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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CfP: Elsevier COMCOM Special Issue: Multi-X Vehicular Comm's
by Lars Wolf 13 Nov '15

13 Nov '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CfP: Elsevier COMCOM Special Issue: Multi-X Vehicular Comm's Datum: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 11:52:00 +0100 Von: Christoph Sommer <sommer(a)CCS-LABS.ORG> Antwort an: Christoph Sommer <sommer(a)CCS-LABS.ORG> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ** now open for submissions; deadline extended to 30 November 2015 ** Elsevier Computer Communications Special Issue Call for Papers Multi-radio, Multi-technology, Multi-system Vehicular Communications Scope ----- Vehicular networks have rapidly evolved from their roots as an application of mobile ad hoc networks to today's fusion of interdisciplinary research on computer communications. Inspired by governments' visions of vastly improved road traffic safety and transport efficiency and hailed as industry's enabler of a plethora of value-added services for passengers and drivers, stakeholders are pushing the rulemaking for an adoption of vehicular communication technologies in newly sold cars, in turn inspiring bold research ventures. Despite the plethora of efforts devoted to this research field, the peculiarities of vehicular environments call into question the capabilities of existing solutions and standard specifications to meet the increasingly strict scalability, reliability, and quality of experience demands of such visions. Indeed, the expected tsunami of data to be exchanged, both to support cooperative/autonomous driving applications and to satisfy the growing data appetite of users on wheels, will burden the network. In such a context, the widespread availability of multiple radio technologies and multiple radio channels per technology, along with complete communication systems is envisioned to merge with sophisticated physical layer and medium access control approaches, and emerging cognitive radio and software-defined radio techniques, thus opening the door to new exciting research opportunities in multi-radio, multi-technology, multi-system vehicular communications. The goal of this special issue is to gather high-quality and unpublished papers contributing to the evolution of vehicular networking and, in particular, focusing on the aforementioned developments. The contributions to this special issue may present novel ideas, methodologies, algorithms, architectures, models, experiments. High-quality review and survey papers are also welcomed. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Multi-radio and multi-channel communications - Multi-technology (PAN, WLAN, long range) communications - Multi-system (short range radio, cellular, backbone) communications - Physical layer, medium access, and congestion control design from radio to visible light and beyond - Vehicle-to-X (roadside, pedestrian, grid, in-vehicle) data dissemination, system integration, services, and applications - IEEE 802.11p DSRC/WAVE, ETSI ITS-G5, ARIB standardization - Cellular technologies for vehicular communications and/or vehicle-to-X (LTE-Advanced, LTE-Direct) - New challenges in security & privacy - Simulation tools and methodologies, analytical models, experimental evaluation and field operational tests - Applications of multi-radio, multi-technology, or multi-system vehicular communications Paper Submission ---------------- Please see http://www.elsevier.com/locate/comcom for preparation guidelines and visit http://ees.elsevier.com/comcom to submit your manuscript. To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion into the special issue, please select "SI: Multi-X Vehicular Comm's" when you reach the Article Type step in the submission process. For further information, please contact the guest editors. Guest Editors ------------- Claudia Campolo Univ. Reggio Calabria, Italy Lin Cheng Trinity College, USA Christoph Sommer Univ. Paderborn, Germany Hsin-Mu "Michael" Tsai National Taiwan University Journal Metrics --------------- SNIP Impact per Paper 2.409 SCImago Journal Rank 1.470 Impact Factor 1.695 5-Year Impact Factor 1.625 Important Dates --------------- Manuscript submission (extended!) 30 November 2015 First notification 30 January 2016 Revised paper submission 15 March 2016 Notification of acceptance 30 April 2016 -- Dr. Christoph Sommer Distributed Embedded Systems Group University of Paderborn, Germany http://www.ccs-labs.org/~sommer/ ______________________________________________________________ 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: Extended Deadline: EWSN 2016 Workshops
by Lars Wolf 12 Nov '15

12 Nov '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: Extended Deadline: EWSN 2016 Workshops Datum: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 17:23:02 +0000 Von: Römer Kay Uwe <roemer(a)INF.ETHZ.CH> Antwort an: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Final Call for EWSN 2016 Workshop Contributions ***** EXTENDED DEADLINE: November 16, 2016 ***** Intl. Workshop on New Wireless Communication Paradigms for the Internet of Things (MadCom) Intl. Workshop on Next Generation Platforms for the Cyber-Physical Internet (NextMote) www.iti.tugraz.at/EWSN2016 ==================================================================== MadCom: New Wireless Communication Paradigms for the Internet of Things ==================================================================== CFP link: http://bit.ly/MadCom2016 For the last two decades radio frequency (RF) has been at the core of the revolution enabling wireless communication for the Internet of Things (IoT). But RF communication has been a victim of its own success, the ever increasing number of devices joining the IoT are saturating the RF bandwidth. We need alternative ways to exploit RF technology and to use other means to transmit data wirelessly. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different communities to discuss and explore novel wireless communication technologies for the IoT. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: + backscatter communication + visible light communication + magnetic induction communication + infrared communication + laser communication + camera-based communication + thermal-based communication + acoustic communication + applications for novel wireless communication methods + new platforms + theoretical models + new communication methods with RF signals + new network stacks (MAC, Routing) for novel communication technologies ==================================================================== NextMote: Next Generation Platforms for the Cyber-Physical Internet ==================================================================== CFP link: http://bit.ly/NextMote2016 The hardware for networked embedded systems and Internet of Things (IoT) has evolved significantly over the last decades. During this time two major classes of platforms have emerged for network gathering and processing of sensor data: firstly so called "motes" that are based on a micro controller and well suited for prototyping and testing hypotheses and solutions in the field, and secondly smartphones as ubiquitous and powerful yet mobile communications and computing platforms already adopted by wide population. However, as the number of devices and applications continue growing in numbers and reducing in size, novel, superior platforms should emerge. Let us call these new platforms "NextMote". What will they be, and how to design them? The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: + Modular, multi-core, multi-radio, and reconfigurable architectures for NextMote + Devices for novel communication: dense, sparse, and directional coverage + Pushing NextMote towards battery-less operation: energy harvesting, storage, and transfer + Pushing the size of NextMote towards "smart dust", ultra-thin, and stretchable + Unconventional form factors and packaging: wearable, on-body, printable NextMotes + Surviving extreme environments and leaving no trace: bio-degradable, digestible, disposable NextMotes + Robust and redundant design for NextMote health, reliability and self healing + Design, evaluation and profiling tools, and next level testbeds for NextMote + Hardware assisted security and privacy in resource constrained devices + Low-level software, firmware, operating systems for NextMote + Ultra low-cost hardware and deployments at large + Nature inspired (passive) mobility, NextMotes as seeds or pollen Submission Instructions ==================================================================== The short papers can be of a technical nature, presenting preliminary technical results, or position papers presenting a thought-provoking view regarding methods or applications. 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. The papers can have a maximum length of 6 pages (two column 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 templates provided here: http://bit.ly/ewsn-template2016 Key Dates ==================================================================== Paper submission deadline: November 16, 2015 - 23:59.59 UTC (extended) Paper notification: December 7, 2015 - 23:59.59 UTC

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] One month left: CFP SI of Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing on Pervasive Social Computing
by Lars Wolf 12 Nov '15

12 Nov '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] One month left: CFP SI of Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing on Pervasive Social Computing Datum: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 16:57:51 +0100 Von: Andrea Passarella <a.passarella(a)IIT.CNR.IT> Antwort an: Andrea Passarella <a.passarella(a)IIT.CNR.IT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ******** * * ONE MONTH TO THE DEADLINE * ******** CALL FOR PAPERS Elsevier – Pervasive and Mobile Computing Special Issue on Pervasive Social Computing http://www.journals.elsevier.com/pervasive-and-mobile-computing/call-for-pa… Submission Deadline: 30 November 2015 Pervasive Social Computing represents a new paradigm resulting from the convergence of Pervasive Mobile Computing with Social Networking; it aims to take advantage of human social relationships to enable the attainment of users' tasks in different domains. On the one hand, the impressive diffusion of Online Social Networking platforms is making OSNs a pervasive tool for maintaining social relationships between people. On the other hand, the diffusion of mobile personal devices with rich networking and computing capabilities is fostering novel patterns of users interactions through social networks, also depending on the dynamic context and locations of the users. Last but not least, pervasive mobile technologies enable completely novel types of social networking applications and services, such as Mobile Social Networks. The enormous potential of Pervasive Social Computing is leading scientific communities in different disciplines, from computer science to social science, communication science and economy, to analyze, study and provide new theories, models, methods, technological solutions and case studies. Interestingly, more and more Pervasive Mobile Computing technologies are designed using inter-disciplinary approaches, that exploit models of the users personal and social behavior to design algorithms, protocols, services and applications. The special issue aims to encourage the multidisciplinary discussion involving academics, researchers and professionals on theories, approaches, analysis, design and evaluation of services and networking solutions for Pervasive Social Computing. Researchers are increasingly interested in addressing a wide range of Pervasive Social Computing challenges residing in Social networks and Social Computing systems including: their architecture, algorithms and protocols for social networking services, the creation of new analysis models, the monitoring of emerging trends, studies on trust, privacy and security issues and their potential applications. The list of topics includes, but is not limited to: - Security, privacy and trust in Pervasive Social Computing systems - Innovative Pervasive Social Computing services and applications - Architectures, algorithms and protocols for Pervasive Social Computing systems - Mobile networking solutions for Pervasive Social Computing - Context modeling, reasoning and context awareness in Pervasive Social Computing - Pervasive sensing technologies applied to Pervasive Social Computing - Opportunistic networking for Pervasive Social Computing - Innovative Mobile Social Networking technologies and services - Inter-disciplinary approaches to the design of Pervasive Social Computing systems - Analysis of users social interactions in mobile and pervasive social networks - Novel Online Social Networking services and users’ behaviors enabled by pervasive mobile networks - Real experiences and experiments with Pervasive Social Computing systems and applications - Opportunistic and transient social interactions in Pervasive Social Computing systems - Social and economic models for Pervasive Social Computing systems - Pervasive and social collaboration tools - Impacts of Pervasive Social Computing on users’ behaviour in different domains (e.g. e-business, e-market, e-learning, e-health) Schedule Submission deadline: November 30th, 2015 Initial feedback to authors: March 31st, 2016 Revised papers due: May 15th, 2016 Final authors notification: June 30th, 2016 Expected Publication of the Special Issue: 4th Quarter 2016 Guest Editors Patrizia Grifoni, IRPPS-CNR, Italy Fernando Ferri, IRPPS-CNR, Italy Alessia D’Andrea, IRPPS-CNR, Italy Tiziana Guzzo, IRPPS-CNR, Italy Andrea Passarella, IIT-CNR, Italy Instructions for submission All submissions have to be prepared according to the Guide for Authors as published in the Journal website at http://www.ees.elsevier.com/pmc/. Authors should select “SI: PSC”, from the “Choose Article Type” pull-down menu during the submission process. All contributions must not have been previously published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. A submission based on one or more papers that appeared elsewhere has to comprise major value-added extensions over what appeared previously (at least 30% new and significant material). Authors are requested to attach to the submitted paper their relevant, previously published articles and a summary document explaining the enhancements made in the journal version. In addition, such papers must be referenced, and the difference clearly explained, in the submitted paper. For further information, please contact the guest editors at pmc-psc at iit.cnr.it -- Andrea Passarella -- Institute for Informatics and Telematics (IIT) National Research Council (CNR) Via G. Moruzzi, 1 voice: +39 050 315 3269 56124 Pisa, Italy fax: +39 050 315 2593 @/sip: a.passarella(a)iit.cnr.it mobile: +39 346 0082 540 http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/andrea ======================================================================== Just Published! V. Arnaboldi, A. Passarella, M. Conti, R.I.M. Dunbar Online Social Networks: Human Cognitive Constraints in Facebook and Twitter Personal Graphs Elsevier, October 2015 http://store.elsevier.com/Online-Social-Networks/Valerio-Arnaboldi/isbn-978… ______________________________________________________________ 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] VTC'16 Spring Workshop "Contest" CFP, 15-18 May 2016, Nanjing China
by Lars Wolf 11 Nov '15

11 Nov '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] VTC'16 Spring Workshop "Contest" CFP, 15-18 May 2016, Nanjing China Datum: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 11:17:51 -0500 Von: Yu Fu <yufu54(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Yu Fu <yufu54(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Sent on behalf of Prof. Cheng-Xiang Wang ( http://www.ece.eps.hw.ac.uk/~cxwang/.) —————————————————— Dear Colleagues, Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ======================== CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on Connecting All Things for Enabling Smart Cities (CONTEST), in conjunction with VTC2016-Spring, 15–18 May 2016, Nanjing, China SCOPE As a key initiative for promoting the quality of living and resource efficient economy, the smart city concept has attracted much attention in both academia and industry. Information and communication technologies (ICT), particularly advanced communication techniques, play a critical role in facilitating intelligent collection and utilization of heterogeneous data from deployed equipment throughout cities. The major challenges in this area have included: low energy consumption requirement, limited radio frequency bandwidth, low-latency requirement and cost-effective requirement. To address these challenges, it is of vital importance to sustainably develop a set of new concepts and theories for improving the energy efficiency, the spectral efficiency and the network design, such as cognitive radio, interference alignment, energy harvesting communications and ultra-dense network technologies. This workshop aims to facilitate this sustained effort and enhance international collaborations by disseminating cutting-edge research results. Participants will be able to share perspectives and newest research findings, and further identify collaboration opportunities in the emerging research areas of smart cities. Potential topics include but are not limited to • Green cities and smart cities • 5G oriented smart cities • Big data and cloud computing in smart cities • Internet of things in smart cities • Cognitive radio in smart cities • Spectrum sensing and spectrum sharing • Ultra-dense network • Interference management and alignment • Energy-efficiency and spectral-efficiency • Energy harvesting technologies and communications • Wireless power and information transfer • Smart grid communications • Green communications and computing • Novel network architecture design • Resource-efficient cross-layer optimization • Cooperative communications • Antennas design and channel modelling • Duplexing methods • Machine-to-machine communications • Safety, security, and privacy for smart Cities • Intelligent transportation systems IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: 10th January 2016 Acceptance notices sent by: 10th February 2016 Camera-ready papers due: 10th March 2016 HOW TO SUBMIT A PAPER The papers shall be prepared with 5-6 page length using IEEE conference templates, and submitted to https://vtc2016sp-rr-wks.trackchair.com/. Papers with more than 6 pages are not acceptable. Other information can be found in: https://www.dur.ac.uk/ecs/smart.grid/contest/ CO-CHAIRS General Chairs Hongjian Sun, University of Durham, UK Nan Zhao, Dalian University of Technology, China Richard F. Yu, Carleton University, Canada TPC Co-Chairs Yi Qian, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA Shengrong Bu, University of Glasgow, UK Huiqin Du, Jinan University, China Panel Co-Chairs Chao Wang, Tongji University, China Jie Ding, Yangzhou University, China Stephen Wang, Toshiba Research Europe Limited, UK Publicity Co-Chairs John S. Thompson, University of Edinburgh, UK Cheng-Xiang Wang, Heriot-Watt University, UK Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Melike Erol Kantarci, Clarkson University, USA Kai Yang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Steering Committee A. Nallanathan, King’s College London, UK Jinsong Wu, University of Chile, Chile Yiwei Fang, Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe Limited, UK Wei-Yu Chiu, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: The Second International Workshop on Recent Advancs on Machine to Machine Communication (RAMCOM 2016)
by Lars Wolf 05 Nov '15

05 Nov '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: The Second International Workshop on Recent Advancs on Machine to Machine Communication (RAMCOM 2016) Datum: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 16:08:03 +0000 Von: Ben Jaballah <wafa.benjaballah(a)ORANGE.COM> Antwort an: wafa.benjaballah(a)ORANGE.COM An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive duplicates of this posting. Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS RAMCOM 2016 The Second International Workshop on Recent Advances on Machine-to-Machine Communication http://hanalab.org/RAMCOM-16/ in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2016) May 23-26, 2016, Madrid, Spain Call for Papers ============== Machine-to-machine communication is considered as the next technology revolution. It involves a huge number of autonomous smart machines, sharing information and collaborating together. M2M technology encompasses a large spectrum of applications ranging from e-health and biomedical sensor networks, to vehicular technology, smart grid and advanced metering infrastructures. As the voice revenue is in constant decrease, Telecom operators are energetically supporting this new technology as it is one of the most promising revenue-generating services. >From a standardization point of view, the M2M paradigm is still in its infancy. Both ETSI and 3GPP standards do not provide a seamless and unified M2M architecture, which is a sine qua none condition to the healthy and sustained development of the M2M market. Furthermore, the spreading of M2M technologies still hinge on fully providing a secure and fault-tolerance to M2M communications. Finally, in a single M2M network might coexist several radio technologies (Zigebee, bluetooth, UWB, WiFi and Femtocell...), which could dramatically impact M2M channels with fluctuation and noise. This workshop aims to gather researchers, engineers and practitioners both from academia and industry as well as end users who aim to present recent advances on Machine-to-Machine communications. Topics of Interest ================ The workshop proposes to address, but is not limited to, the following topics related to M2M communications, paradigms, frameworks and innovative applications: - M2M Standardization progress - Spectrum management for M2M - Green M2M communication - M2M system architecture and components - Security, trust and privacy of M2M devices and services - Mobility management for M2M - M2M and information centric networking - Reliability management for M2M - Medium access technologies and protocols for M2M communication - M2M traffic models - M2M and Smart Grid - M2M and vehicular technology - M2M and smart homes - Cloud support for M2M applications - New M2M applications, services, and business models - M2M testbeds and field trials - Mobile and distributed sensing - Decentralized algorithms for M2M control and communication Important Dates ================= Abstract deadline: January 16th, 2016 Full papers due: January 23 rd, 2016 Author notification: February 21 st, 2016 Camera ready due: March 21st , 2016 Papers Submissions Guidelines Submitted manuscripts should not exceed 6 pages in length including all figures, tables and references. The submitted paper must be formatted according to the guidelines of Procedia Computer Science<http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/719435/descrip…>, MS Word Template<http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-12/PROCS_2011%20%282%29.dotx>, Latex<http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-12/ecrc-procs.zip>, Elsevier. Authors are requested to submit their papers electronically using the online workshop management system<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ramcom2016> in PDF format before the deadline (see Important Dates). The submission processes will be managed by easychair.org<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ramcom2016>. If you have used this system before, you can use the same username and password. If this is your first time using EasyChair, you will need to register for an account by clicking "I have no EasyChair account" button. Upon completion of registration, you will get a notification email from the system and you are ready for submitting your paper. You can upload and re-upload the paper to the system by the submission due date. All ANT-2016 and associated workshops accepted papers will be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com<http://www.journals.elsevier.com/procedia-computer-science> and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/18770509>), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index<http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/>/<http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/>. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/<http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/journals/procedia/procedia5.html#ShakshukiY11>). At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and attend the conference to present the work. Authors of selected best papers from this workshop will be invited to submit an extended version to international journal special issues (To be announced). Workshop General Chairs Abdelfettah Belghith College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University HANA Research laboratory, ENSI, University of Manouba, Tunisia Mohamed Mosbah LaBRI, University of Bordeaux, France Khalil Drira LAAS-CNRS, France Workshop TPC Chairs Imen Jemili HANA Research Laboratory, ENSI, University of Manouba, Tunisia Amine Dhraief HANA Research Laboratory, ENSI, University of Manouba, Tunisia Thierry Monteil LAAS-CNRS, INSA, University of Toulouse, France MORE INFORMATION Please visit Workshop webpage: http://hanalab.org/RAMCOM-16/index.html ANT webpage: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-16<http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-16/#homePage> For any Inquiry please send an email to: jemili.imen.ensi(a)gmail.com<mailto:jemili.imen.ensi@gmail.com>, aminedhraief(a)gmail.com<mailto:aminedhraief@gmail.com> and monteil(a)laas.fr<mailto:monteil@laas.fr> _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Ce message et ses pieces jointes peuvent contenir des informations confidentielles ou privilegiees et ne doivent donc pas etre diffuses, exploites ou copies sans autorisation. 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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CPF- Communications in Extreme Conditions Workshop (ComExCon) with IEEE WCNC'16
by Lars Wolf 05 Nov '15

05 Nov '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CPF- Communications in Extreme Conditions Workshop (ComExCon) with IEEE WCNC'16 Datum: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 14:09:36 -0500 Von: Melike Erol Kantarci <merolkan(a)CLARKSON.EDU> Antwort an: Melike Erol Kantarci <merolkan(a)CLARKSON.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Apologies if you receive multiple copies ********************************************************* Comexcon 2016 - in conjunction with IEEE WCNC 2016 Doha, Qatar - April 3, 2016 Paper submission deadline: November 23, 2015 Workshop Organizers: Hüseyin Arslan, Medipol University Melike Erol-Kantarcı, Clarkson University Tunçer Baykaş, Medipol University web: https://comexcon2016.wordpress.com ********************************************************** Communications in Extreme Conditions Workshop (ComExCon) aims to bring together academicians and practitioners in areas related to communications in disaster, remote or other extreme environments and in extreme operating conditions such as dangerous temperatures or radiation levels and critical energy constraints. It will serve as a platform for presenting and discussing in the areas of physical layer design, networking and related topics, facilitating communication system development as well as cooperation among the key players. Regarding extreme conditions, some examples are: • Disaster situations, e.g. fires, floods, including post-disaster search and rescue/recovery • Networks which are deployed in remote and possibly hazardous locations, such as, volcanoes, polluted and radioactive areas • Situations where wireless interference that may be detrimental/hazardous to the surrounding, such as, ICUs / medical instrumentation, industrial plants Workshop will be held in beautiful Doha Qatar in conjunction with WCNC 2016 and welcome a broad range of topics including communication system design, mobile computing, low power devices and protocols, delay tolerant networks and other networking paradigms, distributed computing paradigms, big data, distributed systems, cloud computing and user experience. Topics for the conference include, but are not limited to: • Emergency and urgent communication networks • Channel measurements and channel modeling for extreme environments • Communications for mining, oil and gas production • Communication networks for pipelines • Low-power and intermittent-power protocols • Underwater networking • Testbeds for large-scale sustainable testing of mobile communication systems • Real deployments of networks in extreme environments • Security, privacy, and trustworthiness of extreme communications • Robotic communications and mobile augmented reality • Unmanned aerial vehicles for disaster relief • Resilient public infrastructure (smart grid, oil/gas/water pipes, transportation) communications • Accepted papers will be published in IEEE Xplore. ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE WoWMoM 2016 - Abstract Submission Due: November 20, 2015
by Lars Wolf 04 Nov '15

