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[Tccc] MobiHoc'08 call for posters
by Mihaela Cardei 12 Feb '08

12 Feb '08

Dear Colleagues, Posters presenting early work and preliminary results are solicited. The poster session will provide an excellent opportunity for initial feedback on early research results. Poster descriptions of no more than 3 pages (US letter size 8.5 x 11 inches) using font size 10 should be submitted to the Poster Chair Mihaela Cardei (mihaela(a)cse.fau.edu). Please include the words "Poster Abstract:" to precede the title on the cover page. A selected subset of poster abstracts will be published in ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review. Poster Submission Deadline: March 7, 2008 Acceptance Notifications: March 18, 2008 More information on the conference is available at http://www.sigmobile.org/mobihoc/2008 We look forward to receiving your submission. Best Regards, Mihaela Cardei Poster Chair for MobiHoc 2008 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Deadline approaching: CFP Special Issue of IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine: "Practical aspects of mobility in wireless self-organizing networks"]
by Lars Wolf 11 Feb '08

11 Feb '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Deadline approaching: CFP Special Issue of IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine: "Practical aspects of mobility in wireless self-organizing networks" Datum: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:09:26 +0700 Von: Marcelo Dias de Amorim <Marcelo.Amorim(a)lip6.fr> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Please apologize for multiple copies. ********************* CALL FOR PAPERS ******************** IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine Special Issue on "Practical aspects of mobility in wireless self-organizing networks" ********************************************************** Wireless and mobile computing advanced significantly in the last decade. In particular, we now face the possibility to spontaneously establish wireless self- organizing networks, such as ad hoc, disruption-tolerant, sensor, and wireless mesh networks. These spontaneous self-organizing networks have been the focus of intensive research activity in recent years. Spontaneous networks arise from the cooperation of mobile devices in an ad hoc fashion requiring no previous infrastructure in place. A key point to couple research and real-life applications in this context is to understand how mobility (of devices, users, and applications) impacts practical networking aspects. The knowledge accumulated so far in the area of wireless self-organizing networks is in general supported by either simulation or theoretical analysis relying on strong assumptions. The research community needs a step forward and should definitely consider real aspects of mobility in their protocols and algorithms. Such a situation is to be compared with the one found for infrastructure-based networks (e.g., cellular networks), in which mobility has been thoroughly investigated (both theoretically and through measurements) and properly incorporated in their management architecture. In wireless self-organizing networks, contrary to common belief, much is still to be done in this domain, and definitive solutions are still to emerge. Mobility can no longer be seen as an issue to be hidden from higher layers of the protocol stack, but as an expected characteristic of today's communication systems. In this context, it is of utmost importance to address issues related to the impact of mobility as seen in practice, covering characterization, modeling, and applications of mobility in modern wireless networks. The research community working on wireless self-organizing networks has recently started giving more attention to the practical mobility issues in this area. This may be attested by the increasing number of initiatives worldwide like the many measurement campaigns and the considerable body of developed theoretical background work supported by practical arguments (e.g., mobility models, mobility increasing network capacity, relationship between node mobility and wireless channel conditions). The goal of this special issue is to help filling this gap by presenting contributions ranging from the impact of mobility on self-organizing networks to mobility-aware architectures for self-organizing networks. As we intend to focus on the practical impacts of mobility in wireless self-organizing networks, papers presenting insights from the applicability of mobility measurements and realistic mobility models in this context are also expected. We will be particularly interested in contributions that explore mobility to improve the behavior of network protocols and algorithms. We are soliciting papers covering, but not limited to, the following topics: * Mobility-aware architectures for self-organizing networks. * Impact of mobility on self-organizing networks. * Practical applicability of wireless testbeds and mobility measurements. * Realistic mobility models for self-organizing networks. * Mobility-centric killer applications. MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION With regard to both the content and formatting style of the submissions, prospective contributors must follow the IEEE Wireless Communications guidelines at http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/pcm/sub_guidelines.html. Submitted papers must be original and must not be under current consideration for publication in other venues. Authors should submit a PDF format of their complete papers via email to wmag(a)rp.lip6.fr. SCHEDULE * Manuscript Submission Due: February 15, 2008 * Acceptance Notification: June 30, 2008 * Final Manuscript Due: July 30, 2008 * Publication: December 2008 GUEST EDITORS Marcelo Dias de Amorim Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, France Email: amorim(a)rp.lip6.fr Artur Ziviani National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC), Brazil Email: ziviani(a)lncc.br Yannis Viniotis North Carolina State University, USA Email: candice(a)ncsu.edu Leandros Tassiulas University of Thessaly, Greece Email: leandros(a)inf.uth.gr _______________________________________________ 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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[Fwd: [Tccc] [IEEE AOC 2008 - WoWMoM Workshop]: Call for Papers - Deadline Extended]
by Lars Wolf 11 Feb '08

11 Feb '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] [IEEE AOC 2008 - WoWMoM Workshop]: Call for Papers - Deadline Extended Datum: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:46:00 +0100 Von: Chiara Boldrini <chiara.boldrini(a)iit.cnr.it> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. --------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED ***** *** FEBRUARY 18, 2008 *** --------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Second IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Autonomic and Opportunistic Communications (AOC 2008) June 23, 2008 - Newport Beach (CA), USA http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/aoc2008/ organized by ANA and HAGGLE projects funded by the FET-IST Programme in the area Situated and Autonomic Communications (SAC) Fast Track on Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC) Journal http://www.elsevier.com/locate/pmc Submission Deadline --- February 11, 2008 **** Extended to February 18, 2008 **** --------------------------------------------------------------------- The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum between the autonomic and opportunistic communication communities to exchange ideas, discuss solutions, and share experiences among researchers, professionals, and application developers both from industry and academia. Original papers addressing both theoretical and practical aspects of autonomic and opportunistic communications and are solicited. Papers describing prototype implementations and deployments are welcome. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Architecture and models for autonomic and opportunistic communications * Tools and techniques for designing, analyzing and building autonomic and opportunistic networks * Adaptive security for self protection of networks * Economic, biological and social models used for autonomic and opportunistic communications * Mobility models for opportunistic networking * Novel management techniques for autonomic and opportunistic communications * Sensing, monitoring and measurements for self-managing networks * Advanced technologies for enabling autonomic and opportunistic communications * Autonomic and opportunistic communication testbeds and measurements * Algorithmic aspects associated with autonomic communications environments and problems PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION -------------------------------- Papers should neither have been published elsewhere nor currently under review by another conference or journal. Guidelines on paper submission and formatting are available at http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/aoc2008/. Accepted papers will appear in the symposium proceedings published by IEEE. Extended versions of workshop selected papers will be considered for possible fast track publication on the Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal (Elsevier). IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Full papers due: February 11, 2008 Notification: March 15, 2007 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- WORKSHOP Chairs Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Switzerland Ioannis Stavrakakis, University of Athens, Greece PUBLICITY Chair Chiara Boldrini, IIT-CNR, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE -------------------------------- Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Edoardo Biagioni, University of Hawaii, USA Vania Conan, Thales, France Falko Dressler, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Stephen Farrell, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Per Gunningberg, Uppsala University, Sweden Hannes Hartenstein, Karlsruhe, Germany Jean-Yves Le Boudec, EPFL, Switzerland Vincent Lenders, Princeton University, USA Cecilia Mascolo, UCL, UK Martin May, ETH, Switzerland Daniele Miorandi, Create-net, Italy Refik Molva, Eurécom, France Konstantinos Oikonomou, Ionian University, Greece Joerg Ott, HUT, Finland Antonios Panagakis, University of Athens, Greece Symeon Papavassiliou, NTUA, Greece Andrea Passarella, IIT-CNR, Italy Giovanni Pau, UCLA, USA Calicrates Policroniades, Telenor, Norway George Polyzos, AUEB, Greece Konstantinos Psounis, University of Southern California, USA Christian Rohner, Uppsala University, Sweden Fabrizio Sestini, FET, European Commission Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos, ETH Zurich, Switzerland John Strassner, Motorola, USA Violet Syrotiuk, Arizona State University, USA Pablo Vidales, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany Hongyi Wu, University of Louisiana, USA Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge, UK Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena-Reggio, Italy ==================================================== Chiara Boldrini - Ph.D. Student AOC 2008 Publicity Chair Institute for Informatics and Telematics (IIT) Italian National Research Council (CNR) Via G. Moruzzi, 1 - 56124 Pisa, Italy ==================================================== _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Deadline Extension: ACM FOWANC]
by Lars Wolf 11 Feb '08

11 Feb '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Deadline Extension: ACM FOWANC Datum: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:37:42 -0600 Von: Rong Zheng <rzheng(a)cs.uh.edu> Antwort an: rzheng(a)cs.uh.edu An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of the CFP. -------------------------------------------------------- The First ACM International Workshop on Foundations of Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networking and Computing (FOWANC 2008) In conjunction with ACM MobiHoc 2008 May 26, 2008 Hong Kong SAR, CHINA http://nrl.uncc.edu/FOWANC/ IMPORTANT DATES Registration of papers: 18 Februrary 2008 Submission of Papers: 25 February 2008 Notification of Acceptance: 18 March 2008 Final version: 26 March 2008 CONFERENCE THEME Recent research in a variety of wireless ad hoc networks, such as mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), wireless mesh networks, wireless sensor networks, wireless personal area networks, vehicular networks, RFID networks, and hybrid networks, raises a number of interesting, and difficult, theoretical and algorithmic issues. This workshop is devoted to distributed algorithms and theoretical methods in the context of mobile ad hoc and sensor networking and computing. The workshop is intended to foster cooperation among researchers in mobile ad hoc and sensor networking and theoreticians in algorithm and theory, and push the theoretical research forward for a deeper understanding about ad hoc and sensor networking and computing. This workshop covers the all areas of ad hoc and sensor networking and computing, from physical issues up to applications, with a focus of theoretical and algorithmic aspect. In particular, it will cover distributed algorithms, optimizations, analysis and modeling, randomized algorithms, mechanism design, and theoretical methods in ad hoc and sensor networking and computing. Typical topics include (but not limited to): Channel assignment and management Coding theory and network coding Cryptography, security and privacy Distributed algorithms Dynamic and random networks Dynamic graph algorithms Energy conservation methods and protocols Localization and location tracking Mechanism design and game theory Modeling and complexity analysis Routing, multicast and broadcast Scheduling Selfish behavior and cooperation Synchronization Protocol optimization SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS FOWANC 2008 will only accept electronic on-line submissions. Detailed instructions can be found in the workshop web page. Accepted papers will be published by ACM. Simultaneous submissions to other conferences with published proceedings are not allowed. PROGRAM CO-CHAIRs: Xiang-Yang Li, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Yu Wang, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA PUBLICITY CHAIR: Rong Zheng, University of Houston, USA PUBLICATION CHAIR: Xinbing Wang, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Stefano Basagni, Northeastern University, USA Stephan Eidenbenz, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA Andras Farago, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Jie Gao, University of SUNY Stony Brook, USA Santosh Kumar, University of Memphis, USA Qun Li, College of William and Mary, USA Zongpeng Li, University of Calgary, Canada Benyuan Liu, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Jiangchuan Liu, Simon Fraser University, Canada Yunhao Liu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China Archan Misra, IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA Thomas Moscibroda, Microsoft Research, USA Thyaga Nandagopal, Bell Labs, USA Srinivasan Parthasarathy, IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA Chiara Petrioli, University of Rome, Italy Rajmohan Rajaraman, Northeastern University, USA Yi Shi, Virginia Tech, USA Wen-Zhan Song, Washington State University, USA Martha Steenstrup, Stow Research, USA Subhash Suri, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Xinbing Wang, ShangHai JiaoTong University, China Chih-Wei Yi, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Rong Zheng, University of Houston, USA _______________________________________________ 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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[Fwd: [Mycolleagues] CFP for SI of Hindawi Int. Jou. on Digital Multimedia Broadcasting]
by Lars Wolf 11 Feb '08

11 Feb '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Mycolleagues] CFP for SI of Hindawi Int. Jou. on Digital Multimedia Broadcasting Datum: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 10:10:33 +0100 Von: Marina Mondin <marina.mondin(a)polito.it> An: mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br Please accept our apologies if you have received multiple copies of this message. --- C A L L F O R P A P E R S --- We are pleased to inform you that the Hindawi International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting is launching a Special Issue on Iterative Decoding and Cross-Layering Techniques for Multimedia Broadcasting and Communications described at the link: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdmb/si/idcmbc.html according to the following timetable: Manuscript Due April 1, 2008 First Round of Reviews July 1, 2008 Publication Date November 1, 2008 Guest Editors * Fred Daneshgaran, ECE Dept., California State University Los Angeles, USA * Massimiliano Laddomada, Dip. di Elettronica, Politecnico di Torino, Italy * Marina Mondin, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Politecnico di Torino, Italy _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Mycolleagues] ADAMUS 2008 - Deadline extension
by Katarzyna.Wac＠cui.unige.ch 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call-for-Papers-and-Demos ________________________________________________________________ Call for Papers and Demos: SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENSION Second IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Adaptive and DependAble Mobile Ubiquitous Systems ADAMUS 2008 In conjunction with the 8th Int. Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM'08) Newport Beach, CA, USA, 23rd June, 2008 Sponsored by NOKIA ---- WoWMoM web site : http://wowmom08.ics.uci.edu/ ADAMUS web site : http://www.adamus.ua.ac.be/ ADAMUS'08 cfp pdf : http://www.adamus.ua.ac.be/CFP_adamus08.pdf _______________________________________________________________ Important Dates (DEADLINE EXTENDED): * Full Paper and Demo submission deadline: February 20, 2008 * Notification of acceptance: March 17, 2008 * Demo Plans submission deadline: March 31, 2008 * Final camera-ready manuscripts due: April 4, 2008 ________________________________________________________________ WHAT'S NEW ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Submission deadline extended. - This year, ADAMUS will host a DEMO COMPETITION. The Best demo will be awarded with a special NOKIA hi-tech gift! - The BEST PAPER will be also awarded with another NOKIA gift! - ADAMUS'08 will open with a KEYNOTE TALK by Franklin Reynolds, NOKIA distinguished engineering fellow. See below for details. WORKSHOP SCOPE ---------------------------------------------------------------- A truly extended use of mobile computing technologies asks for effective software engineering techniques to design, develop and maintain novel ubiquitous services with challenging dependa- bility requirements in highly heterogeneous and error-prone mobile environments. To overcome the intrinsic limitations of mobile devices and environments, a variety of research studies have produced methods and proof-of-concept prototypes for sup- porting non-critical applications. However, it is still unclear whether current solutions can satisfy the challenging adapta- bility and dependability requirements of the emerging mobile ubiquitous services, such as mobile commerce, wireless control of robots, healthcare computing, and video-surveillance. Hence, it is becoming increasingly important: to devise con- ceptual models and paradigms for change tolerance; to propose mechanisms to model, design, and develop adaptive and dependable systems; to provide analytical and simulation tools to measure system ability to withstand faults and to optimally re-adjust to new environments; to develop scalable, maintainable, cost- effective middleware infrastructures able to support and ease the development of adaptive and dependable mobile ubiquitous services. Building on the success of the last year event, this workshop aims at fostering exchange of ideas and lively discussions in order to reduce the gap between research achievements and industrial applications in the field of adaptive and dependable mobile ubiquitous systems. Researchers and practitioners are encouraged to participate with high quality papers able to identify open issues, to discuss the limits and/or advantages of existing solutions, or to propose original and innovative techniques for adaptive and dependable applications over mobile environments. The main topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: * Dependability and adaptation requirements and open issues for mobile ubiquitous systems; * Design principles, models, and techniques for realizing dependable and adaptive mobile ubiquitous systems; * Context data provisioning and modelling, and context-based infrastructures; * Human-machine interaction and usability; * Multi-device and highly heterogeneous ubiquitous systems; * Cross-layer adaptation techniques; * End-to-end approaches to the quality of experience of mobile services; * Autonomous systems for adaptation and dependability; * Mobile-enabled middleware architectures and mechanisms for heterogeneous wireless networks; * Dependability and scalability of web technologies to ubiqui- tous systems; * Architectures for resource and network monitoring and adapta- tion to networks conditions; * Dependability measurement of mobile systems and services. DEMO COMPETITION, BEST PAPER, AND RELATED PRIZES ---------------------------------------------------------------- A Demo Competition (sponsored by NOKIA) will be conveniently scheduled to provide authors with the opportunity to run live demonstrations of their research and to interact directly with ADAMUS and other WoWMoM attendees that will be required to vote for the best demos (See below for demos submission guidelines). Best demos will be awarded with special Nokia gifts based on their review scores, on-site voting results, and technical program committee evaluation. The best full paper will be awarded as well with another Nokia gift, based on review scores. The BEST DEMO PRIZE will consist of a Nokia N95 8GB multimedia computer (http://www.nseries.com/products/n95_8gb/). The BEST PAPER PRIZE will be a Nokia N810 Internet Tablet device (http://www.nseries.com/products/n810/index.html). NOKIA KEYNOTE TALK ---------------------------------------------------------------- We are proud to announce ADAMUS 2008 will open with a Keynote Talk by Franklin Reynolds, distinguished engineering fellow at the Nokia Research Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. FULL PAPER AND DEMO PROPOSAL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ---------------------------------------------------------------- ADAMUS 2008 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. This year, ADAMUS seeks two different kinds of contribu- tion: full papers and live demonstration proposals. Live demon- strations must be accompanied by a short demo proposal descri- bing the demo and the related research activity. * Full papers must be written in English and should not exceed 6 pages in IEEE proceedings style. * Demo proposals must be written in English and should not exce- ed 3 pages in IEEE proceedings style. * Demo Plans: Authors of all accepted demo proposals must also submit a Demo Plan including a short description of the demo (text, video, poster) and a short report on infra- structure needs (power, network, physical space needed). All submissions will be handled electronically. Full papers and demo proposals should submit a PostScript or PDF file, including names and contact information of all authors, through the sub- mission Web site (http://www.adamus.ua.ac.be/) by February 11th, 2008. Submission implies that at least one of the authors will regi- ster and present the paper. The selection process will involve peer reviews and reviews by program committee members.All papers and demo proposals will be selected for the workshop based upon their originality, technical soundness, and relevance to the field of adaptive and dependable mobile ubiquitous systems. Notification of acceptance will be sent to contact authors by March 10th, 2008. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to provide the camera-ready version of the paper by March 31st, 2008. Authors of accepted demo proposals will be requested to provide demo Plans by March 20th, 2008, as well as the camera- ready version of the short demo proposal paper by March 31,2008. All accepted papers (including both full papers and demo propos- als) will be published on CD by the IEEE Computer Society Press. ORGANIZERS ---------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Co-Chairs: - Chris Blondia, PATS group, University of Antwerp, Belgium - Marcello Cinque, Mobilab group, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy - Vincenzo De Florio, PATS group, University of Antwerp, Belgium - Filip De Turck, Intec group, University of Ghent, Belgium - Cristiano Di Flora, Nokia Research Center, Finland - Luca Foschini, Mobile Middleware group, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy Technical Program Committee: - Cristian Borcea, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA - Domenico Cotroneo, Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy - Bart Dhoedt, University of Ghent / Intec, Belgium - Chris Develder, University of Ghent, Belgium - Markus Endler, PUC-Rio, Brasil - Stephane Frenot, INRIA, France - Ibrahim Habib, CCNY, USA - Valerie Issarny, INRIA, France - Eija Kaasinen, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland - Konrad Klöckner, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany - Frederic Le Mouel, Inria, France - Nguyen Manh Tho, Vienna University of Technology, Austria - Gianluca Mazzini, Università di Ferrara, Italy - Ali Abu-Rgheff Mosa, School of Computing, Communications and Electronics, Plymouth, UK - Eric Pardede, Latrobe University, Australia - Massimiliano Rak, Università di Napoli, Italia - Oriana Riva, Institute of Pervasive Computing, ETH-Zürich, Switzerland - Enrico Rukzio, Lancaster University, UK - Sotirios Terzis, University of Strathclyde, Scotland - Francisco Valera, UC3M, Madrid, Spain - Sven Van der Meer, TTSG, Ireland - Katarzyna Wac, Université de Genève, Genève, Switzerland - Xinheng Henry Wang, Swasea University, UK _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Tccc] MCN-Infocom'08 -- Submission Deadline EXTENDED (Abstract Feb-15, Full paper Feb-22)
by Mohamed Younis 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

