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[Fwd: Call for Papers: 2nd IEEE P2M-Net 2006]
by Lars Wolf 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Call for Papers: 2nd IEEE P2M-Net 2006 Datum: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:40:40 -0400 Von: CFP P2Mnet'06 <conf(a)site.uottawa.ca> An: undisclosed-recipients:; CC: rshaikh(a)site.uottawa.ca Call for Papers IEEE P2M-Net 2006 Second IEEE International Workshop on Performance and Management of Wireless and Mobile Networks http://137.122.93.16/perf/ November 14-16, 2006 Tampa (Florida), USA ----------------------------------------------------------------------- In conjunction with The 31st IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks November 14-16, 2006. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Due Date: july 1st, 2006 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Scope The Second IEEE International Workshop on Performance and Management of Wireless and Mobile Networks (P2MNet 2006) will take place in Tampa (Florida), USA, in conjunction with The 31st IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN) November 14 -16, 2006. Workshop Objectives In Recent years, wireless and mobile communication systems have become increasingly popular as an inexpensive and promising means for ubiquitous communications. However, without creating a new set of issues and trade-offs. The performance and resource management of wireless and mobile communication systems are becoming a very crucial phase for future generation of wireless and mobile networks. P2MNet 2006 serves as a forum for researchers from academia, industry and research labs, for presenting recent research results in Wireless and Mobile Networks. The conference features prominent invited speakers as well as papers by top researchers in the field. P2MNet 2006 will include contributed technical papers, invited papers, and panel discussions. The proceedings will be published by IEEE-CS press. Call for Papers P2MNet is intended to provide an international forum for the discussion and presentation of original ideas, recent results and achievements by researchers, students, and systems developers on issues and challenges related to Performance and Management of Wireless and Mobile Networks. Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance. The scope of the workshop includes, but is not limited to: o- Performance and management of mesh and Bluetooth networks. o- Performance and resource management of wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. o- Performance and management of wireless multimedia systems. o- Resource allocation. o- Power Control and energy management. o- Wireless network design and management. o- Measurement, analysis, modeling, and generation. o- Traffic measurement (wireless TCP, etc..). o- Billing and wireless web services. o- (3G/4G wireless billing systems, GPRS billing, etc..). o- Web-Based wireless management. o- Wireless security management. o- Wireless Network planning. o- Wireless Intelligent Networks. o- Performance and Management of Broadband Wireless Management. o- Management and monitoring of wireless and mobile systems. o- User mobility modeling. o- Topology construction and maintenance. o- Interoperability, and performance of heterogeneous wireless networks of different standards. Important dates Submission Deadline: July 1st, 2006. Notification of Acceptance: July 31, 2006 Camera Ready version due: August 25, 2006 Workshop and LCN presentation: November 14-16, 2006 in Tampa, USA IMPORTANT: ATTENDANCE BY AT LEAST ONE AUTHOR IS MANDATORY Submission Guidelines Authors are invited to submit full or short papers for presentation at the conference. Full papers (no more than 10 pages, in IEEE format) should present novel perspectives within the general scope of the conference. Only original papers that have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere can be submitted. Papers in excess of page limits shall not be considered for review or publication. All papers must include title, complete contact information for all authors, abstract, and keywords on the cover page. The corresponding author must be clearly identified. Authors are required to submit their papers through the EDAS web site (http://www.edas.info/) The authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference. At least one author of each accepted paper must be registered for the conference in order for that paper to appear in the IEEE LCN proceedings and to be scheduled for presentation. Organizing Committee -------------------- Program Co-Chairs: Prof. Azzedine Boukerche Prof. Mirela Sechi M. A. Notare SITE, University of Ottawa, Barddal University, Ottawa, Canada Florianapolis, Brazil boukerch(a)site.uottawa.ca mnotare(a)computer.org Program Committee: Regina Araujo, Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy Stefano Basagni, Northeastern University, USA Luiz DaSilva, Virginia Tech., USA Jelena Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada Nidal Nasser, University of Guelph, Canada Mirela Notare, Barddal University, Brazil Stephen Olariu, Old Dominion, USA M. Ould-khaoua, University fo Glasgow, UK Mineo Takai, Univ. of Los Angeles, California (UCLA), USA Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida, USA Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Pedro M. Ruiz, University of Murcia, Spain Jie Wu Florida Atlantic University, USA Yuanyuan Yang The State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA

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[Fwd: [Tccc] ACM REALWSN'06: Call for Posters]
by Lars Wolf 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] ACM REALWSN'06: Call for Posters Datum: Sun, 09 Apr 2006 10:28:10 +0200 Von: Thiemo Voigt <thiemo(a)sics.se> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Dear colleagues, please find attached the call for posters for ACM REALWSN'06. Submission deadline is April 24. On behalf of the REALWSN'06 organizers Thiemo Voigt CALL FOR POSTERS ACM Workshop on Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks REALWSN'06 http://www.sics.se/realwsn06 June 19, 2006 Uppsala, Sweden In conjunction with ACM MobiSys 2006 Sponsored by ACM, ACM SIGMOBILE, VINNOVA, SICS and E-NEXT The purpose of the second Workshop on Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in the area of sensor networks, with focus on real-world experiments or deployments of wireless sensor networks. The poster session will provide a forum for researchers to demonstrate their work and obtain early feedback on ongoing research from experienced workshop attendees. All topics pertaining to real-world wireless sensor networks are of interest, including but not limited to: * Experiences with real-world deployments * Self-organization and self-management * Debugging, testing, and management * Deployment and configuration * Applications in medicine, industry, science, environmental monitoring, etc. * Security and trust * Scalability in practice * Development and prototyping platforms * Operating systems and programmability * Sensor network programming paradigms and languages * Middleware for heterogeneous networks * Real-time and dependability issues * Hardware support for real-world sensor networks * Robustness at all levels: communication, software, hardware * Energy efficient protocols * Methods for measuring and assessing energy consumption Important dates: Submission deadline: April 24, 2006 Notification of acceptance: April 27, 2006 Camera-ready copy due: May 1, 2006 Workshop: June 19, 2006 Submission Details: Authors are invited to submit poster papers for presentation at the workshop. The maximum length of the papers is two pages, including figure, tables and references. For the exact submission format, please visit the workshop web page at http://www.sics.se/realwsn06/ We will adopt a simplified review process for poster submissions. The accepted poster papers will be published in the REALWSN 06 proceedings. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: CfP: ECDL 2006 Doctoral Consortium]
by Lars Wolf 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP: ECDL 2006 Doctoral Consortium Datum: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 12:48:32 +0100 Von: José Borbinha <jose.borbinha(a)BN.PT> Antwort an: jlb(a)ist.utl.pt An: tciannounce(a)COMPUTER.ORG === ECDL 2006 Doctoral Consortium - Deadline 22 April === ECDL 2006, The European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, will feature a Doctoral Consortium to give doctoral students the opportunity to discuss their work with experienced researchers from the Digital Library Community as also with other students. Attendance at the Doctoral Consortium will be based on an acceptance of a written abstract, of up to 6 pages, singly authored by the student. Submissions must be done in PDF format, following the layout guidelines for the LNCS format provided by Springer (please see http://www.ecdl2006.org/), followed by a free supporting statement from the adviser. Deadline for submission is 22 April, to be sent by email to doctoral_consortium(a)ecdl2006.org. Accepted students will have to deliver a full paper, which will be published electronically in a special issue of the bulletin of the IEEE TCDL - Technical Committee for Digital Libraries. The students will be able to present also a poster at the ECDL 2006 poster session. The full papers will be reviewed by senior scientists who will be also present in the Doctoral Consortium meeting, where the students will receive feedback about their work and will have a chance to participate in an open discussion. The paper will be the basis for detailed discussions at the Consortium. To get the most out of the discussion it should include: * motivation for the proposed research * background and related work (with key references) * description of proposed research including main research questions, research methodology and proposed experiments (where appropriate) * particular issues which you want to highlight for discussion. All submissions will be reviewed by the Doctoral Consortium Program Committee, with respect to overall quality of presentation, the potential for future impact of the proposed PhD research on the field of Digital Libraries, and the likely benefit to the student of attending the Consortium. More details are available at http://www.ecdl2006.org/consortium.jsp ===================================================== Doctoral Consortium Chairs Jose Borbinha (INESC-ID / IST, Lisbon Technical University, Portugal) Lillian Cassel (Villanova University, USA) =====================================================

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[Fwd: CfP: IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, Special issue on "Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting"]
by Lars Wolf 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP: IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, Special issue on "Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting" Datum: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 00:29:40 +0200 Von: Markus Kampmann (AC/EDD) <markus.kampmann(a)ericsson.com> An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu>, <itc(a)comsoc.org>, <multicomm(a)comsoc.org> ***** Apologies if you receive multiple copies ***** CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting Special issue on "Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting" SCOPE Broadcasting of multimedia content to mobile and portable devices such as cell phones or PDAs is a fast emerging area with huge economic impact. Broadcasting networks especially designed for mobile broadcasting like DVB-H, DMB and MediaFLO are currently under deployment. On the other side, 2.5G and 3G cellular networks are already offering multimedia services like Mobile TV to mobile devices. Whereas unicast multimedia streaming is used for Mobile TV today, multicast/broadcast extensions to mobile networks like 3GPP MBMS and 3GPP2 BCMCS are under standardization resulting in high capacity gains for mobile broadcasting via mobile networks. Combinations of cellular and non-cellular broadcasting networks are currently under investigation. New services for mobile multimedia broadcasting are on the way introducing new forms of interactivity, customization and personalization. The objective of this special issue is to present state-of-the-art research activities contributing to all aspects of mobile multimedia broadcasting. Original contributions previously unpublished and not currently under review by another journal are solicited in relevant areas including (but are not limited to): * Broadcasting via cellular networks * Cellular Multicast/Broadcast services: 3GPP MBMS, 3GPP2 BCMCS * Mobile broadcasting via DVB-H, DMB, MediaFLO and other systems * Mobile broadcasting via satellite * Standards for mobile multimedia broadcasting * Hybrid cellular/non-cellular broadcasting * Source coding for mobile multimedia broadcasting * Channel coding, modulation and signal processing techniques * Transceiver architecture and design * RF, antenna, receiver and hardware technologies * Mobile multimedia broadcasting applications * Mobile television * Interactive broadcasting services * Service layer for mobile broadcasting * Security and DRM * Field trials for mobile multimedia broadcasting IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for submissions: 1 July 2006 Notification of review outcome: 1 October 2006 Submission of final version: 15 November 2006 Publication date: Q1/2007 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Authors should follow the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting format described in the Information for Authors at http://www.ieee.org/organizations/society/bt/authorinfo.htm. There will be only one round of reviews and acceptance will be limited to papers needing only moderate revisions. Prospective authors should submit a PDF version of their paper to Kathy Colabough at bt-pubs(a)ieee.org. Please indicate that the submission is for the special issue on "Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting". GUEST EDITORS Dr. Markus Kampmann Ericsson Research Ericsson Allee 1 52134 Herzogenrath, Germany markus.kampmann(a)ericsson.com Dr. Shuji Hirakawa. Technology Planning Division, Toshiba Corporation Toshiba Building, 36B Zone 1-1, Shibaura 1-Chome, Minato-Ku, TOKYO 105-8001 Japan. shuji.hirakawa(a)toshiba.co.jp Dr. Xianbin Wang Communications Research Centre Canada 3701 Caring Avenue Ottawa Ontario Canada K2H 8S2 xianbin.wang(a)crc.ca Dr. Yiyan Wu Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting 3701 Caring Avenue Ottawa Ontario Canada K2H 8S2 yiyan.wu(a)crc.ca

