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Fwd: [Tccc] CfP: IEEE GC'11 Workshop Wi-UAV Wireless Networking for Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles (Deadline JULY 7, 2011)
by Lars Wolf 06 Jun '11

06 Jun '11

Christian Wietfeld <Christian.Wietfeld(a)tu-dortmund.de> schrieb: We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. _____________________________________________ Wi-UAV 2011 Architectures, Protocols and Applications in conjunction with IEEE GLOBECOM 2011 Houston, Texas, USA WORKSHOP DATE: DECEMBER 05 or 09, 2011 PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JULY 07, 2011 Dear colleagues, the 2nd international IEEE workshop on Wireless Networking for Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles (Wi-UAV 2011, <http://www.wi-uav.org> http://www.wi-uav.org), co-located with the IEEE International Conference on Global Communications (GLOBECOM 2011), will be held in Houston, Texas, USA on December 05 or 09, 2011. You are kindly invited to submit your research paper to this workshop and discuss current innovative technological advances in the area of networking solutions for unmanned autonomous systems. The deadline for submission via the EDAS system is: July 07, 2011. Aims and Scope: Unmanned systems are increasingly used in a large number of contexts to support humans in dangerous and difficult-to-reach environments, e.g. ground-based robotics, aerial sensor systems, space and underwater applications. In order to fulfill challenging tasks, visionary scenarios foresee unmanned vehicles to be organized in networked teams and even swarms. The corresponding wireless networks must provide highly reliable and delay-tolerant control links for the management of the behavior of the unmanned vehicles' behavior as well as data links to reliably transfer telemetry and sensor data respectively. At the same time, unmanned vehicles offer the capability to provide ad-hoc wireless networks, for example to compensate network outages in case of public events and large scale incidents. The successful first workshop at GLOBECOM 2010 focused mainly on unmanned aerial vehicles ( <http://www.wi-uav.org> www.wi-uav.org). This year's workshop addresses any kind of unmanned autonomous systems. The workshop aims to discuss most recent results of various international research initiatives on new communications networks enabling the efficient operation of teams of unmanned vehicles/systems operating on the ground, in the air, underwater and in space scenarios. Contributions addressing heterogeneous scenarios, e.g. combination of aerial and underwater devices are highly welcome. Topics: . Communication technologies and protocols for Unmanned Vehicles . Interworking with satellites and terrestrial networks . Maritime and underwater communication . Cooperation of ground, aerial and maritime unmanned vehicles . Agent based mobility, multi-platform control, cognitive capabilities and swarming . Network architectures for UVs and mesh networking . Localization and vision based sense-and-avoid . Mini / Micro UAVs and enhanced Health Management . Channel models and antenna design for UVs . Use of civilian networks for UVs communication . Interfaces and cross platform communication . Communication for navigation, control and guidance . Mission control centers and backend communication . QoS mechanisms and performance evaluation . Advances in remote sensing: miniaturization, low-weight and energy efficient communication . Advances in antenna design and MIMO systems . Aerial sensing, surveillance and reconnaissance . Air traffic control and spectrum regulation . Standardization, applications and services . Results from prototypes, test-beds and demonstrations (incl. live demos during workshop) Submission Guidelines and Publication: GLOBECOM workshops accept only original, previously unpublished papers. Concurrent submission to GLOBECOM and other conferences or journals is not allowed. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit papers in IEEE conference style up to 5 pages through EDAS submission system ( <http://edas.info/N10863>; http://edas.info/N10863), but one additional page is allowed with additional publication fee. Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE digital library (IEEE Xplore). An accepted paper must be registered before the registration deadline. An accepted paper should be presented at the workshop. Failure to register before the deadline will result in automatic withdrawal of the paper from the workshop proceedings and the program. GLOBECOM will remove an accepted and registered but not presented paper from the IEEE digital library. Important Dates: Submission due: July 07, 2011 (Thursday) Decision notification due: August 15, 2011 (Monday) Camera-ready and registration due: August 31, 2011 (Wednesday) Organizing Chairs: Prof. Jonathan How Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Prof. Christian Wietfeld TU Dortmund University, Germany Program Committee: Prof. Christian Bettstetter, University of Klagenfurt and Lakeside Labs, Austria Prof. Liang Cheng, Lehigh University, USA Renzo De Nardi, University College London, United Kingdom Gilles Fournier, EADS Innovation Works, France Prof. Eric Frew, University of Colorado, USA Prof. Eytan Modiano, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Prof. Gerard Parr, University of Ulster, United Kingdom Prof. Paul Scerri, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Prof. Shigeru Shimamoto, Waseda University, Japan Prof. Antonios Tsourdos, Cranfield University, United Kingdom Prof. Kimon Valavanis, University of Denver, USA Dario Vlah, Ph.D., Harvard University, USA Prof. Luiz Vieira, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil Yifeng Zhou, Ph.D., Communications Research Centre, Canada To be completed Best regards Wi-UAV 2011 Workshop Organizers Jonathan How and Christian Wietfeld <http://www.wi-uav.org> www.wi-uav.org _____________________________________________ Jonathan P. How Richard C. Maclaurin Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics Aerospace Controls Laboratory (Director), and Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems Massachusetts Institute of Technology 33-326, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA02139 http://acl.mit.edu/ Christian M. Wietfeld Full Professor of Communication Networks Head of Communication Networks Institute (CNI) TU Dortmund University Otto-Hahn-Str. 6, D-44227 Dortmund http://www.cni.tu-dortmund.de _____________________________________________ 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] Elsevier: JNCA Call For Paper Special Issue on Vehicular Communications and Applications
by Lars Wolf 04 Jun '11

04 Jun '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Elsevier: JNCA Call For Paper Special Issue on Vehicular Communications and Applications Datum: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 17:50:05 +0900 Von: CFP <2010cfp(a)gmail.com> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu ---Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message--- Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications (Impact Factor: 1.111) Call for Papers Special Issue on Vehicular Communications and Applications Scope The increasing importance of vehicle and infrastructure communications is recognized by governments, highway authorities, automobile manufacturers and the academic community. Governments have allocated spectrum for vehicle-vehicle and vehicle-infrastructure communications (e.g., DSRC or 4G cellular). Government and industry have funded large partnerships or projects such as IVI (e.g., CAMP, ACAS), ADASE2, as well as new initiatives such as IVBSS, CICAS, and VII, among others. Academic conferences and workshops on automotive networking and ITS are beginning to grow in popularity (e.g., VANET, V2VCOM, and VDTN). Standards community has been active to ensure interoperability with participation of IEEE, ISO, TIA, ASTM and major automobile manufacturers and other industrial cooperation. There are unique research challenges that need to be addressed in order for vehicle and vehicle-infrastructure communications to be widely deployed. The combination of unique features of automotive applications and unique features of the automotive networking leads to many interesting research areas. The wireless networking between vehicles and with infrastructure has different characteristics from other conventional wireless networking problems. For example, due to rapidly-changing topology as vehicles move around, there are resemblances to ad hoc networking scenarios. However, the constraints and optimizations are very different. Power efficiency is not as important for vehicle communications as it is for traditional ad hoc networking. Vehicles in general are also constrained to move within roads (and within lanes most of the time). Automotive applications also demand stringent communications performance requirements that are not seen in conventional wireless networks. The purpose of this special issue is to showcase the variety of research being conducted in automotive networking, ITS and applications to survey and collect the state-of-the-art in this emerging field. Topics of interest include: • Intelligent / interactive transport system applications • Network architectures, system architectures for ITS • Link / MAC and physical layer issues, algorithms and protocols • Network protocols and algorithms, including clustering, routing, etc. • Higher layers (application, transport) algorithms and protocols • Cross-layer protocol design • Inter-working of vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications • Multimedia-based ad-hoc networking & WLAN aspects • Mobility management • Vehicle movement and performance simulation • Security for automotive networking • Network management for automotive networking • Vehicle to Grid Communication • Intra-vehicle networks supporting x-by-wire applications Important Dates: Paper Submission Due: July 15, 2011 Author Notification: Sep 30, 2011 Final Paper Submission Oct 31, 2011 Publication date: 2nd Quarter 2012 Guest Editors Prof. Joel Rodrigues (Corresponding Editor) Instituto de Telecomunicações, University of Beira Interior, Portugal Email: joeljr(a)ieee.org Dr. Russel Hsing Tecordia , USA Email: thsing(a)telcordia.com Dr. Min Chen Seoul National University, Korea Email: minchen(a)ieee.org Prof. Bingli Jiao Peking University, Beijing, China Email: JIAOBL(a)pku.edu.cn Dr. Binod Vaidya University of Ottawa, Canada Email: bvaidya(a)uottawa.ca Instructions for submission: All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through Elsevier Editorial System (EES). The authors must select “SI: Vehicular Communications-Rodrigues” when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. The EES website is located at http://ees.elsevier.com/jnca/ _______________________________________________ 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] BodyNets 2011- Deadline Extended to June 15, 2011
by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lars Wolf 02 Jun '11

02 Jun '11

Anfang der weitergeleiteten E‑Mail: > Von: Xue Liu <xueliu(a)cse.unl.edu> > Datum: 2. Juni 2011 16:10:29 MESZ > An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu > Kopie: Ivan Stojmenovic <ivan(a)site.uottawa.ca>, Chenyang Lu <lu(a)cse.wustl.edu>, Yunhao Liu <liu(a)cse.ust.hk> > Betreff: [Tccc] [CFP] BodyNets 2011- Deadline Extended to June 15, 2011 > > [Please accept our apologies if you get multiple copies of this message] > ************************************************************************************** > New: Paper submission deadline has been extended to June 15, 2011, due to > multiple requests. > New: Selected papers will be recommended for publication in special issues > of International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNET), which is SCI-indexed. > > BodyNets 2011 > > The 6th International ICST Conference on Body Area Networks > > November 7-10, 2011 > > Beijing, China > > > > http://www.bodynets.org > > > > CALL FOR PAPERS > > > > SCOPE: > > ---------------------- > > The advancement in sensing, embedded computing, and wireless communication > has > > accelerated the progress of Body Area Networks (BodyNets). BodyNetsintegrate > > and deploy wireless sensors, RFID tags, and other pervasive devices within > and > > around human bodies for constructing diverse and practical systems for > > smart health and wellbeing, human computer interaction, and provision of > > entertainment. This conference will explore the challenges and technical > > approaches to designing, building, and deploying BodyNets. The conference > aims > > to establish a forum to exchange ideas, discuss practices, raise awareness, > and > > to share cutting edge technology and experiences among researchers and > > practitioners in the field of computer science, biomedical engineering, > > medicine, and other disciplines in both academia and industry. > > > > TOPICS: > > ----------------------- > > The conference invites original technical papers that were not previously > > published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. > Topics > > covers all aspects of BodyNets including, but are not limited to: > > > > - Embedded Medical Devices > > - Systems, Applications, Case Studies > > - Wearable Computing > > - Signal Processing in BodyNets > > - Networking and Communications > > - Privacy and Security > > - Software Design and Support > > - Hardware Design and Architectures > > - Sensors and Actuators > > - Integrating BodyNets into healthcare > > - Medical Device Plug-and-Play > > > > PAPER SUBMISSIONS: > > -------------------------- > > Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 7 pages in ACM > Proceedings > > format (7"x9" print area, single spaced, double column, 9-pt font size). > > ACM's LaTex and MS WORD templates are located at: > > http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates. > > Please see http://bodynets.org/submission for details. > > > > Sponsoring Technical Committees > > -------------------------------- > > BodyNets 2011 is technically co-sponsored by IEEE Engineering in Medicine > and > > Biology Society (IEEE EMBS), and is organized in cooperation with ACM > SIGCHI. > > The conference proceedings will be archived in the ACM Digital Library. > > > > IMPORTANT DATES: > > -------------------------- > > Full Paper Due: June 15, 2011 > > Notification of Acceptance: July 31, 2011 > > Camera-ready Manuscript: August 31, 2011 > > Conference Dates: November 7-10, 2011 > > > > BodyNets 2011 Organization Chairs: > > ---------------------------------- > > General Chairs: > > Yunhao Liu, HKUST, China > > Ivan Stojmenovic, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada > > > > Technical Program Chairs: > > Roozbeh Jafari, UT Dallas, USA > > Chenyang Lu, Washington Univ., USA > _______________________________________________ > 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: M-MPAC 2011 - 3rd International Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive Mobile and Embedded Computing
by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lars Wolf 02 Jun '11

