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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CCS Workshop on IoT S&P
by Lars Wolf 15 Aug '17

15 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CCS Workshop on IoT S&P Datum: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 03:26:57 -0400 Von: Theophilus Benson <tbenson(a)CS.DUKE.EDU> Antwort an: Theophilus Benson <tbenson(a)CS.DUKE.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Motivated by an increasing number of attacks and information leaks, IoT device manufactures, cloud providers, and researchers are working to design systems to secure to control the flow of information between devices, to detect new vulnerabilities; and to provide security and privacy within the context of user and the devices. While researchers continue to tackle IoT security and privacy, many questions remain open. Further, with the growing adoption of IoT devices, we will see a growth in the number of security and privacy issues. The goal of the First ACM CCS Workshop on IoT S&P is to bring together academic and industry researchers from the security and communication communities to design, measure, and analyze secure and privacy enhancing systems for IoT devices. This workshop will be colocated with ACM CCS in Dallas, Texas on November 3rd, 2017. We encourage the submission of work-in-progress papers in the area of design, implementation, management, and deployment of secure and private IoT frameworks as well as measurement and analysis of the privacy and security of existing IoT devices and packages. http://iotsecurity.cs.duke.edu <http://iotsecurity.cs.duke.edu/> Important Dates ---------------- Paper submission: August 18th Author notification: September 7, 2017 Camera-ready version: September 17, 2017 Workshop day: November 3, 2017 Submission Guidelines ---------------- Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Submissions should be at most 5 pages in the ACM double-column format, excluding well-marked appendices, and at most 6 pages in total. Submissions are not required to be anonymized. Submissions are to be made to the submission web site at https://iotsp17.hotcrp.com/ <https://iotsp17.hotcrp.com/>. Only PDF files will be accepted. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Papers must be received by 12 PM PT, August 11, 2017 to be considered. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent to authors by September 7, 2017. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that one of the authors will register and present the paper at the workshop. Proceedings of the workshop will be available on a CD to the workshop attendees and will become part of the ACM Digital Library. • original papers of up to 5 pages (+1 for references) • with 10-point font • in a two-column format (including figures, tables and references) • submitted papers need not be anonymized. We look for submissions of previously unpublished work on topics including, but not limited to, the following: • Security and privacy issues in IoT •Network architectures and protocols for scalable, robust, secure, and privacy enhancing IoT •Network services and management for IoT •Measurement of IoT privacy leakage •Measurement of Industrial IoT •Usable security and privacy frameworks for home networks •Threat Models and Attack Strategies in IoT •Intrusion and Malware Detection •Security Architectures for the IoT Stack •System and Data Integrity •Identity and access management in IoT •Trustworthiness in IoT •Secure Operating Systems in IoT •Automated armoring and patching •Cross-layer IoT security •IoT ecosystem-level security analysis •Clean-slate IoT security design ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ACM MobiCom 2017 Travel Grants supported by the National Science Foundation and SIGMOBILE
by Lars Wolf 15 Aug '17

15 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ACM MobiCom 2017 Travel Grants supported by the National Science Foundation and SIGMOBILE Datum: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 10:17:48 +0900 Von: JeongGil (John) Ko <jeonggil.ko(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: JeongGil (John) Ko <jeonggil.ko(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ACM MobiCom 2017 Travel Grants supported by the National Science Foundation and SIGMOBILE Application Deadline: 23:59 AoE, August 25th, 2017 The 23rd Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 2017) is pleased to announce travel grants for students to attend the conference and its co-located workshops to be held in Snowbird, Utah, USA, October 16 - 20, 2017. Funds for these travel grants are provided by NSF and SIGMOBILE. Travel Grant Application Grants are available only for full-time students attending colleges and universities in and outside of the US. Women, undergraduates and underrepresented minority students are particularly encouraged to apply. To apply for a travel grant, the student applicant should send following material to mobicom17stg(a)googlegroups.com. 1. The student's CV including country of origin and country of residence 2. SIGMOBILE student member number, if you have one. SIGMOBILE student membership costs $5 for one year. You can apply here <https://campus.acm.org/public/qj/gensigqj/gensigqj_control.cfm?promo=QJSIG&…> . 