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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] NetSys21 postponed to September 2021, deadlines extended
by Lars Wolf 21 Oct '20

21 Oct '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] NetSys21 postponed to September 2021, deadlines extended Datum: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 04:28:41 -0500 Von: Mathias Fischer <mathias.fischer(a)IEEE.ORG> Antwort an: mathias.fischer(a)IEEE.ORG An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG International Conference on Networked Systems 2021 Postponed from March 2021 to 20.-23. September 2021 - Lübeck, Germany https://netsys2021.org **All Deadlines extended** Call for Extended Abstracts and Hot Topic Papers ------------------------------------------------ The NetSys'21 has been postponed from March 2021 to 20.-23. September 2021 due to COVID-19 and in the hope to hold a conference with physical presence at this time. The conference on Networked Systems (NetSys 2021) is a traditional biennial event that provides an international forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to present and discuss recent innovations in the realm of networked systems. NetSys'21 is again a joint event organized by GI KuVS (GI, Communication and Distributed Systems) and VDE ITG (VDE, Information Technical Society). The NetSys21 technical program focusses on original contributions in the area of networking and distributed systems and also features invited presentations on hot topics in networking and distributed systems, an industry session, separate workshops, tutorials, posters, demos, an early work track, and a PhD forum. Also included is the annual 1-day ITG expert symposium “Future of Networking” (Zukunft der Netze, ZdN) with invited technical presentations on advanced topics in networking. The German GI FG on Operating Systems also plans to hold its annual workshop in combination with NetSys'21 in Lübeck. So, NetSys'21 solicits the submission of extended abstracts presenting original and novel research and ideas as well as hot topic papers, i.e. presentations of papers that have already been accepted or published at other conferences or journals in the field during the last two years. The NetSys'21 TPC will select extended abstract papers for presentation and inclusion in the NetSys'21 proceedings to be published open access via the journal Electronic Communications of the EASST (ECEASST) ( https://journal.ub.tu-berlin.de/eceasst). In addition, the PC of NetSys'21 will select the best submitted abstracts and ask their authors to submit extended versions to a special issue of ACM TOIT ( https://dl.acm.org/journal/toit/). Hot topic presentations shall highlight recent and highly significant results in networked and distributed systems to be presented in a highly innovative, thought-provoking and stimulating format - containing, e.g., new research topics, directions, and methods. This includes recent papers which appeared (or are to appear) in top journals (such as TON or CCR) or top conferences (such as SIGCOMM, IMC, MobiCom, CoNEXT, INFOCOM, ICDCS) that are of high interest for the NetSys community. Both, extended abstracts and hot topic papers, can include, but are not limited to the following topics: * Network architectures and protocols * Transport- and application-layer protocols * Software-defined networking, network function virtualization, and further network softwarization * Mobile, ad-hoc, opportunistic, vehicular, and sensor networks * Novel concepts for tactile and low-latency communication * Pertinent middleware architectures, platforms, and programming support for networked systems * Internet of Things (IoT) * Cloud computing, mobile cloud computing, fog and edge computing * Network security and privacy * Information-centric networking, content distribution and retrieval, and their co-existence with classical networks * SoA, web services, and mobile services * Consistency, reliability, availability in networking and distributed systems * Advancements in social networks, social computing, data-intensive computing (big data) * Methods for design, implementation and analysis of networked systems * Cyber-physical networked systems * Green and energy-efficient networks / networked systems * Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning as well as their application in, and impacts on, networking * Distributed ledger systems and applications * Emerging and future networked applications and distributed systems IMPORTANT DATES --------------- *Extended abstract submissions* * **Registration & submission:** extended to Monday, November 30th, 2020 * **Notification of acceptance:** Friday, January 15th, 2020 * **Camera-ready due:** Friday, February 15th, 2021 *Hot topic submissions* * **Registration & submission:** extended to Friday, May 28th, 2021 * **Notification of acceptance:** Wednesday, June 30th, 2021 For other dates (workshop proposals, demo papers, early work and PhD Forum) see https://netsys2021.org. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES FOR EXTENDED ABSTRACTS -------------------------------------------- All abstract submissions must be original, unpublished, and not considered elsewhere for publication. Extended abstracts are limited to 4 pages including references, figures and tables (11pt font, one-column format) in ECEASST-Style. LaTeX and Microsoft Word templates, as well as formatting instructions, are available online here: https://netsys2021.org/participation Contributions should be submitted electronically as PDF, via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=netsys2021 The abstracts will undergo a thorough process of peer reviews by at least three members of the technical program committee. Submission implies that at least one author will register and attend the conference to present the extended abstract via a talk or potentially via a poster. Accepted and presented extended abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings via the journal Electronic Communiations of EASST ( https://journal.ub.tu-berlin.de/eceasst). The authors of the best extended abstracts will be invited to submit a long version of their research to a special issue of ACM TOIT: https://dl.acm.org/pb-assets/static_journal_pages/toit/pdf/ACM-TOIT-CfP-Adv… SUBMISSION GUIDELINES FOR HOT TOPIC PAPERS ------------------------------------------ We expect submissions of papers already published or accepted at top-tier venues. Please submit the full paper or at least the front page (at least including title, authors, abstract, and publication venue) of the published paper as well as its complete reference. Accepted hot topic papers have to be presented at the conference. The presentations will be 15-20 minutes per talk (at the discretion of the NetSys organizers). PC CHAIRS --------- * Mathias Fischer mfischer(a)informatik.uni-hamburg.de Universität Hamburg, Germany * Winfried Lamersdorf lamersdorf(a)informatik.uni-hamburg.de U ______________________________________________________________ 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] MCSMS-2020 CFP: The Sixth International Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing systems, Management, and Security,
by Lars Wolf 21 Oct '20

21 Oct '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] MCSMS-2020 CFP: The Sixth International Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing systems, Management, and Security, Datum: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 07:32:15 -0400 Von: Emerging Tech <emergtechpub(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Emerging Tech <emergtechpub(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG The Sixth IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing systems, Management, and Security (MCSMS-2020) http://emergingtechnet.org/MCSMS2020/ Paris, France. December 14-16, 2020. in conjunction with The Seventh International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IoTSMS 2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org> *MCSMS 2020 CFP:* With a Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) market value of US$9.5 billion in 2014 and with more than 1 trillion cloud-ready devices in the next four years, MCC is considered as one of today's hottest new technologies in both academia and industry. MCC integrates different major technologies such as smart devices technologies (phones, tablets, watches, …etc), cloud services, big data, and cloud computing in one platform that services the end users. Despite the rapid growth of MCC, many issues are still challenging and need to be addressed. These challenges are related to the underlying networks , cloud services, security, the required Quality of Service, the availability of services, the needed user data management, and many others. The International Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing systems, Management, and Security (MCSMS) is introduced as a forum for scientists, researchers, students, and practitioners to present their latest research results, ideas, and developments in the area of Mobile Cloud Computing that addresses the aforementioned challenges. MCSMS 2020 workshop aims to investigate the opportunities and requirements for Mobile Cloud Computing, as well as Fog and Edge Computing domains. The objective of MCSMS2020 is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers, and researchers to discuss their research and results on all aspects of Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) as well as Fog and Mobile Edge Computing. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: * Mobile Cloud Computing Systems. * Edge Computing Systems. * Fog Computing Systems. * Mobile Cloud Computing Security and Privacy Issues. * Mobile Cloud Computing Pricing and billing models. * Mobile Cloud Computing support for VANETS and MANETS * Cloudlet based computing * Lightweight authentication mechanisms in Mobile Cloud Computing architecture. * Access Control models in Mobile Cloud Computing. * Identification of incentives for FMEC service providers. * The future perspective for Mobile Cloud Computing: Challenges and Open Issues. * Mobile Cloud Computing Quality of Service (QoS) improvements techniques. * Mobile Cloud Computing architecture features and evolution. * Mobile Cloud Computing Networking and Communication considerations * Mobile Cloud Computing Software development platform and enabled new applications * Mobile Cloud Computing Power Efficiency for resources and networking * Mobile Cloud Computing Availability and Quality of Service. * Security and privacy of mobile cloud computing * Mobile Cloud Computing Resource Management, Optimization, and Migration * Mobile Cloud Computing Support for Multimedia Communication and Game Computing * Mobile Cloud Computing Support for Big Data Management * Mobile Cloud Computing intrusion detection systems * Security of pricing and billing for mobile cloud computing services * Security of mobile, peer-to-peer and pervasive services in clouds * Security of mobile commerce and mobile Internet of Things * Security of mobile social networks * Security and privacy in smartphone devices * Security and privacy in social applications and networks * Security of Mobile, peer-to-peer and pervasive services in clouds * Network virtualization and cloud-based radio access networks *Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings* Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format (IEEE Templates <https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht…>). All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper must not exceed the stated length (including all figures, tables and references). Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. All submissions are peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the IoTSMS Proceeding and to be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. The proceedings are also submitted for indexing to EI (Compendex), Scopus and other indexing services like DBLP. Submitted papers must include original work, and must not be under consideration for another conference or journal. Submission of regular papers must not exceed 8 pages and must follow the IEEE paper format. Please include up to 7 keywords, complete postal and e-mail address, and fax and phone numbers of the corresponding author. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the conference. Submitted papers that are deemed of good quality but that could not be accepted as regular papers will be accepted as short papers. Length of short papers *Important Dates* *Submission Date: 25 October, 2020* Notification to Authors: 15 November, 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 1 December, 2020 *Journal Special Issues* Selected papers from the presented papers will be invited to submit an extended version to number of journals. Papers will be selected based on their reviewers’ scores and appropriateness to the Journal’s theme. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. Further details will be made available at a later stage. Please send any inquiry to Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ACM HotMobile 2021 CFP: The 22nd Annual International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, Cyberspace, February 24-26, 2021
by Lars Wolf 19 Oct '20

19 Oct '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ACM HotMobile 2021 CFP: The 22nd Annual International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, Cyberspace, February 24-26,2021 Datum: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 09:02:27 -0400 Von: Yufei Sun <yufeisun369(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Yufei Sun <yufeisun369(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The 22nd Annual International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (ACM HotMobile 2021) *https://hotmobile.org/2021/ <https://hotmobile.org/2021/>* Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE February 24-26, 2021 Cyberspace *Call for Papers* ACM HotMobile 2021, the Twenty-second International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications continues the series of highly selective, interactive workshops focused on mobile applications, systems, and environments, as well as their underlying state-of-the-art technologies. HotMobile's small workshop format makes it ideal for presenting and discussing new directions or controversial approaches. We solicit submissions of papers that (1) focus primarily on systems and applications and (2) propose new directions of research, advocate non-traditional approaches to old (or new) ideas, or generate controversy and discussion. We especially encourage papers that identify fundamental open questions, advocate a new approach, offer a constructive critique of the state-of-the-art, debunk existing assumptions, report unexpected early results, report on promising but unproven ideas, or propose new evaluation methods. Novel ideas need not be supported by full evaluations; well-reasoned arguments or preliminary evaluations suffice. The program committee will explicitly favor early work and papers likely to stimulate reflection and discussion over a “6-pages conference paper.” We take a broad view of Mobile Systems research. This includes: · Novel applications, environments, and devices supporting mobility. · Operating system and distributed system support for mobile computing. · Wearable computing, internet of things, edge computing, sensing, and context-awareness. · HCI issues related to mobile computing. · Security and privacy of mobile computing. · Management, configuration, and deployment of systems supporting mobility. · Wireless technology, as it pertains to mobile systems and applications. *·* *Mobile and wireless technologies on lessening or resolving various issues related to COVID-19 and future similar epidemics/pandemics.* Important dates : · Deadline for submissions *October 30, 2020, 11:59pm EDT* · Acceptance notification *December** 23, 2020* Presenting at HotMobile is a good way to get early feedback on research ideas at least one year away from a full-fledged conference submission to ACM MobiSys or other high-quality conferences. A full-length paper on the same topic submitted to a conference in less than a year is unlikely to include sufficient new material and mature ideas to warrant publication. As is customary, papers must not have been published elsewhere and may not be simultaneously under submission at another venue. Papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms are not acceptable and will be returned to the author(s) unread. As customary with the scientific peer review process, submissions will be handled as confidential material during the review. Submissions should contain 6 or fewer U.S. letter pages in PDF format, including all references, figures and tables. The submissions should not be anonymous. The submissions must meet the following formatting requirements: · Font size no smaller than 10pt. · Font size of the bibliography no smaller than 9pt. · Double column format with each column having dimensions 9.25 inches x 3.33 inches, a space of 0.33 inches between the two columns, and with no more than 55 lines of text per column. · Fit properly on US letter-sized paper (8.5 inches x 11 inches). We recommend the use of the "sigconf" ACM proceedings template, available at: http://www.acm.org/, with the font size of the main body amended to 10pt. An example Tex document can be found here. For more submission guidelines, please visit the conference website. Please note that it is the responsibility of the authors to ensure that the submissions are meeting all formatting requirements. The papers accepted to HotMobile 2021 will be publicly available from the workshop's website for a limited time window, as per ACM's Digital Library's Policy. --- HotMobile in the Time of COVID-19--- We have been closely monitoring the progress of COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on conferences and travel restrictions. As much as we prefer to hold in-person conferences, the safety and well-being of the community is our top priority. Therefore, we would like to announce that ACM HotMobile 2021 has been decided to be taking place entirely virtual. With the change, we will also be able to offer a very low registration fee while you worry less about travel restrictions/costs. Please do not hesitate to contribute your latest research result to the workshop! Stay safe, and we look forward to receiving your submissions. General Chair: Mirco Musolesi (University College London, UK, m.musolesi(a)ucl.ac.uk) Program Committee Chair: Junehwa Song (KAIST, Korea, junesong(a)nclab.kaist.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: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking - CFP for SI on Communications and Computing for Green Industrial IoT and Smart Grids
