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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Papers: The 44th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2019)
by Lars Wolf 29 Mar '19

29 Mar '19

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Papers: The 44th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2019) Datum: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 06:37:13 -0400 Von: LCN Publicity Chairs <publicity(a)IEEELCN.ORG> Antwort an: LCN Publicity Chairs <publicity(a)IEEELCN.ORG> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Please let us know if it is undesirable to send CfPs to this list, and accept our apologies if this is the case.] ============================================================================== Call for Papers The 44th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2019) & Symposium on Emerging Topics In Networking ============================================================================== Osnabrück, Germany October 14-17, 2019 http://www.ieeelcn.org ## The 44th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2019) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The IEEE LCN conference is the premier conference on the leading edge of theoretical and practical aspects of computer networking. LCN is a highly interactive conference that enables an effective interchange of results and ideas among researchers, users, and product developers. For the past 43 years, major developments from high-speed networks to the global Internet to specialized sensor networks have been reported at this conference. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Personal and wearable networks * Wireless ad hoc & sensor networks * Information-centric networking * Embedded networks * Opportunistic networking * Delay-tolerant networks * Cognitive radio networks * Vehicular networks * Smart Grid communications * Underwater sensor networks * Cyber-physical systems * Social networks * Mobile and ubiquitous networking * Green networking * Overlay and peer-to-peer networks * Local-area and metropolitan-area networks * Storage-area networks * Routing and transport protocols * Big Data Networking * Cloud computing and networking * Software Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization * Internet of Things * Link technologies * Adaptive networking applications * Authentication, authorization, accounting * Security and privacy * Cross-layer optimization * Mobility and Location-dependent services * Multimedia and real-time communication * Machine-to-machine communications for smart environments * Smart Cities * Network traffic characterization and measurements * Network management, reliability and QoS * Performance evaluation of networks * Testbeds for network experiments * Network coding * Optical and high-speed access networks * E-Health networking Authors are invited to submit papers describing original, previously unpublished work, not currently under review by another conference, workshop, or a journal. Full papers (up to 8 camera-ready pages, 10 pt font in IEEE format) should present novel perspectives within the general scope of the conference. Short papers are an opportunity to present preliminary or interim results and are limited to 4 camera-ready pages. Short papers will be presented in a poster session. Both full and short papers are published in the proceedings and IEEE Xplore. All papers must include title, complete contact information for all authors, abstract, and keywords on the cover page. IEEE reserves the right to remove papers from IEEE Xplore that are not presented at the conference. ## LCN Paper Submission Papers must be registered on EDAS and submitted in PDF format. Detailed submission instructions are available at the conference website. Direct your questions to Program Chairs: * Karl Andersson <karl.andersson(a)ltu.se> * Hwee-Pink Tan <hptan(a)smu.edu.sg> ## LCN Important Dates Paper registration: April 19, 2019 Paper submission : May 3, 2019 Notification : July 5, 2019 Final paper : August 9, 2019 ## Organizing Committee ### General Chair Soumaya Cherkaoui (Univ. Sherbrooke, Canada) ### Program Chair Karl Andersson (Luleå Univ. of Techn., Sweden) ### Program Co-Chair Hwee-Pink Tan (Singapore Management Univ., Singapore) ### Local Arrangements Nils Aschenbruck (Univ. of Osnabrück, Germany) ### Finance Chair Frank Huebner (USA) ### Corporate Relations Matthias Wählisch (FU Berlin, Germany) ### Symposium Chair Lyes Khoukhi (Université de Technologie de Troy, France) ### Demonstrations Chair Katrin Reitsma (Motorola Solutions, USA) ### Publications Chair Sharief Oteafy (DePaul Univ., USA) ### EDAS Chair Eyuphan Bulut (Virginia Commonwealth Univ., USA) ### Registration Chair Adel Ben Mnaouer (Canadian Univ. of Dubai, UAE) ### Student Grants Chair Suleyman Uludag (Univ. of Michigan Flint, USA) ###Publicity Co-Chairs Florian Tschorsch (TU Berlin, Germany) Kanchana Thilakarathna (The Univ. of Sydney, Australia) ### Webmaster Gary Kessler (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., USA) ### Media Chair Fabian Marquardt (Univ. of Bonn, Germany) ## Steering Committee Kemal Akkaya (Florida International Univ., USA) Nils Aschenbruck (Univ. of Osnabruck, Germany) Joe Bumblis (IEEE TCCC Executive Committee) Ken Christensen (Univ. of South Florida, USA) Ehab Elmallah (Univ. of Alberta, Canada) Matthias Frank (Univ. of Bonn, Germany) Anura Jayasumana (Colorado State Univ., USA) Salil Kanhere (Univ. of New South Wales, Australia) Gary Kessler (Embry-Riddle Aeron. Univ., USA) Burkhard Stiller (Univ. of Zürich, Switzerland) Tim Strayer (BBN, USA) Jens Tölle (Fraunhofer FKIE, Germany) Damla Turgut (Univ. of Central Florida, USA) ## LCN Symposium on Emerging Topics In Networking ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Symposium provides an opportunity to present early work in-progress that shows exciting promise. The aim of the Symposium is to enable timely discussion of novel ideas and challenging future directions on emerging topics in networking. Submissions in areas such as, but not limited to, the following are encouraged: - Network Softwarization and virtualization - 5G and IoT - Connected vehicles Symposium papers are limited to 8 camera-ready pages, 10 pt font in IEEE format and published in the proceedings and IEEE Xplore. All papers must include title, complete contact information for all authors, abstract, and keywords on the cover page. IEEE reserves the right to remove papers from IEEE Xplore that are not presented at the conference. ## Symposium Paper Submission Papers must be registered on EDAS and submitted in PDF format. Detailed submission instructions are available at the conference website. Direct your questions to Symposium Chair: * Lyes Khoukhi <lyes.khoukhi(a)utt.fr> ## Symposium Important Dates Paper submission : May 10, 2019 Notification : July 5, 2019 Final paper : August 9, 2019 Follow LCN on Twitter at https://twitter.com/IEEELCN Follow LCN on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/ieee-lcn-conference/ ______________________________________________________________ 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] Elsevier COMNET Special Issue on The Big Data Era in IoT-enabled Smart Farming: Re-defining Systems, Tools, and Techniques - Deadline: April 30
by Lars Wolf 26 Mar '19

