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[Fwd: [Tccc] [CFP] Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of, Distributed Systems (SSS 2006)]
by Lars Wolf 02 Jun '06

02 Jun '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] [CFP] Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of, Distributed Systems (SSS 2006) Datum: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 10:24:38 +0200 Von: Maria Gradinariu <mgradina(a)irisa.fr> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu, Mohamed Gouda <gouda(a)cs.utewas.edu>, davis(a)iastate.edu [Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.] Eighth International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (formerly Symposium on Self-stabilizing Systems) (SSS 2006) November 17th-19th, 2006 Dallas, Texas, USA http://www.irisa.fr/sss/2006/ ============================================================================== Selected papers will be published in a special issue of the ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS). ============================================================================== ============================================================================== Important Dates Paper Submission: July 7th, 2006 Notification to Authors: August 21st, 2006 Camera-ready: August 31st, 2006 Symposium: November 17th-19th, 2006 ============================================================================== The Symposium is a prestigious international forum for researchers and practitioners in the design and development of fault-tolerant distributed systems with self-* properties, such as self-stabilizing, self-configuring, self-organizing, self-managing, self-repairing, self-healing, self-optimizing, self-adaptive, and self-protecting. The theory of self-stabilization has been enriched in the last 25 years by high quality research contributions in the areas of algorithmic techniques, formal methodologies, model theoretic issues, and composition techniques. All these areas are essential to the understanding and maintenance of self-* properties in fault-tolerant distributed systems. Research in distributed systems is now at a crucial point in its evolution, marked by the importance of dynamic systems such as peer-to-peer networks, large-scale wireless sensor networks, mobile ad hoc networks, robotic networks, etc. Moreover, new applications such as grid and web services, banking and e-commerce, e-health and robotics, aerospace and avionics, automotive, industrial process control, etc. have joined the traditional applications of distributed systems. Now, more than ever, the theory of self-stabilization has tremendous impact in these areas. Therefore, this year, we are extending the scope of the symposium to cover all safety and security related aspects of self-* systems. The title of the conference has been changed to reflect this expansion. There will be three tracks: networking, safety and security, and self-* properties in static and dynamic systems. The symposium solicits contributions on all aspects of self-stabilization, safety and security, recovery oriented systems and programing, from theoretical contributions, to reports of the actual experience of applying the principles of self-stabilization to static and dynamic systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Stabilization: - self-stabilizing systems - self-managed, self-assembling, autonomic and adaptive systems - self-optimizing and self-protecting systems - self-* abstractions for implementing fundamental services in static and dynamic distributed systems - impossibility results and lower bounds for self-* systems - application of stabilizing algorithms and techniques in dynamic distributed systems - data and code stabilization - algorithms for self-* error detection/correction Safety: - safety critical systems - trust models and specifications - semantics of trust, distrust, mistrust, over-trust, cheat, risk and reputation - trust-related security and privacy - reliable and dependable systems - fault-tolerant systems, hardware redundancy, robustness, survivable systems, failure recovery Security: - security of network protocols - security of sensor and mobile networks protocols - secure architectures, frameworks, policy, intrusion detection/awareness - proactive security - self-* properties and their relation with classical fault-tolerance and security - security protocols for self-* systems Networks and Applications: - models of fault-tolerant communication - stochastic, physical, and biological models to analyze self-* properties - communication complexity - data structures for efficient communication - self-stabilizing hardware, software, and middleware - algorithms for high-speed networks, sensors, wireless and robots networks - mobile agents - peer-to-peer networks, sensor networks, MANETs, and wireless mesh networks - network topologies, overlays, and protocols - protocols for secure and reliable data transport and search in wireless mesh networks - information storage and sharing in wireless mesh networks Contributors are invited to submit a PDF file of their paper. Submissions should be no longer than 4800 words and should not exceed 12 pages on letter-size paper using at least 11 point font and reasonable margins (the page limit includes all figures, tables, and graphs). Submissions should include a cover page (that does not count towards the 12 page limit) that includes paper title, authors and affiliations, contact author's e-mail address, an abstract of the work in a few lines, and a few keywords. Submitted papers may have appendices beyond the 12 page limit, but reviewers are free to disregard any material beyond the 12 page limit. A paper submitted to SSS 2006 is expected to be original research not previously published; a submission may not be concurrently submitted or to any other conference, workshop, or journal. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Selected papers will be published in a special issue of the ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS). General Chair: Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas at Austin, USA, gouda(a)cs.utexas.edu Program Co-chairs: Ajoy K Datta University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA, datta(a)cs.unlv.edu Maria Gradinariu, IRISA, France, mgradina(a)irisa.fr Local Arrangements Chair: Jorge Cobb, University of Texas at Dallas, USA, cobb(a)utdallas.edu Ravi Prakash, University of Texas at Dallas, USA, ravip(a)utdallas.edu Publicity and Web Chair: Florent Claerhout, IRISA, France, fclaerho(a)irisa.fr Steering Committee: Anish Arora, Ohio State University, USA, anish(a)cse.ohio-state.edu Ajoy K. Datta, University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA, datta(a)cs.unlv.edu Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, dolev(a)cs.bgu.ac.il Sukumar Ghosh, Chair, University of Iowa, USA, ghosh(a)cs.uiowa.edu Mohamed G. Gouda, University of Texas at Austin, USA, gouda(a)cs.utexas.edu Ted Herman, University of Iowa, USA, ted-herman(a)uiowa.edu Shing-Tsaan Huang, National Central University, Taiwan, sthuang(a)csie.ncu.edu.tw Toshimitsu Masuzawa, Osaka University, Japan, masuzawa(a)ist.osaka-u.ac.jp Vincent Villain, Universie de Picardie, France, villain(a)laria.u-picardie.fr _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: Call for Papers: TRIDENTCOM 2007]
by Lars Wolf 30 May '06

30 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Call for Papers: TRIDENTCOM 2007 Datum: Tue, 30 May 2006 13:15:55 +0200 Von: Frank Steuer <frank.steuer(a)dai-labor.de> An: multicomm(a)comsoc.org CC: Frank Steuer <frank.steuer(a)dai-labor.de> Our apologies if you have received multiple copies. CALL FOR PAPERS ************ T R I D E N T C O M 2 0 0 7 ************ Third International IEEE/Create-Net Conference on Test beds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities February 5-8, 2006, Orlando, Florida USA http://www.tridentcom.org ------------------------------------------------------ ************ IMPORTANT DEADLINES ******************** ------------------------------------------------------ Paper Submission Due: August 31, 2006 Demo Proposals Due: September 30, 2006 Notification: October 31, 2006 Final manuscript Due: November 30, 2006 ------------------------------------------------------ SCOPE ------------------------------------------------------ Telecommunication infrastructures play a vital role in modern society. Advances in the range of network service offerings, performance, quality of service, security, and ubiquity continue to flourish, despite global economy fluctuations. Access to experimental infrastructures for real-life applications by specific user communities benefits all of the stakeholders involved: the end users, because of the first-hand evaluation of the provided services, the researchers and infrastructure experimenters, because of the knowledge gained from hands-on study and analysis, and the service providers, because of the business exploitation of the network. The goal of TridentCom is to create a forum where telecommunication networks researchers, vendors, providers and users can exchange ideas on past experience, requirements, needs, and visions for future establishment of such infrastructures. It showcases experimental activities, such as testing, verification, integration, measurement, and deployment, which are pivotal to achieving next generation communications. PAPER SUBMISSION ------------------------------------------------------ Prospective authors are invited to submit high quality papers as well as demonstration proposals reporting on all aspects of test bed and research infrastructure operation and management, including, but not limited to: * Next Generation Internet Test beds * Next Generation Wireless Network Test beds * Next Generation Optical Network Test beds * Ubiquitous Network Test beds * Wireless Sensor Test beds * Test bed Operation & Management for User Communities * Test bed Operation & Management for Research Communities * Test bed Cooperation & Integration * Innovative Measurements Methodologies & Tools * Traffic Measurements Test beds * Software Tools to Support Distributed Test beds / Virtual Laboratories * Management of Massive Databases of Experimental Data * Knowledge & Technology Transfer Procedures * Security (AAA) Testing on Open Test beds * Social Impacts of Infrastructures * Infrastructures for Real-Life Applications * Business Models for Infrastructure Budgeting & Planning * Infrastructure Renting & Pricing Policies * Vendors & Providers Partnerships Submit full papers of up to 10 pages, including references, figures and tables, and formatted according to the IEEE 8.5" x 11" proceedings format. Detailed submission instructions are available at www.tridentcom.org. DEMONSTRATIONS ------------------------------------------------------ Demo proposals should consist of the following: - title and description of the demo, - picture of demo setup and/or screenshots of demo GUIs - infrastructure requirements, and - biographical sketch of the presenter(s). ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ------------------------------------------------------ General Chair Janise McNair, University of Florida Technical Program Co-Chairs Thomas Woo, Bell-Labs Tereza Carvalho, Universidade de Sao Paulo, BR Miguel Lagunas, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Panel Co-Chairs Diego Bartolome, Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya Wenye Wang, North Carolina State University Demo Co-Chairs Miguel Ponce de Leon, TSSG, Waterford Inst. Technology, Ireland Raheem Beyah, Georgia State University Publicity Co-Chairs: Frank Steuer, Technical University of Berlin, Germany Nirmala Shenoy, Rochester Institute of Technology Web Chair: Sungrae Cho, Georgia Southern University Local Arrangements Chair Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida STEERING COMMITTEE ------------------------------------------------------ Imrich Chlamtac (Chair), Create-Net, University of Trento, Italy Csaba Szabo (Co-chair), Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary

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[Fwd: [Tccc] [TCCC] CAMAD'06 Live on the Internet]
by Lars Wolf 30 May '06

30 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] [TCCC] CAMAD'06 Live on the Internet Datum: Tue, 30 May 2006 09:56:17 +0200 Von: Fabrizio Granelli <granelli(a)dit.unitn.it> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Dear colleagues, it is my pleasure to announce you that we are setting up an experimental service for low bitrate live streaming of the CAMAD'06 event, so that you'll be able to attend the program of the workshop from the web. In order to access the service, you'll need to register your email on the CAMAD website (http://dit.unitn.it/~camad06 - section "Live Broadcast") in order to receive username/password information and then gain access to the live audio/video streaming. Streaming format is RealVideo (please download RealPlayer software in advance, to avoid delays). I sincerely hope you'll be able to enjoy the CAMAD'06 program (even from your office!) and please accept in advance my apologies in case of malfunctionings (the live streaming service is yet experimental). In any case, some weeks after the workshop, offline access to recorded material will be available. Best regards, Fabrizio Granelli CAMAD'06 General Chair -- Fabrizio Granelli, Ph.D., Assistant Professor DIT - University of Trento Via Sommarive 14, I-38050 Trento (ITALY) Phone: +39 0461 882062 Fax: +39 0461 882093 Email: granelli(a)dit.unitn.it, granelli(a)ieee.org http://dit.unitn.it/people/granelli.html ------------------------------------------------ CAMAD'06 Workshop: http://dit.unitn.it/~camad06 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: Workshopprogramm auf der INFORMATIK 2006]
by Lars Wolf 29 May '06

