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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] IPSN 2018 Call for Papers
by Lars Wolf 07 Sep '17

07 Sep '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] IPSN 2018 Call for Papers Datum: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 20:22:29 +0800 Von: Yuan He <heyuan(a)GREENORBS.ORG> Antwort an: Yuan He <heyuan(a)GREENORBS.ORG> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Apology for cross-posting. Please note that the IPSN deadline this year is one week earlier than its past versions. ============================================================== The 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks April 11-13, 2018 Porto, Portugal IPSN'18 is part of CPS Week 2018, co-locating with conferences HSCC, ICCPS and RTAS. http://ipsn.acm.org/2018 ============================================================== The International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) is a leading annual forum on research in networked sensing and control, broadly defined. IPSN brings together researchers from academia, industry, and government to present and discuss recent advances in both theoretical and experimental research. Its scope includes signal and image processing, information and coding theory, databases and information management, distributed algorithms, networks and protocols, wireless communications, collaborative objects and the Internet of Things, machine learning, mobile and social sensing, and embedded systems design. Of special interest are contributions at the confluence of multiple of these areas. Like prior years, IPSN'18 will continue its strong focus on algorithms, theory, and systems for information processing using networks of embedded, human-in-the-loop, or social sensors, as well as new hardware and software platforms, design methods, architectures, modelling, implementation, evaluation, deployment experiences, and tools for networked embedded sensor systems and the Internet of Things. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Sensor data storage, retrieval, processing - Streaming sensor system tasking and operation - Coding, compression, and information theory - Machine learning and deep learning on sensor data - Sensor tasking, control, and actuation - Theoretical foundation and fundamental bounds - Network and system architectures and protocols - IoT gateway platform architecture and services - Outdoor, wide-area sensing systems - Location, time, and other network services - Programming models, languages, and systems - Programming models for IoT ensembles - Embedded systems software frameworks - Modeling, simulation, and measurement tools - Operating systems and runtime environments - User interfaces for sensing apps and systems - Cloud, mobile, participatory, and social sensing - Applications in health, wellness & sustainability - Applications in smart cities and urban health - Experiences, challenges, comparisons of platforms - Discovery, coordination, and use of IoT services - Security and privacy in heterogeneous systems - IoT reliability, adaptability, and dependability - Technical assessment of emerging IoT standards - Wearable systems and data processing algorithms - Evaluation/deployment of industrial sensor systems - Sensor-enabled drone platforms and algorithms In addition to IPSN's traditional focus, IPSN 2018 will also include two new special tracks: Internet of Things (IoT), and Data and Machine Learning (DML). The IoT track will concentrate on issues related to the Internet of Things. Submission should refer to specific IoT-related issues including, but not limited to: - Programming models for IoT ensembles - Hardware, software, and system design for IoT - Discovery, coordination, and use of IoT services - IoT reliability, adaptability, and dependability - Technical assessment of emerging IoT standards The DML track will concentrate on data and machine learning related issues in the traditional IPSN topic areas above. Topics can include, but are not limited to: - Machine learning and deep learning on sensor data - New hardware and system design to enable machine learning on sensor data - Novel machine learning algorithms (e.g., new techniques for modeling, optimization, signal processing, interpretation, evaluation, etc.) - Data related issues (e.g. structure, management, database, methods, tools, analysis, etc.) - Technical assessment of emerging IoT standards The entire program committee is eligible to review any submitted paper, but to aid in reviewer selection, authors are encouraged to indicate in the submission site if their papers are related to any of the special tracks IoT or DML. All accepted papers will be presented in the main conference. Response Process: New this year, IPSN will elicit a review and response process. After the initial review, the technical program committee may request a short (1-page) response from selected papers for additional clarifications. The authors will get a short time window of roughly 24 hours to respond. Participation in the response process is not mandatory. ============================================================== Key Dates Paper Abstract Registration: September 29th, 2017 Paper Submission Deadline: October, 6th 2017 Response Period: January 8-10, 2018 Acceptance Notification: January 15, 2018 Camera-Ready Deadline: Februray 16, 2018 ============================================================== Organization Committee - General Chair: Luca Mottola (Politecnico di Milano and SICS) - Technical Committee Co-Chairs: Jie Gao (Stony Brook University) and Pei Zhang (Carnegie Mellon University) - Publicity Chair: Yuan He (Tsinghua University), Hamad Alizai (LUMS) ______________________________________________________________ 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: IEEE PerCrowd 2018 (co-located with IEEE PerCom)
by Lars Wolf 07 Sep '17

07 Sep '17

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Huber Flores <000000b88e64d002-dmarc-request(a)comsoc.org> Gesendet: 7. September 2017 10:38:11 MESZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Papers: IEEE PerCrowd 2018 (co-located with IEEE PerCom) ************************************* [Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ************************************* ______________________________________________________________________ IEEE PerCrowd 2018 – 1st International Workshop on Context-Awareness for Multi-Device Pervasive and Mobile Computing Co-located with IEEE PerCom 2018, March 19-23 March 19, 2018 Athens, Greece - http://percrowd.blogspot.com ______________________________________________________________________ - - SCOPE AND OVERVIEW __________________ - Pervasive and mobile systems are constrained by energy and performance issues when they operate in isolation. Yet, several studies have shown that smart devices are frequently co-located in proximity to at least one other device throughout the day, suggesting that devices can potentially collaborate to reduce the effort of resource intensive tasks, e.g., sensing, offloading, networking, storage, etc. However, merging the resources of multiple devices to work together is a tough challenge as it requires a common understanding of the context of each device. In addition, since smart devices function in multiple roles, understanding what really constitutes context becomes difficult as different types of contexts need to be modeled depending on the type of task. - Context information is critical in multi device setups, e.g., for the formation of collaboration groups, and for negotiating responsibilities between the devices. Any misunderstandings in context can thus be extremely counterproductive for the collaboration between devices. Consider, for example, a computational task, e.g., game puzzle, whose execution can be accelerated by dividing computations between two or more devices. To distribute the task, we first need to understand the processing capacity of each device to ensure devices with insufficient resources are not harnessed for this task as they would turn into bottleneck for execution. By detecting the context for harnessing collaborative and opportunistic resources in proximity, it is possible to reduce the cost of executing tasks in the constrained resources of smart devices, and to diffuse the presence of smart devices beyond their existing computing isolated behavior. - The goal of PerCrowd 2018 is to explore the impact of context in collaborative and opportunistic computing. More in detail, the goal of this workshop is to explore the use and effect of contexts on multi-device settings, whose computational behavior can be propagated within a community of devices for optimizing their energy and performance. - Original papers addressing theoretical, practical, and technical aspects of opportunistic and collaborative self-organization of devices are solicited. Papers describing prototype implementations and deployment of such applications and systems are particularly welcome. The submission of informative surveys of the state of the art as well as position papers on controversial issues is also encouraged. - Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Context-aware collaborative systems and applications - Resource extension of pervasive and mobile applications - Opportunistic context modeling - Pervasive computing applications harnessing multiple devices - Data-driven techniques for community formation - Self-organizing community construction and evolution - Crowdsensing and crowdsourcing models for data acquisition and fusion - Applications of crowdsensed models, e.g., incentive models, decision making models, and privacy models. - Infrastructure, architectures, and platforms for collaborative systems - Lessons and experiences of evaluating multi device context-aware systems and applications - Emerging applications for multi device environments. - - PAPER FORMAT AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ________________________________________ - Papers should contain original material and not be previously published or currently under consideration elsewhere. Manuscripts must be limited to 6 pages in IEEE 8.5x11 conference format, and formatted in accordance with the IEEE Computer Society author guidelines. - Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press in the combined PerCom 2018 Workshop Proceedings and will appear on IEEE Xplore. At least one author of each accepted paper must register and attend the workshop to present the paper. There is no workshop-only registration. An oral presentation at the workshop is strictly required. Failure to present the paper at the workshop will result in the withdrawal of the paper from the Proceedings as well as from the IEEE Xplore. - - IMPORTANT DATES _______________ - Abstract Registration: October 21, 2017 Submission Deadline: October 29, 2017 Acceptance Notification: December 23, 2017 Camera Ready due: January 12, 2018 Workshop: March 19 - - ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ____________________ - Program Committee Chairs - Huber Flores (University of Helsinki, Finland) - Pan Hui (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) - Vassilis Kostakos (The University of Melbourne, Australia) - Workshop Web Chair - Rajesh Sharma (Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, Estonia) - Publicity Chairs - Aaron Yi Ding (Technical University of Munich, Germany) - Chu Luo (The University of Melbourne, Australia) - - For more information, please check out percrowd.blogspot.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] [CFP] IEEE Access Special Section on Cyber-Physical-Social Computing and Networking
by Lars Wolf 07 Sep '17

07 Sep '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] IEEE Access Special Section on Cyber-Physical-Social Computing and Networking Datum: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 17:46:48 -0700 Von: Huan Zhou <zhouhuan117(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Huan Zhou <zhouhuan117(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------- IEEE Access Special Section on Cyber-Physical-Social Computing and Networking. *http://ieeeaccess.ieee.org/special-sections/cyber-physical-social-computing-networking/ <http://ieeeaccess.ieee.org/special-sections/cyber-physical-social-computing…>* Submission Deadline: 31 December 2017 TOPIC SUMMARY: ------------------------- Recently, due to the rapid proliferation of sensors and intelligent devices, a new revolution in computing and communication has been witnessed. The next generation of computing and networking will utilize a wide variety of resources with significant sensing capabilities. Such computing and networking will extend beyond physically linked computers to include multimodal information from biological, cognitive, semantic, and social networks. This paradigm shift will involve symbiotic networks of human (social networks), intelligent devices, and mobile portable devices (e.g., smart phones, PDAs, iPads), that will form Cyber-Physical-Social Computing and Networking (CPSCN). These devices and the network will be constantly sensing, monitoring, and interpreting the environment, which is referred to as the Internet of Things (IoT). The symbiosis of IoT and social networks will have significant implications for both the market for advanced computing and communication infrastructure and future markets – for approximately 5 billion people — that CPSCN will create. Many researchers have paid much attention to CPSCN since it still faces many challenges (e.g., architecture, security, privacy, incentive mechanism, etc.). This Special Section in IEEE Access is inviting researchers who are working on related research areas to contribute high quality articles to present the most recent advances on emerging technologies in CPSCN, applications, architectures, and big data challenges. Both original practical work and review articles are welcome. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Architectural, modeling and simulation of CPSCN - Incentives mechanism design for CPSCN - Routing protocol, data dissemination and offloading algorithms design for CPSCN - Security, privacy and trust for CPSCN - Community detection and network evolution analysis for CPSCN - Mobile social sensing for CPSCN - Social network analysis and social influence analysis for CPSCN - Big Data mining and analytics for CPSCN - Cloud computing and fog computing for CPSCN - Machine learning models and methods for CPSCN - Smart worlds, smart cities and smart medicines for CPSCN - Green computing and sustainable computing for CPSCN - Resource and service management, scheduling, and migration for CPSCN - New applications on CPSCN *Associate Editor:* Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada *Guest Editors:* Huan Zhou, China Three Gorges University, China Qingchen Zhang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Chunsheng Zhu, University of British Columbia, Canada Houcine Hassan, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain Vincenzo Piuri, Universita’ degli Studi di Milano, Italy Victor C. M. Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: ------------------------------------- Paper submission: Contact Associate Editor and submit manuscript to: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ieee-access For inquiries regarding this Special Section, please contact: ltyang(a)gmail.com *===============* 周欢湖北省“楚天学者”/校聘教授/硕士生导师三峡大学计算机与信息学院湖北省宜昌市大学路8号，443002 *===============* Huan Zhou, PH.D, Chutian Scholar, School Hired Professor College of Computer and Information Technology China Three Gorges University Daxue Road 8#, Yichang, P.R.China, 443002 Tel:+86 13972554059 Email: zhouhuan117(a)gmail.com; hzhou(a)ece.ubc.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: ACM SenSys 2017: Doctoral Colloquium
by Lars Wolf 06 Sep '17

06 Sep '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: ACM SenSys 2017: Doctoral Colloquium Datum: Tue, 5 Sep 2017 18:30:03 +0200 Von: Carlo Alberto Boano <cboano(a)tugraz.at> Antwort an: iti.announcement(a)mlist.tugraz.at An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de 15th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2017) November 5-8, 2017 Delft, The Netherlands http://sensys.acm.org/2017/ *CALL FOR DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM ABSTRACTS* The Doctoral Colloquium of SenSys 2017 seeks to provide a friendly, supportive, and constructive environment where PhD students can present their research in progress for an open discussion guided by a panel of experienced researchers. The Doctoral Colloquium will be structured as a series of short presentations by the students followed by individual discussions, feedback, and advice. Students with the most inspiring topics will also be invited to present a poster during the main conference to leverage further interaction with SenSys attendees. Current PhD students in the early stages of their career are encouraged to submit a 2-pages research summary describing the work in progress and including a 100-word abstract. Things to consider for inclusion in the research summary might be: the expected contribution to the field; the original idea or thesis statement; the problem domain and the specific problem addressed; a brief overview of related work; the methodological approach; research carried out and results so far. The abstract shall also include a one-paragraph biography of the student, including the names and affiliations of the research advisor(s), and expected date of dissertation submission.The student should be the sole author, although contributions of the advisor and others should be acknowledged. The Doctoral Colloquium committee will review submissions to ensure quality, relevance, and potential benefit from attendance. Authors of accepted submissions are expected to participate in person to the Doctoral Colloquium. There will be no separate registration fee for the Doctoral Colloquium. Submissions Research summaries will be reviewed by the chairs and panel members. If the work is accepted, a student may be expected to make clarifications and improvements to the research summary by the camera-ready deadline. Submissions must be received no later than September 29th via web submission form <https://sensys2017.es.ewi.tudelft.nl/sensys/doctoral/>. Submissions must be in PDF format, be written in English, of no more than two pages in length (all inclusive), and adhere to the Sensys formatting styles found here <http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template>.The abstract should include the author’s name, affiliation, and email address. Important Dates Submission Deadline: September 29th, 2017 Notification of Acceptance: October 6th, 2017 Camera-Ready: October 13th, 2017 Colloquium: November 5th, 2017 Doctoral Colloquium Panelists Hae Young Noh (Carnegie Mellon University, US) Kamin Whitehouse (University of Virginia, US) Koen Langendoen (Delft University of Technology, NL) Rasit Eskicioglu (University of Manitoba, CA) Doctoral Colloquium Chairs Marco Cattani (Graz University of Technology, AT) Xiaofan (Fred) Jiang (Columbia University, USA) -- ................................................. Ass.Prof. Boano Carlo Alberto Graz University of Technology Institute for Technical Informatics Inffeldgasse 16, Room: IE01144 / E.2.12 A-8010 Graz, Austria Tel: +43 (0) 316 873-6413 Fax: +43 (0) 316 / 873 - 6903 E-Mail: cboano(a)tugraz.at http://www.carloalbertoboano.com .................................................

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ACM/IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI 2018) Call for Papers
by Lars Wolf 05 Sep '17

05 Sep '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ACM/IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI 2018) Call for Papers Datum: Tue, 5 Sep 2017 14:24:02 +0000 Von: Tan Rui (Asst Prof) <tanrui(a)NTU.EDU.SG> Antwort an: Tan Rui (Asst Prof) <tanrui(a)NTU.EDU.SG> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ================================================================================ Call for Papers ACM/IEEE IoTDI 2018 http://conferences.computer.org/IoTDI/ Orlando, Florida, U.S.A. ================================================================================ Important (Preliminary) Dates Abstracts due: September 29th, 2017 Full papers due: October 6th, 2017 Author notification: January 15th, 2018 The ACM/IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI) is a premier venue on IoT. In 2018, IoTDI will be held for the third time and topics span the entire ecosystem revolving around IoT, such as cloud and edge computing, data analytics, sensor networks, mobile devices, Internet architecture, middleware and numerous IoT applications. To reflect the interconnection of IoT with both cloud computing and cyber-physical systems, IoTDI is co-located in even years with IEEE IC2E and in odd years with CPS Week. Plan to submit your best papers to ACM/IEEE IoTDI 2018 (deadline 2017/10/6) and see you in Orlando, Florida, in April 2018, where IoTDI will be co-located with IEEE IC2E. A confluence of technological advances marks the advent of a new era. World data volume is growing at an unprecedented pace, much of it from embedded devices. Smart cities are expected to grow, fed by millions of data points from multitudes of human and physical sources. Cyber-attacks grow more nefarious, bringing down physical systems. Social networks are becoming ubiquitous, offering information on physical things. The separation between cyber, physical, and social systems is blurring. Collectively, these developments lead to the emergence of a new field, where the networking and physical realms meet. It is the field of the Internet of Things (IoT). This conference is an interdisciplinary forum to discuss challenges, technologies, and emerging directions in system design and implementation that pertain to this Internet of Things. This conference invites researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and government, and accepts original, previously unpublished work on a range of topics related to the Internet of Things. * Analytic foundations and theory of the Internet of Things * Reliability, security, timeliness, and robustness in IoT systems * Novel protocols and network abstractions * Data streaming architectures * IoT-motivated cyber-physical and Industrial Internet systems * Novel quality requirements and their enforcement mechanisms * Cloud back-ends and resource management for IoT applications * Personal, wearable, and other embedded networked front-ends * Social computing and human-in-the-loop issues * Applications and drivers for the Internet of Things * Industrial deployment experiences, case studies, and lessons learned * Evaluation and testbeds General Chair * Chenyang Lu (Washington University in St. Louis) Program Co-Chairs * Olaf Landsiedel (Chalmers University of Technology) * Klara Nahrstedt (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Steering Committee Co-Chairs * Tarek Abdelzaher (Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) * Hui Lei (IBM Watson Health Cloud) Finance Chair * Tarek Abdelzaher (Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Publicity Co-Chairs * Simon Duquennoy (Swedish Inst. of Computer Science) * Mo Sha (Binghamton University) * Rui Tan (Nanyang Technological University) Poster Chair * Abusayeed Saifullah (Wayne State University) Demo Chair * Carlo Alberto Boano (Graz University of Technology) Web Chair * Chao Wang (Washington University in St. Louis) -- Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of the call -- ________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY: This email is intended solely for the person(s) named and may be confidential and/or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it, notify us and do not copy, use, or disclose its contents. Towards a sustainable earth: Print only when necessary. Thank you. ______________________________________________________________ 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 2018] CALL FOR COMPETITORS
by Lars Wolf 29 Aug '17

29 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [EWSN 2018] CALL FOR COMPETITORS Datum: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 00:38:36 -0400 Von: Zhi Sun <zhisun(a)BUFFALO.EDU> Antwort an: Zhi Sun <zhisun(a)BUFFALO.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG --------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Competitors 3rd Dependability Competition at the Intl. Conf. on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN) February 14-16, 2018 - Madrid, Spain https://ewsn2018.networks.imdea.org/call-for-competitors.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- Following the success of the 2016 and 2017 editions, the Intl. Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN) will host also this year a competition to compare the performance of WSN and IoT communication protocols in harsh RF environments. FORMAT: This year's dependability competition will have a new format compared to the past two editions, the most prominent changes being that it will take place remotely over a longer time window, and that it will involve the reporting of multiple events from several nodes. Interested participants should first submit an abstract describing their approach by the competition entry deadline. Accepted contestants will obtain the credentials to remotely access the competition infrastructure and enter the preparation phase, after which each team needs to provide one binary that will be used for the final evaluation. A poster session entirely dedicated to the dependability competition will take place during the evening of the first conference day. All competing teams must present their solution in the poster session and will have the possibility to engage in lively discussions with the other conference attendees. The winners of the competition will be awarded during a dedicated plenary session on the second conference day and will hold a 10-minutes talk preseting their solution, followed by a short discussion. COMPETITION SCENARIO AND EVALUATION PROCEDURE: The competition scenario emulates the operation of a sensor and actuator network monitoring discrete events in an industrial setting where several co-existing wireless devices are crowding the RF spectrum. A complete description of the competition scenario and evaluation procedure can be found at: https://ewsn2018.networks.imdea.org/call-for-competitors.html ELIGIBILITY Both academia and industry submissions are encouraged. All wireless communication protocols used in low-power wireless sensor networks are welcome, and there is no restriction on the operating system used to program the sensor nodes. The competition will take place if at least 5 teams respond to this preliminary call for competitors. Depending on the nature and number of submissions, multiple categories may be defined. The winning teams in each category will receive cash awards and present their approach at EWSN in a 10-minutes plenary talk. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Interested participants should first submit a two-page abstract describing their approach by the competition entry deadline, following the formatting requirements described on the competition Webpage. The abstracts will be used to pre-select the participants to the competition. Accepted contestants will have the chance to edit their abstract and submit a camera-ready version by the end of the competition's preparation phase. Accepted abstracts will appear in the ACM Digital Library, unless authors explicitly mark their submission as confidential. IMPORTANT DATES: Competition entry deadline (Abtract submission): Oct. 11, 2017 Notification of acceptance: Oct. 18, 2017 Camera-ready abstract submission: Jan. 7, 2018 Competition's preparation phase: From mid-Nov. 2017 until Jan. 7, 2018 Submission of final software: Jan. 7, 2018 Competition's evaluation phase: From mid-Jan. until Feb. 7, 2018 Competition panel and poster session: Feb. 14, 2018 Competition awards and winners' presentations: Feb. 15, 2018 ORGANIZERS: Carlo Alberto Boano, TU Graz Markus Schuss, TU Graz --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] [RED-IoT 2018] CALL FOR PAPERS
by Lars Wolf 29 Aug '17

