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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: The 1st Workshop on the Age of Information with IEEE INFOCOM 2018, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
by Lars Wolf 11 Oct '17

11 Oct '17

Anfang der weitergeleiteten E‑Mail: > Von: Yin Sun <sunyin02(a)GMAIL.COM> > Datum: 11. Oktober 2017 um 06:02:33 MESZ > An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG > Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: The 1st Workshop on the Age of Information with IEEE INFOCOM 2018, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA > Antwort an: Yin Sun <sunyin02(a)GMAIL.COM> > > **Apologizes if you receive multiple copies** > > The 1st Workshop on the Age of Information (AoI Workshop) > April 16, 2018, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA > https://www.eng.auburn.edu/AoIWorkshop/ <https://www.eng.auburn.edu/AoIWorkshop/> > > The freshness of information is of fundamental importance in information-update and data analytics applications (e.g., crowdsourcing, financial trading, social networks, and online learning), as well as networked monitoring and control systems (e.g., sensor networks, airplane/vehicular control, robotics networks, Internet of Things, and Cyber-Physical Systems). The Age of Information is a new concept that can serve as a performance metric for characterizing the freshness of information, as a means for fundamental research, and as a tool in numerous applications. Recent research advances on the Age of Information suggest that many well-known design principles (e.g., for providing high throughput and low delay) that lead to the success of traditional data networks are inappropriate and need to be re-examined for enhancing information freshness in the rapidly emerging real-time applications. > The 1st Workshop on the Age of Information (AoI Workshop) will provide a forum where researchers and technical experts can share the latest research insights, and present key and emerging results on the Age of Information, and identify new challenges and opportunities. The AoI Workshop will be held in Honolulu on April 16, 2018 in conjunction with the IEEE INFOCOM Conference 2018 <http://infocom2018.ieee-infocom.org/>. > > Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: > > • Age of Information Analysis and Optimization > • Age-based Source and Channel Coding > • Age of Information and Information Theory > • Real-time Signal Tracking and Estimation > • Age of Channel State Information > • Age of Information in Robotics and Control Systems > • Age of Information and Security > • Age of Information and Networking Theory > • Age of Information and Game Theory > • Data Freshness in Caches and Databases > • Fresh Big Data > • Fresh Data for Online Learning > • Applications of Age of Information (e.g., Internet-of-Things (IoT), Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Vehicular/UAV Networks, etc.) > Submission Guidelines > > The AoI Workshop calls for original and unpublished papers no longer than 6 pages. The reviews will be single blind. The manuscripts should be formatted in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font) and be submitted as PDF files (formatted for 8.5x11 inch paper). Manuscripts should be submitted as PDF files through the EDAS website. > Important Dates > > Paper Due: Sunday, 31 December 2017 (11:59pm EDT) > Notification of Acceptance: Monday, 29 January 2018 > > Workshop Organizers > > Yin Sun, Auburn University, USA > Anthony Ephremides, University of Maryland, USA > If you have any question, please contact the organizers at: InfocomAoI2018(a)gmail.com <mailto:InfocomAoI2018@gmail.com> > > > ______________________________________________________________ > IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications > http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ > TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. > tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org > https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing
by Lars Wolf 10 Oct '17

10 Oct '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing Datum: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 16:02:31 +0000 Von: Bo Sheng <Bo.Sheng(a)UMB.EDU> Antwort an: Bo Sheng <Bo.Sheng(a)UMB.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG CFP: The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing http://www.cloudbus.org/fog/icfec2018/ May 1, 2018 - May 3, 2018 Washington DC, USA Submission Deadline Nov 27, 2017 Notification Due Jan 31, 2018 Final Version Due Feb 14, 2018 The Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm promises to make “things” such as physical objects with sensing capabilities and/or attached with tags, mobile objects such as smart phones and vehicles, consumer electronic devices and home appliances such as fridge, television, healthcare devices, as part of the Internet environment. In cloud-centric IoT applications, the sensor data from these “things” is extracted, accumulated and processed at the public/private clouds, leading to significant latencies. To satisfy the ever increasing demand for Cloud Computing resources from emerging applications such as Internet-of-Things (IoT), academics and industry experts are now advocating for going from large-centralized Cloud Computing infrastructures to micro data centres located at the edge of the network. These micro data centres are often closer to a user (geographically and in access latency) compared to the centralised cloud data centre. The aim of utilizing such edge resources is to off load computation that would have “traditionally” been carried out at the cloud data centre to a resource that is closer to a user or edge devices. This vision also acknowledges the variation in network latency from an end user to cloud data centre. Whereas the network around a data centre is often high capacity and speed, that near the user device may have variably properties (in terms of resilience, bandwidth, latency, etc). Referred to as “fog/edge computing”, this paradigm is expected to improve the agility of cloud service deployments in addition to bringing computing resources closer to end-users. On the one hand, the development of Fog and Edge clouds includes dedicated facilities, operating system, network and middleware techniques to build and operate such micro data centres that host virtualized computing resources. On the other hand, the use of Fog and Edge clouds requires extension to current programming models and propose new abstractions that will allow developers to design new applications that take benefit from such massively distributed systems. The use of this approach also opens up other challenges in: security and privacy (as a user now needs to “trust” every micro data centre they interact with), support for resource management for mobile users who transfer session from one micro data centre to another, support for “embedding” such micro data centres into devices (e.g. cars, buildings, etc). The conference seeks to attract contributions covering both theory and practice of any of the aforementioned challenges, from the management software stack to domain-specific applications. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): · Data centers and infrastructures for Fog/Edge Computing · Middleware for Fog/Edge infrastructures · Programming models and runtime systems for Fog/Edge Computing · Scheduling for Fog/Edge infrastructures · Fog/Edge storage · Monitoring/metering of Fog/Edge infrastructures · Fog/Edge Computing applications · Latency/locality-critical applications · Legal issues in Fog/Edge clouds · Security and privacy – including support for new cryptographic approaches · Modelling Fog/Edge environments – e.g. using process networks, agent-based models, Peer-2-Peer systems, etc · Performance monitoring and modelling · Applications of Fog/Edge Computing ______________________________________________________________ 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: Blockchain Technologies for Consumer Electronics, IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine
by Lars Wolf 09 Oct '17

