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[Tccc] MCN-Infocom'08 -- Submission Deadline EXTENDED (Abstract Feb-15, Full paper Feb-22)
by Mohamed Younis 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

2nd IEEE Workshop on Mission-Critical Networking (MCN'2008) http://www.criticalnet.org/ In conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM'2008 Phoenix, Arizona, April 13-18 Abstract Submission Deadline EXTENDED to Feb-15 "Mission-Critical Networking (MCN)" refers to networking for application domains where life or livelihood may be at risk. Typical application domains for MCN include critical infrastructure protection, emergency and crisis intervention, and military operations. Such networking is essential for safety, security and economic vitality in our complex world characterized by uncertainty, heterogeneity and emergent behaviors. MCN should comprise the best possible networking technology, infrastructure and services that may alleviate the risk and help save the lives of both the general public and the network users. As advances in pervasive computing, wireless communication, ad hoc and mesh networking and networked sensor systems continue, more opportunities are being opened to mission-critical networks to benefit from these technologies. A primary challenge to the operations of mission-critical networks is to deploy a communication network that is dependable, autonomic, secure, and rapidly deployable. In order to operate effectively, the deployed networks should support services such as location determination of authorized and unauthorized entities, audio and video communication, secure emergency calling and alerting, and in-situ and remote sensing and control in a secure and dependable manner. In addition, efficient operation of such networks that typically include numerous resource-constrained components may benefit from cross-layer optimization, cognition, resource engineering, visual analytics, and service-oriented architecture. Another key feature for mission-critical networking is to support interactions among multiple heterogeneous networks. This workshop solicits high quality technical contributions to the area of mission-critical networking. The manuscript must explicitly address relevance to MCN. Topics include, but are not limited to the following: . Smart environments and infrastructures . Rapidly deployable services and networks . Vehicular networks . Body sensor networks . Cognitive and autonomic networks, protocols, and services . Ubiquitous networking and services . Security, dependability, privacy, QoS and performance awareness and trade-offs . Sensor and actuator networks for information gathering and real-time control . Decentralized and peer-to-peer resource management and allocation . Trust management, security, interoperability, survivability and QoS support . Context-aware network and service management . Location determination and tracking . Energy efficiency . Admission, load and flow control . Visual analytics . Critical traffic and mobility analysis . Cross-layer design and optimization . Components and architectures for next-generation emergency calling and alerting . Network policy management . Testbeds, benchmarks, performance and experimental studies General Chairs . Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virginia Tech, USA . Henning Schulzerinne, Columbia University, USA Program Chairs . Hannes Tschofenig, Siemens AG, Germany . Moustafa Youssef, Alexandria University, Egypt Publicity Chairs . Silvia Girodano, University of Applied Science, Switzerland . Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Panels Chair . Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA Awards Chair . Ashok Agrawala, University of Maryland, USA . Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas, USA Technical Program Committee * Ehab Al-Shaer, DePaul University, USA * Nils Aschenbruck, University of Bonn, Germany * Cory Beard, University of Missouri Kansas City, USA * David Du, National Science Foundation (University of Minnesota), USA * Hossam Hassanein, Queens University, Canada * Wendi Heinzelman, University of Rochester, USA. * Sushil Jajodia., George Mason University, USA * James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA. * Deepa Kundur, Texas A&M University, USA * Victor Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada * Scott Midkiff, Virginia Tech, USA. * Nader Moayeri, NIST, USA * Farid Nait-Abdesselam, Univ. of Sciences and Tech. of Lille, France * Cristina Pinotti, University of Perguia, Italy * Jean-Jacque Quisquater, Catholic University, Belgium * Pedro M. Ruiz, University of Murcia, Spain * Krishna Sivalingam, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA * Robin Sommer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA * Doru Tiliute, University of Suceava, Romania * Gene Tsudik, University of California Irvine, USA * Stephen D. Wolthusen, University of London, UK * Naoki Wakamiya, Osaka University, Japan * Michele Weigle, Old Dominion University, USA Manuscript Submission Submitted papers must be unpublished and must not be currently under review for any other publication. All paper submissions will be handled electronically in EDAS. Authors should prepare a Portable Document Format (PDF) version of their full paper. Papers must be no longer than 6 pages and in font size no smaller than 11 points. Please refer to the INFOCOM manuscript preparation page for details and make sure the manuscript conforms to the format/font/page requirements. Manuscripts that are not compliant with the requirements may be declined without review. All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality through peer reviewing, where TPC members are invited to assess the scientific contributions of papers. For more information send email to info(a)criticalnet.org. Manuscript Submission Submitted papers must be unpublished and must not be currently under review for any other publication. All paper submissions will be handled electronically in EDAS. Authors should prepare a Portable Document Format (PDF) version of their full paper. Papers must be no longer than 6 pages and in font size no smaller than 11 points. Please refer to the INFOCOM manuscript preparation page for details and make sure the manuscript conforms to the format/font/page requirements. Manuscripts that are not compliant with the requirements may be declined without review. All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality through peer reviewing, where TPC members are invited to assess the scientific contributions of papers. Proceedings will appear in IEEE Xplore and INFOCOM CD. For more information send email to info(a)criticalnet.org. Important Dates Abstract Submission: February 7, 2008 --> February 15, 2008 Paper Submission: February 15, 2008 --> February 22, 2008 Acceptance Notification: March 10, 2008 Camera Ready Due: March 18, 2008 Workshop Date: April 18, 2008 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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ManWeek 2008 Preliminary CFP
by ntan＠teimes.gr 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Apologize if you receive multiple copies. ================================================================ MANWEEK 08 CALL FOR PAPERS ================================================================ 4th International Week on Management of Networks and Services 22–26 September 2008 Samos Island, Greece http://www.manweek.org/2008/ The conference will take place at the Doryssa Bay Resort (www.doryssa-bay.gr) in the Greek island of Samos situated in the Eastern part of the Aegean Sea, at a short distance from the coast of Asia Minor. Samos is directly accessible by air from major cities around the world. Manweek 2008 that is going to host six of the most reputable workshops and conferences in the area of management of networks and services: o DSOM 2008 - 19th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management o MMNS 2008 - 11th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services o IPOM 2008 - 8th IEEE International Workshop on IP Operations and Management o EVGM 2008 – 4th IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on End-to-End Virtualization and Grid Management o MACE 2008 – 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Modelling Autonomic Communications Environments o NGNM 2008 – 5th International Workshop on Next Generation Networking Middleware Important Dates MMNS, IPOM 2008 Submission: March 28 2008 DSOM, MACE 2008 Submission: April 28 2008 EVGM, NGNM 2008 Submission: May 17 2008 MMNS, IPOM 2008Notification: May 30 2008 DSOM, MACE 2008 Notification: June 13 2008 EVGM, NGNM 2008 Notification: June 20 2008 Manweek 08 Conference: September 22-26 2008 ================================================================ MMNS 08 CALL FOR PAPERS ================================================================ 11th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services (MMNS 2008) “Management of Converged Multimedia Networks and Services” Co-chairsGeorge Pavlou University College London, United Kingdom Toufik Ahmed University Bordeaux 1, France Tasos Dagiuklas TEI of Mesolonghi, Greece The 11th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services (MMNS) will be held in September 22 to 26, 2008 at the Doryssa Bay Resort (www.doryssa-bay.gr) on the Greek island of Samos (http://www.samosin.gr) as part of the 4th International Week on the Management of Networks and Services (Manweek 2008). MMNS will provide participants with a high quality and intimate setting for discussion and debate. The conference is sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 6.6 on Management of Networks and Distributed Systems, with technical co-sponsorship by the IEEE Communications Society and specifically the Technical Committee on Network Operations and Management (CNOM). SCOPE OF MMNS 2008 Since 1997, MMNS has established itself as a major conference for research and innovation in the management of multimedia technology and networked services. The scope of the conference has been expanded in recent years to include management of emerging mobile and wireless networks. The objective of the conference is to bring together researchers and scientists from academia and industry interested in state-of-the-art management of converged multimedia networks and services across heterogeneous networking infrastructures, while creating a public venue for result dissemination and intellectual collaboration. The convergence of existing and emerging technologies such as broadband, mobile, and broadcast networks is considered as a promising opportunity for existing providers to increase theirs service subscriber base so that 4G vision and beyond becomes a reality. An important research effort is undertaken by main actors to face the multidimensional, in terms of transport technology, session signalling, and QoS provisioning, heterogeneity of Next Generation Networks (NGNs). Efficient management of these services is a key ingredient in the effort to provide cost effective, innovative services, and mass market solutions that are likely to become a major source of income for different stakeholders. The need to evolve management tools, solutions, platforms and methodologies to keep pace with emerging networks is at a critical juncture with the proliferation of mobile and wireless systems, intelligent and broadband networks, triple play (data/voice/video) convergence, and the integration of embedded computing and communications. The academic and industry research communities should unify forces to address the challenges of developing and operating converged multimedia networks and services. Inevitably, integrated management is a key element in addressing this challenge. The MMNS 2008 technical program committee is soliciting research papers in the broad area of network and service management that address new models, architectures and technological designs to enable multimedia and mobility proliferation in NGNs. MMNS 2008 intends to continue the success of the outstanding agendas of the past, and will emphasize and solicit novel research in the management of converged multimedia networks and services. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Management of media streaming and real-time service delivery * Management of wireless ad-hoc/mesh networks * Management of NGN/4G networks and services * Management of sensor and actuator networks * Management of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) * Multi-service/ multiple-play over IP (voice, video, data and mobility over IP) network management * Grid networking for multimedia * Cross-layer management * Multimedia in peer-to-peer (P2P) networks * Quality of service management in multimedia and mobile networks * Planning and optimisation of multimedia and mobile networks * IP Multimedia System (IMS) operations and management * Management of service delivery platforms * Management of content distribution networking * Distributed multimedia service management * Performance evaluation of multimedia and mobile services * Wireless/Mobile Multimedia broadcast/multicast technologies * Novel protocols for multimedia services * Multi-point, multicast service management * Seamless mobility of multimedia services * Pricing, accounting and billing for multimedia services * Management of trust and security for mobile and multimedia networks and services * Self-properties of multimedia and mobile networks and services * Network virtualization for network management and service provisioning * Remote over-the-air manageability in mobile networks * End-to-end management for multimedia transmission in mobile/wireless networks * Mobile platform architecture optimizations for management services * Network manageability across heterogeneous wireless networks * Novel network architectures for mobile network management services PAPER SUBMISSION Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or experiences. Late-breaking advances and work-in-progress reports from ongoing research are also encouraged for submission to MMNS 2008. Papers under review elsewhere MUST NOT be submitted to MMNS 2008. Authors are requested to submit either long papers or short papers (work-in-progress reports), strictly in LNCS format (see below): * Long papers (up to 12 single-spaced single-column pages) * Short papers describing work-in-progress (up to 4 pages) Submissions exceeding the above mentioned paper size will not be reviewed and will be returned to the authors. Please see Submission for detailed instructions. PROCEEDINGS The MMNS 2008 proceedings will be published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. For more information regarding manuscript format please visit the author's instruction links at LNCS Springer. Awards will be presented to the best paper and to the best student paper at the conference. Furthermore, the best papers of MMNS 2008 will be invited to be submitted as extended versions to the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM). IMPORTANT DEADLINES Paper Registration: March 21 2008 Submission: March 28 2008 Notification: May 30 2008 Camera ready: June 20 2008 MANWEEK 2008 Conference: September 22-26 2008 MMNS 2008: September 22-23 2008