26 Mar '19

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Elsevier COMNET Special Issue on The Big Data Era in IoT-enabled Smart Farming: Re-defining Systems, Tools, and Techniques - Deadline: April 30 Datum: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 08:30:33 -0400 Von: Thomas Lagkas <tlagkas(a)IEEE.ORG> Antwort an: Thomas Lagkas <tlagkas(a)IEEE.ORG> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Please accept our apologies for cross-posting ------------------------------------------------------- *Call For Papers* Special Issue (Computer Networks Journal - Elsevier) "The Big Data Era in IoT-enabled Smart Farming: Re-defining Systems, Tools, and Techniques" (BD-IoTFarm) *SI Website* https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-networks/call-for-papers/big-dat… *Important dates* Paper submission: April 30, 2019 Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2019 Final revision: August 15, 2019 Publication date: Quarter 3, 2019 The continuous generation of data from multiple sources has created numerous opportunities in different domains including agriculture. However, the state of the art in Smart Farming should be redefined and revisited since new technologies and tools are coming in the agriculture domain bringing novel and innovative paths for improving the resilience and the efficiency of agriculture. Smart Farming has started to be materialized and not being simply a vague futuristic concept, as different fields such as image processing and machine learning have found a prosperous area of application. Apart from the technical aspects that Smart Farming presents, it also affects the agricultural sector beyond the conventional farming activities, influencing a series of dependent industries, such as food supply chains, weather and climate change, natural resources management and environmental impact. New and various technologies have invaded the agricultural sector as they can offer new and unprecedented opportunities. Smart Farming uses a combination of technological advances, such as sensors, drones, variable-rate application machinery, satellite navigation and positioning technology, and the Internet of Things (IoT), among others. All the aforementioned technologies produce a massive amount of data capable of changing the current status of the agriculture sector, but a series of effective actions have to be developed and established for their efficient exploitation. The Big Data era has arrived for the agriculture sector reflecting its changes to a numerous of research fields. The incorporation and the usage of Geographic Information System (GIS) in the agriculture sector takes place for at least a decade as well as the adoption of sensors for monitoring reasons. Furthermore, driven by advanced GIS technologies, emerging image processing techniques adopt neural networks and deep learning approaches for providing new areas of application in the field of computer vision. Tasks such as crop identification and weed discrimination have become easier than ever thanks to the state-of-the-art classification algorithms. Apart from the advantages image processing techniques offer in the field of agriculture, other related areas have significantly benefited as well. Land mapping, insurance of animal feed quality, weather and climate change studies, grassland identification and earth observation are some of the areas where image processing techniques and algorithms have been successfully applied. The farm industry and Smart Farming expand from the strict limits of the farm location and affect a series of related fields, such as supply chain management, food availability, biodiversity, farmers’ decision making and insurance, environmental studies and various Earth sciences among others. All of the aforementioned fields have significant benefits when they follow a data-driven approach under the condition that the used systems, tools and techniques that will be used have been designed to handle the volume and foremost the variety of the data. Often, smart farming systems are running on unmonitored areas, due to which any attempted or successful breaches go unreported. Worse, since this sector is traditionally not cybersecurity aware, security and privacy by design is not incorporated into the solution requirements. For example, security attacks are feasible by gaining access to irrigation control systems of either a plant or a farm. In the most cases, IoT devices and systems can be manipulated and personal data can be disclosed without the farmer knowing. Even worse, adversaries can gain access to other connected third-party systems, e.g., energy, administration and irrigation systems. This Special Issue seeks to make an in-depth, critical contribution to this evolving field of agriculture in the era of Big Data. We therefore aim to bring together the state-of-the-art research contributions towards providing new insights in the application and benefits of the emerging methods and technologies in the Big Data-driven agriculture sector. The topics that can be addressed include (but are not limited to) the following ones. *Systems* - Cloud- and edge-based systems in smart farming. - Management of heterogeneous Big Data in smart farming. - Crop models and decision support systems in smart farming. - Study of man-machine dialogue systems. - Data-driven methods for anomaly detection, diagnosis, and prognosis. - Role of Big Data in sustainable agriculture. - Big data innovation in sustainable agriculture. - Environmental Big Data integration. - Smart Farming and its application in Big Data processing. - Big data in agricultural disaster management. - Cyber threats and anomaly detection in smart farming. - Data privacy preserving systems in smart farming. - Deep packet inspection in security systems for Smart Farming applications. *Tools* - IoT tools and techniques for sustainable agriculture. - Emerging tools for precision agriculture. - Big data analysis tools and machine learning techniques in Smart Farming tools. - Big data online stream processing for precision agriculture and Smart Farming - Machine learning applications in improving Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in Smart Farming. - Statistical analysis and modeling in Smart Farming applications. - Geospatial analysis in Smart Farming applications. - Advanced image processing techniques and applications in the agricultural domain. - Spectral matching tools in Smart Farming. - Intrusion detection tools. - Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools for smart farming monitoring. *Techniques* - Modern GIS and remote sensing techniques in agriculture. - Classification and change detection of cultivated land. - Data mining and statistical issues in precision agriculture. - Intelligent computational techniques in precision agriculture. - Knowledge discovery in agriculture databases. - Cloud-enabled techniques and in-the-field integration for sustainable agriculture. - Network-based analysis in Smart Farming. - Trust-enabling techniques and methods. - Blockchain techniques for ensuring trust amongst IoT devices in Smart Farming. - Network forensics techniques for Smart Farming applications. *Guest Editors* - Dr. Panagiotis Sarigiannidis: Assistant Professor in the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications Department of University of Western Macedonia, Kozani, Greece - Dr. Thomas Lagkas: Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of The University of Sheffield International Faculty - CITY College, Thessaloniki, Greece - Dr. Konstantinos Rantos: Associate Professor at the Department of Computer and Informatics Engineering at Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Institute of Technology, Kavala, Greece - Dr. Paolo Bellavista: Full Professor of distributed and mobile systems at DISI - UNIBO, Bologna, Italy ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Deadline Extended - IEEE ITSC 2019 - Special Session on Beyond Traditional Sensing for Intelligent Transportation
by Lars Wolf 26 Mar '19

