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by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lars Wolf 20 Aug '08

20 Aug '08

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[Fwd: INFOCOM 2009 CFP deadline is Friday]
by Lars Wolf 20 Aug '08

20 Aug '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: INFOCOM 2009 CFP deadline is Friday Datum: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:41:27 -0400 Von: Meetings(a)comsocconferences.org Antwort an: MailSupport(a)comsocconferences.org An: conferencesx(a)comsocconferences.org * The 28th Annual Conference on Computer Communications Sponsored by IEEE Communications Society April 19-25, 2009, Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL www.ieee-infocom.org/2009 <http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2009>* The IEEE INFOCOM 2009 seeks papers describing significant research contributions to the field of computer and data communication networks. We invite submissions on network architecture, design, implementation, operations, analysis, measurement, performance, and simulation. Material is presented in a program of technical sessions, panel discussions and workshops. * *Important Dates: * Paper registration (Abstract): August 22, 2008 (required) * Full paper due: August 29, 2008 (firm deadline) * Notification of Acceptance: December 22, 2008 Visit the conference Web site at www.ieee-infocom.org/2009 <http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2009> for the complete call for papers and submittal instructions. To unsubscribe from this IEEE Communications Society Meetings and Conferences mailing list, go to: http://www.comsoc.org/confs/unsubscribe.html or send a blank email message to conferencesx-remove(a)comsocconferences.org. You can also request removal by mail. Please send a note with your email address and the list name (Conferencesx(a)comsocconferences.org) to ComSoc List Removal - IT 3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor New York, NY 10016 USA

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[Tccc] Tridentcom 2009 CFP
by Tuanche Chen 19 Aug '08

19 Aug '08

========================================================================= Our apologies for duplicate copies of this call ========================================================================= Call for Papers 5th International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks & Communities (TRIDENTCOM 2009) April 6-8, 2009, Washington D.C., USA http://www.tridentcom.org/ Sponsored by: ICST Technically co-Sponsored by: - CREATE-NET - ACM SIGARCH - IEEE Industrial Electronics Society - IEEE Computer Society - Pan European Laboratory Infrastructure Implementation TridentCom 2009 represents a landmark in the history of international testbed conferences. With the rapid convergence of networks and applications, changes in related industries, more complex value chains and increased competition, early prototyping and experimentation will become a key means for driving innovation and development of market oriented solutions. In this context, value generation has shifted from network technologies towards applications and content. Thus, the nature and scope of testbeds have changed substantially in recent years from solely network technologies towards complex service delivery infrastructures riding on various networks. In contrast to traditional vendor, operator and technology specific "closed" testbeds, the notion of "open" testbeds has emerged. "Open" in this context means both wide access as a shared resource and extensibility to include on-demand new end systems, network technologies, protocol stacks, and, most importantly, new middleware and service delivery platforms for specific test purposes. To meet this need, major research and development programs have started around the globe, including GENI in the U.S. and FIRE in Europe, to establish large scale experimental facilities. TridentCom 2009 will provide a forum to explore existing and planned testbed concepts, infrastructures, and tools to address the research and business challenges in a world of global convergence. Prospective authors from academia, industry and government are invited to submit high quality papers in two categories, Full Papers and Testbed Practices Papers, as well as demonstration proposals reporting on all aspects of testbed and research infrastructure operation and management, including, but not limited to: * Next Generation Internet and Clean Slate Protocol Stack Testbeds * GRID Testbeds and P2P Testbeds * Automonic Communications and Self-managing Network Testbeds * Next Generation Wireless Network Testbeds * Next Generation Optical Network Testbeds * Ubiquitous Network and Seamless Services Testbeds * End System and Sensor Testbeds * Smart Home and Converged Communication and Media Services Testbeds * SOA/Web 2.0 Services Testbeds * Next Generation Services Testbeds * Service Creation and Provisioning Testbeds * Next Generation Networks, IMS, and Quad Play Testbeds * Configurable Hardware/Software Platforms for Testbeds * Testbed Tools for Interoperability, Benchmarking and Traffic Measurements * Innovative Measurements Methodologies and Tools for Networks and Services * Industrial informatics * Wireless industrial communications * Networked industrial automation Important dates: ---------------- Papers submission deadline: October 1, 2008 Demo proposals due: November 1, 2008 Notification of acceptance: December 15, 2008 Submission of camera-ready papers: January 15, 2009 The Tridentcom'05 and Tridentcom'06 Proceedings have been indexed by Engineering Information (EI). The Tridentcom'09 proceedings will be published as CDROMs and will be included in IEEE Xplore (and then indexed by Engineering Information (EI)). Selected outstanding papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications journal (MONET). Authors are invited to submit Full Papers of up to 10 pages and Testbed Practices Papers of up to 6 pages, including references, figures and tables, formatted according to the IEEE 8.5" x 11" conference format. All submissions should be in the PDF format with fonts size no smaller than 10 points. Proposals for workshops, panels and tutorials are also welcome. Submission and format instructions are available on the website: http://www.tridentcom.org =========================================================================== _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP AICCSA 2009
by Essia H. Elhafsi 19 Aug '08

19 Aug '08

Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP ========================================================================== The seventh ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications AICCSA 2009 May 10-13, Rabat, Morocco May http://www.congreso.us.es/aiccsa2009/cfp.html =========================================================================== The seventh ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA-09) will be held in Rabat, Morocco May 2009. This is an ideal time to be in Morocco. AICCSA is the premier Computer Science and Engineering Conference in the Middle East and North Africa. Authors are invited to submit papers describing new advances in computer systems and their applications. We welcome papers that are theoretical, conceptual, descriptive in nature, or a survey of the state of the art. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Algorithms and Bioinformatics Computer Architecture and Real time Systems Database and Data Mining DSP/Image Processing/Pattern Recognition/Multimedia¡P Geographical Information Systems/ Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GIS/GNSS) Modeling and Simulation Networking and Telecommunications Parallel and Distributed Systems Security and Information Assurance Soft Computing (AI, Neural Networks, Fuzzy Systems, etc.) Software engineering Important Due Dates: Paper and Poster Submissions: September 29, 2008 Workshop, Tutorial and Panel Submissions: September 29, 2008 Notification of acceptance: December 8, 2008 Camera ready copy due: January 26, 2009 Author Registration: January 26, 2009 Proceedings Papers selected for presentation will appear in the Conference Proceedings, which will be published by the IEEE Computer Society and be available at IEEE XploreTM. Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for possible publication in scholarly journals. Submission Guidelines To submit a paper, visit http://edas.info/showConferenceDetails.php?c=6407& Regular Papers Papers must be submitted electronically by September 29, 2008. Each paper will be evaluated by at least three reviewers, and will be accepted based on its originality, significance and clarity. Submissions should not exceed 8 two-column, 8.5x11 inch pages (including figures, tables, and references) in 10 point fonts. Please include 5-10 keywords, complete postal and e-mail address, and fax and phone numbers of the corresponding author. If you have difficulties with electronic submission, please contact Technical Program Co-Chairs. Papers must not be published or under consideration to be published elsewhere. Short Papers Submitted papers that are deemed of good quality but could not be accepted as regular papers will be accepted as short papers. Workshops, Tutorials and Panels Submissions Proposals for workshops, tutorials and panels should be submitted directly to the appropriate chair. Posters and Doctoral Symposium Research still in early stages and doctoral research proposals may be submitted as extended abstracts that must not exceed 750 words. Accepted abstracts will be included in a special poster session dedicated to doctoral research proposals and related research. Extended abstracts should be submitted directly to the Posters Chair. -- Essia H. Elhafsi, Ph. D. Networks & Security, Rm 365 Department of Computer Science & Engineering Engineering Building, Unit II. University of California, Riverside email: essia(a)cs.ucr.edu web: http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~essia _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CfP: IEEE Symposium on Environmental Monitoring using Sensor Networks (EMSN 2008) held in conjunction with ISSNIP 2008
by Mihai Marin-Perianu 18 Aug '08

18 Aug '08

======================================================================== ========= IEEE Symposium on Environmental Monitoring using Sensor Networks (EMSN 2008) http://www.elec.uow.edu.au/issnip2008/cfp/EMSN2008_CFP.pdf held in conjunction with the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks, and Information Processing (ISSNIP 2008), http://www.elec.uow.edu.au/issnip2008/ December 15-18, Sydney, Australia ======================================================================== ========= ************* PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 15th SEPTEMBER 2008 ************* OVERVIEW ======== Environmental monitoring is a very important application area for sensor networks as it allows near real-time monitoring to be carried out at high spatial and temporal resolutions. Present day monitoring technologies do not provide such advantages. While a significant amount of research has been done on the theoretical aspects of sensor networks, literature on experiences with actual deployments of sensor networks for different types of environmental monitoring applications is highly limited. This symposium focuses on the use of sensor networking technologies for environmental monitoring. It provides an ideal platform to discuss various aspects of experiences with real-life sensor network deployments and also new and novel techniques designed specifically for gathering data in environmental monitoring applications. TOPICS OF INTEREST ================== We seek papers describing original, previously unpublished results. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Experiences with real-life deployments of sensor networks, e.g. environmental effects on reliable communication/data collection, etc. - Experiences with power generation techniques, e.g. energy-scavenging. - Hybrid architectures, e.g. integrating wired and wireless sensor networks. - Distributed data management and visualization techniques for streaming sensor data. - Real-life performance of in-network algorithms for reliable data acquisition, e.g. self-calibration, data aggregation, event detection, etc. - Sensor-actor coordination, e.g. data muling. - Commercial applications and market studies, e.g. precision agriculture, coral reefs, lakes, space, etc. PAPER SUBMISSION ================ Please visit http://www.elec.uow.edu.au/issnip2008/ IMPORTANT DATES =============== Conference Dates: December 15-18, 2008 Submission Deadline: September 15, 2008 Notification of acceptance: September 30, 2008 Camera ready manuscript: October 15, 2008 Symposium Chair: ================ Paul Havinga - University of Twente Organizing Committee: ===================== Supriyo Chatterjea, University of Twente, the Netherlands Stuart Kininmonth, Australian Institute of Marine Science, Australia Nirvana Meratnia, University of Twente, the Netherlands Technical Program Committee: ============================ Arie Croitoru - University of Alberta, Canada Stuart Kininmonth - Australian Institute of Marine Science, Australia Bhaskar Krishnamachari - University of Southern California, USA Vipin Kumar - University of Minnesota, USA Yee Wei Law - University of Melbourne, Australia Mihai Marin-Perianu - University of Twente, Netherlands Raluca Marin-Perianu - University of Twente, Netherlands Ian Marshall - Lancaster University, UK Tim Wark - CSIRO, Australia _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] ReArch'08 submission deadline EXTENDED to August 26th
by Joe Touch 17 Aug '08

