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ICST - CFP for WNS2 (Deadline Extended)
by info＠icstconferences.org 31 May '08

31 May '08

The Workshop on ns-2 (WNS2) (http://www.wns2.org/) is a two-day event held in conjunction with VALUETOOLS 2008, the Third International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools (http://www.valuetools.org/), during the week of 20-24 October 2008 in Athens, Greece. WNS2 2008 follows the success of the first WNS2 workshop in 2006. A tutorial day on Thursday 23 October is followed by presentation of reviewed papers on Friday 24 October 2008. The main goals of this second WNS2 workshop are to bring together networking researchers from both academia and industry, to discuss recent advances, to identify future directions in network simulation, and to foster interdisciplinary collaborative research in this area. The workshop aims to emphasise the future evolution of ns-2, now that ns-3 is under active development, and its extension in novel research areas and networking technologies and scenarios. TOPICS OF INTEREST This workshop focuses on the ns simulator in itself, and in improving simulation. We seek original contributions that go beyond the use of ns-2 as is for networking scenarios, and which try to make ns do something new and different. Topics of interest for the Workshop include, but are not limited to: Structural developments/enhancements to the ns-2 simulator itself: - Presentation/evaluation of new features/architectures under development for ns-3. - Dynamic management of libraries / ns-Modules. - Large-scale network simulation and model-based simulation approaches. - Development of parallel and distributed versions of ns. Use of virtualization with ns. - Integration of simulation and emulation. - Post-processing tools, including GUIs for statistical analysis and visualization of simulation results. Simulator use and validation of simulation accuracy: - Validation of ns behaviour with experimentation and real data from implementations. - Comparative studies of ns and other network simulation tools, both commercial and freely available. - Environments and methodologies: the best practices, third-party code, helper scripts, and frameworks that serious users of ns recommend to get things done. New simulation models and features: - Wireless channel modelling. - Frameworks for cross-layer support. - Mobile and wireless networks, 3G/4G networks, WLANs, WPANs, WiMAX, Mesh networks... - Delay-tolerant networking. - Congestion-control and transport-layer issues in long-fat networks. - Mobility: network mobility (NEMO), physical node mobility (e.g., group mobility models). - Sensor and actuator networks (wireless, underwater, underground). - Peer-to-peer systems. - Network coding: data dissemination, encoding/decoding suites. - Grid computing. IMPORTANT DATES Submission of research papers due: June 9, 2008 Notification of paper acceptance: July 1, 2008 Submission of camera-ready papers due: August 1, 2008 Paper presentation date: October 24, 2008 PAPER SUBMISSION Papers should contain original material and not be previously published or currently submitted for consideration elsewhere. Manuscripts must be submitted by using the Cocus conference management system (http://www.cocus.eu ). Conference language is English. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a PDF version of the full paper, with all fonts embedded, using the ACM conference proceedings format. Paper length is limited to ten two-column pages, in a font no smaller than ten points. http://www.wns2.org/ -------------------------------------------------- You are reading ICST conference newsletter. To report any kind of abuse, please contact admin at icst.org. To unsubscribe, please visit the following page: http://icstconferences.org/unsubscribe.php?p=qqoifbgave and enter your email address.

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[Mycolleagues] ACM Q2SWinet 2008 - Submission Deadline Extended
by Matteo Cesana 30 May '08

