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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP wnc3-2008]
by Lars Wolf 16 Nov '07

16 Nov '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP wnc3-2008 Datum: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:10:07 +0100 Von: yezekael hayel <yezekael.hayel(a)univ-avignon.fr> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> CALL FOR PAPERS The international workshop on "Wireless Networks: Communication, Cooperation and Competition" (WNC3'08) will be held on the 4th of April in Berlin, Germany, in adjunction with the WiOpt'08 conference (March 27-April 4). Additional information: -- see http://www.wiopt.org/ and http://www.wnc3.org/ IMPORTANT DEADLINES Paper submission deadline : December 1st, 2007 Notification of acceptance : January 21, 2008 Camera-ready papers due : February 21, 2008 Early registration deadline : March 1, 2008 SCOPE OF THE SYMPOSIUM Research in the area of wireless communication networks has recently experienced an unprecedented embrace by both industry and academia. Interest has been fueled by advances that promise exponential gains in the error performance of networks with reduced structure, little central oversight, and limited computational capabilities. The research area's utility and challenging nature is demonstrated both by the contributions from a variety of disciplines, such as information theory, discrete mathematics, game theory and finance, as well as from the effort to unify the above and to bring forth the inherent complexities of multi-terminal communication and interaction. In pace with the above challenges, the workshop will promote new results which explore the theoretical limitations of network communications, propose novel network coding schemes, present relaying methods and cooperation protocols, and investigate fundamental tradeoffs between cooperation and competition for resource allocation. The aim being to provide the participants with an in-depth and unifying exposition to the complex nature of analyzing, coding, cooperating and competing in wireless networks, the workshop will seek to expose the intricacies of multi-terminal network theory and the advanced mathematical structures that support network communication and interactions. TOPICS OF INTEREST In the framework of communication, cooperation and competition over wireless networks, papers are solicited in, but not limited to, the following directions. ? Cooperative diversity ? Network coding techniques ? Information theoretic bounds ? Stochastic network optimization ? Queueing theoretic aspects ? Application of game theory tools ? Application to sensor networks WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Yezekael Hayel Samson Lasaulce TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Eitan Altman Konstantin Avrachenkov Sergio Barbarossa Jean-Claude Belfiore Rajarathnam Chandramouli Ron Dabora Rachid El Azouzi Patrick Maillé Kavé Salamatian Luc Vandendorpe -- Dr. Yezekael Hayel, PhD, Assistant Professor. University of Avignon, IUP GMI +33 (0) 4 90 84 35 36 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFPs: INSS 2008 (5th International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems)
by Radu Stoleru 16 Nov '07

16 Nov '07

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] Paper Submissions Due: December 1, 2007 ********************************************************************** Call For Papers Fifth International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS 2008) June 17-20, 2008 Kanazawa, Japan http://www.inss-conf.org/ Sponsored by SICE, IEEE ********************************************************************** During the past years, the International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS) has established itself as THE scientific event where academic and industrial experts from the areas of sensor systems, wireless networks, and sensor network applications come together. The INSS provides a forum to hear about the latest developments in these areas, to exchange ideas, and to start up collaborations within these fields and between industry and academia. Call for Scientific Contributions --------------------------------- INSS 2008 is the fifth annual conference in the series, and features a highly selective technical program. We invite outstanding research papers for the regular paper track from the field of sensor technology, wireless networking, and applications of networked sensor systems. The conference especially encourages submissions that investigate research issues shared between all three areas. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Applications of Networked Sensing Systems - Prototypes, Field Studies & Testbeds for Networked Sensing Systems - Security for Networked Sensing Systems - Data Management for Networked Sensing Systems - Middleware for Networked Sensing Systems - Communication Protocols - Sensor Phenomena and Modeling - Sensors and Sensing Systems - Materials, Fabrication, and Packaging of Sensors INSS 2008 invites the submission of both regular and short papers. Regular papers must be 4-8 pages long (two-column format) and include an abstract of 100-150 words. Short papers must be 2-4 pages long (two-column format) and include an abstract of 100-150 words. All papers should be formatted according to the "IEEE transactions" format. Short papers are suitable for interactive discussions; the presenters of accepted short papers are given short oral presentation times and poster space for discussions. INSS 2008 is specifically seeking papers that are of interest to the interdisciplinary community represented at the conference. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and evaluated on the basis of originality, significance of contribution, technical correctness, and presentation. Papers submitted must contain original, unpublished material and must not be under simultaneous review for any other conference, journal, workshop, or other publication. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and accessible online via IEEE Explorer. Authors are required to attend the conference to present their work. See the web site at http://www.inss-conf.org/ for submission details. Call for Industrial Contributions --------------------------------- This year, INSS offers an industry track. Industry papers are suitable for industry researchers to present not only technical, but also practical issues surrounding production, deployment, and commercialization of networked sensing technology. Industry papers must be 2-4 pages long (two-column format) and include an abstract of 100-150 words. All papers should be formatted according to the "IEEE transactions" format. The submitted industry papers will be reviewed by industry track TPC members. Accepted industry papers will be presented in the main conference's industry track session given full oral presentation times. The industrial track aims at providing a forum among practitioners, developers, and researchers to discuss practical issues including but not limited to: - Designing networked sensing systems for commercial applications - Service models and architectures for successful deployments - Production engineering for networked sensing systems - Evaluation of networked sensing systems in practical applications See the web site at http://www.inss-conf.org/ for submission details. Important Dates --------------- Paper Submissions Due: December 1, 2007 Notification of Acceptance: February 6, 2008 Camera-Ready Papers: March 7, 2008 Conference Dates: June 17 - 19, 2008 Important Dates for Industrial Track ------------------------------------ Paper Submissions Due: January 7, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: February 6, 2008 (same to regular track) Camera-Ready Papers: March 7, 2008 (same to regular track) Organization ------------ General Co-chairs: Hideto Iwaoka, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan Steven Glaser, University of California Berkeley, USA Henry Tirri, Nokia Research Centre, Finland Program Chair: Marc Langheinrich, ETH, Zurich Program Vice-chairs: Jin Nakazawa, Keio University, Japan Steven Garverick, Case Western Reserve University, USA Publicity Chair: Satoshi Honda, Keio University, Japan Jan Beutel, ETH, Zurich Industrial Track Program Chair: Masateru Minami, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan Posters Chair: Hidekata Hontani, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan Demonstrations Chair: Christian Decker, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Workshop Chairs: Hartmut Hillmer, Universita"t Kassel, Germany Takuichi Nishimura, AIST, JAPAN Tutorial Chair: Hideyuki Kawashima, University of Tsukuba, Japan Financial Chair Hiroyuki Shinoda, The University of Tokyo, Japan Treasurer Masashi Toda, Future University - Hakodate, Japan Steering Committee Co-chairs: Yoshito Tobe, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Norman Tien, Case Western Reserve University, USA Steering Committee: Shigeru Ando, University of Tokyo, Japan Michael Beigl, University of Braunschweig, Germany Paul J. M. Havinga, University of Twente, the Netherlands Satoshi Honda, Keio University, Japan Hidekata Hontani, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan Hideto Iwaoka, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan Marc Langheinrich, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Sang Hyuk Son, University of Virginia, USA Darrin Young, Case Western Reserve University, USA Feng Zhao, Microsoft Research, USA Program Committee (confirmed): Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA Michael Beigl, TU Braunschweig, Germany Jan Beutel, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Srdjan Capkun, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Haowen Chan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Christian Decker, TecO, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Paul Havinga, University of Twente, the Netherlands Hartmut Hillmer, University of Kassel, Germany Satoshi Honda, Keio University, Japan Hidekata Hontani, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan Yoshihiro Kawahara, The University of Tokyo, Japan Hideyuki Kawashima, University of Tsukuba, Japan Daeyoung Kim, Information and Communications University, Korea Satoshi Kurihara, Osaka University, Japan Hyunyoung Lee, University of Denver, USA Vincenzo Liberatore, Case Western Reserve University, USA Pedro Marron, University of Stuttgart, Germany Masateru Minami, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan Pedram Mohseni, Case Western Reserve University, USA Takuichi Nishimura, AIST, Japan Adrian Perrig, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Marcelo Pias, Cambridge University, UK Kay Roemer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Silvia Santini, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Shivakumar Sastry, The University of Akron, USA Jochen Schiller, FU Berlin, Germany Hiroyuki Shinoda, University of Tokyo, Japan Sang Son, University of Virginia, USA Norman Tien, Case Western Reserve University, USA Yoshito Tobe, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Kamin Whitehouse, University of Virginia, USA Darrin Young, Case Western Reserve University, USA Martina Zitterbart, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Yoshiyuki Nakamura, AIST, Japan Tian He, University of Minnesota, USA Industrial Track Program Committee: Albert Krohn, Particle Computer, Germany Oliver Kasten, SAP Research, Swizerland Andrew Yeh, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Yoichi Takayanagi, Toshiba, Japan Narito Kurata, Kashima, Japan Li Zheng, Yamatake, Japan Shoichi Sakane, Yokogawa, Japan Yoshito Tobe, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Hideto Iwaoka, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan Masahiko Yoshimoto, Kobe University, Japan Tomonori Seki, Omron Corporation, Japan Hidekuni Takao, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan Local Arrangement Chair: Razvan Beuran, NICT, Japan Local Arrangement Vice-chair: Junya Nakata, NICT, Japan Conference Management: June Echizen, Echizen & Associates, Japan _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] QoSim 2008 - submission deadline extended to Nov 30]
by Lars Wolf 15 Nov '07

15 Nov '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] QoSim 2008 - submission deadline extended to Nov 30 Datum: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:08:54 +0100 Von: Giovanni Stea <g.stea(a)iet.unipi.it> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> Due to numerous requests from authors, we announce that the submission deadline for QoSim 2008 has been EXTENDED to Nov. 30 (hard) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - QOSIM - First International Workshop on the Evaluation of Quality of Service through Simulation in the Future Internet Marseille, France, March 3, 2008 http://www.qosim.org - info(a)qosim.org Held in conjunction with SIMUTools 2008, http://www.simutools.org In Cooperation with ACM SIGSIM Technical Sponsors: ICST, Create-Net, IEEE France Section, INRIA and SCS. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS: The aim of this workshop is to bring together academic and industry researchers and practitioners from both the networking and the simulation communities to discuss current and future trends in simulation techniques, models and practices for the Future Internet and to foster interdisciplinary collaborative research in this area. We solicit submission of manuscripts presenting original research results, not previously published nor currently under review by another conference or journal. Authors are invited to submit PDF versions of full papers of up to 8 pages in ACM conference proceedings format through EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org), following the instructions available on the workshop website. All submitted papers will go through a rigorous peer review process. The workshop values both theoretical and practical research contributions, which will be judged on originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness. Accepted papers will be available online through the ACM digital library (approval pending). Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be considered for a journal special issue. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Emerging access technologies (WiMax, 3.5G and beyond, Wireless Mesh Networks, 802.11x, etc.). - Disruptive network paradigms (bio-inspired, autonomic, opportunistic networking, etc.). - Multi-layer network architectures. - Cross-layer simulation. - End-to-end simulation of heterogeneous, mobile and multi-domain networks. - Fluid-flow simulation for assessing QoS in large scale networks. - New and emerging services and applications. - QoS negotiation, service chain negotiation and Service Level Agreements. - QoS components (scheduling algorithms, admission control schemes, QoS routing and traffic engineering schemes, etc.). - Scalability analysis. - Traffic modeling. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES: Manuscript Submission Due: EXTENDED To Nov 30, 2007 (HARD). Acceptance Notification: Jan 7, 2008. Final Manuscript Due: Jan 20, 2008. Conference Date: March 3, 2008. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS: Giovanni Stea, University of Pisa, Italy. Halina Tarasiuk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland. TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: - Eitan Altman (INRIA, France). - Albert Banchs (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain). - Christof Brandauer (Salzburg Research, Austria). - Wojciech Burakowski (Warsaw Univ. of Technology, Poland). - Jaudelice Cavalcante de Oliveira (Drexel University, USA). - Armando Caro Jr (BBN Technologies, USA). - Kenjiro Cho (IIJ, Japan). - Claudio Cicconetti (University of Pisa, Italy). - Markus Fiedler (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden). - Chuanxiong Guo (Nanjing University, China). - Qi He (Yahoo! Inc., USA). - Polly Huang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan). - Gianluca Iannaccone (INTEL, UK). - Robert Janowski (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland). - Thomas Karagiannis (Microsoft Research, UK). - Benjamin Melamed (Rutgers Business School, USA). - Telemaco Melia (NEC Network Labs, Germany). - Michela Meo (Politecnico Torino, Italy). - Enzo Mingozzi (University of Pisa, Italy). - Krzysztof Pawlikowski (University of Canterbury, New Zealand). - Simone Redana (Nokia Siemens Networks, Italy). - Fabio Ricciato (Forschunszentrum Telekommunikation, Austria). - Werner Sandmann (University of Bamberg, Germany). - Susana Sargento (Technical University of Aveiro, Portugal). - Kurt Tutschku (University of Wuerzburg, Germany). - Manuel Villen Altamirano (Telefonica I+D, Spain). _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP - SimulationWorks 2008]
by Lars Wolf 15 Nov '07