26 Mar '19

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Deadline Extended - IEEE ITSC 2019 - Special Session on Beyond Traditional Sensing for Intelligent Transportation Datum: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 06:58:14 -0400 Von: Xenofon Fafoutis <00000134bbe013e9-dmarc-request(a)COMSOC-LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG> Antwort an: Xenofon Fafoutis <xefa(a)DTU.DK> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG CALL FOR PAPERS: ITSC 2019 - The 22nd IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems October 27-30, 2019. Auckland, New Zealand. ------------------------------- Special Session on *Beyond Traditional Sensing for Intelligent Transportation* ------------------------------- https://bit.ly/2IoOn5n ------------------------------ Over the past few decades, sensors have not only become more advanced but also made impressive strides across an increasing number of sensing modalities. Despite the improved capabilities and breadth of available sensor systems, those used for intelligent transportation have remained relatively uniform across platforms; as a result, the algorithms and techniques being designed do not take full advantage of the rich information modern sensors can provide. Since all tasks -- including perception, localisation, decision-making, and learning -- are built on top of sensing, exploring alternative approaches to sensing is a compelling research area that can render all subsequent tasks more robust and accurate. The objective of this special session is to explore unconventional sensing for intelligent transportation in three ways. Firstly, it will investigate sensor systems that are not typically applied to certain transportation tasks, such as radar for precise localisation, audio for failure detection, and RF sensing for road traffic estimation. Secondly, it will explore untraditional sensor configurations and placements, such as ground-facing cameras using shadows to detect occluded moving objects. Lastly, it will look into the sensing of commonly overlooked information, such as the use of atmospheric sensors for gauging road surface traction or in-vehicle sensors for driving analysis. Via these three themes, this special session aims to stimulate discussion and research into untraditional sensing in order to improve the reliability and accuracy of transportation systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Localisation and navigation using radars (e.g., scanning, Doppler, and ground-penetrating); * Ego-noise and soundscape modelling and interpretation (e.g., sound-based failure detection, terrain/road surface status classification, urban sound source detection and localisation); * Event-based (neuromorphic) vision for localisation and perception in challenging scenarios; * Multi-spectral imaging (e.g. IR or polarimetric cameras for localisation and perception under difficult visibility); * In-vehicle sensing and wearable computing for failure detection, driver and passenger behaviour modelling; * Far infrared sensing; * Texture odometry; * Novel sensor hardware and designs; * Unconventional sensor placements or multi-sensor systems; * Optimal sensor scheduling and control in complex and/or multi-agent / social environments; * Astronomical (skyward-facing), atmospheric or odor-based sensing; * IoT technology for intelligent transportation and Internet of Vehicles (IoV); * Passive Wireless/RF sensing. ------------------------------- *Important Dates* Paper Submission Deadline: Extended to April 15, 2019 Notification of Acceptance: June 30, 2019 Final Paper Submission Deadline: July 15, 2019 Conference Dates: October 27-30, 2019 Authors are kindly invited to notify the organisers of their submissions. Papers submitted to this Special Session are reviewed according to the same rules as the submissions to the regular sessions of ITSC2019. Submissions to regular and special sessions follow identical format, instructions, deadlines and procedures. Please find more info on the ITSC2019 website https://www.itsc2019.org ------------------------------- *Organizers* Letizia Marchegiani, Aalborg University, Denmark. lm(a)es.aau.dk Sarah Huiyi Cen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), MA, USA. shcen(a)mit.edu Dimitri Ognibene, University of Essex, UK. dimitri.ognibene(a)essex.ac.uk Daniele De Martini, University of Oxford, UK. daniele(a)robots.ox.ac.uk Xenofon Fafoutis, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark. xefa(a)dtu.dk Yan Wu, A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore. wuy(a)i2r.a-star.edu.sg Sahar Abbaspour, Volvo Car Corporation, Sweden. sahar.abbaspour(a)volvocars.com ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering Special Issue on Edge computing for Internet of Things (Deadline Extended)
by Lars Wolf 26 Mar '19