30 May '08

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please accept our apologies if you received multiple copies of this call for papers ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------- SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED -------------------------------- Manuscript Registration: June 5 Manuscript Submission: June 12 -------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SPECIAL ISSUE NOTE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Special Issue of Wiley Security and Communication Networks will be planned and will contain a revised and extended version of selected noteworthy papers from Q2SWinet 2008 as well as some additional papers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- =========================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS The 4th ACM Workshop on Quality of Service and Security in Wireless Mobile Networks (Q2SWinet) http://home.dei.polimi.it/cesana/ACM/Q2SWinet2008bis.htm Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 27-31 October 2008 (in conjunction with ACM MSWIM 2008) =========================================================== ================== SCOPE AND OVERVIEW ================== Q2SWinet 2008 is the 4th Annual International Workshop on QoS and Security for Wireless and Mobile Networks. Q2SWinet will be a one-day workshop held in conjunction with the 11-th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM 2008). The workshop will bring together networking researchers, engineers, and practitioners with participants from industry, academia, and government institutions. In recent years, wireless and mobile communication systems have become increasingly popular as inexpensive and promising architectures for ubiquitous communications. In this scenario, the provisioning of the required Quality of Service (QoS) to end users, as well as the management of network Security have become crucial tasks to determine the success of future generation wireless and mobile networking paradigms. This workshop calls for cutting-edge research achievements on the provisioning of QoS and Security in wireless and mobile networks. Authors are encouraged to submit full papers presenting new theoretical and/or practical research results in the field of Quality of Service (QoS) support and Security management in mobile and wireless systems. Submitted papers must not have been published elsewhere, nor currently under review in other conferences or journals. ================== TOPICS AT A GLANCE ================== -Security in Wireless MANETs, VANETs, sensor, mesh and PCS networks -Secure wireless access and secure routing -Secure cooperation-based systems and services -Secure wireless communication in multi-modal, multi-homed systems -Intrusion detection in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks -Peer-to-peer security -Privacy, anonymity and authentication -Trust management for cooperation-based systems and services -QoS for wireless multimedia networks and systems -QoS and wireless/wired systems integration -QoS-based Wireless Network Services -QoS and security in Wireless VoIP systems and services -QoS provisioning in wireless multimedia systems -QoS in the Wireless Internet -QoS Routing in Wireless Systems -Monitoring and control systems of wireless networks -QoS Metrics for Wireless Systems -Power and Energy Management in Wireless Systems -Wireless Video Surveillance Networks -Wireless Network Survivability -Wireless Systems Reliability -Field Operating Tests, Performance Modeling and Simulation Techniques -Real-time and QoS-aware Wireless Networks ========== SUBMISSION ========== Submission instructions can be found at http://home.dei.polimi.it/cesana/ACM/Q2SWinet2008bis.htm Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings to be published by ACM press. The Organizing Committee is planning to have a special issue of a major international journal to host noteworthy papers accepted at the workshop (pending approval). =============== IMPORTANT DATES =============== Paper registration deadline: June 5, 2008 (EXTENDED!) Paper submission deadline: June 12, 2008 (EXTENDED!) Notification of acceptance: July 13, 2008 Camera Ready Submission: TBD Workshop Date: October 27-31, 2008 =================== ORGANIZING COMMITTE =================== General Chair: Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Program Committee Chair: Matteo Cesana, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Program Committee available at: http://home.dei.polimi.it/cesana/ACM/committee.htm _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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ACM PE-WASUN 2008: upcoming deadline and special issue announcement
by bononi＠cs.unibo.it 30 May '08

