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Fwd: [IEEE MASS 2014] MASS 2014 - One week deadline extension on Final Manuscript Submission
by Lars Wolf 04 May '14

04 May '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [IEEE MASS 2014] MASS 2014 - One week deadline extension on Final Manuscript Submission Datum: Sat, 03 May 2014 18:30:43 -0400 Von: IEEE MASS 2014 <ieeemass2014-chairs(a)edas.info> An: Lars C Wolf <wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> Dear Authors, Thank you for registering a paper for MASS 2014. The deadline for final manuscript submission is now extended on EDAS until May 9th, 2014 (11:59pm US Pacific Time). This extension is due to the many requests we received from authors who faced PDF compatibility problems that prevented a timely upload of their paper on EDAS. Please note that EDAS imposes several requirements on PDF format. Failure to meet those requirements will prevent upload of your paper. For fairness, the extension is given to all registered papers. Thank you very much and I hope you will find the extension useful. No further extensions will be given. Sincerely, Tarek Abdelzaher Program Chair

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Fwd: CfP: Ubicomp 2014 Workshop on The Superorganism of Massive Collective Wearables
by Lars Wolf 02 May '14

02 May '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP: Ubicomp 2014 Workshop on The Superorganism of Massive Collective Wearables Datum: Fri, 2 May 2014 13:46:15 +0200 Von: Ubicomp Workshop <ubicomp14ml(a)pervasive.jku.at> Antwort an: ubicomp14ml(a)pervasive.jku.at An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de <wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> *CALL FOR PAPERS* *Ubicomp 2014 Workshop on The Superorganism of Massive Collective Wearables* The 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2014) is a premier interdisciplinary venue in which leading international researchers, designers, developers, and practitioners in the field present and discuss novel results in all aspects of ubiquitous and pervasive computing. This includes the design, development, and deployment of ubiquitous and pervasive computing technologies and the understanding of human experiences and social impacts that these technologies facilitate. UbiComp 2014 will be held in conjunction with the International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC). ISWC is a conference dedicated to cutting-edge research in wearable technologies, and is the premier forum for wearable computing and issues related to on-body and worn mobile technologies. Every year, ISWC brings together researchers, product vendors, fashion designers, textile manufacturers, users, and related professionals to share information and advances in wearable computing. *The Superorganism of Massive Collective Wearables* This workshop asks questions on the potential and opportunities of turning massively deployed wearable systems to a globe-spanning superorganism of socially interactive personal digital assistants. While individual wearables are of heterogeneous provenance and typically act autonomously, it stands to reason that they can (and will) self-organize into large scale cooperative collectives, with humans being mostly out-of-the-loop. A common objective or central controller may thereby not be assumed, but rather volatile network topologies, co-dependence and internal competition, non-linear and non-continuous dynamics, and sub-ideal, failure-prone operation. We refer to these emerging massive collectives of wearables as a "superorganism", since they exhibit properties of a living organism (like e.g. 'collective intelligence') on their own. One essential aspect of such globe-spanning collective ensembles is that they often exhibit properties typical observed in complex systems, like (i) spontaneous, dynamic network configuration, with (ii) individual nodes acting in parallel, (iii) constantly acting and reacting to what the other agents are doing, and (iv) where the control tends to be highly dispersed and decentralized. If there is to be any coherent behavior in the system, it (v) has to arise from competition and cooperation among the individual nodes, so that the overall behavior of the system is the result of a huge number of decisions made every moment by many individual entities. In order to properly exploit such superorganisms, this workshop concerns itself with the development of a deeper scientific understanding of the foundational principles by which they operate. To this end, the workshop attempts to address the following foundational research concerns: - Understanding the trade-offs between the power of top-down (by design) adaptation means and bottom-up (by emergence) ones, also by studying how the two approaches co-exists in modern wearable ICT systems, and possibly contributing to smoothing the tension between the two approaches. - Understanding the "power of the masses" principle as far as participatory wearable ICT processes are involved. In particular, this implies understanding how and to what extent even very simple collective phenomena and algorithms - when involving billions of wearables - can express forms of intelligence much superior than that of more traditional AI techniques. - Understanding the issue of diversity and of diversity increase in complex systems and in service/data systems and how diversity of structure and behavior is currently accommodated in wearable ICT systems. As