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Fwd: [Tccc] Pervasive and Mobile Computing journal: Special Issue on Pervasive Urban Applications
by Lars Wolf 08 Nov '11

08 Nov '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Pervasive and Mobile Computing journal: Special Issue on Pervasive Urban Applications Datum: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 10:15:50 +0100 Von: valerio.arnaboldi(a)iit.cnr.it An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> ======================== CALL FOR PAPERS ========================= Elsevier - Pervasive and Mobile Computing Special Issue on Pervasive Urban Applications ================================================================== Over the past decade, the development of digital networks and operations has produced an unprecedented wealth of information. Handheld electronics, location devices, telecommunications networks, and a wide assortment of tags and sensors are constantly producing a rich stream of data reflecting various aspects of urban life. For urban planners and designers, these accumulations of digital traces are valuable sources of data in capturing the pulse of the city in an astonishing degree of temporal and spatial detail. Yet this condition of the hybrid city - which operates simultaneously in the digital and physical realms - also poses difficult questions about privacy, scale, and design, among many others. These questions must be addressed as we move toward achieving an augmented, fine-grained understanding of how the city functions - socially, economically and yes, even psychologically. This special issue aims to advance understanding of research challenges and opportunities in applying the pervasive computing paradigm to urban spaces. We are seeking multi-disciplinary contributions that reveal interesting aspects about urban life and exploit the digital traces to create novel urban applications that benefit citizens, urban planners, and policy makers. In this special issue, we are seeking high quality papers reporting original research results on Pervasive Urban Applications with a preference for works including evaluation studies based on empirical data of actual urban environments. Relevant topics include (but are not limited to): - Pervasive computing applications for urban planning and design - Mining of data collected from urban networks e.g. transportation, energy - Urban mobility and geo-localization - Multi-source urban information integration - Real-time urban information processing - Knowledge representation and reasoning on city data - Case studies and applications of mixed urban sensing and mining - Analysis of social networks in urban space - Middleware for mobile urban computing - Context-aware systems for urban space - Pervasive urban applications for smart cities - Intelligent urban transportation systems - Empirical evaluation of pervasive urban applications - Wireless sensor networks, and social network sensing for pervasive urban applications - Security, privacy, reputation, and trust issues in urban computing - Impact of pervasive technologies in urban space e.g. social, economical, and psychological. Submission process: All submissions must be prepared according to the Guide for Authors as published in the Journal website at http://www.ees.elsevier.com/pmc/. Authors should select SI: Pervasive Urban Applications, from the pull-down menu during the submission process. All contributions must not have been previously published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. A submission based on one or more papers that appeared elsewhere must have major value-added extensions over what appeared previously (at least 33% new material). Authors are requested to submit their relevant, previously published articles and a summary document explaining the enhancements made in the journal version. Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: December 14, 2011 (Extended deadline) First Notification: March 31, 2012 Final Notification: June 15, 2012 Guest Editors of the Special Issue: Francesco Calabrese, IBM Research, Dublin, Ireland, fcalabre(a)ie.ibm.com Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Pisa, Italy, marco.conti(a)iit.cnr.it Dominik Dahlem, MIT, USA, dahlem(a)mit.edu Giusy Di Lorenzo, IBM Research, Dublin, Ireland, giusydil(a)ie.ibm.com Santi Phithakkitnukoon, Newcastle University, UK, santi(a)newcastle.ac.uk _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: MobiSys 2012 - Call for Papers
by Lars Wolf 07 Nov '11

07 Nov '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: MobiSys 2012 - Call for Papers Datum: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 22:30:49 +0000 Von: Christos Efstratiou <Christos.Efstratiou(a)CL.CAM.AC.UK> Antwort an: Christos Efstratiou <Christos.Efstratiou(a)CL.CAM.AC.UK> An: SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG *** Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP *** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 10th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys 2012) Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE and in cooperation with ACM SIGOPS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- June 26th - 29th, 2012 Low Wood Bay, The Lake District, UK http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2012/ MobiSys 2012 will continue the tradition of publishing top-notch research papers dealing with all aspects of mobile systems. MobiSys seeks original papers that take a broad systems perspective rather than focus narrowly on low-level components. The conference values 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 <mailto:mobisys_pcchairs@acm.org> Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Experience with mobile applications, networks and systems • Innovative mobile and mobile sensing applications • Tools for building and measuring mobile systems • Software architectures for mobile devices • Infrastructure support for node mobility • System-level energy management for mobile devices • Data management