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Fwd: CFP: ACM WiNTECH Workshop -- deadline approaching!
by Lars Wolf 11 May '12

11 May '12

"Rozner, Eric " <erozner(a)research.att.com> schrieb: *** Important Dates **** Paper submission deadline: May 18, 2012 _____________________________________________ [Please accept our apologies if you received multiple copies of this call] CALL FOR PAPERS WiNTECH 2012 The Seventh ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation and Characterization In conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2012 Istanbul, Turkey August 22, 2012 http://www.cs.utexas.edu/wintech2012/ In recent years, some wireless technologies (e.g., WiFi, sensor networks) have matured to the point of finding wide acceptance in the real-world and leading to many new and interesting applications. At the same time, several new networking and radio technologies (e.g., dynamic spectrum access, UWB) are emerging to address the performance limitations of existing technologies and make wireless networking more ubiquitous. Realistic evaluation of such a diverse set of technologies and their mutual interactions will play a major role in identifying the key performance bottlenecks, thus shaping future advances in wireless technology. The importance of testbed-based evaluation of wireless network protocols/applications as well as characterization of real-world aspects using traces from operational networks is gaining wider recognition in the mobile and wireless networking research community. This workshop intends to bring together researchers working in the broad area of experimental wireless networking. This workshop will serve as a forum to share new ideas/experiences in all experimental aspects of wireless networks and systems, and facilitate discussions of key unresolved challenges in this area. We are seeking original, previously unpublished papers addressing experimental wireless networking issues. All submissions will be judged by their technical merit and relevance to the workshop, based on a thorough review process by the Technical Program Committee. Apart from regular paper presentations, the workshop program will include an interactive session with demos and posters. We welcome demonstrations of novel wireless network testbed capabilities and measurement results. The posters may describe work in progress and offers an excellent opportunity for feedback and discussions on early research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Design and evaluation of wireless testbeds, prototypes and platforms * Experiences/lessons from recent testbed deployments * Hybrid experimentation approaches combining use of multiple evaluation methodologies * Integration of diverse and distributed testbed infrastructures * Testbed management issues and monitoring support * Wireless testbed case studies * Experimental evaluation of applications and protocols, including the impact of cross-layer interactions * Large-scale and heterogeneous wireless network evaluations * Approaches for real-world evaluation of mobile networks * Measurement and evaluation on large-scale smartphone based deployments * Studies on real-world white-space networks * Evaluation environments for sensor and satellite networks * Techniques for improving reproducibility of real-world testing * Implementation approaches to ease transition between different evaluation methodologies * New measurement methodologies and infrastructures * Measurement and characterization (modeling) of real-world aspects of wireless * networks such as usage patterns, traffic, mobility and channel characteristics * Interference and spectrum usage measurements * Validation of existing simulation models, and results across different testbeds/evaluation methodologies * Software tools in support of measurements, trace/data collection and management Important Dates *Paper submission deadline: May 18, 2012 *Author notification: June 25, 2012 *Poster/demo submission deadline: June 25, 2012 *Poster/demo notification: July 1, 2012 *Camera ready papers: July 1, 2012 *Workshop date: August 22, 2012 Paper submission instructions: All regular paper submissions will be handled electronically via the EasyChair system (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wintech12) and should conform to the following requirements: * A maximum of 8 (eight) 8.5"x11" pages (including figures, tables, and references) * The paper must be in two-column format, using 10-point size or greater and reasonable margins and must be submitted in PDF format Poster/Demo submission instructions: Poster/Demo submissions will be handled by emailing the writeup to wintech_posterdemo(a)live.in<mailto:wintech_posterdemo@live.in> with the following requirements: * A maximum of TWO 8.5"x11" pages (including figures, tables, and references) * The write-up must be in two-column format, using 10-point size or greater and reasonable margins and must use PDF format * For demos, a third page should be included that lists the requirements for the demo at the workshop venue if the demo is selected. Organizers: PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Vishnu Navda, MSR India Moustafa Youssef, E-JUST Egypt STEERING COMMITTEE Rajive Bagrodia, UCLA Joe Evans, University of Kansas Edward Knightly, Rice University Mahesh Marina, University of Edinburgh Peter Steenkiste, Carnegie Mellon University PUBLICITY/WEB CHAIR Eric Rozner, AT&T Labs- Research DEMO/POSTER CO-CHAIRS Nilanjan Banerjee, University of Arkansas, USA Ravi Kokku, IBM Research, India PROGRAM COMMITTEE Nilanjan Banerjee, University of Arkansas, USA Albert Banchs, UC3M, Spain Elizabeth Belding, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Ranveer Chandra, Microsoft Research, USA Krishna Chintalapudi, Microsoft Research, India Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National University, South Korea Samir Das, Stony Brook University, USA Christos Efstratiou, University of Cambridge, UK Tamer Elbatt, Nile University, Egypt Khaled Harras, Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar Ahmed Helmy, University of Florida, USA Sneha Kasera, University of Utah, USA Ravi Kokku, IBM Research, India Thanasis Korakis, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, USA Anurag Kumar, Indian Institute of Science, India Patrick Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Archan Misra, Singapore Management University, Singapore Iqbal Mohomed, IBM Research, USA Thyaga Nandagopal, National Science Foundation, USA Sampath Rangarajan, NEC Laboratories America, USA Ashutosh Sabharwal, Rice University, USA Ivan Seskar, Rutgers University, USA Vikram Srinivasan, Alcatel-Lucent, India Peter Steenkiste, Carnegie Mellon University, USA DEMO COMMITTEE Aruna Balasubramanian, University of Washington, USA Raghu Ganti, IBM Research, USA Suhas Mathur, AT&T Research Dragos Niculescu, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest

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Fwd: [Tccc] IEEE GCCE2012: Paper Submission Status and Deadline Extension (Jun.4)
by Lars Wolf 11 May '12

11 May '12

Hiroshi MINENO <mineno(a)inf.shizuoka.ac.jp> schrieb: Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. GCCE 2012 CALL FOR PAPERS _____________________________________________ The 1st IEEE Global Conference on Consumer Electronics - GCCE2012 Tokyo, Japan, October 2nd to 5th, 2012, in conjunction with CEATEC JAPAN 2012 http://www.ieee-gcce.org/ We are happy to be receiving many papers today, but we are also receiving many requests to extend the deadline. So, we have decided to extend the deadline to June 4th, 2012. http://www.ieee-gcce.org/2012/index.html GCCE is a newly launched international conference sponsored by IEEE Consumer Electronics Society. GCCE 2012 is set up with one of the biggest consumer electronics shows in the world - CEATEC JAPAN 2012. The topics covered by GCCE2012 include, but are not limited to, the following: TV & Display Technologies Future TV, Mobile TV, Ultra HDTV, Network TV, Smart TV, 3D Imaging and Display, OEL, VoD, Visual Media Communication, Super Resolution Signal Processing AV Processing & Streaming Still and Video Cameras, Audio Systems and Technologies, Video Processing and Codecs, Recording, Storage Compression, Transcoding, Content Indexing, Video Enhancement, Interactive Video Streaming, Visual Quality Assessment, AV System Evaluation Wireless & RF in CE Antennas, Acquisition, Equalization, Spectrum Usage, Software Radio, Wireless LAN, IEEE 802.11 Standards, Bluetooth, RFID, WPAN, Wireless Power Transmission Home Networks & Services Wired and Wireless Networks at Home, Home Gateway, QoS, Peer-to-Peer, Bridges, Interoperability, Application Control, PVR, Home Theater, Interconnects, Gaming Devices and Systems, Internet Integration Mobile Computing & Communications Mobile Broadband, Handheld and Wearable Computers, Personal Multimedia Devices, Next-Generation Cellular, AV Streaming to Handheld Devices, Smart Phone Technologies Automotive Entertainment & Information Navigation, Driver Assistance, Car AV Systems, In-Car Internet, Communication Aspects, Sensors and Controls for Automotive, Automotive UI User Interfaces & Experience in CE Gesture Operation, Multitouch, Natural User Interface, Haptics, User Experience, HCI for CE, Usability, User Centered Design, Accessibility, Special-Needs/Assistive Technology Security & Right Management Copy and Redistribution Protection, Payments, Parental Controls, CE and Digital Content Issues, Data Collection, Biometrics, Privacy, Encryption Storage & Digital Media Optical Storage, Magnetic Storage, Next-generation Storage Media, Semiconductor, Storage Technology, Cloud Media, Interactive Media, CE and Cloud Computing Smart Grid and CE Smart House, HEMS, BEMS, FEMS, CEMS, Smart Meter, Power Monitor, Energy Storage, On-site Power Generation, Sensor and Network for Smart Grid, Internet of Things Home Medical & Healthcare Home Medical Equipment, Medical IT/ICT, Wellness Devices, Healthcare Application Embedded Technologies Embedded System, Embedded OS, Embedded Software, Advanced Semiconductors, Development Tools, High-density Mounting Green Energy Solar Cell, Wind-generated Electricity for CE, Energy Harvesting, Rechargeable Energy Enabling Technologies High Speed Signals and Interconnects, Algorithms, Intellectual Property, Manufacturing and Test Technology for CE, Recyclable Engineering, Product Safety, White Goods Join and experience the powerful synergetic effects of GCCE 2012 simultaneously held with CEATEC 2012! Best regards, Takako Takako Nonaka Conference Chair of GCCE 2012 --------------------- Original Message Ends -------------------- Sincerely ----- Hiroshi MINENO, Ph.D. Tel/Fax: +81-53-478-1491 E-mail: mineno(a)inf.shizuoka.ac.jp Department of Computer Science, Shizuoka University 3-5-1 Johoku, Naka-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 432-8011, Japan _____________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: Deadline Extension and Final CFP IEEE SenseApp 2012 (Clearwater, Florida, 22-25 October 2012)
by Lars Wolf 11 May '12

11 May '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: Deadline Extension and Final CFP IEEE SenseApp 2012 (Clearwater, Florida, 22-25 October 2012) Datum: Fri, 11 May 2012 08:58:01 +0200 Von: Matthias Hollick <matthias.hollick(a)seemoo.tu-darmstadt.de> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Apologies for cross-posting; submission deadline: May 27, 2012, please register your paper asap. Call for Papers: *Seventh IEEE International Workshop on Practical Issues in Building Sensor Network Applications (IEEE SenseApp 2012)* http://www.senseapp.org in conjunction with IEEE LCN 2012 22-25 October 2012 Sheraton Sand Key Resort, Clearwater, Florida, USA Sensor nodes are autonomous devices that combine sensing, computing and wireless communication capabilities. These nodes are deeply embedded into the physical surroundings, and gather and process information such as temperature, humidity, light characteristics, seismic activities or images and sound samples from the physical world. Networked systems of such sensors are expected to be used in a variety of applications including habitat monitoring, precision agriculture, disaster recovery operations, healthcare and supply chain management. Real-world sensor network deployments are still scarce, yet prototypic implementations are getting more common, particularly with the advent of novel sensing platforms such as smartphones, which allow for extending dedicated sensor networks. Experiences gained in such deployments are crucial for the sensor network research community. These results are needed to refine assumptions made when designing hardware, software, protocols and mechanisms for sensor networks. This workshop aims at bringing together researchers from both academia and industry to showcase their work and obtain feedback. We expect the workshop to act as a forum for the sensor network research community to discuss open issues, novel solutions and the future development of wireless sensor networks in general. We encourage contributions describing innovative work in the realm of wireless sensor networks. *Scope* Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Experiences from real-world sensor network deployment and applications - Innovative sensor network applications - Mobile and participatory sensing applications and deployments - Middleware support for sensor networks - Programming and debugging sensor networks - Security, availability and dependability issues in sensor networks - Experiences with new sensor hardware - Practical problems in implementing localization and time synchronization - Experiences with communication protocols - Practical medium access control protocols (MACs) - Topology control and routing protocols in existing sensor network deployments - Fault-tolerance and troubleshooting sensor networks - Antenna design and experiences with signal propagation - Experiences regarding energy management and network lifetime - Configuration and installation support - Management of large-scale sensor networks and sensing campaigns - Interconnection between IP and sensor networks - Interfacing with sensor networks using mobile computing devices - Large-scale open sensor data sets from real deployments Submitted papers will be reviewed by three independent experts in the field. Proceedings of the workshop will be published together with those of IEEE LCN, and will be available in digital format from the IEEE Explore Digital Library. *Submission Instructions* Authors are invited to submit original unpublished work, not currently under review by another conference, workshop or journal. Full papers should be restricted to 8 camera-ready pages (in 10 pt font, double column, US letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches, IEEE format), including text, figures and references. Authors should use only standard fonts, i.e. Times Roman, Courier, Symbol, Helvetica or equivalent. Papers must be submitted electronically via EDAS (https://edas.info/N12187). All papers must include title, complete contact information of all authors, abstract and up to 5 keywords on the cover page. The corresponding author must be clearly identified. *Important Dates* Paper Submission Deadline: 27 May 2012 Please register your paper until: 12 May 2012 Notification of Acceptance: 30 June 2012 Camera Ready Copy Due: 28 July 2012 *Organizers and Co-Chairs* Matthias Hollick, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany Salil Kanhere, The University of New South Wales, Australia *Steering Committee* Sanjay Jha, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Cormac Sreenan, University College, Cork, Ireland *Technical Program Committee* Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, SUNY Binghamton, USA Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal James Brown, Lancaster University, UK Athanassios Boulis, National ICT, Australia Tracy Camp, Colorado School of Mines, USA Rachel Cardell-Oliver, University of Western Australia, Australia Delphine Christin, CASED, Germany Stefan Dulman, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Simon Duquennoy, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden Omprakash Gnawali, University of Houston, USA Wendi Heinzelman, University of Rochester, USA Wen Hu, CSIRO, Australia Raja Jurdak, CSIRO, Australia Vana Kalogeraki, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Vinay Kolar, Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar Branislav Kusy, CSIRO, Australia Hock Beng Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Luca Mottola, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden Edith Ngai, Uppsala University, Sweden Brendan O'Flynn, Tyndall National Institute, Ireland Neal Patwari, University of Utah, USA Gian Pietro Picco, University of Trento, Italy Michael Rabbat, McGill University, Canada Andreas Reinhardt, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany Christian Renner, Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, Germany Kay Roemer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Silvia Santini, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany Klaus Wehrle, RWTH Aachen University, Germany -- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Hollick Secure Mobile Networking Lab - SEEMOO Email: matthias.hollick(a)seemoo.tu-darmstadt.de Web: http://www.seemoo.de Department of Computer Science Center for Advanced Security Research Darmstadt Technische Universität Darmstadt _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: Re: [Tccc] CFP: (UWBAN-2012) workshop : colocated with BodyNets-2012 conference (Sept 24-26, 2012 Oslo - Norway) Paper submission deadline: June 15th, 2012
by Lars Wolf 10 May '12

