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[Tccc] CFP: PFLDnet 2009
by Michael Welzl 05 Feb '09

05 Feb '09

CALL FOR PAPERS PFLDNet 2009 The 7th International Workshop on Protocols for Future, Large-Scale and Diverse Network Transports (PFLDNeT) The University of Tokyo, Japan May 21-22, 2009 Web page: http://www.hpcc.jp/pfldnet2009 Scope The Internet continues to evolve along several dimensions, allowing more and more end systems to communicate in increasingly diverse ways. At one end of the performance spectrum, the Internet protocols provide communication facilities for extremely-high-speed special-use networks. At the other end of the performance spectrum, the Internet contains very low-power and low-bandwidth networks that cater to infrequent, bursty communication. Enabling efficient and high- performance end-to-end communication across such a diverse internetwork is a difficult problem, which is not solved by current transport layer protocols. The need to support an application base that grows more and more dissimilar adds additional challenges. The 7th International Workshop on Protocols for Future, Large-Scale & Diverse Network Transports (PFLDNeT)brings together researchers and practitioners from all continents to exchange their ideas and experiences in the area of transport layer issues for modern communication networks. The workshop provides theorists, experimentalists and technologists with a focused, highly interactive opportunity to present, discuss and exchange experience on leading research, development and future directions in transport and application protocols for networks that are increasingly growing in size, heterogeneity and dynamicity of interaction. PFLDNeT 2009 solicits papers that further the research on end-to-end communication protocols for todays and tomorrows Internet in all its diversity along the continuum from specialized grid networks, optical transports, wireless connections, to lossy and low-power networks. A specific focus of the workshop lies on transport protocols for the efficient end-to-end transfer of data for a diverse set of applications and application-layer protocols. Now approaching its seventh instantiation, the PFLDneT workshop has broadened its focus over the years from protocols targeted at specific fast, long-distance networks (the original expansion of the PFLDneT acronym) into a venue where all kinds of new ideas relating to end-to-end transport protocols for diverse network scenarios are being discussed first. The previous International Workshops on Protocols for Fast, Long- Distance Networks held at CERN (2003), Argonne (2004), Lyon (2005), Nara (2006), Marina del Rey (2007) and Manchester (2008) were very successful in bringing together many researchers from all over the world including North America, Europe and Asia who are working on these problems. PFLDNeT 2009 will continue this tradition, and provide a perfect forum for researchers in this area to exchange ideas and experience. Important Dates and Relevant Event Information Position Paper submission: February 27th Notification of Acceptance: March 30th Final camera ready submission: May 1st Conference: May 21st and 22nd IRTF ICCRG meeting: May 20th Workshop web site The latest information of the workshop is updated in http://www.hpcc.jp/pfldnet2009 Topics PFLDNeT 2009 covers all aspects related to transport protocols for the current and future Internet, including, but not limited to: - Protocol development - Enhancements of TCP - Innovative congestion control mechanisms - Novel data transport protocols designed for new networks and - applications - Explicit signaling protocols: optimization criteria and deployment - strategies - Pacing and shaping of traffic - Parallel transfers and multi-streaming - Performance evaluation - Modeling and simulation-based results - Interaction of transport protocols and network equipment - Experiments on real networks and live measurements - Protocol benchmarking - Transport over optical networks - Protocol implementation and hardware issues - End system performance - Data replication and striping - Applications with demanding or unusual network performance - requirements - Bulk-data transfer applications - Transport service for Grids - Quality-of-service and scalability issues - Multicast Workshop Organizers Program Committee Chairs: Lars Eggert, Nokia Research Center, FI Kei Hiraki, The University of Tokyo, JP Steering Committee: Lachlan Andrew, Swinburne University of Technology, AU Richard Hughes-Jones, Univ. of Manchester, UK Katsushi Kobayashi, AIST, JP Doug Leith, Hamilton Institute, IE Injong Rhee, North Carolina State University, US Pascale Vicat-Blanc, INRIA, FR Michael Welzl, Univ. of Innsbruck, AT Program Committee: Dirceu Cavendish ,KIT, JP Larry Dunn, Univ. of Minnesota, US Tomohiro Kudoh , AIST, JP Venkatram Vishwanath, EVL, USA Steven Low, Caltech, US Saverio Mascolo, Politecnico di Bari, IT Hideyuki Shimonishi, NEC, JP David X. Wei, Facebook, US Yoshifumi Nishida, Sony CSL, JP Joerg Ott, TKK, FI Joe Touch, USC/ISI, US Mark Handley, UCL, UK Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, Northwestern University, US _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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IEEE ICME 2009 Call for Workshop Papers