09 Oct '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: Blockchain Technologies for Consumer Electronics, IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine Datum: Sun, 8 Oct 2017 18:05:45 +0900 Von: Jong-Hyouk Lee <jonghyouk(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Jong-Hyouk Lee <jonghyouk(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Call for Papers (Apologies if you received multiple copies of this CFP) Special Issue on: Blockchain Technologies for Consumer Electronics, IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine (SCIE indexed) Deadline: November 30, 2017 (extended) Guest Editor - Jong-Hyouk Lee, Department of Software, Sangmyung University, Republic of Korea Authors are invited to submit papers for a special issue on ‘Blockchain Technologies for Consumer Electronics’ in the IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine. This special issue aims at providing a comprehensive review on fundamentals as well as the current state-of-the-art on Blockchain technologies. Recent developments in cryptocurrencies and consensus algorithms are creating new Blockchain based services, while various Blockchain technologies are being developed. Various Blockchain based services are becoming integrated with our daily lives and applied for consumer electronics. This special issue seeks articles that review current Blockchain technologies or explore new Blockchain applications and usage scenarios for consumer electronics. Technical articles may be welcome but these should be of general interest to an engineering audience and of broader scope than archival journal/transaction papers. Articles should be broadly scoped as typically review and tutorial articles are suited to the IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine. Topics of interest for this special issue include but are not limited to the following: - New Blockchain backbone network and protocol - Smart contracts for consumer electronics - Decentralized organizations for consumer electronics - Security and privacy issues on Blockchain technologies - Blockchain applications for consumer electronics - Blockchain usage scenarios for consumer electronics - Blockchain based automations for consumer electronics - Blockchain based payment system for consumer electronics - Real use cases and business models in consumer electronics areas Submission Procedure: Submissions should follow IEEE standard template and should consist of the following: (i) A manuscript of maximum 8-page length: A pdf of the complete manuscript layout with figures, tables placed within the text, (ii) A source file in Word or Latex format, and (iii) High resolution original photos and graphics as JPEG files are required for the final submission. Images embedded in Word or Excel documents are not suitable; however, figures and graphics may be provided in a PowerPoint slide deck, with one figure/graphic per slide. Articles which have been previously published at a conference needs to have at least 30% new material as clarified in the cover letter of the submission. The manuscripts need to be submitted online at ScholarOne using the following URL: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cemag. The authors need to select "Special Section: Blockchain Technologies for CE" in Step-1 of submission process to ensure that the article is reviewed for this Special Call. For any questions, please contact guest editor Prof. Jong-Hyouk Lee. Schedule: - Submission Deadline: November 30, 2017 (extended) - Author Notification: January 30, 2018 - Publication Date: Mid 2018 -- Jong-Hyouk Lee, living somewhere between /dev/null and /dev/random Protocol Engineering Lab., Sangmyung University #email: jonghyouk(a)gmail.com #webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/hurryon ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CALL FOR PAPERS] Feature Topic in IEEE Communications Magazine, "Multi-Access Mobile Edge Computing for Heterogeneous IoT"
by Lars Wolf 09 Oct '17

