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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CfP: The 1st Int. Workshop on Robotic Sensor Networks - part of CPSWEEK -
by Lars Wolf 29 Jan '14

29 Jan '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CfP: The 1st Int. Workshop on Robotic Sensor Networks - part of CPSWEEK - Datum: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 17:14:13 +0100 Von: Luca Mottola <luca(a)SICS.SE> Antwort an: Luca Mottola <luca(a)SICS.SE> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Call for Papers: The 1st Int. Workshop on Robotic Sensor Networks - part of CPSWEEK - ==================================================================== 14 April 2013 Berlin (Germany) http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/faculty/kdantu/rsn14/ Recent developments in sensing and actuation technology, along with the miniaturization of computing and communication, have led to the development of commodity robot technology such as hobby drones and robot toolkits. These platforms are bringing sensing and actuation at places where traditional technology does not reach; for example, for aerial pollution monitoring or for disaster management in remote areas. This novel class of cyber-physical systems (CPS) take many of the design, implementation, and validation issues of traditional CPSs to an extreme. Control, sensing, estimation, and algorithms for localization, mapping, navigation, and exploration of individual robots are needed to govern their movements. The timing aspects of vehicle operation are key to provide run-time guarantees about performance. The software design and implementation must lead to provably correct execution. Noisy or inaccurate information sensed by the robots must be properly handled to ensure an accurate understanding of the environment. Research efforts to address the issues above, while related, have previously progressed independently with little cross-fertilization across diverse disciplines such as robotics, real time systems, signal processing, and software development. The goal of this workshop is to create a platform where researchers from different communities can get together to better understand the latest developments in these related fields as well as to establish connections for future interdisciplinary work. The workshop intends to provide a platform to enable such cross fertilization, to ultimately speed up the development of the field and to foster rich interdisciplinary work in the future. Particularly, co-location with the Cyber-Physical Systems week will be an asset in this regard. CPSWEEK is the premiere CPS event that brings together five top conferences from complementary areas such as Embedded Systems, Real-time Systems, Sensor Networks, Hybrid Systems, and Networked Systems. To build the needed interdisciplinary work ultimately necessary to the development of the field, the workshop seeks technical contributions describing original, previously unpublished results in all topics related to the design of robotic sensor networks, including works across two or more of the following topic areas: * Low-power communication in robot networks * Programming of robot swarms * Sensing coverage using robotic swarms * Task allocation * Distributed sensing * Coordination in robot swarms * Verification and validation * Distributed planning and navigation * Novel applications * Experience reports Important dates: Submission deadline: Feb 14, 2014. Notifications : March 7, 2014. Camera ready : March 15, 2014. Workshop : Apr 14, 2014, at 2pm. Workshop keynote: Prof. Davide Scaramuzza from the University of Zurich, Robotics and Perception Group, will give the opening keynote about “Vision- Controlled Micro Aerial Vehicles: From Calm Navigation to Aggressive Maneuvers” Submission Guidelines: We invite to submit short papers in PDF format, of at most 4 pages in length including figures, tables, and references, in two-column format, and using a minimum of 10-pt font. Suitable templates are available at the workshop website. Workshop Organizers: Karthik Dantu, University at Buffalo, USA Luca Mottola, Politecnico di Milano and SICS Swedish ICT Pei Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Program Committee: Filippo Arrichiello (UNICAS, Italy) Peter Corke (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) Marco Dorigo (Universite Libre Bruxelles, Belgium) Andrea Gasparri (Universita degli Studi "Roma Tre", Italy) Ramiro Martinez (University of Seville, Spain) Anthony Rowe (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Michael Rubenstein (Harvard, USA) Brian Sadler (ARL, USA) ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] WiNMee 2014: Call for Papers (NEW DEADLINE)
by Lars Wolf 29 Jan '14

29 Jan '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] WiNMee 2014: Call for Papers (NEW DEADLINE) Datum: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 17:20:11 -0500 Von: Stefano Basagni <basagni(a)ECE.NEU.EDU> Antwort an: Stefano Basagni <basagni(a)ECE.NEU.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG (Sorry for multiple receptions of this e-mail.) *** NEW DEADLINE: THU FEBRUARY 6 2014 *** ================================================================================ CALL FOR PAPERS WiNMee 2014 The 10th International Workshop on Wireless Network Measurements and Experimentations (In conjunction with WiOpt 2014.) ================================================================================ http://www.hanalab.org/wiopt2014/w4-winmee.html SCOPE --------------------------- The explosion of both wireless technologies and applications as well as the increasing number of radios and frequency bands available demand an understanding of in-field performance to design the next generation of wireless systems. Complex channel properties such as multipath, delay spread, and Doppler effects prevent even the most complex channel models from exactly characterizing repeatable in-situ behavior. Abstract models of devices and energy storage, as well as emerging paradigms such as energy harvesting enabled systems, make estimation of system performance and lifetime quite challenging unless supported by field experiments. To better understand the potential of novel paradigms and ideas, it is therefore imperative to evaluate these ideas in the field via empirical measurement. While analytical and simulation-based approaches are useful, they are often limited by the simplistic modeling of the wireless protocols and devices, and by the varying and error-prone wireless channel. Even slight misunderstandings can cause drastic performance differences in various research avenues from cognitive spectral sensing to spatial reuse in large-scale network planning to lifetime and amount of tasks which can be performed by Internet-of-Things devices. As a response to these limitations, the need for experimental wireless network measurements has gained wide recognition in the networking research community. WiNMee 2014 is the tenth edition in the International Workshop on Wireless Network Measurements series that began in 2005, and is intended to bring together researchers in the field of experimental wireless networking and serve as a forum for discussing advances and challenges in experimental wireless network measurements and experimentation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Experience and measurements from building, designing and/or operating production and research wireless networks * Measurement and characterization of wireless network traffic such as WLANs, cellular networks (including smartphone and mobile application traffic characteristics), wireless home networks, vehicular ad hoc networks, cyber physical and sensing systems * Experimental validation of network simulators * Experimental driven mobile social network and mobility models * Measurement-based network management and troubleshooting * Experiences and challenges with wireless measurements, including novel measurement techniques * Methodologies for validating wireless test-bed results and improving the repeatability of tests, simplifying experiment setup and reconfiguration * Methodologies for measuring and characterizing heterogeneous wireless networks * Techniques and experiences with collecting, archiving, anonymizing, analyzing and sharing wireless measurement data * Techniques and experimental results on performance measurements of cognitive radio systems, cyber physical and sensing systems, WLAN and VANET, cellular systems * Prediction and inference of user access, demand and mobility; estimation and prediction of energy availability * Software tools for building and/or managing wireless test-beds * Spectrum utilization measurements techniques in spectrum sharing and cognitive radio networks SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS --------------------------- The workshop seeks novel, previously unpublished papers, which are not currently under review by another conference, workshop, or journal. All submissions should be in PDF format, written in English with a maximum paper length of six printed pages (IEEE Transactions style double-column format, 10pt font size), including figures. The paper should include a brief abstract of up to 150 words. The submission will be handled via EDAS at http://edas.info/N16027. The accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and will be available via the IEEE Xplore website. Please refer to workshop website for details: http://www.hanalab.org/wiopt2014/w4-winmee.html. IMPORTANT DATES --------------------------- Full paper due: February 6th, 2014 (firm deadline) Author notification: March 1st, 2014 Camera ready due: March 15th, 2014 Workshop: May 12th, 2014 COMMITTEE --------------------------- Workshop Co-Chairs: * Joseph Camp, Southern Methodist University, USA. * Chiara Petrioli, Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza," Italy. Publicity Chair * Stefano Basagni, Northeastern University, USA. Web Chair * Dora Spenza, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza," Italy. Laetus deget cui licet in diem dixisse: Vixi. -- Stefano Basagni, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Computer Engineering Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering 312 Dana Research Center Northeastern University 360 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA 02115 Tel. 617 373 3061, Fax 617 373 8970 E-mail: basagni(a)ece.neu.edu *** http://www.ece.neu.edu/faculty/basagni/ *** ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: Special Session on VANETs and ITS @ WONS 2014 - Deadline approaching
by Lars Wolf 28 Jan '14

28 Jan '14

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Claudio Ettore Casetti <casetti(a)POLITO.IT> Gesendet: 28. Januar 2014 18:39:41 MEZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: Special Session on VANETs and ITS @ WONS 2014 - Deadline approaching CALL FOR PAPERS SPECIAL SESSION ON VANETS AND ITS @ WONS 2014 11th IEEE/IFIP Annual Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services WONS 2014 April 2-4, 2014, Obergurgl, Austria (http://2014.wons-conference.org) As vehicle on-board electronics become increasingly sophisticated and no longer restricted only to luxury cars, the stage is set for vehicular communication to enhance our driving experience. The primary goal is, of course, to increase the cooperation among vehicles, roadside systems and traffic control centers, for greater road safety. However, social and cloud applications for drivers and passengers alike are envisioned to be more and more tightly integrated with the vehicle on-board systems, as well as with the mobile devices carried by passengers. Following the spirit of the WONS conference, the Special Session on VANETs and ITS will cover all research topics related to vehicular networking technologies, applications, systems and services, and, in particular: Medium access control protocols Multi-channel organization and operation Communication protocol design and network management System architecture Safety and comfort applications Cooperative Awareness applications V2X communication Simulation frameworks and field operational testing Security and privacy Social and cloud applications for vehicles Wireless in-car networks DSRC systems for vulnerable road users (pedestrians, road workers, bicycles, etc.) Automated driving and communication SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Submitted papers must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under current review by another conference or journal. Authors are invited to submit double-column papers (up to 8 pages) with a font size no smaller than 10pt. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper at the conference. Papers for the special session must be submitted through EDAS at the following link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=16239&track=51671 IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------------------------------- * Paper Submission: January 31, 2014 * Notification: February 28, 2014 * Camera Ready Due: March 10, 2014 * Conference: April 2-4, 2014 ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Abstracts due this Friday, Jan. 31: CFP: IEEE DCOSS 2014 (25-27 May 2014, Marina Del Rey, California, USA)
by Lars Wolf 28 Jan '14

28 Jan '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Abstracts due this Friday, Jan. 31: CFP: IEEE DCOSS 2014 (25-27 May 2014, Marina Del Rey, California, USA) Datum: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 09:46:43 +0100 Von: Animesh Pathak <animesh.pathak(a)INRIA.FR> Antwort an: Animesh Pathak <animesh.pathak(a)INRIA.FR> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG =================================================================================== The 10th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (IEEE DCOSS) http://www.dcoss.org/ Marina Del Rey, California May 25 - 27, 2014 =================================================================================== Abstract Registration Deadline January 31, 2014 Paper Submission Deadline February 7, 2014 Acceptance Notification April 2, 2014 Camera Ready Deadline April 16, 2014 Early Registration Deadline April 29, 2014 =================================================================================== Distributed sensor systems have become a highly active research area due to their potential for providing diverse new capabilities applications. The focus of the IEEE DCOSS conference is on distributed computing issues in large scale networked sensor systems (including algorithms and applications, systems design techniques and tools, and in-network signal and information processing). The conference normally features three tracks on Algorithms, Systems, and Signal Processing. In DCOSS 2014, the special track is 'Social Networks and Crowdsensing'. All accepted papers will be included in the symposium proceedings, which will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services and submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate current research on computational aspects of distributed sensor systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Social networks and crowdsensing * Sensors for Smart Grid systems, green networks and sustainability * Computation and programming models * Energy models, minimization, awareness * Distributed collaborative information processing * Detection and tracking * Theoretical performance analysis complexity, correctness, scalability * Abstractions for modular design * Fault tolerance and security * Languages, operating systems * Task allocation, reprogramming and reconfiguration * Dynamic resource management * Scalable, heterogeneous architectures (node and system-level) * Middleware interfaces, communication and processing primitives * Design, simulation and optimization tools for deployment and operation * Design automation and application synthesis techniques * Closed-loop control for sensing and actuation * Case studies lessons from real world deployments * Network coding and compression =================================================================================== General Chair: Bhaskar Krishnamachari, University of Southern California, USA Technical Program Co-Chairs: Lothar Thiele, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Mingyan Liu, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA Program Vice Co-Chairs: Algorithms and Performance Analysis Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy Systems and Applications Kay Roemer, TU Graz, Austria Signal Processing and Information Theory Azadeh Vosoughi, University of Central Florida, USA Social Networks & Crowdsensing Karl Aberer, EPFL, Switzerland =================================================================================== -- Animesh Pathak Research Scientist ARLES Project-team Inria Paris-Rocquencourt web: https://who.rocq.inria.fr/Animesh.Pathak/ email: Animesh.Pathak(a)inria.fr tel: +33 1 39 63 59 37 ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE Internet of Things Journal Special Issue on Internet of Things for Smart and Connected Health
by Lars Wolf 27 Jan '14