29 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Workshopprogramm auf der INFORMATIK 2006 Datum: Mon, 29 May 2006 15:44:18 +0200 Von: gi-mitglieder-info(a)gi-ev.de An: undisclosed-recipients:; Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, liebe GI-Mitglieder, die INFORMATIK 2006 in Dresden nimmt nun auch inhaltlich konkrete Formen an. Die Workshops sind begutachtet worden und stehen jetzt im Netz. Die Übersicht finden Sie unter: http://www.informatik2006.de/168.html. Hier finden Sie die Webseiten der einzelnen Workshops sowie die Call for Papers und Ansprechpartner/innen für die einzelnen Veranstaltungen. Folgende Themen werden auf der GI-Jahrestagung am 5. und 6. Oktober behandelt: Informatik in unserem Umfeld: * Mensch und Maschine - Informatik in der Produktion * P2P Information Retrieval * Pervasive University * Organic Computing * Multiple Sensor Data Fusion: Trends, Solutions, Applications * Mobile Anwendungssysteme im beruflichen und privaten Bereich * End-User Development Informatik als Werkzeug: * Informationssysteme mit Open Source (ISOS) * Koordination in verteilten Entwicklungsprojekten - Anforderungen, Erfahrungen, Praxisberichte * Vorgehensmodelle in der Praxis – Formalisierung und Anwendung * 4. Arbeitstagung Programmiersprachen * Vernetzung von Software Engineering Expertise in Industrie und Forschung * Softwareleitstände: Integrierte Werkzeuge zur Softwarequalitätssicherung * Modellbasiertes Testen Informatik und Medien: * Collaborative Authoring of Rich MEdia Applications (CARMEA) * Modellbasierte Entwicklung von Interaktionsanwendungen * Applications of Semantic Technologies – AST 2006 * Voice- enabled Services * Voice-over-IP * Mobile and Embedded Interactive Systems Informatik und Gesellschaft: * Self-Directed Learning & Knowledge Management * Sicherheit und Datenschutz im Informationsmanagement der öffentlichen Verwaltung * Bildung von Sozialen Netzwerken in Anwendungen der "Social Software" * Sozio-technische Infrastrukturen für demokratische Prozesse: Pragmatik, Praxis und Perspektive * Wissenschaftliches Fehlverhalten Informatik interdisziplinär: * Elektronische Datentreuhänderschaft – Anwendungen, Verfahren, Grundlagen * Softwareassistenten für die medizinische Diagnostik und Therapieplanung * 4. Workshop Automotive Software Engineering * Vom M-Business zum W-Business? Geschäftstätigkeit im Wireless Internet und in Mobilfunknetzen Bitte leiten Sie diese E-Mail auch an andere Interessierte weiter, damit die Workshopleiter/innen sich über viele Einreichungen freuen können. Vielen Dank. Mit freundlichen Grüßen Ihre Geschäftsstelle der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI) Wissenschaftszentrum Ahrstr. 45 53175 Bonn Tel.: +49 (0)228/302-145 / Fax: +49 (0)228/302-167 E-Mail: gs(a)gi-ev.de / WWW: http://www.gi-ev.de ----------------------------

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[Fwd: +++ Call for Papers: Voice-over-IP Workshop -- GI Jahrestagung 2006 +++]
by Lars Wolf 29 May '06

29 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: +++ Call for Papers: Voice-over-IP Workshop -- GI Jahrestagung 2006 +++ Datum: Mon, 29 May 2006 13:58:51 +0200 Von: gi-mitglieder-info(a)gi-ev.de An: undisclosed-recipients:; +++ Call for Papers: Voice-over-IP Workshop -- GI Jahrestagung 2006 +++ Workshop Voice-over-IP 2006 im Rahmen der 36. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik Dresden 2. Oktober bis 6. Oktober 2006 http://wwwra.informatik.uni-rostock.de/gi-voip06 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Die Voice-over-IP (VoIP)-Technologie will eine allgegenwärtige Sprachkommunikation über die Datennetze unter Einsatz des IP-Protokolls sowohl im lokalen als auch im Weitverkehrsbereich realisieren. So wird erwartet, dass in absehbarer Zeit IP-basierte Verfahren zur Sprachübertragung die herkömmliche, leitungsvermittelte Sprachkommunikation weitestgehend ersetzen werden. Obwohl die VoIPTechnologie seit Anfang der 90er-Jahre weiterentwickelt wird, liegen durch neue Nutzer-Anforderungen, technologische Fortschritte, Sicherheitsaspekte, Dienste- Qualitäten u. a. eine Reihe von Problemstellungen mit sowohl wissenschaftlich als auch wirtschaftlich relevanten Herausforderungen vor. Ziel des Workshops „Voiceover- IP“ (GI-VoIP 06) ist, ein Forum insbesondere zur * Behandlung von aktuellen * Problemstellungen, Verstärkung von Aktivitäten in echtzeitfähiger Datenübertragung sowie * Vertiefung von Diskussionen zwischen Experten aus Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft anzubieten. Wir laden Sie ein, mit Ihren innovativen Beiträgen, zukunftsweisenden F&E- Ergebnissen und Erkenntnissen am Workshop GI-VoIP 2006 mitzuwirken. Es werden nur originäre (nicht publizierte) und einschlägige Forschungs-, Entwicklungs- und Erfahrungsbeiträge erwartet. Themengebiete des Workshops sind z. B. die folgenden, jedoch nicht auf diese beschränkt: * Hardware und Software-Architekturen * Front-End- und Back-End-Systeme * Protokolle und Algorithmen * Verfahren und Algorithmen zu Quality of Service * Innovative Technologien im Bereich Voice-over-IP * Integrations-, Migrations- und Konvergenzstrategien * Sicherheitsaspekte, Abwehr von SPIT-/SPIM- Attacken * Einsatz von Voice-over-IP in eingebetteten Systemen * Autorisierung, Accounting und Authentifizierung Technische Standards * Voice-over-IP in drahtlosen Übertragungssystemen ökonomische Aspekte des VoIP * regulatorische Rahmenbedingungen * Beherrschbarkeit umfangreicher VoIP-Systeme durch Skalierbarkeit Die Workshop-Sprache ist Deutsch. Der Umfang eines Beitrags darf 6 Seiten im Format der GI-Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI) nicht überschreiten. Beachten Sie bitte die Autoreninformationen unter http://www.gi-ev.de/service/publikationen/lni/. Die Veröffentlichung eines Beitrages setzt die Registrierung von mindestens einem Autor zur GI Jahrestagung 2006 voraus. Jeder angenommene Beitrag soll auf dem Workshop in ca. 30 Minuten inkl. Diskussion vorgestellt werden. Bitte reichen Sie Ihren anonymisierten Beitrag als PDF-Datei über die Website des Workshops ein. Termine: ~~~~~~~~ 12.06.2006 Einreichung von Beiträgen 10.07.2006 Benachrichtigung der Autorinnen und Autoren 31.07.2006 Abgabe der Endversion Organisationskomitee: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Djamshid Tavangarian Heiko Kopp Martin Arndt Universität Rostock Institut für Informatik Lehrstuhl Rechnerarchitektur Den vollständigen Call for Papers im PDF-Format finden Sie unter der Adresse: http://wwwra.informatik.uni-rostock.de/gi-voip06/

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[Fwd: CFP: Inter-Vehicle Communication and Intelligent Transportation Systems (Special issue of International Journal of Vehicle Information and Communication Systems)]
by Lars Wolf 29 May '06

29 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP: Inter-Vehicle Communication and Intelligent Transportation Systems (Special issue of International Journal of Vehicle Information and Communication Systems) Datum: Mon, 29 May 2006 10:24:55 +0800 Von: Wen-Long Jin <wljin(a)ustc.edu.cn> CC: Wen-Long Jin <wljin(a)ustc.edu.cn> Dear colleagues, Attached please find a call for papers on Inter-Vehicle Communication and Intelligent Transportation Systems for a special issue of International Journal of Vehicle Information and Communication Systems. Thank you in advance for your contributions. Best, Wen-Long Jin -- Wen-Long Jin Associate Professor Department of Automation University of Science and Technology of China PO Box 4, Hefei, Anhui 230027 P.R. China +86 (0)551 360-0927 +86 (0)551 360-3244 Fax wljin(a)ustc.edu.cn http://staff.ustc.edu.cn/~wljin

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: Special issue of IEEE ITPro on Network Management]
by Lars Wolf 29 May '06

29 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: Special issue of IEEE ITPro on Network Management Datum: Sun, 28 May 2006 17:21:57 -0400 Von: Ken Christensen <christen(a)csee.usf.edu> Antwort an: christen(a)csee.usf.edu Organisation: University of South Florida An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Call for Papers Special Issue of IEEE IT Professional Magazine on Managing Networks and Systems Tools and Strategies PUBLICATION: November-December 2006 URL: http://www.computer.org/itpro IT Professional Magazine, a peer-reviewed bi-monthly publication of the IEEE Computer Society, is seeking original manuscripts for a special issue on tools and strategies for managing networks and systems. Papers describing current research and practice are solicited. Survey, tutorial, industry experience, and case study papers are all welcomed. Network and systems management encompasses a broad range of topics include performance, reliability, and security. What are the current tools and strategies used to manage complex and large IT operations? What are the best practices and what return on investment can be achieved? It is these questions that this special issue will address. Article submissions are invited in areas including, but not limited to: * Performance modeling, monitoring, and tuning * Reliability modeling * Intrusion detection, prevention, and recovery * Disaster preparation and recovery * Patch management * Power management * Managing VoIP applications * Managing mobility and mobile devices * Managing server farms * Managing call centers * User interfaces and virtual reality in management * AI techniques in management * Methods for remote systems management * New tools for system and network management * Future trends in network management * Future trends in systems management Submitted articles must not have been previously published, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts for this issue should not exceed 3500 words (with each average-size figure counting as 300 words toward this limit), including references and short biographies. Acceptable file formats include Microsoft Word, ASCII plain text, PDF, and Postscript. Refer also to the author guidelines at http://www.computer.org/itpro/author.htm. SEPTEMBER 1, 2006 is the submission deadline for consideration for the November-December 2006 issue. Late submissions, if accepted, may run in future issues. Include all figures and tables, as well as a cover page with author contact information (name, address, phone, and e-mail address). Accepted articles may be edited for structure, style, clarity, and readability. To submit a manuscript: * Access Manuscript Central, http://cs-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com * Select "IT Professional" from the journal list * Select "Managing Networks and Systems - Tools and Strategies Nov/Dec 06" as the manuscript type. Address all other correspondence regarding this special issue to: Shawkang Wu (Corresponding guest editor) The Boeing Company shaw_wu(a)yahoo.com Ken Christensen (Guest editor) University of South Florida christen(a)cse.usf.edu Further information on the magazine, including author guidelines, is available at the magazine homepage: http://www.computer.org/itpro -- _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: ACF-Members: CFP 3rd ACM International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks]
by Lars Wolf 28 May '06