10 May '12

Muzaffer Kanaan <mkanaan(a)erciyes.edu.tr> schrieb: Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP... Call for Papers UWBAN-2012 (Ultra Wide Band for Body Area Networking-2012) Workshop Co-located with the 7th International Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets-2012) September 24-26, 2012 Oslo, Norway http://uwban.bodynets.org/2012/show/home Ultra Wide Band (UWB) is emerging as a sound technological solution for the newly emerging area of body area networking (BAN). Due to its very wide bandwidth, as well as low transmit power, UWB is a serious contender for a number of applications including remote monitoring of both vital signs (temperature, pulse oximetry, etc.) as well as other medically significant data, such as ECG and EMG. The wide bandwidth of UWB signals also makes high-resolution ranging and localization possible, particularly in indoor areas, thereby enabling indoor tracking solutions for disabled patients and children in hospitals. UWB also holds promise for medical implant applications, such as capsule endoscopy, and may even be an enabler of next-generation micro-robotic surgery applications. The first of these applications would benefit from the very high bandwidth of UWB signals in transmission of very high resolution images and video of human body organs, and the second would benefit from the high ranging and localization accuracy provided by UWB signaling. The primary goal of this workshop is to explore the state of the art in the development of UWB technology for body area networking, ranging from fundamental physical layer concepts, such as channel modeling and system architecture, to development of prototypes and clinical trials. The workshop solicits original unpublished contributions on the following areas: · UWB channel modeling for BAN applications. · UWB antenna design and performance for BANs. · Energy-efficient PHY and MAC layer designs for UWB-based BANs. · UWB-based BAN system architecture design and implementation. · UWB-based BAN performance and coexistence issues. · Thermal effects of UWB-based wearable and implantable sensors and SAR assessment. · Security and privacy issues for UWB-based BAN applications. · Performance analysis of UWB-based BAN platforms in clinical field trials. Names of the organizers and their contact information: Dr. Muzaffer Kanaan (mkanaan(a)erciyes.edu.tr) Dr. Matti Hämäläinen (matti.hamalainen(a)ee.oulu.fi) Prof. Jari Iinatti (jari.iinatti(a)ee.oulu.fi) Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: June 15th, 2012 Acceptance Notification: August 13th, 2012 Camera Ready Papers Due: September 3rd, 2012 Workshop in Oslo: September 26th, 2012 Submission Instructions: Please see http://bodynets.org/2012/show/authors-kit for information concerning paper formatting requirements. _____________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP for the 1st ACM Workshop on “High Performance Mobile Opportunistic Systems” HP-MOSys 2012, to be held in conjunction with,The 15th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis,and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems,October 21-25 2012,Paphos, Cyprus
by Lars Wolf 09 May '12

09 May '12

"Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis" <mavromoustakis.c(a)unic.ac.cy> schrieb: Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ CFP for the 1st ACM Workshop on “High Performance Mobile Opportunistic Systems” HP-MOSys 2012, to be held in conjunction with The 15th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (ACM MSWiM 2012) October 21-25 2012 Paphos, Cyprus In cooperation with R8 IEEE COMSOC (pending) URL: http://www.cs.unic.ac.cy/cmavrom/MOSys.htm _____________________________________________ Description of workshop Opportunistic networks are an emerging networking paradigm where communication between the source and destination occurs on-the-fly and depends on the availability of communication links. Opportunistic communication paradigm heavily benefits from the heterogeneous networking and communication infrastructure that currently exist, e.g., mobile networks, P2P networks, with the supporting technologies in data management and system interoperability. Motivated by further examining recent advances in this field and promoting the optimization of the existing methodologies and/or approaches, as well as presenting efficient high performance techniques for extending the survivability of such systems, both in terms of performance and reliability, we are interested in organizing this workshop with the following primary objectives: § Explore new and innovative ideas and improvements of opportunistic networks that can affect the overall performance of the system; § Explore the impact of wireless mobility and resource management in order to offer high performance and resource availability in today’s computing systems. The workshop also aims at presenting state-of-the-art research and future trends in mobile and heterogeneous opportunistic networking and applications, combining the mobile communication, mobility and resource management field, and in a research pathway in order to present the various concepts that contribute to enable high performance computing. Workshop details Original research contributions in all areas of High performance Mobile Opportunistic Systems and/or applications are welcome. Particularly the papers aim to present work in the following topical areas: • Failure-aware resource management for high-availability computing in opportunistic systems • Agent-based approaches for high performance computing systems • Coordinated control for Mobile high-availability computing • Resource management and efficient resource manipulation • Resource availability for high performance and reliability computing • System resource reliability and dependable computing • Self-Managing and Reconfigurable System • Context-aware computing for high performance • Distributed Mobile Opportunistic systems and Networking • Mobile Urban Sensing and Crowdsensing • Cloud Computing for high-availability computing • Performance Evaluation of computing systems • Resource management in Clusters and Grids • Opportunistic, Delay-tolerant and Hybrid Networks • Mobility models for opportunistic networks • Novel Architectures, supporting Middleware, Prototypes and Testbeds • Dissemination and Caching in Opportunistic Networks • Social-aware Opportunistic Networking • Security, Trust, Privacy and Cooperation in Opportunistic Networks • Analysis of Opportunistic Protocols • Any Mobile Opportunistic Networks technology for the provision of reliable applications/ services and high-performance computing • Systems’ Modeling and Simulation for measuring and enabling high-performance Mobile Opportunistic systems • Large Scale Mobile Opportunistic Systems and schemes for high-performance computing • Middleware(s) for high-performance computing in Mobile Opportunistic systems • Opportunistic social networking for disaster and emergency situations, Mobile Opportunistic healthcare in remote regions • Distributed architectures for system reliability and Self-configurable Computing • Wireless systems’ simulation based Performance Analysis Workshop Chairs ------------------ Constandinos Mavromoustakis, University of Nicosia, Cyprus Lei Shu, Osaka University, Japan Tasos Dagiuklas, Department of Telecommunications and Network Systems, Technological Educational Institute of Mesolonghi-Greece PAPER SUBMISSIONS: High-quality original papers are solicited. Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed by Technical Program Committee members and other experts active in the field to ensure high quality and relevance to the Symposium. Paper length should be no more than 8 pages, double column, ACM style including tables and figures. Only PDF format is accepted. All accepted papers will appear in the Symposium proceedings published by ACM press. At least one of the authors of accepted papers must attend the conference to present each paper. Each submission must be accompanied by the following information: - paper title - short abstract - complete list of authors and their affiliations - contact person for correspondence (please check that the correct e-mail is configured on the EDAS system) Papers are submitted via the EDAS system (http://edas.info/). _____________________________________________ IMPORTANT DATES: Paper Submission: 5th June, 2012 Author Notification: 7th July, 2012 Camera Ready: 18 July, 2012 _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: CfP: Smart Grid: Herausforderungen an Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik @ Informatik 2012
by Lars Wolf 09 May '12

