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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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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] MobiArch 2014 CFP - The 9th ACM Workshop on Mobility in the Evolving Internet Architecture
by Lars Wolf 26 Apr '14

26 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] MobiArch 2014 CFP - The 9th ACM Workshop on Mobility in the Evolving Internet Architecture Datum: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 09:59:01 -0400 Von: Rui Aguiar <ruilaa(a)UA.PT> Antwort an: Rui Aguiar <ruilaa(a)UA.PT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG The 9th ACM Workshop on Mobility in the Evolving Internet Architecture MobiArch 2014 (in conjunction with MobiCom 2014, September 7-11, 2014, Maui, Hawaii, USA) ============================================================================ Theme: Seamless Mobility in Software Dominated Communication Networks http://mobiarch2014.atnog.av.it.pt/ http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2014/workshops.html ============================================================================ Call for Papers ### Dates: Abstract submissions due: June 2nd, 2014 (5pm EDT) Paper submissions due: June 9th, 2014 (5pm EDT) Notification of acceptance: July 19th, 2014 Camera-ready version due: July 26th, 2014 Workshop date: Sept 11th, 2014 ### Scope: Recent years have witnessed mobile devices surpassing stationary Internet hosts in numbers and exponential growth of mobile data traffic. Wireless has quickly become the dominate last-hop access to the Internet. The mobility of users, devices and networks has become an integral part of today¡¦s Internet. In the meantime, the network infrastructure is the process of transforming from a hardware dominated landscape to an increasingly virtualized and software-defined, cloud-based system with decreasing dependency on hardware. The increasing ability to collect and process large amount of data pertaining to network, devices, and users are posing new challenges to network design. As these trends continue in the near future, a reexamination is urgently required for the architecture of the mobile-centric Internet. The lack of adoption of Mobile IP and IPv6 mobility extensions and additional challenges posed by mobility have led to renewed interest in a clean-slate design that comprehensively addresses mobility, without existing architectural constraints. This requires addressing issues such as efficient mobility management and optimization, locator-identifier split, multi-homing, security and privacy, transport over wireless access, user incentives to reduce network congestion, efficient multimedia content distribution, new cloud computing infrastructure with information centric networking, collection and management of data, new business models for mobile data, and related operational/deployment concerns. Furthermore, the architecture will need to include novel services to meet the demands of today¡¦s fast evolving mobile applications. MobiArch 2014 welcomes submissions from both researchers and practitioners from academia and industry that explore challenges and advances in architectures, protocols, and technologies in the current Internet or in future clean-slate Internets. We encourage work-in-progress papers, we especially welcome position papers that describe highly original ideas, present new directions, or generate insightful discussion at the workshop. ### Topics: All aspects of architectural issues and system support for mobility in the Internet, including but not limited to: Impact of new wireless technologies/services, networking technologies, and mobility patterns on the mobile-centric Internet architecture Mobility support in the Internet, ranging from link to application layers or cross-layer design solutions Seamless mobility in heterogeneous networks Software defined and cloud ¡Vassisted mobile networking Role of network virtualization in mobile Internet architecture Impact of Information Centric Networking on mobile and wireless networks Impact of massive data collection, analysis and management in mobile architecture and services Impact of incentives and smart pricing on network utilization and user Quality of Experience (QoE) Impact of high throughput mobile interface on ad-hoc networks Addressing and routing issues, location management, support for location-aware application and protocols Security and privacy issues in mobile networks and impact on Internet architecture Economic, regulation, and deployment issues of mobility solutions (infrastructure and devices) ### Workshop Co-Chairs Rui L. Aguiar, Instituto de Telecomunicacoes, University of Aveiro, Portugal (ruilaa(a)ua.pt) Katherine Guo, Bell Labs Research, U.S. (katherine.guo(a)alcatel-lucent.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] CFP: The 9th ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation and Characterization (WiNTECH 2014)
by Lars Wolf 26 Apr '14

26 Apr '14

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: dimitrio <dimitrio(a)BUFFALO.EDU> Gesendet: 26. April 2014 03:50:09 MESZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: The 9th ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation and Characterization (WiNTECH 2014) ACM WiNTECH 2014 The 9th ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation and Characterization In conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2014 Maui, Hawaii, September 7th, 2014 http://wintech.eng.buffalo.edu We witnessed an increasing demand for high-speed, reliable and ubiquitous mobile wireless networks in recent years. Following this trend, many new challenges arise and need to be overcome to satisfy the growing number of wireless users. Doubtlessly, thorough experimental evaluation and analysis of wireless networking protocols and applications will increasingly be needed to identify the limitations of current technologies and to motivate innovative ideas to go beyond the state of the art. Moreover, realistic empirical evaluations of such a diverse set of solutions, and their mutual interactions, will play a major role to demonstrate their efficiency in everyday denser networks, thus shaping future advances in wireless technology. ================ CALL FOR PAPERS ================ WiNTECH aims at bringing together researchers working in the broad area of experimental wireless networking. The workshop will serve as a forum to share new ideas and experiences gathered across all experimental aspects of wireless networks and systems, and facilitate discussions of key unresolved challenges in this area. We are seeking original, previously unpublished papers empirically addressing key issues and challenges in wireless networking. All submissions will be judged by their technical merit and relevance to the workshop, based on a thorough review process by the Technical Program Committee. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Design and evaluation of wireless testbeds, prototypes and platforms - Experiences/lessons from recent testbed deployments - Hybrid experimentation approaches combining use of multiple evaluation methodologies - Integration of diverse and distributed testbed infrastructures - Testbed management issues and monitoring support - Wireless testbed case studies - Experimental evaluation of applications and protocols, including the impact of cross-layer interactions - Large-scale and heterogeneous wireless network evaluations - Approaches for real-world evaluation of mobile networks - Measurement and evaluation on large-scale smartphone based deployments - Studies on real-world white-space networks - Evaluation environments for sensor and satellite networks - Implementation approaches to ease transition between different evaluation methodologies - New measurement methodologies and infrastructures - Interference and spectrum usage measurements - Techniques for improving reproducibility of real-world testing - Measurement and characterization (modeling) of real-world aspects of wireless networks such as usage patterns, traffic, mobility and channel characteristics - Validation of existing simulation models, and results across different testbeds/evaluation methodologies - Testbeds and experiments in challenged wireless environments (e.g., underwater, underground) All regular workshop paper submissions will be handled electronically via the HotCRP system and should conform to the following requirements: 1. A maximum of 8 (eight) 8.5" x 11" pages (including figures, tables, and references). 2. The paper must be in two-column format, using 10-point font size or greater and reasonable margins. 3. The paper must be submitted in PDF format. Please submit papers by the May 30, 2014 deadline at the paper submission site: http://wintech14-submissions.cs.ucl.ac.uk ============= IMPORTANT DATES ============= Paper submissions due: May 30, 2014 Author notification: July 7, 2014 Camera-ready papers deadline: July 27, 2014 ================= WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS ================= Steering committee Edward Knightly, Rice University Sung-Ju Lee, Narus, Inc. Mahesh Marina, University of Edinburgh Peter Steenkiste, Carnegie Mellon University Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Roma Tor Vergata Workshop chairs Kyle Jamieson, University College London Tommaso Melodia, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Publicity chair Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Demo chair Paul Patras, University of Edinburgh Web Chair G. Enrico Santagati, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York -- Dimitrios Koutsonikolas Assistant Professor University at Buffalo, The State University of New York dimitrio(a)buffalo.edu ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [VNC'14] CFP: IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference 2014 3-5 December 2014, Paderborn, Germany
by Lars Wolf 25 Apr '14