04 Nov '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE WoWMoM 2016 - Abstract Submission Due: November 20, 2015 Datum: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 11:45:11 -0500 Von: Raffaele Bruno <raffaele.bruno(a)IIT.CNR.IT> Antwort an: Raffaele Bruno <raffaele.bruno(a)IIT.CNR.IT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE WoWMoM 2016 Seventeenth International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks http://wowmom2016.uc.pt/ sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, Missouri University of Science and Technology, IEEE Computer Society TC on Computer Communications (TCCC) June 21-24, 2016 Coimbra, Portugal ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Abstract submission due: November 20, 2015 - - Full manuscript due: November 27, 2015 - - Acceptance notification: March 11, 2016 - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE AND OVERVIEW ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ IEEE WoWMoM 2016 is soliciting original and previously unpublished papers addressing research challenges and advances in the areas of wireless, mobile, and multimedia networking as well as ubiquitous and pervasive systems. The evolution of wireless networking technologies and their key role in future Internet scenarios offer an increasing wealth of opportunities for distributing multimedia contents over wireless networks, enabling dissemination of professional contents to mobile users as well as sharing user-generated contents among them. Users will be able to retrieve, publish, and manage information, communicate with other users or devices, access and author services, and create and exploit context-awareness. Papers that present original work, validated by experimentation, simulation, or analysis, are solicited. Practical experiences and experimental efforts from both industry and academia, duly documenting the lessons learned from testbeds, field-trials, or real deployments, are also welcome. Papers are invited which address new and previously unpublished results in the areas: - Ad-hoc, sensor, mesh and vehicular wireless networks - Content-centric architectures for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Context-awareness in wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Cognitive communications and networking - Dependability and survivability issues for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Energy-efficiency for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Internet/Web of Things - Localisation, tracking, and mobility management and services - Middleware services for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Mobile clouds - Mobile data offloading in 5G networks - Mobile social networks - Modelling, analysis, and performance evaluation - Opportunistic and delay-tolerant networks - Participatory, mobile and urban sensing - Resource management and QoS/QoE provisioning - RFID, NFC, and Machine-to-machine (M2M) communications - Security, trust and privacy issues for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Seamless inter-networking and self-organisation - Software-defined wireless networks - System prototypes, measurements, real-world deployment, and experiences - Underwater wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Wireless BAN, PAN, LAN, MAN and WAN - Wireless multimedia systems, services and applications PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All submissions must describe original research, not published or currently under review for another workshop, conference, or journal. Papers must be submitted electronically through EDAS using link https://edas.info/r21455. Authors can submit papers falling into two distinct paper categories (please select the appropriate one when submitting): - Regular papers Regular papers' submissions may be up to 9 pages in length (including figures and references), formatted in two-column IEEE conference style with font size 10 points or greater. For the camera ready, authors can buy one additional page up to 10 pages. - Work-in-Progress papers Work-in-progress papers provide a peer-reviewed forum for late-breaking or preliminary research results, giving an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present and demonstrate their recent research, and to obtain feedback from their peers in an informal setting. Work-in-progress papers' submissions may be up to 3 pages in length (including figures and references), with the option of purchasing one extra page upon acceptance (up to 4 pages). ********************************************************************************* * For accepted papers, attendance and presentation by one of the authors * * is mandatory. * * 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 IEEE WoWMoM 2016 and submitted for publication * * to IEEE Xplore. All conference proceedings must meet IEEE's quality * * standards, and IEEE reserves the right not to publish any proceedings * * that do not meet these standards. WoWMoM organizers reserve the right * * to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g.,removal * * from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the conference. * ********************************************************************************* IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Abstract submission deadline: November 20, 2015 - Full manuscript due: November 27, 2015 - Acceptance notification: March 11, 2016 - Camera Ready: April 22, 2016 WORKSHOPS AND AFFILIATED EVENTS: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WoWMoM’16 will offer a four-day technical program including keynote speeches, hot-topic panel sessions, tutorials, demonstrations, and PhD forum. Several workshops will be held in conjunction with the symposium. Workshop papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE Digital Library (IEEE Xplore), showing their affiliation with IEEE WoWMoM. The conference also provides a high quality social events program, including a welcome reception, a gala dinner, and a guided tour of the historical part of the University of Coimbra. DEMOS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Technical demonstrations in the areas of wireless, mobile, and multimedia networking as well as ubiquitous and pervasive systems are solicited. Instructions for submitting a demo proposal will be posted in due time on the conference website. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ GENERAL CHAIR Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal GENERAL VICE-CHAIR Jorge Sá Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Raffaele Bruno, IIT-CNR, Italy Hongyi Wu, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA STEERING COMMITTEE Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy Sajal K. Das, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA WORKSHOPS CO-CHAIRS Daniele Puccinelli, SUPSI, Switzerland Antonio Skarmeta, University of Murcia, Spain DEMONSTRATION CO-CHARIS: Joerg Widmer, IMDEA Networks, Spain Jorge Granjal, Univ. of Coimbra, Portugal PANEL CHAIR: Andreas Mauthe, Univ. of Lancaster, UK PUBLICITY CO-CHARIS: Dejun Yang, Colorado School of Mines, USA Zhenjiang Li, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Marilia Curado, Univ. of Coimbra, Portugal PUBLICATION CHAIR: Victoria Manfredi, Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR: João Vilela, Univ. of Coimbra, Portugal WEB CHAIR Vasco Pereira, Univ. of Coimbra, Portugal TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Giuseppe Anastasi, University of Pisa, Italy Stefano Avallone, University of Naples, Italy Albert Banchs, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Nilanjan Banerjee, University of Maryland, USA Stefano Basagni, Northeastern University, USA Luca Bedogni, University of Bologna, Italy Boris Bellalta, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National University, Korea Claudio Cicconetti, MBI, Italy Igor Curcio, Nokia, Finland Debraj De, Missouri University of Science & Technology, USA Marco Di Felice, University of Bologna, Italy Mario Di Francesco, Aalto University, Finland Roberto Di Pietro, Bell Labs, France Ozgur Ercetin, Sabanci University, Turkey Serge Fdida, UPMC, France Marco Fiore, IEIIT-CNR, Italy Luca Foschini, University of Bologna, Italy Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Switzerland James Gross, KTH, Sweden Guangjie Han, Hohai University, China Matthias Hollick, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany Pan Hui, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China Salil Kanhere, The University of New South Wales, Australia Holger Karl, University of Paderborn, Germany Andreas J. Kassler, Karlstad University, Sweden Polychronis Koutsakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, University at Buffalo, USA Huadong Ma, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Petri Mähönen, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Vincenzo Mancuso, IMDEA Networks, Spain Tommaso Melodia, Northeastern University, USA Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pisa, Italy Daniele Miorandi, Create-Net, Italy Archan Misra, Singapore Management University, Singapore Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Italy Joerg Ott, Technische Universität München, Germany Elena Pagani, University of Milano, Italy Claudio Palazzi, University of Padua, Italy Panagiotis Papadimitratos, KTH, Sweden Andrea Passarella, IIT-CNR, Italy George Polyzos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Marius Portmann, University of Queensland, Australia Daniele Puccinelli, SUPSI, Switzerland Daji Qiao, Iowa State University, USA Andreas Reinhardt, TU Clausthal, Germany Anand Seetharam, California State University, USA Shamik Sengupta, University of Nevada, USA Pablo Serrano, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Bo Sheng, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA Vasilios Siris, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Ioannis Stavrakakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece Thorsten Strufe, TU Dresden, Germany Violet Syrotiuk, Arizona State University, USA Yu-Chee Tseng, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan Honggang Wang, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA Joerg Widmer, IMDEA Networks, Spain Andreas Willig, University of Canterbury, New Zeland Adam Wolisz, Technical University of Berlin, Germany Wensheng Zhang, Iowa State University, USA Cliff Zou, University of Central Florida, USA Moshe Zukerman, City University of Hong Kong, 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: [ISCC] PerMoby 2016 - CFP
by Lars Wolf 04 Nov '15

04 Nov '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [ISCC] PerMoby 2016 - CFP Datum: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 13:18:59 +0100 Von: Alessio Vecchio <alessio.vecchio(a)unipi.it> An: ISCC(a)mama.ing.unibo.it ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The IEEE PerCom International Workshop on the Impact of Human Mobility on Pervasive Systems and Applications (PerMoby 2016) http://vecchio.iet.unipi.it/permoby March 14-18 2016, Sydney, Australia (the final date will be announced later) in conjunction with PerCom 2016 (http://www.percom.org) March 14-18 2016, Sydney, Australia ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS The key components of many pervasive systems and applications are already deployed in the form of ubiquitous commercial products carried by humans. Human mobility makes it possible for such key components to interact, promoting cooperation and sharing of content, services and resources. Smartphones, tablet PCs, and other personal devices act as mobile computing elements able to gather information about the surrounding environment according to the mobility of users. In other situations these devices operate as mobile nodes of the computing and/or networking infrastructure, where interaction and communication occur opportunistically. The goal of PerMoby is to explore the impact of human mobility on the achievement of the pervasive computing vision. The focus is on pervasive applications, systems, and protocols where mobility plays an active role in achieving the end goals. Original papers addressing both theoretical and practical aspects of human-centric applications and systems are solicited. Papers describing prototype implementations and deployment of such applications and systems are particularly welcome. The submission of papers on controversial issues is also encouraged. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - pervasive systems and applications based on (or influenced by) human mobility - mobile phone sensing applications and systems - opportunistic and participatory sensing, and anything in between - opportunistic computing - pervasive systems with humans in the loop - wearable sensing systems - mobility models - distributed computing approaches that rely on human mobility - impact of human mobility on wireless communication - green pervasive applications that leverage human mobility - mobility aware protocols - opportunistic networking - pervasive social networking PUBLICATION AND INDEXING Papers are published in the combined proceedings of the IEEE PerCom Workshops and will appear on IEEExplore. According to Google’s metrics, the combined workshop proceedings are characterised by high values of h5 index and h5-median index, respectively equal to 27 and 36. This makes the IEEE PerCom Workshops one of the publication venues with higher visibility and impact in the area of pervasive computing. In the last years, the IEEE PerCom Workshops proceedings have always been indexed by Scopus. PAPER SUBMISSION Papers should contain original material and should not be previously published or currently submitted for consideration elsewhere. Manuscripts are limited to a maximum of 6 pages in IEEE conference format. 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 IEEE Xplore. Paper submission will be via EDAS (further details will be available on the workshop website). IMPORTANT DATES - Submission deadline: November 27, 2015 - Notification of acceptance: January 2, 2016 - Camera ready: January 15, 2016 TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Raja Jurdak, Commonwealth Scientific Industrial and Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Valerio Arnaboldi, IIT-CNR, Italy Mikael Asplund, Linköping University, Sweden Gergely Biczók, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Eleonora Borgia, IIT-CNR, Italy Guglielmo Cola, University of Pisa, Italy Anna Förster, University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland, Switzerland Shin'ichi Konomi, The University of Tokyo, Japan Brent Lagesse, University of Washington at Bothell, USA Neal Lathia, University of Cambridge, UK Alan Marchiori, Bucknell University, USA Liam McNamara, Uppsala University, Sweden Paulo Mendes, University Lusofona, Portugal Waldir Moreira, University Lusofona, Portugal Luis Moreira-Matias, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany Mirco Musolesi, University of Birmingham, UK Christian Poellabauer, University of Notre Dame, USA Alicia Rodriguez-Carrion, University Carlos III of Madrid Christian Rohner, Uppsala University, Sweden Bryce Thomas, Amazon, USA Salvatore Vanini, University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland, Switzerland Kun Zhao, CSIRO, Australia STEERING COMMITTEE Daniele Puccinelli, University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI) Alessio Vecchio, University of Pisa, Italy _______________________________________________ ISCC mailing list ISCC(a)mama.ing.unibo.it https://mama.ing.unibo.it/listinfo/iscc

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CfP MobiHoc 2016
by Lars Wolf 04 Nov '15

04 Nov '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CfP MobiHoc 2016 Datum: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 23:17:34 +0100 Von: Hannes Frey <frey(a)UNI-KOBLENZ.DE> Antwort an: Hannes Frey <frey(a)UNI-KOBLENZ.DE> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive duplicates of this posting. Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS MobiHoc 2016 The Seventeenth International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing www.sigmobile.org/mobihoc/2016 05-08, July,2016 Paderborn, Germany ACM MobiHoc is a premier conference with a highly selective single-track technical program dedicated to addressing the challenges emerging from dynamic networks and computing. Work that presents new performance evaluation methods and algorithms and obtains fundamental insights into computer and networked systems is encouraged. The specific areas of interest include methodologies, formalisms, algorithms and systems for: - Dynamic networks broadly defined, such as communication, wireless, social, energy and transportation networks - Analytical modeling techniques and model validation - Performance, scalability, power and reliability analysis - Capacity planning, resource allocation, run time management and scheduling - Anomaly detection, system measurement, monitoring and forecasting - Routing, scheduling, resource allocation, and energy efficiency - Scaling laws and fundamental limits - Communication and networking aspects of cyber-physical systems - Trust, security, and privacy - Quality of service, total cost of ownership and pricing - Applications of game theory, economics and control theory to dynamic networks - Big data and machine learning in the context of dynamic networks - Applications, middleware, transport, network, and MAC protocols - Measurements from deployed and experimental systems All papers submitted to the conference will be considered for a Best Paper Award. Paper Submission Guidelines --------------------------- Papers should not exceed 10 pages (US letter size) double column including figures, tables, and references in standard ACM format. Papers must be submitted electronically in printable pdf form. Templates for the standard ACM format can be found at this link. Both strict and alternate styles are acceptable for submission. No changes to margins, spacing, or font sizes are allowed from those specified by the style files. Papers violating the formatting guidelines will be returned without review. All submissions will be reviewed using a double-blind review process. The identity of authors and referees will not be revealed to each other. To ensure a blind review, the authors' names and affiliations should not appear in the paper or the pdf file; bibliographic references should be made in a way that preserves author anonymity; acknowledgments and support information should not be included. In case there is a need to refer to a technical report that includes, for example, proofs, an anonymous link should be provided (for example, using Dropbox). Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by the ACM. Warning: It is ACM policy not to allow double submissions, where the same paper is submitted to more than one conference/journal concurrently. Any double submissions detected will be immediately rejected from all conferences/journals involved. Important Dates --------------- Abstract Submission: 8 January 2016 (11:59pm EST) Paper Submission: 15 January 2016 (11:59pm EST) Notification of acceptance: 1 April 2016 Conference: 5-8 July 2016 Organizing committee -------------------- General Chair Falko Dressler (University of Paderborn) Vice General Chair Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide (Heinz-Nixdorf Institute, University of Paderborn) TPC Co-Chairs Koushik Kar (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) Srinivas Shakkottai (Texas A&M University) Steering Committee PR Kumar (Texas A&M University) Workshop Co-Chairs Linda Xie (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) Emilio Leonardi (Politecnico di Torino) Panel Co-Chairs Yingying Chen (Stevens Institute of Technology) Carla Chiasserini (Politecnico di Torino) Local Arrangement Co-Chairs Ulf-Peter Schroeder (Heinz-Nixdorf Institute, University of Paderborn) Student Travel Grant Chair Kaushik Chowdhury (Northeastern University) Web Co-Chairs Bastian Bloessl (University of Paderborn) Poster Co-Chairs Tommaso Melodia (Northeastern University) Wenye Wang (North Carolina State University) Demo Co-Chairs Mo Li (Nanyang Technological University) Paolo Santi (Istituto di Informatica e Telematica del CNR) Finance Chair Christoph Sommer (University of Paderborn) Publicity Co-Chairs Hannes Frey (Universität Koblenz-Landau) Xinbing Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) Marco Gruteser (Rutgers University) Publication Co-Chairs Renato Lo Cigno (University of Trento) -- Prof. Dr. Hannes Frey AG Rechnernetze Universität Koblenz-Landau ______________________________________________________________ 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 - 1st IEEE INFOCOM 2016 Workshop on Software-Driven Flexible and Agile Networking (SWFAN)
by Lars Wolf 04 Nov '15

04 Nov '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP - 1st IEEE INFOCOM 2016 Workshop on Software-Driven Flexible and Agile Networking (SWFAN) Datum: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 19:35:34 +0200 Von: Lefteris Mamatas <emamatas(a)UOM.EDU.GR> Antwort an: Lefteris Mamatas <emamatas(a)UOM.EDU.GR> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Dear colleagues, You can find below the CFP for the 1st International IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Software-Driven Flexible and Agile Networking (SWFAN). We apologise in case you received multiple copies. The workshop website is: http://www.swfan.org <http://www.swfan.org/> Best Regards, Lefteris Mamatas 1st International Workshop on Software-Driven Flexible and Agile Networking (SWFAN 2016), 10-15 April, San Francisco, CA, USA (in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2016) Scope and Topics of Interest The NFV/SDN paradigms promote the deployment of Network Functions (NF) as software components into cloud infrastructures, and the identification of relevant abstractions for their configuration, control and management. Such NFs can comprise processing elements in the data plane (e.g., packet inspection, filtering, flow-level monitoring, or access control) as well as control-plane components (e.g., signaling, routing, dynamic load balancing). This paradigm shift essentially enables new cloud service models, i.e., NF-as-a-service (NFaaS), which can lead to significant operational and technology investment cost savings for service providers. Beyond that, telecom operators can greatly benefit from NFV/SDN, considering the increasing trend to implement mobile communication network functions in software. NFV/SDN orchestration can satisfy the evolving requirements of service and infrastructure providers with respect to the resource constraints, dynamic network conditions and service environments. Virtualized NFs should be deployed, located, scaled, and orchestrated in a holistic manner to realize novel services, through exposing their configurations using standardized interfaces, whereas SDN can provide a flexible network plane along these lines. Furthermore, the integration of protocol and application/service processing creates opportunities for enhancing the performance of cloud applications and services when accessed by mobile users. In this respect, SWFAN aims at bringing together researchers, engineers, and practitioners to discuss challenging aspects of NFV/SDN orchestration, such as the elastic provisioning of computing, storage, and network resources for NF deployment and scaling in the cloud, the development of new models, protocols, algorithms, and abstractions for more flexible and agile network control, management and operation, as well as NFaaS negotiation, contracting, billing, and SLA management. We solicit submissions of previously unpublished work on the following topics of interest (but not limited to): - Resource allocation for NF consolidation in clouds - Algorithms and methods for network service embedding - Interoperability among cloud providers for network service embedding - Abstractions and techniques for network service reconfiguration and scaling - Service chaining for policy enforcement - Architectures and interfaces for NF configuration and control - NF verification, systematic testing, fault management, protection - NF migration and state management - SDN for network service deployment - New models, protocols, and abstractions for flexible and agile network operations - Design and implementation of NF stores - NFaaS negotiation and contracting - Resource pricing and billing for NFaaS - SLAs for NFaaS - Mobile Edge Computing - Applications of NFV in cellular and mobile networks - Experiences from NFV/SDN deployments in production networks Submission Instructions Submitted papers should not exceed 6 pages in IEEE format (double-column, 10pt font). Papers should be submitted via EDAS. All accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and on IEEE Xplore. Important Dates Submission deadline: December 6, 2015 Acceptance notification: January 18, 2016 Camera ready paper submission: February 2, 2016 Workshop Organizing Team Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy Nicola Blefari Melazzi, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland Lefteris Mamatas, University of Macedonia, Greece Panagiotis Papadimitriou, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany Danny Raz, Technion / Bell Labs, Israel TPC Co-Chairs Erez Biton, Alcatel Lucent, Israel Panagiotis Papadimitriou, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany Publicity Chair Lefteris Mamatas, University of Macedonia, Greece ______________________________________________________________ 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 TCPS Special Issue on Smart Homes, Buildings, and Infrastructures
by Lars Wolf 03 Nov '15

03 Nov '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: ACM TCPS Special Issue on Smart Homes, Buildings, and Infrastructures Datum: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 10:30:01 -0500 (EST) Von: Tei-Wei Kuo <pubs(a)acm.org> An: wolf(a)IBR.CS.TU-BS.DE Call For Papers <http://orange.hosting.lsoft.com/trk/click?ref=znwrbbrs9_5-e42cx3a679x027665&> *CALL FOR PAPERS* ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems (TCPS) /Special Issue on Smart Homes, Buildings, and Infrastructures/ Guest Editors Xin Li, Carnegie Mellon University Shiyan Hu, Michigan Technological University Qi Zhu, University of California, Riverside ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Introduction* Our physical living environment, from residential homes to commercial buildings and civil infrastructures, is becoming more and more intelligent, thanks to the rapid advancement of various cyber technologies. Examples include smart sensors and actuators, sophisticated control and communication algorithms, and efficient and reliable communication protocols. By integrating these technologies, smart homes, buildings and infrastructures can be built to improve service quality and reliability and to reduce energy and monetary costs. However, the design, implementation and operation of these cyber-physical systems still face many challenges that arise from the rapid increase of functional complexity, the significant uncertainty from physical environment and human activities, the increasing deployment of distributed and networked architecture, and the stringent requirements on system performance, safety, security, flexibility, reliability and fault tolerance. The purpose of this special issue is to present the state-of-the-art CPS research for building efficient smart homes, buildings, and infrastructures. The submissions should address the above challenges with a system perspective that includes both cyber and physical aspects, and should articulate how proposed approaches may be applied in practical CPS systems. *Scope, Description, and More Information* This special issue focuses on novel methodologies, techniques and tools for the design, implementation and operation of home, building and infrastructure cyber-physical systems. The topics to be covered include, but are not limited to: *Topics of Interest* include, but are not limited to: - Intelligent sensors and actuators for homes, buildings and infrastructures - Real-time control and optimization - Distributed, networked and collaborative systems - Big data and real-time data processing - Communication protocols and implementation - Design-time synthesis and verification - Modeling and analysis of physical components and environment - Modeling, analysis and integration of human activities - Security and privacy issues - Fault tolerance in critical buildings and infrastructures - Energy efficiency in homes, buildings and infrastructures - Practical deployment and case studies *Important Dates* * April 1, 2016: Manuscript submission due * July 1, 2016: First round of reviews completed * July 15, 2016: Notification to authors * September 1, 2016: Revised manuscripts due * November 1, 2016: Second round of reviews completed * November 15, 2016: Notification of acceptance * December 15, 2016: Final manuscripts due * April 1, 2017: Target publication date For further information, please contact xinli(a)cmu.edu <mailto:xinli@cmu.edu> or visit tcps.acm.org. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ If you do not want to receive future emails about publishing in ACM journals, send an email to mktg2(a)hq.acm.org <mailto:mktg2@hq.acm.org> with "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the subject. Association for Computing Machinery, Two Penn Plaza, Suite 701, New York, NY 10121-0701, USA Copyright 2015, ACM, Inc.

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP IEEE PERCOM 2016 Workshop on Security Privacy and Trust in the IoT (SPT-IoT)
by Lars Wolf 03 Nov '15

03 Nov '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP IEEE PERCOM 2016 Workshop on Security Privacy and Trust in the IoT (SPT-IoT) Datum: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 12:17:09 +0000 Von: Robin Ram Mohan Doss <robin.doss(a)DEAKIN.EDU.AU> Antwort an: Robin Ram Mohan Doss <robin.doss(a)DEAKIN.EDU.AU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG The 1st IEEE PERCOM WORKSHOP ON SECURITY PRIVACY AND TRUST IN THE INTERNET OF THINGS (SPT-IOT) 2016 In conjunction with IEEE PERCOM 2016 March 14-18, 2016 Sydney, Australia EDAS link: http://edas.info/N21137 The Internet of Things (IoT) is a novel design paradigm, envisioned as a network of billions or trillions of machines communicating with one another and rapidly gaining global attention from academia, industry, and government. Pervasive computing is at the heart of IoT and forms a fundamental building block necessary to realize the IoT. Equipped with pervasive technologies such as RFID and smart dust in addition to sensors, actuators and machine-to-machine (M2M) devices, IoT has the potential to offer innovative solutions to global challenges faced by ageing populations, climate change, growing cost of healthcare as well as how we manage our environment and natural resources.. The heterogeneous nature of the IoT as well as the computational constraints of many of the building blocks of the IoT make security, privacy and trust a challenging problem to solve on the one hand, while security, privacy and trust play a critical role for most if not all applications of IoT in doma ins such as surveillance, healthcare, security, transport, food safety, manufacturing, logistics and supply chain management. Without effective solutions for security, privacy and trust reliable data fusion and mining, qualified services with context-aware intelligence and enhanced user acceptance and experience cannot be achieved. The proposed IEEE Percom workshop on Security, Privacy and Trust for IoT aims to provide a forum that brings together researchers from academia as well as practitioners from industry, standardization bodies, and government to meet and exchange ideas on recent research and future directions for the IoT with a specific focus on IoT security, privacy and trust. The technical discussion will be focused on the communications and network security aspects of IoT and the key enabling technologies for IoT, especially M2M communications and networking, RFID technology and Near Field Communications (NFC), the challenges to security, privacy and trust presented and novel approaches to solving these challenges. The technical topics of interest to the workshop include, but are not limited to: - IoT secure access network technologies and capillary networks; - secure channel and traffic models; - secure spectrum management for M2M/IoT radio communications; - security of RFID, sensors, actuator technologies; - IoT secure network infrastructure; - IoT security protocols; - privacy in applications of the IoT; - IoT networking and communication security; - circuit and system design for secure smart objects in the IoT; - security, trust, and privacy issues for devices and services; - naming, address management and end-to-end addressability; - methods for secure by design IoT; - methods for IoT security analysis and audit; - privacy and anonymization techniques in IoT; - secure cloud of things; - trust management architectures; - lightweight security solutions; - authentication and access control in IoT; - identification and biometrics in IoT; - liability and policy enforcement in IoT; - security of Big data in IoT; - cyber physical systems security; - cyber attacks detection and prevention; - embedded platforms for cryptography (implementations for performance-optimized, resource constrained, energy-efficient platforms); - hardware security primitives; - secure pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing Software and Systems; - new Privacy and Security Techniques for Embedded Software and Systems; and - ethics and legal considerations in IoT. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers (up to 6 pages in length) electronically through the EDAS system using the standard IEEE template for conference papers. Papers must be original material not currently under review by another conference or journal. All submitted papers will be subjected to multiple independent peer reviews. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register for the IEEE PERCOM 2016 conference and present the paper. During the initial paper submission process via EDAS, it is the authors' responsibility to ensure that the author list and the paper title of the submitted .pdf file is an exact match to the author list and paper title on the EDAS registration page. In particular, the EDAS registration page must include all co-authors, not just the submitting author. Failure to comply with this rule might result in your paper being withdrawn from the review process. All submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of six (6) printed pages (minimum 10-point font) including figures. Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process and all submissions must be done through EDAS(http://edas.info/N21137) Manuscripts must be formatted in accordance with the IEEE Computer Society author guidelines. The IEEE LaTeX and Microsoft Word templates, as well as related information, can be found at the IEEE Computer Society website (http://www.computer.org/web/cs-cps/authors). All papers included in the PerCom 2016 Workshops will appear in the conference proceedings published by IEEE. IMPORTANT DATES Workshop papers submission: November 27, 2015 Workshop papers notification of acceptance: January 2, 2016 Workshop papers camera ready: January 15, 2016 Author registration: January 15, 2016 WORKSHOP CHAIRS Robin Doss, Deakin University, Australia Tanveer Zia, Charles Sturt University, Australia Damith Ranasinghe, University of Adelaide, Australia MORE INFORMATION Please visit Workshop webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/sptiot2016/home PERCOM webpage: http://www.percom.org. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Notice: The contents of this email are intended solely for the named addressee and are confidential; any unauthorised use, reproduction or storage of the contents is expressly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please delete it and any attachments immediately and advise the sender by return email or telephone. Deakin University does not warrant that this email and any attachments are error or virus free. ______________________________________________________________ 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 Journal -- Special Section on "Body Area Networks for Interdisciplinary Research"
by Lars Wolf 01 Nov '15