of now, most studies focus on a limited number of different classes, which is far from approximating the diversity of existing systems. - Laying down new foundations for the modelling of large-scale Human-ICT organisms and their adaptive behaviors, also including lessons from applied psychology, sociology, and social anthropology, other than from systemic biology, ecology and complexity science. - Identifying models and tools by which individual organs of the systems can influence and direct "by design" the emergent adaptive behavior of the whole system, or at least of substantial parts of it. Further, the workshop attempts to address the following systems research concerns: - Opportunistic information collection. Systems need to be able to function in complex, dynamic environments where they have to deal with unpredictable changes in available infrastructures and learn to cooperate with other systems and human beings in complex self-organized ensembles. - Collaborative Reasoning and Emergent Effects. Reasoning methods and system models are needed that combine machine learning methods with complexity theory to account for global emergent effects resulting from feedback loops between collaborative, interconnected devices and their users. - Social Awareness. Whereas today's context-aware systems are able to make sense of the activity of single users and their immediate environment, future systems should be able to analyze, understand and predict complex social phenomena on a broad range of spatial and temporal scales. Examples of the derived information could be: shifts in collective opinions and social attitudes, changes in consumer behavior, the emergence of tensions in communities, demographics, migration, mobility patterns, or health trends. The workshop will be held at the Red Lion Hotel in Downtown Seattle (Seattle, Washington, US) on Saturday September 13th. It will be co-located with UbiComp 2014 and ISWC 2014. *CALL FOR FULL PAPERS* Regular paper submissions must present original, highly innovative, prospective and forward-looking research in one or more of the themes given above. Full papers must break new ground, present new insight, deliver a significant research contribution and provide validated support for its results and conclusions. The workshop solicits (i) conceptual papers describing proposals for novel methodologies, theories and principles that might be used in order to design, develop and build, analyse and operate massive collectives of wearables, (ii) observational, epistemological and user study papers to deliver evidence for possible future scenarios, and emerging platforms and technologies as well as (iii) system-development papers proposing ingenious, novel HW/SW platforms. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) - Novel complex adaptive system theories and operational principles. - Novel design principles for building complex adaptive systems. - Insights into evolutionary and emergent complex adaptive system properties - Methodologies, Models, Algorithms, Frameworks and Tools for studying, analyzing and building complex adaptive systems. - Case-studies / very large scale scenarios that can serve as reference case for future super-organisms of collective wearables. Each paper must be submitted as a single PDF file in SIGCHI Extended Abstract format (not longer than six pages in length). Accepted papers will be included in the printed UbiComp 2014 adjunct proceedings and included in the ACM Digital Library. Submissions to this workshop must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the workshop review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere. *CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS* In addition to the submission of research papers, this workshop promotes the submission of position papers. Each paper must be submitted as a single PDF file in SIGCHI Extended Abstract format (not longer than two pages in length) containing a description of the area of research, specific work (empirical or theoretical) on the workshop topic, and the innovative character of the research. Position papers will be published as part of the FoCAS (Fundamentals of Collective Adaptive Systems) white book. *ORGANIZERS* Alois Ferscha (University of Linz, Austria) Paul Lukowicz (DFKI, Germany) Franco Zambonelli (Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy) *IMPORTANT DATES* Submission Deadline June 2nd, 2014 Not. of Acceptance June 22nd, 2014 Camera Ready Version July 6th, 2014 Workshop September 13th, 2014 *CONTACT* ubicomp14ws(a)pervasive.jku.at http://www.pervasive.jku.at/ubicomp14/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, Networks, and Applications (CPSNA 2014)
by Lars Wolf 01 May '14

