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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ACM HotWireless 2015 submission website is up
by Lars Wolf 20 Apr '15

20 Apr '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ACM HotWireless 2015 submission website is up Datum: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 11:11:49 -0400 Von: Xia Zhou <xia(a)CS.DARTMOUTH.EDU> Antwort an: Xia Zhou <xia(a)CS.DARTMOUTH.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Hi all, The submission deadline of the 2nd ACM workshop on Hot Topics in Wireless (HotWireless 2015) is less than a month away. The submission website is up now: http://buck.cse.ohio-state.edu/hotcrp/ If you have exciting ideas in wireless and would like to get early feedback, please consider submitting to HotWireless. Check out the full CFP for detail: http://hotwireless15.cse.ohio-state.edu/ We look forward to your submissions. ======================== HotWireless’15 Call for Papers The 2nd ACM Workshop on Future of Wireless is focused on disruptive wireless technologies and systems that can enable orders of magnitude improvements in performance and novel wireless applications. Our goal is to provide a launching pad for bold and visionary ideas, and bring together experts in hardware, physical layer, networks, and systems to address core technical challenges in these emerging wireless technologies. HotWireless will provide a venue for debating future research agendas, technology trends, and application domains of wireless technology, and for presenting innovative and/or risky ideas that have potential for significant impact. Focus areas for this year include, but are not limited to, the following: -- Backscatter (and other low power) communication for next- generation sensors. -- mmWave technologies (e.g. 30 GHz & 60 GHz) for substantial throughput at range -- Highly directional transmissions for throughput and spatial reuse -- Visible Light Communications -- Nanoscale wireless for implantables and micro-sensors -- Wirelessly powered devices -- Dynamic spectrum sharing -- Physical-layer innovations -- Cross-layer wireless networking -- Sensing using wireless signals -- Medical applications of wireless signals We solicit position papers of five or fewer pages that propose new directions of research in wireless, advocate disruptive ideas, report on noteworthy experience in an emerging area, or generate lively discussion around an important topic. In order to promote lively discussion, we encourage forward-looking submissions, as opposed to mature work. We also encourage submissions on new open wireless platforms that can bootstrap exploration of the design space by the broader wireless networking community. Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: May 15th, 2015 Notification of Paper Acceptance: June 19th, 2015 Camera Ready: July 3rd, 2015 ======================== ______________________________________________________________ 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: [Cost290] [CFP Elsevier Computer Networks]: Special Issue on “Mobile Wireless Networks”
by Lars Wolf 17 Apr '15

17 Apr '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Cost290] [CFP Elsevier Computer Networks]: Special Issue on “Mobile Wireless Networks” Datum: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 17:33:03 +0000 Von: Ivan.Ganchev <Ivan.Ganchev(a)ul.ie> An: cost290(a)cs.tut.fi <cost290(a)cs.tut.fi> CFP Elsevier Computer Networks, IF 1.282 (2013), 5-year IF 1.871 (2013) Special Issue on “Mobile Wireless Networks” Wireless networks of moving objects have drawn significant attention recently. These types of networks consist of a number of autonomous or semi-autonomous wireless nodes/objects moving with diverse patterns and speeds while communicating via several radio interfaces simultaneously. Examples of such objects include smartphones and other user mobile devices, robots, cars, unmanned aerial vehicles, sensors, actuators, etc., which are connected in some way to each other and to the Internet. With every object acting as a networking node generating, relaying and/or absorbing data, these networks may serve as a supplementary infrastructure for the provision of smart, ubiquitous, highly contextualized and customized services and applications available anytime-anywhere-anyhow. Achieving this will require global interworking and interoperability amongst objects, which is not typical today. To overcome current shortcomings, a number of research challenges have to be addressed in this area, ranging from initial conceptualization and modelling, to protocols and architectures engineering, and development of suitable tools, applications and services, and to the elaboration of realistic use-case scenarios by taking into account also corresponding societal and economical aspects. The goal of this special issue is to bring together the state-of-the-art research contribution that describes original and unpublished work addressing the wireless communications and networking issues to support moving objects. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: WiNeMO Techno-Business Models WiNeMO Performance Modeling and Evaluation Protocols and Architectures for Moving Objects M2M Aspects of WiNeMO Synergy and Cooperation in Heterogeneous Networks WiNeMO Security Issues Applications and Services for Moving Objects WiNeMO Testbeds, Prototypes, and Practical Systems WiNeMO Case Studies Societal and Economical Aspects of WiNeMO Submission Details All received submissions will be sent out for peer review by three experts in the field and be evaluated with respect to the relevance to this special issue, level of innovation, depth of contribution, and quality of presentation. The Guest Editors will make an initial determination of the suitability and scope for all submissions. Papers that either lack originality or clarity in presentation will not be sent for review and the authors will be promptly informed in such cases. Submitted papers must not be under consideration by other journals, publications or conferences. Authors should follow the Computer Networks manuscript format described below at the journal site:http://www.elsevier.com/journals/computer-networks/1389-1286/guide-for…. The submission must be clearly written and in excellent English, with a maximum page limit of 20 pages. If the paper was published in a conference, the submitted manuscript must be a substantial extension of the conference paper. In this case, authors are also required to submit their published conference articles and a summary document explaining the enhancements made in the journal version. Manuscripts should be submitted on line through http://ees.elsevier.com/comnet/ and select "Mobile Wireless Nets" as the article type. Important Dates: Paper Submission Due: 30 July 2015 First Round Notification: 15 October 2015 Revised Paper Submission: 15 November, 2015 Final author notification: 15 December, 2015 Tentative Publication Date: 1st quarter, 2016 Guest Editors: · Marilia Curado, Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (marilia(a)dei.uc.pt<mailto:marilia@dei.uc.pt>) · Ivan Ganchev, Telecommunications Research Centre, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland (ivan.ganchev(a)ul.ie<mailto:ivan.ganchev@ul.ie>) · Andreas Kassler, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Karlstads Universitet, Karlstad, Sweden (andreas.kassler(a)kau.se<mailto:andreas.kassler@kau.se>) · Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland (yk(a)cs.tut.fi<mailto:yk@cs.tut.fi>) Best regards, Ivan Ganchev, DipEng, PhD, SMIEEE, ITU-T (Invited Expert) Deputy Director Telecommunications Research Centre (TRC) University of Limerick Limerick IRELAND _______________________________________________ Cost290 mailing list Cost290(a)cs.tut.fi https://mailman.cs.tut.fi/mailman/listinfo/cost290

