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[Mycolleagues] Call for papers: Special Issue on Emerging Wireless Networks, Computers and Electrical Engineering Journal, Elsevier
by Dr. Isaac Woungang 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

Call for Papers Special issue on: Emerging Wireless Networks, Computers and Electrical Engineering Journal, Elsevier http://www.elsevier.com/framework_products/promis_misc/cfp367special.pdf Wireless communication technologies are undergoing rapid advancements. The last few years have experienced a steep growth in research on wireless networks having attractive claims. Researchers are currently envisioning different attractive properties of wireless systems such as the ability to self- organize, self-configure, self-heal, self-manage and self-maintain. Different wireless networks having the potential to offer cost-effective home and enterprise access networking solutions are being researched. Technologies such as Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs), WiFi, WiMax, Bluetooth, 802.20, 802.22 and software defined radio are gaining popularity. Even though these technologies hold great promises for our future, there are several challenges that need to be addressed. This Special Issue aims to publish high quality research papers relating to different emerging wireless network technologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:  Broadband wireless access networks  Wireless Internet  Software defined radio  Bluetooth technology  Ultra-wide band radio  Emerging Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks  Wireless Mesh Networks  IEEE 802.11/802.20/802.22  Emerging wireless network security issues  Wireless telemedicine and e-health  Emerging issues in 3G and 4G wireless networks  Emerging wireless network architecture  Multimedia over emerging wireless networks  Underwater sensor Networks  Supplying power to the distributed wireless sensors  Very low-powered sensors  Cooperative wireless communications  Multi-hop relay wireless communications Tutorial-type articles (but NOT a review of the literature) about the latest on an emerging wireless network topic (such as wireless sensors) are also of interest to this Special Issue. Guest Editor: Isaac Woungang Department of Computer Science Ryerson University, Toronto Ontario, CANADA E-mail: iwoungan(a)scs.ryerson.ca Submission Details: Original, high quality contributions that are not yet published or that are not currently under review by other journals or peer-reviewed conferences are sought. Manuscripts should be submitted by e-mail to iwoungan(a)scs.ryerson.ca. Please mention “C&EE Special Issue Submission” in the subject line of your e-mail. After sending your manuscript, if you do not get a confirmation of receipt of your submission within 2-3 business days, please resend your original e-mail again. A guide for authors for preparing their papers is available at http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/367/ authorinstructions Contributing authors might be asked to review some of the papers submitted to this special issue. Important Dates: Manuscript Due: July 1, 2008. Acceptance Notification: November 1, 2008. Camera-Ready Final Manuscript Due: December 1, 2008 _______________________________________________ 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: Special Issue on Emerging Wireless Networks, Computers and Electrical Engineering Journal, Elsevier
by Dr. Isaac Woungang 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

Call for Papers Special issue on: Emerging Wireless Networks, Computers and Electrical Engineering Journal, Elsevier http://www.elsevier.com/framework_products/promis_misc/cfp367special.pdf Wireless communication technologies are undergoing rapid advancements. The last few years have experienced a steep growth in research on wireless networks having attractive claims. Researchers are currently envisioning different attractive properties of wireless systems such as the ability to self- organize, self-configure, self-heal, self-manage and self-maintain. Different wireless networks having the potential to offer cost-effective home and enterprise access networking solutions are being researched. Technologies such as Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs), WiFi, WiMax, Bluetooth, 802.20, 802.22 and software defined radio are gaining popularity. Even though these technologies hold great promises for our future, there are several challenges that need to be addressed. This Special Issue aims to publish high quality research papers relating to different emerging wireless network technologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:  Broadband wireless access networks  Wireless Internet  Software defined radio  Bluetooth technology  Ultra-wide band radio  Emerging Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks  Wireless Mesh Networks  IEEE 802.11/802.20/802.22  Emerging wireless network security issues  Wireless telemedicine and e-health  Emerging issues in 3G and 4G wireless networks  Emerging wireless network architecture  Multimedia over emerging wireless networks  Underwater sensor Networks  Supplying power to the distributed wireless sensors  Very low-powered sensors  Cooperative wireless communications  Multi-hop relay wireless communications Tutorial-type articles (but NOT a review of the literature) about the latest on an emerging wireless network topic (such as wireless sensors) are also of interest to this Special Issue. Guest Editor: Isaac Woungang Department of Computer Science Ryerson University, Toronto Ontario, CANADA E-mail: iwoungan(a)scs.ryerson.ca Submission Details: Original, high quality contributions that are not yet published or that are not currently under review by other journals or peer-reviewed conferences are sought. Manuscripts should be submitted by e-mail to iwoungan(a)scs.ryerson.ca. Please mention “C&EE Special Issue Submission” in the subject line of your e-mail. After sending your manuscript, if you do not get a confirmation of receipt of your submission within 2-3 business days, please resend your original e-mail again. A guide for authors for preparing their papers is available at http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/367/ authorinstructions Contributing authors might be asked to review some of the papers submitted to this special issue. Important Dates: Manuscript Due: July 1, 2008. Acceptance Notification: November 1, 2008. Camera-Ready Final Manuscript Due: December 1, 2008 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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IEEE VTS Conference Update
by IEEE E-Notice 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

VTC2008-Fall in Calgary ======================= Last Call for submissions to VTC2008-Fall in Calgary. The official deadline is 29 February, but due to a number of requests for extensions the submission site will remain open through to 3 March 2008. Full details can be found at http://www.vtc2008fall.org VPPC2008 in Harbin, China ========================= The deadline for the Vehicle Power and Propulsion conference, 3-5 September 2008 in Harbin, China is also almost upon us, with abstracts due to be submitted by 1 March 2008. Full details can be found at http://www.vppc2008.com Workshop on Positioning, Navigation & Communication 2008 (WPNC2008) =================================================================== The 5th in this series of workshops will take place in Hannover, Germany on 27 March 2008. Make plans to attend to find out about state of the art approachs and systems for location and positioning. Full details at http://www.wpnc.net ================================================================================ You have received this mailing because you are a member of IEEE and/or one of the IEEE Technical Societies. To unsubscribe, please go to http://ewh.ieee.org/enotice/options.php?SN=Wolf&LN=VT006 and be certain to include your IEEE member number. If you need assistance with your E-Notice subscription, please contact k.n.luu(a)ieee.org ================================================================================

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Call for Papers 6. Workshop Automotive Software Engineering
by gi-mitglieder-info＠gi-ev.de 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, liebe Mitglieder des FB Softwaretechnik, der 6. Workshop Automotive Software Engineering findet im Rahmen der 38. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik (www.informatik2008.de) Anfang September 2008 in München statt. Der Workshop ist am 09. September geplant. Den Call for Papers finden Sie auf den Internetseiten der Fachgruppe "Automotive Software Engineering" http://www.gi-ev.de/fachbereiche/softwaretechnik/ase/aktuelle_veranstaltunge n.html . Weitere Informationen zum Workshop finden Sie demnächst unter www.bmwcarit.de/gi/ase2008. Die Organisatoren Manfred Broy, TU München, Reinhard Stolle, BMW Car IT, und Alexandre Saad, BMW Group, sowie das Leitungsgremium der FG "Automotive Software Engineering" laden Sie herzlich zur Einreichung von Beiträgen und zur Teilnahme ein. Bitte leiten Sie diese Information in Ihren Organisationen weiter. Mit freundlichen Gruessen Dr. Bernhard Hohlfeld bernhard.hohlfeld (at) daimler.com If you are not the intended addressee, please inform us immediately that you have received this e-mail in error, and delete it. We thank you for your cooperation.

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[Tccc] CfP for IEEE PIMRC 2008 - VoIP Technologies Workshop
by Evangelos Papapetrou 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

[Apologies for multiple postings] 1st CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE PIMRC 2008 - VoIP Technologies Workshop VoIP Technology: Research and Standards for reliable applications http://www.cs.uoi.gr/~voippimrc08/ Aim of the workshop ------------------------ The trend to all IP-based networks has been fuelled by the Internet’s flexibility that allows the development of innovative services. In this context, the integration of heterogeneous infrastructures as well as applications is of paramount importance. Voice over IP (VoIP), also referred to as Internet or IP telephony, is an example of application that brings the well-known circuit-switched service to the context of IP-based networks. Over the last years, VoIP has received the wide acceptance of users and network operators due to its countless benefits. While users enjoy the flexibility and the monetary savings that VoIP provides, service providers take advantage of its cost-effectiveness. Although VoIP has evolved rapidly, recent advances provide new opportunities for meeting numerous daunting challenges for reaching the quality of traditional telephony service. To this end, he VoIP community is taking advantage of new networking technologies (i.e., WiMAX, Wireless Mesh networks, overlay networks, etc) and innovative design trends and technologies (i.e., cross-layer architectures, QoS advances, network coding, etc). The aim of this workshop is to serve as a forum for scientists and engineers from academia, industry as well as from regulatory and standardization authorities, where they could share recent advances and design trends in VoIP technology. Topics of Interest ------------------------ The aim of this Workshop is to cover a wide spectrum of topics related to VoIP communications, ranging from QoS mechanisms to the design and performance evaluation of different VoIP components. Original papers are solicited that present research, development and deployment issues and challenges, as well as experimental results and applications in the area of Internet Telephony. The topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Emerging VoIP services in all-IP mobile networks * Cross-layer design of VoIP services * Call continuity between VoIP and traditional circuit-switched networks * VoIP over Heterogeneous Networks * Test methods and measurments * Design, implementation and VoIP testbed results * QoS mechanisms tailored to VoIP transmission * Header Compression schemes * Voice codecs and silence suppression * VoIP over WLAN, WiMAX and Wireless Mesh Networks * Call admission control and QoS support for VoIP * Security in VoIP communications Submission of Papers ------------------------ Submitted papers should be 5 double-column pages (over-length pages will be charged according to PIMRC policy). Both submissions and full papers should be uploaded to the VoIP Technologies Workshop submission track (http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6355&track=4147&) in the EDAS system. Papers should be in English and formatted according to IEEE paper templates available on the PIMRC’08 website. For more details on the workshop please visit the webpage http://www.cs.uoi.gr/~voippimrc08. Papers will be reviewed by the program committee for their technical merit, originality, significance, readability, and relevance to the workshop. Emphasis will be given to papers extending VoIP technology to novel areas as well as to papers coming from industry. Submissions are due on April 11. Authors will receive notification of acceptance/rejection by May 19. Camera-ready copies of accepted papers are due on June 2 and will be published in PIMRC’ 08 proceedings. The maximum length of final papers will be 5 pages in double column. Important Dates ------------------------ Submission deadline for full papers: Friday, April 11, 2008 Notification of acceptance : Monday, May 19, 2008 Camera-ready copy hard deadline: Monday, June 2, 2008 Workshop date: Monday, September 15, 2008 Workshop Chairs ------------------------ Fotini-Niovi Pavlidou Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Qian Zhang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong TPC Chairs ------------------------ Jorg Ott Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Evangelos Papapetrou University of Ioannina, Greece Program Committee ------------------------ Colin Perkins University of Glasgow, UK Dorgham Sisalem Tekelec, Germany Gonzalo Camarillo Ericsson Nomadic Lab, Finland Haitham Cruickshank University of Surrey, UK Huseyin Uzunalioglu Lucent Technologies , USA Juergen Quittek NEC Europe, Germany Maryan Vazquez Castro University of Barcelona, Spain Noel Crespi GET-INT, France Tomaso de Cola DLR, Germany Contact Information ------------------------ Fotini Niovi Pavlidou Professor Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Thessaloniki, 54124, Hellas Tel: +30-2310-996285 FAX: +30-2310-996285 Email: niovi(a)auth.gr Evangelos Papapetrou Lecturer Department of Computer Science, University of Ioannina Ioannina, 45110, Hellas Tel: +30-26510-98878 Fax: +30-26510-98890 Email: epap(a)cs.uoi.gr _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[cfp] [Fwd: ICST - CfP: Mobimedia 2008, 7-9.7.2008 at Oulu, Finland]
by Lars Wolf 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: ICST - CfP: Mobimedia 2008, 7-9.7.2008 at Oulu, Finland Datum: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:15:02 -0500 Von: info(a)icstconferences.org Antwort an: info(a)icst.org An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message! ************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS MobiMedia2008 4th International Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference *** PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 14th of March 2008 *** ************************************************************* Sponsored by ACM, ICST, CREATE-NET and VTT MobiMedia 2008 Web-site: http://www.mobimedia.org Paper submission: http://www.cocus.eu 7-9th of July, Oulu, Finland Scope ----- The development and deployment of the multimedia services and applications in mobile environments requires adopting an interdisciplinary approach where both multimedia and networking issues are addressed jointly. Different type of semantic characteristics of media, human interpretation of audiovisual information, coding standards and interaction with networking, mobility and security protocols are research issues that need to be carefully examined when proposing new solutions. The efficient delivery and deployment of multimedia applications and services over emerging diverse and heterogeneous wireless networks is a challenging research objective. The research efforts e.g. for the 3G/4G and 3G LTE visions of interworking among heterogeneous technologies to achieve multimedia session continuity, retain multimedia QoS characteristics etc., amplifies the need to evaluate the conditions and restrictions under which delivery of such services can be accomplished. The demand for eff! icient multimedia communications can be also seen as one of main driving forces towards the Future Internet and Post-IP solutions. The interoperability of applications, transport and network protocols and radio access, as well as the demand for improved quality of service and user experience, security and mobility support creates a challenging study field and also possibilities for research of novel communication protocols and methods towards the Future Internet. In addition for the technical challenges caused by the increased amount of multimedia usage and delivery through different community services, peer-to-peer networks, Web, Internet IPTV etc. the multimedia delivery is also affecting to industry value chains, commerce transactions between businesses (B2B), and business and customers (B2C). Within this scope, MobiMedia is intended to provide a unique international forum for researchers from industry and academia, working in multimedia coding and mobile networking fiel! ds to study new applications, solutions, and standards. Original unpublished contributions are solicited that can improve the knowledge and practice in the integrated design of efficient technologies and the relevant provision of advanced mobile multimedia applications. The conference key reseach areas include, but are not limited to * Application and channel coding paradigms, including for example joint source and channel coding paradigms, scalable video coding, wireless and ad hoc network solutions, ciphering and authentication. * Networking and transmission mechanisms including for example transport and network protocol solutions, cross-layer techniques, rate control and adaptation mechanism for video delivery, impact of mobility and heterogenous networks in multimedia delivery and p2p content delivery * Multimedia services, business models and concepts, including for example new business models and service concepts, trust and security paradigms for multimedia delivery, test beds and experimentation platforms for multimedia delivery. Papers ------ The conference invites original technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Topics include, but are not limited to: * Multimedia semantic characteristics in wireless, mobile and ubiquitous environments * Multimedia QoS in wireless networks * Extraction and usage of semantic information with multimedia * Performance evaluation of multimedia services * Multimedia Retrieval in wireless and mobile environments * Mechanisms supporting triple-play services in emerging wireless networks * Scalable Coding of multimedia in wireless and mobile networks * Cross-Layer techniques for multimedia communications over wireless networks * Joint source-channel coding * Multimedia services over ad-hoc and wireless sensor networks * Rate Control and Adaptation for wireless multimedia * P2P multimedia streaming in wireless and mobile networks * Transport protocols for multimedia in emerging wireless networks * Mobile Content Delivery Networks * Test and experimentation test beds for multimedia delivery * Impact of heterogeneous wireless network environment and mobility * Trust and security in multimedia delivery * Service concepts and new business models Technical program ----------------- The conference will also include invited panels to facilitate for exchanging ideas and discussion, and specific sessions and workshops on focused interest areas. Submissions of proposals on workshops and special sessions on emerging topics are invited Paper submission and publication -------------------------------- MobiMedia 2008 invites manuscripts that present original materials not previously published in, or currently under review by, another conference or journal. Submissions should be full-length papers of up to 7 pages (including all figures and references) formatted according to ACM publication template. Full-length papers should report on completed work and will be considered for oral presentations. A separate abstract of no longer than 200 words should be submitted as well. Submissions will be judged by their originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series and will be made available in ACM Digital Library, as well as indexed by EI and ISI Index. Poster sessions and demonstrations ---------------------------------- MobiMedia 2008 invites the poster and demonstration session parallel with the main conference event. These short papers should report on work in progress or discuss open problems, and will be considered for poster presentations. A maximum of 4 page proposal for poster/demonstration presentation for the session should be submitted to the Poster Session co-chairs. For information on exhibit space or sponsorship opportunities, please contact the corresponding conference Poster and Demosession Chair, General Co-Chairs and Conference Organizing Co-Chairs. Workshops and special sessions ------------------------------ Proposals for one-day workshops or special session to be held in conjunction with the conference are solicited. A maximum of 2 pages should be submitted which include the workshop name, its scope and a list of topic of interests. Proposals should be submitted directly to Workshop Chair and to e-mail: mobimedia(a)willab.fi. Important Dates --------------- Proposals for Workshops and Special Sessions due: February 10, 2008 Full Papers due: March 14, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: May 2, 2008 Camera-ready Manuscripts due: May 24, 2008 Conference Dates: July 7-9, 2008 STEERING BOARD: GENERAL CHAIRS: TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIRS: --------------- --------------- ------------------------ Imrich Chlamtac Jyrki Huusko Rahim Tafazolli Luigi Atzori Tapio Frantti Djamal Zeghlache Frank Fitzek -------------------------------------------------- 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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[Tccc] CFP for PETRA Conference
by Christos Douligeris 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