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[Tccc] Final CFP: Special Issue on Personalization of Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting
by Harald Kosch 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Personalization of Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting Special issue of the International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting Hindawi Publishing Corporation ---- Final Call for Papers ---- Due March 1, 2008 In recent years, the widespread adoption of multimedia computing, the deployment of mobile and broadband networks, and the growing availability of cheap yet powerful mobile have converged to gradually increase the range and complexity of mobile multimedia content delivery services for devices such as PDAs and cell phones. Basic multimedia applications are already available for current generation devices, and more complex broadcasting services are under development or expected to be launched soon, among which mobile and interactive television (ITV). Among the many challenging issues opened by these developments is the problem of personalization of such services: adaptation of the content to the technical environment of the users (device and network type) and to their individual preferences, providing personalized assistance for selecting and locating interesting programes among an overwhelming number of proposed services. This special issue is intended to foster state-of-the-art research contributions to all research areas either directly applying or contributing to solving the issues related to digital multimedia broadcasting personalization. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Mobile TV * Mobile multimedia broadcasting personalization * Interactive broadcasting services/interactive television * Personalization and multimedia home platform (MHP) * Multimedia content adaptation for personalization * User behavior and usage modelling * Standards for modelling and processing (MPEG-21, CC/PP, etc.) * Personalization issues in DVB-H, DMB, MediaFLO, CMMB, MBMS, and other systems * Mobile web initiative * Personalized multimedia and location-based services * Security and digital rights management * Applications for personalized mobile multimedia broadcasting with cost-effective implementation. Authors should follow the International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting manuscript format described at the journal site http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdmb/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable: Manuscript: Due March 1, 2008 First Round of Reviews: June 1, 2008 Publication Date: September 1, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Guest Editors: Harald Kosch, University of Passau, 94030 Passau, Germany Jörg Heuer, Siemens AG, 80333 Munich, Germany Günther Hölbling, University of Passau, 94030 Passau, Germany László Böszörményi, University Klagenfurt, 9020 Klagenfurt, Austria David Coquil, University of Passau, 94030 Passau, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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ICST - MobiQuitous 2008 - One month to paper registration
by info＠icstconferences.org 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

CALL FOR PAPERS The Fifth Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous 2008) July 21-25, 2008, Dublin, Ireland http://www.mobiquitous.org Sponsored by ICST Technically-sponsored by Create-Net and ACM-SIGMOBILE IMPORTANT DATES Workshop proposals: March 1, 2008 Paper registration: March 8, 2008 Paper submission: March 15, 2008 Notification of acceptance: May 4, 2008 Camera-ready version: May 18, 2008 THEME Combinations of mobile and ubiquitous computing are becoming increasingly present in our daily life. Through the use of mobile devices embedded in the surrounding physical environment, users can be provided with transparent computing and communication services at all times and in all places. The complexity of providing such services stems from the fact that the communication devices and the objects with which they interact may both be mobile. Their implementation requires advances in wireless network technologies and devices, development of infrastructures supporting cognitive environments, discovery and identification of ubiquitous computing applications and services, and an understanding of the cross-layer interactions between all of these components. The Fifth Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous 2008) will provide a forum where practitioners and researchers coming from many areas involved in ubiquitous solutions design and deployment will be able to interact and exchange experiences needed to build successful ubiquitous systems. Areas addressed by the conference include systems, applications, service-oriented computing, middleware, networking, agents, data management and services, all with special focus on mobility and ubiquitous computing. TOPICS OF INTEREST Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, are solicited. Technical papers clearly identifying how the specific contributions fit to an overall working system are particularly of interest. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: - Ubiquitous architectures, systems and applications - Wearable computing and personal area networks - Wireless technologies (Bluetooth, ZigBee, 802.15.x, WiFi, WiMAX) - Wireless Internet access in ubiquitous systems - Ad hoc and sensor network support for ubiquitous computing - Reconfigurability and personalization of wireless networks - Wireless/mobile service management and delivery - Security, privacy and social issues of mobile and ubiquitous systems - Service and knowledge discovery, matching and composition mechanisms - Location-based services and tracking in ubiquitous environments - Context- and location-aware applications - Agent technologies in ubiquitous, wearable, and mobile systems - Context modeling, services and frameworks - Toolkits, testbeds, development environments, and languages for ubiquitous computing - Rapid prototyping of ubiquitous applications - Ontologies for mobile and ubiquitous computing - Mobile and ubiquitous data management and processing - Data replication, migration and dissemination in ubiquitous environments - Queries, transactions and workflows in mobile and ubiquitous environments - Multimodal interfaces (speech, video kinetic, tactile) SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Paper submission will be handled electronically (see the conference web page for details). Authors should prepare an Adobe Acrobat PDF version of their full paper. Papers must not exceed 10 pages double column (US Letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches) including text, figures and references. The font size must be at least 10 points. PUBLICATION All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the international technical program committee. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Papers of particular merit will be proposed for publication in the ACM/Kluwer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) journal. WORKSHOPS Several workshops will be run in conjunction with the conference. The purpose of these workshops is to discuss work in progress and explore opportunities for new research related to mobile and ubiquitous systems. Proposals for workshops should be at most four pages in length and should be submitted to the workshop co-chairs by March 1, 2008. ORGANISING COMMITTEE General Chair Vinny Cahill, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Steering Committee Chair Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net Program Chair Liviu Iftode, Rutgers University, USA Workshop Co-Chairs Christian Becker, Universitat Mannheim, Germany Fabian E. Bustamante, Northwestern University, USA Posters Chair Dean Eckles, Nokia Research, USA Demonstrations Co-Chairs Tatsuo Nakajima, Waseda University, Japan Alan Messer, Samsung Electronics, USA Publicity Co-Chairs Cristian Borcea, NJIT, USA Siobhán Clarke, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Ichiro Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan PROGRAM COMMITTEE Jean Bacon, University of Cambridge, UK Christian Becker, Universitat Mannheim, Germany Cristian Borcea, New Jersey Institute of Technology Roy Campbell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Guohong Cao, Penn State University Dean Eckles, Nokia Research, USA Jonathan Engelsma, Motorola, Inc. Joseph B. Evans, University of Kansas, USA Tao Gu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Jonna Hakkila, Nokia Research, Finland Y. Charlie Hu, Purdue University Jadwiga Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia Jussi Kangasharju, University of Helsinki, Finland Sharad Mehrotra, University of California at Irvine Alan Messer, Samsung Electronics, USA Scott Midkiff, Virginia Tech Daniel Mosse', University of Pittsburgh Matt Mutka, Michigan State University Tatsuo Nakajima, Waseda University, Japan Jason Nieh, Columbia University Jong Hyuk Park, Kyungnam University, Korea Kishore Ramachandran, Georgia Tech Tinku Rasheed, Create-Net Stefan Saroiu, University of Toronto, Canada Ichiro Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Carnegie Mellon University Mukesh Singhal, University of Kentucky Anand Tripathi, University of Minnesota -------------------------------------------------- You are reading ICST conference newsletter. 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[Tccc] Call for Papers: IEEE INFOCOM 2008 High-Speed Networks Workshop (HSN 2008)
by Sergey Gorinsky 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

