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Fwd: VTS Conference Update
by Lars Wolf 26 Feb '21

26 Feb '21

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: IEEE Vehicular Technology Society <cerry(a)ieee.org> Gesendet: 26. Februar 2021 00:06:32 MEZ An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de Betreff: VTS Conference Update ******ANNOUNCEMENTS***** **** VTC2021-Spring is Going Virtual **** Virtual registration rates will apply, don't miss out! **** VTC2021-Fall Call for Papers **** ** Call for Papers Deadline: 22 March 2021 ** **Call for Workshop Proposals Deadline: 22 March 2021** **Call for Tutorial Proposals Deadline: 26 April 2021** ***** IEEE VPPC2021 Call for Papers ***** ** Call for Papers Deadline: 16 April 2021 ** **Call for Special Sessions Proposals Deadline: 22 February 2021** **Call for Tutorial Proposals Deadline: 1 March 2021** __________________________________________________________________________________________ VTC2021-Fall Virtual Conference Now Open! 27 - 30 September 2021 --Call for Papers-- VTC2021-Fall Virtual Conference 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 Prospective authors are invited to submit 5-page, original, and unpublished full papers: 1. Airborne and Maritime Mobile Systems and Services 2. Antenna Systems, Propagation, and RF Design 3. Electric Vehicles, Vehicular Electronics, and Intelligent Transportation 4. Emerging technologies, 5G and beyond 5. Green Communications and Networks 6. IoV, IoT, M2M, Sensor Networks, and Ad-Hoc Networking 7. Machine Learning and AI for Communications 8. Multiple Antennas and Cooperative Communications 9. Positioning, Navigation, and Sensing 10. Signal Processing for Wireless Communications 11. Spectrum Management, Radio Access Technology, Services and Security 12. Vehicular Cooperation and Control, Assisted and Autonomous Driving Deadlines Submission deadline: 22 March 2021 Acceptance notification: 7 June 2021 Final paper submission deadline: 5 July 2021 Paper submission is open: vtc2021fall.trackchair.com/ _____________________________________________________ --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-Fall 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. The VTC2021-Fall Technical Program Committee invites submission of tutorial proposals for half-day or full-day presentation on topics of interest to the current conference tracks. VTC Workshops are included with all registrations. Deadlines Workshop proposals due: 22 March 2021 Acceptance notification: 1 April 2021 To submit a workshop proposal, please visit: events.vtsociety.org/vtc2021-fall/conference-sessions/call-for-workshops/ _______________________________________________________ --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-Fall Technical Program Committee invites submission of tutorial proposals for half-day or full-day presentation on topics of interest to the current conference tracks. Deadlines Tutorial proposal deadline: 26 April 2021 Acceptance notification deadline: 3 June 2021 All tutorials will be presented on 27 September 2021 To submit a tutorial proposal, please visit: events.vtsociety.org/vtc2021-fall/conference-sessions/call-for-tutorials/ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ *****2020 IEEE 93rd Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2021-Spring***** **************************-- Now Virtual --*************************************** Registration is open will 20 February 2021, virtual registration rates will apply! Guidelines for recording presentations can be found at: events.vtsociety.org/vtc2021-spring/authors/virtual-presentation-guidelines/ Workshops available with registration: W1: Energy-Efficient Schemes for Beyond 5G W2: The 2nd International Workshop on Intelligent Communication Network Technologies (ICNET) W3: Symbiotic Radio Paradigm for Integrated Active and Passive Communications W4: 5G-enabled safety and support services for cooperative, connected and automated mobility W5: Connected Intelligence for IoT and Industrial IoT Applications (C3IA) W6: Technologies and Proof-of-Concept Activities for 5G Evolution & Beyond 5G W7: International Workshop on Smart Spectrum (IWSS 2021) W8: Decentralized Technologies and Applications for IoT (D'IoT) 2021 W9: The 10th International Workshop on High Mobility Wireless Communications W10: 3rd International workshop on Dependable Wireless Communications (DEWCOM) W11: Broadband Connectivity in 6G: Towards Terabits-per-Second Communications W12: Wireless Communication Technologies for Future Railway Systems Tutorials available: T1: Backscatter Communications T2: 5G and Beyond for Robotics and Automation: Challenges and Opportunities T3: Cellular Networks for Safe Drone Operations T4: Tutorial on Tools and Techniques for URLLC Towards Beyond-5G Systems T5: Terahertz Communications: Myths, Challenges and Opportunities T6: Softwarization and Virtualization in 5G and Beyond Mobile Networks T7: Theory and Applications for Joint State Sensing and Communications for Autonomous Vehicles T8: Intelligent Massive NOMA for Next Generation Wireless Networks T9: On Reinforcement and Deep Learning Performance in Wireless Communication T10: Internet of Vehicles: when edge intelligence and digital twin meet Intelligent Transport Systems T11: On the Design and Implementation of Open RAN Direct RF Sampling Radio Transceiver Architectures T12: The Future of UAV Cellular Communications T13: Wireless Channel Charting for Massive MIMO T14: User-Centric Cell-Free Massive MIMO: From Foundations to Scalable Implementation T15: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for Future Wireless Communications T16: Rate Splitting Multiple Access for Beyond 5G: Principles, Recent Advances, and Future Research Trends ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ *****IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference 2021 - IEEE VPPC 2021***** --Call For Papers-- IEEE VPPC 2020 in Gijón, Spain 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, unpublished full papers. VPPC 2020 is organized into 7 regular tracks and 11 special sessions covering all relevant technical areas: Regular Track #1: Energy Storage and Generation, Components and Systems Regular Track #2: Power Electronics, Motor Drives and Electric Power Systems Regular Track #3: Vehicular Electronics and Intelligent Transportation Systems Regular Track #4: Control and Energy Management of Electrified Vehicles Regular Track #5: Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Electrified Vehicles Regular Track #6: Charging Systems and Infrastructures Regular Track #7: Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructures and Fuel Cell Vehicles Paper submission deadline: 16 April 2021 Acceptance notification: 5 July 2021 Final paper submission deadline: Changed to 2 August 2021 Paper submission is open: vppc2021.trackchair.com/ __________________________________________________________ --Special Sessions - Call For Proposals -- Special Sessions provide invaluable opportunities for researchers and industry practitioners to share their state-of-the-art research and development results in areas of particular interest. We invite proposal submission for the special sessions. Submission Deadline Extended: 22 February 2021 Acceptance notification:4 March 2021 Paper submission deadline: 19 April 2021 __________________________________________________________ --Tutorials-- Tutorials provide opportunities for researchers from the academia and the industry to learn about the state-of-the-art research and development from experts in a given field. The IEEE VPPC'2021 Technical Program Committee invites you to attend one, or all of the tutorials below: https://events.vtsociety.org/vppc2021/conference-sessions/call-for-tutorial… Deadlines Full proposals due: 1 March 2021 Acceptance notification: 28 July 2021 Tutorials to be presented on: 25 October 2021Use this link to unsubscribe: http://unsubscribe.magnetmail.net/Actions/unsubscribe.cfm?message_id=198946…