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Fwd: PWSN'15 - submission extended - April 20th 2015
by Lars Wolf 17 Apr '15

17 Apr '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: PWSN'15 - submission extended - April 20th 2015 Datum: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 10:53:05 +0300 Von: Vasos Vassiliou <vasosv(a)cs.ucy.ac.cy> An: undisclosed-recipients:; ========================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS PWSN 2015 7th International Workshop on Performance Control in Wireless Sensor Networks http://www.netrl.cs.ucy.ac.cy/pwsn2015/ June 12 2015, Fortaleza, Brazil In conjunction with DCOSS'2015 The 11th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems ========================================================================= Important dates: ---------------- Paper Submission deadline: April 20, 2015 (extended and firm) Acceptance Notification: April 28, 2015 Camera Ready Paper: May 3, 2015 Workshop date: June 12, 2015 Most existing wireless sensor network (WSN) installations have in common that they are not considered time-critical. No immediate action has to be undertaken as a response to the received data. However, many emerging WSN applications such as plant automation and control, smart cities or health care applications require immediate and guaranteed actions. In such environments, data has to be transported reliably and in time through the sensor network. In some scenarios, data even has to travel through the sensor network and the Internet to reach the destination. In this situation the overall system spanning the Internet and sensor networks must provide together the required performance characteristics. Due to the lack of appropriate models, components and protocols, it is currently very difficult to construct and operate a WSN with performance guarantees. Thus, the commercial success of wireless sensor networks in many application areas is unsure unless this particular problem is understood and solved. The PWSN workshop aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners designing and deploying sensor networks that have to meet specific performance targets. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: -------------------------------------------------- • Communication protocols with deterministic performance • Network resilience, fault tolerance, network survivability • Sensor data quality, integrity, and availability • Performance-aware middleware • Real-time operating systems for sensor networks • Actuation and control • Programming abstractions for deterministic sensor networks • Impact of security features on network performance • Experience with real-world deployments and applications • Performance management of deployed sensor networks • Timely data storage, retrieval, and processing • Performance modelling and performance evaluation • Configuration and installation support • Performance debugging and performance optimization Workshop Co-Chairs ------------------ Eduardo Freire Nakamura, Federal University of Amazonas, Brazil Jorge Sa Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal Vasos Vassiliou, University of Cyprus Paper Submission ---------------- Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently under review in any other conference or journal, and has not been previously published. All submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of six (6) printed pages (in Two-Column IEEE Conference Format), including text, figures, and references. Papers should be submitted through EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pwsn2015 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information or questions, please email the workshop chairs or visit the workshop website: http://www.netrl.cs.ucy.ac.cy/pwsn2015/ -- Vasos Vassiliou, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Networks Research Laboratory Department of Computer Science University of Cyprus -- Tel.: +357 22892750 Fax: +357 22892701 Email:vasosv - a-t - cs.ucy.ac.cy url: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~vasosv

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CHANTS 2015 - ACM MobiCom 2015 Workshop on Challenged Networks: Preliminary CFP
by Andreea Hossmann-Picu 15 Apr '15