26 Mar '19

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Chunyu Ai <aic(a)USCUPSTATE.EDU> Gesendet: 26. März 2019 03:48:40 MEZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering Special Issue on Edge computing for Internet of Things (Deadline Extended) CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering Special Issue on Edge computing for Internet of Things GUEST EDITORS: Qiang Ye (Lead), Dalhousie University, Canada. Email: qye(a)cs.dal.ca M. Jamal Deen, McMaster University, Canada. Email: jamal(a)mcmaster.ca Antonio Puliafito, University of Messina, Italy. Email: apuliafito(a)unime.it Lin Zhang, Beihang University, China. Email: zhanglin(a)buaa.edu.cn TOPIC SUMMARY: The Internet of Things (IoT) are expected to improve the quality of human lives through billions of Internet-based devices. To satisfy the computation and storage requirements of IoT, cloud computing has served as the most important computing infrastructure. However, with the explosion of the number of devices in IoT (expected to reach 50 billion by 2020), a large volume of raw data will be continuously generated by IoT devices, consequently making cloud computing inadequate to efficiently and securely handle the data. In particular, cloud computing will be highly limited in terms of network bandwidth and privacy protection in IoT. To solve this problem, many researchers have attempted to move data computation and service provisioning from the cloud to the edge, which results in the area of edge computing and the related fog computing. Early-stage research has indicated that edge computing could potentially enable IoT applications to meet their latency/delay requirements, improve the scalability and energy efficiency of IoT systems, and facilitate contextual information processing. Nevertheless, a series of challenging problems need to be addressed in order to fully utilize edge computing for IoT. For instance, most of the computation resources in edge computing are heterogeneous mobile devices that are highly energy-hungry, which means that edge computing tends to be unreliable. Moreover, how to efficiently distribute computation/data storage and how to combine edge computing with cloud computing in order to provide scalable services need to be further studied. In addition, how to support services without compromising privacy and security is a challenging problem in edge computing. This special issue aims to provide a prime venue for researchers from both academia and industry to discuss the key problems and present the innovative solutions in the area of edge computing for IoT. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Edge/Fog computing architecture for IoT Modeling and performance analysis of edge computing for IoT Communication and networking technologies in edge computing for IoT Mobile computing resource management in edge computing for IoT Machine learning and deep learning in edge computing for IoT QoS and QoE provisioning in edge computing for IoT Trust, security and privacy in edge computing for IoT Energy management in edge computing for IoT Collaboration of edge computing and cloud computing for IoT Experiences in delivering edge/fog-based services Open issues and challenges in edge computing for IoT IMPORTANT DATES: Manuscripts due: 05/01/2019 Peer reviews to authors: 07/01/2019 Revised manuscripts due: 08/01/2019 Second-round reviews to authors: 10/01/2019 Final accepted manuscript due: 10/31/2019 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Prospective authors are invited to submit their manuscripts electronically before the submission due date, adhering to the IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering guidelines (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6488902). Please submit your papers through the online system (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/TNSE-cs) and be sure to select the special issue or special section name. Manuscripts should not be published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. Please submit only full papers intended for review, not abstracts, to the ScholarOne portal. If requested, abstracts should be sent by e-mail to the Guest Editors directly. ______________________________________________________________ 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] [Extended deadline: April 13] 1st International Workshop on Internet of Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles (IAUV 2019)
by Lars Wolf 26 Mar '19

26 Mar '19

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Raheeb Muzaffar <muzaffar(a)LAKESIDE-LABS.AT> Gesendet: 26. März 2019 08:44:20 MEZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [Extended deadline: April 13] 1st International Workshop on Internet of Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles (IAUV 2019) [Apologies if you receive multiple copies] Call for Papers for the 1st International Workshop on Internet of Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles (IAUV 2019) In conjunction with the IEEE SECON 2019 (https://secon2019.ieee-secon.org/) June 10, 2019, Boston, MA, USA Website:http://iauv2019.loria.fr/ Extended submission deadline : April 13, 2019 Notification: May 05, 2019 Camera ready: May 15, 2019 Workshop Day: June 10, 2019 EDAS link for submissions:http://edas.info/N25887 Selected authors will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to the MDPI Special Issue on « UAV-Based Applications in the Internet of Things (IoT) », submission deadline July 15th, 2019. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ GENERAL DESCRIPTION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Autonomous unmanned vehicle networks in civil applications are considered with increasing interest. Such networks are envisioned to consist of wireless sensors, robots and unmanned (aerial, ground, underwater) vehicles and are being used in environmental monitoring, border surveillance, network provisioning, delivery, construction, emergency or disaster assistance. The challenges in the design of these networks range from physical control of the vehicles, navigation, to communication limitations. Due to diverse and interdisciplinary nature of these challenges, algorithms and design principles proposed by networking, robotics, control theory, computer vision and artificial intelligence research communities will need to be utilized. IAUV aims to bring together state-of-the-art contributions on the design, specification and implementation of architectures, algorithms and protocols for current and future applications of autonomous unmanned vehicle networks, with a special focus on unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or drone networks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ TOPICS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ • UAV swarms • Autonomous robot networks • Modeling and simulation • UAV-aided wireless sensor networks • Optimal control of networked robots • Ad hoc networks of drones • Modeling and control of fleet of UAVs • Self-organizing coordination and communication • Energy-efficient and real-time communication protocols • Bandwidth-efficient and delay-tolerant communication protocols • Communication protocols for swarms of mobile robots • Map exploration and pattern formation of multi-robot systems • Task allocation • Architectures and topology control • Localization • Quality of service, security and robustness issues • Internet of Things (IoT) applications and prototypes • Cooperative control of multiple UAVs • Software-Defined Aerial Networks • Context-awareness and decision making for UAV systems • Path planning, and target tracking in autonomous unmanned vehicle networks ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SUBMISSION INSTRUCTION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality and relevance through peer reviewing. To submit your paper, it is required that the manuscript follows the standardIEEE camera-ready <https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html> format (double column, 10-pt font) and be submitted as PDF file (formatted for 8.5-11 inch paper) as well as the requirement set by the EDAS paper submission system. Submitted paper must be original and unpublished papers with no more than 6 pages, including bibliography. The organizing committee of IAUV reserves the right to not review papers that either exceed the length specification or have been submitted or published elsewhere. Submissions must include: title; abstract; keywords; authors and relative affiliations with email addresses. During the initial paper submission process via EDAS, the authors are required to make sure the PDF file and EDAS registration page of a paper have the same list of authors and paper title. Be certain to add all authors in EDAS during the initial paper submission process. Failure to comply with this rule may cause a paper to be withdrawn from the review process. Once reviewed the listing of authors connected to the paper can NOT be changed in the final manuscript. All accepted papers of SECON (main program and workshops), after being presented onsite at the conference, will be included in the proceedings to be submitted for publication in IEEE Xplore®. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submission deadline: March 15, 2019 Notification: April 15, 2019 Camera ready: May 1, 2019 Workshop Day: June 10, 2019 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Program Chairs • Enrico Natalizio, University of Lorraine, France (enrico.natalizio(a)loria.fr) • Evsen Yanmaz, Ozyegin University (eyanmaz(a)alumni.cmu.edu) • Sabato Manfredi, University of Naples "Federico II", Italy, (sabato.manfredi(a)unina.it) Publicity Chair • Raheeb Muzaffar, Lakeside Labs, Austria Web Chair • Nicola Roberto Zema, LRI – ROCS, Université Paris-Sud, France ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ In compliance with data protection regulations, please write me if you would not like receive any further messages regarding the workshop. -- Dr. Raheeb Muzaffar Researcher Lakeside Labs GmbH Lakeside B04b, 9020 Klagenfurt, Austria P: +43 (0) 463 287 044 33 F: +43 (0) 463 287 04 410 E:muzaffar@lakeside-labs.at Geschäftsführung: Mag. Claudia Prüggler Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christian Bettstetter Amtsgericht Klagenfurt, FN 306905g www.lakeside-labs.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] [Call for Paper] SenSys 2019 -- Paper Registration Deadline Approaching
by Lars Wolf 25 Mar '19

