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[Fwd: CFP: 4th European conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2007)]
by Lars Wolf 23 May '06

23 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP: 4th European conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2007) Datum: Mon, 22 May 2006 17:48:42 +0200 Von: marronpo(a)informatik.uni-stuttgart.de An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this e-mail] CALL FOR PAPERS 4th European conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2007) Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands January 29-31, 2007 http://www.ewsn.org ================================================================================ Wireless sensor networks (WSN) - networks of tiny, autonomous sensor devices equipped with wireless communication - are a topic of active research in a number of different research communities, ranging from hardware to applications. WSNs are characterized by a need to carefully integrate functionalities traditionally considered to be separate in order to achieve maximum efficiency, especially with respect to energy consumption and management. Hence, a close interaction of research from different backgrounds is required. Additionally, WSNs are evolving from simple data transportation networks to functionally rich distributed systems, also because actuators in the network have to be supported. The goal of this conference is to create a forum where researchers with different experience and background, from hardware to applications, can discuss cross-layer integration, novel solutions for specific problems and envisage the future development of WSN functionalities. FULL PAPERS We seek technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research results. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * Hardware for WSN: transceiver concepts, wakeup radio, antenna design, system integration, process and cost of manufacturing, battery technology, energy scavenging, miniaturization * Communication protocols: MAC and link layer issues, routing and transport protocols tailored for WSN, redundancy, data aggregation, mobility support, gateways to fixed Internet * Operating systems and programming abstractions: novel concepts and tools for programming and debugging sensor nodes, high-level programming abstractions * Middleware and service infrastructures: (dynamic) configuration and installation support, lookup of available functionalities, group communication, QoS support, localization and synchronization services, integrating WSN in existing middleware architectures * Information processing: storage, querying, coding, compression, fusion, aggregation, cooperative algorithms, event detection, classification, tracking * Security: primitives for appropriate cryptographic protocols, secure system engineering * Novel applications: requirements, experiences with real-world applications, the role of WSN technology in realizing the visions of Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence * Prototypes, field studies, and testbeds: novel sensor node prototypes, measurements within sensor network testbeds, debugging and testing * Models: energy and resource consumption, applications, mobility, and communication For further information, please contact the program co-chairs. POSTERS and DEMONSTRATIONS 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 The highly selective conference will only accept for review original papers that have not been previously published and are not currently under review by another conference or journal. We will adopt a DOUBLE-BLIND review process, where the identities of the paper authors are withheld from the reviewers. 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. We require that they conform to the Springer-Verlag LNCS style (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). The length of the manuscript should not exceed 16 pages, including text, figures and references. Use of LATEX for typesetting is recommended. IMPORTANT DATES Full Papers: Submission deadline: Sept 3, 2006 (23:59 Delft local time; 17:59 EST) Notification of acceptance: Oct 30, 2006 Camera-ready version: Nov 13, 2006 Posters/Demonstrations: Submission deadline: Dec 3, 2006 (23:59 Delft local time; 17:59 EST) Notification of acceptance: Dec 18, 2006 Camera-ready version: Jan 8, 2007 Conference dates: Jan 29-31, 2007 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Koen Langendoen, Delft Univ. of Technology (CO-CHAIR) Thiemo Voigt, SICS (CO-CHAIR) Tarek Abdelzaher, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Michael Beigl, TU Braunschweig Jan Beutel, ETH Zurich Athanassios Boulis, National ICT Australia (NICTA) Torsten Braun, Univ. of Bern Rebecca Braynard, Duke Univ. Nirupama Bulusu, Portland State Univ. Srdjan Capkun, TU Denmark Mun Choon Chan, National Univ. of Singapore Maarten Ditzel, TNO Jean-Pierre Ebert, IHP microelectronics Carlo Fischione, KTH Stockholm Vipin Gopal, United Technologies Research Center Takahiro Hara, Osaka Univ. Paul Havinga, Univ. of Twente Mike Hazas, Lancaster Univ. Wendi Heinzelman, Univ. of Rochester Holger Karl, Univ. of Paderborn Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Univ. of Southern California Chenyang Lu, Washington Univ. in St. Louis Pedro J. Marron, Univ. of Stuttgart Amy L. Murphy, Univ. of Lugano Chiara Petrioli, Univ. La Sapienza Rome Marcelo Pias, Univ. of Cambridge Hartmut Ritter, FU Berlin Utz Roedig, Univ. College Cork Christian Rohner, Uppsala Univ. Kay Roemer, ETH Zurich Andreas Savvides, Yale Klaus Wehrle, RWTH Aachen Dirk Westhoff, NEC Andreas Willig, TU Berlin Adam Wolisz, TU Berlin Wei Ye, USC/ISI

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP LOCAN 2006: 2nd International Workshop on Localized Communication and Topology Protocols for Ad hoc Networks]
by Lars Wolf 23 May '06