======================================= ****************************** ******** Call for Papers ******* ****************************** * * *1st International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments* *(PETRA) 2008* *July 15-19, Athens, GREECE* * * **Conference Web Site*: http://www.petrae.org/* As the diffusion of computing technology into everyday life continues at an exponential rate, elements of technology are increasingly being embedded in artifacts and environments. One important environment for this diffusion is the domestic environment, or Oikos as it was known in ancient Greece. Peoples’ living environments are particularly important when one takes into account the world’s aging population and the fact that as people grow older they are increasingly relying on technology. People will however, have differing levels of computer knowledge and assisted living needs. As a result of these differences the first key area of PETRA is: how to build pervasive technologies for assistive environments that are non-intrusive and easy to use for the end user. The second key area is the technology, as it is now increasingly possible to assist people who have health care needs in their homes by using sensors, databases, personal area networks, ubiquitous connectivity, distributed intelligence and adaptive easy to use interfaces and interactions. However in order to provide such support it is necessary to combine efforts from many areas of engineering and computer science e.g. security, embedded systems, distributed systems, data management and networking. It is at this critical moment that we would like to invite researchers working in the area of healthcare and assisted living to submit their original research findings to the PETRA conference. * * * * Topics and areas of interest include, but are not limited to: *· *Tools, infrastructures, architectures and techniques for designing, implementing and deploying pervasive applications in assistive environments *· *Privacy, security and trust *· *Social impact of the use of pervasive technologies on the user in pervasive assistive environments *· *Wearable, ambient and home based health and wellness measurement and monitoring technologies *· *Mobile and wireless technologies for healthcare information storage, transmission, processing, and feedback *· *Sensor networks for pervasive care *· *Standards and interoperability *· *Probes for gathering requirements in household settings *· *Context aware mobile networks *· *Signal and Image Processing for Ambient Intelligence and Pervasive Computing *· *Reasoning systems and Machine Learning for Assistive Environments *· *Usability and HCI issues, Multimodal Interfaces *Conference Proceedings:* ACM will be the publisher of the proceedings of the PETRA conference and the conference proceedings will be a volume in the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series in the ACM Digital Library. Authors should use the ACM Word or LaTeX style templates to prepare their articles. See: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html Authors should apply ACM Computing Classification categories and terms. The Classification Scheme can be found at: http://www.acm.org/class/1998/ * * *Journal:* *· *The best papers from the 1st ACM International Conference on "PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments - PETRA 2008" will be invited for publication in a special issue of the Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Journal (Springer)- Special Issue on Pervasive Technologies for Assistive Environments. *· *Selected papers describing research work on the social impact and effect of the use of pervasive technologies will be invited for publication in a special issue of the International Journal Universal Access in the Information Society - UAIS. The theme of the UAIS Special Issue is: PERVASIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND ASSISTIVE ENVIRONMENTS: SOCIAL IMPACT, FINANCIAL, GOVERNMENT AND PRIVACY ISSUES. *· *Selected posters will appear at eJeta. *Important dates:* *· *Paper Submission Deadline: */February 28, 2008 (Extended)/* *· *Notifications of Acceptance: */March 20, 2008/* *· *Submission of Final Camera Ready Paper: */April 10, 2008/* *· *Workshop Proposal Submissions Deadline: */January 20, 2007/* *· *Notifications of Acceptance: */January 30, 2008/* *· *Paper Submission to Workshops: */March 30, 2008/* *· *Notifications of Workshops Paper Acceptance: */April 30, 2008/* *· *Camera Ready Workshops Papers: */20 May, 2008/* *· *Tutorial Proposal Submissions Deadline: */February 20, 2008/* *· *Poster** Submissions Deadline: */March 30, 2008/* *· *CONFERENCE DATES: */JULY 15-19, 2008/* * * *Submission information:* Submissions must present unpublished work, not submitted to other journals or conferences for consideration of publication. Submitted papers should be up to 8 pages, formatted according to ACM Word or LaTeX style templates. Papers may be accepted either as full papers (8 pages) or short papers (4 pages). Accepted papers will be presented at the conference and published in the official conference proceedings by ACM. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register with the conference and present the paper. * * *People* */ /* */Steering Committee/* Fillia Makedon - */University of Texas at Arlington, USA/* Lynne Baillie - */Telecom. Research Center Vienna (FTW), Austria/* Ilias Maglogiannis - */University of the Aegean, Greece/* Grammati Pantziou - TEI of Athens (Department of Informatics), Greece Vangelis Karkaletsis - */NCSR "Demokritos", Greece/* Regular* Student** Early registration: April 15, 2008 TBA… TBA… Late registration: May 15, 2008 TBA… TBA… On-site registration: June 15, 2008 TBA… TBA… */ /* */General Chairs/* Fillia Makedon - */University of Texas at Arlington, USA/* Lynne Baillie - */Telecom. Research Center Vienna (FTW), Austria/* */ /* */Program Committee Co-Chairs/* Kimon Valavanis - University of South Florida, USA Ilias Maglogiannis - University of the Aegean, Greece */ /* */Organizing Committee Chairs/* Grammati Pantziou - */TEI of Athens (Department of Informatics), Greece/* Ilias Maglogiannis - */University of the Aegean, Greece/* */ /* */Program Committee/* Yiannis Aloimonos - */University of Maryland, USA/* Vassilis Athitsos - */University of Texas at Arlington, USA/* Lynne Baillie */- Telecom. Research Center Vienna (FTW), Austria/* David Benyon - */Napier University Merchiston Campus, UK/* Andrew Campbell - */Dartmouth College, USA/* Guanling Chen - */University of Massachussetts at Lowell, USA/* Diane Cook - */Washington State University, USA/* Domenico Cotroneo - */University of Napoli Federico II, Italy/* Sajal Das - */University of Texas at Arlington, USA/* Christos Douligeris */- University of Piraeus, Greece/* Salim Hariri - */Arizona State University, USA/* Stathes Hadjiefthymiades - */Dept. of Informatics & Telecommunications, University of Athens/* Heng Huang - */University of Texas at Arlington, USA/* Vangelis Karkaletsis - */NCSR "Demokritos", Greece/* Dimitrios Kosmopoulos */- NCSR "Demokritos", Greece/* Morten Kyng - */University of Aarhus, Denmark/* */Zhengyi Le - Dartmouth College and University of Texas at Arlington, USA/* Fillia Makedon - */University of Texas at Arlington, USA/* Ilias Maglogiannis - */University of the Aegean, Greece/* Ian McClelland - */Philips Applied Technologies, Netherlands/* Dimitris Metaxas - */Rutgers University, USA/* Alex Mihailidis - */University of Toronto, Canada/* Charles Owen - */Michigan State University, USA/* Maja Pantic - */Imperial College, UK/* Grammati Pantziou - */TEI of Athens (Department of Informatics), Greece/* Costas Pattichis - */University of Cyprus, Cyprus/* Joi Roberts - */Motorola, USA/* Niilo Saranummi - */VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland/* Andreas Savvides - */Yale University, USA/* Bhavani Thuraisingham - */University of Texas at Dallas, USA/* Magda Tsolaki - */Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece/* John Waterworth - */Umea University in Northern Sweden/* */ /* */Organizing Committee/* Eric Becker - */University of Texas at Arlington, USA/* Petros Belsis - */TEI of Athens, Greece/* Charalampos Doukas - */University of the Aegean, Greece/* James Ford - */Dartmouth College, USA/* Zhengyi Le - Dartmouth College and University of Texas at Arlington, USA Vangelis Metsis - */University of Texas at Arlington, USA/* Rajat Mittal - */University of Texas at Arlington, USA/* Manolis Wallace - */University of Indianapolis, Athens Campus, Greece/* Rong Zhang */- Dartmouth College, USA/* */ /* */Industry Relations Co-Chairs/* Lynne Baillie - */Telecom. Research Center Vienna (FTW), Austria/* Jeff Lei - */University of Texas at Arlington, USA/* Dimitrios Kosmopoulos */- NCSR "Demokritos", Greece/* */ /* */Workshop Co-Chairs/* Christos Douligeris */- University of Piraeus, Greece/* Zhengyi Le - */Dartmouth College and University of Texas at Arlington, USA/* Dimitrios Kosmopoulos - */NCSR "Demokritos", Greece/* Dimitrios Vogiatzis - */NCSR "Demokritos", Greece/* */ /* */Poster Co-Chairs/* Heng Huang - */University of Texas at Arlington, USA/* Euripidis Loukis - */University of the Aegean, Greece/* */ /* */Publicity Co-Chairs/* Andreas Savvides - */Yale University, USA/* Balakrishnan Prabhakaran - */University of Texas at Dallas, USA/* */ /* */Keynote Speakers/* Frederica Darema - */Senior Science and Technology Advisor, NSF/CISE/* Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos - */University of Minnesota, USA/* */ /* */Invited Speakers/* Dinesh Bhatia - */University of Texas at Dallas, USA/* Matt Bishop - */University of California, Davis, USA/* Michail Bletsas */- MIT Media Lab, USA/* Roger Bostelman - */National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA/* Bill Carroll - */University of Texas at Arlington, USA/* Magda Tsolaki - */Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece/* Aria Tzika - */Harvard University, USA/* _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lars Wolf 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