by Lars Wolf 19 Oct '20

19 Oct '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking - CFP for SI on Communications and Computing for Green Industrial IoT and Smart Grids Datum: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 01:36:19 +0000 Von: Melike Erol-Kantarci <melike.erolkantarci(a)UOTTAWA.CA> Antwort an: Melike Erol-Kantarci <melike.erolkantarci(a)UOTTAWA.CA> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG **Apologies for cross postings. IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking Special Issue on Communications and Computing for Green Industrial IoT and Smart Grids https://www.comsoc.org/publications/journals/ieee-tgcn/cfp/communications-a… *************** Call for Papers The goal of this Special Issue is to advance and promote significant technological advances for Green Industrial Internet of Things (IoT). IIoT covers the broad domain of smart grid, smart manufacturing, intelligent transport and smart cities, and it refers to the combination of IoT technology with big data coming from intelligent processes in those domains. Energy-efficient transmission and processing of this data targets automation, efficiency, and productivity increase. In particular, smart grid can be considered as a typical IIoT example, since it comprises an industrial setting with a large number of IoT devices. Within Green Industrial IoT, smart grid communications uses state-of-the-art communication technologies towards ensuring the reduction of energy consumption, optimal operation of the smart grid, Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), as well as coordination between the different smart grid components from generation to distribution and consumption. Contributions focusing on green smart grid communications, as well as other energy-efficient IIoT related research are welcome. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Energy efficient machine-to-machine communications and cooperative communications in IIoT. - Advanced sensors and energy-efficient sensing techniques for IIoT. - Green AI-enabled IIoT. - Edge AI-driven computing solutions for green IIoT. - AI-enabled blockchain for IIoT. - Communications, computing, and storage issues for energy-efficient IIoT. - Intelligent applications and services for energy-efficient IIoT including automation, location tracking for tools, as well as predictive maintenance for maximizing uptime. - Energy-efficient Network Function Virtualization (NFV) for IIoT. - Green wireline, optical, and wireless communications and networks. - Green smart grid communications for HANs, NANs, FANs. - Environmentally-aware designs of communications and networking devices and systems. - Breakthrough technologies, protocols and network architectures for resource allocation and energy efficiency in massive IIoT. - Energy-efficient transceiver hardware architectures for IIoT, including metasurface-made reflectors and transceivers. - Energy harvesting solutions for IIoT. - Communications, computing, and storage issues for battery-free IIoT. Important Dates: Manuscript submission: March 1st, 2021 Notification of decisions (1st round): June 1st, 2021 Target publication date: September 1st, 2021 Guest Editors: Melike Erol-Kantarci, University of Ottawa, Canada George C. Alexandropoulos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece Peter Han Joo Chong, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Andrea Tonello, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Yan Zhang, University of Oslo, Norway ______________________________________________________________ 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 Pervasive 2021 - Special Issue on Computational Materials
by Lars Wolf 19 Oct '20

19 Oct '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE Pervasive 2021 - Special Issue on Computational Materials Datum: Sun, 18 Oct 2020 17:03:50 -0400 Von: Mallesham Dasari <mdasari(a)CS.STONYBROOK.EDU> Antwort an: Mallesham Dasari <mdasari(a)CS.STONYBROOK.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Apology for cross-posting] Call for Papers: Special Issue on Computational Materials Gregory D. Abowd, Yoshihiro Kawahara, Lucy Dunne Title and abstracts due: 17 November 2020 (email pvc3-2021(a)computer.org) Full manuscripts due: 1 December 2020 (via mc.manuscriptcentral.com/pc- Publication: July-September 2021 Mark Weiser’s initial inspirational words about computing technologies of the 21st century were that “they weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.’’ This was meant metaphorically, but 30 years removed from the early days of ubiquitous computing, we see that our technological advances have enabled the development of computational artifacts that address three major challenges: power, manufacturing cost, and physical form factor. Gregory D. Abowd recently referred to the possibility of an Internet of Materials based on computational materials. This special issue seeks articles that address this general vision, with potential areas of focus including: • Self-sustainable computing and interaction technologies • eTextiles • On the body • Tangible computing artifacts • Alternative manufacturing of computing via additive techniques or nano-manufacturing • Conformable electronics • Printed electronics • Organic electronics • Mechanical meta-materials • Power-savvy computational architectures • Energy-harvesting techniques Submission Guidelines Articles submitted to IEEE Pervasive Computing should not exceed 6,000 words, including all text, abstract, keywords, bibliography, biographies, and table text. The word count must include 250 words for each table and figure. References should be limited to at most 20 citations (40 for survey papers). Authors are encouraged, but not required, to use a template for submission (accepted articles will ultimately be typeset by magazine staff for publication). View the Author Information page. Questions? Contact the guest editors at pvc3-2021(a)computer.org. Guest editors: • Gregory D. Abowd, Georgia Institute of Technology • Yoshihiro Kawahara, University of Tokyo • Lucy Dunne, University of Minnesota ______________________________________________________________ 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 - Extended Deadline] RoboCom’21 - IEEE CCNC 2021 WKSHPS: 1st International Workshop on Communication and Networking for Swarms Robotics
by Lars Wolf 16 Oct '20

16 Oct '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP - Extended Deadline] RoboCom’21 - IEEE CCNC 2021 WKSHPS: 1st International Workshop on Communication and Networking for Swarms Robotics Datum: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 12:48:04 +0200 Von: Angelo Trotta <angelo.trotta(a)IEEE.ORG> Antwort an: Angelo Trotta <angelo.trotta(a)IEEE.ORG> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG (Apologies if you received duplicate copies of this CFP) We cordially invite you to submit your paper to the *1st International Workshop on Communication and Networking for Swarms Robotics* (RoboCom 2021) Held in conjunction with the *IEEE CCNC 2021* ( https://ccnc2021.ieee-ccnc.org) 9 January 2021, Virtual Conference Website: *http://robocom2021.nws.cs.unibo.it/ <http://robocom2021.nws.cs.unibo.it/>* Extra features: -* Best Paper Award* (BPA) sponsored by the Technology Innovation Institute (TII) with a cash prize of *1,000 Euro * - Best-selected papers related to mobile fog and edge computing applied to drone swarm will be invited to submit an extended paper to the Special Issue on “Mobile Fog and Edge Computing in Drone Swarms”, *MDPI Drones journal * - Best-selected papers related to swarm robotics will be invited to submit an extended paper to the Special Issue on “Recent Advances in Swarm Robotics”, *MDPI Applied Sciences journal* - Submission extended deadline: November 6th, 2020 - Notification: November 23rd, 2020 - Camera ready: December 14th, 2020 - Workshop Day: January 9th, 2021 EDAS link for submissions: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=27779&track=103639 =========================== CALL FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS =========================== Recent advances in the field of telecommunications and electronics have led to the proliferation of autonomous robots in numerous novel application fields, from emergency situations to military applications, from infrastructure inspection to ambient monitoring services, where the utilization of multiple robots is essential in order to accomplish the desired task. Recent works have demonstrated the challenges of coordinating multiple robots in order to deploy robot networks with self-configuration and self-healing capabilities to guarantee service continuity, also in case of failures. Starting from the unique requirements of a multi robot system, Swarm Robotics is a complex approach that requires an understanding of how to define distributed systems to define self-organization