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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP - IEEE IoT SI on Fog Computing Deadline Extended to Nov. 30, 2016
by Lars Wolf 20 Nov '16

20 Nov '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP - IEEE IoT SI on Fog Computing Deadline Extended to Nov. 30, 2016 Datum: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 13:05:30 -0500 Von: Wei Cheng <wcheng3(a)VCU.EDU> Antwort an: Wei Cheng <wcheng3(a)VCU.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Call for Papers - Manuscript Submission Deadline Extended to Nov. 30, 2016 IEEE INTERNET OF THINGS JOURNAL Special Issue on Fog Computing in the Internet of Things Background and Motivation: Fog Computing is an emerging research area that targets on providing services and satisfying customers’ needs in the space between “Ground” and “Cloud”. In the current cloud-based Internet-of-Things (IoT) model, smart devices (such as sensors, smartphones) exchange information through the Internet (routers and/or servers on cloud) to cooperate and provide services to users, which could be citizens, smart home systems, and industrial applications. Even though the cloud based IoT model describes a uniform, concise, and scalable solution for supporting IoT applications, the deployments of IoT applications on cloud, however, are facing the challenges originated from economic considerations, social concerns, technical limitations, and administrative issues. In real world, things (which could be cheap sensors) generate lots of data. Moving these big data from the network edge (end networking devices) to the network core (cloud computing servers) and vis verse naturally brings the following issues: (i) it is expensive for moving the big data through the Internet; (ii) the cost is prohibitively high when storing the big data on clouds; (iii) the Internet access may be unavailable, unreliable, and slow; (iv) the Internet access might be congested by the big data transmissions; (v) the Internet based transmissions may increase the probability of information leakage; (vi) the large number of things, which may have less or no security protection, may be easily utilized by hackers to start DDoS attacks; (vii) the administrative team may question the security, the easiness, and the availability of managing the big data saved on clouds. On the other hand, clouds may not be always necessary for implementing IoT solutions. For instances: (i) data generated by things may only be valuable for a group of users who are closely located; (ii) existing infrastructures may still be good and scaling up could be achieved by local resource sharing; and (iii) local mass data storage is already sufficient; etc. There is no doubt that the big data generated by things is surprisingly useful. Fog consists of all the smart computing/sensing systems that are around us, tied together. Typically, it includes a small data center that is placed close to the things in IoT. Fog computing is probably the most promising technology to support IoT applications while simultaneously and successfully addressing all the aforementioned challenges and issues. It adds a new dimension to IoT model for meeting the customers’ needs such as fast connection, high security, easy for management, infrastructure reuse, off load core network traffic, and scale quickly. Fog Computing are expected to support a wide range of IoT applications, including device-to-device data sharing, wearable cognitive assistance, video editing and sharing, vehicular systems, and etc. To address the arising new challenges and opportunities, we plan this feature topic issue to help both industry and academia research communities better understand the recent advances and potential research directions on the converging paths of IoT and Fog Computing. The papers in this feature topic issue will focus on the state-of-the-art research and the grant challenges in various aspects of Fog Computing for IoT. We solicit papers covering various topics of interest that include, but are not limited to the following: • Future services for Internet of Things via Fog Computing services and solutions • Fog Computing architecture for IoT • Technologies for supporting Fog Computing for IoT • IoT Business models for Fog Computing applications in IoT • QoS for Fog Computing and IoT services • Security and privacy for Fog Computing in IoT • Fog Computing management tools and services for IoT • Fog Computing for mobile health and augmented cognition • Data-centric approaches in Fog Computing for IoT • Network Function Virtualization for Fog Computing in IoT • Software Defined Networking for Fog Computing in IoT • Virtualization security and management for Fog Computing in IoT • Programming models and toolkits for Fog Computing in IoT • Mobility and connectivity for Fog Computing in IoT • Deployment and optimization of Fog Computing for IoT • Current and future standardization for Fog Computing in IoT • Load balancing and service selection in Fog Computing for IoT • Interactions between the Fog and the Cloud for IoT Manuscript Submission All original manuscripts or revisions to the IEEE IoT Journal must be submitted