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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: Special Issue on Multimedia Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks]
by Lars Wolf 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: Special Issue on Multimedia Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Datum: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:03:33 -0400 Von: Tommaso Melodia <tmelodia(a)eng.buffalo.edu> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> --------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS AD HOC NETWORKS (ELSEVIER) JOURNAL Special Issue on MULTIMEDIA AD HOC AND SENSOR NETWORKS http://www.elsevierscitech.com/pdfs/cfp_adhoc0709.pdf --------------------------------------------------------------------- Multimedia applications enabled by quality-aware wireless multi-hop networks include online gaming, video conferencing, video streaming, mobile TV, and peer-to-peer streaming. In addition, they include monitoring applications such as video surveillance, traffic enforcement and control systems, advanced health care delivery, structural health monitoring, and industrial process control. In spite of the increasing demand for multimedia wireless networking, we are still lacking a clear understanding of analytical and computational techniques, as well as best practices, to design resource allocation schemes, communication protocols, and self-organization algorithms for wireless multimedia ad hoc and sensor networks that will deliver, in a predictable and quantifiable fashion, the quality of service and experience required by the end user. In addition, while significant advances in physical layer techniques offer new opportunities for cross-layer optimizations designed to satisfy application needs, efforts to leverage these techniques from a networking perspective to support the needs of multimedia traffic demands in multi-hop wireless networks are still at initial stages. In particular, dynamic spectrum access and cognitive radios, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) techniques, ultra-wide-band and cooperative communications, among other techniques, will have a profound impact on our ability to flexibly and predictably deliver multimedia content over wireless networks. Finally, with a few exceptions, processing of multimedia content has mostly been approached as a problem isolated from the network-design problem. However, in-network processing and delivery of multimedia content are not independent and their interaction has a major impact on the levels of quality of service (QoS) that can be delivered. Hence, it is necessary to develop flexible and self-organizing architectures and algorithms to flexibly perform in-network processing of multimedia contents. This special issue solicits papers on all aspects of multimedia ad hoc and sensor networks, with a primary focus on three key aspects. First, content-aware cross-layer design and resource allocation techniques, as well as new networking protocols based on metrics associated with quality of service/video/experience are of particular interest. Second, original papers examining networking aspects that leverage advances in physical and multiple access techniques to support multimedia traffic are particularly welcome. Third, papers investigating the interdependencies between multimedia in-network processing and networking aspects are sought, e.g., architectures and techniques to store, process in real-time, correlate and fuse multimedia data originating from heterogeneous sources. The objective of this special issue is to bring together state-of-the-art research contributions, tutorials, and position papers that address these key aspects of multimedia content delivery over ad hoc and sensor networks. Original papers describing completed and unpublished work not currently under review by any other journal/magazine/conference are solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Architectures and applications for multimedia ad hoc and sensor networks - Protocols for real-time, reliable multimedia streaming - Distortion and quality/experience-aware cross-layer design - Optimization techniques for multimedia ad hoc and sensor networks - Capacity modeling - Quality-aware medium access control, scheduling, routing, and transport - Quality-aware resource management and admission control - Cross-layer design for P2P streaming - Experimental and testbed-based studies - Scalability and mobility issues in cross-layer design - Standardization issues related to quality-aware cross-layer design - Multimedia traffic on cognitive radio networks - Cooperative communication techniques for real-time video streaming - MIMO techniques for multimedia delivery - Physical layer technologies for efficient delivery of multimedia content - Secure multimedia communications - Joint multimedia processing and communication - Compressed sensing for multimedia sensor networks - Distributed source/video coding and multimedia processing Submission Instructions: Prospective Authors: Please follow the Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier) journal manuscript format described at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/adhoc and submit your papers to the online submission and reviewing system at http://ees.elsevier.com/adhoc/. Please select Article Type: ³SI: Multimedia Ad Hoc And Sensor Networks². Papers must be in single-column format, double-spaced, and use at least 11 pt fonts, and should not exceed 25 pages including references. Important Dates Submission deadline: December 15th, 2009 First round notification date: March 15th, 2010 First round revision date: April 15th, 2010 Second round notification date: May 15th, 2010 Camera-ready due: June 15th, 2010 Guest Editors: Prof. Tommaso Melodia State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, USA E-mail: tmelodia(a)eng.buffalo.edu http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/~tmelodia/ Prof. Martin Reisslein Arizona State University, USA E-mail: reisslein(a)asu.edu http://www.eas.asu.edu/~mre/ -------------------------------------------------------- Tommaso Melodia Assistant Professor Department of Electrical Engineering State University of New York at Buffalo Office: 215G Bonner Hall Buffalo, NY 14260 Tel: (716) 645-1027 Email: tmelodia(a)eng.buffalo.edu Web: http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/~tmelodia/ -------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP - IEEE VNC - Deadline extended to Aug. 10th
by Martin Mauve 30 Jul '09

