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CFP: MELT08 deadline extended 10 days
by Ying Zhang 15 May '08

15 May '08

[sorry if you received multiple copies] CALL FOR PAPERS *********************************************************************** The First ACM International Workshop on Mobile Entity Localization and Tracking in GPS-less Environments (MELT 2008) URL: http://www.parc.com/MELT08 San Francisco, California, September 19, 2008, co-located with ACM MobiCom08 *********************************************************************** *********************************************************************** Important Dates *Submission deadline: May 26, 2008 (extended from May 16)* Acceptance notification: June 23, 2008 Camera-ready version: July 7, 2008 Workshop date: September 19, 2008 *********************************************************************** Location-awareness is a key component for achieving context-awareness. Recent years have witnessed an increasing trend of location-based services and applications. In most cases, however, location information is limited by the accessibility to GPS, which is unavailable for indoor or underground facilities and unreliable in urban environments. Much research has been done, in both the sensor network community and the ubiquitous computing community, to provide techniques for localization and tracking in GPS-less environments. Novel applications based on ad-hoc localization and real-time tracking of mobile entities are growing as a result of these technologies. It is time to bring leaders from both the academic and industry research communities to discuss challenging and open problems, to evaluate pros and cons of various approaches, to bridge the gap between theory and applications, and to envision new research opportunities in MELT. The workshop seeks to provide a forum for the state-of-the-art technologies in mobile localization and tracking and novel applications of location-based services. The one-day workshop will have a combination of invited talks, technical presentations and discussions. Possible topics of interests include, but are not limited to: Technology topics: * Algorithms for Localization and Tracking * Opportunistic Localization (using existing signals in the environment) * Environment Mapping and Map Representations * Dynamic/ad-hoc Mapping of Environments * Cheap and Accurate Sensing for MELT (RF, Ultrasound, IR, UWB, RFID etc.) * Collaborative Localization and Data Fusion * Combined Camera/Sensor Localization and Tracking * Hybrid Location-Determination (e.g., RF+vision) * Secure and Robust Localization Application topics: * Search and Rescue Operations * Asset Tracking/Yard Management * Material/In-process flow control * Inventory Tracking + Location * Vehicular Tracking in Intelligent Transportation Systems * Sports and Entertainment * Indoor Navigators/Activity Recommenders * Automatic/Robotic Warehouses/Factories *********************************************************************** Important Dates Submission deadline: May 26, 2008 (extended from May 16) Acceptance notification: June 23, 2008 Camera-ready version: July 7, 2008 Workshop date: September 19, 2008 *********************************************************************** Submission Details The workshop seeks papers on preliminary technique results, novel application concepts, software and hardware research toolkits, statements of open challenging problems, mathematical formalization and solutions. Selected papers will be grouped, presented and discussed at the workshop. All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Authors should prepare a Portable Document Format (PDF) version of their full paper. Papers must be no longer than 6 pages, in font size no smaller than 10 points, and must fit properly on US "Letter"-sized paper (8.5 W 11 inches). All paper submission Margins must be of 1 inch on all edges (top, bottom, left, and right) of each page. Papers must be submitted electronically through the EDAS system (http://edas.info). The submission process is the same as the MobiCom08: http://www.sheridanprinting.com/typedept/mobicom.htm. Papers will be reviewed by the Technical Program Committee. Accepted papers will be published by published by ACM Press and distributed at the workshop; copies of the Proceedings will also be available for sale from ACM after the workshop. *********************************************************************** Organization Committee General Co-Chairs: Dr. Ying Zhang (Palo Alto Research Center) Prof. Yinyu Ye (Stanford University) Technical Program Committee Maurice Chu: Palo Alto Research Center, USA Richard Fuller: Geotrax Protection, USA Ismail Guvenc: DoCoMo USA Communications Laboratories, USA Tian He: Univ. of Minnesota, USA Qingfeng Huang: Palo Alto Research Center, USA Pan Hui: University of Cambridge, UK Masakazu Kojima: Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Kris Kolodziej: Spime Inc., USA Juan Liu: Palo Alto Research Center, USA Nissanka (Bodhi) Priyantha: Microsoft Research, USA Zafer Sahinoglu: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA Michael Saunders: Stanford University, USA Radu Stoleru: Texas A&M Univ., USA John Suh: General Motors, USA Paul Tseng: Univ. of Washington, USA ----------------------------------------------------- To be removed from future issues of the SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS, 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. 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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP - Communications Magazine - Advances in Cooperative and Relay Communications]
by Lars Wolf 15 May '08

15 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP - Communications Magazine - Advances in Cooperative and Relay Communications Datum: Thu, 15 May 2008 15:26:34 +0800 Von: Chin, Woon Hau <w.h.chin(a)ieee.org> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> Call for Papers 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 1, 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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[Fwd: EWSN 2009 Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 15 May '08