2nd IEEE Workshop on Mission-Critical Networking (MCN'2008) http://www.criticalnet.org/ In conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM'2008 Phoenix, Arizona, April 13-18 Abstract Submission Deadline EXTENDED to Feb-15 "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, emergency and crisis intervention, and military operations. Such networking is essential for safety, security and economic vitality in our complex world characterized by uncertainty, heterogeneity and emergent behaviors. MCN should comprise the best possible networking technology, infrastructure and services that may alleviate the risk and help save the lives of both the general public and the network users. As advances in pervasive computing, wireless communication, ad hoc and mesh networking and networked sensor systems continue, more opportunities are being opened to mission-critical networks to benefit from these technologies. A primary challenge to the operations of mission-critical networks is to deploy a communication network that is dependable, autonomic, secure, and rapidly deployable. In order to operate effectively, the deployed networks should support services such as location determination of authorized and unauthorized entities, audio and video communication, secure 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, visual analytics, and service-oriented architecture. Another key feature for mission-critical networking is to support interactions among multiple heterogeneous networks. This workshop solicits high quality technical contributions to the area of mission-critical networking. The manuscript must explicitly address relevance to MCN. Topics include, but are not limited to the following: . Smart environments and infrastructures . Rapidly deployable services and networks . Vehicular networks . Body sensor networks . Cognitive and autonomic networks, protocols, and services . Ubiquitous networking and services . Security, dependability, privacy, QoS and performance awareness and trade-offs . Sensor and actuator networks for information gathering and real-time control . Decentralized and peer-to-peer resource management and allocation . Trust management, security, interoperability, survivability and QoS support . Context-aware network and service management . Location determination and tracking . Energy efficiency . Admission, load and flow control . Visual analytics . Critical traffic and mobility analysis . Cross-layer design and optimization . Components and architectures for next-generation emergency calling and alerting . Network policy management . Testbeds, benchmarks, performance and experimental studies General Chairs . Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virginia Tech, USA . Henning Schulzerinne, Columbia University, USA Program Chairs . Hannes Tschofenig, Siemens AG, Germany . Moustafa Youssef, Alexandria University, Egypt Publicity Chairs . Silvia Girodano, University of Applied Science, Switzerland . Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Panels Chair . Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA Awards Chair . Ashok Agrawala, University of Maryland, USA . Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas, USA Technical Program Committee * Ehab Al-Shaer, DePaul University, USA * Nils Aschenbruck, University of Bonn, Germany * Cory Beard, University of Missouri Kansas City, USA * David Du, National Science Foundation (University of Minnesota), USA * Hossam Hassanein, Queens University, Canada * Wendi Heinzelman, University of Rochester, USA. * Sushil Jajodia., George Mason University, USA * James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA. * Deepa Kundur, Texas A&M University, USA * Victor Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada * Scott Midkiff, Virginia Tech, USA. * Nader Moayeri, NIST, USA * Farid Nait-Abdesselam, Univ. of Sciences and Tech. of Lille, France * Cristina Pinotti, University of Perguia, Italy * Jean-Jacque Quisquater, Catholic University, Belgium * Pedro M. Ruiz, University of Murcia, Spain * Krishna Sivalingam, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA * Robin Sommer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA * Doru Tiliute, University of Suceava, Romania * Gene Tsudik, University of California Irvine, USA * Stephen D. Wolthusen, University of London, UK * Naoki Wakamiya, Osaka University, Japan * Michele Weigle, Old Dominion University, USA Manuscript Submission Submitted papers must be unpublished and must not be currently under review for any other publication. All paper submissions will be handled electronically in EDAS. Authors should prepare a Portable Document Format (PDF) version of their full paper. Papers must be no longer than 6 pages and in font size no smaller than 11 points. Please refer to the INFOCOM manuscript preparation page for details and make sure the manuscript conforms to the format/font/page requirements. Manuscripts that are not compliant with the requirements may be declined without review. All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality through peer reviewing, where TPC members are invited to assess the scientific contributions of papers. For more information send email to info(a)criticalnet.org. Manuscript Submission Submitted papers must be unpublished and must not be currently under review for any other publication. All paper submissions will be handled electronically in EDAS. Authors should prepare a Portable Document Format (PDF) version of their full paper. Papers must be no longer than 6 pages and in font size no smaller than 11 points. Please refer to the INFOCOM manuscript preparation page for details and make sure the manuscript conforms to the format/font/page requirements. Manuscripts that are not compliant with the requirements may be declined without review. All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality through peer reviewing, where TPC members are invited to assess the scientific contributions of papers. Proceedings will appear in IEEE Xplore and INFOCOM CD. For more information send email to info(a)criticalnet.org. Important Dates Abstract Submission: February 7, 2008 --> February 15, 2008 Paper Submission: February 15, 2008 --> February 22, 2008 Acceptance Notification: March 10, 2008 Camera Ready Due: March 18, 2008 Workshop Date: April 18, 2008 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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ManWeek 2008 Preliminary CFP
by ntan＠teimes.gr 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Apologize if you receive multiple copies. ================================================================ MANWEEK 08 CALL FOR PAPERS ================================================================ 4th International Week on Management of Networks and Services 22–26 September 2008 Samos Island, Greece http://www.manweek.org/2008/ The conference will take place at the Doryssa Bay Resort (www.doryssa-bay.gr) in the Greek island of Samos situated in the Eastern part of the Aegean Sea, at a short distance from the coast of Asia Minor. Samos is directly accessible by air from major cities around the world. Manweek 2008 that is going to host six of the most reputable workshops and conferences in the area of management of networks and services: o DSOM 2008 - 19th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management o MMNS 2008 - 11th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services o IPOM 2008 - 8th IEEE International Workshop on IP Operations and Management o EVGM 2008 – 4th IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on End-to-End Virtualization and Grid Management o MACE 2008 – 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Modelling Autonomic Communications Environments o NGNM 2008 – 5th International Workshop on Next Generation Networking Middleware Important Dates MMNS, IPOM 2008 Submission: March 28 2008 DSOM, MACE 2008 Submission: April 28 2008 EVGM, NGNM 2008 Submission: May 17 2008 MMNS, IPOM 2008Notification: May 30 2008 DSOM, MACE 2008 Notification: June 13 2008 EVGM, NGNM 2008 Notification: June 20 2008 Manweek 08 Conference: September 22-26 2008 ================================================================ MMNS 08 CALL FOR PAPERS ================================================================ 11th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services (MMNS 2008) “Management of Converged Multimedia Networks and Services” Co-chairsGeorge Pavlou University College London, United Kingdom Toufik Ahmed University Bordeaux 1, France Tasos Dagiuklas TEI of Mesolonghi, Greece The 11th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services (MMNS) will be held in September 22 to 26, 2008 at the Doryssa Bay Resort (www.doryssa-bay.gr) on the Greek island of Samos (http://www.samosin.gr) as part of the 4th International Week on the Management of Networks and Services (Manweek 2008). MMNS will provide participants with a high quality and intimate setting for discussion and debate. The conference is sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 6.6 on Management of Networks and Distributed Systems, with technical co-sponsorship by the IEEE Communications Society and specifically the Technical Committee on Network Operations and Management (CNOM). SCOPE OF MMNS 2008 Since 1997, MMNS has established itself as a major conference for research and innovation in the management of multimedia technology and networked services. The scope of the conference has been expanded in recent years to include management of emerging mobile and wireless networks. The objective of the conference is to bring together researchers and scientists from academia and industry interested in state-of-the-art management of converged multimedia networks and services across heterogeneous networking infrastructures, while creating a public venue for result dissemination and intellectual collaboration. The convergence of existing and emerging technologies such as broadband, mobile, and broadcast networks is considered as a promising opportunity for existing providers to increase theirs service subscriber base so that 4G vision and beyond becomes a reality. An important research effort is undertaken by main actors to face the multidimensional, in terms of transport technology, session signalling, and QoS provisioning, heterogeneity of Next Generation Networks (NGNs). Efficient management of these services is a key ingredient in the effort to provide cost effective, innovative services, and mass market solutions that are likely to become a major source of income for different stakeholders. The need to evolve management tools, solutions, platforms and methodologies to keep pace with emerging networks is at a critical juncture with the proliferation of mobile and wireless systems, intelligent and broadband networks, triple play (data/voice/video) convergence, and the integration of embedded computing and communications. The academic and industry research communities should unify forces to address the challenges of developing and operating converged multimedia networks and services. Inevitably, integrated management is a key element in addressing this challenge. The MMNS 2008 technical program committee is soliciting research papers in the broad area of network and service management that address new models, architectures and technological designs to enable multimedia and mobility proliferation in NGNs. MMNS 2008 intends to continue the success of the outstanding agendas of the past, and will emphasize and solicit novel research in the management of converged multimedia networks and services. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Management of media streaming and real-time service delivery * Management of wireless ad-hoc/mesh networks * Management of NGN/4G networks and services * Management of sensor and actuator networks * Management of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) * Multi-service/ multiple-play over IP (voice, video, data and mobility over IP) network management * Grid networking for multimedia * Cross-layer management * Multimedia in peer-to-peer (P2P) networks * Quality of service management in multimedia and mobile networks * Planning and optimisation of multimedia and mobile networks * IP Multimedia System (IMS) operations and management * Management of service delivery platforms * Management of content distribution networking * Distributed multimedia service management * Performance evaluation of multimedia and mobile services * Wireless/Mobile Multimedia broadcast/multicast technologies * Novel protocols for multimedia services * Multi-point, multicast service management * Seamless mobility of multimedia services * Pricing, accounting and billing for multimedia services * Management of trust and security for mobile and multimedia networks and services * Self-properties of multimedia and mobile networks and services * Network virtualization for network management and service provisioning * Remote over-the-air manageability in mobile networks * End-to-end management for multimedia transmission in mobile/wireless networks * Mobile platform architecture optimizations for management services * Network manageability across heterogeneous wireless networks * Novel network architectures for mobile network management services PAPER SUBMISSION Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or experiences. Late-breaking advances and work-in-progress reports from ongoing research are also encouraged for submission to MMNS 2008. Papers under review elsewhere MUST NOT be submitted to MMNS 2008. Authors are requested to submit either long papers or short papers (work-in-progress reports), strictly in LNCS format (see below): * Long papers (up to 12 single-spaced single-column pages) * Short papers describing work-in-progress (up to 4 pages) Submissions exceeding the above mentioned paper size will not be reviewed and will be returned to the authors. Please see Submission for detailed instructions. PROCEEDINGS The MMNS 2008 proceedings will be published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. For more information regarding manuscript format please visit the author's instruction links at LNCS Springer. Awards will be presented to the best paper and to the best student paper at the conference. Furthermore, the best papers of MMNS 2008 will be invited to be submitted as extended versions to the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM). IMPORTANT DEADLINES Paper Registration: March 21 2008 Submission: March 28 2008 Notification: May 30 2008 Camera ready: June 20 2008 MANWEEK 2008 Conference: September 22-26 2008 MMNS 2008: September 22-23 2008

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[Tccc] Final CFP: Special Issue on Personalization of Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting
by Harald Kosch 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Personalization of Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting Special issue of the International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting Hindawi Publishing Corporation ---- Final Call for Papers ---- Due March 1, 2008 In recent years, the widespread adoption of multimedia computing, the deployment of mobile and broadband networks, and the growing availability of cheap yet powerful mobile have converged to gradually increase the range and complexity of mobile multimedia content delivery services for devices such as PDAs and cell phones. Basic multimedia applications are already available for current generation devices, and more complex broadcasting services are under development or expected to be launched soon, among which mobile and interactive television (ITV). Among the many challenging issues opened by these developments is the problem of personalization of such services: adaptation of the content to the technical environment of the users (device and network type) and to their individual preferences, providing personalized assistance for selecting and locating interesting programes among an overwhelming number of proposed services. This special issue is intended to foster state-of-the-art research contributions to all research areas either directly applying or contributing to solving the issues related to digital multimedia broadcasting personalization. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Mobile TV * Mobile multimedia broadcasting personalization * Interactive broadcasting services/interactive television * Personalization and multimedia home platform (MHP) * Multimedia content adaptation for personalization * User behavior and usage modelling * Standards for modelling and processing (MPEG-21, CC/PP, etc.) * Personalization issues in DVB-H, DMB, MediaFLO, CMMB, MBMS, and other systems * Mobile web initiative * Personalized multimedia and location-based services * Security and digital rights management * Applications for personalized mobile multimedia broadcasting with cost-effective implementation. Authors should follow the International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting manuscript format described at the journal site http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdmb/. 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 March 1, 2008 First Round of Reviews: June 1, 2008 Publication Date: September 1, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Guest Editors: Harald Kosch, University of Passau, 94030 Passau, Germany Jörg Heuer, Siemens AG, 80333 Munich, Germany Günther Hölbling, University of Passau, 94030 Passau, Germany László Böszörményi, University Klagenfurt, 9020 Klagenfurt, Austria David Coquil, University of Passau, 94030 Passau, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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ICST - MobiQuitous 2008 - One month to paper registration
by info＠icstconferences.org 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

CALL FOR PAPERS The Fifth Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous 2008) July 21-25, 2008, Dublin, Ireland http://www.mobiquitous.org Sponsored by ICST Technically-sponsored by Create-Net and ACM-SIGMOBILE IMPORTANT DATES Workshop proposals: March 1, 2008 Paper registration: March 8, 2008 Paper submission: March 15, 2008 Notification of acceptance: May 4, 2008 Camera-ready version: May 18, 2008 THEME Combinations of mobile and ubiquitous computing are becoming increasingly present in our daily life. Through the use of mobile devices embedded in the surrounding physical environment, users can be provided with transparent computing and communication services at all times and in all places. The complexity of providing such services stems from the fact that the communication devices and the objects with which they interact may both be mobile. Their implementation requires advances in wireless network technologies and devices, development of infrastructures supporting cognitive environments, discovery and identification of ubiquitous computing applications and services, and an understanding of the cross-layer interactions between all of these components. The Fifth Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous 2008) will provide a forum where practitioners and researchers coming from many areas involved in ubiquitous solutions design and deployment will be able to interact and exchange experiences needed to build successful ubiquitous systems. Areas addressed by the conference include systems, applications, service-oriented computing, middleware, networking, agents, data management and services, all with special focus on mobility and ubiquitous computing. TOPICS OF INTEREST Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, are solicited. Technical papers clearly identifying how the specific contributions fit to an overall working system are particularly of interest. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: - Ubiquitous architectures, systems and applications - Wearable computing and personal area networks - Wireless technologies (Bluetooth, ZigBee, 802.15.x, WiFi, WiMAX) - Wireless Internet access in ubiquitous systems - Ad hoc and sensor network support for ubiquitous computing - Reconfigurability and personalization of wireless networks - Wireless/mobile service management and delivery - Security, privacy and social issues of mobile and ubiquitous systems - Service and knowledge discovery, matching and composition mechanisms - Location-based services and tracking in ubiquitous environments - Context- and location-aware applications - Agent technologies in ubiquitous, wearable, and mobile systems - Context modeling, services and frameworks - Toolkits, testbeds, development environments, and languages for ubiquitous computing - Rapid prototyping of ubiquitous applications - Ontologies for mobile and ubiquitous computing - Mobile and ubiquitous data management and processing - Data replication, migration and dissemination in ubiquitous environments - Queries, transactions and workflows in mobile and ubiquitous environments - Multimodal interfaces (speech, video kinetic, tactile) SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Paper submission will be handled electronically (see the conference web page for details). Authors should prepare an Adobe Acrobat PDF version of their full paper. Papers must not exceed 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. PUBLICATION All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the international technical program committee. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Papers of particular merit will be proposed for publication in the ACM/Kluwer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) journal. WORKSHOPS Several workshops will be run in conjunction with the conference. The purpose of these workshops is to discuss work in progress and explore opportunities for new research related to mobile and ubiquitous systems. Proposals for workshops should be at most four pages in length and should be submitted to the workshop co-chairs by March 1, 2008. ORGANISING COMMITTEE General Chair Vinny Cahill, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Steering Committee Chair Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net Program Chair Liviu Iftode, Rutgers University, USA Workshop Co-Chairs Christian Becker, Universitat Mannheim, Germany Fabian E. Bustamante, Northwestern University, USA Posters Chair Dean Eckles, Nokia Research, USA Demonstrations Co-Chairs Tatsuo Nakajima, Waseda University, Japan Alan Messer, Samsung Electronics, USA Publicity Co-Chairs Cristian Borcea, NJIT, USA Siobhán Clarke, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Ichiro Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan PROGRAM COMMITTEE Jean Bacon, University of Cambridge, UK Christian Becker, Universitat Mannheim, Germany Cristian Borcea, New Jersey Institute of Technology Roy Campbell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Guohong Cao, Penn State University Dean Eckles, Nokia Research, USA Jonathan Engelsma, Motorola, Inc. Joseph B. Evans, University of Kansas, USA Tao Gu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Jonna Hakkila, Nokia Research, Finland Y. Charlie Hu, Purdue University Jadwiga Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia Jussi Kangasharju, University of Helsinki, Finland Sharad Mehrotra, University of California at Irvine Alan Messer, Samsung Electronics, USA Scott Midkiff, Virginia Tech Daniel Mosse', University of Pittsburgh Matt Mutka, Michigan State University Tatsuo Nakajima, Waseda University, Japan Jason Nieh, Columbia University Jong Hyuk Park, Kyungnam University, Korea Kishore Ramachandran, Georgia Tech Tinku Rasheed, Create-Net Stefan Saroiu, University of Toronto, Canada Ichiro Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Carnegie Mellon University Mukesh Singhal, University of Kentucky Anand Tripathi, University of Minnesota -------------------------------------------------- You are reading ICST conference newsletter. 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[Tccc] Call for Papers: IEEE INFOCOM 2008 High-Speed Networks Workshop (HSN 2008)
by Sergey Gorinsky 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

Call for Papers IEEE INFOCOM 2008 High-Speed Networks Workshop (HSN 2008) Phoenix, Arizona, USA Sunday, April 13, 2008, from 1 pm to 6 pm http://www.arl.wustl.edu/~hsn2008 Technical Sponsors * IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on High-Speed Networking (TCHSN) * IEEE ComSoc Optical Networking Technical Committee (ONTC) Traditionally held in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM, the workshop on High-Speed Networks brings together researchers from a wide spectrum of areas related to end-to-end communications at rates up to the Tbps range. While physical transmission media enable such high-bitrate communications, existing link, network, transport, and application protocols and their software and hardware implementations in both end systems and core nodes have not yet realized this potential. The limitations of the current designs justify exploration of novel clean-slate approaches to dependable high-bitrate networking desired in e-Science, medicine, entertainment, data centers and other application domains. HSN 2008 provides a unique forum for discussions centered on the design, validation and deployment of high-speed networks without imposing the constraint of straightforward integration of the proposed ideas into the existing network infrastructure. All topics pertinent to high-speed networking are of interest. They include but are not limited to the following: * Network architectures including clean-slate approaches * Switching technologies including packet and circuit switching * Transport protocols including congestion control, scheduling and reliable delivery * Applications requiring high-speed end-to-end services * Cross-layer network protocols * Security at high bitrates and with large data volumes * Node design including network processors, configurable logic, input/output and storage * Innovative physical transmission media and associated systems * Metropolitan area networks, Carrier Ethernet and next-generation optical transport * High-speed access technologies Submission Guidelines The workshop solicits submissions between 3 and 6 pages long. The following is a summary of the submission guidelines: * File format: PDF * Formatting instructions (except for the size): http://cse.unl.edu/~byrav/INFOCOM2008/paper-layout.html * Size of original submissions: between 3 and 6 pages * Maximum size of camera-ready versions: 6 pages * System for original submissions and reviews: EDAS * Publication venue for camera-ready versions: IEEE Xplore Important dates are as follows: * Paper submission: February 7, 2008 * Acceptance notification: March 15, 2008 * Camera-ready version due: April 4, 2008 General Chairs * Nasir Ghani, University of New Mexico, USA * Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Technical Program Committee Chairs * Sergey Gorinsky, Washington University in St. Louis, USA * Ashwin Gumaste, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, India Technical Program Committee * Lachlan Andrew, California Institute of Technology, USA * Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland * Georg Carle, University of Tuebingen, Germany * Vincent Chan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA * Lars Eggert, Nokia Research Center, Finland * Maurice Gagnaire, ENST, France * Sergey Gorinsky, Washington University in St. Louis, USA * Ashwin Gumaste, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, India * Mohan Gurusamy, National University of Singapore, Singapore * David Hunter, University of Essex, UK * Jason Jue, University of Texas at Dallas, USA * Admela Jukan, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany * Ken-ichi Kitayama, Osaka University, Japan * Tom Lehman, University of Southern California, ISI-East, USA * Jayaram Mudigonda, HP Labs, USA * Bernhard Plattner, ETH Zurich, Switzerland * Chunming Qiao, State University of New York Buffalo, USA * Srinivasan Ramasubramanian, University of Arizona, USA * Nageswara Rao, Oak Ridge National Labs, USA * Joel Rodrigues, University of Beira Interior, Portugal * George Rouskas, North Carolina State University, USA * Takashi Shimizu, NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, Japan * David Starobinski, Boston University, USA * Suresh Subramaniam, George Washington University, USA * Joe Touch, University of Southern California, ISI, USA * Marcel Waldvogel, University of Konstanz, Germany * Jianping Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong * Tilman Wolf, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA * Lisong Xu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 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: IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic on Cooperative and Relay Communications]
by Lars Wolf 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic on Cooperative and Relay Communications Datum: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 18:10:31 +0800 Von: Chin, Woon Hau <w.h.chin(a)ieee.org> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> Call for Papers IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic on Advances in Cooperative and Relay Communications In wireless networks, relays have been traditionally used to extend the range of communication systems. However, in recent years, other applications of relay communications have emerged. One such emerging application is to assist in the communication between the source and destination via some cooperation protocol. By controlling medium access between source and relays coupled with the appropriate modulation or coding in such cooperative schemes, it has been found that the diversity of the system can be improved. In multi-user systems, different users can also act as cooperative partners or relays to share resources and assist each other in information transmission, thereby creating a cooperative network. One other emerging application is the exchange of information between multiple users through relay(s). In such cases, by exploiting the knowledge of one's own transmitted signal, the throughput of these systems can be drastically increased. For cooperative and relay communications, the MAC layer also has many unique features. The MAC in this case, is concerned with more than one hop communication, is distributed and cooperative and works for multipoint-to-multipoint communication. The MAC also needs to have knowledge about network topology and account for node mobility. Accordingly, a new design of the MAC layer has to be devised to include new functionalities as well as MAC layer routing. With the large benefits to be reaped from employing cooperative and relay techniques, several standardization groups, such as IEEE 802.16 and IEEE 802.11, have started standardization processes to include such technologies into their prevailing standards. These efforts will no doubt attract even more interests from the academia and industry, advancing cooperative and relay technologies even further in the coming years. With interests from both the research and industrial communities gaining momentum, there is an urgent need to better understand as well as to keep track of cutting edge research in cooperative and relay communications. We plan this special issue to help address that need, as well as to help researchers looking to jump on the bandwagon. Therefore, the special issue will focus on recent advances as well as survey papers in cooperative and relay communications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following topics: . Cooperative algorithms and protocols . Partner(s) selection in cooperative relay and routing . Cooperative resource allocation and management . Relay strategies for cooperative communications . Cooperative and relay technologies applied to WLAN, WMAN and cellular networks . Multidirectional relaying . Distributed coding and modulation . Multiple antenna systems and protocols for cooperative communications . Information theoretic aspects of cooperative communications . MAC issues and MAC layer routing . Cross-layer approaches for joint PHY and MAC optimization Schedule: Full manuscript due: June 1, 2008 Acceptance notification: October 1, 2008 Final manuscript due: December 1, 2008 Publication date: February 2009 Submission: Authors must follow the IEEE Communications Magazine's guidelines for preparation of the manuscript. Complete guidelines for prospective authors can be found at www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/sub_guidelines.html. All articles to be considered for publication must be submitted through Manuscript Central (http://commag-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/). Choose "February 2009/Cooperative and Relay Communications" from the drop down menu. Guest Editors: Woon Hau Chin Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore w.h.chin(a)ieee.org Yi Qian National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA yqian(a)nist.gov Giovanni Giambene University of Siena, Italy giambene(a)unisi.it _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] [IEEE CNOM] [PIMRC 2008] 1 month to submission deadline (fwd)
by Carlos Becker Westphall 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

===================================================================== IEEE PIMRC 2008 Cannes, French Riviera, France 15-18 September 2008 www.pimrc2008.org ===================================================================== Overview: The annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) is one of the premier conferences in the wireless research arena and has a long history of bringing together academia, industry and regulatory bodies. Today, it has become one of IEEE ComSoc's flagship conferences in telecommunications. The 19th edition of PIMRC will be held from 15-18 September 2008 in glamorous Cannes, French Riviera, France, at the "Palais des Festivals de Cannes" where traditionally the Cannes Film Festival is being held. With Cannes being one of the most charming places on earth, we expect this to be a truly special conference. For more details, please, visit www.pimrc2008.org. Focus: PIMRC 2008 will provide a global forum for presenting the most recent advances, the future technical challenges and business opportunities that comprise the contemporary landscape in wireless communications. The organizers endeavour to attract contributions covering not only conventional areas of wireless communications (e.g., physical layer), but also emerging areas with high potential for essential scientific and societal impact such as wireless sensors for biomedical applications, non-trivial pervasive computing services and ambient technologies. The latter areas are expected to facilitate the development of a broad vision of innovative future applications in wireless communications. The high quality IEEE endorsed technical programme, will also include tutorials, workshops, exhibitions, panel discussions and keynote presentations from leading experts coming from the academic community, industry, as well as regulatory and standardisation bodies. Call for Papers: Authors are invited to submit high-quality papers describing original and previously unpublished contributions in a wide range of topics in wireless communications. These topics are clustered into the following four major categories: * Fundamentals & Physical Layer * MAC & Cross-Layer Design * Mobile and Wireless Networks * Applications, Services & Business Approach Papers should be in English, strictly not exceeding 5 double-column pages. Authors should use the relevant IEEE template, ensuring an IEEE Xplorer compatible PDF-format. Important dates are: * full papers: 3 March 2008 * acceptance notice: 1 May 2008 * final manuscript: 2 June 2008 * presentation: 16-18 September 2008 To access the full list of topics, submission guidelines, as well as venue and travel information please visit www.pimrc2008.org. Call for Tutorials: Tutorial presenters are invited to submit high-quality tutorial proposals to Prosper Chemouil [prosper.chemouil(a)orange-ftgroup.com] by using the submission form provided online. Tutorials should focus on recent cutting-edge R&D topics and should be self-contained in nature. Important deadlines are: * tutorial proposal: 3 March 2008 * acceptance notice: 17 March 2008 * handout due: 1 September 2008 * presentation: 15 September 2008 Committee: The updated committee is available at www.pimrc2008.org --> Committees _______________________________________________ cnom mailing list cnom(a)inf.ufsc.br http://listas.inf.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/cnom _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Mycolleagues] [IEEE CNOM] JOURNAL OF NETWORK AND SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT = Contents - Vol. 16, No. 1, March 2008 (fwd)
by Admin 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