09 May '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP: Smart Grid: Herausforderungen an Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik @ Informatik 2012 Datum: Wed, 9 May 2012 05:10:11 +0200 Von: Sonja Klingert <klingert(a)informatik.uni-mannheim.de> An: <dirk.neumann(a)vwl.uni-freiburg.de>, <ivers(a)ida.ing.tu-bs.de>, <katarina.stanoevska(a)unisg.ch>, <orestis.terzidis(a)sap.com>, <rainer.ruggaber(a)sap.com>, <Thomas.Fahringer(a)uibk.ac.at>, <wolfgang.theilmann(a)sap.com>, <weinhardt(a)iw.uni-karlsruhe.de>, <jorn.altmann(a)acm.org>, <harald.kornmayer(a)iwr.fzk.de>, <bauer(a)ds-lab.org>, <steffen.unger(a)first.fraunhofer.de>, <frank.boegel(a)conject.com>, <stoesser(a)iism.uka.de>, <kalb(a)zv.fhg.de>, <d.mallmann(a)fz-juelich.de>, <Wolfgang.Ziegler(a)scai.fraunhofer.de>, <Max.Lemke(a)cec.eu.int>, <wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>, <kurt.vanmechelen(a)ua.ac.be>, <Joachim.Schaper(a)sap.com>, <vonvoigt(a)rrzn.uni-hannover.de>, <Christian.Tschudin(a)unibas.ch>, <chk(a)zurich.ibm.com>, <stiller(a)ifi.unizh.ch>, <b.hagemeier(a)fz-juelich.de>, <fingberg(a)ccrl-nece.de>, <eckart.bierduempel(a)ercim.org>, <sven.graupner(a)hp.com>, <ottmar.kraemer-fuhrmann(a)scai.fraunhofer.de>, <hrudin(a)smile.ch>, <carle(a)uni-tuebingen.de>, <Gabi.Dreo-Rodosek(a)lrz-muenchen.de>, <hagen.hoepfner(a)uni-weimar.de>, <atkinson.c(a)gmail.com>, <ivona(a)infosys.tuwien.ac.at>, <Christian.Bunse(a)fh-stralsund.de>, <simon.caton(a)kit.edu>, <koller(a)hlrs.de>, <kredel(a)rz.uni-mannheim.de>, <wesner(a)hlrs.de>, <marcel.kunze(a)kit.edu>, <wilfrid.utz(a)boc-eu.com>, <gallizo(a)hlrs.de>, <j.wender(a)science-computing.de>, <mtrifu(a)fzi.de>, <i.seipp(a)science-computing.de>, <elmar.dorner(a)sap.com>, <adittmer(a)penguincomputing.com>, <mbohlouli(a)informatik.uni-siegen.de>, <Bachhiesl(a)TUGraz.at>, <a.giesler(a)fz-juelich.de>, <kessel(a)informatik.uni-mannheim.de>, <schulze(a)informatik.uni-mannheim.de>, <pries(a)informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>, "'Sabine Richling'" <richling(a)urz.uni-heidelberg.de>, "'Steffen Hau'" <steffen.hau(a)rz.uni-mannheim.de> Kopie (CC): 'Hermann de Meer' <Hermann.deMeer(a)uni-passau.de>, 'Gergö Lovasz' <lovasz(a)fim.uni-passau.de> Werte Kollegen, die Einreichungsfrist für den Workshop „Smart Grid: Herausforderungen an Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik“ ist auf den 28.05.2012 verlängert worden. Vielleicht gibt das ja dem einen oder anderen die Möglichkeit, einen Beitrag einzureichen. =========================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS =========================================================== Smart Grid: Herausforderungen an Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik INFORMATK 2012 - Was bewegt uns in der Zukunft ? 42. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik 16.9. - 21.9.2012 TU Braunschweig www.informatik2012.de <http://www.informatik2012.de> =========================================================== MOTIVATION UND ZIELSETZUNG =========================================================== Die Energiewende mit dem zunehmenden Umstieg von den klassischen Energieträgern Kohle, Öl, Gas und Nuklearbrennstoff auf erneuerbare Energien wie Windkraft, Solarenergie, Wasserkraft, Biomasse und Wasserstoff mit z.T. stark volatiler Charakteristik stellt grundsätzlich neue Heraus- forderungen an Technik und Management von elektrischen Energienetzen, d.h. an eine intelligente Steuerung der Einspeisung, Verteilung und Nutzung elektrischer Energie einschließlich aller damit verbundenen betrieblichen, ökonomischen und rechtlichen Aspekte. Zur Gestaltung dieses sog. "Smart Grid" ist das interdisziplinäre Zusammenwirken von Energietechnik, Informationstechnik, Informatik, Betriebswirtschaft und Recht erforderlich. Die gegenwärtig vorherrschenden Energiequellen sind durch die Nutzung von fossilen und nuklearen Brennstoffen gekennzeichnet, welche nicht nachhaltig zur Verfügung stehen, zum "CO2-Footprint" klimaschädlich beitragen bzw. durch die ungelösten Aufgaben zur Entsorgung von langlebigen Abfallprodukten gesellschaftlich nicht mehr akzeptabel sind. Sie hatten den Vorteil, dass die Standorte der Erzeugung und des Verbrauchs ohne überlange Transportwege aneinander angepasst, eine stetige Grundlast bereitgestellt und Spitzenlasten durch Gas-, Öl- und Pumpspeicher- Kraftwerke bedarfsgerecht abgedeckt werden konnten. Dem gegenüber erfordern die zeitlich stark schwankend zur Verfügung stehenden Energieträger wie Sonne und Wind eine flexible Anpassung des Verbrauchs sowie Energiespeichertechniken, welche heutzutage technisch nur unbefriedigend und auch nicht im erforderlichen Umfang vorhanden sind. Hieraus resultieren die Anforderungen an die Energienetze der Zukunft, welche weit über die heute angewandten Verfahren hinausgehen und die Bereitstellung, den Transport und die Nutzung der Energie in einem intelligent gesteuerten Netz, dem sog. "Smart Grid", miteinander verbinden. Ziel des Workshops ist insbesondere die Diskussion von Querschnittsfragen zwischen der elektrischen Energietechnik, Steuerungs- und Regelungstechnik, Informationstechnik und Informatik, um Methoden, Konzepte und Erfahrungen für komplexe Systeme kooperativ nutzen zu können bzw. mit neuen Lösungen zur Innovation beizutragen. Der Workshop soll aus eingeladenen Expertenreferaten zu Schlüsselthemen und eingereichten Beiträgen gestaltet werden. =========================================================== THEMENBEREICHE =========================================================== o Monitoring, Datenerfassung und Online-Verarbeitung - Sensorik und Echtzeit-Messverfahren (räumlich, zeitlich, semantisch) - Zustandserfassung - Verbrauschserfassung ("Smart Metering") - Merkmal-Extraktion (Neuronale Netze, Modell-basiert,...) - Datenfusion und Datenaggregation - Daten-Repräsentation - Mess- und Steuerdaten-Bereitstellung (Broadcast, Publish-Subscribe,...) o Kommunikationsarchitekturen und -Protokolle - Modulations- und Codierverfahren (OFDM, LDLC,...) - Übertragungsverfahren (PLC, optisch, elektrisch, drahtlos) - Netzinfrastrukturen (Heimbereich, Unternehmensbereich, Anschlussbereich, Fernnetzbereich) - Echtzeit-Kommunikationsprotokolle - Schnittstellen und Standards (Home Gateway) o Steuerungs- und Regelungsverfahren - Fehlererkennung und -lokalisierung - Alarmerkennung (Expertensysteme, Fuzzy Control, Logische Netze,...) - Ausfallbehandlung, Ersatzschaltung, Resilience - Netzstabilitaet - Hierarchische, zentrale oder dezentrale Netzorganisation - Selbstorganisation - Fremdsteuerung oder regelbasierte Steuerung des Verbrauchs o Sicherheit und Datenschutz - Netzsicherheit und Datensicherheit - Verschlüsselungsverfahren und Schlüsselmanagement - Datenschutz und Nutzerschutz (Privacy) - Vertrauenswürdigkeit (Trust) - Angriffserkennung und -abwehr (Cyber Security) - Katastrophenschutz und -management o Analysen und Performance Evaluation - Messdaten- und Steuerdatenverkehre und ihre Modellierung - Analyse des Echtzeitverhaltens und der Echtzeitfähigkeit - Leistungsfähigkeit (Quality of Service, QoS) - Mathematische Modellierung und Simulation - Modell-gestützte Steuerungsverfahren - Zuverlässigkeitsanalysen - Optimierungsverfahren =========================================================== WICHTIGE TERMINE =========================================================== 28. Mai 2012: Einreichungsfrist für Beiträge Anfang Juni 2012: Mitteilung über Annahme 24. Juni 2012: Überarbeitungsfrist für angenommene Beiträge =========================================================== RICHTLINIE FÜR DIE EINREICHUNGEN UND REVIEW =========================================================== Autoren werden gebeten, bisher unveröffentlichte Beiträge aus Wissenschaft und Forschung über EasyChair einzureichen. Alle eingereichten Beiträge werden durch Mitglieder des Programmausschusses begutachtet. Mindestens ein Autor eines angenommenen Beitrags muss sich für die GI-Jahrestagung INFORMATIK 2012 registrieren, im Workshop anwesend sein und den Beitrag präsentieren. Die Beiträge werden in einem Tagungsband in der GI-Reihe "Lecture Notes in Informatics" und in Open-Access-Form erscheinen. Dazu sind die LNI-Formatvorlagen der GI (Word oder LaTeX) zu berücksichtigen. Beiträge sollen mindestens 5 Seiten umfassen und 15 Seiten nicht über- schreiten. Beiträge können in deutscher oder englischer Sprache verfasst und über EasyChair bis zum 30. April eingereicht werden. =========================================================== ORGANISATION =========================================================== Prof. Dr.-Ing., Dr.h.c. mult. Paul J. Kühn, Universität Stuttgart (Co-Chair) Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hermann de Meer, Universität Passau (Co-Chair) Michael Till Beck, Universität Passau (Co-Chair) =========================================================== PROGRAMMAUSSCHUSS =========================================================== Martin Braun (Universität Stuttgart) Andreas Breuer (RWE Deutschland AG) Manfred Broy (Technische Universität München) Claudia Eckert (FhG Institut AISEC, Garching) Klaus David (Universität Kassel) Hermann deMeer (Universität Passau) Paul J. Kühn (Universität Stuttgart) Ralf Lehnert (Technische Universität Dresden) Sebastian Warkentin (MVV Energy, Mannheim) Martina Zitterbart (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) =========================================================== WORKSHOP-WEBSITE =========================================================== http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sghik2012 Mit freundlichen Grüßen Sonja Klingert Software Engineering Group University of Mannheim A5,6 Building B D-68131 Mannheim Tel: 0049-621-181-3904 Mob: 0049-160-1066-942

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Fwd: [MM-INTEREST] IEEE CSE/EUC 2012: Call for Papers (extended deadline!)
by Lars Wolf 09 May '12

09 May '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [MM-INTEREST] IEEE CSE/EUC 2012: Call for Papers (extended deadline!) Datum: Wed, 9 May 2012 12:23:28 +0300 Von: Announcements <announce(a)CS.UCY.AC.CY> Antwort an: Announcements <announce(a)CS.UCY.AC.CY> An: MM-INTEREST(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG *** Call for Papers *** The 15th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (IEEE CSE 2012) http://www.cse2012.cs.ucy.ac.cy/ The 10th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (IEEE/IFIP EUC 2012) http://www.euc2012.cs.ucy.ac.cy/ 3-5 October 2012, Paphos, Cyprus *** EXTENDED DEADLINE: 10th June 2012 *** CSE 2012 The Computational Science and Engineering area has earned prominence through advances in electronic and integrated technologies beginning in the 1940s. Current times are very exciting and the years to come will witness a proliferation in the use of various advanced computing systems. It is increasingly becoming an emerging and promising discipline in shaping future research and development activities in academia and industry, ranging from engineering, science, finance, economics, arts and humanitarian fields, especially when the solution of large and complex problems must cope with tight timing schedules. CSE 2012 is the next event, in a series of highly successful IEEE International Conferences on Computational Science and Engineering, held mainly as the International Workshop on High Performance Scientific and Engineering Computing for 10 editions. The previous CSE-11 was held in Dalian, China, August 24-26, 2011. CSE 2012 is to bring together computer scientists, applied mathematicians, engineers in different disciplines and researchers to present, discuss and exchange ideas, results and experiences in the area of advanced computing for problems in science and engineering applications and inter-disciplinary. We are inviting new and unpublished papers on, but not limited to, the following topics: * Intelligent and Bio-inspired Computing * Distributed and Parallel Computing * Database and Data Mining * Cluster, Grid, P2P and Cloud Computing * Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications * CSE Education * Scientific and Engineering Computing * Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing * Advanced Networking and Applications * Security, Privacy and Trust * Service and Internet Computing - Dependable, Reliable and Autonomic Computing * CSE applications EUC 2012 Embedded and ubiquitous computing is an exciting paradigm that promises to provide computing and communication services to the end users all the time and everywhere. Its systems are now invading in every aspect of our daily life and promise to revolutionize our life much more profoundly than elevators, electric motors or even personal computer evolution ever did. The emergence of this technology is a natural outcome of research and technological advances in a variety of areas including embedded systems, pervasive computing and communications, wireless networks, mobile computing, distributed computing and agent technologies. EUC 2012 is the next event, in a series of highly successful IEEE International Conferences on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC), previously held as ICDCS-ECS04 (Tokyo, Japan, March 2004), EUC-04 (Aizu, Japan, August 2004), EUC-05 (Nagasaki, Japan, December 2005), EUC-06 (Seoul, Korea, August 2006), EUC-07 (Taipei, Taiwan, December 2007), EUC-08 (Shanghai, China, December 2008), EUC-09 (Vancouver, Canada, August 2009), EUC-10 (Hong Kong, December 2010) and EUC 2011 (Melbourne, Australia, October 2011). Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: Embedded Computing * Embedded System Software and Optimization * Embedded System Architectures * Hardware/Software Co-design and Design Automation * Real-Time Systems and Operating Systems * Application-Specific Processors and Devices * Power-Aware Computing * Sensor Networks * System/Network-on-Chip * Reconfigurable Computing Systems and Applications * Cyber-Physical Systems Ubiquitous Computing * Pervasive Computing and Communications * Middleware and Peer-to-Peer Computing * Internet Computing and Applications * Multimedia and Data Management * Human-Computer Interaction * Network Protocols * Wireless Communication & Networks * Mobile Computing * Agents and Distributed Computing * Security and Fault Tolerance Applications Submission Guidelines Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers should be at most 8 pages including the bibliography and well-marked appendices, and should follow the IEEE 8.5" x 11" Two-Column Format. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, and so the paper should be intelligible without them. Submissions are to be made to the submission web site. Only pdf files will be accepted. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Papers must be received by the submission deadline. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE conference proceedings (EI indexed). Selected best papers will be published in special issues of high quality journals (currently under negotation). Important Dates * Submission Deadline: 10 June * Notification of Acceptance: 15 July * Camera-ready Versions Submitted: 31 July * Author Registration: 31 July -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ############################ To unsubscribe from the MM-INTEREST list: write to: mailto:MM-INTEREST-SIGNOFF-REQUEST@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG or click the following link: http://listserv.acm.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ACMLPX.EXE?SUBED1=MM-INTEREST&A=1

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Fwd: [InternetTC] CFP IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology Special Section on Graph Theory and Its Application in Vehicular Networking
by Lars Wolf 09 May '12

09 May '12

Guoqiang Mao <guoqiang.mao(a)GMAIL.COM> schrieb: _____________________________________________ Call for Papers IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology Special Section: Graph Theory and Its Application in Vehicular Networking _____________________________________________ The last two decades have witnessed unprecedented growth in telecommunications, particularly in the area of wireless communications. This development in telecommunications opens doors to many sophisticated complex systems, e.g. social networks, smart grids, vehicular networks and sensor networks, that previously were not feasible. Graph theory is among the most widely used tools for modeling and analyzing the many types of interactions, relations and dynamics in these systems. Many problems of practical interest can be represented by graphs. The use of graph theory in vehicular networks, or more broadly highly dynamic networks, is of particular interest. The complex interactions among vehicles, between vehicles and road-side infrastructure, combined with the high mobility of vehicles and fast changing topology, present some unique challenges in network modeling and performance analysis, network design, resource management and communication protocol design. This special section aims to provide recent advances in graph theory that are applicable to highly dynamic networks, particularly vehicular networks, identify challenges in the area and present possible solutions, and furthermore to unveil the significant potential of graph theory in the domain of vehicular networks. Topics of interest for this special section include, but are not limited to: * Vehicular network modeling and performance analysis; * Network architecture design; * Vehicular technologies for vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure networking & services; * End-to-end service delivery architectures, algorithms, protocols and scalability; * Cooperative communications; * Quality of service; * Resource management; * Robust network and communication protocol design; * Interference characterization and management; * Localization techniques; * Road traffic management. Authors should follow the IEEE TVT manuscript format and submission procedure which can be found at the IEEE TVT home page http://transactions.vtsociety.org under Information for Authors. Timeline: _____________________________________________ * Manuscript submission deadline: June 1, 2012 * Editorial decision notification: September 15, 2012 * Revision deadline: October 15, 2012 * Notification of acceptance: December 15, 2012 * Final manuscript due: January 15, 2013 * Publication date: first quarter of 2013 Guest Editors: _____________________________________________ Dr Guoqiang Mao (Corresponding Guest Editor) The University of Sydney Darlington, NSW 2006, Australia Email: guoqiang.mao(a)sydney.edu.au Prof. Martin Haenggi University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA E-Mail: mhaenggi(a)nd.edu

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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: ECAI 2012 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Telecommunications & Sensor Networks
by Lars Wolf 08 May '12