for mobile applications • Operating systems for mobile devices • Support for mobile social networking and mobile Web • Security and privacy in mobile systems • Wearable computing and innovative mobile devices • Systems for location and context sensing and awareness • Mobile computing support for pervasive computing • Vehicular wireless systems • User interfaces and usability for mobile applications and systems • Personal-area networks and systems • Cyber foraging and resource discovery for mobile systems Papers on work that is currently under review, whether in shorter, longer, or the same form, must not be submitted to MobiSys. Submission of a longer version of a published, not just accepted, workshop paper is encouraged if it includes significant new contributions. However, the authors must cite their workshop paper. Papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms are not acceptable and will be returned to the author(s) unread. As is customary with the scientific peer review process, submissions will be handled as confidential material during the review process. ***Selected outstanding papers may be fast-tracked as a special section of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.*** Submissions should be full papers, up to 14 single-spaced 8.5" x 11" pages, including figures, tables, and references, in two-column format, using 10-point type on 12-point and single-spaced. Papers may use the standard ACM template, available at: http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2009/sig-alternate-10pt.cls. The first page of each paper should include the names and affiliations of the authors, i.e., the submissions should not be anonymous. Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and technical correctness. Papers may be conditionally accepted and shepherded by a member of the program committee, with final acceptance determined by consent of the shepherd. Important Dates --------------------------------------------------------------- - Abstract registration: Friday, December 9, 2011 (9:00 PM PST) - Submission deadline: Friday, December 16, 2011 (9:00 PM PST) - Notification of acceptance: March 5th, 2012 - Camera-ready version due:TBD --------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: These are hard deadlines. No extensions will be granted. General Chair Nigel Davies (Lancaster University, UK) Steering Committee Chair Victor Bahl (Microsoft Research, USA) Technical Program Co-Chair Srinivasan Seshan (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Lin Zhong (Rice University, USA) Program Committee: -------------------------- Sharad Agarwal, Microsoft Research, USA Rajesh Krishna Balan, Singapore Management University, SG Lujo Bauer, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington, USA Kameswari Chebrolu, IIT-Bombay, India Landon Cox, Duke University, USA David Culler, UC Berkeley, USA Prabal Dutta, University of Michigan, USA Maria Ebling, IBM Research, USA Marco Gruteser, WINLAB / Rutgers University, USA Urs Hengartner, University of Waterloo, Canada Yih-chun Hu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Monica Lam, Stanford University, USA Anthony LaMarca, Intel Labs, USA Yang Li, Google, USA Z. Morley Mao, University of Michigan, USA Patrick McDaniel, Penn State University, USA Jeffrey Pang, AT&T Labs, USA Li-Shiuan Peh, MIT, USA Pablo Rodriguez, Telefonica, Spain Romit Roy Choudhury, Duke University, USA Mirjana Spasojevic, Nokia Research, USA Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, New York University, USA Doug Terry, Microsoft Research, USA Alexander Varshavsky, AT&T Labs, USA Arun Venkataramani, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA Matt Welsh, Google, USA Guoliang Xing, Michigan State University, USA ---------------------------------------------- Dr. Christos Efstratiou Publicity Chair Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge, U.K. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To be removed from the SIGMOBILE-Members list, please enter your email address wolf(a)IBR.CS.TU-BS.DE at http://optout.acm.org/listserv_index.cfm?ln=sigmobile-members and we'll remove you. Association for Computing Machinery Advancing Computing as a Science and Profession (c) 2011 ACM, Inc. All rights reserved ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: [Tccc] CALL FOR PAPERS: Thirteenth International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2012)
by Lars Wolf 07 Nov '11

07 Nov '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CALL FOR PAPERS: Thirteenth International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2012) Datum: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 10:12:24 +0800 Von: Nirmalya Roy <nirmalya.roy(a)gmail.com> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu [Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS WoWMoM 2012 Thirteenth International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks http://wowmom2012.it.uc3m.es/ sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, University of Texas at Arlington, IEEE CS TC on Computer Communications (TCCC) June 25-28, 2012 San Francisco, California, USA **** Paper submission deadline: DECEMBER 2, 2011 **** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SCOPE The evolution of wireless networking technologies and their key role in Future Internet scenarios offer an increasing wealth of opportunities for distributing multimedia contents over wireless networks, enabling dissemination of professional contents to mobile users as well as sharing user-generated contents between them. Users will be able to retrieve, publish, and manage information, communicate with other users or devices, access and author services, create and exploit context- awareness and so on. Papers that present original work, validated by experimentation, simulation, or analysis, are solicited. Practical experiences and experimental efforts from both industry and academy, duly documenting the lessons learned from test-beds, field-trials, or real deployments, are also welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Wireless multimedia systems,services&applications - System prototypes, measurements, real deployment, and experiences - Opportunistic and delay-tolerant networks - Mobile Social Networking - Participatory and urban sensing - Energy-efficient protocols and power management - Seamless inter-networking and self-organization - Networking services for pervasive systems - Content-centric architectures, multimedia content management and distribution for mobile networks - Ad-hoc, Sensor and wireless mesh networks - Wireless BAN, PAN, LAN, MAN and WAN - Vehicular wireless networks - Middleware services for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Context-awareness in wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Quality of Service and Quality of Experience - Location mechanism and services - Multicasting and broadcasting issues - Handoff and mobility management - Network management and control - IP-based mobile networks and wireless multimedia services - Wireless security, dependability, reliability and survivability - Authentication, authorization, and accounting - Modeling and performance evaluation AWARDS AND EDITORIAL FOLLOW-UPS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Papers presented at the Symposium will be considered for a Best Paper Award. Papers of particular merit will be considered for a fast track publication in the Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal (PMC). PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ------------------------------------------------------------------------ All submissions must describe original research, not published or currently under review for another workshop, conference, or journal. Papers must be submitted electronically through EDAS. You can find detailed submission instructions at http://wowmom2012.it.uc3m.es/submission.html and http://wowmom2012.it.uc3m.es/instructions.html Submission implies the willingness of at least one author to attend the conference and present the paper. Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings of IEEE WoWMoM 2012 and published in the IEEE Digital Library. WoWMoM organizers reserve the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference if the paper is not presented at the conference. IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Manuscript submission deadline: December 2, 2011. - Manuscript acceptance notification: March 16, 2012. CONTACTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For further information, please visit the conference website at http://wowmom2012.it.uc3m.es/, or contact the PC-chairs at wowmom12-pcchairs(at)inv.it.uc3m.es WORKSHOPS AND AFFILIATED EVENTS: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Several workshops will be held in conjunction with the main conference. Workshop papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE Digital Library (Xplore), showing their affiliation with IEEE WoWMoM. WoWMoM 2012 will also feature an Industry Track, PhD Forum and a Demonstrations Session. Please visit the conference website for details. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (TO BE COMPLETED) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GENERAL CHAIR Prasant Mohapatra, University of California, Davis, USA TPC CO-CHAIRS Albert Banchs, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, University of Texas at Dallas, USA WORKSHOPS CO-CHAIRS Raffaele Bruno, IIT-CNR, Pisa, Italy Jeongkeun "JK" Lee, Hewlett-Packard Labs, Palo Alto, USA PUBLICATION CO-CHAIRS Paul Patras, Hamilton Institute, Ireland Ming Li, California State University, Fresno, USA Marco di Felice, University of Bologna, Italy INDUSTRY-TRACK CO-CHAIRS Dhruv Gupta, AT&T Labs, USA Katia Obraczka, University of California, San Francisco, USA PHD FORUM CO-CHAIRS Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Switzerland Mohan Kumar, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA DEMO CO-CHAIRS Patrick Tague, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Habib M. Ammari, Hofstra University, USA PANEL CHAIR Henning Schulzrine, Columbia University, USA PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS Nirmalya Roy, I2R, Singapore Xin Liu, University of California, Davis, USA Pal Halvorsen University of Oslo, Norway FINANCE & REGISTRATION CHAIR Yonghe Liu, University of Texas at Arlington, USA STEERING COMMITTEE Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy Sajal K. Das, Univ. Texas at Arlington, USA (chair) Dipankar Raychaudhuri, Rutgers University, USA Satish K. Tripathi, SUNY Buffalo, USA _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [Tccc] IEEE ICC 2012: 3rd IEEE International Workshop SaCoNet
by Lars Wolf 05 Nov '11

05 Nov '11

Scott Fowler <scott_fowler(a)ymail.com> schrieb: _____________________________________________ We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. _____________________________________________ IEEE ICC 2012: 3rd IEEE International Workshop on SmArt COmmunications in NEtwork Technologies (SaCoNeT-III) http://www.lissi.fr/saconet2012/doku.php June 10th-15, 2012 OTTAWA, Canada IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: November 30th, 2011 Acceptance Notification: TBA Camera Ready Deadline: TBA Registration Deadline: TBA _____________________________________________ SCOPE ----------- As continuity of the first and the second edition of SaCoNet (ex. SaCoNaS), the scope of SaCoNet-III is to deal with the growing overlap between both autonomous systems and the future generation of network technologies embedded in Internet and cloud computing for a wide variety of applications (underwater, vehicular, medical, robotic, etc.). SaCoNet focused on how smart communications has affect some aspects (protocols, design, equipment, algorithms, paradigm, power, etc.) for a large family of applications (Healthcare, Medical, Underwater, Vehicular, Robotic, etc.) using network technologies (Sensor Networks, MANET, VANET, etc.). Indeed, autonomous applications embedded in complex