01 May '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, Networks, and Applications (CPSNA 2014) Datum: Thu, 1 May 2014 11:16:21 +0000 Von: Carlo Fischione <carlofi(a)KTH.SE> Antwort an: Carlo Fischione <carlofi(a)KTH.SE> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG CALL FOR PAPERS The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, Networks, and Applications (CPSNA 2014) Hong Kong, China, August 25-27, 2014 http://www.cpsna.org/ TOPICS: Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are next-generation embedded systems featuring a tight integration of computational and physical elements. Emerging applications of CPS include transportation, healthcare, energy, manufacturing, entertainment, consumer electronics, environmental monitoring, aerospace, etc., all of which will be essential pieces of our social infrastructure. The vision of CPS however faces some core challenges of multidisciplinary research, as their relevant technologies appear in diverse areas of science and engineering. The objective of CPSNA is to bring together researchers from different backgrounds, and explore innovative, exciting, and fresh ideas for the design and development of future CPS. The scope of CPSNA 2014 will give due consideration in all areas of research that facilitate collaborations in existing and new technologies related to CPS. Topics of special interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Real-time systems for time-critical functions in CPS Sensor networks for large-scale sensing and actuation Networked control systems for complexity management in CPS Dependable computing and verification methods to support safety-critical functions Ubiquitous and pervasive computing for enhanced user interactions with CPS Cloud and distributed computing to support scalability and manage complexity Data-intensive computing and data mining to support big data in CPS Multicore and GPU programming for high-performance CPS Architecture, compiler, OS, and middleware platforms for CPS Experimental prototypes of CPS Emerging applications in CPS IMPORTANT DATES: Extended Submission Deadline May 7, 2014 Acceptance Notification May 30, 2014 Camera-Ready Submission June 25, 2014 Conference August 25-27, 2014 SUBMISSION GUIDELINE: Submitted papers must adhere to a page limit of 6 pages. The format must be 8.5-inch by 11-inch with two columns using a 10pt font size. Authors are encouraged to use the IEEE proceedings template: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing. Please use the following link to submit your papers. https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cpsna2014 ORGANIZERS: Honorary General Chair: Sam Kwong, City University of Hong Kong General Chair: Joseph Ng, Hong Kong Baptist University Finance Chair: Shinpei Kato, Nagoya University Program Co-Chairs: Victor Lee, City University of Hong Kong Arvind Easwaran, Nanyang Technological University WiP Chair: Ling Shi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology ______________________________________________________________ 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: [InternetTC] ExtremeCom 2014 - The Galápagos Expedition (deadline extended: May 18)
by Lars Wolf 30 Apr '14

30 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [InternetTC] ExtremeCom 2014 - The Galápagos Expedition (deadline extended: May 18) Datum: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 16:45:52 +0100 Von: Fernando Ramos <fvramos(a)FC.UL.PT> An: itc(a)COMSOC.ORG ------------------------------------------------------------ We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message. ------------------------------------------------------------ ***************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS AND DEMOS Extreme Conference on Communication and Computing - The Galápagos Expedition ExtremeCom 2014 11-16 August, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador http://www.extremecom.org/ ***************************************************************************** Important dates --------------- *Submission deadline: May 4, 2014 May 18, 2014 deadline extended!* Notification of acceptance: June 9, 2014 Early registration deadline: June 14, 2014 Registration deadline: June 15, 2014 Conference dates: August 11-16, 2014 (tentative dates) ***************************************************************************** Scope --------- The Extreme Conference on Communication and Computing (ExtremeCom) brings together researchers and practitioners in areas related to communications in rural, remote or other extreme environments, and computing in extreme operating conditions such as extreme temperatures and energy constraints, extreme quantities ("big data"), extremely large-scale systems, and extreme levels of threat and uncertainty, in order to gain experience and insight into the challenges that such environments pose for the network and the users. We welcome a broad range of topics concerning both technical and economical aspects, for example wireless communication, mobile computing, low power devices and protocols, delay tolerant networks and other networking paradigms, distributed computing paradigms, big data, distributed systems, cloud computing, business and services models, user experiences and web applications. Researches addressing computing challenges in general mobile environments (even not completely extreme) are also welcomed by the conference. Following on from the success of ExtremeCom 2009 - The Midnight Sun Expedition in Laponia, Sweden, ExtremeCom 2010 - The Himalayan Expedition in Dharamsala, India, ExtremeCom 2011 - The Amazon Expedition in Manaus, Brazil, ExtremeCom 2012 - The Swiss Alps Winter Expedition in Zurich, Switzerland, and ExtremeCom 2013 - The Volcanic Expedition in the Eyjafjallajökull Volcano region in Iceland, we present the ExtremeCom 2014 edition: The Galápagos Expedition. The conference will start with 3 days of excursions in the amazing nature of the Galápagos Islands. Along the way, participants will get to see and experience the islands and their plant and animal life, both above and beneath the surface of the ocean. The immersion will not only give a better idea of both the technical and user requirements of such