behaviors. Swarm Robotics studies how to make robots collaborate and collectively solve a task where every robot contributes to the general task sharing the same higher-level objectives. To this end, communication wireless networks must be specifically designed in order to support the cooperation and collaboration inside the swarm. This workshop invites original research articles and review articles that focus on communication networking problems in swarm robotics. =========================== TOPICS =========================== - Communication Models and Protocols for Swarm Robotics - Delay-Tolerant Applications for Swarm Robotics - Fog and Edge Computing in Swarm Robotics - 5G Integration with Swarm Robotics - Integration of Unmanned Aerial, Ground, and Underwater Vehicles in Swarm Robotics - Localization, Navigation, and Dynamic Path Planning in Swarm Robotics - Cooperative Control of Multiple Robots - Security and Privacy in Swarm Robotics - The Internet of Things (IoT) in Swarm Robotics - Swarm Intelligence and Nature-Inspired Algorithm in Swarm Robotics - Artificial Intelligence Applications in Swarm Robotics - Continual Learning and Adaptation for Swarm Robotics =========================== IMPORTANT DATES =========================== - Submission extended deadline: November 6th, 2020 - Notification: November 23rd, 2020 - Camera ready: December 14th, 2020 - Workshop Day: January 9th, 2021 =========================== FEATURES =========================== - Best Paper Award (BPA) sponsored by the Technology Innovation Institute (TII) with a cash prize of 1,000 Euro - Best-selected papers related to mobile fog and edge computing applied to drone swarm will be invited to submit an extended paper to the Special Issue on “Mobile Fog and Edge Computing in Drone Swarms”, MDPI Drones journal - Best-selected papers related to swarm robotics will be invited to submit an extended paper to the Special Issue on “Recent Advances in Swarm Robotics”, MDPI Applied Sciences journal =========================== ORGANIZING COMMITTEE =========================== General Chairs: - Angelo Trotta, University of Bologna, Italy - Gökhan Seçinti, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey - Nicola Roberto Zema, University of Paris-Saclay, France - Zhangyu Guan, University at Buffalo, USA Technical Program Committee - Atakan Aral, Vienna University of Technology, Austria - Berk Canberk, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey - Brian M. Sadler, Army Research Laboratory, USA - Eliseo Ferrante, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands - Emrecan Demirors, Northeastern University, USA - Enrico Natalizio, University of Lorraine/Loria, France - Evsen Yanmaz, Ozyegin University, Turkey - Jithin Jagannath, ANDRO Computational Solutions, USA - Marco Di Felice, University of Bologna, Italy - Marcos Caetano, University of Brasilia, Brazil - Melanie Schranz, University of Klagenfurt, Austria - Muge Erel-Ozcevik, Celal Bayar University, Turkey - Salvatore D'Oro, Northeastern University, USA - Vincenzo Lomonaco, University of Bologna, Italy - Yousof Naderi, Northeastern University, USA - Zhi Sun, University at Buffalo, USA ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP - IEEE Global Internet (GI) Symposium 2021 in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2021 - Submission Due on December 15 2020
by Lars Wolf 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP - IEEE Global Internet (GI) Symposium 2021 in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2021 - Submission Due on December 15 2020 Datum: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 14:12:49 +0000 Von: Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou <eirini(a)UNM.EDU> Antwort an: Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou <eirini(a)UNM.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org CALL FOR PAPERS - IEEE Global Internet (GI) Symposium 2021 in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2021 Webpage: https://infocom2021.ieee-infocom.org/ieee-global-internet-symposium The IEEE Global Internet (GI) Symposium is the flagship event established and organized by the Internet Technical Committee (ITC), a joint committee of the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) and the Internet Society (ISOC). From 1996 through 2002, the symposium was held in conjunction with IEEE GLOBECOM, and since 2003 has moved to be held in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM (except 2020). The GI Symposium provides a top forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss advances in the current and the future Internet and Internet-related technologies. The focus of the GI symposium is on experimental systems over the Internet and the design of future global Internet technologies, such as Information-Centric Networking (ICN), Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV), network slicing, Artificial-Intelligence-based intelligent Internet, industrial Internet, and vehicular and drone networks, especially in a global Internet scale. The GI symposium also has a special focus on measurements-related aspects, besides the emerging technologies. In addition to the traditional research papers, we encourage papers with well thought-through concepts and positions, papers that contrast proposed approaches, papers that clarify and compare inherent differences between competing technologies, and heresies. The topics of interest for the GI 2021 include but are not limited to the following: * Routing, switching, and addressing * Future Internet and next generation network architectures * Information-centric networking, Software defined networking, and network function virtualization * Wireless Internet and Internet technologies for 5G/6G * Data center network architectures and performance * Integration of in-network computation, cloud, and edge/fog computing * Machine learning, data mining, and big data analytics for intelligent Internet * Space-air-ground integrated network * Quantum Internet * Internet of Things, Machine-to-Machine, sensor, and vehicular/drone networks * Industrial Internet and time-sensitive and deterministic networks * Integrating blockchain with distributed Internet edges * Energy-efficient green communications * Geo-distributed applications, consistency, and latency challenges * Content delivery and management * Internet exchanges, remote peering and peer-to-peer networks * Internet structure and analysis * Network-aware applications * Real-world Measurements and deployments * Distributed systems and novel distributed Internet applications * Online social networking * Internet measurement, modeling, and visualization * Large-scale network operations, management, and performance monitoring * Trust, security, privacy, and blockchain for the Internet * Anomaly, intrusion, and attack detection * Accountability, reliability, and resiliency for networks * Economic aspects of the Internet and network neutrality PAPER SUBMISSION Papers must be no more than 6 pages (IEEE two-column format, 10 pt) in total including references and figures, and follow the IEEE template. Submitted papers should be unpublished work and should not be under review in any other conference or journal. Papers must show author names and affiliations, and be submitted in PDF with all non-standard fonts embedded. Papers must be self-contained and written in English. Accepted papers will appear in the symposium proceedings published by IEEE and be submitted to IEEE Xplore Digital Library. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and present the work in the symposium. Please follow the submission link on https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=27893&track=104226 to submit your paper. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: December 15, 2020 Acceptance notification: January 15, 2021 Camera-ready submission: February 15, 2021 Workshop date: May 10, 2021 Technical Program Chairs Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Ruidong Li, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan Lei Jiao, University of Oregon, USA Publicity Chairs: William Liu, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Ryoichi Shinkuma, Kyoto University, Japan Eirini Tsiropoulou, University of New Mexico, USA Aldri Luiz dos Santos, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil Steering Committee: Michele Nogueira (Chair), Federal University of Paraná, Brazil Kevin Almeroth, UC Santa Barbara, USA Olaf Maennel, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia Stefan Schmid, TU Berlin, Germany Dijiang Huang, Arizona State University, USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou Assistant Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Office: 326B Tel.: (505)-277-5501 Email: eirini(a)unm.edu<mailto:eirini@unm.edu> Website: PROTON Lab<http://ece-research.unm.edu/tsiropoulou/index.html> PROTON Lab's News: @Tsiropoulou_EE<https://twitter.com/Tsiropoulou_EE> "Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach." ~ Aristotle ______________________________________________________________ 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: PAM 2021] Passive and Active Measurement (PAM) Conference 2021 (Virtual Conference) - Paper registration end in 3 days!