27 Jan '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE Internet of Things Journal Special Issue on Internet of Things for Smart and Connected Health Datum: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 19:29:27 +0000 Von: Dalei Wu <daleiwu(a)MIT.EDU> Antwort an: Dalei Wu <daleiwu(a)MIT.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple postings. # CALL FOR PAPERS # IEEE Internet of Things Journal Special Issue on Internet of Things for Smart and Connected Health A PDF version of this CFP can be downloaded at: <http://iot-journal.weebly.com/uploads/1/8/8/0/18809834/ieee_iot_journal_si_…> A joint publication of IEEE Sensors Council, IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Signal Processing Society # Scope of Special Issue # Smart and connected health (SCH) is the multidisciplinary technology to provide preventive or remote treatments by utilizing digital heath information structure such as body sensor networks and smart techniques such as from Data to Knowledge to Decisions. It will enable preventive care, clinic-centric to patient-centered practice by applying diverse Internet of Things (IoT) technologies in sensors, computing, networking and communication, and can allow the individuals to participate in their own care. Future SCH will be realized by providing rich medical information to each individual through replacing infrequent, clinic-based measurements with unobtrusive, continuous sensing, monitoring and assessment. The development of SCH will play a key role in the modern society to meet the broad goals of medical applications. However, significant challenges still remain in the area. For example, lack of medical baseline data for each particular individual. The IoT technology such as continuous sensing mobile communication can be employed to create individualized baselines. The theme of the special issue (SI) is especially focused on the two major aspects of IoT for SCH: (1) monitoring and assisting individuals utilizing smart systems including sensors, devices, and robotics, (2) an interoperable digital health information infrastructure to increase medical/health information availability and use. The outputs of SCH with IoT could significantly improve a person's outcomes and quality of life. Findings from the SI will provide support for enabling IoT to move the focus from disease to health and wellbeing at the individual, system, and organizational level in many SCH applications. We encourage submissions on theoretical, practical, as well as experimental studies, from both academia and industry, related to all aspects of IoT for SCH. Topics of interests include (but are not limited to) the following categories: * Digital Health Information Infrastructure for SCH * Healthcare Applications of Body Area Networks * Communication Protocols and Algorithms for SCH * Medical Sensors, Devices and Robotics * Privacy, Security and Trust of Medical Systems * Computer-Aided Diagnosis * Data To Knowledge To Decisions for SCH * Data Visualization and Intelligent Integration for Decision-Making * Mobile Social Sensing for Wireless Health * Bioimaging * Integrated Systems for Telemedicine * Clinical Practice and Technology Development * Cloud-Assisted Medical Cyber-Physical Systems * Body Area Networks for Sports Applications and Systems * Mobile Computing for Smart Health and Well Being * Nano-Scale Communications and Networking for SCH * Smart Health and Big Data * Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Robustness of Healthcare Systems # Important Dates # Submissions Deadline: May 15th, 2014 First Reviews Due: August 15th, 2014 Revision Due: September 15th, 2014 Second Reviews Due/Notification: August 15th, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: November 30th, 2014 Publication Date: Jan 15th, 2015 # Submission # The special issue seeks submission of papers that present novel original results and findings on Security for IoT. 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 # Honggang Wang, Univ. of Massachusetts, Dartmouth Roozbeh Jafari, University of Texas at Dallas Gang Zhou, College of William and Mary Krishna Kumar Venkatasubramanian, WPI Jinyuan Stella Sun, University of Tennessee # SI Publicity Chair # Dalei Wu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Email: daleiwu(a)mit.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: [tciin] CFP: The Second International Workshop on Vehicular Traffic Management for Smart Cities (VTM 2014)
by Lars Wolf 27 Jan '14

27 Jan '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [tciin] CFP: The Second International Workshop on Vehicular Traffic Management for Smart Cities (VTM 2014) Datum: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 08:59:15 +0000 Von: Soufiene Djahel <sdjahel(a)gmail.com> An: tciin.isat(a)u-bourgogne.fr Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Second International Workshop on Vehicular Traffic Management for Smart Cities (VTM 2014) (http://csserver.ucd.ie/~sdjahel/VTM2014/VTM.html) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To be held in conjunction with The 2014 IEEE 79th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2014-Spring), 18-21 May 2014, Seoul, Korea ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------- The rapid growth of the number of cars on the roads has created a plethora of challenges for road traffic management authorities such as, traffic congestion, increasing number of accidents, air pollution, etc. Over the last decade, researchers from both industry and academia have focused their efforts on exploiting advances in sensing and communication technologies to make the existing road Traffic Management Systems (TMSs) more efficient. Their main goal is to improve the traveler’s safety, shorten the travel time and reduce the environmental impact. Road traffic management for smart cities involves monitoring the actual traffic situation in real-time (including volumes, speeds, incidents, etc.) and then controlling or influencing the flow using that information in order to reduce traffic congestion, deal efficiently with incidents and provide accurate and reliable traffic information and prediction to both drivers and authorities. Moreover, it is foreseen that future smart cities will provide faster and secure emergency service delivery by granting proper traffic privileges to emergency vehicles. This workshop seeks to bring together researchers, scientists and engineers from various research communities, as well as practitioners and administrators who face the challenges of traffic management in smart cities. They are all welcome to present and discuss their latest research findings, ideas, simulation tools and applications at the 2014 VTM workshop. Topics of Interest ------------------ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Vehicular traffic management • Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) protocols for smart cities • Data sensing and gathering techniques in urban environments • Mobile sensing (privacy, trust management and security issues) • Data fusion and integration for traffic management systems (techniques, algorithms, data types, etc.) • Distributed simulations for large scale urban environments • Route planning protocols and road traffic prediction mechanisms • Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) and VANETs applied to traffic management systems in smart cities • Mobility and vehicular traffic measurement, modeling, and simulation • Security and QoS issues for ITS applications • V2X feasibility over LTE networks • M2M communication for data collection in road environment • Mobile applications for intelligent traffic management • Deployment issues for smart infrastructure in urban areas • Vehicular Sensor Networks (VSNs) applications for road traffic management • Decision making tools for road traffic management • Electric vehicles All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the VTM2014 workshop and made available through IEEE Xplore. Important Dates --------------- Submission deadline ------ 10 February 2014 Acceptance notification ------ 15 March 2014 Camera-ready version ------ 24 March 2014 Keynote speakers ---------------- Prof. Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, L3i Lab, University of La Rochelle, France Dr. Onur Altintas, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan Submission guidelines --------------------- The VTM workshop follows the formatting guidelines of IEEE VTC2014-Spring. Submissions should be original and limited to 5 double-column pages (Maximum of 2 additional pages allowed - 7 pages in total - with over-length page fee) in IEEE paper templates. All submissions should be written in English using 10-point font. Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts in PDF format through Track Chair conference system (http://vtc2014spring-wk.trackchair.com/track/1237/submit). Please contact Dr. Soufiene Djahel (soufiene.djahel at ucd dot ie), Prof. Damien Magoni (magoni at labri dot fr) or Dr. Philip Perry (philip.perry at ucd dot ie) if you have any questions about submitting your manuscripts. General co-Chairs ----------------- Soufiene Djahel University College Dublin, Ireland Falko Dressler University of Innsbruck, Austria John Murphy University College Dublin, Ireland TPC co-Chairs ------------- Damien Magoni University of Bordeaux 1, France Philip Perry University College Dublin, Ireland Publicity Chair --------------- Rahim Kacimi Paul Sabatier University, France TPC members ----------- Wei Wei, Xi’an Jiao Tong University, China Imad Jawhar, United Arab Emirates University, UAE Amit Pande, University of California Davis, USA Mélanie Bouroche, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Celimuge Wu, University of Electro-communications, Japan Yassine Hadjadj Aoul, IRISA, France Abdelmalik Bachir, Imperial College London, UK Dalil Moad, City Passenger, France Sidi-Mohammed Senouci, University of Bourgogne, France Lyes Khoukhi, University of Troyes, France Christoph Sommer, University of Innsbruck, Austria Saïd Gharout, Orange Labs, France Djamel Djenouri, CERIST Research Center, Algeria Ali Hamieh, University of Nevada, USA Hassine Moungla, University Paris Descartes, France Yacine Belhoul, CERIST Research Center, Algeria Intesab Hussain, QUEST, Nawabshah, Pakistan Mikael Asplund, Linköping University, Sweden Nafaâ Jabeur, German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech), Oman Huaqun Guo, Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore Ahcene Bendjoudi, CERIST Research Center, Algeria Gabriel-Miro Muntean, Dublin City University, Ireland Rahim Kacimi, Paul Sabatier University, France Fen Zhou, Avignon University, France Said Yahiaoui, CERIST Research Center, Algeria Michael Feiri, University of Twente, Netherlands -- ------------------ Dr. Soufiene Djahel Research Fellow Performance Engineering Lab University College Dublin http://csserver.ucd.ie/~sdjahel/index.html

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [Call For Papers] SmartCity 2014 (Extended Deadline: February 7th)
by Lars Wolf 27 Jan '14

27 Jan '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [Call For Papers] SmartCity 2014 (Extended Deadline: February 7th) Datum: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 01:45:58 +0400 Von: Mohamad Badra <mbadra(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Mohamad Badra <mbadra(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG (Our apologies for duplicate copies of this call) Extended Paper Submission: February 7th, 2014 First International Workshop on Architectures and Technologies for Smart Cities http://www.ntms-conf.org/ntms2014/wsn2014/index.htm March 30th, 2014, Dubai, UAE To be held in conjunction with the 6th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS 2014). SCOPE: ------ The smart cities concept is becoming more and more attractive and more cities around the world are adopting the idea, as evidenced by the SmartCity Malta, Kochi SmartCity, and the new project announced by the ruler of Dubai for a smart Dubai. Smart cities mandate is not to only maintain the quality of life of theirs residents and visitors, but also to improve it by leveraging the IT infrastructure and the novel communication technologies. Smart city is a model of efficiency, innovation, and ubiquitous access to a wide range of services. A city smartness can be assessed along several axes, including 'smart living', 'smart economy', 'smart tourism', 'smart environment', 'smart mobility', and 'smart governance'. The objective of this workshop is to provide a forum for academics, researchers and practitioners from around the world to present their results and exchange ideas on recent developments, current research challenges, and future directions towards building cities of the future. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Intelligent traffic management - Smart and efficient energy management - E-government services - Using mobile devices to access/offer services - Sensor networks for large-scale urban zones - Enhancing individuals’ everyday life (e.g. health, education, …) - Security and privacy when using smart systems - Experimental testbeds and simulation environments - Mechanisms to automate and facilitate tourism operations (e.g. visa, flights, - smart gates, restaurant services, …) - Communication technologies/systems for smart cities - Emergency response and event planning - Social networks and leveraging human resources in urban environments - Internet of things for smart cities - Smart buildings and urban planning - Environmental sustainability Papers should be in English, strictly not exceeding 5 double-column pages (3,000 words), in Adobe PDF format (which is the only accepted format for the Workshop). Authors should use the relevant IEEE template, ensuring an IEEE Xplore compatible PDF-format. Paper submission: ----------------- The Workshop is using the EDAS Conference Management System to manage paper submissions process: https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=17005 IMPORTANT DATES: ---------------- Extended Paper Submission: February 7th, 2014 Notification: February 20th, 2014 Camera ready: February 27th, 2014 Workshop Co-chair ----------------- Fatna Belqasmi, Zayed University, UAE Roch Glitho, Concordia University, Canada Noel Crespi, Mines Telecom, France NTMS'2014 will be held in Dubai, UAE from March 30th to April 2nd, 2014. This Conference is technically sponsored by IEEE ComSoc, IFIP TC6 WG. To access the full list of topics, submission guidelines, as well as venue and travel information please visit: www.ntms-conf.org ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE MASS 2014: Preliminary announcement and Call for Papers
by Lars Wolf 27 Jan '14

