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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] Elsevier PMC [IF=1.629] SI on "Recent Developments in Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks"
by Lars Wolf 04 May '14

04 May '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] Elsevier PMC [IF=1.629] SI on "Recent Developments in Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks" Datum: Sun, 4 May 2014 13:13:17 +0500 Von: Mubashir Rehmani <mshrehmani(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Mubashir Rehmani <mshrehmani(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Dear colleagues, Please find below a call for papers for the Special Issue of the Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal on "Recent Developments in Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks". Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. ----------- Call for Papers for the Special Issue of the Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal on "Recent Developments in Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks" http://www.journals.elsevier.com/pervasive-and-mobile-computing/ AIMS AND SCOPE ---------------------------- Wireless sensor nodes in traditional Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) use fixed spectrum assignment policy and their performance is limited due to limited processing and communication power. In addition, these wireless sensor nodes require high bandwidth and their QoS requirements are application specific. Wireless sensor nodes with cognitive radio capabilities (i.e., Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks (CRSNs)), can help to address these challenges. However, there are several challenges and research problems which are needed to be addressed in CRSNs. In fact, cognitive radio sensor network evolved from Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) in order to optimize the bandwidth and Quality-of-Service (QoS) requirements of wireless sensor nodes. Furthermore, CRSNs improve the spectrum utilization, and multiple overlaid sensor networks can be deployed in a specific region. But due to inherent hardware and energy limitation of sensor nodes, the realization of incorporating CR capability in sensor nodes imposes challenges. On top of that, CRSN nodes must handle additional challenges incurred by CR functionalities such as spectrum sensing, spectrum sharing, and spectrum management. In this special issue, we are seeking new and unpublished work in the domain of Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks. More specifically, this special issue will focus on recent developments in Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks (CRSNs). The list of topics includes, but is not limited to: - Spectrum sensing techniques for Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks (CRSNs) - Spectrum management for CRSNs - MAC protocols for CRSNs - Innovative and cross-layer middleware solutions for CRSNs - Applications of CRSNs (smart grids, vehicular networks, etc) - Delay-sensitive and multimedia communication in CRSNs - Simulation models for CRSNs - Energy efficiency in CRSNs - CRSN architecture: peculiar features and evolution - Deployment strategies of CRSNs - Wireless Body Area Networks in the context of CRSNs - Layers in CRSNs (physical, datalink, network, transport, application) - Developments, issues, and open areas - Coverage and Connectivity of CRSNs - Resource Management in CRSNs - CRSN integration with traditional networking solutions and standards - Future perspective for CRSNs IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------ Manuscript due: July 2014 Acceptance notification: Oct 2014 Revised paper due: Dec 2014 Final manuscript due: Feb 2015 Expected Publication of the Special Issue: 2015 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ------------------------------ ---------- 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: CRSNs', 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------- * Mubashir Husain Rehmani, Lead Guest Editor, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan, Email: mshrehmani(a)gmail.com * Mehdi Shadaram, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA Email: mehdi.shadaram(a)utsa.edu * Sherali Zeadally, University of Kentucky, KY, USA Email: szeadally(a)uky.edu * Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy Email: paolo.bellavista(a)unibo.it ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [IEEE MASS 2014] MASS 2014 - One week deadline extension on Final Manuscript Submission
by Lars Wolf 04 May '14

04 May '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [IEEE MASS 2014] MASS 2014 - One week deadline extension on Final Manuscript Submission Datum: Sat, 03 May 2014 18:30:43 -0400 Von: IEEE MASS 2014 <ieeemass2014-chairs(a)edas.info> An: Lars C Wolf <wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> Dear Authors, Thank you for registering a paper for MASS 2014. The deadline for final manuscript submission is now extended on EDAS until May 9th, 2014 (11:59pm US Pacific Time). This extension is due to the many requests we received from authors who faced PDF compatibility problems that prevented a timely upload of their paper on EDAS. Please note that EDAS imposes several requirements on PDF format. Failure to meet those requirements will prevent upload of your paper. For fairness, the extension is given to all registered papers. Thank you very much and I hope you will find the extension useful. No further extensions will be given. Sincerely, Tarek Abdelzaher Program Chair

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Fwd: CfP: Ubicomp 2014 Workshop on The Superorganism of Massive Collective Wearables
by Lars Wolf 02 May '14

02 May '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP: Ubicomp 2014 Workshop on The Superorganism of Massive Collective Wearables Datum: Fri, 2 May 2014 13:46:15 +0200 Von: Ubicomp Workshop <ubicomp14ml(a)pervasive.jku.at> Antwort an: ubicomp14ml(a)pervasive.jku.at An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de <wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> *CALL FOR PAPERS* *Ubicomp 2014 Workshop on The Superorganism of Massive Collective Wearables* The 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2014) is a premier interdisciplinary venue in which leading international researchers, designers, developers, and practitioners in the field present and discuss novel results in all aspects of ubiquitous and pervasive computing. This includes the design, development, and deployment of ubiquitous and pervasive computing technologies and the understanding of human experiences and social impacts that these technologies facilitate. UbiComp 2014 will be held in conjunction with the International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC). ISWC is a conference dedicated to cutting-edge research in wearable technologies, and is the premier forum for wearable computing and issues related to on-body and worn mobile technologies. Every year, ISWC brings together researchers, product vendors, fashion designers, textile manufacturers, users, and related professionals to share information and advances in wearable computing. *The Superorganism of Massive Collective Wearables* This workshop asks questions on the potential and opportunities of turning massively deployed wearable systems to a globe-spanning superorganism of socially interactive personal digital assistants. While individual wearables are of heterogeneous provenance and typically act autonomously, it stands to reason that they can (and will) self-organize into large scale cooperative collectives, with humans being mostly out-of-the-loop. A common objective or central controller may thereby not be assumed, but rather volatile network topologies, co-dependence and internal competition, non-linear and non-continuous dynamics, and sub-ideal, failure-prone operation. We refer to these emerging massive collectives of wearables as a "superorganism", since they exhibit properties of a living organism (like e.g. 'collective intelligence') on their own. One essential aspect of such globe-spanning collective ensembles is that they often exhibit properties typical observed in complex systems, like (i) spontaneous, dynamic network configuration, with (ii) individual nodes acting in parallel, (iii) constantly acting and reacting to what the other agents are doing, and (iv) where the control tends to be highly dispersed and decentralized. If there is to be any coherent behavior in the system, it (v) has to arise from competition and cooperation among the individual nodes, so that the overall behavior of the system is the result of a huge number of decisions made every moment by many individual entities. In order to properly exploit such superorganisms, this workshop concerns itself with the development of a deeper scientific understanding of the foundational principles by which they operate. To this end, the workshop attempts to address the following foundational research concerns: - Understanding the trade-offs between the power of top-down (by design) adaptation means and bottom-up (by emergence) ones, also by studying how the two approaches co-exists in modern wearable ICT systems, and possibly contributing to smoothing the tension between the two approaches. - Understanding the "power of the masses" principle as far as participatory wearable ICT processes are involved. In particular, this implies understanding how and to what extent even very simple collective phenomena and algorithms - when involving billions of wearables - can express forms of intelligence much superior than that of more traditional AI techniques. - Understanding the issue of diversity and of diversity increase in complex systems and in service/data systems and how diversity of structure and behavior is currently accommodated in wearable ICT systems. As of now, most studies focus on a limited number of different classes, which is far from approximating the diversity of existing systems. - Laying down new foundations for the modelling of large-scale Human-ICT organisms and their adaptive behaviors, also including lessons from applied psychology, sociology, and social anthropology, other than from systemic biology, ecology and complexity science. - Identifying models and tools by which individual organs of the systems can influence and direct "by design" the emergent adaptive behavior of the whole system, or at least of substantial parts of it. Further, the workshop attempts to address the following systems research concerns: - Opportunistic information collection. Systems need to be able to function in complex, dynamic environments where they have to deal with unpredictable changes in available infrastructures and learn to cooperate with other systems and human beings in complex self-organized ensembles. - Collaborative Reasoning and Emergent Effects. Reasoning methods and system models are needed that combine machine learning methods with complexity theory to account for global emergent effects resulting from feedback loops between collaborative, interconnected devices and their users. - Social Awareness. Whereas today's context-aware systems are able to make sense of the activity of single users and their immediate environment, future systems should be able to analyze, understand and predict complex social phenomena on a broad range of spatial and temporal scales. Examples of the derived information could be: shifts in collective opinions and social attitudes, changes in consumer behavior, the emergence of tensions in communities, demographics, migration, mobility patterns, or health trends. The workshop will be held at the Red Lion Hotel in Downtown Seattle (Seattle, Washington, US) on Saturday September 13th. It will be co-located with UbiComp 2014 and ISWC 2014. *CALL FOR FULL PAPERS* Regular paper submissions must present original, highly innovative, prospective and forward-looking research in one or more of the themes given above. Full papers must break new ground, present new insight, deliver a significant research contribution and provide validated support for its results and conclusions. The workshop solicits (i) conceptual papers describing proposals for novel methodologies, theories and principles that might be used in order to design, develop and build, analyse and operate massive collectives of wearables, (ii) observational, epistemological and user study papers to deliver evidence for possible future scenarios, and emerging platforms and technologies as well as (iii) system-development papers proposing ingenious, novel HW/SW platforms. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) - Novel complex adaptive system theories and operational principles. - Novel design principles for building complex adaptive systems. - Insights into evolutionary and emergent complex adaptive system properties - Methodologies, Models, Algorithms, Frameworks and Tools for studying, analyzing and building complex adaptive systems. - Case-studies / very large scale scenarios that can serve as reference case for future super-organisms of collective wearables. Each paper must be submitted as a single PDF file in SIGCHI Extended Abstract format (not longer than six pages in length). Accepted papers will be included in the printed UbiComp 2014 adjunct proceedings and included in the ACM Digital Library. Submissions to this workshop must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the workshop review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere. *CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS* In addition to the submission of research papers, this workshop promotes the submission of position papers. Each paper must be submitted as a single PDF file in SIGCHI Extended Abstract format (not longer than two pages in length) containing a description of the area of research, specific work (empirical or theoretical) on the workshop topic, and the innovative character of the research. Position papers will be published as part of the FoCAS (Fundamentals of Collective Adaptive Systems) white book. *ORGANIZERS* Alois Ferscha (University of Linz, Austria) Paul Lukowicz (DFKI, Germany) Franco Zambonelli (Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy) *IMPORTANT DATES* Submission Deadline June 2nd, 2014 Not. of Acceptance June 22nd, 2014 Camera Ready Version July 6th, 2014 Workshop September 13th, 2014 *CONTACT* ubicomp14ws(a)pervasive.jku.at http://www.pervasive.jku.at/ubicomp14/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, Networks, and Applications (CPSNA 2014)
by Lars Wolf 01 May '14

01 May '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, Networks, and Applications (CPSNA 2014) Datum: Thu, 1 May 2014 11:16:21 +0000 Von: Carlo Fischione <carlofi(a)KTH.SE> Antwort an: Carlo Fischione <carlofi(a)KTH.SE> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG CALL FOR PAPERS The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, Networks, and Applications (CPSNA 2014) Hong Kong, China, August 25-27, 2014 http://www.cpsna.org/ TOPICS: Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are next-generation embedded systems featuring a tight integration of computational and physical elements. Emerging applications of CPS include transportation, healthcare, energy, manufacturing, entertainment, consumer electronics, environmental monitoring, aerospace, etc., all of which will be essential pieces of our social infrastructure. The vision of CPS however faces some core challenges of multidisciplinary research, as their relevant technologies appear in diverse areas of science and engineering. The objective of CPSNA is to bring together researchers from different backgrounds, and explore innovative, exciting, and fresh ideas for the design and development of future CPS. The scope of CPSNA 2014 will give due consideration in all areas of research that facilitate collaborations in existing and new technologies related to CPS. Topics of special interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Real-time systems for time-critical functions in CPS Sensor networks for large-scale sensing and actuation Networked control systems for complexity management in CPS Dependable computing and verification methods to support safety-critical functions Ubiquitous and pervasive computing for enhanced user interactions with CPS Cloud and distributed computing to support scalability and manage complexity Data-intensive computing and data mining to support big data in CPS Multicore and GPU programming for high-performance CPS Architecture, compiler, OS, and middleware platforms for CPS Experimental prototypes of CPS Emerging applications in CPS IMPORTANT DATES: Extended Submission Deadline May 7, 2014 Acceptance Notification May 30, 2014 Camera-Ready Submission June 25, 2014 Conference August 25-27, 2014 SUBMISSION GUIDELINE: Submitted papers must adhere to a page limit of 6 pages. The format must be 8.5-inch by 11-inch with two columns using a 10pt font size. Authors are encouraged to use the IEEE proceedings template: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing. Please use the following link to submit your papers. https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cpsna2014 ORGANIZERS: Honorary General Chair: Sam Kwong, City University of Hong Kong General Chair: Joseph Ng, Hong Kong Baptist University Finance Chair: Shinpei Kato, Nagoya University Program Co-Chairs: Victor Lee, City University of Hong Kong Arvind Easwaran, Nanyang Technological University WiP Chair: Ling Shi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [InternetTC] ExtremeCom 2014 - The Galápagos Expedition (deadline extended: May 18)
by Lars Wolf 30 Apr '14

30 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [InternetTC] ExtremeCom 2014 - The Galápagos Expedition (deadline extended: May 18) Datum: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 16:45:52 +0100 Von: Fernando Ramos <fvramos(a)FC.UL.PT> An: itc(a)COMSOC.ORG ------------------------------------------------------------ We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message. ------------------------------------------------------------ ***************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS AND DEMOS Extreme Conference on Communication and Computing - The Galápagos Expedition ExtremeCom 2014 11-16 August, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador http://www.extremecom.org/ ***************************************************************************** Important dates --------------- *Submission deadline: May 4, 2014 May 18, 2014 deadline extended!* Notification of acceptance: June 9, 2014 Early registration deadline: June 14, 2014 Registration deadline: June 15, 2014 Conference dates: August 11-16, 2014 (tentative dates) ***************************************************************************** Scope --------- The Extreme Conference on Communication and Computing (ExtremeCom) brings together researchers and practitioners in areas related to communications in rural, remote or other extreme environments, and computing in extreme operating conditions such as extreme temperatures and energy constraints, extreme quantities ("big data"), extremely large-scale systems, and extreme levels of threat and uncertainty, in order to gain experience and insight into the challenges that such environments pose for the network and the users. We welcome a broad range of topics concerning both technical and economical aspects, for example wireless communication, mobile computing, low power devices and protocols, delay tolerant networks and other networking paradigms, distributed computing paradigms, big data, distributed systems, cloud computing, business and services models, user experiences and web applications. Researches addressing computing challenges in general mobile environments (even not completely extreme) are also welcomed by the conference. Following on from the success of ExtremeCom 2009 - The Midnight Sun Expedition in Laponia, Sweden, ExtremeCom 2010 - The Himalayan Expedition in Dharamsala, India, ExtremeCom 2011 - The Amazon Expedition in Manaus, Brazil, ExtremeCom 2012 - The Swiss Alps Winter Expedition in Zurich, Switzerland, and ExtremeCom 2013 - The Volcanic Expedition in the Eyjafjallajökull Volcano region in Iceland, we present the ExtremeCom 2014 edition: The Galápagos Expedition. The conference will start with 3 days of excursions in the amazing nature of the Galápagos Islands. Along the way, participants will get to see and experience the islands and their plant and animal life, both above and beneath the surface of the ocean. The immersion will not only give a better idea of both the technical and user requirements of such a harsh environment, but it will also give many opportunities for informal research discussions between the participants. Participants that have their own software for scenarios like this will also, to as great an extent as possible, be encouraged to test and demonstrate it within this environment. After the excursions, there will be two days of paper presentations and demos. Focus will still be on informal research discussions, with the hope that the field experience will give participants the ability to discuss the topics in a new light. Submission Guidelines ------------------------------- Participants should submit 6 page papers about ideas and visions about the topics of the conference or demo proposals to be shown during the conference. Visionary and thought-provoking papers that are likely to generate much discussion during the conference are especially solicited. The aim of the conference is to maintain an informal environment, where new research ideas can be discussed and developed. We also hope to have a demo session where participants can show their implementations and systems. If you want to show a demo, please submit a 2 page demo proposal using the same submission system as for conference papers. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. A selected set of top submissions will be fast-tracked to a special issue in a reputed SCI/E journal. We only accept PDF files, no greater than 6 pages in length (2 pages for the demos), including text, figures and references. Manuscripts should use the ACM templates (for LaTeX, please use Option 2 files), with 9pt fonts. Topics for the conference include, but are not limited to: Testbeds for large-scale sustainable testing of moobile communication systems Real deployments of networks in extreme environments Business and service models for networks in rural, remote, and other challenging environments Delay tolerant networking User experience research Big data research such as mining and modeling of mobility and social network Cloud computing for extreme scalability Mesh networks and sensor networks Low-power and intermittent-power protocols Mechanisms for emergency and urgent communications Distributed computing for mobile environments Networked applications and services Operating system and middleware support for mobile computing and networking Security, privacy, and trustworthiness of extreme communications Underwater networking Robotic communications and mobile augmented reality Due to logistics, the number of participants will be limited. Priority will be given to authors of papers and those who register first. ***************************************************************************** Organizers --------------- General co-chairs: Pan Hui, HKUST, Hong Kong / T-Labs, Germany Anders Lindgren, SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden Local arrangement chair: Jorge Sá Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal Carlos Herrera, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Ecuador Publicity chair: Fernando Ramos, University of Lisbon, Portugal Web chair: Fehmi Ben Abdesslem, SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden Technical Program Committee: Yahel Ben-David, University of California - Berkeley, USA Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal Elwyn Davies, Folly Consulting, UK Michael Doering, Bosch Research, Germany Stephen Farrell, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Marco Fiore, INSA Lyon/INRIA, France Roy Friedman, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Paulo Gil, University of New Lisbon, Portugal Sumi Helal, University of Florida, USA Bob Iannucci, Carnegie Mellon University SV, USA Christine Julien, University of Texas at Austin, USA Trevor Pering, Google, USA James Kwok, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Franck Legendre, Uepaa AG, Switzerland Marimuthu Palaniswami, Univ. Melbourne, Australia André Rodrigues, University of Coimbra, Portugal Joel Rodrigues, University of Beira Interior, Portugal Anthony Rowe, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Milan Simek, University of Brno, Czech Republic Jörg Ott, Aalto University, Finland Kevin I-Kai Wang, Univ. Auckland, New Zealand Klaus Wehrle, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Lars Wolf, TU Braunschweig, Germany Lin Zhang, University of Tsinghua, China Steering Committee: Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK Avri Doria, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden Tristan Henderson, University of St. Andrews, UK Pan Hui, HKUST, Hong Kong / T-Labs, Germany Anders Lindgren, SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden ***************************************************************************** Fernando ======== http://www.di.fc.ul.pt/~fvramos/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Internet Technical Committee http://committees.comsoc.org/itc/ To subscribe or unsubscribe: https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=itc&A=1

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE Communications Magazine - Feature Topic on “Energy Harvesting Communications”
by Lars Wolf 30 Apr '14

30 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE Communications Magazine - Feature Topic on “Energy Harvesting Communications” Datum: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 01:05:33 +0000 Von: Yuen Chau <yuenchau(a)SUTD.EDU.SG> Antwort an: Yuen Chau <yuenchau(a)SUTD.EDU.SG> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG This feature topic will focus on issues related to energy harvesting communications. In particular for wireless sensor networks, because of its ultra-low-power operation, such small, wireless, autonomous sensors can be powered by harvesting ambient power which is scavenged in milli-watts or even micro-watts. If these wireless sensors, which spread throughout a home or factories, in-buildings or even outdoor to monitor all kind of environmental conditions, are powered by energy harvesting, there are no batteries to replace and no labour costs associated with replacing them, in other words, self-sustainable. However, the design of communication systems has to take into account the fluctuating availability of energy sources. For an overview of the state-of-the-art in energy harvesting communications design, and for a relevant example of an IEEE Communications Magazine article's style and content, please refer to "Designing Intelligent Energy Harvesting Communications Systems" by D. Gunduz, K. Stamatiou, N. Michelusi, and M. Zorzi, in IEEE Communications Magazine, pp. 210-216, Jan 2014. In a cellular network, energy harvesting can be used to provide power in many elements of a telecom network, saving considerable costs in electricity supply, and providing low maintenance monitoring. Powering mobile phone base stations with wind or solar power allows telecom networks to expand beyond the limits of the power grid. The possibility of re-distribution of the renewable energy in smart grid allows further efficient utilization, but leads to many challenges as well. Another important focus of this feature topic is on RF energy harvesting. RF energy is currently broadcasted from billions of radio transmitters around the world, including mobile telephones, handheld radios, mobile base stations, and television/ radio broadcast stations. The ability to harvest RF energy, from ambient or dedicated sources, enables wireless charging of low-power devices and has significant benefits to product design, usability, and reliability. Fundamental practical issues on realizing this ability leads to many interesting research problems. This feature topic will focus on energy harvesting related issues in communications. It will also present a holistic view of research challenges and opportunities in the emerging area of energy harvesting communications. We especially welcome research work that pushes theory to practice, such as theoretical work with emphasis on how to solve a practical problem, experimental work on new systems, and system-level considerations for practical deployment. This feature topic solicits state-of-the-art technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Topics of interest include, but not limited to: • Energy harvesting base station, access point, and relay; • Energy-efficient and energy harvesting machine-to-machine (M2M) communications; • Low-power and energy harvesting wireless sensor networks; • Characterization of light, thermal, wind, motion, and RF energy harvesting; • Communication protocols for wireless charging networks and systems; • Energy harvesting storage and recycling; • Software-defined networking for energy harvesting communications; • Sustainable network architectures using energy harvesting; • Theoretic approaches and design methodologies; • Testbed and experimental validation; • Energy harvesting for rare events sensing; • Event-powered energy harvesting wireless sensor networks; • Energy harvesting for industrial and intelligent systems; • Standardization of energy harvesting communications. Note that articles on green communications that do not directly address energy harvesting will be considered out of scope for this feature topic. Please consider directing such articles to the "Green Communications and Computing Networks" Series of IEEE Communications Magazine. 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 "April 2015/Energy Harvesting Communications" category. For more info, please refer to: http://www.comsoc.org/files/Publications/Magazines/ci/cfp/cfpcommag0415.html Important Dates Manuscript Submission: 01-August, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: 01-November, 2014 Final Manuscript: 01-February, 2015 Publication: April 2015 Guest Editors Chau Yuen, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore (yuenchau(a)sutd.edu.sg) Lei Shu, Guangdong University of Petrochemical University, China (lei.shu(a)lab.gdupt.edu.cn) Maged Elkashlan, Queen Mary University of London, UK (maged.elkashlan(a)qmul.ac.uk) Yi Qian, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA (yqian(a)ieee.org) Trung Q. Duong, Queen’s University Belfast, UK (trung.q.duong(a)qub.ac.uk) Frank Schmidt, EnOcean, Germany (frank.schmidt(a)enocean.com) This email may contain confidential and/or proprietary information that is exempt from disclosure under applicable law and is intended for receipt and use solely by the addressee(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this email, or any attachment, is strictly prohibited. Please delete the email immediately and inform the sender. Thank You ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE Internet of Things Journal Special Issue on Internet of Vehicles (IoV)
by Lars Wolf 29 Apr '14

