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Fwd: Aufruf zur Einreichung (CfP) SAKS 2011, Deadline 31.10.
by Lars Wolf 14 Oct '10

14 Oct '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Aufruf zur Einreichung (CfP) SAKS 2011, Deadline 31.10. Datum: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:17:45 +0200 Von: Michael Zapf <Michael.Zapf(a)UNI-KASSEL.DE> Antwort an: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, anbei schicke ich den Aufruf zur Einreichung von Beiträgen für einen neuen Durchgang unseres SAKS-Workshops, der nächstes Jahr in Kiel bei der KiVS 2011 stattfinden wird. Weitere Details entnehmen Sie bitte dem unten stehenden Text. Viele Grüße Michael Zapf ================================================================================================== == SAKS 2011 Workshop at KIVS 2011| Call for Papers == CALL FOR PAPERS SAKS 2011 Workshop im Rahmen von KIVS 2011: Selbstorganisierende, adaptive, kontextsensitive verteilte Systeme (SAKS) 10.-11. März 2011 - Kiel, Deutschland Homepage: http://www.kivs11.de/lang/de/workshops/workshop-on-self-organising-context-… Einreichung: https://www.conftool.com/kivs11/ WICHTIGE DATEN Frist für die Einreichung von Beiträgen: 31.10.2010 Benachrichtigung der Autoren: 28.11.2010 Endgültige Fassung: 19.12.2010 ================= SAKS 2011: Selbstorganisierende, adaptive, kontextsensitive verteilte Systeme (SAKS) MOTIVATION Zunehmende Vernetzung und Verteilung der Anwendungen in einer Welt, die immer weiter von Informationstechnologie durchdrungen wird, bringt große Herausforderungen für die Entwicklung dieser Anwendungen mit sich. Ubiquitous und Pervasive Computing erfordern die Beherrschung immer komplexer werdender Systeme, die nicht mehr nur statisch konfiguriert oder manuell gesteuert werden können. Hier setzt dieser Workshop an, indem die Anforderungen an solche Systeme, nämlich dynamische Anpassung, Autonomie und Selbst-Eigenschaften thematisiert und ihre Umsetzung diskutiert werden sollen. In diesem Workshop soll insbesondere Raum geschaffen werden, diese Fragen in Kontakt mit aktuellen Main-Stream-Technologien wie SOA, MDA u.a. zu bringen und die Methodenentwicklung thematisieren. Sind Selbstorganisation und Emergenz in solchen Systemen zu unterdrücken oder zu kontrollieren? Sind Selbstorganisation und Emergenz im Systementwurf planbar und wenn ja, mit welchen Methoden und Werkzeugen? Sind Systeme, die für statische Konfiguration und manuelle Steuerung ausgelegt waren, nachträglich mit den gewünschten Eigenschaften automatisierbar und wie sehen Methoden des Re-Design bzw. Re-Engineering aus? Wie arbeiten Methoden und Architekturen zusammen? Anwendungsstudien und praktische Tauglichkeit von Systemen mit Adaptivität, Autonomie und Selbst-Eigenschaften sind von besonderem Interesse, da sie letztendlich über den Erfolg der hier thematisierten Forschungs- und Entwicklungsrichtung entscheidet. Interdisziplinäre Offenheit ist für diesen Workshop ein wesentlicher Schlüssel zum Erfolg. Main-Stream-Techniken, Architekturen und Methoden sollen in Kontakt gebracht werden mit neuen Entwurfsmethoden, die bionisch inspiriert oder von der Complex-Systems-Forschung beeinflusst sind. Doch technische Fragen alleine können nicht maßgeblich für die Durchsetzung einer neuen Technologie sein. Sind Adaptivität und Selbstorganisation auch außerhalb unserer Prototypen, also im großen Maßstab, einsetzbar - können sie alltagstauglich werden? Welche Chancen eröffnen sich für den Einsatz adaptiver und selbstorganisierender IT? Schließlich, und gerade im technischen Kontext viel zu selten betrachtet werden Fragen gesellschaftlicher und rechtlicher Implikationen des Einsatzes solcher Systeme. Im dem Maße, wie wir die Kontrolle an das System abgeben, muss das Vertrauen in die einwandfreie Funktion des Systems wachsen. Wir verfolgen in der Themenwahl für diesen Workshop einen klar interdisziplinären Kurs, der sich damit von verwandten Veranstaltungen abgrenzt, welche eine Auswahl überwiegend technischer Themen vorsehen. Ziel soll sein, die Vielschichtigkeit der neuen adaptiven, selbstorganisierenden Systeme in für die Forschung als auch für die Gesellschaft bedeutenden Aspekten zu beleuchten. ZIEL Dieser Workshop soll die erfolgreiche Workshop-Reihe SAKS, die sich in den Jahren 2006-2010 (darunter bereits zweimal als KiVS-Workshop) dem Thema Selbstorganisation und Adaption widmete, im Rahmen der KiVS 2011 in Kiel fortsetzen. Der Workshop soll eine Bestandsaufnahme von Forschungs- und Entwicklungsaktivitäten im deutschsprachigen Raum bieten. Dabei soll die Kooperation der beteiligten Akteure weiter gestärkt und mittelfristig zu einer höheren internationalen Sichtbarkeit der deutschsprachigen Forschung und Entwicklung auf diesem Gebiet geführt werden. Die Teilnahme von Vertretern aus der Industrie ausdrücklich erwünscht, um den Kontakt zur industriellen Praxis zu intensivieren und gemeinsame Interessen auszuloten. ORGANISATION Die geplante