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] 2021 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems
by Lars Wolf 26 Feb '21

26 Feb '21

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: John Vardakas <000001d7f7c259e2-dmarc-request(a)COMSOC-LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG> Gesendet: 26. Februar 2021 01:35:27 MEZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] 2021 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems Dear Colleagues, (Apologies if you receive this CFP multiple times.) SPECTS'21 is an annual conference whose goal is to provide a forum for professionals and researchers to discuss and disseminate the most promising contributions on performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. Papers describing results of theoretic and/or practical significance are solicited. Experimental, modeling, analysis, and simulation studies as well as testbed deployment, field trials and experiences gained are all in the scope of the conference. Work presenting novel performance evaluation methods or providing insights on design and runtime tradeoffs are particularly encouraged. SPECTS 2021 will be co-located with the Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference <https://scs.org/annsim/> (ANNSIM). ANNSIM 2021 is a new annual conference after merging SpringSim and SummerSim into a single conference starting in 2021 by The Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS). SPECTS'21 solicit papers from areas including, but not limited to: Networking Technologies and Telecommunication Systems . Future Internet and next Generation Networking . 5G & Beyond . Hyperdense networks . Massive MIMO . mm Wave communications . Terahertz communications . Multiple access, multiplexing, modulation and coding techniques . Cooperative communications and networking . Cognitive radio and networking . Autonomic Networks . Software Defined Networking . Network Function Virtualization . Cloud Radio Access Networks . Radio over Fiber . Flexible optical networks . Optical-Wireless communication and systems . Visible light communications . Internet of Things and enabling technologies . Machine to Machine systems . Device to Device communications . Cyber Physical Systems . Wireless ad-hoc Networks . Wireless Sensor Networks . Delay Tolerant Networks . Opportunistic Networks . Vehicular ad-hoc networks / connected vehicles . Nanonetworks . Satellite and Space communications and networking . Network design, optimization, management, and performance evaluation . Traffic engineering, network reliability, Quality of Service / Experience Computer Systems . Parallel and Distributed Computing . Service Oriented Architectures and Microservices . Cloud and Edge Computing . High Performance Computing . Distributed and Mobile Middleware . Computer Architectures . Microprocessors . Multi-core processors . Memory systems . High performance I/O . Big Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence Applications and Machine Learning . Software Engineering, Performance, Evaluation and Testing . Verification and Validation . Programming Languages . Parallel Algorithms . Data Storage Systems . Fault tolerance, signal processing, and coding techniques Tools & Methodologies . Modeling and Analysis . Performance Optimization, Bounds and Models . Stochastic Models . Queuing Systems and Networks . Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic Applications . Integrated Modeling and Measurement . Mathematical Aspects and Integrated Design of Performance . Verification and Validation . On-Line Performance Adaptation and Tuning . Parallel and Distributed Simulation . Case studies, Testbed deployments, field trials and experiences . Scalability Studies Deadlines Tutorial proposals April 23, 2021 Paper submission April 23, 2021 Author notification May 17, 2021 Camera-ready paper submission May 31, 2021 Best John Vardakas (Iquadrat) SPECTS'21 Publicity Chair ______________________________________________________________ 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 - 3rd International Workshop on Wirelessly Powered Systems and Networks (WPSN) - July 14-16, 2021 - VIRTUAL EVENT
by Lars Wolf 25 Feb '21