08 May '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: ECAI 2012 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Telecommunications & Sensor Networks Datum: Tue, 8 May 2012 16:08:06 +0100 Von: Cormac J. Sreenan <cjs(a)cs.ucc.ie> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu CALL FOR PAPERS ECAI 2012 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Telecommunications & Sensor Networks Montpellier (France), Aug 27th, 2012 http://www.cs.ucc.ie/waits2012 ABOUT THE WORKSHOP We live in a time of unprecedented change. Traffic on our telecommunication networks has grown exponentially in the last decade. Many of the services and applications that exist now were not even imagined a few years ago. Though we can extrapolate some trends and make educated guesses, we cannot predict exactly what lies ahead. Networks that are designed with change in mind will be more robust to disruption caused by growing demands and changing user patterns and yet-unimagined applications. The risks associated with investment in these kinds of networks will be lower as they will be more durable and scalable. Networks that are designed with change in mind will make effective use of resources (e.g. spectrum, bandwidth, power, processing capabilities, cooling capabilities etc.) and ensure a sustainable future. The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers and technologists from academia and industry to explore the applications of artificial intelligence to the most pertinent technical challenges in telecommunications and sensor networks. FORMAT Workshop participation will be by invitation only. If you would like to participate, submit either a full paper of no more than 6 pages (or 6,000 words); a position statement, short paper, or problem instance (at most 3 pages or 3,000 words); or a position statement (1 page). Short papers may address an important problem for further research or describe a practical problem or an interesting lesson learned. In addition, we solicit proposals for short demonstrations (at most 3 pages with demonstrations taking at most 15 minutes). All submissions should conform to ECAI’s formatting guidelines, to be available soon on the conference website. SCOPE We especially welcome papers that combine artificial intelligence and telecommunications and sensor networks. Topics of interest in this workshop related to artificial intelligence techniques applied to challenges in telecommunications and sensor networks include but are not limited to the following: o Constraint Optimisation o Metaheuristic Optimisation o Combinatorial Optimisation o Online Stochastic Optimisation o Optimal Stopping Theory for Online Decision-making o Multi-agent Systems o Distributed Optimisation o Configuration systems o Machine Learning and Data Mining o Parameterised Complexity and Graph Theory o Game Theory and Incentive Compatible Mechanism Design o Reasoning with Uncertainty o Knowledge-based Policy Management o Fault Detection and Diagnosis We are also interested in papers that present challenges in telecommunications and sensor networks to which artificial intelligence techniques can be of value, such as: o Network Planning and Optimisation o Network Reliability o Dynamic Wavelength Assignment o Autonomic Networks o Medium Access Control o Frequency Management o Heterogeneous Networks o Cognitive Radio o Cognitive Networks o Sensor Deployment o Dynamic Network Repair o Sensor Networks for Intelligent Environments o Green Telecommunications Networks Important Dates: Submission: May 28, 2012 Notification: June 28, 2012 Final version: July 22, 2012 Workshop: Aug 27, 2012 ORGANISERS Ken Brown Cork Constraint Computation Centre Department of Computer Science, University College Cork Email: k.brown(a)cs.ucc.ie Web: http://www.cs.ucc.ie/~kb11 Barry O’Sullivan Cork Constraint Computation Centre Department of Computer Science, University College Cork Email: b.osullivan(a)cs.ucc.ie Web: http://osullivan.ucc.ie Cormac Sreenan Mobile and Internet Systems Laboratory Department of Computer Science, University College Cork Email: cjs(a)cs.ucc.ie Web: http://www.cs.ucc.ie/~cjs Program Committee Gianluca Bontempi, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Luiz Da Silva, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Pierre Flener, Uppsala University, Sweden Anna Foerster, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzterland Justin Pearson, Uppsala University, Sweden Dirk Pesch, Cork institute of Technology, Ireland Helmut Simonis, University College Cork, Ireland <to be completed> This workshop is being run in association with the Science Foundation Ireland-funded CTVR centre - http://www.ctvr.ie _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE JSAC SI on Virtual MIMO
by Lars Wolf 08 May '12

08 May '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE JSAC SI on Virtual MIMO Datum: Tue, 08 May 2012 16:48:04 +0800 Von: Zhou Yi Qing <yqzhou(a)eee.hku.hk> Organisation: EEE, HKU, HK An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Apologies if you received multiple copies ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Virtual MIMO Multiple antenna (also known as MIMO: multiple input and multiple output) has been widely accepted as a promising scheme to improve the spectrum efficiency of mobile communication systems. MIMO is supported by various international standards such as long term evolution (LTE), WiMAX and International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT)-Advanced. Due to the limited size of hand-held mobile stations (MSs), however, no more than two antennas can usually be fit per MS. As a result, implementing conventional MIMO with MSs in practice becomes challenging. On the other hand, multiple single-antenna MSs can be grouped to create a virtual MIMO (VMIMO) system. The system performance can be greatly enhanced by VMIMO because the size of the MIMO channel increases significantly, resulting in more degrees of freedom and improved spatial diversity gain. Moreover, interesting research areas and various challenges arise in VMIMO systems to solve problems that do not appear in MIMO systems. For example, given a large number of MSs and limited processing capability of base stations, a proper subset of the MSs must be chosen to form the VMIMO system; this is also known as user grouping. One of the considerations when carrying out user grouping is fairness. Moreover, in existing cellular systems, information exchange between MSs is difficult. To manage spatial interference at each MS, powerful precoding techniques are needed at base stations, which are crucial to the performance of VMIMO. On the other hand, considering wireless ad-hoc networks and future cellular systems, collaboration among MSs could be possible. As such, it is also interesting to investigate VMIMO with cooperating terminals and security issues arising as a consequence of cooperation. Therefore, VMIMO is a pressing research topic that has a wide range of applications in wireless communication systems, including both cellular and wireless ad hoc networks. It is timely and important to develop enabling techniques for VMIMO. The goal of this issue is to bring together the most updated research contributions in this area and contribute in identifying issues that need to be addressed when analyzing and designing VMIMO systems. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Capacity analysis of VMIMO * User grouping in VMIMO * Precoding schemes for VMIMO * Pilot signal design for VMIMO * Distributed Coding and Modulation for VMIMO * Signal detection in VMIMO with and without user collaboration * Feedback scheme design in VMIMO * Impact of limited feedback in VMIMO * Impact of limited backhaul in VMIMO * Multiple-terminal synchronization in VMIMO * MAC protocol design for VMIMO * Fairness in VMIMO * Self-optimization and distributed implementation of VMIMO * Security issues of VMIMO Prospective authors should prepare their manuscripts following the IEEE J-SAC format described at http://www.jsac.ucsd.edu/Guidelines/info.html. Authors should submit a PDF version of their complete manuscript to http://www.edas.info. The timetable is as follows: Manuscript Submission Due: Oct. 1, 2012 First Reviews Due: Feb. 1, 2013 Second Reviews Due and Acceptance Notification: Apr. 1, 2013 Final Manuscript Due: Jun. 1, 2013 Publication: Fourth quarter 2013 Guest Editors: Prof. Yiqing Zhou, zhouyiqing(a)ict.ac.cn, China Prof. Fumiyuki Adachi, adachi(a)ecei.tohoku.ac.jp, Japan Dr. Kai-Kit Wong, k.wong(a)ee.ucl.ac.uk, United Kingdom Prof. Xiang-Gen Xia, xxia(a)ee.udel.edu, USA Prof. Dimitris Toumpakaris, dtouba(a)upatras.gr, Greece Prof. Heidi Steendam, Heidi.Steendam(a)telin.ugent.be, Belgium Prof. Wei-Ping Zhu, weiping(a)ece.condordia.ca, Canada Prof. Lie-Liang Yang, lly(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk, United Kingdom _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: Workshop on energy and Wireless Sensors (e-WiSe)
by Lars Wolf 08 May '12

08 May '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Workshop on energy and Wireless Sensors (e-WiSe) Datum: Mon, 7 May 2012 17:25:03 +0200 Von: Sollacher, Rudolf <rudolf.sollacher(a)siemens.com> An: Sollacher, Rudolf <rudolf.sollacher(a)siemens.com> Kopie (CC): dilhac(a)laas.fr <dilhac(a)laas.fr> Dear colleagues, I would like to announce a "Workshop on energy and Wireless Sensors (e-WiSe)" to be held in conjunction with IEEE iThings, IEEE CPSCOM and ACM/IEEE GreenCOM conferences (_http://ithings.univ-fcomte.fr/_) in September 11-14, 2012 in Besançon, France. Novel papers are invited from both academic and industrial research institutions, describing original results, new technical implementations, or in-depth user studies, including but not limited to: - Environmental energy capture for battery life extension, - Environmental energy capture for battery-free sensors, - Energy storage, - Circuits, modelling and methods for energy management, - Energy aware sensing and signal processing, - Energy aware wireless modulations and communication protocols, - Case study of wireless sensor network deployment in aeronautics, space, medical, civil engineering, military applications Important dates Submission deadline: June 1, 2012 Status notification: Jun 30, 2012 Camera-ready due: July 15, 2012 Conference: September 11-14, 2012 More details can be found in the attached CFP. I apologize if you receive this announcement more than once. Please forward this email to possibly interested colleagues. Kind regards Dr. Rudolf Sollacher Siemens AG Corporate Technology Corporate Research and Technologies CT T DE TC3 Otto-Hahn-Ring 6 81739 München, Deutschland Tel.: +49 89 636-53158 Fax: +49 89 636-49767 Mobil: +49 152 22797987 _mailto:rudolf.sollacher@siemens.com_ Siemens Aktiengesellschaft: Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Gerhard Cromme; Vorstand: Peter Löscher, Vorsitzender; Roland Busch, Brigitte Ederer, Klaus Helmrich, Joe Kaeser, Barbara Kux, Hermann Requardt, Siegfried Russwurm, Peter Y. Solmssen, Michael Süß; Sitz der Gesellschaft: Berlin und München, Deutschland; Registergericht: Berlin Charlottenburg, HRB 12300, München, HRB 6684; WEEE-Reg.-Nr. DE 23691322

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Fwd: ICNC 2013 - San Diego (Paper deadline: July 5)
by Lars Wolf 08 May '12

08 May '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: ICNC 2013 - San Diego (Paper deadline: July 5) Datum: Mon, 7 May 2012 19:24:54 -0700 Von: info(a)conf-icnc.org An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de CALL FOR PAPERS ICNC 2013 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications San Diego, USA January 28-31, 2013 http://www.conf-icnc.org/2013/ International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Communications Society, is a premier conference in the computer and communication fields. ICNC 2013 is to be held in San Diego during Jan. 28-31, 2013. We invite you to submit your technical papers to the following areas: Cloud Computing and Networking Cognitive Computing and Networking Multimedia Computing and Communications Green Computing, Communications and Networking Mobile Computing and Vehicle Communications Internet Services and Applications Optical and Grid Networking Network Algorithms and Performance Evaluations Wireless Communications Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Wireless Networks Signal Processing for Communications Communications QoS and System Modeling Communications and Information Security Data Storage Technologies and Applications Papers are required to be submitted via EDAS (http://edas.info/N12265). It is required that the manuscript follows the standard IEEE camera-ready format (double column, 10-pt font) as well as the requirement set by EDAS paper submission system. The maximum length of ICNC paper without over-length charge is FIVE (5) pages. The authors are allowed to pay for up to TWO (2) additional pages with over length charge. Submitted papers may not have been previously published in or under consideration for publication in another journal of conference. The organizing committee of ICNC reserves the right to not review papers that either exceed the length specification or have been submitted or published elsewhere. Submissions must include title, abstract, keywords, author and affiliation with email address.Â Â All submitted papers will be reviewed by the TPC team and judged on originality, technical correctness, relevance and quality of presentation. An accepted paper must be presented at the conference. Each full registration covers up to two papers by an author. All accepted and presented papers in main program and workshops will be included in IEEE Xplore database, which is EI indexed. Selected high-quality papers will be invited to publish an extended version on a Special Issue at Journal of Communications. ICNC 2013 TPC Team http://www.conf-icnc.org/2013/

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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: IJDSN Special Issue on "Deploying Real-Life WSN Applications: Challenges, Solutions, and Future Directions"
by Lars Wolf 08 May '12

08 May '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: IJDSN Special Issue on "Deploying Real-Life WSN Applications: Challenges, Solutions, and Future Directions" Datum: Mon, 07 May 2012 22:43:54 -0300 Von: regina(a)dc.ufscar.br An: tccc <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> *** Call for Papers *** International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks - IJDSN Special Issue "Deploying Real-Life WSN Applications: Challenges, Solutions, and Future Directions" Website: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdsn/si/791617/cfp/ Deadline: Friday, 25 May 2012 Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) area has been widely explored by researchers worldwide. With the continuous advances of technology, WSNs are increasingly being deployed in a myriad of real-life applications. Although many researchers consider WSNs mature enough for real-life applications, important but also conflicting challenges remain as open issues: from the need for accurate and stable sensor nodes (yet keeping size small and energy consumption low) to the demand for deploying reliable and robust applications (yet coping with WSN limited resources). This special issue focuses on deploying real-life WSN applications and corresponding complexity, robustness, and reliability conflicting issues, solutions, guidelines, and future directions. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: 1. Deploying real-life smart buildings, homes, offices, and classrooms; assistive medicine; structural monitoring; intelligent transportation systems; surveillance; industrial control; precision agriculture; intrusion detection; target tracking; environmental monitoring; emergency response management 2. The challenges of deploying real-life WSN applications 3. Localization/positioning in real-life WSN applications 4. Deploying reliable and robust WSN applications in harsh environments 5. Guidelines for deploying real-life WSN applications 6. Real-life WSN applications and integration to the Internet 7. Experimental evaluation of WSN applications performance 8. Experimental results for real-life WSN applications versus simulation results 9. Real-life WSN applications with actuators and mobile nodes and sinks 10. Future directions in deploying real-life WSN applications Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdsn/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable: Manuscript Due: Friday, 25 May 2012 First Round of Reviews: Friday, 17 August 2012 Publication Date: Friday, 12 October 2012 Editors: Regina B. Araujo, Computer Science Department, Federal University of São Carlos, São Carlos, SP, Brazil Carlos Henrique C. Ribeiro, Computer Science Division, Department of Computer Theory, Aeronautics Institute of Technology, São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil Damla Turgut, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA Jo Ueyama, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil Torsten Braun, Institute of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland ============================== ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [Mitglieder-info] CFP: WASA-NGI-V co-located with IEEE LCN 2012
by Lars Wolf 07 May '12

