- Cfp - lists.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de

Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CfP: 1st Workshop on Middleware for a Smarter Use of Electric Energy (MidSEE '15)
by Lars Wolf 19 Aug '14

19 Aug '14

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CfP: 1st Workshop on Middleware for a Smarter Use of Electric Energy (MidSEE '15) Datum: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 19:29:53 +1000 Von: Andreas Reinhardt <andreasr(a)CSE.UNSW.EDU.AU> Antwort an: Andreas Reinhardt <andreasr(a)CSE.UNSW.EDU.AU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ======================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS MidSEE 2015 1st Workshop on Middleware for a Smarter Use of Electric Energy March 12, 2015 in conjunction with NetSys 2015, Cottbus, Germany https://www.netsys2015.com/workshops-tutorials/midsee/ ======================================================================= MOTIVATION & WORKSHOP SCOPE Smart energy meters are increasingly installed in newly constructed buildings worldwide, as regulated by, e.g., the European Union's Energy Services Directive. Their combination with the vision of an Internet of Things, in which billions of embedded devices will continually monitor the environment, enables the fine-grained monitoring of household and office energy usage and hence a large range of novel services. While many such functions have been devised so far (e.g., advice how to save energy or the disaggregation of electricity bills), these solutions commonly rely on the availability of hard- and software systems by a single manufacturer. Interoperability, including the potential to integrate new energy metering devices, is mostly unsupported due to the wide variety of (non-compatible) standards and communication protocols. This workshop provides a platform to present current research activities in communications and processing of energy consumption data, with its primary focus on electric energy usage. The scope of the workshop includes contributions that address the integration of energy metering equipment from different manufacturers into a single middleware system which operates on a building level, as well as novel means to collect, process and visualize these data. Accepted papers will not only present novel research results in these domains, but also comprise an evaluation in which their merits are assessed. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Novel energy metering hardware designs and experiences - Data collection and command distribution protocols for energy management systems - Middleware systems for energy data, including novel local data processing algorithms - Control of alternative energy sources to increase their production efficiency - Innovative tools to model and visualize energy expenditure and production - Sensing and actuation of electrical loads - Privacy and security in energy management middleware systems - User interfaces for energy display, management and control PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit papers of up to 6 pages in IEEE two-column format. Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this workshop. Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. More details about the submission process can be found on the website. IMPORTANT DATES Submission: Sep. 26th, 2014 Notification: Nov. 17th, 2014 Camera Ready: Dec. 10th, 2014 Workshop: Mar. 12th, 2015 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Andreas Reinhardt, The University of New South Wales, Australia Christian Renner, Universität zu Lübeck, Germany Delphine Christin, University of Bonn & Fraunhofer FKIE, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE Matteo Ceriotti, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Alexander De Luca, LMU München, Germany Paul Dunphy, Newcastle University, UK Wilfried Elmenreich, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria Stefan Fischer, Universität zu Lübeck, Germany Hannes Frey, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Stefan Katzenbeisser, TU Darmstadt, Germany Marco Ortolani, University of Palermo, Italy Oliver Parson, University of Southampton, UK Daniele Puccinelli, SUPSI, Switzerland Christian Steger, TU Graz, Austria Volker Turau, TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany Sebastian Zöller, TU Darmstadt, Germany ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

1 0

Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Special issue on eHealth in IEEE Systems Journal
by Lars Wolf 19 Aug '14

