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Fwd: Sensys 2014 Call for Posters and Demos
by Lars Wolf 21 Jul '14

21 Jul '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Sensys 2014 Call for Posters and Demos Datum: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 17:50:51 +0000 Von: Römer Kay Uwe <roemer(a)INF.ETHZ.CH> Antwort an: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. -=* The 12th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems *=- -=* SenSys 2014 *=- CALL FOR POSTERS AND DEMOS http://sensys.acm.org/2014/demos/ Memphis, TN, USA, November 3-6, 2014 The ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys) is a highly selective, single-track forum for research on systems issues of networked sensing and actuation, broadly defined. Systems of smart sensors and actuators will revolutionize a wide array of application areas by providing an unprecedented density and fidelity of instrumentation. They also present systems challenges because of resource constraints, uncertainty, irregularity, mobility, and scale. This conference provides an ideal venue to address research challenges facing the design, development, deployment, use, and fundamental limits of these systems. Sensing and actuation systems require contributions from many fields, from wireless communication and networking, embedded systems and hardware, energy harvesting and management, distributed systems and algorithms, data management, and applications, so we welcome cross-disciplinary work. SenSys 2014 solicits submissions of both poster and demo abstracts in reflecting research and development in the above areas of interest. Contributions from industry presenting prototypes of platforms and solutions that might enhance future innovative applications are also encouraged. Submitted abstracts will be evaluated based on technical merit and innovation as well as their potential to stimulate interesting discussions and exchange of ideas. Authors of accepted abstracts will be given a one-minute slot in a â€œmadness sessionâ€ during the conference to present their work in front of the conference audience. As with previous editions of SenSys, the best poster and demo will receive an award. All abstracts shall be formatted according to the main conference paper layout. Accepted abstracts will appear in the conference proceedings. - IMPORTANT DATES - Abstract Submission Deadline: 28 Jul, 2014 (anywhere on earth) Notification of Acceptance: 28 Aug, 2014 Camera ready abstract: 15 Sep, 2014 - SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS - If you are submitting a demo abstract, please add â€œDemo Abstract:â€ at the beginning of the abstractâ€™s title. Please submit your demo abstract here: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sensys2014demos If you are submitting a poster abstract, please add â€œPoster Abstract:â€ at the beginning of the abstractâ€™s title. Please submit your poster abstract here: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sensys2014posters - POSTERS - The poster session at SenSys provides a forum for researchers to present their work and receive feedback from experts attending the conference. We explicitly encourage submissions from students. Posters must be submitted as a single PDF containing no more than 3 pages. The first two pages should contain an abstract describing the research content of the poster, along with title, authors, institutional affiliations and contact information. The third page should contain a thumbnail draft of theposterâ€™s contents. For more information, please contact the poster chair: Octav Chipara <octav-chipara(a)uiowa.edu> - DEMOS - Sensys solicits demonstrations showing innovative research and applications. Demos which showcase working systems, new platforms and tools, innovative applications, path breaking ideas, and other revolutionary concepts are welcome. Submissions from both industry and universities are encouraged. Demos must be submitted as a single PDF containing no more than 3 pages. The first two pages should contain an abstract describing the research content of the demo, along with title, authors, institutional affiliations and contact information. The third, optional page, whose format is at your discretion, should contain any additional information that will be used only to evaluate your demonstration proposal. For example, you may detail what you will show during the demo, outline special requirements (e.g., unusual space needs, exclusive access to a wireless channel, etc.), or provide links to additional online material related to your demo. Links to videos showing the demonstration are especially encouraged and videos of accepted demos will be linked from the SenSys web pages. For more information, please contact the demo chairs: Kay Roemer <roemer(a)tugraz.at> Peter Volgyesi <peter.volgyesi(a)vanderbilt.edu>

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE Communications Magazine - Feature Topic on “Energy Harvesting Communications” (Deadline Aug 1)
by Lars Wolf 21 Jul '14

21 Jul '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE Communications Magazine - Feature Topic on “Energy Harvesting Communications” (Deadline Aug 1) Datum: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 08:50:58 +0000 Von: Yuen Chau <yuenchau(a)SUTD.EDU.SG> Antwort an: Yuen Chau <yuenchau(a)SUTD.EDU.SG> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG This message is cross-posted to several lists. Apologies for any duplicate postings. IEEE Communications Magazine CALL FOR PAPERS Feature Topic on “Energy Harvesting Communications” This feature topic will focus on issues related to energy harvesting communications. In particular for wireless sensor networks, because of its ultra-low-power operation, such small, wireless, autonomous sensors can be powered by harvesting ambient power which is scavenged in milli-watts or even micro-watts. If these wireless sensors, which spread throughout a home or factories, in-buildings or even outdoor to monitor all kind of environmental conditions, are powered by energy harvesting, there are no batteries to replace and no labour costs associated with replacing them, in other words, self-sustainable. However, the design of communication systems has to take into account the ﬂuctuating availability of energy sources. For an overview of the state-of-the-art in energy harvesting communications design, and for a relevant example of an IEEE Communications Magazine article's style and content, please refer to "Designing Intelligent Energy Harvesting Communications Systems" by D. Gunduz, K. Stamatiou, N. Michelusi, and M. Zorzi, in IEEE Communications Magazine, pp. 210-216, Jan 2014. In a cellular network, energy harvesting can be used to provide power in many elements of a telecom network, saving considerable costs in electricity supply, and providing low maintenance monitoring. Powering mobile phone base stations with wind or solar power allows telecom networks to expand beyond the limits of the power grid. The possibility of re-distribution of the renewable energy in smart grid allows further efﬁcient utilization, but leads to many challenges as well. Another important focus of this feature topic is on RF energy harvesting. RF energy is currently broadcasted from billions of radio transmitters around the world, including mobile telephones, handheld radios, mobile base stations, and television/ radio broadcast stations. The ability to harvest RF energy, from ambient or dedicated sources, enables wireless charging of low-power devices and has signiﬁcant beneﬁts to product design, usability, and reliability. Fundamental