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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] 16th IEEE/IFIP Wireless On-demand Network systems and Services Conference (WONS 2021)
by Lars Wolf 30 Sep '20

30 Sep '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] 16th IEEE/IFIP Wireless On-demand Network systems and Services Conference (WONS 2021) Datum: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 16:49:54 +0200 Von: Michele Segata <msegata(a)DISI.UNITN.IT> Antwort an: Michele Segata <msegata(a)DISI.UNITN.IT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Dear colleagues, Please find below the Call for Papers for next year's edition of WONS IEEE/IFIP WONS 2021 - Call for Papers 16th Wireless On-demand Network systems and Services Conference 9-11 March 2021 Klosters, Switzerland http://2021.wons-conference.org/ Wireless on-demand network systems and services have become pivotal in shaping our future networked world. Starting as a niche application over Wi-Fi, they can now be found in mainstream technologies like Bluetooth LE, LTE Direct and Wireless LANs, and have become the cornerstone of upcoming networking paradigms including mesh and sensor networks, cloud networks, vehicular networks, disruption tolerant and opportunistic networks, and in-body networks. The challenges of this exciting research field are numerous. Examples include how to make smart use of these novel technologies when multiple technologies or a mix of permanent services and on-demand networking opportunities are available to a network node, how to provide robust services in highly dynamic environments, how to efficiently employ and operate heavily resource-constrained devices, and how to develop robust and lightweight algorithms for self-organization and adaptation. Finally, there are many application-specific challenges. WONS, now in its sixteenth edition, is a high quality forum to address these challenges. WONS aims to provide a global platform for rich interactions between experts in their fields, discussing innovative contributions in a stimulating environment. This announcement solicits original contributions of high-quality research providing novel insights on all aspects of wireless on-demand networks and systems; from protocol and network design, modeling, performance evaluation, energy efficiency, models and mechanisms, practical implementations, service level aspects, application use-cases, to the integration of multiple wireless network technologies. Accepted and presented papers will appear in the conference proceedings published in the IFIP Open Access Digital Library and will also be submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. This edition of WONS will take place in the beautiful mountains of Switzerland, where we will hopefully meet face-to-face for great discussions. Yet, conscious of the circumstances, the organizing committee will keep the COVID situation under observation and, if deemed necessary, might allow people with travel restrictions to present their work remotely. Topics of interest comprise, but are not limited to: - Cognitive radio networks - Network management - Cross-layer design - Modeling and optimization - Energy-efficient protocols and power management - Mobile computing and services - Heterogeneous wireless networks - New architectures for on-demand wireless systems - Implementations and testbeds - Novel applications and services - Integration and co-existence of heterogeneous technologies - Opportunistic, delay-tolerant, and dissemination-based protocols - Intra-body and biomedical on-demand systems - Performance evaluation through simulations and experiments - Green wireless networks - Pervasive and ubiquitous computing - Localization and mobility management - Security, privacy, and trust - MAC and advanced PHY technologies - Social and economic aspects - Middleware aspects - Underwater on-demand networked systems - Mobile peer-to-peer systems - Architectures and protocols for the Internet of Things - Vehicular networks - Device-to-device communication for 5G and 6G architectures This edition will additionally include a special session titled "Smartphone Apps for Contact Tracing - Experiences with COVID-19 Tracing Apps", addressing the issues related to pandemic control and tracing. Important information --------------------- Full Papers Due: December 4, 2020 Notification of Acceptance: January 29, 2021 Camera-ready papers due: February 12, 2021 Submission link: https://edas.info/N27696 Organizing Committee -------------------- General Chair Raphaël Frank, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg General vice- and Local Arrangement Chair Christoph Bösch, Ulm University, Germany TPC Chairs Michele Segata, Free University of Bolzano, Italy Uichin Lee, KAIST, South Korea Special Session Chair Frank Kargl, Ulm University Publication and Web Chair François Robinet, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Steering Committee Renato Lo Cigno, University of Brescia, Italy Falko Dressler, TU Berlin, Germany Edward W. Knightly, RICE University, USA Ioannis Stavrakakis, University of Athens, Greece Kostantinos Psounis, University of Southern California, USA Andrea Passarella, National Research Council, Italy More Information ---------------- For further information and updates on the conference, please refer to the official website: http://2021.wons-conference.org/ -- Michele Segata, PhD Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science University of Bolzano, Italy https://ans.disi.unitn.it/~segata/ ______________________________________________________________ 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: VTS 2020 Conference Updates and Deadline Extensions
by Lars Wolf 30 Sep '20

30 Sep '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: VTS 2020 Conference Updates and Deadline Extensions Datum: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 17:44:52 -0400 Von: IEEE Vehicular Technology Society <cerry(a)ieee.org> An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de Vehicular Technology Society header Join Our LinkedIn Group <http://send.vts.ieee.org/link.cfm?r=2YOlbDhEw1Nb9yXgRrXupw~~&pe=VMtzgQa0zyR…> Join Our LinkedIn Group <http://send.vts.ieee.org/link.cfm?r=2YOlbDhEw1Nb9yXgRrXupw~~&pe=NbAOa4gumIV…> *ANNOUNCEMENTS * *** VTC2021-Spring <#VTC2021_Spring> *** *** Call for Papers Deadline Extended: 12 October 2020 *** *****Call for Workshop Proposals Extended:** 12** October 2020*** ** ***Call for Tutorials Deadline: 21 October 2020*** ** VPPC 2020 Registration is open! <#VPPC2020>** * VTC2020-Fall <#VTC2020-Fall>, IEEE CAVS 2020 <#CAVS>, and IEEE VPPC 2020 <#VPPC2020>* ******will now open 18 November 2020 **** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ VTC2021-Spring in Helsinki, Finland * 25 - 28 April 2021* *Deadline for papers extended: 12 October 2020!* ** *Call for Papers* VTC2021-Spring <http://send.vts.ieee.org/link.cfm?r=2YOlbDhEw1Nb9yXgRrXupw~~&pe=Y2t54KbU9Uf…> in Helsinki will feature world-class technical sessions, workshops, and tutorials on, but not limited to, the following technical tracks. Prospective authors are invited to submit 5-page, original, and unpublished full papers: 1. Antenna Systems, Propagation, and RF Design 2. Signal Processing for Wireless Communicatioins 3. Green Communications and Networks 4. Multiple Antennas and Cooperative Communications 5. Vehicle Cooperation and Control, Assisted and Autonomous Driving 6. Airborne and Maritime Mobile Systems and Services 7. IoV, IoT, M2M, Sensor Networks, and Ad-Hoc Networking 8. Spectrum Management, Radio Access Technology, Services and Security 9. Positioning, Navigation, and Sensing 10. Machine Learning and AI for Communications 11. Electric Vehicles, Vehicular Electronics, and Intelligent Transportation 12. Emerging Technologies, 5G and Beyond *Deadlines* Submission deadline:* **12 October 2020 - EXTENDED* Acceptance notification: *7 December 2020* Final paper submission deadline:* 14 February 2021 * *Paper submission is open: **https://vtc2021spring.trackchair.com/ <http://send.vts.ieee.org/link.cfm?r=2YOlbDhEw1Nb9yXgRrXupw~~&pe=InyGBrCRuTG…>* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Call for Workshops* Workshops provide invaluable opportunities for researchers and industry practitioners to share their state-of-the-art research and development results in areas of particular interest. IEEE VTC2021-Spring will include half- and full-day workshops to complement the overall technical program events. These workshops provide a more focused, in-depth venue for presentations, discussions and interaction. The workshop proposals will be peer-reviewed with a focus on submissions that inspire deep and interactive dialogue in topics that are of interest to the mobile and vehicular technology community. VTC Workshops are included with all registrations. *_Deadlines_* Workshop proposal submissions due:* 12 October 2020 - Extended!