23 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP LOCAN 2006: 2nd International Workshop on Localized Communication and Topology Protocols for Ad hoc Networks Datum: Mon, 22 May 2006 16:30:27 +0200 Von: Pedro M. Ruiz <pedrom(a)dif.um.es> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Our apologies for duplicate postings. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS - LOCAN 2006 2nd International Workshop on Localized Communication and Topology Protocols for Ad hoc Networks in conjunction with MASS-2006 (www.ieee-mass.org) Vancouver, Canada, October 9 - 12, 2006 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBJECT AND SCOPE ----------------- This workshop covers comprehensively the algorithmic issues in the hot area of ad hoc and sensor networking. The design of data communication techniques in multi-hop ad hoc networks has challenges at all layers of communication. This workshop concentrates on the network layer problems like data communication (routing, QoS-routing, geocasting, multicasting, broadcasting, etc.) and topology control (neighbor discovery, power adjustment, neighbor elimination, etc.). Additionally, sensor networks are currently recognized as one of the priority research areas by NSF. The area of sensor networking is gaining momentum within the research community. This workshop will address ongoing research on this field, including problems such as: physical properties, sensor training, security through intelligent node cooperation, medium access, sensor area coverage with random and deterministic placement, object location, sensor position determination, energy efficient broadcasting and activity scheduling, routing, connectivity, data dissemination and gathering, sensor centric quality of routing, temporal message ordering, path exposure, tree reconfiguration, topology construction, and transport layer. The main paradigm shift is to apply localized (or greedy) schemes as opposed to existing protocols requiring global information. Localized algorithms are distributed algorithms where simple local node behaviour achieves a desired global objective. Localized protocols provide scalable solutions, that is, solutions for wireless networks with an arbitrary number of nodes, which is the main goal of this plan. Sensor and rooftop/mesh networks, for instance, have hundreds or thousands of nodes. The main objective of the workshop is to present state of the art research results on data communication and topology control in rapidly growing area of ad hoc and sensor networks, with emphasizes on localized techniques. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Medium access control * Analytical, mobility and validation models for ad hoc networks * Hybrid networks and wireless Internet * Security in ad hoc networks * Data management issues, query processing, and data delivery * Routing, broadcasting and multicasting in ad hoc networks * Energy-efficient protocols for ad hoc networks * Quality of service in medium access control and routing * Topology construction and maintenance in ad hoc networks * Neighborhood discovery and mobility management IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Manuscript Submission: June 19, 2006 Acceptance Notification: July 19, 2006 Final Manuscript Due: August 10, 2006 PAPER SUBMISSION ---------------- Papers must not exceed 10 single-spaced and two-column pages using at least 10 point size type on 8.5 x 11 inches pages. See style files, author guidelines and instructions at the conference website. Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press, as proceedings of the MASS2006 workshops. Please submit papers via email to both program co-chairs (pedrom(a)dif.um.es, fei.dai(a)ndsu.edu). GENERAL CO-CHAIRS ----------------- David Simplot-Ryl, University of Lille, France Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS ----------------- Pedro M. Ruiz, University of Murcia, Spain Fei Dai, North Dakota State University, USA Program Committee ----------------- Michel Barbeau, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Raffaele Bruno, IIT-CNR, Italy Ian Chakeres, Boing Inc., USA Misha Dohler, France Telecom R&D, France Stefan Dulman, University of Twente, Netherlands Jie Gao, State University of New York, USA J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, USA Silvia Giordano, University of Applied Science, SUPSI, Switzerland Antonio F. Gomez-Skarmeta, University of Murcia, Spain Isabelle Guerin Lassous, INRIA Rhone Alpes, France Mattias Handy, Univ. Rostock, Germany Thomas Kunz, Carleton University, Canada Miguel A. Labrador, Univ. South Florida, USA Pietro Manzoni, Univ. Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Luis Orozco, Univ. Castilla La Mancha, Spain S. S. Ravi, State University of New York at Albany, USA Isabelle Simplot-Ryl, University of Lille, France ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ---------------------- Additional information about the workshop will be continuously updated at the LOCAN 2006 website. http://ants.dif.um.es/locan2006/ -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Pedro M. Ruiz, Ph.D. E-mail: pedrom(a)dif.um.es Fac. Informatica, Univ. of Murcia Phone: +34968364335 Campus de Espinardo s/n Fax: +34968364151 E-30100, Espinardo, Murcia www: ants.dif.um.es/~pedrom/ SPAIN --------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Call For Workshop Ideas co-located with CHINACOM2006
by Yabin Ye 23 May '06