19 Aug '14

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Special issue on eHealth in IEEE Systems Journal Datum: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 02:20:05 +0100 Von: Sana Ullah <sanajcs(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Sana Ullah <sanajcs(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG CALL FOR PAPERS <Special Issue on “Communications Technologies and Infrastructures for Smart eHealth Systems” in IEEE Systems Journal> SCOPE Research advances in healthcare domain have facilitated the integration of different technologies for smart, cost-effective, reliable, and pervasive health monitoring of chronic diseases - which have affected around one billion people worldwide. Current research efforts focus on developing real-time communication methods, mostly for Body Area Networks (BANs) that are used to deliver patients´ information effectively. These efforts are limited to communication within a BAN, however less attention has been given to connect multiple BANs to remote servers in real-time. In addition, there is a limited study on the integration of BANs with different technologies including mobile cloud computing - a technology that may assist in storing and processing the huge amount of BAN data at competitive costs. Machine to Machine (M2M) is also considered to be a valuable tool in delivering BAN data to a remote server/cloud for further analysis. This may assist in reducing risks and cost of remote health monitoring. Unlike conventional research in BANs where researchers focused on individual networks, there is a need to develop innovative communication methods with a focus on complete and smart eHealth systems. This smart eHealth system must integrate the aforementioned technologies with multiple BANs, and provide rich healthcare services to end users. It calls for research on versatile topics ranging from Physical (PHY) and Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols to BANs coexistence, traffic characterization, cloud resource allocation, and cloud monitoring and maintenance. This special issue will focus on novel communication methods for smart eHealth systems, by identifying new perspectives and highlight potential research issues and challenges. Specifically, this special issue will demonstrate how the emerging technologies including cloud computing and/or M2M could be used in future healthcare systems. Original review and survey articles will be considered as well. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - M2M communication methods - Energy-efficient PHY/MAC and networking protocols - BANs and mobile cloud computing - Cloud resource allocation and monitoring - Wearable and implantable computing - IoT for smart eHealth systems - Fault tolerance, reliability and scalability - Traffic characterization - Coexistence issues of multiple BANs - Security and privacy - QoS issues in BANs/cloud computing - Experimental and simulation-based methods - Case studies of smart eHealth architectures Papers should address the above specific topics from the system perspective and in the context of eHealth systems in order to be considered for this special issue. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Authors are invited to submit original research contributions by following the detailed instructions given in the “Information for Authors” at http://www.ieeesystemsjournal.org. In the cover letter, authors should explicitly state that the paper is submitted to the “Special Issue on Communication Technologies and Infrastructures for Smart eHealth Systems”. Questions about the special issue should be directed to the Guest Editors. SCHEDULE Paper submission deadline: Jan. 15, 2015 Notification of the first review: Apr. 15, 2015 Revised paper submission: May 30, 2015 Notification of the re-review: July 30, 2015 Minor revision deadline: Aug 30, 2015 Final notification: Sept 20, 2015 Final manuscript: Oct 10, 2015 Publication: by advance posting in IEEE xplore as soon as authors approve galley proofs Expected printing: Second half of 2016 GUEST EDITORS Sana Ullah, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal, sanajcs(a)hotmail.com Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada, wpedrycz(a)ualberta.ca George K. Karagiannidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, george.karagiannidis(a)kustar.ac.ae Han-Chieh Chao, National Ilan University, Taiwan, hcchao(a)gmail.com Adam Gacek, Institute of Medical Technology and Equipment, Zabrze, Poland, adamg(a)itam.zabrze.pl Christos Verikoukis, Telecom. Technological Centre of Catalonia, Spain, cveri(a)cttc.es ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

1 0

Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] European Workshop on Testbed-Based Wireless Research - Call for Contributions
by Lars Wolf 19 Aug '14

19 Aug '14

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] European Workshop on Testbed-Based Wireless Research - Call for Contributions Datum: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 17:08:26 +0200 Von: James Gross <james.gross(a)EE.KTH.SE> Antwort an: James Gross <james.gross(a)EE.KTH.SE> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ---------------- Call for Contributions ------------------- 2nd European Workshop on Testbed-Based Wireless Research November 19th 2014 KTH Main Campus, Stockholm, Sweden http://people.kth.se/~perz/ewtbwr/2014/ws.html ### Workshop scope ### Over the last decade software-defined radios have become an important tool for evaluating novel ideas on algorithms and protocols for wireless communications and networking. This has been recognized by many research groups in academia and industry, leading to a steady proliferation of wireless testbed equipment around the world. This is accompanied by a massive increase in research output related to experimental evaluation rather than traditional methods like mathematical analysis or simulations. In this workshop, we intend to offer the community a meeting venue for knowledge exchange in a rather informal way. The workshop is dedicated to 1. The presentation of novel research results at an early stage without formal paper submission, reviewing and a subsequent workshop proceeding. This gives researchers the opportunity to get feedback on their work at an early stage, likely improving subsequent publications. 2. Sharing prototyping best-practice and development experience with other researchers and developers in the community, and discussing initiatives and concerns with respect to different development platforms together with representatives of the platform development teams. To achieve this, the workshop is composed of three different parts: - Presentation slots for (early) research results, accompanied by an abstract but no formal paper published later in a proceeding. - Poster and demo presentations also accompanied by an abstract but no paper presented in a proceeding. - Parallel two-hour community meetings, with Mango and National Instruments respectively. The two communities will present the latest new from their respective development platforms USRP (National instruments) and WARP (Mango). These community meetings will also have the opportunity for researchers to discuss their concerns, needs, ideas, suggestions etc. with the company representatives and the broader community. For paper, poster or demo presentation, we solicit contributions in the broad areas of wireless communications and networking as long as they are related to experimental work. Areas of interest are (but not limited to): - Physical layer design - Protocol design, not only limited to the medium access control layer - Network optimization and management - Validation results, i.e. performance comparisons between theoretical and experimental work - Tools for experimental platforms (i.e. new libraries, novel hardware/software designs etc.) ### Registration ### For participants the workshop is free of charge, i.e. we do not request a registration fee. However, participants need to register: - Pure participation requires a registration by November 1st. - Talks need to be registered with a title and an abstract by October 15th. The organizing committee will decide on the assignment of presentation slots if we receive too many registrations for talks. The slot assignments will be based on relevance to the workshop community and novelty of the contribution. - Demos are accepted as they are proposed, as well as poster presentations. Here, we request a registration by November 1st. Abstracts for talks and demos should be limited to two pages in IEEE conference style format. Please register talks, demos and/or participation by sending an email to per.zetterberg(a)ee.kth.se with subject [EWT] . ### Workshop Organization and Program Committee ### - Per Zetterberg (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) - James Gross (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) - Patrick Murphy (Mango Communications) - Leif Johansson (National Instruments) - Linda Doyle (Trinity College Dublin) -- James Gross Associate Professor School of Electrical Engineering Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Osquldas Väg 10, SE-100 44 Stockholm Phone: +46-8-7908819 Web: people.kth.se/~jamesgr/ -- ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