09 Oct '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CALL FOR PAPERS] Feature Topic in IEEE Communications Magazine, "Multi-Access Mobile Edge Computing for Heterogeneous IoT" Datum: Sun, 8 Oct 2017 22:32:50 -0400 Von: Yuan Wu <iewuy(a)ZJUT.EDU.CN> Antwort an: Yuan Wu <iewuy(a)ZJUT.EDU.CN> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Dear All, Please find below a call for papers for IEEE Communications Magazine, Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. --------------- CALL FOR PAPERS: Feature Topics in IEEE Communications Magazine, "Multi-Access Mobile Edge Computing for Heterogeneous IoT" This CFP can be seen at the website of IEEE Communications Magazine at http://www.comsoc.org/commag/cfp/multi-access-mobile-edge-computing-heterog… The THEME: --------------- The convergence of mobile internet and wireless systems have witnessed an explosive growth in resource-hungry and computation-intensive services and applications, which cover broad paradigms of so-called heterogeneous Internet of Things (H-IoTs). These systems include real-time video/audio surveillance, remote e-health systems, intelligent transportation systems, and Internet of Vehicles (IoV), and etc. Mobile edge computing, by placing various cloud resources (e.g., computational and storage resources) closer to smart devices/objects, has been envisioned as an enabling and highly promising technology to realize and reap the promising benefits of H-IoTs applications. However, the growing demands for ultra-low latency, massive connectivity, and high reliability of the large number of H-IoTs applications has yielded a critical issue in mobile edge computing, i.e. the limited connections (such as connection capacity, bandwidth, or the number of simultaneously affordable connections) between mobile edge cloud and smart devices/objects. Multi-access mobile edge computing (MA-MEC), which actively exploits a systematic and adaptive integration of recent radio access technologies including 5G, LTE, and Wi-Fi to enhance the access capacity of smart devices to mobile edge platforms, has been considered as a highly promising technology to tackle this issue. The evolution towards the architecture of ultra-dense small-cells in future radio access networks facilitates the MA-MEC, i.e., the densely deployed small cells can significantly improve the capacity and quality of the connections between smart devices and mobile edge cloud. Therefore, with the strength of multi-access for capacity-enhancement, the MA-MEC is expected to bring a variety of benefits, such as i) ultra-low latency between smart devices and edge cloud for real-time, interactive, and mission-critical applications, e.g., the real-time indoor navigation and augmented virtual-reality, ii) privacy and security in local communications to access mobile edge! cloud, and iii) big data analytics at the point of capture for IoT applications. However, the success of MA-MEC still requires tackling many new challenges. For instance, to efficiently exploit computation and storage resources at mobile edge nodes, a joint optimization of placement of computation/storage resource and cell-association with radio resource allocation is necessitated. Such joint optimization should be adaptive according to time-varying environments, e.g., the varying wireless channel states when users move across the cells and the dynamic computation/storage resource utilizations. Therefore, this Feature Topic (FT) aims at soliciting high quality and unpublished work regarding recent advances in MA-MEC, with the main focus on addressing the fundamental design issues in MA-MEC, and the emerging paradigms and testbeds that use MA-MEC. TOPICS: --------------- This Feature Topic aims at soliciting high quality and unpublished work regarding recent advances in MA-MEC, with the main focus on addressing the fundamental design issues in MA-MEC, and the emerging paradigms and testbeds that use MA-MEC. We solicit papers covering the topics of interests in the following two main categories: * Fundamental design issues in MA-MEC - Radio resource management for MA-MEC - Task scheduling and computation resource management for MA-MEC - Virtualization and network slicing for MA-MEC - Location and sizing of computation and storage elements for MA-MEC - Communication protocols and network architectures for MA-MEC - Security, privacy, and reliability in MA-MEC - QoE and QoS provisioning in MA-MEC - 5G/LTE/WiFi enabled MA-MEC - Energy management and green MA-MEC - Edge-to-cloud integration and protocols for MA-MEC - Human and social-driven design of MA-MEC * MA-MEC for Heterogeneous IoT - MA-MEC for smart cities - MA-MEC for video/audio surveillance - MA-MEC for industrial IoT - MA-MEC for smart energy systems - MA-MEC for smart healthcare - MA-MEC for intelligent transportation systems - MA-MEC for big data analytics MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION AND SUBMISSION: --------------- Articles should be tutorial in nature, with the intended audience being all members of the communications technology community. They should be written in a tutorial style comprehensible to readers outside the specialty of the article. Mathematical equations should not be used (in justified cases up to three simple equations are allowed). Articles should not exceed 4500 words (from introduction through conclusions, excluding figures, tables and captions). Figures and tables should be limited to a combined total of six. The number of archival references is recommended not to exceed 15. In some rare cases, more mathematical equations, figures, and tables may be allowed, if well-justified. In general, however, mathematics should be avoided; instead, references to papers containing the relevant mathematics should be provided. Complete guidelines for preparation of the manuscripts are posted at http://www.comsoc.org/commag/paper-submission-guidelines. Please submit a PDF (preferred) or MSWORD formatted paper via Manuscript Central (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/commag-ieee). Register or log in, and go to Author Center. Follow the instructions there. Select "July 2018 / Multi-Access Mobile Edge Computing for Heterogeneous IoT" as the Feature Topic category for your submission. TIME TABLE: --------------- * Manuscript Submissions Deadline: November 1, 2017 * Decision Notification: March 1, 2018 * Final Manuscripts Due: April 15, 2018 * Publication Date: July 2018 GUEST EDITORS: --------------- Yan Zhang (Leading Guest Editor) University of Oslo, Norway Email: yanzhang(a)ieee.org Yuan Wu Zhejiang University of Technology, China Email: iewuy(a)zjut.edu.cn Hassnaa Moustafa Intel Corporation, USA Email: hassnaa.moustafa(a)intel.com Danny H.K. Tsang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Email: eetsang(a)ust.hk Alberto Leon-Garcia University of Toronto, Canada Email: alberto.leongarcia(a)utoronto.ca Usman Javaid Vodafone, UK Email: usman.javaid(a)vodafone.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: CfP SAOS'18@ARCS2018 / Braunschweig, DE
by Lars Wolf 06 Oct '17