29 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [RED-IoT 2018] CALL FOR PAPERS Datum: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 00:18:57 -0400 Von: Zhi Sun <zhisun(a)BUFFALO.EDU> Antwort an: Zhi Sun <zhisun(a)BUFFALO.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Call for Papers – RED-IoT 2018 “2nd Workshop on Recent advances in secure management of data and resources in the IoT” In-conjunction with EWSN 2018 Proceedings appear in ACM Digital Library February 14-16, 2018 in Madrid, Spain https://ewsn2018.networks.imdea.org/red-iot.html <https://ewsn2018.networks.imdea.org/red-iot.html> Keynote speech: Dr. Shahid Raza, director of the security lab at SICS, Sweden. Recent advances in the area of Internet-Connected Objects have revolutionized the everyday lives of people and the industrial world. The Internet of Things (IoT) has infused immense doses of "intelligence" in the physical world making the transition towards digitising everything. Nowadays, most devices around us are either connected to the IoT or are about to be. Physical objects are becoming intelligent through connected devices that are either attached to them or monitoring/controlling them. At a larger scale, cities are becoming smarter, embracing a plethora of technologies to enhance and improve the quality of everyday living. The evolution of traditional wireless sensor networks towards the IoT has introduced numerous opportunities for advanced and promising applications for citizens and industries. Many companies have recently launched "smart products" into the market, in every domain: home, automotive, agriculture, water, air, environment, etc. Most of these products are quite innovative and can be useful for improving and simplifying the lives of citizens, assisting them to their daily activities or contributing also to improving the municipal services and improving the quality of the environment we live. However, most of these products fail to address even simple challenges for security and privacy: they do not protect the data they gather and transmit, they do not use encrypted connections, they use simplistic credentials, etc. The IoT, though, raises significant challenges regarding security, and privacy. Having large numbers of connected devices deployed everywhere around us, e.g. in homes, offices, buses, on the street, monitoring the everyday activities of citizens raises issues regarding user privacy. Privacy issues exist not only when users are actively involved in IoT applications e.g. when sending data from their mobile phones, but also when they are subjects of monitoring by other devices, e.g. when they are being monitored by cameras on the streets. Devices that offer actuation capabilities, e.g. traffic lights, doors, windows, alarms and vehicles allow cyber-attacks to extend effects to the real world. Current centralized IoT solutions raise also security and privacy issues due to the single central point of gathering all data and mechanisms. To address this, lately, there is a shift of interest towards distributed or decentralized security solutions. This workshop builds on the success of the first RED-IoT workshop collocated with the IEEE CAMAD 2014 conference in Athens, Greece, December 2014. It aims to bring together experts from academia and industry that are working in cross-layer issues in the areas of security, and privacy in the IoT. The goal is to present recent results of the research community, the industry and standardisation bodies and exchange ideas for joint research activities in the future. The workshop welcomes original submissions in the following topic areas: • Security and privacy by design architectures for IoT • Decentralized and distributed security architectures • Blockchain in the IoT • GDPR in the IoT • Intelligent, secure data processing, mining, fusion, storage, and management, context awareness, ambient intelligence • Secure wireless channel and traffic models • Physical layer security in the IoT • Secure spectrum management solutions for wireless IoT communications • Security of sensors and actuators • Security and privacy in IoT applications • Embedded security and privacy in IoT devices • Forensics for IoT • Privacy and anonymization techniques in IoT • Trust management IoT architectures • Lightweight security solutions • On-device authentication, authorization and access control in IoT • Big data security for IoT • Detection and prevention of IoT-based security attacks • Ethics and legal considerations in IoT. Submission Instructions and Formatting Requirements The papers will be published as part of the conference proceedings and will appear in the ACM Digital Library. We encourage submissions from academia and industry alike. Full papers can have a maximum length of 6 pages (two column format). The workshop also accepts short position papers of a maximum length of two pages in the same format. Pages must have 8.5" x 11" (letter) two-column format, using 10-point type on 11-point leading, with a maximum text block of 7" wide x 9" deep with an intercolumn spacing of .25". The page limits include figures, tables, and references. Authors may use the LaTex template ewsn-workshops.tex provided here. All submitted papers will be judged through single-blind reviewing. Please include author names and affiliations along with the title. Submission system. Submissions will be handled through EasyChair here. Important Dates Paper registration: September 23, 2017 Paper submissions: September 30, 2017 Notification: December 1, 2017 Camera-ready: December 20, 2017 Workshop date: February 14, 2018 Organisation Elias Tragos, Insight Centre for Data Analytics, NUI Galway, Ireland George Oikonomou, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Bristol, UK TPC Vangelis Angelakis, Linköping University, Sweden Budi Arief, University of Kent, UK Simon Duquennoy, RISE SICS, Sweden Xenofon Fafoutis, University of Bristol, UK Alexandros Fragkiadakis, FORTH-ICS, Greece Julio Hernandez-Castro, University of Kent, UK Aqeel Kazmi, NUI Galway, Ireland Rémy Leone, INRIA, France George Moldovan, Siemens, Romania Henrich Pöhls, University of Passau, Germany James Pope, University of Bristol, UK Dr Martin Serrano, NUI Galway, Ireland Shahid Raza, RISE SICS, Sweden Nicolas Tsiftes, RISE SICS, Sweden Pete Woznowski, University of Bristol, UK ______________________________________________________________ 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: IEEE PerCrowd 2018 (co-located with IEEE PerCom)
by Lars Wolf 26 Aug '17

26 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Papers: IEEE PerCrowd 2018 (co-located with IEEE PerCom) Datum: Sat, 26 Aug 2017 07:20:57 +0000 Von: Huber Flores <000000b88e64d002-dmarc-request(a)comsoc.org> Antwort an: Huber Flores <huberflo(a)CS.HELSINKI.FI> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ************************************* [Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ************************************* ______________________________________________________________________ IEEE PerCrowd 2018 – 1st International Workshop on Context-Awareness for Multi-Device Pervasive and Mobile Computing Co-located with IEEE PerCom 2018, March 19-23 March 19, 2018 Athens, Greece - http://percrowd.blogspot.com ______________________________________________________________________ - - SCOPE AND OVERVIEW __________________ - Pervasive and mobile systems are constrained by energy and performance issues when they operate in isolation. Yet, several studies have shown that smart devices are frequently co-located in proximity to at least one other device throughout the day, suggesting that devices can potentially collaborate to reduce the effort of resource intensive tasks, e.g., sensing, offloading, networking, storage, etc. However, merging the resources of multiple devices to work together is a tough challenge as it requires a common understanding of the context of each device. In addition, since smart devices function in multiple roles, understanding what really constitutes context becomes difficult as different types of contexts need to be modeled depending on the type of task. - Context information is critical in multi device setups, e.g., for the formation of collaboration groups, and for negotiating responsibilities between the devices. Any misunderstandings in context can thus be extremely counterproductive for the collaboration between devices. Consider, for example, a computational task, e.g., game puzzle, whose execution can be accelerated by dividing computations between two or more devices. To distribute the task, we first need to understand the processing capacity of each device to ensure devices with insufficient resources are not harnessed for this task as they would turn into bottleneck for execution. By detecting the context for harnessing collaborative and opportunistic resources in proximity, it is possible to reduce the cost of executing tasks in the constrained resources of smart devices, and to diffuse the presence of smart devices beyond their existing computing isolated behavior. - The goal of PerCrowd 2018 is to explore the impact of context in collaborative and opportunistic computing. More in detail, the goal of this workshop is to explore the use and effect of contexts on multi-device settings, whose computational behavior can be propagated within a community of devices for optimizing their energy and performance. - Original papers addressing theoretical, practical, and technical aspects of opportunistic and collaborative self-organization of devices are solicited. Papers describing prototype implementations and deployment of such applications and systems are particularly welcome. The submission of informative surveys of the state of the art as well as position papers on controversial issues is also encouraged. - Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Context-aware collaborative systems and applications - Resource extension of pervasive and mobile applications - Opportunistic context modeling - Pervasive computing applications harnessing multiple devices - Data-driven techniques for community formation - Self-organizing community construction and evolution - Crowdsensing and crowdsourcing models for data acquisition and fusion - Applications of crowdsensed models, e.g., incentive models, decision making models, and privacy models. - Infrastructure, architectures, and platforms for collaborative systems - Lessons and experiences of evaluating multi device context-aware systems and applications - Emerging applications for multi device environments. - - PAPER FORMAT AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ________________________________________ - Papers should contain original material and not be previously published or currently under consideration elsewhere. Manuscripts must be limited to 6 pages in IEEE 8.5x11 conference format, and formatted in accordance with the IEEE Computer Society author guidelines. - Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press in the combined PerCom 2018 Workshop Proceedings and will appear on IEEE Xplore. At least one author of each accepted paper must register and attend the workshop to present the paper. There is no workshop-only registration. An oral presentation at the workshop is strictly required. Failure to present the paper at the workshop will result in the withdrawal of the paper from the Proceedings as well as from the IEEE Xplore. - - IMPORTANT DATES _______________ - Abstract Registration: October 21, 2017 Submission Deadline: October 29, 2017 Acceptance Notification: December 23, 2017 Camera Ready due: January 12, 2018 Workshop: March 19 - - ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ____________________ - Program Committee Chairs - Huber Flores (University of Helsinki, Finland) - Pan Hui (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) - Vassilis Kostakos (The University of Melbourne, Australia) - Workshop Web Chair - Rajesh Sharma (Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, Estonia) - Publicity Chairs - Aaron Yi Ding (Technical University of Munich, Germany) - Chu Luo (The University of Melbourne, Australia) - - For more information, please check out percrowd.blogspot.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] CfP: IEEE PerCom
by Lars Wolf 25 Aug '17

25 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CfP: IEEE PerCom Datum: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 08:51:41 +0000 Von: Sarah Clinch <sarah.clinch(a)MANCHESTER.AC.UK> Antwort an: Sarah Clinch <sarah.clinch(a)MANCHESTER.AC.UK> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG =============================================================================== The Sixteenth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications PerCom 2018 (http://www.percom.org/) =============================================================================== Athens, Greece, March 19-23, 2018<http://airmail.calendar/2018-03-19%2012:00:00%20GMT> =============================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE PerCom, now in its sixteenth year, is established as the premier annual scholarly venue in the areas of pervasive computing and communications. Pervasive computing and communications have evolved into highly active areas of research; they have found their way into many current commercial systems due to the tremendous advances in a broad spectrum of technologies and topics including wireless networking, mobile and distributed computing, sensor systems, ambient intelligence, and smart devices. PerCom 2018 will be held in Athens, the capital city of Greece and one of the most historic cities in Europe. PerCom 2018 will provide a leading edge scholarly forum for researchers, engineers, and students alike to share their state-of-the art research and developmental work in the broad areas of pervasive computing and communications. The conference will feature a diverse mixture of interactive forums: core technical sessions of high-quality cutting-edge research articles; targeted workshops on exciting topics; live demonstrations of pervasive computing in action; insightful keynote speeches; panel discussions from domain experts; and posters of emerging ideas. Research contributions are solicited in all areas pertinent to pervasive computing and communications, including: * Advances in pervasive systems and infrastructures: middleware systems and services; large-scale data management for pervasive computing; clouds, cloudlets, and fog computing; integrations of smartphones in pervasive experiences; applications of device-to-device coordination. * Theories, models, and algorithms: context modeling and reasoning; adaptive and context-aware computing; activity recognition; programing paradigms; applied machine learning; cognitive computing techniques. * Domain-specific challenges and novel applications: urban/mobile crowdsensing & intelligence; pervasive technologies for healthcare; cyber-physical pervasive computing; innovative pervasive computing applications. * Intersections of pervasive computing with: social networks; opportunistic networks; Internet of things; sensor networks; RFID systems; big data. * New techniques for user-level concerns : participatory and social sensing; trust, security, and privacy; user interface, interaction, and persuasion; social networking and pervasive computing. * Technological innovations: architectures, protocols, and technologies for pervasive communications; mobile and wearable computing systems and services; smart devices and intelligent environments; positioning and tracking technologies. Contributions can be analytical, empirical, technological, methodological, or a combination of these. Papers reporting strong systems engineering contributions backed by solid and appropriate evaluations are strongly encouraged. The impact of the contributions should be demonstrated in the context of pervasive computing and communications. Papers applying known techniques from other fields must clearly demonstrate substantial novelty or pervasive computing impact. ================================= Workshops and Affiliated Events ================================= A number of workshops will be held in conjunction with the main conference. Workshop papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE digital libraries (Xplore) along with papers from the main conference. As in the past, PerCom 2018 will also feature a PhD Forum, Work-in-Progress Posters, and Live Demonstrations. Please visit the conference website for details. ================================= Best paper award ================================= The best paper will receive the prestigious Mark Weiser Best Paper Award. Papers of particular merit will be considered for a special issue of the Elsevier journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC). ================================= Important Dates ================================= Paper Registration: September 15, 2017<http://airmail.calendar/2017-09-15%2012:00:00%20BST> Paper submission: September 22, 2017<http://airmail.calendar/2017-09-22%2012:00:00%20BST> Notification: December 12, 2017<http://airmail.calendar/2017-12-12%2012:00:00%20GMT> Camera Ready: January 12, 2018<http://airmail.calendar/2018-01-12%2012:00:00%20GMT> ================================= Submission Guidelines ================================= Submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication. Also, they must show a significant relevance to pervasive computing and communications. Guidelines for preparing and submitting the manuscript will be made available on the conference website. Submitted papers will undergo a rigorous review process handled by the Technical Program Committee. ================================= Organizing Committee ================================= General Co-Chairs George Roussos, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK Achilles Kameas, Hellenic Open University, Greece Program Chair Gergely Záruba, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Vice Program Co-Chairs Brent Lagesse, University of Washington, Bothell, USA Flora Salim, RMIT University, Australia Gregor Schiele, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany Workshops Co-Chairs Petteri Nurmi, University of Helsinki, Finland Daniele Riboni, University of Cagliari, Italy ================================= Additional Information ================================= Web: www.percom.org<http://www.percom.org/>(http://www.percom.org/) Email (TPC Chair): percom2018(a)gmail.com<mailto:percom2018@gmail.com>(mailto:percom2018@gmail.com) Social Media: www.facebook.com/percom<http://www.facebook.com/percom>(http://www.facebook.com/percom) twitter.com/ieeepercom<http://twitter.com/ieeepercom>(http://twitter.com/ieeepercom) ______________________________________________________________ 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: [ACM BuildSys 2017] Call for Poster/Demo (Due: Sep 7)
by Lars Wolf 24 Aug '17

24 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [ACM BuildSys 2017] Call for Poster/Demo (Due: Sep 7) Datum: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 01:24:03 +0000 Von: Polly Huang <pollyhuang(a)ntu.edu.tw> An: Polly Huang <pollyhuang(a)ntu.edu.tw> -- Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of the call -- BuildSys 2017 welcomes exciting demonstrations of novel technologies, applications, and hardware for the built environment as well as posters showing promising early work. We seek participation from both industry and academia for demonstrations and posters. Selection of demonstration and posters will be based on a short abstract, evaluated based on technical merit and innovation as well as the potential to stimulate interesting discussions and exchange of ideas at the conference. The demo and poster session is a great forum to share your early stage work to the broader audience. Accepted abstracts will appear in the regular conference proceedings. At least one author of every accepted demonstration or poster abstract is required to register and attend the conference. November 8-9, 2017 Delft, The Netherlands | co-located with ACM SenSys 2017 http://buildsys.acm.org/2017/demos/ <http://buildsys.acm.org/2017/demos/> Important dates _Poster and Demo abstract submission deadline: September 7, 2017, AOE_ Notification of acceptance: September 15, 2017 Camera ready: September 21, 2017 Submission site: https://buildsys17.hotcrp.com/ <https://buildsys17.hotcrp.com/> Poster abstract Poster abstracts should report on research work where at least some preliminary results are available, but they need not necessarily describe completed work. An easel will be provided for all posters. All poster abstract submissions must strictly adhere to the formatting guidelines specified below. Demo abstract Demo abstracts should describe both the technology being showcased as well as the user experience of the demo. Tables, power, and wireless connectivity will be provided. If a demo requires additional special arrangements, please describe them clearly in your submission using a separate third page (not part of the technical content of the abstract). All demo abstract submissions must strictly adhere to the formatting guidelines specified below. The authors of the accepted demos will be invited to submit an optional short video together with the camera-ready version of the abstract. Submission guidelines and template: Abstract submissions should be no more than 2 pages and must follow a double column format. All figures, appendices, and references must fit within this limit. Paper reviewing is single-blind and submissions should list author names on the front page. If a demonstration requires special arrangements, please describe them clearly in your submission using a separate third page. (This third page is not part of the technical content of the abstract and can be formatted at discretion of the authors). Follow formatting guidelines and templates provided on the BuildSys ’17 Posters and Demo page. Submission link: Poster and demo abstracts must be submitted through HotCRP here. <https://buildsys17.hotcrp.com/> Topics of Interest We are particularly interested in, but not limited to, contributions related to the following topics: * Sensing, actuation and management of electrical loads in residential, commercial and industrial settings; * Novel sensor methodologies, sensor networks and applications that enhance energy efficiency, energy reliability, durability and occupant comfort; * Systems that integrate infrastructure with the emerging smart grid to provide demand response and ancillary services and/or manage utility costs; * Modeling, simulation, optimization, and control of heating, cooling, lighting, ventilation, water usage and other energy flows in built environments; * Distributed generation, alternative energy, renewable sources, and energy storage in buildings; * Emerging communication standards for data collection, energy control, or interoperation of disparate devices or systems; * Systems that can influence occupant behavior towards a more parsimonious usage of electricity, gas, heating, water, etc.; * Localization and contextual computing for increased human-infrastructure interactions; * Software architectures and middleware to aid in programming smart built environments and smart cities; * Safety, security and privacy issues and mechanisms to address them in the context of a sensed and actuated built environments; * Intercoupling and interdependencies of systems-of-systems for smart infrastructure.

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Papers: ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) 2018
by Lars Wolf 22 Aug '17

22 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Papers: ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) 2018 Datum: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 13:25:13 +0500 Von: Muhammad Hamad Alizai <hamad.alizai(a)LUMS.EDU.PK> Antwort an: Muhammad Hamad Alizai <hamad.alizai(a)LUMS.EDU.PK> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG The 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks April 11-13, 2018 Porto, Portugal IPSN'18 is part of CPS Week 2018, co-locating with conferences HSCC, ICCPS and RTAS. http://ipsn.acm.org/2018 ==================================================================================== The International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) is a leading annual forum on research in networked sensing and control, broadly defined. IPSN brings together researchers from academia, industry, and government to present and discuss recent advances in both theoretical and experimental research. Its scope includes signal and image processing, information and coding theory, databases and information management, distributed algorithms, networks and protocols, wireless communications, collaborative objects and the Internet of Things, machine learning, mobile and social sensing, and embedded systems design. Of special interest are contributions at the confluence of multiple of these areas. Like prior years, IPSN'18 will continue its strong focus on algorithms, theory, and systems for information processing using networks of embedded, human-in-the-loop, or social sensors, as well as new hardware and software platforms, design methods, architectures, modelling, implementation, evaluation, deployment experiences, and tools for networked embedded sensor systems and the Internet of Things. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Sensor data storage, retrieval, processing - Streaming sensor system tasking and operation - Coding, compression, and information theory - Machine learning and deep learning on sensor data - Sensor tasking, control, and actuation - Theoretical foundation and fundamental bounds - Network and system architectures and protocols - IoT gateway platform architecture and services - Outdoor, wide-area sensing systems - Location, time, and other network services - Programming models, languages, and systems - Programming models for IoT ensembles - Embedded systems software frameworks - Modeling, simulation, and measurement tools - Operating systems and runtime environments - User interfaces for sensing apps and systems - Cloud, mobile, participatory, and social sensing - Applications in health, wellness & sustainability - Applications in smart cities and urban health - Experiences, challenges, comparisons of platforms - Discovery, coordination, and use of IoT services - Security and privacy in heterogeneous systems - IoT reliability, adaptability, and dependability - Technical assessment of emerging IoT standards - Wearable systems and data processing algorithms - Evaluation/deployment of industrial sensor systems - Sensor-enabled drone platforms and algorithms In addition to IPSN's traditional focus, IPSN 2018 will also include two new special tracks: Internet of Things (IoT), and Data and Machine Learning (DML). The IoT track will concentrate on issues related to the Internet of Things. Submission should refer to specific IoT-related issues including, but not limited to: - Programming models for IoT ensembles - Hardware, software, and system design for IoT - Discovery, coordination, and use of IoT services - IoT reliability, adaptability, and dependability - Technical assessment of emerging IoT standards The DML track will concentrate on data and machine learning related issues in the traditional IPSN topic areas above. Topics can include, but are not limited to: - Machine learning and deep learning on sensor data - New hardware and system design to enable machine learning on sensor data - Novel machine learning algorithms (e.g., new techniques for modeling, optimization, signal processing, interpretation, evaluation, etc.) - Data related issues (e.g. structure, management, database, methods, tools, analysis, etc.) - Technical assessment of emerging IoT standards The entire program committee is eligible to review any submitted paper, but to aid in reviewer selection, authors are encouraged to indicate in the submission site if their papers are related to any of the special tracks IoT or DML. All accepted papers will be presented in the main conference. Response Process: New this year, IPSN will elicit a review and response process. After the initial review, the technical program committee may request a short (1-page) response from selected papers for additional clarifications. The authors will get a short time window of roughly 24 hours to respond. Participation in the response process is not mandatory. ==================================================================================== Key Dates Paper Abstract Registration: September 29th, 2017 Paper Submission Deadline (firm): October, 6th 2017 Response Period: January 8-10, 2018 Acceptance Notification: January 15, 2018 Camera-Ready Deadline: February 16, 2018 ==================================================================================== Organization Committee - General Chair: Luca Mottola (Politecnico di Milano and SICS) - Technical Committee Co-Chairs: Jie Gao (Stony Brook University) and Pei Zhang (Carnegie Mellon University) - Publicity Chair: Yuan He (Tsinghua University), Hamad Alizai (LUMS) -- Muhammad Hamad Alizai (PhD) hamad.alizai(a)lums.edu.pk Assistant Professor of Computer Science, LUMS http://web.lums.edu.pk/~alizai/ ______________________________________________________________ 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: 1st International Workshop on, Time Critical Cyber Physical Systems (TC-CPS 2018)
by Lars Wolf 20 Aug '17

20 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP: 1st International Workshop on,Time Critical Cyber Physical Systems (TC-CPS 2018) Datum: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 14:12:42 +0200 Von: Carlo Alberto Boano <cboano(a)tugraz.at> Antwort an: iti.announcement(a)mlist.tugraz.at An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers 1st International Workshop on Time Critical Cyber Physical Systems (TC-CPS 2018) Co-located with IEEE WCNC 2018, Barcelona, Spain Website: www.es.mdh.se/TC-CPS2018 --------------------------------------------------------------------- As digital computing and communication become faster, cheaper and less power consuming, these capabilities areincreasingly embedded in many objects and structures in the physical environment. Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are co-engineered interacting networks of physical and computational components. These systems will provide the foundation of our critical infrastructure, form the basis of emerging and future smart services, and improve our quality of life in many areas. For instance, a multitude of CPS devices and applications exist in industrial, transportation, medical, home-security, building automation, emergency management, power, and many other systems, which serve critical functions in our lives. However, there are several issues and challenges remain open in this field, such as robust and real-time communication, network heterogeneity, data security and privacy, safety, etc. This Workshop seeks novel submissions describing practical and theoretical solutions to challenges facing CPS and Internet of Things. Submissions may represent any application area for CPS. TOPICS OF INTEREST: - Systems, Technology, and Foundations of CPS - Emerging applications and use cases in CPS - Cloud, Middleware, and Networks for CPS - Communication and networking for CPS - Cellular systems (e.g. 4G, 5G) for CPS - MAC and network layer protocol design for CPS - D2D, and machine type communications - Energy efficient communications for the CPS - Vehicular communication design - Coexistence of wireless technologies in CPS - SDR, SDN and NFV as enabling technologies for CPS - Data security and privacy for CPS - Safety and security co-engineering - Dependability in CPS - Modeling, simulation, and visualization of CPS - Big data modeling and analytics for CPS - Control and Optimization of CPS - Real-time systems for CPS IMPORTANT DATES: - Submission Deadline: October 15, 2017 - Notifications: December 15, 2017 - Camera-ready Deadline: January 12, 2018 - Workshop: April 15, 2018 ORGANIZERS: - Ali Balador, RISE SICS Västerås & Mälardalen University, Sweden - Hossein Fotouhi, Mälardalen University, Sweden --------------------------------------------------------------------- Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of the call --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ................................................. Ass.Prof. Boano Carlo Alberto Graz University of Technology Institute for Technical Informatics Inffeldgasse 16, Room: IE01144 / E.2.12 A-8010 Graz, Austria Tel: +43 (0) 316 873-6413 Fax: +43 (0) 316 / 873 - 6903 E-Mail: cboano(a)tugraz.at http://www.carloalbertoboano.com .................................................