25 Feb '21

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP - 3rd International Workshop on Wirelessly Powered Systems and Networks (WPSN) - July 14-16, 2021 - VIRTUAL EVENT Datum: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 23:39:40 +0530 Von: Tamoghna Ojha <tamoghna.ojha(a)IIT.CNR.IT> Antwort an: Tamoghna Ojha <tamoghna.ojha(a)IIT.CNR.IT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ======================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS 3rd International Workshop on Wirelessly Powered Systems and Networks (WPSN) VIRTUAL EVENT (with IEEE DCOSS 2021, July 14-16, 2021) Website: https://wpsn2021.github.io/ ======================================================= **** Important Dates **** Abstract submission deadline: May 14, 2021 Paper Submission: May 21, 2021 Acceptance Notification: June 11, 2021 Camera Ready: June 18, 2021 (firm) Early Registration Deadline: July 05, 2021 **** Aims and Scope **** Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) is the driving technology that will enable the next generation of the distributed sensor systems, including battery-less sensors, passive RFID, as well as IoT, 5G and M2M solutions. Distributed WPT-enabled devices can be powered by harvesting energy from the surroundings (for example electromagnetic energy), leading to a novel communication systems networks paradigm, the Wirelessly Powered Systems and Networks. The WPSN workshop aims at providing an interdisciplinary reference forum focusing on the use of WPT as an enabler for improving the efficiency of current distributed communication systems and networks. Therefore, both tools and techniques to design (or improve) relevant distributed operations using WPT, as well as results from the analysis of data obtained through this enabler, are welcome in the workshop. WPSN aims at engaging researchers working on WPT-enabled networking protocols, algorithms and optimization; WPT-enabled communication methods, tools and techniques; Far-/near-field WPT technologies for networks and communications. * Important Note: * - An extended version of the best WPSN 2021 paper will be invited to appear in a Special Issue of the MDPI Sensors journal (JCR/SJR Q1), without publication fees. - Accepted and presented papers will appear in IEEE Xplore and all major publication indexes (WoS, Scopus, etc). **** Tutorial Session **** Title: Wireless Powered Communications: A New Communication Paradigm Instructors: Ioannis Krikidis, Constantinos Psomas (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) **** Topics of interest (not limited to) **** - Scheduling algorithms in wirelessly rechargeable sensor networks - Integration of WPT in Aerial (UAV) Networks - Optimization and approximation algorithms (mobility/energy/data management) - Joint operation scheduling (routing, data gathering, ambient harvesting) - Precise algorithmic models and efficient distributed protocols - Algorithms for WPT devices deployment - Energy trading and economy models among peers - Transiently-powered networking protocols for the Internet of batteryless and energy harvesting things - Intermittent computing support for wirelessly powered systems - Safety provisioning through EM radiation control algorithms - Peer-to-peer and crowd charging algorithms (e.g., mobile social networks, sensor networks) - Far-field WPT for the Internet-of-Things (IoT) Networks and 5G - Algorithms for simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) - WPT for medical implants and wearable devices - WPT for automotive technology and electric vehicles (Dynamic wireless charging, Vehicle-2-Grid (V2G) or Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V)) - WPT for mobile communications, wireless sensor networks and UAVs - WPT for home/Industrial appliances - Software/Hardware solutions for energy sharing among peers - RF energy harvesting, rectennas and rectenna arrays - High-frequency rectifying circuits, power transmitters and devices - Near-field (inductive, resonant) energy transfer - Microwave transmission and beaming - Novel materials, fabrication techniques - Energy storage elements, RFID-related electronics and self-powered sensors - Measurement and characterization approaches for WPT components - Standardization, regulations and biological effects - Privacy and security in WPT based energy sharing networks **** Submission Instructions **** The manuscripts must be prepared in English, following the IEEE two-column Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html) with a maximum length of eight (8) printed pages including text, figures, and references. Authors can add at most two (2) pages, but only for an appendix, i.e. these two pages contain supplementary material only. The additional two pages will incur overlength charges at $100/page. The manuscript submission link is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpsn2021 **** General Chairs **** Tamoghna Ojha (National Research Council, Italy) Ioannis Krikidis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) **** Technical Program Committee **** Eyuphan Bulut (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA) Andrea Passarella (National Research Council, Italy) Marios Angelopoulos (Bournemouth University, UK) Kasim Sinan Yildirim (University of Trento, Italy) Barun Saha (Hitachi ABB Power Grids, Bangalore, India) Lina Mohjazi (University of Glasgow, UK) Samir M Perlaza (INRIA, France) Bruno Clerkx (Imperial College London, UK) Himal A Suraweera (University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka) Constantinos Psomas (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Gan Zheng (Loughborough University, UK) Konstantinos Ntougias (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Koji Ishibashi (University of Electro-Communications, Japan) Haipeng Dai (Nanjing University, China) Giuseppina Monti (University of Salento, Italy) Vijay K Shah (Virginia Tech, USA) Weifa Liang (Australian National University, Australia) Deepak Mishra (UNSW Sydney, Australia) Lei Shu (Nanjing Agricultural University & University of Lincoln, China/UK) Angelo Trotta (University of Bologna, Italy) Pedro Pinho (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal) **** Publicity Chairs **** Samaresh Bera (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India) Pradyumna Kumar Bishoyi (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India) ======================================================= -- Tamoghna Ojha -- Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Institute for Informatics and Telematics (IIT) National Research Council (CNR) Via G. Moruzzi, 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy Personal Website: http://tamoghnaojha.github.io/ ______________________________________________________________ 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 contributions to IEEE WoWMoM 2021 co-located events - Deadline March 1, 2021
by Lars Wolf 25 Feb '21