15 Nov '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP - SimulationWorks 2008 Datum: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:39:13 +0100 Von: WATTEYNE Thomas RD-TECH-GRE <thomas.watteyne(a)orange-ftgroup.com> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> Dear colleagues, Please find attached the call for papers for SimulationWorks 2008, the Industry Track of SIMUTOOLS 2008. My sincere apologies for possible cross-posting. Thomas. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------- SimulationWorks 2008 Industry Track of SIMUTOOLS 2008 First International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques for Communications, Networks and Systems March 4, 2008, Marseille, France http://www.simulationworks.org Full Papers due: December 15, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------- CALL FOR PAPERS SimulationWorks is the industry track of SIMUTools 2008 (www.simutools.org). The focus of the conference and the industry track is on Simulation Tools and Techniques for Communications, Networks, and Systems. The goal of the industry track is to promote the results that have been applied or have a potential application in an industrial field. Papers are sought on the topics of methodology, tools, applications, and practices (case studies). Particular emphasis will be given to papers that bridge multiple areas. We encourage industry participation. The papers will be not so much assessed by their novelty as by their applicability and impact in different fields of industry. Possible topics include, but are not limited to * Case studies: Applications of simulation Simulation-based optimization Cost/performance trade-offs Simulation-based systems design * Application areas: Computer Systems, Telecommunications, and Networks. * Tools: OPNET, NS-2, Interconnected simulation platforms, ATDI ICS, Qualnet, OMNET++, NIIST, Dymola, Matlab/Simulink, Verilog simulators, CSIM, and open source tools... The event is in cooperation with ACM Special Interest Group on Simulation (SIGSIM) and Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS). All accepted papers will be made available in ACM Digital Library, as well as indexed by EI and ISI Index. -------------------- Organizing Committee -------------------- Industry Track Chairs: Bozidar Radunovic, Microsoft Research, UK Herb Schwetman, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, US Coordinator: Tibor Kovacs, ICST TPC: To Be Announced --------------- Important Dates --------------- - Full Papers due: December 15, 2007 - Notification of Acceptance: January 4, 2007 - Camera-ready Manuscripts due: January 18, 2008 ------------------------------------------ Submission Instructions & Reviewing Policy ------------------------------------------ Papers should be submitted through EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/SimulationWorks08) Authors are invited to submit either Regular Papers or Short Papers, in a PDF file, complying with the ACM conference proceedings format. Regular papers are 6 to 8 pages long, short papers are 4 to 6 pages long. Short Papers are intended for authors that wish to present their ongoing work or new open issues. Each paper will be peer reviewed for quality and correctness by at least three reviewers. Only original papers, written in English, which have not been published previously elsewhere, will be accepted. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: MobiSys 2008: Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 15 Nov '07

15 Nov '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: MobiSys 2008: Call for Papers Datum: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:06:04 -0500 Von: Varshavsky Alex <walex(a)cs.toronto.edu> An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de +-------------------------------------------------------------+ Call for Papers MobiSys 2008 The 6th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services Jointly sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE and the USENIX Association. Breckenridge, Colorado June 10-13, 2008 http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2008/ +-------------------------------------------------------------+ MobiSys 2008 seeks to present innovative and significant research on the design, implementation, usage, and evaluation of mobile computing and wireless systems, applications, and services. This conference builds on the success of the previous four MobiSys conferences. It is jointly sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE and the USENIX Association. We seek papers that take a broad systems perspective rather than focus narrowly on low-level components. We value results and insights obtained from working implementations more highly than those obtained solely from simulations. If you have any questions regarding relevance or other submission-related issues, please contact the program chairs at mobisys_pcchairs(a)acm.org. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Design, implementation, and evaluation of mobile and wireless systems * Middleware and service architectures for mobile and wireless applications * Data management for mobile and wireless applications * Operating systems for resource-constrained mobile devices * Disconnected and weakly connected operation * Proxies and data adaptation * Mobile agents * Infrastructure support for mobility * Security and privacy in mobile and wireless systems * System-level energy management for mobile and wireless devices * Wearable and handheld devices in the context of system design * Personal-area networks and systems * Cyber foraging and resource discovery for mobile services * Systems for context sensing and context awareness * Tools and design methodologies for building mobile and wireless systems * Mobile computing support for pervasive computing * User interfaces and usability issues for mobile and wireless applications * Experience with mobile and wireless systems * Experience with sensor networks and systems * Support for social networking Submissions should be full papers, up to 14 single-spaced 8.5" x 11" pages, including figures, tables, and references, in two-column format, using 10-point type on 12-point (single-spaced) leading with reasonable margins. The first page of each paper should include the names and affiliations of the authors, i.e., the submissions should not be anonymous. Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and technical correctness. Accepted papers will be shepherded by a member of the program committee. MobiSys, like most conferences and journals, requires that papers must not be submitted simultaneously to any other conference or publication, that submissions must not be previously published, and that accepted papers must not be subsequently published elsewhere. Papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms are not acceptable and will be returned to the author(s) unread. As customary with the scientific peer review process, submissions will be handled as confidential material during the review. Abstracts are due by 23:59 EST on Monday, November 26, 2007. Full papers are due by 23:59 EST on Monday, December 3, 2007. These are hard deadlines; no extensions will be granted. The important dates, as well as the organizing and program committee members are listed below. We look forward to seeing you at MobiSys 2008. Sincerely, Alex Varshavsky <walex(a)cs.toronto.edu> MobiSys 2008 Publicity Chair Important Dates --------------- Abstracts due: 26 November 2007 Full papers due: 3 December 2007 Notification of acceptance: 4 March 2008 Final camera-ready due: 5 April 2008 Organizing Committee -------------------- General Co-Chairs: - Dirk Grunwald, University of Colorado, US - Richard Han, University of Colorado, US Steering Committee Chair: - Victor Bahl, Microsoft Research, US Program Committee Co-Chairs: - Eyal de Lara, University of Toronto, CA - Carla Ellis, Duke University, US Poster and Demo Chair: - Landon Cox, Duke University, US Publications Chair: - Anmol Sheth, Intel Research Seattle, US Publicity Chair: - Alex Varshavsky, University of Toronto, CA Program Committee ----------------- - Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington, US - Ramon Caceres, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, US - Ranveer Chandra, Microsoft Research, US - Mark Corner, University of Massachusetts Amherst, US - Landon Cox, Duke University, US - Nigel Davies, Lancaster University, UK - Maria R. Ebling, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, US - Deborah Estrin, University of California, Los Angeles, US - Hans Gellersen, Lancaster University, UK - Urs Hengartner, University of Waterloo, CA - Anthony D. Joseph, University of California, Berkeley, US - Christine Julien, University of Texas at Austin, US - Todayoshi Kohno, University of Washington, US - Robin Kravets, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US - Anthony LaMarca, Intel Research Seattle, US - Natalia Marmasse, Google, Haifa, IL - M. Satyanarayanan, Carnegie Mellon University, US - Liuba Shrira, Brandeis University, US - Doug Terry, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, US - Roy Want, Intel Research, US - Matt Welsh, Harvard University, US - Lin Zhong, Rice University, US

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[Tccc] [CFP] WMCNR 2008 Deadline extension - 25th November
by Jung-Min Park 15 Nov '07

15 Nov '07

[Apologies for possible multiple copies] ============================================================================ The First Workshop on Wireless Multihop Communications in Networked Robotics (WMCNR 2008) April 4th, Berlin, Germany http://www.wmcnr.org in conjunction with 6th Intl. Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt'08) March 31-April 4, Berlin, Germany http://www.wiopt.org Call for papers: http://www.wmcnr.org/CFP_WMCNR2008.pdf ============================================================================ *** Paper submission deadline: November 25, 2007 (Extended) *** Submission guidelines are given at workshop webpage http://www.wmcnr.org *** Submission should be done through COCUS : http://cocus.create-net.it Call for Papers The wireless multihop communication has been one of key research issues in recent years both in academia and wireless industry. It encompasses ad hoc radio networks, sensor networks, wireless mesh networks and mobile multihop relay related to the industrial and standardization activities such as IEEE 802.11s, 802.15.4, 802.16j, etc. Further the multihop communications can be combined with cooperative communications and network coding, which attracted more researchers in this field. The idea behind such multihop communications is to utilize the availability of other nodes or to borrow their transmission capability. This in many cases exceeds the delay caused by the multihop relay, the gain from which is capacity enhancement as well as coverage extension of plain radio networks. Now we turn our attention to the robotics area. In these days, many researchers are noticing group behaviors found in small insects or animals such as ants, birds, and fish, trying to realize such behaviors into the control and coordination of a team of robots with their local interaction. The multiple (usually small) robots communicate each other, sharing the same mission, naturally through wireless communications. In this respect, wireless multihop communication is an excellent candidate for inter-robot information exchange. The main idea of this workshop is to bridge the above two areas (wireless multihop communications and networked robotics) by opening a place for researchers to meet and exchange their ideas. The workshop welcomes submissions on all aspects of the themes, which include (but not limited to) the following topics: - Communication architecture for collaborative robot systems - Biologically inspired swarm robotics with networking functionality - Multiple robot networking with mutihop- and cooperative communications - Network coding and wireless relay technologies for cooperative robotics - Learning and adaptation in cooperative environments - Applications of multi-robot network systems - Ad hoc robot networks - Cognitive communication technologies for inter-robot team work - Exploiting robot mobility in wireless relay networks - QoS support in networked robotics - Wireless multihop networks under node mobility ============================================================================ Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: November 25, 2007 (Extended) Notification of acceptance: January 5, 2008 Camera-ready papers due: February 1, 2008 Submission guidelines are given at workshop webpage : http://www.wmcnr.org Submission should be done through COCUS : http://cocus.create-net.it ============================================================================ Workshop Chair: Seong-Lyun Kim, Yonsei Univ., Korea (slkim(a)yonsei.ac.kr) Technical Programming Chairs: Riku Jantti, Helsinki Univ. Tech., Finland (wireless communications, riku.jantti(a)tkk.fi) DaeEun Kim, Yonsei Univ., Korea (networked robotics, daeeun(a)yonsei.ac.kr) Technical Programming Committee: Timothy Brown, Univ. Colorado, Boulder, USA Wolfram Burgard, Univ. Freiburg, Germany Song Chong, KAIST, Korea Brian Gerkey, SRI, USA Norihiro Hagita, ATR, Japan Jean-Yves Le Boudec, EPFL, Switzerland Mikael Johansson, Royal Inst. Tech., Sweden Rolf Johansson, Lund Univ., Sweden Smail Menani, PUV, Finland Klaus Schilling, Univ. Wuerzburg, Germany Dezhen Song, Texas A&M Univ., USA Mani B. Srivastava, UCLA, USA Sameer Tilak, Univ. California, San Dieo, USA Andreas Willig, Technical Univ. Berlin, Germany Alan FT Winfield, Univ. West England, UK Yuping Zhao, Peking Univ., China ============================================================================ For questions about the workshop, please contact us at "wmcnr(a)ramo.yonsei.ac.kr" _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] RAWNET 2008 Deadline extension - 26th November!]
by Lars Wolf 15 Nov '07

