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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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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Cfp: IEEE Magazine Feature Topic on Bio-inspired Cyber Security for Communications and Networking
by Lars Wolf 24 Sep '15

24 Sep '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Cfp: IEEE Magazine Feature Topic on Bio-inspired Cyber Security for Communications and Networking Datum: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 16:27:33 -0400 Von: Wojciech Mazurczyk <wmazurczyk(a)CYGNUS.TELE.PW.EDU.PL> Antwort an: Wojciech Mazurczyk <wmazurczyk(a)CYGNUS.TELE.PW.EDU.PL> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG IEEE Communication Magazine: Feature Topic on Bio-inspired Cyber Security for Communications and Networking Cfp: http://www.comsoc.org/commag/cfp/bio-inspired-cyber-security-communications… IMPORTANT DATES: - Manuscript submission date: November 1, 2015 - Decision notification date: February 1, 2016 - Final manuscript due date: April 1, 2016 - Publication date: June 2016 OVERVIEW Nature is Earth's most amazing invention machine for solving problems and adapting to significant environmental changes. Its ability to address complex, large-scale problems with robust, adaptable, and efficient solutions results from many years of selection, genetic drift and mutations. Thus, it is not surprising that inventors and researchers often look to natural systems for inspiration and methods for solving problems in human-created artificial environments. This has resulted in the development of evolutionary algorithms including genetic algorithms and swarm algorithms, and of classifier and pattern-detection algorithms, such as neural networks, for solving hard computational problems. A natural evolutionary driver is to survive long enough to create a next-generation of descendants and ensure their survival. One factor in survival is an organism's ability to defend against attackers, both predators and parasites, and against rapid changes in environmental conditions. Analogously, networks and communications systems use cyber security to defend their assets against cyber criminals, hostile organizations, hackers, activists, and sudden changes in the network environment (e.g., DDoS attacks). Many of the defense methods used by natural organisms may be mapped to cyber space to implement effective cyber security. Some examples include immune systems, invader detection, friend vs. foe, camouflage, mimicry, evasion, etc. Many cyber security technologies and systems in common use today have their roots in bio-inspired methods, including anti-virus, intrusion detection, threat behavior analysis, attribution, honeypots, counterattack, and the like. As the threats evolve to evade current cyber security technologies, similarly the bio-inspired security and defense technologies evolve to counter the threat. The goal of this feature topic is twofold: (1) to survey the current academic and industry research in bio-inspired cyber security for communications and networking, so that the ComSoc community can understand the current evolutionary state of cyber threats, defenses, and intelligence, and can plan for future transitions of the research into practical implementations; and (2) to survey current academic and industry system projects, prototypes, and deployed products and services (including threat intelligence services) that implement the next generation of bio-inspired methods. Please note that we recognize that in some cases, details may be limited or obscured for security reasons. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to: • Bio-inspired anomaly & intrusion detection • Adaptation algorithms for cyber security & networking • Biometrics related to cyber security & networking • Bio-inspired security and networking algorithms & technologies • Biomimetics related to cyber security & networking • Bio-inspired cyber threat intelligence methods and systems • Moving-target techniques • Network Artificial Immune Systems • Adaptive and Evolvable Systems • Neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, and genetic algorithms for cyber security & networking • Prediction techniques for cyber security & networking • Information hiding solutions (steganography, watermarking) and detection for network traffic • Cooperative defense systems • Bio-inspired algorithms for dependable networks SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Articles should be tutorial in nature and written in a style comprehensible and accessible to readers outside the specialty of the article. Authors must follow the IEEE Communications Magazine's guidelines for preparation of the manuscript. Complete guidelines for prospective authors can be found at http://www.comsoc.org/commag/paper-submission-guidelines. It is important to note that the IEEE Communications Magazine strongly limits mathematical content, and the number of figures and tables. Paper length should not exceed 4,500 words. All articles to be considered for publication must be submitted through the IEEE Manuscript Central site (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/commag-ieee) by the deadline. Submit articles to the "June 2016 / Bio-inspired cyber security for communication and networking" category. GUEST EDITORS Wojciech Mazurczyk Warsaw University of Technology Poland wmazurczyk(a)tele.pw.edu.pl Sean Moore Centripetal Networks USA smoorephd(a)gmail.com Errin W. Fulp Wake Forest University USA fulp(a)wfu.edu Hiroshi Wada Unitrends Australia hiroshi.wada(a)nicta.com.au Kenji Leibnitz National Institute of Information and Communications Technology Japan leibnitz(a)nict.go.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: EWSN 2016 Workshops on Next Generation Communication Paradigms and Computing Platforms
by Lars Wolf 23 Sep '15

23 Sep '15

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: "Römer Kay Uwe" <roemer(a)INF.ETHZ.CH> Gesendet: 23. September 2015 10:04:55 MESZ An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Betreff: EWSN 2016 Workshops on Next Generation Communication Paradigms and Computing Platforms 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 ============================================================== 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: VTC Deadline Extended
by Lars Wolf 22 Sep '15

22 Sep '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: VTC Deadline Extended Datum: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 20:05:02 -0400 Von: IEEE Vehicular Technology Society <rckeele(a)ieee.org> An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de Vehicular Technology Society header Join Our LinkedIn Group <http://www.mmsend2.com/link.cfm?r=661445230&sid=82048829&m=11089101&u=IEEE_…> Join Our LinkedIn Group <http://www.mmsend2.com/link.cfm?r=661445230&sid=82048830&m=11089101&u=IEEE_…> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *IEEE 83rd Vehicular Technology Conference (IEEE VTC2016-Spring)* *15-18 May 2016, Nanjing, China* www.vtc2016spring.org <http://www.mmsend2.com/link.cfm?r=661445230&sid=82048831&m=11089101&u=IEEE_…> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *!! DEADLINE EXTENDED (5 October) !!* *Call for Papers* The 2016 IEEE 83rd Vehicular Technology Conference will be held in Nanjing, China, 15—18 May 2016. Over the past six decades, VTC has established itself as one of the premier conferences in the world on mobile communications and vehicular technology. As the first-ever VTC to be held in mainland China, VTC 2016-Spring will feature world-class technical sessions, workshops, and tutorials in, but not limited to, the following technical areas: *TECHNICAL TRACKS* 1. Antenna Systems, Propagation, and RF Design Matthias Patzold (Chair) - University of Agder, Norway Alenka Zajic - Georgia Tech, USA Jianhua Zhang - Beijing Univ of Posts and Telecom, China 2. Signal Transmission and Reception Xin Wang (Chair) - Fudan University, China Xiliang Luo - ShanghaiTech University, China Antonio G. Marques - Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain Wei Ni - CSIRO, Australia 3. Cognitive Radio and Spectrum Management Hans-Jurgen Zepernick (Chair) - Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Octavia Dobre - Memorial University, Canada Jun Fang - UESTC, China Michael Fitch - BT Technology, UK 4. Multiple Antenna Systems and Cooperative Communications Ling-Yang Song (Chair) - Peking University, China Tommy Svensson - Chalmers University, Sweden Xiangwei Zhou - Southern Illinois University, USA 5. LTE/LTE-A, 5G, and Wireless Heterogeneous Networks Frank Li (Chair) - University of Agder, Norway Vicente Casares Giner - Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Spain Daniel So - University of Manchester, UK 6. Green Communications and Networks Jaafar Elmirghani (Chair) - University of Leeds, UK Burak Kantarci - Clarkson University, USA Emad Alsusa - University of Manchester, UK 7. Ad-Hoc, M2M, and Sensor Networks Justin Coon (Chair) - University of Oxford, UK Marco Di Renzo - CNRS/Supelec, France Huiling Zhu - University of Kent, UK 8. Wireless Networks: Protocols, Security and Services Yi Qian (Chair) University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Giovanni Giambene University of Siena, Italy Zhou Su Shanghai University, China 9. Satellite Communications Networks and Systems, Positioning and Navigation Zhili Sun (Chair) - University of Surrey, UK Qinyu Zhang - Harbin Institute of Technology, China Xianqing Yi - National Univ of Defense Tech, China 10. Vehicular Communications, Networks, and Telematics Maziar Nekovee (Chair) - Samsung, UK Onur Altintas - Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan Jun Zheng - Southeast Univeresity, China 11. Future Trends and Emerging Technologies in Wireless Communications and Networks Chengxiang Wang (Chair) - Heriot-Watt University, UK Eduard Jorswieck - Technische Universität Dresden, Germany Christos Verikoukis - TTCC, Spain Periklis Chatzimisos Alexander - TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece 12. Electric Vehicles, Vehicular Electronics, and Intelligent Transportation Weiwen Deng (Chair) - Jilin University, China Jingang Yi - Rutgers University, USA Xingping Chen - Ford Motor Company, USA Qi Li - Great Wall Motors, China *Prospective authors are encouraged to submit full papers through the TrackChair web site:* vtc2016spring.trackchair.com <http://www.mmsend2.com/link.cfm?r=661445230&sid=82048832&m=11089101&u=IEEE_…> *Important dates for regular papers* * Submit papers for review by: *5 October 2015 ** (deadline extended)* * Acceptance notices sent: *20 December 2015* * Final papers due: *21 February 2016* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ footer Spacer Spacer Copyright © 2011 IEEE To ensure delivery, please add info(a)ieee.org <mailto:info@ieee.org> to your email address book or Safe Sender List. If you are still having problems receiving our communications, see our white-listing page for more details <http://www.mmsend2.com/link.cfm?r=661445230&sid=82048833&m=11089101&u=IEEE_…>. If you no longer wish to receive this publication, please go here to unsubscribe <http://www.mmsend2.com/link.cfm?r=661445230&sid=82048834&m=11089101&u=IEEE_…>.

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Elsevier COMCOM Special Issue - Mobile Traffic Analytics
by Lars Wolf 21 Sep '15

21 Sep '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Elsevier COMCOM Special Issue - Mobile Traffic Analytics Datum: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 01:21:07 +0200 Von: Marco Fiore <fiore(a)TLC.POLITO.IT> Antwort an: Marco Fiore <fiore(a)TLC.POLITO.IT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG *** One month to the manuscript submission deadline *** --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Communications http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-communications/ Special Issue on Mobile Traffic Analytics --------------------------------------------------------------------------- + Scope Mobile traffic analytics enable the study of the movement and service consumption of mobile subscribers at large scales. The rise of mobile traffic analytics is fostered by an unprecedented availability of data, collected by mobile operators through probes deployed at the access and core networks, or gathered by dedicated research initiatives via monitoring apps running on users’ smartphones. Both approaches can harvest information about large populations, from hundreds to millions individuals, over long time periods, from weeks to years. The richness of mobile traffic datasets is paramount to research in a wide range of disciplines, including, e.g., sociology, transportations, statistical physics, epidemiology, and – of course – networking. However, several technical challenges need to be tackled to release the full potential of such data sources, including the assessment of statistical robustness of inferred knowledge, the overcoming of scalability issues, and the consideration for data access limitations imposed by privacy regulations that tend to reduce data usability. The aim of this Special Issue is to gather contributions presenting state-of-the-art research dealing with all facets of mobile traffic analytics. We expect submissions to present quantitative evaluations carried out on substantial real-world datasets of mobile traffic. Here, we intend the term "traffic" in its wider acceptation. We thus invite works on data collected via, e.g., Call Detail Records (CDR), access (RNC) and core (MSC, GGSN/PGW) network probes, or smartphone monitoring apps; data can be limited to mobility patterns, it can concern traditional user-to-user mobile services (i.e., calling and texting), it can focus on the mobile data traffic demand (at any granularity, from throughput volumes to the precise services and protocols employed), or it can contain any combination of such information types. We especially encourage the submission of interdisciplinary research works at the interface between networking and disciplines such as those mentioned above. Special attention will be deserved to findings and results that have practical applications in terms of technological innovation, sustainable development, data and network management, and mobile services. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Original (open) mobile traffic datasets - Preparation and management of mobile traffic datasets - Generative models for synthetic mobile traffic datasets - Algorithms, structures, and (visual) tools for mobile traffic analysis - Privacy and security issues in mobile traffic analysis, and countermeasures - Inference of social features and mobility patterns from mobile traffic - Profiling of mobile device and mobile users from mobile traffic - Characterization of the mobile subscriber demand from mobile traffic - Comparison of mobile traffic features across cities, regions, and countries - Mobile traffic analytics for Intelligent Transportation Systems - Mobile traffic analytics for cognitive and anticipatory networking - Mobile access and core network enhancements from mobile traffic analysis - Mobile traffic analytics for device-to-device and opportunistic communication - Mobile service marketing strategies from mobile traffic analysis + Schedule Manuscript submission deadline: October 16, 2015 First notification: January 22, 2016 Submission of revised paper: March 11, 2016 Notification of acceptance: April 16, 2016 + Guest Editors Marco Fiore, CNR – IEIIT (marco.fiore(a)ieiit.cnr.it) M. Zubair Shafiq, University of Iowa (zubair-shafiq(a)uiowa.edu) Zbigniew Smoreda, Orange Labs – SENSe (zbigniew.smoreda(a)orange.com) Razvan Stanica, INSA Lyon / Inria (razvan.stanica(a)insa-lyon.fr) Roberto Trasarti, CNR – ISTI (roberto.trasarti(a)isti.cnr.it) + Instructions for submission The submission website for this journal is located at http://ees.elsevier.com/comcom. To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion into the Special Issue, the authors have to select "SI Mobile Traffic Analytics" when they reach the "Article Type" step in the submission process. -------------------------------------------- Marco Fiore CNR - IEIIT Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24 10129 Torino, Italy phone: +39 011 090 5434 mail: marco.fiore(a)ieiit.cnr.it web: http://perso.citi.insa-lyon.fr/mfiore ______________________________________________________________ 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: GI Sicherheit 2016 - Call for Papers
by Lars Wolf 21 Sep '15

21 Sep '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: GI Sicherheit 2016 - Call for Papers Datum: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 00:32:40 +0200 Von: Michael Meier <michael.meier(a)UDO.EDU> 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 Call for Papers ---------------- GI Sicherheit 2016 Fachtagung vom 5.-7. April 2016 in Bonn https://sicherheit2016.de/ Die Sicherheit 2016 ist die regelmäßig stattfindende Fachtagung des Fachbereichs "Sicherheit - Schutz und Zuverlässigkeit" der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. Sie bietet einem Publikum aus Forschung, Entwicklung und Anwendung ein Forum zur Diskussion von Herausforderungen, Trends, Techniken und neuesten wissenschaftlichen und industriellen Ergebnissen. Die Tagung deckt alle Aspekte der Sicherheit informationstechnischer Systeme ab und versucht eine Brücke zu bilden zwischen den Themen IT Security, Safety und Dependability. Erwünscht sind Einreichungen zu allen Aspekten der Sicherheit informationstechnischer Systeme, z.B.: - Angriffs- und Verteidigungstechniken - Anonymität und Pseudonymität - Anwendungen mit besonderen Sicherheitsanforderungen - Anwendungs- und Softwaresicherheit - Auditierung von Sicherheit - Ausbildung und Awareness-Training - Authentisierung - Biometrie - Datenschutz und Privacy - Fehlertoleranz, insbesondere in verteilten Systemen - Hardwaresicherheit - Hoch zuverlässige/verfügbare Systeme - Informationsfluss - Intrusion Detection & Prevention - IT Forensik - Kryptographie und kryptographische Protokolle - Malware - Mediensicherheit, digitale Wasserzeichen, Steganographie - Modellierung und Verifikation von Sicherheit - Netzwerksicherheit - Schutz kritischer Infrastrukturen - Security & Privacy by Design - Sicherheit eingebetteter und mobiler Systeme - Sicherheit und Datenschutz in sozialen Netzwerken - Sicherheit und Datenschutz in verteilten Systemen - Sicherheit und Usability - Sicherheits- und Datenschutz-Policies - Sicherheitsarchitekturen - Sicherheitskritische Systeme - Sicherheitsmanagement - Sicherheitsmetriken - Sicherheitsprotokolle - Software/System Testing - Sprachbasierte Sicherheit - System-/Serviceverfügbarkeit - Systemsicherheit - Verifikation & Validierung - Verlässliche verteilte Protokolle - Verlässliche Echtzeitsysteme - Verlässliche HW- und SW Architekturen - Verlässlichkeit in WSN-, P2P-, Mobile-Computing-Szenarien - Verlässlichkeit von Cloud-/Internetdiensten - Verlässlichkeitsmetriken - Verlässlichkeitsmodellierung, -bewertung und -prognose - Web-Sicherheit - Zensur und Anti-Zensur - Zertifizierung funktionaler Sicherheit - Zugriffskontrolle - Zurechenbarkeit Die Tagungssprache ist Deutsch, Beiträge können jedoch auch auf Englisch eingereicht und veröffentlicht werden. Der Tagungsband der Sicherheit 2016 wird zitierfähig in der GI-Edition Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI) erscheinen. Einreichungen sollen einen Umfang von maximal 10 Seiten haben (gerechnet ohne Anhang und ohne Literaturverzeichnis). Alle Autorinnen und Autoren und deren Institutionen müssen genannt werden. Einreichungen dürfen zum Zeitpunkt der Tagung nicht in identischer oder sehr ähnlicher Form zitierfähig veröffentlicht worden sein. Veröffentlichungen desselben Inhalts in einer anderen Sprache sind erlaubt, müssen aber in einer Fußnote auf der ersten Seite referenziert werden. Die Veröffentlichung setzt zwingend voraus, dass eine der unter https://www.gi.de/service/publikationen/lni/ verfügbaren Formatvorlagen verwendet wurde. Autoren von akzeptieren Beiträgen müssen garantieren, dass ihr Beitrag auf der Konferenz präsentiert wird. Wichtige Termine: Einreichungen: 30.11.2015 Benachrichtigung über die Annahme: 18.01.2016 Abgabe der druckfähigen Manuskripte: 1.02.2016 Konferenz: 5.-7.4.2016 Tagungsleitung: Hannes Federrath (Universität Hamburg) Stefan Katzenbeisser (TU Darmstadt) Michael Meier (Uni Bonn, Fraunhofer FKIE) - General Chair Steffen Wendzel (Fraunhofer FKIE) - Program co-Chair Programmkomitee: siehe https://sicherheit2016.de/ Sponsoring: Wir freuen uns über Unterstützung der Tagung durch Sponsoren. Informationen und Kontaktdaten für interessierte Sponsoren sind erhältlich unter https://sicherheit2016.de/Sponsoren.html

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [Extended Deadline Sep. 25, 2015] IEEE International Workshop on Automotive IoT (IEEE Auto-IoT2015), Dec 2015, Milan, Italy
by Lars Wolf 21 Sep '15