Dauer des Workshops beträgt - je nach Anzahl akzeptierter Beiträge - eine ganzen oder ein bis zwei halbe Tage. Das Workshop-Programm soll aus der Präsentation der ausgewählten Beiträge, einem eingeladenen Vortrag und ggf. einer Podiumsdiskussion bestehen. THEMEN UND BEITRÄGE Der Workshop wird sich den Themen der Selbstorganisation und Adaption in IT-Systemen widmen und dieses Themenfeld aus verschiedenen Perspektiven beleuchten. Technik selbstorganisierender und adaptiver Systeme - Konstruktion und Evaluation von Systemen mit Selbst-Eigenschaften - Biologisch-inspirierte Ansätze für Selbstorganisation und Adaption - Autonomic und Organic Computing - Softwarearchitekturen für autonome und ubiquitäre Systeme - Selbstorganisation in Service-orientierten Architekturen - Selbstorganisation in der Robotik - Adaptivität in Anwendungen und Middleware - Kontextmodelle und Kontextverarbeitung - Entwicklungsmethoden für personalisierte kontextsensitive Dienste - Integration von Anwendern in den Entwicklungsprozess - Akteure der Dienstentwicklung und des Dienstbetriebs - Benutzerzentriertes Design, Benutzerschnittstellen und Bedienkonzepte adaptiver und kontextsensitiver Systeme Soziale und rechtliche Implikationen in einer adaptiven IT-Welt - Vertrauen und Verlässlichkeit in selbstorganisierenden Systemen - Sozialverträgliche Gestaltung adaptiver und kontextsensitiver Systeme - Anwendungsdomänen-spezifische Anforderungen und Lösungen (Automotive, Health, etc.) für adaptive und kontextsensitive Systeme - Verbindlichkeit und Verantwortlichkeit Neue Chancen durch Selbstorganisation und Adaption - Industrielle Anforderungen und Projekte - Forschungsprototypen und Erfahrungsberichte - Neue Wertschöpfungsketten, Geschäfts-, Service- und Betreibermodelle für adaptive und kontextsensitive Systeme EINREICHUNG Die Einreichung von Beiträgen wird über das ConfTool-System vorgenommen; eine SAKS-2011-Seite (https://www.conftool.com/kivs11/) ist dort vorbereitet. Beiträge können in Deutsch oder Englisch verfasst werden und müssen im PDF-Format vorliegen. Vollständige Beiträge sollen eine Länge bis zu 12 Seiten aufweisen; Kurzbeiträge sollen bis zu 6 Seiten umfassen; Industriebeiträge können als erweiterte Kurzfassung von 1-2 Seiten eingereicht werden. Nutzen Sie bitte entsprechend ihrem Textbearbeitungssystem eine der folgenden Vorlagen: LaTeX-Klasse: http://journal.ub.tu-berlin.de/template/ECEASST-cls-XXX-WowKiVS11.tar.gz LaTeX-Klasse als zip : http://journal.ub.tu-berlin.de/template/ECEASST-cls-XXX-WowKiVS11.zip Word-Formatvorlage: http://journal.ub.tu-berlin.de/template/WowKiVS11.doc Einreichung: https://www.conftool.com/kivs11/ Bitte reichen Sie Ihren Beitrag - unabhängig von der Dokumentvorlage - nur im PDF-Format ein. Falls Ihr Textbarbeitungssystem keine PDF-Ausgabe beherrscht, können Sie einen der zahlreichen kostenlosen PDF-Writer nutzen, die etwa ein Word-Dokument einlesen und als PDF ausgeben. Die eingereichten Beiträge werden vom Programmkomitee des Workshops im Hinblick auf ihr Diskussionspotential und ihren Beitrag zu einem repräsentativen thematischen Querschnitt ausgewählt. Beiträge werden mehrfach begutachtet und in publikationsfähiger Form zusammengetragen. Sofern eine Mindestzahl von Einreichungen vorliegt, werden die akzeptierte Beiträge im Open-Access-Journal Electronic Communications of the EASST veröffentlicht. WICHTIGE DATEN Frist für die Einreichung von Beiträgen: 31.10.2010 Benachrichtigung der Autoren: 28.11.2010 Endgültige Fassung: 19.12.2010 Organizationskomitee Winfried Lamersdorf, Universität Hamburg Wolfgang Renz, Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg Michael Zapf, Universität Kassel Programmkomitee Uwe Baumgarten, Technische Universität München Markus Bick, ESCP Europe Campus Berlin Walter Blocher, Universität Kassel Thilo Böhmann, International Business School of Service Management Hamburg Volker Boehme-Neßler, Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin Georg Borges, Ruhr-Universität Bochum Lars Braubach, Universität Hamburg Klaus David, Universität Kassel Kurt Geihs, Universität Kassel Klaus Herrmann, Universität Stuttgart Thomas Hoeren, Universität Münster Reinhold Kröger, Hochschule RheinMain Winfried Lamersdorf, Universität Hamburg Jan-Marco Leimeister, Universität Kassel Klaus Mößner, Universität Surrey (UK) Gero Mühl, Universität Rostock Andreas Polze, Hasso-Plattner-Institut Wolfgang Renz, Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg Alexander Roßnagel, Universität Kassel Gregor Schiele, Universität Mannheim Jan Sudeikat, Universität Hamburg Matthias Trier, Technische Universität Berlin Ante Vilenica, Universität Hamburg Manfred Wojciechowski, Fraunhofer ISST Michael Zapf, Universität Kassel -- Dr. Michael Zapf ...................... +49 561 804 6279 (Fax: -6277) Fachgebiet Verteilte Systeme (Distributed Systems) Fachbereich Elektrotechnik / Informatik (16) Universität Kassel Wilhelmshöher Allee 73, 34121 Kassel (Germany)