JOURNAL OF NETWORK AND SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT Contents Vol. 16, No. 1, March 2008 Special Issue on Management of IP Multimedia Subsystems Guest Edited by Thomas Magedanz, Edmundo Madeira, and Paolo Belavista THRESHOLDS Congestion Control in the Internet: Inspiration from Balanced Food Chains In the Nature Morteza Analoui and Shahram Jamali GUEST EDITORIAL Management Challenges and Solutions for IP Multimedia Subsystems Thomas Magedanz, Edmundo Madeira, and Paolo Belavista PAPERS A review of policy-based resource and admission control functions Christian Esteve Rothenberg and Andreas Roos Device Management in the IMS Jun Ma, Jianxin Liao, and Xiaomin Zhu Towards a Standardized and Automated Fault Management and Service Provisioning for NGNs N. Blum, P. Jacak, F. Schreiner, and P. Weik Supporting ubiquitous IMS-based teleconferencing through discovery and composition of IMS and web components Kevin Doolin, Robert Mullins, Rafael Morón Abad, Marta García Moreno, Telma Mota, Babak A. Farshchian, and Miguel Gómez REPORT Managing Next Generation Networks and Services: A Report on APNOMS 2007 Hiroshi Kuriyama, Kyung-Hyu Lee, G. S. Kuo, Shingo Ata, and Choong Seon Hong Bringing Autonomic Principles for Managing Next Generation Networks and Services - A Report on LANOMS 2007 José Neuman de Souza, Bruno Schulze, Jacques Philippe Sauvé, Edmundo Madeira, and Artur Ziviani Forthcoming contributions Call for paper: Special issue on Ontologies for Network and Systems Management _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Tccc] SPECTS 2008 - deadline approaching : February 25, 2008
by Farid Naït-Abdesselam 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP ========================================================================== 2008 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems SPECTS 2008 June 16-18, 2008, Edinburgh, UK http://atc.udg.edu/SPECTS2008/ This annual international conference is a forum for professionals involved in performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. Performance evaluation of computer systems and networks has progressed rapidly in the past decade and has begun to approach maturity. Significant progress has been made in analytic modeling, simulation, and measurement approaches for performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. SPECTS 2008 is sponsored by the Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS) and technically co-sponsored by IEEE Communications Society and IEEE SMC Society. =========================================================================== Networking and Telecommunication Systems Internet Technology Quality of Service (QoS) DiffServ/IntServ MPLS/GMPLS TCP World Wide Web (WWW) Technology Networking Techniques Unicast and Multicast Routing Congestion and Admission Control Switching Techniques Tele-traffic Network Protocols Network Management and Control Network Capacity Planning Network Architecture Evaluation Service and QoS Pricing Security and Authentication Broadband Networks High-Speed Networking Optical Networks Wireless Systems and Networks Satellite Systems UMTS Mobile Networks/Computing Ad-hoc Networks Sensor Networks Multimedia Communications and Applications Computer Systems Distributed Architecture Client/Server Distributed Systems and Agents Parallel and Distributed Computing Massively Parallel Systems Cluster Computing Grid Computing Interconnection Networks Computer Architectures Microprocessors/Microcomputers Memory Systems High Performance I/O Real-time Systems Scheduling Schemes Software Software Performance, Evaluation and Testing Parallel Algorithms and Languages Electronic Commerce Hardware and Software Monitors High-Performance Computing Information Assurance Reconfigurable Computing Scientific Computing Algorithms Workload and Traffic Characterization Tools, Methodologies and Applications Parallel and Distributed Simulation Verification and Validation Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic Applications Performance Optimization, Bounds, and Models Queuing Systems and Networks Scalability Studies Integrated Modeling and Measurement On-Line Performance Adaptation and Tuning Process Algebra-Based Models Mathematical Aspects and Integrated Design of Performance Case Studies General Chair Mohammad S. Obaidat Monmouth Univ., NJ, USA Program Chairs Jose Marzo Univ. of Girona, Spain Helena Szczerbicka Univ. of Hannover, Germany Program Vice Chairs Pawel Gburzynski Univ. of Alberta, Canada José Luis Sevillano Univ. of Seville, Spain Tutorials and Special Sessions Chair S. Dharmaraja Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India Awards Chair Franco Davoli Univ. of Genoa, Italy Publicity Committee Essia Elhafsi Univ. of California-Riverside, USA (Chair) Jong Hyuk Park Kyungnam Univ., Korea Farid Naït-Abdesselam Univ. of Sciences & Technologies of Lille, France Abdelmajid Khelil Technical Univ. of Darmstadt, Germany Local Arrangement Chair Graham Shanks Baesystems, UK Webmasters Antonio Bueno Univ. of Girona, Spain Michael J. Chinni US Army TACOM-ARDEC Deadlines Special sessions proposals: December 7, 2007 Submission of papers (and tutorials proposals): February 25, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: April 21, 2008 Final Camera-Ready Submission Due: May 5, 2008 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [MM-INTEREST] CFP - Interactive Art Program at ACM MM 08]
by Lars Wolf 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [MM-INTEREST] CFP - Interactive Art Program at ACM MM 08 Datum: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 16:26:30 +0100 Von: Frank Nack <nack(a)science.uva.nl> Antwort an: nack(a)science.uva.nl Organisation: Universiteit van Amsterdam An: MM-INTEREST(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG ACM Multimedia 2008 Interactive Art Program October 27 - November 1,Vancouver, Canada *CALL FOR EXHIBITION ENTRIES AND PAPERS* ACM Multimedia 2008 is the premier annual multimedia conference, covering all aspects of multimedia computing. The ACM MM Interactive Art Program seeks to bring together the arts and multimedia communities to create the stage to explore, discuss, and push the limits for the advancement of both multimedia technology through the arts, and the arts through multimedia technology. This fifth version of the Interactive Art Program will consist of an art exhibition and a conference track. We invite artists working with digital media and researchers in technical areas to submit their original contributions: • Conference track: we solicit papers describing interactive multimedia artworks, tools, applications, and technical approaches for creative uses of multimedia content and technology, and management of art-related media collections. Emphasis will be given to new works that describe the creative processes within art, in forms such as interactive experiences and creativity support tools. We also invite papers on works that are interactive, particularly works that exploit non-conventional human-computer interfaces or sensors in new and emerging areas. We strongly encourage papers with a strong technical content written by artists. Papers may be long (10 pages) or short (2 to 4 pages). Long papers are presented in front of an audience and short papers are presented in poster format. Deadline for full papers to the Arts Program Conference Track April 11, 2008 Deadline for short papers to the Arts Program Conference Track June 6, 2008 • Multimedia art exhibition: We seek artworks exploring the theme of “BorderZones" using multimedia to shift, traverse, intersect, and combine genres and modalities to provoke the emergence of new frameworks. We particularly seek interactive multimedia works that by combining multiple media, technologies, and novel technical ideas, realise strong artistic concepts that give a new perspective on the topic of the exhibition. Deadline for submission to the Art Exhibition: April 11, 2008 For further submission details please see http://mmart.iat.sfu.ca and http://www.mcrlab.uottawa.ca/acmmm2008/index.php?option=com_content&task=vi… <http://www.mcrlab.uottawa.ca/acmmm2008/index.php?option=com_content&task=vi…> Accepted papers and art works will be published in the ACM Multimedia Conference proceedings. Important Dates April 11, 2008 Long papers and art exhibitions submission deadline. June 6, 2008 Short papers submission deadline. June 27, 2007 Authors notification. July 20, 2007 Camera-ready papers. Program Chairs Andruid Kerne, Interface Ecology Lab, Texas A&M University, USA (andruid(a)cs.tamu.edu) Frank Nack, HCS, University of Amsterdam, NL (nack(a)science.uva.nl) Ron Wakkary, School of Interactive Arts and Technology Simon Fraser University, CA (rwakkary(a)sfu.ca)

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[Fwd: [Tccc] ICNP 2008: Call for papers]
by Lars Wolf 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] ICNP 2008: Call for papers Datum: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:28:07 -0500 Von: Ramana Kompella <kompella(a)cs.purdue.edu> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu [Sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.] CALL FOR PAPERS ICNP 2008 16th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols Orlando, Florida October 19-22, 2008 ICNP 2008, the sixteenth IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, is a conference covering all aspects of network protocols, including design, analysis, specification, verification, implementation, and performance. ICNP 2008 will be held in Orlando, Florida, on October 19-22, 2008. Papers with significant research contributions to the field of network protocols are solicited for submission. Papers cannot be previously published nor under review by another conference or journal. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 1. Protocol testing, analysis, design and implementation 2. Measurement and monitoring of protocols 3. Protocols designed for specific functions, such as: routing, flow and congestion control, QoS, signaling, security, network management, or resilience 4. Protocols designed for specific networks, such as: wireless and mobile networks, Ad hoc and sensor networks, virtual networks, and ubiquitous networks Papers must deal specifically with protocols. Papers of general networking nature where protocols are only a secondary focus will be considered only if they are of exceptional high quality and only a very limited number of such papers will be included in the technical program. ICNP will select an accepted full paper for the best paper award. For the first time, ICNP is using a double-blind review process. The identity of authors and referees will not be revealed to each other. To ensure blind reviewing, authors names and affiliations should not appear in the paper; bibliographic references should be made in such a way as to preserve author anonymity. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract registration: April 19, 2008 11:59 PM EDT Paper submission: April 25, 2008 11:59 PM EDT Notification of acceptance: July 29, 2008 Camera ready version: September 5, 2008 ORGANIZING COMMITTEES EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: David Lee, Ohio State University, USA (chair) Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Tech, USA Ken Calvert, University of Kentucky, USA Teruo Higashino, Osaka University, Japan Raymond Miller, University of Maryland, USA GENERAL CHAIRS: Sonia Fahmy, Purdue University, USA Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas, Austin, USA PROGRAM CHAIRS: Kevin Almeroth, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA K. K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T Labs Research, USA LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIRS: Ahmed Helmy, University of Florida, USA Cliff Zou, University of Central Florida, USA PUBLICATION CHAIR: Kamil Sarac, University of Texas at Dallas, USA PUBLICITY CHAIRS: Ramana Rao Kompella, Purdue University, USA James Minseok Kwon, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA WEB CHAIR: Ossama Younis, Telcordia Applied Research, USA STEERING COMMITTEE: Simon Lam, University of Texas, USA David Lee, Ohio State University, USA Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Tech, USA Ken Calvert, University of Kentucky, USA Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas, USA Teruo Higashino, Osaka University, Japan Mike T. Liu, Ohio State University, USA Raymond Miller, University of Maryland, USA Krishan Sabnani, Bell Labs, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE: See Web site. FURTHER INFORMATION: Web site: http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/fahmy/icnp2008/ E-mail: icnp2008(a)cs.purdue.edu _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] [AMIS-NET 2008] 1st CALL for PAPERS on Adaptive Multimedia and IPTV Streaming over P2P Networks
by Toufik Ahmed 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP **************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS Adaptive Multimedia and IPTV Streaming over P2P Networks (AMIS-NET 2008) Crete, Greece, 18 July, 2008 To be organized in conjunction with the International Conference on Telecommunications and Multimedia (TEMU 2008) http://www.temu.gr/2008/ To be held in Ierapetra, Crete, Greece on 16-18 July, 2008. **************************************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES Full papers due: 1 May 2008 Notification: 1 June 2008 Camera Ready due: 15 June 2008 Scope of AMIS-NET 2008: ======================= The advances in Internet, access technologies, availability of high bandwidth, new promising video encoding standards, and wide adoption of handy and portable media capturing devices have opened new opportunities to deliver high quality, on-demand, and interactive multimedia applications. In recent years, peer-to-peer (P2P) architecture has aroused much attention both in research communities and in industries. It has played a vital role in wide spreading growth of multimedia applications including Multimedia Streaming, Video on Demand and P2P based IPTV services. P2P networking is promising for its several favourable characteristics, such as self-organization, selfconfiguration, self-healing, easy maintenance, high scalability and reliable services. On the other hand, new media compression standards such as MPEG-4, H.264 AVC and SVC (Scalable Video Coding) have revolutionized the digital media industry by proposition high quality, bandwidth-effective, and scalable delivery of digital content to heterogeneous networks and terminals. These standards will be widely used for Video-on-demand, digital video via cable/satellite/DSL, video streaming for Internet and wireless, and IPTV. It is expected that IPTV, as a new emerging application, will have a great potential to generate new revenue to service providers. Till now, a number of architectures have been proposed for multimedia streaming and IPTV services, but still there is need for new optimized models, metrics, and methodologies to enhance the Quality of Service (QoS) for multimedia streaming and P2P-based IPTV services as a complete architecture. The effective contents delivery across the networks requires to intelligently adapting the digital contents in accordance to user preferences under the networks and terminals constraints with the efficient utilization of resources. The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for sharing knowledge and expertise towards recent advances and technical challenges in multimedia streaming and IPTV services over P2P networks and possible approaches for future envisioning of the services. We solicit original contributions of high quality papers that describe the recent advances in streaming architectures, multimedia adaptation, and multimedia transmission approaches that support multimedia streaming and P2P based IPTV services. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: o Multimedia Streaming over P2P networks o Architectures for P2P-based IPTV Service delivery o QoS mechanism for multimedia streaming and IPTV services o IPTV service and Home Networking o Media Streaming for IPTV o Deployment of IPTV services, case study, and new trends in IPTV o QoS measurements for Multimedia Streaming and IPTV o P2P performance evaluation and analysis o P2P organisation and overlay management o Scalable and network-aware video coding techniques o Business models for media streaming and IPTV o Cross-layer adaptation and optimisation for multimedia services Submission Information: ======================= Prospective authors are invited to submit full paper in PDF format by email to cskianis(a)aegean.gr. Please refer to the following link http://www.temu.gr/2008/author.html for instructions on the length and the paper format. Papers will be reviewed with the standard reviewing procedure (each paper being sent to at least 3 independent anonymous reviewers). Accepted papers will be published within AMIS-NET 2008 proceedings and will be considered for publication in forthcoming book volume on the topic. General Chairs ============== Toufik AHMED, CNRS LaBRI Lab. - University Bordeaux 1, France Charalabos SKIANIS, University of the Aegean, Greece _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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REALWSN submission deadline this Sunday
by Adam Dunkels 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

(Apologies for multiple copies of this message.) The REALWSN 2008 submission deadline is now less than one week away. Please note that this deadline is firm: no extensions are given! Important dates Electronic submissions due: 10 February, 2008 (FIRM DEADLINE - no extensions are given) Notification of acceptance: 3 March, 2008 Camera-ready copy due: 13 March, 2008 Workshop: 1 April 2008 The REALWSN'08 Workshop on Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks http://www.sics.se/realwsn08/ April 1, 2008 Glasgow, Scotland In conjunction with ACM EuroSys 2008 The purpose of the third Workshop on Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in the area of sensor networks, with focus on real-world experiments or deployments of wireless sensor networks. When working with real-world experiments or deployments, many new issues arise: the network environment may be composed of a variety of different technologies, leading to very heterogeneous network structures; software development for large scale networks poses new types of problems; prototype networks may differ significantly from the deployed system; actual sensor network deployments may need a complex combination of autonomous and manual configuration. Furthermore, results obtained through simulation are typically not directly applicable to operational networks and it is therefore imperative for the community to produce results from experimental research. Authors are invited to submit papers (5 pages, double column) for presentation at the workshop. Papers will be selected based on originality, technical merit and relevance. Published papers will also be published in the ACM Digital Library. All topics pertaining to real-world wireless sensor networks are of interest, including but not limited to: * Experiences with real-world deployments * Experimental validation/refutation of previous simulation results obtained by others * Real-world performance of self-organization and self-management * Debugging, testing, and management * Deployment and configuration * Applications in medicine, industry, science, environmental monitoring, etc. * Security and trust * Scalability in practice * Development and prototyping platforms * Operating systems, sensor network programming paradigms, and languages * Middleware for heterogeneous networks * Real-time and dependability issues * Hardware support for real-world sensor networks * Robustness at all levels: communication, software, hardware * Energy efficient protocols * Hardware and software methods for energy measurement and profiling Important dates Electronic submissions due: 10 February, 2008 Notification of acceptance: 3 March, 2008 Camera-ready copy due: 13 March, 2008 Workshop: 1 April 2008 Organizers Workshop Chair: * Thiemo Voigt, Swedish Institute of Computer Science Technical program committee chairs: * Adam Dunkels, Swedish Institute of Computer Science * Pedro José Marron, University of Bonn, Germany Technical program committee: * Muneeb Ali, TU Delft, The Netherlands * Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland * Nirupama Bulusu, Portland State University, USA * Saumitra M. Das, Purdue University, USA * Kasun De Zoysa, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka * Carlo Fischione, UC Berkeley, USA * Per Gunningberg, Uppsala University, Sweden * Wen Hu, CSIRO, Australia * Holger Karl, University of Paderborn, Germany * Koen Langendoen, TU Delft, The Netherlands * Luis Orozco, University of Castilla la Mancha, Spain * Gian Pietro Picco, University of Trento, Italy * Joe Polastre, Sentilla, USA * Utz Rödig, University of Lancaster, UK * Christian Rohner, Uppsala University, Sweden * Kay Römer, ETH Zürich, Switzerland * Vlasios Tsiatsis, Ericsson Research * Jochen Schiller, FU Berlin, Germany * Cormac Sreenan, UC Cork, Ireland * Arno Wacker, University of Duisburg, Germany -- Adam Dunkels <adam(a)sics.se> http://www.sics.se/~adam/

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[Fwd: [Tccc] MCN-Infocom'08 -- Abstract Submission Deadline Feb-7 (few days left)]
by Lars Wolf 04 Feb '08

04 Feb '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] MCN-Infocom'08 -- Abstract Submission Deadline Feb-7 (few days left) Datum: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 17:29:51 -0500 Von: Mohamed Younis <younis(a)cs.umbc.edu> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> CC: 'Silvia Giordano' <silvia.giordano(a)supsi.ch>, 'Moustafa Youssef' <moustafa.youssef(a)gmail.com> 2nd IEEE Workshop on Mission-Critical Networking (MCN'2008) http://www.criticalnet.org/ In conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM'2008 Phoenix, Arizona, April 13-18 Abstract Submission Deadline Feb-7 "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, emergency and crisis intervention, and military operations. Such networking is essential for safety, security and economic vitality in our complex world characterized by uncertainty, heterogeneity and emergent behaviors. MCN should comprise the best possible networking technology, infrastructure and services that may alleviate the risk and help save the lives of both the general public and the network users. As advances in pervasive computing, wireless communication, ad hoc and mesh networking and networked sensor systems continue, more opportunities are being opened to mission-critical networks to benefit from these technologies. A primary challenge to the operations of mission-critical networks is to deploy a communication network that is dependable, autonomic, secure, and rapidly deployable. In order to operate effectively, the deployed networks should support services such as location determination of authorized and unauthorized entities, audio and video communication, secure 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, visual analytics, and service-oriented architecture. Another key feature for mission-critical networking is to support interactions among multiple heterogeneous networks. This workshop solicits high quality technical contributions to the area of mission-critical networking. The manuscript must explicitly address relevance to MCN. Topics include, but are not limited to the following: . Smart environments and infrastructures . Rapidly deployable services and networks . Vehicular networks . Body sensor networks . Cognitive and autonomic networks, protocols, and services . Ubiquitous networking and services . Security, dependability, privacy, QoS and performance awareness and trade-offs . Sensor and actuator networks for information gathering and real-time control . Decentralized and peer-to-peer resource management and allocation . Trust management, security, interoperability, survivability and QoS support . Context-aware network and service management . Location determination and tracking . Energy efficiency . Admission, load and flow control . Visual analytics . Critical traffic and mobility analysis . Cross-layer design and optimization . Components and architectures for next-generation emergency calling and alerting . Network policy management . Testbeds, benchmarks, performance and experimental studies General Chairs . Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virginia Tech, USA . Henning Schulzerinne, Columbia University, USA Program Chairs . Hannes Tschofenig, Siemens AG, Germany . Moustafa Youssef, Alexandria University, Egypt Publicity Chairs . Silvia Girodano, University of Applied Science, Switzerland . Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Panels Chair . Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA Awards Chair . Ashok Agrawala, University of Maryland, USA . Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas, USA Technical Program Committee * Ehab Al-Shaer, DePaul University, USA * Nils Aschenbruck, University of Bonn, Germany * Cory Beard, University of Missouri Kansas City, USA * David Du, National Science Foundation (University of Minnesota), USA * Hossam Hassanein, Queens University, Canada * Wendi Heinzelman, University of Rochester, USA. * Sushil Jajodia., George Mason University, USA * James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA. * Deepa Kundur, Texas A&M University, USA * Victor Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada * Scott Midkiff, Virginia Tech, USA. * Nader Moayeri, NIST, USA * Farid Nait-Abdesselam, Univ. of Sciences and Tech. of Lille, France * Cristina Pinotti, University of Perguia, Italy * Jean-Jacque Quisquater, Catholic University, Belgium * Pedro M. Ruiz, University of Murcia, Spain * Krishna Sivalingam, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA * Robin Sommer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA * Doru Tiliute, University of Suceava, Romania * Gene Tsudik, University of California Irvine, USA * Stephen D. Wolthusen, University of London, UK * Naoki Wakamiya, Osaka University, Japan * Michele Weigle, Old Dominion University, USA Manuscript Submission Submitted papers must be unpublished and must not be currently under review for any other publication. All paper submissions will be handled electronically in EDAS. Authors should prepare a Portable Document Format (PDF) version of their full paper. Papers must be no longer than 6 pages and in font size no smaller than 11 points. Please refer to the INFOCOM manuscript preparation page for details and make sure the manuscript conforms to the format/font/page requirements. Manuscripts that are not compliant with the requirements may be declined without review. All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality through peer reviewing, where TPC members are invited to assess the scientific contributions of papers. For more information send email to info(a)criticalnet.org. Manuscript Submission Submitted papers must be unpublished and must not be currently under review for any other publication. All paper submissions will be handled electronically in EDAS. Authors should prepare a Portable Document Format (PDF) version of their full paper. Papers must be no longer than 6 pages and in font size no smaller than 11 points. Please refer to the INFOCOM manuscript preparation page for details and make sure the manuscript conforms to the format/font/page requirements. Manuscripts that are not compliant with the requirements may be declined without review. All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality through peer reviewing, where TPC members are invited to assess the scientific contributions of papers. Proceedings will appear in IEEE Xplore and INFOCOM CD. For more information send email to info(a)criticalnet.org. Important Dates Abstract Submission: February 7, 2008 Paper Submission: February 15, 2008 Acceptance Notification: March 10, 2008 Camera Ready Due: March 18, 2008 Workshop Date: April 18, 2008 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[cfp] MANWEEK 08-22– 26 September 2008- Samos Island, Greece
by ntan＠teimes.gr 04 Feb '08