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP IEEE MASS 2006 (extended to April 14 for papers)]
by Lars Wolf 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP IEEE MASS 2006 (extended to April 14 for papers) Datum: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 17:10:19 -0400 Von: lifeng <lifengg2006(a)gmail.com> Organisation: fau.edu An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> ============================================================================ =================== Submission for regular papers deadline has been extended to April 14, 2006 (Hard Deadline) ============================================================================ =================== Call for Papers The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS-2006) October 9 - 12, 2006 Vancouver, Canada http://www.ieee-mass.org Sponsored by IEEE Communications Society, IEEE TC on Distributed Processing and TC on Simulation OVERVIEW Earlier research in wireless networks and mobile computing has concentrated on single-hop networks, where network nodes communicate directly with a fixed infrastructure, such as cellular or satellite systems. More recently, interest in multi-hop networks, such as mobile ad hoc networks and sensor networks, has stimulated a significant amount of scientific research. In particular, wireless mesh networking (a new community network architecture) has been proposed as an alternative for providing Internet access to business and residential customers. This conference focuses on multi-hop ad hoc and sensor networks systems, covering topics ranging from physical issues to applications. TOPICS Manuscripts that focus on analytical modeling, protocol/algorithm design, and/or experimental studies of the following topics of interest are sought: - Channel behavior modeling and its impact on design of higher-layer protocols - Directional and smart antennas for ad hoc networks - MAC protocols for ad hoc and sensor networks (802.11, 802.15.4, UWB) - Provisioning of wireless QoS; e.g., bandwidth and delay assurance - Routing protocols (unicast, multicast, broadcast, geocast) and routing metrics - Data transport in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks - Power-aware and energy-efficient design - Topology construction and maintenance of coverage - Cross-layer design and optimization - Incentives and game theoretic approaches in wireless ad hoc networks - Localization and synchronization in wireless sensor networks - Data gathering, fusion, and dissemination in wireless sensor - Reliability, security, and trustworthiness in ad hoc and sensor networks - Operating system and middleware support - Applications of multi-hop technology SUBMISSION Technical papers: All submissions must be full papers in .pdf or .ps (PostScript) format. Papers must be uploaded to EDAS by March 31, 2006, and must not exceed 10 single-spaced, two-column pages using at least 11 point size fonts on 8.5 x 11 inch pages. Detailed submission instructions will be published in due time on the conference website http://www.ieee-mass.org together with format files. Workshops: Proposals for full day workshops are solicited. Selections will be made considering the expertise and experience of the workshop organizers and the relevance of the topic to the central theme of the conference. Proposals of at most 4 pages, including a 1-page biographical sketch, should be submitted to the Workshops Chair, Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer (ebelding(a)cs.ucsb.edu ) by March 31, 2006 (extended to April 7). IMPORTANT DATES Manuscript Submission Due: March 31, 2006 (extended to April 14, Hard deadline) Acceptance Notification: June 30 2006 Final Manuscript Due: August 10, 2006 Conference: Octorber 9-12, 2006 COMMITTEE GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Charles E. Perkins Nokia Research Center Jie Wu Florida Atlantic University PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Zygmunt J. Haas Cornell University Jennifer Hou University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign PROGRAM VICE CO-CHAIRS Ben Liang University of Toronto Mingyan Liu University of Michigan WORKSHOPS CHAIR Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer University of California, Santa Barbara PROGRAM COMMITTEE check http://www.ieee-mass.org _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: CfP - European Symposium on MobileMediaDelivery (EuMob) 2006]
by Lars Wolf 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP - European Symposium on MobileMediaDelivery (EuMob) 2006 Datum: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 13:55:23 +0200 Von: Markus Kampmann (AC/EDD) <markus.kampmann(a)ericsson.com> An: <recipients(a)eumob.org> Apologies if you receive multiple copies: CALL FOR PAPERS ************* EuMob 2006 **************** European Symposium on Mobile Media Delivery September 20, 2006 :: Alghero, Sardinia, Italy http://www.eumob.org part of MobiMedia 2006 (see http://www.mobimedia.org) ------------------------------------------------- Organized by the European FP6 research projects "Ambient Networks" and "M-Pipe". ******** IMPORTANT DEADLINES ******************** ------------------------------------------------- Paper submission: May 15, 2006 Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2006 Submission of camera-ready papers: July 10, 2006 SCOPE -------------------------------------- Mobile multimedia services is a hotter topic than ever before. Network operators offer multimedia services over mobile networks but it is still limited to particular devices on specific networks. The delivery of multimedia content to every mobile handset on every mobile network, anytime and anywhere is still a major challenge. Mobile media can be delivered via a multitude of different networks with very different characteristics like cellular networks (WCDMA, HSDPA, 3G MBMS), broadcast networks (DVB-H, DMB) or other networks standards like WLAN or Wimax. Mobile terminals like mobile phones, mobile TVs or handheld computers have different capabilities and characteristics. Consequently, seamless interworking between these terminals and networks is becoming more important in order to make uniform media delivery possible. New mobile multimedia services for large user groups like MobileTV, interactive TV, video on demand, TV chatting and multimedia telephony are arising. Each service has its own characteristics and demands for mobile media delivery. As always for mobile services spectrum efficiency is a pre-requisite for large scale deployment. Several European research projects from the FP6 program are addressing the challenges of mobile media delivery. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of mobile media delivery, projects from the mobile and wireless area like Ambient Networks, PHOENIX and DAIDALOS, from the networked audiovisual systems area like DANAE, ENTHRONE and Visnet as well as from the content technologies area like M-Pipe are dealing with mobile media delivery. Besides these projects a lot other research work about mobile media delivery is carried at academia, research institutes and industrial companies. EuMob 2006 will give researchers the opportunity to highlight their latest results on this topic. Researchers active in FP6 research projects as well as other leading international researchers will participate and share their latest findings. Original unpublished contributions are solicited dealing with topics of mobile media delivery like: * Architectures for mobile media delivery * Next generation mobile media delivery frameworks * Overlay networks for mobile media delivery * Peer-2-Peer networks for mobile media delivery * Multimedia service composition for mobile media * Solutions for optimized media delivery and transport over heterogeneous networks * QoS problems and solutions * Network convergence for media delivery * Media adaptation to networks and devices * Network-based mobile media adaptation and pro-active caching * Cross-layer communication for mobile media delivery * (Scalable) source coding for mobile media * Source/channel coding, joint optimizations * Efficient usage of radio and spectrum resources * Mobile media delivery for multi-user services * Interactive mobile broadcast and Mobile TV * Security and protection for mobile media delivery * Context-aware mobile media delivery PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION -------------------------------------- Prospective authors are invited to submit articles of not more than five pages including figures and references. Papers will be accepted only by electronic submission through COCUS system at http://cocus.create-net.it/. Conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE and will be available through IEEExplore (approval pending). ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ----------------------------------------- Conference Co-Chairs: Stefan Håkansson, Ericsson, Sweden Markus Kampmann, Ericsson, Germany Publications Chair: B. Mathieu, France Telecom, France Publicity Chair: James le Blanc, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden Conference Management: Anna Rieger, ICST, Europe PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------------------------------- M. T. Andrade, INESC, Portugal J. le Blanc, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden A. Cotarmanac'h, France Telecom, France C. Griwodz, University of Oslo, Norway I. Fijalkow, ENSEA, France R. Glitho, Concordia University, Canada F. Hartung, Ericsson, Germany C. Henghan, UCD, Ireland W. Henkel, International University of Bremen, Germany L. Hiebinger, Siemens, Germany F. Kalleitner, Siemens, Austria D. Marpe, Fraunhofer HHI, Germany B. Mathieu, France Telecom, France T. Petersen, TNO Information- & Communication Technology, Netherlands F. Reichert, Agder University, Norway A. Sadka, University of Surrey, UK S. Schmid, NEC, Germany E. Steinbach, Technical University of Munich, Germany D. Taniar, Monash University, Australia S. Wenger, Nokia, Finland M. Wien, Aachen University of Technology, Germany L. Wolf, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany M. El Zarki, University of California, Irvine, USA

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[Fwd: CfP: IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, Special issue on "Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting"]
by Xiaoyuan Gu 08 Apr '06

08 Apr '06

***** Apologies if you receive multiple copies ***** CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting Special issue on "Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting" SCOPE Broadcasting of multimedia content to mobile and portable devices such as cell phones or PDAs is a fast emerging area with huge economic impact. Broadcasting networks especially designed for mobile broadcasting like DVB-H, DMB and MediaFLO are currently under deployment. On the other side, 2.5G and 3G cellular networks are already offering multimedia services like Mobile TV to mobile devices. Whereas unicast multimedia streaming is used for Mobile TV today, multicast/broadcast extensions to mobile networks like 3GPP MBMS and 3GPP2 BCMCS are under standardization resulting in high capacity gains for mobile broadcasting via mobile networks. Combinations of cellular and non-cellular broadcasting networks are currently under investigation. New services for mobile multimedia broadcasting are on the way introducing new forms of interactivity, customization and personalization. The objective of this special issue is to present state-of-the-art research activities contributing to all aspects of mobile multimedia broadcasting. Original contributions previously unpublished and not currently under review by another journal are solicited in relevant areas including (but are not limited to): * Broadcasting via cellular networks * Cellular Multicast/Broadcast services: 3GPP MBMS, 3GPP2 BCMCS * Mobile broadcasting via DVB-H, DMB, MediaFLO and other systems * Mobile broadcasting via satellite * Standards for mobile multimedia broadcasting * Hybrid cellular/non-cellular broadcasting * Source coding for mobile multimedia broadcasting * Channel coding, modulation and signal processing techniques * Transceiver architecture and design * RF, antenna, receiver and hardware technologies * Mobile multimedia broadcasting applications * Mobile television * Interactive broadcasting services * Service layer for mobile broadcasting * Security and DRM * Field trials for mobile multimedia broadcasting IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for submissions: 1 July 2006 Notification of review outcome: 1 October 2006 Submission of final version: 15 November 2006 Publication date: Q1/2007 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Authors should follow the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting format described in the Information for Authors at http://www.ieee.org/organizations/society/bt/authorinfo.htm. There will be only one round of reviews and acceptance will be limited to papers needing only moderate revisions. Prospective authors should submit a PDF version of their paper to Kathy Colabough at bt-pubs(a)ieee.org. Please indicate that the submission is for the special issue on "Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting". GUEST EDITORS Dr. Markus Kampmann Ericsson Research Ericsson Allee 1 52134 Herzogenrath, Germany markus.kampmann(a)ericsson.com Dr. Shuji Hirakawa. Technology Planning Division, Toshiba Corporation Toshiba Building, 36B Zone 1-1, Shibaura 1-Chome, Minato-Ku, TOKYO 105-8001 Japan. shuji.hirakawa(a)toshiba.co.jp Dr. Xianbin Wang Communications Research Centre Canada 3701 Caring Avenue Ottawa Ontario Canada K2H 8S2 xianbin.wang(a)crc.ca Dr. Yiyan Wu Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting 3701 Caring Avenue Ottawa Ontario Canada K2H 8S2 yiyan.wu(a)crc.ca

