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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IJCS Special Issue on Energy Efficient Wireless Communication Networks with QoS
by Lars Wolf 11 Jul '14

11 Jul '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IJCS Special Issue on Energy Efficient Wireless Communication Networks with QoS Datum: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 16:47:17 -0400 Von: Peng-Yong Kong <kongpy(a)IEEE.ORG> Antwort an: Peng-Yong Kong <kongpy(a)IEEE.ORG> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG CALL FOR PAPERS International Journal of Communication Systems (IJCS) Special Issue on Energy Efficient Wireless Communication Networks with QoS http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijcs Deadline: July 21, 2014 Nowadays, we are witnessing a huge increase in the number of mobile subscribers, and also the forecast on the telecommunications market assumes an increase per subscriber’s data rate and the roll out of additional base stations for next generation mobile networks. An undesired consequence is the growth of wireless networks’ energy consumption that will cause an increase of the global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, and impose more and more challenging operational costs for operators. This has initiated the need to innovate in the field of energy efficient communications, as wireless network infrastructures as a whole have contributed a significant portion of the total carbon emission of a telecommunication system. As such, wireless networks can play an important role in helping to alleviate the global warming. Various energy efficient networking technologies can be designed to reduce power consumption. However, the effort of saving power and energy must not affect the service quality perceived by a user. It is a major challenge to be able to reduce power consumption and maintain good service quality at the same time. This special issue is devoted to the recent progress on the advanced wireless networking technologies to achieve energy efficiency without compromising quality of service (QoS). We are particularly interested in wireless cellular networks, but innovative and novel works in other types of communication networks are also invited. Original major contributions on the design, analysis, implementation, demonstration, application and standardization of energy efficient wireless networking technologies with QoS will be considered for this special issue. By gathering the relevant cutting edge works, this special issue will identify the unique challenges and the efficient solutions in the area of energy efficient wireless networks with QoS. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Green wireless network architecture design - QoS aware energy efficient communication protocols and power management - Energy efficient QoS routing protocols - Physical layer techniques, channel/network coding for energy efficiency and QoS - QoS aware energy efficient MAC protocols - Energy efficiency in Internet of Things - Energy efficiency and QoS in the backhaul network - QoS in heterogeneous wireless networks - QoS schemes in green wireless networks - Algorithms for QoS aware energy efficient scheduling and resource management - Cross-layer energy efficiency optimization - Cooperation for energy efficiency with QoS provision - Security in green mobile communication networks - Power efficient operation in multi-hop wireless networks - Energy efficient network selection - QoS Power control in multi-hop wireless networks - Virtualization techniques for energy efficiency and QoS - Managing tradeoffs between energy efficiency and QoS - Cooperative green communications with QoS - Managing tradeoffs between energy efficiency and QoS - Self-organized network algorithms for energy efficiency and QoS - Energy efficient signal processing for wireless communications - Energy efficient and QoS dynamic network reconfiguration - Cognitive techniques to control networking energy efficiency and QoS - Optimization of energy efficient networking - Energy harvesting techniques and strategies - Power and energy consumption models for QoS aware wireless communications - User mobility modelling to predict and adapt to patterns to reduce energy expenditure - Future of green wireless multimedia networks Instructions for Manuscripts Submitted articles must not have been previously published or currently submitted for journal publication elsewhere. Papers could be submitted to this special issue if they are substantially revised or improved and extended from their earlier versions with at least 33% new materials or results” as we do not encourage recycling conference papers in the journal. Submissions must be directly sent via the IJCS submission web site at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijcs and select Special Issue: Efficient Wireless Communication Networks with QoS as manuscript type during step 1 of the submission process. Paper submissions must conform to the layout and format guidelines in the International Journal of Communication Systems. Instructions for Contributors are in: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/5996/home/ForAuthors.html Important Dates Manuscript Due: July 21, 2014 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection/Revision: September 20, 2014 Revised manuscript due: November 22, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: December 20, 2014 Guest Editors Prof. Victor C. M. Leung University of British Columbia, Canada Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering vleung(a)ece.ubc.ca Dr. Peng-Yong Kong Khalifa University of Science, Technology & Research (KUSTAR), UAE Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering pengyong.kong(a)kustar.ac.ae Dr. Michael Chai Queen Mary University of London, UK School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science michael.chai(a)eecs.qmul.ac.uk Dr. Shihab Jimaa Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research, UAE College of Engineering, ECE Department saj(a)kustar.ac.ae ______________________________________________________________ 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 Communication Magazine - Feature Topic on Wireless Physical Layer Security
by Lars Wolf 10 Jul '14