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] ACM HotMobile 2018
by Lars Wolf 17 Aug '17

17 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] ACM HotMobile 2018 Datum: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 09:08:17 +0900 Von: JeongGil (John) Ko <jeonggil.ko(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: JeongGil (John) Ko <jeonggil.ko(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Call for Papers The 19th Annual International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (ACM HotMobile 2018) Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE 13-14 February, 2018 Tempe, Arizona, USA ACM HotMobile 2018, the Nineteenth 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. We solicit submissions of papers that (1) focus primarily on applications and systems and (2) propose new directions of research, advocate non-traditional approaches to old (or new) ideas, or generate controversy and discussion. We especially encourage papers that identify fundamental open questions, advocate a new approach, offer a constructive critique of the state-of-the-art, debunk existing assumptions, report unexpected early results, report on promising but unproven ideas, or propose new evaluation methods. Novel ideas need not be supported by full evaluations; well-reasoned arguments or preliminary evaluations suffice. The program committee will explicitly favor early work and papers likely to stimulate reflection and discussion over a "6-page conference paper". We take a broad view of Mobile Systems research. This includes: Novel applications, environments, and devices supporting mobility Operating system and distributed system support for mobile computing Wearable computing, internet of things, sensing, and context-awareness HCI issues related to mobile computing Security and privacy of mobile computing Management, configuration, and deployment of systems supporting mobility Wireless technology, as it pertains to mobile systems and applications. The deadline for submissions is October 12, 2017, 11:59pm EST. Acceptance notification will go out on December 15, 2017. Presenting at HotMobile is a good way to get early feedback on research ideas at least one year away from a full-fledged conference submission to ACM MobiSys or other high-quality conferences. A full-length paper on the same topic submitted to a conference in less than a year is unlikely to include sufficient new material and more mature ideas. As is customary, papers must not have been published elsewhere and may not be simultaneously under submission at another venue. Papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms are not acceptable and will be returned to the author(s) unread. As customary with the scientific peer review process, submissions will be handled as confidential material during the review. Submissions should contain 6 or fewer U.S. letter pages in PDF format, including all references, figures and tables. The submissions should not be anonymous. Papers should use the standard ACM template, available at: http://www.acm.org/ For more submission guidelines, please visit the conference website. The papers accepted to HotMobile 2018 will be publicly available from the workshop's website for a limited time window, as per ACM's Digital Library's Policy. If you have any questions, please contact the PC chair at arunab(a)cs.stonybrook.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] IEEE IoT Journal SI "Wireless Energy Harvesting for Internet of Things"
by Lars Wolf 17 Aug '17

17 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] IEEE IoT Journal SI "Wireless Energy Harvesting for Internet of Things" Datum: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 11:40:48 +0800 Von: Jun HUANG <xiaoniuadmin(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Jun HUANG <xiaoniuadmin(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG CALL FOR PAPERS: IEEE Internet of Things Journal Special Issue on Wireless Energy Harvesting for Internet of Things The ubiquitous sensor-rich mobile devices (e.g., smartphones, wearable devices, and smart vehicles) have been playing a vital role in the evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT), which bridges the gap between digital and physical spaces. The powerful computing/communication capacities, huge population, and inherent mobility make mobile device networks a much more flexible and cost-effective IoT solution than traditional wireless sensor networks. However, the energy issue of mobile terminals poses significant challenges to the widespread use of IoT: not only the mobile terminals have short lifetime with the proliferation of mobile applications, but also the current networking and communication technologies are not adequately taking the energy efficiency into account. Therefore, the sustainable issue of IoT has attracted considerable attention from both academia and industry. Wireless energy harvesting and transfer technology was recently proposed as an effective mean to address this issue. It enables the mobile terminals to harvest energy from the ambient environment to prolong its battery. Although some forms of energy harvesting have been applied to WSNs, networking and communication solutions must be redesigned for wireless powered IoT with massive number of mobile terminals. This special issue (SI) will bring together leading researchers and developers from both industry and academia to discuss and present their views on all the aspects of wireless energy harvesting in the IoT system. In light of the increasing interest of these topics, this SI will focus on, but will not be limited to, the following subjects of interest: l Simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) in IoT, l Secure IoT with wireless energy harvesting, l Relay-based wireless energy harvesting IoT systems, l MAC protocols for wireless energy harvesting and transfer in IoT, l Economics of wireless energy and data transmission, l Energy Efficient transmissions and network architecture, l Scheduling and optimization of both users for energy transfer and of data packets, l Hardware design and prototyping for SWIPT applications in IoT, l Interference aided wireless energy harvesting, l Waveform design and optimization for wireless power transfer, l Optimal Control for wireless energy transfer and harvesting, l Wireless power enabled machine-to-machine (M2M) and device-to-device (D2D) communications, l Optimal wireless power transfer enabled IoT transceiver architectures *Important Dates* Submissions Deadline: October 1, 2017; First Reviews Due: December 15, 2017; Revision Due: February 15, 2018; Second Reviews Due/Notification: March 15, 2018; Final Manuscript Due: April 1, 2018; Publication Date: 2018 All original manuscripts or revisions to the IEEE IoT Journal must be submitted online through IEEE Manuscript Central, http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/iot. Author guidelines and submission information can be found at http://iot.ieee.org/journal. *Guest Editor Information* Guest Editors (group email: 2017wirelessiot(a)gmail.com) Jun Huang (xiaoniuadmin@gmail.com‎), Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Zheng Chang (zheng.chang(a)jyu.fi), University of Jyvaskyla, Finland Mohammed Atiquzzaman (atiq@ou.edu‎), University of Oklahoma, USA Zhu Han (zhan2(a)uh.edu), University of Houston, USA Walid Saad (walids@vt.edu‎), Virginia Tech, USA ------------- Ph.D., SMIEEE Professor of Communications and Information Systems School of Computer Science Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications Nan'an District, Chongqing 400065, P. R. China Phone: +1-301-250-8459, +86-18223596670 Email: xiaoniuadmin(a)gmail.com, jhuang(a)cqupt.edu.cn URL: https://sites.google.com/site/junhuangshomepage/ ______________________________________________________________ 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: Springer Annals of Telecommunications special issue on Emerging Trends and Applications in Ad Hoc Networks (Submission Due: 9/30/2017)
by Lars Wolf 16 Aug '17

16 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: Springer Annals of Telecommunications special issue on Emerging Trends and Applications in Ad Hoc Networks (Submission Due: 9/30/2017) Datum: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 04:50:19 -0400 Von: Keun-Woo Lim <keunwoo.lim(a)TELECOM-PARISTECH.FR> Antwort an: Keun-Woo Lim <keunwoo.lim(a)TELECOM-PARISTECH.FR> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG - CALL FOR PAPER - - Springer Annals of Telecommunications - Special issue on Emerging Trends and Applications in Ad Hoc Networks - Submission due: 9/30/2017 URL: https://annalsoftelecommunications.wp.imt.fr/2017/07/17/call-for-papers-eme… ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the recent years, the Internet evolution has undergone a remarkable and unstoppable change of trend, rooted on three main pillars, new technologies (cloud computing, SDN, NFV, etc.), broad connectivity (3G/4G, VANET, etc.), and the wide deployment of smart edge devices (smart phones, sensors, wearables, etc.), all setting the main concept for the Internet of Things (IoT), also encompassing scenarios such as smart cities, ITS (intelligent transportation systems), smart homes or e-health. The special issue of "Emerging Trends and Applications in Ad Hoc Networks" in the Springer Annals of Telecommunications extends its focus far beyond traditional networking concepts, highlighting new networking concepts related to the three aforementioned main pillars developed for the future generation of network and cloud computing technologies. This special issue is willing to accommodate contributions on smart mobile scenarios, focusing on highly relevant developments but also preliminary ideas and concepts on the ICT area, aiming at facilitating the development of new technologies and services with a high societal impact. We invite high quality original research papers describing original research and innovation in the following topics: • Ad hoc and mesh networks • Routing algorithms and protocols • Transport layer protocols for multi-hop networks • MAC protocols, scheduling, power and topology control, and resource • Software Sensor network protocols • Vehicular networks • Cognitive radio networks • Integration of ad hoc networks with wireless access networks • Implementations, testbeds, and prototypes • Technology related issues (IEEE 802.11, Bluetooth, ZigBee, etc.) • Quality of Service • Optimization models and algorithms • Energy-efficient networking • Security and privacy • Location in Wireless networks • New generation for WiFi, RFID, Zigbee, 6LowPAN • Participatory and urban networks • Underwater wireless networks • Green networking Guest Editors Luigi Fratta, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Mario Gerla, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Keun-Woo Lim, Telecom Paristech, France - Submission instructions - Papers must be written in English and describe original research not published or currently under review by other journals or conferences. The length of the article file should not exceed 35,000 characters including spaces (i.e., around 5,500 words). The manuscripts that are outside the expected length are likely to be rejected. All relevant papers submitted will go through an external review process. Submissions should be sent according to the instructions available at: http://annalsoftelecommunications.wp.mines-telecom.fr/how-to-publish/ The authors can directly submit their papers at: https://www.editorialmanager.com/ante/ and must select the menu “Choose Article Type” and then the item “CfP: Emerging Trends & Applications in Ad Hoc Networks”. Proposed schedule • Manuscript submission September 30th 2017 • Notification January 30th 2018 • Online with DOI As soon as accepted • Printed issue March-April 2018 ______________________________________________________________ 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: Cf Posters - Demos - Participation: 16. GI/ITG KuVS Fachgespräch "Sensornetze" - FGSN 2017*
by Lars Wolf 16 Aug '17

16 Aug '17

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: "Thomas C. Schmidt" <t.schmidt(a)haw-hamburg.de> Gesendet: 15. August 2017 21:56:30 MESZ An: Thomas Schmidt <t.schmidt(a)ieee.org> Betreff: Cf Posters - Demos - Participation: 16. GI/ITG KuVS Fachgespräch "Sensornetze" - FGSN 2017* ==================================================================== FGSN 2017 16. GI/ITG KuVS Fachgespraech Sensornetze HAW Hamburg, Germany - September 07-08, 2017 - http://fgsn17.inet.haw-hamburg.de/ CALL FOR POSTERS - DEMOS - PARTICIPATION ==================================================================== Program - http://fgsn17.inet.haw-hamburg.de/programm/ Registration - http://fgsn17.inet.haw-hamburg.de/programm/ Registration Deadline - 28. August 2017 Posters & Demos - Please announce with registration ==================================================================== *Conference Chair* Thomas C. Schmidt Karl-Ragmar Riemschneider *Technical Program Committee* Lars Wolf – TU Braunschweig Christian Renner – TU Hamburg-Harburg Falko Dressler – Universität Paderborn Bettina Schnor – Universität Potsdam *Organisation* Peter Kietzmann Valentin Roscher Thorben Schüthe *Kontakt:* peter.kietzmann(a)haw-hamburg.de valentin.roscher(a)haw-hamburg.de -- Prof. Dr. Thomas C. Schmidt ° Hamburg University of Applied Sciences Berliner Tor 7 ° ° Dept. Informatik, Internet Technologies Group 20099 Hamburg, Germany ° ° http://www.haw-hamburg.de/inet Fon: +49-40-42875-8452 ° ° http://www.informatik.haw-hamburg.de/~schmidt Fax: +49-40-42875-8409 °

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CCS Workshop on IoT S&P
by Lars Wolf 15 Aug '17

15 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CCS Workshop on IoT S&P Datum: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 03:26:57 -0400 Von: Theophilus Benson <tbenson(a)CS.DUKE.EDU> Antwort an: Theophilus Benson <tbenson(a)CS.DUKE.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Motivated by an increasing number of attacks and information leaks, IoT device manufactures, cloud providers, and researchers are working to design systems to secure to control the flow of information between devices, to detect new vulnerabilities; and to provide security and privacy within the context of user and the devices. While researchers continue to tackle IoT security and privacy, many questions remain open. Further, with the growing adoption of IoT devices, we will see a growth in the number of security and privacy issues. The goal of the First ACM CCS Workshop on IoT S&P is to bring together academic and industry researchers from the security and communication communities to design, measure, and analyze secure and privacy enhancing systems for IoT devices. This workshop will be colocated with ACM CCS in Dallas, Texas on November 3rd, 2017. We encourage the submission of work-in-progress papers in the area of design, implementation, management, and deployment of secure and private IoT frameworks as well as measurement and analysis of the privacy and security of existing IoT devices and packages. http://iotsecurity.cs.duke.edu <http://iotsecurity.cs.duke.edu/> Important Dates ---------------- Paper submission: August 18th Author notification: September 7, 2017 Camera-ready version: September 17, 2017 Workshop day: November 3, 2017 Submission Guidelines ---------------- Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Submissions should be at most 5 pages in the ACM double-column format, excluding well-marked appendices, and at most 6 pages in total. Submissions are not required to be anonymized. Submissions are to be made to the submission web site at https://iotsp17.hotcrp.com/ <https://iotsp17.hotcrp.com/>. Only PDF files will be accepted. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Papers must be received by 12 PM PT, August 11, 2017 to be considered. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent to authors by September 7, 2017. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that one of the authors will register and present the paper at the workshop. Proceedings of the workshop will be available on a CD to the workshop attendees and will become part of the ACM Digital Library. • original papers of up to 5 pages (+1 for references) • with 10-point font • in a two-column format (including figures, tables and references) • submitted papers need not be anonymized. We look for submissions of previously unpublished work on topics including, but not limited to, the following: • Security and privacy issues in IoT •Network architectures and protocols for scalable, robust, secure, and privacy enhancing IoT •Network services and management for IoT •Measurement of IoT privacy leakage •Measurement of Industrial IoT •Usable security and privacy frameworks for home networks •Threat Models and Attack Strategies in IoT •Intrusion and Malware Detection •Security Architectures for the IoT Stack •System and Data Integrity •Identity and access management in IoT •Trustworthiness in IoT •Secure Operating Systems in IoT •Automated armoring and patching •Cross-layer IoT security •IoT ecosystem-level security analysis •Clean-slate IoT security design ______________________________________________________________ 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 MobiCom 2017 Travel Grants supported by the National Science Foundation and SIGMOBILE
by Lars Wolf 15 Aug '17

15 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ACM MobiCom 2017 Travel Grants supported by the National Science Foundation and SIGMOBILE Datum: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 10:17:48 +0900 Von: JeongGil (John) Ko <jeonggil.ko(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: JeongGil (John) Ko <jeonggil.ko(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ACM MobiCom 2017 Travel Grants supported by the National Science Foundation and SIGMOBILE Application Deadline: 23:59 AoE, August 25th, 2017 The 23rd Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 2017) is pleased to announce travel grants for students to attend the conference and its co-located workshops to be held in Snowbird, Utah, USA, October 16 - 20, 2017. Funds for these travel grants are provided by NSF and SIGMOBILE. Travel Grant Application Grants are available only for full-time students attending colleges and universities in and outside of the US. Women, undergraduates and underrepresented minority students are particularly encouraged to apply. To apply for a travel grant, the student applicant should send following material to mobicom17stg(a)googlegroups.com. 1. The student's CV including country of origin and country of residence 2. SIGMOBILE student member number, if you have one. SIGMOBILE student membership costs $5 for one year. You can apply here <https://campus.acm.org/public/qj/gensigqj/gensigqj_control.cfm?promo=QJSIG&…> . 3. An application letter which should include: - The title of his/her accepted MobiCom work (conference/workshop paper, poster or demo, finalist mobile app contest entry) - if the student is an author - Whether he/she is a first-time attendee to MobiCom - A brief summary of the student research interests and accomplishments to date - A description of areas reflected in the MobiCom program that would impact the student's research - A statement about why the conference attendance is important to the student - An estimate of the following costs of attending MobiCom 2017: airfare, hotel, and conference registration. It is anticipated that travel grants will partially cover these attendance costs. A recommendation letter from the advisor of the student applicant is also required. The letter should provide the following: 1. A confirmation that the student is a bona fide Ph.D. candidate or a M.Sc./B.Sc. student in good academic standing at the given institution. 2. The impact of the MobiCom program material on the student’s research progress. 3. Other benefits the student would derive from attending the conference. 4. A description of the student applicant's strengths and potential contributions to the mobile computing and networking field. 5. A statement of financial commitment to pay the remainder of the student applicant’s travel cost not covered by the grant. The advisor's letter should be sent to mobicom17stg(a)googlegroups.com directly by the advisor. Selection Criteria selection will be based on student merit qualifications (eg, paper authorship) and financial need (eg, travel distance/cost from home campus, availability of grant funds, etc). Priority will be given to women, undergraduates, underrepresented minorities, and first-time attendees. Important Dates Travel Grant Application Submission Deadline: August 25th, 2017 (23:59 AoE) Travel Grant Award Notification: August 28th, 2017 Deadline to Accept/Decline Travel Grant Award: August 30th, 2017 (23:59 AoE) Grant Requirements/Restrictions - The full application package (by the student and the advisor) should be received on or before 23:59 AoE, August 25th, 2017. - By accepting the travel grants students are committing to submit as summary of the experiences and outcomes of attending the conference. - Student travel grants are meant to partially cover the cost of attending and participating in MobiCom 2017. The only travel expenses that can be reimbursed are accommodation, advance conference registration, and airfare. - For NSF Grants: These grants are available only for full-time students attending US colleges and universities (not necessarily US citizens or permanent residents) AND for US citizens or permanent residents studying abroad. - Recipients of NSF travel awards must use US flag carriers <https://globetrottermgmt.com/globe/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/fly-america-a…> . ______________________________________________________________ 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] MobiCom App Contest 2017 -- Deadline is approaching
by Lars Wolf 15 Aug '17

15 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] MobiCom App Contest 2017 -- Deadline is approaching Datum: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 22:53:56 +0200 Von: Ahmed Elmokashfi <ahmed(a)SIMULA.NO> Antwort an: Ahmed Elmokashfi <ahmed(a)SIMULA.NO> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Call for Apps: https://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2017/app.php <https://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2017/app.php> MobiCom 2017 is pleased to organize the 5th Mobile App Competition in conjunction with the main conference. The competition is for novel and innovative mobile applications utilizing any computing architecture (stand-alone, client/server, client/proxy/server, peer-to-peer/ad-hoc, cloud/mobile, others). It is intended as a platform-neutral contest. Applications can be developed for any truly mobile device such as a smartphone, tablet, wearable, or a non-tethered AR/VR device. They can be built on any platform including Android, iOS, Windows, Blackberry OS 10, and HTML5. To participate in the competition, you are required to submit a one-page proposal, a video demo, and your app binary for evaluation. Only a selected set of finalists advance to enter the last phase of selecting the three top winners. The winner apps will be promoted on the MobiCom website and get a prize during the conference. More details about the requirements and evaluation criteria are available as a pdf file (https://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2017/files/MobiCom17-AppCompetition.pdf <https://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2017/files/MobiCom17-AppCompetition.pdf>). All applications must be demonstrated on real devices. Network services that are part of the application should also be real services embodying no mock-up components. Finalists are required to register and attend the conference in order to be considered by the jury for first, second and third place winners. The finalists will be allowed to register at the early-registration fee, even if the deadline for early registration has passed. All submissions should be sent to mobicom17appcontest(a)gmail.com <mailto:mobicom17appcontest@gmail.com> Dates: September 15th: App proposal due September 22nd: Finalists notified of selection October 16th: Finalists present at the MobiCom venue (Snowbird, Utah, USA) Please contact the App Contest co-chairs if you have any questions: Lenin Sivalingam <lenin(a)microsoft.com <mailto:lenin@microsoft.com>> and Long Lu <long(a)cs.stonybrook.edu <mailto:long@cs.stonybrook.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: Deadline Extension to The 1st ACM workshop FAILSAFE 2017
by Lars Wolf 14 Aug '17

14 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: Deadline Extension to The 1st ACM workshop FAILSAFE 2017 Datum: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 14:05:12 +0100 Von: michael.breza04(a)imperial.ac.uk An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de -- Our sincere apologies if you receive duplicates of the call -- -- Deadline Extension -- ============================================== Dear Colleagues, The deadline for papers for the FAILSAFE workshop has been extended by one week to the 22nd of August, 2017. This workshop will be held concurrently with SenSys 2017. Please see below the Call for Papers for ACM FAILSAFE 2017. http://wp.doc.ic.ac.uk/failsafe/ We look forward to your submissions describing the challenges and struggles that you have faced and during real WSN deployments. Unique to this workshop, we will ask for submissions reporting the *failure* of actual embedded sensing system deployments complete with data where possible that can shed insight as to how the problems affected such sensor based systems and their goals. We want the failures, problems and glitches that wasted hours of researcher time; head scratching whilst trying to diagnose and fix subtle or unexpected bugs etc. This workshop focuses on the point at which the simulations and tests done in the lab are taken out into the field, and the previous assumptions fail. The overarching aim is to establish a process that encourages the refinement and development of a new science of sensor systems to enable reliable, maintainable deployments that last the life-times expected of them. The topic is important as the scientific problems that we face with IoT systems strike hard against the limits of our knowledge about how to organise, analyse, and adapt large, loosely-coupled, intercommunicating, and increasingly autonomous, distributed systems. This topic is timely because there is mounting pressure from various industries and government bodies to be able to place their trust in sensing based infrastructures for decision-making. This contention is supported by industry research showing the potential growth of the IoT sector. In this workshop we wish to: Share experiences of real IoT developments “in the wild”. Understand the differences between the theoretical performance of results and real +experiences. Map failure to causes and to explore the more and less obvious causalities. Produce a list of research findings and areas to prioritise for further investigation. The workshop scope includes: Real WSN/IOT etc. deployments that either experienced some, or ended in, failure, complete with data to show what failed and a detailed analysis of the causes of the failure and the lessons learned. Examples of a WSN or other sensor deployments that where either hacked or attacked in a nefarious way, with as much data and details as can be provided. Any practices or tools, along with methodology and description,that have evolved out of sensor system deployment failures that are used to prevent further problems and that can be shown to improve the success rate of Sensor System deployments. Privacy Issues: The organisers of FAILSAFE recognise that some information from deployments may have a sensitive nature or be under a non-disclosure agreement. In these cases, it is acceptable to anonymise any information as long as it does not inhibit the point or issues being presented in the work. If you have any queries about this at all, please contact the program chair Michael Breza (mjb04(a)doc.ic.ac.uk) for further advise and clarification. Important Dates: Submission Deadline, 15th August, 2017 Notification, 5th September, 2017 Final Version Due, 12th September, 2017 Workshop, 5th of November 2017