21 Sep '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [Extended Deadline Sep. 25, 2015] IEEE International Workshop on Automotive IoT (IEEE Auto-IoT2015), Dec 2015, Milan, Italy Datum: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 20:21:19 +0100 Von: Andreas Pressas <pressas.iot(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Andreas Pressas <pressas.iot(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2015 IEEE International Workshop on Automotive IoT (IEEE Auto-IoT 2015) co-located with the 2015 IEEE World Forum on Internet-of-things (WF-IoT), 14 - 16 December 2015, Milan, Italy. Organized by the IEEE IoT Initiative and the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Website: http://www.ieee-wf-iot.org/program.html#workshops Submission site: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=19997&track=76312 The future network infrastructure for vehicular environments will increase the pervasiveness of the Internet and the overall connectivity by integrating every “object” (e.g., passengers’ smart phones, vehicles’ sensors, infrastructures and external management platform) forming an intelligent vehicular transportation system. IoT supported by vehicular networks will be a key enabler for new geo-spatial information mapping communities. Using the advanced communication and sensor capabilities hosted by vehicles, these IoT communities have the potential to reach a wide range of objectives at more cost effective ways. Applications for such a promising combination of information production range from providing road safety and driver assistance, to mapping road status (e.g., road congestion status, road conditions and maintenance status), to estimating the 'greenens’ of various road segments. Topics of interest ------------------ This workshop seeks original papers - not published or currently under review for another workshop, conference, or journal - in the area of automotive IoT, integrations of vehicular sensor networks with IoT and advanced communication and networking technologies applied in vehicular systems. The areas of interest include, but are not limited to: *Connected vehicles, communications, networking and applications in IoT *IoT for autonomous cars and driving systems *IoT cloud computing and management platform for connected vehicles *In-car electronics, embedded integration of wireless vehicular communications with IoT *Mobile vehicular sensor networks *Interworking with sensor network technologies *Transportation cyber-physical networks *Mobility for IoT *RF technologies, antenna design, physical layer and propagation models *Spectrum, radio resource and interference management *Intra/Inter-vehicle communications. *Wireless enabled intelligent transportation systems *Applications (Telematics, Ecall, toll collection, traffic information, wireless diagnosis, etc.) *Vehicular social networks in IoT *Architecture, networking protocols, QoS and cross-layer optimization design *Security, liability and privacy *Standards development, business models and policies *Testbeds and simulation platforms *Field trials and deployments Submissions ----------- Authors are encouraged to submit full length papers (suggested size is four pages; papers up to six pages will be accepted) following the submission guidelines provided at www.ieee-wf-iot.org/authors.html. Papers will be fully peer reviewed and, accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and also be submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore digital library. Extended versions of selected papers may be considered for publication in IEEE IoT Journal. Important Dates --------------- Paper Submission Deadline: 25 September 2015 Notification of acceptance: 16 October 2015 Camera-ready papers due: 31 October 2015 General Co-Chairs: - Zhengguo Sheng, University of Sussex, UK (email: z.sheng(a)sussex.ac.uk) - Abbas Jamalipour, University of Sydney, Australia Technical Program Co-Chairs: - Alexey Vinel, Halmstad University, Sweden - Giuseppe Ruggeri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy - Gaurav Bansal, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, USA Local Chair: - Vincenzo Piuri, Milan University, Italy Publicity Chair: - Andreas Pressas, University of Sussex, UK ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] Deadline extended for WONS 2016: 12th IEEE/IFIP Wireless On-demand Network systems and Services Conference
by Lars Wolf 20 Sep '15

20 Sep '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] Deadline extended for WONS 2016: 12th IEEE/IFIP Wireless On-demand Network systems and Services Conference Datum: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 20:24:54 +0200 Von: Michele Segata <msegata(a)DISI.UNITN.IT> Antwort an: Michele Segata <msegata(a)DISI.UNITN.IT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ** Registration deadline extended to 21st of September 2015 ** ** Submission deadline extended to 2nd of October 2015 ** The 12th Annual Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services 20-22 January 2016 Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy http://2016.wons-conference.org/ Wireless on-demand network systems and services have become pivotal in shaping our future networked world. Starting as a niche application over Wi-Fi, they can now be found in mainstream technologies like Bluetooth LE, LTE Direct and Wireless LANs, and have become the cornerstone of upcoming networking paradigms including mesh and sensor networks, cloud networks, vehicular networks, disruption tolerant and opportunistic networks, and in-body networks. The challenges of this exciting research field are numerous. Examples include how to make smart use of these novel technologies when multiple technologies or a mix of permanent services and on-demand networking opportunities are available to a network node, how to provide robust services in highly dynamic environments, how to efficiently employ and operate heavily resource-constrained devices, and how to develop robust and lightweight algorithms for self-organization and adaptation. IEEE/IFIP WONS, now numbering twelve editions, has established itself as a high quality forum to address these and related challenges. After a one-year break, WONS is able to continue to provide a global platform for rich interactions between experts in their fields, discussing innovative contributions in a stimulating environment. This announcement solicits original contributions of high-quality research providing novel insights on all aspects of wireless on-demand networks and systems; from protocol and network design, modeling, performance evaluation, profitability models, energy efficiency, QoS models and mechanisms, practical implementations, service level aspects, application use-cases, to the integration of multiple wireless network technologies. Topics of interest comprise, but are not limited to: * Cognitive radio networks * Cross-layer design * Energy-efficient protocols and power management * Heterogeneous wireless networks * Implementations and testbeds * Integration and co-existence of heterogeneous technologies * Intra-body and biomedical on-demand systems * Green wireless networks * Localization and mobility management * MAC and advanced PHY technologies * Middleware aspects * Mobile peer-to-peer systems * Mobile computing and services * Modeling and optimization * Network management * New architectures for on-demand wireless systems * Novel applications and services * Opportunistic, delay-tolerant, and dissemination-based protocols * Performance evaluation through simulations and experiments * Pervasive and ubiquitous computing * Security, privacy, and trust * Social and economic aspects Special Track --------------- IEEE/IFIP WONS 2016 also solicits original contributions to a special track on Community Networks and Services. Community Networks are bottom-up initiatives that mix wireless mesh networks with wired networks to provide Internet connectivity but also to enable the on-demand creation of local applications. Contributions are welcomed on the related technical open issues (routing protocols, distributed applications, wireless-wired interaction etc.), social challenges (legal organization and hurdles, instruments to manage community networks, privacy issues etc.) and on hands-on experience on the realization and maintenance of networks. Manuscript submissions ---------------------- Authors are invited to submit double-column long papers (up to 8 pages) and short papers (up to 4 pages) as a PDF file in IEEE format with a font size no smaller than 10pt. All paper submissions must be written in English. The mandatory IEEE template in Microsoft Word and LaTeX format can be found at the IEEE templates page. All submitted manuscripts must be at least 3 pages in length. Short papers should present future research directions and ongoing work with visionary, innovative ideas; accepted short papers will populate poster sessions at the conference and will be included in the conference proceedings. Submitted papers must not have been published elsewhere and must not be currently under review by another conference or journal. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. 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. Manuscripts will be collected via EasyChair. You can submit your contribution using the following link: http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wons2016 Further submission instructions are published on the conference web site http://2016.wons-conference.org/ Important Dates for Attendees & Authors --------------------------------------- * 21 September 2015: paper registration deadline * 2 October 2015: paper submission deadline * 20 November 2015: author notifications sent * 4 December 2015: camera ready versions due * 20 January 2016: conference begins in Cortina d'Ampezzo Chairs and Committees --------------------- General Chair: Renato Lo Cigno (University of Trento) Technical Program Chairs: Christoph Sommer (University of Paderborn) Konstantinos Psounis (University of Southern California) Special Track on Community Networks and Services: Leonardo Maccari (University of Trento) Web and Publicity Chair: Michele Segata (Universities of Trento and Innsbruck) Steering Committee: Renato Lo Cigno (University of Trento) Falko Dressler (University of Paderborn) Mario Gerla (UCLA) Edward W. Knightly (Rice University) Ioannis Stavrakakis (University of Athens) Technical Program Committee --------------------------- Claudio Casetti (Politecnico di Torino) Lijun Chen (University of Colorado at Boulder) Falko Dressler (University of Paderborn) Juergen Eckert (University of Erlangen) Anthony Ephremides (University of Maryland) Marco Fiore (National Research Council of Italy) Raphael Frank (University of Luxembourg) Thomas Gross (ETH Zurich) Zhangyu Guan (State University of New York at Buffalo) Pan Hui (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong) Gunnar Karlsson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) Dimitrios Katsaros (University of Thessaly) Edward Knightly (Rice University) Dimitrios Koutsonikolas (University at Buffalo, SUNY) Hengchang Liu (USTC) Tom Luan (Deakin University) Tommaso Melodia (Northeastern University) Joerg Ott (Aalto University) Björn Scheuermann (Humboldt University of Berlin) Ioannis Stavrakakis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) Zhi Sun (State University of New York at Buffalo) Stavros Toumpis (Athens University of Economics and Business) Klaus Wehrle (RWTH Aachen University) Joerg Widmer (IMDEA Networks Institute) Martina Zitterbart (KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)) Violet Syrotiuk (Arizona State University) Nick Bambos (Stanford University) Matteo Cesana (Politecnico di Milano) Kaushik Chowdhury (Northeastern University) Rubén Cuevas (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) Mario Gerla (University of California at Los Angeles) Bart Braem (University of Antwerp) Andrea Detti (University of Rome "Tor Vergata") Felix Freitag (Universitat Politècnia de Catalunya) Karin Anna Hummel (ETH Zurich) Iordanis Koutsopoulos (University of Thessaly) Arjuna Sathiaseelan (University of Cambridge) Marco Zennaro (ICTP) Merkourios Karaliopoulos (CERTH) Claudio Pisa (University of Rome "Tor Vergata") Panayotis Antoniadis (ETH Zurich) Saleem Bhatti (University of St Andrews) Further Information ------------------- For further information, please refer to the conference website at http://2016.wons-conference.org/ This year's edition of WONS will be co-located with the Seventh Nordic Workshop on System and Network Optimization for Wireless (SNOW 2016), which will be held from the 17 to the 19 of January 2016 in the same venue. As the focus of the workshops is on different topics of wireless networking, it is a great opportunity for participants to attend both of them. More details about SNOW 2016 can be found at the official website: http://www.cwc.oulu.fi/snow2016/ Kind Regards Michele Segata IEEE/IFIP WONS 2016 Web and Publicity Chair ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: Elsevier COMNET Special Issue on Cyber-Physical Systems for Mobile Opportunistic Networking
by Lars Wolf 17 Sep '15

17 Sep '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: Elsevier COMNET Special Issue on Cyber-Physical Systems for Mobile Opportunistic Networking Datum: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 05:42:56 -0400 Von: Annalisa Socievole <socievolea(a)DIMES.UNICAL.IT> Antwort an: Annalisa Socievole <socievolea(a)DIMES.UNICAL.IT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG *** Our Sincere Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message *** ___________________________________________________________________________ CALL FOR PAPERS Elsevier - Computer Networks Journal Special Issue on Cyber-Physical Systems for Mobile Opportunistic Networking ___________________________________________________________________________ The pervasive presence of mobile personal devices with communication and computation capabilities together with the massive use of online social network systems (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, LinkedIn, etc.) are increasingly creating a cyber-physical space where users can interact exploiting and generating information. Enriched with several sensing capabilities and networking interfaces, today’s portable devices are enabling new ways of communication including Mobile Networking in Proximity (MNP). This network mode complements the classic scenario with Internet coverage enlarging the range of functionalities of these devices through short-range communications (e.g., Bluetooth, WiFi Direct, etc.) in situations where Internet may not be available. When two devices are in proximity, they could still share information without the need of continual Internet connectivity just exploiting the meeting opportunities and activating an opportunistic hop-by-hop forwarding towa! rds the destination. In this view, the social-aware or social-inspired mobile networking research is increasingly underlining the benefits and the need of having knowledge of the social behavior of users for the MNP design. On one hand, the social behavior of mobile nodes can be extracted from mobility. On the other hand, also online social network interactions may provide information about user’s social behavior. As such, the convergence between the two worlds, the physical offline one made by mobile devices and the cyber online one made by the online social networks is getting more and more important, opening a novel and interesting research field with many challenging issues. The goal of this Computer Networks Special Issue is to solicit the research closely related to the mobile and social networking reporting advances on approaches, methods, and applications envisioning and addressing the challenges in this field. Topics of Interest __________________ * Social-aware modeling, design and development of routing algorithms in cyber-physical MNP * Trust, security and privacy, incentive mechanisms, reputation systems and key management algorithms in cyber-physical MNP * Social metrics for network operation * Participatory mobile sensing, crowd sourcing and social media mining integration algorithms in cyber-physical MNP * Application of mixed physical and online social network sensing * Comparison of human social behavior in online and offline social networks over MNP and its evolution over time * Impact of online social behavior on MNP algorithms * Design of cyber-physical applications for MNP based on behavioral models * Graph analysis applied to cyber-physical MNP * Novel distributed solutions for designing, supporting and operating cyber-physical MNP * Real experiences and experiments with cyber-physical MNP Submission Details __________________ Submissions will be judged based on their originality, novelty, and quality. Submissions must not substantially overlap with papers that have been previously published or are currently submitted for publication. The submission must be clearly written and in excellent English, with a maximum page limit of 20 pages. All received submissions within the scope of the issue will be sent out for peer review by three experts in the field and will be evaluated with respect to the relevance to this special issue, level of innovation, depth of contribution, and quality of presentation. Author guidelines for preparation of manuscript can be found at http://ees.elsevier.com/comnet/ Manuscripts should be submitted on line through http://ees.elsevier.com/comnet/ with Cyber-physical MNP selected as the article type. Important Dates _______________ Paper Submission Due: December 11, 2015 Acceptance Notification: March 11, 2016 Revised Papers Due: May 8, 2016 Final Author Notification: June 17, 2016 Publication Target Date: September 2016 Guest Editors _____________ * Floriano De Rango, University of Calabria, Italy (derango(a)dimes.unical.it) * Annalisa Socievole, University of Calabria, Italy (a.socievole(a)dimes.unical.it) * Athanasios Vasilakos, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden (athanasios.vasilakos(a)ltu.se) * Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, United Kingdom, (eiko.yoneki(a)cl.cam.ac.uk) * Artur Ziviani, National Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Brazil, (ziviani(a)lncc.br) ______________________________________________________________ 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 (17th Int. Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks) June 21-24, 2016, Coimbra, Portugal
by Lars Wolf 17 Sep '15

17 Sep '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE WoWMoM 2016 (17th Int. Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks) June 21-24, 2016, Coimbra, Portugal Datum: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 23:32:32 +0200 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 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 Ozgur Ercetin, Sabanci University, Turkey Serge Fdida, UPMC, France Luca Foschini, University of Bologna, Italy James Gross, KTH, Sweden 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 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 Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Italy Joerg Ott, Technische Universität München, Germany 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 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 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: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine SI on Device-to-Device (D2D) Communications with Social Awareness
by Lars Wolf 17 Sep '15

17 Sep '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine SI on Device-to-Device (D2D) Communications with Social Awareness Datum: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 10:44:36 -0600 Von: Qing Yang <qing.yang(a)CS.MONTANA.EDU> Antwort an: Qing Yang <qing.yang(a)CS.MONTANA.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG CALL FOR PAPERS In recent years, high data rate applications have become more and more popular in cellular network, e.g. video calls, interactive gaming, and mobile social networking. To efficiently facilitate more high data rate services among nearby users and devices, device-to-device (D2D) communication has been proposed and has attracted significant attention in both the academia and the industry because it can offer a wide variety of advantages over the traditional cellular networks, e.g., higher throughput, efficient spectral usage, extended network coverage, improved energy efficiency, delay and fairness, etc. Clearly, D2D is a promising technology and thus a major opportunity for cellular network operators. However, D2D communication is also complex in that many technical challenges have to be addressed before it could be widely adopted, such as quality of service (QoS) guarantee, interference management, channel allocation, communication session setup and management, upgrading of existing infrastructures, economic model and pricing, etc. In addition to these challenges, a major issue is to understand the impact of the social networks. Since mobile devices are typically used and carried by people, a natural question one may ask is: “What are the benefits of considering human’s social relations in D2D communication?” For example, when a person is at work, he might exploit his social connections to nearby co-workers to improve the quality of D2D communications, e.g., by asking the most trustful user/device to relay his network traffic. When there is no trustworthy friend in the vicinity, he might negotiate with nearby users/strangers to achieve cooperative D2D communication by offering relay assistance to each other. Such mutually beneficial actions will also help expand this person’s social network. Topics of interests include (but are not limited to) the following categories: -Social-aware device discovery in D2D technology -LTE-A SAE architecture for social-aware D2D technology -Social-aware security mechanism for D2D networks -Social-aware D2D for public safety -Social-aware D2D for vehicular communication -Social-aware/application-ware frequency reuse and spectrum sharing for D2D communication -Social-aware protocols for D2D communication -Social-aware/application-ware power and interference management -Social aware resource allocation and optimization for D2D -Social-aware neighbor discovery and link maintenance -Crowdsourcing in D2D networks -Trust and reputations in D2D networks -Cognitive and cooperative D2D communication -Social-aware routing protocols for multi-hop D2D networks -Social-aware apps for D2D communication -E-health with D2D communication IMPORTANT DATES -Manuscript Submission: December 1, 2015 -Initial Decision: February 10, 2016 -Revised Manuscript Due: March 15, 2016 -Notification of Acceptance: April 15, 2016 -Final Manuscript Due: May 10, 2016 -Publication Date: August 2016 SUBMISSION Prospective authors should prepare their submissions in accordance with the rules specified in the Information for Authors of the IEEE Wireless Communications guidelines (http://www.comsoc.org/wirelessmag/author-guidelines). Authors should submit a PDF version of their complete manuscript to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ieee-wcm. The timetable is as follows GUEST EDITORS Qing Yang Montana State University qing.yang(a)cs.montana.edu Kejie Lu University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez Vincenzo Mancuso IMDEA Networks Chan-Hyun Youn KAIST ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CfP: Second IEEE Workshop on Pervasive Energy Services (PerEnergy) in conjunction with IEEE PerCom 2016
by Lars Wolf 16 Sep '15