10 Jul '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CfP: IEEE Communication Magazine - Feature Topic on Wireless Physical Layer Security Datum: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 08:17:04 -0400 Von: Walid Saad <saad.walid(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Walid Saad <saad.walid(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG CALL FOR PAPERS Wireless Physical Layer Security The security of communication systems is continuously facing new challenges as people become increasingly dependent on wireless technologies for the transmission of private data, such as Internet banking using a wireless access point or mobile payments via a device-to-device link. Despite the convenience of wireless networks, the broadcast nature of the wireless medium makes it vulnerable to eavesdropping attacks from unauthorized or even adversarial users. The challenging problem of secure wireless communication has already drawn significant attention from various research communities in communications, signal processing, and cyber-security. These research efforts have culminated in tremendous improvements in existing cryptographic techniques and, more importantly, in the introduction of a new security paradigm for wireless networks, termed as physical layer security. Physical layer security is the first security solution that focuses on exploiting the physical layer properties of the wireless channels, such as multi-path fading and interference, to protect the confidential information transmission against eavesdropping. It can also nicely complement current cryptographic techniques as the two approaches operate in different domains: one protects the communication phase while the other protects the data processing after the communication phase. In addition, physical layer security techniques can also be adopted for secret key generation and distribution, by exploiting the rich randomness and dynamics available in the wireless medium. This IEEE Communications Magazine feature topic aims to gather state-of-the-art contributions that can provide a timely and comprehensive overview of the current research and development of this emerging security technique, as well as the challenges and opportunities for its practical implementation in current and future wireless networks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following categories: - Information-theoretic limits of physical layer security; - Practical code designs for achieving near-optimal physical layer security performance; - Signal processing for secrecy enhancements; - Coordinated or distributed network-level designs for physical layer security; - Optimization and game-theoretic techniques for enhancing wireless secrecy; - Secret-key generation and agreement over wireless channels; - Cross-layer security solutions and joint designs of physical layer security and cryptography; - Experimental results on practical implementations of physical layer security techniques. [image: bullet] 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 athttp://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 "June 2015/Wireless Physical Layer Security" category. [image: bullet] IMPORTANT DATES - *Full Paper Submission Due:* November 1, 2014 - *Decision Notifications:* February 1, 2015 - *Final Manuscript Due:* April 1, 2015 - *Publication Date:* June 2015 http://www.comsoc.org/files/Publications/Magazines/ci/cfp/cfpcommag0615.html [image: bullet] GUEST EDITORS *Merouane Debbah* SUPELEC merouane.debbah(a)supelec.fr *H. Vincent Poor* Princeton University poor(a)princeton.edu *Walid Saad* Virginia Tech walids(a)vt.edu *Xiangyun Zhou* Australian National University xiangyun.zhou(a)anu.edu.au ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP COMCOM, Elsevier: Special Issue on Security and Privacy in Unified Communications: Challenges and Solutions, Manuscript Due October 31, 2014
by Lars Wolf 10 Jul '14

10 Jul '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP COMCOM, Elsevier: Special Issue on Security and Privacy in Unified Communications: Challenges and Solutions,Manuscript Due October 31, 2014 Datum: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 06:33:04 -0400 Von: Georgios Karopoulos <georgios.karopoulos(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Georgios Karopoulos <georgios.karopoulos(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ======================================================================== *Call for Papers* Computer Communications Journal, Elsevier (Current Impact Factor: 1.079) Special Issue on: Security and Privacy in Unified Communications: Challenges and Solutions Direct Link: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-communications/call-for-papers/sp… ======================================================================== Unified Communications (UC) merge different communication technologies, types of products, and services, from various manufacturers, operators, and countries, following diverse policies and standards. Specifically, in the context of UC, a range of communication tools are integrated in a way that both corporations and individuals are able to manage all their communications in one entity instead of doing it disjointly. It is therefore said that UC bridges the opening between the various computer related communication technologies and Voice over IP (VoIP). However, this high level of heterogeneity expands the risks related to security and privacy that stakeholders should deal with. To eliminate or even prevent the increasing threats to end-users and operators, it is important to explore this growing and timely research topic. This feature topic will benefit the research community towards identifying challenges and disseminating the latest methodologies and solutions to UC security and privacy issues. Its objective is to publish high-quality articles presenting open issues, algorithms, protocols, policies, frameworks, standards, and solutions for UC related to security and privacy. Only technical papers describing previously unpublished, original, state-of-the-art research, and not currently under review by a conference or a journal will be considered. Reviews and case studies which address state-of-art research and state-of-practice industry experiences are also welcomed. We solicit papers in a variety of topics related to unified communications security and privacy, including, but not limited to: - Authorization and access control for UC services - Denial of service prevention schemes for UC - Reliability and availability issues on UC - Penetration testing, intrusion detection and prevention - End-to-end security solutions - Cryptographic protocols for UC - Voice security - Signaling security and privacy - Multimedia application security and privacy analysis - Multimedia communication platforms vulnerabilities and attacks - Security and privacy in mobile communication services - Smartphone multimedia apps security and privacy - Social networking security and privacy - Testbed and case studies for secure and private UC services - Trust establishment in UC - IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) security - Privacy and identity management - Privacy enhancing technologies for UC - Privacy models for UC - Security and privacy assessment for UC - Security policies - Auditing, verification, and validation of UC services - Risk analysis and management - Cyber-security issues affecting UC - Protection of UC as a Critical