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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] The 16th International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking (IEEE MSN 2020) December 17-19, Tokyo, Japan
by Lars Wolf 07 Jul '20

07 Jul '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] The 16th International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking (IEEE MSN 2020) December 17-19, Tokyo, Japan Datum: Mon, 6 Jul 2020 13:01:42 -0700 Von: Wei Wang <wwang(a)SDSU.EDU> Antwort an: Wei Wang <wwang(a)SDSU.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG The 16th International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking (IEEE MSN 2020) December 17-19, Tokyo, Japan https://conference.cs.cityu.edu.hk/msn2020/index.php IEEE MSN 2020 provides a forum for academic researchers and industry practitioners to present research progresses, exchange new ideas, and identify future directions in the field of Mobility, Sensing and Networking. From this year, with the technology advancement and the success of previous editions of MSN, the name of conference is changed from “International Conference on Mobile Ad- hoc and Sensor Networks” to “International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking”. Scope and Objectives Mobility, sensing and networking are the key areas of enabling technologies for the next-generation networks, Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems. Recent years have witnessed the increasing convergence of algorithms, protocols, and applications for mobility, sensing and networking in a range of applications including connected vehicles, smart cities, industries, and smart health. Building on the past 15 years of success, the 16th International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking (MSN 2020) provides a forum for academic researchers and industry practitioners to exchange new research ideas, present their progress, and identify future directions in the field of mobility, sensing and networking. The conference solicits submissions from all areas relating to mobility, sensing and networking as well as corresponding applications. Topics of interests are covered at the following tracks: Algorithms, Theory, and Protocols Systems & Tools Experiments & Applications Mobile & Wireless Networks Edge and Fog Computing Network Security, Privacy, Trust, and Blockchain Big Data and AI in Networking Wireless and Ubiquitous Sensing Best Paper Award and Journal Special Issues: Three accepted papers will be selected for best conference paper awards and one accepted paper will be potentially selected as the best track paper for tracks. Selected papers will be recommended to IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ, IF: 9.936), Computer Communications (Elsevier), Digital Communications and Networks (Elsevier, IF: 5.382), and EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking for potential publications. Submission Procedure Submitted manuscripts must be prepared according to IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Format (double column, 10pt font, letter paper) and submitted in PDF file format. The manuscript should be no longer than 8 pages. Up to two additional pages are permitted if the authors are willing to pay an over-length charge at the time of publication (manuscripts cannot exceed 8 pages in total). Submitted manuscripts must not contain previously published material or be under consideration for publication in another conference or journal. Submission guide can be found as the following link: https://conference.cs.cityu.edu.hk/msn2020/submission.php . Important Dates: Paper Submission Due: July 15, 2020 Author Notification: September 15, 2020 Camera-ready Due: October 15, 2020 Conference Date: December 17-19, 2020 General Chairs: Yusheng Ji National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan Lars Wolf Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Germany Technical Program Committee Chairs: Ruidong Li National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan Moustafa Youssef Alexandra University, Egypt ______________________________________________________________ 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 SenSys'20 Workshop on Blockchain-enabled Networked Sensor Systems
by Lars Wolf 06 Jul '20

06 Jul '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] ACM SenSys'20 Workshop on Blockchain-enabled Networked Sensor Systems Datum: Mon, 6 Jul 2020 03:43:05 -0400 Von: SenSys'20-BlockSys <blocksys18inform(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: SenSys'20-BlockSys <blocksys18inform(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email.] Website: https://sensysblockchain.github.io/ ========================================================================================================= Call for Papers Networked sensor systems as a key component of internet of things (IoT) have been widely used in various environments such as smart home, smart building, vehicular network, wearable computing, robotics systems, industrial control systems, etc. They capture human and physical-world dynamics and feed the data into large-scale analytical backends. Today’s cloud-centric paradigm, however, does not genetically support trust management and privacy preservation; it also does not encourage information sharing in multi-stakeholder settings through incentives and payment mechanisms. As a result, complementary technologies that can offer to ensure data protection, incentivize information exchange, and reduce sharing and maintenance costs are highly desired. We have seen the increasing interest in tackling such problems by using emerging blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies. BlockSys’20 aims to set up a stage for industry and academia to share wins and lessons: we solicit high quality research and position papers that address opportunities and challenges at the intersection of networked sensing/IoT and blockchain. We also welcome on-going work, demos and tutorials. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Blockchain in networked sensor system and other IoT environments * Blockchain in 5G systems * Blockchain in smart cities * Blockchain in edge computing * Blockchain in mobile systems and general ad-hoc networks * Blockchain in vehicular networks * Blockchain in intelligent supply chain * New protocols and consensus algorithms providing fault-tolerance for sensing and IoT systems * Blockchain-based sensor data-tampering protection * Security issues of using blockchain * Incentives and reward mechanisms for sharing sensing data * Blockchain in participatory sensing and crowd-sourcing * Smart contract design and implementation in sensing systems * Formal verification on smart contracts in sensing systems * Decentralized sensing data storage * Decentralized sensing data transmission * Performance issues of using blockchain * Scalability issues of using blockchain * Using blockchain in resource/energy-constraint systems Contact: blocksys.inform(a)gmail.com Organizers General Chairs Bhaskar Krishnamachari (University of Southern California) Salil Kanhere (The University of New South Wales) ______________________________________________________________ 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] CFA: IEEE IoT Magazine FT on Smart IoT Solutions for Combating COVID-19 Pandemic
