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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] OPTIM 2014 - 21-25 July 2014, Bologna, Italy - Submission deadline March 11th
by Lars Wolf 03 Feb '14

03 Feb '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] OPTIM 2014 - 21-25 July 2014, Bologna, Italy - Submission deadline March 11th Datum: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 14:17:41 +0300 Von: Dzmitry Kliazovich <kliazovich(a)IEEE.ORG> Antwort an: Dzmitry Kliazovich <kliazovich(a)IEEE.ORG> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG **************************************** Call for Papers: OPTIM 2014 21-25 July 2014, Bologna, Italy **************************************** IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission: March 11, 2014 - Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2014 Submit now using EasyChair system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=optim2014 International Workshop on Optimization Issues in Energy Efficient Distributed Systems(OPTIM 2014 -- http://hpcs2014.cisedu.info/2-conference/workshops/workshop-02-optim) As part of the International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation [HPCS 2014](http://hpcs2014.cisedu.info/) SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES ---------------------- Minimization of energy consumption has become a central issue in designing distributed systems that range from wireless ad hoc networks to data centers. Because battery technologies have not yet matched advances in hardware and software technologies, saving energy in battery-operated devices is very important for mobile/wireless networks. Similarly, minimizing energy consumption in high performance computing centers will, in addition to saving power consumption, require less cooling mechanisms. These new challenges require innovative and effective optimization solutions for minimizing power consumption in distributed systems, such as energy-efficient scheduling algorithms and energy-efficient Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers who are interested in addressing issues of concern and challenges related to optimizing computing system power consumption, energy efficient systems, and distributed systems. Both theoretical papers and papers describing practical experiences will be welcome. The Workshop topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: * Optimization of energy-efficient protocols/algorithms * Energy efficient cloud computing * Energy-efficient scheduling algorithms * Energy-efficient cross-layer protocols * Energy-efficient MAC protocols * Energy-efficient routing protocols * Green data centers and cloud networking * Voltage and frequency scaled networks * Energy-efficient communication protocols * Energy-efficient protocols/algorithms in PHY, IP layers or above * Hardware solutions for achieving energy efficiency in large-scale networked systems * Power consumption profiling and estimation * Virtualization techniques for energy efficiency * Network models and simulation modules/tools for energy efficient solutions INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS: --------------------------- You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to optimization issues in energy efficient distributed systems. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author and include up to 6 keywords from the above list of topics and an abstract of no more than 400 words. The full manuscript should be at most 8 pages using the two-column IEEE format. Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments. Only PDF files will be accepted. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, technical clarity and presentation. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be registered and presented at the workshop. Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the HPCS 2014 Conference web site. It is our intent to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time of the conference. The proceedings is to be published as ISBN proceedings by the IEEE and will be available online through IEEE Digital Library and indexed by major indexing services accordingly (e.g., EI indexing). If you have any questions about paper submission or the workshop, please contact the workshop organizers, or use the conference [EasyChair email address](mailto:optim2014@easychair.org). WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS ---------------------- Pascal Bouvry, Gregoire Danoy, Dzmitry Kliazovich, Sebastien Varrette University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Dr. Bernabe Dorronsoro, INRIA Lille, France International Program Committee (to be completed): All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the workshop technical program committee members following similar criteria used in HPCS 2014. * Mansoor Ahmed, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan * Ezendu Ariwa, London Metropolitan University, U.K. * Francisco Chicano, University of Malaga, Spain * Luc Hogie, CNRS/INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France * Dzmitry Kliazovich, SnT - University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg * Joanna Kolodziej, Institute of Computer Science, Cracow University of Technology, Poland * Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, University of Lyon, France * Jen Juan Li, North Dakota State University, ND, USA * Gabriel J. Luque, University of Malaga, Spain * Nasro Min-Allah, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan * Anne-Cecile Orgerie, CNRS/INRIA - IRISA, Rennes, France * Johnatan Pecero, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg * Franciszek Seredynski, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University, Poland * Marcin Seredynski, CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg * El-Ghazali Talbi, INRIA-Futurs, Lille, France * Andrei Tchernykh, CICESE Research Center, Mexico * Denis Trystram, ENSIMAG, France * Sherali Zeadally, University of the District of Columbia, USA ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Papers -- ACM WiSec 2014 - One month before Deadline
by Lars Wolf 03 Feb '14