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[Tccc] Call for Abstracts - Hot Topics on Autonomic Computing (HotAC) III
by Fabian E. Bustamante 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

Our apologies if you receive multiple postings of this call. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Announcement and Call for Abstracts Third Workshop on Hot Topics in Autonomic Computing (HotAC III) June 2, 2008 http://www.aqualab.cs.northwestern.edu/HotACIII/ HotAC III will be held during the first day of the 5th International Conference on Autonomic Computing, June 2-6, 2008. Important dates Abstract submission due: April 11, 2008 11:59 CST (GMT-6). Notification of acceptance: April 25, 2008. Overview The third Workshop on Hot Topics in Autonomic Computing will bring together a broad range of researchers from the fields of computer systems, networks, and autonomic computing to discuss new ideas and developments in conquering the challenges of managing ever-more complex large-scale systems. The goal of the workshop is to promote community wide discussion of potentially high-impact ideas that will influence and foster continued research in improving the manageability and reliability of computing systems. The focus of this year's workshop is grand challenges in autonomic computing. Through a highly interactive workshop, our goal is to define the critical research problems facing the management of large-scale systems, and to outline promising research directions to attacking these problems. Attendance at the workshop is limited and will be by invitation only. If you are interested in attending, please submit an abstract describing a grand challenge for self-adaptive systems, accompanied by a sketch on how to address it. A grand challenge is a problem whose solution requires 5-10 years of effort and will have significant technical and societal impact. Abstracts are limited to two pages in length and are due at midnight (Central Standard Time) on April 11, 2008. Submissions should be sent to hotacIII-submit(a)cs.northwestern.edu. Submitters will be notified of decisions on April 25, 2008. Rather than publishing workshop proceedings, we expect the attendees to contribute to a written report on the key research challenges in this field, to be published in one of the main computer science magazines (such as the Communication of the ACM, IEEE Computer or USENIX ;login), and to a discussion summary that will be presented by the organizers to the general ICAC audience. Organizers The workshop organizing committee consists of: Ozalp Babaoglu, Università di Bologna Fabián E. Bustamante, Northwestern University Jeffrey Kephart, IBM Research Emre Kiciman, Microsoft Research Manish Parashar, Rutgers University Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology Maarten van Steen, Vrije University John Wilkes, Hewelett-Packard Labs -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Fabián E. Bustamante, Assistant Professor EECS, Northwestern U. Technological Institute L465 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 www.aqualab.cs.northwestern.edu _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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IEEE CCNC 2009: Call for Papers
by Kurt Tutschku 27 Feb '08

27 Feb '08

IEEE CCNC 2009 - CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE CONSUMER COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING CONFERENCE 2009 11 - 13 January 2009, Harrah's Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2009/ IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference - the 6th annual international conference - brings together researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry working in all areas of consumer communications and networking. IEEE CCNC 2009, sponsored by IEEE Communications Society, will present the latest developments and technical solutions in the areas of home networking, consumer networking, enabling technologies (such as middleware), and novel applications and services. We invite you to submit papers for IEEE CCNC's Technical Program in the following areas of consumer communications and networking. - Wireless Networking for Consumer Electronics - Personal Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks - Entertainment & Multimedia Networking - Peer-to-Peer and Content Delivery - Emerging Applications & Pervasive Technologies - Security for CE Communications For a list of potential topics and submission requirements, visit http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2009/ Important Technical Program Deadlines: Technical Papers Due: 29 June 2008 Acceptance Notification: 12 September 2008 Camera Ready Artwork: 10 October 2008 ______________________________________________________________________ Submissions are also welcomed for Special Sessions, Workshops, Short Papers, Tutorials, Demonstrations, and Technical Panels. Special Sessions Due: 23 May 2008 Workshops Due: 23 May 2008 Short Papers Due: 27 June 2008 Tutorials Due: 15 August 2008 Demonstrations Due: 12 September 2008 Technical Panels Due: 17 September 2008 For more information on these specialized tracks, visit http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2009/ ______________________________________________________________________ Reach hundreds of engineers, marketing and product design specialists, and executives in the consumer networking, consumer electronics, and consumer content-provider fields. Showcase your brand to the most influential engineering audience in consumer electronics. Patron status maximizes your company's exposure and enhances your company's reputation. See the IEEE CCNC website for patron opportunities! http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2009/ ______________________________________________________________________ Honorary Chair K. T. Lee, CTO Samsung Group, Korea General Co-Chairs Simon Gibbs and Alan Messer Samsung, USA Technical Program Chair John Buford, Avaya Labs, USA TPC Vice-Chairs Track: Wireless Networking for Consumer Electronics R. Chandramouli, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Track: Personal Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Behrooz Shirazi, Washington State University, USA Track: Entertainment and Multimedia Networking Zhu Li, Motorola Labs, USA Track: Peer-to-Peer and Content Delivery Wolfgang Kellerer, DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe, Germany Track: Emerging Applications and Pervasive Technologies Christian Becker, University of Mannheim, Germany Track: Security for CE Communications Chi-Sung Laih, National Cheng Kung University, Republic of China Workshop Chair Kurt Tutschku, NICT, Japan Special Sessions Chair Mario Kolberg, University of Stirling, UK Short Papers Chair Florence Kolberg, University of Strathclyde, UK Tutorial Co-Chairs Dr. Frank den Hartog, TNO, The Netherlands Dr. V. Prasad, Delft U. of Technology Technology Applications Panels Chair Shoshana Loeb, Telcordia, USA Demonstration Co-Chairs Andreas Heiner, Nokia, Finland Subir Saha, Motorola India Research Lab, Bangalore --- Dr. Kurt Tutschku, Expert Researcher NICT (National Institute of Information and Communication Technology) Network Architecture Group, Network Research Center Park Court Place, 4th Floor 1-33-16, Hakusan, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0001 Japan Tel.: +81-3-3868-6916 FAX.: +81-3-3868-6921 mailto:tutschku@nict.go.jp or mailto:kurt.tutschku@gmail.com http://www.nict.go.jp/index.html

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[Fwd: [Tccc] WICON 2008: Call For Papers]
by Lars Wolf 26 Feb '08

26 Feb '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] WICON 2008: Call For Papers Datum: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:11:26 -0500 Von: Tommaso Melodia <tmelodia(a)eng.buffalo.edu> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ********************************************************************** ***** WICON 2008 ***** The Fourth Annual International Wireless Internet Conference November 17-19, 2008 Maui, Hawaii, USA http://www.wicon.org Technically sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE, sponsored by CREATE-NET and ICST. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series and will be made available in the ACM Digital Library, as well as indexed by EI. Selected papers will be published in a special issue of ACM MOBILE NETWORKS and APPLICATIONS (MONET). ********************************************************************** Wireless Internet is quickly emerging as a reality, thanks to the fast evolution of many wireless access technologies. Convergence of heterogeneous wireless networks and the next generation Internet further brings wireless Internet into a variety of application scenarios which provide mobile users with a wide range of highly demanding services, such as high speed data and real-time multimedia delivery. On the other hand, it is of critical importance to obtain a fundamental understanding of wireless Internet architectures and explore new services and solutions in order to achieve the ultimate goal of wireless Internet access anytime anywhere. The Wireless Internet Conference (WICON) will continue to serve as a premier international forum to discuss novel research results related to the emerging Wireless Internet. WICON 2008 is soliciting both academic research and industry practice papers. Papers solicited in the WICON 2008 span a wide range of areas of interest including but not limited to: Seamless Integration of Heterogeneous Networks ============================================== * Convergence and interworking of heterogeneous wireless networks * Vertical handoff and seamless roaming * Mobile P2P networking, systems, and applications * Next generation Internet services and applications Cross-layer Design and Optimization =================================== * Clean-slate wireless Internet architecture * Interaction among PHY/MAC, routing, and congestion control * PHY-aware wireless scheduling * QoS provisioning of Multimedia wireless networks Wireless Access Technologies ============================ * WLANs, WiMAX, satellite, 3G and Beyond * QoS management and traffic modeling * Algorithm design and performance analysis Multi-hop Wireless Networks =========================== * Wireless sensor networks * Mobile ad hoc networks * Wireless mesh networks Emerging Technologies and Applications ====================================== * Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET) * Cognitive radio networks * Bio-inspired networks * Context-aware mobile networking * Wireless body area networks (WBANs), tele-medicine/e-health networks Network Security ================ * Architectural support for security * Security, privacy, and dependability issues * Security in cooperative networks Wireless Internet Platforms and Software ======================================== * Testbeds and simulation tools * Middleware, operating system, and programming languages * Experimental measurements SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: ======================== Papers will be submitted by electronic submission through the COCUS system: http://www.cocus.eu. The page limit is 9 pages in ACM double column format with fonts not smaller than 10 points. IMPORTANT DATES: ================ Submission deadline: July 15, 2008 23:59 (Central European Time) Notification of acceptance: September 15, 2008 Camera-ready version: October 15, 2008 Workshop proposal due: July 1, 2008 Notification date: July 15, 2008 Panel proposal due: September 1, 2008 Notification date: September 15, 2008 WORKSHOPS: ========== Proposals for workshops should be submitted to the Workshop Chair at farkas(a)inf.nyme.hu. The evaluation of the workshop proposals will be based on the expertise and experience of the instructors, and on the relevance of the subject matter. PANELS: ======= Proposals for panel discussions that focus on the next generation wireless Internet are encouraged. Potential panel organizers should submit a panel proposal directly to the Panel Co-Chairs at knightly(a)ece.rich.edu and linx(a)ecn.purdue.edu. INDUSTRY PRACTICE PAPERS: ========================= Industry papers that highlight experiments/testbeds and demonstrate the successful implementation of recent or on-going research work are welcome. The topics of industry papers can be from any of the 7 listed tracks. Submitted industry papers will be assigned to the Industry Chair for review. For more information, please contact Industry Chair at jing.z.zhu(a)intel.com. INVITED PAPERS: =============== WICON 2008 will include a number of invited papers from distinguished researchers with impressive outcomes on various advanced research topics or cutting-edge techniques. B2B EVENT: ========== An industry B2B event will be co-located with WICON 2008. The B2B event will include invited talks by industry/technology leaders, business and product presentations, as well as exhibitions and demos. Organization Committee: ======================= General Co-Chairs: ------------------ Ness Shroff Ohio State University, USA Xudong Wang Kiyon Inc., USA Technical Program Co-Chairs: ---------------------------- Junshan Zhang Arizona State University, USA Sanjay Shakkottai University of Texas-Austin, USA Jiang (Linda) Xie Univ. of North Carolina-Charlotte, USA Steering Committee Chair: ------------------------- Imrich Chlamtac Create-Net, Italy Industry Chair: --------------- Jing Zhu Intel Research Labs, USA Workshop Chair: --------------- Karoly Farkas University of West Hungary, Hungary Panel Co-Chairs: ------------ Edward Knightly Rice University, USA Xiaojun Lin Purdue University, USA Publicity Chair: ---------------- Tommaso Melodia State Univ. of New York-Buffalo, USA Gyorgy Dan KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Azman O. Lim NICT, Japan Publication Chair: ------------------ Atilla Eryilmaz Ohio State University, USA Local Arrangement Chair: ------------------------ Yingbin Liang University of Hawaii, USA Conference Chair: ----------------- Kitti H. Kovacs ICST Web Chair: ---------- Ping Zhou Qualcomm, USA For more information about the conference, see http://www.wicon.org -------------------------------------------------------- Tommaso Melodia Assistant Professor Department of Electrical Engineering State University of New York at Buffalo Office: 215G Bonner Hall Buffalo, NY 14260 Tel: (716) 645-3115 ext. 1147 Email: tmelodia(a)eng.buffalo.edu Web: http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/~tmelodia/ -------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Deadline in 3 weeks - MobiArch'08 - ACM SIGCOMM workshop]
by Lars Wolf 26 Feb '08