Call for Papers IEEE INFOCOM 2008 High-Speed Networks Workshop (HSN 2008) Phoenix, Arizona, USA Sunday, April 13, 2008, from 1 pm to 6 pm http://www.arl.wustl.edu/~hsn2008 Technical Sponsors * IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on High-Speed Networking (TCHSN) * IEEE ComSoc Optical Networking Technical Committee (ONTC) Traditionally held in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM, the workshop on High-Speed Networks brings together researchers from a wide spectrum of areas related to end-to-end communications at rates up to the Tbps range. While physical transmission media enable such high-bitrate communications, existing link, network, transport, and application protocols and their software and hardware implementations in both end systems and core nodes have not yet realized this potential. The limitations of the current designs justify exploration of novel clean-slate approaches to dependable high-bitrate networking desired in e-Science, medicine, entertainment, data centers and other application domains. HSN 2008 provides a unique forum for discussions centered on the design, validation and deployment of high-speed networks without imposing the constraint of straightforward integration of the proposed ideas into the existing network infrastructure. All topics pertinent to high-speed networking are of interest. They include but are not limited to the following: * Network architectures including clean-slate approaches * Switching technologies including packet and circuit switching * Transport protocols including congestion control, scheduling and reliable delivery * Applications requiring high-speed end-to-end services * Cross-layer network protocols * Security at high bitrates and with large data volumes * Node design including network processors, configurable logic, input/output and storage * Innovative physical transmission media and associated systems * Metropolitan area networks, Carrier Ethernet and next-generation optical transport * High-speed access technologies Submission Guidelines The workshop solicits submissions between 3 and 6 pages long. The following is a summary of the submission guidelines: * File format: PDF * Formatting instructions (except for the size): http://cse.unl.edu/~byrav/INFOCOM2008/paper-layout.html * Size of original submissions: between 3 and 6 pages * Maximum size of camera-ready versions: 6 pages * System for original submissions and reviews: EDAS * Publication venue for camera-ready versions: IEEE Xplore Important dates are as follows: * Paper submission: February 7, 2008 * Acceptance notification: March 15, 2008 * Camera-ready version due: April 4, 2008 General Chairs * Nasir Ghani, University of New Mexico, USA * Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Technical Program Committee Chairs * Sergey Gorinsky, Washington University in St. Louis, USA * Ashwin Gumaste, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, India Technical Program Committee * Lachlan Andrew, California Institute of Technology, USA * Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland * Georg Carle, University of Tuebingen, Germany * Vincent Chan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA * Lars Eggert, Nokia Research Center, Finland * Maurice Gagnaire, ENST, France * Sergey Gorinsky, Washington University in St. Louis, USA * Ashwin Gumaste, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, India * Mohan Gurusamy, National University of Singapore, Singapore * David Hunter, University of Essex, UK * Jason Jue, University of Texas at Dallas, USA * Admela Jukan, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany * Ken-ichi Kitayama, Osaka University, Japan * Tom Lehman, University of Southern California, ISI-East, USA * Jayaram Mudigonda, HP Labs, USA * Bernhard Plattner, ETH Zurich, Switzerland * Chunming Qiao, State University of New York Buffalo, USA * Srinivasan Ramasubramanian, University of Arizona, USA * Nageswara Rao, Oak Ridge National Labs, USA * Joel Rodrigues, University of Beira Interior, Portugal * George Rouskas, North Carolina State University, USA * Takashi Shimizu, NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, Japan * David Starobinski, Boston University, USA * Suresh Subramaniam, George Washington University, USA * Joe Touch, University of Southern California, ISI, USA * Marcel Waldvogel, University of Konstanz, Germany * Jianping Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong * Tilman Wolf, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA * Lisong Xu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic on Cooperative and Relay Communications]
by Lars Wolf 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic on Cooperative and Relay Communications Datum: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 18:10:31 +0800 Von: Chin, Woon Hau <w.h.chin(a)ieee.org> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> 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] [IEEE CNOM] [PIMRC 2008] 1 month to submission deadline (fwd)
by Carlos Becker Westphall 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

===================================================================== IEEE PIMRC 2008 Cannes, French Riviera, France 15-18 September 2008 www.pimrc2008.org ===================================================================== Overview: The annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) is one of the premier conferences in the wireless research arena and has a long history of bringing together academia, industry and regulatory bodies. Today, it has become one of IEEE ComSoc's flagship conferences in telecommunications. The 19th edition of PIMRC will be held from 15-18 September 2008 in glamorous Cannes, French Riviera, France, at the "Palais des Festivals de Cannes" where traditionally the Cannes Film Festival is being held. With Cannes being one of the most charming places on earth, we expect this to be a truly special conference. For more details, please, visit www.pimrc2008.org. Focus: PIMRC 2008 will provide a global forum for presenting the most recent advances, the future technical challenges and business opportunities that comprise the contemporary landscape in wireless communications. The organizers endeavour to attract contributions covering not only conventional areas of wireless communications (e.g., physical layer), but also emerging areas with high potential for essential scientific and societal impact such as wireless sensors for biomedical applications, non-trivial pervasive computing services and ambient technologies. The latter areas are expected to facilitate the development of a broad vision of innovative future applications in wireless communications. The high quality IEEE endorsed technical programme, will also include tutorials, workshops, exhibitions, panel discussions and keynote presentations from leading experts coming from the academic community, industry, as well as regulatory and standardisation bodies. Call for Papers: Authors are invited to submit high-quality papers describing original and previously unpublished contributions in a wide range of topics in wireless communications. These topics are clustered into the following four major categories: * Fundamentals & Physical Layer * MAC & Cross-Layer Design * Mobile and Wireless Networks * Applications, Services & Business Approach Papers should be in English, strictly not exceeding 5 double-column pages. Authors should use the relevant IEEE template, ensuring an IEEE Xplorer compatible PDF-format. Important dates are: * full papers: 3 March 2008 * acceptance notice: 1 May 2008 * final manuscript: 2 June 2008 * presentation: 16-18 September 2008 To access the full list of topics, submission guidelines, as well as venue and travel information please visit www.pimrc2008.org. Call for Tutorials: Tutorial presenters are invited to submit high-quality tutorial proposals to Prosper Chemouil [prosper.chemouil(a)orange-ftgroup.com] by using the submission form provided online. Tutorials should focus on recent cutting-edge R&D topics and should be self-contained in nature. Important deadlines are: * tutorial proposal: 3 March 2008 * acceptance notice: 17 March 2008 * handout due: 1 September 2008 * presentation: 15 September 2008 Committee: The updated committee is available at www.pimrc2008.org --> Committees _______________________________________________ cnom mailing list cnom(a)inf.ufsc.br http://listas.inf.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/cnom _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Mycolleagues] [IEEE CNOM] JOURNAL OF NETWORK AND SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT = Contents - Vol. 16, No. 1, March 2008 (fwd)
by Admin 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

JOURNAL OF NETWORK AND SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT Contents Vol. 16, No. 1, March 2008 Special Issue on Management of IP Multimedia Subsystems Guest Edited by Thomas Magedanz, Edmundo Madeira, and Paolo Belavista THRESHOLDS Congestion Control in the Internet: Inspiration from Balanced Food Chains In the Nature Morteza Analoui and Shahram Jamali GUEST EDITORIAL Management Challenges and Solutions for IP Multimedia Subsystems Thomas Magedanz, Edmundo Madeira, and Paolo Belavista PAPERS A review of policy-based resource and admission control functions Christian Esteve Rothenberg and Andreas Roos Device Management in the IMS Jun Ma, Jianxin Liao, and Xiaomin Zhu Towards a Standardized and Automated Fault Management and Service Provisioning for NGNs N. Blum, P. Jacak, F. Schreiner, and P. Weik Supporting ubiquitous IMS-based teleconferencing through discovery and composition of IMS and web components Kevin Doolin, Robert Mullins, Rafael Morón Abad, Marta García Moreno, Telma Mota, Babak A. Farshchian, and Miguel Gómez REPORT Managing Next Generation Networks and Services: A Report on APNOMS 2007 Hiroshi Kuriyama, Kyung-Hyu Lee, G. S. Kuo, Shingo Ata, and Choong Seon Hong Bringing Autonomic Principles for Managing Next Generation Networks and Services - A Report on LANOMS 2007 José Neuman de Souza, Bruno Schulze, Jacques Philippe Sauvé, Edmundo Madeira, and Artur Ziviani Forthcoming contributions Call for paper: Special issue on Ontologies for Network and Systems Management _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Tccc] SPECTS 2008 - deadline approaching : February 25, 2008
by Farid Naït-Abdesselam 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP ========================================================================== 2008 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems SPECTS 2008 June 16-18, 2008, Edinburgh, UK http://atc.udg.edu/SPECTS2008/ This annual international conference is a forum for professionals involved in performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. Performance evaluation of computer systems and networks has progressed rapidly in the past decade and has begun to approach maturity. Significant progress has been made in analytic modeling, simulation, and measurement approaches for performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. SPECTS 2008 is sponsored by the Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS) and technically co-sponsored by IEEE Communications Society and IEEE SMC Society. =========================================================================== Networking and Telecommunication Systems Internet Technology Quality of Service (QoS) DiffServ/IntServ MPLS/GMPLS TCP World Wide Web (WWW) Technology Networking Techniques Unicast and Multicast Routing Congestion and Admission Control Switching Techniques Tele-traffic Network Protocols Network Management and Control Network Capacity Planning Network Architecture Evaluation Service and QoS Pricing Security and Authentication Broadband Networks High-Speed Networking Optical Networks Wireless Systems and Networks Satellite Systems UMTS Mobile Networks/Computing Ad-hoc Networks Sensor Networks Multimedia Communications and Applications Computer Systems Distributed Architecture Client/Server Distributed Systems and Agents Parallel and Distributed Computing Massively Parallel Systems Cluster Computing Grid Computing Interconnection Networks Computer Architectures Microprocessors/Microcomputers Memory Systems High Performance I/O Real-time Systems Scheduling Schemes Software Software Performance, Evaluation and Testing Parallel Algorithms and Languages Electronic Commerce Hardware and Software Monitors High-Performance Computing Information Assurance Reconfigurable Computing Scientific Computing Algorithms Workload and Traffic Characterization Tools, Methodologies and Applications Parallel and Distributed Simulation Verification and Validation Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic Applications Performance Optimization, Bounds, and Models Queuing Systems and Networks Scalability Studies Integrated Modeling and Measurement On-Line Performance Adaptation and Tuning Process Algebra-Based Models Mathematical Aspects and Integrated Design of Performance Case Studies General Chair Mohammad S. Obaidat Monmouth Univ., NJ, USA Program Chairs Jose Marzo Univ. of Girona, Spain Helena Szczerbicka Univ. of Hannover, Germany Program Vice Chairs Pawel Gburzynski Univ. of Alberta, Canada José Luis Sevillano Univ. of Seville, Spain Tutorials and Special Sessions Chair S. Dharmaraja Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India Awards Chair Franco Davoli Univ. of Genoa, Italy Publicity Committee Essia Elhafsi Univ. of California-Riverside, USA (Chair) Jong Hyuk Park Kyungnam Univ., Korea Farid Naït-Abdesselam Univ. of Sciences & Technologies of Lille, France Abdelmajid Khelil Technical Univ. of Darmstadt, Germany Local Arrangement Chair Graham Shanks Baesystems, UK Webmasters Antonio Bueno Univ. of Girona, Spain Michael J. Chinni US Army TACOM-ARDEC Deadlines Special sessions proposals: December 7, 2007 Submission of papers (and tutorials proposals): February 25, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: April 21, 2008 Final Camera-Ready Submission Due: May 5, 2008 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [MM-INTEREST] CFP - Interactive Art Program at ACM MM 08]
by Lars Wolf 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [MM-INTEREST] CFP - Interactive Art Program at ACM MM 08 Datum: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 16:26:30 +0100 Von: Frank Nack <nack(a)science.uva.nl> Antwort an: nack(a)science.uva.nl Organisation: Universiteit van Amsterdam An: MM-INTEREST(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG ACM Multimedia 2008 Interactive Art Program October 27 - November 1,Vancouver, Canada *CALL FOR EXHIBITION ENTRIES AND PAPERS* ACM Multimedia 2008 is the premier annual multimedia conference, covering all aspects of multimedia computing. The ACM MM Interactive Art Program seeks to bring together the arts and multimedia communities to create the stage to explore, discuss, and push the limits for the advancement of both multimedia technology through the arts, and the arts through multimedia technology. This fifth version of the Interactive Art Program will consist of an art exhibition and a conference track. We invite artists working with digital media and researchers in technical areas to submit their original contributions: • Conference track: we solicit papers describing interactive multimedia artworks, tools, applications, and technical approaches for creative uses of multimedia content and technology, and management of art-related media collections. Emphasis will be given to new works that describe the creative processes within art, in forms such as interactive experiences and creativity support tools. We also invite papers on works that are interactive, particularly works that exploit non-conventional human-computer interfaces or sensors in new and emerging areas. We strongly encourage papers with a strong technical content written by artists. Papers may be long (10 pages) or short (2 to 4 pages). Long papers are presented in front of an audience and short papers are presented in poster format. Deadline for full papers to the Arts Program Conference Track April 11, 2008 Deadline for short papers to the Arts Program Conference Track June 6, 2008 • Multimedia art exhibition: We seek artworks exploring the theme of “BorderZones" using multimedia to shift, traverse, intersect, and combine genres and modalities to provoke the emergence of new frameworks. We particularly seek interactive multimedia works that by combining multiple media, technologies, and novel technical ideas, realise strong artistic concepts that give a new perspective on the topic of the exhibition. Deadline for submission to the Art Exhibition: April 11, 2008 For further submission details please see http://mmart.iat.sfu.ca and http://www.mcrlab.uottawa.ca/acmmm2008/index.php?option=com_content&task=vi… <http://www.mcrlab.uottawa.ca/acmmm2008/index.php?option=com_content&task=vi…> Accepted papers and art works will be published in the ACM Multimedia Conference proceedings. Important Dates April 11, 2008 Long papers and art exhibitions submission deadline. June 6, 2008 Short papers submission deadline. June 27, 2007 Authors notification. July 20, 2007 Camera-ready papers. Program Chairs Andruid Kerne, Interface Ecology Lab, Texas A&M University, USA (andruid(a)cs.tamu.edu) Frank Nack, HCS, University of Amsterdam, NL (nack(a)science.uva.nl) Ron Wakkary, School of Interactive Arts and Technology Simon Fraser University, CA (rwakkary(a)sfu.ca)