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: 20th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC20)]
by Lars Wolf 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: 20th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC20) Datum: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 17:09:33 -0500 Von: Medhi, Deep <DMedhi(a)umkc.edu> An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu>, <cnom(a)lrg.ufsc.br> 20th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC20) http://www.itc20.ca 17-21 June 2007 For 50 years, the International Teletraffic Congress (ITC) has been the internationally prominent conference for experts involved with the application of teletraffic theory and engineering to state-of-the-art networks. We are pleased to announce the continuation of this tradition in the 20th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC-20), which will be held in Ottawa, Canada, on 17-21 June 2007. Attached is the call for papers. If your work is within the scope of the conference theme, we would like to encourage you to submit a paper to share your results in an international forum. We hope that you will include ITC-20 in your 2007 conference plan. Thank you and best regards, Prof. Lorne Mason McGill University, Montreal, Canada Co-Chair, ITC-20 Technical Program Committee Dr. Tadeusz Drwiega Nortel, Ottawa, Canada Co-Chair, ITC-20 Technical Program Committee Dr. James (Jim) Yan IAC Member for Canada Chair, ITC-20 Organizing Committee =========================================================== Call For Papers: ITC20 Important Dates: Paper submission: October 31, 2006 Notification of acceptance: January 31, 2007 Conference registration begins: February 21, 2007 Final manuscripts due: February 28, 2007 Network convergence is happening. Globally, major network operators have incorporated network convergence into their strategy to grow service revenues and reduce operating costs. Network convergence is multi-faceted. Convergence occurs in applications (integrated messaging, Voice over IP), in network control (portable numbers, SIP, Mobile IP), in the transport layer, as well as in the access network. In the transport layer, the operators' networks are evolving from multiple networks, each specialized for particular services and applications (Wireline, Wireless, Voice, Data, Signaling), towards single IP-based networks that can support existing and future services and applications. This convergence of networks means that various types of traffic flows, which have been carried by separate specialized networks, must now share the resources of a single network. In the access, for example, a broadband carrier may seek to add mobility to its service offerings by untethering the broadband access with WiFi and, later, WiMax technologies. On the other hand, a mobile carrier is more likely to add broadband to its existing mobility services through evolution to 3G architectures. Network convergence will be successful only if the quality of the individual services is maintained in the new network environment without undue increased costs. The quality of service delivery is critically dependent on how network performance and availability, as experienced by the traffic flows, are managed. Managing traffic performance is a critical enabler for success. Reaching the desired performance levels requires processes such as network planning, resource engineering, and network monitoring. Such processes have been successfully used in various types of service-specific networks. Converged networks, however, bring new challenges - novel architectures and technologies, new modes of sharing network resources, new quality targets for services and applications, new signaling and control protocols. The impact of multi-operator competition, on traffic demand forecasting, end-to-end QoS provisioning and pricing policies needs to be accounted for in a converged network architecture. To enable the success of convergence in the face of these centrifugal forces, networks need to be designed to be robust to uncertainty in the traffic demand patterns and to be resilient to failures. Such design objectives motivate interest in robust, resilient network architectures, adaptive resource management and control methods, traffic models of new services and applications, novel traffic engineering methods, revised forecasting techniques, and compatible network planning and design tools. For more that 50 years, the International Teletraffic Congress has brought together network operators, equipment vendors and academic researchers to share their knowledge on the use of quantitative modeling and analysis to plan, design and operate state-of-the-art network solutions. Network convergence is now the state-of-the art solution. In ITC-20, there will be stimulating discussions on traffic performance in converged networks. ITC20 seeks original paper contributions on recent research results, operational experiences and identification of key future issues in managing the traffic performance of converged networks. The papers should focus on the use of quantitative models, analysis and optimization methods to plan, design and manage converged networks. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to, the following: Planning converged networks: § Case studies § Capacity planning methods and tools § Planning multi-carrier networks § Planning for robustness and reliability § Performance/reliability trade-offs § Network design for real-time applications § Planning efficient content delivery Quality of service in converged networks: § Performance and reliability targets of new web-based applications § Performance over wireless and wireline transport technologies § VoIP QoS in WiFi and WiMax environments § Pricing and quality of service provisioning Traffic management in converged networks: § Intelligent, adaptive routing § Probabilistic, opportunistic routing § Overload and congestion control § Dynamic/adaptive bandwidth management § Mobility management § Application and content traffic management § Traffic management through MPLS § Traffic management in ad-hoc networks § Detection of DoS attacks § Autonomic traffic management Traffic and performance monitoring, measurements and forecasting: § Traffic measurement and forecasting methods § Performance monitoring and measurement methods § Data analysis methods § Measurement-based characterization of new application traffic § Reports of measurement results of operational converged networks § Monitoring for self-control and self-management Analytical models and methods: § Source models of new web-based applications (e.g. multimedia, peer-to-peer) § Traffic models of voice, video and data applications § Queuing models for multi-media traffic § Resource allocation methods § Protocol performance models § Algorithms for self-optimization of resource allocation and traffic management Performance and planning of specialized networking: § Multicast networks § Networks for telemedicine and tele-education § Sensor networks § Network computing § Storage area networks Organizing Committee: David Hudson, Nortel, Executive Chair James Yan, IAC Member for Canada, Chair François Blouin, Nortel Tadeusz Drwiega, Nortel Lorne Mason, McGill University Jim O'Shaughnessy, Honorary IAC Member David Plant, McGill University Philip Richards, NewStep Networks and Honorary IAC Member Sergio Tilli, Bell Canada ITC-20 Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs Lorne Mason, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Tadeusz Drwiega, Nortel, Ottawa, Canada International TPC Members Ron Addie, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Ake Arvidsson, Ericsson, Sweden Gerald Ash, AT&T Labs Research, USA Kalyan Basu, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Matthew Bocci, Alcatel, UK Otto Carlos Duarte, State University of Campinas, Brazil Augusto Casaca, University of Lisbon, Portugal Joachim Charzinski, Siemens, Germany Prosper Chemouil, France Telecom, France Thomas Chen, Southern Methodist University, USA Costas Courcoubetis, Athens University of Economics & Business, Greece Laurie Cuthbert, Queen Mary University of London, UK Michael Devetsikiotis, North Carolina State Univ., USA Bharat Doshi, Johns Hopkins University, USA Robert Doverspike, AT&T Labs Research, USA David Everitt, University of Sydney, Australia Andras Farago, University of Texas @ Dallas, USA Nelson Fonseca, State University of Campinas, Brazil Luigi Fratta, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy Feng Gang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Oscar Gonzalez-Soto, ITU Expert Consultant, Spain Annie Gravey, ENST-Bretagne, France Fabrice Guilleman, France Telecom, , France Richard Harris, Massey University, New Zealand Meir Hertzberg, ECI Telecom Ltd, Israel Rose Hu, Nortel, USA Mintae Hwang, Changwon National University, Korea Milosh Ivanovich, Telstra, Australia Villy Iversen, Research Center COM, Denmark Konosuke Kawashima, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan George Kesidis, Penn State University, USA Paul Kuehn, University of Stuttgart, Germany Peter Key, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK Ulrich Killat, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany King Tim Ko, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Ulf Korner, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden Wai Sum Lai, AT&T Labs Research, USA Guy Leduc, University of Liege, Belgium Ralf Lehnert, Telecommunications Technology University Dresden, Germany Will Leland, Telcordia, USA Yonatan Levy, AT&T Labs Research, USA David Lucantoni, DLT Consulting, USA Deep Medhi, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA Debasis Mitra, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, USA Sandor Molnar, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Ilkka Norros, VTT Technical Research Centre, Finland Achille Pattavina, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Harry Perros, North Carolina State University, USA Michal Pioro, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Guy Pujolle, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France James Roberts, France Telecom, France Matthew Roughan, University of Adelaide, Australia Hiroshi Saito, NTT, Japan Tadao Saito, Toyota Info Technology Center, Japan Iraj Saniee, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, USA Khoshrow Sohraby, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA Maciej Stasiak, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Yutaka Takahashi, Kyoto University, Japan Peter Taylor, University of Melbourne, Australia Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Wurzburg, Germany Danny Tsang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Ivan Tsitovich, Institute for Problems of Information Transmission, Russia Kurt Tutschku, University of Wurzburg, Germany Hans van den Berg, Telecom/University of Twente, Netherlands J.P. Vasseur, Cisco Systems, USA Jorma Virtamo, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Jean Walrand, University of California, Berkeley, USA Qin Yang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Yuanyuan Yang, State University of New York @ Stony Brook, USA Moshe Zukerman, University of Melbourne, Australia National TPC Members Osama Aboul-Magd, Nortel, Ottawa Attahiru Alfa, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg Ron Armolavicius, Nortel, Ottawa Maged Beshai, Nortel (Retired), Ottawa Gregor Bochmann, University of Ottawa Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo Mark Coates, McGill University. Montreal Zbigniew Dziong, Ecole de Technologie Superieur, Montreal Abraham Fapojuwo, University of Calgary Andre Girard, INRS-EMT, Montreal Wayne Grover, TRLabs, Edmonton Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Kingston Changcheng Huang, Carleton University, Ottawa Rainer Iraschko, Telus, Calgary Alberto Leon-Garcia, University of Toronto Cyril Leung, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Victor Leung, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Eric Manning, University of Victoria Peter Marbach, University of Toronto Mike McGreggor, TRLabs, Edmonton Mustafa Mehmet Ali, Concordia University, Montreal Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa Biswajit Nandy, Solana Networks, Ottawa Jean Regnier, OZ Communications, Montreal Brunhilde Sanso, École Polytechnique de Montréal Anand Srinivasan, EION, Ottawa Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver Tom Vilmansen, Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission, Ottawa Carey Williamson, University of Calgary Vincent Wong, University of British Columbia, Vancouver James Yan, Carleton University, Ottawa Oliver Yang, University of Ottawa _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: ACF-Members: CFP P2P 2006]
by Lars Wolf 05 Apr '06

05 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: ACF-Members: CFP P2P 2006 Datum: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 23:05:11 +0200 Von: Alberto Montresor <alberto.montresor(a)dit.unitn.it> Organisation: University of Trento An: acf-members(a)autonomic-communication-forum.org ** our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this e-mail ** ================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS P2P 2006 6th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing "Distributed computing at the edge of the Internet" Cambridge, UK September 6-8, 2006 http://p2p2006.csc.ncsu.edu/ ================================================================== The Scope --------- P2P2006 is the sixth in a series of annual conferences concerned with overlay network technologies. Overlay networks combine and share the resources owned by "client" devices that are distributed around the Internet. Examples of such overlay environments include Peer-to-Peer Systems and Grids, but in general, any large-scale distributed system characterized by decentralization and sharing of resources can benefit from an overlay-based approach. The focus of this year's conference is on applications and the scalability, robustness, and security factors that enable mainstream deployment of peer-to-peer and grid services. We invite papers that reflect experience with practical applications of the current state of the art or that explore new application areas. We are particularly interested in large-scale, widely-deployed applications. Consistent with the previous occurrences of this conference, we promote a collaboration in research between academic institutions, government organizations, and business enterprises that are concerned with the research and implementation of peer-to-peer networks, grids, and large scale distributed systems. Topics ------ Any topic that relates to peer-to-peer systems, grids, and large-scale distributed systems or overlay networks is open for consideration. We would like to give special encouragement to reports of experience with applications, with particular emphasis on addressing deployment issues including scalability, robustness and security. Some of the suggested topics are: - P2P Applications and Services * P2P Storage and Content Distribution * P2P Databases and Warehouses - Security in P2P Systems * Authentication * Authorization * Key Management - Performance and robustness of P2P Systems * Replication * Result certification - Object Discovery and Information Retrieval in P2P Systems * Range queries and approximate queries * Hybrid P2P Systems - Self-organization and Stability of P2P Systems * Overlay performance in unstable states * Generalized types of churn - Trust Management in P2P Systems * Incentives * Reputation * Control - Overlay architectures and topologies * Random graphs and gossiping protocols * Hierarchic overlays * Interconnections and Federation of overlays * Topology-aware overlays * P2P over MANETS - P2P Economics * Business models * Incentive models and game theory - P2P Workload Characterization and Simulation Papers will undergo a thorough peer review process before acceptance for presentation. We include all presented papers in the proceedings. The IEEE Proceedings hardcopy will be available at the Conference. Links to the previous editions of this conference can be found at this web site: http://www.ida.liu.se/conferences/p2p/portal/ Important Dates --------------- Paper submission deadline: 24 April 2006 Notification of acceptance: 6 June 2006 Camera ready papers due: 23 June 2006 Conference: 6-8 September 2006 Submission Details ------------------ Send anonymized paper submissions (pdf only) using our on-line service. Regular papers 8 pages; short papers 2 pages. Paper formatting should follow IEEE guidelines (double column, 10 point font size). Organization ------------ Conference Chair: - Douglas Reeves, North Carolina State University, USA Program Committee co-Chairs: - Alberto Montresor, University of Trento, Italy - Adam Wierzbicki, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Poland Local Chair: - Christos Gkantsidis, Microsoft Research, Cambridge - Sandeep Singhal, Microsoft, USA Steering Committee: - Nahid Shahmehri, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden (Chair) - Germano Caronni, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, USA - Nathalie Weiler, Credit Suisse, Switzerland Program Committee: - Karl Aberer, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland - Fabián Bustamante, Northwestern University, USA - Seif Haridi, SICS, Sweden - Manfred Hauswirth, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland - Yiming Hu, University of Cincinnati, USA - Gianluca Iannacone, Intel Labs, Cambridge, UK - Christos Gkantsidis, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK - Mark Jelasity, University of Bologna, Italy - Anne-Marie Kermarrec, INRIA, France - Cecilia Mascolo, University College London, UK - Martin May, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland - Alberto Montresor, University of Trento, Italy (Co-Chair) - Satoshi Nishiyama, KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc., Japan - Paolo Penna, University of Salerno, Italy - Christoph Schuba, Linköpings University, Sweden - Patrick Senac, ENSICA, France - Nahid Shahmehri, Linköpings University, Sweden - Sandeep Singhal, Microsoft, USA - Hiroshi Sunaga, NTT, Japan - Orazio Tomarchio, University of Catania, Italy - Peter Triantafillou, University of Patras, Greece - Kurt Tutschku, University of Würzburg, Germany - Marcel Waldvogel, University of Konstanz, Germany - Klaus Wehrle, University of Tuebingen, Germany - Nathalie Weiler, Credit Suisse, Switzerland - Adam Wierzbicki, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Poland (Co-Chair) ================================================================== +++++++++ posted to acf-members by Alberto Montresor <alberto.montresor(a)dit.unitn.it> +++++++++

