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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IFIP Networking 2021: Call for Papers -- Deadline: January 21, 2021 (HARD)
by Lars Wolf 07 Jan '21

07 Jan '21

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IFIP Networking 2021: Call for Papers -- Deadline: January 21, 2021 (HARD) Datum: Wed, 6 Jan 2021 16:44:29 -0500 Von: Francesco Restuccia <f.restuccia(a)NORTHEASTERN.EDU> Antwort an: Francesco Restuccia <f.restuccia(a)NORTHEASTERN.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ***************************************************************** * Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Papers. ****************************************************************** IFIP Networking 2021 Espoo, Finland June 21-24, 2021 Homepage: https://networking.ifip.org/2021 The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Networking 2021 Conference (IFIP NETWORKING 2021) will be held in Aalto University, Espoo, Finland. This is the 20th event of the series, sponsored by the IFIP Technical Committee on Communication Systems (TC6). Accepted papers will be published in the IFIP Digital Library. High quality papers will be recommended for fast track publications in selected journals. The main objective of Networking 2021 is to bring together academic and industrial experts of the networking community to discuss the most recent advances in networking, to highlight key issues, identify trends, and develop a vision of the future Internet and wireless networking from the usage, design, deployment and operation standpoints. Networking 2021 technical sessions will be structured around the following areas, although we also encourage submissions on other relevant areas: * Network Architectures, Applications and Services - Network automation and management - Software-defined networking (SDN) - Artificial intelligence and networking - Service function chaining - (Multi-tenant) network slicing - Drone networking and unmanned technology-based services and applications - Protective and collaborative networking - Internet of Things (IoT) and crowdsensing/crowdsourcing - Trustworthy and multi-metric routing - Quantum communications - Fog and edge computing - Heterogeneous and integrated networks - Tbit/s optical networking - Overlay and P2P networks - Evolution of IP network architectures and protocols - Green networking - Resilient networks - Traffic engineering - Quality of Service - Emerging value-added services and applications - Web technologies * Network Modeling, Analysis, Operation, and Economics - Topology characterization - Performance measurements - Traffic monitoring and analysis - User behavior modeling - Quality of Experience - Data-driven network design - User profiling and tracking - Complex and dynamic networks - Analysis of participatory networks - Social networking - Socio-economic aspects of networks, pricing and billing - Network neutrality * Network Security, Trust and Privacy - Network security protocols - Anomaly and malware detection - Network forensics - Network security measurement - Authentication - Network attack/intrusion detection and mitigation - Applications of privacy-preserving computation in networks - Anonymization - Dependability - Situational awareness - Threat intelligence - Blockchain, ledger technologies and their network-related applications * Wireless Networking - 5G access networks - Long-range communications - Mobile networks - Self-organizing networks - Wireless sensor networks - Visible light communications - Localization and positioning - Delay/disruption tolerant networks - Opportunistic networks - Wireless power transfer networks - Device-to-device communications - Vehicular networks and communications - Beyond 5G and 6G theories and technologies - mmWave and THz communications The Conference Program will include plenary sessions, breakout sessions, keynote talks, a panel, a poster/demo session and a workshop day. ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE GENERAL CHAIRS: Raimo Kantola, Aalto University, Finland Lars Eggert, NetApp, Finland PROGRAM CHAIRS: Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland Gareth Tyson, Queen Mary University, UK Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, University at Buffalo, USA STEERING COMMITTEE: Robert Bestak, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic Andrea Passarella (Chair), IIT-CNR, Italy Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University, USA Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich, Switzerland Joerg Widmer, IMDEA Networks, Spain IMPORTANT DATES Title/Abstract submission (required): January 21, 2021 (HARD) Full paper submission: January 21, 2021 (HARD) Notification of acceptance: April 1, 2021 Camera-ready version: May 7, 2021 Full Event: June 21-24, 2021 Submission guidelines can be found at http://networking.ifip.org/2021/call-for-papers. -- Francesco Restuccia Assistant Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Faculty, Roux Institute Associate Faculty, Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things Northeastern University, USA Website: https://restuccialab.org ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. 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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CfP: CPSS 21] 7th ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop (CPSS 2021)
by Lars Wolf 06 Jan '21

06 Jan '21

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CfP: CPSS 21] 7th ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop (CPSS 2021) Datum: Tue, 5 Jan 2021 18:39:37 +0100 Von: Alessandro Brighente <brighent(a)DEI.UNIPD.IT> Antwort an: Alessandro Brighente <brighent(a)DEI.UNIPD.IT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG *7th ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop (CPSS 2021)* held in conjunction with ACM AsiaCCS'21 Hong Kong, China, 7 June 2021 https://spritz.math.unipd.it/events/2021/CPSS [The workshop will be held online] *Important Dates* Submissions Due: January 27, 2021 AoE Notification: February 26, 2021 Camera-ready Due: March 15, 2021 The 7th ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop will take place together with the 16th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM ASIACCS 2021). It will be held on June 7th, 2021. For more information: ACM ASIACCS 2021 https://asiaccs2021.comp.polyu.edu.hk *Call for Papers* Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) of interest to this workshop consist of large-scale interconnected systems of heterogeneous components interacting with their physical environments. There exist a multitude of CPS devices and applications deployed to serve critical functions in our lives thus making security an important non-functional attribute of such systems. This workshop will provide a platform for professionals from academia, government, and industry to discuss novel ways to address the ever-present security challenges facing CPS. We seek submissions describing theoretical and practical solutions to security challenges in CPS. Submissions pertinent to the security of embedded systems, IoT, SCADA, smart grid, and other critical infrastructure are welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Attack detection for CPS Authentication and access control for CPS Autonomous vehicle security Availability and auditing for CPS Blockchain for CPS security Data security and privacy for CPS Digital twins for CPS Embedded systems security Formal methods in CPS Industrial control system security IoT security Legacy CPS system protection Lightweight crypto and security Maritime cyber security Recovery from cyber attacks Security and risk assessment for CPS Security architectures for CPS Security by design for CPS Smart grid security Threat modeling for CPS Transportation system security Vulnerability analysis for CPS Wireless sensor network security *Submission and Final Preparation Instructions* Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal, workshop, or conference with proceedings. The review process is single-blinded, i.e., the papers should not be anonymized. Submissions must be in double-column ACM SIG Proceedings format <http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates>, and should not exceed 12 pages. We also welcome position papers describing work in progress, Systematization of Knowledge papers (distinguished with "SOK:" in the title), and papers describing novel testbeds. Only pdf files will be accepted. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the workshop. At least one author of the paper must be registered at the appropriate conference rate. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. There will also be a best paper award. *Program Chairs* Mauro Conti (University of Padua, Italy) Nils Ole Tippenhauer (CISPA, Germany) *Web Chair* Federico Turrin (University of Padua, Italy) *Publication Chair* Alessandro Brighente (University of Padua, Italy) *Program Committee* Ali Abbasi (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany) Cristina Alcaraz (University of Malaga, Spain) Lejla Batina (Radboud University, Netherlands) Federica Battisti (University of Padua, Italy) Xiuzhen Cheng (George Washington University, USA) Yanick Fratantonio (CISCO Talos, Austria) Sokratis Katsikas (NTNU, Norway) Marina Krotofil (ABB, UK) Nicola Laurenti (University of Padua, Italy) Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) Mihalis Maniatakos (New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE) Daisuke Mashima (Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore) Aditya Mathur (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore) Martín Ochoa (AppGate Inc., Colombia) Federica Pascucci (Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy) Radha Poovendra (University of Washington, USA) Xi Qin (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA) Awais Rashid (University of Bristol, UK) Rodrigo Roman (University of Malaga, Spain) Martin Strohmeier (University of Oxford, UK) Johanna Ullrich (SBA Research, Austria) Chia-Mu Yu (National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan) Indrakshi Ray (Colorado State University, USA) Stefano Zanero (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Sencun Zhu (The Pennsylvania State University, USA) Saman Zonouz (Rutgers University, USA) *Contact* Website: https://spritz.math.unipd.it/events/2021/CPSS E-mail: cpss21(a)easychair.org CPSS Home: http://jianying.space/cpss/ ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. 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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ACM TOIT SI on Recent Advances in Networks and Distributed Systems
by Lars Wolf 06 Jan '21

06 Jan '21

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ACM TOIT SI on Recent Advances in Networks and Distributed Systems Datum: Tue, 5 Jan 2021 13:07:24 -0800 Von: Mathias Fischer <mathias.fischer(a)IEEE.ORG> Antwort an: mathias.fischer(a)IEEE.ORG An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Call for papers --------------------------------------------------------------------- ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT) Special Issue on Recent Advances in Networks and Distributed Systems --------------------------------------------------------------------- Scope ----- Several recent developments like the advent of the Internet-of-Things, network softwarization, mission-critical applications, and artificial intelligence have posed challenges for the Internet, and more generally for networks and distributed systems: (1: IoT) The Internet-of-Things will boost the number of Internet nodes well beyond the billions, leads to new traffic patterns (e.g., high-frequency low-volume), and accelerates the other developments described hereafter. (2: SDN++) Softwarization "conquers" the net. What has started with SDN and NFV will continue to lead to more flexibility and enable disruptive change, such as the competitive co-existence of old and new, e.g., content-centric, world-wide networks. As this softwarization significantly increases the complexity of today's networks, new and more security problems will result. Moreover, softwarization comes at a performance price, which is at odds with mission-critical, real-time communication. (3: MCA) Mission-critical applications, formerly confined to dedicated real-time systems and (TSN, industrial Ethernet, ...) networks, are conquering public and wide area networks. This impacts technologies and protocols (such as 5G URLLC) as well as architectures, such as approaches to move cloud functionality closer to the action scene, e.g., via fog and edge computing. (4: AI.net) The resurgence of AI, evoked by stunning successes of machine learning, boosts the need for computing resources that cannot be embedded in myriads of IoT devices and energy-critical handhelds like smartphones. This and the need for joint processing, requires shuffling 'big data' from the action scene to those resources, accelerating the need for offloading approaches and, depending on the application and the distribution of stakeholders, aggravating the three afore-mentioned challenges. These four challenges - abbreviated as IoT, SDN++, MCA, and AI - are densely interwoven, both mutually supporting and mutually aggravating each other. In the TOIT special issue, we bring together contributions to all four challenges and seek to track down their positive and negative interdependencies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: --------------------------------------------------- * Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and their application in, and impacts on, networking * Evolution from cloud computing to mobile cloud, fog and edge computing * Consistency, reliability, availability, and programming support for meeting the MCA challenge in networks * Contributions to the four challenges in context of cyber-physical systems * Emerging networked applications * Green and energy-efficient networks and networked systems * Information-centric networking, content distribution and retrieval, and their co-existence with classical networks * Network architectures and protocols * Approaches to the pertinent network security and privacy aspects * Methods for design, implementation, and analysis of networked systems considering the recent challenges and advances * Pertinent middleware architectures and platforms for networked systems * Pertinent concepts for mobile, ad-hoc, opportunistic, vehicular, sensor networks * Advancements to software-defined networking, network function virtualization, and further network softwarization * Reflection of recent challenges in SoA, web services, and mobile services * Advancements in social networks, social computing, data-intensive computing * Novel concepts for tactile and low-latency communication * Transport- and application-layer protocols in response to the four challenges Submission Instructions ----------------------- Please refer to http://toit.acm.org/authors.cfm for submission instructions. Submit your paper at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/acm/toit and select the SI “Recent Advances in Networks and Distributed Systems”. However, please be aware that the submission will not be possible until one month before the actual deadline. Important Dates --------------- * Manuscript submission: 31 March 2021 * First notification: 31 June 2021 * Revised version: 31 August 2021 * Final notification: 30 September 2021 * Final paper due: 15 October 2021 * Publication date: To be scheduled 2021/2022 Guest Editors ------------- * Prof. Jörg Liebherr, University of Toronto, Canada * Prof. Mathias Fischer, Universität Hamburg, Germany * Prof. Max Mühlhäuser, TU Darmstadt, Germany * Prof. Winfried Lamersdorf, Universität Hamburg, Germany Fur further information, please email mathias.fischer(a)ieee.org ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. 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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2021) 25-28 June 2021, Tokyo, Japan
by Lars Wolf 05 Jan '21

05 Jan '21

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2021) 25-28 June 2021, Tokyo, Japan Datum: Tue, 5 Jan 2021 09:31:08 -0800 Von: Wei Wang <wwang(a)sdsu.edu> Antwort an: Wei Wang <wwang(a)sdsu.edu> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2021) 25-28 June 2021, Tokyo, Japan https://iwqos2021.ieee-iwqos.org/ Quality of Service (QoS) has long been the focus of communications and networking researchers worldwide. While traditional QoS research areas continue attracting much interest, recent exploration of Internet of things, data centers, virtualization, cloud and fog computing, green computing, and AI has motivated a new wave of research interest in service guarantees with QoS, and its related metrics of Quality of Experience (QoE), Quality of Protection (QoP), Software Quality, Data Quality, or, more broadly, Quality of Information Technology. For more than two decades, IWQoS has established itself as a highly reputable forum to present novel ideas on all QoS-related subjects. The 29th International Symposium on Quality of Service (IEEE/ACM IWQoS 2021) sets the goal to continuing to be a premier symposium and an international forum for presentation and discussion of cutting-edge research in the field. The scope of IEEE/ACM IWQoS 2021 covers both newest theoretical and experimental research papers. Topics of interest include (but not limited to) the following areas: ● Artificial Intelligence for QoS ● Data analytics for QoS ● QoS for data analytics and machine learning ● QoS in Internet of Things (IoT), cyber-physical networks ● QoS in cloud computing, fog computing and edge computing ● Blockchain for QoS ● Security, privacy, system dependability, resilience and robustness ● QoS in software-defined networking ● QoS in information-centric networking ● QoS in mobile and next generation cellular networks ● System dependability, availability, resilience and robustness to faults and security attacks ● Robustness against security vulnerabilities in critical infrastructures ● QoS-aware scheduling, resource management, queue management, admission control ● Traffic engineering approaches and tools for QoS provisioning and evaluation ● QoS evaluation metrics and methodologies ● Quality of software ● QoE in multimedia networks ● Measurement, evaluation, adaptation, and verification ● Network operations, network economics, pricing and billing ● Architectures and protocols for QoS, QoP or QoE support ● Energy awareness in communication and computing systems ● Design for future networks and computing systems with integrated QoS Paper Submission Guidelines: IEEE/ACM IWQoS invites submission of manuscripts with original research results that have not been previously published or that are not currently under review by another conference or journal. Submissions will be rigorously judged based on originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness. IWQoS aims at the rapid dissemination of research results. Regular paper submissions should be no longer than 10 single-spaced, double-column pages (including references) with a font-size of 10. Reviewing will be double-blind. Submissions must not reveal the authors’ names and their affiliations and avoid obvious self-references. Submissions not meeting these guidelines will be rejected without consideration of their merits. Papers must be submitted electronically as PDF files. Please follow the submission link on https://iwqos2021.edas.info/ to submit your paper. Important Dates: Paper Registration Deadline: 15 February 2021 Paper Submission Deadline: 22 February 2021 Notification of Acceptance: 23 April 2021 Camera-ready Deadline: 13 May 2021 General Chairs: Hitoshi Asaeda, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan Jiannong Cao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China Program Committee Chairs: Ruidong Li, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan Wenjing Lou, Virginia Tech, USA *COVID-19 Statement: The IWQoS2021 organizing committee (OC) is closely monitoring the COVID-19 situation that could impact in-person attendance and paper presentations. In case of travel restrictions, the OC is considering that remote presentations and participation will be considered. ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: WF-IoT 2021 Call for Papers(CFP) , Tutorials, and Industry Forum Proposals
by Lars Wolf 05 Jan '21

05 Jan '21

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: WF-IoT 2021 Call for Papers(CFP) , Tutorials, and Industry Forum Proposals Datum: Tue, 5 Jan 2021 06:30:15 -0600 (CST) Von: IEEE Communications Society <ieee-comsoc(a)deliver.ieee.org> Antwort an: no-reply(a)deliver.ieee.org An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de IEEE Master email The 7th IEEE World Forum on the Internet of Things will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana USA June 20th – 24th, 2021. The 7th IEEE World Forum on the Internet of Things - WFIoT2021 <https://connect.ieee.org/JP33G90XPH0U80r0aq00000> Hi Lars, We are seeking technical paper submissions and proposals for tutorials, and Industry Forums for the 7th IEEE World Forum on the Internet of Things being held in New Orleans, Louisiana USA June 20th – 24th, 2021. The Forum is the premier event of the Multi-Society IEEE IoT Initiative <https://connect.ieee.org/l0P990003Prq0H3a00U0Y0G> and is held jointly with the IoT Community <https://connect.ieee.org/L903HP00P0Z00Garq030a0U>. The Theme for WFIoT2021 is “The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on IoT”. You will find a comprehensive and exciting program, that brings the latest developments from industry and the business world, the most important people from across the breadth of the IoT ecosystem, news of significant innovations and advances from the research and academic community, and shared experiences from practitioners and end-users about the successes and challenges of IoT deployments. The World Forum is all about the nurture and promotion of IoT for the benefit of society and humanity. *CALL FOR PAPERS* ** Prospective authors are invited to submit high-quality original technical papers for presentation at the conference and publication in the WFIoT2021 2021 Proceedings. Papers should address, but are not limited to, the high-level topics below: * Applications, Processes, and Services * Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Analytics * Basic and Enabling Technologies * Communication, Connectivity, and Networking * Computing – from Edge to Cloud * Cybersecurity, Security, and Privacy * Infrastructure, Devices, and Components * Information Processing from Multimedia and Heterogeneous Sources * Results from Experiments, Demonstrations, and Trials, and Deployment Experiences * Social and Societal Impacts * Systems Engineering, Integration Methods, and Operation Technologies * Theoretical foundations, design methods, and architectural considerations Paper Submissions Deadline 15 January 2021 Submit Now <https://connect.ieee.org/JP33G90XPH0U80r0aq00000> *CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS* ** The IEEE World Forum on the Internet of Things (WF‐IoT 2021) seeks tutorials proposal submissions that address but are not limited to the following topics: * Artificial Intelligence (ML, ANN) and Computational Intelligence in IoT * Data Acquisition, Data Analytics, Big Data, Storage Management for IoT * IoT Applications and Services (Agriculture, Smart City, Blockchain, Healthcare, etc.) * IoT Design, System Interfaces, Integration and Testing Methods * IoT Enabling Technologies, RFID, Sensor, and Actuators * IoT Programming Models, Middleware and System Architectures * IoT Experimental Results and Deployment Scenarios * Multimedia, Societal Impacts and Energy Harvesting for IoT * Security, Privacy and Trust for IoT * Signalling Processing, Connectivity and Computing Platforms for IoT * Vehicular Technology, Connected Vehicles and Intelligent Vehicles for IoT * 5G Communications, Connectivity and Networking for IoT Tutorial Proposal Submissions Deadline 10 January 2021 Submit Now <https://connect.ieee.org/j9cP0P33G000r0qUHa00100> *CALL FOR INDUSTRY FORUM PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS* ** The Forum is planned as a series of panels, each devoted to a specific aspect of IoT, conducted as an open and collegiate exchange of information with the objectives to: * Understand the limitations of current IoT knowledge to guide future research topics * Share best practice for commercial IoT development, deployment, and maintenance so early mistakes are not repeated many times over * Highlight the risks that the IoT can expose so that these can be mitigated and avoided * Create networks of excellence across the academic, maker, and commercial communities to jointly push forward the boundaries of IoT science * Reduce the knowledge transfer barriers between the academic, maker, and industrial communities Industry Forum Proposal Submissions Deadline 15 January 2021 Submit Now <https://connect.ieee.org/z09r3a30000PU11PGqd0H00> <https://connect.ieee.org/l0P990003Prq0H3a00U0Y0G> IEEE is closely monitoring developments related to the COVID-19 pandemic. 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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: The 17th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), Harbin, China. Deadline: Jan. 10
by Lars Wolf 05 Jan '21

05 Jan '21

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: The 17th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), Harbin, China. Deadline: Jan. 10 Datum: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 22:41:27 +0400 Von: Moayad Aloqaily <mzaloqaily(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Moayad Aloqaily <mzaloqaily(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG *Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFPs.* *CALL FOR PAPERS* *The 17th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, June 28 - July 2, 2021* Harbin, China—IWCMC 2021: http://iwcmc.org/2021/ <https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fiwcmc.org%…> *SUBMISSION DEADLINE:* *Jan. 10, 2021* *SUBMISSION LINK:* https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=27588 The International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2021) will be held on June 28 - July 2, 2021 in Harbin, China. Under the theme of "*Communications with Intelligence*", IWCMC 2021 will target a wide spectrum of the state-of-the-art as well as emerging topics pertaining to wireless networks, wireless communications, and mobile computing. Continuing the great success of previous IWCMC events, IWCMC 2021 is anticipated to attract a large number of high-quality submissions and stimulate the cutting-edge research discussions among many academic pioneering researchers/scientists and industrial engineers/leaders from all around the world. The IWCMC 2021 program will feature a number of symposia, workshops, invited presentations, special sessions, and pioneering keynote speakers. More information can be found at the conference website: http://iwcmc.org/2021/ <https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fiwcmc.org%…> *.* Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical papers - up to 6 pages of length, using the EDAS link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=27588 to various IWCMC 2021 Symposia and Workshops as listed in the conference website for possible publication in the IWCMC 2021 Conference Proceedings, which will be submitted to IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Selected papers will be further considered for possible publication in special issues of the following journals: 1. International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNet): http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijsnet <https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.inders…> 2. The International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems (IJAACS): www.inderscience.com/ijaacs <https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.inders…> 3. KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems: www.itiis.org <https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.itiis.…> 4. Peer-to-Peer Networking & Applications: http://www.springer.com/engineering <https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spring…> 5. Cyber-Physical Systems journal: www.tandfonline.com/loi/tcyb20 <https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tandfo…> There will also be the best paper awards, one best symposium award, and one best workshop award. *IMPORTANT DATES* Paper Submission Deadline: *Jan. 10, 2021* Paper Acceptance Notification: 30 March 2021 Registration Camera-ready: 30 April 2021 *SYMPOSIA* 1) 5G IoT Symposium 2) Big Data Networking Symposium 3) Communication & Signal Processing 4) e-Health 5) Internet of Things (IoT) 6) Mobile Computing 7) Multimedia over Wireless 8) Next-Generation Systems & Networks 9) Recent Advances in 5G IoT and Smart City Solutions 10) Satellite Communications & Networking 11) Trust, Privacy & Security 12) Vehicular Communications 13) Wireless Networking 14) Wireless Sensor Networks . . . and many more Workshops. ====================================== *Best Regards* *Moayad Aloqaily, Ph.D., P.Eng.* *http://icnetlab.org/MA/ <http://icnetlab.org/MA/>* ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP-SwarmNet 2021 - 3rd IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Wireless Networking, Planning, and Computing for UAV Swarms
by Lars Wolf 04 Jan '21

04 Jan '21

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP-SwarmNet 2021 - 3rd IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Wireless Networking, Planning, and Computing for UAV Swarms Datum: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 08:19:34 -0700 Von: Fatemeh Afghah <fatemeh.afghah(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Fatemeh Afghah <fatemeh.afghah(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG *SwarmNet 2021* 3rd IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Wireless Networking, Planning, and Computing for UAV Swarms June 7-11,2021, Pisa, Italy ( http://wowmom2021.iit.cnr.it/workshops/swarmnet-2021/) Recent advances in embedded computing, wireless communication, flight controllers, and miniaturized sensing have enabled the growth of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Networked swarms of such UAVs promise breakthroughs in public safety, commercial, and military applications including search-and-rescue, disaster response, infrastructure inspection, environmental monitoring, virtual/augmented reality, and ISR (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance). The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers working at the intersection of wireless networking, mobile computing, sensing, robotics, and/or planning to address a myriad of fundamental technical challenges that must be solved before UAV swarms (and, more broadly, multi-UAV systems) can be safely, effectively, and widely deployed. Since many of these challenges will not be able to be addressed without the help of UAV swarm simulation platforms, experimental testbeds/prototypes, and experimental evaluations, papers on these topics are especially encouraged. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Communication and networking protocols for UAV swarms - Resilient communication protocols for multi-agent planning and control - Delay-tolerant networking for UAVs - Network topology control for performance optimization (connectivity, throughput, etc.) - Wireless localization for UAVs - Communication architectures and technologies for UAV air-traffic control - UAVs in 4G/5G cellular networks - UAV integration in the urban IoT - Aerial video streaming for virtual/augmented reality - Data offloading and mobile edge computing with UAVs - Spectrum management and interference management techniques for UAV networks - Air-to-air, air-to-ground, and ground-to-air channel modeling for UAVs - Cyber-security for UAVs - UAV swarm network simulation platforms - Onboard AI for UAV-enabled aerial intelligence - UAV swarm network testbeds, experimental evaluation, and prototyping Submissions may be up to 6 pages in length (including figures and references), formatted in two-column IEEE conference style with font size 10 point or greater. For the camera-ready (accepted) papers, authors can buy one additional page, for a total length of up to 7 pages. Papers must be submitted electronically to EDAS (TBA – Please visit the workshop’s website for updates) by March 1, 2021. *Important Dates:* *Paper submission deadline:* *March 1, 2021* *Author Notification:* April 1, 2021 *Camera-ready submission:* April 19, 2021 *Workshop date:* June 7, 2021 *Organizing committee:* Nick Mastronarde, University at Buffalo, USA Jacob Chakareski, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Fatemeh Afghah, Northern Arizona University, USA ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP - Elsevier Vehicular Communications (IF:4.7) Special Issue on Revolutionary Paradigms for Smart Connected Vehicles in the 6G Era
by Lars Wolf 04 Jan '21