by ICME 2009 Publicity 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

IEEE ICME 2009 Call for Workshop Papers http://www.icme09.org/workshops.html ===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===--- Workshops at-a-glance (Name: paper submission deadline) Workshop on Media Information Analysis for Personal and Social Applications: Feb 14, 2009 Workshop on Multimedia Security and Content Protection: Feb 14, 2009 Workshop on Multimedia Aspects in Pervasive Healthcare: Feb 15, 2009 Workshop on Internet Multimedia Search and Mining: Feb 15, 2009 Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing and Novel Parallel Computing: March 1, 2009 ===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===--- 1st IEEE Workshop on Media Information Analysis for Personal and Social Applications (W'MAPS 2009) <http://www.icme09.org/workshop/WMAPS09> July 3rd, 2009 Hilton Cancun, Cancun, Mexico in conjunction with 2009 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) The proliferation of mobile multimedia devices and social networks has led to an explosion of digital media content being created, resulting in large personal and public multimedia databases in which it has become increasingly difficult to retrieve specific content and browse the large collections. In the absence of manual annotation specifying the content of the media (in the form of captions or tags), most current content management software only allow simple browsing and navigation options; which severely limits the search and other advanced functionality. This is complicated by the available types of media such as images, video, music, speech, text, and graphics, and the relationship and interactions among them. In addition to personal collections located at home PCs and laptops, the wide spread popularity of media and social networking sites such as Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, Easyshare Gallery has enabled users to share and browse images and videos. However, due to the huge magnitude and variety of media content, it is increasing difficult for users and consumers to easily navigate, search, compose, and share their content and memories. When we consider the multimedia information available on public web sites, we will be confronting with a big scalability issue with many existing techniques and algorithms. Solutions that address the broad spectrum of personal and social multimedia applications are needed. The goal of this workshop is to provide a technical forum for researchers from academy and industry to discuss the advances and challenges of information processing, analysis, and retrieval for multimedia applications in personal and social domains. We propose to explore emerging areas of research such as cross-media and cross-domain information analysis and extraction, which will enhance current capability of information management applications and enrich the overall multimedia experience. Another area is to leverage rich metadata and contextual information associated with the media content. These include GPS, date/time, captions/tags, camera settings, face and other biometric information. The advances in user interface technologies incorporating speech and gesture recognition will also play an important role in enabling more user friendly and easy to use multimedia applications in the consumer domain. We welcome papers that address fundamental research issues in this challenging area, with emphasis on personal and social applications. We also encourage papers to report on system level research related to multimedia and cross-media analysis, processing, and retrieval. A number of invited papers will also be solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Cross-media information analysis and extraction - Machine learning algorithms for media information analysis and extraction - Object, feature, and relation extraction from media - Semantic content understanding and recognition - Context-aware analysis of media and cross-media content - High dynamic range image processing and retrieval - Reasoning and cross-domain learning methodologies - Intra- and inter-media representation and ontology for cross media - Multimedia browsing/visualization tools and cross-media query - Metadata analysis for semantic annotations of multimedia content - Semi-automatic and automatic annotation methods for media content - Media information processing, delivery, and management - Synchronization of media objects for cross media analysis - User interface method for media browsing and search - Speech and gesture interface for consumer