30 May '08

We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ******************************************************************** EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE! paper registration and upload deadline: June 4, 2008 (firm) SPECIAL ISSUE: We are happy to announce that a Special Issue on "Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks" of the Elsevier's Performance Evaluation Journal will contain a revised and extended version of selected best papers from PE-WASUN 2008 as well as additional papers. ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ ACM PE-WASUN 2008 5th ACM International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks (Jointly with the 11th ACM MSWiM Symposium) http://www.ens-lyon.fr/LIP/pe-wasun08 Vancouver, CANADA 27-31 October, 2008 CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ Scope ----- Wireless ad hoc, sensor, along with ubiquitous networks have recently witnessed their fastest growth period ever in history, and this trend is likely to continue for the foreseeable future. However, as such networks become increasingly complex, performance modelling and evaluation will play crucial part in their design process to ensure their successful deployment and exploitation in practice. This workshop aims to bring together scientists, engineers, and practitioners to share and exchange their experiences, discuss challenges, and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research on all aspects of wireless ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks with a specific emphasis on their performance evaluation and analysis. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Predictive performance models of ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks - Analytical modeling - Probabilistic models for ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks - Queuing and network information theoretic analysis - Tracing and trace analysis - Software tools for network performance and evaluation - Simulation methods - Automatic performance analysis - Performance comparison - Performance of wireless and sensor devices - RF channel capacity modeling and analysis - Mobility modeling and management - Traffic models for ad hoc, sensor networks - Performance evaluation of wireless mesh networks - Performance evaluation of pervasive and ubiquitous networks - Network performance improvement through optimization and tuning - Performance measurement, evaluation and monitoring tools for ad hoc, sensor and ubiquitous networks - Case studies demonstrating the role of performance evaluation in the design of ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks Workshop Co-Chairs: ------------------- Luciano Bononi University of Bologna, Italy (bononi(a)cs.unibo.it) Isabelle Guerin Lassous University of Lyon I/LIP, France (Isabelle.Guerin-Lassous(a)ens-lyon.fr) Program Committee Members: -------------------------- Paolo Bellavista University of Bologna, Italy Fernando Boavida University of Coimbra, Portugal Azzedine Boukerche University of Ottawa, Canada Raouf Boutaba University of Ottawa, Canada Raffaele Bruno IIT-CNR, Italy Ioannis Chatzigiannakis Patras University, Greece Guillaume Chelius INRIA/CITI, France Carla Fabiana Chiasserini Politecnico di Torino, Italy Michele Colajanni University of Modena, Italy Francesca Cuomo University of Roma La Sapienza, Italy Marcelo Dias de Amorim CNRS/LIP6, France Falko Dressler Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Bertrand Ducourthial UTC, France Vittoria Gianuzzi University of Genova, Italy Helen Karatza Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Bernard Mans Macquarie University, Australia Pietro Manzoni Politechnic Univ. of Valencia, Spain Tommaso Melodia State University of New York at Buffalo, USA Geyong Min Bradford University, UK Jelena Misic University of Manitoba, Canada Sotiris Nikoletseas Computer Technology Institute, Greece Mirela Notare Barddal University, Brazil Yasunori Owada Space-Time Engineering Inc., Japan Andrea Passarella IIT-NR, Italy Chiara Petrioli University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy Anna Philippou University of Cyprus, Cyprus Samuel Pierre Ecole Polytechnique Montré, Canada Pedro M. Ruiz University of Murcia, Spain Marco Spohn Federal Univ. of Campina Grande, Brazil Damla Turgut University of Central Florida, USA Paper Submission: ----------------- Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent developments in the topics related to the workshop. The length of the papers should not exceed 8 single-spaced, two-column pages, ACM style including tables/figures. A template for ACM SIG Proceedings style (LaTeX2e and MSWord) can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Accepted papers will appear in the ACM workshop proceedings. Papers should be submitted via OpenConf on the following link: http://pe-wasun08.conf.citi.insa-lyon.fr/openconf/openconf.php. JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE: a Special Issue on "Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks" of the Elsevier's Performance Evaluation Journal will contain a revised and extended version of selected best papers from PE-WASUN 2008 as well as additional papers. Important Dates: ---------------- Paper registration due: June 4st, 2008 - Extended! Full paper due: June 4st, 2008 - Extended! Acceptance notifcation: July 1st, 2008 Camera ready due: TBA .

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[Tccc] WNS-2
by Nicolas Montavont 29 May '08