25 Feb '21

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for contributions to IEEE WoWMoM 2021 co-located events - Deadline March 1, 2021 Datum: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 17:11:09 +0000 Von: Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou <eirini(a)UNM.EDU> Antwort an: Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou <eirini(a)UNM.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ================================== Call for contributions to IEEE WoWMoM 2021 co-located events http://wowmom2021.iit.cnr.it/ Twitter: @wowmom2021 ================================== WORKSHOPS ========= IEEE WoWMoM 2021 hosts six workshops for presenting novel ideas in a less formal and more focused way than at the conference, as well as stimulating discussions of state-of-the-art, emerging, visionary, and perhaps controversial topics. Accepted WoWMoM 2021 workshop papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library, showing their affiliation with IEEE WoWMoM. The following workshops accept submissions: - ISMS: Workshop on ICT for Integrated Smart Mobility Solutions - SC2: Smart City: 2nd Workshop on Smart Computing for Smart Cities - InThingS IoT: 2nd Workshop on Intelligent Things and Services - SwarmNet: 3rd Workshop on Wireless Networking, Planning, and Computing for UAV Swarms - NewNets: 3rd Workshop on Emerging Technologies and Trends in Engineering Low-Power Networks - NTN-6G: Workshop on Non-Terrestrial Networks in 6G Wireless More information as well as links to individual workshops: http://wowmom2021.iit.cnr.it/workshops.html All submissions will be managed through EDAS. Please check individual workshop pages for EDAS links. Each accepted paper must be presented at the workshop by one of the co-authors. PHD FORUM ========= IEEE WoWMoM 2021 hosts a PhD Forum where students will be able to present their dissertation research, recently finished or still ongoing, in the areas of wireless, mobile, and multimedia networking as well as ubiquitous and pervasive systems. The forum encourages interaction among PhD students and provides them with a valuable opportunity to obtain feedback from senior researchers. The event will be organized as a poster session and will include a pitch by each student. The author must be a PhD student in the middle stages of their Ph.D. Authors of accepted submissions are expected to attend the PhD forum at WoWMoM 2021 and present their work through a poster there. Extended abstract submission is managed through EDAS (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=28113), more information at: http://wowmom2021.iit.cnr.it/phd_forum.html Paper Submission Schedule ========================= Papers due: March 1, 2021 Paper selections due: April 1, 2021 Camera Ready: April 19, 2021 Event date: June 7, 2021 Accepted papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library, showing their affiliation with IEEE WoWMoM. Submission Guidelines ===================== All submissions are required to comply with IEEE WoWMoM guidelines. Camera-ready papers should not exceed 6 pages (workshops) or 2 pages (PhD forum), including figures without incurring additional page charges (maximum 1 additional page with over length page charge), formatted in two-column IEEE conference style with font size 10 point or greater. For further submission guidelines: see WoWMoM webpage at http://wowmom2021.iit.cnr.it Sponsors ======== Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society | Missouri Science & Tech. Univ. Organized by: IIT@CNR Platinum industry sponsor: Cisco -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou Assistant Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Office: 326B Tel.: (505)-277-5501 Email: eirini(a)unm.edu<mailto:eirini@unm.edu> Website: PROTON Lab<http://ece-research.unm.edu/tsiropoulou/index.html> PROTON Lab's News: @Tsiropoulou_EE<https://twitter.com/Tsiropoulou_EE> "Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach." ~ Aristotle ______________________________________________________________ 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] International Teletraffic Congress (ITC) 2021: virtual attendance
by Lars Wolf 24 Feb '21

24 Feb '21

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] International Teletraffic Congress (ITC) 2021: virtual attendance Datum: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 10:13:24 -0500 Von: Yuan Wu <iewuy(a)ZJUT.EDU.CN> Antwort an: Yuan Wu <iewuy(a)ZJUT.EDU.CN> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG **************************************************************************************** Call for Papers International Teletraffic Congress (ITC) 2021 33rd edition Tuesday Aug. 31 - Friday Sept. 3, 2021: Avignon, France Website: https://itc33.org **************************************************************************************** ** Papers receiving best paper awards of the conference will be invited for fast-track reviews by IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering. ** The 33 Edition of International Teletraffic Congress (ITC) taking place at the end of Summer 2021, and it is impossible to predict the situation in terms of the pandemic. We sincerely hope that by that time, we are able to travel and to meet up with friends and colleagues in person in Avignon. For now, we want to be open to the option for ITC to be an in-person event and we are proceeding with the plans for the conference under that assumption. However, we will grant virtual conference attendance to be possible as well for those unable or unwilling to travel by means of virtual attendance. The International Teletraffic Congress ITC 33, to be held during 31/08-03/09 2021, at the Avignon University, France, is the 33th edition of this international flagship congress in the field of networking science and practice. ITC was founded back in 1955 by enthusiastic scientists and engineers who were willing to deploy networks in a holistic way. Since then, it has established a multi-decade tradition as the primary forum for presenting and discussing the latest technical advances in the broad areas of teletraffic models, network systems, and measurements. ITC 33 focuses on the future networks taking advantage of 5G and artificial intelligence (AI), towards “AI-integrated Networks”. Indeed, service providers from all over the world are already reaping the benefits of integrating AI into their networks. For ITC 33, cutting-edge papers spanning both theory and experimentation are solicited in all areas of networking, ranging from traffic engineering and control with application also to emerging softwarized/virtualized network paradigms, up to innovative wireless scenarios brought about by the emergence of 5G and IoT systems. We especially encourage original contributions which bridge the gap between performance modeling and real-life operational aspects, including works which leverage measurement data to provide a better understanding of the wired and wireless networks operation under realistic conditions. ITC 33 solicits original contributions that address the latest changes and developments in design, modelling, measurement, and performance evaluation of communication systems, networks, and services. ITC 33 is structured into eight different areas. The objectives in these areas include, among others, energy-efficiency and green IT, network security and privacy, QoS and QoE, and resilience. The technical sessions will be structured around, but are not limited to, the following topics: • Performance Evaluation, Control and Optimization • Network Measurements and Big Data • Networking Architectures and Paradigms • Wireless and Cellular Networks • Data Center Networking for Cloud Computing Design and Operation • Software Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization • Networking for Edge and Fog Computing • Network Economics Besides the general submissions, ITC33 encourages submissions for the *Ph.D. workshop* and special sessions which will be detailed in the upcoming communications. Finally, ITC 33 will offer a number of *student travel grants* that will be available to support full-time students for attending the conference. A dedicated call for workshops will be detailed in the upcoming communications. The conference will feature a best paper award and a best student paper award. Papers receiving best paper awards of the conference will be invited for fast-track reviews by IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering. Important dates Friday April 2, 2021: Paper registration deadline Friday April 9, 2021: Submission deadline Monday May 31, 2021: Expected notification date Monday June 21, 2021: Camera-ready deadline Tuesday August 31 - Friday September 3, 2021: Conference dates For detailed information and deadlines, please check the website. Organization: General Chairs: Rachid Elazouzi (Avignon University, France) Carla Fabiana Chiasserini (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) TPC Chairs: Francesco de Pellegrini (Avignon University, France), Jianwei Huang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China) Bo Ji (Virginia Tech, USA) Workshop Chairs: Alhussein Abouzeid (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) Yonggang Wen (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Stefano Secci (Cnam, France) Special Session Chairs: Daniel Sadoc (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Francesco Restuccia (Northeastern University, USA) International Advisory Council Chair: Michela Meo (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) Local Chair: Tania Jimenez (Avignon University, France) Publication Chairs: Jocelyne Elias (University of Bologna, Italy) Lea Skorin-Kapov (University of Zagreb, Croatia) Publicity Chairs: Vijay Kample (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Fabio Martignon (University of Bergamo, Italy) Yuan Wu (University of Macau, China) Zhiyuan Wang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China) Awards Chairs: Prosper Chemouil (Orange Labs Networks, France) Web Chairs: Afaf Arfaoui (Avignon University, France) Francesco Malandrino (CNR, Italy) ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ACM TOIT SI on Recent Advances in Networks and Distributed Systems
by Lars Wolf 24 Feb '21