1 0

Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CfP: First IEEE Workshop on Pervasive Energy Services (PerEnergy) in conjunction with IEEE PerCom 2015
by Lars Wolf 19 Aug '14

19 Aug '14

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CfP: First IEEE Workshop on Pervasive Energy Services (PerEnergy) in conjunction with IEEE PerCom 2015 Datum: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 10:37:14 +0200 Von: Frank Dürr <frank.duerr(a)IPVS.UNI-STUTTGART.DE> Antwort an: Frank Dürr <frank.duerr(a)IPVS.UNI-STUTTGART.DE> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG CALL FOR PAPERS First IEEE Workshop on Pervasive Energy Services (PerEnergy) in conjunction with IEEE PerCom 2015 Submission Deadline: November 26, 2014 March 23, 2015, St. Louis, Missouri, USA http://perenergy2015.cs.uni-bonn.de/ ====================================================================== Scope of the Workshop --------------------- A wealth of unexplored knowledge exists in the power data collected from smart meters and smart plugs (i.e., metering equipment for individual wall outlets). Analysis of the data may be used to provide context-based services (e.g., presence detection), but also serve as the foundation for novel services (e.g. automated recommendations for energy savings). To date, the potential of this domain has barely been explored, although more and more energy data is becoming available due to the increasing number of deployed smart metering equipment. At the moment, one of the most important research challenges in smart energy systems is thus the creation of value-added services that exploit the information content in energy generation and consumption data in such a way that they can inspire new functionalities and context models. The aim of this workshop is thus to bring together practitioners and researchers from both academia and industry in order to have a forum for discussion and technical presentations on the recent advances in the numerous opportunities opened up by the use of energy data in context-aware systems. It furthermore serves as a forum for the smart energy research community to discuss open issues, novel solutions and the future development of smart energy management systems in general. Topics of Interest ------------------ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Novel architectures for the integration of smart meter/smart plugs into pervasive computing systems - Seamless energy meter integration in the design and architecture of smart home/office spaces - Applications relying on energy data including, for instance, energy optimization and sustainable operation of smart cities, household load disaggregation, generation and load forecasting, and other means for informed load shifting - Novel business models relying on energy data - Collection, processing, and integration of energy data to improve the control over loads and generation (e.g., distributed renewable sources) - Security and privacy considerations in smart energy metering, including novel means to mitigate privacy and security threats - Experiences with experimental power metering system prototypes and pilots - Power metering testbeds and data sets for the comparison of household characteristics and processing approaches in a globalized world - Industrial use cases showing gaps to be filled by future research Submission Instructions ----------------------- Authors are invited to submit regular (full) papers for presentation at the workshop, describing original, previously unpublished work, which is not currently under review by another workshop, conference, or journal. Regular papers should present novel perspectives within the general scope of the workshop. Submissions of papers must be formatted according to the IEEE 8.5x11 conference format and must not exceed 6 pages. Papers in excess of page limits shall not be considered for review or publication. Accepted papers will appear in the IEEE PerCom '15 Workshops proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press. The authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the workshop. Each accepted paper requires a full PERCOM registration to appear in the proceedings (no registration is available for workshops only). Submissions are handled through the EDAS system. It is a requirement that all authors listed in the submitted paper are also listed in EDAS. The author section of EDAS will be locked after the workshop submission deadline to ensure that conflicts of interest can be properly enforced during review. If the list of authors differs between the paper and EDAS, the paper may not be reviewed. Further submission instructions can be found on the workshop web page: http://perenergy2015.cs.uni-bonn.de/ Important Dates --------------- - Submissions deadline: November 26, 2014 - Paper notification: January 9, 2015 - Camera ready: January 28, 2015 - Workshop date: March 23, 2015 Organization ------------ Workshop Organizers: - Andreas Reinhardt (School of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Australia) eMail: andreasr(a)cse.unsw.edu.au - Delphine Christin (Institute of Computer Science 4, University of Bonn; Fraunhofer FKIE) eMail: christin(a)cs.uni-bonn.de - Frank Duerr (Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, University of Stuttgart, Germany) eMail: frank.duerr(a)ipvs.uni-stuttgart.de Technical Program Committee: - Oliver Amft, University of Passau - Christian Beckel, ETH Zurich - Mario Berges, Carnegie Mellon University - Delphine Christin, University of Bonn, Fraunhofer FKIE - Hermann de Meer, University of Passau - Frank Duerr, University of Stuttgart - Wilfried Elmenreich, University of Klagenfurt - Stefan Katzenbeisser, Technische Universität Darmstadt - Georgios Konstantinou, The University of New South Wales - Sebastian Lehnhoff, University of Oldenburg - Stephen Makonin, Simon Fraser University - Oliver Parson, University of Southampton - Joern Ploennigs, IBM Research - Andreas Reinhardt, The University of New South Wales - Anita Sobe, University of Neuchatel - Mariya Sodenkamp, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg - Jay Taneja, IBM Research Lab Nairobi - Steffen Wendzel, Fraunhofer FKIE Further nominations pending. ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

