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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ACM CHANTS 2016 (colocated with ACM MobiCom'16): Call for Papers and Demos - Deadline extended
by Lars Wolf 31 May '16

31 May '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ACM CHANTS 2016 (colocated with ACM MobiCom'16): Call for Papers and Demos - Deadline extended Datum: Tue, 31 May 2016 19:35:31 +0200 Von: Elisabetta Biondi <chants16_publicity(a)IIT.CNR.IT> Antwort an: Elisabetta Biondi <chants16_publicity(a)IIT.CNR.IT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG =============================================================================== * *** NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 23, 2016 *** * Please register your paper early, updates are possible until the deadline! =============================================================================== =============================================================================== ACM CHANTS 2016 - 11th Workshop on Challenged Networks co-located with ACM MobiCom 2016 October 7, 2016, New York, USA www.acm-chants.org =============================================================================== =============================================================================== Challenged networks comprise those situations where communication is desired, but traditional Internet architectures fail to provide it effectively. Such networks may be characterized by intermittent connectivity, a heterogeneous mix of nodes, frequent nodal churn, and widely varying network conditions. Examples of challenged networks include deployments in rural and remote areas, networks to support emergency response operations, inter-planetary networks, sensor and wildlife monitoring networks, underwater networks, road vehicle networks, and, more recently, networks of micro aerial vehicles. The applications of challenged networks range from time-critical communications such as for disaster relief to delay-tolerant transmission in poorly connected regions or where censorship should be counteracted. However, challenged networking has also found many applications in everyday settings, for which they were not initially conceived, such as opportunistic networking supporting data-centric communications, traffic offloading from cellular networks, mobile cloud/edge computing, opportunistic and participatory sensing, challenged IoT. The increasing availability of wireless communications in embedded devices as well as integration of technologies such as Wi-Fi direct on Android platforms and LTE’s D2D (device-to-device) communication on general purpose mobile devices, will further push the development of challenged networking solutions. Challenged networking has also chartered new directions for inter-disciplinary research, e.g., applying findings from social networks and network science. This workshop builds on the success of the ten previous CHANTS workshops, and WDTN 2005, and aims to stimulate research on the most novel topics of challenged networking research. This year’s edition encourages submission of theoretical and experimental work (including studies of real deployment), with a primary interest in the **new directions of challenged networking such as mobile cloud/mobile edge computing, IoT, mobile data offloading, and challenged SDN**. The workshop seeks original work presented in the form of research papers describing new research approaches and results, as well as demo submissions. Highly disruptive work-in-progress and position papers are also welcome, provided they focus on particularly innovative, out-of-the-box, solutions or applications for challenged networks. All papers shall be forward-looking, describe their relationship to existing work, and shall argue their impact and implications for ongoing or future research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Delay/disruption-tolerant networks (DTNs), opportunistic communication and computing - Architecture, design, and implementation of communication systems for challenged networks - Modeling, analysis, and characterization of challenged networks and protocols - Challenged networking techniques for mobile cloud computing - Mobile data offloading via challenged networks - Challenged networking techniques for participatory and opportunistic sensing - Challenged networking in the Internet of Things - Big data analytics in challenged networking - Software-defined networking in challenged environments - Security/trust/privacy concerns and solutions in challenged networks - Energy-efficient communication in challenged networks - Information centric and content-centric networking in challenged networks - Real-world mobility trace collection, analysis, and modeling for challenged environments - Network science methods for challenged networks - Network coding in challenged networks - Novel challenged networking systems (e.g., networks of micro aerial vehicles) - Real deployment and case studies in various stages of use - Disrupted scenarios for challenged networks (e.g., disaster relief and emergency management) - Daily use applications (e.g., mobile social networking, crowdsourcing, censorship evasion, sensor networks, smart cities) - Test and simulation tools for evaluating challenged network systems - Configuration, management, and monitoring of challenged networks. PAPER FORMAT AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ---------------------------------------- Submitted papers must be no longer than 6 pages, and should adhere to the standard ACM conference proceedings format. Demo proposals (to be published as part of the proceedings) must not be longer than 2 pages plus 1 page description of the precise setup and requirements (the 1-page setup description will not be published in the proceedings). Reviews will be single-blinded. Papers should neither have been published elsewhere nor being currently under review by another conference or journal. EDITORIAL FOLLOW-UPS -------------------- Extended versions of the selected workshop papers will be considered for possible fast track publication on the Computer Communications Journal (Elsevier), in a special section on Challenged Networks. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- - Submission Deadline (extended): 23 June 2016 - Acceptance Notification: 22 July 2016 - Camera Ready Due: 5 August 2016 - Workshop: 7 October 2016 PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS ------------------------ Chiara Boldrini (IIT-CNR, Italy) Marcelo Dias de Amorim (UPMC and CNRS, France) TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE --------------------------- Kevin Almeroth (UC-Santa Barbara, USA) Mostafa Ammar (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Fehmi Ben Abdesslem (SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden) Guohong Cao (The Pennsylvania State University, USA) Marco Cello (Nokia Bell Labs) Vania Conan (Thales Communications & Security, France) Luis Costa (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Do Young Eun (North Carolina State University, USA) Kevin Fall (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Stephen Farrell (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Domenico Giustiniano (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain) Tristan Henderson (University of St Andrews, UK) Andrea Hess (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Pan Hui (Hong Kong Unive. of Science and Technology) Karin Anna Hummel (JKU Linz, Austria) Mohan Kumar (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA) Kyunghan Lee (UNIST, Korea) Anders Lindgren (SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden) Mirco Musolesi (University College London, UK) Katia Obraczka (UC Santa Cruz, USA) Melek Onen (Eurecom, France) Joerg Ott (Technische Universität München, Germany) Elena Pagani (Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy) Andrea Passarella (IIT-CNR, Italy) Eric Rozner (IBM Research, USA) Pavlos Sermpezis (FORTH, Greece) Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos (Eurecom, France) Stavros Toumpis (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece) Thierry Turletti (INRIA, France) Yu Wang (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA) Eiko Yoneki (University of Cambridge, UK) Xiaolan Zhang (Fordham University, USA) WEB CHAIR --------- Fehmi Ben Abdesslem (SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden) PUBLICITY CHAIR --------------- Elisabetta Biondi (IIT-CNR, Italy) STEERING COMMITTEE ------------------ Kevin Almeroth (UC Santa Barbara, USA) Kevin Fall (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Stephen Farrell (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Jörg Ott (Technische Universität München, Germany) Andrea Passarella (IIT-CNR, Italy) ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, special issue on "Scalable Cyber-Physical Systems", Deadline: June 30, 2016
by Lars Wolf 30 May '16

30 May '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, special issue on "Scalable Cyber-Physical Systems", Deadline: June 30, 2016 Datum: Mon, 30 May 2016 06:20:31 +0000 Von: Gai, Keke <kg71231w(a)PACE.EDU> Antwort an: Gai, Keke <kg71231w(a)PACE.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG CFP: Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, special issue on "Scalable Cyber-Physical Systems" Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are characterized by the strong interactions among cyber components and dynamic physical components. CPS is expected to play a major role in the development of next-generation smart energy systems, especially for the large scale power systems. Due to the deeply complex intertwining among different components, CPS poses fundamental challenges in multiple aspects, such as real-time data processing, distributed computing, data sensing and collection, and efficient parallel computing. Innovative technologies addressing CPS challenges in smart energy systems, such as the fast growth in system scale and complexity, the distributed control and real-time interaction between dynamic environments and physical systems, and the efficiency issues in smart homes, buildings, communities and connected vehicle systems together with their reliability, are highly desirable. In particular, studying the merging and communication between information-centric and node-centric systems from a CPS perspective is extremely promising. This special issue aims to gather recent research work in design/development of scalable computing systems for smart energy CPSs and discuss, evaluate, and improve the novel approaches of energy-aware CPSs. Our primary focus is to address novel power saving mechanisms in CPS, advanced deployments for large scaled CPS, energy-aware solutions for heterogeneous CPS, and new efficient lower power strategy of CPS. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: * Architectural framework for distributed CPS * Resource Management in large scale CPS * Design methodologies for smart energy systems as cyber-physical systems * Smart home, building, community system designs * Interactions between smart home/building/community/transportation systems and grids * Renewable energy integration with smart energy CPS * Real time operations of smart energy systems and interactions with grid * Cross-layer modeling and optimization for smart energy CPS * Novel mechanisms for Plug-in Hybrid and Battery Electric Vehicles * New Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) strategies in CPS * Distributed power management systems in large scale CPS * Advanced schemes of maximizing asset utilizations and efficiency enhancement * Efficient state estimation techniques in CPS * Emerging models of distributed energy systems in CPS * Lower-power heterogeneous computing for distributed CPS Submission Format The submitted papers must be written in English and describe original research which is not published nor currently under review by other journals or conferences. Author guidelines for