04 Jan '21

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP - Elsevier Vehicular Communications (IF:4.7) Special Issue on Revolutionary Paradigms for Smart Connected Vehicles in the 6G Era Datum: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 08:57:27 +0100 Von: Marica Amadeo <marica.amadeo(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Marica Amadeo <marica.amadeo(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Our apologies if you received multiple copies of this CFP. ================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS Elsevier Vehicular Communications (2019 IF: 4.706) Special Issue on “Revolutionary Paradigms for Smart Connected Vehicles in the 6G Era” https://www.journals.elsevier.com/vehicular-communications/call-for-papers/… ================================================================== By jointly involving multiple challenging requirements, such as ultra-high reliable and ultra-low latency communications, high efficiency and capacity, intelligent driving is one of the most ambitious and attractive applications of the 6G initiatives. Although the convergence of communication, caching, control and computing (4C) resources can be leveraged to effectively enable 6G services and applications over vehicle-to-everything (V2X) channels, multiple challenges must be addressed to allow connected vehicles to meet the 6G requirements, to securely and efficiently orchestrate their resources and to develop self-organizing and self-sustaining capabilities. Emerging communication paradigms that make effective data transmission in very high dynamic contexts include the reprogrammability of the environment by the means of Reprogrammable Intelligent Metasurfaces (RIMs). Moreover, Visible Light Communication (VLC) can improve the reliability of V2X interactions and be effective in terms of security and enhanced data rate. With focus on networking aspects, Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) can bring programmability, flexibility and scalability in connected vehicles, simplify network management and promote an efficient and fair use of the distributed 4C resources and programmable metasurfaces. They can be complemented by revolutionary networking models, such as Information Centric Networking (ICN), to provide distributed caching and computing services. This special issue aims to collect proposals that deal with revolutionary communication and networking technologies for connected vehicles, in a holistic fashion or at different layers, to meet the expectations of the 6G era. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): Software-defined vehicular networks Vehicular cloud computing in the 6G era Fog/edge computing architectures for connected vehicles Integration of SDN/NFV and vehicular cloud computing Information Centric Networking for Connected Vehicles Impact of connected vehicles on transportation safety, management, characterization, and prediction Mobile sensing networking, sensor data collection and multi-modal fusion Caching strategies for connected vehicles Joint management of communication, control, computing and caching for 6G vehicular applications and services Optical wireless technologies for 6G vehicular applications and services Reprogrammable and Intelligent Metasurfaces for smart connected vehicles Secure and privacy-preserving communications in 6G vehicular networks ================================================================== TIMELINE Paper submission: 31 March 2021 Acceptance notification: 30 June 2021 Final papers: 30 July 2021 ================================================================== SUBMISSION FORMAT AND GUIDELINE All submitted papers must be clearly written in excellent English and contain only original work, which has not been published by or is currently under review for any other journal or conference. A detailed submission guideline is available as “Guide to Authors” at https://www.elsevier.com/journals/vehicular-communications/2214-2096/guide-…. All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through the paper submission system at https://www.editorialmanager.com/VEHCOM/default.aspx . The authors must select as “VSI: Smart Vehicle - Amadeo” when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. The system is open for submissions. Requests for additional information should be addressed to the guest editors. ================================================================== Guest Editors: Dr. Marica Amadeo, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy marica.amadeo(a)unirc.it Prof. Abderrahim Benslimane, University of Avignon, France abderrahim.benslimane(a)univ-avignon.fr Prof. Kwang-Cheng Chen, University of South Florida, USA kwangcheng(a)usf.edu Dr. Valeria Loscrì, INRIA Lille-Nord Europe, France valeria.loscri(a)inria.fr Dr. Seyhan Ucar, Toyota Motor North America, USA seyhan.ucar(a)toyota.com Dr. Anna Maria Vegni, Roma Tre University, Italy annamaria.vegni(a)uniroma3.it -- Dr. Marica Amadeo Assistant Professor University "Mediterranea" of Reggio Calabria DIIES Department, ARTS Lab Via Graziella Feo di Vito I - 89100 Reggio Calabria (RC), Italy ------------------------------ Email: marica.amadeo(a)gmail.com, marica.amadeo(a)unirc.it Scholar Google Profile: https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=52c4cz0AAAAJ&hl=it ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. 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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ACM HotMobile 2021 : Call for Posters/Demos, February 24-26, 2021, Cyberspace
by Lars Wolf 04 Jan '21

04 Jan '21

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ACM HotMobile 2021 : Call for Posters/Demos, February 24-26,2021, Cyberspace Datum: Sun, 3 Jan 2021 22:34:55 -0500 Von: Yufei Sun <yufeisun369(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Yufei Sun <yufeisun369(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The 22nd Annual International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (ACM HotMobile 2021) *https://hotmobile.org/2021/ <https://hotmobile.org/2021/>* Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE February 24-26, 2021 Cyberspace *Call for Posters/Demos* ACM HotMobile 2021, the Twenty-second International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications continues the series of highly selective, interactive workshops focused on mobile applications, systems, and environments, as well as their underlying state-of-the-art technologies. HotMobile's small workshop format makes it ideal for presenting and discussing new directions or controversial approaches. HotMobile seeks proposals for posters and demonstrations describing novel work on mobile systems, applications, and services. Given the current circumstances, live poster presentations and demos will run in parallel over video link during a dedicated session, with participants being able to drop in and out, as they would in an in-situ setting. As backup, authors of posters and demonstrations will be required to have pre-recorded versions of their poster presentations/demos. The poster/demo session is meant to introduce new or ongoing work and provide opportunities for authors to interact directly with workshop attendees. Posters are well suited to controversial work that can generate discussion or promising new ideas which have not been thoroughly evaluated. Demos provide an opportunity to demonstrate the feasibility and usefulness of your research. We are looking for new ways of presenting demos and posters, exploiting the possibility of a video link in original and novel ways. For example, demos can be video streamed from labs (where local provisions permit), outdoors, using web portals/Jupyter notebooks/Colab, or involve app downloads via links provided and user testing. The poster/demo session will feature a Best Poster/Demo award. *Submission* Submissions must include an extended abstract no longer than one 8.5x11-inch page, including all figures and references. Submissions must be made electronically in an email message to the Poster/Demo Chair ( paul.patras(a)ed.ac.uk). * subject line for posters: HOTMOBILE POSTER SUBMISSION * subject line for demos: HOTMOBILE DEMO SUBMISSION **Abstract deadline: Jan 25th, 2021* *More details on the submission process:* * Please set up your page to be letter size, 8.5x11 inches, two columns, using 10-pt font size for the text body, at least one-inch margin on all sides; * Please include the title of the poster/demo and the author list, including affiliations in both the PDF file and in the body of the email; * Please prefix your title with “Poster:” for a poster submission and “Demo:” for a demo submission; * The abstract should be attached in PDF format. ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: DCOSS 2021 - 17th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems - deadline January 25, 2021 - Coral Bay, Pafos, Cyprus
by Lars Wolf 30 Dec '20

30 Dec '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: DCOSS 2021 - 17th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems - deadline January 25, 2021 - Coral Bay, Pafos, Cyprus Datum: Tue, 29 Dec 2020 19:30:02 +0000 Von: Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou <eirini(a)UNM.EDU> Antwort an: Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou <eirini(a)UNM.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ============================================================ The 17th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2021)* Coral Bay, Pafos, Cyprus June 7 - 9, 2021 www.dcoss.org<http://www.dcoss.org/> * DCOSS has always been technically co-sponsored by IEEE; approval for this year pending. ============================================================= Workshops are already available! We are optimistic that by summer next year the COVID-19 pandemic situation will improve and the event will be held physically in Cyprus. However, we monitor the situation and will adapt accordingly, possibly allowing remote presentations if needed. Submissions are now open! https://dcoss.org/paper-submission/ DCOSS 2021 is the 17th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems to be hosted in Coral Bay, Pafos, Cyprus in June 7-9, 2021. In the last few years, we have witnessed a significant growth in the use of IoT and distributed sensor systems in a number of application areas, ranging from smart transport, energy and buildings, to factory automation, smart healthcare and environmental monitoring. In order for smart sensor systems to truly become useful and pervasive, we need to address a number of research challenges, including the tight integration of sensing and machine intelligence, reliable and efficient networking, interoperability and scalability, the need for dependable autonomy, interaction with humans, and important aspects of security, privacy and trust. DCOSS focuses on issues arising in the entire IoT and networked sensor systems stack: covering aspects of high-level abstractions, models and languages, novel algorithms and applications, system design approaches and architectures, as well as tools for simulated and real deployments. Potential authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate recent advances in both theoretical and experimental research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Artificial Intelligence for IoT - Smart healthcare to combat epidemics (including COVID-19) - Edge and fog computing: distributed computing models from sensor to cloud - Energy harvesting models and optimization - Machine intelligence in distributed sensor systems and real time analytics - Communication and networking primitives and protocols - Autonomy: closing the loop between sensing and actuation - Task allocation, reprogramming, and reconfiguration - Robustness, resilience and dependability - Security and privacy issues - Approaches, tools, and experience of deployment and operation - Performance analysis: complexity, correctness, scalability - Mobile and human-centered sensing - Interoperability, heterogeneity and scalability - Crowd sensing and social sensing techniques, applications, and systems - Complex systems comprising wearable, robotic and/or fixed sensor systems - Novel and compelling applications - IoT systems for emerging and developing economies - Green and environmentally-friendly IoT Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate current research on distributed sensor systems related to DCOSS topics of interest. Please use the US letter size (8.5 X 11 in) standard IEEE conference LaTeX format or Microsoft Word template available on the link below: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html Note that DCOSS does not follow the double-blind review policy. The names and affiliations of all the authors must be present in the submitted manuscript. A Special Issue of the Computer Networks (COMNET) Elsevier Journal will include selected best papers of DCOSS 2021. Please visit DCOSS website at www.dcoss.org<http://www.dcoss.org/> for more information. ******** Main Organizers ******** - Technical Program Committee Chairs: Enzo Mingozzi (University of Pisa, Italy) Stefano Basagni (Northeastern University, USA) Jiannong Cao (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) TPC Members Carlo Alberto Boano, Graz University of Technology Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa Kevin Chan, US CCDC Army Research Laboratory Thomas Erlebach, University of Leicester Raja Jurdak, Queensland University of Technology Tomasz Jurdzinski, University of Wroclaw Evangelos Kranakis, Carleton University Olaf Landsiedel, Kiel University Jun Luo, Nanyang Technological Univeristy Prasant Misra, TATA Consultancy Services Nathalie Mitton, Inria Lille-Nord Europe Miguel Mosteiro, Pace University Gian Pietro Picco, University of Trento Cristina Pinotti, University of Perugia Utz Roedig, University College Cork Vasos Vassiliou, University of Cyprus Dong Wang, University of Notre Dame Hongkai Wen, University of Warwick Jie Yang, Florida State University Desheng Zhang, Rutgers University Ambuj Varshney, University of California, Berkeley Nicolas Tsiftes, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden Xiaolong Zheng, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications Shijia Pan, University of California Merced Jiaxin Ding, Shanghai Jiaotong university Chenren Xu, Peking University Sirajum Munir, Bosch Research Jean-Francois Chamberland, Texas A&M University Behnam Dezfouli, Santa Clara University Jie Gao, Rutgers University Gaia Maselli, University of Rome Enrico Natalizio, University of Lorraine/Loria Theofanis Raptis, IIT-CNR Francesco Restuccia, Northeastern University Simone Silvestri, University of Kentucky Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, University of New Mexico Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida Antonio Virdis, University of Pisa Thiemo Voigt, Swedish Institute of Computer Science - Local Chairs Vasos Vassiliou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Zinon Zinonos (Neapolis University Pafos, Cyprus) - Workshops Chairs Enrico Natalizio (University of Lorraine, France) Zhangyu Guan (University at Buffalo, USA) - Poster & Demo Chairs Thomas Lagkas (International Hellenic University, Greece) Roger Chamberlain (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) - Proceedings Chair Marios Angelopoulos (Bournemouth University, UK) - Publicity Chairs Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (University of New Mexico, USA) Lei Shu (Nanjing Agricultural University & University of Lincoln, China/UK) Tamoghna Ojha (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India) - Steering Committee Chair: Sotiris Nikoletseas (University of Patras and CTI, Greece) ******** Collocated Events ******** DCOSS 2021 will collocate with several thematic Workshops and Special Sessions on emerging topics and technologies. The event will also feature a poster and demo session. Important Dates: Abstract Registration Deadline: January 18, 2021 Paper Submission Deadline: January 25, 2021 Acceptance Notification: March 15, 2021 Camera Ready Deadline: March 29, 2021 Early Registration Deadline: April 22, 2021 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou Assistant Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Office: 326B Tel.: (505)-277-5501 Email: eirini(a)unm.edu<mailto:eirini@unm.edu> Website: PROTON Lab<http://ece-research.unm.edu/tsiropoulou/index.html> PROTON Lab's News: @Tsiropoulou_EE<https://twitter.com/Tsiropoulou_EE> "Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach." ~ Aristotle ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. 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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP - ICDCS 2021 [Deadline Approaching, January 6/13] - IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
by Lars Wolf 29 Dec '20

29 Dec '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP - ICDCS 2021 [Deadline Approaching, January 6/13] - IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Datum: Tue, 29 Dec 2020 17:20:24 +0000 Von: Rhongho Jang <r.jang(a)WAYNE.EDU> Antwort an: Rhongho Jang <r.jang(a)WAYNE.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Papers] Call for Papers: 2021 IEEE 41th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) Important Dates Abstract Submission: January 6, 2021 (23:59, UTC-5, EDT) Full Paper Submission: January 13, 2021 (23:59, UTC-5, EDT) Notification of Acceptance: March 17, 2021 Camera-ready Paper Submission: April 20, 2021 https://icdcs2021.us/ July 7-10, 2021 (tentative) Washington DC, USA Scope The annual IEEE ICDCS conference is a premier international forum for researchers, developers, and users to present, discuss, and exchange cutting edge ideas and latest findings on topics related to any aspect of distributed computing systems. We invite you to submit your original contributions to ICDCS 2021. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Cloud Computing and Data Centers - Distributed Algorithms and Theory - Distributed Big Data Systems and Analytics - Distributed Fault Tolerance and Dependability - Distributed Operating Systems and Middleware - Edge Computing - Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems - Mobile and Wireless Computing - Security, Privacy, and Trust in Distributed Systems - Blockchain - Machine Learning on or for Distributed Systems - Insights from Industrial Experience Paper Submission Papers must be original and unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere concurrently. All paper submissions should follow the IEEE 8.5″ x 11″ Two-Column Format. Each submission can have up to 11 pages (including references). Papers exceeding this page limit or with smaller fonts will be rejected without review. The submitted manuscripts should include author names and affiliations. Electronic submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icdcs2021 If the submission is accepted for publication, up to 2 over length pages may be purchased for the final camera-ready version. Each accepted paper must have at least one author registered and be presented during the conference. No-show paper will be reported to the publisher and deleted from the conference publication. For authors with multiple papers accepted by the conference, a separate author registration is required for each paper. Please refer to the conference web site (https://icdcs2021.us/) for more information about: Call for Research Papers Call for Demo and Posters Ph.D. Student Symposium Call for Workshop Proposals Rhongho Jang, Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Wayne State University ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CPS-IoTBench'21: Call for Papers and for Reproducibility Studies
by Lars Wolf 28 Dec '20

28 Dec '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CPS-IoTBench'21: Call for Papers and for Reproducibility Studies Datum: Mon, 28 Dec 2020 08:20:23 -0500 Von: Carlo Alberto Boano <000001f9fb5aae12-dmarc-request(a)COMSOC-LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG> Antwort an: Carlo Alberto Boano <cboano(a)TUGRAZ.AT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The 4th Workshop on Benchmarking Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things (CPS-IoTBench 2021) -- https://www.iotbench.ethz.ch/cps-iotbench-2021 Virtual event co-located with CPS-IoT Week -- May 18, 2021 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Research on Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and the Internet of Things (IoT) has bloomed over the last decade. This research has led to the development of smart systems at different scales and environments, from smart homes and cities to smart grids and factories. Significant progress has been made through contributions in areas as diverse as control, embedded and real-time systems, wireless communication, and networking. Despite these advances, a lack of standard evaluation criteria and methodologies makes it difficult to measure and compare the utility of this progress. This problem concerns the evaluation against the state of the art in an individual area, the comparability of different integrated designs that span multiple areas (e.g., control and networking), and the applicability of tested scenarios to present and future real-world CPS/IoT applications and deployments. This state of affairs is alarming, as it significantly hinders further progress in CPS and IoT research. The Workshop on Benchmarking Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things (CPS-IoTBench) has been a forum to bring together researchers from different communities since 2018, to engage in a lively debate on all facets of rigorously evaluating and comparing CPS and IoT solutions. CPS-IoTBench provides a venue for learning about each other’s challenges and evaluation methodologies and for debating future research agendas to jointly define the performance metrics and benchmarking scenarios that matter from an overall system perspective. *** Call for Papers and for Reproducibility Studies *** For the workshop's 4th edition, which will take place in a virtual form within CPS-IoT Week, we invite researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to submit papers that focus on one of the following: - Presenting exemplary benchmarking systems and approaches from any of the relevant communities (e.g., embedded systems, real-time systems, networking, wireless communication and control, robotics, machine learning). - Identifying fundamental challenges and open questions in rigorous benchmarking and evaluation of CPS and IoT solutions. - Offering a constructive critique of the current practices and state of experimental comparisons. - Designing and evaluating benchmarking methodologies, infrastructures, or tools for cyber-physical and IoT systems. - Benchmarking industrial standardized solutions against each other and against academic solutions. - Presenting novel performance comparisons in the context of cyber-physical and IoT systems. - Reporting on success stories or failures when using standard evaluation criteria. - Describing techniques for improving the reproducibility of real-world testing of wireless systems. - Proposing new research directions, methodologies, or tools to increase the level of reproducibility and comparability of evaluation results. Well-reasoned arguments or preliminary evaluations are sufficient to support a paper’s claims. Unique to this year's workshop edition, we also seek contributions describing the reproduction of experimental results from published work within any of the relevant communities. Examples of this include: - Papers that repeat prior experiments (ideally using the original source code) to show how, why, and when the methods work (or not). - Papers that repeat prior experiments in new contexts (e.g., different application domains or using different evaluation methodologies and metrics) to further generalize and validate (or not) previous work. - Reproducibility studies of a given scientific work for which some key aspect(s) in the experimental setup was unspecified, showing the different spectrum of solutions as a function of such aspect(s). - Evaluations carried out by undergraduate and graduate students, experienced researchers, or industry practitioners looking to validate another piece of work before comparing their own to it. Reports should carefully describe the experimental setup as well as how the authors made sure to carefully reproduce conditions similar to those of the original study. If there are ambiguous conditions not specified in the original study which may affect the outcome (e.g. it is not specified whether the environment is an empty room or full of people), authors are encouraged to highlight, discuss, and empirically explore the impact of changing such a condition. Regardless of the study results, the tone of the report must be constructive and not offensive to the original authors. Prospective authors are invited to contact the original authors of the examined study and let them provide a short discussion paragraph that can be included in the final section of the report. Submissions from the same authors of the reproduced experiments will not be accepted. *** Submission Instructions *** Submitted papers must contain at most 6 pages (US letter, 9pt font size, double-column format, following the ACM master article template), including all figures, tables, and references. All submissions must be written in English and should contain the authors' names, affiliations, and contact information. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library as part of the CPS-IoT Week 2021 proceedings. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work in a plenary session as part of the main workshop program. *** Important Dates *** Paper submission: February 15, 2021 (AoE) Notification of acceptance: March 17, 2021 Camera-ready: March 26, 2021 Workshop date: May 18, 2021 *** Workshop Organizers *** - Michael Baddeley (Technology Innovation Institute, UAE) - Carlo Alberto Boano (Graz University of Technology, Austria) - Michael Breza (Imperial College London, United Kingdom) - Romain Jacob (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) - Ramona Marfievici (Digital Catapult, United Kingdom) - Pat Pannuto (University of California, San Diego, USA) - Marco Zimmerling (TU Dresden, Germany) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of the call ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. 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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] PMC Special Issue: IoT for Fighting COVID-19 [few days left]
by Lars Wolf 21 Dec '20

21 Dec '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] PMC Special Issue: IoT for Fighting COVID-19 [few days left] Datum: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 12:45:01 +0100 Von: Chiara Boldrini <chiara.boldrini(a)IIT.CNR.IT> Antwort an: Chiara Boldrini <chiara.boldrini(a)IIT.CNR.IT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC) Journal - (2019 IF: 2.725) Special Issue on IoT for Fighting COVID-19 ***** Submission Deadline: December 21st, 2020 [EXTENDED] ***** https://www.journals.elsevier.com/pervasive-and-mobile-computing/call-for-p… ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Throughout history, pandemics have ravaged humanity with plagues and infections that created humanitarian crises, severed social interactions, hindered economic growth, and caused human lives loss. With the most recent COVID-19 outbreak, researchers and practitioners across various domains such as medical and life sciences, economics, and engineering are coming together to put forward solutions to counter such a threat and aid the society in coping with the fallbacks. In the same context, the computing community in general and IoT researchers and practitioners in particular face a challenge about how IoT-based systems can be exploited to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. This special issue aims to find answers to some fundamental questions such as what IoT systems, technologies, and infrastructures can be exploited for data and knowledge-driven management of the pandemics, how IoT can enable innovative and unconventional solutions for mitigating outbreaks (through mechanisms such as context-sensitive contact tracing and symptomatic detection, smart lockdowns, crowd-sensed discovery of the emerging clusters), and how IoT can contribute to increased public awareness and safety, and counter the negative emotional and social impact. This special issue invites technical papers that focus on theoretical and applied research contributions that present original ideas, modeling and simulation results, prototypes, and real-world experiences in the context of IoT for countering pandemics. Interdisciplinary works are most welcome. This special issue will focus on (but will not be limited to) the following topics: * Engineering of IoT Systems to Counter the COVID-19 Pandemic: IoT-driven smart lockdown; context-sensitive contact tracing and symptomatic detection; crowd-sensed identification of the pandemic hotspots; IoT-driven smart health in the time of pandemics; IoT-driven detection of transmission pathways and dose-response effect; data engineering for pandemic IoT systems. * Algorithms for IoT Systems to Counter the COVID-19 Pandemic: Context modeling and reasoning applied to pandemics; activity and well-being recognition for early detection of symptoms and monitoring of disease progression; data mining, machine learning and causal reasoning applied to IoT systems to fight pandemics; social and complex networks of IoT devices during pandemics. * Empirical Research on IoTs to Counter the COVID-19 Pandemic: Industrial findings and experience reports; validation and evaluation research; measurement studies; systematic mapping studies, or systematic literature reviews. * Reference Architectures, Infrastructures, and Tools for IoT Systems to Counter the COVID-19 Pandemic: IoT-driven pandemic management; architectural patterns and styles for pandemic tracing; prototypes and tool support; mobile cloud computing, fog and edge computing; development environments, frameworks, and tools; technological IoT innovations; trust, security, and privacy. * Analytical models of IoT Systems to Counter the COVID-19 Pandemic: performance models of IoT-driven containment and mitigation strategies; analytical studies of required IoT penetration to achieve control of the epidemic; data-driven IoT models and estimation of key parameters to feed into theoretical models. * Application of IoT Systems to Counter the COVID-19 Pandemic: smart healthcare; smart emergency response systems; smart community and crowd management; food security; smart lockers and innovative choice, pack and delivery methods; unconnected infrastructure and IoT systems. * IoT Systems beyond COVID-19: experience reports, applied solutions, frameworks, prototypes, simulations, and validation research to detect, manage, and counter epidemics like Dengue, Ebola, SARS, Zika, etc. Timeline -------- Submission deadline: 21 December 2020 (EXTENDED) First notification: February 2021 Guest Editors ------------- Chiara Boldrini, Lead Guest Editor IIT-CNR, Italy Aakash Ahmad University of Ha’il, Saudi Arabia & TeraBlu IoT Systems, Pakistan Mahdi Fahmideh University of Wollongong, Australia Rabie Ramadan Cairo University, Egypt & University of Ha’il, Saudi Arabia Mohamed Younis University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Submission Guidelines --------------------- All submissions have to be prepared according to the Guide for Authors as published in the Journal website at https://www.journals.elsevier.com/pervasive-and-mobile-computing. Authors should select “VSI: IoT-COVID19”, from the “Choose Article Type” pull-down menu during the submission process. To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified, for consideration by the special issue, the authors should indicate in the cover letter that the manuscript has been submitted for the special issue “IoT for Fighting COVID-19”. All contributions must not have been previously published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. A submission based on one or more papers that appeared elsewhere has to comprise major value-added extensions over what appeared previously (at least 40% new material). Authors are requested to attach to the submitted paper their relevant, previously published articles and a summary in the cover letter explaining the enhancements made in the journal version. For further information, please contact the guest editors. ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ICIN 2021 - Call for Fast Track and Demo Papers
by Lars Wolf 21 Dec '20