25 Mar '19

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [Call for Paper] SenSys 2019 -- Paper Registration Deadline Approaching Datum: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 12:00:31 -0400 Von: Shijia Pan <shijiapan(a)CMU.EDU> Antwort an: Shijia Pan <shijiapan(a)CMU.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email.] ======================================================== Call for Papers: The ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2019) **** ACM SenSys 2019 **** New York, NY, USA November 10-13, 2019 http://sensys.acm.org/2019 ******************************** Dear Colleagues, The ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2019) is the premier computer systems conference focused on the architecture, design, implementation, and performance of networked sensing systems, sensor-oriented data modeling and analytics, and sensor-enabled applications. ACM SenSys brings together academic, industry, and government professionals to a single-track, highly selective forum that takes a broad view on the areas of computing relevant to the future of networked embedded sensor systems. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to, the following: - New platforms and hardware designs for networked sensor systems - New communication paradigms for ubiquitous connectivity - Low-power wireless media access control, network, and transport protocol designs - Systems software, including operating systems, network stacks, and programming - System services such as time and location estimation - Low-power operation, energy harvesting, and energy management - Resource-efficient machine learning for embedded and mobile platforms - Mobile and pervasive systems with elements of networked sensing - Data management and analytics, including quality, integrity, and trustworthiness - Learning algorithms and models for perception, understanding, and adaptation - Heterogeneous collaborative sensing, including human-robot sensor systems - Security and privacy in networked sensor applications and systems - Fault-tolerance, dependability, and verification - Applications and deployment experiences We invite technical papers describing original ideas, groundbreaking results, and real-world experiences involving innovative sensor systems. Successful submissions will explain why the topic is relevant to a vision of the future of sensing systems. Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, clarity, relevance, and correctness. **** Important Dates **** - Paper Registration and Abstract: April 5 (Friday), 2019, 23:59 AoE - Paper Submission: April 12 (Friday), 2019, 23:59 AoE - Notification of Paper Acceptance: July 23 (Tuesday), 2019, 23:59 AoE - Camera-Ready: September 20 (Friday), 2019, 23:59 AoE Note: These are hard deadlines. No extension will be granted. **** Submission Guidelines **** Submitted papers must be unpublished and must not be currently under review for any other publication. Submissions must be full papers, at most 12 single-spaced 8.5” x 11” pages with 9-pt font size in two-column format, including figures and tables. As for references, submissions may include as many pages as needed. All submissions must use the LaTeX (preferred) or Word styles found here <http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template>. LaTeX submissions should use the acmart.cls template, with the default 9-pt font. Authors must make a good faith effort to anonymize their submissions. Papers that do not meet the size, formatting, and anonymization requirements will not be reviewed. We require each paper to be in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) and submitted through the conference submission system <https://sensys19.hotcrp.com/>. Accepted submissions will be available on the ACM digital library at least one week before the conference. For detailed information about the program and submission guideline, please visit http://sensys.acm.org/2019 **************************************** General Chairs: Raghu K. Ganti (IBM T.J. Watson, USA), Xiaofan (Fred) Jiang (Columbia University, USA) Program Chairs: Gian Pietro Picco (University of Trento, Italy), Xia Zhou (Dartmouth College, 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: Selected Areas in Communications Symposium on Internet of Things @ GLOBECOM 2019
by Lars Wolf 24 Mar '19