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Fwd: [InternetTC] IEEE Communications Magazine - Feature Topic on Traffic Management for Mobile Broadband Networks
by Lars Wolf 14 Oct '10

14 Oct '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [InternetTC] IEEE Communications Magazine - Feature Topic on Traffic Management for Mobile Broadband Networks Datum: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:43:22 +1100 Von: Jahan Hassan <jahan(a)cse.unsw.edu.au> An: itc(a)comsoc.org (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Papers) *IEEE Communications Magazine: Feature Topic on Traffic Management for Mobile Broadband Networks * * * *Call for Papers * With mobile terminals becoming the primary Internet devices for most of the people in the world and smartphone users generating on average 10 times more traffic than other users, it is critical that Telco operators and ISPs adopt smarter traffic management and pricing strategies. Current forecasts expect mobile data traffic to grow by 300-500 times more over the next 10 years, whereas the capacity of cellular infrastructure only doubles every 2 years. By 2020, more than half of the revenue in the global broadband industry is likely to be from two business models: wholesale and “two-sided” fees for improved access capacity and quality. Those models require the enforcement of stringent policy control mechanisms for bandwidth management, QoS and service level agreements, according to subscriber policies with real-time perspective on usage, location, device and user type, radio access technology, network capacity and topology. In this area, several research challenges are still to be addressed:  How can the network be made service-, state- and/or context-aware in order to apply specific policies to enhance the end user experience (QoE)?  How can the service provider bridge QoE and QoS, and change the QoS level based on spending limits?  How can different IP flows of the same packet data network (PDN) be routed via different accesses? In addition, how is it possible to move IP flows of the same PDN from one access to another for seamless WLAN offload or for usage of WLAN access to connect to Internet without traversing operator's core network?  How can selected IP traffic be offloaded from the cellular infrastructure and save transmission costs?  How can mobile networks be optimized for mass machine-type communications/applications?  How to optimize the utilization of Digital Dividend (unprecedented amount of spectrum that becomes available as a result of the switchover from analog to digital terrestrial TV)? This timely feature topic issue of IEEE Communications Magazine will bring together researchers from industry, academia and standardization bodies to present and analyze the above challenging issues in the important area of managing traffic for existing and future mobile broadband networks, i.e. within and beyond the existing standardization frameworks (3GPP, 3GPP2, IEEE 802.16, etc.). We are soliciting original research, analysis of live networks or test beds, and survey articles written in a tutorial style, comprehensible to all readers of the magazine. Submissions will undergo a rigorous peer review process. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:  IP flow mobility, seamless WLAN / Femtocell offload and related policy control  Network enhancements, such as signaling management, local IP access and selected IP traffic offload (internet traffic, corporate traffic, etc.), packet scheduling and prioritization  Network improvements for mass machine-type communications  Compression, rate-adaptation and transcoding  Device-based traffic management techniques  Contention management and tuning TCP/IP  Deep packet inspection, policy-based traffic shaping & differential charging  Segmentation by users, services, devices, technology, etc.  End-to-end service assurance and QoE monitoring  Caching, multicast and CDNs for http-based streaming and download services  Network operations, pricing and billing, network and service management  Software/middleware architectures and solutions  QoS-oriented network planning  Digital Dividend for mobile broadband services Manuscript Submission and Schedule Articles should be tutorial in nature and written in a style comprehensible to readers outside the specialty of the article. References should be limited to 10, figures and tables to a combined total of 6 (mathematical equations should be avoided). Paper length should not exceed 4,500 words. Complete guidelines can be found at http://dl.comsoc.org/livepubs/ci1/info/sub_guidelines.html. All articles must be submitted through the IEEE Manuscript Central at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com:80/commag-ieee.  Full Paper Submission Deadline: 28 January 2011  Decisions Notification: 22 May 2011  Final Manuscripts Due: 30 June 2011  Publication of Special Issue: Second Half of 2011 Guest Editors: Dr. David Soldani (Corresponding Editor) Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. European Research Centre Ries str. 25, 80992, Munich, Germany E-mail: david.soldani(a)huawei.com <mailto:david.soldani@huawei.com> <mailto:david.soldani@huawei.com>Prof. Sajal K. Das Department of Computer Science and Engineering University Texas at Arlington P.O. Box 19015, Arlington, TX 76019, USA E-mail: das(a)cse.uta.edu <mailto:das@cse.uta.edu> <mailto:das@cse.uta.edu>Prof. Mahbub Hassan School of Computer Science and Engineering University of New South Wales Kensington, Sydney 2052, Australia E-mail: mahbub(a)cse.unsw.edu.au <mailto:mahbub@cse.unsw.edu.au> <mailto:mahbub@cse.unsw.edu.au>Dr. Jahan A. Hassan School of Computer Science and Engineering University of New South Wales Kensington, Sydney 2052, Australia E-mail: jahan(a)cse.unsw.edu.au <mailto:jahan@cse.unsw.edu.au> <mailto:jahan@cse.unsw.edu.au>Dr. Giridhar D. Mandyam Qualcomm Inc. 5775 Morehouse Drive San Diego, California 92121, USA Email: mandyam(a)qualcomm.com <mailto:mandyam@qualcomm.com>

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Fwd: [COMSNETS 2011] COMSNETS 2011 PhD Forum: Call for Submissions
by Lars Wolf 14 Oct '10