15 Apr '15

[apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP] ******************************************************************** * * Preliminary Call for Papers * * CHANTS 2015 * 10th ACM MobiCom Workshop Challenged Networks * * http://www.acm-chants.org/15 * (co-located with MobiCom 2015) * * Paris, France * September 11, 2015 * * Submissions due: May 25, 2015 * ******************************************************************** OVERVIEW ========= Challenged networks comprise those situations where communication is desired, but traditional Internet architectures fail to provide it effectively. Such networks may be characterized by intermittent connectivity, a heterogeneous mix of nodes, frequent nodal churn, and widely varying network conditions. Examples of challenged networks include deployments in rural and remote areas, networks to support emergency response operations, inter-planetary networks, sensor and wildlife monitoring networks, underwater networks, road vehicle networks, and, more recently, networks of micro aerial vehicles. The applications of challenged networks range from time-critical communications such as for disaster relief to delay-tolerant transmission in poorly connected regions or where censorship should be counteracted. Challenged networking has also found applications in everyday settings, for which they were not initially conceived, such as opportunistic networking supporting data-centric communications, traffic offloading from cellular networks, mobile cloud computing, and opportunistic and participatory sensing. The increasing availability of wireless communications in embedded devices as well as integration of technologies such as Wi-Fi direct on Android platforms and LTE’s D2D (device-to-device) communication on general purpose mobile devices, will further push the development of challenged networking solutions. Challenged networking has also chartered new directions for inter-disciplinary research, e.g., applying findings from social networks and network science. This workshop builds on the success of the nine previous CHANTS workshops, and WDTN 2005, and aims to stimulate research on the most novel topics of challenged networking research. This year’s edition encourages submission of theoretical and experimental work, including studies of real deployment. The workshop seeks original work presented in the form of research papers describing new research approaches and results, as well as demo submissions. All papers shall be forward looking, describe their relationship to existing work, and shall argue their impact and implications for ongoing or future research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Delay/disruption-tolerant networks (DTNs) - Opportunistic communication and computing - Architecture, design, and implementation of communication systems for challenged networks - Modeling, analysis, and characterization of challenged networks and protocols - Network coding in challenged networks - Information centric and content-centric networking in challenged networks - Security/trust/privacy concerns and solutions in challenged networks - Energy-efficient communication in challenged networks - Real-world mobility trace collection, analysis, and modeling for challenged environments - Network science methods for challenged networks - Mobile data offloading via challenged networks - Novel challenged networking systems (e.g., networks of micro aerial vehicles) - Real deployment and case studies in various stages of use - Disrupted scenarios for challenged networks (e.g., disaster relief and emergency management) - Daily use applications (e.g., mobile social networking, crowdsourcing, censorship evasion, sensor networks, IoT) - Test and simulation tools for evaluating challenged network systems - Configuration, management, and monitoring of challenged networks - Challenged networking techniques for mobile cloud computing - Challenged networking techniques for participatory and opportunistic sensing. PAPER SUBMISSION ================= Submitted papers must be no longer than 6 pages, and should adhere to the standard ACM conference proceedings format. Demo proposals (to be published as part of the proceedings) must not be longer than 2 pages plus 1 page description of the precise setup and requirements (the 1-page setup description will not be published in the proceedings). Reviews will be single blinded. IMPORTANT DATES (preliminary) ============================= Submission Deadline: May 25, 2015 Acceptance Notification: June 19, 2015 Camera Ready Due: July 3, 2015 Workshop Date: Sept. 11, 2015 PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS ======================== Katia Obraczka (UC Santa Cruz, USA) Karin Anna Hummel (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE (tentative) ======================================= Mostafa Ammar (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Fehmi Ben Abdesslem (SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden) Chiara Boldrini (IIT-CNR, Italy) Guohong Cao (The Pennsylvania State University, USA) Marco Cello (University of Genova, Italy) Marcelo Dias de Amorin (UPMC/LIP6, France) Stephen Farrell (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Domenico Giustiniano (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain) Tristan Henderson (University of St Andrews, UK) Andrea Hess (SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden) Andreea Hossmann-Picu (University of Bern, Switzerland) Pan Hui (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Kyunghan Lee (UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology), Korea) Anders Lindgren (SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden) Mirco Musolesi (University of Birmingham and University College London, UK) Melek Önen (Eurecom, France) Joerg Ott (Aalto University, Finland) Elena Pagani (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy) Andrea Passarella (IIT-CNR, Italy) Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos (Institut Eurecom, France) Stavros Toumpis (Athens University of Economicsand Business, Greece) Thierry Turletti (INRIA, France) Eiko Yoneki (University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, UK) PUBLICITY CHAIR ================ Andreea Hossmann-Picu (University of Bern, Switzerland) WEB CHAIR ========== Fehmi Ben Abdesslem (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden) STEERING COMMITTEE =================== Kevin Almeroth (UC-Santa Barbara, USA) Kevin Fall (Intel Research Berkeley, USA) Stephen Farrell (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Jörg Ott (Aalto University, Finland) Andrea Passarella (CNR, Italy) -- -- Andreea Hossmann-Picu Communication and Distributed Systems (CDS) University of Bern, Switzerland Web: www.iam.unibe.ch/~hossmann/ Office: 208 N10, Neubrückstrasse 10, 3012 Berne Phone: +41 31 511 76 45

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Elsevier COMCOM Special Issue - Mobile Traffic Analytics
by Lars Wolf 14 Apr '15

