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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP SIGCOMM 2004]
by Lars Wolf 03 Nov '03

03 Nov '03

und nun zu etwas anspruchsvollem ... -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP SIGCOMM 2004 Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 00:02:08 -0800 From: SIGCOMM 2004 <allyn(a)cisco.com> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu CALL FOR PAPERS ACM SIGCOMM 2004 August 30 - September 3 Portland, Oregon USA http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm2004 DEADLINES Registration/abstract of paper: 30 January 2004 (required and firm) Submission of full paper: 6 February 2004 (firm) Paper notification 30 April 2004 Camera ready papers 21 June 2004 Workshop proposals 1 December 1003 Tutorial proposals 1 February 2004 The SIGCOMM 2004 conference seeks papers describing significant research contributions to the field of computer and data communication networks. We invite submissions on network architecture, design, implementation, operations, analysis, measurement, and simulation. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: -Network, transport, and application-layer protocols -Networking issues for Web, multimedia, and gaming applications -Routing, switching, and addressing -Resource management, quality of service, and signaling -Operating system support for networking -Wireless, mobile, ad hoc, and sensor networks -Network management and traffic engineering -Experimental and measurement results from operational networks -Network fault-tolerance and reliability, debugging, troubleshooting -Peer-to-peer, overlay, and content distribution networks -Analysis and design of network architectures and algorithms -Tools and techniques for network measurement and simulation -Network security, vulnerability, and defenses -Fundamental insights into network and traffic characteristics We welcome two categories of paper submissions -- full papers and position papers. As in previous years, SIGCOMM 2004 will have a poster session and student travel grant program. Details will be posted on the conference web site as they become available, http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm2004 TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS The Data Communications Festival will continue in 2004 with a distinct set of tutorials and workshops to be held Monday August 30th and Friday September 3rd. For more information on the workshop proposals, please see the conference web page. FULL PAPERS Full Papers are no more than 14 pages long and typically report novel results firmly substantiated by experimentation, simulation, or analysis. Guidelines on paper submission and formatting will be provided on the website. POSITION PAPERS Position papers are no more than 8 pages long and attempt to shape research directions by offering new perspectives, wisdom, and guidance, rather than by presenting mature work with quantitative results. More detailed information for authors of position papers will be available on the web site as the submission deadline draws closer. POSTERS Posters are one 30" x 40" (75cm x 100cm) page long, and present ongoing work. Student submissions will be favored. MISCELLANEOUS There will also be a Student Paper Award, Student Travel Grants, and a SIGCOMM Award recognizing lifetime contributions. Contact Mark Crovella <crovella(a)cs.bu.edu> to nominate a candidate for the SIGCOMM Award. FOR MORE INFORMATION General Chair: Raj Yavatkar, Intel Corp <raj.yavatkar(a)intel.com> Program Chairs: Ellen Zegura, Georgia Tech <ewz(a)cc.gatech.edu> Jennifer Rexford, AT&T Labs <jrex(a)research.att.com> Conference Coordinator: Joe Touch, USC/ISI <touch(a)isi.edu> Workshop Chair: Harrick Vin, U of Texas, Austin <vin(a)cs.utexas.edu> Tutorial Chair: Christophe Diot, Intel Corp <christophe.diot(a)intel.com> Local Arrangements: Wu-chang Feng. OGI@OHSU <wuchang(a)cse.ogi.edu> Poster Chair: Prashant Shenoy, U of Mass, Amherst <shenoy(a)cs.umass.edu> Student Grants: Tilman Wolf, U of Mass, Amherst <wolf(a)ecs.umass.edu> Publicity Chair: Allyn Romanow, Cisco Systems <allyn(a)cisco.com> Webmaster: Prashant Chandra, Intel Corp <prashant.chandra(a)intel.com> Registration Chair: Marcel Waldvogel, IBM, Zurich <mwl(a)zurich.ibm.com> Treasurer: Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan, U of Texas, Austin <chris(a)cs.utexas.edu> _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP SIGCOMM 2004]
by Lars Wolf 03 Nov '03