06 Oct '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP SAOS'18@ARCS2018 / Braunschweig, DE Datum: Fri, 6 Oct 2017 12:25:02 +0000 Von: Organic Computing Initiative <no-reply(a)organic-computing.de> Antwort an: no-reply(a)organic-computing.de An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de CfP SAOS'18@ARCS2018 / Braunschweig, DE CfP SAOS'18@ARCS2018 / Braunschweig, DE webversion <http://www.organic-computing.de/mailster/3533/14ac907ebe6aecff1f534ba5f6706…> or unsubscribe <http://www.organic-computing.de/mailster/3533/14ac907ebe6aecff1f534ba5f6706…> logo-oc CfP SAOS'18@ARCS2018 / Braunschweig, DE CfP: Workshop on Self-Optimisation in Autonomic and Organic Computing Systems @ ARCS 2018 / Braunschweig, Germany Dear subscribers of the Organic Computing mailing list, please find attached the Call for Papers for the upcoming SAOS'18 workshop. The deadline for regular submissions is *December 22, 2017*. SAOS'18 is affiliated with ARCS 2018 and takes place in Braunschweig, DE. Further details can be found by visiting the website: https://www.informatik.uni-augsburg.de/lehrstuehle/oc/Veranstaltungen/oc-ws… <http://www.organic-computing.de/mailster/3533/14ac907ebe6aecff1f534ba5f6706…> Best regards, Anthony Stein (anthony.stein(a)informatik.uni-augsburg.de), Sven Tomforde, Jean Botev, Jörg Hähner ******************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS The 6th International Workshop on "*Self-Optimisation in Autonomic and Organic Computing Systems*" (SAOS 2018) to be held at GI/ITG ARCS 2018 – 31st International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (http://arcs2018.itec.kit.edu/ <http://www.organic-computing.de/mailster/3533/14ac907ebe6aecff1f534ba5f6706…>) April 9 - 12, 2018 Braunschweig, Germany https://www.informatik.uni-augsburg.de/lehrstuehle/oc/Veranstaltungen/oc-ws… <http://www.organic-computing.de/mailster/3533/14ac907ebe6aecff1f534ba5f6706…> ================== *** Important dates *** ================== * Submission deadline: December 22, 2017 * Notification of acceptance: January 26, 2018 * Camera-ready: February 2, 2018 =================== *** Workshop theme *** =================== Initiatives such as Autonomic Computing (AC) and Organic Computing (OC), or the more general research field of self-adaptive and self-organising systems (SASO), are based on the insight that we are increasingly surrounded by large collections of autonomous systems, which are equipped with sensors and actuators, aware of their environment, communicating freely, and organising themselves in order to perform the required actions and services in an adequate and robust manner. The resulting presence of networks of intelligent systems in our daily environment opens fascinating application areas but, at the same time, bears the problem of their controllability. Hence, different design concepts (such as the MAPE cycle and the Observer/Controller framework) have been developed to allow for a self-organised control process at runtime that relieves the designer from specifying all possibly occurring situations and configurations within the design process. Instead, the system itself takes over responsibility to find proper reactions to perceived changes in the environmental conditions. As designers are not able to foresee all possibly occurring situations and circumstances the system will face during its operation time, the self-organisation process of the system has to pursue a steadily self-optimising behaviour. Self-optimising behaviour can be triggered at various levels of the system’s design, ranging from basic control architectures over self-organised coordination/collaboration methods as well as from domain-specific optimisation techniques to the application of machine learning algorithms. Furthermore, related topics such as trust and security in collaborative systems provide necessary concepts to enable self-optimising behaviour in SASO systems. In this workshop, we will discuss current research efforts that endeavour the establishment of self-optimising system behaviour. Thereby, a special focus will be set on observable trends and upcoming challenges, resulting from well-known issues of adjacent domains such as evolutionary optimisation or machine learning. Contributions are expected to focus on at least one of the following categories: * Part A. Architectural concepts for enabling self-optimising system behaviour * Part B. Applied machine learning and optimisation algorithms to achieve self-optimisation * Part C. Novel application scenarios for self-optimising systems * Part D. Current trends/challenges in the field of self-optimising interconnected systems =================== *** Workshop details *** =================== The Workshop will be held between April 9 (expected) and April 10 (t.b.a.) in conjunction with the 31st International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS 2018) in Braunschweig, Germany. The conference's web page is available at: http://arcs2018.itec.kit.edu/ <http://www.organic-computing.de/mailster/3533/14ac907ebe6aecff1f534ba5f6706…> ======================== *** Submission Information *** ======================== Paper submission deadline: December 22, 2017 Notification of acceptance: January 26, 2018 Papers should not exceed 8 pages (full) and 4 pages (short) and must be formatted according to IEEE CIS template in "conference mode". Templates and formatting instructions are available at: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html <http://www.organic-computing.de/mailster/3533/14ac907ebe6aecff1f534ba5f6706…> Paper submission will be handled via the workshop's EasyChair installation: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=saos2018 <http://www.organic-computing.de/mailster/3533/14ac907ebe6aecff1f534ba5f6706…> ARCS 2018 Workshop Proceedings will presumably be published through VDE Verlag on CD and online by the IEEE Computer Society through the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. ======================= *** Workshop organisation *** ======================= * Anthony Stein, University of Augsburg (DE) * Sven Tomforde, University of Kassel (DE) * Jean Botev, University of Luxembourg (LU) * Jörg Hähner, University of Augsburg (DE) ===================== *** Program Committee *** ===================== * Kirstie Bellman, Topcy House Consulting * Jean Botev, University of Luxembourg * Uwe Brinkschulte, University of Frankfurt * Jörg Hähner, University of Augsburg * Heiko Hamann, University of Luebeck * Paul Kaufmann, University of Paderborn * Chris Landauer, Topcy House Consulting * Erik Maehle, University of Luebeck * Bivas Mitra, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur * Christian Müller-Schloer, Leibniz University Hannover * Christian Renner, University of Luebeck * Stefan Rudolph, University of Augsburg * Hella Seebach, University of Augsburg * Bernhard Sick, University of Kassel * Anthony Stein, University of Augsburg * Jürgen Teich, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg * Claudio Juan Tessone, University of Zurich * Sven Tomforde, University of Kassel * Sebastian von Mammen, University of Würzburg * Torben Weis, University of Duisburg-Essen *** Further PC members pending *** Download PDF <http://www.organic-computing.de/mailster/3533/14ac907ebe6aecff1f534ba5f6706…> You have received this email because you have subscribed to Organic Computing Initiative <http://www.organic-computing.de/mailster/3533/14ac907ebe6aecff1f534ba5f6706…> as wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de. 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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP - IEEE Communications Magazine | FT on Information-Centric Networking Security
by Lars Wolf 03 Oct '17