preparation of manuscript can be found at http://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-of-parallel-and-distributed-comput… Submission Guidelines All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through Elsevier Editorial System (EES). The authors must select “SI: Scalable CPS” when they reach the "Article Type" step in the submission process. The EES website is located at: http://ees.elsevier.com/jpdc/ Guide for Authors This site will guide you stepwise through the creation and uploading of your article. The guide for Authors can be found on the journal homepage (http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-parallel-and-distributed-comput…). Important Dates First submission expected: March 15, 2016 Submission deadline: June 30, 2016 Acceptance deadline: December 15, 2016 Guest Editors Professor Meikang Qiu, Pace University, mqiu(a)pace.edu<mailto:mqiu@pace.edu> Dr. Saurabh Garg, University of Tasmania, saurabh.kr.garg(a)gmail.com<mailto:saurabh.kr.garg@gmail.com> Professor Rujkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, rbuyya(a)unimelb.edu.au<mailto:rbuyya@unimelb.edu.au> Professor Bei Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, byu(a)cse.cuhk.edu.hk<mailto:byu@cse.cuhk.edu.hk> Professor Shiyan Hu, Michigan Technological University, shiyan(a)mtu.edu<mailto:shiyan@mtu.edu> ______________________________________________________________ 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: SIMULATION MODELLING PRACTICE AND THEORY SPECIAL ISSUE ON “Smart Cities and Internet of Things”
by Lars Wolf 29 May '16

29 May '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CALL FOR PAPERS: SIMULATION MODELLING PRACTICE AND THEORY SPECIAL ISSUE ON “Smart Cities and Internet of Things” Datum: Sun, 29 May 2016 22:03:11 +0300 Von: Ioannis Moschakis <imoschak(a)CSD.AUTH.GR> Antwort an: Ioannis Moschakis <imoschak(a)CSD.AUTH.GR> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG CALL FOR PAPERS SIMULATION MODELLING PRACTICE AND THEORY SPECIAL ISSUE ON “Smart Cities and Internet of Things” SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 30, 2016 THEME The recent development of the information and communication technologies (ICTs) and Internet of Things (IoT) have affected the cities by changes in physical infrastructure, buildings, urban transportation systems, governance, healthcare and in other areas. In smart cities the integration of information and communication technology (ICT) using devices, platforms and applications is of a great importance. The ICT technologies supporting smart cities services include devices connected through the Internet of Things, cloud computing and also their applications. The scope of this special issue is to present state-of-the-art research covering a variety of concepts on the IoT and new technologies for building smart cities particularly in the process of modelling, simulation and performance evaluation of these technologies. Papers for the Special Issue must provide a substantial novel contribution, and authors must carefully situate their work with regard to the relevant scientific literature. They must clearly address research issues of Smart Cities and IoT and show the role of modelling and simulation in this research area. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Internet of Things for Smart Cities • Future Cities • Ecological Cities • Smart buildings and environment • Efficient energy management • Rural communications • Environment and urban monitoring • Mobile crowdsourcing • Internet-supported healthcare and medical systems • Emergency management • Safety, security, privacy and trust • Mobile computing for Smart Cities • Cloud computing and big data systems • Data management in IoT • E-Government Services • Intelligent transportation and communication systems • Internet-based finance, business and enterprise • Real-time and semantic web services • System design, modelling, simulation and evaluation SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Manuscripts should be submitted online through the Elsevier Editorial System (EES) at the following link: http://ees.elsevier.com/simpat Authors must select Special Issue: Smart cities-IoT when they reach the “Article Type” step in the on-line submission process. Submitted manuscripts should present original contributions and must not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. All papers will be peer reviewed according to the high standards of the Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory Elsevier journal. Please feel free to contact the Guest Editor for any questions. Important Dates Manuscript submission deadline June 30, 2016 Manuscript reviews to authors August 31, 2016 Manuscript revision due October 31, 2016 Final notification of acceptance December 31, 2016 Expected publication of the special issue March 2017 SPECIAL ISSUE EDITOR: Eleni KARATZA Department of Informatics Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece Email: karatza(a)csd.auth.gr ______________________________________________________________ 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 GLOBECOM 1st International Workshop on the Internet of Everything
by Lars Wolf 29 May '16