25 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [VNC'14] CFP: IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference 2014 3-5 December 2014, Paderborn, Germany Datum: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 00:08:09 +0700 Von: wantanee viriyasitavat <wantaneev(a)gmail.com> An: tci-announce(a)COMPUTER.ORG ***************************************************** Call for Papers: IEEE VNC 2014 6th IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference December 3-5, 2014 | Paderborn, Germany http://www.ieee-vnc.org/ ***************************************************** Submit now using EDAS system: https://edas.info/listConferencesReview.php?c=17911 --------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES --------------------------------- - Paper Registration: August 18, 2014 5pm US EDT - Paper submission: August 25, 2014 5pm US EDT - Acceptance Notification: October 25, 2014 - Camera-Ready Paper: November 10, 2014 Vehicular networking and communication systems is an area of significant importance in our increasingly connected and mobile world. Effective vehicular connectivity techniques can significantly enhance efficiency of travel, reduce traffic incidents and improve safety, mitigate the impact of congestion, and overall provide a more comfortable experience. Towards this goal, the 2014 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC) seeks to bring together researchers, professionals, and practitioners to present and discuss recent developments and challenges in vehicular networking technologies, and their applications. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Applications of vehicular networks, including ITS - Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications - Vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications - Vehicle-to-X (V2X) communications (e.g., with bicyclists, pedestrians, etc.) - In-vehicle communications - Radio technologies for V2X (radio resource management, propagation models, antennas, etc.) - Protocols for vehicular networks (MAC / link layer, routing, mobility management, dissemination, transport, applications etc.) - Architectures, algorithms and protocols for data dissemination, processing, and aggregation in vehicular networks - Security, privacy, liability, and dependability in vehicular networks - Network and QoS management for vehicular networks - Simulation and performance evaluation techniques for vehicular networks - Results from experimental systems, testbeds, and pilot studies - Impact assessments of vehicular networks on safety, transportation efficiency, and the environment - Communications related to electric and hybrid vehicles - Heterogeneous networking approaches (multi-radio, multi-application) - Integration of V2V with on-board systems and networks --------------------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES --------------------------------- All paper submissions must be written in English and must be formatted in standard IEEE 2-column format. The mandatory IEEE template in Microsoft Word and LaTeX format can be found at the IEEE templates page. Only Adobe PDF files will be accepted for the review process. All submissions must be made electronically. Submission instructions will be provided at a later time. We will consider two different categories of papers: *Full papers* should describe novel research contributions and are limited in length to eight (8) printed pages (10-point font) including figures, tables, and references. Papers exceeding 8 pages will not be accepted at EDAS, nor reviewed at all. *Short papers* should be more visionary in nature and may report on work in progress without finished results. They are meant to present novel perspectives, so as to foster discussion about innovative directions and new points of view. They are limited to at most four (4) pages including figures, tables, and references, but might in many cases be even shorter. Accepted short papers will be included in the proceedings and there will be given (a shorter) time for oral presentation at the conference. Please note that the full paper and short paper categories target different kinds of contributions. *Different from previous editions of VNC, we will not move papers between submission categories:* a paper will either be accepted for the category where it has been submitted, or it will be rejected. Full papers will not be “downgraded” to short papers. Therefore, please be sure to carefully assess for yourself prior to submission which is the most suitable submission category for your paper, and to make sure that the presentation in the manuscript is well suited to the aims of this category. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings as well as on IEEE Xplore. --------------------------------- VENUE --------------------------------- IEEE VNC 2014 will take place at the Heinz Nixdorf Museums Forum, the world's largest computer museum, located in Paderborn, Germany. The Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum is the world’s biggest computer museum as well as a lively event venue. The Heinz Nixdorf Museums Forum is sponsored by the Stiftung Westfalen foundation set up by Heinz Nixdorf, which primarily promotes science and teaching, especially in the field of information technology. --------------------------------- General Chairs --------------------------------- Falko Dressler, University of Paderborn, Germany Onur Altintas, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan Technical Program Committee Chairs --------------------------------- Suman Banerjee, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA Björn Scheuermann, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany Local Arrangements --------------------------------- Debra Venedam, IEEE Finance Chair --------------------------------- Bruce Worthman, IEEE Publication Chair --------------------------------- David Eckhoff, University of Erlangen, Germany Publicity Chair --------------------------------- Wantanee Viriyasitavat, Mahidol University, Thailand Web Chair --------------------------------- Stefan Dietzel, University of Ulm, Germany Poster and Demo Chair --------------------------------- Elisabeth Uhlemann, Halmstad University, Sweden Hsin-Mu (Michael) Tsai, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Panel Chair --------------------------------- Fan Bai, General Motors, USA Keynote Chair --------------------------------- Mario Gerla, University of California at Los Angeles, CA, USA Steering Committee --------------------------------- Onur Altintas, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan Wai Chen, China Mobile Research Institute Geert Heijenk, University of Twente, The Netherlands Thomas Luckenbach, FOKUS, Germany Hyun Seo Oh, ETRI, South Korea Umit Ozguner, Ohio State University, U.S.A. Tadao Saito, Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo, Japan More info at: http://www.ieee-vnc.org/. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: [CFP] IEEE ITSC 2014
by Lars Wolf 25 Apr '14

25 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [CFP] IEEE ITSC 2014 Datum: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 08:22:19 -0700 (PDT) Von: IEEE ITSC2014 <ieeeitsc(a)gmail.com> Antwort an: ieeeitsc(a)gmail.com An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de CALL FOR PAPERS The 17th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (IEEE ITSC 2014) Hyatt Regency Qingdao, Qingdao, China October 8-11, 2014 http://www.itsc2014.org/ Conference contact: ieeeitsc(a)gmail.com The IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems is the annual flagship conference of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society. IEEE ITSC 2014 welcomes articles in the field of Intelligent Transportation Systems, conveying new developments in theory, analytical and numerical simulation and modeling, experimentation, advanced deployment and case studies, results of laboratory or field operational tests. IEEE ITSC 2014 is organized by the State Key Laboratory of Management and Control for Complex Systems at the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA). It will be held in Qingdao, a beautiful coastal city, home to Tsingtao beer, Mount Lao - one of the "cradles of Taoism," and numerous scenery & cultural attractions. ----------------------- TOPICS ----------------------- The technical areas include but are not limited to the following: - Artificial Transportation Systems - Advanced Public Transportation Management - Ports, Waterways, Inland navigation, and Vessel Traffic Management - Modeling, Simulation, and Control of Pedestrians and Cyclists - Air, Road, and Rail Traffic Management - ITS User Services - Emergency Management - Transportation Networks - Emissions, Noise, Environment - Management of Exceptional Events: Incidents, Evacuation, Emergency Management - Security Systems - Safety Systems - Commercial Vehicle Operations - Intelligent logistics - Sensing and Intervening, Detectors and Actuators - Data Management Systems - Communication in ITS - Cooperative Techniques and Systems - Intelligent Vehicles - Vision, and Environment Perception - Electric Vehicle Transportation Systems - Electronic Payment Systems - Intelligent Techniques in ITS - Traffic Theory for ITS - Modeling, Control and Simulation - Human Factors, Travel Behavior - ITS Field Tests and Implementation - Driver and Traveler Support Systems ----------------------- PAPER SUBMISSION ----------------------- Complete manuscripts in the PDF format must be electronically submitted for peer-review, following the standard IEEE conference proceedings format. Detailed submission instructions can be found on the conference website. DUE DATE: June 8, 2014. Special Sessions, Tutorials, and Workshops: Proposals for special sessions, tutorials, and workshops should be submitted via the conference submission website. DUE DATE: May 12, 2014. A "Best Paper Award" and a "Best Student Paper Award" will be conferred to the author(s) of a full paper presented at the conference, selected by the Awards Committee. Selected papers of exceptional quality will be invited for submission to a special issue of the IEEE Transactions on ITS or the IEEE ITS Magazine. Authors will be asked to revise their papers according to the standards of the Transactions or the Magazine. These papers will be subject to the Transactions' and Magazine's own peer-review process. ----------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------- Special session, tutorial and workshop proposals deadline: May 12, 2014 Paper submission deadline: June 8, 2014 Notification of acceptance: July 25, 2014 Camera-ready copy due: August 11, 2014 Please visit the conference website at http://www.itsc2014.org/ for details. IEEE ITSC 2014 will be held in conjunction with the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics (SOLI). General Chairs: Nanning Zheng Fei-Yue Wang Program Chairs: Daniel Zeng Christoph Stiller Azim Eskandarian Program Co-Chairs: Brendan Morris (North America) Javier Schanez Medina (Europe) Kyongsu Yi (Asia) Yibing Wang (Asia)

