification of acceptance: January 2, 2016 Workshop papers camera ready: January 15, 2016 Author registration: January 15, 2016 WORKSHOP CHAIRS Robin Doss, Deakin University, Australia Tanveer Zia, Charles Sturt University, Australia Damith Ranasinghe, University of Adelaide, Australia MORE INFORMATION Please visit Workshop webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/sptiot2016/home PERCOM webpage: http://www.percom.org. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Notice: The contents of this email are intended solely for the named addressee and are confidential; any unauthorised use, reproduction or storage of the contents is expressly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please delete it and any attachments immediately and advise the sender by return email or telephone. Deakin University does not warrant that this email and any attachments are error or virus free. ______________________________________________________________ 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 Access Journal -- Special Section on "Body Area Networks for Interdisciplinary Research"
by Lars Wolf 01 Nov '15

01 Nov '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] IEEE Access Journal -- Special Section on "Body Area Networks for Interdisciplinary Research" Datum: Sun, 1 Nov 2015 01:57:53 -0400 Von: Mubashir Rehmani <mshrehmani(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Mubashir Rehmani <mshrehmani(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Dear All, Please find below a call for papers for IEEE Access. Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. ----------- CALL FOR PAPERS Special Section in IEEE Access Body Area Networks for Interdisciplinary Research Submission Deadline: January 30, 2016 IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of "Body Area Networks for Interdisciplinary Research" Recent advancements in integrated circuits, wireless communication, and MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) technology has enabled low power, nano-technology sensor nodes strategically deployed on the human body to be used by different applications, such as health monitoring. This new area of research is known as Body Area Networks (BAN). BAN applications cover a wide area such as sports, entertainment, military, ubiquitous health care, and many other areas. BAN has multiple opportunities of interdisciplinary research where researchers from different areas of science and technology jointly put their efforts to improve the human body monitoring and performance. Due to these joint efforts, BAN is now evolving into Body Area Nano Networks (BANNs). The BANNs are further extended with Internet of Nano Things and Internet of Bio-Nano Things technologies. The objective of this Special Section in IEEE Access is to showcase the most recent advances in interdisciplinary research areas encompassing BAN. This Special Section will bring together researchers from diverse fields and specializations, such as communications engineering, computer science, electrical, and electronics engineering, educators, mathematicians, medical, and specialists in areas related to BAN. We invite researchers from academia, industry, and government to discuss challenging ideas, novel research contributions, demonstration results, and standardization efforts on the BAN and related areas. The list of topics includes, but is not limited to: Body Area Networks ------------------------------ Context and situation awareness Sensory augmentation Motion detection and activity recognition E-Health systems and electronic medical records Hardware architecture and implementation Medical imaging and patient diagnostic systems Human body communication International standards and regulatory matters Physiological parameters, measurements Communication Architecture of BANs (Intra-BAN, Inter-BAN, Beyond-BAN) BAN addressing and routing protocols MAC Layer protocols for BANs Cross layer routing protocols for BANs Radio technologies for BANs, Bluetooth, ZigBee, Ultra-wideband, etc. Radio coexistence and robustness Various kinds of BANs Signal/information processing and communication models for BANs BAN architectures and protocols Power-efficient communications Wireless energy transfer Sensing and actuation in BANs Software engineering and systems engineering for BANs Modeling, simulations and empirical experiments Design and performance issues Tools, testbeds and deployment issues Standardization of BANs Delay-tolerance, fault-tolerance and reliability in BANs Body Area Networks Applications ------------------------------------------------ Pervasive health care and patient monitoring Ambient assisted living Tele-medicine systems Wearable health monitoring Aiding professional and amateur sports training New medical diagnostics and treatments Real time streaming Entertainment applications Emergency (non-medical) Cloud Computing and BANs ---------------------------------------- Cloud-based BAN healthcare solutions Healthcare based cloud deployment models Offloading and