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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Elsevier COMNET Special Issue on "The Big Data Era in IoT-enabled Smart Farming: Re-defining Systems, Tools, and Techniques" - Deadline: April 30
by Lars Wolf 09 Apr '19

09 Apr '19

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Elsevier COMNET Special Issue on "The Big Data Era in IoT-enabled Smart Farming: Re-defining Systems, Tools, and Techniques" - Deadline: April 30 Datum: Tue, 9 Apr 2019 05:45:29 -0400 Von: Thomas Lagkas <tlagkas(a)IEEE.ORG> Antwort an: Thomas Lagkas <tlagkas(a)IEEE.ORG> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Please accept our apologies for cross-posting ------------------------------------------------------- *Call For Papers* Special Issue (Computer Networks Journal - Elsevier) "The Big Data Era in IoT-enabled Smart Farming: Re-defining Systems, Tools, and Techniques" (BD-IoTFarm) *SI Website* https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-networks/call-for-papers/big-dat… *Important dates* Paper submission: April 30, 2019 Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2019 Final revision: August 15, 2019 Publication date: Quarter 3, 2019 The continuous generation of data from multiple sources has created numerous opportunities in different domains including agriculture. However, the state of the art in Smart Farming should be redefined and revisited since new technologies and tools are coming in the agriculture domain bringing novel and innovative paths for improving the resilience and the efficiency of agriculture. Smart Farming has started to be materialized and not being simply a vague futuristic concept, as different fields such as image processing and machine learning have found a prosperous area of application. Apart from the technical aspects that Smart Farming presents, it also affects the agricultural sector beyond the conventional farming activities, influencing a series of dependent industries, such as food supply chains, weather and climate change, natural resources management and environmental impact. New and various technologies have invaded the agricultural sector as they can offer new and unprecedented opportunities. Smart Farming uses a combination of technological advances, such as sensors, drones, variable-rate application machinery, satellite navigation and positioning technology, and the Internet of Things (IoT), among others. All the aforementioned technologies produce a massive amount of data capable of changing the current status of the agriculture sector, but a series of effective actions have to be developed and established for their efficient exploitation. The Big Data era has arrived for the agriculture sector reflecting its changes to a numerous of research fields. The incorporation and the usage of Geographic Information System (GIS) in the agriculture sector takes place for at least a decade as well as the adoption of sensors for monitoring reasons. Furthermore, driven by advanced GIS technologies, emerging image processing techniques adopt neural networks and deep learning approaches for providing new areas of application in the field of computer vision. Tasks such as crop identification and weed discrimination have become easier than ever thanks to the state-of-the-art classification algorithms. Apart from the advantages image processing techniques offer in the field of agriculture, other related areas have significantly benefited as well. Land mapping, insurance of animal feed quality, weather and climate change studies, grassland identification and earth observation are some of the areas where image processing techniques and algorithms have been successfully applied. The farm industry and Smart Farming expand from the strict limits of the farm location and affect a series of related fields, such as supply chain management, food availability, biodiversity, farmers’ decision making and insurance, environmental studies and various Earth sciences among others. All of the aforementioned fields have significant benefits when they follow a data-driven approach under the condition that the used systems, tools and techniques that will be used have been designed to handle the volume and foremost the variety of the data. Often, smart farming systems are running on unmonitored areas, due to which any attempted or successful breaches go unreported. Worse, since this sector is traditionally not cybersecurity aware, security and privacy by design is not incorporated into the solution requirements. For example, security attacks are feasible by gaining access to irrigation control systems of either a plant or a farm. In the most cases, IoT devices and systems can be manipulated and personal data can be disclosed without the farmer knowing. Even worse, adversaries can gain access to other connected third-party systems, e.g., energy, administration and irrigation systems. This Special Issue seeks to make an in-depth, critical contribution to this evolving field of agriculture in the era of Big Data. We therefore aim to bring together the state-of-the-art research contributions towards providing new insights in the application and benefits of the emerging methods and technologies in the Big Data-driven agriculture sector. The topics that can be addressed include (but are not limited to) the following ones. *Systems* - Cloud- and edge-based systems in smart farming. - Management of heterogeneous Big Data in smart farming. - Crop models and decision support systems in smart farming. - Study of man-machine dialogue systems. - Data-driven methods for anomaly detection, diagnosis, and prognosis. - Role of Big Data in sustainable agriculture. - Big data innovation in sustainable agriculture. - Environmental Big Data integration. - Smart Farming and its application in Big Data processing. - Big data in agricultural disaster management. - Cyber threats and anomaly detection in smart farming. - Data privacy preserving systems in smart farming. - Deep packet inspection in security systems for Smart Farming applications. *Tools* - IoT tools and techniques for sustainable agriculture. - Emerging tools for precision agriculture. - Big data analysis tools and machine learning techniques in Smart Farming tools. - Big data online stream processing for precision agriculture and Smart Farming - Machine learning applications in improving Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in Smart Farming. - Statistical analysis and modeling in Smart Farming applications. - Geospatial analysis in Smart Farming applications. - Advanced image processing techniques and applications in the agricultural domain. - Spectral matching tools in Smart Farming. - Intrusion detection tools. - Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools for smart farming monitoring. *Techniques* - Modern GIS and remote sensing techniques in agriculture. - Classification and change detection of cultivated land. - Data mining and statistical issues in precision agriculture. - Intelligent computational techniques in precision agriculture. - Knowledge discovery in agriculture databases. - Cloud-enabled techniques and in-the-field integration for sustainable agriculture. - Network-based analysis in Smart Farming. - Trust-enabling techniques and methods. - Blockchain techniques for ensuring trust amongst IoT devices in Smart Farming. - Network forensics techniques for Smart Farming applications. *Guest Editors* - Dr. Panagiotis Sarigiannidis: Assistant Professor in the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications Department of University of Western Macedonia, Kozani, Greece - Dr. Thomas Lagkas: Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of The University of Sheffield International Faculty - CITY College, Thessaloniki, Greece - Dr. Konstantinos Rantos: Associate Professor at the Department of Computer and Informatics Engineering at Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Institute of Technology, Kavala, Greece - Dr. Paolo Bellavista: Full Professor of distributed and mobile systems at DISI - UNIBO, Bologna, 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: CfP: ACM ICN, Deadline May 10
by Lars Wolf 08 Apr '19

