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Fwd: [MM-INTEREST] CFP(due 1/21): Specialized Ad Hoc Networks and Systems (SAHNS 2011 @ IEEE ICDCS 2011), Minneapolis, June 23
by Lars Wolf 18 Jan '11

18 Jan '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [MM-INTEREST] CFP(due 1/21): Specialized Ad Hoc Networks and Systems (SAHNS 2011 @ IEEE ICDCS 2011), Minneapolis, June 23 Datum: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 01:27:20 -0500 Von: Leszek T. Lilien <leszek.lilien(a)WMICH.EDU> Antwort an: leszek.lilien(a)wmich.edu Organisation: WMU An: MM-INTEREST(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG ******************************************************************** We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. (We are unable to eliminate multiple copies created by multiple mailing lists to which you subscribe.) Please disseminate CFP to your colleagues that might be interested. ******************************************************************** -------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS SAHNS 2011 The Third International Workshop on Specialized Ad Hoc Networks and Systems Minneapolis, USA, June 23, 2011 http://www.cs.wmich.edu/~alfuqaha/SAHNS2011/ In conjunction with the IEEE 31st International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2011) -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. SCOPE The Workshop provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government to present their latest research findings in specialized ad hoc networks and systems. As an alternative to one-size-fits-all general solutions in the area of ad hoc networking and systems, we want to stimulate the application oriented divide-and-conquer approach to ad hoc network and system research. The goal is to provide sound and efficient specialized ad hoc networks and systems (SAHNS), suitable for building solutions specific for well-defined classes of applications or even individual applications. We want to consider both specialized ad hoc networks and specialized ad hoc systems. The latter can be built on top of specialized ad hoc networks. Alternatively, they can be constructed independently of specialized ad hoc networks, e.g., on top of general-purpose ad hoc networks. It should be emphasized that SAHNS is interested only in solutions specific to specialized ad hoc networks and systems. The Workshop is not interested in broad general-purpose solutions for all ad hoc networks and systems, or in generic solutions for extremely broad subclasses of ad hoc networks and systems. For example, the Workshop is not interested in general-purpose solutions for all sensornets or all P2P systems but is instead interested in specialized solutions for their application-oriented subclasses. One example of SAHNS targeted by this workshop are Incident Area Networks (IANs), dedicated to single incidents or events. An IAN can be pre-deployed for a planned event, such as a sporting or "nationally significant" event, or can be dynamically deployed for an unplanned incident, such as a local law enforcement situation or a natural disaster. Another example are opportunistic resource utilization networks (e.g., oppnets), in which the network reacts to a lack of resources by finding and incorporating "helpers" that have needed resources or services. Areas and topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: a) Design issues for SAHNS: o Novel network and system architectures o Economically-based models and solutions (incl. incentive-based techniques) o Operating systems and middleware o Customized network protocols (incl. cross-layer and Layer 2.5 protocols) o Resource management solutions (incl. discovery and integration of resources) o Algorithms and models for localization and mobility management o Privacy, security, and trust o Reliability and dependability o Novel hardware platforms b) Development issues for SAHNS: o Development methodologies, models and tools o Analytical and validation models o Performance evaluation and modeling (incl. simulation tools) c) Operation and management issues for SAHNS: o Topology control and management o Energy control and management o Resource and service discovery and control o QoS provisioning and management o Data management, data aggregation, data dissemination, and query processing o Assuring survivability and reliability o Controls for privacy, security, and trust management d) Application issues for SAHNS: o Best current and future applications for SAHNS o Experience with SAHNS deployments and products o Social and business impacts of SAHNS-based applications 2. PAPER SUBMISSION Papers must be submitted in the PDF format, with numbered pages. They should have no more than 6 pages following the IEEE Computer Society proceedings format (8.5 by 11 inch sheets, double-column, 10 point or larger font, single-spaced). The following information must be provided on the first page: o Paper title o Full names, affiliations and email addresses of all authors o An abstract (up to 150 words) o Five to ten keywords/phrases o A footnote with the indication of the corresponding author, plus the complete address, phone and fax numbers of the corresponding author Papers should be submitted by emailing them to: llilien(a)wmich.edu Each received submission will be confirmed, usually within no more than two workdays. 3. PAPER REVIEW AND PUBLISHING Each paper will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers and their comments will be provided to the authors. If accepted, the paper will be published in the workshop proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press, provided that at least one of its authors registers for ICDCS (which includes SAHNS) by the early registration deadline. Information on indexing publications for the events of the IEEE Computer Society is available at: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/benefits#indexing We plan a special issue of an international journal with extended versions of the selected SAHNS papers. 4. IMPORTANT DEADLINES Paper submission - Friday, January 21, 2011 Author notification - Friday, February 25, 2011 Final manuscript due - Monday, March 14, 2011 5. COMMITTEES --------- Steering Committee --------- Prof. Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University, USA Prof. Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland Prof. Ajay Gupta, Western Michigan University, USA Prof. Leszek Lilien (Workshop Chair), Western Michigan University, USA Prof. Thomas Plagemann, University of Oslo, Norway --------- Organizing Committee --------- U.S. Publicity Chair: Prof. Ala Al-Fuqaha, Western Michigan University, USA International Publicity Chair: TBA Publications Chair: Prof. James Yang, Western Michigan University, USA --------- Technical Program Committee --------- - To be announced. 6. FURTHER INFORMATION For further information please visit the SAHNS 2011 web pages at: http://www.cs.wmich.edu/~alfuqaha/SAHNS2011/ or contact Leszek T. Lilien, Workshop Chair (llilien(a)wmich.edu). --[CFP v.11.01.13a] --------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: [Tccc] International Workshop on Context-Aware and Cognitive Intelligence in Vehicular Systems -- Call for Paper
by Lars Wolf 17 Jan '11

17 Jan '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] International Workshop on Context-Aware and Cognitive Intelligence in Vehicular Systems -- Call for Paper Von: "Jeff Li" <Jeff.Li(a)nicta.com.au> An: "tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu" <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> CC: International Workshop on Context-Aware and Cognitive Intelligence in Vehicular Systems (CAVES-2011) (affiliated with ITST-2011) http://www.itst2011.org/workshops http://caves2011.forge.nicta.com.au<http://caves2011.forge.nicta.com.au/> Saint-Petersburg, Russia August 23-25, 2011 Context-aware and cognitive techniques are the major components behind "intelligent" vehicles and transport systems. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the main tracks of ITST-2011 conference. CAVES-2011 welcomes submissions from researchers, engineers, policy makers and other practitioners, on new ideas and recent advances in intelligent vehicles and transport systems. This workshop plans to provide an insight on the most recent innovations and research platforms that understand human and environmental behavior and cognitively make use of the contexts for effective decision-making in Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS). Papers are invited in any one of the following or other related topics. * Survey on intelligent transport systems * Cognitive and Context aware computing for ITS * Sensor information fusion * Driver behavior, emotion and concentration recognition * Collaborative communication, control and positioning * Optimization methods and learning algorithms for ITS * ITS framework architectures for different geographical regions. * Mobility management in vehicular ad-hoc networks * Seamless connectivity in heterogeneous vehicular networks * Simultaneous localization and mapping * Green and sustainable vehicle / transport systems * Telematics and Infotainment * Driver profile / behavioral model (physiological driver-vehicle interface) * Intelligence in road traffic * Integrated road safety management * Practical vehicular and transport system design issues * Traffic information dissemination and aggregation * Cooperative safety support for public transport vehicles * Middleware Architecture for ITS * Context-aware parameter estimation and optimization for ITS * Case studies * Simulator tools and performance analysis Accepted papers will be published in IEEE Xplore (pending) and indexed in relevant databases. Papers in English must be submitted via EDAS in pdf format at http://edas.info//N10311<http://edas.info/N10311>. The total length of a paper should not exceed 6 pages formatted according to the IEEE Template at http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html. The authors are encouraged to submit full papers describing original, previously unpublished research results, not currently under review by another conference or journal. For further information please contact arunkumart(a)vit.ac.in<mailto:arunkumart@vit.ac.in> or arunkumar.thangavelu(a)gmail.com<mailto:arunkumar.thangavelu@gmail.com>. Yunxin (Jeff) Li (Ph.D.) Principal Researcher NICTA, 13 Garden Street Eveleigh, NSW 2015 Australia Tel: +61 2 8306 0741 Fax: +61 2 9376 2027 E-mail: Jeff.Li(a)nicta.com.au _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: INDIN2011 CfP
by Lars Wolf 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: INDIN2011 CfP Datum: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 07:00:07 -0600 Von: IEEE Industrial Electronics Society <ieee-ies(a)auburn.edu> An: undisclosed-recipients: ; --------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS - INDIN'2011 --------------------------------------------------------------------- The 9th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics INDIN'2011 July 26-29, 2011, Caparica, Lisbon, Portugal -------------------------------------------------------------------- Conference web site: http://www.uninova.pt/indin2011 -------------------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT THE CONFERENCE IEEE INDIN is the premier conference series presenting the state of the art and future perspectives of industrial information technologies, where industry experts, researchers, and academics share ideas and experiences surrounding frontier technologies, breakthrough and innovative solutions and applications. PAST LOCATIONS: Banff Canada (2003), Berlin Germany (2004), Perth Australia (2005), Singapore (2006), Vienna Austria (2007), Daejeon Korea (2008), Cardiff UK (2009), and Osaka Japan (2010). --------------------------------------------------------------------- AUTHOR'S SCHEDULE: Deadline for submission of papers: February 4, 2011 Notification of acceptance of papers: March 21, 2011 Final manuscripts due: April 25, 2011 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- MAJOR TOPICS (TRACKS): - Infrastructure and Technology in Industrial Informatics - Cognitive and Computational Intelligence in Industrial Informatics - Distributed, Embedded and Networked Control - Factory Automation and Industrial Informatics - Human, Computer and Machine Interface - Mechatronics and Robotics - Industrial Informatics Applications - New Paradigms in Industrial Informatics - Tools and Industrial Informatics OPEN SPECIAL