multimedia applications - System level research for media and cross-media applications Important Dates Paper submission deadline: Feb. 14, 2009 Notification of acceptance: March 20, 2009 Final camera-ready paper deadline: March 31, 2009 Workshop date: Friday, July 3, 2009 Alexander Loui and Susanto Rahardja Workshop Co-Chairs Lekha Chaisorn and Daniel Gatica-Perez Technical Program Co-Chairs ===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===--- Workshop on Multimedia Security and Content Protection July 3, 2009 Scope and Topics Today we live in a digital world. The advent of digital technologies has made the creation and manipulation of multimedia content simpler. It offers higher quality and a lot more convenience to consumers. For example, it allows one to make perfect copies. Together with the growing volumes of digital data, increasingly the Internet is used for the distribution of the digital data. The ease with which digital goods can be copied and redistributed makes the Internet well suited for unauthorized copying, modification and redistribution. The rapid adoption of new technologies such as high-bandwidth connections, wireless networks, and peer-to-peer networks is accelerating this process. Multimedia security and content protection technologies and systems are intended to protect the intellectual property rights of content owners in scenarios in which the participants have conflicting goals and are not fully trusted. However, developing secure multimedia applications and solutions in a distributed environment with competing technologies and emerging standards is an enormous challenge. This workshop intends to provide a forum that researchers, developers and practitioners from multimedia security communities come together to share the vision of multimedia security and content protection in this rapidly growing digital world. That is from reporting latest technology advances, identifying new high impact problems that can shape the future of research, finding applications for the identified technologies, as well as legal and business issues related to multimedia security. The workshop seeks submissions in the general areas of multimedia security in its processing, transmission and consumption. We welcome submissions on emerging standards, interoperability and practical application issues. Topics include, but are not limited to: Content Protection: * Architectures for content protection systems * Broadcast encryption and revocation schemes * Traitor tracing and forensics * Digital Rights Management * Network protection and security * Attacks and protocol security * Security evaluation and benchmarks * Software/hardware tamper resistance (including software watermarking and code obfuscation) * Trusted computing Multimedia Security * Authentication and encryption * Multimedia watermarking, fingerprinting and identification * Multimedia forensics * Privacy and anonymity * Steganography and steganalysis Applications, Standard, and Formats: * Emerging applications including secure home network * New business models in multimedia security and content protection * Multimedia security related standards * Legal and policy issues and their interactions with technological development * Implementations, demonstrations and prototypes of secure multimedia application systems This workshop will contain some invited presentations and presentations accepted by open submission to report latest academic research and recent industrial progress on digital rights management (DRM), multimedia security and content protection technologies and standards. The format will be a series of presentations held in a panel/forum type of environment to encourage interaction and discussion of topics and issues. Guidelines for Submission Authors are invited to submit regular technical papers or position papers. The position papers should present novel technologies at an early stage of development or share future vision. Manuscripts should not exceed four (4) pages in double-column IEEE format. Please visit the ICME 2009 website, www.icme09.org, for the submission instructions. All submissions should describe original, previously unpublished research or engineering work, not currently under review by another conference or journal. Please note that dual submissions to both the main ICME conference and workshop will not be accepted. Important Dates Paper submission deadline: Feb. 14, 2009 Notification of acceptance: March 20, 2009 Final camera-ready paper deadline: March 31, 2009 Workshop date: Friday, July 3, 2009 Workshop Chairs Dr. Xin Wang, ContentGuard, Inc., USA xin.wang(a)contentguard.com Dr. Li Zhao, Tsinghua University, China zhaoli(a)tsinghua.edu.cn Dr.. HongXia Jin, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA jin(a)us.ibm.com Workshop Technical Program Committee William Knox Carey (InterTrust, USA) Kai Chen (Intel, China) Diehl Eric (Thomson, France) Changlong He, (Jilin University