03 Nov '03

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP SIGCOMM 2004 Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 00:02:08 -0800 From: SIGCOMM 2004 <allyn(a)cisco.com> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu CALL FOR PAPERS ACM SIGCOMM 2004 August 30 - September 3 Portland, Oregon USA http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm2004 DEADLINES Registration/abstract of paper: 30 January 2004 (required and firm) Submission of full paper: 6 February 2004 (firm) Paper notification 30 April 2004 Camera ready papers 21 June 2004 Workshop proposals 1 December 1003 Tutorial proposals 1 February 2004 The SIGCOMM 2004 conference seeks papers describing significant research contributions to the field of computer and data communication networks. We invite submissions on network architecture, design, implementation, operations, analysis, measurement, and simulation. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: -Network, transport, and application-layer protocols -Networking issues for Web, multimedia, and gaming applications -Routing, switching, and addressing -Resource management, quality of service, and signaling -Operating system support for networking -Wireless, mobile, ad hoc, and sensor networks -Network management and traffic engineering -Experimental and measurement results from operational networks -Network fault-tolerance and reliability, debugging, troubleshooting -Peer-to-peer, overlay, and content distribution networks -Analysis and design of network architectures and algorithms -Tools and techniques for network measurement and simulation -Network security, vulnerability, and defenses -Fundamental insights into network and traffic characteristics We welcome two categories of paper submissions -- full papers and position papers. As in previous years, SIGCOMM 2004 will have a poster session and student travel grant program. Details will be posted on the conference web site as they become available, http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm2004 TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS The Data Communications Festival will continue in 2004 with a distinct set of tutorials and workshops to be held Monday August 30th and Friday September 3rd. For more information on the workshop proposals, please see the conference web page. FULL PAPERS Full Papers are no more than 14 pages long and typically report novel results firmly substantiated by experimentation, simulation, or analysis. Guidelines on paper submission and formatting will be provided on the website. POSITION PAPERS Position papers are no more than 8 pages long and attempt to shape research directions by offering new perspectives, wisdom, and guidance, rather than by presenting mature work with quantitative results. More detailed information for authors of position papers will be available on the web site as the submission deadline draws closer. POSTERS Posters are one 30" x 40" (75cm x 100cm) page long, and present ongoing work. Student submissions will be favored. MISCELLANEOUS There will also be a Student Paper Award, Student Travel Grants, and a SIGCOMM Award recognizing lifetime contributions. Contact Mark Crovella <crovella(a)cs.bu.edu> to nominate a candidate for the SIGCOMM Award. FOR MORE INFORMATION General Chair: Raj Yavatkar, Intel Corp <raj.yavatkar(a)intel.com> Program Chairs: Ellen Zegura, Georgia Tech <ewz(a)cc.gatech.edu> Jennifer Rexford, AT&T Labs <jrex(a)research.att.com> Conference Coordinator: Joe Touch, USC/ISI <touch(a)isi.edu> Workshop Chair: Harrick Vin, U of Texas, Austin <vin(a)cs.utexas.edu> Tutorial Chair: Christophe Diot, Intel Corp <christophe.diot(a)intel.com> Local Arrangements: Wu-chang Feng. OGI@OHSU <wuchang(a)cse.ogi.edu> Poster Chair: Prashant Shenoy, U of Mass, Amherst <shenoy(a)cs.umass.edu> Student Grants: Tilman Wolf, U of Mass, Amherst <wolf(a)ecs.umass.edu> Publicity Chair: Allyn Romanow, Cisco Systems <allyn(a)cisco.com> Webmaster: Prashant Chandra, Intel Corp <prashant.chandra(a)intel.com> Registration Chair: Marcel Waldvogel, IBM, Zurich <mwl(a)zurich.ibm.com> Treasurer: Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan, U of Texas, Austin <chris(a)cs.utexas.edu> _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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WG: Get the exposure your articles deserve: Computer Communications
by Stefan Fischer 31 Oct '03

31 Oct '03

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[Fwd: [ISCC'04] IEEE ISCC 2004 cfp]
by Lars Wolf 31 Oct '03