08 Apr '19

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP: ACM ICN, Deadline May 10 Datum: Mon, 8 Apr 2019 10:35:47 +0200 Von: Matthias Waehlisch <m.waehlisch(a)FU-BERLIN.DE> 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 ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking 2019 Hong Kong, SAR China, September 24-26, 2019 https://conferences.sigcomm.org/acm-icn/2019/ Call for Papers **Please note the revised and broadened scope of ACM ICN 2019.** ACM ICN 2019 is a single-track conference focusing on significant research contributions to ICN as broadly defined, and featuring paper presentations, posters, and demonstrations. Previous successful research results have brought Information-Centric Networking concepts from early-stage academic effort to an increasingly sophisticated level of intellectual, technical, and practical maturity, offering the real promise of dramatic and tangible impact across the broad field of networking in the foreseeable future. ACM ICN 2019 solicits research contributions across the full spectrum of objectives motivated by this observation, including work that advances core ICN concepts, technologies, and capabilities; extends current ICN concepts to new networking environments and use cases; realizes, demonstrates, and quantifies the benefits of ICN in traditional and emerging application domains; and catalyzes, incentivizes, simplifies, and supports ICN deployments in realistic, operational environments and settings. ACM ICN 2019 seeks research contributions across the following topic areas: (1) Core ICN research Research that advances key ICN concepts, algorithms, technologies, and capabilities. (2) Network Measurement, Characterization, and Instrumentation Research focused on tools and methodologies for measuring, characterizing, and instrumenting current and future ICN networks. (3) Use Cases and Applications Research that advances the use of ICN networking to support current and emerging applications. (4) Deployment, Operations, and Real-World Considerations Research that explores incentives, paths, and obstacles for ICN transition from research to widespread deployment, and research that addresses challenges unique to large-scale and commercially motivated ICN deployments. For further details and a full version of this CfP, please refer to the conference website https://conferences.sigcomm.org/acm-icn/2019/. Submission Details The conference solicits both full (10 pages) and short papers (6 pages). Submissions will be reviewed through a double-blind process, and evaluated on the basis of intellectual merit, originality, importance of contribution, soundness and strength of evaluation (for full papers), quality and clarity of presentation, and appropriate comparison to related work. Further details are available at https://conferences.sigcomm.org/acm-icn/2019/cf-papers.php Important Dates * Paper Registration Deadline (HARD DEADLINE): May 3, 2019 * Paper Submission Deadline (HARD DEADLINE): May 10, 2019 * Acceptance Notification: July 24, 2019 * Camera-ready Papers Due: August 23, 2019 * Conference: September 24-26, 2019 Organizing Committee General Chairs Jun Bi (Tsinghua University) Xiaohua Jia (City University of Hong Kong) K. K. Ramakrishnan (University of California, Riverside) TPC Chairs John Wroclawski (ISI) Ioannis Psaras (University College London) Local Chairs Victor Lee City (University of Hong Kong) Kai Lei (Peking University (Shen Zhen) Hong Xu (City University of Hong Kong) Publicity Chairs Alex Afanasyev (Florida International University) Matthias Wählisch (Freie Universität Berlin) Dan Wang (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Web Chair Zhenjiang Li (City University of Hong Kong) Treasurer and Registration Chair Cong Wang (City University of Hong Kong) Tutorial Chair Beichuan Zhang (University of Arizona) Poster/Demo Chair Jay Misra (New Mexico State University) Publications Chair Tian Song (Beijing Institute of Technology) Travel Grant Chairs Yuki Koizumi (Osaka University) Karen Sollins (MIT) Steering Committee Liaison Dave Oran (MIT Media Lab) Technical Program Committee Alex Afanasyev (Florida International University, USA) Hitoshi Asaeda (NICT, Japan) Kenneth Calvert (University of Kentucky, USA) Giovanna Carofiglio (Cisco Systems, France) Toru Hasegawa (Osaka University, Japan) Jungha Hong (ETRI, Korea) Jussi Kangasharju (University of Helsinki, Finland) Dirk Kutscher (University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer, Germany) Bruce Maggs (Duke University & Akamai, US) Luca Muscariello (Cisco Systems, France) Börje Ohlman (Ericsson, Sweden) Dave Oran (Network Systems Research & Design, USA) Jörg Ott (Technische Universität München, Germany) Craig Partridge (Colorado State University, USA) George Polyzos (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece) Ioannis Psaras (UCL, UK) Thomas Schmidt (HAW Hamburg, Germany) George Smaragdakis (Technical University Berlin, Germany) Karen Sollins (MIT, USA) Atsushi Tagami (KDDI Research, Japan) Christian Tschudin (University of Basel, Switzerland) Arun Venkataramani (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA) John Wroclawski, ISI George Xylomenos (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece) Lixia Zhang (UCLA, USA) Beichuan Zhang (University of Arizona, USA)