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: HotWeb -- IEEE Workshop on Hot Topics in Web Systems and Technologies]
by Lars Wolf 05 Apr '06

05 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: HotWeb -- IEEE Workshop on Hot Topics in Web Systems and Technologies Datum: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 16:22:16 -0400 Von: Azer Bestavros <best(a)cs.bu.edu> An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> HotWeb'06: First Workshop on Hot Topics in Web Systems and Technologies (IEEE Sponsorship Pending) http://www.cs.bu.edu/pub/hotweb06 Boston, Massachusetts, USA November 13-15, 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------ Preliminary Call for Papers HotWeb is a forum that brings together researchers and practitioners interested in the design, implementation, and evaluation of Internet systems and applications. The workshop seeks to act as a conduit for presentation of novel approaches used in support of performance, scalability, and security of Internet applications, including Web searching and indexing, content distribution and delivery networks, Web services, and edge and grid computing. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: + Content delivery architectures + Peer-to-Peer systems + Support for mobile and wireless systems + Web caching and replication + Edge services and dynamic content delivery + Multimedia content distribution + Overlay networks + Content placement and request routing + Measurement studies of deployed systems + Security and privacy + Wide-area upload and content gathering + Novel web-based applications + Web/database integration + Information retrieval and searching + Electronic commerce + Internet telephony The HotWeb workshop is the successor of the WCW (Workshop on Web Content Caching and Distribution), and the WIAPP (Workshop on Internet Applications) workshops, both of which are merging to form HotWeb. HotWeb 2006 is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society (support pending) and will be held in Boston during the week of November 12, 2006. ------------------------------------------------------------ Organizing Committee: General Chair: Azer Bestavros, Boston University Program Chair: Bruce Maggs, Carnegie Mellon and Akamai Technologies Program Committee: Pei Cao, Stanford Armando Fox, Stanford Arun Iyengar, IBM Bruce Maggs, Carnegie Mellon and Akamai Technologies Venkat Padmanabhan, Microsoft Vivek Pai, Princeton Pablo Rodriquez Rodriquez, Microsoft Ramesh Sitaraman, U. Massachusetts and Akamai Technologies Oliver Spatscheck, AT&T Leonidas Kontothanassis, Intel Tina Wong, Carnegie Mellon ------------------------------------------------------------ Steering Committee: Azer Bestavros, Boston University Fred Douglis, IBM Jeff Dean, Google Arun Iyengar, IBM Michael Rabinovich, Case Western Reserve Pablo Rodriguez Rodriguez, Microsoft Prabhakar Raghavan, Yahoo! ------------------------------------------------------------ Important Dates: Submission deadline: June 15, 2006 Notification: July 31, 2006 Workshop: November 13-15, 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------ For more information check http://www.cs.bu.edu/pub/hotweb06 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Cost290] International Workshop on Privacy and Security in Mobile HealthCare]
by Lars Wolf 04 Apr '06

04 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Cost290] International Workshop on Privacy and Security in Mobile HealthCare Datum: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 16:13:55 +0100 Von: Veselin Rakocevic <V.Rakocevic(a)city.ac.uk> An: cost290(a)cs.tut.fi International Workshop on Privacy and Security in Mobile HealthCare Innsbruck, Austria, 29th November 2006 Call for Papers Paper Submission Deadline: 15th June 2006 Web Site: http://pmhcs.org Theme: Security and Privacy in Pervasive Healthcare Security and Privacy issues in mobile healthcare are emerging as two important areas within the pervasive healthcare area. With the fast changing mobile network and handset technologies it has become vital to define security policies and standards for mobile heathcare. We seek novel and scientifically exciting work in areas including but not limited to: a. Design of secure mobile web services for healthcare b. Management of secure mobile health c. QoS in healthcare mobile networks d. Privacy and identity in mobile healthcare systems e. New architectures for secure mobile healthcare systems f. Policies for mobile security g. Long term data preservation and intelligibility This workshop will be held in conjunction with the International Pervasive Health Conference, in Innsbruck, Austria, November 29th December 1st, 2006. The objective of the workshop is to discuss security and privacy issues and challenges that are facing the healthcare professionals in the implementation of mobile technologies within the healthcare industry. There will be three categories of speakers: - Keynote speakers - Invited papers - Submitted papers All students will have to provide proof of their status by showing their registration in a University. A letter of recommendation from their mentor/supervisor would be useful. Submission of papers: Papers that describe original, research work that are not published elsewhere can be submitted for this workshop. Submissions must follow IEEEs conference style two-column format including figures and references. The papers will be archived in the IEEEXplore. Proceedings will be published in CD by ICST. Papers submitted to the workshop will consist of 10 pages maximum. For more details on submission type and format please refer to the workshop web site. Authors are requested to submit their manuscripts electronically using the Create-nets COCUS system only http://www.cocus.info by following the link and instructions at the workshop home page: http://pmhcs.org Dr Veselin Rakocevic School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences City University London EC1V 0HB phone: 020 7040 8136 fax: 020 7040 8568 _______________________________________________ Cost290 mailing list Cost290(a)cs.tut.fi https://mailman.cs.tut.fi/mailman/listinfo/cost290

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[Fwd: ACF-Members: CFP - Computer Networks Journal: Middleware Challenges for Next Generation Networks and Seamless Services]
by Lars Wolf 04 Apr '06

04 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: ACF-Members: CFP - Computer Networks Journal: Middleware Challenges for Next Generation Networks and Seamless Services Datum: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 14:25:05 +0200 (MEST) Von: Mikhail Smirnov <Mikhail.Smirnov(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de> An: acf-members(a)autonomic-communication-forum.org FYI: ======================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS - Elsevier Journal on Computer Networks Special Issue on Middleware Challenges for Next Generation Networks and Seamless Services Content This special issue of Computer Networks is devoted to the research activities within industry and academia toward the identification of an efficient middleware for next generation networks and seamless services. Articles for this special issue will be solicited through an open call-for-papers in the field from industry and academia. Topics of interest include but not limited to: * Middleware support for micro/macro/multi-domain mobility * Mobile Systems middleware * Middleware for fixed mobile convergence * Publish / subscribe middleware technologies * Mobile and intelligent agent middleware technologies * Peer 2 peer middleware concepts * Comparison and Interworking between Heterogeneous Middleware Technologies * Middleware for Programmable, Active and Adaptive Networks / Self-managing networks * Wireless Grids Middleware and Grid-enabled Networking Middleware * Performance evaluation and modeling in Mobile Middleware * Middleware support for cross-system and cross-layer optimization * Middleware security, including authentication and authorization * Emerging Information Models and Frameworks (i.e., MPEG-21) Submissions Articles discussing in-depth research on architecture design, techniques, performance and security analysis, simulation results, and measurements for the above topics are solicited. Each submission should include a cover page with the title of paper, name and affiliation of all authors, name and contact address, fax, and email address of the corresponding author, a list of five key words, and a short abstract of maximum 200 words. Please send PDF (preferred) or Microsoft Word formatted papers to George Kormentzas (gkorm(a)aegean.gr) or Thomas Magedanz (magedanz(a)fokus.fhg.de) according to the following timetable. The cover page and the manuscript must be sent in separate files. Further guidance is given in the Notes for Authors at www.authors.elsevier.com. All papers will be reviewed by experts for technical merit, correctness, and relevance. Full Manuscript Due 1 October 2006 Acceptance Notification 1 December 2006 Final Revised Manuscript 1 February 2007 Guest Editors: Professor George Kormentzas, University of the Aegean, Greece Professor Thomas Magedanz, TU Berlin / Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Best Regards / Viele Gruesse Thomas Magedanz (magedanz(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de) +++++++++ posted to acf-members by Mikhail Smirnov <Mikhail.Smirnov(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de> +++++++++

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Elsevier Journal on Computer Networks, Special Issue on Middleware Challenges for Next Generation Networks and,Seamless Services
by Xiaoyuan Gu 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

FYI: ======================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS - Elsevier Journal on Computer Networks Special Issue on Middleware Challenges for Next Generation Networks and Seamless Services Content This special issue of Computer Networks is devoted to the research activities within industry and academia toward the identification of an efficient middleware for next generation networks and seamless services. Articles for this special issue will be solicited through an open call-for-papers in the field from industry and academia. Topics of interest include but not limited to: * Middleware support for micro/macro/multi-domain mobility * Mobile Systems middleware * Middleware for fixed mobile convergence * Publish / subscribe middleware technologies * Mobile and intelligent agent middleware technologies * Peer 2 peer middleware concepts * Comparison and Interworking between Heterogeneous Middleware Technologies * Middleware for Programmable, Active and Adaptive Networks / Self-managing networks * Wireless Grids Middleware and Grid-enabled Networking Middleware * Performance evaluation and modeling in Mobile Middleware * Middleware support for cross-system and cross-layer optimization * Middleware security, including authentication and authorization * Emerging Information Models and Frameworks (i.e., MPEG-21) Submissions Articles discussing in-depth research on architecture design, techniques, performance and security analysis, simulation results, and measurements for the above topics are solicited. Each submission should include a cover page with the title of paper, name and affiliation of all authors, name and contact address, fax, and email address of the corresponding author, a list of five key words, and a short abstract of maximum 200 words. Please send PDF (preferred) or Microsoft Word formatted papers to George Kormentzas (gkorm(a)aegean.gr) or Thomas Magedanz (magedanz(a)fokus.fhg.de) according to the following timetable. The cover page and the manuscript must be sent in separate files. Further guidance is given in the Notes for Authors at www.authors.elsevier.com. All papers will be reviewed by experts for technical merit, correctness, and relevance. Full Manuscript Due 1 October 2006 Acceptance Notification 1 December 2006 Final Revised Manuscript 1 February 2007 Guest Editors: Professor George Kormentzas, University of the Aegean, Greece Professor Thomas Magedanz, TU Berlin / Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Best Regards / Viele Gruesse Thomas Magedanz (magedanz(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de) +++++++++ posted to acf-members by Mikhail Smirnov <Mikhail.Smirnov(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de> +++++++++

