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Fwd: [pimrc2016] IEEE PIMRC'16: the submission system is open!
by Lars Wolf 31 Jan '16

31 Jan '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [pimrc2016] IEEE PIMRC'16: the submission system is open! Datum: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 16:55:37 +0100 Von: Coll Perales, Baldomero <bcoll(a)umh.es> Antwort an: Coll Perales, Baldomero <bcoll(a)umh.es> An: pimrc2016(a)listas.umh.es -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------,,FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS,,27th IEEE International Symposium on Personal,,Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC’16),,4-7 September 2016, Valencia, Spain,,http://www.ieee-pimrc.org/index.html,,------------------------------… <http://www.ieee-pimrc.org/> Dear colleagues, I am contacting you on behalf of the IEEE PIMRC 2016’s Executive and Technical Program Co-Chairs to announce the opening of the submission system. Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical papers from January 31, 2016 to March 18, 2016 for publication in the IEEE PIMRC 2016 Conference Proceedings. Detailed instructions for the submission process can be found at: http://www.ieee-pimrc.org/2016/initsub.html. The 2016 IEEE 27th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) will be held 4-7 September 2016 in the beautiful Mediterranean city of Valencia, Spain. This annual conference of the IEEE Communications Society will bring together individuals from academia, government, and industry to discuss and exchange ideas in all aspects of Radio Communications, from Physical to Applications and Services. The conference will feature world-class plenary speakers, tutorials, and technical as well as industrial panel sessions. The technical program committee invites the submission of original, unpublished technical papers in the following areas (all submissions must be done through EDAS): 1. 1. Fundamentals and PHY Layer (Chairs: Buon Kiong Lau; Michael Jensen, Chenyang Yang) – Submission link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=21766 2. 2. MAC and Cross-Layer Design (Chairs: Jose Monserrat, Erik Ström)– Submission link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=21769 3. 3. Mobile and Wireless Networks (Chairs: Yan Zhang, Celimuge Wu, Ramón Agüero)– Submission link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=21770 4. 4. 4. Services, Applications and Business (Chairs: Roberto Verdone, Didier A. Bourse)– Submission link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=21771 _Important Dates_: *Papers submission**deadline**: March 18th, 2016** * Workshop proposals deadline: February 26th, 2016 Tutorials and Panels proposalsdeadline: April 15th, 2016 Acceptance notices sent: May 27th, 2016 Final papers due: June 24th, 2016 We are looking forward to receive your submissions and proposals. Kind regards, Narcís Cardona, Luis M. Correia IEEE PIMRC 2016 Executive and Technical Program Co-Chairs Baldomero Coll-Perales, Publicity Co-chair, IEEE PIMRC 2016

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Special session on Industrial Wireless Networking at IEEE INDIN'16, 18-20 July, Poitiers, France
by Lars Wolf 29 Jan '16

29 Jan '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Special session on Industrial Wireless Networking at IEEE INDIN'16, 18-20 July, Poitiers, France Datum: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 12:21:03 +0000 Von: Gidlund Mikael <mikael.gidlund(a)MIUN.SE> Antwort an: Gidlund Mikael <mikael.gidlund(a)MIUN.SE> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics INDIN'16, 18-20 July 2016, Poitiers, France Special Session on "Industrial Wireless Networking" organized by Prof Mikael Gidlund, Mid Sweden University, Sweden Dr Johan Åkerberg, ABB Corporate Research, Sweden Call for Papers Theme: Wireless communication is very appealing for a broad range of automation applications, including industrial process monitoring and control, home and factory automation, environmental, building and structural monitoring and energy management. Wireless communications in the automation domain impose a number of research challenges, such as communication reliability, bandwidth management, latency issues and energy efficiency. In dynamic environments, very challenging research issues arrive when non-functional properties, such as real-time behavior and adaptability, must be enforced. We solicit technical papers describing original ideas, theory, methodology and experiences from the design, implementation and deployment of wireless systems for industrial automation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: · Advanced network architectures and standards for industrial sensor and actuator networks · Protocols for reliable and real-time wireless communication · Integration and coexistence of heterogeneous wireless networks · Wireless sensor and actuator networks performance, simulation, RF measurements, modeling and case studies · Control over wireless networks · Security and safety issues in industrial wireless networks · Emerging wireless concepts, such as related to Internet-of-Things, for industrial applications Submissions Procedure: All the instructions for paper submission are included in the conference website : http://ieee-indin2016.sciencesconf.org/. A good quality paper may be considered for publication in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics subjects to further rounds of review Reception of full paper: 15 February, 2016 Paper acceptance notification: 10 April, 2016 Camera ready paper reception: 1 May, 2016 ______________________________________________________________ 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] [15th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless AdHoc-Now from July 4th to 6th 2016 in Lille France] Call For Papers
by Lars Wolf 28 Jan '16

