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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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[Iscc] IEEE Policy 2008 - Call for Papers
by Alessandra Toninelli 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

[Please accept our apologies if you received multiple copies of this cfp] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --- POLICY 2008 --- 2008 IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks 2-4 June 2008 Palisades, NY, USA http://www.policy-workshop.org/2008 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The policy workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on policy-based systems across a wide range of application areas including policy-based networking, privacy and security management, storage area networking, and enterprise systems. POLICY 2008 is the 9th in a series of successful workshops which since 1999 have provided a forum for discussion and collaboration between researchers, developers and users of policy-based systems. This year, in addition to the latest research results from the communities working in any area of policy-based management and computing, we encourage contributions on policy-based techniques in support of management and security of all types of wireless networks: cellular, Wi-Fi, Mobile Ad Hoc, hybrids, etc. POLICY 2008 invites unpublished novel contributions on all aspects of policy-based management. This year, as part of the technical program we also plan a special session devoted to the demonstrations of innovative policy based systems. Papers must describe original work and must not have been accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere. Submitted papers will be evaluated for technical contribution, originality, and significance. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: POLICY MODELS AND LANGUAGES: * Abstract models and languages for policy specification * Representing policies in XML, RDF, and OWL * Semantic Web rule languages for policy reasoning * Policy standards, their extensions and refinements * Formal semantics of policies * Relationships between policies in IT processes and devices or across multiple applications * Methodologies/tools for discovering, specifying, analyzing, refining, evaluating and visualizing policy * Models of policy negotiation * Representation of belief, trust, and risk in policies POLICY APPLICATIONS: * Application of policies for autonomic computing, QoS adaptation, and security * Application of policies for identity and privacy management * Business rules and organizational modeling * Identity management * Personalization * Risk adaptive policy systems * Database policies * Policy applications in on-demand, utility based computing * Resource virtualization and policy-based collaboration * Case studies of applying policy-based management POLICIES IN WIRELESS NETWORKS: * Service management in mobile ad hoc networks * Policy systems for small devices * Policy-based spectrum management * Privacy and security * Policies in location based services * Context-aware policies in pervasive and mobile computing ------------------------------------------------ PAPER or DEMO SUBMISSION ------------------------------------------------ Papers under review elsewhere must NOT be submitted to Policy 2008. Paper or demo submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their technical merit and novelty. For System Demo, of particular interest are systems that illustrate research contributions and innovative applications of policy based technologies. Policy 2008 invites contributions in the form of either: * Technical papers (max. length 8 pages). * Short position papers describing preliminary systems or experimental results (max. length 4 pages). Please check out http://www.policy-workshop.org/2008 for details. --------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES --------------------------------- Paper Registration deadline: 15 December 2007 Paper submission deadline: 21 December 2007 Author notification: 5 March 2008 System demonstration submission deadline: 3 March 2008 System demonstrator notification: 17 March 2008 ---------------------------------------------------------- POLICY 2008 PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Ehab Al-Shaer, DePaul University (ehab "AT" cs.depaul.edu) Lalana Kagal, MIT (lkagal "AT" csail.mit.edu) Jorge Lobo, IBM Research (jlobo "AT" us.ibm.com) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Akhil Sahai HP Laboratories Alva Couch Tufts University Andrea Westerinen Microsoft Corp Andreas Schaad SAP Anna Cinzia Squicciarini Purdue University Arcot Rajasekar University of California at San Diego Arosha Bandara Open University Babak Sadighi Swedish Institute of Computer Science Bhavani Thuraisingham The University of Texas at Dallas Bruno Crispo Vrije Universiteit Carl Gunter University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Christian Jensen University of Denmark Duminda Wijesekera GMI Elisa Bertino Purdue University Emil Lupu Imperial College Filip Perich Shared Spectrum Francisco Garcia Agilent Gail Ahn UNC Charlotte Gregory Cirincione Army Research Lab Hanan Lutfiyya University of Western Ontario Helge Janicke De Montfort University Hong Li Intel Corporation John Strassner Motorola Labs Ken Moody Cambridge University Lisandro Z. Granville UFRGS Manish Dave Intel Corporation Marco Casassa Mont Hewlett-Packard Labs Marianne Winslett University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Morris Sloman Imperial College London Nahid Shahmehri Linkopings University, Sweden Naranker Dulay Imperial College London Olivier Festor LORIA - INRIA Lorraine Pierangela Samarati University of Milan Rebecca Montanari University of Bologna Ritu Chadha Telcordia Sanjai Narain Telcordia Seraphin Calo IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Sushil Jajodia George Mason University William Winsborough University of Texas at San Antonio Yuri Demchenko University of Amsterdam _______________________________________________ ISCC mailing list ISCC(a)mail.ing.unibo.it http://calvin.ing.unibo.it/mailman/listinfo/iscc