* Acceptance notification:* **19 October 2020 - Extended* To submit a workshop proposal, please visit: events.vtsociety.org/vtc2021-spring/conference-sessions/call-for-workshops/ <http://send.vts.ieee.org/link.cfm?r=2YOlbDhEw1Nb9yXgRrXupw~~&pe=Fogbe_7Ly3O…> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Call for Tutorials* Tutorials provide opportunities for researchers from academia and industry to learn about state-of-the-art research and development from experts in a given field. The VTC2021-Spring Technical Program Committee invites submission of tutorial proposals for half-day or full-day presentation on topics of interest to the conference, such as (but not limited to): 1. Antenna Systems, Propagation, and RF Design 2. Signal Transmission and Reception 3. Spectrum Management, Radio Access Technology, Heterogeneous Networks 4. Multiple Antennas and Cooperative Communications 5. Vehicle Cooperation and Control, Assisted and Autonomous Driving 6. Airborne and Maritime Mobile Systems and Services 7. IoV, IoT, M2M, Sensor Networks, and Ad-Hoc Networking 8. Wireless Networks: Protocols, Services and Security 9. Positioning, Navigation, and Sensing 10. Machine Learning and AI for Communications 11. Electric Vehicles, Vehicular Electronics, and Intelligent Transportation 12. Emerging Technologies, 5G and Beyond *Deadlines* Tutorial proposal deadline: *21 October 2020* Acceptance notification deadline: *28 October 2020* *All tutorials will be presented on 25 April 2021* To submit a tutorial proposal, please visit: events.vtsociety.org/vtc2021-spring/conference-sessions/call-for-tutorials/ <http://send.vts.ieee.org/link.cfm?r=2YOlbDhEw1Nb9yXgRrXupw~~&pe=novoRf9kKg-…> <BACK> <#Top> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *2020 IEEE 92nd Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2020-Fall* *-- Fully Virtual --* ****Will Now Open 18 November 2020****** <http://send.vts.ieee.org/link.cfm?r=2YOlbDhEw1Nb9yXgRrXupw~~&pe=y5tMqw7hiL6…> *Guidelines for recording presentations can be found at: events.vtsociety.org/vtc2020-fall/authors/virtual-presentation-guidelines/ <http://send.vts.ieee.org/link.cfm?r=2YOlbDhEw1Nb9yXgRrXupw~~&pe=5cMvRdln6zT…>* *Registration is open. For more details, please visit: events.vtsociety.org/vtc2020-fall/registration-2/ <http://send.vts.ieee.org/link.cfm?r=2YOlbDhEw1Nb9yXgRrXupw~~&pe=tUM2vyJTDEE…>* *+++++++ **Keynote Speakers **+++++++* *Andreas F. Molisch, University of Southern California* *Title:*Millimeter-wave and THz channels and systems for high-mobility environments *Abstract: *Millimeter-wave based communications is one of the key components of 5G. Among other applications, high-rate communications for both passengers and control systems in vehicular and train environments are envisioned. This talk will start out by discussion propagation channels in high-mobility environments, describing both recent measurements and suitable models. This will be followed by a discussion of antenna and MIMO technology for such systems, their complexity, and sensitivity to mobility. +++ *Yonina Eldar, Weizmann Institute of Science* *Title:*Deep Analog-to-Digital Compression with Applications to Automotive Radar and Massive MIMO *Abstract:*The famous Shannon-Nyquist theorem has become a landmark in analog to digital conversion and the development of digital signal processing algorithms. However, in many modern applications, the signal bandwidths have increased tremendously, while the acquisition capabilities have not scaled sufficiently fast. Furthermore, the resulting high rate digital data requires storage, communication and processing at very high rates which is computationally expensive and requires large amounts of power. In this talk we consider a general framework for sub-Nyquist sampling and processing in space, time and frequency which allows to dramatically reduce the number of antennas, sampling rates, number of bits and band occupancy in a variety of applications. It also allows for the development of efficient joint radar-communication systems. Our framework relies on exploiting signal structure, quantization and the processing task in both standard processing and in deep learning networks. We consider applications of these ideas to a variety of problems in wireless communications, efficient massive MIMO systems, automotive radar and ultrasound imaging and show several demos of real-time sub-Nyquist prototypes including a wireless ultrasound probe, sub-Nyquist automotive radar, cognitive radio and radar, dual radar-communication systems, analog precoding, sparse antenna arrays, and a deep Viterbi decoder. +++ *Mohamed-Slim Alouini, Abdullah University of Science and Technology* ** *Title: * What should 6G be? *Abstract:* The role of Internet and Communication Technology (ICT) in bringing about a revolution in almost all aspects of human life needs no introduction. It is indeed a well-known fact that the transmission of the information at a rapid pace has transformed all spheres of human life such as economy, education, and health to name a few. In this context, and as the standardization of the fifth generation (5G) of wireless communication systems (WCSs) has been completed, and 5G networks are in their early stage of deployment, the research visioning and planning of the sixth generation (6G) of WCSs are being initiated. 6G is expected to be the next focus in wireless communication and networking and aim to provide new superior communication services to meet the future hyper-connectivity demands in the 2030s. In addition, keeping in mind that urbanized populations have been the major beneficiary of the advances offered by the previous generations of WCSs and motivated by the recently adopted united nations sustainability development goals intended to be achieved by the year 2030, 6G networks are anticipated to democratize the benefits of ICT. Indeed these advantages are still not experienced by almost 4 billion people in the world who are still “unconnected or under-connected” and who suffer as such from the “digital divide”, a term coined in order to emphasize the lack of ICT infrastructure in many parts of the world. Given this background, this talk aims to (i) provide an envisioned picture of 6G, (ii) serve as a research guideline in the beyond 5G era, and (iii) go over the recently proposed solutions to provide high-speed connectivity in under-covered areas in order to serve and contribute to the development of far-flung regions. +++ *Wen Tong, Huawei Wireless*** *Title: *The Research Directions for 6G *Abstract: *In this talk, we present our view on 6G technologies, its trends and research directions. Wireless technology have gone through several major revolutions and it is always the case that the disruptive technologies enable the wireless innovation and market success. As 5G technology enables the digital transformation of every vertical business, we see a radical paradigm shift from the conventional operator-centric view to an inclusive prosumer-centric view, and the new approach to a federated networking and service provisioning, redefining the smart connectivity infrastructure as a much more dynamic composition of all resources of participating users. This include the spectrum usage reform and infrastructure sharing, we present four fundamental changes in terms of 6G networking and associated research challenges. The other aspect for 6G is a total unification of mobile, satellite, network, cloud, cloud-edge computing, ML, AI, end-to-end cybersecurity, innovative devices, Industry IoT, cell-less MIMO and Terahertz Communication to support the prosumer-centric model, in this architecture, we list a few technology enablers, such a mmWave-THz sensing, machine learning-training DNN to enable semantic communications as intelligent connectivity, the research in these areas will shape the radio access for 6G. Since the 6G is future platform to enable new innovations with its state-of-the-art capabilities, we provide an analysis of the key-performance indicators for 6G. In addition, we share our view of the potential impact of Quantum computing, mega-satellite-constellation and neural-center (instead of data center) to 6G. <BACK> <#Top> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *20**20 IEEE 3rd Connected and Automated Vehicles Symposium* *IEEE CAVS 2020 -- Fully Virtual --* ****Will Now Open 18 November 2020****** *IEEE CAVS 2020 Sponsors* *Technical co-sponsors: ITS Canada, Transportation Association of Canada* - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - *Guidelines for recording presentations can be found at:* events.vtsociety.org/ieee-cavs-2020/authors/virtual-presentation-guideline/ <http://send.vts.ieee.org/link.cfm?r=2YOlbDhEw1Nb9yXgRrXupw~~&pe=iZjZvWs-Mx_…> *Registration is open. For more details, please visit: *events.vtsociety.org/ieee-cavs-2020/registration-2/ <http://send.vts.ieee.org/link.cfm?r=2YOlbDhEw1Nb9yXgRrXupw~~&pe=A3FdCAQraGp…> +++++ Keynote Speakers +++++ *Joe LaChapelle* Vice President, Research & Development *Title: Cooperative Perception – Market and System Design Considerations* *Abstract: *Cooperative perception promises significant opportunity to optimize performance, functional safety (FuSa) and safety of the intended functionality (SOTIF) in autonomous navigation. System level architecture choices will mitigate the adoption and proliferation of cooperative perception into the OEM automotive market. Existing automotive ecosystem dynamics will significantly inform the requisite component module boundaries, interfaces, and data standards for threshold efficacy. This presentation will explore the ecosystem dynamics and propose architecture theory to minimize barrier to entry of cooperative perception into the ADAS and self-driving market. +++ *Prashant Tiwari* General Manager, Intelligent Connected Systems Division *Title: CAV Enabling Mobility Services Opportunities* Abstract: The transportation industry currently is undergoing a huge transition – estimated by some to be the biggest transformation in its history. Vehicles are increasingly being equipped with embedded connectivity and automated technologies and Automotive Edge Computing Consortium (AECC) predicts that by 2025 CAV market will be $150B with more that 100 million CAV on the road. This has enabled several Mobility as a Service (MaaS) opportunities. Analysts indicate that connected car capabilities already influence 6 out of 10 vehicle purchases, giving vehicle manufacturers the ability to open new revenue streams, diversify core activities, and improve profit margins by selling software and connected services. Processing the big data from connected vehicles is one of the big challenges all automakers are currently facing. But these challenges also provide opportunities to build hyper connected cyber-physical systems (also called Digital Twin) with several interesting use cases like personalized intelligent driving and smart traffic management using CAVs. +++ *Richard Yu* Professor, School of Information Technology *Title: Internet of Intelligence for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles* *Abstract: *In the era of the Internet of information, we have gone through layer, cross-layer, and cross-system design paradigms. The “curse of modeling” and “curse of dimensionality” of the current Internet of information have resulted in the popularity of using artificial intelligence (AI) for the Internet of information in the recent years. However, many significant research challenges remain to be addressed for the Internet of information to enable connected and autonomous vehicles. In a larger time scale, humans’ cooperation has gone through “grid of transportation”, “grid of energy”, and “the Internet of information” paradigms. The next cooperation paradigm could be “the Internet of intelligence”, where intelligence can be