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Deadline Approaching: The First International Workshop on Recent Advances in WBANs Design and Deployment, for Real-time and Healthcare Applications (RA-WERHA 2014)
by Lars Wolf 24 Apr '14

24 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Deadline Approaching: The First International Workshop on Recent Advances in WBANs Design and Deployment,for Real-time and Healthcare Applications (RA-WERHA 2014) Datum: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 16:03:45 +0200 Von: Kacimi Rahim <kacimi(a)IRIT.FR> Antwort an: Kacimi Rahim <kacimi(a)IRIT.FR> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The First International Workshop on Recent Advances in WBANs Design and Deployment for Real-time and Healthcare Applications (RA-WERHA 2014) (http://csserver.ucd.ie/~sdjahel/RA-WERHA2014/main.html) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To be held in conjunction with The 39th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Sep. 8-11, 2014, Edmonton, Canada ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE The recent advances in wireless sensing technology have led to the emergence of a wide range of applications in different domains such as medical, sports, consumer electronics, social networking, and enterprise usage. E-health is recognized as the most important and promising among these applications for its potential for health monitoring of chronic illnesses, lifesaving in emergency situations, and its ability to provide round the clock healthcare to rural and disadvantaged areas. Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) are the key enabler of remote and in-hospital health monitoring and are expected to revolutionize the health and real-time body monitoring industry. WBAN technology has quickly attracted a lot of attention from researchers, practitioners and clinicians as well as mobile health related data managers. The main objective of WBAN is to provide cost-effective, flexible, and secure use of biotelemetry information and communication technologies to support both medical and non-medical applications. This technology enables ambient assisted living by providing more freedom to the elderly, disabled, and chronic illness sufferers. Moreover, it can be rapidly deployed in emergency and disaster situations facilitating faster and more accurate remote diagnosis of victims. WBAN technology unleashes the possibilities and potentials for personalized medicine which promises to revolutionize healthcare that will have a significant societal and economic impact and improve the citizens’ quality of life, particularly in future smart cities. However, WBAN applications present several challenges for the research community including: passive non-intrusive and power utilisation design issues, security and reliability with regards to the integrity of the acquired biotelemetry data and the real-time transmission of the monitored data using QoS aware techniques. Moreover, new emerging applications, which consider critical flows, are gaining more and more popularity in various activity domains. This workshop seeks to bring together leading academic and industrial researchers, practitioners, and clinicians to identify and discuss the major technical challenges and recent results related to WBANs based medical and non-medical applications. All are welcome to present and share their latest research findings, ideas, simulation tools and prototype test-beds at the 2014 RA-WERHA workshop. WORKSHOP TOPICS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Wearable and body sensor networks - Wireless biotelemetry sensor technologies - Emerging eHealth applications - Health monitoring, traffic characterization, and management - Future Network/Communications Infrastructures and Architectures for Healthcare - Energy Saving for Long Time Monitoring - Pervasive and ubiquitous computing on eHealth - MAC and Routing protocols design for WBANs - Practical Applications of e-Health - Intra and Inter WBAN communications - Storage and Display devices for eHealth - Telemedicine and mobile telemedicine - Distributed storage of WBANs data - Interference mitigation techniques in WBANs - QoS-mapping from Application level to Network and MAC levels - Cross-layer Designs for WBANs - QoS-oriented dynamic reconfiguration in WBANs - M-healthcare mobile social networks - Fault tolerant routing techniques in WBANs - Experimental prototypes and test-beds - Security and privacy concerns in WBANs ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline April 25, 2014 Acceptance notification May 30, 2014 Camera-ready version June 30, 2014 GENERAL CHAIRS Soufiene Djahel, University College Dublin, Ireland Rahim Kacimi, Paul Sabatier University, France John Murphy, University College Dublin, Ireland TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: Nikki Cranley, University College Dublin, Ireland Amit Pande, University of California Davis, USA André-Luc Beylot, INPT/ENSEEIHT, France PUBLICITY CHAIR Riadh Dhaou, INPT/ENSEEIHT, France TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Imad Jawhar, United Arab Emirates University, UAE Nikos Komnino, City University London, UK Zdenek Becvar, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic Faouzi Kamoun, Zayed University, UAE Amit Pande, University of California Davis, USA Nadjib Ait Saadi, University of Paris-Est, France Faycal Bouhafs, Liverpool John Moores University, UK Erdal Oruklu, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA Lyes Khoukhi, University of Troyes, France Hassine Moungla, University Paris Descartes, France Thomas Zinner, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Nafaâ Jabeur, German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech), Oman Gabriel-Miro Muntean, Dublin City University, Ireland Kashif Kifayat, Liverpool John Moores University, UK Farid Nait-Abdesselam, University Paris Descartes, France Zonghua Zhang, Institut Mines-Télécom/TELECOM Lille, France ______________________________________________________________ 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: The 3rd IEEE/TRB International Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo (ICCVE 2014) - Call for Papers & Speech Proposals
by Lars Wolf 24 Apr '14