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[Tccc] CFP - WWIC 2008
by Geert Heijenk 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

------------------------------------------------------------------------ WWIC 2008 6th International Conference on Wired / Wireless Internet Communications May 28-30, 2008 Tampere, Finland http://wwic2008.cs.tut.fi/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Submission deadline: December 21, 2007 *** CALL FOR PAPERS Next generation mobile networks will be based on Internet core networks and wireless access networks. The need for efficient merging of the wired and wireless infrastructure as well as the new multimedia services and applications of next generation networks call for novel network architectures, protocols and traffic-related mechanisms. WWIC addresses research topics such as the design and evaluation of protocols, the dynamics of the integration, the performance tradeoffs, the need for new performance metrics, and cross-layer interactions. The goal of the conference is to present high-quality results in the field, and to provide a framework for research collaboration through focused discussions that will designate future research efforts and directions. In this context, the program committee will accept only a limited number of papers that meet the criteria of originality, presentation quality and topic relevance. WWIC is a single-track conference which has reached, within 5 years, the highest level of quality, which is reflected both in the level of participation as well as the acceptance ratio and the amount and quality of submitted papers. CONFERENCE TOPICS The conference objectives will be pursued through highly technical sessions organized thematically and keynote talks offered by recognized experts. Topics of interest to WWIC 2008 include (but are not limited to) the following: - AAA in mobile environments - Ambient networks - Ad-hoc mobile networks - Blended network configurations - Beyond 3G networks technologies - Cross layer interactions - Economical issues of wireless networks - End-to-end Quality of Service support - Handover techniques - Heterogeneous wireless access networks - Hybrid wired / wireless environments - Integration of wired and wireless networks - Mobile service level agreements / specification - Mobility management - Network design and network planning - Network mobility - Network coding in mobile networks - Network security in mobile environments - Performance evaluation of wireless systems - Pricing, charging and accounting in wireless networks - QoS routing in mobile networks - QoS signalling in mobile environments - Resource management and admission control - Service creation and management for wireless - Simulation for next generation mobile networks - Traffic characterisation and modelling - Traffic engineering - Transport protocols and congestion control - Wireless mesh networks - Wireless multi-hop networks - Wireless multimedia systems - Wireless network monitoring - Wireless sensor networks PROCEEDINGS The authors are encouraged to submit full papers describing original, previously unpublished, complete research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, addressing state-of-the-art research and development in all areas of computer networking and data communications. All papers will be reviewed and accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series (to be approved). Papers must be submitted electronically in the conference site. The maximum size of papers should be 5000 words including tables and figures. Please adhere 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. GENERAL CHAIRS: Jarmo Harju, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Peter Langendoerfer, IHP Microelectronics, Germany TPC CHAIRS: Vasilios Siris, University of Crete / FORTH-ICS, Greece Geert Heijenk, University of Twente, The Netherlands LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Bilhanan