21 Dec '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ICIN 2021 - Call for Fast Track and Demo Papers Datum: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 03:31:16 -0800 Von: ICIN Conference <icinconf(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: icinconf(a)GMAIL.COM An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG (Apologies if you received duplicate copies of this CFP) ********************************************************************************** CALL FOR "FAST TRACK" AND DEMO PAPERS - ICIN 2021 24th Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks "Services everywhere: melding networking and computing in an intelligent cloud-edge continuum" March 1-4th, 2021 - Virtual Conference https://www.icin-conference.org Technically sponsored by IEEE Communications Society All papers accepted and presented by one of the authors will be published in IEEE Xplore Digital Library ********************************************************************************** Call for “Fast Track” papers In order to accommodate research in progress in a dynamic field ICIN is adding a Fast Track to its 2021 conference. The conference particularly seeks papers on joint industry-university collaborations on the main topic of the conference: the melding of networking and computing and the overall softwarization and computerization of networks. Like standard papers, Fast Track submissions need to be original, unpublished work not currently under review by other conferences or journals. The submission will be assessed based on timeliness, originality, technical soundness, clarity and interest to a wide audience. Fast track papers will be limited to a maximum of 5 pages including tables, figures and references. Prospective authors are referred to the CFP page for submissions details and a longer list of topics of interest. https://www.icin-conference.org/call-for-fast-track-papers/ Submissions by: January 2nd, 2021 Link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=27469&track=104792 ICIN 2021 TPC Co-Chairs Barbara Martini (CNIT, Italy) Marie-Jose Montpetit (Concordia University, Montreal) ********************************************************************************** Call for Demo papers ICIN 2021 also invites proposals for research prototype demonstrations. As a high-profile, leading edge forum for researchers and engineers in the field of Softwarized networks, orchestration technologies, Open Source platforms, Hardware acceleration and abstraction, etc., ICIN 2021 offers a unique opportunity to showcase applications, engage with a highly skilled and innovating audience and discuss emerging technologies and recent research prototypes with key thought leaders. We are seeking for original demos from industrial and academia researchers related to ICIN 2021 Key Topics. Prospective contributors are expected to turn in a demo proposal in the form of a 3-page paper in IEEE conference double-column format, preferably incorporating a demo system architecture illustration. The proposal should also describe in detail what ICIN 2021 attendees who will be present at the demonstration session will experience. Especially, we encourage software demos that the audience can interact with. Demo papers will be peer-reviewed and accepted based on the following criteria: - Extent and significance of the research contribution - Potential impact on the audience - Quality of the proposed implementation - Presentation quality We encourage authors to include a short video (less than 5 minutes) of their demonstration to clearly illustrate the user experience and demo scenario. Also, please note that video material is considered to be the main presentation format due to the fact that ICIN 2021 will be held online. https://www.icin-conference.org/call-for-demos/ Submissions by: December 30th, 2020 Link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=27469&track=102620 ICIN 2021 Demo Co-Chairs Piotr Borylo (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland) Molka Gharbaoui (CNIT, Italy) ******************************************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES "Fast Track" Paper Submission (up to 5 pages): January 2nd, 2021 Demo Paper Submission (up to 3 pages): December 30th, 2020 Acceptance Notification: January 20th, 2021 Camera-Ready Papers: January 31st, 2021 LINK TO SUBMISSION PAGE http://edas.info/N27469 ******************************************************************************** CONFIRMED KEYNOTES: Keynote 1: Vertical Edge Computing and Networking by Zhe Liu (David), Chief Researcher, Huawei, Germany Keynote 2: Towards 6G – an operator’s view point by Luis Miguel Contreras Murillo, Telefonica, Spain Keynote 3: New Frontiers for Tactile Internet by Mohamed Faten Zhani, ETS Montreal, Canada ******************************************************************************** COVID-19 Statement Due to the persistent COVID-19 emergency, ICIN 2021 will be held fully online as a virtual conference on March 1-4th 2021. Accordingly, registration fees will be fixed at affordable prices. Further information will be posted soon on the conference website: https://www.icin-conference.org About ICIN Since 1989, the ICIN conferences have been bringing together leading Internet and telecom experts from industry, academia and government from across the globe. ICIN is a single track conference that is both intimate and global, attracting 100+ delegates, from more than 20 countries. It focuses on leading edge investigations into Internet technologies, from basic networking and cloud services to novel architectures. ICIN uses a rigorous peer-review process and has become an established industry forum to discuss emerging trends in Information and Communications Technology (ICT). It offers an agora for one-on-one discussions and cross-fertilization between participants and leading network visionaries, with the goal of promoting dialogue and ideation about the current and future trends in networking research and development. ICIN conferences are well known for their identification of research challenges and industry trends and their discussion on the impact of cutting-edge technologies on future intelligent and distributed networking, and related computing services. ICIN has an enviable track record of identifying key technologies and services – and analysing their impact on business models – before they become widely recognized in the industry and government communication sectors. The interdisciplinary approach and the cross-fertilization of ideas are the main ingredients that made ICIN a recognized event in the telecommunications, cloud networking and Internet communities. ICIN 2021 For 2021 ICIN is focussing on the melding of network and computing services that is clearly demonstrated by the increasing softwarization of the network services in the core and the access networks, the rise of computing in the network and the growth of cognition in networking for management and control, as well as for value added services at the edge and in the data center. Several innovations are impacting the ongoing transformations toward the network of the future and the evolution of cloud services. More and more the network fabric itself emcompasses functionality usually associated with computing as increased intelligence and cognition are necessary to address emerging requirements of distributed services, automation and network reliability. At the same time, more and more, the cloud is extending to the edge adding a number of heterogeneous networked subsystems to the Internet with a variety of requirements that further highlight the need for novel architectures, e.g., IoT systems, augmented and virtual reality and service delivery platforms. The result is the networking and computing systems becoming one, melding, as a distributed cloud/edge continuum with cognition and intelligence for emerging services. This “Computing and Networking as a Service” is the paradigm that will be central to the deployment of immersive services in many different sectors, such as e-health, self-driving cars, industrial networks, agriculture and cloud robotics. In this regard, there is a need for a variety of mechanisms enabling the new generation of service offerings at different levels (consumer, business, government, social, service provider ecosystem platforms). In this scenario and considering the many challenges that the aforementioned paradigms and technologies will bring, the theme for ICIN 2021 is: "Services everywhere: melding networking and computing in an intelligent cloud-edge continuum" The conference will foster discussion about new ideas and novel approaches for future service concepts, service delivery and their enabling technologies and mechanisms in the emerging scenario of immersive intelligence and service level awareness. With this vision, the conference will look beyond the current state of the art and promote the advances of Computing as a Service technologies for different application service delivery platforms. Interested authors are invited to submit papers presenting novel technical research, research related to business impact or mechanisms of new technologies, as well as broader position and visionary papers. Contributions that discuss lessons learnt and best practices, describe practical deployment and implementation experiences as well as demonstrating innovative use-cases are also and especially encouraged. ********************************************************************************* ICIN 2021 solicits original, unpublished work not currently under review by other conferences or journals. Papers submitted to ICIN 2021 will be assessed based on originality, technical soundness, clarity and interest to a wide audience. All submissions must be written in English and must use standard IEEE two-column conference template, available for download from the IEEE website: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process and all submissions must be done electronically through EDAS using the following link: http://edas.info/N27469 Areas of interest and topics include, but are not limited to: - Edge-Cloud continuum and softwarized networks evolution for verticals: * Vertical industries and digital twins * Automotive and vehicular networking, including vehicular cloud services * Tactile Internet and precision networking * Functional decomposition and orchestration, service chaining * Protocols for ultra-low latency and ultra-high reliability * Fog, edge and multi-access computing and networking * Security, trust and privacy - Enablers and services for wireless and mobile networks: real deployments and best practices * Network and service architecture, protocols, application-network layer interworking, and use cases for 5G and emerging networks * Service-Based Architecture (SBA) design applied to the control plane, data plane and management plane, considering as well network function exposure * Scalability and multi-tenancy in 5G and emerging networks * Green networking and efficient resource usage and service delivery * Security, trust and privacy management in large systems and smart environments - Network automation and orchestration architectures and protocols * Intent-based network management and cloud resource orchestration * Network programmability architectures and systems * Orchestration of distributed cloud and network resources in vertical markets * Network artificial intelligence, machine learning and reasoning * Network data analytics, anomaly detection, and feature extraction * Autonomic and cognitive networking * Security, societal and legal aspects of network automation - Technologies for innovation in clouds, Internet and networks * SDN, NFV, service function chaining, function placement and network embedding * Use of Distributed Ledger Technologies in networking and network services * Advanced multimedia and real-time communications, QoE/QoS Assurance * Lightweight virtualization technologies, software and hardware acceleration * Energy-efficient software-defined infrastructures * Measurement, monitoring and telemetry * Open-source projects and open standards ********************************************************************************* General Co-Chairs --------------------------- Walter Cerroni (University of Bologna, Italy) Håkon Lønsethagen (Telenor, Norway) Jie Tang (Tsinghua University, China) Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs --------------------------- Barbara Martini (CNIT, Italy) Marie-Jose Montpetit (Concordia University, Montreal) Workshops Co-Chairs --------------------------- Eduardo Jacob (University of the Basque Country, Spain) Muge Sayit (Ege University, Turkey) Keynote and Panel Chair --------------------------- Alex Galis (University College London, UK) Demo Co-Chairs --------------------------- Piotr Borylo (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland) Molka Gharbaoui (CNIT, Italy) Publication Chair --------------------------- Elisa Rojas (University of Alcala, Spain) Publicity Co-Chairs --------------------------- Emmanuel Bertin (Orange, France) Monique Calisti (Martel Innovate, Switzerland) Huaiyu Wan (Beijing Jiaotong University, China) Patron Chair --------------------------- Amina Boubendir (Orange, France) Finance Chair --------------------------- Guy Pujolle (DNAC, France) International Steering Committee Chair --------------------------- Noel Crespi (Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France) Overall Arrangements --------------------------- Aziza Lounis (DNAC, France) Web Chair --------------------------- Elia Kallas (DNAC, France) We are looking forward to your submission to ICIN 2021 ------------------------------------------------------------ For further information, see https://www.icin-conference.org ------------------------------------------------------------ ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] MedComNet 2021 - Call for Papers
by Lars Wolf 21 Dec '20

21 Dec '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] MedComNet 2021 - Call for Papers Datum: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 04:45:58 -0500 Von: Christian Vitale <christian.vitale.cv(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Christian Vitale <christian.vitale.cv(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Due to the continuing Coronavirus pandemic in the world, the organizers are considering the possibility to hold the conference online. In any case, remote presentation of accepted papers will be allowed. MedComNet 2021 - Call for Papers 19th Mediterranean Communication and Computer Networking Conference 15-17 June 2021, Ibiza, Spain https://2021.medcomnet.org MedComNet 2021 continues the tradition of the MedHocNet conference series that started in Sardinia in 2002 and was held annually in beautiful locations on the shores of the Mediterranean. MedComNet is a forum for the presentation of new research results in the broad area of wired and wireless communication and computer networking. All aspects of the networking research area will be welcome. MedComNet has requested the Technical Co-Sponsorship of the IEEE, and accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore. Extended versions of the best papers presented at the conference will be considered, by invitation and upon additional review, for publication in Elsevier Computer Communications journal. The best paper in the conference will be awarded the Mario Gerla Best Paper Award. Topics include but are not limited to: - Wireless networks - Cellular networks including 5G and 6G - Vehicular networks - Dynamic spectrum sharing - Interference management and mitigation - Medium access control - MIMO-based networking - mmWave, THz, VLC networking - Mobile sensing and applications - Mobility management and models - Innovative Internet architectures - Internet of Things and Cyber-physical systems - Router and switch design - Routing and multicast - Software-defined Networking and Radio - Optical networks - Overlay and peer-to-peer networks - Age of Information - Energy efficiency in networks - Machine Learning and AI for networks - Edge and fog computing - Datacenter networking - Localization and location-based services - Multimedia networking - Network economics and pricing - Network management - Network measurement and analysis - Network security and privacy - Network virtualization Important information --------------------- Paper submission deadline: Feb. 11, 2021 Acceptance notification: April 28 Registration (authors and early birds): May 19, 2021 Camera Ready Papers due: May 19, 2021 Conference: June 15-17, 2021 Instructions for authors: https://2021.medcomnet.org/authors-instructions/ No-show policy -------------- Submission to the conference implies willingness to present. No-shows will be excluded from the proceedings. No-show papers are defined as papers submitted by authors who subsequently did not present the paper in-person at the technical meeting (given the current situation, remote presentations will be allowed). Presentations by proxies are not allowed. No refund of the paid fees can be claimed by the no-show author. Exceptions to this policy can only be made by the Technical Program Chairs and only if there is evidence that the no-show occurred because of unanticipated events beyond the control of the authors, and every option available to the authors to present the paper was exhausted. Organizing Committee -------------------- General Chairs Vincenzo Mancuso, IMDEA Networks, Spain Gonzalo Camarillo, Ericsson Finland TPC Chairs Antonio de La Oliva, UC3M, Spain Ilenia Tinnirello, University of Palermo, Italy EDAS Chair Edgar Arribas, CEU San Pablo, Spain Publication Chair Cise Midoglu, Simula Research Lab, Norway Treasurers Nicola Blefari-Melazzi, CNIT, Italy Paola Magri, CNIT, Italy Publicity Chairs Antonio Fernandez, IMDEA Networks, Spain Andres Garcia, NEC Europe, Germany Christian Vitale, KIOS, Cyprus Chuan Xu, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France Panel Chairs Anna Brunstrom, Karlstad University, Sweden Andra Lutu, Telefonica, Spain Web Chair Michele Segata, University of Bolzano, Italy Virtualization Chair Christiana Ioannou, RISE, Cyprus Steering Committee -------------------- Marco Ajmone Marsan, Politecnico di Torino, Italy (Chair) Ian F. Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Edmundo De Souza e Silva, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Luigi Fratta, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Farouk Kamoun, ENSI, Tunisia Giovanni Pau, Sorbonne Université, France Guy Pujolle, Sorbonne Université, France Vasos Vassiliou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] IEEE/IFIP WONS 2021 - Deadline extended to December 29, 2020 (AoE)
by Lars Wolf 19 Dec '20

19 Dec '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] IEEE/IFIP WONS 2021 - Deadline extended to December 29, 2020 (AoE) Datum: Sat, 19 Dec 2020 13:11:34 +0900 Von: Uichin Lee <uclee(a)KAIST.EDU> Antwort an: Uichin Lee <uclee(a)KAIST.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Dear Colleagues, the IEEE/IFIP WONS 2021 deadline has been extended to December 29, 2020 (AoE) Please find the CfP below. Best regards, Uichin IEEE/IFIP WONS 2021 - Call for Papers 16th Wireless On-demand Network systems and Services Conference 9-11 March 2021 Virtual Conference *** Reduced registration fee of 180 euros for authors & Free registration for PhD Students (non-author) *** http://2021.wons-conference.org/ ************************************** DEADLINE EXTENDED TO DECEMBER 29, 2020 (AoE) ************************************** Wireless on-demand network systems and services have become pivotal in shaping our future networked world. Starting as a niche application over Wi-Fi, they can now be found in mainstream technologies like Bluetooth LE, LTE Direct and Wireless LANs, and have become the cornerstone of upcoming networking paradigms including mesh and sensor networks, cloud networks, vehicular networks, disruption tolerant and opportunistic networks, and in-body networks. The challenges of this exciting research field are numerous. Examples include how to make smart use of these novel technologies when multiple technologies or a mix of permanent services and on-demand networking opportunities are available to a network node, how to provide robust services in highly dynamic environments, how to efficiently employ and operate heavily resource-constrained devices, and how to develop robust and lightweight algorithms for self-organization and adaptation. Finally, there are many application-specific challenges. WONS, now in its sixteenth edition, is a high-quality forum to address these challenges. WONS aims to provide a global platform for rich interactions between experts in their fields, discussing innovative contributions in a stimulating environment. This announcement solicits original contributions of high-quality research providing novel insights on all aspects of wireless on-demand networks and systems; from protocol and network design, modeling, performance evaluation, energy efficiency, models and mechanisms, practical implementations, service level aspects, application use-cases, to the integration of multiple wireless network technologies. Accepted and presented papers will appear in the conference proceedings published in the IFIP Open Access Digital Library and will also be submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. After having carefully monitored the sanitary evolution, the WONS 2021 organising committee decided to move to a fully virtual conference. This will allow all speakers and participants to join the conference independently of any travel restrictions that might still apply beginning of 2021. The virtual format of the conference enables the organization committee, in agreement with IFIP and IEEE, to offer the registration for a very low fee. The registration for non-authors PhD students will be free, giving the opportunity to meet on-line all the authors and the Keynote Speakers. The limited size of this long-run, prestigious conference enables the on-line event to be organised with a non-conventional, impactful format. It is thus a unique opportunity to join and contribute to fruitful discussions in this period of limited travel and continuous restrictions. Topics of interest comprise, but are not limited to: - Cognitive radio networks - Network management - Cross-layer design - Modeling and optimization - Energy-efficient protocols and power management - Mobile computing and services - Heterogeneous wireless networks - New architectures for on-demand wireless systems - Implementations and testbeds - Novel applications and services - Integration and co-existence of heterogeneous technologies - Opportunistic, delay-tolerant, and dissemination-based protocols - Intra-body and biomedical on-demand systems - Performance evaluation through simulations and experiments - Green wireless networks - Pervasive and ubiquitous computing - Localization and mobility management - Security, privacy, and trust - MAC and advanced PHY technologies - Social and economic aspects - Middleware aspects - Underwater on-demand networked systems - Mobile peer-to-peer systems - Architectures and protocols for the Internet of Things - Vehicular networks - Device-to-device communication for 5G and 6G architectures This edition will additionally include a special session titled "Smartphone Apps for Contact Tracing - Experiences with COVID-19 Tracing Apps", addressing the issues related to pandemic control and tracing. Important information --------------------- Full Papers Due (extended): December 29, 2020 (AoE) Notification of Acceptance: February 5, 2021 Camera-ready papers due: February 19, 2021 Video presentation due: February 26, 2021 Submission link: https://edas.info/N27696 Keynotes -------- WONS 2021 will host two extraordinary keynotes on knowledge networks and mmWave networks. Speaker: Jérôme Härri, EURECOM, Sophia Antipolis, France Title: Knowledge on the Edge - From Information to Knowledge Networks Speaker: Joerg Widmer, IMDEA Networks, Madrid, Spain Title: The Road to Practical and Scalable Millimeter-Wave Networks Organizing Committee -------------------- General Chair Raphaël Frank, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg General vice- and Local Arrangement Chair Christoph Bösch, Ulm University, Germany TPC Chairs Michele Segata, Free University of Bolzano, Italy Uichin Lee, KAIST, South Korea Special Session Chair Frank Kargl, Ulm University Publication and Web Chair François Robinet, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Steering Committee Renato Lo Cigno, University of Brescia, Italy Falko Dressler, TU Berlin, Germany Edward W. Knightly, RICE University, USA Ioannis Stavrakakis, University of Athens, Greece Kostantinos Psounis, University of Southern California, USA Andrea Passarella, National Research Council, Italy More Information ---------------- For further information and updates on the conference, please refer to the official website: http://2021.wons-conference.org/ -- Uichin Lee, PhD CS / KSE, KAIST ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP-IEEE Wireless Communications Special Issue on Aerial Computing: Drones for Multi-Access Edge Computing
by Lars Wolf 17 Dec '20

17 Dec '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP-IEEE Wireless Communications Special Issue on Aerial Computing: Drones for Multi-Access Edge Computing Datum: Thu, 17 Dec 2020 14:43:51 +0800 Von: Jianchao Zheng <longxingren.zjc.s(a)163.COM> Antwort an: Jianchao Zheng <longxingren.zjc.s(a)163.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Apologies, if you receive multiple copies of this CFP]Dear colleagues, You are cordially invited to submit your latest research results to the IEEE Wireless Communications Special Issue on Aerial Computing: Drones for Multi-Access Edge Computing Call for Papers With the explosive development of the Internet of Things (IoT) and 5G communications, multi-access edge computing (MEC) has emerged as an effective solution to help mobile devices deal with computation-intensive and delay-sensitive applications. However, computing servers are usually embedded in fixed access points (APs) or base stations (BSs), and thus pose many disadvantages. Recently, a new paradigm of drone-enabled aerial computing has drawn extensive attention due to drones’ mobility, flexibility, and maneuverability. When the computing servers embedded in APs/BSs are overloaded or unavailable, drones can be quickly deployed to designated areas to meet temporary and/or unexpected demands. Moreover, benefiting from line-of-sight properties of air-ground links, aerial computing can effectively reduce task delay and transmission energy consumption as compared to terrestrial computing. In particular, aerial computing can play an important role in disaster areas, emergency relief and battlefields, which are lacking available terrestrial infrastructures. Despite its many advantages, aerial computing also presents some challenges. For instance, due to the high mobility of drones, aerial computing is significantly different from terrestrial computing. Specifically, wireless links to/from a drone vary significantly over time, thus requiring elaborate design of the drone’s trajectory, task allocation and resource management. Meanwhile, in order to ensure low transmission energy consumption and task delay, computing and communication resources also need to be precisely allocated over time. The energy efficient trajectory plan of a drone is very important to extend its service time. In addition, due to the limited computing ability of a single drone, multiple drones are worth considering to simultaneously provide computing service, wherein the movement control, cooperation, and the resource allocation of multiple drones all require elaborate design. This Special Issue (SI) brings together the latest research and innovation on aerial computing. All submissions should neither have been published previously nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. This special issue covers research, development, application, and all other aspects of this field. Authors are invited to submit manuscripts on topics including, but not limited to, the following: New architectures, frameworks, and protocols for aerial computing Computation offloading, trajectory design and resource allocation for aerial computing Spectrum management and multiple access schemes for aerial computing Energy efficiency, energy harvesting, and green operation for aerial computing Joint optimization of computing, communication, caching, and control for aerial computing Cooperative design and resource allocation for multiple drones Machine learning and artificial intelligence for aerial computing Aerial computing for edge intelligence in large-scale sensor networks Security and privacy-preserving approaches for aerial computing Design and optimization for aerial-ground cooperative computing Aerial computing for industrial IoT applications Edge caching and computing for mobile AR/VR and tactile Internet Submission Guidelines Manuscripts should conform to the standard format as indicated in the Information for Authors section of the Paper Submission Guidelines. All manuscripts to be considered for publication must be submitted by the deadline through Manuscript Central. Select “October 2021/Aerial Computing: Drones for Multi-Access Edge Computing” from the drop-down menu of topics. Important Dates Manuscript Submission Deadline: 15 January 2021 Initial Decision Date: 1 April 2021 Revised Manuscript Due: 1 May 2021 Final Decision Date: 1 June 2021 Final Manuscript Due: 15 August 2021 Publication Date: October 2021 Guest Editors Jianchao Zheng National Innovation Institute of Defense Technology, China Alagan Anpalagan Ryerson University, Canada Mohsen Guizani Qatar University, Qatar Yuan Wu University of Macau, China Ning Zhang Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, USA Xianfu Chen VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland F. Richard Yu Carleton University, Canada ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] DCOSS 2021 - 17th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems - deadline January 25, 2021 - Coral Bay, Pafos, Cyprus
by Lars Wolf 17 Dec '20

17 Dec '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] DCOSS 2021 - 17th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems - deadline January 25, 2021 - Coral Bay, Pafos, Cyprus Datum: Thu, 17 Dec 2020 01:33:05 +0000 Von: Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou <eirini(a)UNM.EDU> Antwort an: Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou <eirini(a)UNM.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ============================================================ The 17th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2021)* Coral Bay, Pafos, Cyprus June 7 - 9, 2021 www.dcoss.org<http://www.dcoss.org/> * DCOSS has always been technically co-sponsored by IEEE; approval for this year pending. ============================================================= We are optimistic that by summer next year the COVID-19 pandemic situation will improve and the event will be held physically in Cyprus. However, we monitor the situation and will adapt accordingly, possibly allowing remote presentations if needed. Submissions are now open! https://dcoss.org/paper-submission/ DCOSS 2021 is the 17th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems to be hosted in Coral Bay, Pafos, Cyprus in June 7-9, 2021. In the last few years, we have witnessed a significant growth in the use of IoT and distributed sensor systems in a number of application areas, ranging from smart transport, energy and buildings, to factory automation, smart healthcare and environmental monitoring. In order for smart sensor systems to truly become useful and pervasive, we need to address a number of research challenges, including the tight integration of sensing and machine intelligence, reliable and efficient networking, interoperability and scalability, the need for dependable autonomy, interaction with humans, and important aspects of security, privacy and trust. DCOSS focuses on issues arising in the entire IoT and networked sensor systems stack: covering aspects of high-level abstractions, models and languages, novel algorithms and applications, system design approaches and architectures, as well as tools for simulated and real deployments. Potential authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate recent advances in both theoretical and experimental research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Artificial Intelligence for IoT - Smart healthcare to combat epidemics (including COVID-19) - Edge and fog computing: distributed computing models from sensor to cloud - Energy harvesting models and optimization - Machine intelligence in distributed sensor systems and real time analytics - Communication and networking primitives and protocols - Autonomy: closing the loop between sensing and actuation - Task allocation, reprogramming, and reconfiguration - Robustness, resilience and dependability - Security and privacy issues - Approaches, tools, and experience of deployment and operation - Performance analysis: complexity, correctness, scalability - Mobile and human-centered sensing - Interoperability, heterogeneity and scalability - Crowd sensing and social sensing techniques, applications, and systems - Complex systems comprising wearable, robotic and/or fixed sensor systems - Novel and compelling applications - IoT systems for emerging and developing economies - Green and environmentally-friendly IoT Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate current research on distributed sensor systems related to DCOSS topics of interest. Please use the US letter size (8.5 X 11 in) standard IEEE conference LaTeX format or Microsoft Word template available on the link below: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html Note that DCOSS does not follow the double-blind review policy. The names and affiliations of all the authors must be present in the submitted manuscript. A Special Issue of the Computer Networks (COMNET) Elsevier Journal will include selected best papers of DCOSS 2021. Please visit DCOSS website at www.dcoss.org<http://www.dcoss.org/> for more information. ******** Main Organizers ******** - Technical Program Committee Chairs: Enzo Mingozzi (University of Pisa, Italy) Stefano Basagni (Northeastern University, USA) Jiannong Cao (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) TPC Members Carlo Alberto Boano, Graz University of Technology Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa Kevin Chan, US CCDC Army Research Laboratory Thomas Erlebach, University of Leicester Raja Jurdak, Queensland University of Technology Tomasz Jurdzinski, University of Wroclaw Evangelos Kranakis, Carleton University Olaf Landsiedel, Kiel University Jun Luo, Nanyang Technological Univeristy Prasant Misra, TATA Consultancy Services Nathalie Mitton, Inria Lille-Nord Europe Miguel Mosteiro, Pace University Gian Pietro Picco, University of Trento Cristina Pinotti, University of Perugia Utz Roedig, University College Cork Vasos Vassiliou, University of Cyprus Dong Wang, University of Notre Dame Hongkai Wen, University of Warwick Jie Yang, Florida State University Desheng Zhang, Rutgers University Ambuj Varshney, University of California, Berkeley Nicolas Tsiftes, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden Xiaolong Zheng, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications Shijia Pan, University of California Merced Jiaxin Ding, Shanghai Jiaotong university Chenren Xu, Peking University Sirajum Munir, Bosch Research Jean-Francois Chamberland, Texas A&M University Behnam Dezfouli, Santa Clara University Jie Gao, Rutgers University Gaia Maselli, University of Rome Enrico Natalizio, University of Lorraine/Loria Theofanis Raptis, IIT-CNR Francesco Restuccia, Northeastern University Simone Silvestri, University of Kentucky Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, University of New Mexico Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida Antonio Virdis, University of Pisa Thiemo Voigt, Swedish Institute of Computer Science - Local Chairs Vasos Vassiliou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Zinon Zinonos (Neapolis University Pafos, Cyprus) - Workshops Chairs Enrico Natalizio (University of Lorraine, France) Zhangyu Guan (University at Buffalo, USA) - Poster & Demo Chairs Thomas Lagkas (International Hellenic University, Greece) Roger Chamberlain (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) - Proceedings Chair Marios Angelopoulos (Bournemouth University, UK) - Publicity Chairs Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (University of New Mexico, USA) Lei Shu (Nanjing Agricultural University & University of Lincoln, China/UK) Tamoghna Ojha (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India) - Steering Committee Chair: Sotiris Nikoletseas (University of Patras and CTI, Greece) ******** Collocated Events ******** DCOSS 2021 will collocate with several thematic Workshops and Special Sessions on emerging topics and technologies. The event will also feature a poster and demo session. Important Dates: Abstract Registration Deadline: January 18, 2021 Paper Submission Deadline: January 25, 2021 Acceptance Notification: March 15, 2021 Camera Ready Deadline: March 29, 2021 Early Registration Deadline: April 22, 2021 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou Assistant Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Office: 326B Tel.: (505)-277-5501 Email: eirini(a)unm.edu<mailto:eirini@unm.edu> Website: PROTON Lab<http://ece-research.unm.edu/tsiropoulou/index.html> PROTON Lab's News: @Tsiropoulou_EE<https://twitter.com/Tsiropoulou_EE> "Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach." ~ Aristotle ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Extended December 29, 2020 (FIRM) - IEEE Global Internet (GI) Symposium 2021 in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2021
by Lars Wolf 17 Dec '20

17 Dec '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Extended December 29, 2020 (FIRM) - IEEE Global Internet (GI) Symposium 2021 in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2021 Datum: Thu, 17 Dec 2020 01:21:11 +0000 Von: Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou <eirini(a)UNM.EDU> Antwort an: Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou <eirini(a)UNM.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Global Internet (GI) Symposium 2021 in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2021 https://infocom2021.ieee-infocom.org/ieee-global-internet-symposium The IEEE Global Internet (GI) Symposium is the flagship event established and organized by the Internet Technical Committee (ITC), a joint committee of the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) and the Internet Society (ISOC). From 1996 through 2002, the symposium was held in conjunction with IEEE GLOBECOM, and since 2003 has moved to be held in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM (except 2020). The GI Symposium provides a top forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss advances in the current and the future Internet and Internet-related technologies. The focus of the GI symposium is on experimental systems over the Internet and the design of future global Internet technologies, such as Information-Centric Networking (ICN), Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV), network slicing, Artificial-Intelligence-based intelligent Internet, industrial Internet, and vehicular and drone networks, especially in a global Internet scale. The GI symposium also has a special focus on measurements-related aspects, besides the emerging technologies. In addition to the traditional research papers, we encourage papers with well thought-through concepts and positions, papers that contrast proposed approaches, papers that clarify and compare inherent differences between competing technologies, and heresies. The topics of interest for the GI 2021 include but are not limited to the following: ● Routing, switching, and addressing ● Future Internet and next generation network architectures ● Information-centric networking, Software defined networking, and network function virtualization ● Wireless Internet and Internet technologies for 5G/6G ● Data center network architectures and performance ● Integration of in-network computation, cloud, and edge/fog computing ● Machine learning, data mining, and big data analytics for intelligent Internet ● Space-air-ground integrated network ● Quantum Internet ● Internet of Things, Machine-to-Machine, sensor, and vehicular/drone networks ● Industrial Internet and time-sensitive and deterministic networks ● Integrating blockchain with distributed Internet edges ● Energy-efficient green communications ● Geo-distributed applications, consistency, and latency challenges ● Content delivery and management ● Internet exchanges, remote peering and peer-to-peer networks ● Internet structure and analysis ● Network-aware applications ● Real-world Measurements and deployments ● Distributed systems and novel distributed Internet applications ● Online social networking ● Internet measurement, modeling, and visualization ● Large-scale network operations, management, and performance monitoring ● Trust, security, privacy, and blockchain for the Internet ● Anomaly, intrusion, and attack detection ● Accountability, reliability, and resiliency for networks ● Economic aspects of the Internet and network neutrality PAPER SUBMISSION Papers must be no more than 6 pages (IEEE two-column format, 10 pt) in total including references and figures, and follow the IEEE template. Submitted papers should be unpublished work and should not be under review in any other conference or journal. Papers must show author names and affiliations, and be submitted in PDF with all non-standard fonts embedded. Papers must be self-contained and written in English. Accepted papers will appear in the symposium proceedings published by IEEE and be submitted to IEEE Xplore Digital Library. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and present the work in the symposium. Please follow the submission link on https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=27893&track=104226 to submit your paper. Keynotes: Keynote I: Vincent Chan, MIT, USA (IEEE Life Fellow, IEEE ComSoc President) Keynote II: Wenjing Lou, Virginia Tech, USA (IEEE Fellow) Lightning talk: Filecoin: A Token-based, Decentralised Storage Network -- Yiannis Psaras, Protocol Labs, USA Journal Special Issues: Selected papers will be recommended to IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ, IF: 9.936), Digital Communications and Networks (Elsevier, IF: 5.382), MDPI Sensors (IF: 3.427), and Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (IF: 1.819) for potential fast-track publications. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: December 29, 2020 (Firm) Acceptance notification: January 15, 2021 Camera-ready submission: February 15, 2021 Workshop date: May 10, 2021 Technical Program Chairs Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Ruidong Li, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan Lei Jiao, University of Oregon, USA Publicity Chairs: William Liu, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Ryoichi Shinkuma, Kyoto University, Japan Eirini Tsiropoulou, University of New Mexico, USA Aldri Luiz dos Santos, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil Steering Committee: Michele Nogueira (Chair), Federal University of Paraná, Brazil Kevin Almeroth, UC Santa Barbara, USA Olaf Maennel, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia Stefan Schmid, TU Berlin, Germany Dijiang Huang, Arizona State University, USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou Assistant Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Office: 326B Tel.: (505)-277-5501 Email: eirini(a)unm.edu<mailto:eirini@unm.edu> Website: PROTON Lab<http://ece-research.unm.edu/tsiropoulou/index.html> PROTON Lab’s News: @Tsiropoulou_EE<https://twitter.com/Tsiropoulou_EE> “Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.” ~ Aristotle ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [ACM SIGCOMM 2021 - Virtual] CFP: ACM SIGCOMM 2021 - paper registration/submission January 20/27, 2021
by Lars Wolf 16 Dec '20

