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Fwd: [pimrc2016] IEEE PIMRC'16: the submission system is open!
by Lars Wolf 31 Jan '16

31 Jan '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [pimrc2016] IEEE PIMRC'16: the submission system is open! Datum: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 16:55:37 +0100 Von: Coll Perales, Baldomero <bcoll(a)umh.es> Antwort an: Coll Perales, Baldomero <bcoll(a)umh.es> An: pimrc2016(a)listas.umh.es -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------,,FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS,,27th IEEE International Symposium on Personal,,Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC’16),,4-7 September 2016, Valencia, Spain,,http://www.ieee-pimrc.org/index.html,,------------------------------… <http://www.ieee-pimrc.org/> Dear colleagues, I am contacting you on behalf of the IEEE PIMRC 2016’s Executive and Technical Program Co-Chairs to announce the opening of the submission system. Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical papers from January 31, 2016 to March 18, 2016 for publication in the IEEE PIMRC 2016 Conference Proceedings. Detailed instructions for the submission process can be found at: http://www.ieee-pimrc.org/2016/initsub.html. The 2016 IEEE 27th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) will be held 4-7 September 2016 in the beautiful Mediterranean city of Valencia, Spain. This annual conference of the IEEE Communications Society will bring together individuals from academia, government, and industry to discuss and exchange ideas in all aspects of Radio Communications, from Physical to Applications and Services. The conference will feature world-class plenary speakers, tutorials, and technical as well as industrial panel sessions. The technical program committee invites the submission of original, unpublished technical papers in the following areas (all submissions must be done through EDAS): 1. 1. Fundamentals and PHY Layer (Chairs: Buon Kiong Lau; Michael Jensen, Chenyang Yang) – Submission link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=21766 2. 2. MAC and Cross-Layer Design (Chairs: Jose Monserrat, Erik Ström)– Submission link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=21769 3. 3. Mobile and Wireless Networks (Chairs: Yan Zhang, Celimuge Wu, Ramón Agüero)– Submission link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=21770 4. 4. 4. Services, Applications and Business (Chairs: Roberto Verdone, Didier A. Bourse)– Submission link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=21771 _Important Dates_: *Papers submission**deadline**: March 18th, 2016** * Workshop proposals deadline: February 26th, 2016 Tutorials and Panels proposalsdeadline: April 15th, 2016 Acceptance notices sent: May 27th, 2016 Final papers due: June 24th, 2016 We are looking forward to receive your submissions and proposals. Kind regards, Narcís Cardona, Luis M. Correia IEEE PIMRC 2016 Executive and Technical Program Co-Chairs Baldomero Coll-Perales, Publicity Co-chair, IEEE PIMRC 2016

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Special session on Industrial Wireless Networking at IEEE INDIN'16, 18-20 July, Poitiers, France
by Lars Wolf 29 Jan '16

29 Jan '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Special session on Industrial Wireless Networking at IEEE INDIN'16, 18-20 July, Poitiers, France Datum: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 12:21:03 +0000 Von: Gidlund Mikael <mikael.gidlund(a)MIUN.SE> Antwort an: Gidlund Mikael <mikael.gidlund(a)MIUN.SE> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics INDIN'16, 18-20 July 2016, Poitiers, France Special Session on "Industrial Wireless Networking" organized by Prof Mikael Gidlund, Mid Sweden University, Sweden Dr Johan Åkerberg, ABB Corporate Research, Sweden Call for Papers Theme: Wireless communication is very appealing for a broad range of automation applications, including industrial process monitoring and control, home and factory automation, environmental, building and structural monitoring and energy management. Wireless communications in the automation domain impose a number of research challenges, such as communication reliability, bandwidth management, latency issues and energy efficiency. In dynamic environments, very challenging research issues arrive when non-functional properties, such as real-time behavior and adaptability, must be enforced. We solicit technical papers describing original ideas, theory, methodology and experiences from the design, implementation and deployment of wireless systems for industrial automation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: · Advanced network architectures and standards for industrial sensor and actuator networks · Protocols for reliable and real-time wireless communication · Integration and coexistence of heterogeneous wireless networks · Wireless sensor and actuator networks performance, simulation, RF measurements, modeling and case studies · Control over wireless networks · Security and safety issues in industrial wireless networks · Emerging wireless concepts, such as related to Internet-of-Things, for industrial applications Submissions Procedure: All the instructions for paper submission are included in the conference website : http://ieee-indin2016.sciencesconf.org/. A good quality paper may be considered for publication in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics subjects to further rounds of review Reception of full paper: 15 February, 2016 Paper acceptance notification: 10 April, 2016 Camera ready paper reception: 1 May, 2016 ______________________________________________________________ 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/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [15th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless AdHoc-Now from July 4th to 6th 2016 in Lille France] Call For Papers
by Lars Wolf 28 Jan '16

28 Jan '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [15th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless AdHoc-Now from July 4th to 6th 2016 in Lille France] Call For Papers Datum: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 10:56:09 +0100 Von: Abdoul Aziz Mbacke <aziz.mbacke(a)INRIA.FR> Antwort an: Abdoul Aziz Mbacke <aziz.mbacke(a)INRIA.FR> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG CALL FOR PAPERS ADHOC NOW 2016 The 15 th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless (AdHoc Now) 2016, Lille, France Wireless Networks are becoming a necessity covering a wide range of application domains which include smart environments, health care, industry, precision agriculture, multimedia applications and intelligent transport systems, etc. This advancement in wireless and mobile technologies introduces new challenging issues. Since its creation in 2002, the International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless (AdHoc-Now) has become a well‐established and well known event dedicated to wireless and mobile computing. It serves as a forum for interesting discussions on ongoing research and new contributions. The conference addresses both experimental and theoretical research in the areas of ad hoc networks, sensor networks, mesh networks and vehicular networks. It focuses on all issues from link layer up to the application layer. The fifteenth (15 th ) edition of ADHOC‐NOW will be organized from July 4 th to 6 th 2016 in Lille, France . We seek original contributions as work in progress, experimental and theoretical research in Wireless Sensor, Ad‐Hoc, Mobile and Wireless Networks. * The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) . * Submission deadline : February 07 th , 2016 * Author notification : March 07 th , 2016 * Camera ready paper submission and registration : April 22 nd , 2016 * Conference date : July 4 th – 6 th , 2016 * Conference venue : Lille, France * Paper Submission : https://ocs.springer.com/ocs/home/AdHocNow2016 * Author Guidelines : https://project.inria.fr/AdHocNow2016/authors/ Submissions must not be published or under review for another conference or journal. We are interested, but not limited to, research papers in any of the following areas: * Access Control * Ad Hoc Networks of Autonomous Intelligent Systems * Algorithmic Issues * Analytic Methods and Modeling for Performance Evaluation * Ad Hoc Network Applications and Architectures * Delay-Tolerant Networking * Distributed Algorithms for Ad Hoc Networks * Energy Efficiency * Geometric Graphs * Location Discovery and Management * Mobility Handling and Utilization * Wireless Mesh Networks * Big Data Inspired Data Sensing * Mobile Ad Hoc Computing Platforms * Systems and Testbeds * Mobile Social Networking * Quality-of-Service * Routing Protocols (Unicast, Multicast, etc.) * Secure Services and Protocols * Sensor Networks * Self-Configuration * Service Discovery * Timing Synchronization * Vehicular Networks * Wireless Internet * Processing and Networking Technologies Complexity and Computational Issues * Prototype systems and real-world deployment experiences For further information please visit: https://project.inria.fr/AdHocNow2016 ______________________________________________________________ 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/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call For Papers: LCN 2016 - The 41st Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN)
by Lars Wolf 28 Jan '16

28 Jan '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call For Papers: LCN 2016 - The 41st Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN) Datum: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 09:45:17 +0800 Von: LCN Publicity Chairs <lcn.publicity(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: LCN Publicity Chairs <lcn.publicity(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG --------------------------------------- Apologies for Cross-posting ------------------------------------------ ===================================================================== Call for Papers: LCN 2016 - The 41st Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN) ===================================================================== Paper registration: April 18th, 2016 http://www.ieeelcn.org The Address, Dubai Mall, Dubai, UAE November 7-10, 2016 The IEEE LCN conference is the premier conference on the leading edge of theoretical and practical aspects of computer networking. LCN is a highly interactive conference that enables an effective interchange of results and ideas among researchers, users, and product developers. For the past 40 years, major developments from high-speed local networks to the global Internet to specialized sensor networks have been reported at this conference. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Personal and wearable networks - Wireless ad hoc, sensor, and RFID networks - Information-centric networking - Embedded networks - Opportunistic networking - Delay-tolerant networks - Cognitive radio networks - Vehicular networks - Underwater sensor networks - Cyber-physical systems - Social networks - Mobile and ubiquitous networking - Green networking - Overlay and peer-to-peer networks - Local-area and metropolitan-area networks - Storage-area networks - Routing and transport protocols - Software Defined Networking - Internet of Things - Link technologies - Adaptive networking applications - Authentication, authorization, accounting - Security and privacy - Cross-layer optimization - Mobility and Location-dependent services - Multimedia and real-time communication - Machine-to-Machine communications for smart environments - Smart cities - Network management, reliability, and QoS - Network traffic characterization and measurements - Performance evaluation of networks - Testbeds for network experiments - Network coding - Optical and high-speed access networks Authors are invited to submit papers describing original, previously unpublished work, not currently under review by another conference, workshop, or a journal. Full papers (up to 8 camera-ready pages, 10pt font in IEEE format) should present novel perspectives within the general scope of the conference. Short papers are an opportunity to present preliminary or interim results and are limited to 4 camera-ready pages. Short papers will be presented in a poster session. Both full and short papers are published in the proceedings and IEEE Xplore. All papers must include title, complete contact information for all authors, abstract, and keywords on the cover page. IEEE reserves the right to remove papers from IEEE Xplore that are not presented at the conference. Paper submission: Papers must be registered on EDAS and submitted in PDF format. Detailed submission instructions are available at the conference website. Direct your questions to the Program Chairs: Jens Toelle <jens.toelle(a)fkie.fraunhofer.de> and Kemal Akkaya <kakkaya(a)fiu.edu> Demonstrations: Proposals are solicited for research demonstrations. A proposal (no more than 3 pages) should describe the scope, significance and required equipment. Proposals should be submitted via EDAS to the LCN Demo Track. Important dates Paper registration: April 18 2016 Paper submission: April 25, 2016 Notification of acceptance: July 25, 2016 Final paper: August 15, 2016 Demonstration proposal: August 5, 2016 Organizing Committee General Chair Salil Kanhere, The University of New South Wales, Australia General Co-Chair Rachid Benlamri, Canadian University of Dubai, UAE Program Chair Jens Tölle, Fraunhofer-FKIE, Germany Program Co-Chair Kemal Akkaya, Florida International University, USA Publications Chair Karl Andersson, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden Workshops Chair Olivier Mehani, Data61 CSIRO, Australia Local Arrangements Chair Adel Ben Mnaouer, Canadian University of Dubai Local Arrangements Co-Chair Emad Eddine Mohamed, Canadian University of Dubai, UAE Finance Chair Frank Huebner, USA Registration Chair Katrin Reitsma, Motorola Solutions, USA Corporate Relations Chair Arafat Dweik, Khalifa University, UAE Demonstrations Chair Matthias Hollick, Technische UniversitÃ¤t Darmstadt, Germany Publicity Co-Chairs Soumaya Cherkaoui, UniversitÃ© Sherbrooke, Canada Hwee Pink Tan, Singapore Management University, Singapore Student Grants Chair Fadi Al-Turjman, Middle East Technical University, Cyprus Webmaster Gary Kessler, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA Steering Committee Nils Aschenbruck, University of OsnabrÃ¼ck, Germany Joe Bumblis, IEEE TCCC Executive Committee, USA Ken Christensen, University of South Florida, USA Ehab Elmallah, University of Alberta, Canada Matthias Frank, University of Bonn, Germany Anura Jayasumana, Colorado State University, USA Gary Kessler, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA Tom Pfeifer, Technical University of Berlin, Germany Burkhard Stiller, University of ZÃ¼rich + ETH, Switzerland Tim Strayer, BBN, USA Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida, USA Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA. Follow LCN on Twitter at https://twitter.com/IEEELCN Like LCN on FaceBook at https://www.facebook.com/ieeelcn/ ______________________________________________________________ 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/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE Wireless Communications - Special Issue on Architecture for Next Generation Wireless Networks: Scalability, Flexibility, and Interoperability
by Lars Wolf 28 Jan '16