04 Feb '08

Apologize if you receive multiple copies. ================================================================ MANWEEK 08 CALL FOR PAPERS ================================================================ 4th International Week on Management of Networks and Services 22–26 September 2008 Samos Island, Greece http://www.manweek.org/2008/ The conference will take place at the Doryssa Bay Resort (www.doryssa-bay.gr) in the Greek island of Samos situated in the Eastern part of the Aegean Sea, at a short distance from the coast of Asia Minor. Samos is directly accessible by air from major cities around the world. Manweek 2008 that is going to host six of the most reputable workshops and conferences in the area of management of networks and services: o DSOM 2008 - 19th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management o MMNS 2008 - 11th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services o IPOM 2008 - 8th IEEE International Workshop on IP Operations and Management o EVGM 2008 – 4th IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on End-to-End Virtualization and Grid Management o MACE 2008 – 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Modelling Autonomic Communications Environments o NGNM 2008 – 5th International Workshop on Next Generation Networking Middleware Important Dates MMNS, IPOM 2008 Submission: March 28 2008 DSOM, MACE 2008 Submission: April 28 2008 EVGM, NGNM 2008 Submission: May 17 2008 MMNS, IPOM 2008 Notification: May 30 2008 DSOM, MACE 2008 Notification: June 13 2008 EVGM, NGNM 2008 Notification: June 20 2008 Manweek 08 Conference: September 22-26 2008 ================================================================ MMNS 08 C A L L F O R P A P E R S ================================================================ 11th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services (MMNS 2008) “Management of Converged Multimedia Networks and Services” Co-chairs: -George Pavlou (University College London, United Kingdom) -Toufik Ahmed (University Bordeaux 1, France) -Tasos Dagiuklas (TEI of Mesolonghi, Greece) The 11th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services (MMNS) will be held in September 22 to 26, 2008 at the Doryssa Bay Resort (www.doryssa-bay.gr) on the Greek island of Samos (http://www.samosin.gr) as part of the 4th International Week on the Management of Networks and Services (Manweek 2008). MMNS will provide participants with a high quality and intimate setting for discussion and debate. The conference is sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 6.6 on Management of Networks and Distributed Systems, with technical co-sponsorship by the IEEE Communications Society and specifically the Technical Committee on Network Operations and Management (CNOM). SCOPE OF MMNS 2008 Since 1997, MMNS has established itself as a major conference for research and innovation in the management of multimedia technology and networked services. The scope of the conference has been expanded in recent years to include management of emerging mobile and wireless networks. The objective of the conference is to bring together researchers and scientists from academia and industry interested in state-of-the-art management of converged multimedia networks and services across heterogeneous networking infrastructures, while creating a public venue for result dissemination and intellectual collaboration. The convergence of existing and emerging technologies such as broadband, mobile, and broadcast networks is considered as a promising opportunity for existing providers to increase theirs service subscriber base so that 4G vision and beyond becomes a reality. An important research effort is undertaken by main actors to face the multidimensional, in terms of transport technology, session signalling, and QoS provisioning, heterogeneity of Next Generation Networks (NGNs). Efficient management of these services is a key ingredient in the effort to provide cost effective, innovative services, and mass market solutions that are likely to become a major source of income for different stakeholders. The need to evolve management tools, solutions, platforms and methodologies to keep pace with emerging networks is at a critical juncture with the proliferation of mobile and wireless systems, intelligent and broadband networks, triple play (data/voice/video) convergence, and the integration of embedded computing and communications. The academic and industry research communities should unify forces to address the challenges of developing and operating converged multimedia networks and services. Inevitably, integrated management is a key element in addressing this challenge. The MMNS 2008 technical program committee is soliciting research papers in the broad area of network and service management that address new models, architectures and technological designs to enable multimedia and mobility proliferation in NGNs. MMNS 2008 intends to continue the success of the outstanding agendas of the past, and will emphasize and solicit novel research in the management of converged multimedia networks and services. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: • Management of media streaming and real-time service delivery • Management of wireless ad-hoc/mesh networks • Management of NGN/4G networks and services • Management of sensor and actuator networks • Management of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) • Multi-service/ multiple-play over IP (voice, video, data and mobility over IP) network management • Grid networking for multimedia • Cross-layer management • Multimedia in peer-to-peer (P2P) networks • Quality of service management in multimedia and mobile networks • Planning and optimisation of multimedia and mobile networks • IP Multimedia System (IMS) operations and management • Management of service delivery platforms • Management of content distribution networking • Distributed multimedia service management • Performance evaluation of multimedia and mobile services • Wireless/Mobile Multimedia broadcast/multicast technologies • Novel protocols for multimedia services • Multi-point, multicast service management • Seamless mobility of multimedia services • Pricing, accounting and billing for multimedia services • Management of trust and security for mobile and multimedia networks and services • Self-properties of multimedia and mobile networks and services • Network virtualization for network management and service provisioning • Remote over-the-air manageability in mobile networks • End-to-end management for multimedia transmission in mobile/wireless networks • Mobile platform architecture optimizations for management services • Network manageability across heterogeneous wireless networks • Novel network architectures for mobile network management services PAPER SUBMISSION Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or experiences. Late-breaking advances and work-in-progress reports from ongoing research are also encouraged for submission to MMNS 2008. Papers under review elsewhere MUST NOT be submitted to MMNS 2008. Authors are requested to submit either long papers or short papers (work-in-progress reports), strictly in LNCS format (see below): • Long papers (up to 12 single-spaced single-column pages) • Short papers describing work-in-progress (up to 4 pages) Submissions exceeding the above mentioned paper size will not be reviewed and will be returned to the authors. Please see Submission for detailed instructions. PROCEEDINGS The MMNS 2008 proceedings will be published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. For more information regarding manuscript format please visit the author's instruction links at LNCS Springer. Awards will be presented to the best paper and to the best student paper at the conference. Furthermore, the best papers of MMNS 2008 will be invited to be submitted as extended versions to the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM). IMPORTANT DEADLINES Paper Registration: March 21 2008 Submission: March 28 2008 Notification: May 30 2008 Camera ready: June 20 2008 MANWEEK 2008 Conference: September 22-26 2008 MMNS 2008: September 22-23 2008

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Papers due in one week: IEEE Mobile Video Delivery (MoViD) 2008: Call for Papers
by shamik＠cs.ucf.edu 04 Feb '08

04 Feb '08

Papers due in one week. (Apologies for multiple copies. Appreciated if you can forward to potentially interested persons) *********************************************** IEEE MoViD 2008 First IEEE Workshop on Mobile Video Delivery In conjunction with IEEE WoWMoM 2008 http://eecs.ucf.edu/movid/ 23 June 2008 Newport Beach, CA, USA *********************************************** The unprecedented growth in video content generation and delivery has created the new era of video Internet where video-based applications have gained tremendous popularity. This trend has forced the network and service providers to understand the limitations of current Internet and bring new technologies for delivering the video content to the end-user. Furthermore, criticality of the wireless networks pose new challenges in video delivery specific to the diverse set of underlying network technologies including Wi-Fi, WiMax etc. The focus of this workshop is to present and discuss recent advances in the wireless network technologies and video delivery mechanisms for supporting the broad spectrum of emerging video-centric applications. The workshop will have the goal of understanding the research and deployment challenges in building the Next Generation Mobile Video Internet. Specifically, the workshop intends to address the following topics: a) Research challenges in developing new methods for delivering rich video experience to users over existing wireless technologies; b) New visions and concepts that will drive evolution of wireless access technologies to support high definition video content with diverse QoS requirements; c) Deployment challenges in new video delivery models (broadcast/multicast) to mobile users. The workshop aims to foster interaction among researchers and exchange new ideas by bringing together members of the video and networking communities. The workshop will provide an interesting venue to discuss widely varying beliefs and understanding being formed among the academic and industrial communities in terms of how next generation mobile video content should delivered to end-users. The technical program committee invites the submission of original, unpublished technical papers in the following areas (but not limited to): Application-specific technologies in supporting **Mobile VoD, SDV, IPTV **Mobile video conferencing **Mobile video gaming **Video surveillance and sensing Performance **Quality of experience metrics **Video quality measurement **Performance analysis **Experimental results from testbed/deployments Encoding and Transport **Wireless video coding techniques **Adaptive media coding **Link adaptive transport mechanisms Wireless network techniques and protocols **802.11 WLAN/802.11n **802.16 WiMax **3G cellular networks **DVB-H **MAC/PHY layer techniques Wireless delivery models **Broadcast/multicast/simulcast **P2P mobile video **Vehicular video delivery Submission Instructions ======================= Papers should contain original material and not previously published, or currently submitted elsewhere. Manuscripts must be limited to 6 pages in IEEE 8.5x11 conference format, and formatted in strict accordance with the IEEE Computer Society author guidelines. All submissions will be handled electronically. Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press in the combined WoWMoM 2008 workshop proceedings. Important Dates =============== Submission Deadline: Feb 11 Accept/reject notification: Mar 15 Camera ready paper due: Apr 02 Workshop Organizers =================== Mainak Chatterjee, University of Central Florida Samrat Ganguly, NEC Laboratories, America Technical Program Committee (List incomplete) =========================== Suman Banerjee, University of Wisconsin-Madison Suchi Bhandarkar, University of Georgia Siddhartha Chattopadhyay, Google, Inc. Sujit Dey, University of California, San Diego Pascal Frossard, EPFL Dilip Krishnaswami, University of California, Davis Giridhar Mandayam, Qualcomm Kiran Mukkavilli, Qualcomm Raja Neogi, Radisys Inc. Thinh Nguyen, Oregon State University Vikram Srinivasan, Bell Labs, India Deepak Turaga, Nokia Research Stephan Wenger, Qualcomm Magda El Zarki, University of California, Irvine Jian Zhang, University of New South Wales Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore Publicity Chair =============== Shamik Sengupta, Stevens Institute of Technology Web Chair ========== Wenjing Wang, University of Central Florida =============================================== http://eecs.ucf.edu/movid/

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: INFOCOM Workshop on AUTOMATED NETWORK MANAGEMENT (ANM'08), Deadline Feb 22]
by Lars Wolf 04 Feb '08

04 Feb '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: INFOCOM Workshop on AUTOMATED NETWORK MANAGEMENT (ANM'08), Deadline Feb 22 Datum: Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:47:05 +0100 Von: Gunnar Karlsson <gk(a)ee.kth.se> Organisation: KTH EE/LCN An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Referenzen: <001d01c864e6$299eae60$e632ed82@s0902> ******************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS 1st IEEE Workshop on AUTOMATED NETWORK MANAGEMENT (ANM'08) "Self-Configuration for Large-scale Dynamic Networks" April 18, 2008 http://www.ee.kth.se/lcn/anm08 in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2008, April 13-18, Phoenix, AZ ******************************************************** Despite recent research and development efforts, network management remains a key challenge for network operators. The time and cost of deploying, configuring and operating networks, already significant today, is expected to increase even further due to the exponential growth in numbers of network elements in the Internet, mobile networks, etc. Furthermore, the increasing sophistication and dynamic nature of many new networks and services make configuration more complex and further mandate continuous adaptation and validation of active configurations in real-time. These factors present major obstacles for the continued growth of networked systems. To overcome these obstacles, we need not only engineering principles for automated configuration management, but also real-time monitoring functions that trigger adaptation of configuration. The ultimate goals are to support future large-scale networks that will self- configure, dynamically adapt to external events and allow for low-cost operation. Current practices in configuration management are generally performed through low-level interfaces on a per-device basis. However, it is hard if not infeasible to generate, validate and tune configuration parameters in large-scale networks. On the other hand, many of the existing top-down configuration approaches lack scalability and testability in operational networks. Similarly, existing end-to-end monitoring applications usually depend on low-level network activity information, such as traffic counters, MIB variables, device logs, and alarms. A major challenge then is how to efficiently aggregate and analyze these data to construct high-level views of network operations in real-time. The theme for the first ANM workshop will be "Self-configuration for Large-scale Dynamic Networks," which relates to the aforementioned challenges. ANM offers a unique opportunity for researchers in this area to exchange both ideas and real- life experiences concerning next-generation network management. The workshop will provide a small-group setting for effective discussions and debate. The workshop solicits original papers on both completed work and work-in- progress. Papers that bring out new and interesting approaches at an early stage of their development are very welcome. The workshop will be held in conjunction with INFOCOM 2008, which draws many leading researchers in the field of networking. Papers on all topics of network management will be considered. Submission in the following areas are especially encouraged: * Languages and abstractions for configuration management * Analysis of network-wide and systems configurations * Configuration refinement and deployment * Testing of control and data plane configuration * Automatic and adaptive control of networks * Algorithms for distributed monitoring and threshold detection * Tunable monitoring algorithms * Adaptive management protocols for computing global states * Real-time monitoring and control * Analysis of tradeoffs between performance, availability and security * Traffic-aware configuration management * Non-intrusive network instrumentation for monitoring and control * Scalable management approaches * Data-driven event correlation * Proactive and risk-aware management * Management of application overlays and peer-to-peer services * Formal models for network management * Fault Management and aspects of survivability, availability Important Dates =============== Abstract Submission: February 15, 2008 Paper Submission: February 22, 2008 Acceptance Notification: March 14, 2008 Camera Ready Due: March 20, 2008 Workshop: April 18, 2008 Submissions =========== Submissions must be original work not under review for any other workshop, conference or journal. Submissions must be no longer than 6 pages, must be a PDF file and must follow the INFOCOM formatting guidelines. Papers should be submitted via http://edas.info/ as follows: 1. Create a personal account on EDAS, if you do not already have one, and log in. 2. Click on the Submit paper tab and choose ANM'08 from the list. 3. Register the paper with an abstract. 4. Upload the PDF of the paper. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their papers at the workshop. Committee ========= Workshop Chairs: ---------------- Ehab Al-Shaer, DePaul University, USA Rolf Stadler, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Yang Richard Yang, Yale University, USA Program Committee: ----------------------------------- Nikos Anerousis, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Alex Clemm, Cisco Systems, USA Nick Duffield, ATT Research, USA Olivier Festor, LORIA-INRIA, France Paul Francis, Cornell University, USA Cynthia Hood, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Chuanyi Ji, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Dan Jurca, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Chuck Kalmanek, ATT Research, USA Emil Lupu, Imperial College, UK David Maltz, Microsoft Research, USA Z. Morley Mao, University of Michigan, USA Sanjai Narain, Telcordia, USA George Pavlou, University College London, UK Aiko Pras, University of Twente, The Netherlands Sanjay Rao, Purdue University, USA Danny Raz, Technion, Israel Adarshpal Sethi, University of Delaware, USA Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich, Switzerland John Vicente, Intel Corporation, USA Jia Wang, ATT Research, USA Felix Wu, University of California at Davis, USA Geoffrey Xie, Naval Postgraduate School, USA Lixia Zhang, University of California at Los Angeles, USA Yin Zhang, University of Texas at Austin, USA Xiaoyun Zhu, HP Laboratoties, USA Taieb Znati, University of Pittsburgh, USA ------------------------------------------------------ Rolf Stadler School of Electrical Engineering KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden www.ee.kth.se/~stadler _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP for IEEE MASS 2008]
by Lars Wolf 04 Feb '08

04 Feb '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP for IEEE MASS 2008 Datum: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 13:54:12 -0500 Von: Murat Demirbas <demirbas(a)cse.buffalo.edu> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE MASS 2008 Fifth IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems September 29 – October 2, 2008 Hilton Atlanta Atlanta, GA, USA http://www.cse.psu.edu/IEEEMASS08/ Sponsors: IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Technical Committee on Distributed Processing, IEEE Technical Committee on Simulation, and IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Communications 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 2008 conference is the fifth edition of MASS and 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. IEEE MASS 2008 solicits original, unpublished contributions in all aspects of (mobile) ad-hoc networks and wireless sensor networks (WSN), systems and applications. Submitted articles must not be concurrently considered elsewhere for publication. Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for fast track publication in the Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal (www.elsevier.come/locate/pmc). Scope: Topics include, but are not limited to: - Physical layer impact on higher layers in ad-hoc networks and WSNs - Directional / smart antennas - Multi-channel, multi-radio and MIMO technologies - MAC protocols (802.11, 802.15.4, UWB) - Wireless mesh networks and cognitive networks - P2P/overlay/content distribution architectures for wireless ad hoc 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 issues - Routing protocols (unicast, multicast, broadcast, geocast) - Data transport, management and information scheduling - Data gathering, fusion, and dissemination in WSNs - Localization, synchronization and cooperative sensing in WSNs - Sensor networks and pervasive infrastructures - Capacity planning and admission control in ad-hoc networks - Handoff / mobility management and seamless internetworking - Resource management and wireless QoS Provisioning - Cross layer design and optimization - Incentive-based and game-theoretic approaches in ad-hoc networks - Reliability, resiliency and fault tolerance techniques - Security, privacy, and trust issues - Management and monitoring of ad-hoc and sensor networks - 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. They must not exceed 10 single-spaced, double-column pages using at least 11 pt size fonts on 8.5 x 11 inch pages in IEEE style format. Detailed formatting and submission instructions will be available on the conference website. Workshop Proposals: Workshop proposals are solicited on cutting-edge topics that complement or supplement the main theme of IEEE MASS 2008. Please contact the Workshop Co-chairs with proposals or for any questions. The submission deadline is Feb 15. Demo Proposals: Proposals are solicited for technical demonstrations of experimental ad-hoc and sensor networking systems. Visit the conference website for instructions on submitting demo proposals or contact the Demo Chair. Submission Deadlines: Abstracts Due: March 14, 2008 Manuscripts Due: March 21, 2008 Acceptance Notification: June 20, 2008 Camera-ready Submission: July 18, 2008 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE GENERAL Chair Tom La Porta, Pennsylvania State University, USA (tlp(a)cse.psuedu) PROGRAM Chair Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA (das(a)uta.edu) TPC Vice Chairs Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy (bononi(a)cs.unibo.it) Archan Misra, IBM Watson Research Center, USA (archan(a)us.ibm.com) Chunming Qiao, University of Buffalo, USA (qiao(a)cse.buffalo.edu) WORKSHOP Co-Chairs Yonghe Liu, University of Texas at Arlington, USA (yonghe(a)cse.uta.edu) Sencun Zhu, Pennsylvania State University, USA (szhu(a)cse.psu.edu) FINANCE & REGISTRATION Chair: Anup Kumar, University of Louisville, USA PUBLICATION Chair Dajin Wang, Montclair State University, USA PUBLICITY Co-Chairs Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National University, Korea (schoi(a)snu.ac.kr) Murat Demirbas, University of Buffalo, USA (demirbas(a)cse.buffalo.edu) Pedro Ruiz, University of Murcia, Spain (pedrom(a)dif.um.es) LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS Chair George Riley, Georgia Tech, USA (riley(a)ece.gatech.edu) WEB Chair Sharanya Eswaran, Pennsylvania State Univ, USA (eswaran(a)cse.psu.edu) STEERING COMMITTEE Co-chairs Dharma P. Agrawal, University of Cincinnati, USA Jie Wu (TCDP), Florida Atlantic University & NSF, USA TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, State University of New York at Binghamton, USA Prathima Agrawal, Auburn University, USA Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Kevin Almeroth, University of California at Santa Barbara Giuseppe Anastasi, University of Pisa, Italy Stefano Basagni, Northeastern University, USA Elizabeth Belding, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Brahim Bensaou, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Amiya Bhattacharya, New Mexico State University, USA Douglas Blough, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada Joel Branch, IBM Watson Research Center, USA Raffaele Bruno, IIT–CNR, Pisa, Italy Guohong Cao, Pennsylvania State University, USA Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Antonio Capone, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Mainak Chatterjee, University of Central Florida, USA Guihai Chen, Nanjing University, China Hsiao-Hwa Chen, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan Yanghee Choi, Seoul National University, Korea Chun Tung Chou, University of New South Wales, Australia Amitabha Das, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Swades De, Indian Institute of Technology, India Murat Demirbas, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA Falko Dressler, University of Erlangen, Germany Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University,USA Karoly Farkas, University of West Hungary, Hungary Laura Feeney, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden Ratan Ghosh, Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, India Silvia Giordano, University of Applied Science –(SUPSI), Switzerland Zygmunt Haas, Cornell University, USA Qi Han, Colorado School of Mines, USA Paul Havinga, University of Twente, The Netherlands Tian He, University of Minnesota, USA Sanjay Jha, University of New South Wales, Australia Xiaohua Jia, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Vana Kalogeraki, University of California at Riverside, USA Holger Karl, University of Paderborn, Germany Sneha Kasera, University of Utah, USA Young-Bae Ko, Ajou University, Korea Sastry Kompella, Naval Research Laboratory, USA Farinaz Koushanfar, Rice University, USA Evangelos Kranakis, Carleton University, Canada Bhaskar Krishnamachari, University of Southern California, USA Sudha Krishnamurthy, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany Taekyoung Kwon, Seoul National University, Korea Tom La Porta, Pennsylvania State University, USA Sung-Ju Lee, HP Labs, USA Qilian Liang, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Weifa Liang, Australian National University, Australia Lavy Libman, NICTA, Sydney, Australia Yonghe Liu, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Yunhao Liu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Cecilia Mascolo, University College London, UK Martin Mauve, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany Ciaran Mc Goldrick, Trinity College at Dublin, Ireland Tommaso Melodia, State University of New York at Buffalo, mUSA Jelena Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada Archan Misra, IBM Watson Research Center, USA Mehul Motani, National University of Singapore, Singapore Farid Naït-Abdesselam, University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille, France Peng Ning, North Carolina State University, USA Sergio Palazzo, University of Catania, Italy José Parente de Oliveira, ITA, Brazil Andrea Passarella, IIT-CNR, Pisa, Italy Dirk Pesch, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland Chiara Petrioli, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy Tien Pham, Army Research Laboratory, USA Cristina M. Pinotti, University of Perugia, Italy Dario Pompili , Rutgers University, Italy Ravi Prakash, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Chunming Qiao, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA Lili Qiu, The University of Texas at Austin, USA Milena Radenkovic, University of Nottingham, UK Fengyuan Ren, Tsinghua University, China Pedro Ruiz, University of Murcia, Spain Weisong Shi, Wayne State University, USA Yi Shi, Virginia Tech, USA Rajeev Shorey, General Motors Research, India David Simplot-Ryl, INRIA & University of Lille, France Raghupathy Sivakumar, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Krishna Sivalingam, University of Maryland at Baltimore County, USA Harry Skianis, National Centre for Scientific Research 'Demokritos', Greece Cormac Sreenan, University College of Cork, Ireland Vikram Srinivasan, Bell Labs Research, India Violet Syrotiuk, Arizona State University, USA Vic Thomas, Honeywell, USA Ozan Tonguz, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Wade Trappe, Rutgers University, USA Yu-Chee Tseng, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan Roberto Verdone, University of Bologna, Italy Mehmet Vuran, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Hongyi Wu, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Louisiana Wendong Xiao, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Wensheng Zhang, Iowa State University, USA Sheng Zhong, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA Yanmin Zhu, Imperial College of London, UK Michele Zorzi, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: ADAMUS'08 - IEEE WoWMoM Workshop --- 1 week to submission
by Luca Foschini 04 Feb '08