26 Feb '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Deadline in 3 weeks - MobiArch'08 - ACM SIGCOMM workshop Datum: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:00:38 +0200 Von: Eggert Lars (Nokia-NRC/Helsinki) <lars.eggert(a)nokia.com> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> *********************************************** *** PAPER REGISTRATION DEADLINE APPROACHING *** *** 3 short weeks until March 17, 2008 *** *********************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ACM MobiArch 2008 An ACM SIGCOMM 2008 Workshop Paper registration deadline: March 17, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACM MobiArch 2008 The 3rd ACM International Workshop on Mobility in the Evolving Internet Architecture An ACM SIGCOMM 2008 Workshop Seattle, WA, USA, August 22, 2008 http://www.sigcomm.org/sigcomm2008/workshops/mobiarch/ Recent developments in wireless access technologies and mobile devices are beginning to make widespread user, terminal and network mobility a reality in the commercial Internet. At the same time, the Internet architecture struggles to incorporate the functionality that will sustain this increasingly more mobile and more dynamic Internet use. Efficient mobility management and mobility optimizations, locator-identifier splits, multihoming, security and related network operation and management functions are still in the early stages of development. It is, however, already clear that supporting widespread mobility poses to significantly impact the original end-to-end design of the Internet. At the same time, critical momentum is building to significantly revise or even replace the current Internet architecture. Several substantial Future Internet initiatives have started in Europe, the US and Asia, and the topic is also actively being discussed in the vendor and network operator communities. These Future Internet efforts offer the exciting opportunity to design radically different approaches to supporting host and network mobility and multihoming, and may eventually lead to an internetwork architecture with significantly more advanced mobility features than those that the piecemeal extensions of the current Internet protocols result in. MobiArch'08 welcomes submissions from both researchers and practitioners that explore recent advances in architectures, protocols and emerging technologies to enable mobility and multihoming in the Internet, as well as concepts and designs to support widespread mobility and multihoming in future internetworks. Early results, position papers, systems and measurement papers are particularly welcome. TOPICS MobiArch'08 covers all aspects related to mobility in the current and future Internet, including, but not limited to: * Architectures and protocols for mobility support at all layers of the Internet protocol stack, as well as cross-layer approaches * Novel concepts to support widespread mobility and multihoming in a Future Internet * Routing and addressing issues (including locator/identifier splits) and their impact on the Internet architecture * Multihoming, including flow distribution and load-sharing for wireless and mobility * Performance evaluation, experimentation and modeling of Internet mobility * Models for mobility patterns and their experimental validation * New wireless technologies and services and their impact on the Internet architecture * Location management, positioning and data management for wireless and mobility * Accounting, access control, security and privacy issues and their impact on the Internet architecture * Social, economic, scalability and deployment issues SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submissions must be no longer than six pages, including all figures and references, must be in PDF format, and must follow the ACM formatting guidelines (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). Submissions that do not adhere to these requirements will be rejected without further review. Peer review is single-blind; the authors names and affiliations are to be included on the submission. Submissions cannot be previously published or be under concurrent review elsewhere. The submission of position papers is encouraged; please clearly identify position papers as such when submitting. Papers may be submitted at http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6140 IMPORTANT DATES March 17, 2008 Registration of paper abstract March 24, 2008 Submissions due May 1, 2008 Notification of acceptance June 9, 2008 Camera ready version due August 22, 2008 Workshop date TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Lars Eggert (co-chair, Nokia Research Center, FI) Linda Doyle (co-chair, Trinity College, IE) Rui Aguiar (Universidade de Aveiro, PT) Bengt Ahlgren (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, SE) Jari Arkko (Ericsson, FI) Marcelo Bagnulo (University Carlos III of Madrid, ES) Olivier Bonaventure (Université Catholique de Louvain, BE) Wesley Eddy (NASA/Verizon (US) Joseph Evans (University of Kansas, US) Ted Faber (USC Information Sciences Institute, US) Stephen Hailes (University College London, UK) Roger Karrer (T-Labs, DE) Rajeev Koodli (Nokia Research Center, US) Donal O'Mahony (Trinity College, IE) Jörg Ott (Helsinki University of Technology, FI) Guru Parulkar (Stanford University, US) Dipankar Raychaudhuri (Rutgers University, US) Dave Thaler (Microsoft, US) Ryuji Wakikawa (Keio University, JP) Klaus Wehrle (RWTH Aachen University, DE) Lixia Zhang (UCLA, US) _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Extended Deadline to March 8- CFP: IEEE Network Special Issue on Implications and Control of Middleboxes in the Internet
by Xiaoming Fu 26 Feb '08

26 Feb '08

Our apologies if you receive multiple copies. Please feel free to forward this CFP to related colleagues and students for information. --------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers IEEE Network Magazine Special Issue on Implications and Control of Middleboxes in the Internet Important Dates =============== Manuscript Submission Due: March 8, 2008 (FIRM) Acceptance Notification: June 1, 2008 Final Manuscript Due: July 15, 2008 Special Issue Publication Date: September/October 2008 Call for Papers =============== Network Address Translators (NAT) and IP firewalls have been introduced to the Internet some time ago, and over the time become an integral part of the Internet architecture. Moreover, there are also other types of middleboxes, such as Virtual Private Network (VPN) gateways, Application Layer Gateways (ALG), Performance Enhancing Proxies (PEP) and web proxies. These intermediary boxes perform functions different from normal IP packet treatment, which can even change the content of packets or do rerouting of IP packets. There have been diverse views on the value of middleboxes. Some believe that middleboxes introduce problems for network applications as well as challenges to the traditional end-to-end Internet architecture. These issues range, for instance, but not limited to, from naming and addressing of nodes behind NATs, directionality of communication establishment, and performance impairments. On the other hand, many administrators and operators see the middleboxes represent an important part for their network operations. For example, firewalls are widely deployed with the intention of securing enterprise, campus and home networks, so as to block attacks to nodes or keep nodes from sending malicious traffic. The Internet community has acknowledged the emergence of the middleboxes and developed middlebox control and coordination protocols that allow end hosts (or application proxies) to learn about the presence of middleboxes and communicate their needs (i.e. required packet treatment) to those devices. A number of middlebox control protocols, such as UPnP, MIDCOM and STUN, have been developed over the years and are partially used in current deployments. The papers in this special issue will focus on the state-of-the-art research in various aspects of middleboxes and middlebox control mechanisms, which help to understand their impact to the Internet architecture and network operations, and how they can be further integrated, or leveraged for different purposes, such as load balancing and mobile network environments, among the others. Specifically, within the aforementioned context in Internet middleboxes and their control mechanisms, the special issue will present tutorials, surveys and original research articles (written in a tutorial manner readable by non-specialists) that cover the following subjects, but not limited to: * Middlebox-supported network architectures vs. other Internet evolution alternatives (e.g., IPv6) * Design and/or performance evaluation of middlebox software architectures * Control and coordination across middleboxes and their traversal mechanisms * Security, including authentication, authorization and accounting issues with middlebox control/traversal mechanisms * Scalability and performance studies of middlebox control/traversal mechanisms * Deployment scenarios and case studies (corporate, ISP, content providers, mobile environments etc.) based on middleboxes * Interaction and implications with other network protocols and components * Interaction and implications with end-to-end applications and services * Related standardization efforts Manuscript Submission ===================== With regard to both the content and formatting style of the submissions, prospective contributors must follow the IEEE Network guidelines for authors that can be found at http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/net/ntwrk/authors.html. Submitted papers must be original and must not be under current consideration for publication in other venues. Authors should submit a PDF format of their complete papers via http://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6198. Guest Editors ============= Prof. Xiaoming Fu Institute for Computer Science University of Goettingen Goettingen Germany Email: fu(a)cs.uni-goettingen.de Martin Stiemerling NEC Europe Laboratories Network Research Division Heidelberg Germany Email: stiemerling(a)netlab.nec.de Prof. Henning Schulzrinne Department of Computer Science Columbia University New York, NY USA Email: hgs(a)cs.columbia.edu

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[Cost290] March 9: submission deadline for the ICCCN 2008 Symposium on Future Internet Architectures and Protocols
by Yevgeni Koucheryavy 26 Feb '08

26 Feb '08

Dear colleague, The final submission deadline for the Symposium on Future Internet Architectures and Protocols at ICCCN 2008 is March 9 and approaches fast. Please consider contributing your relevant research findings to benefit from the expertise of the distinguished TPC and short review cycle. The conference in St. Thomas promises to be exciting. The invited speakers include: Dave Culler (UC Berkeley), Chip Elliot (GENI Project Director), P.R. Kumar (UIUC), K.K. Ramakrishnan (AT&T Labs-Research), and a number of other distinguished members of the research community: http://icccn.org/icccn08/App_Themes/Theme1/KeyNote_Speaker.pdf and http://icccn.org/icccn08/App_Themes/Theme1/Invited_Speakers.pdf I am enclosing the detailed call for papers below. Thank you, Sergey ______________________________________________________________________ Call for Papers Symposium on Future Internet Architectures and Protocols at ICCCN 2008 (17th International Conference on Computer Communication Networks) St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands August 4 - 7, 2008 http://www.arl.wustl.edu/~gorinsky/FIAP_at_ICCCN_2008.html http://www.icccn.org/icccn08/ Technical Sponsors * IEEE TCCC * Nokia (pending) The Internet has emerged as a remarkably successful infrastructure for data communication. Globally federated autonomous networks provide ubiquitous connectivity across diverse communication media. The Internet's layered protocol architecture provides sufficient flexibility to provide effective support for network applications ranging from web to peer-to-peer and TV-over-IP. However, limitations in manageability, security, and innovation in the network core have proven to be fundamental problems in the Internet architecture. In response to these shortcomings, researchers and funding agencies around the globe are in the process of exploring novel network architectures and protocols. This symposium seeks submissions on novel research ideas relating to architectural principles and specific implementation mechanisms. We solicit original and unpublished papers on all aspects of future Internet architectures and protocols including, but not limited to, the following topics: * Network architectures and distributed protocols * Architectural support for security * Scalable resource allocation and management * Architectural support for availability * Network virtualization * High-performance router designs * Cross-layer designs * Network services and network processing * Advanced wireless and optical technologies in the context of Internet architectures * Economic models and incentives * Network measurement * Platforms for large-scale experimentation Important Dates * Paper submission: March 9, 2008 * Notification of acceptance: May 5, 2008 * Camera ready papers due: May 22, 2008 Submission, Review, and Registration Instructions Submission of manuscripts is through EDAS: http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6096&track=3652& Submitted manuscripts must be of length up to 6 pages unless the authors are willing to pay the over-length charges at the time of publication (manuscripts may NOT exceed 8 pages). The manuscripts must be submitted in the standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font). Files should be submitted in PDF format and formatted for 8.5x11-inch paper. Submitted papers may NOT have appeared in, nor be under consideration for, another journal or conference. The Program Committee reserves the right to NOT review papers that either exceed the above length specification or have been submitted or published elsewhere. Submissions must include the title, abstract, keywords, author(s) and affiliation, e-mail address(es), fax/phone number(s), and postal address(es). In case of multiple authors, indicate which author is responsible for correspondence about the submission. Review and publication of manuscripts: All submitted papers will be reviewed and judged on originality, correctness, relevance, quality of presentation, and technical strength and significance. An accepted paper must be registered and presented by one of the authors at the conference venue and must be limited to 6 pages (with an allowance of up to two extra pages at a cost of US$150 per extra page beyond 6 pages) in the standard IEEE camera-ready format. Registration: Each full registration covers up to three papers by an author. Technical Program Committee Chairs * Sergey Gorinsky, Washington University in St. Louis, USA * Tilman Wolf, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA Technical Program Committee * Mark Allman, International Computer Science Institute, USA * Ken Calvert, University of Kentucky, USA * Rudra Dutta, North Carolina State University, USA * Nick Feamster, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA * Wu-Chun Feng, Virginia Tech, USA * Marco Gruteser, Rutgers University, USA * Jussi Kangasharju, University of Helsinki, Finland * Jasleen Kaur, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA * Peter Key, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK * Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland * Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, Northwestern University, USA * Yan Luo, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA * Martin May, ETH Zurich, Switzerland * Vasileios Pappas, IBM Research, USA * K. K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T Labs - Research, USA * Kamil Sarac, University of Texas at Dallas, USA * Joe Touch, ISI - University of Southern California, USA * Vassilis Tsaoussidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece * Arun Venkataramani, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA * Joerg Widmer, DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany * Murat Yuksel, University of Nevada - Reno, USA _______________________________________________ Cost290 mailing list Cost290(a)cs.tut.fi https://mailman.cs.tut.fi/mailman/listinfo/cost290

