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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, Special Issue in “On-The-Road Communications”]
by Lars Wolf 26 Mar '09

26 Mar '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, Special Issue in “On-The-Road Communications” Datum: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:20:29 -0700 (PDT) Von: Fan Bai <fan_bai(a)yahoo.com> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu CC: ckt(a)eee.hku.hk IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine Special Issue in “On-The-Road Communications” Call for Papers Vehicular wireless communications and Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) have been identified as important technology enablers for improving vehicle safety, for enhancing vehicle traffic efficiency, and for providing comfort and convenience to drivers and passengers. The development of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and infrastructure-to-vehicle (V2I) based Vehicular Ad hoc Networks is one of the most critical issues for the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) industry, which involves not only automotive and ITS research community but also wireless communication and networking research community. Throughout the world, there are many national and international collaboration projects in government, industry, and academia on V2V. These projects are devoted to conducting research in this emergent research field and committed to develop prototypes of vehicle communication systems (VCS). Through these research and development projects, the research community realizes that designing reliable, efficient, scalable, robust, and secured vehicular networking technologies presents extraordinary challenges to the wireless research community. This special issue intends to disseminate the latest research results in the emergent research areas of ITS, automotive, wireless communication, and networks, providing a snapshot of the current state-of-the-art in VANET, VCS, V2V, V2I systems. Scope of Contributions We would like to solicit papers related to technical challenges, good in-depth tutorial surveys, standardization efforts on vehicular communications, field trials of 802.11p based VANETs, security issues, channel access, routing, data dissemination, and application scenarios. Contributions from both academia and industries are welcome. Original contributions (previously unpublished and not currently under review by another publication), are solicited (but not limited to) in the following areas: • Mobility models and vehicle traffic models • Simulation aspects of V2V, V2I, and VCS • Physical layer issues for vehicular comms (RF, radio design and propagation models) • Channel access and MAC collision management • Vehicular networks architectures and network protocols • QoS support and real-time issues • Emulation and testbeds for large-scale vehicular networks • Application scenarios using VANET technologies • Security, encryption and privacy for vehicular systems • Standards (802.11p, CALM, P1609, etc) development and evolution • Performance, scalability, reliability and efficiency of VANET systems • Intra-vehicular sensor network and embedded system integration. • Human-Machine Interface for vehicular systems • Data dissemination methods • Safety, enhanced navigation, and car alert mechanisms • Routing issues, addressing issues, transport layer issues • Vehicular collision avoidance using distributed sensing technologies • Vehicular sensors Manuscript Submission Authors should submit their manuscripts electronically in PDF format with a separate cover letter, which contains the paper title, authors with affiliations, and a 250-word abstract via email to Fan Bai (fan.bai(a)gm.com) AND C. K. Toh (ckt(a)eee.hku.hk). To enforce the double blind reviewing policy, authors' names and affiliations can only appear in the separate cover letter. The "Subject field" of the email must contain "IEEE WCM OTRC Paper". Articles should have no more than 4500 words, no more than 6 tables/figures, and the abstract should have no more than 250 words. With regard to both the content and formatting style of the submissions, prospective contributors should follow the IEEE Wireless Communications guidelines for authors that can be found at: http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/pcm/pub_guidelines.html. The following timetable will be followed: Manuscript Submission 01 Apr, 2009 Acceptance Notification 01 August, 2009 Final Manuscript 01 September, 2009 Publication Date: December, 2009 Guest Editors: • Dr. Fan Bai, General Motors R&D (USA) (co-lead) • Dr. C K Toh, U of HONG KONG (co-lead) • Dr. Russell Hsing, TELCORDIA Technologies Inc, (USA) • Dr. Onur Altintas, TOYOTA ITC (Japan) • Dr. Oh Hyun Seo, ETRI (Korea) _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), registration due on March 29, 2009!
by Guoliang Xing 26 Mar '09

26 Mar '09

Apologies if you receive multiple copies ----------------- IEEE MASS 2009, October 5 - 9, 2009, Macau http://www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/mass09/ Deadline for abstracts: (extended) 29 Mar 2009 Deadline for manuscripts: 31 Mar 2009 Sponsored by: IEEE; IEEE Computer Society; IEEE Technical Committee on Distributed Processing; IEEE Technical Committee on Simulation; IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Communication Wireless ad-hoc communication has applications in a variety of environments, such as conferences, hospitals, battlefields and disaster-recovery/rescue operations, and is also being actively investigated as an alternative paradigm for Internet connectivity in both urban and rural areas. Wireless sensor and actuator networks are also being deployed for enhancing industrial control processes and supply-chains, and for various forms of environmental monitoring. The IEEE MASS 2009 aims at addressing advances in research on multi-hop ad-hoc and sensor networks, covering topics ranging from technology issues to applications and test-bed development. Topics of Interest ------------------- Original, unpublished contributions are solicited in all aspects of (mobile) ad-hoc networks and wireless sensor networks (WSN), systems and applications. Topics include, but are not limited to: * MAC layer design for ad-hoc networks and WSNs * MAC protocols (802.11, 802.15.4, UWB) * Directional / smart antennas * Multi-channel, multi-radio and MIMO technologies * Wireless mesh networks and cognitive networks * P2P, overlay, and content distribution architectures for ad-hoc and sensor networks * Delay tolerant networks and opportunistic networking * Vehicular networks and protocols * Mobile/robotic sensor networks * Power-aware architectures, algorithms and protocols design * Clustering, topology control, coverage and connectivity * Routing protocols (unicast, multicast, broadcast, geocast) * Data transport and management in WSNs * Data gathering, fusion, and dissemination in WSNs * Localization and synchronization in WSNs * Cooperative sensing in WSNs * Capacity planning and admission control in ad-hoc and sensor networks * Handoff / mobility management and seamless internetworking * Resource management and wireless QoS Provisioning * Cross layer design and optimization * Reliability, resiliency and fault tolerance techniques * Security, privacy, and trust issues * Operating systems and middleware support * Novel applications and architectures for WSNs * Modeling, analysis and performance evaluation * Measurements and experience from experimental systems and test-beds Submission Guidelines --------------------- All submissions must be full papers in PDF format and uploaded on EDAS. Abstract registration due: March 25, 2009 (Wed). They must not exceed 10 single-spaced, double-column pages using 10 pt size fonts on 8.5 x 11 inch pages in IEEE style format. Detailed formatting and submission guidelines will be available on the conference website. Organizing Committee -------------------- Honorary Chair Wei Zhao, University of Macau General Chair Lionel M. Ni, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Program Co-Chairs Doug Blough, Georgia Tech Xiaohua Jia, City University of Hong Kong TPC Sub-Area Chairs * Algorithms and Theory Paolo Santi, IIT-CNR * MAC and Cross-Layer Technologies Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University * Data Management and Information Processing Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University * Protocols, Systems and Applications Xiuzhen Cheng, George Washington University Workshop Chair Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa Industrial Liaison & Demo Chair Lin Gu, HKUST Finance and Registration Chair Anup Kumar, University of Louisville Publication Chair Dajin Wang, Montclair State University Publicity Co-Chair Guihai Chen, Nanjing University Guoliang Xing, Michigan State University Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Local Arrangements Co-Chairs Victor Lee, City University of Hong Kong Steering Committee Chair Dharma P. Agrawal, University of Cincinnati Chair of IEEE TC on Distributed Processing Jie Wu, US National Science Foundation Chair of IEEE TC on Simulation Dave Cavalcanti, Phillips Research -- Guoliang ------------------------------------------------ Guoliang Xing Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering Michigan State University Phone: (517)353-4392 E-mail:glxing@msu.edu http://www.cse.msu.edu/~glxing/ ------------------------------------------------ -- Guoliang ------------------------------------------------ Guoliang Xing Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering Michigan State University Phone: (517)353-4392 E-mail:glxing@msu.edu http://www.cse.msu.edu/~glxing/ ------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: 34th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (IEEE LCN 2009)
by Anura Jayasumana 25 Mar '09

25 Mar '09

Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Papers ================================================================= 13 days left until the paper registration deadline (on EDAS) 20 days left until the paper submission deadline (upload on EDAS) ================================================================= IEEE LCN 2009 The 34th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN) http://www.ieeelcn.org Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Zurich, Switzerland October 20-23, 2009 CALL FOR PAPERS LCN invites you to Europe for the third time in its history. The IEEE LCN conference is the premier conference on the leading edge of practical computer networking. During the last 34 years, it has been the venue of choice for presenting many state of the art developments ranging from high-speed local networks to the global Internet to specialized sensor networks. LCN is a highly interactive conference that enables effective interchange of results and ideas among researchers, users, and product developers. We encourage you to submit original papers describing research results or practical solutions in leading edge topics including, but not limited to: Ad hoc and sensor networks Adaptive applications Embedded networks Authentication, authorization, accounting High-speed access networks Congestion and flow control Home and SOHO networks Cross-layer optimization IPv6 deployment and migration Location-dependent services Local area networks Mobility management Optical networks Multimedia and real-time communication Overlay networks Network management Peer-to-peer networks Network reliability and security Personal and wearable networks Network traffic characterization Storage area networks Performance evaluation/engineering Ubiquitous networking Performance measurement and tuning Wireless networks Quality-of-Service provisioning Authors are invited to submit full or short papers for presentation. Full papers (up to 8 pages, 10 pt font in IEEE 2-column format) should present novel perspectives within the general scope of the conference. Short papers are an opportunity to present preliminary or interim results and are limited to 4 pages in length. Short papers will be presented in a poster format and published in the proceedings. All papers must include title, complete contact information for all authors, abstract, and keywords. PAPER SUBMISSION: Submission instructions using the EDAS system will be available at http://www.ieeelcn.org. Please direct your questions to the Program Chairs, Mohamed Younis <younis(a)cs.umbc.edu> and Chun Tung Chou <ctchou(a)cse.unsw.edu.au>. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper registration deadline: April 6, 2009 Paper submission deadline: April 13, 2009 Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2009 Camera-ready paper due: July 28, 2009 WORKSHOPS: LCN will continue with its tradition of co-located workshops covering topics of current interest. Workshop papers will be published in the LCN proceedings. Information on workshops, submission deadlines, and all other details will be available at http://www.ieeelcn.org. DEMOS: Proposals are solicited for research and product demonstrations and exhibits. Submission instructions will be available at http://www.ieeelcn.org. Please direct your questions to the Demo Chair, Nils Aschenbruck <aschenbruck(a)cs.uni-bonn.de>. General Chair: - Ehab Elmallah, University of Alberta Program Chair: - Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Program Co-Chair: - Chun Tung Chou, University of New South Wales Finance Chair: - Frank Hubner, AT&T Labs Publication Chair: - Tom Pfeifer, TSSG, Waterford IT Local Arrangements Chair: - Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich Workshops Chair: - Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida Demo Chair: - Nils Aschenbruck, University of Bonn Publicity Chair: - Anura Jayasumana, Colorado State University Editorial Liaison Chair: - Farid Nait-Abdesselam, University of Sciences and Technology of Lille Corporate Relations Chair: - Matthias Frank, University of Bonn International Advisors: - Ken Christensen, University of South Florida - Sanjay Jha, University of New South Wales - Declan O'Sullivan, Trinity College Dublin Webmaster: - Gary Kessler, Champlain College Standing Committee: - Joe Bumblis, University of Wisconsin-Stout - Ken Christensen, University of South Florida - Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada - Gary Kessler, Champlain College - Peter Martini, University of Bonn - Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich - Tim Strayer, BBN -- -- Anura P. Jayasumana <http://www.engr.colostate.edu/%7Eanura> Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 Phone: (970) 491-7855 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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CfP: Future Internet Architectures: New Trends in Service Architectures (2nd Euro-NF Workshop)
by Jens Oberender 25 Mar '09

25 Mar '09

(Apologies if you receive this more than once; Update: *Telecommunication Systems Journal*) ======================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS SUBMISSION DEADLINE: April 13, 2009 Future Internet Architectures: New Trends in Service Architectures (2nd Euro-NF Workshop), Open Workshop http://www.net.fim.uni-passau.de/future2009/ Co-located with EU ICT MobileSummit 9th June 2009, Santander, Spain http://www.ict-mobilesummit.eu/2009/ Limitations and shortcomings of current network architectures are adressed by the Future Internet research area. Novel challenges such as security, scalability, resilience, interoperability, and adaptability have risen. The architecture of the Future Internet must consider emerging network paradigms. The workshop provides a visionary forum for novel research challenges in the design and evaluation of network paradigms for the Future Internet with a particular focus on access networks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * New network approaches and protocols * Wireless mesh networks * Self-organization * Internet of things * Virtualization * Delay-tolerant networks and satellite communications * Opportunistic networks * Context awareness Submissions to the workshop should be either full papers (up to twelve pages, Springer LNCS style) or extended abstracts (up to four pages) presenting original research in the workshop scope. Selected high- quality papers will be published within a post workshop *special issue* of the *Telecommunication Systems Journal* (ISSN 1018-4864, Springer). Please submit via * http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=future2009 DATES * Submission Deadline: April 13, 2009 * Notification of Acceptance: April 20, 2009 * Workshop: June 9, 2009 CHAIRS * Hermann de Meer, University of Passau, Germany * Jens O. Oberender, University of Passau, Germany * Karin Anna Hummel, University of Vienna, Austria LOCAL ORGANIZATION * Klaus Hackbarth, University of Cantabria, Spain * Alberto E. García, University of Cantabria, Spain TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Eitan Altman, INRIA, France * Andreas Berl, University of Passau, Germany * Georg Carle, TUM, Germany * Augusto Casaca, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal * Claudio Casetti, Politecnico di Torino, Italy * Matteo Cesana, Politecnico di Milano, Italy * Piotr Cholda, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland * Simon Dobson, UCD, Ireland * Falko Dressler, University of Erlangen, Germany * Markus Fiedler, BTH, Sweden * Xiaoming Fu, University of Göttingen, Germany * Alex Galis, University College London, United Kingdom * Günter Haring, University of Vienna, Austria * Helmut Hlavacs, University of Vienna, Austria * Amine M. Houyou, Siemens AG, Germany * Paul Müller, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany * Ilkka Norros, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland * Adrian Popescu, Blekinge Institue of Technology, Sweden * Bernd Reuther, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany * Susana Sargento, University of Aveiro, Portugal * Kurt Tutschku, University of Vienna, Austria * Bernd Wolfinger, University of Hamburg, Germany * Patrick Wüchner, University of Passau, Germany CONTACT * future2009(a)fim.uni-passau.de ======================================================================== -- Dipl.-Inf. Jens O. Oberender <jens.oberender(a)uni-passau.de> Research Assistant, University of Passau Computer Networks and Computer Communications, Prof. de Meer http://www.net.fim.uni-passau.de/oberender

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[Fwd: CFP - 8. GI/ITG KuVS Fachgespräch "Drahtlose Sensornetze"]
by Lars Wolf 25 Mar '09

25 Mar '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP - 8. GI/ITG KuVS Fachgespräch "Drahtlose Sensornetze" Datum: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:14:50 +0100 Von: vt <turau(a)TUHH.DE> Antwort an: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE 8. GI/ITG KuVS Fachgespräch "Drahtlose Sensornetze" Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg Institut für Telematik 13. - 14. August 2009 http://www.ti5.tu-harburg.de/events/fgsn09/ Drahtlose Sensornetze stellen eine vielversprechende Technologie zur Beobachtung und Beeinflussung von Vorgängen in der realen Welt dar. Autonome Sensorknoten nehmen dabei Parameter der Umwelt durch Sensoren wahr und können diese durch Aktoren beeinflussen. Viele solcher autonomen und ressourcenbeschränkten Knoten kooperieren dabei mittels drahtloser Kommunikation. Die Eigenschaften dieser Knoten und Netze implizieren eine Vielzahl von neuartigen Herausforderungen, die sich in einer regen Forschungsaktivität widerspiegeln. Ziel dieser Reihe von Fachgesprächen ist es, Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern aus Hochschule und Industrie die Möglichkeit zu einem informellen Gedankenaustausch zu geben und die Kooperation in diesem multi-disziplinären Forschungsbereich zu verstärken. Beiträge: Im Rahmen des Fachgesprächs soll die Diskussion gegenüber der Vortrags- präsentation im Vordergrund stehen. Beiträge sollten daher in Form von Extended Abstracts eingereicht werden und 2-4 Seiten im doppelspaltigen IEEE Transaction Format umfassen. Die angenommenen Beiträge werden als technischer Bericht veröffentlicht. Termine Einreichung: 29. Mai 2009 Benachrichtigung: 19. Juni 2009 Anmeldung: 30. Juni 2009 Fachgespräch: 13. - 14. August 2009 --- Prof. Dr. Volker Turau Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg Schwarzenbergstr. 95 D-21073 Hamburg Tel.: (+4940) 42878-3530 Fax: (+4940) 42878-2581 E-Mail: turau(a)tuhh.de http://www.ti5.tu-harburg.de/

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[Fwd: IEEE GLOBECOM 09: Final Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 25 Mar '09

25 Mar '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: IEEE GLOBECOM 09: Final Call for Papers Datum: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:31:54 -0400 Von: <ComSocEvents(a)ieee.xert.net> Antwort an: <Meetings(a)comsocconferences.org> An: <wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> Globecom 09 <http://ieee.xert.net/d.cfm?m=90204.471.0.15315> Globecom'09 IEEE GLOBECOM 2009 Call for Papers <http://ieee.xert.net/d.cfm?m=90204.471.0.15316>Extended to 31 March 2009 <http://ieee.xert.net/d.cfm?m=90204.471.0.15317> <http://ieee.xert.net/d.cfm?m=90204.471.0.15318> IEEE GLOBECOM -- the premier telecommunications events -- covers the entire range of communications technologies, offering in-depth information on the latest developments in voice, data, image and multimedia. IEEE GLOBECOM will feature 11 Technical Symposia, Tutorials, Workshops, a Design & Developers Forum and the Communications EXPO, including various Business, Technology and Industry fora, and vendor exhibits. We invite you to submit papers for IEEE GLOBECOM's acclaimed Technical Program <http://ieee.xert.net/d.cfm?m=90204.471.0.15319> in the following areas of communications: - Ad Hoc, Sensor & Mesh Networking <http://ieee.xert.net/d.cfm?m=90204.471.0.15320> - Next Generation Networking & Internet <http://ieee.xert.net/d.cfm?m=90204.471.0.15321> - Information System Security <http://ieee.xert.net/d.cfm?m=90204.471.0.15322> - Optical Networks & Systems <http://ieee.xert.net/d.cfm?m=90204.471.0.15323> - Communication Theory <http://ieee.xert.net/d.cfm?m=90204.471.0.15324> - Signal Processing <http://ieee.xert.net/d.cfm?m=90204.471.0.15325> - QoS, Reliability & Performance Modeling <http://ieee.xert.net/d.cfm?m=90204.471.0.15326> - Wireless Communications <http://ieee.xert.net/d.cfm?m=90204.471.0.15327> - Communications Software & Services <http://ieee.xert.net/d.cfm?m=90204.471.0.15328> - Wireless Networking <http://ieee.xert.net/d.cfm?m=90204.471.0.15329> - Selected Areas: Cognitive Radio Networks, <http://ieee.xert.net/d.cfm?m=90204.471.0.15330> Access Systems & Networks, <http://ieee.xert.net/d.cfm?m=90204.471.0.15331> Consumer Networks <http://ieee.xert.net/d.cfm?m=90204.471.0.15332>, Data Storage and <http://ieee.xert.net/d.cfm?m=90204.471.0.15333>Satellite & Space Communications <http://ieee.xert.net/d.cfm?m=90204.471.0.15334> Technical paper submissions are due by *31 March 2009.* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submissions are also welcomed for Tutorials, Workshops and Special Sessions on the History of Telecommunications. <http://ieee.xert.net/d.cfm?m=90204.471.0.15335> Tutorials <http://ieee.xert.net/d.cfm?m=90204.471.0.15336>: Proposals for half-day and full-day presentations on conference topics are due by *31 March 2009*. *Workshops <http://ieee.xert.net/d.cfm?m=90204.471.0.15337>:* Proposals on the latest technical and business issues in communications and networking topics are due by *31 March 2009*. *Special Sessions <http://ieee.xert.net/d.cfm?m=90204.471.0.15338>: *Submissions on historical developments in telecommunications are due by *31 March 2009*. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For a list of topics, proposal guidelines and submission instructions, click here <http://ieee.xert.net/d.cfm?m=90204.471.0.15339> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please click here <http://ieee.xert.net/act_optout.cfm?cid=90204&email_id=%23%24IGN%0A?cid=19&…>> Dates *PAPER SUBMISSION* 31 March 2009 *TUTORIAL PROPOSAL* 31 March 2009 *WORKSHOP PROPOSAL* 31 March 2009 *SPECIAL SESSIONS SUBMISSION* 31 March 2009 *ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATION* 1 July 2009 *CAMERA-READY PAPERS* 14 August 2009 Patrons telcordia telcordia nec att telcordia nec IEEE GLOBECOM © 2009

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ICST - ROSSA 2009: Call for Papers
by ICST ASSYST 25 Mar '09

25 Mar '09

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ICST - ROSSA 2009: Call for Papers
by ICST ASSYST 25 Mar '09

25 Mar '09

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[Tccc] EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking - Extended Due date
by Naveen Chilamkurti 25 Mar '09