31 Oct '03

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [ISCC'04] IEEE ISCC 2004 cfp Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 15:24:25 +0100 From: Paolo Bellavista <pbellavista(a)deis.unibo.it> To: ISCC2004(a)mail.ing.unibo.it Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Invitation & Call-for-Papers _________________________________________________________________________ Call for Papers The Ninth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications ISCC 2004 Alexandria, Egypt 29 June - 1 July, 2004 ( Web site for ISCC series: http://www.comsoc.org/iscc/ pdf version of the ISCC'04 cfp: http://www.comsoc.org/iscc/cfp_2004.pdf ) Continuing the tradition of this series of symposia, ISCC'2004 will provide an international technical forum for experts from industry and academia to exchange ideas and present results of ongoing research in the areas listed below. This year, special focus will be on the challenging issues related to the creation, management, dissemination, and communication of information. You are invited to submit a full paper, or a proposal for a panel, invited session, or tutorial, related to the following topics: - Access Networks - Agent and Knowledge Base Technology - Control and Optimization of Communication Systems - Data Mining and Database Applications - Distributed Systems Architecture and Management - Electronic Commerce and E-Services - Grid and Cluster Computing - High Performance Networking and Protocols - Internet Services and Applications - Real-time Communications Services (VoIP, Gaming, video) - Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks - Modeling and Simulation - Multimedia Information Management and Exchange - Network Design, Operation, and Management - Network Reliability and Quality of Service - Optical Networking - Overlay and Programmable Networks - Security and Cryptography - Signal Processing in Communications and Networking - Software Design, Testing, and Reliability - Survivable networks - Wireless, Cellular and Mobile Communications - Ultra-wide Band Communications Papers should describe original work, and be 15 double-spaced pages or less in length. A concise and representative abstract should be included. The paper should clearly indicate the complete postal and electronic mailing addresses, as well as the phone and fax numbers of the corresponding author. To submit a paper, please follow the submission guidelines at http://www.comsoc.org/iscc/2004. A modified version of best papers selected will be considered for publication in the Computer Communications Journal. For additional information contact the Technical Program Co-Chairs: Symeon Papavassiliou New Jersey Institute of Technology, Dept of Electrical & Computer Eng, University Heights Newark, NJ 07102, USA Tel: +1 973 642 7817 Fax: +1 973 596 5680 Papavassiliou(a)adm.njit.edu Antonio Puliafito Dept. of Mathematics, University of Messina 98166 Messina, ITALY Tel: +39 090 393229 Fax: +39 090 393502 apulia(a)ingegneria.unime.it ________________________________________________________________ Important Dates: November 24, 2003 Paper submission deadline