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[Fwd: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting (1-November-2005)]
by Lars Wolf 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting (1-November-2005) Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 00:10:22 -0800 From: Geoff Voelker <voelker(a)CS.UCSD.EDU> Reply-To: Geoff Voelker <voelker(a)CS.UCSD.EDU> To: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting (11/01/2005) ____________________________________________________________ Contents 1. Announcements WWW 2006 2005-11-04 http://www2006.org * IPTPS 2006 2005-11-07 http://iptps06.cs.ucsb.edu/ ICDCS 2006 2005-11-15 http://icdcs2006.di.fc.ul.pt MobiSys 2006 2005-11-28 http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2006/ * WMPI 2006 2005-12-09 http://www.cs.utah.edu/wmpi/2006/ ECRTS 06 2005-12-11 http://ecrts06.tudos.org/ * HP-PAC 2006 2005-12-19 http://fortknox.csc.ncsu.edu/proj/hppac/ USENIX 2006 2006-01-17 http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix06/index.html SIGCOMM 2006 2006-02-03 http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm2006/ * EmNets 2006 2006-02-27 http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/emnets/ (* = new this month) 2. Special Announcements Tom Anderson awarded SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award 3. About this list How to subscribe, unsubscribe, and submit requests for announcements. More information about SIGOPS can be found at the SIGOPS webpage: http://www.acm.org/sigops To view the HTML version of this page, go to: http://www.acm.org/sigops/announce/current.html ____________________________________________________________ Announcements WWW 2006 Title: 15th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW'06) Deadline: 2005-11-04 Webpage: http://www2006.org Conference: May 22-26, 2006 Contact: chase(a)cs.duke.edu Location: Edinburgh, Scotland Synopsis: The WWW conference series is the prime venue for the latest ideas and developments about the Web. WWW2006 seeks original papers describing research in all areas of the Web. Topics include but are not limited to: Performance, Reliability and Scalability, Pervasive Web and Mobility, Search, Security, and Privacy. Submissions should present original reports of substantive new work. New for WWW2006: We solicit submissions of "position papers" articulating high-level architectural visions, describing challenging future directions, or critiquing current design wisdom. ____________________________________________________________ * NEW THIS MONTH! IPTPS 2006 Title: 5th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS'06) Deadline: 2005-11-07 Webpage: http://iptps06.cs.ucsb.edu/ Conference: February 27-28, 2006 Contact: iptps06-chairs(a)lists.cs.ucsb.edu Location: Santa Barbara, CA, USA Synopsis: The 5th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS'06) provides a forum for researchers to discuss the state-of-the-art in peer-to-peer computing and to identify key research challenges in the area. IPTPS'06 will continue to build on the success of the previous workshops. The goal of the workshop is to examine peer-to-peer technologies, applications, and systems, and also to identify key research issues and challenges that lie ahead. In the context of this workshop, peer-to-peer systems are characterized as being decentralized, self-organizing distributed systems, in which most or all clients also act as servers. ____________________________________________________________ ICDCS 2006 Title: 26th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'06) Deadline: 2005-11-15 Webpage: http://icdcs2006.di.fc.ul.pt Conference: July 4-7, 2006 Contact: ler(a)di.fc.ul.pt Location: Lisboa, Portugal Synopsis: The conference provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government to present their latest research findings in any aspects of distributed and parallel computing. ____________________________________________________________ MobiSys 2006 Title: 4th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys'06) Deadline: 2005-11-28 Webpage: http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2006/ Conference: June 19-22, 2006 Contact: mobisys_pcchairs(a)acm.org Location: Uppsala, Sweden Synopsis: MobiSys 2006 seeks to present innovative and significant research on the design, implementation, usage, and evaluation of mobile computing and wireless systems, applications, and services. The conference will be held in early summer in the historic town of Uppsala, Sweden. It builds on the success of the first three conferences held in San Francisco, Boston and Seattle. We seek papers that take a broad systems perspective rather than focus narrowly on low-level components. We value results and insights obtained from working implementations more highly than those obtained solely from simulations. ____________________________________________________________ * NEW THIS MONTH! WMPI 2006 Title: 4th Workshop on Memory Performance Issues, conjunction with HPCA Deadline: 2005-12-09 Webpage: http://www.cs.utah.edu/wmpi/2006/ Conference: 2/11/2006 Contact: legion(a)cs.utah.edu Location: Austin, Texas, USA Synopsis: WMPI is a one-day workshop that provides a forum for researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss advances in computer technology, architecture, software systems, and algorithms that address the growing disparity between processor and memory/network speeds. Hardware and software mechanisms that address this performance gap are equally welcome. We are particularly interested in new or controversial ideas. Work in early stages of development is encouraged. The workshop will include one or more keynote speakers. The best five to seven papers of this workshop will be published in a special issue of SIGMICRO newsletter. ____________________________________________________________ ECRTS 06 Title: 18th EUROMICRO CONFERENCE ON REAL-TIME SYSTEMS Deadline: 2005-12-11 Webpage: http://ecrts06.tudos.org/ Conference: 07, 5-7, 2006 Contact: Location: Dresden, Germany Synopsis: The 18. EUROMICRO Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 06) is a forum aimed at covering state-of-the-art research and development in real-time computing. Papers on all aspects of real-time systems are welcome. These include, but are not limited to: applications, infrastructure and hardware, software technologies, system design and analysis. This year, we particularly encourage submission of papers on industrial case studies, application of real-time technology on realistic systems, real-time operating systems implementations. ____________________________________________________________ * NEW THIS MONTH! HP-PAC 2006 Title: 2nd IEEE Workshop on High-Performance, Power-Aware Computing Deadline: 2005-12-19 Webpage: http://fortknox.csc.ncsu.edu/proj/hppac/ Conference: April 25-29, 2006 Contact: dkl(a)cs.uga.edu Location: Rhodes, Greece Synopsis: The goal of this workshop is to provide a timely forum for research in power-aware, high-performance computing. This includes work that reduces (1) power, (2) energy consumption, or (3) heat generation, with little or no performance penalty. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following. . Novel power-aware architectures for HPC . Power-aware middleware for HPC . Power-aware runtime systems for HPC . Reduced power/energy/heat algorithms & applications . Surveys or studies of power/energy/heat usage of HPC applications ____________________________________________________________ USENIX 2006 Title: 2006 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX'06) Deadline: 2006-01-17 Webpage: http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix06/index.html Conference: May 30 - June 3, 2006 Contact: usenix06chairs(a)usenix.org Location: Boston, MA, USA Synopsis: The Program Committee for the Systems Practice & Experience Track (formerly the the Refereed Papers General Track) is seeking your participation. Please note that the submissions deadline is January 17, 2006. Authors are invited to submit original and innovative papers that further the knowledge and understanding of modern computing systems, with an emphasis on practical implementations and experimental results. We encourage papers that break new ground or present insightful results based on experience with computer systems. The USENIX conference has a broad scope, and we encourage papers in a wide range of topics in systems. ____________________________________________________________ SIGCOMM 2006 Title: ACM SIGCOMM 2006 Abstract: 2006-02-03 Deadline: 2006-02-10 Webpage: http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm2006/ Conference: September 11-15, 2006 Contact: Location: Pisa, Italy Synopsis: The SIGCOMM 2006 conference seeks papers describing significant research contributions to the field of computer and data communication networks. We invite submissions on network architecture, design, implementation, operations, analysis, measurement, and simulation. SIGCOMM is a selective conference where full papers typically report novel results firmly substantiated by experimentation, simulation, or analysis. ____________________________________________________________ * NEW THIS MONTH! EmNets 2006 Title: 3rd IEEE Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors (EmNets'06) Deadline: 2006-02-27 Webpage: http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/emnets/ Conference: May 30-31, 2006 Contact: emnets(a)eecs.harvard.edu Location: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA Synopsis: The Third Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors (EmNets 2006) will focus on groundbreaking research in wireless sensor systems with an emphasis on three topic areas: (1) Emerging research directions for sensor networks; (2) Application experiences; and (3) Early results from new research efforts. In keeping with the focused workshop format, EmNets encourages submissions that present exciting new work, challenge conventional ideas, propose new research directions, evaluate real-world applications and deployments, and generate controversy. We especially welcome papers reporting on highly original or risky research, position papers, and reports on application experiences and deployments. ____________________________________________________________ SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS Title: Tom Anderson awarded SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award Summary: On October 25, 2005, at the 20th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP'05), Tom Anderson at the University of Washington was awarded the SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award for his numerous accomplishments in operating systems research. Congratulations, Tom! ____________________________________________________________ About SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE The SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE mailing list is intended to provide a low-volume channel that provides operating systems researchers and practitioners with information about upcoming events or other important announcements. In general, a message containing a group of such announcements will be sent about once per month with the subject line "SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting". On rare occasions, announcements of particular interest or urgency will be sent out with a different subject line, starting with "SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE supplemental posting" (for readers who wish to use mail filtering programs.) Finally, this mailing list is made available for use by publicity chairs of SIGOPS-sponsored conferences and the SIGOPS officers. To subscribe, send mail to LISTSERV(a)ACM.ORG with the following command (paste it!) in the body of the message: SUBSCRIBE SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE To unsubscribe, send mail to LISTSERV(a)ACM.ORG with the following command in the body of the message: UNSUBSCRIBE SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE To get more information about manipulating your subscription to this list, go to http://www.acm.org/infodir/services/listserv/doc.html To contact the owner of the list or to report a problem with the list, email SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE-request(a)ACM.ORG To request that an announcement be included in these mailings, go to http://sysnet.ucsd.edu/sigops/acm.html ____________________________________________________________ Geoff Voelker, SIGOPS Information Director

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[Fwd: [ICEC] Call for Paper (CFP): COMPUTER AND GAMES 2006 CONFERENCE]
by Lars Wolf 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [ICEC] Call for Paper (CFP): COMPUTER AND GAMES 2006 CONFERENCE Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 22:34:20 +0100 From: Rauterberg, G.W.M. <G.W.M.Rauterberg(a)tue.nl> To: <icec(a)listserver.tue.nl> *CALL FOR PAPERS: COMPUTER AND GAMES 2006 CONFERENCE * *Torino**, Italy** * *29-31 May 2006 * H.J. van den Herik and P. Ciancarini Maastricht, The Netherlands / Bologna, Italy The 5th Conference on Computer and Games (CG2006) will be held in Torino, Italy, in conjunction with the 14^th World Computer-Chess Championship and the 11^th Computer Olympiad. This time these events will be co-hosted with the human FIDE Chess Olympics, to be held in Torino between May 25 and June 4, 2006. The conference commences on May 29 at 8.30 h and will take place on three consecutive days, each day from 8.30 h till 12.30 h. The conference aims in the first place at providing an international forum for computer-games researchers presenting new results on ongoing work. The recent successes of the Computer and Games conferences have encouraged the organizers to widen their scope and therefore we have reserved a special session for Robotic Pool, Snooker as well as for commercial games. Hence we invite contributors to submit papers on all aspects of research related to computers and games. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: (1) the current state of game-playing programs, (2) new theoretical developments in game-related research, (3) general scientific contributions produced by the study of games. Also researchers on topics such as (4) social aspects of computer games, (5) cognitive research of how humans play games, and (6) issues related to networked games are invited to submit their contribution. *Important Dates * Paper Submission January 15, 2006 Acceptance Notification March 15, 2006 Camera-ready Papers May 15, 2006 *Paper Submission Requirements * For the proceedings we have submitted a publication proposal to Springer-Verlag. The style files to be used are available at www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html under “Information for LNCS Authors”. The maximum length of papers in this format is 12 pages (10 pages are preferred). The preferred format for submission is PDF, but Postscript is also acceptable. The final version for the proceedings is to be submitted in LaTeX source form. The paper must be written in the English language. *Refereeing Process * All papers will be refereed. Accepted papers will be scheduled for presentation on the conference and will be printed in the proceedings. Authors of accepted papers, or their representatives, are expected