04 Feb '08

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call-for-Papers-and-Demos ________________________________________________________________ Call for Papers and Demos: Second IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Adaptive and DependAble Mobile Ubiquitous Systems ADAMUS 2008 In conjunction with the 8th Int. Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM'08) Newport Beach, CA, USA, 23rd June, 2008 Sponsored by NOKIA ---- WoWMoM web site : http://wowmom08.ics.uci.edu/ ADAMUS web site : http://www.adamus.ua.ac.be/ ADAMUS'08 cfp pdf : http://www.adamus.ua.ac.be/CFP_adamus08.pdf _______________________________________________________________ Important Dates: * Full Paper and Demo submission deadline: February 11, 2008 * Notification of acceptance: March 10, 2008 * Final camera-ready manuscripts due: March 31, 2008 ________________________________________________________________ WHAT'S NEW ---------------------------------------------------------------- - This year, ADAMUS will host a DEMO COMPETITION. The Best demo will be awarded with a special NOKIA hi-tech gift! - The BEST PAPER will be also awarded with another NOKIA gift! - ADAMUS'08 will open with a KEYNOTE TALK by Franklin Reynolds, NOKIA distinguished engineering fellow. See below for details. WORKSHOP SCOPE ---------------------------------------------------------------- A truly extended use of mobile computing technologies asks for effective software engineering techniques to design, develop and maintain novel ubiquitous services with challenging dependa- bility requirements in highly heterogeneous and error-prone mobile environments. To overcome the intrinsic limitations of mobile devices and environments, a variety of research studies have produced methods and proof-of-concept prototypes for sup- porting non-critical applications. However, it is still unclear whether current solutions can satisfy the challenging adapta- bility and dependability requirements of the emerging mobile ubiquitous services, such as mobile commerce, wireless control of robots, healthcare computing, and video-surveillance. Hence, it is becoming increasingly important: to devise con- ceptual models and paradigms for change tolerance; to propose mechanisms to model, design, and develop adaptive and dependable systems; to provide analytical and simulation tools to measure system ability to withstand faults and to optimally re-adjust to new environments; to develop scalable, maintainable, cost- effective middleware infrastructures able to support and ease the development of adaptive and dependable mobile ubiquitous services. Building on the success of the last year event, this workshop aims at fostering exchange of ideas and lively discussions in order to reduce the gap between research achievements and industrial applications in the field of adaptive and dependable mobile ubiquitous systems. Researchers and practitioners are encouraged to participate with high quality papers able to identify open issues, to discuss the limits and/or advantages of existing solutions, or to propose original and innovative techniques for adaptive and dependable applications over mobile environments. The main topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: * Dependability and adaptation requirements and open issues for mobile ubiquitous systems; * Design principles, models, and techniques for realizing dependable and adaptive mobile ubiquitous systems; * Context data provisioning and modelling, and context-based infrastructures; * Human-machine interaction and usability; * Multi-device and highly heterogeneous ubiquitous systems; * Cross-layer adaptation techniques; * End-to-end approaches to the quality of experience of mobile services; * Autonomous systems for adaptation and dependability; * Mobile-enabled middleware architectures and mechanisms for heterogeneous wireless networks; * Dependability and scalability of web technologies to ubiqui- tous systems; * Architectures for resource and network monitoring and adapta- tion to networks conditions; * Dependability measurement of mobile systems and services. DEMO COMPETITION, BEST PAPER, AND RELATED PRIZES ---------------------------------------------------------------- A Demo Competition (sponsored by NOKIA) will be conveniently scheduled to provide authors with the opportunity to run live demonstrations of their research and to interact directly with ADAMUS and other WoWMoM attendees that will be required to vote for the best demos (See below for demos submission guidelines). Best demos will be awarded with special Nokia gifts based on their review scores, on-site voting results, and technical program committee evaluation. The best full paper will be awarded as well with another Nokia gift, based on review scores. The BEST DEMO PRIZE will consist of a Nokia N95 8GB multimedia computer (http://www.nseries.com/products/n95_8gb/). The BEST PAPER PRIZE will be a Nokia N810 Internet Tablet device (http://www.nseries.com/products/n810/index.html). NOKIA KEYNOTE TALK ---------------------------------------------------------------- We are proud to announce ADAMUS 2008 will open with a Keynote Talk by Franklin Reynolds, distinguished engineering fellow at the Nokia Research Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. FULL PAPER AND DEMO PROPOSAL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ---------------------------------------------------------------- ADAMUS 2008 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. This year, ADAMUS seeks two different kinds of contribu- tion: full papers and live demonstration proposals. Live demon- strations must be accompanied by a short demo proposal descri- bing the demo and the related research activity. * Full papers must be written in English and should not exceed 6 pages in IEEE proceedings style. * Demo proposals must be written in English and should not exce- ed 3 pages in IEEE proceedings style. * Demo Plans: Authors of all accepted demo proposals must also submit a Demo Plan including a short description of the demo (text, video, poster) and a short report on infra- structure needs (power, network, physical space needed). All submissions will be handled electronically. Full papers and demo proposals should submit a PostScript or PDF file, including names and contact information of all authors, through the sub- mission Web site (http://www.adamus.ua.ac.be/) by February 11th, 2008. Submission implies that at least one of the authors will regi- ster and present the paper. The selection process will involve peer reviews and reviews by program committee members.All papers and demo proposals will be selected for the workshop based upon their originality, technical soundness, and relevance to the field of adaptive and dependable mobile ubiquitous systems. Notification of acceptance will be sent to contact authors by March 10th, 2008. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to provide the camera-ready version of the paper by March 31st, 2008. Authors of accepted demo proposals will be requested to provide demo Plans by March 20th, 2008, as well as the camera- ready version of the short demo proposal paper by March 31,2008. All accepted papers (including both full papers and demo propos- als) will be published on CD by the IEEE Computer Society Press. ORGANIZERS ---------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Co-Chairs: - Chris Blondia, PATS group, University of Antwerp, Belgium - Marcello Cinque, Mobilab group, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy - Vincenzo De Florio, PATS group, University of Antwerp, Belgium - Filip De Turck, Intec group, University of Ghent, Belgium - Cristiano Di Flora, Nokia Research Center, Finland - Luca Foschini, Mobile Middleware group, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy Technical Program Committee: - Cristian Borcea, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA - Domenico Cotroneo, Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy - Bart Dhoedt, University of Ghent / Intec, Belgium - Chris Develder, University of Ghent, Belgium - Markus Endler, PUC-Rio, Brasil - Stephane Frenot, INRIA, France - Ibrahim Habib, CCNY, USA - Valerie Issarny, INRIA, France - Eija Kaasinen, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland - Konrad Klöckner, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany - Frederic Le Mouel, Inria, France - Nguyen Manh Tho, Vienna University of Technology, Austria - Gianluca Mazzini, Università di Ferrara, Italy - Ali Abu-Rgheff Mosa, School of Computing, Communications and Electronics, Plymouth, UK - Eric Pardede, Latrobe University, Australia - Massimiliano Rak, Università di Napoli, Italia - Oriana Riva, Institute of Pervasive Computing, ETH-Zürich, Switzerland - Enrico Rukzio, Lancaster University, UK - Sotirios Terzis, University of Strathclyde, Scotland - Francisco Valera, UC3M, Madrid, Spain - Sven Van der Meer, TTSG, Ireland - Katarzyna Wac, Université de Genève, Genève, Switzerland - Xinheng Henry Wang, Swasea University, UK -- _________________________________________ Luca Foschini, Ph.D. DEIS-LIA - Università degli Studi di Bologna Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna (ITALY) Ph.: (+39) 051 20 93541 Fax: (+39) 051 20 93073 E-mail: lfoschini(a)deis.unibo.it Web: http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/LucaFoschini/ _________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: John Wiley Journal of “Security and Communication Networks” Special Issue on "Security in Wireless Sensor Networks"
by Nicopolitidis Petros 03 Feb '08

03 Feb '08

Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers John Wiley Journal of “Security and Communication Networks” Special Issue on "Security in Wireless Sensor Networks" Recent development in wireless communication networks has enabled the large-scale deployment of low-cost, energy efficient and multi-purpose wireless sensor networks. A lot of real-world applications have been already deployed and many of them will be based on wireless sensor networks. These applications include geographical monitoring, medical care, manufacturing, transportation, military, and surveillance systems. Due to the nature of wireless communication networks, many security challenges are faced when dealing and working with such technologies including eavesdropping, man-in-the-middle, spoofing and DDoS. Security is the key issue for reliable critical applications in wireless sensor networks. Advances in design and prototype of security mechanisms in wireless sensor network systems for protecting the confidentiality, availability, and integrity are crucial for the success of sensor applications. Original contributions are solicited in all the relevant security issues in wireless sensor networks, including but not limited to: Protocols and architectures for wireless sensor networks Key distribution and key management Provably-secure cryptographic protocols Public-key and symmetric-key cryptosystems, block ciphers, and hash functions Network security protocols: DNS security, routing, naming, denial-of-service attacks, TCP/IP, secure multicast Anonymity techniques Trust mechanisms Privacy Security and usability Automated analysis of protocols Authentication mechanisms Biometric-based security schemes RFID Submitted paper should not be considered elsewhere for publication and the authors must follow the guidelines for preparation of the manuscripts. The language of the journal is English. 12-point type in one of the standard fonts, Times, Helvetica, or Courier is preferred. The paper length should not exceed 20 pages total including all figures and illustrations. It is not necessary for authors to double-line space their manuscript. Tables must be on separate pages after the reference list, and not be incorporated into the main text. Figures should be uploaded as separate figure files. For manuscript submission authors should follow the guidelines described in Section “For Authors” at http://www.interscience.wiley.com/security. Prospective authors should submit their paperonline at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/scn. When submitting the papers, the authors should make sure to choose the Manuscript type as “Special Issue”, enter the “Running Head” and the “Special Issue title” as “SCN-SI-005” and “Sensor Security”, respectively. Deadlines --------- Manuscript Submission Due: May 12, 2008 Acceptance Notification: September 22, 2008 Final Manuscript Due: November 22, 2008 Tentative Publication Date: Early 2009 Guest Editors -------------- Mohammad S. Obaidat Department of Computer Science Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ07764, USA e-mail: obaidat(a)monmouth.edu Jung-Shian Li Department of Electrical Engineering Institute of Computer and Communication Engineering National Cheng Kung University 1 University Road, Tainan 701, Taiwan E-Mail: jsli(a)mail.ncku.edu.tw Petros Nicopolitidis Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Box 888, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece e-mail: petros(a)csd.auth.gr _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] [SMPE08] : CFP
by Damien Sauveron 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

******************************************************************* We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. Please disseminate it to your colleagues that could be interested. ******************************************************************* The 2nd International Symposium on Security and Multimodality in Pervasive Environments July 21-25, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland http://www.na.icar.cnr.it/smpe08/ In Conjunction wih MOBIQUITOUS 2008 http://www.mobiquitous.org/ Scope Pervasive computing environments present specific peculiarities with respect to aspects like security and multimodality. As a matter of fact, the accessibility level of a virtual environment can definitively be improved by natural interfaces and multimodal interaction systems, which offer users the freedom to select from multiple modes of interaction with services and permit to break down barriers about human-computer interaction making communication intuitive and spontaneous. On the other hand, while enlarging and easing the ways to access to the environment, security threads arise and the environment must be properly equipped in order to protect itself from malicious attacks and/or from wrong actions performed by inexpert users. SMPE-08 will be held in conjunction with Mobiquitous 2008, in Dublin, Ireland, July 21-25, 2008. As for SMPE-07, best papers will be proposed for the publication in a journal special issue (pending) Topics - Trust and reputation management in UE - Security applications and services in pervasive computing - Security model for pervasive computing - Intelligent multimedia security services in pervasive computing - Key management and authentication in pervasive computing - Network security issues and protocols in pervasive computing - Access control and privacy protection in pervasive computing - Security Standard for next pervasive computing - Security in Human Centred Environments - Natural interfaces security issues - Advanced multimodal interfaces - Human oriented interfaces - Multimodal mobile and ubiquitous services - Methods for multimodal integration - Middleware services for multimodal and pervasive applications - Context-Awareness in multimodal applications - Multimodal analysis and recognition of contex - Next ubiquitous and immersive environments - Virtual reality and ubiquitous computing - Usability and accessibility in ubiquitous applications - Applications and scenarios - Others: Commercial or Industrial Issue in pervasive computing Paper Submission Paper submission will be handled electronically. 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 visit the Submission page for detailed submission requirements and procedures. Contact: For further information regarding the workshop and paper submission, please contact Program Chairs - Dr. Antonio Coronato (coronato.a(a)na.ica.cnr.it) - Prof. Stefanos Gritzalis (sgritz(a)aegean.gr) - Prof.Sajid Hussain (Sajid.Hussain(a)acadiau.ca) Important dates - Paper Submission: March 15, 2008 - Notification of Acceptance: May 4, 2008 - Camera-ready Version: May 18, 2008 Co-Organizers - Prof. Jong Hyuk Park Kyungnam University, Korea - Dr. Antonio Coronato ICAR-CNR, Italy Organization Steering Co-chairs: - Jong Hyuk Park Kyungnam University, Korea - Giuseppe De Pietro ICAR-CNR, Italy General Co-Chairs - George Roussos University of London, UK - Javier Lopez University of Malaga, Spain Program Co-Chiars - Antonio Coronato ICAR-CNR, Italy - Stefanos Gritzalis University of the Aegean, Greece - Sajid Hussain Acadia University, Canada International Advisory Committee - Laurence T. Yang St Francis Xavier University, Canada - Hsiao-Hwa Chen National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan - Belur V. Dasarathy Information Fusion Technologies Consultant, USA - Daqing Zhang GET/INT - Institut National des Telecommunications, France - Simon Dobson UCD, Dublin, Ireland - Tai-hoon Kim Hannam University, Korea Publicity Co-Chairs - Yan Zhang Simula Research Laboratory, Norway - Damien Sauveron Universite de Limoges/CNRS, France - Sang Soo Yeo Kyushu University, Japan -- Damien Sauveron _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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ICST - TRIDENTCOM 2008 - Call for Participation
by info＠icstconferences.org 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

======================================================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION to the 4th International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks & Communities TRIDENTCOM 2008 http://www.tridentcom.org March 18-20, 2008 - Innsbruck, Austria Technically co-sponsored by ACM/SIGARCH Co-sponsored by Create-Net,IMDEA Networks and ICST Early Registration deadline: February 15, 2008 ======================================================================== Telecommunication infrastructures play a vital role in modern society. Advances in the range of network service offerings, performance, quality of service, security, and ubiquity continue to flourish, despite global economy fluctuations. Access to experimental infrastructures for real- life applications by specific user communities benefits all of the stakeholders involved: the end users, because of the first-hand evaluation of the provided services, the researchers and infrastructure experimenters, because of the knowledge gained from hands-on study and analysis, and the service providers, because of the business exploitation of the network. The goal of TridentCom is to create a forum where telecommunication net- works researchers, vendors, providers and users can exchange ideas on past experience, requirements, needs, and visions for future establishment of such infrastructures. It showcases experimental activities, such as testing, verification, integration, measurement, and deployment, which are pivotal to achieving next generation communications. CONFERENCE PROGRAM ------------------ Besides the more than 30 paper-track session presentations on next generation wireless and Internet testbeds and testing tools, the TridentCom 2008 technical program will include: - a one-day workshop on the experimental evaluation and deployment experiences on vehicular networks (http://www.weedev.org), - two tutorials on the planning of testbeds for wireless community networks and on the management of Next Generation Networks, - and two special sessions on military testbeds and NGN testbed tools Keynote speeches will be held by Mr. Chip Elliott (GENI office) and by Mr. Max Lemke (EU Commision, FIRE initiative). The detailed conference program is available at http://www.tridentcom.org LOCATION -------- The conference and workshops will take place at the Hotel Grauer Baer (www.innsbruck-hotels.at/grauerbaer) which is located in the immediate city center, just a two-minute walk away from the historic Old Town of Innsbruck. The Universitätsstrasse is part of a very quiet area and is well known for its numerous cafes and bars. REGISTRATION ------------ Early Registration is open until February 15th 2008. Reduced registration fees are available for students and members of ICST, CREATE-NET, ACM and INRIA. Joint registration to TridentCom and related workshops is also possible for a reduced fee. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- General Chair Miguel Ponce de Leon, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland Technical Program Co-Chairs Frank Steuer, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany Laurens Cloete, Meraka Institute, South Africa Raheem Beyah, Georgia State University, USA Workshop Chair Pablo Vidales, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany Demo Chair Sandor Szabo, BUTE, Hungary Publicity Chair Peter Weik, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Publication Chair Thomas Springer, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany Conference Coordinator Dorothy Bany, ICST Europe Finance Chair Karen Decker, ICST USA Web Chair James Good, TSSG, Ireland Local Arrangements Chair Jens Schumacher, University of Applied Sciences Vorarlberg Panel Chair Ina Schieferdecker, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany STEERING COMMITTEE ------------------ Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net Csaba A. Szabo, BUTE, Hungary Thomas Magedanz, Technische Universität Berlin, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany -------------------------------------------------- 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://icstconferences.org/unsubscribe.php?p=ggjzadyfjh and enter your email address.

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[Tccc] CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTER: Wireless Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems
by Kevin Zhou 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTER Title: Wireless Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems (to be published by Nova Science Publishers, Inc. USA) [Apologies if you receive this more than once] ***************************************************************** Introduction Great achievements have been made in wireless communication technologies in recent years in order to meet the increasing needs of high-speed cordless connections in civil and military applications. The advances include WiFi (IEEE 802.11), WiMAX (IEEE 802.16), Wireless PAN (IEEE 802.15), sensor networks, Bluetooth, mesh/ad hoc networks, RFID, mobile IP, mobile management, smart antenna, Radio-over-fiber, OFDM/OFDMA, MIMO, cooperative communications, cognitive radio, and so on. These emerging technologies will significantly impact the design and operation of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), which aims to effectively provide higher vehicles safety, traffic management, and communications among vehicles and transport infrastructure. Currently, governmental institutes and societies in North America, Europe, Japan, and China, etc., are actively developing advanced wireless technologies for road, rail and maritime transport systems. For instance, the Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) band has been allocated in the USA at 5.9 GHz for vehicle-to-roadside (V2R) and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications. The IEEE 802.11p working group is developing enhancements of 802.11 standards to support ITS, vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), vehicular telematics, and infotainment applications. Recommended Topics (not limited to) * Smart antenna in ITS * Millimeter-wave Radar in ITS * RFID in ITS * Radio channel modeling for ITS * IEEE 802.11p for ITS * Dedicated Short Range Communications in ITS * Wireless communications for Maritime ITS * Sensor networks and technologies for ITS * Ad hoc/mesh networks for ITS * Mobile management in ITS * Vehicular networks * Heterogeneous networks for ITS * Digital maps and location technologies Important Dates * You are invited to submit a 1-2 pages proposal describing the topic of your chapter. * The proposal should include the chapter organization, number of pages of the final manuscript and contact authors. * Proposal submission due: 15 Feb 2008 * Notification of proposal acceptance: 15 Mar 2008 * Full chapter submission: 15 Jun 2008 * Review report received: 15 Aug 2008 * Final version submission: 15 Sept 2008 Note: Each leading chapter author will get a free copy of the book. Contact Please submit chapter proposal to: Dr. Ming-Tuo Zhou Wireless Communications Laboratory, NICT Singapore Office Email: zhou.mingtuo(a)ieee.org Dr. Yan Zhang Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Email: yanzhang(a)ieee.org Professor Laurence T. Yang St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Email: ltyang(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] CFP for AccessNets'08
by Tarik Taleb 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

Dear respected Computer Communications TC members, I would like to invite you to consider submitting your research work to the Third International Conference on Access Networks, AccessNets'08. The conference will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, October 15-17, 2008. The conference solicits papers on many related topics and the paper submission is due April 1, 2008. For more details, please kindly visit the official website of the conference at http://www.accessnets.org/2008/index.shtml or download its CFP from this URL: http://www.aiet.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/~taleb/AccessNets08/CFP_AccessNets08.pdf Best regards, -- Tarik TALEB Assistant Professor Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan Secretary, IEEE ComSoc Satellite & Space Communications Technical Committee URL: http://www.aiet.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/~taleb/ _______________________________________________ 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 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

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[Tccc] Extended CFP - Workshop on Improved Mobile User Experience IMUx @ Pervasive 2008 - Extended Deadline: February 8th
by Petteri Nurmi 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