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Deadline Approaching in 2 days : IEEE Internet of Things Journal SI on Theories and Applications of NB-IoT
by Lars Wolf 13 Aug '17

13 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Deadline Approaching in 2 days : IEEE Internet of Things Journal SI on Theories and Applications of NB-IoT Datum: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 23:01:58 +0800 Von: Xiufang Shi <xfshi.zju(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Xiufang Shi <xfshi.zju(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG IEEE Internet of Things Journal Special Issue on Theories and Applications of NB-IoT Recently, demands for low-power wide-area (LPWA) machine-type communications have increased dramatically. It is expected that LPWA connections will reach 2 billion in 2020, exceeding the number of traditional cellular users. Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT), a new radio access technology, has been released by the Third Generation Partnership (3GPP) for such demands. It could be deployed inside Long Term Evolution (LTE) carrier, and thus will not incur extra deployment cost, requesting only 180 kHz bandwidth of LTE physical resource. NB-IoT supports super coverage extension, massive number of connections and long user lifetime with low power/cost and low device complexity. With such prominent features, NB-IoT has become one of the dominating technologies in LPWA area, applicable to a large range of IoT scenarios such as smart meter, smart parking, smart home, smart tracking, e-health, etc. However, NB-IoT is still in its infancy, needing deep theoretical investigation of modeling and optimizing system performance. Also, emerging applications that can be enabled by NB-IoT and implementation challenges therein need further exploration. The objective of this call is to bring recent progress in theory, and especially applications of NB-IoT that may help put together a clear picture for this new area. The potential interesting topics of this call include, but are not limited to: ü Channel modeling of uplink and downlink in NB-IoT ü Throughput modeling of uplink and downlink in NB-IoT ü Resource management in NB-IoT ü Throughput optimization in NB-IoT ü Access control in NB-IoT ü Latency investigation in NB-IoT ü Joint optimization of NB-IoT and LTE ü Hardware design and optimization of NB-IoT ü System architectures for applications enabled by NB-IoT ü New application implementations by NB-IoT ü . The submissions must be original with significant contributions, and have not been under review in any other journals or conferences. The submissions will only be counted if they are submitted electronically through IEEE Manuscript Central (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/iot) and adheres to standard IEEE Internet of Things formatting requirements. When submitting your article, please indicate that you are submitting to the Special Issue on Modeling, Optimization and Applications in Narrowband Internet of Things. Tentative Schedule Submissions Deadline: August 15, 2017 First Reviews Due: November 1, 2017 Revision Due: December 15, 2017 Second Reviews Due/Notification: February 1, 2018 Final Manuscript Due: February 15 , 2018 Publication Date: 2018 Guest editors: Jiming Chen, Zhejiang University, <mailto:jmchen@ieee.org> jmchen(a)ieee.org Kaoru Ota, Muroran Institute of Technology, <mailto:ota@csse.muroran-it.ac.jp> ota(a)csse.muroran-it.ac.jp Lu Wang, Shenzhen University, wanglu(a)szu.edu.cn <mailto:wanglu@szu.edu.cn> Preetha Thulasiraman, Naval Postgraduate School, <http://faculty.nps.edu/pthulas1/index.htm> pthulas1(a)nps.edu Zhiguo Shi, Zhejiang University, Shizg(a)zju.edu.cn <mailto:Shizg@zju.edu.cn> ______________________________________________________________ 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 Journal- SI: Sensor Technologies for Connected Cars: Devices, Systems and Modelling
by Lars Wolf 13 Aug '17

13 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE Sensors Journal- SI: Sensor Technologies for Connected Cars: Devices, Systems and Modelling Datum: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 17:23:10 +0200 Von: CFP- Special Issue <cfp.iot(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: CFP- Special Issue <cfp.iot(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Dear Professors, Researchers, Fellows, Seniors, Engineers, The following CfP in the area of "*Connect Cars*" in IEEE Sensors Journal might be in interest of you. Thank you. Regards R. Malekian Lead Guest Editor ------------------------- Reza Malekian, CEng, Associate Professor, Research Group Head: Advanced Sensor Networks Department of Electrical, Electronic & Computer Engineering, University of Pretoria, South Africa Email: r <reza.malekian(a)up.ac.za>eza.malekian(a)ieee.org WWW: http://www.up.ac.za/en/eece/article/1952661/prof-r-malekian-reza CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Sensor Technologies for Connected Cars: Devices, Systems and Modelling** *IEEE Sensors Journal* *Submission Deadline: September 10, 2017* *http://ieee-sensors.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/2017_03_21_IEEE_SI_on_connected_cars_CfP_GG-Extended-deadline.pdf <http://ieee-sensors.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/2017_03_21_IEEE_SI_on_co…>* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- **Scope:** Vehicular accidents are a major global problem, leading to human injury or death, damages to property, with financial and other impact on the general public. In most cases, vehicular accidents are caused by avoidable human error and improper driving practices. With recent advances in sensing technologies, self-driving, connected cars and autonomous vehicles are becoming more and more practicable. The sensor data contribution to the peer to peer (P2P) vehicle sharing system reduces occurrences of road accidents by the use of vehicle to vehicle (V2V) interaction, along with use of sensors for maintaining safe driving distances and pre-empting accidents. Sensor technology in connected cars also improves the overall driving experience by using vehicle to infrastructure (V2I) interaction. This enables warnings and precautions from a network of roadside units, functioning as stationary waypoints and relay warnings, precautions and information regarding availability of crucial services. Such information is particularly beneficial to users in remote areas where it cannot be obtained reliably through conventional communication channels. This Special Issue is focused on sensors and sensor systems for connected vehicles with emphasis on the whole range between modelling and applications. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Sensors for connected cars and autonomous vehicles • Emerging sensor technology for driverless cars • Sensors for Wireless On-Board Diagnostic (OBD) fleet management • Accurate Vehicle Location System Using Wireless Sensor Networks • Intra-Car Wireless Sensor Networks • Sensor interfaces for Peer to Peer (P2P) vehicle sensor data sharing • Sensor Interfaces for Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) information exchange • Sensor interface compliance to communications protocols and standards, authentication and security requirements • Testing, evaluation and verification of sensor systems for connected cars • Safe, Secure and Infotainment Connected Cars • Anti-collision and alarming sensors, • Traffic regulation and transaction sensors • Sensor Data Processing • On-road video contents streaming delivery and traffic sensor management **Schedule** • *Submission deadline: July 15, 2017*, September 10, 2017 • Author notifications: October 20, 2017, December 15, 2017 • Final manuscripts due: December 15, 2017, January 20, 2017 • Publication: February 28, 2018 **Manuscript Submission** Manuscripts must be submitted electronically at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/sensors by selecting "Sensor Technologies for Connected Cars: Devices, Systems and Modelling". For additional details about this CfP or author guidelines, please refer to the following link: *http://ieee-sensors.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/2017_03_21_IEEE_SI_on_connected_cars_CfP_GG-Extended-deadline.pdf <http://ieee-sensors.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/2017_03_21_IEEE_SI_on_co…>* Guest Editors: Reza Malekian [Lead Guest Editor], University of Pretoria, South Africa; Christian Fischer Pedersen, Aarhus University, Denmark; Kevin Curran, Ulster University, Northern Ireland; Bin Cao, ChongQing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China; Xuewei Qi, University of California Riverside, 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 Transactions on Industrial Informatics, SS on Fog Computing for Industrial Applications, Deadline 30 Nov. 2017
by Lars Wolf 12 Aug '17

12 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, SS on Fog Computing for Industrial Applications, Deadline 30 Nov. 2017 Datum: Sat, 12 Aug 2017 08:42:53 +0000 Von: Mithun Mukherjee <mithun.mukherjee(a)OUTLOOK.COM> Antwort an: Mithun Mukherjee <mithun.mukherjee(a)OUTLOOK.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email] IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics CALL FOR PAPERS for Special Section on "Fog Computing for Industrial Applications" The Theme: Due to the increased number of connected things in industrial applications, the growing volume and velocity of Internet of Things (IoT) data exchange urge for more and more communication resources, leading to the bottleneck in terms of data processing, data latency, and traffic overhead. Fog computing emerges, as an alternative for traditional cloud computing to support geographically distributed, latency sensitive, and QoS-aware IoT applications while reducing the burden of data centers in traditional cloud computing. In particular, fog computing with the features (e.g., low latency, location awareness, and capacity of processing large number of nodes with wireless access) to support heterogeneity and real-time applications is an attractive solution to delay- and resource-constraint large scale industrial applications. However, with the benefits of fog computing, the research challenges arise regarding fog computing for industrial applications. For instance, how to handle different protocols and data format from highly dissimilar data sources in fog layer? How to determine which data should be processed in cloud or be processed in fog layer? How to achieve real-time responses and simultaneous data collection from large heterogeneous sources in industrial applications? Motivated by the above issues, this special section solicits original research and practical contributions which advance the use of fog computing in industries. Results obtained by simulations must be validated in bounds by experiments or analytical results. Surveys and state-of-the-art tutorials are also considered. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following research topics and technologies: * Architecture features and evolution for fog computing in industries * Content and service distribution models for fog computing in industries * Caching, replication and relaying models for fog computing in industries * Real-time communication interfaces and protocols for fog computing in industries * Energy aware load balancing and scheduling on servers for fog computing in industries * Orchestration across computation, storage and communication resources for fog computing in industries * Theoretical and experimental evaluation of information-centric networks for fog computing in industries * Security and privacy challenges for fog computing in industries * Testing and evaluation tools for fog computing in industries * Fog computing for real-time monitoring in industries * The future for fog computing in industries: challenges and open issues Manuscript Preparation and Submission Follow the guidelines in “Information for Authors” in the IEEE- IES website: http://www.ieee-ies.org/pubs/transactions on-industrial-informatics . Please submit your manuscript in electronic form through Manuscript Central web site: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tii . On the submitting page #1 in popup menu of manuscript type, select: SS on Fog Computing for Industrial Applications. Submissions to this Special Section must represent original material that has been neither submitted to, nor published in, any other journal. Regular manuscript length is 8 pages, additional 4 pages may be allowed for a fee. Note: The recommended papers for the section are subject to final approval by the Editor-in-Chief. Some papers may be published outside the special section, at the EIC discretion. Timetable: Deadline for manuscript submissions: November 30, 2017 Expected publication date (tentative): May 2018 Guest Editors: Prof. Lei Shu, Guangdong Uni. of Petrochemical Technology, China, Uni. of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK, lei.shu(a)ieee.org Prof. Gerhard Hancke, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, g.hancke(a)ieee.org Prof. Der-Jiunn Deng, National Changhua University of Education, Changhua, Taiwan, derjiunn.deng(a)gmail.com Dr. Chunsheng Zhu, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, cszhu(a)ece.ubc.ca Dr. Mithun Mukherjee, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, Maoming, China, m.mukherjee(a)ieee.org Editor-in-Chief: Prof.Dr.-Ing; RenC.Luo tii(a)ira.ee.ntu.edu.tw ______________________________________________________________ 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: EWSN Dependability Competition 2018: Call for Competitors
by Lars Wolf 11 Aug '17

11 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: EWSN Dependability Competition 2018: Call for Competitors Datum: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 17:43:27 +0200 Von: Carlo Alberto Boano <cboano(a)tugraz.at> Antwort an: iti.announcement(a)mlist.tugraz.at An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Competitors 3rd Dependability Competition at the Intl. Conf. on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN) February 14-16, 2018 - Madrid, Spain https://ewsn2018.networks.imdea.org/call-for-competitors.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- Following the success of the 2016 and 2017 editions, the Intl. Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN) will host also this year a competition to compare the performance of WSN and IoT communication protocols in harsh RF environments. FORMAT: This year's dependability competition will have a new format compared to the past two editions, the most prominent changes being that it will take place remotely over a longer time window, and that it will involve the reporting of multiple events from several nodes. Interested participants should first submit an abstract describing their approach by the competition entry deadline. Accepted contestants will obtain the credentials to remotely access the competition infrastructure and enter the preparation phase, after which each team needs to provide one binary that will be used for the final evaluation. A poster session entirely dedicated to the dependability competition will take place during the evening of the first conference day. All competing teams must present their solution in the poster session and will have the possibility to engage in lively discussions with the other conference attendees. The winners of the competition will be awarded during a dedicated plenary session on the second conference day and will hold a 10-minutes talk preseting their solution, followed by a short discussion. COMPETITION SCENARIO AND EVALUATION PROCEDURE: The competition scenario emulates the operation of a sensor and actuator network monitoring discrete events in an industrial setting where several co-existing wireless devices are crowding the RF spectrum. A complete description of the competition scenario and evaluation procedure can be found at: https://ewsn2018.networks.imdea.org/call-for-competitors.html ELIGIBILITY Both academia and industry submissions are encouraged. All wireless communication protocols used in low-power wireless sensor networks are welcome, and there is no restriction on the operating system used to program the sensor nodes. The competition will take place if at least 5 teams respond to this preliminary call for competitors. Depending on the nature and number of submissions, multiple categories may be defined. The winning teams in each category will receive cash awards and present their approach at EWSN in a 10-minutes plenary talk. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Interested participants should first submit a two-page abstract describing their approach by the competition entry deadline, following the formatting requirements described on the competition Webpage. The abstracts will be used to pre-select the participants to the competition. Accepted contestants will have the chance to edit their abstract and submit a camera-ready version by the end of the competition's preparation phase. Accepted abstracts will appear in the ACM Digital Library, unless authors explicitly mark their submission as confidential. IMPORTANT DATES: Competition entry deadline (Abtract submission): Oct. 11, 2017 Notification of acceptance: Oct. 18, 2017 Camera-ready abstract submission: Jan. 7, 2018 Competition's preparation phase: From mid-Nov. 2017 until Jan. 7, 2018 Submission of final software: Jan. 7, 2018 Competition's evaluation phase: From mid-Jan. until Feb. 7, 2018 Competition panel and poster session: Feb.y 14, 2018 Competition awards and winners' presentations: Feb. 15, 2018 ORGANIZERS: Carlo Alberto Boano, TU Graz Markus Schuss, TU Graz --------------------------------------------------------------------- Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of the call --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ................................................. Ass.Prof. Boano Carlo Alberto Graz University of Technology Institute for Technical Informatics Inffeldgasse 16, Room: IE01144 / E.2.12 A-8010 Graz, Austria Tel: +43 (0) 316 873-6413 Fax: +43 (0) 316 / 873 - 6903 E-Mail: cboano(a)tugraz.at http://www.carloalbertoboano.com .................................................

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP - 5th International Workshop on Crowd Assisted Sensing, Pervasive Systems and Communications (CASPer 2018)
by Lars Wolf 11 Aug '17

11 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP - 5th International Workshop on Crowd Assisted Sensing, Pervasive Systems and Communications (CASPer 2018) Datum: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 07:45:55 -0400 Von: Waldir Moreira <waldir.junior(a)FRAUNHOFER.PT> Antwort an: Waldir Moreira <waldir.junior(a)FRAUNHOFER.PT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Apologies for cross and multiple postings] ******************************************************************** 5th International Workshop on Crowd Assisted Sensing, Pervasive Systems and Communications (CASPer 2018) http://casper2018.uns.ac.rs in conjunction with The 16th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2018) ******************************************************************** Call for Papers With smart-phones in their pockets, more than 1 billion people now have access to sensing, computation, and connectivity, making it possible to harness the power of the crowd to collect and share data about their surroundings and experiences on a massive scale. Crowdsensing/crowdsourcing is a novel data collection paradigm that leverages this vast mobile sensor network, making it possible to expand the scope of research endeavors and address civic issues without requiring the purchase of specialized sensors or the installation and maintenance of network infrastructure. Data collected using such applications may come from unexpected yet interesting and valuable sources and may allow for collecting data in previously inaccessible locations and contexts. This new data collection paradigm introduces several research challenges. Privacy is a primary concern for users who contribute sensitive or personally identifiable information (PII). Incentive mechanisms for participation may be needed to encourage people to volunteer their resources to collect data. Methods are needed for processing large-scale, user-generated data sets into meaningful information, and for assessing and understanding the quality of information to help guide decision-making. Approaches which involve the crowd in such data analysis tasks, with humans serving as a source of semantic information, interpretation, and evaluation of crowdsensing/crowdsourcing data, can also help to build an understanding of the physical, computational, and socio-technical environment. The objective of this workshop is to provide a forum for discussion, debate, and collaboration focused on ideas, trends, techniques, and recent advances in crowdsensing and crowdsourcing. We invite original research contributions that advance the state of the art as well as position papers that pose a new direction or present a controversial point of view. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Algorithms to handle, process, and visualize large-scale crowdsensing/crowdsourcing data sets • Data integrity, security, privacy, and provenance for crowdsensing/crowdsourcing data • Trust and reputation systems for crowdsensing/crowdsourcing applications • Determining and assessing Quality of Information for crowdsensing/crowdsourcing data • Crowd-assisted (human-in-the-loop) approaches to analyzing crowdsensing/crowdsourcing data • Context modeling and reasoning in crowdsensing/crowdsourcing applications • Incentive mechanisms for participation in crowdsensing/crowdsourcing applications • Supporting crowdsensing/crowdsourcing in heterogeneous networks • Crowd assisted pervasive systems and communications • Novel use of sensors for crowdsensing/crowdsourcing applications • Energy-efficient mechanisms for crowdsensing/crowdsourcing applications • Programming abstractions and middleware for crowdsensing/crowdsourcing applications • Novel large-scale crowdsensing/crowdsourcing applications Paper Submission Submitted papers must be original contributions that are unpublished and are not currently under consideration for publication by other venues. Submissions are limited to a maximum length of 6 pages and must adhere to IEEE format (2 column, 10 pt font). Papers can be submitted via the EDAS submission portal for CASPer 2018 (will be available soon). Templates are available via the workshop website. Workshop papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE digital libraries (Xplore). Note, that each accepted workshop paper requires a full PerCom registration (no registration is available for workshops only). Important Dates • Submission deadline: November 11, 2017 • Author Notification: December 23, 2017 • Camera ready due: January 12, 2018 (FIRM) Committee General Chairs Yu Wang, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Imre Lendak, University of Novi Sad, Serbia Programme Chairs Salil Kanhere, The University of New South Wales, Australia Raghu Ganti, IBM - Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA Publicity Chair Waldir Moreira, Fraunhofer AICOS, Portugal Steeing Committee Károly Farkas (Chair), Budapest University of Technology and Economics / NETvisor Information and Communication Ltd., Hungary Luke Dickens, University College London, UK Miguel Labrador, University of South Florida, USA Emil Lupu, Imperial College London, UK Jamie Payton, Temple University, USA Thomas Silverston, The University of Tokyo, Japan / JFLI CNRS UMI 3527 Technical Programme Committee Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy Antonio Corradi, University of Bologna, Italy Luke Dickens, University College London, UK Karoly Farkas, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Jonathan Fürst, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Avik Ghose, Tata Consultancy Services, India Bin Guo, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Qi Han, Colorado School of Mines, USA Miguel Labrador, University of South Florida, USA Qinghua Li, University of Arkansas, USA Seng Loke, Deakin University, Australia Tony Luo, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Emil Lupu, Imperial College, UK Paulo Mendes, COPELABS / University Lusofona, Portugal Swati Rallapalli, IBM Research, USA Theofanis Raptis, National Research Council, Italy Thomas Silverston, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan Dragan Stojanovic, University of Nis, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Serbia Umair ul Hassan, Insight Centre of Data Analytics, Ireland Alexander Zipf, University of Heidelberg, Germany ______________________________________________________________ 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] 2nd CFP: IEEE PerCom 2018
by Lars Wolf 11 Aug '17