29 May '08

All, Please find enclosed the Call For Papers for WNS2 2008, the only peer- reviewed event focusing on papers about ns2 and ns3. WNS2 will take place in Athens, Greece on October 24, 2008. http://www.wns2.org/ http://www.wns2.org/docs/wns2-2008-call-for-papers.pdf ======================================================= The Workshop on ns-2 (WNS2) (http://www.wns2.org/) is a two-day event held in conjunction with VALUETOOLS 2008, the Third International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools (http://www.valuetools.org/), during the week of 20-24 October 2008 in Athens, Greece. WNS2 2008 follows the success of the first WNS2 workshop in 2006. A tutorial day on Thursday 23 October is followed by presentation of reviewed papers on Friday 24 October 2008. The main goals of this second WNS2 workshop are to bring together networking researchers from both academia and industry, to discuss recent advances, to identify future directions in network simulation, and to foster interdisciplinary collaborative research in this area. The workshop aims to emphasise the future evolution of ns-2, now that ns-3 is under active development, and its extension in novel research areas and networking technologies and scenarios. TOPICS OF INTEREST This workshop focuses on the ns simulator in itself, and in improving simulation. We seek original contributions that go beyond the use of ns-2 as is for networking scenarios, and which try to make ns do something new and different. Topics of interest for the Workshop include, but are not limited to: Structural developments/enhancements to the ns-2 simulator itself: - Presentation/evaluation of new features/architectures under development for ns-3. - Dynamic management of libraries / ns-Modules. - Large-scale network simulation and model-based simulation approaches. - Development of parallel and distributed versions of ns. Use of virtualization with ns. - Integration of simulation and emulation. - Post-processing tools, including GUIs for statistical analysis and visualization of simulation results. Simulator use and validation of simulation accuracy: - Validation of ns behaviour with experimentation and real data from implementations. - Comparative studies of ns and other network simulation tools, both commercial and freely available. - Environments and methodologies: the best practices, third-party code, helper scripts, and frameworks that serious users of ns recommend to get things done. New simulation models and features: - Wireless channel modelling. - Frameworks for cross-layer support. - Mobile and wireless networks, 3G/4G networks, WLANs, WPANs, WiMAX, Mesh networks... - Delay-tolerant networking. - Congestion-control and transport-layer issues in long-fat networks. - Mobility: network mobility (NEMO), physical node mobility (e.g., group mobility models). - Sensor and actuator networks (wireless, underwater, underground). - Peer-to-peer systems. - Network coding: data dissemination, encoding/decoding suites. - Grid computing. IMPORTANT DATES Submission of research papers due: June 9, 2008 Notification of paper acceptance: July 1, 2008 Submission of camera-ready papers due: August 1, 2008 Paper presentation date: October 24, 2008 PAPER SUBMISSION Papers should contain original material and not be previously published or currently submitted for consideration elsewhere. Manuscripts must be submitted by using the Cocus conference management system (http://www.cocus.eu ). Conference language is English. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a PDF version of the full paper, with all fonts embedded, using the ACM conference proceedings format. Paper length is limited to ten two-column pages, in a font no smaller than ten points. http://www.wns2.org/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: ACM CoNEXT 2008 - The 4th ACM International Conference on emerging Networking]
by Lars Wolf 29 May '08