[Apologies for Cross-Posting] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IMUx 2008 - CALL FOR PAPERS The Second International Workshop on Improved Mobile User Experience (IMUx 2008) http://www.hiit.fi/events/imux2008 in conjunction with the 6th International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2008), 19-22 May 2008, Sydney, Australia http://pervasive2008.org/ Extended Submission Deadline: 8 February 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THEME Current interfaces of mobile devices are rather limited when adaptability, context-awareness and proactiveness are considered. For example, they do not utilize the context of the interaction, nor the environmental changes in the user's proximity or the capabilities of the device itself. This context can include information about the situation and the user preferences, longer or shorter time usage histories, etc. To improve usability and to provide a better user experience, the interfaces of the devices should become more intelligent and require less intentional user inputs. In order to achieve this goal, novel interaction methods need to be developed and combined with statistical models of the user that capture, for example, her behavior, personal preferences and goals. Furthermore, the developed solutions need to be evaluated via extensive user tests to guarantee they are valuable to the users. To improve the dialogue between the different research areas and their practitioners, the workshop aims at bringing together researchers from the fields of user modeling, user interaction and user experience, with developers of mobile and ubiquitous applications. The ultimate goal of the workshop is to provide a common forum for exchanging ideas between these domains. The workshop welcomes two kinds of paper submissions: research papers and position papers. Also videos and demonstrations can be submitted. The research papers should present original research related to one or more of the following areas: * user interaction in mobile environments, * ubiquitous user modeling, and * mobile user experience. The position papers should address challenges in combining the above-mentioned areas, and beyond, for an improved mobile user experience, and propose approaches for overcoming these challenges. We encourage authors to take a visionary view and a critical stand towards current practices and trends. Example topics for the research and position papers include, but are not limited to, * adaptive context-aware user interfaces, * mobile computing applications with adaptation, * considerate computing, * context-aware information retrieval, * embedded solutions for machine learning, * large scale data gathering and its challenges, * large scale user studies, * minimal/implicit/reduced user interaction, * mixed-initiative interaction. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline: 8 February 2008 at 23:59 EST. Notification: 29 February 2008. Day of workshop: 19 May 2008 or 22 May 2008 (pending the Pervasive conference organizer's decision) SUBMISSIONS The manuscripts should be prepared according to the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science guidelines. The maximum length of submissions is 10 pages for research papers and 6 pages for videos and demonstrations. Papers should be submitted by email to the address imux2008(a)hiit.fi by 8th of February 2008 at 23:59 EST. Each paper will be sent for review to three members of the program committee or organizing committee. PUBLICATION Accepted papers will be published in the Adjunct Proceedings of Pervasive 2008, which will be published with the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) series and online. All participants in the workshop need to register for the event. Further information will be available later. At least one author of the accepted papers is expected to register for the workshop. COMMITTEES Organizing committee: * Péter Boda (Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto, Calif., USA) * Ákos Vétek (Nokia Research Center, Helsinki, Finland) * Patrik Floréen (HIIT, Helsinki, Finland) * Esko Kurvinen (HIIT, Helsinki, Finland) * Petteri Nurmi (HIIT, Helsinki, Finland) Program committee: * Mark Adler (Nokia Research Center, Cambridge, MA, USA) * Wray Buntine (NICTA, Canberra, Australia) * Jim Glass (MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA) * Matt Jones (Swansea University, Swansea, UK) * Johan Koolwaaij (Telematica Instituut, Enschede, The Netherlands) * Kun Chang Lee (Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea) * Rene Mayrhofer (Lancaster University, UK) * Tatsuo Nakajima (Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan) * Massimo Paolucci (DoCoMo Eurolabs, Munich, Germany) Workshop organization The program consists of invited talks together with presentations, and possibly demonstrations and videos, from the participants. Each paper presentation is allocated a time of 20-30 minutes (including Q/A time) followed by time for discussions at the end of each session. Nokia intends to sponsor an award (e.g. a mobile device) to be given out as a Nokia Best Paper Award. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Researchers] 12th IEEE/ACM DS-RT´2008 - Vancouver, Canada - 27-29/10/2008]
by Lars Wolf 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Researchers] 12th IEEE/ACM DS-RT´2008 - Vancouver, Canada - 27-29/10/2008 Datum: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:56:28 -0200 Von: Profa Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare <mirela(a)barddal.br> An: <researchers(a)mailman.ufsc.br> ======================================================== Our apologies if you have received multiple copies. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers DS-RT 2008 12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications, http://www.cs.unibo.it/ds-rt2008/ October 27-29, 2008 Vancouver, BC, Canada * IEEE/ACM pending upon Approval ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submission Deadline: May 1, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **** Scope In its twelth anniversary, the 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT 2008) will take place in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in conjunction with the 11th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM 2008). **** Symposium Objectives DS-RT 2008 serves as a forum for simulationists from academia, industry and research labs, for presenting recent research results in Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications. DS-RT 2008 targets the growing overlap between large distributed simulations and real time applications, such as collaborative virtual environments, pervasive and ubiquitous application scenarios, motor-, controller-, sensor- and actuator systems. The conference features prominent invited speakers as well as papers by top researchers in the field. DS-RT 2008 will include contributed technical papers, invited papers, and panel discussions. The proceedings will be published by IEEE-CS press. **** Call for Papers DS-RT is intended to provide an international forum for the discussion and presentation of original ideas, recent results and achievements by researchers, students, and systems developers on issues and challenges related to distributed simulation and real time applications. Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance. Demonstration of new tools/applications is very desirable. The scope of the symposium includes, but is not limited to: o- Paradigms, Methodology and Software Architectures for Large Scale Distributed and Real-Time Simulations (like e.g. Parallel and Distributed Simulation, Multi-Agent Based Distributed Simulation, HLA/RTI, Web and Grid based Simulation) o- Paradigms, Modelling, Architecture and Environments for Large Scale Real-time Systems and Concurrent Systems with hard and soft Real-Time Contstraints o- Non-functional Properties of Distributed Simulation and Real-Time Systems (like e.g. Dependability, Availability, Reliability, Maintainability, Safety, Security, Trustworthiness, QoS) o- Theoretical Foundations of Large Scale Real-Time and Simulation Models (Event Systems, Causality, Space-Time Models, Notions of Time, Discrete and Continuous Systems, Simulator Coordination) o- Simulation Studies at Large and Very Large Scale (like e.g. Industrial, Commercial, Ecological and Environmental, Societal, Power and Energy, Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing Systems) o- Performance and Validation of Large Scale and Distributed Simulations (like e.g., benchmarking and analytical results, empirical studies; DIS, HLA/RTI studies; o- Languages and Tools, Development Environments, Data Interfaces, Network Protocols and Model Repositiories that address Very Large Simulations o- Data Management and Distribution Issues, Interest Management, Semantic Modeling, Multi-resolution Modeling, Dead-Reckoning Mechanisms o- Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing Architectures and Applications that involve Simulations and/or adhere to Real-Time Constraints o- Simulation based Virtual Environments and Mixed Reality Systems (like e.g. interactive Virtual Reality, Human Communication through Immersive Environments, Collaborative Virtual and Augmented Reality, Telepresence Systems and Shared Workspaces, Shared Interaction Spaces, Shared Object Manipulation) o- Visual Interactive Simulation Environments (like e.g., Generic Animation, Visual Interactive Modeling, Interactive Computer Based Training and Learning; Scientific Visualization; High-End Computer Graphics; o- Design Issues, Interaction Designs, Human Comuter Interaction Issues raised by Large Scale DS-RT Systems o- Innovative Styles of Interactions with Large Scale DS-RT Systems (like e.g. Implicit, Situative and Attentive Interaction, Tangible Interaction, Embedded Interaction, o- Emerging Simulation Challenges (like e.g. Growth of Human Population, Climate Change, CO2, Health Care, Ecosystems, Sustainable Development, Water and Energy Supply, Human Mobility, Airtraffic, World Stock Markets, Food Supply Chains, Megacities, Global Wireless Communication, Privacy Preserving Access, etc.) **** Important dates Submission Deadline: May 1, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: July 1, 2008 Camera Ready version due: August 1, 2008 Symposium presentation: October 27-29, 2008 in Vancouver, BC, Canada IMPORTANT: ATTENDANCE BY AT LEAST ONE AUTHOR IS MANDATORY **** Submission Guidelines Papers should be written in English and should not exceed 10 pages (single-spaced) or 18 pages (double-spaced). Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. Authors are encouraged to submit papers in electronic form, postscript pdf, or Microsoft Word 6.0 (or higher) only. Genaral information regarding submission can be found at http://www.cs.unibo.it/ds-rt2008/ Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings to be published by IEEE press. Questions from authors may be directed to the General Chair or one of the PC Co-Chairs. **** Organizing Committee General Chair: David J. Roberts Centre for Virtual Environments, Business House, University Road, University of Salford, Salford, Manchester, UK Program Co-Chairs: Alois Ferscha Johannes Kepler University at Linz, Austria Abdulmotaleb El Saddik School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE), University of Ottawa, Canada Demo Chair Emiliano Casalicchio, University of Roma, Italy Poster Chair Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida, USA Steering Committee Chair Azzedine Boukerche, University of ottawa, Canada Webmaster and System co-Chair Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy Marco Di Felice, University of Bologna, Italy -- Esta mensagem foi verificada pelo sistema de antivírus 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: [Tccc] Final CfP: ACM SIGMOBILE MobilityModels'08 at MobiHoc'08]
by Lars Wolf 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Final CfP: ACM SIGMOBILE MobilityModels'08 at MobiHoc'08 Datum: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:43:50 -0500 Von: Mirco Musolesi <musolesi(a)cs.dartmouth.edu> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP. ---------------------- MobilityModels'08 First ACM SIGMOBILE International Workshop on Mobility Models for Networking Research Colocated with ACM SIGMOBILE MobiHoc'08 Hong Kong 26 May 2008 http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/mobilitymodels08/ *Scope of the Workshop* One of the key issues in the evaluation of algorithms, protocols and systems for mobile networks is modeling node mobility. Different types of models have been proposed in the last decade, from those founded on purely synthetic movements, such as the ones based on purely random movements of the nodes to the ones based aiming at reproducing the mobility patterns inside specific places like campuses or cities. In addition, efforts to collect real traces of people movement have been made and traces have been made available and used in simulators. Despite these efforts, the problem of understanding and modeling mobility, and, more specifically, human mobility remains of great interest for the mobile ad hoc networks community, as many questions are still unanswered and evaluation methodologies still unsatisfactory. New insights and more refined and realistic models are still needed, bringing together real world measurements and mathematical characterization of node mobility. These problems are of interest to anyone working on mobile networking, as these models are often at the basis of the performance evaluation, comparison, and validation of new approaches and solutions. We solicit the papers on mobility models for various wireless networks including MANETs, DTNs and vehicular networks. Papers on mobility characterizations based on real traces are also welcomed. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers working or interested in mobility modeling and characterizations. We wish to build a lively forum to propose and discuss recent advances in mobility modeling both from theoretical and practical point of views. The workshop will be opened to contributions from researchers tackling the research problems in this area from different perspectives, with the aim of discussing the many open issues in movement modeling trying to identify novel solutions to be investigated also by means of collaborations among the participants of the workshop. We will welcome especially highly innovative and/or controversial contributions, debunking existing results or confirming existing models by means of new experimental results. Papers providing key mathematical insights on open mobility modeling issues will also be highly appreciated. We invite to submit papers in the following areas: * Design, implementation and evaluation of synthetic and trace-based mobility models * Validation of synthetic models using real world traces * Mathematical characterization of human mobility * Analysis and characterization of dynamic network topologies * Mobility and connectivity modeling * Influence of mobility on radio characterization * Complex networks models for mobility modeling * Human mobility and social networks * Impact of mobility modeling on algorithms, protocols and systems performance * Network measurements and mobility characterization * Simulation tools and testbed for mobility simulation * Systems testing based on real world mobility traces * Mobility traces collection and data archive, including privacy issues * Mobility characterizations of real traces *Submission Format* Page length is up to 8 pages (10pt ACM format). The proceedings will be published by ACM and will be available in the ACM Digital Library. Papers should not be anonymized. Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF through EDAS. Instructions are available in the workshop Website. *Important dates* Submission deadline: 18 February 2008 Notification to the authors: 18 March 2008 Camera ready version deadline: 24 March 2008 Workshop date: 26 May 2008 *Organization* Workshop Program Chairs Minkyong Kim (IBM Watson, USA) Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge, UK) Mirco Musolesi (Dartmouth College, USA) Workshop Program Committee Marcelo Dias de Amorim (LIP6/University Pierre et Marie Curie, France) Elizabeth M. Belding (University of California Santa Barbara, USA) Rainer Baumann (ETHZ, Switzerland) Augustin Chaintreau (Thomson Research Paris, France) Jon Crowcroft (University of Cambridge, UK) Nathan Eagle (MIT, USA) Mario Gerla (University of California Los Angeles, USA) Tristan Henderson (University of St. Andrews, UK) David Kotz (Dartmouth College, USA) Mehul Motani (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Brian Noble (University of Michigan, USA) Paolo Santi (IIT CNR, Italy) Giovanni Resta (IIT CNR, Italy) Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos (ETHZ, Switzerland) Milan Vojnovic (Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK) -- Mirco Musolesi Dept. of Computer Science, Dartmouth College 6211 Sudikoff Laboratory Hanover NH 03755 USA Web: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~musolesi _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[ISCC] IEEE Policy 2008 -- Call for Demos
by Alessandra Toninelli 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

[Please accept our apologies if you received multiple copies of this cfp] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR DEMOS FOR POLICY 2008 2008 IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks 2-4 June 2008 Palisades, NY, USA http://www.policy-workshop.org/2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLICY 2008 is the 9th in a series of successful workshops which since 1999 have provided a forum for discussion and collaboration between researchers, developers and users of policy-based systems. This year, in addition to the latest research results from the communities working in any area of policy-based management and computing, we encourage contributions on policy-based techniques in support of management and security of all types of wireless networks: cellular, Wi-Fi, Mobile Ad Hoc, hybrids, etc. ------------------------------------------------ DEMO SUBMISSION ------------------------------------------------ To be considered for a system demonstration, contributors are invited to submit a two page system description (not including references) following the IEEE Proceedings 2-column format (for more information, please see http://ieee-formats.notlong.com). Demo submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their technical merit and novelty. Of particular interest are systems that illustrate research contributions and innovative applications of policy based technologies. Those interested in demonstrating a system/application should submit a description following the instructions in the System Submission Section. Commercial products are eligible, but sales and marketing activities are not appropriate. Extended abstracts of accepted demonstrations will be included in the workshop proceedings. The proceedings of the workshop will be published by IEEE Computer Society. If you have any questions about the suitability of your work for a demo submission, please feel free to contact the demo chair, Daniel Olmedilla, at olmedilla at L3S dot de --------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------------- System demonstration submission deadline: 9 March 2008 System demonstration notification: 22 March 2008 Camera ready copy for system demonstrations due: 1 April 2008 Workshop dates: 2-4 June 2008 ---------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ---------------------------------------------------------- General Chair * Dakshi Agrawal -- IBM Research, US Program Chairs * Ehab Al-Shaer -- DePaul University, US * Lalana Kagal -- MIT, US * Jorge Lobo -- IBM Research, US Finance Chair * Claudio Bartolini -- HP Labs, UK Publicity Chair * Alessandra Toninelli -- University of Bologna, Italy Publication Chair * Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville -- Federal University of Rio Grande de Sul, Brazil System Demonstrations Chair * Daniel Olmedilla -- L3S Research Center and Hannover University, Germany _______________________________________________ ISCC mailing list ISCC(a)mail.ing.unibo.it https://calvin.ing.unibo.it/mailman/listinfo/iscc

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[Tccc] [CFP] Special Issue of Elsevier Computer Communications on "Adaptive Multicarrier Communications and Networks"
by Yan ZHANG 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue of Elsevier Computer Communications on "Adaptive Multicarrier Communications and Networks" http://www.elsevier.com/locate/comcom Scope ===== Authors are invited to submit detailed technical manuscripts reporting recent developments in the topics related to the special issue. Multicarrier communications is a very promising technique to deliver high data rate and combat delay spread over fading channel. OFDM-based multicarrier communications is used in the standards IEEE 802.11 WirelessLAN, IEEE 802.16 WirelessMAN, and 3GPP-LTE Group 4G. Adaptability is an inherent advantage of multicarrier communication systems. It can be either implemented in each layer in the protocol stack or realized through a cross-layer approach. The essential self-x attributes, i.e. self-configuration, self-management, self-healing, in enabling autonomic adaptability are in the early stage of research. In addition, there are a number of emerging technical, economical, and regulatory challenges when the multicarrier system is co-operating with unlicensed systems via a cognitive radio paradigm. This special issue is devoted to exploring how adaptive capability is employed from physical to network and application layers in multicarrier communications, networks, systems, and standards. Some suggested topics include but are not limited to: ======================================================= . Adaptive coding and modulation . Adaptive signal processing techniques . Multicarrier CDMA/OFDMA . Multiuser interference in cellular systems . Self-configuration, self-management, and self-healing . Autonomic architectures and protocols . Cognitive and adaptive systems . Security and privacy management . Resource, Mobility and QoS provisioning . Cross-layer optimization . MAC and Network layer management . Adaptive multimedia transmission . Cooperation/Game theory for multiuser communications . Network reliability, dependability, and survivability . Network modeling and performance analysis . Multicarrier communications in Broadband Wireless Access, e.g. Cellular and WiMAX . Testbed, experiment, implementation, and applications Submission Format: ===================== The submitted papers must be written in English and describe original research which is not published nor currently under review by other journals or conferences. Author guidelines for preparation of manuscript can be found at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/comcom. For more information, please contact the guest editors or Co-Editor-in-Chief, Mohammed Atiquzzaman (atiq(a)ou.edu ) Guest Editors: ================ Prof. Hsiao Hwa Chen National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan Email: hshwchen(a)ieee.org Prof. Symeon Papavassiliou National Technical University of Athens, Greece Email: papavass(a)mail.ntua.gr Dr. Lingyang Song UniK, University of Oslo, Norway Email: lingyang(a)unik.no Dr. Yan Zhang Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Email: yanzhang(a)ieee.org Important Dates: ================= Paper submission: 01 April, 2008 Acceptance notification: 01 July, 2008 Final papers: 01 August, 2008 Publication: Fall 2008 Submission Guideline: ======================== All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through Elsevier Editorial System (EES). The authors must select "Multicarrier Comm-Zhang" when they reach the "Article Type" step in the submission process. The EES website is located at http://ees.elsevier.com/comcom/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: IEEE IWCMC 2008 (Deadline Extended), Chania Crete Island, Greece, August 6-8, 2008
by Hang Su 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP) ----------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS (Paper submission deadline extended to March 1, 2008) ************************************************************************************************* IEEE International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference 2008 (IEEE IWCMC 2008) ************************************************************************************************* URL: http://dropzone.tamu.edu/~xizhang/IWCMC2008 The IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference 2008 (IEEE IWCMC 2008) will be held in Maris Conference Centers, Chania Crete Island, Greece, August 6-8, 2008. Under the theme of "Next Generation Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing/Networking Technologies", IEEE IWCMC2008 is targeting at a wide spectrum of state-of-the-art and emerging research topics pertaining to wireless networks, communications, and mobile computing. Continuing the great success of IWCMC 2007 held last year, IEEE IWCMC 2008 is anticipated to attract an even larger number of high quality submissions and stimulate the cutting-edge research discussions amongst many academic pioneering researchers/scientists and industrial engineers/leaders from all over the world. The IEEE IWCMC 2008 program will feature a General Symposium, ten Specific Technical Symposia, invited presentations, Panel sessions, Workshops, and the Keynote Speech Sessions. Prospective authors are invited to submit their original technical papers to various IEEE IWCMC 2008 Symposia as listed below for oral presentations in the conference and publication in the IEEE IWCMC 2008 Conference Proceedings, which will be included in IEEE Xplore. All submissions should go to EDAS at http://edas.info. Please choose your symposium when submitting your papers. ************************************************* IEEE IWCMC 2008 Organizing Committee ************************************************* General Chair: Hsiao-Hwa Chen, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan, hshwchen(a)ieee.org Technical Program Committee Chair: Xi Zhang, Texas A&M University, USA, xizhang(a)ece.tamu.edu Steering Committee Chair: Mohsen Guizani, Western Michigan University, USA, mguizani(a)ieee.org Financial Chair: Sghaier Guizani, University of Moncton, Canada, sguizani(a)gmail.com Publication Chair: Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain, jlm(a)lcc.uma.es Local Chair: Athanasios V. Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece, vasilako(a)ath.forthnet.gr Publicity Chair: Hang Su, Texas A&M University, USA, hangsu(a)ece.tamu.edu ******************* Important Dates ******************* * Paper Submission Deadline: March 1, 2008 (Extended) * Paper Acceptance Notification: May 15, 2008 * Camera-ready Paper Submissions: June 8, 2008 * Registration Deadline for Authors: June 8, 2008 * Hotel Reservation Deadline: July 10, 2008 * Conference Date: August 6-8, 2008 *********************************************** IEEE IWCMC 2008 Technical Symposia *********************************************** (1) General Symposium Chair: Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, University of Waterloo, Canada, xshen(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Co-Chairs: Yu Cheng, IIT, USA, cheng(a)iit.edu Jun Cai, Univ. of Manitoba, Canada, jcai(a)ee.umanitoba.ca (2) Communication and Information Theory Symposium Co-Chairs: Hamid Sadjadpour, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA, hamid(a)soe.ucsc.edu Ananthram Swami, Army research Lab, aswami(a)arl.army.mil Brian Sadler, Army research Lab, bsadler(a)arl.army.mil (3) Computer and Network Security Symposium Chair: Xiaojiang (James) Du, North Dakota State University, USA, xiaojiang.du(a)ndsu.edu Co-Chairs: Cliff Wang, Army Research Office, cliff.wang(a)us.army.mil Dan Massey, Colorado State University, massey(a)cs.colostate.edu Christos Papadopoulos, Colorado State University, christos(a)cs.colostate.edu (4) Cross-Layer Optimized Wireless Networks Symposium Chairs: Xi Zhang, Texas A&M University, USA, xizhang(a)ece.tamu.edu Co-Chairs: Peter T.S. Yum, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China, tsyum(a)ie.cuhk.edu.hk Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National University, Korea, schoi(a)snu.ac.kr (5) MIMO Systems Symposium Chair: Zhengyuan Xu, University of California, Riverside, USA, dxu(a)ee.ucr.edu Co-Chairs: Wan Choi, Information and Communications University, Korea, wchoi(a)icu.ac.kr Javier Garcia-Frias, University of Delaware, USA, jgarcia(a)ee.udel.edu Mounir Ghogho, Leeds University, UK, m.ghogho(a)leeds.ac.uk Liuqing Yang, University of Florida, USA, lqyang(a)ece.ufl.edu (6) Mobile Computing Symposium Co-Chairs: Jie Li, University of Tsukuba, Japan, lijie(a)cs.tsukuba.ac.jp Kun Yang, University of Essex, UK, kunyang(a)essex.ac.uk Pingyi Fan, Tsingha University, P.R. China, fpy(a)mail.tsinghua.edu.cn Xiaohua Jia, City University of Hong Kong, Hongkong, jia(a)cs.cityu.edu.hk Changcheng Huang, Carleton University, Canada, huang(a)sce.carleton.ca (7) Multimedia over Wireless Symposium Chair: Haohong Wang, Marvell Technology Group, USA, haohongwang(a)yahoo.com Co-Chairs: Chingyao Huang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, cyhuang(a)mail.nctu.edu.tw Zhihai He, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA, HeZhi(a)missouri.edu Xiao Su, California State University, San Jose, USA, xiaosu.sjsu(a)gmail.com Vice-Chairs: Zafer Sahinoglu, Mitsubishi Electric Research, Laboratories, USA, zafer(a)merl.com Junqing Chen, Micron, USA, junqing.chen(a)gmail.com (8) Next Generation Mobile Networks Symposium Chair: Victor Leung, The University of British Columbia, Canada, vleung(a)ece.ubc.ca Co-Chairs: Ekram Hossain, University of Manitoba, Canada, ekram(a)ee.umanitoba.ca Javan Erfanian, Bell Mobility, Canada, javan.erfanian(a)bell.ca (9) WiMAX/WiBro services and QoS Management Chair: Minho Jo, Sungkyunkwan Univ. South Korea, minhojo(a)skku.edu Co-chairs: Takashi Shono, Intel Corporation, Japan, takashi.shono(a)intel.com Ammar Rayes, Cisco Systems, USA, rayes(a)cisco.com A. Al-Fuqaha, Western Michigan University, USA, alfuqaha(a)cs.wmich.edu Yong Soo Cho, Chung-Ang Univ., South Korea, yscho(a)cau.ac.kr (10) Wireless LANs and Wireless PANs Symposium Co-Chairs: Cheng Li, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, licheng.mun(a)gmail.com Tarik Taleb, Tohoku University, Japan, taleb(a)aiet.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp (11) Wireless Sensor Networks Symposium Chair: Yang Yang, University College London, UK, y.yang(a)ee.ucl.ac.uk Co-Chairs: Rohit Nabar, Marvell Semiconductor, USA, rnabar(a)marvell.com Song Ci, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA, sci(a)engr.unl.edu ****************************** IWCMC 2008 Workshops ****************************** (1) Workshop on Antenna Technology: Antennas, Structures and Materials and Applications Contact person: Karim Kabalan, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, kabalan(a)aub.edu.lb (2) Workshop on Cooperative Networking Applications, Theory & Usability Studies (CONATUS 2008) Contact person: Ala Al-Fuqaha, Western Michigan University, USA, alfuqaha(a)cs.wmich.edu _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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IEEE GLOBECOM 2008: Call for Papers
by Meetings＠comsocconferences.org 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

IEEE GLOBECOM 2008: Call for Papers IEEE GLOBECOM --- the premier telecommunications event --- covers the entire range of communications technologies, offering in-depth information on the latest developments in voice, data, image, and multimedia. Co-located with the World Telecommunications Congress (WTC), IEEE GLOBECOM will feature 11 Symposia, Tutorials, Workshops, a Design & Developers Forum, and the Communications EXPO. ================================================================================ We invite you to submit papers for IEEE GLOBECOM's acclaimed Technical Program in the following areas of communications. Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Mesh Networking ~ Communications Theory ~ Network Security Quality of Service, Reliability & Performance Modeling ~ Software & Services Next Generation Networks, Protocols & Services ~ Optical Networks & Systems Signal Processing ~ Wireless Communications ~ Wireless Networking Other Selected Areas including Data Storage, Satellite & Space Communications Emerging Technologies for Access & Home Networks, plus other selected topics For a list of potential topics and submission instructions: visit www.ieee-globecom.org/2008 IMPORTANT DEADLINES >Paper Submissions: 15 March 2008 >Notification: 28 June 2008 >Camera Ready Artwork: 15 August 2008 ================================================================================ Submissions are also welcomed for Tutorials, Workshops, and the Design & Developers Forum. Tutorials: proposals for half-day and full-day presentations on conference topics are due by 15 March 2008. Workshops: submissions on the latest technical and business issues in communications and networking topics are due by 1 March 2008. Design & Developers Forum: submissions featuring emerging technologies and business applications for design and developers are due by 15 March 2008. ================================================================================ To unsubscribe from this IEEE Communications Society Meetings and Conferences mailing list send a blank email message to GC_08_CFP-remove(a)comsocconferences.org. You can also request removal by email or regular mail. Please email a message with your email address and the list name (GC_08_CFP(a)comsocconferences.org) to optout(a)comsoc.org or mail a note with the same information to ComSoc List Removal - IT 3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor New York, NY 10016 USA

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[Tccc] ONE MONTH TO GO: Cannes, French Riviera --- IEEE PIMRC 2008 --- 15-18 September 2008--- www.pimrc2008.org
by Chia-Chin Chong 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

