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[Fwd: E-NEXT.members: CFP: IEEE JSAC on Cross-Layer Wireless]
by Lars Wolf 13 Mar '06

13 Mar '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: E-NEXT.members: CFP: IEEE JSAC on Cross-Layer Wireless Datum: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:41:30 +0000 Von: Cormac J. Sreenan <cjs(a)cs.ucc.ie> An: members(a)ist-e-next.net ---------------- CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications CROSS-LAYER OPTIMIZED WIRELESS MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS Submission deadline: May 15, 2006 Recent advances in wireless and mobile communications provide ample opportunities for introducing new services. Supporting multimedia applications and services over wireless networks is challenging due to constraints and heterogeneities such as limited battery power, limited bandwidth, random time-varying fading effect, different protocols and standards, stringent quality of service (QoS) requirements. Cross-layer design methodologies hold great promise for addressing these challenges and providing reliable and high-quality end-to-end performance in wireless multimedia communications. This issue solicits the state-of-the-art approaches and technical solutions in the area of cross-layer optimized wireless multimedia communications and networking. The issue will provide a compelling forum for researchers and practitioners to present their results. Original contributions, previously unpublished and not currently under review by another journal, are solicited in relevant areas including (but not limited to) the following: - Architectures for wireless multimedia communications - Multimedia delivery over various types of wireless networks (3G, 4G, ad hoc networks, WLAN, WMAN, or hybrid networks) - End-to-end QoS support for wireless networks - Multimedia delivery to energy-constrained embedded devices - Caching and content management in WLANs and WMANs - Interaction among medium access control (MAC), radio link control (RLC), and routing protocols for media delivery over multi-hop wireless networks - Wireless video sensor networks - Multimedia delivery for broadband vehicular networks - Secure multimedia communications - System prototypes and experiences with broadband wireless multimedia delivery Please note that submitted papers must explicitly address cross-layer design issues. Prospective authors should follow the IEEE J-SAC manuscript format described in the Information for Authors, at http://www.argreenhouse.com/society/J-SAC/Guidelines/info.html. Authors MUST submit their manuscripts through the Microsoft Conference Management Toolkit (CMT) at https://msrcmt.research.microsoft.com/COWMC2006/CallForPapers.aspx, together with a short abstract (approximately 150 words) in the CMT website form. In addition, the mandatory cover page is not included in the page count. The cover page should include paper title, abstract, list of keywords indicating the paper's topic area, authors' full names, affiliations with complete addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses. Please note potential authors should create their own accounts through the CMT peer review website before submitting manuscript(s). CMT will accept manuscripts in PDF format only. There will be one round of reviewers and acceptance will be limited to those papers requiring only moderate revisions. The following timetable will apply: Manuscript submission: MAY 15, 2006 Acceptance notification: November 1, 2006 Final manuscript due: December 1, 2006 Publication: 2nd Quarter 2007 Guest Editors: Chang Wen Chen Dept Elect & Comp Engr Florida Inst of Technology Melbourne, FL 32901 cchen(a)fit.edu Pascal Frossard Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Lausanne - 1015, Switzerland pascal.frossard(a)epfl.ch Cormac Sreenan Dept of Comp Science Univ College Cork Cork, Ireland cjs(a)cs.ucc.ie K. P. Subbalakshmi Dept of Elect & Comp Engr Stevens Inst of Technology Hoboken, NJ 07733 ksubbala(a)stevens.edu Dapeng Oliver Wu Dept of Elect & Comp Engr Univ of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611 wu(a)ece.ufl.edu Qian Zhang Dept of Comp Science Hong Kong Univ of Science & Tech Hong Kong qianzh(a)cs.ust.hk -------------------- +++ Posted to members-istenext by "Cormac J. Sreenan" <cjs(a)cs.ucc.ie> +++

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[Fwd: [Tccc] [CFP] Special Issue on Seamless Handover in Next Generation Wireless/Mobile Networks (Springer's International Journal on Wireless Personal Communication)]
by Lars Wolf 13 Mar '06

13 Mar '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] [CFP] Special Issue on Seamless Handover in Next Generation Wireless/Mobile Networks (Springer's International Journal on Wireless Personal Communication) Datum: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 10:20:09 +0900 Von: Sunghyun Choi <schoi(a)snu.ac.kr> An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> CC: 'Aissi, Selim' <selim.aissi(a)intel.com>, 'Sunghyun Choi' <schoi(a)snu.ac.kr>, 'Ravikumar' <jravikumar2002(a)yahoo.com> Aplogies if you recieved this CFP multiple times. ---- Springer's International Journal on Wireless Personal Communication Special Issue on Seamless Handover in Next Generation Wireless/Mobile Networks Guest Editors Anand R. Prasad, DoCoMo Comm. Labs. Europe GmbH, Munich, Germany Selim Aissi, Intel Corporation, Portland, USA Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea Jeevarathinam Ravikumar, Consistel, Singapore Scope of Special Issue Mobile communication has evolved in a rapid pace from the introduction of Analog Cellular networks in 1980s. Technology has gone through tremendous changes in terms of security, access techniques, protocol stacks, bandwidth usage and also convergence into packet switching based on All-IP network from the conventional circuit switched techniques. Complexity has increased due to the introduction of different access technologies, available services, and other aspects as mentioned above during the telecom evolution for the past 20 years. Pressure is mounting to harmonize various technologies under a common IP backbone so that seamless handover can be provided that exploits the benefits of available radio access technologies. Seamless handover should be achieved not only for Inter-Technology but also for Inter-Operator handover. Operators and the consumers will be greatly benefited in terms of cost effectiveness, enhanced features, location independence and ease of use through the introduction of seamless heterogeneous handover mechanisms. Several standardization activities have already started working on technical solutions for seamless handover. One of the well known activities is that of next-generation networks (NGN) making use of IMS based solution for service provisioning and handover between fixed and mobile operators. Within 3GPP and 3GPP2, activities are on-going to provision handover between different technologies and recently, in 3GPP, between different domains. This activity within 3GPP falls under All-IP Network (AIPN) System Architecture Evolution (SAE)/Radio Access Network (RAN) Long Term Evolution (LTE). IEEE 802 is also looking into media-independent handover (MIH) in 802.21 while 802.11u is working on inter-technology handover. Handover enhancement within IEEE 802.11 is taking place within Task Group R (TGr). IETF has produced some solutions in the seamoby working group while further enhancements are being done in various other groups including mobopts, mipshop and mobike. Along with standardization activities, various operators and vendors are also involved in developing harmonized solution for heterogeneous networks, like, UMA. At the same time a lot of research and development activities are taking place by academia, research institutes and industries too. So far, the work has focused on one specific topic of handover such as security, QoS, and routing. However, the focus should be on developing an end-to-end network perspective that covers the whole span of the network from radio aspects to OSS aspects that includes value added services. With the above background, this special issue invites people to present papers on seamless handover in heterogeneous networks in the following (but, not limited to) areas: - Handover security - Solutions for mobility support - Charging and billing, and AAA infrastructure - Fraud Management across various networks - Access Control techniques in heterogeneous networks - QoS provisioning for inter-technology and intra-/inter-domain handover - Content provisioning and seamless use of VAS across different networks - Standardization activities - Testbed or measurement results Important dates Deadline of paper submissions: 15th May 2006 Notification of acceptance: 1st October 2006 Final Manuscripts Due: 1st November 2006 Publication of Feature Topic: February 2007 Submission Papers should follow the Springer format (11pt, single column, double spaced) and not exceed twenty pages including figures and tables. Manuscript should be submitted on-line at: <https://www.editorialmanager.com/wire/> https://www.editorialmanager.com/wire/ You MUST select article type: "Special Issue: Seamless Handover" Author information is available at: <http://www.springer.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-40109-70-35706624-000.h tml> http://www.springer.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-40109-70-35706624-000.ht ml Guest Editors Contact Information Anand R. Prasad DoCoMo Comm. Labs. Europe GmbH Landsbergerstrasse 308-312 80687 Munich, Germany E-mail: <mailto:prasad@docomolab-euro.com> prasad(a)docomolab-euro.com Selim Aissi Mobile Platforms Group Intel Corporation CO5-166, 15400 NW Greenbrier Parkway Beaverton, Oregon, 97007, USA E-mail: <mailto:selim.aissi@intel.com> selim.aissi(a)intel.com Sunghyun Choi School of Electrical Engineering Seoul National University Kwanak P.O.Box 34 Seoul 151-600, Korea E-mail: <mailto:schoi@snu.ac.kr> schoi(a)snu.ac.kr Jeevarathinam Ravikumar Consistel (Singapore) Pte Ltd 5 Jalan Kilang Barat, #08-01/03 Petro Centre Singapore 159349 E-mail: <mailto:jravikumar@consistel.com> jravikumar(a)consistel.com --- Sunghyun Choi, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Multimedia & Wireless Networking Laboratory (MWNL) School of Electrical Engineering Seoul National University Office: +82-(0)2-880-1753 Mobile: +82-(0)11-798-0180 Email: <mailto:schoi@snu.ac.kr> schoi(a)snu.ac.kr URL: <http://ee.snu.ac.kr/~schoi> http://ee.snu.ac.kr/~schoi _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: March SigComm-Members Monthly Digest]
by Lars Wolf 12 Mar '06