to present their papers at the conference. To submit a paper, please send your submission before January 15, 2006 to ***to be defined***. Receipt will be acknowledged. Notice of acceptance of papers will be sent by March 16, 2006 to the principal author. *Registration * *Registration Fee * Early Late (On or before May 1) Late (After May 1) Participants Euro 150 Euro 180 Students Euro 100 Euro 120 Admission to the conference and a copy of conference proceedings are included in the conference registration fee. *Proceedings * The proceedings will be edited by Prof. P. Ciancarini and Prof. H.J. van den Herik. They are expected to be published in 2006. During the conference participants can order (additional) copies. *The Programme Committee consists of: *Paolo Ciancarini (co-chair), Jaap van den Herik (co-chair), Alberto Martelli, Jonathan Schaeffer, Hiroyuki Iida, and others (to be invited). *The Organising Committee consists of: *Prof. Paolo Ciancarini (chair), Johanna Hellemons, Jahn Saito, Guillaume Chaslot, and Jeroen Donkers. *More information: *Prof. P. Ciancarini, email: ciancarini(a)cs.unibo.it or Prof.dr. H.J. van den Herik, Universiteit Maastricht, Dept. of Computer Science, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands, email: herik(a)cs.unimaas.nl or Johanna Hellemons, email: hellemon(a)cs.unimaas.nl. _______________________________________________ icec mailing list icec(a)listserver.tue.nl http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec

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[Fwd: MobiSys 2006 Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: MobiSys 2006 Call for Papers Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:22:07 -0800 From: Alec Wolman <alecw(a)microsoft.com> To: <multicomm(a)comsoc.org> [ We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.... ] Reminder: There are just 4 weeks remaining until the Mobisys 2006 submission deadline! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MobiSys 2006 Call for Papers http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2006/ The 4th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services June 19-22, 2006 Uppsala, Sweden Jointly sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE and The USENIX Association, in cooperation with ACM SIGOPS MobiSys 2006 seeks to present innovative and significant research on the design, implementation, usage, and evaluation of mobile computing and wireless systems, applications, and services. The conference will be held in early summer in the historic town of Uppsala, Sweden. It builds on the success of the first three conferences held in San Francisco, Boston and Seattle. Important Dates Full papers due: Monday Nov 28 2005 (23:59 EST) (HARD DEADLINE, no extensions) Notification of paper acceptance: March 10,2005 Camera-ready final papers due: April 7, 2006 Poster and demo proposals due: March 27, 2006 Notification of poster/demo acceptance: April 21, 2006 Conference Organizers General Co-Chairs: Per Gunningberg (Uppsala University, Sweden) Lars-Ake Larzon (Uppsala University, Sweden) Steering Committee Chair: Victor Bahl, Microsoft Research Program Co-Chairs: Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Nigel Davies, Lancaster University, UK Program Committee: Victor Bahl, Microsoft Research, USA Mary Baker, HP Labs, USA Ramon Caceres, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Mark Corner, University of Massachusetts, USA Nigel Davies, Lancaster University, UK Eyal de Lara, University of Toronto, Canada Carla Ellis, Duke University, USA Adrian Friday, Lancaster University, UK Jason Hong, Carnegie Mellon University, USA David Kotz, Dartmouth College, USA Anthony LaMarca, Intel Research Seattle, USA Antonio Kruger, University of Munster, Germany Dushyanth Narayanan, Microsoft Research, UK Brian Noble, University of Michigan, USA Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Rahul Sukthankar, Intel Research Pittsburgh, USA Roy Want, Intel Research, USA Poster Chair: Ramon Caceres, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Demo Co-Chairs: Bengt Ahlgren, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden Ian Chakeres, Boeing Phantom Works, USA Publicity Chair: Alec Wolman, Microsoft Research, USA Submission guidelines We seek papers that take a broad systems perspective rather than focus narrowly on low-level components. We value results and insights obtained from working implementations more highly than those obtained solely from simulations. If you have any questions regarding relevance or other submission-related issues, please contact the program chairs at mobisys_pcchairs(a)acm.org. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Design, implementation, and evaluation of mobile and wireless systems - Middleware and service architectures for mobile and wireless applications - Data management for mobile and wireless applications - Operating Systems for resource-constrained mobile devices - Disconnected and weakly connected operation - Proxies and data adaptation - Mobile agents - Infrastructure support for mobility - Security, privacy, authorization, and billing - System-level energy management for mobile and wireless devices - Wearable and handheld devices in the context of system design - Personal mobility - Personal-area networks and systems - Cyber foraging and resource discovery of mobile services - Systems for context sensing and location awareness - Application interfaces and services supporting the mobile user - Tools and design methodologies for building mobile and wireless systems - Mobile computing support for pervasive computing - User interfaces and usability issues for mobile and wireless applications - Experience with mobile and wireless systems Submissions should be full papers, up to 14 single-spaced 8.5" x 11" pages, including figures, tables, and references, two-column format, using 10-point type on 12-point (single-spaced) leading with reasonable margins. Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and technical correctness. Accepted papers will be shepherded by a member of the program committee. MobiSys, like most conferences and journals, requires that papers must not be submitted simultaneously to any other conference or publication, that submissions must not be previously published, and that accepted papers must not be subsequently published elsewhere. Papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms are not acceptable and will be returned to the author(s) unread. As customary with the scientific peer review process, submissions will be handled as confidential material during the review. Submissions are due Monday, November 28, 2005, 23:59 EST. This is a hard deadline, and no extensions will be granted. The submission process is electronic. All submissions must be in PDF format. See the conference web page for detailed instructions. Poster and Demo Sessions Do you have interesting work you would like to share, or a great idea that is not quite ready to be published? Poster sessions are for you! The poster sessions introduce new or ongoing work. Demos of working systems and applications are also encouraged. The MobiSys audience will provide valuable discussion and feedback. We are particularly interested in presentations of student work. See the conference web page for submission details. Workshops The ACM MobiSys 2006 conference will host a day of workshops on technical areas related to mobile systems, applications and services. SIGMOBILE invites workshop proposals from interested communities. New workshops in emerging areas that can engage participants in greater interaction are welcome. See the conference web page for details.