16 Dec '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [ACM SIGCOMM 2021 - Virtual] CFP: ACM SIGCOMM 2021 - paper registration/submission January 20/27, 2021 Datum: Wed, 16 Dec 2020 13:46:27 +0000 Von: Casas Pedro <Pedro.Casas(a)AIT.AC.AT> Antwort an: Casas Pedro <Pedro.Casas(a)AIT.AC.AT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ACM SIGCOMM 2021 August 23-27, 2021 Virtual Event http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2021/ ***Important dates*** * Jan 20, 2021, 16:59 EST -- Abstract registration deadline * Jan 27, 2021, 16:59 EST -- Paper submission deadline * May 3, 2021 (tentative) -- Notification date ***Call for Papers*** The ACM SIGCOMM 2021 conference seeks papers describing significant research contributions to the field of communication networks and networked systems. SIGCOMM takes a broad view of networking research, which includes (but is not limited to) the following topics: * All types of computer networks such as mobile, wide-area, data-center, embedded, home, and enterprise networks. * All types of wired and wireless technologies, including optics, and acoustic and visible light-based communication. * All aspects of networks and networked systems such as architecture, packet-processing hardware and software, virtualization, mobility, resource management, performance, energy consumption, topology, robustness, security, diagnosis, verification, privacy, economics and evolution, and interactions with applications. * All types of computer network design, analysis, and experimental approaches such as theory, measurements, and machine learning-based techniques. We want each SIGCOMM paper to significantly advance the state-of-the-art in networking by, for instance, proposing and developing novel ideas or rigorously (re-)evaluating existing ideas. The review process will take the nature of the contribution into account. We strongly encourage authors to discuss not only the benefits but also the limitations of their work. SIGCOMM 2021 will accept submissions to the ***experience track*** in addition to the regular research track. Submissions to the experience track describe the design, analysis, and evaluation of techniques in commercial or otherwise widely-used deployment. Experience track submissions need not describe new ideas, but are strongly encouraged to elucidate key insights and takeaways gathered from design, deployment, or operational experience. The PC will evaluate experience-track submissions with the understanding that the primary contributions may be in extending the SIGCOMM community's knowledge of how known techniques fare when adapted to real-world settings, and particularly in settings that most in the community cannot duplicate, for reasons of scale or otherwise. At paper registration time, authors must explicitly indicate both in their paper title and submission form if their paper is to be considered for the experience or regular research track. Submissions to the experience track should also be double-blind. However, given the nature of these papers, it is OK to reveal company or system name but NOT author names. Each submission will only be considered for one track - either the experience or the research track, but not both - in accordance with the authors' preference expressed at submission time. The final conference program will not preserve the distinction between the two tracks. In addition to the main conference, SIGCOMM 2021 will have a series of co-located workshops, tutorials, poster and demo sessions, and conference best paper and SIGCOMM awards. ***Submissions*** Papers submitted to SIGCOMM typically report novel results firmly substantiated by experimentation, deployment, simulation, or analysis. The program committee will judge submissions based upon novelty, significance, correctness, clarity of presentation, and relevance to the SIGCOMM community. All accepted papers will be shepherded by a member of the program committee. Submissions should be in two-column, 10-point format, and can be up to 12 pages in length with as many additional pages as necessary for references and optional appendices. Submissions and final papers may include appendices (following references, not counting against the 12 pages). Reviewers are not required to read appendices or consider them in their review. Authors should thus ensure that the core paper is complete and self-contained. For example, if the appendix provides details of a proof or experiment, the body should summarize the key result. For accepted papers, the shepherd will review appendices and must approve their need. Appendices may also include non-traditional material, such as videos, datasets, and code, all appropriately anonymized. NOTE: For accepted papers, the official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. (For those rare conferences whose proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library after the conference is over, the official publication date remains the first day of the conference.) Detailed submission instructions can be found here -- http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2021/submission.html Submission site: https://sigcomm2021.hotcrp.com ***Artifact Evaluation for Accepted Papers*** The authors of accepted SIGCOMM 2021 papers will be invited to submit supporting materials to the Artifact Evaluation process. Artifact Evaluation is run by a separate committee that will assess how well the submitted artifacts support the work described in the accepted papers. Participation in Artifact Evaluation is voluntary but strongly encouraged and it has no influence on the final decision regarding the papers. Papers that go through the Artifact Evaluation process successfully will receive badges printed on the papers themselves. Additional details on the Artifact Evaluation process can be found here -- https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/artifact-review-badging ***Public Summaries for Accepted Papers*** The SIGCOMM 2021 program will feature public summaries accompanying each accepted paper. In most cases, the summary will be written by the paper's shepherd and will provide an overview of the problem addressed in the paper and its solution, and highlight interesting future questions that arise. The summary may additionally explain aspects of the paper the reviewers particularly liked. Summaries will be published along with the papers in the ACM Digital Library. ***Ethical Concerns*** All papers must include, in the main body of the paper, a statement about ethical issues; papers that don't include such a statement may be rejected. This could be, if appropriate for the paper, simply the sentence "This work does not raise any ethical issues." If the work involves human subjects or potentially sensitive data (e.g., user traffic or social network information, evaluation of censorship, etc.), the paper should clearly discuss these issues, perhaps in a separate subsection. Papers must follow basic precepts of ethical research and subscribe to community norms. These include respect for privacy, secure storage of sensitive data, voluntary and informed consent if human subjects are involved or other people are placed at risk, avoiding deceptive practices when not essential, beneficence (maximizing the benefits to an individual or to society while minimizing potential harm to an individual), and risk mitigation. Authors may want to consult the Menlo Report (https://www.caida.org/publications/papers/2012/menlo_report_actual_formatte…) and the ACM ethics policy (https://www.acm.org/code-of-ethics) for further information on ethical principles, and they may find the Allman/Paxson paper in IMC 2007 (http://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2007/papers/imc80.pdf) helpful for a perspective on ethical data sharing. Many organizations have an ethics review process (sometimes called an Institutional Review Board, IRB). In some cases, research work may clearly have no human subjects, and formal institutional review may not be required. (However, a sentence in the paper stating this evaluation is still required.) In many cases, IRB involvement is appropriate. IRB approval of research is an important factor (and should be mentioned), but the program committee will independently evaluate the ethical soundness of the work just as they evaluate its technical soundness. The PC takes a broad view of what constitutes an ethical concern, and the PC chairs may reach out to authors during the review process if questions arise. You can contact the PC chairs at akella(a)cs.wisc.edu<mailto:akella@cs.wisc.edu> and nanditad(a)google.com<mailto:nanditad@google.com> ***Organizing Committee*** General Chairs * Fernando Kuipers, Delft University of Technology * Matthew Caesar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Program Committee Chairs * Aditya Akella, University of Wisconsin-Madison * Nandita Dukkipati, Google Regards, Pedro Casas and Roland van Rijswijk-Deij SIGCOMM 2021 Publicity Chairs PEDRO CASAS Senior Scientist Data Science & Artificial Intelligence Center for Digital Safety & Security AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH Giefinggasse 4 | 1210 Vienna | Austria T +43 50550-4104 | M +43 664 88256097 | F +43 50550-2813 pedro.casas(a)ait.ac.at<mailto:pedro.casas@ait.ac.at> | www.ait.ac.at<http://www.ait.ac.at/> FN: 115980 i HG Wien | UID: ATU14703506 www.ait.ac.at/Email-Disclaimer<http://www.ait.ac.at/Email-Disclaimer> ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] IEEE/ACM DS-RT 2021 (Valencia, Spain)
by Lars Wolf 15 Dec '20

15 Dec '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] IEEE/ACM DS-RT 2021 (Valencia, Spain) Datum: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 11:45:27 +0100 Von: Carlos Tavares Calafate <calafate(a)DISCA.UPV.ES> Antwort an: Carlos Tavares Calafate <calafate(a)DISCA.UPV.ES> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please accept our apologies if you have received multiple copies. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers - DS-RT 2021 25th IEEE/ACM* International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications http://www.ds-rt.com September 27-29, 2021, Valencia, Spain *Pending sponsorship by IEEE and ACM --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important: Paper submission deadline: May 5th, 2021 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** The Symposium ** The 2021 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT 2021) promises to be a grand affair and will take place in Valencia, Spain. DS-RT 2021 serves as a platform for simulationists from academia, industry and research labs for presenting recent research results in Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications. DS-RT 2021 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 2021 will include contributed technical papers, invited papers, and panel discussions. The proceedings will be published by IEEE-CS press. ** Call for Papers ** DS-RT provides an international forum for the discussion and presentation of original ideas, recent results and achievements by researchers, research 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 encouraged. The scope of the symposium includes, but is not limited to: - Paradigms, Methodology and Software Architectures for Large Scale Distributed and Real-Time Simulations (e.g. Parallel and Distributed Simulation, Multi-Agent Based Distributed Simulation, HLA/RTI, Web, Grid and cloud based Simulation, hardware-software co-design for extreme scale simulations) - Paradigms, Modelling, Architecture and Environments for Large Scale Real-time Systems and Concurrent Systems with hard and soft Real-Time Constraints - Advanced modelling techniques (reuse of models, new modelling languages, agent-based M&S, and spatial M&S) - Non-functional Properties of Distributed Simulation and Real-Time Systems (e.g. Dependability, Availability, Reliability, Maintainability, Safety, Security, Trustworthiness, QoS) - Theoretical Foundations of Large Scale Real-Time and Simulation Models (e.g. Event Systems, Causality, Space-Time Models, Notions of Time, Discrete and Continuous Systems, Simulator Coordination) - Simulation Studies at Large and Very Large Scale (e.g. Industrial, Commercial, Ecological and Environmental, Societal, Power and Energy, Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing Systems) - Performance and Validation of Large Scale and Distributed Simulations (e.g., benchmarking and analytical results, empirical studies DIS, HLA/RTI studies) - Algorithms and methods for parallel or distributed simulation (synchronization, scheduling, memory management, and load balancing) - Languages and Tools, Development Environments, Data Interfaces, Network Protocols and Model Repositories that address Very Large Simulations - Data Management and Distribution Issues, Interest Management, Semantic Modelling, Multi-resolution Modelling, Dead-Reckoning Mechanisms - Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing Architectures and Applications that involve Simulations and/or adhere to Real-Time Constraints - Simulation based Virtual Environments and Mixed Reality Systems (e.g. Interactive Virtual Reality, Human Communication through Immersive Environments) - Collaborative Virtual and Augmented Reality, Shared Interaction Spaces, Telepresence Systems and Shared Workspaces, 3D Video and Acoustic Reconstruction, Shared Object Manipulation - Serious Gaming and Massive Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG) applications, architectures and scalability issues - Visual Interactive Simulation Environments (e.g., Generic Animation, Visual Interactive Modelling, Interactive Computer Based Training and Learning, Scientific Visualization, High-End Computer Graphics) - Design Issues, Interaction Designs, Human Commuter Interaction Issues raised by Large Scale DS-RT Systems - Media Convergence (e.g. New Technologies, Media Theory, Real-Time considerations of Multi Modality, etc.) - Innovative Styles of Interactions with Large Scale DS-RT Systems (e.g. Implicit, Situative and Attentive Interaction, Tangible Interaction, Embedded Interaction, etc.) - Technologies for Living Labs (e.g. Mirror World Simulation, Interoperability, Large Scale Multi Sensor Networks, Global Wireless Communication, Multi Stakeholder Understanding and Innovation) - Environmental and Emerging Simulation Challenges (e.g. Growth of Human Population, Climate Change, CO2, Health Care, Ecosystems, Sustainable Development, Water and Energy Supply, Human Mobility, Air Traffic, World Stock Markets, Food Supply Chains, Megacities, Smart Cities, Disaster Planning, etc.) - Advanced Simulation Studies and Technologies (e.g. Discrete event, continuous Simulation, etc.) - Cognitive Modelling and Simulation, Artificial Intelligence in Simulation, and Neural Network Models and Simulation - Service-oriented Computing and Simulation, Web-based Modelling and Simulation, and Simulation of Multimedia Applications and Systems - Modeling and Virtual Evaluation of Distributed Systems through Simulation, Resilience Network Evaluation in Distributed Systems through Simulation, Models and Simulation Environments for Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems Evaluation - Advances in Simulation Methodology and Practices - Smart Network Design and Traffic Modelling - Haptic-audio-visual System and applications - Medical and surgical simulation based Systems - Human-computer interaction in virtual reality environment ** Important Dates Full Papers ** Paper Submission Deadline: May 5th, 2021 Notification of Acceptance: June 15th, 2021 Camera Ready version due: TBA Symposium presentation: September 27-29, 2021 ** Call for Posters/Demos/Industrial Case Studies ** The 25th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT 2021) also solicits posters and technical demonstrations that report on recent original results, ongoing research or industrial case studies in the area of distributed simulation and real time applications. ** Important Dates Posters/Demos/Industrial Case Studies ** Paper submission deadline: June 30th, 2021 Notification of acceptance: July 20th, 2021 Camera-ready deadline: TBA ** Submission ** Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. All paper should be submitted using the following<https://edas.info/N28003>. All papers will be reviewed by Technical Program Committee members and other experts active in the field to ensure high quality and relevance to the conference. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings to be published by IEEE-CS press. General information regarding submission can be found at http://ds-rt.com/2021 Questions from authors may be directed to the Program Co-Chairs. IMPORTANT: ATTENDANCE BY AT LEAST ONE AUTHOR IS MANDATORY ** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE** General Chair: Carlos Tavares Calafate, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain Program Chair: Floriano De Rango, University of Calabria, Italy Program Vice Chair Gregory Zacharewicz, National Institute of Mining and Telecommunication, France Special Session Chair: Rodolfo W. L. Coutinho, Concordia University, Canada Local Organization Chair José Oliver Gil, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain Posters/Demos Chair: Pietro Manzoni, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain Tutorials Chair Claudio Palazzi, University of Padua, Italy Finance and Registration Chair Juan Carlos Cano, Universitat Politècnica de València , Spain ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IFIP Networking 2021: Call for Papers (Deadline: January 12, 2021)
by Lars Wolf 15 Dec '20

15 Dec '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IFIP Networking 2021: Call for Papers (Deadline: January 12, 2021) Datum: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 16:21:59 -0500 Von: Francesco Restuccia <f.restuccia(a)NORTHEASTERN.EDU> Antwort an: Francesco Restuccia <f.restuccia(a)NORTHEASTERN.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ***************************************************************** * Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Papers. ****************************************************************** IFIP Networking 2021 Espoo, Finland June 21-24, 2021 Homepage: https://networking.ifip.org/2021 The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Networking 2021 Conference (IFIP NETWORKING 2021) will be held in Aalto University, Espoo, Finland. This is the 20th event of the series, sponsored by the IFIP Technical Committee on Communication Systems (TC6). Accepted papers will be published in the IFIP Digital Library. High quality papers will be recommended for fast track publications in selected journals. The main objective of Networking 2021 is to bring together academic and industrial experts of the networking community to discuss the most recent advances in networking, to highlight key issues, identify trends, and develop a vision of the future Internet and wireless networking from the usage, design, deployment and operation standpoints. Networking 2021 technical sessions will be structured around the following areas, although we also encourage submissions on other relevant areas: * Network Architectures, Applications and Services - Network automation and management - Software-defined networking (SDN) - Artificial intelligence and networking - Service function chaining - (Multi-tenant) network slicing - Drone networking and unmanned technology-based services and applications - Protective and collaborative networking - Internet of Things (IoT) and crowdsensing/crowdsourcing - Trustworthy and multi-metric routing - Quantum communications - Fog and edge computing - Heterogeneous and integrated networks - Tbit/s optical networking - Overlay and P2P networks - Evolution of IP network architectures and protocols - Green networking - Resilient networks - Traffic engineering - Quality of Service - Emerging value-added services and applications - Web technologies * Network Modeling, Analysis, Operation, and Economics - Topology characterization - Performance measurements - Traffic monitoring and analysis - User behavior modeling - Quality of Experience - Data-driven network design - User profiling and tracking - Complex and dynamic networks - Analysis of participatory networks - Social networking - Socio-economic aspects of networks, pricing and billing - Network neutrality * Network Security, Trust and Privacy - Network security protocols - Anomaly and malware detection - Network forensics - Network security measurement - Authentication - Network attack/intrusion detection and mitigation - Applications of privacy-preserving computation in networks - Anonymization - Dependability - Situational awareness - Threat intelligence - Blockchain, ledger technologies and their network-related applications * Wireless Networking - 5G access networks - Long-range communications - Mobile networks - Self-organizing networks - Wireless sensor networks - Visible light communications - Localization and positioning - Delay/disruption tolerant networks - Opportunistic networks - Wireless power transfer networks - Device-to-device communications - Vehicular networks and communications - Beyond 5G and 6G theories and technologies - mmWave and THz communications The Conference Program will include plenary sessions, breakout sessions, keynote talks, a panel, a poster/demo session and a workshop day. ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE GENERAL CHAIRS: Raimo Kantola, Aalto University, Finland Lars Eggert, NetApp, Finland PROGRAM CHAIRS: Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland Gareth Tyson, Queen Mary University, UK Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, University at Buffalo, USA STEERING COMMITTEE: Robert Bestak, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic Andrea Passarella (Chair), IIT-CNR, Italy Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University, USA Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich, Switzerland Joerg Widmer, IMDEA Networks, Spain IMPORTANT DATES Title/Abstract submission (required): January 5, 2021 Full paper submission: January 12, 2021 Notification of acceptance: April 1, 2021 Camera-ready version: May 7, 2021 Full Event: June 21-24, 2021 Submission guidelines can be found at http://networking.ifip.org/2021/call-for-papers. -- Francesco Restuccia Assistant Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Faculty, Roux Institute Associate Faculty, Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things Northeastern University, USA Website: https://restuccialab.org ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE WoWMoM 2021: new (FIRM) submission deadline December 31
by Lars Wolf 15 Dec '20

15 Dec '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE WoWMoM 2021: new (FIRM) submission deadline December 31 Datum: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 01:15:06 +0000 Von: Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou <eirini(a)UNM.EDU> Antwort an: Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou <eirini(a)UNM.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS -- SUBMISSION DEADLINED EXTENDED TO DEC 31 [FINAL] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 22nd IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM'21) Pisa, Italy June 7-11, 2021 http://wowmom2021.iit.cnr.it/ Twitter: @wowmom2021 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Register & submit your paper by December 31st 2020 [FINAL] ** Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society | Missouri Science & Technology Univ. Organized by: IIT@CNR | Platinum industry sponsor: Cisco Highlights: - Fast-track journal publication to Computer Communications - Cisco Best Paper Award SCOPE AND OVERVIEW -------------------------------------------------------------------------- IEEE WoWMoM 2021 is soliciting original and previously unpublished papers addressing research challenges and advances in the areas of wireless, mobile, and multimedia networking as well as ubiquitous and pervasive systems and applications. Wireless networking technologies are continuously evolving and have become a critical part of modern life, be it for communication services, media distribution or sensing and actuation services within the Internet of things context. To provide users with high quality of experience in multimedia communication and distribution, especially under moderate to high utilization, appropriate resource management and architectural networking paradigms are necessary. Edge computing and data-driven artificial intelligence (AI) techniques are becoming essential tools to cope with the increasing diversity of connected devices, and the plethora of new data-intensive and latency-sensitive applications requested by end-users. At the same time, Internet of Things environments, wearable computing and sensors, support a diverse range of application domains and services, providing rich sets of measurements for characterizing, detecting, and understanding complex behaviors and systems and enabling feedback mechanisms that allow them to control such systems. IEEE WoWMoM 2021 takes a broad view and seeks papers describing innovative research contributions to the field of mobile and wireless networking and applications. We solicit papers that present original work, validated by experimentation, simulation, or analysis. We also welcome practical experiences and experimental efforts from both industry and academia, duly documenting the lessons learned from testbeds, field trials, or real deployments. SPECIFIC AREAS OF INTEREST -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - 5G/Beyond 5G networks for mobile and multimedia services - AI-assisted and data-driven networking in wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Authentication, authorization, accounting for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Cognitive communications and networking - Communication technologies and services for MTC - Content-centric architectures for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Context-awareness in wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Dependability and survivability issues for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Edge and cloud computing for wireless, mobile and multimedia networking and services - Energy-efficiency for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Internet/Web of Things - Localization, tracking, and mobility management and services - Middleware services for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Mobile big data networking and services - Mobile social networks - Modeling, analysis, and performance evaluation of wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Network traffic characterization and measurements - Opportunistic and delay-tolerant networking - Participatory, mobile and urban sensing - Resource management and QoS/QoE provisioning - Satellite and hybrid satellite-terrestrial networking - Seamless inter-networking and self-organisation - Software Defined Networking, Network Function Virtualization, and slicing for wireless and mobile networks - System prototypes, measurements, real-world deployment, and experiences - Trust and privacy issues for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Vehicular communication systems - Virtual mobile infrastructure - Wearable Computing - Wireless multimedia systems, services and applications PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit papers describing original, previously unpublished work, not currently under review by another conference, workshop, or a journal. Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process and all submissions must be done electronically through EDAS at: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=27832 Authors can submit regular or work-in-progress papers (appropriate category to be selected upon submission). REGULAR PAPERS Regular papers submissions may be up to 10 pages in length (including figures and references), formatted in two-column IEEE conference style with font size 10 points or greater. WORK IN PROGRESS PAPERS Work-in-progress papers provide a peer-reviewed forum for late-breaking or preliminary research results, giving an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present and demonstrate their recent research, and to obtain feedback from their peers in a poster session. Work-in-progress papers submissions may be up to 4 pages in length (including figures and references) and must have a prefix "WIP:" in the title of the paper. ACCEPTED PAPERS --------------------------------------------------------------------------- An author of an accepted paper is required to register for the conference at the full (member or non-member) rate and the paper must be presented by an author of that paper at the conference, unless a written request before the conference for a substitute presenter with compelling reasons is sent to the TPC Co-Chairs and permission is granted. Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings of IEEE WoWMoM 2021 and made available through IEEE Xplore. All conference proceedings must meet IEEE's quality standards, and IEEE reserves the right not to publish any proceedings that do not meet these standards. Furthermore, IEEE reserves the right to remove papers from IEEE Xplore that are not presented at the conference. for unjustified reasons. JOURNAL FAST TRACK --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Extended versions of selected papers from IEEE WoWMoM 2021 will be invited for possible publication in Computer Communications (IF 2.816). AWARDS --------------------------------------------------------------------------- All accepted regular papers will be considered for the Cisco Best Paper Award. A committee will select three best paper candidates based on the reviews received. The winner will be decided also based on the quality of the presentation and announced during the conference. The recipient(s) of the Cisco Best Paper Award will be awarded a cash prize, while the runner-ups will receive a certificate from the organizing committee. IMPORTANT DATES --------------------------------------------------------------------------- All the following dates are tentative and will be finally set in due time. Please check the website regularly for updates. Paper registration & submission: December 31, 2020 Acceptance notification: March 19, 2021 Camera-Ready version: April 19, 2021 Conference dates: June 7-11, 2021 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE --------------------------------------------------------------------------- GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Raffaele Bruno, IIT-CNR, Italy Hongyi Wu, Old Dominion University, USA PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Claudio Cicconetti, IIT-CNR, Italy Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Northeastern University, USA STEERING COMMITTEE Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy Sajal K. Das, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA WORKSHOPS CO-CHAIRS Ana Aguiar, Univ. Porto and Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal Andreas Kassler, Karlstad University, Sweden FINANCE & REGISTRATION CHAIR Yonghe Liu, Univ. Texas at Arlington, USA PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS Arash Asadi, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, University of New Mexico, USA Yang Liu, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China PUBLICATIONS CO-CHAIRS Pantelis Frangoudis, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria PHD FORUM CO-CHAIRS Rui Ning, Old Dominion University, USA Carlo Vallati, University of Pisa, Italy FURTHER INFO --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for papers on the website: http://wowmom2021.iit.cnr.it/call_for_papers.html For any additional information please contact the PC chairs at: wowmom2021-pcchairs(a)iit.cnr.it -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou Assistant Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Office: 326B Tel.: (505)-277-5501 Email: eirini(a)unm.edu<mailto:eirini@unm.edu> Website: PROTON Lab<http://ece-research.unm.edu/tsiropoulou/index.html> PROTON Lab's News: @Tsiropoulou_EE<https://twitter.com/Tsiropoulou_EE> "Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach." ~ Aristotle ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP - ICDCS 2021 - IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
by Lars Wolf 14 Dec '20