16 Sep '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CfP: Second IEEE Workshop on Pervasive Energy Services (PerEnergy) in conjunction with IEEE PerCom 2016 Datum: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 15:40:07 +0200 Von: Frank Dürr <frank.duerr(a)IPVS.UNI-STUTTGART.DE> Antwort an: Frank Dürr <frank.duerr(a)IPVS.UNI-STUTTGART.DE> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG CALL FOR PAPERS Second IEEE Workshop on Pervasive Energy Services (PerEnergy 2016) in conjunction with IEEE PerCom 2016 Submission Deadline: November 27, 2015 March 14-18, 2016, Sydney, Australia http://perenergy2016.cs.uni-bonn.de/ ====================================================================== Scope of the Workshop --------------------- A wealth of unexplored knowledge exists in the power data collected from smart meters and smart plugs (i.e., metering equipment for individual wall outlets). Analysis of the data may be used to provide context-based services (e.g., presence detection), but also serves as the foundation for novel services (e.g. automated recommendations for energy savings). To date, the potential of this domain has barely been explored, although more and more energy data is becoming available due to the increasing number of deployed smart metering equipment. At the moment, one of the most important research challenges in smart energy systems is thus the creation of value-added services that exploit the information content in energy generation and consumption data such that they can inspire new functionalities and context models. The aim of this workshop is to bring together practitioners and researchers from both academia and industry to have a forum for discussion and technical presentations of recent advances in the numerous opportunities opened up by the use of energy data in context-aware systems. It furthermore serves as a forum for the smart energy research community to discuss open issues, novel solutions, and future development of smart energy management systems. Topics of Interest ------------------ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Distributed infrastructures for collecting energy data and relevant context information - Experiences with experimental power metering system prototypes and pilots - Novel system architectures for pervasive energy services - Scalable system concepts and algorithms for processing and analyzing energy data - Exploitation of energy data and context information for the optimized control of distributed loads and energy sources (in particular, renewable sources) - Energy services for smart home and office spaces, including energy optimization and sustainable operation of smart cities, load disaggregation, generation and load forecasting, and informed load shifting - Use cases and user studies of pervasive energy services highlighting research gaps - Experiences with prototypes and pilots of smart energy applications and services - Privacy, safety, and security in pervasive energy services - Experiences with energy metering installations and data sets for the comparison of consumer characteristics in a globalized world - Energy meter integration in the design and architecture of smart home and office spaces Submission Instructions ----------------------- Authors are invited to submit regular (full) papers for presentation at the workshop, describing original, previously unpublished work, which is not currently under review by another workshop, conference, or journal. Regular papers should present novel perspectives within the general scope of the workshop. Submissions of papers must be formatted according to the IEEE 8.5x11 conference format and must not exceed 6 pages. Papers in excess of page limits shall not be considered for review or publication. Accepted papers will appear in the IEEE PerCom '16 Workshops proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press. The authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the workshop. Each accepted paper requires a full PERCOM registration to appear in the proceedings (no registration is available for workshops only). Please visit the workshop web page for further information: http://perenergy2016.cs.uni-bonn.de/ Important Dates --------------- - Submissions deadline: November 27, 2015 - Paper notification: January 2, 2016 - Camera ready: January 15, 2016 - Workshop date: March 14, 2016 (tentative) Organization ------------ Workshop Organizers: - Andreas Reinhardt (TU Clausthal, Germany) - Delphine Christin (Institute of Computer Science 4, University of Bonn and Fraunhofer FKIE, Germany) - Frank Duerr (Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, University of Stuttgart, Germany) Technical Program Committee: - Oliver Amft, University of Passau - Dominik Egarter, University of Klagenfurt - Antonio Fernández Anta, IMDEA Networks Institute - Stefan Katzenbeisser, Technische Universität Darmstadt - Jack Kelly, Imperial College London - Georgios Konstantinou, The University of New South Wales - Stephen Makonin, Simon Fraser University - Joern Ploennigs, IBM Research - Nirmalya Roy, University of Maryland Baltimore County - Mariya Sodenkamp, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg - Jay Taneja, IBM Research Africa - Volker Turau, Hamburg University of Technology - Mathias Uslar, OFFIS - Steffen Wendzel, Fraunhofer FKIE Further nominations pending. ______________________________________________________________ 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 TCNS-Submission deadline:Oct 9
by Lars Wolf 16 Sep '15

16 Sep '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: IEEE TCNS-Submission deadline:Oct 9 Datum: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 17:00:12 -0400 (EDT) Von: Transactions on Control of Network Systems <tcns(a)bu.edu> Antwort an: tcns(a)bu.edu An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de Call for submissions to TCNS special issue: *"Secure Control of Cyber Physical Systems <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0011O5FIhMlByTI0PzJ8p-GhNyJQ3bb9u143VRJlZRo2jR-…>"* *Submission deadline extended: October 9, 2015* The integration of computation, communication, and control units has led to the birth and rapid development of a new generation of engineering systems, the Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), which have been increasingly used in fields ranging from aerospace, automobile, industrial process control, to energy, health-care, manufacturing and transportation, where secure operation is one of the key concerns. Learn more about this topic. <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0011O5FIhMlByTI0PzJ8p-GhNyJQ3bb9u143VRJlZRo2jR-…> * * *Submit through TCNS submissions site. <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0011O5FIhMlByTI0PzJ8p-GhNyJQ3bb9u143VRJlZRo2jR-…>* * * Guest Editors: Peng Cheng, Zhejiang University Anupam Datta, Carnegie Mellon University Ling Shi, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Bruno Sinopoli, Carnegie Mellon University Forward this email <http://ui.constantcontact.com/sa/fwtf.jsp?llr=aohq7vfab&m=1105614872000&ea=…> <http://visitor.constantcontact.com/do?p=un&m=001g1gx5u2yZ4wqJ2ijLAWQtQ%3D%3…> This email was sent to wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de by tcns(a)bu.edu <mailto:tcns@bu.edu> | Update Profile/Email Address <http://visitor.constantcontact.com/do?p=oo&m=001g1gx5u2yZ4wqJ2ijLAWQtQ%3D%3…> | Rapid removal with SafeUnsubscribe <http://visitor.constantcontact.com/do?p=un&m=001g1gx5u2yZ4wqJ2ijLAWQtQ%3D%3…>™ | About our service provider <http://ui.constantcontact.com/roving/CCPrivacyPolicy.jsp>. <http://www.constantcontact.com/index.jsp?cc=BasicSC> BOSTON UNIVERSITY| 15 Saint Mary's Street| Boston| MA| 02246

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] EWSN 2016: Deadlines Extended
by Lars Wolf 15 Sep '15

15 Sep '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] EWSN 2016: Deadlines Extended Datum: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 12:37:20 +0200 Von: Kay Römer <00000023cf4c5fe0-dmarc-request(a)comsoc.org> Antwort an: Kay Römer <romer.kay(a)GOOGLEMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Dear Colleague, the EWSN 2016 registration and submission deadlines for full and short papers have been extended by one week: ** EXTENDED Paper registration deadline: Sept 21, 2015 ** EXTENDED Paper submission deadline: Sept 28, 2015 kind regards, Thiemo Voigt and Koen Langendoen (Program Chairs). ======================================================= Fourth Call for Papers EWSN 2016 - Intl. Conf. on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks In-cooperation with ACM SIGBED February 15-17, 2016 in Graz, Austria www.iti.tugraz.at/EWSN2016 The International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN) is a highly selective single-track international conference focussing on premier research results at the intersection of embedded systems and wireless networking - an area of highest relevance for visionary technologies such as the Internet of Things or Cyber-Physical Systems and application domains such as Smart Production, Smart Cities, or Connected Cars. The featured topic of the 2016 edition of EWSN is "Dependability" and we specifically welcome contributions that aim at making networked embedded systems more reliable, predictable, safe, and secure in order to enable critical applications that require guaranteed performance. Topics not related to dependability are equally welcome as long as they fall into the scope of the conference (i.e., wireless networked embedded systems). EWSN 2016 will also host a competition on dependability as well as two workshops in emerging areas focusing on novel embedded communication paradigms and on next-generation wireless embedded computing platforms. EWSN 2016 will be held in cooperation with ACM / SIGBED. The proceedings will appear in the ACM Digital Library. EWSN has been established in 2004 as the European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks and has been held since then in European cities. For the 2016 edition, the scope still includes Wireless Sensor Networks, but has been broadened to all topics at the intersection of embedded systems and wireless networks. DATES: Paper Registration: September 21, 2015 (EXTENDED) Paper Submission: September 28, 2015 (EXTENDED) Demo / Poster Submission: December 4, 2015 Competition Submission: September 26, 2015 Workshop Submission: November 9, 2015 Conference: February 15-17, 2016 ORGANIZERS: General Chair: Kay Roemer, TU Graz Program Chairs: Koen Langendoen, TU Delft Thiemo Voigt, Uppsala University and SICS ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] EWSN 2016 Deadlines approaching
by Lars Wolf 10 Sep '15

10 Sep '15

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: "Kay Römer" <00000023cf4c5fe0-dmarc-request(a)comsoc.org> Gesendet: 10. September 2015 12:53:33 MESZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] EWSN 2016 Deadlines approaching ** Paper registration deadline: Sept 14, 2015 ** Paper submission deadline: Sept 21, 2015 Third Call for Papers EWSN 2016 - Intl. Conf. on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks In-cooperation with ACM SIGBED February 15-17, 2016 in Graz, Austria www.iti.tugraz.at/EWSN2016 The International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN) is a highly selective single-track international conference focussing on premier research results at the intersection of embedded systems and wireless networking - an area of highest relevance for visionary technologies such as the Internet of Things or Cyber-Physical Systems and application domains such as Smart Production, Smart Cities, or Connected Cars. The featured topic of the 2016 edition of EWSN is "Dependability" and we specifically welcome contributions that aim at making networked embedded systems more reliable, predictable, safe, and secure in order to enable critical applications that require guaranteed performance. Topics not related to dependability are equally welcome as long as they fall into the scope of the conference (i.e., wireless networked embedded systems). EWSN 2016 will also host a competition on dependability as well as two workshops in emerging areas focusing on novel embedded communication paradigms and on next-generation wireless embedded computing platforms. EWSN 2016 will be held in cooperation with ACM / SIGBED. The proceedings will appear in the ACM Digital Library. EWSN has been established in 2004 as the European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks and has been held since then in European cities. For the 2016 edition, the scope still includes Wireless Sensor Networks, but has been broadened to all topics at the intersection of embedded systems and wireless networks. DATES: Paper Registration: September 14, 2015 Paper Submission: September 21, 2015 Demo / Poster Submission: December 4, 2015 Competition Submission: September 26, 2015 Workshop Submission: November 9, 2015 Conference: February 15-17, 2016 ORGANIZERS: General Chair: Kay Roemer, TU Graz Program Chairs: Koen Langendoen, TU Delft Thiemo Voigt, Uppsala University and SICS ______________________________________________________________ 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: SIGMETRICS/PERFORMANCE 2016
by Lars Wolf 09 Sep '15

09 Sep '15

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Nicolas Gast <nicolas.gast(a)INRIA.FR> Gesendet: 9. September 2015 20:51:28 MESZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: SIGMETRICS/PERFORMANCE 2016 [Apologies for multiple postings] CALL FOR PAPERS ACM SIGMETRICS / IFIP PERFORMANCE 2016 http://www.sigmetrics.org/sigmetrics2016 June 14-18, 2016 Antibes Juan-les-Pins, France IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract submission: Nov 23 2015 Paper submission: Nov 30 2015 Paper notification: Feb 20 2016 Conference: June 14-18 2016 CONFERENCE OVERVIEW: The joint ACM SIGMETRICS / IFIP Performance conference solicits papers on the development and application of state-of-the-art, broadly applicable analytic, simulation and measurement-based performance evaluation techniques. Of particular interest is work that presents new performance evaluation methods or that creatively applies previously developed methods to make predictions about, or gain insights into key design trade-offs in, computer and networked systems. The main conference will be held from June 15-17, 2016. There will be tutorials and workshops on June 14 and June 18, 2016. Submission details will be published shortly on this Web site. All accepted regular papers will include oral (short or long time slot, single track) presentations. A limited number of submitted papers will be accepted for a poster session. The notion of performance is broadly construed, including considerations of speed and scalability as well as reliability, availability, and manageability of systems. We particularly encourage submissions including real world empirical studies and focusing on implementation and experimental issues. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to: Quantitative design and evaluation studies of: * Computer and communication networks, protocols and algorithms * Wireless, mobile, ad-hoc and sensor networks * Computer architectures, multi-core processors, memory systems and storage networks * Operating systems, file systems and databases * Virtualization, data centers, distributed and cloud computing * Social networks, multimedia systems, service-oriented architectures and Web services * Energy-efficient computing systems * Real-time and fault-tolerant systems * Mobile and personal computing systems * Large-scale operational systems * Software systems and enterprise applications * Smart power grids * Data processing * Emerging technologies Methodologies, formalisms, solution techniques and algorithms for: * Performance, scalability, power and reliability analysis * Sustainability analysis and power management * Capacity planning, resource allocation, run time management and scheduling * Anomaly detection, system measurement, monitoring and forecasting * Analytical modeling techniques and model validation * Workload characterization and benchmarking * Quality of service, total cost of ownership and pricing * Experimental design, statistical analysis, simulation * Performance-oriented applications of game theory, economics and control theory * Big data, machine learning and signal processing SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Papers should not exceed 12 pages double column including figures, tables, and references in standard ACM format. In addition, a 2-page appendix is permitted, where the appendix does not count towards the original 12 pages. Papers must be submitted electronically in printable pdf form. Templates for the standard ACM format can be found at this link: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates 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 blind reviewing, authors names and affiliations should not appear in the paper; bibliographic references should be made in such a way as to preserve author anonymity. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published on ACM Performance Evaluation Review. 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. GENERAL CHAIRS: Sara Alouf Inria Alain Jean-Marie Inria PROGRAM CHAIRS: Nidhi Hegde Bell Labs Alexandre Proutière KTH ______________________________________________________________ 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: Dependability Competition - Intl. Conf. on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN)
by Lars Wolf 09 Sep '15

09 Sep '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: Dependability Competition - Intl. Conf. on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN) Datum: Tue, 8 Sep 2015 14:29:59 +0200 Von: Carlo Alberto Boano <cboano(a)tugraz.at> Antwort an: iti.announcement(a)mlist.tugraz.at An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de Call for Competitors 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: Contest Registration and Abstract Deadline: September 26, 2015 Notificaton of acceptance: October 19, 2015 Competition: February 14-15, 2016 ORGANIZERS: Carlo Alberto Boano, TU Graz

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] 12th IEEE/IFIP Wireless On-demand Network systems and Services Conference (WONS 2016)
by Lars Wolf 08 Sep '15

08 Sep '15

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Michele Segata <msegata(a)DISI.UNITN.IT> Gesendet: 8. September 2015 10:22:10 MESZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] 12th IEEE/IFIP Wireless On-demand Network systems and Services Conference (WONS 2016) Dear Colleagues, Please find below the Call for Papers for next year's edition of WONS IEEE/IFIP WONS 2016 - Call For Papers The 12th Annual Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services 20-22 January 2016 Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy http://2016.wons-conference.org/ Wireless on-demand network systems and services have become pivotal in shaping our future networked world. Starting as a niche application over Wi-Fi, they can now be found in mainstream technologies like Bluetooth LE, LTE Direct and Wireless LANs, and have become the cornerstone of upcoming networking paradigms including mesh and sensor networks, cloud networks, vehicular networks, disruption tolerant and opportunistic networks, and in-body networks. The challenges of this exciting research field are numerous. Examples include how to make smart use of these novel technologies when multiple technologies or a mix of permanent services and on-demand networking opportunities are available to a network node, how to provide robust services in highly dynamic environments, how to efficiently employ and operate heavily resource-constrained devices, and how to develop robust and lightweight algorithms for self-organization and adaptation. IEEE/IFIP WONS, now numbering twelve editions, has established itself as a high quality forum to address these and related challenges. After a one-year break, WONS is able to continue to provide a global platform for rich interactions between experts in their fields, discussing innovative contributions in a stimulating environment. This announcement solicits original contributions of high-quality research providing novel insights on all aspects of wireless on-demand networks and systems; from protocol and network design, modeling, performance evaluation, profitability models, energy efficiency, QoS models and mechanisms, practical implementations, service level aspects, application use-cases, to the integration of multiple wireless network technologies. Topics of interest comprise, but are not limited to: * Cognitive radio networks * Cross-layer design * Energy-efficient protocols and power management * Heterogeneous wireless networks * Implementations and testbeds * Integration and co-existence of heterogeneous technologies * Intra-body and biomedical on-demand systems * Green wireless networks * Localization and mobility management * MAC and advanced PHY technologies * Middleware aspects * Mobile peer-to-peer systems * Mobile computing and services * Modeling and optimization * Network management * New architectures for on-demand wireless systems * Novel applications and services * Opportunistic, delay-tolerant, and dissemination-based protocols * Performance evaluation through simulations and experiments * Pervasive and ubiquitous computing * Security, privacy, and trust * Social and economic aspects Special Track --------------- IEEE/IFIP WONS 2016 also solicits original contributions to a special track on Community Networks and Services. Community Networks are bottom-up initiatives that mix wireless mesh networks with wired networks to provide Internet connectivity but also to enable the on-demand creation of local applications. Contributions are welcomed on the related technical open issues (routing protocols, distributed applications, wireless-wired interaction etc.), social challenges (legal organization and hurdles, instruments to manage community networks, privacy issues etc.) and on hands-on experience on the realization and maintenance of networks. Manuscript submissions ---------------------- Authors are invited to submit double-column long papers (up to 8 pages) and short papers (up to 4 pages) as a PDF file in IEEE format with a font size no smaller than 10pt. All paper submissions must be written in English. The mandatory IEEE template in Microsoft Word and LaTeX format can be found at the IEEE templates page. All submitted manuscripts must be at least 3 pages in length. Short papers should present future research directions and ongoing work with visionary, innovative ideas; accepted short papers will populate poster sessions at the conference and will be included in the conference proceedings. Submitted papers must not have been published elsewhere and must not be currently under review by another conference or journal. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. 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. Manuscripts will be collected via EasyChair. You can submit your contribution using the following link: http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wons2016 Further submission instructions are published on the conference web site http://2016.wons-conference.org/ Important Dates for Attendees & Authors --------------------------------------- * 18 September 2015: paper registration deadline * 25 September 2015: paper submission deadline * 20 November 2015: author notifications sent * 4 December 2015: camera ready versions due * 20 January 2016: conference begins in Cortina d'Ampezzo Chairs and Committees --------------------- General Chair: Renato Lo Cigno (University of Trento) Technical Program Chairs: Christoph Sommer (University of Paderborn) Konstantinos Psounis (University of Southern California) Special Track on Community Networks and Services: Leonardo Maccari (University of Trento) Web and Publicity Chair: Michele Segata (Universities of Trento and Innsbruck) Steering Committee: Renato Lo Cigno (University of Trento) Falko Dressler (University of Paderborn) Mario Gerla (UCLA) Edward W. Knightly (Rice University) Ioannis Stavrakakis (University of Athens) Technical Program Committee --------------------------- Claudio Casetti (Politecnico di Torino) Lijun Chen (University of Colorado at Boulder) Falko Dressler (University of Paderborn) Juergen Eckert (University of Erlangen) Anthony Ephremides (University of Maryland) Marco Fiore (National Research Council of Italy) Raphael Frank (University of Luxembourg) Thomas Gross (ETH Zurich) Zhangyu Guan (State University of New York at Buffalo) Pan Hui (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong) Gunnar Karlsson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) Dimitrios Katsaros (University of Thessaly) Edward Knightly (Rice University) Dimitrios Koutsonikolas (University at Buffalo, SUNY) Hengchang Liu (USTC) Tom Luan (Deakin University) Tommaso Melodia (Northeastern University) Joerg Ott (Aalto University) Björn Scheuermann (Humboldt University of Berlin) Ioannis Stavrakakis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) Zhi Sun (State University of New York at Buffalo) Stavros Toumpis (Athens University of Economics and Business) Klaus Wehrle (RWTH Aachen University) Joerg Widmer (IMDEA Networks Institute) Martina Zitterbart (KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)) Violet Syrotiuk (Arizona State University) Nick Bambos (Stanford University) Matteo Cesana (Politecnico di Milano) Kaushik Chowdhury (Northeastern University) Rubén Cuevas (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) Mario Gerla (University of California at Los Angeles) Bart Braem (University of Antwerp) Andrea Detti (University of Rome "Tor Vergata") Felix Freitag (Universitat Politècnia de Catalunya) Karin Anna Hummel (ETH Zurich) Iordanis Koutsopoulos (University of Thessaly) Arjuna Sathiaseelan (University of Cambridge) Marco Zennaro (ICTP) Merkourios Karaliopoulos (CERTH) Claudio Pisa (University of Rome "Tor Vergata") Panayotis Antoniadis (ETH Zurich) Saleem Bhatti (University of St Andrews) Further Information ------------------- For further information, please refer to the conference website at http://2016.wons-conference.org/ We would also like to inform you that this year IEEE/IFIP WONS 2016 is colocated with the Seventh Nordic Workshop on System & Network Optimization for Wireless (SNOW 2016). Kind Regards Michele Segata IEEE/IFIP WONS 2016 Web and Publicity Chair ______________________________________________________________ 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: deadline extended for VNC 2015 (the 2015 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference)
by Lars Wolf 08 Sep '15

