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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ExtremeCom 2014 - The Galápagos Expedition (deadline in 3 days!)
by Lars Wolf 15 May '14

15 May '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ExtremeCom 2014 - The Galápagos Expedition (deadline in 3 days!) Datum: Thu, 15 May 2014 15:06:13 +0100 Von: Fernando Ramos <fvramos(a)FC.UL.PT> Antwort an: Fernando Ramos <fvramos(a)FC.UL.PT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message. ****************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS AND DEMOS Extreme Conference on Communication and Computing - The Galápagos Expedition ExtremeCom 2014 11-16 August, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador <http://www.extremecom.org/> http://www.extremecom.org/ ****************************************************************** Important dates --------------- ---- Submission deadline: May 18, 2014 (deadline extended!) Notification of acceptance: May 26, 2014 Early registration deadline: June 7, 2014 Registration deadline: June 15, 2014 Conference dates: August 11-16, 2014 (tentative dates) ****************************************** Scope ------- The Extreme Conference on Communication and Computing (ExtremeCom) brings together researchers and practitioners in areas related to communications in rural, remote or other extreme environments, and computing in extreme operating conditions such as extreme temperatures and energy constraints, extreme quantities ("big data"), extremely large-scale systems, and extreme levels of threat and uncertainty, in order to gain experience and insight into the challenges that such environments pose for the network and the users. We welcome a broad range of topics concerning both technical and economical aspects, for example wireless communication, mobile computing, low power devices and protocols, delay tolerant networks and other networking paradigms, distributed computing paradigms, big data, distributed systems, cloud computing, business and services models, user experiences and web applications. Researches addressing computing challenges in general mobile environments (even not completely extreme) are also welcomed by the conference. Following on from the success of ExtremeCom 2009 - The Midnight Sun Expedition in Laponia, Sweden, ExtremeCom 2010 - The Himalayan Expedition in Dharamsala, India, ExtremeCom 2011 - The Amazon Expedition in Manaus, Brazil, ExtremeCom 2012 - The Swiss Alps Winter Expedition in Zurich, Switzerland, and ExtremeCom 2013 - The Volcanic Expedition in the Eyjafjallajökull Volcano region in Iceland, we present the ExtremeCom 2014 edition: The Galápagos Expedition. The conference will start with 3 days of excursions in the amazing nature of the Galápagos Islands. Along the way, participants will get to see and experience the islands and their plant and animal life, both above and beneath the surface of the ocean. The immersion will not only give a better idea of both the technical and user requirements of such a harsh environment, but it will also give many opportunities for informal research discussions between the participants. Participants that have their own software for scenarios like this will also, to as great an extent as possible, be encouraged to test and demonstrate it within this environment. After the excursions, there will be two days of paper presentations and demos. Focus will still be on informal research discussions, with the hope that the field experience will give participants the ability to discuss the topics in a new light. ***************** Submission Guidelines --------------------------- Participants should submit 6 page papers about ideas and visions about the topics of the conference or demo proposals to be shown during the conference. Visionary and thought-provoking papers that are likely to generate much discussion during the conference are especially solicited. The aim of the conference is to maintain an informal environment, where new research ideas can be discussed and developed. We also hope to have a demo session where participants can show their implementations and systems. If you want to show a demo, please submit a 2 page demo proposal using the same submission system as for conference papers. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. A selected set of top submissions will be fast-tracked to a special issue in a reputed SCI/E journal. We only accept PDF files, no greater than 6 pages in length (2 pages for the demos), including text, figures and references. Manuscripts should use the ACM templates (for LaTeX, please use Option 2 files), with 9pt fonts. Topics for the conference include, but are not limited to: Testbeds for large-scale sustainable testing of moobile communication systems Real deployments of networks in extreme environments Business and service models for networks in rural, remote, and other challenging environments Delay tolerant networking User experience research Big data research such as mining and modeling of mobility and social network Cloud computing for extreme scalability Mesh networks and sensor networks Low-power and intermittent-power protocols Mechanisms for emergency and urgent communications Distributed computing for mobile environments Networked applications and services Operating system and middleware support for mobile computing and networking Security, privacy, and trustworthiness of extreme communications Underwater networking Robotic communications and mobile augmented reality Due to logistics, the number of participants will be limited. Priority will be given to authors of papers and those who register first. **************************************************************************** * Organizers --------------- General co-chairs: Pan Hui, HKUST, Hong Kong / T-Labs, Germany Anders Lindgren, SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden Local conference operations chair: Carlos Herrera, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Ecuador TPC vice-chairs: Jorge Sá Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal Pei Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Sponsorship co-chairs: Filipe Mota Pinto, Instituto Politécnica Leiria, Portugal Carlos Egas, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Ecuador Publicity chair: Fernando Ramos, University of Lisbon, Portugal Web chair: Fehmi Ben Abdesslem, SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden Technical Program Committee: Yahel Ben-David, University of California - Berkeley, USA Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal Elwyn Davies, Folly Consulting, UK Michael Doering, Bosch Research, Germany Stephen Farrell, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Marco Fiore, INSA Lyon/INRIA, France Roy Friedman, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Paulo Gil, University of New Lisbon, Portugal Sumi Helal, University of Florida, USA Bob Iannucci, Carnegie Mellon University SV, USA Christine Julien, University of Texas at Austin, USA Trevor Pering, Google, USA James Kwok, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Franck Legendre, Uepaa AG, Switzerland Marimuthu Palaniswami, Univ. Melbourne, Australia André Rodrigues, University of Coimbra, Portugal Joel Rodrigues, University of Beira Interior, Portugal Anthony Rowe, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Milan Simek, University of Brno, Czech Republic Jörg Ott, Aalto University, Finland Kevin I-Kai Wang, Univ. Auckland, New Zealand Klaus Wehrle, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Lars Wolf, TU Braunschweig, Germany Lin Zhang, University of Tsinghua, China Steering Committee: Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK Avri Doria, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden Tristan Henderson, University of St. Andrews, UK Pan Hui, HKUST, Hong Kong / T-Labs, Germany Anders Lindgren, SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden **************************************************************************** * Fernando ======== <http://www.di.fc.ul.pt/~fvramos/> http://www.di.fc.ul.pt/~fvramos/ ______________________________________________________________ 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 GC'14 Wi-UAV Workshop on Wireless Networking and Control for Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles
by Lars Wolf 13 May '14

13 May '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE GC'14 Wi-UAV Workshop on Wireless Networking and Control for Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles Datum: Mon, 12 May 2014 17:38:56 +0000 Von: christian.wietfeld(a)tu-dortmund.de <christian.wietfeld(a)TU-DORTMUND.DE> Antwort an: christian.wietfeld(a)tu-dortmund.de <christian.wietfeld(a)TU-DORTMUND.DE> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wi-UAV 2014 5th Int. IEEE Workshop on Wireless Networking and Control for Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles in conjunction with IEEE GLOBECOM 2014 Austin, Texas, USA WORKSHOP DATE: DECEMBER 12, 2014 PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JULY 15, 2014 WEBSITE: www.wi-uav.org The 5th International IEEE workshop on Wireless Networking and Control for Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles (Wi-UAV 2014, www.wi-uav.org), co-located with the IEEE International Conference on Global Communications (GLOBECOM 2014), will be held in Austin, Texas, USA on December 12, 2014. The workshop is the interdisciplinary platform to bring together robotics and communications. You are kindly invited to submit your research paper to this workshop and discuss current innovative technological advances in the area of networking and control solutions for unmanned autonomous systems. The deadline for submission via the EDAS system is: July 15, 2014. Aims and Scope: Unmanned autonomous systems are increasingly used in a large number of contexts to support humans in dangerous and difficult-to-reach environments: e.g. aerial sensor systems, ground-based robotics, space and underwater applications. In order to fulfill particularly challenging tasks, visionary scenarios foresee unmanned vehicles to be organized in networked teams and even swarms. The corresponding wireless networks need to provide highly reliable and delay-tolerant control links for the behavior management of the unmanned vehicles as well as data links to transfer telemetry and sensor data. At the same time, unmanned vehicles offer the capability to provide ad-hoc wireless networks, for example to facilitate temporary hot spots and compensate network outages in case of public events and emergencies. This fifth edition of the workshop aims to discuss most recent results of various international research projects on new communications networks enabling the efficient control of teams of unmanned vehicles/systems operating on the ground, in the air, underwater and in space scenarios. Contributions addressing heterogeneous scenarios, e.g. combination of aerial and underwater devices are highly welcome. Topics: - Communication architectures and protocols for unmanned autonomous vehicles communication in challenging environments: air, underwater, etc., indoor/outdoor - Ad-hoc networking, routing, handover and meshing * Cooperation of ground, aerial and maritime unmanned vehicles - Localization and vision based sense-and-avoid * Interfaces and cross platform communication - Agent based mobility, multi-platform control, cognitive capabilities and swarming - Communication and system design - Mini / Micro UAVs and enhanced Health Management - Use of civilian networks for UVs communication - Mission control centers and backend communication - Advances in remote sensing: miniaturization, low-weight and energy efficient communication - QoS mechanisms and performance evaluation - Advances in antenna design and MIMO systems - Interworking with satellites and terrestrial communication - Air traffic control and spectrum regulation - Results from prototypes, test-beds and demonstrations Key Note The Wi-UAV has a tradition of distinguished key note speakers (see www.wi-uav-org). We are proud that this year Prof. Gregory Huff, Electromagnetics and Microwave Laboratory, Texas A&M University, has agreed to give a keynote talk on innovative, reconfigurable antenna designs for UAVs. Best Student Paper Award (NEW!) The best of all submitted student papers will be distinguished with a Best Student Paper Award. Submission Guidelines and Publication: GLOBECOM workshops accept only original, previously unpublished papers. Concurrent submission to GLOBECOM and other conferences or journals is not allowed. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit papers in IEEE conference style up to 6 pages through EDAS submission system (http://edas.info/N17567), but one additional page is allowed with additional publication fee. Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE digital library (IEEE Xplore). An accepted paper must be registered before the registration deadline. An accepted paper should be presented at the workshop. Failure to register before the deadline will result in automatic withdrawal of the paper from the workshop proceedings and the program. GLOBECOM will remove an accepted and registered but not presented paper from the IEEE digital library. Attendance Fee Registration for this year's GLOBECOM workshops is $250, valid for any other IEEE GC'14 workshops that day. Important Dates: Submission due: July 15, 2014 (Tuesday) Decision notification due: September 01, 2014 (Monday) Camera-ready and registration due: October 01, 2014 (Wednesday) Organizing Chairs: Jonathan How, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Yasamin Mostofi, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, USA Christian Wietfeld, TU Dortmund University, Germany Program Committee: Kemal Akkaya, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA Christian Bettstetter, University of Klagenfurt and Lakeside Labs, Austria Torsten Braun, Universität Bern, Switzerland Liang Cheng, Lehigh University, USA Eric W. Frew, University of Colorado, USA Geoffrey Hollinger, Oregon State University, USA Tor Arne Johansen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Urbashi Mitra, University of Southern California, USA Gerard Parr, University of Ulster, United Kingdom Shigeru Shimamoto, Waseda University, Japan Antonios Tsourdos, Cranfield University, United Kingdom Luiz Vieira, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil Fumin Zhang, Georgia Tech, USA Yifeng Zhou, Communications Research Centre, Canada -------------------------------------------------------- Jonathan P. How Richard C. Maclaurin Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics Aerospace Controls Laboratory (Director), and Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems Massachusetts Institute of Technology 33-326, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA02139 http://acl.mit.edu/ Yasamin Mostofi Associate Professor University of California, Santa Barbara Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9560, USA http://www.ece.unm.edu/ Christian M. Wietfeld Full Professor of Communication Networks Head of Communication Networks Institute (CNI) TU Dortmund University Otto-Hahn-Str. 6, D-44227 Dortmund http://www.cni.tu-dortmund.de Wichtiger Hinweis: Die Information in dieser E-Mail ist vertraulich. Sie ist ausschließlich für den Adressaten bestimmt. Sollten Sie nicht der für diese E-Mail bestimmte Adressat sein, unterrichten Sie bitte den Absender und vernichten Sie diese Mail. Vielen Dank. 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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ACM CHANTS 2014 (co-located with ACM MobiCom): call for papers
by Lars Wolf 13 May '14