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics Special Section on "Security and Privacy in Industry 4.0"
by Lars Wolf 08 Apr '19

08 Apr '19

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics Special Section on "Security and Privacy in Industry 4.0" Datum: Mon, 8 Apr 2019 08:48:10 +0200 Von: Guest Editor <si.journal.ge(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Guest Editor <si.journal.ge(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG *** Apologies for multiple copies *** ================================================================================ C a l l F o r P a p e r s IEEE TRANSACTION ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS Special Section: Security and Privacy in Industry 4.0 URL: http://www.ieee-ies.org/images/files/tii/ss/2019/Security_and_Privacy_in_In… ================================================================================ Industries, governments and scientific communities are increasingly drawing a special attention to competitive advantages that Industry 4.0 can bring about business sustainability and economy of a country. The tendency to couple the Information Technologies (ITs) with the existing Operational Technologies (OTs) adds new opportunities to improve and optimize operational processes, products and services in which multiple stakeholders [4], among them, end-users, can interact with the new industrial ecosystems to speed up and customize processes. In this sense, Industry 4.0 constitutes a relevant investment source composed of a complex technological showcase in which multiple connections and accesses can arise, seriously impacting on the well performance of the different production and distribution chains associated with smart factories and manufacturing, smart grid systems, smart vehicles or smart health environments. This way of connecting entities with the “smart world” and the interconnection of different Industry 4.0 domains based on the new paradigms and heterogeneous technologies such as Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) or edge computing infrastructures (cloud/fog computing systems), certainly, opens the door to coexistence problems and novel exploitations. Diverse vulnerabilities and risks may significantly grow according to the new adaptations and the participation of stakeholders, generating a need to further research protection issues required to safeguard the operational processes and ensure a secure and resilient and dependable cohesion between IT and OT systems, including physical entities. For this reason, industries, governments and scientific communities are increasingly drawing a special attention to competitive advantages that Industry 4.0 can bring about business sustainability and economy of a country. The tendency to couple the ITs with the existing Operational Technologies (OTs) adds new opportunities to improve and optimize operational processes, products and services in which multiple stakeholders [4], among them, end-users, can interact with the new industrial ecosystems to speed up and customize processes. In this sense, Industry 4.0 constitutes a relevant investment source composed of a complex technological showcase in which multiple connections and accesses can arise, seriously impacting on the well performance of the different production and distribution chains associated with smart factories and manufacturing, smart grid systems, smart vehicles or smart health environments. The aim of this special issue is therefore to bring together researchers from diverse interdisciplinary areas of computing and security to cover, from a holistic point of view, the topics related to secure coupling of the new ITs with operational networks, without discarding aspects on privacy. This special section will focus on (but not limited to) the following topics: • Security and privacy analysis and requirements in Industry 4.0 • Secure management and governance of Industry 4.0 operational services and systems • Vulnerabilities and risk assessment in manufacturing and automation systems • Advanced threat models, cyber-crime or cyber-espionage for Industry 4.0 • Dependable and secure Industry 4.0 architectures by design • Lightweight cryptography and key management in Industry 4.0 • Identity management and access control for Industry 4.0 domains • Secure interoperability, mobility and coexistence between systems, including users • Prevention, awareness and resilience models for Industry 4.0 advanced threats • Secure context management and accountability for Industry 4.0 domains • Data preservation and privacy models for Industry 4.0 • Trust management and trusted computing models for Industry 4.0. • Secure cloud/fog-assisted manufacturing and predictive maintenance services ---------------- Important Dates ---------------- * Deadline for manuscript submissions June 30, 2019 * Expected publication date (tentative) November 2019 ---------------------------- Paper 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 in Industry 4.0 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. -------------- Guest Editors -------------- • Prof. Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain - alcaraz(a)lcc.uma.es • Prof. Yan Zhang, University of Oslo, Norway - yanzhang(a)ieee.org • Prof. Alvaro Cardenas, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA - alacarde(a)ucsc.edu • Prof. Liehuang Zhu, Beijing University of Technology, China - liehuangz(a)bit.edu.cn ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP PE-WASUN 2019
by Lars Wolf 06 Apr '19