Information Technologies Co., Ltd., China) Zhongyang Huang (Panasonic, Singapore) Eunjin Jung (University of Iowa, USA) Antonius Kalker (Hewlett-Packard, USA) Xu Li, Tsinghua (University, China) Earnest Ma (Philips, China) Ginger Myles (Apple Computer, USA) Yongdong Wu (I2R, Singapore) Heather Yu (Huawei Technologies, USA) Wenjun Zeng (University of Missouri, Columbia, USA) Bin Zhu (Microsoft Research, China) Sencun Zhu (Penn State University, USA) ===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===--- Workshop on Multimedia Aspects in Pervasive Healthcare July 3, 2009 Workshop webpage: http://multimedia.utdallas.edu/mmph09/index.html ----------------- Workshop Scope: --------------- Human health and performance are broad terms that describe the quality of life but are difficult to quantify. Human health can be broadly identified by two components: physical health and mental health. While there is no "official" definition for mental health (considering cultural differences and subjective assessments), physical health is typically attributed to health of various body organs including muscles, bones, and joints. Human performance can be considered as "focused behavior" or "purposeful work" and hence performance is typically domain specific such as sports performance, or performance of a physically challenged person. Recent advances in various technologies for medical sensors, computing, and wireless communication have resulted in monitoring, tracking, and quantifying the physical health. Providing ubiquitous health care and performance monitoring have thus become feasible, affordable, and in many cases indispensable. The proposed workshop will be multi-disciplinary, focusing on innovations in information processing and system aspects of health care and performance. The topics of interest for this workshop include but are not limited to: * Information processing aspects of human health and performance - Data processing, storage and management - Detection, classification, and tracking - Distributed algorithms and reasoning - Programming models and languages * Body sensor networks: Systems and Technology - Novel communication techniques and protocols - In-vivo, on-body, near-body networks - Location, time, and other network services - Network health monitoring and management - Performance modeling * System design issues of Medical Digital Devices - Operating systems and runtime environments - Power - Reliability and fault-tolerance * Assistive Technologies for aged and disabled - Longitudinal studies showing impact on health care and performance * Security and privacy, including HIPAA for medical applications * HCI/Wearable Computing for Medical Applications - Social impacts - Usability - Brain Computer Interactions - Wearable system design issues - Entertainment * Medical Applications - Pervasive health care and patient monitoring within hospitals and other healthcare delivery settings in residential and other non healthcare delivery settings - Prosthetics and other novel medical applications We will have a special issue based on this workshop in a leading journal. Important Dates: ---------------- Paper Submission Due: Feb 15, 2009 Notification of Acceptance: March 15, 2009 Camera-Ready Paper Due: March 31, 2009 Workshop Chairs: ---------------- 1. Dr B. Prabhakaran Department of Computer Science University of Texas at Dallas MS EC 31, PO Box 830688 Richardson, TX 75083 Email: praba(a)utdallas.edu 2. Prof Klara Nahrstedt Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign 3104 Siebel Center, 201 North Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801 Email: klara(a)cs.uiuc.edu 3. Dr Roozbeh Jafari Department of Electrical Engineering University of Texas at Dallas MS EC 31, PO Box 830688 Richardson, TX 75083 Email: roozbeh(a)utdallas.edu ===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===--- Workshop on Internet Multimedia Search and Mining (IMSM'09) July 3, 2009 Paper Submission Due: Feb 15, 2009 Notification of Acceptance: March 15, 2009 Camera-Ready Paper Due: March 31, 2009 With the explosion of video and image data available on the Internet, online multimedia search becomes more and more important. Moreover, mining semantics and other useful information from large-scale Internet multimedia data to facilitate online and local multimedia content analysis, search, and other related applications has also gained more and more attention from both academia and industry. On the one hand, the rapid increase of online multimedia data brings us new challenges to multimedia content analysis and multimedia retrieval especially in terms of scalability. Both computational costs and accuracy are still far from satisfactory. While on the other hand, Internet also provides us new opportunities to attack these challenges as well as conventional problems in media analysis and computer vision. That is, the massive associated metadata available on the Internet, as well as the massive grassroots Internet users, are valuable resources that can be leveraged to solve the aforementioned difficulties. Recently, more and more researchers are realizing both the challenges and the opportunities for multimedia research brought by the Internet. This workshop aims at bringing together high-quality and novel research works on Internet Multimedia, or more specifically, Internet-based multimedia search as well as Internet-based multimedia mining. Topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to: 1. Internet video/image search ranking and reranking by combining textual description and video/image content. 