13 May '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ACM CHANTS 2014 (co-located with ACM MobiCom): call for papers Datum: Mon, 12 May 2014 16:08:01 +0200 Von: Elisabetta Biondi <chants14_publicity(a)IIT.CNR.IT> Antwort an: Elisabetta Biondi <chants14_publicity(a)IIT.CNR.IT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ______________________________________________________________________ ACM CHANTS 2014 - 9th Workshop on Challenged Networks co-located with ACM MobiCom 2014 7 September 2014, Maui, Hawaii, USA www.acm-chants.org/14 Supported by the FP7 EU MOTO project http://www.fp7-moto.eu ______________________________________________________________________ SCOPE AND OVERVIEW __________________ Challenged networks comprise those situations where communication is desired, but traditional Internet architectures fail to provide it effectively. Such networks may be characterized by intermittent connectivity, a heterogeneous mix of nodes, nodal churn, and widely varying network conditions. Traditional examples of challenged networks include inter-planetary networks, sensor and wildlife monitoring networks, underwater networks, rural and remote areas, and military battlefields. Recently, challenged networking has also found applications in everyday settings, for which they were not initially conceived, such as opportunistic networking supporting data-centric communications, traffic offloading from cellular networks, mobile cloud computing, opportunistic and participatory sensing. Inter-disciplinary approaches to challenged networking protocols are also successfully explored, exploiting, for example, findings in the area of social networking. The availability of enabling technologies in mobile devices, such as WiFi direct in Android and D2D communication in latest LTE releases, will further push towards practical developments of challenged networking solutions. This workshop builds on the success of the eight previous CHANTS workshops, and WDTN 2005, to stimulate research on the most novel and challenging topics of challenged network research. CHANTS provides an ideal venue for researchers and engineers to present cutting-edge work and results, as research papers or demos, in the following topics: - Delay/disruption-tolerant networks (DTNs) - Opportunistic communication and computing - Architecture, design, and implementation of communication systems for challenged networks - Modeling, analysis and characterization of challenged networks and protocols - Network Coding in Challenged Networks - Information Centric and Content-centric Networking in Challenged Networks - Security/Trust/Privacy concerns and solutions in challenged networks - Case studies involving real challenged network solutions in various stages of development or use - Applications of challenged networks in disrupted scenarios (e.g. disaster relief and emergency management) and in daily use (e.g., vehicular networks, mobile social networking, censorship evasion, crowdsourcing, sensor networks) - Green and energy-efficient communication using challenged networks - Real-world mobility trace collection, analysis, and modeling for challenged environments - Network science methods for challenged networks - Mobile data offloading via challenged networks - Test and simulation tools for evaluating challenged network systems - Configuration, management, and monitoring of challenged networks - Challenged networking techniques for mobile cloud - Challenged networking techniques for participatory and opportunistic sensing Selected papers will be forward-looking, will describe their relationship to existing work, and will have impact and implications for ongoing or future research. We aim to have a highly interactive workshop, also including demos, which have been an integral part of CHANTS. Paper authors who can also run a demo of their work will be encouraged to do so. In exceptional cases, where live demos are simply not practical to present, poster or video presentations of practical results are acceptable. 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 long, and should adhere to the standard ACM conference proceedings format. Demo proposals (to be published as part of the proceedings) must not be longer than 3 pages plus 1 page description of the precise setup and requirements (the 1-page setup description will not be published in the proceedings). Papers will be reviewed single blind. Please follow the submission link at: http://www.acm-chants.org 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 Challenged Networks. IMPORTANT DATES _______________ Abstract Registration: 1 June 2014 Submission Deadline: 8 June 2014 Authors Notification: 20 July 2014 Camera Ready Due: 27 July 2014 Workshop: 7 September 2014 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ____________________ Program Committee Chairs - Mario Gerla (UCLA, USA) - Andrea Passarella (IIT-CNR, Italy) Technical Program Committee - Mostafa Ammar (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) - Aruna Balasubramanian (University of Washington, USA) - Fehmi Ben Abdesslem (SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden) - Chiara Boldrini (IIT-CNR, Italy) - Scott Burleigh (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, USA) - Guohong Cao (Penn State University, USA) - Vania Conan (Thales Communications & Security, France) - Marco Conti (IIT-CNR, Italy) - Marcelo Dias de Amorim (CNRS and UPMC, France) - Roberto Di Pietro (Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy) - Do Young Eun (North Carolina State University, USA) - Stephen Farrell (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) - Ahmed Helmy (University of Florida, USA) - Tristan Henderson (University of St Andrews, UK) - Pan Hui (Deutsche Telekom Laboratories/Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) - Karin Anna Hummel (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) - Mohan Kumar (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA) - Kyunghan Lee, (UNIST Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea) - Uichin Lee (KAIST-KSE, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea) - Anders Lindgren (SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden) - Giovanni Neglia (INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France) - Melek Onen (EURECOM, France) - Joerg Ott (Aalto University, Finland) - Elena Pagani (University of Milan, Italy) - Andreea Hossmann-Picu (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) - Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos (EURECOM, France) - Stavros Toumpis (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece) - Eiko Yoneki (University of Cambridge, UK) Steering Committee - Kevin Almeroth, UC-Santa Barbara, USA - Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Tech, USA - Christophe Diot, Technicolor, France - Deborah Estrin, UC-Los Angeles, USA - Kevin Fall, Carnegie Mellon University, USA - Joerg Ott, Aalto University, Finland - James Scott, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK Publicity Co-Chairs - Elisabetta Biondi (IIT-CNR, Italy) - Yong Li (Tsinghua University, China) - Sungwon Yang (UCLA, USA) Web Chair - Fehmi Ben Abdesslem (SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden) For more information, please check out www.acm-chants.org or write to the workshop co-chairs at chants2014(a)iit.cnr.it ______________________________________________________________ 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: [Comsoc-ETC-sub-IOT] Second IEEE ICCC International Workshop on Internet of Things (IOT 2014)
by Lars Wolf 13 May '14

13 May '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Comsoc-ETC-sub-IOT] Second IEEE ICCC International Workshop on Internet of Things (IOT 2014) Datum: Tue, 13 May 2014 14:27:36 +0200 Von: Antonio Jara <jara(a)ieee.org> An: comsoc-etc-sub-iot(a)ipv6forum.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Second IEEE ICCC International Workshop on Internet of Things (IOT 2014) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The first IEEE ICCC International Workshop on Internet of Things (IOT) was held successfully on August 12, 2013 in XiÂ¡Â¯an, China. And a report about the workshop appeared in IEEE Communications Society Global Communications Newsletter (GCN) within IEEE Communications Magazine (http://www.comsoc.org/files/Publications/Magazines/gcn/pdf/gcn1213.pdf). The workshop aims to provide a forum for authors to present early research results on Internet of Things (IOT) that advance the state of the art and practice in Internet of Things (IOT), including theoretical principles, tools, applications, systems infrastructure, and test beds for Internet of Things (IOT). Topics of interest include (but not limited to) the following: -Theoretical Foundations of Cyber-Physical Systems/Internet of Things -Modeling, Analysis and Synthesis Techniques -Architectures for Cyber-Physical Systems/Internet of Things -Building Blocks for Cyber-Physical Systems/Internet of Things -Systems Abstractions, Services and OS Support -Evaluation Approaches and Metrics -Novel Cyber-Physical Systems/Internet of Things Applications -Detailed Case Studies -Security/Privacy The workshop accepts only novel, previously unpublished papers. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a 5-page standard IEEE conference style paper to this workshop (including all text, figures, and references) through EDAS submission system (https://www.edas.info/N17953). One additional page may be allowed but with additional publication fee. Accepted papers must be presented at the workshop. The presenter must register for the workshop before the deadline for author registration. Failure to register before the deadline will result in automatic withdrawal of the paper from the workshop proceedings and the program. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the IEEE ICCC 2014 Conference Proceedings and in IEEE Xplore?, and indexed by Engineering Index (EI). In addition, the papers could be recommended to IEEE Internet of Things Journal (http://iot.ieee.org/journal) or IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (https://www.computer.org/portal/web/tpds). Important Dates Paper submission: June 20, 2014 Acceptance Notification: July 31, 2014 Camera-ready Paper Due: August 31, 2014 -General Chairs Houbing Song (West Virginia Univ.) Latif Ladid (Chair, IEEE IOT subC) Bin Xia (Shanghai JiaoTong Univ.) -Steering Committee Wei Zhao (Rector, Univ. of Macau) Hussein Mouftah (Univ. of Ottawa) Chonggang Wang (Editor-in-Chief, IEEE IoT Journal) Ivan Stojmenovic (Univ. of Ottawa; Editor-in-Chief, IEEE TPDS) Jaiyong Lee (Yonsei Univ.) Nanning Zheng (Member, NAE; XiÂ¡Â¯an Jiaotong Univ.) Jifeng He (Member, NAS; Dean, East China Normal Univ.) Xiaojing Wang (Director, National Center of ITS Engr. & Tech.) Limin Sun (China Academy of Sciences) Quansheng Zhang (Chairman, SATCOM IOT Group) Guangcheng Li (Vice President, SATCOM IOT Research) -Technical Program Chairs Shengjie Zhao (Tongji Univ.) Qinghe Du (Xi'an Jiaotong Univ.) Xiaohua Tian (Shanghai JiaoTong Univ.) -Publicity Chairs Antonio J. Jara (Vice Chair, IEEE IOT subC) Kaoru Ota (Muroran Institute of Technology) Ruonan Zhang (Northwestern Polytechnical Univ.) Wei Wang (Zhejiang Univ.) -Technical Program Committee Aniruddha Bhattacharjya, Amrita Univ. Xianghui Cao, Illinois Institute of Technology Qingxu Deng, Northeastern Univ. Mianxiong Dong, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology Qiang Duan, Pennsylvania State Univ. Weiwei Fang, Beijing Jiaotong Univ. Jiaxing Guo, AOL Liang He, Singapore Univ. of Technology and Design Chuanhe Huang, Wuhan Univ. Burak Kantarci, Univ. of Ottawa Qingjie Kong, China Academy of Sciences Guobing Li, XiÂ¡Â¯an Jiaotong Univ. Hongkun Li, Interdigital Wenjia Li, Georgia Southern Univ. Hengchang Liu, UIUC Yaser P. Fallah, West Virginia Univ. Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, International Islamic Univ. Malaysia Selwyn Piramuthu, Univ. of Florida Danda Rawat, Georgia Southern Univ. Peng Shang, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs Jack Smith, West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission Richard Squire, West Virginia Univ. Li Sun, XiÂ¡Â¯an Jiaotong Univ. Qingquan Sun, Oakland Univ. Yunchuan Sun, Beijing Normal Univ. Yan Wan, Univ. of North Texas Honggang Wang, Univ. of Massachusetts Dartmouth Huihui Wang, Jacksonville Univ. Kun Wang, Nanjing Univ. of Posts and Telecommunications Yichen Wang, XiÂ¡Â¯an Jiaotong Univ. Zhaohui Wang, Michigan Tech Liang Xiao, Xiamen Univ. Huarui Yin, Univ. of Sci. and Tech. of China Kun Zhang, Northwestern Polytechnical Univ. Lu Zhang, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs Rui Zhang, Univ. of Hawaii Yuan Zhang, Univ. of Jinan Zhongshan Zhang, Univ. of Sci. and Tech. Beijing Liang Zhou, Nanjing Univ. of Posts and Telecommunications

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] 7th International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles: Nets4Cars-2014-Fall
by Lars Wolf 13 May '14

13 May '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] 7th International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles: Nets4Cars-2014-Fall Datum: Tue, 13 May 2014 05:52:56 +0200 Von: Alexey Vinel <alexey.vinel(a)HH.SE> Antwort an: Alexey Vinel <alexey.vinel(a)HH.SE> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG --------- 7th International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles: Nets4Cars-2014-Fall http://www.nets4cars.eu/ October 6 - 8, 2014 St.-Petersburg, Russia technically co-sponsored by IEEE and IFIP. ---------- HIGHLIGHTS * Proceedings will be published in IEEE Xplore and indexed by relevant databases * Student Awards will be provided CALL FOR PAPERS We invite prospective authors for contributions in the theory or practice of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) in the framework of the following main topics (not limited to): * Vehicular networking * Cooperative applications and services * Automated driving Authors are invited to submit full papers comprising original work, not previously published or being under review, in English of maximum 5 pages in IEEE double-column format. All the submissions will be peer-reviewed by the Technical Programm Committee. Submission link http://edas.info/N17637 STEERING COMMITTEE * Marion Berbineau, IFSTTAR, France * Xu Li, InterDigital Communications, USA * Antonella Molinaro, University of Calabria Region, Italy * Joel Rodrigues, University of Beira Interior, Portugal * Tsutomu Tsuboi, Hamamatsu Agency for Innovation, Japan * Axel Sikora, HS Offenburg, Germany * Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada * Thomas Strang, DLR, Germany * Kishor Trivedi, Duke University, USA * Alexey Vinel, Halmstad University, Sweden * Yan Zhang, Simula Research Lab, Norway IMPORTANT DATES * Paper submission June 15, 2014 * Notification of acceptance July 15, 2014 * Camera ready version August 1, 2014 Best regards, Alexey Vinel ______________________________________________________________ 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 ACM SIGCOMM CoNEXT'14
by Lars Wolf 12 May '14