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[Fwd: CfP: UbiComp 2006 Call for Videos, Demos and Posters]
by Lars Wolf 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP: UbiComp 2006 Call for Videos, Demos and Posters Datum: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 08:41:01 +0200 Von: Matthias Kranz <matthias(a)hcilab.org> An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ====================== UbiComp 2006 - The Eigth International Conference on Ubiquituous Computing http://www.ubicomp.org/ubicomp2006/ Conference Date: 17. - 21.09.2006 Conference Venue: Marriott Newport Beach, Orange County, California Hosted by: Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences University of California, Irvine Overview: ========= This mail contains the calls for Videos, Demos and Posters. You can review all calls at: http://www.ubicomp.org/ubicomp2006/calls/ Important Dates and Deadlines: ============================== Submission Deadline: June 16, 2006 Acceptance Notification: July 14, 2006 Final Version Due: August 4, 2006 CALL FOR VIDEOS =============== Videos are increasingly becoming an integral part of the UbiComp conference series: they offer the chance to showcase emerging technologies, prototype systems, and new approaches to using ubiquitous computing. Videos are especially useful for illustrating complex systems and new interactions with systems in special environments that would not easily be presented as demonstrations at the conference. We encourage submission of videos both as new material and as supplementals to paper submissions (e.g., in order to illustrate particular aspects of a system). As with other submission categories, video submissions should not have been previously presented in any other formal video program. The video program will be shown at a special session at the conference, and will be published on a DVD and distributed to conference attendees (although copyright will be retained by the authors). A panel of international reviewers will review videos for their technical content, interest, and relevance to the ubiquitous computing community. Other important review aspects will be the video's communication effectiveness and production quality. Accepted electronic submission formats are: MPEG1 and MPEG2, AVI file with MPEG4 (DivX codecs) and Apple QuickTime with high resolution. MPEG2 format is strongly encouraged. For other electronic formats and for tape formats please contact the video chairs in advance. Video submissions should be 4 to 8 minutes long. Longer videos will be subject to stricter review criteria. Rough videos in progress will be considered, but will (if tentatively accepted) be subject to a second review process after final production. If the video is accepted, a high quality format, suitable for DVD production, will be required for the final version. In addition to submitting a video file, authors must also submit a short paper with a maximum of 2 pages in the ACM SIGCHI conference publications formathttp://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html), including all figures and references, for each video submission (though you don't need to leave space for the copyright notice). This should include the title, authors, affiliations and an abstract of no more than 150 words. Papers of accepted videos will be published in the Adjunct Proceedings that will be circulated to attendees at the conference; they will not be incorporated into the main UbiComp 2006 Conference Proceedings. Video submissions and corresponding papers should be uploaded to an FTP server; contact the Video Chairs via email for more detailed instructions on how to access the server. Please do NOT send video files as an email attachment under any circumstances! Contacts: ========= UbiComp2006 Video Co-chairs Louise Barkhuus Marc Langheinrich Formats accepted: ================ MPEG (MPEG1 and MPEG2), AVI with MPEG4, QuickTime files Submission Templates: ===================== Abstract Page limit: 2 pages (ACM SIGCHI conference publications format, no need for the copyright notice though): http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html Important Dates and Deadlines: ============================== Submission Deadline: June 16, 2006 Acceptance Notification: July 14, 2006 Final Version Due: July 21, 2006 CALL FOR DEMOS ============== The Ubicomp conference’s Demonstrations Program offers an excellent way to showcase tangible results of ubiquitous computing research and development to over 500 attendees from academia and industry. A successful demo communicates ideas and concepts in a powerful way that a regular presentation cannot. We invite you to contribute your vision of the ubicomp experience to the Demonstrations Program at the UbiComp 2006 conference. We particularly encourage demonstrations that include participation by conference attendees and provoke discussion about issues within the field of ubiquitous computing. We seek proposals for demonstrations of ubiquitous computing technologies across the full milieu of everyday life: office, home, street, park, train, automobile, bedroom, bathroom, work, play, desktop, handheld, worn, public, private, community, individual, shared, and personal. We welcome a wide range of submission from scenarios involving innovative solutions of focused tasks as well as playful pursuits. Reviewing: ========== All submissions will be peer-reviewed to ensure a high quality demonstrations program. Each demonstration will be reviewed by at least two members of the demonstration review committee. In an electronic discussion, the committee will make final decisions on which submissions to accept. Proposals will be judged on their relevance for the ubicomp community, level of innovation, technical merit, conceptual contribution and the potential to include participation by conference attendees. Furthermore, to make a successful demo submission, you need to have a strategy to present visitors the main points in a short time. You must also convince the committee that you are capable of installing and running the demo at the conference. Demonstrations do not have the same requirements on originality as papers and posters. It is acceptable to submit a demonstration even if the main points have been published at the UbiComp conference (including this year) or elsewhere. However, the demonstration format should still add significantly to any previous presentations. To make it easier to judge this, you must provide a complete history of previous presentations of the submitted work and work directly related to it. A demonstration is not the right forum to promote commercial products. In this case, please instead consider becoming a sponsor or exhibitor. Submission Requirements: ======================== A demonstration submission requires two parts: A demonstration abstract that describes the technology being exhibited and discusses the novelty and distinguishing ideas or approaches it brings to the ubiquitous computing community. The demonstration abstract will be published in the Conference Supplement and should therefore be self-contained. It should be a maximum of 2 pages, in the ACM SIGCHI conference publications format, including all figures and references. Please make sure that your submitted abstract complies to all the formatting guidelines and is ready for publication, since there will be no time to make major revisions. A demonstration supplement that details how the demo will be executed in practice, and how visitors will interact with it during the conference. The interaction can be described in the form of a short usage scenario, storyboard sketch, screenshots, illustrations, photos, and/or video documentation. The demonstration supplement should also include the various technical requirements such as preferred setting, space, power, networking, lighting, acoustical, and other special equipment. A demonstration supplement submission template is available at the bottom of this webpage. Demonstration supplement materials are for the purposes of review only and will not be published. A template for demonstration supplements is provided below. Your submission should be sent as a single PDF file to the following address: demos-2006(a)ubicomp.org. The subject line should read: UbiComp Demo Submission - NAME OF MAIN CONTACT. The name of the attached file should similarly be: NAME OF MAIN CONTACT.pdf. Links to additional material (videos, etc.) should be included both in the mail and in the supplement. Upon Acceptance: ================ You will be required to install your demonstration in the conference venue on September 17, and have it packed away by the end of the conference, on September 21. You are required to have your demonstration up and running throughout the Demonstrations and Poster Reception. In addition, we strongly encourage you to have your demo staffed and available throughout the conference, especially during breaks. The conference will at minimum provide a space for your demo, a table and chairs, and a power connection. If you need any special equipment you should provide that yourself, including projectors, audio amplification, wireless LAN, etc. Please specify all needs in your demonstration supplement so that we can plan the demo area accordingly. Contacts: ========= Demo Co-Chairs: Julian Bleecker University of Southern California,USA Khai N. Truong University of Toronto,Canada Formats accepted: Please use the SIGCHI conference publications format (see http://sigchi.org/chipubform/). The Demonstrations Supplement template can be downloaded from here. Abstract Page limit: 2 pages (ACM SIGCHI conference publications format) Submission Templates: ===================== The SIGCHI conference publications format can be found at: http://sigchi.org/chipubform/. The Demonstrations Supplement template can be downloaded by clicking here. Important Dates and Deadlines: ============================== Submission Deadline: June 16, 2006 Acceptance Notification: July 14, 2006 Final Version Due: August 4, 2006 CALL FOR POSTERS ================ The Posters category provides researchers with an opportunity to present work in a forum that facilitates open discussion, and enables authors to interact directly with conference attendees. In the Posters category, we encourage the submission of late-breaking, preliminary, or exploratory work, smaller projects or results not suitable for a full paper, and any other research that authors wish to present in an interactive, open forum. Poster submissions should include an extended abstract of no longer than 2 pages in the ACM SIGCHI conference publications format, including all figures and references. Submissions may also include an optional single page describing or illustrating the proposed poster. This page is should convey to reviewers visual aspects of the poster that may not come across in the abstract, for example including a key graphic to be used in the poster. This supplemental page is for review purposes only and will not be published. Accepted 2-page Poster abstracts will be published in a Conference Supplement that will be distributed to attendees at the conference; they will not be incorporated into the main UbiComp 2006 Conference Proceedings. Contacts: ========= Posters Chairs: Itiro Siio (Ochanomizu University, Japan) Beverly Harrison (Intel Research, USA) Important Dates and Deadlines: ============================== Deadline for submission: June 16, 2006 Acceptance Notification: July 14, 2006 Final Version Due: August 1, 2006

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: IPOM2006]
by Lars Wolf 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP - SecQoS Workshop 2006]
by Lars Wolf 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP - SecQoS Workshop 2006 Datum: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 20:42:01 +0200 Von: Cristina Costa <cristina.costa(a)create-net.it> Organisation: Create-Net An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> Please accept our apologies if you received multiple copies of this call for papers **************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS--SecQoS Workshop 2006 http://www.secqos.org The Second IEEE/CREATE-NET Workshop on Security and QoS in Communication Networks Baltimore, MD, USA, Sep. 1, 2006 In conjunction with IEEE/CREATE-NET Securecomm 2006 http://www.securecomm.org Co-sponsored by IEEE Communications Society Co-sponsored by CREATE-NET Submission Deadline: May 10, 2006 Security protocols and mechanism for communication networks have provided many features such as user access control, data confidentiality, user privacy, and system integrity. At the mean time, QoS is one of the most important issues for services and applications, especially for performance evaluation in the presence of security concerns and attacks for different network architectures and applications. This workshop is dedicated to original efforts in the area that brings security solutions and their impact on system performance together. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: -- Trade-off of QoS and security in real-time transmission over wireless networks -- Authentication and user access control for handover in heterogeneous wireless networks, such as wireless LANs, 3G systems, and wireless mesh networks. -- Impact of security management on QoS in high speed networks, such as grid networks -- Design and analysis of security protocols and mechanism for highly dynamic networks. -- Preventing QoS theft, selfish behaviors, and policing. -- Threat modeling and attach measures -- Evaluating the impact of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks -- Trust management for distributed grid and wireless network -- Protocols for authentication and authorization for QoS-sensitive applications -- Cross-layer security protocols -- Robust, fault-tolerant network architecture -- Testbed, application practice, and standard activities -- Joint approaches to QoS and security metrics Technical papers describing original unpublished research are solicited. The workshop papers will be published in CD-ROM proceedings. Securecomm offers a limited Student Travel Grant for selected qualified students. Authors are invited to submit papers formatted according to IEEE conference style 2-column, 10 pages limit. Submissions must be uploaded electronically as PDF documents through the conference Web site (http://www.secqos.org) For further information, please send an email to secqos(a)create-net.it. The review process will be based on a single round of technical reviews. Acceptance will be limited to those papers requiring only minor revisions. The key dates are listed as follows: Manuscript Submission Due Date: May 10, 2006 Notification of Acceptance: June 1, 2006 Final Camera-Ready Submission: June 25, 2006 Workshop Date: September 1, 2006 Contacts: Workshop Co-Chairs: Wenye Wang, North Carolina State University, wwang(a)eos.ncsu.edu Cristina Costa, CREATE-NET, cristina.costa(a)create-net.it **************************************************************************** Cristina Costa CREATE-NET Via Solteri, 38 38100 Trento - Italy www.create-net.it _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [AAS] News 1 Apr. 2006]
by Lars Wolf 02 Apr '06