30 Jul '09

CALL FOR PAPERS -- Paper submission deadline is extended to Aug. 10, 2009 -- First IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference 2009 IEEE VNC 2009 October 28-30, 2009 Tokyo, Japan http://www.vnc2009.org Sponsors: IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS) IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Scope and Purpose: IEEE VNC 2009 is a new conference established with the merger of previous IEEE V2VCOM and IEEE AutoNet Workshops under IEEE ITS Society and IEEE ComSoc. This conference will seek to bring together researchers, professionals, and practitioners to present and discuss recent developments and challenges in vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure networking technologies, and their applications. Topics of interest are: * Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications * Vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications * Vehicular ad hoc networks * Potential applications of V2V and V2I communications including ITS * Protocols for V2V and V2I communications (MAC, routing, mobility management, etc.) * Security and authentication issues in V2V and V2I networks * Physical layer and RF level technologies for V2V and V2I communications * Antenna system technologies for V2V and V2I communications * Radio resource management and QoS support for V2V and V2I communications * Information networking over V2V, V2R and next-generation networks * Simulation / performance evaluation techniques for V2V and V2I communications * Algorithms, protocols and systems for data dissemination in V2V and V2I communications * Experimental systems and testbeds for V2V and V2I communications * Standardization updates on V2V and V2I communications Important Dates: Paper submission date: Extended to August 10, 2009 Notification of acceptance date: September 10, 2009 Final paper submission date: October 2, 2009 Committees: Honorary Chair: Tadao Saito, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan Prof. Emeritus, The University of Tokyo General Chairs: Onur Altintas, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan Wai Chen, Telcordia Technologies, USA Technical Program Committee Chairs: Vinny Cahill, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Falko Dressler, University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA Sadayuki Tsugawa, Meijo University, Japan Publicity Chairs: David Matolak, Ohio University, USA Kazuya Tsukamoto, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan Bjorn Scheuermann, Heinrich Heine University, Germany Local Arrangement Chairs: Scott Macdonald, e-side, Japan Mikio Hasegawa, Tokyo University of Science, Japan Finance and Registration Chair: Scott Macdonald, e-side, Japan Publications Chair: Tankut Acarman, Galatasaray University, Turkey Steering Committee: Onur Altintas, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan Wai Chen, Telcordia Technologies, USA Geert Heijenk, University of Twente, The Netherlands Thomas Luckenbach, FOKUS, Germany Hyun Seo Oh, ETRI, S. Korea Umit Ozguner, Ohio State University, USA Tadao Saito, Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo Contact: Onur Altintas Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan onur(a)jp.toyota-itc.com Wai Chen Telcordia Technologies, USA waichen(a)ieee.org _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] AASN'2009: Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 30 Jul '09

30 Jul '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] AASN'2009: Call for Papers Datum: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:53:02 +0100 Von: Dr. Youssef Iraqi <y2iraqi(a)gmail.com> An: mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br, tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu, cnom(a)inf.ufsc.br, taos(a)comsoc.org, researchers(a)mailman.ufsc.br, ontc(a)comsoc.org, p2prg(a)irtf.org [Sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.] CALL FOR PAPERS Second International Workshop on Automated and Autonomous Sensor Networks, AASN http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/09/workshops/AASN09/AASN_workshop.html To be held in conjunction with The International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES 2009) Lyon - France, October 27-30, 2009. Summary and Topics: Thanks to technological advances, wired and wireless sensor networks are attracting an increasing attention that promotes their large-scale deployments in many applications, such as environmental monitoring, military surveillance, and scientific exploration. Continuous improvements are motivating works in addressing specific sensor network issues spanning hardware, network protocols, architecture, operating systems, and applications. Furthermore, emergent needs to fulfill a variety of heterogeneous requirements are highlighting the importance of multidisciplinary networks that control their processing and manage their resources by means of self-organizing techniques. These techniques particularly require sharing the decision-making process over hundreds of low-power, short lifetimes sensors. The achievement of this goal is still facing an urgent and challenging question on how to provide these spatially distributed sensors with reasonable autonomy that help them in performing the right action, at the right time for the sake of fulfilling current requirements while increasing the lifetime of the entire sensor network and guaranteeing reliable and enduring pathway communications. Automating the sensor network activities is also an urgent and challenging issue especially that commonly sensing devices are operating unattended in remote and hostile areas where manual maintenance is nearly impossible. Since predefined and late decisions do not help much in improving the efficiency of networked sensing devices, automation and autonomy are very important mechanisms in addressing upcoming developments that target multi-services, collaborating, or competing sensor networks. To reach these goals, the second International Workshop on Automated and Autonomous Sensor Networks is seeking novel ideas in the following topics that include, but not limited to: - Heterogeneous sensor networks - Multi-service sensor networks - Sensor network control - Automated sensing activities - Competing sensors or sensor networks - Collaborating sensors and sensor networks - Semantic-based management of sensor networks - Resource management in sensor networks - Context awareness in sensor networks - Self-organization and self-adaptation in sensor networks - New architectures and protocols for sensor networks - Sensor network maintenance - Intelligent sensors and sensor networks - Data management in sensor networks - Data and resource sharing in sensor networks - Quality of Service in sensor networks - Sustainable sensor networks - Decision Support Systems for Sensor Networks - Virtual Environment for Supporting Sensor Networks - Sensor Networks on the Web - Sensor networks for a sustainable development - Autonomous/Intelligent social sensor networks - Autonomous/Intelligent sensor networks for supporting social networks - Sensor networks for an autonomous/intelligent management of spatial resources - Sensor networks for an autonomous/intelligent risk management - New sensor network applications Important Dates: Submission deadline: July 31st 2009 Acceptance notification: September 5th 2009 Camera ready papers: September 15th 2009 Submission Guidelines: (http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/09/guidelines.php) Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 2 peer reviewers. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. At least one author should attend the conference to present the paper. Program Co-Chairs: Nafaâ Jabeur, Dhofar University (nafaa_jabeur(a)du.edu.om) Youssef Iraqi, Dhofar University (y_iraqi(a)du.edu.om) Technical Program Committee: Bernard Moulin, Laval University, Canada Duc Tran, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA Gregory S. Yovanof, Athens Information Technology, Greece Gianluca Moro, University of Bologna, Italy Hamdi Yahyaoui, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia Jiming Chen, Zhejiang University, China Khalil El-Khatib, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Michael Lauer, Goethe-Univ. Frankfurt, Germany Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Nabil Sahli, Dhofar University, Oman Phil Graniero, University of Windsor, Canada Stefano Avallone, University of Naples, Italy Vasilis Friderikos, King's College London, UK Zakaria Maamar, Zaid University, UAE _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Extended Submission Deadline - International Workshop on the Future Internet of Things and Services - Embedded Web Services for Pervasive Devices
by Jens Schmutzler 29 Jul '09