12 May '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP ACM SIGCOMM CoNEXT'14 Datum: Mon, 12 May 2014 13:33:07 +0200 Von: Emmanuel Lochin <emmanuel.lochin(a)ISAE.FR> Antwort an: Emmanuel Lochin <emmanuel.lochin(a)ISAE.FR> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Call for papers The ACM SIGCOMM CoNEXT conference travels to another continent to complete its first decade as one of the major forums for presentations and discussions of novel computing technologies that will shape the future of Internetworking. The goal of the conference is to foster technical interactions among members of computer and communication networks research at large through a single track program promoting their most promising works. This new installment of the conference is proudly committed to the three values that made the conference successful for nearly ten years: Recognizing farsighted excellence, by selectively choosing papers with substantial novelty and research contribution. Promoting a broad definition of networking research, by welcoming submissions based on implementation and experimentation as well as theoretical analysis. Assuring authors of submitted papers a fair and thorough review process, with sound and detailed feedback guaranteed to each submissions in proportion of its scientific merit and potential. Scope The Program Committee of ACM CoNEXT seeks papers presenting significant and novel research results on emerging computer and communication networks. We especially encour- age submissions that present novel experimentation, creative use of networking technologies and new insights made possible using analysis or computing concepts rarely found among networking researchers. We invite submissions on a wide range of networking research including : * Networking aspects of mobile, wireless and ubiquitous computing * Networking aspects of operating systems and virtualization architectures * Network control and management, including datacenter, enterprise and SDN * Security and privacy aspects of computer networks and protocols * Theory and performance analysis of networking architectures and applications * Novel application of other fields to computer networking We are open to other contributions that stretch networking research outside of these topics, present new emerging computing trends and potentially involve unfamiliar techniques. We invite the authors to bear in mind that the main factor of interest for their work will be the implications of their results in networking. These should be clearly substantiated and explained. Submission Authors must submit their papers electronically, following the guidelines available on the ACM SIGCOMM CoNEXT web page. The committee encourages substantiated results with a succinct presentation. All papers will be part of a single track. More details will be provided on the format of the papers closer to the submission date. The selection of presentations will be based on peer-review by program committee members. This year, in an effort to inform judgment on the selection of presented papers, the PC will organize a rolling early feedback phase. During that time, and before review are completed, PC members are able to request authors for clarifications, typically on assumptions made and results obtained. Authors of submitted papers who receive such a request have the non mandatory option to answer that request within a week. We encourage this interaction espe- cially to give a chance to a minority of "controversial" papers that could be of special interest to our community, but raises important concerns that need to be addressed. Publication The proceedings of the conference will be published by the ACM. Website http://conferences2.sigcomm.org/co-next/2014/ Important dates Paper Registration June 8, 2014 (16:59 PDT) Paper Submission June 15, 2014 (16:59 PDT) Notification of Acceptance August 25, 2014 Conference December 2-5, 2014 -- Emmanuel Lochin Professeur ISAE - OSSI Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (ISAE) Issu du rapprochement SUPAERO et ENSICA 10 avenue Edouard Belin - BP 54032 - 31055 Toulouse cedex 4 Tel : 05 61 33 91 85 - Fax : 05 61 33 91 88 Web : http://personnel.isae.fr/emmanuel-lochin/ --- "This email and any attachments are confidential. They may contain legally privileged information or copyright material. You should not read, copy, use or disclose them without authorisation. If you are not an intended recipient, please contact us at once by return email and then delete both messages. We do not accept liability in connection with computer virus, data corruption, delay, interruption, unauthorised access or unauthorised amendment. This notice should not be removed" ______________________________________________________________ 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: ( WiMob'2014) 10th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications
by Lars Wolf 11 May '14

11 May '14

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Abderrahim BENSLIMANE <abderrahim.benslimane(a)UNIV-AVIGNON.FR> Gesendet: 11. Mai 2014 16:58:16 MESZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for papers: ( WiMob'2014) 10th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications [Apologies for multiple copies] *** Due to many requests, the submission deadline has been extended to June 9, 2014.*** ----------------------------- Call for Papers -------------------------- (WiMob'2014) The 10th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications, October 8-10, 2014. Golden Bay Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus http://conferences.computer.org/WiMob2014/ The IEEE WiMob conference is an international forum for the exchange of experience and knowledge among researchers and developers concerned with wireless and mobile technology. For nine years, the International IEEE WiMob conference has provided unique opportunities for researchers to interact, share new results, show live demonstrations, and discuss emerging directions in Wireless Communications, Mobile Networking and Ubiquitous Computing. IEEE WiMob 2014 will take place at Larnaca, Cyprus, between October 8 to 10th, 2014. It will be held at the Golden Bay Beach Hotel, a luxurious 5 star hotel situated in the favored south eastern region of Cyprus at the heart of the Bay of Larnaca. IEEE WiMob 2014 is soliciting high quality technical papers addressing research challenges in the areas of wireless communications, wireless networking, mobility, nomadicity, ubiquitous computing, services and applications. Papers should present original work validated via analysis, simulation or experimentation. Practical experiences and Testbed trials also are welcome. IEEE WiMob 2014 will host three parallel symposiums, including but not limited to the following topics: 1. Wireless Communications Broadband Wireless Communication Systems Signal Separation and Interference Rejection Wireless Personal Communications Multimedia Communications over Wireless Advances in Satellite Communication DSP Applications to Wireless Systems Adaptive Antennas for Wireless Systems Modulation and Coding Multiple Access Techniques Multiuser Detection Femtocells Channel Measurement and Characterization Location Estimation and Tracking OFDM and CDMA Technologies and Systems Resource Allocation and Interference Management MIMO Channels Multirate and Multicarrier Communications Link and System Capacity Spectrum Usage and Cognitive radio systems Cognitive and cooperative MAC Cognitive Radio Applications and Spectrum Management 2. Wireless Networking, Mobility and Nomadicity Mobile IP Networks Inter-working of 2G, 3G and 4G Wireless Networks Security, Privacy and Authentication in Mobile Environments Cellular Systems, PCS Modeling and Configuration Wireless Sensor Networks Cross-layer Design and Optimization Cross-layer security Congestion and Admission Control Mobility patterns, Location and Handoff Management Design and Analysis of Wireless LAN/WAN Wireless multicasting, broadcasting and geocasting Wireless Sensors and Actuators/Robots networks Energy-efficient protocols for wireless networks Green wireless network architectures and communication protocols Opportunistic networks Vehicular wireless networks Wireless Mesh networks Delay Tolerant Networks Integration of ad hoc networks with wireless access networks QoS support for mobile networks RFID networks and protocols B3G/4G Systems, WiMAX, WLAN, WPAN Optimization models and algorithms 3. Ubiquitous Computing, Services and Applications Emerging Wireless/Mobile applications System prototypes, real deployments and experimentation Cognitive Radio applications and spectrum management Resource and service discovery Mobile Social Wireless Networks Opportunistic Applications Gaming Applications in Ubiquitous Computing Environments Operating system and middleware support for mobile computing Multimedia over Wireless Networks Network Coding in wireless networks Security, Privacy and Infrastructure for Ubiquitous Computing Green computing in wireless networks Smart Grid Portable Devices and Wearable Computers Passive, Active and Smart Tags for Ubiquitous Computing Context and Location aware applications Data replication and dissemination in mobile networks Mobile Urban Sensing and Crowd-sensing Data gathering, fusion, and dissemination in WSNs Intelligent Transport Systems applications Wireless communications to vehicle-to-grid applications Wireless telemedicine and e-health services Content distribution in wireless home environment Service oriented architectures, service portability, P2P Smart Cities and smart environment Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: June 9, 2014 (extended) Notification of Acceptance: July 25, 2014 Camera Ready: August 25, 2014 Organization Committees General Chair Abderrahim Benslimane, University of Avignon, France General Co-Chairs George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Ali Miri, Ryerson University, Canada Steering Committee Chair Samuel Pierre, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada Steering Committee Abderrahim Benslimane, University of Avignon, France Dovan Thanh, Telenor & Norwegian Univ. of Science& Technology, Norway Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa, Canada Ibrahim Habib, City University of New York, USA Khaled Ben Letaief, Hong Kong University of Sci. & Tech. Pierre Boucher, Ericsson Research Canada Samuel Pierre, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada TPC Co-Chairs Li CHEN, Sun Yat-Sen University, China - wireless communication track Milena Radenkovic, University of Nottingham, UK - ubiquitous, service and application track Lin Xiaodong, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada- wireless networking, mobility and nomadicity track Workshop Co-Chairs Ebrahim Bagheri, Ryerson University, Canada Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Telecom SudParis, France Joan Garcia Haro, Universidad Politecnica dede Cartagena, Spain Luis Orozco Barbosa, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Technical Program Committee http://conferences.computer.org/wimob2014/tpc.html ______________________________________________________________ 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] COMCOM, Elsevier: Special Issue on Security and Privacy in Unified Communications: Challenges and Solutions
by Lars Wolf 09 May '14

09 May '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] COMCOM, Elsevier: Special Issue on Security and Privacy in Unified Communications: Challenges and Solutions Datum: Fri, 9 May 2014 10:07:57 +0300 Von: Georgios Kambourakis <gkamb(a)AEGEAN.GR> Antwort an: Georgios Kambourakis <gkamb(a)AEGEAN.GR> Organisation: University of the Aegean An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Apologies if you have received multiple copies of this announcement. ------------------------------------ Computer Communications (COMCOM), Elsevier (IF=1.079). Special Issue on Security and Privacy in Unified Communications: Challenges and Solutions Direct Link: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-communications/call-for-papers/sp… Unified Communications (UC) merge different communication technologies, types of products, and services, from various manufacturers, operators, and countries, following diverse policies and standards. Specifically, in the context of UC, a range of communication tools are integrated in a way that both corporations and individuals are able to manage all their communications in one entity instead of doing it disjointly. It is therefore said that UC bridges the opening between the various computer related communication technologies and Voice over IP (VoIP). However, this high level of heterogeneity expands the risks related to security and privacy that stakeholders should deal with. To eliminate or even prevent the increasing threats to end-users and operators, it is important to explore this growing and timely research topic. This feature topic will benefit the research community towards identifying challenges and disseminating the latest methodologies and solutions to UC security and privacy issues. Its objective is to publish high-quality articles presenting open issues, algorithms, protocols, policies, frameworks, standards, and solutions for UC related to security and privacy. Only technical papers describing previously unpublished, original, state-of-the-art research, and not currently under review by a conference or a journal will be considered. Reviews and case studies which address state-of-art research and state-of-practice industry experiences are also welcomed. We solicit papers in a variety of topics related to unified communications security and privacy, including, but not limited to: - Authorization and access control for UC services - Denial of service prevention schemes for UC - Reliability and availability issues on UC - Penetration testing, intrusion detection and prevention - End-to-end security solutions - Cryptographic protocols for UC - Voice security - Signaling security and privacy - Multimedia application security and privacy analysis - Multimedia communication platforms vulnerabilities and attacks - Security and privacy in mobile communication services - Smartphone multimedia apps security and privacy - Social networking security and privacy - Testbed and case studies for secure and private UC services - Trust establishment in UC - IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) security - Privacy and identity management - Privacy enhancing technologies for UC - Privacy models for UC - Security and privacy assessment for UC - Security policies - Auditing, verification, and validation of UC services - Risk analysis and management - Cyber-security issues affecting UC - Protection of UC as a Critical Information Infrastructure - VoIP peering security issues All received submissions will be sent out for peer review by at least two experts in the field and evaluated with respect to relevance to the special issue, level of innovation, depth of contributions, and quality of presentation. Guest editors will make an initial determination of the suitability and scope of all submissions. Papers that either lack originality, clarity in presentation or fall outside the scope of the special issue will not be sent for review and the authors will be promptly informed in such cases. Submitted papers must not be under consideration by any other journal or publication. *Schedule* Manuscript submission deadline: October 31, 2014 Pre-notification (first round): January 30, 2015 Final-notification (second round): April 3, 2015 Publication of special issue: 2015 (Tentative) *Submission Details* Authors should follow the instructions available at http://ees.elsevier.com/comcom - kindly click the "Guide for Authors" link in the top box on the right side. When submitting the article, select "UC Security and Privacy" in the "Select an Article Type" box in the submission process. *Guest Editors* Georgios Karopoulos Joint Research Centre (JRC), Italy e-mail: georgios.karopoulos(a)jrc.ec.europa.eu <mailto:georgios.karopoulos@jrc.ec.europa.eu> Georgios Portokalidis Stevens Institute of Technology, USA e-mail: gportoka(a)stevens.edu <mailto:gportoka@stevens.edu> Josep Domingo-Ferrer Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia e-mail: josep.domingo(a)urv.cat <mailto:josep.domingo@urv.cat> Ying-Dar Lin National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan e-mail: ydlin(a)cs.nctu.edu.tw <mailto:ydlin@cs.nctu.edu.tw> Dimitris Geneiatakis Joint Research Centre (JRC), Italy e-mail: dimitrios.geneiatakis(a)jrc.ec.europa.eu <mailto:dimitrios.geneiatakis@jrc.ec.europa.eu> Georgios Kambourakis University of the Aegean, Greece e-mail: gkamb(a)aegean.gr <mailto:gkamb@aegean.gr> --end ______________________________________________________________ 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: ICNC 2015 CALL FOR PAPERS
by Lars Wolf 08 May '14

