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Fwd: [Tccc] CfP: NETWORKS 2010 - 14th International Telecommunications Network Strategy and Planning (#2)
by Lars Wolf 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CfP: NETWORKS 2010 - 14th International Telecommunications Network Strategy and Planning (#2) Datum: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:17:14 +0100 Von: Krzysztof Szczypiorski <ksz(a)tele.pw.edu.pl> An: computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org, tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Call for Papers [My apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ------------------------------------------------------------------- NETWORKS 2010 14th International Telecommunications Network Strategy and Planning Symposium 27-30 September 2010 Warsaw, Poland http://networks2010.pl ------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for papers (Extended CfP in PDF: http://networks2010.pl/img/ExtendedCFP.pdf) Networks 2010 is the 14th in the series of the Networks symposia. Since the first conference in Paris (France) thirty years ago, the meetings are attracting world-class participants from all over the world, ranging from telecom operators and regulatory and standard bodies, through systems and software companies and research units from universities and industry, to systems integrators. The consecutive meetings have been held in Brighton, UK (1983), Innisbrook, USA (1986), Palma de Mallorca, Spain (1989), Kobe, Japan (1992), Sydney, Australia (1996), Sorrento, Italy (1998), Toronto, Canada (2000), Munich, Germany (2002), Vienna, Austria (2004), New Delhi, India (2006) and Budapest, Hungary (1994 and 2008). The conference will focus on network design and planning methods, the issues of routing, traffic flows and optimization that are necessary to deliver the promise of the Network of the Future. The motto of Networks 2010 is „Networks for the e-Society“. There are many challenges in building networks with the appropriate performance for the e-Society, such that each step is cost-justified and helps drive profitable growth. The difficult issues of scalability, end-to-end network performance, network management, network and service control, reliability, security and interoperability must be carefully resolved, and solutions planned and implemented. The topics cover, but are not necessarily limited to the following: * Network Design and Planning Methods * Migration to NGN and Mobile Broadband * Routing, Traffic Flows and Optimization * Convergence of Different Domains * Role of New Technologies, Developments and Standards * Network Planning Support Processes and Tools ------------------------------------------------------------------- International Management and Scientific Committee General Chair * Michał Pióro, Warsaw University of Technology (PL), Lund University (SE) Members * Alberto Ciarniello, Telecom Italia Mobile (IT) * Tibor Cinkler, BME-TMIT (HU) * Oscar Gonzalez-Soto, ITU Consultant (ES) * Joachim Gross, Arcor (DE) * Wolfgang Gross, Telekom (DE) * Hideaki Yoshino, NTT (JP) * Akiya Inoue, Chiba Institute of Technology (JP) * Sang-Baeg Kim, Korea Telecom (KR) * Bernard Liau, France Telecom (FR) * Hussein T. Mouftah, University of Ottawa (CA) * Lawrence Paratz, Telstra Corporation (AU) * Gyula Sallai, BME-TMIT and HTE (HU) * Rati C. Thanawala, Alcatel-Lucent (US) * Andy Valdar, University College London (GB) Technical Program Committee General Chair * Krzysztof Szczypiorski, Warsaw University of Technology (PL) Co-Chairs * Oscar Gonzalez-Soto, ITU Consultant (ES) * Jacek Rak, Gdansk University of Technology (PL) Tutorial Chair * Andrzej Jajszczyk, AGH University of Science and Technology (PL) Publication Chair * Jacek Rak, Gdansk University of Technology (PL) The authors are encouraged to submit full papers describing original, previously unpublished research results, not currently under review by another conference or journal. All papers will be reviewed. Accepted papers will be included in IEEE Xplore and additionally in printed proceedings with an ISBN number. Extended version of papers of special merit will be published in Telecommunication Systems by Springer. Papers must be submitted electronically via EDAS. The total length of a paper should not exceed 6 pages formatted according to the instructions Template and Instructions on How to Create Your Paper, available at http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/authors/transjnl/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Dates Paper submission: March 15, 2010 Tutorial proposals: April 15, 2010 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Krzysztof Szczypiorski, Networks 2010 TPC Chair _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [Tccc] Wiley I. J. of Comm. Systems Special Issue CfP: Interdisciplinary and Cross-layer Design of Mobile Social Networks and Wireless Networks
by Lars Wolf 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Wiley I. J. of Comm. Systems Special Issue CfP: Interdisciplinary and Cross-layer Design of Mobile Social Networks and Wireless Networks Datum: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 15:24:05 +0000 Von: Yang, Kun <kunyang(a)essex.ac.uk> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> New submission deadline: 21st of March 2010 due to requests ----------------------------------------------------------- Call for Paper Wiley International Journal of Communication Systems (IJCS) Special Issue on "Interdisciplinary and Cross-layer Design of Mobile Social Networks and Wireless Networks" Social Networks have attracted billions of active users under major online social network systems such as MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, DouBan, etc. Nowadays these social networks are increasingly used on mobile devices thus rendering a new research field of mobile social networks. The marriage of current wired-network-based social networks with mobile wireless networks triggers exciting new research areas. For instance, knowing the network features such as throughput and delay can help mobile social networks select a contact (e.g., a job advice centre) to which the network route has the best performance. This leads to the so-called wireless-aware social networks and the problem domain is within social networks. On the other hand, there is also social-aware or social inspired wireless network research where the knowledge of social network users is exploited for the benefit of wireless network design. Therefore, a cross-layer design that incorporates both the upper-layer mobile social networks and the lower-layer wireless networks is needed. And this comprises the thematic essence of this Special Issue. This cross-layer design method calls for a novel interdisciplinary research thinking that embraces not only these disciplines that are closely related to the field such as computer science, social science and network/communication engineering but also other subjects such as biology, physics, etc. The goal of this SI is to solicit the state-of-the-art approaches and technical solutions that embark on the above interdisciplinary and cross-layer design methodologies to design and implement a better-performed mobile social network or wireless network. The topics of interest include, but limited to, the following: Group 1: Network-aware Mobile Social Networks *) Implications, opportunities and challenges of mobile social networks caused by mobile wireless networks *) Network-aware modelling, design and development of mobile social networks *) Network-aware social search, data collection, processing, ranking and recommendation *) Network-aware middleware, framework for mobile social networks *) Network-aware real-world applications, services, systems of mobile social networks *) Experimental results or trials of network-aware mobile social networks *) New aspects of security, privacy and trust in mobile wireless networks Group 2: Wireless Networks that are aware of social network knowledge *) Implications, opportunities and challenges of mobile wireless networks caused by social networks *) Social-aware modelling of mobile wireless networks, planning, protocol design and deployment *) Community based mobility model, handoff management *) Applying social network theories into wireless network problem solving *) Optimal and scalable distribution of dynamic content (such as news or traffic information) over mobile social networks *) New social-aware/inspired wireless content distribution networks *) Network security protocols/algorithms design using social data Notes for Authors ------------------- The Journal is SCI-indexed. Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submitting papers can be found following the web link below: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/117946196/grouphome/ForAuthors.h… Go to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijcs and select SI category when making paper submission. Guest Editors: --------------- Dr. Kun Yang: University of Essex, UK. kunyang(a)essex.ac.uk<mailto:kunyang@essex.ac.uk> Prof. Xueqi Cheng: Institute of Computer Technology, Chinese Academy of Science, China. cxq(a)ict.ac.cn<mailto:cxq@ict.ac.cn> Dr. Giovanni Pau: University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), USA gpau(a)cs.ucla.edu<mailto:gpau@cs.ucla.edu> Important Dates --------------- Manuscript Submission Due March 01, 2010 => extended to March 21 2010 Acceptance Notification May 15, 2010 Final Manuscript Due June 15, 2010 Tentative Publication Date Early 2011 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: SWiM: International Workshop on Seamless Wireless Mobility
by Lars Wolf 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: SWiM: International Workshop on Seamless Wireless Mobility Datum: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:30:22 -0500 (EST) Von: Linda Jiang Xie <jxie1(a)uncc.edu> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ********************************************************************** ******** SWiM 2010 ******** ****** ****** **** First International Workshop on **** ** Seamless Wireless Mobility ** * * * December 10, 2010 in Miami, Florida * * in Conjunction with GLOBECOM 2010 * * * * http://www.coe.uncc.edu/~jxie1/SWiM10/ * * * * All accepted and presented papers will be included in the * * IEEE GLOBECOM proceedings and IEEE digital library. Selected * * accepted papers will be published in a special issue of * * Journal of Communications (JCM). * * * ********************************************************************** Scope of SWiM 2010: =================== The advances in wireless technologies and mobile devices have enabled the realization of a wide range of wireless networking opportunities. The coexistence of wireless heterogeneous networks has been widely recognized, and it has become more and more common that new mobile devices get equipped with multiple and heterogeneous wireless interfaces. Furthermore, the recent advances in software-defined and cognitive radio technologies promise even more diversity and heterogeneity. This brings about a lot of opportunities and challenges for mobile wireless networking. With the emerging wireless technologies, mobility has more generic meaning than just node movement as in the traditional sense. It also means that when the operational environment changes (such as frequency and power), a node or the network adapts to the environmental changes, which requires the cognitive capability. On one hand, it is of critical importance that seamless, low latency and transparent services are provided to the users, via potentially multiple heterogeneous wireless technologies or opportunistic spectrum access involved during the course of node movement or environmental changes. Environment cognizance, spectrum-aware mobility management, and vertical handoff become critical components in the solution space. On the other hand, host and network mobility also affects the performance of network protocols significantly, while at the same time allows opportunistic interconnections of heterogeneous networks, which in turn makes mobility adaptability an important design issue. This asks the design of wireless architectures, protocols, spectrum management, and mobility management mechanisms to be revisited. Cohesive with the main theme of Globecom 2010 --- "moving into the age of mobile interactivity", SWiM 2010 welcomes original submissions from both researchers and practitioners that explore recent advances in architecture, system, protocol, modeling, and testbed design, as well as emerging applications and standards to enable seamless mobility and transparency in wireless networks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Architecture, system, and protocol design for seamless roaming support in wireless networks - Spectrum cognition and agility associated with mobility - Vertical handoff and seamless integration of heterogeneous networks - Location tracking, positioning, and address management - Mobility modeling and theoretical/experimental validation - Mobility impact on routing, resource/power/QoS management - Adaptive and resilient protocols for seamless mobility support at all layers, as well as cross-layer approaches - Security and privacy issues under mobility and network access - Emerging standards and applications on mobility - Simulation/testbed tools and experimental measurements Important Dates: ================ Submission deadline : July 2, 2010 Notification of acceptance : August 13, 2010 Camera-ready version : August 31, 2010 Workshop Date : December 10, 2010 Submission Details: =================== SWiM 2010 will only accept original, previous unpublished papers. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit an IEEE conference style paper up to 5 pages (including all text, figures, and references) through EDAS submission system, but one additional page will be allowed with additional publication fee. An accepted paper must be registered before the registration deadline. An accepted paper must be presented at the workshop. Failure to register before the deadline will result in automatic withdrawal of the paper from the workshop proceedings and the program. All accepted and presented papers will be included in the IEEE GLOBECOM proceedings and IEEE digital library. GLOBECOM has the right to remove an accepted and registered but not presented paper from the IEEE digital library. Extended version of selected accepted papers will be published in a special issue of Journal of Communications (JCM). Organization Committee: ======================= Subir Das, Telcordia Technologies, Inc. Jing Deng, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Nada Gomie, National Institute of Standards and Technology Jason H. Li, Intelligent Automation, Inc. Jiang (Linda) Xie, University of North Carolina at Charlotte For more information about the workshop, see http://www.coe.uncc.edu/~jxie1/SWiM10/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [KuVS ELG] Cfp: MAPPS'10 in conjunction with MOBILWARE'10 - Chicago, USA