02 Jun '11

Anfang der weitergeleiteten E‑Mail: > Von: Sotirios Terzis <Sotirios.Terzis(a)cis.strath.ac.uk> > Datum: 2. Juni 2011 18:15:02 MESZ > An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu > Betreff: [Tccc] CfP: M-MPAC 2011 - 3rd International Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive Mobile and Embedded Computing > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ************* APOLOGIES FOR RECEIVING MULTIPLE COPIES ****************** > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Call for Papers > > M-MPAC 2011 > ----------- > > Third International Workshop on > Middleware for Pervasive Mobile and Embedded Computing > > http://www.smartlab.cis.strath.ac.uk/M-MPAC/ > > A Workshop of Middleware 2011 > Lisbon, Portugal > 12-16 December 2011 > > > Workshop Scope & Themes > ----------------------- > > Building on the success of M-MPAC 2009 and 2010 this event aims to carry > on development of a research roadmap on essential middleware > abstractions, platforms and applications for pervasive mobile and > embedded systems. > > In recent year, tablet devices and operating systems have gained a > prominent spot in the limelight, while the smart phone landscape > continues to change with new offerings supporting a variety of sensors, > higher resolution and bigger size screens, high definition video > recording and playback, and enhanced gaming. Embedded devices like > televisions, TV set top boxes, and game consoles have grown beyond their > original functionality to home multimedia systems supporting enhanced > networking (e.g. IP TV and DNLA), and novel user interaction through 3D > displays, and movement detection based controllers. The pervasiveness of > such mobile and embedded devices has given rise to a variety of novel > applications, such as social web applications, enhanced shopping > applications/environments, ad-hoc gaming, context-aware collaborative > computing,participatory sensing, etc. Access to cloud computing > infrastructures further enhances the capabilities of these devices > offering additional opportunities for innovative applications and uses. > > Despite these successes, software development for such devices and > platforms remains largely ad hoc, while interoperability among > applications, devices and platforms is largely elusive. Middleware has a > key role to play in overcoming these problems. However, it still unclear > what are the appropriate middleware abstractions and supporting > infrastructures necessary for such applications. The resource > constrained nature and mobility of such devices place unique > requirements for middleware and necessitate the exploration of novel > programming abstractions, and supporting services, while capabilities > like location and context-awareness open new avenues for radical > approaches in their development. > > In this context, the main workshop themes include, but are not limited > to the following themes: > > * Device platforms > - Virtualization technologies & applications > - Distributed ensembles > - Interaction paradigms and protocols > - Emerging mobile platforms (e.g. Android, IOS) > - Virtual machines > > * Data issues > - Data formats and encoding > - Availability and durability of data in personal networks > - Synchronization of personal devices with other consumer electronics > (e.g. cameras, iPods) > - Data portability > > * Networking > - Emerging wireless technologies and platforms > - Experiences or case studies with new technologies (WiMax, WiBree, > LTE, etc) and devices (MIP, UMPC, wearables, etc) > - Multi-link scenarios: WiFi, Bluetooth, cellular network > - Quality of service and network selection > > * Security and Privacy > - Privacy preservation and identity management for device-to-device > interactions > - Security architectures balancing risk and utility > - Trust management in device ensembles > - Mobile device data security > > * Mobile Web > - Web architectures (REST, Ajax) in pervasive computing > - Context adaptation/management in pervasive computing > - Mobile web scalability and reliability in access > - Content adaptation on mobile devices > - Collaborative search > > * Adaptability > - Context-awareness, location monitoring > - Resource management, cyber foraging, and energy-awareness > - Using cloud infrastructures for computing-intensive tasks and data > storage > - Autonomics and self-* properties > > * Applications > - Healthcare, entertainment, games, mobile TV, smart spaces, > shopping, street navigation, etc. > - Mobile phones in sensor and ad hoc networks > - Application development on mobile and embedded devices > - Programming models > > * Experiences and case studies > - Lessons from deployments > - User experiences and field-trials > - Performance studies > > > Submission > ---------- > > Submissions must not exceed 6 pages and must be formatted using the ACM > proceeding style (see http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html). > Submission implies that at least one of the authors will register and > present the paper. Please submit your paper in PDF at > http:/www.cis.strath.ac.uk/external/m-mpac2011/openconf/ > > Papers should present a view of the state of the art in a particular > sub-problem area, identify specific middleware challenges, and suggest > potential avenues for exploration by proposing models, abstractions and > infrastructure components addressing these challenges. Approximately two > thirds of the workshop will be devoted to the presentation and > discussion of these papers, while the remaining third of the time will > be devoted to the development of the research roadmap. > > Papers will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the program committee. > The review process will be based upon identifying the relevance and > potential of the position statement to contribute to the elaboration of > the roadmap and to stimulate discussion. > > All accepted papers will appear in a special workshop proceedings volume > in the ACM Digital Library. The publication of the best workshop > submissions and the research roadmap in the style of previous events is > under investigation. > > > Important Dates > --------------- > > * Paper submission deadline: 15 August 2011 > * Notification of acceptance: 29 September 2011 > * Final camera ready papers due: 10 October 2011 > * Workshop date: 12 December 2011 > > > Program Committee > ----------------- > > Paolo Bellavista, Università di Bologna, Italy > Renato Cerqueira, PUC-Rio, Brazil > Dan Chalmers, University of Sussex, UK > Domenico Cotroneo, University of Naples, Italy > Didier Donsez, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble I, France > Markus Endler, PUC-Rio, Brazil > Nikolaos Georgantas, INRIA, France > Rene Meier, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland > Sonia Ben Mokhtar, CNRS Lyon, France > Sougata Mukherjea, IBM Research, India > Tatsuo Nakajima, Waseda University, Japan > Nitya Narasimhan, Motorola Labs, US > Oriana Riva, Microsoft Research, US > Luís Rodrigues, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal > Romain Rouvoy, Université Lille 1, Fance > François Taiani, Lancaster University, UK > Sotirios Terzis, University of Strathclyde, UK (Workshop Chair) > Venu Vasudevan, Motorola Labs, US > Luis Veiga, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal > Ian Wakeman, University of Sussex, UK > > > -- > > Dr Sotirios Terzis, PhD, MSc, BSc(Hons), MBCS, CITP, FHEA > > Lecturer > > Department of Computer and Information Sciences > University of Strathclyde > > mail: Computer and Information Sciences Dept. > Livingstone Tower > 26 Richmond Street > Glasgow, G1 1XH > Scotland. > email: Sotirios.Terzis(a)cis.strath.ac.uk > phone: +44.141.5483839 > fax: +44.141.5484523 > web page: http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/~terzis > > > The University of Strathclyde is a charitable body, registered in > Scotland, with registration number SC015263. > _______________________________________________ > IEEE Communications Society Tech. 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Fwd: [Tccc] Call for Papers: Recent Advances in Vehicular Networks (EURASIP J. Wireless Comm. and Networking)
by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lars Wolf 01 Jun '11

01 Jun '11

Anfang der weitergeleiteten E‑Mail: > Von: Vojislav Misic <vmisic(a)ryerson.ca> > Datum: 1. Juni 2011 21:22:54 MESZ > An: Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu > Betreff: [Tccc] Call for Papers: Recent Advances in Vehicular Networks (EURASIP J. Wireless Comm. and Networking) > > Recent Advances in Vehicular Networks > special issue of EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking > - deadline extended to July 1, 2011 - > > Call for Papers > > One of the most researched directions in modern automotive industry is the > design, development, and deployment of vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) > that aim to improve road safety (including collision avoidance, traffic > congestion information, and detection of, as well as alerting to, road > conditions) whilst providing ample opportunities for commercial applications > such as communication and mobile infotainment. > > Successful and widespread usage of VANETs necessitates the development of > novel technologies that satisfy the requirements for high-performance, > highly reliable, highly scalable, secure, and privacy-preserving > communications, both between vehicles and roadside units and amongst > vehicles themselves, and thus presents an extraordinary challenge for the > wireless research community. This is the main reason why VANETs are a very > active area of research, development, standardization, and field trials > throughout the world, in academia, industry, and government alike. These > efforts include, but are not limited to, the e-Safety framework of the > European Union, the IntelliDrive initiative in the US, Smartway, DSSS > (Driving Safety Support System), and ASV (Advanced Safety Vehicle) in Japan, > and others. Standardization efforts include ISO TC204 and IEEE (802.11p and > 1609.x), SAE J2735 in the US, ETSI TC ITS and CEN WG278 in Europe, and ARIB > T-75 in Japan. > > We invite high-quality papers from researchers and practitioners throughout > the world, presenting the new and exciting research results related to the > theory or practice of vehicular ad hoc networks and vehicular > internetworking. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: > > Channel modeling > Modulation and coding > Power control and scalability issues > Medium access control protocols > Multiple access techniques for VANETs > Multichannel organization and operation > Communication protocol design > Safety, efficiency, and commercial applications > Vehicle-to-vehicle/roadside/internet communication > Simulation frameworks > Field operational testing > Test methodologies > Impact assessment > Network management > Security issues and countermeasures > Privacy issues > > All submissions must describe original research results and must not be > published or currently under review for another workshop, conference, or > journal. > > Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author > Guidelines, which are located at http://jwcn.eurasipjournals.com/manuscript. > Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete > manuscript through the journal manuscript tracking system, according to the > following timetable: > > Manuscript Due July 1, 2011 > First Round of Reviews September 1, 2011 > Publication Date December 1, 2011 > > Guest Editors > Vojislav B. Misic, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada > Hsiao Hwa Chen, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan > Athanasios V. Vasilakos, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), > Greece > Roksana Boreli, NICTA, Australia > > _______________________________________________ > 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: ComCom Special Issue on Wireless Green Communications and Networking
by Lars Wolf 31 May '11

31 May '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: ComCom Special Issue on Wireless Green Communications and Networking Datum: Tue, 31 May 2011 18:06:53 +0200 Von: Enzo Mingozzi <e.mingozzi(a)iet.unipi.it> Antwort an: e.mingozzi(a)iet.unipi.it Organisation: University of Pisa An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> Computer Communications (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/comcom) Call for Papers Special Issue on Wireless Green Communications and Networking Scope Global energy consumption is currently one of the major concerns faced by governments worldwide, because of its significant environmental footprint and the eventual exhaustion, in a not-so-far future, of the major traditional energy sources. A major role in the "greening" effort to globally reduce energy consumption will be played by wireless networking technologies. On the one hand, wireless communication infrastructures, like the ones managed by mobile network operators, are a major contributor to the ever-increasing energy consumption of the ICT industry, which calls for the adoption of energy-efficient solutions in their design and operation. Moreover, the recent explosive growth of smartphones market adoption and the consequent mobile internet traffic requirements, predicted to raise by a factor 39x until 2014, have prompted waves of research and standard development activities to meet the expected future demands in an energy-efficient manner. On the other hand, wireless networks will also be a major component of the communication infrastructure required by other "green" solutions for the efficient management of energy, since they enable practices like telecommuting (for, e.g., traffic reduction) and remote administration (for, e.g., the Smart Energy Grid), which are expected to significantly help reduce the environmental footprint of many human activities. The aim of this special issue is to seek new and unpublished contributions addressing wireless communications and networking as a major component in the design of green solutions in both ICT and non-ICT domains. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Energy-efficiency in mobile and wireless access networks - Energy-efficiency in vehicular networks - Energy-efficiency in wireless sensor networks - Energy-efficient wireless network management - Cross-layer optimization of green wireless networks - Performance evaluation and modeling of green wireless networks - Standardization related to wireless green communications and networking - Green wireless network planning and optimization - Wireless networking for the Smart Grid - Wireless networking for the Green Home - Wireless networking for energy-efficient buildings - Wireless networking for energy-efficient industrial automation - Wireless networking for green intelligent transportation systems - Wireless networking for green Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication Important dates Submission date: June 30, 2011 Author notification: October 15, 2011 Expected publication: 1st quarter 2012 Guest Editors Enzo Mingozzi University of Pisa, Italy e.mingozzi(a)iet.unipi.it Xavier Perez-Costa NEC Laboratories Europe, Heidelberg, Germany Xavier.Perez-Costa(a)neclab.eu Catherine Rosenberg University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada cath(a)ece.uwaterloo.ca Shugong Xu Huawei Technologies, Co. Ltd., Shanghai, China shugong(a)huawei.com Submission instructions The submitted papers must describe original research which is not published nor currently under review by other journals or conferences. Papers must be submitted through the Computer Communications website at http://ees.elsevier.com/comcom, where guidelines for the manuscript preparation can also be found. To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion into the Special Issue, please select "Special Issue: Wireless Green" when you reach the "Article Type" step in the submission process. _______________________________________________ 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] [MobiWac 2011] ACM MobiWac || 10 days left for paper registration (fwd)
by Lars Wolf 31 May '11

31 May '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] [MobiWac 2011] ACM MobiWac || 10 days left for paper registration (fwd) Datum: Tue, 31 May 2011 17:12:28 +0300 (EEST) Von: Angelopoulos Constantinos Marios <aggeloko(a)ceid.upatras.gr> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu, discuss(a)ieeetcsc.org, tcpp-announce(a)cc.gatech.edu, tccn(a)comsoc.org, ahsntc-mailing-list(a)list.trlab.ca, THEORYNT(a)LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU, dmanet(a)zpr.uni-koeln.de ----------------------- Call for Papers ACM MobiWac 2011 ----------------------- The 9th ACM* International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access (MobiWac 2011) will be held in conjunction with MSWiM 2011 (the 14th ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems) from October 31 to November 4, 2011 at Miami Beach, FL, USA. The MOBIWAC series of events are intended to provide an international forum for the discussion and presentation of original ideas, recent results and achievements by researchers, students, and systems developers on issues and challenges related to mobility management and wireless access protocols. Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance on all aspects of wireless and mobile access technologies, with an emphasis on mobility management and wireless access. Authors are invited to submit full papers describing original research. Submitted papers must neither have been published elsewhere nor currently be under review by another conference or journal. TOPICS OF INTEREST include, but are not limited to: - Wireless/Mobile Access Protocols - Wireless/Mobile Web Access - Wireless Internet and All-IP integration - Next Generation Wireless systems - Mobile Broadband Wireless Access - Pervasive Communication and Computing - Ubiquitous and mobile access - Wireless Applications and testbeds - Multi-Homing and Vertical Handoff - Multi-Channel Multi-Radio MAC / network layer management - Channels and resources allocation algorithms - Energy and power management algorithms - Multi-technology switching using Software Defined Radios - Context-aware services and applications - Context-aware protocols and protocol architectures - Interactive applications - Mobile database management - Wireless Multimedia Protocols - Mobile and Wireless Entertainment - Mobile Info-services - QoS management - Mobility Control and Management - Localization and tracking - Mobile/Vehicular environment access - Wireless ad hoc and sensor networks - Security,Trust management and Privacy issues - Fault Tolerance solutions - Wireless Systems' Design - Analysis/Simulation of wireless mobile systems - Testbeds for experimental and simulation analysis FOR MORE INFORMATION about the conference, organizing committee, submission instructions, and venue please see the conference website (http://www.mobiwac.org/). ========================= ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: General Chair Jose Rolim, University of Geneva, Switzerland Program Co-Chairs Jun Luo, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Sotiris Nikoletseas, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece Technical Program Committee (tentative) Kevin Almeroth, University of California, Santa Barbara DK Arvind, University of Edinburgh Venkataramana Badarla, Indian Institute of Technology Rajasthan Jalel Ben-othman, University of Versailles Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa Costas Busch, Louisiana State University Levente Buttyan, Budapest University of Technology and Economics Claude Chaudet, Telecom Paristech Marcelo Dias de Amorim, UPMC Sorbonne Universitιs Thomas Erlebach, University of Leicester Scott Fowler, Linkφping University Lisandro Granville, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Mesut Guenes, Freie Universitat Berlin Arshad Jhumka, University of Warwick Dariusz Kowalski, University of Liverpool Peter Langendoerfer, IHP microelectronics Wing Cheong Lau, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Pierre Leone, University of Geneva Mo Li, Nanyang Technological University Lavy Libman, University of Sydney Justin Lipman, Intel R&D Justin Lipman, Intel R&D Antonio Loureiro, Federal University of Minas Gerais S. Kami Makki, Lamar University Paulo Mendes, SITI, University Lusofona Lynda Mokdad, Universite de Paris 12 Ai-Chun Pang, National Taiwan University Panagiotis (Panos) Papadimitratos, KTH Cristina M. Pinotti, University of Perugia Marius Portmann, University of Queensland Christian Scheideler, Paderborn University Christian Schindelhauer, University of Freiburg Emmanouel Varvarigos, University of Patras Vasos Vassiliou, University of Cyprus Xinbing Wang, Shanghai Jiaotong University Yaling Yang, Virginia Tech Zainab Zaidi, National ICT Australia, Ltd Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney Posters/Demo Chair Vinay Kolar, Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar Web Chair Dimitra Patroumpa, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece Publicity Chairs Constantinos Marios Angelopoulos, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece Mo Li, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Publications Chair Liu Xiang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Steering Committee Co-Chairs Azzedine Boukerche, U. of Ottawa, Canada Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia ========================= Paper Submission, Publication and Important Dates: High-quality original papers are solicited. Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed by Technical Program Committee members and other experts active in the field to ensure high quality and relevance to the Symposium. The symposium will Have a single track for regular papers and in addition, a separate interwoven track with short papers / posters. A paper should be no more than 10 pages, double column, ACM style including tables and figures. Only PDF format is accepted. 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Fwd: [Tccc] [CFP] Fourth International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS) 2012
by Lars Wolf 31 May '11