practical issues on realizing this ability leads to many interesting research problems. This feature topic will focus on energy harvesting related issues in communications. It will also present a holistic view of research challenges and opportunities in the emerging area of energy harvesting communications. We especially welcome research work that pushes theory to practice, such as theoretical work with emphasis on how to solve a practical problem, experimental work on new systems, and system-level considerations for practical deployment. This feature topic solicits state-of-the-art technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Topics of interest include, but not limited to: · Energy harvesting base station, access point, and relay; · Energy-efﬁcient and energy harvesting machine-to-machine (M2M) communications; · Low-power and energy harvesting wireless sensor networks; · Characterization of light, thermal, wind, motion, and RF energy harvesting; · Communication protocols for wireless charging networks and systems; · Energy harvesting storage and recycling; · Software-deﬁned networking for energy harvesting communications; · Sustainable network architectures using energy harvesting; · Theoretic approaches and design methodologies; · Testbed and experimental validation; · Energy harvesting for rare events sensing; · Event-powered energy harvesting wireless sensor networks; · Energy harvesting for industrial and intelligent systems; · Standardization of energy harvesting communications. Note that articles on green communications that do not directly address energy harvesting will be considered out of scope for this feature topic. Please consider directing such articles to the "Green Communications and Computing Networks" Series of IEEE Communications Magazine. Submission Guidelines Articles should be tutorial in nature and written in a style comprehensible and accessible to readers outside the specialty of the article. Authors must follow the IEEE Communications Magazine's guidelines for preparation of the manuscript. Complete guidelines for prospective authors can be found at http://www.comsoc.org/commag/paper-submission-guidelines. It is important to note that the IEEE Communications Magazine strongly limits mathematical content, and the number of figures and tables. Paper length should not exceed 4,500 words. All articles to be considered for publication must be submitted through the IEEE Manuscript Central site (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/commag-ieee) by the deadline. Submit articles to the "April 2015/Energy Harvesting Communications" category. Important Dates Manuscript Submission: 01-August, 2014 Notiﬁcation of Acceptance: 01-November, 2014 Final Manuscript: 01-February, 2015 Publication: April 2015 Guest Editors Chau Yuen, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore (yuenchau(a)sutd.edu.sg<mailto:yuenchau@sutd.edu.sg>) Lei Shu, Guangdong University of Petrochemical University, China (lei.shu(a)lab.gdupt.edu.cn<mailto:lei.shu@lab.gdupt.edu.cn>) Maged Elkashlan, Queen Mary University of London, UK (maged.elkashlan(a)qmul.ac.uk<mailto:maged.elkashlan@qmul.ac.uk>) Yi Qian, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA (yqian(a)ieee.org<mailto:yqian@ieee.org>) Trung Q. Duong, Queen’s University Belfast, UK (trung.q.duong(a)qub.ac.uk<mailto:trung.q.duong@qub.ac.uk>) Frank Schmidt, EnOcean, Germany (frank.schmidt(a)enocean.com<mailto:frank.schmidt@enocean.com>) This email may contain confidential and/or proprietary information that is exempt from disclosure under applicable law and is intended for receipt and use solely by the addressee(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this email, or any attachment, is strictly prohibited. Please delete the email immediately and inform the sender. Thank You ______________________________________________________________ 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: ICNC 2015 CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS - Submission deadline July 31, 2014
by Lars Wolf 21 Jul '14

21 Jul '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: ICNC 2015 CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS - Submission deadline July 31, 2014 Datum: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 02:42:37 -0400 Von: info(a)conf-icnc.org An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de SPAN 2015 The Second International Workshop on Sensor, Peer-to-peer and SociAl Networks, ICNC 2015 In conjunction with The 2015 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC 2015), Anaheim, CA, USA, February 16-19, 2015 Workshop Date: Monday, February 16th, 2015 URL: http://www.conf-icnc.org/2015/ Workshop Paper Submission Link: http://edas.info/N18165 I. Workshop Scope SPAN 2015 aims to attract attention from the research community to the interplay of algorithmic tools and techniques in the collective fields of Sensor, P2P and Social Networks. Smart, wireless, networked sensors will soon be all around us, collectively processing vast amounts of previously unrecorded data to help run factories, optimize farming, monitor the weather and myriad other applications. It is clear that wireless sensor networks will become as important as the Internet, capable of routing application-specific data across a wireless mesh, ad hoc peer-to-peer network in which they organize themselves and assist each other in transmitting data. These advances made in the area of sensor networks will naturally have a profound impact on our understanding and operation of traditional Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems which are widely used in today's Internet. The confluence of ideas driving sensor and P2P systems is expected to be intensified by social networks. By attracting more than h alf a billion users worldwide, social networks provide a new venue of innovation with many challenging and practical research problems. In particular, as time evolves, P2P and future sensor network applications will necessarily need to involve social information to enhance the users experience. SPAN 2015, aptly named for its goal, is organized with the objective of bringing together researchers working on the intersection of Sensor, Peer-to-Peer (P2P), and Social Networks to present and discuss their latest research results and ideas, thereby promoting the development and SPANning the evolution of this combined body of knowledge. All submissions enabling cross-pollination of ideas on P2P, Sensor and Social Networks related to design, simulation, security, analysis and measurement are welcome. We highly encourage novel and innovative previously unpublished work, even reporting work in early stages. Topics revolve around the interplay of algorithms, tools and techniques applicable in sensor, p2p and social networks and include, but are not limited to: - Social network analysis techniques applied to P2P, Sensor and distributed computing systems - Socially informed Sensor/P2P infrastructures - Social Network-inspired systems and designs for P2P and Sensor - P2P and Sensor Network-based social networking architectures - Socially Aware Sensor/P2P Overlay architectures and topologies - Evolution of P2P and social communities and systems - Reputation, incentives, and economics in P2P/Sensor/Social systems - Mobile P2P and social networking systems - User behavior analysis and modeling in Social Networks and applications to P2P and Sensor networks - Decentralized Social Networks Applications - Graph theoretic analysis of Sensor, P2P and Social networks - Security, privacy and anonymity issues in SPAN - Policy