28 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: ACF-Members: CFP 3rd ACM International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks Datum: Sun, 28 May 2006 09:00:45 -0300 Von: Marcelo Dias de Amorim <Marcelo.Amorim(a)lip6.fr> An: acf-members(a)autonomic-communication-forum.org Please apologize for any duplicates. !!! * Deadline approaching * !!! ------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS: ACM* PE-WASUN 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd ACM* International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks http://ares.insa-lyon.fr/pe-wasun06 Torremolinos, Malaga, SPAIN, October 2-6, 2006 Jointly with the 9th ACM/IEEE * MSWiM Symposium http://www.cs.unibo.it/mswim2006 *ACM Pending upon Approval ------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT: Full paper due: June 10th, 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Scope: Wireless ad hoc, sensor, along with ubiquitous networks have recently witnessed their fastest growth period ever in history, and this trend is likely to continue for the foreseeable future. However, as such networks become increasingly complex, performance modeling and evaluation will play a crucial part in their design process to ensure their successful deployment and exploitation in practice. This workshop brings together scientists, engineers, and practitioners to share and exchange their experiences, discuss challenges, and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research on all aspects of wireless ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks with a specific emphasis on their performance evaluation and analysis. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Probabilistic or predictive performance models and analysis of ad hoc, sensor, pervasive and ubiquitous networks - RF channel capacity modeling and analysis - Traffic models for ad hoc, sensor networks - Mobility modeling and management - Analytical modeling - Simulation methods - Tracing and trace analysis - Performance measurement, monitoring and evaluation tools for ad hoc, sensor and ubiquitous networks - Software tools for automatic network performance and evaluation - Network performance improvements by optimization algorithms - Energy-efficient protocols for ad hoc and sensor networks - Wireless mesh networks - Case studies demonstrating the role of performance evaluation in the design of ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks Workshop Co-Chairs: Lichun Bao University of California, Irvine, USA Isabelle Guerin Lassous INRIA/CITI, Lyon, France Technical Program Committee Members: Khalid Al-Begain Univ. of Glamorgan, UK Prithwish Basu BBN Technologies, USA Paolo Bellavista University of Trento, Italy Brahim Bensaou Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK Fernando Boavida University of Coimbra, Portugal Luciano Bononi University of Bologna, Italy Azzedine Boukerche University of Ottawa, Canada Michele Colajanni University of Modena, Italy J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves University of California, Santa Cruz, USA Mario Gerla UCLA, USA Vittoria Gianuzzi University of Genova, Italy Ben Liang University of Toronto, Canada Zhen Liu IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Bernard Mans Macquarie University, Australia Pietro Manzoni Politechnic University of Valencia, Spain Kenichi Mase Niigata University, Japan Jelena Misic University of Manitoba (Canada) Mohamed Naimi University of Cergy-Pontoise, France Sotiris Nikoletseas Computer Technology Institute, Greece Mirela Notare Barddal University, Brazil Mohamed Ould-Khaoua University of Glasgow, UK Guy Pujolle Université Paris 6, France Pedro M. Ruiz University of Murcia, Spain Marco Spohn Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil Mineo Takai University of California, Los Angeles, USA Damla Turgut University of Central Florida, USA Fabrice Valois Insa de Lyon, France Publicity Chair: Marcelo Dias de Amorim CNRS/LIP6, France ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Submission: High-quality original papers are solicited. Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed by Technical Program Committee members and other experts active in the field to ensure high quality and relevance to the conference. Accepted papers will appear on the workshop proceedings that will be published by ACM press. At least one of the authors of accepted papers must attend the conference to present his paper. Paper should be submitted on PE-WASUN web site: http://ares.insa-lyon.fr/pe-wasun06/authors.html. Paper length should be no mo re than 10 pages, double column, ACM style including tables and figures. A template for ACM SIG Proceedings style (LaTeX2e and MS Word) ca n be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Only Postscript and PDF formats are accepted. A special issue will be planned in a scholarly journal to include selected high-quality papers from the workshop. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates Full paper due: June 10th, 2006 Acceptance notification: July 10th, 2006 Camera ready due: TBA +++++++++ posted to acf-members by Marcelo Dias de Amorim <Marcelo.Amorim(a)lip6.fr> +++++++++

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[Fwd: [Multimedia 2006] CFP Workshop on Content Protection & Security]
by Lars Wolf 27 May '06

27 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Multimedia 2006] CFP Workshop on Content Protection & Security Datum: Sat, 27 May 2006 05:55:02 -0400 Von: ACM Multimedia Committee <acmsigmm(a)fastmail.fm> An: Multimedia Recipient <WOLF(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> Workshop on Multimedia Content Protection and Security October 28, 2006 Santa Barbara, CA, USA Held in conjunction with the 2006 ACM Multimedia Conference -------------------------------------------------------- We are 'Living la Vida Digital' -- in the shadow an ever-growing mountain of digital data, and advances in technology enable media delivery scenarios that were not feasible before; today's service providers and content providers must embrace new business models in order to attract and sustain consumers. But as the volumes of data grow, so does the importance of, and challenges associated with, multimedia content protection and security. To address these challenges, it is imperative to devise effective and flexible solutions. New technologies offer convenient ways to distribute and consume digital media; yet these new technologies also make it relatively easy to quickly and flawlessly copy digital data, posing tremendous challenges to protecting intellectual property rights. Multimedia security standards aim to define specifications that facilitate effective and flexible content protection schemes and promote interoperability among applications. While that is the Holy Grail, developing secure multimedia applications and solutions in a distributed environment with competing technologies and emerging standards is an enormous challenge. During this workshop, we will explore ways in which a combination of emerging standards, emerging media formats, innovative solutions and technologies that enable new markets might drive both new applications and entirely new ways of managing content. We will provide an excellent overview of the relevant research, business and consumer challenges, as well as the potential impact of emerging optical media formats. We expect to cover multimedia security from several perspectives: researchers, consumers and content/service providers. CALL FOR PAPERS The intention of this workshop is to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners from multimedia security communities (academia and industry) to share a vision of "Multimedia Security and Content Protection in this Rapidly Growing Digital World". That is, from identifying challenging problems that can shape the future of research, to practical applications and/or research that address issues posed by the convergence of television, computers and the Internet. We welcome papers on applications that combine emerging standards, emerging media formats, innovating solutions, and technologies that enable new markets. This workshop will provide an excellent overview of the relevant research, business, and consumer challenges, as well as the potential impact of emerging optical media formats. We expect to cover multimedia security from the several perspectives: researchers, consumers, and content/service providers. We encourage submissions on papers on all topics in the general areas of multimedia security, multimedia content protection, emerging standards, interoperability, and practical applications issues. Papers that bridge across these areas are of special interest. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Content Protection - Broadcast Encryption - Public-Key Encryption - Forensic Analysis - Tracing Traitors - Revocation Schemes - Digital Rights Management - Cryptographic Applications Digital Watermarking - Applications - Protocols - Attacks - Techniques Platform Integrity - Software Tamper Resistance - Code Obfuscation - Software Watermarking - Hardware Tamper Resistance - Trusted Computing Applications, Standards, and Formats - Consumer Applications - Solutions for the Home Network - New business models in multimedia security - Challenges of Emerging Media Formats - Enabling technologies - Legal aspects We also welcome authors from industry to submit papers that describe solutions in all the areas above. These papers should point out the technical aspects of the work, such as: - Relevant implementation issues - Lessons learned - Problems addressed by the solution - Supporting technologies - Interoperability issues Submission Details: Papers should be at most 10 pages long prepared in the ACM style and written in acceptable English. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 members of the program committee. Papers submitted must be original unpublished work and must not be simultaneously submitted or under review for any other workshop, conference or journal (including ACM Multimedia). Any paper found to be in violation of these rules will be rejected without review. (We may share information about submissions with the program chairs of other conferences considering papers during the review period.) Papers accompanied by non-disclosure agreement forms will not be considered. All submissions are treated as confidential, both as a matter of policy and in accordance with the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976. Submission Instructions: Please send any submission questions to dulce(a)almaden.ibm.com. Submission details will be provided very soon. Check out website http://stargate.ecn.purdue.edu/~ips/acm-sec/ for such details. Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: July 10, 2006 Acceptance notification: August 2, 2006 Camera ready copy for accepted papers: August 15, 2006 ACM Multimedia Conference: October 22-28, 2006 Multimedia Content Protection and Security Workshop: October 28, 2006 Registration: more information on this later Workshop Chairs: Edward J. Delp, Purdue University, Indiana, USA (ace(a)ecn.purdue.edu) Dulce B. Ponceleón, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA (dulce(a)almaden.ibm.com ) Ginger Myles, IBM Almaden Research Center, California, USA (gmyles(a)us.ibm.com ) Program Committee: Mikhail Atallah (Purdue University) Christian Collberg (University of Arizona) Nelly Fazio (Courant Institute) Matt Frankling (UC Davis) Paul Kosher (Cryptography Research, Inc.) Jeff Lotspiech (IBM Almaden Research Center) Dalit Naor (IBM Research Haifa) Clark Thomborson (University of Auckland) ------------------------ NOTE* - If you do not want to receive emails pertaining to the ACM Multimedia conference please reply to this message with 'REMOVE address' in the subject line (using the address at the bottom of this email). Colleagues can subscribe by sending a message with 'SUBSCRIBE' in the subject line to acmsigmm(a)fastmail.fm. ------------------------ --- This mail was sent to WOLF(a)IBR.CS.TU-BS.DE ---

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics Special Section on "Wireless Technologies in Factory and Industrial Automation"]
by Lars Wolf 27 May '06

27 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics Special Section on "Wireless Technologies in Factory and Industrial Automation" Datum: Fri, 26 May 2006 22:46:10 +0200 Von: Andreas Willig <awillig(a)tkn.tu-berlin.de> Organisation: Telecommunication Networks Group An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Please apologize for any duplicates. ------------------------------------ Wireless technologies have the potential of providing significant benefits in factory and industrial automation systems. The wireless way of communicating makes plant setup and modification easier, cheaper and more flexible. It provides a natural approach towards communication with mobile equipment where wires are in constant danger of breaking. It enables new applications where wireless transmission is the only option, e.g., measurements and control of rotating or highly mobile devices, and provides a novel approach to existing applications, e.g., localization and tracking of goods. Wireless technologies do, however, suffer from time-varying error rates, interference and security problems. This imposes a number of problems, especially in the industrial application field, where often tight constraints in terms of reliability, safety, dependability and real-time requirements have to be fulfilled in order to avoid severe financial losses or even damage to equipment or life. Several other issues may arise, including the interconnection of wireless systems with legacy industrial communication systems, the provisioning of support for proper system planning, configuration and commissioning of wireless industrial communication systems as well as power feeding problems. The goal of this special section is to attract theoretical and practical papers attacking the main issues and challenges concerning the adoption of wireless technologies in industrial communications; reporting about implementation experiences; describing and evaluating the design of new applications of wireless technologies in industrial and automation systems. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: - Lower-layer protocols for ensuring efficient, reliable and timely data transmissions in industrial environments: physical layer, coding, MAC / link-layer techniques. - Wireless fieldbus systems, including hybrid wired/wireless systems and wireless extensions of wired configurations. - Wireless-aware, industrial type, higher-layer protocols. - Middleware for wireless industrial applications. - Standardization activities with special emphasis on wireless technologies for factory and industrial automation systems. - Security of wireless communication systems in industrial environments. - Applications of wireless technologies (incl. RFID) in factory/industrial automation systems, including innovative applications like wireless-based localization, tracking. - Field trials and low-level measurements (e.g., channel properties, interference) for the characterization of industrial environments. - System-level tools for wireless network planning and configuration in industrial settings. - Wireless power transmission in industrial environments. We seek original contributions not currently under review by other journals. All contributions must focus on industrial applications and requirements. Results obtained by simulations must be validated in bounds by experiments or analytical results. The novelty of the contributions should be clearly indicated and related to the current state of the art. Manuscript preparation and submission: Follow the guidelines in "Information for Authors" in the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/ies/tii/ Submit using Manuscript Central only http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tii Key dates: Paper submission deadline: August 31, 2006 Expected publication date: August 2007 Note: The recommended papers for the section are subject to final approval by the Editor in Chief and Editor at Large for special sections. Some papers may be published outside the special section, at their discretion. Special Section Guest Editors: Daniele Miorandi CREATE-NET Trento, Italy daniele.miorandi(a)create-net.org Elisabeth Uhlemann Centre for Research on Embedded Systems Halmstad University, Sweden elisabeth.uhlemann(a)ide.hh.se Stefano Vitturi Italian National Council of Research, IEIIT-CNR Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova Padova, Italy vitturi(a)dei.unipd.it Andreas Willig Telecommunication Networks Group Technical University Berlin Berlin, Germany awillig(a)ieee.org -- Dr.-Ing. Andreas Willig Telecommunication Networks Group (TKN),Technical University Berlin fon: +49-30-31423836, fax: +49-30-31423818 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: WiNTECH Workshop with ACM MobiCom 2006 --- including call for posters/demos and submission guidelines]
by Lars Wolf 26 May '06