1 0

Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE PerCom 2015 - St. Louis, Missouri, USA, March 23-27, 2015
by Lars Wolf 19 Aug '14

19 Aug '14

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE PerCom 2015 - St. Louis, Missouri, USA, March 23-27, 2015 Datum: Tue, 5 Aug 2014 10:46:36 -0400 Von: Nirmalya Roy <nirmalya.roy(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Nirmalya Roy <nirmalya.roy(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.] CALL FOR PAPERS - IEEE PerCom 2015 St. Louis, Missouri, USA, March 23-27, 2015 http://www.percom.org/ Call For Papers IEEE PerCom, now in its thirteenth year, is established as the premier annual scholarly venue in the areas of pervasive computing and communications. Pervasive computing and communications have evolved into highly active areas of research and have found their way to many current commercial systems, due to the tremendous advances in a broad spectrum of technologies and topics including wireless networking, mobile and distributed computing, sensor systems, ambient intelligence, and smart phones. PerCom 2015 will be held in St. Louis, located in the heart of the US and the "Gateway to the West". PerCom 2015 will provide a leading edge, scholarly forum for researchers, engineers, and students alike to share their state-of-the art research and developmental work in the broad areas of pervasive computing and communications. The conference will feature a diverse mixture of interactive forums: core technical sessions of high quality cutting-edge research articles; targeted workshops on exciting topics; live demonstrations of pervasive computing in action; inspiring keynote speeches; insightful panel discussions from domain experts; and posters representing emerging ideas. Research contributions are solicited in all areas pertinent to pervasive computing and communications, including: * Innovative pervasive computing applications * Data management for pervasive computing * Programming paradigms for pervasive systems * Architectures, protocols, and technologies for pervasive communications * Middleware for pervasive services and applications * Adaptive, autonomic and context-aware computing * Participatory and social sensing * Opportunistic networking and sensing in pervasive systems * Mobile/wearable computing systems and services in pervasive computing * Urban and mobile crowd sensing and intelligence * Energy-efficient and green pervasive computing * Positioning and tracking technologies * Sensors and RFID in pervasive systems * Multimodal sensing and context for pervasive applications * Machine learning for activity recognition * Smart devices and intelligent environments * Trust, security and privacy issues in pervasive systems * User interface, interaction, and persuasion * Context modeling and reasoning * Cognitive computing in pervasive systems * Virtual immersive communications * Pervasive computing aspects of social networks * Social and economic models for pervasive systems Workshops and Affiliated Events A number of workshops will be held in conjunction with the main conference. Workshop papers will be included along with conference papers in the proceedings and both will be indexed in the IEEE digital libraries (Xplore), showing their affiliation with IEEE PerCom. As in the past, PerCom 2015 will also feature a PhD Forum, a Work-in-Progress poster session, and Live Demonstrations. Please visit the conference website for details. Submission Guidelines Submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication. Also, they must show a significant relevance to pervasive computing and networking. Only electronic submissions in PDF format will be considered. Papers must be 9 pages or less, including references, figures and tables (at least 10pt font, 2-column format). Information about submitting papers can be found on the PerCom web page at http://www.percom.org. Submitted papers will undergo a rigorous review process handled by the Technical Program Committee. Additional author names cannot be added after acceptance. The best paper will receive the prestigious Mark Weiser Best Paper Award. Top selected papers will be considered for a special issue of the Elsevier journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC). Important Dates: Paper Registration: September 19, 2014 Paper Submission: September 26, 2014 Notification: November 25, 2014 Camera Ready: January 23, 2015 Conference: March 23-27, 2015 ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

1 0

Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP - IEEE WoWMoM 2015 - Sixteenth International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks
by Lars Wolf 19 Aug '14