easily obtained like information and energy. The Internet of intelligence can become an important enabler for connected and autonomous vehicles. In this talk, we will present some recent advances in these areas. Then, we will discuss some open issues and challenges that need to be addressed in the future. <BACK> <#Top> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference 2020* *IEEE VPPC 2020* *-- Fully Virtual --* ****Will Now Open 18 November 2020****** * * *Guidelines for recording presentations can be found at: events.vtsociety.org/vppc2020/authors/virtual-presentation-guidelines/ <http://send.vts.ieee.org/link.cfm?r=2YOlbDhEw1Nb9yXgRrXupw~~&pe=i8U9-G0-mxh…>* *Registration is now open. For more details, please visit: events.vtsociety.org/vppc2020/registration-2/ <http://send.vts.ieee.org/link.cfm?r=2YOlbDhEw1Nb9yXgRrXupw~~&pe=GQnijpDQoOY…>* ++++++ Keynote Speakers ++++++ *Eric Cheng* Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Director of the Power Electronics Research Centre *Title: Power Electronics Research Development for Energy Storage and Electric Vehicles* *Abstract:*Power electronics is an enabli9ng technology for power conversion. The key components of an Electric Vehicle are the battery and the motor drive. Energy storages such as batteries and super-capacitors are now the major units. Energy cell packaging is now a new direction. The use of energy cells to integrate with the vehicle body has been reported and suggests good potential for energy management. The energy management and balance is now a necessary component to manage the energy cells. Besides the energy storage and the traction motor and drives, there are numerous motors and actuators used in modern electric vehicles. One of them is an active suspension system to replace the conventional hydraulic system. The In-wheel motor is based on integrating the motor and wheel into a single unit that increase the power density and presents a real 4-wheel drive. The skid steering can, therefore, be realized. Also, the anti-lock braking (ABS) is an all-electric braking system, and replaces the conventional hydraulic system in ABS. An extensive overview of the latest electric vehicle technology is presented. The talk covers the major advanced components of an electric vehicle and the technology and research related to the development, and its associated power electronics development. Finally, the talk is concluded with an outlook on future vehicles. +++ *Ray Ding* Founder and Chief Executive Office *Simon Hou* Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer *Title: The application of IoT technologies in the field of EV charging* *Abstract: *IoT- Internet of Things-is proven on both the vehicle electronic and Consumer electronics industry by its leader, Tesla, and Xiaomi. As an important role in the new energy vehicle ecosystem, EV charging station is welcoming the intelligent trend of IoT as well. Smart charging stations utilizing IOT technologies will enhance the user experience, enable great expansibility to CPO, finally providing an intelligence information port or the entire energy system. Thanks to IoT hardware infrastructure on our smart charging station. We designed an embedded system based on the charging scene, enabling our device to achieve control, interaction, and internet communication functions on a tiny PCB. We also make a reasonable cut to the system and application software to achieve higher efficiency. As the advantages of IoT integration, the simplification of the supply-chain, the reduction of cost, and the reduction of the marginal cost of software also make the profit of charging station providers possible. Finally, we believe that the smart charging station will be used as an infrastructure construction to welcome the new energy era. +++ *Jianghua Feng* Vice President and CEO *Title: Virtual rail intelligent express system* *Abstract:*Due to the role of track guidance, bearing and constraint, rail trains have the advantages of large volume and high efficiency, and have been the backbone of urban transportation for a long time. However, due to the harsh smoothness and other requirements of the track, the system construction, operation and maintenance are complicated and costly. Therefore, the industry has been exploring new types of trains, simplifying the requirements of vehicles on the track structure, and innovating straddle-type monorail trains, guideway type rubber trolleybuses, etc., so as to change the solid track from double track to monorail. Whether the dependence on the physical track can be completely overturned is a new technical challenge. The virtual track intelligent express system is the first to create a new multi-group articulated rubber-tyred train based on the virtual track, which completely replaces the physical track through technologies such as path perception and active guidance control. Since 2010, it has undergone an iterative innovation process such as concept research, principle verification, prototype testing, and engineering demonstrations, it made its world premiere in 2017. This system creates a new rail transit system, which can be widely used in the network connection or extension of metropolitan rail transit, the construction of backbone transportation systems in small and medium cities, and the operation of special lines such as tourist attractions. Compared with trams, the overall cost is only about 1/3, the construction period is only about 1/2, it can be flexibly configured and quickly form a transportation network. Taking the 17.7km T1 line of Sichuan Yibin, where the system is applied, as an example, it saves about 1.7 billion yuan in investment compared with the tram system. In the year of opening (2019), the city was promoted to rank first in the congestion reduction rate in China. At present, the system has successfully passed the extreme cold and high heat extreme tests in Harbin and Qatar, and has become the traffic (connection) solution for the 2022 World Cup. The emergence of this system has injected strong original innovation power into the diversified and deep development of the world’s rail transit. It has outstanding characteristics and obvious advantages. It has a broad market application space in the future and has great potential for sustainable development. +++ Luis (Nando) Ochoa Professor, Smart Grids and Power Systems *Title: Making Electric Vehicles and the Grid Work Together* *Abstract: *The increasing adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) will pose significant technical and economic challenges on the power grid, particularly on very infrastructure they are connected to the electric distribution network. These networks have been traditionally designed to have no or limited controllability and, hence, are largely unmonitored.They will become the bottlenecks and therefore understanding how to best integrate EVs is critical to facilitate the electrification of our transport. This keynote will discuss the impacts of EVs and the challenges faced by distribution companies. Furthermore, it will present some of the findings of the large-scale UK trial “My Electric Avenue” in which more than 200 EVs were monitored for over a year to understand usage patterns as well as to test the effectiveness of EV charging point management to avoid network issues. The keynote will also provide an overview of the challenges brought by fast-charging stations and the need for future cities to have holistic planning approaches that involve traffic flows. +++ *Alexander M. Wyglinski* Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Robotics Engineering *Title: Bumblebee-Inspired Connected Vehicles: What’s All The Buzz About* *Abstract:*Wireless connectivity is quickly becoming a critical element in future transportation systems, especially with respect to self-driving cars and various levels of vehicular autonomy. Given the complex and highly time-varying environments existing on busy roadways, having each vehicle possessing real-time situational awareness is essential for performing complex functions, such as autonomous lane-changing, traffic intersection management, and platooning. Although there already exists a variety of different sensors that can gather data about the vehicular environment in order to obtain real-time situation awareness, such as LIDAR, RADAR, and vision systems, these sensors can only collect this data via line-of-sight (LOS). On the other hand, wireless connectivity is not constrained to LOS data gathering and can greatly increase the real-time situational awareness of each vehicle on the road, enhancing its performance and increasing driver/passenger safety. As the number of vehicles on the road become connected to each other, this information sharing will evolve into a Vehicular Internet-of-Things (VIOT) environment. To support the VIOT ecosystem, adequate wireless spectrum is needed to enable this connectivity between vehicles in real-time as they are operating on the road in complex conditions. To achieve this, Vehicular Dynamic Spectrum Access, or VDSA, can be employed, where unoccupied wireless spectrum is temporarily accessed by non-licensed users in order to support data communications during that time interval. Compared to conventional DSA techniques, VDSA needs to be capable of handling significant spectral availability variations during a transmission. Past research has explored the use of VDSA in television white space spectral environments as well as the implementation of VDSA algorithms using machine learning techniques. However, recently a new approach to VDSA has been proposed where each vehicle performs VDSA using an algorithm based on bumblebee-inspired resource foraging. In this talk, the fundamentals of how bumblebee-inspired VDSA will be presented, with several examples shown in order to demonstrate the performance of this approach. <BACK> <#Top> footer Spacer Spacer Copyright © 2011 IEEE To ensure delivery, please add info(a)ieee.org <mailto:info@ieee.org> to your email address book or Safe Sender List. If you are still having problems receiving our communications, see our white-listing page for more details <http://send.vts.ieee.org/link.cfm?r=2YOlbDhEw1Nb9yXgRrXupw~~&pe=kTa4IjzDeNV…>. If you no longer wish to receive this publication, please go here to unsubscribe <http://send.vts.ieee.org/link.cfm?r=2YOlbDhEw1Nb9yXgRrXupw~~&pe=Z7PGrHMqJ6g…>.