06 Apr '19

Anfang der weitergeleiteten Nachricht: > Von: "leticia.lemux" <leticia.lemux(a)ENTEL.UPC.EDU> > Datum: 6. April 2019 um 09:47:51 MESZ > An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG > Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP PE-WASUN 2019 > Antwort an: "leticia.lemux" <leticia.lemux(a)ENTEL.UPC.EDU> > > > > **************************************************************** > > > Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this > Call for Papers > > > **************************************************************** > > C a > l l F o r P a p e r s > > ACM* PE-WASUN 2019 > > 16th ACM* International > Symposium on Performance Evaluation of > Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and > Ubiquitous Networks > (Jointly with the 22nd ACM MSWiM Conference) > > Miami > Beach. FL, USA > > November 25th- 29th, 2019 > > ********************** > > > Scope > > ********************** > > Wireless ad hoc, sensor, along with > ubiquitous networks have recently witnessed their fastest growth period > ever in history, and this trend is likely to continue for the > foreseeable future. However, as such networks become increasingly > complex, performance modelling and evaluation will play a crucial part > in their design process to ensure their successful deployment and > exploitation in practice. > > This symposium will bring together > scientists, engineers, and practitioners to share and exchange their > experiences, discuss challenges, and report state-of-the-art and > in-progress research on all aspects of wireless ad hoc, sensor, and > ubiquitous networks with a specific emphasis on their performance > evaluation and analysis. > > Topics of interest include, but are not > limited to: > > * > > Predictive performance models of ad hoc, sensor, and > ubiquitous networks. > > * > > Probabilistic models for ad hoc, sensor and > ubiquitous networks. > > * > > Queuing and network information theoretic > analysis > > * > > Analytical modeling and simulation methods > > * > > > Automatic performance analysis > > * > > Tracing and trace analysis > > > * > > Software tools for network performance and evaluation > > * > > > Performance measurement, evaluation and monitoring tools for ad hoc, > sensor and ubiquitous networks > > * > > Case studies demonstrating the > role of performance evaluation in the design of ad hoc, sensor and > ubiquitous networks > > * > > Network performance improvement through > optimization and tuning > > * > > Mobility modeling and management > > * > > > Traffic models for ad hoc, sensor networks > > * > > Performance > evaluation of wireless mesh networks > > * > > Performance evaluation of > pervasive and ubiquitous networks > > * > > Performance evaluation of > VANETs > > * > > Performance of wireless and sensor devices > > * > > > Performance of spectrum agile and cognitive wireless sensor networks > > > * > > Analysis of multimedia applications over wireless ad-hoc and > sensor networks > > * > > Performance of pervasive computing and services > > > * > > Analysis of mobile cloud networking and computing > > * > > > Performance of continuity of service over heterogeneous networks, > seamless connectivity > > * > > Analysis of security and privacy in ad hoc > networks and ubiquitous networks > > * > > Simulation methods, performance > and analysis > > * > > Real experimentation, deployments, open platforms > > > GENERAL CHAIR > > Mónica Aguilar Igartua [1] Universitat Politècnica de > Catalunya, Spain (monica.aguilar(a)upc.edu) > > PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS > > Luis de > la Cruz Llopis [2] Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain > (luis.delacruz(a)upc.edu) > > Ahmad Mohamad Mezher [3] University of New > Brunswick, Canada (ahmad.mezher(a)unb.ca) > > POSTER/DEMO/TOOLS/WEB > CHAIR > > Juan Pablo Astudillo León [4] Universitat Politècnica de > Catalunya, Spain (juan.pablo.astudillo(a)upc.edu) > > PUBLICITY > CHAIR > > Leticia Lemus [5] Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain > (leticia.lemux(a)entel.upc.edu) > > PROGRAM COMMITTEE > MEMBERS > > http://www-entel.upc.edu/monica.aguilar/PEWASUN2019/committees.html > [6] > > ******************* > > Paper Submission > > ****************** > > > Authors are invited to submit their papers through EasyChair on > the > following link: > https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pewasun2019 [7] > > The length > of the papers should not exceed 8 single-spaced pages > (in two-column > format), ACM style including tables and figures. A template > for ACM SIG > Proceedings style (LaTeX2e and MS Word) can be found at > > > https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template [8] > Accepted > papers will appear in the ACM symposium proceedings. > > The authors of > accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be > presented at the > Symposium. At least one author of each accepted paper > must be registered > for the symposium, in order for that paper to appear > in the proceedings > and to be scheduled for presentation. > > ***************** > > Important > Dates > > ******************* > > Full paper due: June 10th, 2019 > Acceptance > notification: July 10th, 2019 > Camera ready due: TBA > Speaker Author > Registration: TBA > Symposium: November 25th - 29th, 2019 - Jointly with > MSWiM'19 > > We hope to see you in Miami. > Yours sincerely, > > PE-WASUN 2019 > Committee > > > Links: > ------ > [1] > http://www-entel.upc.edu/monica.aguilar/ > [2] > https://futur.upc.edu/LuisJavierdelaCruzLlopis > [3] > https://sites.google.com/site/ahmadmezher1982/ > [4] > https://sites.google.com/site/juanastudilloupc/home > [5] > https://sites.google.com/view/leticialemus/ > [6] > http://www-entel.upc.edu/monica.aguilar/PEWASUN2019/committees.html > [7] > https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pewasun2019 > [8] > https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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] SIMULATION MODELLING PRACTICE AND THEORY SPECIAL ISSUE ON "Modeling and Simulation of Fog Computing" (SIMPAT SI Fog Computing 2019)
by Lars Wolf 06 Apr '19