23 May '06

(Apology for duplicates) Dear Colleague, We have received more than 750 submissions for CHINACOM conference. Currently we are accepting proposals for workshops. OVERVIEW: The "First International Conference on Communications and Networking in China," (CHINACOM2006) will be held in Beijing, China, from 25th to 27th October 2006. CHINACOM 2006 is being positioned as the premier international annual conference for the presentation of original and fundamental advances in the field of Communications, Networks, and Internet Applications. The conference will consist of Technical Symposia, and Workshops. The Technical Symposia will describe significant research in all areas defined below; while the Workshops will focus on development, applications and related business issues. WORKSHOP SUBMISSION: CHINACOM 2006 is currently accepting proposals for one-day workshops. Potential chairs are requested to submit a workshop proposal of at most 5 pages. An ideal proposal should focus on a specific theme, of current interest, and of interest to a large, diverse group of professionals. It should clearly identify the theme, the scope, and specific topic areas of interest which define the scope of the workshop. The proposal should also provide suggestions for potential program chairs and committee members. A biographical sketch of each chair should be included Evaluation of workshop proposals will be based on the relevance of the subject matter, and the expertise and experience of the chair. The workshops will be held in conjunction to the main conference. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Please send workshop proposals in PDF format by June 6th, 2006 to the workshops chairs, Jing (James) Yang, UTstarcom, USA, <mailto:james.yang@utstar.com> james.yang(a)utstar.com T. Russell Hsing, Telcordia, USA, thsing(a)telcordia.com IMPORTANT DATES: Workshop Proposals Submission Deadline: 6th June, 2006 Workshops: 24th and 28th October, 2006 We look forward to your submissions.

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[Fwd: [Tccc] AGNM'06 - Deadline Extended!]
by Lars Wolf 21 May '06

21 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] AGNM'06 - Deadline Extended! Datum: Sat, 20 May 2006 11:37:27 -0700 Von: Silvia Figueira <sfigueira(a)scu.edu> An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> Call for Papers ================= AGNM 2006 - Deadline Extended to 6/8. Second IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Autonomic Grid Networking and Management October 26th-27th, 2006, Herbert Park Hotel, Dublin, Ireland Held as part of the IEEE/IFIP 2nd International Week on Management of Networks and Services Website: http://www.manweek2006.org/agnm/agnm.php Autonomic Grid Computing (AGC) deals with self-managing and self-adapting parallel and distributed computing and associated data management on a distributed and parallel Grid of computational machines (PCs, servers, supercomputers, clusters) and storage systems. Grid computing is performed with the support of two major infrastructure components: 1) a Grid middleware, such as Globus or UNICORE, which provides advanced services and supports Grid resource management, and 2) a fabric layer, which comprises the underlying systems, such as computers, operating systems, and storage systems. A fabric layer component of particular importance is the network since all distributed services rely on the capabilities of the interconnecting network. Recently, the Grid Community has started efforts to enhance the core services of a Grid middleware with autonomic capabilities so that the functions are self-managing. For example, an autonomic Grid resource allocation manager, instead of statically allocating or releasing resources to Grid applications, could do so adaptively, or self-heal to failures. However, the AGC and associated infrastructure (AGCI) is geared mainly towards computational (servers, supercomputers) and storage resources. In other words, the autonomic behavior of AGC and AGCI is a function of changes