electronically through IEEE Manuscript Central, http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/iot. Each submitted manuscript will be sent to reviewers who will evaluate your work. The IEEE IoT Journal encourages authors to suggest potential reviewers as part of the submission process, which might help to expedite the review of the manuscript. Please suggest only those without conflict of interest (e.g. who work at institutions other than your own and with whom you have no collaborative or other technical or family ties). Each submission must be classified by the author to select appropriate keywords of this Journal. Submission Schedule Manuscript Submission: November 30, 2016 (Firm) Notification of acceptance: February 1, 2017 Final Manuscript Due: March 1, 2017 Publication: May, 2017 Guest Editors: Rong N. Chang, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA, rong(a)us.ibm.com Wei Cheng, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA, wcheng3(a)vcu.edu Xiuzhen Cheng (Lead Guest Editor), The George Washington University, USA, cheng(a)gwu.edu Wonjun Lee, Korea University, Seoul, Korea, wlee(a)korea.ac.kr Yingshu Li, Georgia State University, USA, yili(a)gsu.edu Jiguo Yu, Qufu Normal University, Shandong, China, yu(a)qfnu.edu.cn About the Journal Thomson Reuters has notified IEEE that the IEEE Internet of Things Journal has been selected for coverage in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Journal Citation Index Science Edition, and Current Contents Connect Engineering, Computing and Technology Edition. ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------- Our apologies if you received multiple copies of this CFP ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------- ______________________________________________________________ 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] MobiSys'17 CFP + submission website
by Lars Wolf 19 Nov '16

19 Nov '16

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Xia Zhou <xia(a)CS.DARTMOUTH.EDU> Gesendet: 19. November 2016 18:08:57 MEZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] MobiSys'17 CFP + submission website MobiSys’17 paper deadline (Dec. 8) is approaching. Please remember to register the paper by Dec. 1 on the submission website: https://mobisys17.hotcrp.com/ <https://mobisys17.hotcrp.com/> Look forward to your submissions! =============================== ACM MobiSys'17 Call for Papers =============================== https://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2017/ <https://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2017/> submission site: https://mobisys17.hotcrp.com/ <https://mobisys17.hotcrp.com/> MobiSys 2017 will continue the tradition of publishing top-notch research papers dealing with all aspects of mobile systems. MobiSys seeks original papers that take a broad systems perspective rather than focus narrowly on low-level components. Of particular interest are technical contributions that enable new and compelling mobile scenarios and applications. The conference values results and insights obtained from working implementations more highly than those obtained solely from simulations. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Experience with mobile applications, networks and systems * Innovative mobile, mobile sensing, and mobile crowdsourcing apps * Tools for building and measuring mobile systems * Innovative wearable or mobile devices * Novel software architectures for mobile devices * Data management for mobile applications * Infrastructure support for node mobility * System-level energy management for mobile devices * Operating systems for mobile devices * Support for mobile social networking and mobile Web * Security and privacy in mobile systems * Systems for location and context sensing and awareness * Mobile computing support for pervasive computing * Vehicular and robotic wireless systems * User interfaces and usability for mobile applications and systems * Systems and networking support for Virtual and Augmented Reality * Applications of mobile systems in health, sustainability, and other domains * Non-traditional topics that bring new perspective to mobile computing Papers on work that is currently under review, whether in shorter, longer, or the same form, must not be submitted to MobiSys. Submission of a longer version of a published, not just accepted, workshop paper is encouraged if it includes significant new contributions. However, the authors must cite their workshop paper. Submissions will be single blind, i.e., reviewers will be anonymous and submissions should include authors' names and institutions. We strongly encourage prospective authors to use past MobiSys proceedings as a guideline to assess the readiness of their work for submission. Due to high review load on PC members, low quality or premature work submitted to the conference is likely to receive a smaller number of reviews and the reviews may be brief. ACM has been making an effort to support more open access to the proceedings of its sponsored conferences. As a result, the MobiSys 2017 proceedings may be publicly available through the conference website from two weeks before the conference to two weeks after it. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. Papers meeting any of these criteria will be rejected. Authors uncertain whether their submission meets these guidelines should contact the program chairs. Papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms will not be considered. Accepted submissions will be treated as confidential prior to publication; rejected submissions will be permanently treated as confidential. As part of the submission process, authors of papers that describe experiments on human subjects, or that analyze nonpublic data derived from human subjects (even anonymized data), will be asked to certify that their work was vetted by an ethics review (e.g., IRB approval). We expect authors to follow the rules of their host institutions around data collection and experiments with human subjects. Selected outstanding papers may be fast-tracked as a special section of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. Best Paper Award ================== All papers will be considered for the Best Paper Award. The program committee will select a number of candidates for the award among accepted papers, and select one or more award papers prior to the conference. Video Presentation =================== The authors of each accepted paper will submit a short 1-minute video to introduce the research presented in their paper to the general public. These videos will be placed on the conference website before the conference, and may be played during the conference. A selected set may be featured by the social media channels related to the conference. Important Dates ================= - Abstract registration deadline: December 1, 2016, 11:59PM EST (Dec 1, 2016, 04:59AM UTC) - Paper submission deadline: December 8, 2016, 11:59PM EST (Dec 8, 2016, 04:59AM UTC) - Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2017 - Camera-ready due: May 9, 2017 Contact ========= If you have any questions, please contact Andrew Campbell (campbell(a)cs.dartmouth.edu <mailto:campbell@cs.dartmouth.edu>) and Deepak Ganesan (dganesan(a)cs.umass.edu <mailto:dganesan@cs.umass.edu>). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Join our MobiSys Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/MobiSys <https://www.facebook.com/groups/MobiSys> Follow our MobiSys Twitter: https://twitter.com/acmmobisys <https://twitter.com/acmmobisys> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: ACM TOCS Call for Papers
by Lars Wolf 18 Nov '16

18 Nov '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: ACM TOCS Call for Papers Datum: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 11:00:00 -0500 (EST) Von: Todd C. Mowry <pubs(a)acm.org> An: wolf(a)IBR.CS.TU-BS.DE Call For Papers <http://www.acm.org/> *CALL FOR PAPERS* ACM Transactions on Computer Systems /The latest R&D in Computer Systems/ *Editor-in-Chief* Todd C. Mowry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Information for Contributors* /ACM Transactions on Computer Systems / (TOCS) presents research and development results on the design, implementation, analysis, evaluation, and use of computer systems and systems software. The term "computer systems" is interpreted broadly and includes operating systems, systems architecture and hardware, distributed systems, optimizing compilers, and the interaction between systems and computer networks. Articles appearing in TOCS will tend either to present new techniques and concepts, or to report on experiences and experiments with actual systems. Insights useful to system designers, builders, and users will be emphasized. TOCS publishes research and technical papers, both short and long. It includes technical correspondence to permit commentary on technical topics and on previously published papers. *Subject Areas* Among the topics within the scope of TOCS are the following: * Design of entire systems * Impact of technology trends * Operating systems * File and storage systems * Distributed systems * Cloud systems * Mobile systems * Secure systems * Embedded systems * Dependable systems * System management * Systems verification * Virtualization * Performance and power optimization * Systems and Computer Architecture * Systems and Networking * Systems and Programming Languages * Systems and Databases *Visit tocs.acm.org <http://tocs.acm.org> for further information or to submit your manuscript.* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Associate Editors* # Marcos K. Aguilera, VMware Research Group, Palo Alto, CA, USA # Lorenzo Alvisi, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA # Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA # Angela Demke Brown, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada # Babak Falsafi, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland ** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ If you do not want to receive future emails about publishing in ACM journals, send an email to mktg2(a)hq.acm.org <mailto:mktg2@hq.acm.org> with "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the subject. Association for Computing Machinery, Two Penn Plaza, Suite 701, New York, NY 10121-0701, USA Copyright 2016, ACM, Inc.