24 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: The 3rd IEEE/TRB International Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo (ICCVE 2014) - Call for Papers & Speech Proposals Datum: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 12:34:40 +0000 Von: Committee <cn.x.w(a)ieee.org> An: Lars C Wolf <wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> The 3rd IEEE/TRB International Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo (ICCVE 2014) - Call for Papers & Speech Proposals Accepted and presented papers will be published in the ICCVE 2014 Conference Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore® as well as major indexing services. Substantially extended versions of top quality papers will also be considered for publication in special issues or special sections of the following IEEE journals: - IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics /(Curent IF: 5.165) /- IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems - IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine - IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine - IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification - IEEE Transportation Electrification Magazine - IEEE Systems Journal * The 3rd IEEE/TRB International Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo (ICCVE 2014)* November 3-7, 2014 | Vienna, Austria /*"The future of mobility enabled by Connected Automated Vehicles"*/ Conference website: http://www.iccve.org/ 2014 <http://www.iccve.org/2014> ______________________________ _ _ _ _________ Connected Vehicles is an emerging technical field which crosses multiple disciplines and industries including automotive, travel & transportation, information technology, communications, consumer electronics, industrial electronics, media & entertainment, energy & utilities, insurance, etc. By connecting vehicles with various devices, services and participants, we are able to make our mobility more enjoyable, sustainable and safe. Co-sponsored by over 20 societies and organizations, ICCVE 2014 is the world's premier Connected Vehicles conference that gathers all the relevant communities together. During the 5-day conference, experts, practitioners and policy makers from all around the world will present the latest innovations and advances on connected vehicles, share the experience and insights, forecast the trends and opportunities, and discuss the policy, economics and social implications. We are proudly and excitedly inviting you to participate in and enjoy this world-class event. The conference program will feature paper sessions and workshops, summits and industry forums, demos, exhibits, tutorials, and tours. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 1. Wireless Communications and Vehicular Networking 2. Mobile Internet, Mobility Internet and Internet of Things 3. Cooperative Driving, Intelligent and Autonomous Vehicles 4. Automotive Electronics and Automatic Control 5. Transportation and Connected Vehicles 6. Electric Vehicle and Transportation Electrification 7. Geographic, Spatial and Social Information Systems 8. Manufacturing and Product Safety Engineering in Connected Vehicles 9. Practices, Recommendations and Standards in Connected Vehicles 10. Policy, Economics and Social Implications of Connected Vehicles ** CALL FOR PAPERS ** Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers (6 pages) or digest papers (2 pages) for presentation at the conference and publication in the Proceedings. *Full Papers: *Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers (IEEE standard format, double column, 10-point font, US letter, 6 pages maximum with 2 additional pages allowed but at an extra charge) for presentation at the conference and publication in the Proceedings. *Digest Papers: *Authors are also invited to submit digest papers (IEEE standard format, double column, 10-point font, US letter, 2 pages) to showcase results recently obtained in industry or academia. Accepted digest papers will be presented at the conference and published in the Proceedings. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the ICCVE 2014 Conference Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore®. The ICCVE 2014 Conference Proceedings will also be submitted for indexing through INSPEC, and EI's Engineering Information Index, Compendex, and ISI Thomson's Scientific and Technical Proceedings, ISTP/ISI Proceedings, and Current Contents on Diskette, and Scopus. Substantially extended versions of top quality papers will also be considered for publication in special issues or special sections of the following IEEE journals: - /IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (Curent IF: 5.165)/ - /IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems/ - /IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine/ - /IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine/ - /IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification/ - /IEEE Transportation Electrification Magazine/ - /IEEE Systems Journal/ ------------------------------ ----------- Paper Submission Deadline: May 10, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: Jun 28, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: Jul 28, 2014 ------------------------------ ----------- ** INDUSTRY FORUMS - CALL FOR SPEECH PROPOSALS ** The ICCVE 2014 will hold Industry Forums designed to facilitate broad discussions on various aspects of Connected Vehicles. Speeches about technologies, practices, markets, policy, and social implications are all welcome. If you are interested in speaking at the ICCVE 2014 Industry Forums, please submit a simple proposal to our industry forums committee. Based on the submitted proposals, the committee will schedule forum sessions consisting of speeches and panel discussions. Each speech will be 20-30 min, depending on how full the agenda of a session would be. *Simple submission.* Too busy to write a detailed proposal? Don't worry. At this stage, you only need to send a simple email as your proposal to our industry forums committee (forums(a)iccve.org <mailto:forums@iccve.org>). Just include the following items in the plain-text proposal: - Title for the speech; - An abstract of the speech (no more than 200 words); - Name, affiliation, and email address of the speaker; - A short biography of the speaker. You will get a notification of acceptance in 10 working days, then you can start preparing your slides. *No copyright transfer.* You keep the copyright of your slides, so you can feel free to reuse them in part or in whole for other occasions. *Do not take the "Industry Forums" too literally.* You are not an industry person? It doesn't matter at all. Speakers from academia, industry and government are all welcome. ------------------------------ ----------- Proposal Submission Deadline: Jun 30, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: 10 working days after your submission ------------------------------ ----------- For more information, visit http://www.iccve.org/ 2014 <http://www.iccve.org/2014>.

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: ITC Workshop on Energy-efficiency, Programmability, Flexibility and Integration in Future Network Architectures (EPFI)
by Lars Wolf 24 Apr '14

24 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: ITC Workshop on Energy-efficiency, Programmability, Flexibility and Integration in Future Network Architectures (EPFI) Datum: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 10:24:00 +0200 Von: Alex Carrega <alessandro.carrega(a)UNIGE.IT> Antwort an: alessandro.carrega(a)UNIGE.IT An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ENERGY-EFFICIENCY, PROGRAMMABILITY, FLEXIBILITY AND INTEGRATION IN FUTURE NETWORK ARCHITECTURES (EPFI) co-located with the 26th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 26) September 9th-11th, 2014, Karlskrona, Sweden http://www.tnt-lab.unige.it/greennet/EPFI ************************************************** Paper Submission Deadline: May 10th, 2014 *************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------- SCOPE AND TOPICS ----------------------------- The focus of this workshop is on two of the hottest technological trends that will drive the evolution of the Internet: energy efficiency and software-defined networks. If jointly applied to the design of next-generation network devices and infrastructures, these concepts may revolutionize the network, as we know today, by introducing extreme flexibility, programmability, virtualization and customization of network functionalities and their integration within the "Cloud." On one hand, energy efficiency will be the key for the needed scalability to support "Big Data" and large-scale network infrastructures and Data-Centers. On the other hand, energy-efficient approach can take advantage of the network flexibility provided by Software-Defined approaches. The topics covered by the proposed workshop will include (but not limited to): - Evolution of Software Defined protocols and architectures; - Network programmability and energy-efficiency; - Traffic engineering for energy-efficient software defined networks; - Design of green programmable network devices; - Programmability for Network devices; - Energy efficient network integration with the cloud; - Green support for Big Data; - Green Data-Centers. Submissions are limited to 6 pages in IEEE conference format. Papers will appear in the conference proceedings and will be available on IEEE Xplore. Submissions are handled through the EDAS system. Upon final camera-ready paper submission, authors will need to sign an IEEE copyright form for each accepted paper to comply with IEEE regulations. IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------- Submission: May 10th, 2014 Notification of acceptance: May 31st, 2014 Camera Ready paper: June 8th, 2014 Workshop venue: September 12th, 2014 WORKSHOP CHAIRS ----------------------------- Roberto Bruschi (CNIT, Italy) Antonio Cianfrani (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy) Gregorio Procissi (University of Pisa, Italy) PROGRAM COMMITTEE (in progress) ---------------------------------- Tobias Hossfeld, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Joanna Kolodziej, Cracow University of Technology, Poland Leonardo Fialho, University of Texas at Austin, USA Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College London, UK Anastasios Zafeiropoulos, UBITECH, Greece Robert Birke, IBM, Switzerland Mariusz Kamola, NASK, Poland Constantinos Vassilakis, Greek Research and Technology Network (GRNET), Greece Carmen Guerrero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Aleksandra Smiljanić, Belgrade University, Serbia Stefano Secci, University Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, France Shaolei Ren, Florida International University, USA Paul J. Kühn, University of Stuttgart, Germany Filip Idzikowski, Technical University of Berlin, Germany ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] SPME 2014, First MOBICOM Workshop on Security and Privacy Aspects of Mobile Environments; Submit by May 25
by Lars Wolf 24 Apr '14