by Lars Wolf 04 Jul '20

04 Jul '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFA: IEEE IoT Magazine FT on Smart IoT Solutions for Combating COVID-19 Pandemic Datum: Sat, 4 Jul 2020 01:06:05 +0000 Von: Mostafa Fouda <mostafafoda(a)HOTMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Mostafa Fouda <mostafafoda(a)HOTMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] Call for Articles IEEE Internet of Things Magazine Special Issue on "Smart IoT Solutions for Combating COVID-19 Pandemic" https://www.comsoc.org/publications/magazines/ieee-internet-things-magazine… ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The recent surge of COVID-19 pandemic has affected all spheres of our daily life. While virologists are desperately seeking solutions for an early vaccine, a cross-disciplinary approach has become of paramount importance to develop adequate monitoring, contact tracing, and diagnosing/detecting COVID-19 patients. This Feature Topic (FT) aims to encourage researchers and practitioners from both industry and academia, active in the Internet of Things (IoT) domain, to explore the state-of-the-art and out-of-the-box IoT solutions to combat the COVID-19 pandemic by incorporating IoT-based smart solutions. Such solutions can range from IoT-based industrial production of ventilation units, masks and other medical equipment to monitoring patient conditions at hospitals or self-isolation at home in a secure manner, developing new techniques for passive, privacy-preserving contact-tracing techniques, and diagnosing the COVID-19 conditions based on IoT and mobile phone data collection and analytics, to smart Point-of-Care (POC) development not limited to the current gold standard of Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) testing kits. Even as we continue to struggle to contain the current COVID-19 pandemic, the second wave of this life-threatening disease is looming on the horizon. Therefore, to fully prepare ourselves to combat COVID-19, researchers from all areas, including Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and IoT, need to provide the cutting-edge solutions to address these challenges in an efficient yet pragmatic manner. This Feature Topic (FT) is soliciting original technical papers addressing the main research challenges in the direction of IoT-based COVID-19 monitoring and detection and relevant applications, including, but not being limited to the following topics: - Smart and energy-efficient sensor design for collecting COVID-19 symptoms - Emerging applications of IoT-based home monitoring for COVID-19 patients - Reliable and secure/privacy-preserving contact tracing applications using IoT - Edge computing for COVID-19 analytics - Distributed contact tracing for neighborhoods using IoT - Cloud-managed IoT services for COVID-19 social data mining for mobility pattern detection - Cellular density/broadcast utilization for COVID-19 spread monitoring - Industrial IoT devices for reliable production of healthcare equipment for combating COVID-19 patients - Protecting supply chain during COVID-19 using IoT - Point-of-Care (POC) platform design using IoT sensors to combat COVID-19 - AI (deep learning/machine learning) based analytics on smart sensors and POC platforms to detect COVID-19 with high sensitivity - Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) ecosystem design for combating the second/future wave of COVID-19 - Software-Defined Networking (SDN)-assisted IoT for detecting COVID-19 breach in neighborhoods and hospitals - Use cases of IoT networks/systems for combating COVID-19 - Device-to-Device (D2D) communications for combating COVID-19 and other pandemics during humanitarian missions (i.e., in warzones, disaster-affected areas, etc) - Security, privacy, and trust management for IoT-based monitoring, detecting, contact-tracing of COVID-19 - Stress monitoring for mental wellbeing tracking during self-isolation and/or lockdown situations - Chronic patient monitoring and early warning systems using IoT for optimal scheduling of patients - Validation using simulation, clinical trials with IoT sensors/wearables and/or testbeds Submission Guidelines Manuscripts should conform to the standard format as indicated in the Information for Authors section of the Article Submission Guidelines ( https://publications/magazines/ieee-internet-things-magazine/article-submis… ). All manuscripts to be considered for publication must be submitted by the deadline through Manuscript Central (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/iotmag). Select the “Smart IoT Solutions for Combating COVID-19 Pandemic” topic from the drop-down menu of Topic/Series titles. Important Dates Manuscript Submission Deadline: 15 July 2020 Initial Decision: 31 July 2020 Revised Manuscript Due: 31 August 2020 Publication Date: September 2020 Guest Editors Zubair Md. Fadlullah Lakehead University, Canada Thunder Bay Regional Health Research Institute (TBRHRI), Canada Mostafa M. Fouda Tennessee Technological University, TN, USA Benha University, Egypt Al-Sakib Khan Pathan Independent University, Bangladesh Nidal Nasser Alfaisal University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Abderrahim Benslimane University of Avignon, France Ying-Dar Lin National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan ============================================== Smart IoT Solutions for Combating COVID-19 Pandemic | IEEE Communications Society<https://www.comsoc.org/publications/magazines/ieee-internet-things-magazine…> This Feature Topic (FT) is soliciting original technical papers addressing the main research challenges in the direction of IoT-based COVID-19 monitoring and detection and relevant applications. www.comsoc.org Best regards Mostafa Fouda ______________________________________________________________ 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 iThings 2020, Submission deadline is July 15, 2020
by Lars Wolf 03 Jul '20

03 Jul '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [Call for Papers]: IEEE iThings 2020, Submission deadline is July 15, 2020 Datum: Fri, 3 Jul 2020 12:15:41 -0300 Von: 贤君邓 <dengxj615(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: 贤君邓 <dengxj615(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The 13th IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things Rhodes Island, Greece November 02-06, 2020 http://cse.stfx.ca/~cybermatics/2020/ithings/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dear Colleagues, Hope you are well and healthy. The submission deadline of IEEE iThings 2020 has been extended till 15th July 2020 as we understand many are facing unexpected challenges at this time. ----------------------- INTRODUCTION ----------------------- As an emerged promising networking model, the Internet-of-Things (IoT) is a novel paradigm to interconnect a multitude of heterogeneous physical objects and devices. The IoT significantly provides an umbrella for a series of critical building technologies including wireless sensor networks (WSNs), fifth generation (5G) networks, and RFID. The philosophy of the IoT is to develop an