26 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: WiNTECH Workshop with ACM MobiCom 2006 --- including call for posters/demos and submission guidelines Datum: Thu, 25 May 2006 23:08:59 -0700 Von: Mahesh Marina <mahesh(a)cs.ucla.edu> An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu>, <manet(a)ietf.org> CC: 'Rajive Bagrodia' <rajive(a)cs.ucla.edu> Our apologies if you have received multiple copies of this CFP. -- CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------ The First ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation and CHaracterization (WiNTECH 2006) in conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2006 September 29, 2006 Los Angeles, CA, USA Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE http://chenyen.cs.ucla.edu/events/wintech06/ *** Submission Deadline: June 19, 2006 *** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------ OVERVIEW AND SCOPE ----------------------------- In recent years, some wireless technologies (e.g., WiFi, sensor networks) have matured to the point of finding wide acceptance in the real-world and leading to many new and interesting applications. At the same time, several new networking and radio technologies (e.g., dynamic spectrum access, UWB) are emerging to address the performance limitations of existing technologies and make wireless networking more ubiquitous. Realistic evaluation of such diverse set of technologies and their mutual interactions will play a major role in identifying the key performance bottlenecks, thus shape future advances in wireless technology. With this in mind, this workshop intends to bring together researchers working in the broad area of experimental wireless networking. This workshop will serve as a forum to share new ideas/experiences in all experimental aspects of wireless networks and systems, and facilitate discussions of key unresolved challenges in this area. We are seeking original, previously unpublished work addressing experimental wireless networking issues. The workshop program will include regular paper presentations and an interactive session with demos and posters. We welcome demonstrations of novel wireless network testbed capabilities and measurement results. The posters may describe work in progress and offers an excellent opportunity for feedback and discussions on early research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Design and evaluation of wireless testbeds, prototypes and platforms * Experiences/lessons from recent testbed design efforts * Hybrid experimentation approaches combining use of multiple evaluation methodologies * Integration of diverse and distributed testbed infrastructures * Testbed management issues and monitoring support * Wireless testbed case studies * Experimental evaluation of applications and protocols (at different layers), and the impact of cross-layer interactions * Large-scale and heterogeneous wireless network evaluations * Approaches for real-world evaluation of mobile networks * Evaluation environments for sensor and satellite networks * Techniques for improving reproducibility of real-world testing * Implementation approaches to ease transition between various evaluation methodologies as well as to improve testbed accessibility * New measurement methodologies and infrastructures * Measurement and characterization (modeling) of various real-world aspects such as usage patterns, traffic, mobility and channel characteristics * Interference and spectrum usage measurements * Validation of existing simulation models, and results across different testbeds/evaluation methodologies * Software tools in support of measurements, trace/data collection and management IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------ Submission deadline: June 19, 2006 Author notification: July 21, 2006 Camera ready deadline: August 11, 2006 Workshop date: September 29, 2006 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------------------- Technical Program Co-Chairs: Rajive Bagrodia (UCLA) Mahesh Marina (UCLA) Program Committee: Victor Bahl (Microsoft Research) Elizabeth Belding-Royer (UCSB) Tzi-cker Chiueh (SUNY-Stony Brook) Marco Conti (IIT-CNR, Italy) Edward Coyle (Purdue) Christophe Diot (Thomson Paris Research Lab) Joe Evans (University of Kansas) Richard Fujimoto (Georgia Tech) Ravi Jain (Google) Vikas Kawadia (BBN) Ed Knightly (Rice University) Jay Lepreau (University of Utah) Prasant Mohapatra (UC-Davis) Dina Papagiannaki (Intel Research Cambridge) Bhaskaran Raman (IIT-Kanpur, India) Dipankar Raychauduri (Rutgers) Mani Srivastava (UCLA) Peter Steenkiste (CMU) Mineo Takai (UCLA) Adam Wolisz (TU-Berlin) Poster/Demo Chair: Maneesh Varshney (UCLA) Publications Chair: Henrik Lundgren (UCSB) Web Chair: Yi Yang (UCLA) SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ------------------------------- All submissions will be handled electronically. Regular paper submissions should conform to the following requirements: EIGHT 8.5"x11" pages (including figures, tables, and references) in two-column format using 10-point size or greater and reasonable margins; they must use PDF format. For demo/poster submissions, authors should prepare an extended abstract no longer than TWO pages, including all figures and references. All submissions will be judged by their technical merit and relevance to the workshop, based on a thorough review process by the Technical Program Committee. Besides the regular papers, the extended abstracts of the accepted posters and demos will also be published in the workshop proceedings and will be available via the ACM digital library. Please check the workshop website for additional details on submissions. FURTHER INFORMATION ------------------------------- Please visit the WiNTECH 2006 workshop website: http://chenyen.cs.ucla.edu/events/wintech06/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CfP - IEEE SCVT 2006]
by Lars Wolf 26 May '06

26 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CfP - IEEE SCVT 2006 Datum: Thu, 25 May 2006 18:10:43 +0200 Von: Guy Leduc <Guy.Leduc(a)ulg.ac.be> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Call for papers IEEE SCVT 2006: 13th Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux November 23rd, 2006, Liege, Belgium Organized by the IEEE Benelux Joint Chapter on Communications and Vehicular Technology The deadline for submissions is September 1, 2006. The papers will appear in IEEE Xplore (IEEE's Digital Library). Participants will also have free access to another one-day workshop on mobile multimedia communications organized the next day at the same place. More details and CfP available at: <http://scvt.run.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/>http://scvt.run.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/ -- ________________________________________________________________________ Prof. Guy Leduc Phone : +32 4 366 26 98 Université de Liège Secr : +32 4 366 26 91 Réseaux Informatiques Fax : +32 4 366 29 89 Research Unit in Networking (RUN) Email: Guy.Leduc(a)ulg.ac.be EECS Department, Institut Montefiore, B 28, B-4000 LIEGE 1, BELGIUM http://www.run.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/People/GuyLeduc/ Interested in an open source toolbox for network traffic engineering? Try TOTEM: http://totem.run.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] European Wireless 2007]
by Lars Wolf 26 May '06

26 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] European Wireless 2007 Datum: Wed, 24 May 2006 23:39:05 +0200 Von: Alain SIBILLE <alain.sibille(a)ensta.fr> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu The 13th European Wireless Conference (EW 2007) April 1-4, 2007 Enabling Technologies for Wireless Multimedia Communications Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées (ENSTA), Paris, France Visit <http://uei.ensta.fr/EW2007>http://uei.ensta.fr/EW2007 for updates CONFERENCE SCOPE The sector of wireless communications is today among the most dynamic ones of our global economy, and it brings a major contribution to the latters performance and productivity. The extraordinary progress of wireless technologies over the past decade, and their penetration deeply into society has generated both a technology push and a user demand, which meet in the solicitation from researchers further progress and more innovation. Not only higher bandwidth, higher mobility, better QoS are required at lower costs, but also novel multimedia services in order to cope with new societal needs. The integration of a variety of radio access technologies and networks, from cellular to local and personal or body area networks, is thus in the near future projected to provide individuals in the private or professional sphere more and more ubiquitous and rich content access to a wealth of interconnected information systems.the European Wireless 2007 Conference which will take place in Paris from April 1 to 4, 2007, will disseminate the most recent results on technologies, protocols, services and applications intended to make this goal a reality. CONFERENCE TOPICS * Modulation and Coding for Wireless Communications * Cross-layer Design in Mobile and Wireless Networks * Signal Processing, Synchronization, Equalization * Mobility Management and Billing Technologies * Communication Theory, Fundamental Limits * QoS and Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks * Radio Channel Measurements and Modelling * Security and Robustness in Wireless Networks * Antenna Issues in Wireless Communications * Spectrum Efficiency Analyses * Smart antennas and MIMO systems * Cognitive Radio * Radio Transmission Technology * Power Management for Small Terminals * Multiple Access Schemes * Mobile/Wireless Networks Modelling and Simulation * Multiuser detection algorithms and Theory * 2G - 3G - 4G Migration, Evolution and Interworking * Interference Mitigation and Management Techniques * Wireless LAN/PAN/BAN * Wireless Broadband Mobile Access * Wireless Ad-hoc Networks (MANET) * Software Defined Radio & Re-configurability * Sensor Network Planning and Deployment * Network Coding and Cooperative Diversity * Convergence of 3G wireless, Broadcasting and Internet * Protocols for Air Interfaces and Networks * Heterogeneity in Future Networks * Transport Layer Issues in Mobile and Wireless Networks * Mobile and Wireless Applications * Radio Resource Management * Location-based Services and Positioning * Ultra-Wideband Communications * High Altitude Platforms and Satellites IMPORTANT DATES November 10, 2006 (full papers due) January 31, 2007 (notification of Acceptance) February 23, 2007 (camera Ready due) STEERING COMMITTEE Alain Sibille, ENSTA (general chair) Bernhardt Walke (RWTH, Aachen, SC chair) Luis Correia (IST, Lisbon) Jan Sykora (CTU, prague) Armin Wittneben (ETHZ, Zürich) Jens Zander (KTH, Stockholm PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR Michel Terré (CNAM, Paris) LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Emmanuel Jaffrot, ENSTA Christophe Roblin, ENSTA Alain Sibille, ENSTA _______________________________________________________________ Please receive our apologies for multiple reception of this announcement _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: CfP: EuroView - Deadline Extension to June 1st 2006]
by Lars Wolf 24 May '06

24 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP: EuroView - Deadline Extension to June 1st 2006 Datum: Wed, 24 May 2006 13:49:34 +0200 Von: Michael Menth <menth(a)INFORMATIK.UNI-WUERZBURG.DE> Antwort an: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> Organisation: University of Wuerzburg An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Extended Deadline: June 1st 2006 CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS 6th Wuerzburg Workshop on IP: Joint EuroNGI and ITG Workshop on "Visions of Future Generation Networks" (EuroView2006) http://www3.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/ITG/2006/ July 31st - August 1st 2006 in Wuerzburg/Germany Organizer: Informatik III, University of Wuerzburg http://www3.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/ OVERVIEW The workshop's tradition and intention is to foster the communication among researchers from the industry, universities, and other research institutes. To that end, keynote speeches by outstanding personalities and technical talks about current research will be presented. The focus of this year's workshop is on "Visions of Future Generation Networks". http://www3.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/ITG/2006/schwerpunkt.shtml We would like to stimulate discussions on future Internet applications and future wireline and wireless Internet architectures to accelerate their development. To that end, several distinguished international keynote speakers are invited (M. Crovella, C. Diot, D. Raychaudhuri, and J. Rexford have already confirmed). We seek for further technical presentations addressing the focus of this workshop and which are suitable to promote discussions among participants. The contributions will be selected by the technical programme committee with respect to these criteria. TECHNICAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Chairs: Daniel Kofman (Chairman of Euro-NGI, ENST/INFRES/RHD Paris) Phuoc Tran-Gia (Director, Informatik III, University of Wuerzburg ) Kurt Tutschku (Co-Chairman of Euro-NGI Integration Activities, University of Wuerzburg and Technical University of Chemnitz) SUBMISSION AND REGISTRATION June 1st 2006: submission of an abstract by email: title of the talk and abstract, max. 1 page June 9th 2006: notification of acceptance July 7th 2006: registration by email registration fee: 100 Euro; the participation is free of charge for members of EuroNGI institutions VENUE AND ACCOMMODATIONS The workshop takes place in the computer science building on the Hubland Campus of the University of Wuerzburg/Germany. Wuerzburg is well accessible via airport Frankfurt/Main and another 80 minutes by railway. We have reserved a limited number of hotel rooms for workshop participants. REGISTRATION AND FURTHER INFORMATION Dr. Michael Menth, Andreas Binzenhoefer University of Wuerzburg Lehrstuhl für Informatik III Am Hubland 97074 Würzburg E-Mail: menth(a)informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de binzenhoefer(a)informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de Tel.: (0931) 888 66{44,54} (0931) 888 6631 (secretary) Fax: (0931) 888 6632 -- Dr. Michael Menth, Assistant Professor University of Wuerzburg, Institute of Computer Science Am Hubland, D-97074 Wuerzburg, Germany, room B206 phone: (+49)-931/888-6644, fax: (+49)-931/888-6632 mailto:menth@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de http://www3.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/research/ngn