28 Jan '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [15th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless AdHoc-Now from July 4th to 6th 2016 in Lille France] Call For Papers Datum: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 10:56:09 +0100 Von: Abdoul Aziz Mbacke <aziz.mbacke(a)INRIA.FR> Antwort an: Abdoul Aziz Mbacke <aziz.mbacke(a)INRIA.FR> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG CALL FOR PAPERS ADHOC NOW 2016 The 15 th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless (AdHoc Now) 2016, Lille, France Wireless Networks are becoming a necessity covering a wide range of application domains which include smart environments, health care, industry, precision agriculture, multimedia applications and intelligent transport systems, etc. This advancement in wireless and mobile technologies introduces new challenging issues. Since its creation in 2002, the International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless (AdHoc-Now) has become a well‐established and well known event dedicated to wireless and mobile computing. It serves as a forum for interesting discussions on ongoing research and new contributions. The conference addresses both experimental and theoretical research in the areas of ad hoc networks, sensor networks, mesh networks and vehicular networks. It focuses on all issues from link layer up to the application layer. The fifteenth (15 th ) edition of ADHOC‐NOW will be organized from July 4 th to 6 th 2016 in Lille, France . We seek original contributions as work in progress, experimental and theoretical research in Wireless Sensor, Ad‐Hoc, Mobile and Wireless Networks. * The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) . * Submission deadline : February 07 th , 2016 * Author notification : March 07 th , 2016 * Camera ready paper submission and registration : April 22 nd , 2016 * Conference date : July 4 th – 6 th , 2016 * Conference venue : Lille, France * Paper Submission : https://ocs.springer.com/ocs/home/AdHocNow2016 * Author Guidelines : https://project.inria.fr/AdHocNow2016/authors/ Submissions must not be published or under review for another conference or journal. We are interested, but not limited to, research papers in any of the following areas: * Access Control * Ad Hoc Networks of Autonomous Intelligent Systems * Algorithmic Issues * Analytic Methods and Modeling for Performance Evaluation * Ad Hoc Network Applications and Architectures * Delay-Tolerant Networking * Distributed Algorithms for Ad Hoc Networks * Energy Efficiency * Geometric Graphs * Location Discovery and Management * Mobility Handling and Utilization * Wireless Mesh Networks * Big Data Inspired Data Sensing * Mobile Ad Hoc Computing Platforms * Systems and Testbeds * Mobile Social Networking * Quality-of-Service * Routing Protocols (Unicast, Multicast, etc.) * Secure Services and Protocols * Sensor Networks * Self-Configuration * Service Discovery * Timing Synchronization * Vehicular Networks * Wireless Internet * Processing and Networking Technologies Complexity and Computational Issues * Prototype systems and real-world deployment experiences For further information please visit: https://project.inria.fr/AdHocNow2016 ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call For Papers: LCN 2016 - The 41st Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN)
by Lars Wolf 28 Jan '16

28 Jan '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call For Papers: LCN 2016 - The 41st Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN) Datum: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 09:45:17 +0800 Von: LCN Publicity Chairs <lcn.publicity(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: LCN Publicity Chairs <lcn.publicity(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG --------------------------------------- Apologies for Cross-posting ------------------------------------------ ===================================================================== Call for Papers: LCN 2016 - The 41st Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN) ===================================================================== Paper registration: April 18th, 2016 http://www.ieeelcn.org The Address, Dubai Mall, Dubai, UAE November 7-10, 2016 The IEEE LCN conference is the premier conference on the leading edge of theoretical and practical aspects of computer networking. LCN is a highly interactive conference that enables an effective interchange of results and ideas among researchers, users, and product developers. For the past 40 years, major developments from high-speed local networks to the global Internet to specialized sensor networks have been reported at this conference. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Personal and wearable networks - Wireless ad hoc, sensor, and RFID networks - Information-centric networking - Embedded networks - Opportunistic networking - Delay-tolerant networks - Cognitive radio networks - Vehicular networks - Underwater sensor networks - Cyber-physical systems - Social networks - Mobile and ubiquitous networking - Green networking - Overlay and peer-to-peer networks - Local-area and metropolitan-area networks - Storage-area networks - Routing and transport protocols - Software Defined Networking - Internet of Things - Link technologies - Adaptive networking applications - Authentication, authorization, accounting - Security and privacy - Cross-layer optimization - Mobility and Location-dependent services - Multimedia and real-time communication - Machine-to-Machine communications for smart environments - Smart cities - Network management, reliability, and QoS - Network traffic characterization and measurements - Performance evaluation of networks - Testbeds for network experiments - Network coding - Optical and high-speed access networks Authors are invited to submit papers describing original, previously unpublished work, not currently under review by another conference, workshop, or a journal. Full papers (up to 8 camera-ready pages, 10pt font in IEEE format) should present novel perspectives within the general scope of the conference. Short papers are an opportunity to present preliminary or interim results and are limited to 4 camera-ready pages. Short papers will be presented in a poster session. Both full and short papers are published in the proceedings and IEEE Xplore. All papers must include title, complete contact information for all authors, abstract, and keywords on the cover page. IEEE reserves the right to remove papers from IEEE Xplore that are not presented at the conference. Paper submission: Papers must be registered on EDAS and submitted in PDF format. Detailed submission instructions are available at the conference website. Direct your questions to the Program Chairs: Jens Toelle <jens.toelle(a)fkie.fraunhofer.de> and Kemal Akkaya <kakkaya(a)fiu.edu> Demonstrations: Proposals are solicited for research demonstrations. A proposal (no more than 3 pages) should describe the scope, significance and required equipment. Proposals should be submitted via EDAS to the LCN Demo Track. Important dates Paper registration: April 18 2016 Paper submission: April 25, 2016 Notification of