31 May '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] [CFP] Fourth International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS) 2012 Datum: Mon, 30 May 2011 22:12:34 -0700 Von: ajaykulk <ajaykulk(a)cisco.com> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> Call for Papers The Fourth International Conference on Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS) (Bangalore, India, January 3rd – January 7th, 2012) http://www.comsnets.org The Fourth International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS) will be held in Bangalore, India, from 3rd January 2012 to 7th January 2012. COMSNETS is a premier international conference dedicated to addressing advances in Networking and Communications Systems, and Telecommunications services. The goal of the conference is to create a world class gathering of researchers from academia and industry, practitioners, business leaders, intellectual property experts, and venture capitalists, providing a forum for discussing cutting edge research, and directions for new innovative business and technology. The conference will include a highly selective technical program consisting of parallel tracks of submitted papers, a small set of invited papers on important and timely topics from well-known leaders in the field, and poster sessions of work in progress. Focused workshops and panel discussions will be held on emerging topics to allow for a lively exchange of ideas. International business and government leaders will be invited to share their perspectives, thus complementing the technical program. Topics of interest Papers describing original research work and practical experiences/experimental results are solicited on topics including, but not limited to: * Internet Architecture, Protocols and Applications * Network Algorithms * Video Distribution (IPTV, Mobile Video, Video on Demand) * Network Operations and Management * Broadband and Cellular Networks (3G/4G, WiMAX/LTE) * Mesh, Sensor and PAN networks * Communication Software (Cognitive Radios, DSA, SDR) * Wireless Operating Systems and Mobile Platforms * Peer-to-Peer Networking * Cognitive Radios and White Space Networking * Stochastic Models of Communication Networks * Performance Analysis * Network Economics * Network Optimization * Optical Networks * Network Security and Cyber Security Technologies * Cloud and Utility computing * Storage Area Networks * Next Generation Web Architectures * Vehicular Networking * Energy-Efficient Networking * Network Science and Emerging Behavior in Socio-Technical Networks * Social Networking Analysis, Middleware and Applications * Networking Technologies for Smart Energy Grids * Disruption/Delay Tolerant Networking Conference Highlights Keynote/Plenary/Banquet Talks Technical Paper and Poster Sessions Co-located Workshops Ph.D. Forum Panel Discussions Demos & Exhibits Mobile India 2012 Workshop Important Dates for COMSNETS 2012 Abstract submission (HARD deadline) : September 5th, 2011 at 11:59pm EST Paper submission (HARD deadline) : September 12th, 2011 at 11:59pm EST Notification of Acceptance: November 7, 2011 Camera-Ready Submission: December 2, 2011 Technical Program Co-Chairs Aditya Akella, U. of Wisconsin, USA Bhaskaran Raman, IIT Bombay, India R. Srikant, U. of Illinois, USA Technical Program Committee Kevin Almeroth, UCSB, USA Katerina Argyraki, EPFL, Switzerland Gautam Barua, IIT Guwahati, India Srikrishna Bhashyam, IIT Madras, India Subir Biswas, Michigan State University, USA Mouli Chandramouli, Cisco Systems Romit Roy Choudhury, Duke University, USA Debabrata Das, IIIT Bangalore, India Supratim Deb, Alcatel-Lucent Bell labs, Bangalore, India UmaMaheshwari Devi, IBM India Research Laboratory, Bangalore, India Rudra Dutta, North Carolina State University, India Partha Dutta, IBM India Research Laboratory, Bangalore, India Nick Feamster, GaTech, USA Vijay Gopalakrishnan,AT&T Labs Research, USA Sergey Gorinsky, IMDEA Y.Charlie Hu, Purdue University, USA Stratis Ioannidis, Technicolor Lillykutty Jacob, NIT Calicut, India Sharad Jaiswal, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Bangalore, India Rittwik Jana, AT&T Labs Research, USA Juan Jose Jaramillo, Iowa State University Changhee Joo, Korea University of Technology & Education Shiv Kalyanaraman, IBM India Research Laboratory, Bangalore, India Jussi Kangasharju, University of Helsinki, Finland Koushik Kar, RPI Joohwan Kim, UIUC Ramana Kompella, Purdue University, USA Dejan Kostic, EPFL, Switzerland Joy Kuri, IISc Bangalore, India Carmen Guerrero LÃ³pez, University Carlos III of Madrid T.V. Lakshman, Alcatel-Lucent D. Manjunath, IIT Bombay, India Vishal Misra, Columbia University, USA Thyaga Nandagopal, Alcatel-Lucent Vishnu Navda, Microsoft Research India Jian Ni, IBM TJ Watson Joerg Ott, Helsinki Univ. of Technology, Finland Jeff Pang, AT&T Labs Research, USA Andrea Passarella, IIT-CNR Venkatesh Ramaiyan, IIT Madras, India A.L.Narasimha Reddy, Texas A&M Reza Rejaie, University of Oregon Vinay Ribeiro, IIT Delhi, India Vaishali Sadaphal, TCS, India Anirudha Sahoo, IIT Bombay, India Vyas Sekar, Intel Srinivasan Seshan, CMU Aaditeshwar Seth, IIT Delhi, India Anees Shaikh, IBM TJ Watson Srinivas Shakkottai, Texas A&M Puneet Sharma, HP Biplab Sikdar, RPI Krishna Sivalingam, IIT Madras, India Arun Somani, Iowa State University Vikram Srinivasan, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Bangalore, India Vijay Subramanian, Northwestern University Joe Touch, USC/ISI Goeff Voelker, UCSD Minlan Yu, Princeton University Murat Yuksel, University of Nevada Website: http://www.comsnets.org/tpc.html _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. 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Fwd: [Tccc] CfP: PerGroup@GC11 - Workshop on Pervasive Group Communication (IEEE PerGroup)
by Lars Wolf 31 May '11

31 May '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CfP: PerGroup@GC11 - Workshop on Pervasive Group Communication (IEEE PerGroup) Datum: Tue, 31 May 2011 01:05:21 +0200 Von: Matthias Waehlisch <waehlisch(a)ieee.org> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu [Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP] CALL FOR PAPERS ** 2nd Workshop on Pervasive Group Communication (IEEE PerGroup) ** URL: http://pergroup.realmv6.org Houston, TX, USA, December, 2011, held in conjunction with IEEE GLOBECOM 2011, and co-sponsored by the German Chapter of the IEEE CE Society, G-Lab, and The unbelievable Machine Company Group communications have passed from research to deployment and back to a research issue. Newly deployed services, in particular IPTV, P2P content distribution, and collaborative applications, are stimulating current research on multicast, broadcast, concast, and anycast. Emerging design issues for a future multi-service Internet combined with the dynamic development of wireless access techonologies challenge the community to rethink the position of group communications along the stack. The PerGroup workshop invites the community to share efforts in search of seamless, pervasive group services, and to discuss directions on a human-centric multi-service Inter-networking architecture. We welcome contributions that design new solutions or analyze existing deployments, but also those that present striking problem statements or early conceptual work. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: System Design & Methodology: - Architectures and protocols for fixed, wireless and ad hoc networks - Protocols and interfaces for intuitive group communications - Intra- and Inter-domain group communication - Native, overlay (including P2P) and hybrid multicast - Topology analysis & measuring, mining and modeling of - media-rich social networks - Measurement, simulation and analytical studies as well as deployment experiences Supporting Technologies: - Multipath routing / extension of emerging routing schemes - Cooperative relaying and network coding - Service placement and service location - Security and privacy issues for multicast, anycast, and broadcast - Real-time and QoS aspects Applications: - Adaptive content distribution, e.g., video broadcasting - Application-layer traffic optimization and provider interaction - Multicast & anycast in a future multi-service Internet - New data distribution models to facilitate group communication - Frameworks for human centric based group communications You will find detailed information about the very successful last year's PerGroup at http://pergroup.realmv6.org/2010/. --------------- IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Full paper: July 7, 2011 Notification: August 15, 2011 Final version: August 31, 2011 ---------------------- ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE ---------------------- Workshop Co-Chairs: - Thomas C. Schmidt, HAW Hamburg, Germany - Matthias Wählisch, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany - Georg Wittenburg, INRIA & Ecole Polytechnique, France Program Committee: - Kevin C. Almeroth, UC Santa Barbara, USA - Emmanuel Baccelli, INRIA, France - Rick Boivie, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA - Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland - John Buford, Avaya Labs Research, USA - Ruben Cuevas, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain - Gorry Fairhurst, University of Aberdeen, UK - Thomas C. Schmidt, HAW Hamburg, Germany - Stig Venaas, Cisco Systems, USA - Matthias Wählisch, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany - Georg Wittenburg, INRIA & Ecole Polytechnique, France - ... TBC ... --------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES --------------------- Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to five double-column, IEEE conference-style pages. One additional page will be allowed with additional publication fee. All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated by at least three reviewers based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. Accepted papers will appear in the IEEE GLOBECOM proceedings and will be included in IEEE digital library. At least one of the authors of accepted papers must attend the workshop to present the paper. An accepted paper must be registered before the registration deadline. IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the workshop. In case of double submissions or (self-)plagiarism, the paper will be excluded from the technical program. Further information: http://pergroup.realmv6.org/submission.html ------- CONTACT ------- For further information regarding PerGroup 2010 and paper submission, please contact gc_11workshop-pergroup2011-chairs(a)edas.info. Best regards, Thomas C. Schmidt, Matthias Waehlisch, and Georg Wittenburg (IEEE Globecom 2010 PerGroup Workshop Co-Chairs) -- Matthias Waehlisch . Freie Universitaet Berlin, Inst. fuer Informatik, AG CST . Takustr. 9, D-14195 Berlin, Germany .. mailto:waehlisch@ieee.org .. http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~waehl :. Also: http://inet.cpt.haw-hamburg.de .. http://www.link-lab.net

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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: 3rd ExtremeCom 2011 *** EXTENDED DEADLINE ****
by Lars Wolf 30 May '11