SESSIONS SS01: Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks in Industrial Automation SS02: Self-X and Autonomous Control in Engineering Applications SS03: Agent-Directed Simulation for Industrial Applications SS04: Self Recovery and Real Time Reconfiguration SS05: Modern Software Engineering Methods and Approaches in Industrial Informatics SS06: Knowledge Management Applications in Service Engineering SS07: Bio-Inspired Methods, Techniques and Algorithms with Application in Engineering Systems SS08: SCADA Security SS09: ICT @ SmartGrids SS10: Embedded Systems & Reconfigurable SoCs SS11: Behavioural Models for Embedded Systems SS12: Reconfigurable Computing Trends --------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Papers are to be submitted electronically. For details consult conference pages at http://www.uninova.pt/indin2011. The material must be unpublished and not under submission elsewhere. -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- IEEE IES conferences. To unsubscribe: http://ieee-ies.org/submit-php/emailremove.php

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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE JSAC Special Issue on Cooperative Networking
by Lars Wolf 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE JSAC Special Issue on Cooperative Networking Datum: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 12:49:02 -0800 (PST) Von: xu li <easylix(a)yahoo.ca> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu CC: arehj(a)unik.no, zhan2(a)mail.uh.edu, prkumar(a)uiuc.edu, xshen(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca [Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] Call for Papers IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Cooperative Networking Challenges and Applications Cooperative networking has received significant attention recently as an emerging network design strategy for future wireless networks. In cooperative networking, individual network nodes can cooperate to implement network goals in a coordinated way, and the cooperation can take place in a cross-layer fashion. Successful cooperative networking can prompt the development of advanced wireless networks to cost-effectively provide multimedia services and applications such as telecommuting, video conferencing, interactive media, real-time Internet games, etc., anytime, anywhere. However, the impact and challenges of cooperative networking on the cross-layer design beyond cooperative transmissions are not well-understood yet. Some fundamental aspects requiring immediate studies include: theoretical tools to guide the design of cooperative networking systems, effective incentive mechanisms for cooperation, new protocol design for cooperative networking, and compatible deployment of cooperative networking over the existing infrastructure. This special issue aims at reporting the state-of-the-art research and development on cooperative networking. Original, unpublished contributions and invited articles, reflecting various aspects of cooperative networking are encouraged. The topics of interest for the special issue include, but are not limited to: * MAC/link layer issues such as adaptive access connection and scheduling; * Cooperative routing at the network layer, transport layer issues such as multi-homing transport layer protocols, end-to-end flow and congestion control; * Application layer such as peer-to-peer system design over cooperative networks; * Cross layer design and optimization, and heterogeneous QoS provisioning; * Topology control and mobility management; * Resource management; * Security support to complement/enhance cooperative networking; * Information theoretic aspects, asymptotic performance analysis, coding schemes and scaling law; * System modeling and experimental study such as those in cellular network, vehicular network, femtocell, and ad hoc/mesh network; * System level topics such as incentive for cooperation, and economics issues related to cooperative networks. Prospective authors should prepare their manuscripts in accordance with the IEEE J-SAC format described at http://www.jsac.ucsd.edu/Guidelines/info.html. Authors should submit a PDF version of their complete manuscript to http://www.edas.info. The timetable is as follows: * Manuscript submission: February 1, 2011 * First reviews complete: June 1, 2011 * Second reviews complete/all acceptance letters sent: August 1, 2011 * Materials to publisher: October 1, 2011 * Publication: 1st Quarter 2012 The Guest Editors for this issue are: Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, xshen(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Qian Zhang, qianzh(a)cse.ust.hk P.R. Kumar, prkumar(a)uiuc.edu Are Hjxrungnes, arehj(a)unik.no Zhu Han, zhan2(a)mail.uh.edu _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: Feature Topic on IoT on IEEE ComMag: Submission extension
by Lars Wolf 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: Feature Topic on IoT on IEEE ComMag: Submission extension Datum: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:31:54 -0500 Von: Chatschik Bisdikian <bisdik(a)us.ibm.com> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** New Submission Deadline: JANUARY 30, 2011 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic Issue on The Internet of Things The Internet has experienced a tremendous growth in the past three decades, evolving from a network of a few hundred hosts to a platform linking billions of “things” globally, including individual people as well as enterprises of various sizes, through computers of any conceivable size and capability and the applications running on them. The growth of Internet shows no signs of slowing down and it steadily becomes the cause of a new pervasive paradigm in computing and communications. This new paradigm enhances the traditional Internet into a smart Internet of Things (IoT) created around intelligent interconnections of diverse objects in the physical world, such as vehicles, cellphones, habitats and habitat occupants, through low-cost information gathering devices, such as sensors and RFID tags, that facilitate fast-paced interactions among the objects themselves as well as the objects and persons in any place and at any time. IoT will usher