3. An application letter which should include: - The title of his/her accepted MobiCom work (conference/workshop paper, poster or demo, finalist mobile app contest entry) - if the student is an author - Whether he/she is a first-time attendee to MobiCom - A brief summary of the student research interests and accomplishments to date - A description of areas reflected in the MobiCom program that would impact the student's research - A statement about why the conference attendance is important to the student - An estimate of the following costs of attending MobiCom 2017: airfare, hotel, and conference registration. It is anticipated that travel grants will partially cover these attendance costs. A recommendation letter from the advisor of the student applicant is also required. The letter should provide the following: 1. A confirmation that the student is a bona fide Ph.D. candidate or a M.Sc./B.Sc. student in good academic standing at the given institution. 2. The impact of the MobiCom program material on the student’s research progress. 3. Other benefits the student would derive from attending the conference. 4. A description of the student applicant's strengths and potential contributions to the mobile computing and networking field. 5. A statement of financial commitment to pay the remainder of the student applicant’s travel cost not covered by the grant. The advisor's letter should be sent to mobicom17stg(a)googlegroups.com directly by the advisor. Selection Criteria selection will be based on student merit qualifications (eg, paper authorship) and financial need (eg, travel distance/cost from home campus, availability of grant funds, etc). Priority will be given to women, undergraduates, underrepresented minorities, and first-time attendees. Important Dates Travel Grant Application Submission Deadline: August 25th, 2017 (23:59 AoE) Travel Grant Award Notification: August 28th, 2017 Deadline to Accept/Decline Travel Grant Award: August 30th, 2017 (23:59 AoE) Grant Requirements/Restrictions - The full application package (by the student and the advisor) should be received on or before 23:59 AoE, August 25th, 2017. - By accepting the travel grants students are committing to submit as summary of the experiences and outcomes of attending the conference. - Student travel grants are meant to partially cover the cost of attending and participating in MobiCom 2017. The only travel expenses that can be reimbursed are accommodation, advance conference registration, and airfare. - For NSF Grants: These grants are available only for full-time students attending US colleges and universities (not necessarily US citizens or permanent residents) AND for US citizens or permanent residents studying abroad. - Recipients of NSF travel awards must use US flag carriers <https://globetrottermgmt.com/globe/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/fly-america-a…> . ______________________________________________________________ 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] MobiCom App Contest 2017 -- Deadline is approaching
by Lars Wolf 15 Aug '17

15 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] MobiCom App Contest 2017 -- Deadline is approaching Datum: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 22:53:56 +0200 Von: Ahmed Elmokashfi <ahmed(a)SIMULA.NO> Antwort an: Ahmed Elmokashfi <ahmed(a)SIMULA.NO> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Call for Apps: https://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2017/app.php <https://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2017/app.php> MobiCom 2017 is pleased to organize the 5th Mobile App Competition in conjunction with the main conference. The competition is for novel and innovative mobile applications utilizing any computing architecture (stand-alone, client/server, client/proxy/server, peer-to-peer/ad-hoc, cloud/mobile, others). It is intended as a platform-neutral contest. Applications can be developed for any truly mobile device such as a smartphone, tablet, wearable, or a non-tethered AR/VR device. They can be built on any platform including Android, iOS, Windows, Blackberry OS 10, and HTML5. To participate in the competition, you are required to submit a one-page proposal, a video demo, and your app binary for evaluation. Only a selected set of finalists advance to enter the last phase of selecting the three top winners. The winner apps will be promoted on the MobiCom website and get a prize during the conference. More details about the requirements and evaluation criteria are available as a pdf file (https://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2017/files/MobiCom17-AppCompetition.pdf <https://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2017/files/MobiCom17-AppCompetition.pdf>). All applications must be demonstrated on real devices. Network services that are part of the application should also be real services embodying no mock-up components. Finalists are required to register and attend the conference in order to be considered by the jury for first, second and third place winners. The finalists will be allowed to register at the early-registration fee, even if the deadline for early registration has passed. All submissions should be sent to mobicom17appcontest(a)gmail.com <mailto:mobicom17appcontest@gmail.com> Dates: September 15th: App proposal due September 22nd: Finalists notified of selection October 16th: Finalists present at the MobiCom venue (Snowbird, Utah, USA) Please contact the App Contest co-chairs if you have any questions: Lenin Sivalingam <lenin(a)microsoft.com <mailto:lenin@microsoft.com>> and Long Lu <long(a)cs.stonybrook.edu <mailto:long@cs.stonybrook.edu>>. ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: Deadline Extension to The 1st ACM workshop FAILSAFE 2017