15 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: EWSN 2009 Call for Papers Datum: Wed, 14 May 2008 13:37:58 +0100 Von: Jorge Sá Silva <sasilva(a)dei.uc.pt> An: <sasilva(a)dei.uc.pt> ***Apologize if you receive multiple copies*** ============================================================================ EWSN 2009 Call for Papers The 6th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks February 11th-13th, Cork, Ireland http://www.ewsn.org/ ============================================================================ EWSN is acknowledged as one of the most competitive and well-established international conferences in the area of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). It attracts papers of the highest quality from researchers around the globe, emphasising work that involves inter-disciplinary collaboration. EWSN is consistently well-attended, with delegates that reflect a healthy mix of university academics and industry representatives, that are drawn from all the major centres of WSN research activity and that span all the main continents. The goalof this conference is to create a forum where researchers with different experiences and backgrounds, from hardware to applications, can discuss cross-layer integration, novel solutions for specific problems and envisage the future development of WSN functionalities. Submissions describing original, previously unpublished research results, are sought. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * WSN Hardware: transceiver concepts, antenna design, system integration and manufacturing, battery technology and energy harvesting; * Communication Protocols: MAC and link layer issues, radio resource assignment, routing and transport protocols, topology control protocols, gateways to Internet and other networks, 6LoWPAN; * Algorithms and Protocols: localization techniques and protocols, performance control, time synchronization and related protocols, object tracking; * Operating Systems and Programming Abstractions: concepts and tools for programming and debugging sensor networks, high-level programming abstractions; * Middleware and Service Infrastructures: (dynamic) configuration and installation support, network management, group communication, QoS support, integrating WSNs in existing middleware architectures; * Information Processing: storage, querying, compression, fusion, aggregation, cooperative algorithms, event detection; * Practical Models and Algorithms: resource consumption, network performance, network planning, provisioning, calibration and deployment, mobility models; * Security and Resilience: primitives for appropriate cryptographic protocols, secure system engineering, failure resilience and fault isolation, robustness at all levels: communication, software, hardware; * Novel Applications: application requirements, experiences with real-world applications, management of (large-scale) sensor networks; * Prototypes, Field Studies, and Testbeds: novel sensor node prototypes, measurements within testbeds, debugging and testing, experimental validation/refutation of simulation results. Chairs Utz Roedig, Lancaster University, UK Cormac Sreenan, University College Cork, Ireland Important Dates, Full Papers Submission: Sept 17th 2008 Notification: Nov 10th 2008 Camera-ready: Nov 24th 2008 Important Dates, Posters and Demos Submission: Dec 1st 2008 Notification: Dec 15th 2008 Camera-ready: Jan 9th 2009 Full Papers (no more than 16 pages): This highly selective conference will only accept for review original papers that have not been previously published and are not currently under review by any other conference or journal. We will adopt a double-blind review process, where authors' names and their affiliations must not be revealed or mentioned anywhere in the paper. All submissions will be handled electronically via EDAS. Submissions must be in Adobe PDF format and not exceed 16 pages, including text, figures and references. We require that submissions conform to the Springer-Verlag LNCS style. Posters and Demos (no more than 2 pages): The poster session will provide a forum for researchers to showcase their work and obtain feedback on ongoing research from knowledgeable conference attendees. A poster presentation can also be accompanied by a demonstration to illustrate an application, technology, or platform. Submission guidelines and further information is available at http://www.ewsn.org The organizers can be contacted at ewsn09-chairs(a)cs.ucc.ie No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.16/1427 - Release Date: 11-05-2008 13:08 ============================================================================ EWSN 2009 Call for Papers The 6th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks February 11th-13th, Cork, Ireland http://www.ewsn.org/ ============================================================================ EWSN is acknowledged as one of the most competitive and well-established international conferences in the area of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). It attracts papers of the highest quality from researchers around the globe, emphasising work that involves inter-disciplinary collaboration. EWSN is consistently well-attended, with delegates that reflect a healthy mix of university academics and industry representatives, that are drawn from all the major centres of WSN research activity and that span all the main continents. The goalof this conference is to create a forum where researchers with different experiences and backgrounds, from hardware to applications, can discuss cross-layer integration, novel solutions for specific problems and envisage the future development of WSN functionalities. Submissions describing original, previously unpublished research results, are sought. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * WSN Hardware: transceiver concepts, antenna design, system integration and manufacturing, battery technology and energy harvesting; * Communication Protocols: MAC and link layer issues, radio resource assignment, routing and transport protocols, topology control protocols, gateways to Internet and other networks, 6LoWPAN; * Algorithms and Protocols: localization techniques and protocols, performance control, time synchronization and related protocols, object tracking; * Operating Systems and Programming Abstractions: concepts and tools for programming and debugging sensor networks, high-level programming abstractions; * Middleware and Service Infrastructures: (dynamic) configuration and installation support, network management, group communication, QoS support, integrating WSNs in existing middleware architectures; * Information Processing: storage, querying, compression, fusion, aggregation, cooperative algorithms, event detection; * Practical Models and Algorithms: resource consumption, network performance, network planning, provisioning, calibration and deployment, mobility models; * Security and Resilience: primitives for appropriate cryptographic protocols, secure system engineering, failure resilience and fault isolation, robustness at all levels: communication, software, hardware; * Novel Applications: application requirements, experiences with real-world applications, management of (large-scale) sensor networks; * Prototypes, Field Studies, and Testbeds: novel sensor node prototypes, measurements within testbeds, debugging and testing, experimental validation/refutation of simulation results. Chairs Utz Roedig, Lancaster University, UK Cormac Sreenan, University College Cork, Ireland Important Dates, Full Papers Submission: Sept 17th 2008 Notification: Nov 10th 2008 Camera-ready: Nov 24th 2008 Important Dates, Posters and Demos Submission: Dec 1st 2008 Notification: Dec 15th 2008 Camera-ready: Jan 9th 2009 Full Papers (no more than 16 pages): This highly selective conference will only accept for review original papers that have not been previously published and are not currently under review by any other conference or journal. We will adopt a double-blind review process, where authors' names and their affiliations must not be revealed or mentioned anywhere in the paper. All submissions will be handled electronically via EDAS. Submissions must be in Adobe PDF format and not exceed 16 pages, including text, figures and references. We require that submissions conform to the Springer-Verlag LNCS style. Posters and Demos (no more than 2 pages): The poster session will provide a forum for researchers to showcase their work and obtain feedback on ongoing research from knowledgeable conference attendees. A poster presentation can also be accompanied by a demonstration to illustrate an application, technology, or platform. Submission guidelines and further information is available at http://www.ewsn.org The organizers can be contacted at ewsn09-chairs(a)cs.ucc.ie