24 Mar '19

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: Selected Areas in Communications Symposium on Internet of Things @ GLOBECOM 2019 Datum: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 03:39:15 -0400 Von: Pietro Manzoni <pmanzoni(a)DISCA.UPV.ES> Antwort an: Pietro Manzoni <pmanzoni(a)DISCA.UPV.ES> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Please accept our apologies in case of multiple copies of this CFP == Selected Areas in Communications (SAC) Symposium on Internet of Things == IEEE Global Communications Conference 9-13 December 2019, Big Island, Hawaii, USA http://globecom2019.ieee-globecom.org/ ================================================================ The aim of the Internet of Things SAC is to provide a forum that brings together scientists and researchers to present their cutting-edge innovations in all aspects of the field. This track solicits technical papers describing original, previously unpublished papers pertaining to trends, issues, and challenges of the Internet of Things MAIN TOPICS OF INTEREST: We invite submissions on a wide range of research topics, spanning both theoretical and systems research, including results from industry and academic/industrial collaborations, related but not restricted to the following topics: * Ambient Intelligence * Application of Fog/Edge computing to IoT: architectures and implementations * Autonomic Computing * Blockchain technology for IoT * Communications technologies: NB-IoT, LoRa, Sigfox, … * Complex and Compound Sensors * Connected Car, Automotive, Intelligent Transport * Cooperative Computing * Cooperative Sensor Systems * Design principals and best practices for IoT application development * Dynamic scheduling, power control, interference management, and QoS management in IoT networks * Experience and lessons learned for standards-based IoT large scale pilots/demonstrators * Fog/Edge Caching techniques for IoT * Horizontal application development for IoT * Innovative routing and scheduling protocols * Interoperability methodologies for heterogeneous IoT * IoT big data and predictive analysis * IoT for smart manufacturing (industry 4.0) and smart spaces * IoT for the developing countries * IoT standards platforms interworking * Low Power Computing * Massive MTC (mMTC) * Messaging Technologies for the Industrial IoT (Google QUIC, DDS, AMQP, MQTT, MQTT-SN, CoAP, etc) * Mobile platforms as sensors * Mobility, Localization and context-adaptive Internet of Things * New communications mediums for Low Power Wide Area Networks * Practical Perspectives on IoT in 5G Networks * RFID sensing technology * Secure and privacy-preserving IoT communications * Sensor Integration * Smart Cities, Smart Home * Software Defined Networking (SDN) and NFV for IoT * Web of Things IMPORTANT DATES: - Paper submission: April 15, 2019 - Notification date: July 15, 2019 - Final paper due: August 16, 2019 SUBMISSION LINK: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25090&track=91881 All final submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of six (6) printed pages (10-point font) including figures without incurring additional page charges (maximum 1 additional page with over-length page charge of USD100 if accepted). Papers exceeding 7 pages will not be accepted at EDAS. TRACK CO-CHAIRS - Ridha Soua, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Pietro Manzoni, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP -- The 16th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems (IEEE MASS 2019)
by Lars Wolf 24 Mar '19