28 Jan '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE Wireless Communications - Special Issue on Architecture for Next Generation Wireless Networks: Scalability, Flexibility, and Interoperability Datum: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 17:42:21 -0400 Von: Kejie Lu <lukejie(a)ECE.UPRM.EDU> Antwort an: Kejie Lu <lukejie(a)ECE.UPRM.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Apologies if you have received multiple copies of this message +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | CALL FOR PAPERS | | IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS: SPECIAL ISSUE ON | | Architecture for Next Generation Wireless Networks: | | Scalability, Flexibility, and Interoperability | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ Over the past decade, we have witnessed the tremendous growth in the number of networked wireless devices, in the types of wireless and mobile applications, and in the total amount of traffic from and towards these devices. In the foreseeable future, it is expected that such a trend will continue with an unprecedented increasing rate. For instance, with the recent deployment of the fourth-generation (4G) cellular network, mobile data traffic rate over cellular networks had exceeded 2 Exabytes per month world-wide by the end of 2014. Recent studies also suggest that the mobile traffic rate could be increased 10-fold by 2019. Besides the ever-increasing mobile applications over cellular networks, many other wireless applications are emerging, including smart grid, vehicular ad hoc network (VANET), cyber-physical system (CPS), and more generally, Internet of Things (IoT). Clearly, to accommodate the fast growing demands, future wireless networks must be scalable. For the aforementioned existing and emerging wireless applications, it has been well-known that they have diverse quality-of-service (QoS) requirements: from low data rate IoT monitoring applications to high data rate content streaming applications, from delay sensitive real-time monitoring in smart grid and safety control in vehicular CPS to delay-tolerant IoT applications. Therefore, it has been very challenging to design and develop practical wireless networks and systems to facilitate different application demands efficiently. To address these challenges, researchers and developers in both academia and industry have put significant efforts to design various wireless networks. For example, in the past few years, the architecture of the fifth-generation (5G) cellular network has attracted significant attention, several future Internet architectures (FIAs) have also been proposed and investigated, and various architectures have been developed for smart grid, VANET, IoT, etc. Naturally, it becomes very important to investigate two issues: first, how we can flexibly deploy or configure a specific type of wireless network, and secondly, if we have multiple co-existing wireless networks, how we can enable the interoperation among them. In the literature, the importance of scalability, flexibility, and interoperability has been recognized and there are some existing studies already. However, despite the importance of these efforts, there are still many challenging issues to be addressed. For example, how to effectively accommodate more than 1 trillion networked devices world-wide in the next 10 years? How to efficiently provision services in future wireless networks such that a given system can be flexibly programmed to optimize the performance of certain applications? How to facilitate the interoperation of heterogeneous wireless networks and systems? To understand and solve these key issues, we organize this special issue in IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine focusing on the scalability, flexibility, and interoperability in the design of architecture for future wireless networks. The special issue covers topics that include, but are not limited to, the following: - Architecture for large-scale Internet of Things (IoT) - Flexible architecture for applications with diverse data rates - Flexible architecture for systems and applications with diverse mobility requirements - Flexible cognitive radio and spectrum access - Interoperability between future Internet and wireless networks - Interoperability among diverse wireless networks - Namespace management in heterogeneous wireless networks - Routing in large-scale multihop wireless network - Security design on wireless scalability, flexibility, and interoperability - Scalable cooperative communications and network coding - Scalable data-centric wireless network architecture - Scalable energy efficiency wireless network - Scalable social-aware wireless network architecture - Standards for scalable, flexible, and interoperable wireless networks - Wireless network for large-scale cyber-physical-system SUBMISSIONS Authors must follow the IEEE Wireless Communications guidelines regarding manuscript content and format. For details, please refer to the "Author Guidelines" at the IEEE Wireless Communications Web site at http://www.comsoc.org/wirelessmag/author-guidelines. All papers must be submitted electronically via the IEEE Wireless Communications manuscript submission system at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ieee-wcm. All papers will be reviewed by at least three (3) reviewers for their technical merit, scope, and relevance to the CFP. IMPORTANT DATES - Manuscript Submission: May 1, 2016 - Notification of Acceptance: July 1, 2016 - Revised Manuscript Due: August 1, 2016 - Final Decision: September 1, 2016 - Final Manuscript Due: October 1, 2016 - Publication: December 2016 GUEST EDITORS Kejie Lu University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, USA kejie.lu(a)upr.edu Shucheng (Will) Liu Huawei Technologies, China liushucheng(a)huawei.com Kostas Pentikousis EICT, Germany k.pentikousis(a)eict.de ______________________________________________________________ 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/

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Fwd: DroNet 2016 (affiliated with ACM MobiSys): Call for Papers
by Lars Wolf 26 Jan '16

26 Jan '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: DroNet 2016 (affiliated with ACM MobiSys): Call for Papers Datum: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 00:13:16 -0500 Von: Sheng-Wei "Kuan-Ta" Chen <swc(a)IIS.SINICA.EDU.TW> Antwort an: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE [apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP] ******************************************************************** * * Preliminary Call for Papers * * DroNet 2016 * * 2nd Workshop on * * Micro Aerial Vehicle Networks, Systems, and Applications * for Civilian Use * * (organized in conjunction with ACM MobiSys 2016) * * Singapore * June 26, 2016 * * Submissions due: March 7, 2016 * ******************************************************************** OVERVIEW ======== Micro and nano aerial vehicles (MAVs and NAVs), often referred to as drones, are unmanned aerial vehicles of various forms, such as small quadrocopters, airplanes, balloons, or tiny flapping wing vehicles. They are novel mobile unmanned systems currently investigated in various mission-oriented civilian applications. Recent popular applications employing MAVs are 3D-mapping, search and rescue, surveillance, farmland and construction monitoring, delivery of light-weight objects and products (e.g., Amazon's announced drone delivery system), or video taking during sports events. Such drones are autonomous systems with a good awareness of their environment, provided by rich on board sensors, such as gyroscopes, accelerometers, lasers, GPS units and cameras, and embedded image processing. Nevertheless, all useful applications require a reliable communication link, or even rely on fleets of MAVs. DroNet welcomes contributions dealing with communication aspects of micro aerial vehicles, theoretical studies, algorithm and protocol design for flexible aerial networks, as well as mission-oriented contributions dealing with requirements, constraints, safety issues, and regulation. We are particularly looking for papers reporting on system aspects and experimental results, summaries of challenges or advancements, measurements, or innovative applications. The program seeks original work of potentially interdisciplinary teams to present robotic work or applications focusing on the communication challenges or requirements to the audience. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Drone ad-hoc networks - Aerial communication protocol design - Theoretical analysis and models for drone networks - Spectrum and regulatory issues - Communication for drone coordination - Delay-tolerant networks and ferrying approaches - Integration of MAVs in mobile, pervasive systems - Positioning and localization - Autonomous flight - Vision and object tracking - Cooperative surveillance, smart cameras and sensors - Experimental results of aerial communication testbeds - Micro flying systems - MAC and routing protocols for MAV fleets - Solutions for sparse and dense fleets of MAVs - Mission and context-aware solutions - Mobility-aware and 3D communications - Energy-efficient operation and energy harvesting of MAVs - MAV-based sensor networks - Swarm movement, coordination, and behavior - Artificial intelligence techniques for drones - Human drone interaction - Acceptance, security, reliability, and privacy aspects - UAV applications, e.g., in smart city, automated map generation, entertainment, emergency, precise agriculture, social good, etc. DroNet invites submission of original work not previously published or under review at another conference or journal. The workshop will accept full paper, poster, and demo submissions. Full papers must be no longer than 6 pages, poster and demonstration papers are limited to 2 pages. DroNet follows a single-blind review process. Submissions must be submitted in PDF format and follow the formatting guidelines provided at http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2016. The proceedings will contain full papers as well as poster and demo submissions and will be published by ACM. All accepted full papers will be considered for the Best Paper Award. TEMPORARY WEB SITE ================== http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2016/workshops.php (More information will be available soon.) WORKSHOP CHAIRS =============== - Kuan-Ta Chen (Academia Sinica) - Karin Anna Hummel (JKU Linz) - Claudio E. Palazzi (University of Padua) STEERING COMMITTEE ================== - Kuan-Ta Chen (Academia Sinica) - Mario Gerla (UCLA) - Karin Anna Hummel (JKU Linz) - Claudio E. Palazzi (University of Padua) - Sofie Pollin (KU Leuven) - James J.P. Sterbenz (University of Kansas) IMPORTANT DATES =============== - Submission deadline (paper, demo, poster): March 7, 2016 - Notification date: April 15, 2016 - Camera-ready due: May 6, 2016 - Workshop date: June 26, 2016

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE Communications Magazine FT - Enabling mobile and wireless technologies for smart cities – Deadline: 29th February 2016
by Lars Wolf 25 Jan '16

25 Jan '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE Communications Magazine FT - Enabling mobile and wireless technologies for smart cities – Deadline: 29th February 2016 Datum: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 14:29:42 -0500 Von: Ejaz Ahmed <imejaz(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Ejaz Ahmed <imejaz(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Dear Colleagues, Please find below information related to our feature topic ''Enabling Mobile and Wireless Technologies for Smart Cities” in the IEEE Communications Magazine. Kindly consider submitting your relevant work to this feature topic. Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement due to cross posting. Information related to this feature topic is given below. FEATURE TOPIC: ENABLING MOBILE AND WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES FOR SMART CITIES URL: http://www.comsoc.org/commag/cfp/enabling-mobile-and-wireless-technologies-… CALL FOR PAPERS Due to advancements in communication and computing technologies, smart cities have become main innovation agenda of research organizations, technology vendors, and governments. To make a city smart, a strong communication infrastructure is required for connecting smart objects, people, and sensors together. Smart city communication involves multiple aggregation and access networks that can be either public or private. The rapid progress in smart cities research is posing enormous challenges in terms of significance, scope, and problem domain. Smart cities rely on wireless and mobile technologies for providing services such as healthcare assistance, security and safety, real-time traffic monitoring, and managing the environment, to name a few. Such applications have been a main driving force in development of smart cities. These mobile and wireless technologies enable several new services that result into better decision making and actions made by enterprises and governments.! Without the appropriate communication networks, it is really difficult for a city to facilitate its citizens in sustainable, efficient, and safer manner/environment. Considering the significance of mobile and wireless technologies for realizing the vision of smart cities, there is a need for conducting research to further investigate the standardization efforts and explore different issues/challenges in the wireless technologies, mobile computing and smart environments. This FT focuses on the crossroads between scientists, industry practitioners, and researchers from different domains in the wireless technologies, mobile computing and smart environments. We envision to provide a platform for researchers to further explore the domain and explore the challenges. In this FT, we invite researchers from academia, industry, and government to discuss challenging ideas, novel research contributions, demonstration results, and standardization efforts on enabling mobile and wireless technologies for smart cities. FOCUS FOR THE FT In this FT we would like to try to answer some (or all) of the following questions: How mobile and wireless technologies can improve the performance and services provided by smart cities? How to evaluate the impact of mobile and wireless technologies on smart cities services? What are the key mobile and wireless technological challenges that hinder the development of smart cities? How to standardize the wireless interfaces of devices for communication in smart cities? Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Resource and network management in smart cities • Quality of Service mechanisms for wireless networks in smart cities • Integration and co-existence of technologies and networks for smart cities • Interoperability between heterogeneous networks of smart cities • Topology and mobility management in smart cities • Energy-aware wireless protocols and algorithms for smart cities • Sensing technologies and applications for smart cities • Wireless networks for smart city surveillance and management • Experimental network measurements and characterization for smart cities data traffic • Security and privacy concerns in smart cities SUBMISSIONS Articles should be tutorial in nature, with the intended audience being all members of the global communications technology community. They should be written in a style comprehensible to readers outside the specialty of the article. Mathematical equations should not be used (in justified cases up to three simple equations may be allowed). In general, however, mathematics should be avoided; instead, references to papers containing the relevant mathematics should be provided. Articles should not exceed 4500 words (from introduction through conclusions, excluding figures, tables and captions). Figures and tables should be limited to a combined total of six. The number of references is recommended not to exceed 15. Complete guidelines for preparation of the manuscripts are posted at http://www.comsoc.org/commag/paper-submission-guidelines. Please send a PDF (preferred) or MSWORD formatted paper via Manuscript Central (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/commag-ieee). Register or lo! g in, and go to Author Center. Follow the instructions there. Select "December 2016/Enabling Mobile and Wireless Technologies for Smart Cities" as the Feature Topic category for your submission. IMPORTANT DATES Manuscript Submission: 29th February 2016 Decision Notification: 30th June 2016 Final Manuscript Submission: 15th September 2016 Expected Publication Date: December 2016 GUEST EDITORS Ejaz Ahmed University of Malaya, Malaysia imejaz(a)gmail.com Muhammad Imran King Saud University, Saudi Arabia dr.m.imran(a)ieee.org Mohsen Guizani Qatar University, Qatar mguizani(a)ieee.org Ammar Rayes Cisco Systems, USA rayes(a)cisco.com Jaime Lloret Univ. Politecnica de Valencia, Spain jlloret(a)dcom.upv.es Guangjie Han Hohai University, China hanguangjie(a)ieee.org Wael Guibene Intel Labs, Ireland wael.guibene(a)intel.com Kind Regards, Ejaz Ahmed Associate Technical Editor, IEEE Com. Mag., Associate Editor, Wiley WCMC, Senior Researcher, High Impact Research Project, Centre for Mobile Cloud Computing Research (C4MCCR), University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Email IDs: imejaz(a)gmail.com, ejazahmed(a)ieee.org Twitter ID: @imejazahmed Personal Website: www.ejazahmed.com ______________________________________________________________ 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/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Papers: IEEE Network Special Issue on Vehicle-to-Grid Networks
by Lars Wolf 24 Jan '16