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CfP for ITC Specialist Seminar: "Network Usage and Traffic"]
by Lars Wolf 14 May '08

14 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CfP for ITC Specialist Seminar: "Network Usage and Traffic" Datum: Wed, 14 May 2008 13:22:33 +0200 Von: Anja Feldmann <anja(a)net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de> Antwort an: Anja Feldmann <anja(a)net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu [please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Teletraffic Congress (ITC) 19th Specialist Seminar "Network Usage and Traffic" October 8-10, 2008 Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany Conference web site: http://www.net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de/itc/ co-located with the 5th Polish-German Teletraffic Symposium (PGTS'08 - http://www.net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de/pgts/) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission deadline: June 15, 2008 Notification: August 17, 2008 Final version: September 21, 2008 Seminar dates: October 8 to 10, 2008 Program committee chairs: Matthias Grossglauser (Nokia Research, Finland) Gunnar Karlsson (KTH, Sweden) General chairs: Anja Feldmann (TU Berlin, Germany) Adam Wolisz (TU Berlin, Germany) Overview and scope: Communication networks are part of our vital infrastructure, and the services they provide are fundamental to our daily work and private lives. The networks are constantly evolving, which leads to high uncertainty about current and future network usage and traffic demands. An important trend for this evolution is that data and wireless networks are increasingly inter-connected with sensor networks, industrial communication systems, as well as ad hoc and femto-cell wireless networks into one big internet. Another important trend is the proliferation of novel application-layer communication and interaction models, including social networks, blogs and micro-blogs, and user-generated content sharing. Many of these models are proliferating not only on the wired internet, but they are becoming available also on mobile terminals. The traffic patterns resulting from such interaction models and their dependence on human behavior and social contexts are not well understood, and little is known about the usage of services and the resulting traffic in heterogeneous interconnected network. Given the importance of communication systems in our society and the tremendous changes that they undergo, this seminar is aimed at characterizing network usage and traffic, which is germane for the design, operation and management of all forms of communication networks. It is the 19th event in the series of the ITC Specialist Seminars that started in 1977. The seminar will take place on October 8 to 10, 2008, in Berlin, Germany. We are now soliciting papers that describe original, previously unpublished, completed research as well as work in progress, not currently under review by another conference or journal, addressing all areas pertaining to the theme of the seminar. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: o Human behavior models for application-level characterizations; o Information flow in social networks and other application-level structures; o Network usage and traffic patterns for machine and industrial communication; o Characterization of usage and traffic for peer-to-peer networks; o Elasticity of streaming flows and their quality-rate tradeoffs; o Stochastic and deterministic usage and traffic modeling techniques and their applications; o Spatial and temporal traffic models for mobile communication and information access; o Macroscopic abstractions of traffic flows in large networks; o Characterization and detection of traffic anomalies for attack and fault detection. Submission instructions: The submissions will be judged on originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must present the paper at the seminar. Submissions should be full-length papers that are no longer than 10 single-spaced, double-column pages with font sizes of 10 or larger, including all figures and references, and must include an abstract of 100 to 150 words. We will only accept files in Adobe PDF format. Please consult the seminar website for more information. Sponsors: This workshop is sponsored by the ITC ITG. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Anja Feldmann, Ph.D. email: anja(a)net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de Deutsche Telekom Laboratories tel: +49 30 8353 58510 TU Berlin mobile: +49 170 333 8353 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Mycolleagues] CFP: IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine. Feature Topic on "Enterprise Mobility Services"
by Belén Carro 14 May '08