25 Mar '09

Call for Papers SI on Enabling Wireless Technologies for Green Pervasive Computing Wireless pervasive computing is a rapidly growing area that has attracted significant attention in recent years due to its tremendous potential impact on the quality of life and the environment. To enable green pervasive computing, it is necessary to integrate technologies, many of which are highly heterogeneous, from various fields including distributed computing, networking, communications, and signal processing. Pervasive technologies can be used in various ways to develop and enhance design models for environment sustainability. Pervasive computing is a power tool used in businesses and social contexts to develop computing devices and solutions which are more environment friendly. This Special Issue focuses on enabling wireless technologies that have the potential to make green pervasive computing truly ubiquitous. Many enabling wireless technologies continue to be deployed in various pervasive computing environments. There is an increasing interest in the computing community on how these technologies can be responsibly used environmentally to provide ubiquitous information access. The main aim of this special issue is to present the latest research achievements and results in the area of green pervasive computing and, in particular, how next generation wireless systems can help support and promote a sustainable environment. Topics include (but are not limited to): o Cross-layer design issues o Green pervasive computing o Wearable devices and technologies o Sensor devices, designs, protocols, and applications for green pervasive computing o RFID applications, designs, standards, and data management o Wireless technologies and architectures in pervasive computing o Wireless smart vehicle systems and networking o Pervasive e-services o QoS support in wireless systems for green pervasive computing o Smart vehicular networks and systems for green pervasive computing o Cellular technologies (UMTS, GSM, GPRS, etc.) for green pervasive computing o Fault-tolerant and resilient networks o Performance evaluation of wireless systems, and technologies Before submission, authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located athttp://www.hindawi.com/journals/wcn/guidelines.html. Prospective authors should follow the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking manuscript format described at the journal's website http://www.hindawi.com/journals/wcn/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/, according to the following timetable: Manuscript Due 15th April, 2009 First Round of Reviews June 1, 2009 Publication Date September 1, 2009 Lead Guest Editor o Naveen Chilamkurti, Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, La Trobe University, Victoria 3086, Australia; n.chilamkurti(a)latrobe.edu.au Guest Editors o Sherali Zeadally, Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC 20008, USA; szeadally(a)udc.edu o Abbas Jamalipour, School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia; a.jamalipour(a)ieee.org o Sajal k. Das, Department of Computer Science and Engineering ,University of Texas, Arlington, TX 76019, USA; das(a)uta.edu Naveen Chilamkurti PhD, SMIEEE Computer Science and Computer Engineering La Trobe University Bundoora, Melbourne Australia-3086 Ph: 61-3-94791269 Fax: 61-3-94793060 http://homepage.cs.latrobe.edu.au/naveen/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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ICST - ValueTools 2009: Call for Papers
by ICST ASSYST 24 Mar '09

24 Mar '09

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: PMSN 2009]
by Lars Wolf 24 Mar '09

24 Mar '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: PMSN 2009 Datum: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:25:16 -0000 Von: Shu, Lei <lei.shu(a)deri.org> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> Referenzen: <mailman.8527.1237900258.14697.tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> ** Apologies for cross-posting ** Call for Papers 2009 International Workshop on Pervasive Multimedia Sensor Networks (PMSN 2009) http://lei.shu.deri.googlepages.com/pmsn2009 (In conjunction with EUC 2009) http://cse.stfx.ca/~euc09/ August 28th~31st, 2009, Vancouver, Canada Call for Papers The 2009 International Workshop on Pervasive Multimedia Sensor Networks (PMSN¡¯09) will be held in conjunction with the 7th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC-09), August 29th-31st, 2009, Vancouver, Canada. Having the development of low-cost imaging sensors, CMOS cameras, sensitive microphones, PMSN have been proposed and drawn lots of attention from the research community. PMSN are a new and emerging type of sensor network that contains sensor nodes equipped with cameras, microphones, and other sensors producing multimedia content. These networks have the potential to enable a large class of applications ranging from assisting elderly in public spaces to border protection that benefit from the use of numerous sensor nodes that deliver multimedia content, e.g., multimedia surveillance networks, target tracking, environmental monitoring, and traffic management systems. PMSNs require effective harvesting and communication of event features in the form of multimedia such as audio, image, and video. Comparing with traditional wireless sensor networks, a lot of new challenges are faced by PMSNs, e.g., energy efficient multimedia processing and communication, heterogeneous multimedia reliability definitions, tight QoS expectations, and high bandwidth demands. This workshop is intended to provide a forum for presenting, exchanging and discussing the most recent advances in different aspects of pervasive multimedia sensor networks and applications. In particular, this workshop will bring together leading researchers, industry professionals, and research students to study the special problems and challenges of multimedia mobile and wireless environments. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): ¡¤New PMSN architectures, deployments, and applications ¡¤New middleware, system, and underlying infrastructure for PMSN ¡¤Integrating PMSN with all IP Networks ¡¤Semantic annotation for multimedia streams in PMSN ¡¤Multimedia stream processing and management for PMSN ¡¤Protocols for supporting real-time and reliable multimedia streaming in PMSN ¡¤Energy-efficient multimedia gathering and transmission in PMSN ¡¤Cross-layer design and optimization for effective communications in PMSN ¡¤Context aware approaches for facilitating multimedia streaming in PMSN ¡¤Secure multimedia streaming and transmission, QoS and admission control in PMSN ¡¤Cooperative transmission for multimedia delivery in PMSN ¡¤Experimental and test bed studies, simulation tools for PMSN ¡¤Information fusion and multimedia aggregation in PMSN ¡¤Joint multimedia processing and communication solutions for PMSN ¡¤Low-bit rate and energy-efficient multimedia source coding for PMSN ¡¤Distributed source coding and multimedia processing in PMSN ¡¤PMSN capacity modeling and theoretical analysis ¡¤Delay-tolerant networking for PMSN ¡¤Physical layer technologies for efficient PMSN Publication of Proceedings PMSN 2009 accepted and registered paper will be published (indexed by EI) in the EUC 2009 proceedings and available through IEEE Xplore digital library. Distinguished papers accepted and presented in PMSN 2009, after further revisions, will be published in the special issues of the following journal: * ACM Multimedia Systems Journal, Special Issue on "Multimedia Intelligent Services and Technologies" (indexed by SCI-E) * Inderscience International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNet), Special Issue on "Multimedia Data Applications in Wireless Sensor Networks" * Journal of Communications (JCM), Special Issue on "Dependable Computing for Ubiquitous Services (DCUS)" (indexed by EI) * International Journal of Software Engineering and Its Applications (IJSEIA), Special Issue on "Workflow Management in the Grid Era". * International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence (IJMAI), Special Issue on "Semantic Intelligence". Important Dates * Submission due: April 20th, 2009 * Acceptance notification: June 1st, 2009 * Camera-ready due: June 15th, 2009 * Conference date: August 28th~31st, 2009 Submission Guidelines: Prepare your paper with free styles not more than 15 pages in PDF file. Submit your paper(s) in PDF format to: pmsn2009(a)gmail.com Each submission should be regarded as an undertaking that, if the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors must attend the conference to present the work. Accepted papers will be published in proceedings of the EUC-09 conference by IEEE Computer Society. Organizing Committee General Co-Chairs * Yanxiang He, Wuhan University, China * Jong Hyuk Park, Kyungnam University, South Korea * Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway * Naixue Xiong, Georgia State University, USA Program Co-Chairs * Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China * Lei Shu, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland * Yong Zhu, Wuhan University of Science and Engineering, China Publication Co-Chairs * Jiming Chen, Zhejiang University, China * Jinli Cao, La Trobe University, Australia * Deqing Zou, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Technical Program Committee (more to be confirmed) # Tommaso Melodia, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA # Nicolas Sklavos,Technological Educational Institute of Patras, Greece # Fan Zhai, Texas Instrument, USA # Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan # Sajid Hussain, Acadia University, Canada # Han-Chieh Chao, Ilan University, Taiwan # Lei Ye, University of Wollongong, Australia # Ming Li, California State University, Fresno, USA # Guangjie Han, Hohai University, China # Geyong Min, University of Bradford, UK # Lu Yan, University of Hertfordshire, UK # Weiwei Fang, Beihang University, China # Lu Liu, University of Leeds, UK # Qin Xin, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway # Wei Yu, Nanjing University,China # Min Chen, University of British Columbia, Canada # Ruhan He, Wuhan Univeristy of Science and Technology, China # Zheng Yan, Nokia Research Center, Finland # Dan Yu, Beihang University, China # Changhoon Lee, Hanshin University, Korea # Chuan Lin, Wuhan University, China # Wanqing Tu, Glyndwr University, UK # Jinlei Jiang, Tsinghua University, China # Jie Xiang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway # Fei Yan, Wuhan University, China # Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada # Weiqiang Xu, Zhejiang University, China # Zhangbing Zhou, National University of Ireland, Ireland # Deok Gyu Lee, ETRI, Korea For further information regarding the workshop and paper submission, please contact: * Lei Shu, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland Email: lei.shu(a)deri.org * Naixue Xiong, Georgia State University, USA Email:xiongnaixue@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] SI: Multimedia Data Applications in Wireless sensor networks (IJSNet)
by Shu, Lei 24 Mar '09

24 Mar '09

CALL FOR PAPERS International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNet) http://www.inderscience.com/ijsnet Special Issue on: Multimedia Data Applications in Wireless sensor networks With recent technological advances in communication and computation, new Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) applications are growing. The emergence of low-energy and low-cost multimedia devices, such as microphones and cameras, has stimulated the development of the next generation WSN, known as Wireless Multimedia Sensor Network (WMSN). WMSNs have brought unprecedented potentials especially for applications requiring ubiquitous access to the multimedia contents, such as still images, audio and video streams. The extra sensor capacity and various requirements of multimedia objects in-network processing also pose new and unique challenges. The challenges are crucial about how to energy-efficiently query, process, transfer, and store voluminous multimedia objects since most of the multimedia sensors are operated under limited battery powers. Additionally, relatively slow advancements in battery technologies make the energy constrain the fast progress in WMSNs. This special issue will bring together those leading researchers and developers in fields of data and resource management, distributed storage techniques and energy efficiency to study the particular problems and challenges of wireless multimedia sensor networks. The purpose of the special session is therefore to foster communications between various communities including distributed database management communities, multimedia communication communities and sensor networks communities, and establish a common ground for advanced research and development in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks. The published papers are expected to present high quality results on state-of-the-art algorithms, novel techniques and real applications associated with Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: 1. Multimedia in-network processing in WMSN * Distributed source coding in WMSN * Multimedia aggregation and fusion in WMSN * Low-bit rate and energy-efficient multimedia source coding for WMSN 2. WMSN architectures and applications * Scalable and flexible WMSN architecture * WMSN design for supporting heterogeneous applications * Multimedia sensor coverage * Novel WMSN applications * Experimental studies of WMSN * WMSN modelling and performance analysis 3. Emerging WMSN technologies * Hardware platform * Physical layer technologies * Energy harvesting technologies 4. Effective and energy-efficient protocols for WMSN * Real-time and reliable multimedia streaming * Routing and medium access control * Topology control and synchronization protocols * Energy efficient traffic management * QoS provisioning protocols 5. Cross-layer design in WMSN * Joint multimedia processing and communication * Cooperative communication for multimedia delivery * Effective cross-layer communication protocols * Joint optimization for WMSN design 6. Data management for WMSN * In-network and distributed storage techniques for WMSN * Lightweight multimedia encoding techniques * Collaborative in-network processing * Energy-efficient DBMS for WMSN Manuscript due: Nov 28, 2009; Acceptance/rejection notification: March 31, 2010; Final manuscript due: Jun 31, 2010; Publication date: 4th Quarter of 2010. Submitted papers should be original that are previously unpublished and not be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Please submit the manuscript as an e-mail attachment in PDF format to Dr. Jinli Cao at j.cao(a)latrobe.edu.au. All papers are refereed through a double blind process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Author Guidelines page: (http://www.inderscience.com/www/authorguide.pdf ). Dr. Jinli Cao Department of Computer Science La Trobe University Bundoora Campus, Melbourne VIC 3086 Tel: (613) 94793035; Fax: (613) 94793069 Email: j.cao(a)latrobe.edu.au Professor Xiaohua Jia Department of Computer Science City University of Hong Kong Tel: (852) 2788 9670; Fax: (852) 2788 8614 Email: csjia(a)cityu.edu.hk Dr. Leon L. Shu Digital Enterprise Research Institute National University of Ireland, Galway Tel: (353) 857109808; Fax: (353) 91495541 Email: lei.shu(a)deri.org _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CfP: DRCN 2009
by Medhi, Deep 24 Mar '09

24 Mar '09

7th International Workshop on Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN2009) October 25-28, 2009 Washington, D.C., USA http://www.drcn.us Technical co-sponsor: IEEE Communication Society DRCN is a well established biennial forum for scientists, engineers, designers and planners from industry and academia who have interests in reliability and availability of communication networks, end systems and related topics. From equipment and technology for survivability to network management and public policy, through theory and techniques for survivable and robust network and application design, the aim of the conference is to bring together people from those disciplines in a lively forum. We hope you will join us in Washington, D.C., USA during October 25-28, 2009. SCOPE We seek papers that address theoretical, experimental, systems-related and regulatory issues in the area of dependability and survivability of communication networks, end-systems and infrastructure. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Methodologies, equipment and technology for wired/wireless network survivability * Basic methods and theory for survivable network and systems design, modeling and operation * Multi-Layer and differentiation protection * Fault management, monitoring and control * Security issues in network reliability and its interdependence to survivability * Applications and services oriented survivability techniques (e.g., P2P, multicast) * Restoration of services under different types of failures * Public policy issues for survivability and resilience * Reliability to emerging technologies (e.g., data center, SCADA and process control systems) * Survivable network management and/or network planning * Network resiliency to software attacks PAPER SUBMISSION * Papers should neither have been published elsewhere nor currently under review by another conference or journal. * Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by IEEE. * All papers must be submitted via the EDAS system at http://edas.info/7305. * Please prepare and submit the manuscript in PDF format using IEEE Conference Proceeding templates. * Page length is limited to 8-pages in two-column IEEE format. * At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference. Proposals for Tutorials are also being solicited. Tutorials (half-day sessions) are intended to provide in-depth learning on a specific topic of interest to the participants. Proposals for Tutorials should consist of 1000 words summary, a 150 word abstract, and a cover page listing the details of the presenter(s). Please use the EDAS directly to submit proposals for tutorials, before May 15, 2009. IMPORTANT DATES * April 17, 2009 Full paper submission * May 15, 2009 Tutorial proposals due * June 15, 2009 Notification of acceptance * August 15, 2009 Camera Ready Final paper due CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION David Tipper, General Chair, University of Pittsburgh, USA Deep Medhi, TPC Co-Chair, University of Missouri - Kansas City, USA John Doucette, TPC Co-Chair, University of Alberta & TRLabs, Canada Yi Qian, Tutorial Chair, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA Yu Liu, Web Chair, Juniper Networks, USA TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Achim Autenrieth, Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany Prosper Chemouil, Orange Labs, France Roberto Clemente, Telecom Italia, Italy Taesang Choi, ETRI, Korea Didier Colle, Ghent University, Belgium Yuanshun Dai, University of Tennessee, USA Joerg Eberspaecher, Munich University of Technology, Germany Nelson L. S. da Fonseca, State University of Campinas, Brazil Andrea Fumagalli, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Andre Girard, INRS-EMT and GERAD, Canada Xuewen Gong, Huawei Technologies, China Mohan Gurusamy, National University of Singapore, Singapore Bjarne Helvik, NTNU, Norway Meir Herzberg, ECI Telecom, Israel Pin-Han Ho, University of Waterloo, Canada Raj Jain, Washington University in St. Louis, USA Brigitte Jaumard, Concordia University, Canada Dave Johnson, British Telecom, UK Jean-Francois Labourdette, Verizon, USA Lorne Mason, McGill University, Canada Geraldo R. Mateus, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil Muriel Medard, MIT, USA Eytan Modiano, MIT, USA Adam Ouorou, Orange Labs, France Achille Pattavina, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Mario Pickavet, Ghent University, Belgium Michael Pioro, Warsaw University, Poland S. Raghavan, University of Maryland, USA George Rouskas, North Carolina State University, USA Jason Rupe, Qwest, USA Iraj Saniee, AT&T Bell Labs, USA Brunilde Sanso, Ecole Polytechnique de montreal, Canada Dominic Schupke, Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany Sudipta Sengupta, Microsoft Research, USA Krishna Sivalingam, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Arun Somani, Iowa State University, USA Shekhar Srivastava, Huawei Technologies USA, USA James Sterbenz, University of Kansas, USA Suresh Subramaniam, George Washington University, USA Kishor Trivedi, Duke University, USA Jean-Philippe Vasseur, Cisco Systems, USA Jonathan Weston-Dawkes, Mitre, USA Carlos B. Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Jing Wu, Communications Research Center Canada, Canada STEERING COMMITTEE Piet Demeester, Chair, Ghent University-IBBT-IMEC, Belgium Prosper Chemouil, Orange Labs, France Tibor Cinkler, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Roberto Clemente, Telecom Italia Lab, Italy Joerg Eberspaecher, Technische Universität München, Germany Andreas Gladisch, T-Systems International, Germany Wayne D. Grover, TRLabs, University of Alberta, Canada David Tipper, University of Pittsburgh, USA _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: Workshop on Social Networks, Applications, and Systems (SNAS 2009)]
by Lars Wolf 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: Workshop on Social Networks, Applications, and Systems (SNAS 2009) Datum: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:08:25 -0400 Von: Guanling Chen <glchen(a)cs.uml.edu> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Apologies if you received multiple copies of this CFP. Workshop on Social Networks, Applications, and Systems (SNAS 2009) http://www.cs.uml.edu/~glchen/snas09/ Aug 16, 2009 Boston, MA, USA Co-located with WASA09: http://www.wasaconf.org/wasa2009/ Submission Deadline: Apr 20, 2009 Notification Due: May 7, 2009 Final Version Due: May 28, 2009 Call For Papers The increased popularity of online social applications has attracted significant interest from researchers in different areas. This workshop aims to provide a cross-disciplinary forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss and present recent advancements on social networks, applications, and systems. SNAS will be held on August 16, 2009 in Boston, MA, and is co-located with WASA 2009 conference. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Online social networks measurements and analysis * Location-based mobile social applications * User behavior and online interaction modeling * Design, implementation, and experience of social applications * New Internet/Web architecture and systems supporting large-scale social applications * Security, trust, and privacy issues for online social networks Submission Authors are required to submit their papers in the Springer LNCS Format with at least 10 point font and no more than 8 pages. All submissions should be in the PDF format. Accepted papers will be published in the Springer-LNCS series with the WASA conference proceedings. Please submit papers to snas2009(a)gmail.com. * April 20, Submission due * May 7, Acceptance notification * May 28, Camera ready due Steering Committee Denise L. Anthony, Dartmouth College Apratim Purakayastha, IBM PC Co-chairs Guanling Chen, University of Massachusetts Lowell Wei Ding, University of Massachusetts Boston PC Members Aris Anagnostopoulos, Yahoo! Research Farnoush Banaei-Kashani, University of Southern California Andrew Campbell, Dartmouth College Ping Chen, University of Houston Steve Gregory, University of Bristol Yan Huang, University of North Texas Akshay Java, Microsoft Live Chengkai Li, University of Texas Arlington Spiros Papadimitriou, IBM Elisabeth Sylvan, TERC Duc Tran, University of Massachusetts Boston Jin Soung Yoo, Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne Lin Zhong, Rice University _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] 15th Eunice International Workshop, updated CFP]
by Lars Wolf 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] 15th Eunice International Workshop, updated CFP Datum: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:09:34 +0100 Von: Jaume Barcelo <jaume.barcelo(a)upf.edu> Organisation: Universitat Pompeu Fabrea An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Dear colleagues, we have updated our CFP with a new time line and additional information regarding technical sponsorship and keynotes. The new CFP follows. Best regards, Jaume ------------------------------------------------------------ CALL-FOR-PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------- 15th Eunice International Workshop "The Internet of the Future" September 7 - 9, 2009, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain http://nets.upf.edu/eunice09 ------------------------------------------------------------- Ten years ago, the 5th edition of the Eunice workshop took place in Barcelona with the motto "Broadband for all". This year, with the broadband promise already fulfilled in the city, the international workshop comes back to Barcelona in its 15th edition focused on "The Internet of the future". The Internet is shaping the twenty-first century information society. It has deeply transformed the way we learn, work and interact. All kinds of institutions, from universities to businesses, have been shaken by the wave of digital innovation. Leisure and social networks also have their place in the virtual world, and the younger generations cannot imagine a time when they could not be in permanent contact with friends around the globe, interchanging messages and multimedia content. The challenge of classifying, ranking and interpreting the massive amounts of information that are being generated is breathtaking. Furthermore, the Internet is moving beyond the computer to reach the mobile phones, smart gadgets and sensor networks. The pervasiveness of the Internet had fundamentally changed existing business models, and the business models themselves are driving the evolution of the Internet. In this scenario of relentless change, our aim is to foresee and design the networks and applications of the future. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Future Internet Architectures and Mobility: - Evolution of current IP-based architectures - Disruptive proposals for Internet upcoming architectures - Next Generation Networks Security and Management - IP Mobility issues Web-based applications and contents: - New applications and services for social communities - Search and mining advances in the future Internet - Network vs. contents: neutrality issues - Location-based services Multimedia Services: - Massive multimedia and video content deployment - Image and video processing - Networked video gaming - Skinning user interfaces Traffic Engineering for Internet: - Performance evaluation - Traffic measurements and modeling - Network Modeling and Simulation - Testbeds and Experimental Research. Pervasive Wireless Networks and Protocols - QoS and radio resource management. - MIMO and smart antennas. - Novel MAC and routing protocols for cognitive, adaptive and reconfigurable networks. - Cross-Layer design. Fixed and Optical Networks: - Optical end-to-end transport - New Switching and routing paradigms - Self-configuring optical networks - Next Generation Access networks Future Internet Regulatory and business issues: - Business models for web 2.0 technologies - Impact of Internet upon society and SMEs - Network Neutrality - NGA: the future of regulation Confirmed Keynotes: Daniel Kofman Angel Lozano, "Wireless Communications: Chronicle of a Technological Revolution" Michela Meo, "Green networking: improving networks energy efficiency " Venue: The international workshop will take place in the burgeoning 22@ innovation district in Barcelona. Its centric location, combined with the high density of universities, research institutes and technology-oriented companies, makes this the ideal spot for the event. The neighborhood has nice promenades and beaches to relax after technical sessions and it is also one of the main clubbing areas in the city. Address: Roc Boronat 138. 08018 Barcelona. Authors are encouraged to submit full papers describing original research or extended abstracts presenting early results. Full papers will be considered for oral presentation while extended abstracts will be presented in poster sessions. Papers accepted for oral presentation will be included in the workshop proceedings to be published in Springer LNCS series. The maximum length is 10 pages for full papers and 2 pages for extended abstracts. Authors must comply with the LNCS instructions that can be found at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Technical sponsors: EuroNF IFIP WG6.6 ------------------------------------------------------------ Time line: April 15th: Submission May 21: Accept notifications June 15th: Camera-ready September 7-9: Eunice International Workshop ------------------------------------------------------------ Chairs: Miquel Oliver (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Sebastia Sallent (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya) TPC Members * Finn Arve Aagesen, U. of Trondheim, Norway * Sebastian Abeck, U. Karlsruhe, Germany * Rolv Braek, U. of Trondheim, Norway * Carlos Delgado Kloos, U. Carlos III of Madrid, Spain * Joerg Eberspaecher, Technical U. of Munich, Germany * Olivier Festor, INRIA Nancy, France * Maurice Gagnaire, TELECOM ParisTech, France * Annie Gravey, TELECOM Bretagne, France * Sebastian Gunreben, IKR, Germany * Edit Halasz, Budapest U. of Technology and Economics, Hungary * Jarmo Harju, Tampere U. of Technology, Finland * Yvon Kermarrec, TELECOM Bretagne, France * Andreas Kirdstaedter, IKR, Germany * Paul Kuehn, IKR, Germany * Xavier Lagrange, TELECOM Bretagne, France * David Larrabeiti-Lopez, U. Carlos III of Madrid, Spain * Ralf Lehnert, TU Dresden, Germany * Maryline Maknavicius-Laurent, TELECOM SudParis, France * Maurizio Munafo, Politecnico di Torino, Italy * Aiko Pras, U. Twente, NL * David Ros, TELECOM Bretagne, France * Marten van Sinderen, U. Twente, the Netherlands * Burkhard Stiller, U. of Zurich, Switzerland * Robert Szabo, Budapest U. of Technology and Economics, Hungary _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Researchers] IEEE Globecom 2009: Ad Hoc, Sensor and Mesh Networking Symposium
by Profa Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare 20 Mar '09