24 Jan '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Papers: IEEE Network Special Issue on Vehicle-to-Grid Networks Datum: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 01:22:28 -0500 Von: Yuan Wu <iewuy(a)ZJUT.EDU.CN> Antwort an: Yuan Wu <iewuy(a)ZJUT.EDU.CN> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Call for Papers: IEEE Network Special Issue on ------------------------------------------------------------- ** Vehicle-to-Grid Networks ** ------------------------------------------------------------- The past decade has witnessed an explosive growth in the developments and deployments of Electric Vehicles (EVs) (including unmanned vehicles), leading to a multidisciplinary research area called Vehicle to Grid (V2G) networks which cover power grid, communication networks, and transportation systems. From the perspective of power sector, V2G networks necessitate a careful management of the energy flow for charging/discharging a tremendous number of EVs, with the objectives of guaranteeing grid stability, improving energy utilization, and reaping potential arbitrage value. Meanwhile, as indispensable bridges for managing the EVs connected to the power grid and the associated energy flows in V2G networks, designs of efficient communication networks for facilitating V2G/V2V communications are indispensable. Such designs not only cover a wide range of important directions such as network infrastructures, cross layer communication protocols, signaling systems, QoS, and resource ! managements, but also need the integration of the emerging ICT technologies such as M2M (or D2D) communications, IoT networks, software defined networks. Moreover, driven by the growing security issues in cyber spaces, securing the operations and communications of V2G networks and protecting the privacy of EV owners will be of practical and timely importance. This special issue aims to provide a platform for sharing the recent research and development on V2G networks. We solicit papers covering various topics of interest that include, but are not limited to the following: * Network Architectures and Topology Designs for V2G Networks; * Cross-Layer Communications Protocols for V2G Networks; * QoS Provisioning for V2G Networks; * Transportation Networks and V2G Networks; * IoT and M2M for V2G Networks; * Software Defined Networks for V2G Networks; * Narrow-band LTE for V2G Networks; * Security, Privacy, Integrity, and Trust for V2G Networks; * Big Data Analytics for V2G Networks; * Energy (Charging/Discharging) Managements for V2G Networks; * EV-Mobility Modeling and Managements for V2G Networks; * Autonomous Driving Vehicles for V2G Networks; * Distributed Energy and Storage Systems for V2G Networks; * Testbeds and Platforms for V2G Networks. ------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Policies: Articles should be tutorial in nature. Authors must follow the IEEE Network guidelines for preparation of the manuscript. For details, please refer to “Author Guidelines” at http://www.comsoc.org/netmag/author-guidelines and “Paper Submission Guidelines” at http://www.comsoc.org/netmag/paper-submission-guidelines. Authors must submit their manuscripts via the IEEE Network manuscript submission system at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/network-ieee and choose “Vehicle-to-Grid Networks” from the drop down menu on the submission page. The corresponding author is also requested to send the title of submission and the list of authors by email to the Guest Editors. ------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: Manuscript Submission due Date: August 15, 2016; First Revisions/Reject Notification: October 15, 2016; Notification of Acceptance: December 15, 2016; Final Manuscript Due: January 15, 2017; Publication: March, 2017. ------------------------------------------------------------- Guest Editors: Professor Danny H.K. Tsang, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, Email: eetsang(a)ece.ust.hk Professor Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory and University of Oslo, Norway, Email: yanzhang(a)ieee.org Professor Yuan Wu, College of Information Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, #288 Liuhe Road, Xihu District (310023), Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, P.R. China, Email: iewuy(a)zjut.edu.cn Professor Alberto Leon-Garcia, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Email: alberto.leongarcia(a)utoronto.ca ______________________________________________________________ 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/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Papers: IEEE ISCC 2016, Deadline extended: 26 February 2016
by Lars Wolf 22 Jan '16

22 Jan '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Papers: IEEE ISCC 2016, Deadline extended: 26 February 2016 Datum: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 12:27:57 -0500 Von: Habib M. Ammari <ammari.habib(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Habib M. Ammari <ammari.habib(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG The 21th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2016) 27-30 June 2016, University of Messina, Messina, Italy http://www.ieee-iscc.org *** Submission Deadline: February 26th, 2016 *** ISCC 2016, in its 21st year, will provide an insight into the unique world stemming from the interaction between the fields of computers and communications. ISCC 2016 will provide an international technical forum for experts from industry and academia to exchange ideas and present results of on-going research in most state-of-the-art areas of computers and communications. This year, special focus will be on the challenging issues related to all the opportunities of computing, sensing and communication in the era of the integration of Internet of Things, Cloud Computing, and Big Data. You are invited to submit a full paper, a proposal for a panel/invited session, or a tutorial, related to the following indicative topics of interest. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * 5th Generation Networks * Access Networks * Advances in Internet Protocols * Artificial Intelligent Systems applications in Computers and Communications * Big Data, Data Mining and Database Applications * Bio-inspired Computing in Communications * Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics * Cloud Computing (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS) * Cognitive Radio Networking * Communications Services and Management * Connected Vehicles * Cyber Physical Systems and Internet of Things * Digital Media Technologies * Digital Satellite Communications Service * Distributed and Mobile Middleware * Distributed Systems Architecture and Management * E-Commerce and E-Services * Economic and Regulatory Issues * Fault-Tolerance and Error Recovery * Fog Computing * Green Networking and Smart Grid * Grid and Cluster Computing * Human Language Technologies * Image Processing and Visualization * Internet of the Future * Internet of Things and Smart Cities * Internet Services and Applications * Management of Telecommunications and Networks * Mobile Cloud and Mobile Cloud Networking * Modeling and Simulation * Network Design, Optimisation and Management * Network Reliability, Quality of Service and Quality of Experience * Next Generation Networks Infrastructures and Management * Optical Networking * Overlay and Programmable Networks * Peer-to-Peer Computing * Real Time Communication Services * Routing and Multicast * Security, Cryptography and Privacy * Sensor Networks and Mobile Sensing * Services and Support for Smart Cities * Social Networks, Crowdsourcing and Crowdsensing * Software Defined Datacenters * Software Defined Networks and Network Function Virtualization * Software Defined Smart Objects * Software Engineering * Standards Evolution * Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures * Wireless Body Area Network and Wireless Health * Wireless, Cellular and Mobile Communications Review manuscripts should describe original work and should be no more than 8 pages in the IEEE double column proceedings format including tables, figures and references. Note that accepted papers up to 6 pages will be published with no additional charge. Exceeding pages will be charged an additional fee. Extended versions of selected best papers will be recommended for publication in a Special Issue of a prestigious International Journal. Papers must be submitted electronically, in PDF format, on-line via the EDAS system: http://edas.info/N21787 IEEE reserves 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. Accepted papers will be included in IEEE-ISCC Proceedings, to be submitted for inclusion to IEEE Xplore. Please note that final paper acceptance is conditional upon proper formatting (IEEE Xplore compliant) and a satisfactory standard of English. At least one of the authors will be required to register and attend the symposium to present the paper in order to include the paper in the conference proceedings. Please note that final paper acceptance is conditional upon: * One of the authors registers and one of the registered authors presents the paper. * Payment is made and online copyright transfer form is signed and uploaded. * The paper follows given format and the PDF file is IEEE Xplore compliant * The standard of English is satisfactory In the last years, the IEEE-ISCC Proceedings published in IEEE Xplore have been indexed by ISI, dblp and Scopus. This makes the IEEE ISCC one of the publication venues with very high visibility and impact in both Computer and Communications areas. If you have any questions, please contact the Technical Program committee at: iscc2016(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:iscc2016@googlegroups.com> Important Dates: * Paper Submission Deadline: January 21, 2016 * Notification of paper acceptance: March 15, 2016 * Submission of camera-ready papers due: March 31, 2016 General Co-Chairs: * Antonio Corradi, University of Bologna, Italy * Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida, USA * Massimo Villari, University of Messina, Italy Technical Program Co-Chairs: * Antonio Celesti, University of Messina, Italy * Luca Foschini, University of Bologna, Italy * Burak Kantarci, Clarkson University, USA Local Arrangement Co-Chairs: * Maurizio Giacobbe, University of Messina, Italy * Davide Mulfari, University of Messina, Italy * Alfonso Panarello, University of Messina, Italy * Antonio Puliafito, University of Messina, Italy * Massimo Villari, University of Messina, Italy Finance and Registration Co-Chairs: * Reda Ammar, University of Connecticut, USA * Christos Douligeris, University of Piraeus, Greece Publication Co-Chairs: * Periklis Chatzimisios, Technological Educational Institution of Thessaloniki, Greece * Tolga Soyata, University of Rochester, USA Keynote Speakers Co-Chairs: * Kaushik Chowdhury, Northeastern University, USA * Rajiv Ranjan, Newcastle University, United Kingdom. Industrial Co-Chairs: * Roberto di Bernardo, Engineering SPA, Italy * Carlos Roberto De Rolt, Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina and BRy, Brazil * Prasad Saripalli, Edifecs, USA Workshop and Tutorial Co-Chairs: * Maria Fazio, University of Messina, Italy * Noura Limam, University of Waterloo, Canada * Luiz Angelo Steffenel, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France Publicity Co-Chairs: * Habib M. Ammari, University of Michigan-Dearborn * Stefano Chessa, University of Pisa, Italy * Alex Galis, University College London, United Kingdom * Salil Kanhere, University of New South Wales, Australia * Djamel Sadok, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil * Ahmet Sekercioglu, Monash University, Australia * Qing Yang, Montana State University, USA Steering Committee: * Reda Ammar, University of Connecticut, USA * Antonio Corradi, University of Bologna, Italy * Mario Dantas, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil * Christos Douligeris, University of Piraeus, Greece * Adel S. Elmaghraby, University of Louisville, USA * Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa, Canada * Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida, USA * Susana Sargento, Instituto de Telecomunicações, University of Aveiro, Portugal * Shie-Yuan Wang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan ______________________________________________________________ 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/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: First IEEE Workshop on Smart Service Systems (SmartSys 2016), May 18, 2016 | St. Louis, Missouri, USA
by Lars Wolf 22 Jan '16

22 Jan '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: First IEEE Workshop on Smart Service Systems (SmartSys 2016), May 18, 2016 | St. Louis, Missouri, USA Datum: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 21:00:03 -0800 Von: Shamik Sengupta <sengupta.shamik(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Shamik Sengupta <sengupta.shamik(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Apologies for possible multiple copies of this CFP] ********************** Call for Papers ********************** First IEEE Workshop on Smart Service Systems (SmartSys 2016) May 18, 2016 | St. Louis, Missouri, USA http://mpsc.umbc.edu/smartsys/ Co-located with the IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP 2016) Scope Technology succeeds when it provides benefits to the society either directly or indirectly. Understanding the societal and economic impact and human-centered aspects of a smart system or technology in advance and designing the system a-priori with potential value-added services help spur the discoveries of new tools, methodologies and innovative services. Smart service systems span across a variety of socio-technical facets comprising of devices, people, organizations, environments and technologies to sense, actuate, control and assess the physical, cyber and societal artifacts of the human service systems. Besides the systems being self-adaptive and fault-tolerant, need to be designed in such a way that it can continuously increase the quality and productivity, the compliance and sustainability of the smart services it offers. While human-centered perspective and cognitive learning help create multi-facet value added services and catalyze the sustained economic growth of smart service systems, understanding the multi-modal sensing, control, heterogeneity and interdependency between different physical, virtual and logical components of such a complex system will enable the realization of new transformative smarter service systems. If successful, this can help improve the quality-of-service of the customers, quality-of-life of the citizens and quality-of returns of the stakeholders and investors. Nurturing the development of smart service systems seeks for inter- and trans-disciplinary crosscutting research threads from system and operational engineering, computer science and information systems, social and behavioral science, computational modeling and industrial engineering etc. The goal of this workshop is to bring together practitioners and researchers from both academia and industry in order to have a forum for discussion and technical presentations on the fundamental knowledge and principles of smart service systems that enable the value co-creation in sensing, actuating, data analytics, learning, cognition, and control of human centric cyber-physical-social systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Innovative tools, methodologies and solutions for smart service systems; example includes personalized healthcare, smart energy, smart cities, smart manufacturing, intelligent transportation, education, precision medicine and agriculture, national security etc. • Information extraction and interpretation from sensors, actuators, smart phones, smart watch, and human • Context and situational-awareness of smart service systems • Design of people-centric services and technologies for providing better services such as food, transportation and places to live • Novel architectures and interoperable solutions for internet of things • Models and methodologies for designing systems of systems • Big data analytics approaches for providing better customer services, and innovating new types of sustainable services • Modeling, analysis, co-production, and co-evolution of human activity, behavior and interaction for the effective adaptation and percolation of longitudinal smart service systems • Role of machine learning, artificial intelligence, robotics, pervasive computing, control theory, information and communications technologies • Design and developments of intelligent systems, intelligent enterprises and cyber-physical-social-systems • Design of inter-dependent complex global systems such as healthcare, smart gird, computer networks, logistics and supply-chains, financial markets etc. • Smart infrastructure and testbed to support the integration of autonomous systems and innovative applications Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit to a Special Issue of INFORMS Service Science Journal (http://pubsonline.informs.org/journal/serv ). 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. Papers may be no more than 6 pages in length. Papers in excess of page limits shall not be considered for review or publication. All papers must be typeset in double-column IEEE format using 10pt fonts on US letter paper, with all fonts embedded. The IEEE LaTeX and Microsoft Word templates, as well as related information, can be found at IEEE conference template website. Submissions must be made via EasyChair. Each accepted paper will require a full SMARTCOM registration (no registration is available for workshops only). Important dates Manuscript submission: February 15, 2015 Paper notification: March 28, 2016 Camera-ready: April 15, 2016 Workshop date: May 18, 2016 Organizing Committees Workshop co-chairs: Nirmalya Roy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Nilanjan Banerjee, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Government Contact: Gurdip Singh, National Science Foundation (NSF) Publicity co-chairs Ryan Robucci, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA Shamik Sengupta, University of Nevada, Reno, USA Arnab Bhattacharya, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India Technical Program Committee (in progress): Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Jason Halstorm, Florida Atlantic University, USA Paul P. Maglio, University of California, Merced, USA Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pisa, Italy Arpan Pal, TCS Innovation Lab, India Simone Silvestri, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA Nalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California Irvine, USA Desheng Zhang, University of Minnesota, USA Best Regards, Shamik ----- Dr. Shamik Sengupta Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science & Engineering University of Nevada, Reno Office Ph. 775.784.6953 Homepage: http://www.cse.unr.edu/~shamik/ ______________________________________________________________ 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/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] Emerging Technologies for Disaster Management IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, Special Issue/Section
by Lars Wolf 22 Jan '16