14 May '08

(Sincere apologies for cross-posting) *********************************************************************** *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine *** Feature Topic on "Enterprise Mobility Services" *** Manuscript submission due: June 15, 2008 *** http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/pcm/cfpwcm0409.htm *********************************************************************** Enterprise market constitutes a very large share of the ICT sector. Normal market segmentation differentiates between big corporations for which tailored solutions can be offered and SMEs, businesses and professionals, for which generic solutions are designed, taking into account the so called long tail effect. In the ICT era of the 21st century, mobile services have a promising outlook. Companies are no longer static, premises based. On the contrary they have full mobility needs, with global customers that can be based worldwide, a growing number of remote offices that need to be interconnected, teleworkers that work from home, employees that are always travelling, longer times out of office, etc. On the other hand mobile technologies have evolved significantly over the last years improving the performance offered to users: mobile broadband thanks to 3.5G and beyond with growing coverage for several Mbps bandwidth; more powerful mobile handsets that support more complex applications and offer better user interfaces including larger screens and new features like embedded GPS, NFC,&; a massive penetration of mobile data telephony specially in the enterprise; smaller and lighter laptops at decreasing prices; maturity of IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) for telco grade IP communications, etc. Given this starting point where workers have permanent access to email in the mobile, and full remote desktop connectivity with laptops and VPNs in this special issue we will go beyond with current research activities related to future enterprise mobility with a total focus on services and applications. Among the different existing vertical enterprise markets special attention will be given to wireless eHealth applications. Original, unpublished contributions will be considered for the issue in any of, but not limited to, the following or related topic areas: * Mobile convergent communications (IMS Corporate services) * Wireless eHealth * Networked applications * Telework and mobile desktop * Mobile enterprise 2.5: collaboration, semantics,& * Mobile grids MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION Prospective authors should prepare their manuscript in accordance with the magazine format described at http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/pcm/sub_guidelines.html. Articles should be tutorial in nature and should be written in a style comprehensible to readers outside the specialty of the article. Mathematical equations should not be used. Articles should have no more than 4,500 words, 6 tables/figures, or 15 references. Authors should submit a PDF version of their complete manuscript to cfp_ieeewircommmag_entmobserv(a)tid.es SCHEDULE Manuscript submission due: June 15, 2008 Acceptance notification: November 1, 2008 Final manuscript due: December 1, 2009 Publication: April 2009 GUEST EDITORS Antonio Sánchez-Esguevillas Telefónica, Spain Belén Carro-Martínez University of Valladolid, Spain Bhumip Khasnabish Verizon Laboratories, USA Ajay Gupta Hewlett-Packard Labs, India -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Cfp_ieeewircommmag_entmobserv mailing list Cfp_ieeewircommmag_entmobserv(a)tid.es https://listas.tid.es:444/mailman/listinfo/cfp_ieeewircommmag_entmobserv _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Extended deadlines: CFP IEEE WiMob 2008 (AVIGNON: Palace of the Popes)]]
by Lars Wolf 14 May '08