Silverajan, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Jakub Jakubiak, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Saara Kallio, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Heikki Vatiainen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Sari Kinnari, Tampere University of Technology, Finland PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Sonia Aissa, Universite du Quebec, Canada Ozgur B. Akan, Middle East Technical University, Turkey Khalid Al-Begain, University of Glamorgan, UK Leonardo Badia, IMT Lucca, Italy Mortaza Bargh, Telematics Institute, Netherlands Carlos Bernardos, Univ. Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University, USA Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland Rafaelle Bruno, IIT-CNR, Italy Wojciech Burakowski, Warsaw Univ. of Tech., Poland Maria Calderon, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Xiuzhen Cheng, George Washington University, USA Hermann de Meer, University of Passau, Germany Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada Michel Diaz, LAAS-CNRS, France Adam Dunkels, SICS, Sweden Peder Emstad, Norwegian Univ. of Sc. & Tech., Norway Magda El Zarki, University of California, Irvine, USA Giovanni Giambene, University of Siena, Italy Sonia Heemstra de Groot, WMC / TU Delft, Netherlands Markus Hofmann, Columbia University, USA Andreas Kassler, Karlstads University, Sweden Ibrahim Khalil, RMIT University, Australia Byung Kim, University of Mass. Lowell, USA Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Tampere Univ. of Tech., Finland Rolf Kraemer, IHP Microelectronics, Germany Peter Kropf, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland Leszek Lilien, Western Michigan University, USA Remco Litjens, TNO ICT, The Netherlands Hai Liu, University of Ottawa, Canada Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France Qusay Mahmoud, University of Guelph, Canada Christian Maihöfer, Daimler AG, Germany Saverio Mascolo, Politecnico di Bari, Italy Paulo Mendes, INESC, Portugal Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pisa, Italy Dmitri Moltchanov, Tampere Univ. of Tech., Finland Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal Liam Murphy, University College Dublin, Ireland Marc Necker, Universität Stuttgart, Germany Ioanis Nikolaidis, University of Alberta, Canada Guevara Noubir, Northeastern University, USA Evgeny Osipov, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden Philippe Owezarski, LAAS-CNRS, France George Pavlou, University of Surrey, UK Aleksi Penttinen, Helsinki Univ. of Technology, Finland George Polyzos, AUEB, Greece Anand Prasad, DoCoMo Comm. Labs Europe, Germany Utz Roedig, Lancaster University, UK Theodoros Salonidis, Thomson Research Labs, France Guenter Schaefer, TU Ilmenau, Germany Jochen Schiller, Free University Berlin, Germany Arunabha Sen, Arizona State University, USA Patrick Sénac, ISAE, France Dimitrios Serpanos, University of Patras, Greece Dirk Staehle, University of Würzburg, Germany Burkhard Stiller, Univ. of Zurich / ETH, Switzerland Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Vassilis Tsaoussidis, Demokritos University, Greece Ulrich Ultes-Nitsche, University of Fribourg, Switzerland Hans van den Berg, TNO / Univ. of Twente, Netherlands Thiemo Voigt, SICS, Sweden Miki Yamamoto, Kansai University, Japan Chi Zhang, Juniper Networks, USA Martina Zitterbart, University of Karlsruhe, Germany IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline:............December 21, 2007 Notification of acceptance:.....February 21, 2008 Camera ready papers:................March 5, 2008 For more information please see the conference site wwic2008.cs.tut.fi or contact the Conference Secretariat at wwic2008(a)cs.tut.fi. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sponsored by COST 290 Organized by Tampere University of Technology, Finland _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: IEEE WoWMoM 2008 - Deadline EXTENDED to NOV. 25
by Qi Han 09 Nov '07