29 Apr '14

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Giovanni Pau <gpau(a)CS.UCLA.EDU> Gesendet: 29. April 2014 20:37:11 MESZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE Internet of Things Journal Special Issue on Internet of Vehicles (IoV) Apologies for Cross Posting ---------------------------------------------------------- IEEE INTERNET OF THINGS JOURNAL A joint publication of IEEE Sensors Council, IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Signal Processing Society ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Internet of Things Journal Special Issue on Internet of Vehicles (IoV) The new era of Internet of Things (IoT) is driving the evolution of conventional Vehicle Ad hoc Networks (VANET) into the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) paradigm. According to recent predictions, 25 billion of "things" will be connected to the Internet by 2020 among which vehicles will constitute a significant portion. The difference of the vehicle concept in VANET and IoV makes these two scenarios essentially different in the device, communications, networking, and services aspects. In VANET, a vehicle is mainly considered as a node to disseminate messages among vehicles. In the IoV paradigm, each vehicle is considered as a smart object equipped with a powerful multi-sensor platform, communications technologies, computation units, IP-based connectivity to the Internet and to other vehicles either directly or indirectly. In addition, a vehicle in IoV is envisioned as a multi-communication model, enabling the interactions between intra-vehicle components, vehicles and vehicles, vehicles and road, and vehicles and people. IoV enables the acquistion and processing of large amount of data from versatile geographical areas via intelligent vehicles computing platforms to o! ffer various categories of services for road safety and other services to drivers and passengers. There are many unprecedented challenges to realize IoV. A typical challenge is the big data processing and storage in IoV due to huge number of connected vehicles. Personal cloud and mobile cloud computing are envisioned to play important roles in dealing with the big data. The seamless integration of the social context into IoV is a promising approach as well as an important question to achieve green transport. In addition, the wide penetration of electrical vehicles in the near future will demand a very careful consideration on the intelligent interactions between IoV and the smart grid. Here, the interactions are not limited to the communications and computation, but the power load scheduling within the demand response management framework in the Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) network. All these issues are being studied in academics, industries, and standardization organizations. This special issue is seeking original contributions on IoV, sharing the research efforts and deployment challenges in this area and discussing IoV challenges, key enabling techniques, platforms and field trails. Topics of interests include (but are not limited to): * IoV architectures and services * Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) communications * V2G efficient demand response management * Vehicle social networks for IoV * Mobile cloud computing for IoV * Efficient big data analysis for IoV * Mobile sensing networking in IoV * Driverless vehicles and supporting technologies * Dynamic spectrum access technologies in IoV * IoV for efficient and green transportation * Urban sensing for environment monitoring * Security, privacy and trust in IoV * Novel applications and business models * Testbed platform and field trials * New network technologies for efficient service provision (e.g., content-centric network) Important Dates Submissions Deadline: May 1st 2014 (Extended to May 15th 2014) First Reviews Due: August 1st 2014 Revision Due: September1st 2014 Second Reviews Due/Notification: October 1st 2014 Final Manuscript Due: October 20th 2014 Publication Date: December 2014 Submission The special issue seeks submission of papers that present novel original results and findings on IoV. Solicited original submissions must not be currently under consideration for publication in other venues. Author guidelines and submission information can be found at http://iot.ieee.org/journal. All manuscripts should be submitted through Manuscript Central: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/iot. Guest Editors * Dr. Hassnaa Moustafa, Intel, USA. Email: hassnaa.moustafa(a)intel.com * Prof. Giovanni Pau, UPMC, France /UCLA USA. Email: giovanni.pau(a)lip6.fr Dr. Fan Bai, General Motors R & D, USA. Email: fan.bai(a)gm.com * Prof. Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway. Email: yanzhang(a)simula.no ========================== It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. - Leonardo da Vinci ========================== ______________________________________________________________ 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 Communications Magazine, Special Issue on "Recent Advances in Technologies for Extremely Dense Wireless Networks"
by Lars Wolf 29 Apr '14

29 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP IEEE Communications Magazine, Special Issue on "Recent Advances in Technologies for Extremely Dense Wireless Networks" Datum: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 09:01:09 +0200 Von: Antonio de la Oliva <aoliva(a)IT.UC3M.ES> Antwort an: Antonio de la Oliva <aoliva(a)IT.UC3M.ES> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG *** CALL FOR PAPERS: IEEE Communications Magazine *** Recent Advances in Technologies for Extremely Dense Wireless Networks (http://www.comsoc.org/files/Publications/Magazines/ci/cfp/cfpcommag0115.html) ** DESCRIPTION The ever growing demand from users of mobile networks, in terms of both capacity and coverage, is driving the current (e.g., IEEE 802.11, LTE, WiMAX) and near-future (e.g., LTE-Advanced, IEEE 802.11ac/ad/af and High Efficiency WLAN - HEW) technologies alike towards their limits. The more sustainable solution to the 5G promise of true ubiquitous mobile broadband is to deploy very dense wireless networks, which we call DenseNets. Intuition based on experience suggests that DenseNets will encompass significant overlapping, and possibly non-interoperable technologies, which can be seen as an evolution of today’s heterogeneous networks (HetNets). Similar to HetNet but only more severe, DenseNets will have to face a multitude of techno-economic challenges such as backhaul availability, very low cost of small base stations, operation, administration and management (OAM), Machine Type Communications (MTC), etc. Some of the relevant issues already identified in the DenseNets scenarios include the nonlinear characteristics of the achieved throughput and energy consumption. As an increased number of cells are being deployed, the effect of the interference becomes dominant, resulting on an overall throughput which is not linear with the number of cells. Similar nonlinear effects on energy efficiency have been observed due to the need for the equipment to be continuously serving high demand applications. In order to overcome these problems, a new family of solutions characterized by the use of cooperative approaches is required to take advantage of the new opportunities brought by the DenseNets scenarios. This opens a broad spectrum of research directions, standardisation paths, and market opportunities, which will involve the relevant communities in both academia and industry in the forthcoming years. The goal of this feature topic is to publish original material, either research or review articles, on the topic of extremely dense wireless networks (DenseNets). All material should be comprehensible and accessible to non-expert readers. ** TOPICS OF INTEREST - Exploration of the fundamental limits of wireless networks (scalability, capacity, ...) - Real life experiences with DenseNets (deployments, large scale testbeds, ...) - Novel business models, requirements, use cases, and applications - Analysis and simulation of extremely dense wireless networks - Advanced mobility management solutions within DenseNets resulting in extremely fast handover (Distributed Mobility Management - DMM, PMIPv6 and beyond, ...) - Software Defined Networking (SDN) approaches for wireless/cellular networks - Cloud Radio Access Networks (C-RAN) approaches for DenseNets - Novel theoretical frameworks for DenseNets - Energy Efficiency techniques for DenseNets - Approaching density-proportional capacity of DenseNets - Evolved network management and Operations Systems Support (OSS) for DenseNets - Standards and technologies for small cells (IEEE 802.11, LTE HeNB, ...) - 3GPP LTE-Advanced and beyond-LTE support to DenseNets ** SUBMISSION GUIDELINES This Feature Topic Issue solicits original work that must not be under consideration for publication in other venues. Authors should refer to the IEEE Communications Magazine's author guidelines at http://www.comsoc.org/commag/paper-submission-guidelines for information about content, constraints (4500 words or less, no mathematical content, etc.), and formatting of submissions. Manuscripts must be written in English, contain substantial tutorial content, and be accessible to a broad general audience working in other fields. Please submit manuscripts to Manuscript Central at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/commag-ieee, and select the category "January 2015/Extremely Dense Wireless Networks." ** IMPORTANT DATES Manuscript Submission Due: May 1, 2014 Acceptance Notification: August 1, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: November 1, 2014 Publication Date: January 2015 ** GUEST EDITORS David Chieng, MIMOS Berhad (Malaysia) Claudio Cicconetti, MBI SRL (Italy) Antonio de la Oliva, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain) Juan Carlos Zúñiga, InterDigital Inc. (Canada) -- Antonio de la Oliva Visiting Professor Telematics Department Universidad Carlos III de Madrid E-mail: aoliva(a)it.uc3m.es Phone: +34 91 624 8803 Fax: +34 91 624 8749 ______________________________________________________________ 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] MobiArch 2014 CFP - The 9th ACM Workshop on Mobility in the Evolving Internet Architecture
by Lars Wolf 26 Apr '14

26 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] MobiArch 2014 CFP - The 9th ACM Workshop on Mobility in the Evolving Internet Architecture Datum: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 09:59:01 -0400 Von: Rui Aguiar <ruilaa(a)UA.PT> Antwort an: Rui Aguiar <ruilaa(a)UA.PT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG The 9th ACM Workshop on Mobility in the Evolving Internet Architecture MobiArch 2014 (in conjunction with MobiCom 2014, September 7-11, 2014, Maui, Hawaii, USA) ============================================================================ Theme: Seamless Mobility in Software Dominated Communication Networks http://mobiarch2014.atnog.av.it.pt/ http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2014/workshops.html ============================================================================ Call for Papers ### Dates: Abstract submissions due: June 2nd, 2014 (5pm EDT) Paper submissions due: June 9th, 2014 (5pm EDT) Notification of acceptance: July 19th, 2014 Camera-ready version due: July 26th, 2014 Workshop date: Sept 11th, 2014 ### Scope: Recent years have witnessed mobile devices surpassing stationary Internet hosts in numbers and exponential growth of mobile data traffic. Wireless has quickly become the dominate last-hop access to the Internet. The mobility of users, devices and networks has become an integral part of today¡¦s Internet. In the meantime, the network infrastructure is the process of transforming from a hardware dominated landscape to an increasingly virtualized and software-defined, cloud-based system with decreasing dependency on hardware. The increasing ability to collect and process large amount of data pertaining to network, devices, and users are posing new challenges to network design. As these trends continue in the near future, a reexamination is urgently required for the architecture of the mobile-centric Internet. The lack of adoption of Mobile IP and IPv6 mobility extensions and additional challenges posed by mobility have led to renewed interest in a clean-slate design that comprehensively addresses mobility, without existing architectural constraints. This requires addressing issues such as efficient mobility management and optimization, locator-identifier split, multi-homing, security and privacy, transport over wireless access, user incentives to reduce network congestion, efficient multimedia content distribution, new cloud computing infrastructure with information centric networking, collection and management of data, new business models for mobile data, and related operational/deployment concerns. Furthermore, the architecture will need to include novel services to meet the demands of today¡¦s fast evolving mobile applications. MobiArch 2014 welcomes submissions from both researchers and practitioners from academia and industry that explore challenges and advances in architectures, protocols, and technologies in the current Internet or in future clean-slate Internets. We encourage work-in-progress papers, we especially welcome position papers that describe highly original ideas, present new directions, or generate insightful discussion at the workshop. ### Topics: All aspects of architectural issues and system support for mobility in the Internet, including but not limited to: Impact of new wireless technologies/services, networking technologies, and mobility patterns on the mobile-centric Internet architecture Mobility support in the Internet, ranging from link to application layers or cross-layer design solutions Seamless mobility in heterogeneous networks Software defined and cloud ¡Vassisted mobile networking Role of network virtualization in mobile Internet architecture Impact of Information Centric Networking on mobile and wireless networks Impact of massive data collection, analysis and management in mobile architecture and services Impact of incentives and smart pricing on network utilization and user Quality of Experience (QoE) Impact of high throughput mobile interface on ad-hoc networks Addressing and routing issues, location management, support for location-aware application and protocols Security and privacy issues in mobile networks and impact on Internet architecture Economic, regulation, and deployment issues of mobility solutions (infrastructure and devices) ### Workshop Co-Chairs Rui L. Aguiar, Instituto de Telecomunicacoes, University of Aveiro, Portugal (ruilaa(a)ua.pt) Katherine Guo, Bell Labs Research, U.S. (katherine.guo(a)alcatel-lucent.com) ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: The 9th ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation and Characterization (WiNTECH 2014)
by Lars Wolf 26 Apr '14

26 Apr '14

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: dimitrio <dimitrio(a)BUFFALO.EDU> Gesendet: 26. April 2014 03:50:09 MESZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: The 9th ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation and Characterization (WiNTECH 2014) ACM WiNTECH 2014 The 9th ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation and Characterization In conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2014 Maui, Hawaii, September 7th, 2014 http://wintech.eng.buffalo.edu We witnessed an increasing demand for high-speed, reliable and ubiquitous mobile wireless networks in recent years. Following this trend, many new challenges arise and need to be overcome to satisfy the growing number of wireless users. Doubtlessly, thorough experimental evaluation and analysis of wireless networking protocols and applications will increasingly be needed to identify the limitations of current technologies and to motivate innovative ideas to go beyond the state of the art. Moreover, realistic empirical evaluations of such a diverse set of solutions, and their mutual interactions, will play a major role to demonstrate their efficiency in everyday denser networks, thus shaping future advances in wireless technology. ================ CALL FOR PAPERS ================ WiNTECH aims at bringing together researchers working in the broad area of experimental wireless networking. The workshop will serve as a forum to share new ideas and experiences gathered across all experimental aspects of wireless networks and systems, and facilitate discussions of key unresolved challenges in this area. We are seeking original, previously unpublished papers empirically addressing key issues and challenges in wireless networking. All submissions will be judged by their technical merit and relevance to the workshop, based on a thorough review process by the Technical Program Committee. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Design and evaluation of wireless testbeds, prototypes and platforms - Experiences/lessons from recent testbed deployments - Hybrid experimentation approaches combining use of multiple evaluation methodologies - Integration of diverse and distributed testbed infrastructures - Testbed management issues and monitoring support - Wireless testbed case studies - Experimental evaluation of applications and protocols, including the impact of cross-layer interactions - Large-scale and heterogeneous wireless network evaluations - Approaches for real-world evaluation of mobile networks - Measurement and evaluation on large-scale smartphone based deployments - Studies on real-world white-space networks - Evaluation environments for sensor and satellite networks - Implementation approaches to ease transition between different evaluation methodologies - New measurement methodologies and infrastructures - Interference and spectrum usage measurements - Techniques for improving reproducibility of real-world testing - Measurement and characterization (modeling) of real-world aspects of wireless networks such as usage patterns, traffic, mobility and channel characteristics - Validation of existing simulation models, and results across different testbeds/evaluation methodologies - Testbeds and experiments in challenged wireless environments (e.g., underwater, underground) All regular workshop paper submissions will be handled electronically via the HotCRP system and should conform to the following requirements: 1. A maximum of 8 (eight) 8.5" x 11" pages (including figures, tables, and references). 2. The paper must be in two-column format, using 10-point font size or greater and reasonable margins. 3. The paper must be submitted in PDF format. Please submit papers by the May 30, 2014 deadline at the paper submission site: http://wintech14-submissions.cs.ucl.ac.uk ============= IMPORTANT DATES ============= Paper submissions due: May 30, 2014 Author notification: July 7, 2014 Camera-ready papers deadline: July 27, 2014 ================= WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS ================= Steering committee Edward Knightly, Rice University Sung-Ju Lee, Narus, Inc. Mahesh Marina, University of Edinburgh Peter Steenkiste, Carnegie Mellon University Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Roma Tor Vergata Workshop chairs Kyle Jamieson, University College London Tommaso Melodia, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Publicity chair Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Demo chair Paul Patras, University of Edinburgh Web Chair G. Enrico Santagati, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York -- Dimitrios Koutsonikolas Assistant Professor University at Buffalo, The State University of New York dimitrio(a)buffalo.edu ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [VNC'14] CFP: IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference 2014 3-5 December 2014, Paderborn, Germany
by Lars Wolf 25 Apr '14

25 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [VNC'14] CFP: IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference 2014 3-5 December 2014, Paderborn, Germany Datum: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 00:08:09 +0700 Von: wantanee viriyasitavat <wantaneev(a)gmail.com> An: tci-announce(a)COMPUTER.ORG ***************************************************** Call for Papers: IEEE VNC 2014 6th IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference December 3-5, 2014 | Paderborn, Germany http://www.ieee-vnc.org/ ***************************************************** Submit now using EDAS system: https://edas.info/listConferencesReview.php?c=17911 --------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES --------------------------------- - Paper Registration: August 18, 2014 5pm US EDT - Paper submission: August 25, 2014 5pm US EDT - Acceptance Notification: October 25, 2014 - Camera-Ready Paper: November 10, 2014 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 2014 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC) seeks to bring together researchers, professionals, and practitioners to present and discuss recent developments and challenges in vehicular networking technologies, and their applications. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - 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 - 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 --------------------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES --------------------------------- All paper submissions must be written in English and must be formatted in standard IEEE 2-column format. The mandatory IEEE template in Microsoft Word and LaTeX format can be found at the IEEE templates page. Only Adobe PDF files will be accepted for the review process. All submissions must be made electronically. Submission instructions will be provided at a later time. 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 there will be given (a shorter) time for oral presentation at the conference. Please note that the full paper and short paper categories target different kinds of contributions. *Different from previous editions of VNC, we will not move papers between submission categories:* 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 as well as on IEEE Xplore. --------------------------------- VENUE --------------------------------- IEEE VNC 2014 will take place at the Heinz Nixdorf Museums Forum, the world's largest computer museum, located in Paderborn, Germany. The Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum is the world’s biggest computer museum as well as a lively event venue. The Heinz Nixdorf Museums Forum is sponsored by the Stiftung Westfalen foundation set up by Heinz Nixdorf, which primarily promotes science and teaching, especially in the field of information technology. --------------------------------- General Chairs --------------------------------- Falko Dressler, University of Paderborn, Germany Onur Altintas, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan Technical Program Committee Chairs --------------------------------- Suman Banerjee, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA Björn Scheuermann, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany Local Arrangements --------------------------------- Debra Venedam, IEEE Finance Chair --------------------------------- Bruce Worthman, IEEE Publication Chair --------------------------------- David Eckhoff, University of Erlangen, Germany Publicity Chair --------------------------------- Wantanee Viriyasitavat, Mahidol University, Thailand Web Chair --------------------------------- Stefan Dietzel, University of Ulm, Germany Poster and Demo Chair --------------------------------- Elisabeth Uhlemann, Halmstad University, Sweden Hsin-Mu (Michael) Tsai, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Panel Chair --------------------------------- Fan Bai, General Motors, USA Keynote Chair --------------------------------- Mario Gerla, University of California at Los Angeles, CA, USA Steering Committee --------------------------------- Onur Altintas, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan Wai Chen, China Mobile Research Institute Geert Heijenk, University of Twente, The Netherlands Thomas Luckenbach, FOKUS, Germany Hyun Seo Oh, ETRI, South Korea Umit Ozguner, Ohio State University, U.S.A. Tadao Saito, Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo, Japan More info at: http://www.ieee-vnc.org/. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: [CFP] IEEE ITSC 2014
by Lars Wolf 25 Apr '14

25 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [CFP] IEEE ITSC 2014 Datum: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 08:22:19 -0700 (PDT) Von: IEEE ITSC2014 <ieeeitsc(a)gmail.com> Antwort an: ieeeitsc(a)gmail.com An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de CALL FOR PAPERS The 17th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (IEEE ITSC 2014) Hyatt Regency Qingdao, Qingdao, China October 8-11, 2014 http://www.itsc2014.org/ Conference contact: ieeeitsc(a)gmail.com The IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems is the annual flagship conference of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society. IEEE ITSC 2014 welcomes articles in the field of Intelligent Transportation Systems, conveying new developments in theory, analytical and numerical simulation and modeling, experimentation, advanced deployment and case studies, results of laboratory or field operational tests. IEEE ITSC 2014 is organized by the State Key Laboratory of Management and Control for Complex Systems at the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA). It will be held in Qingdao, a beautiful coastal city, home to Tsingtao beer, Mount Lao - one of the "cradles of Taoism," and numerous scenery & cultural attractions. ----------------------- TOPICS ----------------------- The technical areas include but are not limited to the following: - Artificial Transportation Systems - Advanced Public Transportation Management - Ports, Waterways, Inland navigation, and Vessel Traffic Management - Modeling, Simulation, and Control of Pedestrians and Cyclists - Air, Road, and Rail Traffic Management - ITS User Services - Emergency Management - Transportation Networks - Emissions, Noise, Environment - Management of Exceptional Events: Incidents, Evacuation, Emergency Management - Security Systems - Safety Systems - Commercial Vehicle Operations - Intelligent logistics - Sensing and Intervening, Detectors and Actuators - Data Management Systems - Communication in ITS - Cooperative Techniques and Systems - Intelligent Vehicles - Vision, and Environment Perception - Electric Vehicle Transportation Systems - Electronic Payment Systems - Intelligent Techniques in ITS - Traffic Theory for ITS - Modeling, Control and Simulation - Human Factors, Travel Behavior - ITS Field Tests and Implementation - Driver and Traveler Support Systems ----------------------- PAPER SUBMISSION ----------------------- Complete manuscripts in the PDF format must be electronically submitted for peer-review, following the standard IEEE conference proceedings format. Detailed submission instructions can be found on the conference website. DUE DATE: June 8, 2014. Special Sessions, Tutorials, and Workshops: Proposals for special sessions, tutorials, and workshops should be submitted via the conference submission website. DUE DATE: May 12, 2014. A "Best Paper Award" and a "Best Student Paper Award" will be conferred to the author(s) of a full paper presented at the conference, selected by the Awards Committee. Selected papers of exceptional quality will be invited for submission to a special issue of the IEEE Transactions on ITS or the IEEE ITS Magazine. Authors will be asked to revise their papers according to the standards of the Transactions or the Magazine. These papers will be subject to the Transactions' and Magazine's own peer-review process. ----------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------- Special session, tutorial and workshop proposals deadline: May 12, 2014 Paper submission deadline: June 8, 2014 Notification of acceptance: July 25, 2014 Camera-ready copy due: August 11, 2014 Please visit the conference website at http://www.itsc2014.org/ for details. IEEE ITSC 2014 will be held in conjunction with the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics (SOLI). General Chairs: Nanning Zheng Fei-Yue Wang Program Chairs: Daniel Zeng Christoph Stiller Azim Eskandarian Program Co-Chairs: Brendan Morris (North America) Javier Schanez Medina (Europe) Kyongsu Yi (Asia) Yibing Wang (Asia)