enforcement, participation incentives, trust, and reputation - Cooperation, incentives, and fairness in SPAN. - P2P, sensor and social network economics Papers accepted for the SPAN 2015 workshop will be, after being presented onsite at the workshop, included in the proceedings to be submitted for publication in IEEE Xplore and indexing by EI Compendex. II. Important Dates: When: Feb. 16th, 2015 Where: Anaheim, CA, USA Submission Deadline: July 31, 2014 Notification Due: September 30, 2014 Final/Camera-Ready Version Due: October 20, 2014 III. Organizing Committee: - Narasimha Shashidhar, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, USA karpoor(a)shsu.edu - Lei Chen, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, USA chen(a)shsu.edu Tentative List of Technical Program Committee (TPC) Members - Dr. Ming Yang, Montclair State University - Dr. Shaoen Wu, Southern Mississippi University - Dr. Yiming Ji, University of South Carolina Beaufort - Dr. Shengli Yuan, University of Houston-Downtown - Dr. Yuan Feng, Ocean University of China - Dr. Feng Hong, Ocean University of China - Dr. Peter Cooper, Sam Houston State University - Dr. Rakesh Verma, University of Houston - Dr. Qingzhong Liu, Sam Houston State University - Dr. Chadi Kari, Bridgewater State University IV. Submission Guidelines Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format via the SPAN 2014 Workshop portal on the EDAS paper processing submission website. IEEE templates for LaTeX and Microsoft Word, as well as related information, can be found at the IEEE Digital Toolbox web page. Authors are encouraged to submit full papers describing original, previously unpublished, complete research, not currently under review by another workshop, conference or journal, addressing state-of-the-art research and development in all areas of Sensor/P2P and Social Networks. The organizing committee of ICNC reserves the right to not review papers that either exceed the length specification or have been submitted or published elsewhere. Papers should be submitted as PDF files, using the IEEE Computer Society proceedings format (two column, 10 point, single-spaced, US Letter, no margin smaller than one inch). The maximum length of the papers should be 5 pages including tables and figures with up to 2 over-length pages. E xtra pages are charged $150 per over-length page. Each submission will receive at least three independent blind reviews from the TPC. All submissions will be evaluated using a double-blind review process. To ensure blind reviewing, papers should be anonymized by removing author names and affiliations, as well as by masking any information about projects and bibliographic references, etc. that might reveal the authors' identities. Papers that are not properly anonymized will be rejected without review. Submitted papers should describe original and previously unpublished research and are not allowed to be simultaneously submitted or under review elsewhere. Specifically, all paper submissions will receive between 3 and 5 reviews each; while all papers will receive at least 3 reviews, papers of sufficient quality will undergo a second reviewing phase. To be published in the conference proceedings and IEEE Xplore, an author of an accepted paper is required to register for the workshop at the full (member or non-member) rate and th! e paper must be presented at the workshop. Non-refundable registration fees must be paid prior to uploading the final IEEE formatted, publication-ready version of the paper. For authors with multiple accepted papers, one full registration is valid for up to 2 papers. V. Author Instructions Please follow the author guidelines at http://www.conf-icnc.org/2015/ Workshop papers should be submitted via EDAS at the workshop page: http://edas.info/N18165 If you have any questions or concerns, please write to us at karpoor(a)shsu.edu or chen(a)shsu.edu. Contact Information for Workshop Organizers: Narasimha Shashidhar karpoor(a)shsu.edu Sam Houston State University, P.O. BOX 2090 Huntsville, TX, USA Ph: (936) 294 1591 Fax: (936) 294 4312 Lei Chen chen(a)shsu.edu Sam Houston State University, P.O. BOX 2090 Huntsville, TX, USA Ph: (936) 294 4785 Fax: (936) 294 4312

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Deadline Extension - July 31 - CARTOON 2014
by Lars Wolf 21 Jul '14

21 Jul '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Deadline Extension - July 31 - CARTOON 2014 Datum: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 17:20:01 -0400 Von: Marcelo M. Carvalho <carvalho(a)IEEE.ORG> Antwort an: Marcelo M. Carvalho <carvalho(a)IEEE.ORG> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG CALL FOR PAPERS ================================================================================ Workshop on CellulAR Traffic Offloading to Opportunistic Networks (CARTOON) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA October 27, 2014 Co-located with the 11th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS) 2014 http://mass2014.eecs.utk.edu/cartoon/index.html ================================================================================ Important Dates: *NEW* Submission Deadline: July 31 Notification of Acceptance: August 14 Camera-ready papers: August 21 Scope: The emergence of powerful handheld devices — coupled with the proliferation of cloud-based applications and an ever-increasing dominance of multimedia content in today’s Internet traffic — have ignited an unprecedented growth of mobile data traffic in recent years. Such a fact has posed significant challenges to mobile network operators, who are now pressed to maintain satisfactory quality of service under exponential traffic demands. To complicate matters, it has also become apparent that traditional approaches to expand network capacity may not suffice (e.g., new spectrum licenses and/or technology upgrades), and they can soon be outpaced by aforementioned traffic growth. Because of that, new ideas to cope with the so-called “data crunch problem” have been sought, and mobile data offloading has appeared as one of the most promising solutions: the routing of macrocellular traffic through alternative networks. Although mobile data offloading is generally th! ought in terms of WiFi hotspots or femtocell networks, recent developments in the arena of Opportunistic Networks — one of the most interesting evolutions of traditional mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) — have paved the way for researchers from both cellular and MANET backgrounds to work together in the development of new network paradigms, architectures, and techniques that can leverage the potentials of both “worlds” to promote and enhance mobile data offloading. Motivated by this vision, we invite researchers, engineers, and practitioners from academia, industry, and the public sector to submit original contributions to the Workshop on CellulAR Traffic Offloading to Opportunistic Networks (CARTOON) 2014 in any of the following topics (but not limited to): + WiFi offloading + Hybrid operation in licensed/unlicensed spectrum + Authorized Shared Access / Licensed Shared Access + Incentive mechanisms for offloading to opportunistic networks + New architectures and paradigms for offloading using opportunistic networks + PHY and MAC-layer issues + Routing protocols for data offloading through opportunistic networks + Resource allocation and management + Game-theoretical studies for mobile data offloading + Multi-radio access technologies (RAT) co-existence and support for data offloading + Content and data dissemination, replication, and caching strategies + Mobility models + Data flow