by Lars Wolf 14 Oct '20

14 Oct '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP: PAM 2021] Passive and Active Measurement (PAM) Conference 2021 (Virtual Conference) - Paper registration end in 3 days! Datum: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 08:15:56 +0000 Von: Casas Pedro <Pedro.Casas(a)AIT.AC.AT> Antwort an: Casas Pedro <Pedro.Casas(a)AIT.AC.AT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Passive and Active Measurement (PAM) Conference 2021 https://www.pam2021.b-tu.de<https://www.pam2021.b-tu.de/> PAM 2021 will be held virtually **Important Dates** - *Paper Registration* October 16th, 2020 | 23:59 EDT - *Paper Submission* October 23rd, 2020 | 23:59 EDT - *Notification to Authors* December 18th, 2020 - *Camera-ready Due* February 5th, 2021 - *Virtual Conference* Late March / early April - to be announced The Passive and Active Measurement (PAM) conference brings together researchers and operators to discuss novel and emerging work in the area of network measurement and analysis. PAM is inclusive of all areas of network measurement, but focuses on systems-based research and real-world data. Indeed, measurement technology is needed at all layers of the network stack, ranging from power profiling of hardware components to virtualization in data centers to application profiling and even user experience. Work with operational impact or relevance to the broader network research community is especially welcome, as is early and promising measurement technique. Original contributions that advance the state-of-the-art in the following areas are invited: - Applications (e.g., web, streaming, games) - Data centers and cloud computing - Energy - IoT (e.g., smart home, SCADA, ICS, embedded systems) - Measurement tools and software - Network security and privacy - Overlays (e.g., P2P, CDNs) - Physical Layer - Routing - Social networks - Topology - Transport/congestion control - User behavior and experience, QoE - Virtualization (e.g., SDN, NFV) - Visualization - Wireless and mobile Although PAM traditionally attracts early stage contributions, works that are a reappraisal or independent validation of previous results, or which enhance the reproducibility of network measurement research, for instance by publishing new datasets on an existing topic, are explicitly included in PAM's scope. **Submission Guidelines** Authors should only submit original work that has not been published before and is not under submission to any other venue. All submissions must satisfy the following requirements: - Follow Springer LNCS format (see https://www.springer.com/us/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…) - Up to 12 pages for technical content (up to 5 pages for appendices and references) - Note that reviewers are not required to read appendices. Everything needed to evaluate the paper should appear in the first 12 pages. - Anonymization: Reviewing will be DOUBLE-BLIND: - Do not include names or affiliations of authors in the submission. - Refer to your prior work in the third person. - Make a best effort to anonymize system names that would give you away. - If you have any concerns about how to anonymize your paper while maintaining its integrity, contact the PC chairs. - Submit via HotCRP: https://hotcrp.cs.umd.edu/pam2021/ **Ethical Considerations** Following the standard set by the Internet Measurement Conference (from which we base this section), papers describing experiments with users or sensitive user data (e.g., network traffic, passwords, social network information) must follow basic precepts of ethical research and subscribe to community norms. These include: respect for privacy, secure storage of sensitive data, voluntary and informed consent if users are placed at risk, avoiding deceptive practices when not essential, beneficence (maximizing the benefits to an individual or to society while minimizing harm to the individual), and risk mitigation. When appropriate, authors are encouraged to include a subsection (in the main paper, not in the Appendix) describing these issues. Authors may want to consult the Menlo Report (http://www.caida.org/publications/papers/2012/menlo_report_actual_formatted/) for further information on ethical principles and the Allman/Paxson IMC 2007 paper (https://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2007/papers/imc80.pdf) for guidance on ethical data sharing. Note that submitting research for approval by each author's institutional ethics review body is necessary, but not sufficient -- in cases where the PC has concerns about the ethics of the work in a submission, the PC will consider the ethical soundness and justification of any paper, just as it does its technical soundness. Authors unsure about ethical issues are welcome to contact the program committee co-chairs. **Awards** There will be two awards for papers of exceptional merit. The **Best Paper Award** will recognize the paper that is deemed by the committee to have the highest merit of all the submissions. The *Best Dataset Award* will be given to the best paper that makes datasets and corresponding code available to the public by the time the camera-ready is submitted. These artifacts must be sufficiently documented such that any researcher can use them to repeat the results described in the paper, and they must be placed in a sufficiently long-lived archival repository (e.g., Github, Bitbucket, or CRAWDAD). **Organizers** - General Chair: Oliver Hohlfeld (Brandenburg University of Technology) - Program Committee Chairs: Andra Lutu (Telefónica) and Dave Levin (University of Maryland) Pedro Casas PAM 2021 Publicity Chair PEDRO CASAS Senior Scientist Data Science & Artificial Intelligence Center for Digital Safety & Security AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH Giefinggasse 4 | 1210 Vienna | Austria T +43 50550-4104 | M +43 664 88256097 | F +43 50550-2813 pedro.casas(a)ait.ac.at<mailto:pedro.casas@ait.ac.at> | www.ait.ac.at<http://www.ait.ac.at/> FN: 115980 i HG Wien | UID: ATU14703506 www.ait.ac.at/Email-Disclaimer<http://www.ait.ac.at/Email-Disclaimer> ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] (Deadline Extended to October 30) IEEE ICC 2021, Next-Generation Networking and Internet Symposium
by Lars Wolf 14 Oct '20

14 Oct '20

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] (Deadline Extended to October 30) IEEE ICC 2021, Next-Generation Networking and Internet Symposium Datum: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 10:44:53 +0900 Von: Ruidong Li <lrd(a)NICT.GO.JP> Antwort an: Ruidong Li <lrd(a)NICT.GO.JP> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [We apology for possible cross posting, and thank you in advance for distributing this CFP] Next-Generation Networking and Internet Symposium, IEEE ICC 2021 https://icc2021.ieee-icc.org/sites/icc2021.ieee-icc.org/files/symposia%20CF… Submission:https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=27236&track=101361 Scope and Topics of Interest There have been unprecedented advances in developing technologies to enable the next generation networks, which will seamlessly integrate the computing equipment with networking to provide the computing-harvesting next generation services. Thanks to the huge enhancement of computing processor and interface architectures, communication networks can now handle network functions implemented as virtualized machines making large use of software elements. Communication devices can now host very advanced applications, and data centers can be pervasively distributed down to network access points. Networks, applications and clouds control layers can so leverage on advanced decision-making solutions to target full automation in Internet and next-generation service delivery. In addition, quantum Internet is emerging with vast amount of computing power, which opens new possibilities. This trend also greatly affects next-generation broadband wireless networks, such as spectrum efficiency, energy efficiency, and mobility management. The NGNI symposium welcomes original research work in technical areas focusing on the innovations on next-generation networks. The Next-Generation Networking and Internet (NGNI) Symposium seeks original contributions in the following topical areas, plus others that are not explicitly listed but are closely related to: • Addressing and naming with the presence of mobility and portability • Centralized-RAN, Cloud-RAN, and Fog-RAN architectures • Cloud-based and fog-based networking • Content-centric networking and named data network • Converged networks and applications • Data center network architectures and performance • Free Space Optical (FSO) networks and Visible Light Communication ( VLC) • Future Internet and next-generation networking architectures • Energy-efficient green communications • Heterogeneous multi-layer and multi-domain