configurations and dynamic environments have rapidly expanded from classical applications where different modular devices, actuators and sensors interact closely. This has impacted considerably the control of a given system in a centralized manner. Current trends are to propose new autonomic architecture schemes that manage and control future emerging networks: sky of clouds, Internet of things, Smart Grids, etc. Healthcare and wellness applications such as helping elderly people, assisting dependent persons, habitat monitoring in a smart environment constitute some of the potential scenarios of convergence between autonomous systems and smart network technologies. These applications, (which are based on high-level commands) accomplish some specific tasks, reveal new challenges regarding mechanic design, portability, acceptability, power support and efficiency, control theory, etc. In addition to portability and low-power systems, which are vital challenges that limit substantially the efficiency of any autonomous system based application; network paradigms should also take into account issues related to cost, scalability and security. This workshop will highlight the overlapping of these two domains of autonomous systems and the smart network technologies devoted for different applications for a large variety of domains: Healthcare, Medical, Underwater, Vehicular, Robotic, etc. Issues related to concepts, new technologies, testbeds and trials, and protocols will elicit particular attention. All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed and we will select papers based on their originality, timeliness, significance, and relevance to the workshop. All accepted papers must be presented and at least on author needs to register for the paper to be included in the workshop proceedings. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication anywhere else. The workshop solicits papers addressing, but are not limited to, the following topics: ·Cloud Computing and Internet of things ·Architecture and protocol for wireless based sensor networks ·Vehicular applications of autonomous behavior ·Underwater applications ·Rural applications ·Secure, scalable and low cost network paradigms applications ·Energy optimization of autonomous systems ·Autonomous manipulation using service robots ·Virtual networks and distributed Agent Platform ·Pervasive communication in autonomous application fields ·Rehabilitation robotics, exoskeletons, smart textile clothes and wearable robots applications ·Context-awareness and ubiquitous applications ·Techniques of sensing, actuation and recognition ·Design modeling and control of autonomous robotic systems ·Assistive robotic technology ·Monitoring and security of autonomous systems in intelligent environment ·Context awareness using sensor networks ·Network based transmission architecture for controlling autonomous systems ·Real-time network based structure using sensors, actuators and transducers SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: _____________________________________________ The workshop accepts only novel, previously unpublished papers. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a 5-page standard IEEE conference style paper (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html) to this workshop (including all text, figures, and references) through EDAS submission system (http://edas.info/N11473). One additional page may be allowed but with additional publication fee. Accepted papers must be presented at the workshop. The presenter must register for the workshop before the deadline for author registration (http://www.lissi.fr/saconet2012/doku.php?id=wiki:important_dates). Failure to register before the deadline will result in automatic withdrawal of the paper from the workshop proceedings and the program. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE _____________________________________________ Steering Committee: Abdelhamid Mellouk, UPEC University, France, Chair Sherali Zeadally, University of the District of Columbia, USA Samer Mohammed, UPEC University, France General Chair: Abdelhamid Mellouk, UPEC University, France, Chair _____________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [Tccc] 1st CfP: IFIP Networking 2012, May 21-25, 2012 - Prague, Czech Republic
by Lars Wolf 04 Nov '11

04 Nov '11

Anfang der weitergeleiteten E‑Mail: > Von: Michal Ficek <ficekmic(a)fel.cvut.cz> > Datum: 4. November 2011 08:39:10 MEZ > An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu > Betreff: [Tccc] 1st CfP: IFIP Networking 2012, May 21-25, 2012 - Prague, Czech Republic > > CALL FOR PAPERS > > Networking 2012, the 11th event of the series of International > Conferences on Networking, sponsored by the IFIP Technical Committee on > Communication Systems (TC6). > > May 21-25, 2012 - Prague, Czech Republic > > Conference web: http://networking2012.cvut.cz/ > Call for Papers (PDF): > http://networking2012.cvut.cz/shared/Networking2012_CFP.pdf > > Important Dates > Abstract Registration: November 28, 2011 > Full Paper Submission: December 12, 2011 > Acceptance Notification: February 13, 2012 > Camera Ready: February 27, 2012 > > > As part of conference: 40th anniversary of IFIP TC6 > Distinguished research leaders commemorate years of exciting discovery > and rising stars of the networking community share their outlook on the > past and future. Speakers: Louis Pouzin, Vinton G. Cerf (tbc), Jon > Crowcroft, Pablo Rodriguez Rodriguez, Dina Katabi and Adam Dunkels. > > > Topics: > > NETWORK ARCHITECTURE > peer-to-peer networks, virtual and overlay networks, cloud-computing > architecture, network management and traffic engineering, internet of > things, addressing and routing architectures, evolution of IP network > architecture and protocols, green networking (energy and power > management), performance measurement, monitoring and traffic analysis, > resilient networks (fault tolerance, network recovery, self-*), > cross-layer design and optimization, mobility (user, device, service, > network), content-centric networks, broadband access technologies, > resource allocation, switching and routing, network virtualization > > APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES > social networks, web architectures and protocols, middleware support for > networking, quality of experience, pricing and billing, authentication, > security, trust and privacy, anomaly detection, DoS detection and > mitigation, content distribution, advertising and media networks, > assistive networking, disaster-recovery networks, networking support for > SmartGrids > > WIRELESS AND SENSOR NETWORKS > ad-hoc networks, mobile networks, cellular networks, sensor networks, > mesh networks, delay/disruption tolerant networks, opportunistic > networks, embedded systems, RFID-based systems, network-based > positioning and localization > > NETWORK SCIENCE > network complexity, network neutrality, topology characterization and > inference, network modeling, robustness and vulnerabilities of network > infrastructures, emergence properties of real networks, dynamic > peer-to-peer network topologies, epidemic spread models, user behavior > inference, tools and techniques to design and analyze networks, > community detection and modularity optimization, game theoretic > approaches to communications and networks > > > Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by > Springer, in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. > http://www.springer.com/lncs > Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for fast track > publication in the Elsevier Computer Communications Journal. > http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/525440/descrip… > > > Organizers: > > TPC Chairs > Li Erran Li, Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent, USA > Joerg Widmer, Institute IMDEA Networks, Spain > Hao Yin, Tsinghua University, China > > General Chairs > Robert Bestak, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic > Lukas Kencl, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic > > Steering Committee > George Carle, TU Munich, Germany > Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Pisa, Italy > Pedro Cuenca, Universidad de Castilla-la-Mancha, Spain > Guy Leduc, University of Liege, Belgium > Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University, USA > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Michal Ficek, Czech Technical University in Prague > Publicity Chair > Email: michal.ficek(a)fel.cvut.cz > _______________________________________________ > IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications > (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. > Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu > https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: The 8th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS'12)
by Lars Wolf 03 Nov '11

03 Nov '11

DCOSS ORG <dcoss2012(a)gmail.com> schrieb: *CFP: The 8th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS'12)* http://www.dcoss.org/ May 18 – 20, 2012, Hangzhou, China. IMPORTANT DATES: All Submissions: January 20, 2012 (11:59 PM EST) Notification: March 16, 2012 Camera Ready: April 2, 2012 (11:59 PM EST) Distributed sensor systems have become a highly active research area due to their potential for providing diverse new capabilities. Such systems allow intelligent dense monitoring of physical environments. The focus of this conference is on distributed computing issues in largescale networked sensor systems (including algorithms, applications, systematic design techniques and tools, and in-network signal and information processing). Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate current research on computational aspects of distributed sensor systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: • Machine-to-Machine • Sensors in Smart Grid Systems • Green Networks and Systems • Computation and programming models • Energy models, minimization, awareness • Distributed collaborative information processing • Detection and tracking • Theoretical performance analysis: complexity, correctness, scalability • Abstractions for modular design • Fault tolerance and security • Languages, operating systems • Task allocation, reprogramming and reconfiguration • Dynamic resource management • Scalable, heterogeneous architectures (node and system-level) • Middleware interfaces, communication and processing primitives • Design, simulation and optimization tools for deployment and operation • Design automation and application synthesis techniques • Closed-loop control for sensing and actuation • Case studies: lessons from real world deployments • Network coding and compression General Co-Chairs: Wenyuan Xu, University of South Carolina, USA Zhi Wang, Zhejiang University, China Technical Program Chair: Michael Rabbat, McGill University, Canada Program Vice Chairs: Jie Gao, Stony Brook University, USA Yanmin Zhu, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Carlo Fischione, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Publicity Co-Chairs: Rob Miller, Telcordia Technologies, Inc., USA Yabo Dong, Zhejiang University, China _____________________________________________ *Special Notice Re IEEE-IPDPS 2012 Right after DCOSS 2012 in Hangzhou, the 26th IEEE International Parallel Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2012) will be held in Shanghai from May 21-25. IPDPS is also sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing. For details, see http://www.ipdps.org/. _____________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP - IEEE ICC 2012 Workshop on Wireless Sensor Actor and Actuator Networks (WiSAAN)