29 Jul '09

[Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE EXTENSION International Workshop on the Future Internet of Things and Services - Embedded Web Services for Pervasive Devices <http://www.fits2009.ist-more.org> held in conjunction with FIS2009 <http://www.fis2009.org> Berlin, Germany, September 1st, 2009 Extended Paper submission deadline: August 10th, 2009 Scope: The Future Internet of Things aims at providing pervasiveness of the Internet by integrating smart embedded devices into every days life processes. This leads to a highly distributed network of devices communicating with human beings as well as other devices. With the increase of heterogeneity, it becomes very difficult to insure interactions with devices in a unified manner. Enabling seamless convergence and interoperability of heterogeneous devices will be one of the key factors to the success of the Future Internet of Things. Moreover the Future Internet requires intelligent interaction with the environment leading to the emergence of wireless sensor networks connected to the Internet. There is a need for those networks to provide their information in an interpretable form and to reduce the complexity of accessing sensor services for applications or other systems. The challenge lies in developing and selecting the right software frameworks, architectures, and protocols to publish embedded services via the Internet. Web technologies have been used to provide an interface to distributed services. This approach and the need for adaptable interfaces asks for service oriented middleware approaches providing common base functionality for service interaction and communication such as interface description languages, and marshalling mechanisms. In addition, middleware solutions for embedded systems need to monitor, and manage quality of service aspects, such as response time, resource consumption, throughput, availability, reliability and security. While web services being a standard and widely adopted technology for the standard Internet, embedded systems as the worker nodes for the Internet of Things need to catch up in utilizing these technologies. Embedded distributed systems can implement service oriented architectures as a promising approach to solve the complexity of distributed embedded applications and propagate web services as a cross-domain technology. Wireless sensor/actor networks, where the sensors are connected to and controlled by embedded systems may benefit from this approach, where services encapsulate the functionality and provide unified access to the functionality of the system through a middleware layer. The goal of this workshop is to bring together industrial or academic researchers and developers interested in connecting limited embedded (web) services and/or sensor networks with the Internet in order to build the Internet of Things. Through paper presentations and discussions, this workshop will contribute to the exchange of knowledge and ideas, dissemination of results about completed and on-going research projects, as well as identification and analysis of remaining open research issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Architectural Issues in Future Internet of Things * Real world applications and scenarios for embedded web services * Interoperability of heterogeneous systems * Event-driven SOAs & Device-centric SOA * Service creation, deployment, life cycle management * Tool support for service creation, validation and testing * Enterprise application integration * Protocols for efficient message transmission to embedded devices * Web services and Middleware for embedded environments * SOA-based integration of IT systems in the healthcare enterprise * Web services executing in mobile or pervasive environments * Distributed sensor networks for remote monitoring and surveillance * Web services for field bus systems Submission Instructions Papers have to be submitted electronically, through the EasyChairSystem: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fits2009 Papers should be written in English and should be no more than 6 pages for full papers and 4 pages for short papers (font Times 11pt). Authors are requested to follow the LNCS Style. The first page should contain the title of the paper, names and addresses of all authors (including e-mail), an abstract (100-150 words) and a list of keywords. Submissions should describe original research. Papers accepted for presentation at FITS 2009 cannot be presented or have been presented at another meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must indicate this on the title page, as must papers that contain significant overlap with previously published work. Over lengthy or late submissions will be rejected without review. Notification of receipt and acceptance of papers will be sent to the first author. Please also see the workshop website: http://www.fits2009.ist-more.org Important Dates: * Workshop paper submission deadline: August 10, 2009 * Notification of acceptance: August 17, 2009 * Camera ready proceedings: August 25, 2009 * Workshop day: September 1, 2009 Program Co-Chairs: * Vania CONAN Dr. Conan is head of Advanced Studies laboratory in Thales Communications, Colombes, France. He received his Engineering Degree and PhD in Computer Science from Ecole des Mines de Paris, France, and a Masters Degree in Artificial Intelligence from Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris. Since then, he has been managing research projects at national and European levels (FP5, FP6 IST programmes, ITEA Eureka cluster and French ANR). His current research topics cover wireless and ad hoc networks, from a software and IP protocol perspective. * Christian Wietfeld Prof. Dr. Wietfeld is head of the Communication Networks Institute of TU Dortmund, University. He has a background in communications networks research and product development at RWTH Aachen and Siemens AG. He held the position of a Director Product Line Management at Siemens Communications and served two years in the Board of Directors of the international industry consortium WAP Forum resp. OMA (Open Mobile Alliance). His research work on the design and performance evaluation of wireless communication architectures, protocols and services is published in numerous conference papers, book chapters, contributions to standardisation (ITUT/3GPP/ETSI/OMA/CEN) and patents. He completed management programmes at U.S. business schools (Kellogg/ Chicago and Babson/Boston). * Peter Marwedel Prof. Dr Marwedel is the head of UniDo/ES. His experience covers a wide range of topics in embedded systems. In 2003, he published a very influential text book on embedded system design which is setting standards worldwide. In the same year, he received the teaching award of his University. He is also heading the local technology transfer centre ICD. ICD is in charge of transforming research results into industrial products. ICD has designed several simulators, compilers and debuggers for industrial customers. TPC Chair: * Stefan Michaelis, stefan.michaelis(a)prodv.de TPC Vice Chair: * Damien Lavaux, damien.lavaux(a)fr.thalesgroup.com Publicity Chair: * Jens Schmutzler, jens.schmutzler(a)tu-dortmund.de Workshop Program Committee (alphabetical order): * Alejandro Alonso (Universidad Politecnic Madrid) * Christopher Foley (Waterford Institute of Technology) * Damien Lavaux (Thales Communications) * Akos Levay (Applied Logic Laboratories) * Stefan Michaelis (PRO DV Software AG) * Gemma Power (Waterford Institute of Technology) * Emilio Salazar (Universidad Politecnic Madrid) * Jens Schmutzler (CNI, Technische Universität Dortmund, University) * Constantin Timm (ESG, Technische Universität Dortmund, University) Contact: Please send an e-mail to TPC vice-chair, the publicity chair or visit the workshop website at http://www.fits2009.ist-more.org for further information. -- Dipl.-Ing. Jens A. Schmutzler Communication Networks Institute (CNI) Dortmund University of Technology Otto-Hahn-Str. 6 44227 Dortmund Germany Room: C1-04-176 Fon: +49 (231) 755-3781, Fax: -6136 EMail: <mailto:jens.schmutzler@tu-dortmund.de> jens.schmutzler(a)tu-dortmund.de Web: ( <http://www.cni.tu-dortmund.de> www.cni.tu-dortmund.de)

