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[Tccc] CFP - Communications Magazine - Advances in Cooperative and Relay Communications
by Chin, Woon Hau 11 Jun '08

11 Jun '08

Call for Papers Submission Deadline - 15 June 2008 IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic on Advances in Cooperative and Relay Communications In wireless networks, relays have been traditionally used to extend the range of communication systems. However, in recent years, other applications of relay communications have emerged. One such emerging application is to assist in the communication between the source and destination via some cooperation protocol. By controlling medium access between source and relays coupled with the appropriate modulation or coding in such cooperative schemes, it has been found that the diversity of the system can be improved. In multi-user systems, different users can also act as cooperative partners or relays to share resources and assist each other in information transmission, thereby creating a cooperative network. One other emerging application is the exchange of information between multiple users through relay(s). In such cases, by exploiting the knowledge of one's own transmitted signal, the throughput of these systems can be drastically increased. For cooperative and relay communications, the MAC layer also has many unique features. The MAC in this case, is concerned with more than one hop communication, is distributed and cooperative and works for multipoint-to-multipoint communication. The MAC also needs to have knowledge about network topology and account for node mobility. Accordingly, a new design of the MAC layer has to be devised to include new functionalities as well as MAC layer routing. With the large benefits to be reaped from employing cooperative and relay techniques, several standardization groups, such as IEEE 802.16 and IEEE 802.11, have started standardization processes to include such technologies into their prevailing standards. These efforts will no doubt attract even more interests from the academia and industry, advancing cooperative and relay technologies even further in the coming years. With interests from both the research and industrial communities gaining momentum, there is an urgent need to better understand as well as to keep track of cutting edge research in cooperative and relay communications. We plan this special issue to help address that need, as well as to help researchers looking to jump on the bandwagon. Therefore, the special issue will focus on recent advances as well as survey papers in cooperative and relay communications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following topics: . Cooperative algorithms and protocols . Partner(s) selection in cooperative relay and routing . Cooperative resource allocation and management . Relay strategies for cooperative communications . Cooperative and relay technologies applied to WLAN, WMAN and cellular networks . Multidirectional relaying . Distributed coding and modulation . Multiple antenna systems and protocols for cooperative communications . Information theoretic aspects of cooperative communications . MAC issues and MAC layer routing . Cross-layer approaches for joint PHY and MAC optimization Schedule: Full manuscript due: June 15, 2008 Acceptance notification: October 1, 2008 Final manuscript due: December 1, 2008 Publication date: February 2009 Submission: Authors must follow the IEEE Communications Magazine's guidelines for preparation of the manuscript. Complete guidelines for prospective authors can be found at www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/sub_guidelines.html. All articles to be considered for publication must be submitted through Manuscript Central (http://commag-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/). Choose "February 2009/Cooperative and Relay Communications" from the drop down menu. Guest Editors: Woon Hau Chin Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore w.h.chin(a)ieee.org Yi Qian National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA yqian(a)nist.gov Giovanni Giambene University of Siena, Italy giambene(a)unisi.it _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Mycolleagues] INM 2008 - EXTENDED DEADLINE - July 14
by clarissa＠inf.ufrgs.br 11 Jun '08