12 Mar '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: March SigComm-Members Monthly Digest Datum: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 20:56:49 -0500 Von: Erich Nahum <nahum(a)turing.acm.org> Antwort an: Erich Nahum <nahum(a)turing.acm.org> An: SIGCOMM-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG Dear SIGCOMM Community Members: This is the March 2006 List Digest. If you want an announcement relevant to the computer networks research community to appear in this forum, please send me a message before the 1st of each month. - Erich Nahum infodir_sigcomm (at) acm.org SIGCOMM Information Services Director ------------------------------------------------------------------ SIGCOMM News SIGCOMM GEODIVERSITY TRAVEL GRANTS ACM SIGCOMM has created a travel grant to increase the geographic diversity of its flagship "Sigcomm Data Communications Festival". The grant sponsors selected attendees in their early career (at most five years of full-time, full-level [non-postdoc] post-PhD employment) from under-represented countries based on need, distance to the conference venue, and impact of their attendance in increasing the diversity of conference participation. The grant covers travel, lodging, and registration to the main Sigcomm conference. The committee strongly prefers applicants who are not paper authors (the committee believes that authors' home organizations should cover costs for authors). Poster authors, however, are encouraged to apply. Other criteria will include evidence of a serious interest in networking, as demonstrated by project experience. In most cases, no more than one applicant will be funded from each organization. ACM SIGCOMM encourages participation of women and under-represented minorities. The program commenced with a $20,000 USD grant to sponsor attendees to Sigcomm 2006 in Pisa, Italy. Interested parties are encouraged to submit an application to the current travel grant chairs for Sigcomm 2006. What is covered? Support is intended to fully cover travel (economy airfare), registration for the conference, lodging at the conference hotel (four nights), meals, and local transportation. The specific costs will vary for each applicant, and are not expected to exceed $2500 USD. Reimbursement details will be announced to award recipients. Who decides? Applicants are selected by the Sigcomm Travel Grant Committee. Application Process An application consists of: A. a 2-page application B. a supporting letter from the applicant's supervisor C. a supporting letter from a colleague NOTE: the applicant should submit only (A); (B) and (C) should be sent directly from the letter authors A. Application: Page 1: 1. Indicate their affiliation and any other personal information the applicant feels is relevant to support their case. 2. Indicate evidence that the applicant meets the eligibility criteria above. 3. Include a brief summary of research interests and accomplishments to date, including a description of areas reflected in the SIGCOMM 2006 program that would impact the applicant's research. 4. Include their estimated expenses in U.S. dollars for attending the conference (total, and breakdown by conference registration, travel, lodging, and meals). When computing your estimated budget, please use $525 USD as the figure for early registration. Page 2: * Provide a short 1-page vita, focusing on current research interests and recent and pending publications. B. Letter from the applicant's current supervisor (e.g., post-doc supervisor, department chair), sent by the supervisor directly (NOT forwarded by the applicant), which: * Confirms the applicant's standing at their institution (date started, current job title) * Indicate current funding status, or explain why the applicant is in need of a travel grant. C. A separate letter of recommendation from a technical colleague, preferably from a different institution in a different location (i.e., different country), sent by the colleague directly (NOT forwarded by the applicant), which: * Describes the professional relationship between the applicant and colleague, e.g., discussing their collaboration * Indicates why the applicant would benefit from attending the conference. * Elaborate on the strengths and potential contributions of the applicant. Send application and recommendation letters by e-mail to Travel Grant chairs in English only, formatted as follows: - ASCII (preferable) 60 lines/page, 80 characters/line limit - PDF US letter or A4 pagesize 12 point, single-spaced, 1" margin ------------------------------------------------------------------ Upcoming deadlines of Conferences and publications financially supported and planned by SIGCOMM: Call for Papers -- SenSys 2006 Registration Deadline: March 30, 2006 Submission Deadline: April 6, 2006 Conference Dates: November 1-3, 2006 Location: Boulder, Colorado, USA URL: http://sensys.acm.org/2006/ Call for Participation -- Workshop 2 on Theory of Networked Computation Conference Dates: March 16-17, 2006 Location: Berkeley, CA, USA email: Judi.Paige(a)yale.edu Call for Participation -- NSDI 2006 Conference Dates: May 8-10, 2006 Location: San Jose, California, USA URL: http://www.usenix.org/events/nsdi06/ Call for Participation -- SIGCOMM 2006 Conference Dates: Sep 11-15, 2006 Location: Pisa, Italy URL: http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigcomm/sigcomm2006 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming deadlines of Conferences planned in cooperation with SIGCOMM: (Remember that you, as a SIGCOMM member, are eligible for the conference "member rate" even it it's an IEEE or USENIX conference.) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming deadlines of other conferences and journals related to the data communications area: Call for Papers -- ASPLOS 2006 Paper Registration: March 1st, 2006 Submission Deadline: March 8th, 2006 Conference Dates: October 21-25, 2006 Location: San Jose, CA, USA URL: http://www.princeton.edu/~asplos06/ Call for Papers -- Workshop on the Economics of Networked Systems (NetEcon) Submission Deadline: March 27, 2006 Conference Dates: June 11, 2006 Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA URL: http://www.cs.duke.edu/nicl/netecon06/ Call for Papers -- ICNP 2006 Paper Registration: May 9th, 2006 Submission Deadline: May 16th, 2006 Conference Dates: November 12-15, 2006 Location: Santa Barbara, CA, USA URL: http://www.ieee-icnp.org/2006/ Call for Papers -- IEEE LCN 2006 Submission Deadline: May 12th, 2006 Conference Dates: November 14-17, 2006 Location: Tampa, Florida, USA URL: http://www.ieeelcn.org Call for Participation -- IEEE Create-Net 2006 Conference Dates: Mar 1-3, 2006 Location: Barcelona, Spain URL: http://www.tridentcom.org Call for Participation -- IEEE Infocom 2006 Conference Dates: April 23-29, 2006 Location: Barcelona, Spain URL: http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2006 Call for Participation -- WWW 2006 Conference Dates: May 22-26, 2006 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland URL: http://www2006.org Call for Participation -- NOSDAV 2006 Conference Dates: May 22-23, 2006 Location: Newport, Rhode Island, USA URL: http://www.nossdav.org/2006/ Call for Participation -- ENGI 2006 Conference Dates: May 28-31, 2006 Location: University of Reading, UK URL: http://netlab.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn/~engi2006/ Call for Participation -- IWQoS 2006 Conference Dates: June 19-21, 2006 Location: New Haven, Connecticut, USA URL: http://westtemple.cs.yale.edu/iwqos06/ Call for Participation -- IEEE DSN 2006 Conference Dates: June 25-28, 2006 Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA URL: http://www.dsn.org ----------------------------------------------------------------- Removing Yourself from SIGCOMM Mailing List If your email address exactly matches the email address recorded on the SIGCOMM list (no forwarding), you can remove yourself with: mail listserv(a)acm.org with message body (not subject): unsubscribe SIGCOMM-MEMBERS If your email address does *not* match, mail me at infodir_sigcomm(a)acm.org, and I will work to remove you from the list.

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[Fwd: [Tccc] IWUAC 06 - deadline and research links]
by Lars Wolf 12 Mar '06

12 Mar '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] IWUAC 06 - deadline and research links Datum: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 00:57:25 +0100 Von: stefano salsano <stefano.salsano(a)uniroma2.it> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu One month left for paper submission... A page with links related to the workshop topics is available at: http://netgroup.uniroma2.it/Stefano_Salsano/IWUAC-06/research-links.html [Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement] ============================================================ INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON UBIQUITOUS ACCESS CONTROL http://netgroup.uniroma2.it/Stefano_Salsano/IWUAC-06/ To be held in conjunction with MOBIQUITOUS 2006 http://www.mobiquitous.org/ July 17-21, 2006 - San Jose, California, USA ============================================================ Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: April 10, 2006 Notification of Acceptance: May 10, 2006 Camera-Ready Submissions: May 30, 2006 (Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and the IEEE Digital Library) ============================================================ Background The access to resources or services located in "foreign" environments and owned by disparate entities is a painful process for mobile users. This is a significant deterrent to the ability to easily interconnect in a secure and spontaneous manner among disparate organizations. In fact, corporate wireless networks are generally run with severe access policies that do not offer access to guests. Public wireless networks typically do not support roaming agreements, so that users have to be a customer of the specific network provider or to "instantly" (and costly) buy access. Coalition access control encompasses mechanisms dealing with access between users and services of two or more different security domains. These mechanism are typically based on contractually or implicitly agreed collaboration between organizations. They are targeted to medium or long-term periods of inter-organizational coalition. Some real examples are supply chain management, international joint projects, logistics service, etc. The overhead to set up these mechanisms can be significant, as the access control mechanisms for resources of the participating partners require common inter-organizational agreements. The inter-provider agreements that allow users to roam across different wireless providers can be seen as a form of coalition access control. Work on the definition of architecture and protocols for inter-provider roaming is ongoing in several standardization fora or industry initiatives (3GPP, ETSI, ECMA, IRAP …) Spontaneous coalition access control investigates access mechanisms based on informally formed coalition scenarios. These informal coalition scenarios are strongly connected to particular contextual situations: for example communication sessions like calls, conferencing, and Instant Messaging (IM) or informal physical contacts that occur in meeting rooms, offices, and hallways. It is not possible to establish traditional "formal" cross-organizational agreements within these spontaneous coalition encounters. Anyway, access to local resources still need to respect corporate access policies. The notion of spontaneous coalition access implies an increase in the number of un-verified access points and presents a serious security issue. User mobility, wireless connectivity and the widespread diffusion of portable devices raise new challenges for ubiquitous service provisioning. Devices that participate in spontaneous coalition scenarios can introduce "new" foreign services into the environment; due to their mobility these device can change location changing the availability of resources and services un-predictably. Access control to resources is crucial to leverage the provision of ubiquitous services and calls for novel solutions based on various context information, e.g., user/device location, device properties, user needs, local resource visibility. ============================================================ Call for Submissions The workshop is interested in contributions addressing areas associated with mobile and ubiquitous architectures, infrastructure, data and services as related to Ubiquitous Access Control. Under the "Ubiquitous Access Control" definition, we encompass both the "traditional" inter-provider roaming scenarios and the more advanced "spontaneous coalition" scenarios. The workshop will bring together the more "practical" aspects of the former scenario with the more advanced research aspects of the latter. Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research, are solicited. Tutorial paper or papers reporting experiences of deployed systems or demonstrators are also welcome. The papers cannot be currently under review by another conference or journal. Topics include, but are not limited to the following: * Integration of Contextual Models with Security Models. * Models for Authentication, Trust, Authorization and Access Control in Ubiquitous Computing Environments. * Coalition Access Control Models. * Ontologies for Security Policies. * Distributed Access Control Architectures and Models. * Access Control and Trust Models for Ubiquitous Devices * Group management for ad-hoc communities * Peer discovery in Ubiquitous Computing Environment * Architecture and protocols for inter provider roaming in wireless networks * Experiences and test-beds for inter provider roaming A collection of links related to the workshop topics is available: http://netgroup.uniroma2.it/Stefano_Salsano/IWUAC-06/research-links.html ============================================================ How to submit a paper Information on paper submission procedure and page formatting instructions are available on the workshop web page. ============================================================ Co-organizers and TPC chairs Ramiro Liscano, University of Ontario, Oshawa, Canada Stefano Salsano, University of Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy Technical Program Committee Selim Aissi, Intel Corporation, USA Mahbubul Alam - Cisco Systems, San Jose, USA Michel Barbeau - Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Tim Finin - University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA Patrick Hung - University of Ontario, Oshawa, Canada Anupam Joshi - University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA Lalana Kagal - MIT, USA Larry Korba - National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada Markus Muck, Motorola Labs, France Filip Perich - Shared Spectrum Company, USA Anand Prasad - Docomo Eurolab, Munich, Germany Neeli Prasad - Aalborg University, Demmark George Prezerakos - Technol. Education Institute of Piraeus, Greece Fabio Ricciato - Telecomm. Research Center Vienna (ftw.), Austria Simon Pietro Romano - Universita' di Napoli Federico II, Italy Enrico Rukzio - Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Germany Michael Smirnov - Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Nick Tselikas - National Technical University of Athens, Greece Miquel Vargas - University of Ontario, Oshawa, Canada Luca Veltri - University of Parma, Italy Lixia Zhang - UCLA, USA -- ******************************************************************* Stefano Salsano Dipartimento Ingegneria Elettronica Universita' di Roma "Tor Vergata" Via del Politecnico, 1 - 00133 Roma - ITALY http://www.eln.uniroma2.it/Stefano_Salsano/ E-mail : stefano.salsano(a)uniroma2.it Cell. : +39 320 4307310 Office : (Tel.) +39 06 72597450 (Fax.) +39 06 72597435 ******************************************************************* _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Special Issue on Wireless Mesh Networks.]
by Lars Wolf 12 Mar '06

12 Mar '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Special Issue on Wireless Mesh Networks. Datum: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 15:05:51 -0500 (EST) Von: Xudong Wang <wxudong(a)ece.gatech.edu> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu (As requested by many researchers, submission due date is extended to March 30, 2006. Please don't miss the new deadline. Thanks.) ==================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS SPECIAl ISSUE ON WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier) Journal http://www.elsevier.com/locate/adhoc/ Guest editors: Xudong Wang, Kiyon, Inc. Edward Knightly, Rice University Marco Conti, National Research Council, Italy Anthony Ephremides, University of Maryland ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wireless mesh networks consist of mesh clients and mesh routers. Mesh routers form a wireless backbone via multi-hop ad-hoc networking but with minimal-mobility. The mesh backbone provides network access for both wired and wireless clients including mesh clients, and enables the integration of various wired and wireless networks. Mesh clients can run as a mobile ad hoc network. However, in order to achieve much better network performance, it is always preferable for them to work under the coordination of mesh routers. Due to the existence of a mesh backbone, wireless mesh networks possess many advantages over other wireless networks, and are expected to be one of the most promising wireless networking technologies. Despite recent progresses in wireless mesh networks, many research issues still remain. This special issue is dedicated to state-of-the-art research achievements in the area of wireless mesh networking. The papers must focus on research problems that are specific to wireless mesh networking, rather than on generic topics of ad-hoc or multi-hop networking. This special issue will cover all aspects of wireless mesh networking. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Mesh network architecture and performance analysis Mesh network capacity Scalability issues and solutions Medium access control and routing protocols Protocol design for MIMO, adaptive antenna, reconfigurable radios, software radios, and cognitive radios Cross-layer design and optimization QoS and multimedia traffic over wireless mesh networks Topology, power, and mobility management Interworking between heterogeneous networks and adaptive protocols Network self-organization and self-configuration Trustworthy networks and security algorithms Incentives, cooperation, and reputation systems Testbed, deployment, and application practice Authors must submit their manuscripts through Elsevier Editorial System at http://ees.elsevier.com/adhoc/, and must choose article type as Special Issue-Wireless Mesh Networks. For detailed formatting instructions, please refer to the guidelines available at the AD HOC Networks journal web site, http://www.elsevier.com/locate/adhoc/. The review process will be based on a pre-review phase for screening papers out of the scope of this special issue, and 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: March 30, 2006 Notification of Acceptance: July 30, 2006 Final Camera-Ready Submission: September 1, 2006 On-line Publication Date: November 1, 2006 Publication Date: November 2007 =================================================================== _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: Invitation to take part of the InSciT2006 Conference]
by Martin Gutbrod 11 Mar '06