29 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: ACM CoNEXT 2008 - The 4th ACM International Conference on emerging Networking Datum: Wed, 28 May 2008 20:29:50 +0200 Von: Maria Calderon <maria(a)it.uc3m.es> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> CC: gustavo(a)ece.utexas.edu, "'Arturo Azcorra'" <azcorra(a)it.uc3m.es> [We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this message] ========================================================================== ACM CoNEXT 2008: Call for Papers The 4th ACM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (ACM CoNEXT 2008) Organized by IMDEA Networks and University Carlos III of Madrid, sponsored by ACM SIGCOMM 9-12 December 2008 Leganes, Madrid, SPAIN http://www.co-next.net CALL FOR PAPERS The 4th ACM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (ACM CoNEXT), to be held in Madrid, will have the primary goal of promoting stimulating exchanges between various international research communities. The main conference will be preceded by a one-day workshop, and will be a major forum for presentations and discussions of novel networking technologies that will shape the future of Internetworking. The conference is single-track and will feature a high-quality technical program with significant opportunities for individual and small-group technical and social interactions. ACM CoNEXT seeks to foster open discussions on technology alternatives and to be a forum accommodating multiple viewpoints, and is committed to a fair, timely, and thorough review process providing authors of submitted papers with sound and detailed feedback. As its name suggests, ACM CoNEXT 2008 solicits papers on emerging networking experiments, measurements, paradigms, with particular emphasis on creative, out-of-the-box thinking. Additionally, papers reporting on the deployment and performance of services or exploring network functionality aimed at better supporting new services are also welcome. We welcome submissions based on implementation and experimentation, as well as simulation and analytical approaches. Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to the following: o Internet measurement and modeling o Wireless and mobile networks o Ad hoc and sensors networks o Economic aspects of the Internet o Network security issues o Multimedia networking o Peer-to-peer and overlay networks o Routing and traffic engineering o Delay and disruption tolerant networks o New networking protocols and architectures o Autonomic and dependable communications o Networked systems applications and services SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Submissions must be original, unpublished work, and not under consideration at another conference or journal. Conformance to the 12 pages, 10pts ACM SIGCOMM format will be strictly enforced. Electronic proceedings will be published by ACM, and the best papers forwarded to the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking for possible fast-track publication. Travel grants will be available to support student attendance at the conference. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission deadline: 30th June 2008 Submission Deadline: 7th July 2008 Notification: 25th September 2008 Conference Chairs Arturo Azcorra, U. Carlos III and IMDEA Networks, Spain Gustavo de Veciana, U. Texas at Austin, USA Program Chairs Keith W. Ross, Polytechnic University, USA Leandros Tassiulas, University of Thessaly, Greece Steering Committee Arturo Azcorra, U. Carlos III and IMDEA Networks, Spain Kenjiro Cho, IIJ Research Labs, Japan Serge Fdida, Universiy Pierre and Marie Curie, France Roch Guérin, University of Pennsylvania, USA Jim Kurose, University of Massachusetts, USA Laurent Mathy, Lancaster University, UK Publications Chair Hassnaa Moustafa, France Telecom R&D (Orange Labs), France Local Arrangements Chairs Maria Calderon, U. Carlos III, Spain Carlos J. Bernardos, U. Carlos III, Spain =========================================================================== _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: IJAACS special issue on Security, Trust and Privacy in DTV and VANETs [Deadline extended to July 1]]
by Lars Wolf 28 May '08