by Lars Wolf 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP - IEEE ICC 2012 Workshop on Wireless Sensor Actor and Actuator Networks (WiSAAN) Datum: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 15:49:18 +0000 Von: nauman aslam <nauman.aslam(a)gmail.com> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu, computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org, irma-list(a)irma-international.org +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IEEE ICC Workshop on Wireless Sensor Actor and Actuator Networks (WiSAAN) June 10 -15, 2012, Ottawa, ON, Canada http://sites.google.com/site/wisaan12/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ --------------- Call for Papers --------------- In recent years wireless sensor networks have witnessed a paradigm shift from traditional homogeneous to heterogeneous deployments containing a mix of resource constrained sensor nodes and powerful nodes known as actors. The capabilities of actor nodes include enhanced processing ability, powerful wireless transmission, large battery and mobility. Actor nodes can leverage their capabilities to facilitate better coverage, connectivity and energy efficient operation. Such capabilities offer unprecedented opportunities to serve a diverse range of applications. For instance, actors with mobility can be used to mend a partitioned network, set up new routes, facilitate energy efficient data collection and improve sensor coverage. Similarly, the some sensor nodes may also be equipped with actuation capability called actuators that perform actions to change the behaviour of environment or the physical system. Embedding actuation in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) opens a realm of opportunities for Wireless Sensor Actuator Network (WSAN) industrial applications requiring monitoring and control. While significant research progress have been made in networking and communication aspects of WSNs, new design paradigms are required for wireless sensor actor and actuator networks (WiSAANs). In particular new ideas are required to address the challenges resulting from introducing actors and actuators in the network. This workshop aims to bring the state- of-art research contributions in theory, design and implementation of communication protocols for WiSAANs. Another key objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers from academia and industry to present their work and share their views. We expect the workshop to act as a leading forum for the WSN research community to discuss their ideas on addressing the most current challenges, potential solutions and future developments of WiSAANs. We encourage contributions describing original work in the realm of data collection, architecture, algorithms, communication protocols and implementations of WSANs. Topics of interest include but not limited to: - Architectural models for WiSAANs - Algorithms and communication protocols for WiSAANs - Service model for WiSAANs - Sensor-actor and sensor-actuator co-ordination - QoS models for WiSAANs - Energy efficient protocols for WiSAANs - Integration of real-time protocols with WiSAAN - Time modeling and synchronization in WiSAANs - WiSAAN current and future applications and implementations - Data processing and management in WiSAANs - Medium access protocols for WiSAANs - Routing Protocols for WiSAANs - Data gathering and data fusion models for improving real-time performance in WiSAANs ---------------- Important Dates: ---------------- Submission deadline: 30 November, 2011 Authors Notification: 30 January 2011 Final Manuscript: 15 February 2012 Workshop Date: TBA later between June 10 - 15 2012 -------------- General Chairs -------------- Prof. Ivan Stojmenović, SITE, University of Ottawa, Canada Prof. Zabih Ghassemlooy, CEIS, Northumbria University, UK ------------------- Workshop Organizers ------------------- Dr. Ramiro Liscano, UoIT, Canada, Dr. Nauman Aslam, Northumbria University, UK _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: 2nd Workshop on Multihop Wireless Network Testbeds and Experiments
by Lars Wolf 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: 2nd Workshop on Multihop Wireless Network Testbeds and Experiments Datum: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:56:45 -0400 Von: Marc St-Hilaire <marc.st-hilaire(a)polymtl.ca> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu [Apologies if you receive multiple copies] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd Workshop on Multihop Wireless Network Testbeds and Experiments in conjunction with IWCMC 2012 August 27, 2012, Cyprus http://kunz-pc.sce.carleton.ca/iwcmc2012/TestbedWorkshop.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Scope: ====== This workshop, held in conjunction with the International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (http://iwcmc.org/), August 27-31, 2012 in Cyprus intends to bring together researchers working in the broad area of experimental multihop wireless networking such as MANETs, WSN, VANETs, Wireless Mesh Networks, etc. While many conferences and workshops provide a venue to present and discuss protocols or system architectures in this space, most research work is typically done based on analytical models and/or extensive simulations. The focus of this workshop is to serve as a forum to share new ideas/experiences in all experimental aspects of multihop wireless networks and systems, and facilitate discussions of key unresolved challenges in this area. The workshop values results and insights obtained from working implementations more highly than those obtained solely from simulations, but papers explicitly comparing tested results and simulation results are highly solicited. Submitted papers should be original and previously unpublished. The list of topics includes, but is not limited to: • Design & evaluation of wireless testbeds, prototypes and platforms • Validation of existing simulation models, and results across different testbeds/evaluation methodologies • Experiences/lessons from recent testbed deployments • Wireless testbed case studies • Industrial application and integrated innovation • The use of multihop wireless testbeds in teaching and research • Integration of diverse and distributed testbed infrastructures, testbed federations • Testbed management issues and monitoring support • Configurable hardware/software platforms for testbeds • Experimental