a wide range of smart applications and services to cope with many of the challenges that individuals and organizations face in their everyday lives. For example, remote healthcare monitoring systems will help alleviate the severe shortage of healthcare personnel in an ageing society; intelligent transportation systems will help reduce traffic congestion and inevitably ills caused by it such as air-pollution; smart distribution systems from utility grids to supply chains will improve the quality and reduce the cost of their respective goods and services; tagged objects can be recycled more efficiently by being retrieved from bulk waste disposal, and so on. These applications would dramatically change the way our societies function and thus have a big impact on many aspects of people’s life in the years to come. IoT is not a mere extension of today’s Internet or an internet of Internet systems. It represents intelligent end-to-end systems that enable smart solutions and as such it covers a diverse range of technologies, including sensing, communications, networking, computing, information processing, and intelligent control technologies. To make IoT a reality, significant research needs to be conducted within and across these technological aspects of IoT. This has recently motivated a voluminous amount of research activities in the hot field and this Feature Topic Issue intends to capture and expose it to the IEEE ComMag readership. Scope of the issue This feature topic issue aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art development in technology, application, and standardization in the field of the Internet of Things, and present an insight of future research opportunities and challenges in this field. The feature issue will consider original survey and research articles written in a tutorial style. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Network and system architectures of IoT * Sensing technologies for IoT * Short-range Communications for IoT * Sensor networking technologies for IoT * Access network technologies for IoT * Information processing, management, and distribution in IoT * RFID applications in IoT * Smart grid applications in IoT * Healthcare applications in IoT * Environmental monitoring applications in IoT * Intelligent transportation applications in IoT * Public safety in IoT * Security and privacy management for IoT * Application systems and testbeds for IoT * Standardization activities for IoT Manuscript Submission Authors should submit their manuscripts in PDF format electronically via the Manuscript Central (http://commag-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com). Articles should be tutorial in nature and should be written in a style comprehensible to readers outside the specialty of the field. Authors must follow the IEEE Communications Magazine’s guidelines for preparation of their manuscripts. Complete guidelines for prospective authors can be found at www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/sub_guidelines.html. Important Dates - Paper submission deadline: January 30, 2011 ** New date - Acceptance notification: May 30, 2011 - Revised manuscript due: July 15, 20011 - Final manuscript due: August 15, 2011 - Publication date: November, 2011 Guest Editors Jun Zheng Southeast University, China Email: junzheng(a)seu.edu.cn David Simplot-Ryl INRIA Research Centre Lille - Nord Europe, France Email: David.Simplot-Ryl(a)inria.fr Chatschik Bisdikian IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Email: bisdik(a)us.ibm.com Hussein T. Mouftah University of Ottawa, Canada Email: mouftah(a)site.uottawa.ca _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. 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Fwd: [ISCC] [IEEE AOC 2011 - WoWMoM Workshop]: Call for Papers
by Lars Wolf 13 Jan '11

13 Jan '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [ISCC] [IEEE AOC 2011 - WoWMoM Workshop]: Call for Papers Datum: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 09:56:37 +0100 (CET) Von: Valerio Arnaboldi <valerio.arnaboldi(a)iit.cnr.it> An: iscc(a)mail.ing.unibo.it -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Fifth IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Autonomic and Opportunistic Communications (AOC 2011) June 20-24, 2011 - Lucca (Italy) http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/aoc2011/ jointly supported by the SOCIALNETS project funded by the FET-IST Programme under the FET proactive initiative on Pervasive Adaptation (PerAda) http://www.social-nets.eu and SCAMPI project funded by the FP7-ICT Programme under the Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE) initiative http://www.ict-scampi.eu/ Fast Track on Computer Communication Journal http://www.elsevier.com/locate/comcom **** Submission Deadline --- January 31, 2011 **** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The diffusion of lightweight, powerful portable devices, also enriched with a variety of sensing capabilities, is enabling new ways for users to communicate, and is laying the foundation for the ubiquitous networking idea to become a reality. Risen from the ashes of traditional MANETs, which failed to cope with the variability of a network solely made up from mobile users, opportunistic communications have recently stood out and gained a lot of research attention. Opportunistic networking is the enabling strategy for communications in a mobile network. The idea of opportunistically exploiting extemporary contacts among the users of the network poses new and challenging problems, as well as providing with novel and promising opportunities, to the networking research community. The AOC 2011 workshop will be a meeting point for people working in the area and it will constitute a forum to exchange ideas, discuss solutions, and share experiences among researchers, professionals, and application developers, both from industry and academia. The AOC 2011 workshop will have a primary interest in the new directions of opportunistic communications represented by mobile social networking, content-centric networking, and participatory sensing. More in general, papers tackling issues related to opportunistic networking and computing are welcome. Original papers addressing both theoretical and practical aspects of autonomic and opportunistic communications are solicited, as well as papers describing prototype implementations and deployments. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Architectures and models for autonomic and opportunistic communications * Advanced technologies for enabling autonomic and opportunistic communications * Tools and techniques for designing, analysing and building autonomic and opportunistic networks * Scaling laws and fundamental limits in autonomic and opportunistic communications * Performance modeling of autonomic and opportunistic communications * Autonomic and opportunistic communication testbeds and measurements * Algorithms, models, and architectures for opportunistic computing * Mechanisms, algorithms and testbeds for service provisioning in autonomic and opportunistic networks * Algorithms, models, and architectures for content centric autonomic and opportunistic networks * Mobile social networking in autonomic and opportunistic communications * Participatory and urban sensing in autonomic and opportunistic networks * Resource management techniques applied to autonomic and opportunistic communications * Context and social awareness in autonomic and opportunistic networks * Routing, transport, and reliability issues in autonomic and opportunistic communications * Techniques for data dissemination and replication in autonomic and opportunistic networks * Applications and middleware support for autonomic and opportunistic communications * Mobility models and statistical analysis of mobility traces * Trust, security, and reputation in autonomic and opportunistic communications * Socio-economic models for autonomic and opportunistic communications PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION -------------------------------- Papers should neither have been published elsewhere nor being currently under review by another conference or journal. Manuscripts are limited to 6 pages, single spacing, double column, and must strictly adhere to the template format. Guidelines on paper submission and formatting are available at http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/aoc2011/. Accepted papers will appear in the symposium proceedings published by IEEE. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and present his/her work at the workshop. There will be no separate registration for workshop, but one single registration will cover both conference and workshops participation. Extended versions of workshop selected papers will be considered for possible fast track publication on the Computer Communications Journal (Elsevier). IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Full papers due: January 31, 2011 Notification: March 28, 2011 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- WORKSHOP Chair Elena Pagani, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy WORKSHOP Vice-Chair Chiara Boldrini, IIT-CNR, Italy STEERING Committee Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Switzerland Ioannis Stavrakakis, University of Athens, Greece PUBLICITY Chair Valerio Arnaboldi, IIT-CNR, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------------------- Gergely Acs, BUTE, Hungary Giuseppe Bianchi, Universita' degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy Eleonora Borgia, IIT-CNR, Italy Vania Conan, Thales, France Igor Curcio, Nokia, Finland Serge Fdida, UPCM Paris VI, France Sabrina Gaito, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Laura Galluccio, University of Catania, Italy Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA Philip Ginzboorg, Nokia, Finland Stratis Ioannidis, Technicolor, France Merkourios Karaliopoulos, University of Athens, Greece Mohan Kumar, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Frack Legendre, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Daniele Miorandi, Create-net, Italy Refik Molva, Eurecom, France Giovanni Neglia, INRIA, France Konstantinos Oikonomou, Ionian University, Greece Joerg Ott, HUT, Finland Andrea Passarella, IIT-CNR, Italy Konstantinos Psounis, University of Southern California, USA Daniele Puccinelli, SUPSI, Switzerland Christian Rohner, Uppsala University, Sweden Fabrizio Sestini, EU Commission Abdullatif Shikfa, Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs, France Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos, EURECOM, France Roger Whitaker, Cardiff University, UK Hongyi Wu, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge, UK Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena-Reggio, Italy Xiaolan Zhang, Fordham University, USA ============================================== Valerio Arnaboldi - AOC2011 Publicity Chair Institute for Informatics and Telematics (IIT) Italian National Research Council (CNR) Via G. Moruzzi, 1 - 56124 Pisa, Italy phone: +39 050 315 2195 email: valerio.arnaboldi(a)iit.cnr.it _______________________________________________ ISCC mailing list ISCC(a)mail.ing.unibo.it https://calvin.ing.unibo.it/mailman/listinfo/iscc

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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP - ACM MobiCom 2011
by Lars Wolf 13 Jan '11

13 Jan '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP - ACM MobiCom 2011 Datum: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 11:51:12 -0800 Von: Habib M. Ammari <Habib.M.Ammari(a)hofstra.edu> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies.] Call for Papers for MobiCom 2011 The 17th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking Planned for September 2011, Las Vegas, NV, USA http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2011/ Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE ACM MobiCom 2011, the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, is the seventeenth in a series of annual conferences sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE dedicated to addressing the challenges in the areas of mobile computing and wireless and mobile networking. The conference will be held in Las Vegas, NV, USA, in late September, 2011. The MobiCom conference series serves as a highly selective, premier international forum addressing networks, systems, algorithms, and applications that support mobile computers and wireless networks. Besides the regular conference program, MobiCom 2011 will also include a set of workshops, panels, research demonstrations, and a poster session that includes the ACM Student Research Competition. More information on these activities, including submission deadlines, can be found at http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2011. PAPERS: Authors are invited to submit full papers presenting new research related to the theory and practice of mobile computing and wireless networking that pertain to the layer two or above of the OSI protocol stack. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to the following. *Architectures, protocols, and algorithms for various wireless and mobile networks, such as wireless LANs, wireless mesh networks, cellular data networks, delay-tolerant networks, mobile ad hoc networks, sensor networks, personal area networks, and vehicular networks * System design, implementation, and evaluation of wireless systems and mobile applications * Real-world measurements and characterization * Performance-oriented design and evaluation focused on networks and mobile applications * Foundational underpinnings of wireless networks * Testbed design and implementation * Cross-layer design for mobile and wireless networks ranging from the PHY layer to applications * Networks involving novel technologies such as UWB, MIMO, directional antennas, software radios, visible light communications and underwater networking * Architectures, algorithms and protocols for dynamic spectrum usage, white spaces, and cognitive networks * Techniques that deal with low power and energy limitations * Operating system and middleware support for mobile computing and networking * Security, privacy, and trustworthiness of mobile and wireless systems * Emerging topics, e.g., robotic swarms, 60 GHz networking, social networking and novel applications enabled by mobile and wireless networking systems MobiCom’11 will be a diverse conference and we strongly encourage the submission of mobile systems, experimental and theoretical papers. The program committee will evaluate each paper using metrics that are appropriate for the topic area. For example, a systems or experimental paper in the protocol area will be evaluated based on the innovations in the protocol design, practical implementation, and realistic evaluation, whereas a more theoretical paper may be evaluated mostly based on innovation within the design of the algorithm and its provable properties. At the same time, the evaluation of wireless and mobile networking technologies is challenging because of the significant impact that the physical environment has on performance. For this reason, all papers must carefully describe and justify the evaluation methodology that is used and identify its strengths and weaknesses. The program committee will referee all papers, and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. CHALLENGES PAPERS: The conference strongly encourages the submission of short papers in the field of mobile computing and wireless networking that present revolutionary new ideas or that challenge existing assumptions prevalent among the research community. These challenges papers should provide stimulating ideas or visions that may open up exciting avenues and influence the direction of future research. Descriptions of new products or evolution of existing work are not appropriate topics for papers in this category. While an exhaustive evaluation of the proposed ideas is not necessary, insight and in-depth understanding of the issues is expected. Challenges papers will be reviewed by the MobiCom program committee and will be part of the technical program and published in ACM MobiCom proceedings. They should be submitted using the same submission procedure adopted for the full papers. The title of these papers must start with the word "Challenge:" i.e., "Challenge: Rest of the Title." SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Authors should prepare a PDF version of their full paper. Papers must (i) be no longer than 12 pages (8 pages for "Challenges" papers), (ii) be in font size no smaller than 10 points, (iii) have pages in double column format with each column having dimensions 9.25” X 3.33”, a space of 0.33” between the two columns, and with no more than 55 lines of text per column, and (iv) fit properly on US letter-sized paper (8.5” X 11”). More detailed instructions will be available in the conference web pages. All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality through double-blind reviewing, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. See the Mobicom 2011 website for detailed instructions to authors on preparing a double-blind manuscript. Authors' names must not appear anywhere in the paper or in the PDF file. Submitted papers must be original work, and a paper with substantial similarity must neither be already published, nor be currently under review for publication in any other venue. Please direct any questions about the paper submission process to the Program Co-Chairs at mobicom_pcchairs(a)acm.org. BEST PAPER AWARD: All papers will be considered for the Best Paper Award. The program committee will select a number of candidates for the award among accepted papers. The winner will be selected at the conference, considering both the paper and the presentation. The winner will receive a plaque and a cash award. IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract submission due: March 2, 2011 (11:59PM EST) Paper submission due: March 9, 2011 (11:59PM EST) Notification of acceptance: June 9, 2011 Camera-ready version due: June 30, 2011 General Chair Parmesh Ramanathan, University of Wisconsin-Madison Program Co-Chairs Brian Neil Levine, Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst Thyaga Nandagopal, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent Steering Committee Victor Bahl Imrich Chlamtac David B. Johnson ACM Program Coordinator Fran Spinola _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: Computer Communications (Elsevier) SI on Wireless Sensor and Robot Networks
by Lars Wolf 13 Jan '11