09 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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] cfp: SECON 2008
by Lin Cai 08 Nov '07

08 Nov '07

We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. =================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS SECON 2008 The 5th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad hoc Communications and Networks http://www.ieee-secon.org San Francisco, CA, June 16-20, 2008 Sponsored by The IEEE Communications Society ==== Registration Deadline --- December 04, 2007 ==== ==== Submission Deadline --- December 11, 2007 ==== The fifth annual IEEE SECON conference will provide a unique forum to exchange ideas, discuss best practices, raise awareness, and share experiences among researchers and practitioners in the field of sensor, mesh, and ad hoc networks and systems. IEEE SECON grew out of the IEEE INFOCOM conference in 2004, in order to create an event that focused on the important and exciting topics of Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications Networks. Full papers - describing original, previously unpublished research work, experimental efforts, practical experiences, and industrial and commercial developments in sensor, ad hoc, and mesh communications and networks - are solicited. Particular topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - New architectures and protocols - Modeling and Performance Evaluation - Measurements and Experimental Research on Ad hoc and Sensor Networks - Cross-Layer Design - Hardware and Software Platforms, Middleware - Transport, Network and MAC Protocol Design - Energy Efficiency - Network Coding, MIMO and Other Emerging Areas - Network Security at all layers - Survivability and Fault Tolerance PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ================================ Papers should neither have been published elsewhere nor currently under review by another conference or journal. All papers for IEEE SECON 2008 must be submitted electronically via the EDAS system: http://edas.info/5694. Papers must be no longer than 9 pages and in font size no smaller than 10 points. Please refer to the SECON website for detailed instructions on preparing and submitting the manuscript. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceeding published by IEEE. IMPORTANT DATES =============== Registration Deadline: December 04, 2007, 7:59pm EST (4:59pm PST) Submission Deadline: December 11, 2007, 7:59pm EST (4:59pm PST) Notification: March 14, 2008 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ==================== General Chair: Kang G. Shin, Univ. of Michigan TPC Co-Chairs: Sujata Banerjee, HP Labs Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy, UC Riverside Panel Co-Chairs: Sneha Kumar Kasera, Univ. of Utah Jie Wu, NSF/Florida Atlantic Univ. Publications Chair: Curt Schurgers, UCSD Poster/Demo Co-Chairs: Sunghyun Choi, Seoul Nation Univ., Korea Alhussein Abouzeid, RPI Publicity Chair: Daji Qiao, Iowa State Univ. Web Chair: Prashant Krishnamurthy, Univ. of Pittsburgh Local Arrangement Co-Chairs: Ignacio Solis, PARC Kumar Viswanath, NTT MCL Travel Awards Chair: Romit Roy Choudhury, Duke Univ. STANDING COMMITTEE ================== Fred Bauer, Nokia (Chair) Hamid Aghvami, King's College, London Mischa Dohler, France Telecom R&D Harvey Freeman, HAF Consulting, Inc. Sung-Ju Lee, HP Labs Prasant Mohapatra, UC Davis Krishna Sivalingam, UMBC _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine Special Issue on DependabilityIssues with Ubiquitous Wireless Access
by Albert Banchs 08 Nov '07

08 Nov '07

We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine Special Issue on Dependability Issues with Ubiquitous Wireless Access ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ http://www.comsoc.org/dl/pcm/cfpwireless808.htm +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Manuscript Due: 1 December 2007 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Recent years have witnessed a proliferation of the number of wireless technologies available to access the Internet. While the emergence of these new technologies can enable truly ubiquitous Internet access, it also raises issues with the dependability of the Internet service delivered to users. Indeed, wireless Internet access is, when compared to traditional wired access solutions, more prone to security attacks and less predictable in terms of the Quality of Service (QoS) experienced by users. This poses serious challenges to the provisioning, in this context, of a dependable Internet service that meets the users’ requirements in terms of security, QoS, reliability and availability, among others. In order to meet the above requirements on dependability, new solutions such as security and QoS mechanisms need to be designed for the wireless access. Several issues need to be addressed in the design of such dependable wireless solutions, including the following: (1) the open nature of radio communications provides serious exposure to security attacks; (2) the limited capacity and shared nature of the wireless medium complicates the provisioning of Quality of Service; (3) inherently unpredictable wireless channel characteristics make it hard to guarantee availability; (4) exploitation of resources due to selfish and malicious behavior is difficult to prevent; (5) the emergence of new paradigms, such as opportunistic spectrum usage and self-organizing networks, promise improvements but introduce new challenges to dependability. This special issue will focus on recent research results on dependability issues with ubiquitous wireless access in the context of wireless technologies including WLAN, cellular and broadcast systems, ad-hoc and mesh networks, among others. Topics of interest include, although are not limited to, the following: * Predictable shared medium access mechanisms * Techniques for identifying and controlling selfish users * Security mechanisms and protocols for the wireless access * Wireless Quality of Service provisioning * Countering Denial-of-service attacks in wireless networks * Metrics for measuring dependability * Privacy-aware dependable operation for wireless networks * Dependable opportunistic spectrum techniques * Dependability in self-organizing networks * Reliable and ubiquitous emergency services * Dependable services for mobile users Articles should be tutorial in nature and should be written in a style comprehensible to readers outside the specialty of the article. All submissions will be reviewed based on technical merit and relevance. Guidelines for prospective authors can be found on-line at http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/pcm/pub_guidelines.html. Please send PDF (preferred), Microsoft Word, or PostScript formatted papers to Albert Banchs (banchs(a)it.uc3m.es) no later than 1 December 2007. Manuscript Due: 1 December 2007 Acceptance Notification: 15 March 2008 Final Revised Manuscript Due: 15 May 2008 Publication: August 2008 Guest Editors: Prof. Albert Banchs, Univ. Carlos III Prof. Virgil Gligor, University of Maryland Prof. Daji Qiao, Iowa State University Dr. Dirk Westhoff, NEC Europe Ltd. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: Workshop on Smart Sensing and Situation Awareness in Sensor Networks
by WenZhan Song 08 Nov '07