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[Fwd: [Tccc] ICNP 2008: Call for papers]
by Lars Wolf 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] ICNP 2008: Call for papers Datum: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:28:07 -0500 Von: Ramana Kompella <kompella(a)cs.purdue.edu> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu [Sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.] CALL FOR PAPERS ICNP 2008 16th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols Orlando, Florida October 19-22, 2008 ICNP 2008, the sixteenth IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, is a conference covering all aspects of network protocols, including design, analysis, specification, verification, implementation, and performance. ICNP 2008 will be held in Orlando, Florida, on October 19-22, 2008. Papers with significant research contributions to the field of network protocols are solicited for submission. Papers cannot be previously published nor under review by another conference or journal. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 1. Protocol testing, analysis, design and implementation 2. Measurement and monitoring of protocols 3. Protocols designed for specific functions, such as: routing, flow and congestion control, QoS, signaling, security, network management, or resilience 4. Protocols designed for specific networks, such as: wireless and mobile networks, Ad hoc and sensor networks, virtual networks, and ubiquitous networks Papers must deal specifically with protocols. Papers of general networking nature where protocols are only a secondary focus will be considered only if they are of exceptional high quality and only a very limited number of such papers will be included in the technical program. ICNP will select an accepted full paper for the best paper award. For the first time, ICNP is using a double-blind review process. The identity of authors and referees will not be revealed to each other. To ensure blind reviewing, authors names and affiliations should not appear in the paper; bibliographic references should be made in such a way as to preserve author anonymity. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract registration: April 19, 2008 11:59 PM EDT Paper submission: April 25, 2008 11:59 PM EDT Notification of acceptance: July 29, 2008 Camera ready version: September 5, 2008 ORGANIZING COMMITTEES EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: David Lee, Ohio State University, USA (chair) Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Tech, USA Ken Calvert, University of Kentucky, USA Teruo Higashino, Osaka University, Japan Raymond Miller, University of Maryland, USA GENERAL CHAIRS: Sonia Fahmy, Purdue University, USA Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas, Austin, USA PROGRAM CHAIRS: Kevin Almeroth, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA K. K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T Labs Research, USA LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIRS: Ahmed Helmy, University of Florida, USA Cliff Zou, University of Central Florida, USA PUBLICATION CHAIR: Kamil Sarac, University of Texas at Dallas, USA PUBLICITY CHAIRS: Ramana Rao Kompella, Purdue University, USA James Minseok Kwon, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA WEB CHAIR: Ossama Younis, Telcordia Applied Research, USA STEERING COMMITTEE: Simon Lam, University of Texas, USA David Lee, Ohio State University, USA Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Tech, USA Ken Calvert, University of Kentucky, USA Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas, USA Teruo Higashino, Osaka University, Japan Mike T. Liu, Ohio State University, USA Raymond Miller, University of Maryland, USA Krishan Sabnani, Bell Labs, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE: See Web site. FURTHER INFORMATION: Web site: http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/fahmy/icnp2008/ E-mail: icnp2008(a)cs.purdue.edu _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] [AMIS-NET 2008] 1st CALL for PAPERS on Adaptive Multimedia and IPTV Streaming over P2P Networks
by Toufik Ahmed 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP **************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS Adaptive Multimedia and IPTV Streaming over P2P Networks (AMIS-NET 2008) Crete, Greece, 18 July, 2008 To be organized in conjunction with the International Conference on Telecommunications and Multimedia (TEMU 2008) http://www.temu.gr/2008/ To be held in Ierapetra, Crete, Greece on 16-18 July, 2008. **************************************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES Full papers due: 1 May 2008 Notification: 1 June 2008 Camera Ready due: 15 June 2008 Scope of AMIS-NET 2008: ======================= The advances in Internet, access technologies, availability of high bandwidth, new promising video encoding standards, and wide adoption of handy and portable media capturing devices have opened new opportunities to deliver high quality, on-demand, and interactive multimedia applications. In recent years, peer-to-peer (P2P) architecture has aroused much attention both in research communities and in industries. It has played a vital role in wide spreading growth of multimedia applications including Multimedia Streaming, Video on Demand and P2P based IPTV services. P2P networking is promising for its several favourable characteristics, such as self-organization, selfconfiguration, self-healing, easy maintenance, high scalability and reliable services. On the other hand, new media compression standards such as MPEG-4, H.264 AVC and SVC (Scalable Video Coding) have revolutionized the digital media industry by proposition high quality, bandwidth-effective, and scalable delivery of digital content to heterogeneous networks and terminals. These standards will be widely used for Video-on-demand, digital video via cable/satellite/DSL, video streaming for Internet and wireless, and IPTV. It is expected that IPTV, as a new emerging application, will have a great potential to generate new revenue to service providers. Till now, a number of architectures have been proposed for multimedia streaming and IPTV services, but still there is need for new optimized models, metrics, and methodologies to enhance the Quality of Service (QoS) for multimedia streaming and P2P-based IPTV services as a complete architecture. The effective contents delivery across the networks requires to intelligently adapting the digital contents in accordance to user preferences under the networks and terminals constraints with the efficient utilization of resources. The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for sharing knowledge and expertise towards recent advances and technical challenges in multimedia streaming and IPTV services over P2P networks and possible approaches for future envisioning of the services. We solicit original contributions of high quality papers that describe the recent advances in streaming architectures, multimedia adaptation, and multimedia transmission approaches that support multimedia streaming and P2P based IPTV services. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: o Multimedia Streaming over P2P networks o Architectures for P2P-based IPTV Service delivery o QoS mechanism for multimedia streaming and IPTV services o IPTV service and Home Networking o Media Streaming for IPTV o Deployment of IPTV services, case study, and new trends in IPTV o QoS measurements for Multimedia Streaming and IPTV o P2P performance evaluation and analysis o P2P organisation and overlay management o Scalable and network-aware video coding techniques o Business models for media streaming and IPTV o Cross-layer adaptation and optimisation for multimedia services Submission Information: ======================= Prospective authors are invited to submit full paper in PDF format by email to cskianis(a)aegean.gr. Please refer to the following link http://www.temu.gr/2008/author.html for instructions on the length and the paper format. Papers will be reviewed with the standard reviewing procedure (each paper being sent to at least 3 independent anonymous reviewers). Accepted papers will be published within AMIS-NET 2008 proceedings and will be considered for publication in forthcoming book volume on the topic. General Chairs ============== Toufik AHMED, CNRS LaBRI Lab. - University Bordeaux 1, France Charalabos SKIANIS, University of the Aegean, Greece _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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REALWSN submission deadline this Sunday
by Adam Dunkels 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