14 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Extended deadlines: CFP IEEE WiMob 2008 (AVIGNON: Palace of the Popes)] Datum: Wed, 14 May 2008 09:02:47 +0200 Von: Congduc Pham <congduc.pham(a)univ-pau.fr> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Apologies if you received multiple copies of this posting. Please feel free to distribute it to those whoever might be interested. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear colleagues and friends, Due to numerous requests, the paper submission deadline of the IEEE WiMob 2008 has been extended to May 30, 2008: http://www.lia.univ-avignon.fr/wimob2008 New Informations on the web: - Keynotes speakers: Ian Akyildiz and Luigi Fratta - Some best papers are invited to be submitted to Special issues of journals - Best paper award and best student papers are oranized - a social event is organized: Gala Dinner dancing cruise WiMob's publicity chairs, +---------------------------------------------------------+ | | | WiMob'2008 | | | | 4th IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on | | Wireless & Mobile Computing, Networking & communication | | | +---------------------------------------------------------+ Avignon, FRANCE October 12-14, 2008 http://www.lia.univ-avignon.fr/wimob2008 SCOPE: ------ The research area of mobile computing has become more important following the recent widespread drive towards mobile ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks and vehicular ad hoc networks tracking technologies and their applications. The availability of the high bandwidth 3G infrastructures, and the pervasive deployment of low cost WiFi infrastructure and WiMAX to create hotspots around the world serve to accelerate the development of mobile computing towards ubiquitous computing. WiMob’08 addresses three main areas: Wireless Communications Mobile Networking, Mobility and Nomadicity Ubiquitous Computing, Services and Applications This conference aims to stimulate interactions among participants and enable them to exchange new ideas and practical experience. WiMob’08 is the fourth in a series of annual conferences: two times in Montréal (QC), Canada in 2005 and 2006 and the last one in New York, USA in 2007. Best papers award and travel grants * 1 X Student best paper award for full time student * 1 X Best paper award * 2 X Travel grant for students from outside Europe: To apply, you must be student from outside EU. The application will be open on EDAS. The committee will review your applications and will award the grants to the students deserving as regards the social aspects, the recommendation of the PhD supervisor, the interest for the student to attend the conference and the quality of the paper. Special issues of Journals Conjointly with WiMob 2008, Special Issues (SI) of journals will be organized and launched (the detail is coming soon). The call of these SI will be open to all public. However, we invite a certain number of original and technically sound papers (selected by the TPC co-chairs and following the reviewing process) to be improved and submitted to a designated SI. Social Event: Dinner and dancing Cruise IMPORTANT DATES: ---------------- Paper submission due: May 30, 2008 Notification of acceptance: August 1, 2008 Final manuscripts due: August 20, 2008 This conference will be comprised of the following three symposia: Wireless Communications ----------------------- Broadband Wireless Communication Systems Wireless Personal Communications Advances in Satellite Communication Broadband Wireless Communications Modulation and Coding Channel Measurement and Characterization OFDM and CDMA Technologies and Systems MIMO Channels Multiuser Detection Signal Separation and Interference Rejection Multimedia Communications over Wireless DSP Applications to Wireless Systems Adaptive Antennas for Wireless Systems Multiple Access Techniques Location Estimation and Tracking Resource Allocation and Interference Management Multirate and Multicarrier Communications Mobile Networking, Mobility and Nomadicity ------------------------------------------ Mobile IP Networks Cellular Systems, PCS Modeling and Configuration Multimedia over Wireless Mobility and Location Management Wireless Networks Standards and Protocols Design and Analysis of Wireless LAN/WAN Designing and Modeling High Availability Mobile Networks Mobile Network Modeling and Simulation Architectures and Protocols for Mobile Networks Security, Privacy and Authentication in Mobile Environments Wireless Sensor Networks Cross-layer Design and Optimization Ad-hoc Wireless Networks Mobile Internet Home and Ubiquitous Networks Smart Sensors and Sensor Networks Inter-working of 2G, 3G and 4G Wireless Networks Ubiquitous Computing, Services and Applications ----------------------------------------------- Distributed Computing and Distributed Databases Location-based Services Virtual Home Environments (VHE) M-Commerce M-Learning Streaming Applications Portable Devices and Wearable Computers Web Services Home and Office Appliances Enabling Technologies for Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing Security, Privacy and Infrastructure for Ubiquitous Computing Systems and Services (e.g. Mobile satellites, WLANs) Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Computing Home and Ubiquitous Networks Mobile Ad-Hoc Computing Gaming Applications in Ubiquitous Computing Environments Passive, Active and Smart Tags for Ubiquitous Computing Location-dependent and Context-aware Computing Software Architecture for Home/Smart Appliances Human Computer Interaction in Ubiquitous Computing Full papers must be submitted for review. Only original papers, unpublished nor submitted for publication elsewhere, can be submitted. Please visit http://www.lia.univ-avignon.fr/wimob2008 for details and submission information. Only timely submissions through EDAS at http://edas.info will be accepted. Seven Workshops are organized conjointly with WiMob 2008 on 12 October: 1. Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications 2. Broadband Wireless Internet Access 3. Social Aspects of Ubiquitous Computing Environments 4. Heterogeneous Wireless Networks: Resource Management and QoS 5. Context-awareness and User Interfaces for Professional Applications of Mobile and Wearable Computing 6. War & Peace Driving: Wireless Security and Public Uptake 7. Simulators for Wireless Networks For more information, please visit the web page: http://www.lia.univ-avignon.fr/index.php?id=612 C. 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[Tccc] CFP: International Workshop on Mobile Vehicular Networks (MoVeNet 2008) Sep 29, 2008
by Fan Bai 14 May '08