a harsh environment, but it will also give many opportunities for informal research discussions between the participants. Participants that have their own software for scenarios like this will also, to as great an extent as possible, be encouraged to test and demonstrate it within this environment. After the excursions, there will be two days of paper presentations and demos. Focus will still be on informal research discussions, with the hope that the field experience will give participants the ability to discuss the topics in a new light. Submission Guidelines ------------------------------- Participants should submit 6 page papers about ideas and visions about the topics of the conference or demo proposals to be shown during the conference. Visionary and thought-provoking papers that are likely to generate much discussion during the conference are especially solicited. The aim of the conference is to maintain an informal environment, where new research ideas can be discussed and developed. We also hope to have a demo session where participants can show their implementations and systems. If you want to show a demo, please submit a 2 page demo proposal using the same submission system as for conference papers. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. A selected set of top submissions will be fast-tracked to a special issue in a reputed SCI/E journal. We only accept PDF files, no greater than 6 pages in length (2 pages for the demos), including text, figures and references. Manuscripts should use the ACM templates (for LaTeX, please use Option 2 files), with 9pt fonts. Topics for the conference include, but are not limited to: Testbeds for large-scale sustainable testing of moobile communication systems Real deployments of networks in extreme environments Business and service models for networks in rural, remote, and other challenging environments Delay tolerant networking User experience research Big data research such as mining and modeling of mobility and social network Cloud computing for extreme scalability Mesh networks and sensor networks Low-power and intermittent-power protocols Mechanisms for emergency and urgent communications Distributed computing for mobile environments Networked applications and services Operating system and middleware support for mobile computing and networking Security, privacy, and trustworthiness of extreme communications Underwater networking Robotic communications and mobile augmented reality Due to logistics, the number of participants will be limited. Priority will be given to authors of papers and those who register first. ***************************************************************************** Organizers --------------- General co-chairs: Pan Hui, HKUST, Hong Kong / T-Labs, Germany Anders Lindgren, SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden Local arrangement chair: Jorge Sá Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal Carlos Herrera, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Ecuador Publicity chair: Fernando Ramos, University of Lisbon, Portugal Web chair: Fehmi Ben Abdesslem, SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden Technical Program Committee: Yahel Ben-David, University of California - Berkeley, USA Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal Elwyn Davies, Folly Consulting, UK Michael Doering, Bosch Research, Germany Stephen Farrell, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Marco Fiore, INSA Lyon/INRIA, France Roy Friedman, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Paulo Gil, University of New Lisbon, Portugal Sumi Helal, University of Florida, USA Bob Iannucci, Carnegie Mellon University SV, USA Christine Julien, University of Texas at Austin, USA Trevor Pering, Google, USA James Kwok, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Franck Legendre, Uepaa AG, Switzerland Marimuthu Palaniswami, Univ. Melbourne, Australia André Rodrigues, University of Coimbra, Portugal Joel Rodrigues, University of Beira Interior, Portugal Anthony Rowe, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Milan Simek, University of Brno, Czech Republic Jörg Ott, Aalto University, Finland Kevin I-Kai Wang, Univ. Auckland, New Zealand Klaus Wehrle, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Lars Wolf, TU Braunschweig, Germany Lin Zhang, University of Tsinghua, China Steering Committee: Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK Avri Doria, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden Tristan Henderson, University of St. Andrews, UK Pan Hui, HKUST, Hong Kong / T-Labs, Germany Anders Lindgren, SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden ***************************************************************************** Fernando ======== http://www.di.fc.ul.pt/~fvramos/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Internet Technical Committee http://committees.comsoc.org/itc/ To subscribe or unsubscribe: https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=itc&A=1

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE Communications Magazine - Feature Topic on “Energy Harvesting Communications”
by Lars Wolf 30 Apr '14