14 Apr '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Elsevier COMCOM Special Issue - Mobile Traffic Analytics Datum: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 15:41:08 +0200 Von: Marco Fiore <fiore(a)TLC.POLITO.IT> Antwort an: Marco Fiore <fiore(a)TLC.POLITO.IT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Communications http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-communications/ Special Issue on Mobile Traffic Analytics --------------------------------------------------------------------------- + Scope Mobile traffic analytics enable the study of the movement and service consumption of mobile subscribers at large scales. The rise of mobile traffic analytics is fostered by an unprecedented availability of data, collected by mobile operators through probes deployed at the access and core networks, or gathered by dedicated research initiatives via monitoring apps running on users’ smartphones. Both approaches can harvest information about large populations, from hundreds to millions individuals, over long time periods, from weeks to years. The richness of mobile traffic datasets is paramount to research in a wide range of disciplines, including, e.g., sociology, transportations, statistical physics, epidemiology, and – of course – networking. However, several technical challenges need to be tackled to release the full potential of such data sources, including the assessment of statistical robustness of inferred knowledge, the overcoming of scalability issues, and the consideration for data access limitations imposed by privacy regulations that tend to reduce data usability. The aim of this Special Issue is to gather contributions presenting state-of-the-art research dealing with all facets of mobile traffic analytics. We expect submissions to present quantitative evaluations carried out on substantial real-world datasets of mobile traffic. Here, we intend the term "traffic" in its wider acceptation. We thus invite works on data collected via, e.g., Call Detail Records (CDR), access (RNC) and core (MSC, GGSN/PGW) network probes, or smartphone monitoring apps; data can be limited to mobility patterns, it can concern traditional user-to-user mobile services (i.e., calling and texting), it can focus on the mobile data traffic demand (at any granularity, from throughput volumes to the precise services and protocols employed), or it can contain any combination of such information types. We especially encourage the submission of interdisciplinary research works at the interface between networking and disciplines such as those mentioned above. Special attention will be deserved to findings and results that have practical applications in terms of technological innovation, sustainable development, data and network management, and mobile services. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Original (open) mobile traffic datasets - Preparation and management of mobile traffic datasets - Generative models for synthetic mobile traffic datasets - Algorithms, structures, and (visual) tools for mobile traffic analysis - Privacy and security issues in mobile traffic analysis, and countermeasures - Inference of social features and mobility patterns from mobile traffic - Profiling of mobile device and mobile users from mobile traffic - Characterization of the mobile subscriber demand from mobile traffic - Comparison of mobile traffic features across cities, regions, and countries - Mobile traffic analytics for Intelligent Transportation Systems - Mobile traffic analytics for cognitive and anticipatory networking - Mobile access and core network enhancements from mobile traffic analysis - Mobile traffic analytics for device-to-device and opportunistic communication - Mobile service marketing strategies from mobile traffic analysis + Schedule Manuscript submission deadline: October 16, 2015 First notification: January 22, 2016 Submission of revised paper: March 11, 2016 Notification of acceptance: April 16, 2016 + Guest Editors Marco Fiore, CNR – IEIIT (marco.fiore(a)ieiit.cnr.it) M. Zubair Shafiq, University of Iowa (zubair-shafiq(a)uiowa.edu) Zbigniew Smoreda, Orange Labs – SENSe (zbigniew.smoreda(a)orange.com) Razvan Stanica, INSA Lyon / Inria (razvan.stanica(a)insa-lyon.fr) Roberto Trasarti, CNR – ISTI (roberto.trasarti(a)isti.cnr.it) + Instructions for submission The submission website for this journal is located at http://ees.elsevier.com/comcom. To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion into the Special Issue, the authors have to select "SI Mobile Traffic Analytics" when they reach the "Article Type" step in the submission process. ______________________________________________________________ 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] Fwd: The Second International Workshop on Privacy and Security in HealthCare 2015 (PSCare15)
by Lars Wolf 14 Apr '15

14 Apr '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Fwd: The Second International Workshop on Privacy and Security in HealthCare 2015 (PSCare15) Datum: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 17:14:50 +0200 Von: Mohamed rasslan <mrasslan(a)ALUMNI.CONCORDIA.CA> Antwort an: Mohamed rasslan <mrasslan(a)ALUMNI.CONCORDIA.CA> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG HOME https://sites.google.com/site/pscare2015/home The Second International Workshop on Privacy and Security in HealthCare 2015 (PSCare15) is an international forum dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practical implementation of Privacy and Security in HealthCare. PSCare15 intends to provide the state-of-the-art technologies in the broad areas of privacy and security techniques in healthcare to industry, researchers, physicians, engineers, and students. PSCare15 will be held in Berlin, Germany (27-30 September 2015) in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare (ICTH-2015 ). SCOPE The inability to properly secure the healthcare systems, hospitals, protecting patients against emerging threats and vulnerabilities, and sustaining privacy and trust has been a key focus of research. The PSCare aims to provide a highly professional and comparative academic research forum that promotes collaborative excellence between academia and industry. PSCare15 is designed to help e-Health industry, privacy and security professionals to protect the privacy rights of patients and applying best practices to information privacy management. Moreover, PSCare15 aims to develop and implement secure and privacy preserving e-Health systems by ensuring the confidentiality, integrity and availability of personal health information and life-critical information systems. The objectives of the PSCare are to bridge the knowledge gap between academia and industry, promote research esteem and to fostering discussions on healthcare information technologies, healthcare systems and global e-healthcare security and privacy applications. The PSCare15 invites speakers and researchers to submit papers that encompass conceptual analysis, design implementation and performance evaluation. All submitted papers are peer-reviewed (blind reviewed). The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Anonymity Security and Privacy Policies Privacy Preserving and Protection Secure Information Flow Biometrics Privacy Enhancing Technologies Security Policy and Privacy Requirements Social Engineering Security, Trust and Privacy User Profiling Cyber Security in Healthcare Secure Mobile Technologies and Telehealth Authentication Techniques Secure Electronic Health Records Telemedicine Anonymous Authentication Public Health Informatics Patient e-Safety Medical Errors Prevention Auditing and Quality Management Secure Health Modeling Database Security Healthcare Information Security Malware in Healthcare Security Solutions for Healthcare https://sites.google.com/site/pscare2015/home ______________________________________________________________ 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] CHANTS 2015 - ACM MobiCom 2015 Workshop on Challenged Networks: Preliminary CFP
by Lars Wolf 14 Apr '15