24 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] SPME 2014, First MOBICOM Workshop on Security and Privacy Aspects of Mobile Environments; Submit by May 25 Datum: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 18:23:13 +1000 Von: Olivier Mehani <olivier.mehani(a)NICTA.COM.AU> Antwort an: Olivier Mehani <olivier.mehani(a)NICTA.COM.AU> An: tccc-announce(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, Hawai, 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) ________________________________ The information in this e-mail may be confidential and subject to legal professional privilege and/or copyright. National ICT Australia Limited accepts no liability for any damage caused by this email or its attachments. ______________________________________________________________ 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 Feature Topic on Mobile Cloud Computing
by Lars Wolf 23 Apr '14

23 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Cfp: IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic on Mobile Cloud Computing Datum: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 09:44:17 +0200 Von: Xiaoming Fu <fu(a)CS.UNI-GOETTINGEN.DE> Antwort an: Xiaoming Fu <fu(a)CS.UNI-GOETTINGEN.DE> Organisation: University of Goettingen An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG (We appologize if you receive multiple copies of the Cfp.) IEEE Communications Magazine Call for Papers Feature Topic on *Mobile Cloud Computing* Mobile Cloud Computing refers to an infrastructure where both the data storage and the data processing occur outside of the mobile device. Mobile cloud applications move the computing power and data storage away from mobile phones and into the cloud, bringing applications and mobile computing not only to smartphone users but also to a much broader range of mobile subscribers. Cloud computing has emerged as the leading paradigm for cost efficient and reliable service provisioning.Today, the rich availability of energy-harvesting and resource-constrained mobile computing devices is beginning to converge with the great opportunity offered by the powerful cloud computing services hosted by virtualized data center resources. Although mobile applications, cloud computing, and data center networking techniques have been intensively investigated in the past couple of years, mobile cloud computing and mobile cloud networking have not raised the attention of the research community until recently. This Feature Topic precisely addresses recent advances in this aspect. Solicited topics include (but are not limited to): * Mobile cloud computing architectures, protocols and services * Energy efficiency in mobile cloud computing and networking * Energy management for mobile devices in mobile cloud computing * Resource and service management, scheduling, and migration in mobile cloud computing * Mobile cloud applications and service models * Mobile traffic characterization and measurements * Transport and higher layers in mobile cloud computing * Storage as Service in Mobile Cloud Computing * Security, Privacy, access control * Network on the fly, virtual control, virtual radio, isolation * Virtualization of mobile devices and mobile network infrastructures * Unified user and device mobility management * Quality of Experience and Service Level Agreements * Discovery of mobile cloud computing services, data and other resources * Situation-/Context-aware networking for mobile cloud computing * Exploring social networks and user collaboration for mobile cloud computing * Location-based mobile cloud applications and service models * Virtualization techniques for mobile cloud computing and services * Security, privacy and virus/malware issues in mobile cloud computing * Mobile cloud enabled Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) solutions * Personal cloud, ad hoc cloud, distributed cloud computing and service models * Cloudlets, mobile cloud sensing and crowdsourcing *Submission Guidelines:* Articles should be tutorial in nature and written in a style comprehensible 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 very 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 "March 2015/Mobile Cloud Computing" category. *Important Dates:* ** * *Manuscript submission deadline: July 15, 2014* * Decision notification: October, 2014 * Final manuscript deadline: January 2, 2014 * Publication:March 2015 *Guest Editors (contact email: *commag-si-mcs(a)cs.uni-goettingen.de <mailto:commag-si-mcs@cs.uni-goettingen.de>)** Xiaoming Fu University of Goettingen Stefano Secci University Pierre and Marie Curie Dijiang Huang Arizona State University Rittwik Jana AT&T Labs Research -- Prof. Dr. Xiaoming Fu http://user.informatik.uni-goettingen.de/~fu Computer Networks Group http://www.net.informatik.uni-goettingen.de/ Institute of Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics & Computer Science University of Goettingen E-Mail: fu(a)cs.uni-goettingen.de Goldschmidtstr. 7 Tel/Secr: +49-(0)551-39-1720 23/20 37077 Goettingen, Germany Fax: +49-(0)551-39-14416 ______________________________________________________________ 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 - 1st IEEE Workshop on Data Analysis for Social and Secure Smartphone Applications
by Lars Wolf 23 Apr '14

23 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP - 1st IEEE Workshop on Data Analysis for Social and Secure Smartphone Applications Datum: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 22:39:12 -0400 Von: Ziqian Dong <Ziqian.Dong(a)NYIT.EDU> Antwort an: Ziqian Dong <Ziqian.Dong(a)NYIT.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Dear colleagues, We would like to call your attention to the call for papers for the 1st IEEE Workshop on Data Analysis for Social and Secure Smartphone Applications below. CALL FOR PAPERS ================================================================= 1st IEEE Workshop on Data Analysis for Social and Secure Smartphone Applications (DASPhone 2014) Larnaca, Cyprus October 8-10, 2014 http://web.njit.edu/~rojasces/DASPhone.html EDAS submission: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=17955 ================================================================= In conjunction with The 10th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications, WiMob 2014 IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: June 15, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: July 25, 2014 Camera-ready Version Deadline: August 15, 2014 ABOUT DASPhone 2014 In recent years, smartphones have undertaken unprecedented spread through almost every community around the globe. At the same time, smartphones are becoming the overarching communications device, enabling the transport of personal and private information anywhere and anytime, and the creation of new social means of massive and personal communications. These capabilities also create security risks that need to be considered for allowing the continuous growth of mobile and smart applications. The objective of this workshop is to provide a forum to practitioners, researchers, and industry to discuss topics on data analysis, technologies, and research on approaches that enabling new paradigms for social networks, and security of data, devices, and infrastructure for smartphones. TOPICS OF INTEREST The Workshop is soliciting state-of-the-art research papers including the following topics, but not limited to: - Secure mobile protocols - Near Field Communications - New Secure Applications - Location services - Social Networking - Data analysis of social networks and mass communications - Secure Over-the-Air (OTA) services - Deployment Experiments - Billing, Ticketing, and Payment - Internet-of-Things on Smartphones - Smartphones and Cloud-Computing Interactions - Smartphone forensics - Mobile mesh network - Mobile and wearable applications on smartphones - Privacy protection of smartphones - Smartphone user experience PAPER SUBMISSION High-quality full papers which at the time of submission, are not under review and have not already been published or accepted for publication elsewhere are solicited. The first page should include the paper's title, the abstract, a list of keywords indicating the paper's topic area(s), the authors' full names, affiliations, and e-mail addresses. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and by the IEEE, and will be accessible via IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Authors are required to submit fully formatted papers (PDF), with graphs, images, and other special areas arranged as intended for the final publication. Papers should be written in English conforming to the IEEE standard conference format (8.5" x 11" - US letter, Two-Column). The final manuscript for publication will be limited to 6 IEEE pages (minimum 10-point font). Manuscripts must follow the IEEE standard conference format. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper has to register! at the regular rate (non-student). Each registration will cover one accepted paper. The IEEE WiMob Executive Committee reserves the right not to include in IEEE Explore the papers that are not presented at the conference. DASPhone 2014 is using the EDAS Conference Management System to manage the paper submission process. Submissions can be made https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=17955. Papers cannot be included in the conference proceedings without a completed IEEE Copyright Form. Authors can submit the Copyright Form electronically through EDAS. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Roberto Rojas-Cessa (New Jersey Institute of Technology) Ziqian (Cecilia) Dong (New York Institute of 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: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ACM Workshop on hot topics in wireless networks (HotWireless 2014)
by Lars Wolf 23 Apr '14