15 Nov '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] RAWNET 2008 Deadline extension - 26th November! Datum: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:33:29 +0000 Von: Bozidar Radunovic <bozidar(a)microsoft.com> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS RAWNET 2008 The 4th workshop on Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks March 31st, Berlin, Germany http://www.rawnet.org Full Papers due: November 26, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tomorrow's wireless network must be optimized to offer enhanced rate performance, at higher and often heterogenous quality-of-service levels, in user scenarios with ever increasing mobilily. To meet these challenges, system designers can resort to a number of tools and techniques at PHY, MAC or higher layers of the protocol stack. In order to increase the network efficiency (Bit/Sec/Hz per Euro/Dollar) while providing the required QoS, a more efficient utilization of the spectral resource across the network will be required. Smart resource allocation schemes should help provide the customer with a smooth user experience while efficiently tackling interference issues in agressive reuse environment, whether in cellular or adhoc scenarios. Ideally, they should be aware, i.e. jointly designed with lower layer algorithms (multiple antenna systems, spatial division multiple access, OFDMA, multi-cell cooperative coding) and potentialy upper layers as well (transport/routing/application). ----------------- IMPORTANT DATES ----------------- Paper submission deadline : November 26, 2007 Notification of acceptance : January 21, 2008 Camera-ready papers due : February 21, 2008 Early registration deadline : March 1, 2008 -------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST -------------------- This workshop seeks original work within the fields described by (but not limited to) the bullets below: - User scheduling (single cell /multicell /OFDMA); - Cross-layer design (e.g. combined MIMO - Resource allocation schemes) - Power control and energy-efficient communication; - Resource allocation-based interference mitigation; - Cooperation schemes for interference control, range extension (multicell, multihop cooperation); - Performance evaluation methods for wireless networks; - Game theoretic resource allocation; - Pricing-based, auction-based schemes in ad-hoc/cellular networks; - Fairness vs. performance issues ----------------- INVITED SPEAKERS ----------------- - Olivier Lévêque (EPFL) ----------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ----------------------- Paper submissions will be handled electronically via EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rawnet2008). Authors should prepare a PDF or a PostScript version of their full paper. Papers must be no longer than 6 double-column pages, font size not smaller than 11 points, and can be prepared using the standard IEEE format. The workshop proceedings will be listed in the IEEEXplore and the IEEE digital library. ----------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEES ----------------------- Workshop chairs: David Gesbert (Institut Eurecom) Bozidar Radunovic (Microsoft Research Cambridge) Technical program commitee: Alexandre Proutiere (Microsoft Research Cambridge) Atilla Eryilmaz (Ohio State University) Daniel Palomar (UST) Edmund Yeh (Yale University) Eduard Jorswieck (KTH) Erik Larsson (Linkopings) Jeff Andrews (University of Texas, Austin) Michael Honig (Northwestern University) Michele Zorzi (UCSD) Mikael Johansson (KTH) Olivier Dousse (Deutsche Telekom) Prasanna Chaporkar (IIT Bombay) Randall Berry (Northwestern University) Rob Heath (University of Texas, Austin) Sem Borst (Eindhoven University) Stavros Toumpis (University of Cyprus ) Vivek Mhatre (Bell Labs, Bangalore) _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: Special Issue on Secure Multimedia Communication
by Yan ZHANG 15 Nov '07

15 Nov '07

Wiley Journal: Security and Communication Network (SCN) Call for Paper Special Issue: Secure Multimedia Communication http://home.simula.no/~yanzhang/CFP/SCN-SIcfp.htm Background ========== With the rapid progress in information technology and an enormous amount of media appearing over Internet, e.g. text, audio, speech, music, image and video, guaranteeing information security is becoming increasingly important. Several pivotal challenges include copyright protection, integrity verification, authentication, and access control etc. As a consequence, the subject of security protection in multimedia communication has attracted intensive research activities in academia, industry and also government. Multimedia data like images, audios or videos are different from plain text. They are often of large volumes and are compressed in order to save the storage cost and bandwidth. Due to such requirement and property, the media protection mechanisms for images, audios or videos are significantly different from the ones for text or binary data. With the recent advances in network and multimedia technology, the applications in commercial scenario become increasing crucial. There is an increasing trend in the multimedia content distribution from the central service provider to the individuals, e.g. video-on-demand, IPTV and p2p sharing. In these applications, piracy is becoming a critical issue. Solutions are needed to protect the copyright of multimedia content. During the past decades, schemes have been reported for secure multimedia communication, e.g., key management, multimedia encryption, authentication, digital watermarking, digital fingerprinting, access control and digital rights management. These techniques are able to protect multimedia content's confidentiality, integrity, ownership, traitor traceability. In addition, in different networks such as Internet, 3G wireless, DVB-H and p2p, different secure protocols and algorithms are required to provide the system security. All these topics are in active development. This special issue aims to expose the readership of SCN to the latest research results on secure multimedia communication. The issue focuses on secure transmission or distribution of multimedia content. Topics ======== Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following: . Copyright techniques . Digital rights management for multimedia . Secure multimedia transcoding in communication . Secure media streaming . Secure multimedia content sharing in P2P network . Broadcast encryption and authentication . Security in multimedia message sending . Security in mobile TV . Security in IPTV . Attacks and prevention in multimedia communication . Secure multimedia broadcasting over wireless networks . Secure multimedia broadcasting over IEEE 802.x families . Secure multimedia over multi-hop networks, e.g. Ad hoc network, wireless sensor networks, wireless mesh networks . Hardware Implementations of secure multimedia techniques . Low-power Architectures for portable appliances Submission Procedures ===================== Papers submitted to this journal for possible publication must be original and must not be under consideration for publication in any other journal. Submissions of both in-depth research papers and review/application-oriented papers are encouraged. All submissions should be done in Wiley's manuscript central whose web link is: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/scn and all submissions are subject to peer review before publication. For more detailed information on the submission requirements, please refer to the journal home-page at http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/security. Schedule ======== . Manuscript Due: May 1, 2008 . Acceptance Notification: September 1, 2008 . Final Manuscript Due: November 1, 2008 . Publication Date: 1st Quarter, 2009 Guest Editors: ============== Shiguo Lian France Telecom R&D Beijing Center, China Email: shiguo.lian(a)orange-ftgroup.com Yan Zhang Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Email: yanzhang(a)ieee.org Jong Hyuk Park Kyungnam University, Korea E-mail: parkjonghyuk1(a)hotmail.com Paris Kitsos Hellenic Open University (HOU), Greece Email: pkitsos(a)ieee.org _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: IEEE SECON 2008: Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 15 Nov '07

15 Nov '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: IEEE SECON 2008: Call for Papers Datum: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:14:48 -0500 Von: Meetings(a)comsocconferences.org Antwort an: MailSupport(a)comsocconferences.org An: Conferencesx(a)comsocconferences.org *Call for Papers *Fifth Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad hoc Communications and Networks (IEEE SECON 2008) Merged with IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (IWWAN) *16-20 June 2008, San Francisco, California, USA *[] *Important Dates*: Registration Deadline: December 4, 2007 Submission Deadline: December 11, 2007 Acceptance Notification: March 14, 2008 Camera Ready: April 4, 2008 (Midnight Eastern Standard Time) [] For details and to submit a paper, visit: *http://www.ieee-secon.org * <http://www.ieee-secon.org/> To unsubscribe from this IEEE Communications Society Meetings and Conferences mailing list, go to: http://www.comsoc.org/confs/unsubscribe.html or send a blank email message to conferencesx-remove(a)comsocconferences.org. You can also request removal by mail. Please send a note with your email address and the list name (Conferencesx(a)comsocconferences.org) to ComSoc List Removal - IT 3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor New York, NY 10016 USA

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[Tccc] CFP: ICC2008 Workshop on Cooperative Communications and Networking: Theory, Practice & Applications.
by Zhang, Qinqing 14 Nov '07

14 Nov '07

[We apologize if you received multiple copies of this call for papers. Please feel free to distribute it to others who might be interested.] Call for Papers IEEE International Communications Conference (ICC) 2008 19-23 May 2008, Beijing, China Workshop on Cooperative Communications and Networking: Theory, Practice and Applications Scope: Cooperative communications and networking for wireless systems has recently attracted enormous attention. Unlike conventional point-to-point communications, cooperative communications and networking offers tremendous advantages such as allowing users or nodes to share resource to create collaboration through distributed transmission and processing. Cooperative communication and networking is a new paradigm offering significant reliability and spectral efficiency gains in wireless systems. It realizes a new form of cooperative diversity to combat the hostile wireless fading channels. For instance, there are lot standardization activities such as IEEE802.16j trying to exploit the potential benefits of cooperative communications. Although some initial understanding of cooperative communications and networking has been demonstrated in recent years, there are still a lot of open problems in the area both from the theoretical aspects and the practical considerations. The objective of this workshop are (1) to bring together experts and researchers from the International research community from Asia Pacific, North America and Europe, (2) business leader to address the market potential and emerging applications and services, and (3) the engineers from the wireless telecommunication vendors and service providers to enhance the understanding of the promising (but yet challenging) paradigm and deployment practices of cooperative networking. Topic of Interest: The workshop is calling for paper contributions to (but not limiting to) the following topics on cooperative networking. Information and Communication Theory ¨ Information Theoretical Aspects on Cooperative Networking ¨ Coding and Signal Processing Techniques for Cooperative Communications ¨ Cooperative Diversity Schemes ¨ Game Theoretical Aspects on Cooperation, Coalition and Competition Networking Protocol and Applications ¨ Cross-layer Resource allocation in Cooperative Networking ¨ Multi-hop Routing and Networking in Cooperative Communications ¨ Delay Sensitive Applications in Cooperative Networks ¨ Cooperative Sensing Applications Architecture, Implementation and Market Potential ¨ Implementation and Engineering Challenges on Cooperative Networking ¨ Business Model and Market Potential ¨ Emerging Applications and Services Standards Activities ¨ Standardization Issues ¨ Interoperability ¨ Current Standardization Activities This workshop is in conjunction to IEEE ICC2008 and therefore, all papers for this workshop must be submitted through the official ICC2008 web-based paper processing system. All accepted papers must be accompanied by a limited or full registration in order to be appeared in the conference proceedings. For more information, please check the official workshop website at http://www.IEEE-CoopNet.org <http://www.ieee-coopnet.org/> Important Deadlines 20 December 2007 -- Paper Submission Deadline (on EDAS) 31 January 2008 -- Notification of Acceptance 28 February 2008 -- Camera Ready Paper Workshop Co-Chairs Dr Sastri Kota, Harris Corporation, USA, Email: skota(a)harris.com Dr Qinqing Zhang, Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory, USA, Email: qinqing.zhang(a)jhuapl.edu Professor Vincent Lau, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Email: eeknlau(a)ee.ust.hk _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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CfP: NGI 2008 Conference
by Piotr Cholda 14 Nov '07

14 Nov '07

[Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ************************************************************************* * Call for Papers * * * * 4th Conference on NEXT GENERATION INTERNET NETWORKS (NGI 2008) * * * * April 28-30, 2008 Krakow, Poland * * * ************************************************************************* WEBPAGE http://www.kt.agh.edu.pl/ngi2008 CONTACT ngi2008(a)kt.agh.edu.pl TECHNICAL CO-SPONSORSHIP IEEE Communication Society IFIP TC6 (International Federation for Information Processing, Technical Committee 'Communications Systems') OVERVIEW NGI 2008 focuses on the design, engineering, and operation of Next Generation Internet networks. It is organized by the Network of Excellence (NoE) Euro-FGI (http://www.eurongi.org), former Euro-NGI, that was initiated by the European Commission during the 6th framework program and will be continued in the next funding period. NGI serves as its main platform for interaction, dissemination, and collaboration. To stimulate discussions, NGI 2008 invites scientists and practitioners from industry and academia, and especially welcomes contributions from outside Euro-FGI. To guarantee the high visibility of the conference, the proceedings will be available through IEEE Explore. TOPICS Original papers on recent advances in next generation networking are invited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following areas: ** Applications and services * Applications for wireless sensor networks * Grid computing * Location-based and context-aware services * Network co-operation * Overlay networks and peer-to-peer ** Optical networks * Multi-layer networks * Routing & wavelength assignment * Traffic grooming and traffic engineering * Transport Ethernet, PON, WDM ** Wireless networks * Ad hoc and sensor networks * Cellular networks * Cross-layer design * Integration of fixed and mobile networks * WiFi and WiMax ** Network architecture * Access, regional, metropolitan, and core networks * Future Internet * Inter-domain issues * Network design, provisioning, and optimization * Network management and control * Network survivability and resilience * Routing: unicast, multicast, anycast * Security architectures and mechanisms * Testbeds and experimental evaluations ** Traffic engineering * Admission and congestion control * Performance evaluation of next generation networks * Quality of service (QoS) and quality of experience (QoE) * Service differentiation and multi-service support * Traffic measurement & modelling SUBMISSION All papers must be submitted electronically by EDAS (http://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=5881&) as PDF according to the IEEE publisher format and must not exceed EIGHT double-column pages with a font of at least 10pt. All accepted contributions will be full papers with oral presentations. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: November 30, 2007 Acceptance notifications: January 31, 2008 Camera-ready due: February 29, 2008 Conference: April 28-30, 2008 ORGANIZATION & EXECUTIVE COMITTEE General Chair Andrzej Jajszczyk, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Advisory Board Augusto Casaca, INESC, Portugal Klaus Hackbarth, University of Cantabria, Spain Guenter Haring, University of Vienna, Austria Daniel Kofman, ENST, France Michal Pioro, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland James Roberts, France Telecom, France Gerardo Rubino, INRIA, France Roberto Sabella, Ericsson Lab Italy (CoRiTel), Italy Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Technical Program Committee Chairs Piotr Cholda, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Michael Menth, University of Wuerzburg, Germany

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[Fwd: CFP - 9th ACM MobiHoc - Abstract Due in 1 Week!]
by Lars Wolf 14 Nov '07