14 Dec '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP - ICDCS 2021 - IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Datum: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 20:43:39 +0000 Von: Rhongho Jang <r.jang(a)WAYNE.EDU> Antwort an: Rhongho Jang <r.jang(a)WAYNE.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Papers] Call for Papers: 2021 IEEE 41th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) ICDCS 2021 Call for Research Papers July 7-10, 2021 (tentative) Washington DC, USA https://icdcs2021.us/ Scope The annual IEEE ICDCS conference is a premier international forum for researchers, developers, and users to present, discuss, and exchange cutting edge ideas and latest findings on topics related to any aspect of distributed computing systems. We invite you to submit your original contributions to ICDCS 2021. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Cloud Computing and Data Centers - Distributed Algorithms and Theory - Distributed Big Data Systems and Analytics - Distributed Fault Tolerance and Dependability - Distributed Operating Systems and Middleware - Edge Computing - Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems - Mobile and Wireless Computing - Security, Privacy, and Trust in Distributed Systems - Blockchain - Machine Learning on or for Distributed Systems - Insights from Industrial Experience Paper Submission Papers must be original and unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere concurrently. All paper submissions should follow the IEEE 8.5″ x 11″ Two-Column Format. Each submission can have up to 11 pages (including references). Papers exceeding this page limit or with smaller fonts will be rejected without review. The submitted manuscripts should include author names and affiliations. Electronic submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icdcs2021 If the submission is accepted for publication, up to 2 over length pages may be purchased for the final camera-ready version. Each accepted paper must have at least one author registered and be presented during the conference. No-show paper will be reported to the publisher and deleted from the conference publication. For authors with multiple papers accepted by the conference, a separate author registration is required for each paper. Important Dates Abstract Submission: January 6, 2021 (23:59, UTC-5, EDT) Full Paper Submission: January 13, 2021 (23:59, UTC-5, EDT) Notification of Acceptance: March 17, 2021 Camera-ready Paper Submission: April 20, 2021 Please refer to the conference web site (https://icdcs2021.us/) for more information about: Call for Research Papers Call for Demo and Posters Ph.D. Student Symposium Call for Workshop Proposals ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] One day left: Special Issue on Recent Advances in Connected and Autonomous Unmanned Aerial/Ground Vehicles
by Lars Wolf 14 Dec '20

14 Dec '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] One day left: Special Issue on Recent Advances in Connected and Autonomous Unmanned Aerial/Ground Vehicles Datum: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 20:53:05 +0100 Von: Chaker Abdelaziz Kerrache <ch.kerrache(a)LAGH-UNIV.DZ> Antwort an: Chaker Abdelaziz Kerrache <ch.kerrache(a)LAGH-UNIV.DZ> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Special Issue on Recent Advances in Connected and Autonomous Unmanned Aerial/Ground Vehicles, Elsevier Computer Networks (Q1, IF:3.111) Submission deadline December 15th, 2020 Connected and autonomous unmanned vehicles are considered as a promising technology solution for numerous applications, ranging from civilian to military settings, including shipment of goods, home package delivery, crop monitoring, agricultural surveillance, and emergency rescue operations in those regions where the access is difficult or dangerous for human beings. Connected and autonomous unmanned vehicles comprise of unmanned aerial/ground vehicles (UAVs/UGVs) that distinguish by means of different characteristics. While UAVs can search a wide range of targets, their height and speed results in a limited target positioning estimation; on the other side, UGVs can have accurate locations of a target on the ground. Also, UGVs move slowly and can be easily obscured by obstacles. To overcome such limitations, UAVs and UGVs should work cooperatively and collaborate with each other in *ad hoc *manner through Line-of-Sight (LoS) links to exchange data packets. Of course, UAVs can also communicate with fixed ground stations, with an air traffic controller, or through a Non-Line-of-Sight (NLoS) link with a satellite-aided controller, generally based on preloaded tasks. Besides the dissimilar communication technologies, various problems appear in these inter-UAVs/UGVs communications including energy management, lack of security and the unreliability of wireless communication links, and handover from LoS to NLoS, and vice versa. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: · Mobility, traffic models and network management for UAVs/UGVs · Energy efficiency in UAVs/UGVs · Inter-UAVs/UGVs and UAVs/UGVs-assisted routing · Security, privacy, and trust in UAVs/UGVs · UAVs/UGVs-assisted applications · Spectrum management for UAVs/UGVs · Mobile edge computing in UAVs/UGVs · Beyond 5G technologies for UAVs/UGVs · Performance, scalability, reliability and efficiency of Inter- UAVs/UGVs and UAVs/UGVs-to-X communications · Modeling and theoretical proofs of communications in UAVs/UGVs · Inter-UAVs/UGVs communications over future internet architectures · UAVs/UGVs clouds · Testbeds and validation. Guest Editors Anna Maria Vegni, Roma Tre University, Italy (annamaria.vegni(a)uniroma3.it) Chaker Abdelaziz Kerrache, University of Ghardaïa, Algeria ( kr.abdelaziz(a)gmail.com) Waleed Ejaz, Thompson Rivers University, Canada (waleed.ejaz(a)ieee.org) Enrico Natalizio, LORIA, Université de Lorraine, France ( enrico.natalizio(a)loria.fr) Jiming Chen, Zhejiang University, China (cjm(a)zju.edu.cn) Houbing Song, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA ( houbing.song(a)erau.edu) For more information please visit: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-networks/call-for-papers/connect… ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] IEEE Network SI on Ubiquitous IoT with integrated Space, Air, Ground, and Ocean Networks
by Lars Wolf 11 Dec '20

11 Dec '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] IEEE Network SI on Ubiquitous IoT with integrated Space, Air, Ground, and Ocean Networks Datum: Fri, 11 Dec 2020 22:01:44 +0800 Von: Peng Yu <yupeng.bupt(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Peng Yu <yupeng.bupt(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Dear colleagues, You are cordially invited to submit your latest research results to the IEEE Network Special Issue on Ubiquitous IoT with integrated Space, Air, Ground, and Ocean Networks As IoT applications and services reach almost every corner of our life, there is a growing demand for global connections to anyone and anything. Terrestrial networks alone cannot meet these needs, and thus there comes the emerging concept of the integration of other dimensions, such as space, airborne, and ocean communication infrastructures. However, the future integrated platform is not a simple combination of heterogeneous network segments and domains. This is expected to be the largest-ever geographical scale, which makes it very challenging to manage the full potential of heterogeneity and hybridity. Recent breakthroughs in network communication technology (i.e., 5G and 6G) and artificial intelligence provide us with the opportunity to overcome those challenges. Modern microelectronics manufacturing can significantly improve the computing capability per unit area of chips with reduced cost. With the rapid progress of hardware production, SDN/NFV-based network virtualization makes the coordination of heterogeneity and hybridity more effective and efficient by unifying high-level behaviors. At the same time, deep machine learning provides novel structural models to accumulate the knowledge of designated networks and apply quality of experience. The design of a practical ubiquitous IoT system, however, is still quite an open challenge in the real-world. The difficulties mainly come from the lack of experience and knowledge of operating and managing such an integrated network with multi-dimensional heterogeneity. In addition, high spatial-temporal dynamics are another hurdle, especially when considering the super large geographical coverage and related enormous complexity. Introducing holistic features into the ubiquitous IoT system design seems a promising direction. However, there is still no clear roadmap to apply such a multidisciplinary approach to gain system-level autonomy. This Special Issue (SI) aims to foster the dissemination of high-quality research with emerging ideas, approaches, theories, frameworks, and practices to tackle the challenging issues related to Ubiquitous IoT with integrated Space, Air, Ground, and Ocean Networks. Solutions are welcomed to integrate industrial perspectives and academic cutting-edge models using real-time data and scenarios. Possible topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: New concepts, theory, models, and protocols for ubiquitous IoT Novel architectures, frameworks, and paradigms for ubiquitous IoT Cooperative communication and computing for ubiquitous IoT Information-centric networking in ubiquitous IoT Dynamic access control, mobility management and service migration in ubiquitous IoT QoS aware resource management for ubiquitous IoT Orchestration of computing, caching, and communications in ubiquitous IoT Self-organizing of ubiquitous IoT Applications of artificial intelligence, big data, and fog-cloud computing in ubiquitous IoT Security and privacy in ubiquitous IoT Use cases and field tests highlighting the potential of ubiquitous IoT Securing the infrastructure of ubiquitous IoT using federated learning Edge communication and intelligence to support sustainable ubiquitous IoT infrastructures. Submission Guidelines Manuscripts should conform to the standard format as indicated in the "Information for Authors" section of the Paper Submission Guidelines. All manuscripts to be considered for publication must be submitted by the deadline through Manuscript Central. Select "September 2021/Ubiquitous IoT with integrated Space, Air, Ground, and Ocean Networks" from the drop-down menu of Topic titles. Important Dates Manuscript Submission Due: 28 February 2021 Acceptance Notification: 31 April 2021 Final Revised Manuscript Due: 31 May 2021 Final Manuscript Due: 15 July 2021 Publication Date: September 2021 Guest Editors Michel Kadoch École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec, Canada Shuai Han Harbin Institute of Technology, China Jalel Ben-Othman CentraleSupelec, France Wenjing Li Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Bo Rong Communications Research Centre Canada Tianyang Bai Qualcomm Technologies, USA ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Papers: 2021 WCNC Workshop on Intelligent Computing and Caching at the Network Edge (Deadline 15 Dec 2020)
by Lars Wolf 10 Dec '20

10 Dec '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Papers: 2021 WCNC Workshop on Intelligent Computing and Caching at the Network Edge (Deadline 15 Dec 2020) Datum: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 20:21:20 +0000 Von: Chang, Zheng <zheng.chang(a)JYU.FI> Antwort an: Chang, Zheng <zheng.chang(a)JYU.FI> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Apologies for cross-posting this invite: Dear colleagues: Call for Papers: 2021 WCNC Workshop on Intelligent Computing and Caching at the Network Edge, 29 Mar-1 April 2021, Nanjing, China, <http://users.jyu.fi/~zhchang/edge2020> https://wcnc2021.ieee-wcnc.org/authors/call-workshop-papers#ws5 With the explosive growth of smart devices and the advent of many new applications, mobile traffic volume has been growing exponentially. The myriad technological advances proposed for the 5G networks still mostly focus on capacity increase, which is constrained by the limited spectrum resources as well as the diminishing profits for operators and, therefore, will always lag behind the growth rate of mobile traffic. Therefore, novel distributed architectures, which bring network functions (such as computing and caching) and contents to the edge, emerges, i.e., mobile edge computing and caching, to confront the aforementioned challenges in the network development and many emerging applications, such as AR/VR, IoT, eHealth, autonomous driving , gaming etc. However, on the way towards efficient and intelligent network edge computing and caching, there are many open problems ahead. From the computing part, how to flexibly utilize the distributed computing resources at the network edge, such as mobile computing or fog computing is of significance. Moreover, what to be offloaded to the edge node and when to offload also call for research attentions. From the caching part, what, when, where and how to cache the contents to reduce the demand for radio resources are vital. Last but not the most, how to efficiently integrate computing and caching at the edge node and utilize the synergy of computing and caching also requires a breakthrough. This workshop aims to consolidate the timely and solid works of the current state-of-the art in terms of fundamental research ideas and network engineering geared towards exploiting intelligent caching and computing at the network edge. The topics of interests related to edge caching and computing include (but are not limited to): System modelling: Computation modelling, caching modelling, energy consumption modelling etc.; Enabling technologies: e.g., SDN, NFV, CRAN, D2D, cloud/fog computing and networking, etc.; Application areas: vehicular networking, IoT, smart grid etc; Novel network architecture: convergence of computing, communications and caching, content/information-centric network, cognitive computing and networking, big data analytic; Context-aware schemes: incentive mechanism for computing and caching, pricing, game theoretic approach, network economic etc, caching placement and delivery; Mobility management for mobile edge computing and proactive caching; Energy efficiency aspects: energy harvesting, energy storage, energy transfer, etc; Security and privacy issue; Prototyping, test-beds and field trials. Important Date Paper Submission Deadline: 15 December 2020 Notification of Acceptance: 20 Jan., 2021 Camera-Ready Submission: 15 Feb., 2021 Submission Guidelines Authors are invited to submit original papers of no more than 6 pages (standard IEEE proceedings, two-column, 10 pt font, etc.), including figures, tables, and references, in PDF format. Papers should be submitted through EDAS: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=27683&track=103187 Br, Zheng Chang Dr. Faculty of Information Technology University of Jyväskylä, Finland http://users.jyu.fi/~zhchang/ zheng.chang(a)jyu.fi <mailto:zheng.chang@jyu.fi> ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CfP: CPSS 21] 7th ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop, (CPSS 2021)
by Lars Wolf 10 Dec '20

10 Dec '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CfP: CPSS 21] 7th ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop, (CPSS 2021) Datum: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 04:11:09 -0500 Von: Alessandro Brighente <brighent(a)DEI.UNIPD.IT> Antwort an: Alessandro Brighente <brighent(a)DEI.UNIPD.IT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG *7th ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop (CPSS 2021)* held in conjunction with ACM AsiaCCS'21 Hong Kong, China, 7 June 2021 https://spritz.math.unipd.it/events/2021/CPSS *Important Dates* Submissions Due: January 27, 2021 AoE Notification: February 26, 2021 Camera-ready Due: March 15, 2021 The 7th ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop will take place together with the 16th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM ASIACCS 2021). It will be held on June 7th, 2021. For more information: ACM ASIACCS 2021 https://asiaccs2021.comp.polyu.edu.hk *Call for Papers* Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) of interest to this workshop consist of large-scale interconnected systems of heterogeneous components interacting with their physical environments. There exist a multitude of CPS devices and applications deployed to serve critical functions in our lives thus making security an important non-functional attribute of such systems. This workshop will provide a platform for professionals from academia, government, and industry to discuss novel ways to address the ever-present security challenges facing CPS. We seek submissions describing theoretical and practical solutions to security challenges in CPS. Submissions pertinent to the security of embedded systems, IoT, SCADA, smart grid, and other critical infrastructure are welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Attack detection for CPS Authentication and access control for CPS Autonomous vehicle security Availability and auditing for CPS Blockchain for CPS security Data security and privacy for CPS Digital twins for CPS Embedded systems security Formal methods in CPS Industrial control system security IoT security Legacy CPS system protection Lightweight crypto and security Maritime cyber security Recovery from cyber attacks Security and risk assessment for CPS Security architectures for CPS Security by design for CPS Smart grid security Threat modeling for CPS Transportation system security Vulnerability analysis for CPS Wireless sensor network security *Submission and Final Preparation Instructions* Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal, workshop, or conference with proceedings. The review process is single-blinded, i.e., the papers should not be anonymized. Submissions must be in double-column ACM SIG Proceedings format <http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates>, and should not exceed 12 pages. We also welcome position papers describing work in progress, Systematization of Knowledge papers (distinguished with "SOK:" in the title), and papers describing novel testbeds. Only pdf files will be accepted. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the workshop. At least one author of the paper must be registered at the appropriate conference rate. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. There will also be a best paper award. *Program Chairs* Mauro Conti (University of Padua, Italy) Nils Ole Tippenhauer (CISPA, Germany) *Web Chair* Federico Turrin (University of Padua, Italy) * Publication Chair* Alessandro Brighente (University of Padua, Italy) *Program Committee* Ali Abbasi (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany) Cristina Alcaraz (University of Malaga, Spain) Lejla Batina (Radboud University, Netherlands) Federica Battisti (University of Padua, Italy) Xiuzhen Cheng (George Washington University, USA) Yanick Fratantonio (CISCO Talos, Austria) Sokratis Katsikas (NTNU, Norway) Marina Krotofil (ABB, UK) Nicola Laurenti (University of Padua, Italy) Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) Mihalis Maniatakos (New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE) Daisuke Mashima (Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore) Aditya Mathur (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore) Martín Ochoa (AppGate Inc., Colombia) Federica Pascucci (Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy) Radha Poovendra (University of Washington, USA) Xi Qin (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA) Awais Rashid (University of Bristol, UK) Rodrigo Roman (University of Malaga, Spain) Martin Strohmeier (University of Oxford, UK) Johanna Ullrich (SBA Research, Austria) Chia-Mu Yu (National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan) Indrakshi Ray (Colorado State University, USA) Stefano Zanero (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Sencun Zhu (The Pennsylvania State University, USA) Saman Zonouz (Rutgers University, USA) *Contact* Website: https://spritz.math.unipd.it/events/2021/CPSS E-mail: cpss21(a)easychair.org CPSS Home: http://jianying.space/cpss/ ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [EWSN 2021] Call for PhD Forum Contributions -- Extended Deadline: Dec 13, 2020
by Lars Wolf 09 Dec '20

09 Dec '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [EWSN 2021] Call for PhD Forum Contributions -- Extended Deadline: Dec 13, 2020 Datum: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 11:01:42 -0500 Von: Carlo Alberto Boano <000001f9fb5aae12-dmarc-request(a)COMSOC-LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG> Antwort an: Carlo Alberto Boano <cboano(a)TUGRAZ.AT> An: tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN'21) https://ewsn2021.ewi.tudelft.nl/ Delft, The Netherlands. February 17-19, 2021 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Call for PhD Forum Contributions *** The International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN) is a highly selective single-track international conference focusing on premier research results at the intersection of embedded systems and wireless networking - an area of highest relevance for visionary technologies such as the Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems as well as applications such as Industry 4.0, Smart Production, Smart Agriculture, Smart Cities, and Connected Cars. As part of the conference program, the PhD forum at EWSN 2021 provides an opportunity for PhD students to present their work-in-progress to the scientific community and to obtain feedback from leading researchers in the field. The PhD forum will be structured as a series of presentations by the students, followed by a discussion with experts in the field to obtain individual feedback and advice. In addition, a poster session will provide an opportunity for more technical, in-depth discussions. The expert panelists will also share their experience and advice on how to carry out a successful PhD and start a career as a researcher. Current PhD students in all stages of their career are encouraged to submit a 2-page abstract about their ongoing research to be considered for the PhD forum. The abstract shall also include a one-paragraph bio, along with brief information on how long the student has been enrolled in the PhD program and the expected time until graduation. The student should be the sole author, although contributions of the adviser and others should be acknowledged. Submissions will be reviewed by the PhD forum committee to ensure quality, relevance, and potential benefit from attendance to the forum. All accepted submissions will be published as part of the main conference proceedings. Authors of accepted submissions are expected to participate in the forum on 17 February 2021 and to present a poster both at the forum and at the main conference. There will be no separate registration fee for the PhD forum; that is, participating students will only need to register to the main EWSN conference. For any questions, please contact the PhD forum co-chair Akshay Nambi (akshayn(a)microsoft.com) or Marco Zimmerling (marco.zimmerling(a)tu-dresden.de). *** Topics of Interest *** The areas of interest for the PhD forum are the same as for full research papers: - Communication and networking for wireless and embedded systems - Sensing, actuation, and control - Operating systems, middleware, and services - Processing, storage, and management of data - Programming paradigms, languages, and tools - Time and location management - Dependability (real-time, reliability, availability, safety) - Privacy and security in applications and systems - Human-machine interaction with wireless and embedded systems - Design and implementation of real-world applications and systems - Measurement studies and deployment experiences - Green IoT (low-power, harvesting, energy management) - Challenges of ultra-dense networks - Heterogeneous networks - Applications and problems from developing countries and emerging markets Feel free to ask the PhD forum co-chairs if you are uncertain about the fit of your topic. *** Submission Instructions *** Detailed instructions for the submission of PhD forum abstracts can be found at https://ewsn2021.ewi.tudelft.nl/calls-and-submissions/call-for-phd-forum. Accepted PhD forum abstracts will be included in the conference proceedings, which will be available in the ACM Digital Library. *** Important Dates *** Submission deadline [Extended]: December 13, 2020 Acceptance notifications: December 16, 2020 Camera-ready paper submission: December 22, 2020 Every deadline is 23:59 UTC-12 (AoE). *** PhD Forum Co-Chairs *** Akshay Nambi (Microsoft Research, India) Marco Zimmerling (TU Dresden, Germany) Best Regards, Carlo Alberto Boano, Shijia Pan, JeongGil Ko EWSN 2021 Publicity Chairs ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of the call ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [CFP] IEEE INFOCOM WKSHPS: WiSARN 2021: International Workshop on Wireless Sensor, Robot and UAV Networks
by Lars Wolf 09 Dec '20

09 Dec '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [CFP] IEEE INFOCOM WKSHPS: WiSARN 2021: International Workshop on Wireless Sensor, Robot and UAV Networks Datum: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 14:29:22 +0100 Von: Angelo Trotta <angelo.trotta(a)IEEE.ORG> An: tciin(a)COMSOC.ORG Apologies for cross and multiple postings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 14th International Workshop on Wireless Sensor, Robot and UAV Networks *IEEE WISARN 2021*, co-located with *IEEE INFOCOM 2021* conference Website: https://wisarn2021.nws.cs.unibo.it <https://wisarn2021.nws.cs.unibo.it> *May 10, 2021 Virtual Conference* Features: -*Best Paper Award (BPA) *sponsored by the*Technology Innovation Institute (TII) *with a cash prize of *1,000 Euro.* - Best-selected papers related to robotic sensors networks and 5G will be invited to submit an extended paper to the Special Issue on “*Internet of Things and Sensors Network in 5G Wireless Communications*”, MDPI Sensors journal - Best-selected papers related to robotic sensors networks and 5G will be invited to submit an extended paper to the Special Issue on “*Mobile Fog and Edge Computing in Drone Swarms*”, MDPI Drones journal Scope of the workshop ---------------------------------- Wireless Sensor, Robot and UAV networks are characterized by the coordination and mobility of nodes that are able to accomplish distributed sensing and actuation tasks. Leveraged by the control and mobility of actors, the networking process and applications embrace a whole new set of possibilities. Specialized networked systems, made of intelligent devices (such as robots and UAVs), may deploy, repair and relocate sensors to improve coverage, build routes and fix network partition to ensure data communication, change network topology to shape routing patterns and balance energy consumption, and to respond to reported events in a timely and effective manner. Also, they might be able to integrate within existing and upcoming mobile infrastructures (e.g. the 5G), by enabling the sensing operations on complex and dynamic scenarios, and to process the data on the edge or to offload them toward existing cloud services. The benefits are limited only by imagination. As an emerging field, ground and aerial robotic systems are in need of new networking techniques as well as of novel cloud/edge architectures for data gathering and processing that might unlock the potentials of such systems. To this purpose, WiSARN aims at bringing together state-of-the-art contributions on the design, specification and implementation of architectures, algorithms and protocols for current and future applications of sensor robotic and aerial networks. IEEE WiSARN 2021 will serve as incubator for scientific communities that share a particular research agenda in the area of the workshop’s topics. Moreover, it will provide its participants with opportunities to understand the major technical and application challenges of UAV/Robot networking as well as exchange and discuss scientific and engineering ideas related to their architecture, protocol, algorithm, and application design. Topics of interest ---------------------------------- Original, unpublished contributions are solicited in design, implementation and evaluation of wireless sensor, robot and UAV networks. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: - UAV-aided wireless sensor networks - Communication protocols and wireless technologies for robotic systems - UAV and robot networks in 5G systems - Emergent behavior in robotic systems - Cloud/fog/edge computing platforms in robotic systems - Data management, gathering and aggregation issues in robotic systems - Modeling and control of fleet of UAVs - Autonomic and self-organizing coordination and communication in Robot and UAV networks - Energy-efficient and real-time communication protocols in Robot and UAV networks - Distributed control and management for Robot and UAV network deployments - Map exploration and pattern formation of mobile robots - Robot task assignment - Biologically inspired communication systems for Robot and UAV networks - Software-Defined Aerial Networks - Endurance Management - Context-awareness and decision making for UAV systems - Path planning, and target tracking in UAV networks - Quality of service, security and robustness issues - Robot advanced motion control - Optimal control of networked robots - Novel applications of Robot and UAV networks Committees ---------------------------------- General Chairs - Enrico Natalizio, University of Lorraine, France - Yannis Paschalidis, Boston University, USA Technical Program Chairs - Marco Di Felice, University of Bologna, Italy - Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France - Guan Zhangyu, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA Web and Publicity Chairs - Angelo Trotta, University of Bologna, Italy Technical Program Committee - Fatemeh Afghah, Northern Arizona University, USA - Michel Barbeau, Carleton University, Canada - Christian Bettstetter, University of Klagenfurt, Austria - Marcos Caetano, University of Brasilia, Brasil - Christelle Caillouet, Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, Inria, France - Carlos Calafate, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain - Arnaud Casteigts, University of Bordeaux, France - Fabio D'Andreagiovanni, CNRS, Sorbonne University - UTC, France - Salvatore D'Oro, Northeastern University, USA - Giulia De Masi, Technology Innovation Institute, UAE - Saptarshi Debroy, City University of New York, USA - Isabelle Guérin Lassous, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 - LIP, France - Francesca Guerriero, University of Calabria, Italy - Hongzhi Guo, Norfolk State University, USA - Karin Hummel, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria - Pedram Johari, Northeastern University, USA - Evangelos Kranakis, Carleton University, Canada - Filippo Malandra, University at Buffalo, USA - Pietro Manzoni, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain - Nicholas Mastronarde, University at Buffalo, USA - Jorge Ortín, Centro Universitario de la Defensa Zaragoza, Spain - Angelo Trotta, University of Bologna, Italy - Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, University of New Mexico, USA - Fabrice Valois, Univ Lyon, INSA Lyon, Inria, CITI, France - Christian Wietfeld, TU Dortmund University, Germany - Evsen Yanmaz, Ozyegin University, Turkey - Nicola Roberto Zema, Paris-Saclay University, France Submission Instructions ---------------------------------- To submit your paper, it is required that the manuscript follows the standard IEEE camera-ready format (double column, 10-pt font) and be submitted as PDF file (formatted for 8.5-11 inch paper) as well as the requirement set by the EDAS paper submission system. Submitted paper must be original and unpublished papers with no more than 6 pages, including bibliography. All accepted papers of INFOCOM (main program and workshops), after being presented at the conference, will be included in the proceedings to be submitted for publication in IEEE Xplore®. Submission link: https://edas.info/N27895 <https://edas.info/N27895> Deadlines: ------------------ Submission deadline: December 15, 2020 Notification: January 15, 2021 Camera-ready: February, 15, 2021 Workshop date: May 10, 2021 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the tciin list, click the following link: https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=tciin&A=1

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2021) 25-28 June 2021, Tokyo, Japan
by Lars Wolf 09 Dec '20

09 Dec '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2021) 25-28 June 2021, Tokyo, Japan Datum: Tue, 8 Dec 2020 13:39:51 -0800 Von: Wei Wang <wwang(a)SDSU.EDU> Antwort an: Wei Wang <wwang(a)SDSU.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2021) 25-28 June 2021, Tokyo, Japan https://iwqos2020.ieee-iwqos.org/ Quality of Service (QoS) has long been the focus of communications and networking researchers worldwide. While traditional QoS research areas continue attracting much interest, recent exploration of Internet of things, data centers, virtualization, cloud and fog computing, green computing, and AI has motivated a new wave of research interest in service guarantees with QoS, and its related metrics of Quality of Experience (QoE), Quality of Protection (QoP), Software Quality, Data Quality, or, more broadly, Quality of Information Technology. For more than two decades, IWQoS has established itself as a highly reputable forum to present novel ideas on all QoS-related subjects. The 29th International Symposium on Quality of Service (IEEE/ACM IWQoS 2021) sets the goal to continuing to be a premier symposium and an international forum for presentation and discussion of cutting-edge research in the field. The scope of IEEE/ACM IWQoS 2021 covers both newest theoretical and experimental research papers. Topics of interest include (but not limited to) the following areas: ● Artificial Intelligence for QoS ● Data analytics for QoS ● QoS for data analytics and machine learning ● QoS in Internet of Things (IoT), cyber-physical networks ● QoS in cloud computing, fog computing and edge computing ● Blockchain for QoS ● Security, privacy, system dependability, resilience and robustness ● QoS in software-defined networking ● QoS in information-centric networking ● QoS in mobile and next generation cellular networks ● System dependability, availability, resilience and robustness to faults and security attacks ● Robustness against security vulnerabilities in critical infrastructures ● QoS-aware scheduling, resource management, queue management, admission control ● Traffic engineering approaches and tools for QoS provisioning and evaluation ● QoS evaluation metrics and methodologies ● Quality of software ● QoE in multimedia networks ● Measurement, evaluation, adaptation, and verification ● Network operations, network economics, pricing and billing ● Architectures and protocols for QoS, QoP or QoE support ● Energy awareness in communication and computing systems ● Design for future networks and computing systems with integrated QoS Paper Submission Guidelines: IEEE/ACM IWQoS invites submission of manuscripts with original research results that have not been previously published or that are not currently under review by another conference or journal. Submissions will be rigorously judged based on originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness. IWQoS aims at the rapid dissemination of research results. Regular paper submissions should be no longer than 10 single-spaced, double-column pages (including references) with a font-size of 10. Reviewing will be double-blind. Submissions must not reveal the authors’ names and their affiliations and avoid obvious self-references. Submissions not meeting these guidelines will be rejected without consideration of their merits. Papers must be submitted electronically as PDF files. Please follow the submission link on https://iwqos2021.edas.info/ to submit your paper. Important Dates: Paper Registration Deadline: 15 February 2021 Paper Submission Deadline: 22 February 2021 Notification of Acceptance: 23 April 2021 Camera-ready Deadline: 13 May 2021 General Chairs: Hitoshi Asaeda, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan Jiannong Cao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China Program Committee Chairs: Ruidong Li, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan Wenjing Lou, Virginia Tech, USA *COVID-19 Statement: The IWQoS2021 organizing committee (OC) is closely monitoring the COVID-19 situation that could impact in-person attendance and paper presentations. In case of travel restrictions, the OC is considering that remote presentations and participation will be considered. ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Preliminary CFP IEEE SECON 2021 - IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking
by Lars Wolf 08 Dec '20