30 May '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: 3rd ExtremeCom 2011 *** EXTENDED DEADLINE **** Datum: Mon, 30 May 2011 14:54:01 +0200 Von: Aline Carneiro Viana <aline.viana(a)inria.fr> An: tccc <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> [Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Paper (CFP).] ***************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS AND DEMOS 3rd Extreme Conference on Communication - The Amazon Expedition EXTREMECOM 2011 http://extremecom.org/ ***************************************************************************** Important dates --------------- *******Submission deadline: extended to June 20, 2011******** Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2011 Conference dates: September 26-30, 2011 Field experience and network deployment: September 26-28 Technical sessions: September 29-30 ***************************************************************************** Scope ----- The Extreme Conference on Communication (ExtremeCom) brings together researchers and practitioners in areas related to communications in rural and remote environments, in order to gain experience and insight into the challenges that such environments pose for the network and the users. We welcome a broad range of topics concerning both technical and economical aspects, for example delay tolerant networks and other networking paradigms, business and services models, low power devices and protocols, user experiences and web applications. Following on from the success of ExtremeCom 2009 - The Midnight Sun Expedition in Laponia, Sweden, and ExtremeCom 2010 - The Himalayan Expedition in Dharamsala, India, we now offer ExtremeCom 2011 - The Amazon Expedition. In this edition, we aim to explore the challenges of the deep Amazon Rainforest in Brazil. The chosen spot, which is located 21 miles (34 km) from Manaus, is known as Praia do Tupé (Tupé beach), a beautiful and remote beach accessed only by boat through the waters of the Black River. The population is composed by natives living in little communities spread around the jungle and also on the river shore. These people experience constant communication interruptions and most of them do not have any access to the Internet, which makes this area a great field of experiments for extreme and rural communications. Hosted by the Federal University Of Amazonas (UFAM) the conference will start with 3 days of immersion into the jungle where the conference participants will aid in setting up and deploying an extension of a DTN system in this area in order to provide connectivity to a new community. During this time the participants will have the chance to hike around the trails, interact with the locals and also know some natural phenomenons like the "meeting of the waters", where the black waters of the Negro River meet the brown waters of the Solimões River, flowing side by side without mixing for about 9 km. The immersion will not only give a better idea of both the technical and user requirements of such a system, but it will also give many opportunities for informal research discussions between the participants. Participants that have their own software for scenarios like this will also, to as great an extent as possible, be encouraged to test and demonstrate it within this environment. Upon reaching the end of the "field experience", there will be two days of paper presentations and demos in a more traditional conference venue at UFAM's facilities in Manaus. Focus will still be on informal research discussions, with the hope that the field experience will give participants the ability to discuss the topics in a new light. Participants should submit 6 page papers about ideas and visions about the topics of the conference or demo proposals to be shown during the conference. Visionary and thought-provoking papers that are likely to generate much discussion during the conference are especially solicited. The aim of the conference is to maintain an informal environment, where new research ideas can be discussed and developed. We also hope to have a demo session where participants can show their implementations and systems. If you want to show a demo, please submit a 2 page demo proposal using the same submission system as for conference papers. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. Topics for the conference include, but are not limited to: * Testbeds for large-scale sustainable testing of DTN systems * Real deployments of networks in extreme environments * Business and service models for networks in rural, remote, and other challenging environments * User experience research * Delay tolerant networking * Low-power and intermittent-power protocols * Mechanisms for emergency and urgent communications * Networked applications and services Due to logistics and the need to conduct the conference in harmony with the local population and the environment, the number of participants will be limited. Priority will be given to authors of papers and those who register first. ***************************************************************************** Organizers ---------- General co-chairs: Anders Lindgren, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden Pan Hui, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories and TU Berlin, Germany Local arrangement committee: Edjair Mota, UFAM, Brazil JB Pinto Neto, UFAM, Brazil Alfredo Goldman, University of Sao Paolo, Brazil Aline Carneiro Viana, INRIA, France Publicity chair: Aline Carneiro Viana, INRIA, France Sponsorship chair: Christian Hoene, University of Tübingen, Germany. Web chair: Fehmi Ben Abdesslem, University of St. Andrews, UK Technical Program Committee: Célio Albuquerque, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil Yahel Ben-David, University of California - Berkeley, USA Elwyn Davies, Folly Consulting, UK Marcelo Dias de Amorim, CNRS, France Avri Doria, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden Stephen Farrell, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Marco Fiore, INSA Lyon/INRIA, France Roy Friedman, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Tristan Henderson, University of St. Andrews, UK Franck Legendre, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Antonio A F Loureiro, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Jörg Ott, TKK, Helsinki, Finland Aaditeshwar Seth, IIT Delhi, India Artur Ziviani, National Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Brazil Steering Committee: Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK Avri Doria, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden Tristan Henderson, University of St. Andrews, UK Pan Hui, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories and TU Berlin, Germany Anders Lindgren, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden ***************************************************************************** _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. 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Fwd: [Tccc] First call for papers: EWSN 2012 in Trento, Italy
by Lars Wolf 30 May '11

30 May '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] First call for papers: EWSN 2012 in Trento, Italy Datum: Sun, 29 May 2011 20:01:38 +0200 Von: Anna Förster <anna.foerster(a)supsi.ch> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu ************************************************** **** CALL FOR PAPERS **** **** **** **** EWSN '12 **** **** The 9th European Conference on **** **** Wireless Sensor Networks **** **** **** **** February 15-17, 2012 **** **** University of Trento, Italy **** **** http://ewsn12.disi.unitn.it **** ************************************************** As the field of wireless sensor networks matures, new design con- cepts, experimental and theoretical findings, and applications have continued to emerge at a rapid pace. Being one of the lead- ing international conferences in this area, the European Confer- ence on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN) has played a substantial role in the dissemination of innovative ideas from researchers all over the globe. For EWSN 2012, the ninth meeting in this se- ries, we invite papers describing original, previously unpub- lished research results pertaining to wireless sensor networks, broadly conceived. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Hardware Design and Implementation * Operating Systems * Programming Abstractions and Tools * Communication and Network Protocols * Information and Signal Processing * Security and Fault-Tolerance * Prototypes, Field Experiments, Testbeds * Fundamental Theoretical Limits and Algorithms * Novel Applications * Cooperating Objects and their Applications PAPER SUBMISSION This highly selective conference will only accept for review original papers that have not been previously published and are not currently under review by any other conference or journal. We will adopt a double-blind review process, where the names of authors and their affiliations are unknown to reviewers until the end of the review process and are not mentioned in the paper. Papers must be submitted electronically through EDAS at http://edas.info. Submissions must be in Adobe PDF format and are not to exceed 16 pages, including text, figures and references. We require that submissions conform to the Springer-Verlag LNCS style. IMPORTANT DATES Paper registration and abstract submission: September 16, 2011 Full paper due: September 23, 2011 Author notification: November 21, 2011 All deadlines are hard-- no extensions will be granted. CONFERENCE CHAIRS Gian Pietro Picco (University of Trento, Italy) Wendi Heinzelman (University of Rochester, USA) TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Nael Abu-Ghazelah, Binghamton University, USA Mario Alves, ISEP, Portugal Habib Ammari, Hofstra University, USA Stefano Basagni, Northwestern University, USA Jan Beutel, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Ilker Demirkol, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA Cem Ersoy, Bogazici University, Turkey Anna Forster, SUPSI, Switzerland Katia Jaffres-Runser, INSA de Lyon, France Mikael Johansson, KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Salil Kanhere, University of New South Whales, UK Holger Karl, University of Paderborn, Germany Bhaskar Krishnamachari, University of South California, USA Dilip Krishnaswamy, Qualcomm, USA Koen Langendoen, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands Akos Ledeczi, Vanderbilt University, USA Chengyang Lu, Washington University in Saint Louis, USA Pedro Marron, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Cecilia Mascolo, Cambridge University, UK Tommaso Melodia, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA Luca Mottola, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden Amy Murphy, Bruno Kessler Foundation, Italy Chiara Petrioli, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy Utz Roedig, Lancaster University, UK Kay Roemer, University of Lubeck, Germany Leo Selavo, University of Latvia, Latvia Rajeev Shorey, NIIT University, India Krishna Sivalingam, IIT Madras, India Cormac Sreenan, University of Cork, Ireland Violet Syrotiuk, Arizona State University, USA Andreas Terzis, Johns Hopkins University, USA Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida, USA Mehmet Can Vuran, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Klaus Wehrle, RWTH Aachen, Germany Kamin Whitehouse, University of Virginia, USA Ossama Younis, Telcordia, USA Michele Zorzi, University of Padova, Italy -- Dr. Anna Förster PostDoctoral Researcher Networking Laboratory, SUPSI Via Cantonale, Galleria 2 Manno, Switzerland Tel. + 41 58 666 6597 http://www.dti.supsi.ch/~afoerste/ _______________________________________________ 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 SenSys 2011: Joint call for contributions for workshops!
by Lars Wolf 30 May '11

30 May '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] ACM SenSys 2011: Joint call for contributions for workshops! Datum: Sun, 29 May 2011 19:44:32 +0200 Von: Anna Förster <anna.foerster(a)supsi.ch> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu, omnetpp(a)googlegroups.com, tinyos-help(a)millennium.berkeley.edu, contiki-developers(a)lists.sourceforge.net CC: Kamin Whitehouse <whitehouse(a)virginia.edu> Second International Workshop on Sensing Applications on Mobile Phones at ACM SenSys 2011 November 1, 2011 Seattle, USA http://research.microsoft.com/phonesense2011 *** 3rd ACM Workshop On Embedded Sensing Systems For Energy-Efficiency In Buildings http://buildsys.org/2011 Seattle, WA - November 1, 2011 *** First International Workshop on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services for Healthcare at ACM SenSys 2011 November 1, 2011 Seattle, USA http://chad.illinois.edu/mHealthSys2011/index.html ********************************************************************* Second International Workshop on Sensing Applications on Mobile Phones at ACM SenSys 2011 November 1, 2011 Seattle, USA http://research.microsoft.com/phonesense2011 Mobile phones provide a widespread platform for deploying sensing applications. Multiple factors, including the large number of sensors on phones, proximity to user’s immediate environment, broadband connectivity, ability to use cloud resources to sense, mine, and learn human behaviors, and ability to provide personalized feedback, make the phone a compelling sensing platform. Example sensing application domains include personalized information delivery, context and location-aware services, healthcare, games, social networks, and entertainment, safety, and mobile business. The PhoneSense workshop promotes exchange of ideas among academic and industrial researchers in research areas such as sensing, mobile computing, energy efficiency, data management, data mining, machine learning, inference, privacy, incentive modeling, and user experience design. The focus is on hot topics, position papers, novel ideas, in-progress work, enabling technologies, and emerging applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: · Novel applications · Personal health monitoring using mobile phones · Incentive models for mobile data collection · Mobile cloud and sensing interfaces · Mining large-scale sensor and location data · Persuasion models and personalized feedback to users · Privacy · Participatory sensing, crowdsourcing, and opportunistic sensing · Activity recognition, subjective sensing, and machine learning · Programming models · Deployments and campaigns at scale · Integration of on-phone and off-phone sensing · Novel mobile sensor accessories · Geo-targeting and location-aware services · Data quality issues [Call for Papers in PDF: http://research.microsoft.com/phonesense2011/PhoneSenseCFP.pdf ] Program Chairs: Aman Kansal (Microsoft Research) Deepak Ganesan (UMass Amherst) Steering Committee Andrew Campbell (Dartmouth College) Deborah Estrin (UCLA) Jie Liu (Microsoft Research) Technical Program Committee: Prabal Dutta (UMichigan) Deborah Estrin (UCLA) Raghu Ganti (IBM) Santosh Kumar (UMemphis) Nicholas Lane (MSR Asia) Paul Lukowics (UPassau) Bhaskaran Raman (IIT B) Romit Roy Choudhury (Duke) Mani Srivastava (UCLA) Jun Yang (Nokia) Important Dates Paper Submission: July 25, 2011 Notification: September 12, 2011 For submission details, see the workshop website: http://research.microsoft.com/phonesense2011 ********************************************************* Call for papers and demos: ACM BuildSys 2011, in conjunction with ACM SenSys 2011 http://buildsys.org/2011 3rd ACM Workshop On Embedded Sensing Systems For Energy-Efficiency In Buildings Seattle, WA - November 1, 2011 Important dates: * Paper and Demo subsmission deadline: July 30, 2011 * Notification of acceptance: August 31, 2011 * Camera Ready Due: September 15, 2011 * Workshop date: November 1, 2011 * Date of Demo session: TBD Technically co-sponsored by ACM[1]. Submissions will be peer-reviewed. The proceedings will be archived in the ACM Digital Library. *** New this year: Demo session! *** The World is increasingly experiencing a strong need for energy consumption reduction and a need for efficient use of scarce natural resources. Official studies report that buildings account for the largest portion of World's energy expenditure and have the fastest growth rate. Clearly, energy saving strategies that target energy use in buildings and surroundings can have a major impact worldwide, driving the current energy market toward self-sufficiency and self-sustainability. This calls for effective techniques and methods that enable accurate carbon foot printing, monitoring and control of appliance activity, energy auditing and management in buildings and surroundings and the generation of energy awareness. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) play a key role in enabling energy-saving systems in buildings and surrounding spaces by providing a reliable, cost-effective and extensible solution that can be placed in existing as well as new structures and can be controlled via the Internet. In fact, WSNs allow the monitoring of the energy consumption in near-real time and, as such, they are an essential tool in the control loop that will be used in future structures for the generation and usage of diverse types of energy. We solicit both papers AND demos that focus on new techniques and technologies capable of improving the global energy efficiency of buildings leveraging connected sensing systems, networks, and devices. We are particularly interested in contributions related to: * Increase energy awareness and reduce consumption by leveraging on sensing systems/social networking/mobile phones, novel visualization and other forms of media to convey relevant information to users; * Systems that can influence building occupant behaviour towards a more parsimonious usage of electricity, gas, heating, water, etc.; * Monitor and actuate appliances in residential and industrial settings (e.g. data centres, HVAC, etc.) * Monitor and control of alternative energy sources aiming at an increase of production efficacy; * Model and simulate heating, cooling, lighting, ventilation, water usage and other energy flows in buildings and surrounding spaces through the combination of real data from sensors and popular energy simulation tools such as Energy Plus and TrnSys; * Create innovative tools to model and visualize energy expenditure and production (from, e.g., solar panels, wind turbines); * Integrate sensor-based systems to improve grid operation and energy distribution (electricity, gas, water); * Sensor systems for the identification of appliances in industrial and home environments, which can be used to estimate the energy usage/production model and to predict future demands; Successful papers will clearly demonstrate how much energy is reduced by the authors' contribution, either through real-world results or credible simulation and analysis of an energy problem. Papers should consider the entire energy system, including any effects on occupant behaviors, production efficiency, peak load and smart grid architectures, sustainability, pollutants, and total energy usage. Demo abstracts should describe both the technology being showcased as well as the user experience of the demo. Submissions must include a separate section for the demo script that specifically describes how users will interact with the demo. Accepted papers and demo abstracts will appear in the workshop proceedings and will be electronically published by ACM. For submission instructions please refer to the workshop website. General Chair * Antonio Ruzzelli, University College Dublin, Ireland Steering Committee * Antonio Ruzzelli, University College Dublin, Ireland * David Culler, University of Berkeley, US * Michele Rossi, Universita di Padova, Italy * Alberto Cerpa, University of California Merced, US Publication Chair * Rasit Eskicioglu, University of Manitoba, Canada Demo Chair * Fred Xiaofan Jiang, Microsoft Research, China Web Chair * Anthony Schoofs, University College Dublin, Ireland TPC Chairs * Kamin Whitehouse, University of Virginia, US * Rajesh Gupta, UC San Diego, US TPC * Yuvraj Agarwal (UCSD, US) * Dagnachew Birru (Philips Research, US) * Michael Brambley (PNNL, US) * Alberto Cerpa (UCMerced, US) * Adam Dunkels (SICS, SE) * Anthony Schoofs (UCD, IE) * Prabal Dutta (Michigan, US) * Peter Fuhrmann (Philips Research, NL) * Clas Jacobsen (United Technologies, US) * Xiaofan Jiang (Microsoft Research, CH) * Younghun Kim (IBM, US) * Tommaso Melodia (SUNY, US) * Sotiris Nikoletseas (UPatras, GR) * Guy Newsham (NRC, CA) * Dirk Pesch (CIT, IE) * Raj Rajkumar (CMU, US) * Andrew Rice (UCambridge, UK) * Michele Rossi (UniPD, IT) * Anthony Rowe (Carnegie Mellon, US) * Andreas Savvides (Yale, US) * Thomas Schmid (Utah, US) * Mani Srivastava (UCLA, US) [1] Approval from ACM is pending. ************************************************************** First International Workshop on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services for Healthcare at ACM SenSys 2011 November 1, 2011 Seattle, USA http://chad.illinois.edu/mHealthSys2011/index.html Call for Papers --------------- --------------- The first International Workshop on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services for Healthcare solicits innovative and original research papers related to mobile systems as applied to healthcare and wellness. We explicitly encourage submissions related to real deployments and experiences with practical systems. We are interested in, but not limited to, the following research topics on healthcare: Wearable sensors Mobile sensing devices Limitations of sensing (e.g. sampling rate, types of sensing related to healthcare and wellness monitoring) Energy issues Security and privacy issues Communication challenges (in healthcare based mobile systems) Data quality monitoring and robustness (in the mobile environments) Realtime sensor data processing on mobile devices Sensor data analytics Healthcare and wellness applications on mobile devices User (patient/medical professional) needs and its impact on system design Real-life deployments/practical experiences Accepted papers will appear electronically in the ACM proceedings. Call for Demos -------------- -------------- We are also soliciting demos that showcase innovative and novel mobile sensor systems for healthcare. The scope of work is described above. Demo submissions should be up to 2 pages (including Tables, Figures, and References). Submissions should describe innovative ideas and systems related to mobile systems, applications, and services for healthcare. Detailed description of the demo is expected. Accepted demos will appear electronically in the ACM proceedings. Important Dates --------------- --------------- Paper Submission Deadline: August 08, 2011, 11:59 pm EST Notification of Paper Acceptance: September 09, 2011 Final camera ready version: October 07, 2011 Accepted papers and demos will be included in the ACM electronics proceedings. mHealthSys 2011 Organizing Committee ------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ General Chair ------------- Raghu Ganti (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center) Program Chairs -------------- Santosh Kumar (UMemphis) Kenneth Watkin (UIUC) Steering Committee ------------------ Raghu Ganti (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center) Santosh Kumar (UMemphis) Mani Srivastava (UCLA) Kenneth Watkin (UIUC) Liangzhao Zeng (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center) Technical Program Committee --------------------------- Tarek Abdelzaher (UIUC) Mustafa al'Absi (UMN) Andrew Campbell (Dartmouth) Tanzeem Choudhary (Dartmouth) Emre Ertin (OSU) Raghu Ganti (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center) Stephen Intille (MIT and Northwestern) Zbigniew Kalbarczyk (UIUC) Thomas W. Kamarck (U. Pittsburgh) David Kotz (Darmouth) Santosh Kumar (UMemphis) Wendy Nilsen (OBSSR, NIH) Kevin Patrick (UCSD) Thambapillai Srikanthan (NTU, Singapore) Soundararajan Srinivasan (Bosch Research) Mani Srivastava (UCLA) John Stankovic (UVa) Lakshman Tamil (UTDallas) Kenneth Watkin (UIUC) Liangzhao Zeng (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center) For submission details, please see the workshop website: http://chad.illinois.edu/mHealthSys2011/index.html -- Dr. Anna Förster PostDoctoral Researcher Networking Laboratory, SUPSI Via Cantonale, Galleria 2 Manno, Switzerland Tel. + 41 58 666 6597 http://www.dti.supsi.ch/~afoerste/ _______________________________________________ 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: Mobicom 2011: Call for Demos and Exhibits
by Lars Wolf 30 May '11