11 Mar '06

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[Fwd: CFP - IEEE JSAC, Special issue on cross-layer optimized wireless multimedia communications]
by Lars Wolf 10 Mar '06

10 Mar '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP - IEEE JSAC, Special issue on cross-layer optimized wireless multimedia communications Datum: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 17:31:15 +0100 Von: Pascal Frossard <pascal.frossard(a)epfl.ch> Antwort an: <e-notice-reply(a)ieee.org> An: <multicomm(a)comsoc.org> CC: <pascal.frossard(a)epfl.ch> Referenzen: <A11319870705495640274.pascal.frossard(a)epfl.ch> Please apologize for any duplicates. ------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications CROSS-LAYER OPTIMIZED WIRELESS MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS Submission deadline: May 15, 2006 Recent advances in wireless and mobile communications provide ample opportunities for introducing new services. Supporting multimedia applications and services over wireless networks is challenging due to constraints and heterogeneities such as limited battery power, limited bandwidth, random time-varying fading effect, different protocols and standards, stringent quality of service (QoS) requirements. Cross-layer design methodologies hold great promise for addressing these challenges and providing reliable and high-quality end-to-end performance in wireless multimedia communications. This issue solicits the state-of-the-art approaches and technical solutions in the area of cross-layer optimized wireless multimedia communications and networking. The issue will provide a compelling forum for researchers and practitioners to present their results. Original contributions, previously unpublished and not currently under review by another journal, are solicited in relevant areas including (but not limited to) the following: - Architectures for wireless multimedia communications - Multimedia delivery over various types of wireless networks (3G, 4G, ad hoc networks, WLAN, WMAN, or hybrid networks) - End-to-end QoS support for wireless networks - Multimedia delivery to energy-constrained embedded devices - Caching and content management in WLANs and WMANs - Interaction among medium access control (MAC), radio link control (RLC), and routing protocols for media delivery over multi-hop wireless networks - Wireless video sensor networks - Multimedia delivery for broadband vehicular networks - Secure multimedia communications - System prototypes and experiences with broadband wireless multimedia delivery Please note that submitted papers must explicitly address cross-layer design issues. Prospective authors should follow the IEEE J-SAC manuscript format described in the Information for Authors, at http://www.argreenhouse.com/society/J-SAC/Guidelines/info.html. Authors MUST submit their manuscripts through the Microsoft Conference Management Toolkit (CMT) at https://msrcmt.research.microsoft.com/COWMC2006/CallForPapers.aspx, together with a short abstract (approximately 150 words) in the CMT website form. In addition, the mandatory cover page is not included in the page count. The cover page should include paper title, abstract, list of keywords indicating the paper's topic area, authors' full names, affiliations with complete addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses. Please note potential authors should create their own accounts through the CMT peer review website before submitting manuscript(s). CMT will accept manuscripts in PDF format only. There will be one round of reviewers and acceptance will be limited to those papers requiring only moderate revisions. The following timetable will apply: Manuscript submission: MAY 15, 2006 Acceptance notification: November 1, 2006 Final manuscript due: December 1, 2006 Publication: 2nd Quarter 2007 Guest Editors: Chang Wen Chen Dept Elect & Comp Engr Florida Inst of Technology Melbourne, FL 32901 cchen(a)fit.edu Pascal Frossard Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Lausanne - 1015, Switzerland pascal.frossard(a)epfl.ch Cormac Sreenan Dept of Comp Science Univ College Cork Cork, Ireland cjs(a)cs.ucc.ie K. P. Subbalakshmi Dept of Elect & Comp Engr Stevens Inst of Technology Hoboken, NJ 07733 ksubbala(a)stevens.edu Dapeng Oliver Wu Dept of Elect & Comp Engr Univ of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611 wu(a)ece.ufl.edu Qian Zhang Dept of Comp Science Hong Kong Univ of Science & Tech Hong Kong qianzh(a)cs.ust.hk

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[Fwd: Introducing IEEE Portable 2007]
by Lars Wolf 10 Mar '06

10 Mar '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Introducing IEEE Portable 2007 Datum: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 01:02:53 -0500 Von: ComSocConferences(a)comsoc.org An: IEEEM&C(a)comsoc.org [] [] *CALL FOR PARTICIPATION * *IEEE PORTABLE 2007* will bring together communications, electrical, industrial, manufacturing, materials, mechanical, optical, and reliability engineers and business leaders involved in various types of Portable Information Devices (PIDs), to address and discuss state-of-the-art challenges, attributes and pitfalls in PID-related areas of engineering and applied science, with an emphasis on the interaction of the hardware and software, as well as their functional and physical (mechanical) performance, reliability and durability. Submissions are currently being accepted for: * Papers * Tutorials * Technology / Business Applications Panels * Demonstrations Visit: *www.ieee-portable.org/2007 * <http://www.ieee-portable.org/2007>*for complete * To unsubscribe from the IEEE Communications Society M&C mailing list send a blank email message to IEEEM&C-remove(a)comsoc.org. To subscribe to the IEEE Communications Society M&C mailing list send a blank email message to IEEEM&C-join(a)comsoc.org. You can also request removal by mail. Please send a note with your email address and the list name (IEEEM&C(a)comsoc.org) to ComSoc List Removal - IT 3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor New York, NY 10016 USA

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[Fwd: CFP: IFIP 5th International Conference on Entertainment Computing (ICEC 2006)]
by Lars Wolf 09 Mar '06

09 Mar '06

The 5th International Conference on Entertainment Computing (ICEC 2006) http://www.icec2006.org/ September 20, 21 & 22 September, 2006 Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK We are pleased to invite you to participate in the prestigious 5th International Conference on Entertainment Computing, under the auspices of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). The conference will be held in Cambridge, England, 20-21-22 September, 2006 Based on the very successful first international workshop (IWEC 2002) and the following international conferences (ICEC 2003, ICEC 2004, ICEC 2005), ICEC 2006 will be an international forum for the exchange of experience and knowledge amongst researchers and developers in the field of entertainment computing. Different submission types are invited that present scientific ideas or improvements to existing techniques in the broad multi-disciplinary field of entertainment and edutainment applications. Important Dates: Full paper submission due: Friday 30 March, 2006 Short paper, demo: Friday 7 April, 2006 Notification of acceptance: Monday 29 May, 2006 Camera-ready copy due: Monday, 19 June, 2006 Web site: http://www.icec2006.org/ TOPICS: Any research addressing entertainment computing is welcome, in particular we suggest (but not limited) the categories listed below: Interactive Design for Entertainment Aesthetics, Ontology and Social Reflection Art, Design and Novel Media Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality Computer Games and Game Based Interfaces Education, Training, and Edutainment Technologies Entertainment and Healthcare Novel and Evolutionary Platforms / Hardware Devices Social and Human Factors of Entertainment Interactive Digital Storytelling and Interactive Tele-Vision Mobile Entertainment via e.g. Mobile Phones, PDAs etc Narrative Environments and Intelligent Medias New Genres, New Standards Pervasive Entertainment and Game-Playing Robots and Cyber Pets Self Reflecting Entertainment Simulation Applications of Games, and Military Training Sound, Music, Creative Environments CASE STUDIES: Case studies are invited from any entertainment and edutainment application, including: Authoring Computer Games Cultural Heritage Home Entertainment Media System Design Service Robotics Affective Interaction Intelligent Environments Conference proceedings will be published with the Springer. **** Conference Committee ***** General Conference Chair: Richard Harper International Program Committee Chair: Matthias Rauterberg International Steering Committee: Marc Cavazza (University of Teesside, UK) Tak Kamae (Tokyo Women's Medical University, Japan) Lizhuang Ma (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China) Don Marinelli (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Stéphane Natkin (CNAM, France) Ryohei Nakatsu (Kwansei Gakuin University,Japan) Matthias Rauterberg (TU Eindhoven,The Netherlands) Peter Robinson (University of Cambridge, UK) Andy Sloane (University of Wolverhampton, UK) Bill Swartout (University of Southern California, USA) Organisation Chair Marco Combetto

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CHINACOM 2006 conference dates have been postponed to Oct.25-27, 2006
by Yabin Ye 09 Mar '06