27 Jan '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE MASS 2014: Preliminary announcement and Call for Papers Datum: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 16:10:58 -0500 Von: Stefano Basagni <basagni(a)ECE.NEU.EDU> Antwort an: Stefano Basagni <basagni(a)ECE.NEU.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG (Apologies if you receive this CfP multiple times.) **************************** IEEE MASS 2014 ***************************** 11th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA), Oct 28-30, 2014. http://mass2014.eecs.utk.edu/ **************************** IEEE MASS 2014 ***************************** * IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract Deadline: April 18, 2014 Paper Submission Deadline: April 25, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: July 21, 2014 Camera-ready Version: August 24, 2014 Dates of Conference: Oct 28-30, 2014 General Chair: J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, UCSC. Program Chair: Tarek Abdelzaher, UIUC Algorithms and Theory (Chair: Habib M. Ammari, University of Michigan-Dearborn) Systems, Protocols, and Applications (Chair: Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Experimental Evaluation and Testbeds (Chair: Thiemo Voigt, Uppsala University) Scope: The 11th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems (IEEE MASS 2014) will be held in Philadelphia, USA, 2014. Wireless ad hoc communication and mobile networking/computing have applications in a variety of environments, such as conferences, hospitals, battlefields, and disaster-recovery/rescue operations, and are also being actively investigated as an alternative paradigm for Internet connectivity in both urban and rural areas. Wireless sensor and actuator networks are being deployed for enhancing industrial control processes and supply-chains, and for various forms of environmental monitoring. IEEE MASS 2014 is a three-track conference sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society. It aims at addressing research advances in (i) algorithms and theory, (ii) systems, protocol, and applications, and (iii) experimental evaluation and testbeds, in multi-hop wireless ad hoc and sensor networks, covering topics ranging from technology issues to applications and test-bed development. Topics of Interest: Original, unpublished contributions are solicited in all aspects of mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), wireless sensor networks (WSNs) (including cyber-physical systems, Internet of Things), and mobile networking/computing, including theory, systems and applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Algorithmic aspects of MANETs and WSNs Application Layer Protocols Architectures of wired/wireless networks Capacity planning and admission control Clustering, topology control, coverage, and connectivity Cognitive networking Cooperative and cognitive communication Cooperative sensing in WSNs Compressive sensing technologies Crowd-sourcing techniques Cross layer design and optimization Cyber-physical systems Data gathering, fusion, and dissemination Data transport and management in WSNs Delay tolerant networks Experiences from real-world applications and long-term deployments Handoff/mobility management and seamless internetworking Internet/Cloud of Things Key management and trust establishment Localization and Location Based Services MAC protocols, including 802.11, 802.15.4, UWB MAC-layer design for ad hoc networks and WSNs Machine-to-machine (M2M) communications Measurements, experimental systems and test-beds Mobile computing and networking Mobility management Modeling, analysis and performance evaluation Multi-channel, multi-radio and MIMO technologies Network Layer protocols Networked smart phone applications Novel applications and architectures for WSNs Operating systems and middleware support Opportunistic networking P2P, overlay, and content distribution Power-aware architectures, algorithms, and protocols design QoS and Resource management Reliability, resiliency and fault tolerance techniques Resource management and wireless QoS provisioning Robotic networks Routing protocols, including unicast, multicast, broadcast, geocast Security and privacy issues in ad hoc and sensor networks, and mobile networking Smart grid Smart healthcare Smart transportation Social networks using smart phones and sensors Time synchronization Topology control, coverage and connectivity issues Vehicular networks and protocols Wireless mesh networking Paper Submission and Review: Authors are invited to submit technical papers presenting original, unpublished research, not currently under review elsewhere. All submissions should be written in English with a maximum length of 9 single-spaced, double-column pages using 10pt size fonts on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, with side-margin at least 1 inch, including all figures, tables, and references. All paper submission will be electronic, in PDF format. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by IEEE and will be presented at the conference. Based on reviews and TPC discussions, the TPC may choose to accept some papers as short papers (5 pages). For all papers, IEEE reserves the right to exclude the paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the conference. The conference will also include a poster and demo session. Laetus deget cui licet in diem dixisse: Vixi. -- Stefano Basagni, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Computer Engineering Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering 312 Dana Research Center Northeastern University 360 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA 02115 Tel. 617 373 3061, Fax 617 373 8970 E-mail: basagni(a)ece.neu.edu *** http://www.ece.neu.edu/faculty/basagni/ *** ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Extended Deadline - European Wireless 2014 conference - Barcelona
by Lars Wolf 23 Jan '14

23 Jan '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Extended Deadline - European Wireless 2014 conference - Barcelona Datum: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 10:34:06 -0500 Von: SUBSCRIBE tccc-announce Jesus Alonso-Zarate <jesus.alonso(a)CTTC.ES> Antwort an: SUBSCRIBE tccc-announce Jesus Alonso-Zarate <jesus.alonso(a)CTTC.ES> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG European Wireless 2014 14 - 16 May 2014, Barcelona, Spain. Submission Deadline Extension: 5th February 2014!! The 20th European Wireless (EW) Conference will take place in Barcelona, Spain from 14 to 16 May 2014 and will be hosted by the Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC). The event will be held in Barcelona, a Mediterranean city well-known for its touristic attraction (architecture, culture, cuisine, and weather, among many others). The 2014 edition of EW is aimed at addressing a key theme on "Energy- and Spectrally-Efficient Broadband Communication Systems". Paper submissions, proposals for tutorials and proposals for special sessions are invited in, but not limited to, the main topics of interest listed below. The extended Call for Papers can be downloaded here. Acceptance of submitted papers will be based on quality, relevance, and originality. Proposals for special sessions and tutorials are also invited. Proceedings of EW 2014 will be available on IEEEXplore. **** Topics of Interest Transmission techniques and signal processing Wireless networking Sustainable and advanced wireless technology Radio channel and RF subsystems M2M and WS&AN **** Important Deadlines Extended Paper submission: 5th February 2014 Decision notification: 7th March 2014 Camera-ready: 24th March 2014 http://www.ew2014.org/ Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Papers. Best regards, EW'14 publicity team ______________________________________________________________ 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] IoT-SoS: 3rd IEEE Workshop on the Internet of Things: Smart Objects and Services (co-located with IEEE WoWMoM 2014)
by Lars Wolf 23 Jan '14

23 Jan '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CfP] IoT-SoS: 3rd IEEE Workshop on the Internet of Things: Smart Objects and Services (co-located with IEEE WoWMoM 2014) Datum: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 10:21:24 +1100 Von: Andreas Reinhardt <andreasr(a)CSE.UNSW.EDU.AU> Antwort an: Andreas Reinhardt <andreasr(a)CSE.UNSW.EDU.AU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG (please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IoT-SoS 2014 3rd IEEE Workshop on the Internet of Things: Smart Objects and Services (in conjunction with IEEE WoWMoM 2014) Sydney, Australia 16 June 2014 http://www.ieee-wowmom.org/iot-sos/2014 https://twitter.com/IoTSoS CALL FOR PAPERS The Internet of Things (IoT) is a novel paradigm which is shaping the evolution of the future Internet. According to the vision underlying the IoT, the next step in increasing the ubiquity of the Internet, after connecting people anytime and everywhere, is to connect inanimate objects. By providing objects with embedded communication capabilities and a common addressing scheme, a highly distributed and ubiquitous network of seamlessly connected heterogeneous devices is formed, which can be fully integrated into the current Internet and mobile networks. Thus, it allows for the development of new intelligent services available anytime, anywhere, by anyone and anything. When human interaction is absent from the system dynamics, the vision is also referred to as Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications. Many applications with high social and business impact fall under the IoT/M2M umbrella, including personal healthcare, smart grids, surveillance, home automation, intelligent transportation, and it is strongly expected that new applications will emerge once the enabling technologies reach a stable state. At the moment, two of the most important challenges for the widespread use of IoT/M2M technologies are: 1. Architectures, protocols and algorithms for an efficient interconnection of smart objects, both between themselves and with the (future) Internet. 2. The creation of value-added services, especially open and interoperable, enabled by the interconnection of things / machines / smart objects, in such a way that they can be integrated with current and new business and development processes. The aim of this workshop is to bring together practitioners and researchers from both academia and industry in order to have a forum for discussion and technical presentations on the recent advances in theory, application, and implementation of the IoT/M2M concepts: Technologies, protocols, algorithms, and services. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - System architectures for IoT/M2M systems - Protocols and mechanisms for seamless IoT/M2M communications - Enabling standards and technologies for the IoT/M2M - Service platforms for IoT/M2M applications - Business models and processes for IoT/M2M applications - Energy optimization and sustainable operation of IoT/M2M devices - Access network issues; including mobility management, data dissemination and routing - Modeling and simulation of large-scale IoT/M2M scenarios - Experiences with experimental IoT/M2M system prototypes, pilots, and testbeds - Security and privacy in the IoT/M2M context - Industrial use cases showing gaps to be filled by future research - Novel and emerging IoT/M2M applications; including eHealth/mHealth, Smart Grids, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Smart Homes and Cities SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: All submissions must describe original research, not published or currently under review for another workshop, conference, or journal. Full papers should be restricted to 6 camera-ready pages (10pt font, double column, US letter size [8.5 x 11 inches] in IEEE format). Submission of a paper implies the willingness of at least one author to attend the workshop and present the paper. Accepted papers will be included in the main proceedings of IEEE WoWMoM 2014 and published by IEEE. Papers must be submitted via edas at https://edas.info/N16827 All papers must include title, complete contact information of all authors, abstract and up to 5 keywords on the cover page. Further submission instructions can be found at the workshop web page at http://www.ieee-wowmom.org/iot-sos/2014 IMPORTANT DATES: Paper Submission Deadline: 07 March 2014 Notification of Acceptance: 15 April 2014 IoT-SoS Workshop: 16 June 2014 WORKSHOP CHAIRS: Andreas Reinhardt, The University of New South Wales, Australia Mario Di Francesco, Aalto University, Finland STEERING COMMITTEE: Claudio Cicconetti, INTECS, Italy Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pisa, Italy Jaudelice Cavalcante de Oliveira, Drexel University, PA, USA Xiaohua Jia, City University of Hong Kong TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Ana Aguiar, University of Porto Baris Atakan, Izmir Institute of Technology Delphine Christin, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt Hongwei Du, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School Andrzej Duda, Grenoble Institute of Technology Burhan Gulbahar, Ozyegin University Yuan Guo, Wilson, Ham & Holman Chuanhe Huang, Wuhan University Antonio Iera, University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria Joarder Kamruzzaman, Monash University Jussi Kangasharju, University of Helsinki Olaf Landsiedel, Chalmers University of Technology Jukka Nurminen, Aalto University Kostas Pentikousis, EICT Dirk Pesch, Cork Institute of Technology Christian Renner, University of Luebeck Nirmalya Roy, University of Maryland Baltimore County Bala Srinivasan, Monash University Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida Jean-Philippe Vasseur, Cisco Systems Dexiang Wang, Juniper Networks Arkady Zaslavsky, CSIRO Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory and University of Oslo ______________________________________________________________ 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: MobiSys PhD Forum 2014 - Call for Submissions
by Lars Wolf 22 Jan '14