23 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ACM Workshop on hot topics in wireless networks (HotWireless 2014) Datum: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 22:02:10 +0000 Von: Srinivasan, Kannan <kannan(a)CSE.OHIO-STATE.EDU> Antwort an: Srinivasan, Kannan <kannan(a)CSE.OHIO-STATE.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Hi all, We are happy to announce the first ACM Workshop on hot topics in wireless networks, HotWireless 2014 (http://hotwireless.cs.umass.edu<http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fhotwireless.cs.umass.edu%2F&h=GA…>). This year, HotWireless will be co-held with MobiCom 2014 in Maui, Hawaii. Do you have a HOT, crazy and wild wireless idea that you would like to get feedback on? HotWireless is the place for you. Check out the call for papers for the special topics of interest for this year; http://hotwireless.cs.umass.edu/Calls.html<http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fhotwireless.cs.umass.edu%2FCalls…>. Kannan Srinivasan kannan(a)cse.ohio-state.edu Call For Papers -------------------- The 1st ACM Workshop on hot topics in wireless networks is focused on disruptive wireless technologies and systems that can enable orders of magnitude improvements in performance and novel wireless applications. Our goal is to provide a launching pad for bold and visionary ideas, and bring together experts in hardware, physical layer, and wireless systems to address core technical challenges in these emerging wireless technologies. Focus areas for this year include, but are not limited to, the following: * Backscatter (and other low power) communication for next-generation sensors * mmWave technologies (e.g. 30 GHz and 60 GHz) for substantial throughput at range * Highly directional transmissions for throughput and spatial reuse * Visible Light Communications * Nanoscale wireless for implantables and micro-sensors * Wirelessly powered devices * Dynamic spectrum sharing * Physical-layer Innovations * Cross-layer Wireless Networking * Sensing using Wireless Signals We solicit position papers of five or fewer pages that propose new directions of research in wireless, advocate disruptive ideas, report on noteworthy experience in an emerging area, or generate lively discussion around an important topic. In order to promote lively discussion, we encourage forward-looking submissions, as opposed to mature work. We also encourage submissions on new open wireless platforms that can bootstrap exploration of the design space by the broader wireless networking community. Important Dates * Abstract registration deadline: 6 June 2014 * Full paper submission deadline: 13 June 2014 * Authors notification: 11 July 2014 * Camera Ready: 27 July 2014 * Workshop: 11 September 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: CFP: Special Issue on Cloud Networking - IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing
by Lars Wolf 22 Apr '14

22 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP: Special Issue on Cloud Networking - IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing Datum: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 15:39:58 +1000 Von: Dzmitry Kliazovich <kliazovich(a)ieee.org> An: <tci-announce(a)COMPUTER.ORG> ============================================================ Special Issue on CLOUD NETWORKING IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing http://www.ieee-cloudnet.org/2014/TCC-SI-CloudNetworking.pdf ============================================================ Guest Editors: Dzmitry Kliazovich, Bernabe Dorronsoro, Pascal Bouvry, Albert Zomaya Editor-in-Chief: Rajkumar Buyya *** Call for Papers *** Cloud computing is entering our lives and changing the way people consume information dramatically. Clouds transform IT infrastructures with an emphasis on making them flexible, affordable, and capable of serving millions of users, satisfying their computing or storage demands. The design of early cloud computing systems has evolved from, and was dominated by, the concepts of cluster and grid computing. Currently, as the concepts of the cloud become advanced and mature, cloud networking and communication processes begin playing a central role. Cloud Networking has emerged as a promising direction for cost-efficient and reliable service delivery across data communication networks. The dynamic location of service facilities and the virtualization of hardware and software elements are stressing the communication network and protocols, especially when datacenters are interconnected through the Internet. The optimization of cloud networking can significantly increase system performance, reducing energy consumption and save costs not only inside individual data centers, but also globally, on the Internet scale. Developing novel network architectures would facilitate adoption of modular container-based data centers. Advancements in internetworking become key enabler for building hybrid clouds and federations of clouds. Service provisioning over heterogeneous connections and wireless links can enhance computational capacity and enrich application experience of mobile users. Efficient resource management and scheduling in data centers and cloud infrastructures is open research challenge that has to be addressed and novel architectures, telecommunication technologies, and protocols must be developed to ensure efficiency of future cloud computing systems. ================================= Topics ================================= The topics covered by this special issue include, but are not limited to: - Data Center Network Management, Reliability, Optimization - Distributed Data Center Architectures and Services, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS - Energy-Efficient Data Centers and Networks - Big Data Management - Internet Routing of Cloud Data - Virtual Ethernet Switching, Data Center Bridging - Cloud Traffic Characterization and Measurements - Intra-Cloud vs. Inter-Cloud Management - Cloud Traffic Engineering and Control-Plane Architectures - Green Data Centers and Cloud Networking - Security, Privacy, and Confidentiality in Cloud Networking - Virtualization of Network Equipment - Unified User and Machine Mobility Management - Data Flow Management and Load Balancing - Mobile Cloud Networking - Network Programmability, Software-Defined Networks - Cloud Federation and Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure - Storage Area Networks, Optical Interconnect, Fiber Channels - Content and Service Distribution ================================= Important Dates ================================= Full Paper Regular Submission Due: October 15, 2014 Extended versions of CLOUDNET 2014 Best Papers due: December 15, 2014 Notification of Results: March 15, 2015 Revisions Due: April 15, 2015 Notifications of Final Acceptance: May 15, 2015 Submissions of Final Revised Papers: June 15, 2015 ================================= Notes for Prospective Authors ================================= We are looking for novel outstanding high quality contributions. Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. All papers are refereed through a strict review process. A general guide for authors and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing journal website: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tcc When submitting your paper, please be sure to choose the special issue on Cloud Networking. ================================== Guest Editors ================================== Dr. Dzmitry Kliazovich, Dr. Bernabé Dorronsoro, Prof. Dr. Pascal Bouvry University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg {dzmitry.kliazovich, bernabe.dorronsoro, pascal.bouvry}(a)uni.lu Prof. Dr. Albert Zomaya The University of Sydney, Australia a.zomaya(a)usyd.edu.au _______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the tci-announce list, click the following link: https://cs-listserv.ieee.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=tci-announce&A=1

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Special issue: Security and Communication Networks (Wiley, JCR journal) SI on Trends in modern Information Hiding: techniques, applications and detection
by Lars Wolf 22 Apr '14