09 Mar '06

[Apologies for possible duplicates] Dear Colleague, The conference dates of CHINACOM2006 have been postponed one week to Oct. 25-27, 2006. Thanks and best regards, Yabin +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CALL FOR PAPERS CHINACOM 2006: First International Conference on Communications and Networking in China Jointly co-sponsored by: Create-Net, ICST In cooperation with: ACM, SIGMOBILE, SIGSAC Technical co-sponsored by: IEEE, IEEE APS, IEEE CVTC, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), University of Science and Technology of China, OBS/OPS Forum, and IEE (pending), IEEE CS (pending), IEEE CSS (pending) October 25-27, 2006 Beijing, China http://www.chinacom.org <http://www.chinacom.org/> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CHINACOM 2006 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ================================================== INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ================================================== Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Tech., USA Yeheskel (Zeke) Bar-Ness, New Jersey Institute of Tech., USA Bob Brodersen, Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA Junliang Chen, BUPT, China Roberto Coisson, Italian Embassy in China, Italy Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK Leonard Kleinrock, UCLA, USA Hisashi Kobayashi, Princeton University, USA Byeong Gi Lee, Seoul National University, Korea Guangnan Ni, Institute of Computing Technology, China Hequan Wu, Chinese Academy of Eng., China Ya-Qin Zhang, Microsoft, USA ================================================== STEERING COMMITTEE ================================================== Imrich Chlamtac (Chair), Create-Net, Italy Bo Li (Co-Chair), HKUST, Hong Kong, China ================================================== GENERAL CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Jintong Lin, BUPT President, China Khaled Ben Letaief, HKUST, Hong Kong, China ================================================== GENERAL Vice CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Zheng Zhou, BUPT, China Yabin Ye, Create-Net, Italy ================================================== TPC CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Dongjin Wang, USTC, China UK Laurie Cuthbert, Queen Mary, Univ. of London, UK Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier Univ., Canada Chunming Qiao, SUNY at Buffalo, USA ================================================== WORKSHOPS CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Jing (James) Yang, UTstarcom, USA T. Russell Hsing, Telcordia, USA ================================================== INDUSTRY SPONSORSHIP CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Heather Yu, Panasonic, USA Xiongyan Tang, CNC, China Wenwu Zhu, Intel, USA ================================================== PANELS CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Pingzhi Fan, Southwest Jiaotong Univ., China Stephan Steglich, TU Berlin, Germany ================================================== PUBLICATION CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Zhensheng Zhang, San Diego Research Center, USA Tan Wong, Univ. of Florida, USA ================================================== PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Tee Hiang Cheng, NTU, Singapore Zhongcheng Hou, CIC, China Honggang Zhang, Create-Net, Italy ================================================== LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR ================================================== Luyong Zhang, BUPT, China SYMPOSIA CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Frontiers on Communications and Networking ================================================== Haniph A. Latchman, Univ. of Florida, USA Hui-Huang Hsu, Tamkang Univ., Taiwan, China Boon Sain Yeo, Wavex Technologies, Singapore ================================================== Optical Communications and Networking ================================================== Yuanyuan Yang, SUNY at Stony Brook, USA Xue Chen, BUPT, China Jun Zheng, University of Ottawa, Canada ================================================== Wireless Communications and Networking ================================================== Andreas F. Molisch, MERL,USA /Lund Univ. Sweden Sherman Shen, University of Waterloo, Canada Kazem Sohraby, University of Arkansas, USA Jianhua Lu, Tsinghua University, China ================================================== Advances in Internet ================================================== Hai Jin, HUST, China Qian Zhang, HKUST, Hong Kong, China ================================================== Communications Theory and Signal Processing for Communications ================================================== Ahmed H. Tewfik, Univ. of Minnesota, USA Jing Tiffany Li, Lehigh University, USA ================================================== Networking Security and Information Assurance ================================================== Madjid Merabti, Liverpool John Moores Univ., UK Thomas Woo, Bell labs, USA +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The aim of CHINACOM is to bring together Chinese and International players in networking and communications under one roof, building a showcase in communications and networking research in China. China's information technology industry and research have been developing at an enormous pace in the last 20 years. Currently China has the largest wireless mobile and the second largest Internet subscriber population in the world. By the end of 2005, the mobile phone users have reached 388 million (19% of the world market), and the number will be over 500 million by 2008 and over 150 million will be multimedia applications. Internet users have exceeded 100 million (half of them are broadband service subscribers). The total sale of optical cables & fibers reached 15 million kilometers in 2004, with the sale of the whole optical communication facility market reaching 1.5 billion USD. Furthermore, business/market factors in this area in China are unique since they are Government driven and mixed with culture, technology, and market forces. CHINACOM is being positioned as the premier international annual conference for the presentation of original and fundamental research advances in the field of Communications, Networks, and Internet Applications. The conference will consist of Technical Symposia, and Workshops. The Technical Symposia will describe significant research in all areas defined below; while the Workshops will focus on development, applications and related business issues. PAPERS: The conference invites original technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Topics include, but are not limited to: ================================================== Symposium-Frontiers on Communications and Networking ================================================== Bio-inspired networks Nano-Networks OSS/BSS/NGOSS Future internet architecture design Linear network coding Cooperation diversity and cooperative coding Autonomic communications/networking principles Multimedia broadband networking for smart homes Theory and algorithms of networking such as routing, congestion control, traffic engineering, peer-to-peer/overlay and security Power-line communications Detection and iterative processing techniques Theoretical foundations for network autonomics Tools and techniques for designing, analyzing and building autonomic networks and systems Adaptive security and safety mechanisms for self-protection and self-healing Applications and services such as location-based services, VoIP, IPTV, content services, L2/L3VPNs, Cognitive communications and networking ================================================== Symposium-Optical Communications and Networking ================================================== Routing and wavelength assignment ASON/GMPLS control plane Traffic grooming and traffic engineering Multicasting in optical networks Optical Packet /Burst Switching (OPS/OBS) Optical network protection and restoration Optical switches architecture and performance Optical grid Passive optical networks (A/B/G/EPONs) Optical network test beds and field trials Hybrid wireless-optical metro/access networks Signaling and monitoring in optical networks Ultra-high-speed transmission systems (>40 Gb/s) Modulation formats and coding Signal processing and forward error correction DWDM and CWDM transceivers and Transponders Optical regeneration (including all-optical) Fixed and reconfigurable OADMs Chromatic dispersion and PMD compensation Optical systems design and simulation OE and passive devices' applications Optical Ethernet and new service paradigms Impact of the physical-layer impairments on optical network design and traffic engineering ================================================== Symposium-Wireless Communications and Networking ================================================== PCS, GPRS, EDGE, 3GPP, UMTS, IMT2000 CDMA, TDMA, OFDM, air interfaces Handoff protocols & management Smart Antennas, cell & capacity planning Wireless LANs, mobile Internet Network topology control Flow & congestion control TCP over wireless Wireless multicasting Chaotic broadband (wireless) communications B3G/4G mobile network architectures Wireless multimedia Multiple and wireless access techniques Wireless switching and routing techniques Ultra-wideband (UWB) and Cognitive Radio Resource allocation and interference management Propagation and channel characterization MIMO techniques, Space-time coding Sensor and Ad hoc wireless networks WiMAX and beyond WiFi ================================================== Symposium-Advances in Internet ================================================== Provisioning and management of IP services Distributed Internet applications Novel applications and new paradigms Handling Internet dynamics/heterogeneity Traffic measurement, analysis, modeling China Next Generation Internet (CNGI) Multimedia and Internet application Pervasive/GRID computing Platforms for rapid creation and deployment of network services Design methodologies for Internet services Emergency services Services enabling protocols and extensions Peer-to-Peer applications and technologies leveraging/supporting peer-to-peer applications Middleware for new Internet based applications Converged networks and applications (including VoIP and 3G/NGN telecom networks) Applications leveraging content networking technologies delivering applications on the Internet Services over the wireless Internet Security and privacy management in hosted Internet applications ================================================================= Symposium-Communication Theory and Signal Processing for Communications ================================================================= Adaptive Antennas Adaptive Modulation and coded modulation Broadcast channels Channel estimation and modeling Communications electronics Channel Capacities Equalization Error Control Coding and ARQ Interference mitigation and signal separation Multiple access channels Multiuser systems and multiuser detection Network coding Receiver techniques Source coding and joint source-channel coding Space-Time codes and MIMO Speech and video signal processing Synchronization Signal processing algorithms Signal processing for UWB OFDM and multicarrier systems Image processing for communications Relay channels and user cooperation Signal processing for data storage Signal processing in wireless communications Speech and video signal processing Signal processing for multimedia ================================================== Symposium-Networking Security and Information Assurance ================================================== Power-reliability-security trade-offs in wireless networks Cross-layer approaches to security Mobile network security Location aware security in mobile networks Throughput-Security trade-offs in wireless networks Secure group multimedia communications Secure PHY/MAC/routing protocols Distributed security systems Secure cooperation in wireless networks Jamming and counter measures Attacks on security and vulnerability analysis Application layer encryption Digital watermarking and biometrics for secure information access Capacity and security analysis of covert channels Security Engineering Security in large-scale environments Security protocols Security of ad-hoc/sensor networks WORKSHOPS: Proposals for workshops are solicited. Potential chairs are requested to submit a workshop proposal of at most 5 pages, including a biographical sketch of each chair, to one of the Workshop Chairs by June 6th, 2006. Evaluation of workshop proposals will be based on the relevance of the subject matter, and the expertise and experience of the chair. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Conference language is English. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a PDF version of the full paper in IEEE conference proceedings format, which are limited to 5 two-column pages in a font no smaller than 10-points. All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Please submit the paper through the COCUS System, http://cocus.create-net.it/cocus/welcome.do. Please visit the conference website http://www.chinacom.org/submissions.html for detailed submission requirements and procedures. PUBLICATION: All submitted papers will go through a peer review process. All accepted papers will be included in the CHINACOM 2006 Conference Proceedings. All accepted papers will be made available in IEEE Xplore and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library and then be indexed by Engineering Information (EI). Accepted papers will also be recommended for a special issue of a top journal. ================================================== IMPORTANT DATES ================================================== Paper Submission Due, May 1st, 2006 (Monday) Notification of Acceptance, June 30th, 2006 (Friday) Camera Ready Versions Due, July 31st, 2006 (Monday) Conference Dates, October, 25-27, 2006 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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[Fwd: E-NEXT.members: Deadline Extension - Workshop on Content Caching and Distribution Networks]
by Lars Wolf 08 Mar '06

08 Mar '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: E-NEXT.members: Deadline Extension - Workshop on Content Caching and Distribution Networks Datum: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 15:46:39 +0100 Von: Walid Dabbous <walid.dabbous(a)inria.fr> An: Members E-Next Mailing List <members(a)ist-e-next.net> Dear collegues, We inform you that the (short) papers submission to the WG3 workshop on Content Caching and Distribution Networks is extended until March 15th. Here is the pointer to the workshop page : http://www2.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~lambrosl/wccdn/ Submission is by mail to wccdn(a)cs.ucy.ac.cy <mailto:wccdn@cs.ucy.ac.cy> Regards, Walid & Lambros

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[Fwd: [Tccc] ACM/SIGMOBILE REALMAN 2006: Demo submission deadline extension]
by Lars Wolf 08 Mar '06

08 Mar '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] ACM/SIGMOBILE REALMAN 2006: Demo submission deadline extension Datum: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 11:23:19 +0100 Von: Andrea Passarella <andrea.passarella(a)iit.cnr.it> An: tccc tccc <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> [ Apologies for possible duplicates ] ------------------------------------------------------------------ DEMO SUBMISSION DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED 19 MARCH 2006, midnight PST ------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR DEMOS Second International Workshop on Multi-hop Ad hoc Networks: from theory to reality REALMAN 2006 http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/realman Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE in conjunction with MobiHoc 2006 jointly organized by University of Cambridge, UK CNR-Institute for Informatics and Telematics, I May 26, 2006 Florence, Italy Ad hoc networking technologies have big potentialities for innovative applications of great impact on our everyday life. To exploit these potentialities, simulation modeling and theoretical analyses have to be complemented by real experiences (e.g., measurements on real prototypes) which provide both a direct evaluation of ad hoc networks and, at the same time, precious information to realistically model these systems. The need for more experimental activities stimulated a new community of researchers combining theoretical research on ad hoc networking with experiences/measurements obtained by implementing ad hoc network prototypes. The aim of REALMAN is to bring together this community. Following the success of the first edition, this workshop constitutes a unique forum for presenting and discussing measurement studies and experiences based on real ad hoc network test-beds and prototypes. DEMO SESSION A demo session will be held during the workshop, showing real prototypes at work. Demo proposals are highly welcome, and will be evaluated by the Program Committee. An extended abstract (up to three pages) describing the demo will be included in the workshop proceedings, published by ACM. More information on demo-proposal submission can be found at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/realman (section "call for demos"). SPECIAL ISSUES Distinguished demos will be considered for possible publication in high-quality journals. Specifically, authors will be invited to submit a paper describing the research work related to the demo, and evaluating the prototype performance. IMPORTANT DATES Demo Submission 10 March 2006 ***** EXTENDED TO 19 MARCH 2006, midnight PST (UTC-8) ****** Notification 27 March 2006 Camera-ready due 10 April 2006 ORGANISING COMMITTEE General Chair Marco Conti IIT-CNR, Italy marco.conti(a)iit.cnr.it Program Chair Jon Crowcroft University of Cambridge, UK jon.crowcroft(a)cl.cam.ac.uk Program Vice Chair Andrea Passarella IIT-CNR, Italy University of Cambridge, UK andrea.passarella(a)iit.cnr.it TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE I. Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA K. Almeroth, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA G. Anastasi, University of Pisa, Italy E. Biagioni, University of Hawaii, USA L. Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy E. Borgia, IIT-CNR, Italy C.F. Chiasserini, Polytechnic of Turin, Italy S.K. Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA S.R. Das, SUNY at Stony Brook, USA C. Diot, Thomson Research, F S. Fdida, University Pierre et Marie Curie, F E. Fleury, INSA Lyon, F M. Gerla, UCLA, USA S. Giordano, SUPSI, CH P. Gunningberg, Uppsala University, Sweden T. Henderson, Dartmouth College, USA H. Karl, Paderborn University, Germany D. Katabi, MIT, USA E. Knightly, Rice University, USA S.J. Lee, HP Labs, USA C. Mascolo, University College London, UK M. Mauve, Duesseldorf HH University, Germany P. Michiardi, Eurecom, F G. Morabito, University of Catania, Italy J. Ott, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland D. Papagiannaki, Intel Research, UK C. Petrioli, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy G. Polyzos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece D. Remondo, University Polytechnic of Catalonia, Spain K. Roemer, ETH Zurich, CH C. Rohner, Uppsala University, Sweden J. Scott, Intel Research, UK F. Sestini, European Commission V.A. Siris, FORTH-ICS and Crete University, Greece M. Srivastava, University of California at Los Angeles, USA I. Stojmenovic, Ottawa University, Canada N. Vaidya, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA W. Wang, North Carolina State University, USA X. Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA A. Wolisz, Techical University of Berlin, Germany -- Andrea Passarella REALMAN 2006 Vice Program Chair ========================================================= University of Cambridge Computer Lab Pervasive Computing & Networking Lab. (PerLab) Institute for Informatics and Telematics (IIT) National Research Council (CNR) Via G. Moruzzi, 1 || voice: +39 050 315 3063 56124 Pisa, Italy || fax: +39 050 315 2113 email: andrea.passarella(a)iit.cnr.it web: www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~ap458/ ========================================================= _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: E-NEXT.members: [Fwd: [Multimedia 06] Call For Contributions]]
by Lars Wolf 08 Mar '06