by Lars Wolf 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [KuVS ELG] Cfp: MAPPS'10 in conjunction with MOBILWARE'10 - Chicago, USA Datum: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:57:48 +0100 Von: Claudia Linnhoff-Popien <linnhoff(a)ifi.lmu.de> Antwort an: linnhoff(a)ifi.lmu.de An: elg(a)kuvs.de CC: Peter Ruppel <peter.ruppel(a)ifi.lmu.de>, stephan.verclas(a)t-systems.com We apologize if you have received multiple copies of this message ========================================================================== Call for Papers: International Workshop on Mobile and Location-based Business Applications (MAPPS2010) in conjunction with The Third International ICST Conference on MOBILe Wireless MiddleWARE, Operating Systems, and Applications (MOBILWARE 2010) June 30 - July 2, 2010 - Chicago, USA http://www.mobilware.org/MAPPS Important dates: 15 Apr 2010: paper submission deadline 15 May 2010: author notification 31 May 2010: camera ready version deadline Accepted papers will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes of ICST (LNICST) ========================================================================== Workshop theme: Location-based Services (LBS) are becoming more and more important for business. Central to LBS are location and context information as well as mechanisms to use such information including navigation, tracking and resource planning for better usage of resources. The deployment of such LBS faces the problems of privacy and security as well as the multiplicity of the mobile platforms and also the difficulties for back-end and workflow integration. Location to Business (L2B) communication includes all these aspects of processes and technologies which are needed to explore location information and mobile technologies for successful integration to business applications. Such mobile business applications extend standard business applications and they are of great interest in application programming interfaces and management. This one-day workshop intends to bring together researchers, professionals and practitioners to discuss and address recent developments and challenges for the design, operation and backend integration of mobile business applications. Specifically, we solicit original research contributions in the following areas: * Localization and tracking of people and goods for enterprise interests * Presence detection and tracing for L2B applications * Architectures and Platforms for outdoor and indoor positioning technologies focusing business and workflow integration (e.g. GPS, Galileo, WiFi, WiMAX, LTE, Cell Id, ...) * Indoor and short range positioning (e.g. RFID, NFC, UWB, Bar code, WiFi) * Enterprise Location-based Services (E-LBS) for quality management in business processes * Mobile integration of Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Supply Chain Management (SCM) Systems * Mobile and viral marketing, couponing, social network integration and mobile payment * Integrating digital secure cards, like ID cards, drivers license * Mobile Care Applications for Ambient Assisted Living * Augmented reality for object localization and mobile navigation * Device independent mobile programming paradigms and principles * Easy to use principles for Location-based Mobile Business Applications Workshop chairs: * Claudia Linnhoff-Popien (LMU Munich, Germany) * Peter Ruppel (LMU Munich, Germany) * Stephan Verclas (T-Systems International GmbH, Germany) Program Committee: * Alapan Arnab (T-Systems, South Africa) * Eduard Babulak (University of the South Pacific, Fiji) * Lothar Borrmann (Siemens AG, Germany) * Nico Deblauwe (IWT-agency for Innovation, Belgium) * Jerry Zeyu Gao (San Jose State University, USA) * Mario Jaritz (T-Mobile, Germany) * Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard (Aarhus University, Danmark) * Axel Küpper (Technical University Berlin, Germany) * Peter Reichl (FTW Vienna, Austria) * Gregor Schiele (University of Mannheim, Germany) * Roland Schwaiger (Deutsche Telekom, Germany) * Thomas Strang (German Aerospace Center, Germany) * Sean Taylor (Redwood Technologies, UK) Accepted papers (up to 12 single-column pages) will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes of ICST (LNICST). Please visit the workshop website for detailed submission guidelines and author instructions: http://www.mobilware.org/MAPPS ========================================================================== -- Prof. Dr. Claudia Linnhoff-Popien Lehrstuhl für Mobile und Verteilte Systeme Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Oettingenstr. 67, 80538 München Tel.: +49 - (0)89 - 2180 9149 Fax: -2180 9148 www.mobile.ifi.lmu.de _______________________________________________ ELG mailing list ELG(a)nets.rwth-aachen.de http://mail-i4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/mailman/listinfo/elg

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Fwd: [Tccc] Final CFP: WiSARN 2010 -- Submission deadline Mar. 1st, 2010
by Lars Wolf 28 Feb '10

28 Feb '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Final CFP: WiSARN 2010 -- Submission deadline Mar. 1st, 2010 Datum: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 07:02:35 -0800 (PST) Von: xu li <easylix(a)yahoo.ca> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu, sigembedded-l(a)acm.uiuc.edu, pet(a)lists.links.org, discuss(a)ieeetcsc.org, robotics-worldwide(a)usc.edu, tcpp-announce(a)cc.gatech.edu, tccn(a)comsoc.org, ahsntc(a)trlab.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers for the 1st International Workshop on Wireless Sensor, Actuator and Robot Networks (WiSARN-2010) http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~xuli/WiSARN2010/ To be held in conjunction with the IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2010) June 14-17, 2010, Montreal, Canada. Wireless sensor and actor networks (WSAN) are the confluence point where the traditional fields of wireless sensor networks (WSN), robot networks and control theory meet. In WSAN, nodes collaborate to accomplish distributed sensing and actuation tasks. Leveraged by the control and mobility of actors, the networking process and applications embrace a whole new set of possibilities. Actors may deploy, repair and relocate sensors to improve coverage, build routes and fix network partition to ensure data communication, change network topology to shape routing patterns and balance energy consumption, and respond to reported events in a timely and effective manner. The benefits are limited only by imagination. As an emerging field, WSAN are in need of new networking techniques, by which they can fully exploit their particularities and potentials. WiSARN aims 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 WSAN. Original, unpublished contributions are solicited in ALL aspects of WSAN, WSN, robot networks, and robotics and automation. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: * Autonomous sensor networks * Emergent behavior in WSAN * Modeling and simulation of WSAN * WSAN architectural and operational models * Autonomic and self-organizing coordination and communication * Sensor-actor (robot) and actor-actor coordination * Energy-efficient and real-time communication protocols * Bandwidth-efficient and delay-tolerant communication protocols * Distributed control and management in WSAN * Neighborhood discovery and mobility management * Communication protocols for swarms of mobile actors (robots) * Map exploration and pattern formation of mobile robots * Actor (robot) task assignment * Biologically inspired communication * Ecological systems * Architectures and topology control * Localization in WSAN * Probabilistic integration in WSAN * Quality of service, security and robustness issues * Applications and prototypes * Hybrid networks and wireless Internet * Data management, gathering, aggregation and query processing Accepted papers with a FULL registration to the main conference will be included in the conference proceedings. No-shows of accepted papers at the workshop will result in those papers NOT being included in the IEEE Digital Library. Selected best papers will be invited to a special issue of Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks: an international journal. Important dates Paper submission: Mar. 1, 2010 (extended) Author notification: Mar. 25, 2010 Camera ready: Apr. 10, 2010 Workshop day: Jun. 17, 2010 General Chair Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Program Co-Chairs Jiming Chen, Zhejiang University, China Hannes Frey, Univerity of Paderburn, Germany Xu Li, University of Ottawa, Canada Publicity Co-Chairs Nathalie Mitton, INRIA, France Ling Shi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Gongjun Yan, Old Dominion University, USA Submission Chair Rafael Falcon, University of Ottawa, Canada Technical Program Committee Kemal Akkaya, Southern Illinois University, USA Stefano Basagni, Northeastern University, USA Matthias R. Brust, Technological Institute of Aeronautics, Brazil Cailian Chen, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Marco Conti, National Research Council, Italy Shantanu Das, University of Provence, France Dimos Dimarogonas, MIT, USA Yongchun Fang, Nankai University, China Daniel Goergen, Philips Research, Netherlands Francois Ingelrest, EPFL, Switzerland Anis Koubaa, Al-Imam University, Saudi Arabia/CISTER Research Unit, Portugal Xiangyang Li, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Xiaoyan Li, Lafayette College, USA Nathalie Mitton, INRIA, France Amiya Nayak, University of Ottawa, Canada Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA Jianping Pan, University of Victoria, Canada Ioannis (Yannis) Paschalidis, Boston University, USA Jose Rolim, University of Geneva, Switzerland Pedro M. Ruiz, Universidad de Murcia, Spain Nicola Santoro, Carleton University, Canada Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, University of Waterloo, Canada Wei Shi, University of Onatrio Institute of Technology, Canada David Simplot, INRIA, France Yeqiong Song, INRIA-LORIA, France Volker Turau, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Peter Widmayer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Guoliang Xing, Michigan State University, USA Rong Xiong, Zhejiang University, China Guanhong Yang, Northeast University, China Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland, USA Haojin Zhu, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China For further information, please refer to the above WiSARN 2010 website, or contact the program co-chairs: Dr. Jiming Chen at jmchen.zju(a)gmail.com Dr. Hannes Frey at hannes.frey(a)uni-paderborn.de Dr. Xu Li at xuli(a)site.uottawa.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------ __________________________________________________________________ Looking for the perfect gift? 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Fwd: [InternetTC] The Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks (WiMAN 2010) - New Deadline: March 22!
by Lars Wolf 28 Feb '10

28 Feb '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [InternetTC] The Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks (WiMAN 2010) - New Deadline: March 22! Datum: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 04:28:21 -0800 Von: Habib M. Ammari <Habib.M.Ammari(a)hofstra.edu> An: itc(a)comsoc.org <itc(a)comsoc.org> The Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks (WiMAN 2010) http://people.hofstra.edu/Habib_M_Ammari/WiMAN_Workshop2010.html In conjunction with ICCCN 2010 Zurich, Switzerland, August 2-5, 2010 CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop Objectives Recently, wireless mesh and ad hoc networking is attracting significant interest from academia, industry, and standard organizations. With several favorable characteristics, such as dynamic self-organization, self-configuration, self-healing, easy maintenance, high scalability and reliable services, wireless mesh networks have been advocated as a cost-effective approach to support high-speed last mile connectivity and ubiquitous broadband access in the context of home networking, enterprise networking, or community networking. Despite recent advances, and the technical accumulations from more than a decade of research efforts in mobile ad hoc networks, many research issues remain in all protocol layers of wireless mesh networks. For example, the introduction of mixed (infrastructure and ad hoc) architecture, multi-radio, multi-channel, and multi-antenna, have brought new challenges in the design of physical, MAC, and routing protocols. New application scenarios, such as all-wireless office, are urging researchers to address enhanced QoS support and various security issues in the design of different protocol layers for wireless mesh networks. This workshop aims to bring together the technologies and researchers who share interest in the area of wireless mesh and ad hoc networks. Its main purpose is to promote discussions of research and relevant activities in the design of architectures, protocols, algorithms, services, and applications for wireless mesh and ad hoc networks. Also, this workshop aims at increasing the synergy between academic and industry professionals working in this area. We seek papers that address theoretical, experimental, and work in-progress at the all layers of wireless mesh and ad hoc networks, from application layer to the physical layer. Topics covered in this workshop will include, but will not be limited to, the following: • Multi-radio and multi-channel wireless mesh networking • Wireless LAN, PAN, MAN and WAN • Multi-hop wireless communications and ad hoc networking • MAC protocols (IEEE 802.11, 802.15, 802.16, 802.20, and beyond) • Routing, scheduling, and channel assignment protocols • Implications of smart antennas on MAC and routing protocols • Quality of Services provisioning • Multimedia communications over mesh and ad hoc networks • Network deployment, localization, and synchronization • Topology construction and maintenance • Methods and tools for mesh and ad hoc networks simulation • Modeling and performance evaluations • Physical layer techniques • Cross layer optimizations • Power-aware and energy-efficient protocols and algorithms • Self-organization, self-configuration network architectures • Intelligent system techniques for mesh and ad hoc networks • Security-related issues in mesh and ad hoc networks • Novel applications of mesh and ad hoc networks • Wireless sensor networks and RFID • Test beds, prototypes, and practical systems Submission Guidelines Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent developments in the topics related to the workshop. Submissions should include an abstract, key words, and the e-mail address of the corresponding author. The length of the papers should be limited to 6 pages in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font). Detailed submission instructions will be posted on the workshop webpage. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the workshop to present the work. Important Dates Paper submission due: March 15, 2010 (Monday, 23:59 EST) Acceptance notification: April 30, 2010 Camera-ready due: May 14, 2010 Registration due: May 14, 2010 Publication We expect to accept about 30 papers. All papers will be peer reviewed and the comments will be provided to the authors. All accepted papers will be published by IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Digital Library. Workshop Co-Chairs Habib M. Ammari (Hofstra University, USA) Jun Luo (Nanyang Technological University) Technical Program Committee Wessam Ajib (University of Quebec at Montreal) Hasnaa Aniss (UQAT-LRCS, Canada) Malik Audeh (Tropos Networks, USA) Stefano Avallone (University of Naples, Italy) Luciano Bononi (University of Bologna, Italy) Raffaele Bruno (IIT-CNR, Italy) Chung Tun Chou (Univ. of New South Wales) Yong Cui (Tsinghua University, China) Abdelouahid Derhab (CERIST research centre, Algiers, Algeria) Gang Ding (Olympus Communication Techn.) Djamel Djenouri (CERIST research centre, Algiers, Algeria) Junzhao Du (Xidian University, China) Karoly Farkas (University of West Hungary) Shinichi Honiden (University of Tokyo) Holger Karl (University of Paderborn, Germany) Abdelmajid Khelil (TU Darmstadt, Germany) Ricky Kwok (Colorado State University, USA) Guoqing Li (Intel Research, USA) Qun Li (College of William and Mary, USA) Hock Beng Lim (Nanyang Techn. University) Jun Luo (Nanyang Techn. University) Guoqiang Mao (The University of Sydney) Shivajit Mohapatra (Motorola Labs, USA) Luis Montestruque (EmNet LLC, USA) Qiang Ni (Brunei University, UK) Frank Reichenbach (ABB AS, Norway) Paolo Santi (IIT-CNR, Italy) Haiying Shen (University of Arkansas, USA) Aaron Striegel (University of Notre Dame, USA) David Surma (Indiana University South Bend) Jianbin Wei (Yahoo!, USA) Xiliang Zhong (Microsoft, USA) Advisory Committee Hossein Hakimzadeh, Indiana University South Bend, USA Sharon Hu, University of Notre Dame, USA Yingbo Hua, University of California Riverside, USA Sitharama Iyengar, Louisiana State University, USA Bahar Sadeghi, Intel Research, USA Loren Schwiebert, Wayne State University, USA Wei Zhao, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Steering Committee Christian Poellabauer, University of Notre Dame, USA Liqiang Zhang, Indiana University South Bend, USA

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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: FMN2010
by Lars Wolf 28 Feb '10

28 Feb '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: FMN2010 Datum: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:18:40 +0000 (GMT) Von: Scott Fowler <scott_fowler(a)ymail.com> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Call for Papers ********************************************************************** 3rd International Workshop on FUTURE MULTIMEDIA NETWORKING http://fmn2010.kt.agh.edu.pl June 17-18 2010, Krakow, Poland IEEE Technical Sponsorship and in Collaboration with ACM Sponsored also by IET and the British Computer Society ********************************************************************** Aims andGoals of the Workshop In recent years real-time multimedia services have been contributing extensively to our life experience and are expected to be among the most important applications in the future Internet. The management of content distribution services is an important key to attract and keep customers, while increasing profits to content providers. At the same time the complexity and dynamics of content networks require special solutions in order to provide efficient delivery and deployment of real-time multimedia services. Further, emerging diverse and heterogeneous wired and wireless systems is a challenging research objective. The interoperability of applications, transport and network protocols, as well as, the demand for improved Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE), and seamless mobility control creates a challenging study field and also possibilities for research of novel communication protocols, architectures and methods towards Future Multimedia Networking Systems. Thus, one major challenge is the ever growing complexity of communication management and network maintenance. Solutions are required in which services, management and administration entities interact and behave autonomously, with the overall goal of creating content centric networks. The objective of the Future Multimedia Networking - FMN 2010 workshop is to discuss state-of-the-art research and developing activities contributing to aspects of multimedia systems, content networking, and autonomous communication. We are inviting both theoretical and experimental papers as well as work-in-progress research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: · Content centric networks · Autonomic content networks · Audio-visual systems · Novel protocols for multimedia services · Grid networking for multimedia services · Multimedia in personal, sensor and ad-hoc networks · Multimedia in peer-to-peer networks and autonomic network infrastructures · Multimedia in mobile and broadband wireless access networks · Quality of service management in content centric networks · Quality of experience management in content centric networks · Seamless mobility of multimedia services in emerging content networks · Multicast and broadcast multimedia service management · Resource reservation for multimedia services · Context-aware content distribution · Energy-efficiency in content centric networks · Multimedia Security PARALLEL POSTER/DEMONSTRATION SESSION A parallel poster/demonstration session entitled “Demonstrations on Future Multimedia” will be organized along with the main workshop. This event encourages researchers to present and discuss “work-in-progress” or “experience-in-practice” of their current implementations and research prototypes that cover the topics of FMN2010. Authors are invited to submit a short paper of up to 6 pages following the format of workshop. All accepted short papers will be included in the proceedings of FMN2010. The papers should specifically focus on implementation and practical aspects such as · Experiments/lessons from recent multimedia deployments · Quality of Service/ Quality of Experience of multimedia applications · Performance evaluation of multimedia services · Network measurement/monitoring for multimedia services PUBLICATION Special Issue Journal Publication: Extended versions of best papers of the workshop will be considered for publication in a Special Issue of a well-known SCI-indexed journal. Selected best papers of FMN'09 will appear in a Special issue of Multimedia Tools and Applications journal." Proceedings: FMN 2010 papers will be published by Springer-Verlag - LNCS series (pending approval) BEST PAPER AWARD One best paper award, selected by the organizing committee, based on referee reviews, will be presented to the author(s) of the best paper submitted to the workshop along with other awards presented during the social event. PAPER SUBMISSION Papers reporting original and unpublished research results on FMN 2010 topics are solicited. Submissions must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere while being evaluated for this workshop. · Full papers (main workshop): The maximum length of papers should be 5000 words including tables and figures. Please adhere to the formatting standard for a 12-page manuscript of Springer-Verlag LNCS. The cover page must contain an abstract of about 150 words, 3-5 keywords, name and affiliation of author(s) as well as the corresponding author's e-mail and postal address. · Short Papers (poster/demonstration): The maximum size of posters/demos should be 2500 words including tables and figures. Please adhere to the formatting standard for a 6-page manuscript of Springer-Verlag LNCS. The cover page must contain an abstract of about 150 words, 3-5 keywords, name and affiliation of author(s) as well as the corresponding author's e-mail and postal address. How to submit: The paper submission system has two stages. At the first stage, participants register to the SysKon system. Paper submission becomes possible at the second stage. After registering to the SysKon system one can modify her/his article or cancel his/her registration. Only papers in PDF and MS Office Word will be accepted for reviewing. Submissions as e-mail attachment will not be accepted. To register to the SysKon click on Registration on the FMN’10 web page: http://fmn2010.kt.agh.edu.pl Peer Review of submitted papers: Consistent with standard practice, each submitted paper will receive rigorous peer reviewing. Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance and clarity of presentation. Selection will be based on full papers. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. All accepted papers of the workshop are expected to be presented and will be included in the workshop proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES Full Paper submission deadline:2 March 2010 Short Paper submission deadline: 10 March 2010 Acceptance notification: 5 April, 2010 Camera ready version: 15 April 2010 Early registration deadline: 30 April 2010 COMMITTEES GENERAL CHAIR Andreas Mauthe, University of Lancaster, UK GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Eduardo Cerqueira, Federal University of Para, Brazil Marilia Curado, University of Coimbra, Portugal TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Sherali Zeadally, University of the District of Columbia, USA Carmen Guerrero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain STEERING COMMITTEE Zdzislaw Papir (Chair), AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal Andrzej R. Pach, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS Scott Fowler (Publicity Chair for Europe), Linköping University, Sweden Augusto Neto (Publicity Chair for Latin American), Federal University of Goias, Brazil Piotr Romaniak (Publicity Chair for Europe), AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Jo Yew Tham (Publicity Chair for Asia), Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Mikołaj Leszczuk (Chair), AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Michal Grega, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Katarzyna Kosek-Szott, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Piotr Romaniak, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Szymon Szott, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Antonio Jorge Abelém, UFPA - Federal University of Pará, Brazil Petros Belimpasakis, Nokia Research Center, Finland Roberto Canonico, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy Naveen Chilamkurti, LaTrobe University, Australia Kelvin Dias, Federal University of Pará, Brazil Olivier Fourmaux, University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris6) - LIP6, France Mario Freire, University of Beira Interior, Portugal Francisco Garcia, Agilent, United Kingdom Lisandro Granville, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Carsten Griwodz, Simula Research Laboratory,Network and Distributed Systems, Norway David Hausheer, University of Zurich, Switzerland Luigi Iannone, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany Mohsin Iftikhar, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia Eckhart Koerner, University of Applied Sciences Mannheim, Germany Stephan Kopf, University of Mannheim, Germany Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Keong Lua, Carnegie Mellon University and Carnegie Mellon CyLab, USA and Japan Saverio Mascolo, Politecnico di Bari, Italy Rashid Mehmood, Swansea University, UK Parag Mogre, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany Dmitri Moltchanov, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal Andrzej Pach, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Zdzisław Papir, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Antonio Pescape, UNINA, Italy Thomas Plagemann, University of Oslo, Norway Nicholas Race, Lancaster University, United Kingdom Susana Sargento, University of Aveiro, Portugal Thomas Schmidt, HAW Hamburg (DE), Germany Bilhanan Silverajan, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Nicolas Sklavos, Technological Educational Institute of Patras, Greece Alexey Vinel, Saint-Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation, Russia Toshihiko Yamasaki, The University of Tokyo, Japan Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore, Singapore Artur Ziviani, LNCC, Brazil _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: ACM MobiDE 2010 (collocated with ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2010)
by Lars Wolf 28 Feb '10

28 Feb '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: ACM MobiDE 2010 (collocated with ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2010) Datum: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:30:58 +0200 (EET) Von: Antonis Deligiannakis <adeli(a)softnet.tuc.gr> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Apologies for cross-postings. Please send this CFP to interested colleagues, researchers and students. Many Thanks. --------------------------------------------------------------------- C A L L F O R P A P E R S 9th ACM International Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access (MobiDE'10) Sunday, June 6, 2010 / Indianapolis, Indiana USA (collocated with ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2010) http://www.softnet.tuc.gr/mobide10 AIMS & TOPICS OF INTEREST: This is the ninth of a successful series of workshops that aims to act as a bridge between the data management, wireless networking, and mobile computing communities. The 1st MobiDE workshop took place in Seattle (August 1999), in conjunction with MobiCom 1999; the 2nd MobiDE workshop took place in Santa Barbara (May 2001), together with SIGMOD 2001; the 3rd MobiDE workshop took place in San Diego (September 2003), together with MobiCom 2003; the 4th MobiDE workshop was held in Baltimore (June 2005). In 2006, MobiDE was organized in Chicago (June 2006). The 6th MobiDE was held in Beijing, China (June 2007). The 7th MobiDE was held in Vancouver, Canada in June 2008 and MobiDE 2009 was held in Providence, Rhode Island in June 2009. The last five MobiDE workshops were held together with the SIGMOD conference. MobiDE 2009 marked the 10-year anniversary of the workshop. The workshop will serve as a forum for researchers and technologists to discuss the state-of-the-art, present their contributions, and set future directions in data management for mobile and wireless access. The topics of interest related to mobile and wireless data engineering include, but are not limited to: * ad-hoc networked databases * consistency maintenance and management * context-aware data access and query processing * data caching, replication and view materialization * data publication modes: push, broadcast, and multicast * data server models and architectures * database issues for moving objects: storing, indexing, etc. * energy-efficient techniques for mobile data management * m-commerce * mobile access and sensing with smart phones * mobile agent models and languages * mobile data management in the cloud * mobile database privacy and security * mobile databases in scientific, medical, and engineering applications * mobile peer-to-peer applications and services * mobile sensor network databases * mobile transaction models and management * mobile web services * mobile workflow management * mobility-aware data mining and warehousing * mobility awareness and adaptability * pervasive computing * prototype design of mobile databases * quality of service for mobile databases * static sensor network databases * transaction migration, recovery and