19 Aug '14

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP - IEEE WoWMoM 2015 - Sixteenth International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks Datum: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 13:58:46 -0500 Von: Flavio Esposito <flavio(a)BU.EDU> Antwort an: Flavio Esposito <flavio(a)BU.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG http://www.ieee-wowmom.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - - - Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE WoWMoM 2015 Sixteenth International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks http://csr.bu.edu/wowmom15 sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Computer Society TC on Computer Communications (TCCC) June 14-17, 2015 Boston, MA, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **** ******* **** ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 21, 2014 ******* **** FULL MANUSCRIPT DUE: NOVEMBER 28, 2014 ******* **** ******* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IEEE WoWMoM 2015 is soliciting original and previously unpublished papers addressing research challenges and advances towards a world of wireless, mobile, and multimedia pervasive communications. The evolution of wireless networking technologies and their key role in future Internet scenarios offer an increasing wealth of opportunities for distributing multimedia contents over wireless networks, enabling dissemination of professional contents to mobile users as well as sharing user-generated contents among them. Users will be able to retrieve, publish, and manage information, communicate with other users or devices, access and author services, create and exploit context- awareness and so on. Papers that present original work, validated by experimentation, simulation, or analysis, are solicited. Practical experiences and experimental efforts from both industry and academy, duly documenting the lessons learned from testbeds, field-trials, or real deployments, are also welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Wireless multimedia systems, services and applications - Opportunistic and delay-tolerant networks - Ad-hoc, sensor, mesh and vehicular wireless networks - Wireless BAN, PAN, LAN, MAN and WAN - Machine-to-machine (M2M) communications and the Internet of Things - Middleware services for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Context-awareness in wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Content-centric architectures, multimedia content management and distribution for mobile networks - Localization mechanisms and services - Participatory and urban sensing - Mobile social networking - Resource management and QoS/QoE provisioning - Multicasting and broadcasting issues - Handoff and mobility management - Network management and control - Dependability, reliability and survivability issues for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Security and privacy issues for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Energy-efficient protocols and power management - Seamless internetworking and self-organization - System prototypes, measurements, real deployment, and experiences - Modeling, analysis, and performance evaluation AWARDS AND EDITORIAL FOLLOW-UP ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Papers presented at the Symposium will be considered for a Best Paper Award. Papers of particular merit will be considered for a fast track publication in the Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal. PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ------------------------------------------------------------------------ All submissions must describe original research, not published or currently under review for another workshop, conference, or journal. Papers must be submitted electronically through EDAS. You can find detailed submission instructions at:http://csr.bu.edu/wowmom15 ************************************************************************ *Submission implies the willingness of at least one author to attend * *the conference and present the paper. Accepted papers will be included* *in the proceedings of IEEE WoWMoM 2015 and published in the * *IEEE Digital Library. WoWMoM organizers reserve the right to exclude * *a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from * *IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the conference. * ************************************************************************ IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Abstract submission deadline: November 21, 2014. - Full manuscript due: November 28, 2014. - Acceptance notification: March 13, 2015. CONTACTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For further information, please visit the conference website athttp://csr.bu.edu/wowmom15, or contact the PC Chairs. WORKSHOPS AND AFFILIATED EVENTS: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Several workshops will be held in conjunction with the main conference. Workshop papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE Digital Library (Xplore), showing their affiliation with IEEE WoWMoM. WoWMoM 2015 will also feature an Industry Track, PhD Forum and a Demonstrations Session. Please visit the conference website for details. ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