Information Infrastructure - VoIP peering security issues All received submissions will be sent out for peer review by at least two experts in the field and evaluated with respect to relevance to the special issue, level of innovation, depth of contributions, and quality of presentation. Guest editors will make an initial determination of the suitability and scope of all submissions. Papers that either lack originality, clarity in presentation or fall outside the scope of the special issue will not be sent for review and the authors will be promptly informed in such cases. Submitted papers must not be under consideration by any other journal or publication. Schedule Manuscript submission deadline: October 31, 2014 Pre-notification (first round): January 30, 2015 Final-notification (second round): April 3, 2015 Publication of special issue: 2015 (Tentative) Submission Details Authors should follow the instructions available at http://ees.elsevier.com/comcom - kindly click the “Guide for Authors” link in the top box on the right side. When submitting the article, select “UC Security and Privacy” in the “Select an Article Type” box in the submission process. Guest Editors Georgios Karopoulos Joint Research Centre (JRC), Italy e-mail: georgios.karopoulos(a)jrc.ec.europa.eu Georgios Portokalidis Stevens Institute of Technology, USA e-mail: gportoka(a)stevens.edu Josep Domingo-Ferrer Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia e-mail: josep.domingo(a)urv.cat Ying-Dar Lin National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan e-mail: ydlin(a)cs.nctu.edu.tw Dimitris Geneiatakis Joint Research Centre (JRC), Italy e-mail: dimitrios.geneiatakis(a)jrc.ec.europa.eu Georgios Kambourakis University of the Aegean, Greece e-mail: gkamb(a)aegean.gr ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Deadline Extension: CFP: International Workshop on Computer and Networking Experimental Research using Testbeds (CNERT 2014)
by Lars Wolf 09 Jul '14

09 Jul '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Deadline Extension: CFP: International Workshop on Computer and Networking Experimental Research using Testbeds (CNERT 2014) Datum: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 18:48:29 +0000 Von: Wang, Bing <bing(a)ENGR.UCONN.EDU> Antwort an: Wang, Bing <bing(a)ENGR.UCONN.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG -------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Workshop on Computer and Networking Experimental Research using Testbeds (CNERT 2014) http://icnp2014.csec.rit.edu/index.php Abstract Submission deadline: July 13, 2014 (extended) Paper Submission deadline: July 17, 2014 (extended) Co-located with the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2014<http://icnp14.cs.unc.edu/>) The Research Triangle, North Carolina October 24, 2014 Experimentation has played a very important role in advancing research in computing. This workshop will bring together researchers and technical experts to share experiences and advance the state of the art in experimental research in areas such as networking, distributed systems and cloud computing. CNERT 2014 is a one-day event held in conjunction with the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2014). CNERT 2014 aims to inspire researchers to use testbeds in novel and interesting ways as a means to validate research ideas. Experiments may be from areas including, but not limited to: Experiment design and deployment, Instrumentation and Measurement, Evaluation and analysis of experiment data, Design for repeatability and reproducibility, Creation and sharing of datasets of broad interest to the community, Tools and services for testbed users and operators, Large-scale experiments, Experiments on federated testbeds, Testbed implementation and deployment. Of particular interest are experiments on publicly available testbeds such as GENI, PlanetLab, Emulab, Orbit, Ophelia, and so on. Authors are encouraged to include references to detailed experiment setups that will enable others to extend their work. Presentations at the workshop will be strongly encouraged to include a demonstration. Authors should indicate in their papers if they think that such a demonstration is feasible. All papers will go through a thorough review process by experienced researchers who will provide constructive feedback. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Future Internet architectures Wired and wireless network protocols Computer and network security Software defined networking (SDN) Sensor networks Cloud computing and big data Distributed applications such as content delivery networks WiMax communications and services Social networks Network economics and pricing Important Dates Abstract Submission deadline: July 13, 2014 (extended) Paper Submission deadline: July 17, 2014 (extended) Acceptance notification: August 2, 2014 Workshop: October 24, 2014 (co-located with ICNP 2014) Submitted papers must be no longer than six (6) pages for long papers and four (4) pages for short papers in double-column format with standard margins (i.e., at least one inch all around) and at least a 10 point font. This length includes everything. Longer submissions will not be reviewed. Papers should include a title, full list of authors, their organization and email address, and an abstract of less than 200 words. ______________________________________________________________ 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
by Lars Wolf 09 Jul '14

09 Jul '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Paper: MiSeNet'14 - In Conjunction with IEEE MASS 2014 Datum: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 19:13:13 +0100 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: July 20, 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] IEEE Communications Magazine - Consumer Communications Series CFP
by Lars Wolf 09 Jul '14