in computational and storage resources, but not networking resources. Hence there is need for support of Autonomic Grid Networks (AGN) that incorporates into the Grid the following: 1) Network resources distributed across LAN, MAN and WAN, 2) Autonomic and on-demand functions (into various layers and components, such as a Grid middleware). The autonomic functions may be conceptually similar to the ones provided in the lower layer (Layers 3, 2, 1) networks, such as self-control (dynamic rerouting, such as IGP rerouting), self-protection ([G]MPLS Fast Rerouting and Protection, Sonet/SDH protection switching), and self-healing (control and data plane high-availability, etc.). For example, in a typical Grid, the resource management architecture is client-server oriented, where resources are typically registered to and pulled from a particular service. In contrast, in an AGN, the resource management architecture could be distributed and autonomous, where resource requests are routed by autonomous and distributed AGN middleware components. This one-day workshop offers a unique opportunity for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas and experiences on problems, challenges, solutions and potential future research and development issues in this new field of Autonomic Grid Networking and Management. In addition to paper presentations, the workshop provides an intimate setting for discussion and debate through panels and group work. The authors are encouraged to submit original papers on topics related to the concepts described above, including, but not limited to: - Grid middleware enhancements for AGN - Cluster middleware enhancements for AGN - Network-aware autonomic Grid scheduling - Network-aware autonomic Grid data and storage management - Network-aware autonomic cluster scheduling and management - AGN specific resource discovery - AGN QoS (combined application and abstracted network QoS) management - AGN routing - AGN self-healing and self-protection - AGN high-availability - AGN monitoring and performance management - AGN effects on HPC applications - HPC applications (MPI and other) on AGN - HPC applications (MPI and other) on MAN and WAN AGN - Commercial applications (CRM, ERP, Financial, etc.) on AGN - P2P AGN Submission ---------- For online submission instructions please visit http://www.manweek2006.org/agnm/submission.php Questions should be directed to agnm06(a)anut.fh-aachen.de IMPORTANT DEADLINES ------------------- Submission: Extended to June 8. Notification: July 7 2006 Camera ready: August 2 2006 Workshop: October 26-27 2006 Organizing Committee: --------------------- Workshop Chair: Masum Z. Hasan (Cisco Systems, USA) Workshop TPC Co-chairs: Volker Sander (University of Aachen, Germany) and Silvia Figueira (Santa Clara University, USA) Technical Programme Committee ----------------------------- Lina Battestilli, MCNC, USA Raouf Boutaba, U Waterloo, Canada Rob Brennan, Ericsson R&D, Ireland Wayne Clark, Cisco Systems, USA Asit Dan, IBM Watson Research C, USA Cees DeLaat, U Amsterdam, Netherlands Gabi Dreo-Rodosek, LRZ, Germany Horst Dumcke, Cisco Systems, France Tiziana Ferrari, INFN, Italy Markus Fidler, U Toronto, Canada Silvia Figueira, SCU, USA Wolfgang Gentzsch, MCNC, USA Rüdiger Geib, T-Systems, Germany Masum Z. Hasan, Cisco Systems, USA Michiaki Hayashi, KDDI, Japan Doan B. Hoang, U Sydney, Australia Admela Jukan, UIUC, USA Gigi Karmous-Edwards, MCNC, USA Francis Lee, NTU, Singapore Edgar Magaña, UPC, Spain J.P. Martin-Flatin, UQAM, Canada Manish Parashar, Rutgers U, USA Gerard Parr, University of Ulster, UK Pascale Primet, INRIA, France Volker Sander, U Aachen, Germany Dimitra Simeonidou, U Essex, UK John Strassner, Motorola Lab, USA Franco Travostino, Nortel Networks, USA Michael Welzl, U Innsbruck, Austria Peter Tomsu, Cisco Systems, Autria Yufeng Xin, MCNC, USA This message scanned for viruses and SPAM at SCU (MGW2) _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] [TCCC] Foundations and Trends in Networking]
by Lars Wolf 21 May '06