1 0

Fwd: IEEE VTC2015-Spring Call for Papers and Workshops
by Lars Wolf 01 Aug '14

01 Aug '14

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: IEEE VTC2015-Spring Call for Papers and Workshops Datum: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 16:10:25 +0200 Von: VTC2015-Spring in Glasgow <vtc2015spring(a)gmail.com> An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IEEE 81st Vehicular Technology Conference (IEEE VTC2015-Spring) 11-14 May 2015, Glasgow, Scotland www.vtc2015spring.org <http://www.vtc2015spring.org> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 2015 IEEE 81st Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2015-Spring) will be conducted May 11-14, 2015 in Glasgow, Scotland. This semi-annual flagship conference of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society will convene leading individuals from industry, government, and universities to share their perspectives, ideas and innovations in the fields of wireless and mobile communications and networks, and vehicular technology. VTC2015-Spring will be one of the leading 2015 technical events to discuss and design future 5G systems and technologies. The conference will feature world-class plenary speakers, visionary panel sessions, tutorials, oral and poster technical sessions, workshops, and exhibitions. The technical program committee invites the submission of original, unpublished technical papers in the following areas: 1. Antennas, Propagation and RF Design (Chairs: Buon Kiong Lau, Claude Oestges, Katsuhuki Haneda) 2. Transmission Technologies and Communication Theory (Chairs: Tim O'Farrell, Jose Monserrat) 3. Spectrum Efficient Management, Sensing and Cognitive Radio (Chairs: Oliver Holland, Periklis Chatzimisios) 4. Multiple Antenna Systems and Services (Chairs: Reiner Thomae, Ben Allen, Michail Matthaiou) 5. Cooperative Communications, Distributed MIMO and Relaying (Chairs: Simon Armour, Piya Patcharamaneepakorn, Riichi Kudo) 6. Wireless / Radio Access Technologies (Chairs: Graeme Woodward, Toktam Mahmoodi, Jordi Perez) 7. Mobile Network Applications and Services (Chairs: Vasilis Friderikos, Panagiotis Demestichas) 8. Ad-hoc, Mesh, Machine-to-Machine and Sensor Networks (Chairs: Kamya Y. Yazdandoost, Baobing Wang, Dritan Kaleshi) 9. Wireless Networks and Security (Chairs: Justin Coon, Mahesh Sooriyabandara, Marco Di Renzo) 10. Green Communications and Networks (Chairs: John Thompson, Haibin Zhang, Silvia Ruiz) 11. Satellite Networks, Positioning Technologies, Localization and Navigation (Chairs: Paul Mitchell, Giovanni Giambene) 12. Vehicular Communications, Networks and Transportation Systems (Chairs: Onur Altintas, Angela Doufexi, Miguel Sepulcre) 13. Smart Grid, Electric Vehicles, and Vehicular Electronics (Chairs: Derrick Holliday) 14. Future Trends and Emerging Technologies (Chair: Harald Haas) Prospective authors are encouraged to submit full papers through the conference web site. _Important dates for regular papers_ Submit papers for review by: 30 September 2014 Acceptance notices sent: 5 January 2015 Final papers due: 16 February 2015** The conference also invites submissions of cutting-edge workshop proposals to complement the technical program of VTC2015-Spring. Workshops provide invaluable opportunities for researchers and industry practitioners to share their state-of-the-art research and development results in areas of particular interest. More information on the workshop submission procedure can be found at the conference web site. _Important workshop dates:_ Proposal submission deadline: 30 September 2014 Notification of acceptance: 15 October 2014 _Conference Committee_ General co-chairs: James Irvine, University of Strathclyde, UK, and Javier Gozalvez, Miguel Hernandez University of Elche, Spain TPC co-chairs: Mark Beach, University of Bristol, UK, and Narcis Cardona Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Workshops co-chairs: Klaus Moessner University of Surrey, UK, and Cheng-Xiang Wang Heriot-Watt University, UK Panel co-chairs: Oscar Lazaro, Innovalia Association, Spain, and Robert Atkinson, University of Strathclyde, UK Speakers chair: Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton, UK Tutorials chair: Dave Laurenson, University of Edinburgh, UK Publicity co-chairs: Swee Keow Goo, University of Glasgow, UK, and Baldomero Coll-Perales, Miguel Hernandez University of Elche, Spain Finance chair: J. R. Cruz, University of Oklahoma, USA Conference administrators: Jim Budwey and R. Clint Keele, IEEE VTS, USA

1 0

Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CARTOON 2014: FINAL Deadline Extension - August 3, 2014
by Lars Wolf 01 Aug '14