08 Mar '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: E-NEXT.members: [Fwd: [Multimedia 06] Call For Contributions] Datum: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 09:47:22 +0000 Von: Dr AU Mauthe <a.mauthe(a)lancaster.ac.uk> An: E-Next <members(a)ist-e-next.net> - ------------------------------------------------ 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/Doctoral 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 ------------------------------------ General Information Multimedia 2006 invites your participation in the premier annual multimedia conference, covering all aspects of multimedia computing: from underlying technologies to applications, theory to practice, and servers to networks to devices. The technical program will consist of plenary sessions and talks with topics of interest in: (a) Multimedia content analysis, processing, and retrieval; (b) Multimedia networking and systems support; (c) Multimedia tools, end-systems, and applications; and (d) Foundational sciences of multimedia. Awards will be given to the best paper and the best student paper. In order to encourage sharing of implementations, this year will also initiate awards for best demo, best art program paper, and the best-contributed open-source software. Panels will consist of discussions on timely and controversial topics. Short papers will be presented in poster format and are an opportunity for researchers to present new work and ideas in an interactive setting. State-of-the-Art Tutorials by leading experts will precede the technical program. The full- and half-day offerings will span a wide variety of topics. New Foundational/Application track is a special sessions track containing papers, which establish foundational sciences and extend the boundaries of multimedia research. Technical Demos will include leading edge work in every area of multimedia technology and its application. An award will be given to the best demo. Interactive Art Program will include long and short papers describing interactive multimedia art works, tools, applications, and technical approaches for creative uses of multimedia content and technology. It will also include an art exhibition. Video Demonstrations allow researchers and artists to demonstrate their tool, system or application without having to bring the equipment for a "live" demo. Workshops on topics of great current interest to members of the multimedia research community will precede the technical program. The Doctoral Symposium is a venue for doctoral students to present their research and receive feedback from members of the multimedia research field. The Open-source Software Competition is a recent addition to the ACM Multimedia program and 2006 will be our third year in running the competition. ------------------------ 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 ANDREAS(a)COMP.LANCS.AC.UK --- -- __________________________________________________________________________ Dr Andreas U. Mauthe Computing Department InfoLab 21 South Drive Lancaster University Phone: +44/1524/5 10485 Lancaster LA1 4WA Fax: +44/1524/5 10492 United Kingdom E-mail: andreas(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/andreas/ __________________________________________________________________________ +++ Posted to members-istenext by Dr AU Mauthe <a.mauthe(a)lancaster.ac.uk> +++

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[Fwd: E-NEXT.members: -ESAS06 Cfp-]
by Lars Wolf 08 Mar '06

08 Mar '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: E-NEXT.members: -ESAS06 Cfp- Datum: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 11:12:59 +0100 Von: Claude.Castelluccia(a)inrialpes.fr An: members(a)ist-e-next.net ---------------------------------------------------------- Third European Workshop on Security and Privacy in Ad hoc and Sensor Networks (ESAS 2006) in conjunction with the European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2006) Hamburg, Germany September 20-21, 2006. http://www.crysys.hu/ESAS2006/ ---------------------------------------------------------- * CALL FOR PAPERS * The vision of ubiquitous computing has generated a lot of interest in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. However, besides their potential advantages, these new generations of networks also raise some challenging problems with respect to security and privacy. The aim of this workshop is to bring together the network security, cryptography, and wireless networking communities in order to discuss these problems and to propose new solutions. The third ESAS workshop seeks submissions that present original research on all aspects of security and privacy in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. Submission of papers based on work-in-progress is encouraged. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: * Privacy and anonymity * Prevention of traffic analysis * Location privacy * Secure positioning and localization * Secure MAC protocols * Secure topology control * Secure routing * Secure context aware computing * Secure in-network processing * Attack resistant data aggregation * Cooperation and fairness * Key management * Trust establishment * Embedded security * Cryptography under resource constraints * Distributed intrusion detection Important Dates Submission deadline: May 29, 2006 Notification of acceptance: July 31, 2006 Workshop: September 20-21, 2006 Camera ready version: October 9, 2006 Instructions for Authors Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract of their original work. Maximum length for submissions is 8 pages. The preferred submission format is PDF or PostScript. Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors have published elsewhere or have submitted in parallel. All submissions will be refereed. Accepted papers should be presented at the workshop, in which case they will appear in the post-workshop proceedings. The final camera ready version should be sent in after the workshop and it must not exceed 15 pages. Further information on how to submit papers will be available on the web site of the workshop: http://www.crysys.hu/ESAS2006/ Workshop Proceedings As in previous years, the proceedings will be published by Springer after the workshop in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/). Note that in order to be included in the proceedings, an accepted paper must be presented at the workshop. For further information, please, visit the web site of the workshop at: http://www.crysys.hu/ESAS2006/ ESAS 2006 staff General Chair: Dirk Westhoff, NEC Europe Network Lab, Germany Program Chairs: Levente Buttyán, BME CrySyS Lab, Hungary Virgil Gligor, University of Maryland, USA Publicity Chairs: Claude Castelluccia, INRIA, France Susanne Wetzel, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Program Committee: Imad Aad, DoCoMo Lab Europe, Germany N. Asokan, Nokia, Finland Sonja Buchegger, University of California, Berkeley, USA Srdjan Capkun, Technical University of Denmark Claude Castelluccia, INRIA, France Xuhua Ding, Singapore Management University, Singapore Roberto Di Pietro, Universita "La Sapienza" Roma, Italy Hannes Hartenstein, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Yih-Chun Hu, University of Illinois UC, USA Markus Jakobsson, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA Frank Kargl, University of Ulm, Germany Yongdae Kim, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA Breno de Medeiros, Florida State University, USA Ludovic Me, Supelec, France Pietro Michiardi, Eurecom, France Gabriel Montenegro, Microsoft, USA Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Purdue University, USA Guevara Noubir, Northeastern University, USA Kaisa Nyberg, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Panagiotis Papadimitratos, EPFL, Switzerland Adrian Perrig, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Radha Poovendran, University of Washington, USA Frank Stajano, Cambridge University, UK Andre Weimerskirch, University of Bochum, Germany Dirk Westhoff, NEC Europe Network Lab, Germany Susanne Wetzel, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Jeong Hyun Yi, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea ------------[ http://www.crysys.hu/ESAS2006/ ]------------ +++ Posted to members-istenext by Claude.Castelluccia(a)inrialpes.fr +++

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Personalized Networks'06 cfp]
by Lars Wolf 06 Mar '06

06 Mar '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Personalized Networks'06 cfp Datum: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 16:50:24 +0100 Von: Paolo Bellavista <pbellavista(a)deis.unibo.it> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Please accept our apologies if you received multiple copies of this call for papers CALL FOR PAPERS ============================================================ First International Workshop on Personalized Networks http://pernets.org/ To be held in conjunction with: The 3rd Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networks and Services (ACM/IEEE MOBIQUITOUS 2006) July 17-21, 2006 - San Jose, California, USA ============================================================ Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: April 1, 2006 Notification of Acceptance: May 8, 2006 Camera-Ready Submissions: May 31, 2006 (Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and the IEEE Digital Library) ============================================================= Purpose of this workshop The ubiquitous nature of wireless networks has spawned many interesting applications that were unimagined hitherto. It has also brought many challenges for the communication and networking community to ponder. On the one hand, we see present day mobile devices capable of providing many integrated services that only yesterday required several different devices. For instance, most cell phones nowadays provide high speed data access, still and video cameras, PDA functionality, etc. These advances in device sophistication and service offerings, including wireless hotspots, have made a difference in the way we communicate. With increased user mobility and the desire to always be connected, we have seen a growing interest in Personal Area Networks (PANs) and Body Area Networks (BANs). These networks can be tuned and applied meaningfully for individual users and their requirements. On the other hand, the Internet has changed our way of interacting dramatically. These two major communication areas are having an in-depth influence on the way we communicate; it is worth considering them 'together' as the future communication vehicle. (Please visit http://pernets.org/ for more information and submission instructions) Scope of the submission We seek original contributions which are aimed at finding solutions to the problems outlined above towards a Personalized Network. We have identified the following major topics under which we try to categorize the submissions. However, we will consider any other original, interesting, and imaginative ideas and thoughts towards meeting the goal of a Personalized Network. * Addressing and routing * Architectural framework of personalized networks * Context-aware and application-driven communication substrates * Dependability * Handling of QoS across heterogeneous and dynamically changing link layers * Innovative applications or prototypes and demonstrations of person-centric applications * Interactions between persons through their networks, federations of such networks * Interworking between PANs, ad hoc networks, etc, and infrastructure-based heterogeneous networks * Mapping of functional requirements to physical devices and resources * Modeling and simulation of personalized networks * Mobility of personalized networks * Multimedia services for personalized networks * New QoS concepts in personalized networks * P2P paradigm in personalized networks * Resource, service and context discovery * Security, privacy and accounting * Self-organization and adaptation * Zero configuration methods and other enablers for ease-of-use Why should you participate in this workshop? Personalized Networks is a concrete vision of the future networks, which attracts researchers from both wired and wireless domains. This workshop is an ideal platform to share a vision of where we are heading, interact, and strongly advocate an exciting new avenue for researchers and practitioners in the field of communication. Further, the final program would consist of carefully selected - with at least three peer reviews - and high quality submissions with a large emphasis on new ideas rather than incremental contributions to the field. Submissions of shorter versions of full papers that can be submitted to other conferences/journal in the near future are discouraged. General Chairperson Ignas Niemegeers, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Program Co-Chairpersons Sonia Heemstra de Groot, University of Twente, Netherlands Sai Shankar, Qualcomm, San Diego, USA Magda El Zarki, University of California, Irvine, USA Publicity Chairperson Paolo Bellavista, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy Technical Program Committee Paolo Bellavista, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy Milind M Buddhikot, Bell Laboratories, New Jersey, USA Chun-Ting Chou, Philips Research, New York, USA Carlos Cordeiro, Philips Research, New York, USA Piet Demeester, University of Ghent, Belgium Sudhir Dixit, Nokia, Boston, USA Carmelita Görg, University of Bremen, Germany Minaxi Gupta, Indiana University, USA K. V. S. Hari, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Frank den Hartog, TNO, Netherlands Sonia Heemstra de Groot, University of Twente, Netherlands Geert Heijenk, University of Twente, The Netherlands James Irvine, Strathclyde University, Scotland H. S. Jamadagni, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Ernö Kovacs, NEC Europe, Heidelberg, Germany Anup Kumar, University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA Joy Kuri, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Guy Leduc, Universite de Liege, Belgium Anthony Lo, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Piet van Mieghem, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Ingrid Moerman, University of Ghent, Belgium Luis Muñoz, University of Cantabria, Spain Ignas Niemegeers, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Giovanni Pau, University of California Los Angeles, USA Jorge Pereira, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium Ramjee Prasad, University of Aalborg, Denmark Tarek Saadawi, City University of New York, USA Amardeo Sarma, NEC Network Laboratories, Germany Sai Shankar, Qualcomm, San Diego, USA Sirin Tekinay, New Jersey Institute of Technology, New Jersey, USA Magda El Zarki, University of California, Irvine, USA Djamal Zeglache, INT, Paris, France Paolo Bellavista, Ph. D. Associate Professor in Computer Science Engineering DEIS - Università degli Studi di Bologna Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna (ITALY) Tel# +39-051-2093866; Fax# +39-051-2093073 Email: pbellavista(a)deis.unibo.it Web: http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/PaoloBellavista/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: Wireless Internet Conference (WICON 2006)]
by Lars Wolf 06 Mar '06