22 Jan '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] Emerging Technologies for Disaster Management IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, Special Issue/Section Datum: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 08:50:21 +0800 Von: Deze Zeng <dazzae(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Deze Zeng <dazzae(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG IEEE Transaction on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC) seeks original manuscripts for a Special Issue/Section on Emerging Technologies for Disaster Management. CFP in PDF : <http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/transactions/cfps/cfp_tetcsi_etdm.…> http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/transactions/cfps/cfp_tetcsi_etdm.… We live in a world in which natural and man-made disasters (such as earthquakes, hurricanes, terrorist attacks, and industrial accidents) often occur. These disasters are so sudden in nature, so causing loss of human lives and interruption of essential public services (such as health care, electricity, water, transportation and communication). Disaster management aims to reduce or avoid potential losses from hazards, ensure prompt and appropriate assistance to victims and achieve a rapid and effective recovery. In recent years, new computing/communication technologies have emerged to improve the efficiency of disaster management; for example, crowdsourcing has been applied in the Nepal earthquake to collect the latest information from earthquake-affected areas and create a dynamic map that shows the locations in which aid and relief are needed. Although some preliminary attempts have been made to apply emerging technologies for disaster management, there are many open challenges that need to be addressed to fully exploit the potentials of these promising technologies. Various technologies must be considered in the entire disaster management process and its many phases, including prevention, preparedness, relief and recovery. Although disasters cannot often be prevented, new technologies must be explored to predict and prepare through robust and resilient infrastructures. After a disaster occurs, advanced technologies are needed to assist in searching and rescuing victims. Since power and communication are usually interrupted, it is important to quickly recover communication using energy-efficient technologies, so that processing of information can take place; furthermore, good planning and scheduling can also help to quickly recover from a disaster. This special issue focuses on covering the most recent research results that apply emerging technologies and address challenges related to disaster management. Topics of interest include but not limited to: - Social networks for disaster management - Victim localization and searching - Resilient network/communication and processing under a disaster environment 、 - Resource planning and allocation in a disaster environment - Energy-efficient technologies for computing/communication for disaster - Sensing technologies for disaster management - Robotics for disaster management - Big data for disaster management - New devices/technologies for disaster management Submitted articles must not have been previously published or currently submitted for journal publication elsewhere. As an author, you are responsible for understanding and adhering to our submission guidelines. You can access them at the IEEE Computer Society web site, www.computer.org. Please thoroughly read these before submitting your manuscript. Please submit your paper to Manuscript Central at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tetc-cs Please note the following important dates. • Submission Deadline: December 1, 2016 • Reviews Completed: March 1, 2017 • Major Revisions Due (if Needed): April 1, 2017 • Reviews of Revisions Completed (if Needed): May 1, 2017 • Minor Revisions Due (if Needed): June 1, 2017 • Notification of Final Acceptance: August 1, 2017 • Publication Materials for Final Manuscripts Due: September 1, 2017 • Publication date: Last Issue of 2017 (Dec Issue) Please address all other correspondence regarding this special Section to the Lead Guest Editor Nei Kato. Guest Editors： Nei Kato, Tohoku University <kato(a)it.is.tohoku.ac.jp> Song Guo, The University of Aizu <sguo(a)u-aizu.ac.jp> Hiroshi Tohjo, NTT <tohjo.hiroshi(a)lab.ntt.co.jp> ______________________________________________________________ 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/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE CNS 2016 Call For Papers
by Lars Wolf 19 Jan '16

19 Jan '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE CNS 2016 Call For Papers Datum: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 14:43:38 -0500 Von: Linke Guo <lguo(a)BINGHAMTON.EDU> Antwort an: Linke Guo <lguo(a)BINGHAMTON.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************** IEEE CNS 2016 - IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security Philadelphia, USA -- October 17-19, 2016 http://cns2016.ieee-cns.org/ <http://cns2016.ieee-cns.org/> ****************************************************************************** IEEE CNS 2016 Call For Papers IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS) is a recently added conference series in the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) core conference portfolio and the only ComSoc conference focusing solely on cyber security. The goal of CNS is to provide an outstanding forum for cyber security researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and users to exchange ideas, techniques and tools, raise awareness, and share experience related to all practical and theoretical aspects of communications and network security. Building on the success of the past three years’ conferences, IEEE CNS 2016 seeks original high-quality technical papers from academia, government, and industry. Topics of interest encompass all practical and theoretical aspects of communications and network security, all the way from the physical layer to the network layer to applications reliant on a secure communication substrate. Submissions with main contributions in other security areas, such as information security, software security, system security, or applied cryptography, will also be considered if a clear connection to secure communications/networking is demonstrated. Particular topics of interest include, but are not limited to: · Anonymization and privacy in communication systems · Biometric authentication and identity management · Computer and network forensics · Data and application security · Data protection and integrity · Availability of communications, survivability of networks in the presence of attacks · Key management and PKI for networks · Information-theoretic security · Intrusion detection and prevention · Location privacy · Mobile security · Outsourcing of network and data communication services · Physical layer security methods, cross-layer methods for enhancing security · Secure routing, network management · Security for critical infrastructures · Security metrics and performance evaluation · Security and privacy for big data · Security and privacy in body area networks · Security and privacy in content delivery network · Security and privacy in cloud computing and federated cloud · Security and privacy in crowdsourcing · Security and privacy in the Internet of Things · Security and privacy in multi-hop wireless networks: ad hoc, mesh, sensor, vehicular and RFID networks · Security and privacy in peer-to-peer networks and overlay networks · Security and privacy in single-hop wireless networks: Wi-Fi, Wi-Max · Security and privacy in smart grid, cognitive radio networks, and disruption/delay tolerant networks · Security and privacy in social networks · Security and privacy in pervasive and ubiquitous computing · Social, economic, and policy issues of trust, security, and privacy · Traffic analysis · Usable security for networked computer systems · Vulnerability, exploitation tools, malware, botnet, DDoS attacks · Web, e-commerce, m-commerce, and e-mail security PLEASE NOTE: To be published in the IEEE CNS 2016 Conference Proceedings and to be eligible for publication in IEEEXplore®, an author of an accepted paper is required to register for the conference at the full (member or non-member) rate, and the paper must be presented by an author of that paper at the conference unless the TPC Chair grants permission for a substitute presenter arranged in advance of the event and who is qualified both to present and answer questions. Non-refundable registration fees must be paid prior to uploading the final IEEE formatted, publication-ready version of the paper. For authors with multiple accepted papers, one full registration is valid for up to three papers. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the IEEE 2016 Conference Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore® as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. Important Dates: Paper submission: April 20, 2016 Notification date: July 1, 2016 Final paper: July 13, 2016 Organizing Committee: General Chair: Jie Wu, Temple University, USA Program Chairs: Yingying Chen, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Tilman Wolf, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA ______________________________________________________________ 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/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Papers: IoP-W 2016 The first IFIP Internet of People Workshop (co-located with Networking 2016)
by Lars Wolf 18 Jan '16

18 Jan '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Papers: IoP-W 2016 The first IFIP Internet of People Workshop (co-located with Networking 2016) Datum: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 14:16:01 +0100 Von: Mattia Campana <mattia.campana(a)IIT.CNR.IT> Antwort an: Mattia Campana <mattia.campana(a)IIT.CNR.IT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IFIP IoP-W 2016 - First IFIP Internet of People Workshop co-located with IFIP Networking 2016 20 May 2016, Vienna, Austria URL -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE AND OVERVIEW ---------------------------------------- The massive penetration of Internet connectivity and devices with networking and computing capabilities (such as "things" and personal users' devices) is pushing a tighter and tighter convergence between the cyber world - of Internet protocols, services and Apps - and the physical world, with continuous interactions and mutual impact between these two worlds. According to an "anti-Copernican" view, humans are put back at the centre of the "Internet universe", whenever they are in the loop of cyber-world services. Applications, middlewares, but even Internet services and network protocols are more and more designed incorporating Human Individual and Social Behavioural (HISB) models. This is particularly the case when users' personal devices are themselves the network, or provide services to each other such as in mobile self-organising networks, because devices become the "proxies" of their users in the cyber world. Interestingly, similar approaches are also explored in Internet technologies in developing scenarios, where users' participation is often exploited as another resource for networking services. This vision, that we call "the Internet of People" (IoP) generalises emerging concepts and technologies such as IoT, which put the emphasis on the communication between "machines", and adapt to the users' behaviour only as an afterthought. Designing IoP protocols, services and applications thus requires a profound inter-disciplinary approach, where "non-ICT disciplines" such as social sciences, cognitive sciences, economics, complex network sciences, impact the way Internet algorithms are conceived and defined. Note that other types of inter-disciplinary design patterns i.e., bio-inspired approaches where non-human natural behaviours are used as inspiration for network protocols and services, are out of scope. This workshop aims to stimulate research following this view, and aggregate an inter-disciplinary community of researchers around the concept of the Internet of People. Specifically, we seek papers presenting IoP approaches, addressing any layer of the canonical Internet stack or cross-layer combinations thereof, where the human behaviour is at the centre of the design. Also, we welcome submissions that analyse how the human behaviour is affected (and possibly modified) by the use of Internet systems, and how the latter can be improved or re-designed accordingly. The workshop will accept papers where quantitative evidence is available or quantitative approaches are applied. Therefore, purely methodological papers or qualitative analyses will be considered out of scope. Papers proposing novel, thought provoking ideas, possibly presenting preliminary results and analyses are also welcome. However, we do not call for position papers. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following - Networking IoP protocols based on HISB models - Information-centric IoP protocols based on HISB models - IoP services, service-composition and middleware solutions based on HISB models - Online Social Network services based on HISB models - Analysis and modelling of human behaviours in massively diffused Internet services, such as Online Social Networks - IoP protocols and services in developing regions - Privacy, security and trust mechanisms for IoP based on HISB models - Human-centric, inter-disciplinary IoP solutions for IoT scenarios - Test and experimental results with IoP solutions - Architecture, design and implementation of IoP protocols - Modelling, analysis and characterisation of IoP solutions For any additional information please visit the workshop website at URL, or contact the workshop chairs at iopw2016 <at> iit <dot> cnr <dot> it PAPER FORMAT AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ---------------------------------------- Papers should neither have been published elsewhere nor being currently under review by another conference or journal. Submitted papers must be no more than 6 pages (IEEE two-column format, 10pt). Papers will be reviewed single blind. Please follow the submission link at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ifipiopw2016 EDITORIAL FOLLOW-UPS ---------------------------------------- Extended versions of the selected workshop papers will be considered for possible fast track publication on the Computer Communications Journal (Elsevier), in a special section on Internet of People. IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------------------- Abstract Registration: 23 February 2016 Submission Deadline: 1 March 2016 Authors Notification: 8 April 2016 Camera Ready Due: 22 April 2016 Workshop: 20 May 2016 WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS ---------------------------------------- Isabelle Chrisment, TELECOM Nancy, Universite' de Lorraine, France Andrea Passarella, IIT-CNR, Italy Ana Pont-Sanjuan, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS ---------------------------------------- Mattia Campana, IIT-CNR, Italy ______________________________________________________________ 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/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] DEADLINE EXTENSION: Elsevier COMNET Special Issue on Cyber-Physical Systems for Mobile Opportunistic Networking
by Lars Wolf 18 Jan '16