09 Jul '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE Communications Magazine - Consumer Communications Series CFP Datum: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 14:13:52 +0100 Von: Dr Mario Kolberg <mko(a)CS.STIR.AC.UK> Antwort an: Dr Mario Kolberg <mko(a)CS.STIR.AC.UK> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG IEEE Communications Magazine Consumer Communications and Networking Series Call for Papers for the December 2014 Issue Submission Deadline: 31 July 2014 http://www.comsoc.org/files/Publications/Magazines/ci/cfp/cfpcommagccnserie… Perhaps, one of the biggest drivers for the many technological advances we see today is the need for faster and more reliable communications. Emerging applications of such faster and more reliable communications technologies include home entertainment, high-quality visual communication applications, massive multi-player gaming, and personal, body-area and sensor networking. Some of these applications will become key enablers where we are already seeing ubiquitous content generation, manipulation and distribution. For example, TV content (including both non-premium and premium) can now be viewed wherever we are and on any connected device - a concept called TV Everywhere. Another example is high-definition video telephony/conferencing and collaboration over smart connected TV sets. These are all made possible by networking, software and middleware that provide ease of use, security and stunning interactivity to the consumers. We have also seen the technological reach of existing solutions being applied in unconventional ways where all aspects of our digital lives are being consumed to provide novel platforms where interoperation between disparate technologies is now possible. For example, the automotive industry is now producing cars that include ad hoc networks designed to provide multimedia solutions as well as links to wide-area communications via cellular or satellite networks. Using these networking capabilities and interfaces, we see automobile functionality being extended, blurring the boundaries between the car and conventional consumer devices. With this in mind the IEEE Communications Magazine is seeking articles that emphasize consumer networking in whatever physical environment it finds itself. Particular topics of interest include: * Emerging wireless technologies for consumer networking * Pervasive computing and contextual systems in consumer communications * Architecture, platforms and protocols for consumer communications, networked games and virtual worlds * Middleware for networked consumer devices * Media and device adaptation * Social networking and its impact on consumer communications * Home and networked entertainment * Home networking and automation Submission Articles should be tutorial in nature, with the intended audience being all members of the communication technologies community. They should be written in a style comprehensible to readers outside the specialty of the article. Articles should not exceed 4500 words. Figures and tables should be limited to a combined total of six. Complete guidelines for prospective authors can be found at: http://www.comsoc.org/commag/paper-submission-guidelines. Please submit your article in the PDF format by the submission deadline via the Manuscript Central (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/commag-ieee). Register or log in, go to the Author Center and select the topic "Consumer Communications and Networking Series." Schedule for Submissions The next edition of the series will be published in the December 2014 issue of IEEE Communications Magazine. In order to be considered for this issue, papers need to be submitted by 31 July 2014. Series Editors Ali C. Begen Cisco acbegen(a)ieee.org Mario Kolberg Stirling University mko(a)cs.stir.ac.uk Madjid Merabti Liverpool John Moores University M.Merabti(a)ljmu.ac.uk -- The University of Stirling has been ranked in the top 12 of UK universities for graduate employment*. 94% of our 2012 graduates were in work and/or further study within six months of graduation. *The Telegraph The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159. ______________________________________________________________ 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] (Ubi-HealthTech 2015) Int. Symposium on Future Information and Communication Technologies for Ubiquitous HealthCare
by Lars Wolf 09 Jul '14

09 Jul '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] (Ubi-HealthTech 2015) Int. Symposium on Future Information and Communication Technologies for Ubiquitous HealthCare Datum: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 15:57:45 +0800 Von: xiaofeng <zhongxf(a)TSINGHUA.EDU.CN> Antwort an: xiaofeng <zhongxf(a)TSINGHUA.EDU.CN> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG -------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP *** -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ========================================================================== 2nd Int. Symposium on Future Information and Communication Technologies for Ubiquitous HealthCare (Ubi-HealthTech 2015) Beijing, China, 28-30 May, 2015 In many countries around the world, public healthcare is under severe economic and demographic stresses due to rapidly rising per capita costs and aging populations. Therefore, many governments and healthcare organizations are striving to improve the health of individuals and communities by strengthening their healthcare systems, enhancing methods of disease detection and prevention, and providing better healthcare services. It is expected that advances in information and communication technologies will play a pivotal role in the development of new principles, theory, methodologies and systems to enable ubiquitous healthcare worldwide. In the future, these ubiquitous healthcare services will be offered by the development of diverse sensing techniques and advance electronics technologies to significantly lower the economic cost. These ubiquitous healthcare systems will be suitable for many promising applications of Ubiquitous Health and Environment such as smart homes and hospitals, which will contribute to worldwide healthcare development. This symposium aims to bring together experts in engineering, communications, physical sciences, and health sciences as well as computer and computation specialists with the common goal of applying information and communication technologies for Ubiquitous-healthcare and Ubiquitous-environment systems and applications, which are at the top of the agenda in most countries. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: * Advanced Si technologies for emerging applications in U-Health * Biomedical and biosensors engineering * Body Sensor Networks * Emerging ICT systems in U-Health * Medical electronics for better healthcare * mHealth applications * Nano Sensing for E-Health * Pervasive and ubiquitous Wireless Health Systems and Services * Smart and Connected Health * Security and Privacy for E-Health * Smarter homes, better healthcare * Smart medical centers & U-hospitals * Smarter planet * Technology for Smart connected Health * U-Health for aging * Wearable and Implantable Wireless Sensors for U-health The Symposium is to seek the presentations of theoretical and experimental achievements, innovative U-Health systems, prototyping efforts, case studies and advances in technology related to U-healthcare & Smart Homes. Submitted papers should follow IEEE conference paper format and must not be published or under review for another workshop, conference, or journal. For further information, please visit the conferences web site: Http://www.ubi-health.org Important Dates: Paper registration and submission: 1 March, 2015 Author notification: 15 April, 2015 Camera ready papers due: 15 May, 2015 Conference date: 28-30 May, 2015 Steering Committee Chair Joel