20 Mar '09

============================================================================= We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. Thank you to post in your emailing lists ============================================================================= SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Extended MARCH 31, 2009 CALL-FOR-PAPERS IEEE Globecom 2009: Ad Hoc, Sensor and Mesh Networking Symposium www.ieee-globecom.org/2009 November 30th- December 4th, 2009 Honolulu, Hawaii, USA ============================================================================= Symposium Chairs: Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa (boukerch(a)site.uottawa.ca) Nizar Bouabdallah, INRIA, France (nizar.bouabdallah(a)inria.fr) Chunxiao Tricia Chigan, Michigan Tech (cchigan(a)mtu.edu) Ashfaq Khokhar, University of Illinois at Chicago (ashfaq(a)uic.edu) Sponsoring Technical Committees: Ad Hoc & Sensor Communications & Networks Wireless Communications Information Infrastructure Scope: The field of ad hoc, sensor and mesh networking is reemerging amid unprecedented growth in the scale and diversity of computer networking. A Mobile ad hoc network (Manet) is a system of wireless mobile nodes dynamically self organizing in arbitrary and temporary network topologies. People and vehicles can thus be internetworked in areas without a pre-existing communication infrastructure, or when the use of such infrastructure requires wireless extension. Therefore, such networks are designed to operate in widely varying environments, from military networks (with hundreds of nodes) to low-power sensor networks and other embedded systems. Dynamic topologies, Bandwidth constraints, Energy-constrained operations, Wireless vulnerabilities, and limited physical security are among the characteristics that differentiate Mobile ad hoc networks from fixed multihop networks. This symposium aims at providing a forum for sharing ideas among researchers and practitioners working on state-of-the-art solutions to the challenges above. We are seeking papers that describe original and unpublished contributions addressing various aspects of ad hoc, sensor and mesh networks. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical papers by the deadline 15 March 2009 for publication in the IEEE GLOBECOM 2009 Conference Proceedings and for oral or poster presentation(s). All submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of six (6) printed pages (10-point font) including figures, without incurring additional page charges (maximum 2 additional pages, with overlength page fee). Standard IEEE Transactions templates for Microsoft Word or LaTeX formats found at http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/pubs/transactions/stylesheets.html. Alternatively you can follow the sample instructions in template.pdf at http://www.comsoc.org/confs/globecom/2008/downloads/template.pdf Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process and all submissions must be done through EDAS at http://edas.info/ TOPICS of INTEREST: You are invited to submit original technical papers covering but not limited to the following topics. * Applications and Evolutions of Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Mesh Networks * Autonomic Networking * Wireless, Ad Hoc, and Sensor Devices * Physical Layer Design of Ad Hoc, Sensor and Mesh Networks * Frequency and Channel Allocation Algorithms *T opology Control and Management * Algorithms and Modeling for Localization, Target Tracking, and Mobility Management * Architectures of Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing in Ad Hoc, Sensor and Mesh Networks * MAC Protocols for Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Mesh Networks * QoS Provisioning in Medium Access Control and Routing for Ad Hoc and Mesh Networks * Analytical, Mobility, and Validation Models for Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Mesh Networks * Performance Evaluation and Modeling of Mobile, Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Mesh Networks * Integrated Simulation and Measurement based Evaluation of Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems * New Simulation Languages, Methodologies, and Tools for Wireless Systems in Ad Hoc, Sensor and Mesh Networks * Analysis of Correctness and Efficiency of Protocols * Data Management, Data Aggregation, Data Dissemination, and Query Processing * Distributed Algorithms in Ad Hoc, Sensor and Mesh Networks * Pricing Modeling and Solutions * Pervasive and Wearable Computing * Co-existence Issues of Hybrid Networks * Energy Saving and Power Control Protocols for Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Mesh Networks * Resource Management Algorithms in Mobile, wireless Ad Hoc and Mesh Networks * Synchronization and Scheduling Issues in Mobile and Ad Hoc Networks * Service Discovery for Wireless Ad Hoc, Mesh, and Sensor Networks * Cross-layer Design and Interactions in Ad Hoc, Sensor and Mesh Networks * Mobile Service and QoS Management for Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks * Survivability and Reliability Evaluation and Modeling for Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Mesh Networks * Ubiquitous and Mobile Access for Wireless Mesh Networks * Security and Privacy Issues in Wireless Ad Hoc, Mesh, and Sensor Networks -- Esta mensagem foi verificada pelo sistema de antiv�rus e acredita-se estar livre de perigo. _______________________________________________ Researchers mailing list Researchers(a)mailman.ufsc.br http://mailman.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/researchers

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[Fwd: [Mycolleagues] CFP: IEEE Wireless Comms Mag: VANETs Special Issue]
by Lars Wolf 19 Mar '09

19 Mar '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Mycolleagues] CFP: IEEE Wireless Comms Mag: VANETs Special Issue Datum: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:58:17 -0700 (PDT) Von: CK TOH <cktoh2003(a)yahoo.com> Antwort an: cktoh2003(a)yahoo.com An: mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br *IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine* *Special Issue in "On-The-Road Communications"* *Call for Papers* Vehicular wireless communications and Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) have been identified as important technology enablers for improving vehicle safety, for enhancing vehicle traffic efficiency, and for providing comfort and convenience to drivers and passengers. The development of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) based Vehicular Ad hoc Networks is one of the most critical issues for the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) industry. These issues concern not only automotive and ITS research communities but also the wireless communication and networking research communities. Throughout the world, there are many national and international collaboration projects on V2V and ITS by government agencies, industries, and academia. These projects are devoted to conducting research in ITS which involves drivers, passengers, roads and wireless technologies. Some projects are committed to develop prototypes of next generation vehicle communication systems (VCS). Through these research and development projects, many realize that designing reliable, efficient, scalable, robust, and secured vehicular networking technologies present extraordinary challenges. This special issue intends to disseminate the latest research results in the areas of ITS, automotive, wireless communication, and networks, and to provide a snapshot of the current state-of-the-art. *Scope of Contributions* We would like to solicit papers related to technical challenges, comprehensive in-depth tutorial surveys, standardization efforts on vehicular communications, field trials of 802.11p based VANETs, security issues, channel access, routing, data dissemination, and application scenarios. Contributions from both academia and industries are welcome. Original contributions (previously unpublished and not currently under review by another publication), are solicited (but not limited to) in the following areas: * Mobility models and vehicle traffic models * Simulation aspects of V2V, V2I, and VCS * Physical layer issues for vehicular comms (RF, radio design and propagation models) * Channel access and MAC collision management * Vehicular networks architectures and network protocols * QoS support and real-time issues * Emulation and testbeds for large-scale vehicular networks * Application scenarios using VANET technologies * Security, encryption and privacy for vehicular systems * Standards (802.11p, CALM, P1609, etc) development and evolution * Performance, scalability, reliability and efficiency of VANET systems * Intra-vehicular sensor network and embedded system integration. * Human-Machine Interface for vehicular systems * Data dissemination methods * Safety, enhanced navigation, and car alert mechanisms * Routing issues, addressing issues, transport layer issues * Vehicular collision avoidance using distributed sensing technologies * Vehicular sensors ** *Manuscript Submission * Authors should submit their manuscripts electronically in PDF format with a separate cover letter, which contains the paper title, authors with affiliations, and a 250-word abstract via email to Fan Bai (fan.bai(a)gm.com <mailto:fan.bai@gm.com>) and C. K. Toh (ck.ieee(a)doctor.com <mailto:ck.ieee@doctor.com>). To enforce the double blind reviewing policy, authors' names and affiliations can only appear in the separate cover letter. The "Subject field" of the email must contain "IEEE WCM OTRC Paper". Articles should have no more than 4500 words, no more than 6 tables/figures, and the abstract should have no more than 250 words. With regard to both the content and formatting style of the submissions, prospective contributors should follow the IEEE Wireless Communications guidelines for authors that can be found at: http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/pci/info/pub_guidelines.html. The following timetable will be followed: Manuscript Submission 01 Apr, 2009 Acceptance Notification 01 August, 2009 Final Manuscript 01 September, 2009 Publication Date: December, 2009 ** *Guest Editors* Dr. Fan Bai, General Motors R&D (USA) (co-lead) Prof. C K Toh, U of HONG KONG (co-lead) Dr. Russell Hsing, TELCORDIA Technologies Inc, (USA) Dr. Onur Altintas, TOYOTA ITC (Japan) Dr. Oh Hyun Seo, ETRI (Korea) -- _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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IEEE GLOBECOM 09: Call for Papers Extended
by ComSocEvents＠ieee.xert.net 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '09

IEEE GLOBECOM 2009 Call for Papers Extended to 31 March 2009 30 November - 4 December 2009 Honolulu, Hawaii, USA www.ieee-globecom.org IEEE GLOBECOM -- the premier telecommunications events -- covers the entire range of communications technologies, offering in-depth information on the latest developments in voice, data, image and multimedia. IEEE GLOBECOM will feature 11 Technical Symposia, Tutorials, Workshops, a Design & Developers Forum and the Communications EXPO, including various Business, Technology and Industry fora, and vendor exhibits. We invite you to submit papers for the Technical Program in the following areas of communications: Ad Hoc, Sensor and Mesh Networking Communication Theory Communications Quality of Service, Reliability and Performance Modeling Communications Software and Services Computer and Communications Network Security Next Generation Networks, Protocols, and Services Optical Networks and Systems Signal Processing for Communications Wireless Communications Wireless Networking Selected Areas: Cognitive Radio & Networks, Emerging Technologies for Access Systems & Networks, Consumer Networks, Data Storage and Satellite & Space Communications Technical paper submissions are due by 31 March 2009. Submissions are also welcomed for Tutorials, Workshops, Design & Developers Forum and Special Sessions on the History of Telecommunications. Tutorials: Proposals for half-day and full-day presentations on conference topics are due by 31 March 2009. Workshops: Proposals on the latest technical and business issues in communications and networking topics are due by 31 March 2009. Design & Developers Forum: Submissions featuring emerging technologies and business applications for design and developers are due by 31 March 2009. Special Sessions: Submissions on historical developments in telecommunications are due by 31 March 2009. For a list of topics, proposal guidelines and submission instructions, visit www.ieee-globecom.org Important Dates Paper Submission: 31 March 2009 Tutorial Proposal: 31 March 2009 Workshop Proposal: 31 March 2009 D&D Submission: 31 March 2009 Special Sessions Submission: 31 March 2009 Acceptance Notification: 1 July 2009 Camera-Ready Papers: 14 August 2009 Patrons: GCI, Telcordia, ASTRI, AT&T, Cisco, NEC To unsubscribe from this list, please click this link: http://ieee.xert.net/act_optout.cfm?cid=90204&email_id=%23%24I%5BK%0A

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[Tccc] CFP: IEEE ICNP 2009 (submission deadline in 30 days: April 17, 2009 -- HARD!)
by Xiaoming Fu 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '09

[Sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.] CALL FOR PAPERS ICNP 2009 17th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols October 13-16, 2009 Princeton, New Jersey, USA http://www.ieee-icnp.org/2009 ICNP, the IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols is the premier conference covering all aspects of network protocols. ICNP will be held in its seventeenth year at Princeton, New Jersey from October 13-16th, 2009. Papers with significant research contributions on network protocols are solicited for submission. Papers related to all aspects of network protocols including design, implementation, analysis, performance and specification are relevant. Papers must not be previously published nor under review in any other conference or journal. Only original papers that have not been published previously or submitted for publication and under review by another conference or journal elsewhere can be submitted. Papers containing plagiarized material will be subject to the IEEE Plagiarism policy and will be rejected without review. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Protocol design, implementation, testing and analysis. • Measurement studies of protocol performance. • Protocols for wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. • Protocols for peer-to-peer networks. • Protocols for specific functions such as routing, flow/congestion control, network management. • Protocols for security, survivability and fault-tolerance. Papers must be directly relevant to protocols. Papers on general networking where protocols are only a secondary focus will be considered only if they are of exceptionally high quality. Papers will be subject to a double-blind review process. The identity of authors and referees will not be revealed to each other. To ensure blind reviewing, the authors' names and affiliations should not appear in the paper. Bibliographic references should protect the authors' anonymity. Papers should adhere to the IEEE format and should not be more than 10 pages. The font size should not be smaller than 10pt. Further instructions will be posted on the ICNP website (http://www.ieee-icnp.org/2009). Authors of accepted papers will be expected to register for the conference and the paper must be presented at the conference in order for the paper to appear in the conference proceedings. Important Dates: Abstract Submission: April 10, 2009 8:59 P.M. EDT Paper Submission: April 17, 2009 8:59 P.M. EDT (Hard Deadline) Notification of Acceptance: July 28, 2009 Camera Ready Version Due: September 4, 2009 Steering Committee: David Lee (Chair) Ohio State University, USA Ken Calvert (Vice Chair) University of Kentucky, USA Kevin Almeroth University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Mostafa Ammar Georgia Tech, USA Sonia Fahmy Purdue University, USA Mohamed Gouda University of Texas, Austin, USA Teruo Higashino Osaka University, Japan Krishan Sabnani Bell Labs Research, USA Advisory Board: Simon Lam University of Texas, Austin, USA Mike T. Liu Ohio State University, USA Raymond Miller University of Maryland, USA General Chairs: K.K. Ramakrishnan AT & T Labs Research, USA Henning Schulzrinne Columbia University, USA Program Chairs: Timothy Griffin University of Cambridge, UK Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy University of California, Riverside, USA For more details, visit the conference webpage: http://www.ieee-icnp.org/2009 Regards, Xiaoming Fu IEEE ICNP'09 Publicity Chair _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[cfp] [Tccc] CFP ACM PE-WASUN 2009 (Tenerife, Canary Islands, SPAIN)
by Tahiry Razafindralambo 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '09

Sorry for the multiple copies. ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ ACM PE-WASUN 2009 6th ACM International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks (Jointly with the 12th ACM MSWiM Conference) http://www.ens-lyon.fr/LIP/pe-wasun09 Tenerife, Canary Islands, SPAIN 26-30 October, 2009 CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ Scope ----- Wireless ad hoc, sensor, along with ubiquitous networks have recently witnessed their fastest growth period ever in history, and this trend is likely to continue for the foreseeable future. However, as such networks become increasingly complex, performance modelling and evaluation will play crucial part in their design process to ensure their successful deployment and exploitation in practice. This symposium aims to bring together scientists, engineers, and practitioners to share and exchange their experiences, discuss challenges, and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research on all aspects of wireless ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks with a specific emphasis on their performance evaluation and analysis. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Predictive performance models of ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks - Analytical modeling - Probabilistic models for ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks - Queuing and network information theoretic analysis - Tracing and trace analysis - Software tools for network performance and evaluation - Simulation methods - Automatic performance analysis - Performance comparison - Performance of wireless and sensor devices - RF channel capacity modeling and analysis - Mobility modeling and management - Traffic models for ad hoc, sensor networks - Performance evaluation of wireless mesh networks - Performance evaluation of pervasive and ubiquitous networks - Performance evaluation of vehicular networks - Network performance improvement through optimization and tuning - Performance measurement, evaluation and monitoring tools for ad hoc, sensor and ubiquitous networks - Case studies demonstrating the role of performance evaluation in the design of ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks General Chair ------------- Stephan Olariu Old Dominion University, USA Program Co-Chairs ----------------- Azzedine Boukerche University of Ottawa, Canada (boukerch(a)site.uottawa.ca) Isabelle Guérin Lassous Université Lyon I/LIP, France (Isabelle.Guerin-Lassous(a)ens-lyon.fr) Poster Chair ------------ Emmanouil Dramitinos INRIA/LIP, France (emmanouil.dramitinos(a)ens-lyon.fr) Demos Chair ----------- Claude Chaudet Telecom ParisTech, France (claude.chaudet(a)enst.fr) Publicity Chair --------------- Tahiry Razafindralambo INRIA/IRCICA/LIFL, France Program Committee Members ------------------------- Paolo Bellavista University of Bologna, Italy Fernando Boavida University of Coimbra, Portugal Raffaele Bruno IIT-CNR, Italy Ioannis Chatzigiannakis Patras University, Greece Guillaume Chelius INRIA/CITI, France Carla Fabiana Chiasserini Politecnico di Torino, Italy Michele Colajanni University of Modena, Italy Francesca Cuomo University of Roma La Sapienza, Italy Marcelo Dias de Amorim CNRS/LIP6, France Manos Dramitinos INRIA/LIP, France Falko Dressler Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Bertrand Ducourthial UTC, France Juan-Carlos Cano Escriba UPV, Spain Vittoria Gianuzzi University of Genova, Italy Monica Aguilar Igartua Technical University of Catalonia, Spain Helen Karatza Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Bernard Mans Macquarie University, Australia Pietro Manzoni Politechnic Univ. of Valencia, Spain Tommaso Melodia State University of New York, USA Geyong Min Bradford University, UK Sotiris Nikoletseas University of Patras and CTI, Greece Mirela Notare Barddal University, Brazil Andrea Passarella IIT-NR, Italy Richard W. Pazzi University of Ottawa, Canada Tahiry Razafindralambo INRIA/IRCICA/LIFL, France Prasan Kumar Sahoo Vanung University, Taiwan, Republic of China Marco Spohn Federal Univ. of Campina Grande, Brazil Damla Turgut University of Central Florida, USA Hwang-Cheng Wang National Ilan University, Taiwan, Republic of China Paper Submission ---------------- Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent developments in the topics related to the symposium. The length of the papers should not exceed 8 single-spaced, two-column pages, ACM style including tables/figures. A template for ACM SIG Proceedings style (LaTeX2e and MSWord) can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Accepted papers will appear in the ACM symposium proceedings. Papers should be submitted via EasyChair on the following link: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pewasun09 Important Dates: ---------------- Paper registration due: May 27th, 2009 Full paper due: June 1st, 2009 Acceptance notifcation: July 6th, 2009 Camera ready due: TBA _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: ICCCN Workshops - Deadline Extended to March 20th]
by Lars Wolf 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: ICCCN Workshops - Deadline Extended to March 20th Datum: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:54:36 -0400 Von: striegel(a)nd.edu An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu *Apologies if you receive multiple copies* ICCCN 2009 - 18th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks August 2-6, 2009 -- San Francisco, CA Quality workshops will be held in conjunction with ICCCN 2009. The workshops aim to explore special topics and provide international forums for scientists, engineers, and computer users to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results on hot and broad topics on computer communications and networks. Workshops for presenting papers from industrial companies and papers on design and implementations of systems and services are welcome. ICCCN is a premier international conference in the field and running a workshop in association with it is of high visibility. The proceedings of the workshops program will be published in the same venues as the ICCCN 2009 main conference proceedings. ICCCN 2009 will host the following workshops: * 3rd Workshop on Performance Modeling and Evaluation in Computer and TeleCom Communications (PMECT) * 2nd Workshop on Sensor Networks (SN) * 2nd Workshop on Cognitive Networks and Communications (COGCOM) * 1st Workshop on Multimedia Computing and Communications (MCC) * 1st Workshop on Grid and P2P Systems and Applications (GridPeer) * International Workshop on Security, Privacy and Trust of Computer and Cyber-Physical Networks (SecureCPN) * International Workshop on Nano, Molecular, and Quantum Information Networks (NanoCom) Submission To submit a paper to any of these workshops, please follow this link: http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=7043& Important Dates for Workshops Paper submission deadline March 20, 2009 Author notification May 1, 2009 Camera-ready papers due May 15, 2009 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lars Wolf 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