by Lars Wolf 14 Aug '17

14 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: Deadline Extension to The 1st ACM workshop FAILSAFE 2017 Datum: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 14:05:12 +0100 Von: michael.breza04(a)imperial.ac.uk An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de -- Our sincere apologies if you receive duplicates of the call -- -- Deadline Extension -- ============================================== Dear Colleagues, The deadline for papers for the FAILSAFE workshop has been extended by one week to the 22nd of August, 2017. This workshop will be held concurrently with SenSys 2017. Please see below the Call for Papers for ACM FAILSAFE 2017. http://wp.doc.ic.ac.uk/failsafe/ We look forward to your submissions describing the challenges and struggles that you have faced and during real WSN deployments. Unique to this workshop, we will ask for submissions reporting the *failure* of actual embedded sensing system deployments complete with data where possible that can shed insight as to how the problems affected such sensor based systems and their goals. We want the failures, problems and glitches that wasted hours of researcher time; head scratching whilst trying to diagnose and fix subtle or unexpected bugs etc. This workshop focuses on the point at which the simulations and tests done in the lab are taken out into the field, and the previous assumptions fail. The overarching aim is to establish a process that encourages the refinement and development of a new science of sensor systems to enable reliable, maintainable deployments that last the life-times expected of them. The topic is important as the scientific problems that we face with IoT systems strike hard against the limits of our knowledge about how to organise, analyse, and adapt large, loosely-coupled, intercommunicating, and increasingly autonomous, distributed systems. This topic is timely because there is mounting pressure from various industries and government bodies to be able to place their trust in sensing based infrastructures for decision-making. This contention is supported by industry research showing the potential growth of the IoT sector. In this workshop we wish to: Share experiences of real IoT developments “in the wild”. Understand the differences between the theoretical performance of results and real +experiences. Map failure to causes and to explore the more and less obvious causalities. Produce a list of research findings and areas to prioritise for further investigation. The workshop scope includes: Real WSN/IOT etc. deployments that either experienced some, or ended in, failure, complete with data to show what failed and a detailed analysis of the causes of the failure and the lessons learned. Examples of a WSN or other sensor deployments that where either hacked or attacked in a nefarious way, with as much data and details as can be provided. Any practices or tools, along with methodology and description,that have evolved out of sensor system deployment failures that are used to prevent further problems and that can be shown to improve the success rate of Sensor System deployments. Privacy Issues: The organisers of FAILSAFE recognise that some information from deployments may have a sensitive nature or be under a non-disclosure agreement. In these cases, it is acceptable to anonymise any information as long as it does not inhibit the point or issues being presented in the work. If you have any queries about this at all, please contact the program chair Michael Breza (mjb04(a)doc.ic.ac.uk) for further advise and clarification. Important Dates: Submission Deadline, 15th August, 2017 Notification, 5th September, 2017 Final Version Due, 12th September, 2017 Workshop, 5th of November 2017

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Deadline Approaching in 2 days : IEEE Internet of Things Journal SI on Theories and Applications of NB-IoT
by Lars Wolf 13 Aug '17

13 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Deadline Approaching in 2 days : IEEE Internet of Things Journal SI on Theories and Applications of NB-IoT Datum: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 23:01:58 +0800 Von: Xiufang Shi <xfshi.zju(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Xiufang Shi <xfshi.zju(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG IEEE Internet of Things Journal Special Issue on Theories and Applications of NB-IoT Recently, demands for low-power wide-area (LPWA) machine-type communications have increased dramatically. It is expected that LPWA connections will reach 2 billion in 2020, exceeding the number of traditional cellular users. Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT), a new radio access technology, has been released by the Third Generation Partnership (3GPP) for such demands. It could be deployed inside Long Term Evolution (LTE) carrier, and thus will not incur extra deployment cost, requesting only 180 kHz bandwidth of LTE physical resource. NB-IoT supports super coverage extension, massive number of connections and long user lifetime with low power/cost and low device complexity. With such prominent features, NB-IoT has become one of the dominating technologies in LPWA area, applicable to a large range of IoT scenarios such as smart meter, smart parking, smart home, smart tracking, e-health, etc. However, NB-IoT is still in its infancy, needing deep theoretical investigation of modeling and optimizing system performance. Also, emerging applications that can be enabled by NB-IoT and implementation challenges therein need further exploration. The objective of this call is to bring recent progress in theory, and especially applications of NB-IoT that may help put together a clear picture for this new area. The potential interesting topics of this call include, but are not limited to: ü Channel modeling of uplink and downlink in NB-IoT ü Throughput modeling of uplink and downlink in NB-IoT ü Resource management in NB-IoT ü Throughput optimization in NB-IoT ü Access control in NB-IoT ü Latency investigation in NB-IoT ü Joint optimization of NB-IoT and LTE ü Hardware design and optimization of NB-IoT ü System architectures for applications enabled by NB-IoT ü New application implementations by NB-IoT ü . The submissions must be original with significant contributions, and have not been under review in any other journals or conferences. The submissions will only be counted if they are submitted electronically through IEEE Manuscript Central (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/iot) and adheres to standard IEEE Internet of Things formatting requirements. When submitting your article, please indicate that you are submitting to the Special Issue on Modeling, Optimization and Applications in Narrowband Internet of Things. Tentative Schedule Submissions Deadline: August 15, 2017 First Reviews Due: November 1, 2017 Revision Due: December 15, 2017 Second Reviews Due/Notification: February 1, 2018 Final Manuscript Due: February 15 , 2018 Publication Date: 2018 Guest editors: Jiming Chen, Zhejiang University, <mailto:jmchen@ieee.org> jmchen(a)ieee.org Kaoru Ota, Muroran Institute of Technology, <mailto:ota@csse.muroran-it.ac.jp> ota(a)csse.muroran-it.ac.jp Lu Wang, Shenzhen University, wanglu(a)szu.edu.cn <mailto:wanglu@szu.edu.cn> Preetha Thulasiraman, Naval Postgraduate School, <http://faculty.nps.edu/pthulas1/index.htm> pthulas1(a)nps.edu Zhiguo Shi, Zhejiang University, Shizg(a)zju.edu.cn <mailto:Shizg@zju.edu.cn> ______________________________________________________________ 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 Sensors Journal- SI: Sensor Technologies for Connected Cars: Devices, Systems and Modelling
by Lars Wolf 13 Aug '17

13 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE Sensors Journal- SI: Sensor Technologies for Connected Cars: Devices, Systems and Modelling Datum: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 17:23:10 +0200 Von: CFP- Special Issue <cfp.iot(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: CFP- Special Issue <cfp.iot(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Dear Professors, Researchers, Fellows, Seniors, Engineers, The following CfP in the area of "*Connect Cars*" in IEEE Sensors Journal might be in interest of you. Thank you. Regards R. Malekian Lead Guest Editor ------------------------- Reza Malekian, CEng, Associate Professor, Research Group Head: Advanced Sensor Networks Department of Electrical, Electronic & Computer Engineering, University of Pretoria, South Africa Email: r <reza.malekian(a)up.ac.za>eza.malekian(a)ieee.org WWW: http://www.up.ac.za/en/eece/article/1952661/prof-r-malekian-reza CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Sensor Technologies for Connected Cars: Devices, Systems and Modelling** *IEEE Sensors Journal* *Submission Deadline: September 10, 2017* *http://ieee-sensors.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/2017_03_21_IEEE_SI_on_connected_cars_CfP_GG-Extended-deadline.pdf <http://ieee-sensors.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/2017_03_21_IEEE_SI_on_co…>* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- **Scope:** Vehicular accidents are a major global problem, leading to human injury or death, damages to property, with financial and other impact on the general public. In most cases, vehicular accidents are caused by avoidable human error and improper driving practices. With recent advances in sensing technologies, self-driving, connected cars and autonomous vehicles are becoming more and more practicable. The sensor data contribution to the peer to peer (P2P) vehicle sharing system reduces occurrences of road accidents by the use of vehicle to vehicle (V2V) interaction, along with use of sensors for maintaining safe driving distances and pre-empting accidents. Sensor technology in connected cars also improves the overall driving experience by using vehicle to infrastructure (V2I) interaction. This enables warnings and precautions from a network of roadside units, functioning as stationary waypoints and relay warnings, precautions and information regarding availability of crucial services. Such information is particularly beneficial to users in remote areas where it cannot be obtained reliably through conventional communication channels. This Special Issue is focused on sensors and sensor systems for connected vehicles with emphasis on the whole range between modelling and applications. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Sensors for connected cars and autonomous vehicles • Emerging sensor technology for driverless cars • Sensors for Wireless On-Board Diagnostic (OBD) fleet management • Accurate Vehicle Location System Using Wireless Sensor Networks • Intra-Car Wireless Sensor Networks • Sensor interfaces for Peer to Peer (P2P) vehicle sensor data sharing • Sensor Interfaces for Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) information exchange • Sensor interface compliance to communications protocols and standards, authentication and security requirements • Testing, evaluation and verification of sensor systems for connected cars • Safe, Secure and Infotainment Connected Cars • Anti-collision and alarming sensors, • Traffic regulation and transaction sensors • Sensor Data Processing • On-road video contents streaming delivery and traffic sensor management **Schedule** • *Submission deadline: July 15, 2017*, September 10, 2017 • Author notifications: October 20, 2017, December 15, 2017 • Final manuscripts due: December 15, 2017, January 20, 2017 • Publication: February 28, 2018 **Manuscript Submission** Manuscripts must be submitted electronically at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/sensors by selecting "Sensor Technologies for Connected Cars: Devices, Systems and Modelling". For additional details about this CfP or author guidelines, please refer to the following link: *http://ieee-sensors.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/2017_03_21_IEEE_SI_on_connected_cars_CfP_GG-Extended-deadline.pdf <http://ieee-sensors.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/2017_03_21_IEEE_SI_on_co…>* Guest Editors: Reza Malekian [Lead Guest Editor], University of Pretoria, South Africa; Christian Fischer Pedersen, Aarhus University, Denmark; Kevin Curran, Ulster University, Northern Ireland; Bin Cao, ChongQing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China; Xuewei Qi, University of California Riverside, USA; ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, SS on Fog Computing for Industrial Applications, Deadline 30 Nov. 2017
by Lars Wolf 12 Aug '17

12 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, SS on Fog Computing for Industrial Applications, Deadline 30 Nov. 2017 Datum: Sat, 12 Aug 2017 08:42:53 +0000 Von: Mithun Mukherjee <mithun.mukherjee(a)OUTLOOK.COM> Antwort an: Mithun Mukherjee <mithun.mukherjee(a)OUTLOOK.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email] IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics CALL FOR PAPERS for Special Section on "Fog Computing for Industrial Applications" The Theme: Due to the increased number of connected things in industrial applications, the growing volume and velocity of Internet of Things (IoT) data exchange urge for more and more communication resources, leading to the bottleneck in terms of data processing, data latency, and traffic overhead. Fog computing emerges, as an alternative for traditional cloud computing to support geographically distributed, latency sensitive, and QoS-aware IoT applications while reducing the burden of data centers in traditional cloud computing. In particular, fog computing with the features (e.g., low latency, location awareness, and capacity of processing large number of nodes with wireless access) to support heterogeneity and real-time applications is an attractive solution to delay- and resource-constraint large scale industrial applications. However, with the benefits of fog computing, the research challenges arise regarding fog computing for industrial applications. For instance, how to handle different protocols and data format from highly dissimilar data sources in fog layer? How to determine which data should be processed in cloud or be processed in fog layer? How to achieve real-time responses and simultaneous data collection from large heterogeneous sources in industrial applications? Motivated by the above issues, this special section solicits original research and practical contributions which advance the use of fog computing in industries. Results obtained by simulations must be validated in bounds by experiments or analytical results. Surveys and state-of-the-art tutorials are also considered. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following research topics and technologies: * Architecture features and evolution for fog computing in industries * Content and service distribution models for fog computing in industries * Caching, replication and relaying models for fog computing in industries * Real-time communication interfaces and protocols for fog computing in industries * Energy aware load balancing and scheduling on servers for fog computing in industries * Orchestration across computation, storage and communication resources for fog computing in industries * Theoretical and experimental evaluation of information-centric networks for fog computing in industries * Security and privacy challenges for fog computing in industries * Testing and evaluation tools for fog computing in industries * Fog computing for real-time monitoring in industries * The future for fog computing in industries: challenges and open issues Manuscript Preparation and Submission Follow the guidelines in “Information for Authors” in the IEEE- IES website: http://www.ieee-ies.org/pubs/transactions