(Apologies for multiple copies of this message.) The REALWSN 2008 submission deadline is now less than one week away. Please note that this deadline is firm: no extensions are given! Important dates Electronic submissions due: 10 February, 2008 (FIRM DEADLINE - no extensions are given) Notification of acceptance: 3 March, 2008 Camera-ready copy due: 13 March, 2008 Workshop: 1 April 2008 The REALWSN'08 Workshop on Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks http://www.sics.se/realwsn08/ April 1, 2008 Glasgow, Scotland In conjunction with ACM EuroSys 2008 The purpose of the third Workshop on Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in the area of sensor networks, with focus on real-world experiments or deployments of wireless sensor networks. When working with real-world experiments or deployments, many new issues arise: the network environment may be composed of a variety of different technologies, leading to very heterogeneous network structures; software development for large scale networks poses new types of problems; prototype networks may differ significantly from the deployed system; actual sensor network deployments may need a complex combination of autonomous and manual configuration. Furthermore, results obtained through simulation are typically not directly applicable to operational networks and it is therefore imperative for the community to produce results from experimental research. Authors are invited to submit papers (5 pages, double column) for presentation at the workshop. Papers will be selected based on originality, technical merit and relevance. Published papers will also be published in the ACM Digital Library. All topics pertaining to real-world wireless sensor networks are of interest, including but not limited to: * Experiences with real-world deployments * Experimental validation/refutation of previous simulation results obtained by others * Real-world performance of self-organization and self-management * Debugging, testing, and management * Deployment and configuration * Applications in medicine, industry, science, environmental monitoring, etc. * Security and trust * Scalability in practice * Development and prototyping platforms * Operating systems, sensor network programming paradigms, and languages * Middleware for heterogeneous networks * Real-time and dependability issues * Hardware support for real-world sensor networks * Robustness at all levels: communication, software, hardware * Energy efficient protocols * Hardware and software methods for energy measurement and profiling Important dates Electronic submissions due: 10 February, 2008 Notification of acceptance: 3 March, 2008 Camera-ready copy due: 13 March, 2008 Workshop: 1 April 2008 Organizers Workshop Chair: * Thiemo Voigt, Swedish Institute of Computer Science Technical program committee chairs: * Adam Dunkels, Swedish Institute of Computer Science * Pedro José Marron, University of Bonn, Germany Technical program committee: * Muneeb Ali, TU Delft, The Netherlands * Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland * Nirupama Bulusu, Portland State University, USA * Saumitra M. Das, Purdue University, USA * Kasun De Zoysa, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka * Carlo Fischione, UC Berkeley, USA * Per Gunningberg, Uppsala University, Sweden * Wen Hu, CSIRO, Australia * Holger Karl, University of Paderborn, Germany * Koen Langendoen, TU Delft, The Netherlands * Luis Orozco, University of Castilla la Mancha, Spain * Gian Pietro Picco, University of Trento, Italy * Joe Polastre, Sentilla, USA * Utz Rödig, University of Lancaster, UK * Christian Rohner, Uppsala University, Sweden * Kay Römer, ETH Zürich, Switzerland * Vlasios Tsiatsis, Ericsson Research * Jochen Schiller, FU Berlin, Germany * Cormac Sreenan, UC Cork, Ireland * Arno Wacker, University of Duisburg, Germany -- Adam Dunkels <adam(a)sics.se> http://www.sics.se/~adam/

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[Fwd: [Tccc] MCN-Infocom'08 -- Abstract Submission Deadline Feb-7 (few days left)]
by Lars Wolf 04 Feb '08

04 Feb '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] MCN-Infocom'08 -- Abstract Submission Deadline Feb-7 (few days left) Datum: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 17:29:51 -0500 Von: Mohamed Younis <younis(a)cs.umbc.edu> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> CC: 'Silvia Giordano' <silvia.giordano(a)supsi.ch>, 'Moustafa Youssef' <moustafa.youssef(a)gmail.com> 2nd IEEE Workshop on Mission-Critical Networking (MCN'2008) http://www.criticalnet.org/ In conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM'2008 Phoenix, Arizona, April 13-18 Abstract Submission Deadline Feb-7 "Mission-Critical Networking (MCN)" refers to networking for application domains where life or livelihood may be at risk. Typical application domains for MCN include critical infrastructure protection, emergency and crisis intervention, and military operations. Such networking is essential for safety, security and economic vitality in our complex world characterized by uncertainty, heterogeneity and emergent behaviors. MCN should comprise the best possible networking technology, infrastructure and services that may alleviate the risk and help save the lives of both the general public and the network users. As advances in pervasive computing, wireless communication, ad hoc and mesh networking and networked sensor systems continue, more opportunities are being opened to mission-critical networks to benefit from these technologies. A primary challenge to the operations of mission-critical networks is to deploy a communication network that is dependable, autonomic, secure, and rapidly deployable. In order to operate effectively, the deployed networks should support services such as location determination of authorized and unauthorized entities, audio and video communication, secure emergency calling and alerting, and in-situ and remote sensing and control in a secure and dependable manner. In addition, efficient operation of such networks that typically include numerous resource-constrained components may benefit from cross-layer optimization, cognition, resource engineering, visual analytics, and service-oriented architecture. Another key feature for mission-critical networking is to support interactions among multiple heterogeneous networks. This workshop solicits high quality technical contributions to the area of mission-critical networking. The manuscript must explicitly address relevance to MCN. Topics include, but are not limited to the following: . Smart environments and infrastructures . Rapidly deployable services and networks . Vehicular networks . Body sensor networks . Cognitive and autonomic networks, protocols, and services . Ubiquitous networking and services . Security, dependability, privacy, QoS and performance awareness and trade-offs . Sensor and actuator networks for information gathering and real-time control . Decentralized and peer-to-peer resource management and allocation . Trust management, security, interoperability, survivability and QoS support . Context-aware network and service management . Location determination and tracking . Energy efficiency . Admission, load and flow control . Visual analytics . Critical traffic and mobility analysis . Cross-layer design and optimization . Components and architectures for next-generation emergency calling and alerting . Network policy management . Testbeds, benchmarks, performance and experimental studies General Chairs . Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virginia Tech, USA . Henning Schulzerinne, Columbia University, USA Program Chairs . Hannes Tschofenig, Siemens AG, Germany . Moustafa Youssef, Alexandria University, Egypt Publicity Chairs . Silvia Girodano, University of Applied Science, Switzerland . Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Panels Chair . Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA Awards Chair . Ashok Agrawala, University of Maryland, USA . Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas, USA Technical Program Committee * Ehab Al-Shaer, DePaul University, USA * Nils Aschenbruck, University of Bonn, Germany * Cory Beard, University of Missouri Kansas City, USA * David Du, National Science Foundation (University of Minnesota), USA * Hossam Hassanein, Queens University, Canada * Wendi Heinzelman, University of Rochester, USA. * Sushil Jajodia., George Mason University, USA * James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA. * Deepa Kundur, Texas A&M University, USA * Victor Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada * Scott Midkiff, Virginia Tech, USA. * Nader Moayeri, NIST, USA * Farid Nait-Abdesselam, Univ. of Sciences and Tech. of Lille, France * Cristina Pinotti, University of Perguia, Italy * Jean-Jacque Quisquater, Catholic University, Belgium * Pedro M. Ruiz, University of Murcia, Spain * Krishna Sivalingam, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA * Robin Sommer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA * Doru Tiliute, University of Suceava, Romania * Gene Tsudik, University of California Irvine, USA * Stephen D. Wolthusen, University of London, UK * Naoki Wakamiya, Osaka University, Japan * Michele Weigle, Old Dominion University, USA Manuscript Submission Submitted papers must be unpublished and must not be currently under review for any other publication. All paper submissions will be handled electronically in EDAS. Authors should prepare a Portable Document Format (PDF) version of their full paper. Papers must be no longer than 6 pages and in font size no smaller than 11 points. Please refer to the INFOCOM manuscript preparation page for details and make sure the manuscript conforms to the format/font/page requirements. Manuscripts that are not compliant with the requirements may be declined without review. All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality through peer reviewing, where TPC members are invited to assess the scientific contributions of papers. For more information send email to info(a)criticalnet.org. Manuscript Submission Submitted papers must be unpublished and must not be currently under review for any other publication. All paper submissions will be handled electronically in EDAS. Authors should prepare a Portable Document Format (PDF) version of their full paper. Papers must be no longer than 6 pages and in font size no smaller than 11 points. Please refer to the INFOCOM manuscript preparation page for details and make sure the manuscript conforms to the format/font/page requirements. Manuscripts that are not compliant with the requirements may be declined without review. All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality through peer reviewing, where TPC members are invited to assess the scientific contributions of papers. Proceedings will appear in IEEE Xplore and INFOCOM CD. For more information send email to info(a)criticalnet.org. Important Dates Abstract Submission: February 7, 2008 Paper Submission: February 15, 2008 Acceptance Notification: March 10, 2008 Camera Ready Due: March 18, 2008 Workshop Date: April 18, 2008 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[cfp] MANWEEK 08-22– 26 September 2008- Samos Island, Greece
by ntan＠teimes.gr 04 Feb '08