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IEEE MASS 2008: 5-th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems
by bononi＠cs.unibo.it 26 Feb '08

26 Feb '08

Apologies if you received multiple copies ------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE MASS 2008 Fifth IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems September 29 - October 2, 2008 Hilton Atlanta Atlanta, GA, USA http://www.cse.psu.edu/IEEEMASS08/ Sponsors: IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Technical Committee on Distributed Processing, IEEE Technical Committee on Simulation, and IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Communications Wireless ad-hoc communication has applications in a variety of environments, such as conferences, hospitals, battlefields and disaster-recovery/rescue operations, and is also being actively investigated as an alternative paradigm for Internet connectivity in both urban and rural areas. Wireless sensor and actuator networks are also being deployed for enhancing industrial control processes and supply-chains, and for various forms of environmental monitoring. The IEEE MASS 2008 conference is the fifth edition of MASS and aims at addressing advances in research on multi-hop ad-hoc and sensor networks, covering topics ranging from technology issues to applications and test-bed development. IEEE MASS 2008 solicits original, unpublished contributions in all aspects of (mobile) ad-hoc networks and wireless sensor networks (WSN), systems and applications. Submitted articles must not be concurrently considered elsewhere for publication. Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for fast track publication in the Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal (www.elsevier.come/locate/pmc). Scope: Topics include, but are not limited to: - Physical layer impact on higher layers in ad-hoc networks and WSNs - Directional / smart antennas - Multi-channel, multi-radio and MIMO technologies - MAC protocols (802.11, 802.15.4, UWB) - Wireless mesh networks and cognitive networks - P2P/overlay/content distribution architectures for wireless ad hoc networks - Delay tolerant networks and opportunistic networking - Vehicular networks and protocols - Mobile/robotic sensor networks - Power-aware architectures, algorithms and protocols design - Clustering, topology control, coverage and connectivity issues - Routing protocols (unicast, multicast, broadcast, geocast) - Data transport, management and information scheduling - Data gathering, fusion, and dissemination in WSNs - Localization, synchronization and cooperative sensing in WSNs - Sensor networks and pervasive infrastructures - Capacity planning and admission control in ad-hoc networks - Handoff / mobility management and seamless internetworking - Resource management and wireless QoS Provisioning - Cross layer design and optimization - Incentive-based and game-theoretic approaches in ad-hoc networks - Reliability, resiliency and fault tolerance techniques - Security, privacy, and trust issues - Management and monitoring of ad-hoc and sensor networks - Operating systems and middleware support - Novel applications and architectures for WSNs - Modeling, analysis and performance evaluation - Measurements and experience from experimental systems and test-beds Submission Guidelines: All submissions must be full papers in PDF format and uploaded on EDAS. Direct link for paper submission (abstracts due within March 14, 2008): http://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6118& They must not exceed 10 single-spaced, double-column pages using at least 11 pt size fonts on 8.5 x 11 inch pages in IEEE style format. Detailed formatting and submission instructions will be available on the conference website. WORKSHOP Proposals: Workshop proposals are solicited on cutting-edge topics that complement or supplement the main theme of IEEE MASS 2008. Please contact the Workshop Co-chairs with proposals or for any questions. The submission deadline is Feb 15. DEMO Proposals: Proposals are solicited for technical demonstrations of experimental ad-hoc and sensor networking systems. Visit the conference website for instructions on submitting demo proposals or contact the Demo Chair. PAPER Submission Deadlines: Abstracts Due: March 14, 2008 Manuscripts Due: March 21, 2008 Acceptance Notification: June 20, 2008 Camera-ready Submission: July 18, 2008 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE GENERAL Chair Tom La Porta, Pennsylvania State University, USA (tlp at cse.psuedu) PROGRAM Chair Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA (das at uta.edu) TPC Vice Chairs Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy (bononi at cs.unibo.it) Archan Misra, IBM Watson Research Center, USA (archan at us.ibm.com) Chunming Qiao, University of Buffalo, USA (qiao at cse.buffalo.edu) WORKSHOP Co-Chairs Yonghe Liu, University of Texas at Arlington, USA (yonghe at cse.uta.edu) Sencun Zhu, Pennsylvania State University, USA (szhu at cse.psu.edu) FINANCE & REGISTRATION Chair: Anup Kumar, University of Louisville, USA PUBLICATION Chair Dajin Wang, Montclair State University, USA PUBLICITY Co-Chairs Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National University, Korea (schoi at snu.ac.kr) Murat Demirbas, University of Buffalo, USA (demirbas at cse.buffalo.edu) Pedro Ruiz, University of Murcia, Spain (pedrom at dif.um.es) LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS Chair George Riley, Georgia Tech, USA (riley at ece.gatech.edu) WEB Chair Sharanya Eswaran, Pennsylvania State Univ, USA (eswaran at cse.psu.edu) STEERING COMMITTEE Co-chairs Dharma P. Agrawal, University of Cincinnati, USA Jie Wu (TCDP), Florida Atlantic University & NSF, USA TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, State University of New York at Binghamton, USA Prathima Agrawal, Auburn University, USA Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Kevin Almeroth, University of California at Santa Barbara Giuseppe Anastasi, University of Pisa, Italy Stefano Basagni, Northeastern University, USA Elizabeth Belding, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Brahim Bensaou, Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Amiya Bhattacharya, New Mexico State University, USA Douglas Blough, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada Joel Branch, IBM Watson Research Center, USA Raffaele Bruno, IIT.CNR, Pisa, Italy Levente Buttyan, CrySys lab, Budapest Univ. of tech. and econ., Hungary Guohong Cao, Pennsylvania State University, USA Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Antonio Capone, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Mainak Chatterjee, University of Central Florida, USA Guihai Chen, Nanjing University, China Hsiao-Hwa Chen, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan Yanghee Choi, Seoul National University, Korea Chun Tung Chou, University of New South Wales, Australia Amitabha Das, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Swades De, Indian Institute of Technology, India Murat Demirbas, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA Falko Dressler, University of Erlangen, Germany Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University,USA Karoly Farkas, University of West Hungary, Hungary Laura Feeney, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden Ratan Ghosh, Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, India Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Switzerland Mesut Gunes, Computer Science, Freie Univ Berlin, Germany Zygmunt Haas, Cornell University, USA Qi Han, Colorado School of Mines, USA Paul Havinga, University of Twente, The Netherlands Tian He, University of Minnesota, USA Sanjay Jha, University of New South Wales, Australia Xiaohua Jia, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Vana Kalogeraki, University of California at Riverside, USA Koushik Kar, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Holger Karl, University of Paderborn, Germany Sneha Kasera, University of Utah, USA Young-Bae Ko, Ajou University, Korea Sastry Kompella, Naval Research Laboratory, USA Farinaz Koushanfar, Rice University, USA Evangelos Kranakis, Carleton University, Canada Bhaskar Krishnamachari, University of Southern California, USA Sudha Krishnamurthy, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany Taekyoung Kwon, Seoul National University, Korea Tom La Porta, Pennsylvania State University, USA Sung-Ju Lee, HP Labs, USA Qilian Liang, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Weifa Liang, Australian National University, Australia Lavy Libman, NICTA, Sydney, Australia Yonghe Liu, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Yunhao Liu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Cecilia Mascolo, University College London, UK Martin Mauve, Heinrich Heine University, Düorf, Germany Ciaran Mc Goldrick, Trinity College at Dublin, Ireland Tommaso Melodia, State University of New York at Buffalo, mUSA Jelena Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada Archan Misra, IBM Watson Research Center, USA Mehul Motani, National University of Singapore, Singapore Farid Nait-Abdesselam, University of Sciences and Tech. of Lille, France Peng Ning, North Carolina State University, USA Sergio Palazzo, University of Catania, Italy Joséarente de Oliveira, ITA, Brazil Andrea Passarella, IIT-CNR, Pisa, Italy Dirk Pesch, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland Chiara Petrioli, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy Tien Pham, Army Research Laboratory, USA Cristina M. Pinotti, University of Perugia, Italy Dario Pompili, Rutgers University, The State Univ. of New Jersey, USA Ravi Prakash, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Chunming Qiao, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA Lili Qiu, The University of Texas at Austin, USA Milena Radenkovic, University of Nottingham, UK Fengyuan Ren, Tsinghua University, China Pedro Ruiz, University of Murcia, Spain Weisong Shi, Wayne State University, USA Yi Shi, Virginia Tech, USA Rajeev Shorey, General Motors Research, India David Simplot-Ryl, INRIA & University of Lille, France Raghupathy Sivakumar, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Krishna Sivalingam, University of Maryland at Baltimore County, USA Harry Skianis, National Centre for Scientific Res. 'Demokritos', Greece Cormac Sreenan, University College of Cork, Ireland Vikram Srinivasan, Bell Labs Research, India Violet Syrotiuk, Arizona State University, USA Vic Thomas, Honeywell, USA Ozan Tonguz, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Wade Trappe, Rutgers University, The State Univ. of New Jersey, USA Yu-Chee Tseng, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan Roberto Verdone, University of Bologna, Italy Mehmet Vuran, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Hongyi Wu, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Louisiana Wendong Xiao, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Wensheng Zhang, Iowa State University, USA Sheng Zhong, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA Yanmin Zhu, Imperial College of London, UK Michele Zorzi, Universitàegli Studi di Padova, Italy .

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[Tccc] Extended Deadline - CFP: IEEE Network Special Issue on Implications and Control of Middleboxes in the Internet
by Martin Stiemerling 25 Feb '08

25 Feb '08

Our apologies if you receive multiple copies. Please feel free to forward this CFP to related colleagues and students for information. --------------------------------------------------------- * Submission deadline is due in 10 days! * Call for Papers IEEE Network Magazine Special Issue on Implications and Control of Middleboxes in the Internet Important Dates =============== Manuscript Submission Due: March 8, 2008 Acceptance Notification: June 1, 2008 Final Manuscript Due: July 15, 2008 Special Issue Publication Date: September/October 2008 Call for Papers =============== Network Address Translators (NAT) and IP firewalls have been introduced to the Internet some time ago, and over the time become an integral part of the Internet architecture. Moreover, there are also other types of middleboxes, such as Virtual Private Network (VPN) gateways, Application Layer Gateways (ALG), Performance Enhancing Proxies (PEP) and web proxies. These intermediary boxes perform functions different from normal IP packet treatment, which can even change the content of packets or do rerouting of IP packets. There have been diverse views on the value of middleboxes. Some believe that middleboxes introduce problems for network applications as well as challenges to the traditional end-to-end Internet architecture. These issues range, for instance, but not limited to, from naming and addressing of nodes behind NATs, directionality of communication establishment, and performance impairments. On the other hand, many administrators and operators see the middleboxes represent an important part for their network operations. For example, firewalls are widely deployed with the intention of securing enterprise, campus and home networks, so as to block attacks to nodes or keep nodes from sending malicious traffic. The Internet community has acknowledged the emergence of the middleboxes and developed middlebox control and coordination protocols that allow end hosts (or application proxies) to learn about the presence of middleboxes and communicate their needs (i.e. required packet treatment) to those devices. A number of middlebox control protocols, such as UPnP, MIDCOM and STUN, have been developed over the years and are partially used in current deployments. The papers in this special issue will focus on the state-of-the-art research in various aspects of middleboxes and middlebox control mechanisms, which help to understand their impact to the Internet architecture and network operations, and how they can be further integrated, or leveraged for different purposes, such as load balancing and mobile network environments, among the others. Specifically, within the aforementioned context in Internet middleboxes and their control mechanisms, the special issue will present tutorials, surveys and original research articles (written in a tutorial manner readable by non-specialists) that cover the following subjects, but not limited to: * Middlebox-supported network architectures vs. other Internet evolution alternatives (e.g., IPv6) * Design and/or performance evaluation of middlebox software architectures * Control and coordination across middleboxes and their traversal mechanisms * Security, including authentication, authorization and accounting issues with middlebox control/traversal mechanisms * Scalability and performance studies of middlebox control/traversal mechanisms * Deployment scenarios and case studies (corporate, ISP, content providers, mobile environments etc.) based on middleboxes * Interaction and implications with other network protocols and components * Interaction and implications with end-to-end applications and services * Related standardization efforts Manuscript Submission ===================== With regard to both the content and formatting style of the submissions, prospective contributors must follow the IEEE Network guidelines for authors that can be found at http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/net/ntwrk/authors.html. Submitted papers must be original and must not be under current consideration for publication in other venues. Authors should submit a PDF format of their complete papers via http://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6198. Guest Editors ============= Prof. Xiaoming Fu Institute for Computer Science University of Goettingen Goettingen Germany Email: fu(a)cs.uni-goettingen.de Martin Stiemerling NEC Europe Laboratories Network Research Division Heidelberg Germany Email: stiemerling(a)netlab.nec.de Prof. Henning Schulzrinne Department of Computer Science Columbia University New York, NY USA Email: hgs(a)cs.columbia.edu stiemerling(a)nw.neclab.eu <== NEW ADDRESS NEC Laboratories Europe - Network Research Division NEC Europe Limited | Registered Office: NEC House, 1 Victoria Road, London W3 6BL | Registered in England 2832014 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: Workshop on Energy in Wireless Sensor Networks (WEWSN 2008)
by Chia Ching Ooi 25 Feb '08