11 Jun '08

I apologize for multiple copies. --------------------------------------------------------- Internet Network Management Workshop 2008 October 19, 2008 - Orlando, Florida http://www.cs.rice.edu/~eugeneng/inm08/index.html Co-located with ICNP 2008 -------------------------------------------------------- Abstract Submission: July 14, 2008 (5:00pm EDT) - Extended Paper Submission: July 14, 2008 (5:00pm EDT) - Extended Acceptance Notification: August 6, 2008 Camera Ready Due: September 5, 2008 Workshop: October 19, 2008 -------------------------------------------------------- In many ways, computer network management remains the least understood aspect of computer networking. There is a lack of well-established principles for guiding the design of networks for manageability. There is also a lack of scientific theories for analyzing the state of a network and for the evolution of network state. The Internet Network Management (INM) workshop provides an opportunity to elevate participants' collective experience with IP networks into ideas, principles, and theories that can be leveraged in today's networks, or can be carried forward into the clean-slate design of future networks that intrinsically support management, rather than treating management as a bolted-on afterthought. The INM workshop seeks original and thought provoking ideas, case studies, experimental results, position papers, and clean-slate designs. Submissions concerning special-purpose networks, such as VoIP, content distribution, or mobile wireless networks are welcome. The workshop will provide a forum for the exchange of experience and work-in-progress discussions. Topics of Interest: * new abstractions for network configuration management * new control plane architectures * data plane mechanisms to support management * autonomous network management systems with predictive/proactive behaviors * ensuring stability and coherent behavior in distributed and/or autonomous systems * management of backbone, access, enterprise and home networks and network-based applications * techniques and experiments for evaluating network management architectures * experimental platforms that support network management research * comparisons between IP network management and ATM, SONET, or telephony management * defining and enforcing network borders * automatic and adaptive control of networks * cross-layer interactions, including IP/optical or applications/IP * hitless planned maintenance * fault and performance management Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society IEEE Communications Society ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[IFIP-EC-NEWS] Call for Papers for Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE 2008)
by Rauterberg, G.W.M. 10 Jun '08

10 Jun '08

** IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING NEWS SERVICE ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** Send all news to: icec(a)listserver.tue.nl **************************************************** ** NOTE: Please reply to article's originator, ** not this IFIP EC News Service **************************************************** === ACE 2008 === (http://www.ace-conf.org/ace2008/) - Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology - Invites you to submit Full Papers, Short Papers, Posters and Creative Showcases. * Deadline for Full and Short Papers: July 15th, 2008 * Deadline for Posters and Creative Showcases: July 15th, 2008 Submissions of papers will be online on our conference website (http://www.ace-conf.org/ace2008/), and should follow the ACM Submission Format. The conference will take place: December 3rd - 5th, 2008 in Yokohama, Japan. Entertainment is one of the important magical ingredients in the 21st Century society. ACE 2008 is an annual international conference devoted to computer entertainment to provide a premium forum for researchers, developers, practitioners, artists and designers to present and discuss new problems, solutions, content design and technologies in entertainment areas. We warmly invite original papers, demos, art and design works in all areas of entertainment computing and design including (but not limited to): Affective Computing Internet Networking Media Ambient Intelligence Learning and Children Animation Techniques Location-Based Entertainment Augmented / Mixed Reality Metaverse Avatars and Virtual Community Mobile Entertainment Cultural Computing Multimodal Interaction Digital Entertainment and Sports Narratives / Digital Storytelling Digital Broadcasting/Podcasting Pervasive and Online Games Digital Cinema Physical Computing Elderly Entertainment Smart Gadgets and Toys Entertainment Design Theory Social Networking Human-Robots Interaction Sound and Music Experience Design Synesthetic Entertainment Funology Tangible Interfaces Graphics Techniques Visual Effects Interaction Design For further information please visit: http://www.ace-conf.org/ace2008/ Masa Inakage and Adrian David Cheok (General Chairs ACE 2008) **************************************************** ** To send and receive IFIP-EC-NEWS, go to ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** and subscribe directly **************************************************** ** News archives: ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/private/icec/ **************************************************** ** To join the IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING Group ** contact: g.w.m.rauterberg(a)tue.nl ****************************************************

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP SWiN 2008 - **deadline 14 June**]
by Lars Wolf 10 Jun '08