03 Feb '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Papers -- ACM WiSec 2014 - One month before Deadline Datum: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 11:34:56 +0100 Von: Mathieu Cunche <mathieu.cunche(a)INRIA.FR> Antwort an: Mathieu Cunche <mathieu.cunche(a)INRIA.FR> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Reminder: Only one month left before deadline (March 3rd, 2014). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- We would like to invite you to participate in the 7th ACM Conference on Security and Privac in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec). This year WiSec will be co-located with RFIDSec'14 in Oxford, United Kingdom on July 21st - 25th, 2014. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 7th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks ACM WiSec '14 Oxford, United Kingdom July 21st - 25th 2014 http://www.sigsac.org/wisec/WiSec2014/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract submission: March 3rd, 2014 Paper submission: March 10th, 2014 Notification to authors: May 7th, 2014 Poster and demo proposal submission: May 14th, 2014 Notification to poster presenters: May 21st, 2014 Camera-ready version: May 28th, 2014 CONFERENCE SCOPE: ACM WiSec has been broadening its scope and seeks to present high quality research papers exploring security and privacy aspects of wireless communications, mobile networks, and their applications. In addition to the traditional ACM WiSec topics of physical, link, and network layer security, we welcome papers focusing on the security and privacy of mobile software platforms, usable security and privacy, biometrics and the increasingly diverse range of mobile or wireless applications. The conference welcomes both theoretical as well as systems contributions. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Mobile malware and platform security - Security & Privacy for Smart Devices (e.g., Smartphones) - Wireless and mobile privacy and anonymity - Secure localization and location privacy - Cellular network fraud and security - Jamming attacks and defenses - Key extraction, agreement, or distribution - Theoretical foundations, cryptographic primitives, and formal methods - NFC and smart payment applications - Security and privacy for mobile sensing systems - Wireless or mobile security and privacy in health, automotive, avionics, or smart grid applications - Self-tracking/Quantified Self Security and Privacy - Physical Tracking Security and Privacy - Usable Mobile Security and Privacy - Economics of Mobile Security and Privacy - Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Security The proceedings of ACM WiSec will be published by the ACM. FULL AND SHORT PAPERS: Full paper submissions to ACM WiSec 2014 can be up to 10 pages in the ACM conference style excluding the bibliography and well marked appendices, and up to 12 pages in total. ACM WiSec also encourages the submission of short papers with a length of up to 6 pages, which describe mature work of a more succinct nature. All papers must be thoroughly anonymized for double-blind reviewing. Detailed submission instructions will appear on the conference website (http://sigsac.hosting.acm.org/wisec/WiSec2014/). DOUBLE SUBMISSIONS: It is a policy of the ACM to disallow double submissions, where the same (or substantially similar) paper is concurrently submitted to multiple conferences/journals. Any double submissions detected will be immediately rejected from all conferences/journals involved. ORGANISATION: Organising Committee General Chairs: Andrew Martin, University of Oxford, UK Ivan Martinovic, University of Oxford, UK Program Chairs: Claude Castelluccia, INRIA, France Patrick Traynor, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Publicity Chairs: Kasper Rasmussen, University of Oxford, UK Mathieu Cunche, University of Lyon, France Publication Chair: Gergely Acs, INRIA, France Poster/Demo Chair: Aurélien Francillon, Eurecom, France Web Chair: Justin King-Lacroix, University of Oxford, UK Steering Committee Gene Tsudik, University of California, Irvine, USA. (chair) N. Asokan, University of Helsinki, Finland Srdjan Capkun, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Claude Castelluccia, INRIA, France Douglas Maughan, Department of Homeland Security, USA Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany Best regards The WiSec'14 organising committee. ______________________________________________________________ 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] [WiSARN 2014] 8th International Workshop on Wireless Sensor, Actuator and Robot Networks
by Lars Wolf 02 Feb '14

02 Feb '14

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Enrico Natalizio <enatalizio(a)DEIS.UNICAL.IT> Gesendet: 2. Februar 2014 11:21:36 MEZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [WiSARN 2014] 8th International Workshop on Wireless Sensor, Actuator and Robot Networks Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. *************************************************************** Call for papers WiSARN 2014 8th International Workshop on Wireless Sensor, Actuator and Robot Networks (in conjunction with the 13th International Conference on Ad-Hoc Networks and Wireless ) Benidorm, Spain 22-27 June 2014 https://wisarn2014.hds.utc.fr *************************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission: February 28th Author notification: March 20th Author registration: March 28th Camera ready: March 28th CALL FOR PAPERS Wireless sensor and actor networks (WSANs) are the confluence point where the traditional fields of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), robot networks and control theory meet. In WSAN, nodes collaborate to accomplish distributed sensing and actuation tasks. Leveraged by the control and mobility of actors, the networking process and applications embrace a whole new set of possibilities. Actors may deploy, repair and relocate sensors to improve coverage, build routes and fix network partition to ensure data communication, change network topology to shape routing patterns and balance energy consumption, and respond to reported events in a timely and effective manner. The benefits are limited only by imagination. As an emerging field, WSANs are in need of new networking techniques, by which they can fully exploit their particularities and potentials. WiSARN aims to bring together state-of-the-art contributions on the design, specification and implementation of architectures, algorithms and protocols for current and future applications of WSAN. TOPIC OF INTEREST Original, unpublished contributions are solicited in ALL aspects of WSAN and traditional wireless sensor networks, robot networks, as well as robotics and automation. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: * Autonomous sensor networks * Emergent behavior in WSAN * Modeling and simulation of WSAN * WSAN architectural and operational models * Optimal control of networked robots * Robot advanced motion control by WSAN * Modeling and control of flying robots * Autonomic and self-organizing coordination and communication * Sensor-robot and robot-robot coordination * Energy-efficient and real-time communication protocols * Bandwidth-efficient and delay-tolerant communication protocols * Distributed control and management in WSAN * Neighborhood discovery and mobility management * Communication protocols for swarms of mobile robots * Map exploration and pattern formation of mobile robots * Robot task assignment * Biologically inspired communication * Ecological systems * Architectures and topology control * Localization in WSAN * Probabilistic integration in WSAN * Quality of service, security and robustness issues * Applications and prototypes * Hybrid networks and wireless Internet * Data management, gathering, aggregation and query processing Papers must not exceed 14 pages. The submission link will be available soon on wisarn2014.hds.utc.fr/submissions/ TPC Committee General Chair: Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Program Co-Chairs: Enrico Natalizio, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France Danilo Tardioli, Centro Universitario de la Defensa (Zaragoza), Spain Publicity Chair: Valeria Loscrì, Inria Lille - Nord Europe, France Eduardo Montijano, Centro Universitario de la Defensa (Zaragoza), Spain Submission Chair: Rafael Falcon, Larus Technologies, Canada Web Chair: Dimitrios Zorbas, Inria Lille - Nord Europe, France Technical Program Committee: Luis Almeida, University of Porto, Portugal Novella Bartolini, University of Rome « La Sapienza », Italy Xianghui Cao, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Gianni Di Caro, IDSIA Lugano, Switzerland Isabelle Fantoni, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France Jianping He, Zhejiang University, China Shibo He, Arizona State University, USA Jonathan How, MIT, USA Abdelmajid Khelil, Huawei European Research Center, Germany Egons Lavendelis, Riga Technical University, Latvia Tommaso Melodia, State University of New York, USA Nathalie Mitton, Inria Lille - Nord Europe, France Alejandro Mosteo, Centro Universitario de la Defensa (Zaragoza), Spain Jorge Ortín, Centro Universitario de la Defensa (Zaragoza), Spain Angela Schoellig, University of Toronto, Canada Ahmet Sekercioglu, Monash University, Australia Simone Silvestri, Pennsylvania State University, USA Olivier Simonin, INSA de Lyon, France Fabrice Theoleyre, CNRS, France Fabrice Valois, INSA de Lyon, France Evsen Yanmaz, Klagenfurt University, Austria Shuhui Yang, Purdue University, USA ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [IoTIP'14] International workshop on Internet of Things – Ideas and Perspectives
by Lars Wolf 02 Feb '14

02 Feb '14

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Valeria Loscri <vloscri(a)DEIS.UNICAL.IT> Gesendet: 2. Februar 2014 11:58:03 MEZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [IoTIP'14] International workshop on Internet of Things – Ideas and Perspectives Call for papers IEEE DCOSS International workshop on Internet of Things – Ideas and Perspectives (IoTIP'14) May 25-27, 2014 Marina Del Rey, USA https://iotip2014.hds.utc.fr/ *************************************************************************** Important dates Submission Deadline: March 9th, 2014 Acceptance Notification: April 5th, 2014 Camera Ready Due: April 25th, 2014 Workshop Date: May 27th, 2014 Call for papers: Slowly but steadily the Internet of Things (IoT) is penetrating and transforming our lives. The first stage of the IoT evolution consisted in the deployment of RFID tags for facilitating routing, taking inventory and loss prevention of goods. After that we witnessed the first wave of RFID and sensor network integration toward vertical-market applications. Nowadays, new generations of RFID tags, in particular active RFID tags, often include built-in sensing capabilities. Whereas, applications based on sensor networks often require means for unique identification and discovery of objects, which are monitored by the sensor network. The convergence of sensing and identification technologies, together with communication and computation systems, enables us to gain impressive awareness about the state of the real world and will drastically change the way we interact with our environment. Urban planning, smart cities, intelligent shopping, smart meters, home automation, security and surveillance, industrial applications like process industry automation, supply chain, smart product management and agricultural applications are examples of potential applications for real-world systems. Even though the advent of the IPv6/6LoWPAN protocol suite solved several technical issues, many challenges are still open in the research and development communities concerning the choice of communication paradigms, architectures and technology. The main focus of this workshop is on technologies, applications and paradigms of the IoT that are already deployed or are under investigation and that belong to the second stage of the IoT evolution. The next step in the evolution of the IoT is its characterization as the underlying technological layer needed to shape and substantiate higher layer concepts such as semantic web and personalization. In fact, the IoT is the enabling technology to allow virtual and physical worlds to converge in what has already been defined as Web 3.0. If, currently, the IoT is the most suited companion of blogging, podcasting, tagging and social networking, we can imagine that its evolution will foster the rise of statistical, machine-constructed semantic tags and algorithms through the construction and exploitation of semantic databases empowered by distributed and cloud computing. The integration of the IoT with semantic databases, capable of delivering accurate information about the nature and the state of every physical object will introduce a staggering amount of new applications opportunities as well as potentially lead to an ultimate “Big brother scenario”. Therefore, a particular interest will have to be given to appropriate security and privacy control mechanisms. The secondary focus of this workshop is on IoT vision and perspective towards Web 3.0. IoTIP features two tracks: - Current ideas: for technical works currently under investigation; - Future perspectives: for vision papers envisaging possible future technologies, paradigms and applications for IoT. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: - IoT paradigms, architectures, applications and technologies - IoT systems and components - IoT for semantic web and personalization - Tools for developing IoT applications - Blogging, Podcasting, Tagging and Social networking through the IoT - Cloud vs distributed computing for the IoT - Security and privacy control mechanisms - Performance assessment and management (QoS, scalability, reliability, etc) - PHY layer, Spectrum management for IoT radio communications - MAC protocols (e.g., scheduling, power control etc.) for IoT - Mobility management - Naming, address management and End-to-End Addressability - Object, device and service management - RFID, sensors, actuator technologies - Middleware - Sustainable design and technologies (e.g. energy-efficiency) - Test-beds and field trials - Standardization and regulatory issues Submission guidelines : Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate current research on IoTIP research topics. Standard IEEE conference templates for LaTeX/Word formats can be found at: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html. The submission link will be available soon on the website of the workshop: http://iotip2014.hds.utc.fr All submissions should be written in English using 10 point font and be six (8) printed pages long maximum using 10 point font and including figures and tables. The papers should be submitted to one of the two tracks: - Current ideas: for technical works currently under investigation; - Future perspectives: for vision papers envisaging possible future technologies, paradigms and applications for IoT. Authors must suggest their preferred track for their paper at the time of submission. The workshop chairs, however, reserve the right to switch papers between tracks if they deem them a better fit for another track. Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in IEEE IoT Journal (http://iot.ieee.org/journal) Please note that the proceedings of this workshop will appear in IEEEXplore and will be included in DCOSS conference proceedings. Program committee members: Yacine Challal, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France Flavio Esposito, Boston University, USA Samira Hayat, Alpen-Adria University, Klagenfurt, Austria Antonio Iera, Università “Mediterranea” di Reggio Calabria, Italy Abdelmajid Khelil, Huawei European Research Center, Germany Srdjan Krco, Ericsson/University of Belgrade, Serbia Satish Kumar, Coastal Carolina University, USA Thomas D.C. Little, Boston University, USA Valeria Loscrì, Inria Lille – Nord Europe, France (publicity chair) Nathalie Mitton, Inria Lille – Nord Europe, France (workshop chair) Enrico Natalizio, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France (workshop chair) Giuseppe Ruggeri, Università “Mediterranea” di Reggio Calabria, Italy Anna Maria Vegni, Università degli Studi di Roma Tre, Italy Konrad Wrona, NC3A, Netherlands ______________________________________________________________ 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] WiMob 2014: First CFP and Call for Workshop Proposals
by Lars Wolf 02 Feb '14

02 Feb '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] WiMob 2014: First CFP and Call for Workshop Proposals Datum: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 14:23:57 +0200 Von: Announce Announcements <announce(a)CS.UCY.AC.CY> Antwort an: Announce Announcements <announce(a)CS.UCY.AC.CY> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG *** First Call for Papers *** *** Call for Workshop Proposals *** The 10th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications WiMob 2014 Golden Bay Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus October 8-10, 2014 http://conferences.computer.org/WiMob2014/ Deadline for Workshop Proposals: March 31, 2014 Deadline for Paper Submissions: May 1, 2014 (Proceedings will be published by IEEE) The IEEE WiMob conference is an international forum for the exchange of experience and knowledge among researchers and developers concerned with wireless and mobile technology. For nine years, the International IEEE WiMob conference has provided unique opportunities for researchers to interact, share new results, show live demonstrations, and discuss emerging directions in Wireless Communications, Mobile Networking and Ubiquitous Computing. IEEE WiMob 2014 will take place at Larnaca, Cyprus, between October 8 to 10th, 2014. It will be held at the Golden Bay Beach Hotel, a luxurious 5 star hotel situated in the favored south eastern region of Cyprus at the heart of the Bay of Larnaca. IEEE WiMob 2014 is soliciting high quality technical papers addressing research challenges in the areas of wireless communications, wireless networking, mobility, nomadicity, ubiquitous computing, services and applications. Papers should present original work validated via analysis, simulation or experimentation. Practical experiences and Testbed trials also are welcome. IEEE WiMob 2014 will host three parallel symposiums, including but not limited to the following topics: 1. Wireless Communications Broadband Wireless Communication Systems Signal Separation and Interference Rejection Wireless Personal Communications Multimedia Communications over Wireless Advances in Satellite Communication DSP Applications to Wireless Systems Adaptive Antennas for Wireless Systems Modulation and Coding Multiple Access Techniques Multiuser Detection Femtocells Channel Measurement and Characterization Location Estimation and Tracking OFDM and CDMA Technologies and Systems Resource Allocation and Interference Management MIMO Channels Multirate and Multicarrier Communications Link and System Capacity Spectrum Usage and Cognitive radio systems Cognitive and cooperative MAC Cognitive Radio Applications and Spectrum Management 2. Wireless Networking, Mobility and Nomadicity Mobile IP Networks Inter-working of 2G, 3G and 4G Wireless Networks Security, Privacy and Authentication in Mobile Environments Cellular Systems, PCS Modeling and Configuration Wireless Sensor Networks Cross-layer Design and Optimization Cross-layer security Congestion and Admission Control Mobility patterns, Location