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: China Communications (IF: 2.024) Feature Topic on “Collaborative Intelligence for Vehicular Internet of Things “
by Lars Wolf 30 Sep '20

30 Sep '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: China Communications (IF: 2.024) Feature Topic on “Collaborative Intelligence for Vehicular Internet of Things “ Datum: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 13:56:50 +0900 Von: Celimuge Wu <celimuge(a)UEC.AC.JP> Antwort an: Celimuge Wu <celimuge(a)UEC.AC.JP> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Call for Papers -- China Communications Feature Topic, Vol.18, No.7, 2021 Collaborative Intelligence for Vehicular Internet of Things http://www.cic-chinacommunications.cn/EN/column/item153.shtml Future vehicular Internet-of-Things (IoT) systems feature a large number of devices and multi-access environments where different types of communication, computing, and storage resources must be efficiently utilized. At the same time, novel services, such as cooperative autonomous driving and intelligent transport systems (ITS), that demand unprecedented high accuracy, ultra-low latency, and large bandwidth, are emerging. These services also have an extreme variance in user requirements and resource demands with respect to time, location, and context. Hence, current research is no longer confined to improving reliable communication and system operation in the presence of highly mobile vehicles, which has been the main focus in the past. It is therefore important to empower future vehicular IoT systems with advanced features, such as real-time reactive and proactive cooperation and coordination among different agents (or decision makers), including vehicles, roadside units, base stations, pedestrians, and other entities. Recently, artificial intelligence (AI) based approaches have been attracting great interest in empowering computer systems. Some collaborative learning approaches, such as federated learning and multi-agent systems, have been used to reduce network traffic and improve learning efficiency of some smartphone applications. In vehicular IoT systems, collaborative intelligence can be achieved via an efficient collaboration among heterogeneous entities, including vehicles, edges, and cloud. This special issue will focus on the technical challenges and the synergistic effect of collaboration among heterogeneous entities and AI in enabling intelligent perception of environment, intelligent networking, and intelligent processing of big data in vehicular IoT systems. We invite researchers to contribute their original research articles that will facilitate the development of vehicular IoT based on collaborative intelligence. SCHEDULE Submission Deadline: October 15, 2020 Acceptance Notification (1st round): December 5, 2020 Minor Revision Due: February 5, 2021 Final Decision Due: March 5, 2021 Final Manuscript Due: April 5, 2021 Publication Date: July 15, 2021 GUEST EDITORS Celimuge Wu, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan Kok-Lim Alvin Yau, Sunway University, Malaysia Carlos Tavares Calafate, Technical University of Valencia, Spain Lei Zhong, Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO, THE FOLLOWING: · Collaborative intelligence for sensing and perception in vehicular IoT · Collaborative intelligence for vehicular networking · Collaborative intelligence for task processing in vehicular IoT · Collaborative architecture for vehicular IoT · Collaborative learning approaches for vehicular environments · Collaborative sensing, networking, and computing for intelligent vehicular IoT · Security and privacy issues for collaborative intelligence in vehicular IoT · Federated learning for vehicular IoT · Multi-agent systems for vehicular IoT · AI-based approaches for collaborative resource allocations in vehicular IoT ______________________________________________________________ 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] 5TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FOG AND EDGE COMPUTING (ICFEC 2021)
by Lars Wolf 29 Sep '20

29 Sep '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] 5TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FOG AND EDGE COMPUTING (ICFEC 2021) Datum: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 12:23:53 -0500 Von: Zhuozhao Li <zl5uq(a)VIRGINIA.EDU> Antwort an: Zhuozhao Li <zl5uq(a)VIRGINIA.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG We sincerely apologize if you receive multiple copied of this CFP. ========================================================================= 5TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FOG AND EDGE COMPUTING (ICFEC 2021) 10-13 May 2021, Melbourne, Australia In conjunction with IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2021 URL: https://icfec2021.eeecs.qub.ac.uk ========================================================================= We are delighted to invite you for the 5th IEEE International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing to be held in Melbourne, Australia. The conference will be held as part of and in conjunction with IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2021, which is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and ACM. INTRODUCTION Billions of devices and sensors ranging from user gadgets to more complex systems with sensing and actuating capabilities, such as power grids or vehicles, from the physical world are getting connected to the Internet. However, the need to operate the scale of heterogeneous devices and sensors while being performance-efficient in real-time is challenging. Typically, the data generated by the devices and sensors are transferred to and processed centrally by services hosted on geographically distant clouds. This is untenable given the communication latency incurred and the ingress bandwidth demand. A new and disruptive paradigm spear-headed by academics and industry experts is taking shape so that applications can leverage resources located at the edge of the network and along the continuum between the cloud and the edge. These edge resources may be geographically or in the network topology be closer to devices and sensors, such as home router, gateways or more substantial micro data centers. Edge resources may be used to offload selected services from the cloud to accelerate an application or host edge-native applications. The paradigm within which the edge is harnessed is referred to as 'Fog/Edge computing'. The Fog/Edge computing paradigm is expected to improve the agility of service deployments, make use of opportunistic and cheap computing, and leverage the network latency and bandwidth diversities between these resources. Numerous challenges arise when using edge resources, which requires the re-examination of operating systems, virtualization and containers, and middleware techniques for fabric management. Extensions to current programming and storage models are required and new abstractions that will allow developers to design novel applications that can benefit from massively distributed and data-driven systems need to be developed. Addressing security, privacy and trust of the edge resources is of paramount importance while managing the resources and context for mobile, transient and hardware constrained resources. Lastly, emerging domains like autonomous vehicles and machine/deep learning need to be supported over such platforms. CALL FOR PAPERS The conference seeks to attract high-quality contributions covering both theory and practice over system software and domain-specific applications related to next-generation distributed systems that use the edge. Some representative topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Data centers and infrastructures for Fog/Edge computing * Middleware and runtime systems for Fog/Edge infrastructures * Programming models for Fog/Edge computing * Storage and data management platforms for Fog/Edge computing * Scheduling for Fog/Edge infrastructures * Distributed and federated machine learning on Fog/Edge * Performance monitoring and metering of Fog/Edge infrastructures * Legal issues and business aspects of Fog/Edge computing * Security, privacy, trust and provenance issues in Fog/Edge computing * Modeling and simulation of Fog/Edge environments * Novel, latency-sensitive and locality-critical applications of Fog/Edge computing SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS We invite original manuscripts that have neither been published elsewhere nor are under review at a different venue. The manuscripts should be structured as technical papers, written in English. Authors should submit papers electronically in PDF format and may not exceed 8 letter-size pages in length, including all figures, tables and references. Papers should follow the IEEE format template for conference proceedings available at http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html . Submissions not conforming to these guidelines or received after the due date may not be reviewed. All manuscripts will be reviewed and judged on originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and relevance to the conference attendees. Papers may be submitted online at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfec2021 IMPORTANT DATES * Papers due: 03 January 2021 23:59 AoE * Author notifications of Acceptance: 08 February 2021 * Camera Ready Paper: 03 March 2021 PUBLICATION Papers that are accepted for publication may be accepted as REGULAR paper (8 pages) or SHORT papers (5 pages), depending on the reviewer recommendations. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings that will be published through the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services. ORGANIZATION General Chairs * Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia * Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science, India Program Chairs * Blesson Varghese, Queen's University Belfast, UK, b.varghese(a)qub.ac.uk <mailto:b.varghese@qub.ac.uk> * Lena Mashayekhy, University of Delaware, USA, mlena(a)udel.edu <mailto:mlena@udel.edu> Steering Committee * Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia * Adrien Lebre, INRIA, France * Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK * Anthony Simonet, iExec Blockchain Tech, France * Haiying Shen, University of Virginia, USA * Massimo Villari, University of Messina, 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: IEEE PerCom 2021 Consolidated CALL FOR PAPERS for AFFILIATED EVENTS and WORKSHOPS