2. General video/image search ranking and reranking by exploiting Internet data and/or users. 3. Internet video/image classification, annotation, and tagging. Approaches which can handle large-scale data are more preferred. 4. General video/image classification, annotation, and tagging by leveraging Internet data and/or users. 5. Internet video/image search result presentation and management, such as clustering, summarization, and browsing. 6. Video/image processing using Internet data as a knowledge base. 7. Tag recommendation, filtering, and ranking based on image/video social tagging. 8. CBIR for large-scale datasets (i.e., high-dimensional feature indexing). 9. Query suggestion for video/image search based on both text and image/video data. 10. Knowledge mining from Internet multimedia data, such as mining semantic distance of keywords or images, and mining video/image copy relationships (e.g., given a video/image, to find all videos/images on the Internet that have the same content with the video/image, either entirely or partially). Submissions for this workshop are required to use the same format as regular ICME papers. All submitted papers will go through a peer review process. Extended version of selected papers will be invited to submit to a special issue of a top journal in multimedia area (pending). Workshop Chair Xian-Sheng Hua (Microsoft Research Asia, China) Marcel Worring (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Program Committee Tat-Seng Chua (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Winston Hsu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Lyndon Kennedy (Columbia University, USA) Zhu Li (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China) Tao Mei (Microsoft Research Asia, China) Vanessa Murdock (Yahoo! Research, Spain) Chong-Wah Ngo (City University of Hong Kong, China) Cees Snoek (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Bo Tao (Google China, China) Dacheng Tao (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Adrian Ulges (DFKI, Germany) Rong Yan (IBM TJ WatsonResearch Center, USA) Lei Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia, China) More information please visit: http://research.microsoft.com/~xshua/imsm ===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===--- Call for Poster Papers Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing and Novel Parallel Computing at 2009 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo July 1, 2009 (second day of the ICME conference), Cancun, Mexico http://www.icme09.org/workshops.html The goal of this workshop is to give the attendees (1) an overview and trend of the emerging MMSP applications and (2) a deep-dive into the interaction between multimedia application and novel parallel architecture. In particular, the increasing architectural complexity and application sophistication make it essential to have an inter-disciplinary research between algorithms and hardware designs. The workshop is to bridge the gap between algorithms and architecture designs for the development of future computer and multimedia systems. In particular, multi-core processors are now prevalent everywhere from desktops and graphics processors to laptops and embedded systems. Technology predictions indicate that this trend will continue and that there will be increasing numbers of cores (homogenous or heterogeneous) in future systems. It is clear that multimedia systems of tomorrow will be (and must be) implemented on platforms with multiple cores. While the challenges of designing multi-core systems in hardware are many, writing efficient parallel applications that utilize the computing capability of many processing cores may reveal to be even more challenging. Existing serial algorithms will need to be redesigned -- the best sequential algorithm is not necessarily the best parallel algorithm. Signal processing algorithm designers must understand the nuances of a multi-core computing engine. Only then can the tremendous computing power that such platforms provide be harnessed efficiently. We are organizing a poster session in the workshop. We would like to attract both tutorial-like and non-tutorial, research-oriented poster papers on (1) novel multimedia applications that can be enabled by platform with multiple cores, and (2) design examples of