08 Sep '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CfP: deadline extended for VNC 2015 (the 2015 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference) Datum: Mon, 7 Sep 2015 19:26:10 +0200 Von: Christoph Sommer <sommer(a)CCS-LABS.ORG> Antwort an: Christoph Sommer <sommer(a)CCS-LABS.ORG> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ** deadline extended to 14 September 2015 ** VNC 2015 - Call For Papers 7th IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference 16-18 December 2015 Kyoto, Japan http://www.ieee-vnc.org/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 ---------------------- 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 are provided online. We will consider two different categories of papers: Full papers should describe novel research contributions and are limited in length to eight (8) printed pages (10-point font) including figures, tables, and references. Papers exceeding 8 pages will not be accepted at EDAS, nor reviewed at all. Short papers should be more visionary in nature and may report on work in progress without finished results. They are meant to present novel perspectives, so as to foster discussion about innovative directions and new points of view. They are limited to at most four (4) pages including figures, tables, and references, but might in many cases be even shorter. Accepted short papers will be included in the proceedings and they will be given (a shorter) time for oral presentation at the conference, with more time dedicated to discussions. Please note that the full paper and short paper categories target different kinds of contributions. Papers submitted to a category will not be moved to a different category: a paper will either be accepted for the category where it has been submitted, or it will be rejected. Full papers will not be "downgraded" to short papers. Therefore, please be sure to carefully assess for yourself prior to submission which is the most suitable submission category for your paper, and to make sure that the presentation in the manuscript is well suited to the aims of this category. 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. 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. Further submission instructions are published on the conference web site http://www.ieee-vnc.org/2015/ Important Dates for Attendees & Authors --------------------------------------- * 14 September 2015: paper submission deadline (extended) * 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 (University College Cork, Ireland) Takayuki Nishio (Kyoto University) Web Chair: David Foerster (Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany) Program Committee: Fan Bai (General Motors) Bastian Bloessl (University of Paderborn) Maria Calderon (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) Claudio Casetti (Politecnico di Torino) Sandra Céspedes (Universidad de Chile) Sinem C. Ergen (Koç University) Francesca Cuomo (University of Rome Sapienza) Pedro d'Orey (NEC Europe Ltd.) Stefan Dietzel (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Falko Dressler (University of Paderborn) David Eckhoff (University of Erlangen) Andreas Festag (TU Dresden) Marco Fiore (National Research Council of Italy) Raphael Frank (University of Luxembourg) Takeo Fujii (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan) Javier Gozalvez (Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche) Hannes Hartenstein (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Geert Heijenk (University of Twente) Teruo Higashino (Osaka University) Rasheed Hussain (Hanyang University) Susumu Ishihara (Shizuoka University) John Kenney (Toyota InfoTechnology Center) Nicholas Kirsch (University of New Hampshire) Tim Leinmüller (DENSO AUTOMOTIVE Deutschland GmbH) Thomas Little (Boston University) Renato Lo Cigno (University of Trento) C. Mecklenbräuker (Vienna University of Technology) Tamer Nadeem (Old Dominion University) Hyun Seo Oh (ETRI) Yaser P. Fallah (West Virginia University) P. Papadimitratos (KTH) Giovanni Pau (UPMC Sorbonne Universités) Jonathan Petit (University College Cork) Marco Roccetti (University of Bologna) Michele Rondinone (Hyundai Motor Europe Technical Center) Susana Sargento (Universidade de Aveiro) Björn Scheuermann (Humboldt University of Berlin) Robert Schmidt (Denso Automotive Dtld. GmbH) Elmar Schoch (AUDI AG) Aruna Seneviratne (University of New South Wales) Miguel Sepulcre (University Miguel Hernandez of Elche) Hiroshi Shigeno (Keio University) Douglas Sicker (University of Colorado) Peter Steenkiste (Carnegie Mellon University) Thomas Strang (German Aerospace Center) Hsin-Mu Tsai (National Taiwan University) Kazuya Tsukamoto (Kyushu Institute of Technology) Fredrik Tufvesson (Lund University) Leandro Villas (UNICAMP) Alexey Vinel (Halmstad University) W. Viriyasitavat (Mahidol University) Tam Vu (University of Colorado Denver) Andre Weimerskirch (University of Michigan) N. Wisitpongphan (University of Technology North Bangkok) Tomoyuki Yashiro (Chiba Institute of Technology) Keiichi Yasumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology) Hongwei Zhang (Wayne State University) 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, University of Tokyo, Japan) Further Information ------------------- For further information, please refer to the conference website at http://www.ieee-vnc.org/2015/ -- 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: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP2] Intl. Conf. on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN) - In-cooperation with ACM SIGBED - REGISTRATION DEADLINE COMING SOON!
by Lars Wolf 03 Sep '15

03 Sep '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP2] Intl. Conf. on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN) - In-cooperation with ACM SIGBED - REGISTRATION DEADLINE COMING SOON! Datum: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 17:28:36 +0200 Von: Anna Förster <anna.foerster(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Anna Förster <anna.foerster(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Second Call for Papers Intl. Conf. on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN) Featured Topic: Dependability In-cooperation with ACM SIGBED Proceedings appear in ACM Digital Library February 15-17, 2016 in Graz, Austria www.iti.tugraz.at/EWSN2016 The International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN) is a highly selective single-track international conference focussing on premier research results at the intersection of embedded systems and wireless networking - an area of highest relevance for visionary technologies such as the Internet of Things or Cyber-Physical Systems and application domains such as Smart Production, Smart Cities, or Connected Cars. The featured topic of the 2016 edition of EWSN is "Dependability" and we specifically welcome contributions that aim at making networked embedded systems more reliable, predictable, safe, and secure in order to enable critical applications that require guaranteed performance. EWSN 2016 will also host a competition on dependability as well as workshops in emerging areas, one of these workshops will focus on novel embedded communication paradigms. EWSN 2016 will be held in cooperation with ACM / SIGBED. The proceedings will appear in the ACM Digital Library. EWSN has been established in 2004 as the European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks and has been held since then in European cities. For the 2016 edition, the scope still includes Wireless Sensor Networks, but has been broadened to all topics at the intersection of embedded systems and wireless networks. DATES: Paper Registration: September 14, 2015 Paper Submission: September 21, 2015 Demo / Poster Submission: December 4, 2015 Competition Submission: September 26, 2015 Workshop Submission: October 12, 2015 Conference: February 15-17, 2016 ORGANIZERS: General Chair: Kay Roemer, TU Graz Program Chairs: Koen Langendoen, TU Delft Thiemo Voigt, Uppsala University and SICS — Prof. Dr. Anna Förster Sustainable Communication Networks Faculty of Physics and Electrical Engineering University of Bremen NW1, Otto-Hahn-Allee 1 28359 Bremen, Germany Tel. +49 421 218 62383 Fax. +49 421 218 98 62383 ______________________________________________________________ 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] 2015 IEEE International Workshop on Automotive IoT (IEEE Auto-IoT 2015), Dec 2015, Milan, Italy
by Lars Wolf 03 Sep '15

03 Sep '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] 2015 IEEE International Workshop on Automotive IoT (IEEE Auto-IoT 2015), Dec 2015, Milan, Italy Datum: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 19:37:04 +0300 Von: Andreas Pressas <pressas.iot(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Andreas Pressas <pressas.iot(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2015 IEEE International Workshop on Automotive IoT (IEEE Auto-IoT 2015) co-located with the 2015 IEEE World Forum on Internet-of-things (WF-IoT), 14 - 16 December 2015, Milan, Italy. Organized by the IEEE IoT Initiative and the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Website: http://www.ieee-wf-iot.org/program.html#workshops Submission site: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=19997&track=76312 The future network infrastructure for vehicular environments will increase the pervasiveness of the Internet and the overall connectivity by integrating every “object” (e.g., passengers’ smart phones, vehicles’ sensors, infrastructures and external management platform) forming an intelligent vehicular transportation system. IoT supported by vehicular networks will be a key enabler for new geo-spatial information mapping communities. Using the advanced communication and sensor capabilities hosted by vehicles, these IoT communities have the potential to reach a wide range of objectives at more cost effective ways. Applications for such a promising combination of information production range from providing road safety and driver assistance, to mapping road status (e.g., road congestion status, road conditions and maintenance status), to estimating the 'greenens’ of various road segments. Topics of interest ------------------ This workshop seeks original papers - not published or currently under review for another workshop, conference, or journal - in the area of automotive IoT, integrations of vehicular sensor networks with IoT and advanced communication and networking technologies applied in vehicular systems. The areas of interest include, but are not limited to: *Connected vehicles, communications, networking and applications in IoT *IoT for autonomous cars and driving systems *IoT cloud computing and management platform for connected vehicles *In-car electronics, embedded integration of wireless vehicular communications with IoT *Mobile vehicular sensor networks *Interworking with sensor network technologies *Transportation cyber-physical networks *Mobility for IoT *RF technologies, antenna design, physical layer and propagation models *Spectrum, radio resource and interference management *Intra/Inter-vehicle communications. *Wireless enabled intelligent transportation systems *Applications (Telematics, Ecall, toll collection, traffic information, wireless diagnosis, etc.) *Vehicular social networks in IoT *Architecture, networking protocols, QoS and cross-layer optimization design *Security, liability and privacy *Standards development, business models and policies *Testbeds and simulation platforms *Field trials and deployments Submissions ----------- Authors are encouraged to submit full length papers (suggested size is four pages; papers up to six pages will be accepted) following the submission guidelines provided at www.ieee-wf-iot.org/authors.html. Papers will be fully peer reviewed and, accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and also be submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore digital library. Extended versions of selected papers may be considered for publication in IEEE IoT Journal. Important Dates --------------- Paper Submission Deadline: 18 September 2015 Notification of acceptance: 16 October 2015 Camera-ready papers due: 31 October 2015 General Co-Chairs: - Zhengguo Sheng, University of Sussex, UK (email: z.sheng(a)sussex.ac.uk) - Abbas Jamalipour, University of Sydney, Australia Technical Program Co-Chairs: - Alexey Vinel, Halmstad University, Sweden - Giuseppe Ruggeri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy - Gaurav Bansal, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, USA Local Chair: - Vincenzo Piuri, Milan University, Italy Publicity Chair: - Andreas Pressas, University of Sussex, UK ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: The 3rd IEEE PerCom International Workshop on Crowd Assisted Sensing, Pervasive Systems and Communications (CASPer 2016)
by Lars Wolf 03 Sep '15

03 Sep '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, 3 Sep 2015 06:35:10 -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: IEEE IoT Design and Implementation: Preliminary CFP
by Lars Wolf 03 Sep '15

03 Sep '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: IEEE IoT Design and Implementation: Preliminary CFP Datum: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 21:06:29 -0400 Von: Kun Bai <kunbai(a)us.ibm.com> An: Kun Bai <kunbai(a)us.ibm.com> Call for Papers ======================================================================== IEEE International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI 2016) April 4-6, Berlin, Germany http://conferences.computer.org/IoTDI/ Co-located with the 4th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E 2016) Preliminary 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 [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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: [ISCC] IEEE PerCom 2016: Call for Papers
by Lars Wolf 02 Sep '15

02 Sep '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [ISCC] IEEE PerCom 2016: Call for Papers Datum: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 10:21:52 +0000 Von: Clinch, Sarah <s.clinch(a)lancaster.ac.uk> An: iscc(a)mama.ing.unibo.it <iscc(a)mama.ing.unibo.it> [We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.] =================================================== IEEE PerCom 2016 / Call for Papers March 14-18, 2016 - Sydney, Australia http://www.percom.org <http://www.percom.org/> =================================================== # The Fourteenth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2016 ## Important Dates * Paper registration: September 18, 2015 * Paper submission: September 25, 2015 * Notification: November 30, 2015 * Camera ready: January 15, 2016 ## Call for Papers IEEE PerCom, now in its fourteenth year, is established as the premier annual scholarly venue in the areas of pervasive computing and communications. Pervasive computing and communications have evolved into highly active areas of research and have found their way to many current commercial systems, due to the tremendous advances in a broad spectrum of technologies and topics including wireless networking, mobile and distributed computing, sensor systems, ambient intelligence, and smart devices. PerCom is going down under to Sydney, famous for such iconic attractions as the Opera House, Bondi Beach and Harbour Bridge. PerCom 2016 will provide a leading edge, scholarly forum for researchers, engineers, and students alike to share their state-of-the-art research and developmental work in the broad areas of pervasive computing and communications. The conference will feature a diverse mixture of interactive forums: core technical sessions of high quality cutting-edge research articles; targeted workshops on exciting topics; live demonstrations of pervasive computing in action; inspiring keynote speeches; insightful panel discussions from domain experts; and posters representing emerging ideas. Research contributions are solicited in all areas pertinent to pervasive computing and communications, including: â¢ Innovative pervasive computing applications â¢ Data management for pervasive computing â¢ Programming paradigms for pervasive systems â¢ Architectures, protocols, and technologies for pervasive communications â¢ Middleware for pervasive services and applications â¢ Adaptive, autonomic, and context-aware computing â¢ Participatory and social sensing â¢ Opportunistic networking and sensing in pervasive systems â¢ Mobile/wearable computing systems and services in pervasive computing â¢ Urban and mobile crowd sensing and intelligence â¢ Energy-efficient and green pervasive computing â¢ Positioning and tracking technologies â¢ Sensors and RFID in pervasive systems â¢ Multimodal sensing and context for pervasive applications â¢ Reasoning methods for activity recognition â¢ Smart devices and intelligent environments â¢ Trust, security, and privacy in pervasive systems â¢ User interface, interaction, and persuasion â¢ Context modeling and reasoning â¢ Cognitive computing in pervasive systems â¢ Virtual immersive communications â¢ Pervasive computing aspects of social networks â¢ Social and economic models for pervasive systems â¢ Pervasive technologies for healthcare ### Workshops and Affiliated Events A number of workshops will be held in conjunction with the main conference. Workshop papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE digital libraries (Xplore) along with papers from the main conference. As in the past, PerCom 2016 will also feature a PhD Forum, Work-in-Progress Posters, and Live Demonstrations. Please visit the conference website for details. ## Best Paper Award The best paper will receive the prestigious Mark Weiser Best Paper Award. Papers of particular merit will be considered for a special issue of the Elsevier journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC). ## Submission Guidelines Submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication. Also, they must show a significant relevance to pervasive computing and networking. Only electronic submissions in PDF format will be considered. Papers must be 9 pages or less, including references, figures and tables (at least 10pt font, 2-column format). The IEEE LaTeX and Microsoft Word templates, as well as formatting instructions, can be found here (http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting). All papers will be managed electronically through EDAS (https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=18005). Submitted papers will undergo a rigorous review process handled by the Technical Program Committee. Additional author names cannot be added after acceptance. The best paper will receive the prestigious Mark Weiser Best Paper Award. Top selected papers will be considered for a special issue of the Elsevier journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC). ## Organising Committees Contact: percom2016(a)gmail.com <mailto:percom2016@gmail.com> ### General Chairs * Mohan Kumar, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA * Aruna Seneviratne, NICTA, Australia ### Technical Program Chair * Christian Becker, UniversitÃ¤t Mannheim, Germany ### Vice Technical Program Chairs * Frank DÃ¼rr, University of Stuttgart, Germany * Jamie Payton, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA * Daniele Riboni, University of Milan, Italy ### Steering Committee Chair * Jadwiga Indulska, The University of Queensland, Australia ### Technical Program Committee * Christer Ãhlund, Lulea University of Technology * Jeannie Albrecht, Williams College * Oliver Amft, University of Passau * N. Asokan, Aalto University * Rajesh Balan, Singapore Management University * Stefano Basagni, Northeastern University * Christian Becker, UniversitÃ¤t Mannheim * Michael Beigl, KIT * Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna * Claudio Bettini, University of Milan * Guo Bin, Northwestern Polytechnical University * Chiara Boldrini, IIT-CNR * Guohong Cao, The Pennsylvania State University * Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ * Paul Castro, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center * Sriram Chellappan, Missouri University of Science and Technology * Guanling Chen, University of Massachusetts Lowell * Harsha Chenji, Ohio University * Sajal Das, Missouri University of Science and Technology * Klaus David, University of Kassel * Debraj De, Missouri University of Science & Technology * Franca Delmastro, IIT-CNR * Mario Di Francesco, Aalto University * Ada Diaconescu, Telecom ParisTech * Naranker Dulay, Imperial College London * Frank DÃ¼rr, University of Stuttgart * Lukas Esterle, Klagenfurt University * Karoly Farkas, Budapest University of Technology and Economics * Giacomo Ghidini, The University of Texas at Arlington * Silvia Giordano, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI) * Tao Gu, RMIT University * JÃ¶rg HÃ¤hner, University of Augsburg * Qi Han, Colorado School of Mines * Mahbub Hassan, University of New South Wales * Urs Hengartner, University of Waterloo * Henry Holtzman, MIT Media Lab * Peizhao Hu, Rochester Institute of Technology * Yu Huang, Nanjing University * Ali Hurson, Missouri University of Science and Technology * Jadwiga Indulska, The University of Queensland * David Irwin, University of Massachusetts, Amherst * Christine Julien, University of Texas at Austin * Vana Kalogeraki, Athens University of Economics and Business * Matthias Kranz, University of Passau * Narayanan Krishnan, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar * Mohan Kumar, Rochester Institute of Technology * Vimal Kumar, University of West Florida * Philippe Lalande, Grenoble University * Nicholas Lane, Bell Labs * Janne Lindqvist, Rutgers University * Xun Luo, Qualcomm, Inc * Qin Lv, University of Colorado Boulder * Sanjay Madria, Missouri University of Science and Technology * Pedro MarrÃ³n, University of Duisburg-Essen and Fraunhofer FKIE * Cecilia Mascolo, University of Cambridge * Archan Misra, Singapore Management University * Iqbal Mohomed, IBM Research * Luca Mottola, Politecnico di Milano-Italy and Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS) * Max Muehlhaeuser, Technical University Darmstadt * Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois * Daniela Nicklas, University of Bamberg * Petteri Nurmi, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT * Joerg Ott, Aalto University * Andrea Passarella, IIT-CNR * Jamie Payton, University of North Carolina at Charlotte * Tom Pfeifer, Technische UniversitÃ¤t Berlin * Dinh Phung, Deakin University * Claudio Pinhanez, IBM T. J. Watson Research * Thomas Ploetz, Newcastle University * Marius Portmann, University of Queensland * Daniele Puccinelli, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI) * Kiran Rachuri, Samsung Research America * Anand Ranganathan, IBM TJ Watson Research Center * Daniele Riboni, University of Milan * Kay RÃ¶mer, Graz University of Technology * George Roussos, Birkbeck College, University of London * Nirmalya Roy, University of Maryland Baltimore County * Gregor Schiele, University of Duisburg-Essen * Albrecht Schmidt, University of Stuttgart * Sahra Sedigh Sarvestani, Missouri University of Science and Technology * Behrooz Shirazi, Washington State University * Stephan Sigg, National Institute of Informatics * Mukundan Sridharan, The Samraksh Company * Thorsten Strufe, TU Dresden * Neeraj Suri, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt * Chiu Tan, Temple University * Sebastian VanSyckel, University of Mannheim * Nalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California, Irvine * Klaus Wehrle, RWTH Aachen University * Wenyuan Xu, University of South Carolina * Michael Youngblood, PARC * Moustafa Youssef, Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (EJUST) * Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Polytechnical University * Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia * Gergely Zaruba, University of Texas at Arlington * Arkady Zaslavsky, CSIRO * Yanchao Zhang, Arizona State University * Marco Zuniga, Delft University of Technology