networking in healthcare using cloud Cloud governance in health environments Tools and technologies in BANs, pervasive and sensor technologies that make use of cloud facilities Cloud-based usage analytics /event management Mobility challenges in implementing BAN integrated mobile cloud systems Image Processing techniques to securely transmit the BAN data to cloud Encrypted storage of healthcare related BAN data in cloud Access controls, roles, and application-based access to cloud specific records Standardizations Security and Privacy for BANs -------------------------------------------- Security and trust establishment for BANs Lightweight privacy preserving protocol design for data sensing, transmission and processing Physical layer security in BANs Cross layer design for security, privacy and trust in BANs Biometrics security for BANs Security threats/ attacks and their mitigations in BAN Theoretical security design using game theory or information theory Body Area Nano Networks (BANNs) Intra-body channel modeling and capacity analysis Modulation and channel coding Routing and MAC Protocols for BANNs Mathematical modeling of biochemical, and/or electrochemical processes Neuronal communication network analysis Noise analysis in action potential propagation Computer simulation of neuronal networks Nanoscale neuronal interfaces Nano-device and nano-antennas design for BANNs Nanomaterial- and metamaterial-based nano-antennas for BANNs Nano-antenna arrays for BANNs Signal generators & detectors for BANNs Modulators & demodulators for BANNs Nano-processors and nano-memories, filters & amplifiers for BANNs Nano-batteries and energy harvesting Nano-sensors and electromagnetic nanoparticles Applications of BANNs Nano-sensing for health monitoring Human life enhancement Electromagnetic interference (EMI) analysis for BANNs Application case studies and testbeds BAN integrated Internet of Bio-Nano Things (IoBNTs) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Molecular communication enabled BAN integrated IoBNTs Channel modeling for molecular communication, including open and fluidic environments and intra-/inter-cellular propagation Information theory for nanoscale communication networks of BAN integrated IoBNTs Communication theoretical approaches for BAN integrated IoBNTs Deployment and topology management in BAN integrated IoBNTs Network architecture and protocols for BAN integrated IoBNTs Experiments, implementation, and testbeds for BAN integrated IoBNTs Interfaces among BAN integrated nanoscale communication networks Energy efficiency in BAN integrated nanoscale communication networks Nano-computing paradigms, including neuromorphic computing, DNA and molecular computing, membrane computing and quantum computing Security and trust establishment for BAN integrated IoBNTs GUEST EDITORS OF THE SPECIAL SECTION --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Mubashir Husain Rehmani, Associate Editor and Lead Guest Editor COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan Email: mshrehmani(a)gmail.com * Ejaz Ahmed University of Malaya, Malaysia Email: imejaz(a)gmail.com * Samee U. Khan North Dakota State University, USA Email: samee.khan(a)ndsu.edu * Milena Radenkovic University of Nottingham, UK Email: milena.radenkovic(a)nottingham.ac.uk IEEE Access Editor in Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ---------------------------------------- Submit manuscript to: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ieee-access We also highly recommend the submission of multimedia with each article as it significantly increases the visibility and usage of articles. For information regarding IEEE Access including its publication policy and fees, please visit the website http://www.ieee.org/ieee-access ABOUT IEEE ACCESS ---------------------------------- IEEE Access is a multidisciplinary, applications-oriented, all-electronic archival journal continuously presenting the results of original research or development across all of IEEE's fields of interest. Supported by author publication fees, its hallmarks are a rapid peer review and publication process with open access to all readers. For information regarding IEEE Access including its publication policy and fees, please visit the website https://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/ieee_access.html ================================================= Mubashir Husain Rehmani Editor, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials Associate Editor, IEEE Communications Magazine Associate Editor, IEEE Access Associate Editor, Elsevier CAEE and JNCA Journals Associate Editor, Springer Wireless Networks Associate Editor, AHSWN Journal and JCN Journal Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Wah Cantt, Pakistan Tel: +92-333-3052764 https://sites.google.com/site/mshrehmani/ ================================================= ______________________________________________________________ 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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