on-industrial-informatics . Please submit your manuscript in electronic form through Manuscript Central web site: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tii . On the submitting page #1 in popup menu of manuscript type, select: SS on Fog Computing for Industrial Applications. Submissions to this Special Section must represent original material that has been neither submitted to, nor published in, any other journal. Regular manuscript length is 8 pages, additional 4 pages may be allowed for a fee. Note: The recommended papers for the section are subject to final approval by the Editor-in-Chief. Some papers may be published outside the special section, at the EIC discretion. Timetable: Deadline for manuscript submissions: November 30, 2017 Expected publication date (tentative): May 2018 Guest Editors: Prof. Lei Shu, Guangdong Uni. of Petrochemical Technology, China, Uni. of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK, lei.shu(a)ieee.org Prof. Gerhard Hancke, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, g.hancke(a)ieee.org Prof. Der-Jiunn Deng, National Changhua University of Education, Changhua, Taiwan, derjiunn.deng(a)gmail.com Dr. Chunsheng Zhu, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, cszhu(a)ece.ubc.ca Dr. Mithun Mukherjee, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, Maoming, China, m.mukherjee(a)ieee.org Editor-in-Chief: Prof.Dr.-Ing; RenC.Luo tii(a)ira.ee.ntu.edu.tw ______________________________________________________________ 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: EWSN Dependability Competition 2018: Call for Competitors
by Lars Wolf 11 Aug '17

11 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: EWSN Dependability Competition 2018: Call for Competitors Datum: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 17:43:27 +0200 Von: Carlo Alberto Boano <cboano(a)tugraz.at> Antwort an: iti.announcement(a)mlist.tugraz.at An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 preseting 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 (Abtract submission): Oct. 11, 2017 Notification of acceptance: Oct. 18, 2017 Camera-ready abstract submission: Jan. 7, 2018 Competition's preparation phase: From mid-Nov. 2017 until Jan. 7, 2018 Submission of final software: Jan. 7, 2018 Competition's evaluation phase: From mid-Jan. until Feb. 7, 2018 Competition panel and poster session: Feb.y 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ................................................. Ass.Prof. Boano Carlo Alberto Graz University of Technology Institute for Technical Informatics Inffeldgasse 16, Room: IE01144 / E.2.12 A-8010 Graz, Austria Tel: +43 (0) 316 873-6413 Fax: +43 (0) 316 / 873 - 6903 E-Mail: cboano(a)tugraz.at http://www.carloalbertoboano.com .................................................

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP - 5th International Workshop on Crowd Assisted Sensing, Pervasive Systems and Communications (CASPer 2018)
by Lars Wolf 11 Aug '17

11 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP - 5th International Workshop on Crowd Assisted Sensing, Pervasive Systems and Communications (CASPer 2018) Datum: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 07:45:55 -0400 Von: Waldir Moreira <waldir.junior(a)FRAUNHOFER.PT> Antwort an: Waldir Moreira <waldir.junior(a)FRAUNHOFER.PT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Apologies for cross and multiple postings] ******************************************************************** 5th International Workshop on Crowd Assisted Sensing, Pervasive Systems and Communications (CASPer 2018) http://casper2018.uns.ac.rs in conjunction with The 16th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2018) ******************************************************************** Call for Papers With smart-phones in their pockets, more than 1 billion people now have access to sensing, computation, and connectivity, making it possible to harness the power of the crowd to collect and share data about their surroundings and experiences on a massive scale. Crowdsensing/crowdsourcing is a novel data collection paradigm that leverages this vast mobile sensor network, making it possible to expand the scope of research endeavors and address civic issues without requiring the purchase of specialized sensors or the installation and maintenance of network infrastructure. Data collected using such applications may come from unexpected yet interesting and valuable sources and may allow for collecting data in previously inaccessible locations and contexts. This new data collection paradigm introduces several research challenges. Privacy is a primary concern for users who contribute sensitive or personally identifiable information (PII). Incentive mechanisms for participation may be needed to encourage people to volunteer their resources to collect data. Methods are needed for processing large-scale, user-generated data sets into meaningful information, and for assessing and understanding the quality of information to help guide decision-making. Approaches which involve the crowd in such data analysis tasks, with humans serving as a source of semantic information, interpretation, and evaluation of crowdsensing/crowdsourcing data, can also help to build an understanding of the physical, computational, and socio-technical environment. The objective of this workshop is to provide a forum for discussion, debate, and collaboration focused on ideas, trends, techniques, and recent advances in crowdsensing and crowdsourcing. We invite original research contributions that advance the state of the art as well as position papers that pose a new direction or present a controversial point of view. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Algorithms to handle, process, and visualize large-scale crowdsensing/crowdsourcing data sets • Data integrity, security, privacy, and provenance for crowdsensing/crowdsourcing data • Trust and reputation systems for crowdsensing/crowdsourcing applications • Determining and assessing Quality of Information for crowdsensing/crowdsourcing data • Crowd-assisted (human-in-the-loop) approaches to analyzing crowdsensing/crowdsourcing data • Context modeling and reasoning in crowdsensing/crowdsourcing applications • Incentive mechanisms for participation in crowdsensing/crowdsourcing applications • Supporting crowdsensing/crowdsourcing in heterogeneous networks • Crowd assisted pervasive systems and communications • Novel use of sensors for crowdsensing/crowdsourcing applications • Energy-efficient mechanisms for crowdsensing/crowdsourcing applications • Programming abstractions and middleware for crowdsensing/crowdsourcing applications • Novel large-scale crowdsensing/crowdsourcing applications Paper Submission Submitted papers must be original contributions that are unpublished and are not currently under consideration for publication by other venues. Submissions are limited to a maximum length of 6 pages and must adhere to IEEE format (2 column, 10 pt font). Papers can be submitted via the EDAS submission portal for CASPer 2018 (will be available soon). Templates are available via the workshop website. Workshop papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE digital libraries (Xplore). Note, that each accepted workshop paper requires a full PerCom registration (no registration is available for workshops only). Important Dates • Submission deadline: November 11, 2017 • Author Notification: December 23, 2017 • Camera ready due: January 12, 2018 (FIRM) Committee General Chairs Yu Wang, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Imre Lendak, University of Novi Sad, Serbia Programme Chairs Salil Kanhere, The University of New South Wales, Australia Raghu Ganti, IBM - Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA Publicity Chair Waldir Moreira, Fraunhofer AICOS, Portugal Steeing Committee Károly Farkas (Chair), Budapest University of Technology and Economics / NETvisor Information and Communication Ltd., Hungary Luke Dickens, University College London, UK Miguel Labrador, University of South Florida, USA Emil Lupu, Imperial College London, UK Jamie Payton, Temple University, USA Thomas Silverston, The University of Tokyo, Japan / JFLI CNRS UMI 3527 Technical Programme Committee Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy Antonio Corradi, University of Bologna, Italy Luke Dickens, University College London, UK Karoly Farkas, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Jonathan Fürst, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Avik Ghose, Tata Consultancy Services, India Bin Guo, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Qi Han, Colorado School of Mines, USA Miguel Labrador, University of South Florida, USA Qinghua Li, University of Arkansas, USA Seng Loke, Deakin University, Australia Tony Luo, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Emil Lupu, Imperial College, UK Paulo Mendes, COPELABS / University Lusofona, Portugal Swati Rallapalli, IBM Research, USA Theofanis Raptis, National Research Council, Italy Thomas Silverston, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan Dragan Stojanovic, University of Nis, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Serbia Umair ul Hassan, Insight Centre of Data Analytics, Ireland Alexander Zipf, University of Heidelberg, Germany ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] 2nd CFP: IEEE PerCom 2018
by Lars Wolf 11 Aug '17

11 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] 2nd CFP: IEEE PerCom 2018 Datum: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 10:09:33 +0000 Von: Sarah Clinch <sarah.clinch(a)MANCHESTER.AC.UK> Antwort an: Sarah Clinch <sarah.clinch(a)MANCHESTER.AC.UK> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG =============================================================================== The Sixteenth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications PerCom 2018 (http://www.percom.org/) =============================================================================== Athens, Greece, March 19-23, 2018<http://airmail.calendar/2018-03-19%2012:00:00%20GMT> =============================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE PerCom, now in its sixteenth year, is established as the premier annual scholarly venue in the areas of pervasive computing and communications. Pervasive computing and communications have evolved into highly active areas of research; they have found their way into many current commercial systems due to the tremendous advances in a broad spectrum of technologies and topics including wireless networking, mobile and distributed computing, sensor systems, ambient intelligence, and smart devices. PerCom 2018 will