06 Mar '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: Wireless Internet Conference (WICON 2006) Datum: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 17:19:26 -0500 Von: Tristan Henderson <tristan(a)cs.dartmouth.edu> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu *************************************************************** ******************** CALL FOR PAPERS ************************* *************************************************************** Wireless Internet Conference (WICON 2006) Submission deadline: March 31, 2006 (5 PM PDT) Conference dates: August 2-5, 2006 Location: Boston, USA http://www.wicon.org Sponsored by ICST and Create-Net, IEEE Computer Society sponsorship pending Built on this year's successful conference inaugural, the Wireless Internet Conference (WICON) will continue to provide a premier international forum to discuss novel research results related to the emerging Wireless Internet. The conference addresses technologies aimed at providing seamless connectivity, richer services, and better quality for wireless data users while supporting heterogeneity in communication technologies, network architectures, and applications. The focus of the conference is on architectural, networking, security, performance and management aspects of cellular, WiFi, WiMax and other Wireless Internet technologies. Preference will be given to papers describing implementations, deployment, measurements, empirical performance evaluation and experiments. The conference will also put a special emphasis on integration and convergence issues of various wireless technologies and architectures, as well as cross-layer aspects, such as QoS, billing, and security. Given the existence of other conferences on mobile ad hoc networks, sensor networks, and the like, papers that are oriented to ad hoc and sensor networks are discouraged unless they directly focus on the conference theme of the Wireless Internet. WICON is soliciting both research track and industry track papers. All papers should describe original work that has been neither previously published nor is under review by another conference or journal. The page limit is 10 pages in IEEE double column format. Industry track papers must have at least one author from industry, and should describe interesting technical aspects of industrial applications, prototypes, experiences, and standards; performance and design details are encouraged, whereas papers focused on marketing or product information will not be accepted. For easy identification, all industry track papers should have as their title "Industry Track: rest of title." Papers will be submitted by electronic submission through COCUS system: http://cocus.create-net.it. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Implementation, deployment and measurements o performance of 2G, 3G, WiFi and WiMax systems o wireless network design, dimensioning and analysis o implementation, experimental systems and measurements o user behavior, traffic measurements and forecasting - Mobile network architectures o mobile networks beyond the 3rd generation o IP Multimedia Subsystem architecture and protocols o hybrid wireless architectures, fixed mobile convergence o service network architectures - Applications and services for mobile users o application platforms and middleware o application performance, performance enhancement o VoIP over wireless and cellular networks o vertical wireless application design (e.g. health care) o design and performance of wireless Internet applications (e.g., mobile gaming) - Wireless management, security and systems issues o wireless network management and diagnosis o security, malware, viruses and spam in wireless Internet o pricing and billing o reliability of wireless networks and services Organizing Committee: General Chairs: Ravi Jain, Google Ram Ramjee, Bell Labs Technical Program Co-Chairs: Lili Qiu, University of Texas at Austin Andras Valko, Ericsson Steering Committee Chair: Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net Research Consortium Conference coordination and registration: Kitti H. Kovacs, ICST Finance Chair: Farooq Anjum, Telcordia Workshop Co-Chairs: Chiara Petrioli, Universit di Roma Suman Banerjee, University of Wisconsin-Madison Industry Track and Sponsorship Co-Chairs: Sujata Banerjee, Hewlett-Packard Milind Buddhikot, Bell Labs Publicity Co-Chairs: Tristan Henderson, Dartmouth College Mun Choon Chan, National University, Singapore Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, Politecnico di Torino Local Arrangements Chair: Guevara Noubir, Northeastern University Panel Chair: Sneha Kasera, University of Utah Poster Co-Chairs: Christian Bettstetter, University of Klagenfurt, Austria. Rajeev Shorey, National University, Singapore _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE supplemental posting (EuroSys 2006 Poster Submission)]
by Lars Wolf 06 Mar '06

06 Mar '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE supplemental posting (EuroSys 2006 Poster Submission) Datum: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 09:21:04 -0800 Von: Geoff Voelker <voelker(a)CS.UCSD.EDU> Antwort an: Geoff Voelker <voelker(a)CS.UCSD.EDU> An: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG EuroSys 2006 Poster Submission Information EuroSys 2006 will host an interactive poster session. Poster submissions will be peer-reviewed on the basis of an extended abstract describing the poster and, if available, a PDF file for the poster itself. Accepted abstracts and the associated posters will be available from the EuroSys web site. To submit a poster, please: * Write a 1-page extended abstract of the research to be described by the poster; All submissions should begin with the following information: Title: (title of proposed presentation) Name: (your name) E-mail: (your e-mail address) Student: (are you a student? yes/no) SUBMISSIONS LONGER THAN ONE PAGE WITH NOT BE ACCEPTED. * Place the abstract on the web as a ASCII, HTML, postscript or PDF format document * Mail the URL for the document's location to the Poster Session Chair, Gilles Muller <Gilles.Muller(a)emn.fr> (and please mention "EuroSys POSTER" in the subject). If you have already completed the poster at the time of submission, please include a second URL to the actual poster in PDF format for use by the committee. If you are do not have access to a web server on which to post your abstract, you may email your abstract and poster as attachments directly to the Poster Session Chair. Important Dates: Deadline for poster extended abstract submission March 12th, 2006 Notification of poster acceptance April 1, 2006 Poster session April 19, 2006 ____________________________________________________________ About SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE The SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE mailing list is intended to provide a low-volume channel that provides operating systems researchers and practitioners with information about upcoming events or other important announcements. In general, a message containing a group of such announcements will be sent about once per month with the subject line "SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting". On rare occasions, announcements of particular interest or urgency will be sent out with a different subject line, starting with "SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE supplemental posting" (for readers who wish to use mail filtering programs). Finally, this mailing list is made available for use by publicity chairs of SIGOPS-sponsored conferences and the SIGOPS officers. To subscribe, send mail to LISTSERV(a)ACM.ORG with the following command (paste it!) in the body of the message: SUBSCRIBE SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE To unsubscribe, send mail to LISTSERV(a)ACM.ORG with the following command in the body of the message: UNSUBSCRIBE SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE To get more information about manipulating your subscription to this list, go to http://www.acm.org/infodir/services/listserv/doc.html To contact the owner of the list or to report a problem with the list, email SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE-request(a)ACM.ORG To request that an announcement be included in monthly mailings, go to http://sysnet.ucsd.edu/sigops/acm.html ____________________________________________________________ Geoff Voelker, SIGOPS Information Director

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[Fwd: [Tccc] ICCCN 2006 CFP]
by Lars Wolf 04 Mar '06

04 Mar '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] ICCCN 2006 CFP Datum: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 14:59:18 -0600 Von: Byrav Ramamurthy <byrav(a)cse.unl.edu> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu 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 best 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); 540-231-6075(fax) Dr. Katherine Guo Center for Networking and 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) Publicity Chair: Dr. Nasir Ghani, Tennessee Tech University, (931) 372-3046, nghani(a)tntech.edu Local Arrangement Chair: E.K. Park, UMKC, ekpark(a)umkc.edu; 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/ 4. Optical & High-Speed Networking: Debanjan Saha, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center http://debanjan.sahafamily.com/ dsaha(a)us.ibm.com 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 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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EC-TEL: First European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning
by Martin Gutbrod 04 Mar '06