management and load balance + Machine-to-machine support in opportunistic networks + Internet of Things in opportunistic networks + Cooperative and non-cooperative approaches for mobile data offloading + Backhaul support for mobile data offloading with opportunistic networking + Network measurements and testbeds + Capacity sharing strategies + Traffic engineering and quality of service for mobile data offloading + Dynamic spectrum sharing and access for data offloading to opportunistic networks + Performance evaluation, simulation studies + Capacity studies and analytical modeling + Self-organization, self-configuration, self-healing mechanisms + Multimedia data offloading through opportunistic networks + Power saving mechanisms + Security, privacy, authentication issues Workshop Chairs: - Luiz A. DaSilva, Virginia Tech, USA & Trinity College Dublin, Ireland - Marcelo M. Carvalho, University of Brasília, Brazil Technical Program Committee: - Yu Wang, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA - Luca De Nardis, La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy - Rudi Villing, National University of Ireland, Ireland - Renato Mariz de Moraes, University of Brasília, Brazil - Zaheer Khan, University of Oulu, Finland - Matthias Wählisch, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany - Rolando Menchaca Méndez, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico - André Noll Barreto, University of Brasília, Brazil - Sofie Polin, KU Leuven, Belgium - Nicola Marchetti, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland - George Iosifidis, University of Thessaly, Greece - Robson Domingos, Nokia Institute of Technology, Brazil - Ilker Demirkol, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain - Marco Fiore, CNR-IEIIT, Italy Submission Guidelines Authors are invited to submit technical papers presenting original, unpublished research, not currently under review elsewhere. All submissions should be written in English with a maximum length of 6 single-spaced, double-column pages using 10pt size fonts on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, with side-margin at least 1 inch, including all figures, tables, and references. Authors must use the Manuscript Templates for IEEE Conference Procedings. Authors can get additional 2 pages at US$ 150/page. All paper submission will be electronic, in PDF format. Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings published by IEEE and will be presented at the conference. For all papers, IEEE reserves the right to exclude the paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the conference. ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE MobileCloud 2015 - Call for Papers
by Lars Wolf 18 Jul '14

18 Jul '14

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Carlo Giannelli <carlo.giannelli(a)UNIBO.IT> Gesendet: 18. Juli 2014 11:57:20 MESZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE MobileCloud 2015 - Call for Papers IEEE MobileCloud 2015 - Call for Papers The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Cloud Computing, Services, and Engineering http://mobile-cloud.net/ San Francisco, CA, USA, March 30 - April 3, 2015 Annual Theme: MOBILE SENSORS MEET BIG DATA * SCOPE In the recent years, cloud computing has cultivated the outsourcing of computing resources like IT infrastructures, service platforms, and software. With the emergence of ultra-fast 4G mobile networks and highly-featured smartphones, tablets, and wearable computing devices(e.g., with always growing sensing capabilities), the prerequisites are now met for bringing cloud computing to the mobile domain. While first commercial products are restricted to the sharing of files, contacts, and calendars among different devices, more sophisticated applications still have to be developed. Future applications of mobile cloud computing will take advantage of the many sensors available on mobile devices, enable new utilization of their generated big data, and have an impact on almost all activities of our social and business life, and include, but are not limited to, mobile marketing, social networks, smart cities, health care, and business processes. This symposium will provide a great platform to allow researchers and professionals in the industry to exchange their latest research results and development activities on mobile cloud computing and services. The primary objective is to share research ideas and results, emerging industry technologies, and latest advances. The symposium solicits original technical papers, not previously published and not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Topics of interest, in particular targeted to the annual theme, include, but are not limited to: * TRACK 1: Mobile Cloud Computing Models, Architectures, and Platforms - Mobile cloud computing models, infrastructures, and approaches - Resource management, provisioning, and migration - Mobility modeling, management and measurement techniques - Mobility-aware cloud data/streams and associated retrieval/processing techniques - Mobile cloud security architectures, security policy enforcement, service models (e.g., BYOD, secure offloading, access control, trust platform, and e-commerce models, etc.) - Secrecy, privacy, authentication, and integrity issues in mobile clouds - Mobile multimedia content delivery, transferring, and migration - Green computing in networking and mobile computing and clouds - User-oriented mobile clouds (mobile community/private/public/ad-hoc clouds) - Mobile big data computing models - Mobile crowd collaborating models and associated platforms * TRACK 2: Mobile Cloud Infrastructure and Service Models - Mobile Software-as-a-Service (MSaaS), - Mobile Data-as-a-Service (MDaaS), - Mobile Platform-as-a-Service (MPaaS) - Mobile Infrastructure-as-a-Service (MIaaS) - Mobile Network-as-a-Service (MNaaS) - Mobile-based Testing-as-a-Service (MTaaS) - Mobile multimedia and mobile social community services * TRACK 3: Engineering Mobile Cloud-based Systems - Modeling, analysis, design methods, and tools - Innovative infrastructures, architectures, and middlewares - Bridging the gap between mobile and cloud optimized usage, e.g., via edge gateway-based architectures for integrating cloud and mobile localities - Resource collaboration and management for mobile clouds - Monitoring solutions and evaluation techniques - Mobile testing tools and techniques - Resource-effective quality of service on mobile clouds and applications - Mobile-to-cloud protocol optimizations and mobile cloud-specific resource scheduling - Knowledge engineering and data mining techniques - Virtualization of mobile device resources, e.g., storage and wireless networking * TRACK 4: Enabling Technologies - Embedded mobile platforms and technologies for mobile clouds - Energy-saving wireless communication technologies - Novel mobile middleware - Innovative mobile platforms and client technologies - Urban (crowd) sensing and smart sensor platforms - Emergent barcode/RFID/NFC-based mobile technologies - Mobile cloud data centers and storage/persistency technologies - Mobile cloud networking, communication, and tunneling technologies * TRACK 5: Disruptively Innovative Applications - Next generation mobile applications enabled by the cloud - Cloud-based mobile media systems and social networks - Smart mobile SaaS on clouds - Mobile virtual and physical interactions and mobile enabled virtual reality - Mobile context-aware services and computing for clouds - Cloud-based mobile commerce applications and systems - Location-aware mobile applications on clouds - Cloud-based mobile app stores and