by Lars Wolf 29 Sep '20

29 Sep '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: IEEE PerCom 2021 Consolidated CALL FOR PAPERS for AFFILIATED EVENTS and WORKSHOPS Datum: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 09:15:01 +0200 Von: Elisabetta Biondi <elisabetta.biondi(a)IIT.CNR.IT> An: tciin(a)COMSOC.ORG =================================================================================== IEEE PerCom 2021 / CONSOLIDATED CALL FOR PAPERS FOR AFFILIATED EVENTS AND WORKSHOPS March 22-26, 2021 - Kassel, Germany www.percom.org =================================================================================== PerCom is the premier scholarly venue in the areas of pervasive computing and communications. Detailed information about the scope of events, paper submission process, etc. can be obtained at http://www.percom.org/ and also at the URLs given below. AFFILIATED EVENTS (www.percom.org) PerCom'21 Industry Track This year, PerCom continues the dedicated Industry Track. Accepted papers will be published in the PerCom Workshops and other Affiliated Events proceedings. This track will be an opportunity for people associated with industry and academia to present their novel ideas while attracting funding and/or further expanding collaborations. These papers will be presented with focus on research that has direct Industry impact and potential for industry uptake. For this track, important criteria for papers to be submitted to the Industry Track is clear industrial association, either in the form of extensive evaluation of research results in industrial use cases or active participation of industry representatives as co-authors. Having this condition in mind, contributions related to ongoing or finished, but previously unpublished research papers are welcomed. Submissions from a broad spectrum of research fields with common interest in pervasive computing and communications are expected. There will be a Best Industry Track Paper Award to acknowledge and encourage excellence in collaborative industry research. (Paper submission: November 9, 2020) PerCom'21 Work in Progress The Work in Progress (WiP) session provides an opportunity to present and discuss new challenges and visions, showcase early research results, and explore novel research directions. Papers (4 pages in the IEEE proceedings format) are expected to report on early or ongoing research on any aspect of pervasive computing and communications. The authors of accepted papers will present their work during the main conference and must register for the conference. (Paper submission: December 15, 2020) PerCom'21 Demos The PerCom Demo session provides a venue for the latest breakthroughs in pervasive computing to be presented live to the research community. Demos ranging from examples of working prototypes, novel applications, groundbreaking ideas, and live experiments related to PerCom are all welcome. In particular, we encourage demos from industrial researchers who are leading the way in pushing pervasive technology into the hands of the public. A "Best Demo Award" will be presented based on research value, originality, and presentation. (Paper submission: December 5, 2020) PerCom'21 PhD Forum The PerCom PhD Forum provides an excellent opportunity for Ph.D. students to present their dissertation research, including work in progress, to the wider pervasive computing and communication community. This meeting offers an opportunity to share experiences with other Ph.D. students and meet with accomplished international researchers and obtain feedback from them. Please refer to the conference website for details. (Paper submission: December 18, 2020) LIST of PERCOM'21 WORKSHOPS: The 6th IEEE PerCom Workshop on Pervasive Health Technologies (PerHealth 2021) http://perhealth.eecs.wsu.edu PerHealth 2021 is a cross-disciplinary workshop that brings researchers from engineering, computer science, and medicine together to discuss the latest findings in this area and advance the field. Pervasive health research spans a broad spectrum and health-focused technologies ranging from mobile health and health information technology to medical devices, telemedicine, and personalized healthcare. The interactive workshop will be inspiring for anyone conducting research in the area of pervasive health and related fields. This includes research in technology design and development as well as clinical studies and novel application areas. The aim is to provide a forum where hardware, software, and middleware technologies, as well as data privacy and security issues are discussed that relate to aging in place, geriatrics, chronic disease management, health management, or that could help people with disabilities. (Paper submission: November 9, 2020) The 17th Workshop on Context and Activity Modeling and Recognition (CoMoRea'21) http://comorea.org/ The CoMoRea Workshop is a follow-up to a successful 16 years series of workshops on Context and Activity Modeling and Recognition (CoMoReA) and the ACOMORE Symposium. This workshop's aim is to advance the state of the art in context and activity modeling and reasoning and discuss fundamental issues in context processing and management. The goal is to identify concepts, theories and methods applicable to context modeling and context reasoning as well as system-oriented issues related to the design and implementation of context-aware systems. (Paper submission: November 9, 2020) IEEE First International Workshop on Deep Learning in Pervasive Computing (PerDL) https://sites.google.com/view/perdl2021/homepage The PerDL workshop aims to bring together practitioners and researchers working on pervasive computing and on deep learning, by soliciting contributions on the following topics: advances in pervasive and distributed deep learning techniques and algorithms; theories, models and novel algorithms for rendering deep learning suitable to pervasive and distributed computing; novel applications of deep learning techniques in the context of pervasive and distributed computing; technological innovations making possible the integration of deep learning and pervasive computing; fog and edge computing techniques for deep learning; research to make the computational complexity of deep learning methods suitable for distributed devices; studies to efficiently distribute and retrieve great amounts of data useful for deep learning algorithms; deep learning techniques to improve the performance of pervasive and parallel computations. (Paper submission: November 9, 2020) The 5th International Workshop on Annotation of User Data for Ubiquitous Systems (ARDUOUS ) https://text2hbm.org/arduous/ Labelling user data is a central part of the design and evaluation of pervasive systems that aim to support the user through situation-aware reasoning. It is essential both in designing and training the system to recognise and reason about the situation, either through the definition of a suitable situation model in knowledge-driven applications, or through the preparation of training data for learning tasks in data-driven models. Hence, the quality of annotations can have a significant impact on the performance of the derived systems. Labelling is also vital for validating and quantifying the performance of applications. With pervasive systems relying increasingly on large datasets for designing and testing models of users' activities, the process of data labelling is becoming a major concern for the community. Even more, with the increase of pervasive applications relying on annotated data, it becomes important to develop standards and normalisation methodologies for transferability of annotated data across different applications. To address the problem, this year's workshop focuses on methods for standardisation and normalisation in annotation practices and possible roadmaps and good practices in addressing the associated challenges. (Paper submission: November 9, 2020) The 5th Workshop on emotion awareness for pervasive computing - beyond traditional approaches (EmotionAware) https://www.comtec.eecs.uni-kassel.de/emotionaware/ An important goal of pervasive computing is to integrate computer devices into the users' everyday life seamlessly. This allows context-aware applications to gather information about the users to support them in their daily tasks. A newly attractive source of information for pervasive computing is provided by mobile devices, wearable devices, and pervasive sensors able to detect the emotional state of the users. In many real-world scenarios, it is essential to use wearable sensors, embedded in mobile devices such as smartphones and smartwatches, to measure the emotional state of the user. This would help to understand how emotions influence processes such as decision making and reasoning. We aim to have unique contributions addressing this challenge and to provide a discussion space to facilitate collaboration among researchers interested in emotion recognition for pervasive computing. (Paper submission: November 9, 2020) The 3rd International Workshop on Pervasive Computing for Vehicular Systems (PerVehicle 2021) http://www.pervehicle.org/ We solicit technical papers about pervasive computing technologies including wireless networking, mobile and distributed computing, sensor systems, ambient intelligence, and smart devices in designing, managing and realizing intelligent, smart vehicular systems. The topics include: connected vehicles, VANET, FANET, ITS, mobile and pervasive computing/middleware for/by vehicles, V2X communications, UAVs, MEC, autonomous/automated vehicles, security and privacy, and any other issues in vehicular systems and networking. (Paper submission: November 9, 2020) The Fifth IEEE International Workshop on Smart & Green Edge Computing and Networking (SmartEdge 2021) http://www.people.vcu.edu/~tnadeem/SmartEdge21/index.html