03 Oct '17

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Ruidong Li <lrd(a)NICT.GO.JP> Gesendet: 3. Oktober 2017 07:15:23 MESZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP - IEEE Communications Magazine | FT on Information-Centric Networking Security CALL FOR PAPERS: IEEE Communications Magazine, Feature Topic on Information-Centric Networking Security http://www.comsoc.org/commag/cfp/information-centric-networking-security -INTRODUCTION ---------------------------------------- Information-centric networking (ICN) is a new network architecture that provides the access to named data as first order network service, providing better trust in data authenticity and greater potential for optimizing forwarding behavior compared to traditional host-based communication systems like the Internet today. The ICN principle of accessing authenticated named data in the network enables several optimizations, such as network-layer data caching, flexible multipath communication and simplified mobility management. ICN thus addresses many important requirements of applications such as high-performance, scalable media data distribution and reliable, distributed Internet of Things networks. ICN is an active research area that includes specific topics such as network architectures, applications, transport, and caching techniques. Security is a particularly important topic since ICN enables new approaches with respect to confidentiality, access control and trust management that we want to address by this Feature Topic. Solicited topics include (but are not limited to): · Security architectures for information-centric networking (ICN) · Authentication and authorization for distributed caching environment · Access control mechanisms for ICN · Security in mobile ICN · Cryptographic protocols against internal attacks in information-centric network · Information sharing and data protection in ICN · Secure monitoring in ICN · Denial of service attacks prevention in ICN · Privacy protection in ICN · Privacy policy framework for ICN · Privacy in caching, naming, signature · Mechanisms to enforce privacy and trust · Privacy-preserving processing in ICN · Privacy-preserving data publishing on ICN · User privacy, data providers privacy and ICN application platform privacy · Privacy and security in ICN applications · Trusted computing platform · Trust models for ICN · Trust management for ICN · Copyright management and business models for ICN - SUBMISSIONS ---------------------------------------- Articles should be tutorial in nature, with the intended audience being all members of the communications technology community. They should be written in a tutorial style comprehensible to readers outside the specialty of the article. Mathematical equations should not be used (in justified cases up to three simple equations are allowed). Articles should not exceed 4500 words (from introduction through conclusions, excluding figures, tables and captions). Figures and tables should be limited to a combined total of six. The number of archival references is recommended not to exceed 15. In some rare cases, more mathematical equations, figures, and tables may be allowed, if well-justified. In general, however, mathematics should be avoided; instead, references to papers containing the relevant mathematics should be provided. Complete guidelines for preparation of the manuscripts are posted at http://www.comsoc.org/commag/paper-submission-guidelines. Please submit a PDF (preferred) or MSWORD formatted paper via Manuscript Central (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/commag-ieee). Register or log in, and go to Author Center. Follow the instructions there. Select "July 2018 / Information-Centric Networking Security" as the Feature Topic category for your submission. - IMPORTANT DATES: ---------------------------------------- · Manuscript Submission: November 1, 2017 · Decision Notification: March 1, 2018 · Final Manuscript Due: April 15, 2018 · Publication Date: July 2018 - GUEST EDITORS ---------------------------------------- Xiaoming Fu University of Göttingen, Germany fu(a)cs.uni-goettingen.de Satyajayant Misra New Mexico State University, USA misra(a)cs.nmsu.edu Dirk Kutscher Huawei Research, Germany dku(a)dkutscher.net Ruidong Li National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan lrd(a)nict.go.jp ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: Springer JAIHC, Special Issues on "Cross-layer Design Issues, Challenges and Opportunities for Future Intelligent Heterogeneous Networks"
by Lars Wolf 03 Oct '17