17 Aug '08

Hi, all, Please distribute the following CFP. ReArch'08 - Re-Architecting the Internet "Exploring what is broken with the Internet architecture and how to fix it." co-located with ACM CoNEXT'2008 sponsored by ACM Sigcomm http://www.sigcomm.org/co-next2008/rearch.html Madrid, Spain, December 9th, 2008 *Submission deadline EXTENDED : August 26th, 2008* Submission closes midnight, EDT. Please note: if you are still planning to submit, please register your title and abstract **as soon as possible**. Motivation The Internet architecture has been remarkably successful in allowing a planet-scale internetwork to form. However, this architecture is losing its original simplicity and transparency as new classes of applications, operational and management requirements, business models, security mechanisms and scalability enablers give rise to point solutions that extend the architecture without regard to the original design principles. While these mechanisms are necessary for Internet operation under current economical, technical and social conditions, their combination has significantly reduced the potential for incremental evolution of the Internet architecture. This loss of flexibility is already being felt as the number of Internet nodes grows by another order of magnitude. Several substantial Future Internet initiatives have started in Europe, the US and Asia, and the vendor and network operator communities are also actively discussing the limitations of the current Internet architecture as well as its potential evolution. This workshop will discuss what the real underlying problems are with the Internet and how we might fix them so that the Internet architecture re-gains its simplicity and transparency and is fit for another 30+ years, so that the architectural simplicity and clarity of the Internet can be regained and retained for another 30+ years. This workshop solicits original, high-quality papers that analyze, and discuss ideas for a new Internet architecture, including specific improvements to current Internet protocols, especially at the internetworking, transport and application layers, new internetworking components that integrate into the existing architecture and ideas for clean-slate internetworking architectures. Topics ReArch'08 covers all aspects related to the current and future Internet architecture including, but not limited to, how the following impact on that architecture: New networking paradigms New business models New routing architectures New traffic engineering and congestion control mechanisms Measurements and analysis that characterize the real architectural limitations New architecture proposals and their implications for research New protocols that address the limitations Studies of interactions between stakeholders of the Internet and the architecture itself Design principles and interfaces to accommodate the conflicting interests of stakeholders in the architecture Principles of evolving future architectures Requirements for interworking with the existing Internet, and for deployability. Papers that present interesting, fresh ideas at an early stage are more suitable for this workshop than highly polished results or incremental refinements of previous work. Submissions may include position papers that point out new directions and stimulate discussion; position papers should be clearly marked. Submissions must be original and not already published in any other conference proceedings or journal. Proceedings of the workshop will be published in the ACM Digital Library. Submissions Submitted papers must be at most 6 pages long (including figures, tables, references, etc.) in the standard ACM double column format. All text must use font sizes of 10 points or larger. Longer submissions will not be reviewed. The review process is single-blind. Submissions will be done via EDAS. Submission Deadline: 27 August 2008 Notification: 10 October 2008 Workshop Co-Chairs Olivier Bonaventure - UCLouvain Marcelo Bagnulo - UC3M Joe Touch - USC/ISI Technical Program Committee Mark Allman ICSI Jari Arkko Ericsson Bob Briscoe BT Group Ken Calvert University of Kentucky Brian Carpenter University of Auckland Maoke Chen Tsinghua University Kenjiro Cho IIJ Jon Crowcroft University of Cambridge Philip Eardley BT Group Lars Eggert Nokia Research Center Kevin Fall Intel Research Pierre Francois UCLouvain Robert Hancock Roke Manor Research Mark Handley University College London Christian Huitema Microsoft Daniel Massey Colorado State University Martin May ETH Zurich Pekka Nikander Ericsson Research Nomadiclab Craig Partridge BBN Technologies Peter Steenkiste Carnegie Mellon University Iljitsch van Beijnum IMDEA Metworks Tilman Wolf University of Massachusetts _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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ICST - Mobilware 2009 - Call for Papers
by info＠icstconferences.org 16 Aug '08

16 Aug '08

***** MOBILWARE 2009 ***** The Second International Conference on MOBILe Wireless MiddleWARE,Operating Systems, and Applications http://www.mobilware.org/ Berlin, Germany, April 28-30, 2009 Co-sponsored by ICST Technically co-sponsored by Create-Net Proceedings published by Springer *************** IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Due Date: November 23, 2008 Workshop Proposals Due Date: December 1, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: February 1, 2009 Camera Ready Versions Due: February 20, 2009 *************** SCOPE The advances in wireless communication technologies and the proliferation of mobile devices have enabled the realization of intelligent environments for people to communicate with each other, interact with information-processing devices, and receive a wide range of mobile wireless services through various types of networks and systems everywhere, anytime. A key enabler of this pervasive and ubiquitous connectivity environments is the advancement of software technology in various communication sectors, ranging from communication middleware and operating systems to networking protocols and applications. MOBILWARE is dedicated to addressing emerging topics and challenges in various mobile wireless software-related areas. The scope of the conference is the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of middleware, operating systems, and applications for computing and communications in mobile wireless systems. It aims to provide a high profile, leading edge forum for researchers, engineers, and standards developers to present their latest research, techniques, and experiences in the field of software technology for mobile wireless systems. PAPERS Original and unpublished research achievements in various aspects of middleware/operating systems/applications are solicited. Topics include, but are not limited to: * OS/middleware for embedded systems, wearable networks, and personal area networks * OS/middleware support for the integration of heterogeneous wireless networks * Middleware for mobile computing * Middleware for QoS awareness, adaptation, and fault-tolerance of mobile services * Middleware for opportunistic networking in delay-tolerant mobile services * Location-aware and context-aware mobile supports and services * Mobility management and handoff management in heterogeneous integrated networks * Location and tracking supports and services * Mobility-aware wireless service discovery, management, and delivery * Intelligent and mobile agent technologies for mobile systems and services * Human-computer interface and portable 3D graphics for mobile devices * Middleware/applications for wireless sensor networks, vehicular networks, home networks, and P2P systems * Modeling and performance of mobile wireless services (VoIP, gaming, P2P sharing, urban monitoring, ) * Deployment and management supports for large-scale mobile services * Policy, trust, security, and privacy issues for mobile wireless networks WORKSHOPS Proposals for workshops/tutorials are solicited. Potential workshop/tutorial organizers are requested to submit a proposal of at most 5 pages, including a biographical sketch of each proponent, to the Workshop/Tutorial Chair by December 1, 2008. Proposal evaluation will be based on proponents' expertise and relevance of the subject matter. PUBLICATION All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by technical program committee members and invited reviewers. All accepted papers will be published in the novel Springer Lecture Notes of ICST series and then be included in major article indexing services. Extended versions of selected papers from MOBILWARE09 will be published in a dedicated special issue of the Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Journal. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS All paper, poster, and workshop submissions will be handled electronically. Please visit the Submission page at www.mobilware.org for detailed submission requirements and procedures. ***************************** STEERING COMMITTEE Imrich Chlamtac (Chair), Create-Net, Italy Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy Carl K. Chang, Iowa State University, USA GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy Linda Jiang Xie, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS Jean-Marie Bonnin, ENST, France Thomas Magedanz, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany WORKSHOP/TUTORIAL CHAIR Cristian Hesselman, Telem.I., Netherlands PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS Ghadaa Alaa, Information Tech Inst., Egypt Michael Chen, Inst. Information Ind., Taiwan Andrej Krenker, Sintesio, Slovenia Janise McNair, University of Florida, USA C. Esteve Rothenberg, CpQD, Brazil Jatinder Pal Singh, Stanford University, USA CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION CHAIR Kolos Esztergalyos, ICST LOCAL CHAIR Julia Ovtchinnikova, Fraun. FOKUS, Germany PUBLICATION and WEB CHAIR Carlo Giannelli, University of Bologna, Italy ******************************* -------------------------------------------------- You are reading ICST conference newsletter. To report any kind of abuse, please contact admin at icst.org. To unsubscribe, please visit the following page: http://icstconferences.org/unsubscribe.php?p=ggjzadyfjh and enter your email address.

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[Fwd: [Tccc] PerNets@ IEEE-CCNC -- Deadline approaching]
by Lars Wolf 15 Aug '08

15 Aug '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] PerNets@ IEEE-CCNC -- Deadline approaching Datum: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:53:43 +0200 Von: <Vprasad(a)ewi.tudelft.nl> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu>, <tccn(a)comsoc.org>, <ahsntc-mailing-list(a)list.trlab.ca> Referenzen: <D5D459C496383F4490DC103C3460200C011DDC9E(a)ewis05.ewi.local> Please accept our apologies if you received multiple copies of this call for papers ============================================================ CALL FOR PAPERS ============================================================ Third International Workshop on Personalized Networks http://pernets.irctr.tudelft.nl to be held in conjunction with the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2009) http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2009/ January 13, 2009 - Harrah's Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and the IEEE Digital Library ============================================================ We seek original contributions which are aimed at finding solutions to the problems that are outlined above towards realization of a Personalized Network. We have identified the following major topics under which we try to categorize the submissions. However, we will consider any other original, interesting, and imaginative ideas and thoughts towards meeting this goal of a Personalized Network. * The architectural framework of personalized networks * Context awareness and support * Resource, service and context discovery * Self-organization and adaptation * Addressing and routing * Interworking between PANs, ad hoc networks, etc, and infrastructure-based heterogeneous networks * Mobility of personalized networks * Security, privacy and accounting * Zero configuration methods and other enablers for ease-of-use * Dependability * Context-aware and application-driven communication substrates * Interactions between persons through their networks, federations of such networks * Handling of QoS across heterogeneous and dynamically changing link layers * New QoS concepts in personalized networks * Mapping of functional requirements to physical devices and resources * Modeling and simulation of personalized networks * P2P paradigm in personalized networks * Innovative applications or prototypes and demonstrations of such person centric applications are equally valued Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: August 25, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: October 1, 2008 Camera-Ready Submissions: October 10, 2008 Author Registration Deadline: October 10, 2008 General Chair Ignas Niemegeers, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Program Co-Chairs Sonia Heemstra de Groot, University of Twente, Netherlands Magda El Zarki, University of California, Irvine, USA Publicity Chair Paolo Bellavista, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy Technical Program Committee: Paolo Bellavista, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada Milind M Buddhikot, Bell Laboratories, New Jersey, USA Mainik Chatterjee, University of Central Florida, USA Carlos Cordeiro, Intel, USA Frank den Hartog, TNO, Netherlands Piet Demeester, Ghent University, Belgium Sudhir Dixit, Nokia, Boston, USA Vasilis Friderikos, King's College London, UK Carmelita Görg, University of Bremen, Germany K. V. S. Hari, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Hossam Hassanein, Queens University, Canada Sonia Heemstra de Groot, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands James Irvine, Strathclyde University, Scotland Sumanth Jagannathan, Stanford University, USA H. S. Jamadagni, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Theo G. Kanter, Mid-Sweden University, Sweden Anup Kumar, University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA Joy Kuri, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Anthony Lo, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Thomas Magedanz, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Mahesh Marina, University of Edinburgh, UK Ingrid Moerman, University of Ghent, Belgium Klaus Moessner, University of Surrey, UK Luis Muñoz, University of Cantabria, Spain Ignas Niemegeers, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Jorge Pereira, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium T. V. Prbhakar, Indian Institute of Science, India Ramjee Prasad, University of Aalbarg, Denmark Neeli Prasad, University of Aalbarg, Denmark Liuha Petri, Nokia, Germany Heung-Gyoon Ryu, Chungbuk National University, Korea Tarek Saadawi, City University of New York, USA Amardeo Sarma, NEC Network Laboratories, Germany Subbalakshmi, Stevens Institute, USA Sai Shankar, Broadcom, San Diego, USA Sirin Tekinay, New Jersey Institute of Technology, New Jersey, USA John Thompson, University of Edinburgh, UK Stephen B Weinstein, CTTC, New Jersey, USA Magda El Zarki, University of California, Irvine, USA Honggang Zhang, Zhejiang University, China Djamal Zeghlache, INT, Paris, France Organizing Committee Martin Jacobsson, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Weidong Lu, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands R. V. Prasad, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Additional information is available at the workshop Web site: http://pernets.irctr.tudelft.nl/ Dr. R. Venkatesha Prasad Wireless and Mobile Communication, TU Delft, The Netherlands www.wmc.ewi.tudelft.nl/~vprasad Ph: +31 (0)15 27 86795 Fax: +31 (0)15 27 81774 Mobile: +31 614238042 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: CfP CoMMVE'09 at KiVS 2009]
by Lars Wolf 15 Aug '08