February 23, 2004 Notification of acceptance mailed to authors April 13, 2004 Final camera-ready manuscripts due ________________________________________________________________ GENERAL CHAIRS M. Campolargo, European Commission, Belgium T.N. Saadawi, City Univ of New York, USA STEERING COMMITTEE H. Abdel-Wahab, Old Dominion Univ, USA R. Ammar, Univ of Connecticut, USA T.N. Saadawi, City Univ of New York, USA C. Savolaine, AT&T, USA A. Tantawy, IBM T.J. Watson Research Ctr., USA TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE S. Afshar, AT&T, USA S. Aissa, INRS, Canada N. Akar, Bilkent Univ, Turkey H. Alnuweiri, Univ of British Columbia, Canada H. Aly, Alexandria Univ, Egypt P. Amer, Univ of Delaware, USA G. Anastasi, Univ of Pisa, Italy H. Badran, Cisco, Egypt R. Chang, Polytechnic Univ, Hong Kong C. Chen, AT&T, USA S. Chen, Univ of Florida, USA A. Corradi, Univ of Bologna, Italy I. Curcio, Nokia, Finland M. Daneshmand, AT&T, USA Y. Doganata, IBM, USA M. T. El-Hadidi, Cairo Univ, Egypt S. El-Khamy, Alexandria Univ, Egypt R. El-Marakby, Windsor Univ, Canada H. Elshishiny, IBM, Egypt J. Garcia-Haro, Poly.Univ of Cartagena, Spain H. Hassanein, Queens Univ, Canada E. Karasan, Bilkent Univ, Turkey S. Kartalopoulos, Oklahoma Univ, USA J. Khan, Kent State Univ, USA H. Koraitim, Thales Université Coopération, France I. Matta, Boston Univ, USA M. Merabti, Liverpool John Moores Univ, UK H. Mouftah, Univ of Ottawa, Canada K. Mori, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan S. Ozer, Mesh Networks, USA M. Pioro, Warsaw Univ of Technology, Poland A. Pitsillides, Univ of Cyprus, Cyprus R. Popescu-Zeletin, GMD Fokus, Germany V. Prasad, India Institute of Science, India S. Sahni, Univ of Florida, USA M.Y. Sanadidi, UCLA, USA D. Sanghi, IIT Kanpur, India G. Schaefer, Berlin Tech. Univ, Germany D. Serpanos, Patras Univ, Greece M.H. Sherif, AT&T, USA K. Shuaib, UAE Univ, UAE I. Stojmenovic, Univ of Ottawa, Canada A. Tantawi, IBM, USA T. Tao, Northern Jiaotong Univ, China S. Tohme, ENST-Paris, France O. Tomarchio, Univ of Catania, Italy P. Tran-Gia, Univ of Wurzburg, Germany M. Ulema, Manhattan College, USA U. Uyar, City Univ of New York, USA S. Wetzel, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA A. Yongacoglu, Univ of Ottawa, Canada A. Zomaya, Univ of Sydney, Australia REGISTRATION & FINANCE CHAIR A. Elmaghraby, Univ of Louisville, USA TUTORIAL COMMITTEE R. Boutaba, Waterloo Univ, Canada A. Elsherbini, NTI, Egypt LOCAL COMMITTEE M. Abu El-Dahab, Arab Academy, Egypt N. Adly, Bibliotheca Alexandria, Egypt N. El-Dirini, Alexandria Univ, Egypt PUBLICITY COMMITTEE P. Bellavista, Univ of Bologna, Italy Ing. Paolo Bellavista, Ph. D. Research Associate in Computer Science Engineering DEIS-LIA - Università degli Studi di Bologna Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna (ITALY) Tel# +39-051-2093866; Fax# +39-051-2093073 Email: pbellavista(a)deis.unibo.it Web: http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/PaoloBellavista/ _______________________________________________ ISCC2004 mailing list ISCC2004(a)mail.ing.unibo.it http://calvin.ing.unibo.it/mailman/listinfo/iscc2004