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[Fwd: CFP: INSS 2006 - 3rd International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems]
by Lars Wolf 31 Oct '05

31 Oct '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CFP: INSS 2006 - 3rd International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 09:52:52 +0100 From: announce(a)teco.edu To: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de [Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] -------- Submission deadline: December 1, 2006 ------------ ***************************************************** * CALL FOR PAPERS * * * * INSS 2006 * * * * May 31-June 2, 2006 * * Chicago, USA * * http://www.unl.im.dendai.ac.jp/INSS2006/ * * * ***************************************************** INSS 2006 provides a unique and interactive environment to bring together researchers from the backgrounds of sensor technology, wireless networking and application of wireless sensor networking. This conference is the first after a series of annual workshop meetings with a highly selective single-track technical program. Its aim is to provide a platform where researchers from academia and industry come together to discuss and address technical problems and solutions in these research areas. We see that rapid technology advancements in miniature sensors, low power micro- electronics, wireless communication and network have brought researchers from various fields to develop an emerging multidisciplinary of networked sensor systems and applications. Such technology is expected to change the way how information is generated, processed, and communicated based on a large number of sensor nodes deployed for a specific application. Addressing these critical issues requires researchers from various disciplines to communicate effectively and collaborate together. The International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems invites outstanding research papers from the field of sensor technology, wireless networking or application of networked sensor systems. The conference especially encourages submissions that are suitable and should be of interest for the researchers from all three fields. June is a busy time in Chicago in the sensors world. Following INSS 2006 is the Sensors Expo & Conference, June 6-8, 2006. Sensors Expo is a leading sensors event in North America, featuring a conference program exploring the most up-to-date innovations in sensor technology including physical sensors, sensor networks, biosensors, MEMS/Nanotechnology, instrumentation and controls, intelligent systems, machine-to-machine communication, wireless sensing and IT technology. Combined with a showcase of hundred of products and services, it is an event worth placing on your schedule. Please visit our web-site for the link to Sensors Expo 2006. INSS 2006 attendees will receive a registration discount to Sensors Expo 2006. Topics include but are not limited to: 1. Sensors Materials and Fabrication (new materials, smart structures, MEMS and Nano fabrication technologies, sensors and sensor system packaging) 2. Sensor Phenomena and Modeling (sensor operation theory, characterization, CAD design and modeling) 3. Sensors (physical, mechanical, chemical, biological, optical sensors and actuators at micro and nano scales) 4. Sensing Systems (wireless sensor system architecture, sensor-based system-on-chip design, multiple-sensor array and system, intelligent sensing, integration of sensors and microelectronics, low power sensor interface electronics design, sensor system packaging and environmental compatibility, environmental energy harvesting, sensor system design trade-offs and techniques, bio-implantable sensor networks, data acquisition, telemetry, wakeup radio, system integration, process and cost of manufacturing, energy scavenging and RF-ID tags) 5. Communication protocols (MAC and link layer problems, routing and transport protocols tailored for networked sensor system, redundancy, data aggregation, and mobility support; gateways to fixed Internet) 6. Middleware (Configuration and installation support, service discovery, distributed algorithms in WSN, harmonizing node-centric and data-centric addressing, sensor calibration, localization and synchronization) 7. Security (primitives for appropriate cryptographic protocols, secure system engineering) 8. Applications (wireless environmental monitoring, harsh environment sensing, transportation, automotive, aeronautical and space sensor systems, bio-robotics sensing and communication, homeland security, military, civil and industrial infra-structures safety, intelligent biomedical and improved healthcare system, ubiquitous computing with networked sensing) 9. Prototypes, field studies, and testbeds (novel sensor node prototypes, measurements within sensor network testbeds) [PAPER SUBMISSION] INSS 2006 invites the submission of both regular and late-breaking result papers. Regular papers must be 4-8-page two-column papers long and include an abstract of 100 - 150 words. Late-breaking result papers must be no more than 4 two-column pages long and include an abstract of 100-150 words. INSS 2006 is seeking papers interesting to the interdisciplinary community represented at the conference. Papers will be evaluated on the basis of originality, significance of the contribution to the field, technical correctness and presentation. Papers will be peer-reviewed. Papers submitted must not be under simultaneous review for any other conference, journal, workshop or other publication. Papers should be formatted according to IEEE transaction format (http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/transactions/stylesheets.htm). Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings. Authors are required to attend the conference to present their work. All paper submissions will be handled electronically by the EDAS system. Note that submission is a two-stage process - authors need to register their paper first and then submit the final manuscript. Submissions must be in Adobe PDF format and conform to the guidelines specified in the call for papers. Authors without EDAS user names will be required to register with the system using the same link as above. Reviewers will be instructed to maintain the confidentiality of all materials for submitted papers throughout the entire reviewing process. Submissions should contain no information that will be proprietary or confidential at the time of publication. [IMPORTANT DATES] Submission deadline: December 1, 2005 Notification of acceptance: January 20, 2006 Camera-ready papers: February 19, 2006 [ORGANIZATION] General Chair: Sang Hyuk Son, University of Virginia, USA General Co-chairs: Hide Tokuda, Keio University, Japan Robert Puers, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium Program Chair: Michael Beigl, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Program Vice-chairs: Darrin Young, Case Western Reserve University, USA Yoshito Tobe, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Marc Langheinrich, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Publicity Co-chairs: Tian He, University of Minnesota, USA Hidekata Hontani, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan Christian Becker, University of Stuttgart, Germany Program Committee: Shigeru Ando, University of Tokyo, Japan Mitsuru Baba, Ibaraki University, Japan Yoshito Bando, Shimizu Corp., Japan Christian Becker, Universit?t Stuttgart, Germany Jan Beutel, Computer Engineering and Networks Lab, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology(ETH), Switzerland Nico de Rooij, IMT, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland Arjan Durresi, Louisiana State University, USA Steven Garverick, Case Western Reserve University, USA Tian He, University of Minnesota, USA Satoshi Honda, Keio University, Japan Hidekata Hontani, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan Hideto Iwaoka, Yokogawa, Japan Holger Karl, University of Paderborn, Germany Daeyoung Kim, Information and Communications University, Korea Satoshi Kurihara, Osaka University, Japan Koen Langendoen, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Pedro Marron, University of Stuttgart, Germany Masateru Minami, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan Pedram Mohseni, Case Western Reserve University, USA Taketoshi Mori, The University of Tokyo, Japan Takuichi Nishimura, Cyber Assist Research Center, AIST, Japan Silvia Nittel, University of Maine, USA Tomoaki Ohtsuki, Keio University, Japan Marcelo Pias, Cambridge University, UK Kay Roemer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Jochen Schiller, FU Berlin, Germany Hiroyuki Shinoda, University of Tokyo, Japan Kazunori Takashio, Keio University, Japan Norman Tien, Case Western Reserve University, USA Woontack Woo, GIST, Korea Martina Zitterbart, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