08 May '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: ICNC 2015 CALL FOR PAPERS Datum: Thu, 8 May 2014 07:17:42 -0400 Von: info(a)conf-icnc.org An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de ICNC 2015 CALL FOR PAPERS 2015 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communication Anaheim, USA February 16-19, 2015 http://www.conf-icnc.org/2015 I. OVERVIEW International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), is a premier conference in the computer and communication fields. ICNC 2015 is to be held in Anaheim, California during Feb.16â19, 2015. The conference covers all topics in the areas of computing, networking and communication, and features keynote talks, invited position talks, technical symposia, distinguished lectures, innovation themes, and workshops. We invite you to submit your technical papers to the following areas: â¢ Cognitive Computing and Networking â¢ Multimedia Computing and Communications â¢ Cloud Computing and Big Data â¢ Social Computing and Semantic Data Mining â¢ Green Computing, Communications and Networking â¢ Mobile Computing and Vehicle Communications â¢ Internet Services and Applications â¢ Optical and Grid Networking â¢ Network Algorithms and Performance Evaluations â¢ Communications QoS and System Modeling â¢ Communications and Information Security â¢ Signal Processing for Communications â¢ Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks â¢ Wireless Communications â¢ Wireless Networks II. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Papers are required to be submitted via EDAS (http://edas.info/N17085); It is required that the manuscript follows the standard IEEE camera-ready format (double column, 10-pt font) as well as the requirement set by EDAS paper submission system. The maximum length of ICNC paper without over-length charge is FIVE (5) pages. The authors are allowed to pay for up to TWO (2) additional pages with over length charge. Submitted papers may not have been previously published in or under consideration for publication in another journal of conference. The organizing committee of ICNC 2015 reserves the right to not review papers that either exceed the length specification or have been submitted or published elsewhere. Submissions must include title, abstract, keywords, author and affiliation with email address. All submitted papers will be reviewed by the TPC team and judged on originality, technical correctness, relevance and quality of presentation. An accepted paper must be presented at the conference. Each full registration covers up to two papers by an author. All accepted papers of ICNC (main program and workshops), after being presented onsite at the conference, will be included in the proceedings. Selected high-quality papers will be invited to publish an extended version on a Special Issue at Journal of Communications. III. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: July 5 , 2014 Acceptance Notification: Sept. 20, 2014 Camera-ready Paper: Oct. 20, 2014 Conference: February 16-19 2015 IV. ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE GENERAL CHAIR â¢ Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA â¢ Guan-Ming Su, Dolby Labs, USA TPC CHAIR â¢ J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, UC Santa Cruz, USA â¢ Jiang (Linda) Xie, UNC-Charlotte, USA TPC CO-CHAIR â¢ Yu Cheng, IIT, USA â¢ Kaushik Chowdhury, Northeastern Univ. USA â¢ Liuqing Yang, Colorado State Univ., USA Tutorial Chair â¢ Ai-Chun Pang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan â¢ Joel Rodrigues, University of Beira Interior, Portugal â¢ Zhi Sun, State University of New York, Buffalo, USA Workshop Chair â¢ Jong-Seok Lee, Yonsei University, Korea â¢ Hassan Moradi, Qualcomm, USA â¢ Charlie Zhang, Samsung, USA Innovation Chair â¢ Khaled El-Maleh, Qualcomm, USA â¢ Tomohiko Taniguchi, Fujitsu, Japan Invited Paper Chair â¢ Sudhanshu Gaur, Hitachi America, USA â¢ Jong-Hyouk Lee, Sangmyung University, Korea â¢ Mehmet Can Vuran, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA â¢ Cai Kui, DSI, Singapore Publicity Chair â¢ Shaowei Wang, Nanjing University, China â¢ Jiang Zhu, Cisco, USA â¢ Wei Song, University of New Brunswick, Canada â¢ Deze Zeng, China University of Geosciences, China

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Fwd: [InternetTC] [CFP] SPME 2014, First MOBICOM Workshop on Security and Privacy Aspects of Mobile Environments; Submit by May 25
by Lars Wolf 07 May '14

07 May '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [InternetTC] [CFP] SPME 2014, First MOBICOM Workshop on Security and Privacy Aspects of Mobile Environments; Submit by May 25 Datum: Wed, 7 May 2014 18:41:03 +1000 Von: Olivier Mehani <olivier.mehani(a)NICTA.COM.AU> An: itc(a)COMSOC.ORG [Please let me know if it is undesirable to send CfPs to this list, and accept my apologies if this is the case.] =========================================================================== Call for Papers First Workshop on Security and Privacy Aspects of Mobile Environments (SPME) colocated with ACM MobiCom 2014 Maui, Hawaii, USA, September 11 http://www.smpe2014.org/ =========================================================================== Increased adoption of mobile communications technologies (e.g., smartphones and Internet tablets), along with the growing popularity of mobile applications and online social network services (e.g., mobile Facebook, Foursquare, mobile YouTube), dramatically changed the computing and networking landscapes. Such mobile environments, while creating and promoting several new opportunities for users, businesses and enterprises by complementing and often supplanting traditional Internet communication, opened up new challenges with new forms of security risks and privacy threats. Mobile devices security and privacy research has been very active and productive since the inception of smartphones and app markets. Both regulatory and technology efforts are also underway to address some of the privacy and security requirements of mobile systems and services. The workshop will discuss issues in mobile devices and applications, mobile location-based services, ad-hoc and infrastructure-based mobile networks, with particular focus on theoretical and practical aspects of design, usability and performance evaluation of security and privacy. This workshop will solicit research papers, work-in-progress papers, industry and regulatory position reports from academia, industry, and government agencies. The proposed workshop seeks to promote dynamic interdisciplinary discussions and collaboration on the various aspects of security and privacy of mobile devices, applications and mobile networking operations. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Mobile networks security - Mobile handsets devices security - Security and privacy of mobile applications - Hardware enabled security - Usability of security and privacy - New economic models of privacy-preserving mobile systems/applications - Mobile identity management systems - Mobile payment systems - Privacy and security threats identification - Censorship resistance in mobile environments - Privacy preserving analytics in mobile environments - Contextual (context-based) security and privacy - Security and privacy in next generation mobile networks - Security and privacy in wearable technologies We also encourage submissions of controversial ideas, interdisciplinary perspectives and other novel contributions with a potential to trigger constructive discussions and interactions. Important Dates: Paper Submission: May 25, 2014 Author Notification: July 7, 2014 Camera Ready Due: July 25, 2014 Workshop: September 11, 2014 Submission Guidelines: Papers must not exceed 5 pages in standard ACM double-column format and be properly anonymized. Submissions must be original, previously unpublished work. The SMPE program committee will review submissions and accepted papers will be presented at the workshop by one of the authors. Detailed instructions on paper formatting can be found on the main conference site. Submission Site: Please visit http://crp.mytestbed.net/spme2014/ for submissions. Please direct all questions to the workshop chairs: chairs(a)smpe2014.org Workshop Chairs: - Ersin Uzun (PARC) - Mohamed Ali (Dali) Kaafar, NICTA Australia Program Committee : - Gene Tsudik, UC Irvine - Srdjan Capkun, ETH Zurich - Emiliano De Cristofaro, UCL - Ivan Martinovic, University of Oxford - Richard Chow, Intel - Refik Molva, Eurecom - Adrian Perrig, ETH Zurich - Anirban Mahanti, NICTA - Julien Freudiger, PARC - Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Technische Universitat Darmstadt - Kasper Bonne Rasmussen, University of Oxford - Kari Kostiainen, ETH Zurich - Serge Egelman, UC Berkeley - Markus Miettinen, TU Darmstadt - Michael Sirivianos, Cyprus University of Technology - Nitesh Saxena, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Internet Technical Committee http://committees.comsoc.org/itc/ To subscribe or unsubscribe: https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=itc&A=1

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: International Workshop on Computer and Networking Experimental Research using Testbeds (CNERT 2014)
by Lars Wolf 07 May '14

07 May '14

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: "Wang, Bing" <bing(a)ENGR.UCONN.EDU> Gesendet: 7. Mai 2014 18:50:34 MESZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: International Workshop on Computer and Networking Experimental Research using Testbeds (CNERT 2014) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Workshop on Computer and Networking Experimental Research using Testbeds (CNERT 2014) http://icnp2014.csec.rit.edu/index.php Abstract Submission deadline: July 6, 2014 Paper Submission deadline: July 10, 2014 Co-located with the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2014<http://icnp14.cs.unc.edu/>) The Research Triangle, North Carolina October 24, 2014 Experimentation has played a very important role in advancing research in computing. This workshop will bring together researchers and technical experts to share experiences and advance the state of the art in experimental research in areas such as networking, distributed systems and cloud computing. CNERT 2014 is a one-day event held in conjunction with the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2014). CNERT 2014 aims to inspire researchers to use testbeds in novel and interesting ways as a means to validate research ideas. Experiments may be from areas including, but not limited to: Experiment design and deployment, Instrumentation and Measurement, Evaluation and analysis of experiment data, Design for repeatability and reproducibility, Creation and sharing of datasets of broad interest to the community, Tools and services for testbed users and operators, Large-scale experiments, Experiments on federated testbeds, Testbed implementation and deployment. Of particular interest are experiments on publicly available testbeds such as GENI, PlanetLab, Emulab, Orbit, Ophelia, and so on. Authors are encouraged to include references to detailed experiment setups that will enable others to extend their work. Presentations at the workshop will be strongly encouraged to include a demonstration. Authors should indicate in their papers if they think that such a demonstration is feasible. All papers will go through a thorough review process by experienced researchers who will provide constructive feedback. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Future Internet architectures Wired and wireless network protocols Computer and network security Software defined networking (SDN) Sensor networks Cloud computing and big data Distributed applications such as content delivery networks WiMax communications and services Social networks Network economics and pricing Important Dates Abstract Submission deadline: July 6, 2014 Paper Submission deadline: July 10, 2014 Acceptance notification: August 2, 2014 Workshop: October 24, 2014 (co-located with ICNP 2014) Submitted papers must be no longer than six (6) pages for long papers and four (4) pages for short papers in double-column format with standard margins (i.e., at least one inch all around) and at least a 10 point font. This length includes everything. Longer submissions will not be reviewed. Papers should include a title, full list of authors, their organization and email address, and an abstract of less than 200 words. ______________________________________________________________ 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] Wireless Days 2014
by Lars Wolf 07 May '14

07 May '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] Wireless Days 2014 Datum: Wed, 7 May 2014 10:35:33 +0200 Von: Aline Carneiro Viana <aline.viana(a)INRIA.FR> Antwort an: Aline Carneiro Viana <aline.viana(a)INRIA.FR> Organisation: INRIA An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Apologies if you receive multiple copies] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS Wireless Days 2014 November 12-14, 2014, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil http://www.wireless-days.org/ Wireless Days 2014 is technically co-sponsored by the -- IEEE Communications Society -- IFIP -- Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) -- Brazilian National Laboratory for Computer Networks (LARC) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: ================ Paper submission: June 06, 2014 Acceptance notification: Sep. 12, 2014 Camera ready and author registration deadline: Sep. 22, 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Scope: ====== The Wireless Days Conference is a major international conference which aims to bring together researchers, engineers, students, technologists and visionaries from academia, research centres and industry, to exchange, discuss, and share their experiences, ideas and research results on both the theoretical and practical aspects of wireless networking. After the successful editions of Wireless Days 2008 in Dubai, UAE (43.8% acceptance ratio), Wireless Days 2009 in Paris, France (37.6% acceptance ratio), Wireless Days 2010 in Venice, Italy (32.6% acceptance ratio), Wireless Days 2011 in Niagara Falls, Canada (35% acceptance ratio), Wireless Days 2012 in Dublin, Ireland (34.8% acceptance ratio), and Wireless Days 2013 in Valencia, Spain (34.2% acceptance ratio), the seventh edition of Wireless Days will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on November 12-14, 2014. Wireless Days 2014 will include presentations of both theoretical and experimental achievements, innovative wireless systems, prototyping efforts, case studies and advances in technology related to wireless networking and communication infrastructures. The Wireless Days program will be split into the following six conference tracks: - Track 1: Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks - Track 2: Wireless Network Protocols and Applications - Track 3: Vehicular and Delay Tolerant Networks - Track 4: Broadband Wireless - Track 5: Wireless Models and Simulations - Track 6: Wireless and Mobile Network Management Papers Submission: ================== Submissions should be original and limited to 6 double-column pages (maximum of 2 additional pages allowed - 8 pages in total - with over-length page fee) and should follow IEEE paper templates. Papers are to be submitted electronically on the EDAS web site of the conference in PDF format. EDAS entry for paper submission: http://edas.info/N17131 Contacts: ========= General Chairs: =============== Luis Henrique Maciel Kosmalski Costa, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Miguel Elias Mitre Campista, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Technical Program co-Chairs: ============================ Artur Ziviani, LNCC, Brazil Cigdem Sengul, Oxford Brookes University, UK José-Marcos Nogueira, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil Track Chairs: ============= Track 1: Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks ----------------------------------- Anelise Munaretto, UTFPR, Brazil Thierry Gayraud, Université de Toulouse, France Track 2: Wireless Network Protocols and Applications ---------------------------------------------------- Mauro Fonseca, PUC-PR, Brazil Ted (Taekyoung) Kwon, Seoul National University, South Korea Track 3: Vehicular and Delay Tolerant Networks ---------------------------------------------- Giovanni Pau, UPMC, France Michele Nogueira, UFPR, Brazil Track 4: Broadband Wireless --------------------------- Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal Merouane Debbah, Supélec, France Track 5: Wireless Models and Simulations ---------------------------------------- Igor Monteiro Moraes, UFF, Brazil Manuel P. Ricardo, Universidade do Porto, Portugal Track 6: Wireless and Mobile Network Management ----------------------------------------------- Edmundo Madeira, Unicamp, Brazil Fabrizio Granelli, University of Trento, Italy Publicity co-Chairs: =================== Daniel Fernandes Macedo, UFMG, Brazil Aline Carneiro Viana, INRIA, France Marc St-Hilaire, Carleton University, Canada Publication co-Chairs: =================== Josep Domènech, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain Marcelo Gonçalves Rubinstein, UERJ, Brazil Local Arrangements co-Chairs: =================== Igor Monteiro Moraes, UFF, Brazil Pedro Braconnot Velloso, UFF, Brazil Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, Université de La Rochelle, France Patrons Chair =================== Célio Vinicius Neves de Albuquerque, UFF, Brazil Keynote Sessions Chair =================== Nelson Fonseca, UNICAMP, Brazil Steering Committee =================== Nadjib Achir, Université Paris 13, France Khaled Boussetta, Université Paris 13, France Claudio Palazzi, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy Juan Carlos Cano, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain John Fitzpatrick, University College Dublin, Ireland Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, University of La Rochelle, France International Advisory Committee =================== Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA Guy Pujolle, University Pierre & Marie Curie, France Catherine Rosenberg, University of Waterloo, Canada Chai Keong Toh, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Jozef Wozniak, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland For more information see http://www.wireless-days.org ______________________________________________________________ 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 WCNC 2015 - CFP
by Lars Wolf 07 May '14