24 Mar '19

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP -- The 16th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems (IEEE MASS 2019) Datum: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 00:03:05 -0400 Von: Zhuozhao Li <zl5uq(a)VIRGINIA.EDU> Antwort an: Zhuozhao Li <zl5uq(a)VIRGINIA.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG *[Please accept our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement]* CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE MASS 2019 - The 16th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems Monterey, CA, USA November 4 - 7, 2019 http://sites.google.com/view/mass2019 IEEE MASS is a premier annual forum for sharing original, novel ideas in mobile ad-hoc networks and smart systems, defined broadly. As wireless ad-hoc networks continue to evolve and specialize into a number of application scenarios and environments, and sensor-based systems and technologies increasingly permeate our everyday life and become the inner fabric of the Internet of Things and cyber-physical systems, the unfolding of smart environments such as smart cities, smart farming, smart healthcare, and smart manufacturing, to name a few, demand integrated solutions that can make intelligent use of both cloud and edge systems, while applying machine learning and artificial intelligence tools to handle their growing complexity and to leverage the vast amount of available data created. Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society, the 16th edition of the IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS) will be held in beautiful Monterey, CA, USA, on November 4-7, 2019, and it aims at bringing together researchers, developers, and practitioners to address recent advances in mobile ad-hoc and smart systems, covering algorithms, theory, protocols, systems & applications, experimental evaluations and testbeds, security/privacy, as well as AI/ML-based smart design. Topics of Interest Original, unpublished contributions are solicited in all aspects of mobile ad-hoc and smart systems, from mobile networking/computing to cyber-physical systems to Internet of Things, from theory to systems and applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • 5G networks and technologies • AI/ML for smart wireless networks • AI and machine learning aided protocol design and resource allocation • AI and machine learning based applications for ad hoc networks • Algorithms for MANETs and WSNs • Application Layer Protocols • Clustering, topology control, coverage, and connectivity • Cognitive networking • Cooperative and cognitive communication • Cooperative sensing, compressive sensing, sensing from communications • Cloud, crowd-sourced, participatory and (mobile) social sensing • Cyber-physical systems and applications • Data gathering, fusion, and dissemination • Energy-efficient architectures, algorithms, and protocols • Experiences in real-world applications and deployments • Flying Ad-Hoc Networks • Free-space optical networks • Heterogeneous networks • Internet of Things (IoT) devices, gateways, and infrastructure • Light-weight distrib • Localization and Location Based Services • Measurements, experimental systems and test-beds • Mobile computing and networking • mmWave and Terahertz networks • Mobility modeling and management • Multi-channel, multi-radio and MIMO technologies • Network components, operating systems, and middleware • Opportunistic networking, delay tolerant networking • QoS and Resource management • Robotic networks • Routing protocols • Scalability, stability, and robustness of networks and sensor systems • Security and privacy at all layers, including the physical layer • Sensor enabled drone, UAV, UUV systems • Smart grid, healthcare, transportation applications • Vehicular networks and protocols • Visible light communications • Wearable and human-centric devices and networks Important Dates Abstract submission: April 30, 2019 Paper submission: May 15, 2019 Notification of acceptance: August 09, 2019 Camera-ready version: August 30, 2019 Submission Guidelines Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not currently under review elsewhere. All submissions should be written in English with a maximum length of 9 single-spaced, double-column pages using 10pt fonts on 8.5 x 11 inch paper, including all figures, tables, and references, in PDF format. Authors must use the Manuscript Templates for IEEE Conference Proceedings. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by IEEE and will be presented at the conference. Based on TPC reviews and discussions, some papers may be accepted as 5-page short papers, in addition to the regular 9 page papers. For all papers, IEEE reserves the right to exclude the paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the conference. Note that the conference will also include a poster and demo session. Submission link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25849 Organizing Committee General Chair - Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Program Chairs - Haiying Shen, University of Virginia, USA - Marcelo M. Carvalho, University of Brasília, Brazil Track Chairs Algorithms and Theory - Ravi Prakash, University of Texas at Dallas, USA - Dario Pompili, Rutgers University, USA Protocols and Cross-Layer Technologies - Shiwen Mao, Auburn University, USA - Walid Saad, Virginia Tech, USA Systems and Applications - Octav Chipara, The University of Iowa, USA - Desheng Zhang, Rutgers University, USA Experimental Evaluation and Testbeds - Falko Dressler, Paderborn University, Germany - Kang Chen, Southern Illinois University, USA Security and privacy - Mooi Choo Chuah, Lehigh University, USA - Wenye Wang, North Carolina State University, USA Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning-based Smart Design - Sajal Das, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA - Fan Wu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Panel Chair - Wei Zhao, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates Workshop Chairs - Xinbing Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China - Ilker Demirkol, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain Posters Chairs - Marcos A.M. Vieira, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil - Chenxi Qiu, Rowan University, USA Publicity Chairs - Zhuozhao Li, University of Chicago, USA - Rolando Menchaca-Mendez, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico Finance/Registration Chair - Shuhui Yang, Purdue University Northwest, USA Publication Chair - Dajin Wang, Montclair State University, USA Local Arrangements - Chen Qian, University of California Santa Cruz, USA Web Chair - Henrique D. Garcia, University of Brasília, Brazil Steering Committee - Dharma P. Agrawal, University of Cincinnati,USA - Jie Wu, Temple University, USA - Kang G. Shin, University of Michigan, USA - J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, University of California Santa Cruz, 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: DIPI Workshop 2019 - extended deadline March 25 - co-located with IEEE WoWMoM 2019 - SI follow-up - Data Distribution in Industrial and Pervasive Internet
by Lars Wolf 21 Mar '19