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Mobihoc 2004 CFP!]
by Lars Wolf 30 Oct '03

30 Oct '03

das könnte doch auch etwas für uns sein ... -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] Mobihoc 2004 CFP! Date: 29 Oct 2003 12:00:45 -0800 From: Elizabeth Belding-Royer <ebelding(a)cs.ucsb.edu> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu ====================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS The Fifth ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing MobiHoc 2004 www.sigmobile.org/mobihoc/2004/ May 24-26, 2004 Tokyo, Japan MobiHoc 2004 is the fifth of a series of annual meetings sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE, focusing on the latest research in the rapidly growing area of mobile ad hoc networking and computing. The first MobiHoc was held in 2000 in Boston, Massachusetts, as a workshop affiliated with the MobiCom conference also sponsored by SIGMOBILE. Since then, MobiHoc has become a separate symposium, held in 2001 at Long Beach, California, in 2002 at Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2003 at Annapolis, Maryland, and now in 2004 at Tokyo, Japan. PAPERS: Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, are solicited. In general this symposium is interested in papers that address networking or computing problems in the context of mobile and wireless ad hoc networks, ad hoc computing systems, and sensor networks, with the focus being on issues above the physical layer. Specific topics of interest include the following: * Routing protocols (unicast, multicast, geocast, content-based, etc.) * Media access techniques * Transport-layer issues * Hardware and software platforms, systems, and testbeds * Applications for ad hoc networks * Power-aware, low-power, and energy-efficient designs * Quality-of-service issues * Security and fault tolerance issues * Self-configuration in ad hoc networks * Processing and fusion of data in sensor networks * Location discovery and management * Timing synchronization * Distributed algorithms for ad hoc networks * Biologically inspired mechanisms * Ad hoc networks of autonomous intelligent systems * Analytic methods and modeling for performance evaluation * Cross-layer interactions, including between higher and physical layers * Other ad hoc networking and computing topics above the physical layer Please consult the program co-chairs Charlie Perkins <charles.perkins(a)nokia.com> and Leandros Tassiulas <leandros(a)uth.gr> if you are uncertain whether your paper falls within the scope of the symposium. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: All submissions will be handled electronically and must be in PDF or PostScript format. Papers must not exceed 15 pages (US "Letter" size, 8.5 x 11 inches) including text, figures and references. The font size must be at least 10 points. Accepted papers will be published in the symposium proceedings. We will adopt a double-blind process for paper review, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. Authors' names and their affiliations must not be revealed or mentioned anywhere in the paper or in the PDF or PostScript file. Submitted papers should describe original research, not published and not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be summarily rejected. To submit a paper, please refer to the paper submission link at the conference website, www.sigmobile.org/mobihoc/2004/. Questions about the submission process should be directed to the Program Co-Chairs. TUTORIALS: Proposals for tutorials are solicited. Evaluation of proposals will be based on the expertise and experience of the instructors, and on the relevance of the subject matter for the symposium. Potential instructors are requested to submit a tutorial proposal of at most 5 pages, including a biographical sketch, to the Tutorial Chair, Maria Papadopouli <maria(a)cs.unc.edu> by the paper submission deadline below. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper Submission Deadline December 11, 2004 Notification of Acceptance March 10, 2004 Camera-ready version Due March 25, 2004 Please visit the MobiHoc 2004 Home Page at www.sigmobile.org/mobihoc/2004/, or send email to the General Chair, Jun Murai <jun-mobihoc2004(a)wide.ad.jp> or to <mobihoc2004(a)isrmail.isr.umd.edu> for any questions or for more information about the symposium. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Missed Infocom? Networking 2004 is around the corner]
by Lars Wolf 29 Oct '03