Recent studies show that the amount of data generated at the edge of the Internet will be vast, incredibly rich, extremely valuable, and becoming the key enabler for data-rich edge systems and applications. SmartEdge has taken a leading role in addressing data/systems/applications interests, challenges, and research problems of the edge. This year, SmartEdge's themes are: Intelligent Edge, and Green Edge. By integrating the advances in smart devices and edge systems with the advances in machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI), the future role of smart edge systems, networks, and applications is becoming limitless and it is expected to revolutionize the future of the world within the next few years. Green Edge is a recent emerging research field that focuses on architectures and algorithms to support energy-efficient edge operation, and distributed algorithms and optimizations that make the edge a major contributor to the overall energy efficiency of the entire IoT ecosystem. (Paper submission: November 9, 2020) The Fifth Workshop on Security, Privacy and Trust in the Internet of Things (SPT-IoT) https://sites.google.com/view/spt-iot-2021 As the adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT) increases and more data are shared through the hyperconnected networks there are more concerns associated with the security of data. Furthermore, maintaining a balance between the availability of data and users' privacy, and ensuring trust are issues that require attention to encourage the adaptability of IoT applications. The SPT-IoT workshop is organized to encourage researchers and industry practitioners to come up with innovative ideas to focus on IoT security, privacy, and trust. (Paper submission: November 9, 2020) Pervasive Context-Aware Smart Cities and Intelligent Transportation Systems (PerAwareCity) https://sites.google.com/view/perawarecity2021 This workshop will focus on bringing together researchers and practitioners working on systems and applications in the Smart City domain. The architectural, networking and decision making aspects will be investigated and discussed. Underlying structure of Smart City systems, including different possible architectural models such as peer-to-peer, location based, server oriented, and hybrid models will be studied. Almost all smart city related problems, which are important for societal welfare, and could potentially be solved using AI techniques, can be presented in this workshop by researchers from industry and academia. In general, we want to focus on solutions of the following questions: (a) How to design city-scale smart systems with autonomous coordination capabilities; (b) How to develop intelligent decision making abilities in emergency and safety-critical systems or during medium and large-scale disasters, and (c) How to handle real-time conditions innovate computing technology for diverse societal applications to improve the human experience. We also hope to produce a post-workshop position paper providing a summary perspective and future directions for work in the area. A community of researchers and practitioners will also be created and nurtured via this workshop. (Paper submission: November 9, 2020) Mobile and Pervasive Assistive Technologies (MPAT) https://ewserver.di.unimi.it/mpat/ The aim of MPAT workshop is to showcase recent advancements in mobile and pervasive assistive technologies, connecting researchers and practitioners working in the fields of accessibility and pervasive systems. This is motivated by the fact that mobile and pervasive devices are rapidly becoming platforms of choice to support the development of state-of-the-art assistive technologies to improve the quality of life of people with disabilities. Pervasive sensors, actuators, and IoT installations are able to provide key information about the environment and those who traverse it, while mobile devices enable general-purpose computing on the move, cutting edge sensing, and persistent connectivity. They are also compact, widespread and socially acceptable, and therefore well suited to provide assistance everywhere and at all times. These qualities can be leveraged to achieve ubiquitous assistance for everyday activities such as mobility, information access, interaction with the environment, or with other people. (Paper submission: November 9, 2020) International Workshop on Mobile and Pervasive Internet of Things (PerIoT) https://periot.github.io/2021/ In recent years, the Internet has become increasingly pervasive allowing people to connect anytime and everywhere to achieve pervasiveness and mobility. The coupling among mobile technology, embedded objects, and a worldwide pervasive communication infrastructure constitutes the Mobile and Pervasive Internet-of-Things. The aim of International Workshop on Mobile and Pervasive Internet of Things (PerIoT) 2021 workshop is to bring together authors from the research and industrial communities, standardization bodies, and institutional entities to meet and exchange ideas on recent research, challenges and future directions on: i) the recent advances in the area of existing and emerging mobile and pervasive IoT technologies and ii) research, challenges and future directions for IoT real-world deployments in multiple production-ready application scenarios. PerIoT is organized with two main tracks in order to properly highlight the contributions related to the two main focuses of the event - 1) MPIoT Track - Mobile and Pervasive Internet of Things, and 2) IOTProD Track - Real World and Production Deployment. (Paper submission: November 9, 2020) Workshop on sensing systems and applications using wrist worn smart devices (WristSense) https://sites.google.com/view/wristsense2021 Using sensors, computation resources, and communication interfaces available on smart watches and smart bands, it is possible to capture information about the device user, perform computation to infer the user's activities and their context, and communicate these to a smartphone or the cloud. These wrist worn smart devices represent a perfect platform to conduct research on human activity and behavior. They introduce opportunities for exploring new research problems, such as efficient classification and computation on the wearable device, offloading of computation from the user's watch to the phone or the cloud, enhancement of user experience, smart notification management, physical activity sensing, behavior modeling, and data analysis. This workshop will bring academic researchers and industry experts to collectively identify challenges and opportunities in wrist based sensing and present research to push the field forward as well as practical solutions for commercial wrist based devices. (Paper submission: November 9, 2020) International Workshop on Pervasive Information Flow (PerFlow'21) http://www.perflow.org/ PerFlow 2021 aims to present and discuss research challenges on timely/real-time utilization of massive information flows from IoT devices. Examples of topics are IoT device collaboration, mobile data offloading, mobile crowdsensing, machine learning for sensor data streams, edge and fog computing, remote sensing and monitoring, and middleware, security, and privacy for pervasive computing. (Paper submission: November 9, 2020) ________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the tciin list, click the following link: https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=tciin&A=1

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [ACM/IEEE IPSN 2021] Call for Papers
by Lars Wolf 29 Sep '20

29 Sep '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [ACM/IEEE IPSN 2021] Call for Papers Datum: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 19:12:42 +0000 Von: Philipp Sommer <philipp.sommer(a)CH.ABB.COM> Antwort an: Philipp Sommer <philipp.sommer(a)CH.ABB.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG CALL FOR PAPERS The 20th ACM/IEEE The International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2021) ====================================================================== May 18-21, 2021, Nashville, Tennessee, USA IPSN'21 is part of CPS-IoT Week 2021, co-located with HSCC, ICCPS, IoTDI and RTAS. https://ipsn.acm.org/2021/ ====================================================================== *** Conference Scope *** The International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) is the leading annual forum on research at the intersection of networked embedded sensing, control, and systems design. Now in its 20th year, IPSN has been at the forefront of the development of today's "smart" systems. IPSN brings together researchers from academia, industry, and government to present and discuss recent advances in both theoretical and experimental research on all aspects of networked systems of sensors and actuators. Its scope includes signal and image processing, information and coding theory, databases and information management, distributed algorithms, networks and protocols, wireless communications, collaborative objects, the Internet of Things, machine learning, mobile and social sensing, and embedded systems design. Of special interest are contributions at the confluence of multiple of these areas. IPSN 2021 is part of the CPS-IoT WEEK, the premier venue for research and development of cyber-physical systems. IPSN is co-sponsored by both the ACM and IEEE, and it continues to emphasize research that bridges multiple research communities. IPSN is interested in all aspects of sensor networks, ranging from traditional topics such as networking to more recent developments such as embedded machine learning and computer vision. *** Topics of Interest *** Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Sensor data storage, retrieval, processing - Coding, compression, and information theory - Theoretical foundations and fundamental bounds - Network and system architectures and protocols - IoT gateway platform architecture and services - Outdoor, wide-area, or crowdsourced sensing systems - Localization, synchronization, RFID, and RF sensing - Programming models, languages, and systems - Programming