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[Tccc] CFP : Mobiquitous 2009 - FINAL Deadline Extension!!
by Jing Su 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 My most sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies. Due to several requests, the paper submission deadlines have been extended one last time. The final deadlines below are firm. *******Call for PAPERS (FINAL EXTENDED DEADLINE)********************** Mobiquitous 2009 (http://www.mobiquitous.org) July 13 - 15 2009, Radisson Hotel Admiral Toronto HarbourFront, Toronto,Canada Co-sponsored by Create-Net and ICST (IEEE Computer Society technical sponsorship awaited) ********************************************************************** Call for Papers: Paper Registration: March 20, 2009 (REVISED AND FINAL EXTENSION) Submissions Due: March 27, 2009 (FIRM DEADLINE) The Sixth Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous 2009) will provide a forum for practitioners and researchers from diverse backgrounds to interact and exchange experiences about the design and implementation of mobile and ubiquitous systems. Areas addressed by the conference include systems, applications, social networks, middleware, networking, data management and services, all with special focus on mobility and ubiquitous computing. The Program Committee is soliciting technical papers that describe original, previously unpublished research, not currently under review by another conference or journal. Submissions should clearly identify how they relate to issues on mobile and ubiquitous systems. Contributions describing an overall working system are particularly of interest. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: * Architectures, systems and applications * Localization and tracking * Wearable computing * Context- and location-aware applications and services * Personal area networks * Agent technologies in ubiquitous, wearable, and mobile systems * Wireless technologies (Bluetooth, ZigBee, * Energy efficiency and awareness 802.15.x, WiFi, WiMAX) * Toolkits, testbeds, development environments, * Wireless Internet access in ubiquitous systems and languages for ubiquitous computing * Ad hoc and sensor network support for * Rapid prototyping of ubiquitous applications ubiquitous computing * Reconfigurability and personalization * Mobile and ubiquitous data management and processing * Wireless/mobile service management and delivery * Queries, transactions and workflows in mobile and ubiquitous environments * Trust Issues for Ubiquitous Systems * Multimodal interfaces (speech, video kinetic, tactile) * Community based computing * User generated content * Service and knowledge discovery, matching * Mixed (virtual/real) world infrastructures and composition mechanisms - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Instructions: Paper submission will be handled electronically via the Website: https://sysnet.cs.toronto.edu/mobiquitous/index (see the conference web page for details). Authors should prepare an Adobe Acrobat PDF version of their full paper. Papers must not exceed 10 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. Please see the submission page for detailed submission requirements and procedures. Organizers (more details on the Web site): General Chair: Archan Misra, Telcordia,USA Technical Program Chair: Eyal de Lara, U. of Toronto, Canada TPC Vice Chairs: Paul Castro, IBM TJ Watson, USA, Dina Papagiannaki, Intel Research Pittsburgh, USA Workshops Chairs: Iqbal Mohomed, Microsoft Research, USA Milena Radenkovic, U. of Nottingham, UK. Posters Chair: Qi Han, Colorado School of Mines, USA Web Chair: Andre Kalamandeen, U. of Toronto, Canada Conference Coordinator: Maria Morozova, ICST, USA. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJv6FTZT/vzJhJ7+wRAm7QAKCOzGYww/hlmiwI3yEPvIHNO01LDACgr4v9 c8JsIIVeRX0YhGyReipiH+M= =mtlY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[ISCC] IEEE GIIS'09 cfp - submission extended to April 1st, 2009
by Paolo Bellavista 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

****************************************************************************** We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ****************************************************************************** *** Announcing paper and workshop submission deadline extensions *** *** Announcing IEEE Communications society Technical sponsorship *** --------------------------------------------------------------------------- GIIS 2009 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- IEEE Global Information Infrastructure Symposium (GIIS 2009) June 23th ~ 25th, 2009, Hammamet, Tunisia http://www.ieee-giis.org/ Due to the many requests for extension, the GIIS 2009 organizing committee has agreed to extend the paper submission due date to April 1st 2009. After this date no further extension will be granted. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Submission deadline: April 1st, 2009 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scope and Overview: GIIS 2009 follows the success of GIIS 2007 (www.ieee-giis.org/GIIS2007). The scope of GIIS consists of interrelated set of technical, policy, and social issues implicit in the development of national and international (global) information infrastructures. GIIS aims at identifying and promoting the exchange of knowledge on these interrelated issues and provides liaison to bodies in the global society, technical for and international standards. GIIS 2009 will stimulate interdisciplinary conference sessions and workshops to discuss, built and further the use of national and international information infrastructures. The conference also aims at providing a forum for the participants to broaden professional contacts and for technical discussions and interactions on specific information infrastructure topics. Information infrastructure brings together information processing applications, communications networks and services, physical and software elements in networks, and end systems. The program of GIIS 2009 will include invited talks, paper presentations, workshops, tutorials, panel and discussion sessions. The technical issues addressed by the conference include Interoperability at various levels, standard services and user interfaces, world wide naming and addressing, and the international mobility of persons and services. The policy issues addressed by the conference are those with a large technical element, including protection of intellectual property, privacy and security, international use of encryption technology, commercial protocols, and standards vs. proprietary technologies. The conference is specifically interested in ubiquity, open source/equal access, ease of use, cost effectiveness, standards, and architectural openness. The program of GIIS 2009 will include a Technology Track and a Policy Track. Topics of interest include but are not restricted to the following aspects: TECHNOLOGY TRACK --------------------------------------------------------------------- COMMUNICATION SOFTWARE & SERVICES --------------------------------------------------------------------- Communications & Information Security Middleware for networked applications Communications Quality and Reliability Network Operations and Management Autonomic Communication Systems VoIP, IPTV, MobileTV, TVOD, Gaming e-Government, e-Health, Networked Medical Applications NETWORKING --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ad Hoc & Sensor Communications & Networks Communications Switching & Routing Delay/Disruption tolerant wireless networks High-Speed / Optical Networking Next Generation Internet Multimedia Communications Optical Networking Home and Enterprise Networking Personal Communications Peer-to-peer & overlay networks Tactical Communications and operations COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES --------------------------------------------------------------------- Communication Theory Power Line Communications Wireless Communications Satellite and Space Communications Transmission, Access and Optical Systems POLICY TRACK --------------------------------------------------------------------- TELECOM FINANCE and ECONOMICS --------------------------------------------------------------------- Telecom price regulation, pricing strategies Cost accounting, cost structures for telecom Economic model of international interconnection Economic & intellectual property issues CONVERGENCE AND COMPETITION Competition in International Service Municipal broadband Net neutrality issues Global telecom business, country and region cases TELECOM AND SOCIETY --------------------------------------------------------------------- Communities in connectivity policy making Training, support, relevant applications Non-Governmental Organizations Professional organizations and standards activities Implications of new telecom technologies Digital Opportunity Index POLICY and RESTRUCTURING --------------------------------------------------------------------- Region and country specific telecom policies Services focused telecom policy Strategies for growing rural connectivity Spectrum management policies DEVELOPMENT OF GLOBAL ACCESS --------------------------------------------------------------------- Development plans and activities Economics and financing of the global access Prospects for stable development and growth Organizational issues deployment and operations Oversight issues - transparency and accountability Submission Process Participants should submit a research paper or experience report, not exceeding 4000 words (8 pages using 10-point type), including figures and references. The cover page should indicate whether it is a research or an experience paper. Full paper submissions must be received by April 1st 2009, and may be in Adobe Acrobat PDF. Papers must be submitted online via the GIIS 2009 website. The proceedings will be published in IEEE Xplore. For further information visit: www.ieee-giis.org or send an email to: chairs2009(a)ieee-giis.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates NEW Paper Submissions: 1 April 2009 NEW Author Notification: 25 April 2009 NEW Camera-Ready Due: 10 May 2009 NEW Panels submission : 1 April 2009 NEW Tutorials Submission : 1 April 2009 NEW Workshops Submission : 1 April 2009 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Chair ----------------------------------- Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada Program Co-Chairs Technology Track ----------------------------------- Ahmed Mehaoua, University Paris Descartes, France Sami Tabbane, SUPCOM, Tunisia Program Co-Chairs Policy Track ----------------------------------- Mehmet Ulema, Manhattan College, USA Robert Walp, GCI, Alaska, USA Local Arrangements Co-chairs ----------------------------------- Mounir Frikha, Nabil Tabbane, SupCom, Tunisia Hassine Moungla, University Paris Descartes, France Publication Chair ----------------------------------- Yacine-Ghamri Doudane, ENSIIE, France Workshops Chair ----------------------------------- Georges Kormentzas, Aegean University, Greece Tutorials Chair ----------------------------------- Rami Langar, University of Paris 6, France Posters Chair ----------------------------------- Abdelfettah Belghith, ENSI, Tunisia Publicity co-Chairs ----------------------------------- Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, italy Carlos Becker Wesltphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Infrastructure chair ----------------------------------- Ibrahim Hajjeh, Ineovation, France Technical Program Committee ----------------------------------- Nazim Agoulmine Univ. of evry, France Toufik Ahmed LABRI-ENSEIRB, France Ali N. Akansu New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Cengiz Akgun SAIC, USA Ian F. Akyildiz Georgia Tech, USA Pascal Anelli Univ. de la Reunion, France Claudio Bartolini HP Laboratories, USA Abdelfettah Belghith ENSI, Tunisia Paolo Bellavista Univ. di Bologna, Italy Abderrahim Benslimane Univ. de Avignon, France Abdelmalek Benzekri Univ. de Toulouse, France Andre-luc Beylot IRIT-ENSEEIHT, France Eugen Borcoci Univ. Politehnica Bucharest, Romania Abdelmadjid Bouabdallah Univ. Technologique de Compiegne, France Azzedine Boukerche Univ. of Ottawa, Canada Raouf Boutaba Waterloo Univ., Canada Stefano Bregni Politecnico di Milano, Italy Tijani Chahed ParisTech-sud, France Ken Chen Univ. de Paris 13, France Paulo Cunha Federal Univ. of Pernambuco, Brazil Mahmoud Daneshmand AT&T, USA Moez Draief Imperial College, UK Mohamed Erradi ENSIAS, Marocco Mounir Frikha SUPCOM, Tunisia Alexander Gelman Netovation, USA Yacine Ghamri-Doudane ENSIIE, France Jay Gillette Ball State Univ., USA Shri Goyal St. Petersburg College, USA Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville Univ.Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Mourad Gueroui Univ. of Versailles, France Mounir Hamdi Hong kong univ., China Vic Hayes Tech. Univ Delft, Netherlands James Hong POSTECH, South Korea Heather E. Hudson Univ. of San Francisco, USA Ahmed Karmouch Univ. of Ottawa, Canada Farouk Kamoun ENSI, Tunisia Ferhat Khendek Concordia Univ., Canada Georges Kormentzas Aegean Univ., Greece Barcin Kozbe, Ericsson, USA Francine Krief LaBRI-ENSEIRB, France Francis La Chapelle GCI, USA Rami Langar Univ. de Paris 6, France Manu Malek Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Zoubir Mammeri Univ. de Toulouse, France Ahmed Mehaoua Univ. Paris Descartes, France William Melody Copenhagen Institute of Technology, Danemark Madjid Merabti Liverpool John Moored Univ., UK Mary Michel Manhattan College, USA Hussein Mouftah Univ. of Ottawa, Canada Hassine Moungla Univ. Paris Descartes, France Josef Noll UNIK, Norway Guy Omidyar Guy Inst., USA Jong-Tae Park Kyungpook National Univ., South Korea George Pavlou Univ. College of London, UK Guy Pujolle Univ. de Paris 6, France Tarek Saadawi City College of New York, USA Veli Sahin ICENET, USA Dominique Seret Univ. Paris Descartes, France Mostafa Hashem Sherif AT&T, USA Charalabos Skianis Demokritos, Greece Peter Spring AT&T, USA John Strassner MDAPCE.com, USA Nabil Tabbane SUPCOM, Tunisia Sami Tabbane SUPCOM, Tunisa Mehmet Ulema Manhattan College, USA Umit Uyar City College of New York, USA Vincent Wade Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Marc Waldman Manhattan College, USA Robert Walp GCI, USA Carlos Becker Wesltphall Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Yong Xiang Tsinghua University, China Yafei Yang QUALCOMM, USA Paolo Bellavista, Ph. D. Associate Professor in Computer Science Engineering EB Member of IEEE Communications and IEEE T. Services Computing DEIS - Università degli Studi di Bologna Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna (ITALY) Tel# +39-051-2093866; Fax# +39-051-2093073 Email: paolo.bellavista(a)unibo.it Web: http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/PaoloBellavista/ _______________________________________________ ISCC mailing list ISCC(a)mail.ing.unibo.it https://calvin.ing.unibo.it/mailman/listinfo/iscc

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[Tccc] ITQSA Track within Euromicro2009 SEAA (deadline extension)
by Paul Mueller 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

******************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested Extended deadline: March 27, 2009 ******************************************************************** -------------------------------------------------------- -- Call for Paper -- -- -- -- 35th EUROMICRO Conference on -- -- Software Engineering and Advanced -- -- Applications (SEAA) -- -- -- -- Track on -- -- Internet technologies, quality of service -- -- and applications (ITQSA) -- -- -- -- http://seaa2009.vtt.fi/itqsa/ -- -- -- -- Aug. 27th - Aug. 29th, 2009 -- -- Patras, Greece -- -------------------------------------------------------- Important dates ----------------- Submission deadline: March 27, 2009 Notification of acceptance: April 27th, 2009 Camera-ready paper due: May 26th, 2009 The current inter-networking paradigm, although highly successful as exemplified by the Internet, has become sub-optimal due to its sheer popularity. There has always been an answer to all requirements, no matter whether caused by new applications or technologies. So, over time the formerly simple and clear Internet architecture has become a patchwork of new balconies, workarounds and bypasses. In this conference track we aim to discuss the two mainstreams of network advances: the "Clean-Slate Approach" as well as the "Evolutionary Approach". Beside future networks also new applications, especially in the field of social networks, are becoming popular. This conference track addresses the technical issues of such and other emerging applications. Decentralized applications for open communities require new solutions for resources provisioning, rating of user generated content and services and for security. We invite you to contribute to this conference track by submitting proposals in one or more of the categories outlined below. Submissions may address requirement analysis, specific approaches and presentations of first solutions. Future Networks * Future Internet architectural issues, clean slate and evolutionary approaches * Cross-layer design and optimization * Separating of identity and address (locator/ID split) * Network virtualization * Network and service management * Self-engineering communications * Content based routing * Security and privacy Future Applications * Video and audio casting * Approaches and reliability of collective rating and description of content and services * Supporting collaborative work * Distributed resources / distributed computing * Grid and cloud computing We encourage submissions demonstrating the potential of new applications by providing case studies, experiments, and quantitative data. We encourage submissions demonstrating the potential of new approaches by providing case studies, experiments, and quantitative data. Submission of papers -------------------- Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a PDF version of their paper to: http://seaa2009.vtt.fi/ Papers should not exceed 8 pages (in IEEE/CS proceedings format; 10pt, single-space, double-column) or 6000 words and include an abstract of up to 150 words. A cover page should clearly show the name, mailing address, e-mail address and fax number of the author to contact, as well as the topic areas of the submitted paper. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by IEEE. Selected papers will be offered the opportunity to appear as extended versions in a special issue of a scholarly journal. The following signed statement should be included on the cover page: "Neither this paper nor any version close to it has been or is being offered elsewhere for publication. All necessary clearances have been obtained for the publication of this paper. If accepted, the paper will be made available in Cameraready forms by May 26th 2009, and it will be personally presented at the EUROMICRO 2009 Conference by the author or one of the co-authors. The presenting author(s) will pre-register (full fee) for EUROMICRO 2009 before the due date of the Camera-ready paper." Program Chairs --------------- Paul Mueller University of Kaiserslautern pmueller(a)informatik.uni-kl.de phone +49 631 205 2263 Rainer Stotzka Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe stotzka(a)ipe.fzk.de phone +49 7247 82 4738 Program Committee ------------------ Hendrik Berndt, DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany Torsten Braun, University of Berne, Switzerland Isabel Campos, Instituto de Fisica Cantabria, Santander, Spain Hermann deMeer, University of Passau, Germany Michel Diaz, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France Wolfgang Effelsberg, University of Mannheim, Germany Stefan Fischer, University of Luebeck, Germany Bernd Freisleben, University of Marburg, Germany Thomas Friese, Siemens AG, Germany Gerhard Haßlinger, T-Systems, Germany Frank Kargl, University of Ulm, Germany Marcel Kunze, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany David Larrabeiti, University Carlos III, Madrid, Spain Daniel Kofman, ENST Paris, France Prabhat Kumar Mahanti, University of New Brunswick, Canada Laurent Mathy, University of Lancaster, UK Ludek Matyska, Masaryk University, Czech Republic Andreas Mauthe, University of Lancaster, UK Harald Müller, Siemens AG, Germany Marcin Plociennik, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland Erwin P. Rathgeb, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany Ivica Rimac, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA Simon P. Romano, University of Naples "Federico II", Italy Jens Schmitt, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany Matti Mikael Siekkinen, University of Oslo, Norway Ralf Steinmetz, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany Phuoc Tran-Gia, University Wuerzburg, Germany Michael Weber, University of Ulm, Germany -- ___________________________________________________________________ Prof. Dr. Paul Mueller email: pmueller(a)informatik.uni-kl.de University of Kaiserslautern Phone: ++49-(0)631-205-2263 Dep. of Computer Science Fax: ++49-(0)631-205-3056 Paul Ehrlich Strasse Geb. 34 http://www.icsy.de D-67653 Kaiserslautern Germany ___________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: WiMob 2009 at Marrakech, Morocco
by Mieso Denko 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

*** Our apologies if you receive multiple copies *** --------------------------------------------------------- WiMob'2009 5th IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on Wireless & Mobile Computing, Networking & communication ------------------------------------------------------- Marrakech, Morocco October 12-14, 2009 http://conferences.computer.org/WiMob2009/ SCOPE: ------ The research area of mobile computing has become more important following the recent widespread drive towards mobile ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks and vehicular ad hoc networks tracking technologies and their applications. The availability of the high bandwidth 3G infrastructures, and the pervasive deployment of low cost WiFi infrastructure and WiMAX to create hotspots around the world serve to accelerate the development of mobile computing towards ubiquitous computing. WiMob-09 addresses three main areas: Wireless Communications Mobile Networking, Mobility and Nomadicity Ubiquitous Computing, Services and Applications This conference aims to stimulate interactions among participants and enable them to exchange new ideas and practical experience. WiMob?8 is the fourth in a series of annual conferences: two times in Montreal (QC) Canada in 2005 and 2006, in New York USA in 2007 and the last one in Avignon France in 2008. This conference will be comprised of the following three symposia: Wireless Communications ----------------------- Broadband Wireless Communication Systems Wireless Personal Communications Advances in Satellite Communication Broadband Wireless Communications Modulation and Coding Channel Measurement and Characterization OFDM and CDMA Technologies and Systems MIMO Channels Multiuser Detection Signal Separation and Interference Rejection Multimedia Communications over Wireless DSP Applications to Wireless Systems Adaptive Antennas for Wireless Systems Multiple Access Techniques Location Estimation and Tracking Resource Allocation and Interference Management Multirate and Multicarrier Communications Link and System Capacity Mobile Networking, Mobility and Nomadicity ------------------------------------------ Mobile IP Networks Cellular Systems, PCS Modeling and Configuration Multimedia over Wireless Mobility and Location Management Wireless Networks Standards and Protocols Design and Analysis of Wireless LAN/WAN Designing and Modeling High Availability Mobile Networks Mobile Network Modeling and Simulation Architectures and Protocols for Mobile Networks Security, Privacy and Authentication in Mobile Environments Wireless Sensor Networks Cross-layer Design and Optimization Ad-hoc Wireless Networks Autonomic Networking and Communications Mobile Internet Home and Ubiquitous Networks Smart Sensors and Sensor Networks Inter-working of 2G, 3G and 4G Wireless Networks Ubiquitous Computing, Services and Applications ----------------------------------------------- Distributed Computing and Distributed Databases Location-based Services Virtual Home Environments (VHE) M-Commerce M-Learning Streaming Applications Portable Devices and Wearable Computers Web Services Home and Office Appliances Enabling Technologies for Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing Security, Privacy and Infrastructure for Ubiquitous Computing Systems and Services (e.g. Mobile satellites, WLANs) Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Computing Home and Ubiquitous Networks Mobile Ad-Hoc Computing Gaming Applications in Ubiquitous Computing Environments Passive, Active and Smart Tags for Ubiquitous Computing Location-dependent and Context-aware Computing Software Architecture for Home/Smart Appliances Human Computer Interaction in Ubiquitous Computing Full papers must be submitted for review. Only original papers, unpublished nor submitted for publication elsewhere, can be submitted. Please visit http://www.larim.polymtl.ca/wimob2009/ for details and submission information. Only timely submissions through EDAS at http://edas.info will be accepted. IMPORTANT DATES : ---------------- Abstract submission due: May 6, 2009 Paper submission due: May 16, 2009 Notification of acceptance: August 1, 2009 Final manuscripts due: August 20, 2009 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] Deadline approaching: JSAC Special Issue on Mission Critical Networking' sent to authors of NetCri07
by Moustafa Youssef 15 Mar '09