evaluation of applications and protocols • Techniques for improving reproducibility of real-world testing • Integrated tools/toolkits to ease transition between simulation and deployment • New measurement methodologies and infrastructures • Measurement and characterization (modeling) of real-world aspects of multihop wireless networks such as usage patterns, traffic, mobility and channel characteristics • Innovative measurements methodologies & tools • Testbed tools for interoperability, benchmarking and traffic measurements Workshop Co-Chairs: =================== Thomas Kunz, Carleton University Marc St-Hilaire, Carleton University Submission Guidelines: ====================== Authors are invited to submit original papers of up to 6 pages including figures, tables, and references, in PDF format. Submission implies that at least one of the authors will register and present the paper at the conference. Electronic submission is accepted through the EDAS. Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical papers—up to 6 pages of length, using the EDAS link: http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=11197 for possible publication in the IWCMC 2012 Conference Proceedings, which will be included in IEEE Xplore. Selected papers will be further considered for possible publication in special issues in the following Journals: 1. Wiley Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (WCMC) http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/76507157/home 2. The International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNet) http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijsnet 3. The International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems (IJAACS) www.inderscience.com/ijaacs 4. KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems www.itiis.org 5. Peer-to-Peer Networking & Applications http://www.springer.com/engineering/signals/journal/12083 There will also be best paper awards, one best symposium award, and one best Workshop award. Important Dates: ================ Paper submission deadline: December 15, 2011 Paper acceptance notification: March 25, 2012 Camera-ready paper submissions: April 30, 2012 Author registration deadline: April 30, 2012 _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [MM-INTEREST] CFP: MMSJ special issue on Network and Systems Support for Games
by Lars Wolf 01 Nov '11

01 Nov '11

Carsten Griwodz <griff(a)SIMULA.NO> schrieb: Call for Papers: Springer Multimedia Systems Journal (MMSJ) Special Issue on Network and Systems Support for Games URL: http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~shervin/netgamessi/ Computer games, now a very profitable economic sector and subject to both academic and industry research, continue to grow in popularity at a substantial rate. Multiplayer networked games, which enable hundreds of thousands of players to simultaneously interact with each other, are now widely used not just for entertainments, but also for socializing, business, commerce, scientific experimentation, and many other practical purposes. The NPD Group reports that 59% of total US population (ages 2 years old and higher) play games, with 56% of them doing so online, leading to almost one third of the population playing online games, while DFC Intelligence forecasts the total number of gamers in the twenty leading online game countries to increase 51% by 2011 compared to 2006. The statistics for mobile gaming are equally impressive: it is estimated that 78.6 million people in the U.S. alone played mobile games in 2009, and downloads of mobile games increased tenfold compared to 2003. Literally millions of people spend their time and money in game worlds such as World of Warcraft, which now hosts more than 12 million subscribers with a peak of 500,000 players online at a given time, or Entropia Universe, which holds the number 1 and number 2 record for the most expensive “virtual” real estate sold for real money, each over US$300,000 per virtual property. As these online games become more popular and significant contributors to Internet traffic, research needs to be devoted to manage and support the emerging massiveness, its traffic on the network, and the users’ quality of experience. In this special issue, we focus on multiplayer games and cover scientific, engineering, and research topics in systems and networking support to enable such games. Submissions are solicited on all aspects of networked games, including (but not limited to): - Scalability, cloud support, client-server, and P2P system architectures - Efficient message distribution and network protocol design - Latency issues and lag compensation techniques - Network traffic modeling, measurement, and impact on network infrastructure - System benchmarking, performance evaluation, and provisioning - Operating system enhancements, service platforms, and middleware - Massively Multiplayer Online Gaming (MMOG) - Multiplayer usability and user behavior studies - Personal communications and conferencing in games - Mobile games, resource-constrained systems, and context-based adaptation - Networks of sensors, actuators, and haptics for games - Quality of service, quality of experience, and content adaptation - Dynamic and user-generated content authoring and management - Content creation: non-linear storytelling, object capturing, algorithmic creation - Security, authentication, accounting, and digital rights management - Cheat detection and prevention - Social networking in multiplayer games ---- Submission Instructions ---- Authors must follow the formatting and submission instructions of MMSJ at http://www.springer.com/computer/information+systems+and+applications/journ… and follow the "Submit Online" link on that page. Please make sure you mention in your cover letter that you are submitting to this special issue. If the submission is an extended version of a previously published workshop or conference paper, this should also be explicitly mentioned in the cover letter, the published paper must be cited in the submitted journal paper, and the submitted journal paper must technically extend the conference version, by 30% according to MMSJ rules; i.e., the technical contribution in the journal version must be extended beyond what was presented in the conference version. ---- Important Dates ---- Submission deadline: November 15, 2011 First round notification: January 15, 2012 ---- Guest editors ---- Shervin Shirmohammadi, University of Ottawa, Canada Carsten Griwodz, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Grenville Armitage, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia ############################ To unsubscribe from the MM-INTEREST list: write to: mailto:MM-INTEREST-SIGNOFF-REQUEST@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG or click the following link: http://listserv.acm.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ACMLPX.EXE?SUBED1=MM-INTEREST&A=1