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[Fwd: [Tccc] European Wireless 2006 - Deadline: November 11, 2005]
by Lars Wolf 31 Oct '05

31 Oct '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] European Wireless 2006 - Deadline: November 11, 2005 Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:27:14 +0200 From: Rouskas Aggelos <arouskas(a)aegean.gr> To: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) Call for Papers 12th European Wireless Conference (EW2006) Enabling Technologies for Wireless Multimedia Communications April 2-5, 2006, Athens, Greece National Technical University of Athens http://www.telecom.ece.ntua.gr/EW2006 Wireless communications is today one of the most dynamic sectors of our global economy. The introduction of third generation mobile communications is no longer imminent but incident in Europe, and throughout the world. At the same time, research for wireless communication systems beyond the third generation is in full swing. The 12th European Wireless 2006 Conference continues its long tradition in promoting the latest technical results in wireless communications and focuses on technologies, protocols, services and applications that will enable a full seamless and nomadic user access to new classes of multimedia services with a user-centric focus. Service provision will occur at the home, at the workplace, at leisure and during travel. The vision is to integrate the wireless local area and next generation cellular networks and develop the next generation of future wireless communication. Such networks will enable the provision of ubiquitous wireless services, which will become more and more innovative as they are driven by the consumer demands of the user and as a result of competition between the service providers. The main theme chosen for the European Wireless 2006 Conference, will be the technical challenges which need to be met in order to make the vision of Wireless Multimedia Communications a reality. EW2006 will be hosted by National Technical University of Athens in Athens, Greece, on April 2-5, 2006. PAPERS Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research results are solicited. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * 2G - 3G - 4G Migration and Evolution * B3G/4G Bandwidth on Demand * Radio Channel Modelling (Wave Propagation and Measurements) * Coexistence of Mobile Radio Networks * Convergence of 3G wireless and Internet * Cross-layer Design in Mobile and Wireless Networks * Fixed/Mobile Networks Integration and Interworking * Heterogeneity in Future Networks * High Altitude Platforms and Satellites * Interference Mitigation and Management Techniques * Location-based Services and Positioning * Mobile and Wireless Applications * Mobile/Wireless Networks Modelling and Simulation * Mobility Management and Billing Technologies * Multiple Access Schemes * Power and Interference Control * Power Management for Small Terminals * Protocols for Air Interfaces and Networks * QoS and Resource Allocation in Mobile and Wireless Networks * Radio Resource Management * Radio Transmission Technology * Security and Robustness in Wireless Networks * Sensor Network Planning and Deployment * Smart Antennas, Adaptive Antennas, MIMO and Beam Forming * Software Defined Radio & Re-configurability * Spectrum Efficiency Analyses * Transport Layer Issues in Mobile and Wireless Networks * Ultra-Wideband and Short-range Networks * Wireless Ad-hoc Networks, MANET * Wireless Broadband Mobile Access * Wireless LAN/PAN PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS All paper submissions will be handled electronically, using the EDAS system (http://www.edas.info), following the instructions found at: http://www.telecom.ntua.gr/EW2006/authors.php IMPORTANT DATES Full papers due: November 11, 2005 Notification of Acceptance: February 1, 2006 Camera Ready due: February 24, 2006 CONFERENCE CHAIR Emmanuel Protonotarios, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, protonot(a)cs.ntua.gr STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIR Bernhard Walke, RWTH, Aachen University of Technology, Germany, walke(a)comnets.rwth-aachen.de TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIRS George Karetsos, Center for Technological Research of Thessaly, Greece, karetsos(a)teilar.gr Angelos Rouskas, University of the Aegean, Greece, arouskas(a)aegean.gr WORKSHOP CHAIR Stefan Mangold, Swisscom Innovations, stefan.mangold(a)swisscom.com TUTORIAL CHAIR Angeliki Alexiou, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, alexiou(a)lucent.com LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE Nikos Dragios, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Evangelos Groustiotis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Charis Kechagias, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Elias Tragos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP for SPECTS06]
by Lars Wolf 29 Oct '05

29 Oct '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP for SPECTS06 Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:38:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Guoping Zeng <guopingtx(a)yahoo.com> To: Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu CC: abdelmajid.khelil(a)informatik.uni-stuttgart.de, wgshi(a)cs.ualberta.ca, ysu(a)masergy.com, obaidat(a)monmouth.edu ================CALL FOR PAPERS ================= (We apologize if you receive multiple copies) 2006 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems SPECTS 2006 http://www.scs.org/summersim/spects July 31 – August 2, 2006 The Coast Plaza Hotel and Conference Center, Calgary, Canada This annual international conference is a forum for professionals involved in performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. Performance evaluation of computer systems and networks has progressed rapidly in the past decade and has begun to approach maturity. Significant progress has been made in analytic modeling, simulation, and measurement approaches for performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Networking and Telecommunication Systems • Internet Technology Quality of Service (QoS) DiffServ/IntServ MPLS TCP World Wide Web (WWW) Technology • Networking Techniques Unicast and Multicast Routing Congestion Admission and Control Switching Techniques Tele-traffic Network Protocols Network Management and Control Network Capacity Planning Network Architecture Evaluation Service and QoS Pricing Security and Authentication • Broadband Networks High-Speed Networking ATM Optical Networks • Wireless Systems and Networks Satellite Systems UMTS Mobile Networks/Computing Ad-hoc Networks Sensor Networks • Multimedia Communications and Applications Computer Systems • Distributed Architectures Client/Server Distributed Systems and Agents Parallel and Distributed Computing Massively Parallel Systems Cluster Computing Grid Computing Interconnection Networks • Computer Architectures Microprocessors/Microcomputers Memory Systems High Performance I/O Real-time Systems Scheduling Schemes • Software Software Performance, Evaluation, and Testing Parallel Algorithms and Languages • Electronic Commerce • Hardware and Software Monitors • High-Performance Computing • Information Assurance • Reconfigurable Computing • Scientific Computing Algorithms • Workload and Traffic Characterization Tools, Methodologies, and Applications • Parallel and Distributed Simulation • Verification and Validation • Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic Applications • Performance Optimization, Bounds, and Models • Queuing Systems and Networks • Scalability Studies • Integrated Modeling and Measurement • On-Line Performance Adaptation and Tuning • Process Algebra-Based Models • Mathematical Aspects and Integrated Design of Performance • Case Studies 2006 Workshop on Performance of Wireless Networks and Communication Systems, WiNCS’2006 http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~vmisic/pubs/WiNCS06.pdf http://www.scs.org/summersim/spects