28 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: IJAACS special issue on Security, Trust and Privacy in DTV and VANETs [Deadline extended to July 1] Datum: Wed, 28 May 2008 12:54:34 +0900 Von: Zonghua Zhang <zonghua.zhang(a)gmail.com> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Referenzen: <abcc67750805272053g7ab36051jc377daeaebc22cf(a)mail.gmail.com> Apologies for possible cross-posting. Please feel free to distribute this CFP to your colleagues. Call for papers -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems ( IJAACS)* Special Issue on: "Security, Trust, and Privacy in DTN and Vehicular Communications" *http://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=857 * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Recent years have witnessed the rapid development and wide-spread application of wireless communication technologies, which have significantly enhanced access to Internet services and provide various means for ubiquitous computing that enables high-speed and high-quality information exchange between mobile/portable devices located anywhere in the globe. Among the various application scenarios enabled by these technologies, DTN (Delay-Tolerant Networks) and VANETs (Vehicular Ad-hoc NETworks) represent the most promising and popular ones, as they are characterized by autonomous and adaptive communications. DTN concerns partial sub-networks, aiming at providing network connections between devices and areas that are not well-served by current networking technology. The nodes in DTN carry the packets while they are moving, and then forward the packets once a wireless connection is available between them. Vehicular communications allow the real-time information exchange between vehicles and infrastructures, with the objective of enhancing road safety and optimizing road traffic. VANETs are primarily enabled by inter-vehicular (or Car-to-Car, C2C) communications and vehicle-roadside communications (or Car-to-Infrastructure, C2I). Despite their tremendous potential and far-reaching impacts on the revolution of human life, both DTNs and VANETs suffer from security and privacy issues which dramatically limit their applications. First of all, they have similar vulnerabilities to other wireless networks, which allow attackers to manipulate and inject messages, breaching system availability, confidentiality and integrity. Besides the traditional prevention techniques, trust management may serve as another security basis for nodes cooperation and information dissemination. Furthermore, the unique characteristics of DTNs and VANETs such as uncertain mobility and unpredictable latency, make security for those networks even more challenging. In particular, due to the frequent disconnections between nodes in DTNs, distributed certificate authorities rather than centralized ones are more desirable (while the frequent distribution of a large amount of certificates should be avoided due to high round-trip time), and the user credentials/keys should be updated periodically instead of relying on revocation messages. Moreover, due to the sporadic connectivity and long delay of message transmissions in DTNs, secure message management is needed to eliminate expired messages and avoid information leakage. In VANETs, the high-speed mobility and the large number of network entities call for time-efficient and cost-saving authorization and authentication models, as well as fast attacker detection, revocation and trace back schemes. In addition, both DTN and VANETs suffer from the privacy-invasive issue, which naturally arises in the environment where the mobile equipments are bounded to the moving users. A suite of privacy-preserving techniques are required to provide the fine level protection of the critical information and user profiles, e.g., a set of equipments related to a particular user in DTNs, personal information (and the liability in case of authority investigation) related to drivers and passengers in VANETs. This special issue is devoted to the most state-of-the-art proposals and cutting-edge research achievements on security and privacy issues in both DTN and VANETs. *Object Coverage* We solicit papers that report original and unpublished work on topics including, but not limited to, the following: - Anonymity, authentication and key management - Attacker trace back - Denial of service and Sybil attacks - Identity theft and phishing in VANETs - Location privacy and user privacy - Intrusion detection, misbehaviour detection and response - Privacy preserving - Revocation of compromised nodes - Security models/architectures and threat models - Secure communications protocols - Secure positioning - Secure billing in VANETs - Surveillance and monitoring - Tamper proof device - Trust management - Vulnerability/attacker modeling and analysis *Notes for Prospective Authors* Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the *Author Guidelines <http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=31>* page at http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=31 . Submission can be directed to GEs via emails. *Important Dates* Manuscripts due: *1 July, 2008* Notification to authors: *1 November, 2008* Revised papers due: *1 December, 2008* *Guest Editors* Zonghua Zhang National Institute of Information and Communications Technology 4-2-1 Nukui-Kitamachi, Koganei, Tokyo 184-8795 Japan *Email*: zonghua.zhang(a)nict.go.jp Farid Naït-Abdesselam University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex France *Email*: naf(a)ieee.org Sherali Zeadally University of the District of Columbia Washington, DC 20008 USA *Email*: szeadally(a)udc.edu Antonio Casimiro University of Lisboa Faculty of Sciences 1749-016 Lisboa Portugal *Email*: casim(a)di.fc.ul.pt _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lars Wolf 27 May '08

27 May '08

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[Tccc] CFP: 1st ACM Workshop on Network Data Anonymization - deadline extended to June 1st
by Elisa Boschi 27 May '08