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[Fwd: Extension for VANET 2006, The Third ACM International Workshop on Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks]
by Lars Wolf 23 May '06

23 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Extension for VANET 2006, The Third ACM International Workshop on Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks Datum: Tue, 23 May 2006 08:09:07 -0500 Von: Yih-Chun Hu <yihchun(a)CRHC.UIUC.EDU> Antwort an: Yih-Chun Hu <yihchun(a)CRHC.UIUC.EDU> An: tciannounce(a)COMPUTER.ORG Please accept my apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. The deadline for VANET 2006 has been extended to June 5, 2006. ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR PAPERS VANET 2006 The Third ACM International Workshop on Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks In conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2006 September 29, 2006 Los Angeles, California, USA Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE http://www.sigmobile.org/workshops/vanet2006/ Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: May 26, 2006 -- Extended to June 5, 2006 Notification of Acceptance: July 10, 2006 Camera-Ready Deadline: July 31, 2006 The goal of this workshop is to present and discuss recent advances in the development of wireless vehicular ad hoc networking (VANET) technologies. Based on short- to medium-range communication systems (vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-roadside), vehicular ad hoc networks will enable vehicular safety applications including collision and other safety warnings as well as non-safety applications like real-time traffic congestion and routing information, high-speed tolling, mobile infotainment, and many others. The creation of high-performance, highly reliable, highly scalable, and secure VANET technologies, though, presents an extraordinary challenge to the wireless research community: a high degree of communication reliability is needed under unfavorable channel conditions. Clearly, the specificity of vehicular ad hoc networks in terms of mobility behavior and applications scenarios and requirements makes VANET research an exciting and demanding application- and purpose-driven sub-discipline of wireless networking. Following the successes of VANET 2004 held in Philadelphia and VANET 2005 held in Cologne, Germany, the Third ACM International Workshop on Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks will be held in Los Angeles, September 29, 2006, in conjunction with MobiCom 2006. Authors are invited to submit papers presenting new research related to the theory or practice of vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET). All submissions must describe original research, not published or currently under review for another workshop, conference, or journal. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: - Safety and non-safety applications - Roadside-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-vehicle communication - Communication protocol design - Channel modeling - Modulation and coding - Power control and scalability issues - Multi-channel organization and operation - Security issues and countermeasures - Privacy issues - Network management - Simulation frameworks & real-world testbeds VANETs present a highly active field of research, development, standardization and field trials. Throughout the world, there are many national/international projects in government, industry, and academia devoted to VANETs, for example consortia like VSC (US), C2CCC (Europe) and InternetITS (Japan), standardization efforts like IEEE 802.11p (WAVE) and field trials like the large-scale Vehicle Infrastructure Integration Program (VII) in the US. Submission Instructions All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Papers must be in PDF format, no longer than 10 pages (single- or double-column), in font no smaller than 11 points, and must fit properly on US Letter-sized paper (8.5 inch x 11 inch) with reasonable margins. Submitted papers will be judged based on their quality through a double-blind review process, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. Detailed instructions for paper submission will be posted on the VANET 2006 web page at: http://www.sigmobile.org/workshops/vanet2006/. Please email questions related to paper submission or the technical program to: vanet2006-pc-chairs(a)rz.uni-karlsruhe.de. General Co-Chairs: Wieland Holfelder, DaimlerChrysler RTNA, Inc. David B. Johnson, Computer Science Department, Rice University Technical Program Co-Chairs: Victor Bahl, Microsoft Research Hannes Hartenstein, Universitat Karlsruhe Publicity Chair: Yih-Chun Hu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Web Chair: Ken Laberteaux,Toyota Technical Center Technical Program Committee (partial list): Sharad Agarwal, Microsoft Research Tracy Camp, Colorado School of Mines Wai Chen, Telcordia Technologies Chen-Nee Chua, Univ. of California Davis Costas Constantinou, Univ. of Birmingham Luca Delgrossi, DaimlerChrysler RTNA, Inc. Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University Tamer El-Batt, HRL Laboratories Andreas Festag, NEC Jean-Pierre Hubaux, EPFL Markus Jakobsson, Indiana Universtity Daniel Jiang, DaimlerChrysler RTNA, Inc. Timo Kosch, BMW Research and Technology Ken Laberteaux, Toyota Technical Center Martin Mauve, University of Duesseldorf Paolo Santi, Italian Natl. Research Council Raja Sengupta, Univ. of California Berkeley Marc Torrent-Moreno, Universitat Karlsruhe

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Heterogeneous Multi-Hop Wireless and Mobile Networks 2006 (IEEE MHWMN'06)]
by Lars Wolf 23 May '06

23 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Heterogeneous Multi-Hop Wireless and Mobile Networks 2006 (IEEE MHWMN'06) Datum: Mon, 22 May 2006 12:43:48 -0400 (EDT) Von: Mieso Denko <denko(a)cis.uoguelph.ca> An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Heterogeneous Multi-Hop Wireless and Mobile Networks 2006 (IEEE MHWMN'06) Website: http://www.ececs.uc.edu/~qzeng/MHWMN2006/CFP.htm In conjunction with IEEE MASS 2006 (www.ieee-mass.org), Vancouver, Canada, October 9-12, 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AIM and SCOPE The traditional centralized wireless and mobile networks are based on single-hop architecture and rely on the existing fixed infrastructure such as base stations or access points. The proliferation and deployment of radio access networks such as Wireless WANs, Wireless LANs, and Wireless PANs with distinguishing characteristics of data rate, coverage range, power, mobility, and prices will clearly lead to a need for seamless and ubiquitous access across these various networks. Such an integrated heterogeneous environment enables a user to access a particular network depending upon the application needs and the types of radio access networks (RANs) available (e.g., cellular network, ad hoc, WLAN, WPAN etc). The heterogeneous multi-hop wireless and mobile networks, on the other hand, provide unlimited mobility and greater flexibility but introduce a number of challenges due to dynamic network topology. The design of efficient and scalable protocols for existing multi-hop wireless and mobile networks such as wireless and mobile ad hoc networks continue to pose challenges at all the layers of networking stack. Therefore, it is necessary to investigate a global heterogeneous architecture and services that together provide seamless integration of single-hop networks (e.g., cellular, WLAN, WWAN) and multi-hop mobile ad hoc networks. The aim of this workshop is to bring together practitioners and researchers from both academia and industry in order to have a forum for discussion and technical presentations on the latest research and future research directions in heterogeneous multi-hop wireless and mobile networks. We are seeking original and previously unpublished research papers addressing theoretical and application issues in heterogeneous multi-hop wireless mobile networks. TOPICS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas: Multi-hop architectures and protocols for resource management Quality of services (QoS) delivery in MHWMN Seamless Mobility, Vertical Handoff Robust and scalable routing protocols for MHWMN MAC protocols for MHWMN Self-configuration and synchronization for MHWMN Security issues in MHWMN Topology control and management for MHWMN Mobility models and location management in MHWMN Cross-layer design and interactions for MHWMN Modeling and performance evaluation for MHWMN Algorithms for localization and signal processing in MHWMN Implementation testbeds for MHWMN Operating systems and middleware for MHWMN Mesh networks SUBMISSION Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and quality of presentation. The manuscript must follow IEEE two-column format with single-spaced, ten-point font in the text. The maximum manuscript length is eight (8) pages. Authors are requested to submit their papers (PDF format), contact addresses, telephone number, fax number, and e-mail addresses (text format) to the co-chairs, Qing-An Zeng (qzeng(a)ececs.uc.edu) and Mieso Denko (denko(a)cis.uoguelph.ca) by June 15, 2006. SPECIAL ISSUE Some selected high quality papers from the workshop will be published in the Journal of Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence (JUCI)) (http://www.juci.org/) as Special Issue on Heterogeneous Mobile and Wireless Networks. For this purpose, the authors of selected high quality papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission: June 15, 2006 Notification of acceptance: July 20, 2006 Camera-ready papers: August 10, 2006 WORKSHOP GENERAL CHAIR: Anup Kumar Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department University of Louisville, KY 40292, USA Email: ak(a)louisville.edu WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS: Qing-An Zeng Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH 45221-0030, USA Email: qzeng(a)ececs.uc.edu Mieso Denko Department of Computing and Information Science University of Guelph, Guelph Ontario, Canada, N1G 2W1 Email: denko(a)cis.uoguelph.ca PUBLICITY CHAIR: Poonacha Machaiah Seamless Mobility Wireless Broadband and Wireline Services Motorola, Inc., USA Email: poonacha.machaiah(a)motorola.com PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Boukerche, Azzedine: University of Ottawa, Canada Caffery, James: University of Cincinnati, USA Cheng, Xiuzhen: George Washington University, USA Conrad, James: University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Datta, Suprakash: York University, Canada Feng, Wu-Chun: Virginia Tech, USA Ketseoglou, Thomas: California State Polytechnic University, USA Leung, Victor C. M.: The University of British Columbia, Canada Li, Wei (Wayne): University Toledo, USA Nakano, Koji: Hiroshima University, Japan Nasser, Nidal: University of Guelph, Canada Olariu, Stephan: Old Dominion University, USA Pierre, Samuel: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada Song, Jian: Tsinghua University, China Srimani, Pradip K.: Clemson University, USA Tseng, Yu-Chee: National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Vlajic, Natalija: York University, Canada Wang, Li-Chun: National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan Watanabe, Takashi: University of Shizuoka, Japan Wu, Hong-Yi: University of Louisiana, USA Xue, Guoliang (Larry): Arizona State University, USA Yang, Yuanyuan: SUNY at Stony Brook, USA Youn, Jon (Jong-Hoon): University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA Zhang, Jingyuan: University of Alabama, USA Zhou, Hong: University of Southern Queensland, Australia _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] AAA-IDEA 2006: extended submission deadline]
by Lars Wolf 23 May '06