15 Aug '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP CoMMVE'09 at KiVS 2009 Datum: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:51:46 +0200 Von: Gregor Schiele <gregor.schiele(a)UNI-MANNHEIM.DE> Antwort an: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Liebe Mitglieder der KuVS-Liste, anbei der CfP des 'Workshops on Concepts of Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments' (CoMMVE) auf der KiVS 2009. Wir freuen uns auf viele hochkarätige Einreichungen. Viele Grüße Gregor Schiele -- Dr. Gregor Schiele Chair of Information Systems II University of Mannheim, Germany http://becker.bwl.uni-mannheim.de/9.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS The 1st International Workshop on Concepts of Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments (CoMMVE) at the 16th ITG/GI Kommunikation in verteilten Systemen 2009 March 5th or 6th, 2009 Kassel, Germany http://www.peers-at-play.org/CoMMVE09/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Massively multiuser virtual environments (MMVEs) allow a large number of users all over the world to experience a shared virtual 3D world and to interact in it with each others. While commercial MMVEs like World of Warcraft, Second Life, or Sony Home already exist, there are still a large number of open issues and important research questions that must be addressed in order to realize truly massive environments, both in terms of the size of the environment as well as the number of its concurrent users. The ultimate goal of this development is a worldwide system that spans whole virtual planets with many millions of users. To achieve this, systems must be developed that are - at the same time - extremely scalable, highly interactive, secure and reliable. They must support a consistent view of the environment for all users. Updates to the environment, both its infrastructure as well as its content, must be applied at runtime. The operation and further development of systems must be cost-effective and profitable, thus stimulating investment in them. Existing MMVEs are based on mostly static, fixed infrastructures, in which predefined server clusters are preassigned to different functions for operating the MMVE. Such systems are currently able to support thousands of concurrent users. This requires the system's operator to provide all necessary resources, like compute power, memory and network bandwidth. To become truly massive, future systems must be made much more flexible and must build on self-organising, adaptive systems. One promising approach is the use of peer-to-peer architectures, because a substatial amount of the necessary hardware resources are contributed by the users themselves. Thus the amount of resources in the system grows with the number of users. While peer-to-peer technology is already being used sucessfully today in many applications, e.g. for Internet telephony and the distribution of software updates, its applicability in highly interactive and distributed virtual 3D environments is still challenging and comprises numerous research and engineering challenges. The goal of this workshop is to gather researchers and practitioners in the area of MMVEs under one roof to discuss their findings, identify future research areas, incite collaborations, and move the state of the art forward. Topics ------ The workshop addresses the following topics related to building, operating, and using MMVEs: 1. Basic networking support, e.g. peer to peer networking for MMVEs, 2. MMVE hosting and software as a service (SAAS), 3. Bandwidth restricted (mobile) end user devices, 4. Self-organization and adaptation, 5. Placement and relocation strategies, 6. Scalability, 7. Interactivity, 8. Consistency, 9. Reliability and persistency, 10. Security and privacy, 11. Interoperability and integration of virtual environments, 12. User generated content, 13. Updating and content streaming, e.g. 3D streaming, 14. Evaluations and case studies of existing systems, 15. Development support and middleware platforms. Submission Guidelines ---------------------- Paper submissions must cover one of the topics listed above, or a closely-related one. We will prioritize experience papers describing lessons learnt from built systems, including information about approaches that did and did not work, unexpected results, common abstractions, and metrics for evaluating distributed virtual environment distribution approaches. One of the key issues to debate is the underlying structure of distributed virtual environment systems, which includes different possible configurations such as peer-to-peer, central-server-based, and hybrid models. Submitted papers should be about 10-12 pages long, use the ECEASST format and must be blinded (see the workshop web page for more info). 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. All accepted papers must be presented at the workshop and will be published in the Open-Access Journal "Electronic Communications of the EASST" (ECEASST) (http://eceasst.cs.tu-berlin.de/index.php/eceasst). If you have any questions, please email us at commve(a)peers-at-play.org. Important Dates --------------- Submission Deadline: October 31, 2008 Acceptance Notification: November 30, 2008 Camera Ready Version: December 27, 2008 Workshop Date: March 5 or 6, 2009 Organizers ---------- * Gregor Schiele, University of Mannheim, Germany * Arno Wacker, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany * Jörg Hähner, University of Hannover, Germany Preliminary Program Committee ----------------- * Christian Becker, Uni Mannheim, Germany * Sonja Buchegger, Deutsche Telekom Labs, Germany * Georg Carle, Uni Tübingen, Germany * Wolfgang Effelsberg, Uni Mannheim, Germany * Shun-Yun Hu, National Central University, Taiwan * Aleksandra Kovacevic, TU Darmstadt, Germany * Martin Mauve, Uni Düsseldorf, Germany * Kurt Rothermel, Uni Stuttgart, Germany * Jérôme Royan, Orange Labs, France * Jochen Schiller, FU Berlin, Germany * Peter Sturm, Uni Trier, Germany * Pedro Morillo Tena, University of Valencia, Spain * Klaus Wehrle, RWTH Aachen, Germany * Torben Weis, Uni Duisburg-Essen, Germany * Daniel Weiskopf, Uni Stuttgart, Germany * Oliver Wellnitz, TU Braunschweig, Germany

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[Fwd: ICC 2009 Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 15 Aug '08

15 Aug '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: ICC 2009 Call for Papers Datum: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:13:26 -0400 Von: Meetings(a)comsocconferences.org Antwort an: MailSupport(a)comsocconferences.org An: conferencesx(a)comsocconferences.org [] [] *http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/ <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp.html>*CALL FOR PAPERS <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp.html> /A Tradition of Innovation /*Submit your paper today to one of the 11 Symposia * *1. Symposium on Selected Areas in Communications <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp_symp01.html>*Co-Chairs: Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, Gabriel Jakobson, K.P. Subbalakshmi, Madjid Merabti, Sedat Oelcer *2. Communication Theory Symposium <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp_symp02.html>*Co-Chairs: Lutz Lampe, Aylin Yener, Angela Yingjun Zhang *3. Signal Processing for Communications Symposium <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp_symp03.html>*Co-Chairs: Luc Deneire, Tomohiko Taniguchi, Wai Pang Ng *4. Wireless Communications Symposium <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp_symp04.html>*Co-Chairs: Sonia Aissa, Nallanathan Arumugam, Erik Perrins, Yi Qian, Matthew Valenti, Takayo Yamazato *5. Wireless Networking Symposium <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp_symp05.html>*Co-Chairs: Yu Cheng, Hossam Hassanein, Mario Marchese, Abdelhamid Mellouk *6. Optical Networks and Systems Symposium <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp_symp06.html>*Co-Chairs: Dominic Schupke, Kyriakos Vlachos, Jun Zheng *7. Next Generation Networking Symposium <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp_symp07.html>*Co-Chairs: Mohammed Atiquzzaman, Marcus Brunner, Latif Latid, Ivica Rimac *8. Communications QoS, Reliability and Modelling Symposium <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp_symp08.html>*Co-Chairs: Nelson Fonseca, Ralf Lehnert, Hiromi Ueda *9. Adhoc and Sensor Networking Symposium <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp_symp09.html>*Co-Chairs: Tommaso Melodia, Hongchi Shi, Larry Xue, Mohamed Younis *10. Communications Software and Services Symposium <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp_symp10.html>*Co-Chairs: Wolfgang Kellerer, Pascal Lorenz, Giovanni Pau, Lars Wolf *11. Communication and Information Systems Security Symposium <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp_symp11.html>*Co-Chairs: Raouf Boutaba, Stefanos Gritzalis, Jiankun Hu, Peter Müller Details on the *submission procedure for technical papers* via EDAS <http://edas.info/> can be found here <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp_submission_proc.html> * * * Paper Submission: 08 Sep 2008* *Acceptance Notification: 15 Jan 2009* *Camera-Ready Papers: 01 Mar 2009* *Tutorial Submission: 08 Sep 2008* *Workshop Proposals: 25 May 2008* *Panel Proposals: 01 Sep 2008* *Workshops, Tutorials and Panels* *The ICC 2009 Organizing team also invites you to submit your ideas and suggestions workshops, tutorials and panels on hot technology trends, recent advances in the communications field and future perspectives: * * Call for Workshop Proposals <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp_workshops.html> * Call for Tutorial Proposals <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp_tutorials.html> * Call for Panel Proposals <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp_panels.html> # *Important Dates* Paper Submission: 08 Sep 2008 Acceptance Notification: 15 Jan 2009 Camera-Ready Papers: 01 Mar 2009 Tutorial Submission: 08 Sep 2008 Workshop Proposals: 25 May 2008 Panel Proposals: 01 Sep 2008 To unsubscribe from this IEEE Communications Society Meetings and Conferences mailing list, go to: http://www.comsoc.org/confs/unsubscribe.html or send a blank email message to conferencesx-remove(a)comsocconferences.org. You can also request removal by mail. Please send a note with your email address and the list name (Conferencesx(a)comsocconferences.org) to ComSoc List Removal - IT 3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor New York, NY 10016 USA

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[Tccc] CFP: The 3rd IEEE Workshop on Automotive Networking and Applications
by Ratul Guha 15 Aug '08