07 May '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Mitglieder-info] CFP: WASA-NGI-V co-located with IEEE LCN 2012 Datum: Mon, 07 May 2012 13:20:08 +0200 Von: Oliver Waldhorst <waldhorst(a)kit.edu> An: KUVS-L(a)listserv.uni-heidelberg.de, mitglieder-info(a)kuvs.de (We apologize for duplicate copies) *** Submission deadline is 05/12/2012, five days to go! CALL FOR PAPERS: WASA-NGI-V - 5th Int. Workshop on Architectures, Services, and Applications for the Next Generation Internet Collocated with IEEE LCN 2012 in Clearwater, FL, USA October 22-25, 2012 http://ipvs.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/vs/wasangi5/ WORKSHOP SCOPE The 5th Workshop on Architectures, Services and Applications invites researchers and practitioners to share their ideas on novel network architectures and services to support emerging data-intensive Internet applications. The workshop focuses especially on architectures and services that expose high flexibility for scaling applications and also provide efficient processing of data streams. This includes all aspects related to QoS, mobility, heterogeneity, and interoperability while employing the possibilities of novel communication technologies. WORKSHOP TOPICS The workshop solicits contributions regarding novel and possibly preliminary research results related, but not limited to the following list of topics: * Novel data-intensive Internet applications and their requirements for Future Internet architectures and services * New Internet architectures and services enabling scalable and flexible deployment of data-intensive Internet applications * Elastic functions and supporting data distribution networks, e.g., using server and/or network virtualization * Peer-to-peer and service overlay networks for building communication services with support for QoS, mobility, heterogeneity, and interoperability * Communication paradigms and models for data intensive computing, e.g., event processing, publish/subscribe, map reduce, group communication * Solutions for data-gathering over heterogeneous network technologies, e.g., global sensor networks, delay-tolerant networks and so on SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Papers should be submitted in PDF format via the workshop page. Contributions should present novel and possibly preliminary research results (up to 8 camera-ready pages in 10 pt IEEE format). Each submission will be reviewed by three members of the program committee. Papers are selected according to their originality, quality, and relevance to the workshop topics. Accepted papers will appear in the LCN Workshop proceedings and will be published within the IEEE digital library. For accepted papers, at least one author must register for the workshop and give a presentation at the workshop. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: 05/12/2012 Author notification: 06/30/2012 Camera-ready version: 07/28/2012 Registration deadline: TBA ORGANIZATION Co-Chairs Roland Bless (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Boris Koldehofe (Universität Stuttgart, Germany) Oliver Waldhorst (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Program Committee Bengt Ahlgren (SICS, Sweden) Erik-Oliver Blass (Northeastern University, USA) Torsten Braun (University of Bern, Switzerland) Paolo Costa (Imperial College London, UK) Phuong H. Ha (University of Tromsø, Norway) David Hilley (Google, USA) Marco Hoffmann (Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany) Holger Karl (University of Paderborn, Germany) Martin Karsten (University of Waterloo, Kanada) Dae Young Kim (Chungnam National University, South Korea) Sam Michiels (KU Leuven, Belgium) Hugo Miranda (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal) Jörg Ott (Aalto University, Finnland) Benno Overeinder (NLnet Labs, Netherlands) Marina Papatriantafilou (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) Moritz Steiner (Bell Labs, USA) Kurt Tutschku (University of Vienna, Austria) Stefan Weber (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Jin Zhao (Fudan University, China) _______________________________________________ Mitglieder-info mailing list Mitglieder-info(a)kuvs.de http://mail-i4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/mailman/listinfo/mitglieder-info

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15th MSWiM 2012: 1st ACM HP-MOSYS Workshop CFP
by Tasos Dagiuklas 07 May '12

07 May '12

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ========================================================================== ========================================================================== CFP for the 1st ACM Workshop on ³High Performance Mobile Opportunistic Systems² HP-MOSys 2012 To be held in conjunction with The 15th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems October 21-25 2012 Paphos, Cyprus In cooperation with R8 IEEE COMSOC (pending) URL: http://www.cs.unic.ac.cy/cmavrom/MOSys.htm ========================================================================== Description of workshop Opportunistic networks are an emerging networking paradigm where communication between the source and destination occurs on-the-fly and depends on the availability of communication links. Opportunistic communication paradigm heavily benefits from the heterogeneous networking and communication infrastructure that currently exist, e.g., mobile networks, P2P networks, with the supporting technologies in data management and system interoperability. Motivated by further examining recent advances in this field and promoting the optimization of the existing methodologies and/or approaches, as well as presenting efficient high performance techniques for extending the survivability of such systems, both in terms of performance and reliability, we are interested in organizing this workshop with the following primary objectives: § Explore new and innovative ideas and improvements of opportunistic networks that can affect the overall performance of the system; § Explore the impact of wireless mobility and resource management in order to offer high performance and resource availability in today¹s computing systems. The workshop also aims at presenting state-of-the-art research and future trends in mobile and heterogeneous opportunistic networking and applications, combining the mobile communication, mobility and resource management field, and in a research pathway in order to present the various concepts that contribute to enable high performance computing. Workshop details Original research contributions in all areas of High performance Mobile Opportunistic Systems and/or applications are welcome. Particularly the papers aim to present work in the following topical areas: Failure-aware resource management for high-availability computing in opportunistic systems Agent-based approaches for high performance computing systems Coordinated control for Mobile high-availability computing Resource management and efficient resource manipulation Resource availability for high performance and reliability computing System resource reliability and dependable computing Self-Managing and Reconfigurable System Context-aware computing for high performance Distributed Mobile Opportunistic systems and Networking Mobile Urban Sensing and Crowdsensing Cloud Computing for high-availability computing Performance Evaluation of computing systems Resource management in Clusters and Grids Opportunistic, Delay-tolerant and Hybrid Networks Mobility models for opportunistic networks Novel Architectures, supporting Middleware, Prototypes and Testbeds Dissemination and Caching in Opportunistic Networks Social-aware Opportunistic Networking Security, Trust, Privacy and Cooperation in Opportunistic Networks Analysis of Opportunistic Protocols Any Mobile Opportunistic Networks technology for the provision of reliable applications/ services and high-performance computing Systems¹ Modeling and Simulation for measuring and enabling high-performance Mobile Opportunistic systems Large Scale Mobile Opportunistic Systems and schemes for high-performance computing Middleware(s) for high-performance computing in Mobile Opportunistic systems Opportunistic social networking for disaster and emergency situations, Mobile Opportunistic healthcare in remote regions Distributed architectures for system reliability and Self-configurable Computing Wireless systems¹ simulation based Performance Analysis Workshop Chairs ------------------ Constandinos Mavromoustakis, University of Nicosia, Cyprus Lei Shu, Osaka University, Japan Tasos Dagiuklas, Department of Telecommunications and Network Systems, Technological Educational Institute of Mesolonghi-Greece TPC members ------------- Zhangbing Zhou, China University of Geosciences, China Michele Albano, IT, Portugal Ciprian Dobre, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania Karin Anna Hummel, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Jianwei Niu, Beihang University, China Joel Rodrigues, University of Beira Interior, Portugal Hsing-Lung Chen, NTUST, Taiwan Muneer Masadeh Bani Yassein, University of Science and Technology, Jordan Christos Verikoukis, CTTC, Spain George Mastorakis, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Greece Ioannis Krontiris, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK Katerina Mitrokotsa, EPFL-I&C-ISC-LASEC, Lausanne, Switzerland Evangelos Pallis, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece Ricardo Lent, Imperial College London, London, UK Bechir Hamdaoui, Oregon State University, USA Kun Ming Yu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Yu (Jason) Gu, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore Chang Wu (James) Yu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan PAPER SUBMISSIONS: High-quality original papers are solicited. Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed by Technical Program Committee members and other experts active in the field to ensure high quality and relevance to the Symposium. Paper length should be no more than 8 pages, double column, ACM style including tables and figures. Only PDF format is accepted. All accepted papers will appear in the Symposium proceedings published by ACM press. At least one of the authors of accepted papers must attend the conference to present each paper. Each submission must be accompanied by the following information: - paper title - short abstract - complete list of authors and their affiliations - contact person for correspondence (please check that the correct e-mail is configured on the EDAS system) Papers are submitted via the EDAS system (http://edas.info/). IMPORTANT DATES: Paper Registration: 8th May, 2012 Author Submission: 13th May, 2012

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Fwd: [AutomotiveUI'12] 3rd call for submissions (October 17-19, 2012, Portsmouth, NH, USA)
by Lars Wolf 07 May '12

07 May '12

Andreas Riener <riener(a)pervasive.jku.at> schrieb: [our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP] _____________________________________________ | 4th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces | | and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI'12) | | | | October 17-19, 2012, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA | | | | Conference website: http://www.auto-ui.org | | | | Submission deadline (Papers) rapidly approaching: June 1st, 2012! | _____________________________________________ AutomotiveUI, the International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, is the premier forum for UI research in the automotive domain. AutomotiveUI brings together researchers and practitioners interested in both the technical and the human aspects of in-vehicle user interfaces and applications. AutomotiveUI'12 will investigate novel in-vehicle services, issues related to driver distraction, approaches to improving driver performance, and the varying needs of different user groups. In addition AutomotiveUI'12 will explore the relationship between these topics and automotive user interface standards. _____________________________________________ | TOPICS |---------------------------- AutomotiveUI'12 invites you to submit original work in one or more of the following formats: full and short papers, workshops, posters, interactive demonstrations, and industrial show-cases. Topics include, but are not limited to: * New concepts for in-car user interfaces (multi modal, speech, audio, gestural, natural I/O) * Text input and output while driving * Interfaces to control in-car entertainment * Evaluation and benchmarking of in-car user interfaces * Assistive technology in the vehicular context * Methods and tools for automotive user interface research * Automotive user interface frameworks and toolkits * Detecting and estimating user intentions * Emotional state recognition while driving * Techniques for cognitive workload and/or visual demand estimation * Biometrics and physiological sensors as a user interface component * Detecting/measuring driver distraction * Sensors and context for interactive experiences in the car * User interfaces for information access (search, browse) while driving * User interfaces for navigation or route guidance * Applications and user interfaces for inter-vehicle communication * In-car gaming and entertainment * Different user groups and user group characteristics * In-situ studies of automotive user interface approaches * General automotive user experience research * Topics associated with automotive user interface standards * Vehicle based apps, web/cloud enabled connectivity * The role of subliminal cues and feedback to augment driving behavior -------------------------| IMPORTANT DATES |------------------------ Please check the conference webpage at <www.auto-ui.org> for further information and/or any changes to submission deadlines. * Full and Short Papers: June 1st, 2012 * Workshop Proposals: July 6th, 2012 * Work-in-progress, Demos: September 7th, 2012 * Industrial Showcase: September 7th, 2012 -----------------------| ORGANIZING COMMITTEE |--------------------- * General Chair (chair(a)auto-ui.org) - Andrew L. Kun, University of New Hampshire, USA * Paper Co-Chairs (papers(a)auto-ui.org) - Linda Boyle, University of Washington, USA - Bryan Reimer, MIT AgeLab, USA - Andreas Riener, University of Linz, Austria * Program Committee - for an overview see <http://www.auto-ui.org/12/organizer.php>; ---------------------------| PUBLISHING |--------------------------- We plan to publish the AutomotiveUI'12 proceedings online via the ACM Digital Library. The adjunct proceedings of AutomotiveUI'12 will be published online at the conference website. Proceedings may be also considered for printing under a ISBN carrier. Join us this October for stimulating discussions and for beautiful views of the New England fall foliage.