and Handoff Management Design and Analysis of Wireless LAN/WAN Wireless multicasting, broadcasting and geocasting Wireless Sensors and Actuators/Robots networks Energy-efficient protocols for wireless networks Green wireless network architectures and communication protocols Opportunistic networks Vehicular wireless networks Wireless Mesh networks Delay Tolerant Networks Integration of ad hoc networks with wireless access networks QoS support for mobile networks RFID networks and protocols B3G/4G Systems, WiMAX, WLAN, WPAN Optimization models and algorithms 3. Ubiquitous Computing, Services and Applications Emerging Wireless/Mobile applications System prototypes, real deployments and experimentation Cognitive Radio applications and spectrum management Resource and service discovery Mobile Social Wireless Networks Opportunistic Applications Gaming Applications in Ubiquitous Computing Environments Operating system and middleware support for mobile computing Multimedia over Wireless Networks Network Coding in wireless networks Security, Privacy and Infrastructure for Ubiquitous Computing Green computing in wireless networks Smart Grid Portable Devices and Wearable Computers Passive, Active and Smart Tags for Ubiquitous Computing Context and Location aware applications Data replication and dissemination in mobile networks Mobile Urban Sensing and Crowd-sensing Data gathering, fusion, and dissemination in WSNs Intelligent Transport Systems applications Wireless communications to vehicle-to-grid applications Wireless telemedicine and e-health services Content distribution in wireless home environment Service oriented architectures, service portability, P2P Smart Cities and smart environment Workshop Proposals As part of the program of WiMob 2014, a limited number of workshops are planned to be held in conjunction with the main conference. The main aim of the workshops is to provide an international forum for researchers to present their early research results and share experiences focused on specific research areas related to the main conference topics. Workshop proposals are solicited in all areas and topics related to wireless networking, mobile computing, mobile and wireless communications, pervasive computing and networking, and its services and applications. All papers accepted by the workshops will be included in the WiMob 2014 Proceedings published by IEEE. All proposals and questions should be submitted to the workshop chairs: * Ebrahim Bagheri, Ryerson University, bagheri(a)ryerson.ca * Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Telecom SudParis, garcia_a(a)telecom-sudparis.eu * Joan Garcia Haro, Universidad Politecnica de Cartagena, joang.haro(a)upct.es * Luis Orozco Barbosa, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, luis.orozco(a)uclm.es Acceptance/rejection notification will be sent to workshop organizers. Proposals for workshops should be no more than 2 pages in length and should contain the following information: 1) A draft of the CFP of the workshop (includes title, description, topics and dates) 2) Proposed duration of the workshop 3) Why is the topic area important? 4) Likely contributors and target audience 5) Organizing committee 6) Plan for workshop advertising and publicity 7) Biography of the main organizer(s) (100-200 words) 8) Can be submitted in PDF or plain text 9) Extended abstract to be presented in the conference proceedings Responsibilities for Workshop Organizers Workshop chair(s) will be responsible for the following: (1) Web page of the workshop and dissemination of "Call for Papers/Participation" for their workshop (2) Paper constraints, such as quality, originality, format and length constraints (3) Description of the workshop to be associated to the conference web page and program (4) Acceptance notification and selection of participants (5) Advertising the workshop beyond the conference web page (6) Assistance in producing a camera-ready version of the workshop proceedings Important Dates Workshop Proposals Deadline: March 31, 2014 Workshops Proposals Acceptance Notification: April 15, 2014 Paper Submission Deadline: May 1, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: July 25, 2014 Camera Ready: August 25, 2014 Organization Committees General Chair Abderrahim Benslimane, University of Avignon, France General Co-Chairs George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Ali Miri, Ryerson University, Canada Steering Committee Chair Samuel Pierre, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada Steering Committee Abderrahim Benslimane, University of Avignon, France Dovan Thanh, Telenor & Norwegian Univ. of Science& Technology, Norway Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa, Canada Ibrahim Habib, City University of New York, USA Khaled Ben Letaief, Hong Kong University of Sci. & Tech. Pierre Boucher, Ericsson Research Canada Samuel Pierre, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada TPC Co-Chairs Li CHEN, Sun Yat-Sen University, China - wireless communication track Milena Radenkovic, University of Nottingham, UK - ubiquitous, service and application track Lin Xiaodong, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada- wireless networking, mobility and nomadicity track Workshop Co-Chairs Ebrahim Bagheri, Ryerson University, Canada Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Telecom SudParis, France Joan Garcia Haro, Universidad Politecnica dede Cartagena, Spain Luis Orozco Barbosa, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Technical Program Committee http://conferences.computer.org/wimob2014/tpc.html -------------------------------------------------------------------- This is not SPAM. If you want to be removed from this list, please send an email to [announce(a)cs.ucy.ac.cy] with the single word 'remove' in the subject of the email. ______________________________________________________________ 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, User-centric Networking and Services Series - MARCH 1st 2014
by Lars Wolf 02 Feb '14