06 Apr '19

Anfang der weitergeleiteten Nachricht: > Von: Georgios Stavrinides <gstavrin(a)CSD.AUTH.GR> > Datum: 6. April 2019 um 11:27:02 MESZ > An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG > Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] SIMULATION MODELLING PRACTICE AND THEORY SPECIAL ISSUE ON "Modeling and Simulation of Fog Computing" (SIMPAT SI Fog Computing 2019) > Antwort an: Georgios Stavrinides <gstavrin(a)CSD.AUTH.GR> > > CALL FOR PAPERS > > SIMULATION MODELLING PRACTICE AND THEORY SPECIAL ISSUE ON > "Modeling and Simulation of Fog Computing" > > https://www.journals.elsevier.com/simulation-modelling-practice-and-theory/c > all-for-papers/modeling-and-simulation-of-fog-computing > > > THEME: > --------- > Cloud computing provides a large number of resources and services to users. > However, time-critical applications have to cope with the problem of > latency. Fog Computing complements and extends cloud computing to its edge. > It addresses the issue of latency by placing micro data centers closer to > the end users and thus closer to where the data are generated. > > The Internet of Things, autonomous vehicles and smart cities are areas > strongly related to - and in many aspects dependent on - Fog Computing, > entailing many challenges, such as security, reliability and energy > efficiency. Consequently, appropriate systems and innovative algorithms are > required in order to effectively leverage the full potential of Fog > Computing. > > The scope of this Special Issue is to present state-of-the-art research > covering a variety of concepts in Fog Computing, particularly focused on > modelling, simulation and performance evaluation of such platforms. > > Papers for the Special Issue must provide a substantial novel contribution, > and authors must carefully situate their work with regard to the relevant > scientific literature. They must clearly address research issues of Fog > Computing and show the role of modelling and simulation in this research > area. > > > Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: > > Real-time fog computing applications > Performance evaluation and modelling of fog computing systems > Dew computing applications > Internet of Things applications > Cloud and fog computing collaboration > Security and privacy in fog computing > Data storage and processing in fog computing > Micro data center management for fog computing > Big data analytics in fog computing > Resource management and orchestration in fog computing > Energy efficiency of fog computing infrastructure > > > > SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: > -------------------------------- > Manuscripts should be submitted online through the Elsevier Editorial > System (EES) at the following link: > > http://ees.elsevier.com/simpat > > Authors must select > > Special Issue: Fog Computing > > when they reach the "Article Type" step in the on-line submission process. > > Submitted manuscripts should present original contributions and must > not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration > for publication elsewhere. All papers will be peer reviewed according > to the high standards of the Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory > Elsevier journal. > > Please feel free to contact the Guest Editors for any questions. > > > IMPORTANT DATES: > ------------------------ > > Manuscript submission deadline: May 15, 2019 > > Manuscript reviews to authors: July 31, 2019 > > Manuscript revision due: September 30, 2019 > > Final notification of acceptance: November 30, 2019 > > Expected publication of the special issue: February 2020 > > > > SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORS: > ----------------------------- > > Dr. Eleni KARATZA (Email: karatza(a)csd.auth.gr) > > Dr. Georgios STAVRINIDES (Email: gstavrin(a)csd.auth.gr) > > Department of Informatics > Aristotle University of Thessaloniki > 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr. Georgios L. Stavrinides > http://users.auth.gr/gstavrin > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 -- The 16th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems (IEEE MASS 2019)
by Lars Wolf 06 Apr '19