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Deadline Approaching: The First International Workshop on Recent Advances in WBANs Design and Deployment, for Real-time and Healthcare Applications (RA-WERHA 2014)
by Lars Wolf 24 Apr '14

24 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Deadline Approaching: The First International Workshop on Recent Advances in WBANs Design and Deployment,for Real-time and Healthcare Applications (RA-WERHA 2014) Datum: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 16:03:45 +0200 Von: Kacimi Rahim <kacimi(a)IRIT.FR> Antwort an: Kacimi Rahim <kacimi(a)IRIT.FR> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The First International Workshop on Recent Advances in WBANs Design and Deployment for Real-time and Healthcare Applications (RA-WERHA 2014) (http://csserver.ucd.ie/~sdjahel/RA-WERHA2014/main.html) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To be held in conjunction with The 39th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Sep. 8-11, 2014, Edmonton, Canada ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE The recent advances in wireless sensing technology have led to the emergence of a wide range of applications in different domains such as medical, sports, consumer electronics, social networking, and enterprise usage. E-health is recognized as the most important and promising among these applications for its potential for health monitoring of chronic illnesses, lifesaving in emergency situations, and its ability to provide round the clock healthcare to rural and disadvantaged areas. Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) are the key enabler of remote and in-hospital health monitoring and are expected to revolutionize the health and real-time body monitoring industry. WBAN technology has quickly attracted a lot of attention from researchers, practitioners and clinicians as well as mobile health related data managers. The main objective of WBAN is to provide cost-effective, flexible, and secure use of biotelemetry information and communication technologies to support both medical and non-medical applications. This technology enables ambient assisted living by providing more freedom to the elderly, disabled, and chronic illness sufferers. Moreover, it can be rapidly deployed in emergency and disaster situations facilitating faster and more accurate remote diagnosis of victims. WBAN technology unleashes the possibilities and potentials for personalized medicine which promises to revolutionize healthcare that will have a significant societal and economic impact and improve the citizens’ quality of life, particularly in future smart cities. However, WBAN applications present several challenges for the research community including: passive non-intrusive and power utilisation design issues, security and reliability with regards to the integrity of the acquired biotelemetry data and the real-time transmission of the monitored data using QoS aware techniques. Moreover, new emerging applications, which consider critical flows, are gaining more and more popularity in various activity domains. This workshop seeks to bring together leading academic and industrial researchers, practitioners, and clinicians to identify and discuss the major technical challenges and recent results related to WBANs based medical and non-medical applications. All are welcome to present and share their latest research findings, ideas, simulation tools and prototype test-beds at the 2014 RA-WERHA workshop. WORKSHOP TOPICS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Wearable and body sensor networks - Wireless biotelemetry sensor technologies - Emerging eHealth applications - Health monitoring, traffic characterization, and management - Future Network/Communications Infrastructures and Architectures for Healthcare - Energy Saving for Long Time Monitoring - Pervasive and ubiquitous computing on eHealth - MAC and Routing protocols design for WBANs - Practical Applications of e-Health - Intra and Inter WBAN communications - Storage and Display devices for eHealth - Telemedicine and mobile telemedicine - Distributed storage of WBANs data - Interference mitigation techniques in WBANs - QoS-mapping from Application level to Network and MAC levels - Cross-layer Designs for WBANs - QoS-oriented dynamic reconfiguration in WBANs - M-healthcare mobile social networks - Fault tolerant routing techniques in WBANs - Experimental prototypes and test-beds - Security and privacy concerns in WBANs ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline April 25, 2014 Acceptance notification May 30, 2014 Camera-ready version June 30, 2014 GENERAL CHAIRS Soufiene Djahel, University College Dublin, Ireland Rahim Kacimi, Paul Sabatier University, France John Murphy, University College Dublin, Ireland TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: Nikki Cranley, University College Dublin, Ireland Amit Pande, University of California Davis, USA André-Luc Beylot, INPT/ENSEEIHT, France PUBLICITY CHAIR Riadh Dhaou, INPT/ENSEEIHT, France TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Imad Jawhar, United Arab Emirates University, UAE Nikos Komnino, City University London, UK Zdenek Becvar, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic Faouzi Kamoun, Zayed University, UAE Amit Pande, University of California Davis, USA Nadjib Ait Saadi, University of Paris-Est, France Faycal Bouhafs, Liverpool John Moores University, UK Erdal Oruklu, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA Lyes Khoukhi, University of Troyes, France Hassine Moungla, University Paris Descartes, France Thomas Zinner, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Nafaâ Jabeur, German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech), Oman Gabriel-Miro Muntean, Dublin City University, Ireland Kashif Kifayat, Liverpool John Moores University, UK Farid Nait-Abdesselam, University Paris Descartes, France Zonghua Zhang, Institut Mines-Télécom/TELECOM Lille, France ______________________________________________________________ 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: The 3rd IEEE/TRB International Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo (ICCVE 2014) - Call for Papers & Speech Proposals
by Lars Wolf 24 Apr '14

24 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: The 3rd IEEE/TRB International Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo (ICCVE 2014) - Call for Papers & Speech Proposals Datum: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 12:34:40 +0000 Von: Committee <cn.x.w(a)ieee.org> An: Lars C Wolf <wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> The 3rd IEEE/TRB International Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo (ICCVE 2014) - Call for Papers & Speech Proposals Accepted and presented papers will be published in the ICCVE 2014 Conference Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore® as well as major indexing services. Substantially extended versions of top quality papers will also be considered for publication in special issues or special sections of the following IEEE journals: - IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics /(Curent IF: 5.165) /- IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems - IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine - IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine - IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification - IEEE Transportation Electrification Magazine - IEEE Systems Journal * The 3rd IEEE/TRB International Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo (ICCVE 2014)* November 3-7, 2014 | Vienna, Austria /*"The future of mobility enabled by Connected Automated Vehicles"*/ Conference website: http://www.iccve.org/ 2014 <http://www.iccve.org/2014> ______________________________ _ _ _ _________ Connected Vehicles is an emerging technical field which crosses multiple disciplines and industries including automotive, travel & transportation, information technology, communications, consumer electronics, industrial electronics, media & entertainment, energy & utilities, insurance, etc. By connecting vehicles with various devices, services and participants, we are able to make our mobility more enjoyable, sustainable and safe. Co-sponsored by over 20 societies and organizations, ICCVE 2014 is the world's premier Connected Vehicles conference that gathers all the relevant communities together. During the 5-day conference, experts, practitioners and policy makers from all around the world will present the latest innovations and advances on connected vehicles, share the experience and insights, forecast the trends and opportunities, and discuss the policy, economics and social implications. We are proudly and excitedly inviting you to participate in and enjoy this world-class event. The conference program will feature paper sessions and workshops, summits and industry forums, demos, exhibits, tutorials, and tours. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 1. Wireless Communications and Vehicular Networking 2. Mobile Internet, Mobility Internet and Internet of Things 3. Cooperative Driving, Intelligent and Autonomous Vehicles 4. Automotive Electronics and Automatic Control 5. Transportation and Connected Vehicles 6. Electric Vehicle and Transportation Electrification 7. Geographic, Spatial and Social Information Systems 8. Manufacturing and Product Safety Engineering in Connected Vehicles 9. Practices, Recommendations and Standards in Connected Vehicles 10. Policy, Economics and Social Implications of Connected Vehicles ** CALL FOR PAPERS ** Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers (6 pages) or digest papers (2 pages) for presentation at the conference and publication in the Proceedings. *Full Papers: *Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers (IEEE standard format, double column, 10-point font, US letter, 6 pages maximum with 2 additional pages allowed but at an extra charge) for presentation at the conference and publication in the Proceedings. *Digest Papers: *Authors are also invited to submit digest papers (IEEE standard format, double column, 10-point font, US letter, 2 pages) to showcase results recently obtained in industry or academia. Accepted digest papers will be presented at the conference and published in the Proceedings. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the ICCVE 2014 Conference Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore®. The ICCVE 2014 Conference Proceedings will also be submitted for indexing through INSPEC, and EI's Engineering Information Index, Compendex, and ISI Thomson's Scientific and Technical Proceedings, ISTP/ISI Proceedings, and Current Contents on Diskette, and Scopus. Substantially extended versions of top quality papers will also be considered for publication in special issues or special sections of the following IEEE journals: - /IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (Curent IF: 5.165)/ - /IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems/ - /IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine/ - /IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine/ - /IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification/ - /IEEE Transportation Electrification Magazine/ - /IEEE Systems Journal/ ------------------------------ ----------- Paper Submission Deadline: May 10, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: Jun 28, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: Jul 28, 2014 ------------------------------ ----------- ** INDUSTRY FORUMS - CALL FOR SPEECH PROPOSALS ** The ICCVE 2014 will hold Industry Forums designed to facilitate broad discussions on various aspects of Connected Vehicles. Speeches about technologies, practices, markets, policy, and social implications are all welcome. If you are interested in speaking at the ICCVE 2014 Industry Forums, please submit a simple proposal to our industry forums committee. Based on the submitted proposals, the committee will schedule forum sessions consisting of speeches and panel discussions. Each speech will be 20-30 min, depending on how full the agenda of a session would be. *Simple submission.* Too busy to write a detailed proposal? Don't worry. At this stage, you only need to send a simple email as your proposal to our industry forums committee (forums(a)iccve.org <mailto:forums@iccve.org>). Just include the following items in the plain-text proposal: - Title for the speech; - An abstract of the speech (no more than 200 words); - Name, affiliation, and email address of the speaker; - A short biography of the speaker. You will get a notification of acceptance in 10 working days, then you can start preparing your slides. *No copyright transfer.* You keep the copyright of your slides, so you can feel free to reuse them in part or in whole for other occasions. *Do not take the "Industry Forums" too literally.* You are not an industry person? It doesn't matter at all. Speakers from academia, industry and government are all welcome. ------------------------------ ----------- Proposal Submission Deadline: Jun 30, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: 10 working days after your submission ------------------------------ ----------- For more information, visit http://www.iccve.org/ 2014 <http://www.iccve.org/2014>.

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: ITC Workshop on Energy-efficiency, Programmability, Flexibility and Integration in Future Network Architectures (EPFI)
by Lars Wolf 24 Apr '14

24 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: ITC Workshop on Energy-efficiency, Programmability, Flexibility and Integration in Future Network Architectures (EPFI) Datum: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 10:24:00 +0200 Von: Alex Carrega <alessandro.carrega(a)UNIGE.IT> Antwort an: alessandro.carrega(a)UNIGE.IT An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ENERGY-EFFICIENCY, PROGRAMMABILITY, FLEXIBILITY AND INTEGRATION IN FUTURE NETWORK ARCHITECTURES (EPFI) co-located with the 26th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 26) September 9th-11th, 2014, Karlskrona, Sweden http://www.tnt-lab.unige.it/greennet/EPFI ************************************************** Paper Submission Deadline: May 10th, 2014 *************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------- SCOPE AND TOPICS ----------------------------- The focus of this workshop is on two of the hottest technological trends that will drive the evolution of the Internet: energy efficiency and software-defined networks. If jointly applied to the design of next-generation network devices and infrastructures, these concepts may revolutionize the network, as we know today, by introducing extreme flexibility, programmability, virtualization and customization of network functionalities and their integration within the "Cloud." On one hand, energy efficiency will be the key for the needed scalability to support "Big Data" and large-scale network infrastructures and Data-Centers. On the other hand, energy-efficient approach can take advantage of the network flexibility provided by Software-Defined approaches. The topics covered by the proposed workshop will include (but not limited to): - Evolution of Software Defined protocols and architectures; - Network programmability and energy-efficiency; - Traffic engineering for energy-efficient software defined networks; - Design of green programmable network devices; - Programmability for Network devices; - Energy efficient network integration with the cloud; - Green support for Big Data; - Green Data-Centers. Submissions are limited to 6 pages in IEEE conference format. Papers will appear in the conference proceedings and will be available on IEEE Xplore. Submissions are handled through the EDAS system. Upon final camera-ready paper submission, authors will need to sign an IEEE copyright form for each accepted paper to comply with IEEE regulations. IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------- Submission: May 10th, 2014 Notification of acceptance: May 31st, 2014 Camera Ready paper: June 8th, 2014 Workshop venue: September 12th, 2014 WORKSHOP CHAIRS ----------------------------- Roberto Bruschi (CNIT, Italy) Antonio Cianfrani (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy) Gregorio Procissi (University of Pisa, Italy) PROGRAM COMMITTEE (in progress) ---------------------------------- Tobias Hossfeld, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Joanna Kolodziej, Cracow University of Technology, Poland Leonardo Fialho, University of Texas at Austin, USA Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College London, UK Anastasios Zafeiropoulos, UBITECH, Greece Robert Birke, IBM, Switzerland Mariusz Kamola, NASK, Poland Constantinos Vassilakis, Greek Research and Technology Network (GRNET), Greece Carmen Guerrero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Aleksandra Smiljanić, Belgrade University, Serbia Stefano Secci, University Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, France Shaolei Ren, Florida International University, USA Paul J. Kühn, University of Stuttgart, Germany Filip Idzikowski, Technical University of Berlin, Germany ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] SPME 2014, First MOBICOM Workshop on Security and Privacy Aspects of Mobile Environments; Submit by May 25
by Lars Wolf 24 Apr '14

24 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] SPME 2014, First MOBICOM Workshop on Security and Privacy Aspects of Mobile Environments; Submit by May 25 Datum: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 18:23:13 +1000 Von: Olivier Mehani <olivier.mehani(a)NICTA.COM.AU> Antwort an: Olivier Mehani <olivier.mehani(a)NICTA.COM.AU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Please let me know if it is undesirable to send CfPs to this list, and accept my apologies if this is the case.] =========================================================================== Call for Papers First Workshop on Security and Privacy Aspects of Mobile Environments (SPME) colocated with ACM MobiCom 2014 Maui, Hawai, USA, September 11 http://www.smpe2014.org/ =========================================================================== Increased adoption of mobile communications technologies (e.g., smartphones and Internet tablets), along with the growing popularity of mobile applications and online social network services (e.g., mobile Facebook, Foursquare, mobile YouTube), dramatically changed the computing and networking landscapes. Such mobile environments, while creating and promoting several new opportunities for users, businesses and enterprises by complementing and often supplanting traditional Internet communication, opened up new challenges with new forms of security risks and privacy threats. Mobile devices security and privacy research has been very active and productive since the inception of smartphones and app markets. Both regulatory and technology efforts are also underway to address some of the privacy and security requirements of mobile systems and services. The workshop will discuss issues in mobile devices and applications, mobile location-based services, ad-hoc and infrastructure-based mobile networks, with particular focus on theoretical and practical aspects of design, usability and performance evaluation of security and privacy. This workshop will solicit research papers, work-in-progress papers, industry and regulatory position reports from academia, industry, and government agencies. The proposed workshop seeks to promote dynamic interdisciplinary discussions and collaboration on the various aspects of security and privacy of mobile devices, applications and mobile networking operations. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Mobile networks security - Mobile handsets devices security - Security and privacy of mobile applications - Hardware enabled security - Usability of security and privacy - New economic models of privacy-preserving mobile systems/applications - Mobile identity management systems - Mobile payment systems - Privacy and security threats identification - Censorship resistance in mobile environments - Privacy preserving analytics in mobile environments - Contextual (context-based) security and privacy - Security and privacy in next generation mobile networks - Security and privacy in wearable technologies We also encourage submissions of controversial ideas, interdisciplinary perspectives and other novel contributions with a potential to trigger constructive discussions and interactions. Important Dates: Paper Submission: May 25, 2014 Author Notification: July 7, 2014 Camera Ready Due: July 25, 2014 Workshop: September 11, 2014 Submission Guidelines: Papers must not exceed 5 pages in standard ACM double-column format and be properly anonymized. Submissions must be original, previously unpublished work. The SMPE program committee will review submissions and accepted papers will be presented at the workshop by one of the authors. Detailed instructions on paper formatting can be found on the main conference site. Submission Site: Please visit http://crp.mytestbed.net/spme2014/ for submissions. Please direct all questions to the workshop chairs: chairs(a)smpe2014.org Workshop Chairs: - Ersin Uzun (PARC) - Mohamed Ali (Dali) Kaafar, NICTA Australia Program Committee : - Gene Tsudik, UC Irvine - Srdjan Capkun, ETH Zurich - Emiliano De Cristofaro, UCL - Ivan Martinovic, University of Oxford - Richard Chow, Intel - Refik Molva, Eurecom - Adrian Perrig, ETH Zurich - Anirban Mahanti, NICTA - Julien Freudiger, PARC - Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Technische Universitat Darmstadt - Kasper Bonne Rasmussen, University of Oxford - Kari Kostiainen, ETH Zurich - Serge Egelman, UC Berkeley - Markus Miettinen, TU Darmstadt - Michael Sirivianos, Cyprus University of Technology - Nitesh Saxena, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) ________________________________ The information in this e-mail may be confidential and subject to legal professional privilege and/or copyright. National ICT Australia Limited accepts no liability for any damage caused by this email or its attachments. ______________________________________________________________ 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 Communications Magazine Feature Topic on Mobile Cloud Computing
by Lars Wolf 23 Apr '14

23 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Cfp: IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic on Mobile Cloud Computing Datum: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 09:44:17 +0200 Von: Xiaoming Fu <fu(a)CS.UNI-GOETTINGEN.DE> Antwort an: Xiaoming Fu <fu(a)CS.UNI-GOETTINGEN.DE> Organisation: University of Goettingen An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG (We appologize if you receive multiple copies of the Cfp.) IEEE Communications Magazine Call for Papers Feature Topic on *Mobile Cloud Computing* Mobile Cloud Computing refers to an infrastructure where both the data storage and the data processing occur outside of the mobile device. Mobile cloud applications move the computing power and data storage away from mobile phones and into the cloud, bringing applications and mobile computing not only to smartphone users but also to a much broader range of mobile subscribers. Cloud computing has emerged as the leading paradigm for cost efficient and reliable service provisioning.Today, the rich availability of energy-harvesting and resource-constrained mobile computing devices is beginning to converge with the great opportunity offered by the powerful cloud computing services hosted by virtualized data center resources. Although mobile applications, cloud computing, and data center networking techniques have been intensively investigated in the past couple of years, mobile cloud computing and mobile cloud networking have not raised the attention of the research community until recently. This Feature Topic precisely addresses recent advances in this aspect. Solicited topics include (but are not limited to): * Mobile cloud computing architectures, protocols and services * Energy efficiency in mobile cloud computing and networking * Energy management for mobile devices in mobile cloud computing * Resource and service management, scheduling, and migration in mobile cloud computing * Mobile cloud applications and service models * Mobile traffic characterization and measurements * Transport and higher layers in mobile cloud computing * Storage as Service in Mobile Cloud Computing * Security, Privacy, access control * Network on the fly, virtual control, virtual radio, isolation * Virtualization of mobile devices and mobile network infrastructures * Unified user and device mobility management * Quality of Experience and Service Level Agreements * Discovery of mobile cloud computing services, data and other resources * Situation-/Context-aware networking for mobile cloud computing * Exploring social networks and user collaboration for mobile cloud computing * Location-based mobile cloud applications and service models * Virtualization techniques for mobile cloud computing and services * Security, privacy and virus/malware issues in mobile cloud computing * Mobile cloud enabled Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) solutions * Personal cloud, ad hoc cloud, distributed cloud computing and service models * Cloudlets, mobile cloud sensing and crowdsourcing *Submission Guidelines:* Articles should be tutorial in nature and written in a style comprehensible 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 very 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 "March 2015/Mobile Cloud Computing" category. *Important Dates:* ** * *Manuscript submission deadline: July 15, 2014* * Decision notification: October, 2014 * Final manuscript deadline: January 2, 2014 * Publication:March 2015 *Guest Editors (contact email: *commag-si-mcs(a)cs.uni-goettingen.de <mailto:commag-si-mcs@cs.uni-goettingen.de>)** Xiaoming Fu University of Goettingen Stefano Secci University Pierre and Marie Curie Dijiang Huang Arizona State University Rittwik Jana AT&T Labs Research -- Prof. Dr. Xiaoming Fu http://user.informatik.uni-goettingen.de/~fu Computer Networks Group http://www.net.informatik.uni-goettingen.de/ Institute of Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics & Computer Science University of Goettingen E-Mail: fu(a)cs.uni-goettingen.de Goldschmidtstr. 7 Tel/Secr: +49-(0)551-39-1720 23/20 37077 Goettingen, Germany Fax: +49-(0)551-39-14416 ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP - 1st IEEE Workshop on Data Analysis for Social and Secure Smartphone Applications
by Lars Wolf 23 Apr '14

23 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP - 1st IEEE Workshop on Data Analysis for Social and Secure Smartphone Applications Datum: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 22:39:12 -0400 Von: Ziqian Dong <Ziqian.Dong(a)NYIT.EDU> Antwort an: Ziqian Dong <Ziqian.Dong(a)NYIT.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Dear colleagues, We would like to call your attention to the call for papers for the 1st IEEE Workshop on Data Analysis for Social and Secure Smartphone Applications below. CALL FOR PAPERS ================================================================= 1st IEEE Workshop on Data Analysis for Social and Secure Smartphone Applications (DASPhone 2014) Larnaca, Cyprus October 8-10, 2014 http://web.njit.edu/~rojasces/DASPhone.html EDAS submission: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=17955 ================================================================= In conjunction with The 10th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications, WiMob 2014 IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: June 15, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: July 25, 2014 Camera-ready Version Deadline: August 15, 2014 ABOUT DASPhone 2014 In recent years, smartphones have undertaken unprecedented spread through almost every community around the globe. At the same time, smartphones are becoming the overarching communications device, enabling the transport of personal and private information anywhere and anytime, and the creation of new social means of massive and personal communications. These capabilities also create security risks that need to be considered for allowing the continuous growth of mobile and smart applications. The objective of this workshop is to provide a forum to practitioners, researchers, and industry to discuss topics on data analysis, technologies, and research on approaches that enabling new paradigms for social networks, and security of data, devices, and infrastructure for smartphones. TOPICS OF INTEREST The Workshop is soliciting state-of-the-art research papers including the following topics, but not limited to: - Secure mobile protocols - Near Field Communications - New Secure Applications - Location services - Social Networking - Data analysis of social networks and mass communications - Secure Over-the-Air (OTA) services - Deployment Experiments - Billing, Ticketing, and Payment - Internet-of-Things on Smartphones - Smartphones and Cloud-Computing Interactions - Smartphone forensics - Mobile mesh network - Mobile and wearable applications on smartphones - Privacy protection of smartphones - Smartphone user experience PAPER SUBMISSION High-quality full papers which at the time of submission, are not under review and have not already been published or accepted for publication elsewhere are solicited. The first page should include the paper's title, the abstract, a list of keywords indicating the paper's topic area(s), the authors' full names, affiliations, and e-mail addresses. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and by the IEEE, and will be accessible via IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Authors are required to submit fully formatted papers (PDF), with graphs, images, and other special areas arranged as intended for the final publication. Papers should be written in English conforming to the IEEE standard conference format (8.5" x 11" - US letter, Two-Column). The final manuscript for publication will be limited to 6 IEEE pages (minimum 10-point font). Manuscripts must follow the IEEE standard conference format. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper has to register! at the regular rate (non-student). Each registration will cover one accepted paper. The IEEE WiMob Executive Committee reserves the right not to include in IEEE Explore the papers that are not presented at the conference. DASPhone 2014 is using the EDAS Conference Management System to manage the paper submission process. Submissions can be made https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=17955. Papers cannot be included in the conference proceedings without a completed IEEE Copyright Form. Authors can submit the Copyright Form electronically through EDAS. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Roberto Rojas-Cessa (New Jersey Institute of Technology) Ziqian (Cecilia) Dong (New York Institute of Technology) ______________________________________________________________ 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 Workshop on hot topics in wireless networks (HotWireless 2014)
by Lars Wolf 23 Apr '14