acceptance: July 25, 2016 Final paper: August 15, 2016 Demonstration proposal: August 5, 2016 Organizing Committee General Chair Salil Kanhere, The University of New South Wales, Australia General Co-Chair Rachid Benlamri, Canadian University of Dubai, UAE Program Chair Jens Tölle, Fraunhofer-FKIE, Germany Program Co-Chair Kemal Akkaya, Florida International University, USA Publications Chair Karl Andersson, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden Workshops Chair Olivier Mehani, Data61 CSIRO, Australia Local Arrangements Chair Adel Ben Mnaouer, Canadian University of Dubai Local Arrangements Co-Chair Emad Eddine Mohamed, Canadian University of Dubai, UAE Finance Chair Frank Huebner, USA Registration Chair Katrin Reitsma, Motorola Solutions, USA Corporate Relations Chair Arafat Dweik, Khalifa University, UAE Demonstrations Chair Matthias Hollick, Technische UniversitÃ¤t Darmstadt, Germany Publicity Co-Chairs Soumaya Cherkaoui, UniversitÃ© Sherbrooke, Canada Hwee Pink Tan, Singapore Management University, Singapore Student Grants Chair Fadi Al-Turjman, Middle East Technical University, Cyprus Webmaster Gary Kessler, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA Steering Committee Nils Aschenbruck, University of OsnabrÃ¼ck, Germany Joe Bumblis, IEEE TCCC Executive Committee, USA Ken Christensen, University of South Florida, USA Ehab Elmallah, University of Alberta, Canada Matthias Frank, University of Bonn, Germany Anura Jayasumana, Colorado State University, USA Gary Kessler, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA Tom Pfeifer, Technical University of Berlin, Germany Burkhard Stiller, University of ZÃ¼rich + ETH, Switzerland Tim Strayer, BBN, USA Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida, USA Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA. Follow LCN on Twitter at https://twitter.com/IEEELCN Like LCN on FaceBook at https://www.facebook.com/ieeelcn/ ______________________________________________________________ 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 Wireless Communications - Special Issue on Architecture for Next Generation Wireless Networks: Scalability, Flexibility, and Interoperability
by Lars Wolf 28 Jan '16

28 Jan '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE Wireless Communications - Special Issue on Architecture for Next Generation Wireless Networks: Scalability, Flexibility, and Interoperability Datum: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 17:42:21 -0400 Von: Kejie Lu <lukejie(a)ECE.UPRM.EDU> Antwort an: Kejie Lu <lukejie(a)ECE.UPRM.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Apologies if you have received multiple copies of this message +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | CALL FOR PAPERS | | IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS: SPECIAL ISSUE ON | | Architecture for Next Generation Wireless Networks: | | Scalability, Flexibility, and Interoperability | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ Over the past decade, we have witnessed the tremendous growth in the number of networked wireless devices, in the types of wireless and mobile applications, and in the total amount of traffic from and towards these devices. In the foreseeable future, it is expected that such a trend will continue with an unprecedented increasing rate. For instance, with the recent deployment of the fourth-generation (4G) cellular network, mobile data traffic rate over cellular networks had exceeded 2 Exabytes per month world-wide by the end of 2014. Recent studies also suggest that the mobile traffic rate could be increased 10-fold by 2019. Besides the ever-increasing mobile applications over cellular networks, many other wireless applications are emerging, including smart grid, vehicular ad hoc network (VANET), cyber-physical system (CPS), and more generally, Internet of Things (IoT). Clearly, to accommodate the fast growing demands, future wireless networks must be scalable. For the aforementioned existing and emerging wireless applications, it has been well-known that they have diverse quality-of-service (QoS) requirements: from low data rate IoT monitoring applications to high data rate content streaming applications, from delay sensitive real-time monitoring in smart grid and safety control in vehicular CPS to delay-tolerant IoT applications. Therefore, it has been very challenging to design and develop practical wireless networks and systems to facilitate different application demands efficiently. To address these challenges, researchers and developers in both academia and industry have put significant efforts to design various wireless networks. For example, in the past few years, the architecture of the fifth-generation (5G) cellular network has attracted significant attention, several future Internet architectures (FIAs) have also been proposed and investigated, and various architectures have been developed for smart grid, VANET, IoT, etc. Naturally, it becomes very important to investigate two issues: first, how we can flexibly deploy or configure a specific type of wireless network, and secondly, if we have multiple co-existing wireless networks, how we can enable the interoperation among them. In the literature, the importance of scalability, flexibility, and interoperability has been recognized and there are some existing studies already. However, despite the importance of these efforts, there are still many challenging issues to be addressed. For example, how to effectively accommodate more than 1 trillion networked devices world-wide in the next 10 years? How to efficiently provision services in future wireless networks such that a given system can be flexibly programmed to optimize the performance of certain applications? How to facilitate the interoperation of heterogeneous wireless networks and systems? To understand and solve these key issues, we organize this special issue in IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine focusing on the scalability, flexibility, and interoperability in the design of architecture for future wireless networks. The special issue covers topics that include, but are not limited to, the following: - Architecture for large-scale Internet of Things (IoT) - Flexible architecture for applications with diverse data rates - Flexible architecture for systems and applications with diverse mobility requirements - Flexible cognitive radio and spectrum access - Interoperability between future Internet and wireless networks - Interoperability among diverse wireless networks - Namespace management in heterogeneous wireless networks - Routing in large-scale multihop wireless network - Security design on wireless scalability, flexibility, and interoperability - Scalable cooperative communications and network coding - Scalable data-centric wireless network architecture - Scalable energy efficiency wireless network - Scalable social-aware wireless network architecture - Standards for scalable, flexible, and interoperable wireless networks - Wireless network for large-scale cyber-physical-system SUBMISSIONS Authors must follow the IEEE Wireless Communications guidelines regarding manuscript content and format. For details, please refer to the "Author Guidelines" at the IEEE Wireless Communications Web site at http://www.comsoc.org/wirelessmag/author-guidelines. All papers must be submitted electronically via the IEEE Wireless Communications manuscript submission system at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ieee-wcm. All papers will be reviewed by at least three (3) reviewers for their technical merit, scope, and relevance to the CFP. IMPORTANT DATES - Manuscript Submission: May 1, 2016 - Notification of Acceptance: July 1, 2016 - Revised Manuscript Due: August 1, 2016 - Final Decision: September 1, 2016 - Final Manuscript Due: October 1, 2016 - Publication: December 2016 GUEST EDITORS Kejie Lu University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, USA kejie.lu(a)upr.edu Shucheng (Will) Liu Huawei Technologies, China liushucheng(a)huawei.com Kostas Pentikousis EICT, Germany k.pentikousis(a)eict.de ______________________________________________________________ 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: DroNet 2016 (affiliated with ACM MobiSys): Call for Papers
by Lars Wolf 26 Jan '16

26 Jan '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: DroNet 2016 (affiliated with ACM MobiSys): Call for Papers Datum: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 00:13:16 -0500 Von: Sheng-Wei "Kuan-Ta" Chen <swc(a)IIS.SINICA.EDU.TW> 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 [apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP] ******************************************************************** * * Preliminary Call for Papers * * DroNet 2016 * * 2nd Workshop on * * Micro Aerial Vehicle Networks, Systems, and Applications * for Civilian Use * * (organized in conjunction with ACM MobiSys 2016) * * Singapore * June 26, 2016 * * Submissions due: March 7, 2016 * ******************************************************************** OVERVIEW ======== Micro and nano aerial vehicles (MAVs and NAVs), often referred to as drones, are unmanned aerial vehicles of various forms, such as small quadrocopters, airplanes, balloons, or tiny flapping wing vehicles. They are novel mobile unmanned systems currently investigated in various mission-oriented civilian applications. Recent popular applications employing MAVs are 3D-mapping, search and rescue, surveillance, farmland and construction monitoring, delivery of light-weight objects and products (e.g., Amazon's announced drone delivery system), or video taking during sports events. Such drones are autonomous systems with a good awareness of their environment, provided by rich on board sensors, such as gyroscopes, accelerometers, lasers, GPS units and cameras, and embedded image processing. Nevertheless, all useful applications require a reliable communication link, or even rely on fleets of MAVs. DroNet welcomes contributions dealing with communication aspects of micro aerial vehicles, theoretical studies, algorithm and protocol design for flexible aerial networks, as well as mission-oriented contributions dealing with requirements, constraints, safety issues, and regulation. We are particularly looking for papers reporting on system aspects and experimental results, summaries of challenges or advancements, measurements, or innovative applications. The program seeks original work of potentially interdisciplinary teams to present robotic work or applications focusing on the communication challenges or requirements to the audience. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Drone ad-hoc networks - Aerial communication protocol design - Theoretical analysis and models for drone networks - Spectrum and regulatory issues - Communication for drone coordination - Delay-tolerant networks and ferrying approaches - Integration of MAVs in mobile, pervasive systems - Positioning and localization - Autonomous flight - Vision and object tracking - Cooperative surveillance, smart cameras and sensors - Experimental results of aerial communication testbeds - Micro flying systems - MAC and routing protocols for MAV fleets - Solutions for sparse and dense fleets of MAVs - Mission and context-aware solutions - Mobility-aware and 3D communications - Energy-efficient operation and energy harvesting of MAVs - MAV-based sensor networks - Swarm movement, coordination, and behavior - Artificial intelligence techniques for drones - Human drone interaction - Acceptance, security, reliability, and privacy aspects - UAV applications, e.g., in smart city, automated map generation, entertainment, emergency, precise agriculture, social good, etc. DroNet invites submission of original work not previously published or under review at another conference or journal. The workshop will accept full paper, poster, and demo submissions. Full papers must be no longer than 6 pages, poster and demonstration papers are limited to 2 pages. DroNet follows a single-blind review process. Submissions must be submitted in PDF format and follow the formatting guidelines provided at http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2016. The proceedings will contain full papers as well as poster and demo submissions and will be published by ACM. All accepted full papers will be considered for the Best Paper Award. TEMPORARY WEB SITE ================== http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2016/workshops.php (More information will be available soon.) WORKSHOP CHAIRS =============== - Kuan-Ta Chen (Academia Sinica) - Karin Anna Hummel (JKU Linz) - Claudio E. Palazzi (University of Padua) STEERING COMMITTEE ================== - Kuan-Ta Chen (Academia Sinica) - Mario Gerla (UCLA) - Karin Anna Hummel (JKU Linz) - Claudio E. Palazzi (University of Padua) - Sofie Pollin (KU Leuven) - James J.P. Sterbenz (University of Kansas) IMPORTANT DATES =============== - Submission deadline (paper, demo, poster): March 7, 2016 - Notification date: April 15, 2016 - Camera-ready due: May 6, 2016 - Workshop date: June 26, 2016