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: CNERT '17: 4th International Workshop on Computer and Networking Experimental Research Using Testbeds
by Lars Wolf 18 Nov '16

18 Nov '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: CNERT '17: 4th International Workshop on Computer and Networking Experimental Research Using Testbeds Datum: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 15:45:50 +0100 Von: Ilenia Tinnirello <ilenia.tinnirello(a)TTI.UNIPA.IT> Antwort an: Ilenia Tinnirello <ilenia.tinnirello(a)TTI.UNIPA.IT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG The CNERT '17 workshop invites submissions about testbed-based research and experiments. Submissions are due on January 10, 2017. Please see the CFP below. CALL FOR PAPERS --------------- 4th International Workshop on Computer and Networking Experimental Research Using Testbeds (CNERT) http://infocom2017.ieee-infocom.org/workshop/cnert-computer-and-networking-… Held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Atlanta, GA, USA IMPORTANT DATES --------------- * Submissions due: January 10, 2017 * Acceptance notification: February 22, 2017 * Camera-ready paper submission: March 12, 2017 * Workshop: May 1, 2017 SCOPE ----- Experimentation has played a very important role in advancing research in computing. Although simulation is an important tool for studying and analyzing the behavior of new protocols and algorithms, it is essential that new research ideas be validated on real systems and testbeds. This workshop will bring together researchers and technical experts to share experiences and advance the state of the art in experimental research in areas such as networking, distributed systems, and cloud computing. It aims to inspire researchers to use testbeds in novel and interesting ways as a means to validate research ideas. Of particular interest are experiments on publicly available testbeds such as GENI, Emulab, CloudLab, DeterLab, ORBIT, Fed4FIRE testbeds, PlanetLab, and so on. We solicit papers with experimental results from areas including, but not limited to: * Distributed systems * Cloud computing and big data * Computer and network security * Wired and wireless network experimentation (including sensor networks, WiMAX and LTE communications and services, and optical networks) * Software defined networking (SDN) * Future Internet architectures * Network economics and pricing Experiments may focus on challenges including, but not limited to: * Instrumentation and measurement * Large-scale experiments * Evaluation and analysis of experiment data * Creation and sharing of datasets of broad interest to the community * Experiment design and deployment * Design for repeatability and reproducibility * Tools and services for testbed users and operators * Experiments on federated testbeds * Testbed implementation and deployment The workshop will have a strong experimental component. Paper presentations are encouraged to include live demonstrations, and papers are encouraged to include references to detailed experiment setups that will enable others to extend the work. Each paper submission should include a section indicating (1) if a live demonstration during the workshop is feasible and (2) if so, how the results will be demonstrated. Due to the experimental nature of the submissions, CNERT strongly encourages authors to make all of their experiment artifacts, including obtained data traces, publicly available to the research community. In addition to a best paper award, CNERT will have a separate award for the best demo that exemplifies the principles of experiment repeatability and reproducibility on real systems with running code. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ----------------------- All submissions should follow the IEEE standard 8.5"x11" two-column conference format. Paper submissions should be at most six pages in length, including all figures and references. All papers must be submitted through EDAS. TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE --------------------------- * Eli De Poorter, Ghent University - imec, Belgium (co-chair) * Eric Eide, University of Utah, USA (co-chair) * Other members TBA STEERING COMMITTEE ------------------ * Piet Demeester, Ghent University, Belgium * Ibrahim Matta, Boston University, USA * Violet Syrotiuk, Arizona State University, USA (Chair) * Kaiqi Xiong, University of South Florida, USA ______________________________________________________________ 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 ICIT'17 Toronto, Special Session on "Industrial Wireless Networking"
by Lars Wolf 17 Nov '16

17 Nov '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for papers - IEEE ICIT'17 Toronto, Special Session on "Industrial Wireless Networking" Datum: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 14:08:36 +0000 Von: Gidlund Mikael <mikael.gidlund(a)MIUN.SE> Antwort an: Gidlund Mikael <mikael.gidlund(a)MIUN.SE> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ******************************************************************************************************************************************************** Please pay attention to this Special Session on "Industrial Wireless Networking" at the 18th Annual IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT'17), 22-25 March 2017, Toronto, Canada. 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 * 5G for industrial automation Submissions Procedure: All the instructions for paper submission are included in the conference website : http://icit2017.org/ . A good quality paper may be considered for publication in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics subjects to further rounds of review Paper Submission Deadline: Dec. 31st , 2016 Notification of Acceptance: Jan. 31st , 2017 Final Submission and Registration: Feb. 15th , 2017 ______________________________________________________________ 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 INFOCOM Workshop on Smart Cites and Urban Computing @ Atlanta, GA, USA, 1 May, 2017
by Lars Wolf 16 Nov '16