Dear colleagues, The 19th edition of IEEE PIMRC will be held from 14-18 September 2008 in glamorous Cannes, French Riviera, France, at the "Palais des Festivals de Cannes" where traditionally the Cannes Film Festival is being held. With Cannes being one of the most charming places on earth, we expect this to be a truly special conference. The paper submission deadline is 3 March 2008. The CFP can be found below, with more information available under [1]www.pimrc2008.org. Kind regards, Chia-Chin -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Chia-Chin Chong, Ph.D. DoCoMo USA Labs, 3240 Hillview Avenue Palo Alto CA, 94304 USA. Tel.: +1-650-496-4734 Fax: +1-650-493-9601 Email: [2]cchong(a)docomolabs-usa.com [3]Chia-Chin.Chong(a)ieee.org URL: [4]http://www.docomolabs-usa.com -------------------------------------------------------------- **********************Confidentiality Note********************** Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this e-mail and any attachment to it and may be covered by existing non-disclosure or confidentiality agreements. If you are not the addressee (or authorized to receive for the addressee), you may not use, copy or disclose to anyone any information contained in this e-mail. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete it from your system. Thank you very much. ************************************************************* ===================================================================== IEEE PIMRC 2008 Cannes, French Riviera, France 14-18 September 2008 [5]www.pimrc2008.org ===================================================================== Overview: The annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) is one of the premier conferences in the wireless research arena and has a long history of bringing together academia, industry and regulatory bodies. Today, it has become one of IEEE ComSoc's flagship conferences in telecommunications. The 19th edition of PIMRC will be held from 15-18 September 2008 in glamorous Cannes, French Riviera, France, at the "Palais des Festivals de Cannes" where traditionally the Cannes Film Festival is being held. With Cannes being one of the most charming places on earth, we expect this to be a truly special conference. For more details, please, visit [6]www.pimrc2008.org. Focus: PIMRC 2008 will provide a global forum for presenting the most recent advances, the future technical challenges and business opportunities that comprise the contemporary landscape in wireless communications. The organizers endeavour to attract contributions covering not only conventional areas of wireless communications (e.g., physical layer), but also emerging areas with high potential for essential scientific and societal impact such as wireless sensors for biomedical applications, non-trivial pervasive computing services and ambient technologies. The latter areas are expected to facilitate the development of a broad vision of innovative future applications in wireless communications. The high quality IEEE endorsed technical programme, will also include tutorials, workshops, exhibitions, panel discussions and keynote presentations from leading experts coming from the academic community, industry, as well as regulatory and standardisation bodies. Call for Papers: Authors are invited to submit high-quality papers describing original and previously unpublished contributions in a wide range of topics in wireless communications. These topics are clustered into the following four major categories: * Fundamentals & Physical Layer * MAC & Cross-Layer Design * Mobile and Wireless Networks * Applications, Services & Business Approach Papers should be in English, strictly not exceeding 5 double-column pages. Authors should use the relevant IEEE template, ensuring an IEEE Xplorer compatible PDF-format. Important dates are: * full papers: 3 March 2008 * acceptance notice: 1 May 2008 * final manuscript: 2 June 2008 * presentation: 16-18 September 2008 To access the full list of topics, submission guidelines, as well as venue and travel information please visit [7]www.pimrc2008.org. Call for Tutorials: Tutorial presenters are invited to submit high-quality tutorial proposals to Prosper Chemouil [[8]prosper.chemouil(a)orange-ftgroup.com] by using the submission form provided online. Tutorials should focus on recent cutting-edge R&D topics and should be self-contained in nature. Important deadlines are: * tutorial proposal: 3 March 2008 * acceptance notice: 17 March 2008 * handout due: 1 September 2008 * presentation: 15 September 2008 Call for Workshops: Workshop organizers are invited to submit high-quality workshop proposals on novel and emerging topics related to the general focus of the main conference to Cedric Westphal [[9]cwestphal(a)docomolabs-usa.com] by using the submission form provided online. The organizer(s) of accepted workshops will need to prepare their own website (either hosted externally or by the IEEE), as well as CFP and list of TPC members. Papers need to be uploaded to the EDAS system and will go through the usual review process to ensure a high quality. Paper submission and notification deadlines are up to the organizer(s); however, final papers are due by 2 June 2008. Important dates are: * workshop proposal: 15 January 2008 * acceptance notice: 30 January 2008 * final manuscripts: 2 June 2008 * presentation: 15 September 2008 Call for Special Sessions Special session organizers are invited to submit high-quality proposals to Didier Bourse [[10]didier.bourse(a)motorola.com] by using the submission form provided online. The organizer(s) of accepted special sessions will need to take care of the invitation of high-quality papers, where a special session ought to accommodate five papers. Papers need to be uploaded to the EDAS system and will go through the usual review process to ensure a high quality. Paper submission and notification deadlines are up to the organizer(s); however, final papers are due by 2 June 2008. Important dates are: * session proposal: 15 January 2008 * acceptance notice: 30 January 2008 * final manuscripts: 2 June 2008 * presentation: 16-18 September 2008 Call for Panels Panel animators are invited to submit high-quality panel proposals to Frank Fitzek [[11]ff(a)kom.aau.dk] by using the submission form provided online. Panels should focus on recent cutting-edge R&D topics and should be populated by speakers with differing opinions. Important dates are: * panel proposal: 15 January 2008 * acceptance notice: 30 January 2008 * speaker confirmation: 1 April 2008 * presentation: 16-18 September 2008 Committee: The updated committee is available at [12]www.pimrc2008.org --> Committees. References 1. http://www.pimrc2008.org/ 2. mailto:cchong@docomolabs-usa.com 3. mailto:Chia-Chin.Chong@ieee.org 4. http://www.docomolabs-usa.com/ 5. http://www.pimrc2008.org/ 6. http://www.pimrc2008.org/ 7. http://www.pimrc2008.org/ 8. mailto:prosper.chemouil@orange-ftgroup.com 9. mailto:cwestphal@docomolabs-usa.com 10. mailto:didier.bourse@motorola.com 11. mailto:ff@kom.aau.dk 12. http://www.pimrc2008.org/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] Hetersenet'08 (collocated with Mobihoc 08)
by Srdjan Krco 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

(We apologize if you received multiple copies of this CFP.) CALL FOR PAPERS *********************************************************************** The First ACM International Workshop on Integrated Heterogeneous Sensor Networks (HeterSenet 2008) Hong Kong, China, May 30, 2008, co-located with ACM MobiHoc http://anyserver.cityu.edu.hk/HeterSenet/hetersenet.htm *********************************************************************** Recent years have witnessed an increasing trend of integration of sensor networks with existing infrastructure networks like wired networks and wireless local/wide-area networks. Such integration provides several key technical advantages including significant improvement of sensor networks' capacity/coverage, ubiquitous access of physical information and involvement of people (e.g., mobile phone users) in the process of information gathering and sharing. As a result, a range of new context and location-aware pervasive computing applications will be enabled. The workshop seeks to provide a forum for the presentation of research results on the integration of sensor networks with existing infrastructure networks like wired networks, and wireless local/wide-area networks. A heterogeneous network environment is typically composed of terminals with different capacities such as sensors, actuators, mobile devices (PDAs and mobile phones), and Internet hosts. Seamlessly integration of these terminals requires innovative network architectures, data services, and communication protocols. In urban environments, mobile phones can be used as sensors to collect image, audio, video and location information. New business models and incentives should be sought to allow mobile phone users to participate in the creation and provision of sensor based services. The workshop will cover data link, network and transport layers, as well as application, data services and middleware, security, power management issues in integrated heterogeneous networks, including sensors and actuators, local area, vehicular, personal, and wide-area networks. Possible topics of interests include, but are not limited to: - integration of sensor networks with the future Internet architecture - network support for creation and deployment of sensor based services - interconnection between sensor networks and 3G networks - multimedia (audio/video) sensor networks - delay-tolerant sensor networks - sensor database systems and operating systems - addressing, position determination, service and location discovery - sensor area coverage, data-centric operations - data communication, routing and broadcasting protocols - traffic engineering and multimedia, Quality of Service (QoS) - resource management and scheduling - application of RFID in sensor networks - security for integrated and heterogeneous sensor network systems - performance evaluation, testbeds, modeling and simulation. *********************************************************************** Important Dates Submission deadline: Feb. 26, 2008 Acceptance notification: March 20, 2008 Workshop: May 30, 2008 *********************************************************************** Submission Details Papers should be submitted in PDF format via email (pedrom@dif.um.es;srdjan.krco@ericsson.com;glxing@cs.cityu.edu). Submissions must be correctly formatted to fit on U.S. "Letter" size paper, which is 8.5 inches wide by 11 inches tall. The margin is at least 1 inch on all edges (top, bottom, left, and right) of each page. The size of font should be at least 10 point. *********************************************************************** Organization Committee General Chair: Weijia Jia (City University of Hong Kong) Program Co-Chair: Pedro M. Ruiz (University of Murcia, Spain) Program Co-Chair: Guoliang Xing (City University of Hong Kong) Program Co-Chair: Srdjan Krco (Ericsson Ireland) Technical Program Committee Chun Tung Chou, University of New South Wales Marco Conti, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica, CNR Sajal Das, University of Texas at Arlington Mischa Dohler, France Telecom Silvia Giordano, University of Applied Science SUPSI Alexandar Gluhak, Ericsson Ireland Research Centre Qingfeng Huang, PARC Inc. Raja Jurdak, UCD Ireland Thomas Kunz, Carleton University Miguel A. Labrador, Univ. of South Florida Benyuan Liu, University of Massachusetts Lowell Hai Liu, Univ. of Ottawa Cormac Sreenan, University College Cork Sotiris Nikoletseas, CTI Patras, Greece Dirk Pesch, CIT Cork Neeli Prasad, Aalborg University Dan Wang, HK Polytechnic Univ. Jianping Wang, City Univ. of HK Jie Wu, Florida Atlantic University Juan A. Sanchez, Univ. of Murcia Leo Selavo, University of Latvia John Stankovic, University of Virginia Vlasios Tsiatsis, Ericsson Research Sweden Gang Zhou, College of William and Marry __________________________________________________ Dr Srdjan Krco Ericsson Ireland Research Centre (EIRC) E-mail: srdjan.krco(a)ericsson.com Phone:+353 1 2072238 LM Ericsson Limited Registered Office: Beech Hill, Clonskeagh, Dublin 4 Registered Number in Ireland : 21679 This communication is confidential and intended solely for the addressee(s). Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. 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CfP: 1st Workshop on Urban Networks and Applications (UNA ’08)
by Lars Wolf 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

1st Workshop on Urban Networks and Applications (UNA ’08) Lakeshore Hotel, Hsinchu, Taiwan, August 4-6, 2008 http://una.cs.ucc.ie held in conjunction with the 13th IEEE Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference http://www.ccrc.nthu.edu.tw/acsac2008 Urban settings are host of diverse networking technologies, from cellular and wired broadband to WiMAX, WiFi, Bluetooth and, more recently, mesh and sensor networks. While this rich environment offers opportunities for connectivity, inter-operability and sharing of services and resources, the co-existence of these heterogeneous technologies, competing for the same resources and offering similar services, poses difficult engineering and legal problems. For example, network planning is a major issue that can determine the effective use of each network and, when possible, inter-operability of the networks. Cities administrations are keen to deploy and take advantage of public service networks, whereas citizens are interested to use public or private services at home, at work or while driving or walking. Private initiatives may selectively focus on certain niche services. Overall, urban networks can increase the quality of life in cities and can make the distinction among cities. In achieving this goal, many technical challenges have to be tackled. This workshop will be a forum for discussion of new and interdisciplinary ideas on new architectures, paradigms, concepts, service models and novel applications for urban networks. The topics for submission include but are not limited to: cognitive radio technologies congestion control micro- and pico-cell control architecture hybrid cell configuration sensor networks in urban settings personal area networks vehicular networks mesh networks mobile ad hoc networks networks planning networks inter-operability data mining of a large volume of data in urban networks database support for urban networks network and service discovery mobility supporting services context awareness mobile middleware ubiquitous and urban computing urban network systems and applications locative media and applications access, security and privacy in urban networks Submissions Both research and industry papers are solicited. Submitted papers should be original, unpublished work and not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers reporting work in progress are welcome. Questions about the submission process should be directed to the workshop chair. All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by members of the international program committee. Accepted papers will appear in the Proceedings of ACSAC 2008, which is to be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Papers are limited to 8 pages including figures and references and they must follow the IEEE 8.5"x11" two-column format guidelines described at http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/cps_forms.html Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format through https://www.softconf.com/starts/acsac2008/submit.html The publication of a paper requires at least one of the authors to register and be present at the conference. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected. Important dates Paper submissions due: March 20, 2008 Acceptance notification: April 30 2008 Final camera-ready due: May 10, 2008 Workshop Chair Dan Grigoras University College Cork, Ireland d.grigoras(a)cs.ucc.ie Workshop Publicity Chair Daniel Doolan University College Cork, Ireland d.doolan(a)cs.ucc.ie Program Committee Jemal Abawajy Deakin University, Australia Akira Arutaki NEC Communication Systems, Japan Antonio Capone Politecnico di Milano, Italy Valentin Cristea Politehnica University Bucharest, Romania Mario Gerla University of California, Los Angeles, USA Mads Haahr Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Diego López de Ipiña Deusto University, Spain Seung Jin Lim Utah State University, USA Chun-Yuan Lin Chang Gung University, Taiwan Alex Nicolau University of California, Irvine, USA Giovanni Pau University of California, Los Angeles, USA Gregor Schiele Mannheim University, Germany Cormac Sreenan University College Cork, Ireland Lars Wolf Technical University Braunschweig, Germany

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[Tccc] IEEE Mobile Video Delivery (MoViD) 2008: Call for Papers
by shamik＠cs.ucf.edu 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

(Apologies for multiple copies. Appreciated if you can forward to potentially interested persons) *********************************************** IEEE MoViD 2008 First IEEE Workshop on Mobile Video Delivery In conjunction with IEEE WoWMoM 2008 http://eecs.ucf.edu/movid/ 23 June 2008 Newport Beach, CA, USA *********************************************** The unprecedented growth in video content generation and delivery has created the new era of video Internet where video-based applications have gained tremendous popularity. This trend has forced the network and service providers to understand the limitations of current Internet and bring new technologies for delivering the video content to the end-user. Furthermore, criticality of the wireless networks pose new challenges in video delivery specific to the diverse set of underlying network technologies including Wi-Fi, WiMax etc. The focus of this workshop is to present and discuss recent advances in the wireless network technologies and video delivery mechanisms for supporting the broad spectrum of emerging video-centric applications. The workshop will have the goal of understanding the research and deployment challenges in building the Next Generation Mobile Video Internet. Specifically, the workshop intends to address the following topics: a) Research challenges in developing new methods for delivering rich video experience to users over existing wireless technologies; b) New visions and concepts that will drive evolution of wireless access technologies to support high definition video content with diverse QoS requirements; c) Deployment challenges in new video delivery models (broadcast/multicast) to mobile users. The workshop aims to foster interaction among researchers and exchange new ideas by bringing together members of the video and networking communities. The workshop will provide an interesting venue to discuss widely varying beliefs and understanding being formed among the academic and industrial communities in terms of how next generation mobile video content should delivered to end-users. The technical program committee invites the submission of original, unpublished technical papers in the following areas (but not limited to): Application-specific technologies in supporting **Mobile VoD, SDV, IPTV **Mobile video conferencing **Mobile video gaming **Video surveillance and sensing Performance **Quality of experience metrics **Video quality measurement **Performance analysis **Experimental results from testbed/deployments Encoding and Transport **Wireless video coding techniques **Adaptive media coding **Link adaptive transport mechanisms Wireless network techniques and protocols **802.11 WLAN/802.11n **802.16 WiMax **3G cellular networks **DVB-H **MAC/PHY layer techniques Wireless delivery models **Broadcast/multicast/simulcast **P2P mobile video **Vehicular video delivery Submission Instructions ======================= Papers should contain original material and not previously published, or currently submitted elsewhere. Manuscripts must be limited to 6 pages in IEEE 8.5x11 conference format, and formatted in strict accordance with the IEEE Computer Society author guidelines. All submissions will be handled electronically. Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press in the combined WoWMoM 2008 workshop proceedings. Important Dates =============== Submission Deadline: Feb 11 Accept/reject notification: Mar 15 Camera ready paper due: Apr 02 Workshop Organizers =================== Mainak Chatterjee, University of Central Florida Samrat Ganguly, NEC Laboratories, America Technical Program Committee (List incomplete) =========================== Suman Banerjee, University of Wisconsin-Madison Suchi Bhandarkar, University of Georgia Siddhartha Chattopadhyay, Google, Inc. Sujit Dey, University of California, San Diego Pascal Frossard, EPFL Dilip Krishnaswami, University of California, Davis Giridhar Mandayam, Qualcomm Kiran Mukkavilli, Qualcomm Raja Neogi, Radisys Inc. Thinh Nguyen, Oregon State University Vikram Srinivasan, Bell Labs, India Deepak Turaga, Nokia Research Stephan Wenger, Qualcomm Magda El Zarki, University of California, Irvine Jian Zhang, University of New South Wales Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore Publicity Chair =============== Shamik Sengupta, Stevens Institute of Technology Web Chair ========== Wenjing Wang, University of Central Florida =============================================== http://eecs.ucf.edu/movid/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] cfp: Mobile Computing Symposium of IWCMC2008 - deadline extended to 1st of March
by Kun Yang 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers Mobile Computing Symposium of The 2008 International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC2008) August 6-8, 2008 in Chania Crete Island, Greece http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~kunyang/Services/IWCMC08/MC-IWCMC08.html Deadline extended to 1st March 2008! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scope and Topics of Interest ----------------------------------- The IWCMC2008 Mobile Computing Symposium focuses on the recent research results on mobile computer system. Perspective authors are invited to submit full papers presenting original research related to the theory or practice of mobile computing and networking. All submissions must report high-quality and previously unpublished work. Areas of interest mainly focus on mobile computing, including, but are not limited to: * Mobile Computing Infrastructure and Middleware * Adaptive Service Engineering, including Service Creation, Service Composition, Service Adaptation, Service Discovery, Service Deployment, Service Management, etc. * Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing and Service Engineering * Novel Methodologies, Techniques or Toolkits for Pervasive Service Engineering in Mobile Environments * Web caching and services * Context-awareness * Peer-to-peer Networks and Computing * Grid Computing in Mobile Environment * Security Issues in Mobile Computing * Accounting and Pricing * Practical applications However, research papers on mobile networks and wireless communications that underpin the upper layer computing are also welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Mobile wireless QoS * Mobile wireless Internet, IPv6 * Mobile ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks * 4G, 3.5G, 3G, ... wireless systems * Satellite-based systems * Ultra-wide band communications (UWB) * Routing, multicasting, ... * Location-based service, GPS * Resource management * Heterogeneous wireless networks, radio access networks * Multiple access * Mobile agents * Wireless applications, mobile e-commerce, multimedia * Power aware computation and communication * Multi-user detection * Power management & control, low-power protocols * Transport-layer issues * Wireless security * Distributed algorithms for wireless networks * High altitude platform * Wireless network architectures * Wireless multimedia, QoS adaptation * Wireless communication around human body * Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) * Personal area networks, body wireless networks, Bluetooth * Coding & modulation * MIMO, adaptive antenna * W-CDMA, CDMA2000, TD-SCDMA * Software-defined radio, reconfigurable radio networks * Modeling, simulation Important dates --------------- Full Paper Submission March 1, 2008 Notification of Acceptance May 15, 2008 Camera-Ready Version and Copyright Form Submission June 8 Registration Deadline for Authors June 8 Hotel Reservation Deadline July 10 Paper Submission Web Site http://www.edas.info/Conferences.cgi Submission Guidelines --------------------- For this symposium, authors are invited to submit full papers presenting new research related to the theory or practice of mobile computing and networking. All submissions must describe original research, not published or currently under review for another conference or journal. All papers are limited to six printed pages, including text, figures and references, and must be written in English and follow the standard IEEE double-column format. The font size must be at least 10 points. All submissions will be handled electronically through EDAS system at http://www.edas.info/Conferences.cgi and must be in PDF format. All submitted papers would be judged based on their quality through a double peer-reviewing process. Accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings of IWCMC2008. Symposium Co-Chairs ------------------- Jie Li: University of Tsukuba, Japan Kun Yang: University of Essex, UK Pingyi Fan: Tsingha University, P. R. China Xiaohua Jia: City University of Hong Kong, Hongkong Changcheng Huang: Carleton University, Canada Technical Program Committee ------------------------------------- (Listed in the Alphabetic Order of Last Name) Jiannong Cao Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong Zhining Chen Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) Singapore Yen-Wen Chen National Central University Taiwan Komosny Dan Brno University of Technology Czech Republic Ken Guild University of Essex UK Andreas Heiner Nokia Finland Liang Hu Jilin University China Yeonkwon Jeong Information and Communications University Korea Qun Jin Waseda University Japan Chonggun Kim Yeungnam University Korea Laurent Lefevre INRIA RESO - LIP France Minglu Li Shanghai Jiantong University China Wanjiun Liao National Taiwan University Taiwan Geyong Min University of Bradford UK Shumao Ou University of Essex, UK Jianping Pan University of Victoria Canada ChangWoo Pyo National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) Japan Yi Qian National Institute of Standards and Technology USA Matthew R McKay Hong Kong University of Science and Technology China Joan Serrat UPC - Bacelona Spain Gangxiang Shen University of Melbourne Australia Liansheng Tan Central China Normal University China Guojun Wang Central South University China Jiahong Wang Iwate Prefectural University Japan Xianbin Wang CRC Canada Kui Wu University of Victoria Canada Jiang (Linda) Xie The University of North Carolina at Charlotte USA Hidetoshi Yokota KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc. Japan Tingting Zhang Mid Sweden University Sweden Yan Zhang Simula Research Laboratory Norway Naor Zohar University of Haifa Israel _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] MobiCom'08 CFP]
by Lars Wolf 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] MobiCom'08 CFP Datum: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:24:45 -0800 Von: Cedric J A. Westphal <cwestphal(a)docomolabs-usa.com> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Papers. Please note that the CFP deadline has changed from the preliminary CFP, and is now March 7 (paper registration) and March 14 (manuscript upload). Regards, Cedric Westphal, Ryuji Wakikawa, Mischa Dohler MobiCom'08 Publicity Chairs. CALL FOR PAPERS MobiCom 2008 The Fourteenth Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking September 14-19, 2007 San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2008/ Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE ACM MobiCom is the premier international conference dedicated to addressing the challenges in the areas of mobile computing and wireless and mobile networking. It has served as an exciting international forum since 1995, addressing networks, systems, algorithms, and applications that support the symbiosis of mobile computers and wireless networks. This year, we will continue this tradition, but we especially encourage the submission of papers in the experimental systems area. This area has seen exciting developments in recent years and explicit efforts will be taken to represent it strongly at MobiCom this year. Authors are invited to submit full papers, challenges papers, student posters, and research demos and exhibits, presenting new research related to the theory or practice of mobile computing and/or wireless and mobile networking. All submissions must describe original research, not published or currently under review for another conference or journal. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * Operating system and middleware support for mobile computing and networking * Architectures, protocols, and algorithms to cope with mobility, limited bandwidth, limited power and/or intermittent connectivity * Fundamental understanding of mobile computing and wireless networking * Wireless and mobile techniques for delay tolerant, mobile ad hoc, and wireless sensor networks * Security, privacy, and trustworthiness of mobile and wireless systems * Wireless access technologies (e.g. mesh systems, PANs) * Integration and interworking of wired and wireless networks * Protocols exploiting novel technologies such as UWB, MIMO, directional antennas, and software radios * Techniques for dynamic spectrum use * Architectures, algorithms and protocols for cognitive wireless networks and their integration in the Internet * Modeling, measurement and simulation of mobile networks * Experimental test-beds for mobile/wireless networks * Performance evaluation of mobile and wireless networks, protocols, and systems * Next generation (beyond 802.11) wireless technologies and related systems and protocols Submission Instructions Detailed instructions on how and where to submit your paper can be found at http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2008/cfp.pdf Important Dates Abstracts submission due: March 7, 2008 Paper submissions due: March 14, 2008 Notification of acceptance: TBD Camera-ready version due: TBD General Chair - jj(a)soe.ucsc.edu: J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, UC Santa Cruz and PARC Technical Co-Chairs - mobicom08_pcchairs(a)acm.org: Raghupathy (Siva) Sivakumar, Georgia Tech Peter Steenkiste, Carnegie Mellon University FOR MORE INFORMATION: Please contact the General Chair or Program Co-Chairs for more information. For information on ACM SIGMOBILE and the MobiCom series of conferences, see http://www.sigmobile.org/ or contact mobicom_info(a)acm.org. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[New2an-pc] NEW2AN 2008, St.Petersburg, Russia
by Yevgeni Koucheryavy 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