29 May '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP - IEEE GLOBECOM 1st International Workshop on the Internet of Everything Datum: Fri, 27 May 2016 23:40:10 -0400 Von: Walid Saad <saad.walid(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Walid Saad <saad.walid(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG *CALL FOR PAPERS* *The IEEE GLOBECOM 2016 First International Workshop on the Internet of Everything (IoE)* The coming decade will be marked by a large-scale, pervasive wireless interconnection of devices, sensors, smartphones, tablets, wearable devices, vehicles, drones, and mundane objects into a massive cyber-physical Internet of Everything (IoE) system. It is anticipated that the IoE will provide connectivity for billions of devices and millions of individuals worldwide. However, such an interconnection will only be possible if a reliable and high-speed wireless communication infrastructure is built to sustain the massive and heterogeneous traffic that will stem from the IoE. Such an infrastructure will encompass a variety of wireless systems, ranging from cellular networks to WLANs. Owing to its pervasiveness, scale, and heterogeneity, the IoE will introduce many novel and unique challenges for wireless communications that range from enabling a co-existence between machine type devices and human type devices to delivering ultra-low latency communication and developing resource allocation mechanisms that can adapt to the heterogeneous IoE environment. Moreover, the IoE will also incorporate emerging technologies such as drone-based and UAV communications which will have their own, unique challenges. This workshop aims to attract high quality contributions in the general area of IoE. The goal is to provide attendees a comprehensive view of the latest developments in this area. The scope of this workshop covers but is not limited to the following topics of interest to IoE community: · Big data analytics for IoE communication. · Multiple access protocols and resource management mechanisms for the IoE. · New wireless networking architectures that are tailored towards the IoE. · Fundamental performance analysis of M2M communications within the IoE. · Designs that cater for ultra low latency and ultra reliability. · Buffering, queueing, and caching in the IoE. · New techniques for short packet transmission. · Fog computing, Internet of moving and flying things, and related ideas. · Game-theoretic and learning mechanisms for self-organizing operation of the IoE. · Energy efficiency and spectral efficiency enhancements for the IoE. · Co-existence of wireless technologies in the IoE. · Millimeter wave communication between wearable devices in an IoE environment. · Massive access management in cellular-based IoE. · Emerging technologies such as device-to-device communications as applied to the IoE. · Context aware and predictive IoE communication. · Security and privacy in the IoE. · Cyber-physical solutions for the IoE. · Self-driving and connected vehicles, V2V/V2X. This 1st IEEE GLOBECOM 2016 workshop on the IoE features keynote addresses by *D. Richard Brown (Program Manager, National Science Foundation, USA)*, *Mung Chiang (Princeton Univ., USA)*, and *Howard Huang (Bell-Labs, USA)*. *Website: *http://www.ioe.netsciwis.com *Workshop Co-chairs: * Walid Saad (Virginia Tech), Mehdi Bennis (University of Oulu), and Harpreet Dhillon (Virginia Tech) *Important Dates:* Submission deadline: July 1, 2016 Notification: September 1, 2016 Camera-ready deadline: October 1, 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] Call for Papers - HotPlanet 2016 (Workshop at Ubicomp 2016)
by Lars Wolf 29 May '16

29 May '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Papers - HotPlanet 2016 (Workshop at Ubicomp 2016) Datum: Fri, 27 May 2016 16:18:40 -0400 Von: Aaron Striegel <aaron.striegel(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Aaron Striegel <aaron.striegel(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Call for Papers, HotPlanet 2016 September 12, 2016 - Heidelberg, Germany Co-Located with Ubicomp / ISWC Workshop URL: http://wi-stream-1.cse.nd.edu/HotPlanet16 The last decade has witnessed a rapid, planet-scale growth in deployment and usage of smart mobile devices, ambient sensors, smartphone applications, and advanced communication technologies. This era has prompted for large-scale, planet-wide data collection, storage, processing and dissemination technologies, to advance our knowledge about human behaviours and interactions at a planetary scale. Evolution of such technologies and methodologies, in addition to the high investments in Internet of things (IoT) deployments, has inherently led to a number of security, privacy and ethical issues as well as new systems, networking, and application challenges. This 7th HotPlanet workshop will bring together networking, wireless, mobile computing and systems research to understand the challenges ahead and advance the dialogue on topics related to large-scale measurements and big data analytics centred on individuals. It aims to attract submissions on data collection and analysis, such as knowledge-discovery methodologies, large-scale data mining, and big social media data and location traces analytics, but also on deployment challenges, such as innovative real-world measurement technologies, end-user applications, large-scale deployment experiences, and innovative large-scale mobile sensing systems. Topics of interest include (but not limited to): • Big data analytics (social media, mobility traces, prediction techniques, etc.) • Programming paradigms for large-scale data collection • Open source and virtualized sensing infrastructure • Cloud paradigms for decentralized analysis • Large scale measurement methodologies • Mobile/crowd sensing systems and techniques • Internet of Things systems and applications • Incentive models for participating/crowd sensing • Profiling, personalisation, geo-targeting • Large scale mobile application deployment experiences/lessons/challenges • Data quality issues • Regulatory, legal and ethical issues in large-scale data collection • Security/privacy issues in large-scale data collection Chairs • General Co-Chairs: Pan Hui (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) Yanyong Zhang (Rutgers University, USA) • TPC Co-Chairs: Zhonghong Ou (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China) Aaron D Striegel (University of Notre Dame, USA) Important dates: • Submission deadline: June 14, 2016 • Notification to authors: June 26, 2016 • Camera ready: July 3, 2016 • Workshop date: 12 September 2016 Paper format and inclusion: All submissions will follow the SIGCHI Extended Abstract format, and will be limited to 6 pages. Accepted papers will be included in the ACM digital library and the supplemental proceedings of UbiComp 2016. Submissions will be conducted via HotCRP at http://wi-stream-1.cse.nd.edu/hp16 =============================== Aaron Striegel Associate Professor, Associate Chair Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Notre Dame Em: striegel(a)nd.edu Ph: 574 631-6896 Cell: 574 274-7374 Web: http://www.nd.edu/~striegel ______________________________________________________________ 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] Communications Magazine Special Issue on IoT