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IEEE Workshop on Quality of Experience for Multimedia Communications
by Tasos Dagiuklas 04 May '12

04 May '12

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- Our apologies if you received multiple copies of this CFP ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- C a l l f o r P a p e r s ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------- IEEE Workshop on Quality of Experience for Multimedia Communications -QoEMC2012 (in conjunction with IEEE Globecom 2012) Anaheim, California, Friday December 7, 2012 Sponsored by the Technical Committee on Multimedia Communications of the IEEE Communications Society ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------- It is now widely acknowledged that the adoption of new multi-modal media necessitates mechanisms in order to assess and evaluate perceived multimedia quality. The problem of understanding and enhancing Quality of Experience (QoE) in complex, distributed and diverse environments has been and is continuing to be the subject of intense research investigation. Considerable efforts have been devoted to assessing QoE via objective or subjective means for new and emerging multimedia services over modern fixed/mobile devices (e.g. IPTV/HDTV/3DTV, Tablet video call, 3D smartphone). As of today though we do not know how to manage and control QoE in a diverse heterogeneous environment. The variables that affect QoE are just too many and span several disciplinary areas, including multiple technologies, but also psychology and sociology factors. Despite the efforts devoted to QoE studies, managing and controlling user QoE is still an open issue. Topics of interest The Second Annual Workshop of IEEE Multimedia Communications Technical Committee (MMTC) focusing onQuality of Experience for Multimedia Communications Workshop will bring together researchers from academia and industry, to identify and discuss technical challenges, exchange novel ideas, explore enabling technologies, and report latest research efforts that cover a variety of topics including, but not limited to: * QoE relation and mapping to QoS * KPI and KQI for the QoE definition * QoE models, their applications and use cases * QoE inference from user behavior * QoE evaluation methodologies and metrics (subjective, objective, online versus offline) * QoE for new wireless multimedia applications * QoE-based routing and resource management * QoE-aware cross-layer design * QoE-based optimization in heterogeneous environments * QoE Metrics for various media applications * QoE Control, Monitoring and Management strategies * Standardization activities for QoE Submission Procedure Submitted papers must represent original material which is not currently under review in any other conference or journal and has not been previously published. Paper length should not exceed five-pages standard IEEE conference two-column format (including all text, figures, and references). Please refer to the workshop web pages for submission instructions: http://qoe.diee.unica.it All accepted and presented papers will be included in the IEEE GLOBECOM 2012 proceedings. IEEE reserves the right to exclude an accepted and registered but not presented paper from the IEEE digital library. Extended versions ofselected best papers will be recommended for publication in Special Issues of prestigious International Journals. Workshop Co-Chairs: Periklis Chatzimisios, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece Tasos Dagiuklas, TEI of Mesolonghi, Greece Chang Wen Chen, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA Luigi Atzori, University of Cagliari, Italy Important Dates Manuscript submission: June 1, 2012 Acceptance Notification: July 10, 2012 Camera-ready: August 1, 2012

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Fwd: [InternetTC] Call for Papers - MOBILWARE 2012 - 5th International ICST Conference on Mobile Wireless Middleware, OSs, and Applications (fwd)
by Lars Wolf 04 May '12

04 May '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [InternetTC] Call for Papers - MOBILWARE 2012 - 5th International ICST Conference on Mobile Wireless Middleware, OSs, and Applications (fwd) Datum: Thu, 3 May 2012 19:51:24 -0300 Von: Carlos Becker Westphall <westphal(a)INF.UFSC.BR> An: itc(a)COMSOC.ORG ============================================================================ 5th International ICST Conference on Mobile Wireless Middleware, OSs, and Applications - MOBILWARE 2012 Annual Theme: "Mobile Middleware for M2M Interaction and Smart City Applications" 13-14 November, 2012 Berlin, Germany http://mobilware.org/ ============================================================================ HIGHLIGHTS - The conference is endorsed by the European Alliance for Innovation, a leading community-based organisation devoted to the advancement of innovation in the field of ICT - All accepted papers will be published by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library, one of the world's largest scientific libraries - Proceedings will be submitted for indexing by Google Scholar, ISI, EI Compendex, Scopus and many more - Extended versions of selected best papers will be invited for journal submission (fast review track) to "ICST Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications" and "ICST Transactions on Ubiquitous Environments". - Mobilware 2012 will be held in conjunction with the 3rd FOKUS FUSECO Forum on Future Seamless Communication, Berlin, Germany, November 15 & 16, 2012, www.fuseco-forum.org/2012 CALL FOR PAPERS [Scope] The advances in wireless communication technologies and the proliferation of mobile devices have enabled the realization of intelligent environments for people and machines to communicate with each other, interact with information-processing devices, and receive a wide range of mobile wireless services through various types of networks and systems everywhere, anytime. A key enabler of these pervasive and ubiquitous connectivity environments is the advancement of software technology in various communication sectors, ranging from communication middleware and operating systems to networking protocols and applications. [Topics] The conference solicits original technical papers, not previously published and not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - New middleware concepts for mobile devices - Mobile middleware enabling M2M communication - People-centric collaborative sensing - Scalable processing and data analytics over mobile sensors-generated datastreams - Smart space/city middleware and applications - Middleware for mobile cloud computing - Novel applications and communication protocols for wireless sensor networks, vehicular networks, and home networks - End-to-end architectures for seamless ubiquitous service provisioning and deployment - Integration of heterogeneous wired and wireless networks - QoS awareness, adaptation, and fault-tolerance of mobile services - Opportunistic and delay-tolerant mobile and wireless networking - Location-aware and context-aware networking and computing - Energy-efficient applications, services and middleware - Mobility and handoff management - Location and tracking support and services - Human-computer interface and portable 3D graphics for mobile devices - Modeling, simulation, and performance evaluation of mobile wireless systems and services - Trustworthiness, security, and privacy of mobile and wireless systems - Thin client technologies, Mobile Web APIs, BONDI, WAC, Html5 - Impact of IMS, RCS, RCS-e, EPC and LTE on the evolution of mobile middleware [Publications] Accepted papers will be published in Springer's LNICST series and will appear in the SpringerLink, one of the largest digital libraries online that covers a variety of scientific disciplines, as well as in the ICST's own EU Digital Library (EUDL). LNICST volumes are submitted for inclusion to leading indexing services, including DBLP, Google Scholar, ACM Digital Library, ISI Proceedings, EI Engineering Index, CrossRef, Scopus. [Best paper award] The program committee will designate one paper accepted to the conference as MOBILWARE 2012 Best Paper. The winner will be declared during the conference. [Journal Special Issues] Extended versions of selected best papers will be invited for journal submission (fast review track) to "ICST Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications" and "ICST Transactions on Ubiquitous Environments". [Tutorial proposals] Proposals for Tutorials are solicited. Potential Tutorial organizers are requested to submit a three-page proposal in PDF format, including a biographical sketch of each proponent and a short bibliographical reference list, to the Tutorial Chair by June 8, 2012. The tutorials can be full or half-day long. Proposal evaluation will be based on proponents' expertise and tutorial relevance to the conference. [Paper submission] All the papers formatted according with the instructions have to be submitted through the conference online system at: http://mobilware.org/2012/show/initial-submission. [Important dates] Paper Submission Deadline: June 1, 2012 Notification of Acceptance: August 17, 2012 Camera Ready Deadline: September 14, 2012 Conference Date: 13-14 November, 2012 [Conference organising committees] General Chairs: Paolo Bellavista - University of Bologna (Italy) Thomas Magedanz - FOKUS Fraunhofer Institute (Germany) TPC Co-Chairs: Cristian Borcea, New Jersey Institute of Technology (USA) Florian Schreiner, FOKUS Fraunhofer Institute (Germany) Tutorial Chair: Iulian Sandu Popa, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin (France) Publicity Chair: Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil) Publications and Web Chair: Carlo Giannelli, University of Bologna (Italy) ICST IS A MEMBER OF EAI The European Alliance for Innovation is a dynamic eco-system for fostering ICT enabled innovation to improve European competitiveness and to benefit society. EAI uses open e-platforms to inspire grassroots collaboration among all relevant actors, from organizations to individuals, to stimulate community driven innovation to its institutional and individual members worldwide. Through EAI, organizations find ideas and talent, and individual innovators find organizations for their ingenuity and craft. Join the innovation community at www.eai.eu

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Fwd: IEEE PQoSCOM 2012 co-located with IEEE Cluster2012, Beijing, China, Sep.24, 2012
by Lars Wolf 03 May '12

03 May '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [cfp]IEEE PQoSCOM 2012 co-located with IEEE Cluster2012,Beijing,China,Sep.24, 2012 Datum: Thu, 3 May 2012 19:43:43 +0800 Von: pqoscom12(a)gmail.com An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this call for papers of IEEE PQoSCOM2012 WORKSHOP. co-located with IEEE Cluster 2012 September 24, 2012, Beijing North Star Continental Grand Hotel,Beijing, China http://cloud.hdu.edu.cn/PQoSCom/ Important Dates: Workshop Paper Due: May 20th, 2012 Author Notification: June 15th, 2012 Camera-ready Paper Due: July 7th, 2012 Special Issues: All the accepted papers in this workshop will be published in the IEEE Cluster 2012 Proceedings and indexed by EI. Extensions of selected papers in this workshop will be published in the special issues of the following SCI journals: Elsevier Future Generation Computer System(SCI I.F./2.365) Information Systems Frontiers(Springer, SCI I.F./1.596) Description Power is becoming a critical resource to not only mobile, wireless, and battery-powered devices, but also large-scale server systems and data centers. Lower power consumption can significantly extend the usage time of battery-powered devices or reduce heat-related malfunctions and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for enterprise server systems and data centers. However, existing solutions for power aware computing mostly focus on the power reduction of the targeted computing systems at the sacrifice of QoS (Quality of Service) performance. Due to the high-density of service consolidation and development of new applications and the increasing number of users with heterogeneous requests, providing users with QoS guarantees while executing applications and saving power consumption has become a crucial problem that needs to be addressed for various computing systems. Moreover, with active deployment of multi-core and many-core architecture, virtualization and the emerging cloud comp! uting infrastructure, power and QoS constraints raise more challenges and have negative impacts on system performance. Hence, various aspects of power and QoS aware related solutions, such as algorithms design, performance evaluation and analysis, and prototypical implementation are required to make the computing system more power efficient with little loss of QoS performance. This workshop focuses on the challenges imposed by power and QoS constraints on computing systems, and on the different state-of-the-art solutions proposed to overcome these challenges. 2012 International Workshop on Power and QoS Aware Computing (PQoSCom2012) is a forum for professionals involved in energy efficiency and QoS constraints in parallel and distributed computing systems and data center operations and management. The goal of this workshop is to bridge the gap between theory and practice in the field of power aware and QoS constrained computing and bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry. We believe that power and QoS aware computing will benefit from close interaction between researchers and industry practitioners, so that the research can inform current deployments and deployment challenges can inform new research. In support of this, PQoSCom 2012 will provide a forum for both academics and industry practitioners to share their ideas and experiences, discuss challenges and recent advances, introduce developments and tools, identify open issues, present applications and enhancements for power and QoS aware computi! ng systems and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research, leverage each other's perspectives, and identify new/emerging trends in this important area. We therefore cordially invite contributions that investigate these issues, introduce new execution environments, apply performance evaluations and show the applicability to science and enterprise applications. We welcome various different kinds of papers that could formalize, simplify and optimize all the aspects of existing large scale computing systems and applications in science, engineering and business. We particularly encourage the submission of position papers that describe novel research directions and work that is in its formative stages, and papers about practical experiences and lessons learned from production systems. Papers of applied research, industrial experience reports, work-in-progress and vision papers with different criteria for each category that describe recent advances and efforts in the design and development of power and QoS aware computing, functionalities and capabilities that will benefit many applications are also solicited. List of topics Topics of interests include, but are not limited to: Novel Power-aware Architectures for Various Kind of Computing Systems Power and QoS Optimization Power and QoS Tradeoff Modeling and Simulation Power and QoS Performance Evaluation Power and QoS Aware Scheduling Power and QoS Aware Load Balancing QoS Specification, Formulation, Quantification and Verification Instrumentation, Profiling, and Measuring of Power Consumption Power and QoS awareness and Management at All Levels Virtualization Multi/Many Core Grid/Cluster/Cloud/Mobile/ Embedded Computing Power-aware Real Time Systems Power Reduction Algorithms & Applications Survey/Reviews of Power and QoS Challenges of Modern Computing Systems Power Efficiency and Thermal Management in Data Centers Power and QoS Aware Storage and File Systems Fault Tolerance, Reliability, and Availability Green Data Intensive Computing Performance Engineering, Benchmark Design, and Run-time Power-QoS management Important dates Paper Submission: May/20/2012 Notification of Acceptance: Jun/15/2012 Final Version of the Paper: Jul/7/2012 Submission Instructions Please submit full papers in PDF or doc format via the submission system. Do not email submissions. Papers must be written in English. The complete submission must be no longer than ten (10) pages. It should be typeset in two-column format in 10 point type on 12 point (single-spaced) leading. References should not be set in a smaller font. Submissions that violate any of these restrictions may not be reviewed. The limits will be interpreted fairly strictly, and no extensions will be given for reformatting. Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11" (two columns IEEE format), not exceeding 8 pages; max 2 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The names of authors and their affiliations should be included on the first page of the submission. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. Reviewing of full papers will be done by the program committee, assisted by outside referees. Accepted papers will be shepherded through an editorial review process by a member of the program committee. By submitting a paper, you agree that at least one of the authors will attend the workshop to present it. Otherwise, the paper will be excluded from the digital library of IEEE. Accepted papers will be published in the Conference Publishing Services (CPS). Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit a revised and expanded version of their papers to be considered for publication in special issues of well-known international journals. Elsevier Future Generation Computer System(SCI I.F./2.365) Information Systems Frontiers(Springer, SCI I.F./1.596) Please submit your full paper via the EasyChair System: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pqoscom12 Workshop Co-Chairs Prof. R.K. Shyamasundar, IEEE FELLOW, ACM FELLOW, School of Technology & Computer Science, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research,India Email: shyam(a)tcs.tifr.res.in Prof. Long Wang, Supercomputing Center, Computer Network Information Center,Chinese Academy of Sciences,China Email: wangl(a)sccas.cn Dr. Chunlei Liu, Valdosta State University,USA Email: chunlei(a)valdosta.edu Program Co-Chairs Prof. Cong-Feng Jiang, Hangzhou Dianzi University, China Email: cjiang(a)hdu.edu.cn Dr. Ji-Lin Zhang, Hangzhou Dianzi University, China Email: jilin.zhang(a)hdu.edu.cn Program Committee Members Guoray Cai (Pennsylvania State University, USA) Hong-Linh Truong(Vienna University of Technology, Austria) R.K. Shyamasundar (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India) Walter Binder (University of Lugano, Switzerland) Weihui Dai(Fudan University, China) Mea Wang (University of Calgary, Canada) Kumiko Tadano (NEC, Japan) Jian Zhao (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore) Dan Li (Tsinghua University, China) Amit Dvir (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary) Jie Wu (Yale/Fudan University, China) Woosung Jung, Chungbuk National University, Korea Jian Wan (Hangzhou Dianzi University, China) If you have any questions and problems, please send email to : pqoscom12(a)gmail.com.