wireless-wireline internetworking • High speed and parallel processing architectures for next generation routers and switches • Intent-based network control and management • Internet economics, pricing, accounting, and growth modelling • Internet of Things (IoT), M2M, D2D, MTC • Internet survivability and network resilience strategies • Integrated networking, storage and computing • Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) and Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) • Mobile security: device, application, and data • Networking flying vehicles such as UAVs and drones • Next-generation access networks • Next-generation anomaly, intrusion, and attack detection/prevention • Next-generation flow management: resource sharing, congestion control • Next-generation Internet applications and service • Next-generation networking protocols • Next-generation network management and control • Open communities, open API, open source • Operational and research issues with IPv6 • Overlay and peer-to-peer (P2P) networking • Packet classification and forwarding mechanisms at ultra-high link rates (terabits) • Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE) in next- generation networks • Quantum Internet • Resource orchestration in next-generation networks • Routing and switching • Self-protection and self-organization networking • Software defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) • Software defined radio (SDR) and cognitive radio networks • Terahertz wireless communications • Traffic measurement, analysis, modelling, visualization, and engineering • Vehicular networking (IoV/V2V/V2I/V2X) Submission Guidelines The IEEE ICC 2021 website (icc2021.ieee-icc.org) provides full instructions on manuscript format and how to submit a manuscript. For this NGNI symposium, please use the submission url below. https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=27236&track=101361 Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: 30 October 2020 (Firm) Notification of Acceptance: 25 January 2021 Camera Ready Submissions: 22 February 2021 Symposium Chairs Shiwen Mao, Auburn University, USA,smao(a)ieee.org Periklis Chatzimisios, International Hellenic University, Greece, pchatzimisios(a)ihu.gr Ruidong Li, NICT, Japan,lrd(a)nict.go.jp -- Ruidong Li, Senior Researcher, Network System Research Institute, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan Email: lrd(a)nict.go.jp liruidong(a)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: VTC 2021 Deadline Extension and Other Conference News
by Lars Wolf 14 Oct '20

14 Oct '20

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: IEEE Vehicular Technology Society <cerry(a)ieee.org> Gesendet: 14. Oktober 2020 00:03:34 MESZ An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de Betreff: VTC 2021 Deadline Extension and Other Conference News ******ANNOUNCEMENTS****** ** VTC2021-Spring ** ** Call for Papers Deadline Extended: 2 November 2020 ** **Call for Tutorials Deadline: 21 October 2020** ______________________________ * VPPC 2020 Registration is now open! * ________________________________ VTC2020-Fall, IEEE CAVS 2020, and IEEE VPPC 2020 ***will now open 18 November 2020 *** _______________________________________________________________________________________ VTC2021-Spring in Helsinki, Finland 25 - 28 April 2021 Deadline for papers extended: 12 October 2020! Call for Papers VTC2021-Spring in Helsinki will feature world-class technical sessions, workshops, and tutorials on, but not limited to, the following technical tracks. Prospective authors are invited to submit 5-page, original, and unpublished full papers: 1. Antenna Systems, Propagation, and RF Design 2. Signal Processing for Wireless Communicatioins 3. Green Communications and Networks 4. Multiple Antennas and Cooperative Communications 5. Vehicle Cooperation and Control, Assisted and Autonomous Driving 6. Airborne and Maritime Mobile Systems and Services 7. IoV, IoT, M2M, Sensor Networks, and Ad-Hoc Networking 8. Spectrum Management, Radio Access Technology, Services and Security 9. Positioning, Navigation, and Sensing 10. Machine Learning and AI for Communications 11. Electric Vehicles, Vehicular Electronics, and Intelligent Transportation 12. Emerging Technologies, 5G and Beyond Deadlines Submission deadline: 2 November 2020 - EXTENDED Acceptance notification: 7 December 2020 Final paper submission deadline: 14 February 2021 Paper submission is open: https://vtc2021spring.trackchair.com/ ________________________ Call for Tutorials Tutorials provide opportunities for researchers from academia and industry to learn about state-of-the-art research and development from experts in a given field. The VTC2021-Spring Technical Program Committee invites submission of tutorial proposals for half-day or full-day presentation on topics of interest to the conference, such as (but not limited to): Antenna Systems, Propagation, and RF Design Signal Transmission and Reception Spectrum Management, Radio Access Technology, Heterogeneous Networks Multiple Antennas and Cooperative Communications Vehicle Cooperation and Control, Assisted and Autonomous Driving Airborne and Maritime Mobile Systems and Services IoV, IoT, M2M, Sensor Networks, and Ad-Hoc Networking Wireless Networks: Protocols, Services and Security Positioning, Navigation, and Sensing Machine Learning and AI for Communications Electric Vehicles, Vehicular Electronics, and Intelligent Transportation Emerging Technologies, 5G and Beyond Deadlines Tutorial proposal deadline: 21 October 2020 Acceptance notification deadline: 28 October 2020 All tutorials will be presented on 25 April 2021 To submit a tutorial proposal, please visit: events.vtsociety.org/vtc2021-spring/conference-sessions/call-for-tutorials/ ______________________________________________________________________________________ 2020 IEEE 92nd Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2020-Fall -- Fully Virtual -- ***Will Now Open 18 November 2020*** Guidelines for recording presentations can be found at: events.vtsociety.org/vtc2020-fall/authors/virtual-presentation-guidelines/ Registration is open. For more details, please visit: events.vtsociety.org/vtc2020-fall/registration-2/ +++++++ Keynote Speakers +++++++ Andreas F. Molisch, University of Southern California Title: Millimeter-wave and THz channels and systems for high-mobility environments Abstract: Millimeter-wave based communications is one of the key components of 5G. Among other applications, high-rate communications for both passengers and control systems in vehicular and train environments are envisioned. This talk will start out by discussion propagation channels in high-mobility environments, describing both recent measurements and suitable models. This will be followed by a discussion of antenna and MIMO technology for such systems, their complexity, and sensitivity to mobility. +++ Yonina Eldar, Weizmann Institute of Science Title: Deep Analog-to-Digital Compression with Applications to Automotive Radar and Massive MIMO Abstract: The famous Shannon-Nyquist theorem has become a landmark in analog to digital conversion and the development of digital signal processing algorithms. However, in many modern applications, the signal bandwidths have increased tremendously, while the acquisition capabilities have not scaled sufficiently fast. Furthermore, the resulting high rate digital data requires storage, communication and processing at very high rates which is computationally expensive and requires large amounts of power. In this talk we consider a general framework for sub-Nyquist sampling and processing in space, time and frequency which allows to dramatically reduce the number of antennas, sampling rates, number of bits and band occupancy in a variety of applications. It also allows for the development of efficient joint radar-communication systems. Our framework relies on exploiting signal structure, quantization and the processing task in both standard processing and in deep learning networks. We consider applications of these ideas to a variety of problems in wireless communications, efficient massive MIMO systems, automotive radar and ultrasound imaging and show several demos of real-time sub-Nyquist prototypes including a wireless ultrasound probe, sub-Nyquist automotive radar, cognitive radio and radar, dual radar-communication systems, analog precoding, sparse antenna arrays, and a deep Viterbi decoder. +++ Mohamed-Slim Alouini, Abdullah University of Science and Technology Title: What should 6G be? Abstract: The role of Internet and Communication Technology (ICT) in bringing about a revolution in almost all aspects of human life needs no introduction. It is indeed a well-known fact that the transmission of the information at a rapid pace has transformed all spheres of human life such as economy, education, and health to name a few. In this context, and as the standardization of the fifth generation (5G) of wireless communication systems (WCSs) has been completed, and 5G networks are in their early stage of deployment, the research visioning and planning of the sixth generation (6G) of WCSs are being initiated. 