11 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] 2nd CFP: IEEE PerCom 2018 Datum: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 10:09:33 +0000 Von: Sarah Clinch <sarah.clinch(a)MANCHESTER.AC.UK> Antwort an: Sarah Clinch <sarah.clinch(a)MANCHESTER.AC.UK> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG =============================================================================== The Sixteenth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications PerCom 2018 (http://www.percom.org/) =============================================================================== Athens, Greece, March 19-23, 2018<http://airmail.calendar/2018-03-19%2012:00:00%20GMT> =============================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE PerCom, now in its sixteenth year, is established as the premier annual scholarly venue in the areas of pervasive computing and communications. Pervasive computing and communications have evolved into highly active areas of research; they have found their way into many current commercial systems due to the tremendous advances in a broad spectrum of technologies and topics including wireless networking, mobile and distributed computing, sensor systems, ambient intelligence, and smart devices. PerCom 2018 will be held in Athens, the capital city of Greece and one of the most historic cities in Europe. PerCom 2018 will provide a leading edge scholarly forum for researchers, engineers, and students alike to share their state-of-the art research and developmental work in the broad areas of pervasive computing and communications. The conference will feature a diverse mixture of interactive forums: core technical sessions of high-quality cutting-edge research articles; targeted workshops on exciting topics; live demonstrations of pervasive computing in action; insightful keynote speeches; panel discussions from domain experts; and posters of emerging ideas. Research contributions are solicited in all areas pertinent to pervasive computing and communications, including: * Advances in pervasive systems and infrastructures: middleware systems and services; large-scale data management for pervasive computing; clouds, cloudlets, and fog computing; integrations of smartphones in pervasive experiences; applications of device-to-device coordination. * Theories, models, and algorithms: context modeling and reasoning; adaptive and context-aware computing; activity recognition; programing paradigms; applied machine learning; cognitive computing techniques. * Domain-specific challenges and novel applications: urban/mobile crowdsensing & intelligence; pervasive technologies for healthcare; cyber-physical pervasive computing; innovative pervasive computing applications. * Intersections of pervasive computing with: social networks; opportunistic networks; Internet of things; sensor networks; RFID systems; big data. * New techniques for user-level concerns : participatory and social sensing; trust, security, and privacy; user interface, interaction, and persuasion; social networking and pervasive computing. * Technological innovations: architectures, protocols, and technologies for pervasive communications; mobile and wearable computing systems and services; smart devices and intelligent environments; positioning and tracking technologies. Contributions can be analytical, empirical, technological, methodological, or a combination of these. Papers reporting strong systems engineering contributions backed by solid and appropriate evaluations are strongly encouraged. The impact of the contributions should be demonstrated in the context of pervasive computing and communications. Papers applying known techniques from other fields must clearly demonstrate substantial novelty or pervasive computing impact. ================================= Workshops and Affiliated Events ================================= A number of workshops will be held in conjunction with the main conference. Workshop papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE digital libraries (Xplore) along with papers from the main conference. As in the past, PerCom 2018 will also feature a PhD Forum, Work-in-Progress Posters, and Live Demonstrations. Please visit the conference website for details. ================================= Best paper award ================================= The best paper will receive the prestigious Mark Weiser Best Paper Award. Papers of particular merit will be considered for a special issue of the Elsevier journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC). ================================= Important Dates ================================= Paper Registration: September 15, 2017<http://airmail.calendar/2017-09-15%2012:00:00%20BST> Paper submission: September 22, 2017<http://airmail.calendar/2017-09-22%2012:00:00%20BST> Notification: December 12, 2017<http://airmail.calendar/2017-12-12%2012:00:00%20GMT> Camera Ready: January 12, 2018<http://airmail.calendar/2018-01-12%2012:00:00%20GMT> ================================= Submission Guidelines ================================= Submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication. Also, they must show a significant relevance to pervasive computing and communications. Guidelines for preparing and submitting the manuscript will be made available on the conference website. Submitted papers will undergo a rigorous review process handled by the Technical Program Committee. ================================= Organizing Committee ================================= General Co-Chairs George Roussos, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK Achilles Kameas, Hellenic Open University, Greece Program Chair Gergely Záruba, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Vice Program Co-Chairs Brent Lagesse, University of Washington, Bothell, USA Flora Salim, RMIT University, Australia Gregor Schiele, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany Workshops Co-Chairs Petteri Nurmi, University of Helsinki, Finland Daniele Riboni, University of Cagliari, Italy ================================= Additional Information ================================= Web: www.percom.org<http://www.percom.org/>(http://www.percom.org/) Email (TPC Chair): percom2018(a)gmail.com<mailto:percom2018@gmail.com>(mailto:percom2018@gmail.com) Social Media: www.facebook.com/percom<http://www.facebook.com/percom>(http://www.facebook.com/percom) twitter.com/ieeepercom<http://twitter.com/ieeepercom>(http://twitter.com/ieeepercom) ______________________________________________________________ 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 VNC 2017] Deadline extended to Aug 28
by Lars Wolf 10 Aug '17

10 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [IEEE VNC 2017] Deadline extended to Aug 28 Datum: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 15:38:19 +0000 Von: Ashwin Ashok <aashok(a)GSU.EDU> Antwort an: Ashwin Ashok <aashok(a)GSU.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Dear All I would like to direct you to the Call for Submissions to the IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC) to be held in Torino, Italy from Nob 27-29, 2017. The submission is through the EDAS system. Please note that the deadline has been extended! We are looking to read about your interesting work! Register full/short papers, posters, demos by Aug 24 (5.59 PM EDT) and Submit by Aug 28 (5.59 PM EDT) NOTE: — Deadline for ALL submissions (papers, posters, demos) is the same — Selected papers will be considered for possible fast track publication in Elsevier Computer Communications journal!! Looking forward to your submissions!! Thanks, Ashwin Ashok VNC 2017 Publicity Chair Assistant Professor, Computer Science Georgia State University http://ashwinashok.com Office: 25 Park Place, Suite 734 Atlanta, GA 30303 ——————— 2017 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC) November 27-29, 2017 — Torino, Italy Call for Submissions Connected vehicles are becoming a cornerstone of the increasingly connected world and the deployment phase of the first generation of vehicular networks is now closer than ever. As the applications for connected vehicles so does the demand for reliable networking. Large-scale testbeds are running or planned in different parts of the world, while multiple discussions are taking place at different levels and in different forums about the next generation of vehicular networks. The automated (and connected) vehicle will soon come into play and may significantly change the roots of vehicular networks. The 2017 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC) seeks to bring together researchers, professionals, and practitioners to present and discuss recent developments and challenges in vehicular networking technologies, and their applications. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): • 5G technologies for connected vehicles • Communications and networking for automated and semi-automated vehicles • Congestion and awareness control in vehicular networks • Novel technologies for V2X (TVWS, LTE-D, VLC, etc.) • Safety and non-safety applications of vehicular networks, including ITS • V2V, V2I and V2X communications and networking protocols • Vehicular communications with VRUs (Vulnerable Road Users) e.g., with bicyclists, pedestrians, etc. • In-vehicle communications (wireless or wired) • Radio propagation and technologies for vehicular networks (propagation models, antennas, etc.) • Protocols for vehicular networking (radio resource management, link layer, routing, mobility management, dissemination, transport etc.) • Security, privacy, liability, and dependability in vehicular networks • Network and QoS management for vehicular networks • Simulation and performance evaluation techniques for vehicular networks • Results from experimental systems, testbeds, and pilot studies • Impact assessments of vehicular networks on safety, transportation efficiency, and the environment • Communications related to electric and hybrid vehicles • Heterogeneous networking approaches (multi-radio, multi-channel, multi-application, multi-technology) • Integration of V2V with on-board systems and networks • Vehicular networking architectures and system design • Applications and services to enhance driver experience, performance, and behavior Selected papers will be considered for possible fast track publication in Elsevier Computer Communications journal. Important Dates Full/short paper, demos, poster registration deadline: August 24, 2017 Submission deadline: August 28, 2017 Acceptance notification: October 2, 2017 Camera ready paper due: October 16, 2017 Conference: November 27-29, 2017 Manuscript submissions We will consider two different categories of papers: Full papers (8 pages) and Short papers (4 pages), in addition to Poster and Demo papers (2 pages). Papers submitted to a category will NOT be moved to a different category, e.g. full papers will not be "downgraded" to short papers. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings and will be submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Please note that for every accepted contribution, at least one person must register for the conference and present. EDAS Submission system: https://edas.info/ Full details are published on the conference web site: http://www.ieee-vnc.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] Call for Papers: IEEE PerCrowd 2018 (co-located with IEEE PerCom)
by Lars Wolf 10 Aug '17

10 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Papers: IEEE PerCrowd 2018 (co-located with IEEE PerCom) Datum: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 09:54:13 +0000 Von: Huber Flores <000000b88e64d002-dmarc-request(a)comsoc.org> Antwort an: Huber Flores <huberflo(a)CS.HELSINKI.FI> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ************************************* [Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ************************************* ______________________________________________________________________ IEEE PerCrowd 2018 – 1st International Workshop on Context-Awareness for Multi-Device Pervasive and Mobile Computing Co-located with IEEE PerCom 2018, March 19-23 March 19, 2018 Athens, Greece http://percrowd.blogspot.com ______________________________________________________________________ SCOPE AND OVERVIEW __________________ Pervasive and mobile systems are constrained by energy and performance issues when they operate in isolation. Yet, several studies have shown that smart devices are frequently co-located in proximity to at least one other device throughout the day, suggesting that devices can potentially collaborate to reduce the effort of resource intensive tasks, e.g., sensing, offloading, networking, storage, etc. However, merging the resources of multiple devices to work together is a tough challenge as it requires a common understanding of the context of each device. In addition, since smart devices function in multiple roles, understanding what really constitutes context becomes difficult as different types of contexts need to be modeled depending on the type of task. Context information is critical in multi device setups, e.g., for the formation of collaboration groups, and for negotiating responsibilities between the devices. Any misunderstandings in context can thus be extremely counterproductive for the collaboration between devices. Consider, for example, a computational task, e.g., game puzzle, whose execution can be accelerated by dividing computations between two or more devices. To distribute the task, we first need to understand the processing capacity of each device to ensure devices with insufficient resources are not harnessed for this task as they would turn into bottleneck for execution. By detecting the context for harnessing collaborative and opportunistic resources in proximity, it is possible to reduce the cost of executing tasks in the constrained resources of smart devices, and to diffuse the presence of smart devices beyond their existing computing isolated behavior. The goal of PerCrowd 2018 is to explore the impact of context in collaborative and opportunistic computing. More in detail, the goal of this workshop is to explore the use and effect of contexts on multi-device settings, whose computational behavior can be propagated within a community of devices for optimizing their energy and performance. Original papers addressing theoretical, practical, and technical aspects of opportunistic and collaborative self-organization of devices are solicited. Papers describing prototype implementations and deployment of such applications and systems are particularly welcome. The submission of informative surveys of the state of the art as well as position papers on controversial issues is also encouraged. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Context-aware collaborative systems and applications - Resource extension of pervasive and mobile applications - Opportunistic context modeling - Pervasive computing applications harnessing multiple devices - Data-driven techniques for community formation - Self-organizing community construction and evolution - Crowdsensing and crowdsourcing models for data acquisition and fusion - Applications of crowdsensed models, e.g., incentive models, decision making models, and privacy models. - Infrastructure, architectures, and platforms for collaborative systems - Lessons and experiences of evaluating multi device context-aware systems and applications - Emerging applications for multi device environments. PAPER FORMAT AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ________________________________________ Papers should contain original material and not be previously published or currently under consideration elsewhere. Manuscripts must be limited to 6 pages in IEEE 8.5x11 conference format, and formatted in accordance with the IEEE Computer Society author guidelines. Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press in the combined PerCom 2018 Workshop Proceedings and will appear on IEEE Xplore. At least one author of each accepted paper must register and attend the workshop to present the paper. There is no workshop-only registration. An oral presentation at the workshop is strictly required. Failure to present the paper at the workshop will result in the withdrawal of the paper from the Proceedings as well as from the IEEE Xplore. IMPORTANT DATES _______________ Abstract Registration: October 21, 2017 Submission Deadline: October 29, 2017 Acceptance Notification: December 23, 2017 Camera Ready due: January 12, 2018 Workshop: March 19 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ____________________ Program Committee Chairs - Huber Flores (University of Helsinki, Finland) - Pan Hui (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) - Vassilis Kostakos (The University of Melbourne, Australia) Workshop Web Chair - Rajesh Sharma (Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, Estonia) Publicity Chairs - Aaron Yi Ding (Technical University of Munich, Germany) - Chu Luo (The University of Melbourne, Australia) For more information, please check out percrowd.blogspot.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: ACM SenSys 2017 - Call for Posters and Demos
by Lars Wolf 10 Aug '17

10 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: ACM SenSys 2017 - Call for Posters and Demos Datum: Tue, 8 Aug 2017 18:07:07 +0200 Von: Carlo Alberto Boano <cboano(a)tugraz.at> Antwort an: iti.announcement(a)mlist.tugraz.at An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de ================================================================================ Call for Posters and Demos ACM SenSys 2017 http://sensys.acm.org/2017/ Delft, The Netherlands ================================================================================ SenSys 2017 solicits submissions of poster and demo abstracts reflecting on-going research progress and/or demonstrating working prototypes. We welcome submissions in broadly defined areas of interests (but not limited to): systems of smart sensors and actuators, brand-new applications of sensory devices, smart things, and smart infrastructure, and the underlying research challenges in communication, networking, energy and resources, data management, algorithms and machine intelligence, hardware designs, and deployment on real environments. Student participants will greatly benefit from the Posters and Demos session; it will be a lively forum to present their work and receive early feedback from international leading experts attending the conference. We explicitly encourage submissions of revolutionary concepts, path breaking ideas, and ongoing research prototypes. Major IT industry as well as emerging technology startups are also highly encouraged to participate. SenSys is an ideal venue to present brand-new products, early prototypes, new development platforms, or even ongoing crowdfunding projects of smart platforms and solutions that might catalyse future applications and/or disrupt today’s sensing and networking technologies. Submitted abstracts will be evaluated based on technical merit and innovation as well as their potential to stimulate interesting discussions and exchange of ideas. Authors of accepted abstracts will be given a one-minute slot in a “madness session” during the conference to present their work in front of the conference audience. As with previous editions of SenSys, the best poster and demo will receive an award. All abstracts shall be formatted according to the main conference paper layout. Accepted abstracts will appear in the conference proceedings and the ACM Digital Library. ## Submission Guidelines * Posters and Demos must be submitted as a single PDF containing no more than 2 pages. The submission should be self-contained ready for publication, including the title, authors, institutional affiliations and contact information, abstract, main body, and references. Please DO NOT anonymize your submission. Upon acceptance, instructions for the final camera-ready abstract will be provided.  * You may include links to additional online material such as videos. Links to videos showing the demonstration are especially encouraged. Videos of accepted posters/demos will be linked from the SenSys web pages and permanently included in the ACM Digital Library.  * To submit a demo abstract, please add “Demo Abstract:” at the beginning of the manuscript’s title.  * To submit a poster abstract, please add “Poster Abstract:” at the beginning of the manuscript’s title.  * Template link for MS Word and LaTeX. (If LaTeX is used, please use ‘Option 2’)  * Submissions for posters and demos can be done separately at the following URL: https://sensys17.hotcrp.com/  ## Important dates * Submission: August 16, 2017 * Notification of acceptance: August 25, 2017 * Camera-ready abstract: September 9, 2017 ## Co-chairs * Andrew Markham, University of Oxford * Marco Zuniga, Delft University of Technology ================================================================================ -- ................................................. Ass.Prof. Boano Carlo Alberto Graz University of Technology Institute for Technical Informatics Inffeldgasse 16, Room: IE01144 / E.2.12 A-8010 Graz, Austria Tel: +43 (0) 316 873-6413 Fax: +43 (0) 316 / 873 - 6903 E-Mail: cboano(a)tugraz.at http://www.carloalbertoboano.com .................................................

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [EWSN 2018] CALL FOR PAPERS
by Lars Wolf 10 Aug '17

10 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [EWSN 2018] CALL FOR PAPERS Datum: Wed, 9 Aug 2017 21:17:42 +0000 Von: Sun, Zhi <zhisun(a)BUFFALO.EDU> Antwort an: Sun, Zhi <zhisun(a)BUFFALO.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS EWSN 2018 International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks https://ewsn2018.networks.imdea.org https://m.facebook.com/ewsn.org https://twitter.com/EWSN_conference in-cooperation with ACM SIG on Embedded Systems Best Paper Award sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Simulation (TCSIM) February 14-16, 2018 Madrid, Spain ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **** PAPER REGISTRATION DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 6, 2017 ******* **** FULL MANUSCRIPT DUE: SEPTEMBER 11, 2017 ******* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 Cities, and Connected Cars. The featured topic of the 2018 edition of EWSN is "Sustainable Embedded Wireless Systems", with contributions that aim to contain the energy cost and the carbon footprint of embedded wireless systems. This builds on top of the successful EWSN 2016 and EWSN 2017 editions featuring the topic of "Dependability". Sustainable embedded wireless systems will operate on top of reliable, safe, and secure systems studied in past editions. Topics such as energy-efficient wireless networking tech- nologies and architectures, backscatter communication, adaptation of embedded systems supplied by variable renewable energy sources, wireless power transfer as well as application of embedded wireless systems to increase the energy efficiency of smart homes, smart buildings, and smart cities are welcome. Topics not related to "Sustainable Embedded Wireless Systems" are equally welcome as long as they fall into the scope of the conference, as described below. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Embedded wireless networking, from physical to application layers - Dependability (real-time, reliability, availability, safety) - Sustainability (low-power operation, energy management, energy har- vesting) - Wireless embedded computing platforms - Operating systems, middleware, and services - Programming paradigms, languages, and tools - Distributed and embedded computing for networked systems - Applications, deployment, and management - Security - Sensing, actuation, and control - Networked embedded sensing in robots and drones - Mobility, localization, tracking - Embedded data management and processing - Human-machine interaction - Cloud, back-end integration, and analytics AWARDS AND EDITORIAL FOLLOW-UP ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Papers presented at the Conference will be considered for a Best Paper Award, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Simulation (TCSIM). Papers of particular merit will be selected to be fast-tracked to ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ------------------------------------------------------------------------ EWSN 2018 is a highly selective conference. We will only accept for review original papers that have not been previously published and are not currently under review by any other conference or journal. The conference solicits both full technical papers, and short papers describing validated early ideas. We will adopt a double-blind review process, where the names of authors and their affiliations are unknown to reviewers until the end of the review process. We will also provide authors the possibility of a rebuttal before final decisions are made. Authors must make a good faith effort to anonymize their submissions such that the author identities are not disclosed to the reviewers. You can find detailed submission instructions at: https://ewsn2018.networks.imdea.org/call-for-papers.html ************************************************************************ *Submission implies the willingness of at least one author to attend * *the conference and present the paper. Accepted papers will be included* *in the proceedings of EWSN 2018 and indexed in the ACM digital library* ************************************************************************ IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Paper registration: September 6, 2017 - Paper submission: September 11, 2017 - Authors rebuttal deadline: November 13, 2017 - Notification of acceptance: December 1, 2017 WORKSHOPS AND AFFILIATED EVENTS: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ EWSN 2018 will host the MadCom and RED-IOT workshops, and also feature a sustainability competition, a poster and demo session, and one panel of renowned experts on "Testbeds and trials for 5G deployments". Please visit the conference website for further details. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GENERAL CHAIRS Domenico Giustiniano, IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain. Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA. VICE GENERAL CHAIR Albert Banchs, UC3M, Spain. TPC CHAIRS Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pisa, Italy. Kaushik Roy Chowdhury, Northeastern University, USA. WORKSHOP CHAIRS David Malone, Hamilton Institute, Ireland. Cristina Cano, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain. Elias Tragos, NUI Galway, Ireland. George Oikonomou, University of Bristol, UK. POSTER & DEMO CHAIRS Karin Anna Hummel, JKU Linz, Austria. Andreas Reinhardt, TU Clausthal, Germany. PANEL CHAIR Valerio Frascolla, Intel, Germany. COMPETITION CHAIRS Carlo Boano, TU Graz, Austria. Pablo Serrano, UC3M, Spain. Markus Schuss, TU Graz, Austria. LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR Paolo Casari, IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain. REGISTRATION CHAIR Maurizio Rea, IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain. PUBLICITY CHAIRS Marco Cattani, TU Graz, Austria. Asun SantamarÌa, UPM, Spain. Zhi Sun, University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA. Cong Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. PUBLICATIONS CHAIR Christian Renner, TUHH, Germany. WEB CHAIR Swetank Kumar Saha, University at Buffalo, SUNY, 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: ACM TOCHI Call for Papers: Special Issue on Human-Building Interaction
by Lars Wolf 09 Aug '17

09 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: ACM TOCHI Call for Papers: Special Issue on Human-Building Interaction Datum: Tue, 8 Aug 2017 13:00:00 -0400 (EDT) Von: Ken Hinckley <pubs(a)acm.org> An: wolf(a)IBR.CS.TU-BS.DE Call For Papers <http://www.acm.org/> *CALL FOR PAPERS* ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) /Special Issue on Human-Building Interaction/ Guest Editors *Hamed Alavi*, University of Fribourg and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) *Elizabeth Churchill*, Google, Mountain View *Mikael Wiberg*, Umea University *Denis Lalanne*, University of Fribourg *Peter Dalsgaard*, Aarhus University *Ava Fatah gen Schieck*, UCL, Bartlett School of Architecture *Yvonne Rodgers*, University College London & TOCHI Editorial Board ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Information for Contributors* Built environments increasingly incorporate interactivity and context-aware automation. Human-Building Interaction (HBI), as an emerging research field, seeks to develop an HCI lens to the vision of our interactive experiences with built environments. A special issue of TOCHI on Human-Building Interaction invites research contributions that examine the engagement of HCI in the evolution of buildings and urban spaces. In particular, we solicit articles that pursue the new coordinates that HCI should take into account when shifting attention and scale from "artefact" to "environment." For example, the investigations on the occupant comfort across multiple dimensions (e.g., thermal, visual, acoustic, respiratory), the discussions of the interplay between user agency and building automation, the reflections on the immersive and durable user experience design, and so forth. We seek contributions that address these and similar topics that embody the complexity of human's individual and collective experiences with and within the built environment. The invited topics include technological innovations, ethnographic studies, as well as conceptual and framing contributions. Between the lofty and mundane discourses of interactive architecture and connected products lies considerable space for grounded research and reflective discussion. This special issue invites attempts to capture, share, and expand what is already known, what is contested, and what are opportunities for a common scientific grounding for prospective dialogues and discourses in the area of Human-Building Interaction. It will serve both as a unifying stage for the existing voices that are centrally and peripherally working on HBI, and a platform for the research area to move forward. *The HBI special issue is interested in questions including (but not limited to) the following:* * How can HBI designers reconcile the complexity of human decisions with the efficiency that the automation systems promise? What services do we expect the building to provide seamlessly, and where do we want to retain the manipulation control, and through what interaction modalities? * What are the UX design challenges in creating buildings that can adapt to their occupants' contextualized needs and preferences? * Surveillance is increasingly common to provide security. How does the need for surveillance interplay with the privacy concerns which are especially elevated in inhabited environments? * What can we learn from the comfort literature in the scholarly domain of architecture, and how can an HCI perspective complement and (possibly) correct the current comfort discourses? * In what ways can built environments support and take advantage of social and cultural diversity? * Are architecture and interaction design methods and processes compatible? Concretely, how can a team of interaction designers bring their tools to an architectural project? *Submission Information* All contributions will be rigorously peer reviewed to the usual exacting standards of TOCHI. Further information, including TOCHI submission procedures and advice on formatting and preparing manuscripts, can be found at: *http://tochi.acm.org/authors* <https://orange.hosting.lsoft.com/trk/click?ref=znwrbbrs9_6-16171x312a19x039…>. Manuscripts must be submitted via the ACM online manuscript system to: *http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tochi* <https://orange.hosting.lsoft.com/trk/click?ref=znwrbbrs9_6-16171x312a1ax039…>. *Important Dates* * Pre-Submission Abstract Due: *Dec 8, 2017* (email to *HBI-TOCHI(a)unifr.ch* <mailto:HBI-TOCHI@unifr.ch>) * Full Manuscript Submission deadline: *Jan 12, 2018* (submit via *http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tochi*) * First-round Author Notifications: *April 15, 2018* * First-round Revisions due: *June 15, 2018* * Second-round (final) Author Notifications: *Sept 1, 2018* * Final Revisions Due: *Oct 10, 2018* * Publication Date: *February 2019* Please direct inquiries regarding the special issue to *HBI-TOCHI(a)unifr.ch* <mailto:HBI-TOCHI@unifr.ch>. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ UNSUBSCRIBE <https://optout.acm.org/unsubscribe.cfm?re=wolf@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de&rl=CFP> to stop receiving emails about publishing in ACM journals. Association for Computing Machinery, Two Penn Plaza, Suite 701, New York, NY 10121-0701, USA Copyright 2017, ACM, Inc.