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Fwd: IFIP Networking 2016: First Call for Papers
by Lars Wolf 01 Sep '15

01 Sep '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: IFIP Networking 2016: First Call for Papers Datum: Sat, 29 Aug 2015 18:19:50 -0400 Von: Aruna Balasubramanian <arunab(a)cs.stonybrook.edu> An: tccc-announce(a)COMPUTER.ORG [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.] First 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). 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: https://edas.info/N21468 IMPORTANT DATES Abstract registration: Nov 23, 2015 Full paper submission: Nov 30, 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: Jörg Ott, Technische Universität München, 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 Duisburg-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/ _______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the tccc-announce list, click the following link: ?SUBED1=tccc-announce&A=1

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[MobiCom'15]: Final Call for Mobile App Contest Submissions
by Lars Wolf 13 Aug '15

13 Aug '15

Dear colleagues, The deadline of the Mobile App Competition of MobiCom’15 is fast approaching (August 15th, this Saturday!) We sincerely look forward to your cool apps! Check out the detail at: http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2015/App_Contest_Guildeline_v1.pdf =============================== MobiCom 2015 Mobile App Competition =============================== http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2015/app.html ** Submission window: July 28th — August 15th, 2015 ** MobiCom 2015 is pleased to organize the third Mobile App competition in conjunction with the main conference. The competition is for novel and innovative mobile applications utilizing any computing architecture (stand-alone, client/server, client/proxy/server, peer-to-peer/ad-hoc, cloud/mobile, others). It is intended as a platform-neutral Contest. Applications can be developed for, but not limited to, Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Blackberry OS 10 and HTML5. The competition consists of three phases. First you submit your app idea, and if invited to proceed, you submit your app for evaluation and selection as Finalists. Only Finalists advance to enter the third and last phase of selecting the three top winners. More details about the requirements and rules for the three phases of this competition should be carefully read in the call for Apps on the MobiCom 2015 website: http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2015/app.html All applications must be demonstrated on real devices. Network services that are part of the application should also be real services embodying no mock-up components. Finalists are required to register and attend the conference in order to be considered by the jury for first, second and third place winners. All submissions should be sent to: mobicom-app-contest(a)googlegroups.com

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Fwd: ACM Sensys 2015 Doctoral Colloquium
by Lars Wolf 06 Aug '15

06 Aug '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: ACM Sensys 2015 Doctoral Colloquium Datum: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 14:10:35 -0400 Von: SenSys 2015 Doctoral Colloquium <sensys15dc(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: SenSys 2015 Doctoral Colloquium <sensys15dc(a)GMAIL.COM> An: SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG SenSys 2015 Doctoral Colloquium November 1,Seoul, South Korea http://sensys.acm.org/2015/dc/ The Doctoral Colloquium (DC) of SenSys' 15 is to provide a friendly, supportive, and constructive environment where PhD students can present their research-in-progress for an open discussion guided by a panel of experienced researchers and practitioners. Applicants should be far enough into their PhD to have a concrete proposal, and have initially outlined the salient issues and proposed research methodology. Applicants should not be planning to submit their PhD thesis or dissertation for at least four months after the DC, so that any advice or input may still be incorporated into the doctoral work. The DC will be a seminar-style event, consisting of short presentations followed by round table discussion. Time will be allotted to each student not only for the presentation, but also for careful, in-depth consideration and discussion amongst the panelists and DC participants. Submissions Topic scope is the same as that listed in the SenSys call for papers. DC submissions should consist of a single PDF document using the SenSys paper template. The document should contain the following: [1] Research summary (3 pages) describing the work in progress and including a 100-word abstract. Things to consider for inclusion in the research summary might be: the expected contribution to the field of sensor networking; the original idea or thesis statement; the problem domain and the specific problem addressed; a brief overview of related work; the methodological approach; research carried out and results so far. [2] Student biographical sketch, including the names and affiliations of the research advisor(s), and expected date of dissertation submission. The submission site can be found at: http://cmt.research.microsoft.com/SENSYS2015/Default.aspx Research summaries will be reviewed by the chairs and panel members. If the work is accepted, a student may be expected to make clarifications and improvements to the research summary by the camera-ready deadline. Note that the research summaries (limited to 2-pages at camera-ready time) will be formally published as part of the SenSys proceedings and archived in the ACM digital library. A prize for best student presentation will be awarded by the panel. Important Dates (all at 11:59pm AOE) Submission Deadline: August 31th, 2015 Notification of Acceptance: September 7th, 2015 Camera-Ready: September 14th, 2015 Colloquium: November 1st, 2015 Doctoral Colloquium Chairs Nic Lane, Bell Labs -- UK Taiwoo Park, Michigan State University -- USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To be removed from the SIGMOBILE-Members list, please enter your email address wolf(a)IBR.CS.TU-BS.DE at http://optout.acm.org/listserv_index.cfm?ln=sigmobile-members and we'll remove you. Association for Computing Machinery Advancing Computing as a Science and Profession (c) 2015 ACM, Inc. All rights reserved ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: Call for Papers - WONS 2016
by Lars Wolf 04 Aug '15

04 Aug '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: Call for Papers - WONS 2016 Datum: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 15:32:03 +0200 Von: msegata(a)disi.unitn.it An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de Dear WONS Author, Please find below the Call for Papers for next year's edition of WONS WONS 2016 - Call For Papers The 12th Annual Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services 20-22 January 2016 Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy http://2016.wons-conference.org/ Wireless on-demand network systems and services have become pivotal in shaping our future networked world. Starting as a niche application over Wi-Fi, they can now be found in mainstream technologies like Bluetooth LE, LTE Direct and Wireless LANs, and have become the cornerstone of upcoming networking paradigms including mesh and sensor networks, cloud networks, vehicular networks, disruption tolerant and opportunistic networks, and in-body networks. The challenges of this exciting research field are numerous. Examples include how to make smart use of these novel technologies when multiple technologies or a mix of permanent services and on-demand networking opportunities are available to a network node, how to provide robust services in highly dynamic environments, how to efficiently employ and operate heavily resource-constrained devices, and how to develop robust and lightweight algorithms for self-organization and adaptation. WONS, now numbering twelve editions, has established itself as a high quality forum to address these and related challenges. After a one-year break, WONS is able to continue to provide a global platform for rich interactions between experts in their fields, discussing innovative contributions in a stimulating environment. This announcement solicits original contributions of high-quality research providing novel insights on all aspects of wireless on-demand networks and systems; from protocol and network design, modeling, performance evaluation, profitability models, energy efficiency, QoS models and mechanisms, practical implementations, service level aspects, application use-cases, to the integration of multiple wireless network technologies. Topics of interest comprise, but are not limited to: * Cognitive radio networks * Cross-layer design * Energy-efficient protocols and power management * Heterogeneous wireless networks * Implementations and testbeds * Integration and co-existence of heterogeneous technologies * Intra-body and biomedical on-demand systems * Green wireless networks * Localization and mobility management * MAC and advanced PHY technologies * Middleware aspects * Mobile peer-to-peer systems * Mobile computing and services * Modeling and optimization * Network management * New architectures for on-demand wireless systems * Novel applications and services * Opportunistic, delay-tolerant, and dissemination-based protocols * Performance evaluation through simulations and experiments * Pervasive and ubiquitous computing * Security, privacy, and trust * Social and economic aspects Special Track --------------- WONS 2016 also solicits original contributions to a special track on Community Networks and Services. Community Networks are bottom-up initiatives that mix wireless mesh networks with wired networks to provide Internet connectivity but also to enable the on-demand creation of local applications. Contributions are welcomed on the related technical open issues (routing protocols, distributed applications, wireless-wired interaction etc.), social challenges (legal organization and hurdles, instruments to manage community networks, privacy issues etc.) and on hands-on experience on the realization and maintenance of networks. Manuscript submissions ---------------------- Authors are invited to submit double-column long papers (up to 8 pages) and short papers (up to 4 pages) as a PDF file in IEEE format with a font size no smaller than 10pt. All submitted manuscripts must be at least 3 pages in length. Short papers should present future research directions and ongoing work with visionary, innovative ideas; accepted short papers will populate poster sessions at the conference and will be included in the conference proceedings. Submitted papers must not have been published elsewhere and must not be currently under review by another conference or journal. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. Further submission instructions are published on the conference web site http://2016.wons-conference.org/ Important Dates for Attendees & Authors --------------------------------------- * 18 September 2015: paper registration deadline * 25 September 2015: paper submission deadline * 20 November 2015: author notifications sent * 4 December 2015: camera ready versions due * 20 January 2016: conference begins in Cortina d'Ampezzo Chairs and Committees --------------------- General Chair: Renato Lo Cigno (University of Trento) Technical Program Chairs: Christoph Sommer (University of Paderborn) Konstantinos Psounis (University of Southern California) Special Track on Community Networks and Services: Leonardo Maccari (University of Trento) Web and Publicity Chair: Michele Segata (Universities of Trento and Innsbruck) Steering Committee: Renato Lo Cigno (University of Trento) Falko Dressler (University of Paderborn) Mario Gerla (UCLA) Edward W. Knightly (Rice University) Ioannis Stavrakakis (University of Athens) Further Information ------------------- For further information, please refer to the conference website at http://2016.wons-conference.org/ Kind Regards Michele Segata WONS 2016 Web and Publicity Chair

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP - IEEE WoWMoM 2016 - Seventeenth International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks
by Lars Wolf 04 Aug '15

04 Aug '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP - IEEE WoWMoM 2016 - Seventeenth International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks Datum: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 10:03:13 +0200 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] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE WoWMoM 2016 Seventeenth International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks 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, 2016 - - Full manuscript due: November 27, 2016 - - 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. 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, 2016 - Full manuscript due: November 27, 2016 - 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 LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR: João Vilela, Univ. of Coimbra, Portugal TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE TBA ______________________________________________________________ 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 | Feature Topic in IEEE Comm Mag | Wireless Technologies for Development
by Lars Wolf 03 Aug '15

03 Aug '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP | Feature Topic in IEEE Comm Mag | Wireless Technologies for Development Datum: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 10:04:11 +0500 Von: Junaid Qadir <junaid.qadir(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Junaid Qadir <junaid.qadir(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP due to cross posting] *IEEE Communications Magazine* *Feature Topic* *Wireless Technologies for Development (W4D)* CALL FOR PAPERS [Online CFP] <http://www.comsoc.org/commag/cfp/wireless-technologies-development-w4d> We live in a world in which there is a great disparity between the lives of the rich and the poor. Using information and communication technologies for the purpose of development (ICT4D) offers great promise in bridging this gap through its focus on connecting human capacity with computing and informational content. It is well known that Internet access has the capability of fostering development and growth by enabling access to information, education, and opportunities. Wireless technology is a promising solution to this problem of digital exclusion and can be instrumental in democratizing access to the Internet by unfettering developing communities from the encumbering constraints of infrastructure (traditionally associated with broadband Internet provisioning). The focus of the proposed feature topic is on leveraging wireless technologies for development (W4D) to increase the quality of life for a larger segment of human societies by providing them opportunities to connect resources and capacity, especially by provisioning affordable universal Internet access. To reflect recent research advances in using W4D, this feature topic calls for original manuscripts with contributions in, but not limited to, the following topics: - “Global access to the Internet for all” (GAIA) using wireless technologies - Do-it-yourself (DIY) wireless networking (such as community wireless networks) for the developing world - Cost-efficient wireless networked systems appropriate for use in underdeveloped areas - Fault-tolerant resilient wireless networking technologies for the developing world - Rural/remote area wireless solutions (that can work efficiently with resource constraints such as intermittent and unreliable access to power/ networking service) - Simplified network management techniques (including support for heterogeneous service delivery through multiple solutions) - Using cognitive radio technology and 5G standards (with possible native integration of satellites) for GAIA - Techno-economic issues related to W4D (including development of flexible pricing and incentive structures as well as new spectrum access models for wireless) - Techno-political and cultural issues related to using wireless communications for development - Using emerging networking architectures and future Internet architectures [e.g., cloud computing, fog computing, network functions virtualization (NFV), information-centric networking (ICN), software-defined networking (SDN), and delay-tolerant networking (DTN)] with wireless technologies for development. - Using wireless access/ distribution technologies (such as the following) for development: TV white spaces (TVWS); satellite communications using advances in geostationary orbit (GEO) and low-earth orbit (LEO) satellites; low-cost community networks; cellular technologies (such as CDMA 450, the open-source OpenBTS, etc.); wireless mesh and sensor networks; Wi-Fi-Based Long-distance (WiLD) networks; and wireless based wireless regional access networks (WRANs). GUEST EDITORS *Junaid Qadir* School of EE and CS (SEECS), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan *Arjuna Sathiaseelan* Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom *Marco Zennaro* The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy *Adam Wolisz* Technische Universität Berlin & University of California, Berkeley, USA *Saleem Bhatti* University of St Andrews, UK *Kannan Govindan* Samsung Research, India IMPORTANT DATES - *Submission Deadline:* December 1, 2015 - *Notification Due Date: *March 1, 2016 - *Final Version Due Date:* May 1, 2016 - *Feature Topic Publication Date:* July 1, 2016 SUBMISSIONS Articles should be tutorial in nature and written in a style comprehensible to readers outside the specialty of the article. Authors must follow *IEEE Communications Magazine's* guidelines for preparation of the manuscript. Complete guidelines for prospective authors are found at http://www.comsoc.org/commag/paper-submission-guidelines. It is important to note that *IEEE Communications Magazine* strongly limits mathematical content, and the number of figures and tables. Paper length (introduction through conclusions) should not exceed 4,500 words. All articles to be considered for publication must be submitted through the IEEE Manuscript Central (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/commag-ieee) by the deadline. Since our aim with this feature topic (FT) is to provide a balanced overview of the current state of the art of using wireless technologies for development, we solicit papers from both industry professionals and researchers, and we are interested in both reports of experience and in new technical insights/ideas. Any queries relating to this feature topic should be sent to Junaid Qadir ( junaid.qadir(a)seecs.edu.pk) ______________________________________________________________ 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] COMSNETS 2016: Call for Papers
by Lars Wolf 30 Jul '15

30 Jul '15

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Aveek Dutta <aveekd(a)ITTC.KU.EDU> Gesendet: 30. Juli 2015 15:25:40 MESZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] COMSNETS 2016: Call for Papers x------------------x EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS [COMSNETS] 2016, 5-9 JANUARY, BANGALORE, INDIA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apologies for cross-posting Please consider contributing to the COMSNETS 2016 conference and/or distribute to your colleagues/students who might be interested. THANK YOU! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ABOUT COMSNETS COMSNETS 2016 will be held at the Chancery Pavilion Hotel, Residency Road, Bangalore, India, during January 5-9, 2016. COMSNETS is a premier international conference dedicated to advances in Networking and Communications Systems. The conference is a yearly event for a world-class gathering of researchers from academia and industry, practitioners, and business leaders, providing a forum for discussing cutting edge research, and directions for new innovative business and technology. The conference will include a highly selective technical program consisting of submitted papers, a small set of invited papers on important and timely topics from well-known leaders in the field, and poster session of work in progress. Focused workshops and panel discussions will be held on emerging topics to allow for a lively exchange of ideas. International business and government leaders will be invited to share their perspectives, and will complement the technical program. TECHNICAL PROGRAM TOPICS The topics of interest for the technical program include (but are not limited to) the following: · 5G and wireless broadband networks · Technologies for 6-100 GHz spectrum · Heterogeneous networks (HetNets) · Cognitive radio and white-space networking · Economics of networks and systems · Energy-efficient communications & networking · Cloud computing · Enterprise, data center, and storage-area networks · Internet architecture and protocols, Internet science and emergent behavior · Mobility and location management · Traffic analysis and engineering · Internet of Things (IoT) · Information/Content centric networks (ICN) · Network management and operations · Network security and privacy · Trusted computing · Network science · Online social networks · Overlay communications, content distribution · Wireless adhoc and sensor networks · Mobile sensing · Systems and networks for smarter energy and sustainability · Vehicular communications · Smart Grid communications and networking CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS · Keynote Talks o Henning Schulzrinne Columbia University, USA & US FCC o Fumiyuki Adachi Tohuku University, Japan · Banquet Talk o Amod Malviya Flipkart.com · Invited Talks · Co-located Workshops o Big Data Analytics & IoT o Social Networking o Intelligent Transport Systems o NetHealth · Paper & Poster Sessions · Panel Discussions · Graduate Student Forum · Demo & Exhibits Session The main conference, including keynote and invited talks, will be held January 6-8. The workshops will be held on the first and last days of the conference (January 5 and January 9). For more information on the Workshops, Poster Session, PhD Forum, and Demos and Exhibits session, please visit the conference website (www.comsnets.org ). IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission (HARD deadline): 29th August 2015 Paper submission (HARD deadline): 5th September 2015 Acceptance Notification: 20th October 2015 Camera-ready Submission: 24th November 2015 Please visit http://www.comsnets.org/ for detailed information. The conference email address is: comsnets2016(a)gmail.com; comsnets2016.tpc(a)gmail.com ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Cfp: IEEE Magazine Feature Topic on Bio-inspired Cyber Security for Communications and Networking
by Lars Wolf 30 Jul '15