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Special issue on: Adaptive Communication in Wireless Networks]
by Lars Wolf 28 Jul '09

28 Jul '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Special issue on: Adaptive Communication in Wireless Networks Datum: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:28:45 -0700 Von: Issa Traore <itraore(a)ece.uvic.ca> Antwort an: itraore(a)ece.uvic.ca Organisation: University of Victoria An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> CC: 'Sudip Misra' <smisra.editor(a)gmail.com>, 'Wei Song' <wsong(a)eecs.berkeley.edu> CALL FOR PAPERS (!!! DEADLINE EXTENDED TO: August 10, 2009 !!!) Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal (Springer) Special issue on: Adaptive Communication in Wireless Networks Wireless communication technologies are undergoing rapid advancements. The last few years have experienced a steep growth in research on wireless networks having attractive claims. Researchers are currently envisioning different attractive properties of wireless systems such as the ability to self-organize, self-configure, self-heal, self-manage and self-maintain. These systems are increasingly becoming dynamic and they are expected to perform many tasks autonomously by adapting to the dynamics of the networks. With the wide range of applications that need to be supported in these systems, there exists increasing expectations about what the current and the future generation networks can do. Many of these requirements are pivoted in the ability of the networks to adapt to the network dynamism. Adaptation to changing environments, in turn, often leads to increased performance of the networks. This Special Issue aims to publish high quality research papers relating to different aspects of adaptive communication in wireless networks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, all aspects of adaptive communication in: . Broadband wireless access networks . Wireless Internet . Software defined radio . Bluetooth technology . Ultra-wide band radio . Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks . Wireless Mesh Networks . IEEE 802.11/802.20/802.22 . Emerging wireless network security issues . Wireless telemedicine and e-health . Emerging issues in 3G and 4G wireless networks . Emerging wireless network architecture . Multimedia over emerging wireless networks . Underwater sensor Networks . Supplying power to the distributed wireless sensors . Cognitive Radio Systems . Cooperative wireless communications . Multi-hop relay wireless communications Good quality survey/tutorial-type articles (but NOT purely a literature review) are also of interest to this Special Issue. Guest Editors: Sudip Misra School of IT Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur - 721302, West Bengal India E-mail: smisra.editor(a)gmail.com Issa Traore Department of ECE University of Victoria Victoria, British Columbia Canada E-mail: itraore(a)ece.uvic.ca Wei Song Dept. of EE & CS University of California Berkeley, California USA E-mail: wsong(a)eecs.berkeley.edu Submission Details: Original, high quality contributions that are not yet published or that are not currently under review by other journals or peer-reviewed conferences are sought. Manuscripts should be submitted by e-mail to smisra.editor(a)gmail.com. Please mention "WPC Special Issue Submission" in the subject line of your e-mail. After sending your manuscript, if you do not get a confirmation of receipt of your submission within 2-3 business days, please resend your original e-mail again. A guide for authors for preparing their papers is available at http://www.springer.com/engineering/signals/journal/11277 Contributing authors might also be asked to review some of the papers submitted to this special issue. Important Dates: Manuscript Due: August 1, 2009. (DEADLINE EXTENDED TO: August 10, 2009) Acceptance Notification: December 1, 2009. Camera-Ready Final Manuscript Due: January 1, 2010. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE Communications Magazine Automotive Networking Series]
by Lars Wolf 28 Jul '09