04 Mar '06

[Apologies for cross-posting. A friendly reminder: deadline is end of this month!] __________________________________________________ First European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning - Innovative Approaches for Learning and Knowledge Sharing - Crete, Greece - October 1-4, 2006 URL: http://www.ectel06.org Organized by the PRO-LC Cluster (http://www.professional-learning-cluster.org/) __________________________________________________ With the shift towards the knowledge society, changing working conditions and the continuous evolution of information and communication technologies, peoples' knowledge and skills need continuous development. Technology enhanced learning is one of the strategic objectives of the EU/IST Work Programme, with the goal of "improving the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of learning, for individuals and organizations, independent of time, place and pace." Innovative infrastructuctures, methods and approaches are needed to reach this goal, and will facilitate transfer and sharing of knowledge between individuals and in organisations. For e-learning, as in e-commerce and e-business, systemic changes wrought by emerging technologies are also changing the relationships between consumption and production - in this case of knowledge - as what many call 'Web 2.0' becomes more interactive and user-generated content becomes more widespread. The First European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning provides a unique forum for all research related to technology- enhanced learning, as well as its interactions with knowledge management, business processes and work environments. It will provide a competitive yet broad enough forum for technology enhanced learning research in Europe and world-wide through specialized workshops and the main conference. The conference will provide unique networking possibilities for participating researchers throughout the week and include project meetings and discussions for several EU/IST projects funded within the 6th framework program under the action line of "Technology-Enhanced Learning and Access to Cultural Heritage". We welcome submissions describing innovative research on all relevant issues, focusing on aspects from computer science, business and/or education, as well as experience reports and case studies describing innovative applications of new learning environments and approaches. EC-TEL 2006 invites submissions in the following categories: - Papers and posters - Doctoral consortium papers - Industrial reports - Workshops Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to: - Collaborative Learning: Learning Communities, Distributed Teams, Instructional Methods for Collaborative Learning, Problem Solving Support, Collaborative Knowledge Building and Sharing, Collaborative Games, Online Experiments - Personalized Learning: Reasoning Techniques, Adaptation Patterns and Techniques, Data Mining, Learner Modeling, Learner Assessment and Testing, Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Instructions, Competencies in Workplace Learning - Multimedia Content: Autoring of Multimedia/ Virtual Reality Content, Multimedia / Virtual Reality Streaming, Web Video Lectures - Semantic Web, Metadata and Learning: Learning Objects, Learning Activities, Learning Design, Narrative and Navigation Models, Semantic Clustering, Metadata for Search and Information Retrieval Workplace Learning: - Knowledge Management and Learning, Business Processes and Learning, Cost and Economy Models, Leveraging Expertise, Informal Learning, Social Software, Organizational Learning, Knowledge Sharing. - Learning Repositories and Infrastructures for Learning: Peer-to-Peer Infrastructures, Runtime Engines for Learning Design and Learning Objects, Mobile and Ubiquitous Learning, Deployment Strategies, Re-Use of Learning Objects, Re-Authoring and Re-Purposing - Experience Reports, Assesment, and Case Studies All submissions will be reviewed for relevance, originality, significance, soundness and clarity by three reviewers. Format: Publication of the proceedings is planned in Springer LNCS (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html). For camera-ready format instructions, please see "For Authors" instructions at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. The page limit is 15 pages for full papers, 6 pages for posters. Selected papers will be considered for special issues of relevant journals. Important Dates: Deadline for Paper Submissions: March 30, 2006 Notification to Authors: June 1, 2006 Camery-Ready Papers: June 30, 2006 Conference: October 3 - 5, 2006 Deadline for Workshop Proposal Submissions: March 30, 2006 Notification of Workshop Acceptance: May 1, 2006 Deadline for Proceedings of Workshops: September 1, 2006 Workshops: October 1 - 2, 2006 Co-located Events and PRO-LC Meetings: September 29 - 30, October 5 - 6, 2006 Program Committee Chairs: Wolfgang Nejdl, Germany Klaus Tochtermann, Austria Publicity Chair: Erik Duval, Belgium Workshop Chair: Peter Scott, UK Industry Chair: Volker Zimmermann, Germany Doctoral Consortium Chairs: Katherine Maillet, France Ralf Klamma, Germany Program Committee Members: Heidrun Allert, Austria Kalina Bontcheva, UK Paul de Bra, The Netherlands Paul Brna, UK Peter Brusilovsky, USA Fabrizio Cardinali, Italy Stefano Ceri, Italy Pierre Dillenbourg, Switzerland Peter Dolog, Germany Erik Duval, Belgium Dieter Euler, Switzerland Monique Grandbastien, France J^rg M. Haake, Germany Kai Hakkarainen, Finland Friedrich Hesse, Germany Nicola Henze, Germany Wayne Hodgins, USA Geert-Jan Houben, Belgium Matthias Jarke, Germany Ralf Klamma, Germany Rob Koper, The Netherlands Stefanie Lindstaedt, Austria Peter Loos, Germany Erica Melis, Germany Riichiro Mizoguchi, Japan Enrico Motta, UK Gustaf Neumann, Austria Roy Pea, USA Juan Quemada, Spain Jeremy Roschelle, USA Vittorio Scarano, Italy Peter Scott, UK Marcus Specht, The Netherlands Ralf Steinmetz, Germany Julita Vassileva, Canada Vincent Wade, Ireland Gerhard Weber, Germany Organizing Chair: Constantin Makropolous, Greece Organizing Committee: Peter Dolog, Germany Sofia Kalokerinou, Greece Vana Kamtsiou, Greece Martin Wolpers, Belgium Helen Zabaka, Greece Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/semanticweb/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: semanticweb-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! 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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP - Workshop on Networking in Public Transport]
by Lars Wolf 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP - Workshop on Networking in Public Transport Datum: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 20:53:54 +1100 Von: Lavy Libman <Lavy.Libman(a)nicta.com.au> Organisation: NICTA An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> Dear colleagues, Please find below the first call for papers for the Workshop on Networking in Public Transport (WNEPT). We apologize in advance for any cross-postings and duplicates. ========================================= CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Networking in Public Transport (WNEPT 2006) in conjunction with QShine 2006 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada August 10, 2006 http://www.wnept.org Public transport (PT) systems, including buses, taxis, trains, ships and airplanes, are used daily by millions of people worldwide, ranging from regular commuters in metropolitan areas to long-distance business and leisure travellers. The ability to communicate and access information during travel is becoming increasingly crucial to maintain productivity or provide entertainment for PT passengers. However, despite phenomenal advances in mobile wireless networking technologies in recent years, commercial deployments of special networking solutions to support PT passengers remain scarce (except in airplanes). For the most part, mobile end users can only communicate by connecting directly to their individual wireless service providers. This prevailing situation offers a very limited and often inadequate support for the wide range of applications and needs of PT passengers, such as broadcast of multimedia entertainment and travel-related updates, and interactive multiplayer games. Additionally, networking support to PT vehicles is necessary to enable other PT-specific applications that do not directly involve the passengers, such as real-time surveillance, remote telemetry, and management of PT-specific road infrastructure (e.g. traffic lights on priority bus lanes and rail crossings). All of these require the deployment of integrated on-board network solutions to connect between passengers, content/application servers and other vehicle-mounted devices, neighboring vehicles, roadside infrastructure, and the Internet. Moreover, some inherent features of PT, such as the repetitiveness and predictability of routes and timetables, can be used to design specialized network protocols to further improve the quality of service perceived by PT passengers. Authors are invited to submit original full papers on any aspect of public transport networking. Contributions describing theoretical research, protocol design, experiments and measurements, commercial deployments, business models, or position/vision statements are all encouraged. Descriptions of work in progress, test trials, and future work plans are highly appreciated. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Broadband access to trains and airplanes * Mobile routers and network mobility * Intra-vehicle networks * IP and IPv6 mobility support for public transport * Multiple access networks in public transport * Authorization and authentication in public transport * Inter-vehicular communications, VANETs * Intermittent-connectivity and delay-tolerant networks * Protocol design for predictable mobility * Signalling between public transport and roadside infrastructure * Content distribution and on-board caching * Location privacy for public transport passengers * Novel public transport applications and services * Billing and charging for public transport networking * Experimental results and practical deployments Important dates: Paper Submission Deadline: May 15, 2006 Notification: June 16, 2006 Final Version Due: June 30, 2006 For further information and submission instructions, visit http://www.wnept.org . _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: The submission deadline of ITST2006 is extended to 15, March.]
by Lars Wolf 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: The submission deadline of ITST2006 is extended to 15, March. Datum: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 09:56:09 +0800 Von: Yan ZHANG <yanzhang(a)ieee.org> Antwort an: Yan ZHANG <yanzhang(a)ieee.org> An: <manet(a)ietf.org>, <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu>, <itc(a)comsoc.org>, <multicomm(a)comsoc.org> CC: Wen Guangjun <wgj(a)uestc.edu.cn> We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP ================================================================= ***************************************************************************** ITST 2006: The 6th International Conference on ITS Telecommunications Chengdu -CHINA; 21 - 22 - 23 June, 2006 http://www.itst2006.uestc.edu.cn Email: itst2006(a)uestc.edu.cn **************************************************************************** ??Due to numerous requests, we are pleased to announce that the deadline for the paper submission of ITST2006 has been extended until March 15th, 2006, 11:59pm. Please note that this new deadline is a hard deadline that can not be extended. ??We welcome submissions of a full-length paper (4 pages normally and 6 pages maximum) on telecommunications and intelligent transport system applications before March 15th, 2006. ??We would appreciate if you could redirect this announcement to anybody who you think would be interested. If you require further information, please do not hesitate to contact: itst2006(a)uestc.edu.cn or to have a look at the website: http://www.itst2006.uestc.edu.cn Your sincerely On behalf of the Organizing Committee Guangjun Wen

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[Fwd: [Tccc] (no subject)]
by Lars Wolf 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] (no subject) Datum: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 15:56:08 -0800 (PST) Von: Prasant Mohapatra <prasant(a)cs.ucdavis.edu> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu CC: ramjee(a)dnrc.bell-labs.com, Yongguang Zhang <ygz(a)microsoft.com>, prasant(a)cs.ucdavis.edu, petrioli(a)di.uniroma1.it Dear Colleague, We would like to encourage you to submit highly innovative research papers to the Twelfth ACM SIGMOBILE Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking(ACM MobiCom 2006) - the premier international forum addressing networks, systems, algorithms, and applications that support the symbiosis of mobile computers and wireless networks. ACM MobiCom 2006 will be held in Los Angeles, USA from September 23rd-29th. The CFP is attached below. Paper submission deadline is March 17th. Papers must be pre-registered by March 10th. Paper registration and submission are now open in EDAS. Our intent is for ACM MobiCom 2006 to be more inclusive of papers across a broad spectrum of topics in wireless networking and mobile computing. We would also like to solicit submissions of highly original papers identifying new areas and methodologies. To help encourage this, we intend to accept approximately 50% more papers than in previous years and we have added the possibility to submit short "Hot Topics" papers that present revolutionary new ideas or that challenge existing assumptions prevalent among the research community. With your help, we believe this will lead to an exciting program. We look forward to receiving your submissions and to meeting you in Los Angeles in September. Regards, Chiara Petrioli & Ram Ramjee PC Chairs, ACM SIGMOBILE MobiCom 2006 ------------------ We apologize for multiple copies ---------------- CALL FOR PAPERS MobiCom 2006 The Twelfth Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking September 23-29, 2006 Los Angeles, California, USA http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2006/ Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE ACM MobiCom 2006, the Twelfth Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, is the twelfth in a series of annual conferences sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE dedicated to addressing the challenges in the areas of mobile computing and wireless and mobile networking. The MobiCom conference series serves as the premier international forum addressing networks, systems, algorithms, and applications that support the symbiosis of mobile computers and wireless networks. MobiCom is a highly selective conference focusing on all issues in mobile computing and wireless and mobile networking at the link layer and above. MobiCom 2006 will be held in September 2006 in Los Angeles, California. PAPERS: Authors are invited to submit full papers presenting new research related to the theory or practice of mobile computing or wireless and mobile networking. All submissions must describe original research, not published or currently under review for another conference or journal. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: - Architectures, protocols, and algorithms to cope with mobility, limited bandwidth, limited power and/or intermittent connectivity - Applications and services for mobile users - Fundamental aspects of mobile computing and wireless networking - Integration and inter-working of wired and wireless networks - Location-dependent applications and protocols - Modelling, measurement and simulation aspects of mobile networks - Mobile ad hoc and sensor networks - Operating system and middleware support for mobile computing and networking - Performance of mobile and wireless networks and systems - Security, privacy, and fault-tolerance of mobile/wireless systems - Wireless access technologies for mobile nodes (e.g., multi-radio and mesh systems, personal area networks) - Implementations and experimental mobile systems The program committee will referee all papers, and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. HOT TOPIC PAPERS: The conference also strongly encourages the submission of short papers in the field of mobile computing and wireless networking that present revolutionary new ideas or that challenge existing assumptions prevalent among the research community. These "Hot Topic papers" should provide stimulating ideas or visions that may open up exciting avenues and/or influence the direction of future research. Descriptions of new products or evolution of existing work are not appropriate topics for papers in this category. While an exhaustive evaluation of the proposed ideas is not necessary for Hot Topic papers, insight and in-depth understanding of the issues is expected. Hot Topic papers will be reviewed by MobiCom program committee, and accepted papers will be part of the technical program and published in MobiCom proceedings. They should be submitted using the same submission procedure adopted for the full papers. The title of these submissions must start with the words "Hot Topic:" i.e., "Hot Topic: Rest of the Title." SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Authors should prepare a Portable Document Format (PDF) version of their full paper. Papers must be no longer than 12 pages (8 pages for "Hot Topic" papers), in font size no smaller than 10 points, and must fit properly on US "Letter"-sized paper (8.5x11 inches) with reasonable margins. The deadline for registering the title and the abstract of the paper with our electronic submission system is March 10, 2006, and the deadline for submitting the actual paper is March 17, 2006. Detailed instructions on the paper submission procedure and format are available on the conference web pages. All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality through double-blind reviewing, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. Authors' names must not appear in the paper or in the PDF file. Submitted papers (or substantially similar papers) must not be currently under review for any other publication. Please direct any questions about the paper submission process to the Program Co-Chairs at mobicom_pcchairs(a)acm.org. TUTORIALS: Proposals for tutorials are solicited. Evaluation of tutorial proposals will be based on the expertise and experience of the instructors, and on the relevance of the subject matter. Potential instructors are requested to submit a tutorial proposal of at most 5 pages, including a biographical sketch, to the Tutorial Co-Chairs. PANELS: Panels are solicited that examine innovative, controversial, or otherwise provocative issues of interest. Proposals should not exceed 3 pages, including biographical sketches of the panelists. Potential panel organizers should contact the Panel Co-Chairs. RESEARCH DEMOS AND EXHIBITS: Proposals for research demos are solicited. Proposals should not exceed 3 pages and should include a description of the demo and equipment to be used. Send proposals to the Research Demo Chair. STUDENT POSTER SESSION: Student posters are solicited that present recent and on-going research by students on mobile computing and mobile wireless networking. The poster submissions should include a 2-page description of the student's research. Accepted posters will be put on the conference web page; however, they will not be printed in the conference proceedings. Please send submissions to the Student Poster Chairs. ACM STUDENT RESEARCH COMPETITION: MobiCom 2006 will host the ACM Student Research Competition (SRC). Students submitting to the MobiCom 2006 Poster Program can opt to have their posters considered also by the SRC committee. Selected competitors will receive up to $500 USD for their conference travel, depending on need, and will earn a chance to compete in the SRC Grand Finals. The winners will be recognized at the Annual ACM Awards Banquet. Competitors should be prepared to attend the poster session and, if selected for further competition, give a short talk about their research projects. Winners will be announced at the conference. The Student Research Competition is open to graduate and undergraduate students whose submissions are accepted by the SRC committee. To be considered, complete a submission to the Student Poster Program and indicate that you would like to participate in the SRC. Current ACM student membership and student status as of the submission deadline are required for the lead student. BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD: Papers with a student as a primary author will be considered for the Best Student Paper award, with an award of $1000 USD. Students must indicate with their submission that they would like to be considered for this award. IMPORTANT DATES: Abstracts submission due: March 10, 2006 Paper submissions due: March 17, 2006 Notification of acceptance: June 16, 2006 Camera-ready version due: July 17, 2006 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: General Chair Mario Gerla UCLA gerla(a)cs.ucla.edu Program Co-Chairs Chiara Petrioli Rome University "La Sapienza" petrioli(a)di.uniroma1.it Ram Ramjee Bell Labs ramjee(a)bell-labs.com Steering Committee Imrich Chlamtac (Chair) CreateNet, Italy Victor Bahl Microsoft Research, USA Dave Johnson Rice University, USA Christopher Rose Rutgers University, USA FOR MORE INFORMATION: Please contact the General Chair or Program Co-Chairs for more information. For information on ACM SIGMOBILE and the MobiCom series of conferences, see http://www.sigmobile.org/ or contact mobicom_info(a)acm.org. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: ACF-Members: DSOM 2006]
by Lars Wolf 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