10 Jun '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP SWiN 2008 - **deadline 14 June** Datum: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 03:21:17 +0200 Von: <thomas.watteyne(a)orange-ftgroup.com> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> Dear colleagues, Please find attached the last call-for-papers for SWiN 2008, the First International Workshop on Simulators for Wireless Networks, held in conjunction with IEEE WiMob 2008. Please accept our apologies if you have received multiple copies of this message. You are welcome to forward this CFP to your friends and colleagues working in the field. Kind regards, Thomas Watteyne. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SWiN 2008 First International Workshop on Simulators for Wireless Networks 12 October, 2008, Avignon, France http://ieee.org/go/swin2008/ in conjunction with IEEE WiMob 2008 **Full Papers due: June 14, 2008** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS (pdf version: http://ewh.ieee.org/conf/swin/2008/cfp_swin08.pdf) The First International Workshop on Simulators for Wireless Networks (SWiN 2008) will be held in conjunction with the fourth IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2008) in Avignon, France, on October 12th, 2008. The main focus of this workshop is on simulation of wireless multi-hop networks. The SWiN workshop is devoted to the topic of wireless multi-hop network simulators. An efficient and accurate simulation of these networks raises various issues which generally need to be addressed from several research domains simultaneously. As examples, we can consider the wireless physical layer modeling and simulation, the support of large scale networks, the simulation of complex R/F systems such as MIMO ones, the emulation of wireless nodes, etc. In particular but not exclusively, the Program Committee will be seeking high quality papers on the following aspects of wireless network simulation: - Radio medium modeling & simulation; - Scalability, large scale networks support; - Validation of simulators and simulation results; - Simulators benchmarking and comparisons; - Support of advanced R/F systems (MIMO, smart-antenna); - Support of distributed physical layer schemes (distributed signal processing, cooperative schemes); - Wireless node simulation or emulation; - Interoperability of simulators, emulators and experiments; - Distributed simulation; - Implementation of simulators. This workshop will be an opportunity to present the current works in these domains as well as to foster discussion and cooperation among researchers coming from the fields of simulation, radio medium modeling, ad hoc networking and wireless sensor networking. It will also be the occasion for people directly involved in the development and implementation of simulators to meet and confront their work with the models, applications and requests coming from the research communities that effectively use the simulators. In addition to contributed talks, the workshop program will include two tutorials on wireless physical layer modeling and wireless network simulators. SWiN 2008 will be held in Avignon, in the "Provence" part of Southern France. Avignon is known for its "Palais des Papes" (Palace of the Popes), where the Popes lived for much of the 14th century. With Avignon being one of the most charming places on earth, we expect this to be a truly special workshop. --------------- Important Dates --------------- - Paper submission due: June 14, 2008 - Paper acceptance notification: July 16, 2008 - Final manuscript due: August 14, 2008 - Registration and full payment due: August 20, 2008 ----------------------- Submission Instructions & Reviewing Policy ----------------------- All papers will be included in the main conference proceedings and published by the IEEE. The maximum paper length is SIX printed pages (10-point font) including figures, graphics and tables. We will accept papers that are up to SEVEN pages in length, but the over-length papers will be subject to an overlength fee. Please refer to the WiMob 2008 website for additional information. Prospective authors are kindly asked to submit their paper through EDAS (http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=5907&). When submitting your paper, choose "SWiNWiMob'2008", in the submenu containing the names of the workshops. ---------------------- Organization Committee ---------------------- Workshop co-chairs Guillaume Chelius, CITI Lab / INRIA, INSA Lyon, France. Christian Ibars, Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Barcelona, Spain Publicity Chair Thomas Watteyne, Orange Labs / CITI Lab,INRIA, France ------------------ Program Committees ------------------ Faoudi Bader, CTTC, Spain Azzedine Boukerche, U. of Ottawa, Canada Luis M. Correia, IST - T.U. Lisbon, Portugal Marcelo Dias de Amorim, U. Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 6, France Mischa Dohler, CTTC, Spain Zygmunt Haas, Cornell U., USA Mathieu Lacage, INRIA, France Ana Pérez-Neira, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain Marc Ribet, Opnet Technologies, France George Riley, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Fabrice Valois, INSA de Lyon, France Andreas Willig, Technical U. of Berlin, Germany _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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CfP PIK Themenheft Energiebewusste Systeme
by Falko Dressler 09 Jun '08