07 May '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE WCNC 2015 - CFP Datum: Tue, 6 May 2014 16:08:13 -0500 Von: Kemal Akkaya <kemal(a)CS.SIU.EDU> Antwort an: Kemal Akkaya <kemal(a)CS.SIU.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WCNC 2015 IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING CONFERENCE NEW ORLEANS, LA, USA 9-12 March, 2015 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IEEE WCNC is the premier event for wireless communications researchers, industry professionals, and academics interested in the latest development and design of wireless systems and networks. Sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society, IEEE WCNC has a long history of bringing together industry, academia, and regulatory bodies. In 2015, New Orleans will become the wireless capital by hosting IEEE WCNC 2015. The conference will include technical sessions, tutorials, workshops, and technology and business panels. You are invited to submit papers in all areas of wireless communications, networks, services, and applications. The instructions for authors will be posted on the conference website www.ieee-wcnc.org/2015. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: Track 1: PHY and Fundamentals Interference characterization Cognitive radio, ultra-wideband Multihop and cooperative communications Modulation, coding, diversity Equalization, synchronization, channel estimation Space-time coding, MIMO, adaptive antennas OFDM, CDMA, spread spectrum Channel modeling and characterization Interference cancellation and multiuser detection Iterative techniques Information-theoretic aspects of wireless communications Signal processing for wireless communications Propagation models for high frequency channels Track 2: MAC and Cross-Layer Design Multiple access techniques Cognitive and cooperative MAC Collaborative algorithms MAC for mesh, ad hoc, relay, and sensor networks Network information theory Radio resource management and allocation, scheduling Cross-layer design, cross-layer security Software defined radio, RFID Adaptability and reconfigurability Wireless MAC protocols: design and analysis B3G/4G Systems, WiMAX, WLAN, WPAN QoS provisioning in MAC Track 3: Mobile and Wireless Networks Localization for Wireless Networks Network Estimation and Processing Techniques Mesh, Relay, Sensor and Ad Hoc Networks Mobility, location, and handoff management Mobile and Wireless IP Wireless Multicasting, Routing Robust routing Multimedia QoS and Traffic Management Wireless Broadcast, Multicast and Streaming Congestion and Admission Control Proxies and Middleware for Wireless Networks Wireless Network Security and Privacy Performance of E2E Protocols over Wireless Networks Interworking Heterogeneous Wireless/Wireline Networks Capacity, Throughput, Outage, Coverage Track 4: Services, Applications, and Business Emerging wireless/mobile applications Context and location-aware wireless services & applications Wireless telemedicine and e-health services Intelligent transportation systems Cognitive radio and sensor-based applications Content distribution in wireless home environment Wireless emergency and security systems Service oriented architectures, service portability SIP based services, multimedia, QoS support, middleware Innovative user interfaces, P2P services for multimedia Dynamic services, autonomic services Regulations, standards, spectrum management Test-bed and prototype implementation of wireless services Personalization, service discovery, profiles and profiling CALL FOR TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS Proposals for tutorials and workshops are solicited on hot topics for future wireless communications systems and applications. CALL FOR PANELS Panel proposals are also solicited on technical, business and policy- related issues and opportunities for the wireless communications industry. PLEASE NOTE: To be published in the IEEE WCNC 2015 Conference Proceedings and to be eligible for publication in IEEE Xplore®, an author of an accepted paper is required to register for the conference at the full or limited (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 or limited registration is valid for up to 3 papers. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the IEEE WCNC 2015 Conference Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore®. A portion of the accepted papers will be presented as posters. The IEEE WCNC 2015 Technical Program Committee will decide which papers will be presented in oral (lecture type) sessions and which papers as posters, and the decisions will be announced to the authors. Choice between oral and poster presentations will be totally independent of the review scores and of the paper quality. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: 24 August 2014 Tutorial proposals: 24 August 2014 Notification of acceptance: 1 December 2014 Workshop proposals: 1 July 2014 Final Camera-ready papers due: 5 January 2015 Panel proposals: 24 August 2014 General Chair: José Roberto B. de Marca, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Executive Chair: Richard Miller, AT&T (retired), USA Technical Program Chair: Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Technical Program Vice-Chair: Edit Kaminsky Bourgeois, University of New Orleans, USA WCNC Steering Committee Chair: Khaled Letaief, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong WCNC Advisor: Sherman Shen, University of Waterloo, Canada -- Kemal Akkaya Associate Professor Department of Computer Science Southern Illinois University Carbondale, IL 62901 Tel: 618-453 60 54 Fax: 618-453 60 44 URL: http://www.cs.siu.edu/~kemal ADWISE Lab URL: http://www.cs.siu.edu/~adwise ______________________________________________________________ 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 Internet Computing Special Issue: Internet of Things Software
by Lars Wolf 06 May '14

06 May '14

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Luca Mottola <luca.mottola(a)POLIMI.IT> Gesendet: 6. Mai 2014 20:46:20 MESZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE Internet Computing Special Issue: Internet of Things Software Call for Papers: IEEE Internet Computing Special Issue - Building Internet of Things Software - http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/iccfp2 ==================================================================== As we equip people, places, and commodities with Internet-connected embedded devices that can sense information about the environment and subsequently take action, we will create the Internet of Things (IoT). The IoT will improve society and quality of life, but making this vision a reality requires interdisciplinary efforts in a range of scientific domains. Specifically, enabling the design, implementation, validation, and real-world use of IoT software requires that we embrace diverse contributions in coherent and practical development frameworks, possibly based on current and future standards. This special issue seeks contributions about recent or ongoing research efforts, experience reports, and success stories in enabling an effective development of IoT software out of the individual building blocks available in different communities. Topics of interest include: - design and modeling approaches and methodologies for IoT software; - programming abstractions and languages expressly conceived for the IoT; - development techniques for IoT software appropriate for different hardware; - platforms, from tiny sensors to the enterprise level; - approaches for composing and interoperating existing IoT functionality; - cross-layer IoT software architectures; - standards for developing IoT software; and - real-world deployments and experiences in building IoT systems. Submission Guidelines: All submissions must be original manuscripts of fewer than 5,000 words, focused on Internet technologies and implementations. All manuscripts are subject to peer review on both technical merit and relevance to IEEE Internet Computing international readership: primarily practicing engineers and academics who are looking for material that introduces new technology and broadens familiarity with current topics. We do not accept white papers, and we discourage strictly theoretical or mathematical papers. To submit a manuscript, please log on to ScholarOne (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com:443/ic-cs) to create or access an account, which you can use to log on to the IEEE Internet Computing Author Center and upload your submission. Important Dates: Submissions due: 1 July 2014 Publication issue: March/April 2015 Please email the guest editors at ic2-2015(a)computer.org a brief description of the article you plan to submit by 15 June 2014 Guest Editors: Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano (Italy) Luca Mottola, Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and SICS Swedish ICT Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology (Austria) For further information, please write to ic2-2015(a)computer.org. ______________________________________________________________ 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 Internet of Things Journal SI on "Mobile Crowd Sensing for IoT"
by Lars Wolf 06 May '14

06 May '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE Internet of Things Journal SI on "Mobile Crowd Sensing for IoT" Datum: Tue, 6 May 2014 10:19:47 -0400 Von: Shusen Yang <s.yang09(a)IMPERIAL.AC.UK> Antwort an: Shusen Yang <s.yang09(a)IMPERIAL.AC.UK> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Call for Papers for IEEE Internet of Things Journal Special Issue on " Mobile Crowd Sensing for IoT". http://iot-journal.weebly.com/call-for-papers.html AIMS AND SCOPE -------------------------------- The ubiquitous sensor-rich mobile devices (smartphones, wearable devices, smart vehicles) have been playing an increasing important role in the evolution of the Internet of Things (IoTs), which bridge the digital space and physical world at a societal scale. Their powerful computing/communication capacities, huge population, and inherent mobility makes mobile-device networks a much more flexible and cost-effective IoT solution than static sensor networks. This promotes the emergence of a fast-growing consumer-centric sensing paradigm, the Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS). As an evolution of participatory sensing, MCS has two unique features: (1) it involves both implicit and explicit participation; (2) MCS collects data from two user-participant data sources: mobile social networks and mobile sensing. Various categories of knowledge (e.g. location, personal and social context, user feelings/opinions, traffic conditions, and pollution) reported by smart device users, are shared w! ithin the social sphere, practitioners, health care providers, and utility providers, enabling a broad range of applications and services such as urban dynamic mining, public safety, and environment monitoring. Numerous research challenges arise from the MCS paradigm including participatory and opportunistic data collection, incentive mechanism design, transient networking, quality of user-contributed data, privacy concerns, and big data processing and analytics. This special issue provides the opportunity for researchers, practitioners, and application developers to review and discuss the state-of-the-art and trends of MCS techniques and applications or propose new solutions. In particular, we solicit high-quality original research papers on MCS, including but not limited to the following topics: - IoT Architecture/Framework for MCS - Optimized Data Collection Task Allocation - Communication in Transient Networking Environments - Crowdsourced Data Processing and Urban/Social Context Mining - Incentive Mechanisms for Participatory Sensing - Heterogeneous Crowdsourced Data Fusion - Dealing with Low Quality Data in MCS - Trust and Privacy Issues in MCS - MCS for Social Networking - Hybrid Human-Machine Intelligence in MCS - Emerging/Novel MCS Apps and Systems (environment monitoring, public safety, traffic planning, etc.) IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------- - Submissions Deadline: October 1, 2014 - First Reviews Due: February 1, 2015 - Revision Due: March 1, 2015 - Second Reviews Due/Acceptance letters: April 15, 2015 - Final Manuscript Due: May 1, 2015 - Publication Date: June, 2015 SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES ----------------------------------- The special issue seeks submission of papers that present novel original results and findings on MCS for IoT. Solicited original submission must not be currently under consideration for publication in other venues. Author guidelines and submission information can be found at http://iot.ieee.org/journal. All manuscripts should be submitted through Manuscript Central: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/iot GUEST EDITORS ----------------------------------- Bin Guo, Northwestern Polytechnical Univ. email: guobin.keio(a)gmail.com Shusen Yang, Imperial College London email: s.yang09(a)imperial.ac.uk Janne Lindqvist, Rutgers University email: janne(a)winlab.rutgers.edu Xing Xie, Microsoft Research email: xing.xie(a)microsoft.com Raghu K. Ganti, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center email: rganti(a)us.ibm.com SI Publicity Chair: Dr. Hong Lu, Intel Labs, USA, email: hong.lu.mail(a)gmail.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] Visible Light Communication Systems: workshop CFP
by Lars Wolf 05 May '14