15 Aug '08

Apologies for Multiple Copies Call for Papers The 3rd IEEE Workshop on Automotive Networking and Applications (AutoNet 2008) Co-located with IEEE GLOBECOM 2008 December 4, 2008 (Thursday) - New Orleans, LA, USA Coupled with advances in wireless communications and computing technologies, there have been significant recent efforts to enhance and integrate the communications and computing technologies into the vehicle and transportation systems to enhance vehicle safety, reduce traffic congestion, and protect environment. Significant industrial and governmental efforts are underway to push for vehicle-to-vehicle / vehicle-to-infrastructure networking functions in vehicles and highway infrastructure. When such communications and networking capabilities are integrated into vehicles and the infrastructure, not only safety but many other emerging applications can be supported for intelligent interactions with the transportation system, with other vehicles, and inside vehicles, to help with traffic management, vehicle diagnostics, mobile commerce, and much more. This one-day workshop intends to bring together researchers, professionals, and practitioners to discuss and address recent developments and challenges in deploying vehicle-to-vehicle / vehicle-to-infrastructure networking technologies and their applications. Specifically, we solicit original research contributions addressing the following areas: * Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications * Vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications * Vehicular ad hoc networks * Potential applications of V2V and V2I communications including ITS * Protocols for V2V and V2I communications (MAC, routing, mobility management, etc.) * Security and privacy issues in V2V and V2I networks * Physical layer and RF level technologies for V2V and V2I communications * Antenna technologies for V2V and V2I communications * Radio resource management and QoS support for V2V and V2I communications * Information networking over V2V, V2R and next-generation networks * Simulation / performance evaluation techniques for V2V and V2I communications * Algorithms, protocols and systems for data dissemination in V2V and V2I communications * Experimental systems and testbeds for V2V and V2I communications * Standardization updates on V2V and V2I communications All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will appear in the Workshop proceedings (CD-ROM and booklet of papers) as well as on the IEEE Xplore. Workshop URLs: http://www.ieee-globecom.org/ (workshops) or http://autonet2008.research.telcordia.com/ EDAS URL: http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=5783&track=4681 Submission Instructions Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 20 double-spaced pages, including references, figures and tables. All submissions should be submitted electronically in Postscript or Adobe PDF format on EDAS http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=5783&track=4681 Please direct questions regarding the submission procedure to: Wai Chen (wchen(a)research.telcordia.com) Onur Altintas (onur(a)jp.toyota-itc.com) Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: September 1, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: October 1, 2008 Camera-Ready Submissions: October 15, 2008 Workshop Co-chairs Dr. Wai Chen, Telcordia Technologies, USA Dr. Onur Altintas, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan Program Advisor Prof. Tadao Saito Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo, Japan CTO, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan Technical Program Committee Subir Biswas Michigan State University, USA Fan Bai GM R&D Center, USA Luca Delgrossi Mercedes-Benz Research Lab, USA Eylem Ekici Ohio State University, USA Andreas Festag NEC Lab, Germany Marco Gruteser WINLAB, Rutgers University, USA Ratul Guha Telcordia Technologies, USA Jerome Harri University of Karlsruhe, Germany Teruo Higashino Osaka University, Japan Hariharan Krishnan GM R&D Center, USA Tim Leinmuller Denso Automotive Deutschland GmbH, Germany Thomas Luckenbach FOKUS, Germany Michela Meo Politecnico di Torino, Italy Rahul Mangharam University of Pennsylvania, USA Nick Maxemchuk Columbia University, USA Guevara Noubir Northeastern University, USA Umit Ozguner Ohio State University, USA Ai-Chun Pang National Taiwan University, Taiwan Chirag Patel Qualcomm, USA Panagiotis Papadimitratos EPFL, Switzerland Cem Saraydar GM R&D Center, USA Chien-Chung Shen University of Delaware, USA Daniel Stancil Carnegie Mellon University, USA Marcus Strassberger BMW Group, Germany Kazunori Takeuchi KDDI R&D Lab, Japan Kemal Tepe University of Windsor, Canada Christian Wewetzer Volkswagen Group, Germany Benjamin Weyl BMW Group, Germany Richard Wolff Montana State University, USA Daniel Wong Malaysia University of Science and Technology, Malaysia _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[IFIP-EC-NEWS] Tangible and Embeded Interaction '09: Call for Participation
by Takashi Matsumoto 14 Aug '08

14 Aug '08

** IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING NEWS SERVICE ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** Send all news to: icec(a)listserver.tue.nl **************************************************** ** NOTE: Please reply to article's originator, ** not this IFIP EC News Service **************************************************** ANNOUNCING THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TANGIBLE AND EMBEDDED INTERACTION http://tei-conf.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DATES AND LOCATION Paper submission deadline 31st Oct 08 Reviews due 27th Nov 08 Author notification deadline 30th Nov 08 Camera-ready copy deadline 15th Dec 08 Early registration deadline 7th Jan 09 Conference dates February 16-18, 2009, Cambridge, UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Computing is progressively moving beyond the desktop into new physical and social contexts. One key area of innovation has been around tangible computing, which pushes the user interface beyond the digital into the physical world. This includes work on tangible interfaces, graspable interfaces, physical computing, and interactive surfaces. A closely related topic is that of embedded interaction where the everyday objects and environments we interact with are computationally augmented in new ways. Designing such systems requires interdisciplinary thinking. Their creation must not only encompass software, electronics, and mechanics, but also the system's physical form and behaviour, as well as its social impacts. After the big success of TEI'07 and TEI'08 we are pleased to announce the third international conference dedicated to presenting the latest results in tangible and embedded interaction. We invite submissions of work addressing HCI issues, design, user experience, tools and technologies, as well as interactive art in the broad area of tangible computing and embedded interactive systems. The intimate size of this single-track conference provides a unique forum for exchange of ideas through talks, interactive exhibits, demos, posters, art installations and performances. All accepted submissions will be included in the conference proceedings, which will be published through the ACM Digital Library. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS FOR SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit high-quality original work to advance the field. Appropriate topics include but are not limited to: * Examples of novel tangible interfaces or embedded interactive systems * Case studies and evaluations of working deployments * Relation of tangible and embedded interaction to other paradigms * Programming paradigms and tools, toolkits, software architectures * Novel enabling technologies * Interactive uses of sensors and actuators, and electronics and mechatronics * Design guidelines and methods * Applied design in the form of concept sketches, prototypes and products * Novel applications * Theoretical foundations, frameworks, and concepts * Philosophical, ethical and social implications * Usability * Provocative design work and interactive art ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION DETAILS Authors are invited to submit papers that are 2, 4, 6 or 8 pages long, formatted to follow the two column ACM SIGCHI format. We are happy to consider a variety of styles for inclusion in the proceedings, such as academic papers, design sketches and descriptions of art pieces or installations. All accepted submissions will be included in the conference proceedings, which will be published through the ACM Digital Library. At the time of submission, authors will be able to specify their preferred format for presenting the work, which includes: * 15 minute talk * 5 minute talk * Poster * Interactive demo * Exhibit * Installation We anticipate a large volume of submissions this year, but the timeslots available for talks (and space available for demos and exhibits) will be limited by necessity. In order to be help the program committee to include as much interesting work as possible, authors will also be able to specify whether they would be happy to present their work in a format other than their preferred format. Submissions will be peer reviewed in a double-blind process: please anonymize your submission. In case of acceptance, at least one author must register before the early registration deadline for the conference in order for the final paper version to be published in the conference proceedings. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMITTEE CONFERENCE CHAIRS Nicolas Villar Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK Shahram Izadi Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK PROGRAM CHAIRS Mike Fraser University of Bristol, UK Steve Benford University of Nottingham, UK PUBLICITY CHAIRS Jamie Zigelbaum MIT Media Lab, USA Florian Block Lancaster University, UK Nicolai Marquardt University of Calgary, Canada Takashi Matsumoto Pileus LLC, Japan PUBLICATION CHAIRS Dagmar Kern University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Alireza Sahami University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany SPONSORSHIP CHAIR Sriram Subramanian University of Bristol, UK STEERING COMMITTEE Eva Hornecker Open University, UK Caroline Hummels Eindhoven University of Technology, NL Robert Jacob Tufts University, USA Brygg Ullmer Louisiana State University, USA Albrecht Schmidt University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany DESIGN Bart Hengenveld Eindhoven University of Technology, NL WEBMASTER Nicolai Marquardt University of Calgary, Canada PROGRAM COMMITTEE Please check the conference website for updates **************************************************** ** To send and receive IFIP-EC-NEWS, go to ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** and subscribe directly **************************************************** ** News archives: ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/private/icec/ **************************************************** ** To join the IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING Group ** contact: g.w.m.rauterberg(a)tue.nl ****************************************************

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VTCSpring-2009 (Call for papers)
by ferranc＠tsc.upc.edu 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

Dear colleague The paper submission deadline for 69th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference is approaching. Please consider the possibility to submit your research results to this important event. Looking forward to meeting you in Barcelona next April! Dr. Fernando Casadevall Patronage & Publicity co-chair VTCSpring-2009 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 69th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference Spring 2009 (IEEE VTCSpring-2009) 2629 April 2009, Barcelona, Spain http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2009spring/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------The 69th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference will be held 26-29 April 2009 in the beautiful Mediterranean city of Barcelona, Spain. The conference will bring together individuals from academia, industry, and, government to discuss and exchange ideas in the fields of mobile, wireless and vehicular technology. The conference will feature world-class plenary speakers, panel sessions, tutorials, and technical as well as application sessions. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a 5-page full paper or a 2-page extended abstract including results through the conference web site. Important Dates for regular papers ---------------------------------- Paper Submission Deadline: 15 September 2008 Notification of acceptance: 15 December 2008 Final paper submission deadline: 23 January 2009

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[Mycolleagues] AASN'2008: Call for Paper, less than one week to deadline
by Youssef IRAQI 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

[Sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.] CALL FOR PAPERS First International Workshop on Autonomous and Automated Sensor Networks, AASN http://sigappfr.acm.org/cstst08/workshops/aasn/ To be held in conjunction with The 5th IEEE International Conference on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSTST’2008), Cergy-Pontoise/Paris, FRANCE, October 26-30, 2008. Summary and Topics: Thanks to technological advances, wired and wireless sensor networks are attracting an increasing attention that promotes their large-scale deployments in many applications, such as environmental monitoring, military surveillance, and scientific exploration. Continuous improvements are motivating works in addressing specific sensor network issues spanning hardware, network protocols, architecture, operating systems, and applications. Furthermore, emergent needs to fulfill a variety of heterogeneous requirements are highlighting the importance of multidisciplinary networks that control their processing and manage their resources by means of self-organizing techniques. These techniques particularly require sharing the decision-making process over hundreds of low-power, short lifetimes sensors. The achievement of this goal is still facing an urgent and challenging question on how to provide these spatially distributed sensors with reasonable autonomy that help them in performing the right action, at the right time for the sake of fulfilling current requirements while increasing the lifetime of the entire sensor network and guaranteeing reliable and enduring pathway communications. Automating the sensor network activities is also an urgent and challenging issue especially that commonly sensing devices are operating unattended in remote and hostile areas where manual maintenance is nearly impossible. Since predefined and late decisions do not help much in improving the efficiency of networked sensing devices, automation and autonomy are very important mechanisms in addressing upcoming developments that target multi-services, collaborating, or competing sensor networks. To reach these goals, the first International Workshop on Automated and Autonomous Sensor Networks is seeking novel ideas in the following topics that include, but not limited to: - Heterogeneous sensor networks - Multi-service sensor networks - Sensor network control - Automated sensing activities - Competing sensors or sensor networks - Collaborating sensors and sensor networks - Semantic-based management of sensor networks - Resource management in sensor networks - Context awareness in sensor networks - Self-organization and self-adaptation in sensor networks - New architectures and protocols for sensor networks - New sensor network applications - Sensor network maintenance - Intelligent sensors and sensor networks - Data management in sensor networks - Data and resource sharing in sensor networks Important Dates: Submission deadline: August 17th 2008 Acceptance notification: September 07th 2008 Camera ready papers: September 17th 2008 Submission Guidelines: (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cstst08) This Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF or MS Word files and should be uploaded using the conference website. Full paper submissions should be in ACM format with a limit of 6 pages. Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 independent reviewers of the PC. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics. At least one author should attend the workshop to present the paper. The conference Proceedings will be indexed by ACM Digital Libraries and published with an ISBN. Program Co-Chairs: Nafaâ Jabeur, Dhofar University (nafaa_jabeur(a)du.edu.om) Youssef Iraqi, Dhofar University (y_iraqi(a)du.edu.om) Technical Program Committee: Athanasios Gkelias, Imperial College, UK Bernard Moulin, Laval University, Canada Gianluca Moro, University of Bologna, Italy Gregory S. Yovanof, Athens Information Technology, Greece Ingo J. Timm , Institute of Computer Science Information Systems and Simulation, Germany Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Khalil El-Khatib, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Michael Lauer, Goethe-University of Frankfurt, Germany Nabil Sahli, Telematica Institute, Netherlands Nafaa Jabeur, Dhofar University, Oman Phil Graniero, University of Windsor, Canada Stefano Avallone, University of Naples, Italy Vasilis Friderikos, King's College London, UK Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, ENSIIE, France. Youssef Iraqi, Dhofar University, Oman _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Mycolleagues] CFP:Wireless Personal Communications (Special Issue on Cross-Layer Design for Future Generation Wireless Networks)
by Chih-Yung Chang 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