29 Oct '03

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] Missed Infocom? Networking 2004 is around the corner Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 10:51:34 -0500 (EST) From: rouskas(a)unity.ncsu.edu Reply-To: rouskas(a)csc.ncsu.edu To: rouskas(a)csc.ncsu.edu (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) Many great papers were not possible to be included in Infocom. Networking 2004, whose deadline is only 10 days away, is an excellent alternative. The conference will be held in Athens, a city that will be glowing in anticipation of the Olympics which will place just three months later. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Announcement and Call for Papers *** Networking 2004 *** May 9-14, 2004 Park Hotel Athens, Greece http://www.ece.ntua.gr/networking2004 Submission Deadline: November 7, 2003 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Networking 2004 is the third event in the series of International Conferences on Networking, organized by the IFIP Technical Committee on Communication Systems (TC6) every two years. Previous events were held in Paris, France, during May 2000, and Pisa, Italy, during May 2002. Networking 2004 will take place between May 9-14, 2004 in Athens, Greece, the same city that will host the Olympic Games a few months later. The conference is sponsored by the IFIP working groups on Network and Internetwork Architectures (WG 6.2), Performance of Communication Systems (WG 6.3), and Wireless Communications (WG 6.8). Networking 2004 will be structured along three tracks: * Networking Technologies, Services and Protocols * Performance of Computer and Communication Networks * Mobile and Wireless Communications Systems The technical program committee is soliciting papers describing original, previously unpublished, completed research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, addressing state-of-the-art research and development in all areas of computer networking and data communications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * Active and programmable networks * Analysis and simulation of networking protocols * BISDN and ATM * Broadband wireless access * Caching and delivery of streaming media content * Computer networks modeling and simulation * Composite wireless networks * Cryptography, security and privacy * Internet and web applications * Internet protocols over high-speed networks * Intelligence in networks * Measurement studies of web architectures and protocols * Mobile ad hoc networks * Mobile agents * Mobile Internet * Mobile networks architectures and protocols * MPLS, MPLambdaS, GMPLS * Multimedia over packet-based Networks * Multicasting * Multiple access protocols * Network management systems * Network measurements and testbeds * Optical networks * Pervasive computing * Power management * Quality of service * Quantitative methodologies and tools * Queueing network models of computer and communication networks * Queueing theory * Real-time voice/video Transport over IP Networks * Routing in ad hoc networks * Satellite networks * Self-organising network architectures and protocols * Switching and switch architectures * Scheduling * Traffic engineering * Traffic management and control * Traffic modeling and characterisation * Web performance * Web caching, prefetching and replication * Wireless local and personal area networks * Wireless 2G, 2.5G, 3G networks and beyond * Wireless sensor networks * Wireless and mobile networking and computing * Wireless multimedia systems * Workload characterisation and generation * Special topic: Communication Networks for large-scale events PAPER SUBMISSION Papers must be submitted electronically (according to the instructions in http://www.ece.ntua.gr/networking2004) and their maximum size should be 20 double-spaced pages (using times 12pt as a reference). The cover page must contain an abstract of about 150 words, 3-5 keywords, name and affiliation of author(s), as well as the corresponding author's e-mail, telephone number, fax number and postal address. Because of the size limitation on the final manuscript, and to ensure that the reviewed paper and the final version have a similar size, please take into consideration that the final manuscript should be approximately 5000 words including tables and figures (each table and figure corresponds to 200 words). To make it easy to adhere to the final formatting standard, use as reference a 12-page manuscript formatted with the Springer-Verlag LNCS formatting standard, http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. PAPER PUBLICATION All submissions will be reviewed by the program committee. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series, http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers, to be considered for publication in special issues of international Journals, like Telecommunications Systems, or Computer Networks. BEST PAPER AWARD The technical program committee will nominate the conference best paper, to be awarded a cash-prize of $500. IMPORTANT DATES Full papers due: November 7, 2003 Notification: January 20, 2004 Camera Ready due: February 25, 2004 CONFERENCE WEBSITE For more information check the conference website, at http://www.ece.ntua.gr/networking2004 -- George N. Rouskas Phone: (919)515-3860 Professor of Computer Science Fax: (919)515-7925 North Carolina State University E-mail: rouskas(a)csc.ncsu.edu Box 7534 461 EGRC -- 2410 Campus Shore Drive Raleigh, NC 27695-7534 URL: http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/rouskas/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: Webseite zum "Fachgespräch Sensornetze"]
by Lars Wolf 29 Oct '03