14 Apr '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CHANTS 2015 - ACM MobiCom 2015 Workshop on Challenged Networks: Preliminary CFP Datum: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 01:01:45 +0200 Von: Karin Anna Hummel <karin.hummel(a)TIK.EE.ETHZ.CH> Antwort an: Karin Anna Hummel <karin.hummel(a)TIK.EE.ETHZ.CH> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP] ******************************************************************** * * Preliminary Call for Papers * * CHANTS 2015 * 10th ACM MobiCom Workshop Challenged Networks * *http://www.acm-chants.org/15 * (co-located with MobiCom 2015) * * Paris, France * September 11, 2015 * * Submissions due: May 25, 2015 * ******************************************************************** OVERVIEW ========= Challenged networks comprise those situations where communication is desired, but traditional Internet architectures fail to provide it effectively. Such networks may be characterized by intermittent connectivity, a heterogeneous mix of nodes, frequent nodal churn, and widely varying network conditions. Examples of challenged networks include deployments in rural and remote areas, networks to support emergency response operations, inter-planetary networks, sensor and wildlife monitoring networks, underwater networks, road vehicle networks, and, more recently, networks of micro aerial vehicles. The applications of challenged networks range from time-critical communications such as for disaster relief to delay-tolerant transmission in poorly connected regions or where censorship should be counteracted. Challenged networking has also found applications in everyday settings, for which they were not initially conceived, such as opportunistic networking supporting data-centric communications, traffic offloading from cellular networks, mobile cloud computing, and opportunistic and participatory sensing. The increasing availability of wireless communications in embedded devices as well as integration of technologies such as Wi-Fi direct on Android platforms and LTE’s D2D (device-to-device) communication on general purpose mobile devices, will further push the development of challenged networking solutions. Challenged networking has also chartered new directions for inter-disciplinary research, e.g., applying findings from social networks and network science. This workshop builds on the success of the nine previous CHANTS workshops, and WDTN 2005, and aims to stimulate research on the most novel topics of challenged networking research. This year’s edition encourages submission of theoretical and experimental work, including studies of real deployment. The workshop seeks original work presented in the form of research papers describing new research approaches and results, as well as demo submissions. All papers shall be forward looking, describe their relationship to existing work, and shall argue their impact and implications for ongoing or future research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Delay/disruption-tolerant networks (DTNs) - Opportunistic communication and computing - Architecture, design, and implementation of communication systems for challenged networks - Modeling, analysis, and characterization of challenged networks and protocols - Network coding in challenged networks - Information centric and content-centric networking in challenged networks - Security/trust/privacy concerns and solutions in challenged networks - Energy-efficient communication in challenged networks - Real-world mobility trace collection, analysis, and modeling for challenged environments - Network science methods for challenged networks - Mobile data offloading via challenged networks - Novel challenged networking systems (e.g., networks of micro aerial vehicles) - Real deployment and case studies in various stages of use - Disrupted scenarios for challenged networks (e.g., disaster relief and emergency management) - Daily use applications (e.g., mobile social networking, crowdsourcing, censorship evasion, sensor networks, IoT) - Test and simulation tools for evaluating challenged network systems - Configuration, management, and monitoring of challenged networks - Challenged networking techniques for mobile cloud computing - Challenged networking techniques for participatory and opportunistic sensing. PAPER SUBMISSION ================= Submitted papers must be no longer than 6 pages, and should adhere to the standard ACM conference proceedings format. Demo proposals (to be published as part of the proceedings) must not be longer than 2 pages plus 1 page description of the precise setup and requirements (the 1-page setup description will not be published in the proceedings). Reviews will be single blinded. IMPORTANT DATES (preliminary) ============================= Submission Deadline: May 25, 2015 Acceptance Notification: June 19, 2015 Camera Ready Due: July 3, 2015 Workshop Date: Sept. 11, 2015 PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS ======================== Katia Obraczka (UC Santa Cruz, USA) Karin Anna Hummel (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE (tentative) ======================================= Mostafa Ammar (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Fehmi Ben Abdesslem (SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden) Chiara Boldrini (IIT-CNR, Italy) Guohong Cao (The Pennsylvania State University, USA) Marco Cello (University of Genova, Italy) Marcelo Dias de Amorin (UPMC/LIP6, France) Stephen Farrell (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Domenico Giustiniano (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain) Tristan Henderson (University of St Andrews, UK) Andrea Hess (SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden) Andreea Hossmann-Picu (University of Bern, Switzerland) Pan Hui (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Kyunghan Lee (UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology), Korea) Anders Lindgren (SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden) Mirco Musolesi (University of Birmingham and University College London, UK) Melek Önen (Eurecom, France) Joerg Ott (Aalto University, Finland) Elena Pagani (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy) Andrea Passarella (IIT-CNR, Italy) Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos (Institut Eurecom, France) Stavros Toumpis (Athens University of Economicsand Business, Greece) Thierry Turletti (INRIA, France) Eiko Yoneki (University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, UK) PUBLICITY CHAIR ================ Andreea Hossmann-Picu (University of Bern, Switzerland) WEB CHAIR ========== Fehmi Ben Abdesslem (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden) STEERING COMMITTEE =================== Kevin Almeroth (UC-Santa Barbara, USA) Kevin Fall (Intel Research Berkeley, USA) Stephen Farrell (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Jörg Ott (Aalto University, Finland) Andrea Passarella (CNR, Italy) ______________________________________________________________ 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: Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal [IF=1.94] -- SI on "Smart Wireless Access Networks and Systems For Smart Cities"
by Lars Wolf 13 Apr '15