08 Dec '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Preliminary CFP IEEE SECON 2021 - IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking Datum: Tue, 8 Dec 2020 10:47:47 +0100 Von: Kay Römer <00000023cf4c5fe0-dmarc-request(a)COMSOC-LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG> Antwort an: Kay Römer <romer.kay(a)GOOGLEMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Preliminary Call for Papers IEEE SECON 2021 18th IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking Rome, Italy - July 2021 http://ieee-secon.org/ The 18th annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking (SECON) will provide a unique forum to exchange innovative research ideas, recent results, and share experiences among researchers and practitioners in wireless and mobile communication networks. The conference aims to serve as the reference exhibit for state-of-the-art research supported by implementation and insights gained on all scales of experimental systems, network architectures, components, and protocols. Looking beyond current sensing, communication, and networking paradigms, IEEE SECON continues to emphasize pioneering cross-disciplinary work as its signature footprint in the contemporary research landscape. Towards that end, SECON encourages work that falls at the intersection of traditional sensing/networking and new disciplinary areas including (but not limited to) machine intelligence, data analytics, edge computing, social networks, rural connectivity, electromagnetic fields, to name a few, encompassing topics ranging from biological communication and computing networks to uncharted wireless bands, edge intelligence, social media data exploitation, mobile data analysis and beyond 5G networking/communications aspects. Papers describing original, previously unpublished research, experimental efforts, practical experiences, as well as visionary roadmaps, in all aspects of sensor networks, Internet of Things, mobile devices, and wireless communication are solicited. Particular topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Machine intelligence for sensing, communication, and/or networking - In-network processing/fog/edge computing in wireless networks - Wearable computing and networking - Cyber-physical systems and wireless control systems - Security, privacy, and trustworthiness of mobile, wireless and sensor systems - Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based sensing/communications/networking (low altitude platforms, high altitude platforms) - Wireless and mobile sensing systems in challenging media (e.g., underground, underwater, space) - Internet of Things, Nano-Things and Bio-Nano-Things - New communication paradigms, such as Terahertz communications and optical wireless communications - Intra-body networks and molecular communication networks - Sensing and dissemination based on social media - Beyond communications/networks (Terahertz communications, large intelligent surfaces, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces) - Next-generation applications enabled via wireless, such as virtual/augmented reality, autonomous driving, smart cities - Networking/communications solutions to face the connectivity divide in rural and low-income areas - Contact tracing, localization and sensing for combating the COVID-19 pandemic Radio-Frequency sensing to evaluate the exposure level from personal devices (e.g., smartphones) - ElectroMagnetic Field measurement and evaluation in 5G and beyond - Low-power and energy limited sensing and communications - Measurement of wireless and sensor systems, and novel experimental testbeds - Software-defined and programmable networks - Cognitive radio and dynamic spectrum access - Survivability and fault tolerance in disaster scenarios - Large scale analysis of mobile data - Application protocols and cross-layer design - Applications, platforms, and testing platforms for city-scale evaluation of new sensing systems - Submission instructions are found in the authors page. PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE Abstract Registration: February 8th, 2021 Paper Submission: February 15th, 2021 Acceptance Notification: April 17th, 2021 Paper Final Version Due: April 30th, 2021 TPC CHAIRS Luca Chiaraviglio (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy) Chenyang Lu (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) Kay Römer (TU Graz, Austria) GENERAL CHAIRS Carla Fabiana Chiasserini (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) Giuseppe Bianchi (Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy) ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE INFOCOM 2021: Call for Demos and Posters
by Lars Wolf 08 Dec '20

08 Dec '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE INFOCOM 2021: Call for Demos and Posters Datum: Mon, 7 Dec 2020 17:25:53 -0500 Von: Bo Ji <boji(a)VT.EDU> Antwort an: Bo Ji <boji(a)VT.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement.] IEEE INFOCOM 2021: Call for Demos and Posters The 40th Annual IEEE Conference on Computer Communications May 10-13, 2021, Virtual Conference https://infocom2021.ieee-infocom.org CALL FOR DEMOS and POSTERS Technical demonstrations and posters showing/presenting innovative and original research are solicited. In general IEEE INFOCOM is interested in demonstrations and posters of technology that validate important research issues or showcase realistic applications in the following topics of interest (but not limited to): • Big data and data processing for networks • Cellular networks • Cloud computing • Cognitive radio networks • Cooperative networking • Cross-layer optimization and control • Crowdsourcing • Cyber-physical systems • Datacenter networking • Delay tolerant networks • Energy efficiency • Fault tolerance, reliability and survivability • Flow and congestion control • Game theory in networks • Information security and privacy • Information centric networking • Interference management and mitigation • Internet of Things • Localization and location-based services • Medium access control • MIMO-based networking • Mobile cloud computing • Mobility management and models • Multimedia networking • Network calculus • Network coding • Network economics and pricing • Network management • Network measurement and analysis • Network security and privacy • Network virtualization • Optical networks • Overlay and peer-to-peer networks • Quality of Service and resource management • Router and switch design • Routing & Multicast • Scaling laws and fundamental limits • Scheduling and buffer management • Smart antenna based networking • Smart grid • Smartphone and mobile applications • Social computing and networks • Software defined networking • Tactile Internet • Vehicular networks • Web applications and content distribution • WLAN, WPAN, RFID, and NFC • Wireless security and privacy • Wireless sensor networks DEMO and POSTER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Submissions should be a two-page abstract/proposal that follows the IEEE formatting guidelines: refer to the IEEE submission instructions for details. There is no need for double-blind submissions (names, affiliations, and email addresses are therefore required). Be as specific as possible in describing what you will demonstrate or display as poster or demo. In the submission, specify clearly whether you will be presenting a poster or a demo (the latter can be accompanied by a poster also). The demo/poster session will take place online. If a demonstration requires special arrangements or additional equipment, please detail it in the submission. All additional equipment/needs are subject to budget approval. Abstracts of accepted demos/posters will be included in the INFOCOM 2021 Proceedings. Accepted and presented abstracts will be submitted to IEEE Xplore®. Poster submissions should be made via EDAS using this link: https://edas.info/N28002 Demo submissions should be made via EDAS using this link: https://edas.info/N28001 IMPORTANT DATES Two-page demo (or poster) descriptions/proposal: 11:59 pm (EST), January 15th, 2021 Notification of acceptance: February 7, 2021 IEEE INFOCOM 2021 Conference dates: May 10-13, 2021 IEEE INFOCOM 2021 Demo/Posters Session Dates: to be announced IEEE INFOCOM 2021 Demo/Poster Co-Chairs: • Linke Guo (Clemson University, USA) – linkeg(a)clemson.edu • Bo Ji (Virginia Tech, USA) – boji(a)vt.edu ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: The 4th Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking (EdgeSys'21) co-located with ACM EuroSys 2021
by Lars Wolf 07 Dec '20

07 Dec '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: The 4th Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking (EdgeSys'21) co-located with ACM EuroSys 2021 Datum: Mon, 7 Dec 2020 15:20:09 +0000 Von: Matthew Danish <mrd45(a)CAM.AC.UK> Antwort an: Matthew Danish <mrd45(a)CAM.AC.UK> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG (We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this call.) ----------------------------------------------- The 4th International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking (EdgeSys'21) co-located with EuroSys 2021 26 April, 2021 | Edinburgh, Scotland, UK https://edge-sys.github.io/2021/ ----------------------------------------------- Given the growing demand for real-time gathering and processing of vast amount of data from data-intensive services such as autonomous driving and augmented reality (AR), we are witnessing a visible trend to push computing and data analytics closer to the edge of networks for benefits in low latency, reliability, throughput, security and privacy. Supported by lightweight virtualization technologies such as Docker Containers and Unikernels, the decentralized edge computing paradigm aims to offer efficient access to various geographically distributed computing resources. In this context, the EdgeSys workshop focuses on the confluence of edge computing, decentralized communication and distributed computing. For example, there are several industry-led edge computing and orchestration platforms such as KubeEdge, Firecracker, and Azure Sphere. In the decentralized communication space, systems such as Mastodon and Matrix have been developed. There are also lots of academic research activities on mobile data and computation offloading (e.g., Cloudlet, Talket, ThinkAir, MAUI, and MADNet) and systems that combine decentralization and computation/storage offloading together, such as IPFS. In addition, as data analytics and machine learning are increasingly offered as a service, the next phase of evolution is to extend the offerings beyond basic algorithms and push the analytics closer to the edge where the data from users and devices is first captured. In this regard, edge computing has the potential to enable a new class of real-time data analytics platforms and services. We expect such edge-driven data analytics will emerge and reshape the existing cloud-based data processing pipelines. The knowledge from this new edge pipeline can further power future cyber-physical and network services, such as cognitive assistance and proactive accident prevention for autonomous driving. The 4th International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking (EdgeSys'21), in conjunction with ACM EuroSys 2021, aims to bring together system researchers, data scientists, engineers and practitioners to identify open directions and discuss the latest research ideas and results on edge systems, analytics and networking, especially those related to novel and emerging technologies and use cases. The EdgeSys'21 workshop focuses on systems, analytics and networking aspects, covering system architecture, distributed ML algorithms, decentralized networking, distributed consensus and ledger techniques, edge services and data analysis. Over the past three years, EdgeSys has been gathering substantial community contributions in edge computing domain - especially with high quality TPC, keynotes, panel and technical papers from US, Europe, and Asia, including Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft Research, Intel, IBM, Nokia, Samsung, Toyota, Telefónica, MIT, Berkeley, Columbia, Yale, UCLA, Cambridge, Imperial, EPFL, TU Delft, MPI, TUM, Tsinghua, Peking and Fudan. The topics include but are not limited to the following: - System Architecture for Edge Computing - Serverless and In-network Computing (P4) - Edge Storage Systems - Edge-driven Data Analytics - Distributed Machine Learning for Edge Analytics and Services - Edge Security and Privacy - Lightweight Virtualization for Edge Computing - Distributed Consensus Algorithms and Ledger Technologies - Infrastructure and Toolkit for Edge Computing and Analytics - System Performance and Measurement - Edge Networking and IoT Communications - (Autonomous) Management for Edge Systems - Security and Trust Management Workshop & TPC Chairs: Aaron Ding (TU Delft, Netherlands) Richard Mortier (University of Cambridge, UK) Steering Committee: Jon Crowcroft (University of Cambridge, UK) Henning Schulzrinne (Columbia University, USA) Steve Uhlig (Queen Mary University of London, UK) Peter Pietzuch (Imperial College London, UK) Dieter Kranzlmüller (University of Munich / LRZ, Germany) Dirk Kutscher (Hochschule Emden/Leer, Germany) Technical Program Committee: Antonio Barbalace (University of Edinburgh, UK) Claudio Cicconetti (IIT-CNR, Italy) Ferran Diego (Telefónica Research, Spain) Bryan Ford (EPFL, Switzerland) James Gross (KTH, Sweden) Paola Grosso (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Geert Heijenk (University of Twente, Netherlands) Junchen Jiang (University of Chicago, USA) Matthias Kovatsch (Huawei, Germany) Shen Li (Facebook, USA) Grace Liu (CMU, USA) Jonathan Mace (MPI, Germany) Iqbal Mohomed (Samsung AI, Canada) Roberto Morabito (Princeton University / Ericsson, USA) Jörg Ott (TUM, Germany) Pieter Simoens (imec - Ghent University, Belgium) Georgios Smaragdakis (TU Berlin, Germany) Nikolay Tcholtchev (Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany) Shiqiang Wang (IBM, USA) Martijn Warnier (TU Delft, Netherlands) Chenren Xu (Peking University, China) Ennan Zhai (Alibaba, USA) Fusang Zhang (Chinese Academy of Science, China) Publicity Chair: Matthew Danish (University of Cambridge, UK) Web Chair: Wiebke Toussaint (TU Delft, Netherlands) Submission Guidelines: ------------ Authors are encouraged to submit papers describing original and unpublished research, not currently under review in other venues. In particular, innovative, early-stage ideas and preliminary results are welcome. Papers must be submitted electronically as PDF files, formatted for 8.5x11-inch paper. The length of the paper must be no more than 6 pages in the ACM double-column format (10-pt font), including references and everything. The authors are suggested to use the ACM Master article template. The reviews will be single-blind. The first page must contain an abstract, the name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s), as well as the corresponding contact information. Each submission will receive independent, blind peer reviews from the program committee. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. At least one of the authors of every accepted paper must register and present the paper at the workshop. The program committee will select one paper for the Best Paper Award. Submission deadline: 26 February 2021 Acceptance notification: 26 March 2021 Camera-ready: 5 April 2021 Workshop date: 26 April 2021 Submission Link: https://edgesys21.hotcrp.com/ ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFPs: IWCMC 2021 (17th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference)
by Lars Wolf 07 Dec '20

07 Dec '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFPs: IWCMC 2021 (17th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference) Datum: Mon, 7 Dec 2020 09:46:18 -0300 Von: Augusto Neto <augusto(a)DIMAP.UFRN.BR> Antwort an: Augusto Neto <augusto(a)DIMAP.UFRN.BR> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG I trust all is well with you and your family. This is a personal invitation to contribute to IWCMC 20201. Also, please forward the following CFPs to your colleagues around the world. Thank you for your support. Regards, -- Prof. Augusto Venâncio Neto, Ph.D. UFRN/DIMAp/PPgSC Natal/RN, Brasil ORCID: 0000-0002-9936-3770 Lattes: lattes.cnpq.br/1467664612924239 -- ============================================== Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFPs. We appreciate your help to contribute & forward this CFPs to your Colleagues. =============================================== CALL FOR PAPERS The 17th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, June 28 - July 2, 2021 Harbin, China—IWCMC 2021: http://iwcmc.org/2021/ SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Jan. 10, 2021 SUBMISSION LINK: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=27588 The International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2021) will be held on June 28 - July 2, 2021 in Harbin, China. Under the theme of "Communications with Intelligence", IWCMC 2021 will target a wide spectrum of the state-of-the-art as well as emerging topics pertaining to wireless networks, wireless communications, and mobile computing. Continuing the great success of previous IWCMC events, IWCMC 2021 is anticipated to attract a large number of high-quality submissions and stimulate the cutting-edge research discussions among many academic pioneering researchers/scientists and industrial engineers/leaders from all around the world. The IWCMC 2021 program will feature a number of symposia, workshops, invited presentations, special sessions, and pioneering keynote speakers. More information can be found at the conference website: http://iwcmc.org/2021/. Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical papers - up to 6 pages of length, using the EDAS link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=27588 to various IWCMC 2021 Symposia and Workshops as listed in the conference website for possible publication in the IWCMC 2021 Conference Proceedings, which will be submitted to IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Selected papers will be further considered for possible publication in special issues of the following journals: 1. International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNet): http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijsnet 2. The International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems (IJAACS): www.inderscience.com/ijaacs 3. KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems: www.itiis.org 4. Peer-to-Peer Networking & Applications: http://www.springer.com/engineering 5. Cyber-Physical Systems journal: www.tandfonline.com/loi/tcyb20 There will also be best paper awards, one best symposium award, and one best Workshop award. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: Jan. 10, 2021 Paper Acceptance Notification: 30 March 2021 Registration Camera-ready: 30 April 2021 SYMPOSIA 1) 5G IoT Symposium 2) Big Data Networking Symposium 3) Communication & Signal Processing 4) e-Health 5) UAV-Enabled Systems 6) Mobile Computing 7) Multimedia over Wireless 8) Next Generation Systems & Networks 9) Recent Advances in 5G IoT and Smart City Solutions 10) Satellite Communications & Networking 11) Trust, Privacy & Security 12) Vehicular Communications 13) Wireless Networking 14) Wireless Sensor Networks & IoT . . . and many more Workshops. CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: 1. Prof. Sherman Shen, University of Waterloo, Canada 2. Dr. Peiying Zhu, Huawei, Canada 3. Dr. Xinhui Wang, ZTE, China ====================================== ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [ACM MobiHoc 2021] Call For Papers
by Lars Wolf 07 Dec '20

07 Dec '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [ACM MobiHoc 2021] Call For Papers Datum: Sun, 6 Dec 2020 22:05:52 -0600 Von: Yin Sun <sunyin02(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Yin Sun <sunyin02(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Call for Papers - ACM MobiHoc 2021, Week of July 26, 2021, Virtual & Physical in Shanghai, China *Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message* ACM MobiHoc is a premier conference with a highly selective single-track technical program dedicated to addressing the challenges emerging from networked systems that must operate in the face of dynamics ranging from changing user demands to connectivity and resource availability. Examples of such dynamic networks include wired/wireless communication, data-centers, sensors, energy, social, and transportation networks. We encourage work that presents new performance evaluation methods, novel algorithms, or provides fundamental insights for these systems. We are interested both in innovative work in an unexplored and/or emerging topic in the broad area of networks, and in novel findings and/or new insights that build on existing works. The specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to: - Internet of the Things (IoT), 5G, and next-generation wireless systems - Blockchain, social networks, societal networks, and emerging networked systems - Cloud computing, edge computing, and distributed computing over networks - Software Defined Networking/Network Function Virtualization - Information-centric networking, network caching, and coded caching - Tasks, applications, sensing, and services over networks and networked systems - Communication and networking aspects of cyber-physical systems - Trust, security, and privacy in networks and networked systems - All but physical layer issues of wireless communication and mobile networking - Coded computation and inference in networks - Incentive mechanism and interaction analysis of networked systems, network economics - Big-data analytics and machine learning for networks and networked systems - Modeling, analysis, optimization, and control in computer and mobile networks - Performance, including energy efficiency, and reliability of networks and networked systems Authors can keep their names on their submitted paper, i.e., SUBMISSIONS ARE NOT REQUIRED TO BE DOUBLE BLIND. Authors can also prepare technical reports that are made available on their own websites and on purely archiving organizations such as arXiv.org <http://arxiv.org/>. However, all submissions must comply with the dual submission policy <https://www.sigmobile.org/mobihoc/2021/submission.html#dual-submission-poli…>. Each paper has a chance to submit a one-page rebuttal for the reviews. All submitted papers will be considered for a Best Paper Award. A selected set of papers will be chosen for fast-tracked publication in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. Papers are expected to be direct and specific about their results, contributions, and context. Submission Instructions: https://www.sigmobile.org/mobihoc/2021/submission.html Important Dates: December 12, 2020 Abstract registration (11:59 EST) December 19, 2020 Submission deadline (11:59 EST) Mach 22-28, 2021 Rebuttal period April 25, 2021 Notification of acceptance Week of July 26, 2021 Conference date *Organizing Committee* Steering Committee Ness B. Shroff, (Chair), The Ohio State University General Chairs Huadong Ma, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Xinbing Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China TPC Chairs Edmund Yeh, Northeastern University, USA Xin Liu, University of California, Davis, USA We also appreciate it much if you could kindly disseminate the CFP information among your colleagues and collaborators. Best regards, Dongyao Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China) Yin Sun (Auburn University, USA) Dong Zhao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China) ACM MobiHoc 2021 Publicity Chairs ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [Call For Paper] International Teletraffic Congress (ITC) 2021
by Lars Wolf 07 Dec '20

07 Dec '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [Call For Paper] International Teletraffic Congress (ITC) 2021 Datum: Sat, 5 Dec 2020 13:28:52 -0500 Von: Yuan Wu <iewuy(a)ZJUT.EDU.CN> Antwort an: Yuan Wu <iewuy(a)ZJUT.EDU.CN> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG **************************************************************************************** Call for Papers International Teletraffic Congress (ITC) 2021 33rd edition Tuesday Aug. 31 - Friday Sept. 3, 2021: Avignon, France Website: https://itc33.org **************************************************************************************** ** Papers receiving best paper awards of the conference will be invited for fast-track reviews by IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering. ** The International Teletraffic Congress ITC 33, to be held during 31/08-03/09 2021, at the Avignon University, France, is the 33th edition of this international flagship congress in the field of networking science and practice. ITC was founded back in 1955 by enthusiastic scientists and engineers who were willing to deploy networks in a holistic way. Since then, it has established a multi-decade tradition as the primary forum for presenting and discussing the latest technical advances in the broad areas of teletraffic models, network systems, and measurements. ITC 33 focuses on the future networks taking advantage of 5G and artificial intelligence (AI), towards “AI-integrated Networks”. Indeed, service providers from all over the world are already reaping the benefits of integrating AI into their networks. For ITC 33, cutting-edge papers spanning both theory and experimentation are solicited in all areas of networking, ranging from traffic engineering and control with application also to emerging softwarized/virtualized network paradigms, up to innovative wireless scenarios brought about by the emergence of 5G and IoT systems. We especially encourage original contributions which bridge the gap between performance modeling and real-life operational aspects, including works which leverage measurement data to provide a better understanding of the wired and wireless networks operation under realistic conditions. ITC 33 solicits original contributions that address the latest changes and developments in design, modelling, measurement, and performance evaluation of communication systems, networks, and services. ITC 33 is structured into eight different areas. The objectives in these areas include, among others, energy-efficiency and green IT, network security and privacy, QoS and QoE, and resilience. The technical sessions will be structured around, but are not limited to, the following topics: • Performance Evaluation, Control and Optimization • Network Measurements and Big Data • Networking Architectures and Paradigms • Wireless and Cellular Networks • Data Center Networking for Cloud Computing Design and Operation • Software Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization • Networking for Edge and Fog Computing • Network Economics Besides the general submissions, ITC33 encourages submissions for the *Ph.D. workshop* and special sessions which will be detailed in the upcoming communications. Finally, ITC 33 will offer a number of *student travel grants* that will be available to support full-time students for attending the conference. A dedicated call for workshops will be detailed in the upcoming communications. The conference will feature a best paper award and a best student paper award. Papers receiving best paper awards of the conference will be invited for fast-track reviews by IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering. Important dates Friday April 2, 2021: Paper registration deadline Friday April 9, 2021: Submission deadline Monday May 31, 2021: Expected notification date Monday June 21, 2021: Camera-ready deadline Tuesday August 31 - Friday September 3, 2021: Conference dates For detailed information and deadlines, please check the website. Organization: General Chairs: Rachid Elazouzi (Avignon University, France) Carla Fabiana Chiasserini (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) TPC Chairs: Francesco de Pellegrini (Avignon University, France), Jianwei Huang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China) Bo Ji (Virginia Tech, USA) Workshop Chairs: Alhussein Abouzeid (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) Yonggang Wen (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Stefano Secci (Cnam, France) Special Session Chairs: Daniel Sadoc (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Francesco Restuccia (Northeastern University, USA) International Advisory Council Chair: Michela Meo (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) Local Chair: Tania Jimenez (Avignon University, France) Publication Chairs: Jocelyne Elias (University of Bologna, Italy) Lea Skorin-Kapov (University of Zagreb, Croatia) Publicity Chairs: Vijay Kample (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Fabio Martignon (University of Bergamo, Italy) Yuan Wu (University of Macau, China) Zhiyuan Wang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China) Awards Chairs: Prosper Chemouil (Orange Labs Networks, France) Web Chairs: Afaf Arfaoui (Avignon University, France) Francesco Malandrino (CNR, Italy) ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] New IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic: "Networking Technologies to Combat the COVID-19 Pandemic"
by Lars Wolf 07 Dec '20

07 Dec '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] New IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic: "Networking Technologies to Combat the COVID-19 Pandemic" Datum: Sat, 5 Dec 2020 09:58:34 -0500 Von: Francesco Restuccia <f.restuccia(a)NORTHEASTERN.EDU> Antwort an: Francesco Restuccia <f.restuccia(a)NORTHEASTERN.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ******************************************************** * Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ******************************************************** Call for Papers IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic Networking Technologies to Combat the COVID-19 Pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths all over the world. This has strained the health care systems and economies of many countries and changed the way people live and work. In order to reduce the number of cases, social distancing, isolation and contact tracking have been widely deployed. Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) played major role in supporting our new lifestyle, involving self-quarantine, working from home, virtual conferencing, online education and remote patient monitoring. Data collection, processing and analytics, surveillance, contact tracing, and eHealth, are utilized to face, and control the impact of, the pandemic. This Feature Topic (FT) aims at soliciting high-quality articles covering the research and development efforts to utilize advanced networking technologies to contain the global COVID-19 health crisis and to prepare humanity to face similar challenges in future. This FT is an opportunity to engage scholars, researchers, experts, and professionals from academia, industry, governments into this topic to share their ideas, work, and findings in network-based technologies, protocols, and applications to combat the COVID-19 outbreak and similar ones. Submissions of interest in this Feature Topic (FT) include, but are not limited to, the following: * Novel platforms for contact detection and tracing, and related analytics * Contact/proximity tracing and privacy issues * Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) * Internet of Things (IoT) for remote monitoring of patients * Big data and network analytics for combating pandemics * Edge-computing aided Social IoT * Energy-efficient networks for smart health care * Epidemical modeling and prediction * Federated multimodal learning from interactive Social IoT * Technologies to combat Social infodemic (e.g., misinformation, conspiracy theories and scams) * eHealth and patient monitoring Submission Guidelines Manuscripts should conform to the standard format as indicated in the Information for Authors section of the Manuscript Submission Guidelines. Please, check these guidelines carefully before submitting since submissions not complying with them will be administratively rejected without review. All manuscripts to be considered for publication must be submitted by the deadline through Manuscript Central. Select the "July2021/COVID-19" topic from the drop-down menu of Topic/Series titles. Please observe the dates specified here below noting that there will be no extension of submission deadline. Important Dates Manuscript Submission Deadline: 1 January 2021, 4:00 pm US Eastern time Decision Notification: 1 April 2021 Final Manuscript Due: 15 May 2021 Publication Date: July 2021 Guest Editors: Anna Maria Vegni, Roma Tre University, Italy Valeria Loscri, INRIA, France Francesco Restuccia, Northeastern University, USA De-Nian Yang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan -- Francesco Restuccia Assistant Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Faculty, Roux Institute Associate Faculty, Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things Northeastern University, USA Website: https://restuccialab.org ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ACM TOIT SI "Recent Advances in Networks and Distributed Systems"
by Lars Wolf 04 Dec '20