30 Jul '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Cfp: IEEE Magazine Feature Topic on Bio-inspired Cyber Security for Communications and Networking Datum: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 07:44:11 -0400 Von: Wojciech Mazurczyk <wmazurczyk(a)CYGNUS.TELE.PW.EDU.PL> Antwort an: Wojciech Mazurczyk <wmazurczyk(a)CYGNUS.TELE.PW.EDU.PL> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG IEEE Communication Magazine: Feature Topic on Bio-inspired Cyber Security for Communications and Networking Cfp: http://www.comsoc.org/commag/cfp/bio-inspired-cyber-security-communications… IMPORTANT DATES: - Manuscript submission date: November 1, 2015 - Decision notification date: February 1, 2016 - Final manuscript due date: April 1, 2016 - Publication date: June 2016 OVERVIEW Nature is Earth's most amazing invention machine for solving problems and adapting to significant environmental changes. Its ability to address complex, large-scale problems with robust, adaptable, and efficient solutions results from many years of selection, genetic drift and mutations. Thus, it is not surprising that inventors and researchers often look to natural systems for inspiration and methods for solving problems in human-created artificial environments. This has resulted in the development of evolutionary algorithms including genetic algorithms and swarm algorithms, and of classifier and pattern-detection algorithms, such as neural networks, for solving hard computational problems. A natural evolutionary driver is to survive long enough to create a next-generation of descendants and ensure their survival. One factor in survival is an organism's ability to defend against attackers, both predators and parasites, and against rapid changes in environmental conditions. Analogously, networks and communications systems use cyber security to defend their assets against cyber criminals, hostile organizations, hackers, activists, and sudden changes in the network environment (e.g., DDoS attacks). Many of the defense methods used by natural organisms may be mapped to cyber space to implement effective cyber security. Some examples include immune systems, invader detection, friend vs. foe, camouflage, mimicry, evasion, etc. Many cyber security technologies and systems in common use today have their roots in bio-inspired methods, including anti-virus, intrusion detection, threat behavior analysis, attribution, honeypots, counterattack, and the like. As the threats evolve to evade current cyber security technologies, similarly the bio-inspired security and defense technologies evolve to counter the threat. The goal of this feature topic is twofold: (1) to survey the current academic and industry research in bio-inspired cyber security for communications and networking, so that the ComSoc community can understand the current evolutionary state of cyber threats, defenses, and intelligence, and can plan for future transitions of the research into practical implementations; and (2) to survey current academic and industry system projects, prototypes, and deployed products and services (including threat intelligence services) that implement the next generation of bio-inspired methods. Please note that we recognize that in some cases, details may be limited or obscured for security reasons. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to: • Bio-inspired anomaly & intrusion detection • Adaptation algorithms for cyber security & networking • Biometrics related to cyber security & networking • Bio-inspired security and networking algorithms & technologies • Biomimetics related to cyber security & networking • Bio-inspired cyber threat intelligence methods and systems • Moving-target techniques • Network Artificial Immune Systems • Adaptive and Evolvable Systems • Neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, and genetic algorithms for cyber security & networking • Prediction techniques for cyber security & networking • Information hiding solutions (steganography, watermarking) and detection for network traffic • Cooperative defense systems • Bio-inspired algorithms for dependable networks SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Articles should be tutorial in nature and written in a style comprehensible and accessible to readers outside the specialty of the article. Authors must follow the IEEE Communications Magazine's guidelines for preparation of the manuscript. Complete guidelines for prospective authors can be found at http://www.comsoc.org/commag/paper-submission-guidelines. It is important to note that the IEEE Communications Magazine strongly limits mathematical content, and the number of figures and tables. Paper length should not exceed 4,500 words. All articles to be considered for publication must be submitted through the IEEE Manuscript Central site (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/commag-ieee) by the deadline. Submit articles to the "June 2016 / Bio-inspired cyber security for communication and networking" category. GUEST EDITORS Wojciech Mazurczyk Warsaw University of Technology Poland wmazurczyk(a)tele.pw.edu.pl Sean Moore Centripetal Networks USA smoorephd(a)gmail.com Errin W. Fulp Wake Forest University USA fulp(a)wfu.edu Hiroshi Wada Unitrends Australia hiroshi.wada(a)nicta.com.au Kenji Leibnitz National Institute of Information and Communications Technology Japan leibnitz(a)nict.go.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] Final call: SUMS 2015 (Deadline July 31, 2015)
by Lars Wolf 30 Jul '15

30 Jul '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Final call: SUMS 2015 (Deadline July 31, 2015) Datum: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 06:23:42 +0000 Von: Kaveh Shafiee <kshafiee(a)ece.ubc.ca> Antwort an: kshafiee(a)ece.ubc.ca An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================== International Conference on Smart Urban Mobility Services (SUMS 2015) Jointly with Smart City 360 Summit October 1314, 2015 Toronto, Canada http://sumsconference.org/2015/ **** Paper Submission Deadline --- July 31, 2015 **** Scope: The technologies of smart and sustainable cities are expected to have a large impact on the efficiency, safety and sustainability of next-generation cities. ICT investments for Smart cities are estimated at $100 Billion by 2020 with interest from companies such as IBM, and Intel. This conference will focus on the smart transportation aspects of smart cities. Specifically, the conference will focus on the management of ICT transportation services provisioned to residents, the management of transportation infrastructure systems and the control of municipal transportation business processes. Topics: ******* Urban Computing and Smart City Management of Urban Dynamics Smart management of Demand side and supply sides of Transportation Human Mobility Modeling and Mining Security and Privacy of ICT in Transportation Systems Public Safety for Smarter evacuation and Disaster management Coordination, collaboration between Smart Transportation and other Infrastructure subsystems in a Smart City Smart Transportation and Urban Economy ******* Smart Transportation Mobility Services Intelligent and Context aware Systems and services Cyber-physical and Service-Oriented Transportation Architectures and systems Semantic sensing for Urban information gathering Modeling and simulation of large scale IoT/M2M scenarios in Transportation Big Data in Ubiquitous Transportation Systems Nature inspired Intelligent Transportation Systems such as Swarm Intelligence and Agents based Architectures Representation and Reasoning of and about Transportation Knowledge ******* Intelligent Socio-culturally aware Transportation Human-centric and crowd Sensing Social Computing for Transportation Sciences Location Based Social Networks for Situation awareness Recommendation Systems for Ubiquitous Transportation Collaborative behavior management Using social sciences ******* Future and Sustainable Transportation Smart urban electric cars Smart and Wearable Devices and Embedded Software Agents Virtual Augmented Reality applications in Transportation Drone based Solutions Publications Accepted papers will be published in the SUMS 2015 Conference Proceedings and by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes of ICST (LNICST). The proceedings will be available both in book form and via the SpringerLink digital library, which is one of the largest digital libraries online and covers a variety of scientific disciplines: http://www.springer.com/computer/conferences+in+computer+science/lnicst+con… The proceedings are submitted for inclusion to the leading indexing services: DBLP, Google Scholar, Thomson Scientific ISI Proceedings, EI Elsevier Engineering Index, CrossRef, Scopus, as well as ICST's own EU Digital Library (EUDL). Important dates Full Paper Submission deadline 31 July 2015 Notification deadline 31 August 2015 Camera-ready deadline 11 September 2015 Start of Conference 13 October 2015 End of Conference 14 October 2015 For submitting the paper, please, see sections Initial Submission: http://sumsconference.org/2015/show/initial-submission Organizing Committee General Chair: Victor Leung, University of British Columbia Program Chair: Mohamed El-Derieby, University of Regina Program Co-chairs: Peter Chong Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Yaser P. Fallah West Virginia University, USA Edith C.-H. Ngai Uppsala University, Sweden Publicity Chair: Kaveh Shafiee, Wind River Systems Web Chair: Kim Nguyen, L'École de technologie supérieure de Montréal Conference Manager: Lucia Mrazova, EAI ______________________________________________________________ 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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MobiCom'15 Mobile App Competition
by Lars Wolf 29 Jul '15

29 Jul '15

=============================== MobiCom 2015 Mobile App Competition =============================== http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2015/app.html Detail: http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2015/App_Contest_Guildeline_v1.pdf ** Submission window: July 28th — August 15th, 2015 ** MobiCom 2015 is pleased to organize the third Mobile App competition in conjunction with the main conference. The competition is for novel and innovative mobile applications utilizing any computing architecture (stand-alone, client/server, client/proxy/server, peer-to-peer/ad-hoc, cloud/mobile, others). It is intended as a platform-neutral Contest. Applications can be developed for, but not limited to, Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Blackberry OS 10 and HTML5. The competition consists of three phases. First you submit your app idea, and if invited to proceed, you submit your app for evaluation and selection as Finalists. Only Finalists advance to enter the third and last phase of selecting the three top winners. More details about the requirements and rules for the three phases of this competition should be carefully read in the call for Apps on the MobiCom 2015 website: http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2015/app.html All applications must be demonstrated on real devices. Network services that are part of the application should also be real services embodying no mock-up components. Finalists are required to register and attend the conference in order to be considered by the jury for first, second and third place winners. All submissions should be sent to: mobicom-app-contest(a)googlegroups.com

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Special Section on Internet-of-Things for Smart Cities and Urban Informatics
by Lars Wolf 27 Jul '15

27 Jul '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Special Section on Internet-of-Things for Smart Cities and Urban Informatics Datum: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 08:03:07 +0200 Von: Falko Dressler <dressler(a)CCS-LABS.ORG> Antwort an: Falko Dressler <dressler(a)CCS-LABS.ORG> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics call for papers for special issue on “Internet-of-Things for Smart Cities and Urban Informatics” The Theme: Cities around the world are currently under quick transition towards a low carbon environment, high quality of living, and resource efficient economy. Smart systems are crucial components for building sustainable cities and aggregating comprehensive urban informatics. Internet-of-Things (IoT) is an emerging technology evolved from the convergence of wireless technologies, embedded systems, and the Internet. Extensive research on IoT is taking place on sensing and automatic control, network infrastructure and communication, and big data analytics. It facilitates a multidisciplinary approach for developing integrated solutions and creating novel applications to build a sustainable society. Combinations of IoT with autonomous systems, machine intelligence, sensor and actuator networks, provide smart functions in wide application domains, including environmental monitoring, smart transportation, industrial production, and security surveillance. This Special Section on “Internet-of-Things for smart cities and urban informatics” is focused on the development, adoption and application of IoT technology to improve efficiency of cities and enhance urban services in the society. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following research topics and technologies: - IoT infrastructure and applications for smart cities - IoT testbed and experiment experiences in smart cities - Big data for urban informatics - IoT and cloud computing for smart cities - IoT and automation for smart cities - IoT for industrial production and smart services - Environment and urban monitoring - Wireless and mobile technologies for smart cities - Wearable sensing and communication for smart cities - Fault tolerance, reliability and survivability in smart systems - Green networking and energy efficiency - Human mobility modeling and analytics - Mobile crowdsourcing for urban analytics - Security and privacy for IoT and smart cities - IoT and e-health systems - Smart grids and smart buildings - Vehicular networks and smart transportation - Social engagement in IoT for smart cities Papers discussing new application areas and the resulting new developments at the interface of information technology and automation are especially welcome. All contributions must focus on the use of information technology in automation. Results obtained by simulations must be validated in bounds by experiments or analytical results. Manuscript Preparation and Submission: Manuscript submission should be of 8 or fewer pages formatted with IEEE journal standard. Follow the guidelines in “Information for Authors” in the IEEE Transaction on Industrial Informatics http://tii.ieee-ies.org/ Please submit your manuscript in electronic form through Manuscript Central web site: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tii. On the submitting page #1 in popup menu of manuscript type, select: SS on Internet-of-Things for Smart Cities and Urban Informatics Submissions to this Special Section must represent original material that has been neither submitted to, nor published in, any other journal. Extended versions of papers previously published in conference proceedings may be eligible for consideration if conditions listed in http://tii.ieee-ies.org/o/PC.pdf are fulfilled. Before submitting manuscript check the review criteria (http://tii.ieee-ies.org/o/RC.pdf) and other information (http://tii.ieee-ies.org/o/DI.pdf) Note: The recommended papers for the section are subject to final approval by the Editor-in-Chief. Some papers may be published outside the special section, at the EIC discretion. Deadline for manuscript submissions: December 31, 2015 Expected publication date: November, 2016 Guest Editors: Falko Dressler, Department of Computer Science, University of Paderborn, Germany dressler(a)ccs-labs.org Victor Leung, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Canada vleung(a)ece.ubc.ca Mo Li, School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore limo(a)ntu.edu.sg Edith Ngai, Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, Sweden edith.ngai(a)it.uu.se ______________________________________________________________ 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] [IoT-App 2015] Call for Papers - Submission deadline August 3, 2015
by Lars Wolf 24 Jul '15

24 Jul '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [IoT-App 2015] Call for Papers - Submission deadline August 3, 2015 Datum: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 21:53:10 -0400 Von: Chenren Xu <chenren.xu(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Chenren Xu <chenren.xu(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG CALL FOR PAPERS -- IoT-App 2015 Dear colleagues, We would like to draw your attention to the call for papers of the 2015 International Workshop on Internet of Things towards Applications (IoT-App 2015). For further information please visit: http://ceca.pku.edu.cn/IoT-App15/ Submission site is open: http://everyware.sv.cmu.edu/HotCRP/IoT-App15/ Apologies to those of you who have received this message multiple times. Best, Chenren Xu http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~chenren/ ===================== CALL FOR PAPERS -- IoT-App 2015 The 2015 International Workshop on Internet of Things towards Applications Co-located with ACM SenSys 2015, Seoul, South Korea http://ceca.pku.edu.cn/IoT-App15/ The notion of "Internet of Things" has emerged as a last-mile solution for connecting various cyber technologies to our everyday life. It envisions a world in which the sensor devices could exist in any form factor, anywhere, in which all the sensory data will be made available to the Internet, and be readily accessible to a wide range of applications. The sensor devices are usually attached to physical objects, providing a real-time, interactive view of the physical world. Although much progress has been made at the system and sensing level, applications for these platforms are considerably lagging behind. Without compelling applications, the vision of the Internet of Things will not be realized. The 2015 International Workshop on Internet of Things towards Applications ( IoT-App'15) aims to provide a forum for researchers to present thoughts and results on IoT applications. We are looking for application descriptions, development, experiences and evaluation in a wide range of domains including, but not limited to homes, offices, medical care, vehicles, transportation, supply chains and education. Particularly, we are interested in identifying new applications that are made possible by the Internet of Things, as well as new challenges these applications will pose to the design of an Internet of Things. TOPICS of INTEREST = Novel IoT applications and services = Application-driven IoT middleware = Mobility and network connectivity in IoT applications = Cloud and/or cloudlet support for IoT applications = Machine learning, data mining and big data analytics = Energy efficiency = Security and privacy = Experiences in developing and deploying operational IoT applications and services We invite technical papers describing original ideas, ground-breaking results, and/or real-world experiences involving innovative IoT applications. Successful submissions will elaborate one or multiple desirable properties as follows: 1) Provide a quantitative analysis of outstanding systems challenges highlighted by the application; 2) Have a quantitative estimate of cost savings relative to the status quo; 3) Make a compelling case that the application will be disruptive. Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, clarity, relevance, and correctness. In addition to citing relevant, published work, authors must cite and relate their submissions to relevant prior publications of the their own. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submitted papers must be no longer than 6 single-spaced 8.5" x 11" pages in PDF format, including figures, tables, and references, two-column format, using 10-point font and 1 inch margin. Please consider using the sig-alternate-10pt.cls. Papers should not be anonymous. Papers that do not meet the size, formatting, and anonymization requirements will not be reviewed. Submitted papers must not be currently under review for any other publication. Before submitting your paper, please check the description of the conference scope. Accepted submissions will be available on the ACM digital library at least one week before the conference. If you have any questions, you can send e-mail to the PC chair atchenren(a)cs.cmu.edu. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: August. 3rd, 2015 11:59pm EST Notification of Paper Acceptance: August. 31st, 2015 11:59pm EST Camera Ready of Paper Acceptance: Sept. 7th, 2015 11:59pm EST Workshop: Nov. 1st, 2015 WORKSHOP CHAIR Chenren Xu (Peking University, China) Pei Zhang (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Stephan Sigg (Aalto University, Finland) STEERING COMMITTEE Jie Liu (Microsoft Research Redmond, USA) Songwu Lu (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) Mahadev Satyanarayanan (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Kamin Whitehouse (University of Virginia, USA) TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Ashwin Ashok (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Kaigui Bian (Peking University, China) Takahiro Hara (Osaka University, Japan) Xiaofan (Fred) Jiang (Columbia University, USA) Fahim Kawsar (Bell Labs, UK) Seungwoo Kang (KOREATECH, South Korea) JeongGil Ko (ETRI, South Korea) Kai Kunze (Keio University, Japan) Beibei Li (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Hong Lu (Intel Labs, USA) Dimitrios Lymberopoulos (Microsoft Research Redmond, USA) Justin Manweiler (IBM TJ Watson Research, USA) Luca Mottola (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Chunyi Peng (Ohio State University, USA) Feng Qian (Indiana University Bloomington, USA) Dan Shan (General Motors Labs, USA) Till Riedel (KIT, Germany) Alanson Sample (Disney Research, USA) Vijay Srinivasan (Samsung Research America, USA) Xinyu Zhang (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) WEB CHAIR Wentai Zhang (Peking University, 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: [Cost290] [CFP Elsevier Computer Networks]: Special Issue on “Mobile Wireless Networks” - NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 28 August 2015!
by Lars Wolf 23 Jul '15

23 Jul '15

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: "Ivan.Ganchev" <Ivan.Ganchev(a)ul.ie> Gesendet: 23. Juli 2015 18:35:49 MESZ An: "cost290(a)cs.tut.fi" <cost290(a)cs.tut.fi> CC: "cost285(a)informatik.unibw-muenchen.de" <cost285(a)informatik.unibw-muenchen.de> Betreff: [Cost290] [CFP Elsevier Computer Networks]: Special Issue on “Mobile Wireless Networks” - NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 28 August 2015! Dear colleagues, The SUBMISSION DEADLINE has been extended to 28 August 2015! Best regards, Ivan From: Ivan.Ganchev Sent: 17 April 2015 20:33 To: cost290(a)cs.tut.fi Subject: [CFP Elsevier Computer Networks]: Special Issue on “Mobile Wireless Networks” CFP Elsevier Computer Networks, IF 1.282 (2013), 5-year IF 1.871 (2013) Special Issue on “Mobile Wireless Networks” Wireless networks of moving objects have drawn significant attention recently. These types of networks consist of a number of autonomous or semi-autonomous wireless nodes/objects moving with diverse patterns and speeds while communicating via several radio interfaces simultaneously. Examples of such objects include smartphones and other user mobile devices, robots, cars, unmanned aerial vehicles, sensors, actuators, etc., which are connected in some way to each other and to the Internet. With every object acting as a networking node generating, relaying and/or absorbing data, these networks may serve as a supplementary infrastructure for the provision of smart, ubiquitous, highly contextualized and customized services and applications available anytime-anywhere-anyhow. Achieving this will require global interworking and interoperability amongst objects, which is not typical today. To overcome current shortcomings, a number of research challenges have to be addressed in this area, ranging from initial conceptualization and modelling, to protocols and architectures engineering, and development of suitable tools, applications and services, and to the elaboration of realistic use-case scenarios by taking into account also corresponding societal and economical aspects. The goal of this special issue is to bring together the state-of-the-art research contribution that describes original and unpublished work addressing the wireless communications and networking issues to support moving objects. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: WiNeMO Techno-Business Models WiNeMO Performance Modeling and Evaluation Protocols and Architectures for Moving Objects M2M Aspects of WiNeMO Synergy and Cooperation in Heterogeneous Networks WiNeMO Security Issues Applications and Services for Moving Objects WiNeMO Testbeds, Prototypes, and Practical Systems WiNeMO Case Studies Societal and Economical Aspects of WiNeMO Submission Details All received submissions will be sent out for peer review by three experts in the field and be evaluated with respect to the relevance to this special issue, level of innovation, depth of contribution, and quality of presentation. The Guest Editors will make an initial determination of the suitability and scope for all submissions. Papers that either lack originality or clarity in presentation will not be sent for review and the authors will be promptly informed in such cases. Submitted papers must not be under consideration by other journals, publications or conferences. Authors should follow the Computer Networks manuscript format described below at the journal site:http://www.elsevier.com/journals/computer-networks/1389-1286/guide-for…. The submission must be clearly written and in excellent English, with a maximum page limit of 20 pages. If the paper was published in a conference, the submitted manuscript must be a substantial extension of the conference paper. In this case, authors are also required to submit their published conference articles and a summary document explaining the enhancements made in the journal version. Manuscripts should be submitted on line through http://ees.elsevier.com/comnet/ and select "Mobile Wireless Nets" as the article type. Important Dates: Paper Submission Due: 30 July 2015 First Round Notification: 15 October 2015 Revised Paper Submission: 15 November, 2015 Final author notification: 15 December, 2015 Tentative Publication Date: 1st quarter, 2016 Guest Editors: · Marilia Curado, Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (marilia(a)dei.uc.pt<mailto:marilia@dei.uc.pt>) · Ivan Ganchev, Telecommunications Research Centre, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland (ivan.ganchev(a)ul.ie<mailto:ivan.ganchev@ul.ie>) · Andreas Kassler, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Karlstads Universitet, Karlstad, Sweden (andreas.kassler(a)kau.se<mailto:andreas.kassler@kau.se>) · Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland (yk(a)cs.tut.fi<mailto:yk@cs.tut.fi>) Best regards, Ivan Ganchev, DipEng, PhD, SMIEEE, ITU-T (Invited Expert) Deputy Director Telecommunications Research Centre (TRC) University of Limerick Limerick IRELAND _______________________________________________ Cost290 mailing list Cost290(a)cs.tut.fi https://mailman.cs.tut.fi/mailman/listinfo/cost290