02 Feb '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE Communications Magazine, User-centric Networking and Services Series - MARCH 1st 2014 Datum: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 16:20:21 +0000 Von: Rute Sofia <rute.sofia(a)ULUSOFONA.PT> Antwort an: Rute Sofia <rute.sofia(a)ULUSOFONA.PT> Organisation: COPELABS, ULHT An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG /(Apologies for eventual mail duplicates) / URL: http://www.comsoc.org/files/Publications/Magazines/ci/cfp/cfpcommag0914.htm… / */IEEE Communications Magazine, User-centric Networking and Services/* /User-centric networks (UCNs)/ are a recent architectural trend of self-organizing, autonomic networks where the Internet end-user cooperates by sharing network services and resources. UCNs are spontaneous and grassroots deployments of wireless architectures (e.g., ad-hoc or infrastructure), often involving low-cost deployment. Furthermore, users in such environments tend to roam frequently. In such roaming environments, users carry equipment that plays an active role in terms of topology changes (e.g., an LTE phone which is sharing Internet access to other surrounding devices, may become active or inactive without operator control). Common to user-centric environments is a social behaviour that heavily impacts network operation from an end-to-end perspective, and on the different layers of the OSI stack. UCNs empower the end-user as a new Internet stakeholder and not just as a consumer and producer of content. User-centric networking technologies can be applied to a wide range of scenarios, encompassing: i) sharing subscribed broadband Internet access; ii) providing support for better Internet connectivity; iii) allowing the use of communication services even in the absence of reliable Internet access; iv) assisting networking services based on user involvement for the detection and repair of communication problems. The new role of an empowered end-user is disruptive in several aspects, namely: i) in the end-to-end Internet paradigm, end-user devices will actively participate as a network element in addition to being an endpoint host; ii) network boundaries of trust will need to be extended in a way that should mimic social behavior; and iii) end-user devices should be capable of handling intermittent Internet connectivity as well as fast and transparent roaming between micro-operators. There is also the need to further understand wholesale models incorporating UCNs, as well as to understand the impact of UCNs in the context of standardization. This special issue is accepting papers on the topics including, but not limited to, the following: * To promote unprecedented approaches and techniques in participatory and opportunistic data collection, communication, analysis, and visualization; * To identify open issues which remain a challenge towards the convergence of information and communication technologies, privacy protection methods, social and psychological theories in MCS; * To exploit novel application areas and demonstrate the benefits of MCS in contrast with more traditional static sensing approaches. *Topics may include (but are not limited to):* * Community detection and social interaction * Dynamic trust management models * Cooperation incentive models * Distributed mobility management * Human behavior and mobility prediction * Virtual currency architectures and models * Resource management in spontaneous environments * Cooperative networking * Market impact and analysis of UCN integration * Standardization aspects in regards to UCN topics such as user liability, authentication, and highly efficient WLANs. IMPORTANT DATES * *Deadline for Manuscript Submission:* *March* 1, 2014 * *Author Notification:* April 1, 2014 * *Final Manuscript Due:* July 1, 2014 * *Publication Date:* September 2014 *Editors:* Rute Sofia, COPELABS/University Lusofona, rute.sofia(a)ulusofona.pt <mailto:rute.sofia@ulusofona.pt> Alessandro Bogliolo, University of Urbino, alessandro.bogliolo(a)uniurb.it <mailto:alessandro.bogliolo@uniurb.it> Huiling Zhu, University of Kent, h.zhu(a)kent.ac.uk <mailto:h.zhu@kent.ac.uk> Fikret Sivrikaya, Technical University of Berlin, fikret.sivrikaya(a)dai-labor.de <mailto:fikret.sivrikaya@dai-labor.de> Olivier Marce, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, France, Olivier.Marce(a)alcatel-lucent.fr <mailto:Olivier.Marce@alcatel-lucent.fr> David Valerdi, Fon Wireless, Ltd., david.valerdi(a)fon.com <mailto:david.valerdi@fon.com> -- Best Regards/Melhores Cumprimentos/mit freundlichen Gruessen, Rute Sofia .............................................. COPELABS - Association for the Research and Development of Cognition and People-centric Computing Direction http://copelabs.ulusofona.pt ......................................... ______________________________________________________________ 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 @ IEEE WONS 2014 - EXTENDED DEADLINE
by Lars Wolf 31 Jan '14

31 Jan '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: Special Session on VANETs and ITS @ IEEE WONS 2014 - EXTENDED DEADLINE Datum: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 16:07:09 +0100 Von: Claudio Ettore Casetti <casetti(a)POLITO.IT> Antwort an: Claudio Ettore Casetti <casetti(a)POLITO.IT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG 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. Accepted papers will appear on IEEE Xplore. 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: February 14, 2014 (EXTENDED DEADLINE) * 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] One-week Extension of Deadlines (Feb 7 and 14): CFP: IEEE DCOSS 2014 (25-27 May 2014, Marina Del Rey, California, USA)
by Lars Wolf 30 Jan '14

30 Jan '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] One-week Extension of Deadlines (Feb 7 and 14): CFP: IEEE DCOSS 2014 (25-27 May 2014, Marina Del Rey, California, USA) Datum: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 14:54:14 +0100 Von: Animesh Pathak <animesh.pathak(a)INRIA.FR> Antwort an: Animesh Pathak <animesh.pathak(a)INRIA.FR> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Apologies for duplicates. Please note the one-week extension of deadline. We are also pleased to announce that extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in IEEE IoT Journal (http://iot.ieee.org/journal). ] --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 February 7, 2014 !!!!! Paper Submission Deadline February 14, 2014 !!!!! Acceptance Notification April 4, 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. Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in IEEE IoT Journal (http://iot.ieee.org/journal). 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, 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: IEEE BlackSeaCom 2014 Odessa: Submit by 21 February!