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE Communications Magazine FT - Enabling mobile and wireless technologies for smart cities – Deadline: 29th February 2016
by Lars Wolf 25 Jan '16

25 Jan '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE Communications Magazine FT - Enabling mobile and wireless technologies for smart cities – Deadline: 29th February 2016 Datum: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 14:29:42 -0500 Von: Ejaz Ahmed <imejaz(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Ejaz Ahmed <imejaz(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Dear Colleagues, Please find below information related to our feature topic ''Enabling Mobile and Wireless Technologies for Smart Cities” in the IEEE Communications Magazine. Kindly consider submitting your relevant work to this feature topic. Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement due to cross posting. Information related to this feature topic is given below. FEATURE TOPIC: ENABLING MOBILE AND WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES FOR SMART CITIES URL: http://www.comsoc.org/commag/cfp/enabling-mobile-and-wireless-technologies-… CALL FOR PAPERS Due to advancements in communication and computing technologies, smart cities have become main innovation agenda of research organizations, technology vendors, and governments. To make a city smart, a strong communication infrastructure is required for connecting smart objects, people, and sensors together. Smart city communication involves multiple aggregation and access networks that can be either public or private. The rapid progress in smart cities research is posing enormous challenges in terms of significance, scope, and problem domain. Smart cities rely on wireless and mobile technologies for providing services such as healthcare assistance, security and safety, real-time traffic monitoring, and managing the environment, to name a few. Such applications have been a main driving force in development of smart cities. These mobile and wireless technologies enable several new services that result into better decision making and actions made by enterprises and governments.! Without the appropriate communication networks, it is really difficult for a city to facilitate its citizens in sustainable, efficient, and safer manner/environment. Considering the significance of mobile and wireless technologies for realizing the vision of smart cities, there is a need for conducting research to further investigate the standardization efforts and explore different issues/challenges in the wireless technologies, mobile computing and smart environments. This FT focuses on the crossroads between scientists, industry practitioners, and researchers from different domains in the wireless technologies, mobile computing and smart environments. We envision to provide a platform for researchers to further explore the domain and explore the challenges. In this FT, we invite researchers from academia, industry, and government to discuss challenging ideas, novel research contributions, demonstration results, and standardization efforts on enabling mobile and wireless technologies for smart cities. FOCUS FOR THE FT In this FT we would like to try to answer some (or all) of the following questions: How mobile and wireless technologies can improve the performance and services provided by smart cities? How to evaluate the impact of mobile and wireless technologies on smart cities services? What are the key mobile and wireless technological challenges that hinder the development of smart cities? How to standardize the wireless interfaces of devices for communication in smart cities? Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Resource and network management in smart cities • Quality of Service mechanisms for wireless networks in smart cities • Integration and co-existence of technologies and networks for smart cities • Interoperability between heterogeneous networks of smart cities • Topology and mobility management in smart cities • Energy-aware wireless protocols and algorithms for smart cities • Sensing technologies and applications for smart cities • Wireless networks for smart city surveillance and management • Experimental network measurements and characterization for smart cities data traffic • Security and privacy concerns in smart cities SUBMISSIONS Articles should be tutorial in nature, with the intended audience being all members of the global communications technology community. They should be written in a style comprehensible to readers outside the specialty of the article. Mathematical equations should not be used (in justified cases up to three simple equations may be allowed). In general, however, mathematics should be avoided; instead, references to papers containing the relevant mathematics should be provided. Articles should not exceed 4500 words (from introduction through conclusions, excluding figures, tables and captions). Figures and tables should be limited to a combined total of six. The number of references is recommended not to exceed 15. Complete guidelines for preparation of the manuscripts are posted at http://www.comsoc.org/commag/paper-submission-guidelines. Please send a PDF (preferred) or MSWORD formatted paper via Manuscript Central (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/commag-ieee). Register or lo! g in, and go to Author Center. Follow the instructions there. Select "December 2016/Enabling Mobile and Wireless Technologies for Smart Cities" as the Feature Topic category for your submission. IMPORTANT DATES Manuscript Submission: 29th February 2016 Decision Notification: 30th June 2016 Final Manuscript Submission: 15th September 2016 Expected Publication Date: December 2016 GUEST EDITORS Ejaz Ahmed University of Malaya, Malaysia imejaz(a)gmail.com Muhammad Imran King Saud University, Saudi Arabia dr.m.imran(a)ieee.org Mohsen Guizani Qatar University, Qatar mguizani(a)ieee.org Ammar Rayes Cisco Systems, USA rayes(a)cisco.com Jaime Lloret Univ. Politecnica de Valencia, Spain jlloret(a)dcom.upv.es Guangjie Han Hohai University, China hanguangjie(a)ieee.org Wael Guibene Intel Labs, Ireland wael.guibene(a)intel.com Kind Regards, Ejaz Ahmed Associate Technical Editor, IEEE Com. Mag., Associate Editor, Wiley WCMC, Senior Researcher, High Impact Research Project, Centre for Mobile Cloud Computing Research (C4MCCR), University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Email IDs: imejaz(a)gmail.com, ejazahmed(a)ieee.org Twitter ID: @imejazahmed Personal Website: www.ejazahmed.com ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Papers: IEEE Network Special Issue on Vehicle-to-Grid Networks