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE CPSCom 2015 (Cyber, Physical and Social Computing), Dec 2015, Sydney, Australia
by Lars Wolf 22 Jul '15

22 Jul '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE CPSCom 2015 (Cyber, Physical and Social Computing), Dec 2015, Sydney, Australia Datum: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 18:14:32 +1000 Von: Arne Wilston <arne.wilston(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Arne Wilston <arne.wilston(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Call for papers: The 8th IEEE International Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom 2015), 11-13 Dec. 2015, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cpscom2015/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 30, 2015 (firm) Notification: September 25, 2015 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2015 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cpscom2015/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Big Data. =========== Introduction As an emerging cross-disciplinary research area, the Cyber Physical System ( CPS) is attracting attention worldwide. A Cyber-Physical System is a system featuring a combination of computational and physical elements, all of which are capable of interacting, reflecting and influencing each other. Furthermore, social systems are evolving with cyber systems and physical systems along with the popularity of online social networking. With the advent of ubiquitous sensing and networking, future social networks turn into cyber-physical interactions, which are attached with associated social attributes. The emergence of the cyber-physical-social computing will significantly change the way we see the world. In the mean time, the convergence of the physical, cyber, and social spaces will exhibit a variety of complicated characteristics, which brings more open issues and challenges for research communities. Scope and Topics A. Networks and Networked Systems where intelligent entities exchange information to achieve improved overall performance for both cyber and physical components. Particular areas of interests include: ? sensor, vehicular, robot, camera, aerial and social smartphone networks ? wireless networking technologies and autonomous ad hoc networks ? internet of things and machine-to-machine communications ? networked infrastructure management with applications such as smart power grids and transportation systems ? network enabled computation, coordination, and actuation ? scalability of complex networks B. Modelling and Control where mathematical and computational methods are developed and applied to facilitate innovative design, in-depth analysis, and novel insights of the fundamental principles. Particular areas of interests include: ? control theory with a clear cyber-physical tone such as networked control, distributed optimization, and distributed learning ? autonomy with applications in mobile sensor networks, internet connected cars, etc. ? modelling of tightly integrated physical processes, software, computation platforms, and networks C. Data Management where novel methods are developed to reliably gather, store, transfer, and analyse large amount of data and dataflow. Particular areas of interests include: ? data management and processing (e.g. big data, cloud computing) ? location and tracking based services ? smart cameras and computer vision based context management ? web of things. D. Software and Hardware where novel designs and implementations of test-beds, platforms, and software will significantly improve the speed, efficiency, and reliability of next generation CPS. Particular areas of interests include: ? embedded systems applications (pervasive computing, real-time control technologies) ? resource-constrained systems (low power, energizing, device miniaturization) ? standards and middleware. E. Other Emerging Areas where new challenges, new ideas, and new principles are shaping. For example, ? incentive, security, trust, and privacy issues in CPS ? smart living technologies such as smart city, smart home and office, wearable devices, learning devices, etc. ? social M2M networks, social impact of CPS, creative aspects. Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cpscom2015/submission.htm. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Big Data. General Chairs Mo El-Hawary, Dalhousie University, Canada Jian Yang, Macquarie University, Australia Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada General Co-Chairs Jianmin Wang, Tsinghua University, China Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Ruppa (Tulsi) Thulasiram, University of Manitoba, Canada Program Chairs Wookey Lee, Inha University, Korea Xun Yi, RMIT, Australia Marco D. Santambrogio, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Steering Committee Zhaohui Wu, Zhejiang University, China (Chair) Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan (Chair) Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Feng Xia, Dalian University of Technology, China Wei Li, Beihang University, China Marco D. Santambrogio, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Huansheng Ning, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China Lu Liu, University of Derby, UK Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for papers - RealWSN 2015 full of new features and cooperation activities! EXTENDED DEADLINE Aug 2
by Lars Wolf 22 Jul '15

22 Jul '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for papers - RealWSN 2015 full of new features and cooperation activities! EXTENDED DEADLINE Aug 2 Datum: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 08:32:18 +0200 Von: Anna Förster <anna.foerster(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Anna Förster <anna.foerster(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ================================================================== C A L L F O R P A P E R S The 6th workshop on Real World Wireless Sensor Networks (RealWSN 2015) Held in conjunction with the 13th ACM SenSys Seoul, Korea November 1, 2015 https://sites.google.com/site/realwsn2015/call-for-papers <https://sites.google.com/site/realwsn2015/call-for-papers> ================================================================== Wireless sensor networks have established themselves recently as one of the most important enabling technologies for a variety of applications — starting from agricultural and environmental monitoring and reaching to the smart city and smart grid scenarios. A rich algorithm and protocol ecosystem has emerged too, enabling various applications with very different requirements. At the same time, real deployments of wireless sensor networks still prove to be cumbersome and not sufficiently automated. Even the best known and used algorithms and protocols need to be carefully manually tuned, in order to adapt to the environment and the application. Recently other sensing networks and applications have emerged, such as mobile sensing, crowd sensing, smartphone sensing, cyber physical systems, the Internet of Things, etc. Even if their concepts and approaches differ from each other, the real-world problems apply similarly and even extend to challenges like keeping up the interest of human users, enabling privacy and security, etc. Thus, this issue of RealWSN will extend its focus to include all relevant sensing applications. The purpose of RealWSN is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in the area of sensor networks, with focus on real-world experiments or deployments of wireless sensor networks. Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit original contributions which aim to tackle the problem of development and deployment of sensing applications in the real world. ================== Workshop Scope: ================== The targeted topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: - Experiences from real-world sensing application deployments - Software tools for characterisation, parametrisation and automatisation of sensing applications - Datasets gathered from real sensing applications - Negative results and unsuccessful deployments - Works in progress and not yet solved issues - Management of faulty and malicious data in the real world Sensing applications include, but are not limited to: - Wireless sensor and actuator networks - Mobile sensing, smartphone sensing - Crowd sensing - Cyber physical systems - Internet of Things ================== Submission Guidelines: ================== Short papers (max 4 pages) together with all relevant documentation (source code, trace files, etc.) should be submitted by July 26th, 2015. The same submissions should be previously unpublished, and not currently under review by another conference or journal. Your submission must be in PDF format with all fonts embedded, and be formatted according to the official ACM Proceedings format. Word and LaTeX templates are available at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates <http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates> ================== Important Dates: ================== **** Submission Deadline: August 2nd, 2015 **** Acceptance Notification: August 31st, 2015 Camera-ready versions: September 14th, 2015 — Prof. Dr. Anna Förster Sustainable Communication Networks Faculty of Physics and Electrical Engineering University of Bremen NW1, Otto-Hahn-Allee 1 28359 Bremen, Germany Tel. +49 421 218 62383 Fax. +49 421 218 98 62383 ______________________________________________________________ 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 INFOCOM'16 Paper Abstracts due 24 July 2015
by Lars Wolf 20 Jul '15

20 Jul '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: IEEE INFOCOM'16 Paper Abstracts due 24 July 2015 Datum: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 16:06:23 -0400 Von: IEEE ComSoc Meetings <noreply(a)comsoc.org> An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de infocom16 cfp 7.23.15 View message online - Click here <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=248908789&sid=78602512&m=10611259&u=IEEE…>. Placeholder -- Call for Submissions <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=248908789&sid=78602513&m=10611259&u=IEEE…> -- *IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2016) <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=248908789&sid=78602514&m=10611259&u=IEEE…>* solicits research papers describing significant and innovative research contributions to the field of computer and data communication networks. Authors are invited to submit papers on a wide range of research topics, spanning both theoretical and systems research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: -Big data for networks -Cellular networks -Cloud computing -Cognitive radio networks -Cooperative networking -Cross-layer optimization and control -Crowdsourcing -Cyber-physical systems -Datacenter networking -Delay tolerant networks -Energy efficiency -Fault tolerance, reliability and survivability -Flow and congestion control -Function computation and data aggregation -Game theory in networks -Information security and privacy -Information centric networking -Interference management and mitigation -Internet of Things -Localization -Location-based services -Medium access control -MIMO-based networking -Mobile computing -Mobility management and models -Multimedia networking -Network calculus -Network coding -Network economics and pricing -Network management -Network measurement and analysis -Network security and privacy -Network virtualization -Optical networks -Overlay and peer-to-peer networks -Quality of Service -Resource allocation and management -Router and switch design -Routing & Multicast -Scaling laws and fundamental limits -Scheduling and buffer management -Smart antenna based networking -Smart grid -Smartphone and mobile applications -Social computing and networks -Software defined networking -Vehicular networks -Web applications and content distribution -WLAN, WPAN, RFID, and NFC -Wireless access networks -Wireless security and privacy -Wireless sensor networks *Paper abstracts are due 24 July 2015. Full papers are due 31 July 2015.* Paper submission instructions and requirements of accepted papers can be found here <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=248908789&sid=78602515&m=10611259&u=IEEE…>. *www.ieee-infocom.org <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=248908789&sid=78602516&m=10611259&u=IEEE…>* Unsubscribe <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=248908789&sid=78602517&m=10611259&u=IEEE…> from these messages. poweredByDark.png <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=248908789&sid=78602518&m=10611259&u=IEEE…> www.comsoc.org <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=248908789&sid=78602519&m=10611259&u=IEEE…> IEEE Communications Society - 17th floor, 3 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Deadline approaching: Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal [IF=1.94] -- SI on "Smart Wireless Access Networks and Systems For Smart Cities"
by Lars Wolf 20 Jul '15

20 Jul '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Deadline approaching: Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal [IF=1.94] -- SI on "Smart Wireless Access Networks and Systems For Smart Cities" Datum: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 18:04:13 +0200 Von: Giuseppe Ruggeri <giuseppe.ruggeri(a)UNIRC.IT> Antwort an: Giuseppe Ruggeri <giuseppe.ruggeri(a)UNIRC.IT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Dear All, please find below a call for papers for the Special Issue of the Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal on " Smart Wireless Access Networks and Systems For Smart Cities". Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. -------------------------- Call for Papers for the Special Issue of the Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal on "Smart Wireless Access Networks and Systems For Smart Cities" http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ad-hoc-networks/call-for-papers/special-iss ue-on-smart-wireless-access-networks-and-systems/ AIMS AND SCOPE ---------------------------- The main goals of a smart-city are to improve sustainability and livability, to ease city government and organization, and to increase services to the citizens. The primary role of ICT in enabling this vision is to keep the decision makers, the stake holders and the citizen constantly updated with fresh information collected around the city. To accomplish this task, next generation cities, will be populated with billions of heterogeneous devices ranging from tiny communicating objects (e.g., actuators, sensors, tags) able to interact with the surrounding environment and remote systems, to high-end nodes (e.g., data centers, workstations) capable of complex operations and to process a huge amount of information. In this futuristic scenario a very special role is played by citizens with their smartphones, tablets and portable devices. They are constantly connected with whatever surroundings them and they are formidable information consumers. Their role however does not end here. Smartphones, in fact, are very powerful devices with constantly increasing processing, communication and sensing capabilities and very recently, a large plethora of proposals have emerged to leverage those capabilities to contribute to the information production process. For instance, citizens roaming around the city may be considered as mobile probes which, by making uses of cyber and physical data accessible by smartphones, can analyze the situation and produce reports to the community. Furthermore smarthphones can actively contributing in creating the communication infrastructure by forwarding data coming from surrounding devices. All in all, cities are going to became a new complex ecosystem which has the potentiality to offer many amazing feature and support innovative application. Unfortunately, fully exploiting, managing and accessing that ecosystem are still far to be fully viable and their fulfillment surely poses a formidable challenge. This Special Issue aims to solicit contributions on novel algorithms, methodological studies and experimentation on how to address the formerly highlighted issues. Specifically on how devise a city-wide networking infrastructure capable to efficiently guarantee communication in the new envisaged ecosystem, to manage the complexity of heterogeneous devices and access technologies, and to guarantee robust, ubiquitous, and secure connectivity over the urban environments. At the same time, beside studying the issues of the city-wide infrastructure deployment, the workshop aims to investigate the potential provided by the end-users devices (e.g. smartphones, tablets) when augmented in order to turn them into active components of the smart-city ecosystem, instead of mere connection end-points. Such a potential includes the possibility to extend the network access in a pervasive way, to provide ubiquitous computing services, and to favor the emergence of "collective intelligence behaviors" through collaboration and direct communication among devices. In lines with such objectives, the topics of interests include -but it is not limited to- the following issues: . Models of network components' interactions on a smart-city . Novel communication protocols for M2M Communications; . Device-2-Device Communications (D2D); . IoT architectures and middlewares; . Self-organizing wireless networks for pervasive urban access; . Network virtualization for heterogeneous wireless networks; . Systems for distributed Sensing and Control in Smart Cities; . Smartphone-based sensing systems, tools, applications in Smart City environments . Crowd sourcing in smart cities; . Dynamic trust management models for Smartphone based networks and applications; . Cooperation incentive models for Smartphone based networks and applications; . Reliability, Security, Privacy and Trust in smart cities ecosystems; . Business model to promote users collaboration and resources sharing in smart cities ecosystems; . Testbed on the feasibility of Smartphone based networks and interaction with Cyber physical Systems; . Applications, Business, Standards, and Social Issue; . Security models to promote Smartphone collaboration and resources sharing; . Cooperative systems of Smart Objects supporting Wireless Networks Interoperability and Management IMPORTANT DATES --------------------------------- Manuscript submission: 1st August 2015 Notification of acceptance: 1st February 2016 Final Manuscript Due: 1st March 2016 Online Publication: 1st May 2016 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ------------------------------------- All submissions have to be prepared according to the Guide for Authors as published in the Journal website at http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ad-hoc-networks. Authors should select "SI: SWANSITY", 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 --------------------------------------------------------------- * Valeria LOSCRI' Inria Lille-Nord Europe / FUN valeria.loscri(a)inria.fr * Pasquale PACE University of Calabria - Italy ppace(a)dimes.unical.it * Zhengguo SHENG University of Sussex, UK z.sheng(a)sussex.ac.uk * Giuseppe RUGGERI University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria - Italy giuseppe.ruggeri(a)unirc.it * Athanasios V. VASILAKOS Lulea University of Technology, Sweden athanasios.vasilakos(a)ltu.se ______________________________________________________________ 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: Content Centric Internet of Things -- IEEE CCNC 2016 Special Session -- Due Date: July 24, 2015
by Lars Wolf 20 Jul '15

20 Jul '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: Content Centric Internet of Things -- IEEE CCNC 2016 Special Session -- Due Date: July 24, 2015 Datum: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 18:53:48 +0800 Von: Haiyong Xie <haiyong.xie(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Haiyong Xie <haiyong.xie(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement] CCIoT 2016: IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC) Special Session on Content Centric Internet of Things (CCIoT) Held in conjunction with the International Consumer Electronics Show, Las Vegas, NV, USA January 09-12, 2016 *CALL FOR PAPERS* Content-Centric Networking (CCN) and Named Data Networking (NDN) have recently emerged as a promising Future Internet architecture that aims to cope with the increasing demand for highly scalable and efficient information dissemination. Moving away from the Internet's legacy host-to-host communication model, CCN/NDN promises a new host-to-data communication model, by leveraging named data, name-based routing and in-network storage for caching. At the same time, the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT), with its rich set of challenges and requirements placed upon the current Internet, provide an interesting ground for showcasing the contribution and performance of CCN mechanisms. This special session calls for recent research, practical experiences, and development lessons on the intersection of the paradigms of CCN and IoT. The objective is to promote the integration of Content Centric Networking and Internet of Things by addressing the unique problems in IoT, such as mobility, interference of wireless channel, limitation of storage and battery, security and privacy. Novel applications, practical experience and solutions on deploying CCN over IoT are also welcome. The Special Session on Content Centric Internet of Things (CCIoT) seeks original contributions in the following topical areas, plus others that are not explicitly listed but are closely related: * Content-centric network architecture for IoT * RFID-based naming strategy * Information publish/subscribe mechanism for data collection * Routing in wireless CCN * Resource management such as power, computing, storage, bandwidth, and user interface * Context-aware networking for smart home, health care, transportation, etc. * Novel application, prototype or solution in consumer networks with CCN * Security, privacy, and trust in CCN over IoT * Contextual communication in IoT applications SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS We encourage submissions of high-quality technical papers reporting original research that has not been previously published, and is not currently submitted for consideration elsewhere. To ensure high quality of the contributions, all papers submitted to this special session will be reviewed using the same procedure and criteria as regular papers. All paper submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of six (6) printed pages (10-point font) allowed for free and three (3) additional pages allowed with a charge of USD100 each. Papers exceeding 9 pages will not be accepted on EDAS. Standard IEEE conference templates for LaTeX formats are found at here: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html You can also use the sample template for Microsoft Word: A4, US letter. All paper submissions are handled through EDAS, and follow the technical program submission and review schedule. Papers accepted for this special session are included in the conference proceedings as part of the technical track and published in the conference proceedings including IEEE Xplore. At least one author for each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper during the Special Session. Please use the following link to submit to the special session: http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=20477&track=74735 You may find IEEE PDF eXpress helpful in the preparation of your manuscript to ensure fonts are embedded, etc. IMPORTANT DATES Special Session papers due: July 24, 2015 Acceptance notification: September 4, 2015 Final camera ready: November 2, 2015 SESSION ORGANIZERS *Co-Chairs* Cedric Westphal, Futurewei Technologies & UCSC Haiyong Xie, USTC & CAEIT Innovation Center *Technical Program Committee* Giovanna Carofiglio, CISCO, France Tao Huang, Beijing University of Postal and Telecommunications Dirk Kutscher, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany Yanhua Li, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Luca Muscariello, Orange Labs, France Telecom, France Ravi Ravindran, Huawei US Research Labs (Futurewei Technologies), USA Jin Wang, Soochow University, China Xinwen Zhang, Samsung Telecom America, USA Yanyong Zhang, Rutgers University, USA ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ACM SAC 2016 - RST track CfP
by Lars Wolf 20 Jul '15