24 Feb '21

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ACM TOIT SI on Recent Advances in Networks and Distributed Systems Datum: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 03:58:39 -0800 Von: Mathias Fischer <mathias.fischer(a)ieee.org> Antwort an: mathias.fischer(a)ieee.org An: tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org Call for papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT) Special Issue on Recent Advances in Networks and Distributed Systems ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Scope --------- Several recent developments like the advent of the Internet-of-Things, network softwarization, mission-critical applications, and artificial intelligence have posed challenges for the Internet, and more generally for networks and distributed systems: (1: IoT) The Internet-of-Things will boost the number of Internet nodes well beyond the billions, leads to new traffic patterns (e.g., high-frequency low-volume), and accelerates the other developments described hereafter. (2: SDN++) Softwarization "conquers" the net. What has started with SDN and NFV will continue to lead to more flexibility and enable disruptive change, such as the competitive co-existence of old and new, e.g., content-centric, world-wide networks. As this softwarization significantly increases the complexity of today's networks, new and more security problems will result. Moreover, softwarization comes at a performance price, which is at odds with mission-critical, real-time communication. (3: MCA) Mission-critical applications, formerly confined to dedicated real-time systems and (TSN, industrial Ethernet, ...) networks, are conquering public and wide area networks. This impacts technologies and protocols (such as 5G URLLC) as well as architectures, such as approaches to move cloud functionality closer to the action scene, e.g., via fog and edge computing. (4: AI.net) The resurgence of AI, evoked by stunning successes of machine learning, boosts the need for computing resources that cannot be embedded in myriads of IoT devices and energy-critical handhelds like smartphones. This and the need for joint processing, requires shuffling 'big data' from the action scene to those resources, accelerating the need for offloading approaches and, depending on the application and the distribution of stakeholders, aggravating the three afore-mentioned challenges. These four challenges - abbreviated as IoT, SDN++, MCA, and AI - are densely interwoven, both mutually supporting and mutually aggravating each other. In the TOIT special issue, we bring together contributions to all four challenges and seek to track down their positive and negative interdependencies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: --------------------------------------------------- * Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and their application in, and impacts on, networking * Evolution from cloud computing to mobile cloud, fog and edge computing * Consistency, reliability, availability, and programming support for meeting the MCA challenge in networks * Contributions to the four challenges in context of cyber-physical systems * Emerging networked applications * Green and energy-efficient networks and networked systems * Information-centric networking, content distribution and retrieval, and their co-existence with classical networks * Network architectures and protocols * Approaches to the pertinent network security and privacy aspects * Methods for design, implementation, and analysis of networked systems considering the recent challenges and advances * Pertinent middleware architectures and platforms for networked systems * Pertinent concepts for mobile, ad-hoc, opportunistic, vehicular, sensor networks * Advancements to software-defined networking, network function virtualization, and further network softwarization * Reflection of recent challenges in SoA, web services, and mobile services * Advancements in social networks, social computing, data-intensive computing * Novel concepts for tactile and low-latency communication * Transport- and application-layer protocols in response to the four challenges Submission Instructions ----------------------- Please refer to http://toit.acm.org/authors.cfm for submission instructions. Submit your paper at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/acm/toit and select the SI “Recent Advances in Networks and Distributed Systems”. However, please be aware that the submission will not be possible until one month before the actual deadline. Important Dates --------------- * Manuscript submission: 31 March 2021 * First notification: 31 June 2021 * Revised version: 31 August 2021 * Final notification: 30 September 2021 * Final paper due: 15 October 2021 * Publication date: To be scheduled 2021/2022 Guest Editors ------------- * Prof. Jörg Liebherr, University of Toronto, Canada * Prof. Mathias Fischer, Universität Hamburg, Germany * Prof. Max Mühlhäuser, TU Darmstadt, Germany * Prof. Winfried Lamersdorf, Universität Hamburg, Germany Fur further information, please email mathias.fischer(a)ieee.org <https://drive.google.com/u/0/settings/storage?hl=de&utm_medium=web&utm_sour…> ______________________________________________________________ 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: Final CFP: The 4th Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking (EdgeSys'21) co-located with ACM EuroSys 2021
by Lars Wolf 24 Feb '21