25 Feb '08

Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. =================================================== Workshop on Energy in Wireless Sensor Networks (WEWSN 2008) http://cone.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/wewsn08/ In conjuction with DCOSS 2008 Santorini Island, Greece, June 11-14 =================================================== A typical wireless sensor network is expected to work without human intervention for a long time period. Hence, energy is of paramount importance in wireless sensor networks in order to achieve maximum network lifetime. Due to the energy constraint of sensor devices, wireless sensor network necessitates an energy-aware design to ensure the longevity of the network. While most wireless sensor networks use battery-operated computing and sensing devices, new technologies like energy harvesting have been emerging and getting much attention in the research community recently. In addition, each layer of the protocol stack can employ various techniques to conserve energy while the hardware designs of motes can focus on extending its lifetime. This workshop intends to bring together the researchers working on energy-related issues in wireless sensor network. WEWSN will be held as a one-day workshop in conjuction with DCOSS '08, co-locating with several related workshops on special topics, including the Workshop on Localized Algorithms and Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks (LOCALGOS), the Workshop on Information Theory for Sensor Networks (WITS), the Workshop on Sensor Network Engineering (IWSNE), the Workshop on Wireless Sensor Network Deployments (WiDeploy). Therefore, the workshop aims at providing an ideal venue for researchers to share their ideas and discuss their latest research works. SCOPE Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate current research related to energy in wireless sensor network. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following featured topics: * Architectures for energy management * Node deployment * Sleep management algorithms * Coverage and connectivity algorithms * Energy models, conservation, optimization * Energy and bandwidth efficient distributed signal processing algorithms * Topology control * Routing algorithm, data collection, congestion control, resource management * Energy scavenging, energy harvesting * Medium access control, error control protocols * Traffic management protocol * Energy-efficient system services (e.g. localization, time synchronization) * WSN hardware and operating systems PAPER SUBMISSIONS We only accept original papers that have neither been published nor submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must be submitted in PDF format. Submissions have to conform to the IEEE-Transactions format and should not exceed 7 pages. All submissions will be handled electronically via EasyChair. The use of LATEX typesetting is highly recommended. It is your responsibility to make sure that the manuscript is free of printing problem. At least one of the author(s) of each accepted paper must attend the workshop and present the paper. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: March 25, 2008 Notification of acceptance: April 25, 2008 Camera-ready version: May 15, 2008 Workshop date: June 14, 2008 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair: Christian Schindelhauer, Univ. of Freiburg, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE Davide Brunelli, University of Bologna, Italy Syed Ali Khayam, NUST Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan Pedro José Marron, University of Bonn and Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany Hiroyuki Morikawa, The University of Tokyo, Japan Hartmut Ritter, Free University Berlin, Germany Kay Uwe Römer, ETH Zürich, Switzerland Kurt Rothermel, Universität Stuttgart, Germany Stefan Rührup, Univ. of Freiburg, Germany Muneeb Ali, TU Delft, The Netherlands Zartash A. Uzmi, Lahore Univ. of Management Sci. (LUMS), Pakistan _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] MobiSys 2008: Call for Posters and Demonstrations
by Varshavsky Alex 23 Feb '08

23 Feb '08

Posters and Demonstrations Poster/Demo Chair: Landon Cox, Duke University mobisys08_demos(a)cs.duke.edu Important Dates Poster and demo proposals due: April 6, 2008 Notification of acceptance: April 20, 2008 Posters MobiSys seeks proposals for posters describing novel work on mobile systems, applications and services. Posters will be presented during a specially designated session of the conference. The poster session is meant to introduce new or ongoing work and provide opportunities for authors to interact directly with conference attendees. Posters are specially suited for presenting controversial research directions that may generate discussion, or promising ideas not yet validated through extensive evaluation. Awards will be given for the best poster of the session and the best poster presented by a student. Poster submissions must include an extended abstract no longer than one 8.5x11-inch page, including all figures and references. This abstract should be formatted in two columns, single-spaced, with a font no smaller than 10-point. Optionally, submissions may also include an electronic copy of the poster. Please note that easels will be provided at the conference for 3x4 feet posters (approximately 0.75x1.0 meters), and the posters should be sized appropriately. Submissions must be in Adobe PDF. Poster proposals must be submitted electronically by sending the extended abstract and (optionally) the poster as attachments in a single email message to mobisys_posters(a)acm.org. The subject line should read "MOBISYS POSTER SUBMISSION" (in upper-case letters). The body of the email should include, in plain text, the title of the poster and the author list, including affiliations. The extended abstracts of accepted posters will be posted on the conference website, but will not appear in the conference proceedings. Demonstrations MobiSys seeks proposals for live demonstrations of mobile computing technologies. Live demos provide an opportunity to give a flavor of real-life applications made possible by your system. Particularly encouraged are the demonstrations that include participation by conference attendees. Research prototypes as well as commercial products are welcome. However, MobiSys is not an appropriate forum for marketing or sales presentations. The presenter is expected to understand the system being demonstrated and explain the technical contributions of the system to the audience. Demonstrations of previously published systems are also welcome. Demonstrations will be selected based on the expected interest from the MobiSys audience. Awards will be given for the best demo of the session and the best demo presented by a student. A demo submission requires only an extended abstract no longer than one 8.5x11-inch page, including all figures and references, describing the demonstration as well as any special requirements (other than a demo booth/table). The extended abstract should be formatted in 8.5x11-inch pages, two columns, single-spaced, with a font no smaller than 10-point. Submissions must be in Adobe PDF. Demo proposals must be submitted electronically by sending the extended abstract as an attachment in an email message to mobisys_demos(a)acm.org. The subject line should read "MOBISYS DEMO SUBMISSION" (in upper-case letters). The body of the email should include, in plain text, the title of the demo and the author list, including affiliations. The extended abstracts of accepted demonstrations will be posted on the conference website, but will not appear in the conference proceedings. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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IEEE CCNC 2009: Call for Papers
by Meetings＠comsocconferences.org 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

IEEE CCNC 2009 - CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE CONSUMER COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING CONFERENCE 2009 11 - 13 January 2009, Harrah's Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2009/ IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference - the 6th annual international conference - brings together researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry working in all areas of consumer communications and networking. IEEE CCNC 2009, sponsored by IEEE Communications Society, will present the latest developments and technical solutions in the areas of home networking, consumer networking, enabling technologies (such as middleware), and novel applications and services. We invite you to submit papers for IEEE CCNC's Technical Program in the following areas of consumer communications and networking. - Wireless Networking for Consumer Electronics - Personal Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks - Entertainment & Multimedia Networking - Peer-to-Peer and Content Delivery - Emerging Applications & Pervasive Technologies - Security for CE Communications For a list of potential topics and submission requirements, visit http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2009/ Important Technical Program Deadlines: Technical Papers Due: 29 June 2008 Acceptance Notification: 12 September 2008 Camera Ready Artwork: 10 October 2008 ______________________________________________________________________ Submissions are also welcomed for Special Sessions, Workshops, Short Papers, Tutorials, Demonstrations, and Technical Panels. Special Sessions Due: 23 May 2008 Workshops Due: 23 May 2008 Short Papers Due: 27 June 2008 Tutorials Due: 15 August 2008 Demonstrations Due: 12 September 2008 Technical Panels Due: 17 September 2008 For more information on these specialized tracks, visit http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2009/ ______________________________________________________________________ Reach hundreds of engineers, marketing and product design specialists, and executives in the consumer networking, consumer electronics, and consumer content-provider fields. Showcase your brand to the most influential engineering audience in consumer electronics. Patron status maximizes your company's exposure and enhances your company's reputation. See the IEEE CCNC website for patron opportunities! http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2009/ ______________________________________________________________________ Honorary Chair K. T. Lee, CTO Samsung Group, Korea General Co-Chairs Simon Gibbs and Alan Messer Samsung, USA Technical Program Chair John Buford, Avaya Labs, USA TPC Vice-Chairs Track: Wireless Networking for Consumer Electronics R. Chandramouli, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Track: Personal Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Behrooz Shirazi, Washington State University, USA Track: Entertainment and Multimedia Networking Zhu Li, Motorola Labs, USA Track: Peer-to-Peer and Content Delivery Wolfgang Kellerer, DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe, Germany Track: Emerging Applications and Pervasive Technologies Christian Becker, University of Mannheim, Germany Track: Security for CE Communications Chi-Sung Laih, National Cheng Kung University, Republic of China Workshop Chair Kurt Tutschku, NICT, Japan Special Sessions Chair Mario Kolberg, University of Stirling, UK Short Papers Chair Florence Kolberg, University of Strathclyde, UK Tutorial Co-Chairs Dr. Frank den Hartog, TNO, The Netherlands Dr. V. Prasad, Delft U. of Technology Technology Applications Panels Chair Shoshana Loeb, Telcordia, USA Demonstration Co-Chairs Andreas Heiner, Nokia, Finland Subir Saha, Motorola India Research Lab, Bangalore ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from this IEEE Communications Society Meetings and Conferences mailing list send a blank email message to CCNC09_CFP-remove(a)comsocconferences.org. You can also request removal by email or regular mail. Please email a message with your email address and the list name (CCNC09_CFP(a)comsocconferences.org) to optout(a)comsoc.org or mail a note with the same information to ComSoc List Removal - IT 3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor New York, NY 10016 USA

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[Researchers] IEEE Globecom´2008 - New Orleans, USA - 30/11-04/12/2008
by Profa Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

****************************************************************************** We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ****************************************************************************** CALL-FOR-PAPERS IEEE Globecom 2008: Ad Hoc, Sensor and Mesh Networking Symposium www.ieee-globecom.org/2008 November 30th- December 4th, 2008 New Orleans, LA, USA Deadline: March 15th, 2008 ============================================================================= TPC Co-Chairs Prof. Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, boukerch(a)site.uottawa.ca Prof. Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, rboutaba(a)uwaterloo.ca Prof. Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology,Nirwan.Ansari(a)njit.edu Prof. Nidal Nasser, University of Guelph, nasser(a)cis.uoguelph.ca SCOPE Multi-hop wireless Ad Hoc and sensor networks are self-organizing systems formed by co-operating nodes within communication range of each other that form temporary networks. Ad hoc wireless networks allow anywhere, anytime network connectivity with complete lack of control, ownership, and regulatory influence. The last few years have witnessed a wealth ofresearch ideas on ad hoc and sensor networks that are moving rapidly into commercialization and standardization. Such networks can be randomly and rapidly deployed and reconfigured and easily tailored to specific applications including entertainment! , civilian, military, etc. Moreover, an ad hoc architecture is highly robust to node failure and can provide a high-level of fault tolerance due to nodal redundancy and its distributed nature. Furthermore, energy efficiency can be achieved through multi-hop routing communication. Bandwidth reuse can also benefit from dividing the single long range hop to multiple short hops with each hop having a shorter range. Several challenges face are standing in the way to achieving ubiquitous deployment of ad hoc and sensor networks. These include variable topology, device heterogeneity, limited power supply and the lack of effective energy-efficient design, lack of QoS and application support,etc. This symposium aims at providing a forum for sharing ideas amongresearchers and practitioners working on state-of-the-art solutions to the challenges above. We are seeking papers that describe original and unpublished contributions addressing various aspects of ad hoc and sensor networks. S! UBMISSION GUIDELINES All submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of five (5) printed pages (10-point font) including figures, without incurring additional page charges (maximum 1 additional page). Standard IEEE Transactions templates for Microsoft Word or LaTeX formats found at http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/pubs/transactions/stylesheets.html. Alternatively you can follow the sample instructions in template.pdf at http://www.comsoc.org/confs/globecom/2008/downloads/template.pdf Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process and all submissions must be done through EDAS at _http://edas.info/ Topics of Interest You are invited to submit original technical papers covering but notlimited to the following topics. . Applications and Evolutions of Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Mesh Networks . Autonomic Networking . Wireless, Ad Hoc, and Sensor Devices . Physical Layer Design of Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Mesh Networks . Frequency and Channel Allocation Algorithms . Topology Control and Management . Algorithms and Modeling for Lo! calization, Target Tracking, and MobilityManagement . Architectures of Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing . MAC Protocols for Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Mesh Networks . QoS Provisioning in Medium Access Control and Routing for Ad Hoc and MeshNetworks . Analytical, Mobility, and Validation Models for Ad Hoc, Sensor, and MeshNetworks . Performance Evaluation and Modeling of Mobile, Ad Hoc, Sensor, and MeshNetworks . Integrated Simulation and Measurement based Evaluation of Ad Hoc andSensor Systems . New Simulation Languages, Methodologies, and Tools for Wireless Systems . Analysis of Correctness and Efficiency of Protocols . Data Management, Data Aggregation, Data Dissemination, and QueryProcessing . Cryptography and Security Issues in Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks . Distributed Algorithms . Pricing Modeling and Solutions . Pervasive and Wearable Computing . Co-existence Issues of Hybrid Networks . Energy Saving and Power Control Protocols for Ad Hoc, Sensor, and MeshNetworks ! . Resource Management Algorithms in Mobile, wireless Ad Hoc and MeshNe tworks . Synchronization and Scheduling Issues in Mobile and Ad Hoc Networks . Service Discovery for Wireless Ad Hoc, Mesh, and Sensor Networks . Cross-layer Design and Interactions . Mobile Service and QoS Management for Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks . Survivability and Reliability Evaluation and Modeling for Ad Hoc, Sensor,and Mesh Networks . Ubiquitous and Mobile Access for Wireless Mesh Networks . Security and Privacy Issues for Wireless Ad Hoc, Mesh, and SensorNetworks -- Esta mensagem foi verificada pelo sistema de antivírus e acredita-se estar livre de perigo. _______________________________________________ Researchers mailing list Researchers(a)mailman.ufsc.br http://mailman.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/researchers