20 Jul '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ACM SAC 2016 - RST track CfP Datum: Sun, 19 Jul 2015 13:57:24 +0000 Von: Paolo Bellavista <paolo.bellavista(a)UNIBO.IT> Antwort an: Paolo Bellavista <paolo.bellavista(a)UNIBO.IT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG 31st ACM/SIGAPP SAC Symposium on Applied Computing April 4-8, 2016. Pisa, Italy. T r a c k R S T RELIABLE SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES AND COMMUNICATION MIDDLEWARE http://rstsac.uc3m.es A selection of best submissions will be invited to a SI of the journal FUTURE GENERATION COMPUTER SYSTEMS (Elsevier, IF=2.786 in 2014) C a l l f o r P a p e r s -------------------------------------------------------------------- In recent years, the world of high-end parallel and distributed computing systems and applications (in their continuous evolving declinations in the form of high-performance computing, grid computing and cloud) is generally paying increasing attention to the problems related to quality of service, determination of the temporal behavior and response of the proposed software platform solutions, interactivity, and performance of the communication tools. In the modern computation centers, traditional distributed applications may coexist with others that become more and more time-sensitive (cross-border surveillance and object tracking, net gaming, remote video streaming, etc.), and this tends to happen in a virtualized infrastructure. The design of distributed reliable systems must take into account the selection and evaluation of interaction models, software technology choices, temporal behaviour, resource efficiency, performance, scalability, and coordination. In addition, this track calls for dynamic middleware solutions capable of taking context-aware resource management decisions in order to enforce the most appropriate quality levels depending on application SLAs and overall (possibly clustered) visibility of resource status. These solutions are particularly challenging when dealing with large-scale open deployment environments and their associated scalability issues. Novel and relevant application domains push for evolution and disruptive research in this field; only to mention a few, middleware solutions for datacenter resource management optimization for quality-aware online stream processing of big data flows, energy-aware middleware for resource management in smart city/smart grid deployment environments, middleware for cloud-hosted cyber-physical systems with strict requirements on latency and reliability. Topics include (but are not limited to) the challenging issues in the design of reliable and resource efficient middleware: -Reliable and time-sensitive distribution models -Performance of distributed applications -Cloud computing advances for cyber-physical systems and mobile cloud computing. -Middleware for the efficient integration of cyber-physical systems and the cloud -Reactive stream processing and on line processing of big data flows -Efficient integration with the run-time support: operating systems and virtualization technology -QoS-aware middleware for datacenter resource management -Interaction models (e.g., publish-subscribe or event-based). -Programming models and languages -Efficient and context-aware server-side management of smart city data -Scalability in city-wide deployment scenarios IMPORTANT DATES Full paper submission: September 11, 2015. Author notification: November 13, 2015. Camera ready paper: December 11, 2015. PAPER SUBMISSION Manuscripts must be submitted electronically in PDF format (6 pages in ACM conf style), according to the instructions contained in the track web site http://rstsac.uc3m.es. Contributions must contain original unpublished work not concurrently submitted to other conferences or journals. JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE A selection of the best submitted papers (with at least 35% additional content to their original contribution) will be invited to a special issue of the journal FUTURE GENERATION COMPUTER SYSTEMS (Elsevier). FGCS is a JCR indexed journal with a 2.786 impact factor in 2014 (5-Year Impact Factor 2.464). TRACK ORGANIZATION TRACK CHAIRS M. Garcia-Valls - Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain A. Gokhale - Vanderbilt University, USA P. Bellavista - University Bologna, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE Kyongho An, RTI, USA Roberto Baldoni, Universita di Roma La Sapienza, Italy Ken Birman, Cornell University, USA Gordon Blair, University Lancaster, UK Cristian Borcea, New Jersey Institute Tech, USA Jian-nong Cao, Honk Kong PolyU, Hong Kong Mauro Caporuscio, Linnaeus University, Sweden Antonio Cassimiro, University of Lisbon, Portugal Abhishek Dubey, Vanderbilt University, USA Paul Ezhilchelvan, Newcastle University, UK Nikolaos Georgantas, Inria, France Akram Hakiri, LAAS CNRS, France Joe Hoffert, Indiana Wesleyan University, USA Ruediger Kapitza, Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Germany Takayuki Kuroda, NEC, Japan Cong Liu, University of Texas Dallas, USA Juan Lopez-Soler, University of Granada, Spain Pedro J. Marron, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany William Otte, Vanderbilt University, USA Karthik Pattabiraman, University of British Columbia, Canada Leonardo Querzoni, Universita di Roma La Sapienza, Italy Valerio Schiavoni, Univerity Neuchatel, Switzerland Anders Ravn, Aalborg University, Denmark Binoy Ravindran, Virginia Tech, USA Stefano Russo, University of Naples, Italy Michael Wahler, ABB, Switzerland Tomofumi Yuki, Inria, France _________________________________________________________________________________________ Paolo Bellavista, Ph.D., Associate Professor EB Member of IEEE TC, IEEE TNSM, IEEE TSC, Elsevier PMC, Elsevier JNCA, Springer JNSM DISI - University of Bologna Viale del Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna - ITALY Ph. +39-051-20 93866; Fax +39-051-20 93953 Email: paolo.bellavista(a)unibo.it Web: http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/PaoloBellavista/ ______________________________________________________________ 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: 2nd International Conference on Safety and Security in Internet of Things (SaSeIoT 2015)
by Lars Wolf 20 Jul '15

20 Jul '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: 2nd International Conference on Safety and Security in Internet of Things (SaSeIoT 2015) Datum: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 08:18:25 -0400 Von: Scott Fowler <scott_fowler(a)YMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Scott Fowler <scott_fowler(a)YMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG *** Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP *** ==================================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd International Conference on Safety and Security in Internet of Things (SaSeIoT 2015) http://securityiot.eu/2015/show/home 26-27 October, 2015 – Rome, Italy ==================================================================================== SCOPE The infrastructure of large cities is becoming increasingly vulnerable to natural and man-made disasters. Complex Information Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructures, critical dependencies and unforeseen cascading effects can worsen single hazard events to a threatening crisis of several entire infrastructures. With the dense population in urban areas along with the critical dependency on infrastructures, such crises become a serious threat to the safety and security of citizens and industries. When the "unforeseen" happens, public security comes to its limits Whether cyber, natural or industrial disasters - effective risk management must be a continuous process that recognizes new threats and opportunities, in particular in relation to new technological evolutions. Internet of Things (IoT) will have an enormous impact on our future infrastructures. In the context of safety and security this is at the same time a challenge (How can we design secure and resilient IoT infrastructures?) and an opportunity (How can we use IoT for better safety and security?). In particular in urban environments, the increasing deployments of IoT technologies and the rapid proliferation of sensored and automated cities are opening up new avenues of threats and opportunities toward public safety and security. Although we have seen various deployments of diverse IoT systems, our understanding of these systems and their implications in the context of safety and security has just scratched the surface. The Second International Conference on Safety and Security with IoT (SaSeIoT 2015) aims to explore these dynamics within the scope of IoT in the context of Safety and Security. The conference solicits original and inspiring research contributions from technology experts, researchers, designers, practitioners in academia, authorities and industry, and promises to offer a highly interactive forum to share knowledge, experiences, and best practices primarily in the following main application oriented themes: • Ensuring the resilience and security of IoT dependent infrastructures The topics of interest in this theme include, but are not limited to: - Models, methods and tools for testing IoT infrastructures - Design of resilient IoT infrastructures - Detection, prevention, response and mitigation of cyber threats to IoT - Trust and identity management in IoT - Security protocols in IoT - Risk analysis and management for IoT infrastructures - Threat modeling in IoT • Using IoT for crisis and emergency management The topics of interest in this theme include, but are not limited to: - IoT for threat and hazard detection - IoT for situation-awareness - IoT for crisis and emergency response - IoT for command & control - IoT for emergency forces • Privacy in IoT • Security and IoT Cloudification PAPER SUBMISSION Regular Papers should be up to 12 pages in length. Short papers up to 4 pages in length. Complete formatting and submission instructions can be found on the conference web site at: http://securityiot.eu/2015/show/initial-submission Papers will be judged on originality, correctness, clarity and relevance. Submitted papers must be original work and should not be under consideration for another conference or journal.Submission of the paper implies agreement of the author(s) to attend the conference and present the paper if accepted. PUBLICATION All accepted papers will be published by Springer. The proceedings will be available both in book form and via the SpringerLink digital library. SPECIAL ISSUE of INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL A special issue of ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications http://www.springer.com/engineering/signals/journal/11036 will be organized after the conference containing selected best papers of the conference. IMPORTANT DATES Full Paper Submission deadline: July 31, 2015 Notification deadline: August 15, 2015 Camera-ready deadline: August, 31 2015 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Steering Committee Imrich Chlamtac (Chair), Create-Net, EAI, Italy Hakima Chaouchi,EIT ICT Labs, Institut Mines Telecom-Telecom Sud Paris, France General Chair Hakima Chaouchi,EIT ICT Labs, Institut Mines Telecom-Telecom Sud Paris, France Technical Program Chair Sherali Zeadally, University of Kentucky, USA Publicity Co-Chairs Scott Fowler, Linkoping University, Sweden Wendong Xiao, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China Mauro Fonseca, Federal Technological University of Paraná, Brazil Publication Chair Mohamad Badra, Zayed University, UAE Web Chair Sandrine Bourger, Telecom Sud Paris, France Workshop Co-Chairs Anis Laouiti, Telecom Sud Paris, France Thomas Bourgeau, UPMC, France Technical Program Committee Sergey Andreev, Tampere University, Finland Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, University of Thessaly, Greece Mohamad Badra, Zayed University, UAE Zubair Baig, Edith Cowan University, Australia Zorica Bogdanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia Thomas Bourgeau, Paris VI University, France Patrick Capolsini, University of French Polynesia, Tahiti Ashok Chandra, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India Naveen Chilamkurti, La Trobe University, Australia Ernesto Exposito, LAAS-CNRS, University of Toulouse, France Scott Fowler, Linkoping University, Sweden Alban Gabillon, University of French Polynesia, Tahiti Zeynep Gurkas Aydin, Istanbul University, Turkey Jassim Happa, Oxford University, United Kingdom Debiao He, Wuhan University, China Leila Ismail, United Arab Emirates University, UAE Arshad Jhumka, Warwick University, United Kingdom Muhammad Khan, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia Dong-Seong Kim, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Anis Laouiti, Telcom Sud Paris, France Albert Levi, Sabanci University, Turkey Toktam Mahmoodi, King’s College, United Kingdom Gregorio Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain Hassnaa Moustafa, Intel Corporation, USA Rajarajan Muttukrishnan, City University, United Kingdom Farid Naït-Abdesselam, Paris Descartes University, France Jalel Othman, University of Paris 13, France Lotfi Othmane, Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology (SIT), Germany Damith Ranasinghe, University of Adelaide, Australia Sushmita Ruj, Indian Statistical Institute, India Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand Khaled Salah, Khalifa University, UAE Nishanth Sastry, King’s College, United Kingdom Faisal Shaikh, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan Nicolas Sklavos, Technological Educational Institute of Western Greece, Greece Aditya K Sood, Michigan State University, USA Diego Touceda, University Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Wei Yu, Towson University, USA David Yau, Singapore university of Technology and design, Sinagpore Wendong Xiao, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China Conference Coordinator Kristina Lukacova, EAI Slovakia ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: Call for Papers: Ortsbezogene Anwendungen und Dienste 2015 - Siegen - Deadline 10. August
by Lars Wolf 18 Jul '15

18 Jul '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: Call for Papers: Ortsbezogene Anwendungen und Dienste 2015 - Siegen - Deadline 10. August Datum: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 09:11:28 +0200 Von: Jörg Roth <Joerg.Roth(a)TH-NUERNBERG.DE> Antwort an: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Ich möchte Sie an Fachgespräch "Ortsbezogene Anwendungen und Dienste" erinnern. Das Programmkommittee ruft zur Einreichung von Beiträgen für das 12. Fachgespräch "Ortsbezogene Anwendungen und Dienste" auf. Das Spektrum für Beiträge kann theoretische, methodische und technologische Aspekte sowie Geschäfts-, Behörden- und neue Anwendungen umfassen. Die Auswahl der Fachgesprächsthemen widmen sich den Aspekten der ortsbasierten Anwendungen und Dienste. Neue und originelle Arbeiten sind jeder Zeit herzlich Willkommen. Die Themen beinhalten die folgenden Eckpunkte: Anwendungen: Ortsbezogene Anwendungen und Dienste - Ortsbezogene Dienste des Mobilfunks - Ortsbezogene Dienstvermittlung und -suche - Datenbanken für ortsbezogene Dienste, Geodatenbanken, GIS - Umsetzungen konkreter ortsbezogener Anwendungen z.B. Tour Guides, Friend Finder - Modellierung von Mobilität und des Benutzerkontextes - Kartenerstellung, GIS, Navigation und Routing Technologie: Frameworks and Sicherheit - Nutzerinterfaces mobiler und ortsbezogener Anwendungen - Middleware-Plattformen für ortsbezogene Anwendungen und Dienste - Positionsbestimmung, auch auf der Basis mobiler Netzwerke - Sicherheitsaspekte mobiler und ortsbezogener Dienste - Generische Frameworks und Bibliotheken Grundlagen: Neuartige Anwendungsbereiche und Themen - Neuartige Anwendungsbereiche (Gaming, Entertainment, Sicherheit, Frühwarnsysteme, Katastrophenmanagement) - Verteilte Algorithmen und Simulationsmodelle - Sensorik bzw. Sensornetze zur Erfassung von Kontextdaten - Angrenzende Themen z.B. aus dem Bereich der Geoinformatik ## Einreichung Für die Einreichung bitten wir um die Verwendung des Konferenz Management Systems [EasyChair](https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lbas15). Eine Einführung (Howto) wird in den Autoren Hinweisen angeboten. Beiträge bitte im Word- und PDF-Format einreichen. ## Publikationsformat Beiträge bitte in Form eines Extended Abstract (max. zwei Seiten) bis zum 10. August über [Easychair](https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lbas15) einreichen. Es sind Beiträge in deutscher oder englischer Sprache erwünscht. Konferenzsprache ist Deutsch. Nach dem Fachgespräch werden Teilnehmer gebeten, ihre Beiträge als Vollpublikation einzureichen, die in einem Tagungsband mit ISBN veröffentlicht wird. Vergangene Workshops haben im Logos Verlag publiziert. Wir streben dies wieder an. ## Termine | | Termin | |------------------------------------|-----------------------| | Einreichung | 10. August 2015 | | Benachrichtigung der Autoren | 24. August 2015 | | Anmeldeschluss | 24. August 2015 | ## Weitere Informationen Weitere Informationen finden sich auf der [Webseite](http://distributed-earth.net/lbas15). -- * Prof. Dr. habil. Joerg Roth * Faculty of Computer Science * Nuremberg Institute of Technology * Tel. +49-911-5880-1169 Email: Joerg.Roth(a)th-nuernberg.de * Fax +49-911-5880-5666 Web: http://www.wireless-earth.de * Postal address: Kesslerplatz 12, 90489 Nuremberg, Germany * Office address: Hohfederstraße 40, 90489 Nuremberg

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Fwd: [InternetTC] [BuildSys 2015] Call for Papers - Submission deadline July 24, 2015
by Lars Wolf 18 Jul '15

18 Jul '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [InternetTC] [BuildSys 2015] Call for Papers - Submission deadline July 24, 2015 Datum: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 05:48:37 +0000 Von: ACM BuildSys <chenren.xu(a)GMAIL.COM> An: itc(a)COMSOC.ORG ACM BuildSys 2015 Call for Papers (http://buildsys.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca71d10de635ecd948cfc6be…) (Apologies to those of you who have received this message multiple times.) The 2nd ACM International Conference on Embedded Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys 2015) invites original contributions in the area of intelligent Systems for the Built Environment targeted particularly towards energy efficiency, improving performance, adding novel functionality, as well as deeply understanding infrastructure systems and the intercoupling between them. Over the past six years, BuildSys established itself first as the premier workshop for researchers, developers, and practitioners across interdisciplinary fields to present research results and exchange ideas in all information-driven aspects of the buildings. 2014 marked the first year for BuildSys as a full ACM conference. BuildSys this year will broaden its scope significantly to include all systems within the built environment, including buildings as well as other infrastructure systems such as water, power, transportation that will make up the “smart city” of the future. BuildSys will accept regular papers and notes papers that describe original and unpublished work advancing the state of art in systems for the built environment. Both regular and note papers will be reviewed by the same program committee and will be evaluated to the same standard of quality. Important Dates Abstract registration: Monday, July 20, 2015 [11:59pm US Eastern Time] Paper submission deadline: Friday July 24, 2015 [11:59pm US Eastern Time] Paper notification: August 31, 2015 Demo submission deadline: September 11, 2015 Camera ready: September 15, 2015 BuildSys conference: November 3-4, 2015 Seoul, South Korea | co-located with ACM SenSys 2015 Abstract and paper submission URL: http://buildsys.us11.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=ca71d10de635ecd948cfc6b… We solicit three types of original submissions: * Regular papers for oral presentation (10 pages) * Notes papers for oral presentation (4 pages) * Technical posters and demos will be solicited via a separate call Papers are invited in all emerging aspects of information-driven building systems, such as: * Sensing, actuation and management of electrical loads in residential, commercial and industrial settings; * Novel sensor methodologies, sensor networks and applications that enhance energy efficiency, energy reliability, durabilityand occupant comfort; * Systems that integrate infrastructure with the emerging smart grid to provide demand response and ancillary services and/or manage utility costs; * Modeling, simulation, optimization, and control of heating, cooling, lighting, ventilation, water usage and other energy flows in built environments; * Distributed generation, alternative energy, renewable sources, and energy storage in buildings; * Emerging communication standards for data collection, energy control, or interoperation of disparate devices or systems; * Systems that can influence occupant behavior towards a more parsimonious usage of electricity, gas, heating, water, etc.; * Localization and contextual computing for increased human-infrastructure interactions * Software architectures and middleware to aid in programming smart built environments and smart cities. * Safety, Security and Privacy issues and mechanisms to address them in the context of a sensed and actuated built environments. * Intercoupling and interdependencies of systems-of-systems. Submission Instructions Submitted papers must be unpublished and must not be currently under review for any other publication. Paper submissions should be no more than the indicated page count and must follow a double column format. All figures, appendices, and references must fit within this limit. Paper reviewing is single-blind and submissions should list author names on the front page. Regular and short papers must be submitted through the BuildSys submission site. Questions and requests relating to technical programs and deadlines should be sent to the TPC co-chairs: Yuvraj Agarwal:Yuvraj.Agarwal@cs.cmu.edu and Rahul Mangharam:rahulm@seas.upenn.edu BuildSys Website: http://buildsys.us11.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=ca71d10de635ecd948cfc6b… ============================================== You are receiving this email because you are interested in ACM BuildSys community. 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