16 Nov '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Smart Cites and Urban Computing @ Atlanta, GA, USA, 1 May, 2017 Datum: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 18:02:05 +0800 Von: Fangming Liu <fangminghk(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Fangming Liu <fangminghk(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG *The 3rd IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Smart Cites and Urban Computing @ Atlanta, GA, USA, 1 May, 2017* *Official Webpage on INFOCOM 2017 Website: *http://infocom2017. ieee-infocom.org/workshop/smartcity-smart-cities-and-urban-computing *Scope of workshop* Cities around the world are currently under quick transition towards providing a low carbon environment, high quality of living, and resource efficient economy. Urban performance depends not only on the city's endowment of hard infrastructure, but also on the availability and quality of knowledge communication and social infrastructure. There is a growing importance of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), social and environmental capital in profiling the competitiveness of cities. Information and communication systems play a critical role in building smart cities and supporting comprehensive urban informatics. Extensive research is taking place on a wide range of enabling technologies, including cloud and network infrastructure, wireless sensing and actuation technologies, mobile crowdsourcing, social networking, real time data stream processing and big data analytics for smart cities. This brings together citizens and integrates technologies and services such as transportation, broadband communications, buildings, healthcare, social care, emergency response, and other utilities. Advanced communication and computing techniques can facilitate a participatory approach for achieving integrated solutions and creating novel applications to improve urban life and build sustainable societies. The main purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers/academics/industries in the field of system, networking and communication to discuss major challenges, research problems, and potential applications to support smart cities and urban informatics. We are expected to share new findings, exchange ideas, discuss research challenges and report latest research efforts that cover a variety of topics including, but not limited to: Application, deployment, testbed, and experiment experiences in smart cities Big data in urban informatics Cloud computing and network infrastructure in smart cities 5G and next generation of Cellular networks in smart cities Delay tolerant networks and systems for urban data collection E-health and connected healthcare systems Environmental and urban monitoring Enabling wireless and mobile technologies for smart cities Fault tolerance, reliability and survivability in smart systems Green computing, networking and energy efficiency Human mobility modeling and analytics Mobile crowdsourcing for urban analytics QoS and QoE of smart city systems, applications, and services IoT for smart cities Cyber-physical and social computing and networks Software defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) in smart city environments Smart grids Smart transportation Smart buildings Safety, security, privacy and trust in smart city applications and servcies Smartphone and mobile systems and applications Vehicular networks Publication Opportunity in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics Selected high-quality papers may be invited to be fast-tracked for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics – Special Issue on “Internet-of-Things for Smart Cities and Urban Computing.” *Submission Instruction* We call for original and unpublished papers with no longer than 6 pages. The reviews will be single blind. The manuscripts should be formatted in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font) and be submitted as PDF files (formatted for 8.5x11-inch paper). *Submission link: http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=23043 <http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=23043>* *Important Dates* Paper Submisson : 10 Jan 2017 Author notifications : 22 Feb 2017 Camera ready : 12 Mar 2017 *Committees* *General Co-chairs* Victor Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada Chunming Rong, University of Stavanger, Norway *Technical Program Co-chairs* Payam Barnaghi, University of Surrey, UK Fangming Liu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China *Publicity Chair* Xianghan Zheng, Fuzhou University, China *Technical Program Committee* Ramon Aguero, University of Cantabria Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna Alessio Botta, University of Napoli Federico II Jiming Chen, Zhejiang University Kwang-Cheng Chen, National Taiwan University Min Chen, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Luiz DaSilva, Trinity College Tamer ElBatt, Cairo University Carlo Fischione, KTH Nelson L. S. da Fonseca, State University of Campinas Luigi Alfredo Grieco, Universita di Lecce Guangtao Xue, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Jinsong Han, Xi'an Jiaotong University Ekram Hossain, University of Manitoba Howard Huang, Alcatel-Lucent Mark Kelly, Intel Labs Europe Marco Levorato, University of California, Irvine Phone Lin, National Taiwan University Jie Liu, Microsoft Research Renato Lo Cigno, University of Trento Marco Maso, Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Lab, Huawei France Research Center Jorge Pereira, European Commission Antonio Pescape, University of Napoli Federico II Giorgio Quer, University of California San Diego Chonggang Wang, InterDigital Communications Lars Wolf, Technische UniversitÃ¤t Braunschweig Adam Wolisz, TUB Di Wu, Hunan University Weigang Wu, Sun Yat-sen University Andrea Zanella, University of Padova Hongzi Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University *Steering Committee* Edith Ngai(Chair), Uppsala University, Sweden Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China Falko Dressler, University of Paderborn, Germany Jiangchuan Liu, Simon Fraser University, Canada Mario Gerla, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Mo Li, Nanyang Technological University, Singaopre ______________________________________________________________ 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 Competitors - 2nd Dependability Competition at the Intl. Conf. on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN)