23 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ACM Workshop on hot topics in wireless networks (HotWireless 2014) Datum: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 22:02:10 +0000 Von: Srinivasan, Kannan <kannan(a)CSE.OHIO-STATE.EDU> Antwort an: Srinivasan, Kannan <kannan(a)CSE.OHIO-STATE.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Hi all, We are happy to announce the first ACM Workshop on hot topics in wireless networks, HotWireless 2014 (http://hotwireless.cs.umass.edu<http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fhotwireless.cs.umass.edu%2F&h=GA…>). This year, HotWireless will be co-held with MobiCom 2014 in Maui, Hawaii. Do you have a HOT, crazy and wild wireless idea that you would like to get feedback on? HotWireless is the place for you. Check out the call for papers for the special topics of interest for this year; http://hotwireless.cs.umass.edu/Calls.html<http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fhotwireless.cs.umass.edu%2FCalls…>. Kannan Srinivasan kannan(a)cse.ohio-state.edu Call For Papers -------------------- The 1st ACM Workshop on hot topics in wireless networks is focused on disruptive wireless technologies and systems that can enable orders of magnitude improvements in performance and novel wireless applications. Our goal is to provide a launching pad for bold and visionary ideas, and bring together experts in hardware, physical layer, and wireless systems to address core technical challenges in these emerging wireless technologies. Focus areas for this year include, but are not limited to, the following: * Backscatter (and other low power) communication for next-generation sensors * mmWave technologies (e.g. 30 GHz and 60 GHz) for substantial throughput at range * Highly directional transmissions for throughput and spatial reuse * Visible Light Communications * Nanoscale wireless for implantables and micro-sensors * Wirelessly powered devices * Dynamic spectrum sharing * Physical-layer Innovations * Cross-layer Wireless Networking * Sensing using Wireless Signals We solicit position papers of five or fewer pages that propose new directions of research in wireless, advocate disruptive ideas, report on noteworthy experience in an emerging area, or generate lively discussion around an important topic. In order to promote lively discussion, we encourage forward-looking submissions, as opposed to mature work. We also encourage submissions on new open wireless platforms that can bootstrap exploration of the design space by the broader wireless networking community. Important Dates * Abstract registration deadline: 6 June 2014 * Full paper submission deadline: 13 June 2014 * Authors notification: 11 July 2014 * Camera Ready: 27 July 2014 * Workshop: 11 September 2014 ______________________________________________________________ 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: Special Issue on Cloud Networking - IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing
by Lars Wolf 22 Apr '14

22 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP: Special Issue on Cloud Networking - IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing Datum: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 15:39:58 +1000 Von: Dzmitry Kliazovich <kliazovich(a)ieee.org> An: <tci-announce(a)COMPUTER.ORG> ============================================================ Special Issue on CLOUD NETWORKING IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing http://www.ieee-cloudnet.org/2014/TCC-SI-CloudNetworking.pdf ============================================================ Guest Editors: Dzmitry Kliazovich, Bernabe Dorronsoro, Pascal Bouvry, Albert Zomaya Editor-in-Chief: Rajkumar Buyya *** Call for Papers *** Cloud computing is entering our lives and changing the way people consume information dramatically. Clouds transform IT infrastructures with an emphasis on making them flexible, affordable, and capable of serving millions of users, satisfying their computing or storage demands. The design of early cloud computing systems has evolved from, and was dominated by, the concepts of cluster and grid computing. Currently, as the concepts of the cloud become advanced and mature, cloud networking and communication processes begin playing a central role. Cloud Networking has emerged as a promising direction for cost-efficient and reliable service delivery across data communication networks. The dynamic location of service facilities and the virtualization of hardware and software elements are stressing the communication network and protocols, especially when datacenters are interconnected through the Internet. The optimization of cloud networking can significantly increase system performance, reducing energy consumption and save costs not only inside individual data centers, but also globally, on the Internet scale. Developing novel network architectures would facilitate adoption of modular container-based data centers. Advancements in internetworking become key enabler for building hybrid clouds and federations of clouds. Service provisioning over heterogeneous connections and wireless links can enhance computational capacity and enrich application experience of mobile users. Efficient resource management and scheduling in data centers and cloud infrastructures is open research challenge that has to be addressed and novel architectures, telecommunication technologies, and protocols must be developed to ensure efficiency of future cloud computing systems. ================================= Topics ================================= The topics covered by this special issue include, but are not limited to: - Data Center Network Management, Reliability, Optimization - Distributed Data Center Architectures and Services, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS - Energy-Efficient Data Centers and Networks - Big Data Management - Internet Routing of Cloud Data - Virtual Ethernet Switching, Data Center Bridging - Cloud Traffic Characterization and Measurements - Intra-Cloud vs. Inter-Cloud Management - Cloud Traffic Engineering and Control-Plane Architectures - Green Data Centers and Cloud Networking - Security, Privacy, and Confidentiality in Cloud Networking - Virtualization of Network Equipment - Unified User and Machine Mobility Management - Data Flow Management and Load Balancing - Mobile Cloud Networking - Network Programmability, Software-Defined Networks - Cloud Federation and Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure - Storage Area Networks, Optical Interconnect, Fiber Channels - Content and Service Distribution ================================= Important Dates ================================= Full Paper Regular Submission Due: October 15, 2014 Extended versions of CLOUDNET 2014 Best Papers due: December 15, 2014 Notification of Results: March 15, 2015 Revisions Due: April 15, 2015 Notifications of Final Acceptance: May 15, 2015 Submissions of Final Revised Papers: June 15, 2015 ================================= Notes for Prospective Authors ================================= We are looking for novel outstanding high quality contributions. Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. All papers are refereed through a strict review process. A general guide for authors and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing journal website: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tcc When submitting your paper, please be sure to choose the special issue on Cloud Networking. ================================== Guest Editors ================================== Dr. Dzmitry Kliazovich, Dr. Bernabé Dorronsoro, Prof. Dr. Pascal Bouvry University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg {dzmitry.kliazovich, bernabe.dorronsoro, pascal.bouvry}(a)uni.lu Prof. Dr. Albert Zomaya The University of Sydney, Australia a.zomaya(a)usyd.edu.au _______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the tci-announce list, click the following link: https://cs-listserv.ieee.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=tci-announce&A=1

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Special issue: Security and Communication Networks (Wiley, JCR journal) SI on Trends in modern Information Hiding: techniques, applications and detection
by Lars Wolf 22 Apr '14

22 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Special issue: Security and Communication Networks (Wiley, JCR journal) SI on Trends in modern Information Hiding: techniques, applications and detection Datum: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 07:08:10 -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 Dear Colleagues, Please consider submitting a paper to the following special issue. Security and Communication Networks (Wiley, JCR journal) SI on Trends in modern Information Hiding: techniques, applications and detection. IMPORTANT DATES - Manuscript submission: 1 May 2014 - Acceptance/rejection notification: before 1 August 2014 - Expected publication: 2015 CALL FOR PAPERS As the production, storage and exchange of information becomes more extensive and important in the functioning of societies, the problem of protecting the information from unintended and undesired usage becomes more complex. In modern societies, protection of information involves many interdependent technological and policy issues related to information confidentiality, integrity, anonymity, authenticity, utility, etc. Information Hiding techniques are receiving much attention today. Digital audio, video, and images are increasingly furnished with distinguishing but imperceptible marks, which may contain a hidden copyright notice or serial number, or even help to prevent unauthorised copying directly. Digital watermarking and steganography may protect information, conceal secrets, or are used as core primitives in digital rights’ management schemes. Alongside the abovementioned types of digital media steganography, currently the target of increased interest is Network Steganography – a part of Information Hiding focused on modern networks. It is a method of hiding secret data in users' normal data transmissions. Steganographic techniques arise and evolve with the development of network protocols and mechanisms, and are expected to be used in secret communication or information sharing. Presently, it becomes a hot topic due to the proliferation of information networks and multimedia services in networks and social networks. The purpose of establishing applications of Information Hiding may be varied – possible uses can fall into the category of legal actions or illicit activity. Frequently the illegal aspect is accentuated – starting from the criminal communication, through information leakage from protected systems, cyber weapon exchange, up to industrial espionage. Recently discovered malware like Duqu and Alureon point to the alleged utilization of Information Hiding techniques in botnets for covert communication in the C&C channels, which proves that Information Hiding poses important challenges to investigators. On the other side of the spectrum lie legitimate uses, which include circumvention of web censorship and surveillance, computer forensics (tracing and identification) and copyright protection (e.g. watermarking images). This special issue intends to present some of the most relevant ongoing research in the Information Hiding field. Topics include, but are not limited to the following: • Steganography and steganalysis (steganology) • Covert/subliminal channels • Traffic morphing • Watermarking (algorithms, security, and attacks) • Novel applications of Information Hiding • Information Hiding for digital forensics & counter forensics • Digital rights management • Emerging trends in Information Hiding • Fingerprinting and embedding codes • Lossless/reversible data hiding • Security metrics for Information Hiding • Side-information transmission through data hiding • Signal restoration/enhancement by data hiding • Theoretical aspects of information hiding Guest Editors - Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland - Krzysztof Szczypiorski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland - Hui Tian, National Huaqiao University, China Papers must be written in English and describe original research not published or currently under review by other journals or conferences. All relevant papers submitted will go through an external review process. Concerning the preparation of the manuscript, please refer to the “Instructions for Authors” page at the journal website, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%291939-0122/homepage… Further, the manuscript must be submitted through the online submission system: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/scn by selecting the corresponding track. When submitting papers, the authors should identify “Manuscript Type” as “Special Issue”, enter “Running Head” as “SCN-SI-066” and “Special Issue Title” as “Trends in modern Information Hiding: techniques, applications and detection”, respectively. Contributing authors might also be asked to review some of the papers submitted to this special issue. All papers will be rigorously reviewed based on the quality: original, high scientific quality, well organized and clearly written, sufficient support for assertions and conclusion, appropriate title, abstract includes important points of the paper, satisfactory English, pertinent references, clear tables and figures. ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Cfp: IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing Special Issue on Cyber Crime
by Lars Wolf 22 Apr '14

22 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Cfp: IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing Special Issue on Cyber Crime Datum: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 07:08:47 -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 Dear Colleagues, Please consider submitting a paper to the following special issue on Cyber Crime for IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (JCR journal, IF=1.059). PDF version of the Cfp: http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/transactions/cfps/cfp_tdscsi_cc.pdf Submission schedule: - Manuscript submission: October 1st, 2014 - First notification date: January 10th, 2014 - Expected publication: 2015 Cyber crimes reflect the evolution of criminal practices that have adapted to the world of information and communication technologies. Cybercriminality has become a curse of the modern world with the potential to affect every one nationally and/or internationally. Individuals, companies, governments and institutions may become victims as well as (involuntary) helpers of cyber criminals. The inability to provide cyber-security can potentially have a tremendous socio-economic impact on global enterprises as well as individuals. The aim of this special issue is to bring together the research accomplishments provided by the researchers from academia and the industry. The other goal is to show the latest research results in the field of cyber crime. Prospective authors will be encouraged to submit related distinguished research papers on the subject of both: theoretical approaches and practical case reviews. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Cyber-crime science • Emerging cybercriminals techniques and countermeasures • Cyber forensics and anti-forensic procedures, techniques, tools and analysis • Cyber crime investigations & incident response • Active and passive cyber crime defense techniques, tools and mechanisms • Cybersecurity testbeds, tools, methodologies • Cyber threat modeling analysis, cyber risk and vulnerability assessment • Cyber warfare & cyber terrorism • Cybersecurity economic modeling and metrics • Cybersecurity standards, policy, law, and regulation • Legal, ethical and policy issues related to cyber crime • Human and behavioral issues in cyber crime • Network traffic analysis and modelling for cyber crime science • Deviant activities and crime patterns • Insider threat detection and prevention • Misuse of personal data and the right to online privacy Guest Editors - Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland - Thomas J. Holt, School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University, USA - Krzysztof Szczypiorski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Papers must be written in English and describe original research not published or currently under review by other journals or conferences. All relevant papers submitted will go through an external, rigorous review process. Submissions should be sent according to the instructions available at: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tdsc/author ______________________________________________________________ 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] ICNP'2014: CALL FOR PAPERS
by Lars Wolf 22 Apr '14

22 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ICNP'2014: CALL FOR PAPERS Datum: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 17:26:27 -0400 Von: Wenye Wang <wwang(a)NCSU.EDU> Antwort an: Wenye Wang <wwang(a)NCSU.EDU> Organisation: NC State University An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************** The 22nd IEEE International Conference on Network Protocol The Research Triangle, North Carolina October 21-24, 2014 http://icnp14.cs.unc.edu/ ****************************************************************************** The IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP) is a premier conference on computer networks and network protocols. The conference scope includes all areas of computer networks and network protocols. Topics of interests include but are not limited to: *Network protocol design, specification, verification, and analysis *Software defined networking *Network protocol implementation, testing, and measurement *Network management *Protocols for specific applications *Traffic engineering *Network architectures and high performance algorithms *Network virtualization *Measurement, simulation, and modeling of operational networks *Multicast, broadcast, and anycast *Fault-tolerance, survivability, and troubleshooting of networking systems *Network security and privacy *Peer to peer, overlay, and content distribution networks *Cross-layer design and optimization *Resource allocation, management, Quality of Service *Enterprise networks *Wireless, RFID, mobile, ad-hoc, vehicular, and sensor networks *Cloud computing *Operating system and host support for networking *Information centric networking *Networking issues for emerging applications *Energy aware networking *Routing, switching, and addressing *Online social networks *Datacenter and storage area networks *Network economics This year, ICNP solicits two types of papers: regular papers of at most 12 pages each, and concise papers of at most 6 pages each. A regular paper describes an important research project that has been completed, whereas a concise paper describes a significant contribution in a research project that may still be in progress. Thus, the completed version of any concise paper can be submitted and published in another venue at a later year. Regular papers and concise papers will have different submission and notification deadlines and they will be reviewed by different sets of TPC members. Submission policy for both regular and concise papers: 1. All papers should adhere to the IEEE Computer conference paper format (IEEEtran.cls) and the font size should be no smaller than 10 pt. 2. ICNP uses a double-blind review process. The identity of authors and referees will not be revealed to each other. To ensure double-blind reviewing, author names and affiliations should not appear in the paper; bibliographic references should be made in such a way as to preserve author anonymity; acknowledgement with identifiable names and funding sources should be removed. Note that own work should be cited as a third person. Papers violating this double-blind review policy will be rejected without review. Note that double-blind violations are sometimes not discovered until well into the review process, so authors are strongly advised to heed the above requirements at submission time. 3. Authors need to indicate in their submissions all TPC members with whom they have conflicts of interest. An author and a TPC member have a conflict of interest if one of the following conditions is satisfied: (1) They are currently employed at the same institution, or they have been employed at the same institution within the last 12 months, or they are going to be employment at the same institution within the next 6 months. (2) The author and the TPC member had an advisor-advisee relationship. (3) The author and the TPC member have collaborated on a project, a publication, or a grant proposal within the past 4 years. (4) The author and the TPC member have family relationship or are close personal friend. Authors should not improperly identify TPC members as conflicts to avoid individuals who might review their papers. 4. At least one author of an accepted paper, whether regular or concise, is expected to register at the full rate of the conference and to present the paper at the conference, in order for the paper to appear in the conference proceedings and the IEEE digital library. Papers not presented by an author at the conference will not appear in the IEEE digital library. Integrity policy for both regular and concise papers: ICNP strictly enforces the following integrity policies. Authors violating these policies will cause their submissions to be rejected without review. Furthermore, ICNP may take action against individuals who have engaged in such violation; example actions include, but are not limited to, contacting the institutions of the authors and publicizing the details of the case. 1. Submitted papers should not be previously published nor under review by another conference or journal. In some cases, the ICNP chairs may share information about submitted papers with other conference chairs and journal editors to ensure the integrity of papers under consideration. 2. Authors are prohibited from informing any TPC member of any identifiable information (such as titles) of their submissions. Important dates for regular papers: Paper Submission May 9, 2014, 11:59 PM EST Acceptance Notification July 4, 2014, 11:59 PM EST Camera Ready Version Aug 15, 2014, 11:59 PM EST Important dates for concise papers: Paper Submission May 23, 2014, 11:59 PM EST Acceptance Notification July 4, 2014, 11:59 PM EST Camera Ready Version Aug 15, 2014, 11:59 PM EST General Chairs: Jasleen Kaur, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA George Rouskas, North Carolina State University, USA Program Chairs: Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas at Austin, USA Alex Liu, Michigan State University, USA Steering Committee: Kevin Almeroth, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Ken Calvert (Chair), University of Kentucky, USA Sonia Fahmy, Purdue University, USA Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas at Austin, USA Timothy G. Griffin, University of Cambridge, UK Teruo Higashino, Osaka University, Japan David Lee, Ohio State University, USA K. K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T Labs Research, USA Krishan Sabnani, Bell Laboratories, USA Publicity Chairs: James Martin, Clemson University, USA (jmarty(a)clemson.edu) Wenye Wang, North Carolina State 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/ ______________________________________________________________ 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] SmartHealthSys 2014 CfP: ACM UbiComp International Workshop on Smart Health Systems and Applications
by Lars Wolf 21 Apr '14

21 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] SmartHealthSys 2014 CfP: ACM UbiComp International Workshop on Smart Health Systems and Applications Datum: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 23:36:27 -0700 Von: Hassan Ghasemzadeh <hassan(a)EECS.WSU.EDU> Antwort an: Hassan Ghasemzadeh <hassan(a)EECS.WSU.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ************************************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS ACM UbiComp International Workshop on Smart Health Systems and Applications SmartHealthSys 2014 Submissions due May 19, 2014 http://smarthealth.eecs.wsu.edu Sunday, September 14, 2014 Seattle, Washington, United States In conjunction with the ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing ************************************************************************************* The ACM UbiComp International Workshop on Smart Health Systems and Applications is a forum for researchers and developers from academia and industry in the area of smart health to present results and discuss ways to advance the field. The workshop will focus on wireless, connected, and mobile health research as a multidisciplinary area spanning computer science and engineering, electrical engineering, biomedical engineering, nursing, medicine, and public health. The workshop will include presentations of theoretical and experimental research, prototyping efforts, case studies and advances in technology related to smart health systems, applications, and services. In addition to traditional topics in this area, the workshop features a special focus on scalable smart health. This topic area aims to discuss and present innovations that address challenges associated with large-scale adoption of smart health technologies in end-user settings and uncontrolled environments. Smart health inherently integrates ideas, tools, and expertise from a variety of disciplines. We would like to facilitate discussions between researchers with diverse perspectives in order to more greatly enhance future work in the area. We seek papers presenting significant and novel research results on emerging smart health systems. We especially encourage submissions that present novel device design, system development, algorithm design, experimentation, field studies, and creative use of technologies in addressing healthcare challenges. We invite submissions on a wide range of smart health research including but not limited to: DEVICES, SYSTEMS & INFRASTRUCTURES FOR SMART HEALTH * Medical device prototypes for diagnosis/prevention * Wearable and implantable sensors * Disposable and cost-effective electronics * Systems for health promotion and disease prevention * Body sensor networks * Smart environments for health * Remote patient monitoring * Mobile health technologies * Data management * Interface with medical data systems such as electronic health records ALGORITHMS & SOFTWARE FOR SMART HEALTH * Signal processing and pattern recognition * Machine learning and clinical decision support * Health informatics * Algorithms for security and safety * Communication protocols and algorithms * Context-Aware Sensing * Algorithms for anomaly detection * Human-computer interaction SCALABLE SMART HEALTH * Reliability, security, and data uncertainty challenges * Data collection in the wild * Collecting ground truth data in unstructured environments * Approaches for deployment and validation of smart health systems in the wild * Models for benchmarking and validation * Patient-centered design approaches * Interoperability of smart health technologies and existing medical data systems * Techniques to enhance compliance * Models to assess impact of the technology on healthcare cost * Novel applications of smart health in chronic diseases management * Clinical studies and field validation techniques * Novel experimental testbeds * Algorithms and frameworks for seamless sensing SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Authors need to submit their papers online at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smarthealthsys2014 by the submission deadline. Authors will need to register their names if not already in the system, and select the SmartHealthSys 2014 workshop. They can then submit their paper as a PDF file. The paper should not exceed five pages and should follow the SIGCHI Extended Abstract format (templates are available at http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform). Accepted papers must be presented at the workshop and will be published in the UbiComp 2014 adjunct proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: May 19, 2014 Acceptance notification: June 20, 2014 Camera ready version: June 30, 2014 Workshop date: September 14, 2014 WORKSHOP WEBSITE For more information, please visit the workshop website at http://smarthealth.eecs.wsu.edu ORGANIZERS * Hassan Ghasemzadeh, Washington State University * Diane Cook, Washington State University * Misha Pavel, Northeastern University * Parisa Rashidi, University of Florida * Roozbeh Jafari, University of Texas at Dallas * Marjorie Skubic, University of Missouri * Michael Ong, University of California Los Angeles * George Demiris, University of Washington TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Nirmalya Roy, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA * Jesse Hoey, University of Waterloo, Canada * Maureen Schmitter-Edgecombe, Washington State University, USA * Jeonggil Ko, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea * Mohammad Pourhomayoun, University of California Los Angeles, USA * Alex Mihailidis, University of Toronto, Canada * Matthew E. Taylor, Washington State University, USA * Thai Le, University of Washington, USA * Omid Dehzangi, University of Texas at Dallas, USA * Mi Zhang, Cornell University, USA * Sunghoon Lee, University of California Los Angeles, USA * Mihail Popescu, University of Missouri, USA * Krishna Venkatasubramanian, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA * Jim Keller, University of Missouri, USA * Aaron Crandall, Washington State University, USA * Kasper Hallenborg, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark *** Additional committee members 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: [tciin] Ad Hoc Networks Special Issue on IoT Security and Privacy (deadline approaching)
by Lars Wolf 19 Apr '14