03 Oct '17

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Muhammad Khalil Afzal <muhammad.khalil.afzal(a)GMAIL.COM> Gesendet: 3. Oktober 2017 08:06:00 MESZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: Springer JAIHC, Special Issues on "Cross-layer Design Issues, Challenges and Opportunities for Future Intelligent Heterogeneous Networks" #################### Call for Paper: Special Issues on "Cross-layer Design Issues, Challenges and Opportunities for Future Intelligent Heterogeneous Networks" Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (JAIHC), Springer CFP is available on : http://static.springer.com/sgw/documents/1617671/application/pdf/CfP_CDICOF… #################### The concept and operations of data communication are based on the integration of various heterogeneous wireless networks such as mobile communication networks (3G/4G/LTE/5G), wireless sensor networks (WSNs), wireless local area networks (WLANs), wireless mesh networks (WMNs), wireless body area networks (WBANs), etc.. These wireless networks are providing backbone of future generation communication technologies. Unique characteristics of wireless networks such as mobility, high error rates, and multipath propagations bring the new challenges to traditional TCP/IP-based protocol stack which was developed mainly for wired networks. The unexpected packet losses in wireless networks significantly degrade the networks’ performances. On the other hand, quality of service (QoS) is another challenge for the wireless networks which enable users to share multimedia data while moving in real time. For the efficient and controlled communications in the future generation networks, it is very important to design and develop smart and state-of-the-art algorithms. Even though the protocol architecture traditionally follows strict layering principle, the lack of coordination among the layers rather limits the performances of wireless networks. The optimization cross over various key network parameters including energy efficiency, mobility management, security, cooperation, and quality of service (QoS) is essential issue for the future wireless networks and the solution of it might be cross-layer design. The core idea of the cross- layer design is not only to maintain the functionalities associated to the conventional original layers, but also to allow coordination, integration, and joint optimization of protocols. The goal of this special issue is to solicit the state-of-the-art and novel protocols and methodologies that embark on cross-layer design, issue and opportunities for future intelligent heterogeneous wireless networks. Topics of interest in this special issue include, but are not limited to: + Cross-layer design for physical, MAC and routing protocols + Cross-layer design for energy efficient MAC and routing. + Cross-layer design for mobility management. + Cross-layer design for QoS provisioning. + Cross-layer design for security and cooperation. + Cross-layer congestion control and scheduling schemes. + Cross-layer design and optimization in Internet of Things (IoTs) and smart grid. + Cross-layer strategies for wireless multimedia communications. + Cross-layer error and delay control. + Cross-layer optimization for energy, network lifetime, and capacity. + Complexity and scalability issues in cross-layer design. + Performance optimization for cross-layer design of wireless networks. + Cross-layer adaptation for energy minimization in wireless networks. + Application layer adaptation-based on cross-layer notifications. + Design, implementation and test-bed/experimental results. Important Date Submission Due Date: Nov 30, 2017 First acceptance Notification: Feb 1, 2018 Revised manuscript due: March 1, 2018 Final acceptance Notification: May 1, 2018 Final version due: June 1, 2018 Intended publication date: Third Quarter of 2018 Online Submission Authors should submit their manuscripts online. Electronic submission substantially reduces the editorial processing and reviewing times and shortens overall publication times. Please follow the hyperlink “Submit online” on the right and upload all of your manuscript files following the instructions given on the screen. During the online submission phase, as the first step, authors have to choose as “Article Type” the entry “S.I. Cross-layer Design Issues, Challenges and Opportunities for Future Intelligent Heterogeneous Networks”. Guest Editors Details Dr. Muhammad Khalil Afzal COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan Email: khalilafzal(a)ciitwah.edu.pk Dr. Wazir Zada Khan Jazan University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Email: wazirzadakhan(a)jazanu.edu.sa Dr. Tariq Umer COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan Email: t_umer(a)yahoo.com Dr. Byung-Seo Kim Department of Computer and Information Engineering, Hongik University, South Korea Email: jsnbs(a)hongik.ac.kr Dr. Shui Yu School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Australia Email: shui.yu(a)deakin.edu.au ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] EWSN 2018 Dependability Competition - Call for Contestants
by Lars Wolf 03 Oct '17