by Lars Wolf 14 Nov '16

14 Nov '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Competitors - 2nd Dependability Competition at the Intl. Conf. on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN) Datum: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 07:52:05 -0600 Von: Omprakash Gnawali <gnawali(a)CS.UH.EDU> Antwort an: Omprakash Gnawali <gnawali(a)CS.UH.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Call for Competitors 2nd Dependability Competition at the Intl. Conf. on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN) February 18-19, 2017 - Uppsala, Sweden http://www.ewsn2017.org/dependability-competition.html Following the success of last year's edition, the International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN 2017) will host also this year a dependability competition to compare the performance of WSN and IoT communication protocols in environments rich of radio interference. Contestants must first submit an abstract describing their approach in detail by the contest registration deadline. The authors of the selected abstracts will then be invited to participate in a two-days dedicated competition session and asked to deploy their software on TelosB replicas deployed in an environment with controlled radio interference. EVALUATION SCENARIO: The competition rules and evaluation scenario will hence resemble the ones of last year's edition. A complete description can be found on: http://www.ewsn2017.org/dependability-competition.html Please notice that, due to several requests, and in order to allow the contestants to prepare by testing their protocols on most public WSN testbeds, also this year the EWSN dependability competition will be carried out using TelosB-like nodes. CATEGORIES AND PRIZE: Depending on the nature and number of submissions, multiple categories may be defined and cash awards will be given to the winners in each category. Accepted abstract will appear in the ACM digital library (upon approval of the authors) and the top-classified contestants in each category will also be invited to present their approach in a dedicated session at the conference. ELIGIBILITY Both academia and industry submissions are encouraged. All communication protocols used in low-power wireless sensor networks are welcome, and there is no restriction on the operating system used to program the sensor nodes. IMPORTANT DATES: Contest Registration and Abstract Deadline: November 20, 2016. Notification of acceptance: December 1, 2016. Competition: February 18-19, 2017. ORGANIZERS: Carlo Alberto Boano, TU Graz Markus Schuss, TU Graz ______________________________________________________________ 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] Call for Posters and Demos - International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN)
by Lars Wolf 14 Nov '16

14 Nov '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] Call for Posters and Demos - International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN) Datum: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 07:46:35 -0600 Von: Omprakash Gnawali <gnawali(a)CS.UH.EDU> Antwort an: Omprakash Gnawali <gnawali(a)CS.UH.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN) February 20-22, 2017, Uppsala, Sweden Call for Posters and Demos The International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN) is a highly selective single-track international conference focusing on premier research results at the intersection of embedded systems and wireless networking - an area of highest relevance for visionary technologies such as the Internet of Things and Cyber-physical Systems as well as applications such as Industry 4.0, Smart Production, Smart Cities, and Connected Cars. In addition to full research papers, EWSN solicits submissions of poster and demo abstracts. The poster session at EWSN will provide a forum for researchers to present their work in progress and to receive early feedback from leading experts attending the conference. In parallel to the poster session, the demo session will offer a unique opportunity to showcase real prototypes, tools, and systems to the conference attendees. The areas of interest for both poster and demo abstracts are the same as for full research papers. Please refer to http://www.ewsn2017.org/call-for-papers.html for more details. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the Posters & Demos Committee based on its quality and potential to stimulate lively discussions during the conference. Accepted poster and demo abstracts will be included in the conference proceedings, which will be available in the ACM Digital Library. Submission: We adopt a single-blind review process for poster and demo abstracts, so please do not anonymize your submission and include name, affiliation, and contact information of all authors on the first page. Please also provide a short abstract before the main body of your paper. Submissions that do not meet the formatting requirements as given below may not be reviewed. Poster and demo abstracts must be submitted as a single PDF containing no more than 2 pages, including figures, tables, and references. Pages must have 8.5" x 11" (letter) two-column format, using 10-point font on 11-point leading, with a maximum text block of 7" wide x 9" deep with an inter-column spacing of .25". Titles should start with "Poster: ..." or "Demo: ..." depending on the type of abstract. Authors may use the LaTeX template available at http://www.ewsn2017.org/ under Calls and Submission -> Posters & Demos. On the same webpage, you find a link where you can submit your poster or demo abstract. As we particularly welcome contributions from students, the submission system offers an option to explicitly signal whether the main author is a student. Moreover, authors may optionally complement their submission with a link to a video of at most 2 minutes that further illustrates the work. Videos showing the demonstration are particularly welcome. If the abstract is accepted, the video will be linked directly from the EWSN website. Presentation at the Conference: In