01 Nov '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] IEEE Access Journal -- Special Section on "Body Area Networks for Interdisciplinary Research" Datum: Sun, 1 Nov 2015 01:57:53 -0400 Von: Mubashir Rehmani <mshrehmani(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Mubashir Rehmani <mshrehmani(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Dear All, Please find below a call for papers for IEEE Access. Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. ----------- CALL FOR PAPERS Special Section in IEEE Access Body Area Networks for Interdisciplinary Research Submission Deadline: January 30, 2016 IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of "Body Area Networks for Interdisciplinary Research" Recent advancements in integrated circuits, wireless communication, and MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) technology has enabled low power, nano-technology sensor nodes strategically deployed on the human body to be used by different applications, such as health monitoring. This new area of research is known as Body Area Networks (BAN). BAN applications cover a wide area such as sports, entertainment, military, ubiquitous health care, and many other areas. BAN has multiple opportunities of interdisciplinary research where researchers from different areas of science and technology jointly put their efforts to improve the human body monitoring and performance. Due to these joint efforts, BAN is now evolving into Body Area Nano Networks (BANNs). The BANNs are further extended with Internet of Nano Things and Internet of Bio-Nano Things technologies. The objective of this Special Section in IEEE Access is to showcase the most recent advances in interdisciplinary research areas encompassing BAN. This Special Section will bring together researchers from diverse fields and specializations, such as communications engineering, computer science, electrical, and electronics engineering, educators, mathematicians, medical, and specialists in areas related to BAN. We invite researchers from academia, industry, and government to discuss challenging ideas, novel research contributions, demonstration results, and standardization efforts on the BAN and related areas. The list of topics includes, but is not limited to: Body Area Networks ------------------------------ Context and situation awareness Sensory augmentation Motion detection and activity recognition E-Health systems and electronic medical records Hardware architecture and implementation Medical imaging and patient diagnostic systems Human body communication International standards and regulatory matters Physiological parameters, measurements Communication Architecture of BANs (Intra-BAN, Inter-BAN, Beyond-BAN) BAN addressing and routing protocols MAC Layer protocols for BANs Cross layer routing protocols for BANs Radio technologies for BANs, Bluetooth, ZigBee, Ultra-wideband, etc. Radio coexistence and robustness Various kinds of BANs Signal/information processing and communication models for BANs BAN architectures and protocols Power-efficient communications Wireless energy transfer Sensing and actuation in BANs Software engineering and systems engineering for BANs Modeling, simulations and empirical experiments Design and performance issues Tools, testbeds and deployment issues Standardization of BANs Delay-tolerance, fault-tolerance and reliability in BANs Body Area Networks Applications ------------------------------------------------ Pervasive health care and patient monitoring Ambient assisted living Tele-medicine systems Wearable health monitoring Aiding professional and amateur sports training New medical diagnostics and treatments Real time streaming Entertainment applications Emergency (non-medical) Cloud Computing and BANs ---------------------------------------- Cloud-based BAN healthcare solutions Healthcare based cloud deployment models Offloading and networking in healthcare using cloud Cloud governance in health environments Tools and technologies in BANs, pervasive and sensor technologies that make use of cloud facilities Cloud-based usage analytics /event management Mobility challenges in implementing BAN integrated mobile cloud systems Image Processing techniques to securely transmit the BAN data to cloud Encrypted storage of healthcare related BAN data in cloud Access controls, roles, and application-based access to cloud specific records Standardizations Security and Privacy for BANs -------------------------------------------- Security and trust establishment for BANs Lightweight privacy preserving protocol design for data sensing, transmission and processing Physical layer security in BANs Cross layer design for security, privacy and trust in BANs Biometrics security for BANs Security threats/ attacks and their mitigations in BAN Theoretical security design using game theory or information theory Body Area Nano Networks (BANNs) Intra-body channel modeling and capacity analysis Modulation and channel coding Routing and MAC Protocols for BANNs Mathematical modeling of biochemical, and/or electrochemical processes Neuronal communication network analysis Noise analysis in action potential propagation Computer simulation of neuronal networks Nanoscale neuronal interfaces Nano-device and nano-antennas design for BANNs Nanomaterial- and metamaterial-based nano-antennas for BANNs Nano-antenna arrays for BANNs Signal generators & detectors for BANNs Modulators & demodulators for BANNs Nano-processors and nano-memories, filters & amplifiers for BANNs Nano-batteries and energy harvesting Nano-sensors and electromagnetic nanoparticles Applications of BANNs Nano-sensing for health monitoring Human life enhancement Electromagnetic interference (EMI) analysis for BANNs Application case studies and testbeds BAN integrated Internet of Bio-Nano Things (IoBNTs) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Molecular communication enabled BAN integrated IoBNTs Channel modeling for molecular communication, including open and fluidic environments and intra-/inter-cellular propagation Information theory for nanoscale communication networks of BAN integrated IoBNTs Communication theoretical approaches for BAN integrated IoBNTs Deployment and topology management in BAN integrated IoBNTs Network architecture and protocols for BAN integrated IoBNTs Experiments, implementation, and testbeds for BAN integrated IoBNTs Interfaces among BAN integrated nanoscale communication networks Energy efficiency in BAN integrated nanoscale communication networks Nano-computing paradigms, including neuromorphic computing, DNA and molecular computing, membrane computing and quantum computing Security and trust establishment for BAN integrated IoBNTs GUEST EDITORS OF THE SPECIAL SECTION --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Mubashir Husain Rehmani, Associate Editor and Lead Guest Editor COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan Email: mshrehmani(a)gmail.com * Ejaz Ahmed University of Malaya, Malaysia Email: imejaz(a)gmail.com * Samee U. Khan North Dakota State University, USA Email: samee.khan(a)ndsu.edu * Milena Radenkovic University of Nottingham, UK Email: milena.radenkovic(a)nottingham.ac.uk IEEE Access Editor in Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ---------------------------------------- Submit manuscript to: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ieee-access We also highly recommend the submission of multimedia with each article as it significantly increases the visibility and usage of articles. For information regarding IEEE Access including its publication policy and fees, please visit the website http://www.ieee.org/ieee-access ABOUT IEEE ACCESS ---------------------------------- IEEE Access is a multidisciplinary, applications-oriented, all-electronic archival journal continuously presenting the results of original research or development across all of IEEE's fields of interest. Supported by author publication fees, its hallmarks are a rapid peer review and publication process with open access to all readers. For information regarding IEEE Access including its publication policy and fees, please visit the website https://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/ieee_access.html ================================================= Mubashir Husain Rehmani Editor, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials Associate Editor, IEEE Communications Magazine Associate Editor, IEEE Access Associate Editor, Elsevier CAEE and JNCA Journals Associate Editor, Springer Wireless Networks Associate Editor, AHSWN Journal and JCN Journal Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Wah Cantt, Pakistan Tel: +92-333-3052764 https://sites.google.com/site/mshrehmani/ ================================================= ______________________________________________________________ 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 PerCom 2016 / CONSOLIDATED CALL FOR PAPERS FOR AFFILIATED EVENTS AND WORKSHOPS
by Lars Wolf 30 Oct '15

30 Oct '15

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Nirmalya Roy <nirmalya.roy(a)GMAIL.COM> Gesendet: 30. Oktober 2015 16:13:41 MEZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE PerCom 2016 / CONSOLIDATED CALL FOR PAPERS FOR AFFILIATED EVENTS AND WORKSHOPS =================================================================================== IEEE PerCom 2016 / CONSOLIDATED CALL FOR PAPERS FOR AFFILIATED EVENTS AND WORKSHOPS March 14-18, 2016 - Sydney, Australia http://www.percom.org/ =================================================================================== PerCom is the premier scholarly venue in the areas of pervasive computing and communications. Detailed information about the scope of events, paper submission process, etc. can be obtained at http://www.percom.org/ and also the URLs given below. # Affiliated events and workshops list The following affiliated events and workshops will be co-located with PerCom 2016. Their details are listed thereafter. * PerCom PhD Forum 2016 * PerCom Work in Progress 2016 * PerCom Demos 2016 * AwareCities2016: 1st IEEE International Workshop on Context-Aware Smart Cities and Intelligent Transport Systems * CASPer2016: 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Crowd Assisted Sensing, Pervasive Systems and Communications * CoMoRea2016: 12th IEEE International Workshop on Context and Activity Modeling and Recognition * CoSDEO2016: 5th IEEE International Workshop Contact-Free Ambient Sensing * CROWDBENCH2016: 1st IEEE International Workshop on Benchmarks for Ubiquitous Crowdsourcing: Metrics, Methodologies, and Datasets * IQ2S2016: 8th IEEE International Workshop on Information Quality and Quality of Service for Pervasive Computing * MUCS2016: 13th IEEE International Workshop on Managing Communications and Services * PASTA2016: 1st IEEE International Workshop on PervAsive Technologies and care systems for sustainable Aging-in-place * PerCol2016: 7th IEEE International Workshop on Pervasive Collaboration and Social Networking * PerEnergy2016: 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Pervasive Energy Services * PerMoby2016: 5th IEEE International Workshop on the Impact of Human Mobility in Pervasive Systems and Applications * SPTIoT2016: 1st IEEE International Workshop on Security, Privacy and Trust for the Internet of Things * WristSense2016: 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Sensing Systems and Applications using Wrist Worn Smart Devices ## PerCom PhD Forum 2016 The Ph.D. Forum will provide an opportunity for Ph.D. students to present their dissertation research, including work in progress, to the pervasive computing and communication community. The Forum will be organized as a combined one-day workshop prior to the PerCom conference and a poster session during the main conference to encourage interaction between Ph.D. students and researchers from academia, industry, and government. URL: http://www.percom.org/?q=phdforum Abstract Submission Deadline: November 27, 2015 ## PerCom Work in Progress 2016 WiP aims to give its participants an opportunity to present and discuss new challenges and visions, early and emerging results and bring about novel research questions, approaches, and directions. URL: http://www.percom.org/?q=wip Paper Submission Deadline: November 27, 2015 ## PerCom Demos 2016 The Demo session aims to provide high-quality demonstrations of all things pervasive from academia and industry. Demos demonstrating working systems, innovative applications, groundbreaking ideas, and novel concepts related to PerCom are welcome. URL: http://www.percom.org/?q=demos Demo Submission Deadline: December 1, 2015 ## AwareCities2016: 1st IEEE International Workshop on Context-Aware Smart Cities and Intelligent Transport Systems The workshop focuses on context-aware or data-driven smart cities and smart Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS). URL: http://awarecities.org/ Paper Submission Deadline: November 27, 2015 ## CASPer2016: 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Crowd Assisted Sensing, Pervasive Systems and Communications The workshop provides a forum for discussion, debate, and collaboration focused on: integrated approaches, frameworks, privacy considerations, incentive mechanisms, algorithms, and social (i.e. human) sensor utilization, for crowdsensing and crowdsourcing. URL: http://www.imb.ucl.ac.uk/events/casper2016/ Paper Submission Deadline: November 27, 2015 ## CoMoRea2016: 12th IEEE International Workshop on Context and Activity Modeling and Recognition The goal of this workshop is to identify concepts, theories and methods applicable to context gathering, modeling, reasoning and management as well as system-oriented issues related to context-aware systems. Pervasive sensing and activity recognition are common ways to gather relevant context information. Hence papers related to these topics are considered relevant. URL: http://www.comorea.org/ Paper Submission Deadline: November 27, 2015 ## CoSDEO2016: 5th IEEE International Workshop Contact-Free Ambient Sensing The workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on the design, implementation, and evaluation of systems, algorithms or models the contact-free ambient sensing. URL: https://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/Cosdeo2016/index.html Paper Submission Deadline: November 27, 2015 ## CROWDBENCH2016: 1st IEEE International Workshop on Benchmarks for Ubiquitous Crowdsourcing: Metrics, Methodologies, and Datasets The primary goal of this workshop is to synthesize existing research work, in ubiquitous crowdsourcing and crowdsensing, for establishing guidelines and methodologies for the evaluation of crowd-based algorithms and systems. URL: http://crowdbench.insight-centre.org/ Abstract Registration Deadline: 20 November 20, 2015 Paper Submission Deadline: November 27, 2015 ## IQ2S2016: 8th IEEE International Workshop on Information Quality and Quality of Service for Pervasive Computing The objective of this workshop is to provide a forum to exchange ideas on various aspects of QoI, QoE and QoS for pervasive computing in network contexts including wireless, mobile and sensor networks. URL: http://iq2s2016.di.uniroma1.it/ Paper Submission Deadline: November 27, 2015 ## MUCS2016: 13th IEEE International Workshop on Managing Communications and Services The goal of the workshop is to investigate the state of the art in managing pervasive/smart space applications from a broad perspective. URL: http://ubiquitous-management.org/mucs/2016/index.php Abstract Registration Deadline: November 20, 2015 Paper Submission Deadline: November 27, 2015 ## PASTA2016: 1st IEEE International Workshop on PervAsive Technologies and care systems for sustainable Aging-in-place The objective of this workshop is to provide a forum for discussion, debate, and collaboration focused on ideas, trends, techniques, and recent advances in pervasive technologies and care systems for sustainable aging-in-place. URL: http://centres.smu.edu.sg/icity/pasta-main/ Paper Submission Deadline: November 10, 2015 ## PerCol2016: 7th IEEE International Workshop on Pervasive Collaboration and Social Networking The aim of the workshop is to explore the possibilities and challenges of future Pervasive Social Computing applications. While the primary focus is on pervasive technologies for human-to-human interaction, contributions about M2M interaction and coordination are also welcome. URL: http://percol.inf.tu-dresden.de/ Abstract Registration Deadline: November 20, 2015 Paper Submission Deadline: November 27, 2015 ## PerEnergy2016: 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Pervasive Energy Services The aim of this workshop is to discuss the recent advances in the innumerous opportunities opened up by the use of energy data in context-aware systems. URL: https://net.cs.uni-bonn.de/wg/ubips/events/perenergy-2016/ Paper Submission Deadline: November 27, 2015 ## PerMoby2016: 5th IEEE International Workshop on the Impact of Human Mobility in Pervasive Systems and Applications The goal of the workshop is to explore the impact of human mobility on the achievement of the pervasive computing vision. The focus is on pervasive applications, systems, and protocols where mobility plays an active role in achieving the end goals. URL: http://vecchio.iet.unipi.it/permoby/ Paper Submission Deadline: November 27, 2015 ## SPTIoT2016: 1st IEEE International Workshop on Security, Privacy and Trust for the Internet of Things The workshop aims to provide a forum that brings together researchers from academia as well as practitioners from industry, standardization bodies, and government to meet and exchange ideas on recent research and future directions for the IoT with a specific focus on IoT security, privacy and trust. URL: https://sites.google.com/site/sptiot2016/ Paper Submission Deadline: November 27, 2015 ## WristSense2016: 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Sensing Systems and Applications using Wrist Worn Smart Devices. The main goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners to share innovative ideas, discuss challenges, and brainstorm potential solutions to open research problems related to the domain of wrist worn smart devices. URL: https://sites.google.com/site/wristsenseworkshop2016/ Paper Submission Deadline: November 27, 2015 ______________________________________________________________ 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 Journal -- Special Section on "The Plethora of Research in Internet of Things (IoT)"
by Lars Wolf 30 Oct '15

30 Oct '15

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Mubashir Rehmani <mshrehmani(a)GMAIL.COM> Gesendet: 30. Oktober 2015 16:30:11 MEZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] IEEE Access Journal -- Special Section on "The Plethora of Research in Internet of Things (IoT)" Dear All, Please find below a call for papers for IEEE Access. Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. ----------- CALL FOR PAPERS Special Section in IEEE Access The Plethora of Research in Internet of Things (IoT) Submission Deadline: February 28, 2016 IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of "The Plethora of Research in Internet of Things (IoT)" The plethora of research, standardization and developments in Internet of Things has increased enormously in recent years. This is due to the vast scope Internet of Things (IoT). Internet of Things refers to the world wide network of interconnected objects, which allow people or things to be connected anytime, anyplace, with anything and anyone, using any path, any network and any service. The application areas of Internet of Things are numerous, ranging from smart cities to vehicular networks and from cyber physical systems, smart grids to green Internet of Things. In this special section, we want to discuss the most recent advances in the interdisciplinary research areas encompassing the Internet of Things domain. This special section will bring together researchers from diverse fields and specializations, such as communications engineering, computer science, electrical and electronics engineering, educators, mathematicians and specialists in areas related to Internet of T! hings. In this special section, we invite researchers from academia, industry, and government to discuss challenging ideas, novel research contributions, demonstration results, and standardization efforts on the Internet of Things and related areas. Topics of interest include, but not limited to the following: Internet of Things and Communication Technologies and Networks -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Software Defined Network (SDN) and IoT Cognitive Radio Based Internet of Things Machine to Machine (M2M)/Devices-to-Devices communications and IoT 5G networks and IoT Internet of Things and Vehicular Networks Wireless Sensor Networks and Internet of Things IoT on eHealth/mHealth and Ambient Assisted Living Internet of Things and Body Area Networks Green communications for Internet of Things Factory of Things and Internet of Things Named Data Networking and Internet of Things Internet of Things and Cyber Physical Systems Communication technologies in HAN, NAN, and WAN Communication architectures for IoT Physical and MAC layer protocols for IoT Multi-hop communication to support IoT Internet of Things and smart grid Quality of Services (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE) in IoT Sensor web services for IoT Sensors and intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) for IoT Internet of Things and Social networking ---------------------------------------------------------------- Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) and IoT Mobile services for IoT applications Social media data integration for smart utility applications Case studies about social networking applications in IoT Online social networks and IoT Cloud computing, social networks, and IoT Data fusion techniques and IoT Big data and IoT Security and Privacy for Internet of Things ------------------------------------------------------------------ Physical/MAC/Network Attacks in Internet of Things Cross-layer attacks in IoT Security with QoS optimization in IoT Privacy based channel access in IoT IoT privacy and security issues IoT forensic science Wireless sensor network for IoT security Big data and information integrity in IoT Communication security in IoT Intrusion detection in IoT Security standards in IoT Cryptography, key management, and authorization for IoT Multidisciplinary Topics for Internet of Things ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Smart cities and Internet of Things Network architecture and system design in IoT Addressing and naming in IoT Programming models for the IoT Integration with existing standards and protocols Intelligent systems based on connected vehicles Smart things networks for real world data management Data management in IoT Context-awareness for IoT IoT traffic characterization Modeling and simulation of large-scale IoT scenarios Testbed, prototype, and practical systems for IoT use cases Pervasive applications built on top of the IoT Personalized healthcare through IoT We highly recommend the submission of multimedia with each article as it significantly increases the visibility and usage of articles. GUEST EDITORS OF THE SPECIAL SECTION --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Abderrezak Rachedi, Associate Editor and Lead Guest Editor University Paris Est, France Email: rachedi(a)univ-mlv.fr * Mubashir Husain Rehmani COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan Email: mshrehmani(a)gmail.com * Joel J.P.C. Rodrigues, University of Beira Interior, Portugal Email: joeljr(a)ieee.org * Soumaya Cherkaoui Sherbrooke University, Canada Email: soumaya.cherkaoui(a)usherbrooke.ca IEEE Access Editor in Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ---------------------------------------- Submit manuscript to: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ieee-access We also highly recommend the submission of multimedia with each article as it significantly increases the visibility and usage of articles. For information regarding IEEE Access including its publication policy and fees, please visit the website http://www.ieee.org/ieee-access ABOUT IEEE ACCESS ---------------------------------- IEEE Access is a multidisciplinary, applications-oriented, all-electronic archival journal continuously presenting the results of original research or development across all of IEEE's fields of interest. Supported by author publication fees, its hallmarks are a rapid peer review and publication process with open access to all readers. For information regarding IEEE Access including its publication policy and fees, please visit the website https://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/ieee_access.html ================================================= Mubashir Husain Rehmani Editor, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials Associate Editor, IEEE Communications Magazine Associate Editor, IEEE Access Associate Editor, Elsevier CAEE and JNCA Journals Associate Editor, Springer Wireless Networks Associate Editor, AHSWN Journal and JCN Journal Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Wah Cantt, Pakistan Tel: +92-333-3052764 https://sites.google.com/site/mshrehmani/ ================================================= ______________________________________________________________ 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 MiSeNet 2016 (with INFOCOM 2016): Call for Papers
by Lars Wolf 30 Oct '15

30 Oct '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE MiSeNet 2016 (with INFOCOM 2016): Call for Papers Datum: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 14:44:04 -0400 Von: Stefano Basagni <basagni(a)ECE.NEU.EDU> Antwort an: Stefano Basagni <basagni(a)ECE.NEU.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG (Apologies for multiple reception if this CfP.) *** ----------------------------------------------------------*** The Fifth IEEE Annual International Workshop on Mission- Oriented Wireless Sensor Networking *** IEEE MiSeNet 2016 *** Co-located with IEEE INFOCOM 2016 San Francisco, CA, April 10-15, 2016 *** ----------------------------------------------------------*** *** -------------------- Call for Papers ---------------------*** * Scope and Topics Over the last two decades, the recent and fast advances in inexpensive sensor technology and wireless communications has made the design and development of large-scale wireless sensor networks (WSNs) cost-effective and appealing to a wide range of mission-critical situations, including civilian, natural, industrial, and military applications, such as health and environmental monitoring, seism monitoring, industrial process automation, and battlefields surveillance. Wireless sensor networking has attracted the attention of practitioners and researchers from both industry and academia. This type of networks consists of a collection of tiny, resource-limited, low-reliable sensing devices that are randomly or deterministically deployed in a field of interest to monitor a physical phenomenon and report their results to a central gathering point, known as a sink. These sensing devices suffer from their scarce capabilities, such as bandwidth, storage, CPU, battery power (or energy), sensing, and communication. In particular, mission-oriented WSNs are viewed as time-varying systems composed of autonomous mobile sensing devices (e.g., using mobile robots) that collaborate and coordinate distributedly to successfully accomplish complex real-time missions under uncertainty. The major challenge in the design of mission-oriented WSNs is due to their dynamic topology and architecture, which is caused mainly by sensing devices mobility. The latter may have significant impact on the performance of mission-oriented WSNs in terms of their sensing coverage and network connectivity. In such continuously dynamic environments, sensing devices should self-organize and move purposefully to accomplish any mission in their deployment field while extending the operational network lifetime. In particular, the design of mission-oriented WSNs should account for trade-offs between several attributes, such energy consumption (due to mobility, sensing, and communication), reliability, fault-tolerance, and delay. IEEE MiSeNet 2016 will aim to provide a forum for participants from academia and industry to discuss topics in mission-oriented WSNs research and practice. IEEE MiSeNet 2016 will serve as incubator for scientific communities that share a particular research agenda in the area of mission-oriented WSNs. IEEE MiSeNet 2016 will provide its participants with opportunities to understand the major technical and application challenges of mission-oriented WSNs as well as exchange and discuss scientific and engineering ideas related to their architecture, protocol, algorithm, and application design, in particular at a stage before they have matured to warrant conference/journal publications. IEEE MiSeNet 2016 will seek papers that present novel theoretical and practical ideas as well as work in-progress, which will lead to the development of solid foundations for the design, analysis, and implementation of energy-efficient, reliable, and secure mission-oriented WSN applications. The topics of interest to IEEE MiSeNet 2016 workshop include, but are not limited to, the following: * Theoretical foundations of mission-oriented WSNs * Modeling and analysis of mission-oriented WSNs * System design, implementation, and evaluation of mission-oriented WSNs * Medium access control and scheduling in mission-oriented WSNs * Cross-layer design for mission-oriented WSNs * Software architectures for mission-oriented WSNs * Self-organization, self-configuration, and energy efficiency in mission-oriented WSNs * Coverage and connectivity issues in mission-oriented WSNs * Deployment and localization in mission-oriented WSNs * Uncertainty and opportunistic communications in mission-oriented WSNs * Topology control and fault-tolerance in mission-oriented WSNs * Routing and data dissemination in mission-oriented WSNs * In-network data storage and processing in mission-oriented WSNs * Sensor database management in mission-oriented WSNs * Purposeful mobility in mission-oriented WSNs * Target detection and tracking in mission-oriented WSNs * Privacy and security aspects of mission-oriented WSNs * Cloud computing and its applications to mission-oriented WSNs * Testbed design and real-world applications of mission-oriented WSNs General Chair * Zygmunt J. Haas (Cornell University, USA) Program Chair * Habib M. Ammari (Taif University, SA) Publicity Chair * Stefano Basagni (Northeastern University, USA) Steering Committee * Tarek F. Abdelzaher (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, USA) * Habib M. Ammari (Taif University, SA) * Nirwan Ansari (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA) * Xiuzhen Cheng (The George Washington University, USA) * Sajal K. Das (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA) * Zygmunt J. Haas (Cornell University, USA) * David B. Johnson (Rice University, USA) * Thomas F. La Porta (Penn State University, USA) * Stephan Olariu (Old Dominion University, USA) * Jie Wu (Temple University, USA) * Guoliang Xue (Arizona State University, USA) * Mohamed Younis (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA) *** Important Dates * Paper submission: November 29, 2015 * Author notification: December 27, 2015 * Camera-ready version: January 15, 2016 Laetus deget cui licet in diem dixisse: Vixi. -- Stefano Basagni, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Computer Engineering Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering 312 Dana Research Center Northeastern University 360 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA 02115 Tel. 617 373 3061, Fax 617 373 8970 E-mail: basagni(a)ece.neu.edu *** http://www.ece.neu.edu/faculty/basagni/ *** ______________________________________________________________ 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 for ARCS 2016: Extended Deadline to November 9th
by Lars Wolf 29 Oct '15