models for IoT ensembles - Modeling, simulation, and measurement tools - Operating systems and runtime environments - Applications in health, wellness & sustainability - Applications in smart cities and urban health - Experiences, challenges, comparisons of platforms - Discovery, coordination, and use of IoT services - Security and privacy - IoT reliability, adaptability, and dependability - Technical assessment of emerging IoT standards - Wearable systems and data processing algorithms - Sensor-enabled drone / autonomous vehicle platforms and algorithms - Machine learning and deep learning on sensor data - New hardware and system design to enable machine learning on sensor data - Novel embedded machine learning algorithms - Data related issues, such as methods, tools, and analysis - Fairness, equity, and transparency issues in IoT and CPS - Computer vision for resource-constrained and mobile platforms In addition to the established Best Paper Award, IPSN 2021 may provide a Best Research Artifact Award to the authors who have contributed the research artifact that is judged to be the most novel, easy to use, well documented, and useful to advance research. Research artifacts, such as code, data sets, and tools, are highly encouraged to be submitted or made available simultaneously with paper submission. *** Paper Submissions *** IPSN 2021 accepts double-blind paper submissions which have not been previously published. Posted technical reports (ArXiv or similar) do not count as prior publication and do not violate the double-blind requirement. Submitted manuscripts are up to 12 pages, inclusive of figures, tables, and references, following the ACM master article template. During the review process, the reviewers may anonymously communicate with the authors for clarifying questions. Papers are to be submitted at https://ipsn2021.hotcrp.com/ IPSN collaborates closely with the IoTDI conference, given the proximity in research themes (both related to IoT) and the co-location in CPS-IoT Week. We provide submission guidelines to aid prospective authors with the conference venue selection. In the meantime, we would like to make explicit that double submission remains prohibited under ACM's policy of Prior Publication and Simultaneous Submissions. In 2021 and to foster a closer joint-community, we would invite quality submissions to one venue for publication at the other, in case we find fit and the authors agree. *** Important Dates *** Abstract Registration: October 19, 2020 11:59:59pm AoE Submission Deadline: October 26, 2020 11:59:59pm AoE Conference Week*: May 18-21, 2021, in Nashville, Tennessee, USA *The conference will take place, in physical or virtual form, no matter what. [Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of the call] ______________________________________________________________ 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] ACM/IEEE IoTDI 2021: Call for Posters/Demos
by Lars Wolf 29 Sep '20

29 Sep '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ACM/IEEE IoTDI 2021: Call for Posters/Demos Datum: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 18:02:36 +0000 Von: Liu, Jinwei <jinwei.liu(a)FAMU.EDU> Antwort an: Liu, Jinwei <jinwei.liu(a)FAMU.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Call for Posters/Demos The ACM/IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI) welcomes extended abstracts for presentation as posters and demos. We seek provocative ideas that challenge existing approaches to IoT design and implementation, abstracts that sketch intriguing IoT systems and share preliminary results and exciting demonstrations of novel IoT technology, applications and hardware. We invite contributions from researchers and practitioners from industry and academia. IoTDI 2021 will be part of CPS-IoT Week in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Analytic foundations and theory of IoT * Reliability, security, timeliness, and robustness in IoT systems * Novel protocols and network abstractions * Data streaming architectures and machine learning analytics for IoT * IoT-motivated cyber-physical and Industrial IoT (IIoT) systems * Novel quality requirements and their enforcement mechanisms * Cloud back-ends and resource management for IoT applications * Edge and fog computing * Personal, wearable, and other embedded networked front-ends * Social computing and human-in-the-loop issues * Applications domains (e.g., smart cities, smart health, smart buildings, smart transportation) * Deployment experiences, case studies & lessons learned * Evaluation and testbeds * AI/ML for IoT & Embedded Systems * Energy/Power Management & Harvesting for IoT Platforms The 2-page extended abstract describing the poster or demo will be evaluated based on technical merit, innovation, and the potential to stimulate lively discussions at the conference. Accepted abstracts will appear in the conference proceedings. At least one author of each accepted abstract must register and present the poster/demo at the conference. Poster/demo of IoTDI will be coordinated with IPSN (e.g., through a shared Madness session) to encourage visibility and cross-fertilization of ideas across the attendees of the co-located conferences. Submission Instructions * Poster and demonstration abstracts should be at most 2 single-spaced US Letter (8.5” x 11”) pages, including all figures, tables, and references. * All submissions must use the LaTeX (preferred) or Word styles found in the following link: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. Note that due to having both ACM and IEEE sponsorship, IoTDI uses ACM and IEEE templates alternating between the years. For 2021, we will use ACM templates as linked above using the 9-point type. These templates are the same that will be used for the final camera-ready of accepted papers. * The review process is single-blind, so there is no need to anonymize the submissions. * The title of the abstract should be prepended with "Poster Abstract:" or "Demo Abstract:". Please make sure to include the name, affiliation, and contact information of all authors. * Demonstration abstracts should list any special requirements (tables, power, wireless connectivity, etc.) in the submission on a separate third page. This third page is not part of the technical content of the abstract, can be formatted at the discretion of the authors, and will not be included in the camera-ready version of your abstract. * Submission site: https://iotdi21posters.hotcrp.com/ Important Dates Submission deadline: Jan 26th 2021 (AoE) Notification: Feb 7th 2021 (AoE) Camera-ready deadline: Feb 21th 2020 (AoE) ______________________________________________________________ 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: [Deadlines Extended - Free Registration] ACM BuildSys 2020 - Nov. 16-19 - Fully Virtual - Reminders for Call for Posters/Demos/Workshop Papers/PhD Colloquium
by Lars Wolf 28 Sep '20

28 Sep '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Deadlines Extended - Free Registration] ACM BuildSys 2020 - Nov. 16-19 - Fully Virtual - Reminders for Call for Posters/Demos/Workshop Papers/PhD Colloquium Datum: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 13:16:29 -0400 Von: Mostafa Mirshekari <mmirshek(a)stanford.edu> Antwort an: mmirshek(a)stanford.edu, weitaoxu(a)cityu.edu.hk, xiaoxuan.lu(a)cs.ox.ac.uk An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de Dear Lars, We hope this email finds you well. We would like to inform you that multiple deadlines realted to ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments, Cities, and Transportation (ACM BuildSys) is extended. *All the events of the Buildsys are virtual and free of charge this year. * *Posters/Demos: * - The updated submission deadline is Oct. 15th, 2020, 11:59:59pm EDT. - Please use the following link for submission. https://buildsys20postersdemos.hotcrp.com/ *PhD Forum:* - The updated submission deadline is Oct. 1st, 2020, 11:59:59pm EDT. - Please use the following link for submission. https://buildsys20phd.hotcrp.com/ *Workshops:* *Device-Free Human Sensing (DFHS): *The updated submission deadline is Sep. 29th, 2020, 11:59:59pm EDT. * * *Data: Acquisition to Analysis:* The updated submission deadline is Oct. 1st, 2020, 11:59:59pm EDT. For more information please refer to: http://buildsys.acm.org/2020/tutorial/ As a reminder, the twitter handle of Buildsys 2020 is @2020_acm. Please consider following this account for more updates. --------------------- Regards, Mostafa Mirshekari, Weitao (Colin) Xu, and Chris XiaoXuan Lu <https://christopherlu.github.io/> BuildSys 2020 Publicity Chairs

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: The Sixth ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing 2020
by Lars Wolf 26 Sep '20

26 Sep '20