27 May '08

[apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP] -- Deadline extended to June 1st! -- CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------- Network Data Anonymization (NDA) Workshop An ACM CCS workshop October 31, 2008 Alexandria, VA, USA http://www.ics.forth.gr/~antonat/nda08.html -------------------------------------------- Over the last decade, the network security community (and the Internet measurement community in general) has suffered from two fundamental and related problems: (1) a lack of "real" network data for research studies and prototype testing, and (2) a lack of network data sharing among organizations, which impedes cooperation in network defense; as attacks typically cross organizational boundaries, effective prevention requires defenders to look beyond their own perimeter in cooperation with other organizations. Anonymization techniques are crucial for the safe sharing of network data. They are necessary to obscure certain identifying information (e.g., IP addresses) in order to protect the privacy of end users and the security of internal networks. While current network data anonymization techniques are generally acknowledged to be useful, it is difficult to ensure they are free from information leakage. Also, anonymization involves fundamental tradeoffs between the protection of user privacy and the utility of the resulting data, and these tradeoffs need to be better understood. This workshop seeks to focus on new and innovative solutions for anonymizing network data that will ensure appropriate protection of host identities, network configurations, and network security practices within enterprise networks. Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: - data sharing via anonymization - privacy-preserving data mining - data anonymization tools - data anonymization policy creation/implementation - data anonymization case studies/best practices - streaming data anonymization - anonymization issues specific to network data - business services enabled by anonymization - data protection laws relevant to data anonymization Papers submitted documenting attacks on anonymized systems are strongly encouraged to propose a corresponding protection solution. While the focus of this workshop is on network data anonymization, applications of anonymization to other data domains ( e.g., medical data, homeland security, reputation systems, government records, transportation etc.) are welcome if the authors include a statement of relevance. ---------------- Important Dates: ---------------- Paper submissions due: Sunday, May 25, 2008 --> extended to June 1st! Author notification: Monday, July 7, 2008 Camera ready papers due: Sunday, August 10, 2008 Workshop at CCS '08: Friday, October 31, 2008 --------------------- Organizing Committee: --------------------- Bill Yurcik, University of Texas at Dallas (USA) [Program Chair] Spiros Antonatos, ICS-FORTH (Greece) Michele Bezzi, SAP Research (France) Elisa Boschi, Hitachi Europe (Switzerland) Brian Trammell, CERT/NetSA (USA) ---------------------------- Technical Program Committee: ---------------------------- Nikita Borisov, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) Matthias Bossardt, KPMG (Switzerland) Nevil Brownlee, CAIDA/University of Auckland (New Zealand) KC Claffy, CAIDA/University of California San Diego (USA) Michael Collins, CERT/NetSA (USA) Marco Cremonini, University of Milan (Italy) Michalis Foukarakis, ICS-FORTH (Greece) Carrie Gates, CA Labs (USA) David Maltz, Microsoft (USA) John McHugh, Dalhousie University (Canada) Ruoming Pang, Google (USA) Stefano Paraboschi, University of Bergamo (Italy) Dave Plonka, University of Wisconsin at Madison (USA) Carsten Schmoll, Fraunhofer FOKUS (Germany) Tim Shimeall, CERT/NetSA (USA) Panos Trimintzios, European Network and Information Security Agency (Greece) _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: CFP: IEEE Transactions on Multimedia Special Issue on Quality-Driven Cross-Layer Design for Multimedia Communications]
by Lars Wolf 26 May '08