Call For Papers Wireless Personal Communications (Springer) Special Issue on “Cross-Layer Design for Future Generation Wireless Networks” With the rapid development of wireless technologies, the future generation wireless networks have more challenges for providing reliable and high quality end-to-end performance in wireless multimedia communications. Recently, a cross-layer design has become a popular topic in which more and more researchers are engaged. That leads to a lot of cross-layer design proposals for wireless networks. This special issue is intended to foster state-of-the-art research pertaining to cross-layer design in the area of future generation wireless networks. The emphasis of this special issue will be on cross-layer protocol interactions and design of cross-layer optimized techniques. The issue will focus on a range of future generation wireless networks cross-layer design related topics including network architectures, mobility management, session mobility, security mechanism, services, and novel applications associated with their utilization, and hybrid routing protocols for mobile wireless networks, e.g., cellular/WLAN/WiMAX/ad hoc networks. Submitted papers for this special issue are expected to focus on cross-layer design related to future generation wireless networks and to present novel results and solutions to solve various problems and challenges foreseen in future generation wireless networks. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. Final selection of papers will be based on their quality and relevance to this special issue as well as the journal. Papers submitted for consideration for this special issue must be written in English and describe original research not published or currently under review by other journals. Topics Topics of interest include but are not limited to following: - Cross-layer architectures for wireless communications (3G, 4G, ad hoc networks, WLAN, or hybrid networks) - Cross-layer Design, implementation and test-bed results - Cross-layer end-to-end QoS support for wireless networks - Cross-layer mobility management and session mobility - Cross-layer secure mechanism for future generation wireless networks - Application layer adaptation based on cross-layer notifications - Complexity and scalability issues in cross-layer design - Cross-layer design of MAC, RLC, and routing protocols in wireless networks - Cross-layer adaptation for energy minimization in wireless networks - Cross-layer design framework for real-time multimedia streaming Submission Information Authors should follow the Wireless Personal Communications Journal manuscript format described in the Instructions for Authors link on the journal site: www.springer.com/11277. Manuscripts (pdf and source files) must be directly emailed to the corresponding editor, Prof. Yuh-Shyan Chen at yschen(a)mail.ntpu.edu.tw (not via the Online Manuscript Submission system). The submission must include the title, abstract of your paper, and the corresponding author's name and affiliation. This special issue additionally collects best papers from The International Conference on Mobile Technology, Applications and Systems (Mobility 2008) (http://www.mobilityconference.org/), Taiwan, September, 2008. Guest Editors Prof. Yuh-Shyan Chen (Corresponding Editor) Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering National Taipei University Taiwan, R.O.C. Email: yschen(a)mail.ntpu.edu.tw Prof. Athanasios (Thanos) Vasilakos Department of Computer and Telecommunications Engineering University of Western Macedonia Greece Email: vasilako(a)ath.forthnet.gr Dr. Chien-Chung Shen Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Delaware USA Email: cshen(a)cis.udel.edu Paper Submission Deadline: Paper Submission Deadline: November 1, 2008 1st Notification of acceptance: December 31, 2008 Submission due date of revised paper: February 15, 2009 2nd Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2009 Submission of final revised paper: April 30, 2009 Publication date: 3rd or 4th Quarter, 2009 (Tentative) _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Tccc] Call for Papers (VINT - 08)
by Jensen Chou 28 Jul '08

28 Jul '08

================================================================== Call for Papers The First International Workshop on Wireless Vehicular Networking Technology (*VINT-08*), November 17-19, 2008, Maui, Hawaii, USA http://nrl.iis.sinica.edu.tw/VINT08/ To be held in conjunction with The Fourth Annual International Wireless Internet Conference (WICON 2008) ================================================================== Aims and Scope --------------- The goal of this workshop is to present and discuss recent advances in the development of wireless vehicular networking technologies. Based on short- to medium-range communication systems (vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-roadside), vehicular networks will enable vehicular safety applications including collision and other safety warnings as well as non-safety applications like real-time traffic congestion and routing information, high-speed tolling, mobile infotainment, and many others. The creation of high-performance, highly reliable, highly scalable, and secure vehicular networks technologies, though, presents an extraordinary challenge to the wireless research community: a high degree of communication reliability is needed under unfavorable channel conditions. Clearly, the specificity of vehicular networks in terms of mobility behavior and applications scenarios and requirements makes vehicular networks research an exciting and demanding application- and purpose-driven sub-discipline of wireless networking. Topics of Interest ----------------- Original papers addressing applications and architecture, systems and protocols design, development and analysis, in all areas related to Vehicular Networking are solicited. Papers that bring out interesting and novel ideas at an early stage are favored over highly-polish journal-style results. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Vehicular mobile ad-hoc networks - Routing protocols for V2V communications - MAC layer technologies - Physical layer and RF level technologies - Antenna technologies - Role of V2V communications in Intelligent Transportation Systems - Safety and non-safety applications - High-speed mobility management - Radio resource management and QoS support - Roadside-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-vehicle communication - Algorithms, protocols and systems for data dissemination - Channel modeling - Modulation and coding - Power control and scalability issues - Multi-channel organization and operation - Security issues and countermeasures - Privacy issues - Network management - Simulation frameworks & real-world testbeds Submissions and Proceedings ------------------------------ Authors are invited to submit an electronic version of original, unpublished manuscripts via ISAS website (http://nrl.iis.sinica.edu.tw/VINT08/ISAS/). The manuscript should be written in English and follow ACM two-column format with single-spaced, ten-point font in the text. The maximum manuscript length is five (5) pages including figures and references. All submitted papers will be refereed by reviewers in terms of correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and quality of presentation. Accepted papers will be made available in the ACM Digital Library. Important Dates ---------------* Submission deadline: August 20, 2008 Notification of acceptance: September 15, 2008 Camera-ready version: October 15, 2008* General Chair Kun-chan Lan, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Program Chair Ling-Jyh Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan -- Jensen, C.-M. Chou Laboratory for Experimental Network and System (LENS) Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering National Cheng Kung University http://lens1.csie.ncku.edu.tw/ +886 6 2757575 ext 62500#35 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] SPECIAL ISSUE for AD HOC NETWORKS (Elsevier) Journal - Deadline: Oct 20, 2008
by Wensheng Zhang 25 Jul '08

25 Jul '08

Call For Papers Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier) Journal SPECIAL ISSUE: "Privacy and Security in Wireless Sensor and Ad Hoc Networks" Wireless sensor and ad hoc networks have many applications in military, homeland security and other areas. Security is critical for such networks deployed in a hostile environment. In civilian applications, however, privacy concerns of these networks could become a more serious impediment to their popular adoption. Providing privacy and security in wireless sensor and ad hoc networks is more challenging than those in traditional wired networks because wireless communications use shared medium and thus are vulnerable to many attacks. Providing privacy and security in sensor networks is further complicated by the network scale, the highly constrained system resources and the difficulty of dealing with node compromises. The main purpose of this special issue is to promote further research interests and activities on privacy and security in wireless sensor and ad hoc networks. We are interested in analytical, experimental, and systems-related papers in various aspects of privacy and security in wireless sensor and ad hoc networks. Topics of interest include: * Privacy issues in wireless sensor networks * Privacy issues in vehicular ad hoc networks * Location privacy and source anonymity * Secure localization and secure routing protocols * Key distribution and management * Trust management * Secure data aggregation * Authentication and authorization * Study of attack strategies, attack modeling * Study of tradeoffs between security and system performance * Denial of service attacks and prevention * Cross layer security and privacy attacks and solutions Authors are requested to prepare their papers according to the Guide For Authors on http://www.elsevier.com/locate/adhoc and to submit their paper to the online submission and reviewing system, at http://ees.elsevier.com/adhoc. They should choose the article type, Special Issue-Privacy & Security in WSN. Important Dates: Submission Deadline: October 20, 2008 First Round of Review: February 20, 2009 Notification of Acceptance: March 31, 2009 Publication Date: June 2009. Guest Editors: Wensheng Zhang Iowa State University Email: wzhang(a)cs.iastate.edu Sencun Zhu The Pennsylvania State University Email: szhu(a)cse.psu.edu Guohong Cao The Pennsylvania State University Email: gcao(a)cse.psu.edu _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Elsevier, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JVCI), Special Issue on Network Technologies for Emerging Broadband Multimedia Services]
by Lars Wolf 25 Jul '08

25 Jul '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Elsevier, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JVCI), Special Issue on Network Technologies for Emerging Broadband Multimedia Services Datum: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:43:39 +0800 Von: Cai Jianfei <ASJFCai(a)ntu.edu.sg> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this cfp. Regards, Jianfei Cai ----------------------------------------------------------------- Special Issue on "Network Technologies for Emerging Broadband Multimedia Services" Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JVCI) With the rapid proliferation of multimedia data, including audio, image, video and graphics, and the great advance of multimedia technologies such as the JPEG and MPEG standards, more and more network-based multimedia Applications (e.g. IPTV, VoD, VoIP etc.) emerge and they have become part of our daily life. All these applications share a basic requirement, i.e. broadband services. Indeed, driven by the rapid growing demand of multimedia service, broadband Internet access is now a common setup for many Internet users in modern cities. In May 2008, US broadband penetration has reached 89.3% among active Internet users. Nevertheless, despite the high data rate, the broadband multimedia services are not satisfactory. For example, a computer may enjoy a 100Mbps of data rate connection to the Internet. However, even streaming 500kbps of a video clip may still suffer from occasion playback interruptions. This is mainly due to lack of QoS support in the Internet. Here is just one example to show the challenge of providing good-quality broadband multimedia services. The situation becomes even more challenging when we consider a variety of networks, diverse end users, notorious wireless channels, mobility, inter-networking, co-existence of different types of traffic, etc. The goal of this special issue is to solicit the state-of-the-art approaches and technical solutions in the area of network technologies for emerging broadband multimedia services. The issue will provide a convincing forum for researchers and practitioners to present their latest research results. Scope The scope of this special issue is to cover all aspects that relate to network technologies and media control technologies for emerging broadband multimedia services. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * New protocols for multimedia services * New multimedia architectures/platforms * Network security for multimedia services * Performance evaluation of multimedia services * Network measurement/monitoring for multimedia services * Pricing, accounting and billing for multimedia services * Reliability, availability, serviceability of multimedia services * Seamless mobility of multimedia services * Management of multicast and broadcast multimedia services * Multimedia management in next generation networks * Multimedia services in mobile and broadband wireless networks * P2P multimedia streaming * QoS management in multimedia networks * Cross-layer optimized multimedia networks * IPTV and emerging applications * Network coding technology for multimedia delivery * Cooperative or collaborative communications for multimedia services * Adaptation, reconfiguration and transcoding of multimedia services Information for Authors Authors should prepare their manuscript according to the Guide for Authors available from the online submission page of the 'Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation' at http://ees.elsevier.com/jvci/. When submitting via this page, please select "Network Technology_EBMS" as the Article Type. Prospective authors should submit high quality, original manuscripts that have not appeared, nor are under consideration, in any other journals. All submissions will be peer reviewed following the JVCI reviewing procedures. Important Dates: Manuscript Submission Deadline: December 1, 2008 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: March 1, 2009 Final Manuscript Due to JVCI: April 1, 2009 Expected Publication Date: June, 2009 Guest Editors: Jianfei Cai, School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. (asjfcai(a)ntu.edu.sg) Shivkumar Kalyanraman, Department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Institute of Technology, USA. (shivkuma(a)gmail.com <mailto:shivkuma@gmail.com> ) Marco Roccetti, Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, Università di Bologna, Italy. (roccetti(a)cs.unibo.it <mailto:roccetti@cs.unibo.it> ) Hwangjun Song, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, POSTECH(Pohang University of Science and Technology), Korea. (Hwangjun(a)postech.ac.kr ) Dapeng Oliver Wu, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Florida. USA. (wu(a)ece.ufl.edu ) _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: 6th IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Peer-to-Peer Computing (MP2P'09)
by Li Li 25 Jul '08