02 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AAS] News 1 Apr. 2006 Datum: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 20:50:02 +0100 Von: Roy Sterritt <r.sterritt(a)ulster.ac.uk> An: undisclosed-recipients:; ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------- Autonomous & Autonomic Systems ----------- -------------------------- News -------------------------- ---------------------- 1 Apr. 2006 ----------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ Contents: --------- 1. CFP AN (Deadline early reg.3 Apr 2006) 2. CFPn ACC-06 (Deadline 15 Apr 2006) 3. CF Comments EU FET FP7 (Deadline 15 Apr 2006) ------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS Autonomic Networking 2006 SMARTNET - INTELLCOMM - IWAN -WAC IFIP TC6 Conference, sponsored by WG6.2 (Network and Internetwork Architectures), WG6.6 (Management of Networks and Distributed Systems), WG6.7 (Smart Networks) France Télécom - Paris - France - Sept. 25-29, 2006 "Autonomic Networking" will be the first international conference on all the aspects of autonomic networking (architecture, services, tools, security, communications, ...). This conference groups four past events: SMARTNET focused on tools for the autonomy; INTELLCOMM on autonomic management and services, IWAN on active networks and WAC on autonomic communications. Suggested topics for papers include, but are not limited to, the following: Tools for the autonomic networking Intelligent agent and multi agent system , Rule-based systems Distributed game control Genetic algorithms, machine learning tools for autonomic systems Policy-based management Computer-supported cooperative works Distributed software development and maintenance Emergent control and robotic systems Real-time event control and management Software defined/configured radio Process and resource allocation and modeling Tools for modeling, analysis, testing and validation Open network interfaces Autonomic Network stability Context-aware Networks & Services Quality of Autonomic Networks & Services Experiences from Testbeds and Trials Autonomic management and services Intelligent control, routing and management Automated configuration management Self healing networks ; proactive security and resilience Bio inspired security and networking systems Management of nomadicity QoS, traffic engineering Sensor networks and ad hoc networks Traffic and transportation control: logistics systems Value added services and multimedia services Autonomic Management and/or Services Architectures and Life-cycle Self- management and context-aware Management Overlay Network Management Service-aware Overlays Quality of Context Management Experiences from Testbeds and Trials Active Networks Mobile code and network programmability Service programmability Self-organisation of services Experiences from Testbeds and Trials Autonomic communications Theoretical foundations of autonomic network control Designing evolvable next generation networks Self-organisation for NGN Autonomic Communications testbeds Modelling and analysis of Autonomic Communication systems Generic network-level service composition Context handling within Autonomic Communications Applied Autonomic Communication systems Self-organised communications Context and/or Autonomic Ontologies Quality of Context Management GENERAL CHAIRS R. Kung (France Télécom, FR) H. Zimmermann (Ginkgo-Networks, FR) PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS D. Gaïti (University of Troyes, FR) G. Pujolle (UPMC, FR) STEERING COMMITTEE R. Boutaba (University of Waterloo, CA) P. Chemouil (FT, FR) I. Chlamtac (University of Trento, IT) R. Popescu Zeletin (Fokus, DE) F. Sestini (European Commission, EC) J. Strassner (Motorola Research Labs, USA) PROGRAM COMMITTEE -tools for autonomic networking (SMARTNET) O. Martikainen (University of OULU and ETLA, FI) - chairman PROGRAM COMMITTEE -autonomic management and services (INTELLCOMM) E. Al Shaer (DePaul University, USA) - chairman PROGRAM COMMITTEE -active networks (IWAN) K. Calvert (University of Kentucky, USA) - co-chairs G. Leduc (University of Liege, BE) - co-chairs PROGRAM COMMITTEE - autonomic communications (WAC) S. Dobson (UCD, IR) - chairman ORGANISING COMMITTEE M. Salaun (FT, FR) - chairman SUBMISSION Submissions should be original and limited to 20 double spaced 12 point pages in length. Authors are requested to submit their manuscripts electronically through the EDAS web site. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Digital Library of IFIP TC6 (free access) and the best papers will be published in the IFIP TC6 Journal also available free of charge in the Digital Library of IFIP TC6. A best paper award will be distributed. Important deadlines April 7, 2006 Papers due May 26, 2006 Authors notified of acceptance June 30, 2006 Final papers due Further information For more information please visit the web site at www.autonomic-net.org ------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ACC 2006, 2nd IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Autonomic Communications and Computing, Niagara-Falls, Buffalo-NY. 26 June 2006 http://www.autonomic-communication.org/acc/index.html Ubiquitous and self-organized Internet, ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks are expected to be some of the basic building blocks of pervasive computing environments. However, the promise of pervasive computing environments will not be realized unless these systems can effectively "disappear". In order to do that they need to become autonomous by managing their own evolution and configuration changes without explicit user or administrator action. The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum between the autonomic computing and autonommic communication communities to exchange ideas, discuss solutions, and share experiences among researchers, professionals, and application developers both from industry and academia. * Architecture and models for autonomic communication and computing systems * Tools and techniques for designing, analyzing and building autonomic systems and networks * Adaptive security for self protection of systems and networks * Economic, biological and social models used for autonomic communications * Novel management techniques for autonomic communication and computing systems * Sensing, monitoring and measurements for self-managing systems and networks * Languages, development and securely programmable environments for autonomic communications systems * Advanced technologies for enabling autonomic communication and computing systems * Autonomic communication and computing testbeds and measurements Workshop Co-Organizers ----------------------------- Raouf Boutaba School of Computer Science University of Waterloo 200 University Avenue West Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3G1 Email: rboutaba(a)uwaterloo.ca Silvia Giordano Dept. of Technologies and Innovations University of Applied Science – SUPSI Galleria 2 - Via Cantonale 6928 Manno - Switzerland Email: silvia.giordano(a)supsi.ch and silvia.giordano(a)iit.cnr.it Michael Smirnov Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 31_ _10589 Berlin, Germany Email: smirnow(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de ------------------------------------------------------------ As FET (Future and Emerging Technologies, the long-term research part of the EU IST programme) is defining the detailed content of the next calls in the forthcoming 7th Framework Programme of Research (FP7), your input is sought and will be crucial for us in order to identify priority research challenges. These are the last days (until 15/4/2006) to submit your comments to the consultation forum at www.beyond-the-horizon.net, on topics including Pervasive Computing and Communications and Security. All these themes, and other ideas for new research directions openly submitted, are also accessible through the FET consultation forum at http://www.cordis.lu/ist/fet/id.htm . To actively stimulate reflections on long-term research in security for FET in FP7, I also wish to invite you to the open workshop DISTTRUST http://www.disttrust.org/ which will take place soon after INFOCOM, on 28 April 2006 in Barcelona, Spain. This workshop will discuss the following long-term emerging research directions: * Evolutionary and Adaptive Security * Privacy and Trust for Dynamic Coalitions * Distributed Security Please do not hesitate to forward this message to anybody else who might be interested. Kind regards, Fabrizio Sestini FET Future and Emerging Technologies DG Information Society & Media European Commission Office J-54 01/131, B-1049 Brussels tel. +32-2-2995260 fax +32-2-2968390 fabrizio.sestini(a)cec.eu.int ------------------------------------------------------------ -- *************************************************** This is the News Email of the IEEE Task Force on Autonomous and Autonomic Systems http://tab.computer.org/AAS It covers AAS community related activities by the members, which are not necessaray sponsored by the TF nor endorsed by IEEE CS. The Latest TF Newsletter is at: http://www.infj.ulst.ac.uk/~autonomic/IEEE_TF-AAS/newsletter/ Manage your membership (including unsubscribe) at: http://www.computer.org/services/teca ***************************************************

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CfP: 2nd International workshop on Wireless Traffic Measurements and Modeling]
by Lars Wolf 01 Apr '06

01 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CfP: 2nd International workshop on Wireless Traffic Measurements and Modeling Datum: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 16:03:47 -0500 Von: Maria Papadopouli <maria(a)cs.unc.edu> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Second International workshop on Wireless Traffic Measurements and Modeling (WiTMeMo'06) August 5, 2006 Boston http://www.witmemo.org/ in conjunction with the Second Annual International Wireless Internet Conference (WICON) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scope ----- The rapid deployment of wireless infrastructures in various environments triggers new applications and services that in turn generate a richer set of traces for analysis. There is a need for more realistic models of traffic, mobility, and association patterns. This can be beneficial in capacity planning, administration, and deployment of wireless infrastructures, protocol design for wireless applications and services, and their performance analysis. The Wireless Traffic Measurements and Modeling workshop is intended to serve as a forum for scientists and engineers in academia and industry to exchange and discuss their experiences and research results about all aspects of measurements and modeling of applications, usage, access, load, and mobility in wireless networks. It will also initiate discussions on how to use these models to improve the performance of wireless networks. Furthermore, it aims in enhancing and accelerating the process of sharing traces, implementations, and test suites. In this workshop, we would like to solicit short, 6-page papers that report on experiences obtained from operational wireless experiments in testbeds or the field. Along with regular presentations we plan to have invited speakers and/or panel discussions that encourage more active participation of the attendees. Topics of particular interest include but are not limited to: * Methods for collecting and analyzing measurements in different wireless environments (infrastructures, sensor networks) * Workload characterization and traffic analysis * User mobility modeling * Measurements and predictions of user access over multiple networks *Software tools in support of measurements * Measurement-based inference of network properties (for normal or abnormal behavior, network topology, hot spots) * Design of monitoring systems, sampling methods, and anomaly detection * Temporal and spatial evolution of wireless networks * Evaluation of forecasting algorithms for wireless traffic load * Comparative analysis on different wireless networks * Techniques for improving the repeatability of tests Chair ----- Maria Papadopouli UNC, FORTH TPC --- Jack Brassil, HP Lab Felix Hernandez-Campos, Google Christophe Diot, Thomson, Eyal de Lara, University of Toronto Matti Latva-aho, University of Oulu Tristan Henderson, Dartmouth College Philipp Hofmann, DoCoMo Eurolab Rosario Garroppo, University of Pisa Ramakrishnan Kadangode, AT&T Research Merkourios Karaliopoulos, UNC Gerald Maquire, KTH Xiaoqiao Meng, UCLA Maria Papadopouli UNC, FORTH George Polyzos, AUEB Ashutosh Sabharwal, Rice University Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University Vassilis Siris, FORTH Mark Yarvis, Intel Important Deadlines ------------------- Full Papers due: April 15th, 2006 Notification of Acceptance: June 1st, 2006 Camera-ready Manuscripts due: July 1st, 2006 Conference Date: August 5 2006 -- Maria Papadopouli http://www.cs.unc.edu/~maria _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Multimedia 2006] Deadlines approaching]
by Lars Wolf 01 Apr '06

01 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Multimedia 2006] Deadlines approaching Datum: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 09:35:45 -0500 Von: ACM Multimedia Committee <acmsigmm(a)fastmail.fm> An: Multimedia Recipient <WOLF(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> Greetings from the ACM Multimedia Committee. This is a final reminder that paper, panel, tutorial and workshop submissions for the ACM Multimedia 2006 conference are due soon. ------------------------------------------------ Call for Contributions The 2006 ACM Multimedia Conference Fess Parker's Double-Tree Resort Santa Barbara, California October 22-28, 2006 http://mmdb.ece.ucsb.edu/acmmm06/ ------------------------------------------------ Important Dates: Apr. 10, 2006 - Research Paper Abstract Submission Deadline (Absolutely Firm Deadline) Apr. 17, 2006 - Research Paper/Panel/Tutorial/Workshop Submission Deadline at 11 PM PDT (Absolutely Firm Deadline) May. 12, 2006 - Interactive Art Program Long Paper/Exhibition Submission Deadline at 11 PM PDT Jun. 01, 2006 - Short Paper/Interactive Art Program Short Paper/Open Source/Doctor Program/Demo Proposal Submission Deadline at 11 PM PDT Jul. 01, 2006 - Notification of acceptance Aug. 01, 2006 - Camera-ready papers Aug. 12, 2006 - Advanced Registration Deadline ------------------------------------ Questions: Please feel free to email one of the General Co-chairs. Klara Nahrstedt - mailto:klara@cs.uiuc.edu Matthew Turk - mailto:mturk@cs.ucsb.edu ------------------------ *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: Accessnets 2006, Athens, Greece Sept 4-6 2006]
by Lars Wolf 01 Apr '06