environments - Human-centered applications based on wearable computing devices relating to clouds - Intuitive user interfaces for cloud-based mobile applications * TRACK 6: Surveys and Experience Reports - State-of-the-art survey reports - Comparison and analysis reports - Research reviews on emergent topics in mobile clouds - Research case studies and experimental reports - Industry reports on experience and lessons learned * ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs: - Sato Hiroyuki (University of Tokyo, Japan) - Dijiang Huang (Arizona State University, USA) - Axel Kuepper (TU Berlin/Telekom Innovation Laboratories, Germany) Program Chairs: - Paolo Bellavista (University of Bologna, Italy) - Xiaoyan Hong (University of Alabama, USA) - Toru Kobayashi (Nagasaki University, Japan) Workshop and Tutorial Chair: - Prasad Calyam (University of Missouri, USA) Local Chair - Jerry Gao (San Jose State University, USA) Publicity Chairs - Carlo Giannelli (University of Bologna, Italy) - Younghee Park (San Jose State University, USA) - Carlos Becker Westphal (UF Santa Catarina, Brazil) Proceedings Chair Andrea Hahn (TU Berlin/Telekom Inn. Labs, Germany) Web Chair - James Wu (San Jose State University, USA) * IMPORTANT DATES - Abstract submission: October 15, 2014 - Full paper submission: November 1, 2014 - Workshop proposal submission: October 1, 2014 - Tutorial proposal submission: December 1, 2014 - Review notification: January 9, 2015 - Camera-ready submission and conference registration: January 31, 2015 - Conference: March 30 - April 3, 2015 * PAPER SUBMISSION The length of camera-ready papers will be limited to 10 pages. All papers should be prepared using the IEEE format, please see http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html Each paper will be reviewed by at least three TPC members. Authors must submit their manuscripts using the EasyChair conference system, please follow this EasyChair link https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeemobilecloud2015 * PAPER PUBLICATION All accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press (EI-Index) and included in IEEE Digital Library. For publication, each accepted paper is required to be registered at full rate by one of its authors and presented at IEEE MobileCloud 2015. Selected papers (extended versions) will be published in journals, such as Journal of Internet Technology (SCIE indexed), Journal of Communications, International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (IJSEKE-SCI indexed), and International Journal of Handheld Computing Research. * WORKSHOP/TUTORIAL PROPOSALS SUBMISSION MobileCloud 2015 will host multiple one-day or half-day workshops in conjunction with the main conference; topics of interest include any major research area associated with mobile cloud middleware and applications, as well as relevant large-scale experiences (from academic/research projects) in the field. The proposed workshops should focus on creating discussions among participants as well as community building. A workshop proposal should contain at least the following information: * Name and possible acronym of the workshop * Motivation and rationale for the workshop * Draft call-for-papers, including introduction and topics of the workshop MobileCloud 2015 seeks half-day tutorial proposals, which should provide clear and focused teaching material covering new and emerging topics related to the main conference. A tutorial proposal should describe concisely the content, importance, and timeliness of the tutorial, as well as the targeted potential audience. Workshop and tutorial proposals must be submitted via email to the Workshop and Tutorial Chair Prasad Calyam (mobilecloud15wst.chair(a)gmail.com). -- Carlo Giannelli, Ph.D. Center for Industrial Research on ICT (CIRI ICT) University of Bologna Scuola di Ingegneria e Architettura - DISI - LIA Viale Risorgimento, 2 40136 Bologna (BO) Italy Tel# +39-051-2093086 Email: carlo.giannelli(a)unibo.it <3D%22mailto:carlo.giannelli@unibo.it%22> http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/CarloGiannelli http://www.ciri-ict.unibo.it/en ______________________________________________________________ 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 WCNC 2015 - Deadline Approaching
by Lars Wolf 17 Jul '14

17 Jul '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE WCNC 2015 - Deadline Approaching Datum: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 03:35:45 +0000 Von: Kemal Akkaya <kemal(a)CS.SIU.EDU> Antwort an: Kemal Akkaya <kemal(a)CS.SIU.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Apologies for multiple copies of this post. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WCNC 2015 IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING CONFERENCE NEW ORLEANS, LA, USA 9-12 March, 2015 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IEEE WCNC is the premier event for wireless communications researchers, industry professionals, and academics interested in the latest development and design of wireless systems and networks. Sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society, IEEE WCNC has a long history of bringing together industry, academia, and regulatory bodies. In 2015, New Orleans will become the wireless capital by hosting IEEE WCNC 2015. The conference will include technical sessions, tutorials, workshops, and technology and business panels. You are invited to submit papers in all areas of wireless communications, networks, services, and applications. The instructions for authors will be posted on the conference website www.ieee-wcnc.org/2015. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: Track 1: PHY and Fundamentals • Interference characterization • Cognitive radio, ultra-wideband • Multihop and cooperative communications • Modulation, coding, diversity • Equalization, synchronization, channel estimation • Space-time coding, MIMO, adaptive antennas • OFDM, CDMA, spread spectrum • Channel modeling and characterization • Interference cancellation and multiuser detection • Iterative techniques • Information-theoretic aspects of wireless communications • Signal processing for wireless communications • Propagation models for high frequency channels Track 2: MAC and Cross-Layer Design • Multiple access techniques • Cognitive and cooperative MAC • Collaborative algorithms • MAC for mesh, ad hoc, relay, and sensor networks • Network information theory • Radio resource management and allocation, scheduling • Cross-layer design, cross-layer security • Software defined radio, RFID • Adaptability and reconfigurability • Wireless MAC protocols: design and analysis • B3G/4G Systems, WiMAX, WLAN, WPAN • QoS provisioning in MAC Track 3: Mobile and Wireless Networks • Localization for Wireless Networks • Network Estimation and Processing Techniques • Mesh, Relay, Sensor and Ad Hoc Networks • Mobility, location, and handoff management • Mobile and Wireless IP • Wireless Multicasting, Routing • Robust routing • Multimedia QoS and Traffic Management • Wireless Broadcast, Multicast and Streaming • Congestion and Admission Control • Proxies and Middleware for Wireless Networks • Wireless Network Security and Privacy • Performance of E2E Protocols over Wireless Networks • Interworking Heterogeneous Wireless/Wireline Networks • Capacity, Throughput, Outage, Coverage Track 4: Services, Applications, and Business • Emerging wireless/mobile applications • Context and location-aware wireless services & applications • Wireless telemedicine and e-health services • Intelligent transportation systems • Cognitive radio and sensor-based applications • Content distribution in wireless home environment • Wireless emergency and security systems • Service oriented architectures, service portability • SIP based services, multimedia, QoS support, middleware • Innovative user interfaces, P2P services for multimedia • Dynamic services, autonomic services • Regulations, standards, spectrum management • Test-bed and prototype implementation of wireless services • Personalization, service discovery, profiles and profiling CALL FOR TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS Proposals for tutorials and workshops are solicited on hot topics for future wireless communications systems and applications. CALL FOR PANELS Panel proposals are also solicited on technical, business and policy- related issues and opportunities for the wireless communications industry. PLEASE NOTE: To be published in the IEEE WCNC 2015 Conference Proceedings and to be eligible for publication in IEEE Xplore®, an author of an accepted paper is required to register for the conference at the full or limited (member or non-member) rate and the paper must be presented by an author of that paper at the conference unless the TPC Chair grants permission for a substitute presenter arranged in advance of the event and who is qualified both to present and answer questions. Non-refundable registration fees must be paid prior to uploading the final IEEE formatted, publication-ready version of the paper. For authors with multiple accepted papers, one full or limited registration is valid for up to 3 papers. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the IEEE WCNC 2015 Conference Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore®. A portion of the accepted papers will be presented as posters. The IEEE WCNC 2015 Technical Program Committee will decide which papers will be presented in oral (lecture type) sessions and which papers as posters, and the decisions will be announced to the authors. Choice between oral and poster presentations will be totally independent of the review scores and of the paper quality. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: 24 August 2014 Tutorial proposals: 24 August 2014 Notification of acceptance: 1 December 2014 Workshop proposals: 1 July 2014 Final Camera-ready papers due: 5 January 2015 Panel proposals: 24 August 2014 General Chair: José Roberto B. de Marca, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Executive Chair: Richard Miller, AT&T (retired), USA Technical Program Chair: Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Technical Program Vice-Chair: Edit Kaminsky Bourgeois, University of New Orleans, USA WCNC Steering Committee Chair: Khaled Letaief, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong WCNC Advisor: Sherman Shen, University of Waterloo, Canada -- Kemal Akkaya Associate Professor Department of Computer Science Southern Illinois University Carbondale, IL 62901 Tel: 618-453 60 54 Fax: 618-453 60 44 URL: http://www.cs.siu.edu/~kemal ADWISE Lab URL: http://www.cs.siu.edu/~adwise ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Paper: MiSeNet'14 - In Conjunction with IEEE MASS 2014: Extended deadline: July 27, 2014
by Lars Wolf 17 Jul '14

17 Jul '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Paper: MiSeNet'14 - In Conjunction with IEEE MASS 2014: Extended deadline: July 27, 2014 Datum: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 01:30:08 +0200 Von: Habib Ammari <hammari(a)UMICH.EDU> Antwort an: Habib Ammari <hammari(a)UMICH.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG The Third Annual International Workshop on Mission-Oriented Wireless Sensor Networking (MiSeNet 2014) In conjunction with IEEE MASS in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during October 28-30, 2014. http://www-personal.engin.umd.umich.edu/~hammari/IEEEMiSeNet_Workshop2014.h… Call for Papers Scope and Aim of MiSeNet 2014 Mission-oriented sensor networks are next-generation time-varying systems composed of both humans and mobile sensors (e.g., vehicle-mounted, human-operated, or integrated with mobile robots or UAVs) that collaborate and coordinate to successfully accomplish complex real-time missions under uncertainty. A major challenge in the design of mission-oriented sensor networks arises in supporting dynamic topology and disruption-tolerant architecture, caused by mobility, which has significant impact on performance in terms of sensing coverage, network connectivity, and information quality. In such dynamic environments, sensors should self-organize and reason in a distributed manner about resource allocation, scheduling, forwarding, caching, and in-network storage to accomplish specific missions, while extending the operational network lifetime. Another major challenge lies in accommodating human input. Humans are the ultimate sensors. They are well-equipped to monitor and report situations that would be very difficult for machine sensors to understand. They also come with their own challenges including imperfect reliability, bias, and lack of predictability. The design of mission-oriented sensor networks, where humans and sensors collaborate, should account for trade-offs between several attributes such as energy consumption, reliability, fault-tolerance, data collection latency, and quality of information (such as video resolution, picture quality, type of content, degree of redundancy, and level of summarization), and their impact on mission objectives. It should accommodate human-centric sensing modalities such as free-form text, pictures, sound, and video, and should include mechanisms to handle unpredictability, uncertainty, human error, and noise. Finally, it should account for ways to specify mission goals and requirements. MiSeNet 2014 aims to provide a forum for participants from academia and industry to discuss topics in mission-oriented sensor network research and practice. MiSeNet 2014 serves as incubator for scientific communities that share a particular research agenda in this area. It will provide opportunities to understand the major technical and application challenges as well as exchange ideas related to architecture, protocols, algorithms, and application design, at a stage before they have matured to warrant conference/journal publications. MiSeNet 2014 seeks papers that present novel theoretical and practical ideas as well as work in-progress, which will lead to the development of solid foundations for the design, analysis, and implementation of energy-efficient, reliable, and secure mission-oriented networked sensing applications. The topics of interest to MiSeNet 2014 workshop include, but are not limited to, the following: - Theoretical foundations of mission-oriented networked sensing - Modeling and analysis of mission-oriented sensor networks - System design, implementation, and evaluation - Medium access control and scheduling - Human factors, data cleaning, and noise - Human-centric sensing modalities and quality of information - Cross-layer design - Software architectures for mission-oriented sensing - Self-organization, self-configuration, and energy efficiency - Coverage and connectivity issues - Collaboration of humans and sensors - Deployment and localization - Uncertainty, opportunistic communication, and data fusion - Topology control and fault-tolerance - Routing and data dissemination - In-network data storage and processing - Sensor database management and spatio-temporal data - Target detection and tracking - Privacy and security - Testbed design and real-world applications - Mission goal and requirement specifications General Chair - Stephan Olariu (Old Dominion