14 May '08

My apologies if you receive multiple copies regards Fan International Workshop on Mobile Vehicular Networks (MoVeNet 2008) Sep 29, 2008 Atlanta, GA Co-Located with IEEE MASS 2007 Website - http://www.winlab.rutgers.edu/movenet/ Theme and Scope In the last few years an enormous effort has been made by researches in both industry and academia aimed at creating highly scalable, high performance, secure and reliable vehicular networks (VANET) technologies. These new vehicular systems will enable roadside safety and homelands security as well as a broad range of entertainment environmental, and social applications. The aim of this workshop is to foster interactions among researchers from industry and academia on the state of the art as well the work in progress on wireless vehicular ad hoc networking (VANET) technologies. The focus is network protocols, and emerging communication standards as well as entertainment, safety, ITS, and commercial applications enabled by a vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) wireless communication technology. Such technology should meet the QOS requirements of diverse applications and should permit self-organization with a minimal user configuration. Authors are invited to submit papers presenting new research related to the theory or practice of VANET. All submissions must describe original research, not published or currently under review for another conference or journal. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * Emerging applications such as content distribution, infotainment, Internet access, etc. * Implementation, testbeds, and field tests of VANET systems * Vehicular network architectures and protocols * Vehicular network performance modeling and analysis * Vehicular network medium access control and routing protocols * Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) * Challenges of V2V, V2I, and I2V wireless communication * Security, privacy issues in VANET and trustworthy networking * Privacy-preserving technologies * Use of wireless technology within cars * Emerging inter/intra-vehicle and infrastructure-to-vehicle wireless communication technologies * Incentives, cooperation, and reputation systems * Quality of Services (QoS) provisioning in wireless-enabled ITS systems * Traffic management, vehicle control, and safety related applications for ITS systems * Networking and information services for users on the roads * Cross-layer design and optimization for vehicular ad hoc networks * Mobility management * Potential modifications needed to improve the DSRC standard * Propagation issues Paper Submissions We encourage researchers from industry and academia to submit original works (reported results should not be under consideration in any other journal, conference, or workshop). We particularly encourage submission of early-stage innovative ideas that will lead to discussion at the workshop. All submissions must be in PDF format. Submitted papers must be uploaded through the EDAS conference management system, and must not exceed six (6) single-spaced, two-column pages using at least 11 point size fonts on 8.5 x 11 inch pages (standard IEEE conference format). Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE MASS proceedings and appear in the IEEE Digital Library. Important Dates * Submission Due: June 13, 2008 * Acceptance Notification: July 4, 2008 * Final Manuscript due: July 18, 2008 Organizers General Chair: * Mario Gerla, UCLA Program Chairs: * Marco Gruteser, Rutgers University * Fan Bai, General Motors Fan Bai, PhD Senior Researcher Electrical & Controls Integration Lab GM R&D and Planning Mail Code: 480-106-390 General Motors Corporation Warren, MI 48090 Tel (586)986-1457 Fax (586)986-3003 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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5. Fachgespr äch "Ortsbezogene Anwendungen und Dienste"
by Jörg Roth 13 May '08

13 May '08

Bitte geben Sie diese Einladung an interessierte mögliche Teilnehmer weiter und hängen sie an Ihren Instituten aus. Ich möchte Sie auf das fünfte Treffen des Fachgespräches Ortsbezogene Anwendungen und Dienste Do. 4. und Fr. 5. September 2008 an der Georg-Simon-Ohm Hochschule Nürnberg der GI-Fachgruppe "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" (KuVS) aufmerksam machen. Ziel des Fachgespräches ist, Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern aber auch Vertretern der Industrie die Möglichkeit zu einem intensiven Gedankenaustausch zu geben. Grundlage dazu sind Vorträge zu verschiedenen Forschungsarbeiten aus diesem Bereich. Nach den erfolgreichen Treffen in den vergangenen Jahren findet in diesem Jahr das 5. Treffen in Nürnberg statt. Teilnehmer, die ihre Forschungsarbeit auf dem Treffen präsentieren wollen, möchten wir zur Einreichung eines Abstracts aufrufen (1 Seite, auf deutsch oder englisch). Nach dem Treffen werden die Teilnehmer zur Einreichung von Vollartikeln aufgerufen, die als Bericht der Ohm-Hochschule Nürnberg (mit ISSN) veröffentlicht werden. Diese Veranstaltung ist als offene Veranstaltung mit viel Raum für Diskussionen geplant. Willkommen sind daher auch Beiträge, die einen Work-in-Progress beschreiben. Potenzielle Themen sind: - Ortsbezogene Dienste des Mobilfunks - Ortsbezogene Dienstvermittlung und -suche - Modellierung des Benutzerkontextes - Middleware-Plattformen für ortsbezogene Anwendungen und Dienste - Datenbanken für ortsbezogene Dienste, Geodatenbanken - Positionsbestimmung, auch auf der Basis mobiler Netzwerke - Sensorik bzw. Sensornetze zur Erfassung von Kontextdaten - Umsetzungen konkreter Anwendungen aus diesem Bereich, z.B. Tour Guides, Friend Finder - Navigation - Sicherheitsaspekte entsprechender Dienste - Angrenzende Themen z.B. aus dem Bereich der Geoinformatik - Neuartige Anwendungsbereiche (Gaming, Entertainment, Sicherheit, Frühwarnsysteme, Katastrophenmanagement) Wichtige Daten: * 1. August 2008: Deadline für die Einreichung der Abstracts und Anmeldung zur Veranstaltung (per Email an Joerg.Roth(a)Ohm-hochschule.de) * 4. und 5. September 2008: Treffen in Nürnberg * Nach dem Treffen (Termin wird noch bekannt gegeben): Einreichung der Vollartikel * Kontaktadresse zur Anmeldung und Einreichung: Jörg Roth (Joerg.Roth(a)ohm-hochschule.de) * Homepage zum Treffen: http://www.wireless-earth.de/fg_lbs/fg_lbs.html Details zum Veranstaltungsort und zur Unterkunft werden rechtzeitig auf der Homepage bekannt gegeben. Leitungsgremium des Fachgesprächs: * Jörg Roth, Ohm-Hochschule Nürnberg * Jochen Schiller, FU Berlin * Agnès Voisard, Fraunhofer ISST und FU Berlin * Christian Becker, Universität Mannheim * Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, LMU München Lokale Organisation des Treffens: * Jörg Roth, Ohm-Hochschule Nürnberg -- * * Prof. Dr. habil. Joerg Roth * Faculty of Computer Science * University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg * Kesslerplatz 12 * D 90489 Nuremberg * Germany * Tel. 0911-5880 1169 * Fax 0911-5880-5800 * Email: Joerg.Roth(a)ohm-hochschule.de * Web: http://www.wireless-earth.de *