25 Jul '08

CALL FOR PAPERS 6th IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Peer-to-Peer Computing (MP2P'09) http://www.samrg.org/mp2p/2009 Dallas, Texas, USA, March 16-20, 2009 In conjunction with the 7th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom'09) http://www.percom.org/ Technical funding by EuroNGI (*): http://www.eurongi.org/ (*) Final approval pending ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Peer-to-Peer (P2P) computing is a networking and distributed computing paradigm which allows the sharing of computing resources and services by direct, symmetric interaction between computers. The advance in mobile wireless communication technology and the increasing number of mobile users, extend the arena of P2P computing to encompass mobile devices and wireless networks. The special characteristics of mobile environments, such as highly variable connectivity, disconnection, location-dependency, resource contraints, and diversity in wireless networks as well as carrier-grade performance requirements bring new challenges for research in mobile P2P communication and computing. MP2P'09 is intended to serve as a continuing forum for scientists and engineers in academia and industry to exchange and discuss their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects of mobile P2P computing and communications. It will address the challenges, technologies, and architectures leading to real-world solutions that provide users with direct access and control of their critical peer-based information and services, regardless of location or device. The principal theme of MP2P'09 is the peer-to-peer paradigm as used in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETS), sensor networks, and large-scale heterogeneous overlays. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: - Peer-to-peer overlays for MANETs and sensor networks - Hybrid P2P architectures for integrated MANETs and wide-area networks - Large-scale heterogeneous P2P systems - Mobility in federated overlay architectures - Impact of network mobility on P2P systems and services (mobile IP / MANET) - P2P-based information sensing and fusion - MP2P performance & measurement studies - Semantic routing & overlay routing in MP2P - Delay tolerant MP2P systems - Resource and service discovery in MP2P - Resource exchange mechanisms in MP2P - Peer access and control in mobile environment - Data exchange and rendering techniques for mobile P2P devices - Secure communication protocols for MP2P - Nature-inspired algorithms for MP2P - Novel MP2P applications & services - Theoretical issues on mobile information diffusion - MP2P SIP - MP2P messaging systems, monitoring systems, searching systems, games, etc. - Location dependent MP2P services - MP2P over different bearer services: 2.5/3G (GPRS/UMTS) / 802.11 (WLAN) - MP2P & operator/provider requirements - Reliability and carrier-grade performance of MP2P services Paper Submission: ----------------- Papers must be written in English and should not exceed 5 pages in IEEE proceedings style. Authors MUST submit their papers through the EASYCHAIR web site (http://www.easychair.org/MP2P2009/) in three steps: * Creation of a personal account on EASYCHAIR (if the author does not already have one) * Registration of the paper (requiring a short abstract of up to 150 words) * Upload of the paper. Only in pdf format Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. All submissions will be reviewed and selected based on their originality of the paper. Accepted papers must be presented at the workshop and will appear in a combined PerCom 2009 workshop proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Paper must not be submitted elsewhere. Authors that present a system in their paper are highly encouraged to demonstrate also the system in the demo session of the workshop. Important Dates: ---------------- Papers due: September 22, 2008 Notification of acceptance November 18, 2008 Camera-ready papers due December 15, 2008 Organizing Committee, Program Co-chairs: --------------------------------------------------------------- John Buford, Avaya Labs, USA. Li Li, Communications Research Center Canada, Canada. Kurt Tutschku, Department of Computer Science, University of Vienna, Austria Steering Board ----------------------- - Frank-Uwe Andersen, Siemens Communications, Berlin, Germany. - Jiannong Cao, Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. - Y. Charlie Hu, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University - Cecilia Mascolo, Department of Computer Science, University College London - Maria Papadopouli, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Publicity Chair --------------------- Li Li, Communications Research Center Canada, Canada. Program Committee Members (Pending Approval) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - John Buford, Avaya Labs, USA. - Jiannong Cao, Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University - Hermann de Meer, Department of Computer Networks & Computer Communications, University of Passau, Germany. - Krishna Kishore Dhara, Avaya Labs Research, Lincroft, NJ, USA. - Babak Esfandiari, Carleton University, Canada. - Stephen Hailes, Department of Computer Science, University College of London, UK - Y. Charlie Hu, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University. - Norihiro Ishikawa, NTT Docomo, Japan. - Valerie Issarny, INRIA, France - Wolfgang Kellerer, DoCoMo DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe, Germany. - Mario Kolberg, University of Sterling, UK. - Thomas Kunz, Dept. of Systems and Comp. Engineering, Carleton University, Canada. - Li Li, Communication Research Center Canada, Canada - Christoph Lindemann, University of Leipzig, Germany. - George Roussos, School of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. - Jochen Schiller, Institute of Computer Science, FU Berlin, Germany. - Hans-Peter Schwefel, Department of Communication Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark. - Shervin Shirmohammadi, School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE), University of Ottawa, Canada. - Kurt Tutschku, Department of Distributed Systems, University of Würzburg, Germany. - Klaus Wehrle, Distributed Systems Group, RWTH Aachen, Germany. - Chansu Yu, Dept. Of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH, USA. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] IEEE Network - Special Issue on Multi-hop Cognitive Networks
by Matteo Cesana 25 Jul '08