30 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE Communications Magazine - Feature Topic on “Energy Harvesting Communications” Datum: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 01:05:33 +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 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. For more info, please refer to: http://www.comsoc.org/files/Publications/Magazines/ci/cfp/cfpcommag0415.html 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) Lei Shu, Guangdong University of Petrochemical University, China (lei.shu(a)lab.gdupt.edu.cn) Maged Elkashlan, Queen Mary University of London, UK (maged.elkashlan(a)qmul.ac.uk) Yi Qian, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA (yqian(a)ieee.org) Trung Q. Duong, Queen’s University Belfast, UK (trung.q.duong(a)qub.ac.uk) Frank Schmidt, EnOcean, Germany (frank.schmidt(a)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: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE Internet of Things Journal Special Issue on Internet of Vehicles (IoV)
by Lars Wolf 29 Apr '14

29 Apr '14

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Giovanni Pau <gpau(a)CS.UCLA.EDU> Gesendet: 29. April 2014 20:37:11 MESZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE Internet of Things Journal Special Issue on Internet of Vehicles (IoV) Apologies for Cross Posting ---------------------------------------------------------- IEEE INTERNET OF THINGS JOURNAL A joint publication of IEEE Sensors Council, IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Signal Processing Society ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Internet of Things Journal Special Issue on Internet of Vehicles (IoV) The new era of Internet of Things (IoT) is driving the evolution of conventional Vehicle Ad hoc Networks (VANET) into the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) paradigm. According to recent predictions, 25 billion of "things" will be connected to the Internet by 2020 among which vehicles will constitute a significant portion. The difference of the vehicle concept in VANET and IoV makes these two scenarios essentially different in the device, communications, networking, and services aspects. In VANET, a vehicle is mainly considered as a node to disseminate messages among vehicles. In the IoV paradigm, each vehicle is considered as a smart object equipped with a powerful multi-sensor platform, communications technologies, computation units, IP-based connectivity to the Internet and to other vehicles either directly or indirectly. In addition, a vehicle in IoV is envisioned as a multi-communication model, enabling the interactions between intra-vehicle components, vehicles and vehicles, vehicles and road, and vehicles and people. IoV enables the acquistion and processing of large amount of data from versatile geographical areas via intelligent vehicles computing platforms to o! ffer various categories of services for road safety and other services to drivers and passengers. There are many unprecedented challenges to realize IoV. A typical challenge is the big data processing and storage in IoV due to huge number of connected vehicles. Personal cloud and mobile cloud computing are envisioned to play important roles in dealing with the big data. The seamless integration of the social context into IoV is a promising approach as well as an important question to achieve green transport. In addition, the wide penetration of electrical vehicles in the near future will demand a very careful consideration on the intelligent interactions between IoV and the smart grid. Here, the interactions are not limited to the communications and computation, but the power load scheduling within the demand response management framework in the Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) network. All these issues are being studied in academics, industries, and standardization organizations. This special issue is seeking original contributions on IoV, sharing the research efforts and deployment challenges in this area and discussing IoV challenges, key enabling techniques, platforms and field trails. Topics of interests include (but are not limited to): * IoV architectures and services * Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) communications * V2G efficient demand response management * Vehicle social networks for IoV * Mobile cloud computing for IoV * Efficient big data analysis for IoV * Mobile sensing networking in IoV * Driverless vehicles and supporting technologies * Dynamic spectrum access technologies in IoV * IoV for efficient and green transportation * Urban sensing for environment monitoring * Security, privacy and trust in IoV * Novel applications and business models * Testbed platform and field trials * New network technologies for efficient service provision (e.g., content-centric network) Important Dates Submissions Deadline: May 1st 2014 (Extended to May 15th 2014) First Reviews Due: August 1st 2014 Revision Due: September1st 2014 Second Reviews Due/Notification: October 1st 2014 Final Manuscript Due: October 20th 2014 Publication Date: December 2014 Submission The special issue seeks submission of papers that present novel original results and findings on IoV. Solicited original submissions must not be currently under consideration for publication in other venues. Author guidelines and submission information can be found at http://iot.ieee.org/journal. All manuscripts should be submitted through Manuscript Central: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/iot. Guest Editors * Dr. Hassnaa Moustafa, Intel, USA. Email: hassnaa.moustafa(a)intel.com * Prof. Giovanni Pau, UPMC, France /UCLA USA. Email: giovanni.pau(a)lip6.fr Dr. Fan Bai, General Motors R & D, USA. Email: fan.bai(a)gm.com * Prof. Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway. Email: yanzhang(a)simula.no ========================== It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. - Leonardo da Vinci ========================== ______________________________________________________________ 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 Communications Magazine, Special Issue on "Recent Advances in Technologies for Extremely Dense Wireless Networks"