29 Oct '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: Deadline Extension for ARCS 2016: Extended Deadline to November 9th Datum: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 15:15:30 +0100 (CET) Von: gi-mitglieder-info(a)gi-ev.de An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de *FB Technische Informatik* ****C A L L F O R P A P E R S** 29th GI/ITG International Conference on ****Architecture**of Computing Systems** (ARCS 2016) Nuremberg, Germany, April 4–7, 2016 http://www3.cs.fau.de/arcs2016/ ****Extended Submission Deadline**: November 9, 2015 =============================================================================== The ARCS series of conferences has a long tradition reporting high quality results in computer architecture and operating systems research. The focus of the 2016 conferencewill be on ****Heterogeneity**in Architectures and Systems - From Embedded to HPC**. In 2016, ARCS will be organized by the Department of Computer Science at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). The ARCS 2016 proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) series. After the conference, it is planned that the authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their contribution for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Systems Architecture (JSA). In addition, the best paper and the best presentation will be awarded during the conference. ****Topics of ARCS include, but are not limited to** * Architectures and design methods/tools for robust, fault-tolerant, real-time embedded systems * Generic and application-specific accelerators in heterogeneous architectures, heterogeneous image systems * Distributed computing architectures, high-performance computing (HPC), and cloud computing * Cyber-physical systems, internet of things (IoT), Industrie 4.0, and their applications * Multi-/manycore architectures, memory systems, and interconnection networks * Programming models, runtime systems, middleware, verification, and tool support for manycore systems * Operating systems including but not limited to scheduling, memory management, power management, and RTOS * Adaptive system architectures such as reconfigurable systems in hardware and software * Organic and autonomic computing including both theoretical and practical results on Self-X techniques * Energy awareness and green computing * System aspects of ubiquitous and pervasive computing such as sensor nodes, novel input/output devices, novel computing platforms, architecture modeling, and middleware * Architectures for robotics and automation systems * Performance modeling and engineering * Approximate computing ****Important**Dates** Paper submission deadline: Oct. 26, 2015 (Extended to Nov. 9, 2015) Workshop & tutorial proposals: Nov. 30, 2015 Notification of acceptance: Dec. 21, 2015 Camera-ready papers: Jan. 11, 2016 ****Submission details and publication** Perspective authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers through the link provided at the conference website. Papers have to be submitted in PDF format. They must be formatted according to Springer LNCS style (see: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and must not exceed 12 pages. Proposals for workshops and tutorials within the technical scope of the conference are solicited. They should be done through email directly to the Workshop and Tutorial Chair. ****Organizing**Committee** General Co-Chairs * Dietmar Fey, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany * Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany * Jürgen Teich, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany Program Co-Chairs * Frank Hannig, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany * João M. P. Cardoso, University of Porto, Portugal Workshop and Tutorial Chair * Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Publication Chair * Thilo Pionteck, Universität zu Lübeck, Germany ****Program**Committee** * Michael Beigl, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany * Mladen Berekovic, TU Braunschweig, Germany * Simon Bliudze, EPFL, Switzerland * Florian Brandner, ENSTA ParisTech, France * Jürgen Brehm, University of Hannover, Germany * Uwe Brinkschulte, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany * Luigi Carro, UFRGS, Brasil * Albert Cohen, INRIA, France * Nikitas Dimopoulos, University of Victoria, Canada * Ahmed El-Mahdy, E-JUST, Egypt * Fabrizio Ferrandi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy * Dietmar Fey, FAU, Germany * William Fornaciari, Politecnico di Milano, Italy * Björn Franke, University of Edinburgh, UK * Roberto Giorgi, University of Siena, Italy * Daniel Gracia Pérez, Thales Research & Technology, France * Jan Haase, Helmut Schmidt University, Germany * Jörg Hähner, Augsburg University, Germany * Jörg Henkel, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany * Andreas Herkersdorf, TU München, Germany * Christian Hochberger, TU Darmstadt, Germany * Michael Hübner, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany * Gert Jervan, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia * Ben Juurlink, TU Berlin, Germany * Wolfgang Karl, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany * Christos Kartsaklis, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA * Jörg Keller, Fernuniversität Hagen, Germany * Raimund Kirner, University of Hertfordshire, UK * Andreas Koch, TU Darmstadt, Germany * Hana Kubátová, FIT CTU, Prague, Czech Republic * Olaf Landsiedel, Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Sweden * Paul Lukowicz, University of Passau, Germany * Erik Maehle, Universität zu Lübeck, Germany * Christian Müller-Schloer, University of Hannover, Germany * Alex Orailoglu, UC San Diego, USA * Carlos Eduardo Pereira, UFRGS, Brazil * Luis Pinho, CISTER, ISEP, Portugal * Thilo Pionteck, Universität zu Lübeck, Germany * Pascal Sainrat, IRIT – Université de Toulouse, France * Toshinori Sato, Fukuoka University, Japan * Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat, FAU, Germany * Martin Schulz, Lawerence Livermore National Lab., USA * Leonel Sousa, IST/INESC-ID, Portugal * Rainer G. Spallek, TU Dresden, Germany * Olaf Spinczyk, TU Dortmund, Germany * Benno Stabernack, Fraunhofer HHI, Germany * Walter Stechele, TU München, Germany * Djamshid Tavangarian, Rostock University, Germany * Jürgen Teich, FAU, Germany * Martin Törngren, KTH, Sweden * Eduardo Tovar, ISEP-IPP, Portugal * Pedro Trancoso, University of Cyprus, Cyprus * Carsten Trinitis, TU München, Germany * Sascha Uhrig, Airbus, Germany * Theo Ungerer, University of Augsburg, Germany * Hans Vandierendonck, Queen’s University Belfast, UK * Stephane Vialle, SUPELEC, France * Lucian Vintan, “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Romania * Klaus Waldschmidt, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI) Wissenschaftszentrum Ahrstraße 45 53175 Bonn Tel +49-(0)228-302 145 Fax +49-(0)228-302 167 E-Mail info(a)gi.de Web www.gi.de

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IFIP Networking 2016 - Second CFP **Deadline extended**
by Lars Wolf 29 Oct '15

29 Oct '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IFIP Networking 2016 - Second CFP **Deadline extended** Datum: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 16:51:39 -0400 Von: Aruna Balasubramanian <arunab(a)CS.STONYBROOK.EDU> Antwort an: Aruna Balasubramanian <arunab(a)CS.STONYBROOK.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Dear Colleagues Please find the Second CFP for the IFIP Networking 2016 conference which includes some important changes: First, as the conference is co-sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Second, due to several requests from our colleagues (for instance, because of a possible overlap with Thanksgiving), the submission deadlines have been extended by one week. Abstract submission is due Dec 1, 2015, and the full paper is due Dec 8, 2015. Further information is available at http://networking2016.univie.ac.at. Looking forward to your submissions, and with best regards, Aruna Balasubramanian, Stony Brook University, USA Tobias Hossfeld, University of Essen, Germany Networking 2016 Publicity Co-Chairs Second Call for Papers ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IFIP Networking 2016 Conference Networking 2016 May 17-19, 2016 Vienna, Austia http://networking2016.univie.ac.at ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The IFIP Networking 2016 Conference (Networking 2016), to be held at the University of Vienna, Austria, is the 15th event of the series, sponsored by the IFIP Technical Committee on Communication Systems (TC6) and technically co-sponsored by IEEE Computer Society. Accepted papers will be published both in the IFIP Digital Library and the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The main objective of Networking 2016 is to bring together members of the networking community, from both academia and industry, to discuss recent advances in the broad and quickly-evolving fields of computer and communication networks, to highlight key issues, identify trends, and develop visions for the networking domain. The technical sessions will be structured around (but not limited to) the following areas: * Network Architectures, Applications and Services SDN, information/content-centric networking, content distribution, P2P, network virtualization, self-organizing networks, web architectures and protocols, overlays, in-cloud networking, evolution of IP network architectures and protocols, middleware support for networking, green networking, resilient networks, network management, traffic engineering, network neutrality, addressing, routing and switching, resource management and scheduling, cross-layer design, network-on-chip, networking support for smart grids, emerging value-added services and applications. * Network Modeling and Analysis Topology characterization and inference, performance measurements, traffic monitoring and analysis, user behavior modeling and inference, quality of experience, tools and techniques to design and analyze networks, dependability and resilience of networks, network complexity, emergent properties of real networks, dynamic peer-to-peer network topologies, analysis of social networks, crowdsourcing in network measurements, socio-economic aspects of networked ecosystems, pricing and billing, incentives for crowdsourcing network applications. * Network Security and Privacy Network security protocols, trust and privacy, anomaly and malware detection, DoS detection and mitigation, network forensics, authentication, applications of privacy-preserving computation in networks, anonymization, user profiling and tracking methods and possible countermeasures. * Wireless Networking Ad-hoc and mesh networks, mobile networks, sensor networks, IoT, delay/disruption tolerant networks, opportunistic networks, disaster-recovery networks, physical layer security, device-to-device networking, SUBMISSION Only full papers are considered, with total length not exceeding 9 pages (IEEE two-column format, 10pt). Papers must be submitted via EDAS: http://networking2016.univie.ac.at/submissions/ IMPORTANT DATES Abstract registration: Dec 1, 2015 Full paper submission: Dec 8, 2015 Acceptance notification: Feb 29, 2016 Author registration: Mar 15, 2016 Camera-ready paper: Mar 15, 2016 Conference: May 17-19, 2016 ORGANIZATION General Chair: Peter Reichl, University of Vienna, Austria Technical Program Chairs: Jˆrg Ott, Technische Universit‰t M¸nchen, Germany Christos Papadopoulos, Colorado State University, USA Fabio Ricciato, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Steering Committee: Jordi Domingo-Pascual, UPC, Spain (Chair) Andrea Passarella, IIT-CNR Pisa, Italy Aiko Pras, University of Twente, The Netherlands Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University, USA Jozef Wozniak, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland Publication Chairs: Patrick Poullie, University of Zurich, Switzerland Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich, Switzerland Publicity Chairs: Aruna Balasubramanian, Stony Brook University, USA Tobias Hossfeld, University of Essen, Germany Local Arrangements: COSY Research Group, University of Vienna, Austria Web Responsible: Hannes Weisgrab, University of Vienna, Austria CONTACT Email: networking2016(a)lists.univie.ac.at Website: http://networking2016.univie.ac.at/ ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: Deadline Approaching: EWSN 2016 Workshops on Next Generation Communication Paradigms and Computing Platforms
by Lars Wolf 29 Oct '15

29 Oct '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: Deadline Approaching: EWSN 2016 Workshops on Next Generation Communication Paradigms and Computing Platforms Datum: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 17:34:11 +0100 Von: Kay Römer <romer.kay(a)googlemail.com> Antwort an: iti.announcement(a)mlist.tugraz.at An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de Second Call for EWSN 2016 Workshop Contributions Intl. Workshop on New Wireless Communication Paradigms for the Internet of Things (MadCom) Intl. Workshop on Next Generation Platforms for the Cyber-Physical Internet (NextMote) www.iti.tugraz.at/EWSN2016 <http://www.iti.tugraz.at/EWSN2016> ** SUBMISSION DEADLINE: November 9, 2015 ==================================================================== MadCom: New Wireless Communication Paradigms for the Internet of Things ==================================================================== CFP link: http://bit.ly/MadCom2016 For the last two decades radio frequency (RF) has been at the core of the revolution enabling wireless communication for the Internet of Things (IoT). But RF communication has been a victim of its own success, the ever increasing number of devices joining the IoT are saturating the RF bandwidth. We need alternative ways to exploit RF technology and to use other means to transmit data wirelessly. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different communities to discuss and explore novel wireless communication technologies for the IoT. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: + backscatter communication + visible light communication + magnetic induction communication + infrared communication + laser communication + camera-based communication + thermal-based communication + acoustic communication + applications for novel wireless communication methods + new platforms + theoretical models + new communication methods with RF signals + new network stacks (MAC, Routing) for novel communication technologies ==================================================================== NextMote: Next Generation Platforms for the Cyber-Physical Internet ==================================================================== CFP link: http://bit.ly/NextMote2016 The hardware for networked embedded systems and Internet of Things (IoT) has evolved significantly over the last decades. During this time two major classes of platforms have emerged for network gathering and processing of sensor data: firstly so called "motes" that are based on a micro controller and well suited for prototyping and testing hypotheses and solutions in the field, and secondly smartphones as ubiquitous and powerful yet mobile communications and computing platforms already adopted by wide population. However, as the number of devices and applications continue growing in numbers and reducing in size, novel, superior platforms should emerge. Let us call these new platforms "NextMote". What will they be, and how to design them? The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: + Modular, multi-core, multi-radio, and reconfigurable architectures for NextMote + Devices for novel communication: dense, sparse, and directional coverage + Pushing NextMote towards battery-less operation: energy harvesting, storage, and transfer + Pushing the size of NextMote towards "smart dust", ultra-thin, and stretchable + Unconventional form factors and packaging: wearable, on-body, printable NextMotes + Surviving extreme environments and leaving no trace: bio-degradable, digestible, disposable NextMotes + Robust and redundant design for NextMote health, reliability and self healing + Design, evaluation and profiling tools, and next level testbeds for NextMote + Hardware assisted security and privacy in resource constrained devices + Low-level software, firmware, operating systems for NextMote + Ultra low-cost hardware and deployments at large + Nature inspired (passive) mobility, NextMotes as seeds or pollen Submission Instructions ==================================================================== The short papers can be of a technical nature, presenting preliminary technical results, or position papers presenting a thought-provoking view regarding methods or applications. 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. The papers can have a maximum length of 6 pages (two column 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 templates provided here: http://bit.ly/ewsn-template2016 Key Dates ==================================================================== Paper submission deadline: November 9, 2015 - 23:59.59 UTC Paper notification: December 7, 2015 - 23:59.59 UTC

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] 2016 Microsoft Indoor Localization Competition
by Lars Wolf 27 Oct '15

27 Oct '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] 2016 Microsoft Indoor Localization Competition Datum: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 09:20:49 -0400 Von: Tamer Nadeem <nadeem(a)CS.ODU.EDU> Antwort an: Tamer Nadeem <nadeem(a)CS.ODU.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ****** Apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP ***** Call For Contesters ======================================================================= 2016 Microsoft Indoor Localization Competition April 10-11, 2016 Vienna, Austria Co-located with IPSN 2016 http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/events/msindoorloccompetition2016/defau… ======================================================================= ELIGIBILITY Both academia and industry submissions are encouraged. All location techniques, such as ranging, fingerprinting, infrastructure, or device free, are welcome, except those that require end users’ manual measurements. Contesters can deploy their own infrastructure of *up to 5 devices*. Normal RF interference is expected, but no jammers from other deployments are allowed. The results must be shown on a portable device, such as a phone or a tablet/laptop that a person can easily carry around. Demo submissions that do not meet one or more of the guidelines above will be included in the poster session and will be evaluated as a regular submission, but they will not be considered for prizes. The competition will take place if *at least 5 teams* respond to this preliminary call for competition. CATEGORIES Depending on the nature and number of submissions multiple categories might be defined based on the accuracy (i.e., point-based vs. area based), the size, the cost, or the type (i.e., software vs. hardware) of the proposed solution. Given our past experience, this year we expect to have the following categories (note that these categories have not been finalized. The final categories will be announced shortly after the registration deadline and they will depend on the number and type of submissions received): Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) Technologies: Submissions in this category should be able to work with unmodified commercial off-the-shelf devices such as laptops, phones, and tablets. In this category, the unmodified COTS device is localized. Teams in this category will not be allowed to interface any custom hardware to the COTS devices (i.e., UWB or ultrasound hardware). Only changes to the software of the devices will be allowed. Submissions in this category could be further classified to infrastructure-based and infrastructure-free depending on their requirement to deploy custom hardware (i.e., BLE beacons) in the evaluation area. Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) Technologies with Initialization: Submissions in this category should meet all the criteria of the COTS Technologies category, with the additional requirement to initialize the location of the COTS device being localized to a ground truth location before the evaluation. Modified Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) Technologies: Submissions in this category could interface custom hardware to the COTS devices to be localized (i.e., UWB or ultrasound hardware). Submissions in this category could be further classified to infrastructure-based and infrastructure-free depending on their requirement to deploy custom hardware (i.e., BLE beacons) in the evaluation area. Most, if not all, submissions in this category are expected to be infrastructure-based. For instance: WiFi fingerprinting approaches that also leverage inertial sensors will be classified as infrastructure-free COTS Technologies as they do not require to interface any custom hardware to the COTS device being localized. WiFi fingerprinting approaches that also deploy custom BLE beacons in the evaluation area will be classified as infrastructure-based COTS Technologies as they don't modify the COTS device being localized, but they require the deployment of custom hardware. Approaches based on inertial sensing that require to be initialized to a ground truth location before being evaluated will be classified as COTS Technologies with Initialization. UWB approaches will be classified as infrastructure-based modified COTS Technologies as they require modifications to the COTS device being localized, and they need to deploy custom hardware in the evaluation area. In the past, teams were asked to report 2D locations (X,Y). In this year's competition, teams will be required to report 3D locations (X,Y,Z). The evaluation area we have reserved, even though it does not contain multiple floors, it includes locations with different elevation characteristics. On top of that, we plan to place the devices to be localized at different heights during the competition to evaluate the 3D localization accuracy of each team. *Not all teams will have to report 3D locations*. We understand that some technologies are not suited for 3D localization (i.e., WiFi/geo-magnetic fingerprinting, dead reckoning, BLE-based etc.), but they are still excellent candidates for commercial indoor location systems. With this in mind, the organizers will determine shortly after the registration deadline which teams will be classified as 3D localization teams. It is not up to the individual teams to decide if they will report 2D or 3D locations. The organizers will ensure that all the teams in a given category will either report 2D or 3D locations. There will be no categories containing both 2D and 3D localization teams. EVALUATION AND PRIZE Results are judged based on accuracy, and an award will be given to the top 3 teams in each category. When accuracy ties, infrastructure requirements will be used for tie breaking. The winning teams in each category will be invited to present their approach at the conference, and receive a cash award. The exact accuracy metrics that will be used during evaluation will be announced shortly before the competition takes place. POSTER SESSION A poster session dedicated to all competition participants will be organized during the conference. Participants will have the opportunity to explain their system to conference attendees. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Contesters must submit an abstract describing their approach and deployment requirements by the contest registration deadline. Submissions are treated as confidential until the competition. Submissions must be at most two (2) single-spaced 8.5" x 11" pages, including figures, tables, and references. Submission should follow the exact same format as regular, full IPSN 2016 papers. *Abstracts should include the names and affiliations of all authors*. Templates can be found here: http://ipsn.acm.org/2016/submission.html?v=1 REGISTRATION DEADLINE January 20th, 2016, 11:59 pm EST To register for the competition, please email your abstract to dlymper(a)microsoft.com with the following subject line: 2016 Microsoft Indoor Localization Competition Submission. ______________________________________________________________ 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: [InternetTC] IEEE ICC'16@Kuala Lumpur Call For Papers (DEADLINE 31 OCTOBER 2015)
by Lars Wolf 27 Oct '15

27 Oct '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [InternetTC] IEEE ICC'16@Kuala Lumpur Call For Papers (DEADLINE 31 OCTOBER 2015) Datum: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 18:44:22 +0000 Von: Wai Pang Ng <wai-pang.ng(a)NORTHUMBRIA.AC.UK> An: itc(a)COMSOC.ORG Apologies if you received multiple copies. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2016) 23-27 May 2016 // Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia // http://icc2016.ieee-icc.org Paper Deadline extended to 31 October 2015 IEEE ICC 2016 will feature a comprehensive technical program including 13 Symposia and a number of Tutorials and Workshops as well as an exceptional Industry Forum & Exhibition program including business panels and keynote speakers. Technical Symposia: Now Due 16 October 2015 (http://icc2016.ieee-icc.org/cfp) We invite you to submit original technical papers in the following areas: - Symposium on Selected Areas in Communications o Access Systems and Networks o Cloud Communications & Networking o Communications for the Smart Grid o Data Storage o E-Health o Internet of Things o Satellite and Space Communications o Social Networking - Ad-Hoc and Sensor Network - Communication and Information System Security - Communications QoS, Reliability and Modeling - Cognitive Radio and Networks - Communications Software, Services & Multimedia Applications - Communication Theory - Green Communications Systems and Networks - Mobile and Wireless Networks - Next Generation Networking and Internet - Optical Networks and Systems - Signal Processing for Communications - Wireless Communications Industry Forum and Exhibition (IF&E) Program: Due 13 November 2015 (http://icc2016.ieee-icc.org/content/ife) Proposals are welcomed for industrial panel sessions to provide opportunities for the practicing professionals to both share and learn about the latest ideas, trends, and product innovations in the broader communications and networking industries. Tutorials: Due 13 November 2015 (http://icc2016.ieee-icc.org/cft) Proposals are invited for half- or full-day tutorials in all communication and networking topics. For submission instructions and author requirements, visit http://icc2016.ieee-icc.org/authors . Kind regards, Wai Pang Ng IEEE ICC 2016, Publicity Co-Chair ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Internet Technical Committee http://committees.comsoc.org/itc/ To subscribe or unsubscribe: https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=itc&A=1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Internet Technical Committee http://committees.comsoc.org/itc/ To subscribe or unsubscribe: https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=itc&A=1

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CfP: Elsevier COMCOM Special Issue: Multi-X Vehicular Comm's
by Lars Wolf 27 Oct '15

27 Oct '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CfP: Elsevier COMCOM Special Issue: Multi-X Vehicular Comm's Datum: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 19:13:17 +0100 Von: Christoph Sommer <sommer(a)CCS-LABS.ORG> Antwort an: Christoph Sommer <sommer(a)CCS-LABS.ORG> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ** Manuscript submission deadline: 15 November 2015 ** Elsevier Computer Communications Special Issue Call for Papers Multi-radio, Multi-technology, Multi-system Vehicular Communications Scope ----- Vehicular networks have rapidly evolved from their roots as an application of mobile ad hoc networks to today's fusion of interdisciplinary research on computer communications. Inspired by governments' visions of vastly improved road traffic safety and transport efficiency and hailed as industry's enabler of a plethora of value-added services for passengers and drivers, stakeholders are pushing the rulemaking for an adoption of vehicular communication technologies in newly sold cars, in turn inspiring bold research ventures. Despite the plethora of efforts devoted to this research field, the peculiarities of vehicular environments call into question the capabilities of existing solutions and standard specifications to meet the increasingly strict scalability, reliability, and quality of experience demands of such visions. Indeed, the expected tsunami of data to be exchanged, both to support cooperative/autonomous driving applications and to satisfy the growing data appetite of users on wheels, will burden the network. In such a context, the widespread availability of multiple radio technologies and multiple radio channels per technology, along with complete communication systems is envisioned to merge with sophisticated physical layer and medium access control approaches, and emerging cognitive radio and software-defined radio techniques, thus opening the door to new exciting research opportunities in multi-radio, multi-technology, multi-system vehicular communications. The goal of this special issue is to gather high-quality and unpublished papers contributing to the evolution of vehicular networking and, in particular, focusing on the aforementioned developments. The contributions to this special issue may present novel ideas, methodologies, algorithms, architectures, models, experiments. High-quality review and survey papers are also welcomed. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Multi-radio and multi-channel communications - Multi-technology (PAN, WLAN, long range) communications - Multi-system (short range radio, cellular, backbone) communications - Physical layer, medium access, and congestion control design from radio to visible light and beyond - Vehicle-to-X (roadside, pedestrian, grid, in-vehicle) data dissemination, system integration, services, and applications - IEEE 802.11p DSRC/WAVE, ETSI ITS-G5, ARIB standardization - Cellular technologies for vehicular communications and/or vehicle-to-X (LTE-Advanced, LTE-Direct) - New challenges in security & privacy - Simulation tools and methodologies, analytical models, experimental evaluation and field operational tests - Applications of multi-radio, multi-technology, or multi-system vehicular communications Paper Submission ---------------- Please see http://www.elsevier.com/locate/comcom for preparation guidelines and visit http://ees.elsevier.com/comcom to submit your manuscript. To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion into the special issue, please select "SI: Multi-X Vehicular Comm's" when you reach the Article Type step in the submission process. For further information, please contact the guest editors. Guest Editors ------------- Claudia Campolo Univ. Reggio Calabria, Italy Lin Cheng Trinity College, USA Christoph Sommer Univ. Paderborn, Germany Hsin-Mu "Michael" Tsai National Taiwan University Journal Metrics --------------- SNIP Impact per Paper 2.409 SCImago Journal Rank 1.470 Impact Factor 1.695 5-Year Impact Factor 1.625 Important Dates --------------- Manuscript submission 15 November 2015 First notification 30 January 2016 Revised paper submission 15 March 2016 Notification of acceptance 30 April 2016 -- Dr. Christoph Sommer Distributed Embedded Systems Group University of Paderborn, Germany http://www.ccs-labs.org/~sommer/ ______________________________________________________________ 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: [InternetTC] MobiSys 2016 - Call for Papers
by Lars Wolf 26 Oct '15