commit processing * wireless multimedia systems * wireless web The workshop will be organized in a manner that fosters interaction and exchange of ideas among the participants. Besides paper presentations, time will be allocated to open discussion forums, informal discussions or panels. In addition to regular papers, vision or work-in-progress papers that have the potential to stimulate debate on existing solutions or open challenges are especially encouraged. Proposals for panels on newly-emerging or controversial topics are also especially welcome. IMPORTANT DATES (TENTATIVE) Abstract Registration: Mon, March 22, 2010 (midnight EST) Regular Paper Submissions: Mon, March 29, 2010 (midnight EST) Notification of acceptance: Mon, April 26, 2010 Camera-ready version due: Mon, May 10, 2010 Workshop date: Sun, Jun 6, 2010 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS The workshop proceedings will be published by ACM. Electronic versions of the papers will be included in the ACM DL and DiSC'09. Select papers from MobiDE 2010 will also be included in a journal special issue, along with select papers from MDM 2010. All of the submissions will be handled electronically. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Detailed submission information will be posted on the web site of the workshop (http://www.softnet.tuc.gr/mobide10). Full research papers should be formatted in the ACM proceedings format and be at most 8 double-columned pages in 9pt font. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Workshop Co-Chairs: Phillip B. Gibbons Intel Labs Pittsburgh E-mail: phillip.b.gibbons(a)intel.com Demetris Zeinalipour Department of Computer Science University of Cyprus, Cyprus E-mail: dzeina(a)cs.ucy.ac.cy Program Co-Chairs: Hui Lei IBM T.J. Watson Research E-mail: hlei(a)us.ibm.com Suman Nath Microsoft Research Redmond E-mail: sumann(a)microsoft.com Publicity Chair: Antonios Deligiannakis Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering Technical University of Crete, Greece E-mail: adeli(a)softnet.tuc.gr STEERING COMMITTEE Le Gruenwald University of Oklahoma, USA Yannis Kotidis AUEB, Greece Dik Lun Lee HKUST, Hong Kong Pedro Jose Marron University of Bonn, Germany George Samaras University of Cyprus, Cyprus Demetris Zeinalipour University of Cyprus, Cyprus PROGRAM COMMITTEE Walid G. Aref, Purdue University, USA Christian Becker, University of Mannheim, Germany Claudio Bettini, University of Milan, Italy Paul Castro, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Panos K. Chrysanthis, University of Pittsburgh, USA Antonios Deligiannakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece Michael J. Franklin, University of California Berkeley, USA Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan Christian S. Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark Vana Kalogeraki, Athens University of Economics and Business Yannis Kotidis, AUEB, Greece Wang Chien Lee, Pennsylvania State University, USA Feifei Li, Florida State University, USA Hua Lu, Aalborg University, Denmark Sanjay K. Madria, Missouri Uni. of Science and Technology, USA Mohamed Mokbel, University of Minnesota, USA Vladimir Oleshchuk, University of Agder, Norway Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Greece Claudia Roncancio, Grenoble INP / LIG, France Simonas Saltenis, Aalborg University, Denmark Jianwen Su, University of California Santa Barbara, USA Yannis Theodoridis, University of Piraeus, Greece Goce Trajcevski, Northwestern University, USA Vassilis Tsotras, University of California Riverside, USA Stratis D. Viglas, University of Edinburgh, UK Vladimir Zadorozhny, University of Pittsburgh, USA _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP Special Issue on Green Networks - Journal of Supercomputing
by Lars Wolf 27 Feb '10

27 Feb '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP Special Issue on Green Networks - Journal of Supercomputing Datum: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:11:49 -0600 Von: Samee U. Khan <samee.khan(a)ndsu.edu> Antwort an: Samee U. Khan <samee.khan(a)ndsu.edu> Organisation: North Dakota State University An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Green Networks a special issue of the Journal of Supercomputing, Springer The past decade has witnessed tremendous growth in networking protocols, technologies, and provisioning. Networks now include media such as wired, wireless, ad hoc, WiFi, WiMax, and satellite. In essence, the entire planet is engulfed in information overflow because of networked computing devices, such as supercomputer centers, data repositories, and data centers. The aforementioned advancements are plausible and must be appreciated. However, researchers have not actively explored novel computer network architectures and communication protocols that reduce carbon footprint. Techniques and methodologies, such as the co-scheduling of computational, storage, and network resources, dynamic circuit management, virtualization, migration, remote I/O utilization, redundancy, and information mitigation promise interesting and viable solutions that can enable green networking. The special issue will primarily focus on theoretical and practical novel solutions that advance the research in green networking. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Future green network architectures and communication protocols • Energy-efficient access networks • Overlay networks • Peer-to-peer networking • Content-based energy-efficient networking • Network virtualization • Traffic engineering for maintaining an energy-efficient network • Multi-layer and multi-domain green networks • Green congestion control protocols • Network planning and optimization for green networking • Energy-efficient transmission technologies • Energy management in communication networks • Energy-efficient mobile and wireless access networks • Cross-layer optimization techniques for efficient energy consumption • Energy-efficient switch and base station architectures • Network survivability and network resilience strategies • Provisioning, monitoring, and management of networks • Traffic measurement and analysis • Green architectures for next generation routers • Appliance energy management in home and office networks • Instrumentation, tools and profiling techniques for energy consumption Guest Editors ------------- Samee U. Khan North Dakota State University, North Dakota, USA samee.khan(a)ndsu.edu Sherali Zeadally University of the District of Columbia, Washington DC, USA szeadally(a)udc.edu Pascal Bouvry University of Luxembourg Luxembourg pascal.bouvry(a)uni.lu Naveen Chilamkurti La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia n.chilamkurti(a)lathrobe.edu Important Dates --------------- Paper submission: June 01, 2010 Initial notification: August 15, 2010 Rebuttal submission: October 01, 2010 Final notification: November 01, 2010 Expected publication: 2011 Submission Guidelines --------------------- Papers must be submitted via the Editorial Manager: http://www.editorialmanager.com/supe/ by selecting the article type as SI: Green Networks. Submission Format ----------------- All submissions are expected to be original research, previously unpublished or considered elsewhere for publication, and typeset in English. The maximum length of a submission (including tables, figures, and references) should not exceed 30 double-spaced pages with one inch margins all around. For more information, please contact Prof. Khan. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [Tccc] {Spam? 4.57 } IEEE Wireless Comm. Magazine: deadline approaching for “Internet of Things” S.I.