21 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] [TCCC] Foundations and Trends in Networking Datum: Sat, 20 May 2006 13:03:29 +0900 Von: Song Chong <song(a)ee.kaist.ac.kr> An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> By the request of James Finlay ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- Announcing the first issue of Foundations and Trends in Networking. The inaugural issue of Foundations and Trends in Networking has just been published and is available free online at www.nowpublishers.com/net. FnT Networking publishes high-quality survey and tutorial monographs of the field using modern techniques to enable both instant linking to the primary research in its electronic form and affordable paper copies. Each issue of Foundations and Trendscc in Networking will comprise a 50-100 page monograph written by research leaders in the field. Monographs that give tutorial coverage of subjects, research retrospectives as well as survey papers that offer state-of-the-art reviews fall within the scope of the journal. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------- Please let me know if you have any questions. I hope you can help us get the message out. Thanks. Regards, James James Finlay now publishers PO Box 179 2600 AD Delft The Netherlands Tel: +31-6-14483632 Fax: +31-76-5206138 james.finlay(a)nowpublishers.com _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] [CFP] SSS 2006]
by Lars Wolf 19 May '06

19 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] [CFP] SSS 2006 Datum: Thu, 18 May 2006 23:00:21 +0200 (CEST) Von: mgradina(a)irisa.fr An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu [Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.] Eighth International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (formerly Symposium on Self-stabilizing Systems) (SSS 2006) November 17th-19th, 2006 Dallas, Texas, USA http://www.irisa.fr/sss/2006/ ============================================================================== Important Dates Paper Submission: July 7th, 2006 Notification to Authors: August 21st, 2006 Camera-ready: August 31st, 2006 Symposium: November 17th-19th, 2006 ============================================================================= The Symposium is a prestigious international forum for researchers and practitioners in the design and development of fault-tolerant distributed systems with self-* properties, such as self-stabilizing, self-configuring, self-organizing, self-managing, self-repairing, self-healing, self-optimizing, self-adaptive, and self-protecting. The theory of self-stabilization has been enriched in the last 25 years by high quality research contributions in the areas of algorithmic techniques, formal methodologies, model theoretic issues, and composition techniques. All these areas are essential to the understanding and maintenance of self-* properties in fault-tolerant distributed systems. Research in distributed systems is now at a crucial point in its evolution, marked by the importance of dynamic systems such as peer-to-peer networks, large-scale wireless sensor networks, mobile ad hoc networks, robotic networks, etc. Moreover, new applications such as grid and web services, banking and e-commerce, e-health and robotics, aerospace and avionics, automotive, industrial process control, etc. have joined the traditional applications of distributed systems. Now, more than ever, the theory of self-stabilization has tremendous impact in these areas. Therefore, this year, we are extending the scope of the symposium to cover all safety and security related aspects of self-* systems. The title of the conference has been changed to reflect this expansion. There will be three tracks: networking, safety and security, and self-* properties in static and dynamic systems. The symposium solicits contributions on all aspects of self-stabilization, safety and security, recovery oriented systems and programing, from theoretical contributions, to reports of the actual experience of applying the principles of self-stabilization to static and dynamic systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Stabilization: - self-stabilizing systems - self-managed, self-assembling, autonomic and adaptive systems - self-optimizing and self-protecting systems - self-* abstractions for implementing fundamental services in static and dynamic distributed systems - impossibility results and lower bounds for self-* systems - application of stabilizing algorithms and techniques in dynamic distributed systems - data and code stabilization - algorithms for self-* error detection/correction Safety: - safety critical systems - trust models and specifications - semantics of trust, distrust, mistrust, over-trust, cheat, risk and reputation - trust-related security and privacy - reliable and dependable systems - fault-tolerant systems, hardware redundancy, robustness, survivable systems, failure recovery Security: - security of network protocols - security of sensor and mobile networks protocols - secure architectures, frameworks, policy, intrusion detection/awareness - proactive security - self-* properties and their relation with classical fault-tolerance and security - security protocols for self-* systems Networks and Applications: - models of fault-tolerant communication - stochastic, physical, and biological models to analyze self-* properties - communication complexity - data structures for efficient communication - self-stabilizing hardware, software, and middleware - algorithms for high-speed networks, sensors, wireless and robots networks - mobile agents - peer-to-peer networks, sensor networks, MANETs, and wireless mesh networks - network topologies, overlays, and protocols - protocols for secure and reliable data transport and search in wireless mesh networks - information storage and sharing in wireless mesh networks Contributors are invited to submit a PDF file of their paper. Submissions should be no longer than 4800 words and should not exceed 12 pages on letter-size paper using at least 11 point font and reasonable margins (the page limit includes all figures, tables, and graphs). Submissions should include a cover page (that does not count towards the 12 page limit) that includes paper title, authors and affiliations, contact author's e-mail address, an abstract of the work in a few lines, and a few keywords. Submitted papers may have appendices beyond the 12 page limit, but reviewers are free to disregard any material beyond the 12 page limit. A paper submitted to SSS 2006 is expected to be original research not previously published; a submission may not be concurrently submitted or to any other conference, workshop, or journal. The proceedings of the conference are expected to be published in the Springer Verlag LNCS series. Selected papers will appear in a special issue of a high quality journal devoted to SSS 2006. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: ACM WMASH 2006]
by Lars Wolf 18 May '06