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[Fwd: Reminder: Call for Contributions: UbiComp 2006]
by Lars Wolf 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Reminder: Call for Contributions: UbiComp 2006 Datum: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:11:17 +0100 Von: Matthias Kranz <matthias(a)hcilab.org> An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS ====================== 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: ========= Ubicomp is the premier international forum for research in ubiquitous computing, bringing together designers, computer scientists, social scientists, and artists, to discuss recent developments and future advance. Orange County is located in coastal Southern California, south of Los Angeles and north of San Diego. Typical September weather is sunny and dry with temperatures around 25C. We invite you to submit original, high-quality research contributions in all program categories, including full papers, demonstrations, posters, videos, and the doctoral colloquium. Contributions on all topics related to ubiquitous computing are welcome, including: * tools and techniques for designing, implementing, & evaluating ubiquitous computing systems * mobile, wireless, and ad hoc networking infrastructures for ubiquitous computing * laboratory and in situ studies of ubiquitous computing technologies in use * location-aware and context-based systems for ubiquitous computing * privacy, security, and trust in ubiquitous and pervasive systems. The UbiComp conference has traditionally had a strong workshop program. Workshops allow small groups to gather for intensive discussion around focused topics of interest. The goal of workshops is to share understandings and experiences, to foster research communities, to learn from each other and to envision future directions. NOTE: Ubicomp 2006 will have two days for workshops. Important Dates and Deadlines: ============================== 03/31/2006: Paper and workshop proposals 06/16/2006: Demos and videos 08/18/2006: Early registration 09/17-21/2006: Conference Call for Papers: ================ Ubicomp 2006 welcomes original, high-quality research contributions in the area of ubiquitous, pervasive and handheld computing systems and their applications. This conference seeks to present novel research results impacting the design and usage of ubiquitous computing technology that migrates beyond the desktop. Submissions should report original research that contributes to our understanding of ubiquitous computing and help advance the state of the art. Examples of appropriate areas of inquiry include: Improving natural interaction (e.g. applied sensing, fusion and reasoning, AI and speech technologies for Ubicomp, increasing machine understanding of human action & vice versa) Constructing ubicomp systems (e.g., systems and toolkit support for constructing, maintaining and deploying and prototyping Ubicomp environments) Embedding computation (e.g. novel user interfaces, computational and sensing/ actuator platforms, assistive technolgies, applied to Ubicomp) Understanding ubicomp and its consequences (e.g. conceptual models, lessons learnt, user studies and results from Ubicomp experiments) Deploying ubicomp technologies (e.g. privacy, security, and trust, real-world and deployment experiences, studies of ubicomp settings) Ubicomp 2006 seeks papers that reflect the full breadth and scope of ubiquitous computing research, including conceptual development, empirical investigations, technological advances, application experiences, and more. Authors should write for the broader Ubicomp audience, however, and make clear how their work contributes to the whole. Papers will be evaluated on the basis of originality, significance of the contribution to the field, technical correctness and presentation. Papers submitted must not have been previously published or be under simultaneous review for any other conference, journal, workshop or other publication. We solicit papers up to 18 pages but explicitly welcome shorter papers. All paper submissions will be treated as full papers, but it is important that their length is appropriate for their content. Papers should be formatted according to the Springer Verlag LNCS format. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by Springer-Verlag as Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Authors are required to attend the conference to present their work. Paper submissions must be anonymized to facilitate blind review. Authors are encouraged to take care throughout the entire document to minimize references that may reveal the identity of the authors or their institutions. Relevant references to an author's previous research should not be suppressed but instead referenced in a neutral way. All paper submissions will be handled electronically by the EDAS system. Note that submission is a two-stage process - authors need to register their paper first and then submit the final manuscript. Submissions must be in Adobe PDF format and conform to the guidelines specified in the call for papers. Authors without EDAS user names will be required to register with the system using the same link as above. Reviewers will be instructed to maintain the confidentiality of all materials for submitted papers throughout the entire reviewing process. Submissions should contain no information that will be proprietary or confidential at the time of publication. Contacts: ========= General Chair: Crista Lopes, University of California, Irvine, USA Technical Program Committee Chairs: Paul Dourish, University of California, Irvine, USA Adrian Friday, Lancaster University, UK For additional information regarding UbiComp 2006, please visit http://www.ubicomp.org/ubicomp2006/

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[Fwd: MOBIQUITOUS 2006: EXTENDED PAPER DEADLINE: MARCH 6th]
by Lars Wolf 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: MOBIQUITOUS 2006: EXTENDED PAPER DEADLINE: MARCH 6th Datum: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 23:17:39 -0500 Von: Prasun Sinha <prasun(a)cse.ohio-state.edu> An: multicomm(a)comsoc.org ======================================================================================================== MOBIQUITOUS 2006 http://www.mobiquitous.org <http://www.mobiquitous.org> Sponsored by Create-Net and ICST The Third Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Service July 17 ? 21, 2006 ^ San Jose, California, USA In Cooperation with ACM SIGMOBILE Pending Sponsorship: IEEE Computer Society ======================================================================================================== The combination of mobile and ubiquitous computing is emerging as a promising new paradigm with the goal to provide computing and communication services all the time, everywhere, transparently and invisibly to the user, using devices embedded in the surrounding physical environment. In this context, the communication devices, the objects with which they interact, or both may be mobile. The implementation of such a paradigm requires advances in wireless network technologies and devices, development of infrastructures supporting cognitive environments, and discovery and identification of ubiquitous computing applications and services. The Third Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: networking and services (Mobiquitous-06) will cover all these aspects, providing a forum where practitioners and researchers coming from the many areas involved in ubiquitous solutions design and deployment will be able to interact exchanging the cross-layer experiences needed to build the overall ubiquitous systems. Areas addressed by the conference include applications, service-oriented computing, middleware, networking, agents, data management and services, all with special focus on mobility and ubiquitous computing. PAPERS: Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, are solicited. The conference is interested in contributions addressing all the areas associated with mobile and ubiquitous architectures, infrastructure, data and services. Technical papers clearly identifying how the specific contributions fit to an overall working solution are particularly of interest. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following feature topics: * Ubiquitous architectures and systems * Wearable computing and personal area networks * Wireless technologies for mobile and ubiquitous (Bluetooth, ZigBee, 802.15.x, WiFi) * Wireless Internet access in ubiquitous systems * Reconfigurability and personalization of wireless networks * Service discovery mechanisms, knowledge discovery, matching and composition mechanisms * Wireless/mobile service management and delivery * Security, privacy and social issues of mobile and ubiquitous systems * Peer-to-peer computing and networking * Emerging industrial/business/scientific scenarios * Multimodal interfaces (speech, video kinetic, tactile) * Smart spaces * Ad hoc and sensor networks * Location-based services and tracking * Context and location aware application * Multimedia encoding and transcoding * Middleware services * Agent technologies in ubiquitous, wearable, and mobile systems * Hardware and software platforms for ubiquitous systems, and testbeds * Context modeling, services and frameworks * Toolkits, development environments, and languages for ubiquitous computing * Rapid prototyping of ubiquitous applications * Ontologies for mobile and ubiquitous computing * Mobile and ubiquitous data management SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: All paper submissions will be handled electronically (see the conference web page for details). Authors should prepare an Adobe Acrobat PDF version of their full paper. Papers must not exceed 8 pages double column (US Letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches) including text, figures and references. The font size must be at least 10 points. The deadline for submitting the actual paper is March 6, 2006. All deadlines are 11:59PM PST. PUBLICATION: All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the international technical program committee. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Papers of particular merit will be proposed for publication in the ACM/Kluwer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) journal. WORKSHOPS: Four workshops will be run in conjunction with the conference. Please see the web site for more information. DEMOS: Proposals for research and industrial demos are solicited. A maximum of 3 pages should be submitted which include a description of the demo and needed equipment. Proposals should be submitted to the Demo Chair by May 1, 2006. General Co-Chairs Hamid Ahmadi, IBM, _hahmadi(a)us.ibm.com <mailto:hahmadi@us.ibm.com>_ Tom La Porta, Penn State, _tlp(a)cse.psu.edu <mailto:tlp@cse.psu.edu>_ Program Co-Chairs Ravi Jain, Google, ravi.jain(a)acm.org <mailto:jain@docomolabs-usa.com> Asim Smailagic, CMU, asim(a)cs.cmu.edu <mailto:asim@cs.cmu.edu> Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash Univ.,_arkady.zaslavsky(a)csse.monash.edu.au <mailto:arkady.zaslavsky@csse.monash.edu.au> _ __ __Workshop Chair Kin Leung, Imperial College, kin.leung(a)imperial.ac.uk <mailto:kin.leung@imperial.ac.uk> Demo Chair Sencun Zhu, Penn State, szhu(a)cse.psu.edu <mailto:szhu@cse.psu.edu> Finance Chair Karen Decker, ICST, karen(a)icst.org <mailto:karen@icst.org> Local Arrangements Chair Ulas Kozat, DoCoMo Labs, kozat(a)docomolabs-usa.com <mailto:kozat@docomolabs-usa.com> Publicity Chair Prasun Sinha, Ohio State University, prasun(a)cse.ohio-state.edu <mailto:prasun@cse.ohio-state.edu> Web Chair Patrick Traynor, Penn State, traynor(a)cse.psu.edu <mailto:traynor@cse.psu.edu> Conference Coordinator Anna Rieger, ICST, <anna.rieger(a)icst.org>anna.rieger(a)icst.org <mailto:anna.rieger@icst.org> Steering Committee Chair Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net, imrich.chlamtac(a)create-net.it <mailto:imrich.chlamtac@create-net.it> Important Dates Paper submission (NEW DEADLINE): March 6, 2006 Notification of acceptance: April 21, 2006 Camera-ready version due: May 22, 2006

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