19 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [tciin] Ad Hoc Networks Special Issue on IoT Security and Privacy (deadline approaching) Datum: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 11:34:41 +0200 Von: Yacine Challal <ychallal(a)hds.utc.fr> An: tciin.isat(a)u-bourgogne.fr A Special Issue of Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks on “Internet of Things security and privacy: design methods, detection, prevention and countermeasures” http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ad-hoc-networks/call-for-papers/special-is… CALL FOR PAPERS =============== SCOPE of The Special Issue -------------------------- Recent advances in information and communication technologies and embedded systems have given rise to a new disruptive technology: the Internet of Things (IoT). This major development will lead to major changes in usage and to a transformation of the technological ecosystem in all its complexity. IoT will allow people and objects in the physical world as well as data and virtual environments to interact with each other so as to create smart environments such as smart transport systems, smart cities, smart health, smart energy, etc., as part of a prosperous digital society. IoT is likely to improve the quality of people’s lives, create new markets and new jobs, increase economic growth and be an impetus for competition. However, IoT raises important questions and introduces new challenges for the security of systems and processes and the privacy of individuals. Some IoT applications are tightly linked to sensitive infrastructures and strategic services such as the distribution of water and electricity and the surveillance of assets. Other applications handle sensitive information about people, such as their location and movements, or their health and purchasing preferences. Confidence in and acceptance of IoT will depend on the protection it provides to people’s privacy and the levels of security it guarantees to systems and processes. IoT will enable objects to become active participants: these objects will be able to recognize events and changes in their environment and to sense and react autonomously without human intervention. Introducing objects into the control processes makes IoT security very difficult to address. Indeed, the Internet of Things is a complex system in which people interact with the technological ecosystem based on smart objects through complex processes. The interactions of these four IoT components: persons, intelligent objects, technological ecosystem, and processes highlight a systemic and cognitive dimension to the security of IoT. The interaction of people with the technological ecosystem requires the protection of their privacy. Similarly, their interaction with control processes requires to guaranteeing their safety. Processes must ensure their reliability and realize the objectives for which they are designed. The move towards a greater autonomy for objects will bring the security of technologies and processes and the privacy of individuals into sharper focus. Furthermore, in parallel with the increasing autonomy of objects to perceive and act on the environment, IoT security should move towards a greater autonomy in perceiving threats and reacting to attacks. This special issue aims to bring together state-of-the-art contributions on Internet of Things Security and Privacy: design methods of secure IoT applications and architectures, security attacks detection, prevention and counter measures. Original, unpublished contributions are solicited in all aspects of this discipline. About the Topics of Interest ---------------------------- In particular, the topic of interest includes but is not limited to • Methods for secure by design IoT • Methods for IoT security analysis and audit • Privacy and anonymization techniques in IoT • Secure cloud of things • Trust management architectures • Lightweight security solutions • Authentication and access control in IoT • Identification and biometrics in IoT • Liability and policy enforcement in IoT • Virtualization and auto-immunity of smart objects • Security of Big data in IoT • Cyber physical systems security • Cyber attacks detection and prevention • Ethics and legal considerations in IoT Editor in Chief --------------- Ian Akyildiz Georgia Institute of Technology Guest Editors ------------- Yacine Challal University of Technology of Compiegne, France Enrico Natalizio University of Technology of Compiegne, France Sevil Sen Hacettepe University, Turkey Anna Maria Vegni University of "Roma TRE", Italia Important Dates ---------------- - Submission deadline: May 15th, 2014 - First round notification: July 15th, 2014 - Second round deadline: August 31st, 2014 - Final notification: October 15th, 2014 - Final papers: December 15th, 2014 Submission Format and Guideline ------------------------------- All submitted papers must be clearly written in excellent English and contain only original work, which has not been published by or is currently under review for any other journal or conference. Papers must not exceed 25 pages (one-column, at least 11pt fonts) including figures, tables, and references. A detailed submission guideline is available as “Guide to Authors” at www.elsevier.com/locate/adhoc <http://www.elsevier.com/locate/adhoc>. All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through Elsevier Editorial System (EES). The authors must select as “SI: IoT Security and Privacy” when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. The EES website is located at: http://ees.elsevier.com/adhoc/ All papers will be peer-reviewed by three independent reviewers. Requests for additional information should be addressed to the guest editors. -- ========================= M. Yacine Challal Maître de Conférences, HDR Université de Technologie de Compiègne Heudiasyc UMR CNRS 6599 BP. 20529, 60205, Compiègne Cedex Tel : +33 (0)3 44 23 44 29 <tel:%2B33%20%280%293%2044%2023%2044%2029> Fax: +33 (0)3 44 23 44 77 <tel:%2B33%20%280%293%2044%2023%2044%2077> Web: www.hds.utc.fr/~ychallal/ <http://www.hds.utc.fr/~ychallal/> =========================

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Fwd: [IEEE MASS 2014] MASS 2014: Extended Abstract and Paper Deadlines!
by Lars Wolf 19 Apr '14

19 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [IEEE MASS 2014] MASS 2014: Extended Abstract and Paper Deadlines! Datum: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 06:20:35 -0400 Von: IEEE MASS 2014 <ieeemass2014-chairs(a)edas.info> An: Lars C Wolf <wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> Dear Colleagues, It is my pleasure to let you know that the abstract and paper submission deadline for MASS 2014 have been extended as follows: Abstract submission: April 25, 23:59 US Pacific Time (GMT-7) Paper submission: May 2nd, 23:59 US Pacific Time (GMT-7) We hope that you find the new deadline more convenient and that you may be able to send your work to MASS 2014! The conference will take place October 28-30th, in Philadelphia, PA, USA. The website: mass2014.eecs.utk.edu/ will be updated to reflect the new deadline shortly. Thank you very much. Sincerely, Tarek Abdelzaher Program Chair. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this call-for-papers from EDAS, based on your user profile. To unsubscribe from call-for-paper messages such as this one, go to "My profile" and update your areas of interest (link at top of page - http://edas.info/editAreaInterest.php ).

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE Internet Computing Special Issue: Internet of Things Software
by Lars Wolf 17 Apr '14

17 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE Internet Computing Special Issue: Internet of Things Software Datum: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 13:51:07 +0200 Von: Luca Mottola <luca.mottola(a)POLIMI.IT> Antwort an: Luca Mottola <luca.mottola(a)POLIMI.IT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Call for Papers: IEEE Internet Computing Special Issue - Building Internet of Things Software - http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/iccfp2 ==================================================================== As we equip people, places, and commodities with Internet-connected embedded devices that can sense information about the environment and subsequently take action, we will create the Internet of Things (IoT). The IoT will improve society and quality of life, but making this vision a reality requires interdisciplinary efforts in a range of scientific domains. Specifically, enabling the design, implementation, validation, and real-world use of IoT software requires that we embrace diverse contributions in coherent and practical development frameworks, possibly based on current and future standards. This special issue seeks contributions about recent or ongoing research efforts, experience reports, and success stories in enabling an effective development of IoT software out of the individual building blocks available in different communities. Topics of interest include: - design and modeling approaches and methodologies for IoT software; - programming abstractions and languages expressly conceived for the IoT; - development techniques for IoT software appropriate for different hardware; - platforms, from tiny sensors to the enterprise level; - approaches for composing and interoperating existing IoT functionality; - cross-layer IoT software architectures; - standards for developing IoT software; and - real-world deployments and experiences in building IoT systems. Submission Guidelines: All submissions must be original manuscripts of fewer than 5,000 words, focused on Internet technologies and implementations. All manuscripts are subject to peer review on both technical merit and relevance to IEEE Internet Computing international readership: primarily practicing engineers and academics who are looking for material that introduces new technology and broadens familiarity with current topics. We do not accept white papers, and we discourage strictly theoretical or mathematical papers. To submit a manuscript, please log on to ScholarOne (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com:443/ic-cs) to create or access an account, which you can use to log on to the IEEE Internet Computing Author Center and upload your submission. Important Dates: Submissions due: 1 July 2014 Publication issue: March/April 2015 Please email the guest editors at ic2-2015(a)computer.org a brief description of the article you plan to submit by 15 June 2014 Guest Editors: Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano (Italy) Luca Mottola, Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and SICS Swedish ICT Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology (Austria) For further information, please write to ic2-2015(a)computer.org. ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP ACM SIGCOMM CoNEXT'14
by Lars Wolf 17 Apr '14

17 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP ACM SIGCOMM CoNEXT'14 Datum: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 14:58:50 +0200 Von: Emmanuel Lochin <emmanuel.lochin(a)ISAE.FR> Antwort an: Emmanuel Lochin <emmanuel.lochin(a)ISAE.FR> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Call for papers The ACM SIGCOMM CoNEXT conference travels to another continent to complete its first decade as one of the major forums for presentations and discussions of novel computing technologies that will shape the future of Internetworking. The goal of the conference is to foster technical interactions among members of computer and communication networks research at large through a single track program promoting their most promising works. This new installment of the conference is proudly committed to the three values that made the conference successful for nearly ten years: Recognizing farsighted excellence, by selectively choosing papers with substantial novelty and research contribution. Promoting a broad definition of networking research, by welcoming submissions based on implementation and experimentation as well as theoretical analysis. Assuring authors of submitted papers a fair and thorough review process, with sound and detailed feedback guaranteed to each submissions in proportion of its scientific merit and potential. Scope The Program Committee of ACM CoNEXT seeks papers presenting significant and novel research results on emerging computer and communication networks. We especially encour- age submissions that present novel experimentation, creative use of networking technologies and new insights made possible using analysis or computing concepts rarely found among networking researchers. We invite submissions on a wide range of networking research including : * Networking aspects of mobile, wireless and ubiquitous computing * Networking aspects of operating systems and virtualization architectures * Network control and management, including datacenter, enterprise and SDN * Security and privacy aspects of computer networks and protocols * Theory and performance analysis of networking architectures and applications * Novel application of other fields to computer networking We are open to other contributions that stretch networking research outside of these topics, present new emerging computing trends and potentially involve unfamiliar techniques. We invite the authors to bear in mind that the main factor of interest for their work will be the implications of their results in networking. These should be clearly substantiated and explained. Submission Authors must submit their papers electronically, following the guidelines available on the ACM SIGCOMM CoNEXT web page. The committee encourages substantiated results with a succinct presentation. All papers will be part of a single track. More details will be provided on the format of the papers closer to the submission date. The selection of presentations will be based on peer-review by program committee members. This year, in an effort to inform judgment on the selection of presented papers, the PC will organize a rolling early feedback phase. During that time, and before review are completed, PC members are able to request authors for clarifications, typically on assumptions made and results obtained. Authors of submitted papers who receive such a request have the non mandatory option to answer that request within a week. We encourage this interaction espe- cially to give a chance to a minority of "controversial" papers that could be of special interest to our community, but raises important concerns that need to be addressed. Publication The proceedings of the conference will be published by the ACM. Website http://conferences2.sigcomm.org/co-next/2014/ Important dates Paper Registration June 8, 2014 (16:59 PDT) Paper Submission June 15, 2014 (16:59 PDT) Notification of Acceptance August 25, 2014 Conference December 2-5, 2014 -- Emmanuel Lochin Professeur ISAE - OSSI Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (ISAE) Issu du rapprochement SUPAERO et ENSICA 10 avenue Edouard Belin - BP 54032 - 31055 Toulouse cedex 4 Tel : 05 61 33 91 85 - Fax : 05 61 33 91 88 Web : http://personnel.isae.fr/emmanuel-lochin/ --- "This email and any attachments are confidential. They may contain legally privileged information or copyright material. You should not read, copy, use or disclose them without authorisation. If you are not an intended recipient, please contact us at once by return email and then delete both messages. We do not accept liability in connection with computer virus, data corruption, delay, interruption, unauthorised access or unauthorised amendment. This notice should not be removed" ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [InternetTC] COMNET Special Issue on Robust and Fault-Tolerant Communication Networks
by Lars Wolf 16 Apr '14

16 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [InternetTC] COMNET Special Issue on Robust and Fault-Tolerant Communication Networks Datum: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 07:34:23 +0000 Von: Prosper Chemouil <prosper.chemouil(a)ORANGE.COM> An: itc(a)COMSOC.ORG Special Issue on *Robust and Fault-Tolerant Communication Networks* *Description of the Special Issue* Network services over communication networks play a vital role in our modern private, corporate and institutional lives. This importance is expected to continue to grow in future decades. More and more business, healthcare or government organizations will become increasingly dependent on the communication between their departments, offices and people. In addition, the dynamics and mobility within these circles is growing significantly, due to changing business relations, social or environmental phenomena. Not only does society depend on these services in terms of availability but also in terms of proper functioning in all circumstances: services having stringent requirements with respect to protection of privacy, security, anonymity (such as e-health) cannot accept, for example, temporary leakage of confidential information by accident whether a result of human error or technical problems. The information and communication network technology itself has also been evolving with high velocity. End-user’s connection speed grows by 50 % per year (Nielsen’s Law); users have more and more different types of mobile devices which interconnect them to the Internet (tablets, smartphones, smart watches, etc.). These themselves provide incentives to generate novel technology paradigms which enable more flexible provisioning, network (function) virtualization, or improved power efficiency. The robustness and fault tolerance of these novel evolutions is as crucial as ever. This special issue aims to collect publications with cutting-edge insights, analysis, designs and/or evaluations in the field of the reliability and availability of communication networks and services. The editors welcome submissions from experts from industry, governments and academia experienced in engineering, network design or modeling. *Topics of Interest* Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: * Management and operational aspects in network reliability (e.g. fault management/monitoring, or control) * Robust methods for correct operation of privacy, security and anonymity schemes. * Reliability and recovery of Software-Defined Networks (SDN) and Network (Function) Virtualization (NFV) * Self-healing and autonomic networks * Green Networking and reliability/dependability * Methods and theory for survivable network and systems design, analysis and operation (including scalability and complexity) * Planning, design and optimization of reliable networks, systems, and services * Simulation/emulation techniques for network resilience * Application and service-specific survivability techniques * Reliability and resilience of data centre networks, grid networks and cloud computing services * Communication networks as an element of critical infrastructures * Public policy, economical or commercial issues for survivability and resilience * Risk and reliability in the Internet and enterprise networks * New and emerging threats (such as self-healing, self-organizing mechanisms and short-coming in network control software being turned against the network itself) *Submission Details* All received submissions within the scope of this special issue will be sent out for blind peer review by three experts in the field and be evaluated in regards to the relevance for this special issue, level of novelty, depth of contribution, and overall quality. Submitted articles must be original, unpublished, and not currently under review by other journals. If the paper was preliminarily published in a conference, the submitted manuscript must be a substantial extension of the conference paper. In this case, authors are also required to explain the enhancements made in the journal version. Submitted articles must be written clearly, in good English, and should not exceed 25 pages, everything included such as abstract, figures, tables, references, etc. Authors should follow the Computer Networks manuscript format which can be found at _http://www.elsevier.com/journals/computer-networks/1389-1286/guide-for-aut…. 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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] JSAC special issue on LOCATION-AWARENESS FOR RADIOS AND NETWORKS
by Lars Wolf 15 Apr '14

15 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] JSAC special issue on LOCATION-AWARENESS FOR RADIOS AND NETWORKS Datum: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 12:33:10 +0000 Von: Maged Elkashlan <maged.elkashlan(a)QMUL.AC.UK> Antwort an: Maged Elkashlan <maged.elkashlan(a)QMUL.AC.UK> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Call for Papers LOCATION-AWARENESS FOR RADIOS AND NETWORKS http://www.comsoc.org/files/Publications/Journals/jsac/cfp/cfp_Localization… Location-awareness using radio signals stands to revolutionize the fields of navigation and communication engineering. It can be utilized to great effect in the next generation of cellular networks, mining applications, health-care monitoring, transportation and intelligent highways, multi-robot applications, first responders operations, military applications, factory automation, building and environmental controls, cognitive wireless networks, commercial and social network applications, and smart spaces. A multitude of technologies can be utilized in location-aware radios and networks, including global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), RFID, cellular, UWB, WLAN, Bluetooth, cooperative localization, indoor GPS, device-free localization, IR, Radar, and UHF. The performances of these technologies are measured by their accuracy, precision, complexity, robustness, scalability, and cost. Given the many application scenarios across different disciplines, there is a clear need for a broad, up-to-date and cogent treatment of radio-based location awareness. This special issue will bring together the latest research, innovations, and applications of location-awareness for radios and networks. Prospective authors are cordially invited to submit their original manuscript on topics including, but not limited to: - Simultaneous localization and mapping techniques - Algorithms for GNSS, assisted GNSS, augmented GNSS, and pseudolites - Indoor location-aware networks (Bluetooth, Zigbee, WLAN, UWB localization) - Positioning using opportunistic signals (3GPP/LTE, 802.11x, digital TV) - Radio-based tomography, device-free localization, and through-the-wall sensing - Security and privacy aspects of positioning - Distributed, peer-to-peer, and collaborative localization and tracking - Fundamental limits and bounds on position estimation - Heterogeneous sensor fusion and hybridization algorithms for positioning - Signal design, signal detection, and parameter estimation for positioning - Testbeds, measurement campaigns, channel modeling, and experimentation - Positioning for autonomous systems (robots, planes, cars) - Interference cancelation, avoidance, and reduction techniques in the localization process - Location information for resource planning of radio and networks - Special topics on localization and tracking (cooperative localization, optimization, networked-based localization and mapping in general sensor networks, sparsity-exploiting sensing and decision) Prospective authors should submit their manuscripts following the IEEE JSAC format at http://www.jsac.ucsd.edu/Guidelines/info.html. Authors should submit a PDF version of their complete manuscript to http://www.edas.info, according to the following schedule: Initial manuscript submission: August 1, 2014 First reviews complete: November 1, 2014 Second reviews complete: January 1, 2015 Final manuscript submission: February 2, 2014 Publication date: 2nd quarter, 2015 Guest Editors: - Trung Q. Duong Queen's University Belfast trung.q.duong(a)qub.ac.uk - Maged Elkashlan Queen Mary University of London maged.elkashlan(a)qmul.ac.uk - George K. Karagiannidis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki geokarag(a)auth.gr - Henk Wymeersch Chalmers University of Technology henkw(a)chalmers.se - Yasamin Mostofi University of California, Santa Barbara ymostofi(a)ece.ucsb.edu - Byonghyo Shim Korea University, South Korea bshim(a)korea.ac.kr? ______________________________________________________________ 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: OSDI'14 Abstract Submission Deadline Coming (04/24)
by Lars Wolf 13 Apr '14

13 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: OSDI'14 Abstract Submission Deadline Coming (04/24) Datum: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 12:01:56 -0500 Von: shanlu <shanlu(a)CS.WISC.EDU> Antwort an: shanlu <shanlu(a)CS.WISC.EDU> An: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG Special Announcement Abstract submissions to the 11th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '14) are due Thursday, April 24, 2014; please visit the OSDI '14 Call for Papers Web page for further details about the submission process. https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi14/call-for-papers The OSDI Symposium emphasizes innovative research as well as quantified or insightful experiences in systems design and implementation. OSDI takes a broad view of the systems area and solicits contributions from many fields of systems practice, including, but not limited to: * Operating systems * File and storage systems * Distributed systems * Cloud computing * Mobile systems * Secure and reliable systems * Embedded systems * Virtualization * Networking as it relates to operating systems * Management and troubleshooting of complex systems Work that explores the interface to related areas such as computer architecture, networking, programming languages, and databases is welcomed, as are contributions containing highly original ideas, new approaches, and/or groundbreaking results. Paper abstracts are due April 24, 2014; complete paper submissions are due May 1, 2014. --------------------------------- Call for Papers 11th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '14) October 6-8, 2014 Broomfield, CO Sponsored by USENIX in cooperation with ACM SIGOPS https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi14/call-for-papers Paper abstracts due: April 24, 2014 Complete paper submissions due: May 1, 2014 --------------------------------- ############################ To unsubscribe from the SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE list: write to: mailto:SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE-SIGNOFF-REQUEST@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG or click the following link: http://listserv.acm.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ACMLPX.CGI?SUBED1=SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE&A=1

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Deadline Extension - 13th IEEE WLN 2014
by Lars Wolf 13 Apr '14

13 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Deadline Extension - 13th IEEE WLN 2014 Datum: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 14:27:01 -0400 Von: Sharief Oteafy <oteafy(a)CS.QUEENSU.CA> Antwort an: Sharief Oteafy <oteafy(a)CS.QUEENSU.CA> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG *** Call for papers - Extended deadline *** The 13th IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Local Networks (WLN'14): http://wln14.blogspot.ca/ Held in conjunction with the 39th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN'14) Sept. 8-11, 2014, Edmonton, Canada WLNs in the 5G Era ================ With over 5 billion devices generating data and spurring an exponential rise in mobile data traffic, mobile operators need to examine new ways for improving coverage and network capacity in the Internet of Things. Next generation 5G networks are expected to be deployed by 2020, with design targets focusing on increased peak data rates, network capacity, and smart connectivity. This year WLN will focus on the characteristics of 5G networks, their technical design challenges, and the services they are expected to provide to wireless local networks and the future Internet. - Specific topics include, but are not limited to: - 5G - The quest for spectral efficiency - 5G infrastructure and design challenges - Virtualized and cloud-based radio access infrastructure - Wireless access schemes and techniques - Mobility and network management - Cognitive and reconfigurable radio - Small cell and ultra-dense deployment techniques - New services for the future Internet - The transition to 5G - Backward compatibility issues, and multi-RAT coexistence - Backhauling future heterogeneous and moving networks - 5G and the explosive growth of data traffic - Wireless and Mobile Clouds - Implementation and test bed issues Submission Guidelines ------------------------------- We seek original contributions that have neither been previously published nor currently under review. Authors are invited to submit a full paper (up to 8 pages) that describes complete work in a self-contained manner with the intent to deliver an oral presentation. For style guidelines, kindly refer to the author instructions available on the IEEE LCN 2014 website: http://www.ieeelcn.org/Author_Instructions.html . Papers must be submitted via EDAS. All accepted submissions will be published in the LCN'14 proceedings and the ieeeXplore portal. http://edas.info/N17431 Important Dates ----------------------- Paper submission: May 1st, 2014 (Extended deadline) Notification of acceptance: May 30, 2014 Camera-ready copy due: June 30, 2014 Committee --------------- General Chair: Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Technical Program Chairs: Sharief Oteafy, Queen's University, Canada Mervat Abu Elkheir, Mansoura University, Egypt ---- Sharief Oteafy, PhD Adjunct Assistant Professor Telecommunications Research Lab School of Computing Queen's University <http://cs.queensu.ca/~oteafy/> http://cs.queensu.ca/~oteafy/ Tel: 613 533 6000 x 75029 ______________________________________________________________ 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 - Wireless Personal Communications - Special Issue on "Recent Advances in Mobile and Wireless Networks"
by Lars Wolf 13 Apr '14