09 Jun '08

CALL FOR PAPERS Themenheft "Energiebewusste Systeme" Praxis der Informationsverarbeitung und Kommunikation (PIK) Fachzeitschrift für den Einsatz von Informationssystemen Energie ist eine kritische, manchmal sogar die kritischste Ressource bei vielen modernen Rechensystemen und deren Anwendungen vom Sensornetz, über das Mobiltelefon bis hin zu Laptops und Servern. Somit stellt dieses Arbeitsgebiet einen wichtigen Bereich der aktuellen Forschung im Bereich Systemsoftware (Betriebs- und Kommunikationssysteme) dar. Insbesondere entstehen, getrieben durch immer kleinere und mobilere Endgeräte, neue Anwendungsszenarien mit hohen Anforderungen an Verfügbarkeit, Langlebigkeit, Adaptivität und Selbstorganisation. Im Rahmen des GI/ITG KuVS Fachgesprächs "Energiebewusste Systeme und Methoden" wurde eine Reihe von Forschungsgebieten erarbeitet, die einen wesentlichen methodischen Beitrag zu neuartigen energiebewussten Systemen leisten können. Betriebssysteme: Einzig das Betriebssystem kennt alle strukturellen Eigenschaften der darunter liegenden Hardware wie auch der laufenden Anwendungen. Somit kann es dabei die Hardwarekomponenten in den jeweils für das Gesamtsystem optimalen Betriebsmodus versetzen und die Verweildauer in den jeweiligen Betriebsmodi durch eine energiebewusste Aktivitätensteuerung beeinflussen. Drahtlose Netze: Funkübertragung ist im Vergleich zu Berechnungen oft wesentlich teurer in Bezug auf die benötigt Energie. Durch optimierte Technologien für die zuverlässige Übertragung, Vorverarbeitung und Zwischenspeicherung kann die Sende- und Empfangszeit verringert werden. Neue Kommunikationsparadigmen helfen den Aufwand für die Statusverwaltung zu minimieren. Kommunikationsprotokolle: Aufbauend auf den spezifischen Eigenschaften und Funktionen der verfügbaren Übertragungstechniken, lassen sich Kommunikationsprotokolle für energiebewusstes Arbeiten anpassen. Sogenanntes Cross-Layer-Design hilft, Verzerrungs- und Störeffekte zwischen den Protokollen der Sicherungs-, Netzwerk- und Transportschicht zu vermeiden bzw. zu minimieren. Middleware: Mit der zunehmenden Vernetzung mobiler und eingebetteter Systeme ist das energiebewusste Arbeiten von Basisfunktionalität sogenannter Middleware-Dienste, wie Kommunikation und Vermittlung, unabdingbar. Insbesondere kann auf dieser Schicht nicht isoliert gearbeitet werden. Unter dem thematischen Schwerpunkt energiebewusste Systeme und Methoden sind Beiträge zu allen relevanten Themengebieten erwünscht. Dazu gehören unter anderem aber nicht ausschließlich: - Betriebssystemunterstützung - Kommunikationsmethoden - Protokollentwurf - Simulationstechniken - Schichtenübergreifender Entwurf - Beobachtung des Laufzeitverhaltens realer Systeme Eingereichte Manuskripte sollten ca. 6 gedruckten Seiten entsprechen (eine Seite in der PIK entspricht ca. 6000 Zeichen ohne Abbildungen). Sowohl Deutsche als auch Englische Beiträge sind erwünscht. Alle eingereichten Manuskripte werden von unabhängigen Gutachtern bewertet. Einreichung der Manuskripte bitte per Email an einen der Herausgeber des Themenheftes. - Frist für die Einreichung: 1.11.2008 - Benachrichtigung: 1.1.2009 - Einreichung der druckfertigen Version: 1.2.2009 Herausgeber des Themenheftes: - Falko Dressler, Universität Erlangen (dressler(a)informatik.uni-erlangen.de) - Frank Bellosa, TH Karlsruhe (bellosa(a)ira.uka.de) -- Dr.-Ing. Falko Dressler Computer Networks and Communication Systems University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Phone: +49 9131 85-27914 / Fax: +49 9131 85-27409 EMail: dressler(a)informatik.uni-erlangen.de / fd(a)acm.org WWW: http://www7.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~dressler/

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[Fwd: [Tccc] MONET Special Issue on "Recent Advances in IEEE 802.11 WLANs"]
by Lars Wolf 09 Jun '08