General Chair Mohammad S. Obaidat Dept. of Computer Science, Monmouth University W. Long Branch, NJ 07764, USA Tel +1-732-571-4482 Fax +1-732-263-5202 E-mail: obaidat(a)monmouth.edu Vice General Chair Franco Davoli DIST-University of Genoa Via Opera Pia 13, I-16145 Genoa, Italy Tel +39-010-353-2732 Fax +39-010-353-2154 E-Mail: franco(a)dist.unige.it Program Chairs Jose L. Marzo University of Girona, Spain E-mail: joseluis.marzo(a)udg.es Ljiljana Trajkovic Simon Fraser University Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada E-mail: ljilja(a)cs.sfu.ca Local Arrangement Chair Carey Williamson University of Calgary, Canada E-mail: Carey(a)cpsc.ucalgary.ca Tutorial Chair John Fox Foxband Consultancy, UK E-mail: fox.conf(a)btinternet.com Publicity Committee: Chair: Guoping Zeng, Nortel Networks, USA, zenggu(a)nortelnetworks.com Vice Chair: Yi Su, Masergy Communications, Inc., USA, ysu(a)masergy.com Vice Chair: Weiguang Shi, Uinversity of Alberta, Canada, wgshi(a)cs.ualberta.ca Vice Chair: Abdelmajid Khelil, University of Stuttgart - IPVS - VS, Germany, abdelmajid.khelil(a)informatik.uni-stuttgart.de Web Master Michael J. Chinni U.S. Army TACOM-ARDEC E-mail: mchinni(a)pica.army.mil Technical Program Committee Rachid El Abdouni Khayari, University of the Armed Forces Munich, Germany Abdullah Abonamah, Zayed University, UAE Tricha Anjali, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Noureddine Boudriga, University of Tunis, Tunisia Maria C. Calzarossa, University of Pavia, Italy Haitham Cruickshank, University of Surrey, UK Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Laurent Franck, Telecom Paris, France Sebastia Galmes, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK Sami Habib, Kuwait University, Kuwait Omar Hammami, ENSTA, France Jarmo Harju, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Xavier Hesselbach-Serra, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain Raj Jain, Nayna Networks, Inc. and Ohio Sate Univ., USA Carlos Juiz, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Ingemar Kaj, Uppsala University, Sweden Krishna Kant, Intel, USA Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessalonici, Greece Ulrich Killat, Tech. Univ. of Hamburg, Germany Michalis E. Kounavis, Intel Research, USA Kevin Kwiat, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA Veronica Lagrange M. Reis, HP Corp., USA Axel Lehmann, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany Sam Makki, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Krzysztof Malinowski, Warsaw Technical University, Poland Marek Malowidzki, Military Communication Institute, Poland Mario Marchese, University of Genoa, Italy Pascale Minet, INRIA, France Jelena Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada Vojislav Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa, Canada Ibrahim Onyuksel, Northern Illinois University, USA Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, UK Elena Pagani, Università di Milano, Italy Georgios I. Papadimitriou, Aristotle University, Greece Achille Pattavina, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Krzysztof Pawlikowski, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Antonio Pescape', Universita' di Napoli "Federico II," Italy Gregory D. Peterson, University of Tennessee, USA Stephen Pink, Lancaster University, UK Desa Polajnar, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada Jernej Polajnar, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada Ramon Puigjaner, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Kaliappa Ravindran, CUNY, USA Vicente Santonja, Technical University of Valencia, Spain Tatsuya Suda, University of California, Irvine, USA Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Kishor Trivedi, Duke University, USA Tracy Tung, University of Sydney, Australia Pere Vila, University of Girona, Spain Manuel Villen-Altamirano, Telefonica, Spain Bernd E. Wolfinger, Hamburg University, Germany Michele Zorzi, Università di Ferrara, Italy Paper Submission Please submit your complete papers electronically to: http://www.scs.org/confernc/submit.asp. Instructions for authors will be posted on the paper submission web site. Submissions should not exceed 25 double-spaced, 8.5x11 inch pages (including figures, tables, and references) in 10–12 point fonts. Please include five to ten keywords, complete postal and e-mail address, and fax and phone numbers of the corresponding author. If you have difficulties with electronic submission, please contact the Web Master, Program Co-Chairs, or the Conference Coordinator, Steve Branch, The Society for Modeling and Simulation International, 4838 Ronson Court, Suite L, San Diego, CA 92 111, USA, Tel. (858) 277-3888, Fax (858) 277-3930, E-mail: sbranch(a)scs.org. Extended versions of selected accepted papers at SPECTS 2006 will be considered for possible publication in scholarly journals. Proposals for tutorials should be sent to the Tutorial Chair. Proposals for special sessions and panel sessions should be submitted to the Program Co-Chairs. Deadlines Submission of papers: February 26, 2006 Notification of acceptance: April 23, 2006 Submission of camera-ready papers: May 28, 2006 Sponsored by The Society for Modeling and Simulation International Technically Co-Sponsored by the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Society --------------------------------- Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] International Conference on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing - Symposium on "Next Generation Mobile Networks"]
by Lars Wolf 29 Oct '05

29 Oct '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] International Conference on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing - Symposium on "Next Generation Mobile Networks" Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 23:59:20 -0400 From: Shahrokh Valaee <valaee(a)comm.utoronto.ca> Reply-To: valaee(a)comm.utoronto.ca To: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> --------------------------------------------------------------------- We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers International Conference on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (ICWCMC 2006) Sheraton Wall Centre, Vancouver, Canada, July 3-6, 2006 http://www.iwcmc2006.cs.wmich.edu/ Symposium on “Next Generation Mobile Networks” http://conferences.ece.ubc.ca/ngmn2006/ CALL FOR PAPERS Scope: Next generation wireless mobile networks are characterized through the integration of different wireless access technologies and convergence of wired and wireless networks. Third generation wireless cellular systems such as UMTS and cdma2000 are expected to interwork with other broadband Internet access technologies such as hot spot services or multi-hop access networks (e.g., wireless mesh networks), to provide a wire-line compatible service to mobile Internet users. Standards such as IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX), IEEE 802.20, and IEEE 802.21 are emerging to provide new broadband wireless access services. Network convergence is regarded as a major challenge in the evolution of next generation wireless mobile networks. In general, due to the heterogeneity in the wireless access techniques and the requirement of providing multimedia services, the issue of QoS provisioning and enforcement in the future generation mobile networks will become a critical issue for the wireless access equipment vendors, networks service providers, and customers. Cross-layer transmission protocol engineering along with application-oriented signaling protocols, and creation of new services will be required for efficient network resource utilization and bring profitability to the service providers. The symposium on “Next Generation Mobile Networks” will focus on all aspects of next generation mobile network architecture and try to gather the state-of-the art research activities in this area. It will focus on network architecture, protocols and service platforms, addressing areas such as the evolution towards the so-called 4G mobile networks; the integration of heterogeneous network technologies such as fixed, mobile and satellite access; operational aspects of next generation networks such as resource management, mobility management, charging and QoS provisioning; performance analysis and optimization models. Symposium Topics: Topics include but are not limited to: * Next generation broadband wireless mobile