by Lars Wolf 27 May '16

27 May '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] Communications Magazine Special Issue on IoT Datum: Fri, 27 May 2016 15:46:58 +0800 Von: Verikoukis Christos <cveri(a)CTTC.ES> Antwort an: Verikoukis Christos <cveri(a)CTTC.ES> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Communications Magazine Special Issue on Internet of Things (IoT) Internet of Things is seen as a set of vertical application domains that share a limited number of common basic functionalities (such as communications and networking protocols and operating systems APIs). In this view, consumer centric solutions, platforms, data management, and business models have to be developed and consolidated in order to deploy effective solutions in the specific fields. The availability of low cost general purpose processing and storage systems with sensing/actuation capabilities (now available also to prosumers) coupled with communication capabilities are broadening the possibilities of IoT leading to open systems that will be highly programmable, virtualized and will support large numbers of APIs. Internet of Things emerges as a set of integrated technologies new exciting solutions and services that are set to change the way people live, produce goods. Internet of Things is rewarded by many as a fruitful technological sector in order to generate revenues. IoT covers a large wealth of consumer centric technologies (from sensors to communications up to software platforms) and it is applicable to an even larger set of application domains (from manufacturing to e-health, from logistics to automotive). Innovation will be nurtured and driven by the possibilities offered by the combination of increased technological capabilities, new business models and the rise of new ecosystems. IoT will be characterized by a few enablers: * Sensors, actuators and new consumer devices. * New Communication capabilities (from short range to LPWAN to 4G and 5G networks, with NB-IoT). In addition, new communication protocols and the exploitation of NFV/SDN for better communications. * Data management and Big Data analysis to deal with large data sets and streams generated by IoT systems. * New solutions for large distributed systems (e.g., combination of Cloud, Grid and Edge/Fog Computing). * Cognitive systems. Large IoT systems will be more and more complex, and as such they will require new cognitive techniques in order to be effective. * Platform programmability. APIs and other means for supporting the programmability of IoT systems in order to enable the exploitation of programmable features made available. * New Business models and ecosystems. What is the value of IoT systems, what ecosystems support it, how to monetize IoT. * Consumer centric aspects including IoT application development, utilization of semantics and security, privacy, trust. This proposed Feature Topic (FT) issue will gather articles from a wide range of perspectives in different industrial and research communities of IoT. The primary FT goals are to advance the understanding of the challenges faced in IoT communications, networking, distributed processing, new signal processing capabilities, software platforms and end – users devices over the next decade, and provide further awareness in the IoT research communities on these challenges, thus fostering future investigation. In addition a perspective on the business possibilities of IoT are of interest in order to enable and deploy the foreseen technical solutions. Original research papers are to be solicited in topics including, but not limited to, the following themes * Existing and future communication architectures and technologies for large IoT systems * Existing and future use cases and deployment of large IoT systems * Design and evaluation of large IoT test beds, prototypes, and platforms for consumer centric IoT application development and deployment * Identification of viable business models and related ecosystems * Solution and services supported by consumer devices * Security, Privacy and interworking issues for cooperative IoT operations * Interfaces, cross-platform communication and programmability for IoT systems * Autonomics mechanisms for QoS and performance evaluation for IoT solutions * Game-theoretic and control-theoretic mechanisms for IoT resource allocation and management * Integrating 4G and 5G wireless technologies into IoT communications and Platforms * Integration of cognitive techniques with IoT systems * Energy-efficient communications considering opportunistic policies for large IoT systems * Big data and data analytics solutions for IoT systems * Comparison and improvement of IoT communication protocols * Novel distributed techniques (e.g., Edge/Fog computing) * New sensing and actuation capabilities and devices and their applicability IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: June 15, 2016 Notification Due Date: August 15, 2016 Final Version Due Date: September 15, 2016 Feature Topic Publication Date: December, 2016 GUEST EDITORS Roberto Minerva TIM Lab, Italy roberto.minerva(a)telecomitalia.it Mohsen Guizani University of Idaho, USA mguizani(a)uidaho.edu Christos Verikoukis CTTC, Spain cveri(a)cttc.es Hausi Muller University of Victoria, Canada hausi(a)cs.uvic.ca Soumya Kanti Datta EURECOM, France dattas(a)eurecom.fr Yen-Kuang Chen INTEL, USA y.k.chen(a)ieee.org SUBMISSION Articles should be tutorial in nature, with the intended audience being all members of the IoT research 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 are allowed). Articles should not exceed 4500 words (from introduction through conclusions). Figures and tables should be limited to a combined total of six. The number of references is recommended not to exceed 15. In some rare cases, more mathematical equations, figures, and tables may be allowed if well-justified. In general, however, mathematics should be avoided; instead, references to papers containing the relevant mathematics should be provided. 