Rodrigues, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal General Chairs: Sen Su, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Jamal Deen, Mc Master University, Canada Program Chairs Shihong Zou, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Honggang Wang, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA Vice-chairs Ahmed Mehaoua, Univ. of Paris Descartes, France Maode Ma, NTU, Singapore Tapas Mondal, Mc Master University, Canada Raouf Boutaba, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada Noura Limam, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada Shurong Dong, Zhejiang University, China Guixia Kang, Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications, China Hui Wang, Zhejiang Normal University, China Tingting Chen, Oklahoma State University Zhengbo Zhang, Chinese PLA (People's Liberation Army) General Hospital Joel Rodrigues, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal Xiaodong Lin, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Wenyuan Xu, Zhejiang University, China Hua Fang, University of Massachusetts Medical School Haiyong Luo, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Publication Chairs IEEE liaison chair: Stefano Paris, Univ. of Paris Descartes, France Publicity Chairs Xiaofeng Zhong, Tsinghua University, China Ahmed Mehaoua, Univ. of Paris Descartes, France Financial Chairs Yourong Feng, The Youth Committee of China Institute of Communications, China Local Organizing committee Chairs Min Lei, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Shuang Kai, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Industry Liaison Chair: Guanghua Zhang, Z-Park Internet of Things Industry Alliance, China Yi Wang, The Youth Committee of China Institute of Communications, China Exhibition Chair: Yunchao Xing, The Youth Committee of China Institute of Communications, China Best Regards! Xiaofeng Zhong, Ph.D. Associate Professor Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University http://oa.ee.tsinghua.edu.cn/~zhongxiaofeng/index.htm ______________________________________________________________ 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: FIRM deadline July 15, 2014 - GLOBECOM Wi-UAV workshop
by Lars Wolf 09 Jul '14

09 Jul '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: FIRM deadline July 15, 2014 - GLOBECOM Wi-UAV workshop Datum: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 08:42:45 +0000 Von: christian.wietfeld(a)tu-dortmund.de <christian.wietfeld(a)TU-DORTMUND.DE> Antwort an: christian.wietfeld(a)tu-dortmund.de <christian.wietfeld(a)TU-DORTMUND.DE> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wi-UAV 2014 5th Int. IEEE Workshop on Wireless Networking and Control for Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles in conjunction with IEEE GLOBECOM 2014 Austin, Texas, USA WORKSHOP DATE: DECEMBER 12, 2014 PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JULY 15, 2014 (*** FIRM ***) WEBSITE: www.wi-uav.org The 5th International IEEE workshop on Wireless Networking and Control for Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles (Wi-UAV 2014, www.wi-uav.org), co-located with the IEEE International Conference on Global Communications (GLOBECOM 2014), will be held in Austin, Texas, USA on December 12, 2014. The workshop is the interdisciplinary platform to bring together robotics and communications. You are kindly invited to submit your research paper to this workshop and discuss current innovative technological advances in the area of networking and control solutions for unmanned autonomous systems. The *FIRM* deadline for submission via the EDAS system is: July 15, 2014. Aims and Scope: Unmanned autonomous systems are increasingly used in a large number of contexts to support humans in dangerous and difficult-to-reach environments: e.g. aerial sensor systems, ground-based robotics, space and underwater applications. In order to fulfill particularly challenging tasks, visionary scenarios foresee unmanned vehicles to be organized in networked teams and even swarms. The corresponding wireless networks need to provide highly reliable and delay-tolerant control links for the behavior management of the unmanned vehicles as well as data links to transfer telemetry and sensor data. At the same time, unmanned vehicles offer the capability to provide ad-hoc wireless networks, for example to facilitate temporary hot spots and compensate network outages in case of public events and emergencies. This fifth edition of the workshop aims to discuss most recent results of various international research projects on new communications networks enabling the efficient control of teams of unmanned vehicles/systems operating on the ground, in the air, underwater and in space scenarios. Contributions addressing heterogeneous scenarios, e.g. combination of aerial and underwater devices are highly welcome. Topics: - Communication architectures and protocols for unmanned autonomous vehicles communication in challenging environments: air, underwater, etc., indoor/outdoor - Ad-hoc networking, routing, handover and meshing * Cooperation of ground, aerial and maritime unmanned vehicles - Localization and vision based sense-and-avoid * Interfaces and cross platform communication - Agent based mobility, multi-platform control, cognitive capabilities and swarming - Communication and system design - Mini / Micro UAVs and enhanced Health Management - Use of civilian networks for UVs communication - Mission control centers and backend communication - Advances in remote sensing: miniaturization, low-weight and energy efficient communication - QoS mechanisms and performance evaluation - Advances in antenna design and MIMO systems - Interworking with satellites and terrestrial communication - Air traffic control and spectrum regulation - Results from prototypes, test-beds and demonstrations Key Note The Wi-UAV has a tradition of distinguished key note speakers (see www.wi-uav-org). We are proud that this year Prof. Gregory Huff, Electromagnetics and Microwave Laboratory, Texas A&M University, has agreed to give a keynote talk on innovative, reconfigurable antenna designs for UAVs. Best Student Paper Award (NEW!) The best of all submitted student papers will be distinguished with a Best Student Paper Award. Submission Guidelines and Publication: GLOBECOM workshops accept only original, previously unpublished papers. Concurrent submission to GLOBECOM and other conferences or journals is not allowed. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit papers in IEEE conference style up to 6 pages through EDAS submission system (http://edas.info/N17567), but one additional page is allowed with additional publication fee. Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE digital library (IEEE Xplore). An accepted paper must be registered before the registration deadline. An accepted paper should be presented at the workshop. Failure to register before the deadline will result in automatic withdrawal of the paper from the workshop proceedings and the program. GLOBECOM will remove an accepted and registered but not presented paper from the IEEE digital library. Attendance Fee Registration for this year's GLOBECOM workshops is $250, valid for any other IEEE GC'14 workshops that day. Important Dates: Submission due: July 15, 2014 (Tuesday, FIRM) Decision notification due: September 01, 2014 (Monday) Camera-ready and registration due: October 01, 2014 (Wednesday) Organizing Chairs: Jonathan How, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Yasamin Mostofi, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, USA Christian Wietfeld, TU Dortmund University, Germany Program Committee: Kemal Akkaya, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA Christian Bettstetter, University of Klagenfurt and Lakeside Labs, Austria Torsten Braun, Universität Bern, Switzerland Liang Cheng, Lehigh University, USA Eric W. Frew, University of Colorado, USA Geoffrey Hollinger, Oregon State University, USA Tor Arne Johansen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Urbashi Mitra, University of Southern California, USA Gerard Parr, University of Ulster, United Kingdom Shigeru Shimamoto, Waseda University, Japan Antonios Tsourdos, Cranfield University, United Kingdom Luiz Vieira, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil Fumin Zhang, Georgia Tech, USA Yifeng Zhou, Communications Research Centre, Canada -------------------------------------------------------- Jonathan P. How Richard C. Maclaurin Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics Aerospace Controls Laboratory (Director), and Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems Massachusetts Institute of Technology 33-326, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA02139 http://acl.mit.edu/ Yasamin Mostofi Associate Professor University of California, Santa Barbara Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9560, USA, http://www.ece.unm.edu/ Christian M. Wietfeld Full Professor of Communication Networks Communication Networks Institute (CNI), TU Dortmund University, D-44227 Dortmund, http://www.cni.tu-dortmund.de Wichtiger Hinweis: Die Information in dieser E-Mail ist vertraulich. Sie ist ausschließlich für den Adressaten bestimmt. Sollten Sie nicht der für diese E-Mail bestimmte Adressat sein, unterrichten Sie bitte den Absender und vernichten Sie diese Mail. Vielen Dank. Unbeschadet der Korrespondenz per E-Mail, sind unsere Erklärungen ausschließlich final rechtsverbindlich, wenn sie in herkömmlicher Schriftform (mit eigenhändiger Unterschrift) oder durch Übermittlung eines solchen Schriftstücks per Telefax erfolgen. Important note: The information included in this e-mail is confidential. It is solely intended for the recipient. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail please contact the sender and delete this message. Thank you. Without prejudice of e-mail correspondence, our statements are only legally binding when they are made in the conventional written form (with personal signature) or when such documents are sent by fax. ______________________________________________________________ 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: [Comsoc-ETC-sub-IOT] [CFP] Wireless Days 2014 - Extended submission deadline (firm)
by Lars Wolf 08 Jul '14

08 Jul '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Comsoc-ETC-sub-IOT] [CFP] Wireless Days 2014 - Extended submission deadline (firm) Datum: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 13:27:47 +0200 Von: Aline Carneiro Viana <aline.viana(a)inria.fr> Organisation: INRIA An: IoT list <comsoc-etc-sub-iot(a)ipv6forum.com> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies] The deadline for Wireless Days 2014 has been extended to July 20, 2014! ======================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS Wireless Days 2014 November 12-14, 2014, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil http://www.wireless-days.org/ ======================================================================= The following keynote speakers are confirmed at this time: -- Vijay Bhargava, University of British Columbia, Canada -- Khaled B. Letaief, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, HK -- Abbas Jamalipour, University of Sydney, Australia ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: ================ Paper submission: July 20, 2014 (extended deadline - firm) Acceptance notification: Sep. 12, 2014 Camera ready and author registration deadline: Sep. 22, 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wireless Days 2014 is technically co-sponsored by the -- IEEE Communications Society -- IFIP -- Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) -- Brazilian National Laboratory for Computer Networks (LARC) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Scope: ====== The Wireless Days Conference is a major international conference which aims to bring together researchers, engineers, students, technologists and visionaries from academia, research centres and industry, to exchange, discuss, and share their experiences, ideas and research results on both the theoretical and practical aspects of wireless networking. After the successful editions of Wireless Days 2008 in Dubai, UAE (43.8% acceptance ratio), Wireless Days 2009 in Paris, France (37.6% acceptance ratio), Wireless Days 2010 in Venice, Italy (32.6% acceptance ratio), Wireless Days 2011 in Niagara Falls, Canada (35% acceptance ratio), Wireless Days 2012 in Dublin, Ireland (34.8% acceptance ratio), and Wireless Days 2013 in Valencia, Spain (34.2% acceptance ratio), the seventh edition of Wireless Days will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on November 12-14, 2014. Wireless Days 2014 will include presentations of both theoretical and experimental achievements, innovative wireless systems, prototyping efforts, case studies and advances in technology related to wireless networking and communication infrastructures. The Wireless Days program will be split into the following six conference tracks: - Track 1: Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks - Track 2: Wireless Network Protocols and Applications - Track 3: Vehicular and Delay Tolerant Networks - Track 4: Broadband Wireless - Track 5: Wireless Models and Simulations - Track 6: Wireless and Mobile Network Management Papers Submission: ================== Submissions should be original and limited to 6 double-column pages (maximum of 2 additional pages allowed - 8 pages in total - with over-length page fee) and should follow IEEE paper templates. Papers are to be submitted electronically on the EDAS web site of the conference in PDF format. EDAS entry for paper submission: http://edas.info/N17131 Contacts: ========= General Chairs: =============== Luis