13 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP - Wireless Personal Communications - Special Issue on "Recent Advances in Mobile and Wireless Networks" Datum: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 06:20:20 +0800 Von: Chun-Cheng Lin (NCTU) <cclin321(a)NCTU.EDU.TW> Antwort an: Chun-Cheng Lin (NCTU) <cclin321(a)NCTU.EDU.TW> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ========================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS Wireless Personal Communications (Springer) Special Issue on "Recent Advances in Mobile and Wireless Networks" Mobile and wireless networks are enabling a myriad of services and applications. For example, wireless hotspots are so widely deployed that access to the Internet is almost ubiquitous; people can work and play via Internet access no matter whether they are sitting on a terrace, travelling on a train, or flying in a plane. The explosive growth of applications for the current and emerging user services poses a number of challenges to this critical infrastructure. It also presents opportunities for research and innovation to both the academia and industry, especially for the development of efficiency, scalability and reliability in mobile and wireless networks. These challenges motivate us to design and develop new protocols, architectures and services for future mobile and wireless networks. The goal of this special issue is to publish both state-of-the-art and prospective papers that present advances towards the performance enhancement of mobile and wireless networks. In this context, papers will discuss all aspects that have an impact on the performance as depicted in research activities from professionals, academics and researchers. This special issue will be partially composed of the extended versions of the quality papers presented at the Special Session on Recent Issues in Mobile and Wireless Networks, the 2014 Global Wireless Summit (GWS 2014) at http://gws2014.org/. Topics Topics of interest with respect to mobile and wireless networks include but are not limited to the following: * Design and analysis of mobile and wireless networks * MAC protocol design * New mobile and wireless applications and network services * Multimedia over mobile and wireless networks * New trends on data gathering, processing, and communications * New trends on malicious behavior detection and analysis * QoS and QoE issues * Robustness and fault tolerance * Algorithms and techniques for efficient communications * Routing and data transport * Modeling and performance evaluation * Measurements and experience from experimental systems and test-beds * Integration of mobile and wireless networks and web-based services * Internetworking of mobile and wireless networks * Security issues * Cross-layer architectures * Power consumption and optimization * Location discovery and location management * Data fusion and dynamic inference of network information * Green communications and networking * Mobile clouds * Emerging technologies Submission Information Authors should follow the Wireless Personal Communications Journal manuscript format described in the Instructions for Authors link on the journal site: http://www.springer.com/11277. During submission, please select the Article Type: "Special issue-MWN/GWS2014". The submission must include the title, abstract of your paper, and the corresponding author's name and affiliation. This special issue also selects quality papers from Special Session on Recent Issues in Mobile and Wireless Networks, The 2014 Global Wireless Summit (GWS 2014) (http://gws2014.org/), Aalborg, Denmark, May 11-14, 2014. Guest Editors Prof. Der-Jiunn Deng, National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan (Email: djdeng(a)cc.ncue.edu.tw) Prof. Chih-Cheng Tseng, National Ilan University, Taiwan (E-mail: tsengcc(a)niu.edu.tw) Prof. Tony Q.S. Quek, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore (tonyquek(a)sutd.edu.sg) Prof. Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA (nirwan.ansari(a)njit.edu) Paper Submission Deadline: Paper Submission Deadline: October 1, 2014 1st Notification of acceptance: November 31, 2014 Submission due date of revised paper: January 15, 2015 2nd Notification of acceptance: February 28, 2015 Submission of final revised paper: March 31, 2015 Publication date: 3rd or 4th Quarter, 2015 (Tentative) ______________________________________________________________ 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: 16th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2014)
by Lars Wolf 13 Apr '14

13 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Papers: 16th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2014) Datum: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 04:39:27 -0400 Von: Habib Ammari <hammari(a)UMICH.EDU> Antwort an: Habib Ammari <hammari(a)UMICH.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ****************************************************************************** Call For Papers - SSS 2014 - 16th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems http://sss2014.cs.upb.de/ Sept 29 - Oct 1, 2014, Paderborn, Germany ****************************************************************************** SSS is an international forum for researchers and practitioners in the design and development of distributed systems with self-* properties such as self- stabilizing, self-configuring, self-organizing, self-managing, self-repairing, self-healing, self-optimizing, self-adaptive, and self-protecting. Research in distributed systems is now at a crucial point in its evolution, marked by the importance of dynamic systems such as peer-to-peer networks, large-scale wireless sensor networks, mobile ad hoc networks, robotic networks, opportunistic networks etc. Moreover, new applications such as grid and web services, banking and e-commerce, e-health and robotics, aerospace and avionics, automotive, industrial process control, etc. have joined the traditional applications of distributed systems. We particularly encourage the submissions spanning these areas of applications. The conference provides a wide spectrum of topics, covered in the following tracks: * Self-stabilization * Fault-tolerant and Dependable Systems * Formal Methods, Safety, and Security * Ad-hoc, Sensor and Mobile Networks, Cyberphysical Systems * Cloud Computing, P2P, Self-organizing and Autonomous Systems IMPORTANT DATES * Abstract Submission: April 21, 2014 (UTC-12) * Paper Submission: April 24, 2014 (UTC-12) * Notification: June 9, 2014 * Camera Ready Submission: July 4, 2014 PAPER SUBMISSION Papers must be prepared using the LNCS style and be electronically submitted in PDF format using EasyChair ( https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sss2014). Two types of papers can be submitted: Regular Papers and Brief Announcements. Submissions for regular papers should be no longer than 15 pages (including the title, authors, abstract, figures, and references) in LNCS style; a submission may have an appendix of at most two pages beyond the 15 page limit. Brief announcements are restricted to two pages using the LNCS style, with no appendix. Submissions deviating from these guidelines will be rejected without consideration of their merits. If requested by the authors, a regular submission that is not selected for a regular presentation will also be considered for a brief announcement. This request must be clearly indicated in the first page of the paper. Such a request will not affect consideration of the paper for a regular paper. A paper submitted at this forum is expected to be original research not previously published. A submission may not be concurrently submitted to another conference, workshop, or journal. PUBLICATION The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.Selected papers will be published in the Journal of Self-Computing ( http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscinet/jsc). BEST PAPER AND BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARDS The program committee will select two papers for best paper and best student paper awards. A paper is eligible for the best student paper award if at least one of its authors is a full-time student at the time of submission. This must be clearly indicated in the first page of the paper. CONFERENCE VENUE SSS 2014 will take place in Paderborn, Germany. ORGANIZATION General Chairs: Anish Arora, Ohio State University, USA Christian Scheideler, University of Paderborn, Germany Program Chairs: Pascal Felber, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland Vijay Garg, University of Texas, Austin, USA Track Chairs: * Self-stabilization Ted Herman, University of Iowa, USA Volker Turau, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany * Fault-tolerant and Dependabable Systems Luís Rodrigues, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal * Formal Methods, Safety, and Security Borzoo Bonakdarpour, University of Waterloo, Canada * Ad-hoc, Sensor and Mobile Networks, Cyberphysical Systems Rajmohan Rajaraman, Northeastern University, USA * P2P, Social, Self-organizing, Autonomic and Opportunistic Networks Murat Demirbas, University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA Local Arrangements Chair: Christian Scheideler, University of Paderborn, Germany Publicity Chairs Habib M. Ammari, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA Stefan Schmid, Technical University of Berlin, Germany Steering Committee: Anish Arora, Ohio State University, USA Ajoy K. Datta, University of Nevada, USA Shlomi Dolev (Chair), Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Sukumar Ghosh, University of Iowa, USA Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas at Austin, USA Ted Herman, University of Iowa, USA Toshimitsu Masuzawa, Osaka University, Japan Vincent Villain, Universite de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV), France Best Regards, Habib M. Ammari -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Habib M. Ammari, Associate Professor Office: 129 CIS Building Founding Director, WiSeMAN Research Lab WiSeMAN: 132 CIS Building Department of Computer and Information Science Phone: (313) 593-5239 College of Engineering and Computer Science Fax: (313) 593-4256 University of Michigan-Dearborn Email: hammari(a)umd.umich.edu Dearborn, Michigan 48128 Home page: http://www-personal.engin.umd.umich.edu/~hammari/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________________________ 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 DCoSS 2014] Contributions to Workshops at DCOSS 2014
by Lars Wolf 13 Apr '14

13 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [IEEE DCoSS 2014] Contributions to Workshops at DCOSS 2014 Datum: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 07:30:09 -0400 Von: Kaushik Chowdhury <krc(a)ece.neu.edu> An: Lars C Wolf <wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> Dear Prof. Wolf, I would like to draw your attention to the following workshops at DCOSS 2014 that are still accepting submissions: International Workshop on Performance Control in Wireless Sensor Networks Co-Chairs: Kostas Psounis and Vasos Vassiliou Email: kpsounis(a)usc.edu, vasosv(a)cs.ucy.ac.cy International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Security Co-Chairs: Selcuk Uluagac and Raheem Beyah Email: selcuk(a)gatech.edu, raheem.beyah(a)ece.gatech.edu International Workshop on Energy Awareness for Heterogeneous Networks: Recent Hardware and Software-Defined Solutions Co-Chairs: Berk Canberk and Gunes Karabulut Kurt Email: canberk(a)itu.edu.tr, gkurt(a)itu.edu.tr Best regards, Kaushik Chowdhury WORKSHOPS CO-CHAIR DCOSS 2014

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Fwd: IEEE SENSORS 2014 abstract submission deadline extension
by Lars Wolf 13 Apr '14

13 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: IEEE SENSORS 2014 abstract submission deadline extension Datum: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 11:15:08 +0000 Von: IEEE Sensors Council <j.scharmann(a)conferencecatalysts.com> Antwort an: IEEE Sensors Council <j.scharmann(a)conferencecatalysts.com> An: <wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> IEEE SENSORS 2014 abstract submission deadline extension IEEE SENSORS 2014 News View this email in your browser <http://us7.campaign-archive1.com/?u=f2d2eabe9a09b13da6607ea3c&id=6dc3a93f56…> Due to numerous requests, the deadline for abstract submission has been extended to 25 April 2014. *IEEE SENSORS 2014* will be held in Valencia, Spain, 2 to 5 November 2014. For further information, please visit *http://ieee-sensors2014.org/ <http://ieee-sensors.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f2d2eabe9a09b13da6607…>.* /Copyright © 2014 *|IEEE Sensors Council*, All rights reserved./ You are receiving this email because of your relationship to the IEEE Sensors Council. This list is used ONLY for IEEE Sensors Council announcements. It is NOT shared with others. If you unsubscribe, you will not receive future announcements about IEEE Sensors Council activities, such as the IEEE Sensors Journal and future IEEE SENSORS conferences. *Our mailing address is:* IEEE SENSORS Council c/o Conference Catalysts, LLC 802 NW 16th Avenue, Ste. B Gainesville, FL 32605 Add us to your address book <http://ieee-sensors.us7.list-manage.com/vcard?u=f2d2eabe9a09b13da6607ea3c&i…> unsubscribe from this list <http://ieee-sensors.us7.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=f2d2eabe9a09b13da6607…> update subscription preferences <http://ieee-sensors.us7.list-manage.com/profile?u=f2d2eabe9a09b13da6607ea3c…>

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ACM MobiHoc Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Technologies for Smart Cities (WiMobCity 2014)
by Periklis Chatzimisios 10 Apr '14

10 Apr '14

Please note that the deadline for submission of papers to the ACM International Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Technologies for Smart Cities (WiMobCity), organized in conjunction with ACM MobiHoc, is approaching. Papers are due on *April 20, 2014*. More details about the workshop are reported below. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS ACM International Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Technologies for Smart Cities (WiMobCity) Organized in conjunction with ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc) Philadelphia, PA, USA (August 11-14, 2014) http://www.grid.unina.it/WiMobCity ----------------------------------------------------------------------- It is widely acknowledged that Smart Cities will drive sustainable economic growth in the next years and ICT represents one of the enabling factors for their actual implementation. The problem of efficiently supporting applications and services for Smart Cities in complex, distributed and diverse environments has been and is continuing to be the subject of intense research investigation. Wireless and Mobile Technologies play an essential role in the new and challenging scenario of Smart Cities. *Topics of interest* The main purpose of the WiMobCity Workshop is to bring together researchers, academics, and developers in the field of Smart Cities (and in particular on the related topics of Wireless and Mobile communication technologies and networking) in order to share new findings, exchange ideas, discuss research challenges and report latest research efforts that cover a variety of topics including, but not limited to: - Communication technologies, architectures and wireless/mobile protocols (WiFi / LTE / 4G) - Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Near Field Communication (NFC) and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) communication technologies - Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications - Quality of Service (QoS) / Quality of Experience (QoE) mechanisms - Green and energy efficient technologies - Security and privacy communication issues for Smart Cities - Data management and access methods (cloud, crowdsourcing, etc.) - Pervasive Internet of Things (IoT) and mobile computing - Innovative applications and services for sustainable cities - Business models, billing approaches and new services for Smart Cities - Smart Cities deployments, platforms, test-beds and field trials - Standardization activities for Smart Cities *Submission Procedure* Paper submissions must be limited to 10 pages according to the Author Information page for submission guidelines in the ACM MobiHoc 2014 website. Accepted papers will be published in the symposium proceedings. All submitted papers will be judged on their quality through blind reviewing. Submitted papers must not be currently under review for any other publication. The edas link for submission is https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=17375 *Workshop website* http://www.grid.unina.it/WiMobCity *General Chair* Antonio Pescape (University of Napoli, Italy) *Technical Program co-Chairs* Alessio Botta (University of Napoli, Italy) Periklis Chatzimisios (Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece) *Important Dates* Paper submission deadline: April 20, 2014 (extended) Author notification: June 1, 2014 Camera ready due: June 18, 2014

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Fwd: The 3rd IEEE/TRB International Conference on Connected Vehicles & Expo: Call for Papers and Speech Proposals
by Lars Wolf 10 Apr '14

10 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: The 3rd IEEE/TRB International Conference on Connected Vehicles & Expo: Call for Papers and Speech Proposals Datum: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 14:36:36 +0000 Von: Committee <cn.x.w(a)ieee.org> An: Lars C Wolf <wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> The 3rd IEEE/TRB International Conference on Connected Vehicles & Expo: Call for Papers and Speech Proposals Dear Lars Wolf Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message. *The 3rd International Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo (ICCVE 2014)* November 3-7, 2014 | Vienna, Austria /*"The future of mobility enabled by Connected Automated Vehicles"*/ Conference website: http://www.iccve.org/2014 ______________________________ ________ Connected Vehicles is an emerging technical field which crosses multiple disciplines and industries including automotive, travel & transportation, information technology, communications, consumer electronics, industrial electronics, media & entertainment, energy & utilities, insurance, etc. By connecting vehicles with various devices, services and participants, we are able to make our mobility more enjoyable, sustainable and safe. Co-sponsored by over 20 societies and organizations, ICCVE 2014 is the world's premier Connected Vehicles conference that gathers all the relevant communities together. During the 5-day conference, experts, practitioners and policy makers from all around the world will present the latest innovations and advances on connected vehicles, share the experience and insights, forecast the trends and opportunities, and discuss the policy, economics and social implications. We are proudly and excitedly inviting you to participate in and enjoy this world-class event. The conference program will feature paper sessions and workshops, summits and industry forums, demos, exhibits, tutorials, and tours. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 1. Wireless Communications and Vehicular Networking 2. Mobile Internet, Mobility Internet and Internet of Things 3. Cooperative Driving, Intelligent and Autonomous Vehicles 4. Automotive Electronics and Automatic Control 5. Transportation and Connected Vehicles 6. Electric Vehicle and Transportation Electrification 7. Geographic, Spatial and Social Information Systems 8. Manufacturing and Product Safety Engineering in Connected Vehicles 9. Practices, Recommendations and Standards in Connected Vehicles 10. Policy, Economics and Social Implications of Connected Vehicles ** CALL FOR PAPERS ** Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers (6 pages) or digest papers (2 pages) for presentation at the conference and publication in the Proceedings. *Full Papers: *Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers (IEEE standard format, double column, 10-point font, US letter, 6 pages maximum with 2 additional pages allowed but at an extra charge) for presentation at the conference and publication in the Proceedings. *Digest Papers: *Authors are also invited to submit digest papers (IEEE standard format, double column, 10-point font, US letter, 2 pages) to showcase results recently obtained in industry or academia. Accepted digest papers will be presented at the conference and published in the Proceedings. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the ICCVE 2014 Conference Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore®. The ICCVE 2014 Conference Proceedings will also be submitted for indexing through INSPEC, and EI's Engineering Information Index, Compendex, and ISI Thomson's Scientific and Technical Proceedings, ISTP/ISI Proceedings, and Current Contents on Diskette, and Scopus. Top quality papers accepted and presented at the conference will also be invited to submit extended versions to special issues or special sections of the following IEEE journals: - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems - IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine - IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine - IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification - IEEE Transportation Electrification Magazine ------------------------------ ----------- Paper Submission Deadline: May 10, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: Jun 28, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: Jul 28, 2014 ------------------------------ ----------- ** INDUSTRY FORUMS - CALL FOR SPEECH PROPOSALS ** The ICCVE 2014 will hold Industry Forums designed to facilitate broad discussions on various aspects of Connected Vehicles. Speeches about technologies, practices, markets, policy, and social implications are all welcome. If you are interested in speaking at the ICCVE 2014 Industry Forums, please submit a simple proposal to our industry forums committee. Based on the submitted proposals, the committee will schedule forum sessions consisting of speeches and panel discussions. Each speech will be 20-30 min, depending on how full the agenda of a session would be. *Simple submission.* Too busy to write a detailed proposal? Don't worry. At this stage, you only need to send a simple email as your proposal to our industry forums committee (forums(a)iccve.org <mailto:forums@iccve.org>). Just include the following items in the plain-text proposal: - Title for the speech; - An abstract of the speech (no more than 200 words); - Name, affiliation, and email address of the speaker; - A short biography of the speaker. You will get a notification of acceptance in 10 working days, then you can start preparing your slides. *No copyright transfer.* You keep the copyright of your slides, so you can feel free to reuse them in part or in whole for other occasions. *Do not take the "Industry Forums" too literally.* You are not an industry person? It doesn't matter at all. Speakers from academia, industry and government are all welcome. ------------------------------ ----------- Proposal Submission Deadline: Jun 30, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: 10 working days after your submission ------------------------------ ----------- For more information, visit http://www.iccve.org/2014.

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ACM* PE-WASUN 2014, Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks -Montreal, September 21st - 26th, 2014
by Lars Wolf 10 Apr '14

10 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ACM* PE-WASUN 2014, Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks -Montreal, September 21st - 26th, 2014 Datum: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 16:35:31 +0200 Von: Anna Vizziello <anna.vizziello(a)UNIPV.IT> Antwort an: Anna Vizziello <anna.vizziello(a)UNIPV.IT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Papers ******************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS ACM* PE-WASUN 2014 11th ACM* International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks (Jointly with the 17th ACM MSWiM Conference) http://sertel.upc.es/pe-wasun14/ Montreal, Canada September 21st - 26th, 2014 (*ACM sponsorship approval pending) ******************************************************************* ****** Scope ****** Wireless ad hoc, sensor, along with ubiquitous networks have recently witnessed their fastest growth period ever in history, and this trend is likely to continue for the foreseeable future. However, as such networks become increasingly complex, performance modelling and evaluation will play crucial part in their design process to ensure their successful deployment and exploitation in practice. This symposium aims to bring together scientists, engineers, and practitioners to share and exchange their experiences, discuss challenges, and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research on all aspects of wireless ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks with a specific emphasis on their performance evaluation and analysis. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Predictive performance models of ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks Probabilistic models for ad hoc, sensor and ubiquitous networks Queuing and network information theoretic analysis Analytical modeling and simulation methods Automatic performance analysis Tracing and trace analysis Software tools for network performance and evaluation Performance measurement, evaluation and monitoring tools for ad hoc, sensor and ubiquitous networks Case studies demonstrating the role of performance evaluation in the design of ad hoc, sensor and ubiquitous networks Network performance improvement through optimization and tuning Mobility modeling and management Traffic models for ad hoc, sensor networks Performance evaluation of wireless mesh networks Performance evaluation of pervasive and ubiquitous networks Performance evaluation of VANETs Performance of wireless and sensor devices Performance of spectrum agile and cognitive wireless sensor networks Analysis of multimedia applications over wireless ad-hoc and sensor networks Performance of pervasive computing and services Analysis of mobile cloud networking and computing Performance of continuity of service over heterogeneous networks, seamless connectivity Analysis of security and privacy in ad hoc networks and ubiquitous networks General Chairs ----------------- Mónica Aguilar Igartua Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain monica.aguilar(a)entel.upc.edu Walaa Hamouda Concordia University Research Chair, Canada hamouda(a)ece.concordia.ca Co-Chairs ----------------- Isabelle Guérin Lassous Université Lyon 1/LIP, France Isabelle.Guerin-Lassous(a)ens-lyon.fr Francesca Cuomo SAPIENZA Università di Roma, Italy francesca.cuomo(a)uniroma1.it Poster/Demo/Tools Chairs ----------------- Enrico Santagati University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, USA santagat(a)buffalo.edu Publicity Chair ----------------- Carolina Tripp Barba Unviersidad Autónoma de Sinaloa (México) ctripp(a)uas.edu.mx Program Committee Members ----------------- http://http://sertel.upc.es/pe-wasun14/committees.html **************** Paper Submission **************** Authors are required to submit their papers through EasyChair on the following link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pewasun2014 The authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the Symposium. At least one author of each accepted paper must be registered for the symposium, in order for that paper to appear in the proceedings and to be scheduled for presentation. **************** Important Dates **************** Full paper due: May 25th, 2014 Acceptance notification: June 25th, 2014 Camera ready due: TBA Speaker Author Registration: TBA Symposium: September 21st - 26th, 2014 We hope to see you in Montreal. Yours sincerely, --------------------------------------------------------------- Mónica Aguilar Igartua Associate Professor Department of Telematic Engineering Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain Email: monica.aguilar(a)entel.upc.edu URL: http://sertel.upc.es/users/maguilar --------------------------------------------------------------- Walaa Hamouda Associate Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Concordia University Research Chair, Canada Email: hamouda(a)ece.concordia.ca URL: http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~hamouda/ --------------------------------------------------------------- Isabelle Guérin Lassous Professor Computer Science Unit Université Lyon 1/LIP, INRIA, France Email: Isabelle.Guerin-Lassous(a)ens-lyon.fr URL: http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/isabelle.guerin-lassous/ --------------------------------------------------------------- Francesca Cuomo Associate Professor Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni SAPIENZA Università di Roma, Italy Email: francesca.cuomo(a)uniroma1.it URL: http://infocom.uniroma1.it/~franci --------------------------------------------------------------- Carolina Tripp Barba Assistant Professor Facultad de Informática Mazatlán Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Mexico Email: ctripp(a)uas.edu.mx URL: https://sites.google.com/site/carotripp -- Anna Vizziello, Post Doc Researcher Telecommunications & Remote Sensing Laboratory Department of Industrial and Information Engineering - University of Pavia Via Ferrata 1, 27100 Pavia, Italy Telephone: +39 0382 985923 URL: http://tlclab.unipv.it/sito_tlc/people.do?id=avizziello ______________________________________________________________ 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] Deadline extended to April 28- CFP: 6th IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications (IEEE WiVeC'2014)
by Lars Wolf 08 Apr '14