30 May '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Mobicom 2011: Call for Demos and Exhibits Datum: Sun, 29 May 2011 06:19:40 -0700 Von: Habib M. Ammari <Habib.M.Ammari(a)HOFSTRA.EDU> Antwort an: Habib M. Ammari <Habib.M.Ammari(a)HOFSTRA.EDU> An: SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG [Apologies if you receive multiple copies.] Call for Demos and Exhibits for MobiCom2011 The Seventeenth Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking September 19-23, 2011, Las Vegas, NV, USA http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2011/ Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE If you have a cool demo of your ideas, come and showcase it in MobiCom2011 this year in the student demo competition and win the best demo awards! See instructions below. Proposals for research demonstrations and exhibits are strongly solicited. Demonstrations should be innovative research prototypes that show new research related to the practice of mobile computing or wireless and mobile networking. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * Applications and services for mobile users * Architectures, protocols, and algorithms to cope with mobility, limited bandwidth, limited power and/or intermittent connectivity * Cognitive radio networks and dynamic spectrum access * Fundamental aspects of mobile computing and wireless networking * Implementations and experimental mobile systems * Integration and interworking of wired and wireless networks * Location-dependent applications and protocols * Mobile ad hoc and sensor networks * Mobile cloud computing * Modeling, measurement and simulation aspects of mobile networks * Operating system and middleware support for mobile computing and networking * Performance of mobile and wireless networks and systems * Security, privacy, and fault-tolerance of mobile/wireless systems * Wireless access technologies for mobile nodes (e.g., multi-radio and mesh systems, personal area networks) *Student Demo Competition* The conference strongly encourages the submission of short papers in the field of mobile computing and wireless networking that present revolutionary new ideas or that challenge existing assumptions prevalent among the research community. These "challenges papers" should provide stimulating ideas or visions that may open up exciting avenues and/or influence the direction of future research. Descriptions of new products or evolution of existing work are not appropriate topics for papers in this category. While an exhaustive evaluation of the proposed ideas is not necessary, insight and in-depth understanding of the issues is expected. Challenges papers will be reviewed by the MobiComprogram committee and will be part of the technical program and published in ACM MobiComproceedings. They should be submitted using the same submission procedure adopted for the full papers. The title of these papers must start with the word "Challenge:" i.e., "Challenge: Rest of the Title." *Submission Instructions* Submit a summary of the proposed demo via email to xizhang(a)ece.tamu.edu. The proposal should be maximum of 3 pages, including figures if needed, and in PDF format only. Please indicate “MobiCom2011 Demo Submission” as the subject of the email. All submissions will be acknowledged. The summary should include: * The names, affiliations, and email addresses of the authors. * Goals of the demo and the basic idea that it supports. * Equipment to be used for the demo. * Space needed and setup time required. * Additional facilities needed including power and Internet/wireless access. * Indicate a URL with any extra information, if needed. * Indicate whether the demo is eligible for the student demo competition by identifying the lead student(s) and their affiliations. We encourage the submission of demos and exhibits that will be of interest to the community from researchers in academia and industry. *Important Dates* Submissions due: July 1, 2011 (11:59pm EST) Notification of acceptance: August 1, 2011 General Chair ParmeshRamanathan, University of Wisconsin-Madison Program Co-Chairs Brian Neil Levine, Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst Thyaga Nandagopal, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent Steering Committee Victor Bahl Imrich Chlamtac David B. Johnson ACM Program Coordinator Fran Spinola * FOR MORE INFORMATION: * Please contact the General Chair or Program Co-Chairs for more information. 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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE CNCC-2012, TECHNICAL PAPERS DUE June 3, 2011
by Lars Wolf 30 May '11

30 May '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE CNCC-2012, TECHNICAL PAPERS DUE June 3, 2011 Datum: Sun, 29 May 2011 15:13:08 +0200 Von: Bashir Yahya <bashir.yahya(a)prism.uvsq.fr> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------- IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference, sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society, is a major annual international conference organized with the objective of bringing together researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry working in all areas of consumer communications and networking. IEEE CCNC 2012 will present the latest developments and technical solutions in the areas of home networking, consumer networking, enabling technologies (such as middleware), and novel applications and services. The conference will include a peer-reviewed program of technical sessions, special sessions, workshops, panels, demonstrations and tutorials. ?6 TECHNICAL TRACKS Wireless Consumer Communications and Networking Wireless Home Networks Wireless LANs, WiMax, Cellular Networks UWB and OFDM Multi-Channel, Multi-Hop and Cooperative Communications Cross-Layer Design, Interactions and Optimization Seamless Roaming Techniques and Technologies Frequency and Channel Allocation Algorithms Modulation, Coding and Diversity Physical and MAC Layers Design Issues Energy Efficiency and optimization Emerging Standards Network QoS Smart Spaces and Personal Area Networks Body and Personal Area Networks IEEE 802.15 and Bluetooth-Based Networks Power Control and Conserving Approaches Pricing Models Service Discovery RFID for CE Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks Vehicle Networks Delay tolerant Networks QoS and Service Reliability Data Management and Query Processing Middleware for Smart Spaces and PANs Context- and Situation-awareness for Smart Spaces and PANs Real systems and measurement results for smart space and PANs Multimedia & Entertainment Networking and Services Multimedia Communication and Streaming Multimedia QoS and Protocols Distributed Network Protocols for Multimedia Image/Video Multimedia Networks Streaming Protocols High-Definition Audio, Image and Video Processing Distributed Coding and Network Coding Entertainment Networks Multimedia Services Multimedia Support over Multi-hop Networks Wireless Multimedia Field Trials and Measurements Networking for Multi-player Gaming Peer-to-Peer Networking and Content Distribution P2P Platforms, Algorithms and Architectures for Consumer Communications Overlay and Application Layer Multicast Peercasting and Overlay Content Distribution Peer-to-Peer SIP Novel Consumer Applications Enabled by P2P Computing Resource and Data Sharing Incentive Mechanisms in P2P Networks Reputation and Trust Mechanisms Overlay Networks Cloud Computing for Consumer-oriented Content Distribution Portability and Mobility of Content in Intermittent Consumer Networks ?Emerging and Innovative Consumer Technologies and Applications ?Green? and Environmentally-conscious Design and Consumer Technology Humanitarian uses of Consumer Electronics Advances in Display Technology and their Practical Usage HCI and Design Considerations Consumer Device Design and Innovation Design of e-Health and Mobile Health Technologies (Home Automation, etc.) Studies of Consumer Technology for Well-being Consumer Technologies in Emerging Markets and Challenged Economies Consumer Technologies for Social Benefit (e.g., Voting, Reporting, Education, etc.) Personalization Techniques Uses of Multimodal input and Data Pervasive and Contextual Computing Systems in Practice Wearable Computing Systems Smart Devices, Ambient & Intelligent Applications Middleware and Embedded Platforms Security and Content Protection Security for Home Networks, PANs & BANS Firewalls and Intrusion Detection Worm and Malware Defences Combating Phishing and Spam Secure Configuration Consumer-friendly Security Models & Tools Portable Devices Disinfection Control of Personal Data Reputation and Trust Mechanisms Authentication, Authority and Auditing for CE Copyright and Privacy Protection Digital Rights Management Streaming and Network Anonymity IMPORTANT DATES TECHNICAL PAPERS DUE June 3, 2011 ?ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATION September 2, 2011 ?FINAL CAMERA READY ARTWORK September 30, 2011 -- Bashir Yahya PRiSM Laboratory, Department of Computer Science University of Versailles 45 Avenue des Etats-Unis 78035 Versailles, Cedex France _______________________________________________ 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: PhoneCom 2011, October 2011, Dalian, China
by Lars Wolf 29 May '11

29 May '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: PhoneCom 2011, October 2011, Dalian, China Datum: Sun, 29 May 2011 00:29:51 +0800 Von: Feng XIA <f.xia(a)ieee.org> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu CALL FOR PAPERS ========================================================= 1st International Workshop on Sensing, Networking and Computing with Smartphones (PhoneCom 2011) http://www.phonecom.org to be held on October 19, 2011, Dalian, China colocated with IEEE CPSCom 2011 ========================================================= Important Dates (updated): * Submission Deadline: July 10, 2011 * Notification of Acceptance: August 01, 2011 * Final Papers Due: August 15, 2011 * Workshop date: October 19, 2011 Workshop Organizers: * Alvin Chin, Nokia Research Center, Beijing, China (Primary Contact) * Jilei Tian, Nokia Research Center, Beijing, China * Feng Xia, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China Contact: phonecom11(a)gmail.com The goal of this workshop is to address the many research issues that are still hampering the still difficult use of developing context rich mobile applications on smartphones. The workshop aims to attract and discuss the sensing, networking and application issues of smartphones, and how these can be solved by creating model, frameworks, and implementing context engines on smartphones. We want to bring together context computing, social computing, and hardware researchers along with user interface designers and practitioners with diverse backgrounds interested in 1) exploring different perspectives and approaches to modeling physical, spatial, temporal and social context from the smartphone, 2) the different types of applications that can be enabled from the rich gathering and inference of context, and 3) issues of integrating the context into application design and user interface and user interaction models. Submissions: We solicit short position papers (1-2 pages) and peer-reviewed research papers (4-8 papers) in the IEEE conference paper style. Use EasyChair to submit your papers at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=phonecom2011. Proceedings: We intend to publish proceedings in the IEEE CS Proceedings of the main conference of IEEE CPSCom 2011. -- Feng XIA (夏锋) PhD, Associate Professor of Computer Science School of Software, Dalian University of Technology Road No. 8, Development Zone, Dalian 116620, China Email: f.xia(a)ieee.org; f.xia(a)acm.org URL: http://FengXia.NET Cyber-Physical Systems Group: http://CPSChina.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: [Mycolleagues] CFP: IEEE GLOBECOM 2011 Workshop on Rural Communications
by Lars Wolf 26 May '11