University, USA) Program Chair - Xiuzhen Cheng (The George Washington University, USA) Steering Committee - Tom La Porta (Chair) (Penn State University, USA) - Tarek F. Abdelzaher (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, USA) - Habib M. Ammari (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA) - Nirwan Ansari (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA) - Xiuzhen Cheng (The George Washington University, USA) - Sajal K. Das (University of Texas at Arlington, USA) - Zygmunt J. Haas (Cornell University, USA) - David B. Johnson (Rice University, USA) - Thomas F. La Porta (Penn State University, USA) - Stephan Olariu (Old Dominion University, USA) - Jie Wu (Temple University, USA) - Guoliang Xue (Arizona State University, USA) - Mohamed Younis (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA) Publicity Chair - Habib M. Ammari (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA) Web Chair - Habib M. Ammari (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA) Submission Guidelines MiSeNet 2014 Workshop will consider only original papers that are not currently under review by other workshops, conferences, or journals, and have not been published. All papers submitted to MiSeNet 2014 will be peer-reviewed and evaluated based on their suitability (i.e., within the workshop scope), novelty, and merit. Submitted papers are limited to 6 pages. All submissions should be formatted in standard IEEE conference style for publication in the conference Proceedings. They must be single-spaced, double-column, with each column 9.25" by 3.33", 0.33" space between columns, use at least a 10pt font, and be correctly formatted to be printed on Letter-sized (8.5" by 11") paper. It is required that at least one author of each accepted paper register and attend the MiSeNet 2014 workshop to present their work to ensure its publication in the IEEE MASS 2014 workshop Proceedings. We strongly encourage people from both of the industry and academia to submit their fine work to MiSeNet 2014. To submit your paper to MiSeNet 2014, please visit the submission website at: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=18249 Thank you for submitting your paper to MiSeNet 2014! Important Dates - Paper Submission Deadline (Extended): July 27, 2014 - Paper Notification Deadline: August 10, 2014 - Camera-ready: August 21, 2014 For More Information For questions about the MiSeNet'14 Workshop regarding the paper submission and review process, please contact the Program Chair at misenet14(a)gmail.com. Best Regards, Habib M. Ammari -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Habib M. Ammari, Associate Professor Office: 129 CIS Building Founding Director, WiSeMAN Research Lab WiSeMAN: 132 CIS Building Department of Computer and Information Science Phone: (313) 593-5239 College of Engineering and Computer Science Fax: (313) 593-4256 University of Michigan-Dearborn Email: hammari(a)umd.umich.edu Dearborn, Michigan 48128 Home page: http://www-personal.engin.umd.umich.edu/~hammari/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________________________ 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] ACM/Springer MONET SI on Advances on Vehicular Communication Systems (DEADLINE APPROACHING)
by Lars Wolf 17 Jul '14

17 Jul '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] ACM/Springer MONET SI on Advances on Vehicular Communication Systems (DEADLINE APPROACHING) Datum: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 08:55:05 +0200 Von: Carlos Tavares Calafate <calafate(a)DISCA.UPV.ES> Antwort an: Carlos Tavares Calafate <calafate(a)DISCA.UPV.ES> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG CALL FOR PAPERS ACM/Springer Mobile Networks & Applications (MONET) ISI/JCR indexed journal (2012 impact factor: 1.109) http://www.springer.com/engineering/signals/journal/11036 SPECIAL ISSUE ON Advances on Vehicular Communication Systems OVERVIEW The joint efforts of academia and industry in the past years have led to the introduction of new on board applications and services. In addition, governments and standardization organizations have agreed upon a common set of standards (DSRC) specific to vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications. Combined with the cellular network infrastructure, they pave the way for a plethora of solutions empowered by vehicular communications. Among these solutions we have emergency alerts, autonomous vehicles, infotainment, comfort services, cooperative road sensing and collaborative applications. Also, the integration between smartphones and vehicles has been addressed by many researchers, with a wide range of applications already available, and many more being expected. In terms of communication systems, mobility effects and channel conditions heavily affect the signal quality, introducing path-loss, fading, and received power fluctuations. Under such conditions, several issues remain open including message dissemination in congested environments, Quality of Service (QoS), efficient and adaptive routing, MAC layer enhancements, mobility prediction, efficient handovers, etc. This special issue is seeking for high quality contributions, soliciting high level technical papers addressing the main research challenges in the vehicular networking area. The possible contributions should consist in original theoretical or practical analyses, never published elsewhere, and validated by simulations or real testbeds. TOPICS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following scope: - Wireless vehicular networking - Congestion and admission control in dense vehicular networks - Content distribution in wireless vehicular environments - Smartphone/vehicle integration - Service oriented architectures, service portability, P2P - Cooperative sensing of road conditions - Network and system architectures for mobile vehicular computing - DSRC/WAVE communications. Alternatives to DSRC. - Network protocols and algorithms, including clustering, routing, etc. - Cross-layer protocol design - Statistical analysis, prediction and management of vehicular mobility - Multimedia communications in vehicular scenarios - Models, simulators and tools for vehicular environments IMPORTANT DATES: - Manuscript submission deadline: July 31, 2014 - Notification of acceptance: October 30, 2014 - Submission of final revised paper: January 10, 2015 - Publication of special issue (tentative): 3rd Quarter 2015 SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Authors should follow the MONET Journal manuscript format described at the journal site. Manuscripts should be submitted on-line through http://www.editorialmanager.com/mone/. A copy of the manuscript should also be emailed to the following email: calafate(a)disca.upv.es Authors need to register to submit their papers. GUEST EDITORS: Prof. Carlos Tavares Calafate Technical University of Valencia (UPV), Spain URL: http://www.grc.upv.es/calafate/ E-mail: calafate(a)disca.upv.es Prof. Yusheng Ji National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan URL: http://klab.nii.ac.jp/ E-mail: kei(a)nii.ac.jp Dr. Peppino Fazio University of Calabria, Italy URL: http://culture.deis.unical.it/telelab/homepage_PF/ E-mail: pfazio(a)deis.unical.it ______________________________________________________________ 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: IEEE PerCom 2015, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, March 23-27, 2015
by Lars Wolf 16 Jul '14