6G is expected to be the next focus in wireless communication and networking and aim to provide new superior communication services to meet the future hyper-connectivity demands in the 2030s. In addition, keeping in mind that urbanized populations have been the major beneficiary of the advances offered by the previous generations of WCSs and motivated by the recently adopted united nations sustainability development goals intended to be achieved by the year 2030, 6G networks are anticipated to democratize the benefits of ICT. Indeed these advantages are still not experienced by almost 4 billion people in the world who are still "unconnected or under-connected" and who suffer as such from the "digital divide", a term coined in order to emphasize the lack of ICT infrastructure in many parts of the world. Given this background, this talk aims to (i) provide an envisioned picture of 6G, (ii) serve as a research guideline in the beyond 5G era, and (iii) go over the recently proposed solutions to provide high-speed connectivity in under-covered areas in order to serve and contribute to the development of far-flung regions. +++ Wen Tong, Huawei Wireless Title: The Research Directions for 6G Abstract: In this talk, we present our view on 6G technologies, its trends and research directions. Wireless technology have gone through several major revolutions and it is always the case that the disruptive technologies enable the wireless innovation and market success. As 5G technology enables the digital transformation of every vertical business, we see a radical paradigm shift from the conventional operator-centric view to an inclusive prosumer-centric view, and the new approach to a federated networking and service provisioning, redefining the smart connectivity infrastructure as a much more dynamic composition of all resources of participating users. This include the spectrum usage reform and infrastructure sharing, we present four fundamental changes in terms of 6G networking and associated research challenges. The other aspect for 6G is a total unification of mobile, satellite, network, cloud, cloud-edge computing, ML, AI, end-to-end cybersecurity, innovative devices, Industry IoT, cell-less MIMO and Terahertz Communication to support the prosumer-centric model, in this architecture, we list a few technology enablers, such a mmWave-THz sensing, machine learning-training DNN to enable semantic communications as intelligent connectivity, the research in these areas will shape the radio access for 6G. Since the 6G is future platform to enable new innovations with its state-of-the-art capabilities, we provide an analysis of the key-performance indicators for 6G. In addition, we share our view of the potential impact of Quantum computing, mega-satellite-constellation and neural-center (instead of data center) to 6G. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 2020 IEEE 3rd Connected and Automated Vehicles Symposium: IEEE CAVS 2020 -- Fully Virtual -- ***Will Now Open 18 November 2020*** IEEE CAVS 2020 Sponsors Technical co-sponsors: ITS Canada, Transportation Association of Canada __________________________________________________________________ Guidelines for recording presentations can be found at: events.vtsociety.org/ieee-cavs-2020/authors/virtual-presentation-guideline/ Registration is open. For more details, please visit: events.vtsociety.org/ieee-cavs-2020/registration-2/ +++++ Keynote Speakers+++++ Joe LaChapelle Vice President, Research & Development Title: Cooperative Perception - Market and System Design Considerations Abstract: Cooperative perception promises significant opportunity to optimize performance, functional safety (FuSa) and safety of the intended functionality (SOTIF) in autonomous navigation. System level architecture choices will mitigate the adoption and proliferation of cooperative perception into the OEM automotive market. Existing automotive ecosystem dynamics will significantly inform the requisite component module boundaries, interfaces, and data standards for threshold efficacy. This presentation will explore the ecosystem dynamics and propose architecture theory to minimize barrier to entry of cooperative perception into the ADAS and self-driving market. +++ Prashant Tiwari General Manager, Intelligent Connected Systems Division Title: CAV Enabling Mobility Services Opportunities Abstract: The transportation industry currently is undergoing a huge transition - estimated by some to be the biggest transformation in its history. Vehicles are increasingly being equipped with embedded connectivity and automated technologies and Automotive Edge Computing Consortium (AECC) predicts that by 2025 CAV market will be $150B with more that 100 million CAV on the road. This has enabled several Mobility as a Service (MaaS) opportunities. Analysts indicate that connected car capabilities already influence 6 out of 10 vehicle purchases, giving vehicle manufacturers the ability to open new revenue streams, diversify core activities, and improve profit margins by selling software and connected services. Processing the big data from connected vehicles is one of the big challenges all automakers are currently facing. But these challenges also provide opportunities to build hyper connected cyber-physical systems (also called Digital Twin) with several interesting use cases like personalized intelligent driving and smart traffic management using CAVs. +++ Richard Yu Professor, School of Information Technology Title: Internet of Intelligence for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles Abstract: In the era of the Internet of information, we have gone through layer, cross-layer, and cross-system design paradigms. The "curse of modeling" and "curse of dimensionality" of the current Internet of information have resulted in the popularity of using artificial intelligence (AI) for the Internet of information in the recent years. However, many significant research challenges remain to be addressed for the Internet of information to enable connected and autonomous vehicles. In a larger time scale, humans' cooperation has gone through "grid of transportation", "grid of energy", and "the Internet of information" paradigms. The next cooperation paradigm could be "the Internet of intelligence", where intelligence can be easily obtained like information and energy. The Internet of intelligence can become an important enabler for connected and autonomous vehicles. In this talk, we will present some recent advances in these areas. Then, we will discuss some open issues and challenges that need to be addressed in the future. ____________________________________________________________________________________ IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference 2020 - IEEE VPPC 2020 -- Fully Virtual -- ***Will Now Open 18 November 2020*** Guidelines for recording presentations can be found at: events.vtsociety.org/vppc2020/authors/virtual-presentation-guidelines/ Registration is now open. For more details, please visit: events.vtsociety.org/vppc2020/registration-2/ ++++++Keynote Speakers++++++ Eric Cheng Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Director of the Power Electronics Research Centre Title: Power Electronics Research Development for Energy Storage and Electric Vehicles Abstract: Power electronics is an enabli9ng technology for power conversion. The key components of an Electric Vehicle are the battery and the motor drive. Energy storages such as batteries and super-capacitors are now the major units. Energy cell packaging is now a new direction. The use of energy cells to integrate with the vehicle body has been reported and suggests good potential for energy management. The energy management and balance is now a necessary component to manage the energy cells. Besides the energy storage and the traction motor and drives, there are numerous motors and actuators used in modern electric vehicles. One of them is an active suspension system to replace the conventional hydraulic system. The In-wheel motor is based on integrating the motor and wheel into a single unit that increase the power density and presents a real 4-wheel drive. The skid steering can, therefore, be realized. Also, the anti-lock braking (ABS) is an all-electric braking system, and replaces the conventional hydraulic system in ABS. An extensive overview of the latest electric vehicle technology is presented. The talk covers the major advanced components of an electric vehicle and the technology and research related to the development, and its associated