13 Jan '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: Computer Communications (Elsevier) SI on Wireless Sensor and Robot Networks Datum: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 22:26:15 -0800 (PST) Von: xu li <easylix(a)yahoo.ca> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu, discuss(a)ieeetcsc.org, robotics-worldwide(a)usc.edu, tcpp-announce(a)cc.gatech.edu, tccn(a)comsoc.org, ahsntc-mailing-list(a)list.trlab.ca, dmanet(a)zpr.uni-koeln.de Computer Communications (Elsevier) Call for Papers Special Issue on Wireless Sensor and Robot Networks: Algorithms and Experiments SCOPE Wireless sensor and robot networks (WSRN) are the confluence point where the two traditional fields of wireless sensor networks (WSN) and robot networks meet, and nodes collaborate to accomplish distributed sensing and actuation tasks. Leveraged by the control and mobility of robots, the networking process and applications embrace a whole new set of possibilities. The objective of this special issue is to bring together state-of-the-art contributions on the design, specification, and implementation of architectures, algorithms and protocols for current and future applications of WSRN. Original, unpublished contributions are solicited in ALL aspects of WSRN and traditional WSN, robot networks, as well as robotics and automation. Possible topics of interest include, but are certainly not limited to the following: * Autonomous sensor networks * Emergent behavior in WSRN * Distributed control and management in WSRN * Modeling, simulation and experimentation of WSRN * Autonomic and self-organizing communication and coordination * Robot task assignment and mobility management * Biologically inspired communication * Data management, gathering, aggregation and query processing in WSRN * Location service, neighborhood discovery and service discovery in WSRN * Map exploration and pattern formation and flocking of mobile robots * Localization and time synchronization in WSRN * Energy efficiency, Quality of Service and robustness issues in WSRN * Architectures, coverage and topology control in WSRN * Probabilistic integration in WSRN * Applications and prototypes of WSRN PAPER SUBMISSION * The submitted papers must be written in English and describe original research which is not published nor currently under review by other journals or conferences. Author guidelines for preparation of manuscript can be found at http://www.ees.elsevier.com/comcom. * The submission website for this journal is located at http://ees.elsevier.com/comcom. To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion into the Special Issue, the authors have to select "Special Issue: WSRN" when they reach the "Article Type" step in the submission process. IMPORTANT DATES * Paper submission: Jan. 31, 2011 * Author notification: May. 15, 2011 * Expected publication: Fourth Quarter 2011 GUEST EDITORS * Dr. Jiming Chen Department of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang Univ., China, Email: jmchen(a)iipc.zju.edu.cn * Dr. Hannes Frey Department of Computer Science, University of Paderborn, Germany Email: hannes.frey(a)uni-paderborn.de * Dr. Xu Li Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, U of Waterloo, Canada Email: easylix(a)gmail.com _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [Tccc] ACM SIGCOMM 2011: Call for Posters
by Lars Wolf 12 Jan '11

12 Jan '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] ACM SIGCOMM 2011: Call for Posters Datum: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 11:50:03 -0500 Von: Nicolas Christin <nicolasc(a)gmail.com> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu SIGCOMM 2011 - Call for Posters The SIGCOMM poster session showcases works-in-progress. The setting is informal. Topics of interest are the same as research topics in the SIGCOMM conference call for papers. Although anyone can submit a poster, preference will be given to posters where the primary contribution is from one or more students. The SIGCOMM 2011 Poster and Demo committee will review all demo proposals. At the conference, a student must present student posters. Authors of accepted papers in SIGCOMM 2011 may not submit a poster on the same work in those papers. Student Research Competition The SIGCOMM poster session will also serve as an ACM student research competition. Qualified entrants must have current ACM student membership, have graduate or undergraduate student status at the time of submission (May 2011, below), and be submitted by a single student author. Supervisors are not permitted to coauthor the poster. (Please contact the poster chairs if this restriction represents a hardship.) Undergraduates and graduate students will be treated in separate divisions. (Students starting their first year of graduate school at the time of the conference will be considered as undergraduates.) A small travel supplement is made available to accepted entrants: please also submit applications for travel grant support. The ACM SRC program is sponsored by Microsoft Research. Winners will advance to ACM Grand Finals of the Student Research Competition to compete against the winners of other ACM conferences. Why Should You Submit a Poster? This is a great chance especially for students to obtain interesting and valuable feedback on ongoing research from a knowledgeable crowd at the conference. In addition, top few submissions will be forwarded for publication to ACM SIGCOMM's newletter, the ACM Computer Communication Review (CCR). Travel Grants for Student Posters Students who are submitting posters are highly encouraged to examine if they are eligible for student travel grants. What is a Poster? We define a poster to be A0 paper size in portrait mode (841x1189mm), to which you can affix visually appealing material that describes your research. Alternatively, you can use the space as a continuum. You should prepare the best material (visually appealing and succinct) that effectively communicates your research problem, techniques, results, and what is novel and important about your work. Note that you do not submit such a large-format image; only an abstract describing in text what the poster would present. What and Where to Submit Please submit a two-page abstract on the work to https://sigcomm2011posters.cs.wisc.edu. The decision will be taken primarily by reading the abstract. Submissions are single blind, so please