22 Jan '14

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Aarathi Prasad <aarathi(a)CS.DARTMOUTH.EDU> Gesendet: Wed Jan 22 19:57:49 MEZ 2014 An: SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG Betreff: MobiSys PhD Forum 2014 - Call for Submissions Dear all, Please encourage PhD students to submit to the MobiSys PhD forum 2014. The submission deadline is approaching -- March 31. The plain text CFP is listed below. Apologies to those of you who have received this message multiple times. Regards, Aarathi Prasad MobiSys PhD Forum Co-Chair *Call for Submissions* **************************************** *Overview* The PhD Forum provides a friendly and supportive environment for doctoral students to present and discuss their dissertation research both with their peers and with a panel of experienced researchers from academia and industry. In addition to providing feedback and advice, this forum will provide an excellent opportunity for students to network as well as to practice presenting their research clearly and concisely. This meeting is best suited to students who are far enough into their PhD to have a concrete dissertation proposal outlining the key challenges they plan to solve as well as the strategies and methodologies that are applicable. Furthermore, participants should not plan to finish their dissertation within 6 months of the forum, as that would leave little time to include advice and suggestions into their work. *Awards* Best presentation will receive an award at the forum. *Format* The forum will be a one-day event consisting of short student presentations, discussion, and a roundtable discussion. Each participant will have time allotted for a short presentation as well as an in-depth and constructive discussion led by the panel. In order to allow adequate time for each presentation, we will limit the number of participants to 10 presenters. The event will conclude with a roundtable discussion, in which panelists will have another opportunity to provide general suggestions and advice to the entire group. *Submission* Submissions should consist of the following: An extended abstract of the student's dissertation research (up to 2 pages) including a brief discussion of motivation, challenges, related work, initial results, and references. Applicants should clearly identify their contributions to the field of mobile systems. Also, it is recommended to clearly delineate the student's prior work and cite them; this will help the reviewers and the panel to make better judgment of technical contributions and provide more useful suggestions. A short biographical sketch (1 page max) describing the applicants affiliations and research activities. This should include the date that the student expects to complete his/her dissertation. The submission format should be used by the same format of MobiSys conference. Please visit here<http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2014/submission.php> for detail. Submissions MUST be no more than two (2) pages. This length includes everything: figures, tables, references, appendices and so forth. Please register and submit your paper using the submission system. There may be some travel grants from NSF and SIGMOBILE to attend PhD Forum. Submissions will be handled via email: mobisys14.phd.forum(a)gmail.com If accepted, a student may be asked to provide explanations or clarification by the camera-ready deadline. *Important Dates* Submission deadline: : March 31, 2014 (11:59 PM PST) Notification deadline: April 17, 2014 Camera-ready deadline: April 27, 2014 Forum Date: June 16, 2014 ----------------------------------------------------- To be removed from the SIGMOBILE-Members list, please enter your email address wolf(a)IBR.CS.TU-BS.DE at http://optout.acm.org/listserv_index.cfm?ln=sigmobile-members and we'll remove you. Association for Computing Machinery Advancing Computing as a Science and Profession (c) 2013 ACM, Inc. All rights reserved. -----------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Papers, Computers & Electrical Engineering Journal, Special Issue on "Green Engineering Towards Sustainable Smart Cities"
by Lars Wolf 21 Jan '14

21 Jan '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Papers, Computers & Electrical Engineering Journal, Special Issue on "Green Engineering Towards Sustainable Smart Cities" Datum: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 12:00:46 -0200 Von: Danielo G. Gomes <dgomes(a)GREAT.UFC.BR> Antwort an: Danielo G. Gomes <dgomes(a)GREAT.UFC.BR> Organisation: UFC An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Computers & Electrical Engineering *Special Issue on Green Engineering Towards Sustainable Smart Cities* http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computers-and-electrical-engineering/call-… Since 2007, for the first time in human history, more people live in cities than in rural areas. By 2030, the world population is expected to be nearly 60% urban, and by 2050, this proportion will increase to 70%, according to the United Nations. With populations growing, cities need to face increasing and critical problems of urban environments. From transportation to green/smart buildings, urban agriculture, environmental monitoring, energy storage and public safety/security, all of these new applications rely on the deployment of smart object networks offering a high degree of scalability, reliability, and security. This is why we believe that current and probable future green engineering challenges in building smarter cities must employ the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm to enable the creation of urban and sustainable cyber-physical systems. *Scope* The scope of this special issue is to explore state-of-the-art research covering a variety of concepts on green engineering in building smart cities in an efficient and sustainable way. Original, unpublished manuscripts in any aspects of Green Engineering and Smart Green Cities (SGC) are welcomed for this special issue. The topics of interest include, but are not limited, to: - Cyber-physical systems for SGC - IP smart objects, green clouds and Sensing as a Service (SaaS) for SGC - IoT architectures and platforms for SGC - IoT privacy, security and trust management in smart green environments - Sensor applications for a SGC (e.g. smart parking, structural health monitoring, traffic congestion, smart street lighting) - Content-Centric Networking in SGC - Electric vehicles, smart grids and microgrids - Energy-aware and green ICT infrastructures for SGC - Energy harvesting, energy saving and carbon footprint reduction - Case studies and innovative applications for SGC - Prototypes, experimental testbeds and simulation environments *Submission details* High quality contributions not yet published and not currently under review by other journals or peer-reviewed events are sought. Manuscripts should be submitted to the Elsevier Editorial System (http://ees.elsevier.com/compeleceng/). A guide for authors in preparing their papers is available at http://www.elsevier.com/journals/computers-and-electrical-engineering/0045-…. To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for this special issue, it is important that authors select *SI-green* as the "Article Type" during the submission process. *Important dates* Manuscript due date: August 15, 2014 First decision notification: November 15, 2014 Revised manuscript due date: December 15, 2014 Final decision notification: January 15, 2015 Final paper due: February 15, 2015 Tentative publication: July 2015 *Guest editors* Danielo G. Gomes (Managing Guest Editor) Federal University of Ceará, Brazil danielo(a)ufc.br Anna Förster University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland anna.foerster(a)supsi.ch -- Danielo G. Gomes Assistant Professor, Federal University of Ceara - Brazil Department of Teleinformatics Engineering Group of Computer Networks Software Engineering and Systems (GREat) http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8285-4629 ______________________________________________________________ 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] FINAL IWCMC 2014 Deadline extension-Feb. 3, 2014
by Lars Wolf 21 Jan '14

21 Jan '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] FINAL IWCMC 2014 Deadline extension-Feb. 3, 2014 Datum: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 04:07:03 +0000 Von: Jun Cai <Jun.Cai(a)UMANITOBA.CA> Antwort an: Jun Cai <Jun.Cai(a)UMANITOBA.CA> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ============================================ SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 3rd, 2014 SUBMISSION LINK: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=14357 The 10th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2014): http://iwcmc.org/2014/ Hilton Cyprus, NICOSIA, CYPRUS =============================================== Technically sponsored by IEEE and IEEE Cyprus Section Local sponsor: Frederick University CALL FOR PAPERS "Connecting the World" The International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2014) will be held on August 4-8, 2014. Under the theme of "Connecting the World", IWCMC 2014 will target a wide spectrum of the state-of-the-art as well as emerging topics pertaining to wireless networks, wireless communications, and mobile computing. Continuing the great success of previous IWCM events, IWCMC 2014 is anticipated to attract a large number of high-quality submissions and stimulate the cutting-edge research discussions among many academic pioneering researchers/scientists and industrial engineers/leaders from all around the world. The IWCMC 2014 program will feature a number of symposia, workshops, invited presentations, special sessions, and pioneering keynote speakers. More information can be found at the conference website: http://iwcmc.org/2014/ Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical papers—up to 6 pages of length, using the EDAS link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=14357 to various IWCMC 2014 Symposia and Workshops as listed in the conference website for possible publication in the IWCMC 2014 Conference Proceedings, which will be included in IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Selected papers will be further considered for possible publication in three special issues in the following Journals: 1. Wiley Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (WCMC) http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/76507157/home 2. International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNet) http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijsnet 3. The International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems (IJAACS) www.inderscience.com/ijaacs<http://www.inderscience.com/ijaacs> 4. KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems: www.itiis.org<http://www.itiis.org/> 5. Peer-to-Peer Networking & Applications, http://www.springer.com/engineering There will also be best paper awards, one best symposium award, and one best Workshop award. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: 3 February 2014 Paper Acceptance Notification: 15 March 2014 Camera-ready Paper Submissions: 15 April 2014 Registration Deadline for Authors: 15 April 2014 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical papers by the deadline 3 Febraury 2014 for publication in the IWCMC 2014 Conference Proceedings. All submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of six (6) printed pages (minimum 10-point font) including figures, without incurring additional page charges (maximum 2 additional pages, with overlength page fee). Standard IEEE Transactions templates for Microsoft Word or LaTeX formats found at http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/pubs/transactions/stylesheets.html. Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process and all submissions must be done through EDAS at: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=14357 SYMPOSIA 1) Communication and Signal Processing Symposium 2) General Symposium 3) Mobile Computing Symposium 4) Multimedia over Wireless Symposium 5) Security, Trust and Privacy Symposium 6) Vehicular Communications Symposium 7) Wireless Networking Symposium 8) Wireless Sensor Networks Symposium For more information, visit the conference website: http://iwcmc.org/2014/ ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE LANMAN 2014 Submission Site and CFP Update
by Lars Wolf 21 Jan '14