14 Oct '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [COMSNETS 2011] COMSNETS 2011 PhD Forum: Call for Submissions Datum: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:35:44 -0400 Von: COMSNETS 2011 <comsnets11(a)ee.iitb.ac.in> Antwort an: comsnets11(a)ee.iitb.ac.in An: Lars C Wolf <wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> CC: comsnets11(a)ee.iitb.ac.in (Sent on behalf of the COMSNETS PhD Forum Chair, Bhaskaran Raman) *Please note:* since this is a presentation/feedback event, and no publication is involved, it is perfectly fine to submit in-progress or prior published work. And there is *registration/travel support* available for the selected participants. http://www.comsnets.org/PhDforum.html http://www.comsnets.org/ *COMSNETS 2011 PhD Student Forum* The COMSNETS 2011 PhD student forum is an event where the presenters will exclusively be PhD students, as the event name suggests. The goals of this event are: 1. To enable PhD students to get quality feedback on their ongoing work, from the conference participants. 2. To enable interaction among PhD students, and between PhD students and potential employers! Thus PhD students as well as potential employers stand to gain from this forum. *Conference Attendance Support* The PhD student participants selected for this forum will automatically be eligible for conference attendance support. This will be in terms of a travel grant and substantial registration fee support. *Event Structure* The event will be structured as a series of 12-15 minute presentations (strictly timed!). Depending on the participation, we may have two parallel tracks. There will be a best student presentation award. Students selected for participation will be expected to go through a feedback-based revision process for their presentation, prior to the conference. This is to have improved quality as well as better control over time at the conference session. *Important Dates* Submission date: 15 October 2010 Notification date: 26 November 2010 *What to Submit* Students have to submit two things: 1. A 15-minute presentation, as they would be presenting at the conference if their submission is selected. This presentation should include: * The PhD problem motivation and problem statement * A crisp view of related work (i.e. why the problem is still unsolved) * An overview of the technical contributions thus far, including the main results and their implications The presentation should typically be about 8-10 slides. Including many more slides is likely to be counter-productive. 2. A 2-page extended abstract to help the reader understand the above slides. This abstract may refer to figures, tables, or graphs in the presentation slides. The topics of interest for this forum are the same as for the main COMSNETS-2011 conference. *Clarification:* Since there is no publication involved with this event, students can submit already completed/published work, or even work currently under submission elsewhere (including COMSNETS-2011). *How to Submit* Please watch the PhD forum web-page for further instructions. *Evaluation Committee* The students' submissions will be evaluated by the following technical program committee. * Vinayak Naik, IIIT-Delhi * Bhaskaran Raman, Dept. of CSE, IIT Bombay (Chair) * Vinay Ribiero, Dept. of CSE, IIT Delhi * Vikram Srinivasan, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs Contact If you have any queries, please contact the PhD Forum Chair, Bhaskaran Raman at "username: br" @ "domain: cse.iitb.ac.in".

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Fwd: ACM MobiHoc 2011 - Paris
by Lars Wolf 14 Oct '10

14 Oct '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: ACM MobiHoc 2011 - Paris Datum: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:53:17 +0200 Von: Lila Boukhatem <Lila.Boukhatem(a)LRI.FR> Antwort an: Lila Boukhatem <Lila.Boukhatem(a)LRI.FR> An: SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG [Our apologies if you receive duplicates of this posting.] **************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPER The 12th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing **************************************************************************** To be held from May 16-20, 2011 in Paris, France http://www.sigmobile.org/mobihoc/2011/ Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE Important dates: Paper Abstract Registration: *November 5th* 2010 – 9pm Eastern Time Paper Submission Deadline: *November 12th*, 2010 – 9pm Eastern Time Acceptance Notification: *March 4th*, 2011 Camera Ready Deadline: *April 1st*, 2011 *************************************************************************** ACM MobiHoc is the premier international symposium dedicated to addressing challenges emerging from wireless ad hoc networking and computing. With its highly selective technical program, the symposium will bring together researchers and practitioners from a broad spectrum of wireless networking research to present the most up-to-date results and achievements in the field. We invite paper submissions on mobile ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks, wireless mesh networks, vehicular networks and ad hoc computing systems, with the focus being on issues at and above the MAC layer. It is expected that the symposium program will constitute research papers addressing theoretical challenges and/or practical issues in the wireless network design. Scope: Areas of interest include, but are not limited to the following: - Applications and middleware support - Transport, network, and MAC protocols - Energy efficiency - Location discovery - Cross-layer design and control - Network resilience, fault-tolerance & reliability - Functional computation and data aggregation - Modeling and performance analysis - Scaling laws and fundamental limits - Network coding - Opportunistic and delay-tolerant networks - Vehicular networks - Cognitive radio networks - Distributed sensing, actuation, control, and coordination - Trust, security and privacy - System design and testbeds - Measurements from experimental systems The symposium especially encourages the submission of exploratory studies that identify new challenges in the network design, innovative services, and applications that may stimulate far-reaching future research. This year's symposium will assign a Best Paper Award among all the papers submitted to the conference. Instructions on paper submission are available on the symposium webpage (http://www.sigmobile.org/mobihoc/2011 <http://www.sigmobile.org/mobihoc/2011/submission.html>). Important Dates Paper Abstract Registration: November 5th 2010 – 9pm Eastern Time Paper Submission Deadline: November 12th, 2010 – 9pm Eastern Time Acceptance Notification: March 4th, 2011 Camera Ready Deadline: April 1st, 2011 Organizers General Chair: Philippe Jaquet, INRIA TPC Co-Chairs: Konstantina (Dina) Papagiannaki, Intel Labs and Devavrat Shah, MIT *************************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To be removed from future issues of the SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS, please enter your email address wolf(a)IBR.CS.TU-BS.DE at http://optout.acm.org/listserv_index.cfm?ln=sigmobile-members and we'll remove you. Association for Computing Machinery Advancing Computing as a Science and Profession (c) 2009 ACM, Inc. All rights reserved ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: [ISCC] IEEE ComMag SI on "Communications Middleware for Mobile Devices and Applications"
by Lars Wolf 13 Oct '10