06 Apr '19

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Zhuozhao Li <zl5uq(a)VIRGINIA.EDU> Gesendet: 6. April 2019 05:25:38 MESZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP -- The 16th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems (IEEE MASS 2019) *[Please accept our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement]* CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE MASS 2019 - The 16th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems Monterey, CA, USA November 4 - 7, 2019 http://sites.google.com/view/mass2019 IEEE MASS is a premier annual forum for sharing original, novel ideas in mobile ad-hoc networks and smart systems, defined broadly. As wireless ad-hoc networks continue to evolve and specialize into a number of application scenarios and environments, and sensor-based systems and technologies increasingly permeate our everyday life and become the inner fabric of the Internet of Things and cyber-physical systems, the unfolding of smart environments such as smart cities, smart farming, smart healthcare, and smart manufacturing, to name a few, demand integrated solutions that can make intelligent use of both cloud and edge systems, while applying machine learning and artificial intelligence tools to handle their growing complexity and to leverage the vast amount of available data created. Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society, the 16th edition of the IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS) will be held in beautiful Monterey, CA, USA, on November 4-7, 2019, and it aims at bringing together researchers, developers, and practitioners to address recent advances in mobile ad-hoc and smart systems, covering algorithms, theory, protocols, systems & applications, experimental evaluations and testbeds, security/privacy, as well as AI/ML-based smart design. Topics of Interest Original, unpublished contributions are solicited in all aspects of mobile ad-hoc and smart systems, from mobile networking/computing to cyber-physical systems to Internet of Things, from theory to systems and applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • 5G networks and technologies • AI/ML for smart wireless networks • AI and machine learning aided protocol design and resource allocation • AI and machine learning based applications for ad hoc networks • Algorithms for MANETs and WSNs • Application Layer Protocols • Clustering, topology control, coverage, and connectivity • Cognitive networking • Cooperative and cognitive communication • Cooperative sensing, compressive sensing, sensing from communications • Cloud, crowd-sourced, participatory and (mobile) social sensing • Cyber-physical systems and applications • Data gathering, fusion, and dissemination • Energy-efficient architectures, algorithms, and protocols • Experiences in real-world applications and deployments • Flying Ad-Hoc Networks • Free-space optical networks • Heterogeneous networks • Internet of Things (IoT) devices, gateways, and infrastructure • Light-weight distrib • Localization and Location Based Services • Measurements, experimental systems and test-beds • Mobile computing and networking • mmWave and Terahertz networks • Mobility modeling and management • Multi-channel, multi-radio and MIMO technologies • Network components, operating systems, and middleware • Opportunistic networking, delay tolerant networking • QoS and Resource management • Robotic networks • Routing protocols • Scalability, stability, and robustness of networks and sensor systems • Security and privacy at all layers, including the physical layer • Sensor enabled drone, UAV, UUV systems • Smart grid, healthcare, transportation applications • Vehicular networks and protocols • Visible light communications • Wearable and human-centric devices and networks Important Dates Abstract submission: April 30, 2019 Paper submission: May 15, 2019 Notification of acceptance: August 09, 2019 Camera-ready version: August 30, 2019 Submission Guidelines Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not currently under review elsewhere. All submissions should be written in English with a maximum length of 9 single-spaced, double-column pages using 10pt fonts on 8.5 x 11 inch paper, including all figures, tables, and references, in PDF format. Authors must use the Manuscript Templates for IEEE Conference Proceedings. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by IEEE and will be presented at the conference. Based on TPC reviews and discussions, some papers may be accepted as 5-page short papers, in addition to the regular 9 page papers. For all papers, IEEE reserves the right to exclude the paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the conference. Note that the conference will also include a poster and demo session. Submission link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25849 Organizing Committee General Chair - Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Program Chairs - Haiying Shen, University of Virginia, USA - Marcelo M. Carvalho, University of Brasília, Brazil Track Chairs Algorithms and Theory - Ravi Prakash, University of Texas at Dallas, USA - Dario Pompili, Rutgers University, USA Protocols and Cross-Layer Technologies - Shiwen Mao, Auburn University, USA - Walid Saad, Virginia Tech, USA Systems and Applications - Octav Chipara, The University of Iowa, USA - Desheng Zhang, Rutgers University, USA Experimental Evaluation and Testbeds - Falko Dressler, Paderborn University, Germany - Kang Chen, Southern Illinois University, USA Security and privacy - Mooi Choo Chuah, Lehigh University, USA - Wenye Wang, North Carolina State University, USA Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning-based Smart Design - Sajal Das, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA - Fan Wu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Panel Chair - Wei Zhao, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates Workshop Chairs - Xinbing Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China - Ilker Demirkol, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain Posters Chairs - Marcos A.M. Vieira, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil - Chenxi Qiu, Rowan University, USA Publicity Chairs - Zhuozhao Li, University of Chicago, USA - Rolando Menchaca-Mendez, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico Finance/Registration Chair - Shuhui Yang, Purdue University Northwest, USA Publication Chair - Dajin Wang, Montclair State University, USA Local Arrangements - Chen Qian, University of California Santa Cruz, USA Web Chair - Henrique D. Garcia, University of Brasília, Brazil Steering Committee - Dharma P. Agrawal, University of Cincinnati,USA - Jie Wu, Temple University, USA - Kang G. Shin, University of Michigan, USA - J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, University of California Santa Cruz, USA ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] 3rd International Workshop on Very Large Internet of Things (VLIoT 2019)
by Lars Wolf 04 Apr '19