15 Mar '09

Our apology if you receive multiple posts of this announcement. ====================================================================== JSAC CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue on Mission Critical Networking Mission-Critical Networking (MCN) refers to networking for application domains where life or livelihood may be at risk. Typical application domains for MCN include critical infrastructure protection and operation, emergency and crisis intervention, healthcare services, and military operations. Such networking is essential for safety, security and economic vitality in our complex world characterized by uncertainty, heterogeneity, emergent behaviors, and the need for reliable and timely response. MCN should comprise networking technology, infrastructures and services that may alleviate the risk and directly enable and enhance connectivity for mission-critical information exchange among diverse, widely-dispersed, mobile users. A primary challenge to MCN is to deploy and dynamically configure and evolve communication networks that are dependable, autonomic, secure, adaptive, and rapidly deployable to support critical missions and their priorities. In order to operate effectively, the deployed networks should support services such as location determination of both authorized and unauthorized entities, quality-of-service aware audio and video communication, emergency calling and alerting, and in-situ and remote sensing and control in a secure and dependable manner. In addition, efficient operation of such networks that typically include numerous resource-constrained components may benefit from cross-layer optimization, cognition, resource engineering, on-demand federation, and service-oriented architecture. Also important is the integration of MCN with the Internet to reduce cost of deployment and maintenance and to enhance reachability and ubiquity. This special issue of the Journal on Selected Areas in Communications solicits high quality technical contributions in mission-critical networking including, but not limited to: - Architecture and design of MCN and next-generation emergency calling and alerting - Rapidly and dynamically deployable services and networks - Evolving "elastic" networking with decentralized and peer-to-peer resource management and allocation - Federation and policy management for heterogeneous networks and protocols - Trust, security, dependability, privacy, QoS and performance awareness and management for MCN - Sensor and actuator networks for critical information gathering, tracking and real-time control - MCN traffic and mobility analysis - Formal methodology for cognitive, autonomic, and context-aware protocols and network management - Spectrum management and access - Testbeds, benchmarks, performance and experimental studies ** Paper Submission Manuscripts should describe original, previously unpublished work, not currently under review. Argument justifying contribution specific to the unique features of MCN must be provided. Prospective authors should follow the IEEE JSAC manuscript format described in the Information for Authors at: http://www.jsac.ucsd.edu/Guidelines/info.html Authors should submit a PDF version of their complete manuscript to mcn-jsac(a)criticalnet.org according to the following timetable: - Manuscript submission: April 1, 2009 - First review notification: August 1, 2009 - Revised manuscript due: October 1, 2009 - Acceptance notification: November 1, 2009 - Final manuscript due: January 2, 2010 - Publication: June, 2010 ** Guest Editors - Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virginia Tech, USA - Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Switzerland - Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas, USA - Moustafa Youssef, Nile University, Egypt - Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University, USA - Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA - David Du, National Science Foundation and University of Minnesota, USA _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] 4th Workshop on Mobile Interaction with the Real World @ MobileHCI 2009
by Niels Henze 15 Mar '09

15 Mar '09

****************************************************************** Call for Papers for the 4th International Workshop on Mobile Interaction with the Real World (MIRW 2009) A Workshop of the MobileHCI 2009 Conference - September 15, 2009 ****************************************************************** http://mirw09.offis.de Workshop at MobileHCI 2008 (September 15-18 2008) Bonn, Germany Theme ----- The 4th workshop on Mobile Interaction with the Real World invites papers which focus on new mobile and wearable input and output interfaces which allow simpler and straightforward interactions with mobile services and applications. An inherit problem of current mobile devices are their limited output and input capabilities. This workshop continues a successful series of workshops that focus on new approaches to overcome these issues. Examples are the usage of external visual interfaces (e.g. projector phones, public displays, interactive surfaces) and additional input capabilities (e.g. gestures, on-body interfaces, pointing) and innovative feedback mechanisms (e.g. tactile feedback). The workshop combines technical presentations with the presentation of prototypes and focused discussions to drive interaction between participants. Topics ------- Topics of the workshop are applications, interaction techniques, frameworks, and user studies in the area of mobile interaction with the real world. Possible research themes include (but are not limited to): * Extending the user interface beyond the mobile device * Mobile interaction with real world objects and smart objects * Wearable computing and wearable input devices * Multimodal interaction techniques using mobile phones * Augmented and mixed reality on mobile devices * Interaction techniques using external displays, projector phones or floor displays * Using mobile device's sensors for pervasive applications * Novel interfaces for conveying spatial information * Pervasive interaction metaphors * Guidelines and standards for mobile interactions with the real world * Interaction techniques using multiple mobile devices * Support of knowledge processes and collaboration through mobile and wearable technologies Important Dates --------------- * Monday May 4, 2009 - Submission Deadline * Friday May 18, 2009 - Acceptance Notification * Tuesday June 23, 2009 - Revised Manuscript Due * Tuesday September 15, 2009 - Workshop Date Organizers ---------- Andreas Zimmermann, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany Niels Henze, OFFIS, Germany Xavier Righetti, Ecole Polytechniques Fédérales de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland Enrico Rukzio, Lancaster University, United Kingdom Goals ----- The main goal of the workshop is to develop an understanding of how mobile devices can be used to interact with the real world. We seek for new ideas, prototypes, and insights as basis to develop a deeper understanding of the field. We will provide a forum to share information, results, and ideas on current research in this area. This workshop encourages discussion about future topics concerning mobile interaction with the real world. Furthermore we aim to develop new ideas on how mobile devices can be exploited for new forms of interaction with the environment. We will bring together researchers and practitioners who are concerned with design, development, and implementation of new applications and services using personal mobile devices as user interfaces. Workshop Format --------------- The workshop will feature presentations of research results, ongoing work, ideas, concepts, and critical questions related to the use of mobile and wearable devices as user interfaces in the real world. Every presentation will be followed by a corresponding discussion. We invite the presenters to show their demonstrators in a dedicated demo session. Results of the workshop and future research will be discussed in a panel-like style. Participation & Process ----------------------- The number of participants will be limited to 25 people. Prospective authors are invited to submit their contribution, in PDF format conform to the ACM Mobile HCI 2009 proceedings template electronically via the workshop's website (http://mirw09.offis.de) no later than May 4, 2009. Papers must be anonymized and no more than 4 pages long. Every submitted paper will be reviewed by at least two reviewers. Publication ----------- The proceedings of MIRW 2009 will be published by the University of Oldenburg as a book with an ISBN which will be provide to the participants of the workshop. The workshops proceedings will also be made available electronically. Depending on the quality of the papers, we plan to publish extended versions of selected papers in a special journal issue such as the International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction (IJMHCI) or Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] EMNs 2009 CFP: The First International Workshop on Emerging Mobile Networks, Indianapolis, USA
by Chellappan, Sriram 14 Mar '09

14 Mar '09

EMNs 2009 CFP The First International Workshop on Emerging Mobile Networks (EMNs'2009) 19-21 August 2009, Indianapolis, USA http://sun0.cs.uca.edu/~EMNs To be held in conjunction with: The 12th International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems (NBiS 2009) Scope Mobility is rapidly turning out to be a critical component of many next generation systems. Chief among these include Mobile Vehicular Networks, Mobile Social Networks, Mobile Sensor Networks, Next Generation Cellular Networks among others. While mobility itself has been a well studied topic, the emphasis has for a long time centred around the theme of Mobile AdHoc Networks (MANETs). Unfortunately, many of the assumptions in traditional MANETs including mobility models, purpose/ scope of mobility, social aspects, network scale, and security do not hold in many emerging mobile networks. Consequently, existing theories, architectures and protocols in traditional MANETs for issues like mobility models, data delivery, data management, security, privacy etc. are clearly not enough for emerging mobile networks, and need a ground-up redesign. Furthermore, a vast number of newer problems are emerging in such networks like vehicular safety, fairness in content sharing, mobility centric threats and countermeasures, and newer application paradigms that have hitherto not been explored in sufficient detail. The goal of this workshop is to provide a technical forum for researchers, practitioners and students to disseminate and exchange original research ideas on important topics in a wide class of emerging mobile networks. Topics of interest We are soliciting original and unpublished research papers on a broad spectrum of topics in the following areas including (but not limited to):  Mobility models for emerging mobile networks  Cross Layer Optimizations  Security and Privacy  Content Sharing and Management  Intra and Inter Vehicular Communications  Next generation Cellular Networks  Social aspects  Intelligent transportation systems  New Applications for mobile networking  Simulation, Emulation and testbeds for large-scale mobile networks  Performance, scalability, reliability and efficiency of mobile networks  Mobility Centric threats and countermeasures Paper Submission Guideline Submit a full paper with 6 pages (IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style: two columns, single-spaced), including figures and references, using 10 fonts, and number each page. The papers will be carefully evaluated based on relevance, originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Authors can confirm the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines at the following web page: URL: http://computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm EMNs-09's submission web site can be accessed at: http://sun0.cs.uca.edu/~EMNs Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance. The proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. At least one of the authors of accepted papers is required to register and present the work at the workshop; otherwise their papers will be removed from the digital library after the workshop. Important Dates Submission Deadline: April 3, 2009 Author Notification: May 5, 2009 Author Registration: June 1, 2009 Final Manuscript due: June 5, 2009 Workshop Co-Chairs Vamsi Paruchuri <http://faculty.uca.edu/vparuchuri/> , University of Central Arkansas, Conway AR, USA Sriram Chellappan <http://web.mst.edu/~chellaps/> , Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, USA _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [ISCC] CFP: The 2nd International Workshop on Adaptation in Wireless Sensor Networks (AWSN-09)]
by Lars Wolf 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [ISCC] CFP: The 2nd International Workshop on Adaptation in Wireless Sensor Networks (AWSN-09) Datum: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:14:53 +0100 Von: Alessio Vecchio <a.vecchio(a)iet.unipi.it> An: ISCC(a)mail.ing.unibo.it [Apologies for possible multiple copies] --------------------------------------------------------------------- The 2nd International Workshop on Adaptation in Wireless Sensor Networks (AWSN-09) http://tweb.ing.unipi.it/awsn09 In Conjunction with The 7th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC 2009) Vancouver, Canada, August 29-31, 2009 --------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are networked embedded systems that rely on wireless communication. WSNs are supposed to run long-lived applications. During operation, applications are likely to experience unpredictable environment conditions that require to dynamically change their behavior. With current reprogramming technology, such an adaptation is still an open issue, as it can be achieved either at the expense of significant energy consumption or through software complexity. The challenge is to achieve WSN systems that not only embed intelligence into environments, but also have embedded intelligence for reprogramming themselves after their deployment. The workshop aims at stimulating researchers and practitioners in embedded and ubiquitous computing, autonomic computing, ad-hoc networking and all other relevant areas to present their ideas and work in progress for advancing the technologies that enable adaptive WSN applications. * Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Re-configurable, adaptive applications * Context-awareness * Self-healing, self-protection, self-configuration, self-optimization * Agents and distributed computing * Embedded Virtual machines * Viral programming * Opportunistic computing * Intelligent power management and coverage * Adaptive wireless communication and networks * Security and fault-tolerance --------------------------------------------------------------------- PAPER SUBMISSION The program committee encourage original, high-quality submissions from researchers and practitioners from academia and industry. All papers will be reviewed according to their originality, significance, correctness, presentation and relevance. Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society. Please follow the submission instructions that will be made available at the workshop's website. --------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: April 15, 2009 Authors Notification: May 25, 2009 Camera-ready Paper due: June 15, 2009 --------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP CHAIRS Marco Avvenuti, University of Pisa, Italy (m.avvenuti(a)iet.unipi.it) Alessio Vecchio, University of Pisa, Italy (a.vecchio(a)iet.unipi.it) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Rachel Cardell-Oliver, The University of Western Australia, Australia Mario Giovanni C.A. Cimino, University of Pisa, Italy Janet Light, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, Canada Kirk Martinez, University of Southampton, UK G.M.P. O'Hare, University College Dublin, Ireland _______________________________________________ ISCC mailing list ISCC(a)mail.ing.unibo.it https://calvin.ing.unibo.it/mailman/listinfo/iscc

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[Tccc] Final Call for Submissions: PhD Forum (co-located with MobiSys 2009)
by Jacob Sorber 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

Apologies if you received multiple copies of this mail. ----------------------------------- Final Call For Submissions A PhD Forum on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services June 22, 2009 Krakow, Poland http://prisms.cs.umass.edu/~sorber/mobisysforum09/<http://prisms.cs.umass.edu/%7Esorber/mobisysforum09/> Co-located with ACM MobiSys 2009 ----------------------------------- Overview: The PhD Forum provides a friendly and supportive environment for doctoral students to present and discuss their dissertation research both with their peers and with a panel of experienced researchers from academia and industry. In addition to providing feedback and advice, this forum will provide an opportunity for students to network as well as to practice presenting their research clearly and concisely. This forum is best suited to students who are far enough into their PhD to have a concrete dissertation proposal outlining the key challenges they plan to solve as well as the strategies and methodologies that are applicable. Furthermore, participants should not plan to finish their dissertation within 6 months of the forum, as that would leave little time to include advice and suggestions into their work. Format: This year's PhD Forum will be a one-day event consisting of short student presentations, discussion, and a roundtable discussion. Each participant will have time allotted for a short presentation as well as an in-depth and constructive discussion led by the panel. In order to allow adequate time for each presentation, we will limit the number of participants to no more than 15 presenters. The event will conclude with a roundtable discussion, in which panelists will have another opportunity to provide general suggestions and advice to the entire group. Submission: Submissions should consist of the following 1. A summary of the student's dissertation research (up to 3 pages) including a brief discussion of motivation, challenges, related work, and initial results. Applicants should clearly identify their contributions to the field of mobile systems. Also, a clear delineation of prior work and proposed work, will help the panel provide more useful suggestions. 2. A short biographical sketch (1 page max) describing the applicants affiliations and research activities. This should include the date that the student expects to complete his/her dissertation. Authors should follow the style formatting guidelines for MobiSys papers. Submissions should be sent in PDF format to mobisys.phdforum.2009(a)gmail.com. If accepted, a student may be asked to provide explanations or clarification by the camera-ready deadline. Important Dates: Submission Deadline: March 15, 2009 Notification Deadline: April 15, 2009 Camera-ready: May 1, 2009 Forum Date: June 22, 2009 Panelists: Victor Bahl, Microsoft Research Landon Cox, Duke University Per Gunningberg, Uppsala University David Johnson, Rice University (Additional panelists to be announced later pending confirmation) Organizers: General Chairs: Jacob Sorber, UMass-Amherst Aruna Balasubramanian, UMass-Amherst Steering Committee Chair: Arta Doci, Colorado School of Mines Program Chairs: Ashish Sharma, UC Santa Barbara Nilesh Mishra, USC Program Committee: Yuvraj Agarwal, UC San Diego Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, UC Berkeley Eiman Elnahrawy, Rutgers University Annarita Gianim UC Berkeley Sayandeep Sen, University of Wisconsin-Madison Eugene Shih, MIT Please send any questions to mobisys.phdforum.2009(a)gmail.com. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] Q2SWinet 2009 - Call for Papers
by Matteo Cesana 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

Our Apologies in case of multiple receptions *********************************************************************** *********************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS 5th ACM* Symposium on QoS and Security for Wireless Mobile Networks Q2SWinet 2009 http://conferenze.dei.polimi.it/Q2SWinet2009 Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain 26-30 October 2009 ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** *Pending **************** IMPORTANT DATES **************** Paper Registration: May 20, 2009 Paper Submission: May 25, 2009 Notification of Acceptance: July 5, 2009 Symposium Date: 26-30 October, 2009 (in conjunction with MsWIM 2009) ******************* SCOPE AND OVERVIEW ****************** Q2SWinet 2009 is the 5th Annual International Symposium on QoS and Security for Wireless and Mobile Networks held in conjunction with the 12-th Annual Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM). The symposium will bring together networking researchers, engineers, and practitioners with participants from industry, academia, and government. In recent years, wireless and mobile communication systems have become increasingly popular as an inexpensive and promising means for ubiquitous communications. In this scenario, the QoS provisioning and the management of network security have become crucial tasks to determine the success of future generation wireless mobile networks. Q2SWinet 2009 calls for cutting-edge research achievements on the provisioning of QoS and Security in wireless and mobile networks. Authors are encouraged to submit papers presenting new research related to theory or practice of all aspects of Quality of Service and Security issues in mobile and wireless systems. ****************** TOPICS AT A GLANCE ****************** + Security in Wireless MANETs, VANETs, Sensor, Mesh and PCS Networks + Secure PHY, MAC and Routing Protocols + Secure Cooperation-Based Systems and Services + Intrusion Detection in Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networks + Privacy, anonymity and authentication + Trust Establishment + Cooperation and Prevention of Non-cooperative Behavior + Incentive Aware Secure Protocol Design + QoS for Wireless Multimedia Networks and Systems + QoS for Wireless/Wired Hybrid Systems + QoS support and Mobility Management in Wireless Internet + QoS-Aware Routing for Wireless Networks + QoS Metrics + Wireless Network Survivability + Wireless Systems Reliability + Field operating tests, Performance Modeling and Simulation Techniques + Real-time and QoS-aware Wireless Networks *************************** SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION *************************** Submission/Publication instructions can be found at: http://conferenze.dei.polimi.it/Q2SWinet2009/submission.html ********************* ORGANIZING COMMITTE ********************* General Chair Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Lab, Switzerland Program Committee Chair Matteo Cesana, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Posters/Demo Co-Chairs Roberto Cascella, INRIA, France Fabio Martignon, University of Bergamo, Italy Program Committee available at: http://conferenze.dei.polimi.it/Q2SWinet2009/ Steering Committee Chair Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: CfP Special Issue PIK on “Mobile Ad-hoc-Networks”]
by Lars Wolf 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP Special Issue PIK on “Mobile Ad-hoc-Networks” Datum: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:50:31 +0100 Von: Matthias Frank <matthew(a)CS.UNI-BONN.DE> Antwort an: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> Organisation: Institute of Computer Science IV, University of Bonn An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, sicher haben Sie in der vergangenen Woche bei der KiVS 2009 in Kassel bereits die Auslage bzw. die Umschlagrückseite der PIK-Ausgabe 1/09 bemerkt. Falls Sie nicht vor Ort waren, möchten wir Sie anbei über einen Call for Papers für eine Special Issue PIK on „Mobile Ad-hoc Networks“ informieren. Mit freundlichen Grüßen Matthias Frank, Frank Kargl, Burkhard Stiller ================================================================= Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Papers ================================================================= You can find a PDF version of the CfP at http://wman2009.cs.uni-bonn.de/ (direct link http://wman2009.cs.uni-bonn.de/fileadmin/user_upload/matthew/CfP-Special-Is…) ================================================================= Call for Paper Special Issue PIK on Mobile Ad-hoc Networks PIK IV/2009 Scope of the Special Issue Recently, mobile ad-hoc networks (MANET) researchers show a large interest in application and application-oriented protocol research. While the basic organization of routing has been addressed since a couple of years, more recent activities include auto-configuration, security and data privacy, integration into hybrid networks, or efficient use of various resources, such as bandwidth, energy, or memory. Furthermore, the focus is shifted towards specific environments like vehicular networks, mesh networks, or wireless sensor networks. Whereas research on generic MANETs always struggled with unclear operational conditions, a myriad of protocols and applications is designed in these specialized areas. However, the goal still must be to generalize these approaches to provide for broader ranges of MANETs. It is the goal of this special issue to present approaches and solutions in a wide variety of MANET-related domains in order to enable this generalization and transfer ideas between the different areas. Therefore, this special issue of the PIK magazine covers ongoing research on the lower radio transmission layer all the way up to the application layer relevant in MANETs. Furthermore, dedicated application scenarios, such as vehicle-to-vehicle communications, disaster recovery or emergency services are of high interest. Tutorial-style articles in these fields are also solicited, if they provide a structured introduction and overview of state-of-the-art technologies, mechanisms, or architectures. Areas of Interest Contributions in the following areas are of specific interest but are not limited to: • Multi-hop wireless networks • Infrastructure-less networks • Mesh networks • Inter-Vehicular-Communication (IVC, V2X, C2X) • Wireless sensor networks • Underwater sensor networks • Use of cognitive radio • Use of software defined radio • Ad-hoc Networking architectures and protocols • Applications and application scenarios for ad-hoc networks (e.g. disaster recovery, emergency services, ..) • Routing mechanisms • Scalability and simulations • Energy efficiency • QoS for ad-hoc networks • Self-configuration and self-organization in ad-hoc networks • Auto-configuration and addressing • Security, privacy, and data protection in ad-hoc networks • Software platforms (middleware) for mobile applications • Location-based services and their deployment • Context management for ad-hoc services • Pricing models and accounting schemes for commercial ad-hoc services • Management mechanisms of ad-hoc networks Important Information Authors should send their submissions (German or English language) in PDF format only and by e-mail to Matthias Frank (matthew(a)cs.uni-bonn.de). The submission should not exceed 6 pages (one page of the PIK format equals approximately 6000 characters excluding figures). All submissions will be peer-reviewed. In case of an acceptance, the final and camera-ready version of the article has to take into account all comments of those reviews received. Important Dates Submission Deadline: April 30, 2009 Notification of Acceptance: July 6, 2009 Final Version: September 30, 2009 Publication: PIK issue IV/2009 (publication early January 2010) Guest Editors Matthias Frank, Universität Bonn, Germany: <matthew(a)cs.uni-bonn.de> Frank Kargl, Universität Ulm, Germany: <frank.kargl(a)uni-ulm.de> Burkhard Stiller, Universität Zürich, Switzerland: <stiller(a)ifi.uzh.ch>