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Fwd: ACM/IEEE IoTDI 2018 -- submission deadline October 6
by Lars Wolf 08 Aug '17

08 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: ACM/IEEE IoTDI 2018 -- submission deadline October 6 Datum: Tue, 8 Aug 2017 13:49:54 +0200 Von: Simon Duquennoy <simon.duquennoy(a)ri.se> Antwort an: simon.duquennoy(a)ri.se An: Undisclosed recipients <simon.duquennoy(a)ri.se> -- Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of the call -- ================================================================================ Call for Papers ACM/IEEE IoTDI 2018 http://conferences.computer.org/IoTDI/ Orlando, Florida, U.S.A. ================================================================================ Important (Preliminary) Dates Abstracts due: September 29th, 2017 Full papers due: October 6th, 2017 Author notification: January 15th, 2018 The ACM/IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI) is a premier venue on IoT. In 2018, IoTDI will be held for the third time and topics span the entire ecosystem revolving around IoT, such as cloud and edge computing, data analytics, sensor networks, mobile devices, Internet architecture, middleware and numerous IoT applications. To reflect the interconnection of IoT with both cloud computing and cyber-physical systems, IoTDI is co-located in even years with IEEE IC2E and in odd years with CPS Week. Plan to submit your best papers to ACM/IEEE IoTDI 2018 (deadline 2017/10/6) and see you in Orlando, Florida, in April 2018, where IoTDI will be co-located with IEEE IC2E. A confluence of technological advances marks the advent of a new era. World data volume is growing at an unprecedented pace, much of it from embedded devices. Smart cities are expected to grow, fed by millions of data points from multitudes of human and physical sources. Cyber-attacks grow more nefarious, bringing down physical systems. Social networks are becoming ubiquitous, offering information on physical things. The separation between cyber, physical, and social systems is blurring. Collectively, these developments lead to the emergence of a new field, where the networking and physical realms meet. It is the field of the Internet of Things (IoT). This conference is an interdisciplinary forum to discuss challenges, technologies, and emerging directions in system design and implementation that pertain to this Internet of Things. This conference invites researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and government, and accepts original, previously unpublished work on a range of topics related to the Internet of Things. * Analytic foundations and theory of the Internet of Things * Reliability, security, timeliness, and robustness in IoT systems * Novel protocols and network abstractions * Data streaming architectures * IoT-motivated cyber-physical and Industrial Internet systems * Novel quality requirements and their enforcement mechanisms * Cloud back-ends and resource management for IoT applications * Personal, wearable, and other embedded networked front-ends * Social computing and human-in-the-loop issues * Applications and drivers for the Internet of Things * Industrial deployment experiences, case studies, and lessons learned * Evaluation and testbeds General Chair * Chenyang Lu (Washington University in St. Louis) Program Co-Chairs * Olaf Landsiedel (Chalmers University of Technology) * Klara Nahrstedt (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Steering Committee Co-Chairs * Tarek Abdelzaher (Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) * Hui Lei (IBM Watson Health Cloud) Finance Chair * Tarek Abdelzaher (Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Publicity Co-Chairs * Simon Duquennoy (Swedish Inst. of Computer Science) * Mo Sha (Binghamton University) * Rui Tan (Nanyang Technological University) Poster Chair * Abusayeed Saifullah (Wayne State University) Demo Chair * Carlo Alberto Boano (Graz University of Technology) Web Chair * Chao Wang (Washington University in St. Louis) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "census" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to census+unsubscribe(a)sics.se <mailto:census+unsubscribe@sics.se>.

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] IPSN 2018 Call for Papers
by Lars Wolf 08 Aug '17

08 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] IPSN 2018 Call for Papers Datum: Tue, 8 Aug 2017 15:12:51 +0800 Von: Yuan He <heyuan(a)GREENORBS.ORG> Antwort an: Yuan He <heyuan(a)GREENORBS.ORG> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ======================================================================================= The 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks April 11-13, 2018 Porto, Portugal IPSN'18 is part of CPS Week 2018, co-locating with conferences HSCC, ICCPS and RTAS. http://ipsn.acm.org/2018 ======================================================================================= The International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) is a leading annual forum on research in networked sensing and control, broadly defined. IPSN brings together researchers from academia, industry, and government to present and discuss recent advances in both theoretical and experimental research. Its scope includes signal and image processing, information and coding theory, databases and information management, distributed algorithms, networks and protocols, wireless communications, collaborative objects and the Internet of Things, machine learning, mobile and social sensing, and embedded systems design. Of special interest are contributions at the confluence of multiple of these areas. Like prior years, IPSN'18 will continue its strong focus on algorithms, theory, and systems for information processing using networks of embedded, human-in-the-loop, or social sensors, as well as new hardware and software platforms, design methods, architectures, modelling, implementation, evaluation, deployment experiences, and tools for networked embedded sensor systems and the Internet of Things. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Sensor data storage, retrieval, processing - Streaming sensor system tasking and operation - Coding, compression, and information theory - Machine learning and deep learning on sensor data - Sensor tasking, control, and actuation - Theoretical foundation and fundamental bounds - Network and system architectures and protocols - IoT gateway platform architecture and services - Outdoor, wide-area sensing systems - Location, time, and other network services - Programming models, languages, and systems - Programming models for IoT ensembles - Embedded systems software frameworks - Modeling, simulation, and measurement tools - Operating systems and runtime environments - User interfaces for sensing apps and systems - Cloud, mobile, participatory, and social sensing - Applications in health, wellness & sustainability - Applications in smart cities and urban health - Experiences, challenges, comparisons of platforms - Discovery, coordination, and use of IoT services - Security and privacy in heterogeneous systems - IoT reliability, adaptability, and dependability - Technical assessment of emerging IoT standards - Wearable systems and data processing algorithms - Evaluation/deployment of industrial sensor systems - Sensor-enabled drone platforms and algorithms In addition to IPSN's traditional focus, IPSN 2018 will also include two new special tracks: Internet of Things (IoT), and Data and Machine Learning (DML). The IoT track will concentrate on issues related to the Internet of Things. Submission should refer to specific IoT-related issues including, but not limited to: - Programming models for IoT ensembles - Hardware, software, and system design for IoT - Discovery, coordination, and use of IoT services - IoT reliability, adaptability, and dependability - Technical assessment of emerging IoT standards The DML track will concentrate on data and machine learning related issues in the traditional IPSN topic areas above. Topics can include, but are not limited to: - Machine learning and deep learning on sensor data - New hardware and system design to enable machine learning on sensor data - Novel machine learning algorithms (e.g., new techniques for modeling, optimization, signal processing, interpretation, evaluation, etc.) - Data related issues (e.g. structure, management, database, methods, tools, analysis, etc.) - Technical assessment of emerging IoT standards The entire program committee is eligible to review any submitted paper, but to aid in reviewer selection, authors are encouraged to indicate in the submission site if their papers are related to any of the special tracks IoT or DML. All accepted papers will be presented in the main conference. Response Process: New this year, IPSN will elicit a review and response process. After the initial review, the technical program committee may request a short (1-page) response from selected papers for additional clarifications. The authors will get a short time window of roughly 24 hours to respond. Participation in the response process is not mandatory. ======================================================================================= Key Dates Paper Abstract Registration: September 29th, 2017 Paper Submission Deadline: October, 6th 2017 Response Period: January 8-10, 2018 Acceptance Notification: January 15, 2018 Camera-Ready Deadline: Februray 16, 2018 ======================================================================================= Organization Committee - General Chair: Luca Mottola (Politecnico di Milano and SICS) - Technical Committee Co-Chairs: Jie Gao (Stony Brook University) and Pei Zhang (Carnegie Mellon University) - Publicity Chair: Yuan He (Tsinghua 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] Extended deadline: IEEE 4th World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT) 5-8 February 2018 — Singapore: September 8th
by Lars Wolf 08 Aug '17

08 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Extended deadline: IEEE 4th World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT) 5-8 February 2018 — Singapore: September 8th Datum: Mon, 7 Aug 2017 13:30:01 -0400 Von: Essaid Sabir <essaid.sabir(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Essaid Sabir <essaid.sabir(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] WF-IoT 2018 Call for Papers NEW deadline September 8th http://www.ieee-wf-iot.org Theme: Smart Cities & Nations Organized by IEEE IoT Initiative With IEEE Multi-society sponsorship The 4th IEEE World Forum on The Internet of Things (WF-IoT 2018) in Singapore seeks contributions on how to nurture, cultivate, and accelerate the deployment of IoT technologies and applications for the benefit of society. The World Forum is soliciting submission of: Original technical papers that address but are not limited to, the following topics and the more detailed list in the full CFP: * IoT Enabling Technologies * Broadly Applicable IoT Techniques and Methods * IoT Application and Services * IoT Multimedia and Societal Impacts * Security and Privacy for Internet of Things * IoT Experimental Results and Deployment Scenarios Proposals of general interest and relevance to IoT. These should address the Technical Community and/or provide educational or expository material, or recognition of significant contributions to the advancement of IoT technologies. ========================================= Technical Paper Submissions The 4th IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT 2018) solicits two types of technical paper submissions. * Full papers describing original research. Suggested size is four pages; papers up to six pages will be accepted. Extended versions of selected papers may be considered for publication in IEEE IoT Journal: http://iot-journal.weebly.com/ * Extended abstracts describing emerging results of new research areas or relevant topics from an industrial point of view, not to exceed two pages. Papers will be fully peer reviewed. If the paper is accepted and presented, it will be included in the conference proceedings and be submitted to the Xplore Digital Library. IEEE takes the protection of intellectual property very seriously. All submissions will be screened for plagiarism using CrossCheck. By submitting your work you agree to allow IEEE to screen your work for plagiarism: http://www.crossref.org/crosscheck/index.html ========================================= How to submit All papers must be submitted in PDF and US letter format. Submitted papers must conform to the IEEE formatting guidelines as specified in these templates (Word Template, LaTeX package). All papers must be submitted electronically: https://www.edas.info/N23622 ========================================= Important Dates for Paper Submissions Technical paper submission: September 8, 2017 Acceptance Notification: November 15, 2017 Camera-ready submission: December 15, 2017 Papers must be submitted electronically: https://www.edas.info/N23622 Contacts for Technical Papers Hausi Muller, University of Victoria,Canada hausi(a)uvic.ca Antonio Skarmeta, Universidad de Murcia, Spain skarmeta(a)um.es ========================================= Call For Papers And Proposals 4th IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT 2018) 5-8 February 2018 Singapore http://www.ieee-wf-iot.org --- Essaid Sabir, NEST Research Group, Dept of Electrical Engineering, ENSEM, Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco. ______________________________________________________________ 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 Access | Convergence of Sensor Networks, Cloud Computing, and Big Data in Industrial Internet of Things
by Lars Wolf 06 Aug '17

06 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE Access | Convergence of Sensor Networks,Cloud Computing, and Big Data in Industrial Internet of Things Datum: Sun, 6 Aug 2017 10:14:53 +0000 Von: Mithun Mukherjee <mithun.mukherjee(a)OUTLOOK.COM> Antwort an: Mithun Mukherjee <mithun.mukherjee(a)OUTLOOK.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] CALL FOR PAPERS Submission Deadline: 10 December 2017 IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Convergence of Sensor Networks, Cloud Computing, and Big Data in Industrial Internet of Things. With growing attention from both academia and industry, industrial internet of things (IIoT), comprised of a multitude of connected devices, is supposed to monitor, collect, exchange, analyze, and further instantly act on information to intelligently change the industrial device’s behavior or the industrial environment (e.g., autonomous reaction to unexpected changes in production by effectively detecting failures and triggering maintenance processes). In consideration of this goal, the convergence of sensor networks, cloud computing, and big data in IIoT is recently identified as an essential component. Specifically, sensor networks are deployed to capture various data in IIoT. Meanwhile, cloud computing platforms are developed to store and process data powerfully in IIoT. Moreover, big data analytics tools are utilized to glean valuable findings from the massive data in IIoT. However, to integrate sensor networks, cloud computing, and big data in IIoT in a robust way, there are a lot of tough issues to be solved with respect to various aspects (e.g., framework, power efficiency, security, quality of service, etc.). Therefore, this Special Section in IEEE Access aims to solicit original technical papers with novel contributions on the convergence of sensor networks, cloud computing, and big data in IIoT. Review or survey type articles will also be considered. Submissions should focus on the convergence (i.e., the contemporaneous utilization of at least two of the three technologies – sensor networks, cloud computing, and big data in IIoT). Submissions that work on the experimental implementation of the convergence of sensor networks, cloud computing, and big data in IIoT are especially welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Frameworks that integrate sensor networks, cloud computing, and big data in IIoT * Data gathering in the convergence of sensor networks, cloud computing, and big data in IIoT * Green mechanisms that integrate sensor networks, cloud computing, and big data in IIoT * Data communication in the convergence of sensor networks, cloud computing, and big data in IIoT * Security techniques that integrate sensor networks, cloud computing, and big data in IIoT * Data computing in the convergence of sensor networks, cloud computing, and big data in IIoT * Quality of service enhancement methods that integrate sensor networks, cloud computing, and big data in IIoT * Data fusion in the convergence of sensor networks, cloud computing, and big data in IIoT * Novel applications that integrate sensor networks, cloud computing, and big data in IIoT * Data mining in the convergence of sensor networks, cloud computing, and big data in IIoT We also highly recommend the submission of multimedia with each article as it significantly increases the visibility, downloads, and citations of articles. Associate Editor: Lei Shu, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China Guest Editors: 1. Vincenzo Piuri, Universita’ degli Studi di Milano, Italy 2. Chunsheng Zhu, The University of British Columbia, Canada 3. Xuebin Chen, North China University of Science and Technology, China 4. Mithun Mukherjee, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, 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] [CALL FOR PAPERS] Feature Topic in IEEE Communications Magazine, "Multi-Access Mobile Edge Computing for Heterogeneous IoT"
by Lars Wolf 04 Aug '17

04 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CALL FOR PAPERS] Feature Topic in IEEE Communications Magazine, "Multi-Access Mobile Edge Computing for Heterogeneous IoT" Datum: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 02:51:36 -0400 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] Feature Topic in IEEE Communications Magazine, "Multi-Access Mobile Edge Computing for Heterogeneous IoT" Dear All, Please find below a call for papers for IEEE Communications Magazine, Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. --------------- CALL FOR PAPERS: Feature Topics in IEEE Communications Magazine, "Multi-Access Mobile Edge Computing for Heterogeneous IoT" This CFP can be seen at the website of IEEE Communications Magazine at http://www.comsoc.org/commag/cfp/multi-access-mobile-edge-computing-heterog… The THEME: --------------- The convergence of mobile internet and wireless systems have witnessed an explosive growth in resource-hungry and computation-intensive services and applications, which cover broad paradigms of so-called heterogeneous Internet of Things (H-IoTs). These systems include real-time video/audio surveillance, remote e-health systems, intelligent transportation systems, and Internet of Vehicles (IoV), and etc. Mobile edge computing, by placing various cloud resources (e.g., computational and storage resources) closer to smart devices/objects, has been envisioned as an enabling and highly promising technology to realize and reap the promising benefits of H-IoTs applications. However, the growing demands for ultra-low latency, massive connectivity, and high reliability of the large number of H-IoTs applications has yielded a critical issue in mobile edge computing, i.e. the limited connections (such as connection capacity, bandwidth, or the number of simultaneously affordable connections) between mobile edge cloud and smart devices/objects. Multi-access mobile edge computing (MA-MEC), which actively exploits a systematic and adaptive integration of recent radio access technologies including 5G, LTE, and Wi-Fi to enhance the access capacity of smart devices to mobile edge platforms, has been considered as a highly promising technology to tackle this issue. The evolution towards the architecture of ultra-dense small-cells in future radio access networks facilitates the MA-MEC, i.e., the densely deployed small cells can significantly improve the capacity and quality of the connections between smart devices and mobile edge cloud. Therefore, with the strength of multi-access for capacity-enhancement, the MA-MEC is expected to bring a variety of benefits, such as i) ultra-low latency between smart devices and edge cloud for real-time, interactive, and mission-critical applications, e.g., the real-time indoor navigation and augmented virtual-reality, ii) privacy and security in local communications to access mobile edge! cloud, and iii) big data analytics at the point of capture for IoT applications. However, the success of MA-MEC still requires tackling many new challenges. For instance, to efficiently exploit computation and storage resources at mobile edge nodes, a joint optimization of placement of computation/storage resource and cell-association with radio resource allocation is necessitated. Such joint optimization should be adaptive according to time-varying environments, e.g., the varying wireless channel states when users move across the cells and the dynamic computation/storage resource utilizations. Therefore, this Feature Topic (FT) aims at soliciting high quality and unpublished work regarding recent advances in MA-MEC, with the main focus on addressing the fundamental design issues in MA-MEC, and the emerging paradigms and testbeds that use MA-MEC. TOPICS: --------------- This Feature Topic aims at soliciting high quality and unpublished work regarding recent advances in MA-MEC, with the main focus on addressing the fundamental design issues in MA-MEC, and the emerging paradigms and testbeds that use MA-MEC. We solicit papers covering the topics of interests in the following two main categories: * Fundamental design issues in MA-MEC - Radio resource management for MA-MEC - Task scheduling and computation resource management for MA-MEC - Virtualization and network slicing for MA-MEC - Location and sizing of computation and storage elements for MA-MEC - Communication protocols and network architectures for MA-MEC - Security, privacy, and reliability in MA-MEC - QoE and QoS provisioning in MA-MEC - 5G/LTE/WiFi enabled MA-MEC - Energy management and green MA-MEC - Edge-to-cloud integration and protocols for MA-MEC - Human and social-driven design of MA-MEC * MA-MEC for Heterogeneous IoT - MA-MEC for smart cities - MA-MEC for video/audio surveillance - MA-MEC for industrial IoT - MA-MEC for smart energy systems - MA-MEC for smart healthcare - MA-MEC for intelligent transportation systems - MA-MEC for big data analytics MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION AND SUBMISSION: --------------- Articles should be tutorial in nature, with the intended audience being all members of the communications technology community. They should be written in a tutorial style comprehensible to readers outside the specialty of the article. Mathematical equations should not be used (in justified cases up to three simple equations are allowed). Articles should not exceed 4500 words (from introduction through conclusions, excluding figures, tables and captions). Figures and tables should be limited to a combined total of six. The number of archival references is recommended not to exceed 15. In some rare cases, more mathematical equations, figures, and tables may be allowed, if well-justified. In general, however, mathematics should be avoided; instead, references to papers containing the relevant mathematics should be provided. Complete guidelines for preparation of the manuscripts are posted at http://www.comsoc.org/commag/paper-submission-guidelines. Please submit a PDF (preferred) or MSWORD formatted paper via Manuscript Central (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/commag-ieee). Register or log in, and go to Author Center. Follow the instructions there. Select "July 2018 / Multi-Access Mobile Edge Computing for Heterogeneous IoT" as the Feature Topic category for your submission. TIME TABLE: --------------- * Manuscript Submissions Deadline: November 1, 2017 * Decision Notification: March 1, 2018 * Final Manuscripts Due: April 15, 2018 * Publication Date: July 2018 GUEST EDITORS: --------------- Yan Zhang (Leading Guest Editor) University of Oslo, Norway Email: yanzhang(a)ieee.org Yuan Wu Zhejiang University of Technology, China Email: iewuy(a)zjut.edu.cn Hassnaa Moustafa Intel Corporation, USA Email: hassnaa.moustafa(a)intel.com Danny H.K. Tsang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Email: eetsang(a)ust.hk Alberto Leon-Garcia University of Toronto, Canada Email: alberto.leongarcia(a)utoronto.ca Usman Javaid Vodafone, UK Email: usman.javaid(a)vodafone.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] [VNC 2017] Submission deadline in 2 weeks!
by Lars Wolf 03 Aug '17

03 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [VNC 2017] Submission deadline in 2 weeks! Datum: Thu, 3 Aug 2017 03:23:37 -0400 Von: Ashwin Ashok <aashok(a)GSU.EDU> Antwort an: Ashwin Ashok <aashok(a)GSU.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Dear All I would like to direct you to the Call for Submissions to the IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC) to be held in Torino, Italy from Nov 27-29, 2017. The submission is through the EDAS system and is open for submissions. Please mind the deadlines specified below. Submit full and short papers by *Aug 14 (5.59 PM EDT*) and Posters and Demo by *Aug 28 (5.59 PM EDT)* Note that selected papers will be considered for possible fast track publication in Elsevier Computer Communications journal! More information will be updated on the VNC website: http://www.ieee-vnc. org/ Looking forward to your submissions!! Thanks, VNC 2017 Publicity Chair Assistant Professor, Computer Science Georgia State University http://ashwinashok.com Office: 25 Park Place, Suite 734 Atlanta, GA 30303 ——————— *2017 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC)* *November 27-29, 2017 — Torino, Italy* *Call for Submissions* Connected vehicles are becoming a cornerstone of the increasingly connected world and the deployment phase of the first generation of vehicular networks is now closer than ever. As the applications for connected vehicles so does the demand for reliable networking. Large-scale testbeds are running or planned in different parts of the world, while multiple discussions are taking place at different levels and in different forums about the next generation of vehicular networks. The automated (and connected) vehicle will soon come into play and may significantly change the roots of vehicular networks. The 2017 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC) seeks to bring together researchers, professionals, and practitioners to present and discuss recent developments and challenges in vehicular networking technologies, and their applications. Selected papers will be considered for possible fast track publication in Elsevier Computer Communications journal. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): • 5G technologies for connected vehicles • Communications and networking for automated and semi-automated vehicles • Congestion and awareness control in vehicular networks • Novel technologies for V2X (TVWS, LTE-D, VLC, etc.) • Safety and non-safety applications of vehicular networks, including ITS • V2V, V2I and V2X communications and networking protocols • Vehicular communications with VRUs (Vulnerable Road Users) e.g., with bicyclists, pedestrians, etc. • In-vehicle communications (wireless or wired) • Radio propagation and technologies for vehicular networks (propagation models, antennas, etc.) • Protocols for vehicular networking (radio resource management, link layer, routing, mobility management, dissemination, transport etc.) • Security, privacy, liability, and dependability in vehicular networks • Network and QoS management for vehicular networks • Simulation and performance evaluation techniques for vehicular networks • Results from experimental systems, testbeds, and pilot studies • Impact assessments of vehicular networks on safety, transportation efficiency, and the environment • Communications related to electric and hybrid vehicles • Heterogeneous networking approaches (multi-radio, multi-channel, multi-application, multi-technology) • Integration of V2V with on-board systems and networks • Vehicular networking architectures and system design • Applications and services to enhance driver experience, performance, and behavior Important Dates Full/short paper submission deadline: August 14, 2017 Demo/Poster paper submission deadline: August 28, 2017 Acceptance notification: October 2, 2017 Camera ready paper due: October 16, 2017 Conference: November 27-29, 2017 Manuscript submissions We will consider two different categories of papers: Full papers (8 pages) and Short papers (4 pages), in addition to Poster and Demo papers (2 pages). Papers submitted to a category will NOT be moved to a different category, e.g. full papers will not be "downgraded" to short papers. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings and will be submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Please note that for every accepted contribution, at least one person must register for the conference and present. EDAS Submission system: https://edas.info/ Full details are published on the conference web site: http://www.ieee-vnc .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] Call for Papers: IEEE PerCrowd 2018 (co-located with IEEE PerCom)
by Lars Wolf 02 Aug '17