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: "Yang, Qing" <Qing.Yang(a)UNT.EDU> Gesendet: 25. September 2020 22:28:54 MESZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: The Sixth ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing 2020 The Sixth ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing <http://acm-ieee-sec.org/2021/call%20for%20papers.php> San Jose, CA, November-December, 2021 SEC takes a broad view of edge computing and solicits contributions from many fields of systems practice that embrace any aspect of edge computing. Topics include, but are not limited to: * algorithms and techniques for machine learning and AI at the edge * cellular infrastructure for edge computing * distributed ledger technology (DLT) & blockchain at the edge * edge computing as an enabler of 5G applications and services * edge computing infrastructure and edge-enabled applications * geo-distributed analytics and indexing on edge nodes * hardware architectures for edge computing and devices * IoT hubs * innovative applications at the edge * monitoring, management, and diagnosis in edge computing * networking, e.g., from clients to the edge, and from the edge to the cloud * programming models and toolkits * resource management and reliability for edge computing * security and privacy issues * vehicular, enterprise, and manufacturing systems The review process will be double-blind. Papers will be judged on novelty, significance, clarity, relevance, and correctness. A best paper award will be presented to one or more outstanding papers from the conference. We also welcome short Position Papers on any of the above topics, which will be judged separately from papers in the research track of the conference. By submitting a paper, you agree that at least one of the authors will attend the conference to present it. Papers must be in PDF format and must be submitted here<http://acm-ieee-sec.org/2021/call%20for%20papers.php>. Do not email submissions. Two Deadlines and Reviewing Process with One-shot Revision SEC’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 SEC conferences. The review decisions will be one of the following: * Accept: Papers in this category will be accepted for publication in the proceedings and presentation at the conference, possibly after making minor changes with the oversight of a shepherd. * One-Shot-Revision: A limited number of papers will be invited to submit a revision; such papers will receive a specific set of action points and can be resubmitted for the next deadline. After the resubmission, reviewers will evaluate the paper based on whether the authors have properly addressed the previous reviews. Unlike in the shepherding process, the requested action points may include running additional experiments that obtain specific results. During this revision period, the paper is still considered under review to SEC and therefore cannot be submitted to other conferences unless the authors first withdraw it from consideration. The revised paper will then be re-e valuated, and either accepted or rejected. * Reject: Papers in this category are declined for inclusion in the conference. Rejected papers must wait for one year, from the date of original submission, to resubmit to SEC. A paper will be judged to be a resubmit (as opposed to a new submission) if the paper is from the same or similar authors, and a reviewer could write a substantially similar summary of the paper compared with the original submission. As a rule of thumb, if there is more than 40% overlap between the original submission and the new paper, it will be considered a resubmission. In case of any similarity between a current submission and a submission that has been previously rejected at SEC less than 11 months ago, please email a detailed list of differences and if possible a copy of a previous submission to the chairs. Important Dates Deadline 1 Abstract and title registration January 14, 2021 Paper submission January 21, 2021 Notification of acceptance April 2, 2021 Camera ready May 14, 2021 Deadline 2 Abstract and title registration June 17, 2021 Paper submission June 24, 2021 Notification of acceptance September 3, 2021 Camera ready October 15, 2021 Submission Instructions Submitted papers must be no longer than 12 single-spaced 8.5" x 11" pages, including figures and tables, but excluding references, and using 10-point type on 11-point (single-spaced) leading, two-column format, Times Roman or a similar font, within a text block 6.5" wide x 9" deep. IEEE Standard template for Latex and Word meet these specifications and can be found at: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html. Accepted papers will be allowed 2 additional pages in the proceedings. Papers not meeting these criteria will be rejected without review, and no deadline extensions will be granted for reformatting. Pages should be numbered, and figures and tables should be legible in black and white, without requiring magnification. Papers so short as to be considered "extended abstracts" will not receive full consideration. Reviewing will be double-blind. Authors must make a good faith effort to anonymize their submissions, and they should not identify themselves either explicitly or by implication; for example, cite prior work as though it belongs to a third party. Submissions violating the detailed formatting and anonymization rules will not be considered for review. If you are uncertain about how to anonymize your submission, please contact the program co-chairs well in advance of the submission deadline. Papers must be in PDF format and must be submitted via the Web submission form, which will be open in the weeks before the submission deadline. Position Papers The program committee is also soliciting industry and academic position papers that describe current advances and challenges in edge computing practice and academic research. Such papers should follow the above submission instructions, with the exception that they may be no longer than 6 single-spaced 8.5" x 11" pages. Furthermore, the title of the paper should include the words: "Position Paper: XXX", where XXX is the actual title of the paper. ______________________________________________________________ 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 ICC 2021, Montreal, Next-Generation Networking and Internet Symposium, Due on October 12, 2020
by Lars Wolf 25 Sep '20

25 Sep '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] IEEE ICC 2021, Montreal, Next-Generation Networking and Internet Symposium, Due on October 12, 2020 Datum: Fri, 25 Sep 2020 10:00:00 +0900 Von: Ruidong Li <lrd(a)NICT.GO.JP> Antwort an: lrd(a)NICT.GO.JP An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [We apology for possible cross posting, and thank you in advance for distributing this CFP ] Next-Generation Networking and Internet Symposium, IEEE ICC 2021 https://icc2021.ieee-icc.org/sites/icc2021.ieee-icc.org/files/symposia%20CF… Submission: https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=27236&track=101361 Scope and Topics of Interest There have been unprecedented advances in developing technologies to enable the next generation networks, which will seamlessly integrate the computing equipment with networking to provide the computing-harvesting next generation services. Thanks to the huge enhancement of computing processor and interface architectures, communication networks can now handle network functions implemented as virtualized machines making large use of software elements. Communication devices can now host very advanced applications, and data centers can be pervasively distributed down to network access points. Networks, applications and clouds control layers can so leverage on advanced decision-making solutions to target full automation in Internet and next-generation service delivery. In addition, quantum Internet is emerging with vast amount of computing power, which opens new possibilities. This trend also greatly affects next-generation broadband wireless networks, such as spectrum efficiency, energy efficiency, and mobility management. The NGNI symposium welcomes original research work in technical areas focusing on the innovations on next-generation networks. The Next-Generation Networking and Internet (NGNI) Symposium seeks original contributions in the following topical areas, plus others that are not explicitly listed but are closely related to: • Addressing and naming with the presence of mobility and portability • Centralized-RAN, Cloud-RAN, and Fog-RAN architectures • Cloud-based and fog-based networking • Content-centric networking and named data network • Converged networks and applications • Data center network architectures and performance • Free Space Optical (FSO) networks and Visible Light Communication ( VLC) • Future Internet and next-generation networking architectures • Energy-efficient green communications • Heterogeneous multi-layer and multi-domain wireless-wireline internetworking • High speed and parallel processing architectures for next generation routers and switches • Intent-based network control and management • Internet economics, pricing, accounting, and growth modelling • Internet of Things (IoT), M2M, D2D, MTC • Internet survivability and network resilience strategies • Integrated networking, storage and computing • Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) and Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) • Mobile security: device, application, and data • Networking flying vehicles such as UAVs and drones • Next-generation access networks • Next-generation anomaly, intrusion, and attack detection/prevention • Next-generation flow management: resource sharing, congestion control • Next-generation Internet applications and service • Next-generation networking protocols • Next-generation network management and control • Open communities, open API, open source • Operational and research issues with IPv6 • Overlay and peer-to-peer (P2P) networking • Packet classification and forwarding mechanisms at ultra-high link rates (terabits) • Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE) in next- generation networks • Quantum Internet • Resource orchestration in next-generation networks • Routing and switching • Self-protection and self-organization networking • Software defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) • Software defined radio (SDR) and cognitive radio networks • Terahertz wireless communications • Traffic measurement, analysis, modelling, visualization, and engineering • Vehicular networking (IoV/V2V/V2I/V2X) Submission Guidelines The IEEE ICC 2021 website (icc2021.ieee-icc.org) provides full instructions on manuscript format and how to submit a manuscript. For this NGNI symposium, please use the submission url below. https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=27236&track=101361 Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: 12 October 2020 Notification of Acceptance: 25 January 2020 Camera Ready Submissions: 22 February 2020 Symposium Chairs Shiwen Mao, Auburn University, USA, smao(a)ieee.org Periklis Chatzimisios, International Hellenic University, Greece, pchatzimisios(a)ihu.gr Ruidong Li, NICT, Japan, lrd(a)nict.go.jp -- Ruidong Li, Senior Researcher, Network System Research Institute, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan Email: lrd(a)nict.go.jp liruidong(a)ieee.org ______________________________________________________________ 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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