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[Tccc] CFP - The Fourth International Symposium on Smart Home - Deadline 15 March, 2009
by Jongsung Kim 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues and students -- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions: 15 March 2009 -- ============================================================= The fourth International Symposium on Smart Home (SH-09) http://www.ftrg.org/SH09 to be held on June 5, 2009 Toronto, Canada in conjunction with The Sixth Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous 2009, http://www.mobiquitous.org/ ) ============================================================= Smart Home Environments (SHEs) are emerging rapidly as an exciting new paradigm including ubiquitous, grid, and peer-to-peer computing to provide computing and communication services any time and anywhere. To full realize the advantages of the paradigm, we require a host of suitable security services and their applications. They will offer the user remote access to all information about appliances in the workplace as well as at home, and help easily and conveniently use various services to enable working from home, and facilitate remote education, remote diagnosis, virtual shopping, network gaming, and portal & high quality VOD with no limitations on space and time. SH-2009 is intended to foster the dissemination of state-of-the-art research in the area of SHE including business models, security services, and novel applications associated with its utilization. As a follow-up of the symposium, we plan to publish high quality papers, covering the various theories and practical applications related to smart home. The published papers are expected to present the high level results to solve the application services and various problems in the various SH fields. In addition, we expect they will trigger further related research and technological improvements of the SH. The goal of the SH-2009 is to bring together the researchers from academia and industry as well as practitioners to share ideas, problems and solutions relating to the multifaceted aspects of Information Technology. * Topics We invite new and original submissions addressing theoretical and practical topics in information technology and intelligent computing fields including (but not limited to these topics): A. SH Applications - Smart home (Building) applications and services - Smart home network middleware and protocols Mobile / Wearable intelligence - Commercial and industrial application for SH - Mobile / Wearable intelligence - Frameworks for integrating AI and data mining - Context awareness model for smart home services - Wireless sensor networks (WSN) / RFID application for SH B. SH Security - Multimedia Security and Services in SH - Smart home security issues and model - Access control and privacy protection in SH - Forensics and Security Policy in SH - WSN/ RFID Security in SH - Security Protocol for smart home service C. SH Embedded Hardware and Software - Embedded Hardware Support for SH - Embedded Software for SH - Embedded System Architecture for SH - Real-time OS for SH - Smart and Personal Devices for SH - Power-Aware Computing for SH - Middleware for SH - Specification, Validation and Verification of Embedded Software - Computational Models Organization * Steering Co-chairs: Jong Hyuk Park (Kyungnam University,Korea) Laurence T. Yang (StFrancis Xavier University, Canada) * General Co-chairs: Sajid Hussain (Acadia University, Canada) Ankur M. Teredesai (University of Washington, USA) * Program Co-chairs: Senol Erdogan (Maltepe Univeristy, Turkey) Deok Gyu Lee (ETRI, Korea) Mieso Denko (University of GUELPH, Canada) * Publicity Chairs: TBA Jongsung Kim (Korea Universtiy, Korea) Firdous Kausar (NUST, Pakistan) * Steering Committee (TBA): Ching-Hsien Hsu (Chung Hua University,Taiwan) Daqing Zhang (Institut TELECOM - TELECOM & Management SudParis, France) Keith C.C. Chan (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong) Shiuh-Jeng Wang (Central Police University, Taiwan) Alex Mihailidis (University of Toronto, Canada) Minyi Guo (University of Aizu, Japan) Tatsuya Yamazaki (NICT,Japan) Sang-Soo Yeo (BTWorks, Korea) * Program Committee: (TBA) Giannis Antoniou (University of Melbourne, Australia) Te-Shun Chou (East Carolina University, U.S.A.) Serhan Dagtas (University of Arkansas at Little Rock, U.S.A.) Hakan Duman (Centre for Information & Security Systems Research, BT Innovate, England) Jeffrey Fan (Florida International University, U.S.A.) Mukhtar Hussain (National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan) Ammar Jaffri (National Response Center for Cyber Crimes, Pakistan) Ashraf Masood (National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan,) Ayesha Naureen (National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan) Rabia Riaz (Ajou University, Korea) Panagiotis Tsakalides (University of Crete, Greece) Bo Zhang (Rice University, USA) * Important Dates Paper submission: March 15, 2009 Notification of acceptance: May 20, 2009 Camera-ready version: May, 2009 Conference dates: July 13 - 16, 2009 * Paper Submission (TBA) * Previous Workshops SH-08: http://www.sersc.org/SH08/ SH-07: http://www.sersc.org/SH08/ IWSH-06: http://www.sersc.org/IWSH2006/ --------------------------- Jongsung Kim CIST, Korea University http://cist.korea.ac.kr/~joshep/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Final Call for Papers: MobiArch 2009 (co-located with ACM MobiSys)]
by Lars Wolf 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Final Call for Papers: MobiArch 2009 (co-located with ACM MobiSys) Datum: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:14:15 +0200 Von: Joerg Ott <jo(a)netlab.tkk.fi> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Call for Papers The 4th ACM International Workshop on Mobility in the Evolving Internet Architecture (MobiArch 2009) ----------------------------------------------------- Co-located with MobiSys, 22 June 2009, Krakow, Poland http://user.informatik.uni-goettingen.de/~mobiarch/2009/ With the recent development of technologies in wireless access and mobile devices, user, terminal, and network mobility has become an indispensable component of today's Internet vision, and it is likely to continue in the near future, while affecting the whole architectural design of the future Internet. Yet, issues like efficient mobility management and optimization, locator-identifier split, multi-homing, security, wireless access and related operational/deployment concerns are still in their early stages of development. Moreover, the Internet architecture, its end-to-end principles, and business models will require rethinking due to the massive penetration of mobility into the Internet. For instance, an appropriate system that allows communicating with a mobile host requires addressing several fundamental issues with the Internet architecture, such as ability to locate the mobile host/service, preserving ongoing communications upon changes of locations, as well as efficient and secure handover management. As another example, the emerging wireless technologies may pose additional challenges to the Internet architecture since they introduce design principles different from the original Internet. MobiArch 2009 welcomes submissions, from both researchers and practitioners, in exploration of recent advances in architectures, protocols, and experiences with emerging technologies on various mobility issues over the Internet, with an emphasis on wireless infrastructures and mobility patterns for mobility support, new mobility protocols, service discovery, routing and location management, mobile network performance evaluation and modelling, multi-homing, security, architectural impacts and deployment considerations. Furthermore, the potential of usability of mobility services for connecting people and devices in developing regions of the world into the Internet infrastructure will be also explored. Topics of MobiArch 2009 cover all aspects of architectural issues and system support for mobility in the Internet, including but not limited to: * Impacts of new wireless technologies/services, networking technologies, and mobility patterns on the Internet architecture * Architectures and protocols for mobility support in the Internet, ranging from approaches in link, network, transport to session/application layers and cross-layer design * Location management, routing, locator/identifier split, multi-homing and load sharing issues * Security and privacy issues in mobility networks and impacts to Internet architecture * Architectures and mechanisms for wireless/mobile connectivity in extreme environments (e.g., remote areas, developing countries) * Performance issues with mobility in the Internet * QoS and middlebox issues in mobility networks and impacts to Internet architecture * Economic and deployment issues of mobility solutions (infrastructure and devices) * Impact of social aspects on mobility architectures, mobile application and protocol design * Technologies for mobile wireless access and interactions Submissions must present original results. Selected papers will be forward-looking, describe their relationship to existing work, and have impact and implications for ongoing or future research. Submitted papers must be no more than 6 pages long, two columns, with no characters in smaller than 10 point fonts, and must fit properly on US "Letter"-sized paper (8.5x11 inches). Margins must be of 1 inch on all edges (top, bottom, left, and right) of each page. All paper submission will be handled via EDAS (http://edas.info/7188). Papers will be reviewed single blind. Important Dates: Submission Deadline: 15 March 2009 (extended) Acceptance Notification: 31 March 2009 Camera Ready Due: 15 April 2009 Workshop Date: 22 June 2009 TPC Chairs: Joerg Ott Helsinki University of Technology (TKK) Kun Tan Microsoft Research Asia For more information, contact workshop co-chairs at mobiarch-chairs(a)informatik.uni-goettingen.de. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lars Wolf 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

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Re: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE GLOBECOM 2009 NGNI Symposium (10 days to go!)
by Xiaoming Fu 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

Just an update: the GC'09 submission deadline has been extended to March 31, 2009 (incl. NGNI symposium). Xiaoming Xiaoming Fu wrote: > Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Call for Papers > IEEE GLOBECOM 2009 Next-Generation Networking & Internet Symposium > Honolulu, Hawaii, USA > November 30 - December 4, 2009 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Symposium Chairs > ================ > Nasir Ghani, University of New Mexico (nghani(a)ece.unm.edu) > Ashwin Gumaste, IIT Bombay/ MIT (ashwing(a)ieee.org) > Xiaoming Fu, University of Goettingen (fu(a)cs.uni-goettingen.de) > Deep Medhi, University of Missouri-Kansas City (dmedhi(a)umkc.edu) > > Call for Papers > =============== > Over the last three decades the Internet has undergone massive > transformations, migrating from a relatively focused scientific research > network to a ubiquitous and pervasive communications medium for the > masses. This change has been brought about by immense research progress > in all layers of the network hierarchy, i.e., ranging from new > applications, to service-aware networking protocols and hardwares, all > the way down to physical transmission technologies (both wireless and > wireline). > > Now as the Internet continues to evolve and expand today, a host of new > research challenges and business opportunities are beckoning. Of > particular importance are emerging topics in the area of network > heterogeneity, virtualization, services, and security. The growing > cadre of wireless users is also adding another dimension into the mix > and pushing to the forefront issues such as mobility management, content > distribution, and self-organization. > > Along these lines, the Next-Generation Networking & Internet Symposium > of IEEE GLOBECOM 2009 will address some of these exciting new challenges > and focus areas. Specifically, this event will solicit participation > from both academic and industry researchers working in key areas of > Internet design such as enabling technologies, services, architectures, > and protocols. The overriding goal of this symposium will be to garner > the collective experience and expertise of these researchers to help > uncover the latest trends and directions for future Internet design. > Another concurrent aim will also be to solicit new ideas on the future > migration of the Internet, with regards to evolutionary or greenfield > strategies. > > The symposium will encourage the submission of novel technical studies > as well as broader position and vision papers comprising > hypothetical/speculative scenarios. Submissions must be conformant to > the GLOBECOM 2009 guidelines and done via EDAS entry: > http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6730& > > Topics of Interest > ================== > The planned symposium topics of interest include, but are not limited > to, the following: > > * Future Internet architectures > * Heterogeneous multi-layer and multi-domain networks, wireless-wireline > internetworking > * Overlay networks and peer-to-peer networking > * Network virtualization, virtual private networks (VPN), and services > * Provisioning, monitoring, and management of IP services: traffic > engineering, mobility support, etc. > * Flow management: resource sharing, congestion control, etc. > * Routing: unicast, multicast, anycast, etc (wireless, wireline) > * Multihoming, network planning and optimization > * Addressing and naming, especially in the presence of mobility and > portability > * Operational and research issues with IPv6 > * VoIP protocols and services > * Self-protecting networking > * Switch and router architectures, performance, control, buffer > management, packet scheduling > * Network management methodologies and control plane design > * Internet survivability and network resilience strategies > * Mechanisms for self-organisation and autonomous networking > * Traffic measurement, analysis, modelling, and visualization > * Anomaly, intrusion, and attack detection/prevention > * Policy based mechanisms and high-speed firewall technology > * Packet classification and forwarding mechanisms at ultra-high link > rates (terabits) > * High speed and parallel processing architectures for next generation > routers > * Connecting mobile/wireless devices to the Internet > * Converged networks and applications > * Content-based networking: caching, distribution, load balancing, > resiliency > * Mobile/wireless content distribution > * Internet applications including interactive media, voice and video, > games, immersive applications > * Internet signalling and service enabling protocols, including SIP, > NSIS, HTTP, RTSP/RTP, etc > * Privacy and/or security issues and intrusion detection in the Internet > * Design methodologies for Internet services > * Internet economics, pricing models, accounting, Internet growth modelling > * IP Multimedia Subsystem: Architecture and design > * Next-Generation Access Networking > > Important Dates > =============== > PAPER SUBMISSION March 15, 2009 > ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATION July 1, 2009 > CAMERA-READY PAPERS August 14, 2009 > > For further details please visit IEEE GLOBECOM 2009 webpage: > http://www.ieee-globecom.org/2009 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tccc mailing list > Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu > https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: Pervasive Multimedia Sensor Networks (PMSN 2009) (Futher updated)
by Shu, Lei 11 Mar '09

11 Mar '09

** Apologies for cross-posting ** Call for Papers 2009 International Workshop on Pervasive Multimedia Sensor Networks (PMSN 2009) http://lei.shu.deri.googlepages.com/pmsn2009 (In conjunction with EUC 2009) http://cse.stfx.ca/~euc09/ August 28th~31st, 2009, Vancouver, Canada Call for Papers The 2009 International Workshop on Pervasive Multimedia Sensor Networks (PMSN'09) will be held in conjunction with the 7th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC-09), August 29th-31st, 2009, Vancouver, Canada. Having the development of low-cost imaging sensors, CMOS cameras, sensitive microphones, PMSN have been proposed and drawn lots of attention from the research community. PMSN are a new and emerging type of sensor network that contains sensor nodes equipped with cameras, microphones, and other sensors producing multimedia content. These networks have the potential to enable a large class of applications ranging from assisting elderly in public spaces to border protection that benefit from the use of numerous sensor nodes that deliver multimedia content, e.g., multimedia surveillance networks, target tracking, environmental monitoring, and traffic management systems. PMSNs require effective harvesting and communication of event features in the form of multimedia such as audio, image, and video. Comparing with traditional wireless sensor networks, a lot of new challenges are faced by PMSNs, e.g., energy efficient multimedia processing and communication, heterogeneous multimedia reliability definitions, tight QoS expectations, and high bandwidth demands. This workshop is intended to provide a forum for presenting, exchanging and discussing the most recent advances in different aspects of pervasive multimedia sensor networks and applications. In particular, this workshop will bring together leading researchers, industry professionals, and research students to study the special problems and challenges of multimedia mobile and wireless environments. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): *New PMSN architectures, deployments, and applications *New middleware, system, and underlying infrastructure for PMSN *Integrating PMSN with all IP Networks *Semantic annotation for multimedia streams in PMSN *Multimedia stream processing and management for PMSN *Protocols for supporting real-time and reliable multimedia streaming in PMSN *Energy-efficient multimedia gathering and transmission in PMSN *Cross-layer design and optimization for effective communications in PMSN *Context aware approaches for facilitating multimedia streaming in PMSN *Secure multimedia streaming and transmission, QoS and admission control in PMSN *Cooperative transmission for multimedia delivery in PMSN *Experimental and test bed studies, simulation tools for PMSN *Information fusion and multimedia aggregation in PMSN *Joint multimedia processing and communication solutions for PMSN *Low-bit rate and energy-efficient multimedia source coding for PMSN *Distributed source coding and multimedia processing in PMSN *PMSN capacity modeling and theoretical analysis *Delay-tolerant networking for PMSN *Physical layer technologies for efficient PMSN Publication of Proceedings PMSN 2009 accepted and registered paper will be published (indexed by EI) in the EUC 2009 proceedings and available through IEEE Xplore digital library. Distinguished papers accepted and presented in PMSN 2009, after further revisions, will be published in the special issues of the following journal: * ACM Multimedia Systems Journal, Special Issue on "Multimedia Intelligent Services and Technologies" (indexed by SCI-E) * Inderscience International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNet), Special Issue on "Multimedia Data Applications in Wireless Sensor Networks" * Journal of Communications (JCM), Special Issue on "Multimedia Computing and Communications" (indexed by EI) * Journal of Communications (JCM), Special Issue on "Dependable Computing for Ubiquitous Services (DCUS)" (indexed by EI) * International Journal of Software Engineering and Its Applications (IJSEIA), Special Issue on "Workflow Management in the Grid Era". * International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence (IJMAI), Special Issue on "Semantic Intelligence". Important Dates * Submission due: April 20th, 2009 * Acceptance notification: June 1st, 2009 * Camera-ready due: June 15th, 2009 * Conference date: August 28th~31st, 2009 Submission Guidelines: Prepare your paper with free styles not more than 15 pages in PDF file. Submit your paper(s) in PDF format to: pmsn2009(a)gmail.com Each submission should be regarded as an undertaking that, if the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors must attend the conference to present the work. Accepted papers will be published in proceedings of the EUC-09 conference by IEEE Computer Society. Organizing Committee General Co-Chairs * Yanxiang He, Wuhan University, China * Jong Hyuk Park, Kyungnam University, South Korea * Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway * Naixue Xiong, Georgia State University, USA Program Co-Chairs * Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China * Lei Shu, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland * Yong Zhu, Wuhan University of Science and Engineering, China Publication Co-Chairs * Jiming Chen, Zhejiang University, China * Jinli Cao, La Trobe University, Australia * Deqing Zou, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Technical Program Committee # Tommaso Melodia, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA # Nicolas Sklavos,Technological Educational Institute of Patras, Greece # Fan Zhai, Texas Instrument, USA # Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan # Sajid Hussain, Acadia University, Canada # Han-Chieh Chao, Ilan University, Taiwan # Lei Ye, University of Wollongong, Australia # Ming Li, California State University, Fresno, USA # Guangjie Han, Hohai University, China # Geyong Min, University of Bradford, UK # Lu Yan, University of Hertfordshire, UK # Weiwei Fang, Beihang University, China # Lu Liu, University of Leeds, UK # Qin Xin, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway # Wei Yu, Nanjing University,China # Min Chen, University of British Columbia, Canada # Ruhan He, Wuhan Univeristy of Science and Technology, China # Zheng Yan, Nokia Research Center, Finland # Dan Yu, Beihang University, China # Changhoon Lee, Hanshin University, Korea # Chuan Lin, Wuhan University, China # Wanqing Tu, Glyndwr University, UK # Jinlei Jiang, Tsinghua University, China # Jie Xiang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway # Fei Yan, Wuhan University, China # Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada # Weiqiang Xu, Zhejiang University, China # Zhangbing Zhou, National University of Ireland, Ireland # Deok Gyu Lee, ETRI, Korea # Xu Xia, Huawei Technologies Co., LTD, China For further information regarding the workshop and paper submission, please contact: * Lei Shu, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland Email: lei.shu(a)deri.org * Naixue Xiong, Georgia State University, USA Email:xiongnaixue@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Re: [GAMESNETWORK] Fwd: Call for Papers - 2nd Workshop on Mobile Gaming
by Holger Mügge 11 Mar '09