24 Feb '21

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: Final CFP: The 4th Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking (EdgeSys'21) co-located with ACM EuroSys 2021 Datum: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 11:59:59 +0100 Von: Matthew Danish <mrd45(a)CAM.AC.UK> Antwort an: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call.) This is the final call for papers. ----------------------------------------------- The 4th International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking (EdgeSys'21) co-located with EuroSys 2021 26 April, 2021 | Edinburgh, Scotland, UK https://edge-sys.github.io/2021/ ----------------------------------------------- Given the growing demand for real-time gathering and processing of vast amount of data from data-intensive services such as autonomous driving and augmented reality (AR), we are witnessing a visible trend to push computing and data analytics closer to the edge of networks for benefits in low latency, reliability, throughput, security and privacy. Supported by lightweight virtualization technologies such as Docker Containers and Unikernels, the decentralized edge computing paradigm aims to offer efficient access to various geographically distributed computing resources. In this context, the EdgeSys workshop focuses on the confluence of edge computing, decentralized communication and distributed computing. For example, there are several industry-led edge computing and orchestration platforms such as KubeEdge, Firecracker, and Azure Sphere. In the decentralized communication space, systems such as Mastodon and Matrix have been developed. There are also lots of academic research activities on mobile data and computation offloading (e.g., Cloudlet, Talket, ThinkAir, MAUI, and MADNet) and systems that combine decentralization and computation/storage offloading together, such as IPFS. In addition, as data analytics and machine learning are increasingly offered as a service, the next phase of evolution is to extend the offerings beyond basic algorithms and push the analytics closer to the edge where the data from users and devices is first captured. In this regard, edge computing has the potential to enable a new class of real-time data analytics platforms and services. We expect such edge-driven data analytics will emerge and reshape the existing cloud-based data processing pipelines. The knowledge from this new edge pipeline can further power future cyber-physical and network services, such as cognitive assistance and proactive accident prevention for autonomous driving. The 4th International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking (EdgeSys'21), in conjunction with ACM EuroSys 2021, aims to bring together system researchers, data scientists, engineers and practitioners to identify open directions and discuss the latest research ideas and results on edge systems, analytics and networking, especially those related to novel and emerging technologies and use cases. The EdgeSys'21 workshop focuses on systems, analytics and networking aspects, covering system architecture, distributed ML algorithms, decentralized networking, distributed consensus and ledger techniques, edge services and data analysis. Over the past three years, EdgeSys has been gathering substantial community contributions in edge computing domain - especially with high quality TPC, keynotes, panel and technical papers from US, Europe, and Asia, including Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft Research, Intel, IBM, Nokia, Samsung, Toyota, Telefonica, MIT, Berkeley, Columbia, Yale, UCLA, Cambridge, Imperial, EPFL, TU Delft, MPI, TUM, Tsinghua, Peking and Fudan. The topics include but are not limited to the following: - System Architecture for Edge Computing - Serverless and In-network Computing (P4) - Edge Storage Systems - Edge-driven Data Analytics - Distributed Machine Learning for Edge Analytics and Services - Edge Security and Privacy - Lightweight Virtualization for Edge Computing - Distributed Consensus Algorithms and Ledger Technologies - Infrastructure and Toolkit for Edge Computing and Analytics - System Performance and Measurement - Edge Networking and IoT Communications - (Autonomous) Management of Edge Systems - TinyML for Edge Systems - Machine Learning for Edge Networking - Security and Trust Management Keynote Speakers: Volker Hilt (Nokia Bell Labs, Germany) Eyal de Lara (University of Toronto, Canada) Workshop & TPC Chairs: Aaron Ding (TU Delft, Netherlands) Richard Mortier (University of Cambridge, UK) Steering Committee: Jon Crowcroft (University of Cambridge, UK) Henning Schulzrinne (Columbia University, USA) Steve Uhlig (Queen Mary University of London, UK) Dirk Kutscher (Hochschule Emden, Germany) Dieter Kranzlmuller (University of Munich | LRZ, Germany) Peter Pietzuch (Imperial College London, UK) Technical Program Committee: Babak Alipour (Apple, USA) Jari Arkko (Ericsson, Finland) Antonio Barbalace (University of Edinburgh, UK) Yang Chen (Fudan University, China) Claudio Cicconetti (IIT-CNR, Italy) Nigel Davies (Lancaster University, UK) Ferran Diego (Telefónica Research, Spain) Lars Eggert (NetApp, Finland) Bryan Ford (EPFL, Switzerland) James Gross (KTH, Sweden) Paola Grosso (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Geert Heijenk (University of Twente, Netherlands) Wenjun Hu (Yale University, USA) Junchen Jiang (University of Chicago, USA) Sven Karlsson (DTU, Denmark) Matthias Kovatsch (Huawei Research, Germany) Shen Li (Facebook, USA) Grace Liu (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Jonathan Mace (Max Planck Institute, Germany) Iqbal Mohomed (Samsung AI, Canada) Roberto Morabito (Princeton University, USA) Shadi Noghabi (Microsoft Research, USA) Jörg Ott (TU Munich, Germany) Ingmar Poese (BENOCS, Germany) Qifan Pu (Google, USA) Eve Schooler (Intel, USA) Pieter Simoens (imec - Ghent University, Belgium) Georgios Smaragdakis (TU Berlin, Germany) Burkhard Stiller (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Nikolay Tcholtchev (Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany) Alex Uta (Leiden University, Netherlands) Shiqiang Wang (IBM, USA) Martijn Warnier (TU Delft, Netherlands) Chenren Xu (Peking University, China) Ennan Zhai (Alibaba, USA) Fusang Zhang (Chinese Academy of Science, China) Publicity Chair: Matthew Danish (University of Cambridge, UK) Web Chair: Wiebke Toussaint (TU Delft, Netherlands) Submission Guidelines: ------------ Authors are encouraged to submit papers describing original and unpublished research, not currently under review in other venues. In particular, innovative, early-stage ideas and preliminary results are welcome. Papers must be submitted electronically as PDF files, formatted for 8.5x11-inch paper. The length of the paper must be no more than 6 pages in the ACM double-column format (10-pt font), including references and everything. The authors are suggested to use the ACM Master article template. The reviews will be single-blind. The first page must contain an abstract, the name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s), as well as the corresponding contact information. Each submission will receive independent, blind peer reviews from the program committee. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. At least one of the authors of every accepted paper must register and present the paper at the workshop. The program committee will select one paper for the Best Paper Award. Authors of accepted papers will have the option to fast-track their paper for consideration by the new diamond open-access Journal of Systems Research (JSys, https://escholarship.org/uc/jsys/cfp). This will cause a JSys submission placeholder to be created and the EdgeSys reviews to be forwarded. Authors will then be expected to provide an extended copy of their accepted EdgeSys paper for consideration by the JSys reviewers within 6 months, or their paper will be removed from consideration under the fast-track to JSys. For more information about this process, please contact the JSys Area Editor for Edge Systems, Richard Mortier <richard.mortier(a)cl.cam.ac.uk>. Submission deadline: 26 February 2021 Acceptance notification: 26 March 2021 Camera-ready: 5 April 2021 Workshop date: 26 April 2021 Submission Link: https://edgesys21.hotcrp.com/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE NewNets 2021 Call for Papers
by Lars Wolf 24 Feb '21