29 Oct '03

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Webseite zum "Fachgespräch Sensornetze" Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 13:18:41 +0100 From: Holger Karl <karl(a)TKN.TU-BERLIN.DE> Reply-To: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)listserv.uni-heidelberg.de> Organization: Technische Universität Berlin, Telecommunication Networks Group To: KUVS-L(a)listserv.uni-heidelberg.de Sehr geehrte Damen, sehr geehrte Herren, nachdem im Juli das erste KuVS-Fachgespräch zum Thema "drahtlose Sensornetze" stattgefunden hat, gibt es inzwischen: - eine Webseite: http://www.fachgespraech-sensornetze.de - einen Termin für das zweite Treffen: http://www.fachgespraech-sensornetze.de/termine.html die Organisatoren freuen sich über eine rege Beteiligung! Mit freundlichen Gruessen, Holger Karl

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[Fwd: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE supplemental posting (MobiSys 2004: CALL FOR PAPERS)]
by Lars Wolf 29 Oct '03

29 Oct '03

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE supplemental posting (MobiSys 2004: CALL FOR PAPERS) Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 20:53:47 -0800 From: Geoff Voelker <voelker(a)CS.UCSD.EDU> Reply-To: Geoff Voelker <voelker(a)CS.UCSD.EDU> To: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE(a)ACM.ORG I apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. Please note: o paper abstracts are due 31 October (midnight PST) o full papers are due 7 November (midnight PST) o web page has link to the submission system o submission system is "open for business" o conference will be held 6-9 June 2004 in Boston, MA, USA CALL FOR PAPERS: MobiSys 2004 The Second International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services Jointly sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE and The USENIX Association In cooperation with ACM SIGOPS Hyatt Harborside in Boston, Massachusetts, USA June 6-9, 2004 http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2004/ IMPORTANT DATES Paper abstracts due: October 31, 2003 Full papers due: November 7, 2003 Notification of acceptance: January 30, 2004 Poster, Demo, Video Proposal: March 5, 2004 Camera-ready final papers due: April 9, 2004 OVERVIEW MobiSys 2004 seeks to present innovative, significant research in the area of mobile systems. This will be a 2.5-day conference, featuring refereed paper presentations, tutorials, demos, videos, and poster sessions. This conference builds on the success of the first MobiSys conference held in San Francisco, http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2003/, which featured 23 high caliber research papers and many interesting posters and demonstrations. The conference particularly values the practical experience gained from designing, building and using mobile systems, applications, and services. TOPICS The conference addresses broad systems issues in mobile computing. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * Design, implementation, and evaluation of mobile systems * Middleware and service architectures for mobile applications * Data management for mobile applications * Disconnected and weakly connected operation * Proxies and data adaptation * Mobile agents * Operating systems for small devices * Infrastructure support for mobility * Security, privacy, authorization, and billing * System-level energy management for mobile devices * Wearable and handheld devices in the context of system design * Personal mobility * Personal-area networks and systems * Resource discovery of mobile services * Systems for location awareness and determination * Application interfaces and services supporting the mobile user * Systems support for mobile robots * Experience with mobile systems The ideal MobiSys submission should present novel research that has resulted in the implementation or evaluation of running systems. Papers that describe the design of and experience with mobile system architectures are favored over those narrowly focused on low-level components such as the device hardware or the routing, link, or physical network layers. Please feel free to contact the Program Chairs at mobisys_pcchairs(a)acm.org to determine appropriateness. An award will be given at the conference for the best paper. WHAT TO SUBMIT Submissions should be full papers, 12?14 single-spaced 8.5" × 11" pages, including figures, tables, and references, two-column format, using 10-point type on 12-point (single-spaced) leading. Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness. Accepted papers may be shepherded through an editorial review process by a member of the program committee. MobiSys, like most conferences and journals, requires that papers must not be submitted simultaneously to any other conference or publication, that submissions must not be previously published, and that accepted papers must not be subsequently published elsewhere. Papers accompanied by non-disclosure agreement forms are not acceptable and will be returned to the author(s) unread. All submissions will be held in the highest confidentiality prior to publication in the Proceedings, both as a matter of policy and in accord with the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976. HOW TO SUBMIT Authors are required to submit a title and abstract on October 31, 2003 (by midnight PST). Full papers are due November 7, 2003 (midnight PST). All submissions to MobiSys 2004 must be electronic, in PDF format. Detailed submission instructions are posted on the conference web site: http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2004/. POSTER, DEMO, AND VIDEO SESSIONS Do you have interesting work you would like to share, or a cool idea that is not ready to be published? Poster sessions are for you! Poster sessions, scheduled during the technical sessions, introduce new or ongoing work. Demos and videos of working systems and applications are also encouraged. The MobiSys audience will provide valuable discussion and feedback. We are particularly interested in presentations of student work. To submit a poster, demo, or video, please consult the conference web site for instructions. Proposals should be received by March 5, 2004. CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS General Co-Chairs: Guruduth S. Banavar, IBM Research Willy Zwaenepoel, EPFL Steering Committee Chair: Victor Bahl, Microsoft Research Program Co-Chairs: Doug Terry, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley Roy Want, Intel Research Program Committee: Gregory Abowd, Georgia Institute of Technology Mary Baker, HP Labs Hari Balakrishnan, MIT Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington Eyal de Lara, University of Toronto W. Keith Edwards, Palo Alto Research Center Carla Schlatter Ellis, Duke University Deborah Estrin, UCLA Armando Fox, Stanford University Michael Franklin, UC Berkeley Hans Gellersen, Lancaster University Mik Lamming. HP Labs Brian Noble, University of Michigan Nuno Preguiça, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Jun Rekimoto, Sony Computer Science Laboratories M. Satyanarayanan, Carnegie Mellon University and Intel Research Pittsburgh Leendert van Doorn, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Zheng Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia Video Demo Chair: Umar Saif, MIT Treasurer: Manuel Roman, DoCoMo Labs Webmaster: Rajnish Kumar, Georgia Institute of Technology Publicity Co-Chairs: Maria R. Ebling, IBM Research Matthias Grossglauser, EPFL