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Fwd: WiNTECH'12 - Deadline approaching
by Lars Wolf 02 May '12

02 May '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: WiNTECH'12 - Deadline approaching Datum: Wed, 2 May 2012 12:15:55 +0000 Von: Vishnu Navda <navda(a)MICROSOFT.COM> Antwort an: Vishnu Navda <navda(a)MICROSOFT.COM> An: SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG *** Important Dates **** Paper submission deadline: May 18, 2012 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Please accept our apologies if you received multiple copies of this call] CALL FOR PAPERS WiNTECH 2012 The Seventh ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation and Characterization In conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2012 Istanbul, Turkey August 22, 2012 http://www.cs.utexas.edu/wintech2012/ In recent years, some wireless technologies (e.g., WiFi, sensor networks) have matured to the point of finding wide acceptance in the real-world and leading to many new and interesting applications. At the same time, several new networking and radio technologies (e.g., dynamic spectrum access, UWB) are emerging to address the performance limitations of existing technologies and make wireless networking more ubiquitous. Realistic evaluation of such a diverse set of technologies and their mutual interactions will play a major role in identifying the key performance bottlenecks, thus shaping future advances in wireless technology. The importance of testbed-based evaluation of wireless network protocols/applications as well as characterization of real-world aspects using traces from operational networks is gaining wider recognition in the mobile and wireless networking research community. This workshop intends to bring together researchers working in the broad area of experimental wireless networking. This workshop will serve as a forum to share new ideas/experiences in all experimental aspects of wireless networks and systems, and facilitate discussions of key unresolved challenges in this area. We are seeking original, previously unpublished papers addressing experimental wireless networking issues. All submissions will be judged by their technical merit and relevance to the workshop, based on a thorough review process by the Technical Program Committee. Apart from regular paper presentations, the workshop program will include an interactive session with demos and posters. We welcome demonstrations of novel wireless network testbed capabilities and measurement results. The posters may describe work in progress and offers an excellent opportunity for feedback and discussions on early research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Design and evaluation of wireless testbeds, prototypes and platforms * Experiences/lessons from recent testbed deployments * Hybrid experimentation approaches combining use of multiple evaluation methodologies * Integration of diverse and distributed testbed infrastructures * Testbed management issues and monitoring support * Wireless testbed case studies * Experimental evaluation of applications and protocols, including the impact of cross-layer interactions * Large-scale and heterogeneous wireless network evaluations * Approaches for real-world evaluation of mobile networks * Measurement and evaluation on large-scale smartphone based deployments * Studies on real-world white-space networks * Evaluation environments for sensor and satellite networks * Techniques for improving reproducibility of real-world testing * Implementation approaches to ease transition between different evaluation methodologies * New measurement methodologies and infrastructures * Measurement and characterization (modeling) of real-world aspects of wireless * networks such as usage patterns, traffic, mobility and channel characteristics * Interference and spectrum usage measurements * Validation of existing simulation models, and results across different testbeds/evaluation methodologies * Software tools in support of measurements, trace/data collection and management Important Dates *Paper submission deadline: May 18, 2012 *Author notification: June 25, 2012 *Poster/demo submission deadline: June 25, 2012 *Poster/demo notification: July 1, 2012 *Camera ready papers: July 1, 2012 *Workshop date: August 22, 2012 Paper submission instructions: All regular paper submissions will be handled electronically via the EasyChair system (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wintech12) and should conform to the following requirements: *A maximum of 8 (eight) 8.5"x11" pages (including figures, tables, and references) *The paper must be in two-column format, using 10-point size or greater and reasonable margins and must be submitted in PDF format Poster/Demo submission instructions: Poster/Demo submissions will be handled by emailing the writeup to wintech_posterdemo(a)live.in with the following requirements: *A maximum of TWO 8.5"x11" pages (including figures, tables, and references) *The write-up must be in two-column format, using 10-point size or greater and reasonable margins and must use PDF format *For demos, a third page should be included that lists the requirements for the demo at the workshop venue if the demo is selected. Organizers: Program Co-chairs Vishnu Navda, MSR India Moustafa Youssef, E-JUST Egypt Program Committee Albert Banchs, UC3M, Spain Nilanjan Banerjee, University of Arkansas, USA Elizabeth Belding, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Ranveer Chandra, Microsoft Research, USA Krishna Chintalapudi, Microsoft Research, India Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National University, South Korea Samir Das, Stony Brook University, USA Christos Efstratiou, University of Cambridge, UK Tamer Elbatt, Nile University, Egypt Khaled Harras, Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar Ahmed Helmy, University of Florida, USA Sneha Kasera, University of Utah, USA Ravi Kokku, IBM Research, India Thanasis Korakis, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, USA Anurag Kumar, Indian Institute of Science, India Patrick Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Archan Misra, Singapore Management University, Singapore Iqbal Mohomed, IBM Research, USA Thyaga Nandagopal, National Science Foundation, USA Sampath Rangarajan, NEC Laboratories America, USA Ashutosh Sabharwal, Rice University, USA Ivan Seskar, Rutgers University, USA Vikram Srinivasan, Alcatel-Lucent, India Peter Steenkiste, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Demo/Poster Co-chairs Nilanjan Banerjee, University of Arkansas, USA Ravi Kokku, IBM Research, India Demo Committee Aruna Balasubramanian, University of Washington, USA Raghu Ganti, IBM Research, USA Suhas Mathur, AT&T Research Dragos Niculescu, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest Publicity/Web Chair Eric Rozner, AT&T Research Steering Committee Rajive Bagrodia, UCLA Joe Evans, University of Kansas Edward Knightly, Rice University Mahesh Marina, University of Edinburgh Peter Steenkiste, Carnegie Mellon University ----------------------------------------------------- To be removed from the SIGMOBILE-Members list, please enter your email address wolf(a)IBR.CS.TU-BS.DE at http://optout.acm.org/listserv_index.cfm?ln=sigmobile-members and we'll remove you. 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Fwd: [Tccc] Wireless Days 2012 CFP
by Lars Wolf 02 May '12

02 May '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Wireless Days 2012 CFP Datum: Wed, 02 May 2012 15:11:42 +0200 Von: Carlos T. Calafate <calafate(a)disca.upv.es> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu [Apologies if you receive multiple copies] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS IFIP Wireless Days 2012 November 21-23, 2012, Dublin, Ireland http://www.wireless-days.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Important Dates: ================ Tentative submission deadline: July 6, 2012 Notification of acceptance: September 7, 2012 Camera-ready version: September 28, 2012 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Scope: ====== The Wireless Days Conference is a major international conference which aims to bring together researchers, engineers, students, technologists and visionaries from academia, research centers and industry, to exchange, discuss, and share their experiences, ideas and research results on both the theoretical and practical aspects of wireless networking. After the successful editions of Wireless Days 2008 in Dubai, UAE (43.8% acceptance ratio), Wireless Days 2009 in Paris, France (37.6% acceptance ratio), Wireless Days 2010 in Venice, Italy (32.6% acceptance ratio), and Wireless Days 2011 in Niagara Falls, Canada (35% acceptance ratio), the fifth edition of Wireless Days will be held in Dublin, Ireland, on November 21-23, 2012. This year's conference is part of a bigger event, Dublin Wireless Week, which will includes three co-located events, the iFIP Wireless Days Conference, the WiNemo COST Action Meeting and the 5th International Workshop on Multiple Access Communications (MACOM). Wireless Days 2012 will include presentations of both theoretical and experimental achievements, innovative wireless systems, prototyping efforts, case studies and advances in technology related to wireless networking and communication infrastructures. The Wireless Days program will be split into the following six conference tracks: - Track 1: Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks - Track 2: Wireless Network Protocols and Applications - Track 3: Vehicular and Delay Tolerant Networks - Track 4: Broadband Wireless - Track 5: Wireless Models and Simulations - Track 6: Wireless and Mobile Network Management Papers Submission: ================== Submissions should be original and limited to 6 double-column pages (Maximum of 2 additional pages allowed - 8 pages in total - with over-length page fee) and should follow IEEE paper templates. Papers are to be submitted electronically on the EDAS web site of the conference in PDF format. http://edas.info//N12631 Special Issues of Journals: =========================== Selected papers will be invited for publication in special issues of international journals. Contacts: ========= General Chairs and Coordinators of Wireless Week Dublin: ========================================================= John Fitzpatrick, University College Dublin, Ireland Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, University Paris-Est (LIGM Lab) and ENSIIE, France Hamid Nafaa University College Dublin, Ireland John Murphy University College Dublin, Ireland Liam Murphy University College Dublin, Ireland Wireless Days General Chair: ============================ John Holland, Ericsson Ireland Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, University Paris-Est (LIGM Lab) and ENSIIE, France Technical Program co-Chairs: ============================ John Fitzpatrick, University College Dublin, Ireland AndrŽ-Luc Beylot, University of Toulouse, France Publication Co-Chairs: ====================== Soufiene Djahel University College Dublin, Ireland Sidi-Mohammed Senouci, University of Bourgogne, France Publicity Co-Chairs: ==================== Hamid Nafaa University College Dublin Carlos T. Calafate, University of Valencia, Spain Track Chairs: ============= Track 1: Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks ----------------------------------- Thierry Gayraud, University of Toulouse, France Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Juan-Carlos Cano, University of Valencia, Spain Track 2: Wireless Network Protocols and Applications ---------------------------------------------------- Frank Zdarsky, NEC Labs Europe, Germany David Malone, NUI Maynooth, Ireland Track 3: Vehicular and Delay Tolerant Networks ---------------------------------------------- Piotr Szczechowiak, Ericsson/Telcordia, Poland Luis Costa, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Track 4: Broadband Wireless --------------------------- Andreas Maeder, NEC Labs Europe, Germany Marc St-Hilaire, Carlton University, Canada Track 5: Wireless Models and Simulations ---------------------------------------- Guiseppe Bianchi, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy Douglas Leith, NUI Maynooth, Ireland Track 6: Wireless and Mobile Network Management ----------------------------------------------- Michele Nogueira, Universidade Federal de Parana, Brazil TBA Steering committee: =================== Khaldoun Al-Agha, University Paris 11, France Ian F. Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Boutaba Raouf, University of Waterloo Tijani Chahed, Telecom& Management SudParis, France Pedro Cuenca, Universidad de Castilla-la-Mancha, Spain Luigi Fratta, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Mario Gerla, University of California at Los Angeles, USA Ulf Korner, Lund University, Sweden Guy Pujolle, University of Paris 6, France Nadjib Achir, University of Paris 13, France Khaled Boussetta, University of Paris 13, France Technical Program Committee: ============================ TBA See www.wireless-days.org _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [Tccc] ACM Q2SWinet 2012: Call for Papers
by Lars Wolf 02 May '12

02 May '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] ACM Q2SWinet 2012: Call for Papers Datum: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:31:44 +0200 Von: Raffaele Bruno <raffaele.bruno(a)iit.cnr.it> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS The 8th ACM* Symposium on QoS and Security for Wireless Mobile Networks (ACM Q2SWinet 2012) October 21st-25th, 2012 Paphos, Cyprus http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/q2swinet2012 Jointly held with the 15th ACM MSWiM 2012 Conference. * ACM Pending upon Approval **** Paper Registration Deadline --- May 30th, 2012 **** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE AND OVERVIEW -------------------------------- In recent years, wireless and mobile communication systems have become increasingly popular as an inexpensive and promising means for ubiquitous communications. In this scenario, the QoS provisioning and the management of network security have become crucial tasks to determine the success of future generation wireless mobile networks.This symposium calls for cutting-edge research achievements on the provisioning of QoS and Security in wireless and mobile networks. It also aims at increasing the synergy between academic and industry professionals working in this area. Authors are encouraged to submit full papers presenting new research related to theory or practice of all aspects of Quality of Service and Security issues in mobile and wireless systems. Topics of interest for ACM Q2SWinet 2012 include, but are not limited to: + Security in Wireless MANETs, VANETs, Sensor, Mesh and PCS Networks + Secure PHY, MAC and Routing Protocols + Secure Cooperation-Based Systems and Services + Security for Cognitive Radio Networks + Intrusion Detection in Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networks + Privacy, anonymity and authentication + Trust Establishment + Cooperation and Prevention of Non-cooperative Behavior + Incentive Aware Secure Protocol Design + QoS/QoE for Wireless Multimedia Networks and Systems + QoS/QoE for Wireless/Wired Hybrid Systems + QoS/QoE support and Mobility Management in Wireless Internet + QoS/QoE-Aware Routing for Wireless Networks + QoS/QoE Metrics + Wireless Network Survivability + Wireless Systems Reliability + Field operating tests, Performance Modeling and Simulation Techniques + Real-time and QoS-aware Wireless Networks PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION -------------------------------- Papers should neither have been published elsewhere nor being currently under review by another conference or journal. Manuscripts are limited to 10 pages, single spacing, double column, and must strictly adhere to the ACM template format. Guidelines on paper submission and formatting are available at http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/q2swinet2012/. Submission is managed electronically through EDAS: http://edas.info/N12037 At least one author of each accepted paper must be registered for the symposium, in order for that paper to appear in the ACM proceedings and to be scheduled for presentation. Furthermore, authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the Symposium. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Paper registration: May 30th, 2012 Paper submission: June 5th, 2012 Notification: July 15th, 2012 Symposium: October 21st-25th, 2012 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- General Chair Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Program Committee Chairs Jalel Ben-Othman, University of Paris 13, France Raffaele Bruno, IIT, CNR, Italy Program Committee (tentative) Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, State University of New York at Binghamton, USA Gergely Acs, INRIA, Rhone-Alpes, France Emilio Ancillotti, IIT-CNR, Italy Regina Araujo, Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil Jalel Ben-othman, University of Versailles, France Boldizsar Bencsath, Budapest University of Tech. and Economics, Hungary Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada Roberto Cascella, INRIA, France Llorenç Cerdra-Alabern, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Matteo Cesana, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Bruno Crispo, University of Trento, Italy Roberto Di Pietro, Universita' di Roma Tre, Italy Falko Dressler, University of Erlangen Rosario Garroppo, University of Pisa, Italy Fabrizio Granelli, University of Trento, Italy Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA Albert Levi, Sabanci University, Turkey Lynda Mokdad, Université de Paris 12, France Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Stefano Paris, University of Bergamo, Italy Mahalingam Ramkumar, Mississippi State University, USA Peter Reiher, UCLA, USA Simon Pietro Romano, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy Susana Sargento, University of Aveiro, Portugal Ahmed Serhrouchni, ENST, France Sabrina Sicari, University of Insubria, Italy Vasilios Siris, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Avinash Srinivasan, George Mason University, USA Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida, USA Giacomo Verticale, Politecnico di Milano, Italy André Zuquete, University of Aveiro, Portugal Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Publicity Co-chairs Victor Govindaswamy, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Maddalena Nurchis, IIT, CNR, Italy _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. 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Fwd: [Tccc] Call for Papers: ACM MiSeNet 2012 - In Conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2012
by Lars Wolf 02 May '12