04 Dec '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ACM TOIT SI "Recent Advances in Networks and Distributed Systems" Datum: Thu, 3 Dec 2020 11:42:12 -0800 Von: Mathias Fischer <mathias.fischer(a)IEEE.ORG> Antwort an: mathias.fischer(a)IEEE.ORG An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Call for papers --------------------------------------------------------------------- ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT) Special Issue on Recent Advances in Networks and Distributed Systems --------------------------------------------------------------------- Scope ----- Several recent developments like the advent of the Internet-of-Things, network softwarization, mission-critical applications, and artificial intelligence have posed challenges for the Internet, and more generally for networks and distributed systems: (1: IoT) The Internet-of-Things will boost the number of Internet nodes well beyond the billions, leads to new traffic patterns (e.g., high-frequency low-volume), and accelerates the other developments described hereafter. (2: SDN++) Softwarization "conquers" the net. What has started with SDN and NFV will continue to lead to more flexibility and enable disruptive change, such as the competitive co-existence of old and new, e.g., content-centric, world-wide networks. As this softwarization significantly increases the complexity of today's networks, new and more security problems will result. Moreover, softwarization comes at a performance price, which is at odds with mission-critical, real-time communication. (3: MCA) Mission-critical applications, formerly confined to dedicated real-time systems and (TSN, industrial Ethernet, ...) networks, are conquering public and wide area networks. This impacts technologies and protocols (such as 5G URLLC) as well as architectures, such as approaches to move cloud functionality closer to the action scene, e.g., via fog and edge computing. (4: AI.net) The resurgence of AI, evoked by stunning successes of machine learning, boosts the need for computing resources that cannot be embedded in myriads of IoT devices and energy-critical handhelds like smartphones. This and the need for joint processing, requires shuffling 'big data' from the action scene to those resources, accelerating the need for offloading approaches and, depending on the application and the distribution of stakeholders, aggravating the three afore-mentioned challenges. These four challenges - abbreviated as IoT, SDN++, MCA, and AI - are densely interwoven, both mutually supporting and mutually aggravating each other. In the TOIT special issue, we bring together contributions to all four challenges and seek to track down their positive and negative interdependencies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: --------------------------------------------------- * Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and their application in, and impacts on, networking * Evolution from cloud computing to mobile cloud, fog and edge computing * Consistency, reliability, availability, and programming support for meeting the MCA challenge in networks * Contributions to the four challenges in context of cyber-physical systems * Emerging networked applications * Green and energy-efficient networks and networked systems * Information-centric networking, content distribution and retrieval, and their co-existence with classical networks * Network architectures and protocols * Approaches to the pertinent network security and privacy aspects * Methods for design, implementation, and analysis of networked systems considering the recent challenges and advances * Pertinent middleware architectures and platforms for networked systems * Pertinent concepts for mobile, ad-hoc, opportunistic, vehicular, sensor networks * Advancements to software-defined networking, network function virtualization, and further network softwarization * Reflection of recent challenges in SoA, web services, and mobile services * Advancements in social networks, social computing, data-intensive computing * Novel concepts for tactile and low-latency communication * Transport- and application-layer protocols in response to the four challenges Submission Instructions ----------------------- Please refer to http://toit.acm.org/authors.cfm for submission instructions. Submit your paper at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/acm/toit and select the SI “Recent Advances in Networks and Distributed Systems”. However, please be aware that the submission will not be possible until one month before the actual deadline. Important Dates --------------- * Manuscript submission: 31 March 2021 * First notification: 31 June 2021 * Revised version: 31 August 2021 * Final notification: 30 September 2021 * Final paper due: 15 October 2021 * Publication date: To be scheduled 2021/2022 Guest Editors ------------- * Prof. Jörg Liebherr, University of Toronto, Canada * Prof. Mathias Fischer, Universität Hamburg, Germany * Prof. Max Mühlhäuser, TU Darmstadt, Germany * Prof. Winfried Lamersdorf, Universität Hamburg, Germany Fur further information, please email mathias.fischer(a)ieee.org ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE Sensors on “Advanced Sensors and Sensing Technologies for indoor positioning and navigation”
by Lars Wolf 04 Dec '20

04 Dec '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE Sensors on “Advanced Sensors and Sensing Technologies for indoor positioning and navigation” Datum: Thu, 3 Dec 2020 23:22:22 +0100 Von: Francesco Potortì <Potorti(a)ISTI.CNR.IT> Antwort an: Francesco Potortì <Potorti(a)ISTI.CNR.IT> Organisation: CNR-ISTI, via Moruzzi 1, I-56124 Pisa, +39-0503153058 An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Accepted papers are immediately published on IEEE Xplore for early access. CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Sensors Journal Special Issue on “Advanced Sensors and Sensing Technologies for indoor positioning and navigation” https://ieee-sensors.org/sensors-journal/sensors-journal-special-issues/ Many services, such as personal navigation, search and rescue, robot and fleet management, healthcare would greatly benefit from ubiquitous, accurate, robust and seamless positioning technologies. While mature GNSS solutions exist for outdoor spaces, more than ten years of research and development of sensing technologies have not yet led to a widely available offer of generic and affordable standard solutions for indoors. Nonetheless, year after year the insight that researchers have offered into indoor localization provides us with more methods and the array of usable sensors widens with technological progress. Hybridization of sensors data, smart capture of environmental data, benchmarking of sensing and positioning technologies are all at the heart of indoor positioning and indoor navigation innovations. This Special Issue of the IEEE Sensors Journal is devoted to the presentation of innovations and improvements in the field of advanced sensors and sensing technologies for indoor positioning and navigation including theory, design, modelling, configuration, characterization, sensor data processing, data analysis, and applications. Original research contributions and review papers are sought in areas including: • Sensors and sensing technologies for indoor navigation and tracking methods: AoA, TOF, TDOA based localisation, RSSI and magnetic fingerprinting, PDR, IMU and hybrid systems, UWB, ultrasound, optical systems, RFID, radar, device-free systems, mapping, SLAM • Sensing frameworks and fusion for hybrid positioning • Cooperative sensing, machine learning systems • Sensors for building indoor maps and 3D models • Sensors for human motion monitoring and modelling • Sensors for robotics and UAV positioning and navigation • Sensors for seamless systems: HS-GNSS, indoor GNSS, pseudolites, RTK GNSS with handheld devices, mitigating GNSS error when switching to indoor, industrial metrology & geodetic systems, iGPS • Self-contained sensors for positioning and navigation • Wearable and multi-sensor systems for indoor navigation and human motion • Sensing for location-based services and applications • Sensors benchmarking, assessment, evaluation, standards Solicited and invited papers shall undergo the standard IEEE Sensors Journal peer-review process. All manuscripts must be submitted on-line, via the IEEE Manuscript Central™, see http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/sensors. When submitting, please indicate in the “Manuscript Type” dropdown menu and by e-mail to Leigh Ann Testa, testa.l(a)ieee.org, that the paper is intended for the “Advanced Sensors and Sensing Technologies for indoor positioning and navigation” Special Issue. Authors are particularly encouraged to suggest names of potential reviewers for their manuscripts in the space provided for these recommendations in Manuscript Central. For manuscript preparation and submission, please follow the guidelines in the Information for Authors at the IEEE Sensors Journal web page, http://www.ieee-sensors.org/journals ## Deadlines: Manuscript Submission: March 31, 2021 Notification of Acceptance: July 31, 2021 Final Manuscript published in IEEE Xplore: October 2021 ## Guest Editors: Dr Valérie Renaudin University Gustave Eiffel, France Francesco Potortì ISTI - CNR, Italy Prof. Chan Gook Park Seoul National University, Korea Prof. Jari Nurmi Tampere University, Finland Prof. Masanori Sugimoto Hokkaido University, Japan Joaquín Torres-Sospedra University Jaume I, Spain Dr Dongyan Wei Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Dr. Kyle O'Keefe University of Calgary, Canada Prof. Stefan Knauth Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart, Germany -- Francesco Potortì (ricercatore) Voice: +39.050.621.3058 ISTI - Area della ricerca CNR Mobile: +39.348.8283.107 via G. Moruzzi 1, I-56124 Pisa Skype: wnlabisti (gate 20, 1st floor, room C71) Web: http://fly.isti.cnr.it ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [EWSN 2021] Call for Posters & Demos -- Deadline: Dec 4, 2020
by Lars Wolf 03 Dec '20

03 Dec '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [EWSN 2021] Call for Posters & Demos -- Deadline: Dec 4, 2020 Datum: Thu, 3 Dec 2020 10:16:40 -0500 Von: Carlo Alberto Boano <000001f9fb5aae12-dmarc-request(a)COMSOC-LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG> Antwort an: Carlo Alberto Boano <cboano(a)TUGRAZ.AT> An: tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN'21) https://ewsn2021.ewi.tudelft.nl/ Delft, The Netherlands. February 17-19, 2021 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Call for Posters and Demos *** The International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN) is a highly selective single-track international conference focusing on premier research results at the intersection of embedded systems and wireless networking - an area of highest relevance for visionary technologies such as the Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems as well as applications such as Industry 4.0, Smart Production, Smart Agriculture, Smart Cities, and Connected Cars. In addition to full research papers, EWSN solicits submissions of posters and demo abstracts. The poster session at EWSN will provide a forum for researchers to present their work in progress and to receive early feedback from leading experts attending the conference. In parallel to the poster session, the demo session will offer a unique opportunity to showcase real prototypes, tools, and systems to the conference attendees. *** Topics of Interest *** The areas of interest for both poster and demo abstracts are the same as for full research papers: - Communication and networking for wireless and embedded systems - Sensing, actuation, and control - Operating systems, middleware, and services - Processing, storage, and management of data - Programming paradigms, languages, and tools - Time and location management - Dependability (real-time, reliability, availability, safety) - Privacy and security in applications and systems - Human-machine interaction with wireless and embedded systems - Design and implementation of real-world applications and systems - Measurement studies and deployment experiences - Green IoT (low-power, harvesting, energy management) - Challenges of ultra-dense networks - Heterogeneous networks - Applications and problems from developing countries and emerging markets Feel free to ask the poster and demo co-chairs if you are uncertain if your topic fits. *** Submission Instructions *** The instructions for the submission of poster or demo contributions can be found at https://ewsn2021.ewi.tudelft.nl/calls-and-submissions/call-for-posters-and-…. Accepted posters and demo abstracts will be included in the conference proceedings, which will be available in the ACM Digital Library. *** Important Dates *** Submission deadline [approaching!]: December 4, 2020 Acceptance notifications: December 14, 2020 Camera-ready paper submission: December 18, 2020 Each deadline is 23:59 UTC-12 (AoE). *** Poster and demo co-chairs *** Jorge Ortiz (Rutgers University, USA) Olaf Landsiedel (Kiel University, Germany and Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) Best Regards, Carlo Alberto Boano, Shijia Pan, JeongGil Ko EWSN 2021 Publicity Chairs ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of the call ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Extended Deadline: International Conference on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN) 2021
by Lars Wolf 03 Dec '20

03 Dec '20

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Massimo Tornatore <massimo.tornatore(a)polimi.it> Gesendet: 3. Dezember 2020 11:13:36 MEZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Extended Deadline: International Conference on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN) 2021 Sorry in advance for for multiple postings! Deadline has been extended to January 3rd 2021. SPECIAL COVID-19 NOTICE ----------------------------- The conference will be designed and prepared as a hybrid event allowing registrants the choice to participate either virtually or in-person. In the case of perduring traveling restrictions (official or de facto) during the conference dates due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we will be ready to convert the conference to a fully-online event. CALL FOR PAPERS 17th International Conference on Design of Reliable Communication Networks Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Communications Society (IEEE ComSoc) http://www.drcn2021.polimi.it April 19-22, 2021 – Milan, Italy SCOPE Since its creation in 1998, the International Conference on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN) has become over the years a well-established forum for scientists from both industry and academy who have interest in reliability and availability of communication networks, and related resilience topics. The aim of the conference is to bring together people from various disciplines, ranging from engineering of survivable equipment and network technologies to network management and monitoring, through methods and models for survivable and robust network design. As such, DRCN is a well-known forum for presenting excellent results and new challenges in the field of reliable communication networks and services. We are pleased to invite you to contribute and participate in the 17th edition of DRCN in Milan, Italy, on April 19-22, 2021. Authors are invited to submit their contributions in the form of a Regular paper and/or Demo paper. Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to: * Resilience in 5G networks and services * Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications (URLLC) * Design of resilient and reliable IoT systems * Resilience in Software-Defined Networking (SDN) * Secure and reliable quantum communications * Resilience in satellite communication networks * High availability for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) infrastructures * Network dependability in cloud networking * Dependability and reliability of wireless/cellular/mobile networks * Resilience in FSO/VLC communications * Survivability and traffic engineering for optical, IP and multi-layer networks * Robustness of multi-domain networks * Survivability in grid and distributed computing * Reliability and resiliency of data center networks * Recovery of overlay and peer-to-peer networks * Risk and reliability in the Internet and enterprise networks * Communication reliability for smart city applications and intelligent transport systems * Methods for survivable network and systems design, analysis, and operation * Planning and optimization of reliable networks, systems, and services * Network reliability analysis * Reliability and robustness of networks optimized and managed based on AI/ML techniques * Data analytics and Machine Learning for fault diagnosis * Network coding techniques to improve resilience * Service differentiation based on recovery methods * Simulation techniques for network resilience * Quality of Experience (QoE) and network service availability assessments * Reliability requirements and metrics for users, businesses, and the society * Robustness of compound services * Resilience and security of networked critical infrastructures * Network robustness to natural disasters * Robust network design for hostile environments * Security issues in networks and their relation to survivability * Network dependability and energy consumption trade-offs * Network resilience combined with economics and commercial issues * Standardization of network resilience and reliability * Public policy issues for survivability and resilience * Design and test of reliable operational technology (OT) networks REGULAR PAPER SUBMISSION ----------------------------- The authors are invited to submit high-quality original technical papers for presentation at the conference and publication in the DRCN 2021 Proceedings. Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process and all submissions must be done electronically through EDAS, using the following submission link: https://edas.info/N27800 or https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=27800 All submissions must be written in English and must use standard IEEE two-column conference templates that can be downloaded from: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html. Papers should be maximum 6 page long and minimum 4 page long, including tables, figures and references. Accepted papers longer than 6 pages will be charged for each extra page. Papers cannot be longer than 8 pages. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register to DRCN 2021 to have his/her paper published in the conference proceedings. The paper must be presented at the conference by one author to be submitted for publication in IEEE Xplore. Most highly‐scored paper will be invited to submit their work to IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. Please contact https://edas.info/help.php?c=27800 or francesco.musumeci(a)polimi.it<mailto:francesco.musumeci@polimi.it> if you have any questions about submitting your manuscript. ----------------------------- DEMO PAPER SUBMISSION Prospective contributors are expected to turn in a demo proposal in the form of a 3-page paper in IEEE conference double-column format, preferably incorporating a demo system architecture illustration. Demo papers will be peer-reviewed and accepted demo papers will be included in the electronic conference/workshops proceedings bundle provided to DRCN 2021 attendees, and will be subsequently submitted to IEEE Xplore. The paper should incorporate the following information: * Title * Author’s names and affiliation * Abstract * Description * Key networking concepts involved, what will be demonstrated, and distinguishing aspects with respect to previous related work * Prototype illustrations * Highlights of the innovation, with a clear description of novel ideas in Network Reliability * A crisp list of individual items that will be demonstrated * Relevant references, in particular if the demo is related to a paper being submitted in the main conference Demonstration proposal papers should be submitted through the EDAS entry of DRCN 2021 or using the following url https://edas.info/N27800, and selecting “Demo Paper” Track. Only PDF files will be accepted. The demo proposals will be reviewed by the DRCN Technical Program Committee and will be approved based on availability of demo space as well as on the following criteria: * Adherence to DRCN 2021 scope * Significance of the research contribution * Potential impact on the area * Quality of the proposed implementation * Presentation quality At least one author of each accepted demo proposal is required to register for the DRCN 2021 main conference and present the demo at the scheduled demo session(s). VENUE ----------------------------- The conference will take place at Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------------------------------------------- REGULAR PAPERS Submission deadline: November 10, 2020 January 3, 2020 Notification to authors: January 15, 2021 Camera Ready Papers: February 7, 2021 DEMO PAPERS Proposal submission deadline: January 15, 2021 Notification to authors: February 15, 2021 Camera Ready Papers: February 28, 2021 ----------------------------------------------------------- GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Guido Maier, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Kohei Shiomoto, Tokyo City University, Japan TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Jason Jue, University of Texas at Dallas, US Yongli Zhao, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), China Francesco Musumeci, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Giacomo Verticale, Politecnico di Milano, Italy LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Omran Ayoub (omran.ayoub(a)polimi.it), Politecnico di Milano, Italy Ligia Moreira Zorello, Politecnico di Milano, Italy ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE Pervasive 2021 - Special Issue on the Future of Work: COVID-19 and Beyond
by Lars Wolf 03 Dec '20

03 Dec '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE Pervasive 2021 - Special Issue on the Future of Work: COVID-19 and Beyond Datum: Wed, 2 Dec 2020 23:09:37 -0500 Von: IEEE Pervasive <ieee.pervasive.outreach(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: IEEE Pervasive <ieee.pervasive.outreach(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Apology for cross-posting] Call for Papers: Special Issue on the Future of Work: COVID-19 and Beyond Andrew L. Kun, Shamsi Iqbal, Microsoft Research, Orit Shaer Title and abstracts due: 15 February 2021 (email pvc4-2021(a)computer.org) Full manuscripts due: 1 March 2021 (via https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/pc-cs.) Publication: October-December 2021 Advances in pervasive computing are rapidly changing the way we work. Pervasive computing can improve the way workers connect into productive teams; it vastly improves the ability of organizations to collect and process data; and it provides new tools for using data in feedback loops that affect the physical or virtual world, both as personalized, small-scale interventions and as broad, large-scale actions. These changes are accelerated by the COVID-19 crisis. This crisis resulted in a sudden and dramatic change in how we work. For many of us, the well-known mainstays of work—the eight-hour workday, the office building, the morning commute, the salient boundaries between work and personal life, in-person conversations with coworkers, and sending children to school or daycare—are gone or drastically different than they were before. Even worse, millions of workers lost their jobs, and their prospects of future employment are uncertain. The issues of inequality and racial injustice are even more pronounced than before; sections of the population are bearing the brunt far more than others, and there is a real risk of leaving behind workers who are unable to balance rapidly changing work responsibilities with increased demands placed on their personal life. While we all hope that the COVID-19 crisis will soon subside, some of its effects are likely to remain; not all office buildings will open back up, not all jobs lost will be available again, and the way we used to think about productivity and work-life balance may never be the same. Given these changes, how can pervasive computing support worker and organization productivity? How can it support workers in balancing productivity with well-being? How can it support workers as they seek new skills and new jobs? Furthermore, how do these new circumstances provide a window into the long-term future of work and the role of pervasive computing in this future? And, while we are primarily interested in how pervasive computing can support work, we must be mindful of helping workers maintain their overall well-being. What is the role of pervasive computing in this? In this special issue, we seek to provide a broad set of answers to these questions. The guest editors invite original and high-quality submissions addressing any aspect of the role of pervasive computing in supporting the future of work. Review or summary articles—for example, critical evaluations of the state of the art, or an insightful analysis of established and upcoming technologies—may be accepted if they demonstrate academic rigor and relevance. Example topics include, but are not limited to: Tools for remote work: working from home, working while commuting, and meetings with remote participants New ways of getting work done: techniques for interleaving work; easy resumption, engagement, and disengagement; and incorporating well-being needs in productivity tools Technologies for the future of work: networking, augmented reality, virtual reality, wearable devices, and human-robot collaboration Supporting worker well-being: maintaining work-life boundaries, supporting physical movement, and facilitating work attachment and detachment Matching worker skills with job opportunities: assessing worker skills, matching existing skills to new job opportunities, and peer-networks for learning new skills Inclusion and accessibility: technology that is built for equality and technology that supports all abilities Security and privacy: protecting the pervasive-computing work infrastructure from malicious actors and maintaining privacy while providing personalized support for work and well-being Novel ways of measuring outcome: rewarding performance so that it takes into account an individual’s unique needs, incorporating well-being as an integral part of productivity, fostering and measuring creativity and innovation, and supporting self-reflection by workers Novel applications of pervasive computing to support future jobs and work practices Submission Guidelines Articles submitted to IEEE Pervasive Computing should not exceed 6,000 words, including all text, abstract, keywords, bibliography, biographies, and table text. The word count must include 250 words for each table and figure. References should be limited to 20 citations (40 for survey papers). Authors are encouraged, but not required, to use a template for submission (accepted articles will ultimately be typeset by magazine staff for publication). Submissions should not have been submitted or published elsewhere. Please read the author guidelines here. To submit a manuscript, go to https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/pc-cs. Questions? Contact the guest editors at pvc4-2021(a)computer.org. Guest Editors: Andrew L. Kun, University of New Hampshire, USA Shamsi Iqbal, Microsoft Research, USA Orit Shaer, Wellesley College, USA ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] IEEE/IFIP WONS 2021 - Deadline extended to December 18, 2020
by Lars Wolf 03 Dec '20

03 Dec '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] IEEE/IFIP WONS 2021 - Deadline extended to December 18, 2020 Datum: Wed, 2 Dec 2020 21:37:40 +0100 Von: Michele Segata <michele.segata(a)UNIBZ.IT> Antwort an: Michele Segata <michele.segata(a)UNIBZ.IT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Dear colleagues, the IEEE/IFIP WONS deadline has been extended to December 18, 2020. In addition, we will have two keynotes on knowledge networks and mmWave networks. Please find the CfP below. Best regards, Michele IEEE/IFIP WONS 2021 - Call for Papers 16th Wireless On-demand Network systems and Services Conference 9-11 March 2021 Virtual Conference *** Reduced registration fee of 180 euros for authors & Free registration for PhD Students (non-author) *** http://2021.wons-conference.org/ ************************************** DEADLINE EXTENDED TO DECEMBER 18, 2020 ************************************** Wireless on-demand network systems and services have become pivotal in shaping our future networked world. Starting as a niche application over Wi-Fi, they can now be found in mainstream technologies like Bluetooth LE, LTE Direct and Wireless LANs, and have become the cornerstone of upcoming networking paradigms including mesh and sensor networks, cloud networks, vehicular networks, disruption tolerant and opportunistic networks, and in-body networks. The challenges of this exciting research field are numerous. Examples include how to make smart use of these novel technologies when multiple technologies or a mix of permanent services and on-demand networking opportunities are available to a network node, how to provide robust services in highly dynamic environments, how to efficiently employ and operate heavily resource-constrained devices, and how to develop robust and lightweight algorithms for self-organization and adaptation. Finally, there are many application-specific challenges. WONS, now in its sixteenth edition, is a high quality forum to address these challenges. WONS aims to provide a global platform for rich interactions between experts in their fields, discussing innovative contributions in a stimulating environment. This announcement solicits original contributions of high-quality research providing novel insights on all aspects of wireless on-demand networks and systems; from protocol and network design, modeling, performance evaluation, energy efficiency, models and mechanisms, practical implementations, service level aspects, application use-cases, to the integration of multiple wireless network technologies. Accepted and presented papers will appear in the conference proceedings published in the IFIP Open Access Digital Library and will also be submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. After having carefully monitored the sanitary evolution, the WONS 2021 organising committee decided to move to a fully virtual conference. This will allow all speakers and participants to join the conference independently of any travel restrictions that might still apply beginning of 2021. The virtual format of the conference enables the organization committee, in agreement with IFIP and IEEE, to offer the registration for a very low fee. The registration for non-authors PhD students will be free, giving the opportunity to meet on-line all the authors and the Keynote Speakers. The limited size of this long-run, prestigious conference enables the on-line event to be organised with a non-conventional, impactful format. It is thus a unique opportunity to join and contribute to fruitful discussions in this period of limited travel and continuous restrictions. Topics of interest comprise, but are not limited to: - Cognitive radio networks - Network management - Cross-layer design - Modeling and optimization - Energy-efficient protocols and power management - Mobile computing and services - Heterogeneous wireless networks - New architectures for on-demand wireless systems - Implementations and testbeds - Novel applications and services - Integration and co-existence of heterogeneous technologies - Opportunistic, delay-tolerant, and dissemination-based protocols - Intra-body and biomedical on-demand systems - Performance evaluation through simulations and experiments - Green wireless networks - Pervasive and ubiquitous computing - Localization and mobility management - Security, privacy, and trust - MAC and advanced PHY technologies - Social and economic aspects - Middleware aspects - Underwater on-demand networked systems - Mobile peer-to-peer systems - Architectures and protocols for the Internet of Things - Vehicular networks - Device-to-device communication for 5G and 6G architectures This edition will additionally include a special session titled "Smartphone Apps for Contact Tracing - Experiences with COVID-19 Tracing Apps", addressing the issues related to pandemic control and tracing. Important information --------------------- Full Papers Due (extended): December 18, 2020 Notification of Acceptance: January 29, 2021 Camera-ready papers due: February 12, 2021 Submission link: https://edas.info/N27696 Keynotes -------- WONS 2021 will host two extraordinary keynotes on knowledge networks and mmWave networks. Speaker: Jérôme Härri, EURECOM, Sophia Antipolis, France Title: Knowledge on the Edge - From Information to Knowledge Networks Speaker: Joerg Widmer, IMDEA Networks, Madrid, Spain Title: The Road to Practical and Scalable Millimeter-Wave Networks Organizing Committee -------------------- General Chair Raphaël Frank, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg General vice- and Local Arrangement Chair Christoph Bösch, Ulm University, Germany TPC Chairs Michele Segata, Free University of Bolzano, Italy Uichin Lee, KAIST, South Korea Special Session Chair Frank Kargl, Ulm University Publication and Web Chair François Robinet, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Steering Committee Renato Lo Cigno, University of Brescia, Italy Falko Dressler, TU Berlin, Germany Edward W. Knightly, RICE University, USA Ioannis Stavrakakis, University of Athens, Greece Kostantinos Psounis, University of Southern California, USA Andrea Passarella, National Research Council, Italy More Information ---------------- For further information and updates on the conference, please refer to the official website: http://2021.wons-conference.org/ -- Michele Segata, PhD Assistant Professor, Faculty of Computer Science University of Bolzano, Italy https://www.inf.unibz.it/~segata/ ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: The 22nd IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM'21), June 7-11, 2021, Pisa, Italy - DEADLINE: December 14, 2020
by Lars Wolf 02 Dec '20