24 Feb '21

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE NewNets 2021 Call for Papers Datum: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 08:25:27 +0100 Von: oana iova <oana.iova(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: oana iova <oana.iova(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers 3rd IEEE Workshop on Emerging Technologies and Trends in Engineering Low-Power Networks (NewNets - co-located with IEEE WoWMoM) June 7, 2021 - Pisa, Italy http://wowmom2021.iit.cnr.it/workshops/newnets-2021/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AIMS AND SCOPE A founding pillar of the IoT concept is the availability of low-cost low-power devices with wireless technologies providing both sensing and actuation. In the past decade, the research community has produced proven solutions to build low-power mesh networks. Traditionally, the focus has been on short-range radio communication (e.g., ZigBee, Bluetooth, ZWave). An appealing alternative that have gained momentum in the IoT landscape is to equip the nodes with long-range radio modules. As a result, long-range radio communication technologies (e.g., SigFox, LoRa, and 802.15.4g) are considered as candidate technologies for many low-power wide area network (LPWAN) applications, especially those that require extended coverage such as citywide sensing, environmental monitoring, or remote infrastructure monitoring. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in the field of IoT from both academia and industry, to discuss and explore short- and long-range solutions, the tradeoffs between these two paradigms, as well as how they can be used in synergy. In order to push the state of the art, several points need to be addressed: new features for the long-range technologies (i.e., over-the-air updates, roaming), radio resource management, regulations and policies on spectrum usage and sharing, business case analysis that are more well suited for certain vertical markets. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - protocol design - hardware platform design - modelling and analysis of low-power short or/and long-range communication - reliability, adaptability, and dependability of short and long-range communication solutions - new features for the long-range technologies (i.e., over-the-air updates, roaming) - wake-up radios for short- or/and long-range technologies - radio resource management - applications domains (e.g., smart cities, smart health, smart buildings, smart transportation) - anomaly detection - security solutions - deployment experiences, case studies, and lessons learned - evaluation and testbeds; - regulations and policies on spectrum usage and sharing - business case analysis that is more well suited for certain vertical markets. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Submitted papers must contain between 4 and 6 single spaced U.S. letter pages, including all figures, tables, and references. All submissions must be written in English. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: March, 1, 2021 Author notification: April 1, 2021 Camera ready deadline: April 20, 2021 WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Anca Hangan, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania Oana Iova, INSA Lyon, France Ramona Marfievici, Digital Catapult, UK TPC MEMBERS Victor Cionca, Munster Technological University, Ireland Alexis Duque, Rtone, France Bela Genge, UMPhST Targu Mures, Romania Timofei Istomin, University of Trento, Italy Gaia Maselli, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy Konstantin Mikhaylov, University of Oulu, Finland Gheorghe Sebestyen Pal, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania Nancy El Rachkidy, Polytech'Clermont, France Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, University of New Mexico, USA Dimitrios Zorbas, Tyndall National Institute, Cork, Ireland --------------------------- Oana IOVA Associate Professor, INSA Lyon, INRIA Agora research group Head of International Relations, Telecommunications Department http://perso.citi.insa-lyon.fr/oiova/ +33 (0)4 72 43 62 82 ______________________________________________________________ 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 SenSys2021 Call For Papers
by Lars Wolf 23 Feb '21