Sincere apologies for receiving this CFP more than once The 8th International Conference on Next Generation Teletraffic and Wired/Wireless Advanced Networking NEW2AN 2008 http://www.new2an.org/ CALL FOR PAPERS About the Conference Next-generation mobile networks will evolve out of existing wired and wireless networks of different nature by means of convergence, fusion and mutual penetration; next-generation multimedia services in turn pose new requirements and challenges on treatment of traffic within communication systems – a certain degree of multilayer co-operation has to be achieved. This forms a framework on harmonization of results obtained separately in different areas of network research like network performance evaluation, architecture and protocol design, and low layer network design. The conference goal is in the identification, investigation and integration of new algorithms, approaches, architectures, methods and mechanisms to enable proper and efficient operation of a next-generation IP-based wireless network. Special emphasis will be given to next-generation traffic issues, it indeed remains true that much uncertainty surrounds the future traffic features and volumes, mainly because of converged type of traffic resulted from converged network operation under converged services and applications. Moreover, wireless access networks and their interaction shall be widely examined and addressed throughout the conference. The history of NEW2AN dates back to 1993, today it is an established conference featured by proceedings published by Springer LNCS and distinguished invited speakers. The NEW2AN and ruSMART will be held in St. Petersburg, Russia - the meeting point of East and West. Through its stunning architecture and wonderful art galleries and museums, among a number of other attractions, the wealth of history of East and West can be seen and felt in this beautiful city. Topics of interest Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * New Teletraffic and Network Traffic Challenges and Paradigms * Emerging Teletraffic Models and Tools * Future Internet Services: Teletraffic and Performance Issues * Traffic Classification and Characterization * Performance Evaluation of Mobile and Wireless Networks * Multidisciplinary Approaches for Traffic Analysis and Management * Traffic Engineering & QoS in all-IP Networks * Network Modeling, Simulation, Emulation and Tomography * Network Planning and Network Engineering * Resource Management and Congestion control * Traffic and performance monitoring in Future Networks * Overlay Networks * 3G and Beyond Networks * Autonomic Communications * Ad hoc and Sensor Networks * Wireless Mesh and Multi-Hop Networks * Heterogeneous Wireless Access Networks * Wireless Protocols * Mobility Management * Medium Access Control Protocols and Scheduling Techniques for Wireless Systems * Cross-layer Interactions * Applications for Multimedia-enabled Wired And Wireless all-IP Networks * Network Security * AAA, pricing, charging and billing for Wireless Technologies Paper submission Authors are invited to submit full papers in English of not more than 20 double-spaced pages, 12 pt font size. All papers must include a title, complete contact information for all authors, and keywords on the cover page. The corresponding author should be identified clearly. Papers must be submitted electronically (in PDF format) via on-line submission procedure. Proceedings will be published by LNCS Springer (pending). Selected best papers will appear in a journal special issue. Important dates Paper submission April 07, 2008 Notification of acceptance May 26, 2008 Camera ready version June 09, 2008 Conference dates September 1 - 5 , 2008 The Conference is organized by Tampere University of Technology (Finland) and BalticIT (Russia) in cooperation with ITC (International Teletraffic Congress), IEEE Russia Northwest BT/CE/COM Chapter, Popov Society, and support of NOKIA. For further and up-to-date information please visit official web page of the Conference http://www.new2an.org _______________________________________________ New2an-pc mailing list New2an-pc(a)cs.tut.fi https://mailman.cs.tut.fi/mailman/listinfo/new2an-pc

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[Tccc] Call For Papers: WSUPT-08 in Brazil
by ltyang＠gmail.com 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

Please apologize for multiple copies. ==================== WSUPT'08 CALL FOR PAPERS ========================== The 2008 Workshop on Simulation of Urban Planning and Transportation Systems(WSUPT'08) (http://www.cc.chu.edu.tw/~sclo) in conjunction with The 2008 IEEE 11th International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE 2008) Sao Paulo - Brazil July 16-18, 2008 Welcome Message The 2008 IEEE 11th International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering is mainly intended to be an open forum for discussion on the current trends and future directions of advanced computing for science and engineering application. This workshop focuses on the area of simulation techniques and application for urban planning and transportation systems. The aim of this workshop is to provide original material and up-to-date synthesis of the state of modern transportation analysis, simulation of urban planning and strategies, simulation of urbanization and regional development, logistics and interdisciplinary application of scientific computing in urban and transportation studies. We therefore invite urban and regional planners, transportation researchers, computational scientists and engineers, computer scientists and applied mathematicians to present their recent advances, ideas, results and to exchange experiences in the areas of modeling, simulation, optimization and other support for problems in urban planning and transportation systems. This workshop is considered as a special workshop in conjunction with the 2008 IEEE 11th International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE 2008). We welcome contributions from researchers of academia and industry. Best Regards, Workshop Chair Prof. Shih-Ching Lo Department of Transportation Technology and Logistics Management, Chung Hua University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan Workshop Topics Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Urban Planning Strategy, development and management - Social differences and urbanization - Financial Topics on Urban Planning - Modeling and Simulation of transportation systems - Transportation demand analysis - Land use and transport integration - Collaboration of Public and Private Sector - Theories and method from operational research - Investment and optimum use of transport infrastructure and regional development - Environmental Protection, risk and impact - Logistics and operations models, especially with application; - Logistics and supply-chain management topics; Program Co-chairs - Yiming Li, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan - Tzu-I, Tseng, National Center for High-performance Computing, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan Important Dates - Full papers submission: March 1, 2008 - Notification of acceptance of papers: April 1, 2008 - Camera ready papers: April 25, 2008 - Workshop: July 16-18, 2008 Paper Submission Authors are expected to submit a paper in PDF format with 5-10 keywords following the IEEE CS format. (http://www.computer.org/portal/site/cscps)Program committee members and external reviewers will provide authors with at least three technical reviews. Submitted papers will be ranked based on relevance to the Conference and technical merit. Final version of accepted papers should at most 6 pages and will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press as CSE-08 workshop proceedings. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will be removed from the IEEE Digital Library after the conference. Please submit your paper to the workshop through the submission page of the workshop (http://cse.stfx.ca/~cse08workshops/sub/). Please select the The 2008 Workshop on Simulation of Urban Planning and Transportation Systems (WSUPT 08) in the frame of Workshop. For any questions, please contact Prof. Shih-Ching Lo via e-mail (sclo(a)chu.edu.tw). _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] ACM FOWANC -- 2 weeks to go
by Rong Zheng 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of the CFP. -------------------------------------------------------- The First ACM International Workshop on Foundations of Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networking and Computing (FOWANC 2008) In conjunction with ACM MobiHoc 2008 May 26, 2008 Hong Kong SAR, CHINA http://nrl.uncc.edu/FOWANC/ IMPORTANT DATES Submission of Papers: 10 February 2008 Notification of Acceptance: 18 March 2008 Final version: 26 March 2008 CONFERENCE THEME Recent research in a variety of wireless ad hoc networks, such as mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), wireless mesh networks, wireless sensor networks, wireless personal area networks, vehicular networks, RFID networks, and hybrid networks, raises a number of interesting, and difficult, theoretical and algorithmic issues. This workshop is devoted to distributed algorithms and theoretical methods in the context of mobile ad hoc and sensor networking and computing. The workshop is intended to foster cooperation among researchers in mobile ad hoc and sensor networking and theoreticians in algorithm and theory, and push the theoretical research forward for a deeper understanding about ad hoc and sensor networking and computing. This workshop covers the all areas of ad hoc and sensor networking and computing, from physical issues up to applications, with a focus of theoretical and algorithmic aspect. In particular, it will cover distributed algorithms, optimizations, analysis and modeling, randomized algorithms, mechanism design, and theoretical methods in ad hoc and sensor networking and computing. Typical topics include (but not limited to): Channel assignment and management Coding theory and network coding Cryptography, security and privacy Distributed algorithms Dynamic and random networks Dynamic graph algorithms Energy conservation methods and protocols Localization and location tracking Mechanism design and game theory Modeling and complexity analysis Routing, multicast and broadcast Scheduling Selfish behavior and cooperation Synchronization Protocol optimization SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS FOWANC 2008 will only accept electronic on-line submissions. Detailed instructions can be found in the workshop web page. Accepted papers will be published by ACM. Simultaneous submissions to other conferences with published proceedings are not allowed. PROGRAM CO-CHAIRs: Xiang-Yang Li, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Yu Wang, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA PUBLICITY CHAIR: Rong Zheng, University of Houston, USA PUBLICATION CHAIR: Xinbing Wang, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Stefano Basagni, Northeastern University, USA Stephan Eidenbenz, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA Andras Farago, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Jie Gao, University of SUNY Stony Brook, USA Santosh Kumar, University of Memphis, USA Qun Li, College of William and Mary, USA Zongpeng Li, University of Calgary, Canada Benyuan Liu, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Jiangchuan Liu, Simon Fraser University, Canada Yunhao Liu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China Archan Misra, IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA Thomas Moscibroda, Microsoft Research, USA Thyaga Nandagopal, Bell Labs, USA Srinivasan Parthasarathy, IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA Chiara Petrioli, University of Rome, Italy Rajmohan Rajaraman, Northeastern University, USA Yi Shi, Virginia Tech, USA Wen-Zhan Song, Washington State University, USA Martha Steenstrup, Stow Research, USA Subhash Suri, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Xinbing Wang, ShangHai JiaoTong University, China Chih-Wei Yi, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Rong Zheng, University of Houston, USA _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] Last CFP Med-Hoc-Net 2008 [Deadline January 30] 7th IFIP Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop
by Carlos Guerrero Tomé 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

******************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS The 7th IFIP MEDITERRANEAN AD HOC NETWORKING Workshop (Med-Hoc-Net 2008) June 23-27 2008, Palma de Mallorca, Spain http://medhocnet08.uib.es ******************************************************************** Ad hoc networks have attracted the attention of the research community in the last several years. Now that some of the fundamental issues and challenges of ad hoc networking have been clearly assessed, the focus is partially shifting to new issues, which include application scenarios (road safety, disaster recovery, sensors and actuators, etc.), autonomous organization and operation, optimization and control, service creation and support, middleware. Moreover, wireless MESH networking is emerging as an "ad hoc spin-off" aimed at extending and integrating the multi-hop paradigm with more traditional networking, which poses new and exciting technical challenges. Med-Hoc-Net 2008 is the major annual international workshop aiming to serve as a platform for researchers and visionaries from academia, research labs, and industry from all over the world. Sharing ideas, views, results, and experiences in the field of wireless multi-hop networking is what Med-Hoc-Net 2008 intends to be about. Anything from theoretical and experimental achievements, to innovative ad hoc systems, prototyping efforts, and case studies is of interest to the Med-Hoc-Net community. The papers solicited in Med-Hoc-Net 2008 cover a variety of topics related to ad hoc and MESH networks, including but not limited to: - Novel multi-hop wireless network architectures - Routing algorithms and protocols - MAC protocols, scheduling, power control and radio resource sharing - Transport layer protocols for multi-hop networks - Middleware for ad hoc networks - Application driven architectures and protocols - Sensor network applications and protocols - Vehicular networks - Integration of ad hoc networks with wireless access networks - Implementations, testbeds, and prototypes - Technology related issues (IEEE 802.11, Bluetooth, ZigBee, IEEE 802.16, IEEE 802.20, etc.) - Self organization and network reconfiguration - Optimization models and algorithms - Resource and service discovery - Call admission and traffic shaping policies for ad-hoc networks - Use of advanced antenna technologies (MIMO, beam forming, etc.) - QoS support - Security and privacy The members of program committee will referee all papers, and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by Springer Science-Business Media (SSBM) in LNCS or IFIP Series. Submitted manuscripts must be formatted according to the SSBM IFIP Series formats (URL: http://springer.com/series/6102). Authors should submit a paper in English of up to 12 pages, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling. Submitted papers should address original work not published or under revision elsewhere. All submissions will be refereed by experts in the field based on originality, significance, quality, and clarity. Papers should be submitted in PDF format according to the timetable below. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- *** New deadline for full paper electronic submission: January 30, 2008 *** *** Tutorial proposal submission: February 15, 2008 *** Paper notification of acceptance/rejection: February 29, 2008 Camera ready submission of full papers: March 20, 2008 Tutorial date: June 23 and/or June 24, 2008 Contact: Ramon PUIGJANER Universitat de les Illes Balears E-mail: medhocnet08(a)uib.es Check our Web page at http://medhocnet08.uib.es for the latest information concerning the conference GENERAL CHAIR ------------- R. Puigjaner, Universitat de les Illes Balears, ES PROGRAM CHAIR ------------- P. Cuenca, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, ES ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIR -------------------------- B. Serra, Universitat de les Illes Balears, ES PUBLICITY CHAIR --------------- C. Guerrero, Universitat de les Illes Balears, ES STEERING COMMITTEE ------------------ I. F. Akyildiz, Georgia Institue of Technology, US K. Al Agha, Université Paris-Sud, FR M. Gerla, UCLA, US F. Kamoun, ENSI, TN G. Pau, UCLA, US G. Pujolle, Université Paris 6, FR PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ------------------- O. Altintas, Toyota IT Center, JP O. B. Akan, Middle East Tech. University, TR A. Azcorra, Universidad Carlos III, ES B. K. Bhargaya, Purdue University, US C. Blondia, University of Antwerp, BE A. Boukerche, University of Ottawa, CA J. C. Cano, Universitat Politècnica València, ES R. Cardell-Oliver, University of Western Australia, AU M. Cesana, Politecnico di Milano, IT T. Chahed, INT. Evry, FR S. Chandran, MIMOS, MY C. Chaudet, ENST, FR M. Conti, CNR, IT F. de Rango, Universita di Calabria, IT C. Douligeris, University of Piraeus, GR B. Dudourthial, UTC, FR E. Ekici, Ohio State University, US A. Farago, University of Texas, Dallas, US L. Fratta, Politecnico Milano, IT S. Galmés, Universitat de les Illes Balears, ES J. García-Vidal, Universitat Poliècnica Catalunya, ES A. Garrido, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, ES I. Guerin-Lassous, INRIA, FR G. Haring, Universität Wien, AT S. Heemstra de Groot, Delft University of Technology, NL H. Hellbrück, Universität Lübeck, DE O. Koné, Université Paul Sabatier-IRIT, FR H. Liu, University of Ottawa, CA M. López, UAM-I, MX M. Lenardi, Hitachi Europe, Sophia Antipolis Lab., FR P. Lorenz, Université d'Haute Alsace, FR M. Lott, Siemens AG, DE P. Manzoni, Universitat Politècnica València, ES C. Mascolo, University College London, UK D. Meddour, France Telecom, FR P. Minet, INRIA, FR A. Murphy, Universita di Lugano, IT S. Nikoletseas, CTI/University of Patras, GR L. Orozco-Barbosa, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, ES M. Pérez, Universidad Miguel Hernández, ES E. Rosti, Universita di Milano, IT P. Ruiz, Universidad de Murcia, ES P. Santi, CNR, IT B. Serra, Universitat Illes Balears, ES D. Symplot-Ryl, Université de Lille, FR V. Syrotiuk, Arizona State University, US D. Turgut, University of Central Florida, US J. Villalón, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, ES L. Villaseñor, CICESE, MX T. Watteyne, France Telecom, FR S. Weber, Trinity College Dublin, IE J. Wozniak, Technical University of Gdansk, PL H. Yomo, Aalborg University, DK _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: MCN-Infocom'08 -- Abstract Submission Deadline Feb-7]
by Lars Wolf 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: MCN-Infocom'08 -- Abstract Submission Deadline Feb-7 Datum: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:08:18 -0500 Von: Mohamed Younis <younis(a)cs.umbc.edu> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> CC: 'Silvia Giordano' <silvia.giordano(a)supsi.ch>, 'Moustafa Youssef' <moustafa.youssef(a)gmail.com> 2nd IEEE Workshop on Mission-Critical Networking (MCN'2008) http://www.criticalnet.org/ In conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM'2008 Phoenix, Arizona, April 13-18 "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, emergency and crisis intervention, and military operations. Such networking is essential for safety, security and economic vitality in our complex world characterized by uncertainty, heterogeneity and emergent behaviors. MCN should comprise the best possible networking technology, infrastructure and services that may alleviate the risk and help save the lives of both the general public and the network users. As advances in pervasive computing, wireless communication, ad hoc and mesh networking and networked sensor systems continue, more opportunities are being opened to mission-critical networks to benefit from these technologies. A primary challenge to the operations of mission-critical networks is to deploy a communication network that is dependable, autonomic, secure, and rapidly deployable. In order to operate effectively, the deployed networks should support services such as location determination of authorized and unauthorized entities, audio and video communication, secure 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, visual analytics, and service-oriented architecture. Another key feature for mission-critical networking is to support interactions among multiple heterogeneous networks. This workshop solicits high quality technical contributions to the area of mission-critical networking. The manuscript must explicitly address relevance to MCN. Topics include, but are not limited to the following: . Smart environments and infrastructures . Rapidly deployable services and networks . Vehicular networks . Body sensor networks . Cognitive and autonomic networks, protocols, and services . Ubiquitous networking and services . Security, dependability, privacy, QoS and performance awareness and trade-offs . Sensor and actuator networks for information gathering and real-time control . Decentralized and peer-to-peer resource management and allocation . Trust management, security, interoperability, survivability and QoS support . Context-aware network and service management . Location determination and tracking . Energy efficiency . Admission, load and flow control . Visual analytics . Critical traffic and mobility analysis . Cross-layer design and optimization . Components and architectures for next-generation emergency calling and alerting . Network policy management . Testbeds, benchmarks, performance and experimental studies General Chairs . Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virginia Tech, USA . Henning Schulzerinne, Columbia University, USA Program Chairs . Hannes Tschofenig, Siemens AG, Germany . Moustafa Youssef, Alexandria University, Egypt Publicity Chairs . Silvia Girodano, University of Applied Science, Switzerland . Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Panels Chair . Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA Awards Chair . Ashok Agrawala, University of Maryland, USA . Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas, USA Technical Program Committee * Ehab Al-Shaer, DePaul University, USA * Nils Aschenbruck, University of Bonn, Germany * Cory Beard, University of Missouri Kansas City, USA * David Du, National Science Foundation (University of Minnesota), USA * Hossam Hassanein, Queens University, Canada * Wendi Heinzelman, University of Rochester, USA. * Sushil Jajodia., George Mason University, USA * James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA. * Deepa Kundur, Texas A&M University, USA * Victor Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada * Scott Midkiff, Virginia Tech, USA. * Nader Moayeri, NIST, USA * Farid Nait-Abdesselam, Univ. of Sciences and Tech. of Lille, France * Cristina Pinotti, University of Perguia, Italy * Jean-Jacque Quisquater, Catholic University, Belgium * Pedro M. Ruiz, University of Murcia, Spain * Krishna Sivalingam, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA * Robin Sommer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA * Doru Tiliute, University of Suceava, Romania * Gene Tsudik, University of California Irvine, USA * Stephen D. Wolthusen, University of London, UK * Naoki Wakamiya, Osaka University, Japan * Michele Weigle, Old Dominion University, USA Manuscript Submission Submitted papers must be unpublished and must not be currently under review for any other publication. All paper submissions will be handled electronically in EDAS. Authors should prepare a Portable Document Format (PDF) version of their full paper. Papers must be no longer than 6 pages and in font size no smaller than 11 points. Please refer to the INFOCOM manuscript preparation page for details and make sure the manuscript conforms to the format/font/page requirements. Manuscripts that are not compliant with the requirements may be declined without review. All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality through peer reviewing, where TPC members are invited to assess the scientific contributions of papers. For more information send email to info(a)criticalnet.org. Manuscript Submission Submitted papers must be unpublished and must not be currently under review for any other publication. All paper submissions will be handled electronically in EDAS. Authors should prepare a Portable Document Format (PDF) version of their full paper. Papers must be no longer than 6 pages and in font size no smaller than 11 points. Please refer to the INFOCOM manuscript preparation page for details and make sure the manuscript conforms to the format/font/page requirements. Manuscripts that are not compliant with the requirements may be declined without review. All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality through peer reviewing, where TPC members are invited to assess the scientific contributions of papers. Proceedings will appear in IEEE Xplore and INFOCOM CD. For more information send email to info(a)criticalnet.org. Important Dates Abstract Submission: February 7, 2008 Paper Submission: February 15, 2008 Acceptance Notification: March 10, 2008 Camera Ready Due: March 18, 2008 Workshop Date: April 18, 2008 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE Network Special Issue on Implications and Control of Middleboxes in the Internet]
by Lars Wolf 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE Network Special Issue on Implications and Control of Middleboxes in the Internet Datum: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:51:54 +0100 Von: Xiaoming Fu <fu(a)cs.uni-goettingen.de> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Our apologies if you receive multiple copies. Please feel free to forward this CFP to related colleagues and students for information. --------------------------------------------------------- Submission deadline is due in 5 weeks! Call for Papers IEEE Network Magazine Special Issue on Implications and Control of Middleboxes in the Internet Important Dates =============== Manuscript Submission Due: March 1, 2008 Acceptance Notification: June 1, 2008 Final Manuscript Due: July 15, 2008 Special Issue Publication Date: September/October 2008 Call for Papers =============== Network Address Translators (NAT) and IP firewalls have been introduced to the Internet some time ago, and over the time become an integral part of the Internet architecture. Moreover, there are also other types of middleboxes, such as Virtual Private Network (VPN) gateways, Application Layer Gateways (ALG), Performance Enhancing Proxies (PEP) and web proxies. These intermediary boxes perform functions different from normal IP packet treatment, which can even change the content of packets or do rerouting of IP packets. There have been diverse views on the value of middleboxes. Some believe that middleboxes introduce problems for network applications as well as challenges to the traditional end-to-end Internet architecture. These issues range, for instance, but not limited to, from naming and addressing of nodes behind NATs, directionality of communication establishment, and performance impairments. On the other hand, many administrators and operators see the middleboxes represent an important part for their network operations. For example, firewalls are widely deployed with the intention of securing enterprise, campus and home networks, so as to block attacks to nodes or keep nodes from sending malicious traffic. The Internet community has acknowledged the emergence of the middleboxes and developed middlebox control and coordination protocols that allow end hosts (or application proxies) to learn about the presence of middleboxes and communicate their needs (i.e. required packet treatment) to those devices. A number of middlebox control protocols, such as UPnP, MIDCOM and STUN, have been developed over the years and are partially used in current deployments. The papers in this special issue will focus on the state-of-the-art research in various aspects of middleboxes and middlebox control mechanisms, which help to understand their impact to the Internet architecture and network operations, and how they can be further integrated, or leveraged for different purposes, such as load balancing and mobile network environments, among the others. Specifically, within the aforementioned context in Internet middleboxes and their control mechanisms, the special issue will present tutorials, surveys and original research articles (written in a tutorial manner readable by non-specialists) that cover the following subjects, but not limited to: * Middlebox-supported network architectures vs. other Internet evolution alternatives (e.g., IPv6) * Design and/or performance evaluation of middlebox software architectures * Control and coordination across middleboxes and their traversal mechanisms * Security, including authentication, authorization and accounting issues with middlebox control/traversal mechanisms * Scalability and performance studies of middlebox control/traversal mechanisms * Deployment scenarios and case studies (corporate, ISP, content providers, mobile environments etc.) based on middleboxes * Interaction and implications with other network protocols and components * Interaction and implications with end-to-end applications and services * Related standardization efforts Manuscript Submission ===================== With regard to both the content and formatting style of the submissions, prospective contributors must follow the IEEE Network guidelines for authors that can be found at http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/net/ntwrk/authors.html. Submitted papers must be original and must not be under current consideration for publication in other venues. Authors should submit a PDF format of their complete papers via http://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6198. Guest Editors ============= Prof. Xiaoming Fu Institute for Computer Science University of Goettingen Goettingen Germany Email: fu(a)cs.uni-goettingen.de Martin Stiemerling NEC Europe Laboratories Network Research Division Heidelberg Germany Email: stiemerling(a)netlab.nec.de Prof. Henning Schulzrinne Department of Computer Science Columbia University New York, NY USA Email: hgs(a)cs.columbia.edu ---------------------------------------------------- Any inquiry to this CFP? mailto:ieeenet-si@cs.uni-goettingen.de _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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