08 Nov '07

Workshop on Smart Sensing and Situation Awareness in Sensor Networks Behrooz Shirazi and WenZhan Song, Washington State University, USA http://conferences.theiet.org/ie08/workshop_smart_sensing.htm The aim of this workshop is to stimulate research on smart sensing and situation awareness related topics in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Sensor network can be said to be the nerve system of our engineering network world, extracting and transmitting useful and timely information reliably for efficient decision support and quick corrective actions. Examples of end-to-end sensor applications include: cargo monitoring systems in a harbor that check containers in a WSN equipped ship for detecting dangerous chemical substances, locating stowaways, or calculating import duties; environmental monitoring systems, such as volcano monitoring and structure monitoring sensor network, that provides domain scientists high resolution views of environments; transport systems that route traffic using real-time data monitored by sensor-enabled cars; emergency management systems that can detect bushfires; smart home environments that enable remote monitoring of residents, early detection of emergency situations and enhancement of quality of life and safety. However, different applications have different context and mission needs, hence developing and deploying end-to-end applications for sensor networks in a realistic business context remains highly complex. Unlike traditional communication networks, a sensor network is to provide a high degree of visibility into environmental physical processes, not to provide any-to-any communications. Consequently, it requires an end-to-end approach that handles the WSN as a whole rather than as a group of individual nodes. The sensor network design therefore shall be fully context and situation-aware, and target to maximize mission returns with given resource constraints. We seek technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research results. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Environmental context and situation awareness Resource discovery and management Cross layering and resource awareness (Distributed) compressed sensing and data aggregation Data fusion, storage and management Effective naming and device/service discovery in end-to-end WSNs Failure resilience and fault isolation Sensor network management Overlay and topology management Sensor mobility and heterogeneity, and smart sensor device drivers Localization, time synchronization Security and privacy Integration with back-end systems such as web-based information systems, process control, and enterprise software Sensor network planning, provisioning, calibration and deployment Deployment experience and testbeds Experimental methodology, including measurement, simulation, and emulation infrastructure Analysis of real-world systems and fundamental limits Instructions for Manuscripts Authors are requested to submit a PDF file for their manuscript following the submission guideline available at http://conferences.theiet.org/ie08/author.htm . All manuscripts should be submitted through the conference submission system and choosing the workshop title. The papers should also be emailed to the workshop organizer for reference. All manuscripts should be received by the conference deadline for paper submission which is the 15th of January 2008. For more information please contact: Professor WenZhan Song, songwz(a)wsu.edu, Washington State University, Vancouver WA, USA. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[KuVS ELG] CfP: IOV 2008
by Claudia Linnhoff-Popien 08 Nov '07