18 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: ACM WMASH 2006 Datum: Thu, 18 May 2006 09:30:45 +0200 Von: Prasad, Anand <prasad(a)docomolab-euro.com> An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> Apologies if you receive multiple copies. --------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers ACM International Workshop on Wireless Mobile Applications and Services on WLAN Hotspots (WMASH) 2006 In conjunction with ACM MobiCom http://wmash.dit.unitn.it/ September 29, 2006 Los Angeles, California, USA Important Dates: . Paper Submission Deadline: June 16, 2006 . Notification to authors: August 4, 2006 . Camera Ready Due: August 18, 2006 WMASH aim: ACM WMASH aims to address and discuss the technical and business challenges, ideas, views, and research results in providing public wireless Internet services and applications for mobile users in small, highly-populated, public spaces (wireless LANs and "hotspots"). Since the beginning of the workshop in 2003 several research and business challenges related to public WLAN were put forward. These challenges still need to be explored and market needs to converge while new developments continue. The challenges are: What is the overall network architecture and service model? How to roam through multiple wireless access providers with a unique service contract? How to decouple the wireless infrastructure providers from the Internet service (and content) providers? How to locate service facilities in the wireless access domain and how to match the available facilities with the user needs? How to exploit location and context information? How to provide differentiated service levels to different customers? How to achieve seamless interoperation between WLAN-based hotspots and cellular and other emerging wireless data networks? The last challenge, concerning seamless interoperation, is catching the most attention these days leading to activities in IEEE 802 and in 3GPP to move quickly towards finding standardized solutions. This workshop will aim at discussing these and several other challenges and issues behind the evolution of WLANs from cable replacement to public access. Leaders and thinkers of the field from academia and industry will assemble to share their ideas and views. Authors are invited to submit original technical papers or position papers, describing current research, experimental work and visions of the future. We are specifically interested in work dealing with network layer and above (layers 3-7). Within the context of interest to this workshop, a list of topics includes, but is not limited to: . Applications and services . New service and business models . Public WLAN and hotspot architectures . Community-owned WLAN infrastructures . WLAN-based ad-hoc network service creation and management . Metro-area hotspots using 802.11/802.16 mesh . Multi-radio mesh node designs . Self-configuring mesh networks for public hotspots . Mobile routers for transient, portable hotspots . Application case studies of mobile routers . Inter-working with other wireless systems, e.g., 3G, 802.16 . Mobility, roaming, and handoff management . Context-aware services and technologies . Location-aware applications and services . Multimedia wireless applications, e.g., Voice over WLAN (VoWLAN) . Authentication, accounting, billing and payment issues . Security and privacy in public WLANs . Middleware support . Service location and discovery . Traffic measurements and modeling . Case studies on deployed platforms and experimental test beds Please consult the Program Co-Chairs Anand R. Prasad (prasad(a)docomolab-euro.com) and Sajal K. Das (das(a)cse.uta.edu) if you are uncertain whether your paper falls within the scope of the workshop. Paper Submission: The workshop solicits two types of contributions: regular papers and posters. Submitted regular papers must not be currently under review for any other publication. The poster session are meant for early research results. Posters may not preclude concurrent submissions on the same topic in regular conferences and journals. All submissions will be reviewed by Technical Program Committee members, and will be judged by their technical merit, originality, and relevance to the workshop. All accepted regular papers and poster descriptions will be published in the workshop proceedings, which will be available at the ACM digital library. Selected regular papers will also be included in a special issue of an ACM journal. The page limits for a regular paper and a poster description are 10 and 3 pages, respectively. All submissions will be handled electronically via the EDAS system. The exact format of the submission should be referred to the submission guideline at the workshop home page. We expect authors of accepted papers/posters will attend the workshop and present their work. Organizing Committee: General Chair . Renato Lo Cigno, University of Trento, Italy Technical Program Co-Chairs . Anand R. Prasad, Docomo Euro Labs, Germany . Sajal Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Publicity Chair and Web Master . Danilo Severina, University of Trento, Italy Publications Chair . Sumantra Kundu The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Steering Committee: . Parviz Kermani, IBM Research, USA - Committee Chair . Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy . Sung-Ju Lee, HP Labs, USA . Sungyun Choi, Seoul National University, Korea Tentative Technical Program Committee: . Nilanjan Banerjee, Motorola India Research Lab, Bangalore . Milind Buddhikot, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies . Andrew Campbell, Columbia University . Claudio Casetti, Politecnico di Torino . Mainak Chatterjee, University of Central Florida . Yatin Chawathe, Intel Research at Seattle . Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National University . Marco Conti, CNR - Instituto CNUCE . Laura Feeney, Swedish Institute of Computer Science . Gabor Fodor, Ericsson Research . Rosario Garroppo, University of Pisa . Javier Gomez, National University of Mexico . Fabrizio Granelli, University of Trento, Italy . Xingang Guo, Intel Corp. . Giulio Iannello, University of Rome . Kyunghun Jang, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology . Byoung-Jo Kim, AT&T Labs - Research . Young-bae Ko, Ajou University . John Krumm, Microsoft Research . Sung-Ju Lee, HP Labs . Yui-Wah Lee, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies . John Lin, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies . Yonghe Liu, The University of Texas at Arlington . Stefan Mangold, Swisscom Innovations . Archan Misra, IBM Watson Research Center . Saishankar Nandagopalan, Philips Research USA . Saverio Niccolini, NEC Europe Ltd., Network Laboratories . George Polyzos, Athens University of Economics and Business . Neeli Prasad, Aalborg University . Daji Qiao, Iowa State University . Bill Schilit, Intel Research . Puneet Sharma, HP Labs . Rajeev Shorey, GM Research Lab, Bangalore . Raghupathy Sivakumar, Georgia Institute of Technology . Young-Joo Suh, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) . Ilenia Tinnirello, University of Palermo . Yang Xiao, University of Memphis . Gergely Zaruba, The University of Texas at Arlington _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Extended submission deadline!!!! Springer Special Issue "Seamless HO" Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 18 May '06