Henrique Maciel Kosmalski Costa, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Miguel Elias Mitre Campista, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Technical Program co-Chairs: ============================ Artur Ziviani, LNCC, Brazil Cigdem Sengul, Oxford Brookes University, UK José-Marcos Nogueira, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil Track Chairs: ============= Track 1: Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks ----------------------------------- Anelise Munaretto, UTFPR, Brazil Thierry Gayraud, Université de Toulouse, France Track 2: Wireless Network Protocols and Applications ---------------------------------------------------- Mauro Fonseca, PUC-PR, Brazil Ted (Taekyoung) Kwon, Seoul National University, South Korea Track 3: Vehicular and Delay Tolerant Networks ---------------------------------------------- Giovanni Pau, UPMC, France Michele Nogueira, UFPR, Brazil Track 4: Broadband Wireless --------------------------- Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal Merouane Debbah, Supélec, France Track 5: Wireless Models and Simulations ---------------------------------------- Igor Monteiro Moraes, UFF, Brazil Manuel P. Ricardo, Universidade do Porto, Portugal Track 6: Wireless and Mobile Network Management ----------------------------------------------- Edmundo Madeira, Unicamp, Brazil Fabrizio Granelli, University of Trento, Italy Publicity co-Chairs: =================== Daniel Fernandes Macedo, UFMG, Brazil Aline Carneiro Viana, INRIA, France Marc St-Hilaire, Carleton University, Canada Publication co-Chairs: =================== Josep Domènech, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain Marcelo Gonçalves Rubinstein, UERJ, Brazil Local Arrangements co-Chairs: =================== Igor Monteiro Moraes, UFF, Brazil Pedro Braconnot Velloso, UFF, Brazil Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, Université de La Rochelle, France Patrons Chair =================== Célio Vinicius Neves de Albuquerque, UFF, Brazil Keynote Sessions Chair =================== Nelson Fonseca, UNICAMP, Brazil Steering Committee =================== Nadjib Achir, Université Paris 13, France Khaled Boussetta, Université Paris 13, France Claudio Palazzi, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy Juan Carlos Cano, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain John Fitzpatrick, University College Dublin, Ireland Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, University of La Rochelle, France International Advisory Committee =================== Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA Guy Pujolle, University Pierre & Marie Curie, France Catherine Rosenberg, University of Waterloo, Canada Chai Keong Toh, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Jozef Wozniak, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland For more information see http://www.wireless-days.org _______________________________________________ Comsoc-ETC-sub-IOT mailing list Comsoc-ETC-sub-IOT(a)ipv6forum.com http://lists.ipv6forum.com/mailman/listinfo/comsoc-etc-sub-iot

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Papers/Posters/Demo: IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference 2014 3-5 December 2014, Paderborn, Germany
by Lars Wolf 08 Jul '14

08 Jul '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Papers/Posters/Demo: IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference 2014 3-5 December 2014, Paderborn, Germany Datum: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 18:05:29 -0400 Von: Wantanee Viriyasitavat <wantaneev(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Wantanee Viriyasitavat <wantaneev(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ***************************************************** Call for Papers: IEEE VNC 2014 6th IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference December 3-5, 2014 | Paderborn, Germany http://www.ieee-vnc.org/ ***************************************************** Submit now using EDAS system: https://edas.info/N17911 --------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES FOR PAPER SUBMISSION --------------------------------- - Paper Registration: August 18, 2014 5pm US EDT - Paper submission: August 25, 2014 5pm US EDT - Acceptance Notification: October 25, 2014 - Camera-Ready Paper: November 10, 2014 --------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES FOR POSTER/DEMO SUBMISSION --------------------------------- - Submission deadline: October 6, 2014 5pm US EDT - Acceptance Notification: October 27, 2014 - Camera-Ready version due: November 10, 2014 Vehicular networking and communication systems is an area of significant importance in our increasingly connected and mobile world. Effective vehicular connectivity techniques can significantly enhance efficiency of travel, reduce traffic incidents and improve safety, mitigate the impact of congestion, and overall provide a more comfortable experience. Towards this goal, the 2014 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC) seeks to bring together researchers, professionals, and practitioners to present and discuss recent developments and challenges in vehicular networking technologies, and their applications. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Applications of vehicular networks, including ITS - Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications - Vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications - Vehicle-to-X (V2X) communications (e.g., with bicyclists, pedestrians, etc.) - In-vehicle communications - Radio technologies for V2X (radio resource management, propagation models, antennas, etc.) - Protocols for vehicular networks (MAC / link layer, routing, mobility management, dissemination, transport, applications etc.) - Architectures, algorithms and protocols for data dissemination, processing, and aggregation in vehicular networks - Security, privacy, liability, and dependability in vehicular networks - Network and QoS management for vehicular networks - Simulation and performance evaluation techniques for vehicular networks - Results from experimental systems, testbeds, and pilot studies - Impact assessments of vehicular networks on safety, transportation efficiency, and the environment - Communications related to electric and hybrid vehicles - Heterogeneous networking approaches (multi-radio, multi-application) - Integration of V2V with on-board systems and networks IEEE VNC 2014 will continue the tradition from previous editions to include a poster session to allow the authors to closely interact with, and obtain feedback from, the conference audience on new or on-going research contributions related to vehicular networking. Posters are especially suited for presenting controversial research directions that may generate discussion, or promising ideas not yet fully validated through complete extensive