01 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Accessnets 2006, Athens, Greece Sept 4-6 2006 Datum: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 00:13:00 -0500 (EST) Von: Anupam Banerjee <anupamb(a)andrew.cmu.edu> An: tcgn(a)comsoc.org First International Conference on Access Networks Accessnets 2006, Athens, Greece Sept 4-6 2006. www.accessnets.org Call for papers The access area is represented by a technology alphabet soup spanning wired, wireless and legacy networks is seen to be rapidly emerging with a strong and sustained technological and business growth. Research has led to massive development and deployment in the access networking space leading to significant efforts in merging the bandwidth bottleneck between ever growing PC speeds and the high speed network core. In addition to broadband services, the access area also represents consumers that desire pervasive as well as ubiquitous services. Therefore, the access network is a hot investment pool from both a financial as well as a research perspective. Accessnets is a forum that brings together scientists/researchers from academia and managers/engineers from the industry and government organizations to meet and exchange ideas and recent work in this emerging area of networking. Accessnets will be held in the beautiful and historic city of Athens Greece in the Summer of 2006, between September 4 and 6. Accessnets will have two technology tracks and a business track. Papers are solicited but not restricted to the following areas: Passive Optical Networks xDSL technology Long Reach Ethernet over Copper Standards for High speed short haul Ethernet Fiber to the Home, Premise, Curb, Desktop, user Coarse WDM Powerline Communications Coaxial Cable technologies Hybrid Fiber Coaxial technologies WiFi Networks WIMAX networks WIMAX subsystem design OFDM issues in Wireless communications Cross-layer design Cross-Media Networks (Hybrid Media Networks)/ Independent Media Networks Business case issues in Access Networks Municipal and Community Networks Regulatory Issues Deployments in Access Networks Management issues in Access networks Billing consumers in the access area Important Dates Submission Deadline: April 15th 2006 (submission through www.cocus.info) Notification of acceptance: May 25th Registration and Camera ready upload: June 25th. Conference dates SEPT 04-06 2006 Organizing Committee: General Chair: Ioannis Tomkos, Athens Information Technology and Ramjee Prasad Aalborg University, Program Committee Chairs: Ozan Tonguz Carnegie Mellon University, USA and Ashwin Gumaste Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Workshop Chair: Gregory Yovanof, Athens Information Technology Business track Chair: Nikos Pronios, Intracom Panel Chair: Panos Dallas, Intracom Steering Committee: Imrich Chlamtac, (Chair), Create-net, Italy Ioannis Tomkos AIT, Athens, Greece Ashwin Gumaste IIT Bombay, India Publicity Chairs: Anupam Banerjee, Telecommunications Practice, McKinsey & Company, USA and Jingxian Wu, Calstate SSU Finance Chair: Karen Decker, ICST Technical Program Committee: Hussein Mouftah (University of Ottawa Canada) Stuart Walker (Essex University, UK) Aniudha Sahoo (IIT Bombay, India ) Suresh Subramaniam (George Washington University, USA ) Mohan Guruswamy (NUS Singapore) Nicholas A. Zervos (Ellemedia Technologies, Ltd.) Mounir Hamdi (UST Hongkong) Stefano Galli (Telcordia, USA) Tony Boucouvalas (Bournemouth UK) Peter van Daele (Univ of Ghent) Thyaga Nandgopal (Lucent Technologies, USA ) Kaustubh Phanse (University of Lulea, Sweden) Vinod Vokkarane (UMass Dartmouth, USA) Arjan Durressi (Louisiana State University) Ioannis Zacharopoulos, (Greek Telecom and Posts Commission) Ibrahim Habib (Cuny USA) Geof Hill (GTEL, UK) Hagen Woesner (Createnet Italy) Evsen Yanmaz (CMU, USA) Xhafa Ariton (Texas Instruments) Gianluigi Ferrari (University of Parma, Italy) Costa Courcoubetis (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece) Yuanyuan Yang (Sunnysb USA) Stamatios Kartalopoulos (OU, USA) Hakki Cankaya, (Alcatel USA) Martin Bouda, (Fujitsu USA) Galen Sasaki, (Univ of Hawaii USA) Srinivasan Ramasubramanian, (Univ of Arizona USA) Tony Boucouvalas (Bournemouth UK) Peter van Daele (Univ of Ghent) Sridhar Iyer (IIT Bombay, India) Paparao Palacharla (Fujitsu Ltd, USA ) Hua Zhu, (San Diego Research Center USA) Call for Workshops and Tutorials are solicited. Please send proposals for workshops by March 31st 2006 to Workshop Chairs. Tutorial proposals are solicited by March 31st. Please send 1½ page proposals to Gen Chairs. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a closed mailing list exclusively for the business of the IEEE ComSoc TCGN. As a member of the list you are encouraged to use it for all messages that meet this general criteria. To make this list "self correcting" please send any concern you may have to mailmanager(a)comsoc.org. You can leave this list by sending a blank email from the address you are subscribed under to tcgn-remove(a)comsoc.org.

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Call for Papers: 15th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (IEEE ICCCN 2006)]
by Lars Wolf 01 Apr '06