25 Jul '08

Our Apologies in case of multiple receptions IEEE Network Special Issue on Networking over Multi-Hop Cognitive Networks Background In recent years, the exponential growth of unlicensed band usage has prompted possible wireless spectrum shortage. Moreover, today's wireless networks are characterized by fixed spectrum assignment policies, which often lead to wasting large spectrum portions due to sporadic utilization of the licensed users (according to FCC, only 15% to 85% of the licensed spectrum is utilized on the average). This situation has motivated and pushed forward the development of novel low-power wireless Cognitive Radio transceivers with the capability of changing their transmitter parameters (operating spectrum, modulation, transmission power and communication technology) based on interaction with the surrounding environment. Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs) based on nodes equipped with cognitive transceivers have consequently emerged as viable architectural solutions to solve current wireless network problems resulting from the limited available spectrum and the inefficiency in the spectrum usage by exploiting the existing wireless spectrum opportunistically. Scope and Contributions This special issue aims to consolidate and disseminate the latest developments and advances in the emerging area of Multi-hop CRNs, which is defined as a collection of cognitive transceiver-equipped nodes forming a multi-hop communication network. The main focus of this special issue is on networking aspects of multi-hop CRNs where the information needs to be relayed over multiple wireless links. The operation of Multi-hop CRNs is not limited to the discovery and allocation of wireless resources while avoiding service disruption for primary users. Additional tasks must be accomplished to sustain end-to-end communication, including identification of sets of relay nodes, ensuring that required bandwidth is available over all necessary links, and regulating resource sharing among all flows in the network. Most importantly, these goals must be achieved while coping with negative effects of frequent link outages due to primary user access. Preferably, the multi-hop CRN must also ensure that flow requirements, such as bandwidth, delay, and jitter bounds, are met. This special issue provides opportunities for the research community, the standardization bodies, and the industry to showcase the-state-of-the-art of the research on networking aspects of Multi-hop CRNs, implementation studies, and feasibility analyses. Moreover, since the success of CRN also depends on spectrum regulatory aspect, we also solicit critical contributions addressing the Multi-hop CRM architecture as it relates to spectrum competition under regulated, partially regulated or unregulated competitive environments. While the nature of the multi-hop CRNs necessitates high levels of interaction and dependency between the physical layer and protocols and solutions at MAC layer and above, the main focus of this special issue is the networking aspects of multi-hop CRNs. Therefore, the design of cognitive transceivers and hardware, signal processing techniques, modulation and coding methods, physical layer channel models, as well as networking issues primarily concerning single-hop CRNs fall outside the scope of the special issue. We solicit papers written in a tutorial and survey style, accessible to the non-expert, presenting the state of the art. Specifically, we seek submissions on the topics of: o Medium access control for multi-hop CRNs o Routing solutions for multi-hop CRNs o Real-time communication protocols for multi-hop CRNs o Cross-layer design of communication protocols for multi-hop CRNs o Centralized and distributed dynamic spectrum management and spectrum leasing o Performance evaluation and modeling of multi-hop CRNs o Regulatory Aspects and CRN Architectures o Experiences from testbed and proof-of-concept systems Schedule for Submission Paper Submission Deadline: November 15, 2008 Feedback to Authors: February, 15 2009 Publication of the Special Issue: Second Half of 2009 Authors must follow the IEEE Network Magazine guidelines regarding the manuscript and its format. For details, please refer to the "Author Guidelines" at the IEEE Network Magazine Web site at http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/net/ntwrk/authors.html. The manuscripts must be written in English and submitted electronically in PDF format with a separate cover letter, which contains the paper title, authors, affiliations, contact information, a 250-word abstract and 3-5 keywords, via email to ieee-network-si(a)ece.osu.edu before the deadline (November 15th 2008). Accepted papers will also be included in Network Interactive (NI) the online version of Network Magazine. Guest Editors Prof. Matteo Cesana Dip. di Elettronica e Informazione Politecnico di Milano, Italy cesana(a)elet.polimi.it Prof. Eylem Ekici Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering The Ohio State University , US ekici(a)ece.osu.edu Prof. Yeheskel Bar-Ness Center for Communications and Signal Processing Research New Jersey Institute of Technology, US barness(a)yegal.njit.edu <mailto:barness%20(at)%20yegal%20(dot)%20njit%20(dot)%20edu> _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Only a few days till IEEE ANTS deadline]
by Lars Wolf 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Only a few days till IEEE ANTS deadline Datum: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:35:18 -0400 Von: Rudra Dutta <dutta(a)csc.ncsu.edu> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Dear Colleague, The paper submission deadline for IEEE ANTS 2008 is getting close. Please consider submitting your work to this conference of emerging importance and a strong a2b focus. The earlier notice with a few pertinent points of information is quoted below. Full CFP is attached at the end - please circulate as appropriate. Updates: - EDAS submission open since mid-June - Arun Netravalli and Kishor Chaukar to be the 2 lead keynotes for IEEE ANTS 2008 - "How to write effective IEEE ANTS papers" - by Prof. Biswanath Mukherjee posted on the website to aid beginning authors - See half-page ad in IEEE Communications Magazine, July issue Thanks! ---------------------------------------- Dear Colleague, As the paper submission deadline for IEEE ANTS 2008 approaches, we wanted to quickly share with you the a few points of information. Full CFP is attached after these remarks. ANTS is now a fully recognized and sponsored IEEE conference. In fact, if you go to the ComSoc website, and select "Conferences->Major Conferences" from the top bar, you will see IEEE ANTS in the list. Conference papers will of course be archived in IEEE Xplore (ANTS 2007 papers are also available from Xplore). IEEE Communications Magazine featured a conference report on ANTS 2007 in its May issue - follow the link from the ANTS homepage (www.antsconference.org) if you missed it. And in the July issue, watch for a full page informative ad. Industry-university connection is emerging as a defining characteristic of ANTS. In south-east Asia and especially India, a huge telecom and datacom initiative is building. There is a need for industry-academia exchange of views to define research problems and agendas that have intellectual value and also address practical burning issues. ANTS 2007 facilitated this process to a level well beyond the usual for academic conferences. IEEE ANTS 2008 is planned to continue this process, with special sessions targeted toward identifying fruitful issues for collaboration. ANTS is the Indian academic conference where industry comes to listen and talk. As before, ANTS will have some resources for offsetting registration costs on a need basis. The registration costs are already low - last year's figures were USD 250 for IEEE members (300 for non-members), and USD 125 for students (lower for domestic students - as low as USD 40). This year's details will be announced soon - watch the website. Acceptance rates are expected to be similar to last year, when 20 out of 59 total peer-reviewed papers were accepted. The total number of papers is likely to go up a little, as the conference goes to three instead of two days. Please consider publishing your work in this young but already distinct conference (and coming on a city tour of one of the most colored and textured cities of the world in the bargain). Hope to see you in Mumbai! - Rudra and Jianping (Publicity co-chairs) ----------------------- 2nd International IEEE Symposium on Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems (ANTS) IEEE ANTS 2008 December, 15-17, 2008, Bombay (Mumbai) India http://www.antsconference.org Scope: Broadband networks are witnessing a convergence in both technologies and delivered services. Next-generation services require unified and scalable technologies spread across the network protocol layers facilitating a converged service model across all partitions of the network. Advanced integrated systems and network platforms have benefits in terms of deployment cost as well as the ability to provision new services. Motivated by the tremendous success of the first ANTS (2007) event which highlighted advances in systems and networking, the theme of ANTS 2008 is on communication systems and networking technologies for Realizing converged ubiquitous broadband connectivity. To achieve this goal, the symposium will feature a technical program of previously unpublished papers, tutorials, talks and panels on relevant topics bringing together experts from academia, industry, government and the user community who are involved in the research, design, development, deployment, regulation and application of communication and networking technologies. The symposium will cover technologies that facilitate broadband connectivity ñ both wire-line and wireless ñ and cover advances in the service, networking, transport and user equipment domains. Making ubiquitous broadband affordable is driving service providers, network operators, and OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers) towards converged network solutions and services as a way to reduce CAPEX and OPEX. Further, cost-effective research and development partnerships with knowledge economies in India, China, and Eastern Europe are being increasingly leveraged as can be gauged by the growth of ODMs (Original Design Manufacturers) and software service providers. ANTS 2008 provides a common meeting point for the confluence and exchange of ideas with a rich mix of participation from the academia, global industry and other stakeholders. The symposium will be held in the commercial and entertainment capital of India ñ Bombay ñ on December 15-17, 2008. ANTS 2008 will cover the following topics consistent with the theme of Realizing Converged Ubiquitous Broadband Connectivity: Network, Services and Terminal Convergence Home Networks and Media Gateways SMB & Enterprise Networks & Systems Wireless Access Networks and Systems Wire-line Access Networks and Systems Metro Networks and Systems Core Networks and Systems Storage Networks and Systems Network Virtualization Application Aware Networking Data Security, Content Processing/Billing IPTV, VoD and Mobile Video Digital Rights Management First mile access networks, Passive Optical Networks (PON) Powerline Communications (PLC) Long-Reach Broadband Access Carrier Ethernet Metro Ethernet, PBB, PBT, PBB-TE, T-MPLS MPLS, VPLS, VPNs Optical networks Network architectures and protocol Routing, traffic, services over optical networks Survivability and service level agreements (SLA) Futuristic technologies for emerging economies Equipment provider experiences, planning and future designs Service provider experiences, planning and future designs ITU, OIF, IETF activities Submissions: Authors are encouraged to submit a three-page extended abstract via EDAS (http://edas.info). Papers will be reviewed for technical content and scope by a technical program committee. All accepted papers would be digitally archived through IEEE Xplore. To achieve wide participation, no author may submit more than 2 papers to the conference. The Industry Session will be organized as a set of panels and will afford a unique opportunity for industry leaders to present their perspectives and share their views on design, development, deployment and regulatory aspects as it pertains to functioning in the global economy. The theme of these panels would be on Realizing converged ubiquitous broadband connectivity. Those interested in proposing/organizing panels should submit their proposals in the form of a one-page summary to the Industry Chair before September 1, 2008. Important Dates: Paper submissions: July 31, 2008. Notification of authors: October 1, 2008. Registration for authors: October 31, 2008. Symposium dates: December 15-17, 2008. Some highlights about ANTS 2008 include: - opportunity to interact with industry stalwarts and leading academics. - a world-class technical program - social program, day-long trip through Bombay (Mumbai) city. General Chairs/Steering Committee: Biswanath Mukherjee, UC-Davis, USA Ashwin Gumaste, IIT Bombay, India Nasir Ghani, UNM, USA Technical Program Chairs: Admela Jukan, TU Braunchwieg, Germany Suresh Subramaniam, GWU, USA Industry Chair: Deepak Kataria, LSI Logic Inc, USA Samrat Ganguly, NEC, USA Publicity Chairs: Rudra Dutta, NCSU, USA Jianping Wang, CityU, Hongkong PRC Sridhar Iyer, IIT Bombay, India Keynote and Tutorial Chairs: Girish Saraph, Vegayan and IIT Bombay, India Bishnu Pradhan, IIT Bombay, India Abhay Karandikar, IIT Bombay, India Local Arrangements: Gigabit Network Laboratory, IIT Bombay, India -------------------------------- ---- Rudra Dutta Associate Professor, Computer Science Dept. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC dutta(a)csc.ncsu.edu http://dutta.csc.ncsu.edu/ ----------- _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[IFIP-EC-NEWS] Special Issue: Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Elsevier
by Marco Roccetti 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

** IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING NEWS SERVICE ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** Send all news to: icec(a)listserver.tue.nl **************************************************** ** NOTE: Please reply to article's originator, ** not this IFIP EC News Service **************************************************** [many apologies if you receive this more than once] regards Marco Roccetti ----------------------- Special Issue on Network Technologies for Emerging Broadband Multimedia Services Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JVCI) Elsevier With the rapid proliferation of multimedia data, including audio, image, video and graphics, and the great advance of multimedia technologies such as the JPEG and MPEG standards, more and more network-based multimedia Applications (e.g. IPTV, VoD, VoIP etc.) emerge and they have become part of our daily life. All these applications share a basic requirement, i.e. broadband services. Indeed, driven by the rapid growing demand of multimedia service, broadband Internet access is now a common setup for many Internet users in modern cities. In May 2008, US broadband penetration has reached 89.3% among active Internet users. Nevertheless, despite the high data rate, the broadband multimedia services are not satisfactory. For example, a computer may enjoy a 100Mbps of data rate connection to the Internet. However, even streaming 500kbps of a video clip may still suffer from occasion playback interruptions. This is mainly due to lack of QoS support in the Internet. Here is just one example to show the challenge of providing good-quality broadband multimedia services. The situation becomes even more challenging when we consider a variety of networks, diverse end users, notorious wireless channels, mobility, inter-networking, co-existence of different types of traffic, etc. The goal of this special issue is to solicit the state-of-the-art approaches and technical solutions in the area of network technologies for emerging broadband multimedia services. The issue will provide a convincing forum for researchers and practitioners to present their latest research results. Scope The scope of this special issue is to cover all aspects that relate to network technologies and media control technologies for emerging broadband multimedia services. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - New protocols for multimedia services - New multimedia architectures/platforms - Network security for multimedia services - Performance evaluation of multimedia services - Network measurement/monitoring for multimedia services - Pricing, accounting and billing for multimedia services - Reliability, availability, serviceability of multimedia services - Seamless mobility of multimedia services - Management of multicast and broadcast multimedia services - Multimedia management in next generation networks - Multimedia services in mobile and broadband wireless networks - P2P multimedia streaming - QoS management in multimedia networks - Cross-layer optimized multimedia networks - IPTV and emerging applications - Network coding technology for multimedia delivery - Cooperative or collaborative communications for multimedia services - Adaptation, reconfiguration and transcoding of multimedia services Information for Authors Authors should prepare their manuscript according to the Guide for Authors available from the online submission page of the 'Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation' at http://ees.elsevier.com/jvci/. When submitting via this page, please select Network TechnologiesforEmergingBroadbandMultimediaServices as the Article Type. Prospective authors should submit high quality, original manuscripts that have not appeared, nor are under consideration, in any other journals. All submissions will be peer reviewed following the JVCI reviewing procedures. Important Dates: Manuscript Submission Deadline: December 1, 2008 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: March 1, 2009 Final Manuscript Due to JVCI: April 1, 2009 Expected Publication Date: June, 2009 Guest Editors: Jianfei Cai, School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. (asjfcai(a)ntu.edu.sg) Shivkumar Kalyanraman, Department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Institute of Technology, USA. (shivkuma(a)gmail.com) Marco Roccetti, Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, Università di Bologna, Italy. (roccetti(a)cs.unibo.it) Hwangjun Song, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, POSTECH(Pohang University of Science and Technology), Korea. (Hwangjun(a)postech.ac.kr ) Dapeng Oliver Wu, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Florida. USA. (wu(a)ece.ufl.edu ) **************************************************** ** To send and receive IFIP-EC-NEWS, go to ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** and subscribe directly **************************************************** ** News archives: ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/private/icec/ **************************************************** ** To join the IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING Group ** contact: g.w.m.rauterberg(a)tue.nl ****************************************************