26 May '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Mycolleagues] CFP: IEEE GLOBECOM 2011 Workshop on Rural Communications Datum: Wed, 25 May 2011 22:04:32 -0400 Von: glitho(a)ece.concordia.ca Antwort an: admmyc(a)gmail.com An: mycolleagues(a)mailman.ufsc.br IEEE GLOBECOM 2011 Workshop on Rural Communications: Technologies, Applications, Strategies and Policies (RuralComm 2011) http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~tse/ruralcom/index.html Scope: This workshop aims at discussing the recent advances in rural communications. Technologies, applications, strategies and policies for every day life as well as technologies, applications, strategies and policies for reducing loss of life and property from natural and human-induced disasters will be discussed. Topics of Interest are (but not limited to): Access innovations in rural areas Internet access in rural areas Wireline and wireless communications technologies, systems and applications for rural areas Environment modelling: network planning and deployment studies for rural, suburban and under-serviced environments Next-generation communication technologies and applications in the context of rural areas Visions, strategies, and solutions for communication technologies and applications in rural areas Regulatory issues and spectrum policies for rural areas Specific requirements on communication technologies and applications due to needs of populations that may be agriculture-based and/or low-literacy and/or low-income Cost/benefit studies for communications technologies and applications in rural areas Economic/Business models for communications technologies and applications in rural areas Models for service provisioning and charging in rural areas Case studies of enterprising networking technology ventures and successes in rural areas Telecom finance and economics in rural areas Convergence and society in rural areas Telecom and society in rural areas Policy and re-structuring in rural areas Communications systems during disasters in rural areas Communications systems after disasters in rural areas Prediction, mitigation and management of disasters in rural areas Important Dates: - Paper Submission: July 7, 2011 - Notification of acceptance: August 15, 2011 - Camera ready: August 31, 2011 - Workshop date: June 5, 2011 Submission guidelines: All submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of five (5) printed pages (10-point font) including figures without incurring additional page charges (maximum 1 additional page with overlength page charge if accepted). Papers exceed 6 pages will not be accepted at EDAS, nor reviewed at all. Standard IEEE Transactions templates for Microsoft Word or LaTeX formats should be used. Papers should be submitted via EDAS (http://edas.info) _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)mailman.ufsc.br http://mailman.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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Fwd: [Tccc] [WNM 2011] Submission Deadline - IEEE Workshop on Network Measurements 2011, Oct4-7 2011 Bonn, Germany
by Lars Wolf 26 May '11

26 May '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] [WNM 2011] Submission Deadline - IEEE Workshop on Network Measurements 2011, Oct4-7 2011 Bonn, Germany Datum: Wed, 25 May 2011 22:30:54 -0700 Von: Anura Jayasumana <Anura.Jayasumana(a)ColoState.edu> Antwort an: Anura.Jayasumana(a)ColoState.edu Organisation: Colorado State University An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu, tccn(a)comsoc.org Our sincere apologies for any duplication, if you have already received it through other channels. Call for Papers: IEEE WNM 2011 Sixth IEEE LCN Workshop on Network Measurements in conjunction with the 36th IEEE Local Computer Networks (LCN) http://www.cnrl.colostate.edu/IEEELCN_WNM2011/WNM2011.htm 4-7 October 2011 Hilton Hotel Bonn, Germany The LCN International Workshop on Network Measurements, will be held in conjunction with the IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN). The workshop will include papers and panels dealing with latest advances and challenges facing the field. The expected audience will include networking researchers, practitioners, scientists and engineers from industry, academia and government. LCN registration will cover workshop attendance. The first five IEEE LCN Workshops on Network Measurements were very successful in bringing together a set of participants actively working on network measurements in various domains. We will continue to address network measurements from different perspectives and different domains. Topics of Interest: Network measurements are crucial for operation, diagnosis, and characterization of complex networks. Accurate characterization is important for understanding the behavior of networks and for evaluating the scalability, reliability and performance of protocols. Cross-layer designs, and overlay protocols often rely on measurements. Measurements in wired and wireless domains, and end-to-end and subnet measurements face domain specific constraints while sharing common objectives. Complex dynamics of the networks and also the difficulties in performing measurement itself pose many challenges. This workshop will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners interested in network measurements to discuss and exchange measurement related research in both wireless and wired domains, and also explore emerging fields of measurements such as on mobile devices. High quality, previously unpublished work is solicited on the topics including, but not limited to: Measurements on homogeneous and heterogeneous networks Physical layer characteristics and measurements for wireless networks Implementation and operational challenges of wireless testbeds Mobility models and traffic patterns Wired and wireless domain measurements Measurement tools, benchmarks and data sets Bandwidth, capacity and delay estimation Active and passive measurements at core nodes End-to-end and/or application-level measurements over the Internet Metrics for network characterization Measurements on Mobile devices Applications and protocols relying on network measurements Paper length should not exceed 8 pages. Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format via EDAS. Papers will go through a thorough review process. The accepted papers will appear in the IEEE LCN conference proceedings and also be available via IEEE Xplore. Proposals for panel sessions are also invited. Please send the proposal by the same deadline as for papers. Important Dates: Paper registration deadline: May 27, 2011 Paper submission deadline: May 27, 2011 Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2011 Camera-ready paper due: July 28, 2011 Registration deadline: July 28, 2011 Information on registration, hotel, etc., is available at IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN)(http://www.ieeelcn.org). General Chairs: Tarun Banka Cisco Systems 725 Alder Drive Milpitas, CA 95035 USA tabanka(a)cisco.com <mailto:tabanka@cisco.com> Nischal Piratla Xerox India Innovation Hub IIT Madras Research Park Kanagam Road, Taramani Chennai, TN 600113 INDIA Nischal.Piratla(a)xerox.com <mailto:Nischal.Piratla@xerox.com> Program Committee Swades De Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India Dominique Dudkowski NEC Europe Ltd Victor Govindaswamy Texas A&M, USA Manoj Pandey Cisco Systems, Inc., USA Antonio Pescapé University of Napoli Federico II,Italy Petros Zerfos IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Mehmet Hadi Gunes University of Nevada, Reno, USA Pablo Vidales Deutsche Telekom Labs (...)----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: CfP MMVE 2011 (with IEEE proceedings)
by Lars Wolf 26 May '11

26 May '11

Gregor Schiele <gregor.schiele(a)UNI-MANNHEIM.DE> schrieb: Liebe Mitglieder der KuVS-Liste, anbei ein Aufruf zur Einreichung von Beiträgen für den Workshop MMVE 2011, interessant vor allem für alle, die sich mit interaktiven Mehrbenutzer-3D-Umgebungen beschäftigen. Der Workshop hat IEEE Proceedings, Einreichungsschluss ist der 30.Juni. Herzliche Grüße Gregor Schiele_____________________________________________ CALL FOR PAPERS The 4th International Workshop on Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments (MMVE 2011) at the 10th IEEE International Symposium on Audio-Visual Environments and Games (HAVE 2011) October 14-17, 2011 Nanchang, JiangXi Province, China http://peers-at-play.org/MMVE11/___________________________________________… Massively Multiuser Virtual Environment (MMVE) systems are spatial simulations that provide real-time human interactions among thousands to millions of concurrent users. MMVEs have experienced phenomenal growth in recent years in the form of massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) such as World of Warcraft and Lineage, and social communities such as Second Life and Hobbo Hotel. The technical aspect of designing, developing, and deploying them is highly interdisciplinary and involves experts from many domains, including graphics, networking, protocol and architecture designs. The MMVE workshop intends to provide a forum for both academic researchers and industry developers to investigate the architectural and system support for MMVEs. By gathering experts under one roof, we wish to discuss their findings, incite collaborations, and move the state of the art forward. Topics ------ The workshop seeks to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners in the field, and encourages discussions based on the presented papers to identify current and future research topics. Some key and emerging issues we would especially like to solicit are: 1. The integration with casual, social networking systems. Recently there has been a surge of casual social games on social networking sites such as Facebook, with tens of millions of active users. While many of them are not yet real-time in nature, providing massive real-time interactions may only be a matter of time. How will such systems emerge or be designed? Additionally, many 3D chatrooms / instant messengers are now appearing (e.g., IMVU, Club Cooee, Game Xiu). While most interactions are limited as room-based small-group interactions, the total concurrent users may also reach critical sizes given their casual nature (e.g., IMVU has already over 1 million active accounts). How should such systems be supported and scale? 2. The adoption of parallelism to increase scale. Fast GPU and multi-core processors are now becoming common commodity. How will this hardware trend impact MMVE server-cluster design? And how should P2P approaches for MMVE take advantage of the increased power at client-side? Additionally, home set-top boxes with large local storage and broadband Internet connections are becoming household commodities, how will this trend impact the ways MMVEs be delivered (perhaps via content streaming) or architected? 3. Interoperable MMVE standards and protocols. As the market for virtual world increases and matures, efforts to provide interoperable user experience across multiple virtual environments have also intensified. For example, initiatives are ongoing to form IETF working groups on defining virtual world standard protocols (e.g., MMOX and VWRAP ). Part of any standard process is the identification of common features and requirements. What are the common features and requirements in MMVE that may be modeled and abstracted to facilitate such standardization effort? And are there working protocols that already exist in current systems? We would like to invite such experience sharing and discussions. The workshop thus will address the following issues: 1. Scalability: the ability to handle at least thousands of concurrent users, interacting via Internet. 2. Interactivity: how to provide responsive, near real time interactions despite latency and jitter. 3. Consistency: providing consistent views for users, despite the inherent delay in state updates. 4. Persistency: the ability to save and access the world states despite disconnections and failures. 5. Security and privacy: distributed algorithms that allow secure interactions and privacy guarantees. 6. Interoperability: integration of multiple systems or providers with common protocols or clients. 7. Bandwidth restricted (mobile) devices: the integration of mobile devices for nomadic systems. 8. Self-organizing architectures: load balancing and fault tolerance without manual configurations. 9. Content streaming: voice communication and 3D content streaming. 10. Implementation issues: novel approaches to effectively manage the complexity of development. Submission Guidelines ---------------------- Paper submissions must cover one of the topics listed above, or a closely- related one. Submitted papers should be at most 6 pages long and *must be blinded*. Research papers must be original prior unpublished work and not under review elsewhere. All submissions will be peer-reviewed (double-blind) and selected based on their originality, merit, and relevance to the workshop. Submissions in PDF format must be submitted online through the workshop page at http://peers-at-play.org/MMVE11/ no later than June 30th, 2011. Accepted papers must be presented at the workshop. All accepted MMVE papers will be indexed in IEEE Xplore, included as part of IEEE HAVE 2011 proceedings. If you have any questions, please email us at mmve(a)peers-at-play.org. Important Dates --------------- Submission Deadline: June 30th, 2011 Acceptance Notification: August 1st, 2011 Camera Ready Version: September, 1st, 2011 Workshop Date: October, 14-17th, 2011 Organizers ---------- * Shun-Yun Hu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan * Wei Tsang Ooi, National University of Singapore, Singapore * Gregor Schiele, University of Mannheim, Germany * Shervin Shirmohammadi, University of Ottawa, Canada * Arno Wacker, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany TPC Chair: * Gregor Schiele, University of Mannheim, Germany Publicity Co-Chairs: * Alexandru Iosup, TU Delft, Netherland * Jin-Yuan Jia, Tongji University, China * Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy Technical Program Committee_____________________________________________ * Maha Abdallah, University of Paris VI, France * Dewan T. Ahmed, University of Ottawa, Canada * Christian Bouville, IRISA, France * Romain Cavagna, University of Paris VI, France * Kuan-Ta Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan * Abdennour El Rhalibi, Liverpool John Moores University, UK * Markus Esch, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg * Carsten Griwodz, Simula Research, Norway * Sebastian Holzapfel, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany * Alexandru Iosup, TU Delft, Netherland * Jin-Yuan Jia, Tongji University, China * Jehn-Ruey Jiang, National Central University, Taiwan * Huaiyu (Kitty) Liu, Intel Labs, USA * Jauvane C. Oliveira, LNCC, Brazil * Peter Quax, Hasselt University, Belgium * Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy * Ingo Scholtes, University of Trier, Germany * Gwendal Simon, TELECOM Bretagne, France * Richard Suselbeck, Univ. Mannheim, Germany * Shinichi Ueshima, Kansai University, Japan * Matteo Varvello, Alcatel-Lucent (Holmdel, NJ), USA * Shinya Yamamoto, Tokyo University of Science, Yamaguchi, Japan * Knut-Helge Vik, Simula Research, Norway * Marcos Vaz Salles, Cornell University, NY, USA * Suiping Zhou, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore * Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore, Singapore_____________________________________________ Dr.rer.nat. Gregor Schiele Researcher LS WI II, Universität Mannheim

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Fwd: [Mycolleagues] CfP MONAMISmart
by Lars Wolf 25 May '11