include authors' names and affiliation. Content: The abstract should clearly state: • the problem being addressed; • what makes this problem interesting, important, and difficult; • your approach to the problem; • the key contribution In the final version of the abstract, you should include a URL that provides additional information about your work to the attendees. Formatting: Prepare your abstract using ACM conference style, modified to 10pt. Concretely, two columns, minimum 10pt times with 0.75 inch margins and 1/3 inch space between columns. The abstract must be within the page limit and in PDF format. Word documents will not be accepted. At the conference, we will distribute the abstracts to all conference attendees. Important dates Submission Deadline May 12, 2011 (midnight PDT) Acceptance Notification June 5, 2011 Camera Ready Deadline June 15, 2011 Poster and Demo Committee Poster/Demo Co-Chairs Aditya Akella University of Wisconsin--Madison, USA Lili Qiu University of Texas at Austin, USA Committee Members Nick Feamster Georgia Tech, USA Vyas Sekar Intel Labs at Berkeley, USA Sue Moon KAIST, Korea David Oran Cisco, USA Neil Spring University of Maryland, USA Sneha Kumar Kasera University of Utah, USA Fabian Bustamante Northwestern Univeresity, USA Lakshminarayanan Subramanian New York University, USA Li Erran Li Bell Labs, USA Rodrigo Fonseca Brown University, USA Kun Tan Microsoft Research Asia, China Jia Wang Purdue University, USA Xiaowei Yang Duke University, USA _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE JSAC on BWC for High Speed Vehicles
by Lars Wolf 12 Jan '11

12 Jan '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE JSAC on BWC for High Speed Vehicles Datum: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 19:51:36 +0800 Von: Zhou Yi Qing <yqzhou(a)eee.hku.hk> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu [Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] Happy New Year! ***************************************************************** * CALL FOR PAPERS * * IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications * * Broadband Wireless Communications for High Speed Vehicles * ***************************************************************** With the development of mobile communication systems such as long term evolution (LTE), WiMax and International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT)-Advanced, broadband wireless multimedia services will be prevalent in the near future. Meanwhile, high speed vehicles such as airplanes and high speed trains play an increasingly important role in people’s lives, since they provide a relatively stable and spacious environment for long distance travel. As a result, there will be a strong demand for broadband wireless communications (BWC) for high speed vehicles to provide information and onboard entertainment services to passengers. BWC is also needed in vehicle control systems for operational information such as fault sensor measurements and diagnostics, video surveillance, and so on. Interesting research areas and various challenges arise when designing BWC systems for high speed vehicles. For example, a new network structure is needed since a direct transmission signal between the passenger and infrastructure-base-station experiences serious deterioration when traveling through the speeding vehicle. Distributed antenna and radio over fiber can be employed for vehicle-to-infrastructure communication. Moreover, due to the lack of accurate channel information, innovative radio resource allocation schemes are also needed at the infrastructure-base-station to assign resources to high speed vehicles. The fast movement of high speed vehicles through cellular networks causes frequent handovers and drop-offs, degrading the user experience. This prompts the need for designing fast and reliable handover and random access schemes. In addition, novel physical layer techniques of BWC in high speed mobile environments need to be considered. In particular, there is a strong need to evaluate the effect of Doppler spread and revisit the noncoherent coding, modulation and MIMO schemes. Therefore, BWC for high speed vehicles is a pressing research topic that has huge applications. It is imperative to develop the key techniques enabling BWC for high speed vehicles. The goal of this issue is to bring together the most updated research contributions in this area. We are soliciting high quality, original and unpublished work in BWC for high speed vehicles, especially those pushing the envelope in terms of vehicle speed and communication bandwidth. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Novel network architecture * Satellite communications * Drive-through Internet * Distributed antenna systems and radio over fiber for vehicle-to-infrastructure communications * High speed vehicle-to-vehicle communication * BWC for high speed vehicle control systems * Radio resource allocation to high speed vehicles * Fast and reliable handover and random access schemes * Wireless channel modeling and estimation * Effects of Doppler spread * Modulation schemes for high speed vehicles * Antenna array and MIMO * Prototype and field tests Prospective authors should prepare their manuscripts following the IEEE J-SAC format described at http://www.jsac.ucsd.edu/Guidelines/info.html. Authors should submit a PDF version of their complete manuscript to http://www.edas.info. The timetable is as follows: * Manuscript Submission Due: May 1, 2011 * First Reviews Due: August 1, 2011 * Second Reviews Due and Acceptance Notification: November 1, 2011 * Final Manuscript Due: January 1, 2012 * Publication: 2nd quarter 2012 Guest Editors: * Prof. Yiqing Zhou, Advanced Wireless Center, ICT/CAS, China (zhouyiqing(a)ict.ac.cn) * Prof. Fumiyuki Adachi, Tohoku University, Japan (adachi(a)ecei.tohoku.ac.jp) * Prof. Xiaodong Wang, Columbia University, USA (wangx(a)ee.columbia.edu ) * Prof. Athanassios Manikas, Imperial College, United Kingdom, (a.manikas(a)imperial.ac.uk) * Prof. Xi Zhang, Texas A&M University, USA (xizhang(a)ece.tamu.edu) * Prof. Wei-Ping Zhu, Concordia University, Canada (weiping(a)ece.concordia.ca) _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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