05 May '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Visible Light Communication Systems: workshop CFP Datum: Mon, 5 May 2014 08:50:17 -0500 Von: Edward Knightly <knightly(a)RICE.EDU> Antwort an: Edward Knightly <knightly(a)RICE.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG The first VLCS workshop will be helped September 7 in Maui in cooperation with ACM MobiCom. The CFP is at the workshop web page http://www.networks.rice.edu/VLCS-2014/ and the text is below. We hope you can join us for this new event. Best regards, Edward Knightly Harald Haas Hsin-Mu (Michael) Tsai ACM VLCS 2014 Chairs Workshop Theme Visible Light Communication (VLC) is a revolutionary communication technology that makes use of visible light from LED lights or LCD display to carry digital information wirelessly between devices. One of its greatest advantages is that the available bandwidth of the visible light spectrum is much larger - more than 10,000 times larger - than that of the RF spectrum, potentially solving the problem of wireless bandwidth shortage in the near future. In addition, since the radiation pattern of a “visible light transmitter,” i.e., a light, can be easily regulated by its optical design, and visual obstacles such as walls can fully contain the radiation energy (i.e., interference) to a smaller space, the optical spectrum can be used in a very efficient and hence scalable manner. Finally, lights for illumination purposes already exist in every place in our daily life - there are already 12 billion electric light bulbs in the world, consuming about 1/8 of the total electricity use ! - and hence they, or at least a large portion of them, can easily serve as the new infrastructure to provide pervasive wireless communications with minimum additional energy consumption and deployment cost. For the past few years, visible light communications has been an active research topic, and research has already brought the technology closer to commercialization and standardization. The objective of this workshop is to move beyond VLC links and to explore VLC-enabled networks, systems, and applications. The workshop will bring together a diverse community to present and brainstorm on a broad set of VLC-centered topics including unique devices such as camera-based communication to new application scenarios such as vehicular safety networks. The workshop will bring to light new application domains that could take advantage of the unique properties of VLC and enable understanding of how these diverse application requirements would shape the design of next-generation VLC systems. Topics • VLC applications including WLAN, vehicular safety, medical services, industrial applications, and robotics • Novel designs for VLC systems exploiting advanced VLC paradigms such as use of cameras and VLC MIMO • VLC services such as positioning and security • System designs and architectures coupling VLC capabilities with RF • Novel VLC network designs including relay, backhaul, and access • Medium access issues including interference mitigation, multiuser access, and duplexing techniques • Mobility management Important Dates Paper Deadline: June 2nd, 2014 Authors Notification: July 7th, 2014 Camera Ready Paper: July 27th, 2014 Workshop: September 7th, 2014 ______________________________________________________________ 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 MobiWac 2014
by Lars Wolf 05 May '14

05 May '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP MobiWac 2014 Datum: Mon, 5 May 2014 10:54:57 +0200 Von: Antonio M. Ortiz <antonio.ortiz_torres(a)IT-SUDPARIS.EU> Antwort an: Antonio M. Ortiz <antonio.ortiz_torres(a)IT-SUDPARIS.EU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ================================================================== The 12th ACM* International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access (MobiWac 2014) (in conjunction with the 17th ACM MSWiM) September 21 - 26, 2014 Montreal, Canada http://adscom.it.uc3m.es/mobiwac SPONSORED BY: DÉPARTEMENT D'INFORMATIQUE, UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL - Paper registration due: May 15, 2014 (11:59PM EST) - Submission Deadline: May 20, 2014 (11:59PM EST) *ACM sponsorship pending upon approval ================================================================== The 12th ACM International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access (MobiWac 2014) will be held in conjunction with MSWiM 2014 (the 17th ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems) from September 21 to 26, 2014 at Montreal, Canada. The MobiWac series of events are intended to provide an international forum for the discussion and presentation of original ideas, recent results and achievements by researchers, students, and systems developers on issues and challenges related to mobility management and wireless access protocols. To keep up with the technological developments, we also open up new areas such as mobile cloud computing starting from this year. Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance on all aspects of wireless and mobile access technologies, with an emphasis on mobility management and wireless access. Authors are invited to submit full papers describing original research. Submitted papers must neither have been published elsewhere nor currently be under review by another conference or journal. TOPICS OF INTEREST include, but are not limited to: - Mobile Cloud Computing - Wireless/Mobile Access Protocols - Wireless/Mobile Web Access - Wireless Internet and All-IP integration - Next Generation Wireless systems - Mobile Broadband Wireless Access - Pervasive Communication and Computing - Ubiquitous and mobile access - Wireless Applications and testbeds - Multi-Homing and Vertical Handoff - Multi-Channel Multi-Radio MAC / network layer management - Channels and resources allocation algorithms - Energy and power management algorithms - Multi-technology switching using Software Defined Radios - Context-aware services and applications - Context-aware protocols and protocol architectures - Interactive applications - Mobile database management - Wireless Multimedia Protocols - Mobile and Wireless Entertainment - Mobile Info-services - Social mobile networks - Social mobile applications - QoS management - Mobility Control and Management - Localization and tracking - Mobile/Vehicular environment access - Wireless ad hoc and sensor networks - Security,Trust management and Privacy issues - Fault Tolerance solutions - Wireless Systems' Design - Analysis/Simulation of wireless mobile systems - Testbeds for experimental and simulation analysis ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: General Chair Wessam Ajib, UQAM Montreal, Canada Program Chair Ángel Cuevas, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Technical Program Committee Antonio A.F. Loureiro, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Michele Albano, CISTER, Portugal Chadi Assi, Concordia University, Canada Jalel Ben-othman, University of Paris 13, France Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada Juan Carlos Cano, Technical University of Valencia, Spain Yuh-Shyan Chen, National Taipei University, Taiwan Danny De Vleeschauwer, Alcatel-Lucent, Belgium Andrés García Saavedra, Hamilton Institute, Ireland Roch Glitho, Concordia University, Canada Chris G. Guy, University of Reading, UK Georg Hampel, Qualcomm, USA Charalampos Konstantopoulos, University of Piraeus, Greece Long Le, INRS, University of Quebec, Canada Yannick LeLouedec, Orange Labs, France Pierre Leone, University of Geneva, Switzerland Vincenzo Mancuso, IMDEA Networks, Spain Paulo Mendes, SITI, University Lusofona, Portugal Sotiris Nikoletseas, University of Patras & Computer Technology Institute, Greece Antonio M. Ortiz, Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, France Ai-Chun Pang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Grammati Pantziou, Technological Educational Institution of Athens, Greece Paul Patras, University of Edinburgh, UK Cristina M. Pinotti, University of Perugia, Italy Alicia Triviño, Universidad de Málaga, Spain Manuel Urueña, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Emmanouel Varvarigos, University of Patras & Computer Technology Institute, Greece Zainab Zaidi, National ICT Australia, Ltd, Australia Web Chair Gerson Rodríguez de los Santos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Publicity Chairs Antonio M. Ortiz, Institut Mines-Télécom, Télécom SudParis ========================= Paper Submission, Publication and Important Dates: High-quality original papers are solicited. Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed by Technical Program Committee members and other experts active in the field to ensure high quality and relevance to the Symposium. The symposium will Have a single track for regular papers and in addition, a separate interwoven track with short papers / posters. Paper length must be no more than 10 pages, double column, ACM style including tables and figures. Note that the regular paper size will be 8 pages, with the possibility to obtain up to 2 additional pages (total 10 pages) by paying a publication fee. Only PDF format is accepted. All accepted papers will appear in the Symposium proceedings published by ACM press. - Paper registration due: May 15, 2014 (11:59PM EST) - Submission Deadline: May 20, 20114 (11:59PM EST) FOR MORE INFORMATION about the conference, organizing committee, submission instructions, and venue please visit the conference website: http://adscom.it.uc3m.es/mobiwac/ ______________________________________________________________ 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] Elsevier PMC [IF=1.629] SI on "Recent Developments in Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks"
by Lars Wolf 04 May '14

04 May '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] Elsevier PMC [IF=1.629] SI on "Recent Developments in Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks" Datum: Sun, 4 May 2014 13:13:17 +0500 Von: Mubashir Rehmani <mshrehmani(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Mubashir Rehmani <mshrehmani(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Dear colleagues, Please find below a call for papers for the Special Issue of the Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal on "Recent Developments in Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks". Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. ----------- Call for Papers for the Special Issue of the Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal on "Recent Developments in Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks" http://www.journals.elsevier.com/pervasive-and-mobile-computing/ AIMS AND SCOPE ---------------------------- Wireless sensor nodes in traditional Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) use fixed spectrum assignment policy and their performance is limited due to limited processing and communication power. In addition, these wireless sensor nodes require high bandwidth and their QoS requirements are application specific. Wireless sensor nodes with cognitive radio capabilities (i.e., Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks (CRSNs)), can help to address these challenges. However, there are several challenges and research problems which are needed to be addressed in CRSNs. In fact, cognitive radio sensor network evolved from Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) in order to optimize the bandwidth and Quality-of-Service (QoS) requirements of wireless sensor nodes. Furthermore, CRSNs improve the spectrum utilization, and multiple overlaid sensor networks can be deployed in a specific region. But due to inherent hardware and energy limitation of sensor nodes, the realization of incorporating CR capability in sensor nodes imposes challenges. On top of that, CRSN nodes must handle additional challenges incurred by CR functionalities such as spectrum sensing, spectrum sharing, and spectrum management. In this special issue, we are seeking new and unpublished work in the domain of Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks. More specifically, this special issue will focus on recent developments in Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks (CRSNs). The list of topics includes, but is not limited to: - Spectrum sensing techniques for Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks (CRSNs) - Spectrum management for CRSNs - MAC protocols for CRSNs - Innovative and cross-layer middleware solutions for CRSNs - Applications of CRSNs (smart grids, vehicular networks, etc) - Delay-sensitive and multimedia communication in CRSNs - Simulation models for CRSNs - Energy efficiency in CRSNs - CRSN architecture: peculiar features and evolution - Deployment strategies of CRSNs - Wireless Body Area Networks in the context of CRSNs - Layers in CRSNs (physical, datalink, network, transport, application) - Developments, issues, and open areas - Coverage and Connectivity of CRSNs - Resource Management in CRSNs - CRSN integration with traditional networking solutions and standards - Future perspective for CRSNs IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------ Manuscript due: July 2014 Acceptance notification: Oct 2014 Revised paper due: Dec 2014 Final manuscript due: Feb 2015 Expected Publication of the Special Issue: 2015 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ------------------------------ ---------- All submissions have to be prepared according to the Guide for Authors as published in the Journal website at http://www.ees.elsevier.com/pmc/. Authors should select 'SI: CRSNs', from the 'Choose Article Type' pull-down menu during the submission process. All contributions must not have been previously published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. A submission based on one or more papers that appeared elsewhere has to comprise major value-added extensions over what appeared previously (at least 30% new material). Authors are requested to attach to the submitted paper their relevant, previously published articles and a summary document explaining the enhancements made in the journal version. GUEST EDITORS OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE ---------------------------------------------------------------- * Mubashir Husain Rehmani, Lead Guest Editor, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan, Email: mshrehmani(a)gmail.com * Mehdi Shadaram, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA Email: mehdi.shadaram(a)utsa.edu * Sherali Zeadally, University of Kentucky, KY, USA Email: szeadally(a)uky.edu * Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy Email: paolo.bellavista(a)unibo.it ______________________________________________________________ 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: [IEEE MASS 2014] MASS 2014 - One week deadline extension on Final Manuscript Submission
by Lars Wolf 04 May '14

04 May '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [IEEE MASS 2014] MASS 2014 - One week deadline extension on Final Manuscript Submission Datum: Sat, 03 May 2014 18:30:43 -0400 Von: IEEE MASS 2014 <ieeemass2014-chairs(a)edas.info> An: Lars C Wolf <wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> Dear Authors, Thank you for registering a paper for MASS 2014. The deadline for final manuscript submission is now extended on EDAS until May 9th, 2014 (11:59pm US Pacific Time). This extension is due to the many requests we received from authors who faced PDF compatibility problems that prevented a timely upload of their paper on EDAS. Please note that EDAS imposes several requirements on PDF format. Failure to meet those requirements will prevent upload of your paper. For fairness, the extension is given to all registered papers. Thank you very much and I hope you will find the extension useful. No further extensions will be given. Sincerely, Tarek Abdelzaher Program Chair

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Fwd: CfP: Ubicomp 2014 Workshop on The Superorganism of Massive Collective Wearables
by Lars Wolf 02 May '14