03 Oct '17

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Carlo Alberto Boano <cboano(a)TUGRAZ.AT> Gesendet: 3. Oktober 2017 10:02:28 MESZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] EWSN 2018 Dependability Competition - Call for Contestants --------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Competitors 3rd Dependability Competition at the Intl. Conf. on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN) February 14-16, 2018 - Madrid, Spain https://ewsn2018.networks.imdea.org/call-for-competitors.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- Following the success of the 2016 and 2017 editions, the Intl. Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN) will host also this year a competition to compare the performance of WSN and IoT communication protocols in harsh RF environments. FORMAT: This year's dependability competition will have a new format compared to the past two editions, the most prominent changes being that it will take place remotely over a longer time window, and that it will involve the reporting of multiple events from several nodes. Interested participants should first submit an abstract describing their approach by the competition entry deadline. Accepted contestants will obtain the credentials to remotely access the competition infrastructure and enter the preparation phase, after which each team needs to provide one binary that will be used for the final evaluation. A poster session entirely dedicated to the dependability competition will take place during the evening of the first conference day. All competing teams must present their solution in the poster session and will have the possibility to engage in lively discussions with the other conference attendees. The winners of the competition will be awarded during a dedicated plenary session on the second conference day and will hold a 10-minutes talk presenting their solution, followed by a short discussion. COMPETITION SCENARIO AND EVALUATION PROCEDURE: The competition scenario emulates the operation of a sensor and actuator network monitoring discrete events in an industrial setting where several co-existing wireless devices are crowding the RF spectrum. A complete description of the competition scenario and evaluation procedure can be found at: https://ewsn2018.networks.imdea.org/call-for-competitors.html ELIGIBILITY Both academia and industry submissions are encouraged. All wireless communication protocols used in low-power wireless sensor networks are welcome, and there is no restriction on the operating system used to program the sensor nodes. The competition will take place if at least 5 teams respond to this preliminary call for competitors. Depending on the nature and number of submissions, multiple categories may be defined. The winning teams in each category will receive cash awards and present their approach at EWSN in a 10-minutes plenary talk. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Interested participants should first submit a two-page abstract describing their approach by the competition entry deadline, following the formatting requirements described on the competition Webpage. The abstracts will be used to pre-select the participants to the competition. Accepted contestants will have the chance to edit their abstract and submit a camera-ready version by the end of the competition's preparation phase. Accepted abstracts will appear in the ACM Digital Library, unless authors explicitly mark their submission as confidential. IMPORTANT DATES: Competition entry deadline (Abstract submission): Oct. 11, 2017 Notification of acceptance: Oct. 18, 2017 Camera-ready abstract submission: Jan. 7, 2018 Competition's preparation phase: Mid-Nov. 2017 until Jan. 7, 2018 Submission of final software: Jan. 7, 2018 Competition's evaluation phase: Mid-Jan. until Feb. 7, 2018 Competition panel and poster session: Feb. 14, 2018 Competition awards and winners' presentations: Feb. 15, 2018 ORGANIZERS: Carlo Alberto Boano, TU Graz Markus Schuss, TU Graz --------------------------------------------------------------------- Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of the call --------------------------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________________________ 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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CFP: Usable Security; PerCom2018 Workshop (DL: 11.11.2017)
by Dominik Schürmann 02 Oct '17