04 Apr '19

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] 3rd International Workshop on Very Large Internet of Things (VLIoT 2019) Datum: Thu, 4 Apr 2019 06:51:59 -0400 Von: Carlo Alberto Boano <cboano(a)TUGRAZ.AT> Antwort an: Carlo Alberto Boano <cboano(a)TUGRAZ.AT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ******************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on Very Large Internet of Things (VLIoT 2019) In conjunction with VLDB 2019 August 30, 2019, Los Angeles, USA Submission deadline (extended!): May 2, 2019 Web: http://www.ifis.uni-luebeck.de/~groppe/vliot ******************************************************************** ** Aims of the Workshop ** An increasing number of real-world objects are becoming accessible and manageable through the Internet. According to CISCO, the number of these devices will reach 50 billion by 2020, forming a very large Internet of Things (VLIoT). This massive number of "smart" objects will cooperate with each other, have their own metadata, and may continuously produce new data (in form of events, sensor data, or actuator states). Data management will be a major challenge in the very large Internet of Things. Hence, efficient IoT infrastructure and technologies must be developed to handle masses of IoT data with high performance. This will include: new techniques to filter and store relevant data; efficient replication approaches for objects with constrained resources in order to increase availability and durability; new protocols for voting about decisions among objects; and smooth integration of heterogeneous objects. The goal of this workshop is to bring together academic researchers and industry practitioners working in the field of IoT and to allow them to report and exchange their findings addressing these challenges. This workshop also intends to discuss other closely-related technologies such as Nanotechnology, Fog-, Edge-, and Dew-Computing for IoT. The ideas of Fog, Edge and Dew Computing may indeed solve or attenuate the problems of a very large Internet of Things (w.r.t. performance, energy-efficiency, as well as security and privacy aspects). ** Types of Papers ** The workshop welcomes contributions describing original ideas, promising new concepts, and practical experience. In particular, we solicit papers of different types: - Research Papers proposing new approaches, theories or techniques related to the Internet of Things, including new data structures, algorithms, whole systems, and frameworks. They should make substantial theoretical and empirical contributions to the research field. - Experiments and Analysis Papers focusing on the experimental evaluation of existing approaches including data structures and algorithms for Internet of Things and bring new insights through the analysis of these experiments. Results of experiments and analysis papers can be, for example, showing benefits of well-known approaches in new settings and environments, opening new research problems by demonstrating unexpected behavior or phenomena, or comparing a set of traditional approaches in an experimental survey. - Application Papers reporting practical experiences on Internet of Things applications. Application papers might describe specific application domains in the IoT such as smart homes/offices/cities, continuous health care, waste management, emergency response, intelligent response, and Industry 4.0. - Vision Papers identifying emerging or future research issues and directions, and describing new research visions in the IoT area that may have a great impact on our society. ** Topics of Interest ** We welcome papers on the following and other relevant topics: - Semantic IoT - Privacy-by-design and security-by-design in IoT - System architectures for IoT, e.g. - things-centric, - data-centric, - event-centric, and - service-centric. - IoT applications including: - smart homes/offices/cities, - waste management, - health care, - emergency response, and - intelligent shopping. - Nano Technology including: - Nano Networks, - Nano communication, - Nano applications, - Nano computing, and - Internet of Nano Things. - IoT programming toolkits and frameworks - IoT prototypes and evaluation test-beds - IoT data mining and analytics - IoT management and interoperability - Management of IoT streams - Enabling technologies and standards for the IoT - Spatial and temporal reasoning for IoT - Sustainability of IoT platforms, e.g. business models for deployment and maintenance - Societal challenges and IoT, e.g. urban planning and decision-making tools - Ownership of data in IoT scenarios - Fog, Edge and Dew Computing for IoT - IoT benchmarks and performance measurement - Indexing and search in IoT environments - IoT transactions, concurrency control and recovery - Hardware accelerators and energy savers for IoT applications and core infrastructure - IoT discovery of devices, services and data ** Workshop Chairs ** - Sven Groppe, University of Luebeck, Germany - Markus Endler, PUC Rio, Brasil ** Program Committee ** - Lorena Etcheverry, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay - Mirian Halfeld Ferrari, Universite d' Orleans, France - Hemant Purohit, George Mason University, USA - Jonathan Fuerst, NEC Labs Europe, Heidelberg, Germany - Abdessamad Imine, INRIA-LORIA Nancy Grand-Est, France - Peiquan Jin, University of Science and Technology of China, China - Verena Kantere, University of Ottawa - Abdelmajid Khelil, Landshut University of Applied Sciences, Germany - Jan Lindstroem, MariaDB Corporation, Finland - Uden Lorna, Staffordshire University, UK - Riccardo Martoglia, University di Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy - Luis Munoz, University of Cantabria, Spain - Elaheh Pourabbas, National Research Council of Italy, Italy - Francisco Jose da Silva e Silva, Federal University of MaranhĂ£o (UFMA), Brazil - Mu-Chun Su, National Central University, Taiwan - Marco Vieira, University of Coimbra, Portugal - Yingwei Wang, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada ** Important Dates ** Submission (extended): May 2, 2019 Notification: May 31, 2019 Workshop: August 30, 2019 ** Submission ** Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered for publication in any other forum. Accepted papers will be published online in the Open Journal of Internet of Things. OJIOT is an open access journal, and the proceedings will hence be highly visible to all interested readers. Manuscripts should be formatted using the templates of the Open Journal of Internet of Things. Research papers, as well as experiments and analysis papers, should have between 6 and 15 pages, application papers between 6 and 12 pages and vision papers between 4 and 12 pages. We describe manuscript preparation and submission procedure at http://www.ifis.uni-luebeck.de/~groppe/vliot/submit ______________________________________________________________ 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] [NEAT'19] Submission deadline extended (firm) 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Networking for Emerging Applications and Technologies
by Lars Wolf 03 Apr '19

03 Apr '19

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [NEAT'19] Submission deadline extended (firm) 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Networking for Emerging Applications and Technologies Datum: Wed, 3 Apr 2019 07:40:50 -0700 Von: Kiran Makhijani <kiranmak(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Kiran Makhijani <kiranmak(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Hello, The NEAT workshop deadline has been extended to April 17 2019. *Details of the Workshop:* The 2nd NEAT workshop aims exchange new, innovative ideas about network architectures, technologies, and protocols specifically in the context of emerging applications such as tactile networks, holographic communications, networked immersive media. Workshop site: http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2019/workshop-neat.html Paper Submission deadline: April 17, 2019 Submission link: https://sigcomm19neat.hotcrp.com/ *Topic of Interest* We invite submissions on a wide range of topics of interest, including, but not limited to: - Architecture and frameworks for delivering high precision of services - Convergence and optimizations of protocols for Industrial and Tactile networks - Solutions for deterministic services in Industrial and Tactile networks - Investigations, survey and techniques in data plane for Industrial and Tactile internet. - Network challenges and requirements for emerging, resource-sensitive applications - Mechanisms to support ultra-low-latency in packet based networks - Internetworking frameworks for deterministic multi-access edge applications - Maximizing link utilization for high-throughput applications - Architecture and protocols for reliable packet delivery - Network security and privacy issues in Industrial and Tactile interne - Resource allocation mechanisms deterministic and reliable data transmission - Requirements and challenges in Holographic type communications - Networking requirements and challenges of VR/AR - High-throughput transport for VR/AR and Holographic type communications - Adaptive video streaming for network/user dynamics - Video analytics and smart offloading for VR/AR - Measurement study of existing VR/AR and HTC applications ---- On behalf of NEAT Workshop chairs ______________________________________________________________ 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] iFIRE - ACM MobiHoc 2019 - Deadline approaching soon
by Lars Wolf 02 Apr '19