04 Feb '08

Apologize if you receive multiple copies. ================================================================ MANWEEK 08 CALL FOR PAPERS ================================================================ 4th International Week on Management of Networks and Services 22–26 September 2008 Samos Island, Greece http://www.manweek.org/2008/ The conference will take place at the Doryssa Bay Resort (www.doryssa-bay.gr) in the Greek island of Samos situated in the Eastern part of the Aegean Sea, at a short distance from the coast of Asia Minor. Samos is directly accessible by air from major cities around the world. Manweek 2008 that is going to host six of the most reputable workshops and conferences in the area of management of networks and services: o DSOM 2008 - 19th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management o MMNS 2008 - 11th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services o IPOM 2008 - 8th IEEE International Workshop on IP Operations and Management o EVGM 2008 – 4th IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on End-to-End Virtualization and Grid Management o MACE 2008 – 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Modelling Autonomic Communications Environments o NGNM 2008 – 5th International Workshop on Next Generation Networking Middleware Important Dates MMNS, IPOM 2008 Submission: March 28 2008 DSOM, MACE 2008 Submission: April 28 2008 EVGM, NGNM 2008 Submission: May 17 2008 MMNS, IPOM 2008 Notification: May 30 2008 DSOM, MACE 2008 Notification: June 13 2008 EVGM, NGNM 2008 Notification: June 20 2008 Manweek 08 Conference: September 22-26 2008 ================================================================ MMNS 08 C A L L F O R P A P E R S ================================================================ 11th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services (MMNS 2008) “Management of Converged Multimedia Networks and Services” Co-chairs: -George Pavlou (University College London, United Kingdom) -Toufik Ahmed (University Bordeaux 1, France) -Tasos Dagiuklas (TEI of Mesolonghi, Greece) The 11th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services (MMNS) will be held in September 22 to 26, 2008 at the Doryssa Bay Resort (www.doryssa-bay.gr) on the Greek island of Samos (http://www.samosin.gr) as part of the 4th International Week on the Management of Networks and Services (Manweek 2008). MMNS will provide participants with a high quality and intimate setting for discussion and debate. The conference is sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 6.6 on Management of Networks and Distributed Systems, with technical co-sponsorship by the IEEE Communications Society and specifically the Technical Committee on Network Operations and Management (CNOM). SCOPE OF MMNS 2008 Since 1997, MMNS has established itself as a major conference for research and innovation in the management of multimedia technology and networked services. The scope of the conference has been expanded in recent years to include management of emerging mobile and wireless networks. The objective of the conference is to bring together researchers and scientists from academia and industry interested in state-of-the-art management of converged multimedia networks and services across heterogeneous networking infrastructures, while creating a public venue for result dissemination and intellectual collaboration. The convergence of existing and emerging technologies such as broadband, mobile, and broadcast networks is considered as a promising opportunity for existing providers to increase theirs service subscriber base so that 4G vision and beyond becomes a reality. An important research effort is undertaken by main actors to face the multidimensional, in terms of transport technology, session signalling, and QoS provisioning, heterogeneity of Next Generation Networks (NGNs). Efficient management of these services is a key ingredient in the effort to provide cost effective, innovative services, and mass market solutions that are likely to become a major source of income for different stakeholders. The need to evolve management tools, solutions, platforms and methodologies to keep pace with emerging networks is at a critical juncture with the proliferation of mobile and wireless systems, intelligent and broadband networks, triple play (data/voice/video) convergence, and the integration of embedded computing and communications. The academic and industry research communities should unify forces to address the challenges of developing and operating converged multimedia networks and services. Inevitably, integrated management is a key element in addressing this challenge. The MMNS 2008 technical program committee is soliciting research papers in the broad area of network and service management that address new models, architectures and technological designs to enable multimedia and mobility proliferation in NGNs. MMNS 2008 intends to continue the success of the outstanding agendas of the past, and will emphasize and solicit novel research in the management of converged multimedia networks and services. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: • Management of media streaming and real-time service delivery • Management of wireless ad-hoc/mesh networks • Management of NGN/4G networks and services • Management of sensor and actuator networks • Management of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) • Multi-service/ multiple-play over IP (voice, video, data and mobility over IP) network management • Grid networking for multimedia • Cross-layer management • Multimedia in peer-to-peer (P2P) networks • Quality of service management in multimedia and mobile networks • Planning and optimisation of multimedia and mobile networks • IP Multimedia System (IMS) operations and management • Management of service delivery platforms • Management of content distribution networking • Distributed multimedia service management • Performance evaluation of multimedia and mobile services • Wireless/Mobile Multimedia broadcast/multicast technologies • Novel protocols for multimedia services • Multi-point, multicast service management • Seamless mobility of multimedia services • Pricing, accounting and billing for multimedia services • Management of trust and security for mobile and multimedia networks and services • Self-properties of multimedia and mobile networks and services • Network virtualization for network management and service provisioning • Remote over-the-air manageability in mobile networks • End-to-end management for multimedia transmission in mobile/wireless networks • Mobile platform architecture optimizations for management services • Network manageability across heterogeneous wireless networks • Novel network architectures for mobile network management services PAPER SUBMISSION Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or experiences. Late-breaking advances and work-in-progress reports from ongoing research are also encouraged for submission to MMNS 2008. Papers under review elsewhere MUST NOT be submitted to MMNS 2008. Authors are requested to submit either long papers or short papers (work-in-progress reports), strictly in LNCS format (see below): • Long papers (up to 12 single-spaced single-column pages) • Short papers describing work-in-progress (up to 4 pages) Submissions exceeding the above mentioned paper size will not be reviewed and will be returned to the authors. Please see Submission for detailed instructions. PROCEEDINGS The MMNS 2008 proceedings will be published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. For more information regarding manuscript format please visit the author's instruction links at LNCS Springer. Awards will be presented to the best paper and to the best student paper at the conference. Furthermore, the best papers of MMNS 2008 will be invited to be submitted as extended versions to the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM). IMPORTANT DEADLINES Paper Registration: March 21 2008 Submission: March 28 2008 Notification: May 30 2008 Camera ready: June 20 2008 MANWEEK 2008 Conference: September 22-26 2008 MMNS 2008: September 22-23 2008

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Papers due in one week: IEEE Mobile Video Delivery (MoViD) 2008: Call for Papers
by shamik＠cs.ucf.edu 04 Feb '08

04 Feb '08

Papers due in one week. (Apologies for multiple copies. Appreciated if you can forward to potentially interested persons) *********************************************** IEEE MoViD 2008 First IEEE Workshop on Mobile Video Delivery In conjunction with IEEE WoWMoM 2008 http://eecs.ucf.edu/movid/ 23 June 2008 Newport Beach, CA, USA *********************************************** The unprecedented growth in video content generation and delivery has created the new era of video Internet where video-based applications have gained tremendous popularity. This trend has forced the network and service providers to understand the limitations of current Internet and bring new technologies for delivering the video content to the end-user. Furthermore, criticality of the wireless networks pose new challenges in video delivery specific to the diverse set of underlying network technologies including Wi-Fi, WiMax etc. The focus of this workshop is to present and discuss recent advances in the wireless network technologies and video delivery mechanisms for supporting the broad spectrum of emerging video-centric applications. The workshop will have the goal of understanding the research and deployment challenges in building the Next Generation Mobile Video Internet. Specifically, the workshop intends to address the following topics: a) Research challenges in developing new methods for delivering rich video experience to users over existing wireless technologies; b) New visions and concepts that will drive evolution of wireless access technologies to support high definition video content with diverse QoS requirements; c) Deployment challenges in new video delivery models (broadcast/multicast) to mobile users. The workshop aims to foster interaction among researchers and exchange new ideas by bringing together members of the video and networking communities. The workshop will provide an interesting venue to discuss widely varying beliefs and understanding being formed among the academic and industrial communities in terms of how next generation mobile video content should delivered to end-users. The technical program committee invites the submission of original, unpublished technical papers in the following areas (but not limited to): Application-specific technologies in supporting **Mobile VoD, SDV, IPTV **Mobile video conferencing **Mobile video gaming **Video surveillance and sensing Performance **Quality of experience metrics **Video quality measurement **Performance analysis **Experimental results from testbed/deployments Encoding and Transport **Wireless video coding techniques **Adaptive media coding **Link adaptive transport mechanisms Wireless network techniques and protocols **802.11 WLAN/802.11n **802.16 WiMax **3G cellular networks **DVB-H **MAC/PHY layer techniques Wireless delivery models **Broadcast/multicast/simulcast **P2P mobile video **Vehicular video delivery Submission Instructions ======================= Papers should contain original material and not previously published, or currently submitted elsewhere. Manuscripts must be limited to 6 pages in IEEE 8.5x11 conference format, and formatted in strict accordance with the IEEE Computer Society author guidelines. All submissions will be handled electronically. Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press in the combined WoWMoM 2008 workshop proceedings. Important Dates =============== Submission Deadline: Feb 11 Accept/reject notification: Mar 15 Camera ready paper due: Apr 02 Workshop Organizers =================== Mainak Chatterjee, University of Central Florida Samrat Ganguly, NEC Laboratories, America Technical Program Committee (List incomplete) =========================== Suman Banerjee, University of Wisconsin-Madison Suchi Bhandarkar, University of Georgia Siddhartha Chattopadhyay, Google, Inc. Sujit Dey, University of California, San Diego Pascal Frossard, EPFL Dilip Krishnaswami, University of California, Davis Giridhar Mandayam, Qualcomm Kiran Mukkavilli, Qualcomm Raja Neogi, Radisys Inc. Thinh Nguyen, Oregon State University Vikram Srinivasan, Bell Labs, India Deepak Turaga, Nokia Research Stephan Wenger, Qualcomm Magda El Zarki, University of California, Irvine Jian Zhang, University of New South Wales Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore Publicity Chair =============== Shamik Sengupta, Stevens Institute of Technology Web Chair ========== Wenjing Wang, University of Central Florida =============================================== http://eecs.ucf.edu/movid/

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: INFOCOM Workshop on AUTOMATED NETWORK MANAGEMENT (ANM'08), Deadline Feb 22]
by Lars Wolf 04 Feb '08