26 Oct '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [InternetTC] MobiSys 2016 - Call for Papers Datum: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 03:49:31 +0000 Von: Tamer Nadeem <nadeem(a)CS.ODU.EDU> An: itc(a)COMSOC.ORG ******************** Apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP ******************** *** Submission deadline: December 9, 2015, 11:59 PM AOE (any time zone on Earth) *** header Call for Papers (http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2016/) ACM MobiSys 2016 will continue the tradition of publishing top-notch research papers dealing with all aspects of mobile systems. MobiSys seeks original papers that take a broad systems perspective rather than focus narrowly on low-level components. Of particular interest are technical contributions that enable new and compelling mobile scenarios and applications. The conference values results and insights obtained from working implementations more highly than those obtained solely from simulations. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Experience with mobile apps, networks and systems * Innovative wearable, mobile, sensing, and crowdsourcing apps * Tools for building and measuring mobile systems * Innovative wearable or mobile devices * Novel software architectures for mobile devices * Data management for mobile applications * Infrastructure support for node mobility * System-level energy management for mobile devices * Operating systems for mobile devices * Support for mobile social networking and mobile Web * Security and privacy in mobile systems * Systems for location and context sensing and awareness * Mobile computing support for pervasive computing * Vehicular wireless systems * User interfaces and usability for mobile applications and systems * Personal-area networks and systems * Cyber foraging and resource discovery for mobile systems Papers on work that is currently under review elsewhere, whether in shorter, longer, or the same form, must not be submitted to MobiSys. Submission of a longer version of a published, not just accepted, workshop paper is encouraged only if it includes significant new contributions. However, the authors must cite their workshop paper. Furthermore, extended versions of papers submitted to ACM HotMobile 2016 should not be submitted to ACM MobiSys 2016, as it is extremely unlikely that they would meet this standard of significant new contributions. Submissions will be single blind, i.e., reviewers will be anonymous and submissions should include authors' names and institutions. We strongly encourage prospective authors to use past MobiSys proceedings as a guideline to assess the readiness of their work for submission. Due to high review load on TPC members, low quality or premature work submitted to the conference is likely to receive a small number of reviews and the reviews may be brief. ACM has been making an effort to support more open access to the proceedings of its sponsored conferences. As a result, the ACM MobiSys 2016 proceedings may be publicly available through the conference website from two weeks before the conference to two weeks after it. Proceedings may be made available in other formats in addition to PDF, such as ePub. A brief public review that summarizes the PC’s opinion of each published paper may also be made available. *Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. Papers meeting any of these criteria will be rejected. Authors uncertain whether their submission meets these guidelines should contact the program chairs. Papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms will not be considered. Accepted submissions will be treated as confidential prior to publication; rejected submissions will be permanently treated as confidential.* *As part of the submission process, authors of papers that describe experiments on human subjects, or that analyze non-public data derived from human subjects (even anonymized data), will be asked to certify that their work was vetted by an ethics review (e.g., IRB approval) or certify that such a review is not needed in their country or organization. We expect authors to follow the rules of their host institutions around data collection and experiments with human subjects.* The submission process will include a free-form paragraph of text that authors can optionally fill out. This is information that the PC chairs may or may not consider during the paper selection process. If the paper is a resubmission of a previous MobiSys rejection, then authors may consider summarizing major improvements made to the paper. Best Paper Award All papers will be considered for the Best Paper Award. The program committee will select a number of candidates for the award among accepted papers. The winner will be selected at the conference, considering both the paper and the presentation. Selected outstanding papers may be fast-tracked to a special section of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. Video Presentation The authors of each accepted paper will submit a short 1-minute video to introduce the research presented in their paper to the general public. These videos will be placed on the conference website before the conference, and may be played during the conference. A selected set may be featured by the social media channels related to the conference. Submission Guidelines Detailed formatting guidelines and access to the submission server will be made available closer to the submission deadline and will be provided here. <http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2016/submission.php> Important Dates * Abstract registration deadline: December 2, 2015, 11:59 PM AOE (any time zone on Earth * Paper submission deadline: December 9, 2015, 11:59 PM AOE (any time zone on Earth) * Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2016 * Camera-ready due: May 9, 2016 * Video submission due: June 1, 2016, 11:59 PM AOE (any time zone on Earth) Contact If you have any questions, please contact MobiSys2016-TPCChair(a)acm.org <mailto:MobiSys2016-TPCChair@acm.org> Footer ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Internet Technical Committee http://committees.comsoc.org/itc/ To subscribe or unsubscribe: https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=itc&A=1

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE SECON 2016 in London; deadline: 14 Dec 2015 (International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking)
by Lars Wolf 23 Oct '15

23 Oct '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE SECON 2016 in London; deadline: 14 Dec 2015 (International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking) Datum: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 10:42:38 -0400 Von: Mischa Dohler <mischa.dohler(a)KCL.AC.UK> Antwort an: Mischa Dohler <mischa.dohler(a)KCL.AC.UK> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Dear all, IEEE SECON 2016 will happen in London, at the end of June 2016. We are currently updating the details, so keep an eye on http://secon2016.ieee-secon.org. The important dates are: - Abstract Registration: 7th December 2015, 5pm US EST - Paper Submission Deadline: 14th December 2015, 5pm US EST - Acceptance Notification: 14th March 2016 - Camera Ready: 11th April 2016 Note that this year the conference would like to especially encourage papers in new applications and services in areas related to Internet of Things, practical energy neutral operation (ENO), communications for actuation and control in Cyber-Physical Systems, and the practical understanding of convergent and emergent behaviours of such systems. Please, distribute the CFP widely and consider submitting cutting-edge work. Kin and I, in the meantime, will ensure that we will have a very memorable event in London, along with a very exciting program in research, technology, start-ups and policy. With kind regards, Mischa. ______________________________________ Prof Mischa Dohler Head, Centre for Telecom Research Chair Professor, King's College London Fellow & Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Board of Directors, Worldsensing Editor-in-Chief, ETT & EAI IoT www.mischadohler.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: The 3rd IEEE PerCom International Workshop on Crowd Assisted Sensing, Pervasive Systems and Communications (CASPer 2016)
by Lars Wolf 23 Oct '15

23 Oct '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: The 3rd IEEE PerCom International Workshop on Crowd Assisted Sensing, Pervasive Systems and Communications (CASPer 2016) Datum: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 23:45:43 -0400 Von: Waldir Moreira <faqzao(a)HOTMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Waldir Moreira <faqzao(a)HOTMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Apologies for cross and multiple postings] ******************************************************************** The 3rd IEEE PerCom International Workshop on Crowd Assisted Sensing, Pervasive Systems and Communications (CASPer 2016) http://www.imb.ucl.ac.uk/events/casper2016/ In conjunction with the 14th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2016) Sydney, Australia, March 14-18, 2016 ******************************************************************** Dear Colleagues, Please find below the CfP for the 3rd International Workshop on Crowd Assisted Sensing, Pervasive Systems and Communications (CASPer 2016), held in conjunction with the 14th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2016). We would appreciate if you could circulate this email to colleagues and relevant mailing lists. Call for Papers With smartphones in their pockets, more than 1 billion people now have immediate access to sensing, computation, and connectivity, and this makes 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, expanding the scope of research endeavours and allowing civic issues to be addressed, without the need to purchase specialized sensors or install and maintain network infrastructure. Data collected using such applications may come from unexpected yet interesting and valuable sources, and may allow the data to come from previously inaccessible locations and contexts. CASPer 2016 provides 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 largescale and enterprise crowdsensing/crowdsourcing applications Paper Submission Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE PerCom Workshop Proceedings. Authors will submit through EDAS. Submissions are limited to a maximum length of 6 pages and must adhere to IEEE format (2 column, 10 pt font). Templates are available via the workshop website. Please note: as per IEEE PerCom policy, each accepted paper requires a full PerCom registration (no registration is available for workshops only). Important Dates Submission deadline: November 27, 2015 Author Notification: January 2, 2016 Registration Deadline: January 15, 2016 General Chairs Imre Lendak, University of Novi Sad, Serbia Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Programme Chairs Luke Dickens, University College London, UK Tony Tie Luo, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Publicity Chair Waldir Moreira, COPELABS, University Lusofona, Portugal Steering Committee Károly Farkas, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Luke Dickens, University College London, UK Miguel Labrador, University of South Florida, USA Emil Lupu, Imperial College London, UK Jamie Payton, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Thomas Silverston, The University of Tokyo / JFLI CNRS UMI 3527, Japan We hope to see you in Sydney. Best regards, Waldir Moreira, Publicity Chair CASPer 2016 ______________________________________________________________ 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 2016 Workshop on Security Privacy and Trust in the IoT (SPT-IoT)
by Lars Wolf 19 Oct '15

19 Oct '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP IEEE PERCOM 2016 Workshop on Security Privacy and Trust in the IoT (SPT-IoT) Datum: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 12:14:20 +0000 Von: Robin Ram Mohan Doss <robin.doss(a)DEAKIN.EDU.AU> Antwort an: Robin Ram Mohan Doss <robin.doss(a)DEAKIN.EDU.AU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG The 1st IEEE PERCOM WORKSHOP ON SECURITY PRIVACY AND TRUST IN THE INTERNET OF THINGS (SPT-IOT) 2016 In conjunction with IEEE PERCOM 2016 March 14-18, 2016 Sydney, Australia EDAS link: http://edas.info/N21137 The Internet of Things (IoT) is a novel design paradigm, envisioned as a network of billions or trillions of machines communicating with one another and rapidly gaining global attention from academia, industry, and government. Pervasive computing is at the heart of IoT and forms a fundamental building block necessary to realize the IoT. Equipped with pervasive technologies such as RFID and smart dust in addition to sensors, actuators and machine-to-machine (M2M) devices, IoT has the potential to offer innovative solutions to global challenges faced by ageing populations, climate change, growing cost of healthcare as well as how we manage our environment and natural resources.. The heterogeneous nature of the IoT as well as the computational constraints of many of the building blocks of the IoT make security, privacy and trust a challenging problem to solve on the one hand, while security, privacy and trust play a critical role for most if not all applications of IoT in doma ins such as surveillance, healthcare, security, transport, food safety, manufacturing, logistics and supply chain management. Without effective solutions for security, privacy and trust reliable data fusion and mining, qualified services with context-aware intelligence and enhanced user acceptance and experience cannot be achieved. The proposed IEEE Percom workshop on Security, Privacy and Trust for IoT aims to provide a forum that brings together researchers from academia as well as practitioners from industry, standardization bodies, and government to meet and exchange ideas on recent research and future directions for the IoT with a specific focus on IoT security, privacy and trust. The technical discussion will be focused on the communications and network security aspects of IoT and the key enabling technologies for IoT, especially M2M communications and networking, RFID technology and Near Field Communications (NFC), the challenges to security, privacy and trust presented and novel approaches to solving these challenges. The technical topics of interest to the workshop include, but are not limited to: - IoT secure access network technologies and capillary networks; - secure channel and traffic models; - secure spectrum management for M2M/IoT radio communications; - security of RFID, sensors, actuator technologies; - IoT secure network infrastructure; - IoT security protocols; - privacy in applications of the IoT; - IoT networking and communication security; - circuit and system design for secure smart objects in the IoT; - security, trust, and privacy issues for devices and services; - naming, address management and end-to-end addressability; - methods for secure by design IoT; - methods for IoT security analysis and audit; - privacy and anonymization techniques in IoT; - secure cloud of things; - trust management architectures; - lightweight security solutions; - authentication and access control in IoT; - identification and biometrics in IoT; - liability and policy enforcement in IoT; - security of Big data in IoT; - cyber physical systems security; - cyber attacks detection and prevention; - embedded platforms for cryptography (implementations for performance-optimized, resource constrained, energy-efficient platforms); - hardware security primitives; - secure pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing Software and Systems; - new Privacy and Security Techniques for Embedded Software and Systems; and - ethics and legal considerations in IoT. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers (up to 6 pages in length) electronically through the EDAS system using the standard IEEE template for conference papers. Papers must be original material not currently under review by another conference or journal. All submitted papers will be subjected to multiple independent peer reviews. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register for the IEEE PERCOM 2016 conference and present the paper. During the initial paper submission process via EDAS, it is the authors' responsibility to ensure that the author list and the paper title of the submitted .pdf file is an exact match to the author list and paper title on the EDAS registration page. In particular, the EDAS registration page must include all co-authors, not just the submitting author. Failure to comply with this rule might result in your paper being withdrawn from the review process. All submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of six (6) printed pages (minimum 10-point font) including figures. Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process and all submissions must be done through EDAS(http://edas.info/N21137) Manuscripts must be formatted in accordance with the IEEE Computer Society author guidelines. The IEEE LaTeX and Microsoft Word templates, as well as related information, can be found at the IEEE Computer Society website (http://www.computer.org/web/cs-cps/authors). All papers included in the PerCom 2016 Workshops will appear in the conference proceedings published by IEEE. IMPORTANT DATES Workshop papers submission: November 27, 2015 Workshop papers notification of acceptance: January 2, 2016 Workshop papers camera ready: January 15, 2016 Author registration: January 15, 2016 WORKSHOP CHAIRS Robin Doss, Deakin University, Australia Tanveer Zia, Charles Sturt University, Australia Damith Ranasinghe, University of Adelaide, Australia MORE INFORMATION Please visit Workshop webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/sptiot2016/home PERCOM webpage: http://www.percom.org. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Notice: The contents of this email are intended solely for the named addressee and are confidential; any unauthorised use, reproduction or storage of the contents is expressly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please delete it and any attachments immediately and advise the sender by return email or telephone. Deakin University does not warrant that this email and any attachments are error or virus free. ______________________________________________________________ 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: IEEE INDIN 2016 Call for papers
by Lars Wolf 19 Oct '15

19 Oct '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: IEEE INDIN 2016 Call for papers Datum: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 05:08:34 -0600 Von: IEEE Industrial Electronics Society <ieee-ies(a)auburn.edu> IEEE - INDIN 2016 FRANCE 14th International Conference on Industrial Informatics 18-21 July 2016, Poitiers, France Call for papers IEEE INDIN is the premier conference series presenting the state of the art and future perspectives of industrial information technologies, where industry experts, researchers, and academics share ideas and experiences surrounding frontier technologies, breakthrough and innovative solutions and applications. Previous conferences in the series were held in Banff Canada (2003), Berlin Germany (2004), Perth Australia (2005), Singapore (2006), Vienna Austria (2007), Daejeon Korea (2008), Cardiff UK (2009), Osaka Japan (2010), Lisbon Portugal (2011), Beijing China (2012) and Bochum, Germany (2013), Porto Alegre Brazil (2014), and Cambridge UK (2015). The 2016 edition will be held in the beautiful city of Poitiers, France. The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners from industry and academia and provide them with a platform to report on recent developments, deployments, technology trends and research results, as well as initiatives related to industrial informatics and their application. Topics The scope of the conference will cover, but will not be limited to, the following topics: Technologies and Infrastructures Cognitive and Computational Intelligence Distributed, Embedded & Networked Control Systems Real-Time and Embedded Computing Factory Automation Human-Machine Interfaces Mechatronics and Robotics Energy Efficiency Wireless, Cyber-Physical and Cloud Technologies Tools and Applications New and Emerging Paradigms To further enhance the technical program, several special sessions on specialized topics will be organized by experts on those specialised topics (please refer to INDIN2016 website, http://ieee-indin2016.sciencesconf.org/). Paper Submission The working language of the conference is English. Prospective authors are requested to submit full papers (6 pages max) following the guidelines available on the conference website. Accepted papers will be included in conference proceedings volume, which will be published in IEEE Xplore. Each accepted paper must be presented at the conference by one of the authors. Papers not presented will not be included in IEEE Xplore. Important dates Special sessions proposals – December 01, 2015 Tutorials proposals – December 01, 2015 Paper Submission – January 01, 2016 Notification of acceptance – April 10, 2016 Final manuscripts – May 01, 2016 Hope to meet you in Poitiers at INDIN 2016. For further information, please visit http://ieee-indin2016.sciencesconf.org/ IEEE IES conferences. Sincerely, The INDIN 2016 Organizing Committee -- IEEE IES conferences. To unsubscribe: http://ieee-ies.org/submit-php/emailremove.php

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Fwd: Workshop on Self-optimisation in Organic and Autonomic Computing Systems (SAOS16)
by Lars Wolf 15 Oct '15

15 Oct '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: Workshop on Self-optimisation in Organic and Autonomic Computing Systems (SAOS16) Datum: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 11:35:43 +0000 Von: Organic Computing Initiative <no-reply(a)organic-computing.de> Antwort an: no-reply(a)organic-computing.de An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de Workshop on Self-optimisation in Organic and Autonomic Computing Systems (SAOS16) webversion <http://www.organic-computing.de/mymail/3432/14ac907ebe6aecff1f534ba5f67063c…> or unsubscribe <http://www.organic-computing.de/mymail/3432/14ac907ebe6aecff1f534ba5f67063c…> logo-oc Workshop on Self-optimisation in Organic and Autonomic Computing Systems (SAOS16) CfP: Workshop on Self-optimisation in Organic and Autonomic Computing Systems @ARCS16 / Nürnberg, DE Dear subscribers of the Organic Computing mailing list, please find attached the Call for Papers for the upcoming SAOS16 workshop. The deadline for regular submissions is *December, 23rd 2015.* SAOS16 is affiliated with ARCS 2016 and takes place in Nuremberg, Germany. Further details can be found by visiting the website: http://www.informatik.uni-augsburg.de/lehrstuehle/oc/Veranstaltungen/oc-ws-… Best regards, Sven Tomforde ******************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS The Fourth International Workshop on "Self-optimisation in Organic and Autonomic Computing Systems" SAOS 2016 to be held at ARCS 2016 - Architecture of Computing Systems April 4th - 7th 2016 Porto, Portugal http://www.informatik.uni-augsburg.de/lehrstuehle/oc/Veranstaltungen/oc-ws-… ================================================================================== *** Important dates *** ======================= Submission deadline: December 23rd, 2015 Notification of acceptance: January 18th, 2016 Camera-ready: January 28th, 2016 *** Workshop theme *** ====================== Initiatives such as Autonomic Computing (AC) and Organic Computing (OC) are based on the insight that we are increasingly surrounded by large collections of autonomous systems, which are equipped with sensors and actuators, aware of their environment, communicating freely, and organising themselves in order to perform the required actions and services. The presence of networks of intelligent systems in our environment opens fascinating application areas but, at the same time, bears the problem of their controllability. Hence, different design concepts (such as the MAPE cycle and the Observer/Controller framework) have been developed to allow for a self-organised control process at runtime that relieves the designer from specifying all possibly occurring situations and configurations within the design process. Instead, the system itself takes over responsibility to find proper reactions on perceived changes in the environmental conditions. As designers are not able to foresee all possibly occurring situations and circumstances the system will face during its operation time, the self-organisation process of the system has to focus on self-optimising the system’s behaviour. Such self-optimising behaviour can be achieved at various levels of the system’s design, ranging from basic control architectures over self-organised coordination or collaboration methods and domain-specific optimisation techniques to the application and customisation of machine learning algorithms. Furthermore, several related topics (e.g. trust and security in collaborative systems) provide necessary functionality to enable self-optimising behaviour in AC and OC systems. In this workshop, we will discuss current concepts that help to develop self-optimising system behaviour. Thereby, a special focus will be set on current trends – especially in terms of large-scale interconnected systems. Submissions of papers are expected to refer to one of the following categories: 1. Architectural concepts for self-optimising behaviour 2. Algorithms and methods for runtime optimising 3. Security and Privacy issues related to self-optimisation 4. Applications and application scenarios for self-optimisation techniques 5. Current activities about self-optimisation in the context of Interwoven Systems *** Workshop details *** ========================= The Workshop will be held from April 4th to 7nd in conjunction with the 29th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS 2016) in Nuremberg, Germany. The conference's web page is available at: http://www3.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/arcs2016/index.php *** Submission Information *** ============================== Paper submission deadline: December 23rd, 2015 Notification of acceptance: January 18th, 2016 Papers should not exceed 8 pages and be formatted according to IEEE eXpress "conference mode". Formatting instructions are available at: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html Paper submission will be handled via the workshop's EasyChair installation: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=saos16 ARCS 2016 Workshop Proceedings will be published through VDE Verlag on CD and online by the IEEE Computer Society through the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. *** Workshop organisation *** ============================= Jörg Hähner, Universität Augsburg (DE) Gregor Schiele, DERI Galway (IE) Sven Tomforde, Universität Augsburg (DE) Arno Wacker, Universität Kassel (DE) *** Partial list of program committee *** ========================================= Jacob Beal, BBN Technologies, USA Kirstie Bellman, The Aerospace Company Jean Botev, Universität Luxembourg, Luxembourg Uwe Brinkschulte, Universität Frankfurt, Germany Frank Dürr, Universität Stuttgart, Germany Jörg Hähner, Universität Augsburg, Germany Paul Kaufmann, Universität Paderborn Germany Abdelmajid Khelil, Huawei Technologies GmbH, Germany Chris Landauer, The Aerospace Company Erik Maehle, Universität Lübeck, Germany Bivas Mitra, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India Gero Mühl, Universität Rostock, Germany Christian Müller-Schloer, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany Wolfgang Reif, Universität Augsburg, Germany Christian Renner, Universität Lübeck, Germany Gregor Schiele, DERI Galway, Ireland Ingo Scholtes, ETH Zürich, Switzerland Hella Seebach, Universität Augsburg, Germany Jürgen Teich, Universität Nürnberg-Erlangen, Germany Matthias Tichy, Chalmers Technical University and University of Gothenburg, Sweden Sven Tomforde, Universität Augsburg, Germany Theo Ungerer, Universität Augsburg, Germany Arno Wacker, Universität Kassel, Germany Torben Weis, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany Stefan Wildermann, Universität Nürnberg-Erlangen, Germany Rolf Würtz, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany You have received this email because you have subscribed to Organic Computing Initiative <http://www.organic-computing.de/mymail/3432/14ac907ebe6aecff1f534ba5f67063c…> as wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de. If you no longer wish to receive emails please unsubscribe <http://www.organic-computing.de/mymail/3432/14ac907ebe6aecff1f534ba5f67063c…> © 2015 Organic Computing Initiative, All rights reserved

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE PerCom 2016, March 14-18, Sydney, Australia/CONSOLIDATED CALL FOR PAPERS FOR AFFILIATED EVENTS AND WORKSHOPS
by Lars Wolf 13 Oct '15

13 Oct '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE PerCom 2016, March 14-18, Sydney, Australia/CONSOLIDATED CALL FOR PAPERS FOR AFFILIATED EVENTS AND WORKSHOPS Datum: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 22:48:03 -0400 Von: Nirmalya Roy <nirmalya.roy(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Nirmalya Roy <nirmalya.roy(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG =================================================================================== IEEE PerCom 2016 / CONSOLIDATED CALL FOR PAPERS FOR AFFILIATED EVENTS AND WORKSHOPS March 14-18, 2016 - Sydney, Australia http://www.percom.org/ =================================================================================== PerCom 2016 CONSOLIDATED CALL FOR PAPERS FOR AFFILIATED EVENTS AND WORKSHOPS PerCom is the premier scholarly venue in the areas of pervasive computing and communications. Detailed information about the scope of events, paper submission process, etc. can be obtained at http://www.percom.org/ and also at the URLs given below. ## PerCom PhD Forum 2016 The Ph.D. Forum will provide an opportunity for Ph.D. students to present their dissertation research, including work in progress, to the pervasive computing and communication community. The Forum will be organized as a combined one-day workshop prior to the PerCom conference and a poster session during the main conference to encourage interaction between Ph.D. students and researchers from academia, industry, and government. URL: http://www.percom.org/?q=phdforum Abstract Submission Deadline: November 27, 2015 ## PerCom Work in Progress 2016 WiP aims to give its participants an opportunity to present and discuss new challenges and visions, early and emerging results and bring about novel research questions, approaches, and directions. URL: http://www.percom.org/?q=wip Paper Submission Deadline: November 27, 2015 ## PerCom Demos 2016 The Demo session aims to provide high-quality demonstrations of all things pervasive from academia and industry. Demos demonstrating working systems, innovative applications, groundbreaking ideas, and novel concepts related to PerCom are welcome. URL: http://www.percom.org/?q=demos Demo Submission Deadline: December 1, 2015 LIST of PERCOM WORKSHOPS: ## AwareCities2016: First International Workshop on Context-Aware “Smart Cities” and Intelligent Transport Systems. The workshop focuses on context-aware or data-driven smart cities and smart Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS). URL: http://awarecities.org/ Paper Submission Deadline: November 27, 2015 ## CASPer2016: 3rd International Workshop on Crowd Assisted Sensing, Pervasive Systems and Communications. The workshop provides a forum for discussion, debate, and collaboration focused on ideas, trends, techniques, and recent advances in crowdsensing and crowdsourcing. URL: http://www.imb.ucl.ac.uk/events/casper2016/ Paper Submission Deadline: 27 November 2015 ## CoMoRea2016: 12th Workshop on Context and Activity Modeling and Recognition. The goal of this workshop is to identify concepts, theories and methods applicable to context modeling and context reasoning as well as system-oriented issues related to the design and implementation of context-aware systems. URL: http://www.comorea.org/ Paper Submission Deadline: 27 November 2015 ## CoSDEO2016: Contact-Free Ambient Sensing. The workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on the design, implementation, and evaluation of systems, algorithms or models the contact-free ambient sensing. URL: https://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/Cosdeo2016/index.html Paper Submission Deadline: 27 November 2015 ## CROWDBENCH2016: Workshop on Benchmarks for Ubiquitous Crowdsourcing: Metrics, Methodologies, and Datasets. The primary goal of this workshop is to synthesize existing research work, in ubiquitous crowdsourcing and crowdsensing, for establishing guidelines and methodologies for the evaluation of crowd-based algorithms and systems. URL: http://crowdbench.insight-centre.org/ Abstract Registration Deadline: 20 November 2015 Paper Submission Deadline: 27 November 2015 ## IQ2S2016: 8th International Workshop on Information Quality and Quality of Service for Pervasive Computing. The objective of this workshop is to provide a forum to exchange ideas on various aspects of QoI, QoE and QoS for pervasive computing in network contexts including wireless, mobile and sensor networks. URL: http://iq2s2016.di.uniroma1.it/ Paper Submission Deadline: 27 November 2015 ## MUCS2016: 13th International Workshop on Managing Communications and Services. The goal of the workshop is to investigate the state of the art in managing pervasive/smart space applications from a broad perspective. URL: http://ubiquitous-management.org/mucs/2016/index.php Paper Submission Deadline: 27 November 2015 ## PASTA2016: Workshop on PervAsive Technologies and care systems for sustainable Aging-in-place. The objective of this workshop is to provide a forum for discussion, debate, and collaboration focused on ideas, trends, techniques, and recent advances in pervasive technologies and care systems for sustainable aging-in-place. URL: http://centres.smu.edu.sg/icity/pasta-main/ Paper Submission Deadline: 10 November 2015 ## PerCol2016: 7th IEEE Workshop on Pervasive Collaboration and Social Networking. The aim of the workshop is to explore the possibilities and challenges of future Pervasive Social Computing applications. While the primary focus is on pervasive technologies for human-to-human interaction, contributions about M2M interaction and coordination are also welcome. URL: http://percol.inf.tu-dresden.de/ Abstract Registration Deadline: 20 November 2015 Paper Submission Deadline: 27 November 2015 ## PerEnergy2016: Second IEEE Workshop on Pervasive Energy Services. The aim of this workshop is to discuss the recent advances in the innumerous opportunities opened up by the use of energy data in context-aware systems. URL: https://net.cs.uni-bonn.de/wg/ubips/events/perenergy-2016/ Paper Submission Deadline: 27 November 2015 ## PerMoby2016: International Workshop on the Impact of Human Mobility in Pervasive Systems and Applications. The goal of the workshop is to explore the impact of human mobility on the achievement of the pervasive computing vision. The focus is on pervasive applications, systems, and protocols where mobility plays an active role in achieving the end goals. URL: http://vecchio.iet.unipi.it/permoby/ Paper Submission Deadline: 27 November 2015 ## SPTIoT2016: Workshop on Security, Privacy and Trust for the Internet of Things. The workshop aims to provide a forum that brings together researchers from academia as well as practitioners from industry, standardization bodies, and government to meet and exchange ideas on recent research and future directions for the IoT with a specific focus on IoT security, privacy and trust. URL: https://sites.google.com/site/sptiot2016/ Paper Submission Deadline: 27 November 2015 ## WristSense2016: 2nd Workshop on Sensing Systems and Applications using Wrist based Smart Devices. The main goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners to share innovative ideas, discuss challenges, and brainstorm potential solutions to open research problems related to the domain of wrist worn smart devices. URL: https://sites.google.com/site/wristsenseworkshop2016/ Paper Submission Deadline: 27 November 2015 ______________________________________________________________ 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 DCOSS 2016 (Washington, DC, USA, 26-28 May 2016)
by Lars Wolf 13 Oct '15