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ICST - IWCTS 2008 - Call for Papers
by info＠icstconferences.org 11 May '08

11 May '08

**SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MAY 17, 2008** CALL FOR PAPERS *********************************************************************** First International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science IWCTS 08 http://cts.cs.uic.edu/iwcts.htm July 21, 2008, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland To be held in conjunction with: The Fifth International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous 2008) *********************************************************************** In the near future, vehicles, travelers, and the infrastructure will collectively have billions of sensors that can communicate with each other. This environment will enable numerous novel applications and order of magnitude improvement in the performance of existing applications. However, information technology (IT) has not had the dramatic impact on day-to-day transportation that it has had on other domains such as business and science. In terms of the real-time information available to most travelers, with the exception of car navigation systems, the transportation experience has not changed much in the last 30-40 years. During this same time, the miniaturization of computing devices and advances in wireless communication and sensor technology have been propagating computing from the stationary desktop to the mobile outdoors, and making it ubiquitous. Transportation systems, due to their distributed/mobile nature, can become the ultimate test-bed for this ubiquitous (i.e., embedded, highly-distributed, and sensor-laden) computing environment of unprecedented scale. Information technology is the foundation for implementing new strategies, particularly if they are to be made available in real-time to wireless devices such as cell phones and PDAs. A related development is the emergence of increasingly more sophisticated geospatial and spatio-temporal information management capabilities. These factors have the potential to revolutionize traveler services, and the provision and analysis of related information. In this revolution, travelers and sensors in the infrastructure and in vehicles will all produce a vast amount of data that could be interpreted and acted upon to produce a sea change in transportation. The emerging discipline of computational transportation science (CTS) combines computer science and engineering with the modeling, planning, and economic aspects of transportation. The discipline goes beyond vehicular technology, and addresses pedestrian systems on hand-held devices, non-real-time issues such as data mining, as well as data management issues above the networking layer. CTS addresses issues of efficiency, equity, mobility, accessibility, and safety by taking advantage of ubiquitous computing. --- SCOPE OF THE SUBMISSION The International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science invites submissions of original, previously unpublished papers on CTS issues. Position papers that report novel research directions or identify challenging problems are also invited. Papers incorporating one or more of the following themes are especially encouraged: - Uncertain information distributed among moving travelers/vehicles and the infrastructure - Information in pedestrian, biking, and other non-motorized transportation applications - Ride- and car-sharing using social networks - Computation of costs of multi-modal traveling - Information regarding transfers to alternate modes of transportation - Data mining techniques for travel information - Dynamic shortest path computations using forecasts - Human-computer interfaces in intelligent transportation applications - Privacy and security issues in transportation information - Social and institutional information related to travel - Real-time negotiation among travelers - Mobile artificial-intelligence aspects related to transportation - Sensor information related to transportation HOW TO SUBMIT A PAPER Authors should prepare an Adobe Acrobat PDF version of their full paper. Papers must be in English and not exceed 6 pages double column in ACM SIG format (US Letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches) including text, figures and references. Position papers are limited 4 pages. All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the technical program committee. Authors are asked to register the titles and abstract of their papers in advance. To register or submit a paper, please visit http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwcts08 or see the workshop website for more details. --- IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: May 17, 2008 Notification of acceptance: June 1, 2008 Camera-ready submissions: June 8, 2008 --- General Chairperson Peter Nelson University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Program Chairperson Ouri Wolfson University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Technical Program Committee Amr El Abbadi University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Walid Aref Purdue University, USA Claus Brenner Leibniz Universitat Hannover, Germany Glenn Geers National Information Communications Technology Australia Fosca Giannotti Institute of Information Science and Technologies, Italy Le Gruenwald University of Oklahoma, USA Christian Jensen Aalborg University, Denmark Der-Horng Lee National University of Singapore D. T. Lee Academica Sinica, Taiwan Harvey Miller University of Utah, USA Pitu Mirchandani University of Arizona, USA Dino Pedreschi University of Pisa, Italy Mahadev Satyanarayanan Carnegie-Mellon University, USA Monika Sester University of Hannover, Germany Piyushimita (Vonu) Thakuriah University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Pravin Varaiya University of California, Berkeley, USA Chip White Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Stephan Winter The University of Melbourne, Australia Bo Xu University of Illinois at Chicago, USA -------------------------------------------------- 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=ggjzadyfjh and enter your email address.