be held in Athens, the capital city of Greece and one of the most historic cities in Europe. PerCom 2018 will provide a leading edge scholarly forum for researchers, engineers, and students alike to share their state-of-the art research and developmental work in the broad areas of pervasive computing and communications. The conference will feature a diverse mixture of interactive forums: core technical sessions of high-quality cutting-edge research articles; targeted workshops on exciting topics; live demonstrations of pervasive computing in action; insightful keynote speeches; panel discussions from domain experts; and posters of emerging ideas. Research contributions are solicited in all areas pertinent to pervasive computing and communications, including: * Advances in pervasive systems and infrastructures: middleware systems and services; large-scale data management for pervasive computing; clouds, cloudlets, and fog computing; integrations of smartphones in pervasive experiences; applications of device-to-device coordination. * Theories, models, and algorithms: context modeling and reasoning; adaptive and context-aware computing; activity recognition; programing paradigms; applied machine learning; cognitive computing techniques. * Domain-specific challenges and novel applications: urban/mobile crowdsensing & intelligence; pervasive technologies for healthcare; cyber-physical pervasive computing; innovative pervasive computing applications. * Intersections of pervasive computing with: social networks; opportunistic networks; Internet of things; sensor networks; RFID systems; big data. * New techniques for user-level concerns : participatory and social sensing; trust, security, and privacy; user interface, interaction, and persuasion; social networking and pervasive computing. * Technological innovations: architectures, protocols, and technologies for pervasive communications; mobile and wearable computing systems and services; smart devices and intelligent environments; positioning and tracking technologies. Contributions can be analytical, empirical, technological, methodological, or a combination of these. Papers reporting strong systems engineering contributions backed by solid and appropriate evaluations are strongly encouraged. The impact of the contributions should be demonstrated in the context of pervasive computing and communications. Papers applying known techniques from other fields must clearly demonstrate substantial novelty or pervasive computing impact. ================================= Workshops and Affiliated Events ================================= A number of workshops will be held in conjunction with the main conference. Workshop papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE digital libraries (Xplore) along with papers from the main conference. As in the past, PerCom 2018 will also feature a PhD Forum, Work-in-Progress Posters, and Live Demonstrations. Please visit the conference website for details. ================================= Best paper award ================================= The best paper will receive the prestigious Mark Weiser Best Paper Award. Papers of particular merit will be considered for a special issue of the Elsevier journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC). ================================= Important Dates ================================= Paper Registration: September 15, 2017<http://airmail.calendar/2017-09-15%2012:00:00%20BST> Paper submission: September 22, 2017<http://airmail.calendar/2017-09-22%2012:00:00%20BST> Notification: December 12, 2017<http://airmail.calendar/2017-12-12%2012:00:00%20GMT> Camera Ready: January 12, 2018<http://airmail.calendar/2018-01-12%2012:00:00%20GMT> ================================= Submission Guidelines ================================= Submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication. Also, they must show a significant relevance to pervasive computing and communications. Guidelines for preparing and submitting the manuscript will be made available on the conference website. Submitted papers will undergo a rigorous review process handled by the Technical Program Committee. ================================= Organizing Committee ================================= General Co-Chairs George Roussos, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK Achilles Kameas, Hellenic Open University, Greece Program Chair Gergely Záruba, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Vice Program Co-Chairs Brent Lagesse, University of Washington, Bothell, USA Flora Salim, RMIT University, Australia Gregor Schiele, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany Workshops Co-Chairs Petteri Nurmi, University of Helsinki, Finland Daniele Riboni, University of Cagliari, Italy ================================= Additional Information ================================= Web: www.percom.org<http://www.percom.org/>(http://www.percom.org/) Email (TPC Chair): percom2018(a)gmail.com<mailto:percom2018@gmail.com>(mailto:percom2018@gmail.com) Social Media: www.facebook.com/percom<http://www.facebook.com/percom>(http://www.facebook.com/percom) twitter.com/ieeepercom<http://twitter.com/ieeepercom>(http://twitter.com/ieeepercom) ______________________________________________________________ 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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