power electronics development. Finally, the talk is concluded with an outlook on future vehicles. +++ Ray Ding Founder and Chief Executive Office Title: The application of IoT technologies in the field of EV charging Abstract: IoT- Internet of Things-is proven on both the vehicle electronic and Consumer electronics industry by its leader, Tesla, and Xiaomi. As an important role in the new energy vehicle ecosystem, EV charging station is welcoming the intelligent trend of IoT as well. Smart charging stations utilizing IOT technologies will enhance the user experience, enable great expansibility to CPO, finally providing an intelligence information port or the entire energy system. Thanks to IoT hardware infrastructure on our smart charging station. We designed an embedded system based on the charging scene, enabling our device to achieve control, interaction, and internet communication functions on a tiny PCB. We also make a reasonable cut to the system and application software to achieve higher efficiency. As the advantages of IoT integration, the simplification of the supply-chain, the reduction of cost, and the reduction of the marginal cost of software also make the profit of charging station providers possible. Finally, we believe that the smart charging station will be used as an infrastructure construction to welcome the new energy era. +++ Jianghua Feng Vice President and CEO Title: Virtual rail intelligent express system Abstract: Due to the role of track guidance, bearing and constraint, rail trains have the advantages of large volume and high efficiency, and have been the backbone of urban transportation for a long time. However, due to the harsh smoothness and other requirements of the track, the system construction, operation and maintenance are complicated and costly. Therefore, the industry has been exploring new types of trains, simplifying the requirements of vehicles on the track structure, and innovating straddle-type monorail trains, guideway type rubber trolleybuses, etc., so as to change the solid track from double track to monorail. Whether the dependence on the physical track can be completely overturned is a new technical challenge. The virtual track intelligent express system is the first to create a new multi-group articulated rubber-tyred train based on the virtual track, which completely replaces the physical track through technologies such as path perception and active guidance control. Since 2010, it has undergone an iterative innovation process such as concept research, principle verification, prototype testing, and engineering demonstrations, it made its world premiere in 2017. This system creates a new rail transit system, which can be widely used in the network connection or extension of metropolitan rail transit, the construction of backbone transportation systems in small and medium cities, and the operation of special lines such as tourist attractions. Compared with trams, the overall cost is only about 1/3, the construction period is only about 1/2, it can be flexibly configured and quickly form a transportation network. Taking the 17.7km T1 line of Sichuan Yibin, where the system is applied, as an example, it saves about 1.7 billion yuan in investment compared with the tram system. In the year of opening (2019), the city was promoted to rank first in the congestion reduction rate in China. At present, the system has successfully passed the extreme cold and high heat extreme tests in Harbin and Qatar, and has become the traffic (connection) solution for the 2022 World Cup. The emergence of this system has injected strong original innovation power into the diversified and deep development of the world's rail transit. It has outstanding characteristics and obvious advantages. It has a broad market application space in the future and has great potential for sustainable development. +++ Simon Hou Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer Title: The application of IoT technologies in the field of EV charging Abstract: IoT- Internet of Things-is proven on both the vehicle electronic and Consumer electronics industry by its leader, Tesla, and Xiaomi. As an important role in the new energy vehicle ecosystem, EV charging station is welcoming the intelligent trend of IoT as well. Smart charging stations utilizing IOT technologies will enhance the user experience, enable great expansibility to CPO, finally providing an intelligence information port or the entire energy system. Thanks to IoT hardware infrastructure on our smart charging station. We designed an embedded system based on the charging scene, enabling our device to achieve control, interaction, and internet communication functions on a tiny PCB. We also make a reasonable cut to the system and application software to achieve higher efficiency. As the advantages of IoT integration, the simplification of the supply-chain, the reduction of cost, and the reduction of the marginal cost of software also make the profit of charging station providers possible. Finally, we believe that the smart charging station will be used as an infrastructure construction to welcome the new energy era. +++ Luis (Nando) Ochoa Professor, Smart Grids and Power Systems Title: Making Electric Vehicles and the Grid Work Together Abstract: The increasing adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) will pose significant technical and economic challenges on the power grid, particularly on very infrastructure they are connected to the electric distribution network. These networks have been traditionally designed to have no or limited controllability and, hence, are largely unmonitored.They will become the bottlenecks and therefore understanding how to best integrate EVs is critical to facilitate the electrification of our transport. This keynote will discuss the impacts of EVs and the challenges faced by distribution companies. Furthermore, it will present some of the findings of the large-scale UK trial "My Electric Avenue" in which more than 200 EVs were monitored for over a year to understand usage patterns as well as to test the effectiveness of EV charging point management to avoid network issues. The keynote will also provide an overview of the challenges brought by fast-charging stations and the need for future cities to have holistic planning approaches that involve traffic flows. +++ Alexander M. Wyglinski Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Robotics Engineering Title: Bumblebee-Inspired Connected Vehicles: What's All The Buzz About Abstract: Wireless connectivity is quickly becoming a critical element in future transportation systems, especially with respect to self-driving cars and various levels of vehicular autonomy. Given the complex and highly time-varying environments existing on busy roadways, having each vehicle possessing real-time situational awareness is essential for performing complex functions, such as autonomous lane-changing, traffic intersection management, and platooning. Although there already exists a variety of different sensors that can gather data about the vehicular environment in order to obtain real-time situation awareness, such as LIDAR, RADAR, and vision systems, these sensors can only collect this data via line-of-sight (LOS). On the other hand, wireless connectivity is not constrained to LOS data gathering and can greatly increase the real-time situational awareness of each vehicle on the road, enhancing its performance and increasing driver/passenger safety. As the number of vehicles on the road become connected to each other, this information sharing will evolve into a Vehicular Internet-of-Things (VIOT) environment. To support the VIOT ecosystem, adequate wireless spectrum is needed to enable this connectivity between vehicles in real-time as they are operating on the road in complex conditions. To achieve this, Vehicular Dynamic Spectrum Access, or VDSA, can be employed, where unoccupied wireless spectrum is temporarily accessed by non-licensed users in order to support data communications during that time interval. Compared to conventional DSA techniques, VDSA needs to be capable of handling significant spectral availability variations during a transmission. Past research has explored the use of VDSA in television white space spectral environments as well as the implementation of VDSA algorithms using machine learning techniques. However, recently a new approach to VDSA has been proposed where each vehicle performs VDSA using an algorithm based on bumblebee-inspired resource foraging. In this talk, the fundamentals of how bumblebee-inspired VDSA will be presented, with several examples shown in order to demonstrate the performance of this approach.Use this link to unsubscribe: http://unsubscribe.magnetmail.net/Actions/unsubscribe.cfm?message_id=193707…

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