intelligent, dynamic, large-scale, and coherent network framework for a wide range of applications and industries. Due to its potential advantages and merits such as high reliability, good scalability and intelligent capacity, the IoT has attracted great attentions and interests from both academia and industry. As the earliest IEEE international conference on Internet of Things, the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings-2020) will provide a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners from both academic and industrial communities to present state-of-the-art advances and innovations in theories, systems, infrastructure, tools, testbeds, technologies and applications for the IoT, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future of everything interconnect via cyberspace. ---------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------- Paper Submission Deadline: July 15, 2020 Authors Notification: August 15, 2020 Camera-Ready Paper Due: September 02, 2020 Conference Date: November 02 - 06, 2020 ------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ------------------------------------- General Chairs • Jelena Misic, Ryerson University, Canada • Shiwen Mao, Auburn University, USA • Symeon Papavassiliou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Program Chairs • Abderrahim Benslimane, Avignon University, France • Lucia Lo Bello, University of Catania, Italy • Xianjun Deng, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada & University of South China, China Workshop Chairs • Salimur Choudhury, Lakehead University, Canada • Haipeng Dai, Nanjing University, China • Gaojie Chen, University of Leicester, UK Steering Chairs • Jianhua Ma (Chair), Hosei University, Japan • Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada • Schahram Dustdar, Technische Universität Wien, Austria • Antonio Puliafito, University of Messina, Italy • Huadong Ma, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Publicity Chairs • Lingzhi Yi, University of South China, China • Zhenchao Ma, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada • Yinxue Yi, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Web Publication Chairs • Zihao Jiang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada ------------------------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ------------------------------------- Conference papers are limited to 8 pages (regular), 6 pages (short), 2-4 pages (poster), following the IEEE proceedings format. Papers are to be submitted as PDF via the site: https://edas.info/N27352 ----------------------------------------------- PROCEEDINGS & SPECIAL ISSUES ----------------------------------------------- All accepted papers in the main tracks, workshops, special sessions and poster sessions will be published in an IEEE Computer Society proceedings (EI indexed). Extended versions of selected excellent papers will be considered for publication in several special issues of a number of excellent journals. List of Special Issues: 1. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics Special Issue: Digital Twinning: Integration AI-ML and Big Data Analytics for Virtual Representation Publisher: IEEE, SCI indexed, IF=9.112 2. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering Special Issue: Computing and Networking for Cyber-Physical-Social Systems Publisher: IEEE, SCI indexed, IF=5.213 3. Information Fusion Special Issue: Data Fusion for Trust Evaluation Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed, IF=13.669 4. Information Fusion Special Issue: Fusion from Big Data to Smart Data Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed, IF=13.669 5. Future Generation Computer Systems Special Issue: Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Defence and Smart Policing Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed, IF=6.125 6. Computer Networks Special Issue: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Next-Generation IoT Networks Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed, IF=3.111 7. IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica Special Issue: Blockchain for Internet-of-Things and Cyber-Physical Systems: Emerging Trends, Issues and Challenges Publisher: IEEE, SCI indexed, IF=5.129 8. Journal of Cloud Computing Special Issue: Security and Privacy Issues for AI in edge-Cloud Computing Publisher: Springer, SCI indexed, IF=2.788 9. Electronics Special Issue: Blockchain-based Technology for Mobile Application Publisher: MDPI, SCI indexed, IF=2.412 10. Sensors Special Issue: Smart Cities of the Future: A Cyber Physical System Perspective Publisher: MDPI, SCI indexed, IF=3.275 11. Software: Practice and Experience Special Issue: Software and Hardware Co-Design for Sustainable Cyber-Physical Systems 12. Future Internet Special Issue: Network Economics and Utility Maximization Publisher: MDPI ______________________________________________________________ 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] NetSys 2021: Call for Extended Abstracts and Hot Topics
by Lars Wolf 03 Jul '20

03 Jul '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] NetSys 2021: Call for Extended Abstracts and Hot Topics Datum: Fri, 3 Jul 2020 11:04:42 +0200 Von: Mathias Fischer <mathias.fischer(a)IEEE.ORG> Antwort an: Mathias Fischer <mathias.fischer(a)IEEE.ORG> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG International Conference on Networked Systems 2021 8-11 March 2021 - Lübeck, Germany https://netsys2021.org Call for Extended Abstracts and Hot Topic Papers ------------------------------------------------ The conference on Networked Systems (NetSys 2021) is a traditional biennial event that provides an international forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to present and discuss recent innovations in the realm of networked systems. NetSys21 is again a joint event organized by GI KuVS (GI, Communication and Distributed Systems) and VDE ITG (VDE, Information Technical Society). The NetSys21 technical program focusses on original contributions in the area of networking and distributed systems and also features invited presentations on hot topics in networking and distributed systems, an industry session, separate workshops, tutorials, posters, demos, an early work track, and a PhD forum. Also included is the annual 1-day ITG expert symposium “Future of Networking” (Zukunft der Netze, ZdN) with invited technical presentations on advanced topics in networking. The German GI FG on Operating Systems also plans to hold its annual workshop in combination with NetSys 2021 in Lübeck. So, NetSys21 solicits the submission of extended abstracts presenting original and novel research and ideas as well as hot topic papers, i.e. presentations of papers that have already been accepted or published at other conferences or journals in the field during the last two years. The NetSys21 TPC will select extended abstract papers for presentation and inclusion in the NetSys21 proceedings to be published open access via the journal Electronic Communications of the EASST (ECEASST) ( https://journal.ub.tu-berlin.de/eceasst). In addition, the TPC of NetSys'21 will select the best submitted abstracts and ask their authors to submit extended versions to a