08 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Deadline extended to April 28- CFP: 6th IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications (IEEE WiVeC'2014) Datum: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 19:45:11 -0400 Von: Zhengguo Sheng <steveshun(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Zhengguo Sheng <steveshun(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.] The new submission deadline: April 28, 2014 (firm deadline). The new notification date: May 28, 2014. Final papers due: June 23 2014 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6th IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications (IEEE WiVeC’2014) 14th-15th September 2014, Vancouver, Canada, colocated with VTC2014-Fall. http://www.ieeevtc.org/wivec2014/ Sponsored by the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wireless vehicular communications has been identified as a key technology for increasing road safety and transport efficiency, and providing Internet access on the move to ensure wireless ubiquitous connectivity. The potential of this technology has been acknowledged with the establishment of ambitious research programs worldwide in Europe, US and Asia. The IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) currently covers through its areas of interest (Mobile Radio, Transportation Systems and Automotive Electronics) all technical aspects needed to make wireless vehicular communications a reality. As a result, the IEEE VTS society decided to establish a technical symposium on wireless vehicular communications co-located with the reputed IEEE VTC conferences. The IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications (WiVeC) will cover all vehicular wireless communications aspects of Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V), Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) and Vehicle-to-Person (V2P) communications, including implications on transport efficiency and safety, implications on automotive electronics, liability issues, standardizations efforts and spectrum assignment. After the successful 2007 (Baltimore), 2008 (Calgary), 2010 (Taipei), 2011 (San Francisco) and 2013 (Dresden) editions, the sixth IEEE WiVEC symposium will be co-located with the 80th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference 2014 Fall conference. Combined registrations packages will be offered for WiVEC and VTC events. All accepted and presented papers (full length and demo papers) will be included in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE and will be included in the IEEE Xplore digital library. Topics of interest ------------------ The WiVec Symposium seeks original papers - not published or currently under review for another workshop, conference, or journal - in the area of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I), and vehicle-to-person (V2P) wireless communications. Vehicular communication areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * Connected vehicles, communications and applications. * Railway communications * Communications and networking for autonomous cars and driving systems * RF technologies, antenna design, physical layer and propagation models * Radio resource management and interference management * In-car electronics, embedded integration of wireless vehicular communications * Wireless enabled intelligent transportation systems * Applications (Ecall, toll collection, traffic information, wireless diagnosis, etc.) * Spectrum assignment and EMC regulations * Architecture, networking protocols (including ad-hoc, routing, data dissemination, etc.), QoS and cross-layer optimization design * Communications systems and technologies * Testbeds and simulation platforms * Field trials and deployments * Interworking with sensor network technologies * Roadside infrastructure * Mobility management, mobility and vehicle traffic models * Digital maps and location technologies * Mobility for smart cities * Transportation cyber-physical networks * Security, liability and privacy * Standards development, business models and policies * Assessment of impact on transport efficiency and safety * Scalability issues in metropolitan-wide vehicular networks Submissions ----------- Authors are encouraged to submit full length papers (maximum 5 pages) or demo papers (maximum 2 pages) following the submission guidelines provided at http://www.ieeevtc.org/wivec2014/ Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE and will be included in the IEEE Xplore digital library. Organizing Committee (to be completed) -------------------- General Co-Chairs: - Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada - Soumaya Cherkaoui, Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada - Victor C.M. Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada Technical Program Co-Chairs: - Richard Yu, Carleton University, Canada - Yaser P. Fallah, West Virginia University, USA Local Organizing and Publicity Chair: - Zhengguo Sheng, University of British Columbia, Canada Demonstration Chair: - Gaurav Bansal, Toyota ITC, USA - Sichao Yang, Qualcomm, USA Panel Chair - Carl Kuhnke, Saskatchewan Centre of Excellence for Transportation and Infrastructure, Canada Finance Chair: - J. R. Cruz, University of Oklahoma, USA WiVeC Technical Advisory Committee Liaison: - Javier Gozalvez, Miguel Hernandez University of Elche, Spain Important Dates --------------- The new submission deadline: April 28, 2014 (firm deadline). The new notification date: May 28, 2014. Final papers due: June 23 2014 ______________________________________________________________ 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 CHANTS 2014 (co-located with ACM MobiCom): initial announcement and call for papers
by Lars Wolf 07 Apr '14

07 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ACM CHANTS 2014 (co-located with ACM MobiCom): initial announcement and call for papers Datum: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 17:32:19 +0200 Von: Elisabetta Biondi <chants14_publicity(a)IIT.CNR.IT> Antwort an: Elisabetta Biondi <chants14_publicity(a)IIT.CNR.IT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ************************************* [Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ************************************* ______________________________________________________________________ ACM CHANTS 2014 - 9th Workshop on Challenged Networks co-located with ACM MobiCom 2014 7 September 2014, Maui, Hawaii, USA www.acm-chants.org/14 Supported by the FP7 EU MOTO project http://www.fp7-moto.eu ______________________________________________________________________ SCOPE AND OVERVIEW __________________ Challenged networks comprise those situations where communication is desired, but traditional Internet architectures fail to provide it effectively. Such networks may be characterized by intermittent connectivity, a heterogeneous mix of nodes, nodal churn, and widely varying network conditions. Traditional examples of challenged networks include inter-planetary networks, sensor and wildlife monitoring networks, underwater networks, rural and remote areas, and military battlefields. Recently, challenged networking has also found applications in everyday settings, for which they were not initially conceived, such as opportunistic networking supporting data-centric communications, traffic offloading from cellular networks, mobile cloud computing, opportunistic and participatory sensing. Inter-disciplinary approaches to challenged networking protocols are also successfully explored, exploiting, for example, findings in the area of social networking. The availability of enabling technologies in mobile devices, such as WiFi direct in Android and D2D communication in latest LTE releases, will further push towards practical developments of challenged networking solutions. This workshop builds on the success of the eight previous CHANTS workshops, and WDTN 2005, to stimulate research on the most novel and challenging topics of challenged network research. CHANTS provides an ideal venue for researchers and engineers to present cutting-edge work and results, as research papers or demos, in the following topics: - Delay/disruption-tolerant networks (DTNs) - Opportunistic communication and computing - Architecture, design, and implementation of communication systems for challenged networks - Modeling, analysis and characterization of challenged networks and protocols - Network Coding in Challenged Networks - Information Centric and Content-centric Networking in Challenged Networks - Security/Trust/Privacy concerns and solutions in challenged networks - Case studies involving real challenged network solutions in various stages of development or use - Applications of challenged networks in disrupted scenarios (e.g. disaster relief and emergency management) and in daily use (e.g., vehicular networks, mobile social networking, censorship evasion, crowdsourcing, sensor networks) - Green and energy-efficient communication using challenged networks - Real-world mobility trace collection, analysis, and modeling for challenged environments - Network science methods for challenged networks - Mobile data offloading via challenged networks - Test and simulation tools for evaluating challenged network systems - Configuration, management, and monitoring of challenged networks - Challenged networking techniques for mobile cloud - Challenged networking techniques for participatory and opportunistic sensing Selected papers will be forward-looking, will describe their relationship to existing work, and will have impact and implications for ongoing or future research. We aim to have a highly interactive workshop, also including demos, which have been an integral part of CHANTS. Paper authors who can also run a demo of their work will be encouraged to do so. In exceptional cases, where live demos are simply not practical to present, poster or video presentations of practical results are acceptable. PAPER FORMAT AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ________________________________________ Papers should neither have been published elsewhere nor being currently under review by another conference or journal. Submitted papers must be no more than 6 pages long, and should adhere to the standard ACM conference proceedings format. Demo proposals (to be published as part of the proceedings) must not be longer than 3 pages plus 1 page description of the precise setup and requirements (the 1-page setup description will not be published in the proceedings). Papers will be reviewed single blind. Please follow the submission link at: http://www.acm-chants.org EDITORIAL FOLLOW-UPS _____________________ Extended versions of the selected workshop papers will be considered for possible fast track publication on the Computer Communications Journal (Elsevier), in a special section on Challenged Networks. IMPORTANT DATES _______________ Abstract Registration: 1 June 2014 Submission Deadline: 8 June 2014 Authors Notification: 20 July 2014 Camera Ready Due: 27 July 2014 Workshop: 7 September 2014 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ____________________ Program Committee Chairs - Mario Gerla (UCLA, USA) - Andrea Passarella (IIT-CNR, Italy) Technical Program Committee - Mostafa Ammar (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) - Aruna Balasubramanian (University of Washington, USA) - Fehmi Ben Abdesslem (SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden) - Chiara Boldrini (IIT-CNR, Italy) - Scott Burleigh (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, USA) - Guohong Cao (Penn State University, USA) - Vania Conan (Thales Communications & Security, France) - Marco Conti (IIT-CNR, Italy) - Marcelo Dias de Amorin (UPMC, France) - Roberto Di Pietro (Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy) - Do Young Eun (North Carolina State University, USA) - Stephen Farrell (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) - Ahmed Helmy (University of Florida, USA) - Tristan Henderson (University of St Andrews, UK) - Pan Hui (Deutsche Telekom Laboratories/Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) - Karin Anna Hummel (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) - Mohan Kumar (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA) - Kyunghan Lee, (UNIST Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea) - Uichin Lee (KAIST-KSE, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea) - Anders Lindgren (SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden) - Giovanni Neglia (INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France) - Melek Onen (EURECOM, France) - Joerg Ott (Aalto University, Finland) - Elena Pagani (University of Milan, Italy) - Andreea Hossmann-Picu (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) - Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos (EURECOM, France) - Stavros Toumpis (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece) - Eiko Yoneki (University of Cambridge, UK) Steering Committee - Kevin Almeroth, UC-Santa Barbara, USA - Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Tech, USA - Christophe Diot, Technicolor, France - Deborah Estrin, UC-Los Angeles, USA - Kevin Fall, Carnegie Mellon University, USA - Jorg Ott, Aalto University, Finland - James Scott, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK Publicity Co-Chairs - Elisabetta Biondi (IIT-CNR, Italy) - Sungwon Yang (UCLA, USA) Web Chair - Fehmi Ben Abdesslem (SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden) For more information, please check out www.acm-chants.org or write to the workshop co-chairs at chants2014(a)iit.cnr.it ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE goSMART 2014 (Deadline Extended: 21st April 2014)
by Lars Wolf 07 Apr '14

07 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE goSMART 2014 (Deadline Extended: 21st April 2014) Datum: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 16:30:19 +1000 Von: salil kanhere <salilk(a)CSE.UNSW.EDU.AU> Antwort an: salil kanhere <salilk(a)CSE.UNSW.EDU.AU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Apologies if you receive multiple postings ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ CFP: Third IEEE International Workshop On GlObal Trends in SMART Cities (goSMART) (in conjunction with IEEE LCN 2014) Edmonton, Canada 8-11 September 2014 Web: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~gosmart Deadline Extended: 21st April 2014 More than half of the world's population lives in urban areas today. The current trend of unprecedented migration from rural areas to urban centers is expected to continue in the near future. This increasing urbanization has placed continuous and increasing pressure upon infrastructure, residential and commercial properties, and social communities. Cities of the future can be models of environmental efficiency, because increased density and better management reduce the cost of service delivery, promote innovation, and enable prosperity through economic development. The goSMART workshop will bring together academics, researchers and practitioners from around the world to discuss and exchange ideas on recent developments, current research challenges and future directions in the use of networking, communications, IT systems, applications and service to realize smart communities of the future. Topics of interest include but are not limited to - sensor networks for large-scale urban sensing - smart meters, smart grid and efficient energy management - deployment issues for smart infrastructure in urban areas - traffic management and efficiency - mechanisms to measure quality of life of communities - participatory sensing for smart cities - security and privacy implications - methods to reduce carbon footprint of cities - mechanisms for motivating behavior change towards sustainability - experimental testbeds and simulation environments - smart clouds for management of large-scale data - service delivery and logistics planning - communication infrastructure for smart energy management (Wifi, Wi-sun, Zigbee, or others) Submitted papers will be reviewed by three independent experts in the field. Proceedings of the workshop will be published together with those of IEEE LCN, and will be available in digital format from the IEEE Explore Digital Library. Authors are invited to submit original unpublished work, not currently under review by another conference, workshop or journal. Full papers should be restricted to 8 camera-ready pages (in 10 pt font, double column, US letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches, IEEE format), including text, figures and references. Authors should use only standard fonts, i.e. Times Roman, Courier, Symbol, Helvetica or equivalent. All papers must include title, complete contact information of all authors, abstract and up to 5 keywords on the cover page. Papers must be submitted electronically via EDAS : <https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=17143> Important Dates: Submission Deadline: 21 April 2014 Notification of Acceptance: 30 May 2014 Camera-Ready Deadline: 30 June 2014 Workshop Co-Chairs Satoko Itaya, NICT, Japan Salil Kanhere, UNSW, Australia Stefan Aust, NEC Communication Systems, Japan Standing Committee Shinichi Doi, NEC Central Research Laboratories, Japan Chun-Tung Chou, UNSW, Australia Peter Davis, Telecognix Corporation, Japan Technical Program Committee Omar Alfandi, University of Goettingen, Germany Onur Altintas, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, USA Karl Andersson, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden Bernd Bochow, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Jens-Matthias Bohli, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany David Boyle, Imperial College London, UK Chun Tung Chou, UNSW, Australia Peter Davis, Telecognix Corporation, Japan Marc Emmelmann, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Sonia Heemstra de Groot, Eindhoven Technical University, Netherlands Mitsuru Iwaoka, Yokogawa Electric Corporation Klaus Moessner, University of Surrey, UK Parag Mogre, Siemens AG, Germany Venkatesh Prasad, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Vijay Sathyanarayana Rao, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Dola Saha, NEC Labs America, USA Ryoichi Shinkuma, Kyoto University, Japan Mineo Takai, UCLA, USA Zhixian Yan, Samsung Research America, 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] IEEE MASS 2014: CfP and new announcements!
by Lars Wolf 06 Apr '14

06 Apr '14

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Stefano Basagni <basagni(a)ECE.NEU.EDU> Gesendet: 5. April 2014 23:34:27 MESZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE MASS 2014: CfP and new announcements! (Apologies if you receive this CfP multiple times.) **************************** IEEE MASS 2014 ***************************** 11th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA), Oct 28-30, 2014. http://mass2014.eecs.utk.edu/ **************************** IEEE MASS 2014 ***************************** * IMPORTANT NEW ANNOUNCEMENT! # Submission to IEEE MASS 2014 is now open. # The call for workshop proposals is up: http://mass2014.eecs.utk.edu/callworkshops.htm # Keynote speakers announcement: Dr. Preston Marshall from Google and Prof. Tom La Porta from Penn State. * IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract Deadline: April 18, 2014 Paper Submission Deadline: April 25, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: July 21, 2014 Camera-ready Version: August 24, 2014 Dates of Conference: Oct 28-30, 2014 General Chair: J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, UC Santa Cruz and Palo Alto Research Center Program Chair: Tarek Abdelzaher, UIUC TPC Track Chairs: Algorithms and Theory: Habib M. Ammari, University of Michigan-Dearborn Systems, Protocols, and Applications: Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Experimental Evaluation and Testbeds: Thiemo Voigt, Uppsala University Demo/Poster Chair: Yong Yang, Philips Lab Web Chair: Qing Cao, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Local Chair: Liang Cheng, Lehigh University Publication Chair: Dajin Wang, Montclair State University Registration and Finance Chair: Zhen Jiang, West Chester University Publicity Chairs: Stefano Basagni, Northeastern University, USA Thierry Turletti, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France Yoshiaki Kakuda, Hiroshima City University, Japan Rolando Menchaca-Mendez, IPN, Mexico Workshop Chair: Priya Mahadevan, Palo Alto Research Center Steering Committee: Dharma Agrawal, University of Cincinnati Kang Shin,University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Jie Wu, Temple University Scope: The 11th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems (IEEE MASS 2014) will be held in Philadelphia, USA, 2014. Wireless ad hoc communication and mobile networking/computing have applications in a variety of environments, such as conferences, hospitals, battlefields, and disaster-recovery/rescue operations, and are also being actively investigated as an alternative paradigm for Internet connectivity in both urban and rural areas. Wireless sensor and actuator networks are being deployed for enhancing industrial control processes and supply-chains, and for various forms of environmental monitoring. IEEE MASS 2014 is a three-track conference sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society. It aims at addressing research advances in (i) algorithms and theory, (ii) systems, protocol, and applications, and (iii) experimental evaluation and testbeds, in multi-hop wireless ad hoc and sensor networks, covering topics ranging from technology issues to applications and test-bed development. Topics of Interest: Original, unpublished contributions are solicited in all aspects of mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), wireless sensor networks (WSNs) (including cyber-physical systems, Internet of Things), and mobile networking/computing, including theory, systems and applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Algorithmic aspects of MANETs and WSNs Application Layer Protocols Architectures of wired/wireless networks Capacity planning and admission control Clustering, topology control, coverage, and connectivity Cognitive networking Cooperative and cognitive communication Cooperative sensing in WSNs Compressive sensing technologies Crowd-sourcing techniques Cross layer design and optimization Cyber-physical systems Data gathering, fusion, and dissemination Data transport and management in WSNs Delay tolerant networks Experiences from real-world applications and long-term deployments Handoff/mobility management and seamless internetworking Internet/Cloud of Things Key management and trust establishment Localization and Location Based Services MAC protocols, including 802.11, 802.15.4, UWB MAC-layer design for ad hoc networks and WSNs Machine-to-machine (M2M) communications Measurements, experimental systems and test-beds Mobile computing and networking Mobility management Modeling, analysis and performance evaluation Multi-channel, multi-radio and MIMO technologies Network Layer protocols Networked smart phone applications Novel applications and architectures for WSNs Operating systems and middleware support Opportunistic networking P2P, overlay, and content distribution Power-aware architectures, algorithms, and protocols design QoS and Resource management Reliability, resiliency and fault tolerance techniques Resource management and wireless QoS provisioning Robotic networks Routing protocols, including unicast, multicast, broadcast, geocast Security and privacy issues in ad hoc and sensor networks, and mobile networking Smart grid Smart healthcare Smart transportation Social networks using smart phones and sensors Time synchronization Topology control, coverage and connectivity issues Vehicular networks and protocols Wireless mesh networking Paper Submission and Review: Authors are invited to submit technical papers presenting original, unpublished research, not currently under review elsewhere. All submissions should be written in English with a maximum length of 9 single-spaced, double-column pages using 10pt size fonts on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, with side-margin at least 1 inch, including all figures, tables, and references. All paper submission will be electronic, in PDF format. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by IEEE and will be presented at the conference. Based on reviews and TPC discussions, the TPC may choose to accept some papers as short papers (5 pages). For all papers, IEEE reserves the right to exclude the paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the conference. The conference will also include a poster and demo session. Laetus deget cui licet in diem dixisse: Vixi. -- Stefano Basagni, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Computer Engineering Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering 312 Dana Research Center Northeastern University 360 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA 02115 Tel. 617 373 3061, Fax 617 373 8970 E-mail: basagni(a)ece.neu.edu *** http://www.ece.neu.edu/faculty/basagni/ *** ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [tciin] CFP: 8th IEEE LCN ON-MOVE 2014
by Lars Wolf 04 Apr '14

04 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [tciin] CFP: 8th IEEE LCN ON-MOVE 2014 Datum: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 08:44:06 +0200 Von: Lyes Khoukhi <Lyes.Khoukhi(a)utt.fr> An: tciin.isat(a)u-bourgogne.fr [Apologies if you receive multiple copies] ----------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 8th IEEE LCN ON-MOVE 2013 Workshop On User MObility and VEhicular Networks http://www.ieee-lcn-onmove.org/ 8-11 September 2014, Edmonton, Canada. ----------------------------------------------------------------- To be held in conjunction with IEEE LCN http://www.ieeelcn.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: April 7th, 2014 Notification of acceptance: May 30th, 2014 Camera-ready copy due: June 30th, 2014 SCOPE: Users are becoming increasingly mobile and this requires solutions to manage network connectivity in different situations and places both in urban and rural areas. We are interested in visionary, experimental, systems-related and work in-progress papers in the area of mobility management including protocols enabling mobility, heterogeneous network access, vehicular networks, security and applications. These are the areas of interest for the workshop: Vehicular networks -------------------------------- Mobility issues in DSRC Gateway access and selection Inter-vehicle communication (V2V) Vehicle to infrastructure communication (V2I) Network availability User Mobility -------------------------------- Mobile IP issues SIP related issues Transport layer mobility Cross layer design for mobility Policy-based management of mobility Service discovery Heterogeneity -------------------------------- Managing vertical handover Multihoming Performance metrics Access network selection QoS provisioning in heterogeneous networks Network operation and maintenance Security -------------------------------- AAA mobility support Specific demands in mobile environments Trust and privacy for mobile users Applications -------------------------------- Multimedia for mobile users Media support for mobile users and vehicles Scalable applications Service deployment issues Quality of Experience Guidance applications Workshop chairs -------------------------------------------------------- Karl Andersson, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden Soumaya Cherkaoui, University de Sherbrooke, Canada Steering Committee -------------------------------------------------------- Soumaya Cherkaoui, University de Sherbrooke, Canada Christer Ahlund, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden TPC Chair -------------------------------------------------------- Lyes Khoukhi, University of Technology of Troyes, France A list of the program committee can be found at: http://www.ieee-lcn-onmove.org/committee.php Paper submission and publication --------------------------------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit papers for presentation at the workshop. Papers (no more than 8 camera-ready pages, 10 pt font in IEEE transactions format) should present novel perspectives within the general scope of the workshop. Only original papers that have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere can be submitted. All submission instructions can be found here: http://www.ieee-lcn-onmove.org/submission.php Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of IEEE LCN and on IEEE Xplore. Poster papers are an opportunity to present initial results and obtain feedback on on-going research. We also welcome submissions for demonstrations that showcase original research, practical implementations and realistic applications of user mobility and vehicular networks. Poster/demo papers must be restricted to 2 camera-ready pages.