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 log in, and go to Author Center. Follow the instructions there. Select "December 2016 / IoT" as the Feature Topic category for your submission. Christos Verikoukis, Ph.D. Fellow Researcher Telecommunications Technological Centre of Catalonia Av. Carl Friedrich Gauss 7 08860 Castelldefels Spain Tel:+34936452911 Fax:+34936452901 -- ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE MASS'16 - CALL FOR POSTERS AND DEMOS
by Lars Wolf 26 May '16

26 May '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE MASS'16 - CALL FOR POSTERS AND DEMOS Datum: Thu, 26 May 2016 07:10:02 +0200 Von: Nadjib Ait Saadi <nadjib.aitsaadi(a)U-PEC.FR> Antwort an: Nadjib Ait Saadi <nadjib.aitsaadi(a)U-PEC.FR> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG _______________________________________________________________________________ CALL FOR POSTERS AND DEMOS IEEE MASS 2016 The 13th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems Brasilia, Brazil October 10 - 13, 2016 http://www.ene.unb.br/mass2016/ _______________________________________________________________________________ IMPORTANT DATES • Abstract submission (Posters and Demos): June 24th, 2016 • Acceptance notification: July 8th, 2016 • Camera-ready version: July 20th, 2016 CALL FOR DEMOS IEEE MASS 2016 will feature a demo session that provides a forum for wireless ad hoc and sensor network researchers and developers from academia, industry, and government to interact with and explore the latest research results. Towards this goal, IEEE MASS 2016 solicits demonstrations presenting recent original results or ongoing research. Authors are invited to submit interesting results on all aspects of ad hoc and sensor networks, including algorithms, protocols, applications, new research prototypes, testbeds, among others. Demonstrations allow an one-to-one interaction with attendees and authors, where the benefits of the proposed research can be practically highlighted, thereby enhancing its impact. CALL FOR POSTERS Posters presenting early work and preliminary results are solicited. The poster session will provide an excellent opportunity for initial feedback on early research results as lively discussions. Posters are solicited in all areas of mobile ad hoc and sensor networking, and this session will be particularly useful for student researchers for direct interaction with faculty, industry personnel, and other peers. DEMOS: Submission Instructions Demonstration abstracts of no more than 2 pages (US letter size 8.5 x 11 inches) using font size 10 should be submitted via EDAS (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=22669). This extended abstract should include a figure of the system that shall eventually be demonstrated to the audience. Authors are allowed up to one additional page for listing any specific requirements (such as space, general purpose WiFi, non interfering wireless channels, power supply needs) and the organizers will earnestly look into arranging this support. Please include names of the authors, affiliations and e-mail addresses in the abstract. The authors with accepted demos are allowed to display a poster for presentation (additional details on the poster dimensions will be provided closer to the submission deadline). The accepted demo abstracts will be published in IEEE Xplore. POSTERS: Submission Instructions Poster abstracts of no more than 2 pages (US letter size 8.5 x 11 inches) using font size 10 should be submitted via EDAS (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=22669). This extended abstract should include all figures and references, the names of the authors, affiliations, and e-mail addresses. The accepted poster abstracts will be published in IEEE Xplore. The authors with accepted abstracts are required to prepare a poster for presentation at the conference in a standard format, whose dimensions will be indicated closer to the submission deadline. Boards and thumbtacks will be provided. IEEE MASS 2016 Poster/Demo Chair: Marco A. Spohn, Federal University of Fronteira Sul, Brazil -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Nadjib AIT SAADI Associate Professor of Computer Science University of Paris-Est Creteil Val de Marne (UPEC) - IUT Creteil/Vitry Laboratory of Image, Signal and Intelligent Systems - LISSI 122 rue Paul Armangot, 94400 Vitry sur Seine Tel : +33 1 41 80 73 10 http://sites.google.com/site/nadjibaitsaadi/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ ______________________________________________________________ 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 Extended, Elsevier Information Systems Journal [Impact Factor=1.456] -- Special Issue on "Information Fusion in Internet of Things"
by Lars Wolf 26 May '16