25 May '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Mycolleagues] CfP MONAMISmart Datum: Tue, 24 May 2011 09:44:54 +0100 Von: Dirk Pesch <Dirk.Pesch(a)cit.ie> Antwort an: admmyc(a)gmail.com An: <admmyc(a)gmail.com>, <mycolleagues(a)mailman.ufsc.br>, <cnom(a)inf.ufsc.br> --- Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message --- CALL FOR PAPERS MONAMI 2011 SmaRT Workshop Workshop on Smart objects Resource managemenT 23 September 2011 Aveiro, Portugal The MONAMI SmaRT Workshop will be a focused event looking into the possibilities that smart object create for infrastructure and infrastructureless networks and how new services can be deployed and managed. The term smart objects in this case refer to everyday objects of all kinds and makes that are enhanced with computational intelligence and the capability to communicate with it other and online services. In many cases communication is based on wireless sensor networks integrated with an object, such as parts of a building, a logistic good, a vehicle or sensors in the environment. In other cases, communication is based on a hybrid approach with part of the network being infrastructure-based and the rest self-organized. Smart objects incorporate monitoring and control functions and need to communicate with each other and to gateways. They are an essential part of cyber-physical systems and can find multifaceted applications in fields such as logistics, smart buildings, intelligent transport, and smart city applications such as traffic management. These smart objects will play a dominant role in the Future Internet. Managing such smart objects requires algorithms and approaches based, in part, on general approaches discussed in the MONAMI Conference. However, the workshop will go one step further and consider, in particular: * Energy-efficient, self-organized access and routing schemes for smart object systems * Testbeds and experimental evaluation of services based on smart objects * Service and application management platforms for a variety of applications, e.g. smart cities * Autonomic network monitoring and management for smart object networks * Future Internet Architectures with smart objects All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three independent reviewers, including a TPC member to ensure high quality and relevance to the topics of the Conference. All accepted papers will be published in the Springer LNICST series and then be included in major article indexing services. Workshop Chairs Dirk Pesch, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland Andreas Timm-Giel, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Technical Program Committee (TBC) Ramon Aguero, University of Cantabria, Spain Samir Das, Stony Brook University, New York, US Stefan Fischer, University of Lübeck, Germany Theo Kanter, Mid Sweden University, Sweden Kostas Pentikousis, Huawei Technologies ERC, Germany Dirk Pesch, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland Susana Sargento, Universiy of Aveiro, Portugal Andreas Timm-Giel, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Paper Submission We encourage submissions of high-quality technical papers reporting original research that has not been previously published, and is not currently submitted for consideration elsewhere. Full Papers should not exceed 10 pages in the Springer Lecture Notes of ICST (LNICST) format. LNICST templates are available from www.springer.com/computer?SGWID=0-146-6-564009-0. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three independent reviewers, including a SmaRT Workshop TPC member to ensure high quality and relevance to the topics of the conference. All accepted papers will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes of ICST series and then be included in major article indexing services. Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: 15 June 2011 Notification of Acceptance: 10 July 2011 Camera Ready Deadline: 01 August 2011 Workshop Date: 23 September 2011 --

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Fwd: [Tccc] Cfp: Int'l Workshop on Machine-to-Machine Communications @ GLOBECOM
by Lars Wolf 25 May '11

25 May '11

"Carles Antón" <carles.anton(a)cttc.es> schrieb: ***************************************************************************************** Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Papers (CFP). ***************************************************************************************** Call for Papers IEEE GLOBECOM 2011 Workshop International Workshop on Machine-to-Machine Communications 'Key' to the Future Internet of Things In Conjunction with IEEE GLOBECOM 2011, 5-9 December 2011, Houston, Texas, USA (Workshop homepage http://iwm2m.cttc.es) The number of networked machines and/or devices is continuously increasing, changing the conventional perception of communication towards networks that are independent from human interaction. This results in a new paradigm on Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications towards the Future Internet of Things (IoT). M2M communications offer a potential solution to the already saturated telecommunications market, with new services and applications, such as smart city, smart grid, intelligent transportation, e-healthcare, remote monitoring, and logistics. Such services and applications open a mass market and several business opportunities, whilst transforming the way communication systems are defined and operate. This requires development of novel solutions to efficiently serve a huge number of devices that interact autonomously at a global level. It also opens a wide research area for future M2M communications, including investigations on scalability, wide-area coverage, energy-efficiency, spectral-efficiency, cost-efficiency, heterogeneity, cooperation, and security. Main Topics of Interest This workshop aims to gather researchers, engineers and practitioners both from academia and industry (universities, research centers, network operators, regulatory bodies, service providers), as well as end users, to present and debate advanced M2M communication systems, technologies, and applications, with the perspective of current M2M-related standardization activities in 3GPP, ETSI, IEEE, and IETF. Specifically, but not exclusively, the workshop proposes to address the following topics related to M2M communication: - Scalable system architecture and components - Radio access technologies and protocols - Spectrum management for M2M - Resource management for energy-harvesting devices - Channel and traffic models - Internetworking protocols and mechanisms - Cloud support for M2M applications - Device management for M2M - Data and service management for M2M - Semantic technologies for M2M - Mobility management for M2M - Security, trust and privacy of M2M devices and services - New M2M applications, services, and business models - Field Trials / Test-beds / Regulatory issues Important Dates Paper Submission: 7 July 2011 Acceptance Notification: 15 August 2011 Camera-Ready: 31 August 2011 Workshop Date: 9 December 2011 Author Guidelines Authors are invited to submit original contributions that were not previously published or currently under review by any other workshop, conference, or journal. Papers need to be uploaded to the EDASGLOBECOM 2011 workshop submission link (http://edas.info//N10893) for this workshop, and should follow the GLOBECOM 2011 paper submission guidelines. All submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of Five (5) printed pages (10-point font) including figures without incurring additional page charges (maximum 1 additional page with over-length page charge if accepted). Note that the maximum number of pages for a paper is 6; 5 pages plus 1 additional page allowed with a charge for the one additional page of USD100 if accepted. Papers exceeding 6 pages will not be accepted at EDAS, nor reviewed at all.Accepted papers will be published in IEEE Xplore. IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if it is not presented at the conference. Workshop Organising Committee: Chair: Rahim Tafazolli, University of Surrey, UK (r.tafazolli(a)surrey.ac.uk ) Co-Chairs: Thierry Lestable, Sagemcom SAS, France (thierry.lestable(a)sagemcom.com ) Carles Antón-Haro, CTTC,Spain (carles.anton(a)cttc.es ) Trevor Gill, Vodafone Group, UK (trevor.gill(a)vodafone.com ) TPC Chairs: Pirabakaran Navaratnam, University of Surrey, UK (p.navaratnam(a)surrey.ac.uk ) Peter Rost, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany (peter.rost(a)neclab.eu ) Publicity Chair: Djelal Raouf, Sagemcom E&T, France (djelal.raouf(a)sagemcom.com ) TPC members: Angeliki Alexiou, University of Piraeus, Greece Stephan Saur, Alcatel-Lucent, Germany Christian Ibars, CTTC, Spain Walter Nitzold, Technical University of Dresden, Germany Srdjan Krco, Ericsson, Serbia Alexandru Petrescu, CEA, France Serdar Vural, University of Surrey, UK William Webb, Neul, UK Herve Ganem, Gemalto, France Bruno Cendon, TST, Spain Masugi Inoue, National Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Japan Jesus Bernat Vercher, Telefonica, Spain Massinissa Lalam, Sagemcom E&T, France Masood Maqbool, Sagemcom E&T, France Marceau Coupechoux, Telecom Paris-Tech, France MérouaneDebbah, Supélec, France Frank Zdarsky, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany Méhdi Bennis, University of Oulu, Finland Josep Vidal, UPC, Spain, Marylin Arndt, Orange Labs, France Mischa Dohler, CTTC, Spain Guillaume Vivier, Sequans, France Tarik Taleb, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada Madjid Merabti, University of Liverpool, UK Lutz Lampe, University of British Columbia, Canada Hassan Hassanein, Queens University , Canada Nelson Fonseca, University of Campinas, Brazil Tomaso Melodia, University of Buffalo, USA Sutharshan Rajasegarar, University of Melbourne, Australia Nandana Rajatheva, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand Cagri Gungor, Bahcesehir University, Turkey Additional Information Please see the workshop website http://iwm2m.cttc.es and the GLOBECOM 2011 homepage www.ieee-globecom.org for additional information._____________________________________________ 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] WINTECH 2011 - extended to June 5
by Lars Wolf 25 May '11

25 May '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] WINTECH 2011 - extended to June 5 Datum: Wed, 25 May 2011 00:37:09 +0200 Von: Giuseppe Bianchi <giuseppe.bianchi(a)uniroma2.it> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> For the colleagues working in experimental wireless networking: the deadline for WINTECH 2011 - the Sixth ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation and Characterization (in conjunction with MobiCom 2011) has been extended to June 5 (hard). Further details, CFP, and submission instructions at <http://wintech2011.netgroup.uniroma2.it/>http://wintech2011.netgroup.uniroma2.it/ Best regards, Giuseppe. _______________________________________________ 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 Vehicular Networking Conference 2011
by Lars Wolf 24 May '11

24 May '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference 2011 Datum: Tue, 24 May 2011 15:16:01 +0200 Von: Stefan Dietzel <s.dietzel(a)utwente.nl> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference 2011 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ November 14-16, 2011 Amsterdam, The Netherlands http://www.ieee-vnc.org/2011 CALL FOR PAPERS Important dates --------------- Paper submission date: July 15, 2011 Notification of acceptance date: September 12, 2011 Final paper submission date: September 26, 2011 The IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference 2011 (IEEE VNC 2011) seeks to bring together researchers, professionals, and practitioners to present and discuss recent developments and challenges in vehicular networking technologies, and their applications. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications - Vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications - Vehicle-to-X communications - Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET) - In-vehicle communications - Applications of vehicular networks including ITS - Security and privacy in vehicular networks - Protocols for vehicular networks (MAC, routing, mobility management, etc.) - Architecture, algorithms and protocols for data dissemination in vehicular networks - In-network processing and aggregation - Network and QoS management for vehicular networks - Physical layer and antenna technologies for vehicular networks - RF propagation models for vehicular networks - Radio resource management for vehicular networks - Simulation and performance evaluation techniques for vehicular networks - Experimental systems for vehicular networks - Field operational tests and testbeds for vehicular networks - Assessment of impact of vehicular networks on transportation efficiency and safety - Emission modelling and environmental impact assessment - Standardization and economical models for vehicular networks - Dependability of vehicular networks - Networking with other road users - Vehicular network as a sensor network - Regional requirements and their consequences All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will appear in the conference CD proceedings as well as on IEEE Xplore. Paper Submission ---------------- All final paper submissions should be written in English and must be formatted in standard IEEE 2-column format. All papers are limited in length to eight (8) printed pages (10-point font) including figures, tables, and references. Papers exceeding 8 pages will not be accepted at EDAS, nor reviewed at all. The mandatory IEEE template in Microsoft Word and LaTeX format can be found at http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html Only Adobe PDF files will be accepted for the review process and all submissions must be made electronically through the EDAS system. Submission details can be found at http://www.ieee-vnc.org/2011 Organizing Committee -------------------- General Co-Chairs: Geert Heijenk, University of Twente, The Netherlands Onur Altintas, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan Wai Chen, ASTRI, Hongkong TPC Co-Chairs: Frank Kargl, University of Twente, The Netherlands Falko Dressler, University of Innsbruck, Austria Hiroshi Shigeno, Keio University, Japan Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA Publication Chair: Stefan Dietzel, University of Twente, The Netherlands Local Arrangement Chair: Alicia Zupeck, IEEE Finance Chair: Bruce Worthman, IEEE Steering Committee: Dr. Onur Altintas, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan Dr. Wai Chen, ASTRI, Hongkong Dr. Geert Heijenk, University of Twente, The Netherlands Dr. Thomas Luckenbach, FOKUS, Germany Dr. Hyun Seo Oh, ETRI, South Korea Prof. Umit Ozguner, Ohio State University, U.S.A. Prof. Tadao Saito, Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo, Japan Technical Program Committee: Vinny Cahill, Trinity College Dublin Maria Calderon, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Claudio Casetti, Politecnico di Torino Stefan Dietzel, University of Twente Zhiguo Ding, Newcastle University Thierry Ernst, INRIA Yuguang Fang, University of Florida Andreas Festag, NEC Laboratories Europe Javier Gozalvez, Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche Donald Grimm, General Motors Marco Gruteser, WINLAB / Rutgers University Ratul Guha, Telcordia Technologies Jérôme Härri, EURECOM Hannes Hartenstein, University of Karlsruhe Mahbub Hassan, University of New South Wales An He, Virginia Tech Albert Held, Daimler AG Teruo Higashino, Osaka University Tamás Holczer, Budapest University of Technology and Economics Daniel Jiang, Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc. Georgios Karagiannis, University of Twente Wolfgang Kiess, Docomo Euro-Labs Wing Cheong Lau, The Chinese University of Hong Kong John Lee, Telcordia Technologies, Inc. Uichin Lee, KAIST Tim Leinmüller, DENSO AUTOMOTIVE Deutschland GmbH Massimiliano Lenardi, HITACHI Europe Victor Leung, The University of British Columbia David Matolak, Ohio University Martin Mauve, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf Shumao Ou, Oxford Brookes University Yaser P. Fallah, University of California, Berkeley Ai-Chun Pang, National Taiwan University Giovanni Pau, UCLA Jonathan Petit, IRIT - Paul Sabatier University Marco Roccetti, University of Bologna Björn Scheuermann, University of Würzburg Riccardo Scopigno, Istituto Superiore Mario Boella Christoph Sommer, University of Erlangen Kemal Tepe, University of Windsor Ozan Tonguz, Carnegie Mellon University Michael Weber, University of Ulm Hung-Yu Wei, National Taiwan University Andre Weimerskirch, escrypt Inc. Christian Wewetzer, Volkswagen Group Richard Wolff, Montana State University Tomoyuki Yashiro, Chiba Institute of Technology Keiichi Yasumoto, Nara Institute of Science and Technology Weihua Zhuang, University of Waterloo (TPC list last updated on 24 May 2011.) Sponsors -------- IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS) _______________________________________________ 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: [Researchers] CFP: 8th ACM PE-WASUN 2011- Miami Beach, FL
by Lars Wolf 24 May '11