02 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Papers: IEEE PerCrowd 2018 (co-located with IEEE PerCom) Datum: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 14:12:42 +0000 Von: Huber Flores <000000b88e64d002-dmarc-request(a)comsoc.org> Antwort an: Huber Flores <huberflo(a)CS.HELSINKI.FI> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ************************************* [Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ************************************* ______________________________________________________________________ IEEE PerCrowd 2018 – 1st International Workshop on Context-Awareness for Multi-Device Pervasive and Mobile Computing Co-located with IEEE PerCom 2018, March 19-23 March 19, 2018 Athens, Greece http://percrowd.blogspot.com ______________________________________________________________________ SCOPE AND OVERVIEW __________________ Pervasive and mobile systems are constrained by energy and performance issues when they operate in isolation. Yet, several studies have shown that smart devices are frequently co-located in proximity to at least one other device throughout the day, suggesting that devices can potentially collaborate to reduce the effort of resource intensive tasks, e.g., sensing, offloading, networking, storage, etc. However, merging the resources of multiple devices to work together is a tough challenge as it requires a common understanding of the context of each device. In addition, since smart devices function in multiple roles, understanding what really constitutes context becomes difficult as different types of contexts need to be modeled depending on the type of task. Context information is critical in multi device setups, e.g., for the formation of collaboration groups, and for negotiating responsibilities between the devices. Any misunderstandings in context can thus be extremely counterproductive for the collaboration between devices. Consider, for example, a computational task, e.g., game puzzle, whose execution can be accelerated by dividing computations between two or more devices. To distribute the task, we first need to understand the processing capacity of each device to ensure devices with insufficient resources are not harnessed for this task as they would turn into bottleneck for execution. By detecting the context for harnessing collaborative and opportunistic resources in proximity, it is possible to reduce the cost of executing tasks in the constrained resources of smart devices, and to diffuse the presence of smart devices beyond their existing computing isolated behavior. The goal of PerCrowd 2018 is to explore the impact of context in collaborative and opportunistic computing. More in detail, the goal of this workshop is to explore the use and effect of contexts on multi-device settings, whose computational behavior can be propagated within a community of devices for optimizing their energy and performance. Original papers addressing theoretical, practical, and technical aspects of opportunistic and collaborative self-organization of devices are solicited. Papers describing prototype implementations and deployment of such applications and systems are particularly welcome. The submission of informative surveys of the state of the art as well as position papers on controversial issues is also encouraged. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Context-aware collaborative systems and applications - Resource extension of pervasive and mobile applications - Opportunistic context modeling - Pervasive computing applications harnessing multiple devices - Data-driven techniques for community formation - Self-organizing community construction and evolution - Crowdsensing and crowdsourcing models for data acquisition and fusion - Applications of crowdsensed models, e.g., incentive models, decision making models, and privacy models. - Infrastructure, architectures, and platforms for collaborative systems - Lessons and experiences of evaluating multi device context-aware systems and applications - Emerging applications for multi device environments. PAPER FORMAT AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ________________________________________ Papers should contain original material and not be previously published or currently under consideration elsewhere. Manuscripts must be limited to 6 pages in IEEE 8.5x11 conference format, and formatted in accordance with the IEEE Computer Society author guidelines. Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press in the combined PerCom 2018 Workshop Proceedings and will appear on IEEE Xplore. At least one author of each accepted paper must register and attend the workshop to present the paper. There is no workshop-only registration. An oral presentation at the workshop is strictly required. Failure to present the paper at the workshop will result in the withdrawal of the paper from the Proceedings as well as from the IEEE Xplore. IMPORTANT DATES _______________ Abstract Registration: October 21, 2017 Submission Deadline: October 29, 2017 Acceptance Notification: December 23, 2017 Camera Ready due: January 12, 2018 Workshop: March 19 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ____________________ Program Committee Chairs - Huber Flores (University of Helsinki, Finland) - Pan Hui (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) - Vassilis Kostakos (The University of Melbourne, Australia) Workshop Web Chair - Aaron Yi Ding (Technical University of Munich, Germany) Publicity Chair - Chu Luo (The University of Melbourne, Australia) For more information, please check out percrowd.blogspot.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: ACMIEEE IoTDI 2018 Call for Papers
by Lars Wolf 01 Aug '17

01 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: ACMIEEE IoTDI 2018 Call for Papers Datum: Tue, 1 Aug 2017 09:05:54 -0400 Von: Mo Sha <gowustl(a)gmail.com> An: Undisclosed recipients <gowustl(a)gmail.com> -- Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of the call -- ================================================================================ Call for Papers ACM/IEEE IoTDI 2018 http://conferences.computer.org/IoTDI/ Orlando, Florida, U.S.A. ================================================================================ Important (Preliminary) Dates Abstracts due: September 29th, 2017 Full papers due: October 6th, 2017 Author notification: January 15th, 2018 The ACM/IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI) is a premier venue on IoT. In 2018, IoTDI will be held for the third time and topics span the entire ecosystem revolving around IoT, such as cloud and edge computing, data analytics, sensor networks, mobile devices, Internet architecture, middleware and numerous IoT applications. To reflect the interconnection of IoT with both cloud computing and cyber-physical systems, IoTDI is co-located in even years with IEEE IC2E and in odd years with CPS Week. Plan to submit your best papers to ACM/IEEE IoTDI 2018 (deadline 2017/10/6) and see you in Orlando, Florida, in April 2018, where IoTDI will be co-located with IEEE IC2E. A confluence of technological advances marks the advent of a new era. World data volume is growing at an unprecedented pace, much of it from embedded devices. Smart cities are expected to grow, fed by millions of data points from multitudes of human and physical sources. Cyber-attacks grow more nefarious, bringing down physical systems. Social networks are becoming ubiquitous, offering information on physical things. The separation between cyber, physical, and social systems is blurring. Collectively, these developments lead to the emergence of a new field, where the networking and physical realms meet. It is the field of the Internet of Things (IoT). This conference is an interdisciplinary forum to discuss challenges, technologies, and emerging directions in system design and implementation that pertain to this Internet of Things. This conference invites researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and government, and accepts original, previously unpublished work on a range of topics related to the Internet of Things. * Analytic foundations and theory of the Internet of Things * Reliability, security, timeliness, and robustness in IoT systems * Novel protocols and network abstractions * Data streaming architectures * IoT-motivated cyber-physical and Industrial Internet systems * Novel quality requirements and their enforcement mechanisms * Cloud back-ends and resource management for IoT applications * Personal, wearable, and other embedded networked front-ends * Social computing and human-in-the-loop issues * Applications and drivers for the Internet of Things * Industrial deployment experiences, case studies, and lessons learned * Evaluation and testbeds General Chair * Chenyang Lu (Washington University in St. Louis) Program Co-Chairs * Olaf Landsiedel (Chalmers University of Technology) * Klara Nahrstedt (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Steering Committee Co-Chairs * Tarek Abdelzaher (Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) * Hui Lei (IBM Watson Health Cloud) Finance Chair * Tarek Abdelzaher (Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Publicity Co-Chairs * Simon Duquennoy (Swedish Inst. of Computer Science) * Mo Sha (Binghamton University) * Rui Tan (Nanyang Technological University) Poster Chair * Abusayeed Saifullah (Wayne State University) Demo Chair * Carlo Alberto Boano (Graz University of Technology) Web Chair * Chao Wang (Washington University in St. Louis)

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Fwd: IEEE INFOCOM'18 Abstract Deadline Quickly Approaching
by Lars Wolf 13 Jul '17

13 Jul '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: IEEE INFOCOM'18 Abstract Deadline Quickly Approaching Datum: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 16:55:52 -0400 Von: IEEE ComSoc Meetings <noreply(a)comsoc.org> An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de infocom18 7.13.17 Submit by 24 July! View message online - Click here <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=ItemNNAmNkRkKopwlUSiRw~~&pe=KLuy7kDJzgGO…>. IEEE INFOCOM 2018 <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=ItemNNAmNkRkKopwlUSiRw~~&pe=CxsF268q5KWE…> Paper Abstracts due 24 July 2017 *IEEE INFOCOM 2018 <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=ItemNNAmNkRkKopwlUSiRw~~&pe=v_WttWbn6Bp4…>* solicits research papers describing significant and innovative research contributions to the field of computer and data communications networks. We invite submissions on a wide range of research topics, spanning both theoretical and systems research. Submit here <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=ItemNNAmNkRkKopwlUSiRw~~&pe=KdtPELlUJFFY…> Topics include: - 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *IMPORTANT DATES* *Abstract Due* Monday, 24 July 2017 (11:59pm EDT) *Full Paper Due* Monday, 31 July 2017 (11:59pm EDT) *Notification of Acceptance* Monday, 27 November 2017 (11:59pm EDT) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *http://infocom2018.ieee-infocom.org <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=ItemNNAmNkRkKopwlUSiRw~~&pe=2vXuVfHG_Yj9…> ComSoc FACEBOOK page <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=ItemNNAmNkRkKopwlUSiRw~~&pe=I3Ej_aW1IsWe…> ComSoc Twitter page <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=ItemNNAmNkRkKopwlUSiRw~~&pe=O5wNcbYje5dv…> ComSoc LinkedIN page <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=ItemNNAmNkRkKopwlUSiRw~~&pe=pwNYdIVsw1_K…>* Join ComSoc & Save 50% <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=ItemNNAmNkRkKopwlUSiRw~~&pe=N4XkH7sWAgcT…> Unsubscribe <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=ItemNNAmNkRkKopwlUSiRw~~&pe=Qrt59xKfKokl…> from these messages. poweredByDark.png <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=ItemNNAmNkRkKopwlUSiRw~~&pe=FfDaRc5lZlc8…> www.comsoc.org <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=ItemNNAmNkRkKopwlUSiRw~~&pe=0RzZBjeGT2E1…> IEEE Communications Society - 17th floor, 3 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CfDemos] LCN 2017, 42nd IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks; Demo proposals due 25th July
by Lars Wolf 13 Jul '17

13 Jul '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CfDemos] LCN 2017, 42nd IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks; Demo proposals due 25th July Datum: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 20:48:22 +1000 Von: LCN Publicity Chairs <lcn.publicity(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: LCN Publicity Chairs <lcn.publicity(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Please let us know if it is undesirable to send CfPs to this list, and accept our apologies if this is the case.] == Call for Demos == The 42nd IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), October 9-12, 2017, Singapore http://www.ieeelcn.org/ === Important dates === * Demo Submission: July 25th, 2017 * Demo Acceptance: August 10th, 2017 * Demo Camera Ready: August 25th, 2017 === Scope === IEEE LCN 2017 will feature a demo session with the aim of providing demonstrations that validate important research issues and/or show innovative prototypes. Authors are invited to submit technical demonstrations showing innovative and original research. Proposals (no more than 3 pages) should be submitted via EDAS to the LCN Demo Track, and should describe the scope, significance and required equipment. IEEE LCN is a premier conference on theoretical and practical aspects of computer networking. The proposal should include one page that describes what conference participants will be able to see or experience during the demonstration. The authors are encouraged to highlight the research component of the demo and explicitly mention the novelty of the showcased technology/solution. <https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=23387> In general, IEEE LCN is looking for demonstrations in all topics covered by the main conference in addition to all the workshops held in conjunction with LCN 2017. Research prototypes as well as commercial products are welcome. Demonstrations will be selected based on the expected interest from the LCN audience. A public's favourite award will be given for the best demo of the session. Please see the LCN 2017 Home and Demonstrations Page for further details and updates. <http://www.ieeelcn.org/> <http://www.ieeelcn.org/Program_demos.html> === Proposal submission === A proposal should include: Scope and significance of the demo and the basic idea that it supports, equipment to be used for the demo, space and setup time needed, and additional facilities needed including power and Internet/wireless access. Proposals (no more than 3 pages) can be submitted via EDAS. <https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=23387> === Background Information === All demo proposals will be reviewed by the members of the Demo Board via an EDAS score sheet. The scores will be provided to the authors along with the notification. For registration, a demo is not regarded as a paper; a non-author registration is therefore needed for the presenter. For authors of LCN or workshop papers there is no extra charge for a demo. The conference registration will cover the demo. === Demo Board === Demonstration Chair: Adel Ben Mnaouer, Canadian University Dubai * Katrin Reitsma, Motorola Solutions, USA * Karl Andersson, Lule? University of Technology, Sweden * Matthias Hollick, SEEMOO Lab, TU Darmstadt, Germany * Dr. Kemal Akkaya, Florida International University, USA * Stefan Aust, NEC Communication Systems Ltd, Japan * Simone Ferlin, University of Oslo * Nicolas Kuhn, CNES, France * Emmanuel Lochin, University of Toulouse ISAE, France * Olivier Mehani, Learnosity, Sydney (Australia) * Tim Strayer, BBN Technologies, USA * Manabu Tsukada, The University of Tokyo, Japan * Ons Bouachir, Canadian University Dubai, UAE * Anis Yazidi, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Science, Norway * Aref Meddeb, Université de Sousse, Tunisie * Amine Dhraief, University of Manouba * Emad Eldin Mohamed, Canadian University Dubai, UAE. ______________________________________________________________ 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: Call for Papers MoMM2017, 04-06 December 2017, Salzburg, Austria
by Lars Wolf 12 Jul '17

12 Jul '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: Call for Papers MoMM2017, 04-06 December 2017, Salzburg, Austria Datum: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 11:53:39 +0200 Von: Ismail Khalil <ismail(a)iiwas.org> An: Lars <wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> Dear Friends and Colleagues, Valuing your distinguished contribution to the iiWAS and MoMM series of conferences, I would like to invite you to submit a paper to the 15th edition of the International Conference on Mobile Computing and Multimedia (MoMM2017) which is going to take place in Salzburg, Austria from 4-6 December 2017. Recently, MoMM has been held in Singapore (2016), Brussels (2015), Kaohsiung (2014), Vienna (2013), Bali (2012), Ho Chi Minh City (2011), Paris (2010), Kuala Lumpur (2009), and Linz (2008). Further details can be found at the conference website: http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/momm2017/. It is worth to mention that past MoMM proceedings have been published and listed in the ACM Digital Library, and MoMM2017 proceedings will again be published by ACM. Each year, MoMM has had up to six special issues in reputable internationaljournals. I am expecting that this will also continue this year. Please find attached the CFP of MoMM2017. I would really appreciate if you could help us to distribute it to your colleagues and students as well as any professional mailing lists to which you may have access. The submission deadline is August 1st for full papers, short papers, demos and work in progress. Please contact me if you have any inquiry, or need more information. Thank you very much and I am looking forward to your support for the success of this conference series. Best Regards, Ismail Khalil MoMM2017 Steering Committee Co-chair PS: We value your privacy and do not in any way wish to intrude. If you do not wish to receive any other messages from us, please reply to this email (Subject: DELETE - please specify your email address). Thank you. ============================================================ Ismail Khalil Tel: +43 732 2468 4688 Institute of Telecooperation Mobile: +43 680 125 9331 Johannes Kepler University Linz Fax: +43 732 2468 4675 Altenberger Strasse 69 email: ismail.khalil(a)jku.at A-4040 Linz, Austria http://www.iiwas.org/ismail/ =============================================================

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE Access | Convergence of Sensor Networks, Cloud Computing, and Big Data in Industrial Internet of Things
by Lars Wolf 12 Jul '17

12 Jul '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE Access | Convergence of Sensor Networks,Cloud Computing, and Big Data in Industrial Internet of Things Datum: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 00:36:13 +0000 Von: shu lei <lei.shu(a)LIVE.IE> Antwort an: shu lei <lei.shu(a)LIVE.IE> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG CALL FOR PAPERS Submission Deadline: 10 December 2017 IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Convergence of Sensor Networks, Cloud Computing, and Big Data in Industrial Internet of Things. With growing attention from both academia and industry, industrial internet of things (IIoT), comprised of a multitude of connected devices, is supposed to monitor, collect, exchange, analyze, and further instantly act on information to intelligently change the industrial device’s behavior or the industrial environment (e.g., autonomous reaction to unexpected changes in production by effectively detecting failures and triggering maintenance processes). In consideration of this goal, the convergence of sensor networks, cloud computing, and big data in IIoT is recently identified as an essential component. Specifically, sensor networks are deployed to capture various data in IIoT. Meanwhile, cloud computing platforms are developed to store and process data powerfully in IIoT. Moreover, big data analytics tools are utilized to glean valuable findings from the massive data in IIoT. However, to integrate sensor networks, cloud computing, and big data in IIoT in a robust way, there are a lot of tough issues to be solved with respect to various aspects (e.g., framework, power efficiency, security, quality of service, etc.). Therefore, this Special Section in IEEE Access aims to solicit original technical papers with novel contributions on the convergence of sensor networks, cloud computing, and big data in IIoT. Review or survey type articles will also be considered. Submissions should focus on the convergence (i.e., the contemporaneous utilization of at least two of the three technologies – sensor networks, cloud computing, and big data in IIoT). Submissions that work on the experimental implementation of the convergence of sensor networks, cloud computing, and big data in IIoT are especially welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Frameworks that integrate sensor networks, cloud computing, and big data in IIoT * Data gathering in the convergence of sensor networks, cloud computing, and big data in IIoT * Green mechanisms that integrate sensor networks, cloud computing, and big data in IIoT * Data communication in the convergence of sensor networks, cloud computing, and big data in IIoT * Security techniques that integrate sensor networks, cloud computing, and big data in IIoT * Data computing in the convergence of sensor networks, cloud computing, and big data in IIoT * Quality of service enhancement methods that integrate sensor networks, cloud computing, and big data in IIoT * Data fusion in the convergence of sensor networks, cloud computing, and big data in IIoT * Novel applications that integrate sensor networks, cloud computing, and big data in IIoT * Data mining in the convergence of sensor networks, cloud computing, and big data in IIoT We also highly recommend the submission of multimedia with each article as it significantly increases the visibility, downloads, and citations of articles. Associate Editor: Lei Shu, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China Guest Editors: 1. Vincenzo Piuri, Universita’ degli Studi di Milano, Italy 2. Chunsheng Zhu, The University of British Columbia, Canada 3. Xuebin Chen, North China University of Science and Technology, China 4. Mithun Mukherjee, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China Related IEEE Access Special Sections: 1. Big Data Analytics in Internet-of-Things And Cyber-Physical System <http://bit.ly/2j1jT80> 2. Trends and Advances for Ambient Intelligence with Internet of Things Systems<http://bit.ly/2i6B9wd> 3. Security and Privacy in Applications and Services for Future Internet of Things<http://bit.ly/2js1DI2> ______________________________________________________________ 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: PPNA special issue on Network Coverage
by Lars Wolf 11 Jul '17

11 Jul '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: PPNA special issue on Network Coverage Datum: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 22:31:30 +0800 Von: Xiufang Shi <xfshi.zju(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Xiufang Shi <xfshi.zju(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Call for Papers PPNA special issue on Network Coverage: From Theory to Practice Coverage problem has been a hot topic in the last two decades with the rising of wireless sensor networks. It is concerned with the quality of sensing about the targets of interest that the sensor network is deployed for. Extensive previous effort has been devoted to exploring coverage theory, which ranges from point coverage, barrier coverage to area coverage in line with the dimension of concerned targets. Though these theoretical investigations provide insightful understanding about coverage, there are quite limited previous studies reporting coverage application in practical scenarios. How much can we gain by applying theoretical coverage results from the practical point of view? Further, some recent results are provided about coverage problem in other research fields, such as cellular network and social networks. Is it possible to provide a general theoretical framework for network coverage given the understanding gained from sensor networks? The answers to these two fundamental questions would extend the boundaries of traditional sensor coverage and push the coverage research from theory to practice. The objective of this call is to bring latest thoughts and applications in generic network coverage, that help put together a clear map for this important area. The potential interesting topics of this call include, but are not limited to: ü Sensor deployment for coverage in sensor networks ü Sensor scheduling for coverage in randomly deployed sensor networks ü Coverage modeling in sensor networks ü Dynamic coverage in mobile sensor networks ü Joint optimization of coverage and connectivity ü Practical applications in sensor networks ü Coverage problem in varying fields ü Practical implementations in varying fields ü Studies on the framework of generic network coverage ü Optimization for generic network coverage The manuscript to this special issue must be original with significant contributions, and have not been under review in any other journals or conferences. Each submission must include a title, an abstract, a list of key words, and an introduction that summarizes the contributions of the paper, and will be reviewed according to the normal standard and procedure of this journal. When submitting your article, please indicate that you are submitting to the Special Issue on Network Coverage: From Theory to Practice (SI: Network Coverage). The final versions of accepted papers must follow the PPNA guidelines www.Springer.com/12083, with an expected page limit of 20 pages including references and appendices *Tentative Schedule:* Manuscript Due: Aug. 30, 2017 First Notification: Nov. 15, 2017 Revised version: Dec. 15, 2017 Final notification: Jan. 15, 2017 Publication Date: Second quarter, 2018 *Guest editors:* Shibo He, Zhejiang University, s18he(a)zju.edu.cn Dong-Hoon Shin, AT&T lab., Donghoon.Shin.2(a)asu.edu Yuanchao Shu, Microsoft Research Asia, yuanchao.shu(a)microsoft.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] CFP: Computer networks SI on Green computing in wireless sensor networks
by Lars Wolf 11 Jul '17