14 Nov '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP - 9th ACM MobiHoc - Abstract Due in 1 Week! Datum: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:15:16 -0500 Von: My T. Thai <mythai(a)CISE.UFL.EDU> Antwort an: My T. Thai <mythai(a)CISE.UFL.EDU> An: SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG CALL FOR PAPERS - The 9th ACM MobiHoc =================================================== The 9th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing May 26-30, 2008, Hong Kong http://www.sigmobile.org/mobihoc/2008 Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE =================================================== Important Dates: Abstract registration deadline: Nov 19, 2007 Paper submission deadline: Nov 28, 2007, 5pm PT ==================================================== ACM MobiHoc is the premier international symposium dedicated to addressing challenges emerging from the design and applications of wireless communication networks. This symposium will be held in Hong Kong during the week of May 26, 2008. It will bring together researchers and practitioners from a broad spectrum of wireless networking research to present the most up-to-date results and achievements in the field. The symposium will include a highly selective technical program, hands-on research demonstrations, a distinguished keynote address, panels, and tutorials. We invite paper, poster, and demonstration submissions on a variety of wireless ad hoc networks such as mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), wireless mesh networks, wireless sensor networks, wireless personal area networks, vehicular networks, RFID networks, and hybrid networks including unmanned aerial vehicles and underwater unmanned vehicles. The symposium solicits high-quality theoretical as well as practical works on a broad range of issues important to the design, performance control, and security of wireless ad hoc networks. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: - Transport, Network, and MAC protocol design - Cross-Layer Design and Control - Energy Efficiency - Modeling and Performance Analysis - Network control - Distributed algorithms - Computational Complexity and Approximability - Scaling Laws and Fundamental Limits - Network Coding - Optimization based techniques - Location Discovery - Functional Computation and Data Aggregation - Distributed Sensing, Coordination, and Control - Network Security, Privacy, and Trust - Resiliency, Fault tolerance, and Reliability - Quality of Service - System design and Testbeds - Measurements and Data Collection The symposium especially encourages the submission of exploratory studies that identify new challenges in the network design, innovative services, and applications that may stimulate far-reaching future research. This year's symposium will introduce a Best Paper Award among all the papers submitted to the conference. =========================================================== SUBMISSION GUIDELINES All submissions will be handled electronically and must be in PDF format. Papers must not exceed 10 pages (US letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches) including text, figures and references. The font size must be at least 10 points. Accepted papers will be published in the symposium proceedings. All submitted papers would be judged based on their quality through double-blind reviewing, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. Authors' names must NOT appear in the paper or in the PDF file. Submitted papers must not be currently under review for any other publication. Instructions on paper submission and formatting are available on the symposium webpage. Please direct any questions about the paper submission process to the Program Co-Chairs. ============================================================ IMPORTANT DATES Paper Abstract Registration: November 19, 2007 Paper Submission Deadline: November 28, 2007, 5pm PT Notification of Acceptance: Feburary 28, 2008 Camera-Ready Version Deadline: March 22, 2008 ============================================================ General Chair: Xiaohua Jia, City University of Hong Kong, jia(a)cs.cityu.edu.hk Program Co-Chairs: Ness B. Shroff, The Ohio State University, shroff(a)ece.osu.edu Pengjun Wan, Illinois Institute of Technology, wan(a)cs.iit.edu Industrial Co-Chair: Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway, yanzhang(a)ieee.org Panel Co-Chairs: Guoliang Xue, Arizona State University, xue(a)asu.edu Workshops Chair: Ivan Stojmenovic, Ottawa University, ivan(a)site.uottawa.ca Tutorial Co-Chairs: Randy Berry, Northwestern University, rberry(a)ece.northwestern.edu Qian Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, qianzh(a)cse.ust.hk Poster Chair: Mihaela Cardei, Florida Atlantic University, mihaela(a)cse.fau.edu Publicity Chair: My T. Thai, University of Florida, mythai(a)cise.ufl.edu Registration Chair: Jianping Wang, City University of Hong Kong, jianwang(a)cityu.edu.hk Local Organization Chair: Victor Lee, City University of Hong Kong, csvlee(a)cityu.edu.hk ----------------------------------------------------- To be removed from future issues of the SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS, please enter your email address wolf(a)IBR.CS.TU-BS.DE at http://optout.acm.org/listserv_index.cfm?ln=sigmobile-members and we'll remove you. Association for Computing Machinery Advancing Computing as a Science and Profession (c) 2007 ACM, Inc. All rights reserved. -----------------------------------------------------

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[Iscc] R: CFP: DPDNS08
by Antonio Puliafito 13 Nov '07

13 Nov '07

We apologize if you received multiple copies of this message DEADLINE EXTENSION to NOVEMBER 30, 2007 *********************************************************************** 13th IEEE Workshop on Dependable Parallel, Distributed and Network-Centric Systems - DPDNS '08 Miami, Florida USA April 14-18, 2008 Held in conjunction with the 22nd IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium *********************************************************************** Theme Increasingly large and complex parallel, distributed and network-centric computing systems provide unique challenges to the researchers in dependable computing, especially because of the high failure rates intrinsic to these systems. The goal of this workshop in continuation of the FTPDS (Fault-Tolerant Parallel and Distributed Systems) workshop series is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss all aspects of dependability including reliability, availability, safety and security for parallel, distributed and network-centric systems. All aspects of design, theory and realization are of interest. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Dependable parallel, distributed and network-centric systems • High availability in parallel, distributed and network-centric computing systems • Safety and security in distributed and network-centric computing systems • Autonomic network computing • Dependable high-speed wide, local, and system area networks • Dependable mobile computing • Dependable clusters of workstations and PCs • Dependable internet servers • Dependability in distributed embedded systems • Using COTS for designing dependable network-centric computing systems • Dependable protocols for distributed and network-centric systems • Protocol verification and validation • Practical experiences and prototypes • Dependability evaluation of parallel, distributed and network-centric systems • Dependable quantum computing • Dependable organic computing • Dependable biocomputing Program Chair: Antonio Puliafito, University of Messina, Italy e-mail: apuliafito(a)unime.it Program Committee: M. Atighetchi, BBN Technologies, Cambridge, USA B. Ciciani, University of Roma, Italy G. Deconinck, University of Leuven, Belgium A. Doering, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland S. Geoghegan, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA K. E.Grosspietsch, Fraunhofer AIS, Germany R. Khazan, MIT Lincoln Lab, USA T. Kikuno, Osaka University, Japan E. Nett, University of Magdeburg, Germany D. Nikolos, University of Patras, Greece F. Quaglia, University of Roma, Italy P. Romano, University of Roma, Italy M. Roy, LAAS-CNRS, France F. Salfner, Humboldt University, Germany P. Sobe, University of Luebeck, Germany M. Telek, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary C. Trinitis, TU Munich, Germany Steering Committee: D. Avresky, IRIANC, Boston USA/Munich Germany (Chair) E. Maehle, University of Luebeck, Germany The workshop is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing. For further information, please see http://www.ipdps.org/ and http://cia.unime.it/dpdns08. or contact the Program Chair via email: dpdns08(a)unime.it. Submission Guidelines To submit papers, send the file (at most 8 pages long including figures and references in the IEEE format (see http://www.ieee.org/)) describing original unpublished research by November 30, 2007 in either Postscript or PDF format electronically via the workshop webpage cia.unime.it/dpdns08 All papers will be reviewed. Notification of authors: December 20, 2007. Camera-ready papers: January 28, 2008. The proceedings for workshops will be published (on CD-ROM) along with the regular proceedings for The IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium. Signature Puliafito No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.30/1125 - Release Date: 11/11/2007 21.50 _______________________________________________ ISCC mailing list ISCC(a)mail.ing.unibo.it http://calvin.ing.unibo.it/mailman/listinfo/iscc

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[Tccc] CFP: ASSESS'08 -- Workshop on Assessing Models of Networks and Distributed Computing Platforms
by Marinho P Barcellos 13 Nov '07

13 Nov '07

Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. ********************************************************************** * ASSESS * * Workshop on Assessing Models of Networks and * * Distributed Computing Platforms * * May 19-22, 2008 * * Lyon, France * * http://www-id.imag.fr/Laboratoire/Membres/Legrand_Arnaud/assess08/ * * * * Workshop held in conjunction CCGrid 2008 * * http://www.ens-lyon.fr/LIP/RESO/ccgrid2008/ * ********************************************************************** Paper Submission Deadline: November 19, 2007 -------------------------------------------- Description The Workshop on "Assessing Models of Networks and Distributed Computing Platforms" (ASSESS) is a one-day event held in conjunction with the 8th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid ([7]CCGrid 2008), which will be held in Lyon, France, on May 19th, 2008. Motivation Models are the organization of thoughts and facts through more or less simple laws. These models can then be used to think about reality or to make predictions. Therefore, scientists strive for objective models and knowledge based on objective observations. With the first computers, or even before, computer scientists have designed computing models, from the architectural point of view as the classical Von Neuman model, to complexity models like the Turing Machine. Then, with the parallel machines there appeared several computing models from the first ones, such as PRAM, and ranging from more architectural ones like LogP, to more conceptual ones such as CGM/BSP. These models were adapted with some changes to the cluster computing. There is still the need though for specific models for large-scale distributed platforms like grids or peer-to-peer infrastructures where heterogeneity and changes are usual. Wide area networks are crucial components of such platforms and thus raise the same issues. Clearly, a "good" model should be: * Realistic; * Tractable; * Instantiable. Evaluating the quality of a model is tricky. In particular because results of computer measurements are generally brittle and sensitive to initial conditions. Moreover due to the rapid evolution of technology and systems, measurements and analysis often quickly become obsolete. As a consequence, computer measurements do not lead to a universal and enduring truth. This difficulty is not a curse but computer scientists should thus be even more careful and precise than any other scientists. In particular they should regularly check the validity of their models and precisely detail the circumstances under which the data they use is collected. A particular emphasis should be put on providing enough information to enable others to reproduces results. This good practice is unfortunately not very common. Most people often use models (either from their own or from others) without ever questioning their relevance. Many projects and platforms such as PlanetLab, Grid5000, DAS3 enable people to perform large scale experiments and check the validity of their hypothesis. However resorting to simulation is very common as driving real life large-scale experiments is very tedious. This may be a reasonable option but very few simulation users and developers question the validity of the models underlying their simulators. Coming up with validated models and simulators is thus very difficult, especially when dealing with large-scale distributed infrastructures like grids or peer-to-peer infrastructures. Goal This workshop aims to provide advances on models for distributed computing (e.g. grids, clusters, network, peer-to-peer infrastructure, etc.), gathering mainly experimental work. The workshop welcomes analysis, experience reports, simulations, emulation, performance evaluation techniques; Proposals for model extensions, as well as proposals for innovative models accompanied with experiments are welcome. A particular attention will be paid to methodology and reproducibility of results. This workshop also aims to be an opportunity to meet people and have live discussions on this hot topic. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, experiments, measurements, performance analysis, evaluation, validation and experiences on: * Communication Models * Network Models (contention, topology, traffic...) * Storage Models * Programming Models * Benchmark, Profiling and Forecast * Workload * Scalable Models * Simulation, Emulation * Global Computing * Peer-to-Peer * Grid Computing * Cluster Computing All workshop papers are a maximum of 6 pages in length (in IEEE format). The publication of proceedings will be by the IEEE alongside the CCgrid conference proceedings. At least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop and all workshop participants must pay the CCGrid 2008 workshop registration fee, as well as the conference fee. Furthermore, authors of selected high quality papers will be invited to submit revised and extended versions for publication in a special issue in a higly reputation journal (we consider contacting Parallel Computing). PC chairs: * Alfredo Goldman (Universidade de Sao Paulo - Brazil) * Arnaud Legrand (CNRS, LIG, Grenoble, France) * Martin Quinson (INRIA/LORIA, Vandoeuvre les Nancy, France) * Olivier Richard (LIG, Grenoble, France) Program Committee: * Alberto Montresor (University of Trento, Italy) * Cristina Boeres (Universidade Federal Fluminense - Brazil) * Dror Feitelson (Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel) * Francisco Brasileiro (Universidade de Campina Grande - Brazil) * Franck Cappello (INRIA Futurs and LRI, France) * Henri Casanova (University of Hawaii, Manoa) * Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA) * Jay Lepreau (University of Utah, USA) * Marco Danelutto (Universita de Pisa, Italy) * Marinho Barcellos (Unisinos - Brazil) * Mitsuhisa Sato (University of Tsukuba, Japan) * Mohamed Jemni (Universite de Tunis, Tunisia) * Olivier Aumage (INRIA, Bordeaux, France) * Olivier Dalle (INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France) * Paulo Goncalves (INRIA, ENS Lyon, France) * Thilo Kielmann (Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands) * Wolfgang Nagel (TU Dresden, Germany) Important dates * Paper Submission Deadline: November 19, 2007 * Notification of Acceptance: January 15, 2008 * Camera-ready Manuscripts due: January 30, 2007 * Conference Dates: To determine in May 19-22, 2008 Regards, Marinho. Prof. Marinho P. Barcellos (PIPCA/UNISINOS) marinho(a)acm.org, http://p2p-sec.org _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: Communications and Networking Simulation Symposium(CNS'08)
by Hala ElAarag 12 Nov '07