18 Jan '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] DEADLINE EXTENSION: Elsevier COMNET Special Issue on Cyber-Physical Systems for Mobile Opportunistic Networking Datum: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 04:38:03 -0500 Von: Annalisa Socievole <socievolea(a)DIMES.UNICAL.IT> Antwort an: Annalisa Socievole <socievolea(a)DIMES.UNICAL.IT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Dear Colleagues, the deadline for the Elsevier - Computer Networks Journal Special Issue on Cyber Physical Systems for Mobile Opportunistic Networking has been extended to January 31. You can find more information below. Kind regards, Annalisa Socievole ___________________________________________________________________________ CALL FOR PAPERS Elsevier - Computer Networks Journal Special Issue on Cyber-Physical Systems for Mobile Opportunistic Networking ___________________________________________________________________________ The pervasive presence of mobile personal devices with communication and computation capabilities together with the massive use of online social network systems (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, LinkedIn, etc.) are increasingly creating a cyber-physical space where users can interact exploiting and generating information. Enriched with several sensing capabilities and networking interfaces, today’s portable devices are enabling new ways of communication including Mobile Networking in Proximity (MNP). This network mode complements the classic scenario with Internet coverage enlarging the range of functionalities of these devices through short-range communications (e.g., Bluetooth, WiFi Direct, etc.) in situations where Internet may not be available. When two devices are in proximity, they could still share information without the need of continual Internet connectivity just exploiting the meeting opportunities and activating an opportunistic hop-by-hop forwarding towa! rds the destination. In this view, the social-aware or social-inspired mobile networking research is increasingly underlining the benefits and the need of having knowledge of the social behavior of users for the MNP design. On one hand, the social behavior of mobile nodes can be extracted from mobility. On the other hand, also online social network interactions may provide information about user’s social behavior. As such, the convergence between the two worlds, the physical offline one made by mobile devices and the cyber online one made by the online social networks is getting more and more important, opening a novel and interesting research field with many challenging issues. The goal of this Computer Networks Special Issue is to solicit the research closely related to the mobile and social networking reporting advances on approaches, methods, and applications envisioning and addressing the challenges in this field. Topics of Interest __________________ * Social-aware modeling, design and development of routing algorithms in cyber-physical MNP * Trust, security and privacy, incentive mechanisms, reputation systems and key management algorithms in cyber-physical MNP * Social metrics for network operation * Participatory mobile sensing, crowd sourcing and social media mining integration algorithms in cyber-physical MNP * Application of mixed physical and online social network sensing * Comparison of human social behavior in online and offline social networks over MNP and its evolution over time * Impact of online social behavior on MNP algorithms * Design of cyber-physical applications for MNP based on behavioral models * Graph analysis applied to cyber-physical MNP * Novel distributed solutions for designing, supporting and operating cyber-physical MNP * Real experiences and experiments with cyber-physical MNP Submission Details __________________ Submissions will be judged based on their originality, novelty, and quality. Submissions must not substantially overlap with papers that have been previously published or are currently submitted for publication. The submission must be clearly written and in excellent English, with a maximum page limit of 20 pages. All received submissions within the scope of the issue will be sent out for peer review by three experts in the field and will be evaluated with respect to the relevance to this special issue, level of innovation, depth of contribution, and quality of presentation. Author guidelines for preparation of manuscript can be found at http://ees.elsevier.com/comnet/ Manuscripts should be submitted on line through http://ees.elsevier.com/comnet/ with Cyber-physical MNP selected as the article type. Important Dates _______________ Paper Submission Due: January 31, 2016 Acceptance Notification: April 15, 2016 Revised Papers Due: June 15, 2016 Final Author Notification: July 15, 2016 Publication Target Date: September 2016 Guest Editors _____________ * Floriano De Rango, University of Calabria, Italy (derango(a)dimes.unical.it) * Annalisa Socievole, University of Calabria, Italy (a.socievole(a)dimes.unical.it) * Athanasios Vasilakos, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden (athanasios.vasilakos(a)ltu.se) * Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, United Kingdom, (eiko.yoneki(a)cl.cam.ac.uk) * Artur Ziviani, National Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Brazil, (ziviani(a)lncc.br) ______________________________________________________________ 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/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE MASS 2016 - Brazil
by Lars Wolf 18 Jan '16

18 Jan '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE MASS 2016 - Brazil Datum: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 10:05:10 +0100 Von: Nadjib Ait Saadi <nadjib.aitsaadi(a)U-PEC.FR> Antwort an: Nadjib Ait Saadi <nadjib.aitsaadi(a)U-PEC.FR> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG _______________________________________________________________________________ CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE MASS 2016 The 13th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems Brasilia, Brazil October 10 - 13, 2016 http://www.ene.unb.br/mass2016/ _______________________________________________________________________________ IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: March 25, 2016 Notification of Acceptance: June 3, 2016 Camera-ready version: July 22, 2016 SCOPE The 13th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems (IEEE MASS 2016) will be held in Brasilia, Brazil, October 10-13, 2016. Wireless ad hoc communications, Internet of Things, and mobile computing have applications in a variety of environments, such as smart homes, hospitals, battlefields, and disaster-recovery operations. Wireless sensor and actuator networks are being deployed for enhancing industrial control processes and supply-chains, and for various forms of environmental monitoring. IEEE MASS 2016 is a three-track conference sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society. It aims at addressing research advances in mobile ad-hoc and sensor systems related to (i) algorithms and theory, (ii) systems, protocols, and applications, and (iii) experimental evaluation and testbeds, covering topics ranging from theoretical foundations to applications and testbed development. TOPICS OF INTEREST Original, unpublished contributions are solicited in all aspects of mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), wireless sensor networks (WSNs) (including cyber-physical systems, Internet of Things), and mobile networking/computing, including theory, systems and applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Algorithmic aspects of MANETs and WSNs Application Layer Protocols Architectures of wired/wireless networks Capacity planning and admission control Clustering, topology control, coverage, and connectivity Cognitive networking Cooperative and cognitive communication Cooperative sensing in WSNs Compressive sensing technologies Crowd-sourcing, participatory and social sensing Cross layer design and optimization Cyber-physical systems Data gathering, fusion, and dissemination Data transport and management in WSNs Delay tolerant networks Experiences, real-world applications and deployments Handoff/mobility management and seamless Internetworking Internet/Cloud of Things Key management and trust establishment Localization and Location Based Services MAC protocols, including 802.11, 802.15.4, UWB MAC-layer design for ad hoc networks and WSNs Machine-to-machine (M2M) communications Measurements, experimental systems and test-beds Mobile computing and networking Mobility management Modeling, analysis and performance evaluation Multi-channel, multi-radio and MIMO technologies Network Layer protocols Networked smartphone applications Novel applications and architectures for WSNs Operating systems and middleware support Opportunistic networking P2P, overlay, and content distribution Power-aware architectures, algorithms, and protocols QoS and Resource management Reliability, resiliency and fault tolerance techniques Resource management and wireless QoS provisioning Robotic networks Routing protocols, including unicast, multicast, broadcast, geocast Security and privacy issues in ad hoc and sensor networks, and mobile networking Smart grid Smart healthcare Smart transportation Social networks using smartphones and sensors Time synchronization Topology control, coverage and connectivity issues Vehicular networks and protocols Wireless mesh networking ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair: Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong General Co-Chair: Marcelo M. Carvalho, University of Brasilia, Brazil Technical Program Chair: Ravi Prakash, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Technical Program Vice-Chairs: Antonio A. F. Loureiro, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Paolo Santi, MIT-Fraunhofer Ambient Mobility, USA Guojun Wang, Central South University, China Workshop Chair: Cintia Borges Margi, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Demo/Poster Chair: Marco Spohn, Federal University of Fronteira Sul, Brazil Finance and Registration Chair: Zhen Jiang, West Chester University, USA Publications Chair: Dajin Wang, Montclair State University, USA Local Arrangements Co-Chairs: Priscila A. S. Barreto, University of Brasilia, Brazil Paulo R. L. Gondim, University of Brasilia, Brazil Publicity Chair: Nadjib Aitsaadi, University Paris Est Creteil, France STEERING COMMITEE Dharma Agrawal, University of Cincinnati, USA Jie Wu, Temple University, USA Kang Shin, University of Michigan, USA 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 9 single-spaced, double-column pages using 10pt size fonts on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, with a side margin of at least 1 inch, including all figures, tables, and references, in the PDF format. Authors must use the Manuscript Templates for IEEE Conference Procedings. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by IEEE and will be presented at the conference. Based on reviews and TPC discussions, the TPC may choose to accept some papers as short papers (5 pages). 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. The conference will also include a poster and demo session. Kind regards, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Nadjib AIT SAADI Associate Professor of Computer Science University of Paris-Est Creteil Val de Marne (UPEC) - IUT Creteil/Vitry Laboratory of Image, Signal and Intelligent Systems - LISSI 122 rue Paul Armangot, 94400 Vitry sur Seine Tel : +33 1 41 80 73 10 http://sites.google.com/site/nadjibaitsaadi/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ ______________________________________________________________ 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/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE DCOSS 2016---Call for Papers
by Lars Wolf 17 Jan '16

17 Jan '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE DCOSS 2016---Call for Papers Datum: Sun, 17 Jan 2016 11:55:13 -0500 Von: Stefano Basagni <basagni(a)ECE.NEU.EDU> Antwort an: Stefano Basagni <basagni(a)ECE.NEU.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Apologies for multiple receptions of this Call for Papers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 12th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (IEEE DCOSS) Washington, DC, USA May 26-28, 2016 http://www.dcoss.org/ Call for Papers Due to their potential of impacting an entire host of application areas, distributed sensor systems have become a highly visible research area. The focus of IEEE DCOSS series of conferences is on distributed computing issues in large scale networked sensor systems (including, but not limited to, algorithms and applications, systems design techniques and tools, and in-network signal and information processing). The conference normally features three tracks on Algorithms, Applications and Systems, and a Signal Processing. In addition, a theme for the "Track of the Year" was introduced in recent years. This track is intended to focus on emerging topics in sensing. In DCOSS 2016, the focus topic is "Cloud Computing and its Applications to Sensing and Remote Sensing". Potential authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate current research on computational aspects of distributed sensor systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Social networks and applications - Sensors for smart grid systems, green networks and sustainability - Computation and programming models - Energy models, minimization, awareness - Distributed collaborative information processing - Detection and tracking - Theoretical performance analysis: complexity, correctness, scalability - Abstractions for modular design - Fault tolerance and security - Task allocation, reprogramming and reconfiguration - Dynamic resource management - Scalable, heterogeneous architectures (node and system-level) - Middleware interfaces, communication and processing primitives - Design, simulation and optimization tools for deployment and operation - Design automation and application synthesis techniques - Closed-loop control for sensing and actuation - Case studies: lessons from real world deployments - Network coding and compression * Important Dates Abstract Registration Deadline: January 31, 2016 (11:59 pm EST) Paper Submission Deadline: February 4, 2016 (11:59 pm EST) Acceptance Notification: March 25, 2016 Camera Ready Submission Deadline: April 8, 2016 (11:59pm EST) Early Registration Deadline: April 29, 2016 (11:59 pm EST) Paper submissions will be via EDAS. See http://www.dcoss.org for more information on the conference. The proceedings will be published by the IEEE. Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) and IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP). Held in co-operation with ACM SIGARCH, ACM SIGBED, ACM SIGMOBILE, European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), and IFIP WG 10.3. ** Organizing Committee * General Chair Habib M. Ammari (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA) * Technical Program Chair Stephan Olariu (Old Dominion University, USA) * TPC Track Chairs Algorithms and Performance Analysis: Benyuan Liu (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA) Applications, Systems, Real Deployments and Tools: Mehmet Can Vuran (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA) Signal Processing and Information Theory: Qilian Liang (University of Texas at Arlington, USA) Track of the Year "Cloud Computing and its Applications to Sensing and Remote Sensing": Murat Demirbas (SUNY Buffalo, USA) * Workshops Chair Tommaso Melodia (Northeastern University, USA) * Publicity Chairs Stefano Basagni (Northeastern University, USA) Salil Kanhere (University of New South Wales, Australia) M. Elena Renda (Istituto di Informatica e Telematica, Italy) Leandro Villas (Unicamp, Brazil) * Registration and Finance Chair Yonghe Liu (University of Texas at Arlington, USA) * Publication Chair Rafael Falcon (University of Ottawa, Canada) * Demo/Poster Chair Duc Tran (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA) * PhD Fourm Chairs Tian He (University of Minnesota, USA) Hongwei Zhang (Wayne State University, USA) * Web Chair M. Yousof Naderi (Northeastern University, USA) * Local Organization Chair Azin Neishaboori (Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox, USA) * Steering Committee Chair Jose Rolim (University of Geneva, Switzerland) Laetus deget cui licet in diem dixisse: Vixi. -- Stefano Basagni, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Computer Engineering Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering 312 Dana Research Center Northeastern University 360 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA 02115 Tel. 617 373 3061, Fax 617 373 8970 E-mail: basagni(a)ece.neu.edu *** http://www.ece.neu.edu/faculty/basagni/ *** ______________________________________________________________ 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/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Workshop on Hilariously Low-Power Computing: Pushing the Boundaries of Intermittently Powered Devices (HLPC2016)
by Lars Wolf 17 Jan '16