18 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Extended submission deadline!!!! Springer Special Issue "Seamless HO" Call for Papers Datum: Thu, 18 May 2006 09:14:35 +0200 Von: Prasad, Anand <prasad(a)docomolab-euro.com> An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> ------------------------------------------------------------------ Springer's International Journal on Wireless Personal Communication Special Issue on Seamless Handover in Next Generation Wireless/Mobile Networks Important dates and Submission: --> NEW Deadline of paper submissions: 22nd May 2006 Notification of acceptance: 1st October 2006 Final Manuscripts Due: 1st November 2006 Publication of Feature Topic: February 2007 Guest Editors: Anand R. Prasad, DoCoMo Comm. Labs. Europe GmbH, Munich, Germany Selim Aissi, Intel Corporation, Portland, USA Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea Jeevarathinam Ravikumar, Consistel, Singapore Scope of Special Issue: Mobile communication has evolved in a rapid pace from the introduction of Analog Cellular networks in 1980s. Technology has gone through tremendous changes in terms of security, access techniques, protocol stacks, bandwidth usage and also convergence into packet switching based on All-IP network from the conventional circuit switched techniques. Complexity has increased due to the introduction of different access technologies, available services, and other aspects as mentioned above during the telecom evolution for the past 20 years. Pressure is mounting to harmonize various technologies under a common IP backbone so that seamless handover can be provided that exploits the benefits of available radio access technologies. Seamless handover should be achieved not only for Inter-Technology but also for Inter-Operator handover. Operators and the consumers will be greatly benefited in terms of cost effectiveness, enhanced features, location independence and ease of use through the introduction of seamless heterogeneous handover mechanisms. Several standardization activities have already started working on technical solutions for seamless handover. One of the well known activities is that of next-generation networks (NGN) making use of IMS based solution for service provisioning and handover between fixed and mobile operators. Within 3GPP and 3GPP2, activities are on-going to provision handover between different technologies and recently, in 3GPP, between different domains. This activity within 3GPP falls under All-IP Network (AIPN) System Architecture Evolution (SAE)/Radio Access Network (RAN) Long Term Evolution (LTE). IEEE 802 is also looking into media-independent handover (MIH) in 802.21 while 802.11u is working on inter-technology handover. Handover enhancement within IEEE 802.11 is taking place within Task Group R (TGr). IETF has produced some solutions in the seamoby working group while further enhancements are being done in various other groups including mobopts, mipshop and mobike. Along with standardization activities, various operators and vendors are also involved in developing harmonized solution for heterogeneous networks, like, UMA. At the same time a lot of research and development activities are taking place by academia, research institutes and industries too. So far, the work has focused on one specific topic of handover such as security, QoS, and routing. However, the focus should be on developing an end-to-end network perspective that covers the whole span of the network from radio aspects to OSS aspects that includes value added services. With the above background, this special issue invites people to present papers on seamless handover in heterogeneous networks in the following (but, not limited to) areas: - Handover security - Solutions for mobility support - Charging and billing, and AAA infrastructure - Fraud Management across various networks - Access Control techniques in heterogeneous networks - QoS provisioning for inter-technology and intra-/inter-domain handover - Content provisioning and seamless use of VAS across different networks - Standardization activities - Testbed or measurement results Papers should follow the Springer format (11pt, single column, double spaced). Manuscript should be submitted to one of the guest editors: Anand R. Prasad DoCoMo Comm. Labs. Europe GmbH Landsbergerstrasse 308-312 80687 Munich, Germany E-mail: prasad(a)docomolab-euro.com Selim Aissi Mobile Platforms Group Intel Corporation CO5-166, 15400 NW Greenbrier Parkway Beaverton, Oregon, 97007, USA E-mail: selim.aissi(a)intel.com Sunghyun Choi School of Electrical Engineering Seoul National University Kwanak P.O.Box 34 Seoul 151-600 KOREA E-mail: schoi(a)snu.ac.kr Jeevarathinam Ravikumar Consistel (Singapore) Pte Ltd 5 Jalan Kilang Barat, #08-01/03 Petro Centre Singapore 159349 E-mail: jravikumar(a)consistel.com Author information is available at: http://www.springer.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-40109-70-35706624-00 0.html _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: CFP WiNTECH 2006]
by Lars Wolf 17 May '06