02 May '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP: Ubicomp 2014 Workshop on The Superorganism of Massive Collective Wearables Datum: Fri, 2 May 2014 13:46:15 +0200 Von: Ubicomp Workshop <ubicomp14ml(a)pervasive.jku.at> Antwort an: ubicomp14ml(a)pervasive.jku.at An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de <wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> *CALL FOR PAPERS* *Ubicomp 2014 Workshop on The Superorganism of Massive Collective Wearables* The 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2014) is a premier interdisciplinary venue in which leading international researchers, designers, developers, and practitioners in the field present and discuss novel results in all aspects of ubiquitous and pervasive computing. This includes the design, development, and deployment of ubiquitous and pervasive computing technologies and the understanding of human experiences and social impacts that these technologies facilitate. UbiComp 2014 will be held in conjunction with the International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC). ISWC is a conference dedicated to cutting-edge research in wearable technologies, and is the premier forum for wearable computing and issues related to on-body and worn mobile technologies. Every year, ISWC brings together researchers, product vendors, fashion designers, textile manufacturers, users, and related professionals to share information and advances in wearable computing. *The Superorganism of Massive Collective Wearables* This workshop asks questions on the potential and opportunities of turning massively deployed wearable systems to a globe-spanning superorganism of socially interactive personal digital assistants. While individual wearables are of heterogeneous provenance and typically act autonomously, it stands to reason that they can (and will) self-organize into large scale cooperative collectives, with humans being mostly out-of-the-loop. A common objective or central controller may thereby not be assumed, but rather volatile network topologies, co-dependence and internal competition, non-linear and non-continuous dynamics, and sub-ideal, failure-prone operation. We refer to these emerging massive collectives of wearables as a "superorganism", since they exhibit properties of a living organism (like e.g. 'collective intelligence') on their own. One essential aspect of such globe-spanning collective ensembles is that they often exhibit properties typical observed in complex systems, like (i) spontaneous, dynamic network configuration, with (ii) individual nodes acting in parallel, (iii) constantly acting and reacting to what the other agents are doing, and (iv) where the control tends to be highly dispersed and decentralized. If there is to be any coherent behavior in the system, it (v) has to arise from competition and cooperation among the individual nodes, so that the overall behavior of the system is the result of a huge number of decisions made every moment by many individual entities. In order to properly exploit such superorganisms, this workshop concerns itself with the development of a deeper scientific understanding of the foundational principles by which they operate. To this end, the workshop attempts to address the following foundational research concerns: - Understanding the trade-offs between the power of top-down (by design) adaptation means and bottom-up (by emergence) ones, also by studying how the two approaches co-exists in modern wearable ICT systems, and possibly contributing to smoothing the tension between the two approaches. - Understanding the "power of the masses" principle as far as participatory wearable ICT processes are involved. In particular, this implies understanding how and to what extent even very simple collective phenomena and algorithms - when involving billions of wearables - can express forms of intelligence much superior than that of more traditional AI techniques. - Understanding the issue of diversity and of diversity increase in complex systems and in service/data systems and how diversity of structure and behavior is currently accommodated in wearable ICT systems. As of now, most studies focus on a limited number of different classes, which is far from approximating the diversity of existing systems. - Laying down new foundations for the modelling of large-scale Human-ICT organisms and their adaptive behaviors, also including lessons from applied psychology, sociology, and social anthropology, other than from systemic biology, ecology and complexity science. - Identifying models and tools by which individual organs of the systems can influence and direct "by design" the emergent adaptive behavior of the whole system, or at least of substantial parts of it. Further, the workshop attempts to address the following systems research concerns: - Opportunistic information collection. Systems need to be able to function in complex, dynamic environments where they have to deal with unpredictable changes in available infrastructures and learn to cooperate with other systems and human beings in complex self-organized ensembles. - Collaborative Reasoning and Emergent Effects. Reasoning methods and system models are needed that combine machine learning methods with complexity theory to account for global emergent effects resulting from feedback loops between collaborative, interconnected devices and their users. - Social Awareness. Whereas today's context-aware systems are able to make sense of the activity of single users and their immediate environment, future systems should be able to analyze, understand and predict complex social phenomena on a broad range of spatial and temporal scales. Examples of the derived information could be: shifts in collective opinions and social attitudes, changes in consumer behavior, the emergence of tensions in communities, demographics, migration, mobility patterns, or health trends. The workshop will be held at the Red Lion Hotel in Downtown Seattle (Seattle, Washington, US) on Saturday September 13th. It will be co-located with UbiComp 2014 and ISWC 2014. *CALL FOR FULL PAPERS* Regular paper submissions must present original, highly innovative, prospective and forward-looking research in one or more of the themes given above. Full papers must break new ground, present new insight, deliver a significant research contribution and provide validated support for its results and conclusions. The workshop solicits (i) conceptual papers describing proposals for novel methodologies, theories and principles that might be used in order to design, develop and build, analyse and operate massive collectives of wearables, (ii) observational, epistemological and user study papers to deliver evidence for possible future scenarios, and emerging platforms and technologies as well as (iii) system-development papers proposing ingenious, novel HW/SW platforms. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) - Novel complex adaptive system theories and operational principles. - Novel design principles for building complex adaptive systems. - Insights into evolutionary and emergent complex adaptive system properties - Methodologies, Models, Algorithms, Frameworks and Tools for studying, analyzing and building complex adaptive systems. - Case-studies / very large scale scenarios that can serve as reference case for future super-organisms of collective wearables. Each paper must be submitted as a single PDF file in SIGCHI Extended Abstract format (not longer than six pages in length). Accepted papers will be included in the printed UbiComp 2014 adjunct proceedings and included in the ACM Digital Library. Submissions to this workshop must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the workshop review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere. *CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS* In addition to the submission of research papers, this workshop promotes the submission of position papers. Each paper must be submitted as a single PDF file in SIGCHI Extended Abstract format (not longer than two pages in length) containing a description of the area of research, specific work (empirical or theoretical) on the workshop topic, and the innovative character of the research. Position papers will be published as part of the FoCAS (Fundamentals of Collective Adaptive Systems) white book. *ORGANIZERS* Alois Ferscha (University of Linz, Austria) Paul Lukowicz (DFKI, Germany) Franco Zambonelli (Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy) *IMPORTANT DATES* Submission Deadline June 2nd, 2014 Not. of Acceptance June 22nd, 2014 Camera Ready Version July 6th, 2014 Workshop September 13th, 2014 *CONTACT* ubicomp14ws(a)pervasive.jku.at http://www.pervasive.jku.at/ubicomp14/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, Networks, and Applications (CPSNA 2014)
by Lars Wolf 01 May '14

01 May '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, Networks, and Applications (CPSNA 2014) Datum: Thu, 1 May 2014 11:16:21 +0000 Von: Carlo Fischione <carlofi(a)KTH.SE> Antwort an: Carlo Fischione <carlofi(a)KTH.SE> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG CALL FOR PAPERS The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, Networks, and Applications (CPSNA 2014) Hong Kong, China, August 25-27, 2014 http://www.cpsna.org/ TOPICS: Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are next-generation embedded systems featuring a tight integration of computational and physical elements. Emerging applications of CPS include transportation, healthcare, energy, manufacturing, entertainment, consumer electronics, environmental monitoring, aerospace, etc., all of which will be essential pieces of our social infrastructure. The vision of CPS however faces some core challenges of multidisciplinary research, as their relevant technologies appear in diverse areas of science and engineering. The objective of CPSNA is to bring together researchers from different backgrounds, and explore innovative, exciting, and fresh ideas for the design and development of future CPS. The scope of CPSNA 2014 will give due consideration in all areas of research that facilitate collaborations in existing and new technologies related to CPS. Topics of special interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Real-time systems for time-critical functions in CPS Sensor networks for large-scale sensing and actuation Networked control systems for complexity management in CPS Dependable computing and verification methods to support safety-critical functions Ubiquitous and pervasive computing for enhanced user interactions with CPS Cloud and distributed computing to support scalability and manage complexity Data-intensive computing and data mining to support big data in CPS Multicore and GPU programming for high-performance CPS Architecture, compiler, OS, and middleware platforms for CPS Experimental prototypes of CPS Emerging applications in CPS IMPORTANT DATES: Extended Submission Deadline May 7, 2014 Acceptance Notification May 30, 2014 Camera-Ready Submission June 25, 2014 Conference August 25-27, 2014 SUBMISSION GUIDELINE: Submitted papers must adhere to a page limit of 6 pages. The format must be 8.5-inch by 11-inch with two columns using a 10pt font size. Authors are encouraged to use the IEEE proceedings template: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing. Please use the following link to submit your papers. https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cpsna2014 ORGANIZERS: Honorary General Chair: Sam Kwong, City University of Hong Kong General Chair: Joseph Ng, Hong Kong Baptist University Finance Chair: Shinpei Kato, Nagoya University Program Co-Chairs: Victor Lee, City University of Hong Kong Arvind Easwaran, Nanyang Technological University WiP Chair: Ling Shi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology ______________________________________________________________ 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: [InternetTC] ExtremeCom 2014 - The Galápagos Expedition (deadline extended: May 18)
by Lars Wolf 30 Apr '14

30 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [InternetTC] ExtremeCom 2014 - The Galápagos Expedition (deadline extended: May 18) Datum: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 16:45:52 +0100 Von: Fernando Ramos <fvramos(a)FC.UL.PT> An: itc(a)COMSOC.ORG ------------------------------------------------------------ We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message. ------------------------------------------------------------ ***************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS AND DEMOS Extreme Conference on Communication and Computing - The Galápagos Expedition ExtremeCom 2014 11-16 August, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador http://www.extremecom.org/ ***************************************************************************** Important dates --------------- *Submission deadline: May 4, 2014 May 18, 2014 deadline extended!* Notification of acceptance: June 9, 2014 Early registration deadline: June 14, 2014 Registration deadline: June 15, 2014 Conference dates: August 11-16, 2014 (tentative dates) ***************************************************************************** Scope --------- The Extreme Conference on Communication and Computing (ExtremeCom) brings together researchers and practitioners in areas related to communications in rural, remote or other extreme environments, and computing in extreme operating conditions such as extreme temperatures and energy constraints, extreme quantities ("big data"), extremely large-scale systems, and extreme levels of threat and uncertainty, in order to gain experience and insight into the challenges that such environments pose for the network and the users. We welcome a broad range of topics concerning both technical and economical aspects, for example wireless communication, mobile computing, low power devices and protocols, delay tolerant networks and other networking paradigms, distributed computing paradigms, big data, distributed systems, cloud computing, business and services models, user experiences and web applications. Researches addressing computing challenges in general mobile environments (even not completely extreme) are also welcomed by the conference. Following on from the success of ExtremeCom 2009 - The Midnight Sun Expedition in Laponia, Sweden, ExtremeCom 2010 - The Himalayan Expedition in Dharamsala, India, ExtremeCom 2011 - The Amazon Expedition in Manaus, Brazil, ExtremeCom 2012 - The Swiss Alps Winter Expedition in Zurich, Switzerland, and ExtremeCom 2013 - The Volcanic Expedition in the Eyjafjallajökull Volcano region in Iceland, we present the ExtremeCom 2014 edition: The Galápagos Expedition. The conference will start with 3 days of excursions in the amazing nature of the Galápagos Islands. Along the way, participants will get to see and experience the islands and their plant and animal life, both above and beneath the surface of the ocean. The immersion will not only give a better idea of both the technical and user requirements of such a harsh environment, but it will also give many opportunities for informal research discussions between the participants. Participants that have their own software for scenarios like this will also, to as great an extent as possible, be encouraged to test and demonstrate it within this environment. After the excursions, there will be two days of paper presentations and demos. Focus will still be on informal research discussions, with the hope that the field experience will give participants the ability to discuss the topics in a new light. Submission Guidelines ------------------------------- Participants should submit 6 page papers about ideas and visions about the topics of the conference or demo proposals to be shown during the conference. Visionary and thought-provoking papers that are likely to generate much discussion during the conference are especially solicited. The aim of the conference is to maintain an informal environment, where new research ideas can be discussed and developed. We also hope to have a demo session where participants can show their implementations and systems. If you want to show a demo, please submit a 2 page demo proposal using the same submission system as for conference papers. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. A selected set of top submissions will be fast-tracked to a special issue in a reputed SCI/E journal. We only accept PDF files, no greater than 6 pages in length (2 pages for the demos), including text, figures and references. Manuscripts should use the ACM templates (for LaTeX, please use Option 2 files), with 9pt fonts. Topics for the conference include, but are not limited to: Testbeds for large-scale sustainable testing of moobile communication systems Real deployments of networks in extreme environments Business and service models for networks in rural, remote, and other challenging environments Delay tolerant networking User experience research Big data research such as mining and modeling of mobility and social network Cloud computing for extreme scalability Mesh networks and sensor networks Low-power and intermittent-power protocols Mechanisms for emergency and urgent communications Distributed computing for mobile environments Networked applications and services Operating system and middleware support for mobile computing and networking Security, privacy, and trustworthiness of extreme communications Underwater networking Robotic communications and mobile augmented reality Due to logistics, the number of participants will be limited. Priority will be given to authors of papers and those who register first. ***************************************************************************** Organizers --------------- General co-chairs: Pan Hui, HKUST, Hong Kong / T-Labs, Germany Anders Lindgren, SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden Local arrangement chair: Jorge Sá Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal Carlos Herrera, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Ecuador Publicity chair: Fernando Ramos, University of Lisbon, Portugal Web chair: Fehmi Ben Abdesslem, SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden Technical Program Committee: Yahel Ben-David, University of California - Berkeley, USA Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal Elwyn Davies, Folly Consulting, UK Michael Doering, Bosch Research, Germany Stephen Farrell, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Marco Fiore, INSA Lyon/INRIA, France Roy Friedman, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Paulo Gil, University of New Lisbon, Portugal Sumi Helal, University of Florida, USA Bob Iannucci, Carnegie Mellon University SV, USA Christine Julien, University of Texas at Austin, USA Trevor Pering, Google, USA James Kwok, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Franck Legendre, Uepaa AG, Switzerland Marimuthu Palaniswami, Univ. Melbourne, Australia André Rodrigues, University of Coimbra, Portugal Joel Rodrigues, University of Beira Interior, Portugal Anthony Rowe, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Milan Simek, University of Brno, Czech Republic Jörg Ott, Aalto University, Finland Kevin I-Kai Wang, Univ. Auckland, New Zealand Klaus Wehrle, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Lars Wolf, TU Braunschweig, Germany Lin Zhang, University of Tsinghua, China Steering Committee: Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK Avri Doria, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden Tristan Henderson, University of St. Andrews, UK Pan Hui, HKUST, Hong Kong / T-Labs, Germany Anders Lindgren, SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden ***************************************************************************** Fernando ======== http://www.di.fc.ul.pt/~fvramos/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Internet Technical Committee http://committees.comsoc.org/itc/ To subscribe or unsubscribe: https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=itc&A=1