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[Fwd: [Tccc] The 3rd IEEE Workshop on Automotive Networking and Applications]
by Lars Wolf 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] The 3rd IEEE Workshop on Automotive Networking and Applications Datum: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:57:22 -0400 (EDT) Von: Ratul Guha <rguha(a)research.telcordia.com> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu (AutoNet 2008) Apologies for Multiple Copies Call for Papers The 3rd IEEE Workshop on Automotive Networking and Applications (AutoNet 2008) Co-located with IEEE GLOBECOM 2008 December 4, 2008 (Thursday) - New Orleans, LA, USA Coupled with advances in wireless communications and computing technologies, there have been significant recent efforts to enhance and integrate the communications and computing technologies into the vehicle and transportation systems to enhance vehicle safety, reduce traffic congestion, and protect environment. Significant industrial and governmental efforts are underway to push for vehicle-to-vehicle / vehicle-to-infrastructure networking functions in vehicles and highway infrastructure. When such communications and networking capabilities are integrated into vehicles and the infrastructure, not only safety but many other emerging applications can be supported for intelligent interactions with the transportation system, with other vehicles, and inside vehicles, to help with traffic management, vehicle diagnostics, mobile commerce, and much more. This one-day workshop intends to bring together researchers, professionals, and practitioners to discuss and address recent developments and challenges in deploying vehicle-to-vehicle / vehicle-to-infrastructure networking technologies and their applications. Specifically, we solicit original research contributions addressing the following areas: * Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications * Vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications * Vehicular ad hoc networks * Potential applications of V2V and V2I communications including ITS * Protocols for V2V and V2I communications (MAC, routing, mobility management, etc.) * Security and privacy issues in V2V and V2I networks * Physical layer and RF level technologies for V2V and V2I communications * Antenna technologies for V2V and V2I communications * Radio resource management and QoS support for V2V and V2I communications * Information networking over V2V, V2R and next-generation networks * Simulation / performance evaluation techniques for V2V and V2I communications * Algorithms, protocols and systems for data dissemination in V2V and V2I communications * Experimental systems and testbeds for V2V and V2I communications * Standardization updates on V2V and V2I communications All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will appear in the Workshop proceedings (CD-ROM and booklet of papers) as well as on the IEEE Xplore. Workshop URLs: http://www.ieee-globecom.org/ (workshops) or http://autonet2008.research.telcordia.com/ EDAS URL: http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=5783&track=4681 Submission Instructions Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 20 double-spaced pages, including references, figures and tables. All submissions should be submitted electronically in Postscript or Adobe PDF format on EDAS http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=5783&track=4681 Please direct questions regarding the submission procedure to: Wai Chen (wchen(a)research.telcordia.com) Onur Altintas (onur(a)jp.toyota-itc.com) Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: September 1, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: October 1, 2008 Camera-Ready Submissions: October 15, 2008 Workshop Co-chairs Dr. Wai Chen, Telcordia Technologies, USA Dr. Onur Altintas, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan Program Advisor Prof. Tadao Saito Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo, Japan CTO, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan Technical Program Committee Subir Biswas Michigan State University, USA Fan Bai GM R&D Center, USA Luca Delgrossi Mercedes-Benz Research Lab, USA Eylem Ekici Ohio State University, USA Andreas Festag NEC Lab, Germany Marco Gruteser WINLAB, Rutgers University, USA Ratul Guha Telcordia Technologies, USA Jerome Harri University of Karlsruhe, Germany Teruo Higashino Osaka University, Japan Hariharan Krishnan GM R&D Center, USA Tim Leinmuller Denso Automotive Deutschland GmbH, Germany Thomas Luckenbach FOKUS, Germany Michela Meo Politecnico di Torino, Italy Rahul Mangharam University of Pennsylvania, USA Nick Maxemchuk Columbia University, USA Guevara Noubir Northeastern University, USA Umit Ozguner Ohio State University, USA Ai-Chun Pang National Taiwan University, Taiwan Chirag Patel Qualcomm, USA Panagiotis Papadimitratos EPFL, Switzerland Cem Saraydar GM R&D Center, USA Chien-Chung Shen University of Delaware, USA Daniel Stancil Carnegie Mellon University, USA Marcus Strassberger BMW Group, Germany Kazunori Takeuchi KDDI R&D Lab, Japan Kemal Tepe University of Windsor, Canada Christian Wewetzer Volkswagen Group, Germany Benjamin Weyl BMW Group, Germany Richard Wolff Montana State University, USA Daniel Wong Malaysia University of Science and Technology, Malaysia _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] The 3rd IEEE Workshop on Automotive Networking and Applications]
by Lars Wolf 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] The 3rd IEEE Workshop on Automotive Networking and Applications Datum: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:57:22 -0400 (EDT) Von: Ratul Guha <rguha(a)research.telcordia.com> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu (AutoNet 2008) Apologies for Multiple Copies Call for Papers The 3rd IEEE Workshop on Automotive Networking and Applications (AutoNet 2008) Co-located with IEEE GLOBECOM 2008 December 4, 2008 (Thursday) - New Orleans, LA, USA Coupled with advances in wireless communications and computing technologies, there have been significant recent efforts to enhance and integrate the communications and computing technologies into the vehicle and transportation systems to enhance vehicle safety, reduce traffic congestion, and protect environment. Significant industrial and governmental efforts are underway to push for vehicle-to-vehicle / vehicle-to-infrastructure networking functions in vehicles and highway infrastructure. When such communications and networking capabilities are integrated into vehicles and the infrastructure, not only safety but many other emerging applications can be supported for intelligent interactions with the transportation system, with other vehicles, and inside vehicles, to help with traffic management, vehicle diagnostics, mobile commerce, and much more. This one-day workshop intends to bring together researchers, professionals, and practitioners to discuss and address recent developments and challenges in deploying vehicle-to-vehicle / vehicle-to-infrastructure networking technologies and their applications. Specifically, we solicit original research contributions addressing the following areas: * Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications * Vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications * Vehicular ad hoc networks * Potential applications of V2V and V2I communications including ITS * Protocols for V2V and V2I communications (MAC, routing, mobility management, etc.) * Security and privacy issues in V2V and V2I networks * Physical layer and RF level technologies for V2V and V2I communications * Antenna technologies for V2V and V2I communications * Radio resource management and QoS support for V2V and V2I communications * Information networking over V2V, V2R and next-generation networks * Simulation / performance evaluation techniques for V2V and V2I communications * Algorithms, protocols and systems for data dissemination in V2V and V2I communications * Experimental systems and testbeds for V2V and V2I communications * Standardization updates on V2V and V2I communications All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will appear in the Workshop proceedings (CD-ROM and booklet of papers) as well as on the IEEE Xplore. Workshop URLs: http://www.ieee-globecom.org/ (workshops) or http://autonet2008.research.telcordia.com/ EDAS URL: http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=5783&track=4681 Submission Instructions Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 20 double-spaced pages, including references, figures and tables. All submissions should be submitted electronically in Postscript or Adobe PDF format on EDAS http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=5783&track=4681 Please direct questions regarding the submission procedure to: Wai Chen (wchen(a)research.telcordia.com) Onur Altintas (onur(a)jp.toyota-itc.com) Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: September 1, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: October 1, 2008 Camera-Ready Submissions: October 15, 2008 Workshop Co-chairs Dr. Wai Chen, Telcordia Technologies, USA Dr. Onur Altintas, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan Program Advisor Prof. Tadao Saito Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo, Japan CTO, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan Technical Program Committee Subir Biswas Michigan State University, USA Fan Bai GM R&D Center, USA Luca Delgrossi Mercedes-Benz Research Lab, USA Eylem Ekici Ohio State University, USA Andreas Festag NEC Lab, Germany Marco Gruteser WINLAB, Rutgers University, USA Ratul Guha Telcordia Technologies, USA Jerome Harri University of Karlsruhe, Germany Teruo Higashino Osaka University, Japan Hariharan Krishnan GM R&D Center, USA Tim Leinmuller Denso Automotive Deutschland GmbH, Germany Thomas Luckenbach FOKUS, Germany Michela Meo Politecnico di Torino, Italy Rahul Mangharam University of Pennsylvania, USA Nick Maxemchuk Columbia University, USA Guevara Noubir Northeastern University, USA Umit Ozguner Ohio State University, USA Ai-Chun Pang National Taiwan University, Taiwan Chirag Patel Qualcomm, USA Panagiotis Papadimitratos EPFL, Switzerland Cem Saraydar GM R&D Center, USA Chien-Chung Shen University of Delaware, USA Daniel Stancil Carnegie Mellon University, USA Marcus Strassberger BMW Group, Germany Kazunori Takeuchi KDDI R&D Lab, Japan Kemal Tepe University of Windsor, Canada Christian Wewetzer Volkswagen Group, Germany Benjamin Weyl BMW Group, Germany Richard Wolff Montana State University, USA Daniel Wong Malaysia University of Science and Technology, Malaysia _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Mycolleagues] CfP: ROADS'08, Madrid, 9 December 2008
by Timur Friedman 22 Jul '08

22 Jul '08

CfP: ROADS'08 - Madrid, Spain, 9 December 2008 http://www.sigcomm.org/co-next2008/roads.html The 3rd International Workshop on Real Overlays And Distributed Systems (ROADS) seeks papers on the challenges in building large-scale distributed systems and networking overlays. ROADS is a place to share new experiences, and work in progress, with an emphasis on systems that actually run in the wide-area Internet. The Real in ROADS refers to systems that are deployed on a real platform for a period of time. They might be existing widely deployed systems, new research prototypes, or more permanent services, but submissions should address technical challenges they present for designers and researchers. We also welcome papers that explore the extent to which results retain their validity when moving from simulation (e.g., ModelNet) to emulation (e.g., Emulab), and/or to more realistic deployment settings (e.g., PlanetLab). The workshop program will include invited speakers and presentations of peer-reviewed papers. Papers will be selected based on originality, likelihood of stimulating a lively discussion, and technical merit. We encourage submissions of early work containing novel and interesting ideas. We envision ROADS as a forum where participants can receive early feedback on the design and implementation of systems that may later form the core of submissions to conferences such as CoNEXT, SIGCOMM, NSDI, SOSP, OSDI, MobiCom, or MobiSys. Topics of interest include, but are by no means limited to: * Self-organizing, autonomous, and federated networked systems * Overlays and peer-to-peer systems * Online social networks: privacy, reputation, content sharing, search * Video-On-Demand and other advanced content distribution systems * Cloud computing and data center networks * Managing, debugging, and diagnosing problems in distributed systems * Virtualization and resource management for networked systems * Architectural support for improving security or availability * Design and evaluation of Internet-scale testbeds * Experiences with deployed systems (e.g., CDNs, metro-area Wi-Fi networks, massive multiplayer game systems) * Addressing novel challenges for the developing world * Energy efficient computing in networked environments Important Dates Submission deadline: September 12th, 2008 (Friday, 23:59 CEST) Notifications of acceptance: October 20th, 2008 Final versions due: November 14th, 2008 Submissions Submissions should be at most 6 pages in length (including figures, tables, and references), in standard ACM two-column format, using at least 10 point type. Longer submissions will not be reviewed. Submissions should expose a new problem, advocate a specific solution, or report on actual experience. Instructions regarding the submission process can be found on the ROADS'08 web site. Papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library and will be included in the ACM CoNEXT 2008 electronic proceedings. Program Committee Nick Feamster, Georgia Tech, USA Bryan Ford, MIT, USA Mike Freedman, Princeton University, USA Arvind Krishnamurthy, University of Washington, USA Ratul Mahajan, Microsoft Research, USA Sue Moon, KAIST, Korea Dushyanth Narayanan, Microsoft Research, UK Stefan Saroiu, University of Toronto, Canada Workshop Chairs Andy Bavier, Princeton University, USA Krishna Gummadi, MPI-SWS, Germany Pablo Rodriguez, Telefonica Research Lab, Spain _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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