26 May '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] Deadline Extended, Elsevier Information Systems Journal [Impact Factor=1.456] -- Special Issue on "Information Fusion in Internet of Things" Datum: Thu, 26 May 2016 00:19:52 -0400 Von: Ejaz Ahmed <imejaz(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Ejaz Ahmed <imejaz(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Dear All, The paper submission deadline of special issue on "Information Fusion in Internet of Things" has extended to 30th June, 2016. Please find below a call for papers of the special issue for Information Systems Journal (Elsevier) on "Information Fusion in Internet of Things". Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Call for papers for the special issue of the Information Systems Journal (Elsevier) on "Information Fusion in Internet of Things" Link: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-systems/call-for-papers/specia… AIMS AND SCOPE ---------------------------- Increasing miniaturization of computing technologies and rapid advancements in communication technologies have made the heterogeneous objects of our daily lives invisibly interweave with sensors, actuators, and other computational elements, while keeping a continuous network connection. The continuous connectivity of these heterogeneous smart objects enables them to communicate with each other and with the users of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. These continuously connected data, generating heterogeneous objects, produce a huge amount of data that needs to be processed, distributed, and examined under consideration of the application objectives. Processing such unstructured and semi-structured data, generated by heterogeneous sources with different contextual and conceptual representations, is a challenging task. By leveraging the synergy among the collected data, information fusion techniques can minimize the amount of data traffic, filter irrelevant data, and make ! predictions and inferences using the collected data in the IoT environment. Information fusion helps in combining the information into a new set of information while minimizing uncertainty. Researchers are leveraging information fusion techniques to minimize the uncertainty of the data for enabling the smart objects of IoT to make the reliable decisions. The exploitation of information fusion techniques in IoT will open new dimensions for designing the reliable and autonomous systems that can operate without the need for human interactions. Hence, there is a need to investigate the potential opportunities of applying information fusion in the designs of protocols and algorithms of IoT. Such investigation will open up a totally new spectrum of functionalities with unprecedented benefits for IoT-based environments. This special issue invites new and unpublished work in the domain of information fusion in an IoT context. More specifically, this special issue will focus on recent research efforts in applying information fusion in IoT. Topics of interest include: Information Fusion ---------------------------- Data mining from multiple sources Knowledge discovery for higher-level information fusion Fusion of data mining knowledge Data, text and web mining in information fusion New theoretical approaches for information fusion Intelligent information fusion Context-based information fusion Imprecision, uncertainty and vagueness in data mining Anomaly and exception detection from datasets Data pre- and post- processing Parallel and distributed data fusion algorithms Information summarization and visualization Linguistic description of information Applications of information fusion, such as surveillance, emergency management, etc. Security concerns of information fusion Information Fusion in IoT ------------------------------------ Theory and representation of IoT information New theoretical approaches for information fusion in IoT Distributed information fusion for interactive cognitive IoT environments Anomaly detection - techniques and applications for IoT Quality-based information fusion in IoT Fusion methods for Big Data in IoT Novel feature/score/rank/decision-level fusion schemes for IoT Knowledge discovery for higher-level information fusion in IoT Fusion of data mining knowledge in IoT Uncertainty management in IoT Technologies for uncertainty reasoning in IoT Intelligent information fusion techniques for IoT Context-based information fusion techniques for IoT Data registration methods in IoT Data classification in IoT Pattern assessment and process management in IoT Active and passive information fusion in IoT High and low level information fusion in IoT Multi-Level fusion: bridging the gap between high and low level fusion in IoT Hard and soft information fusion in IoT Image fusion, database fusion in IoT Distributed information fusion algorithms for IoT Simulation tools; benchmarks; testbeds for information fusion in IoT Fusion/tracking performance modeling,fusion/tracking performance evaluation; performance metrics for IoT Applications of information fusion in IoT Security concerns of information fusion in IoT IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------ Manuscript Due: 30th June 2016 Acceptance notification: 15th September 2016 Revised paper due: 15th November 2016 Final manuscript due: 15 December 2016 Expected Publication of the Special Issue: 25 January 2017 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ---------------------------------------- All submissions have to be prepared according to the Guide for Authors as published in the Journal website at https://www.elsevier.com/journals/information-systems/0306-4379/guide-for-a…. Authors should select “SI:IF-IoT”, from the “Choose Article Type” pull-down menu during the submission process. All contributions must not have been previously published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. A submission based on one or more papers that appeared elsewhere has to comprise major value-added extensions over what appeared previously (at least 30% new material). Authors are requested to attach to the submitted paper their relevant, previously published articles and a summary document explaining the enhancements made in the journal version. GUEST EDITORS OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE ---------------------------------------------------------------- * Ejaz Ahmed, Lead Guest Editor University of Malaya, Malaysia Email: imejaz(a)gmail.com * Mubashir Husain Rehmani COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan Email: mshrehmani(a)gmail.com * Philippe Bonnet IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Email: phbo(a)itu.dk Kind Regards, Ejaz Ahmed (Ph.D.) Associate Technical Editor, IEEE Com. Mag., Associate Editor, IEEE Access, 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] CFP: ACM TECS SI on Autonomous Battery-Free Sensing and Communication