by Lars Wolf 29 Apr '14

29 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP IEEE Communications Magazine, Special Issue on "Recent Advances in Technologies for Extremely Dense Wireless Networks" Datum: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 09:01:09 +0200 Von: Antonio de la Oliva <aoliva(a)IT.UC3M.ES> Antwort an: Antonio de la Oliva <aoliva(a)IT.UC3M.ES> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG *** CALL FOR PAPERS: IEEE Communications Magazine *** Recent Advances in Technologies for Extremely Dense Wireless Networks (http://www.comsoc.org/files/Publications/Magazines/ci/cfp/cfpcommag0115.html) ** DESCRIPTION The ever growing demand from users of mobile networks, in terms of both capacity and coverage, is driving the current (e.g., IEEE 802.11, LTE, WiMAX) and near-future (e.g., LTE-Advanced, IEEE 802.11ac/ad/af and High Efficiency WLAN - HEW) technologies alike towards their limits. The more sustainable solution to the 5G promise of true ubiquitous mobile broadband is to deploy very dense wireless networks, which we call DenseNets. Intuition based on experience suggests that DenseNets will encompass significant overlapping, and possibly non-interoperable technologies, which can be seen as an evolution of today’s heterogeneous networks (HetNets). Similar to HetNet but only more severe, DenseNets will have to face a multitude of techno-economic challenges such as backhaul availability, very low cost of small base stations, operation, administration and management (OAM), Machine Type Communications (MTC), etc. Some of the relevant issues already identified in the DenseNets scenarios include the nonlinear characteristics of the achieved throughput and energy consumption. As an increased number of cells are being deployed, the effect of the interference becomes dominant, resulting on an overall throughput which is not linear with the number of cells. Similar nonlinear effects on energy efficiency have been observed due to the need for the equipment to be continuously serving high demand applications. In order to overcome these problems, a new family of solutions characterized by the use of cooperative approaches is required to take advantage of the new opportunities brought by the DenseNets scenarios. This opens a broad spectrum of research directions, standardisation paths, and market opportunities, which will involve the relevant communities in both academia and industry in the forthcoming years. The goal of this feature topic is to publish original material, either research or review articles, on the topic of extremely dense wireless networks (DenseNets). All material should be comprehensible and accessible to non-expert readers. ** TOPICS OF INTEREST - Exploration of the fundamental limits of wireless networks (scalability, capacity, ...) - Real life experiences with DenseNets (deployments, large scale testbeds, ...) - Novel business models, requirements, use cases, and applications - Analysis and simulation of extremely dense wireless networks - Advanced mobility management solutions within DenseNets resulting in extremely fast handover (Distributed Mobility Management - DMM, PMIPv6 and beyond, ...) - Software Defined Networking (SDN) approaches for wireless/cellular networks - Cloud Radio Access Networks (C-RAN) approaches for DenseNets - Novel theoretical frameworks for DenseNets - Energy Efficiency techniques for DenseNets - Approaching density-proportional capacity of DenseNets - Evolved network management and Operations Systems Support (OSS) for DenseNets - Standards and technologies for small cells (IEEE 802.11, LTE HeNB, ...) - 3GPP LTE-Advanced and beyond-LTE support to DenseNets ** SUBMISSION GUIDELINES This Feature Topic Issue solicits original work that must not be under consideration for publication in other venues. Authors should refer to the IEEE Communications Magazine's author guidelines at http://www.comsoc.org/commag/paper-submission-guidelines for information about content, constraints (4500 words or less, no mathematical content, etc.), and formatting of submissions. Manuscripts must be written in English, contain substantial tutorial content, and be accessible to a broad general audience working in other fields. Please submit manuscripts to Manuscript Central at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/commag-ieee, and select the category "January 2015/Extremely Dense Wireless Networks." ** IMPORTANT DATES Manuscript Submission Due: May 1, 2014 Acceptance Notification: August 1, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: November 1, 2014 Publication Date: January 2015 ** GUEST EDITORS David Chieng, MIMOS Berhad (Malaysia) Claudio Cicconetti, MBI SRL (Italy) Antonio de la Oliva, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain) Juan Carlos Zúñiga, InterDigital Inc. (Canada) -- Antonio de la Oliva Visiting Professor Telematics Department Universidad Carlos III de Madrid E-mail: aoliva(a)it.uc3m.es Phone: +34 91 624 8803 Fax: +34 91 624 8749 ______________________________________________________________ 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] MobiArch 2014 CFP - The 9th ACM Workshop on Mobility in the Evolving Internet Architecture