09 Jun '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] MONET Special Issue on "Recent Advances in IEEE 802.11 WLANs" Datum: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:22:04 +0300 Von: Periklis Chatzimisios <peris(a)it.teithe.gr> Antwort an: pchatzimisios(a)ieee.org Organisation: TEI of Thessaloniki An: csim(a)comsoc.org, Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu, itc(a)comsoc.org, tccn(a)comsoc.org Dear colleagues, Please find attached the Call for Papers for the ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications Special Issue on "Recent Advances in IEEE 802.11 WLANs: Protocols, Solutions and Future Directions". Submission deadline is June 15th, 2008. Detailed information and contact persons are provided in the attached document. We look forward to receiving your valuable contributions! Kind regards, Periklis Chatzimisios. -- Dr. Periklis Chatzimisios Researcher in Wireless Communications & Multimedia Networks Department of Informatics, TEI of Thessaloniki GR-57400, Thessaloniki (GREECE) Phone: +30 2310-791604 Fax: +30 2310-791290 Email: peris(a)it.teithe.gr, pchatzimisios(a)ieee.org Web: http://www.it.teithe.gr/~peris ------------------------------------------------ PIMRC 2008: http://www.pimrc2008.org MediaWiN 2008: http://mediawin.it.teithe.gr CSNDSP 2008: http://www.csndsp.com _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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MONET Special Issue on "Recent Advances in IEEE 802.11 WLANs"
by Periklis Chatzimisios 09 Jun '08

09 Jun '08

Dear colleagues, Please find attached the Call for Papers for the ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications Special Issue on "Recent Advances in IEEE 802.11 WLANs: Protocols, Solutions and Future Directions". Submission deadline is June 15th, 2008. Detailed information and contact persons are provided in the attached document. We look forward to receiving your valuable contributions! Kind regards, Periklis Chatzimisios. -- Dr. Periklis Chatzimisios Researcher in Wireless Communications & Multimedia Networks Department of Informatics, TEI of Thessaloniki GR-57400, Thessaloniki (GREECE) Phone: +30 2310-791604 Fax: +30 2310-791290 Email: peris(a)it.teithe.gr, pchatzimisios(a)ieee.org Web: http://www.it.teithe.gr/~peris ------------------------------------------------ PIMRC 2008: http://www.pimrc2008.org MediaWiN 2008: http://mediawin.it.teithe.gr CSNDSP 2008: http://www.csndsp.com

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[Tccc] Autonomics 2008: Deadline extended!
by Antonio Di Ferdinando 09 Jun '08

09 Jun '08

[our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] Deadline for autonomics 2008 extended, please see below. ***** AUTONOMICS 2008 ***** 2nd International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communication Systems http://www.autonomics.eu/ September 23-25, 2008, Turin, Italy In recent years, a plethora of electronic devices embedded into everyday objects and able to interface with the surrounding environment have emerged, foreshadowing the deployment of pervasive context-aware services. Similar to the Internet, these trends will revolutionize existing paradigms of communication, networking, and computing. In particular, the complexity hidden in such dynamic large-scale networks and services calls for self-management and autonomicity as a necessary condition for obtaining purposeful systems. The challenges posed by such a vision cover a wide range of disciplines and sciences, including computing, communication, distributed systems, and control systems. Further, these challenges call for a new, integrated and multidisciplinary approach to pervasive computing and communication environments, giving rise to a new converged science, able to work at the junction of systems, computing and communication sciences. The Autonomics conference provides an international forum driving the emergent science of autonomic systems, bringing together research communities in communication and computing, promoting cross-fertilization among the different disciplines involved. Scope: The primary research challenges faced are the communication, design, programming, deployment, use, and fundamental limits of autonomic, pervasive, context-aware systems running on top of dynamic, possibly large-scale, distributed systems. Authors are invited to submit papers to Autonomics 2008 reporting on original research related to the design, implementation, analysis, evaluation, and deployment of autonomic systems. The conference intends to attract attendees with diverse backgrounds. We solicit papers in autonomic, pervasive, and context-aware systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Theoretical foundations of autonomic systems - Models and metrics - Energy-efficient algorithms - Programming paradigms - Middleware for pervasive systems - Software architectures and toolkits - Positioning and tracking technologies - Architectures & algorithms for self-* systems - Privacy, security, dynamic trust and social issues - Location- and context-awareness - Tools, languages and platforms - Applications and systems - Resource, network and service (self) management - Enabling technologies for pervasive environments Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness. _________________________________________________________________________ IMPORTANT DATES Full paper due: June 8, 2008 Notification of acceptance: July 10, 2008 Final version due: August 15, 2008 Submission Instructions Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 10 pages in ACM conference proceedings format through Easychair <http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=autonomics2008>. The proceedings will be an ICST publication and the papers will be listed in the ACM digital library and indexed by EI. _________________________________________________________________________ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair: A. Manzalini, (Telecom Italia, Italy Vice Chair: F. Saffre, BT Group, UK Steering Committee: I. Chlamtac, Create-Net, Italy D. Miorandi, Create-Net, Italy R. Baldoni, Univ. of Roma, Italy F. Davide, Telecom Italia, Italy TPC Co-Chairs: F. Dressler, Univ. of Erlangen, Germany L. Rodrigues, INESC-ID/IST, Portugal Industry Chair: R. Ghizzioli, Whitestein Technologies, Switzerland Workshop Chair: C. Moiso, Telecom Italia, Italy Publication Chair: A. Di Ferdinando. Imperial College, UK Publicity Chair: B. K. Benko, Budapest Univ., Hungary Financial Chair: Karen Decker, ICST Local Chair: G. Alfano, Politech. Torino, Italy Web Chair: D. Schreckling, Univ. of Hamburg, Germany Conference Coordinator: Zs. Kaszab, ICST _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] JSAC special issue:Wireless and Pervasive Communications for Healthcare]
by Lars Wolf 09 Jun '08