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[Researchers] 11th ACM/IEE MSWiM´2008 - Vancouver, Canada - 26-30/10/2008
by Profa Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

****************************************************************************** We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ****************************************************************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11th ACM/IEEE* MSWiM 2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers The 11th ACM/IEEE* International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada October 26 - 30, 2008 http://www.cs.unibo.it/mswim2008 * ACM and IEEE pending upon Approval -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission deadline: April 25, 2008 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note: A special issue With Internaltional Journal - Elsevier, Computer Networks is planned for extended versions of the best papers from MSWiM 2008 as well as additional papers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scope and Overview: ACM/IEEE MSWiM 2008 is the Eleventh Annual International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems. MSWiM is an international forum dedicated to high level discussion of Wireless and Mobile systems, networks, algorithms and applications, with an emphasis on rigorous performance evaluation. MSWiM is a highly selective conference that is recognized as one of the most prestigious sources of innovative ideas and breakthroughs in the field. MSWiM 2008 will be held October 27-31, 2008, in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada. Authors are encouraged to submit full papers presenting new research related to the theory or practice of all aspects of modeling, analysis and simulation of mobile and wireless systems. Submitted papers must not have been published elsewhere nor currently be under review by another conference or journal. Topics of Interest: Papers related to wireless and mobile network Modeling, Analysis, Design, and Simulation are solicited on, but not limited to, the following topics in mobile and wireless systems: - Performance evaluation and modeling - Analytical models - Simulation languages and tools for wireless systems - Wireless measurements tools and experiences - Formal methods for analysis of wireless systems - Correctness, survivability and reliability evaluation - Mobility modeling and management - Capacity, coverage and connectivity modeling and analysis - Wireless network algorithms and protocols - Wireless PANs, LANs, MANs - Wireless Mesh networks, Mobile Ad hoc networks, VANET - Wireless Communication - Sensor and actuator networks - Integration of wired and wireless systems - Pervasive computing and emerging models - Wireless multimedia systems - QoS provisioning in wireless and mobile networks - Security and privacy of mobile/wireless systems - Algorithms and protocols for energy efficient operation and power control - Mobile applications, system software and algorithms - RF channel modeling and analysis - Design methodologies - Tools, prototype and testbeds - Parallel and distributed simulation of wireless systems Submission instructions can be found at http://www.cs.unibo.it/mswim2008 Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings to be published by ACM press. Note: A special issue With Elsevier, Computer Networks is planned for extended versions of the best papers from MSWiM 2008 as well as additional papers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: Paper submission deadline April 25, 2008 Notification of acceptance July 8, 2008 Tutorial submission deadline June 5, 2008 Poster/Demos/Tools Submission Deadline: July 1st, 2008 Workshop submission deadline March 30, 2008 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Chair: Sotiris Nikoletseas, CTI/University of Patras, Greece General Vice Chair: Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, State University of New York at Binghamton, USA Program Committee Co-Chairs: Brahim Bensaou, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Violet Syrotiuk, Arizona State University, USA Tutorial Co-Chairs: Hsiao-Hwa Chen, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan Bjorn Landfeldt, University of Sydney, Australia Workshop Chair: Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, SQU and University of Glasgow, UK Poster Co-Chairs: Nirwan Ansari, NJIT, USA Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida, USA Demo/Tools Co-Chairs: Kemal E. Tepe, University of Windsor, Canada David Tipper, University of Pittsburgh, USA Web/Master Co-Chairs: Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy MarcoDi-Felici, University of Bologna, Italy Registration Chair Khalil El-Khatib, UOIT, Canada Publicity Co-Chairs: Geyong Min, Bradford University, UK Farid Nait-Abdesselam, University of Lille, France Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare, Barddal University, Brasil Steering Committee Chair: Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada Program Committee: http://www.cs.unibo.it/projects/mswim2008/committee.htm -- Esta mensagem foi verificada pelo sistema de antivírus e acredita-se estar livre de perigo. _______________________________________________ Researchers mailing list Researchers(a)mailman.ufsc.br http://mailman.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/researchers

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CfP: Use In Context, Workshop at the Informatik 2008
by Stephan Lukosch 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers. Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested. ================================================================== Use In Context Between adaptivity and adaptation in context-based interactions Workshop at the Informatik 2008 September 12, 2008 Munich, Bavaria, Germany http://kalu.fernuni-hagen.de/Informatik2008/ Submission deadline: April 28, 2008 ================================================================== Context-based systems slowly emerge from research settings to usage practice. Consequently, next to questions dealing with the technological feasibility, questions dealing with the manageability and transparency of context-based services from a user perspective come to the fore. In particular, ubiquitous computing applications help bridging between virtual and real-world context dimensions (both, concerning virtual and real context sensors and virtual and real context factors). The resulting system often remains intransparent to users, it is not immediately accessible recurring on conventionalized behavioural practices. This workshop aims to contribute on the one hand to the collection of use-oriented problems in context-based interaction. Furthermore, we aim to discuss resulting implications regarding the technical design of interfaces as well as soft- and hardware architectures. Special attention is given to context modeling and implementation of the various application scenarios as well as to the associated possibilities of manual (adaptability) or automatic (adaptivity) in-use-adjustment. A further special area of interest within a user-oriented perspective is the understanding of problem dynamics in scenarios with multiple-context systems and –technologies, and problem dynamics of emergence or evolution of context-based systems. We would like to invite in particular researchers and practitioners to contributions dealing with the following questions: - What practical experiences – positive as well as negative – have been made with regard to the usage of context-based systems in real organizational settings? What experiences have been made with adaptation mechanisms (automatic as well as interactive) of such systems in these settings? - How can relations between context descriptions/models, context sensors and context-based services become describable in a way that they can be inform end users? What framing conditions apply for interfaces that aim to achieve this? - What experiences have been collected with ontologies and folksonomies? How can systems be designed more practice-oriented? - How can context architectures be effectively designed for sustainable usages (Context evolution, context adaptation, traceability for end-users)? - How do architectures look like that are appropriate for the realization of context-adaptive systems that remain modifyable in-use? What services have to be provided by such a context-adaptive system? What interfaces are needed for a context-dependent adaptation of the system behavior? The contributions should derive out of various application areas, such as - Context-based Information Retrieval - Location-based Services - Mixed-Media Environments - Tagging Systems, other Semantic Web Applications - Mobility Services - Knowledge Management and Knowledge Media Creation - Community Applications We request for contributions to those topics in relation to research as well as practice. Guidelines for papers ===================== The papers should not exceed six pages. They may be written in German or English language (English preferred). Accepted papers will be published in the workshop volume of the Informatik 2008. The guidelines of the GI (http://www.gi-ev.de/service/publikationen/gi-edition-lecture-notes-in-infor…) for authors have to be considered and all papers have to be handed in via EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=informatik2008ws). Selected papers may be considered for a book publication. Important Dates =============== - Due-date for workshop papers: 28 April, 2008 - Notification about acceptation/rejection: 02 June, 2008 - Due-date for ready-to-print manuscripts: 01 July, 2008 - Workshop: 12 September, 2008 (The workshop will be bi-lingual German/English with a preference for English presentations) Organizers ========== - Prof. Dr. Stephan Lukosch, FernUniversität in Hagen - Prof. Dr. Volkmar Pipek, University of Siegen Program-committee (preliminary) =============================== - Prof. Dr. Jörg Haake, FernUniversität in Hagen - Prof. Dr. Matthias Jarke, RWTH Aachen - Dr. Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen - Leonardo Ramirez, Fraunhofer-FIT, St. Augustin - Dr. Markus Rohde, University of Siegen - Gunnar Stevens, University of Siegen - Prof. Dr. Volker Wulf, University of Siegen - Prof. Dr. Jürgen Ziegler, University of Duisburg-Essen

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[Fwd: [Tccc] IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic on Cooperative and Relay Communications]
by Lars Wolf 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic on Cooperative and Relay Communications Datum: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:42:27 +0800 Von: Chin, Woon Hau <w.h.chin(a)ieee.org> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> Referenzen: <000001c87525$e56d1470$6688a8c0@Iris> Call for Papers IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic on Advances in Cooperative and Relay Communications In wireless networks, relays have been traditionally used to extend the range of communication systems. However, in recent years, other applications of relay communications have emerged. One such emerging application is to assist in the communication between the source and destination via some cooperation protocol. By controlling medium access between source and relays coupled with the appropriate modulation or coding in such cooperative schemes, it has been found that the diversity of the system can be improved. In multi-user systems, different users can also act as cooperative partners or relays to share resources and assist each other in information transmission, thereby creating a cooperative network. One other emerging application is the exchange of information between multiple users through relay(s). In such cases, by exploiting the knowledge of one's own transmitted signal, the throughput of these systems can be drastically increased. For cooperative and relay communications, the MAC layer also has many unique features. The MAC in this case, is concerned with more than one hop communication, is distributed and cooperative and works for multipoint-to-multipoint communication. The MAC also needs to have knowledge about network topology and account for node mobility. Accordingly, a new design of the MAC layer has to be devised to include new functionalities as well as MAC layer routing. With the large benefits to be reaped from employing cooperative and relay techniques, several standardization groups, such as IEEE 802.16 and IEEE 802.11, have started standardization processes to include such technologies into their prevailing standards. These efforts will no doubt attract even more interests from the academia and industry, advancing cooperative and relay technologies even further in the coming years. With interests from both the research and industrial communities gaining momentum, there is an urgent need to better understand as well as to keep track of cutting edge research in cooperative and relay communications. We plan this special issue to help address that need, as well as to help researchers looking to jump on the bandwagon. Therefore, the special issue will focus on recent advances as well as survey papers in cooperative and relay communications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following topics: . Cooperative algorithms and protocols . Partner(s) selection in cooperative relay and routing . Cooperative resource allocation and management . Relay strategies for cooperative communications . Cooperative and relay technologies applied to WLAN, WMAN and cellular networks . Multidirectional relaying . Distributed coding and modulation . Multiple antenna systems and protocols for cooperative communications . Information theoretic aspects of cooperative communications . MAC issues and MAC layer routing . Cross-layer approaches for joint PHY and MAC optimization Schedule: Full manuscript due: June 1, 2008 Acceptance notification: October 1, 2008 Final manuscript due: December 1, 2008 Publication date: February 2009 Submission: Authors must follow the IEEE Communications Magazine's guidelines for preparation of the manuscript. Complete guidelines for prospective authors can be found at www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/sub_guidelines.html. All articles to be considered for publication must be submitted through Manuscript Central (http://commag-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/). Choose "February 2009/Cooperative and Relay Communications" from the drop down menu. Guest Editors: Woon Hau Chin Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore w.h.chin(a)ieee.org Yi Qian National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA yqian(a)nist.gov Giovanni Giambene University of Siena, Italy giambene(a)unisi.it _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: Mascots 2008 - 16th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems
by Eleni Karatza 21 Feb '08