addition to an easel and space provided to every accepted abstract during the poster and demo session, one author of each accepted abstract will be given a 1-minute slot in a "madness within the main conference program. In this session, authors will have the opportunity to present their work to the entire conference audience, using a single slide and a 1-minute speech. The best poster and demo will receive an award. Important Dates: Submission: December 5, 2016 Notification: December 19, 2016 Poster & Demo Chairs: Yuan He (Tsinghua University, China) Marco Zimmerling (TU Dresden, Germany) Poster & Demo Committee: Weitao Xu (University of Queensland, Australia) Marco Cattani (TU Graz, Austria) Brad Campbell (University of Michigan, USA) Wan Du (NTU, Singapore) Xiaolong Zheng (Tsinghua University, China) Paul Baumann (TU Dresden, Germany) Octav Chipara (University of Iowa, USA) Nicolas Tsiftes (SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden) Wei Xi (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China) ______________________________________________________________ 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] Deadline Approaching: Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies SI on "Recent Advances in Fog and Mobile Edge Computing"
by Lars Wolf 12 Nov '16

12 Nov '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] Deadline Approaching: Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies SI on "Recent Advances in Fog and Mobile Edge Computing" Datum: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 23:05:33 -0500 Von: Ejaz Ahmed <imejaz(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Ejaz Ahmed <imejaz(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Dear All, Please find below a call for papers for Special Issue in Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies Journal. Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement due to cross posting. CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------ Special Issue in Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (ETT) SI on "Recent Advances in Fog and Mobile Edge Computing" Submission Deadline: 15/11/2016 Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (ETT) invites manuscript submissions in the area of Fog and Mobile Edge Computing. Aim and Scope: ------------------- Cloud computing provides large range of services and virtually unlimited available resources for users. New applications, such as virtual reality and smart building control, have emerged due to the large number of resources and services brought by cloud computing. However, the delay-sensitive applications face the problem of large latency, especially when several smart devices and objects are getting involved in human’s life such as the case of smart cities or Internet of Things. Therefore, cloud computing is unable to meet the requirements of low latency, location awareness, and mobility support. To solve this problem, researchers have introduced a trusted and dependable solution through the Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC) to put the services and resources of the cloud closer to users, which facilitates the leveraging of available services and resources in the edge networks. By this, we are moving from the core (cloud data centers) to the edge of the network clos! er to the users. FMEC dependability is based on providing user centric service. The purpose of Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing is to run the heavy real-time applications at the network edge directly using the billions of connected mobile devices. Several features enable Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing to be a perfect paradigm to the aforementioned purpose, which are the dense geographical deployment of servers, supporting mobility and the closeness to users. As in every new technology, certain challenges face the vision of the Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing, which are the administrative policies and security concerns (i.e. secure data storage, secure computation, network security, data privacy, usage privacy, location privacy, etc). This Special Issue aims to investigate the opportunities and requirements for Mobile Edge Computing dominance as well as to seek for novel contributions that help mitigating the corresponding research challenges. Topics of Interest: The topics relevant to this Special Issue include but are not limited to: • FMEC real-time communication interfaces and protocols. • FMEC efficient communication techniques. • FMEC and D2D communication • FMEC security and privacy issues. • FMEC pricing and billing models. • FMEC support for VANETs and MANETs • Cloudlet based computing • Identification of incentives for FMEC service providers. • The future perspective for FMEC: Challenges and Open Issues. • FMEC Quality of Service (QoS) improvements techniques. • FMEC architecture features and evolution. • FMEC resource scheduling that enhances the reliability and scalability. • FMEC resources monitoring mechanism and utilization measuring mechanism. • FMEC resources allocation and management. • Real-time load prediction model to optimize the user satisfaction. • FMEC virtualization. • Information Centric Networking (ICN) and FMEC • Data storage, processing, and management at FMEC platform. • Cyber hacking, next generation fire wall of FMEC. • Security protocols in FMEC. Coherent list of topics: -------------------------- Papers must be tailored to the emerging fields of Fog and Mobile Edge Computing and explicitly consider recent deployments models, challenges and novel solutions. The Guest Editors maintain the right to reject papers they deem to be out of scope of this special issue. Only originally unpublished contributions and invited articles will be considered for the issue. The papers should be formatted according to the ETT guidelines http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)2161-3915. Authors should submit a PDF version of their complete manuscript via Manuscriptcentral (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ett) according to the timetable below. Important Dates: ---------------------------------- Extended Submission deadline: 15/11/2016 Author Notification: 15/12/2016 Final Manuscript: 1/3/2017 Publication: Q4-2017 Guest Editors: ---------------- Yaser Jararweh, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan, Yaser.amd(a)gmail.com Periklis Chatzimisios, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece, pchatzimisios(a)ieee.org Ejaz Ahmed, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD. 20899, USA , imejaz(a)gmail.com Brij B. Gupta, National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, India, gupta.brij(a)gmail.com Houbing Song, West Virginia University, USA, h.song(a)ieee.org Kind Regards, Ejaz Ahmed, (Ph.D.) Associate Technical Editor, IEEE Com. Mag., Associate Editor, IEEE Access, Springer MJCS, Email IDs: imejaz(a)gmail.com, ejazahmed(a)ieee.org Web: 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] SECON '17 Call for Papers