04 Feb '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: INFOCOM Workshop on AUTOMATED NETWORK MANAGEMENT (ANM'08), Deadline Feb 22 Datum: Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:47:05 +0100 Von: Gunnar Karlsson <gk(a)ee.kth.se> Organisation: KTH EE/LCN An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Referenzen: <001d01c864e6$299eae60$e632ed82@s0902> ******************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS 1st IEEE Workshop on AUTOMATED NETWORK MANAGEMENT (ANM'08) "Self-Configuration for Large-scale Dynamic Networks" April 18, 2008 http://www.ee.kth.se/lcn/anm08 in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2008, April 13-18, Phoenix, AZ ******************************************************** Despite recent research and development efforts, network management remains a key challenge for network operators. The time and cost of deploying, configuring and operating networks, already significant today, is expected to increase even further due to the exponential growth in numbers of network elements in the Internet, mobile networks, etc. Furthermore, the increasing sophistication and dynamic nature of many new networks and services make configuration more complex and further mandate continuous adaptation and validation of active configurations in real-time. These factors present major obstacles for the continued growth of networked systems. To overcome these obstacles, we need not only engineering principles for automated configuration management, but also real-time monitoring functions that trigger adaptation of configuration. The ultimate goals are to support future large-scale networks that will self- configure, dynamically adapt to external events and allow for low-cost operation. Current practices in configuration management are generally performed through low-level interfaces on a per-device basis. However, it is hard if not infeasible to generate, validate and tune configuration parameters in large-scale networks. On the other hand, many of the existing top-down configuration approaches lack scalability and testability in operational networks. Similarly, existing end-to-end monitoring applications usually depend on low-level network activity information, such as traffic counters, MIB variables, device logs, and alarms. A major challenge then is how to efficiently aggregate and analyze these data to construct high-level views of network operations in real-time. The theme for the first ANM workshop will be "Self-configuration for Large-scale Dynamic Networks," which relates to the aforementioned challenges. ANM offers a unique opportunity for researchers in this area to exchange both ideas and real- life experiences concerning next-generation network management. The workshop will provide a small-group setting for effective discussions and debate. The workshop solicits original papers on both completed work and work-in- progress. Papers that bring out new and interesting approaches at an early stage of their development are very welcome. The workshop will be held in conjunction with INFOCOM 2008, which draws many leading researchers in the field of networking. Papers on all topics of network management will be considered. Submission in the following areas are especially encouraged: * Languages and abstractions for configuration management * Analysis of network-wide and systems configurations * Configuration refinement and deployment * Testing of control and data plane configuration * Automatic and adaptive control of networks * Algorithms for distributed monitoring and threshold detection * Tunable monitoring algorithms * Adaptive management protocols for computing global states * Real-time monitoring and control * Analysis of tradeoffs between performance, availability and security * Traffic-aware configuration management * Non-intrusive network instrumentation for monitoring and control * Scalable management approaches * Data-driven event correlation * Proactive and risk-aware management * Management of application overlays and peer-to-peer services * Formal models for network management * Fault Management and aspects of survivability, availability Important Dates =============== Abstract Submission: February 15, 2008 Paper Submission: February 22, 2008 Acceptance Notification: March 14, 2008 Camera Ready Due: March 20, 2008 Workshop: April 18, 2008 Submissions =========== Submissions must be original work not under review for any other workshop, conference or journal. Submissions must be no longer than 6 pages, must be a PDF file and must follow the INFOCOM formatting guidelines. Papers should be submitted via http://edas.info/ as follows: 1. Create a personal account on EDAS, if you do not already have one, and log in. 2. Click on the Submit paper tab and choose ANM'08 from the list. 3. Register the paper with an abstract. 4. Upload the PDF of the paper. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their papers at the workshop. Committee ========= Workshop Chairs: ---------------- Ehab Al-Shaer, DePaul University, USA Rolf Stadler, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Yang Richard Yang, Yale University, USA Program Committee: ----------------------------------- Nikos Anerousis, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Alex Clemm, Cisco Systems, USA Nick Duffield, ATT Research, USA Olivier Festor, LORIA-INRIA, France Paul Francis, Cornell University, USA Cynthia Hood, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Chuanyi Ji, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Dan Jurca, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Chuck Kalmanek, ATT Research, USA Emil Lupu, Imperial College, UK David Maltz, Microsoft Research, USA Z. Morley Mao, University of Michigan, USA Sanjai Narain, Telcordia, USA George Pavlou, University College London, UK Aiko Pras, University of Twente, The Netherlands Sanjay Rao, Purdue University, USA Danny Raz, Technion, Israel Adarshpal Sethi, University of Delaware, USA Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich, Switzerland John Vicente, Intel Corporation, USA Jia Wang, ATT Research, USA Felix Wu, University of California at Davis, USA Geoffrey Xie, Naval Postgraduate School, USA Lixia Zhang, University of California at Los Angeles, USA Yin Zhang, University of Texas at Austin, USA Xiaoyun Zhu, HP Laboratoties, USA Taieb Znati, University of Pittsburgh, USA ------------------------------------------------------ Rolf Stadler School of Electrical Engineering KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden www.ee.kth.se/~stadler _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP for IEEE MASS 2008]
by Lars Wolf 04 Feb '08

04 Feb '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP for IEEE MASS 2008 Datum: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 13:54:12 -0500 Von: Murat Demirbas <demirbas(a)cse.buffalo.edu> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu 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. 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. 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(a)cse.psuedu) PROGRAM Chair Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA (das(a)uta.edu) TPC Vice Chairs Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy (bononi(a)cs.unibo.it) Archan Misra, IBM Watson Research Center, USA (archan(a)us.ibm.com) Chunming Qiao, University of Buffalo, USA (qiao(a)cse.buffalo.edu) WORKSHOP Co-Chairs Yonghe Liu, University of Texas at Arlington, USA (yonghe(a)cse.uta.edu) Sencun Zhu, Pennsylvania State University, USA (szhu(a)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(a)snu.ac.kr) Murat Demirbas, University of Buffalo, USA (demirbas(a)cse.buffalo.edu) Pedro Ruiz, University of Murcia, Spain (pedrom(a)dif.um.es) LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS Chair George Riley, Georgia Tech, USA (riley(a)ece.gatech.edu) WEB Chair Sharanya Eswaran, Pennsylvania State Univ, USA (eswaran(a)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 University 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 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, University of Applied Science –(SUPSI), Switzerland 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 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, Düsseldorf, 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 Naït-Abdesselam, University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille, France Peng Ning, North Carolina State University, USA Sergio Palazzo, University of Catania, Italy José Parente 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, Italy 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 Research '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, 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, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: ADAMUS'08 - IEEE WoWMoM Workshop --- 1 week to submission
by Luca Foschini 04 Feb '08

04 Feb '08

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call-for-Papers-and-Demos ________________________________________________________________ Call for Papers and Demos: 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: * Full Paper and Demo submission deadline: February 11, 2008 * Notification of acceptance: March 10, 2008 * Final camera-ready manuscripts due: March 31, 2008 ________________________________________________________________ WHAT'S NEW ---------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 11th, 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 10th, 2008. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to provide the camera-ready version of the paper by March 31st, 2008. Authors of accepted demo proposals will be requested to provide demo Plans by March 20th, 2008, as well as the camera- ready version of the short demo proposal paper by March 31,2008. 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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[Tccc] CFP: John Wiley Journal of “Security and Communication Networks” Special Issue on "Security in Wireless Sensor Networks"
by Nicopolitidis Petros 03 Feb '08

03 Feb '08

Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers John Wiley Journal of “Security and Communication Networks” Special Issue on "Security in Wireless Sensor Networks" Recent development in wireless communication networks has enabled the large-scale deployment of low-cost, energy efficient and multi-purpose wireless sensor networks. A lot of real-world applications have been already deployed and many of them will be based on wireless sensor networks. These applications include geographical monitoring, medical care, manufacturing, transportation, military, and surveillance systems. Due to the nature of wireless communication networks, many security challenges are faced when dealing and working with such technologies including eavesdropping, man-in-the-middle, spoofing and DDoS. Security is the key issue for reliable critical applications in wireless sensor networks. Advances in design and prototype of security mechanisms in wireless sensor network systems for protecting the confidentiality, availability, and integrity are crucial for the success of sensor applications. Original contributions are solicited in all the relevant security issues in wireless sensor networks, including but not limited to: Protocols and architectures for wireless sensor networks Key distribution and key management Provably-secure cryptographic protocols Public-key and symmetric-key cryptosystems, block ciphers, and hash functions Network security protocols: DNS security, routing, naming, denial-of-service attacks, TCP/IP, secure multicast Anonymity techniques Trust mechanisms Privacy Security and usability Automated analysis of protocols Authentication mechanisms Biometric-based security schemes RFID Submitted paper should not be considered elsewhere for publication and the authors must follow the guidelines for preparation of the manuscripts. The language of the journal is English. 12-point type in one of the standard fonts, Times, Helvetica, or Courier is preferred. The paper length should not exceed 20 pages total including all figures and illustrations. It is not necessary for authors to double-line space their manuscript. Tables must be on separate pages after the reference list, and not be incorporated into the main text. Figures should be uploaded as separate figure files. For manuscript submission authors should follow the guidelines described in Section “For Authors” at http://www.interscience.wiley.com/security. Prospective authors should submit their paperonline at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/scn. When submitting the papers, the authors should make sure to choose the Manuscript type as “Special Issue”, enter the “Running Head” and the “Special Issue title” as “SCN-SI-005” and “Sensor Security”, respectively. Deadlines --------- Manuscript Submission Due: May 12, 2008 Acceptance Notification: September 22, 2008 Final Manuscript Due: November 22, 2008 Tentative Publication Date: Early 2009 Guest Editors -------------- Mohammad S. Obaidat Department of Computer Science Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ07764, USA e-mail: obaidat(a)monmouth.edu Jung-Shian Li Department of Electrical Engineering Institute of Computer and Communication Engineering National Cheng Kung University 1 University Road, Tainan 701, Taiwan E-Mail: jsli(a)mail.ncku.edu.tw Petros Nicopolitidis Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Box 888, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece e-mail: petros(a)csd.auth.gr _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] [SMPE08] : CFP
by Damien Sauveron 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