21 Feb '08

MASCOTS 2008 16th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems September 8-10, 2008 Baltimore, Maryland USA http://www.mascots-conference.org/index-2008.html The 16th annual MASCOTS conference is a well-established forum for state-of-the-art research on the measurement, modeling, and performance analysis of computer networks, distributed/parallel systems, wireless/cellular telecommunication networks, and Web-based systems, and is cosponsored by the IEEE and ACM. The 16th edition of this conference will take place September 8a€"10, 2008 at the Tremont Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. The conference will bring together academics and industry practitioners to present and discuss their latest research results. The technical program for the 3-day conference will include tutorials, keynote talks, refereed papers, and posters. The conference organizers encourage researchers worldwide to submit their latest work in computer system performance analysis and evaluation, with results of theoretical and/or practical significance. IMPORTANT DATES March 21, 2008 - Abstract Submission April 1, 2008 - Paper Submission (firm, no extensions) May 1, 2008 - Poster Submission May 15, 2008 - Acceptance Notification June 9, 2008 - Camera Ready Submission PAPERS MASCOTS 2008 seeks original technical papers describing research in the areas of computer networks and computer systems performance evaluation. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Computer Architecture Computer Networks Distributed/Parallel Systems Industrial Practice and Experience Internetworking Protocols Multimedia Systems Performance Evaluation Methodologies Pervasive Web and Mobility Sensor Networks Storage Systems Web-based Systems Wireless Networks Submissions may be up to 10 pages in length (including figures and references), formatted in two-column IEEE conference style with font size no less than 10 point. All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. We will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in any other conference or journal. Accepted papers for MASCOTS 2008 will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society. Authors will be required to sign a copyright transfer form. Detailed formatting and submission requirements will be provided on the conference Web site. Authors of highly-ranked papers may be invited to submit extended versions of their work to appropriate IEEE or ACM journals. POSTERS Posters provide a forum for late-breaking or preliminary research results, giving an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present and demonstrate their recent research, and to obtain feedback from their peers in an informal setting. Material submitted as a full paper may also be submitted as a poster paper; if the full paper is accepted, the poster submission will not be considered. Poster paper submissions may be up to 2 pages in length, excluding references, formatted as described above. Accepted poster papers will be allocated up to 3 pages in the conference proceedings. TUTORIALS A program of tutorials will cover topics of current interest to Web design, development, services, operation, use, and evaluation. These half and full-day sessions will be led by internationally recognized experts and experienced instructors using prepared content. GENERAL CHAIRS Jackie Akinpelu (JHU-APL, USA) Douglas Schmidt (JHU-APL, USA) PROGRAM CHAIRS: Ethan Miller (UC Santa Cruz, USA) Carey Williamson (U. of Calgary, Canada) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Ismail Ari (Hewlett Packard Labs) Tim Brecht (University of Waterloo) Fabian Bustamante (Northwestern University) Ken Christensen (University of South Florida) Dror Feitelson (Hebrew University) Tony Field (Imperial College, UK) Majid Ghaderi (University of Calgary) Garth Goodson (Network Appliance) Kanchi Gopinath (Indian Institute of Science) Peter Harrison (Imperial College, UK) Windsor Hsu (Data Domain) Jane Hillston (University of Edinburgh) Anupam Joshi (Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County) Nikolai Joukov (IBM) Helen Karatza (Aristotle U. of Thessaloniki) Zongpeng Li (University of Calgary) Ellen Liu (University of Manitoba) Darrell Long (University of California at Santa Cruz) Anirban Mahanti (Indian Inst. of Technology Delhi) James Martin (Clemson University) Daniel Menasce (George Mason University) Yannis Nikolaidis (University of Alberta) Michael O'Sullivan (University of Auckland) Jianping Pan (University of Victoria) George Riley (Georgia Tech) Bianca Schroeder (University of Toronto) Thomas Schwarz (Santa Clara University) Kai Shen (University of Rochester) Robert Simon (George Mason University) Adam Wierman (Cal Tech) Rob van der Mei (CWI Amsterdam) STEERING COMMITTEE Dharma Agrawal (U. of Cincinnati, USA) Kallol Bagchi (U. of Texas at El Paso, USA) Thomas BrA?unl (U. of Western Australia, Australia) Giovanni Chiola (Universitat di Genova, Italy) Doug DeGroot (U. of Leiden, Netherlands) Patrick Dowd (U. of Maryland, USA) Jozo Dujmovic (San Francisco State U., USA) David Finkel (Worcester Polytechnic Inst., USA) Richard Fujimoto (Georgia Inst. of Technology, USA) Erol Gelenbe (Imperial College, UK) Darrell Long (U. of California, Santa Cruz, USA) Marco Marsan (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) George Riley (Georgia Inst. of Technology, USA) Herb Schwetman (Mesquite Inc., USA) Kishor Trivedi (Duke U., USA) Jean Walrand (U. of California at Berkeley, USA) ----------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] ADAMUS'08 - IEEE WoWMoM Workshop - LAST CFP: deadline February 25]
by Lars Wolf 21 Feb '08

21 Feb '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] ADAMUS'08 - IEEE WoWMoM Workshop - LAST CFP: deadline February 25 Datum: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:07:04 +0100 Von: Luca Foschini <lfoschini(a)deis.unibo.it> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call-for-Papers-and-Demos ________________________________________________________________ Call for Papers and Demos: SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENSION Second IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Adaptive and DependAble Mobile Ubiquitous Systems ADAMUS 2008 In conjunction with the 8th Int. Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM'08) Newport Beach, CA, USA, 23rd June, 2008 Sponsored by NOKIA ---- WoWMoM web site : http://wowmom08.ics.uci.edu/ ADAMUS web site : http://www.adamus.ua.ac.be/ ADAMUS'08 cfp pdf : http://www.adamus.ua.ac.be/CFP_adamus08.pdf _______________________________________________________________ Important Dates (DEADLINE EXTENDED): * Full Paper and Demo submission deadline: February 25, 2008 * Notification of acceptance: March 17, 2008 * Demo Plans submission deadline: March 31, 2008 * Final camera-ready manuscripts due: April 4, 2008 ________________________________________________________________ WHAT'S NEW ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Submission deadline extended. - This year, ADAMUS will host a DEMO COMPETITION. The Best demo will be awarded with a special NOKIA hi-tech gift! - The BEST PAPER will be also awarded with another NOKIA gift! - ADAMUS'08 will open with a KEYNOTE TALK by Franklin Reynolds, NOKIA distinguished engineering fellow. See below for details. WORKSHOP SCOPE ---------------------------------------------------------------- A truly extended use of mobile computing technologies asks for effective software engineering techniques to design, develop and maintain novel ubiquitous services with challenging dependa- bility requirements in highly heterogeneous and error-prone mobile environments. To overcome the intrinsic limitations of mobile devices and environments, a variety of research studies have produced methods and proof-of-concept prototypes for sup- porting non-critical applications. However, it is still unclear whether current solutions can satisfy the challenging adapta- bility and dependability requirements of the emerging mobile ubiquitous services, such as mobile commerce, wireless control of robots, healthcare computing, and video-surveillance. Hence, it is becoming increasingly important: to devise con- ceptual models and paradigms for change tolerance; to propose mechanisms to model, design, and develop adaptive and dependable systems; to provide analytical and simulation tools to measure system ability to withstand faults and to optimally re-adjust to new environments; to develop scalable, maintainable, cost- effective middleware infrastructures able to support and ease the development of adaptive and dependable mobile ubiquitous services. Building on the success of the last year event, this workshop aims at fostering exchange of ideas and lively discussions in order to reduce the gap between research achievements and industrial applications in the field of adaptive and dependable mobile ubiquitous systems. Researchers and practitioners are encouraged to participate with high quality papers able to identify open issues, to discuss the limits and/or advantages of existing solutions, or to propose original and innovative techniques for adaptive and dependable applications over mobile environments. The main topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: * Dependability and adaptation requirements and open issues for mobile ubiquitous systems; * Design principles, models, and techniques for realizing dependable and adaptive mobile ubiquitous systems; * Context data provisioning and modelling, and context-based infrastructures; * Human-machine interaction and usability; * Multi-device and highly heterogeneous ubiquitous systems; * Cross-layer adaptation techniques; * End-to-end approaches to the quality of experience of mobile services; * Autonomous systems for adaptation and dependability; * Mobile-enabled middleware architectures and mechanisms for heterogeneous wireless networks; * Dependability and scalability of web technologies to ubiqui- tous systems; * Architectures for resource and network monitoring and adapta- tion to networks conditions; * Dependability measurement of mobile systems and services. DEMO COMPETITION, BEST PAPER, AND RELATED PRIZES ---------------------------------------------------------------- A Demo Competition (sponsored by NOKIA) will be conveniently scheduled to provide authors with the opportunity to run live demonstrations of their research and to interact directly with ADAMUS and other WoWMoM attendees that will be required to vote for the best demos (See below for demos submission guidelines). Best demos will be awarded with special Nokia gifts based on their review scores, on-site voting results, and technical program committee evaluation. The best full paper will be awarded as well with another Nokia gift, based on review scores. The BEST DEMO PRIZE will consist of a Nokia N95 8GB multimedia computer (http://www.nseries.com/products/n95_8gb/). The BEST PAPER PRIZE will be a Nokia N810 Internet Tablet device (http://www.nseries.com/products/n810/index.html). NOKIA KEYNOTE TALK ---------------------------------------------------------------- We are proud to announce ADAMUS 2008 will open with a Keynote Talk by Franklin Reynolds, distinguished engineering fellow at the Nokia Research Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. FULL PAPER AND DEMO PROPOSAL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ---------------------------------------------------------------- ADAMUS 2008 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. This year, ADAMUS seeks two different kinds of contribu- tion: full papers and live demonstration proposals. Live demon- strations must be accompanied by a short demo proposal descri- bing the demo and the related research activity. * Full papers must be written in English and should not exceed 6 pages in IEEE proceedings style. * Demo proposals must be written in English and should not exce- ed 3 pages in IEEE proceedings style. * Demo Plans: Authors of all accepted demo proposals must also submit a Demo Plan including a short description of the demo (text, video, poster) and a short report on infra- structure needs (power, network, physical space needed). All submissions will be handled electronically. Full papers and demo proposals should submit a PostScript or PDF file, including names and contact information of all authors, through the sub- mission Web site (http://www.adamus.ua.ac.be/) by February 20th, 2008. Submission implies that at least one of the authors will regi- ster and present the paper. The selection process will involve peer reviews and reviews by program committee members. All papers and demo proposals will be selected for the workshop based upon their originality, technical soundness, and relevance to the field of adaptive and dependable mobile ubiquitous systems. Notification of acceptance will be sent to contact authors by March 17th, 2008. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to provide the camera-ready version of the paper by April 4th, 2008. Authors of accepted demo proposals will be requested to provide demo Plans by March 31st, 2008, as well as the camera- ready version of the short demo proposal paper by April 4th,2008. All accepted papers (including both full papers and demo propos- als) will be published on CD by the IEEE Computer Society Press. ORGANIZERS ---------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Co-Chairs: - Chris Blondia, PATS group, University of Antwerp, Belgium - Marcello Cinque, Mobilab group, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy - Vincenzo De Florio, PATS group, University of Antwerp, Belgium - Filip De Turck, Intec group, University of Ghent, Belgium - Cristiano Di Flora, Nokia Research Center, Finland - Luca Foschini, Mobile Middleware group, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy Technical Program Committee: - Cristian Borcea, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA - Domenico Cotroneo, Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy - Bart Dhoedt, University of Ghent / Intec, Belgium - Chris Develder, University of Ghent, Belgium - Markus Endler, PUC-Rio, Brasil - Stephane Frenot, INRIA, France - Ibrahim Habib, CCNY, USA - Valerie Issarny, INRIA, France - Eija Kaasinen, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland - Konrad Klöckner, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany - Frederic Le Mouel, Inria, France - Nguyen Manh Tho, Vienna University of Technology, Austria - Gianluca Mazzini, Università di Ferrara, Italy - Ali Abu-Rgheff Mosa, School of Computing, Communications and Electronics, Plymouth, UK - Eric Pardede, Latrobe University, Australia - Massimiliano Rak, Università di Napoli, Italia - Oriana Riva, Institute of Pervasive Computing, ETH-Zürich, Switzerland - Enrico Rukzio, Lancaster University, UK - Sotirios Terzis, University of Strathclyde, Scotland - Francisco Valera, UC3M, Madrid, Spain - Sven Van der Meer, TTSG, Ireland - Katarzyna Wac, Université de Genève, Genève, Switzerland - Xinheng Henry Wang, Swasea University, UK -- _________________________________________ Luca Foschini, Ph.D. DEIS-LIA - Università degli Studi di Bologna Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna (ITALY) Ph.: (+39) 051 20 93541 Fax: (+39) 051 20 93073 E-mail: lfoschini(a)deis.unibo.it Web: http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/LucaFoschini/ _________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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