special issue of ACM TOIT (https://dl.acm.org/journal/toit/). Hot topic presentations shall highlight recent and highly significant results in networked and distributed systems to be presented in a highly innovative, thought-provoking and stimulating format - containing, e.g., new research topics, directions, and methods. This includes recent papers which appeared (or are to appear) in top journals (such as TON or CCR) or top conferences (such as SIGCOMM, IMC, MobiCom, CoNEXT, INFOCOM, ICDCS) that are of high interest for the NetSys community. Both, extended abstracts and hot topic papers, can include, but are not limited to the following topics: * Network architectures and protocols * Transport- and application-layer protocols * Software-defined networking, network function virtualization, and further network softwarization * Mobile, ad-hoc, opportunistic, vehicular, and sensor networks * Novel concepts for tactile and low-latency communication * Pertinent middleware architectures, platforms, and programming support for networked systems * Internet of Things (IoT) * Cloud computing, mobile cloud computing, fog and edge computing * Network security and privacy * Information-centric networking, content distribution and retrieval, and their co-existence with classical networks * SoA, web services, and mobile services * Consistency, reliability, availability in networking and distributed systems * Advancements in social networks, social computing, data-intensive computing (big data) * Methods for design, implementation and analysis of networked systems * Cyber-physical networked systems * Green and energy-efficient networks / networked systems * Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning as well as their application in, and impacts on, networking * Distributed ledger systems and applications * Emerging and future networked applications and distributed systems IMPORTANT DATES --------------- *Extended abstract submissions* * Registration & submission: Friday, October 16th, 2020 * Notification of acceptance: Monday, November 30th, 2020 * Camera-ready due: Friday, January 29th, 2021 *Hot topic submissions* * Registration & submission: Friday, December 18th, 2020 * Notification of acceptance: Friday, January 15th, 2021 For other dates (workshop proposals, demo papers, early work and PhD Forum) see https://netsys2021.org. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES FOR EXTENDED ABSTRACTS -------------------------------------------- All abstract submissions must be original, unpublished, and not considered elsewhere for publication. Extended abstracts are limited to 4 pages including references, figures and tables (at least 10pt font, one-column format) in ECEASST-Style. LaTeX and Microsoft Word templates, as well as formatting instructions, are available online here: https://netsys2021.org/participation Contributions should be submitted electronically as PDF, via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=netsys2021 The abstracts will undergo a thorough process of peer reviews by at least three members of the technical program committee. Submission implies that at least one author will register and attend the conference to present the extended abstract via a talk or potentially via a poster. Accepted and presented extended abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings via the journal Electronic Communiations of EASST ( https://journal.ub.tu-berlin.de/eceasst). The authors of the best extended abstracts will be invited to submit a long version of their research to a special issue of ACM TOIT. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES FOR HOT TOPIC PAPERS ------------------------------------------ We expect submissions of papers already published or accepted at top-tier venues. Please submit the full paper or at least the front page (at least including title, authors, abstract, and publication venue) of the published paper as well as its complete reference. Accepted hot topic papers have to be presented at the conference. The presentations will be 15-20 minutes per talk (at the discretion of the NetSys organizers). PC CHAIRS --------- * Mathias Fischer mfischer(a)informatik.uni-hamburg.de Universität Hamburg, Germany * Winfried Lamersdorf lamersdorf(a)informatik.uni-hamburg.de Universität Hamburg, Germany ______________________________________________________________ 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] Last CFP: MONAMI 2020
by Lars Wolf 02 Jul '20

02 Jul '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Last CFP: MONAMI 2020 Datum: Thu, 2 Jul 2020 10:44:08 -0400 Von: MONAMI 2020 <x-shao(a)IEEE.ORG> Antwort an: MONAMI 2020 <x-shao(a)IEEE.ORG> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG *********************************************************************** * EAI MONAMI 2020 * * 10th EAI International Conference on Mobile Networks and Management * * This years theme: Intelligent Mobility and Edge Computing for a Smarter World * * Cyberspace, November 10 - 12, 2020 ************************************************************************ Reasons for submitting to MONAMI 2020: 1. Top-class Keynote Speakers: - Prof. Jiangchuan Liu, IEEE fellow, fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, Canada - Prof. Mianxiong Dong, Professor and Vice President, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan - Prof. Jianping Wang, City Uiversity of Hong Kong, China Hong Kong - Prof. Yusheng Ji, National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan 2. MONAMI 2020 will hold a N2Women meeting with full support of N2Women! 3. Springer's LNICST Publication: - The proceedings will be published as Springer’s LNICST, which is indexed by EI, ISI, Scopus, CrossRef, Google Scholar, dblp, MAS, EBSCO, Microsoft Academic Search, CiteSeerX, and more. 4. Coordinated Journals: – Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) (IF: 2.39) – MDPI Sensors (IF: 3.031), SI: "Emerging Blockchain Technology Solutions for Real-world Applications" - MDPI Sensors, SI: "Convergence of Intelligent Sensing, Networking, and Computing Technologies for ITS" - Springer Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (IF: 2.397), SI: "Blockchain for Peer-to-Peer Computing" – The others (waiting for approval) 5. Awards and social events for Ten Years Ceremony of MONAMI conference - A variety of paper awards - A number of young invited speakers - Social events in the Tokyo Disney Resort if possible 5. MONAMI 2020 becomes a fully-fledged online conference. OVERVIEW ======== In recent years, we have seen fast development of wireless communications, networking, and cloud computing: 4G, 5G and multiaccess networks greatly enhance the quality of service (QoS) of wireless access networks; software- defined networking, network function virtualization, and information-centric networking largely reduce the cost of network service providers and improve the quality of experience (QoE) of end-users; the development of mobile devices and mobile cloud computing lead to explosive deployment of mobile services and applications; the recent development of advanced algorithms such as Deep Learning has shown great potential in resource allocation and service orchestration. Deep integration of the above