11 Mar '09

For those of you who do not speak/write german: We also appreciate english contributions (papers, demos, presentations). Deadline: April, 26th, 2009 I append the full english CFP here, too. Thanks, Holger ENGLISH CFP FOLLOWS: 39. Annual Meeting of the „Gesellschaft für Informatik“ (GI) – Lübeck, Germany, 2009 2nd Workshop on Mobile Gaming Motivation Mobile games are based on the physical movements of players in a game- world that combines the real world with virtual dimensions. Mobile games unite two game-worlds that were previously mutually exclusive: classic outdoor games and computer games. But they are also games in the traditional sense as “homo sapiens” has always been a “homo ludens”. Games are part of the every day life, just like eating, breathing, or sleeping. They allow us to try the impossible. We use game rules to voluntarily confine the game space, and then roam this space to imaginatively overcome the limits of reality. But apart from being a pastime, games also mirror the real world and so they can be used to play-test life. Over the centuries, games evolved with the intellectual and technical possibilities of mankind. The prehistory of mobile games began in the 1980s with Nintendo’s handheld “Game & Watch” electronic games. The early 1990s saw the advent of the “Gameboy”, which introduced exchangeable cartridges to the video games mass market. At the turn of the millennium, the Japanese I-Mode network pioneered mobile data services and thus opened the door for mobile games that used the wireless Internet for communication. On 1 May 2000, the US government announced the discontinuation of the artificial degradation of GPS signals for non- military users. This marks the end of the prehistory and the dawning of mobile games in our sense. The first such mobile game was Geocaching, where participants use GPS coordinates that they obtained over the Internet to search for small treasures that were hidden by other players. In 2003, Nokia introduced the N-Gage, which was a GPRS-enabled smart-phone with an integrated game-console. Due to its GPRS data-service, it allowed for wide-area multiplayer games that were connected via a central server. At the same time, it also allowed proximity based multiplayer games via Bluetooth communication. Research project began to sprout world-wide in conjunction with all these technological developments. These projects set out to exploit the new possibilities and developed context-aware and location-based applications that used the new wireless positioning and communication technologies in various ways and thus advanced the field in which mobile games are grounded. Mobile games utilise mobile and pervasive technology. Small and portable devices are equipped with sensors and models of their environments that allow them to sense their current context, which includes location, and act according to this input. Thus, from a technological point of view, mobile games are part of the field of ubiquitous computing. Goals and research questions Mobile games open up a wide range of research and developments questions from a multitude of perspectives, including the conceptual, the aesthetic and the technical. They require research into new types of games and experiences, their concepts and design strategies, as well as into the technical domain. Researchers around the world utilise the human intellect of mobile gamers to test prototypes of new interfaces for human-computer interaction, infrastructures, and design concepts in order to advance the new technologies. Games define their own rules – this opens up a truly unique field for research into ideas and technologies. The context of mobile games also provides opportunities for research into the individual and social processes that circumvent the use of information technology. Game design faces new challenges. Until now, only a few games exploited the possibilities offered by augmented and mixed reality, global networks, location services and various sensors. Theory and methods of analysis of the player experience in mobile games are still in its infancy. What is the meaning of mobility and physical movement in these mixed reality game-worlds? How to analyse the experience of mobile players that are roaming the area rather than sitting in a laboratory? What is the role of game communities and cultures for mobile games? Design and development of mobile games confronts us with the grand challenges of ubiquitous computing: the complexity of mobile, distributed services, its dynamic and ever changing contexts, the diversity of participants, and the interaction in a post-desktop paradigm which entails the body, various senses and modalities. The technological diversity of hardware and software needs to be bridged so that mobile gamers can interact across device boundaries. The rapidly evolving diversity of sensors, actuators and user-interfaces demands for flexible frameworks that allow for an easy integration. This workshop contributes to revealing the research and development possibilities offered by mobile games, and has a particular focus on the German science and industry sectors. Researchers and developers can use this field to exchange their experiences, formulate new research questions, identify innovation potential, and find ways to improve the business environment and leverage the potentials offered by this exciting new field of research. Addressees This workshop is primarily targeted at users, developers, researchers and decision makers in the field of mobile games, who are interested in creative and innovative applications for pervasive and ubiquitous computing. In addition to this, the workshops also seeks to address people beyond the field of computer science, who are fascinated and inspired by the technical possibilities offered by mobile games and want to give growth to their own ideas. Topics Contributions to the workshop can be either technical papers or position statements. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Mobile games in the everyday life Context of mobile games Mobile game experiences and activities Mobile gamer as producer Alternate reality games Traditional games and mobile games Serious games – learning, testing, creating value in a serious context Interfaces and interaction techniques for mobile games Augmented and mixed reality for mobile games Development processes and architectures for mobile games Authoring systems for mobile games Complexity of hard- and software – problems and solutions Exploiting technical boundaries Dates Submission deadline: 26.04.2009 Notification of acceptance: 25.05.2009 Final submission: 01.07.2009 Organisers Pascal Bihler, Universität Bonn Barbara Grüter, Hochschule Bremen Holger Mügge, Universität Bonn Leif Oppermann, Mixed Reality Lab, University of Nottingham Program committee Linda Breitlauch, MediaDesign Hochschule Düsseldorf Gregor Broll, LMU München Wolfgang Broll, Fraunhofer FIT, St. Augustin Armin B. Cremers, Universität Bonn Julian Kücklich, University of the Arts London Peter Möckel, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Berlin Horst Pohlmann, Fachhochschule Köln Albrecht Schmidt, Universität Duisburg-Essen Clemens Türck, Ravensburger Spieleverlag, Ravensburg Steffen P. Walz, ETH Zürich Andreas Weber, Universität Bonn Form of contributions The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for presenting and discussing research, results and practical hands-on experiences. The thematic focus of the workshop is on mobile games and other (cooperative) applications of a similar character that take location and context, as well as the players’ mobility as an important design parameter. Apart from presentation of research results, we also envisage to include demonstrations of innovative mobile games, as well as discussion rounds on controversial topics. We therefore welcome the following kind of contributions to the workshop: Research papers Demos of prototypes of mobile games or authoring systems Outlines of theses / disputes (short, concise, informal) Contributions can be made either in German or English language. Submissions have to adhere to LNI guidelines and can be up to 6 pages long. LNI guidelines and templates for Word and Latex can be found here. The proceedings are printed in black and white. In case that you are using colour figures, please ensure that they do not loose their meaning without colours. Workshop contributions should be submitted in electronic form via the conference system. A link to this system is provided on the workshop homepage. Accepted contributions will be published in the joint printed proceedings of the annual GI meeting as part of the GI-series “Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI)”. Contact Pascal Bihler Universität Bonn Römerstr. 164 53117 Bonn Tel.: +49 228 74 43 41 E-Mail: bihler(a)cs.uni-bonn.de Web: sam.iai.uni-bonn.de/mobile-gaming -- Holger Muegge SAM - Software Architecture & Middleware University of Bonn, Institute of Computer Science III Roemerstrasse 164, D-53117 Bonn, Germany Phone/Fax: +49-228-73-6528 / -4382 Web: sam.iai.uni-bonn.de Am 10.03.2009 um 21:01 schrieb Julian Kucklich: > FYI ... > > Sent from my iPhone > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Pascal Bihler <bihler(a)cs.uni-bonn.de> >> Date: 10 March 2009 16:04:19 GMT >> To: julian(a)kuecklich.de >> Subject: Call for Papers - 2nd Workshop on Mobile Gaming >> >> Sehr geehrte(r) Julian Kücklich, >> >> Anbei finden Sie den Call-for-Papers des Workshops "Mobiles Spielen - >> Mobile Gaming", für den Sie freundlicherweise Ihre Mitwirkung als >> Programmkomitee-Mitglied zugesagt haben. >> >> Bitte geben Sie den Call an interessierte Mitglieder Ihres >> Instituts und >> Ihrer Community weiter. >> >> Einen Flyer im PDF-Format (Deutsch/Englisch) finden Sie zum >> Herunterladen unter: >> >> <http://sam.iai.uni-bonn.de/mobile-gaming/mobile-gaming09-cfp.pdf> >> <http://sam.iai.uni-bonn.de/mobile-gaming/mobile-gaming09- >> cfp.en.pdf> >> >> Weitere Informationen zum Workshop enthält die Webseite >> >> <http://sam.iai.uni-bonn.de/mobile-gaming> >> >> >> Vielen Dank für Ihre Mitarbeit und Unterstützung, >> >> Pascal Bihler, Barbara Grüter, Holger Mügge und Leif Oppermann >> >> -- >> 2. Workshop für Mobiles Spielen (Mobile Gaming '09) >> http://sam.iai.uni-bonn.de/mobile-gaming/ >> > -- Gamesnetwork, discussion list of Digital Games Research > Association, www.digra.org Note: to unsubscribe, send "UNSUBSCRIBE > GAMESNETWORK" to LISTSERV(a)UTA.FI from your subscribed email account. > Web interface to subscribe and manage your subscription: https://listserv.uta.fi/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=GAMESNETWORK&A=1 > . The list archive is available online at: https://listserv.uta.fi/archives/gamesnetwork.html > <cfp-mobile-gaming09.txt> > -- Gamesnetwork, discussion list of Digital Games Research > Association, www.digra.org Note: to unsubscribe, send "UNSUBSCRIBE > GAMESNETWORK" to LISTSERV(a)UTA.FI from your subscribed email account. > Web interface to subscribe and manage your subscription: https://listserv.uta.fi/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=GAMESNETWORK&A=1 > . The list archive is available online at: https://listserv.uta.fi/archives/gamesnetwork.html -- Holger Muegge SAM - Software Architecture & Middleware University of Bonn, Institute of Computer Science III Roemerstrasse 164, D-53117 Bonn, Germany Phone/Fax: +49-228-73-6528 / -4382 Web: sam.iai.uni-bonn.de -- Gamesnetwork, discussion list of Digital Games Research Association, www.digra.org Note: to unsubscribe, send "UNSUBSCRIBE GAMESNETWORK" to LISTSERV(a)UTA.FI from your subscribed email account. Web interface to subscribe and manage your subscription: https://listserv.uta.fi/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=GAMESNETWORK&A=1 . The list archive is available online at: https://listserv.uta.fi/archives/gamesnetwork.html

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[Tccc] CFP: Workshop on Energy in Wireless Sensor Networks (WEWSN 2009)
by Chia Ching Ooi 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. =================================================== Workshop on Energy in Wireless Sensor Networks (WEWSN 2009) http://cone.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/wewsn09/ In conjuction with DCOSS 2009 Marina Del Rey, California, June 2009 =================================================== Wireless sensor networks offer a wealth of capabilities for interfacing the physical world with applications in environmental, industrial, and medical domains. A typical wireless sensor network is expected to work without human intervention for a long time period. Hence, energy efficiency is of paramount importance in wireless sensor networks in order to achieve maximum network lifetime. Due to the energy constraints of sensor devices, communication protocols and hardware architectures for wireless sensor networks necessitate an energy-aware design to ensure the longevity of the network. While most wireless sensor networks use battery-operated computing and sensing devices, new technologies such as energy harvesting have gained much attention in the research community recently. In addition, each layer of the communication protocol stack can employ various techniques to conserve energy with consideration of the hardware's capabilities to minimize energy expenditure. WEWSN intends to bring together the researchers working on various topics in wireless sensor networks with relation to energy. It will be held as a one-day workshop in conjunction with DCOSS'09, co-located with several related workshops on special topics in wireless networking, thus providing an ideal venue for researchers to share their ideas and discuss their latest research work. Scope Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate current research related to energy in wireless sensor networks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following featured topics: * Architectures and protocols for energy management * Energy-aware data gathering and routing protocols * Wake-up scheduling algorithms * Duty cycle management * Data aggregation, conservation, optimization * Energy models for analysis and simulation * Resource management * Energy scavenging, energy harvesting * Coverage and connectivity algorithms * Cross-layer optimization * Energy and bandwidth efficient distributed signal processing * Medium access control and topology control * Error control protocols and fault-tolerance * Traffic management and congestion control * Energy-efficient system services (e.g. localization, time synchronization) * WSN hardware and operating systems Paper Submission Instructions We only accept original papers that have neither been published nor submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must be submitted in PDF format. Submitted papers must conform to the IEEE-Transactions format and should not exceed 8 pages. All submissions will be handled electronically via EasyChair. The use of LaTeX typesetting is highly recommended. It is your responsibility to make sure that the manuscript is free of printing problem. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must attend the workshop and present the paper. Important Dates Paper submission: March 31, 2009 Notification of acceptance: April 27, 2009 Camera-ready version: May 3, 2009 Organizing Committee General Chairs: Christian Schindelhauer, Univ. of Freiburg, Germany Stefan Rührup, Univ. of Freiburg, Germany Program Committee Davide Brunelli, University of Bologna, Italy Adam Dunkels, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden Holger Karl, University of Paderborn, Germany Syed Ali Khayam, NUST Institute of Information Technology Pedro José Marron, University of Stuttgart, Germany Hartmut Ritter, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Kay Uwe Römer, ETH Zürich, Switzerland Kurt Rothermel, Universität Stuttgart, Germany Stefan Rührup, Univ. of Freiburg, Germany (co-chair) Zartash A. Uzmi, Lahore Univ. of Management Sci. (LUMS), Pakistan _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Mycolleagues] CFP: The Second International Workshop on Sensor Networks (SN 2009) - in conjunction with ICCCN 2009!
by Habib Ammari 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

*** Call for Papers *** The Second International Workshop on Sensor Networks (SN 2009) (in conjunction with ICCCN 2009, Aug 2 - 6, 2009, San Francisco, California, USA) [Web: http://sest.vsu.edu/~hchen/conference/ICCCN_SN09/] In recent years, sensor networks have attracted many researchers and practitioners. We would like to set forth a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas in development of sensor networks and their applications. The Second International Workshop on Sensor Networks (SN 2009) will be held in conjunction with the 2009 International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2009) . The workshop welcomes researchers, practitioners, and students to join us in the workshop. The areas of interests include but are not limited to the following: * Media access control * Topology discovery and management * Localization * Routing * Network and battery lifetime * Network coverage and connectivity * Network scalability * Security and privacy * Quality of service * Mobility management * Self-organization * Robustness, faculty-tolerance, self-healing, and reliability * Two-dimensional and three-dimensional sensor deployment * Integration of wireless sensor networks and the Internet * Modeling and simulation * Sensor network testbed design and development * Data transportation, aggregation, and visualization * Network monitoring * MAC, PHY, routing, and applications of Underwater/Acoustic sensor networks * MAC, PHY, routing, and applications of Body sensor networks Hightlights: * Extended versions of selected best papers will be recommended for possible publication in the International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNet) . * The proceedings of the workshop will be included in the IEEExplore digital library and indexed by the EI. * One registration of ICCCN'09 covers up to two papers (including both main conference and workshops). Please refer to ICCCN'09 registration policy for detail. Submission Guidelines Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished papers limited to 6 pages. Please see the Author Information page for submission guidelines in the ICCCN 2009 website. Please submit your papers via http://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=7073&track=5729&. Important Dates: Abstract registration: March 12, 2009 Paper Submission: March 20, 2009 Acceptance Notification: May 1, 2009 Camera Ready Papers: May 15, 2009 Conference Dates: August 2-6, 2009 Organizing Committee General Co-Chair : * Kin K. Leung, Imperial College, London, UK * Jie Wu, Florida Atlantic University, USA * Yang Xiao, University of Alabama, USA Publicity Chair: * Habib M. Ammari, Hofstra University, USA Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs: * Hui Chen, Virginia State University, USA * Ming Li, California State University, Fresno, USA Technical Program Committee (Pending Approval ...) Ala Al-fuqaha, Western Michigan University, USA Habib M. Ammari, Hofstra University, USA Regina Borges de Araujo, Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil Chadi Assi, Concordia University, Canada Eesa Bastaki, Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority, U.A.E Jalel Ben-othman, Université de Versailles, France Abdelmadjid Bouabdallah, Universite de Technologie - Compiegne, France Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland Raffaele Bruno, IIT - CNR Pisa, Italy Sammy Chan, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Ruay-Shiung Chang, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan Liang Cheng, Lehigh University, USA Xiuzhen Cheng, George Washington University, USA Yu Cheng, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Yuanzhu Peter Chen, Memorial University of New Foundland, Canada Yun Won Chung, Soongsil University, Korea Jun-Hong Cui, University of Connecticut, USA Abdelouahid Derhab, Centre de recherche sur l'information scientifique et technique (CERIST), Algeria Eryk Dutkiewicz, University of Wollongong, Australia Khalil El-Khatib, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Mustafa Ergen, University of California Berkeley, USA Luigi Fratta, Politechnico Di Milano, Italy Vasilis Friderikos, King's College London, UK Mona Ghassemian, King's Collge London, UK Athanasios Gkelias, Imperial College London, UK Youssef Iraqi, Dhofar University, Oman Bijendra Jain, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India Houda Labiod, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Télécommunications - TELECOM ParisTech, France Michael Lauer, Goethe-University of Frankfurt, Germany Feng Li, Florida Atlantic University, USA Sunho Lim, South Dakota State University, USA Mingyan Liu, University of Michigan, USA Xiaowen (Jason) Liu, Florida International University, USA Yunxin Liu, Microsoft Research Asia Qingming Ma, Juniper Networks Petri H. Mahonen,RWTH Aachen University, Germany Peter Martini, University of Bonn, Germany Ahmed Mehaoua, University of Paris - Descartes, France Bratislav Milic, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany Jelena Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada Alaa Muqattash, Olympus Communication Technology of America, USA Mirco Musolesi, University of Cambridge, UK M. Reza Nakhaei, King's College London Qiang Ni, Brunel University, UK Ozgur Oyman, Intel Corporation, USA Fatin Said, King's College London, UK Abdallah Shami, The University of Western Ontario, Canada Jang-Ping Sheu, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Santosh Pandey, Cisco, USA Susan Rea, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland Rui M. Rocha, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal Roberto Rojas-Cessa, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Pedro M. Ruiz, University of Murcia, Spain Bo Sun, Lamar University, USA Min Song, Old Dominion University, USA Said Soulhi, Ericsson Rahim Tafazolli, The University of Surrey, UK Yutaka Takahashi, Kytoto University, Japan Jian Tang, Montana State University, USA Duc Tran, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA Spyros Vassilaras, Athens Information Technology, Greece Chonggang Wang, NEC Labs America, USA Thomas Watteyne, France Telecom, France Kui Wu, University of Victoria, Canada Lie-Liang Yang, University of Southampton, UK Shuhui Yang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Wenbing Yao, Brunel University, UK Yinghua Ye, Nokia Simens Networks Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge, USA Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Moustafa Youssef, Nile University, Egypt Hongqiang Zhai, Philips Research North America, USA Li X Zhang, University of Leeds, UK Weiyi Zhang, North Dakota State University, USA Weihua Zhuang, University of Waterloo, Canada Contact Us You are welcome to contact us for issues regarding the workshop. Please find our contact at our workshop web page at http://sest.vsu.edu/~hchen/conference/ICCCN_SN09/ _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Tccc] CFP: IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), Oct. 5 - 9, 2009, Macau, China
by Guoliang Xing 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

Apologies if you receive multiple copies **************************************** The 6th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (IEEE MASS 2009), October 5 - 9, 2009, Macau SAR, P.R.C. [1]http://www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/mass09/ Sponsored by: IEEE; IEEE Computer Society; IEEE Technical Committee on Distributed Processing; IEEE Technical Committee on Simulation; IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Communication Wireless ad-hoc communication has applications in a variety of environments, such as conferences, hospitals, battlefields and disaster-recovery/rescue operations, and is also being actively investigated as an alternative paradigm for Internet connectivity in both urban and rural areas. Wireless sensor and actuator networks are also being deployed for enhancing industrial control processes and supply-chains, and for various forms of environmental monitoring. The IEEE MASS 2009 aims at addressing advances in research on multi-hop ad-hoc and sensor networks, covering topics ranging from technology issues to applications and test-bed development. Topics of Interest ------------------- Original, unpublished contributions are solicited in all aspects of (mobile) ad-hoc networks and wireless sensor networks (WSN), systems and applications. Topics include, but are not limited to: * MAC layer design for ad-hoc networks and WSNs * MAC protocols (802.11, 802.15.4, UWB) * Directional / smart antennas * Multi-channel, multi-radio and MIMO technologies * Wireless mesh networks and cognitive networks * P2P, overlay, and content distribution architectures for ad-hoc and sensor networks * Delay tolerant networks and opportunistic networking * Vehicular networks and protocols * Mobile/robotic sensor networks * Power-aware architectures, algorithms and protocols design * Clustering, topology control, coverage and connectivity * Routing protocols (unicast, multicast, broadcast, geocast) * Data transport and management in WSNs * Data gathering, fusion, and dissemination in WSNs * Localization and synchronization in WSNs * Cooperative sensing in WSNs * Capacity planning and admission control in ad-hoc and sensor networks * Handoff / mobility management and seamless internetworking * Resource management and wireless QoS Provisioning * Cross layer design and optimization * Reliability, resiliency and fault tolerance techniques * Security, privacy, and trust issues * Operating systems and middleware support * Novel applications and architectures for WSNs * Modeling, analysis and performance evaluation * Measurements and experience from experimental systems and test-beds Submission Guidelines --------------------- All submissions must be full papers in PDF format and uploaded on EDAS. Abstract registration due: March 25, 2009 (Wed). They must not exceed 10 single-spaced, double-column pages using 10 pt size fonts on 8.5 x 11 inch pages in IEEE style format. Detailed formatting and submission guidelines will be available on the conference website. Important Dates ---------------- Abstracts Due: March 25, 2009 (Wed) Manuscript Due: March 31, 2009 (Tue) Acceptance Notification: June 28, 2009 (Sun) Camera-ready Submission: July 24, 2009 (Fri) Organizing Committee -------------------- Honorary Chair Wei Zhao, University of Macau General Chair Lionel M. Ni, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Program Co-Chairs Doug Blough, Georgia Tech Xiaohua Jia, City University of Hong Kong TPC Sub-Area Chairs * Algorithms and Theory Paolo Santi, IIT-CNR * MAC and Cross-Layer Technologies Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University * Data Management and Information Processing Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University * Protocols, Systems and Applications Xiuzhen Cheng, George Washington University Workshop Chair Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa Industrial Liaison & Demo Chair Lin Gu, HKUST Finance and Registration Chair Anup Kumar, University of Louisville Publication Chair Dajin Wang, Montclair State University Publicity Co-Chair Guihai Chen, Nanjing University Guoliang Xing, Michigan State University Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Local Arrangements Co-Chairs Victor Lee, City University of Hong Kong Steering Committee Chair Dharma P. Agrawal, University of Cincinnati Chair of IEEE TC on Distributed Processing Jie Wu, US National Science Foundation Chair of IEEE TC on Simulation Dave Cavalcanti, Phillips Research ------------------------------------------------ Guoliang Xing Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering Michigan State University Phone: (517)353-4392 [2]E-mail:glxing@msu.edu [3]http://www.cse.msu.edu/~glxing/ ------------------------------------------------ -- Guoliang ------------------------------------------------ Guoliang Xing Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering Michigan State University Phone: (517)353-4392 [4]E-mail:glxing@msu.edu [5]http://www.cse.msu.edu/~glxing/ ------------------------------------------------ -- Guoliang ------------------------------------------------ Guoliang Xing Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering Michigan State University Phone: (517)353-4392 [6]E-mail:glxing@msu.edu [7]http://www.cse.msu.edu/~glxing/ ------------------------------------------------ -- Guoliang ------------------------------------------------ Guoliang Xing Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering Michigan State University Phone: (517)353-4392 [8]E-mail:glxing@msu.edu [9]http://www.cse.msu.edu/~glxing/ ------------------------------------------------ -- Guoliang ------------------------------------------------ Guoliang Xing Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering Michigan State University Phone: (517)353-4392 [10]E-mail:glxing@msu.edu [11]http://www.cse.msu.edu/~glxing/ ------------------------------------------------ References 1. http://www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/mass09/ 2. mailto:E-mail:glxing@msu.edu 3. http://www.cse.msu.edu/%7Eglxing/ 4. mailto:E-mail:glxing@msu.edu 5. http://www.cse.msu.edu/%7Eglxing/ 6. mailto:E-mail:glxing@msu.edu 7. http://www.cse.msu.edu/%7Eglxing/ 8. mailto:E-mail:glxing@msu.edu 9. http://www.cse.msu.edu/%7Eglxing/ 10. mailto:E-mail:glxing@msu.edu 11. http://www.cse.msu.edu/~glxing/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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ICST - UCMedia 2009: Call for Papers
by info＠icst.org 09 Mar '09

09 Mar '09

APOLOGIES FOR CROSS POSTING ----- First International Conference on User Centric Media - UCMedia 2009 www.usercentricmedia.org Venice, Italy, 9-11 December 2009 Sponsored by ICST, Technically co-sponsored by by Create-Net ----- Important dates * Submission Deadline: June 26, 2009 * Notification to authors: September 10, 2009 * Conference Dates: December 9-11, 2009 ----- The first International Conference on User Centric Media, (UCMEDIA 2009 - www.usercentricmedia.org ) seeks original research-based contributions that will improve our understanding of recent and anticipated advances in user centric media for entertainment, education, information and as art and to its distribution over The Future Media Internet. Contributions may relate to technology, to business, to the creative process and to user-based studies. Research based on cross disciplinary approaches is particularly welcome. UCMedia welcomes contributions from academics, technologists, artists, designers, industry representatives and analysts. Contributions are invited that may relate to: * User Centric Media - Forms and production * User centric media services in the extended home * New forms of interactive storytelling * Framed communication experiences * Enhanced content representations(3DTV, Ultra HD TV, holograms, etc). * Implementation and experimentation of future Internet applications, e.g. virtual 3D worlds, collaborative platforms and holograms * User generated content creation, management and consumption systems * Novel Networked Media Systems to support human creativity at the cross roads of ICT and arts/design research * User Centric Media and Delivery (over The Future Media Internet) * Content distribution and distributed caching for multimedia content streaming * Peer-to-peer streaming prototypes and their implementation in the Future Media Internet * Innovative, adaptive and self-configuring mobile and wireless applications * Adaptive, polymorphic and reconfigurable systems for Future Media Internet environments * Cross-layer dynamic adaptation and end-to-end QoS issues for heterogeneous networks * Encoding technologies for maintaining the integrity and optimise the quality of experience. * Content aware networks and network aware content/applications * Open Future Internet network architectures for seamless, scalable multimedia content delivery * User Centric Media - Access, discovery and consumption * User Communities Systems and Platforms * Content adaptability * Search and retrieval of networked multimedia content * Personalized Access to Media Systems * Trust, privacy, security and protection Journal Special Issue: A number of the best papers of the conference contributions will be asked to submit versions extended to 8-10 pages for publication in ACM Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Journal Special Issue on Mobility and User-Centric Media. Organizing Committee General Chair: Petros Daras, CERTH-ITI General CoChair: Aggelos Katsaggelos, Northwestern Univ., USA Program Chairs: Oscar Mayora, CreateNet, Italy Federico Alvarez, University Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Antonio Camurri, University of Genoa, Italy Theodore Zahariadis, TEI Chalkidas, Greece Conference Website www.usercentricmedia.org -------------------------------------------------- You are reading ICST conference newsletter. To report any kind of abuse, please contact admin at icst.org. To unsubscribe, please visit the following page: http://ipool.icstserver.org/unsubscribe.php?p=qqoifbgave and enter your email address.