17 Jan '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Workshop on Hilariously Low-Power Computing: Pushing the Boundaries of Intermittently Powered Devices (HLPC2016) Datum: Sat, 16 Jan 2016 11:59:25 +0000 Von: Sinan Yildirim <K.S.Yildirim(a)TUDELFT.NL> Antwort an: Sinan Yildirim <K.S.Yildirim(a)TUDELFT.NL> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Workshop on Hilariously Low-Power Computing: Pushing the Boundaries of Intermittently Powered Devices (HLPC2016) Co-located with ASPLOS'16 April 2, 2016, Atlanta, GA, USA http://www.hlpc2016.com/index.html Scope: Intermittently Powered Devices (IPDs) are embedded devices that have no tethered power supply and very little, or no energy storage capacity. These devices typically operate using energy harvested from their environment e.g., RF, solar, vibration, etc. When energy is intermittently available, IPDs can perform computation, use peripheral devices (e.g., sensors), and communicate (e.g., via backscatter). These devices currently operate at approximately 10 microJ/Byte energy consumption, enabling today's devices to support simple, short-lived, primarily isolated applications. With improvements in computer architectures, hardware and software systems, the communications stack, emerging memory technologies, and energy harvesting and transfer, we envision devices that operate in the sub-nJ/Byte range, supporting long-running, sophisticated, sensor-rich, widely-communicating applications. This workshop exists to bring together researchers at the intersection of programming languages, software systems, extreme low-power computer architecture, and embedded communication and computing devices. Call for Papers: The workshop seeks paper submission in four main areas: * IPDs (Intermittently Powered Devices) * IPDs at the limits of minimum power consumption - HLPDs (Hilariously Low Power Devices) * IPDs that are embedded - DEIs (Deeply Embedded IPDs) * IPDs and communication - HLPComms (Hilariously Low-Power Communication) These areas are mapped into topic for consideration that include: * Software-defined wirelessly-programmable IPDs * Programming techniques for IPDs * Backscatter and other ultra-low power communication primitives * System support for reliability and robustness to intermittence * Computer architecture for IPDs * Operating systems for IPDs * Applications of emerging, non-volatile memory and compute devices in IPDs * Novel energy harvesting and transfer techniques * Tradeoffs between power transfer and communication and coding for both * Error-correction and control (both for storage and communication) * Theoretical limits of computation and communication in IPDs * Studies and experience reports on emerging IPD applications * Testbeds, platform engineering reports, and experimental datasets Deadlines: Paper Submission: February 15, 2016 (GMT-5) Notification of acceptance: March 4, 2016 (GMT-5) Final paper submission: March 18, 2016 (GMT-5) Workshop day: April 2, 2016 Paper Submission Guidelines Papers must be formatted using the ACM SIGPLAN<http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/> style guidelines. Papers can be at most 6 pages in length including figures, tables, and references. For further details on the submission process please consult http://hlpc2016.com/call.html. Organizers Shyam Gollakota<https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~gshyam/>, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA Brandon Lucia<http://brandonlucia.com/>, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Przemysław Pawełczak<http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~pawelczak/>, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Joshua Smith<https://sensor.cs.washington.edu/jrs.html>, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA ______________________________________________________________ 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/

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Fwd: IFIP AIMS 2016 - Call for Papers - Deadline extended to February 1st, 2016
by Lars Wolf 15 Jan '16

15 Jan '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: IFIP AIMS 2016 - Call for Papers - Deadline extended to February 1st, 2016 Datum: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 15:21:16 +0100 Von: Remi Badonnel <remi.badonnel(a)loria.fr> An: Multiple recipients <LISTSERV(a)CS-LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG> ********************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS - IFIP AIMS 2016 The 10th IFIP International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security June 20 - 24, 2016, Munich, Germany http://www.aims-conference.org/2016/ Paper registration & submission deadline: *February 1, 2016 (extended)* <http://www.aims-conference.org/2016/> ********************************************************************** The AIMS international conference is a single-track event, including conference paper sessions, hands-ons and keynotes, which focuses on early research done by PhD students and young researchers in network and service management and security. The participants find here a dedicated place for getting a constructive feedback by senior scientists and they benefit from tutorials on transversal aspects of a research activity (e.g. publication strategies, paper reviewing, research presentation design). By taking part in a dedicated workshop, the PhD students are invited at an early stage to present and motivate their work as well as their research plans. Finally, by being involved in practical hands-on sessions, PhD students and young researchers will get an up-to-date knowledge combined with basic skills on emerging technologies. This way, AIMS acts as a complementary piece in the set of international conferences in the network and service management community. AIMS 2016 is centered on the theme of management and security in the age of hyper-connectivity. New paradigms, smart and fully distributed algorithms, as well as large-scale virtualization have to be investigated to design scalable and resilient frameworks able to deal with more complex, more dynamic and hyper-connected environments, from cloud infrastructures to the Internet of Things. The design, monitoring, configuration and protection of the next generation of networked systems in an efficient, secure, and smart manner are crucial to commercially viable and successful networks and services. Important Dates - *February 1, 2016: Paper registration deadline (extended)* - *February 1, 2016: Paper submission deadline (extended)* - March 1, 2016: Notification of acceptance - March 14, 2016: Camera-ready papers due - June 20-24, 2016: AIMS 2016 conference Conference Paper Submission: Only original, full papers that have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere can be submitted. Each submission must be written in English and will be limited to 12 pages, references excluded, in the LNCS paper format. Papers exceeding 12 pages, multiple submissions, and self-plagiarized papers will be rejected without further review. Paper submission is handled by the JEMS system, accessible from the AIMS 2016 web page. PhD Student Workshop Submission: The PhD student workshop is open to both junior PhD (max 2 years) and prospective PhD students. Authors are invited to submit short papers (4 pages excluding references, written in English and in LNCS format) describing the current state of their research. The paper should include a clear description of the research problem and the chosen approach, argue why the problem is hard and the approach novel, and it should outline the results achieved to date. Specific, low-level technical details should be avoided. Papers will be evaluated based on the proposed idea, methodology and foreseen impact. Authors of the papers should only be the student and his/her advisor(s). Proceedings The conference proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes of Computer Science (LNCS) series and will include the conference papers as well as the PhD student workshop papers. General Chair - Gabi Dreo Rodosek, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany Technical Program Co-Chairs - Remi Badonnel, TELECOM Nancy, LORIA/INRIA, France - Robert Koch, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany Ph.D. Student Workshop Co-Chairs - Martin Drasar, Masaryk University, Czech Republic - Aiko Pras, University of Twente, Netherlands Lab Session Co-Chairs - Volker Eiseler, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany - Lars Stiemert, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany Publications Chair - Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich, Switzerland More information about the conference on: http://www.aims-conference.org/2016/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: VTC2016-Fall Call for Papers
by Lars Wolf 15 Jan '16

15 Jan '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: VTC2016-Fall Call for Papers Datum: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 08:08:45 -0500 Von: IEEE Vehicular Technology Society <rckeele(a)ieee.org> An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de Vehicular Technology Society header Join Our LinkedIn Group <http://www.mmsend2.com/link.cfm?r=661445230&sid=87800795&m=11853198&u=IEEE_…> Join Our LinkedIn Group <http://www.mmsend2.com/link.cfm?r=661445230&sid=87800796&m=11853198&u=IEEE_…> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *IEEE 84th Vehicular Technology Conference (IEEE VTC2016-Fall)* *18-21 September 2016, Montreal, Quebec - Canada* *ieeevtc.org/vtc2016fall/index.php <http://www.mmsend2.com/link.cfm?r=661445230&sid=87800797&m=11853198&u=IEEE_…>* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Call for Papers* The 2016 IEEE 84th Vehicular Technology Conference will be held 18–21 September 2016 in Montreal, Quebec - Canada. 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. The conference will feature world-class plenary speakers, visionary panel sessions, tutorials, oral and poster technical sessions, workshops, and exhibits. *NOTE:* *Industry Track Scheduled* VTC 2016-Fall will also continue the tradition of having an Industry Track, which will feature panels and presentations with industry leaders sharing their perspectives on the latest technologies. *TECHNICAL PAPERS* *Papers are solicited in the following 12 tracks covering all relevant technical areas (see below for full track descriptions):* *1. Antenna Systems, Propagation, and RF Design 2. Signal Transmission and Reception 3. Cognitive Radio and Spectrum Management 4. Multiple Antenna Systems and Cooperative Communications 5. Radio Access Technology, LTE, 5G, and Wireless Heterogeneous Networks 6. Green Communications and Networks 7. Ad-Hoc, M2M, and Sensor Networks 8. Wireless Networks: Protocols, Security and Services 9. Mobile Satellite Systems, Positioning and Navigation 10. Vehicular Communications, Networks, and Telematics 11. Electric Vehicles, Vehicular Electronics, and Intelligent Transportation 12. Future Trends and Emerging Technologies* *Prospective authors are encouraged to submit full papers through the TrackChair website:* * **vtc2016fall.trackchair.com/* <http://www.mmsend2.com/link.cfm?r=661445230&sid=87800798&m=11853198&u=IEEE_…> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Important dates for regular papers* * Submit papers for review by: *29 February 2016* * Acceptance notices sent: *1 May 2016* * Final papers due: *26** June 2016* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Tutorial and Workshop Proposals* If you are interested in submitting a proposal for either a tutorial or a workshop, please contact the following individuals by visiting the conference website (www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2016fall/committees.php <http://www.mmsend2.com/link.cfm?r=661445230&sid=88299146&m=11853198&u=IEEE_…>): *Tutorials Chair* *Pingzhi Fan* -- Southwest Jiaotong University, China *Workshops Chair* *Claude Oestges* -- Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *TRACK DESCRIPTIONS* *(1) Antenna Systems, Propagation, and RF Design* Reconfigurable antennas and arrays; Distributed antenna systems; Propagation channel measurements; Car-2-X channel measurements and models; Antenna integration in cars; Interaction of in-car antennas with car-electronics; Antenna measurement and characterization, including 3D effects, polarization and antenna efficiency; Deployment concepts; Over-the-air testing of mobile terminal antennas; Measurement-based performance evaluation; Channel estimation and prediction; Narrowband and wideband channel characterization and modeling; Propagation prediction and simulation; RF subsystems; Multi-antenna propagation channels; Ultra-wideband propagation; Digital RF; Wideband/cognitive RF systems; Characterization of multiband channels; Channel modeling, simulation and verification; Interference in heterogeneous deployment scenarios (relays, small cells); Exotic wireless channels (optical wireless, acoustic, underwater); Novel antenna concepts; Energy-efficient antenna systems; Antenna design and characterization; Antenna and solar cell integration technologies. *(2) Signal Transmission and Reception* Advanced waveforms and signal processing solutions for 5G systems; Full-duplex and flexible duplex system; Millimetre wave beamforming; 60GHZ and sub-terahertz communications theory; Wireless communications powered by energy harvesting; Compressed Sensing; Ultraviolet communication; Wireless infrared communications; New air interfaces; Novel physical layer techniques; PHY-layer coexistence of multiple radio access techniques; Energy efficient PHY-layer; Multi-carrier and OFDM systems; CDMA and multi-carrier CDMA; Capacity and fundamental limits; Interference mitigation; Multi-user detection; Multi-user diversity; Iterative processing; Ultra wideband systems; Impulse radio; Modulation; Source/channel coding; Adaptive modulation and coding; Equalization; Synchronization; Channel estimation; Performance analysis; Power line communications; Visible light communication; Near-field communication. *(3) Cognitive Radio and Spectrum Management* Spectrum sensing; Cooperative sensing; Dynamic spectrum access; Spectrum aggregation; Spectrum policies; Cognitive radio networks; Interference management; Unlicensed and licensed shared access; Cognitive radio prototypes; Spectrum mobility; Characterization of cognitive wireless networks; Spectrum measurements and monitoring; Cognitive radio protocols and algorithms; Co-existence of primary and secondary radio networks; MIMO/OFDM-based cognitive radio; Spectrum database (or geolocation database); Energy-efficient spectrum sensing; Radio environment modeling; Applications of cognitive radio networks (e.g., for 5G, heterogeneous networks); Cognitive highly time-variant networks; Algorithms for TV whitespace usage; Game theory for cognitive radio networks; Light-licensing; Economic aspects of spectrum sharing (e.g., pricing, auction) in cognitive radio networks; Machine learning techniques for cognitive radio systems. *(4) Multiple Antenna Systems and Cooperative Communications* Smart antennas; Array processing; Massive MIMO communications; Distributed antenna systems; MIMO antenna systems; MIMO Receiver design; Beamforming; Space-time coding; MIMO systems performance; MIMO precoding; Interference rejection algorithms; MIMO antenna systems for V2X applications; Energy-efficient MIMO systems; Diversity-multiplexing trade-off; MIMO antenna system integration; Multi-user/cooperative MIMO; MIMO-enabled mmWave communications; Full-dimensional (3D) MIMO; Cooperative multiple access; Network coding for cooperative communications; Cooperative routing; PHY and MAC layer design for cooperative wireless networks; Characterization and modeling of cooperative communications; Knowledge acquisition and information sharing in cooperative wireless networks; Coordinated multi-point; Intercell interference coordination; Advanced relaying; Scheduling and resource allocation for cooperative communications; Mobility in cooperative communication; Game theory for cooperative and distributed networks; Energy-efficient cooperative communications; Multi-RAT cooperation; Cooperative Car-2-X communication; Efficient signaling for cooperative communications; Cooperative small-cell networks; Cooperative D2D communications; Relaying in cellular networks. *(5) Radio Access Technology, LTE, 5G, and Wireless Heterogeneous Networks* Cloud radio access network architectures; Software defined network methodologies for wireless access; LTE and LTE-Advanced; Ultra-dense networks; Small-cell networking; Wireless heterogeneous networks; LTE-U: LTE Advanced in unlicensed spectrum; Virtualized resource & virtualized network functions; Distributed scheduling for D2D communications; Multi-hop cellular management, scheduling and statistical multiplexing; New air interfaces; Access techniques for MIMO-based networks including massive MIMO; 3G/3.5G/4G/5G (UMTS WCDMA, HSPA, CDMA2000, 1x EV-DO, TD-SCDMA); Wireless PANs, LANs, MANs and WANs; DVB and DAB systems; Multiple access; Radio resource management in heterogeneous and small-cell networks; MAC/PHY cross-layer design; Power control algorithms; Wireless multicasting; Channel and power allocation; Coexistence of multiple radio access techniques; Mobility in dense networks; Context-aware and ambient access protocols; Hybrid optical-wireless networks. *(6) Green Communications and Networks* Energy-efficient heterogeneous networks; Energy-aware self-organized networks; Radio resource management for GREEN wireless systems; Smart grid networks; Energy consumption management; Architectures and design of low power equipment; Green wireless communications and networks; Green architecture, strategies, algorithms, protocols, scheduling, and/or designs; Low-power sensor networks; Machine-to-machine communications; Energy harvesting, storage, and recycling; Cross-layer optimization for green networks; Green mobile communications; Green software/hardware; Green cooperative communications; Energy-aware system design; Green data centers and/or cloud computing; Electromagnetic pollution mitigation; ICT for green objectives; Environmental monitoring; Communication technologies for energy efficient buildings and offices; Communication technologies for energy harvesting; Green Internet of Things (IoT); Field trials and deployment experiences; IoT-empowered smart lighting solutions; Hybrid fiber-wireless networks for energy efficient delivery of wireless signals. *(7) Ad-Hoc, M2M, and Sensor Networks* Medium access control; Routing and transport protocol; Opportunistic and cooperative networking; Cross-layer protocol design; Admission control; Performance and quality of service; Energy management; Information processing and aggregation; Middleware and programming; Simulation and emulation; Gateways and inter-working; Peer-to-peer service in mobile networks; Delay-tolerant networks; Self-organization, self-configuration and adaptation; Topology construction, reconfigurability and control; Fault tolerance; Data storage and allocation; Traffic scheduling; Internet of things; Localization; Mobile vehicular cloud computing; M2M applications and services; M2M networks, architecture, and components; M2M traffic modeling; M2M specific extensions on PHY and MAC; Massive machine communication in 5G; Data aggregation techniques and architectures for massive M2M networks; Energy harvesting and efficient M2M communication; Optimization of radio access technologies and protocols for M2M communications; Sensors for vehicular technologies; Terminal intelligence; Self-optimization and self-learning and reasoning (higher frequency bands); Energy scavenging technologies; Self-organized network based on learning. *(8) Wireless Networks: Protocols, Security and Services* Heterogeneous wireless network architectures; Cooperative networks; Mobile social networks; Self-organized networks (SON); Distributed content delivery; Resource management; Mobile quality-of-service (QoS); Mobility and handoff management; Mobile and wireless IP; Middleware; IMS; Fixed-mobile convergence; Mobile/wireless network modeling and performance evaluation, analysis and simulation; Mobile/wireless network performance measurements; Wireless traffic characterization and modeling; Network planning; Network coding; Security and privacy in end-to-end connections; Security in cooperative wireless networks; Cross-layer methods for enhancing security; Information-theoretic security; Secure routing and network management; Intrusion detection; Service availability and network survivability in the presence of denial of service; Jamming and jamming-resistance; Big data security and privacy; Network security; User privacy protection; Physical layer security: secure advanced spatial diversity techniques; Defending against energy depletion attacks in resource-constrained networks; Security and privacy in mobile ad hoc, M2M, sensor networks, the Internet, cloud computing, and smart grid. *(9) Mobile Satellite Systems, Positioning and Navigation* Satellite and terrestrial navigation and positioning techniques; Integrated positioning and communication; Cellular based positioning and hybrid approaches; Mobile satellite communication systems; Digital broadcasting over satellite networks; IP over satellite; Satellite on-board-processing; Broadband over satellite; Channel models for satellite communications; UWB and narrow band positioning systems and algorithms; Indoor-positioning technologies; MIMO positioning techniques; Distributed and collaborative localization algorithms; Transmission technology for positioning; Digital maps and location technology; Energy efficient positioning systems; Cooperative deep space communications. *(10) Vehicular Communications, Networks, and Telematics* Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET); Multi-channel/multi-antenna/multi-transceiver systems for vehicular communication; Heterogeneous network infrastructures for ITS; Channel models and mobility models for vehicular networks; DSRC; OBU and RSU communication systems; V2X communications, applications, and security; Interaction between intra- and inter-vehicular communications; Cellular/VANET interworking; Data traffic offloading; Multimedia over VANETs, and infotainment; Connected vehicles; In-vehicle communication & networking; Ultra-low latency and ultra-high reliability communications for road safety applications; Network design for V2X communications; Location-based services; Context aware service and applications; Information distribution services; Broadband Internet services; Multimedia applications and messaging; Mobility estimation; IP mobility; Cloud-mobility; Quality-of-experience; Prototype, measurements, and field tests. *(11) Electric Vehicles, Vehicular Electronics, and Intelligent Transportation* Vehicle traction power control/conversion; Vehicle power systems; Vehicle stability controls; Engine control modules; Safety control systems; Smart speed controls; In-car electronics and embedded integration; Wireless/mobile system applications for transportation control and routing; Mobile/wireless systems for transportation logistics; Digital maps and location technologies; Drive-by-wire controls; Tire-pressure monitoring; HCCI controls; Electromagnetic valve controls; Wireless/mobile systems for multi-modal transportation; Emulation/simulation of ITS applications; Pedestrian protection via VANET; Traffic safety and efficiency applications; Autonomous driving technologies; Cooperative ITS; Intelligent transportation systems; Railroad signaling, communication, and control; Human factors and human machine interface (HMI) for smart cars; Security for intelligent vehicles; Green ITS navigation for people and freight; Multimedia service provisioning and vehicle traffic management. *(12) Future Trends and Emerging Technologies* The emerging technologies track offers the opportunity for publication of work by industry and academia in emerging topics relevant to VTC but not covered by other tracks. 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Fwd: Call for Papers: The First IEEE/ACM Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC 2016)
by Lars Wolf 15 Jan '16