28 Jul '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE Communications Magazine Automotive Networking Series Datum: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:38:50 -0400 (EDT) Von: Ratul Guha <rguha(a)research.telcordia.com> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu ************************************************************ Call for Papers IEEE Communications Magazine - Automotive Networking Series ************************************************************ The series on Automotive Networking is published twice a year, with issues appearing in May and November. The Automotive Networking series is created to address the growing importance in vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications. Such importance led to allocation of new spectrum for this kind of communications and creation of R&D partnerships among governments, transportation authorities, automobile manufacturers, and the academic community. The Automotive Networking series invites manuscript submissions in the areas of: " Automotive networking applications and services " Automotive networks and system architectures " Physical and link layer technologies " Networking technologies " Security and privacy technologies " System management and operations " Simulation and performance evaluation for automotive networking " Experimental systems, testbeds and field trials for vehicular communications " Impact assessment " Emerging standards in automotive networking All submissions are peer reviewed to ensure that only the highest-quality original articles are published. Submitted articles should be written in a clear, concise language and at a level suitable for practicing engineers engaged in the design, development, and application of products, systems and networks. The length of the article should not exceed six magazine pages (approximately 4500 words), should not contain more than six to eight graphics / tables / photographs, and should not include more than 15 references. Manuscripts must be submitted through the magazine's submissions Web site at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/commag-ieee On the Manuscript Details page please click on the drop-down menu to select Automotive Networking Series. Manuscripts submitted to the Series will be considered on a rolling basis. Editors: Dr. Wai Chen Telcordia Technologies waichen(a)ieee.org Dr. Luca Delgrossi Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America Dr. Timo Kosch BMW Group Research and Technology Dr. Tadao Saito Toyota InfoTechnology Center _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: IEEE ICC 2010 Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 28 Jul '09

28 Jul '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: IEEE ICC 2010 Call for Papers Datum: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:10:45 -0400 Von: ComSoc Conferences <Meetings(a)comsocconferences.org> Antwort an: <Meetings(a)comsocconferences.org> An: <wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> Click here <http://ieee.xert.net/d.cfm?m=90204.894.0.24585> if you can not see this message ICC ComSoc is a Community... ...A Community comprised of a diverse group of industry professionals with a common interest in advancing all communications technologies. To that end, the Society sponsors publications, conferences, educational programs, local activities, and technical committees that: Foster original work in all aspects of communications science, engineering, and technology. Encourage the development of applications that use signals to transfer voice, data, image, and/or video information between locations. Promote the theory and use of systems involving all types of terminals, computers, and information processors; all pertinent systems and operations that facilitate transfer; all transmission media; switched and unswitched networks; and network layouts, protocols, architectures, and implementations. And strongly advance developments toward meeting new market demands in systems, products, and technologies such as personal communications services, multimedia communications systems, enterprise networks, and optical communications systems. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IEEE Communications Society 3 Park Ave 17th Floor New York, NY 10016 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please click here <http://ieee.xert.net/act_optout.cfm?cid=90204&email_id=%23%27I%3FK%0A>