02 May '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Call for Papers: ACM MiSeNet 2012 - In Conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2012 Datum: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:03:14 -0400 (EDT) Von: Habib M. Ammari <hammari(a)umd.umich.edu> Antwort an: hammari(a)umd.umich.edu An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu The First ACM Annual International Workshop on Mission-Oriented Wireless Sensor Networking (ACM MiSeNet 2012) In conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2012 Istanbul, Turkey, August 22-26, 2012 http://www-personal.engin.umd.umich.edu/~hammari/MiSeNet_Workshop2012.html Call for Papers Scope and Aim of ACM MiSeNet 2012 Mission-oriented sensor networks are next-generation time-varying systems composed of both humans and mobile sensors (e.g., vehicle-mounted, human-operated, or integrated with mobile robots or UAVs) that collaborate and coordinate to successfully accomplish complex real-time missions under uncertainty. A major challenge in the design of mission-oriented sensor networks arises in supporting dynamic topology and disruption-tolerant architecture, caused by mobility, which has significant impact on performance in terms of sensing coverage, network connectivity, and information quality. In such dynamic environments, sensors should self-organize and reason in a distributed manner about resource allocation, scheduling, forwarding, caching, and in-network storage to accomplish specific missions, while extending the operational network lifetime. Another major challenge lies in accommodating human input. Humans are the ultimate sensors. They are well-equipped to monitor and report situations that would be very difficult for machine sensors to understand. They also come with their own challenges including imperfect reliability, bias, and relative lack of predictability (compared to well-calibrated sensors). The design of mission-oriented sensor networks, where humans and sensors collaborate, should account for trade-offs between several attributes such energy consumption (due to mobility, sensing, and communication), reliability, fault-tolerance, data collection latency, and quality of information (such as video resolution, picture quality, type of content, degree of redundancy, and level of summarization), and their impact on mission objectives. It should accommodate human-centric sensing modalities such as free-form text, pictures, sound, and video, and should include mechanisms to handle unpredictability, uncertainty, human error, and noise. ACM MiSeNet 2012 aims to provide a forum for participants from academia and industry to discuss topics in mission-oriented sensor network research and practice. ACM MiSeNet 2012 serves as incubator for scientific communities that share a particular research agenda in this area. ACM MiSeNet 2012 will provide them with opportunities to understand the major technical and application challenges as well as exchange and discuss scientific and engineering ideas related to architecture, protocols, algorithms, and application design, at a stage before they have matured to warrant conference/journal publications. ACM MiSeNet 2012 seeks papers that present novel theoretical and practical ideas as well as work in-progress, which will lead to the development of solid foundations for the design, analysis, and implementation of energy-efficient, reliable, and secure mission-oriented networked sensing applications. The topics of interest to ACM MiSeNet 2012 workshop include, but are not limited to, the following: - Theoretical foundations of mission-oriented networked sensing - Modeling and analysis of mission-oriented sensor networks - System design, implementation, and evaluation - Medium access control and scheduling - Human factors, data cleaning, and noise - Human-centric sensing modalities and quality of information - Cross-layer design - Software architectures for mission-oriented sensing - Self-organization, self-configuration, and energy efficiency - Coverage and connectivity issues - Collaboration of humans and sensors - Deployment and localization - Uncertainty, opportunistic communication, and data fusion - Topology control and fault-tolerance - Routing and data dissemination - In-network data storage and processing - Sensor database management and spatio-temporal data - Target detection and tracking - Privacy and security - Testbed design and real-world applications General Chair - Tarek Abdelzaher (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA) Program Chair - Habib M. Ammari (University of Michigan- Dearborn , USA) Steering Committee - Tarek F. Abdelzaher (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign , USA) - Habib M. Ammari (University of Michigan- Dearborn , USA) - Nirwan Ansari (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA) - Xiuzhen Cheng (The George Washington University, USA) - Zygmunt J. Haas (Cornell University, USA) - Thomas F. La Porta (Penn State University, USA) - Stephan Olariu (Old Dominion University, USA) - Jie Wu (Temple University, USA) - Guoliang Xue (Arizona State University, USA) - Mohamed Younis (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA) Publicity Co-Chairs - Flávia Delicato (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) - M. Elena Renda (IIT - CNR, Pisa, Italy) - Shengquan Wang (University of Michigan- Dearborn , USA) - W endong Xiao (University of Science and Technology Beijing, China) Web Chair - Habib M. Ammari (University of Michigan- Dearborn , USA) Submission Guidelines ACM MiSeNet 2012 Workshop will consider only original papers that are not currently under review by other workshops, conferences, or journals, and have not been published. All papers submitted to ACM MiSeNet 2012 will be peer-reviewed and evaluated based on their suitability ( i.e. , within the workshop scope), novelty, and merit. Submitted papers are limited to 6 pages. ACM MiSeNet 2012 will also consider technical demos and posters that present original and significant research within the workshop scope. Submitted demos/posters are limited to 2 pages. In the case of a demo, the authors should clearly specify, in an email to both of the General Chair and Program Chair, the additional resources that are needed. Power and wireless Internet connectivity will be available at the workshop. All submissions should be formatted in standard ACM conference style for publication in the conference Proceedings. They must be single-spaced, double-column, with each column 9.25" by 3.33", 0.33" space between columns, use at least a 10pt font, and be correctly formatted to be printed on Letter-sized (8.5" by 11") paper. It is required that at least one author of each accepted paper/demo/poster register and attend the ACM MiSeNet 2012 workshop to present their work to ensure its publication in the ACM MobiCom 2012 conference Proceedings. We strongly encourage people from both of the industry and academia to submit their fine work to ACM MiSeNet 2012. To submit your paper , demo, and/or poster to ACM MiSeNet 2012, please visit the following paper/demo/poster submission website: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmmisenet2012 Thank you for submitting your paper, demo, and/or poster to ACM MiSeNet 2012 ! Important Dates - Paper Submission Deadline: June 4, 2012 - Demo/Poster Submission Deadline: June 18, 2012 - Notification Deadline: June 25, 2012 - Camera-ready: July 2, 2012 - Workshop Date: August 26, 2012 For More Information Please send email to mobicom_info(a)acm.org with any questions or comments about the ACM MobiCom'12 conference or for more information. For questions about the ACM MiSeNet'12 Workshop regarding the paper submission and review process, please contact the General Chair at zaher(a)cs.uiuc.edu and the Program Chair at hammari(a)umd.umich.edu. _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: ACM MSWiM 2012 (Deadline in one week: 5th May 2012)
by Lars Wolf 02 May '12

02 May '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: ACM MSWiM 2012 (Deadline in one week: 5th May 2012) Datum: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 10:51:50 +1000 Von: Salil Kanhere <salilk(a)cse.unsw.edu.au> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Our apology if you received multiple copies of this CFP ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers - ACM* MSWiM 2012 The 15th ACM* International Conference on Modeling Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems October 21-25, 2012, Paphos, Cyprus http://mswimconf.com/ Submission deadline: May 5, 2012 [* ACM Sponsorship pending upon Approval] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MSWiM is an international forum dedicated to high level discussion of Wireless and Mobile systems, networks, algorithms and applications, with an emphasis on rigorous performance evaluation. MSWiM is a highly selective conference with a long track record of publishing innovative ideas and breakthroughs. Authors are encouraged to submit full papers presenting new research related to the theory or practice of all aspects of modeling, analysis and simulation of mobile and wireless systems. Submitted papers must not have been published elsewhere nor currently be under review by another conference or journal. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics of Interest ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Papers related to wireless and mobile network Modeling, Analysis, Design, and Simulation are solicited on, but not limited to, the following topics in mobile and wireless systems: * Performance evaluation and modeling * Analytical Models * Simulation languages and tools for wireless systems * Wireless measurements tools and experiences * Formal methods for analysis of wireless systems * Correctness, survivability and reliability evaluation * Mobility modeling and management * Models and protocols for cognitive radio networks * Models and protocols for autonomic, or self-* networks * Capacity, coverage and connectivity modeling and analysis * Wireless network algorithms and protocols * Wireless PANs, LANs * Ad hoc networks * Sensor and actuator networks * Delay Tolerant Networks * Vehicular ad hoc networks * Integration of wired and wireless systems * Pervasive computing and emerging models * Wireless multimedia systems * QoS provisioning in wireless and mobile networks * Security and privacy of mobile/wireless systems * Algorithms and protocols for energy-efficiency and power control * Mobile applications, system software and algorithms * RF channel modeling and analysis * Design methodologies, tools, prototype and testbeds * Parallel and distributed simulation of wireless systems ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizing Commitee: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Chair: Albert Zomaya (University of Sydney, Australia) General Vice Chair: Vasos Vassilio (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) TPC Co-Chairs: Bjorn Landfeldt (Lund University, Sweden) Ravi Prakash (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Submission, Publication and Important Dates: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- High-quality original papers are solicited. Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed by Technical Program Committee members and other experts active in the field to ensure high quality and relevance to the conference. Short papers will be included in the technical program to complement mature results and foster discussion and exchange of novel ideas at an early stage. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings to be published by ACM Press. Submission Deadline: Paper registration (abstract and all authors): May 1, 2012 Full paper upload: May 5, 2012 Notification of Acceptance: July 1, 2012 Camera Ready version due: July 25, 2012 Conference Dates: October 21-25, 2012 For more information about the conference, organizing committee, submission instructions, and venue please see the conference website: http://mswimconf.com ________________________________________ Salil Kanhere, PhD, SMIEEE, SMACM Senior Lecturer School of Computer Science and Engineering The University of New South Wales Sydney, NSW 2052 Australia E-mail: salilk(a)cse.unsw.edu.au Web: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~salilk Tel: +61 2 9385 6927 Fax: +61 2 9385 5995 UNSW CRICOS Provider Code: 00098G Legal Disclaimer: http://www.eng.unsw.edu.au/emailids.htm ______________________________________ _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. 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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: 33rd IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, Wireless Sensor Networks Track, Submission Deadline - May 15, 2012
by Lars Wolf 02 May '12

02 May '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: 33rd IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, Wireless Sensor Networks Track, Submission Deadline - May 15, 2012 Datum: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 12:36:30 -0400 Von: Guoliang Xing <glxing(a)cse.msu.edu> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> [Please accept our apologies if you get multiple copies of this message] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 33rd IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, Wireless Sensor Networks Track (RTSS 2012) December 4 - 7, 2012 San Juan, Puerto Rico http://www.rtss.org/ Wireless sensor networks have emerged as a new platform for distributed embedded systems. Example applications include medical care, emergency response, critical infrastructure protection, intelligent transportation, and smart manufacturing. The Wireless Sensor Networks track at the 33rd IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS) aims at fostering the interaction and collaboration of researchers and exchanging new ideas in various aspects of sensor network research. The technical program of this track will consist of selected regular papers. Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate current research on various aspects of wireless sensor network systems. We particularly encourage paper submissions that describe implementation, experimentation, and experiences on real-time and Quality of Service aspects of sensor network systems. Selections of papers will depend on both technical quality and relevance to real-time and QoS issues. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: o Real-time and Quality of Service (QoS) issues in sensor networks o Sensor network applications and deployment experiences o Sensor network protocols and architectures o Operating systems and middleware for sensor networks o Smartphone systems for participatory sensing o Distributed networked sensing and control o Power management o Programming abstractions o Detection, classification, and estimation o Time synchronization --------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Full papers must be submitted electronically through our web form in a pdf or postscript format. The material must be unpublished and not under submission elsewhere. The paper should be no more than 10 pages in two-column, single-space, 10pt format. Notice: Papers exceeding such limits may not be considered for review. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline (FIRM): Tuesday, May 15, 2012 Acceptance Decisions: Wednesday, August 1, 2012 Final Manuscripts: Saturday, September 15, 2012 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZERS General Chair: Luis Almeida, University of Porto, Portugal Program Chair: Chenyang Lu, Washington University, USA Wireless Sensor Networks Track Chair: Guoliang Xing, Michigan State University, USA -- ------------------------------------------------ Guoliang Xing Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering Michigan State University Phone: (517)353-4392E-mail:glxing@msu.eduhttp://www.cse.msu.edu/~glxing/ ------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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