13 Apr '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal [IF=1.94] -- SI on "Smart Wireless Access Networks and Systems For Smart Cities" Datum: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 11:27:28 +0200 Von: Pasquale Pace <ppace(a)DIMES.UNICAL.IT> Antwort an: Pasquale Pace <ppace(a)DIMES.UNICAL.IT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Dear All, please find below a call for papers for the Special Issue of the Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal on " Smart Wireless Access Networks and Systems For Smart Cities". Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. -------------------------- Call for Papers for the Special Issue of the Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal on "Smart Wireless Access Networks and Systems For Smart Cities" http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ad-hoc-networks/call-for-papers/special-iss ue-on-smart-wireless-access-networks-and-systems/ AIMS AND SCOPE ---------------------------- The main goals of a smart-city are to improve sustainability and livability, to ease city government and organization, and to increase services to the citizens. The primary role of ICT in enabling this vision is to keep the decision makers, the stake holders and the citizen constantly updated with fresh information collected around the city. To accomplish this task, next generation cities, will be populated with billions of heterogeneous devices ranging from tiny communicating objects (e.g., actuators, sensors, tags) able to interact with the surrounding environment and remote systems, to high-end nodes (e.g., data centers, workstations) capable of complex operations and to process a huge amount of information. In this futuristic scenario a very special role is played by citizens with their smartphones, tablets and portable devices. They are constantly connected with whatever surroundings them and they are formidable information consumers. Their role however does not end here. Smartphones, in fact, are very powerful devices with constantly increasing processing, communication and sensing capabilities and very recently, a large plethora of proposals have emerged to leverage those capabilities to contribute to the information production process. For instance, citizens roaming around the city may be considered as mobile probes which, by making uses of cyber and physical data accessible by smartphones, can analyze the situation and produce reports to the community. Furthermore smarthphones can actively contributing in creating the communication infrastructure by forwarding data coming from surrounding devices. All in all, cities are going to became a new complex ecosystem which has the potentiality to offer many amazing feature and support innovative application. Unfortunately, fully exploiting, managing and accessing that ecosystem are still far to be fully viable and their fulfillment surely poses a formidable challenge. This Special Issue aims to solicit contributions on novel algorithms, methodological studies and experimentations on how to address the formerly highlighted issues. Specifically on how devise a city-wide networking infrastructure capable to efficiently guarantee communication in the new envisaged ecosystem, to manage the complexity of heterogeneous devices and access technologies, and to guarantee robust, ubiquitous, and secure connectivity over the urban environments. At the same time, beside studying the issues of the city-wide infrastructure deployment, the workshop aims to investigate the potential provided by the end-users devices (e.g. smartphones, tablets) when augmented in order to turn them into active components of the smart-city ecosystem, instead of mere connection end-points. Such a potential includes the possibility to extend the network access in a pervasive way, to provide ubiquitous computing services, and to favor the emergence of "collectivity intelligence behaviors" through collaboration and direct communication among devices. In lines with such objectives, the topics of interests include -but it is not limited to- the following issues: . Models of network components' interactions on a smart-city . Novel communication protocols for M2M Communications; . Device-2-Device Communications (D2D); . IoT architectures and middlewares; . Self-organizing wireless networks for pervasive urban access; . Network virtualization for heterogeneous wireless networks; . Systems for distributed Sensing and Control in Smart Cities; . Smartphone-based sensing systems, tools, applications in Smart City environments . Crowd sourcing in smart cities; . Dynamic trust management models for Smartphone based networks and applications; . Cooperation incentive models for Smartphone based networks and applications; . Reliability, Security, Privacy and Trust in smart cities ecosystems; . Business model to promote users collaboration and resources sharing in smart cities ecosystems; . Testbed on the feasibility of Smartphone based networks and interaction with Cyber physical Systems; . Applications, Business, Standards, and Social Issue; . Security models to promote Smartphone collaboration and resources sharing; . Cooperative systems of Smart Objects supporting Wireless Networks Interoperability and Management IMPORTANT DATES --------------------------------- Manuscript submission: 1st August 2015 Notification of acceptance: 1st February 2016 Final Manuscript Due: 1st March 2016 Online Publication: 1st May 2016 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ------------------------------------- All submissions have to be prepared according to the Guide for Authors as published in the Journal website at http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ad-hoc-networks. Authors should select "SI: SWANSITY", from the "Choose Article Type" 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 papers that appeared elsewhere has to comprise major value-added extensions over what appeared previously (at least 30% new material). Authors are requested to attach to the submitted paper their relevant, previously published articles and a summary document explaining the enhancements made in the journal version. GUEST EDITORS OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE --------------------------------------------------------------- * Valeria LOSCRI' Inria Lille-Nord Europe / FUN <mailto:valeria.loscri@inria.fr> valeria.loscri(a)inria.fr * Pasquale PACE University of Calabria - Italy ppace(a)dimes.unical.it * Zhengguo SHENG University of Sussex, UK z.sheng(a)sussex.ac.uk * Giuseppe RUGGERI University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria - Italy giuseppe.ruggeri(a)unirc.it * Athanasios V. VASILAKOS Lulea University of Technology, Sweden <mailto:athanasios.vasilakos@ltu.se> athanasios.vasilakos(a)ltu.se ================================================== ______________________________________________________________ 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: CfP: IEEE SenseApp 2015 (in conjunction with IEEE LCN 2015)
by Lars Wolf 13 Apr '15