21 Jan '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE LANMAN 2014 Submission Site and CFP Update Datum: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 14:18:32 +0800 Von: Fangming Liu <fangminghk(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Fangming Liu <fangminghk(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG *Call for Papers* IEEE LANMAN 2014 will be held on May 21-23, 2014 at the University of Nevada, Reno campus in Reno, Nevada. IEEE LANMAN has an established tradition as a forum for presenting and discussing the latest technical advances in local and metropolitan area networking. Continuing that tradition, IEEE LANMAN 2014 invites cutting-edge papers spanning both theory and experimentation. Papers are solicited in all areas of networking, but in keeping with the current research trend, this workshop’s central theme is *data center networking*. The intimate single-track session format of the workshop encourages stimulating exchanges between researchers. The workshop is expected to be a forum for discussion of new and interdisciplinary ideas on architectures, service models, pricing, and performance. Speculative and potentially transformative ideas are particularly encouraged, as are studies reporting measurements from real-life networks and testbeds. Papers are solicited on any LANMAN topic including, but not limited to, the following: - Novel data center network architectures - Data center network virtualization - Energy-efficiency in data centers - Routing and transport protocols in data center networks - Software defined data center networks - Data center network pricing - Resource allocation in data center networks - Performance measurement and modeling of data centers - Inter-data center network issues - Reliable data center networks - Broadband wireless access, including WiMAX, LTE - WiFi: roaming services, architectures, and performance - Metropolitan and residential networks and architectures including Ethernet in the first mile, EPONs, FTTx, etc. - Network management related to edge networks - Heterogeneous wireless and ad-hoc networks - Local-area and metropolitan-area network security - LAN-based and MAN-based applications (gaming, distributed computing, media distribution to and in the home, enterprise applications, ambient technology, wearable-computing) - Impact of sensors everywhere including homes IEEE LANMAN 2014 solicits paper submissions of Regular Papers (up to 6 pages) and Short Papers (up to 2 pages). The short papers will be presented in a poster session. Also, some of regular paper submissions may be accepted as short papers by the TPC. The page limits include all figures, tables, and references. All papers must be electronically submitted in PDF according to the guidelines in the workshop website http://www.ieee-lanman.org. The proceedings will be published by IEEE Xplore and will include both short and regular papers presented at the workshop. Best Paper Award will be given to the paper(s) with the highest technical merit. Selected papers will be invited for submission and fast track review by *IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing* and *Elsevier Computer Communications Journal*. The paper submission site is https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lanman2014. All IEEE LANMAN 2014 technical papers and posters must be associated with an author registration at the full rate. For authors presenting multiple papers/posters, one full registration is valid for up to three papers/posters. IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper/poster from distribution after the workshop (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper/poster is not presented at the workshop. Important dates: Abstract Registration: Feb 14, 2014, Friday Paper Submission: Feb 21, 2014, Friday Acceptance Notification: Mar 28, 2014, Friday Camera-ready Submission: Apr 18, 2014, Friday Workshop Date: May 21-23, 2014 Committees General Chairs Rittwik Jana <http://www.research.att.com/people/Jana_Rittwik>, AT&T Labs Research, E-mail: rjana(a)research.att.com Murat Yuksel <http://www.cse.unr.edu/~yuksem/>, University of Nevada, Reno, E-mail: yuksem(a)cse.unr.edu TPC Chairs Dan Li<http://www.tsinghua.edu.cn/publish/csen/4623/2010/20101225163855518778544/2…>, Tsinghua University, E-mail: tolidan(a)tsinghua.edu.cn Suresh Subramaniam <http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~suresh>, George Washington University, E-mail: suresh(a)gwu.edu Local Coordination Chairs Mehmet H. Gunes <http://www.cse.unr.edu/~mgunes/>, University of Nevada, Reno, E-mail: mgunes(a)cse.unr.edu Shamik Sengupta <http://www.cse.unr.edu/~shamik/>, University of Nevada, Reno, E-mail: ssengupta(a)unr.edu Publicity Chairs Fangming Liu <http://grid.hust.edu.cn/fmliu/>, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, E-mail: fmliu(a)mail.hust.edu.cn Eric Rozner, IBM Research, E-mail: erozner(a)gmail.com Publications Chair Tian Lan <http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~tlan/>, George Washington University, E-mail: tlan(a)gwu.edu Web Chair Hayreddin Ceker, University at Buffalo, E-mail: hayreddi(a)buffalo.edu Steering Committee Jack Brassil, HP Labs, Princeton, USA Maria Papadopouli, University of Crete, Crete, Greece K. K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park, USA George Rouskas, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA Kobus Van der Merwe, AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park, USA Technical Program Committee Kemal Akkaya, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA Koike Arata, NTT, Japan Leo van Biesen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Jack Brassil, HP, USA Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Kai Chen, Hongkon University of Science and Technology, China Renato Lo Cigno, University of Trento, Italy Florin Ciucu, TU Berlin, Germany Reuven Cohen, Technion, Israel Virgil Dobrota, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania Jordi Domingo-Pascual, UPC, Spain Ashley Flavel, Microsoft, USA Xiaoming Fu, University of Goettingen, Germany Albert Greenberg, Microsoft, USA Deke Guo, National Univeristy of Defense Technology, China Dongsu Han, KAIST, Korea Yuan He, Tsinghua University, China Yuming Jiang, NUNT, Norway Tian Lan, GWU, USA Wei (Wilson) Li, University of Sydney, Australia Jun Li, University of Oregon, USA Fangming Liu, Huahzong University of Science and Technology, China Jiangchuan Liu, SFU, Canada Songwu Lu, UCLA, USA John C.S. Lui, CUHK, China Kobus Van der Merwe, University of Utah, USA Eytan Modiano, MIT, USA Maria Papdopouli, University of Crete, Greece Dan Pei, Tsinghua Univeristy, China Daniel Pitt, Open Network Foundation, USA Chunming Qiao, University of Buffalo, USA K.K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T, USA Byrav Ramamurthy, U. Nebraska-Lincoln, USA George Rouskas, North Carolina State University, USA Ashutosh Sabharwal, Rice University, USA Weisheng Si, University of Western Sydney, Australia Cormac Sreenan, University College Cork, Ireland Kris Steenhaut, Vrije Universiteit, Belgium Puneet Sharma, HP, USA Javid Taheri, University of Sydney, Australia Jianping Wang, CUHK, China Tilman Wolf, UMASS, USA Kang Xi, Poly-U, USA Lisong Xu, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP IEEE Communications Magazine, Special Issue on "Recent Advances in Technologies for Extremely Dense Wireless Networks"
by Lars Wolf 20 Jan '14

20 Jan '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP IEEE Communications Magazine, Special Issue on "Recent Advances in Technologies for Extremely Dense Wireless Networks" Datum: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 08:46:06 +0100 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, Intecs S.p.A. (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: [Kuvs-elg] WG: 9th KuVS NGSDP Expert Talk – 9. KuVS Fachgespräch NGSDP am 9.4.2014 in Berlin: “Machine to Machine Communications"
by Lars Wolf 20 Jan '14

20 Jan '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Kuvs-elg] WG: 9th KuVS NGSDP Expert Talk – 9. KuVS Fachgespräch NGSDP am 9.4.2014 in Berlin: “Machine to Machine Communications" Datum: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 07:11:14 +0000 Von: Kellerer, Wolfgang <wolfgang.kellerer(a)tum.de> An: kuvs-elg(a)gi-ev.de <kuvs-elg(a)gi-ev.de> Dear All, We would like to invite you to contribute to the 9th KuVS NGSDP Expert Talk – 9. KuVS Fachgespräch on Next Generation Service Delivery Platforms: “Machine to Machine Communications” which will take place on April 9, 2014 in Berlin. For details, please see the attached CFC. Bitte Weiterleiten, da die mitglieder-info nicht zu funktionieren scheint. Best regards, Wolfgang Kellerer -------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Kellerer Technische Universität München Communication Networks Lehrstuhl für Kommunikationsnetze (LKN) Technische Universität München Arcisstr. 21, 80333 München, Germany Tel: +49-89-289-23500 (office) or -23501 (direct) Fax: +49-89-289-23523 Email: wolfgang.kellerer(a)tum.de <mailto:wolfgang.kellerer@tum.de> Web: http://www.lkn.ei.tum.de Visitors: Arcisstr. 21, Building 9, Room 1946 ----------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: MobiSys 2014 MARS Workshop Call for Papers
by Lars Wolf 20 Jan '14

20 Jan '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: MobiSys 2014 MARS Workshop Call for Papers Datum: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 03:13:19 +0000 Von: HUI Pan <panhui(a)CSE.UST.HK> Antwort an: HUI Pan <panhui(a)CSE.UST.HK> An: SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG [Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.] MobiSys 2014 Workshop for Mobile Assistive and Robotic technology-based systems (MARS) Workshop at MobiSys 2014 <http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2014/>, Bretton Wood, NH, USA June 16th, 2014 Call for Papers (http://symlab.ust.hk/conf/mars/) Smartphones embedded with many sensors have become very powerful. Hence, recently several mobile augmented reality (AR) applications have been developed e.g. AR-based tourist guiding system. Such applications superimpose computer-generated data such as text, video, graphs on top of the real-world view as captured by a camera embedded within a smartphone. Thus, such applications enhance a userâ€™s perception of reality and of his surrounding environment. Furthermore, mobile augmented reality applications which are designed for children with special needs have recently appeared. In addition, recently researchers have extended robots usage into our daily lives such as search and rescue operations, education, entertainment, special need population e.g. autistic children or seniors. These new mobile augmented reality and robot application domains require close interactions with human beings, smart intelligence to allow smooth visual and audio recognition and some novel interface design. In this workshop, we hope to gather researchers who conduct researches in these two exciting fields to gather and share information on the challenges they face as well as their innovative design. * * *Relevant Topics include (but are not limited to these):* Fundamental design: 1. Visual sensing and cognition: gesture, facial expression etc 2. Auditory cognition: cognition/interpretation of audio, voice or language 3. Novel interface design, and interaction modalities e.g. human brain interface 4. Security and privacy issues in emerging robotic and mobile assistive technologies Intelligence and context-awareness: 1. Knowledge and inference processing 2. Context awareness and intention understanding 3. Machine learning, AI and adaptation in human-robot interactions Entertainment, Arts & Technology: 1. Robots in entertainment, toys, arts 2. StoryTelling in HRI 3. Innovative robotic applications for laymen Case Studies and Applications: 1. Assistive and service robots 2. Educational and social robots 3. Virtual and augmented tele-presence related applications 4. Robotic and mobile technologies enabled solutions for special need population *Short papers:* Authors must submit original papers that are not being considered for publication in any other forum. Manuscripts should be submitted in PDF format using the ACM camera-ready templates available athttp://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. The maximum page length is 6 pages. We strongly encourage industrial participation. *Work-in-Progress Papers for Poster Presentation:* Special poster session is prepared to present research results in their early stage from both academia and industry. 2 page extended abstract should be submitted via EasyChair site for the conference. *Interactive Demonstration Papers:* Interactive Demonstration Session is designed to foster research in areas related to novel human-robot interaction and mobile assistive technologies. Groups that are interested in demonstrating their novel ideas and results with real robots or augmented reality platforms are encouraged to participate. The participating groups should submit a video clip showing the interactive demonstration as well as the 2 page extended abstract. The accepted contributors have to interactively demonstrate their results on site. *Important Dates:* * Submission Deadline: April 4th, 2014 * Notifications: April 18th, 2014 * Camera-ready deadline: April 27, 2014 * Workshop: June 16, 2014 *Workshop Co-Chairs* * Mooi Choo Chuah <http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/~chuah/>, Lehigh University * Pan Hui <http://www.cse.ust.hk/~panhui/>, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology *Programme Committee* * Santosh Kumar, University of Memphis, USA * Henny Admoni, Yale University, USA * John Spletzer, Lehigh University, USA * Wolgang Huerst, Utrecht University, Netherland * Tobias Langlotz, Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision, Austria * Daniel Lofaro, George Mason University, USA * Uichin Lee, KAIST, Korea * Taskir Padir, WPI, USA * Ross Mead, USC, USA * Zhanpeng Huang, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong * Chenren Xu, Rutgers University, USA *Web Chair:* Victor Junqiu WEI, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To be removed from the SIGMOBILE-Members list, please enter your email address wolf(a)IBR.CS.TU-BS.DE at http://optout.acm.org/listserv_index.cfm?ln=sigmobile-members and we'll remove you. 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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] INFOCOM 2014: Call for Student Posters/Demo
by Lars Wolf 19 Jan '14

19 Jan '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] INFOCOM 2014: Call for Student Posters/Demo Datum: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 15:11:47 -0700 Von: Shibo He <shibohe.cn(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Shibo He <shibohe.cn(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Call for Student Posters/Demo INFOCOM 2014 will host the annual Student Workshop on Sunday, April 27th, 2014. The Student Workshop will provide a platform for students to publicize their research work through posters/demo, obtain feedback, and learn the problems that are being tackled by fellow students. More importantly, it also provides a venue for them to "networking" with their peers and established researchers, and obtain valuable advices from informative talks. We invite the submission of abstracts before the deadline below, describing ongoing research in all areas of computer networking and communications (for a list of topics, please refer to the INFOCOM'2014 Call for Papers). Submitted abstracts must be in PDF format, and must be no longer than 2 pages, in a font size not smaller than 10 points. Please refer to the INFOCOM'2014 manuscript preparation page for details. Manuscripts that are not compliant with the requirements may be declined without review. All submissions will be handled electronically in EDAS and will be reviewed by the program committee. A number of abstracts will be selected for inclusion in the workshop program, and one of them will be selected as the recipient of a Tablet to award the Best Student Poster. For more information, please contact Prof. Vincent Wong at vincentw(a)ece.ubc.ca or Prof. Jiming Chen at jmchen(a)iipc.zju.edu.cn EDAS submission link: http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=15835 IMPORTANT DATES 2-page Abstract due 11:59 pm (EST), January 25th, 2014 Notification of acceptance March 1st, 2014 Student Session date April 27th, 2014 ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] One month to the deadline: Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks SI on "New Research Challenges in Mobile, Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks"
by Lars Wolf 19 Jan '14