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IMC 2009 - Intelligent Interactive Assistance and Mobile Multimedia Computing 2009 - Call for Papers
by INFO-ITG 09 Mar '09

09 Mar '09

CALL FOR PAPERS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT INTERACTIVE ASSISTANCE AND MOBILE MULTIMEDIA COMPUTING 2009 ROSTOCK-WARNEMÜNDE, GERMANY NOVEMBER 11-13, 2009 Computers are becoming more and more ubiquitous, moving from the desktop into infrastructures of our everyday life. The use of mobile technology and wireless communication has become a commodity. "Smart" technologies and ambient intelligence are going to augment and influence the way we interact with our personal environment – the (physical) entities that we operate upon in order to achieve our daily goals. Smart appliances and instrumented environments provide electronic assistance for scenarios and situations, where computer support has not yet been available. IT-enabled artifacts are increasingly context-sensitive, cooperative and pro-active; our everyday environment is becoming „alive“ with an unobtrusive background fabric of communicating and assisting multimedia appliances. IMC2009 is going to explore the design space of innovative approaches and technical visions for future assistive systems. Please find enclosed the Call for Papers. Further information can be found at: http://www.imc2009@imc-conference.org

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[Tccc] SENSAPPEAL 2009 extended deadline
by Nikos Komninos 09 Mar '09

09 Mar '09

---------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1st International Conference on Sensor Networks Applications, Experimentation and Logistics www.sensappeal.org *September 24-25, 2009, Athens, Greece* Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are envisioned to enable a variety of applications including environmental monitoring, building and plant automation, homeland security and healthcare. It has been argued that one of the key characteristics of sensor networks is that they are so tightly coupled with the applications running on top of them. Although WSNs have been an active area of research for over a decade, real world sensor network deployments have not yet found their way to widespread adoption. The experience gained and lessons learned during the initial attempts to deploy WSNs and implement various sensor network applications are very valuable for the advancement of this technology. The 1st ICST International Conference on Sensor Networks Applications, Experimentation and Logistics (SENSAPPEAL 2009) aims at bringing together researchers and developers from academia and industry to present their work and share their experiences with developing, deploying and testing WSN applications. Moreover key enablers to WSN application development (such as OS, middleware, in-field reprogramming, testbeds and simulators, etc.) fall within the scope of the conference. Authors are invited to submit original unpublished work, not currently under review by another conference, workshop or journal. Full papers should be restricted to 20 camera-ready pages in the Springer "Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (LNICST)" format. We also welcome submissions for demonstrations of pilot, experimental or real-life deployments, testbeds, simulators and applications of wireless sensor networks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Sensor network applications: * Environmental Monitoring * - wildfire detection and tracking * - landslide prediction * - pollution monitoring * - habitat monitoring * - seismic monitoring * Physical security and surveillance * Health care and assisted living * Building and plant automation * Disaster area or area of operations information gathering * Other novel applications Application enablers: * APIs, programming paradigms and in-field reprogramming techniques (OS, middleware, mobile agents, sensor DBs, in network processing) * Testbeds and simulators * Cognitive and autonomous operation of sensor networks * Localization and tracking * Efficient networking protocols * Network and data security * Sensing devices Important Dates: Paper Registration (title and abstract only): March 11th,2009 (EXTENDED) Paper Submission Deadline: March 27th, 2009 (EXTENDED) Notification of Acceptance: May 31st, 2009 Author Registration Deadline: July 15th, 2009 Camera Ready Copy Due: July 20th, 2009 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: Special Issue on Enabling Wireless Technologies for Green Pervasive Computing]
by Lars Wolf 09 Mar '09

09 Mar '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: Special Issue on Enabling Wireless Technologies for Green Pervasive Computing Datum: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 01:51:14 -0700 (PDT) Von: Scott Fowler <scott_fowler(a)ymail.com> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Special Issue on Enabling Wireless Technologies for Green Pervasive Computing Wireless pervasive computing is a rapidly growing area that has attracted significant attention in recent years due to its tremendous potential impact on the quality of life and the environment. To enable green pervasive computing, it is necessary to integrate technologies, many of which are highly heterogeneous, from various fields including distributed computing, networking, communications, and signal processing. Pervasive technologies can be used in various ways to develop and enhance design models for environment sustainability. Pervasive computing is a power tool used in businesses and social contexts to develop computing devices and solutions which are more environment friendly. This Special Issue focuses on enabling wireless technologies that have the potential to make green pervasive computing truly ubiquitous. Many enabling wireless technologies continue to be deployed in various pervasive computing environments. There is an increasing interest in the computing community on how these technologies can be responsibly used environmentally to provide ubiquitous information access. The main aim of this special issue is to present the latest research achievements and results in the area of green pervasive computing and, in particular, how next generation wireless systems can help support and promote a sustainable environment. Topics include (but are not limited to): * Cross-layer design issues * Green pervasive computing * Wearable devices and technologies * Sensor devices, designs, protocols, and applications for green pervasive computing * RFID applications, designs, standards, and data management * Wireless technologies and architectures in pervasive computing * Wireless smart vehicle systems and networking * Pervasive e-services * QoS support in wireless systems for green pervasive computing * Smart vehicular networks and systems for green pervasive computing * Cellular technologies (UMTS, GSM, GPRS, etc.) for green pervasive computing * Fault-tolerant and resilient networks * Performance evaluation of wireless systems, and technologies Before submission, authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located athttp://www.hindawi.com/journals/wcn/guidelines.html. Prospective authors should follow the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking manuscript format described at the journal's website http://www.hindawi.com/journals/wcn/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/, according to the following timetable: Manuscript Due April 15, 2009 First Round of Reviews June 1, 2009 Publication Date September 1, 2009 Lead Guest Editor * Naveen Chilamkurti, Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, La Trobe University, Victoria3086, Australia Guest Editors * Sherali Zeadally, Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC20008, USA * Abbas Jamalipour, School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Universityof Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia * Sajal k. Das, Department of Computer Science and Engineering ,Universityof Texas, Arlington, TX76019, USA _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] EMOBS 2009 -- Call For Paper
by Xiao Su 08 Mar '09

08 Mar '09

2nd IEEE International Workshop on Engineering Mobile-Based Software and Networking Applications (EMOBS 2009) IN CONJUNCTION WITH COMPSAC 2009 ================================================================================ THEME OF THE WORKSHOP The wide deployment of wireless networks and mobile technologies and significant increase of the number of mobile device users have created a very strong demand on various wireless-based mobile-based software application systems and enabling technologies. This provides many new business opportunities and challenges to wireless and networking service providers, mobile technology vendors, content providers and solution integrators. Living in a wireless world changes and enhances people‚Äôs life in many areas, such as mobile communications, wireless information sharing and learning, m-commerce, home environment, and entertainment. Today, business organizations and government agencies face with new pressure for technology update in network infrastructures and enterprise solutions to support wireless connectivity and mobility. To meet the increasing demand on various reliable wireless-based software application systems, business people are looking for innovative ideas to create diverse mobile-commerce applications and service systems, and engineers are looking for cost-effective engineering methods and efficient solutions to build high-quality wireless-based software and application systems. Meanwhile, evolution in new network architecture and protocols is likely to have major impact on mobile networks, and developments in peer-to-peer overlay and ad-hoc networks will raise different challenging research issues in mobile networking applications. Therefore, today studying and solving technical issues in engineering wireless-based software, services, networking architecture, and application systems is becoming a hot research subject for academic researchers and the industry community. The major theme of this workshop is to embrace new networking architectures in engineering high quality mobile-based software and application systems to support end users anywhere at anytime. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: Engineering topics: + System requirements engineering issues and methods for mobile-based system requirements analysis + Wireless-based system infrastructures, architectures, and service-oriented architectures + Design modeling, design patterns, and design issues and solutions in wireless-based systems + Mobile data transaction models, retrieval solutions, and caching and migration techniques + Analysis, design, and testing for system mobility, interoperability, performance, scalability ad reliability + Wireless system and application security, and mobile user privacy + Mobile client design for mobile user experience, personalization, customization, and interoperation + Testing methods, test models, coverage criteria, and tools + Performance validation techniques and metrics, evaluation models and processes, measurement tools and environments Enable software technology and solution topics: + Mobile database technologies and mobile data transaction services + Semantic web for Mobile Commerce + Location detection and discovery mid-ware and technologies + Wireless multimedia technologies, platforms, and solutions for wireless applications + Mobile platforms for client applications on mobile devices (J2ME, Symbian, etc.) + Middleware and agent technologies for mobile commerce and wireless service systems + Mobile service frameworks, mobile agent technologies and solutions Networking architecture, applications, services, and experience topics: + Peer-to-peer overlay networking systems + Mobile ad-hoc networking systems + Ubiquitous and pervasive computing systems + Novel m-commerce applications and services + Mobile portals and mobile search engines + Enterprise-based mobile applications and systems + Wireless advertising applications, services, and systems + Location and context-aware mobile commerce applications and services + Service platforms for mobile commerce (mobile web enterprise) + RFID enabled application systems + 2D Barcode based mobile application systems + Mobile payment protocols, service systems, and platforms + Case-study, lesson learned and experience reporting ================================================================================ PROGRAM COMMITTEE Yan Bai University of Washington, USA (Email: yanb(a)u.washington.edu) Matthias Book, University Leipzig, Germany, ( book(a)ebus.informatik.uni-leipzig.de) Donggang Cao Peking University, China, (caodg(a)pku.edu.cn) Narciso Cerpa, University of Talca, Chile, (jtaer(a)utalca.cl) Mei Hsing, Fu Jen Catholic University, Republic of China (Email: mei(a)csie.fju.edu.tw) Gu-Min Jeong, Kookmin University, Korea (gm1004(a)kookmin.ac.kr) Axel K√ºpper, Germany (axel.kuepper(a)ifi.lmu.de) Keung Hae Lee Korea Aerospace University, Korea, (khlee(a)kau.ac.kr) Katina Michael, University of Wollongong, Australia (Email: katina(a)uow.edu.au) George Roussos, Bikbeck College, UK (g.roussos(a)bbk.ac.uk) Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan (tshih(a)cs.tku.edu.tw) Junho Shim, Sookmyung Women‚Äôs University, Rep. of Korea ( jshim(a)sookmyung.ac.kr) Ron Vetter, UNC Wilmington, (Email: vetterr(a)uncw.edu) Michael Wallbaum, Aschen University of Technology, Germany, (Email: wallbaum(a)i4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de) Qianxiang Wang, Peking University, China (wqx(a)pku.edu.cn) Yong IK Yoon, SookMyung Women's University (yiyoon(a)sookmyung.ac.kr) Weider Yu, San Jose State University, USA (Email: Weider.Yu(a)sjsu.edu) Yongfei Zhang Beihang University, China (Email: zyfflying(a)gmail.com) ================================================================================ IMPORTANT DATES March 15, 2009 Workshop paper submission due April 10, 2009 Workshop paper notification (electronic) April 30, 2009 All final manuscript and author pre-registration due ================================================================================ SUBMISSION Original papers not being submitted to journals or other conferences will be considered. All submitted papers will be reviewed by the program committee according to its originality, significance, correctness, presentation, and relevance. We encourage authors to present novel ideas, critique of existing work, and practical studies and experiments. Both draft and camera-ready papers must be submitted electronically via the EMOBS2009 Submission Page. Manuscripts will be limited to six pages, following IEEE conference proceedings style and guidelines. The format of submitted papers must follow the IEEE conference proceedings guidelines (i.e., 8.5" x 11", Two-Column Format (PDF: instruct.pdf; DOC: instruct.doc); Layout Guide (PDF: format.pdf; DOC: format.doc; all under ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/). Page counting includes all figures, tables, and references. All accepted papers will be published in the electronic workshop proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society, indexed through INSPEC and EI Index (Elsevier's Engineering Information Index), and automatically included in the IEEE Digital Library. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register as a full participant of the workshop for the paper to be publisheded in the proceedings. Each accepted paper must be presented in person by an author. The selected papers will be recommended to the Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research (http://www.jtaer.com/). ================================================================================ WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Steering Committee: (in alphabetical order) Jerry Gao San Jose State University Volker Gruhn University Leipzig, Germany Keung Hae Lee Korea Aerospace University, Korea Jingsha He Beijing University of Technology Xiao Su San Jose State University Co-Chairs Jerry Gao San Jose State University Email: jerrygao(a)email.sjsu.edu Volker Gruhn University Leipzig, Germany Email: gruhn(a)ebus.informatik.uni-leipzig.de Program Chair Xiao Su San Jose State University Email: xsu(a)email.sjsu.edu _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Sensys'09 CFP
by Jan Beutel 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

================================================================================ C A L L F O R P A P E R **** ACM SenSys 2009 **** Berkeley California November 4-6 2009 (http://sensys.acm.org/2009) The 7th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys'09) solicits innovative research papers on the systems issues of networked, embedded sensing and control. The conference brings together academic, industry, and government professionals to a premier single-track, highly selective forum on the design, implementation, and application of sensor networks. SenSys takes a broad view of embedded networked sensor systems to include any distributed systems that collectively interact with the physical world. We invite submissions covering a broad range of networked sensing systems including conventional wireless sensor networks as well as novel platforms such as mobile sensors, cellphones, and domain-specific systems. We seek technical papers describing original ideas, groundbreaking results and/or quantified system experiences. We especially encourage submissions that highlight real-world sensor network deployments, new application domains, and retrospectives on the state-of-the-art. * Topics of interest: - System and network architecture; - Operating systems; - Services for time, location, and power management; - Reliability and fault tolerance; - Protocols at all layers (physical, link, network, and above); - Programming models and languages; - Data storage, retrieval, and processing; - System security and data integrity; - Novel applications and real-world deployments; - Actuation and control; and - Privacy and social implications. Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, relevance, interest, correctness, and clarity. A good paper will: - Consider a significant problem; - Propose an interesting, compelling solution; - Demonstrate the practicality and benefits of the solution; - Draw appropriate conclusions; - Clearly describe what the authors have done; and - Clearly articulate the advances beyond previous work. Submissions will be subject to rigorous peer review and the top quality papers will be published in the conference proceedings. All published papers will be presented orally at the conference. * Submission: Submissions must be full papers, at most 14 single-spaced 8.5" x 11" pages, including figures, tables, and references, two-column format, using 10-point type on 12-point (single-spaced) leading, with a maximum text block of 7" wide x 9" deep with .25" intercolumn space. Papers that do not meet the size and formatting requirements will not be reviewed. * Key dates: - Paper Registration: April 1, 2009, 11:59 pm Eastern Time - Paper Submission Deadline: April 8, 2009, 11:59 pm Eastern Time - Notification of Acceptance: July 20, 2009 These are "hard deadlines" - no extensions will be granted. * Technical Program Committee Jie Liu (Microsoft Research) co-Chair Matt Welsh (Harvard University) co-Chair Tarek Abdelzaher, (UIUC) Philippe Bonnet, (DIKU) Andrew Campbell, (Dartmouth) Andrew Christian, (Nokia) Amol Deshpande, (Maryland) Adam Dunkels, (SICS) Jakob Eriksson, (UIC) Kevin Fu, (UMass Amherst) David Gay, (Intel) John Heidemann, (USC) Polly Huang, (NTU) Zachary Ives, (UPenn) Bhaskar Krishnamachari, (USC) Philip Levis, (Stanford) Nithya Ramanathan, (UCLA) John Regehr, (Utah) Alex Snoeren, (UCSD) Subhash Suri, (UCSB) Andreas Terzis, (JHU) Fan Ye, (IBM Watson Lab) Feng Zhao, (MSR) ================================================================================ -- Dr. Jan Beutel j.beutel(a)ieee.org Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory, ETZ G75 ETH Zurich +41 44 632 70 32 Phone Gloriastrasse 35 +41 44 632 10 35 Fax CH 8092 Zurich/Switzerland http://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/~beutel

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[MMTC 3/3/2009] -- four Call for Papers
by Bin Wei 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

[Apologies for possible multiple postings] 1. IEEE Workshop on Emerging Technologies in Multimedia Communications & Networking, Cancun Mexico, 6/29 paper submission deadline: 3/10 2. The 12th ACM* Annual Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless Mobile Systems Terenife, The Canary Islands, Spain October 26-30, 2009 paper submission deadline: 4/25 3. IEEE Network Magazine Special Issue on Digital Home Services paper submission deadline: 5/1 4. International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting: Network-Aware Peer-to-Peer (P2P) and Internet Video paper submission deadline: 6/1 Please see the attached for the detail of each one. Bin

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[Mycolleagues] RAWNET/WNC3 2009, Extended submission deadline: March 15, 2009
by Laura Cottatellucci 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

Dear Colleagues, Due to many requests, the deadline for abstract submission to RAWNET/WCN3 2009 has been extended to March 15, 2009. For more information please visit: http://www.rawnet.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- RAWNET/WNC3 2009 The 5th workshop on Resource Allocation, Cooperation and Competition in Wireless Networks in conjunction with WiOpt'09 the 7th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks June 27, 2009, Seoul, Korea http://www.rawnet.org Full Papers due: March 15, 2009 (updated deadline) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Future telecommunications networks are expected to provide very high data rates, seamless connections, at higher and often heterogeneous quality-of-service levels, in scenarios with ever increasing mobility. In order to meet these requirements, new generation wireless networks go beyond the classical paradigms of cellular networks and are based on complex interactions. In this scenario, efficient allocation of the available resources and/or cooperation, and/or competition play a strategic fundamental role to increase and optimize communication performance of individual nodes or of the global network, and efficiently exploit the available frequency spectrum eventually admitting unlicensed users. This fueled a vibrant flurry of studies in cooperative communications, spectrum management (cognitive radio), and resource allocation. The investigations involve researchers and technicians from the physical, to the networking layers and above and eventually promote joint design within different layers (cross-layer design). Analysis and design of the complex interactions in future communications networks requires contributions from a variety of disciplines, which span from information theory to statistical physics, game theory, optimization, non-commutative algebras and so forth. The workshop promotes the applications of new methodologies in this field with the aim of providing the participants advanced and innovative tools able to catch the fundamental dynamics of complex interactions. It fosters the presentation of new cooperative protocols and new schemes for resource allocation, novel results in the investigation of the theoretical limits and fundamental tradeoffs between competition and cooperation. The applications can steam from any wireless scenario, from multicell networks to sensor and relay networks, cognitive radio or ad-hoc network. In fact, object of the workshop is to provide the participant with a comprehensive, thorough, and unified vision of the resource allocation issue in complex multiuser and multiprovider networks regulated by cooperation and competition. --------------------------- KEYNOTE TALKS --------------------------- * Prof. Anthony Ephremides (University of Maryland) COOPERATION AT THE NETWORK LEVEL * Prof. Gerhard Kramer (University of Southern California) CODING FOR COOPERATION AND RELAYING --------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST --------------------------- * User scheduling (single cell/multicell/OFDMA/relay-multihoping network); ² Cross-layer design; ² Power-control and energy e±cient communications; ² Resource allocation-based interference mitigation; ² Cooperation schemes for interference control, coverage extension (multicell, multihop cooperation); ² Game theoretic resource allocation; ² Spectrum management, i.e. resource allocation in cognitive radio; ² Pricing based, auction based schemes in ad-hoc/cellular networks; ² Fairness vs performance issues; ² Relay selection, cooperative group optimization and resource allocation; ² Scaling laws and information theoretic bounds; ² Diversity/multiplexing trade-o®s of cooperation protocols; ² Effect of partial and incomplete channel state information in cooperative systems, and robust designs; ² Practical issues in cooperation strategies for mobile ad-hoc and sensor networks. --------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES --------------------------- Submission Deadline (extended): March 15, 2009 Notification of Acceptance: April 1, 2009 Camera-ready Manuscripts: May 1, 2009 --------------------------- Submission Guidelines --------------------------- The submission will be handled electronically via EasyChair system at https://www.easychair.org/. Submitted manuscripts should not exceed 8 pages in length. Please use the IEEE Transactions format, 11 pt character size, one column text, one-and-a-half line spacing, letter paper. This page budget should contain all figures, tables, references, etc. The manuscript should also include a brief abstract of up to 150 words. Only PDF files are acceptable; please make sure that the paper prints without problems (take care to embed all required fonts, etc.). The workshop proceedings will be listed in the IEEEXplore and the IEEE digital library. --------------------------- WORKSHOP CHAIRS --------------------------- Konstantin Avrachenkov (INRIA Sophia Antipolis) Laura Cottatellucci (Eurecom) Ralf MÄuller (NTNU) --------------------------- TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE --------------------------- Eitan Altman (INRIA Sophia Antipolis) Randall Berry (Northwestern University) Sem Borst (Eindhoven University) Ron Dabora (Stanford University) Merouane Debbah (Supelec) Rachid El Azouzi (University of Avignon) David Gesbert (Eurecom) Michael Honig (Northwestern University) Eduard Jorswieck (TU Dresden) Erik Larsson (Linkopings) Ritesh Madan (Qualcomm) Daniel Palomar (UST) Bozidar Radunovic (Microsoft Research Cambridge) Stavros Toumpis (Athens UEB) _______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ More than messages–check out the rest of the Windows Live™. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/ _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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