02 Apr '19

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Vincenzo Sciancalepore <vincenzo.sciancalepore(a)NECLAB.EU> Gesendet: 2. April 2019 17:21:48 MESZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] iFIRE - ACM MobiHoc 2019 - Deadline approaching soon Dear all, I trust this email finds you well. Please consider submitting your original research papers to iFIRE---an ACM workshop co-located with ACM MobiHoc 2019---in the wonderful city of Catania (Italy). Hereafter you can find more details. Deadline: April, 7 2019!! Vincenzo iFIRE - ACM Workshop on innovative aerial communication solutions for FIrst REsponders network in emergency scenarios Co-located with ACM MobiHoc 2019 July 2, 2019, Catania, Italy http://ifire.neclab.eu <http://ifire.neclab.eu/> Call for Papers ===================== The public safety is a timely topic that has showed its paramount importance after the major human-driven and natural disasters witnessed during the last few years. According to the American Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the majority of the victims in many different scenarios are untrained rescuers and even professional first responders. Accurate information gathered from sensors may allow first-responders and volunteers to make better and faster decisions, understand the situation, identify the rescue actions with higher success probability, correctly allocate resources such as number of ambulances, and prevent or mitigate personal risks. Today, even commonly available technologies, such as cellular phones, could save many lives if properly adopted. There is a compelling need of exploring the feasibility of new technologies, explicitly designed for working in emergency scenarios. Recently in this wide context, the aerial communication has significantly progressed due to longer battery life-time, new international law regulations and microelectronics evolution with lower prices and higher performance. In particular, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can easily and quickly reach far-away locations, scan carefully the area looking for injured people and autonomously create a communication bridge between first responder networks and victims. However, there are several unaddressed challenges on both communication and computational means that might further improve the reactiveness and efficiency of the first response after a natural disaster or human-driven threat. The workshop is focused on main upcoming activities about the involvement of UAVs as emergency communication means during emergency situations. It is open to both scientific and industrial communities, and will disclose the latest research achievements in the research field of fine-grained localization, advanced communication between moving objects and optimal UAV-cell coverage. The main motivation is to gather people involved in public safety innovative actions, encompassing both the mathematical frameworks and realistic solutions to bring intelligence and efficiency on board of UAVs. The scope of the workshop includes (but is not limited to) the following topics: - Integration of aerial recovery networks in 5G New Radio (5G-NR) - Design and Implementation of self-organized aerial networks for disaster recovery - Mobility and traffic predictions for Disaster recovery networks - Edge and Fog computing for the Disaster recovery aerial networks - Energy management strategies for public safety networks - Trajectory planning and handover management for public safety aerial networks - Network slicing for aerial public safety networks to support low-latency response - Advanced localization technique using UAVs - Age-of-Information aware scheduling for public safety networks - Dynamic spectrum allocation and overlay network formation for public safety networks - Mobility diversity enhancement mechanisms for UAV networks - Experimental case-studies and simulation frameworks for public safety networks - Performance characterization for aerial public safety networks. Important Dates ==================================================== Workshop paper submission: April 7, 2019 Notification of papers acceptance: May 5, 2019 Camera-ready submission: May 12, 2019 ==================================================== Workshop Co-Chairs ==================================================== Vincenzo Sciancalepore (NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH, Germany) Marco di Renzo (CNRS / Paris-Saclay University, France) Syed Zaidi (University of Leeds, UK) Toktam Mahmoodi (King's College London, UK) ==================================================== Keynote speakers ==================================================== Prof. Robert Richardson (Professor of Robotics, School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds, UK) ==================================================== Sponsoring Research Projects ==================================================== Self Repairing Cities (http://selfrepairingcities.com/ <http://selfrepairingcities.com/>) H2020 ITN MSCA PAINLESS (http://painless-itn.com/ <http://painless-itn.com/>) ==================================================== ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: Last Chance to Submit Papers to IEEE PIMRC 2019 Istanbul - Deadline Extended to 12 April 2019
by Lars Wolf 02 Apr '19

02 Apr '19

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: Last Chance to Submit Papers to IEEE PIMRC 2019 Istanbul - Deadline Extended to 12 April 2019 Datum: Tue, 2 Apr 2019 11:41:24 +0200 Von: Sari <hikmet.sari(a)supelec.fr> An: Hikmet Sari <hsari(a)ieee.org> https://files.constantcontact.com/d9625655401/9051f242-a6e5-4955-9f84-50692… *IEEE PIMRC 2019 Paper Submission Deadline Extended to 12 April 2019* * * Sorry if you receive multiple copies of this e-mail. Dear Colleagues, *The Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (IEEE PIMRC)*, which is one of the two major conferences of the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) in the field of wireless communications and networking, will mark its 30th anniversary this year, and its 30th edition, IEEE PIMRC 2019 will be held in the beautiful city of Istanbul on 8 – 11 September 2019. See http://pimrc2019.ieee-pimrc.org/. We invite you to submit papers to PIMRC 2019 by the extended (and firm) deadline of *12 April 2019 *and not to miss the chance of attending this conference. We would welcome submissions in all areas of wireless communications, networks, services, and applications. For more details on the conference tracks and topics of interest, please visit the AUTHORS page of the conference website: http://pimrc2019.ieee-pimrc.org/authors/call-for-papers/. We hope to see you at IEEE PIMRC 2019 in Istanbul next September. IEEE PIMRC 2019 Organizing Committee *KEY DATES:* Full Paper Submission: 12 April 2019 (Firm Date) Author Notifications: 7 June 2019 Final Papers Due: 28 June 2019 Conference Dates: 8 – 11 September 2019

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