12 Nov '07

DEADLINE EXTENDED TILL NOVEMBER 27, 2007 Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. ------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------ 11th Communications and Networking Simulation Symposium (CNS'08) Part of the 2008 Spring Simulation Multiconference (SpringSim'08) Sponsored by: The Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS) and in cooperation with ACM/SIGSIM April 14-17, 2008 Crowne Plaza Ottawa Hotel Ottawa, Canada Submission website: http://www.softconf.com/scs/CNS08/ CFP: http://www.scs.org/confernc/springsim/springsim08/cfp/cns08.htm SpringSim'08 Home Page http://www.scs.org/springsim SCS Home Page http://www.scs.org/ ----------------------- Important Dates ----------------------- Full paper due Novemeber 27, 2007 Notification of acceptance sent December 21, 2007 Camera-ready paper due January 11, 2008 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Communications and networking embody the heart and the nerve system of the information technology -- a technology that is profoundly affecting our daily lives. Experts, researchers, managers, and entrepreneurs in this dynamic field often encounter challenges that lead to innovative basic as well as applied research and developments. You are invited to submit full papers reporting original work to a forum where experts from industry and academia meet and exchange ideas on the topics. This international forum provides a bridge between the communications industry and academic research laboratories. All accepted papers will also be published in the ACM Digital Library. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We welcome papers describing design principles as well as applications pertinent to communications and networks with special emphasis on modeling and simulation. Papers are solicited in the following (but not limited to) area of interests for peer review and presentation in the conference: Network Security and Management Network Design and Performance Analysis Wireless Communications and Mobile Networks Traffic Engineering and Measurements Clusters and Grid Computing & Communications Distributed Simulation and Real Time Systems Application of High Level Architecture for Networking Industry Network Centric Defense Application Network Centric Virtual Environments Virtual Environments for Training Web-Based Simulation and Applications Peer-to-Peer Communications and Computations Dynamic Data Driven and Sensor Networks Data Communications and Protocols Ad Hoc Networks and Applications Large Scale Networks Load Balancing and Congestion Control Simulation Tools for Communications and Networks Internet and Mobile QoS Architectures Modeling Techniques, Verification and Validation Best Paper Award ---------------- A paper will be selected for the Best Paper Award. The selected paper will be published in a special issue of Modeling & Simulation Magazine. Tutorials and Workshops ----------------------- * * Using and Extending NS3; presented by George Riley, Georgia Institute of Technology The US National Science Foundation has funded a multi-year effort, led by Tom Henderson at University of Washington and George Riley of Georgia Institute of Technology, to create a new network simulation environment. The new simulation, called NS3, will be completely open source, and is intended to supersede the aging NS2 simulator. The design team took a clean sheet of paper approach, and has designed the basic framework for simulating computer networks. In this tutorial, I will discuss the basic design of NS3, including event list management, memory management, data packet representation, protocol stack data flow, statistics collection, and random variables. We will then go through several example NS3 simulations, showing by example how to create and run a simulation using NS3. Proposals are also invited for tutorials and workshops to be presented at CNS 08. The proposal should include the tutorial or workshop objectives, a brief description (500 words), an outline, proposed length (one-hour, two-hour, or four-hour) and, a short professional resume of the instructor. Key dates are the same as paper submission dates. Tutorial and workshop presentation materials (in PDF or MS PowerPoint format) and handouts (in PDF, MS Word or MS PowerPoint format) are due by the camera ready due date. For submissions and additional information regarding tutorials and workshops, please contact the Chairs. Paper Submission ---------------- Original papers should be submitted to the SCS Conference Proceedings Management System at: http://www.scs.org/springsim/submission/ All papers must include the authors' affiliation and e-mail addresses of all authors. The e-mail addresses should be related to the authors' institutions and not public portals. Paper formatting instructions and copyright form are available at: http://www.scs.org/Conferences.cfm All papers will be fully refereed for accuracy, technical content, and relevance. Papers should be no longer than 8 single-spaced double-column pages. At least one author must pre-register for the conference, paying the full registration fee, in order to have their paper included in the CD. Accepted papers will appear in the ACM digital library. Contact the Chairs with any questions concerning the paper submission and review process, or questions regarding the relevance of a paper to the conference. Steering Committee ------------------ General Chair: Aftab Ahmad , Norfolk State University, aahmad(a)nsu.edu Co-Chair: Arnold Bragg RTI International, abrag(a)rti.org Program Chair: Hala ElAarag, Stetson University, helaarag(a)stetson.edu Technical Program Committee: ---------------------------- *Abodolreza Abhari, Ryerson University, Canada *Mohiuddin Ahmed, International Islamic University, Malaysia *Shakil Akhtar, Clayton State University, USA *Mohamad Badra, LIMOS Laboratory, CNRS France *Bohdan Bodnar, Lemko Corporation, USA *Azzedine Boukerche, SITE, University of Ottawa, Canada *Xuejun Cai, Nokia Siemens Networks, China *Jin Seek Choi, Hanyang University, Korea *James Conrad University of North Carolina Charlotte, USA *Max Ehammer, University of Salzburg, Austria *Jonathan Graham, Norfolk State University, USA *Ibrahim Habib, City College of New York, USA *Wolfang Haidegger, Siemens, Austria *Usman Javaid, Orange Labs, France *Yusheng Ji, National Institute of Informatics, Japan *Jussi Kangasharju, University of Helsinki, Finland *Polychronis Koutsakis, McMaster University, Canada *Kevin Kwiat, Air Force Resaerch Lab, Rome, NY *John Laskar, Government Consultant, USA *Axel Lehmann, Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen, Germany *Susan Lincke-Salecker, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, USA *Wasim Malik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology *Rasha Morsi, Norfolk State University, USA *Sumit Naiksatam, Santa Clara University, USA *Hassan Rajaei, Bowling Green State University, USA *George Riley, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA *Mona Rizvi, Norfolk State University, USA *Yelena Rykalova, Boston University, USA *Augustine Samba, Kent State University, USA *Mohammed Smadi, McMaster University Canada *Lev Sofman, Alcatel-Lucent North America, USA *Junaid Zubairi, SUNY at Fredonia, USA ----------------------- Sponsored by The Society for Modeling and Simulation International P.O. Box 17900 San Diego, California 92177 Phone 858-277-3888 Fax 858-277-3930 E-mail scs(a)scs.org Hala ElAarag, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Computer Science Stetson University 421 N. Woodland Blvd. DeLand, FL 32723 URL: http://www.stetson.edu/~helaarag phone: 386-822-7554 fax: 386-822-7560 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: PFLDNET2008 Protocols for very long distance high speed networks
by Lachlan Andrew 12 Nov '07

12 Nov '07

(Apologies if you get this multiple times. I just sent it, and it seemed to bounce, so I'm re-sending...) > > CALL FOR PAPERS > PFLDNET2008 > > > Sixth International Workshop on > Protocols for FAST Long-Distance Networks > 5-7 March 2008 > The Schuster Building, The University of Manchester, UK > > http://www.hep.man.ac.uk/PFLDnet2008/cfp.php > > Important Dates > > Initial Abstract submission: > Monday 10 December, 2007 > Notification of acceptance: > Monday 14 January, 2008 > Early (discounted) Registration: > Monday 4 February, 2008 > Final paper submission: > Friday 22 February, 2008 > Workshop: > Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 5 to 7 March, 2008 > > > ------------------------------------------- > > With the emergence of hybrid network facilities, future networks will > increasingly contain high bandwidth, high delay paths. Protocols for > fast, long distance networks will have to expand from experimental > testbeds and into the wider world. In that process, it is increasingly > important for protocols which achieve high utilization on fast, long > distance networks also to have the qualities required for widespread > use, such as fairness and scalability to many users. > > > > The goal of the International Protocols for Fast Long-Distance > Networks workshop series is to bring together researchers and > practitioners from all continents in this area to exchange ideas and > experience. This single-track workshop will provide researchers and > technologists with a focused, highly interactive opportunity to > present, discuss and exchange experience on leading research, > development and future directions in high performance transport and > application protocols over fast long-distance networks. > > In order to facilitate discussions, attendance will be limited to 60 > participants. Please register early to ensure your participation. > Depending on the number of people who register, we may need to > restrict the number of people from a given organization to allow for a > broader representation of the research community. Registration will > open on 8 October 2008. > > PFLDnet2008 solicits papers which will further research on protocols > for tomorrow's high speed Internet, at all stages along the continuum > from the requirements of today's Grid networks, through optical > transports, throughbenchmarking of proposals, to the selection of the > next generation of TCP and other transport protocols. > > Participants wishing to present a paper should upload a four-page > extended abstact to the submission site by Monday 10 December 2007. > Final papers should be typically 4-5 pages, but no longer than 6 > pages. > > Scope: (choose at least one of the subject areas below - multiple > selections are possible) > > Protocol issues in fast long-distance networks: > > Protocol development > Enhancements of TCP and its variants > Novel data transport protocols designed for new Networks and > Application Services > Explicit signaling protocols: Optimization criteria and deployment > strategies > Pacing and shaping of TCP and UDP traffic > Parallel transfers and multistreaming > Performance evaluation > Modeling and simulation-based results > Experiments on real networks and actual measurements > Protocol benchmarking > Hardware-specific issues > Transport over optical networks > Protocol implementation and hardware issues (PCs, NICs, TOEs, routers, > switches, etc.) > End system performance > Data replications and striping > RDMA over WANs > Application focus > Requirements and experience from applications with demanding network > performance requirements > Bulk-data transfer applications both TCP and non-TCP based > Transport service for Grids > QoS and scalability issues > Multicast over fast long-distance networks > Fiber To The Home (FTTH) > > > > Authors whose papers are selected for presentation will have the > option to submit a revised paper, to be published on the PFLDnet 2008 > web site and in the PFLDnet 2008 proceedings. We propose to collect > the best papers from PFLDnet 2008 and make a joint publication with > those from PFLDnet 2007 in a special edition of a journal, if the > authors are interested. > > > > COMMITTEES > > Co-Chairs: > > Richard Hughes-Jones (Manchester - UK) > Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet (INRIA - FR) > > Steering Committee: > > Lachlan Andrew (Caltech - USA) > Tomohiro Kudoh (AIST - JP) > Michael Welzl (University of Innsbruck - AT) > > > Technical Program Committee: > > Michael Welzl (University of Innsbruck - AT) (Co-chair) > Bill Allcock (Argonne - USA) > Eitan Altman (INRIA - FR) > Lachlan Andrew (Caltech - USA) > Chadi Barakat (INRIA - FR) > Richard Carlson (Internet2 - USA) > Jean-Laurent Costeux (Orange - FR) > Dirceu Cavendish (KIT - JP) > Les Cottrell (SLAC - USA) > Michel Diaz (LAAS - FR) > Larry Dunn (Cisco - USA) > Wesley Eddy (NASA -USA) > Lars Eggert (NEC - DE) > Ted Faber (ISI - USA) > Wu-Chun Feng (Virginia Tech - USA) > Sally Floyd (ICIR - USA) > Paola Grosso (University of Amsterdam- NL) > Go Hasegawa (Osaka University - JP) > Richard Hughes-Jones (Manchester - UK) (Co-chair) > Dina Katabi (MIT - USA) > Katsushi Kobayashi (NICT - JP) > Tomohiro Kudoh (AIST - JP) > Cees de Laat (University of Amsterdam - NL) > Jason Leigh (EVL - USA) > Doug Leith (Hamilton Institute - IE) (Co-chair) > Steven Low (caltech - USA) > Saverio Mascolo (University of Bari - IT) > Masayuki Murata (Osaka University - JP) > Anders Persson (SUN - USA) > Balakrishna Prabhu (CWI -NL) > Injong Rhee (North Carolina State University - USA) > Hideyuki Shimonishi (NEC - JP) > Dimitra Simeonidou (Essex - UK) > Martin Swany (Delaware - US) > Robin Tasker (Daresbury Lab - UK) > Brian Tierney (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories - USA) > Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet (INRIA - FR) (Co-chair) > David X. Wei (Caltech - USA) > > Local Arrangements: > > Anne Morrow (Manchester - UK) > Stephen Kershaw (Manchester - UK) -- Lachlan Andrew Dept of Computer Science, Caltech 1200 E California Blvd, Mail Code 256-80, Pasadena CA 91125, USA Ph: +1 (626) 395-8820 Fax: +1 (626) 568-3603 http://netlab.caltech.edu/~lachlan _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Iscc] CfP: IEEEE WoWMoM 2008 - Submission Deadline EXTENDED to NOV. 25, 2007
by Giuseppe Anastasi 12 Nov '07