by Lars Wolf 30 Jan '14

30 Jan '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: IEEE BlackSeaCom 2014 Odessa: Submit by 21 February! Datum: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 11:59:14 -0500 Von: IEEE ComSoc Meetings <noreply(a)comsoc.org> An: <wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> IEEE BlackSeaCom 2014 <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=248908789&sid=30592378&m=3481097&u=IEEEC…> Second International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking Odessa, Ukraine, May 27-30, 2014 BlackSeaCom Logo <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=248908789&sid=30592379&m=3481097&u=IEEEC…> /The Odyssey of Communications and Networking in the Black Sea Region Continues/ IEEE Logo <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=248908789&sid=30592380&m=3481097&u=IEEEC…> * Home <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=248908789&sid=30592381&m=3481097&u=IEEEC…> * Call for Papers <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=248908789&sid=30592382&m=3481097&u=IEEEC…> * Call for Tutorials <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=248908789&sid=30592383&m=3481097&u=IEEEC…> * Paper Submission <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=248908789&sid=30592384&m=3481097&u=IEEEC…> * Keynote Speakers <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=248908789&sid=30592385&m=3481097&u=IEEEC…> * Technical Program <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=248908789&sid=30592386&m=3481097&u=IEEEC…> * Committees <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=248908789&sid=30592387&m=3481097&u=IEEEC…> * Patronage Opportunities <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=248908789&sid=30592388&m=3481097&u=IEEEC…> * Registration <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=248908789&sid=30592389&m=3481097&u=IEEEC…> * Accommodation <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=248908789&sid=30592390&m=3481097&u=IEEEC…> * Conference Venue <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=248908789&sid=30592391&m=3481097&u=IEEEC…> * Previous Editions <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=248908789&sid=30592392&m=3481097&u=IEEEC…> Call for Papers New Paper Submission Deadline: February 21, 2014 The IEEE BlackSeaCom series of conferences are held in the countries surrounding the Black Sea. The goal of the IEEE BlackSeaCom is to bring together visionaries in academia, research labs and industry from all over the world to the shores of the Black Sea. Here they will address many of the outstanding grand challenges that exist in the areas of communications and networking while having an opportunity to explore this exciting and dynamic region that has a rich history. Following the inaugural edition of the conference in Batumi, Georgia in July 2013, the second edition of the conference will take place on May 27-30, 2014 in Odessa, Ukraine - a beautiful major port city on the Eurasian Crossroad. We seek original completed and unpublished work not currently under review by any other journal/magazine/conference. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Information theoretic analysis of wireless networks and theoretical analysis frameworks * Communication protocols (transport, routing, link, and physical layers) * Cross-layer design and optimization * Theoretical analysis frameworks * Resource management * Energy efficiency, resiliency, reliability, and robustness * Deployment scenarios and experiences * Integration of heterogeneous networks * Infrastructures, Platforms, test beds, and software * Wireless networks, Ad hoc and mesh networks, Wireless sensor networks * Massive MIMO, Millimeter wave and Terahertz communications * Microwave devices * Communication in challenging environments (underwater, underground, tunnels/mines, space, disasters) * LTE/LTE-Advanced and beyond * Nano-scale networks Submission Guidelines Papers should describe original work and should be no more than 5 pages in the IEEE double-column proceedings format including tables, figures and references. Accepted papers up to 5 pages will be published in the proceedings as well as in IEEEXplore with no additional charge. One extra page is allowed with an additional fee, if accepted. To submit a paper, please use the instructions *here* <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=248908789&sid=30592393&m=3481097&u=IEEEC…>. To be published in the IEEE BlackSeaCom 2014 Conference Proceedings and to be eligible for publication in IEEE XploreÂ¨, 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 BlackSeaCom 2014 Conference Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore. Important Dates Paper submission deadline:*January 31, 2014 February 21, 2014* Notification of acceptance: *March 24, 2014* Camera-ready papers due: *April 10, 2014* General Co-Chairs Alexander D. Gelman, Vice President - Standards Activities, IEEE Communications Society, USA Mehmet Ulema, Professor, Manhattan College, USA Technical Program Co-Chairs Wolfgang Gerstacker, Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany Mehmet Can Vuran, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Technical Program Vice-Co-Chair Gofaizen Oleg Viktorovich, Odessa National Academy of Telecommunications (ONAT), Ukraine Larisa Globa, Kiev Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine Steering Committee Ian F. 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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: SWANSITY 2014- Self-organizing Wireless Access Networks for Smart cITY >>>>> In conjuction with SECON 2014 <<<<<