13 Apr '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP: IEEE SenseApp 2015 (in conjunction with IEEE LCN 2015) Datum: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 10:14:30 +0200 Von: Andreas Reinhardt <reinhardt(a)IEEE.ORG> Antwort an: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Dear Colleagues, We are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the IEEE International Workshop on Practical Issues in Building Sensor Network Applications (IEEE SenseApp), to be held in conjunction with the 40th anniversary of IEEE LCN in Clearwater Beach, FL, USA. The submission deadline is 9 May; please consider submitting your work. Best regards Andreas Reinhardt ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ SENSEAPP 2015 TENTH IEEE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON PRACTICAL ISSUES IN BUILDING SENSOR NETWORK APPLICATIONS (in conjunction with IEEE LCN 2015) Sheraton Sand Key Resort Clearwater Beach, Florida, USA 26-29 October 2015 http://www.senseapp.org CALL FOR PAPERS For more than a decade, embedded wireless sensors and actuators have been increasingly networked to continually narrow the gap between the physical world and cyberspace. Domain-specific sensing deployments in scenarios like industrial settings and home automation are becoming more and more ubiquitous, particularly with the advent of novel sensing platforms which allow for the seamless integration of sensing devices into everyday environments. At the same time, data gathered through wireless sensor network deployments empower applications in the emerging domains of smart cities and smart infrastructures. While enabling technologies have evolved into mature and widely available solutions, insights gathered from real-world sensor network deployments are still scarce and many practical issues in building sensor network applications persist. A thorough understanding of these challenges from a practical/systems perspective is still necessary. This especially applies to insights from the areas of hardware platforms of sensor and actuator nodes, their operating systems, the networking of nodes, and fresh perspectives from field trials and applications. This workshop aims at bringing together researchers from both academia and industry to showcase their work and obtain feedback. It serves as a forum for the sensing network research communities working on embedded sensing systems to discuss open issues, novel solutions, and the future development of wireless sensing in general. We encourage contributions describing innovative work in the realms of wireless sensor networks, cyber-physical systems, smart spaces, the Internet of Things, and all related disciplines. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Practical experiences from innovative real-world sensor network deployments and applications - Hands-on experiences with the integration of sensor networks and the Internet of Things - Middleware support for sensor networks - Programming and debugging sensor networks - Security, availability and dependability issues in sensor networks - Experiences with new sensor hardware and node/platform designs - Experiences with sensor hardware integration - Practical problems in implementing localization and time synchronization - Experiences with communication protocols - Practical medium access control protocols (MACs) - Topology control and routing protocols in sensor network deployments - Novel communication paradigms for wireless sensor networks - Mobility management in sensor applications and deployments - Fault-tolerance and troubleshooting sensor networks - Antenna design and experiences with signal propagation - Experiences regarding energy management and network lifetime - Experiences with energy harvesters and energy-sustainable designs - Deployment, installation, and configuration support - Management of large-scale sensor networks and sensing campaigns - Interconnection between IP and sensor networks - Interfacing with sensor networks using mobile computing devices - Large-scale open sensor data sets from real deployments - Integration of wireless sensor networks with smart city infrastructures - Smart infrastructure support with wireless sensing technology - Real-world use of WSN platforms in smart spaces and cyber-physical systems - Sensor networking for smart power grids Submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three independent experts in the field. Proceedings of the workshop will be published together with those of IEEE LCN, and will be available in digital format from the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Authors are invited to submit original unpublished work, not currently under review by another conference, workshop or journal. Full papers must be restricted to 8 camera-ready pages (in 10 pt font, double column, US letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches, IEEE format), including text, figures and references. Papers must be submitted electronically via EDAS at: <https://edas.info/N20013> All papers must include title, complete contact information of all authors, abstract and up to 5 keywords on the cover page. Further information can be found at: https://www.senseapp.org/en/senseapp/submission-instructions/ IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission deadline: 9 May 2015 Notification of acceptance: 6 July 2015 Camera ready manuscript due: 31 July 2015 PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS: Csaba Kiraly, Bruno Kessler Foundation, Italy Andreas Reinhardt, TU Clausthal, Germany GENERAL CO-CHAIRS: Matthias Hollick, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany Salil Kanhere, The University of New South Wales, Australia STEERING COMMITTEE: Sanjay Jha, The University of New South Wales, Australia Cormac Sreenan, University College Cork, Ireland TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Zinaida Benenson, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Neil Bergmann, University of Queensland Carlo Alberto Boano, Graz University of Technology Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra David Boyle, Imperial College London Felix Büsching, Technische Universität Braunschweig Rachel Cardell-Oliver, The University of Western Australia Delphine Christin, University of Bonn and Fraunhofer FKIE Omprakash Gnawali, University of Houston Wendi Heinzelman, University of Rochester Frederik Hermans, Uppsala University Raja Jurdak, CSIRO ICT Centre Vinay Kolar, IBM Research Olaf Landsiedel, Chalmers University of Technology Chieh-Jan Mike Liang, Microsoft Research Tie Luo, Institute for Infocomm Research Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pisa Prasant Misra, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore Neal Patwari, University of Utah Gian Pietro Picco, University of Trento Rajib Rana, CSIRO Usman Raza, University of Trento & Bruno Kessler Foundation Christian Renner, University of Lübeck Olga Saukh, ETH Zurich Corinna Schmitt, University of Zurich Philipp Sommer, ABB Corporate Research Kristof Van Laerhoven, University of Freiburg Dingwen Yuan, Technische Universität Darmstadt