by Lars Wolf 26 Apr '14

26 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] MobiArch 2014 CFP - The 9th ACM Workshop on Mobility in the Evolving Internet Architecture Datum: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 09:59:01 -0400 Von: Rui Aguiar <ruilaa(a)UA.PT> Antwort an: Rui Aguiar <ruilaa(a)UA.PT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG The 9th ACM Workshop on Mobility in the Evolving Internet Architecture MobiArch 2014 (in conjunction with MobiCom 2014, September 7-11, 2014, Maui, Hawaii, USA) ============================================================================ Theme: Seamless Mobility in Software Dominated Communication Networks http://mobiarch2014.atnog.av.it.pt/ http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2014/workshops.html ============================================================================ Call for Papers ### Dates: Abstract submissions due: June 2nd, 2014 (5pm EDT) Paper submissions due: June 9th, 2014 (5pm EDT) Notification of acceptance: July 19th, 2014 Camera-ready version due: July 26th, 2014 Workshop date: Sept 11th, 2014 ### Scope: Recent years have witnessed mobile devices surpassing stationary Internet hosts in numbers and exponential growth of mobile data traffic. Wireless has quickly become the dominate last-hop access to the Internet. The mobility of users, devices and networks has become an integral part of today¡¦s Internet. In the meantime, the network infrastructure is the process of transforming from a hardware dominated landscape to an increasingly virtualized and software-defined, cloud-based system with decreasing dependency on hardware. The increasing ability to collect and process large amount of data pertaining to network, devices, and users are posing new challenges to network design. As these trends continue in the near future, a reexamination is urgently required for the architecture of the mobile-centric Internet. The lack of adoption of Mobile IP and IPv6 mobility extensions and additional challenges posed by mobility have led to renewed interest in a clean-slate design that comprehensively addresses mobility, without existing architectural constraints. This requires addressing issues such as efficient mobility management and optimization, locator-identifier split, multi-homing, security and privacy, transport over wireless access, user incentives to reduce network congestion, efficient multimedia content distribution, new cloud computing infrastructure with information centric networking, collection and management of data, new business models for mobile data, and related operational/deployment concerns. Furthermore, the architecture will need to include novel services to meet the demands of today¡¦s fast evolving mobile applications. MobiArch 2014 welcomes submissions from both researchers and practitioners from academia and industry that explore challenges and advances in architectures, protocols, and technologies in the current Internet or in future clean-slate Internets. We encourage work-in-progress papers, we especially welcome position papers that describe highly original ideas, present new directions, or generate insightful discussion at the workshop. ### Topics: All aspects of architectural issues and system support for mobility in the Internet, including but not limited to: Impact of new wireless technologies/services, networking technologies, and mobility patterns on the mobile-centric Internet architecture Mobility support in the Internet, ranging from link to application layers or cross-layer design solutions Seamless mobility in heterogeneous networks Software defined and cloud ¡Vassisted mobile networking Role of network virtualization in mobile Internet architecture Impact of Information Centric Networking on mobile and wireless networks Impact of massive data collection, analysis and management in mobile architecture and services Impact of incentives and smart pricing on network utilization and user Quality of Experience (QoE) Impact of high throughput mobile interface on ad-hoc networks Addressing and routing issues, location management, support for location-aware application and protocols Security and privacy issues in mobile networks and impact on Internet architecture Economic, regulation, and deployment issues of mobility solutions (infrastructure and devices) ### Workshop Co-Chairs Rui L. Aguiar, Instituto de Telecomunicacoes, University of Aveiro, Portugal (ruilaa(a)ua.pt) Katherine Guo, Bell Labs Research, U.S. (katherine.guo(a)alcatel-lucent.com) ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: The 9th ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation and Characterization (WiNTECH 2014)
by Lars Wolf 26 Apr '14

26 Apr '14