17 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP WiNTECH 2006 Datum: Thu, 18 May 2006 02:46:27 +1000 Von: Robert James Steele <rsteele(a)it.uts.edu.au> Antwort an: Robert James Steele <rsteele(a)it.uts.edu.au> An: SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The First ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation and CHaracterization (WiNTECH 2006) in conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2006 September 29, 2006 Los Angeles, CA, USA Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE http://chenyen.cs.ucla.edu/events/wintech06/ *** Submission Deadline: June 19, 2006 *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OVERVIEW AND SCOPE ----------------------------- In recent years, some wireless technologies (e.g., WiFi, sensor networks) have matured to the point of finding wide acceptance in the real-world and leading to many new and interesting applications. At the same time, several new networking and radio technologies (e.g., dynamic spectrum access, UWB) are emerging to address the performance limitations of existing technologies and make wireless networking more ubiquitous. Realistic evaluation of such diverse set of technologies and their mutual interactions will play a major role in identifying the key performance bottlenecks, thus shape future advances in wireless technology. With this in mind, this workshop intends to bring together researchers working in the broad area of experimental wireless networking. This workshop will serve as a forum to share new ideas/experiences in all experimental aspects of wireless networks and systems, and facilitate discussions of key unresolved challenges in this area. We are seeking original, previously unpublished work addressing experimental wireless networking issues. The workshop program will include regular paper presentations and an interactive session with demos and posters. We welcome demonstrations of novel wireless network testbed capabilities and measurement results. The posters may describe work in progress and offers an excellent opportunity for feedback and discussions on early research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Design and evaluation of wireless testbeds, prototypes and platforms * Experiences/lessons from recent testbed design efforts * Hybrid experimentation approaches combining use of multiple evaluation methodologies * Integration of diverse and distributed testbed infrastructures * Testbed management issues and monitoring support * Wireless testbed case studies * Experimental evaluation of applications and protocols (at different layers), and the impact of cross-layer interactions * Large-scale and heterogeneous wireless network evaluations * Approaches for real-world evaluation of mobile networks * Evaluation environments for sensor and satellite networks * Techniques for improving reproducibility of real-world testing * Implementation approaches to ease transition between various evaluation methodologies as well as to improve testbed accessibility * New measurement methodologies and infrastructures * Measurement and characterization (modeling) of various real-world aspects such as usage patterns, traffic, mobility and channel characteristics * Interference and spectrum usage measurements * Validation of existing simulation models, and results across different testbeds/evaluation methodologies * Software tools in support of measurements, trace/data collection and management IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------ Submission deadline: June 19, 2006 Author notification: July 21, 2006 Camera ready deadline: August 11, 2006 Workshop date: September 29, 2006 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------------------- Technical Program Co-Chairs: Rajive Bagrodia (UCLA) Mahesh Marina (UCLA) Program Committee: Victor Bahl (Microsoft Research) Elizabeth Belding-Royer (UCSB) Tzi-cker Chiueh (SUNY-Stony Brook) Marco Conti (IIT-CNR, Italy) Edward Coyle (Purdue) Christophe Diot (Thomson Paris Research Lab) Joe Evans (University of Kansas) Richard Fujimoto (Georgia Tech) Ravi Jain (Google) Vikas Kawadia (BBN) Ed Knightly (Rice University) Jay Lepreau (University of Utah) Prasant Mohapatra (UC-Davis) Dina Papagiannaki (Intel Research Cambridge) Dipankar Raychauduri (Rutgers) Mani Srivastava (UCLA) Peter Steenkiste (CMU) Mineo Takai (UCLA) Adam Wolisz (TU-Berlin) Poster/Demo Chair: Maneesh Varshney (UCLA) Publications Chair: Henrik Lundgren (UCSB) Web Chair: Yi Yang (UCLA) SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ------------------------------- All submissions will be handled electronically. Regular paper submissions should conform to the following requirements: EIGHT 8.5"x11" pages (including figures, tables, and references) in two-column format using 10-point size or greater and reasonable margins; they must use PDF format. For demo/poster submissions, authors should prepare an extended abstract no longer than TWO pages, including all figures and references. All submissions will be judged by their technical merit and relevance to the workshop, based on a thorough review process by the Technical Program Committee. Besides the regular papers, the extended abstracts of the accepted posters and demos will also be published in the workshop proceedings and will be available via the ACM digital library. Please check the workshop website for additional details on submissions. FURTHER INFORMATION ------------------------------- Please visit the WiNTECH 2006 workshop website: http://chenyen.cs.ucla.edu/events/wintech06/

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[Fwd: [OC-ML] Performance Modeling of Self-Organizing Systems]
by Lars Wolf 17 May '06

17 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [OC-ML] Performance Modeling of Self-Organizing Systems Datum: Wed, 17 May 2006 11:43:12 +0200 (CEST) Von: Fabian Rochner <rochner(a)sra.uni-hannover.de> An: rochner(a)sra.uni-hannover.de Dear subscribers of the Organic Computing Mailinglist, on September 21, 2006, a technical discussion on " Performance Modeling of Self-Organizing Systems" is taking place at the University of Passau, Germany. It is co-located with the "Intern. Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems (IWSOS 2006)" (September 18 - 20, 2006). Submission deadline for contributions is July 15th. For further information including the Call for Contribution see http://www.iwsos.net.fmi.uni-passau.de/pmsos.html. Regards, Fabian Rochner ================================================ Overview Self-organization plays a key architectural role for the future Internet as well as for large-scale pervasive computing systems such as wireless sensor networks. Self-organization will enhance flexibility and evolvability of organically growing, large-scale distributed systems. Driven by randomness and feedback, the relation between cause and effect of these systems may appear chaotic: minor causes may have severe impact, whereas seemingly major causes may only have a small effect. Traditional mathematical models tend to be linear and, thus, are not suitable to model such chaotic systems. Models to be developed should be simple to remain scalable to the huge number of entities in the systems under investigation and to be generally applicable. We aim to investigate the methodology for modeling and evaluating the performance and reliability of complex self-organizing systems at the edge of chaos. To this end, this meeting brings together leading national and international experts and creates a forum for knowledge exchange. Important Dates * Extended abstracts / short paper submission deadline: July 15th 2006, 11:59pm CET * Notification of acceptance: August 1st 2006 * Hotel reservation cut-off date: August 15th 2006 * Meeting date: September 21st 2006 Paper Submission & Publication The submitted extended abstracts and short papers will be reviewed and published in form of a Technical Report. The publication of full papers within a Special Issue will depend on the success of the meeting. We solicit submission of selected full papers after the meeting. Technical Program Co-Chairs * Hermann de Meer, University of Passau, Passau, Germany * Patrick Wüchner, University of Passau, Passau, Germany * Jens B. Schmitt, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany * Matthias Hollick, University of Technology Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany Submissions & Contact * wuechner(a)fmi.uni-passau.de

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