02 Oct '17

================================================ CALL FOR PAPERS Sixth CoSDEO Workshop **Usable Security** https://cosdeo.github.io in conjunction with IEEE PerCom 2018 ================================================ ## Important dates November 11, 2017: Paper and demo submission deadline December 23, 2017: Notification of acceptance January 12, 2018: Submission of camera-ready deadline ## Call The workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on the design, implementation, and evaluation of systems, algorithms or models for usable security. Recently, usable security receives a growing amount of attention in industry and from academia. This covers, for instance, novel pairing and security schemes for pervasive systems where identity cues are provided from sensor information as well as the discussion of novel sensor modalities or secure processing methodologies. The offensive side includes attacks on existing security mechanisms as well as entropy and statistical analysis of key sequences. It is therefore the goal of this workshop to provide a publication and discussion platform for this growing community in which fundamental problems but also sophisticated approaches are presented and discussed. Thus, we like to encourage practioners and scientists in all stages of their research, from first experiments to readily developed and evaluated systems, to submit their original work to allow a broad discussion with established field experts but also researchers relatively new to the field. Even if work is in a very early stage all submitted work must conform to typical scientific requirements; showing a good overview of the field and the specific area of the context of interest. If the paper is based on a technical system the system should be described and discussed thoroughly. Besides regular papers, we also encourage submission of visionary papers which need not describe completed research but contain ideas new to the field. These may be related to novel and convenient techniques for key generation and pairing, discussions on entropy and statistical properties of sensor- generated random sequences but also novel applications and designs of usable security systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Novel usable security mechanisms in the field of pervasive computing * Biometric and context-based authentication and pairing schemes, e.g., based on gait, audio, video, usage patterns, haptics, RF … * Usability evaluations of new or existing security or privacy features * User studies in usable security * Attacks on security schemes * Privacy functionality and design for ubiquitous systems * Fuzzy cryptography in security systems * Quantization approaches * Lessons learned from the deployment and use of usable and pervasive security * User experience in mobile security * Security schemes for sharply resource limited devices in Pervasive and IoT environments * Privacy and anonymization aspects in usable security * Novel interfaces fostering usable security * Entropy estimation and statistical analysis for keys generated from usably secure systems * Edge-support for usable security on resource limited pervasive devices * Lightweight security solutions * Biometrics on resource-limited devices * Ethics and legal considerations in usable security * Detection and prevention of attacks on usably secure systems * Authentication and access control for usably secure systems * Trust in usable security * Orchestration and collaboration between devices in usable security * Quantization approaches ## Organizers: Sascha Fahl, Leibnitz University Hannover, Germany Dominik Schuermann, TU Braunschweig, Germany Stephan Sigg, Aalto University, Finland

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [MadCom 2018] CALL FOR PAPERS
by Lars Wolf 02 Oct '17

02 Oct '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [MadCom 2018] CALL FOR PAPERS Datum: Mon, 2 Oct 2017 18:26:38 +0000 Von: Sun, Zhi <zhisun(a)BUFFALO.EDU> Antwort an: Sun, Zhi <zhisun(a)BUFFALO.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Call for Papers -- MadCom 2018 "New Wireless Communication Paradigms for the Internet of Things" In-conjunction with EWSN 2018 Proceedings appear in ACM Digital Library February 14, 2018 in Madrid, Spain https://ewsn2018.networks.imdea.org/madcom.html Keynote speech: Petri Mähönen, Professor and the head of the Institute for Networked Systems, RWTH Aachen University. Aim For the last decades, radio frequency (RF) has been at the core of the revolution enabling wireless communication for the Internet of Things (IoT). But RF communication has been a victim of its own success, and the ever increasing number of devices joining the IoT are saturating the RF bandwidth. We need alternative ways to exploit RF technology and to use other means to transmit data wirelessly. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different communities to identify and explore novel wireless communication technologies, and debate on and discuss priorities and challenges in the research agenda. Scope The workshop will consist of a keynote and presentations of short papers. The short papers can be of a technical nature, presenting preliminary technical results, or position papers presenting a thought-provoking view regarding methods or applications for novel wireless communication technologies. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - backscatter communication - visible light communication - magnetic induction communication - terahertz communication - camera-based communication - thermal-based communication - molecular communication - communication through physical vibration - acoustic communication - services piggybacked on wireless communication (e.g. gesture recognition/radar) - mobile RF networks and drone-enabled communication - new platforms - new communication methods with RF signals - new network stacks for novel communication technologies - applications for novel wireless communication method Please ask the workshop chairs if you are uncertain if your topic fits, david.malone (at) nuim.ie<http://nuim.ie> and ccanobs (at) uoc.edu<http://uoc.edu>. Submission Instructions Formatting requirements. The papers will be published as part of the conference proceedings and will appear in the ACM Digital Library. We encourage submissions from academia and industry alike. Full papers can have a maximum length of 6 pages (two column format). The workshop also accepts short position papers of a maximum length of two pages in the same format. Pages must have 8.5" x 11" (letter) two-column format, using 10-point type on 11-point leading, with a maximum text block of 7" wide x 9" deep with an intercolumn spacing of .25". The page limits include figures, tables, and references. Authors may use the LaTex template ewsn-workshops.tex provided at https://ewsn2018.networks.imdea.org/ewsn-template.zip. All submitted papers will be judged through single-blind reviewing. Please include author names and affiliations along with the title. Submission system. Submissions will be handled through EasyChair. Please submit your papers using this https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=madcom2018. Important Dates Paper registration: October 22, 2017 (hard deadline). Paper submissions: October 29, 2017 (hard deadline). Notification: December 1, 2017. Camera Ready: December 20, 2017. Organisation David Malone, Maynooth University, Maynooth, Ireland. Cristina Cano, WINE Group, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain. TPC Members Daniele Puccinelli, SUPSI, Switzerland Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Yusung Kim, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea Francesco Gringoli, University of Brescia, Italy Andrew Markham, The University of Oxford, UK Ozgu Alay, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Ilenia Tinnirello, Università degli Studi di Palermo, 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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