by Lars Wolf 26 May '16

26 May '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: ACM TECS SI on Autonomous Battery-Free Sensing and Communication Datum: Thu, 26 May 2016 10:46:56 +0800 Von: Xiufang Shi <xfshi.zju(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Xiufang Shi <xfshi.zju(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG (Apologies if you received multiple copies of this CFP) CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue on Autonomous Battery-Free Sensing and Communication ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems http://tecs.acm.org/pdf/absc2016-cfp.pdf Recently, energy harvesting technologies have emerged as a solution to the challenges posed by energy constraints in many mobile applications. Environmental energy, from sources such as solar, wind, radio frequency, and temperature gradient can be harvested and stored for sustainable operation, thereby enabling battery-free nodes. Such nodes can be applicable in scenarios where small device volume and perpetual operation are desirable. Moreover, they have the potential to enable autonomous sensing and communications tasks without human intervention following the deployment. However, challenges are posed by the need to coordinate the sensing and communications among battery-free nodes while guaranteeing the system performance. Since the harvesting of energy is typically hard to predict, some preliminary works designed efficient energy management schemes. Yet, designing new architectures that enable autonomous battery-free sensing and communications is an open problem. The objective of this special issue is to capture the state-of-the-art advances in this area, and foster new avenues for research. The potential topics of interest include, but are not limited to: --New energy harvesting technologies for battery-free systems; --Energy management for perpetual operation; --New architectures for battery-free sensing and communications; --Resource management for autonomous operations; --Operating systems for battery-free devices; --Security issues in battery-free systems; --Emerging applications by battery-free systems; --Future directions for battery-free systems; Tentative Schedule –Manuscript Due: June 1st, 2016 --First Notification: Sept. 1st, 2016 --Revised version: Nov. 1st, 2016 --Final notification: Jan. 1st, 2017 --Publication Date: 2st quarter of 2017 Guest editors: Jiming Chen, Zhejiang University, jmchen(a)iipc.zju.edu.cn Gil Zussman, Columbia University, gil(a)ee.columbia.edu Yu (Jason) Gu, IBM Watson Health, yugu(a)us.ibm.com SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Previously published conference papers may only be submitted, if the paper is substantially extended with at least 30% new material. In such a case, authors are required to include with their submission a letter in which they identify all prior publications on which their submission may be based, provide pointers to publicly available versions of those publications, and articulate any changes made to improve and/or expand on those conference publications. Papers should be submitted via the Manuscript Central website and should adhere to standard ACM TECS formatting requirements (where the page count limit is 25, including figures and references). The authors should indicate that they are submitting to the Special issue on "Autonomous Battery-Free Sensing and Communications" on the first page and in the field "Author's Cover Letter" in Manuscript Central. Any questions on this special issue should be addressed to Jiming Chen jmchen(a)iipc.zju.edu.cn. ______________________________________________________________ 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: [LCN2016-Info] [CFP] IEEE LCN Workshops Joint Call; EXTENDED deadline: 6 June, 2016
by Lars Wolf 25 May '16

25 May '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [LCN2016-Info] [CFP] IEEE LCN Workshops Joint Call; EXTENDED deadline: 6 June, 2016 Datum: Wed, 25 May 2016 18:58:12 +0800 Von: LCN Publicity Chairs <lcn.publicity(a)gmail.com> Call for Papers - IEEE LCN Workshops ==================================== The following *workshops* will be co-located with the *41st IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN)* 7--10 November, 2016, Dubai, UAE General information ------------------- EXTENDED joint submission deadline is: 6 June, 2016 LCN workshops information page: http://ieeelcn.org/Workshops.html Please see the individual workshop websites for further details. We are looking forward to strong submissions as in recent years. Olivier Mehani IEEE LCN 2016 Workshop Chair Workshops and individual submission sites ----------------------------------------- CloudNA 2016: The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Cloud-based Networks and Applications http://www.ieee-cloudna.org/ Submission: https://edas.info/N22387 NSWMD 2016: The 1st IEEE International Workshop on Networks of Sensors, Wearable, and Medical Devices for eHealth https://sites.google.com/site/nswmd2016/ Submission: https://edas.info/N22308 ON-MOVE 2016: The 10th IEEE LCN Workshop On User MObility and VEhicular Networks http://www.ieee-lcn-onmove.org/ Submission: https://edas.info/N22470 P2MNET 2016: The 12th IEEE International Workshop on Performance and Management of Wireless and Mobile Networks http://www.p2mnet.org/2016/ Submission: https://edas.info/N22422 SenseApp 2016: The 11th IEEE International Workshop on Practical Issues In Building Sensor Network Applications http://www.senseapp.org/ Submission: https://edas.info/N22377 WNM 2016: The 10th IEEE Workshop on Network Measurements http://wnm2016.csis.mtroyal.ca/ Submission: https://edas.info/N22480 WIoT 2016: The 1st IEEE LCN Workshop on Internet of Things http://www.cnrl.colostate.edu/IEEELCN-IoT2016/ Submission: https://edas.info/N22482

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