12 Nov '07

[Apologies for possible multiple copies] --------------------------------------------------------------------- 9th IEEE International Symposium on A WORLD of WIRELESS, MOBILE, and MULTIMEDIA NETWORKS IEEE WoWMoM 2008 June 23-27, 2008 Newport Beach/Irvine, California, USA http://wowmom08.ics.uci.edu/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- **** Paper SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED to NOV. 25, 2007 **** Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society The University of Texas at Arlington IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) Organized by University of California at Irvine, USA WoWMoM 2008 BEST PAPER and BEST DEMO AWARDS sponsored by ELSEVIER --------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE WoWMoM 2008 is soliciting original and previously unpublished papers addressing research challenges and advances towards a world of wireless, mobile, and multimedia pervasive communications. The emergence of wireless network standards and their future evolutions offer exciting new opportunities for delivering rich multimedia content over wireless networks. Users will be able to seamlessly and ubiquitously accomplish their tasks such as accessing and retrieving information, communicating with other users or devices, exploiting advanced context-dependent services, and so on. Papers that present original work, validated by experimentation, simulation, or analysis, are solicited. Practical experiences and experimental efforts from both industry and academy, duly documenting the lessons learned from test-beds, field-trial, or real deployments, are also welcome. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - System prototypes and experiences - QoS for voice and video in wireless/mobile networks - Middleware support for QoS provision - Networking services for pervasive systems - Context-aware wireless multimedia applications - Location mechanism and services - Content management and distribution - IP-based wireless/mobile multimedia services - IP-based wireless/mobile networks - Multicasting and broadcasting issues - Energy-efficient protocols and power management - Handoff and mobility management - Seamless internetworking and self-organization - Network management and control - Wireless BAN, PAN, LAN, MAN, WAN, and RAN - Ad-hoc and mesh networks - Vehicular networks - Wireless Sensor Networks - Opportunistic Networking - Security, privacy and dependability - Pricing and accounting - Modeling and performance evaluation ---------------------------------------------- BEST PAPER AWARD AND FAST TRACK PUBLICATION ---------------------------------------------- The best paper presented at the symposium will be awarded with the Best Paper Award sponsored by the Elsevier Journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC). Papers of particular merit will be considered for a fast track publication in the Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal. ---------------------------------------------- PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ---------------------------------------------- Papers should contain original material and not be previously published, or currently submitted for consideration elsewhere. Guidelines on paper submission and formatting will be provided on the website. All submitted papers will undergo a rigorous review process managed by the technical program committee. Accepted papers will appear in the symposium proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society. ---------------------------------------------- WORKSHOPS ---------------------------------------------- The IEEE WoWMoM 2008 technical program will also include one-day workshops on hot topics on wireless, mobile and multimedia networks. ---------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------------------------- Paper Submission Deadline:..........EXTENDED TO NOV. 25, 2007 Notification of Paper Acceptance:...........February 15, 2008 Camera-ready Submission:.......................March 31, 2008 ---------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ---------------------------------------------- GENERAL CO-CHAIRS: Ramesh Jain, University of California at Irvine, USA Mohan Kumar, University of Texas at Arlington, USA PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: Giuseppe Anastasi, University of Pisa, Italy Nalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California at Irvine, USA WORKSHOPS CHAIR: Roger Zimmerman, National University of Singapore, Singapore DEMO CHAIR: Shivajit Mohapatra, Motorola Research Labs, USA INDUSTRIAL SESSION CHAIR: Anand Prasad, DoCoMo, USA KEYNOTE CHAIR: Vincent Stanford, NIST, USA PANEL CHAIR: Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Switzerland FINANCE & REGISTRATION CHAIR: Yonghe Liu, University of Texas at Arlington, USA PUBLICATION CO-CHAIRS Seon Ho Kim, University of Denver, USA Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pisa, Italy PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS: Mario Di Francesco, University of Pisa, Italy Qi Han, Colorado School of Mines, USA Ricky Robinson, NICTA, Australia Wendong Xiao, I2R, Singapore LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CO-CHAIRS: Lichun Bao, University of California at Irvine, USA Athina Markopolou, University of California at Irvine, USA WEB DESIGNER & MANAGER: Bo Xing, University of California at Irvine, USA STEERING COMMITTEE: Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy Sajal Das, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, USA (chair) Dipankar Raychaudhuri, Rutgers University, USA Satish K. Tripathi, SUNY Buffalo, USA ---------------------------------------------- TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE ---------------------------------------------- Kevin Almeroth, University of California at S. Barbara, USA Nilanjan Banerjee, IBM Research Lab, India Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy Edoardo Biagioni, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Rome at Tor Vergata, Italy Chris Blondia, University of Antwerpen, Belgium Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada Raffaele Bruno, IIT-CNR, Italy Milind Buddhikot, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK Vinny Cahill, Trinity College, Ireland Mihaela Cardei, Florida Atlantic University, USA Surendar Chandra, University of Notre Dame, USA Mainak Chatterjee, University of Central Florida, USA Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National University, Korea Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK Yong Cui, Tsing Hua University, China Igor Curcio, Nokia, Finland Murat Demirbas, SUNY at Buffalo, USA Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada Sudhir Dixit, Nokia, USA Nikil Dutt, University of California at Irvine, USA Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA Magda El Zarki, University of California at Irvine, USA Rosario Garroppo, University of Pisa, Italy Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Switzerland Rajesh Gupta, University of California at San Diego, USA Qi Han, Colorado School of Mines, USA Albert Harris III, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Mahbub Hassan, University of New South Wales, Australia Vana Kalogeraki, University of California at Riverside, USA Holger Karl, University of Paderborn, Germany Kevin A. Kwiat, Airforce Research Lab, USA Qilian Liang, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Haitao Lin, Nortel, USA Christoph Lindemann, University of Leipzig, Germany Yonghe Liu, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Giridhar Mandayam, Qualcomm, USA Cecilia Mascolo, University College London, UK Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pisa, Italy Refik Molva, Institut Eurecom, France Mirco Musolesi, Dartmouth College, USA Matt Mutka, Michigan State University, USA Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA Jörg Ott, TKK/HUT, Finland Symeon Papavassiliou, National Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece Andrea Passarella, IIT-CNR, Italy Dirk Pesch, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland Gian Pietro Picco, University of Trento, Italy George Polyzos, Athens Univ. of Economics and Business, Greece Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Ravi Prakash, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Alessandro Puiatti, SUPSI, Switzerland Fengyuan Ren, Tsing Hua University, China Ricky Robinson, NICTA, Australia Vasilios Siris, University of Crete, Greece Cormac J. Sreenan, University College of Cork, Ireland Vikram Srinivasan, National University of Singapore, Singapore Violet Syrotiuk, Arizona State University, USA Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida, USA Wendong Xiao, I2R, Singapore Yuan Xue, Vanderbilt University, USA Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Adam Wolisz, Technical University of Berlin, Germany Jie Wu, Florida Atlantic University, USA You-Chiun Wang, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan Gergely Zaruba, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Xiaobo Zhou, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA _______________________________________________ ISCC mailing list ISCC(a)mail.ing.unibo.it http://calvin.ing.unibo.it/mailman/listinfo/iscc

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[Tccc] CogNet-2008 CFP
by Vprasad＠ewi.tudelft.nl 12 Nov '07

12 Nov '07

CALL FOR PAPERS: Second IEEE CogNet 2008 Workshop 'Towards Cognition in Wireless Networks' Sponsored by IEEE ComSoc Technical Sub-committee on Cognitive Networks (http://ieee-cognet.org) Scope of the Workshop Recently we have been witnessing an unbounded growth in communication technology; in particular, wireless devices have been proliferating. There is a serious demand for spectrum to support the communication needs of all these devices. At the same time, many researchers are developing methodologies to sieve the unused spectrum. There are already many solutions proposed under the 'Cognitive Radio' (CR) umbrella that address this issue. The efforts by IEEE 1900 Working Group and various researchers are blazing a trail in the direction of intelligently using the spectrum available locally for communication needs, making Cognitive Radio Networking (CRN) one of the promising candidates for future communication. They are usually in terms of architecture, sensing, optimization, resource allocation, cross layer issues, etc. However, an end user requires a system that is capable of intelligently finding and handling the available frequency band without any compromise on the QoS. Thus there is a need for the community to look at the whole issue holistically such that these solutions, results and proposals can lead to the rapid deployment of Cognitive Radio. The need is to bring together all the efforts resulting in a cohesive approach. This workshop will enable such a platform. We select, from the submissions, a small set of papers discussing novel ideas that should not only analyze the issues in a CRN but also incorporate a clear direction towards the implementation of the CRN systems. This workshop brings together researchers, practitioners and the early proponents of CR. This workshop will be planned so as to allow more interactions amongst the participants rather than a conference would allow. CRW paradigm has been trying also to gain industrial relevance through the Cognitive Radio work done especially in the USA. The workshop aims to bring in together both long-term academic and shorter term industrial viewpoints. Topics of Interest * Architectures for Hardware and Software defined CR * Regulatory policies for non-centralized spectrum management * Enforcement of policies for CR devices * Pricing and billing for CR devices * Authorization and authentication of CR devices * Novel Dynamic/Opportunistic Spectrum Access techniques * MAC and Network layer management in CR context * Cross-layer optimization of CRWN (Cognitive Radio Wireless Networks) * End-to-End modeling of CRWN * Security of CRWN * Applications of CR, i.e., CR for Personal Area Networks * Spectrum Sensing and Quality of Detection * Signal Processing for CRWN * Game Theoretical Analysis of CRWN * Error correction and coding for CR * Testbeds, Experiences of CR implementations Organizing Committee * Ignas Niemegeers (General Chairperson), Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands * Joseph Evans (Vice General Chairperson), University of Kansas, USA * R. Venkatesha Prasad (TPC Chairperson), Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands * Petri Mahonen (TPC Vice-Chairperson), RWTH Aachen, Germany * Przemysław Pawełczak (Posters and Demos Chairperson), Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands * Sai Shankar (Publicity Chairperson), Qualcomm, USA Contact Information Delft University of Technology Wireless and Mobile Communications Group Mekelweg 4, 2628 CD Delft, the Netherlands Phone: +31 (0)15 27 87372 Fax: +31 (0)15 27 81774 E-mail: vprasad(a)ewi.tudelft.nl, p.pawelczak(a)ewi.tudelft.nl WWW: www.ieee-cognets.org _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CfP: Special Session on Decentralized and Self-Organizing IT-Infrastructures for Crisis Response and Management - ISCRAM2008
by Nicolas C. Liebau 12 Nov '07

12 Nov '07

Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message... +-------------------------------------------------------------+ Call for Papers SPECIAL ACADEMIC SESSION ON * Decentralized and Self-Organizing IT-Infrastructure * * for Crisis Response and Management * http://www.quap2p.tu-darmstadt.de/de/events/iscram-2008/ Session ID: INT-03 at ISCRAM 2008 The 5th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management Washington, DC, USA May 4-7, 2008 http://www.iscram.org +-------------------------------------------------------------+ Motivation Recent crisis like the recent Sumatra-Andaman earthquake and Hurricane Katrina demand quick first response organization as well as a high number of participating helpers and organizations. These two requirements are naturally supported by decentralized and self-organizing IT-infrastructures. While p2p systems like Groove achieve an easy way of enabling communication between heterogeneous first response teams. There are crucial inefficiencies in terms of network resource utilization, which is a vitally important requirement in crisis response situations. There are still numerous open topics necessary to put crisis response and management software on a solid technical base. Focus for this special session is the technical management of distributed crisis response systems. The areas covered by this session are listed below. Additional contributions concerning crisis response systems that are not explicitly mentioned but fit into the scope of this session are welcomed as well. Research Area The technical challenges for a successful deployment of a Crisis Response and Management System can be divided in three main areas. --------------------------------------------------------- Crisis Management Applications --------------------------------------------------------- Decentralized and Self-organizing IT Infrastructure --------------------------------------------------------- TCP/IP-based Communication Layer --------------------------------------------------------- While the base for communication, shown as TCP/IP based communication layer is crucial for a successful deployment of a Crisis Response System, the main focus of this special session is the second layer "Decentralized and Self Organizing IT infrastructure". The underlying TCP/IP based communication layer becomes increasingly more a commodity product while intelligent replica placement, distributed storage, service discovery, access control and context awareness need to be provided by the second layer. Based on the available services and infrastructure of the second layer the top layer provides various user interfaces to the deployed services. While all three layers are needed for a successful deployment of a Crisis Response and Management System, the main focus of this session is on the design of the second layer. Topics . Overlay networks specialized for Decentralized Crisis Response and Management . Decentralized service discovery . Distributed information storage and retrieval . Decentralized and self-organizing mechanisms for replica management . Decentralized location awareness . Group membership and access control . Simulation environments for "Decentralized and Self-Organizing IT-Infrastructures for Crisis Response and Management" . Decentralized Crisis Response and Management Systems . Systems Implications on Policy and Organizational Structures . Case Studies on "Decentralized and Self-Organizing IT-Infrastructures" *Important ISCRAM 2008 Dates:* December 21, 2007: Paper submission deadline February 10, 2008: Notification of (conditional) acceptance February 22, 2008: Early registration deadline March 1, 2008: Final camera-ready paper submission deadline May 4-7, 2008: ISCRAM 2008 Session Chairs: . Nicolas Liebau, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany (Nicolas.Liebau(a)KOM.tu-darmstadt.de) . Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany (Ralf.Steinmetz(a)KOM.tu-darmstadt.de) . Dirk Bradler, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany (bradler(a)tk.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de) . Jussi Kangasharju, University of Helsinki, Finland (Jussi.Kangasharju(a)cs.helsinki.fi) Type of contribution: . Academic Session: We invite researchers from academia or research labs to present their research or research-in-progress papers. Prospective presenters submit a regular research (or research-in-progress) paper. Important Notice: . All submissions must be formatted according to the ISCRAM 2008 formatting guidelines. Templates and instructions are published on www.iscram.org. . All submissions must be submitted through the ISCRAM 2008 conference paper submission web page at www.conftool.com/iscram2008. Instructions for the ConfTool system can be found on www.iscram.org. . All papers and presentations will go through a double-blind review process, leading to a decision of (conditional) acceptance or rejection. . Accepted papers will be included in the ISCRAM 2008 program and published in the official proceedings if and only if (1) the paper is formatted according to the instructions, (2) the authors sign the copyright transfer form and (3) one of the authors registers for the conference and pays the registration fee before the cut-off date for early registration. . Authors who have multiple papers accepted can only register for and present one paper at the conference; co-authors need to register separately. About ISCRAM: The ISCRAM Community is a worldwide community of researchers, scholars, teachers, students, practitioners and policy makers interested or actively involved in the subject of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management. At its annual international conference alternating between the US and Europe, the ISCRAM Community gathers to present and discuss the latest research and developments in this growing area during an interactive and stimulating 3 day program. The ISCRAM Community also organizes an International Summer School for PhD students and ISCRAM-CHINA, an annual conference for ISCRAM research in China. All information on ISCRAM can be found at http://www.iscram.org ISCRAM 2008 will be held from 4-7 May at the George Washington University (GWU) located in Washington, DC, USA. The conference will be hosted by GWU's Institute for Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management (ICDRM). All details on this conference will be made available via the ISCRAM website mentioned above. -- ______________________________________________________KOM P2P Networking Nicolas C. Liebau Nicolas.Liebau(a)kom.tu-darmstadt.de Head of Peer-to-Peer Networking http://www.kom.tu-darmstadt.de/en/research/research-areas/peer-to-peer-netw… Multimedia Communications Lab - KOM http://www.kom.tu-darmstadt.de Technische Universität Darmstadt Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Information Technology Tel.: +49 6151 16-5240, FAX: +49 6151 16-6152 postal address: TU Darmstadt, FB 18, KOM, Merckstr. 25, D-64283 Darmstadt, Germany ___________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP - AASNET 2008
by Elhadi Shakshuki 12 Nov '07