13 Oct '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE DCOSS 2016 (Washington, DC, USA, 26-28 May 2016) Datum: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 12:36:35 +1100 Von: salil kanhere <salilk(a)CSE.UNSW.EDU.AU> Antwort an: salil kanhere <salilk(a)CSE.UNSW.EDU.AU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Apologies for multiple receptions of this Call for Papers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 12th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (IEEE DCOSS) Washington, DC, USA, May 26-28, 2016 www.dcoss.org <http://www.dcoss.org/> Call for Papers Due to their potential of impacting an entire host of application areas, distributed sensor systems have become a highly visible research area. The focus of IEEE DCOSS series of conferences is on distributed computing issues in large scale networked sensor systems (including, but not limited to, algorithms and applications, systems design techniques and tools, and in-network signal and information processing). The conference normally features three tracks on Algorithms, Applications and Systems, and a Signal Processing. In addition, a theme for the "Track of the Year" was introduced in recent years. This track is intended to focus on emerging topics in sensing. In DCOSS 2016, the focus topic is "Cloud Computing and its Applications to Sensing and Remote Sensing". Potential authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate current research on computational aspects of distributed sensor systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Social networks and applications - Sensors for smart grid systems, green networks and sustainability - Computation and programming models - Energy models, minimization, awareness - Distributed collaborative information processing - Detection and tracking - Theoretical performance analysis: complexity, correctness, scalability - Abstractions for modular design - Fault tolerance and security - Task allocation, reprogramming and reconfiguration - Dynamic resource management - Scalable, heterogeneous architectures (node and system-level) - Middleware interfaces, communication and processing primitives - Design, simulation and optimization tools for deployment and operation - Design automation and application synthesis techniques - Closed-loop control for sensing and actuation - Case studies: lessons from real world deployments - Network coding and compression * Important Dates Abstract Registration Deadline: January 31, 2016 (11:59 pm EST) Paper Submission Deadline: February 4, 2016 (11:59 pm EST) Acceptance Notification: March 25, 2016 Camera Ready Submission Deadline: April 8, 2016 (11:59pm EST) Early Registration Deadline: April 29, 2016 (11:59 pm EST) Paper submissions will be via EDAS. See http://www.dcoss.org <http://www.dcoss.org/> for more information on the conference. The proceedings will be published by the IEEE. Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) and IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP). Held in co-operation with ACM SIGARCH, ACM SIGBED, ACM SIGMOBILE, European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), and IFIP WG 10.3. ** Organizing Committee * General Chair Habib M. Ammari (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA) * Technical Program Chair Stephan Olariu (Old Dominion University, USA) * TPC Track Chairs Algorithms and Performance Analysis: Benyuan Liu (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA) Applications, Systems, Real Deployments and Tools: Mehmet Can Vuran (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA) Signal Processing and Information Theory: Qilian Liang (University of Texas at Arlington, USA) Track of the Year "Cloud Computing and its Applications to Sensing and Remote Sensing": Murat Demirbas (SUNY Buffalo, USA) * Workshops Chair Tommaso Melodia (Northeastern University, USA) * Publicity Chairs Stefano Basagni (Northeastern University, USA) Salil Kanhere (University of New South Wales, Australia) M. Elena Renda (Istituto di Informatica e Telematica, Italy) Leandro Villas (Unicamp, Brazil) * Registration and Finance Chair Yonghe Liu (University of Texas at Arlington, USA) * Publication Chair Rafael Falcon (University of Ottawa, Canada) * Demo/Poster Chair Duc Tran (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA) * PhD Fourm Chairs Tian He (University of Minnesota, USA) Hongwei Zhang (Wayne State University, USA) * Web Chair M. Yousof Naderi (Northeastern University, USA) * Local Organization Chair Azin Neishaboori (Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox, USA) * Steering Committee Chair Jose Rolim (University of Geneva, Switzerland) ______________________________________________________________ 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 ICC 2016 - 1st Workshop on Resiliency in Public Safety Communication Systems (RPSCS)
by Lars Wolf 12 Oct '15

12 Oct '15

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Walid Saad <saad.walid(a)GMAIL.COM> Gesendet: 12. Oktober 2015 01:38:01 MESZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP - IEEE ICC 2016 - 1st Workshop on Resiliency in Public Safety Communication Systems (RPSCS) *1st Workshop on Resiliency in Public Safety Communication Systems (RPSCS), in Conjunction with IEEE ICC 2016* *Scope*: Many of today’s critical networked infrastructures, such as transportation and power systems, rely heavily on communication technologies and systems. The resiliency of such communication systems in face of natural disasters, malicious attacks, or even day-to-day wear and tear has become of great importance to maintain the continuous operation of such critical systems. Resilience can have many definitions that range from the ability of a communication system to operate under harsh environments or to withstand malicious attacks, all the way to its adaptability to failures or other unexpected events. In particular, resilience of public safety communication networks during emergencies can become a matter of life or death, since first responders and public safety personnel rely heavily on wired and wireless communication capabilities to execute their search and rescue operations. At the same time, critical infrastructure networks and other civil protection network deployments need to be highly robust, and function effectively in the presence of dynamically varying external and internal conditions. The goal of this workshop is to bring together academic and industrial researchers to identify and discuss technical challenges and recent results related to resilient and robust communication networks, as well as their applications in public safety and critical infrastructure systems. *Area/Topics of interest*: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: · New definitions of resiliency as it applies to wired and wireless communication systems. · Public safety communication (PSC) systems relying on 4G LTE and 5G wireless technologies. · Public safety spectrum sharing, future spectrum requirements for PSC networks. · Resiliency studies for PSC networks and infrastructure against natural disasters, and terrorist/cyber-attacks. · Use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for enhancing PSC and communication resiliency. · Resilient cyber-physical systems and smart cities. · Synergies between resilient control systems and resilient communication networks. · Advanced technologies such as device-to-device, multi-hop, and relay-based communications for enhanced PSC. · Propagation channel measurements and modeling for PSC. · Interworking and interoperability between public safety networks and commercial networks. · Game-theoretic techniques, resource allocation, and power control for resilient and public safety communications. · Software defined radio (SDR) testbeds and experimentation on resilient systems. · Software-defined management and control mechanisms for improving PSC communication resilience. · The role of cyber-physical systems in resiliency. · Resilient rapidly deployable communication networks. *Workshop Co-Chairs*: Walid Saad (Virginia Tech, USA) Ismail Guvenc (Florida International University, USA) Tinku Rasheed (Orion Innovations, Greece) *Important Dates:* - Paper submission deadline: December 4, 2015 - Acceptance notification: February 21, 2016 - Camera-ready papers: March 13, 2016 *Additional Information*: https://sites.google.com/site/rpscs2015/ ______________________________________________________________ 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] Int. Conf. on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN) - Call for Posters and Demos
by Lars Wolf 11 Oct '15

11 Oct '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Int. Conf. on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN) - Call for Posters and Demos Datum: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 09:27:31 -0700 Von: Luca Mottola <lmottola(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Luca Mottola <lmottola(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN) 15-17 February 2016, Graz, Austria Call for Posters and Demos The International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN) is a highly selective single-track international conference focusing on premier research results at the intersection of embedded systems and wireless networking. Along with full research papers, EWSN solicits submissions of poster and demo abstracts whose contribution will be publicly presented during the conference. The poster session at EWSN will provide a forum for researchers to present their work in progress and to receive feedback from experts attending the conference. In parallel to the poster session, the demo session will offer a unique opportunity to showcase real prototypes, tools, and systems to the conference attendees. The areas of interest for both poster and demo abstracts are the same as for full research papers. Please refer to www.iti.tugraz.at/EWSN2016 more details. Submission: Demo and poster abstracts must not exceed 2 pages. Titles should start with "Poster: ..." or "Demo: ..." depending on the case. 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. A LaTex template is available at www.iti.tugraz.at/EWSN2016 under Calls -> Posters & Demos. At the same page, you find a link where to perform the actual submission. As we particularly welcome contributions from students, the submission system offers an option to explicitly signal whether the main author is a student. Both poster and demo abstracts may optionally complement the submission with a video of at most 2 minutes that further illustrates the work at hand. If the abstract is accepted, the video will be made available directly from the conference website. Poster and demo abstracts will be reviewed by at least three members of the poster/demo committee to ensure quality and matching to the goals of the poster/demo session as well as to the conference’s topics. Accepted poster and demo abstracts will be included in the conference proceedings that appear in the ACM Digital Library. Presentation at the conference: In addition to space given to every accepted abstract during the poster/demo session, one author of the abstract will be given a slot in a further "1-minute madness" session within the main program. In this session, authors will have the opportunity to describe their work to the entire conference audience with a single slide and a 1-minute speech. Attendees will be given an online link where to cast a vote for what they think was the best 1-minute poster or demo teaser. Best poster and demo awards will be decided based on the outcome of the vote. Important dates: Submission: December 4th, 2015 Notification: December 18th, 2015 Poster and Demo Chairs: Olaf Landsiedel (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) Luca Mottola (Luca Mottola, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and SICS Swedish ICT) Program Committee: Yiran Shen (National University of Singapore/MIT Alliance) Rajib Rana (University of Southern Queensland, Australia) Chun Liu (Henan University, China) Junfeng Wu (KTH, Sweden) Marco Zimmerling (ETHZ, Switzerland) Frederik Hermans (University of Uppsala, Sweden) Alessandro Sivieri (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Zhichao Cao (Tsinghua University, China) Oana Iova (University of Trento, Italy) Christoph Sommer (University of Paderborn, 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: [pimrc2016] IEEE PIMRC’16 Call for Papers, Workshops, Tutorials and Panels
by Lars Wolf 09 Oct '15

09 Oct '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [pimrc2016] IEEE PIMRC’16 Call for Papers, Workshops, Tutorials and Panels Datum: Fri, 9 Oct 2015 08:21:00 +0200 Von: Coll Perales, Baldomero <bcoll(a)umh.es> Antwort an: Coll Perales, Baldomero <bcoll(a)umh.es> An: pimrc2016(a)listas.umh.es -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------,,FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS,,27th IEEE International Symposium on Personal,,Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC’16),,4-7 September 2016, Valencia, Spain,,http://www.ieee-pimrc.org/index.html,,------------------------------… <http://www.ieee-pimrc.org/> Dear Colleagues, The 2016 IEEE 27th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) will be held 4-7 September 2016 in the beautiful Mediterranean city of Valencia, Spain. This annual conference of the IEEE Communications Society will bring together individuals from academia, government, and industry to discuss and exchange ideas in all aspects of Radio Communications, from Physical to Applications and Services. The conference will feature world-class plenary speakers, tutorials, and technical as well as industrial panel sessions. The technical program committee invites the submission of original, unpublished technical papers in the following areas: 1. 1. Fundamentals and PHY Layer (Chairs: Buon Kiong Lau; Michael Jensen, Chenyang Yang) 2. 2. MAC and Cross-Layer Design (Chairs: Jose Monserrat, Erik Ström) 3. 3. Mobile and Wireless Networks (Chairs: Yan Zhang, Celimuge Wu, Ramón Agüero) 4. 4. Services, Applications and Business (Chairs: Roberto Verdone, Didier A. Bourse) Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a full paper, maximum 6 pages length, through the conference web site. Full information is available at http://www.ieee-pimrc.org/index.html _Important Dates:_ *Papers submission: March 18th, 2016* Workshop proposals deadline: February 26^th , 2016 Tutorials and Panels proposals: April 15^th , 2016 Acceptance notices sent: May 27^th , 2016 Final papers due: June 24^th , 2016 We are looking forward to receive your submissions and proposals. Kind regards, Narcís Cardona, Luis M. Correia PIMRC 2016 Executive and Technical Program Co-Chairs _____________________________________________ Prof. Narcis Cardona Executive and TP Co-Chair of IEEE PIMRC 2016 Vice-Director of iTEAM Research Institute Universitat Politecnica de Valencia | Camino de Vera S/N 46022 Valencia | Spain Tel: +34 963 879 580 | Fax: +34 963 879 583 ncardona(a)iteam.upv.es <mailto:ncardona@iteam.upv.es> | www.iteam.es <http://www.iteam.es/> pimrc2016(a)iteam.upv.es <mailto:pimrc2016@iteam.upv.es> | http://www.ieee-pimrc.org/ _________________________________

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Fwd: IEEE Internet of Things Journal Call-for-Papers
by Lars Wolf 09 Oct '15

09 Oct '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: IEEE Internet of Things Journal Call-for-Papers Datum: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 20:21:34 +0000 Von: IEEE Sensors Council <j.scharmann(a)conferencecatalysts.com> Antwort an: IEEE Sensors Council <j.scharmann(a)conferencecatalysts.com> An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de IEEE Internet of Things Journal Call-for-Papers IEEE Internet of Things Journal CFP View this email in your browser <http://us7.campaign-archive1.com/?u=f2d2eabe9a09b13da6607ea3c&id=a4c2e6ec97…> The IEEE Internet of Things Journal publishes papers on the latest advances, special issues and review articles on the various aspects of IoT. Three special issues are currently open for submissions: * "Things" as Intelligent Sensors and Actuators in the Users' Context o *Submission Deadline: December 1, 2015* * Privacy Issues in Internet of Things o *Submission Deadline: January 31, 2016* * Big Security Challenges in Big Data Era o *Submission Deadline: February 15, 2016* For details, please refer to http://iot.ieee.org/journal <http://ieee-sensors.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=f2d2eabe9a09b13da660…> and http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6488907 <http://ieee-sensors.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f2d2eabe9a09b13da6607…>. Copyright © 2015 IEEE Internet of Things Journal, c/o Conference Catalysts, LLC, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because of your relationship to the IEEE Internet of Things Journal. This list is used ONLY for IEEE Internet of Things Journal announcements. It is NOT shared with others. If you unsubscribe, you will not receive future announcements about IEEE Internet of Things Journal activities. *Our mailing address is:* IEEE Internet of Things Journal, c/o Conference Catalysts, LLC 802 NW 16th Avenue, Ste. B Gainesville, FL 32605 unsubscribe from this list <http://ieee-sensors.us7.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=f2d2eabe9a09b13da6607…> update subscription preferences <http://ieee-sensors.us7.list-manage.com/profile?u=f2d2eabe9a09b13da6607ea3c…>

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] EXTENDED DEADLINE OCT. 30 - 18th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference - MELECON 2016
by Lars Wolf 09 Oct '15

09 Oct '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] EXTENDED DEADLINE OCT. 30 - 18th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference - MELECON 2016 Datum: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 22:21:13 +0300 Von: Vasos Vassiliou <vasosv(a)CS.UCY.AC.CY> Antwort an: Vasos Vassiliou <vasosv(a)CS.UCY.AC.CY> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Dear colleagues, I would like to bring to our attention a conference with an upcoming submission deadline: MELECON 2016 18th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference Intelligent & Efficient Technologies & Services for the Citizen April 18-20, 2016, Limassol, Cyprus http://www.melecon2016.org Organised by: IEEE Region 8 & IEEE Cyprus Section Call for Papers Aim and Scope Melecon 2016 is an IEEE Region 8 flagship conference with a long standing history of excellence both in electrotechnology and in recent years in information and communication technologies as well. Melecon 2016 covers complementary thematic areas that hold great promise for the advancement of research and technological development in the solution of complex engineering systems. In this context, Melecon 2016 foresees to attract high quality papers and provide a platform for the cross fertilization of new ideas and know-how under the special theme of the conference that is Intelligent & Efficient Technologies & Services for the Citizen. Among others, the conference will host the following thematic areas: Security and Networking Chairs: V. Vassiliou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus S. Sargento, Institute of Telecommunications, University of Aveiro, Portugal • Information and Communication Technologies Chairs: S. Louca, University of Nicosia, Cyprus D. Banciu, National Institute for Research & Development in Informatics, Romania • Internet of Things, Cloud-Based Systems and Big Data Analytics Chairs: C. Mavromoustakis, University of Nicosia, Cyprus G. Mastorakis, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Greece C. Dobre, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania Important Dates Proposals for workshops or special sessions: September 5, 2015 Paper submission: October 30, 2015 Paper notification: November 30, 2015 Camera ready paper: December 15, 2015 Paper Submission The submissions should contain original, high quality work, not submitted or published elsewhere. Papers should be submitted electronically (through Melecon 2016 web site) in pdf format and should conform to IEEE specifications (single-spaced, double - column, 10-point font size, 4 - 6 pages). Paper Presentation Each accepted paper should be presented by one of the authors and accompanied by at least one full registration fee payment, to guarantee publication in the proceedings. One full registration fee can cover up to 2 papers only. All accepted papers will be included in the IEEE proceedings of Melecon 2016 that will be submitted to the Xplore Digital Library. PhD Students Paper Competition PhD Students are encouraged to submit their papers to the Melecon 2016 student paper competition selecting a thematic area. Venue St. Raphael Resort - 5* The St. Raphael Resort is a 5 star hotel located on one of the most renowned and largest beaches in Limassol, 10 minutes away from the lively centre of Limassol, 35 minutes away from Larnaca International Airport, and 55 minutes away from Paphos International Airport. General Conference Co-Chairs: C.S. Pattichis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus E. Kyriakides, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Committee Chair: G. Ellinas, University of Cyprus, Cyprus If you require more information please visit the conference website, www.melecon2016.org, which is continuously updated with the latest news regarding the conference. Looking forward to meeting you in Cyprus. The Organizing Committee http://www.melecon2016.org -- Vasos Vassiliou, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Networks Research Laboratory Department of Computer Science University of Cyprus -- Tel.: +357 22892750 Fax: +357 22892701 Email:vasosv - a-t - cs.ucy.ac.cy url: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~vasosv ______________________________________________________________ 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: [ISCC] ACM HotMobile 2016: Call for Papers
by Lars Wolf 05 Oct '15

05 Oct '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [ISCC] ACM HotMobile 2016: Call for Papers Datum: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 15:24:12 +0000 Von: Clinch, Sarah <s.clinch(a)lancaster.ac.uk> An: iscc(a)mama.ing.unibo.it <iscc(a)mama.ing.unibo.it> CALL FOR PAPERS The 17th Annual International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (ACM HotMobile 2016) Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE 23-24 February, 2016 St. Augustine, Florida, USA ACM HotMobile 2017, the Seventeenth 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. Polished mini-papers with in-depth evaluations will be less competitive than unconventional, bold, or creative ideas likely to lead to discussion. We particularly look for position papers containing highly original ideas in the topic areas listed below. However, papers describing other challenges unique to or exacerbated by mobility are also welcome. * 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 * Management, configuration, and deployment of systems supporting mobility Submissions describing new lower-level technologies are welcome if they focus on how the technology is being used or integrated into a system or application. The deadline for submissions is Monday, October 12, 2015, 11:59pm EST. Acceptance notifications will occur on or before Friday, December 11, 2015. ACM HotMobile 2016 will be a highly interactive workshop. Submissions will be judged based upon originality, technical merit, topical relevance, and likelihood of leading to insightful discussion at the workshop. 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 simultaneously or shortly after publication at HotMobile 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 will be returned without review. As customary with the scientific peer review process, submissions will be handled as confidential material during the review. Submissions should be six (6) or fewer U.S. letter pages in PDF format, including all references, figures and tables. 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 2016 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, feel free to send an e-mail to the PC chair at: prabal(a)eecs.umich.edu <mailto:prabal@eecs.umich.edu>

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: The 3rd IEEE PerCom International Workshop on Crowd Assisted Sensing, Pervasive Systems and Communications (CASPer 2016)
by Lars Wolf 05 Oct '15

05 Oct '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: The 3rd IEEE PerCom International Workshop on Crowd Assisted Sensing, Pervasive Systems and Communications (CASPer 2016) Datum: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 09:19:58 -0400 Von: Waldir Moreira <faqzao(a)HOTMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Waldir Moreira <faqzao(a)HOTMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Apologies for cross and multiple postings] ******************************************************************** The 3rd IEEE PerCom International Workshop on Crowd Assisted Sensing, Pervasive Systems and Communications (CASPer 2016) http://www.imb.ucl.ac.uk/events/casper2016/ In conjunction with the 14th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2016) Sydney, Australia, March 14-18, 2016 ******************************************************************** Dear Colleagues, Please find below the CfP for the 3rd International Workshop on Crowd Assisted Sensing, Pervasive Systems and Communications (CASPer 2016), held in conjunction with the 14th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2016). We would appreciate if you could circulate this email to colleagues and relevant mailing lists. Call for Papers With smartphones in their pockets, more than 1 billion people now have immediate access to sensing, computation, and connectivity, and this makes 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, expanding the scope of research endeavours and allowing civic issues to be addressed, without the need to purchase specialized sensors or install and maintain network infrastructure. Data collected using such applications may come from unexpected yet interesting and valuable sources, and may allow the data to come from previously inaccessible locations and contexts. CASPer 2016 provides 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 largescale and enterprise crowdsensing/crowdsourcing applications Paper Submission Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE PerCom Workshop Proceedings. Authors will submit through EDAS. Submissions are limited to a maximum length of 6 pages and must adhere to IEEE format (2 column, 10 pt font). Templates are available via the workshop website. Please note: as per IEEE PerCom policy, each accepted paper requires a full PerCom registration (no registration is available for workshops only). Important Dates Submission deadline: November 27, 2015 Author Notification: January 2, 2016 Registration Deadline: January 15, 2016 General Chairs Imre Lendak, University of Novi Sad, Serbia Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Programme Chairs Luke Dickens, University College London, UK Tony Tie Luo, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Publicity Chair Waldir Moreira, COPELABS, University Lusofona, Portugal Steering Committee Károly Farkas, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Luke Dickens, University College London, UK Miguel Labrador, University of South Florida, USA Emil Lupu, Imperial College London, UK Jamie Payton, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Thomas Silverston, The University of Tokyo / JFLI CNRS UMI 3527, Japan We hope to see you in Sydney. Best regards, Waldir Moreira, Publicity Chair CASPer 2016 ______________________________________________________________ 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: [InternetTC] IPSN 2016 - Call for Papers
by Lars Wolf 03 Oct '15