by Lars Wolf 12 Nov '16

12 Nov '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] SECON '17 Call for Papers Datum: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 19:37:18 +0000 Von: Karthik Dantu <kdantu(a)BUFFALO.EDU> Antwort an: Karthik Dantu <kdantu(a)BUFFALO.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [We apologize if you received multiple copies of this CFP. Please forward to colleagues who might be interested] Dear colleagues, We are please to announce the first call for papers for IEEE SECON 2017. Details are below. IEEE SECON 2017 http://secon2017.ieee-secon.org/ San Diego, CA, USA June 12-14, 2017 Important Dates Abstract Registration: 8 December 2016 Paper Submission: 15 December 2016 Acceptance Notification: 14 March 2017 Camera Ready: 11 April 2017 The 14th annual IEEE SECON conference will provide a unique forum to exchange innovative research ideas, recent results, and share experiences among researchers and practitioners in wireless networks, mobile systems and the Internet of Things. The focus of IEEE SECON is novel communication technologies and emerging applications and services, involving mobile sensing and communication, and ubiquitous and pervasive computing. Papers describing original, previously unpublished research work, experimental efforts, practical experiences, and industrial and commercial developments in all aspects of sensor networks, mobile devices, and wireless communication are solicited. Within this domain, particular topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Experience with deployment of mobile apps, networks and systems * Software Defined Networking for mobile and wireless networks * White space, cooperative and cognitive communications * Network management for mobile devices, including data consumption, energy consumption, and performance * Wearable computing and applications * Novel smartphone-based sensing systems, tools, applications and experiences * Novel applications: cyber-physical systems, Internet of things, distributed mobile computing * New communication technologies, such as NFC, visible light, underwater communication * Low power and energy limited sensing and communications, including energy-harvesting * Green wireless networks * Cellular communications and data networks, such as small cells and 5G cellular networks * Next-generation network architectures/protocols, including millimeter-wave, wireless optical, large-scale MIMO, and information-centric networking * Measurement of wireless and sensor systems, and novel experimental testbeds * Security, privacy, and trustworthiness of mobile, wireless and sensor systems * Survivability, network management, and fault tolerance * Application protocols and cross-layer design * Mobile data science/analysis * Vehicular networks and connected vehicles; robotic wireless networks Paper Submission And Publication Papers should neither have been published elsewhere nor currently under review by another venue. All papers for IEEE SECON 2017 must be submitted via the conference submission page. Papers must be no longer than 9 pages and in font size no smaller than 10 points. Papers that violate the format guidelines will be rejected without review. All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality and relevance through *double-blind* reviewing, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. As an author, you are required to preserve the anonymity of your submission, while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Common sense and careful writing will go a long way towards preserving anonymity. Papers that do not conform to our double-blind submission policies will be rejected without review. To be published in the IEEE SECON 2017 Conference Proceedings and to be eligible for publication in IEEE Xplore®, an author of an accepted paper is required to register for the conference at the full (member or non-member) rate and the paper must be presented by an author of that paper at the conference unless the TPC Chairs grant permission for a substitute presenter arranged in advance of the event and who is qualified both to present and answer questions. Non-refundable registration fees must be paid prior to uploading the final IEEE formatted, publication-ready version of the paper. For authors with multiple accepted papers, one full registration is valid for up to 3 papers. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the IEEE SECON 2017 Conference Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore® as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. The organizers of IEEE SECON 2017 as well as our attendees expect accepted papers to be presented at the conference. 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. Organizing Committee General Co-Chairs: Bhaskar Krishnamachari, University of Southern California Niki Trigoni, University of Oxford TPC Co-Chairs: Xinyu Zhang, University of Wisconsin, Madison Srihari Nelakuditi, University of South Carolina Steering Committee: Fred Bauer (Chair), Cisco Mischa Dohler, King's College London, UK Harvey Freeman, HAF Consulting Sneha Kumar Kasera, University of Utah Sung-Ju Lee, KAIST. Prasant Mohapatra, UC Davis Chiara Petrioli, University of Rome "La Sapienza" ______________________________________________________________ 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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