09 Jun '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] JSAC special issue:Wireless and Pervasive Communications for Healthcare Datum: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 16:39:11 +0300 Von: Thanos Vasilakos <vasilako(a)ath.forthnet.gr> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications CALL FOR PAPERS Wireless and Pervasive Communications for Healthcare Wireless and Pervasive Communications for Healthcare, a new and growing interdisciplinary field, calls for innovation in information and communications technology to facilitate reliable, comprehensive, and high quality heathcare. Advances in networking infrastructure as well as middleware are vital to delivering telemedicine services regardless of a patient's physical location. In-home care for elderly persons is costly and can require sensors, wireless monitoring devices, and networking infrastructure and middleware to automatically contact emergency services. Healthcare is motivating unique basic research challenges in wireless and pervasive communications due to requirements for safe signal propagation characteristics, low network latency, low packet loss, high quality image and video transmission, and the need for safe, secure, and dependable operation. The goal of this issue is to report on cutting-edge research in communications for healthcare. Basic research papers are solicited, but papers on systems integration or deployment will also be considered. We seek papers that describe original and unpublished contributions, and that reflect those aspects of communications research for healthcare which are distinctly different from communications research in general. Possible topics include: . New Network architectures for wireless telemedicine . Unique wireless network research issues to support healthcare applications . Regionally-lossless and near-lossless coding for medical images . Unique middleware for enabling medical applications . Equipping ambulances with wireless and sensor networks . E-surgery using large bandwidth connections . Mobile and wearable technologies for next generation drug trials . Organic Computing for Healthcare Networks . Remote tactile sensors for remote diagnosis . Actuators and prompters for rehabilitation and behavior modification . Sensors and mobile devices for continuous patient monitoring . Cyber-physical systems for patient monitoring . Sensor networks for hospitals, operating rooms, elderly monitoring . Autonomic Sensor Networks for Healthcare Prospective authors should follow the IEEE J-SAC manuscript format described in the Information for Authors under http://www.jsac.ucsd.edu/. Authors MUST submit their manuscripts through the EDAS peer review website. Submission deadline: July15, 2008 Acceptance Notification: Nov 15, 2008 Final Manuscript due: Jan 15, 2009 Publication: 2nd quarter 2009 Guest editors: Athanasios V. Vasilakos Department of Computer and Telecommunications Engineering University of Western Macedonia, 50100, Kozani, Greece vasilako(a)ath.forthnet.gr Hsiao-Hwa Chen Institute of Communications Engineering National Sun Yat-Sen University Taiwan 804, hshwchen(a)ieee.org Hussein Mouftah School of Information Technology and Engineering University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5,,mouftah(a)site.uottawa.ca Ibrahim Habib Department of Electrical Engineering City College and Graduate School City University of New York Convent Avenue at 140th Street New York, NY 10031, hab <mailto:habib@ccny.cuny.edu> ib(a)ccny.cuny.edu Kevin Montgomery National Biocomputation Center 701A Welch Road, Suite 1128 Stanford, CA 94305 kevin(a)cohiba.stanford.edu _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: Special Issue on Ubiquitous Wireless Mesh Networks, International Journal of Communication Systems (IJCS), Wiley
by Mieso Denko 08 Jun '08