08 Nov '07

[Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 1st International Workshop on Interoperable Vehicles (IOV 2008) March 26, 2008 Zurich, Switzerland In Cooperation with Internet of Things 2008 http://www.iov2008.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE: For a couple of years, some initial telematics services that inform the driver about current road and traffic conditions are already in the market. With new wireless communication capabilities available like WLAN, WiMAX or UMTS, many additional services become feasible. Therefore, one of the major automotive trends is keeping both the vehicle and the driver seamlessly connected with their environment, providing high-quality traffic related information, increasing active safety and offering passengers high-bandwidth internet connectivity. In the automotive domain, universal connectivity of vehicles in particular enables the implicit sharing of up-to-date traffic- and road related context information. On the one hand, the vehicles require information from the route ahead in order to optimally support the driver. On the other hand, the local knowledge of vehicles which is based on a variety of on-board sensor systems can also contribute to support other (not necessarily automotive) services. In this regard, the workshop aims to establish a forum to bring together research professionals in both academia and industry to address the technical, economic, systems and application issues related to Interoperable Vehicles. The topics of interest include (but not limited to): - In-vehicle knowledge management and knowledge distribution among vehicles - Novel applications for (or based on) connected vehicles - Multi-Channel / Hybrid Connectivity - Network management and scalability - Service discovery and service provisioning - Security and Privacy - Concurrent use of multiple applications via the available channels - Business models for market introduction / Role out strategies -------------- DATE AND PLACE -------------- This workshop will be held on March 26, 2007 in Zurich, at the Conference Hotel of Internet of Things 2008. --------------- IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Paper submission deadline: January 11, 2008 Notification of acceptance: February 9, 2008 Camera Ready Deadline: March 1, 2008 ----------------------- SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ----------------------- Authors are invited to submit full papers presenting new research related to the theory or practice of interoperable vehicles, describing original, research work not published and are not currently under review elsewhere. Submissions should be single-column and not exceed 18 pages in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format. Paper submissions should be anonymized to facilitate blind review. Authors are encouraged to take care throughout the entire document to minimize references that may reveal the identity of the authors or their institutions. Please submit your paper and your contact information to the following address: info(a)iov2008.org ----------------------------- WORKSHOP ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ----------------------------- Robert Lasowski, Softlab Group, Germany Markus Strassberger, BMW Group Research and Technology, Germany ----------------------------- TECHNICAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ----------------------------- Hannes Hartenstein, University Karlsruhe Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, University Munich Irene Karanasiou, National Technical University of Athens Tim Leinmüller, DENSO Automotive Andreas Festag, NEC Europe Ltd Helmut Dohmann, University of Applied Sciences Fulda -- Prof. Dr. Claudia Linnhoff-Popien Lehrstuhl für Mobile und Verteilte Systeme Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Oettingenstr. 67, 80538 München Tel.: +49 - (0)89 - 2180 9149 Fax: -2180 9147 www.mobile.ifi.lmu.de _______________________________________________ ELG mailing list ELG(a)kuvs.de http://mail-i4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/mailman/listinfo/elg

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[Tccc] QoSim 2008 - 10 days to the submission deadline!
by Giovanni Stea 08 Nov '07

08 Nov '07

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). _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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MobiSys 2008: Call for Papers
by Varshavsky Alex 07 Nov '07

07 Nov '07

+-------------------------------------------------------------+ 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 ----------------------------------------------------- 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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JVCIR special issue: "Resource-Aware Adaptive Video Streaming"
by Enrico Magli 07 Nov '07