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[Fwd: [ISCC] PerNets 2010 cfp (within IEEE CCNC): paper submission deadline is August 23, 2009]
by Lars Wolf 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [ISCC] PerNets 2010 cfp (within IEEE CCNC): paper submission deadline is August 23, 2009 Datum: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:55:43 +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 ************************************************************************************* Fourth International Workshop on Personalized Networks *PerNets 2010 *to be held in conjunction with The IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2010) January 9-12, 2010 - Harrah's Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA http://pernets.irctr.tudelft.nl/ ************************************************************************************* Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and the IEEE Digital Library Paper submission via EDAS (please read the submission instructions below first) CES http://www.cesweb.org/ will be held in Las Vegas during the same period. Free Registration is open till 1st October 2009. ************************************************************************************** _Purpose of this workshop _The ubiquitous nature of wireless networks has spawned many interesting applications that were unimagined hitherto. It has also brought many challenges for the communication and networking community to address. On one hand we see present day mobile devices are capable of providing many services that required several devices before. For example, most cell phones nowadays provide high speed data access, still and video cameras, PDA functionality, etc. These advances in device sophistication and service offerings, including wireless hotspots, have made a difference in the way we communicate. With increased user mobility and user's desire to always be connected, we have seen a growing interest in Personal Area Networks (PANs) and Body Area Networks (BANs). These networks can be tuned and applied meaningfully for individual users and their requirements. On the other hand the Internet has changed our way of interacting dramatically. These two major communication areas are having an in-depth influence on the way we communicate; it is worth considering them 'together' as the future communication vehicle. Personalized Networks is one such future oriented concept where we seek to bring BANs, PANs, WLAN, sensor networks, ad hoc networks, home networks, vehicular networks and the Internet together onto one platform under one broader vision of future (4G) communication networks. The idea is to enable continuous and seamless connectivity of all the personal devices of a user, information sources, and network enabled controllers in an unobtrusive way, regardless of where these entities are located - be they local or remote. It is a microcosm of the persons themselves with their associated accessories somewhere on the Internet. It is equivalent to the Internet presence that has become a prominent concept in the last decade. This advanced overlay network is strongly person oriented and must be ad hoc, intelligent and must behave as a user-friendly virtual intelligent personal assistant to its owner. It is a personal distributed environment, global in scope that can co-exist on the present day Internet with its active participation. Such a platform enables many new applications, especially for users with rapidly changing communication demands that often operate in various contexts simultaneously. It can also provide the much needed user-friendliness to many services of today. There are numerous issues which are challenging to the communication network community in realizing a Personalized Network. Most of them arise from the lack of current technology to deal in a transparent way with the dynamic and mobile nature of the entities, the unpredictable topology of the network, the power constraints of the mobile devices, and the heterogeneity of the networking and link-level technologies. Therefore, creating a Personalized Network yields new architectures, protocols, algorithms, platforms, middleware, etc. They take care of addressing, routing, resource and service discovery, the self-organization of the network, the localization of the devices/person, the complex security and privacy requirements, the offering of context aware services and service management. Many of these issues, ventured upon earlier under various mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) and mobile network research initiatives, need to be reconsidered in this case. These technologies have to meet strict requirements with respect to user perception, viable business models, usage of communication bandwidth, protocol complexity, robustness, availability of links and infrastructure, dependability and trust. _Scope of the submission _We seek original contributions which are aimed at finding solutions to the problems that are outlined above towards realization of a Personalized Network. We have identified the following major topics under which we try to categorize the submissions. However, we will consider any other original, interesting, and imaginative ideas and thoughts towards meeting this goal of a Personalized Network. * Architectural framework of personalized networks * Personalized Network Applications * Personal Communications in the next generation Internet * Personal Networks for rural areas * Context Awareness * Resource, service and context discovery * Self-organization and adaptation * Addressing and routing * Interworking between PANs, ad hoc networks, etc, and infrastructure-based heterogeneous networks * Mobility of personalized networks * Security, privacy and anonymity * Zero configuration methods and other enablers for ease-of-use * Dependability * Application-driven communication substrates * Personalized networks for group oriented networking * New QoS concepts in personalized networks * QoS across heterogeneous Networks and Devices * Mapping of functional requirements to physical devices and resources * Modeling and simulation of personalized networks * P2P paradigm in personalized networks * Innovative applications or prototypes and demonstrations of such person centric applications are equally valued _Why should you participate in this workshop? _Personalized Networks is a concrete vision of the future networks, yet very current, in the field of communications. It attracts researchers from both wired and wireless domains. This workshop is an ideal platform to share a vision of where we are heading, interact, and strongly advocate an exciting new avenue for researchers and practitioners in the field of communication. Further, the final program would consist of carefully selected - with at least three peer reviews - and high quality submissions with a large emphasis on new ideas rather than incremental contributions to the field. Submissions of shorter versions of full papers that can be submitted to other conferences/journal in the near future are discouraged. _Submission Instructions _Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently under review in any other conference or journal, and has not been previously published. Paper length should not exceed five-page technical paper manuscript. Papers should be submitted in a .pdf or .ps format to the EDAS paper submission website. A separate cover sheet should show the title of the paper, the author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s), and the address (including e-mail, telephone, and fax) to which the correspondence should be sent. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. At least one author of accepted papers is required to register at the full registration rate. _Important Dates _Paper Submission Deadline: *August 23, 2009 *Notification of Acceptance: *September 21, 2009 *Camera-Ready Submissions: *October 1, 2009 *_Conference Committees _General chairperson Ignas Niemegeers, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Program Co-Chairpersons Sonia Heemstra de Groot, University of Twente, Netherlands Magda El Zarki, University of California, Irvine, USA Publicity Chairperson Paolo Bellavista, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy Contact Information Email: wpn(a)ewi.tudelft.nl Technical Program Committee Paolo Bellavista, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada Milind M Buddhikot, Bell Laboratories, New Jersey, USA Mainik Chatterjee, University of Central Florida, USA Carlos Cordeiro, Intel, USA Frank den Hartog, TNO, Netherlands Piet Demeester, Ghent University, Belgium Sudhir Dixit, Nokia, Boston, USA Vasilis Friderikos, King's College London, UK Carmelita Görg, University of Bremen, Germany K. V. S. Hari, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Hossam Hassanein, Queens University, Canada Sonia Heemstra de Groot, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Geert Heijenk, University of Twente, Netherlands Ramin Hekmat, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands James Irvine, Strathclyde University, Scotland Sumanth Jagannathan, Broadcom Corporation, USA H. S. Jamadagni, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Theo G. Kanter, Mid-Sweden University, Sweden Vinay Kolar, RWTH Aachen, Germany Ramakant Komali, RWTH Aachen, Germany Anup Kumar, University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA Joy Kuri, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Petri Liuha, Nokia, Finland Anthony Lo, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Thomas Magedanz, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Mahesh Marina, University of Edinburgh, UK Ingrid Moerman, University of Ghent, Belgium Klaus Moessner, University of Surrey, UK Luis Muñoz, University of Cantabria, Spain Ignas Niemegeers, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Giovanni Pau, University of California Los Angeles, USA Jorge Pereira, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium T. V. Prabhakar, Indian Institute of Science, India Ramjee Prasad, University of Aalbarg, Denmark Neeli Prasad, University of Aalbarg, Denmark Heung-Gyoon Ryu, Chungbuk National University, Korea Amardeo Sarma, NEC Network Laboratories, Germany Koduvayur Subbalakshmi, Stevens Institute, USA Sai Shankar, Broadcom, San Diego, USA Sirin Tekinay, New Jersey Institute of Technology, New Jersey, USA John Thompson, University of Edinburgh, UK Stephen B Weinstein, CTTC, New Jersey, USA Magda El Zarki, University of California, Irvine, USA Honggang Zhang, Zhejiang University, China Djamal Zeghlache, INT, Paris, France Organizing Committee Martin Jacobsson, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands R. V. Prasad, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Paolo Bellavista, Ph. D. Associate Professor in Computer Science Engineering EB Member of IEEE Communications and IEEE T. Services Computing 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/ _______________________________________________ ISCC mailing list ISCC(a)mail.ing.unibo.it https://calvin.ing.unibo.it/mailman/listinfo/iscc