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Call for Papers: Applied Telecommunication Symposium (extended d eadline)]
by Lars Wolf 28 Oct '03

28 Oct '03

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] Call for Papers: Applied Telecommunication Symposium (extended d eadline) Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 09:38:24 -0600 From: Bodnar Bohdan-BBODNAR1 <BBODNAR1(a)motorola.com> To: 'tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu' <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> CALL FOR PAPERS Applied Telecommunication Symposium (ATS) "Modeling and Simulation Challenges in Telecommunication Systems" Part of the 2004 Advanced Simulation Technologies Conference (ASTC 2004) April 18 through April 22, 2004 Hyatt Regency Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia, USA The Applied Telecommunication Symposium (ATS) is an international forum for exchange of technical knowledge and presentation of original papers on the analysis of telecommunication systems and technologies. It is intended for professionals, engineers, software developers, managers, and others interested in cellular and packet traffic characteristics, analysis of telecommunication networks, and practitioners operating telecommunication networks. We are looking for innovative technical papers describing projects, applications, and research and development work pertinent to telecommunication. The following tracks (with track chairs listed) will be held; the topics are representative of the track, but are not necessarily exclusive to that track: Wireless Chair: Dr. Hassan Rajaei, Bowling Green State University Co-chair: Dr. Mohsen Guizani, University of Michigan -CDMA -UMTS -GSM -2.5G/3G Wireless -Wireless Data -Cell Traffic -Network Performance and Engineering - Measurements - SPECIAL SESSION ON WLAN RESEARCH with particular emphasis on QoS, routing, reliability, overload/congestion control, network security, and interworking with 2.5/3G systems. Telecommunications Business and Regulation Chair - Dr. George Kraft, Stuart School of Business, Illinois Institute of Technology -Cost modeling -Call center operations -Billing models -E-commerce Network Management and Security Chair: Dr. Axel Lehmann, Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen Co-chair: Dr. Wolfang Haidegger, Siemens/FTW -Operations, Administration, Maintenance -Overload/congestion control -Load balancing -Influence of security measures on network performance Networks and Multimedia Chair - Dr. Aftab Ahmad, Norfolk State University -Internet QoS Architectures -Network performance - analysis and simulation -Traffic characterization -Packet switch architecture evaluation Modeling Techniques Chair: Dr. Shakil Akhtar, UAE University, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates Co-chair: Dr. Lev Sofman, Alcatel -Simulation techniques -Acceleration methods -Traffic synthesis -Combined simulation/analytic procedures -Metro area design and modeling Traffic Engineering with Protocols and Devices Chair: Dr. Junaid Zubairi, SUNY at Fredonia Co-chair: Dr. Chia J. Liu, AT&T Labs -Traffic Management and control -Traffic engineering architectures -Bandwidth management -GMPLS Draft paper or extended abstract should be submitted to http://scs.proceedingscentral.com by November 17, 2003. Please indicate in the abstract for which track(s) you wish to have your paper considered for; note that the final track selection will be at the discretion of the ATS organizers. The abstract must include the author(s), e-mail address(es), and affiliation. Further information is available at http://scs.org/confernc/astc/astc04/cfp/ats04.htm Deadlines Abstract/Draft paper due - November 17, 2003 Notification of acceptance sent - November 30, 2003 Camera-ready paper due - January 31, 2004 Conference Committee General Chair Dr. Bohdan Bodnar Motorola, Inc. bbodnar1(a)motorola.com Co-Chair Dr. Hassan Rajaei Bowling Green State University rajaei(a)cs.bgsu.edu Program Chair Dr. George Kraft Illinois Institute of Technology kraft(a)stuart.iit.edu Sponsored by The Society for Modeling and Simulation International P.O. Box 17900 San Diego, CA 92177-7900 Tel 858-277-3888 Fax: 858-277-3930 E-mail scs(a)scs.org http://www.scs.org Bohdan Bodnar, PhD Distinguished Member of Technical Staff System Requirements and Architecture Department Motorola, Inc. 1475 Shure Dr. Arlington Heights, IL 60004 USA Telephone: +1 847-632-5403 Mobile: +1 847-370-1540 <<Bodnar Bohdan-BBODNAR1.vcf>> _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Special Issue on Sensor Networks]
by Lars Wolf 24 Oct '03

24 Oct '03

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] Special Issue on Sensor Networks Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 10:48:54 -0400 From: Hossam Hassanein <hossam(a)cs.queensu.ca> Organization: Queen's To: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu>, <news-announce-conferences(a)uunet.uu.net> Special Issue of the Journal of Computer Communications on Sensor Networks Guest Editors: Guoliang Xue (Arizona State University, USA) Hossam Hassanein (Queens University, Canada) PUBLICATION: Fall 2004 Recent advances in micro-electro-mechanical systems technology and wireless communications have enabled the development of low-cost low-power sensors. These tiny sensor nodes, which can perform sensing, simple computation, and communication in short distances, leverage the idea of sensor networks in which the number of nodes can be a few orders of magnitude higher than the number of nodes in a traditional ad hoc network. Applications of sensor networks include military applications, environmental applications, health applications, home applications, and many other commercial applications. This special issue of Computer Communications seeks contributions describing recent advances in all areas of sensor networks. Papers should describe original and previously unpublished, and not currently under review by another conference, workshop or journal. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Architectures and protocols * Applications * Energy management * Low-energy energy routing, including multicasting and broadcasting * Survivable routing * Data gathering * Data fusion * Positioning and tracking techniques * Reachability * Reliability and fault tolerance * Management protocols * Query and data dissemination * Network security * Performance evaluation * Scalability * Self-organization * Operating system for sensor networks IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for submissions: November 15, 2003 Notification of acceptance: February 15, 2004 Publication: Fall 2004 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Guidelines on how to present your paper are given at http://www.elsevier.nl/inca/publications/store/5/2/5/4/4/0/. Authors are invited to submit full original papers in electronic form (PDF or postscript) to: Guoliang (Larry) Xue Arizona State University USA Email: xue(a)asu.edu Hossam Hassanein Queen's University Canada Email: hossam(a)cs.queensu.ca ====================================================================== Hossam Saad Hassanein, http://www.cs.queensu.ca/~hossam Associate Professor and Director, Telecommunications Research Lab School of Computing | Phone: 1-613-533-6052 Queen's University | Fax: 1-613-533-6513 Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6 Canada | e-mail: hossam(a)cs.queensu.ca _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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