12 Nov '07

The First International Workshop on Applications of Ad hoc and Sensor Networks (AASNET '08) is held in conjunction with AINA 2008 22nd IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications http://www.ccse.kfupm.edu.sa/~tarek/AASNET.htm Wireless mobile ad hoc and sensor network nodes have limited battery capacity. Hence, they tend to be energy conservative. Many MAC, routing protocols, scheduling scheme were proposed to promote energy conservation without degrading the performance of the network. Nonetheless, nowadays, many real-time applications have been proposed and developed using ad hoc and sensor networks. The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for academic and industry professionals to discuss recent progress and challenges in the area of real time applications in ad hoc and sensor networks. We encourage contributions that describe innovative work and results on AASNET. The topics of interest include but are not limited to: Energy-aware routing protocols Energy-aware scheduling techniques Energy-aware MAC protocols Artificial intelligence applications in ad hoc and sensor networks Sensor networks for oil and gas industry Mobility tracking schemes in ad hoc networks Voice over ad hoc networks Multimedia over sensor networks Machine leaning schemes for ad hoc and sensor networks Intrusion detection systems in ad hoc and sensor networks Telehealth monitoring system using ad hoc and sensor networks Papers of high quality will be invited to submit extended version of their papers for publication in a special issue of an international journal. IMPORTANT DEADLINES Paper submission 20 November 2007 Author notification 20 December 2007 Manuscript Deadline 28 December 2007 General Co-Chairs Hossam Hassnian, Queens University, Canada Roshdy Hafez, Carleton University, Canada Workshop Organizers Tarek Sheltami, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada Eamd Sebakhy, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: PFLDNet 2008
by Michael Welzl 12 Nov '07

12 Nov '07

CALL FOR PAPERS PFLDNET2008 Sixth International Workshop on Protocols for FAST Long-Distance Networks 5-7 March 2008 The Schuster Building, The University of Manchester, UK http://www.hep.man.ac.uk/PFLDnet2008/cfp.php Important Dates Initial Abstract submission: Monday 10 December, 2007 Notification of acceptance: Monday 14 January, 2008 Early (discounted) Registration: Monday 4 February, 2008 Final paper submission: Friday 22 February, 2008 Workshop: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 5 to 7 March, 2008 ------------------------------------------- With the emergence of hybrid network facilities, future networks will increasingly contain high bandwidth, high delay paths. Protocols for fast, long distance networks will have to expand from experimental testbeds and into the wider world. In that process, it is increasingly important for protocols which achieve high utilization on fast, long distance networks also to have the qualities required for widespread use, such as fairness and scalability to many users. The goal of the International Protocols for Fast Long-Distance Networks workshop series is to bring together researchers and practitioners from all continents in this area to exchange ideas and experience. This single-track workshop will provide researchers and technologists with a focused, highly interactive opportunity to present, discuss and exchange experience on leading research, development and future directions in high performance transport and application protocols over fast long-distance networks. In order to facilitate discussions, attendance will be limited to 60 participants. Please register early to ensure your participation. Depending on the number of people who register, we may need to restrict the number of people from a given organization to allow for a broader representation of the research community. Registration will open on 8 October 2008. PFLDnet2008 solicits papers which will further research on protocols for tomorrow's high speed Internet, at all stages along the continuum from the requirements of today's Grid networks, through optical transports, throughbenchmarking of proposals, to the selection of the next generation of TCP and other transport protocols. Participants wishing to present a paper should upload a four-page extended abstact to the submission site by Monday 10 December 2007. Final papers should be typically 4-5 pages, but no longer than 6 pages. Scope: (choose at least one of the subject areas below - multiple selections are possible) Protocol issues in fast long-distance networks: Protocol development Enhancements of TCP and its variants Novel data transport protocols designed for new Networks and Application Services Explicit signaling protocols: Optimization criteria and deployment strategies Pacing and shaping of TCP and UDP traffic Parallel transfers and multistreaming Performance evaluation Modeling and simulation-based results Experiments on real networks and actual measurements Protocol benchmarking Hardware-specific issues Transport over optical networks Protocol implementation and hardware issues (PCs, NICs, TOEs, routers, switches, etc.) End system performance Data replications and striping RDMA over WANs Application focus Requirements and experience from applications with demanding network performance requirements Bulk-data transfer applications both TCP and non-TCP based Transport service for Grids QoS and scalability issues Multicast over fast long-distance networks Fiber To The Home (FTTH) Authors whose papers are selected for presentation will have the option to submit a revised paper, to be published on the PFLDnet 2008 web site and in the PFLDnet 2008 proceedings. We propose to collect the best papers from PFLDnet 2008 and make a joint publication with those from PFLDnet 2007 in a special edition of a journal, if the authors are interested. COMMITTEES Co-Chairs: Richard Hughes-Jones (Manchester - UK) Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet (INRIA - FR) Steering Committee: Lachlan Andrew (Caltech - USA) Tomohiro Kudoh (AIST - JP) Michael Welzl (University of Innsbruck - AT) Technical Program Committee: Michael Welzl (University of Innsbruck - AT) (Co-chair) Bill Allcock (Argonne - USA) Eitan Altman (INRIA - FR) Lachlan Andrew (Caltech - USA) Chadi Barakat (INRIA - FR) Richard Carlson (Internet2 - USA) Jean-Laurent Costeux (Orange - FR) Dirceu Cavendish (KIT - JP) Les Cottrell (SLAC - USA) Michel Diaz (LAAS - FR) Larry Dunn (Cisco - USA) Lars Eggert (NEC - DE) Ted Faber (ISI - USA) Wu-Chun Feng (Virginia Tech - USA) Sally Floyd (ICIR - USA) Paola Grosso (University of Amsterdam- NL) Go Hasegawa (Osaka University - JP) Richard Hughes-Jones (Manchester - UK) (Co-chair) Dina Katabi (MIT - USA) Katsushi Kobayashi (NICT - JP) Tomohiro Kudoh (AIST - JP) Cees de Laat (University of Amsterdam - NL) Jason Leigh (EVL - USA) Doug Leith (Hamilton Institute - IE) (Co-chair) Steven Low (caltech - USA) Saverio Mascolo (University of Bari - IT) Masayuki Murata (Osaka University - JP) Anders Persson (SUN - USA) Balakrishna Prabhu (CWI -NL) Injong Rhee (North Carolina State University - USA) Hideyuki Shimonishi (NEC - JP) Dimitra Simeonidou (Essex - UK) Martin Swany (Delaware - US) Robin Tasker (Daresbury Lab - UK) Brian Tierney (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories - USA) Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet (INRIA - FR) (Co-chair) David X. Wei (Caltech - USA) Wesley Eddy (NASA -USA) Local Arrangements: Anne Morrow (Manchester - UK) Stephen Kershaw (Manchester - UK) _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] Networking 2008 CFP
by Boon Sain Yeo 11 Nov '07

11 Nov '07

****Apologies for multiple copies received**** CALL FOR PAPERS Conference Title: International Federation for Information Processing Networking 2008 conference Location & Date: Singapore, May 5th to 9th of 2008 Host: Nanyang Technological University Publication: Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). URL: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sce/networking2008/ Networking 2008 is the seventh event in a series of International Conferences on Networking, sponsored by the IFIP Technical Committee on Communication Systems (TC 6). The main objectives of Networking 2008 are to bring together active and proficient members of the networking community, from both academia and industry, to discuss recent advances in this broad and fast-evolving field of telecommunications, and to highlight key-issues, identify trends and refresh vision in the field of telecommunications. The conference objectives will be pursued through technical sessions, keynote talks, and tutorials offered by invited experts, as well as panel discussions on hot topics. The technical sessions will be structured into three tracks: . Applications and services Quality of service, Authentication and security, Intrusion detection, Web architectures and protocols, Network measurements and testbeds, Network management systems, Content distribution, Peer to peer and overlay networks, Pricing and billing, Multimedia protocols . Next Generation Internet technologies All-IP networking, Congestion control, Evolution of IP network architecture, Multilayer design and optimization, MPLS and GMPLS, Multicasting, Network modeling and simulation, Quality of Service, Real-time voice/video over IP networks, Resource allocation, Routing and switching, Scheduling and queue management, Traffic engineering . Wireless and Sensor Networks Ad hoc and sensor Networks, Broadband wireless access, Location management, Location services, Handoff, Mobile networks, Mobility models, Cross-layer design, Mesh networks, Wireless protocols, Multicast and anycast, Energy and power management, Routing, Scheduling, Synchronization, Fault tolerance and recovery, Self-organization, Modeling and performance evaluation Important Dates Submission of full papers: December 1, 2007 (11:59 EDT) Notification of acceptance: February 11, 2008 Camera-ready Copy Due: February 25, 2008 Paper Submission Guidelines All papers will be reviewed and accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. Papers must be submitted electronically. The maximum size of papers should be 5000 words including tables and figures, according to the formatting standard for a 12-page manuscript of Springer-Verlag LNCS. The cover page must contain an abstract of about 150 words, 3-5 keywords, name and affiliation of author(s) as well as the corresponding author's e-mail and postal address. There will be a Best Paper Award for the best submitted paper as well as a number of student travel grants. Details of the submission will be available in the website. There will be a Best Paper Award for the best submitted paper as well as a number of student travel grants. Download the Call for Paper: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sce/networking2008/CPF2007.pdf Organizing Committees General Co-Chairs Lee Bu Sung, Francis, NTU, Singapore Lawrence W C Wong, NUS, Singapore Technical Program Co-Chairs Amitabha Das, NTU, Singapore Pung Hung Keng, NUS, Singapore Technical Program, vice chair Sajal K Das, University of Texas Arlington, USA Archan Misra, IBM, USA Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal Tutorial Anwitaman Datta, NTU, Singapore Sonja Buchegger, Deutsche, Telekom Lab Workshop Lim Teck Meng, NTU, Singapore Ilenia Tinnirello, Università di Palermo, Italy Publicity Chair Chia Liang Tien Clement, NTU, Singapore Andreas Kassler, Karlstad University, Sweden Publication Chair Wong Kai Juan, NTU, Singapore Finance Chair Yeo Chai Kiat, NTU, Singapore Local Arrangements Co-Chairs Foh Chuan Heng, NTU, Singapore Ngoh Lek Heng, I2R, Singapore Steering committee Guy Leduc, IFIP TC6 chair Georg Carle, IFIP WG6.2 chair Ioannis Stavrakakis, IFIP WG6.3 chair Pedro Cuenca, IFIP WG6.8 chair _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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IEEE SUTC 2008: Deadline approaching!
by Römer Kay Uwe 10 Nov '07