07 Nov '07

Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation Special Issue: Resource-Aware Adaptive Video Streaming Modern multimedia applications such as mobile television, movie on demand, IPTV, multiview video, distributed video conferencing, streaming and gaming over wired and wireless networks have stimulated research for new technologies in the area of multimedia architectures, processing, and networking. Current communications networks exhibit a wide range of capabilities, including various architectures, throughputs, quality of service and protocols; interconnection of different networks provides several advantages, but also poses major technical challenges. On the other hand, users employ heterogeneous terminals with a wide range of computational and display capabilities, energy resources, features, accessibilities, and user preferences. The variety of possible scenarios has escalated the need for efficient and effective techniques for streaming and adapting compressed videos in such heterogeneous environments. Considerable amounts of research activities in industry and academia have been devoted to developing the enabling technologies that are needed to make this vision reality. The goal of this special issue is to provide an up-to-date picture of state-of-the-art research in the field of video streaming, emphasizing the two key aspects of adaptation and resource-awareness. In particular, papers are solicited mainly, although not exclusively, in the following areas: Bandwidth and Resource Adaptive Video Streaming - Optimization of energy resources for video streaming - Platform awareness for low-power and embedded devices - Dynamic video content adaptation - Cross-layer optimization for video streaming - Cooperative video streaming - Peer-to-peer video streaming Resource Adaptive Encoding/Decoding Algorithms - Scalable video coding (quality, spatial, temporal and computation scalability) - Reconfigurable video coding - Distributed video coding Adaptation to Network Errors and Losses - Error resilience and concealment for video coding and communication - Source, channel and network coding for error-resilient video streaming Applications and Systems - IPTV: Video broadcasting and multicasting - Multi-view and interactive video - Video-anywhere. Guest editors: Enrico Magli Dept. of Electronics Politecnico di Torino, Italy enrico.magli(a)polito.it Chia-Wen Lin Dept. Electrical Engineering National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan cwlin(a)ee.nthu.edu.tw Deepak Turaga IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, USA turaga(a)us.ibm.com Pascal Frossard Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland pascal.frossard(a)epfl.ch Important dates: First call for papers April 2007 Manuscript due December 1, 2007 Acceptance notification March 1, 2008 Final manuscript due April 15, 2008 Publication date July 2008

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[Networking 2008] Call for Papers-International Federation for Information Processing Networking 2008
by IFIP_networking08＠ntu.edu.sg 07 Nov '07

07 Nov '07

Dear TPC members, The deadline for the IFIP Networking, 2008 paper submission is just round the corner. This is the first time the IFIP networking conference will be held in this Asia region. Hope you can help to disseminate the call and encourage your colleagues and students to submit papers to the conference. Thanks in advance for your assistance. Regards Amitabha Das, NTU, Singapore Technical Program Co-Chair IFIP Networking 2008 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

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Call for Paper -- ICME 2008
by ICME2008 06 Nov '07

06 Nov '07

Dear Colleagues: On behalf of General Chair Jorn Ostermann and the organizing committee, we are pleased to invite you to submit papers and proposals for special sessions and tutorials to the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2008.) The conference will be held from June 23-26, 2008 in the fascinating city of Hannover, Germany. Topics for papers include (but not limited to) the following areas in multimedia: Speech, audio, image, video processing and coding Virtual reality and 3-D imaging Signal processing for media integration Multimedia Communications and networking Multimedia security and content protection Multimedia human-machine interface and interaction Multimedia databases Hardware and software for multimedia systems Multimedia standards and related issues Multimedia applications Medical signal processing Poster presentations will have tables and power for demos. Space for research exhibits is provided for a nominal charge. Please see additional details in the attached Call for Paper and at the conference website http://www.icme2008.org We look forward to seeing you at the conference! Best Regards, Yun He Tsinghua Unversity Edward K. Wong Polytechnic University ICME 2008 Publicity Co-Chairs <This e-mail was automatically generated by a computer program. Please do not reply to this e-mail.> __________________________________________________________________ IMPORTANT DEADLINES: Special session proposals: Nov 26, 2007 Tutorial proposals: Nov 26, 2007 Regular papers: Dec 24, 2007 Notification of acceptance: Feb 29, 2008 Camera-ready papers: March 24, 2008

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[Fwd: WPNC 2008 Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 06 Nov '07

06 Nov '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: WPNC 2008 Call for Papers Datum: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 16:40:07 +0100 Von: Andreas Koltes <koltes(a)IEEE.ORG> Organisation: IEEE Germany Section An: <germany-com(a)IEEE.ORG> Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, im Auftrag der Organisatoren des 5th Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication 2008 übersende ich Ihnen im Anhang den Call for Papers mit verlängerter Submission Deadline bis zum 16. November 2007. Mit freundlichen Grüßen Andreas Koltes _____________________________________________________________ *Andreas Koltes* Electronic Communications IEEE Germany Section Mobile: ++49 179 8423763 E-Mail: koltes(a)ieee.org <mailto:koltes@ieee.org> WWW: http://www.ieee.de <http://www.ieee.de/>

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