11 Jul '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: Computer networks SI on Green computing in wireless sensor networks Datum: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 22:30:26 +0800 Von: Xiufang Shi <xfshi.zju(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Xiufang Shi <xfshi.zju(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG *CFP* *of Special Issue in Elsevier Computer Networks* *Green Computing in Wireless Sensor Networks* The past decades have witnessed the advancement of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) in both academic and industrial communities. In a WSN, a large number of sensor nodes are deployed and networked to monitor or survey targeted area, such that the interested data can be sensed, processed, stored and collected. Through WSNs, we are able to bridge the physical word and the cyber space, which composes the foundation for developing new smart applications. Many potential applications of WSNs have been exploited in the fields of environmental engineering, healthcare, industry, military applications, smart home, and green buildings etc. To enable the pervasive deployment of WSNs, the biggest stumbling block is the contradiction between the various functionalities demanded by applications and the limited energy supply for sensor nodes. Such a situation is getting worse, especially considering the increasing network scale. Therefore, in this special issue, we look at WSNs, mainly from the perspective of green computing. On one hand, we expect to design energy-saving (or –free) protocols cross different system layers, to prolong the network lifetime as far as possible. Specifically, to practice WSNs in real applications, we are supposed to achieve a tradeoff between system performance and energy efficiency, through adapting sensing/networking functionalities to energy budget. On the other hand, we can resort to seeking new techniques to sustainably supply energy to sensor nodes. For example, sensor nodes equipped with certain mechanisms can harvest energy from surrounding circumstance, or we can rely on dedicated devices to periodically charge the sensor nodes (if they are re-chargeable). The above threads (or the joint optimizations cross them) are of great significance to improve the sustainability and performance of WSNs. Therefore, it is highly worthy to extensively investigate how we run a WSN in a green fashion. Topics of primary interest are centered around green computing in WSNs, including but not being limited to: l Energy harvesting/charging and power management l Long-life sensor node deployment and topology control l Energy-efficient communication protocol design l Scheduling algorithms for sensor networks l Energy-efficient (or –free) sensing techniques l New applications of self-sustainable sensor networks l Data routing, processing and storage strategies l Network modelling and performance analysis *Schedule* Manuscript Due: August 15th, 2017 First Notification: October 31st, 2017 Revised version: December 15th, 2017 Final notification: January 15th, 2018 Publication Date: The 2nd quarter of 2018 (tentative) *Guest Editor* *Feng Li* (Corresponding Editor) School of Computer Science and Technology Shandong University Jinan, Shandong, China 250101 Email: fli(a)sdu.edu.cn *Shibo He* School of Computer Science and Engineering Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China 310027 Email: s18he(a)zju.edu.cn *Jun Luo* School of Computer Science and Engineering Nanyang Technological University Singapore 639798 Email: junluo(a)ntu.edu.sg *Gurusamy Mohan* Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering National University of Singapore Singapore 117576 Email: elegm(a)nus.edu.sg *Junshan Zhang* School of Electrical, Computer and Engineering Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-7206 Email: junshan.zhang(a)asu.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 IEEE International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Security (CPS-Sec) (July 18, 2017)
by Lars Wolf 10 Jul '17

10 Jul '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP IEEE International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Security (CPS-Sec) (July 18, 2017) Datum: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 13:19:11 -0400 Von: Nico Saputro <nsapu002(a)FIU.EDU> Antwort an: Nico Saputro <nsapu002(a)FIU.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG -- Apologies for redundant copies of this call -- -- Please forward to anyone who might be interested -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS * IEEE International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Security (CPS-Sec)* In Conjunction with the IEEE CNS 2017 October 9-11, 2017, Las Vegas, USA http://cns2017.ieee-cns.org/workshop/cps-sec-international-workshop-cyber-p… --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) consist of large-scale interconnected systems of heterogeneous components interacting with their physical environments. In the CPS realm, humans and/or smart networked devices interact with and control the physical world around them through actuators, sensors, etc. “CPS is envisioned to transform the way people interact with engineered systems, just as the Internet transformed the way people interact with information." (US National Science Foundation). Today, the boundary between cyber and physical systems is blurring. Indeed, cyber devices that can interact with the physical world are on the rise. For instance, smart phones and tablets are all equipped with various sensors (e.g., accelerometers, GPS), which enable the vision of CPS by allowing human beings to interact with the physical world. Similarly, a multitude of CPS devices and applications exist in industrial, transportation, medical, home-security, building automation, emergency management, pow er, and many other systems, which serve critical functions in our lives. Given the popularity of the CPS applications, securing them against malicious activities is of utmost importance. Otherwise, malfunctioning and insecure CPS devices and applications can cause enormous damage to individuals, businesses, and nations. Therefore, the International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Security (CPS-Sec) seeks novel submissions describing practical and theoretical solutions to the cyber security challenges facing CPS. Submissions may represent any application area for CPS. Hence, papers that are pertinent to the security of embedded systems, Internet of Things, SCADA Systems, Smart-Grid Systems, Critical Infrastructure Networks, Transportation Systems, Medical Devices are all welcome. Example topics of interest are given below, but are not limited to: - Secure CPS architectures - Authentication mechanisms for CPS - Access control for CPS - Key management in CPS - Data security and privacy for CPS - Forensics for CPS - Intrusion detection for CPS - Trusted-computing in CPS - Energy-efficient and secure CPS - Availability, recovery and auditing for CPS - Distributed secure solutions for CPS - Threat models for CPS - Physical layer security for CPS - Security on heterogeneous CPS - Secure protocol design in CPS - Vulnerability analysis of CPS - Anonymization in CPS - Security of CPS in automotive systems - Security of CPS in aerospace systems - Security of embedded systems - Security of CPS in medical devices/systems - Security of CPS in civil engineering systems/devices - Security of industrial control systems - Security of Internet-of-Things IMPORTANT DATES: ---------------------------- Submission Deadline : July 18, 2017 Notification of Acceptance : August 09, 2017 Camera-Ready : August 16, 2017 Workshop Date : October 9-11, 2017 PAPER SUBMISSION: ---------------------------- Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently under review in any other conference or journal, and has not been previously published. All submissions must be written in English with a maximum paper length of 5 (five) pages (including text, figures, and references) and formatted according to the two-column IEEE conference format. Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Digital Library after the conference and included in the IEEE CNS proceedings. Papers should be submitted through EDAS http://edas.info/N23805 . Workshop General Co-Chairs: ----------------------------------- Selcuk Uluagac, Florida International University, USA Mauro Conti, University of Padua, Italy Kemal Akkaya, Florida International University, USA Program Co-Chairs: ------------------------ Gabriele Tolomei, Yahoo Research Labs, UK Hidayet Aksu, Florida International University, USA Jianying Zhou, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore Publicity Co-Chairs: ------------------------ Berkay Celik, Pennsylvania State University, USA Nico Saputro, Florida International University, USA Web Chair: -------------- Tooska Dargahi, University of Rome 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] [ACM CoNEXT 2017 I-TENDER Workshop] CFP - Workshop on ICT Tools for Emergency Networks and DisastEr Relief, paper submission by September the 15th
by Lars Wolf 10 Jul '17

10 Jul '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [ACM CoNEXT 2017 I-TENDER Workshop] CFP - Workshop on ICT Tools for Emergency Networks and DisastEr Relief, paper submission by September the 15th Datum: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 16:50:17 +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 CoNEXT 2017 I-TENDER Workshop The First Workshop on ICT Tools for Emergency Networks and DisastEr Relief co-located with ACM CoNEXT 2017 December 12, 2017 Seoul, South Korea http://conferences2.sigcomm.org/co-next/2017/#!/i-tender + Paper Submission: September 15, 2017 + Notification of Acceptance: October 9, 2017 ***Call for Papers*** Raising awareness on the provision of public safety services through the most diverse ICT technologies is a key opportunity and one of the most urgent challenges in the field of today's communication networks. Relevant scenarios include the natural disasters such as earthquakes, fires or floods that disrupt traditional communication infrastructures, or that displace large crowds, overloading what is left of the communication infrastructure. In these scenarios, people are in need of directions, advice, updates on the current situation and they often need to send out requests for help or to make their location known to rescue teams. Ideally, users should be able to communicate directly between themselves, even in the absence of a cellular infrastructure - a common occurrence in disaster scenarios. However, it is also crucial that solutions and platforms are developed to integrate emergency management data coming from multiple sources, including feeds provided by citizens through social media and crowdsourcing. The I-TENDER workshop will aim at capturing the research and technology trends that enable such awareness by soliciting contributions along three main directions. First, solutions that leverage the widespread availability of handheld devices (smartphone, tablets) that act as the prime contact point to alert the population of impending dangers and as a locating device for rescue teams. Secondly, data analysis techniques that take into account the pervasive role of social networks in collecting and spreading information and provide accurate checking using appropriate tools. And, finally, emerging networking paradigms that go beyond the traditional infrastructure-based model, rather leveraging disruption-tolerant models and device-to-device communication, such as Wi-Fi direct and LTE-D2D. The workshop seeks original work presented in the form of research papers describing new research approaches and results. Highly disruptive work-in-progress and position papers are welcome, provided they focus on particularly innovative solutions or applications for emergency and disaster relief. We also invite authors to submit papers presenting extensive experiences with implementation, deployment, and operation. Topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to: + Challenged networks (e.g., disaster relief and emergency management) + Network systems for emergency scenarios (e.g., UAV-supported base stations) + Peer-to-peer and overlay networks for infrastructureless communication + Delay/disruption-tolerant networks + Participatory and opportunistic networking, computing and sensing + Security/trust/privacy topics in emergency scenarios + Social Media-based localization and data filtering + Local mobile clouds + Tools for building emergency and disaster relief solutions + Location and positioning in constrained scenarios + User interface and mobile application design for emergency management ***Submission Instructions*** Electronic submissions will be handled using HotCRP: https://i-tender17.hotcrp.com The workshop will accept both long papers and short papers. Long papers may be up to 6 pages long, while short papers may be up to 2 pages long. These lengths include all figures, tables, references, and appendices. Papers must obey the same CoNEXT formatting requirements outlined here: http://conferences2.sigcomm.org/co-next/2017/#!/submission (with the exception of page length). The review process is single-blind. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. Authors of accepted papers are required to present their papers at the workshop. Extended versions of papers of special merit will be considered for possible fast track publication in Elsevier's Pervasive and Mobile Computing journal. ***Organization Committee*** + Claudio Casetti, Politecnico di Torino, Italy + Marcelo Dias de Amorim, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France + Paolo Garza, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Dr. Pedro Casas CoNEXT 2017 Publicity chair PEDRO CASAS Scientist Information Management Center for Digital Safety & Security AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH Donau-City-Straße 1 | 1220 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: 14. Fachgespräch "Ortsbezogene Anwendungen und Dienste" - Berlin, 21./22. September 2017
by Lars Wolf 10 Jul '17

10 Jul '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: 14. Fachgespräch "Ortsbezogene Anwendungen und Dienste" - Berlin, 21./22. September 2017 Datum: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 15:09:20 +0200 Von: Jörg Roth <Joerg.Roth(a)th-nuernberg.de> An: Jörg Roth <Joerg.Roth(a)th-nuernberg.de> CALL FOR PAPERS 14. Fachgespräch Ortsbezogene Anwendungen und Dienste (Location based Applications and Services) 21./22. September 2017 Berlin URL: http://www.wireless-earth.de/fg_lbs/fg_lbs.html Deadline für Extended Abstract: 7. August ======================================================================= Das Programmkomittee ruft zur Einreichung von Beiträgen für das 14. Fachgespräch "Ortsbezogene Anwendungen und Dienste" auf. Das Spektrum für Beiträge kann theoretische, methodische und technologische Aspekte sowie Geschäfts-, Behörden- und neue Anwendungen umfassen. Die Auswahl der Fachgesprächsthemen widmen sich den Aspekten der ortsbezogenen Anwendungen und Dienste. Neue und originelle Arbeiten sind jeder Zeit herzlich willkommen. Die Themen beinhalten die folgenden Eckpunkte: Anwendungen: Ortsbezogene Anwendungen und Dienste - Ortsbezogene Dienste des Mobilfunks, Dienstvermittlung und -suche - Datenbanken für ortsbezogene Dienste, Geodatenbanken, GIS - Umsetzungen konkreter ortsbezogener Anwendungen z.B. Tour Guides, Friend Finder - Modellierung von Mobilität und des Benutzerkontextes - Kartenerstellung, GIS, Navigation und Routing Technologie: Frameworks und Sicherheit - Nutzerinterfaces mobiler und ortsbezogener Anwendungen - Middleware-Plattformen für ortsbezogene Anwendungen und Dienste - Positionsbestimmung, auch auf der Basis mobiler Netzwerke - Sicherheitsaspekte mobiler und ortsbezogener Dienste - Generische Frameworks und Bibliotheken Grundlagen: Neuartige Anwendungsbereiche und Themen - Neuartige Anwendungsbereiche mit Ortsbezug (Gaming, Entertainment, Sicherheit, Frühwarnsysteme, Katastrophenmanagement) - Verteilte Algorithmen und Simulationsmodelle - Sensorik bzw. Sensornetze zur Erfassung von Kontextdaten - Angrenzende Themen z.B. aus dem Bereich der Geoinformatik Einreichung Beiträge bitte in Form eines Extended Abstract (max. zwei Seiten) bis zum 7. August 2017 per Email einreichen. Es sind Beiträge in deutscher oder englischer Sprache erwünscht. Konferenzsprache ist Deutsch. Nach dem Fachgespräch werden Teilnehmer gebeten, ihre Beiträge als Vollpublikation einzureichen, die in einem Tagungsband mit zitierfähiger Referenz (ISSN/ISBN) veröffentlicht wird. Derzeit wird der CEUR-WS.org favorisiert. Wichtige Termine 07. August 2017: Einreichung Extended Abstract (max. 2 Seiten) 21. August 2017: Benachrichtigung der Autoren 21.-22. September 2017: 14. Fachgespräch Ortsbezogene Anwendungen und Dienste 23. Oktober 2017: Einreichung der Final-Version Kontaktadresse zur Anmeldung, Einreichung und Organisation: lbas-2017(a)lists.htw-berlin.de Homepage zum Treffen: http://www.wireless-earth.de/fg_lbs/meeting_14/meeting_14.html Programmkomittee: * Jörg Roth, TH Nürnberg * Jochen Schiller, FU Berlin & Fraunhofer FOKUS * Agnès Voisard, FU Berlin & Fraunhofer FOKUS * Christian Becker, Universität Mannheim * Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, LMU München * Alexander Zipf, Universität Heidelberg * Axel Küpper, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories * Frank Fuchs-Kittowski, HTW Berlin & Fraunhofer FOKUS * Ulrich Meissen, HTW Berlin & Fraunhofer FOKUS Lokale Organisation: * Frank Fuchs-Kittowski, HTW Berlin & Fraunhofer FOKUS * Ulrich Meissen, HTW Berlin & Fraunhofer FOKUS -- * Prof. Dr. habil. Joerg Roth * Faculty of Computer Science * Nuremberg Institute of Technology * Tel. +49-911-5880-1169 Email: Joerg.Roth(a)th-nuernberg.de * Fax +49-911-5880-5666 Web: http://www.wireless-earth.de * Postal address: Kesslerplatz 12, 90489 Nuremberg, Germany * Office address: Hohfederstraße 40, 90489 Nuremberg

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP - IEEE Percom 2018
by Lars Wolf 07 Jul '17

07 Jul '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP - IEEE Percom 2018 Datum: Fri, 7 Jul 2017 08:59:27 +0000 Von: Sarah Clinch <sarah.clinch(a)MANCHESTER.AC.UK> Antwort an: Sarah Clinch <sarah.clinch(a)MANCHESTER.AC.UK> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG =============================================================================== The Sixteenth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications PerCom 2018 (http://www.percom.org/) =============================================================================== Athens, Greece, March 19-23, 2018 =============================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE PerCom, now in its sixteenth year, is established as the premier annual scholarly venue in the areas of pervasive computing and communications. Pervasive computing and communications have evolved into highly active areas of research; they have found their way into many current commercial systems due to the tremendous advances in a broad spectrum of technologies and topics including wireless networking, mobile and distributed computing, sensor systems, ambient intelligence, and smart devices. PerCom 2018 will be held in Athens, the capital city of Greece and one of the most historic cities in Europe. PerCom 2018 will provide a leading edge scholarly forum for researchers, engineers, and students alike to share their state-of-the art research and developmental work in the broad areas of pervasive computing and communications. The conference will feature a diverse mixture of interactive forums: core technical sessions of high-quality cutting-edge research articles; targeted workshops on exciting topics; live demonstrations of pervasive computing in action; insightful keynote speeches; panel discussions from domain experts; and posters of emerging ideas. Research contributions are solicited in all areas pertinent to pervasive computing and communications, including: * Advances in pervasive systems and infrastructures: middleware systems and services; large-scale data management for pervasive computing; clouds, cloudlets, and fog computing; integrations of smartphones in pervasive experiences; applications of device-to-device coordination. * Theories, models, and algorithms: context modeling and reasoning; adaptive and context-aware computing; activity recognition; programing paradigms; applied machine learning; cognitive computing techniques. * Domain-specific challenges and novel applications: urban/mobile crowdsensing & intelligence; pervasive technologies for healthcare; cyber-physical pervasive computing; innovative pervasive computing applications. * Intersections of pervasive computing with: social networks; opportunistic networks; Internet of things; sensor networks; RFID systems; big data. * New techniques for user-level concerns : participatory and social sensing; trust, security, and privacy; user interface, interaction, and persuasion; social networking and pervasive computing. * Technological innovations: architectures, protocols, and technologies for pervasive communications; mobile and wearable computing systems and services; smart devices and intelligent environments; positioning and tracking technologies. Contributions can be analytical, empirical, technological, methodological, or a combination of these. Papers reporting strong systems engineering contributions backed by solid and appropriate evaluations are strongly encouraged. The impact of the contributions should be demonstrated in the context of pervasive computing and communications. Papers applying known techniques from other fields must clearly demonstrate substantial novelty or pervasive computing impact. ================================= Workshops and Affiliated Events ================================= A number of workshops will be held in conjunction with the main conference. Workshop papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE digital libraries (Xplore) along with papers from the main conference. As in the past, PerCom 2018 will also feature a PhD Forum, Work-in-Progress Posters, and Live Demonstrations. Please visit the conference website for details. ================================= Best paper award ================================= The best paper will receive the prestigious Mark Weiser Best Paper Award. Papers of particular merit will be considered for a special issue of the Elsevier journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC). ================================= Important Dates ================================= Paper Registration: September 15, 2017 Paper submission: September 22, 2017 Notification: December 12, 2017 Camera Ready: January 12, 2018 ================================= Submission Guidelines ================================= Submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication. Also, they must show a significant relevance to pervasive computing and communications. Guidelines for preparing and submitting the manuscript will be made available on the conference website. Submitted papers will undergo a rigorous review process handled by the Technical Program Committee. ================================= Organizing Committee ================================= General Co-Chairs George Roussos, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK Achilles Kameas, Hellenic Open University, Greece Program Chair Gergely Záruba, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Vice Program Co-Chairs Brent Lagesse, University of Washington, Bothell, USA Flora Salim, RMIT University, Australia Gregor Schiele, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany Workshops Co-Chairs Petteri Nurmi, University of Helsinki, Finland Daniele Riboni, University of Cagliari, Italy ================================= Additional Information ================================= Web: www.percom.org(http://www.percom.org/) Email (TPC Chair): percom2018@gmail.com(mailto:percom2018@gmail.com) Social Media: www.facebook.com/percom(http://www.facebook.com/percom) twitter.com/ieeepercom(http://twitter.com/ieeepercom) ______________________________________________________________ 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 Internet of Things Journal (IF=7.596) Special Issue on Towards Positioning, Navigation, and Location Based Services (PNLBS) for Internet of Things
by Lars Wolf 06 Jul '17

06 Jul '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IF=7.596) Special Issue on Towards Positioning, Navigation, and Location Based Services (PNLBS) for Internet of Things Datum: Thu, 6 Jul 2017 13:45:46 -0400 Von: Yuan Zhuang <zhy.0908(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Yuan Zhuang <zhy.0908(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG CFP: IEEE Internet of Things Journal Special Issue on Towards Positioning, Navigation, and Location Based Services (PNLBS) for Internet of Things 2016 Impact Factor: 7.596 Scope and Objective In the past decade, technological advancements have facilitated the manufacturing of compact, inexpensive, and low-power consuming receivers and sensors for smart devices (e.g., GPS, WiFi, MEMS sensors, RFID, UWB, BLE, etc.). This arises the fast development of Positioning, Navigation and Location Based Services (PNLBS), and leads them become much broader than just providing a location or navigation. These positioning technologies and their enabling integrated systems have been promoted into the IoT world such as asset tracking, autonomous parking, virtual reality, context awareness, condition monitoring, geolocation, smart manufacturing, as well as smart cities. In fact, PNLBS have become indispensable to the future of IoT. On the other hand, IoT systems create limitless possibilities for PNLBS, due to their sophisticated cloud computing technologies, powerful big data analysis, and embedded multi-sensors. The aim of IoT architectures for provisioning of PNLBS is to design an accurate, low-cost, low-power, reliable, and scalable solution for cutting-edge applications. To achieve this goal, several challenges should be addressed, such as improving positioning accuracy, reducing the power cost, handling to track millions of devices as well as transmitting and processing big data. Therefore, the research is required to conduct on not only PNLBS algorithms, but also new IoT architectures and chip design technologies. Extensive research efforts have been paid either on PNLBS algorithms, or IoT architectures and chip design. However, research efforts on their combination remain open and require further investigations, such as how to accurately track millions of devices by consuming low power, how to use IoT technique (e.g., crowdsourcing) to automatically generate wireless fingerprinting database for positioning, how to design low-power positioning chip/system suitable for IoT architectures, etc. The goal of this Special Issue is to solicit the latest unpublished work on PNLBS for IoT. The areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Scalable IoT architectures for asset tracking Geo-centric cloud/edge computing in IoT Security and privacy in PNLBS Low-power chip/system design for positioning in IoT Crowdsourcing for positioning in IoT Machine learning for location estimation in IoT Multi-sensors fusion for IoT Wireless localization technologies (WiFi, BLE, RFID, UWB, etc.) in IoT MEMS sensors for localization and context awareness in IoT Advanced estimation theories for positioning in IoT Control and navigation technologies for autonomous system (e.g., UAV, driverless vehicle, etc.) in IoT Location based services for smart city (e.g., ehealth, smart home, smart transportation, etc.) applications in IoT Notes for Prospective Authors All original manuscripts or revisions to the IEEE IoT Journal must be submitted electronically through IEEE Manuscript Central, http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/iot. Solicited original submissions must not be currently under consideration for publication in other venues. Author guidelines and submission information can be found at http://iot.ieee.org/journal. Important Dates Submissions Deadline: September 1, 2017 First Reviews Due: November 15, 2017 Revision Due: January 1, 2018 Second Reviews Due/Notification: February 15, 2018 Final Manuscript Due: March 1, 2018 Publication Date: 2018 Guest Editors Yuan Zhuang (Lead Guest Editor) Bluvison Inc.,USA zhy.0908(a)gmail.com Yue Cao Northumbria University, UK yue.cao(a)northumbria.ac.uk Naser El-Sheimy University of Calgary, Canada elsheimy(a)ucalgary.ca Jun Yang Southeast University, China dragon(a)seu.edu.cn Best Regards, Yuan Zhuang, PhD | Lead Scientist Bluvision, Inc. 600 Corporate Dr. Suite 410 Fort Lauderdale FL 33334 | +9547065898 ______________________________________________________________ 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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