15 Jan '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: Call for Papers: The First IEEE/ACM Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC 2016) Datum: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 08:42:59 +0100 Von: Håvard Johansen <haavardj(a)CS.UIT.NO> Antwort an: Håvard Johansen <haavardj(a)CS.UIT.NO> An: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG * SIGOPS Announcement The First IEEE/ACM Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC 2016) October 27-28, 2016, Washington DC, USA Web page: http://conferences.computer.org/SEC/ Submission deadline: March 2, 2016 Acceptance notifications: June 15, 2016 Camera-ready deadline: July 13, 2016 "Edge computing" is new paradigm in which the resources of a small data center are placed at the edge of the Internet, in close proximity to mobile devices, sensors, end users, and the emerging Internet of Things. Terms such as "cloudlets," "micro data centers," and "fog" have been used in the literature to refer to these small, edge-located data centers. They all represent counterpoints to the theme of consolidation and massive data centers that has dominated discourse in cloud computing. New challenges and opportunities arise as the consolidation of cloud computing meets the dispersion of edge computing. SEC2016 is a new conference that focuses on them. General Chair: Xiuzhen Cheng, George Washington University Program Chair: Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Carnegie Mellon University Program Committee: Victor Bahl, Microsoft Research Suman Banerjee, University of Wisconsin-Madison Ramon Caceres, Google Romit Roy Choudhury, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Landon Cox, Duke University Nigel Davies, Lancaster University Eyal de Lara, University of Toronto Jason Flinn, University of Michigan Kaustubh Joshi, AT&T Labs Research Grace Lewis, Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute Qun Li, College of William & Mary Sape Mullender, Cisco Systems Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Pieter Simoens, Ghent University - iMinds Padmanabhan Pillai, Intel Labs Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Carnegie Mellon University (chair) Rolf Schuster, Vodafone Group Services Roy Want, Google Yu Xiao, Aalto University Lin Zhong, Rice University See conference web page for full details, including technical scope and submission instructions. ############################ To unsubscribe from the SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE list: write to: mailto:SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE-SIGNOFF-REQUEST@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG or click the following link: http://listserv.acm.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ACMLPX.CGI?SUBED1=SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE&A=1

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Extended deadline (January 31, 2016) - CFP: Springer Annals of telecommunications Journal - SI on "Wireless and Mobile Sensing Technology for the Future Internet"
by Lars Wolf 14 Jan '16

14 Jan '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Extended deadline (January 31,2016) - CFP: Springer Annals of telecommunications Journal - SI on "Wireless and Mobile Sensing Technology for the Future Internet" Datum: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 12:04:07 +0300 Von: Abdelouahid Derhab <d.ouahid(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Abdelouahid Derhab <d.ouahid(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Please find below a call for papers for the Special Issue of the Springer Annals of telecommunications Journal on “Wireless and Mobile Sensing Technology for the Future Internet” Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement due to cross posting. ----------- *Annals of telecommunications Journal* (http://www.springer.com/engineering/signals/journal/12243) Impact Factor: 0.699, published by Springer, indexed in ISI and Scopus Databases *CALL FOR PAPERS* *Special Issue on* *Wireless and Mobile Sensing Technology for the Future Internet* *(* *https://annalsoftelecommunications.wp.mines-telecom.fr/files/2015/07/CfP_SI_WMSTFI_final_extended.pdf* <https://annalsoftelecommunications.wp.mines-telecom.fr/files/2015/07/CfP_SI…> *)* Advances in wireless technologies have transformed our societies and have become an integral part of how people live and conduct business. Moreover, many of the portable computation and communication devices and personal electronic gadgets have become loaded with a variety of sensing circuitry to improve user interaction and enable context aware operation. These wireless and mobile sensing devices integrate human with their environment more than we ever thought possible. Internetworking of wireless and mobile sensing devices constitutes the concept of the future internet or the internet of things, where a large heterogeneous set of these devices are closely coupled to enable an intelligent management of many aspects of our daily activities. Example applications include environmental monitoring, health-care, smart-home, smart-grids, and smart-cities The networking of these devices not only provides a flexible and robust information gathering platform, but also greatly improves the reliability and efficiency of contemporary manufacturing, scientific and military systems. The objective of this special issue is to report on the latest research results and exciting developments on Wireless and Mobile Sensing Technology in the Future Internet (WMSTFI). Topics of interest include but are not limited to: · WMSTFI architectures, protocols, and algorithms. · Integration and coexistence strategies of heterogeneous wireless networks. · Data management in WMSTFI. · WMSTFI performance, simulation, modeling and case studies. · Security and safety issues. · New applications for WMSTFI. · WMSTFI prototypes and test-beds. · Mobility Management in WMSTFI. · Power-Aware, Low-Power and Energy-Efficient Designs. · QoS Management and Quality-of-Service Issues. · MAC layer design for wireless sensor networks and WMSTFI. · Developments platforms and tool support for WMSTFI. · Integration of RFID and wireless sensor networks. · Integration of IP6-based wireless sensor networks with Smartphones. · Integration of cloud-based platforms with WMSTFI. · WMSTFI for smart applications. · Participatory sensing and crowd sourcing · Machine-to-Machine communications *Guest Editors* § *Abdelouahid Derhab*, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia § *Mohamed Guerroumi*, USTHB University, Algeria § *Mohamed Younis*, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA All papers must be submitted at the Editorial manager site https://www.editorialmanager.com/ante/. A guide for authors in preparing their papers is available at https://annalsoftelecommunications.wp.minestelecom.fr/how-to-publish/. During the submission process authors should identify that the paper is for the special issue “Wireless & Mobile Sensing Techno”. *Proposed schedule* • Manuscript submission January 31, 2016 (Extended) • First Decision Notification April 10, 2016 • Revised Paper Submission June 10, 2016 • Final Decision August 10, 2016 • Final Manuscript Due September 10, 2016 • Online with DOI As soon as accepted • Printed issue January-June 2017 -- Dr. Abdelouahid Derhab | Assistant Professor Center of Excellence in Information Assurance (CoEIA) Phone (+966) 1 469 7350 Fax (+966) 1 469 6452 P.O Box 92144 ~ Riyadh 11653 CoEIA web site: http://coeia.edu.sa, King Saud University web site: http://www.ksu.edu.sa King Saud University Saudi Arabia ______________________________________________________________ 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/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] New Journal on the Internet of Things with the support of the European Alliance for Innovation (EAI)
by Lars Wolf 14 Jan '16

14 Jan '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] New Journal on the Internet of Things with the support of the European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) Datum: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 09:47:38 +0100 Von: Jesus Alonso-Zarate RESEARCH <jesusalonsozarateresearch(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Jesus Alonso-Zarate RESEARCH <jesusalonsozarateresearch(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Dear all, Prof. Mischa Dohler (King's College London) and I, together with an outstanding Editorial Board, are starting a new venture with a journal devoted to the Internet of Things. This journal has the support of the European Alliance for Innovation. You can find more information about the journal scope and submission instructions at: http://eai.eu/transaction/internet-things Types of papers accepted: tutorials, surveys, and transactions. The first issue of the journal was already published in October 2015, and you can reach all papers in this link (you will need to create a free account to access the papers): http://eudl.eu/issue/IoT/1/1 We are very excited about this new venture since it is a revolutionary way of publishing scientific and technical contents: - This publication will allow attaching multimedia material to your submission, - it will be open access at no cost for either authors or readers, and - it offers an innovative crowd-review process, by which people can claim submitted papers for volunteer review. We welcome your submissions. Also, if you want to guest edit a special issue in the topic of IoT, please, write me an email. Best, -- Jesus Alonso-Zarate, PhD Senior Researcher Head of M2M Communications Department Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC) Barcelona, Spain Editor-in-Chief EAI Endorsed Transactions on the Internet of Things http://eai.eu/transaction/internet-things http://www.jesusalonsozarate.com http://www.theiot.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/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Med-Hoc-Net 2016 - Deadline January 31st
by Lars Wolf 12 Jan '16