23 Feb '21

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Ricardo Rabelo <rrabelo(a)GMAIL.COM> Gesendet: 23. Februar 2021 11:20:10 MEZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ACM SenSys2021 Call For Papers ========================== ACM SenSys2021 Call For Papers ========================== The ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2021) is the premier computer systems conference focused on the architecture, design, implementation, and performance of networked sensing systems, sensor-oriented data modeling and analytics, and sensor-enabled applications. ACM SenSys brings together academic, industry, and government professionals to a single-track, highly selective forum that takes a broad view on the areas of computing relevant to the future of networked embedded sensor systems. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to, the following: - New platforms and hardware designs for networked sensor systems - New communication paradigms for ubiquitous connectivity - Low-power wireless media access control, network, and transport protocol designs - Systems software, including operating systems, network stacks, and programming - System services such as time and location estimation - Low-power operation, energy harvesting, and energy management - Resource-efficient machine learning for embedded and mobile platforms - Mobile and pervasive systems with elements of networked sensing - Data management and analytics, including quality, integrity, and trustworthiness - Learning algorithms and models for perception, understanding, and adaptation - Heterogeneous collaborative sensing, including human-robot sensor systems - Security and privacy in networked sensor applications and systems - Fault-tolerance, dependability, and verification - Applications and deployment experiences We invite technical papers describing original ideas, groundbreaking results, and real-world experiences involving innovative networked embedded sensor systems. Successful submissions will explain why the topic is relevant to a vision of the future of sensing systems. Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, clarity, relevance, and correctness. Important Dates Paper Registration and Abstract: May 28, 2021, 23:59 AoE Paper Submission: June 4, 2021, 23:59 AoE Notification of Paper Acceptance: September 8, 2021 Submission Guidelines Submitted papers must be unpublished and must not be currently under review for any other publication. Submissions must be full papers, at most 12 single-spaced 8.5” x 11” pages with 9-pt font size in two-column format, including figures and tables. As for references, submissions may include as many pages as needed. All submissions must use the LaTeX (preferred) or Word styles found here. LaTeX submissions should use the acmart.cls template (sigconf option), with the default 9-pt font. This format will be used also for the camera-ready version of accepted papers. Authors must make a good faith effort to anonymize their submissions. Papers that do not meet the size, formatting, and anonymization requirements will not be reviewed. We require each paper to be in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) and submitted through the conference submission system. Papers that describe experiments on human subjects, or that analyze nonpublic data derived from human subjects (even anonymized data), should briefly describe how the research protocol addresses ethical considerations and whether their work was vetted by an ethics review (e.g., IRB approval). We expect authors to follow the rules of their host institutions around data collection and experiments with human subjects. Accepted submissions will be available on the ACM digital library at most two weeks before the conference. Please visit: https://sensys.acm.org/2021/ <http://sensys2021.dei.uc.pt/> Organization General Chairs: Jorge Sá Silva (University of Coimbra), Fernando Boavida (University of Coimbra) General Vice-Chair: André Rodrigues (Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra) Program chairs: Rong Zheng (McMaster University), Andrew Markham (University of Oxford) ______________________________________________________________ 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 Transactions on Industrial Informatics - CFP for Special Issue on Security and Privacy of Federated Learning Solutions for Industrial IoT Applications
by Lars Wolf 23 Feb '21

23 Feb '21

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics - CFP for Special Issue on Security and Privacy of Federated Learning Solutions for Industrial IoT Applications Datum: Tue, 23 Feb 2021 08:55:44 +0000 Von: Mohammad Shojafar <000001b9a6b6a75b-dmarc-request(a)COMSOC-LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG> Antwort an: Mohammad Shojafar <m.shojafar(a)SURREY.AC.UK> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG **Apologies for cross postings. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics Special Issue on “Security and Privacy of Federated Learning Solutions for Industrial IoT Applications” Submission Deadline: 30 June 2021 Link: http://www.ieee-ies.org/images/files/tii/ss/2021/Security_and_Privacy_of_Fe… *************** Call for Paper Industrial Internet of Things typically consists of several thousands of heterogeneous devices, such as sensors, actuators, access points, machinery, end-user's hand held equipment, and supply chain. In such industrial environment, multitude of data is generated from massive IoT devices, e.g., sensors for monitoring environment, reading temperature, and gauging pressure. Most of data is from delay-sensitive and computation intensive applications, such as real-time manufacturing and automated diagnostics, which require big data analytics with low latency. Machine learning has been witnessed as an efficient solution for big data analytics. The majority of such ML algorithms are centralized methods, meaning that they first gather data from different users for use as a training dataset, which is placed on the ML server, and then build a model to classify new data samples by applying ML algorithms to this training dataset. However, the access to these datasets in centralized ML methods raises concerns about data privacy for users. To address a part of these issues, federated learning (FL) was designed to protect data privacy. In FL, each participant uses a global training model, without needing to upload their private data to a third-party server. Compared with conventional ML, FL can preserve data security, especially in terms of participant data during the learning process. FL can also help in updating server side data for the global model, and the participant is not required to provide their data. However, in FL, individual computing units may show abnormal actions, for example due to faulty software, hardware invasions, unreliable communication channels, malicious samples deliberately craft the model. To mitigate these challenges, we require robust policies to control the learning phases in FL. Motivated by the above issues, this special section solicits original research and practical contributions which advance security and privacy of federated learning solutions for industrial IoT applications. Results obtained by simulations must be validated in bounds by experiments or analytical results. Surveys and state-of-the-art tutorials are also considered. This special section will focus on (but not limited to) the following topics: * Privacy preserving and security approaches for large scale analytics in IIoT * Hardware-Level Attack and Defense in Federated Learning for IIoT * Determining appropriate security measures in response to risk assessments in Federated Learning for IIoT * Data-Centric Security in Federated Learning for IIoT * Finding and evaluating vulnerabilities that threats might exploit in Federated Learning for IIoT * Privacy and trust challenges associated with federated learning in IIoT * Resilient decision making under security and privacy constraints in Federated Learning for IIoT * Validation of security and privacy protection methods in real-world applications ************ Submission Guidelines Follow the guidelines in “Information for Authors” in the IEEE Transaction on Industrial Informatics http://www.ieee-ies.org/pubs/transactions-on-industrial-informatics . Please submit your manuscript in electronic form through Manuscript Central web site: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tii . On the submitting page #1 in popup menu of manuscript type, select: SS on Security and Privacy of Federated Learning Solutions for Industrial IoT Applications Submissions to this Special Section must represent original material that has been neither submitted to, nor published in, any other journal. Regular manuscript length is 8 pages. Note: The recommended papers for the section are subject to final approval by the Editor-in-Chief. Some papers may be published outside the special section, at the EIC discretion. ************ Important Dates Manuscript Submission Deadline: 30 June 2021 Publication Date: January 2022 ************* Guest Editors Dr. Mohammad Shojafar, University of Surrey, UK Email: m.shojafar(a)surrey.ac.uk Dr. Mithun Mukherjee, Nanjing University of Inf.Sci. &Tech., China Email: mithun(a)nuist.edu.cn Prof. Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy Email: vincenzo.piuri(a)unimi.it Prof. Jemal Abawajy, University of Deakin, Australia Email: jemal.abawajy(a)deakin.edu.au ______________________________________________________________ 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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