network architectures and protocols * Heterogeneous wireless mobile networks * Internetworking among heterogeneous wireless and wire-line networks * Integration of 3G and broadband wireless networks (e.g., IEEE 802.16a) * Integration of 3G and meshed (multi-hop) wireless networks * Scheduling, call admission control, bandwidth adaptation, and error control protocols * Solar powered wireless mobile networks and protocols for energy efficiency * Pricing models for broadband mobile multimedia networks * Service provisioning through IP multimedia subsystem * Application-oriented protocols * Modeling, performance evaluation, and optimization techniques * Mobility, location and handoff management in heterogeneous mobile networks * QoS specification and metrics for mobile multimedia networks * Multimedia QoS and traffic management in mobile networks * Network resource management and QoS provisioning * Multi-protocol architectures and devices * Network control and signaling * Proxies and middleware for wireless mobile networks * Next generation broadband satellite systems * Terrestrial-satellite integration scenarios & techniques * Cross-layer protocol engineering for wireless mobile networks * Mobile multicasting * Wireless mobile network security and privacy * Authentication, Authorization, Accounting (AAA) over heterogeneous mobile networks * Emerging applications of wireless mobile networks (e.g., wireless telemedicine) Schedule: * Paper submission deadline: December 15, 2005 * Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2006 * Final manuscript due: May 30, 2006 Symposium Chair: Victor C. M. Leung The University of British Columbia, BC, Canada vleung(a)ece.ubc.ca Symposium Co-Chair: Ekram Hossain University of Manitoba ekram(a)ee.umanitoba.ca Javan Erfanian Bell Canada javan.erfanian(a)bell.ca Publicity Chair: Shahrokh Valaee University of Toronto valaee(a)comm.utoronto.ca Technical Program Committee: Alhussein A. Abouzeid, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA (abouzeid(a)ecse.rpi.edu) Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, Politecnico Di Torino, Italy (chiasserini(a)polito.it) Gianluigi Ferrari, Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy ( <mailto:gianluigi.ferrari@unipr.it> gianluigi.ferrari(a)unipr.it) Ahmed Kamal, Iowa State University, USA (kamal(a)iastate.edu) Thierry E. Klein, Bell Laboratories – Lucent Technologies, USA (tek(a)lucent.com) Can Emre Koksal, EPFL, Switzerland (emre.koksal(a)epfl.ch) Alberto Leon-Garcia, University of Toronto, Canada (alberto.leongarcia(a)utoronto.ca) Baochun Li, University of Toronto, Canada (bli(a)eecg.toronto.edu) Ben Liang, University of Toronto, Canada (liang(a)comm.utoronto.ca) Jelena Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada (jmisic(a)cs.umanitoba.ca) Asis Nasipuri, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA (anasipur(a)uncc.edu) Ioanis “Yannis” Nikolaidis, University of Alberta, Canada (yannis(a)cs.ualberta.ca) Samuel Pierre, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada (samuel.pierre(a)polymtl.ca) Radha Poovendran, University of Washington at Seattle, USA (radha(a)ee.washington.edu) Behcet Sarikaya, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada (sarikaya(a)unbc.ca) Young-Joo Suh, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea (yjsuh(a)postech.edu) Kui Wu, University of Victoria, Canada (wkui(a)cs.uvic.ca <mailto:wkui@cs.umanitoba.ca> ) Xiang-Gen Xia, University of Delaware, USA (xxia(a)ee.udel.edu) Dongmei Zhao, McMaster University, Canada (dzhao(a)mail.ece.mcmaster.ca) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Professor Shahrokh Valaee Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Univeristy of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3G4 Phone: (416) 946-8032 Fax: (416) 978-4425 Web: http://www.comm.utoronto.ca/~valaee %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: E-NEXT.members: Second International Workshop on Wireless Network Measurement (WiNMee)]
by Lars Wolf 28 Oct '05

28 Oct '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: E-NEXT.members: Second International Workshop on Wireless Network Measurement (WiNMee) Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:09:06 +0200 From: Kave Salamatian <Kave.Salamatian(a)lip6.fr> To: members(a)ist-e-next.net The Second International Workshop on Wireless Network Measurement (WiNMee) (co-located with WiOpt) April 3, 2006 Boston, Massachusetts, USA http://www.winmee.org/ WiNMee 2006 will be the second international workshop on Wireless Network Measurement. The first workshop, WiNMee 2005, was held in Lago di Gardi, Italy, and was highly successful with 32 submissions and 13 accepted papers. This year we hope to build on the success of last year by bringing researchers together to discuss the next generation of wireless network measurement research. Wireless networking has attracted much recent interest. Nonetheless, performance evaluation of wireless protocols, networks, and applications are still largely based on simulations. Only recently have researchers turned their attention to measuring real-world networks; building models based on real-world data, and using testbeds to more realistically evaluate their proposed ideas. Accurate network measurements have proven to be a different and a greater challenge than in wired networks. Accurate data models that reflect the unique characteristics of wireless networks have also proven to be more of a challenge. Wireless network testbeds have proven to be yet another difficult environments in which to work due to the many unique properties of the wireless medium. For example, results in wireless testbeds are often difficult to reproduce due to performance variations caused by location, weather, time of day, and other uncontrollable external variables. Testbeds are also challenging because implementing novel solutions often requires significant changes to the network as well as careful observation and measurement. The committee for WiNMee 2006 is soliciting 6 page papers that report on experiences obtained from operational wireless experiments, either in testbeds or in the field. Topics include: * Operational experience on the performance of wireless networks * Challenges with wireless measurements * Experimental (in)validation of assumptions in a wireless environments * Metrics for wireless network for performance evaluation * Wireless network troubleshooting techniques and recommendations * Experience with building/designing wireless networks * Description of tools for building and/or managing wireless testbeds * Techniques for testbed scaling * Techniques for improving experiment repeatability * Techniques for validating results obtained from wireless testbeds * Methods for simplifying experiment setup and reconfiguration * Mobility pattern implementation Important Dates Submission deadline: December 4, 2005 Notification deadline: January 26, 2006 Camera-ready due: February 26, 2006 Workshop: April 3, 2006 Submission Instructions Submitted papers should not exceed 6 pages in length and should be formatted in two columns with a point size greater or equal to 10. Workshop Chairs Kevin Almeroth (University California, Santa Barbara) Kave Salamatian (LIP6-University Pierre et Marie Curie) Technical Program Committee Kevin Almeroth, UC-Santa Barbara, USA Anish Arora, Ohio State, USA Chadi Barakat, INRIA , France Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer, UC-Santa Barbara, USA Andrew Campbell, Dartmouth , USA Ahmed Helmy, USC, USA Tristan Henderson, Dartmouth, USA Ed Knightly, Rice University , USA Josep Mangues, CTTC, Spain Konstantina Papagiannaki, Intel Research, UK Ashu Sabharwal, Rice University, USA Kave Salamatian, LIP6 , France Suresh Singh, Portland State University, USA Aruna Seneviratne, National ICT, Australia Thierry Turletti, INRIA, France Thomas Ziegler, FTW , Austria +++ Posted to members-istenext by Kave Salamatian <Kave.Salamatian(a)lip6.fr> +++

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[Fwd: ACF-Members: CfP : 4th International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications (WWIC 2006), Bern]
by Lars Wolf 28 Oct '05