13 Oct '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [ISCC] IEEE ComMag SI on "Communications Middleware for Mobile Devices and Applications" Datum: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 15:28:39 +0200 Von: Paolo Bellavista <paolo.bellavista(a)unibo.it> An: <iscc(a)mail.ing.unibo.it> Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this cfp ***************************************************************************************************** Call for Papers - *IEEE Communications Magazine *Special Issue on *"Communications Middleware for Mobile Devices and Applications" *Paper submission deadline: December 31, 2010 Special issue publication: September 2011 ***************************************************************************************************** Since device miniaturization, wireless communications, and ubiquitous availability of sensors and computing/memory resources are making more and more feasible mobility-enhanced services to exploit all potential and opportunities of mobile computing, the ultimate goal of the mobility scenarios is becoming the realization of ubiquitous, pervasive, and eventually disappearing computing, i.e., the seamless and transparent collaboration of wireless devices to most human activities without the need of explicit user/administration intervention. However, this vision introduces novel challenging issues and strong motivations for next generation middleware supports (either infrastructure based or peer-to-peer) capable of simplifying the development, deployment, and runtime management of mobile applications that adapt to their changing execution environments with minimum impact and complexity for application developers. In particular, we claim that there is the need for novel middleware solutions capable of addressing connectivity-level, location-dependent, and context-dependent support aspects, by specifically focusing on tremendously challenging research issues, such as scalability and interoperability in open wide-scale deployment environments, which are all crucial for next generation mobile applications. According to this vision, this special issue intends to disseminate the latest results in the emergent and large research area of middleware for mobile devices and applications, by providing a fresh snapshot of the current state-of-the-art about middleware architectures, mechanisms, algorithms, and integrated frameworks. Practical experiences, extensive experimentation, and lessons learned from deployment over real wide-scale execution environments are welcome, as well as original disruptive proposals and groundbreaking ideas. In other words, we are seeking high-quality papers reporting original research results and practical experiences of system design/prototyping/deployment related to topics that include, but are not limited to: - Original mechanisms, algorithms, architectures, and frameworks for middleware support to heterogeneous mobile connectivity (always best served, simultaneous exploitation of multiple heterogeneous wireless interfaces, ); - Original mechanisms, algorithms, architectures, and frameworks for middleware support to location-dependent mobile applications; - Original mechanisms, algorithms, architectures, and frameworks for middleware support to context-dependent mobile applications; - Power-aware middleware for mobile devices and mobile applications; - Middleware for better exploitation of ubiquitous and under-utilized connectivity resources; - Infrastructure-based or peer-to-peer middleware for mobile collaborations and emerging aggregated behaviors of collaborative sharing; - Performance, reliability, and efficiency of middleware supports for mobile applications; - Scalability of middleware solutions over large deployment environments; - Practical experience with standards, standardized cross-layer APIs, and open deployment environments; - Middleware for mobile application porting and device fragmentation issues; - Predictive mobility/traffic models for proactive middleware management; - Simulation aspects and tools for mobile middleware; - Security (in particular, privacy) for mobile middleware; - Middleware for mobile application and smartphone platforms (Java ME, Windows Mobile, .NET Compact Framework, Android, iPhone, Symbian, etc.); - Middleware for mobile communications in urban-scale smart environments (smart homes, smart cars, smart cities, etc.); - Middleware for mobile applications for social networking, gaming, healthcare, culture, tourism, commerce, targeted advertising, etc. _Submission Process: _Articles should be tutorial in nature and should be written in a style comprehensible to readers outside this special field. Authors must follow the IEEE Communications Magazine's guidelines for preparation of the manuscript. Complete guidelines for prospective authors can be found at http://dl.comsoc.org/livepubs/ci1/info/sub_guidelines.html. Please send PDF (preferred) or MS Word formatted papers to Manuscript Central ( http://commag-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com <http://commag-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/>), register or log in, go to the Author Center and follow the instructions there. _Important Dates: _- Paper submission deadline: *December 31, 2010 *- Notification to authors: *April 15, 2011* - Submission of camera-ready versions of accepted manuscripts: May 15, 2011 - Special issue publication: *September 2011 *_Guest Editors of the Special Issue: _- Guruduth S. Banavar, IBM, USA - Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy - Ravi Kothari, IBM, India - Nalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California Irvine, USA Paolo Bellavista, Ph. D. Associate Professor in Computer Science Engineering EB Member of IEEE Communications, IEEE T. Services Computing, Elsevier Pervasive Computing, and Springer J. Network Systems Mgmt. DEIS - Università degli Studi di Bologna Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna (ITALY) Tel# +39-051-2093866; Fax# +39-051-2093073 Email: paolo.bellavista(a)unibo.it Web: http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/PaoloBellavista/

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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP, Deadline Extended to 31 October ICC 2011 Workshop, E2NETS
by Lars Wolf 13 Oct '10

13 Oct '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP, Deadline Extended to 31 October ICC 2011 Workshop, E2NETS Datum: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:39:30 +0200 Von: Ertan Onur - EWI <E.Onur(a)tudelft.nl> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> (Apologies if you receive multiple copies) IEEE ICC 2011 Workshop On Energy Efficiency in Ad hoc Networks & Ad hoc Networks for Energy Efficiency (E2Nets) Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: October 31, 2010 Notification of Acceptance: January 11, 2011 Camera‐Ready Submissions: February 11, 2011 CFP: http://www.ieee-icc.org/resource/workshop_pdf/S4_ICC2011_Workshop_E2NETS_CF… Workshop web link: http://www.e2nets.tudelft.nl Workshop submission link: http://edas.info/N9287 The two seemingly distinct topics of E2NETS are very important for overall energy efficiency in the future. Instead of looking at them separately, it is useful to arrange a venue for the researchers and practitioners in these two fields to come together and interact. This workshop aims to build this cooperation. Energy Efficiency in Wireless Networks: According to the GESI study, the ICT sector contributes around 2% of global greenhouse gas emissions. To increase the competitiveness, energy efficiency (E2) must also be a design criterion of the network and service architectures. Flexible networks that adapt their capacity to the requirements can lead to significant energy savings. Novel networking paradigms need to be introduced to assure that all components are used with maximum utilization. E2 network architectures will be the cross-layer, cognitive and cooperative aggregation of techniques and mechanisms to provide a communication infrastructure where the energy consumptio n is minimized while guaranteeing the grade of service required by the applications. Along with energy efficiency, spectrum utilization is to be optimized and radiation is to be minimized. In E2Nets, the following topics of energy efficiency in sensor, mesh, and ad-hoc networks are considered: ・ Physical layer techniques, channel or network coding for energy efficiency ・ Methodologies and architectures for energy efficiency ・ Energy-efficiency measures ・ Energy-efficient flooding and multicast ・ Energy-efficient device and service discovery ・ Collaborative, cooperative, cognitive networking protocols for energy efficiency ・ Algorithms for scheduling and resource management ・ Energy harvesting ・ Cognitive networking for energy reduction in large scale environments ・ Device level collaboration and cognition for energy efficiency ・ User mobility modelling to predict and adapt to patterns ・ Hybrid fibre-wireless networks for energy-efficient delivery of wireless signals ・ Energy efficiency using harvesting in sensor, ad hoc, mesh and vehicular networks. To address the other 98% of the global CHG emissions, wireless networks can be used to reduce the energy consumption of industrial, home, office environments, applications. For example, along with the research in low-carbon road transportation technologies, wireless networks can be employed to analyze the traffic jams and help navigators to find a suitable route leading energy savings. To this extent, in this workshop the topics of wireless networks for energy efficiency consist of: ・ ICT for minimization of the energy consumption of other systems such as transportation, houses, offices and industrial buildings. ・ Energy efficient cloud computing and emerging applications, ・ Sensor and ad hoc networks for energy efficiency in industrial/harsh environments ・ Vehicular networks to reduce the CHG emissions ・ ICT for energy-efficient data centers The first workshop in Cape Town with ICC-2010 was well received with approximately 33% acceptance ratio. The highlights of the workshop were: (a) an open forum allowing everyone to participate actively and debating the ideas to be pursued further; and (b) papers from many fields and areas focusing on energy efficiency issues related to ICT. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings and the IEEE Digital Library. Paper submission is via EDAS. IEEE publication policy and author guidelines can be found on http://www.ieee-icc.org/2011/author_guide.php. Paper length should be 5 pages (A4, pdf) max, with one page extra at an over-length charge. General Chairperson: Ignas Niemegeers, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Publicity Chairperson: Hakan Delic, Bogazici University, Turkey TPC Chair: R. Venkatesha Prasad, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands TPC Co‐Chair: Ertan Onur, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Kind regards, Dr. Ertan Onur Technology University of Delft Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Wireless and Mobile Communications Group Mekelweg 4 2628 CD Delft PO Box 5031 2600 GA Delft T +31 (0)15 27 85201 F +31 (0)15 27 81774 E E.Onur(a)TUDelft.NL _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [Tccc] PerSeNS 2011 - 3rd CFP (About three weeks to the deadline)
by Lars Wolf 13 Oct '10