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP)
by Lars Wolf 11 Apr '15

11 Apr '15

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Srihari Nelakuditi <srihari(a)CSE.SC.EDU> Gesendet: 11. April 2015 00:28:05 MESZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP) Call for Papers IEEE ICNP 2015 http://icnp15.cs.ucr.edu/ ICNP, the IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, is the premier conference on network protocols, covering all aspects of network protocol research, including design, analysis, specification, verification, implementation, and performance. Sponsored by the IEEE, ICNP 2015 is the 23rd edition of the conference, to be held in San Francisco, CA, USA from Nov. 10-13, 2015. ====================================================================== Important dates Paper Submission May 8, 2015, 7:59 PM EST (FIRM) Acceptance Notification June 30, 2015 Camera Ready Version Aug 15, 2015 ====================================================================== We invite papers with significant, original research contributions to the field of network protocols for submission. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * All aspects of network protocol research including design, specification, verification, implementation, measurement, testing, and analysis * Domain-specific solutions, including protocols for network security, Internet of Things, routing, user privacy, network management, and data centers * Application-layer protocols for peer-to-peer systems, social networks, and emerging systems * Contributions to network architecture, e.g., specific algorithms and protocols for software defined networks, network virtualization, or future Internet architectures ICNP 2015 will select an accepted full paper for the best paper award. Up to two of the best papers from ICNP will be fast-tracked in the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, with a streamlined journal review process. Acceptance of fast-tracked papers in ToN is not guaranteed, but is more likely than a regular submission. Submission Guidelines * All papers should adhere to the IEEE Computer conference paper formatting requirements (IEEEtran.cls) and should not exceed 10 pages with font size no smaller than 10 pt (details can be found on the submission guidelines and formatting page). * ICNP uses a double-blind review process. The identity of authors and referees will not be revealed to each other. To ensure double-blind reviewing, author names and affiliations should not appear in the paper; bibliographic references should be made in such a way as to preserve author anonymity; acknowledgement with identifiable names and funding sources should be removed. Note that own work should be cited as a third person. Papers violating this double-blind review policy will be rejected without review. * Authors need to indicate on their paper’s submission page all TPC members with whom they have conflicts of interest. * Every paper MUST be presented by an author at the conference. The author list MUST remain the same as when the paper was submitted for review, and any changes in the author list or title is forbidden without prior written permission from the TPC Co-Chairs. At least one author of an accepted paper is expected to register at the full rate of the conference and to present the paper at the conference, in order for the paper to appear in the conference proceedings and be submitted to the IEEE digital library. Papers not presented by an author at the conference will not be published in the proceedings or submitted for inclusion in the IEEE digital library. Integrity Policy Submitted papers should not be previously published nor under review by another conference or journal. In some cases, the ICNP chairs may share information about submitted papers with other conference chairs and journal editors to ensure the integrity of papers under consideration. Authors are prohibited from informing any TPC member of any identifiable information (such as titles) of their submissions. Also, papers containing plagiarized material will be subject to the IEEE plagiarism policy and will be rejected without review. Organizing Committee General Co-Chairs: Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy, University of California, Riverside Prasant Mohapatra, University of California, Davis TPC Co-Chairs: Aditya Akella, University of Wisconsin, Madison Vishal Misra, Columbia University Steering Committee: Kevin Almeroth, University of California, Santa Barbara Ken Calvert, University of Kentucky Sonia Fahmy, Purdue University Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas, Austin Timothy G. Griffin, University of Cambridge Teruo Higashino, Osaka University David Lee, HP Labs K.K. Ramakrishnan (Chair), University of California, Riverside Krishan Sabnani, Bell Laboratories ====================================================================== ______________________________________________________________ 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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