by Lars Wolf 27 Feb '10

27 Feb '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] {Spam? 4.57 } IEEE Wireless Comm. Magazine: deadline approaching for “Internet of Things” S.I. Datum: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 10:03:26 +0100 Von: Antonio Iera <antonio.iera(a)unirc.it> An: Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu ******************************************************************* IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine Special Issue on Internet of Things: the "Next Big Thing" in Communications? Manuscript Due March 15th, 2010 ******************************************************************* Call for Papers Internet of Things: the "Next Big Thing" in Communications? Special Issue of IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine In the last few years, a stimulating idea is fast emerging in the wireless scenario: the pervasive presence around us of a variety of "things" or "objects", such as devices, sensors, actuators, mobile phones, which, through unique addressing schemes, are able to interact with each other and cooperate with their neighboring "smart" components to reach common goals. This novel paradigm, named "The Internet of Things", continues on the path set by the concept of smart environment and paves the way to the deployment of numerous applications with a significant impact on many fields of future every-day life. In this context, logistics, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Business/Process management, assisted living, e-health are only a few examples of possible application fields in which this novel paradigm will play a leading role. How to implement this novel paradigm and how effective its introduction into citizens' every-day life is, still remains to be investigated. Key objectives of any R&D activity in the field are: efficient and effective wireless spectrum utilization, full interoperability of "smarts" devices, their adaptation and autonomous behavior, as well as trust, privacy, and security guarantees. From a wireless communications and networking perspective, the Internet of Things idea raises several challenging issues to address and technological nodes to untie. Which major technological innovations and developments are still required to enable a level of "ambient intelligence", characterized by the integration of wired and wireless "smart" components? Which sustainable standards, technologies, global communication protocols, and algorithms at the various layers of the system protocol stack (from the physical to the application layer) shall be introduced with the aim of allowing a vast amount of information to be shared amongst things and people when wireless links and technologies are involved? Which is the role of widely accepted wireless communications paradigms for peer to peer communications, machine-to-machine communications, and machine-to-network communications in a IoT perspective? Could the use of middleware mechanisms represent a feasible and effective solution to the problem of integrating Radio Frequency devices and wireless sensors into a common IoT framework? Are the proposed trust, privacy, and security models able to make people trust in these novel technologies instead of being afraid of an external surveillance and, more relevantly, are they still effective when involved "things" communicate wirelessly? An attempt to provide a partial answer to these and many other related questions will form the main scope of the present special issue. More specifically we are interested in the wireless communications and networking aspects involved by the introduction of the Internet of Things concept, and therefore solicit papers covering a variety of topics including, but not limited to: * Internet of Things infrastructures, communication systems, network architectures * Mobile Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks * Network management, distributed processing (e.g. access, scheduling, radio resource management, etc.), scalability, and cooperation issues in integrated wired-wireless scenarios for the Internet of Things * Internet of Things enabling ubiquitous and wireless technologies * Security and privacy management for wirelessly communicating "things" and users * RFID technology and RFID middleware * Electromagnetic aspects related to the Internet of Things * Machine-to-machine and machine-to-network communications in the presence of wireless links * Inter-vehicle communications and seamless connectivity * Location and tracking through navigation sensors * Internet of Things applications in research projects * Standardization and regulation (e.g. spectrum allocation and radio frequency exposure protection) issues for the Internet of Things Submission of original contributions is solicited on the above topics as well as others relevant to the "Internet of Things" concept. All submissions should adhere to the style of IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine. Guidelines for prospective authors can be found on-line at [1]http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/pci/info/sub_guidelines.html. Electronic submissions in Postscript or PDF format are strongly encouraged and should be sent by e-mail to the address [2]antonio.iera(a)unirc.it. Time Schedule Manuscript Due March 15th, 2010 Acceptance Notification June 15th, 2010 Final Manuscript Due August 15th, 2010 Publication Date December, 2010 Guest Editors Antonio Iera University "Mediterranea" of Reggio Calabria Department D.I.M.E.T. Via Graziella (Feo di Vito) 89100 - Reggio Calabria, ITALY Phone: +39-0965-875286 E-mail: [3]antonio.iera(a)unirc.it Giacomo Morabito University of Catania Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica e delle Telecomunicazioni V.le A. Doria, 6 95125 - Catania, ITALY Phone: +39-095-7382355 E-mail: [4]giacomo.morabito(a)diit.unict.it Christian Floerkemeier Massachusetts Institute of Technology Auto-ID Lab 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139, USA Phone: +1-617-324-1984 E-mail: [5]floerkem(a)mit.edu Jin Mitsugi Keio University Faculty of Environment and Information 5322 Endo Fujisawa Kanagawa 252-8520, JAPAN Phone: +81-3-3516-0620 E-mail: [6]mitsugi(a)sfc.wide.ad.jp References 1. 3D"http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/pci/info/sub_guidelines.html" 2. 3D"mailto:antonio.iera@unirc.it" 3. 3D"mailto:antonio.iera@unirc.it" 4. 3D"mailto:giacomo.morabito@diit.unict.it" 5. 3D"mailto:floerkem@mit.edu" 6. 3D"mailto:mitsugi@sfc.wide.ad.jp" _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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