13 Oct '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] PerSeNS 2011 - 3rd CFP (About three weeks to the deadline) Datum: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 11:06:23 -0300 Von: Stefano Abbate <stefano.abbate(a)imtlucca.it> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu (Please, accept our apologies for multiple copies of this message.) --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Seventh IEEE PerCom International Workshop on Sensor Networks and Systems for Pervasive Computing (PerSeNS 2011) http://www.ing.unipi.it/persens in conjunction with IEEE PerCom 2011 (http://www.percom.org) March 21-25, 2011 Seattle, USA --------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Wireless sensor networks collect sensing measurements or detect special events, perform node-level processing, and export the combined data from their sensing nodes to the outside world. Sensing, processing and communication are three key elements whose combination in one small device is instrumental to pervasive computing and gives rise to countless applications. This workshop will provide a forum to exchange ideas, discuss solutions, and share experiences among researchers and professionals from industry and academia. Papers describing original research on both theoretical and practical aspects of sensor networks for pervasive computing are solicited. We particularly welcome submissions that present implementation and deployment results. Particular topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Sensor-based systems and applications - Operating systems for Sensor Networks - Middleware and software tools - Networking architectures and protocols - Data gathering, aggregation and dissemination - Topology control - Power Management and energy-efficient design - Time synchronization - Location management - Sensor networks with mobile elements - Cross-layer architectures - Intelligent sensor nodes - Security and dependability issues - Modeling and performance evaluation - Measurements PAPER SUBMISSION Papers should contain original material and not be previously published, or currently submitted for consideration elsewhere. Guidelines for preparing and submitting the manuscript will be made available on the workshop website. All submissions will be handled via EDAS. Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press in the combined PerCom 2011 workshops proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper must register and attend the workshop to present the paper. There is no workshop-only registration. Failure to present the paper at the workshop will result in the withdrawal of the paper from the Proceedings as well as from IEEE Xplore. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: October 31, 2010 Notification of acceptance: January 7, 2011 Camera-ready papers due: Late January, 2011 GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Giuseppe Anastasi, University of Pisa, Italy Silvia Giordano, University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), Switzerland PROGRAM CHAIR Alessio Vecchio, University of Pisa, Italy PUBLICITY CHAIR Stefano Abbate, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Stefano Abbate, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy Ozgur Akan, Middle East Technical University at Ankara, Turkey Cesare Alippi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Alan Bertossi, University of Bologna, Italy Ladislau Boloni, University of Central Florida, USA Eleonora Borgia, IIT-CNR, Italy Raffaele Bruno, IIT-CNR, Italy Levente Buttyan, Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics, Hungary Tiziana Calamoneri, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy Jiannong Cao, HK Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Diane J. Cook, Washington State University, USA Sajal K. Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Mario Di Francesco, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Tassos Dimitriou, Athens Information Technology, Greece Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virginia Tech, USA Omprakash Gnawali, Stanford University, USA Isabelle Guerin Lassous, INRIA, France Martin Haenggi, University of Notre Dame, USA Holger Karl, University of Paderborn, Germany Mohan Kumar, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Giuseppe Lo Re, University of Palermo, Italy Sanglu Lu, Nanjing University, China Francesco Marcelloni, University of Pisa, Italy Marcello Mura, Univ. della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland Fredrik Osterlind, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden Symeon Papavassiliou, National Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece Andrea Passarella, IIT-CNR, Italy Cristina Pinotti, University of Perugia, Italy Ravi Prakash, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Daniele Puccinelli, SUPSI, Switzerland Antonio Ruzzelli, University College Dublin, Ireland Maria Giovanna Sami, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Rahul Shah, Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, USA Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida, USA Kuang-Ching (KC) Wang, Clemson University, USA Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland, USA _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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CFP: Nets4Cars 2011 & Nets4Trains 2011
by Lars Wolf 13 Oct '10