03 Oct '15

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Tamer Nadeem <nadeem(a)CS.ODU.EDU> Gesendet: 3. Oktober 2015 07:27:38 MESZ An: itc(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [InternetTC] IPSN 2016 - Call for Papers ****** Apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP ***** Call For Papers ===================================================================================== 15th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN '16) April 11-14, 2016 Vienna, Austria http://ipsn.acm.org/2016/ ===================================================================================== 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 a multiple of these areas. New: In addition to IPSN's traditional focus areas, IPSN 2016 is inaugurating a new track on the Internet of Things (IoT). The entire program committee is eligible to review any submitted paper, but in order to aid in reviewer selection, authors are encouraged to indicate in the submission site whether their submissions are related to the IoT track. Like previous years, IPSN 2016 will continue its 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 architectures, modeling, evaluation, deployment experiences, design methods, implementations, and tools for networked embedded sensor systems. Topics covered include, but are not limited to: * Sensor data storage, retrieval, processing and machine learning * Coding, compression and information theory * Sensor tasking, control, decision making and actuation * Theoretical foundation and fundamental bounds * Network and system architectures and protocols * Location, time, and other network services * Programming models and languages and embedded software * Modeling, simulation, measurement, and analysis tools * Operating systems and runtime environments * User interfaces for sensing applications and systems * Innovative platforms and architectures, including cloud, mobile, participatory and social sensing * Compelling applications ranging from wellbeing and health monitoring to environmental and urban (e.g. traffic / building) sensing, highlighting experiences, challenges, and comparisons of platforms and tools IoT Track: This new track focuses on the unique aspects of creating novel applications and services that integrate embedded, mobile, and cloud resources in the context of physical spaces, machines, and other interconnected Things. Topics covered include, but are not limited to: * Programming models for ensembles of interconnected Things * Discovery, Coordination and Usability of Things and Services in IoT * Trust, Security, Privacy, and Authentication in IoT * Network, System, Device, and Service Architectures for IoT * Dependability, adaptation, intermittency, and assembly in IoT * Technical Assessment of emerging IoT standards Submission Guidelines Full papers must be at most 12 single-spaced 8.5" x 11" (letter) pages, including figures, tables, and references. New this year, we also solicit short papers (maximum six pages) containing interesting technical nuggets. Full papers may be accepted with the condition of converting them into short papers. More submission guidelines can be found at http://ipsn.acm.org/2016/. Submission site is at https://ipsn2016.cs.ox.ac.uk/. Key Dates - Abstract registration: 4PM UTC, Thursday, October 8, 2015 - Submission deadline: 4PM UTC, Thursday, October 15, 2015 - Acceptance notification: January 19, 2016 - Conference dates: April 12, 2016 Organizing Committee - General Chair: Guoliang Xing (Michigan State University) - Technical Committee Co-Chairs: David Culler (University of California at Berkeley), Suman Nath (Microsoft Research), Niki Trigoni (University of Oxford) - Poster Co-Chairs: Lu Su (SUNY Buffalo), Tian He (University of Minnesota) - Demo Co-Chairs: Xiaofan (Fred) Jiang (Columbia University), Thiemo Voigt (SICS, Sweden) - Competition Chair: Dimitrios Lymberopoulos (Microsoft Research) - Web Chair: Yuanqing Zheng (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) - PhD Forum Co-Chairs: Luca Mottola (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), Octav Chipara (University of Iowa) - Shadow PC Coordination Chair: Nirupama Bulusu (Portland State University) - Publication Chair: Utz Roedig (University of Lancaster) - Publicity Co-Chairs: Mário Alves (Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal), Tamer Nadeem (Old Dominion University), Yanmin Zhu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Internet Technical Committee http://committees.comsoc.org/itc/ To subscribe or unsubscribe: https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=itc&A=1

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Fwd: [InternetTC] [CFP]: 2nd ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop (ACM CPSS’16)
by Lars Wolf 03 Oct '15

03 Oct '15

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Cristina Alcaraz <alcaraz(a)LCC.UMA.ES> Gesendet: 2. Oktober 2015 13:05:09 MESZ An: itc(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [InternetTC] [CFP]: 2nd ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop (ACM CPSS’16) *** Apologies for multiple copies *** C a l l F o r P a p e r s ACM CPSS’16 CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop Xi’an, China - May 30, 2016 (in conjunction with ACM AsiaCCS'16) http://icsd.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/cpss16/ =============================================== Important Dates --------------- Submission due: Dec 5, 2015 Notification: Feb 15, 2016 Camera-ready due: March 15, 2016 Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) consist of large-scale interconnected systems of heterogeneous components interacting with their physical environments. There are a multitude of CPS devices and applications being deployed to serve critical functions in our lives. The security of CPS becomes extremely important. This workshop will provide a platform for professionals from academia, government, and industry to discuss how to address the increasing security challenges facing CPS. Besides invited talks, we also seek novel submissions describing theoretical and practical security solutions to CPS. Papers that are pertinent to the security of embedded systems, SCADA, smart grid, and critical infrastructure networks are all welcome, especially in the domains of energy and transportation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Adaptive attack mitigation for CPS - Authentication and access control for CPS - Availability, recovery and auditing for CPS - Data security and privacy for CPS - Embedded systems security - EV charging system security - Intrusion detection for CPS - IoT security - Key management in CPS - Legacy CPS system protection - Lightweight crypto and security - SCADA security - Security of industrial control systems - Smart grid security - Threat modeling for CPS - Urban transportation system security - Vulnerability analysis for CPS - Wireless sensor network security Steering Committee ------------------ Dieter Gollmann (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany) Ravishankar Iyer (UIUC, USA) Douglas Jones (ADSC, Singapore) Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) Jianying Zhou (I2R, Singapore) ñ Chair Program Chairs -------------- Jianying Zhou (I2R, Singapore) Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) Publicity Chair --------------- Cristina Alcaraz (University of Malaga, Spain) Publication Chair ----------------- Ying Qiu (I2R, Singapore) Program Committee ----------------- Cristina Alcaraz (University of Malaga, Spain) Raheem Beyah (Georgia Tech, USA) Levente Buttyan (BME, Hungary) Alvaro Cardenas (UT Dallas, USA) Aldar Chan (ASTRI, HK) Binbin Chen (ADSC, Singapore) Songqing Chen (George Mason University, USA) Richard Chow (Intel, USA) Mauro Conti (University of Padua, Italy) Miguel Correia (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Roy Dong (UC Berkeley, USA) Xinshu Dong (ADSC, Singapore) Aurelien Francillon (EURECOM, France) Adrian Gheorghe (Old Dominion University, USA) Dieter Gollmann (Hamburg Uni of Tech, Germany) Felix Gomez-Marmol (NEC Labs, Germany) Huaqun Guo (I2R, Singapore) Adam Hahn (Washington State University, USA) Bernhard H‰mmerli (HSLU & ACRIS GmbH, Switzerland) Jin Han (Twitter, USA) Jinguang Han (NUFE, China) Feng Hao (Newcastle University, UK) Ravishankar Iyer (UIUC, USA) Douglas Jones (ADSC, Singapore) Zbigniew Kalbarczyk (UIUC, USA) Frank Kargl (University of Ulm, Germany) Sokratis Katsikas (Gj¯vik Uni College, Norway) Shinsaku Kiyomoto (KDDI R&D Labs, Japan) Marina Krotofil (Hamburg Uni of Tech, Germany) Alptekin K¸pÁ¸ (KoÁ University, Turkey) Miroslaw Kutylowski (Wroclaw Uni of Tech, Poland) Jason Larson (IOActive, USA) Xiapu Luo (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK) Ivan Martinovic (University of Oxford, UK) Weizhi Meng (I2R, Singapore) Chris Mitchell (RHUL, UK) Philippe Owezarski (LAAS-CNRS, France) Michael Papay (Northrop Grumman, USA) Jonathan Petit (University College Cork, Ireland) Axel Poschmann (NXP, Germany) Lillian J. Ratliff (UC Berkeley, USA) Erich Rome (Fraunhofer-IAIS, Germany) Roberto Setola (Universit‡ CAMPUS, Italy) Christoph Schmittner (AIT, Austria) Martin Strohmeier (University of Oxford, UK) Nils Kalstad Svendsen (Gj¯vik Uni College, Norway) Tsuyoshi Takagi (Kyushu University, Japan) Juan Tapiador (Uni Carlos III de Madrid, Spain) Nils Ole Tippenhauer (SUTD, Singapore) Long Wang (IBM Research, USA) Jia Xu (I2R, Singapore) Qiang Yan (Google, Switzerland) Yanjiang Yang (I2R, Singapore) David Yau (SUTD, Singapore) Siu-Ming Yiu (University of Hong Kong, HK) Ye Zhang (Google, USA) Peng Zhou (Shanghai University, China) Wanlei Zhou (Deakin University, Australia) Submission Instructions ----------------------- Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. All submissions should be appropriately anonymized (i.e., papers should not contain author names or affiliations, or obvious citations). Submissions must be in double-column ACM SIG Proceedings format, and should not exceed 12 pages. Position papers and short papers of 5 pages describing the work in progress are also welcome. Only pdf files will be accepted. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the workshop. At least one author of the paper must be registered at the appropriate conference rate. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. There will also be a best paper award. Paper submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cpss2016. Contact ------- Email: cpss2016(a)easychair.org CPSS Home: http://icsd.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/staff/jianying/cpss/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Internet Technical Committee http://committees.comsoc.org/itc/ To subscribe or unsubscribe: https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=itc&A=1

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Fwd: CfP: DRCN (extended deadline: 12.10.2015)
by Lars Wolf 02 Oct '15

02 Oct '15

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Michael Menth <menth(a)UNI-TUEBINGEN.DE> Gesendet: 2. Oktober 2015 19:13:22 MESZ An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Betreff: CfP: DRCN (extended deadline: 12.10.2015) CALL FOR PAPERS DRCN 2016 International Workshop on Design of Reliable Communication Networks http://www.drcn2016.org March 14-17, 2016 - Paris, France. Technically co-sponsored by IEEE and IEEE Communications Society IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: October 12, 2015 (extended) Notification of acceptance: January 8, 2015 Camera Ready Papers: January 29, 2016 SCOPE The International Workshop on Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN) is a forum for presenting excellent results and new challenges facing the field of the reliability and availability of communication networks and services. It brings together experts from industry, governments and academia, experienced in engineering, design and research. We would like to invite you to contribute to and participate in DRCN 2016, which will be held in the very heart of Paris, France, the historical Latin Quarter district. TOPICS OF INTEREST * Network design and operational aspects of Reliability * Survivability and traffic engineering for optical, IP and multi-layer networks * Robustness of multi-domain network and protocol architectures * Resilience in Software-Defined Networking (SDN) * High-availability for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) infrastructures * Network dependability in cloud networking * Dependability of cellular/mobile networks * Reliability of wireless access and mesh networking * Survivability in grid and distributed computing * Resilience of networked critical infrastructures * Theory and modeling * Network reliability analysis * Methods for survivable network and systems design, analysis and operation * Planning and optimization of reliable networks, systems, and services * Network coding techniques to improve resilience * Decomposition techniques for reliable network optimization * Service differentiation based on recovery methods * Simulation techniques for network resilience * Resilience of Networked Services * Quality of Experience (QoE) and network service availability assessments * Reliability requirements and metrics for users, businesses, and the society * Dependability of networked applications * Survivability of multimedia networks * Reliability and resiliency of data center networks * Recovery of overlay and peer-to-peer networks * Restoration of services under various types of failures * Application and service-specific survivability techniques * Robustness of compound services * Broad context * Telecommunication networks as an element of critical infrastructures * Risk and reliability in the Internet and enterprise networks * Public policy issues for survivability and resilience * Standardization of network resilience and reliability * Network resilience combined with economics and commercial issues * Network robustness to natural disasters * Robust network design for hostile environments * Security issues in networks and their relation to survivability * Network dependability and energy consumption trade-offs PAPER SUBMISSION Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical papers by the deadline October 2, 2015, for publication in the DRCN 2016 Conference Proceedings and for oral presentation during the conference. All submissions should be written in English and should not exceed eight (8) double-column printed pages (10-point font) including figures. All papers must be formatted according to the IEEE manuscript template for conference proceedings (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html. All submissions must be done through EDAS. Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process. Paper submission site: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=20941. During the initial paper submission process via EDAS, authors are required to make sure that the pdf file and EDAS registration page of a paper have the same list of authors and paper title, namely add all authors in EDAS during the submission process. The author list of an accepted paper can NOT be changed in the final manuscript. At least 1 author of accepted papers must be registered to the conference as presenter in order to appear in the proceedings. Please contact submissions(a)drcn2016.org if you have any questions about submitting your manuscript. VENUE The conference will take place at Campus Les Cordeliers of the University Pierre and Marie Curie, in the Centre of Paris. GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Prosper Chemouil, Orange Labs, France Achille Pattavina, Politecnico di Milano, Italy TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Stefano Secci, University Pierre et Marie Curie, France. Eric Gourdin, Orange Labs, France For more information, please visit: http://www.drcn2016.org

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Fwd: ACM TOMPECS Call for Papers
by Lars Wolf 01 Oct '15

01 Oct '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: ACM TOMPECS Call for Papers Datum: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 11:00:04 -0400 (EDT) Von: Don Towsley, Carey Williamson <pubs(a)acm.org> An: wolf(a)IBR.CS.TU-BS.DE Call For Papers <http://orange.hosting.lsoft.com/trk/click?ref=znwrbbrs9_5-e245x3a679x022725&> *Call for Papers* ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems /A New ACM Journal/ *Editors-in-Chief* Don Towsley, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA Carey Williamson, University of Calgary, Canada ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Information for Contributors* /ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems/ (TOMPECS) is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal that publishes refereed articles on all aspects of the modeling, analysis and performance evaluation of computing and communication systems. It solicits and will publish articles that * define, develop, and assess new performance evaluation methodologies, including analytical techniques, experimental design, formal methods, instrumentation techniques, mathematical modeling, optimization, queueing theory, reliability analysis, simulation, statistical analysis, stochastic modeling, verification and validation, and workload characterization; * provide new insights on the performance of computing and communication systems; or * introduce new settings within which performance modeling and evaluation can play an important role Target areas for these performance evaluation methodologies include traditional areas such as computer architecture, computer networks, database systems, distributed systems, enterprise systems, fault-tolerant systems, file and I/O systems, memory systems, multimedia systems, operating systems, peer-to-peer networks, real-time systems, sensor networks, software systems, storage systems, telecommunication networks, Web-based systems, and wireless networks as well as up and coming areas such as data centers, green computing and communications, energy grid networks, on line social networks, and networks at large. *Visit tompecs.acm.org <http://tompecs.acm.org> for further information or submit your manuscript directly to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tompecs.* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Associate Editors* # Marco Ajmone Marsan, Politecnico di Torino, Italy # Virgilio Almeida, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil # Martin Arlitt, HP Labs, USA # Konstantin Avrachenko, INRIA-Sophia Antipolis, France # Sem Borst, Alcatel Bell Labs, USA/University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands # Edmundo do Souza e Silva, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil # Richard Gibbens, University of Cambridge, UK # Leana Golubchik, University of Southern California, USA # Peter Harrison, Imperial College London, UK # Mor Harchol-Balter, Carnegie Mellon University, USA # John C.S. Lui, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong # Anirban Mahanti, NICTA, Australia # David Nicol, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA # Prashant Shenoy, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA # Evgenia Smirni, College of William and Mary, USA # Mark Squillante, IBM T.J. Watson, USA # Y.C. Tay, National University of Singapore, Singapore # Patrick Thiran, EPFL, Switzerland # Benny van Houdt, University of Antwerp, Belgium # Adam Wierman, Caltech, USA ** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ If you do not want to receive future emails about publishing in ACM journals, send an email to mktg2(a)hq.acm.org <mailto:mktg2@hq.acm.org> with "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the subject. Association for Computing Machinery, Two Penn Plaza, Suite 701, New York, NY 10121-0701, USA Copyright 2015, ACM, Inc.

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE VNC 2015 - Call For Posters and Demos
by Lars Wolf 01 Oct '15

01 Oct '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE VNC 2015 - Call For Posters and Demos Datum: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 17:28:58 +0900 Von: Takayuki NISHIO <nishio(a)I.KYOTO-U.AC.JP> Antwort an: Takayuki NISHIO <nishio(a)I.KYOTO-U.AC.JP> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ***** IEEE VNC 2015 - Call For Posters and Demos ***** ============================================ 7th IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (IEEE VNC 2015) 16-18 December 2015 Hyatt Regency Hotel, Kyoto, Japan http://www.ieee-vnc.org/2015/ Poster and Demo submission deadline: 16 October 2015 ============================================ Vehicular networking and communication systems is an area of significant importance in our increasingly connected and mobile world. Effective vehicular connectivity techniques can significantly enhance efficiency of travel, reduce traffic incidents and improve safety, mitigate the impact of congestion, and overall provide a more comfortable experience. Towards this goal, the 2015 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. IEEE VNC 2015 will continue the tradition from previous editions to include a poster session to allow the authors to closely interact with, and obtain feedback from, the conference audience on new or on-going research contributions related to vehicular networking. Posters are especially suited for presenting controversial research directions that may generate discussion, or promising ideas not yet fully validated through complete extensive evaluation. IEEE VNC 2015 will also include a demonstration session for researchers to showcase their latest prototypes with media, models, or live demonstrations. The demo session will be co-located with the poster session to ensure maximum visibility and a close interaction with the conference audience. We solicit proposals for demonstrations related to vehicular networking, describing either mature or innovative systems and prototypes developed for commercial use or for research purposes, from industries as well as universities. We especially encourage demos on validating important research issues or showcasing prototypes that demonstrate realistic applications. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Applications of vehicular networks, including ITS * Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications * Vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications * Vehicle-to-X (V2X) communications (e.g., with bicyclists, pedestrians, etc.) * In-vehicle communications (wireless or wired) * Radio technologies for V2X (radio resource management, propagation models, antennas, etc.) * Protocols for vehicular networks (MAC / link layer, routing, mobility management, dissemination, transport, applications etc.) * Architectures, algorithms and protocols for data dissemination, processing, and aggregation in vehicular networks * 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-application) * Integration of V2V with on-board systems and networks Conference Venue ------------------------------------------------ The conference will be hosted in Kyoto, Japan at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. Kyoto, known as the Cultural Heart of Japan, was the imperial capital of Japan for over a millennium and is one of the best preserved cities in Japan. Seventeen UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Sites are located in and around Kyoto, 1600 Buddhist temples, 400 Shinto shrines, as well as countless famous gardens and palaces. At the same time, Kyoto is very much a modern city, home to close to 1.5 million people. Kansai International Airport is just 75 minutes out from the city center. Manuscript submissions ------------------------------------------------------ Poster/demo papers should be 2-page papers following standard IEEE 2-column format using 10-point font. All paper submissions must be written in English. The title of the paper should begin with either "Poster:" or "Demo:". Optionally, a poster paper submission can also include an electronic copy of the poster. A demo paper submission should include an overview of the demonstration set-up (the inclusion of photographs of the demonstrator are encouraged) and the results that will be showcased to the attendees. We also encourage the authors of the demo papers to include a link to a short 2-min demonstration video for the reviewers to facilitate the evaluation of the quality of the demonstration proposal. If a video is included, it will be downloaded by the demo co-chairs such that it can be hosted on our website to ensure the anonymity of the reviewers. The videos of accepted demonstration proposals will then also be advertised on the conference website. For all accepted demonstration proposals, the demo co-chairs will follow up with the authors to obtain requests for required equipment and/or facilities (power outlets, Internet connections, table dimensions, etc.). Demonstrations may be supported by a poster describing the general set-up of the demonstration, its background, and the technical content to be demonstrated. The authors should inform the demo co-chairs if an accompanying poster will be presented. All paper submissions must be written in English and must be formatted in standard IEEE 2-column format. The mandatory IEEE template in Microsoft Word and LaTeX format can be found at the IEEE templates page. Only Adobe PDF files will be accepted for the review process. All submissions must be made electronically. Submission instructions will be provided at a later time. 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. Further submission instructions are published on the conference web site http://www.ieee-vnc.org/2015/ Important Dates for Attendees & Authors ------------------------------------------------------- * 16 October 2015: Poster and Demo submission deadline (firm!) * 26 October 2015: author notifications sent * 9 November 2015: camera ready versions due * 16 December 2015: conference begins in Kyoto, Japan Chairs and Committees ----------------------------------------------------- General Co-Chairs: Onur Altintas (Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan) Frank Kargl (Ulm University, Germany) TPC Co-Chairs: Eylem Ekici (Ohio State University, OH, USA) Christoph Sommer (University of Paderborn, Germany) Local Arrangements: Michelle Measel (IEEE) Finance Chair: Bruce Worthman (IEEE) Publication Chair: Michele Segata (University of Trento, Italy) Poster/Demo Co-Chairs: Jonathan Petit (Security Innovation, USA) Takayuki Nishio (Kyoto University) Web Chair: David Foerster (Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany) Steering Committee: Onur Altintas (Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan) Wai Chen (China Mobile Research Institute) Geert Heijenk (University of Twente, The Netherlands) Thomas Luckenbach (FOKUS, Germany) Hyun Seo Oh (ETRI, South Korea) Umit Ozguner (Ohio State University, U.S.A.) Tadao Saito (Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo, Japan) Further Information --------------------------------------------------- For further information, please refer to the conference website at http://www.ieee-vnc.org/2015/ -- Takayuki Nishio, Assistant professor. Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University Yoshida-honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan Tel: +81-75-753-5960 Fax: +81-75-753-5349 E-mail: nishio(a)i.kyoto-u.ac.jp ______________________________________________________________ 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] Special Issue on Revolutionizing mHealth through next generation communication technologies (EURASIP JWCN)
by Lars Wolf 01 Oct '15

01 Oct '15

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Angelos Antonopoulos <aantonopoulos(a)CTTC.ES> Gesendet: 1. Oktober 2015 11:12:26 MESZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] Special Issue on Revolutionizing mHealth through next generation communication technologies (EURASIP JWCN) Dear colleagues and friends, Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message through various sources. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Special Issue on "Revolutionizing mHealth through next generation communication technologies" EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking CFP (online): http://jwcn.eurasipjournals.com/about/update/RMHTNGCT Submission Deadline: November 1, 2015 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (EURASIP JWCN) is an open access journal, aiming is to bring together science and applications of wireless communications and networking technologies with emphasis on signal processing techniques and tools. This special issue aims to collect original papers with innovative solutions in the domain of mHealth, as well as comprehensive overviews in this field, highlighting the different communication and networking aspects of an IoT-based ecosystem, proposing innovative technologies and architectures and identifying the design challenges to ensure efficient end-to-end healthcare solutions. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: - Channel modelling and propagation issues for WBANs - Power management and energy harvesting-aware schemes - Low-power protocols and Energy Neutral Operation - Architectures and systems for wireless wearable communications - Interference management in WBANs and coexistence with other technologies - Cooperative schemes for multihop WBAN communications - Compressed sensing techniques for signal telemonitoring - Digital and analog network coding techniques for WBANs - End-to-end connectivity and QoS provisioning - Security and privacy issues - Cloud/Fog-based solutions for resource allocation, processing, data storage, etc. - Innovative architectures for mHealth (SDN-enabled infrastuctures, M2M systems, etc.) - IoT systems and applications for mHealth - Experimental testbeds, platforms and pilot studies for mHealth applications - Standardization activities in the mHealth domain - Big data analytics and challenges ------------------------ Important Dates ------------------------ The deadline for submission is November 1, 2015, but you are highly encouraged to send your manuscript at any time before then, as the papers will be continuously reviewed upon their submission. All submissions will undergo rigorous peer review and accepted articles will be published (open-access) immediately after acceptance. ------------------------------- Submission Guidelines ------------------------------- Before submitting your manuscript, please ensure you have carefully read the Instructions for Authors for the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking at http://jwcn.eurasipjournals.com/authors/instructions. The complete manuscript should be submitted through the journal’s submission system at https://www.editorialmanager.com/jwcn/default.aspx. To ensure that you submit to the correct special issue please select the appropriate section in the drop-down menu upon submission. In addition, indicate within your cover letter that you wish your manuscript to be considered as part of the special issue on Revolutionizing mHealth through next generation communication technologies. ------------------- Guest Editors ------------------- - Elli Kartsakli (Lead Guest Editor), Technical University of Catalonia (UPC-BarcelonaTECH), Spain, ellik(a)tsc.upc.edu - Marco di Renzo, Laboratory of Signals and Systems, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France, marco.direnzo(a)lss.supelec.fr - Angelos Antonopoulos, Telecommunications Technological Centre of Catalonia, Spain, aantonopoulos(a)cttc.es - Hsi-Pin Ma, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, hp(a)ee.nthu.edu.tw - Nelson Fonseca, University of Campinas, Brasil, nfonseca(a)ic.unicamp.br -- Angelos Antonopoulos, PhD Postdoctoral Researcher https://sites.google.com/site/angelosbio/ ______________________________________________________________ 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 2016 Dependability Competition: Deadline Extended
by Lars Wolf 01 Oct '15