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE Communications Magazine - Feature Topic on “Energy Harvesting Communications”
by Lars Wolf 30 Apr '14

30 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE Communications Magazine - Feature Topic on “Energy Harvesting Communications” Datum: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 01:05:33 +0000 Von: Yuen Chau <yuenchau(a)SUTD.EDU.SG> Antwort an: Yuen Chau <yuenchau(a)SUTD.EDU.SG> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG This feature topic will focus on issues related to energy harvesting communications. In particular for wireless sensor networks, because of its ultra-low-power operation, such small, wireless, autonomous sensors can be powered by harvesting ambient power which is scavenged in milli-watts or even micro-watts. If these wireless sensors, which spread throughout a home or factories, in-buildings or even outdoor to monitor all kind of environmental conditions, are powered by energy harvesting, there are no batteries to replace and no labour costs associated with replacing them, in other words, self-sustainable. However, the design of communication systems has to take into account the fluctuating availability of energy sources. For an overview of the state-of-the-art in energy harvesting communications design, and for a relevant example of an IEEE Communications Magazine article's style and content, please refer to "Designing Intelligent Energy Harvesting Communications Systems" by D. Gunduz, K. Stamatiou, N. Michelusi, and M. Zorzi, in IEEE Communications Magazine, pp. 210-216, Jan 2014. In a cellular network, energy harvesting can be used to provide power in many elements of a telecom network, saving considerable costs in electricity supply, and providing low maintenance monitoring. Powering mobile phone base stations with wind or solar power allows telecom networks to expand beyond the limits of the power grid. The possibility of re-distribution of the renewable energy in smart grid allows further efficient utilization, but leads to many challenges as well. Another important focus of this feature topic is on RF energy harvesting. RF energy is currently broadcasted from billions of radio transmitters around the world, including mobile telephones, handheld radios, mobile base stations, and television/ radio broadcast stations. The ability to harvest RF energy, from ambient or dedicated sources, enables wireless charging of low-power devices and has significant benefits to product design, usability, and reliability. Fundamental practical issues on realizing this ability leads to many interesting research problems. This feature topic will focus on energy harvesting related issues in communications. It will also present a holistic view of research challenges and opportunities in the emerging area of energy harvesting communications. We especially welcome research work that pushes theory to practice, such as theoretical work with emphasis on how to solve a practical problem, experimental work on new systems, and system-level considerations for practical deployment. This feature topic solicits state-of-the-art technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Topics of interest include, but not limited to: • Energy harvesting base station, access point, and relay; • Energy-efficient and energy harvesting machine-to-machine (M2M) communications; • Low-power and energy harvesting wireless sensor networks; • Characterization of light, thermal, wind, motion, and RF energy harvesting; • Communication protocols for wireless charging networks and systems; • Energy harvesting storage and recycling; • Software-defined networking for energy harvesting communications; • Sustainable network architectures using energy harvesting; • Theoretic approaches and design methodologies; • Testbed and experimental validation; • Energy harvesting for rare events sensing; • Event-powered energy harvesting wireless sensor networks; • Energy harvesting for industrial and intelligent systems; • Standardization of energy harvesting communications. Note that articles on green communications that do not directly address energy harvesting will be considered out of scope for this feature topic. Please consider directing such articles to the "Green Communications and Computing Networks" Series of IEEE Communications Magazine. Submission Guidelines Articles should be tutorial in nature and written in a style comprehensible and accessible to readers outside the specialty of the article. Authors must follow the IEEE Communications Magazine's guidelines for preparation of the manuscript. Complete guidelines for prospective authors can be found at http://www.comsoc.org/commag/paper-submission-guidelines. It is important to note that the IEEE Communications Magazine strongly limits mathematical content, and the number of figures and tables. Paper length should not exceed 4,500 words. All articles to be considered for publication must be submitted through the IEEE Manuscript Central site (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/commag-ieee) by the deadline. Submit articles to the "April 2015/Energy Harvesting Communications" category. For more info, please refer to: http://www.comsoc.org/files/Publications/Magazines/ci/cfp/cfpcommag0415.html Important Dates Manuscript Submission: 01-August, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: 01-November, 2014 Final Manuscript: 01-February, 2015 Publication: April 2015 Guest Editors Chau Yuen, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore (yuenchau(a)sutd.edu.sg) Lei Shu, Guangdong University of Petrochemical University, China (lei.shu(a)lab.gdupt.edu.cn) Maged Elkashlan, Queen Mary University of London, UK (maged.elkashlan(a)qmul.ac.uk) Yi Qian, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA (yqian(a)ieee.org) Trung Q. Duong, Queen’s University Belfast, UK (trung.q.duong(a)qub.ac.uk) Frank Schmidt, EnOcean, Germany (frank.schmidt(a)enocean.com) This email may contain confidential and/or proprietary information that is exempt from disclosure under applicable law and is intended for receipt and use solely by the addressee(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this email, or any attachment, is strictly prohibited. Please delete the email immediately and inform the sender. Thank You ______________________________________________________________ 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 Internet of Things Journal Special Issue on Internet of Vehicles (IoV)
by Lars Wolf 29 Apr '14

29 Apr '14

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Giovanni Pau <gpau(a)CS.UCLA.EDU> Gesendet: 29. April 2014 20:37:11 MESZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE Internet of Things Journal Special Issue on Internet of Vehicles (IoV) Apologies for Cross Posting ---------------------------------------------------------- IEEE INTERNET OF THINGS JOURNAL A joint publication of IEEE Sensors Council, IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Signal Processing Society ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Internet of Things Journal Special Issue on Internet of Vehicles (IoV) The new era of Internet of Things (IoT) is driving the evolution of conventional Vehicle Ad hoc Networks (VANET) into the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) paradigm. According to recent predictions, 25 billion of "things" will be connected to the Internet by 2020 among which vehicles will constitute a significant portion. The difference of the vehicle concept in VANET and IoV makes these two scenarios essentially different in the device, communications, networking, and services aspects. In VANET, a vehicle is mainly considered as a node to disseminate messages among vehicles. In the IoV paradigm, each vehicle is considered as a smart object equipped with a powerful multi-sensor platform, communications technologies, computation units, IP-based connectivity to the Internet and to other vehicles either directly or indirectly. In addition, a vehicle in IoV is envisioned as a multi-communication model, enabling the interactions between intra-vehicle components, vehicles and vehicles, vehicles and road, and vehicles and people. IoV enables the acquistion and processing of large amount of data from versatile geographical areas via intelligent vehicles computing platforms to o! ffer various categories of services for road safety and other services to drivers and passengers. There are many unprecedented challenges to realize IoV. A typical challenge is the big data processing and storage in IoV due to huge number of connected vehicles. Personal cloud and mobile cloud computing are envisioned to play important roles in dealing with the big data. The seamless integration of the social context into IoV is a promising approach as well as an important question to achieve green transport. In addition, the wide penetration of electrical vehicles in the near future will demand a very careful consideration on the intelligent interactions between IoV and the smart grid. Here, the interactions are not limited to the communications and computation, but the power load scheduling within the demand response management framework in the Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) network. All these issues are being studied in academics, industries, and standardization organizations. This special issue is seeking original contributions on IoV, sharing the research efforts and deployment challenges in this area and discussing IoV challenges, key enabling techniques, platforms and field trails. Topics of interests include (but are not limited to): * IoV architectures and services * Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) communications * V2G efficient demand response management * Vehicle social networks for IoV * Mobile cloud computing for IoV * Efficient big data analysis for IoV * Mobile sensing networking in IoV * Driverless vehicles and supporting technologies * Dynamic spectrum access technologies in IoV * IoV for efficient and green transportation * Urban sensing for environment monitoring * Security, privacy and trust in IoV * Novel applications and business models * Testbed platform and field trials * New network technologies for efficient service provision (e.g., content-centric network) Important Dates Submissions Deadline: May 1st 2014 (Extended to May 15th 2014) First Reviews Due: August 1st 2014 Revision Due: September1st 2014 Second Reviews Due/Notification: October 1st 2014 Final Manuscript Due: October 20th 2014 Publication Date: December 2014 Submission The special issue seeks submission of papers that present novel original results and findings on IoV. Solicited original submissions must not be currently under consideration for publication in other venues. Author guidelines and submission information can be found at http://iot.ieee.org/journal. All manuscripts should be submitted through Manuscript Central: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/iot. Guest Editors * Dr. Hassnaa Moustafa, Intel, USA. Email: hassnaa.moustafa(a)intel.com * Prof. Giovanni Pau, UPMC, France /UCLA USA. Email: giovanni.pau(a)lip6.fr Dr. Fan Bai, General Motors R & D, USA. Email: fan.bai(a)gm.com * Prof. Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway. Email: yanzhang(a)simula.no ========================== It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. - Leonardo da Vinci ========================== ______________________________________________________________ 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 Communications Magazine, Special Issue on "Recent Advances in Technologies for Extremely Dense Wireless Networks"
by Lars Wolf 29 Apr '14

29 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP IEEE Communications Magazine, Special Issue on "Recent Advances in Technologies for Extremely Dense Wireless Networks" Datum: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 09:01:09 +0200 Von: Antonio de la Oliva <aoliva(a)IT.UC3M.ES> Antwort an: Antonio de la Oliva <aoliva(a)IT.UC3M.ES> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG *** CALL FOR PAPERS: IEEE Communications Magazine *** Recent Advances in Technologies for Extremely Dense Wireless Networks (http://www.comsoc.org/files/Publications/Magazines/ci/cfp/cfpcommag0115.html) ** DESCRIPTION The ever growing demand from users of mobile networks, in terms of both capacity and coverage, is driving the current (e.g., IEEE 802.11, LTE, WiMAX) and near-future (e.g., LTE-Advanced, IEEE 802.11ac/ad/af and High Efficiency WLAN - HEW) technologies alike towards their limits. The more sustainable solution to the 5G promise of true ubiquitous mobile broadband is to deploy very dense wireless networks, which we call DenseNets. Intuition based on experience suggests that DenseNets will encompass significant overlapping, and possibly non-interoperable technologies, which can be seen as an evolution of today’s heterogeneous networks (HetNets). Similar to HetNet but only more severe, DenseNets will have to face a multitude of techno-economic challenges such as backhaul availability, very low cost of small base stations, operation, administration and management (OAM), Machine Type Communications (MTC), etc. Some of the relevant issues already identified in the DenseNets scenarios include the nonlinear characteristics of the achieved throughput and energy consumption. As an increased number of cells are being deployed, the effect of the interference becomes dominant, resulting on an overall throughput which is not linear with the number of cells. Similar nonlinear effects on energy efficiency have been observed due to the need for the equipment to be continuously serving high demand applications. In order to overcome these problems, a new family of solutions characterized by the use of cooperative approaches is required to take advantage of the new opportunities brought by the DenseNets scenarios. This opens a broad spectrum of research directions, standardisation paths, and market opportunities, which will involve the relevant communities in both academia and industry in the forthcoming years. The goal of this feature topic is to publish original material, either research or review articles, on the topic of extremely dense wireless networks (DenseNets). All material should be comprehensible and accessible to non-expert readers. ** TOPICS OF INTEREST - Exploration of the fundamental limits of wireless networks (scalability, capacity, ...) - Real life experiences with DenseNets (deployments, large scale testbeds, ...) - Novel business models, requirements, use cases, and applications - Analysis and simulation of extremely dense wireless networks - Advanced mobility management solutions within DenseNets resulting in extremely fast handover (Distributed Mobility Management - DMM, PMIPv6 and beyond, ...) - Software Defined Networking (SDN) approaches for wireless/cellular networks - Cloud Radio Access Networks (C-RAN) approaches for DenseNets - Novel theoretical frameworks for DenseNets - Energy Efficiency techniques for DenseNets - Approaching density-proportional capacity of DenseNets - Evolved network management and Operations Systems Support (OSS) for DenseNets - Standards and technologies for small cells (IEEE 802.11, LTE HeNB, ...) - 3GPP LTE-Advanced and beyond-LTE support to DenseNets ** SUBMISSION GUIDELINES This Feature Topic Issue solicits original work that must not be under consideration for publication in other venues. Authors should refer to the IEEE Communications Magazine's author guidelines at http://www.comsoc.org/commag/paper-submission-guidelines for information about content, constraints (4500 words or less, no mathematical content, etc.), and formatting of submissions. Manuscripts must be written in English, contain substantial tutorial content, and be accessible to a broad general audience working in other fields. Please submit manuscripts to Manuscript Central at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/commag-ieee, and select the category "January 2015/Extremely Dense Wireless Networks." ** IMPORTANT DATES Manuscript Submission Due: May 1, 2014 Acceptance Notification: August 1, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: November 1, 2014 Publication Date: January 2015 ** GUEST EDITORS David Chieng, MIMOS Berhad (Malaysia) Claudio Cicconetti, MBI SRL (Italy) Antonio de la Oliva, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain) Juan Carlos Zúñiga, InterDigital Inc. (Canada) -- Antonio de la Oliva Visiting Professor Telematics Department Universidad Carlos III de Madrid E-mail: aoliva(a)it.uc3m.es Phone: +34 91 624 8803 Fax: +34 91 624 8749 ______________________________________________________________ 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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