16 Jul '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP: IEEE PerCom 2015, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, March 23-27, 2015 Datum: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 13:49:29 -0400 Von: Nirmalya Roy <nirmalya.roy(a)gmail.com> An: tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org, tccn <tccn(a)comsoc.org>, publicity(a)hipeac.net, mycolleagues(a)mailman.ufsc.br, computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org, distributed-computing-announce(a)datasys.cs.iit.edu [We apologize if you received multiple copies of this CFP.] CALL FOR PAPERS - IEEE PerCom 2015 St. Louis, Missouri, USA, March 23-27, 2015 http://www.percom.org/ Call For Papers IEEE PerCom, now in its thirteenth 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 and have found their way to 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 phones. PerCom 2015 will be held in St. Louis, located in the heart of the US and the "Gateway to the West". PerCom 2015 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; inspiring keynote speeches; insightful panel discussions from domain experts; and posters representing emerging ideas. Research contributions are solicited in all areas pertinent to pervasive computing and communications, including: * Innovative pervasive computing applications * Data management for pervasive computing * Programming paradigms for pervasive systems * Architectures, protocols, and technologies for pervasive communications * Middleware for pervasive services and applications * Adaptive, autonomic and context-aware computing * Participatory and social sensing * Opportunistic networking and sensing in pervasive systems * Mobile/wearable computing systems and services in pervasive computing * Urban and mobile crowd sensing and intelligence * Energy-efficient and green pervasive computing * Positioning and tracking technologies * Sensors and RFID in pervasive systems * Multimodal sensing and context for pervasive applications * Machine learning for activity recognition * Smart devices and intelligent environments * Trust, security and privacy issues in pervasive systems * User interface, interaction, and persuasion * Context modeling and reasoning * Cognitive computing in pervasive systems * Virtual immersive communications * Pervasive computing aspects of social networks * Social and economic models for pervasive systems Workshops and Affiliated Events A number of workshops will be held in conjunction with the main conference. Workshop papers will be included along with conference papers in the proceedings and both will be indexed in the IEEE digital libraries (Xplore), showing their affiliation with IEEE PerCom. As in the past, PerCom 2015 will also feature a PhD Forum, a Work-in-Progress poster session, and Live Demonstrations. Please visit the conference website for details. Submission Guidelines Submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication. Also, they must show a significant relevance to pervasive computing and networking. Only electronic submissions in PDF format will be considered. Papers must be 9 pages or less, including references, figures and tables (at least 10pt font, 2-column format). Information about submitting papers can be found on the PerCom web page at http://www.percom.org. Submitted papers will undergo a rigorous review process handled by the Technical Program Committee. Additional author names cannot be added after acceptance. The best paper will receive the prestigious Mark Weiser Best Paper Award. Top selected papers will be considered for a special issue of the Elsevier journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC). Important Dates: Paper Registration: September 19, 2014 Paper Submission: September 26, 2014 Notification: November 25, 2014 Camera Ready: January 23, 2015 Conference: March 23-27, 2015 ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: ICNC 2015 - Wireless Networks Symposium
by Lars Wolf 16 Jul '14

16 Jul '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: ICNC 2015 - Wireless Networks Symposium Datum: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 04:13:05 +0000 Von: Wang, Yu <Yu.Wang(a)UNCC.EDU> Antwort an: Wang, Yu <Yu.Wang(a)UNCC.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Advance apologies in case you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ========================================================= Call for Papers Wireless Networks Symposium, ICNC 2015 Anaheim, California, USA, February 16-19, 2015 http://www.conf-icnc.org/2015/ ========================================================= Important Dates: Paper Submission: July 27 23:59 PDT (July 28 2:59 EDT) Paper Acceptance: Sep. 20, 2014 Camera-ready paper: Oct. 20, 2014 ========================================================= International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), is a premier conference in the computer and communication fields. ICNC 2015 is to be held in Anaheim, California during Feb.16–19, 2015. The conference covers all topics in the areas of computing, networking and communication, and features keynote talks, invited position talks, technical symposia, distinguished lectures, innovation themes, and workshops. The Wireless Networks Symposium at ICNC will focus on topics related to all aspects of wireless communications and networks spanning the PHY/MAC layer, Network layer, Transport layer, as well as cross-layer designs. The objective of this symposium is to serve as an international forum for experts from academia, industry and government to exchange ideas and results on research and development, and to promote and accelerate standardization and services of current and future wireless networks. This symposium presents original contributions in, but not limited to, the following topical areas: • 4G and beyond wireless networks • 60 GHz mm-wave networks • Network capacity analysis • Cognitive radio networks • Cross-layer design • D2D communications • Energy efficient wireless networking • Femtocell/Picocell and small cell networks • Flow control and congestion control • Green wireless networking • Integration of heterogeneous wireless networks • Backhaul design for heterogeneous networks • Measurement studies in wireless networks • Medium access control • Mobile cloud computing • Mobility, handoff, and location management • Multimedia communications over wireless networks • Network architecture • Network planning • Optimization and theory for wireless networking • Personal/Home/Neighborhood area networks • QoS provisioning andResource allocation in wireless networks • Smart grid powered wireless networks • Traffic modeling and management • Testbed development and deployment • Underwater networks • Ultra-wideband networks • Wireless ad-hoc and mesh networks • Wireless local area networks • Wireless personal area networks • Wireless networking standards • Wireless sensor networks Distinguished speakers' participation has been confirmed (3 Keynote Speakers, 5 Plenary Speakers, 6 Distinguished Lecturers, and 18 Invited Speakers). Please refer to http://www.conf-icnc.org/2015/ for more information. Submission Guidelines Please follow the author instructions at http://www.conf-icnc.org/2015/author Direct paper submission weblink of this symposium is http://edas.info/N17271 All papers accepted in ICNC 2015, after being presented onsite at the conference, will be included in the proceedings to be submitted for publication in IEEE Xplore and indexing by EI Compendex. Plan to spend a nice and warm winter vacation at California! Yu Wang, Lingyang Song, Walid Saad Symposium Co-Chairs ______________________________________________________________ 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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