13 Oct '10

Nets4Cars 2011 & Nets4Trains 2011 -- Call for Paper ====================================== When: 22-24 March 2011 Where: German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany Submission Deadline: 14 November 2010 The 3rd International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles (Nets4Cars 2011, http://www.nets4cars.org) provides an international forum on the latest technologies and research in the field of intra- and inter-vehicle communications (protocols and standards), mobility and traffic models (models, methodologies, and techniques), testing, and applications. SCOPE Authors are invited to submit papers presenting new research results related to the theory or practice of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) in the framework of the following main topics (not limited to): * vehicle-to-vehicle, vehicle-to-roadside communications * intra-vehicle communications * vehicle-to-Internet communications * new trends in VANETS, e.g. integration of electric vehicles in smart grid communications * mobility and vehicular traffic models * information collection and dissemination * analytical and simulation techniques * experimental systems and field operational testing * protocol performance enhancements * safety and non-safety related applications * recent standardization efforts and problems (e.g. 802.11p) * international harmonisation activities (e.g. Europe vs. US vs. Japan) Nets4Trains: Nets4Cars 2011 will also host a track on Communication technologies for vehicles in the Railway Transportation (Nets4Trains). The aspiration of the 1st International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles in the Railway Transportation (Nets4Trains 2011) is to provide an international forum on the latest technologies and research challenges associated with the design and implementation of railway intra- and inter-vehicle communications (physical layer, protocols and standards), mobility and traffic models (models, methodologies, and techniques), testing, and applications. Authors are invited to submit papers presenting new research results related to the theory or practice of intelligent railway transportation systems and railway vehicular ad hoc networks in the framework of the following main topics: * train-to-train communications * train-to-vehicle communications * train-to-infrastructure communications * intra-train communications * train-to-Internet communications and multimedia applications * train localisation using communication technology * mobility and traffic models * information collection and dissemination * analytical and simulation techniques * experimental systems and field operational testing * protocol performance enhancements * safety and non-safety related applications * traveller information services * multi-modal transport SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit full papers comprising original work, not previously published, in English of max. 12 pages (or max. 8 pages for work in progress) in LNCS single-column format. All papers will be reviewed by an international program committee with appropriate expertise. Submissions must present original work that has not been previously published, and is not under submission else-where. The ideal submission should provide an insightful survey of existing work, introduce a radically new concept, or present concrete, significant, transferable research based on the implementation and evaluation of a working system. All papers submitted for review are subject to a double-blind review process, i.e. must not contain any information revealing the identity of the authors (anonymization). The final version of all papers must include a title, complete contact information for all authors, and key-words on the cover page. A properly anonymized version of the paper has to be submitted to the Nets4Cars page at EDAS not later than the submission deadline listed below using the following link: http://edas.info/N9483 IMPORTANT DATES Submission due: 14 Nov 2010 Notification date: 22 Dec 2010 Camera-ready due: 07 Jan 2011 Workshop: 22-24 Mar 2011 PUBLICATION Accepted papers will be presented by their authors at the workshop to be held in the Munich area and published in the Springer Lecture Notes on Computer Science (tbc.). Registration for the workshop by at least one of the authors and presenting the paper is a mandatory requirement for having the paper included in the proceedings. VENUE The workshop will be held at the premises of the Institute of Communications and Navigation, German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich, Germany. See http://www.dlr.de/kn All participants of the workshop and any accompanying person may attend a free-of-charge tour though DLR after the workshop. TECHNICAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE (confirmed members) * Marina Aguado, University of the Basque Country (Spain) * Onur Altintas, Toyota InfoTechnology Center (Japan) * Atif Alvi, LUMS (Pakistan) * Petros Belimpasakis, Nokia Research Center (Finland) * Marion Berbineau, INRETS (France) * Mohamed Boucadair, France Telecom (France) * Torsten Braun, University of Bern (Switzerland) * Marcello Caleffi , University of Naples "Federico II" (Italy) * Eduardo Cerqueira, University of Coimbra (Portugal) * Marilia Curado, University of Coimbra (Portugal) * Andreas Festag, NEC Laboratories Europe (Germany) * Fethi Filali, Qatar University Wireless Innovations Center (Qatar) * Francisco Garcia, Agilent Technologies (UK) * Javier Gozalvez, Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche. Uwicore Laboratory (Spain) * Christophe Gransart, INRETS (France) * Oleg Gusikhin, Ford (USA) * Jerome Harri, EURECOM (France) * Geert Heijenk, University of Twente (Netherlands) * Muhammad Ali Imran, University of Surrey (UK) * Sithamparanathan Kandeepan, CREATE-NET (Italy) * Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Tampere University of Technology (Finland) * Long Le, NEC Laboratories Europe (Germany) * Fei Liu, University of Twente (Netherlands) * Katrin Luddecke, DLR (Germany) * Juliette Marais, INRETS-LEOST (France) * Rashid Mehmood, Swansea University (UK) * John Murphy, University College Dublin (Ireland) * Brian Park, University of Virginia (USA) * Cristina Rico-Garcia, German Aerospace Center (DLR) (Germany) * Matthias Rockl, German Aerospace Center (DLR) (Germany) * Paolo Santi, IIT-CNR (Italy) * Divitha Seetharamdoo, French National Institute for Transport and Safety Research (INRETS) (France) * Thomas Strang, German Aerospace Center (DLR) (Germany) * Tsutomu Tsuboi, Renesas Technology Corp (Japan) * Alexey Vinel, SPIIRAS (Russia) * Michelle Wetterwald, EURECOM (France) * Christian Wewetzer, Volkswagen Group (Germany) * Nawaporn Wisitpongphan, King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok (Thailand) * Yang Zhang, Pennsylvania State University (USA) A PDF version of this CfP can be found at http://www.nets4cars.org/doc/CFP_Nets4Cars_2011.pdf

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CfP Workshop on Semantic Services for the Internet of Things (SSIT) (at KiVS’11, Kiel, Germany)
by Alexander Kröller 12 Oct '10