10 Nov '07

** Paper abstract registration: Nov 13, 2007 ** Paper submission: Nov 20, 2007 CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE International Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, and Trustworthy Computing (SUTC2008) June 11-13, 2008, Taichung, Taiwan Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Conference http://SUTC2008.csie.ncu.edu.tw The rapid research and technological advances in wireless communications and increasing availability of sensors, actuators, and mobile devices have created an exciting new ubiquitous computing paradigm that facilitates computing and communication services all the time, everywhere. This emerging paradigm is changing the way we live and work today. Via a ubiquitous infrastructure consisting of a variety of global and localized networks, users, sensors, devices, systems and applications may seamlessly interact with each other and even the physical world in unprecedented ways. To realize this continually evolving ubiquitous computing paradigm, trustworthy computing that delivers secure, private, and reliable computing and communication services plays an essential role. The IEEE International Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, and Trustworthy Computing (SUTC2008) is an international forum for researchers to exchange information regarding advancements in the state of the art and practice of sensor networks, ubiquitous and trustworthy computing, as well as to identify the emerging research topics and define the future of sensor networks, ubiquitous and trustworthy computing. The technical program of SUTC2008 will consist of invited talks, paper presentations, and panel discussions. A number of best papers presented in the conference will be selected for possible publication in a special issue of journals. Topics of Interest Submissions of high quality papers describing mature results or on-going work are invited. Topics for submission include, but are not limited to the following aspects of sensor networks, ubiquitous, and trustworthy computing: * Applications (novel use cases, deployment experience) * Algorithms and Protocols (topology, coverage, routing, distributed coordination) * Data Management and Processing (gathering, storage, fusion, dissemination) * Deployment, Testing, and Debugging * Design and Programming Methodologies * Energy management * Embedded processors, sensors, and actuators * Management aspects (configuration, adaptation, healing) * Mobility, Location, and Context * Modeling and Performance Evaluation (simulation, complexity analysis, user studies) * Networking Technologies (ad hoc networks, personal area networks) * Operating Systems and Middleware * Privacy * Protocol Design, Modeling, and Implementation Experiences * QoS aspects * Reliability * Security (authentication, access control, intrusion detection and tolerance) * Social Issues * System and Network Architectures * Trust (establishment, negotiation, management) * User Interface Technologies Paper Submission The conference solicits original and previously unpublished research and industrial papers. Submissions should be prepared in IEEE conference proceedings format, up to 8 pages in two-column, no less than 10 pt font and uploaded in pdf at the conference submission site (detailed submission instructions will be made available on the conference homepage). Proposal Submission The conference also invites proposals for panels, demos, tutorials, and workshops. (detailed submission instructions will be made available on the conference homepage). Important Dates Paper abstract registration: 11/13/2007 Paper submission: 11/20/2007 Paper notification: 01/20/2008 Camera ready: 03/14/2008 Proposal submission: 09/15/2007 Proposal notification: 10/15/2007 Organization Committee General Co-Chairs: Mukesh Singhal, University of Kentucky, USA Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, University of London, UK Jeffrey J.P. Tsai, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA Program Co-Chairs: Wang-Chien Lee, Pennsylvania State University, USA Kay Romer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Yu-Chee Tseng, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan Program Vice-Chairs: Sensor Networks Track: Pedro J. Marron, University of Bonn, Germany Reliable Software Systems Track: Trent Jaeger, Pennsylvania State University, USA Mobile Computing and Wireless Communication Track: Andreas Willig, Technical University of Berlin, Germany Embedded Systems Track: Tei-Wei Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Ubiquitous Computing Track: Gerd Kortuem, Lancaster University, UK Trustworthy Computing Track: Yunhao Liu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Pervasive Services and Data Management Track: Kun-Lung Wu, IBM Watson Research Lab., USA Wireless Local-, Personal-, and Body-area Networks Track: Chien-Chao Tseng, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan Advisory Committee: C.V. Ramamoorthy (Chair), University of California at Berkeley, USA Wen-Tsuen Chen, National Tsing Hua Univeristy, Taiwan S.S. Iyengar, Louisiana State University, USA Lionel M. Li, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Kinji Mori, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Benjamin Wah, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA Workshop Co-Chairs: Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA Jong Hyuk Park, Kyungnam University, Korea Stephen Yang, National Central University, Taiwan Industrial Program Co-Chairs: Nageswara S. Rao, Oak Ridge National Lab., USA Jen-Yao Chung, IBM Watson Research Lab., USA Emile Aarts, Philips Research Lab., The Netherlands Special Track Co-Chairs: Mei-Ling Shyu, University of Miami, USA Guna S. Seetharaman, Air Force Institute of Technology, USA Finance Chair: Rong-Ming Chen, National University of Tainan, Taiwan Publication and Registration Chair: Han-Wen Hsiao, Asia University, Taiwan Local Arrangement Chair: Anthony Y.H. Liao, Asia University, Taiwan Publicity Co-Chairs: Sam Michiels, K.U. Leuven, Belgium Shangping Ren, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Alan Liu, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Web Co-Chairs: Shih-Nung Chen, Asia Univeristy, Taiwan Fu-Ming Huang, National Central University, Taiwan

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[Fwd: QoSim 2008 - Call for Papers: 10 days to submission deadline]
by Lars Wolf 10 Nov '07

10 Nov '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: QoSim 2008 - Call for Papers: 10 days to submission deadline Datum: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 01:55:24 +0100 Von: info(a)qosim.org An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de Apologies for cross-posting. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - QOSIM - First International Workshop on the Evaluation of Quality of Service through Simulation in the Future Internet Marseille, France, March 3, 2008 http://www.qosim.org - info(a)qosim.org Held in conjunction with SIMUTools 2008, http://www.simutools.org In Cooperation with ACM SIGSIM Technical Sponsors: ICST, Create-Net, IEEE France Section, INRIA and SCS. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS: The aim of this workshop is to bring together academic and industry researchers and practitioners from both the networking and the simulation communities to discuss current and future trends in simulation techniques, models and practices for the Future Internet and to foster interdisciplinary collaborative research in this area. We solicit submission of manuscripts presenting original research results, not previously published nor currently under review by another conference or journal. Authors are invited to submit PDF versions of full papers of up to 8 pages in ACM conference proceedings format through EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org), following the instructions available on the workshop website. All submitted papers will go through a rigorous peer review process. The workshop values both theoretical and practical research contributions, which will be judged on originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness. Accepted papers will be available online through the ACM digital library (approval pending). Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be considered for a journal special issue. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Emerging access technologies (WiMax, 3.5G and beyond, Wireless Mesh Networks, 802.11x, etc.). - Disruptive network paradigms (bio-inspired, autonomic, opportunistic networking, etc.). - Multi-layer network architectures. - Cross-layer simulation. - End-to-end simulation of heterogeneous, mobile and multi-domain networks. - Fluid-flow simulation for assessing QoS in large scale networks. - New and emerging services and applications. - QoS negotiation, service chain negotiation and Service Level Agreements. - QoS components (scheduling algorithms, admission control schemes, QoS routing and traffic engineering schemes, etc.). - Scalability analysis. - Traffic modeling. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES: Manuscript Submission Due: Nov 18, 2007. Acceptance Notification: Jan 7, 2008. Final Manuscript Due: Jan 20, 2008. Conference Date: March 3, 2008. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS: Giovanni Stea, University of Pisa, Italy. Halina Tarasiuk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland. TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: - Eitan Altman (INRIA, France). - Albert Banchs (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain). - Christof Brandauer (Salzburg Research, Austria). - Wojciech Burakowski (Warsaw Univ. of Technology, Poland). - Jaudelice Cavalcante de Oliveira (Drexel University, USA). - Armando Caro Jr (BBN Technologies, USA). - Kenjiro Cho (IIJ, Japan). - Claudio Cicconetti (University of Pisa, Italy). - Markus Fiedler (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden). - Chuanxiong Guo (Nanjing University, China). - Qi He (Yahoo! Inc., USA). - Polly Huang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan). - Gianluca Iannaccone (INTEL, UK). - Robert Janowski (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland). - Thomas Karagiannis (Microsoft Research, UK). - Benjamin Melamed (Rutgers Business School, USA). - Telemaco Melia (NEC Network Labs, Germany). - Michela Meo (Politecnico Torino, Italy). - Enzo Mingozzi (University of Pisa, Italy). - Krzysztof Pawlikowski (University of Canterbury, New Zealand). - Simone Redana (Nokia Siemens Networks, Italy). - Fabio Ricciato (Forschunszentrum Telekommunikation, Austria). - Werner Sandmann (University of Bamberg, Germany). - Susana Sargento (Technical University of Aveiro, Portugal). - Kurt Tutschku (University of Wuerzburg, Germany). - Manuel Villen Altamirano (Telefonica I+D, Spain).

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[Fwd: [Tccc] IFIP Networking 08 - CFP]
by Lars Wolf 10 Nov '07

10 Nov '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] IFIP Networking 08 - CFP Datum: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:21:21 +0000 Von: Paulo Mendes <pmendes(a)inescporto.pt> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu *** sorry for multiple copies of this cfp *** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Conference Title: International Federation for Information Processing Networking 2008 conference Location & Date: Singapore, May 5th to 9th of 2008 Host: Nanyang Technological University Publication: Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). URL: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sce/networking2008/ Networking 2008 is the seventh event in a series of International Conferences on Networking, sponsored by the IFIP Technical Committee on Communication Systems (TC 6). The main objectives of Networking 2008 are to bring together active and proficient members of the networking community, from both academia and industry, to discuss recent advances in this broad and fast-evolving field of telecommunications, and to highlight key-issues, identify trends and refresh vision in the field of telecommunications. The conference objectives will be pursued through technical sessions, keynote talks, and tutorials offered by invited experts, as well as panel discussions on hot topics. The technical sessions will be structured into three tracks: • Applications and services Quality of service, Authentication and security, Intrusion detection, Web architectures and protocols, Network measurements and testbeds, Network management systems, Content distribution, Peer to peer and overlay networks, Pricing and billing, Multimedia protocols • Next Generation Internet technologies All-IP networking, Congestion control, Evolution of IP network architecture, Multilayer design and optimization, MPLS and GMPLS, Multicasting, Network modeling and simulation, Quality of Service, Real-time voice/video over IP networks, Resource allocation, Routing and switching, Scheduling and queue management, Traffic engineering • Wireless and Sensor Networks Ad hoc and sensor Networks, Broadband wireless access, Location management, Location services, Handoff, Mobile networks, Mobility models, Cross-layer design, Mesh networks, Wireless protocols, Multicast and anycast, Energy and power management, Routing, Scheduling, Synchronization, Fault tolerance and recovery, Self-organization, Modeling and performance evaluation Important Dates Submission of full papers: December 1, 2007 (11:59 EDT) Notification of acceptance: February 11, 2008 Camera-ready Copy Due: February 25, 2008 Paper Submission Guidelines All papers will be reviewed and accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. Papers must be submitted electronically. The maximum size of papers should be 5000 words including tables and figures, according to the formatting standard for a 12-page manuscript of Springer-Verlag LNCS. The cover page must contain an abstract of about 150 words, 3-5 keywords, name and affiliation of author(s) as well as the corresponding author's e-mail and postal address. There will be a Best Paper Award for the best submitted paper as well as a number of student travel grants. Details of the submission will be available in the website. There will be a Best Paper Award for the best submitted paper as well as a number of student travel grants. Download the Call for Paper: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sce/networking2008/CPF2007.pdf Organizing Committees General Co-Chairs Lee Bu Sung, Francis, NTU, Singapore Lawrence W C Wong, NUS, Singapore Technical Program Co-Chairs Amitabha Das, NTU, Singapore Pung Hung Keng, NUS, Singapore Technical Program, vice chair Sajal K Das, University of Texas Arlington, USA Archan Misra, IBM, USA Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal Tutorial Anwitaman Datta, NTU, Singapore Sonja Buchegger, Deutsche, Telekom Lab Workshop Lim Teck Meng, NTU, Singapore Ilenia Tinnirello, Università di Palermo, Italy Publicity Chair Chia Liang Tien Clement, NTU, Singapore Andreas Kassler, Karlstad University, Sweden Publication Chair Wong Kai Juan, NTU, Singapore Finance Chair Yeo Chai Kiat, NTU, Singapore Local Arrangements Co-Chairs Foh Chuan Heng, NTU, Singapore Ngoh Lek Heng, I2R, Singapore Steering committee Guy Leduc, IFIP TC6 chair Georg Carle, IFIP WG6.2 chair Ioannis Stavrakakis, IFIP WG6.3 chair Pedro Cuenca, IFIP WG6.8 chair _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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