23 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] AAA-IDEA 2006: extended submission deadline Datum: Mon, 22 May 2006 18:42:44 +0200 (CEST) Von: Novella Bartolini <novella(a)di.uniroma1.it> Antwort an: novella(a)di.uniroma1.it An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Please apology for cross posting. AAA-IDEA: new submission deadline: May 30, 2006 -------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- The Second International Workshop on Advanced Architectures and Algorithms for Internet DElivery and Applications Pisa, Italy - October 10, 2006 (in conjunction with the First International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools: Valuetools '06) ----------------------------------------- *** Submission deadline extended: May 30, 2006 *** Innovations in network-based services continue to have strong impact on our world, resulting in a huge research interest in infrastructures that supports traditional and novel applications based on Internet. Accesses to interactive and multimedia services through a large variety of Internet devices require guaranteed performance, resource availability and proximity of content to the network access points. Scalability issues pose a number of design and performance problems at any level: systems, protocols, software. There is a number of open research challenges in improving content generation, personalization and delivery. The goal of this one-day workshop is to bring together researchers, developers, web service providers, application and network designers from academia and industry to exchange ideas about the problems they are facing and to discuss recent and innovative solutions. Topics of interest to this workshop include (but are not limited to) performance studies and solutions (algorithms, protocols, architectures) that tend to improve users experience in accessing interactive applications based on Internet. ------------------------------------------- Workshop Topics: Content delivery systems P2P architectures Scalable and adaptive web-based system Caching and replication Content adaptation and transcoding Quality of service SLA-based services Protocols for Web-based systems Reliability and high availability Security Performance measurement and monitoring tools Workload analysis and characterization Traffic monitoring and billing strategies Streaming media Mobility management IPv6 impact ------------------------------------------- Publication: The submissions to be presented at the workshop will be selected, based on their originality, technical merit and topical relevance of their contents. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings that will be available at the workshop. The proceedings will be published by the IEEE and will be available through IEEExplore. ------------------------------------------- Important Dates: Submission Deadline: May 30, 2006 Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2006 Camera ready due: July 20, 2006 Workshop date: October 10, 2006 ------------------------------------------- Instructions: We encourage full papers that present well-developed research results (up to 8 pages double column, including figures and references), but also short papers that are more speculative in nature, works in progress and position papers are solicited (up to 5 pages double column, including figures and references). Submitted papers must be unpublished and must not be currently under review for any other publication. If you are unsure whether your work falls within the scope of the conference, please contact the Program Co-Chairs. All paper submissions will be carefully reviewed by experts. The authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper must be registered for the workshop in order for that paper to appear in the proceedings and to be scheduled for presentation. All submissions should be sent electronically in Postscript or Adobe PDF format. Detailed instructions about submissions are available at the submission page. The electronic submission is available at COCUS. -------------------------------- -- Novella Bartolini, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Rome "La Sapienza" Tel: 0039-06-49918357 Mob: 0039-347-3669447 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: CFP: 4th European conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2007)]
by Lars Wolf 23 May '06

23 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP: 4th European conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2007) Datum: Mon, 22 May 2006 17:48:42 +0200 Von: marronpo(a)informatik.uni-stuttgart.de An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this e-mail] CALL FOR PAPERS 4th European conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2007) Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands January 29-31, 2007 http://www.ewsn.org ================================================================================ Wireless sensor networks (WSN) - networks of tiny, autonomous sensor devices equipped with wireless communication - are a topic of active research in a number of different research communities, ranging from hardware to applications. WSNs are characterized by a need to carefully integrate functionalities traditionally considered to be separate in order to achieve maximum efficiency, especially with respect to energy consumption and management. Hence, a close interaction of research from different backgrounds is required. Additionally, WSNs are evolving from simple data transportation networks to functionally rich distributed systems, also because actuators in the network have to be supported. The goal of this conference is to create a forum where researchers with different experience and background, from hardware to applications, can discuss cross-layer integration, novel solutions for specific problems and envisage the future development of WSN functionalities. FULL PAPERS We seek technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research results. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * Hardware for WSN: transceiver concepts, wakeup radio, antenna design, system integration, process and cost of manufacturing, battery technology, energy scavenging, miniaturization * Communication protocols: MAC and link layer issues, routing and transport protocols tailored for WSN, redundancy, data aggregation, mobility support, gateways to fixed Internet * Operating systems and programming abstractions: novel concepts and tools for programming and debugging sensor nodes, high-level programming abstractions * Middleware and service infrastructures: (dynamic) configuration and installation support, lookup of available functionalities, group communication, QoS support, localization and synchronization services, integrating WSN in existing middleware architectures * Information processing: storage, querying, coding, compression, fusion, aggregation, cooperative algorithms, event detection, classification, tracking * Security: primitives for appropriate cryptographic protocols, secure system engineering * Novel applications: requirements, experiences with real-world applications, the role of WSN technology in realizing the visions of Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence * Prototypes, field studies, and testbeds: novel sensor node prototypes, measurements within sensor network testbeds, debugging and testing * Models: energy and resource consumption, applications, mobility, and communication For further information, please contact the program co-chairs. POSTERS and DEMONSTRATIONS The poster session will provide a forum for researchers to showcase their work and obtain feedback on ongoing research from knowledgeable conference attendees. A poster presentation can also be accompanied by a demonstration to illustrate an application, technology, or platform. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES The highly selective conference will only accept for review original papers that have not been previously published and are not currently under review by another conference or journal. We will adopt a DOUBLE-BLIND review process, where the identities of the paper authors are withheld from the reviewers. Authors' names and their affiliations must not be revealed or mentioned anywhere in the paper. All submissions will be handled electronically via EDAS. Submissions must be in Adobe PDF format. We require that they conform to the Springer-Verlag LNCS style (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). The length of the manuscript should not exceed 16 pages, including text, figures and references. Use of LATEX for typesetting is recommended. IMPORTANT DATES Full Papers: Submission deadline: Sept 3, 2006 (23:59 Delft local time; 17:59 EST) Notification of acceptance: Oct 30, 2006 Camera-ready version: Nov 13, 2006 Posters/Demonstrations: Submission deadline: Dec 3, 2006 (23:59 Delft local time; 17:59 EST) Notification of acceptance: Dec 18, 2006 Camera-ready version: Jan 8, 2007 Conference dates: Jan 29-31, 2007 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Koen Langendoen, Delft Univ. of Technology (CO-CHAIR) Thiemo Voigt, SICS (CO-CHAIR) Tarek Abdelzaher, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Michael Beigl, TU Braunschweig Jan Beutel, ETH Zurich Athanassios Boulis, National ICT Australia (NICTA) Torsten Braun, Univ. of Bern Rebecca Braynard, Duke Univ. Nirupama Bulusu, Portland State Univ. Srdjan Capkun, TU Denmark Mun Choon Chan, National Univ. of Singapore Maarten Ditzel, TNO Jean-Pierre Ebert, IHP microelectronics Carlo Fischione, KTH Stockholm Vipin Gopal, United Technologies Research Center Takahiro Hara, Osaka Univ. Paul Havinga, Univ. of Twente Mike Hazas, Lancaster Univ. Wendi Heinzelman, Univ. of Rochester Holger Karl, Univ. of Paderborn Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Univ. of Southern California Chenyang Lu, Washington Univ. in St. Louis Pedro J. Marron, Univ. of Stuttgart Amy L. Murphy, Univ. of Lugano Chiara Petrioli, Univ. La Sapienza Rome Marcelo Pias, Univ. of Cambridge Hartmut Ritter, FU Berlin Utz Roedig, Univ. College Cork Christian Rohner, Uppsala Univ. Kay Roemer, ETH Zurich Andreas Savvides, Yale Klaus Wehrle, RWTH Aachen Dirk Westhoff, NEC Andreas Willig, TU Berlin Adam Wolisz, TU Berlin Wei Ye, USC/ISI

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP LOCAN 2006: 2nd International Workshop on Localized Communication and Topology Protocols for Ad hoc Networks]
by Lars Wolf 23 May '06

23 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP LOCAN 2006: 2nd International Workshop on Localized Communication and Topology Protocols for Ad hoc Networks Datum: Mon, 22 May 2006 16:30:27 +0200 Von: Pedro M. Ruiz <pedrom(a)dif.um.es> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Our apologies for duplicate postings. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS - LOCAN 2006 2nd International Workshop on Localized Communication and Topology Protocols for Ad hoc Networks in conjunction with MASS-2006 (www.ieee-mass.org) Vancouver, Canada, October 9 - 12, 2006 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBJECT AND SCOPE ----------------- This workshop covers comprehensively the algorithmic issues in the hot area of ad hoc and sensor networking. The design of data communication techniques in multi-hop ad hoc networks has challenges at all layers of communication. This workshop concentrates on the network layer problems like data communication (routing, QoS-routing, geocasting, multicasting, broadcasting, etc.) and topology control (neighbor discovery, power adjustment, neighbor elimination, etc.). Additionally, sensor networks are currently recognized as one of the priority research areas by NSF. The area of sensor networking is gaining momentum within the research community. This workshop will address ongoing research on this field, including problems such as: physical properties, sensor training, security through intelligent node cooperation, medium access, sensor area coverage with random and deterministic placement, object location, sensor position determination, energy efficient broadcasting and activity scheduling, routing, connectivity, data dissemination and gathering, sensor centric quality of routing, temporal message ordering, path exposure, tree reconfiguration, topology construction, and transport layer. The main paradigm shift is to apply localized (or greedy) schemes as opposed to existing protocols requiring global information. Localized algorithms are distributed algorithms where simple local node behaviour achieves a desired global objective. Localized protocols provide scalable solutions, that is, solutions for wireless networks with an arbitrary number of nodes, which is the main goal of this plan. Sensor and rooftop/mesh networks, for instance, have hundreds or thousands of nodes. The main objective of the workshop is to present state of the art research results on data communication and topology control in rapidly growing area of ad hoc and sensor networks, with emphasizes on localized techniques. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Medium access control * Analytical, mobility and validation models for ad hoc networks * Hybrid networks and wireless Internet * Security in ad hoc networks * Data management issues, query processing, and data delivery * Routing, broadcasting and multicasting in ad hoc networks * Energy-efficient protocols for ad hoc networks * Quality of service in medium access control and routing * Topology construction and maintenance in ad hoc networks * Neighborhood discovery and mobility management IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Manuscript Submission: June 19, 2006 Acceptance Notification: July 19, 2006 Final Manuscript Due: August 10, 2006 PAPER SUBMISSION ---------------- Papers must not exceed 10 single-spaced and two-column pages using at least 10 point size type on 8.5 x 11 inches pages. See style files, author guidelines and instructions at the conference website. Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press, as proceedings of the MASS2006 workshops. Please submit papers via email to both program co-chairs (pedrom(a)dif.um.es, fei.dai(a)ndsu.edu). GENERAL CO-CHAIRS ----------------- David Simplot-Ryl, University of Lille, France Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS ----------------- Pedro M. Ruiz, University of Murcia, Spain Fei Dai, North Dakota State University, USA Program Committee ----------------- Michel Barbeau, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Raffaele Bruno, IIT-CNR, Italy Ian Chakeres, Boing Inc., USA Misha Dohler, France Telecom R&D, France Stefan Dulman, University of Twente, Netherlands Jie Gao, State University of New York, USA J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, USA Silvia Giordano, University of Applied Science, SUPSI, Switzerland Antonio F. Gomez-Skarmeta, University of Murcia, Spain Isabelle Guerin Lassous, INRIA Rhone Alpes, France Mattias Handy, Univ. Rostock, Germany Thomas Kunz, Carleton University, Canada Miguel A. Labrador, Univ. South Florida, USA Pietro Manzoni, Univ. Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Luis Orozco, Univ. Castilla La Mancha, Spain S. S. Ravi, State University of New York at Albany, USA Isabelle Simplot-Ryl, University of Lille, France ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ---------------------- Additional information about the workshop will be continuously updated at the LOCAN 2006 website. http://ants.dif.um.es/locan2006/ -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Pedro M. Ruiz, Ph.D. E-mail: pedrom(a)dif.um.es Fac. Informatica, Univ. of Murcia Phone: +34968364335 Campus de Espinardo s/n Fax: +34968364151 E-30100, Espinardo, Murcia www: ants.dif.um.es/~pedrom/ SPAIN --------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Call For Workshop Ideas co-located with CHINACOM2006
by Yabin Ye 23 May '06