22 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Special issue: Security and Communication Networks (Wiley, JCR journal) SI on Trends in modern Information Hiding: techniques, applications and detection Datum: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 07:08:10 -0400 Von: Wojciech Mazurczyk <wmazurczyk(a)CYGNUS.TELE.PW.EDU.PL> Antwort an: Wojciech Mazurczyk <wmazurczyk(a)CYGNUS.TELE.PW.EDU.PL> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Dear Colleagues, Please consider submitting a paper to the following special issue. Security and Communication Networks (Wiley, JCR journal) SI on Trends in modern Information Hiding: techniques, applications and detection. IMPORTANT DATES - Manuscript submission: 1 May 2014 - Acceptance/rejection notification: before 1 August 2014 - Expected publication: 2015 CALL FOR PAPERS As the production, storage and exchange of information becomes more extensive and important in the functioning of societies, the problem of protecting the information from unintended and undesired usage becomes more complex. In modern societies, protection of information involves many interdependent technological and policy issues related to information confidentiality, integrity, anonymity, authenticity, utility, etc. Information Hiding techniques are receiving much attention today. Digital audio, video, and images are increasingly furnished with distinguishing but imperceptible marks, which may contain a hidden copyright notice or serial number, or even help to prevent unauthorised copying directly. Digital watermarking and steganography may protect information, conceal secrets, or are used as core primitives in digital rights’ management schemes. Alongside the abovementioned types of digital media steganography, currently the target of increased interest is Network Steganography – a part of Information Hiding focused on modern networks. It is a method of hiding secret data in users' normal data transmissions. Steganographic techniques arise and evolve with the development of network protocols and mechanisms, and are expected to be used in secret communication or information sharing. Presently, it becomes a hot topic due to the proliferation of information networks and multimedia services in networks and social networks. The purpose of establishing applications of Information Hiding may be varied – possible uses can fall into the category of legal actions or illicit activity. Frequently the illegal aspect is accentuated – starting from the criminal communication, through information leakage from protected systems, cyber weapon exchange, up to industrial espionage. Recently discovered malware like Duqu and Alureon point to the alleged utilization of Information Hiding techniques in botnets for covert communication in the C&C channels, which proves that Information Hiding poses important challenges to investigators. On the other side of the spectrum lie legitimate uses, which include circumvention of web censorship and surveillance, computer forensics (tracing and identification) and copyright protection (e.g. watermarking images). This special issue intends to present some of the most relevant ongoing research in the Information Hiding field. Topics include, but are not limited to the following: • Steganography and steganalysis (steganology) • Covert/subliminal channels • Traffic morphing • Watermarking (algorithms, security, and attacks) • Novel applications of Information Hiding • Information Hiding for digital forensics & counter forensics • Digital rights management • Emerging trends in Information Hiding • Fingerprinting and embedding codes • Lossless/reversible data hiding • Security metrics for Information Hiding • Side-information transmission through data hiding • Signal restoration/enhancement by data hiding • Theoretical aspects of information hiding Guest Editors - Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland - Krzysztof Szczypiorski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland - Hui Tian, National Huaqiao University, China Papers must be written in English and describe original research not published or currently under review by other journals or conferences. All relevant papers submitted will go through an external review process. Concerning the preparation of the manuscript, please refer to the “Instructions for Authors” page at the journal website, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%291939-0122/homepage… Further, the manuscript must be submitted through the online submission system: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/scn by selecting the corresponding track. When submitting papers, the authors should identify “Manuscript Type” as “Special Issue”, enter “Running Head” as “SCN-SI-066” and “Special Issue Title” as “Trends in modern Information Hiding: techniques, applications and detection”, respectively. Contributing authors might also be asked to review some of the papers submitted to this special issue. All papers will be rigorously reviewed based on the quality: original, high scientific quality, well organized and clearly written, sufficient support for assertions and conclusion, appropriate title, abstract includes important points of the paper, satisfactory English, pertinent references, clear tables and figures. ______________________________________________________________ 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 Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing Special Issue on Cyber Crime
by Lars Wolf 22 Apr '14

22 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Cfp: IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing Special Issue on Cyber Crime Datum: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 07:08:47 -0400 Von: Wojciech Mazurczyk <wmazurczyk(a)CYGNUS.TELE.PW.EDU.PL> Antwort an: Wojciech Mazurczyk <wmazurczyk(a)CYGNUS.TELE.PW.EDU.PL> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Dear Colleagues, Please consider submitting a paper to the following special issue on Cyber Crime for IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (JCR journal, IF=1.059). PDF version of the Cfp: http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/transactions/cfps/cfp_tdscsi_cc.pdf Submission schedule: - Manuscript submission: October 1st, 2014 - First notification date: January 10th, 2014 - Expected publication: 2015 Cyber crimes reflect the evolution of criminal practices that have adapted to the world of information and communication technologies. Cybercriminality has become a curse of the modern world with the potential to affect every one nationally and/or internationally. Individuals, companies, governments and institutions may become victims as well as (involuntary) helpers of cyber criminals. The inability to provide cyber-security can potentially have a tremendous socio-economic impact on global enterprises as well as individuals. The aim of this special issue is to bring together the research accomplishments provided by the researchers from academia and the industry. The other goal is to show the latest research results in the field of cyber crime. Prospective authors will be encouraged to submit related distinguished research papers on the subject of both: theoretical approaches and practical case reviews. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Cyber-crime science • Emerging cybercriminals techniques and countermeasures • Cyber forensics and anti-forensic procedures, techniques, tools and analysis • Cyber crime investigations & incident response • Active and passive cyber crime defense techniques, tools and mechanisms • Cybersecurity testbeds, tools, methodologies • Cyber threat modeling analysis, cyber risk and vulnerability assessment • Cyber warfare & cyber terrorism • Cybersecurity economic modeling and metrics • Cybersecurity standards, policy, law, and regulation • Legal, ethical and policy issues related to cyber crime • Human and behavioral issues in cyber crime • Network traffic analysis and modelling for cyber crime science • Deviant activities and crime patterns • Insider threat detection and prevention • Misuse of personal data and the right to online privacy Guest Editors - Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland - Thomas J. Holt, School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University, USA - Krzysztof Szczypiorski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Papers must be written in English and describe original research not published or currently under review by other journals or conferences. All relevant papers submitted will go through an external, rigorous review process. Submissions should be sent according to the instructions available at: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tdsc/author ______________________________________________________________ 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] ICNP'2014: CALL FOR PAPERS
by Lars Wolf 22 Apr '14