19 Jan '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] One month to the deadline: Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks SI on "New Research Challenges in Mobile, Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks" Datum: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 08:56:40 +0000 Von: Mamatas, Lefteris <l.mamatas(a)UCL.AC.UK> Antwort an: Mamatas, Lefteris <l.mamatas(a)UCL.AC.UK> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG *** Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP *** Call for Papers Special Issue on New Research Challenges in Mobile, Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks * Deadline: February 17, 2014 * http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ad-hoc-networks/call-for-papers/special-is… Internet is extending beyond its fixed network infrastructure boundaries by gradually incorporating a wide range of challenging networks and autonomous devices, serving non-traditional user communities, such as space missions, disaster areas, and economically challenged populations. These hybrid network environments require supportive strategies to exploit even the slightest communication opportunity. Furthermore, the complexity of this task increases if we also consider device constraints, energy aspects and application diversity. In this context, what appears theoretically possible becomes conditionally feasible only when all available network resources are being efficiently exploited, including those hosted in nearby fixed deployments. New research paradigms can give a unification perspective to the various pieces of the global network jigsaw puzzle. Software-Defined Networks (SDNs), Mobile Cloud Computing and Information-Centric Networks (ICNs) are among the recent innovations that can enable flexible solutions for integrating infrastructure with mobile and opportunistic networks, addressing challenging network conditions, and supporting promising new applications. This Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Special Issue aims at soliciting original manuscripts on experimental & theoretical work revisiting the research areas of mobile and opportunistic networks in the context of recent developments in networking research, including new fixed network technologies and concrete use-cases (e.g., disaster situations, space environments and free Internet deployments). On the one hand, infrastructure networks are becoming more flexible and can provide a supportive environment in which mobile-to-mobile communication can flourish, e.g., improving the Quality of Experience (QoE) and energy efficiency for users and devices, respectively. On the other hand, the deployed opportunistic networks can extend the pool of available resources and increase network coverage worldwide. Topics for the special issue include, but are not limited to: - Opportunistic Networks / Delay- and Disruption-Tolerant Networks - Software-Defined Networks & OpenFlow deployments supporting mobile communication - Mobile Cloud Computing - Information-Centric Networks for hybrid network deployments - Space Communications extending the Internet - Free Internet / Lowest-Cost Denominator Networking - Extreme conditions / Disaster area communications - Social networking based communications - Test-beds / real deployments of infrastructure-supported mobile communications - Security, privacy and trust in challenging network environments - Resource pooling between fixed infrastructures and mobile environments. - New applications / services in integrated network environments - Network management issues / solutions over hybrid network deployments. * Submission Instructions * Prospective Authors should follow the Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier) journal manuscript format described athttp://www.elsevier.com/locate/adhoc Please select "SI: NRC-MON" when you reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. Papers must be in single-column format, double-spaced, use at least 11pt fonts, and should not exceed 25 pages including references. * Important Dates * Manuscript Submission: February 17, 2014 Acceptance Notification: June 16, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: July 14, 2014 * Editor in Chief * Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA * Guest Editors * Vassilis Tsaoussidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. Scott Burleigh, NASA JPL, California Institute of Technology, USA Lefteris Mamatas, University College London, UK ______________________________________________________________ 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] The 2014 International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks (BSN 2014)
by Lars Wolf 17 Jan '14

17 Jan '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] The 2014 International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks (BSN 2014) Datum: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 10:14:06 -0500 Von: Honggang Wang <hwang1(a)UMASSD.EDU> Antwort an: Honggang Wang <hwang1(a)UMASSD.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Call for Paper - BSN 2014 ====================================== http://www.bsn2014.org ====================================== The 2014 International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks (BSN 2014) will provide a unique forum for researchers and industry practitioners to discuss the latest work in various fields utilizing body sensor networks. Building on the success of the previous 10 annual meetings, the 11th BSN conference will be held at ETH Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland and technically co-sponsored by the IEEE EMB Society. The main conference and workshops will take place on June 16-June 19, 2014. Broad areas to be discussed at this year's conference include, but are not limited to: * Sensors * Communication & Networking * Systems & Resource Management * Algorithms & Signal Processing * Medical & Performance Applications PUBLICATIONS ====================================== All submissions must be original, unpublished, and are not under consideration elsewhere, with the exception of internal technical reports. BSN 2014 uses a double-blind review process for submitted papers. Author names and their affiliations must not appear anywhere on the submission. Submissions should be no more than 6 pages formatted to the two-column IEEE conference style. All accepted papers will be published by IEEE and accessible online via IEEE Xplore. Two page poster submissions are welcome too, please see separate call at http://www.bsn2014.org . This year, early notifications of accept/major revision/reject will be sent. Authors of a paper marked "major revision" are invited to resubmit a thoroughly revised paper version for re-evaluation by the program committee. At least one author of each accepted submission is required to register and attend as paper presenter at the conference. A best paper award and runner-up award will be given. WORKSHOP/TUTORIAL PROPOSALS ====================================== Proposals can be at most 2 pages in length. Organizers are encouraged to ensure their proposal is as coherent and concise as possible. Additional details will be provided on the conference website. IMPORTANT DATES ====================================== Workshop/Tutorial Proposals Due: January 15, 2014 Workshop/Tutorial Notifications: February 10, 2014 Paper Submission Deadline: February 15, 2014 Early Author Notification: April 7, 2014 Final Author Notification: May 5, 2014 Camera-ready Deadline: May 9, 2014 Workshop/Tutorial Dates: June 16 & June 19, 2014 Main Conference Dates: June 17-18, 2014 ORGANIZERS ====================================== General Chair: Gerhard Tröster, ETH Zurich Program Chairs: Oliver Amft, University of Passau, Germany Steffen Leonhardt, RWTH Aachen, Germany Technical Program Members: Oliver Amft, University of Passau, DE D.K. Arvind, University of Edinburgh, UK Paolo Bonato, Harvard University, USA Gert Cauwenberghs, University of California, USA Kong Chen, National Institutes of Health, USA Thomas Falck, Philips Research, NL Beau Freund, TATRC (US Army), USA Yang Hao, University of London, UK David He, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Emil Jovanov, University of Alabama, USA William Kaiser, University of California, USA Santosh Kumar, University of Memphis, USA Thomas Lindh, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE Benny Lo, Imperial College London, UK Paul Lukowicz, DFKI, DE Yitzhak Mendelson, Worcester Polytech Institute, USA Mohammad Pourhomayoun, UCLA, USA Majid Sarrafzadeh, University of California, USA Toshiyo Tamura, Osaka Electro-Communication University, JP Honggang Wang, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA Andrea Webb, Draper Laboratory, USA (To be extended!) VENUE ====================================== With a population of some 370,000 inhabitants, Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland. It is surprisingly compact, though, with a wealth of old churches, fountains, and cobbled streets with buildings, some of them more than 700 years old, housing charming galleries and small shops. Zurich is situated some 400 metres (1,340 ft) above sea level at the northern end of the 27 km (17 miles) long Lake of Zurich. In Mercer’s annual “Quality of Living” survey, Zurich regularly claims one of the top spots, as it does on Monocle’s “Most Liveable Cities Index”. The Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, or - to use its German acronym - the ETH Zurich, was founded by the Swiss government in 1854 as a polytechnic and opened its doors in Zurich in 1855. ETH Zurich regularly appears at the top of international rankings as one of the best universities in the world. 21 Nobel Laureates have studied, taught or conducted research at ETH Zurich, underlining its excellent reputation. ______________________________________________________________ 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: Mobihealth 2014 Call for Papers
by Lars Wolf 17 Jan '14

17 Jan '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Mobihealth 2014 Call for Papers Datum: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 14:48:28 +0100 (CET) Von: EAI Events <no-reply(a)eai.eu> Antwort an: no-reply(a)eai.eu An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de MOBIHEALTH 2014 View the web version <http://eai.mailmta.com/nl/n.jsp?uH.BKM.XyF.Jb.Bj.ejM1> http://services.icst.org/event.logo/51937/w/200 CALL FOR PAPERS <http://mobiquitous.org/><http://eai.mailmta.com/nl/l.jsp?uH.BIT.XyF.Jb.Bj.ejM1>MOBIHEALTH 2014 <http://eai.mailmta.com/nl/l.jsp?uH.BKN.XyF.Jb.Bj.ejM1> <http://mobiquitous.org/><http://eai.mailmta.com/nl/l.jsp?uH.BKO.XyF.Jb.Bj.ejM1>4th International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare <http://eai.mailmta.com/nl/l.jsp?uH.BKP.XyF.Jb.Bj.ejM1> November 3-5, 2014 - Athens, Greece Past editions: <http://eai.mailmta.com/nl/l.jsp?uH.BIX.XyF.Jb.Bj.ejM1>2012 <http://eai.mailmta.com/nl/l.jsp?uH.BKQ.XyF.Jb.Bj.ejM1>, <http://eai.mailmta.com/nl/l.jsp?uH.BKR.XyF.Jb.Bj.ejM1>2011 <http://eai.mailmta.com/nl/l.jsp?uH.BKS.XyF.Jb.Bj.ejM1>, <http://eai.mailmta.com/nl/l.jsp?uH.BKT.XyF.Jb.Bj.ejM1>2010 <http://eai.mailmta.com/nl/l.jsp?uH.BKU.XyF.Jb.Bj.ejM1><http://mobiquitous.org/2012/><http://mobiquitous.org/2011/><http://www.mobiquitous.org/2004/> *Scope** * The 4th edition of MobiHealth proposes to continue and extend the focus areas of the first three editions, emphasizing on specific research and scientific challenges in the Healthcare Technology domain faced in Europe and globally and hence more interactive input from industry. The objectives of the conference are to advance medical diagnosis, treatment, and patient care through application of wireless communications, mobile computing and sensing technologies. Contributions will be solicited regarding the interdisciplinary design of efficient protocols and technologies to help implement and provide advanced mobile health care applications. The essence of the conference lies in its interdisciplinary nature, with original contributions cutting across boundaries but all within the ambit of the application of mobile communications (technologies, standards, solutions, methodologies, …) aiming at the improvement of human health. *Highlights* •All accepted papers will be published by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library, one of the world's largest scientific libraries. •Proceedings will be submitted for indexing by Google Scholar, ISI, EICompendex, Scopus and many more. Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: *29 June 2014* Camera-ready Papers: *31 August 2014* Conference topics We invite researchers, academicians, practitioners, and others to submit original papers describing new research, applications, or case studies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ● Advances in sensor devices for biomedical monitoring ● Miniaturization of wireless devices and micro sensors for medical applications ● RF Integrated Circuits for low power medical applications ● Printable-flexible-stretchable electronics for wearable systems ● Personal area networks and body area sensor networks ● High data rate wireless protocols for biosignals ● Heterogeneous wireless technologies and their co-existence in clinical environments ● Ad hoc wireless networks for enhanced monitoring ● Remote diagnosis and patient management ● Biomedical devices for remote monitoring ● Health monitoring ● Healthcare telemetry and telemedicine ● Energy efficiency in big data systems through vertical integration, specialization, and approximation ● Emerging compute, storage, and communication technologies for big data applications ● Architectural support for security in the context of big data ● Scalability Issues on Emerging Computing Architectures (SMTs, GPUs, Multicores) ● Information Security for Big Data ● Scalable Sensor Networks and Systems ● Scalable Systems and Conceptual Modelling ● Scalable Multimedia Information Systems ● Scalable Data Mining Paper Submission Papers should be in English. Regular papers should be up to 10 pages in length. Previously published work may not be submitted, nor may the work be concurrently submitted to any other conference or journal. Such papers will be rejected without review. The paper submissions must follow the SPRINGER formatting guidelines (see Author's kit section). Workshop/Special Sessions Proposals Proposals for workshops/special sessions are solicited. Potential instructors/organizers are requested to submit a workshop/special session proposal of at most 5 pages, including biographical sketch of the organizers, to the Workshop/Special sessions Chairs by June 15th, 2014. Student Paper Contest A Student Contest will be held during Mobihealth 2014. The contest is open to all Master and PhD students, who appear as the first author and present the paper at the conference. European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) EAI is a membership-driven, grassroots ecosystem of leading ICT organizations and individuals focused on facilitating and advancing innovation in Europe. It operates through a variety of member-volunteer bodies that participate in both physical and virtual engagement around the ideas and services that will drive Europe’s ambitious innovation agenda. www.eai.eu <http://www.eai.eu/> *ORGANIZING COMMITTEE* FOUNDING CHAIR James Lin, UIC, USA GENERAL CHAIRS Konstantina S. Nikita, NTUA, Greece Nikolaos Bourbakis, WSU, USA Benny Lo, ICL, UK HONORARY CHAIR Yuan-Ting Zhang, CUHK, China TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIRS Dimitrios I. Fotiadis, UoI, Greece Yang Hao, QMUL, UK INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE Metin Akay, UH, USA Maria Teresa Arredondo, UPM, Spain Constantine A. Balanis, ASU, USA Maysam Ghovanloo, GATECH, USA Luis Kun, NDU, USA Andrew Laine, CU, USA Gianluca Lazzi, UTAH, USA Constantinos S. Pattichis, UCY, Cyprus Laura Roa, US, Spain Niilo Saranummi, VTT, Finland Manos M. Tetzeris, GATECH, USA Manolis Tsiknakis, ICS-FORTH, Greece Guang-Zhong Yang, ICL, UK WORKSHOPS CHAIR Emmanouil Spanakis, ICS-FORTH, Greece SPECIAL SESSIONS COMMITTEE CHAIRS Akram Alomainy, QMUL, UK Javier Reina-Tosina, US, Spain INDUSTRY FORUM CHAIR Vagelis Antoniadis, Cytech Ltd, Greece PUBLICATION CHAIR Asimina Kiourti, OSU, USA DEMOS CHAIR Maria Christopoulou, UPATRAS, Greece AWARDS CHAIR Dimitrios Lymperopoulos, UPATRAS, Greece LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIRS Konstantia Zarkogianni, NTUA, Greece Aimilia Gastounioti, NTUA, Greece WEB CHAIRS Vasileios Kolias, NTUA, Greece Konstantinos Psathas, NTUA, Greece / / *Endorsed by Conference by EAI Technical Co sponsor* <http://www.eai.eu> <http://www.icst.org/> <http://www.create-net.org/> *About EAI -* The European Alliance for Innovation is a dynamic eco-system for fostering ICT enabled innovation to improve European competitiveness and to benefit society. 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Fwd: Workshop Deadlines Approaching
by Lars Wolf 17 Jan '14