evaluation. IEEE VNC 2014 will also include a demonstration session for researchers to showcase their latest prototypes with media, models, or live demonstrations. The demo session will be co-located with the poster session to ensure maximum visibility and a close interaction with the conference audience. We solicit proposals for demonstrations related to vehicular networking, describing either mature or innovative systems and prototypes developed for commercial use or for research purposes, from industries as well as universities. We espe! cially encourage demos on validating important research issues or showcasing prototypes that demonstrate realistic applications. --------------------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES --------------------------------- All paper submissions must be written in English and must be formatted in standard IEEE 2-column format. The mandatory IEEE template in Microsoft Word and LaTeX format can be found at the IEEE templates page. Only Adobe PDF files will be accepted for the review process. All submissions must be made electronically. Submission instructions will be provided at a later time. We will consider two different categories of papers: Full papers should describe novel research contributions and are limited in length to eight (8) printed pages (10-point font) including figures, tables, and references. Papers exceeding 8 pages will not be accepted at EDAS, nor reviewed at all. Short papers should be more visionary in nature and may report on work in progress without finished results. They are meant to present novel perspectives, so as to foster discussion about innovative directions and new points of view. They are limited to at most four (4) pages including figures, tables, and references, but might in many cases be even shorter. Accepted short papers will be included in the proceedings and there will be given (a shorter) time for oral presentation at the conference. Poster/demo paper should be a 2-page paper following the VNC 2014 paper format (standard IEEE 2-column format and using 10-point font). All paper submissions must be written in English. The title of the paper should begin with either “Poster:” or “Demo:”. Optionally, a poster paper submission can also include an electronic copy of the poster. A demo paper submission should include an overview of the demonstration set-up (the inclusion of photographs of the demonstrator are encouraged) and the results that will be showcased to the attendees. We also encourage the authors of the demo papers to include a link to a short 2-min demonstration video for the reviewers to facilitate the evaluation of the quality of the demonstration proposal. If a video is included, it will be downloaded by the demo co-chairs such that it can be hosted on our website to ensure the anonymity of the reviewers. The videos of accepted demonstration proposals will then also be advertised on the conference website. For all accepted demonstration proposals, the demo co-chairs will follow up with the authors to obtain requests for required equipment and/or facilities (power outlets, Internet connections, table dimensions, etc.). Demonstrations may be supported by a poster describing the general set-up of the demonstration, its background, and the! technical content to be demonstrated. The authors should inform the demo co-chairs if an accompanying poster will be presented. Please note that the full paper and short paper categories target different kinds of contributions. Different from previous editions of VNC, we will not move papers between submission categories: a paper will either be accepted for the category where it has been submitted, or it will be rejected. Full papers will not be “downgraded” to short papers or poster or demo papers. Therefore, please be sure to carefully assess for yourself prior to submission which is the most suitable submission category for your paper, and to make sure that the presentation in the manuscript is well suited to the aims of this category. Posters/demo papers are also accepted (more info about submission guidelines at: http://www.ieee-vnc.org). All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will appear in the conference CD proceedings and will be submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Please note that for every accepted papers, poster or demo paper, at least one person must register for the conference and present the poster or demo. --------------------------------- VENUE --------------------------------- IEEE VNC 2014 will take place at the Heinz Nixdorf Museums Forum, the world's largest computer museum, located in Paderborn, Germany. The Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum is the world’s biggest computer museum as well as a lively event venue. The Heinz Nixdorf Museums Forum is sponsored by the Stiftung Westfalen foundation set up by Heinz Nixdorf, which primarily promotes science and teaching, especially in the field of information technology. --------------------------------- General Chairs --------------------------------- Falko Dressler, University of Paderborn, Germany Onur Altintas, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan Technical Program Committee Chairs --------------------------------- Suman Banerjee, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA Björn Scheuermann, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany Demo and Poster co-chairs: --------------------------------- Elisabeth Uhlemann (elisabeth.uhlemann(a)ieee.org) Hsin-Mu (Michael) Tsai (hsinmu(a)csie.ntu.edu.tw) Local Arrangements --------------------------------- Debra Venedam, IEEE Finance Chair --------------------------------- Bruce Worthman, IEEE Publication Chair --------------------------------- David Eckhoff, University of Erlangen, Germany Publicity Chair --------------------------------- Wantanee Viriyasitavat, Mahidol University, Thailand Web Chair --------------------------------- Stefan Dietzel, University of Ulm, Germany Poster and Demo Chair --------------------------------- Elisabeth Uhlemann, Halmstad University, Sweden Hsin-Mu (Michael) Tsai, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Panel Chair --------------------------------- Fan Bai, General Motors, USA Keynote Chair --------------------------------- Mario Gerla, University of California at Los Angeles, CA, USA Steering Committee --------------------------------- Onur Altintas, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan Wai Chen, China Mobile Research Institute Geert Heijenk, University of Twente, The Netherlands Thomas Luckenbach, FOKUS, Germany Hyun Seo Oh, ETRI, South Korea Umit Ozguner, Ohio State University, U.S.A. Tadao Saito, Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo, Japan More info at: http://www.ieee-vnc.org/. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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