23 May '06

(Apology for duplicates) Dear Colleague, We have received more than 750 submissions for CHINACOM conference. Currently we are accepting proposals for workshops. OVERVIEW: The "First International Conference on Communications and Networking in China," (CHINACOM2006) will be held in Beijing, China, from 25th to 27th October 2006. CHINACOM 2006 is being positioned as the premier international annual conference for the presentation of original and fundamental advances in the field of Communications, Networks, and Internet Applications. The conference will consist of Technical Symposia, and Workshops. The Technical Symposia will describe significant research in all areas defined below; while the Workshops will focus on development, applications and related business issues. WORKSHOP SUBMISSION: CHINACOM 2006 is currently accepting proposals for one-day workshops. Potential chairs are requested to submit a workshop proposal of at most 5 pages. An ideal proposal should focus on a specific theme, of current interest, and of interest to a large, diverse group of professionals. It should clearly identify the theme, the scope, and specific topic areas of interest which define the scope of the workshop. The proposal should also provide suggestions for potential program chairs and committee members. A biographical sketch of each chair should be included Evaluation of workshop proposals will be based on the relevance of the subject matter, and the expertise and experience of the chair. The workshops will be held in conjunction to the main conference. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Please send workshop proposals in PDF format by June 6th, 2006 to the workshops chairs, Jing (James) Yang, UTstarcom, USA, <mailto:james.yang@utstar.com> james.yang(a)utstar.com T. Russell Hsing, Telcordia, USA, thsing(a)telcordia.com IMPORTANT DATES: Workshop Proposals Submission Deadline: 6th June, 2006 Workshops: 24th and 28th October, 2006 We look forward to your submissions.

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[Fwd: [Tccc] AGNM'06 - Deadline Extended!]
by Lars Wolf 21 May '06

21 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] AGNM'06 - Deadline Extended! Datum: Sat, 20 May 2006 11:37:27 -0700 Von: Silvia Figueira <sfigueira(a)scu.edu> An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> Call for Papers ================= AGNM 2006 - Deadline Extended to 6/8. Second IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Autonomic Grid Networking and Management October 26th-27th, 2006, Herbert Park Hotel, Dublin, Ireland Held as part of the IEEE/IFIP 2nd International Week on Management of Networks and Services Website: http://www.manweek2006.org/agnm/agnm.php Autonomic Grid Computing (AGC) deals with self-managing and self-adapting parallel and distributed computing and associated data management on a distributed and parallel Grid of computational machines (PCs, servers, supercomputers, clusters) and storage systems. Grid computing is performed with the support of two major infrastructure components: 1) a Grid middleware, such as Globus or UNICORE, which provides advanced services and supports Grid resource management, and 2) a fabric layer, which comprises the underlying systems, such as computers, operating systems, and storage systems. A fabric layer component of particular importance is the network since all distributed services rely on the capabilities of the interconnecting network. Recently, the Grid Community has started efforts to enhance the core services of a Grid middleware with autonomic capabilities so that the functions are self-managing. For example, an autonomic Grid resource allocation manager, instead of statically allocating or releasing resources to Grid applications, could do so adaptively, or self-heal to failures. However, the AGC and associated infrastructure (AGCI) is geared mainly towards computational (servers, supercomputers) and storage resources. In other words, the autonomic behavior of AGC and AGCI is a function of changes in computational and storage resources, but not networking resources. Hence there is need for support of Autonomic Grid Networks (AGN) that incorporates into the Grid the following: 1) Network resources distributed across LAN, MAN and WAN, 2) Autonomic and on-demand functions (into various layers and components, such as a Grid middleware). The autonomic functions may be conceptually similar to the ones provided in the lower layer (Layers 3, 2, 1) networks, such as self-control (dynamic rerouting, such as IGP rerouting), self-protection ([G]MPLS Fast Rerouting and Protection, Sonet/SDH protection switching), and self-healing (control and data plane high-availability, etc.). For example, in a typical Grid, the resource management architecture is client-server oriented, where resources are typically registered to and pulled from a particular service. In contrast, in an AGN, the resource management architecture could be distributed and autonomous, where resource requests are routed by autonomous and distributed AGN middleware components. This one-day workshop offers a unique opportunity for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas and experiences on problems, challenges, solutions and potential future research and development issues in this new field of Autonomic Grid Networking and Management. In addition to paper presentations, the workshop provides an intimate setting for discussion and debate through panels and group work. The authors are encouraged to submit original papers on topics related to the concepts described above, including, but not limited to: - Grid middleware enhancements for AGN - Cluster middleware enhancements for AGN - Network-aware autonomic Grid scheduling - Network-aware autonomic Grid data and storage management - Network-aware autonomic cluster scheduling and management - AGN specific resource discovery - AGN QoS (combined application and abstracted network QoS) management - AGN routing - AGN self-healing and self-protection - AGN high-availability - AGN monitoring and performance management - AGN effects on HPC applications - HPC applications (MPI and other) on AGN - HPC applications (MPI and other) on MAN and WAN AGN - Commercial applications (CRM, ERP, Financial, etc.) on AGN - P2P AGN Submission ---------- For online submission instructions please visit http://www.manweek2006.org/agnm/submission.php Questions should be directed to agnm06(a)anut.fh-aachen.de IMPORTANT DEADLINES ------------------- Submission: Extended to June 8. Notification: July 7 2006 Camera ready: August 2 2006 Workshop: October 26-27 2006 Organizing Committee: --------------------- Workshop Chair: Masum Z. Hasan (Cisco Systems, USA) Workshop TPC Co-chairs: Volker Sander (University of Aachen, Germany) and Silvia Figueira (Santa Clara University, USA) Technical Programme Committee ----------------------------- Lina Battestilli, MCNC, USA Raouf Boutaba, U Waterloo, Canada Rob Brennan, Ericsson R&D, Ireland Wayne Clark, Cisco Systems, USA Asit Dan, IBM Watson Research C, USA Cees DeLaat, U Amsterdam, Netherlands Gabi Dreo-Rodosek, LRZ, Germany Horst Dumcke, Cisco Systems, France Tiziana Ferrari, INFN, Italy Markus Fidler, U Toronto, Canada Silvia Figueira, SCU, USA Wolfgang Gentzsch, MCNC, USA Rüdiger Geib, T-Systems, Germany Masum Z. Hasan, Cisco Systems, USA Michiaki Hayashi, KDDI, Japan Doan B. Hoang, U Sydney, Australia Admela Jukan, UIUC, USA Gigi Karmous-Edwards, MCNC, USA Francis Lee, NTU, Singapore Edgar Magaña, UPC, Spain J.P. Martin-Flatin, UQAM, Canada Manish Parashar, Rutgers U, USA Gerard Parr, University of Ulster, UK Pascale Primet, INRIA, France Volker Sander, U Aachen, Germany Dimitra Simeonidou, U Essex, UK John Strassner, Motorola Lab, USA Franco Travostino, Nortel Networks, USA Michael Welzl, U Innsbruck, Austria Peter Tomsu, Cisco Systems, Autria Yufeng Xin, MCNC, USA This message scanned for viruses and SPAM at SCU (MGW2) _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] [TCCC] Foundations and Trends in Networking]
by Lars Wolf 21 May '06

21 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] [TCCC] Foundations and Trends in Networking Datum: Sat, 20 May 2006 13:03:29 +0900 Von: Song Chong <song(a)ee.kaist.ac.kr> An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> By the request of James Finlay ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- Announcing the first issue of Foundations and Trends in Networking. The inaugural issue of Foundations and Trends in Networking has just been published and is available free online at www.nowpublishers.com/net. FnT Networking publishes high-quality survey and tutorial monographs of the field using modern techniques to enable both instant linking to the primary research in its electronic form and affordable paper copies. Each issue of Foundations and Trendscc in Networking will comprise a 50-100 page monograph written by research leaders in the field. Monographs that give tutorial coverage of subjects, research retrospectives as well as survey papers that offer state-of-the-art reviews fall within the scope of the journal. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------- Please let me know if you have any questions. I hope you can help us get the message out. Thanks. Regards, James James Finlay now publishers PO Box 179 2600 AD Delft The Netherlands Tel: +31-6-14483632 Fax: +31-76-5206138 james.finlay(a)nowpublishers.com _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] [CFP] SSS 2006]
by Lars Wolf 19 May '06

19 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] [CFP] SSS 2006 Datum: Thu, 18 May 2006 23:00:21 +0200 (CEST) Von: mgradina(a)irisa.fr An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu [Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.] Eighth International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (formerly Symposium on Self-stabilizing Systems) (SSS 2006) November 17th-19th, 2006 Dallas, Texas, USA http://www.irisa.fr/sss/2006/ ============================================================================== Important Dates Paper Submission: July 7th, 2006 Notification to Authors: August 21st, 2006 Camera-ready: August 31st, 2006 Symposium: November 17th-19th, 2006 ============================================================================= The Symposium is a prestigious international forum for researchers and practitioners in the design and development of fault-tolerant distributed systems with self-* properties, such as self-stabilizing, self-configuring, self-organizing, self-managing, self-repairing, self-healing, self-optimizing, self-adaptive, and self-protecting. The theory of self-stabilization has been enriched in the last 25 years by high quality research contributions in the areas of algorithmic techniques, formal methodologies, model theoretic issues, and composition techniques. All these areas are essential to the understanding and maintenance of self-* properties in fault-tolerant distributed systems. Research in distributed systems is now at a crucial point in its evolution, marked by the importance of dynamic systems such as peer-to-peer networks, large-scale wireless sensor networks, mobile ad hoc networks, robotic networks, etc. Moreover, new applications such as grid and web services, banking and e-commerce, e-health and robotics, aerospace and avionics, automotive, industrial process control, etc. have joined the traditional applications of distributed systems. Now, more than ever, the theory of self-stabilization has tremendous impact in these areas. Therefore, this year, we are extending the scope of the symposium to cover all safety and security related aspects of self-* systems. The title of the conference has been changed to reflect this expansion. There will be three tracks: networking, safety and security, and self-* properties in static and dynamic systems. The symposium solicits contributions on all aspects of self-stabilization, safety and security, recovery oriented systems and programing, from theoretical contributions, to reports of the actual experience of applying the principles of self-stabilization to static and dynamic systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Stabilization: - self-stabilizing systems - self-managed, self-assembling, autonomic and adaptive systems - self-optimizing and self-protecting systems - self-* abstractions for implementing fundamental services in static and dynamic distributed systems - impossibility results and lower bounds for self-* systems - application of stabilizing algorithms and techniques in dynamic distributed systems - data and code stabilization - algorithms for self-* error detection/correction Safety: - safety critical systems - trust models and specifications - semantics of trust, distrust, mistrust, over-trust, cheat, risk and reputation - trust-related security and privacy - reliable and dependable systems - fault-tolerant systems, hardware redundancy, robustness, survivable systems, failure recovery Security: - security of network protocols - security of sensor and mobile networks protocols - secure architectures, frameworks, policy, intrusion detection/awareness - proactive security - self-* properties and their relation with classical fault-tolerance and security - security protocols for self-* systems Networks and Applications: - models of fault-tolerant communication - stochastic, physical, and biological models to analyze self-* properties - communication complexity - data structures for efficient communication - self-stabilizing hardware, software, and middleware - algorithms for high-speed networks, sensors, wireless and robots networks - mobile agents - peer-to-peer networks, sensor networks, MANETs, and wireless mesh networks - network topologies, overlays, and protocols - protocols for secure and reliable data transport and search in wireless mesh networks - information storage and sharing in wireless mesh networks Contributors are invited to submit a PDF file of their paper. Submissions should be no longer than 4800 words and should not exceed 12 pages on letter-size paper using at least 11 point font and reasonable margins (the page limit includes all figures, tables, and graphs). Submissions should include a cover page (that does not count towards the 12 page limit) that includes paper title, authors and affiliations, contact author's e-mail address, an abstract of the work in a few lines, and a few keywords. Submitted papers may have appendices beyond the 12 page limit, but reviewers are free to disregard any material beyond the 12 page limit. A paper submitted to SSS 2006 is expected to be original research not previously published; a submission may not be concurrently submitted or to any other conference, workshop, or journal. The proceedings of the conference are expected to be published in the Springer Verlag LNCS series. Selected papers will appear in a special issue of a high quality journal devoted to SSS 2006. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: ACM WMASH 2006]
by Lars Wolf 18 May '06