01 Aug '14

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Marcelo Menezes de Carvalho <carvalho(a)IEEE.ORG> Gesendet: 1. August 2014 04:18:29 MESZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CARTOON 2014: FINAL Deadline Extension - August 3, 2014 CALL FOR PAPERS ================================================================================ Workshop on CellulAR Traffic Offloading to Opportunistic Networks (CARTOON) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA October 27, 2014 Co-located with the 11th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS) 2014 http://mass2014.eecs.utk.edu/cartoon/index.html ================================================================================ Important Dates: *FINAL* Submission Deadline: August 3 (23:59 EDT) Notification of Acceptance: August 14 Camera-ready papers: August 21 Scope: The emergence of powerful handheld devices — coupled with the proliferation of cloud-based applications and an ever-increasing dominance of multimedia content in today’s Internet traffic — have ignited an unprecedented growth of mobile data traffic in recent years. Such a fact has posed significant challenges to mobile network operators, who are now pressed to maintain satisfactory quality of service under exponential traffic demands. To complicate matters, it has also become apparent that traditional approaches to expand network capacity may not suffice (e.g., new spectrum licenses and/or technology upgrades), and they can soon be outpaced by aforementioned traffic growth. Because of that, new ideas to cope with the so-called “data crunch problem” have been sought, and mobile data offloading has appeared as one of the most promising solutions: the routing of macrocellular traffic through alternative networks. Although mobile data offloading is generally th! ought in terms of WiFi hotspots or femtocell networks, recent developments in the arena of Opportunistic Networks — one of the most interesting evolutions of traditional mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) — have paved the way for researchers from both cellular and MANET backgrounds to work together in the development of new network paradigms, architectures, and techniques that can leverage the potentials of both “worlds” to promote and enhance mobile data offloading. Motivated by this vision, we invite researchers, engineers, and practitioners from academia, industry, and the public sector to submit original contributions to the Workshop on CellulAR Traffic Offloading to Opportunistic Networks (CARTOON) 2014 in any of the following topics (but not limited to): + WiFi offloading + Hybrid operation in licensed/unlicensed spectrum + Authorized Shared Access / Licensed Shared Access + Incentive mechanisms for offloading to opportunistic networks + New architectures and paradigms for offloading using opportunistic networks + PHY and MAC-layer issues + Routing protocols for data offloading through opportunistic networks + Resource allocation and management + Game-theoretical studies for mobile data offloading + Multi-radio access technologies (RAT) co-existence and support for data offloading + Content and data dissemination, replication, and caching strategies + Mobility models + Data flow management and load balance + Machine-to-machine support in opportunistic networks + Internet of Things in opportunistic networks + Cooperative and non-cooperative approaches for mobile data offloading + Backhaul support for mobile data offloading with opportunistic networking + Network measurements and testbeds + Capacity sharing strategies + Traffic engineering and quality of service for mobile data offloading + Dynamic spectrum sharing and access for data offloading to opportunistic networks + Performance evaluation, simulation studies + Capacity studies and analytical modeling + Self-organization, self-configuration, self-healing mechanisms + Multimedia data offloading through opportunistic networks + Power saving mechanisms + Security, privacy, authentication issues Workshop Chairs: - Luiz A. DaSilva, Virginia Tech, USA & Trinity College Dublin, Ireland - Marcelo M. Carvalho, University of Brasília, Brazil Technical Program Committee: - Yu Wang, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA - Luca De Nardis, La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy - Rudi Villing, National University of Ireland, Ireland - Renato Mariz de Moraes, University of Brasília, Brazil - Zaheer Khan, University of Oulu, Finland - Matthias Wählisch, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany - Rolando Menchaca Méndez, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico - André Noll Barreto, University of Brasília, Brazil - Sofie Polin, KU Leuven, Belgium - Nicola Marchetti, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland - George Iosifidis, University of Thessaly, Greece - Robson Domingos, Nokia Institute of Technology, Brazil - Ilker Demirkol, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain - Marco Fiore, CNR-IEIIT, Italy Submission Guidelines Authors are invited to submit technical papers presenting original, unpublished research, not currently under review elsewhere. All submissions should be written in English with a maximum length of 6 single-spaced, double-column pages using 10pt size fonts on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, with side-margin at least 1 inch, including all figures, tables, and references. Authors must use the Manuscript Templates for IEEE Conference Procedings. Authors can get additional 2 pages at US$ 150/page. All paper submission will be electronic, in PDF format. Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings published by IEEE and will be presented at the conference. For all papers, IEEE reserves the right to exclude the paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the conference. ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

1 0

Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] Elsevier PMC Journal [IF=1.629] SI on "Recent Developments in Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks" -- Deadline 31 Aug 2014
by Lars Wolf 01 Aug '14

01 Aug '14

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Mubashir Rehmani <mshrehmani(a)GMAIL.COM> Gesendet: 1. August 2014 08:12:23 MESZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] Elsevier PMC Journal [IF=1.629] SI on "Recent Developments in Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks" -- Deadline 31 Aug 2014 Dear All, Please find below a call for papers for the Special Issue of the Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal on "Recent Developments in Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks". Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. ----------- Call for Papers for the Special Issue of the Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal on "Recent Developments in Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks" http://www.journals.elsevier.com/pervasive-and-mobile-computing/call-for-pa… AIMS AND SCOPE ---------------------------- Wireless sensor nodes in traditional Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) use fixed spectrum assignment policy and their performance is limited due to limited processing and communication power. In addition, these wireless sensor nodes require high bandwidth and their QoS requirements are application specific. Wireless sensor nodes with cognitive radio capabilities (i.e., Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks (CRSNs)), can help to address these challenges. However, there are several challenges and research problems which are needed to be addressed in CRSNs. In fact, cognitive radio sensor network evolved from Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) in order to optimize the bandwidth and Quality-of-Service (QoS) requirements of wireless sensor nodes. Furthermore, CRSNs improve the spectrum utilization, and multiple overlaid sensor networks can be deployed in a specific region. But due to inherent hardware and energy limitation of sensor nodes, the realization of incorporating CR capability in sensor nodes imposes challenges. On top of that, CRSN nodes must handle additional challenges incurred by CR functionalities such as spectrum sensing, spectrum sharing, and spectrum management. In this special issue, we are seeking new and unpublished work in the domain of Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks. More specifically, this special issue will focus on recent developments in Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks (CRSNs). The list of topics includes, but is not limited to: - Spectrum sensing techniques for Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks (CRSNs) - Spectrum management for CRSNs - MAC protocols for CRSNs - Innovative and cross-layer middleware solutions for CRSNs - Applications of CRSNs (smart grids, vehicular networks, etc) - Delay-sensitive and multimedia communication in CRSNs - Simulation models for CRSNs - Energy efficiency in CRSNs - CRSN architecture: peculiar features and evolution - Deployment strategies of CRSNs - Wireless Body Area Networks in the context of CRSNs - Layers in CRSNs (physical, datalink, network, transport, application) - Developments, issues, and open areas - Coverage and Connectivity of CRSNs - Resource Management in CRSNs - CRSN integration with traditional networking solutions and standards - Future perspective for CRSNs IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------ Manuscript due: 31 Aug 2014 Acceptance notification: Jan 2015 Revised paper due: Mar 2015 Final manuscript due: May 2015 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ---------------------------------------- All submissions have to be prepared according to the Guide for Authors as published in the Journal website at http://www.ees.elsevier.com/pmc/. Authors should select “SI: CRSNs”, from the “Choose Article Type” pull-down menu during the submission process. All contributions must not have been previously published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. A submission based on one or more papers that appeared elsewhere has to comprise major value-added extensions over what appeared previously (at least 30% new material). Authors are requested to attach to the submitted paper their relevant, previously published articles and a summary document explaining the enhancements made in the journal version. GUEST EDITORS OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE ---------------------------------------------------------------- * Mubashir Husain Rehmani, Lead Guest Editor, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan, Email: mshrehmani(a)gmail.com * Mehdi Shadaram, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA Email: mehdi.shadaram(a)utsa.edu * Sherali Zeadally, University of Kentucky, USA Email: szeadally(a)uky.edu * Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy Email: paolo.bellavista(a)unibo.it -- Mubashir Husain Rehmani Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Wah Cantt, Pakistan https://sites.google.com/site/mshrehmani/ ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