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CfP: IWSOS 2009 -- 4th Int. Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems
by karin anna hummel 15 Jul '09

15 Jul '09

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP *** --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleagues, The submission deadline for IFIP IWSOS 2009 (4th International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems), to be held at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, December 9-11, is quickly approaching: Regular Papers (12 pages): July 20, 2009 Short Papers (6 pages): August 14, 2009 The submission website is accepting submissions via: http://senldogo0039.springer-sbm.com/IWSOS2009/servlet/Conference (The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.) Please, find attached the CfP below. More information can be found at http://www.iwsos2009.ethz.ch/index.html Best Regards, Bernhard Plattner (General Chair) Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos (Program Co-Chair) Karin Anna Hummel (Program Co-Chair) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS: 4th IFIP International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems (IWSOS 2009) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To be held at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, December 9-11 *Workshop Scope* IWSOS 2009 is the fourth workshop in a series of annual workshops dedicated to self-organization in networks and networked systems. The necessity for and expected benefit of self-organization is caused by the growing scale, complexity, and heterogeneity of future networked systems, like the future Internet. Future networks will form complex networks integrating wired and wireless infrastructures with mobile ad-hoc, and sensor networks that could be spontaneously deployed in hostile environments, have a dynamic population and a potentially short life time. In spite of this, there will be stringent user requirements, such as high availability and real-time guarantees. Although self-organization is desirable for these kinds of networks, it is not yet clear to what extent self-organization can be exploited. Research into networked systems started a few years ago to systematically investigate self-organization and has lead to a multitude of open research issues. The applicability of well-known self-organizing techniques to specific networks and networked systems is being investigated, as well as adaptations and novel approaches inspired by cooperation in nature and evolutionary dynamics, sociology, and game theory. Additionally, models originating from areas like control theory and complex systems research, are being applied to networked systems to analyze their controllability and behavior. Aspects of engineering self-organizing networked systems are studied that draw on approaches like programmable networks, and tools and frameworks for deploying, testing, and monitoring self-organizing networks. The role of self-organization in the future Internet and the impact on its architecture is an important topic, as well as the application of self-organization in future intelligent transportation systems and vehicular ad-hoc networks. Building on the success of its predecessors, this workshop aims at bringing together leading international researchers to create a visionary forum for discussing the future of self-organization in networked systems. Topics include, but are not limited to the following. *Key Topics* - Self-organization and self-management - Self-configuration and self-optimization - Self-protection, -diagnosis, and -healing - Applications, e.g. the self-organizing home network - Self-organization in peer-to-peer, sensor, ad-hoc and vehicular networks - Control theory based models and approaches to self-organization - Applications of game theory for self-organization - Bio-inspired and socially inspired models of self-organization - Group-forming networks and techniques - Programmable and cognitive networks as a basis for self-organization - Visualization of network state - Self-organization for Quality of Service - Resilience, robustness and fault tolerance for networked systems - Security in self-organizing networked systems - Self-organization in heterogeneous network convergence - Evolutionary principles of the (future, emerging) Internet - Self-configuring place-and-play sensor/mobile networks - Methods for configuration and management of large, complex networks - Risks of self-organization - The human in the loop of self-organizing networks *Paper Submission* IWSOS invites submission of manuscripts as full or short papers that present original research results, and that have not been previously published or are currently under review by another conference or journal. Any previous or simultaneous publication of related material should be explicitly noted in the submission. All papers must be submitted in PDF format. Submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the international TPC and judged on originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness. Click here (http://www.iwsos2009.ethz.ch/index.html) for detailed information for authors. *Full Papers* Submissions should be full-length papers up to 12 pages using the LNCS style, including all figures and references, and must include an abstract of 100-150 words. *Short Papers* Submissions should be position papers, challenging papers, and papers presenting first or late results up to 6 pages length (LNCS style, including all figures and references), and must include an abstract of 100-150 words. *Proceedings* The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must attend IWSOS 2009 to present the paper. *Posters and Demonstrations* To complement the main technical programme of IWSOS 2009, we are soliciting extended abstracts (up to two pages, LNCS style) that describe posters and demonstrations that will be presented at an informal session during the workshop. This session should provide a platform to present and discuss work-in-progress and demonstrations. The abstracts will be collected and made available at the event.

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International Workshop on the Future Internet of Things and Services - Embedded Web Services for Pervasive Devices
by Jens Schmutzler 14 Jul '09