by Lars Wolf 24 Jan '16

24 Jan '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Papers: IEEE Network Special Issue on Vehicle-to-Grid Networks Datum: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 01:22:28 -0500 Von: Yuan Wu <iewuy(a)ZJUT.EDU.CN> Antwort an: Yuan Wu <iewuy(a)ZJUT.EDU.CN> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Call for Papers: IEEE Network Special Issue on ------------------------------------------------------------- ** Vehicle-to-Grid Networks ** ------------------------------------------------------------- The past decade has witnessed an explosive growth in the developments and deployments of Electric Vehicles (EVs) (including unmanned vehicles), leading to a multidisciplinary research area called Vehicle to Grid (V2G) networks which cover power grid, communication networks, and transportation systems. From the perspective of power sector, V2G networks necessitate a careful management of the energy flow for charging/discharging a tremendous number of EVs, with the objectives of guaranteeing grid stability, improving energy utilization, and reaping potential arbitrage value. Meanwhile, as indispensable bridges for managing the EVs connected to the power grid and the associated energy flows in V2G networks, designs of efficient communication networks for facilitating V2G/V2V communications are indispensable. Such designs not only cover a wide range of important directions such as network infrastructures, cross layer communication protocols, signaling systems, QoS, and resource ! managements, but also need the integration of the emerging ICT technologies such as M2M (or D2D) communications, IoT networks, software defined networks. Moreover, driven by the growing security issues in cyber spaces, securing the operations and communications of V2G networks and protecting the privacy of EV owners will be of practical and timely importance. This special issue aims to provide a platform for sharing the recent research and development on V2G networks. We solicit papers covering various topics of interest that include, but are not limited to the following: * Network Architectures and Topology Designs for V2G Networks; * Cross-Layer Communications Protocols for V2G Networks; * QoS Provisioning for V2G Networks; * Transportation Networks and V2G Networks; * IoT and M2M for V2G Networks; * Software Defined Networks for V2G Networks; * Narrow-band LTE for V2G Networks; * Security, Privacy, Integrity, and Trust for V2G Networks; * Big Data Analytics for V2G Networks; * Energy (Charging/Discharging) Managements for V2G Networks; * EV-Mobility Modeling and Managements for V2G Networks; * Autonomous Driving Vehicles for V2G Networks; * Distributed Energy and Storage Systems for V2G Networks; * Testbeds and Platforms for V2G Networks. ------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Policies: Articles should be tutorial in nature. Authors must follow the IEEE Network guidelines for preparation of the manuscript. For details, please refer to “Author Guidelines” at http://www.comsoc.org/netmag/author-guidelines and “Paper Submission Guidelines” at http://www.comsoc.org/netmag/paper-submission-guidelines. Authors must submit their manuscripts via the IEEE Network manuscript submission system at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/network-ieee and choose “Vehicle-to-Grid Networks” from the drop down menu on the submission page. The corresponding author is also requested to send the title of submission and the list of authors by email to the Guest Editors. ------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: Manuscript Submission due Date: August 15, 2016; First Revisions/Reject Notification: October 15, 2016; Notification of Acceptance: December 15, 2016; Final Manuscript Due: January 15, 2017; Publication: March, 2017. ------------------------------------------------------------- Guest Editors: Professor Danny H.K. Tsang, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, Email: eetsang(a)ece.ust.hk Professor Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory and University of Oslo, Norway, Email: yanzhang(a)ieee.org Professor Yuan Wu, College of Information Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, #288 Liuhe Road, Xihu District (310023), Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, P.R. China, Email: iewuy(a)zjut.edu.cn Professor Alberto Leon-Garcia, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Email: alberto.leongarcia(a)utoronto.ca ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Papers: IEEE ISCC 2016, Deadline extended: 26 February 2016
by Lars Wolf 22 Jan '16

22 Jan '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Papers: IEEE ISCC 2016, Deadline extended: 26 February 2016 Datum: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 12:27:57 -0500 Von: Habib M. Ammari <ammari.habib(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Habib M. Ammari <ammari.habib(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG The 21th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2016) 27-30 June 2016, University of Messina, Messina, Italy http://www.ieee-iscc.org *** Submission Deadline: February 26th, 2016 *** ISCC 2016, in its 21st year, will provide an insight into the unique world stemming from the interaction between the fields of computers and communications. ISCC 2016 will provide an international technical forum for experts from industry and academia to exchange ideas and present results of on-going research in most state-of-the-art areas of computers and communications. This year, special focus will be on the challenging issues related to all the opportunities of computing, sensing and communication in the era of the integration of Internet of Things, Cloud Computing, and Big Data. You are invited to submit a full paper, a proposal for a panel/invited session, or a tutorial, related to the following indicative topics of interest. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * 5th Generation Networks * Access Networks * Advances in Internet Protocols * Artificial Intelligent Systems applications in Computers and Communications * Big Data, Data Mining and Database Applications * Bio-inspired Computing in Communications * Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics * Cloud Computing (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS) * Cognitive Radio Networking * Communications Services and Management * Connected Vehicles * Cyber Physical Systems and Internet of Things * Digital Media Technologies * Digital Satellite Communications Service * Distributed and Mobile Middleware * Distributed Systems Architecture and Management * E-Commerce and E-Services * Economic and Regulatory Issues * Fault-Tolerance and Error Recovery * Fog Computing * Green Networking and Smart Grid * Grid and Cluster Computing * Human Language Technologies * Image Processing and Visualization * Internet of the Future * Internet of Things and Smart Cities * Internet Services and Applications * Management of Telecommunications and Networks * Mobile Cloud and Mobile Cloud Networking * Modeling and Simulation * Network Design, Optimisation and Management * Network Reliability, Quality of Service and Quality of Experience * Next Generation Networks Infrastructures and Management * Optical Networking * Overlay and Programmable Networks * Peer-to-Peer Computing * Real Time Communication Services * Routing and Multicast * Security, Cryptography and Privacy * Sensor Networks and Mobile Sensing * Services and Support for Smart Cities * Social Networks, Crowdsourcing and Crowdsensing * Software Defined Datacenters * Software Defined Networks and Network Function Virtualization * Software Defined Smart Objects * Software Engineering * Standards Evolution * Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures * Wireless Body Area Network and Wireless Health * Wireless, Cellular and Mobile Communications Review manuscripts should describe original work and should be no more than 8 pages in the IEEE double column proceedings format including tables, figures and references. Note that accepted papers up to 6 pages will be published with no additional charge. Exceeding pages will be charged an additional fee. Extended versions of selected best papers will be recommended for publication in a Special Issue of a prestigious International Journal. Papers must be submitted electronically, in PDF format, on-line via the EDAS system: http://edas.info/N21787 IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g. removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the conference. Accepted papers will be included in IEEE-ISCC Proceedings, to be submitted for inclusion to IEEE Xplore. Please note that final paper acceptance is conditional upon proper formatting (IEEE Xplore compliant) and a satisfactory standard of English. At least one of the authors will be required to register and attend the symposium to present the paper in order to include the paper in the conference proceedings. Please note that final paper acceptance is conditional upon: * One of the authors registers and one of the registered authors presents the paper. * Payment is made and online copyright transfer form is signed and uploaded. * The paper follows given format and the PDF file is IEEE Xplore compliant * The standard of English is satisfactory In the last years, the IEEE-ISCC Proceedings published in IEEE Xplore have been indexed by ISI, dblp and Scopus. This makes the IEEE ISCC one of the publication venues with very high visibility and impact in both Computer and Communications areas. If you have any questions, please contact the Technical Program committee at: iscc2016(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:iscc2016@googlegroups.com> Important Dates: * Paper Submission Deadline: January 21, 2016 * Notification of paper acceptance: March 15, 2016 * Submission of camera-ready papers due: March 31, 2016 General Co-Chairs: * Antonio Corradi, University of Bologna, Italy * Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida, USA * Massimo Villari, University of Messina, Italy Technical Program Co-Chairs: * Antonio Celesti, University of Messina, Italy * Luca Foschini, University of Bologna, Italy * Burak Kantarci, Clarkson University, USA Local Arrangement Co-Chairs: * Maurizio Giacobbe, University of Messina, Italy * Davide Mulfari, University of Messina, Italy * Alfonso Panarello, University of Messina, Italy * Antonio Puliafito, University of Messina, Italy * Massimo Villari, University of Messina, Italy Finance and Registration Co-Chairs: * Reda Ammar, University of Connecticut, USA * Christos Douligeris, University of Piraeus, Greece Publication Co-Chairs: * Periklis Chatzimisios, Technological Educational Institution of Thessaloniki, Greece * Tolga Soyata, University of Rochester, USA Keynote Speakers Co-Chairs: * Kaushik Chowdhury, Northeastern University, USA * Rajiv Ranjan, Newcastle University, United Kingdom. Industrial Co-Chairs: * Roberto di Bernardo, Engineering SPA, Italy * Carlos Roberto De Rolt, Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina and BRy, Brazil * Prasad Saripalli, Edifecs, USA Workshop and Tutorial Co-Chairs: * Maria Fazio, University of Messina, Italy * Noura Limam, University of Waterloo, Canada * Luiz Angelo Steffenel, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France Publicity Co-Chairs: * Habib M. Ammari, University of Michigan-Dearborn * Stefano Chessa, University of Pisa, Italy * Alex Galis, University College London, United Kingdom * Salil Kanhere, University of New South Wales, Australia * Djamel Sadok, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil * Ahmet Sekercioglu, Monash University, Australia * Qing Yang, Montana State University, USA Steering Committee: * Reda Ammar, University of Connecticut, USA * Antonio Corradi, University of Bologna, Italy * Mario Dantas, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil * Christos Douligeris, University of Piraeus, Greece * Adel S. Elmaghraby, University of Louisville, USA * Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa, Canada * Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida, USA * Susana Sargento, Instituto de Telecomunicações, University of Aveiro, Portugal * Shie-Yuan Wang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan ______________________________________________________________ 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: First IEEE Workshop on Smart Service Systems (SmartSys 2016), May 18, 2016 | St. Louis, Missouri, USA
by Lars Wolf 22 Jan '16