01 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Call for Papers: 15th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (IEEE ICCCN 2006) Weitersenden-Datum: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 19:43:39 -0600, Fri, 31 Mar 2006 20:43:57 -0500 Weitersenden-Von: byrav(a)cse.unl.edu Weitersenden-An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Datum: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 18:44:35 -0600 Von: Nasir Ghani <nghani(a)tntech.edu> An: 'Byrav Ramamurthy' <byrav(a)cse.unl.edu> CC: qliu21(a)tntech.edu ICCCN06 Paper submission website is now open: http://www.EDAS.info/Conferences.cgi ICCCN 2006 CALL FOR PAPERS FIFTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS http://sa1.sice.umkc.edu/icccn06/ October 9 - 11, 2006 Arlington, Virginia, USA Sheraton Crystal City Hotel (near Washington DC) Sponsors*: Technical Co-Sponsorship by IEEE TCCC and Nokia (*pending approval) ICCCN is a major international conference for the presentation of novel and fundamental advances in the field of Computer Communications and Networks. It also serves to foster communication among researchers and practitioners working in a wide variety of scientific areas with a common interest in improving Computer Communications and Networks. SCOPE: The primary focus of the conference is on new and original research results in the areas of design, implementation,and applications of Computer Communications and Networks. We invite you to submit papers that present challenging and innovative results. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: . Sensor & Ad-hoc Networking . Network Security and Dependability . Peer-to-Peer, Grid, and Overlay Networks . Optical & High-Speed Networking . Wireless Mobile Networking . Network Architecture & Hardware . Internet Services & Network Management IMPORTANT DATES: Regular paper submission deadline: April 24, 2006 Poster paper submission deadline: April 24, 2006 Notification of acceptance: June 26, 2006 Camera ready papers due: July 28, 2006 SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS: Submitted manuscripts may NOT exceed 8 pages and must be submitted in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font). Files should be submitted in Postscript or PDF format and formatted for 8.5x11-inch paper. Submitted papers may NOT have appeared in, nor be under consideration for, another journal or conference. The Program Committee reserves the right to NOT review papers that either exceed the above length specification or have been submitted or published elsewhere. Submissions must include the title, abstract, keywords, author(s) and affiliation, e-mail address(es), fax/phone number(s), and postal address(es). In case of multiple authors, indicate which author is responsible for correspondence about the submission. REVIEW AND PUBLICATION OF MANUSCRIPTS: All submitted papers will be reviewed and judged on originality, correctness, relevance, quality of presentation, and technical strength and significance. An accepted paper must be presented by one of the authors at the conference venue and must be limited to 6 pages (with an allowance of up to two extra pages at a cost of US$150 per extra page beyond 6 pages if the paper is accepted for publication) in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font). ICCCN06 proceedings will be published by the IEEE Communications Society. STUDENT POSTER PAPER SESSIONS: The conference includes student poster sessions that highlight recent and ongoing research that has not been published elsewhere. An electronic (Postscript or PDF) version of the poster must be submitted to the conference website, along with a 200-word abstract. The first author of the poster must be a student at the time of submission; the student is expected to attend the conference and be available for discussion during the poster sessions. Accepted abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings. Students with accepted posters receive a discount from the regular conference registration fee. The paper and poster sessions are two fully independent conference tracks with separate review procedures. Submitted papers are NOT considered for poster sessions, and poster submissions are NOT considered for paper sessions. Submission of identical research material to both paper and poster sessions is not permitted. STUDENT FORUM: We encourage submissions from students. Travel assistance may be available for students with top quality papers. The student must be the first author of accepted paper and must attend and give presentation to be qualified. BEST PAPER AWARDS: ICCCN plans to award one best paper in each of the three following areas: . Theory & Simulation . Systems Software . Hardware and Architecture The authors of each paper will be recognized at the conference. Please contact the Program Co-Chairs below with any questions: Prof. Wu-chun Feng Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061 feng(a)cs.vt.edu +1 540-231-1192 (voice); +1 540-231-6075 (fax) Dr. Katherine Guo Center for Networking & Network Management Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies 101 Crawfords Corner Road, Room 4G-506 Holmdel, New Jersey 07733 kguo(a)bell-labs.com +1 732 949 8956 (voice); +1 732 949 4513 (fax) Conference Organizers: General Chair: Yuanyuan Yang, SUNY-Stony Brook; yang(a)ece.sunysb.edu +1 631 632 8474(voice); +1 631 632 8494 (fax) Program Chairs: Wu-chun Feng, Virginia Tech; Katherine Guo, Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies Publicity Chair: Dr. Nasir Ghani, Tennessee Tech University, (931) +1 931 372-3046, nghani(a)tntech.edu Local Arrangement Chair: E.K. Park, UMKC, ekpark(a)umkc.edu +1 816 235-1497 Vice-Program Chairs: 1. Internet Services & Network Management: Xiaodong Zhang, The Ohio State University, http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~zhang zhang(a)cse.ohio-state.edu 2. Network Security and Dependability Dongyan Xu, Purdue University, http://www.cs.purdue.edu/people/dxu dxu(a)cs.purdue.edu 3. Peer-to-Peer, Grid, and Overlay Networks: Bobby Bhattacharjee, University of Maryland, http://www.cs.umd.edu/~bobby/ bobby(a)cs.umd.edu 4. Optical & High-Speed Networking: Wu-chun Feng, Virginia Tech, feng(a)cs.vt.edu 5. Wireless Mobile Networking: Wenye Wang, North Carolina State University, http://www4.ncsu.edu/~wwang/ wwang(a)eos.ncsu.edu 6. Sensor & Ad-hoc Networking: Junshan Zhang, Arizona State University, http://www.eas.asu.edu/~junshan/ junshan.zhang(a)asu.edu Sherman Shen, U. Waterloo, xshen(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca 7. Network Architecture & Hardware: James P.G. Sterbenz University of Kansas (US) and Lancaster University (UK) http://www.ittc.ku.edu/~jpgs jpgs(a)comsoc.org _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] [MobiMedia] CfP - Deadline April 30]
by Lars Wolf 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] [MobiMedia] CfP - Deadline April 30 Datum: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 10:09:13 -0700 (MST) Von: Ali Bilgin <bilgin(a)ece.arizona.edu> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu ******* M o b i M e d i a 2006 **************** Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference (formerly MSAN) September 18-20, 2006 :: Alghero, Sardinia, Italy http://www.mobimedia.org ------------------------------------------------- ******** IMPORTANT DEADLINES ******************** ------------------------------------------------- Submission of extended summaries: April 30, 2006 Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2006 Submission of camera-ready papers: July 10, 2006 ******** IMPORTANT NEWS ************************** -------------------------------------------------- keynote speeches: - Roberto Cencioni (Head of Unit INFSO E2, EC) and Albert Gauthier (DG Information Society, EC) on the 7th Work program and the EU IST vision - Leonardo Chiariglione on future standards on mobile multimedia Publication of accepted papers: - Conference proceedings will be available through IEEExplore (approval pending) - Extended versions of high quality papers on mobile video will be reviewed and considered for a special issue in the Signal Processing: Image Communications Journal. Workshops/symposiums/special sessions: - International Workshop on Broadband Wireless Access for ubiquitous Networking (BWAN 2006) - European Symposium on Mobile Media Delivery (EuMob 2006) - Special Session on 4G FORTHCOMING STANDARS AND MOBILE MULTIMEDIA SERVICES SCOPE -------------------------------------- The successful development of multimedia services and applications in mobile environments requires adopting an interdisciplinary approach where both multimedia and networking issues are addressed jointly. Multimedia data characteristics, coding standards functionalities, as well as network protocols performance and channel behavior are some of the key aspects that need to be carefully examined when proposing new solutions. Many are the applications that are going to be enabled by the new standards for mobile networking, such as packet telephony, video mail, video streaming, audio conferencing, interactive gaming, conversational navigation services, digital television, infomobility, and immersive communications in virtual environments. Some of these novel networking protocols and technologies include IEEE 802.11 (infrastructured, mesh, and sensor networks), 802.15, 802.16, UWB, DVB-H, Bluetooth, Mobile IP and its variants. Within this scope, MobiMedia is intended to provide a unique international forum for researchers working in multimedia and mobile networking fields to study new applications, solutions, and standards. Original unpublished contributions are solicited that can improve the knowledge and practice in the integrated design of efficient technologies and the relevant provision of advanced mobile multimedia applications. TECHNICAL PROGRAMS -------------------------------------- The technical program features two key-note speeches: from Roberto Cencioni (Head of Unit INFSO E2, EC) and Albert Gauthier (DG Information Society, EC) on the 7th Work program and the EU IST vision and from Leonardo Chiariglione on future standards on mobile multimedia. The conference will also include invited panels, to facilitate for exchanging ideas and discussion, and specific sessions and workshops on focused interest areas. Submissions of proposals on workshops and special sessions on emerging topics are invited. Please submit proposals to Technical Program Chairs and Workshop Chairs. PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION -------------------------------------- Prospective authors are invited to submit extended summaries of not more than five pages including figures and references. Papers will be accepted only by electronic submission through the conference web site. Conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE and will be available through IEEExplore (approval pending). Extended versions of high quality papers on mobile video will be reviewed and considered for a special issue in the Signal Processing: Image Communications Journal. STUDENT AWARD AND GRANTS -------------------------------------- A student prize of 1000Euros will be awarded to the best paper authored by a full time student as first author. Travel grants will be provided to students attending the conference. Additional information can be found at the conference website. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ----------------------------------------- General Co-Chairs: Luigi Atzori, University of Cagliari, ITA Ebroul Izquierdo, University of London, UK Steering Committee Chair: Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net, ITA Technical Program Co-Chairs: Ozgur B. Akan, Middle East Technical University, TUR Pascal Frossard, EPFL, SUI Publications Chair: Giovanni Pau, UCLA, USA Workshops Chair: Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA Radha Poovendran, University of WA, USA Panels Chair: Daniele D. Giusto, University of Cagliari, ITA Local Chair: Giaime Ginesu, University of Cagliari, ITA Publicity Co-Chairs: Gozde Bozdagi Akar, Middle East Technical University, TUR Ali Bilgin, The University of Arizona, USA Web masters: Maria Teresa Carta, University of Cagliari, ITA Tatiana Onali, University of Cagliari, ITA Conference Management: Anna Rieger, ICST, Europe PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------------------------------- Ishfaq Ahmad, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Fatih Alagoz, Bogazici University Tricha Anjali, Illinois Tech., USA John Apostolopoulos, HP Labs, USA Mauro Barni, University Siena, ITA Gary Chan, HK University Raouf Boutaba, University Waterloo, CAN Homer Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Trista P. Chen, Intel Corporation, USA Reha Civanlar, Koc University, TUR Ed Delp, Purdue University, USA U.B Desai, IIT Bombay Christos Douligeris, University Piraeus, GRE Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA Minoru Etoh, Docomo Labs Moncef Gabbouj, Tampere University of Technology, FIN Zhihai He, University of Missouri, USA Paola Hobson, Motorola Research Labs, UK Markus Kampmann, Ericsson Research, GER Reginald Lagendijk, Delft University, NED Juan-Carlos de Martin, Politecnico Torino, ITA Giacomo Morabito, University Catania, ITA Jaudelice De Oliveira, Drexel University, USA A. Pakstas, London Metrop. University, GBR Fernando Pereira, IST, POR Beatrice Pesquest-Popescu, ENST, FRA Ramon Puigjaner, University Balears, SPA Guy Pujolle, LIP6, FRA Thomas Sikora, Technical University Berlin, GER Raghupathy Sivakumar, Georgia Tech, USA Eckehard Steinbach, TUM, GER Thomas Stockhammer, Nomor Research, GER M. Tekalp, Koc University, TUR Tuna Tugcu, Bogazici University, TUR Haohong Wang, Qualcomm Inc, USA Wenye Wang, North Carolina State University, USA Yao Wang, Polytechnic University, USA Jiang Xie, University North Carolina, USA Heather Yu, Panasonic Research, USA Avideh Zakhor, UC Berkeley, USA Magda El Zarki, UC Irvine, USA Qian Zhang, HK University, HK _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: Journal Special Issue - Novel Techniques for Analysis & Design of Cross-Layer Optimized Wireless Sensor Networks]
by Lars Wolf 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Journal Special Issue - Novel Techniques for Analysis & Design of Cross-Layer Optimized Wireless Sensor Networks Datum: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:02:58 +0200 Von: DOHLER Mischa RD-TECH-GRE <mischa.dohler(a)francetelecom.com> An: <multicomm(a)comsoc.org> CC: Taieb Znati <znati(a)cs.pitt.edu>, <toumpis(a)ucy.ac.cy>, Prof. Lionel Ni <ni(a)cs.ust.hk> Dear Colleagues, Together with Taieb Znati, Stavros Toumpis and Lionel Ni, we are editing an interesting JWCN special issue entitled "Novel Techniques for Analysis & Design of Cross-Layer Optimized Wireless Sensor Networks" with submission deadline 1 October 2006. For more details, please, refer to http://www.hindawi.com/journals/WCN/si/CLOWS.html. Have a good weekend, Mischa. ------------------------------------------ Dr Mischa Dohler France Telecom R&D 28 Chemin du Vieux Chêne 38243 MEYLAN, France Tel: +33 (0)4 76 76 45 14 Fax: +33 (0)4 76 76 44 50 Email: mischa.dohler(a)francetelecom.com Visit: http://www.ctr.kcl.ac.uk/iwwan2006

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[Fwd: CFP: SIGCOMM 2006 Workshop on Internet Network Management]
by Lars Wolf 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

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[Fwd: Call for papers: European Symposium on MobileMediaDelivery (EuMob) 2006]
by Lars Wolf 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Call for papers: European Symposium on MobileMediaDelivery (EuMob) 2006 Datum: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 23:00:39 +0200 Von: Markus Kampmann (AC/EDD) <markus.kampmann(a)ericsson.com> An: <multicomm(a)comsoc.org> Apologies if you receive multiple copies: CALL FOR PAPERS ************* EuMob 2006 **************** European Symposium on Mobile Media Delivery September 20, 2006 :: Alghero, Sardinia, Italy _http://www.eumob.org_ part of MobiMedia 2006 (see _http://www.mobimedia.org_) ------------------------------------------------- Organized by the European FP6 research projects "Ambient Networks" and "M-Pipe". ******** IMPORTANT DEADLINES ******************** ------------------------------------------------- Paper submission: May 15, 2006 Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2006 Submission of camera-ready papers: July 10, 2006 SCOPE -------------------------------------- Mobile multimedia services is a hotter topic than ever before. Network operators offer multimedia services over mobile networks but it is still limited to particular devices on specific networks. The delivery of multimedia content to every mobile handset on every mobile network, anytime and anywhere is still a major challenge. Mobile media can be delivered via a multitude of different networks with very different characteristics like cellular networks (WCDMA, HSDPA, 3G MBMS), broadcast networks (DVB-H, DMB) or other networks standards like WLAN or Wimax. Mobile terminals like mobile phones, mobile TVs or handheld computers have different capabilities and characteristics. Consequently, seamless interworking between these terminals and networks is becoming more important in order to make uniform media delivery possible. New mobile multimedia services for large user groups like MobileTV, interactive TV, video on demand, TV chatting and multimedia telephony are arising. Each service has its own characteristics and demands for mobile media delivery. As always for mobile services spectrum efficiency is a pre-requisite for large scale deployment. Several European research projects from the FP6 program are addressing the challenges of mobile media delivery. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of mobile media delivery, projects from the mobile and wireless area like Ambient Networks, PHOENIX and DAIDALOS, from the networked audiovisual systems area like DANAE, ENTHRONE and Visnet as well as from the content technologies area like M-Pipe are dealing with mobile media delivery. Besides these projects a lot other research work about mobile media delivery is carried at academia, research institutes and industrial companies. EuMob 2006 will give researchers the opportunity to highlight their latest results on this topic. Researchers active in FP6 research projects as well as other leading international researchers will participate and share their latest findings. Original unpublished contributions are solicited dealing with topics of mobile media delivery like: o Architectures for mobile media delivery o Next generation mobile media delivery frameworks o Overlay networks for mobile media delivery o Peer-2-Peer networks for mobile media delivery o Multimedia service composition for mobile media o Solutions for optimized media delivery and transport over heterogeneous networks o QoS problems and solutions o Network convergence for media delivery o Media adaptation to networks and devices o Network-based mobile media adaptation and pro-active caching o Cross-layer communication for mobile media delivery o (Scalable) source coding for mobile media o Source/channel coding, joint optimizations o Efficient usage of radio and spectrum resources o Mobile media delivery for multi-user services o Interactive mobile broadcast and Mobile TV o Security and protection for mobile media delivery o Context-aware mobile media delivery PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION -------------------------------------- Prospective authors are invited to submit articles of not more than five pages including figures and references. Papers will be accepted only by electronic submission through COCUS system at _http://cocus.create-net.it/_. Conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE and will be available through IEEExplore (approval pending). ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ----------------------------------------- Conference Co-Chairs: Stefan Håkansson, Ericsson, Sweden Markus Kampmann, Ericsson, Germany Publications Chair: B. Mathieu, France Telecom, France Publicity Chair: James le Blanc, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden Conference Management: Anna Rieger, ICST, Europe PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------------------------------- M. T. Andrade, INESC, Portugal J. le Blanc, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden A. Cotarmanac'h, France Telecom, France C. Griwodz, University of Oslo, Norway I. Fijalkow, ENSEA, France R. Glitho, Concordia University, Canada F. Hartung, Ericsson, Germany C. Henghan, UCD, Ireland W. Henkel, International University of Bremen, Germany L. Hiebinger, Siemens, Germany F. Kalleitner, Siemens, Austria D. Marpe, Fraunhofer HHI, Germany B. Mathieu, France Telecom, France T. Petersen, TNO Information- & Communication Technology, Netherlands F. Reichert, Adger University, Norway A. Sadka, University of Surrey, UK S. Schmid, NEC, Germany E. Steinbach, Technical University of Munich, Germany D. Taniar, Monash University, Australia S. Wenger, Nokia, Finland M. Wien, Aachen University of Technology, Germany L. Wolf, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany

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