02 Dec '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: The 22nd IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM'21), June 7-11, 2021, Pisa, Italy - DEADLINE: December 14, 2020 Datum: Tue, 1 Dec 2020 23:13:48 +0000 Von: Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou <eirini(a)UNM.EDU> Antwort an: Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou <eirini(a)UNM.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 22nd IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM'21) Pisa, Italy June 7-11, 2021 http://wowmom2021.iit.cnr.it/ Twitter: @wowmom2021 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE AND OVERVIEW -------------------------------------------------------------------------- IEEE WoWMoM 2021 is soliciting original and previously unpublished papers addressing research challenges and advances in the areas of wireless, mobile, and multimedia networking as well as ubiquitous and pervasive systems and applications. Wireless networking technologies are continuously evolving and have become a critical part of modern life, be it for communication services, media distribution or sensing and actuation services within the Internet of things context. To provide users with high quality of experience in multimedia communication and distribution, especially under moderate to high utilization, appropriate resource management and architectural networking paradigms are necessary. Edge computing and data-driven artificial intelligence (AI) techniques are becoming essential tools to cope with the increasing diversity of connected devices, and the plethora of new data-intensive and latency-sensitive applications requested by end-users. At the same time, Internet of Things environments, wearable computing and sensors, support a diverse range of application domains and services, providing rich sets of measurements for characterizing, detecting, and understanding complex behaviors and systems and enabling feedback mechanisms that allow them to control such systems. IEEE WoWMoM 2021 takes a broad view and seeks papers describing innovative research contributions to the field of mobile and wireless networking and applications. We solicit papers that present original work, validated by experimentation, simulation, or analysis. We also welcome practical experiences and experimental efforts from both industry and academia, duly documenting the lessons learned from testbeds, field trials, or real deployments. SPECIFIC AREAS OF INTEREST -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - 5G/Beyond 5G networks for mobile and multimedia services - AI-assisted and data-driven networking in wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Authentication, authorization, accounting for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Cognitive communications and networking - Communication technologies and services for MTC - Content-centric architectures for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Context-awareness in wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Dependability and survivability issues for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Edge and cloud computing for wireless, mobile and multimedia networking and services - Energy-efficiency for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Internet/Web of Things - Localization, tracking, and mobility management and services - Middleware services for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Mobile big data networking and services - Mobile social networks - Modeling, analysis, and performance evaluation of wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Network traffic characterization and measurements - Opportunistic and delay-tolerant networking - Participatory, mobile and urban sensing - Resource management and QoS/QoE provisioning - Satellite and hybrid satellite-terrestrial networking - Seamless inter-networking and self-organisation - Software Defined Networking, Network Function Virtualization, and slicing for wireless and mobile networks - System prototypes, measurements, real-world deployment, and experiences - Trust and privacy issues for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Vehicular communication systems - Virtual mobile infrastructure - Wearable Computing - Wireless multimedia systems, services and applications PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit papers describing original, previously unpublished work, not currently under review by another conference, workshop, or a journal. Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process and all submissions must be done electronically through EDAS at: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=27832 Authors can submit regular or work-in-progress papers (appropriate category to be selected upon submission). REGULAR PAPERS Regular papers submissions may be up to 10 pages in length (including figures and references), formatted in two-column IEEE conference style with font size 10 points or greater. WORK IN PROGRESS PAPERS Work-in-progress papers provide a peer-reviewed forum for late-breaking or preliminary research results, giving an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present and demonstrate their recent research, and to obtain feedback from their peers in a poster session. Work-in-progress papers submissions may be up to 4 pages in length (including figures and references) and must have a prefix "WIP:" in the title of the paper. ACCEPTED PAPERS --------------------------------------------------------------------------- An author of an accepted paper is required to register for the conference at the full (member or non-member) rate and the paper must be presented by an author of that paper at the conference, unless a written request before the conference for a substitute presenter with compelling reasons is sent to the TPC Co-Chairs and permission is granted. Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings of IEEE WoWMoM 2021 and made available through IEEE Xplore. All conference proceedings must meet IEEE's quality standards, and IEEE reserves the right not to publish any proceedings that do not meet these standards. Furthermore, IEEE reserves the right to remove papers from IEEE Xplore that are not presented at the conference. for unjustified reasons. JOURNAL FAST TRACK --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Extended versions of selected papers from IEEE WoWMoM 2021 will be invited for possible publication in Computer Communications (IF 2.816). AWARDS --------------------------------------------------------------------------- All accepted regular papers will be considered for the Cisco Best Paper Award. A committee will select three best paper candidates based on the reviews received. The winner will be decided also based on the quality of the presentation and announced during the conference. The recipient(s) of the Cisco Best Paper Award will be awarded a cash prize, while the runner-ups will receive a certificate from the organizing committee. IMPORTANT DATES --------------------------------------------------------------------------- All the following dates are tentative and will be finally set in due time. Please check the website regularly for updates. Paper registration: December 7, 2020 Paper submission : December 14, 2020 Acceptance notification : March 19, 2021 Camera-Ready version: April 19, 2021 Conference dates: June 7-11, 2021 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE --------------------------------------------------------------------------- GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Raffaele Bruno, IIT-CNR, Italy Hongyi Wu, Old Dominion University, USA PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Claudio Cicconetti, IIT-CNR, Italy Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, University at Buffalo, USA STEERING COMMITTEE Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy Sajal K. Das, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA WORKSHOPS CO-CHAIRS Ana Aguiar, Univ. Porto and Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal Andreas Kassler, Karlstad University, Sweden FINANCE & REGISTRATION CHAIR Yonghe Liu, Univ. Texas at Arlington, USA PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS Arash Asadi, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, University of New Mexico, USA Yang Liu, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China PUBLICATIONS CO-CHAIRS Pantelis Frangoudis, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria PHD FORUM CO-CHAIRS Rui Ning, Old Dominion University, USA Carlo Vallati, University of Pisa, Italy For any additional information please contact the PC chairs at: wowmom2021-pcchairs(a)iit.cnr.it -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou Assistant Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Office: 326B Tel.: (505)-277-5501 Email: eirini(a)unm.edu<mailto:eirini@unm.edu> Website: PROTON Lab<http://ece-research.unm.edu/tsiropoulou/index.html> PROTON Lab's News: @Tsiropoulou_EE<https://twitter.com/Tsiropoulou_EE> "Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach." ~ Aristotle ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP - IEEE Global Internet (GI) Symposium 2021 in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2021 - Submission Due on December 15 2020
by Lars Wolf 30 Nov '20

30 Nov '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP - IEEE Global Internet (GI) Symposium 2021 in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2021 - Submission Due on December 15 2020 Datum: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 15:57:31 +0000 Von: Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou <eirini(a)UNM.EDU> Antwort an: Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou <eirini(a)UNM.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org CALL FOR PAPERS - IEEE Global Internet (GI) Symposium 2021 in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2021 Webpage: https://infocom2021.ieee-infocom.org/ieee-global-internet-symposium The IEEE Global Internet (GI) Symposium is the flagship event established and organized by the Internet Technical Committee (ITC), a joint committee of the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) and the Internet Society (ISOC). From 1996 through 2002, the symposium was held in conjunction with IEEE GLOBECOM, and since 2003 has moved to be held in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM (except 2020). The GI Symposium provides a top forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss advances in the current and the future Internet and Internet-related technologies. The focus of the GI symposium is on experimental systems over the Internet and the design of future global Internet technologies, such as Information-Centric Networking (ICN), Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV), network slicing, Artificial-Intelligence-based intelligent Internet, industrial Internet, and vehicular and drone networks, especially in a global Internet scale. The GI symposium also has a special focus on measurements-related aspects, besides the emerging technologies. In addition to the traditional research papers, we encourage papers with well thought-through concepts and positions, papers that contrast proposed approaches, papers that clarify and compare inherent differences between competing technologies, and heresies. The topics of interest for the GI 2021 include but are not limited to the following: * Routing, switching, and addressing * Future Internet and next generation network architectures * Information-centric networking, Software defined networking, and network function virtualization * Wireless Internet and Internet technologies for 5G/6G * Data center network architectures and performance * Integration of in-network computation, cloud, and edge/fog computing * Machine learning, data mining, and big data analytics for intelligent Internet * Space-air-ground integrated network * Quantum Internet * Internet of Things, Machine-to-Machine, sensor, and vehicular/drone networks * Industrial Internet and time-sensitive and deterministic networks * Integrating blockchain with distributed Internet edges * Energy-efficient green communications * Geo-distributed applications, consistency, and latency challenges * Content delivery and management * Internet exchanges, remote peering and peer-to-peer networks * Internet structure and analysis * Network-aware applications * Real-world Measurements and deployments * Distributed systems and novel distributed Internet applications * Online social networking * Internet measurement, modeling, and visualization * Large-scale network operations, management, and performance monitoring * Trust, security, privacy, and blockchain for the Internet * Anomaly, intrusion, and attack detection * Accountability, reliability, and resiliency for networks * Economic aspects of the Internet and network neutrality PAPER SUBMISSION Papers must be no more than 6 pages (IEEE two-column format, 10 pt) in total including references and figures, and follow the IEEE template. Submitted papers should be unpublished work and should not be under review in any other conference or journal. Papers must show author names and affiliations, and be submitted in PDF with all non-standard fonts embedded. Papers must be self-contained and written in English. Accepted papers will appear in the symposium proceedings published by IEEE and be submitted to IEEE Xplore Digital Library. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and present the work in the symposium. Please follow the submission link on https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=27893&track=104226 to submit your paper. Keynotes: Keynote I: Vincent Chan, MIT, USA (IEEE Life Fellow, IEEE ComSoc President) Keynote II: Wenjing Lou, Virginia Tech, USA (IEEE Fellow) Lightning talk: Filecoin: A Token-based, Decentralised Storage Network -- Yiannis Psaras, Protocol Labs, USA Journal Special Issues: Selected papers will be recommended to IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ, IF: 9.936), Digital Communications and Networks (Elsevier, IF: 5.382), and MDPI Sensors (IF: 3.427) for potential fast-track publications. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: December 15, 2020 Acceptance notification: January 15, 2021 Camera-ready submission: February 15, 2021 Workshop date: May 10, 2021 Technical Program Chairs Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Ruidong Li, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan Lei Jiao, University of Oregon, USA Publicity Chairs: William Liu, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Ryoichi Shinkuma, Kyoto University, Japan Eirini Tsiropoulou, University of New Mexico, USA Aldri Luiz dos Santos, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil Steering Committee: Michele Nogueira (Chair), Federal University of Paraná, Brazil Kevin Almeroth, UC Santa Barbara, USA Olaf Maennel, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia Stefan Schmid, TU Berlin, Germany Dijiang Huang, Arizona State University, USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou Assistant Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Office: 326B Tel.: (505)-277-5501 Email: eirini(a)unm.edu<mailto:eirini@unm.edu> Website: PROTON Lab<http://ece-research.unm.edu/tsiropoulou/index.html> PROTON Lab's News: @Tsiropoulou_EE<https://twitter.com/Tsiropoulou_EE> "Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach." ~ Aristotle ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [ CFP ] : WFCS 2021 ( Jun. 9th – 11th 2021 LINZ, AUSTRIA )
by Lars Wolf 30 Nov '20

30 Nov '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [ CFP ] : WFCS 2021 ( Jun. 9th – 11th 2021 LINZ, AUSTRIA ) Datum: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 07:31:34 +0000 Von: Guo Xuanchen <xuanchen.guo(a)OUTLOOK.COM> Antwort an: Guo Xuanchen <xuanchen.guo(a)OUTLOOK.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG 17th IEEE International Conference on Factory Communication Systems (WFCS) Smart Secure Wireless Meets Wired Factory Communication from Automation to IioT -----------------------------------------------DESCRIPTION-------------------------------------------- The Factory Communication area is facing the leap of new generation wired and wireless technologies e.g. TSN, WiFi6, 5G, and more, expanding from automation to the IIoT. Induced by the rapid change in consumer electronics towards high performance wireless, also many new industrial applications are about to move into the wireless domain. These strong and appealing ideas create many challenges addressed by recent research. Nevertheless, wired communication is also substantially developing, e.g. TSN, thus improving dependable real-time communication. More and more distributed control applications have an increasing need for real-time data exchange. Mobile robots and UAVs used in factories introduce the need of seamless integrated distributed systems to connect edge computing to intelligent IIoT. Hence, challenging questions arise on wireless and wired communication in IT and OT industrial networks supporting data, sensor, and actuator communication. In those systems, security is a major concern to lay base for safe processes. Measures from AI to physical layer security contribute to a next generation dependable factory communication regardless if wired or wireless. The 17th edition of WFCS will focus on these challenges. The WFCS is the largest IEEE conference especially dedicated to communications for industrial automation systems. It is held the first time in Linz, Austria, an industrial emerging area with leading industries. It is a melting pot of academia and industry. This fact is shown by the local organizer mix of this WFCS which are Johannes Kepler University Linz, Silicon Austria Labs and Linz Center of Mechatronics GmbH. The WFCS is supported by IEEE and IES and led by the IEEE TC on Factory Automation, and will be hosted by the Johannes Kepler University Linz. ---------------------------------------------- FOCUS ON----------------------------------------------- Communication Systems and Technologies; Protocols and Standards for Networked Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems; Real-time, Safety, Security and Maintenance of Automation Systems and Networks; applying Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to enhance and Communication Technologies for Industry 4.0; Low-power and Green Communication in Industry; recent advances in research domains with similar communication requirements. -----------------------------------------SUBMISSION OF PAPERS---------------------------------------- All regular submissions must be up to 8 pages following IEEE conferences template and submitted through EasyChair. A work in progress track is available to exchange ideas at an early stage of the work and to discuss recent results in the community. A work in progress paper has up to 4 pages. *Link: https://konferenzen.jku.at/wfcs2021/ *Conference: Jun. 9th – 11th 2021 LINZ, AUSTRIA ****************** IMPORTANT DATES ***************** -Special sessions proposal: Deadline: Dec. 15th, 2020 Notification: Jan. 1st, 2021 Publish Call: Jan. 8th, 2021 Submission opens Nov. 15th, 2020 -Regular and SS paper submission: Deadline: Feb. 12th ,2021 Notification: Apr. 12th ,2021 Final versions due: Apr. 19th, 2021 Registration opens Apr. 12th, 2021 -WIP paper submission: Deadline: Apr. 16th, 2021 Notification: Apr. 30th, 2021 Final versions due: May 7th, 2021 Early registration ends May 14th, 2020 **************** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE *************** -General Co-Chairs: Hans-Peter Bernhard (JKU, SAL, Linz/AT) Zhibo Pang (ABB, Västeras/SE) -Technical Program Co-Chairs: Leander Hörmann (LCM, Linz/AT) Emiliano Sisinni (UNIBS, Brescia/IT) Thilo Sauter (TU Wien & Danube University Krems, AT) -Finance Chair: Werner Haselmayr (JKU, Linz/AT) -Publication Co-Chairs: Iñaki Val (IKERLAN, Mondragon/ES) Marina Gutiérrez (TTTech, AT) -Publicity Co-Chairs: Lei Shu (NAU,Nanjing/CN & University Lincoln/UK) Alois Zoitl (JKU, LIT, Linz/AT) -WIP Co-Chairs: Alessandro Papadopoulos (MDH, Västerås /SE) Marcel Baunach (TUG, Graz/AT) -Special Sessions Co-Chairs: Michele Luvisotto (ABB Power Grids, Västerås/SE) Peter Priller (AVL, Graz/AT) -Industry Co-Chairs: Thomas I. Strasser (AIT & TU Wien, AT) Stamatis Karnouskos (SAP, DE) Victor Huang (Sage Tech Res, SF/US) -Local / Technical Support: Armin Hadžiaganović (SAL, Linz/AT) ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [papers due in a month] CFP - 5TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FOG AND EDGE COMPUTING (ICFEC 2021)
by Lars Wolf 30 Nov '20

30 Nov '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [papers due in a month] CFP - 5TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FOG AND EDGE COMPUTING (ICFEC 2021) Datum: Sun, 29 Nov 2020 05:43:50 -0800 Von: angalletta(a)IEEE.ORG Antwort an: angalletta(a)IEEE.ORG An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Dear users of Tccc-Announce mailing list, FYI [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ========================================================================= 5TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FOG AND EDGE COMPUTING (ICFEC 2021) 10-13 May 2021, Melbourne, Australia In conjunction with IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2021 URL: https://icfec2021.eeecs.qub.ac.uk ========================================================================= We are delighted to invite you for the 5th IEEE International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing to be held in Melbourne, Australia. The conference will be held as part of and in conjunction with IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2021, which is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and ACM. INTRODUCTION Billions of devices and sensors ranging from user gadgets to more complex systems with sensing and actuating capabilities, such as power grids or vehicles, from the physical world are getting connected to the Internet. However, the need to operate the scale of heterogeneous devices and sensors while being performance-efficient in real-time is challenging. Typically, the data generated by the devices and sensors are transferred to and processed centrally by services hosted on geographically distant clouds. This is untenable given the communication latency incurred and the ingress bandwidth demand. A new and disruptive paradigm spear-headed by academics and industry experts is taking shape so that applications can leverage resources located at the edge of the network and along the continuum between the cloud and the edge. These edge resources may be geographically or in the network topology be closer to devices and sensors, such as home router, gateways or more substantial micro data centers. Edge resources may be used to offload selected services from the cloud to accelerate an application or host edge-native applications. The paradigm within which the edge is harnessed is referred to as 'Fog/Edge computing'. The Fog/Edge computing paradigm is expected to improve the agility of service deployments, make use of opportunistic and cheap computing, and leverage the network latency and bandwidth diversities between these resources. Numerous challenges arise when using edge resources, which requires the re-examination of operating systems, virtualization and containers, and middleware techniques for fabric management. Extensions to current programming and storage models are required and new abstractions that will allow developers to design novel applications that can benefit from massively distributed and data-driven systems need to be developed. Addressing security, privacy and trust of the edge resources is of paramount importance while managing the resources and context for mobile, transient and hardware constrained resources. Lastly, emerging domains like autonomous vehicles and machine/deep learning need to be supported over such platforms. CALL FOR PAPERS The conference seeks to attract high-quality contributions covering both theory and practice over system software and domain-specific applications related to next-generation distributed systems that use the edge. Some representative topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Data centers and infrastructures for Fog/Edge computing * Middleware and runtime systems for Fog/Edge infrastructures * Programming models for Fog/Edge computing * Storage and data management platforms for Fog/Edge computing * Scheduling for Fog/Edge infrastructures * Distributed and federated machine learning on Fog/Edge * Performance monitoring and metering of Fog/Edge infrastructures * Legal issues and business aspects of Fog/Edge computing * Security, privacy, trust and provenance issues in Fog/Edge computing * Modeling and simulation of Fog/Edge environments * Novel, latency-sensitive and locality-critical applications of Fog/Edge computing SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS We invite original manuscripts that have neither been published elsewhere nor are under review at a different venue. The manuscripts should be structured as technical papers, written in English. Authors should submit papers electronically in PDF format and may not exceed 8 letter-size pages in length, including all figures, tables and references. Papers should follow the IEEE format template for conference proceedings available at http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html. Submissions not conforming to these guidelines or received after the due date may not be reviewed. All manuscripts will be reviewed and judged on originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and relevance to the conference attendees. Papers may be submitted online at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfec2021 IMPORTANT DATES * Papers due: 03 January 2021 23:59 AoE * Author notifications of Acceptance: 08 February 2021 * Camera Ready Paper: 03 March 2021 PUBLICATION Papers that are accepted for publication may be accepted as REGULAR paper (8 pages) or SHORT papers (5 pages), depending on the reviewer recommendations. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings that will be published through the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services. ORGANIZATION General Chairs * Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia * Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science, India Program Chairs * Blesson Varghese, Queen’s University Belfast, UK, b.varghese(a)qub.ac.uk * Lena Mashayekhy, University of Delaware, USA, mlena(a)udel.edu Steering Committee * Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia * Adrien Lebre, INRIA, France * Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK * Anthony Simonet, iExec Blockchain Tech, France * Haiying Shen, University of Virginia, USA * Massimo Villari, University of Messina, Italy ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [ACM SIGCOMM 2021 - Virtual] CFP: ACM SIGCOMM 2021 - paper registration/submission January 20/27, 2021
by Lars Wolf 24 Nov '20

24 Nov '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [ACM SIGCOMM 2021 - Virtual] CFP: ACM SIGCOMM 2021 - paper registration/submission January 20/27, 2021 Datum: Mon, 23 Nov 2020 16:23:00 +0000 Von: Casas Pedro <Pedro.Casas(a)AIT.AC.AT> Antwort an: Casas Pedro <Pedro.Casas(a)AIT.AC.AT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ACM SIGCOMM 2021 August 23-27, 2021 Virtual Event http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2021/ ***Important dates*** * Jan 20, 2021, 16:59 EST -- Abstract registration deadline * Jan 27, 2021, 16:59 EST -- Paper submission deadline * May 3, 2021 (tentative) -- Notification date ***Call for Papers*** The ACM SIGCOMM 2021 conference seeks papers describing significant research contributions to the field of communication networks and networked systems. SIGCOMM takes a broad view of networking research, which includes (but is not limited to) the following topics: * All types of computer networks such as mobile, wide-area, data-center, embedded, home, and enterprise networks. * All types of wired and wireless technologies, including optics, and acoustic and visible light-based communication. * All aspects of networks and networked systems such as architecture, packet-processing hardware and software, virtualization, mobility, resource management, performance, energy consumption, topology, robustness, security, diagnosis, verification, privacy, economics and evolution, and interactions with applications. * All types of computer network design, analysis, and experimental approaches such as theory, measurements, and machine learning-based techniques. We want each SIGCOMM paper to significantly advance the state-of-the-art in networking by, for instance, proposing and developing novel ideas or rigorously (re-)evaluating existing ideas. The review process will take the nature of the contribution into account. We strongly encourage authors to discuss not only the benefits but also the limitations of their work. SIGCOMM 2021 will accept submissions to the ***experience track*** in addition to the regular research track. Submissions to the experience track describe the design, analysis, and evaluation of techniques in commercial or otherwise widely-used deployment. Experience track submissions need not describe new ideas, but are strongly encouraged to elucidate key insights and takeaways gathered from design, deployment, or operational experience. The PC will evaluate experience-track submissions with the understanding that the primary contributions may be in extending the SIGCOMM community's knowledge of how known techniques fare when adapted to real-world settings, and particularly in settings that most in the community cannot duplicate, for reasons of scale or otherwise. At paper registration time, authors must explicitly indicate both in their paper title and submission form if their paper is to be considered for the experience or regular research track. Submissions to the experience track should also be double-blind. However, given the nature of these papers, it is OK to reveal company or system name but NOT author names. Each submission will only be considered for one track - either the experience or the research track, but not both - in accordance with the authors' preference expressed at submission time. The final conference program will not preserve the distinction between the two tracks. In addition to the main conference, SIGCOMM 2021 will have a series of co-located workshops, tutorials, poster and demo sessions, and conference best paper and SIGCOMM awards. ***Submissions*** Papers submitted to SIGCOMM typically report novel results firmly substantiated by experimentation, deployment, simulation, or analysis. The program committee will judge submissions based upon novelty, significance, correctness, clarity of presentation, and relevance to the SIGCOMM community. All accepted papers will be shepherded by a member of the program committee. Submissions should be in two-column, 10-point format, and can be up to 12 pages in length with as many additional pages as necessary for references and optional appendices. Submissions and final papers may include appendices (following references, not counting against the 12 pages). Reviewers are not required to read appendices or consider them in their review. Authors should thus ensure that the core paper is complete and self-contained. For example, if the appendix provides details of a proof or experiment, the body should summarize the key result. For accepted papers, the shepherd will review appendices and must approve their need. Appendices may also include non-traditional material, such as videos, datasets, and code, all appropriately anonymized. NOTE: For accepted papers, the official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. (For those rare conferences whose proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library after the conference is over, the official publication date remains the first day of the conference.) Detailed submission instructions can be found here -- http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2021/submission.html Submission site: https://sigcomm2021.hotcrp.com ***Artifact Evaluation for Accepted Papers*** The authors of accepted SIGCOMM 2021 papers will be invited to submit supporting materials to the Artifact Evaluation process. Artifact Evaluation is run by a separate committee that will assess how well the submitted artifacts support the work described in the accepted papers. Participation in Artifact Evaluation is voluntary but strongly encouraged and it has no influence on the final decision regarding the papers. Papers that go through the Artifact Evaluation process successfully will receive badges printed on the papers themselves. Additional details on the Artifact Evaluation process can be found here -- https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/artifact-review-badging ***Public Summaries for Accepted Papers*** The SIGCOMM 2021 program will feature public summaries accompanying each accepted paper. In most cases, the summary will be written by the paper's shepherd and will provide an overview of the problem addressed in the paper and its solution, and highlight interesting future questions that arise. The summary may additionally explain aspects of the paper the reviewers particularly liked. Summaries will be published along with the papers in the ACM Digital Library. ***Ethical Concerns*** All papers must include, in the main body of the paper, a statement about ethical issues; papers that don't include such a statement may be rejected. This could be, if appropriate for the paper, simply the sentence "This work does not raise any ethical issues." If the work involves human subjects or potentially sensitive data (e.g., user traffic or social network information, evaluation of censorship, etc.), the paper should clearly discuss these issues, perhaps in a separate subsection. Papers must follow basic precepts of ethical research and subscribe to community norms. These include respect for privacy, secure storage of sensitive data, voluntary and informed consent if human subjects are involved or other people are placed at risk, avoiding deceptive practices when not essential, beneficence (maximizing the benefits to an individual or to society while minimizing potential harm to an individual), and risk mitigation. Authors may want to consult the Menlo Report (https://www.caida.org/publications/papers/2012/menlo_report_actual_formatte…) and the ACM ethics policy (https://www.acm.org/code-of-ethics) for further information on ethical principles, and they may find the Allman/Paxson paper in IMC 2007 (http://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2007/papers/imc80.pdf) helpful for a perspective on ethical data sharing. Many organizations have an ethics review process (sometimes called an Institutional Review Board, IRB). In some cases, research work may clearly have no human subjects, and formal institutional review may not be required. (However, a sentence in the paper stating this evaluation is still required.) In many cases, IRB involvement is appropriate. IRB approval of research is an important factor (and should be mentioned), but the program committee will independently evaluate the ethical soundness of the work just as they evaluate its technical soundness. The PC takes a broad view of what constitutes an ethical concern, and the PC chairs may reach out to authors during the review process if questions arise. You can contact the PC chairs at akella(a)cs.wisc.edu<mailto:akella@cs.wisc.edu> and nanditad(a)google.com<mailto:nanditad@google.com> ***Organizing Committee*** General Chairs * Fernando Kuipers, Delft University of Technology * Matthew Caesar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Program Committee Chairs * Aditya Akella, University of Wisconsin-Madison * Nandita Dukkipati, Google Regards, Pedro Casas and Roland van Rijswijk-Deij SIGCOMM 2021 Publicity Chairs PEDRO CASAS Senior Scientist Data Science & Artificial Intelligence Center for Digital Safety & Security AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH Giefinggasse 4 | 1210 Vienna | Austria T +43 50550-4104 | M +43 664 88256097 | F +43 50550-2813 pedro.casas(a)ait.ac.at<mailto:pedro.casas@ait.ac.at> | www.ait.ac.at<http://www.ait.ac.at/> FN: 115980 i HG Wien | UID: ATU14703506 www.ait.ac.at/Email-Disclaimer<http://www.ait.ac.at/Email-Disclaimer> ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [Special Issue CFP] [IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics] (IF:9.112) “Reliability and Security for Intelligent Wireless Sensing and Control Systems”
by Lars Wolf 24 Nov '20

24 Nov '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [Special Issue CFP] [IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics] (IF:9.112) “Reliability and Security for Intelligent Wireless Sensing and Control Systems” Datum: Tue, 24 Nov 2020 16:32:39 +0800 Von: Ye Liu (刘野) <liuyefancy(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Ye Liu (刘野) <liuyefancy(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Please accept our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. Call for Papers IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics Special Section on “Reliability and Security for Intelligent Wireless Sensing and Control Systems” http://www.ieee-ies.org/images/files/tii/ss/2020/Reliability_and_Security_f… *Theme:* Nowadays billions of smart objects are connected to the internet and interact with the cloud. Remote monitoring, control systems and data analysis becomes more intelligent with the huge amount of data been collecting and crowdsourcing. However, the great convenience raises numerous issues including reliability and security of the sensors and the control systems because these issues have not always been considered top priority. Accordingly, many new research opportunities and challenges for intelligent sensing and control have arisen. This special section aims at addressing significant issues in the field of smart sensors, communication networks, Internet of Things and wireless communications. This special section will focus on (but not limited to) the following topics: l Advanced approaches for smart sensors and data processing and storage l Security and dependability for communication networks l Remote sensing and applications for Internet of Things l Intelligent, robust and secure control of wireless communications *Timetable:* Deadline for manuscript submissions *February 25, 2021* Expected publication date (tentative) October 2021 ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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