14 Jul '09

[Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on the Future Internet of Things and Services - Embedded Web Services for Pervasive Devices <http://www.fits2009.ist-more.org <http://www.fits2009.ist-more.org/> > held in conjunction with FIS2009 <http://www.fis2009.org <http://www.fis2009.org/> > Berlin, Germany, September 1st-3rd, 2009 Paper submission deadline: August 3rd, 2009 Scope: The Future Internet of Things aims at providing pervasiveness of the Internet by integrating smart embedded devices into every days life processes. This leads to a highly distributed network of devices communicating with human beings as well as other devices. With the increase of heterogeneity, it becomes very difficult to insure interactions with devices in a unified manner. Enabling seamless convergence and interoperability of heterogeneous devices will be one of the key factors to the success of the Future Internet of Things. Moreover the Future Internet requires intelligent interaction with the environment leading to the emergence of wireless sensor networks connected to the Internet. There is a need for those networks to provide their information in an interpretable form and to reduce the complexity of accessing sensor services for applications or other systems. The challenge lies in developing and selecting the right software frameworks, architectures, and protocols to publish embedded services via the Internet. Web technologies have been used to provide an interface to distributed services. This approach and the need for adaptable interfaces asks for service oriented middleware approaches providing common base functionality for service interaction and communication such as interface description languages, and marshalling mechanisms. In addition, middleware solutions for embedded systems need to monitor, and manage quality of service aspects, such as response time, resource consumption, throughput, availability, reliability and security. While web services being a standard and widely adopted technology for the standard Internet, embedded systems as the worker nodes for the Internet of Things need to catch up in utilizing these technologies. Embedded distributed systems can implement service oriented architectures as a promising approach to solve the complexity of distributed embedded applications and propagate web services as a cross-domain technology. Wireless sensor/actor networks, where the sensors are connected to and controlled by embedded systems may benefit from this approach, where services encapsulate the functionality and provide unified access to the functionality of the system through a middleware layer. The goal of this workshop is to bring together industrial or academic researchers and developers interested in connecting limited embedded (web) services and/or sensor networks with the Internet in order to build the Internet of Things. Through paper presentations and discussions, this workshop will contribute to the exchange of knowledge and ideas, dissemination of results about completed and on-going research projects, as well as identification and analysis of remaining open research issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Architectural Issues in Future Internet of Things * Real world applications and scenarios for embedded web services * Interoperability of heterogeneous systems * Event-driven SOAs & Device-centric SOA * Service creation, deployment, life cycle management * Tool support for service creation, validation and testing * Enterprise application integration * Protocols for efficient message transmission to embedded devices * Web services and Middleware for embedded environments * SOA-based integration of IT systems in the healthcare enterprise * Web services executing in mobile or pervasive environments * Distributed sensor networks for remote monitoring and surveillance * Web services for field bus systems Submission Instructions Papers have to be submitted electronically, through the EasyChairSystem: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fits2009 Papers should be written in English and should be no more than 6 pages for full papers and 4 pages for short papers (font Times 11pt). Authors are requested to follow the LNCS Style. The first page should contain the title of the paper, names and addresses of all authors (including e-mail), an abstract (100-150 words) and a list of keywords. Submissions should describe original research. Papers accepted for presentation at FITS 2009 cannot be presented or have been presented at another meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must indicate this on the title page, as must papers that contain significant overlap with previously published work. Over lengthy or late submissions will be rejected without review. Notification of receipt and acceptance of papers will be sent to the first author. Please also see the workshop website: http://www.fits2009.ist-more.org <http://www.fits2009.ist-more.org/> Important Dates: * Workshop paper submission deadline: August 1, 2009 * Notification of acceptance: August 17, 2009 * Camera ready proceedings: August 25, 2009 * Workshop day: September 1, 2009 Program Co-Chairs: * Vania CONAN Dr. Conan is head of Advanced Studies laboratory in Thales Communications, Colombes, France. He received his Engineering Degree and PhD in Computer Science from Ecole des Mines de Paris, France, and a Masters Degree in Artificial Intelligence from Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris. Since then, he has been managing research projects at national and European levels (FP5, FP6 IST programmes, ITEA Eureka cluster and French ANR). His current research topics cover wireless and ad hoc networks, from a software and IP protocol perspective. * Christian Wietfeld Prof. Dr. Wietfeld is head of the Communication Networks Institute of TU Dortmund, University. He has a background in communications networks research and product development at RWTH Aachen and Siemens AG. He held the position of a Director Product Line Management at Siemens Communications and served two years in the Board of Directors of the international industry consortium WAP Forum resp. OMA (Open Mobile Alliance). His research work on the design and performance evaluation of wireless communication architectures, protocols and services is published in numerous conference papers, book chapters, contributions to standardisation (ITUT/3GPP/ETSI/OMA/CEN) and patents. He completed management programmes at U.S. business schools (Kellogg/ Chicago and Babson/Boston). * Peter Marwedel Prof. Dr Marwedel is the head of UniDo/ES. His experience covers a wide range of topics in embedded systems. In 2003, he published a very influential text book on embedded system design which is setting standards worldwide. In the same year, he received the teaching award of his University. He is also heading the local technology transfer centre ICD. ICD is in charge of transforming research results into industrial products. ICD has designed several simulators, compilers and debuggers for industrial customers. TPC Chair: * Stefan Michaelis, stefan.michaelis(a)prodv.de TPC Vice Chair: * Damien Lavaux, damien.lavaux(a)fr.thalesgroup.com Publicity Chair: * Jens Schmutzler, jens.schmutzler(a)tu-dortmund.de Workshop Program Committee (alphabetical order): * Alejandro Alonso (Universidad Politecnic Madrid) * Christopher Foley (Waterford Institute of Technology) * Damien Lavaux (Thales Communications) * Akos Levay (Applied Logic Laboratories) * Stefan Michaelis (PRO DV Software AG) * Gemma Power (Waterford Institute of Technology) * Emilio Salazar (Universidad Politecnic Madrid) * Jens Schmutzler (CNI, Technische Universität Dortmund, University) * Constantin Timm (ESG, Technische Universität Dortmund, University) Contact: Please send an e-mail to TPC vice-chair, the publicity chair or visit the workshop website at http://www.fits2009.ist-more.org for further information.

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