12 Oct '10

============================================================================ SSIT 2011 Call for Papers Workshop on Semantic Services for the Internet of Things (SSIT) co-located with the the 17th Conference on "Communication in Distributed Systems 2011" (KiVS’11, Kiel, Germany) Workshop date: 10-11.03.2011 (Thursday afternoon – Friday until lunch) http://www.kivs11.de/lang/en/workshops/workshop-on-semantic-services-for-th… ============================================================================ Today, people perceive the Internet as a system to request information from servers (Web 1.0) or to contribute information (Web 2.0). In the meantime, embedded computing has developed and grown enormously, where tiny autonomous devices, such as wireless sensor nodes, form distributed sensing systems. The next grand challenge is the amalgamation of the Internet and the world of embedded devices to form an Internet of Things (IoT) where all kinds of devices extend the Internet into the physical world. The advent of an interoperable MAC layer (IEEE 802.15.4) and IPv6 connectivity for resource-constraint devices (6LoWPAN) are essential first steps. However, as the number of IoT devices is envisioned to surpass the number of nodes in the Internet by several orders of magnitude, IP connectivity is just a first milestone on the way of designing and developing IoT applications. Beyond basic networking there is a need for unifying concepts, methods, and software infrastructures that allow the efficient development of robust, interoperable, and scalable IoT applications spanning and integrating the Internet and the embedded world. Open issues include discovery, search, and management of services as well as service invocation on IoT devices in a highly scalable manner. Another fundamental aspect is the unified description of the semantics of the services provided by the embedded devices. While existing Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) are designed for PC class devices, there is a lack of light-weight approaches suitable for the resource constraints of embedded devices. The goal of this workshop is to exchange ideas and first results between experts working in the field of Wireless Sensor Networks, Internet of Things (IoT), Algorithms, and Semantics. Particular topics of interest for papers to be submitted include, but are not limited to: * Internet of Things / Wireless Sensor Networks * Web-based Architectures * SOAs for Resource-constraint Environments * Interaction Patterns * Application Development * Management and Discovery * Real-World Applications for the Internet of Things * Seamless Integration with the (Future) Internet * Heterogeneity in Large-scale Networks * Light-weight Semantics of Services * Algorithmic Aspects of Large-scale Systems ----------------------------------------- Important Dates ----------------------------------------- * Paper Submission Due: 31.10.2010 * Notification: 28.11.2010 * Paper-ready version: 19.12.2010 * Workshop: 10-11.03.2011 (Thursday afternoon – Friday until lunch) ----------------------------------------- Technical Program Committee ----------------------------------------- * Karl Aberer, EPFL, Switzerland * Falko Dressler, University of Erlangen, Germany * Stefan Fischer, University of Lübeck, Germany * Manfred Hauswirth, National University of Ireland, Ireland * Horst Hellbrück, University of Applied Sciences Lübeck, Germany * Stamatis Karnouskos, SAP Research, Germany * Alexander Kröller, Braunschweig Institute of Technology, Germany * Werner Kuhn, University of Münster, Germany * Pedro Jose Marron, University of Duisburg-Essen and Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany * Dennis Pfisterer, University of Lübeck, Germany * Kay Römer, University of Lübeck, Germany * Kai-Uwe Sattler, TU Ilmenau, Germany * Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany ----------------------------------------- Submission Instructions ----------------------------------------- Prospective participants are invited to submit papers containing original unpublished material only. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the program committee for quality and relevance. Accepted papers will be published in the Electronic Communications of the EASST (ECEASST), a peer-reviewed, scientific and open access journal. Submissions must conform to the ECEASST submission format and rules and may not exceed 12 pages (for details see http://journal.ub.tu-berlin.de/index.php/eceasst/about/submissions). PDF files should be submitted via ECEASST’s online submission system https://www.conftool.com/kivs11/.

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Fwd: [Tccc] Journal SI on Network Routing and Communication Algorithm for Intelligent Transportation Systems.
by Lars Wolf 12 Oct '10

12 Oct '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Journal SI on Network Routing and Communication Algorithm for Intelligent Transportation Systems. Datum: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 23:54:58 +0200 Von: Jong-Hyouk Lee <jonghyouk(a)gmail.com> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Special Issue on Network Routing and Communication Algorithm for Intelligent Transportation Systems, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (The most recent Impact Factor for this journal is 0.732 according to 2009 Journal Citation Reports released by Thomson Reuters (ISI) in 2010). The CFP web address: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/wcn/si/its.html The development of intelligent transport systems (ITS) brings the promise of improved road safety and comfortable/infotainment driving environments. Recent advances of wireless vehicular communications supporting vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications have become a cornerstone of ITS. Wireless vehicular communications for ITS is one of the most interesting and active research topics, which is requiring vital efforts from both the industry and the academic. In particular, studies on network routing and communication algorithm for V2V and V2I have posed various challenges. Most of the current works on V2V and V2I communications mainly focus on non-IP data communications. These challenges require developing new network routing protocols and design communication algorithms, especially for IP data communications. This special issue is intended to bring together the industry and academic working on different aspects related to ITS and to highlight the state-of-art research on ITS. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * IP mobility protocol issues for ITS * Alert, safety, and infotainment communication algorithm issues for ITS * Bandwidth allocation and resource scheduler issues for ITS * Addressing, routing, and data transmission issues for ITS * Security and access control management issues for ITS * Practical standard development issues for ITS * Case studies of ITS applications Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/wcn/guidelines.html. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable: Manuscript Due July 1, 2011 First Round of Reviews October 1, 2011 Publication Date January 1, 2012 Guest Editors * Jong-Hyouk Lee, INRIA, 78153 Le Chesnay Cedex, France * Naveen Chilamkurti, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC 3086, Australia * Whai-En Chen, National Ilan University, Shen-Lung Road, Ilan 260, Taiwan -- IMARA Team, INRIA, France. Jong-Hyouk Lee. #email: jonghyouk (at) gmail (dot) com || jong-hyouk.lee (at) inria (dot) fr #webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/hurryon/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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