28 Oct '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: ACF-Members: CfP : 4th International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications (WWIC 2006), Bern Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:31:46 +0200 (MEST) From: Mikhail Smirnov <Mikhail.Smirnov(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de> To: acf-members(a)autonomic-communication-forum.org CC: braun(a)iam.unibe.ch FYI: Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:31:21 +0200 From: Torsten Braun <braun(a)iam.unibe.ch> Call for Papers 4th International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications (WWIC 2006), May 9-12 2006, Bern, Switzerland, www.wwic2006.org supported by COST Action 290, www.cost290.org approved by the IEEE Communications Society for technical co-sponsorship Next generation mobile networks will be based on Internet core networks and wireless access networks. The need for efficient merging of the wired and wireless infrastructure as well as the new multimedia services and applications of next generation networks call for novel network architectures, protocols and traffic-related mechanisms. WWIC addresses research topics such as the design and evaluation of protocols, the dynamics of the integration, the performance tradeoffs, the need for new performance metrics, and cross-layer interactions. The goal of the conference is to present high-quality results in the field, and to provide a framework for research collaboration through focused discussions that will designate future research efforts and directions. In this context, the program committee will accept only a limited number of papers that meet the criteria of originality, presentation quality and topic relevance. Selected best papers will appear in a journal special issue. The best conference paper as well will be awarded at the conference, based on reviewer comments and suggestions of the Technical Program Committee members. Papers should address one of the following topics. * Network design and network planning * Traffic engineering * Traffic characterisation and modeling * Mobile service level agreements / specification * Simulation technologies for next generation mobile networks * Transport protocols and congestion control * Cross layer interactions * Mobility management * End-to-end Quality of Service support * Heterogeneous wireless access networks * Integration and interworking of wired and wireless networks * Performance evaluation of mobile and wireless networks and systems * Handover techniques * Wireless multimedia systems * Service creation and management environments for mobile/wireless systems * Resource management and admission control * QoS signaling * QoS routing * Wireless Multi-Hop Networks * Wireless Mesh Networks * Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks * Economical issues of wireless networks * Pricing, charging and accounting in wireless networks * Wireless Sensor Networks * Network Security * Network Mobility * Wireless network monitoring Submission deadline December 8, 2005 Notification of acceptance February 15, 2006 Camera ready papers February 28, 2006 Conference May 9-12, 2006 +++++++++ posted to acf-members by Mikhail Smirnov <Mikhail.Smirnov(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de> +++++++++

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[Fwd: CFP: Inter-vehicular communications (special issue of IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine)]
by Lars Wolf 28 Oct '05

28 Oct '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CFP: Inter-vehicular communications (special issue of IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine) Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 15:33:59 +0800 From: Daniel Wong <daniel_wong(a)ieee.org> To: dwong(a)must.edu.my Dear fellow researchers in inter-vehicular communications --------------- Call for Papers --------------- ************************************************* IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine Special Issue on "Inter-Vehicular Communications" ************************************************* pdf version of this CFP is available at <http://www.3g-wireless.net/IVC-CFP.pdf> Wireless communications technologies (cellular phones, wireless LANs, etc.) have enabled many of the conveniences in our lives, and also increased our day by day productivity. Another area where there is much potential for wireless technologies to make a tremendous impact is the area of inter-vehicular communications (IVC). The field of IVC is also known as vehicle-to-vehicle communications (V2V) and vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET). There are numerous emerging applications that are unique to the vehicular setting. For example, safety applications would make driving safer; driver information services could intelligently inform drivers about congestion, businesses and services in the vicinity of the vehicle, and other news. Mobile commerce could extend to the realm of vehicles. Existing forms of entertainment may penetrate the vehicular domain, and new forms of entertainment may emerge, all supported by the inter-vehicular communications capabilities. These emerging services are currently not well supported. Numerous research challenges need to be addressed in order for inter-vehicular communications to be widely deployed. The combination of unique features of inter-vehicular applications and networking opens new opportunities for many interesting research areas. The communications networking between cars has different characteristics from other communications networking problems. For example, because of the rapidly changing topology as cars move around, there are similarities with ad hoc networking scenarios. However, the constraints and optimizations are different. Power efficiency is not as important for inter-vehicular communications as it is for traditional ad hoc networking, since vehicles have a powerful and rechargeable source of energy. Vehicles in general are also constrained to move within roads (and within lanes most of the time). The purpose of this special issue is to showcase the variety of research being conducted in IVC and survey the state-of-the-art in this field. We solicit original unpublished manuscripts not currently being considered elsewhere for publication. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: + Service creation and management + Vehicular communications applications in general + Navigation safety applications + Content distribution to vehicles + Vehicle data collection and harvesting + Role of IVC in Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) + Link and physical layer issues, algorithms and protocols + Cross-layer protocol design + Network architectures, system architectures + Inter-working of vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications + Network protocols and algorithms, including clustering, routing, etc. + Vehicle movement simulation + Security for IVC + Network management for IVC + Mobility management Articles should be tutorial in nature and should be written in a style comprehensible to readers outside the specialty of the article. All submissions will be reviewed based on technical merit and relevance. Articles should have no more than 4,500 words, no more than 6 tables/figures, and no more than 15 references. Further submission guidelines are available online at http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/pcm/sub_guidelines.html. Please send PDF (preferred), Microsoft Word, or PostScript formatted papers to both Daniel Wong (daniel_wong(a)ieee.org <mailto:daniel_wong@ieee.org>) and Kemal Tepe (ktepe(a)windsor.ca <mailto:ktepe@windsor.ca>) no later than 15 February 2006. ========= Deadlines ========= Manuscript due February 15 2006 Acceptance notification April 15 2006 Final manuscript due June 15 2006 Publication date October 2006 ============= Guest Editors ============= K. Daniel Wong (daniel_wong(a)ieee.org <mailto:daniel_wong@ieee.org>) Malaysia University of Science and Technology Department of Information Technology GL33, Ground Floor, Kelana Square, 17 Jalan SS 7/26 47301 PJ, Selangor, Malaysia Kemal Tepe (ktepe(a)uwindsor.ca <mailto:ktepe@uwindsor.ca>) Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University of Windsor 401 Sunset Avenue Windsor, Ontario, N9B 3P4, Canada Wai Chen (wchen(a)research.telcordia.com <mailto:wchen@research.telcordia.com>) Telcordia Technologies, Inc. Applied Research One Telcordia Drive, RRC-1T209 Piscataway, New Jersey, 08854-4157, USA Mario Gerla (gerla(a)cs.ucla.edu <mailto:gerla@cs.ucla.edu>) 3732F BH Computer Science Dept UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA

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