technologies provides a large number of opportunities for realizing the future mobile computing systems. On the other hand, to realize an efficient and sustainable ecosystem, many challenges exist. The challenges lie in a wide range, including devices technologies, communications and networking technologies, cloud and edge computing technologies, energy harvesting technologies, and incentive and marketing mechanisms. Among the above-mentioned research directions, MONAMI 2020 puts special focus on mobile edge computing (MEC), which is an essential component of the upcoming 5G architecture, and of fundamental importance to the future mobile computing systems. MONAMI 2020 offers the opportunity to leading researchers, industry professionals and academics around the world to meet and discuss the latest advances in these areas and present results related to technologies for realizing the sustainable ecosystem of the future mobile computing systems. The aim of the forum is to disseminate the latest innovative mobile network solutions for increased competition and cooperation in an environment with a multitude of access technologies, network operators and business actors. Potential topics include but are not limited to the following: – Multiaccess networks and resource management – Blockchain technologies in mobile environment – Cooperative communications – V2X (vehicular to everything) technologies – Mobile network management and virtualization – Software defined networks for mobile networking – Routing and resource allocation for hybrid network (hNets) – Game-theoretical analysis for the future mobile networking market – 5G network architecture, management technologies, and services – Operation and management of virtualized network functions – Network function virtualization and software defined networking – Information-Centric Networking and Named-Data-Networking technologies for mobile networks – Joint management and orchestration of cloud and networking – Energy efficiency for multiaccess networks – Energy harvesting technologies for mobile networks – Advanced algorithms such as Deep Learning for mobile network management – Security and privacy issues for emerging mobile services – Emerging multimedia services, service enablers and management – Mobile edge computing (MEC) architecture, protocol, and services – Design, implementation, and testbed/experimental evaluations WEB SITE ======== http://mon-ami.org/ GENERAL CHAIRS ================== – Xun Shao (Kitami Institute of Technology, Japan) Email: x-shao(a)mail.kitami-it.ac.jp – Kui Wu (University of Victoria, Canada) Email: wkui(a)uvic.ca – Tan Hwee Pink (Singapore Management University, Singapore) Email: hptan(a)smu.edu.sg TPC CHAIRS ================== – Seng Loke (Deakin University, Australia) – Zhi Liu (Shizuoka University, Japan) – Kien Nguyen (Chiba University, Japan) WEB CHAIR ================== – Phi Le Nguyen (Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam) Publicity and Social Media Chairs ================================= – Wei Zhao (Anhui University of Technology, China) – Nguyen Huu Thanh (Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam) Workshops Chair ================== – Zhen Ling (Southeast University, China) Publications Chair ================== – Guoming Tang (National University of Defense Technology, China) IMPORTANT DATES ================== – Paper submission for the late track: Jul. 20, 2020 – Notification: Aug. 20, 2020 - Final Submission: Sept. 20, 2020 ______________________________________________________________ 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 iThings 2020, November 02-06, 2020, Rhodes Island, Greece
by Lars Wolf 02 Jul '20

02 Jul '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE iThings 2020, November 02-06, 2020, Rhodes Island, Greece Datum: Thu, 2 Jul 2020 15:19:10 +0200 Von: Abderrahim Benslimane <abderrahim.benslimane(a)UNIV-AVIGNON.FR> Antwort an: Abderrahim Benslimane <abderrahim.benslimane(a)UNIV-AVIGNON.FR> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The 13th IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things Rhodes Island, Greece November 02-06, 2020 http://cse.stfx.ca/~cybermatics/2020/ithings/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ----------------------- INTRODUCTION ----------------------- As an emerged promising networking model, the Internet-of-Things (IoT) is a novel paradigm to interconnect a multitude of heterogeneous physical objects and devices. The IoT significantly provides an umbrella for a series of critical building technologies including wireless sensor networks (WSNs), fifth generation (5G) networks, and RFID. The philosophy of the IoT is to develop an intelligent, dynamic, large-scale, and coherent network framework for a wide range of applications and industries. Due to its potential advantages and merits such as high reliability, good scalability and intelligent capacity, the IoT has attracted great attentions and interests from both academia and industry. As the earliest IEEE international conference on Internet of Things, the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings-2020) will provide a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners from both academic and industrial communities to present state-of-the-art advances and innovations in theories, systems, infrastructure, tools, testbeds, technologies and applications for the IoT, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future of everything interconnect via cyberspace. ---------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------- Paper Submission Deadline: July 15, 2020 Authors Notification: August 15, 2020 Camera-Ready Paper Due: September 02, 2020 Conference Date: November 02 - 06, 2020 ------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ------------------------------------- General Chairs • Jelena Misic, Ryerson University, Canada • Shiwen Mao, Auburn University, USA • Symeon Papavassiliou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Program Chairs • Abderrahim Benslimane, Avignon University, France • Lucia Lo Bello, University of Catania, Italy • Xianjun Deng, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada & University of South China, China Workshop Chairs • Salimur Choudhury, Lakehead University, Canada • Haipeng Dai, Nanjing University, China • Gaojie Chen, University of Leicester, UK Steering Chairs • Jianhua Ma (Chair), Hosei University, Japan • Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada • Schahram Dustdar, Technische Universität Wien, Austria • Antonio Puliafito, University of Messina, Italy • Huadong Ma, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Publicity Chairs • Lingzhi Yi, University of South China, China • Zhenchao Ma, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada • Yinxue Yi, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Web Publication Chairs • Zihao Jiang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada ------------------------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ------------------------------------- Conference papers are limited to 8 pages (regular), 6 pages (short), 2-4 pages (poster), following the IEEE proceedings format. Papers are to be submitted as PDF via the site: https://edas.info/N27352 ----------------------------------------------- PROCEEDINGS & SPECIAL ISSUES ----------------------------------------------- All accepted papers in the main tracks, workshops, special sessions and poster sessions will be published in an IEEE Computer Society proceedings (EI indexed). Extended versions of selected excellent papers will be considered for publication in several special issues of a number of excellent journals. List of Special Issues: 1. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics Special Issue: Digital Twinning: Integration AI-ML and Big Data Analytics for Virtual Representation Publisher: IEEE, SCI indexed, IF=7.377 2. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering Special Issue: Computing and Networking for Cyber-Physical-Social Systems Publisher: IEEE 3. Information Fusion Special Issue: Data Fusion for Trust Evaluation Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed, IF=10.716 4. Future Generation Computer Systems Special Issue: Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Defence and Smart Policing Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed, IF=5.768 5. Journal of Cloud Computing Special Issue: Security and Privacy Issues for AI in edge-Cloud Computing Publisher: Springer, SCI indexed, IF=2.14 6. Electronics Special Issue: Blockchain-based Technology for Mobile Application Publisher: MDPI, SCI indexed, IF=1.764 7. Sensors Special Issue: Smart Cities of the Future: A Cyber Physical System Perspective Publisher: MDPI, SCI indexed, IF=3.031 8. Software: Practice and Experience Special Issue: Software and Hardware Co-Design for Sustainable Cyber-Physical Systems 9. IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatics Sinica Special Issue: Blockchain for Internet-of-Things and Cyber-Physical Systems: Emerging Trends, Issues and Challenges Publisher: IEEE 10. Future Internet Special Issue: Network Economics and Utility Maximization Publisher: MDPI -- ______________________________________________________________ Abderrahim BENSLIMANE, SIEEE Professor of Computer Sciences CERI/LIA University of Avignon 339 Chemin des Meinajaries BP 1228 - 84911 AVIGNON CEDEX 9 Tél : (+33/0) 4 90 84 35 61 Fax: (+33/0) 4 90 84 35 76 ----------------------------------------- IEEE VTS Distinguished Lecturer http://abderrahimbenslimane.org/ _____________________________________________________________ -- L'absence de virus dans ce courrier électronique a été vérifiée par le logiciel antivirus Avast. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ______________________________________________________________ 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 2020] CFP: New Deadline for Paper Submission: July 15, 2020
by Lars Wolf 02 Jul '20

02 Jul '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [IEEE MASS 2020] CFP: New Deadline for Paper Submission: July 15, 2020 Datum: Thu, 2 Jul 2020 17:41:58 +0530 Von: vikas chouhan <vikaschouhan.iit(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: vikas chouhan <vikaschouhan.iit(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apologies for cross-postings and multiple postings! Please forward to anyone who might be interested. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The 17th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS 2020) https://www.iitr.ac.in/mass2020/ <https://www.iitr.ac.in/mass2020/index.html> Delhi NCR, India. December 10-13, 2020 (Postponed Due to COVID-19) *IMPORTANT NOTE:* The IEEE MASS 2020 conference is now moved to December 10-13, 2020 due to COVID-19. The main objective of moving is to increase the chance of having an onsite conference. The organizers are exploring contingency plans, such as running it virtually, depending on the situation in the next few months. However, the conference will be held one way or another, and the organizers are committed to present a high-quality technical program in terms of top-notch keynote speakers, competitively accepted peer-reviewed papers (proceedings published by the IEEE), an exciting panel, and other associated events like cutting-edge workshops, poster and demo sessions. If the conference will be held in person, sufficient measures will be taken to ensure the safety and health of our research community. CONFERENCE SCOPE & TRACKS IEEE MASS 2020 is a premier annual forum for sharing original, novel ideas in mobile ad-hoc networks and smart systems, defined broadly. As wireless ad-hoc networks continue to evolve and specialize into a number of application scenarios and environments, and sensor-based systems and technologies increasingly permeate our everyday life and become the inner fabric of the Internet of Things and Cyber Physical Systems, the unfolding of smart environments such as smart cities, smart farming, smart healthcare, and smart manufacturing, to name a few, demand integrated solutions that can make intelligent use of both cloud and edge systems, while applying machine learning and artificial intelligence tools to handle their growing complexity and to leverage the vast amount of available data. Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society, the 17th edition of the IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS) will be held in Delhi NCR, India during October 1-4, 2020, and it aims at bringing together researchers, developers, and practitioners to address recent advances in mobile ad-hoc and smart systems, covering algorithms, theory, protocols, systems & applications, experimental evaluations and testbeds, security/privacy, as well as AI/ML-based smart design. ALGORITHMS AND THEORY TRACK * Robotic networks * Vehicular networks and protocols * Flying Ad-Hoc Networks * Routing protocols * Algorithms for MANETs and WSNs PROTOCOLS AND CROSS-LAYER TECHNOLOGIES TRACK * Application Layer Protocols * Clustering, topology control, coverage, and connectivity * Cognitive networking SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS TRACK * Data gathering, fusion, and dissemination * Energy-efficient architectures, algorithms, and protocols * Experiences in real-world applications and deployments EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION AND TESTBEDS TRACK * Cooperative and cognitive communication * Cooperative sensing, compressive sensing, sensing from communications * Wearable and human-centric devices and networks * Sensor enabled drone, UAV, UUV systems SECURITY AND PRIVACY TRACK * Scalability, stability, and robustness of networks and sensor systems * Security and privacy at all layers, including the physical layer * Opportunistic networking, delay tolerant networking * QoS and Resource management AL/ML-BASED SMART DESIGN TRACK * AI/ML for smart wireless networks * AI and ML aided protocol design and resource allocation * AI and ML based applications for ad hoc networks * Cloud, crowd-sourced, participatory and (mobile) social sensing * Cyber-physical systems and applications EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES TRACK * 5G networks and technologies * Internet of Things (IoT) devices, gateways, and infrastructure * Cyber-physical systems and applications * Fog Computing, Edge Computing, Mobile Edge, MCC, etc. All submissions will be peer-reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: ===================== Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not currently under review elsewhere. All submissions should be written in English with a maximum length of 9 single-spaced, double-column pages using 10pt fonts on 8.5 x 11 inch paper, including all figures, tables, and references, in PDF format. Authors must use the Manuscript Templates for IEEE Conference Proceedings. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by IEEE and will be presented at the conference. Based on TPC reviews and discussions, some papers may be accepted as 5-page short papers, or 2-page posters in addition to the regular 9 page papers. For all papers, IEEE reserves the right to exclude the paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the conference. Note that the conference will also include a poster and demo session. SUBMISSION LINK =================== https://edas.info/N27395 REVISED DATES ========================= Paper submission: July 15, 2020 Acceptance notification: August 30, 2020 Camera-ready due date: September 30, 2020 Conference dates: October 1-4, 2020 December 10-13, 2020 (Postponed due to COVID-19) *Regards,* Vikas Chouhan ______________________________________________________________ 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] Deadline Extended- Call for Papers for IEEE Communication Magazine FT on Communication for RAS
by Lars Wolf 02 Jul '20

02 Jul '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Deadline Extended- Call for Papers for IEEE Communication Magazine FT on Communication for RAS Datum: Thu, 2 Jul 2020 12:49:17 +0100 Von: Ali Zaidi <s.alirzaidi(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Ali Zaidi <s.alirzaidi(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Call for Papers for IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic on Communication Technologies for Robotics and Autonomous Systems https://www.comsoc.org/publications/magazines/ieee-communications-magazine /cfp/communication-technologies-robotics-and Distributed intelligence in robotics and autonomous systems applications heavily relies upon seamless wireless connectivity. In particular, the emerging cloud robotics paradigm aims to employ communication technologies for offloading high complexity computation tasks to the edge/cloud platform. Cloud robotics is considered as one of the mainstream use-case for 5G and beyond networks which requires ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC). Currently, the design of URLLC protocols has been explored by the research community in an application-agnostic manner. While promising, these horizontal design approaches can only provide limited performance gains. Consequently, alternative approaches that are based on co-design of control systems, inference engines, and communication protocols must be explored. These new approaches are envisioned to enable the rapid deployment of new robotics applications. While new robotics applications are benefiting from the advancements in communication technology, communication networks are also hugely benefiting from the recent advancement in mobile robotics platforms. Low-cost commercially available robotics platforms are increasingly being employed for the rapid deployment of mobile connectivity services. The applications for such deployments range from flash crowd events to public safety systems. Integration of robotics and autonomous systems into communication network architecture while addressing issues such as interference and mobility management is therefore as crucial. This feature topic (FT) aims to provide a platform for presenting recent advancements that tackle the design and implementation of: i. communication protocols for robotics and autonomous systems; and ii. architectures/deployment modalities that exploit robotics and autonomous systems for provisioning communication services. This FT uniquely calls for the study of both wireless communication solutions for and through robotic platforms. Consequently, the topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: • Spectrum and Resource management for MEC enabled robotics applications; • Co-design of control, communication, and edge inference mechanisms; • Network slicing for robotics applications; • Design and implementation of mobility aware communication protocols; • Design and development of high precision localization services; • Coverage aware trajectory planners for robotics and autonomous systems; • Network architecture with mobile base-stations and management protocols; • Security and resilience mechanisms for MEC enabled robotics applications; • Optimization of connectivity protocol for Augmented reality (AR) and Virtual reality (VR) robotics applications; • Time-sensitive and Deterministic Wireless Networks; Important Dates: Manuscript Submission Deadline: 15th July 2020 (Firm) Decision Notification: 1 October 2020 Final Manuscript Due: 15 November 2020 Publication Date: January 2021 Guest Editors: Syed Ali Raza Zaidi, University of Leeds, UK Ursula Challita, Ericsson, Sweden Jemin Lee, DGIST, South Korea Moe Z. Win, MIT, USA Submission Guidelines Manuscripts should conform to the standard format as indicated in the Information for Authors section of the Manuscript Submission Guidelines. Please, check these guidelines carefully before submitting since submissions not complying with them will be administratively rejected without review. All manuscripts to be considered for publication must be submitted by the deadline through Manuscript Central. Select the “December 2020/Robotics & Autonomous” topic from the drop-down menu of Topic/Series titles. Please observe the dates specified here below noting that there will be no extension of submission deadline. ______________________________________________________________ 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 - ACM MobiCom 2021
by Lars Wolf 02 Jul '20

02 Jul '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Papers - ACM MobiCom 2021 Datum: Thu, 2 Jul 2020 10:24:28 +0900 Von: JeongGil (John) Ko <jeonggil.ko(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: JeongGil (John) Ko <jeonggil.ko(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG *Call For Papers – ACM MobiCom 2021* *Important Dates* *Summer* *Winter* *Abstract Registration * August 14, 2020 23:59 EDT March 19, 2021 23:59 EDT *Paper Submission* August 21, 2020 23:59 EDT March 26, 2021 23:59 EDT *Notification of Acceptance * November 13, 2020 June 11, 2021 *Important Changes* · *Double-blind.* This CFP has updated its double-blind review policy and particularly added how to handle preprints (such as arXiv). Violated submissions will be returned without reviews. · *Conflict-of-interest (COI).* It is the authors’ responsibility to claim the true COIs from the TPC members. Violated submissions will be returned without reviews. · *Resubmission.* We have added a new policy on previous submissions, which may request the authors to additionally submit the summary of changes from the previous version. · *Anonymous shepherding.