by Lars Wolf 30 Jan '14

30 Jan '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: SWANSITY 2014- Self-organizing Wireless Access Networks for Smart cITY >>>>> In conjuction with SECON 2014 <<<<< Datum: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 09:37:48 +0100 Von: Giuseppe Ruggeri <giuseppe.ruggeri(a)UNIRC.IT> Antwort an: Giuseppe Ruggeri <giuseppe.ruggeri(a)UNIRC.IT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG *CFP: SWANSITY 2014- Self-organizing Wireless* *Access Networks for Smart cITY * *>>>>> In conjuction with SECON 2014 <<<<<* *===========================================* *June 30th, 2014* * Singapore* https://sites.google.com/site/swansity2014 *Important dates* Submission deadline: March 31st, 2014 Notification of acceptance:April 30th, 2014 Camera Ready: May 12th, 2014 Program: June 1st, 2014 *Scope* The *SWANSITY* workshop aims to solicit contributions on novel algorithms, methodological studies and experimentations on how to make a city-wide network infrastructure able to self-adapt to the dynamic requirements posed by the users and by the applications, to manage the complexity of heterogeneous devices and access technologies, and to guarantee robust, ubiquitous, and secure connectivity over the urban environments. At the same time, beside studying the issues of the city-wide infrastructure deployment, the workshop aims to investigate the potential provided by the end-users devices (e.g. smartphones, tablets) when augmented with self-organization capabilities, in order to turn them into active components of the smart-city network, instead of mere connection end-points. Such a potential includes the possibility to extend the network access in a pervasive way, to provide ubiquitous computing services, and to favor the emergence of *"collectivity intelligence behaviors" *through collaboration and direct communication among devices. In line with such objectives, original contributions are solicited in topics of interest including, but not limited to, the following: - Models of network components' interactions on a smart-city - Techniques and tools for modeling self-organizing wireless networks on large-scale urban environments - Self-organizing wireless networks for pervasive urban access - Self-organizing and self-repairing wireless networks for disaster recovery - Dynamic resource allocation schemes for urban environments - Evolutionary design of wireless network components and devices - Enabling technologies and algorithms for self-configuring wireless nodes - Self-organizing femtocell and cognitive radio networks - Cooperative Smart Objects supporting Wireless Networks Interoperability - Decision making strategies for software defined radio devices - Emerging collective intelligence in self-organizing wireless networks - Network virtualization for heterogeneous wireless networks - Bio-inspired models for self-organizing wireless networks - Controlled mobility algorithms for self-placing wireless networks - Self-organizing networks through Device-2-Device technology (D2D) - Business model to promote users collaboration and resources sharing - Security, Privacy and Trust issues in Self-organizing wireless networks Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical paper by the deadline of 31 March 2014. Submissions will be accepted through EDAS ( http://edas.info/N16973). All submissions must be written in English and be at most six (6) printed pages in length, including figures. For full details, please visit the following website: https://sites.google.com/site/swansity2014 *TPC Co-Chairs* Gianluca ALOI, *University of Calabria, Italy* Marco DI FELICE, *Univesity of Bologna,Italy* Valeria LOSCRI', *Inria Lille-Nord Europe, FUN, France* Pasquale PACE, *University of Calabria, Italy* Giuseppe RUGGERI, *University of Reggio Calabria, Italy* *Steering Committee* Emanuele VITERBO,* MONASH University * Giancarlo FORTINO, *UNICAL- Italy* *TPC Members* Kaushik Roy Chowdhury, *Northeastern University, USA* Claudia Campolo, *University of Reggio Calabria, Italy* Yue Gao (Frank), *Queen Mary University of London, UK* Yi Hong, *Monash University, Australia* Antonio Iera, *University of Reggio Calabria, Italy* Wenfeng Li, Wuhan *University of Technology, China* Antonio Liotta, *TU/e, Netherlands* Karnouskos Stamatis, *SAP, Germany* Pietro Manzoni, *UPV -Valencia, Spain* Pedro Jose Marron, *University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany* Nathalie Mitton, *Inria Lille-Nord Europe, FUN, France* Antonella Molinaro, *University of Reggio Calabria, Italy* Enrico Natalizio, *Compiegne,Technology, University, France* Tahiry Razafindralambo, *Inria Lille-Nord Europe, FUN, France* Anna Maria Vegni, *University of Roma Tre, Italy* Mengchu Zhou,* New Jersey Institute of Technology, 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: 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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