22 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ICNP'2014: CALL FOR PAPERS Datum: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 17:26:27 -0400 Von: Wenye Wang <wwang(a)NCSU.EDU> Antwort an: Wenye Wang <wwang(a)NCSU.EDU> Organisation: NC State University An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************** The 22nd IEEE International Conference on Network Protocol The Research Triangle, North Carolina October 21-24, 2014 http://icnp14.cs.unc.edu/ ****************************************************************************** The IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP) is a premier conference on computer networks and network protocols. The conference scope includes all areas of computer networks and network protocols. Topics of interests include but are not limited to: *Network protocol design, specification, verification, and analysis *Software defined networking *Network protocol implementation, testing, and measurement *Network management *Protocols for specific applications *Traffic engineering *Network architectures and high performance algorithms *Network virtualization *Measurement, simulation, and modeling of operational networks *Multicast, broadcast, and anycast *Fault-tolerance, survivability, and troubleshooting of networking systems *Network security and privacy *Peer to peer, overlay, and content distribution networks *Cross-layer design and optimization *Resource allocation, management, Quality of Service *Enterprise networks *Wireless, RFID, mobile, ad-hoc, vehicular, and sensor networks *Cloud computing *Operating system and host support for networking *Information centric networking *Networking issues for emerging applications *Energy aware networking *Routing, switching, and addressing *Online social networks *Datacenter and storage area networks *Network economics This year, ICNP solicits two types of papers: regular papers of at most 12 pages each, and concise papers of at most 6 pages each. A regular paper describes an important research project that has been completed, whereas a concise paper describes a significant contribution in a research project that may still be in progress. Thus, the completed version of any concise paper can be submitted and published in another venue at a later year. Regular papers and concise papers will have different submission and notification deadlines and they will be reviewed by different sets of TPC members. Submission policy for both regular and concise papers: 1. All papers should adhere to the IEEE Computer conference paper format (IEEEtran.cls) and the font size should be no smaller than 10 pt. 2. ICNP uses a double-blind review process. The identity of authors and referees will not be revealed to each other. To ensure double-blind reviewing, author names and affiliations should not appear in the paper; bibliographic references should be made in such a way as to preserve author anonymity; acknowledgement with identifiable names and funding sources should be removed. Note that own work should be cited as a third person. Papers violating this double-blind review policy will be rejected without review. Note that double-blind violations are sometimes not discovered until well into the review process, so authors are strongly advised to heed the above requirements at submission time. 3. Authors need to indicate in their submissions all TPC members with whom they have conflicts of interest. An author and a TPC member have a conflict of interest if one of the following conditions is satisfied: (1) They are currently employed at the same institution, or they have been employed at the same institution within the last 12 months, or they are going to be employment at the same institution within the next 6 months. (2) The author and the TPC member had an advisor-advisee relationship. (3) The author and the TPC member have collaborated on a project, a publication, or a grant proposal within the past 4 years. (4) The author and the TPC member have family relationship or are close personal friend. Authors should not improperly identify TPC members as conflicts to avoid individuals who might review their papers. 4. At least one author of an accepted paper, whether regular or concise, is expected to register at the full rate of the conference and to present the paper at the conference, in order for the paper to appear in the conference proceedings and the IEEE digital library. Papers not presented by an author at the conference will not appear in the IEEE digital library. Integrity policy for both regular and concise papers: ICNP strictly enforces the following integrity policies. Authors violating these policies will cause their submissions to be rejected without review. Furthermore, ICNP may take action against individuals who have engaged in such violation; example actions include, but are not limited to, contacting the institutions of the authors and publicizing the details of the case. 1. Submitted papers should not be previously published nor under review by another conference or journal. In some cases, the ICNP chairs may share information about submitted papers with other conference chairs and journal editors to ensure the integrity of papers under consideration. 2. Authors are prohibited from informing any TPC member of any identifiable information (such as titles) of their submissions. Important dates for regular papers: Paper Submission May 9, 2014, 11:59 PM EST Acceptance Notification July 4, 2014, 11:59 PM EST Camera Ready Version Aug 15, 2014, 11:59 PM EST Important dates for concise papers: Paper Submission May 23, 2014, 11:59 PM EST Acceptance Notification July 4, 2014, 11:59 PM EST Camera Ready Version Aug 15, 2014, 11:59 PM EST General Chairs: Jasleen Kaur, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA George Rouskas, North Carolina State University, USA Program Chairs: Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas at Austin, USA Alex Liu, Michigan State University, USA Steering Committee: Kevin Almeroth, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Ken Calvert (Chair), University of Kentucky, USA Sonia Fahmy, Purdue University, USA Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas at Austin, USA Timothy G. Griffin, University of Cambridge, UK Teruo Higashino, Osaka University, Japan David Lee, Ohio State University, USA K. K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T Labs Research, USA Krishan Sabnani, Bell Laboratories, USA Publicity Chairs: James Martin, Clemson University, USA (jmarty(a)clemson.edu) Wenye Wang, North Carolina State University, USA ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/ ______________________________________________________________ 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] SmartHealthSys 2014 CfP: ACM UbiComp International Workshop on Smart Health Systems and Applications
by Lars Wolf 21 Apr '14

21 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] SmartHealthSys 2014 CfP: ACM UbiComp International Workshop on Smart Health Systems and Applications Datum: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 23:36:27 -0700 Von: Hassan Ghasemzadeh <hassan(a)EECS.WSU.EDU> Antwort an: Hassan Ghasemzadeh <hassan(a)EECS.WSU.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ************************************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS ACM UbiComp International Workshop on Smart Health Systems and Applications SmartHealthSys 2014 Submissions due May 19, 2014 http://smarthealth.eecs.wsu.edu Sunday, September 14, 2014 Seattle, Washington, United States In conjunction with the ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing ************************************************************************************* The ACM UbiComp International Workshop on Smart Health Systems and Applications is a forum for researchers and developers from academia and industry in the area of smart health to present results and discuss ways to advance the field. The workshop will focus on wireless, connected, and mobile health research as a multidisciplinary area spanning computer science and engineering, electrical engineering, biomedical engineering, nursing, medicine, and public health. The workshop will include presentations of theoretical and experimental research, prototyping efforts, case studies and advances in technology related to smart health systems, applications, and services. In addition to traditional topics in this area, the workshop features a special focus on scalable smart health. This topic area aims to discuss and present innovations that address challenges associated with large-scale adoption of smart health technologies in end-user settings and uncontrolled environments. Smart health inherently integrates ideas, tools, and expertise from a variety of disciplines. We would like to facilitate discussions between researchers with diverse perspectives in order to more greatly enhance future work in the area. We seek papers presenting significant and novel research results on emerging smart health systems. We especially encourage submissions that present novel device design, system development, algorithm design, experimentation, field studies, and creative use of technologies in addressing healthcare challenges. We invite submissions on a wide range of smart health research including but not limited to: DEVICES, SYSTEMS & INFRASTRUCTURES FOR SMART HEALTH * Medical device prototypes for diagnosis/prevention * Wearable and implantable sensors * Disposable and cost-effective electronics * Systems for health promotion and disease prevention * Body sensor networks * Smart environments for health * Remote patient monitoring * Mobile health technologies * Data management * Interface with medical data systems such as electronic health records ALGORITHMS & SOFTWARE FOR SMART HEALTH * Signal processing and pattern recognition * Machine learning and clinical decision support * Health informatics * Algorithms for security and safety * Communication protocols and algorithms * Context-Aware Sensing * Algorithms for anomaly detection * Human-computer interaction SCALABLE SMART HEALTH * Reliability, security, and data uncertainty challenges * Data collection in the wild * Collecting ground truth data in unstructured environments * Approaches for deployment and validation of smart health systems in the wild * Models for benchmarking and validation * Patient-centered design approaches * Interoperability of smart health technologies and existing medical data systems * Techniques to enhance compliance * Models to assess impact of the technology on healthcare cost * Novel applications of smart health in chronic diseases management * Clinical studies and field validation techniques * Novel experimental testbeds * Algorithms and frameworks for seamless sensing SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Authors need to submit their papers online at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smarthealthsys2014 by the submission deadline. Authors will need to register their names if not already in the system, and select the SmartHealthSys 2014 workshop. They can then submit their paper as a PDF file. The paper should not exceed five pages and should follow the SIGCHI Extended Abstract format (templates are available at http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform). Accepted papers must be presented at the workshop and will be published in the UbiComp 2014 adjunct proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: May 19, 2014 Acceptance notification: June 20, 2014 Camera ready version: June 30, 2014 Workshop date: September 14, 2014 WORKSHOP WEBSITE For more information, please visit the workshop website at http://smarthealth.eecs.wsu.edu ORGANIZERS * Hassan Ghasemzadeh, Washington State University * Diane Cook, Washington State University * Misha Pavel, Northeastern University * Parisa Rashidi, University of Florida * Roozbeh Jafari, University of Texas at Dallas * Marjorie Skubic, University of Missouri * Michael Ong, University of California Los Angeles * George Demiris, University of Washington TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Nirmalya Roy, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA * Jesse Hoey, University of Waterloo, Canada * Maureen Schmitter-Edgecombe, Washington State University, USA * Jeonggil Ko, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea * Mohammad Pourhomayoun, University of California Los Angeles, USA * Alex Mihailidis, University of Toronto, Canada * Matthew E. Taylor, Washington State University, USA * Thai Le, University of Washington, USA * Omid Dehzangi, University of Texas at Dallas, USA * Mi Zhang, Cornell University, USA * Sunghoon Lee, University of California Los Angeles, USA * Mihail Popescu, University of Missouri, USA * Krishna Venkatasubramanian, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA * Jim Keller, University of Missouri, USA * Aaron Crandall, Washington State University, USA * Kasper Hallenborg, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark *** Additional committee members TBA ______________________________________________________________ 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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