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: dimitrio <dimitrio(a)BUFFALO.EDU> Gesendet: 26. April 2014 03:50:09 MESZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: The 9th ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation and Characterization (WiNTECH 2014) ACM WiNTECH 2014 The 9th ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation and Characterization In conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2014 Maui, Hawaii, September 7th, 2014 http://wintech.eng.buffalo.edu We witnessed an increasing demand for high-speed, reliable and ubiquitous mobile wireless networks in recent years. Following this trend, many new challenges arise and need to be overcome to satisfy the growing number of wireless users. Doubtlessly, thorough experimental evaluation and analysis of wireless networking protocols and applications will increasingly be needed to identify the limitations of current technologies and to motivate innovative ideas to go beyond the state of the art. Moreover, realistic empirical evaluations of such a diverse set of solutions, and their mutual interactions, will play a major role to demonstrate their efficiency in everyday denser networks, thus shaping future advances in wireless technology. ================ CALL FOR PAPERS ================ WiNTECH aims at bringing together researchers working in the broad area of experimental wireless networking. The workshop will serve as a forum to share new ideas and experiences gathered across all experimental aspects of wireless networks and systems, and facilitate discussions of key unresolved challenges in this area. We are seeking original, previously unpublished papers empirically addressing key issues and challenges in wireless networking. All submissions will be judged by their technical merit and relevance to the workshop, based on a thorough review process by the Technical Program Committee. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Design and evaluation of wireless testbeds, prototypes and platforms - Experiences/lessons from recent testbed deployments - Hybrid experimentation approaches combining use of multiple evaluation methodologies - Integration of diverse and distributed testbed infrastructures - Testbed management issues and monitoring support - Wireless testbed case studies - Experimental evaluation of applications and protocols, including the impact of cross-layer interactions - Large-scale and heterogeneous wireless network evaluations - Approaches for real-world evaluation of mobile networks - Measurement and evaluation on large-scale smartphone based deployments - Studies on real-world white-space networks - Evaluation environments for sensor and satellite networks - Implementation approaches to ease transition between different evaluation methodologies - New measurement methodologies and infrastructures - Interference and spectrum usage measurements - Techniques for improving reproducibility of real-world testing - Measurement and characterization (modeling) of real-world aspects of wireless networks such as usage patterns, traffic, mobility and channel characteristics - Validation of existing simulation models, and results across different testbeds/evaluation methodologies - Testbeds and experiments in challenged wireless environments (e.g., underwater, underground) All regular workshop paper submissions will be handled electronically via the HotCRP system and should conform to the following requirements: 1. A maximum of 8 (eight) 8.5" x 11" pages (including figures, tables, and references). 2. The paper must be in two-column format, using 10-point font size or greater and reasonable margins. 3. The paper must be submitted in PDF format. Please submit papers by the May 30, 2014 deadline at the paper submission site: http://wintech14-submissions.cs.ucl.ac.uk ============= IMPORTANT DATES ============= Paper submissions due: May 30, 2014 Author notification: July 7, 2014 Camera-ready papers deadline: July 27, 2014 ================= WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS ================= Steering committee Edward Knightly, Rice University Sung-Ju Lee, Narus, Inc. Mahesh Marina, University of Edinburgh Peter Steenkiste, Carnegie Mellon University Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Roma Tor Vergata Workshop chairs Kyle Jamieson, University College London Tommaso Melodia, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Publicity chair Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Demo chair Paul Patras, University of Edinburgh Web Chair G. Enrico Santagati, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York -- Dimitrios Koutsonikolas Assistant Professor University at Buffalo, The State University of New York dimitrio(a)buffalo.edu ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [VNC'14] CFP: IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference 2014 3-5 December 2014, Paderborn, Germany
by Lars Wolf 25 Apr '14

25 Apr '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [VNC'14] CFP: IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference 2014 3-5 December 2014, Paderborn, Germany Datum: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 00:08:09 +0700 Von: wantanee viriyasitavat <wantaneev(a)gmail.com> An: tci-announce(a)COMPUTER.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/listConferencesReview.php?c=17911 --------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES --------------------------------- - 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 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 --------------------------------- 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. 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. 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. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings as well as on IEEE Xplore. --------------------------------- 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 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/. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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