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Deadline extension: IEEE SenseApp 2014 (in conjunction with LCN 2014)
by Lars Wolf 04 Apr '14

04 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Deadline extension: IEEE SenseApp 2014 (in conjunction with LCN 2014) Datum: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 15:03:59 +1100 Von: Andreas Reinhardt <andreasr(a)CSE.UNSW.EDU.AU> Antwort an: Andreas Reinhardt <andreasr(a)CSE.UNSW.EDU.AU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ == Deadline extended to 21 April 2014 == SENSEAPP 2014 NINTH IEEE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON PRACTICAL ISSUES IN BUILDING SENSOR NETWORK APPLICATIONS (in conjunction with IEEE LCN 2014) Chateau Lacombe Hotel Edmonton, Canada 8-11 September 2014 http://www.senseapp.org CALL FOR PAPERS The Internet of Things is happening! Wireless sensors and actuators are increasingly networked and continually narrow the gap between the physical world and cyberspace. Domain-specific sensing deployments in industrial or home automation scenarios are becoming more and more common, particularly with the advent of novel sensing platforms such as smartphones, which allow for interfacing with or extending dedicated sensor networks. Nevertheless, insights gathered from real-world sensor network deployments are still scarce and many practical issues in building sensor network applications persist. A thorough understanding from a practical/systems perspective is still necessary, including the hardware platforms of sensor and actor nodes, their operating systems, the networking of nodes and fresh perspectives from field trials and applications. This workshop aims at bringing together researchers from both academia and industry to showcase their work and obtain feedback. It serves as a forum for the sensor network research community to discuss open issues, novel solutions and the future development of wireless sensor networks in general. We encourage contributions describing innovative work in the realm of wireless sensor networks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Experiences from real-world sensor network deployment and applications - Innovative sensor network applications - Mobile and participatory sensing applications and deployments - Integrating sensor networks and the internet of things - Middleware support for sensor networks - Programming and debugging sensor networks - Security, availability and dependability issues in sensor networks - Experiences with new sensor hardware - Practical problems in implementing localization and time synchronization - Experiences with communication protocols - Practical medium access control protocols (MACs) - Topology control and routing protocols in existing sensor network deployments - Fault-tolerance and troubleshooting sensor networks - Antenna design and experiences with signal propagation - Experiences regarding energy management and network lifetime - Configuration and installation support - Management of large-scale sensor networks and sensing campaigns - Interconnection between IP and sensor networks - Interfacing with sensor networks using mobile computing devices - Large-scale open sensor data sets from real deployments Submitted papers will be reviewed by three independent experts in the field. Proceedings of the workshop will be published together with those of IEEE LCN, and will be available in digital format from the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Authors are invited to submit original unpublished work, not currently under review by another conference, workshop or journal. Full papers should be restricted to 8 camera-ready pages (in 10 pt font, double column, US letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches, IEEE format), including text, figures and references. Authors should use only standard fonts, i.e. Times Roman, Courier, Symbol, Helvetica or equivalent. Papers must be submitted electronically via EDAS at: <https://edas.info/N17169> All papers must include title, complete contact information of all authors, abstract and up to 5 keywords on the cover page. Further information can be found at http://www.senseapp.org IMPORTANT DATES: (Extended) Submission Deadline: 21 April 2014 Notification of Acceptance: 30 May 2014 Camera Ready Copy Due: 30 June 2014 PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS: Matthias Hollick, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany Salil Kanhere, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia PUBLICITY CHAIR: Andreas Reinhardt, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia STEERING COMMITTEE: Sanjay Jha, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Cormac Sreenan, University College, Cork, Ireland TPC MEMBERS: Zinaida Benenson, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Neil Bergmann, University of Queensland Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra James Brown, Lancaster University Felix Büsching, Technische Universität Braunschweig Rachel Cardell-Oliver, The University of Western Australia Delphine Christin, University of Bonn and Fraunhofer FKIE Simon Duquennoy, Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS) Wendi Heinzelman, University of Rochester Matthias Hollick, Technische Universität Darmstadt Raja Jurdak, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Vana Kalogeraki, Athens University of Economics and Business Salil Kanhere, The University of New South Wales Csaba Kiraly, University of Trento Vinay Kolar, IBM Research Olaf Landsiedel, Chalmers University of Technology Yee Wei Law, The University of Melbourne Chieh-Jan Mike Liang, Microsoft Research Hock Beng Lim, Nanyang Technological University Tie Luo, Institute for Infocomm Research Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pisa Prasant Misra, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Edith Ngai, Uppsala University Neal Patwari, University of Utah Gian Pietro Picco, University of Trento Rajib Rana, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Andreas Reinhardt, The University of New South Wales Christian Renner, University of Lübeck Kay Römer, ETH Zurich Olga Saukh, ETH Zurich Corinna Schmitt, University of Zurich Philipp Sommer, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Kristof Van Laerhoven, TU Darmstadt Klaus Wehrle, RWTH Aachen University Dingwen Yuan, Technische Universität Darmstadt ______________________________________________________________ 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 Demos and Posters
by Lars Wolf 03 Apr '14

03 Apr '14

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: "R. Venkatesha Prasad" <rvprasad(a)IEEE.ORG> Gesendet: 3. April 2014 11:17:42 MESZ An: SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG Betreff: Call for Demos and Posters *Call for Demos* Mobihoc 2014 seeks proposals for live demonstrations of mobile computing technologies. Particularly encouraged are the demonstrations that include participation by conference attendees. Research prototypes as well as commercial products are welcome. However, Mobihoc is not an appropriate forum for marketing or sales presentations. The presenter is expected to understand the system being demonstrated and explain the technical contributions of the system to the audience. Demonstrations of previously published systems are also welcome. Demonstrations will be selected based on the expected interest from the Mobihoc audience. A demo submission requires only an extended abstract no longer than two 8.5x11-inch pages, including all figures and references, describing the demonstration as well as any special requirements (other than a demo booth/table). The extended abstract should be formatted in 8.5x11-inch pages, two columns, single-spaced, with a font no smaller than 10-point. The demo title should begin with "Demo:". Submissions must be in Adobe PDF format. The submission should include (a) the names, affiliations, and email addresses of the authors, (b) equipment to be used for the demo, (c) space needed and the required setup time, and (d) additional facilities needed including power and Internet/wireless access. Demo proposals should be submitted to mobihoc14demos(a)gmail.com. Please use the CR format ( http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) for your submissions (please choose "Option 2" ( http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates#aL2) if LaTex is used). The abstracts of accepted demonstrations will be posted on the conference website and will appear in the conference proceedings. *Demo Video* Demo submissions are encouraged to submit a companion video clip showcasing their demo. Video clips should highlight the technical contributions of the demo and be no more than 90 seconds in length. Demo video clips will be posted on the conference website. Videos can be submitted by including a link to the video along with the extended abstract submission. *Best Demo* All demos will be considered for the Best Demo Award. The winner will be selected at the conference by an independent review committee. *Important Dates* - Submission deadline: June 6th, 2014 - Notification of acceptance: June 17th, 2014 - Camera-ready version due: June 24th, 2014 *MobiHoc 2014 Call for Posters* The ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing 2014 solicits submissions for a poster session dedicated to sharing late-breaking results or work-in-progress on any topic related to mobile ad hoc networking. Posters provide a chance for in-depth research discussions with other conference attendees and are therefore especially well suited for obtaining feedback on ongoing research or controversial ideas. Please see the call for papers for more guidance on topics of interest at this conference. In addition to the actual poster session, poster presenters will have a chance to pitch their idea in a one-minute madness session in front of the entire audience. This presentation is intended to generate interest in the poster. Best Poster All presented posters will be considered for the Best Poster Award. The winner will be selected at the conference by an award committee. Submissions and Selection Prospective poster presenters should submit a poster abstract with a maximum length of 2 pages, including all figures and references. Poster abstracts must be formatted with the ACM style sheet ( http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates - please choose "Option 2" if LaTex is used). The abstract title should begin with "Poster: ". Submissions will be reviewed by a poster selection committee. The review is single-blind, that is author names should be listed on the submission. Accepted poster abstracts will be included in the conference proceedings and listed on the conference website. Each accepted poster must be presented in person at the conference and at least one author/presenter has to register at the student rate or higher. Easels will be provided at the conference for 3x4 feet posters. Please submit your poster abstract by email to mobihoc2014posters(a)gmail.com Important Dates Submission Deadline: Jun 9, 2014 Notification Deadline: Jun 15, 2014 Camera Ready Deadline: Jun 20, 2014 -- Dr. R. Venkatesha Prasad, WMC, EEMCS, TU Delft, The Netherlands http://www.wmc.ewi.tudelft.nl/~vprasad !! तेरा वैभव अमर रहे माँ, हम दिन चार रहे ना रहें !! ----------------------------------------------------- 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) 2013 ACM, Inc. All rights reserved. -----------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Deadline extended to April 30- CFP: COMCOM special issue on mobile social sensing
by Lars Wolf 03 Apr '14

03 Apr '14

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Shibo He <shibohe.cn(a)GMAIL.COM> Gesendet: 3. April 2014 19:18:56 MESZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Deadline extended to April 30- CFP: COMCOM special issue on mobile social sensing *Call for Papers:* *Special issue on **Mobile Ubiquitous** Sensing: from Social Network Viewpoint* *Scope:* The emergence of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) has opened up a new door to information retrieving and built up a bridge between the physical world and information domain. A major factor that impedes the applicability of sensor networks is the huge deployment cost and management overhead. The past few years have witnessed the dramatic proliferation of portable mobile devices, such as smart phones and tablet computers. Notably, these popular pocket-sized gadgets are embedded with a set of versatile sensors, which could provide abundant data about individuals, human society and environments. This new mobile sensor network formed by mobile devices provides a new horizon for ubiquitous sensing at a low cost. Under the new paradigm of mobile ubiquitous sensing, each mobile device is held by an individual. The underlying social tie among individuals will play an important role in the mobile sensing process. It is, therefore, of great interest to study the mobile ubiquitous sensing from the perspective of social networks. This issue has not received much attention though the traditional way of ubiquitous sensing has, instead, been extensively investigated. Topics of primary interest include, but not limited to: l System/platform designs to enable mobile sensing l Incentives mechanism design to guarantee the coverage, i.e., quality of sensing. l Social structure modeling and analysis l Coverage improvement design via social structure l Individual behavior modeling and analysis l Architectural, modeling and simulation of mobile ubiquitous sensing l New applications on ubiquitous sensing l Energy-efficient and real-time communication protocols design l Privacy and security preserving protocol design for mobile sensing *Tentative Schedule* Manuscript Due: April 30, 2014 (extended) First Notification: July 31, 2014 Revised version: October 1st, 2014 Final notification: Nov. 15, 2014 Publication Date: 1st quarter of 2015 (tentative). Prospective authors can find the submission guidelines 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 "Special Issue: Mobile social sensing" when they reach the "Article Type" step in the submission process. *Guest Editor* *Jiming Chen (corresponding editor)* Zhejiang University (E-mail: jmchen(a)ieee.org) *Shibo He* Arizona state university (Email: shibohe(a)ieee.org) *Enrico Natalizio* <https://www.hds.utc.fr/~enataliz/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=> Université de Technologie de Compiègne (Email: enrico.natalizio(a)hds.utc.fr) *Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini* Politecnico di Torino <http://www.polito.it/> (Email: chiasserini(a)polito.it ) ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ACM MobiHoc Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Technologies for Smart Cities (WiMobCity)
by Lars Wolf 02 Apr '14

02 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ACM MobiHoc Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Technologies for Smart Cities (WiMobCity) Datum: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 13:56:03 +0200 Von: Alessio Botta <a.botta(a)UNINA.IT> Antwort an: Alessio Botta <a.botta(a)UNINA.IT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Please note that the deadline for submission of papers to the ACM International Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Technologies for Smart Cities (WiMobCity), organized in conjunction with ACM MobiHoc, is approaching. Papers are due on *April 20, 2014*. More details about the workshop are reported below. Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS *ACM International Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Technologies for Smart Cities (WiMobCity)* Organized in conjunction with *ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc)* Philadelphia, PA, USA August 11-14, 2014 http://www.grid.unina.it/WiMobCity ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- WiMobCity is a workshop co-located with ACM MobiHoc, the premier international symposium dedicated to addressing challenges emerging from wireless ad-hoc networking and computing. The highly selective technical program of ACM MobiHoc has traditionally brought together a unique blend of researchers and practitioner,s thereby influencing the direction of a broad spectrum of wireless networking research. It is widely acknowledged that Smart Cities will drive sustainable economic growth in the next years and ICT represents one of the enabling factors for their actual implementation. The problem of efficiently supporting applications and services for Smart Cities in complex, distributed and diverse environments has been and is continuing to be the subject of intense research investigation. Wireless and Mobile Technologies play an essential role in the new and challenging scenario of Smart Cities and its related areas (e.g. smart mobility, smart environment, smart government, smart education, smart culture and tourism, etc.). *Topics of interest* The main purpose of the WiMobCity Workshop is to bring together researchers, academics, and developers in the field of Smart Cities (and in particular on the related topics of Wireless and Mobile communication technologies and networking) in order to share new findings, exchange ideas, discuss research challenges and report latest research efforts that cover a variety of topics including, but not limited to: Communication technologies, architectures and wireless/mobile protocols (WiFi / LTE / 4G) Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Near Field Communication (NFC) and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) communication technologies Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications Quality of Service (QoS) / Quality of Experience (QoE) mechanisms Green and energy efficient technologies Security and privacy communication issues for Smart Cities Data management and access methods (cloud, crowdsourcing, etc.) Pervasive Internet of Things (IoT) and mobile computing Innovative applications and services for sustainable cities Business models, billing approaches and new services for Smart Cities Smart Cities deployments, platforms, test-beds and field trials Standardization activities for Smart Cities *Submission Procedure* Paper submissions must be limited to 10 pages according to the Author Information page for submission guidelines in the ACM MobiHoc 2014 website. Accepted papers will be published in the symposium proceedings. All submitted papers will be judged on their quality through blind reviewing. Submitted papers must not be currently under review for any other publication. The edas link for submission is https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=17375 *Workshop website* http://www.grid.unina.it/WiMobCity *General Chair* Antonio Pescapè (University of Napoli, Italy) *Technical Program co-Chairs* Alessio Botta (University of Napoli, Italy) Periklis Chatzimisios (Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece) *Important Dates* Paper submission deadline: April 20, 2014 (Extended) Author notification: June 1, 2014 Camera ready due: June 18, 2014 --- Alessio Botta, PhD Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e delle Tecnologie dell'Informazione Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II" Via Claudio 21 -- 80125 Napoli (Italy) [Room 3.09] Phone: +390817683865 - Fax: +390817683816 Skypeid: alessiobotta Email: a.botta(a)unina.it alessio.botta(a)consorzio-cini.it WWW: http://wpage.unina.it/a.botta ______________________________________________________________ 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] [Tccc] CFP: IEEE ICNP 2014 Call For Papers
by Lars Wolf 02 Apr '14

02 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [Tccc] CFP: IEEE ICNP 2014 Call For Papers Datum: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 12:59:52 +0000 Von: James Martin <JMARTY(a)CLEMSON.EDU> Antwort an: James Martin <JMARTY(a)CLEMSON.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************** The 22nd IEEE International Conference on Network Protocol The Research Triangle, North Carolina October 21-24, 2014 http://icnp14.cs.unc.edu/ ****************************************************************************** The IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP) is a premier conference on computer networks and network protocols. The conference scope includes all areas of computer networks and network protocols. Topics of interests include but are not limited to: *Network protocol design, specification, verification, and analysis *Software defined networking *Network protocol implementation, testing, and measurement *Network management *Protocols for specific applications *Traffic engineering *Network architectures and high performance algorithms *Network virtualization *Measurement, simulation, and modeling of operational networks *Multicast, broadcast, and anycast *Fault-tolerance, survivability, and troubleshooting of networking systems *Network security and privacy *Peer to peer, overlay, and content distribution networks *Cross-layer design and optimization *Resource allocation, management, Quality of Service *Enterprise networks *Wireless, RFID, mobile, ad-hoc, vehicular, and sensor networks *Cloud computing *Operating system and host support for networking *Information centric networking *Networking issues for emerging applications *Energy aware networking *Routing, switching, and addressing *Online social networks *Datacenter and storage area networks *Network economics This year, ICNP solicits two types of papers: regular papers of at most 12 pages each, and concise papers of at most 6 pages each. A regular paper describes an important research project that has been completed, whereas a concise paper describes a significant contribution in a research project that may still be in progress. Thus, the completed version of any concise paper can be submitted and published in another venue at a later year. Regular papers and concise papers will have different submission and notification deadlines and they will be reviewed by different sets of TPC members. Submission policy for both regular and concise papers: 1. All papers should adhere to the IEEE Computer conference paper format (IEEEtran.cls) and the font size should be no smaller than 10 pt. 2. ICNP uses a double-blind review process. The identity of authors and referees will not be revealed to each other. To ensure double-blind reviewing, author names and affiliations should not appear in the paper; bibliographic references should be made in such a way as to preserve author anonymity; acknowledgement with identifiable names and funding sources should be removed. Note that own work should be cited as a third person. Papers violating this double-blind review policy will be rejected without review. Note that double-blind violations are sometimes not discovered until well into the review process, so authors are strongly advised to heed the above requirements at submission time. 3. Authors need to indicate in their submissions all TPC members with whom they have conflicts of interest. An author and a TPC member have a conflict of interest if one of the following conditions is satisfied: (1) They are currently employed at the same institution, or they have been employed at the same institution within the last 12 months, or they are going to be employment at the same institution within the next 6 months. (2) The author and the TPC member had an advisor-advisee relationship. (3) The author and the TPC member have collaborated on a project, a publication, or a grant proposal within the past 4 years. (4) The author and the TPC member have family relationship or are close personal friend. Authors should not improperly identify TPC members as conflicts to avoid individuals who might review their papers. 4. At least one author of an accepted paper, whether regular or concise, is expected to register at the full rate of the conference and to present the paper at the conference, in order for the paper to appear in the conference proceedings and the IEEE digital library. Papers not presented by an author at the conference will not appear in the IEEE digital library. Integrity policy for both regular and concise papers: ICNP strictly enforces the following integrity policies. Authors violating these policies will cause their submissions to be rejected without review. Furthermore, ICNP may take action against individuals who have engaged in such violation; example actions include, but are not limited to, contacting the institutions of the authors and publicizing the details of the case. 1. Submitted papers should not be previously published nor under review by another conference or journal. In some cases, the ICNP chairs may share information about submitted papers with other conference chairs and journal editors to ensure the integrity of papers under consideration. 2. Authors are prohibited from informing any TPC member of any identifiable information (such as titles) of their submissions. Important dates for regular papers: Paper Submission May 9, 2014, 11:59 PM EST Acceptance Notification July 4, 2014, 11:59 PM EST Camera Ready Version Aug 15, 2014, 11:59 PM EST Important dates for concise papers: Paper Submission May 23, 2014, 11:59 PM EST Acceptance Notification July 4, 2014, 11:59 PM EST Camera Ready Version Aug 15, 2014, 11:59 PM EST General Chairs: Jasleen Kaur, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA George Rouskas, North Carolina State University, USA Program Chairs: Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas at Austin, USA Alex Liu, Michigan State University, USA Steering Committee: Kevin Almeroth, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Ken Calvert (Chair), University of Kentucky, USA Sonia Fahmy, Purdue University, USA Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas at Austin, USA Timothy G. Griffin, University of Cambridge, UK Teruo Higashino, Osaka University, Japan David Lee, Ohio State University, USA K. K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T Labs Research, USA Krishan Sabnani, Bell Laboratories, USA Publicity Chairs: James Martin, Clemson University, USA (jmarty(a)clemson.edu) Wenye Wang, North Carolina State University, USA ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP ACM SIGCOMM CoNEXT'14
by Lars Wolf 02 Apr '14

02 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP ACM SIGCOMM CoNEXT'14 Datum: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 11:37:12 -0400 Von: Emmanuel Lochin <emmanuel.lochin(a)ISAE.FR> Antwort an: Emmanuel Lochin <emmanuel.lochin(a)ISAE.FR> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Call for papers The ACM SIGCOMM CoNEXT conference travels to another continent to complete its first decade as one of the major forums for presentations and discussions of novel computing technologies that will shape the future of Internetworking. The goal of the conference is to foster technical interactions among members of computer and communication networks research at large through a single track program promoting their most promising works. This new installment of the conference is proudly committed to the three values that made the conference successful for nearly ten years: Recognizing farsighted excellence, by selectively choosing papers with substantial novelty and research contribution. Promoting a broad definition of networking research, by welcoming submissions based on implementation and experimentation as well as theoretical analysis. Assuring authors of submitted papers a fair and thorough review process, with sound and detailed feedback guaranteed to each submissions in proportion of its scientific merit and potential. Scope The Program Committee of ACM CoNEXT seeks papers presenting significant and novel research results on emerging computer and communication networks. We especially encour- age submissions that present novel experimentation, creative use of networking technologies and new insights made possible using analysis or computing concepts rarely found among networking researchers. We invite submissions on a wide range of networking research including : Networking aspects of mobile, wireless and ubiquitous computing Networking aspects of operating systems and virtualization architectures Network control and management, including datacenter, enterprise and SDN Security and privacy aspects of computer networks and protocols Theory and performance analysis of networking architectures and applications Novel application of other fields to computer networking We are open to other contributions that stretch networking research outside of these topics, present new emerging computing trends and potentially involve unfamiliar techniques. We invite the authors to bear in mind that the main factor of interest for their work will be the implications of their results in networking. These should be clearly substantiated and explained. Submission Authors must submit their papers electronically, following the guidelines available on the ACM SIGCOMM CoNEXT web page. The committee encourages substantiated results with a succinct presentation. All papers will be part of a single track. More details will be provided on the format of the papers closer to the submission date. The selection of presentations will be based on peer-review by program committee members. This year, in an effort to inform judgment on the selection of presented papers, the PC will organize a rolling early feedback phase. During that time, and before review are completed, PC members are able to request authors for clarifications, typically on assumptions made and results obtained. Authors of submitted papers who receive such a request have the non mandatory option to answer that request within a week. We encourage this interaction espe- cially to give a chance to a minority of ”controversial” papers that could be of special interest to our community, but raises important concerns that need to be addressed. Publication The proceedings of the conference will be published by the ACM. Website http://conferences2.sigcomm.org/co-next/2014/ Important dates Paper Registration June 8, 2014 (16:59 PDT) Paper Submission June 15, 2014 (16:59 PDT) Notification of Acceptance August 25, 2014 Conference December 2-5, 2014 ______________________________________________________________ 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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