18 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: ACM WMASH 2006 Datum: Thu, 18 May 2006 09:30:45 +0200 Von: Prasad, Anand <prasad(a)docomolab-euro.com> An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> Apologies if you receive multiple copies. --------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers ACM International Workshop on Wireless Mobile Applications and Services on WLAN Hotspots (WMASH) 2006 In conjunction with ACM MobiCom http://wmash.dit.unitn.it/ September 29, 2006 Los Angeles, California, USA Important Dates: . Paper Submission Deadline: June 16, 2006 . Notification to authors: August 4, 2006 . Camera Ready Due: August 18, 2006 WMASH aim: ACM WMASH aims to address and discuss the technical and business challenges, ideas, views, and research results in providing public wireless Internet services and applications for mobile users in small, highly-populated, public spaces (wireless LANs and "hotspots"). Since the beginning of the workshop in 2003 several research and business challenges related to public WLAN were put forward. These challenges still need to be explored and market needs to converge while new developments continue. The challenges are: What is the overall network architecture and service model? How to roam through multiple wireless access providers with a unique service contract? How to decouple the wireless infrastructure providers from the Internet service (and content) providers? How to locate service facilities in the wireless access domain and how to match the available facilities with the user needs? How to exploit location and context information? How to provide differentiated service levels to different customers? How to achieve seamless interoperation between WLAN-based hotspots and cellular and other emerging wireless data networks? The last challenge, concerning seamless interoperation, is catching the most attention these days leading to activities in IEEE 802 and in 3GPP to move quickly towards finding standardized solutions. This workshop will aim at discussing these and several other challenges and issues behind the evolution of WLANs from cable replacement to public access. Leaders and thinkers of the field from academia and industry will assemble to share their ideas and views. Authors are invited to submit original technical papers or position papers, describing current research, experimental work and visions of the future. We are specifically interested in work dealing with network layer and above (layers 3-7). Within the context of interest to this workshop, a list of topics includes, but is not limited to: . Applications and services . New service and business models . Public WLAN and hotspot architectures . Community-owned WLAN infrastructures . WLAN-based ad-hoc network service creation and management . Metro-area hotspots using 802.11/802.16 mesh . Multi-radio mesh node designs . Self-configuring mesh networks for public hotspots . Mobile routers for transient, portable hotspots . Application case studies of mobile routers . Inter-working with other wireless systems, e.g., 3G, 802.16 . Mobility, roaming, and handoff management . Context-aware services and technologies . Location-aware applications and services . Multimedia wireless applications, e.g., Voice over WLAN (VoWLAN) . Authentication, accounting, billing and payment issues . Security and privacy in public WLANs . Middleware support . Service location and discovery . Traffic measurements and modeling . Case studies on deployed platforms and experimental test beds Please consult the Program Co-Chairs Anand R. Prasad (prasad(a)docomolab-euro.com) and Sajal K. Das (das(a)cse.uta.edu) if you are uncertain whether your paper falls within the scope of the workshop. Paper Submission: The workshop solicits two types of contributions: regular papers and posters. Submitted regular papers must not be currently under review for any other publication. The poster session are meant for early research results. Posters may not preclude concurrent submissions on the same topic in regular conferences and journals. All submissions will be reviewed by Technical Program Committee members, and will be judged by their technical merit, originality, and relevance to the workshop. All accepted regular papers and poster descriptions will be published in the workshop proceedings, which will be available at the ACM digital library. Selected regular papers will also be included in a special issue of an ACM journal. The page limits for a regular paper and a poster description are 10 and 3 pages, respectively. All submissions will be handled electronically via the EDAS system. The exact format of the submission should be referred to the submission guideline at the workshop home page. We expect authors of accepted papers/posters will attend the workshop and present their work. Organizing Committee: General Chair . Renato Lo Cigno, University of Trento, Italy Technical Program Co-Chairs . Anand R. Prasad, Docomo Euro Labs, Germany . Sajal Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Publicity Chair and Web Master . Danilo Severina, University of Trento, Italy Publications Chair . Sumantra Kundu The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Steering Committee: . Parviz Kermani, IBM Research, USA - Committee Chair . Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy . Sung-Ju Lee, HP Labs, USA . Sungyun Choi, Seoul National University, Korea Tentative Technical Program Committee: . Nilanjan Banerjee, Motorola India Research Lab, Bangalore . Milind Buddhikot, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies . Andrew Campbell, Columbia University . Claudio Casetti, Politecnico di Torino . Mainak Chatterjee, University of Central Florida . Yatin Chawathe, Intel Research at Seattle . Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National University . Marco Conti, CNR - Instituto CNUCE . Laura Feeney, Swedish Institute of Computer Science . Gabor Fodor, Ericsson Research . Rosario Garroppo, University of Pisa . Javier Gomez, National University of Mexico . Fabrizio Granelli, University of Trento, Italy . Xingang Guo, Intel Corp. . Giulio Iannello, University of Rome . Kyunghun Jang, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology . Byoung-Jo Kim, AT&T Labs - Research . Young-bae Ko, Ajou University . John Krumm, Microsoft Research . Sung-Ju Lee, HP Labs . Yui-Wah Lee, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies . John Lin, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies . Yonghe Liu, The University of Texas at Arlington . Stefan Mangold, Swisscom Innovations . Archan Misra, IBM Watson Research Center . Saishankar Nandagopalan, Philips Research USA . Saverio Niccolini, NEC Europe Ltd., Network Laboratories . George Polyzos, Athens University of Economics and Business . Neeli Prasad, Aalborg University . Daji Qiao, Iowa State University . Bill Schilit, Intel Research . Puneet Sharma, HP Labs . Rajeev Shorey, GM Research Lab, Bangalore . Raghupathy Sivakumar, Georgia Institute of Technology . Young-Joo Suh, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) . Ilenia Tinnirello, University of Palermo . Yang Xiao, University of Memphis . Gergely Zaruba, The University of Texas at Arlington _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Extended submission deadline!!!! Springer Special Issue "Seamless HO" Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 18 May '06

18 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Extended submission deadline!!!! Springer Special Issue "Seamless HO" Call for Papers Datum: Thu, 18 May 2006 09:14:35 +0200 Von: Prasad, Anand <prasad(a)docomolab-euro.com> An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> ------------------------------------------------------------------ Springer's International Journal on Wireless Personal Communication Special Issue on Seamless Handover in Next Generation Wireless/Mobile Networks Important dates and Submission: --> NEW Deadline of paper submissions: 22nd May 2006 Notification of acceptance: 1st October 2006 Final Manuscripts Due: 1st November 2006 Publication of Feature Topic: February 2007 Guest Editors: Anand R. Prasad, DoCoMo Comm. Labs. Europe GmbH, Munich, Germany Selim Aissi, Intel Corporation, Portland, USA Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea Jeevarathinam Ravikumar, Consistel, Singapore Scope of Special Issue: Mobile communication has evolved in a rapid pace from the introduction of Analog Cellular networks in 1980s. Technology has gone through tremendous changes in terms of security, access techniques, protocol stacks, bandwidth usage and also convergence into packet switching based on All-IP network from the conventional circuit switched techniques. Complexity has increased due to the introduction of different access technologies, available services, and other aspects as mentioned above during the telecom evolution for the past 20 years. Pressure is mounting to harmonize various technologies under a common IP backbone so that seamless handover can be provided that exploits the benefits of available radio access technologies. Seamless handover should be achieved not only for Inter-Technology but also for Inter-Operator handover. Operators and the consumers will be greatly benefited in terms of cost effectiveness, enhanced features, location independence and ease of use through the introduction of seamless heterogeneous handover mechanisms. Several standardization activities have already started working on technical solutions for seamless handover. One of the well known activities is that of next-generation networks (NGN) making use of IMS based solution for service provisioning and handover between fixed and mobile operators. Within 3GPP and 3GPP2, activities are on-going to provision handover between different technologies and recently, in 3GPP, between different domains. This activity within 3GPP falls under All-IP Network (AIPN) System Architecture Evolution (SAE)/Radio Access Network (RAN) Long Term Evolution (LTE). IEEE 802 is also looking into media-independent handover (MIH) in 802.21 while 802.11u is working on inter-technology handover. Handover enhancement within IEEE 802.11 is taking place within Task Group R (TGr). IETF has produced some solutions in the seamoby working group while further enhancements are being done in various other groups including mobopts, mipshop and mobike. Along with standardization activities, various operators and vendors are also involved in developing harmonized solution for heterogeneous networks, like, UMA. At the same time a lot of research and development activities are taking place by academia, research institutes and industries too. So far, the work has focused on one specific topic of handover such as security, QoS, and routing. However, the focus should be on developing an end-to-end network perspective that covers the whole span of the network from radio aspects to OSS aspects that includes value added services. With the above background, this special issue invites people to present papers on seamless handover in heterogeneous networks in the following (but, not limited to) areas: - Handover security - Solutions for mobility support - Charging and billing, and AAA infrastructure - Fraud Management across various networks - Access Control techniques in heterogeneous networks - QoS provisioning for inter-technology and intra-/inter-domain handover - Content provisioning and seamless use of VAS across different networks - Standardization activities - Testbed or measurement results Papers should follow the Springer format (11pt, single column, double spaced). Manuscript should be submitted to one of the guest editors: Anand R. Prasad DoCoMo Comm. Labs. Europe GmbH Landsbergerstrasse 308-312 80687 Munich, Germany E-mail: prasad(a)docomolab-euro.com Selim Aissi Mobile Platforms Group Intel Corporation CO5-166, 15400 NW Greenbrier Parkway Beaverton, Oregon, 97007, USA E-mail: selim.aissi(a)intel.com Sunghyun Choi School of Electrical Engineering Seoul National University Kwanak P.O.Box 34 Seoul 151-600 KOREA E-mail: schoi(a)snu.ac.kr Jeevarathinam Ravikumar Consistel (Singapore) Pte Ltd 5 Jalan Kilang Barat, #08-01/03 Petro Centre Singapore 159349 E-mail: jravikumar(a)consistel.com Author information is available at: http://www.springer.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-40109-70-35706624-00 0.html _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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