* Note that MobiCom performs an anonymous and rigorous shepherding process for all conditionally accepted papers. Shepherded papers will be accepted only after completing a successful shepherding process, which usually takes 4-6 weeks. The ACM MobiCom conference seeks papers describing significant research contributions in the field of wireless networking and mobile computing. MobiCom solicits papers that address important research challenges, including but not limited to communication networks, energy, computing, security, and user experience. Successful papers should propose novel ideas to attack such problems through rigorous analysis, system design, and/or real-world measurement and deployment of mobile networks, systems, and applications. We want MobiCom ’21 to be daring and emphasize novelty and creativity. The more novel the concept, the harder it can be to fully develop or evaluate all aspects, and the review process will take this into account. We encourage authors to discuss not only the significance but also the limitations of their ideas. We strongly encourage authors to describe how they will provide access to well-documented datasets, modeling and/or simulation tools, and codebases to support the reproducibility of their methods. MobiCom continues the two-deadline model and the reviewing process with a one-shot revision to improve the quality and timeliness of publications. *Topics* We invite submissions on a wide range of mobile computing and wireless networking research, including but not limited to: · Applications of machine learning to mobile/wireless research · Backscatter communication and wireless power · Edge computing · Embedded and energy-harvesting systems · Experimental platforms and infrastructures for wireless/mobile research · Implanted and wearable computing · Intersection between mobile/wireless research, cloud computing, and software-defined networking · Long-range/Low-power wide-area wireless networking · Low-latency networking · Machine-to-machine communications · Millimeter wave and terahertz communications · Mobile data science & analysis · Mobile health · Mobile networks (5G and beyond) · Mobile web, video, virtual reality, and other applications · Novel applications of wireless signals · Robotic and drone-based networking · Security and privacy issues/solutions for mobile/wireless systems · Sensing with radio, light, sound, and acoustics · Ubiquitous computing and mobile human computer interaction · Visible light communications · Wireless localization and tracking In addition to *full* research papers as described above, MobiCom also invites submission in the following three categories: Challenge Papers The conference invites submissions of short papers (limited to eight pages excluding references) that present revolutionary new ideas or that challenge existing assumptions prevalent among the wireless research community. These "challenge papers" should provide stimulating ideas or visions that may open up exciting avenues and/or influence the direction of future research. Descriptions of new products or evolution of existing work are not appropriate topics for papers in this category. While an exhaustive evaluation of the proposed ideas is not necessary, insight and in-depth understanding of the issues is expected. Challenge papers will be reviewed by the program committee and if selected, become part of the conference technical program and be published in the conference proceedings. Challenge papers should be submitted using the same submission procedure adopted for the full papers. The title of these papers must bear a "Challenge:" prefix. Experience Papers The conference invites submission of short papers (limited to eight pages excluding references) that present extensive experiences with implementation, deployment, and operations of mobile systems and wireless networks. Desirable papers are expected to contain real data as well as descriptions of the practical lessons learned. The experience papers will be evaluated by the program committee, primarily for (i) richness of their data or experiences, (ii) inferences drawn or lessons learned, (iii) discovery of new problems, and (iv) their impact/potential impact on current and future mobile systems and wireless networks, as well as on society. Note that a paper that builds a system and presents a limited experimental evaluation is NOT suitable as an experience paper. Selected experience papers will become a part of the conference technical program and will be published in the conference proceedings. Experience papers should be submitted according to the same submission procedure as full papers, and their title must bear an "Experience:" prefix. Verification Papers The conference invites submission of short papers (limited to eight pages excluding references) that seek to verify and/or characterize recent breakthrough results in mobile computing using rigorous experimental methodologies with the goal of extensively and thoroughly characterizing the operating parameters under which these results can be reproduced. Selected verification papers will become a part of the conference technical program and will be published in the conference proceedings. Verification papers should be submitted according to the same submission procedure as full papers, and their title must bear a "Verification:" as a prefix. Two Deadlines and One-shot Revision MobiCom ’21 offers authors the options of two deadlines and adds a one-shot revision process to enhance the timeliness and quality of the scientific results from the research community. Each paper will go through the same rigorous reviewing process as in previous MobiCom conferences. The review decisions will be one of the following: · *Accept*: Accepted papers will be presented at the MobiCom conference and appear as part of the proceedings and the MobiCom website. Note all the papers in this category will initially be *conditionally accepted*. The papers that go through a successful *anonymous* shepherding process will eventually be accepted. · *Reject*: Rejected papers cannot be resubmitted until 11 months have passed since the last MobiCom deadline they were submitted to. We strongly encourage the authors to address the feedback they got before re-submitting the paper to MobiCom. · *One-Shot-Revision*: Papers, where a revision is required, will be given specific action points and can be resubmitted for the *next* deadline. For such papers, the reviewers will articulate a maximum of three major changes/clarifications that they would like to see. After the resubmission, the paper will be evaluated based on whether the authors have properly addressed the reviewers’ requests. Unlike in the shepherding process, the requested action points may include running additional experiments that obtain specific results and could take more than 4-6 weeks. During this revision period, the paper is still considered under review to MobiCom and therefore cannot be submitted to other conferences unless the authors first withdraw it from consideration. Additional details on the paper submission process can be found at https://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2021/cfp.html. Please refer to the Call for Papers page on the ACM MobiCom 2021 website for important information regarding the paper submission and review process. ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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