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Fwd: [Tccc] cfp: ReSyS 2012; Deadline: 01.12.2012
by Lars Wolf 31 Oct '11

31 Oct '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] cfp: ReSyS 2012; Deadline: 01.12.2012 Datum: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:48:00 +0900 Von: Stephan Sigg <sigg(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> Antwort an: sigg(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu ================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS First Workshop on Resilient Cyber-physical SystemS (ReSyS) - Social Infrastructures, ICT and Mobility - (http://www.nii.ac.jp/jeisec/ReSyS/) in conjunction with the 25th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS) (http://www.arcs2012.tum.de/) in Munich, Germany, February 28th - March 2nd, 2012 ================================================================== Scope Cyber-physical systems support domains of social infrastructures in monitoring and controlling their physical environment. Context data of a physical environment is being collected by sensors, digitally processed as well as stored, and as a result processes and flows of this physical environment are controlled. However, social infrastructures are threatened by crime, terrorism, and natural disasters.A lesson learned from latest dramatically unwanted interference - Great East Japan Earthquake and its consequences - is that Cyber-physical systems cannot be protected against failures. There is always the possibility of an unexpected interference that breaks the assumptions of current risk management guidelines and standards. Resilience aims at an equilibrium of a system in case of interferences. It is not only understood in terms of resistance against threats and attacks (prevent and protect) but also in terms of the ability to mitigate them (respond). The affected system should still deliver trusted services in an hostile environment. A resilient Cyber-physical system consists of numerous components, such as sensors, working with each other in a decentralised way such that when some components fail, the system as a whole dynamically uses equivalent ones and runs the expected service continuously while at the same time fulfilling security requirements at an acceptable degree. Objective The workshop focuses on identifying open research questions and discussing mechanisms to establish this property. Additionally to accepted articles and their presentations, we plan to offer a combined demo, poster and video session to foster hands-on experience, discussion and collaboration among participants. Each full paper session focuses on papers with solid research results. Topics The topics of the workshop are but not limited to [Context-based Security Mechanisms] - Context-based mobile wireless authentication - Context-based device pairing - Securing context-aware applications - Sensor-, context-, and location-based authentication - Spontaneous secure context-based device interactions - Cyber-physical security [Autonomic and Dependable Computing] - Methods and Techniques for Self-Configuration, Self-Healing, Self-Protecting - Distributed Systems and Agents - Flexible and Secure Orchestration of ICT Services - Trustworthy Organic Computing [Privacy in Cyber-physical Systems] - Establishing and managing trust in cyber physical systems - Anonymous/pseudonymous context aware mobile computation - Legal and social issues of security and privacy for mobile devices - Perception of security and privacy in mobile computing [Resilient Cryptography] - Entropy of context based keys - Fuzzy cryptography - Security with noisy data We are seeking unpublished and original submissions in PDF format. Submission should follow the ARCS workshop template and not exceed 6 pages. The review process is double blind and authors are asked to remove any indication to their identity from their submission. Important dates Paper submission deadline: December 01, 2011 Notification of acceptance: December 15, 2011 Final paper submission: January 03, 2012 Workshop: February 28, 2012 Workshop chairs Stephan Sigg, National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan Sven Wohlgemuth, National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan Program Committee - Matthias Budde, KIT, Germany - Alexander de Luca, Universität München, Germany - Isao Echizen, National Institute of Informatics, Japan - Yusheng Ji, NII, Japan - Sjouke Mauw, Universite du Luxemburg, Luxembourg - Günter Müller, Albert-Ludwig University Freiburg, Germany - Kazuhiro Minami, National Institute of Informatics, Japan - Klaus Rechert, University of Freiburg, Germany - Stefan Sackmann, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany - Sebastian Schildt, TU Braunschweig, Germany - Noboru Sonehara, National Institute of Informatics, Japan - Eran Toch, Tel Aviv University, Israel - Jin Wook Byun, Pyecngtaek University, Korea - Mi Zhang, University of Southern California, US - Rui Zhou, University of Electronic Science and Technology, China _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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