22 Jan '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: First IEEE Workshop on Smart Service Systems (SmartSys 2016), May 18, 2016 | St. Louis, Missouri, USA Datum: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 21:00:03 -0800 Von: Shamik Sengupta <sengupta.shamik(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Shamik Sengupta <sengupta.shamik(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Apologies for possible multiple copies of this CFP] ********************** Call for Papers ********************** First IEEE Workshop on Smart Service Systems (SmartSys 2016) May 18, 2016 | St. Louis, Missouri, USA http://mpsc.umbc.edu/smartsys/ Co-located with the IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP 2016) Scope Technology succeeds when it provides benefits to the society either directly or indirectly. Understanding the societal and economic impact and human-centered aspects of a smart system or technology in advance and designing the system a-priori with potential value-added services help spur the discoveries of new tools, methodologies and innovative services. Smart service systems span across a variety of socio-technical facets comprising of devices, people, organizations, environments and technologies to sense, actuate, control and assess the physical, cyber and societal artifacts of the human service systems. Besides the systems being self-adaptive and fault-tolerant, need to be designed in such a way that it can continuously increase the quality and productivity, the compliance and sustainability of the smart services it offers. While human-centered perspective and cognitive learning help create multi-facet value added services and catalyze the sustained economic growth of smart service systems, understanding the multi-modal sensing, control, heterogeneity and interdependency between different physical, virtual and logical components of such a complex system will enable the realization of new transformative smarter service systems. If successful, this can help improve the quality-of-service of the customers, quality-of-life of the citizens and quality-of returns of the stakeholders and investors. Nurturing the development of smart service systems seeks for inter- and trans-disciplinary crosscutting research threads from system and operational engineering, computer science and information systems, social and behavioral science, computational modeling and industrial engineering etc. The goal of this workshop is to bring together practitioners and researchers from both academia and industry in order to have a forum for discussion and technical presentations on the fundamental knowledge and principles of smart service systems that enable the value co-creation in sensing, actuating, data analytics, learning, cognition, and control of human centric cyber-physical-social systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Innovative tools, methodologies and solutions for smart service systems; example includes personalized healthcare, smart energy, smart cities, smart manufacturing, intelligent transportation, education, precision medicine and agriculture, national security etc. • Information extraction and interpretation from sensors, actuators, smart phones, smart watch, and human • Context and situational-awareness of smart service systems • Design of people-centric services and technologies for providing better services such as food, transportation and places to live • Novel architectures and interoperable solutions for internet of things • Models and methodologies for designing systems of systems • Big data analytics approaches for providing better customer services, and innovating new types of sustainable services • Modeling, analysis, co-production, and co-evolution of human activity, behavior and interaction for the effective adaptation and percolation of longitudinal smart service systems • Role of machine learning, artificial intelligence, robotics, pervasive computing, control theory, information and communications technologies • Design and developments of intelligent systems, intelligent enterprises and cyber-physical-social-systems • Design of inter-dependent complex global systems such as healthcare, smart gird, computer networks, logistics and supply-chains, financial markets etc. • Smart infrastructure and testbed to support the integration of autonomous systems and innovative applications Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit to a Special Issue of INFORMS Service Science Journal (http://pubsonline.informs.org/journal/serv ). Submission instructions Authors are invited to submit regular (full) papers for presentation at the workshop, describing original, previously unpublished work, which is not currently under review by another workshop, conference, or journal. Regular papers should present novel perspectives within the general scope of the workshop. Papers may be no more than 6 pages in length. Papers in excess of page limits shall not be considered for review or publication. All papers must be typeset in double-column IEEE format using 10pt fonts on US letter paper, with all fonts embedded. The IEEE LaTeX and Microsoft Word templates, as well as related information, can be found at IEEE conference template website. Submissions must be made via EasyChair. Each accepted paper will require a full SMARTCOM registration (no registration is available for workshops only). Important dates Manuscript submission: February 15, 2015 Paper notification: March 28, 2016 Camera-ready: April 15, 2016 Workshop date: May 18, 2016 Organizing Committees Workshop co-chairs: Nirmalya Roy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Nilanjan Banerjee, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Government Contact: Gurdip Singh, National Science Foundation (NSF) Publicity co-chairs Ryan Robucci, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA Shamik Sengupta, University of Nevada, Reno, USA Arnab Bhattacharya, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India Technical Program Committee (in progress): Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Jason Halstorm, Florida Atlantic University, USA Paul P. Maglio, University of California, Merced, USA Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pisa, Italy Arpan Pal, TCS Innovation Lab, India Simone Silvestri, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA Nalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California Irvine, USA Desheng Zhang, University of Minnesota, USA Best Regards, Shamik ----- Dr. Shamik Sengupta Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science & Engineering University of Nevada, Reno Office Ph. 775.784.6953 Homepage: http://www.cse.unr.edu/~shamik/ ______________________________________________________________ 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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