17 Jan '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Workshop Deadlines Approaching Datum: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 18:05:44 -0500 Von: IEEE Vechicular Technology Society<rckeele(a)ieee.org> An: <wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> Vehicular Technology Society header Join Our LinkedIn Group <http://www.mmsend2.com/link.cfm?r=661445230&sid=29928096&m=3373045&u=IEEE_V…> Join Our LinkedIn Group <http://www.mmsend2.com/link.cfm?r=661445230&sid=29928097&m=3373045&u=IEEE_V…> *VTC2014-Spring Workshops* *Deadlines Approaching* There is still time to contribute to VTC2014-Spring in Seoul. While main track submissions have closed, there are four workshops which are still accepting submissions: W1: 2014 IEEE VTC Workshop on Emerging Technologies: Wireless Power (2014 IEEE VTC-WoW) W2: The Second International Workshop on Vehicular Traffic Management for Smart Cities (VTM 2014) W3: Workshop on Visible Light Communication for Vehicular Networks (VLCVN 2014) W4: The Second International Workshop on 5G Mobile and Wireless Communication System for 2020 and Beyond (MWC2020) For more information please visit: http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2014spring/workshops.php <http://www.mmsend2.com/link.cfm?r=661445230&sid=29928098&m=3373045&u=IEEE_V…> *************************************************************************************************************** *2014 IEEE VTC-WoW* *18 May* *************************************************************************************************************** *Welcome Message* Wireless power transfer is increasingly and more widely used in recent years. As wireless communications has changed and dominated our lives and business dramatically, wireless power is expected to make people get free from wires and fear of battery discharge. Different from the wireless communications, however, wireless power needs much more innovations and efforts to open the ubiquitous wireless power era. To promote the development of wireless power technologies, the workshop on wireless power sponsored by IEEE will be held in Seoul, Korea as a part of VTC conference. It is recommended for advanced engineers to present their papers at this workshop, where a few plenary speakers present their recent achievements. *Conference Tracks* 1. Wireless powers for mobile devices(smart phones, tablet PC, etc.) 2. Wireless powers for electric vehicles(PHEV, BEV, RPEV; bus, train, etc.) 3. Wireless powers for industry application 4. Wireless powers for home appliances 5. Converters for wireless powers 6. Analytical methods for wireless powers 7. Environmental impacts of wireless powers 8. Magnetics and coil designs for wireless powers 9. Components and EMC designs for wireless powers 10. Modeling, simulation, and control of wireless power systems *Important Dates* *Deadline for abstract submission:* Feb. 1, 2014 Notification of acceptance: Feb. 15, 2014 Deadline for final manuscripts: Mar. 15, 2014 *_Submission Guidelines of Regular Papers_**__* Prospective authors are asked to submit 5-page maximum for final manuscripts; up to 2 additional pages can be purchased at a cost of $ 100 per page. For the submission, please use the website: (*http://vtc2014spring-wk.trackchair.com <http://www.mmsend2.com/link.cfm?r=661445230&sid=29928099&m=3373045&u=IEEE_V…>)*.Papers should make a timely contribution to state-of-the-art technology, be of high technical and editorial quality, and be devoid of commercialism. Each paper proposal must include: technical track number and name, paper title, name(s) of author(s), business affiliation(s), mailing address(es), phone and fax numbers, and e-mail address(es) and corresponding author(s). An abstract of 50-100 words and a main contextincluding figures and tables should be presented, stating the objective of the paper, outlining the problem requiring solution or the method of approach to research, being explicit with respect to the type of data,and summarizing the conclusions.It should clearlydefinethe concepts and novel features. _All submitted p__apers from the __2014 IEEE VTC-WoW____can__be further considered for review by Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics (J-ESTPE)__._ The standard IEEE template for conference papers is recommended for the final manuscript and it can be found at the following website: (*http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html <http://www.mmsend2.com/link.cfm?r=661445230&sid=29928100&m=3373045&u=IEEE_V…>*) * * *************************************************************************************************************** *VTM 2014* *18 May* *************************************************************************************************************** *Aim and Scope* The rapid growth of the number of cars on the roads has created a plethora of challenges for road traffic management authorities such as, traffic congestion, increasing number of accidents, air pollution, etc. Over the last decade, researchers from both industry and academia have focused their efforts on exploiting advances in sensing and communication technologies to make the existing road Traffic Management Systems (TMSs) more efficient. Their main goal is to improve the traveler’s safety, shorten the travel time and reduce the environmental impact. Road traffic management for smart cities involves monitoring the actual traffic situation in real-time (including volumes, speeds, incidents, etc.) and then controlling or influencing the flow using that information in order to reduce traffic congestion, deal efficiently with incidents and provide accurate and reliable traffic information and prediction to both drivers and authorities. Moreover, it is foreseen that future smart cities will provide faster and secure emergency service delivery by granting proper traffic privileges to emergency vehicles. This workshop seeks to bring together researchers, scientists and engineers from various research communities, as well as practitioners and administrators who face the challenges of traffic management in smart cities. They are all welcome to present and discuss their latest research findings, ideas, simulation tools and applications at the 2014 VTM workshop. *Topics of Interest* Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Vehicular traffic management * Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) protocols for smart cities * Data sensing and gathering techniques in urban environments * Mobile sensing (privacy, trust management and security issues) * Data fusion and integration for traffic management systems (techniques, algorithms, data types, etc.) * Distributed simulations for large scale urban environments * Route planning protocols and road traffic prediction mechanisms * Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) and VANETs applied to traffic management systems in smart cities * Mobility and vehicular traffic measurement, modeling, and simulation * Security and QoS issues for ITS applications * V2X feasibility over LTE networks * M2M communication for data collection in road environment * Mobile applications for intelligent traffic management * Deployment issues for smart infrastructure in urban areas * Vehicular Sensor Networks (VSNs) applications for road traffic management * Decision making tools for road traffic management * Electric vehicles *Submission guidelines:* The VTM workshop follows the formatting guidelines of IEEE VTC2014-Spring. Submissions should be original and limited to *5 double-column pages *(Maximum of 2 additional pages allowed - *7 pages in total *- with over-length page fee) in IEEE paper templates. All submissions should be written in English using 10-point font. Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts in PDF format through Track Chair conference system (http://vtc2014spring-wk.trackchair.com/track/1237/submit <http://www.mmsend2.com/link.cfm?r=661445230&sid=29928101&m=3373045&u=IEEE_V…>). Please contact Dr. Soufiene Djahel (soufiene.djahel at ucd dot ie), Prof. Damien Magoni (magoni at labri dot fr) or Dr. Philip Perry (philip.perry at ucd dot ie) if you have any questions about submitting your manuscripts. *Important dates:* *Submission deadline * *10 February 2014 * *Acceptance notification * *15 March 2014* *Camera-ready version * *24 March 2014* *For more information visit the website: **csserver.ucd.ie/~sdjahel/VTM2014/VTM.html* <http://www.mmsend2.com/link.cfm?r=661445230&sid=29928102&m=3373045&u=IEEE_V…> *************************************************************************************************************** *VLCVN 2014* *18 May* *************************************************************************************************************** Visible light communications uses the visible spectrum (390 -750 nm) of the optical band for wireless data transmission and takes advantage of the low-cost and omni-present light emitting diodes (LEDs). Simultaneous use of LEDs for both lighting and data communications is a sustainable and energy-efficient approach that has the potential to revolutionize how we use light. Besides indoor illumination, LEDs are being widely used in outdoor lighting, traffic signs, advertising displays, car headlights/taillights, etc. This makes possible the use of VLC for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications which are key components of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs). This workshop aims to provide a scientific forum to discuss the potential of VLC in the context of ITSs and identify the associated problems, challenges, requirements, and research directions. Prospective authors are invited to submit 5-pages, original, unpublished, full technical papers in the following topics of interest, but are not limited to: · Advanced coding and modulation techniques for V2V and V2I communications · MIMO VLC systems for vehicular networks · Multi-hop VLC vehicular networks · Effect of sunlight and ambient noise on vehicular VLC performance · LED pointing, acquisition and tracking · MAC and upper layer protocols for vehicular VLC networks · Centralized and distributed vehicular VLC networks · Navigation and positioning using VLC · VLC-based park assistance · VLC-based vehicle platoons · Advanced driver assistance systems · Vehicular area networks (VANETs) · Integration aspects with public lighting infrastructures · Hybrid RF/VLC vehicular networks · Intelligent transportation systems · VLC for high speed communication with trains · Test beds and field trials Paper submission guidelines: Submitted papers must be unpublished and should not be submitted elsewhere at the same time. Accepted full papers should not exceed 5 pages in two-column IEEE Transactions style. Accepted full papers longer than 5 pages will be charged $100 for each extra page. Papers cannot be longer than 7 pages. Papers should be submitted as PDF files through the TrackChair system (http://vtc2014spring-wk.trackchair.com/ <http://www.mmsend2.com/link.cfm?r=661445230&sid=29928103&m=3373045&u=IEEE_V…>). All submitted papers will be subject to three independent reviews. Note: To be published in the IEEE VTC2014-Spring Conference Proceedings and to be eligible for publication in IEEE Xplore®, an author of an accepted paper is required to register for the conference at the full (member or non-member) rate and the paper must be presented by an author of that paper at the conference unless the workshop chair grants permission for a substitute presenter arranged in advance of the event and who is qualified both to present and answer questions. For authors with multiple accepted papers, one full registration is valid for up to 2 papers. · Workshop Chairs*: Navin Kumar (*CMR Institute of Technology, India), *Murat Uysal (*Özyegin University, Turkey), and *Luis Nero Alves (*Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal) · Publicity Chair*: Mahesh Kumar Jha (*CMR Institute of Technology, India) *IMPORTANT DATES* ******************************************** ** *Paper submission deadline*: January 31, 2014* ** *Paper**acceptance notification*: February 21, 2014* ** *Camera ready paper*: February 28, 2014* * * *CONTACTS* ******************************************** For further information, please visit the workshop website at http://vtc2014spring-wk.trackchair.com/track/1211 <http://www.mmsend2.com/link.cfm?r=661445230&sid=29928104&m=3373045&u=IEEE_V…> contact: *navinkumar(a)ieee.org* <mailto:navinkumar@ieee.org> *************************************************************************************************************** *MWC2020* *18 May 2014* *************************************************************************************************************** *Scope and Objectives:* The purpose of the workshop is to bring researchers and industry together to share their views on needs, possibilities and challenges in 5G communication systems. Participants are expected to share their views on which new technology enablers are going to be the pillars of the coming 5G mobile and wireless system. Those enablers may be components of the protocol stack (PHY, MAC or upper layers) or new architectural models. It is widely viewed that the future mobile infrastructure will have to cope not only with a quantitative growth of the requirements that we are facing today (higher capacity, data rate, number of connected devices) but also with qualitatively new requirements (higher reliability, larger versatility, application-domain specific topologies) resulting from a broader scope of applications over 5G networks. In 2020, mobile and wireless traffic volume is expected to increase thousand-fold over 2010 figures. Moreover, an increase in the number of wirelessly connected devices in the tens of billions will have a profound impact on society. Massive machine communication, forming the basis for the Internet of Things, will make our everyday life more efficient, comfortable and safer, through a wide range of applications including traffic safety and medical services. The variety of applications and traffic types originating from or reaching mobile, WLAN, and sensor networks, will be significantly larger than today, and will result in more diverse requirements on services, devices and networks. To meet the demands beyond 2020, a system that broadens the use of today's wireless networks is needed. Fundamentally new concepts and design approaches are needed, and these must be integrated into systems that provide the necessary flexibility, versatility and scalability at low cost and low energy consumption. This workshop presents a forum for exchange of ideas between all stakeholders. We invite researchers to submit original papers in the following areas: * D2D communication * Machine-type communication/massive machine communication * Ultra-reliable networks and NSPS communication * Moving networks and vehicular-to-anything communication * Ultra-dense deployments * Radio network architectures including beyond cellular * Self-organizing networks and distributed features * Energy efficient networks * Network and massive MIMO * Network coding * Efficient air interfaces (low signaling overhead, energy consumption) * Optimizing radio access * Interference metrics, measurements and management * Millimeter-wave communication * Spectrum measurement and models * Spectrum use and new spectrum sharing models * Cognitive radio networks * QoS provisioning and MAC protocol * Trust and security * Experimental prototypes and results related with the above topics *Important Dates:* * Paper Submission : 23 February, 2014 * Author Notification : 14 March, 2014 * Final paper submission : 24 March, 2014 *Paper Submission:* Papers should follow the 2-column IEEE conference template and not exceed 5 pages. 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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE IoT Journal - SI on IoV
by Lars Wolf 16 Jan '14