01 Oct '15

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Carlo Alberto Boano <cboano(a)tugraz.at> Gesendet: 30. September 2015 22:18:26 MESZ An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de Betreff: EWSN 2016 Dependability Competition: Deadline Extended Dear Colleague, the abstract submission deadline for the dependability competition at EWSN 2016 has been extended by a week: ** EXTENDED abstract submission deadline: October 7, 2015 Kind Regards, Carlo Alberto Boano ================================================================= Call for Competitors Dependability Competition at the Intl. Conf. on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN) February 14-15, 2016 in Graz, Austria www.iti.tugraz.at/EWSN2016 This year's International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN 2016) will host a dependability competition that aims to compare the performance of WSN and IoT communication protocols in environments rich with radio interference. Contestants must first submit an abstract describing their approach in detail by the contest registration deadline. The authors of the selected abstracts will be invited to participate in a two-days dedicated competition session and asked to deploy their software on several TelosB replicas spread in an environment with controlled radio inteference. Solutions will be evaluated based on the reliability of transmissions, the end-to-end latency, and the energy-efficiency. A detailed description of the evaluation scenario and metrics can be found at http://www.iti.tugraz.at/EWSN2016/cms/index.php?id=8. CATEGORIES AND PRIZE: Depending on the nature and number of submissions, multiple categories may be defined and cash awards will be given to the winners in each category. Accepted abstract will appear in the ACM digital library (upon approval of the authors) and the top-classified contestants in each category will also be invited to present their approach in a dedicated session at the conference. ELIGIBILITY Both academia and industry submissions are encouraged. All 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. IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract submission deadline: October 7, 2015 (EXTENDED) Notificaton of acceptance: October 21, 2015 Competition: February 14-15, 2016 ORGANIZERS: Carlo Alberto Boano, TU Graz

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] Elsevier FGCS Journal [IF=2.786] -- SI on "Mobile Edge Computing: Opportunities, Solutions, and Challenges"
by Lars Wolf 30 Sep '15

30 Sep '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] Elsevier FGCS Journal [IF=2.786] -- SI on "Mobile Edge Computing: Opportunities, Solutions, and Challenges" Datum: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 12:59:11 -0400 Von: Ejaz Ahmed <imejaz(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Ejaz Ahmed <imejaz(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Dear All, Please find below a call for papers for Special Issue in Elsevier Future Generation Computer Systems Journal. Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement due to cross posting. CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------ Special Issue in Elsevier Future Generation Computer Systems Journal Mobile Edge Computing: Opportunities, Solutions, and Challenges Submission Deadline: 30th December, 2015 Future Generation Computer Systems invites manuscript submissions in the area of "Mobile Edge Computing: Opportunities, Solutions, and Challenges" http://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/call-fo… AIM and SCOPE: ------------------------- The cloud computing facilitates users with several opportunities by providing wide range of services and virtually unlimited available resources. The large pool of resources and services has enabled the emergence of several new applications, such as virtual reality, smart grids, and smart building control. However, the euphoria transforms into a problem for delay-sensitive applications, which need to meet the delay requirements. The problem becomes clearer and more intense as several smart devices and objects are getting involved in human’s life as in case of smart cities or Internet of Things. Current cloud computing paradigm is unable to meet the requirements of low latency, location awareness, and mobility support. To address the problem, researchers have coined a term of Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) that was introduced to bring the cloud services and resources closer to the user proximity by leveraging the available resources in the edge networks. MEC aims to enable the billions of connected mobile devices to execute the real-time compute-intensive applications directly at the network edge. The distinguishing features of MEC are its closeness to end-users, mobility support, and dense geographical deployment of the MEC servers. Despite the several advantages, realizing the vision of MEC is challenging task because of the administrative policies and security concerns. There is a need to investigate the key requirements and potential opportunities for enabling the vision of MEC. In this special issue, we are seeking new and unpublished work in the domain of MEC. More specifically, this special issue will focus on recent developments in MECs. The list of topics includes, but is not limited to: - Identification of incentives for MEC service providers - MEC architecture: peculiar features and evolution - User transparent application execution frameworks for MEC - Real-time communication interfaces and protocols for enabling the communication between MEC client and MEC server, between MEC servers, between MEC server and the cloud server - Smart MEC scheduler to improve resource scheduling that enhances the reliability and scalability - Resource monitoring mechanism and utilization measuring mechanism - MEC resources allocation and management - Real-time load prediction model to optimize the user satisfaction - MEC functionalities virtualization - Data storage, processing, and management at MEC platform - Simulation models for MEC - Performance evaluation of MEC simulators and platforms - Deployment strategies of MEC Servers - Admission control for MEC - Pricing and billing models for MEC - Lightweight authentication mechanisms that are also feasible to run on the resource constrained devices such as smart sensors - Open issues, challenges and future perspective for MEC Important Dates: ----------------------- Manuscript Due: 30th December 2015 Acceptance notification: 30th April 2016 Revised paper due: 30th June 2016 Final manuscript due: 30 August 2016 Expected Publication of the Special Issue: 25 Dec 2016 Submission Guidelines: --------------------------------- All submissions have to be prepared according to the Guide for Authors as published in the Journal website at http://ees.elsevier.com/fgcs/. Authors should select “SI:MECS”, from the “Choose Article Type” pull-down menu during the submission process. All contributions must not have been previously published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. A submission based on one or more papers that appeared elsewhere has to comprise major value-added extensions over what appeared previously (at least 30% new material). Authors are requested to attach to the submitted paper their relevant, previously published articles and a summary document explaining the enhancements made in the journal version. Guest Editors of the Special Issue: ------------------------------------------------- Ejaz Ahmed, Lead Guest Editor University of Malaya, Malaysia imejaz(a)gmail.com Mubashir Husain Rehmani COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan mshrehmani(a)gmail.com Kind Regards, Ejaz Ahmed Senior Researcher, High Impact Research Project, Centre for Mobile Cloud Computing Research (C4MCCR), University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Email IDs: imejaz(a)gmail.com, ejazahmed(a)ieee.org Personal Website: www.ejazahmed.com Official Website: http://mobcc.fsktm.um.edu.my/index.php/Ejaz_Ahmed ______________________________________________________________ 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: MobiHoc 2016
by Lars Wolf 30 Sep '15

30 Sep '15

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Hannes Frey <frey(a)UNI-KOBLENZ.DE> Gesendet: 29. September 2015 18:25:26 MESZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CfP: MobiHoc 2016 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive duplicates of this posting. Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS MobiHoc 2016 The Seventeenth International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing www.sigmobile.org/mobihoc/2016 05-08, July,2016 Paderborn, Germany ACM MobiHoc is a premier conference with a highly selective single-track technical program dedicated to addressing the challenges emerging from dynamic networks and computing. Work that presents new performance evaluation methods and algorithms and obtains fundamental insights into computer and networked systems is encouraged. The specific areas of interest include methodologies, formalisms, algorithms and systems for: - Dynamic networks broadly defined, such as communication, wireless, social, energy and transportation networks - Analytical modeling techniques and model validation - Performance, scalability, power and reliability analysis - Capacity planning, resource allocation, run time management and scheduling - Anomaly detection, system measurement, monitoring and forecasting - Routing, scheduling, resource allocation, and energy efficiency - Scaling laws and fundamental limits - Communication and networking aspects of cyber-physical systems - Trust, security, and privacy - Quality of service, total cost of ownership and pricing - Applications of game theory, economics and control theory to dynamic networks - Big data and machine learning in the context of dynamic networks - Applications, middleware, transport, network, and MAC protocols - Measurements from deployed and experimental systems All papers submitted to the conference will be considered for a Best Paper Award. Paper Submission Guidelines --------------------------- Papers should not exceed 10 pages (US letter size) double column including figures, tables, and references in standard ACM format. Papers must be submitted electronically in printable pdf form. Templates for the standard ACM format can be found at this link. Both strict and alternate styles are acceptable for submission. No changes to margins, spacing, or font sizes are allowed from those specified by the style files. Papers violating the formatting guidelines will be returned without review. All submissions will be reviewed using a double-blind review process. The identity of authors and referees will not be revealed to each other. To ensure a blind review, the authors' names and affiliations should not appear in the paper or the pdf file; bibliographic references should be made in a way that preserves author anonymity; acknowledgments and support information should not be included. In case there is a need to refer to a technical report that includes, for example, proofs, an anonymous link should be provided (for example, using Dropbox). Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by the ACM. Warning: It is ACM policy not to allow double submissions, where the same paper is submitted to more than one conference/journal concurrently. Any double submissions detected will be immediately rejected from all conferences/journals involved. Important Dates --------------- Abstract Submission: 8 January 2016 (11:59pm EST) Paper Submission: 15 January 2016 (11:59pm EST) Notification of acceptance: 1 April 2016 Conference: 5-8 July 2016 Organizing committee -------------------- General Chair Falko Dressler (University of Paderborn) Vice General Chair Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide (Heinz-Nixdorf Institute, University of Paderborn) TPC Co-Chairs Koushik Kar (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) Srinivas Shakkottai (Texas A&M University) Steering Committee PR Kumar (Texas A&M University) Workshop Co-Chairs Linda Xie (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) Emilio Leonardi (Politecnico di Torino) Panel Co-Chairs Yingying Chen (Stevens Institute of Technology) Carla Chiasserini (Politecnico di Torino) Local Arrangement Co-Chairs Ulf-Peter Schroeder (Heinz-Nixdorf Institute, University of Paderborn) Student Travel Grant Chair Kaushik Chowdhury (Northeastern University) Web Co-Chairs Bastian Bloessl (University of Paderborn) Poster Co-Chairs Tommaso Melodia (Northeastern University) Wenye Wang (North Carolina State University) Demo Co-Chairs Mo Li (Nanyang Technological University) Paolo Santi (Istituto di Informatica e Telematica del CNR) Finance Chair Christoph Sommer (University of Paderborn) Publicity Co-Chairs Hannes Frey (Universität Koblenz-Landau) Xinbing Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) Marco Gruteser (Rutgers University) Publication Co-Chairs Renato Lo Cigno (University of Trento) -- Prof. Dr. Hannes Frey AG Rechnernetze Universität Koblenz-Landau ______________________________________________________________ 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] PAM 2016 - Call for Papers: Deadline is approaching!
by Lars Wolf 30 Sep '15

30 Sep '15

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Antonis Papadogiannakis <papadog(a)ICS.FORTH.GR> Gesendet: 30. September 2015 14:16:06 MESZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] PAM 2016 - Call for Papers: Deadline is approaching! Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. Please forward to anyone you believe may be interested. Thanks! Passive and Active Measurement Conference 2016 (PAM 2016) 31 March - 1 April 2016 Heraklion, Crete, Greece http://www.ics.forth.gr/pam2016/ <http://www.ics.forth.gr/pam2016/> Call for Papers PAM seeks to bring together both the network research and operations communities to consider network measurement and analysis techniques, particularly those in the earlier stages of research. PAM has in the past focused on research and practical applications of network measurement at Layer-3. However, over the last years PAM broadened its scope to encompass measurements of networked applications, content distribution networks, online social networks, overlay networks, and more. Measurement technology is needed at all layers of the stack: for power profiling of hardware components; at the MAC/network/transport layers; as well as up the stack for application profiling and even to collect user feedback. Measurement technologies are being designed for the digital home, residential access networks, wireless and mobile access, enterprise, ISP and data center networks. Although PAM traditionally attracts work that is at an early stage, works that are a reappraisal or independent validation of previous results, or which enhance the reproducibility of network measurement research, for instance by publishing new datasets on an existing topic, are explicitly included in PAM's ambit. Original papers are invited, but not limited to, the following topics: Tools and infrastructure: Passive and active measurement tools: techniques, design and experience Management and operation of measurement infrastructures Management and visualization of measurement data Measurements across the stack: Application-layer, e.g., social networks, crowdsourcing or gaming End user performance and quality of experience Protocol behavior: e.g., DNS, DHCP, or routing protocols Wireless and mobility Correlation of measurements across multiple layers, protocols or networks Security and privacy Troubleshooting and anomaly detection Data centers, cloud services, SDNs and NFV Content distribution Characterization & modeling Studies of network usage, or end-host behavior Metrics and measurements of resilience and dependability Techniques for measurements and measurement-based inference of macroscopic Internet structure, dynamics, and evolution Important Dates Paper Registration: October 9, 2015, 20:00 BST Paper Submission: October 16, 2015, 20:00 BST Notification: December 18, 2015 Organizing Committee General Chair: Xenofontas Dimitropoulos (University of Crete, Greece) Program Chair: Thomas Karagiannis (Microsoft Research, UK) Publicity Chair: Antonis Papadogiannakis (FORTH-ICS, Greece) Submission Guidelines We are soliciting papers submitted in the Springer LNCS format that do not exceed 12 pages. Submission Website: http://wired.ics.forth.gr/pam2016/ <http://wired.ics.forth.gr/pam2016/> Website: http://www.ics.forth.gr/pam2016/ <http://www.ics.forth.gr/pam2016/> ______________________________________________________________ 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: Elsevier COMCOM Special Issue: Multi-X Vehicular Comm's
by Lars Wolf 29 Sep '15

29 Sep '15

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Christoph Sommer <sommer(a)CCS-LABS.ORG> Gesendet: 29. September 2015 14:51:09 MESZ An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Betreff: CfP: Elsevier COMCOM Special Issue: Multi-X Vehicular Comm's (English version below) Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, Für eine Sonderausgabe von Elsevier Computer Communications suchen wir noch bis zum 15. November nach interessanten Beiträgen aus der Fahrzeugkommunikation. Ich würde mich sehr über zahlreiche Beteiligung freuen! Untenstehend habe ich unseren Call for Papers angefügt. Beste Grüße aus Paderborn, Christoph Sommer ** Manuscript submission deadline: 15 November 2015 ** Elsevier Computer Communications Special Issue Call for Papers Multi-radio, Multi-technology, Multi-system Vehicular Communications Scope ----- Vehicular networks have rapidly evolved from their roots as an application of mobile ad hoc networks to today's fusion of interdisciplinary research on computer communications. Inspired by governments' visions of vastly improved road traffic safety and transport efficiency and hailed as industry's enabler of a plethora of value-added services for passengers and drivers, stakeholders are pushing the rulemaking for an adoption of vehicular communication technologies in newly sold cars, in turn inspiring bold research ventures. Despite the plethora of efforts devoted to this research field, the peculiarities of vehicular environments call into question the capabilities of existing solutions and standard specifications to meet the increasingly strict scalability, reliability, and quality of experience demands of such visions. Indeed, the expected tsunami of data to be exchanged, both to support cooperative/autonomous driving applications and to satisfy the growing data appetite of users on wheels, will burden the network. In such a context, the widespread availability of multiple radio technologies and multiple radio channels per technology, along with complete communication systems is envisioned to merge with sophisticated physical layer and medium access control approaches, and emerging cognitive radio and software-defined radio techniques, thus opening the door to new exciting research opportunities in multi-radio, multi-technology, multi-system vehicular communications. The goal of this special issue is to gather high-quality and unpublished papers contributing to the evolution of vehicular networking and, in particular, focusing on the aforementioned developments. The contributions to this special issue may present novel ideas, methodologies, algorithms, architectures, models, experiments. High-quality review and survey papers are also welcomed. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Multi-radio and multi-channel communications - Multi-technology (PAN, WLAN, long range) communications - Multi-system (short range radio, cellular, backbone) communications - Physical layer, medium access, and congestion control design from radio to visible light and beyond - Vehicle-to-X (roadside, pedestrian, grid, in-vehicle) data dissemination, system integration, services, and applications - IEEE 802.11p DSRC/WAVE, ETSI ITS-G5, ARIB standardization - Cellular technologies for vehicular communications and/or vehicle-to-X (LTE-Advanced, LTE-Direct) - New challenges in security & privacy - Simulation tools and methodologies, analytical models, experimental evaluation and field operational tests - Applications of multi-radio, multi-technology, or multi-system vehicular communications Paper Submission ---------------- Please see http://www.elsevier.com/locate/comcom for preparation guidelines and visit http://ees.elsevier.com/comcom to submit your manuscript. To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion into the special issue, please select "SI: Multi-X Vehicular Comm's" when you reach the Article Type step in the submission process. For further information, please contact the guest editors. Guest Editors ------------- Claudia Campolo Univ. Reggio Calabria, Italy Lin Cheng Trinity College, USA Christoph Sommer Univ. Paderborn, Germany Hsin-Mu "Michael" Tsai National Taiwan University Journal Metrics --------------- SNIP Impact per Paper 2.409 SCImago Journal Rank 1.470 Impact Factor 1.695 5-Year Impact Factor 1.625 Important Dates --------------- Manuscript submission 15 November 2015 First notification 30 January 2016 Revised paper submission 15 March 2016 Notification of acceptance 30 April 2016 -- Dr. Christoph Sommer Distributed Embedded Systems Group University of Paderborn, Germany http://www.ccs-labs.org/~sommer/

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Fwd: IEEE IoT Design and Implementation: Call for Papers
by Lars Wolf 24 Sep '15

24 Sep '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: IEEE IoT Design and Implementation: Call for Papers Datum: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 14:38:46 +0000 Von: Kun Bai <kunbai(a)us.ibm.com> An: tci-announce(a)COMPUTER.ORG ======================================================================== IEEE International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI 2016) April 4-8, Berlin, Germany http://conferences.computer.org/IoTDI/ Co-located with the 4th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E 2016) Call for Papers [Important Dates] Paper Abstract Registration: October 19th, 2015 Paper Submission Deadline: October 23rd, 2015 Paper Notification: December 21st, 2015 Camera-Ready Deadline: January 22nd, 2016 (tentative) [Scope] A confluence of many technological advances marks the advent of a new networked systems era. World data volume is growing at an unprecedented pace, much of it is 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 blurs. Collectively, these developments lead to the emergence of a new field, where networking and physical realms meet. It is the field of the Internet of Things (IoT). This conference offers an interdisciplinary venue to discuss challenges, technologies, and emerging directions in system design and implementation that pertain to the Internet of Things. Many sub-systems need to come together to address the needs of current and future applications. These subsystems extend from cloud back-ends to cyber-physical front ends. Reliability, security, robustness, correctness, and timeliness considerations in new medical, social, environmental, energy, and automation applications must be supported by advances in cloud resource management, network protocols, and smart embedded devices. This conference invites researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and government, and accepts original, previously unpublished work on Internet of Things topics that include, but are not restricted to the following: * Applications and drivers for the Internet of Things * Novel quality requirements and their enforcement mechanisms * Cloud back-ends and resource management for IoT applications * Reliability, security, timeliness, and robustness considerations in IoT systems * IoT-motivated cyber-physical, Industrial Internet, and/or embedded system challenges * Social computing and human-in-the-loop issues * Sensing, control, and actuation in IoT architectures * Novel protocols and network abstractions * Data streaming architectures * Analytic foundations and theory of the Internet of Things * Privacy challenges * Industrial deployment experiences, case studies, and lessons learned * Evaluation and testbeds [Submission Instructions] Original work must be submitted that is not published or under submission elsewhere. Manuscripts may not exceed twelve (12) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11” pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, references, and appendices. [Review Process] All original submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, presentation quality, interest and relevance to conference scope. We also welcome papers reporting on industrial deployment experiences, case studies, and lessons learned.After review, some submissions may be offered to be published as short papers (six pages). Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services. [Organizing Committee] General Co-chairs Hui Lei, IBM, USA Wei Zhao, Macau University, China Program Co-chairs Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China Pedro Marron, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Publicity Co-chairs Kun Bai, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Mohamed Sarwat, Arizona State University, USA Local Arrangement and Registration Chair David Bermbach, TU Berlin, Germany Publication Chair Jatinder Singh, University of Cambridge, UK Webmaster Dong Wang, University of Notre Dame, USA Finance Chair Dominik Ernst, TU Berlin, Germany [Programming Committee] Karl-Erik Arzen, Lund University, Sweden Ken Birman, Cornell University, USA Giancarlo Fortino, Università della Calabria, Italy Yuan He, Tsinghua University, China Tei-Wei Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Jeff Kephart, IBM Research, USA Mo Li, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Xue Liu, McGill University, Canada Jie Liu, Microsoft Research, USA Huadong Ma, Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommunations, China Rahul Mangharam, University of Pennsylvania, USA George Pappas, University of Pennsylvania, USA Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Gian Pietro Picco, University of Trento, Italy Dario Pompili, Rutgers University, USA Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Rick Schlichting, AT&T Labs, USA Mani Srivastava, UCLA, USA Ralf Steinmetz, TU Darmstadt, Germany Neeraj Suri, TU Darmstadt, Germany Lothar Thiele, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Eduardo Tovar, ISEP, Portugal Philippas Tsigas, Chalmers University, Sweden Thiemo Voigt, SICS, Sweden Xinbing Wang, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Adam Wolisz, TU Berlin, Germany [Steering Committee] Tarek Abdelzaher (Co-chair), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Jean Bacon, University of Cambridge, UK Alejandro Buchmann, TU Darmsdat, Germany Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China Insup Lee, University of Pennsylvania, USA Hui Lei (Co-chair), IBM, USA Pedro Marron, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Dilma Da Silva, Texas A&M University, USA Jack Stankovic, University of Virginia, USA Feng Zhao, Microsoft Research, China Wei Zhao, Macau University, China ======================================================================== Best, Kun ------- Kun Bai, PhD Research Staff Member, IBM Watson Health Cloud, Medical Research and Insight Platform Office: 914.945-4932 ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: SI of Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing on Pervasive Social Computing
by Lars Wolf 24 Sep '15

24 Sep '15

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Andrea Passarella <a.passarella(a)IIT.CNR.IT> Gesendet: 24. September 2015 11:02:53 MESZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: SI of Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing on Pervasive Social Computing CALL FOR PAPERS Elsevier - Pervasive and Mobile Computing Special Issue on Pervasive Social Computing http://www.journals.elsevier.com/pervasive-and-mobile-computing/call-for-pa… Submission Deadline: 30 November 2015 Pervasive Social Computing represents a new paradigm resulting from the convergence of Pervasive Mobile Computing with Social Networking; it aims to take advantage of human social relationships to enable the attainment of users' tasks in different domains. On the one hand, the impressive diffusion of Online Social Networking platforms is making OSNs a pervasive tool for maintaining social relationships between people. On the other hand, the diffusion of mobile personal devices with rich networking and computing capabilities is fostering novel patterns of users interactions through social networks, also depending on the dynamic context and locations of the users. Last but not least, pervasive mobile technologies enable completely novel types of social networking applications and services, such as Mobile Social Networks. The enormous potential of Pervasive Social Computing is leading scientific communities in different disciplines, from computer science to social science, communication science and economy, to analyze, study and provide new theories, models, methods, technological solutions and case studies. Interestingly, more and more Pervasive Mobile Computing technologies are designed using inter-disciplinary approaches, that exploit models of the users personal and social behavior to design algorithms, protocols, services and applications. The special issue aims to encourage the multidisciplinary discussion involving academics, researchers and professionals on theories, approaches, analysis, design and evaluation of services and networking solutions for Pervasive Social Computing. Researchers are increasingly interested in addressing a wide range of Pervasive Social Computing challenges residing in Social networks and Social Computing systems including: their architecture, algorithms and protocols for social networking services, the creation of new analysis models, the monitoring of emerging trends, studies on trust, privacy and security issues and their potential applications. The list of topics includes, but is not limited to: - Security, privacy and trust in Pervasive Social Computing systems - Innovative Pervasive Social Computing services and applications - Architectures, algorithms and protocols for Pervasive Social Computing systems - Mobile networking solutions for Pervasive Social Computing - Context modeling, reasoning and context awareness in Pervasive Social Computing - Pervasive sensing technologies applied to Pervasive Social Computing - Opportunistic networking for Pervasive Social Computing - Innovative Mobile Social Networking technologies and services - Inter-disciplinary approaches to the design of Pervasive Social Computing systems - Analysis of users social interactions in mobile and pervasive social networks - Novel Online Social Networking services and users' behaviors enabled by pervasive mobile networks - Real experiences and experiments with Pervasive Social Computing systems and applications - Opportunistic and transient social interactions in Pervasive Social Computing systems - Social and economic models for Pervasive Social Computing systems - Pervasive and social collaboration tools - Impacts of Pervasive Social Computing on users' behaviour in different domains (e.g. e-business, e-market, e-learning, e-health) Schedule Submission deadline: November 30th, 2015 Initial feedback to authors: March 31st, 2016 Revised papers due: May 15th, 2016 Final authors notification: June 30th, 2016 Expected Publication of the Special Issue: 4th Quarter 2016 Guest Editors Patrizia Grifoni, IRPPS-CNR, Italy Fernando Ferri, IRPPS-CNR, Italy Alessia D'Andrea, IRPPS-CNR, Italy Tiziana Guzzo, IRPPS-CNR, Italy Andrea Passarella, IIT-CNR, Italy Instructions for submission All submissions have to be prepared according to the Guide for Authors as published in the Journal website at http://www.ees.elsevier.com/pmc/. Authors should select "SI: PSC", from the "Choose Article Type" pull-down menu during the submission process. All contributions must not have been previously published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. A submission based on one or more papers that appeared elsewhere has to comprise major value-added extensions over what appeared previously (at least 30% new and significant material). Authors are requested to attach to the submitted paper their relevant, previously published articles and a summary document explaining the enhancements made in the journal version. In addition, such papers must be referenced, and the difference clearly explained, in the submitted paper. For further information, please contact the guest editors at pmc-psc at iit.cnr.it -- Andrea Passarella -- Institute for Informatics and Telematics (IIT) National Research Council (CNR) Via G. Moruzzi, 1 voice: +39 050 315 3269 56124 Pisa, Italy fax: +39 050 315 2593 @/sip: a.passarella(a)iit.cnr.it mobile: +39 346 0082 540 http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/andrea ______________________________________________________________ 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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