26 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP: IEEE Transactions on Multimedia Special Issue on Quality-Driven Cross-Layer Design for Multimedia Communications Datum: Mon, 26 May 2008 23:14:14 +0800 Von: Qian Zhang <qianzh(a)cse.ust.hk> An: <multicomm(a)comsoc.org> CC: <sci(a)engr.unl.edu>, <haohong(a)ieee.org>, "'Aggelos K. Katsaggelos'" <aggk(a)eecs.northwestern.edu>, <anargyr(a)ieee.org> Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies. *Call for Papers* *IEEE Transactions on Multimedia* *Special Issue on Quality-Driven Cross-Layer Design for Multimedia Communications* *Guest Editors: * *Aggelos Katsaggelos*, Northwestern University, aggk(a)eecs.northwestern.edu <mailto:aggk@eecs.northwestern.edu> *Song Ci*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, sci(a)engr.unl.edu <mailto:sci@engr.unl.edu> *Haohong Wang*, Marvell Semiconductors, haohong(a)ieee.org <mailto:haohong@ieee.org> *Qian Zhang*, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, qianzh(a)cse.ust.hk <mailto:qianzh@cse.ust.hk> *Antonios Argyriou*, Phillips Research Laboratories, anargyr(a)ieee.org <mailto:anargyr@ieee.org> *Timeline:* Manuscript Submission: October 1st, 2008 Acceptance Notification: February 15th, 2009 Final Manuscript Due: March 15th, 2009 Publication: August 2009 With the rapid growing of emerging multimedia communications applications, such as online gaming, video conferencing, video streaming, and mobile TV, along with the prevalent HD contents and the ever-increasing hardware capability with lower cost, consumers nowadays are seeking for higher quality of multimedia services in terms of desirable audio and visual quality, friendly user interactivity, powerful system adaptability and capability, and other user-preferred performance metrics. However, various applications and media formats may have different quality evaluation criteria and control parameters. For example, scalability and interactivity are very crucial performance metrics for 3D graphics scene model representation and delivery, while they may not be that important for some other multimedia applications. Thus, there is a strong impetus to develop new quality evaluation methodologies for various media formats under different multimedia application scenarios. Recently, cross-layer design has become a popular design methodology for enhancing Quality-of-Service (QoS) over various multimedia communications systems. However, most existing cross-layer designs for QoS provisioning in multimedia communications are mainly focused on improving network-oriented QoS such as throughput, delay, and jitter, while the multimedia application-oriented QoS have not been fully considered in the existing cross-layer design optimization. Therefore, quality-driven multimedia communications need to be extensively investigated under various communications scenarios involving audio, video, VoIP, image, and/or graphics. Under such a background, it is very important to highlight the importance of quality-driven cross-layer design as one of the enabling technologies for the next-generation quality-aware service-oriented multimedia networks. The aim of this special issue is to bring together the state-of-the-art research contributions that address the various aspects of quality-driven cross-layer designs for multimedia communications. Original completed and unpublished works not currently under review by any other journal/magazine/conference are solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: User perceptual quality enhancement methodology Media quality measurements for communications applications Optimized 3D graphics scene representation and transmissions Optimized image/video representation and transmissions Optimized audio/speech coding and transmissions Content-aware cross-layer design and optimization Scalability and mobility issues in cross-layer design Quality-driven cross-layer design architecture Quality-driven resource management, scheduling, and admission control Quality-driven cross-layer MAC and routing protocols Cross-layer protocol stacks for quality support Performance evaluation of quality-driven cross-layer system design Standardization issues related to quality-driven cross-layer design Cross-layer design for P2P streaming Cross-layer design for multimedia sensor networks *Submission Procedure: * Authors should prepare manuscripts according to the Information for Authors as published at www.ieee.org/organizations/society/sp/tmm/infotmm.html <http://www.ieee.org/organizations/society/sp/tmm/infotmm.html>. Note that mandatory over-length page charges and color charges will apply. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically through the online IEEE manuscript submission system at http://tmmieee.manuscriptcentral.com/. When selecting a manuscript type, authors must click on Special Issue on Quality-Driven Cross-Layer Design for Multimedia Communications. Authors should follow the instructions for the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia and indicate in the Comments to the Editor-in-Chief that the manuscript is submitted for publication in the Special Issue on Quality-Driven Cross-Layer Design for Multimedia Communications. A completed copyright form is required to be signed and faxed to 1-732-562-8905 at the time of submission. Please indicate the manuscript number on the top of the page. More specifically, please note that the following five items must be ready before you submit your paper: • A single-column, double-spaced (1-column) version of 30 pages or less for regular papers, 12 pages or less for correspondence papers • A double-column, single-spaced (2-column) version of 8 pages or less for regular papers, 6 pages or less for correspondence papers • Complete contact information for ALL authors on the cover page (name, address, e-mail, phone, fax) • A fully executed and signed IEEE Copyright Form (kindly write the paper number on top of the form for identification) either by to fax: +1.732.235.1627, or you may e-mail a scanned version to d.tomaro(a)ieee.org <mailto:d.tomaro@ieee.org> • References (not yet published). You will need to e-mail (to sci(a)engr.unl.edu <mailto:sci@engr.unl.edu>) a .pdf file for each of the references listed in your paper that have NOT YET been published or are otherwise hard to access for reviewers. Updated information of this call can be found at: http://www.engr.unl.edu/~sci <http://www.engr.unl.edu/%7Esci>.

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CfP Autonomics 2008
by Falko Dressler 26 May '08

26 May '08

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Invitation & Call-for-Papers ***** 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 Co-Chairs: A. Di Ferdinando. Imperial College, UK Publicity Co-Chairs: 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 -- 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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