16 Jan '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE IoT Journal - SI on IoV Datum: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 09:54:59 -0800 Von: Hasnaa Moustafa <hasnaa.moustafa(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Hasnaa Moustafa <hasnaa.moustafa(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG 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 offer 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 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, UCLA, USA & UPMC, France. Email: gpau(a)cs.ucla.edu 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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 PIMRC 2014 Sept 2-5 USA: Submit by April 15!
by Lars Wolf 16 Jan '14

16 Jan '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: IEEE PIMRC 2014 Sept 2-5 USA: Submit by April 15! Datum: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 11:59:21 -0500 Von: IEEE ComSoc Meetings <noreply(a)comsoc.org> An: <wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> View message online - Click here <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=248908789&sid=29905253&m=3370413&u=IEEEC…>. IEEE Communications Society ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *IEEE **PIMRC 2014** **The IEEE 25th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications September 2 - 5 Capital Hilton Washington DC, USA **www.ieee-pimrc.org/ <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=248908789&sid=29905254&m=3370413&u=IEEEC…>* *FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS Submission Deadline: April 1, 2014* The IEEE Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) is one of the premier conferences in the wireless research arena and has a long history of bringing together academia, industry and regulatory bodies. Today, it has become one of the IEEE Communication Society’s flagship conferences in wireless networking. After a long absence from the US, this important wireless event will be returning to Washington D.C. in 2014. PIMRC 2014 will include technical sessions, tutorials, workshops, and technology and business panels. You are invited to submit papers and proposals for panels, tutorials, and workshops, in all areas of wireless communications, networks, services, and applications. The instructions for authors will be posted on the conference website. *Track 1:* Fundamentals and PHY Advanced modulation schemes Antennas Beamforming Channel capacity estimation Channel equalisation Channel modelling Channel simulation Cognitive and green radio Cooperative communications Interference mitigation Multi-antenna signal processing PHY aspects of WLAN, WPAN, and WBAN PHY performance evaluation Physical layer network coding Physical layer security Positioning, localisation, and tracking techniques Power efficient communications Propagation Signal processing for wireless communications Single and multi-user MIMO Source and channel coding Synchronization techniques Ultra-wideband communications Vehicular communications *Track 2: * MAC and Cross-Layer Design Adaptive MACs Cognitive MACs Cross-layer designs involving MAC Delay tolerant MAC designs Docitive MACs Implementation, testbeds and prototypes Information-theoretical approaches to MAC designs Joint access and backhaul scheduler designs Joint MAC and networking layer designs MAC for low power embedded networks MAC for mobile and vehicular ad hoc networks QoS/QoE-enabling MAC in 4G and future mobile networks Radio resource management, allocation, and scheduling Reconfigurable MACs Scheduler for cellular macro-, pico- and femto systems Scheduler for cooperative systems Scheduler for relay systems Security issues in MAC designs Time-critical MAC designs *Track 3: * Mobile and Wireless Networks Ad hoc networks Body area networks Cognitive radio networks Congestion, load and admission control Cooperative communications Delay tolerant networks Dynamic spectrum management Future wireless Internet Green wireless networks Local dependent networks Location management Mobile and wireless IP Mobile computing Multi-hop networks Network architectures Routing, QoS and scheduling Satellite communications Self-organising networks Smart cities Smart grids Transport layer Vehicular networks Wireless multicasting, broadcasting, and geocasting Wireless sensor networks *Track 4: * Services, Applications and Business Audio and video broadcast applications Authentication, authorisation and accounting Context and location-awareness in pervasive systems Cyber-physical system / real-world Internet Emerging wireless/mobile applications In-/intra-car communications Mobile multimedia services Link data and networked knowledge Next generation digital home networks P2P services for multimedia Personalisation, profiles and profiling Secure network and service access Self-adaptation on the service layer Semantic technologies Service discovery Service oriented architectures and cloud computing Service portability User interfaces, user-machine interactions Wireless emergency and security systems Wireless robotics *Executive Committee:* General Chair Anthony Ephremides (University of Maryland, College Park) Technical Programme Chairs Kamran Sayrafian (National Institute of Standards & Technology) Sennur Ulukus (University of Maryland, College Park) Executive Chair Kaveh Pahlavan (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) To be published in the IEEE PIMRC Conference Proceedings and to be eligible for publication in IEEE Xplore®, an author of an accepted paper is required to register for the conference at the full (member or non-member) rate and the paper must be presented by an author of that paper at the conference unless the TPC Chair grants permission for a substitute presenter arranged in advance of the event and who is qualified both to present and answer questions. Non-refundable registration fees must be paid prior to uploading the final IEEE formatted, publication-ready version of the paper. For authors with multiple accepted papers, one full registration is valid for up to 3 papers. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the IEEE PIMRC 2014 Conference Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore®, as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. IEEE Policy on Non-Discrimination <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=248908789&sid=29905255&m=3370413&u=IEEEC…> www.comsoc.org <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=248908789&sid=29905256&m=3370413&u=IEEEC…> Unsubscribe from this email list >> <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=248908789&sid=29905257&m=3370413&u=IEEEC…> IEEE Communications Society - 17th floor , 3 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016

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Fwd: INDIN2014 CfP
by Lars Wolf 16 Jan '14

16 Jan '14

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: IEEE Industrial Electronics Society <ieee-ies(a)auburn.edu> Gesendet: Thu Jan 16 01:00:32 MEZ 2014 Betreff: INDIN2014 CfP CALL FOR PAPERS 12th IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS - INDIN 2014 PORTO ALEGRE RS BRAZIL JULY 27-30 2014 IEEE INDIN is the premier conference series presenting the state of the art and future perspectives of industrial information technologies, where industry experts, researchers, and academics share ideas and experiences surrounding frontier technologies, breakthrough and innovative solutions and applications. Previous conferences in the series were held in Banff Canada (2003), Berlin Germany (2004), Perth Australia (2005), Singapore (2006), Vienna Austria (2007), Daejeon Korea (2008), Cardiff UK (2009), Osaka Japan (2010), Lisbon Portugal (2011), Beijing China (2012) and Bochum, Germany (2013). This year the conference will be held for the first in South America, in Porto Alegre, Southern Brazil. The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners from industry and academia and provide them with a platform to report on recent developments, deployments, technology trends and research results, as well as initiatives related to industrial informatics And their application. Conference Topics include (but are not restricted to): Technologies and Infrastructures Cognitive and Computational Intelligence Distributed and Networked Control Systems Real-Time and Embedded Computing Factory Automation Human-Machine Interfaces Mechatronics and Robotics Wireless, Cyber-Physical and Cloud Technologies Emergent Paradigms Tools Models, applications and technologies for Business Enterprise Management To enhance the technical program, several special sessions on specialized topics are foreseen to be organized (please refer to INDIN2014 website). The Conference Program will include keynote speeches of leading experts, such as: - Prof. Jay Lee - University of Cincinnati - USA, Director of the NSF Industry-University Collaborative Research Center IMS Center USA. Keynote title: �Recent Advances and Trends of Cyber-Physical Systems and Big Data Analytics in Industrial Informatics Systems� - Bran Selic - IBM Distinguished Engineer and one of the most know researchers in the area of Model-Driven Engineering and Model-Driven Architectures will present the talk �Model-Based Software Engineering in Industry: Revolution, Evolution, or Smoke?� - Prof. Dr. Detlef Zuehlke, Director of �Smart Factory� at DFKI Kaiserslautern and Professor of the University of Kaiserslautern - Germany, who will present the Industrie 4.0 paradigm and discuss the impact on future production. - Prof. Dr. Okyay Kaynak - IEEE Fellow and Editor-in-Chief of Transactions on IEEE/ASME Transaction on Mechatronics, who will present the talk �The Exhilarating Journey from Industrial Electronics to Industrial Informatics� - Prof. Dr. Toshio Fukuda - Professor of the University of Nagoya Japan, IEEE Fellow, one of the world experts in the area of robotics, who will deliver a speech about �Multi-scale Robotics� Further information about the keynote plenaries are availabe at http://indin2014.ece.ufrgs.br/keynotes.html. PAPER SUBMISSION The working language of the conference is English. Prospective authors are requesteD to submit full papers (6 pages max) following the guidelines available on the conference website. Accepted papers will be included in conference proceedings volume, which will be published in IEEE Xplore. Each accepted paper must be presented at the conference by one of the authors. Papers not presented will not be included in IEEE Xplore. Deadlines Special sessions proposals - Jan. 31, 2014 Tutorials proposals - March 01, 2014 Paper Submission - Feb. 12, 2014 Notification of acceptance - April 15, 2014 Final manuscripts - May 25, 2014 Hope to meet you in Porto Alegre at INDIN 2014. For further information, please visit www.indin2014.org -- IEEE IES conferences. To unsubscribe: http://ieee-ies.org/submit-php/emailremove.php

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