24 May '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Researchers] CFP: 8th ACM PE-WASUN 2011- Miami Beach, FL Datum: Mon, 23 May 2011 20:07:27 -0300 Von: IEEE Mirela <mirela(a)ieee.org> An: <researchers(a)mailman.ufsc.br> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Papers ******************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS 8th *ACM PE-WASUN 2011* 8th ACM International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks http://sertel.upc.edu/pe-wasun11 Miami Beach, FL, USA * October 31 - November 4, 2011* ********** *Full paper due: June 10th, 2011* ******* Scope ****** Wireless ad hoc, sensor, along with ubiquitous networks have recently witnessed their fastest growth period ever in history, and this trend is likely to continue for the foreseeable future. However, as such networks become increasingly complex, performance modelling and evaluation will play crucial part in their design process to ensure their successful deployment and exploitation in practice. This symposium aims to bring together scientists, engineers, and practitioners to share and exchange their experiences, discuss challenges, and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research on all aspects of wireless ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks with a specific emphasis on their performance evaluation and analysis. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Predictive performance models of ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks * Spectrum agile and cognitive wireless sensor networks * Analysis of multimedia applications over wireless ad-hoc and sensor networks * Support of multimedia and streaming applications in VANET * Analytical modeling and simulation methods * Probabilistic models for ad hoc, sensor and ubiquitous networks * Queuing and network information theoretic analysis * Tracing and trace analysis * Software tools for network performance and evaluation * Automatic performance analysis * Continuity of service over heterogeneous networks, seamless connectivity * Security and privacy in ad hoc networks and ubiquitous networks * Performance of wireless and sensor devices * Mobility modeling and management * Traffic models for ad hoc, sensor networks * Performance evaluation of wireless mesh networks * Performance evaluation of pervasive and ubiquitous networks * Network performance improvement through optimization and tuning * Performance measurement, evaluation and monitoring tools for ad hoc, sensor and ubiquitous networks * Case studies demonstrating the role of performance evaluation in the design of ad hoc, sensor and ubiquitous networks General Chair ----------------- Isabelle Guérin Lassous Université Lyon I/LIP, France Isabelle.Guerin-Lassous(a)ens-lyon.fr <mailto:Isabelle.Guerin-Lassous@ens-lyon.fr> Co-Chairs ----------------- Mónica Aguilar Igartua Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain maguilar(a)entel.upc.edu <mailto:maguilar@entel.upc.edu> Francesca Cuomo SAPIENZA Università di Roma, Italy francesca.cuomo(a)uniroma1.it <mailto:francesca.cuomo@uniroma1.it> Poster/Demo/Tools Chairs ----------------- Andrea Vitaletti SAPIENZA Università di Roma, Italy andrea.vitaletti(a)dis.uniroma1.it <mailto:andrea.vitaletti@dis.uniroma1.it> Publicity Chair ----------------- Carolina Tripp Barba Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain ctripp(a)entel.upc.edu <mailto:ctripp@entel.upc.edu> Program Committee Members ----------------- http://sertel.upc.edu/pe-wasun11/committees.html **************** Paper Submission **************** Authors are required to submit their papers through EasyChair on the following link: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=pewasun2011 The authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the Symposium. At least one author of each accepted paper must be registered for the symposium, in order for that paper to appear in the proceedings and to be scheduled for presentation. **************** Important Dates **************** *Paper registration due: June 8th, 2011* *Full paper due: June 10th, 2011* Acceptance notification: July 8th, 2011 Camera ready due: August 5th, 2011

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Fwd: [Tccc] ALGOSENSORS 2011 - 2nd CFP
by Lars Wolf 23 May '11

23 May '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] ALGOSENSORS 2011 - 2nd CFP Datum: Sun, 22 May 2011 22:13:22 +0100 Von: Thomas Erlebach <te17(a)mcs.le.ac.uk> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ALGOSENSORS 2011 7th International Symposium on Algorithms for Sensor Systems, Wireless Ad Hoc Networks and Autonomous Mobile Entities September 8-9, 2011, Saarbruecken, Germany; to be held in conjunction with ALGO/ESA 2011 http://www.algosensors.org/algosensors11/ BROADENED SCOPE. Starting from 2011, ALGOSENSORS broadens its thematic scope, keeping its focus on sensor networks, but also including other related types of ad hoc wireless networks, such as mobile networks, radio networks and distributed systems of robots. KEY FEATURES: - 2 Tracks (NEW from 2011): Track A: Sensor Networks Track B: Ad hoc Wireless and Mobile Systems - 2 days event duration - Proceedings by Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) - Special Issue on best papers by the Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) Journal PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chair: Sotiris Nikoletseas, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece Track A Chair: Pekka Orponen, Aalto U., Finland Track B Chair: Thomas Erlebach, U. of Leicester, UK TRACK A (Sensor Networks) Mihaela Cardei, Florida Atlantic U., USA Tassos Dimitriou, Athens Information Technology, Greece Shlomi Dolev, Ben Gurion U., Israel Alon Efrat, U. Arizona, USA Jie Gao, SUNY Stony Brook, USA Aubin Jarry, U. of Geneva, Switzerland Evangelos Kranakis, Carleton U., Canada Alexander Kroeller, TU Braunschweig, Germany Fabian Kuhn, U. Lugano, Switzerland Mingyan Liu, U. Michigan, USA Sotiris Nikoletseas, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece Pekka Orponen (Chair), Aalto U., Finland Michael Rabbat, McGill U., Canada Elad Schiller, Chalmers, Sweden Christian Schindelhauer, U. Freiburg, Germany Stefan Schmid, T-Labs/TU Berlin, Germany Jukka Suomela, U. Helsinki, Finland Subhash Suri, UCSB, USA Sebastien Tixeuil, U. Paris 6, France Dorothea Wagner, Karlsruhe Inst. Tech., Germany TRACK B (Ad hoc Wireless and Mobile Systems) Matthew Andrews, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, USA Costas Busch, Louisiana State U., USA Xiaowen Chu, Hong Kong Baptist U., Hong Kong Thomas Erlebach (Chair), U. of Leicester, UK Stefan Funke, U. of Stuttgart, Germany Magnus Halldorsson, Reykjavik U., Iceland David Ilcinkas, CNRS and Bordeaux U., France Danny Krizanc, Wesleyan U., USA Erik Jan van Leeuwen, U. of Bergen, Norway Xiang-Yang Li, Illinois Inst. Tech., USA Sotiris Nikoletseas, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece Sriram Pemmaraju, U. of Iowa, USA Cristina M. Pinotti, U. di Perugia, Italy Rajmohan Rajaraman, Northeastern U., USA Dror Rawitz, Tel-Aviv U., Israel Nicola Santoro, Carleton U., Canada My T Thai, U. of Florida, USA Anil Vullikanti, Virginia Tech, USA Peter Widmayer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Prudence Wong, U. of Liverpool, UK STEERING COMMITTEE Josep Diaz, U.P. Catalunya, Spain Bhaskar Krishnamachari, U. of Southern California, USA P.R. Kumar, U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA Jan van Leeuwen, U. of Utrecht, The Netherlands Sotiris Nikoletseas, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece (Chair) Jose Rolim, U. of Geneva, Switzerland Paul Spirakis, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission: June 21, 2011 Notification: July 29, 2011 Camera-ready for pre-proceedings: August 15, 2011 Symposium: September 8-9, 2011 Camera-ready copy for post-proceedings: October 10, 2011 PROCEEDINGS: Accepted papers will be published in full text in hardcopy post-proceedings, in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series of Springer Verlag. Submissions may be considered for a two-page brief announcement in case not accepted as a full text; authors who wish their paper to be considered for both full paper and brief announcement tracks should indicate this fact on the front page. TCS JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE: As in previous years, selected high-quality papers will be considered for publication in a Special Issue of the Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) Journal. SCOPE AND TOPICS: Wireless ad-hoc sensor networks have recently become a very active research subject due to their high potential of providing diverse services to numerous important applications, including remote monitoring and tracking in environmental applications and low maintenance ambient intelligence in everyday life. The effective and efficient realization of such large scale, complex ad-hoc networking environments requires intensive, coordinated technical research and development efforts, especially in power aware, scalable, robust wireless distributed protocols, due to the unusual application requirements and the severe resource constraints of the sensor devices. On the other hand, a solid foundational background seems necessary for sensor networks to achieve their full potential. It is a challenge for abstract modeling, algorithmic design and analysis to achieve provably efficient, scalable and fault-tolerant realizations of such huge, highly-dynamic, complex, non-conventional networks. Features including the extremely large number of sensor devices in the network, the severe power, computing and memory limitations, their dense, random deployment and frequent failures, pose new interesting abstract modeling, algorithmic design, analysis and implementation challenges of great practical impact. ALGOSENSORS aims to bring together research contributions related to diverse algorithmic and complexity theoretic aspects of wireless sensor networks. Starting from 2011, ALGOSENSORS broadens its thematic scope, keeping its focus on sensor networks, but also including other related types of ad hoc wireless networks, such as mobile networks, radio networks and distributed systems of robots. Contributions solicited cover the algorithmic issues in a variety of topics including, but not limited to: - Wireless Network Models - Virtual Infrastructures - Data Propagation and Routing - Multicast and Broadcast - Obstacle Avoidance - Infrastructure Discovery - Ad-hoc Deployment/Topology Control - Fault Tolerance and Dependability - Multi-hop Throughput Optimization - Scheduling and Load Balancing - Energy Management and Power Saving Schemes - Dynamic Networks - Adaptiveness and Self-organization - Resource-efficient Distributed Computing - Communication Protocols - Medium Access Control - Localization and Location Tracking - Mobile Robotic Systems and Autonomous Agents - Game Theoretic Aspects - Cryptography, Security and Trust HOW TO SUBMIT: Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original research in the topics related to the Symposium. The Track the paper is submitted to should be clearly identified at the front page. Authors should select a Track based on the type of network that is studied in the paper or for which the results in the paper are most relevant. The Program Committee reserves the right to move papers between Tracks in order to ensure a fair evaluation. Simultaneous submission to other conferences is not allowed. Papers should not exceed twelve (12) pages of text using at least 11 point size type, including references, figures, tables, etc., preferably formatted in the LNCS style. Additional material may be added in a clearly marked Appendix to be read at the discretion of the Program Committee Members. Authors must submit their papers electronically via the website: http://www.algosensors.org/algosensors11/submission.php. All papers will be peer reviewed, and comments will be provided to the authors. Authors need to ensure that for each accepted paper at least one author will attend the symposium. -- Thomas Erlebach (t.erlebach(a)mcs.le.ac.uk) Department of Computer Science, University of Leicester _______________________________________________ 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] IEEE TPDS Special Issue on Cyber-Physical Systems
by Lars Wolf 21 May '11

21 May '11

xu li <easylix(a)yahoo.ca> schrieb: Call for Papers for a Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) on Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) is seeking original manuscripts for special Issue on Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), scheduled to be published in the September issue of 2012. Although significant advances have been achieved over the last decades in several fields of science and engineering, and especially in the areas of distributed computing, sensing, data collection and internet-connection of large scale object networks, it is mainly the coordination and tight link between computational, virtual and physical resources that will drive the potential of having a pervasive effect in the citizens everyday life, satisfying various needs and also creating new opportunities for the introduction of services that will enhance the Quality of Life of the society as a whole. Research advances in cyber-physical systems promise to transform our world with systems that will far exceed those of today in terms of: effectiveness, adaptability, autonomicity, energy efficiency, precision, reliability, safety, usability, scalability, stability and user-centric applicability. Moreover, recently the Sensor Web concept came into foreground, aiming at combining distributed sensing with the ubiquitous connectivity and accessibility of the web, therefore facilitating the close interaction of digital world with physical world. Cyber-physical systems find direct applicability in a wide range of areas and disciplines, including for instance (but not limited to): a) Smart Grid technologies: that aim at facilitating a reliable and efficient delivery of electricity to consumers using two-way digital communications and security technologies, which allows utility providers and consumers to constantly monitor and control the delivery network as well as electricity consumption for the purpose of energy saving, cost reduction, and reliability enhancement; b) Wireless sensing, monitoring and networking: to enable distributed monitoring systems of numerous smart sensors and actuators, mobile devices, RFIDs, robots etc., which revolutionize a variety of application areas with unprecedented density, fidelity, and scalability of environment instrumentation; c) Vehicular cyber-physical systems and intelligent transportation systems: that integrate computing, communication, and storage capabilities with monitoring and control of vehicles in the physical world to deal with the grand challenges of safe, green, and efficient transportation. The technical challenges are significant, and of high research and practical importance, mainly stemming from the fact that traditionally different groups of scientists deal with this setting without much interaction, using disjoint sets of techniques. Towards merging the two main and different features of those systems, that of information-centric character and node-centric physical world connectivity, well-defined analytical models, methodologies and experimental validations are required of how to build such systems capable of coping with the entire chain of operations and orchestrating the various parts together in a flexible, efficient and economic way. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: * Architectural framework for distributed CPS * Resource Management in large scale CPS * Smart Grid Technologies * Security, privacy, scalability, and reliability issues * Design and cross-layer optimizations * Vehicular CPS and intelligent transportation systems * Novel monitoring applications with sensors, actuators, smart phones, robots, and other wireless mobile devices * Distributed and scalable monitoring systems * Evaluations and filed trials of CPS and solutions Submitted articles must not have been previously published or currently submitted for journal publication elsewhere. As an author, you are responsible for understanding and adhering to our submission guidelines. You can access them by clicking on the following web link: http://www.computer.org/mc/tpds/author.htm. Please thoroughly read these before submitting your manuscript. Please submit your paper to Manuscript Central at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tpds-cs. Please note the following important dates: Manuscript Submission Deadline: September 16, 2011 Notification of Initial Decision: November 18, 2011 Minor Revisions due (if needed): December 15, 2011 Notification of Final Decision: January 26, 2012 Final Manuscripts Due: February 03, 2012 Publication Date: September 2012 Co-guest Editors: Symeon Papavassiliou, National Technical University of Athens Nei Kato, Tohoku University Yunhao Liu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Cheng-Zhong Xu, Wayne State University Publicity Co-Chairs: Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna Jiming Chen, Zhejiang University Xu Li, University of Waterloo_____________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. 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