08 Jun '08

--------------------------------------------------------- Apologies if you received multiple copies of this posting. --------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Special issue on: Ubiquitous Wireless Mesh Networks International Journal of Communication Systems (IJCS), Wiley, indexed by SCIE http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/117946196/grouphome?CRETRY=1&SRE… Wireless mesh networks are becoming promising communication technologies for broadband wireless access by providing wireless backbone to mobile devices over multi-hop wireless communication systems. This emerging technology has a great potential for ubiquitous wireless network access anywhere and anytime. A number of wireless networking and communication technologies that support ubiquitous wireless services and applications are currently in wide spread use. Wi-Fi and WiMax based wireless mesh networks are examples of such technologies currently under deployment, fostering broadband wireless network access and supporting different communication ranges. While these technologies provide flexible communication compared to wired networks and single hop communication models, they are still restricted to the existing wireless backbone coverage. The convergence of ubiquitous computing and networking with wireless and mobile networking technologies opens a path to a prom! ising opportunity for ubiquitous wireless mesh networks and services. Indeed, this provides a great potential for enabling ubiquitous wireless network access in the next generation mobile networks. However, due to the heterogeneous nature of networks, devices, and services, ubiquitous multi-hop wireless access technology introduces new research challenges in all areas of network protocol stack, including security, interoperability and performance challenges. The aim of this special issue is to publish state-of-the-art research results in the area of ubiquitous wireless mesh networks, with focus on innovative architectures, networking protocols, communication models, services and applications. Manuscripts relating to these issues will be invited from researchers working in these areas worldwide. Topics of primary interest include, but are not limited, to the following: Ubiquitous and autonomic middleware Experience with the deployment of wireless mesh networks for ubiquitous access Unique challenges and future trends Ubiquitous wireless Internet access and services Self-organization and self-management Wireless mesh network support for ubiquitous computing Localization, synchronization, and mobility Routing, multicasting and broadcasting protocols Cross-layer design and optimization Experimental testbeds, prototypes, and practical systems Quality of service provisioning Methods and tools for visualization and monitoring Performance modeling and simulations Mobility support in wireless mesh networks Architectures, protocols, and algorithms Security, privacy, and trustworthiness issues. Scheduling, load balancing and channel models Technologies and standards for enabling ubiquitous wireless mesh networks Guest Editors: Mieso Denko Department of Computing and Information Science University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Email: denko(a)cis.uoguelph.ca Isaac Woungang Department of Computer Science Ryerson University Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Email: iwoungan(a)scs.ryerson.ca Han-Chieh Chao Department of Electronic Engineering and Institute of Computer Science & Information Engineering National Ilan University, I-Lan, Taiwan, ROC Email: hcc(a)niu.edu.tw Pedro Cuenca Departamento de Sistemas Informaticos Escuela Politecnica Superior Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Email: pedro.cuenca(a)uclm.es Submission Details: Original, high quality contributions that are not yet published or that are not currently under review by other journals or peer-reviewed conferences are sought. Manuscripts should be submitted directly via the IJCS submission web site at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijcs Once you register, you will be asked to enter the following information: - Manuscript type- Special Issue Article - Title: - Running Head: Denko et al. etc. Paper submissions must conform to the layout and format guidelines in International Journal of Communication Systems. Instructions for Contributors are available at: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/5996/home/ForAuthors.html Each submitted paper will be reviewed by at least three qualified reviewers. Important Dates: Manuscript due date: December 1, 2008 First round notification: January 30, 2009 Revised paper due: February 16, 2009 Notification of acceptance: March 9, 2009 Submission of final manuscript: April 28, 2009 Tentative Publication date: 4th quarter of 2009 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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