21 Mar '19

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: DIPI Workshop 2019 - extended deadline March 25 - co-located with IEEE WoWMoM 2019 - SI follow-up - Data Distribution in Industrial and Pervasive Internet Datum: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 11:45:36 +0100 Von: Theofanis Raptis <theofanis.raptis(a)IIT.CNR.IT> Antwort an: Theofanis Raptis <theofanis.raptis(a)IIT.CNR.IT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ============================================================= 1st International Workshop on Data Distribution in Industrial and Pervasive Internet (DIPI 2019)* June 10-12, 2019 Washington DC, USA http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/dipi2019/ *co-located with IEEE WoWMoM 2019 ============================================================= ******** Benefits ******** - Accepted papers will be included and indexed in IEEE Xplore - 6-pages double column format - Editorial follow-ups: Extended versions of selected papers might be considered for possible fast track publication in a Special Issue of Elsevier Computer Communications ******** Topics of Interest ******** The ubiquitous presence of data originating from the integration of wireless networks, pervasive computing, industrial equipment and people, has led to an increased interest in solutions for distributed data management and efficient data distribution at the edge of the networked environments. The essence of this vision is the creation of data-driven networks saturated with pervasive sensing, computing, and wireless communication that ideally support the needs of individuals, societies and industries. Contributions can be analytical, empirical, technological, methodological, or a combination of those. Papers reporting strong data-oriented systems engineering contributions backed by solid and appropriate evaluations are strongly encouraged. The impact of the contributions should be demonstrated in the context of the data-related aspects in the pervasive and industrial internet. Research contributions are solicited in all application areas pertinent to industrial and pervasive data distribution, including but not limited to: Data distribution in Industrial Internet, where novel data management techniques can be supported by networking protocols, algorithms and processes, and where intelligent entities can exchange and manage distributed data in order to achieve improved performance for both the cyber and the physical components. Particular areas of interest include: - Data-driven industrial IoT architectures with multiple inter-connected networking technologies - Pervasive data distribution and management algorithms for the Industrial Internet - Networking protocol stacks and standardization for enabling efficient data distribution - Industrial cloud and edge computing, communication and networking technologies - Data-oriented networked control, distributed optimization, and distributed learning - Industrial internet robotics and autonomous systems - Modeling of tightly integrated, data-intensive Cyber-Physical processes, computation platforms, and networks - Data distribution solutions which satisfy the Industry 4.0 requirements Data distribution in Pervasive Internet, where the ambient intelligence of network devices embedded in the environment can provide a constant and unobtrusive data management and distribution. Particular areas of interest include: - Large-scale data management and distribution in pervasive internet - Clouds, cloudlets, fog computing, device-to-device coordination - Pervasive big data and artificial intelligence - Smart spaces and intelligent environments - Cognitive computing techniques - Social Cyber-Physical Computing and human in the loop, data-oriented approaches - Crowdsensing and analytics of human user data in Cyber-Physical Systems Contributions focused on the horizontal topics of (a) security, privacy, trust (b) reliability, safety (c) experiences from real-world deployments, testbeds, case studies, are also welcome, as long as they target one of the aforementioned application areas. ******** Main Organizers ******** - Workshop Chairs Theofanis P. Raptis, Institute for Informatics and Telematics, National Research Council (IIT-CNR), Italy Georgios Z. Papadopoulos, IMT Atlantique, France - Technical Program Committee Masoud Abbaszadeh (GE Global Research, USA) Xenofon (Fontas) Fafoutis (DTU, Denmark) Antoine Gallais (Inria Lille / University of Strasbourg, France) Oana Iova (INSA Lyon, France) Salil Kanhere (UNSW Sydney, Australia) Stamatis Karnouskos (SAP, Germany) Vasilis Katos (Bournemouth University, UK) Ernoe Kovacs (NEC Labs Europe, Germany) Francois Lemercier (NIST, USA) Valeria Loscri (Inria Lille, France) Nathalie Mitton (Inria Lille, France) Julien Montavont (University of Strasbourg, France) Sharief Oteafy (DePaul University, USA) Chrysa Papagianni (Nokia Bell Labs, Belgium) Andrea Passarella (IIT-CNR, Italy) Tanguy Ropitault (NIST, USA) Miguel Sepulcre (Miguel Hernandez University of Elche, Spain) Lei Shu (University of Lincoln, UK / Nanjing Agricultural University, China) George Sklivanitis (Florida Atlantic University, USA) Petros Spachos (University of Guelph, Canada) Violet R. Syrotiuk (Arizona State University, USA) Geraldine Texier (IMT Atlantique, France) Fabrice Theoleyre (CNRS / University of Strasbourg, France) Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (University of New Mexico, USA) Carlo Vallati (University of Pisa, Italy) Cong Wang (Old Dominion University, USA) Dimitrios Zorbas (Tyndall National Institute, Ireland) - Publicity co-Chairs Gangyong Jia (Hangzhou Dianzi University, China) Fabrice Theoleyre (CNRS / University of Strasbourg, France) Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (University of New Mexico, USA) ******** Important Dates ******** Paper Submission: March 25, 2019 Acceptance Notification: April 15, 2019 Camera Ready: April 29, 2019 ******** Submission Guidelines ******** http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/dipi2019/sub.html ______________________________________________________________ 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 JSAC Special Issue on "Design and Analysis of Communication Interfaces for Industry 4.0"
by Lars Wolf 21 Mar '19

21 Mar '19

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE JSAC Special Issue on "Design and Analysis of Communication Interfaces for Industry 4.0" Datum: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 07:08:42 -0400 Von: Syed Ali Zaidi <s.alirzaidi(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Syed Ali Zaidi <s.alirzaidi(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG **************************************************************************** Call for Papers ***************************************************************************** IEEE JSAC Special Issue on: Design and Analysis of Communication Interfaces for Industry 4.0 ***************************************************************************** The fourth industrial revolution also referred to as Industry 4.0 aims to integrate advanced manufacturing techniques with the Internet-of-Things (IoT) to create an agile digital manufacturing ecosystem. The key idea is to provide a higher level of automation by combining technologies such as Industrial IoT (IIoT), cloud computing, machine learning (ML) and advanced robotics to enable the creation of interconnected, responsive, intelligent and self-optimizing manufacturing processes and systems. The increased automation can: 1. Significantly enhance "operational efficiency" through real-time process analytics or even end-to-end process control. 2. Significantly enhance "overall productivity" by realizing zero-downtime through proactive maintenance via the implementation of ‘digital twins'. Implementation of either real-time process analytics or digital twining is geared to generate a huge volume of heterogeneous data flows. Consequently, the design of communication interfaces to support inter-connectivity must be optimized to enable convergence between legacy operations technology (OT) and next-generation IIoT. This special issue solicits original research papers focused on Design and Analysis of: 1. Ultra-reliable Low-Latency Connectivity Interfaces for IIoT Networks 2. Spectrum Management and Coexistence Issues for IIoT Networks 3. Architecture and Protocols for IIoT Networks 4. Novel ML methods for implementing Self-X capabilities in IIoT Networks 5. Resource Allocation and Management for IIoT Networks 6. Security, Privacy and Trust issues in IIoT deployments 7. Interoperability and Convergence Issues for legacy OT and IIoT Networks 8. Application and Deployment Specific Issues for IIoT Networks Submission Guidelines All submissions have to be prepared according to the Information for Authors as published in the Journal website and must be submitted via EDAS. Important Dates Manuscript Due: 1 July 2019 Acceptance Notification: 30 September 2019 Final Manuscript Due: 15 November 2019 Expected Publication of the Special Issue: First/Second Quarter 2020 Guest Editors Syed A. R. Zaidi University of Leeds, UK Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir The University of West of Scotland, UK Antonio J. Jara University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland Yunchuan Sun Beijing Normal University, China Rohit Ail Samsung Technology Research, UK Houbing Song Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA Sid Chi-Kin Chau Australian National University, Australia ______________________________________________________________ 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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