1 0

Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ENSsys 2014 Deadline Extended (SenSys Workshop on Energy Harvesting Sensing Systems)
by Lars Wolf 31 Jul '14

31 Jul '14

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ENSsys 2014 Deadline Extended (SenSys Workshop on Energy Harvesting Sensing Systems) Datum: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 14:31:44 +0200 Von: Christian Renner <christian.renner(a)TUHH.DE> Antwort an: Christian Renner <christian.renner(a)TUHH.DE> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ** Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message ** ====================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS ENSsys 2014 2nd International Workshop on Energy Neutral Sensing Systems November 06, 2014 - Memphis, USA http://www.enssys.org ====================================================================== Complementing the topics of ACM SenSys 2014, this workshop brings together international researchers to explore the challenges, issues, and opportunities in the research, design, and engineering of energy harvesting and energy-neutral sensing systems. These are a technological cornerstone for future applications in smart energy, future transportation, environmental monitoring, and smart cities. High-quality original technical articles are solicited, describing advances in energy-aware sensing systems, including those which describe practical deployments and implementation experiences. Attendees will benefit from ENSSys co-location with SenSys 2014, widely regarded as one of the most prestigious conferences on sensor network research. WORKSHOP SCOPE Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Power management algorithms for energy-neutrality - Power management circuits and systems - Approaches to enable interoperability between energy-neutral networks - OS-support for energy harvesting sensing systems - Network-wide distributed energy management - Online measurement of energy intake and consumption - Online prediction of energy intake and consumption - Reliable operation in energy harvesting sensor systems - Modelling, simulation and tools for effective design of energy-neutral sensing systems - Architectures and standards - Internet of (energy-neutral) things - Innovative applications - Experiences from real-world deployments - Networking support for energy-neutral and energy-harvesting sensing systems - Event-powered sensing systems and networks SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS We solicit three types of paper submission: technical papers (6 pages), demo papers (2 pages, presented at the workshop as interactive demonstrations), and poster papers (2 pages, presented at the workshop as a poster). Submissions should be previously unpublished, and not under review by another conference or journal. Papers should be submitted for consideration via the workshop website, prior to the submission deadline, and must adhere to the provided formatting guidelines. Papers will undergo double-blind review; authors are asked to remove names and other identifying statements from submissions. Submissions will be reviewed for novelty, relevance, and quality. All accepted papers will be available on the ACM Digital Library. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: August 17, 2014 (23:59 EST) Demo/Poster Submission: August 17, 2014 (23:59 EST) Notification: September 21, 2014 Camera Ready: October 5, 2014 Workshop: November 06, 2014 ORGANISERS General Chair: Geoff Merrett, Uni. Southampton, UK Programme Chair: Christian Renner, Uni. Lübeck, Germany Programme Co-Chair: Davide Brunelli, Uni. Trento, Italy TECHNICAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Paul Wright, UC Berkeley, USA Yang Yaowen, Nanyang Technological Uni, Singapore Pai Chou, UC Irvine, USA Davide Brunelli, Uni. Trento, Italy Yogesh Ramadass, Texas Instruments, USA Winston Seah, Victoria Uni. Wellington, New Zealand Maria Gorlatova, IBM, USA Christian Renner, Uni. Lübeck, Germany Guy Grebla, Columbia University, USA Geoff Merrett, Uni. Southampton, UK Aravind Kailas, Alg. Models & Syst. Solutions LLC, USA Tan Yen Kheng, Nanyang Technological Uni, Singapore PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Alex Weddell, University of Southampton, UK Philipp Sommer, CSIRO, Australia Olivier Sentieys, University of Rennes (ENSSAT), France Dora Spenza, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Emanuael Popovici, University College Cork (UCC), Ireland Anton Hergenröder, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

1 0