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[Tccc] Call for Papers: IEEE ISWCS'08 (extended through May 25, 2008)
by Chin-Tser Huang 11 May '08

11 May '08

Call for Papers IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems 2008 (ISWCS'08) 21 - 24 October 2008, Reykjavik, Iceland http://www.iswcs.org/iswcs2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Wireless communications is at the centre of a new and passionate era for telecommunications. The IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS) positions itself as a recognised and dynamic forum for researchers and technologists to present and discuss original ideas in all fields related to wireless communication systems. In 2008, ISWCS will be held in Reykjavik, Iceland. The event follows the successful ISWCS'04 in Mauritius, ISWCS'05 in Siena, ISWCS'06 in Valencia and ISWCS'07 in Trondheim. ISWCS'08 is sponsored by the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society and IEEE Iceland Section, technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society (pending approval), and supported by the University of Iceland Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - 3G, 4G and beyond systems - Antenna and RF subsystems - Coding, modulation & equalization - Convergence of wireless systems - Cross-layer design & optimisation - Audio / video on wireless networks - Experimental systems & field trials - Fixed and nomadic wireless access - Generic access networks (GANs) - Heterogeneous wireless networks - Intelligent transportation systems - Location and positioning - MIMO - Mobility management - Modelling, analysis and simulation - QoS in wireless networks / systems - Radio interfaces and technologies - Radio resource management - Relaying and user cooperation - RFID - Satellite & high altitude systems - Security/privacy in wireless systems - Service and middleware platforms - DSP for wireless systems - Software radio / cognitive radio - Space-time coding and diversity - Spectrum sharing and coexistence - Traffic control and engineering - UWB - Wireless access techniques - Wireless ad-hoc networks - Wireless networks and systems - Wireless comm. & net. in ITS - Wireless / Mobile Internet - Wireless LANs and PANs - Wireless mesh networks - Wireless network architectures - Wireless net. information theory - Wireless propagation and channel - Wireless switching and routing - Wireless sensor networks - Wireless services and applications Submission Guidelines Both extended abstracts and full papers are welcome. For extended abstracts, the length should not be longer than 2 pages, and for full papers, not more than 5 pages (in IEEE two- column format, 10pt). Papers must be submitted electronically via TrackChair. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed for their quality, correctness, originality, and relevance. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE and will be included in IEEE Xplore. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit their extended versions for inclusion in a planned special journal issue. Proposals for Tutorial are also being solicited and should be sent, together with a one page summary and the presenter¡¦s biography, to the Tutorial Chair. Important Dates Submission: extended through 25 May 2008 Acceptance: 07 July 2008 Author registration: 03 Aug. 2008 Camera-ready paper: 03 Aug. 2008 Tutorial proposal: 03 Aug. 2008 Tutorials: 21 Oct. 2008 Conference: 22-24 Oct. 2008 Conference General Chair: Karl Guomundsson, University of Iceland, Iceland Conference General Co-Chairs: Jon Atli Benediktsson, University of Iceland, Iceland Boon Sain Yeo, SensiMesh, Singapore Technical Advisory Committee Chair: Victor Bahl, Microsoft, USA Technical Program Chair: Saemundur Thorsteinsson, Siminn, Iceland Technical Program Co-Chairs: Yuming Jiang, NTNU, Norway Chin-Tser Huang, University of South Carolina, USA Speaker Chair: Kristinn Andersen, Marel, Iceland _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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