******************************************************************* We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. Please disseminate it to your colleagues that could be interested. ******************************************************************* The 2nd International Symposium on Security and Multimodality in Pervasive Environments July 21-25, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland http://www.na.icar.cnr.it/smpe08/ In Conjunction wih MOBIQUITOUS 2008 http://www.mobiquitous.org/ Scope Pervasive computing environments present specific peculiarities with respect to aspects like security and multimodality. As a matter of fact, the accessibility level of a virtual environment can definitively be improved by natural interfaces and multimodal interaction systems, which offer users the freedom to select from multiple modes of interaction with services and permit to break down barriers about human-computer interaction making communication intuitive and spontaneous. On the other hand, while enlarging and easing the ways to access to the environment, security threads arise and the environment must be properly equipped in order to protect itself from malicious attacks and/or from wrong actions performed by inexpert users. SMPE-08 will be held in conjunction with Mobiquitous 2008, in Dublin, Ireland, July 21-25, 2008. As for SMPE-07, best papers will be proposed for the publication in a journal special issue (pending) Topics - Trust and reputation management in UE - Security applications and services in pervasive computing - Security model for pervasive computing - Intelligent multimedia security services in pervasive computing - Key management and authentication in pervasive computing - Network security issues and protocols in pervasive computing - Access control and privacy protection in pervasive computing - Security Standard for next pervasive computing - Security in Human Centred Environments - Natural interfaces security issues - Advanced multimodal interfaces - Human oriented interfaces - Multimodal mobile and ubiquitous services - Methods for multimodal integration - Middleware services for multimodal and pervasive applications - Context-Awareness in multimodal applications - Multimodal analysis and recognition of contex - Next ubiquitous and immersive environments - Virtual reality and ubiquitous computing - Usability and accessibility in ubiquitous applications - Applications and scenarios - Others: Commercial or Industrial Issue in pervasive computing Paper Submission Paper submission will be handled electronically. Authors should prepare an Adobe Acrobat PDF version of their full paper. Papers must not exceed 10 pages double column (US Letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches) including text, figures and references. The font size must be at least 10 points. Please visit the Submission page for detailed submission requirements and procedures. Contact: For further information regarding the workshop and paper submission, please contact Program Chairs - Dr. Antonio Coronato (coronato.a(a)na.ica.cnr.it) - Prof. Stefanos Gritzalis (sgritz(a)aegean.gr) - Prof.Sajid Hussain (Sajid.Hussain(a)acadiau.ca) Important dates - Paper Submission: March 15, 2008 - Notification of Acceptance: May 4, 2008 - Camera-ready Version: May 18, 2008 Co-Organizers - Prof. Jong Hyuk Park Kyungnam University, Korea - Dr. Antonio Coronato ICAR-CNR, Italy Organization Steering Co-chairs: - Jong Hyuk Park Kyungnam University, Korea - Giuseppe De Pietro ICAR-CNR, Italy General Co-Chairs - George Roussos University of London, UK - Javier Lopez University of Malaga, Spain Program Co-Chiars - Antonio Coronato ICAR-CNR, Italy - Stefanos Gritzalis University of the Aegean, Greece - Sajid Hussain Acadia University, Canada International Advisory Committee - Laurence T. Yang St Francis Xavier University, Canada - Hsiao-Hwa Chen National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan - Belur V. Dasarathy Information Fusion Technologies Consultant, USA - Daqing Zhang GET/INT - Institut National des Telecommunications, France - Simon Dobson UCD, Dublin, Ireland - Tai-hoon Kim Hannam University, Korea Publicity Co-Chairs - Yan Zhang Simula Research Laboratory, Norway - Damien Sauveron Universite de Limoges/CNRS, France - Sang Soo Yeo Kyushu University, Japan -- Damien Sauveron _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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ICST - TRIDENTCOM 2008 - Call for Participation
by info＠icstconferences.org 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

======================================================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION to the 4th International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks & Communities TRIDENTCOM 2008 http://www.tridentcom.org March 18-20, 2008 - Innsbruck, Austria Technically co-sponsored by ACM/SIGARCH Co-sponsored by Create-Net,IMDEA Networks and ICST Early Registration deadline: February 15, 2008 ======================================================================== Telecommunication infrastructures play a vital role in modern society. Advances in the range of network service offerings, performance, quality of service, security, and ubiquity continue to flourish, despite global economy fluctuations. Access to experimental infrastructures for real- life applications by specific user communities benefits all of the stakeholders involved: the end users, because of the first-hand evaluation of the provided services, the researchers and infrastructure experimenters, because of the knowledge gained from hands-on study and analysis, and the service providers, because of the business exploitation of the network. The goal of TridentCom is to create a forum where telecommunication net- works researchers, vendors, providers and users can exchange ideas on past experience, requirements, needs, and visions for future establishment of such infrastructures. It showcases experimental activities, such as testing, verification, integration, measurement, and deployment, which are pivotal to achieving next generation communications. CONFERENCE PROGRAM ------------------ Besides the more than 30 paper-track session presentations on next generation wireless and Internet testbeds and testing tools, the TridentCom 2008 technical program will include: - a one-day workshop on the experimental evaluation and deployment experiences on vehicular networks (http://www.weedev.org), - two tutorials on the planning of testbeds for wireless community networks and on the management of Next Generation Networks, - and two special sessions on military testbeds and NGN testbed tools Keynote speeches will be held by Mr. Chip Elliott (GENI office) and by Mr. Max Lemke (EU Commision, FIRE initiative). The detailed conference program is available at http://www.tridentcom.org LOCATION -------- The conference and workshops will take place at the Hotel Grauer Baer (www.innsbruck-hotels.at/grauerbaer) which is located in the immediate city center, just a two-minute walk away from the historic Old Town of Innsbruck. The Universitätsstrasse is part of a very quiet area and is well known for its numerous cafes and bars. REGISTRATION ------------ Early Registration is open until February 15th 2008. Reduced registration fees are available for students and members of ICST, CREATE-NET, ACM and INRIA. Joint registration to TridentCom and related workshops is also possible for a reduced fee. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- General Chair Miguel Ponce de Leon, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland Technical Program Co-Chairs Frank Steuer, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany Laurens Cloete, Meraka Institute, South Africa Raheem Beyah, Georgia State University, USA Workshop Chair Pablo Vidales, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany Demo Chair Sandor Szabo, BUTE, Hungary Publicity Chair Peter Weik, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Publication Chair Thomas Springer, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany Conference Coordinator Dorothy Bany, ICST Europe Finance Chair Karen Decker, ICST USA Web Chair James Good, TSSG, Ireland Local Arrangements Chair Jens Schumacher, University of Applied Sciences Vorarlberg Panel Chair Ina Schieferdecker, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany STEERING COMMITTEE ------------------ Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net Csaba A. Szabo, BUTE, Hungary Thomas Magedanz, Technische Universität Berlin, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany -------------------------------------------------- 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] CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTER: Wireless Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems
by Kevin Zhou 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTER Title: Wireless Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems (to be published by Nova Science Publishers, Inc. USA) [Apologies if you receive this more than once] ***************************************************************** Introduction Great achievements have been made in wireless communication technologies in recent years in order to meet the increasing needs of high-speed cordless connections in civil and military applications. The advances include WiFi (IEEE 802.11), WiMAX (IEEE 802.16), Wireless PAN (IEEE 802.15), sensor networks, Bluetooth, mesh/ad hoc networks, RFID, mobile IP, mobile management, smart antenna, Radio-over-fiber, OFDM/OFDMA, MIMO, cooperative communications, cognitive radio, and so on. These emerging technologies will significantly impact the design and operation of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), which aims to effectively provide higher vehicles safety, traffic management, and communications among vehicles and transport infrastructure. Currently, governmental institutes and societies in North America, Europe, Japan, and China, etc., are actively developing advanced wireless technologies for road, rail and maritime transport systems. For instance, the Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) band has been allocated in the USA at 5.9 GHz for vehicle-to-roadside (V2R) and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications. The IEEE 802.11p working group is developing enhancements of 802.11 standards to support ITS, vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), vehicular telematics, and infotainment applications. Recommended Topics (not limited to) * Smart antenna in ITS * Millimeter-wave Radar in ITS * RFID in ITS * Radio channel modeling for ITS * IEEE 802.11p for ITS * Dedicated Short Range Communications in ITS * Wireless communications for Maritime ITS * Sensor networks and technologies for ITS * Ad hoc/mesh networks for ITS * Mobile management in ITS * Vehicular networks * Heterogeneous networks for ITS * Digital maps and location technologies Important Dates * You are invited to submit a 1-2 pages proposal describing the topic of your chapter. * The proposal should include the chapter organization, number of pages of the final manuscript and contact authors. * Proposal submission due: 15 Feb 2008 * Notification of proposal acceptance: 15 Mar 2008 * Full chapter submission: 15 Jun 2008 * Review report received: 15 Aug 2008 * Final version submission: 15 Sept 2008 Note: Each leading chapter author will get a free copy of the book. Contact Please submit chapter proposal to: Dr. Ming-Tuo Zhou Wireless Communications Laboratory, NICT Singapore Office Email: zhou.mingtuo(a)ieee.org Dr. Yan Zhang Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Email: yanzhang(a)ieee.org Professor Laurence T. Yang St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Email: ltyang(a)gmail.com _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP for AccessNets'08
by Tarik Taleb 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

Dear respected Computer Communications TC members, I would like to invite you to consider submitting your research work to the Third International Conference on Access Networks, AccessNets'08. The conference will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, October 15-17, 2008. The conference solicits papers on many related topics and the paper submission is due April 1, 2008. For more details, please kindly visit the official website of the conference at http://www.accessnets.org/2008/index.shtml or download its CFP from this URL: http://www.aiet.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/~taleb/AccessNets08/CFP_AccessNets08.pdf Best regards, -- Tarik TALEB Assistant Professor Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan Secretary, IEEE ComSoc Satellite & Space Communications Technical Committee URL: http://www.aiet.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/~taleb/ _______________________________________________ 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 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

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