12 Jan '16

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Xavi Masip <xmasip(a)AC.UPC.EDU> Gesendet: 12. Januar 2016 18:21:45 MEZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Med-Hoc-Net 2016 - Deadline January 31st *** Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message *** ————————————————————————————————- CALL FOR PAPERS Med-Hoc-Net 2016 - The 15th IFIP Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop TCS by IFIP and IEEE Manuscript submission deadline: January 31, 2016 Venue: Vilanova i la Geltrú, Barcelona, Spain Date: June 20-22, 2016 Website: http://www.craax.upc.edu/medhocnet2016/ ———————————————————————————————— OVERVIEW In the recent years the Internet evolution has undergone a remarkable and unstoppable change of trend, rooted on three main pillars, new technologies (cloud computing, SDN , NFV; etc), broad connectivity (3G/4G, VANET, etc.), and the wide deployment of smart edge devices (smart phones, sensors, wearables , etc., all setting the main concept for the Internet of Things (IoT), also encompassing scenarios such as smart cities, ITS (intelligent transportation systems), smart homes or e-health. MED-HOC-NET 2016 extends its focus far beyond traditional networking concepts, highlighting new networking concepts related to the mentioned three main pillars developed for the future generation of network and cloud computing technologies. Med-hoc-net 2016 is willing to accommodate contributions on smart mobile scenarios, focusing on highly relevant developments but also preliminary ideas and concepts on the ICT area, aiming at facilitating the development of new technologies and services with a high societal impact. Following recent successful conferences in Sicily (2006), Corfu (2007), Palma de Mallorca (2008), Haifa (2009), Juan-les-pins (2010), Favignana Island (2011), Cyprus (2012), Corsica (2013), Slovenia (2014) and Algarve (2015), Med-Hoc-Net 2016 will be take place in the city of Vilanova i la Geltrú, located 30 km south from Barcelona right in front of the Mediterranean. TOPICS Papers are solicited in a variety of topics related to IoT, ad hoc, wireless and sensor networks, green technologies, social networks, network protocols and algorithms, including but not limited to: -Cloud and fog computing -Internet of Things -Smart cities -Sensor network applications and protocols -Vehicular networks -Security and privacy -Participatory and urban sensing -Underwater wireless networks -Heterogeneous networks -Green networking -Cooperative schemes -Network localization -Networking virtualization -Services based, and enabled by Ad Hoc networks -Routing algorithms and protocols -MAC protocols, scheduling, power control, and resource allocation -Transport layer protocols for multi-hop networks -Middleware for Ad Hoc networks -Application driven architectures and protocols -Cognitive radio networks -Integration of ad hoc networks with wireless access networks -Implementations, testbeds, and prototypes -Technology related issues (IEEE 802.11, Bluetooth, ZigBee, IEEE 802.16, etc.) -Self organization and network reconfiguration -Resource and service discovery -Security and privacy -Delay tolerant networks -Exploitation of social and mobility patterns for opportunistic networking -Mobile social networks IMPORTANT DATES: Papers Due: January 31, 2016 Notification of Acceptance: Apr 15, 2016 Camera-Ready Version due: April 29, 2016 Conference Dates: June 20-22, 2016 PAPER SUBMISSION: Submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication.Submissions are limited to 8 pages in length in Two-Column Format, including references, figures and tables. Authors are requested to submit their manuscripts electronically through the EDAS web site. Accepted and presented papers will be submitted to IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. Extended versions of selected papers will be reviewed for possible publication in a special issue of the International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems CONFERENCE GENERAL CHAIRS: Xavi Masip, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain Admela Jukan, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIRS: Eva Marín Tordera, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain Abdelhamid Mellouk, University of Paris-Est, Crèteil, France Jiafeng Zhu, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. USA STEERING COMMITTEE: Ian F. Akyildiz, Georgia, Institute of Technology, USA Khaldoun Al Agha, Paris-Sud University, France Luigi Fratta, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA Farouk Kamoun, ENSI, Tunisia Giovanni Pau, UCLA, USA Guy Pujolle, UPMC - Paris 6, France PUBLICATION CHAIR: Jordi García Almiñana, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain PUBLICITY CHAIRS: Eduardo Cerqueira, UFPA, Brazil ——— Xavi Masip Advanced Network Architectures Lab (CRAAX) Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) http://www.craax.upc.edu <http://www.craax.upc.edu/> ______________________________________________________________ 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/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE Wireless Communications - ARCHITECTURE FOR NEXT GENERATION WIRELESS NETWORKS: SCALABILITY, FLEXIBILITY, AND INTEROPERABILITY
by Lars Wolf 12 Jan '16

12 Jan '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE Wireless Communications - ARCHITECTURE FOR NEXT GENERATION WIRELESS NETWORKS: SCALABILITY, FLEXIBILITY, AND INTEROPERABILITY Datum: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 02:48:59 +0000 Von: Liushucheng (Will) <liushucheng(a)HUAWEI.COM> Antwort an: Liushucheng (Will) <liushucheng(a)HUAWEI.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG IEEE Wireless Communications - ARCHITECTURE FOR NEXT GENERATION WIRELESS NETWORKS: SCALABILITY, FLEXIBILITY, AND INTEROPERABILITY http://www.comsoc.org/wirelessmag/cfp/architecture-next-generation-wireless… CALL FOR PAPERS Over the past decade, we have witnessed the tremendous growth in the number of networked wireless devices, in the types of wireless and mobile applications, and in the total amount of traffic from and towards these devices. In the foreseeable future, it is expected that such a trend will continue with an unprecedented increasing rate. For instance, with the recent deployment of the fourth-generation (4G) cellular network, mobile data traffic rate over cellular networks had exceeded 2 Exabytes per month world-wide by the end of 2014. Recent studies also suggest that the mobile traffic rate could be increased 10-fold by 2019. Besides the ever-increasing mobile applications over cellular networks, many other wireless applications are emerging, including smart grid, vehicular ad hoc network (VANET), cyber-physical system (CPS), and more generally, Internet of Things (IoT). Clearly, to accommodate the fast growing demands, future wireless networks must be scalable. For the aforementioned existing and emerging wireless applications, it has been well-known that they have diverse quality-of-service (QoS) requirements: from low data rate IoT monitoring applications to high data rate content streaming applications, from delay sensitive real-time monitoring in smart grid and safety control in vehicular CPS to delay-tolerant IoT applications. Therefore, it has been very challenging to design and develop practical wireless networks and systems to facilitate different application demands efficiently. To address these challenges, researchers and developers in both academia and industry have put significant efforts to design various wireless networks. For example, in the past few years, the architecture of the fifth-generation (5G) cellular network has attracted significant attention, several future Internet architectures (FIAs) have also been proposed and investigated, and various architectures have been developed for smart grid, VANET, IoT, etc. Naturally, it becomes very important to investigate two issues: first, how we can flexibly deploy or configure a specific type of wireless network, and secondly, if we have multiple co-existing wireless networks, how we can enable the interoperation among them. In the literature, the importance of scalability, flexibility, and interoperability has been recognized and there are some existing studies already. However, despite the importance of these efforts, there are still many challenging issues to be addressed. For example, how to effectively accommodate more than 1 trillion networked devices world-wide in the next 10 years? How to efficiently provision services in future wireless networks such that a given system can be flexibly programmed to optimize the performance of certain applications? How to facilitate the interoperation of heterogeneous wireless networks and systems? To understand and solve these key issues, we organize this special issue in IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine focusing on the scalability, flexibility, and interoperability in the design of architecture for future wireless networks. The special issue covers topics that include, but are not limited to, the following: * Architecture for large-scale Internet of Things (IoT) * Flexible architecture for applications with diverse data rates * Flexible architecture for systems and applications with diverse mobility requirements * Flexible cognitive radio and spectrum access * Interoperability between future Internet and wireless networks * Interoperability among diverse wireless networks * Namespace management in heterogeneous wireless networks * Routing in large-scale multihop wireless network * Security design on wireless scalability, flexibility, and interoperability * Scalable cooperative communications and network coding * Scalable data-centric wireless network architecture * Scalable energy efficiency wireless network * Scalable social-aware wireless network architecture * Standards for scalable, flexible, and interoperable wireless networks * Wireless network for large-scale cyber-physical-system SUBMISSIONS Authors must follow the IEEE Wireless Communicationsguidelines regarding manuscript content and format. For details, please refer to the "Author Guidelines" at the IEEE Wireless Communications Web site athttp://www.comsoc.org/wirelessmag/author-guidelines. All papers must be submitted electronically via the IEEE Wireless Communications manuscript submission system athttp://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ieee-wcm. All papers will be reviewed by at least three (3) reviewers for their technical merit, scope, and relevance to the CFP. IMPORTANT DATES * Manuscript Submission: May 1, 2016 * Notification of Acceptance: July 1, 2016 * Revised Manuscript Due: August 1, 2016 * Final Decision: September 1, 2016 * Final Manuscript Due: October 1, 2016 * Publication: December 2016 Regards, Will (Shucheng LIU) ______________________________________________________________ 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/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: FiCloud 2016 Vienna Austria
by Lars Wolf 10 Jan '16

10 Jan '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: FiCloud 2016 Vienna Austria Datum: Sat, 9 Jan 2016 14:00:17 +0000 Von: Irfan Awan <i.u.awan(a)BRADFORD.AC.UK> Antwort an: Irfan Awan <i.u.awan(a)BRADFORD.AC.UK> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. ----------------------Call for Papers---------------------------- The 4th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud 2016) 22-24 August 2016, Vienna, Austria ------------------------------------------------------------------- The Internet of Things (IoT) vision is to provide a dynamic and global network infrastructure which is characterized by intelligent and self configuring capabilities. IoT is considered as an integral part of the future Internet. It is based on interoperable communication protocols in order to enable the interaction and integration of virtual as well as physical Things such as computers, smart devices, sensors, cars, refrigerators, food packages, medicines, etc. Things can be seamlessly integrated into the information network and interaction can be made through the provision of intelligent interfaces. In not so distant future, IoT will be forcing its way into every aspect of our lives and technologies including smart homes, smart cities, environment and nature, green energy, food, medicine, automotive, aerospace and aviation, telecommunication, transportation and so on. IoT is generally characterized by real world and small Things, limited capacity, constrained devices and the consequential issues such as less reliability, security and privacy. Cloud computing on the other hand deals mainly with virtual world and has unlimited capabilities in terms of storage and processing power. Thus cloud and IoT are the main complementary aspects of the future Internet. IoT can benefit from the unlimited capabilities and resources of cloud computing. Similarly, cloud can benefit from IoT by extending its scope to deal with real world things in a more distributed and dynamic manner. The theme of this conference is to promote the state of the art in scientific and practical research of the IoT and cloud computing. It provides a forum for bringing together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and public sector in an effort to present their research work and share research and development ideas in the area of IoT and cloud computing. Conference Tracks: - Network Design and Architecture - Software Architecture and Middleware - Mobile Cloud Services - Data and Knowledge Management - Context-awareness and Location-awareness - Security, Privacy and Trust - Software-defined Networking - Performance Evaluation and Modelling - Networking and Communication Protocols - IoT Services and Applications - Smart Environment - Intelligent Systems for Cloud and Services Computing - Energy Efficiency - Virtualization - Clouds at the Edges - Industry Track - General track: Future IoT and Cloud Computing Paper submission and Publication: FiCloud 2016 is technically co-sponsorship by the IEEE-CS TCI: Technical Committee on the Internet of the IEEE Computer Society (approval pending). Authors are requested to submit papers reporting original research results and experience. The page limit for full papers is 8 pages and for short papers is 6 pages. Papers should be prepared using IEEE two-column template. See instructions on the conference website. All papers accepted for this conference will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Service (CPS). The proceedings will be submitted to the IEEE-Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries. The proceedings are also submitted for indexing through IEE INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and other indexing services. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for special issues in international journals (TBA). Important Dates: Submission Deadline: 10 March 2016 Authors Notification: 30 May 2016 Final Manuscript Due: 20 June 2016 Organizing Committee: General Co-Chairs: Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK Program Co-Chairs: Winston Seah, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK Local Organising Chairs: Natalia Kryvinska, University of Vienna, Austria Christine Strauss, University of Vienna, Austria Workshop Coordinator: Joyce El Haddad, University of Paris Dauphine, France Journal Special Issues Coordinator: Farookh Hussain, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Publicity Chair: Tor-Morten Gronli, Westerdals-Oslo School of Arts, Communication and Technology, Norway Track Chairs: Meng-Shiuan Pan, Tamkang University, Taiwan Massimo Mecella, SAPIENZA Universita di Roma, Italy Shuiguang Deng, Zhejiang University, China Ashiq Anjum, University of Derby, UK Qiang Duan, The Pennsylvania State University, USA Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, USA Orhan Gemikonakli, Middlesex University, UK Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck, Austria Rubem Pereira, Liverpool John Moores University, UK Lei Shu, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China Bernady O. Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan Jamal Bentahar, University of Concordia, Canada Yan Zhang Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Javid Taheri, Karlstad University, Sweden Luiz Fernando Bittencourt, University of Campinas, Brazil Edmundo Madeira, University of Campinas, Brazil Ruben Casado, Treelogic, Spain Sylvain Kubler, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Advisory Committee: Athman Bouguettaya, RMIT University, Australia Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College London, UK Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK Weisong Shi, Wayne State University, USA A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Chonggang Wang, InterDigital Communications, USA ______________________________________________________________ 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/

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