multimedia signal processing on platforms with multiple cores that demonstrate the techniques or algorithm changes for efficient implementations. *****Submission Procedure***** Prospective authors should submit 2-page white papers to the workshop chairs according to the following timetable. The white paper should summarize the key takeaway messages ("What can the attendee learn from the poster?"), the motivation ("Why should a attendee care the poster?"), the significance of the topic ("Why is this topic important?"), a brief history ("What are the related work and authors' prior publications in this topic?"), and the outline of the content ("What do you plan to explain the poster?"). The authors should properly answer all the questions above so that the white paper can be reviewed efficiently. After answering the above questions, the authors can selectively describe some details within the rest of page limit. The white paper should be no more than 2 pages in the IEEE single-space double-column format. Please note that a special issue on "Signal Processing on Platforms with Multiple Cores" that focuses on design and applications is planned for IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (http://apollo.ee.columbia.edu/spm/?i=cfp/Mar10). Prospective authors are encouraged to submit the tutorial-like whitepapers to both the workshop and the Magazine. *****Schedule***** 2-page summary due: Mach 1, 2009 Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2009 Camera-ready paper due: March 31, 2009 *****Workshop Chairs***** Li Deng, Microsoft, USA (deng(a)microsoft.com) Zhengyou Zhang, Microsoft, USA (zhang(a)microsoft.com) Yen-Kuang Chen, Intel Corporation, USA (yen-kuang.chen(a)intel.com) *****ICME and Workshop Keynote Speaker (Invitation Pending)***** Wen-mei W. Hwu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA: Parallelization of Video Processing *****Confirmed Workshop Speakers***** * Li Deng, Microsoft, USA: Speech Signal Processing * Ling Guan, Ryerson University, Canada: Multimodal Media Fusion and 3D Data Analysis and Visualization * Fernando Pereira, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal: Distributed Video Coding * Stefano Tubaro, Politecnico di Milano, Italy: Image and Video Analysis for the Geometric and Radiometric Modeling of 3D Scenes * Zhengyou Zhang, Microsoft, USA: Multimodal Collaboration and Human-Computer Interaction ---------------------------- (3394 wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de) TO BE REMOVED FROM THIS LIST You are receiving this email because you have participated previous ICME events. If you would like to be removed from this email contact list, please reply to this message, including the text of the entire message above in the body of your email message, and the words 'REMOVE ME' in the subject line. 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ICST - S-CUBE 2009: Call for Papers
by info＠icst.org 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

CALL FOR PAPERS S-CUBE 2009 The first international conference on Sensor Systems and Software September 7-9, 2009 - Pisa, Italy http:// www.s-cubeconference.org S-CUBE - the First Conference on wireless Sensor network (WSN) Systems and Software - provides an ideal venue to address the research challenges facing system development and software support for wireless sensor networks based systems that have the potential to impact society in many ways. Currently, wireless sensor networks introduce innovative and interesting application scenarios that may support a large amount of different applications including environmental monitoring, disaster prevention, building automation, object tracking, nuclear reactor control, fire detection, agriculture, healthcare, and traffic monitoring. The widespread acceptance of these new services can be improved by the definition of frameworks and architectures that have the potential to radically simplify software development for wireless sensor network based applications. The aim of these new architectures is to support flexible, scalable programming of applications based on adaptive middleware. As a consequence, WSNs require novel programming paradigms and technologies. Moreover the design of new complex systems, characterized by the interaction of different and heterogeneous resources, will allow the development of innovative applications that meet high performance goals. Hence, WSNs require contributions from many fields such as embedded systems, distributed systems, data management, system security and applications. The conference places emphasis on layers well above the traditional MAC and routing, and transport layer protocols. The aim of the conference is to create a forum in which researchers from academia and industry, practitioners, business leaders, intellectual property experts and venture capitalists may work together in order to compare and debate different innovative solutions. The conference will feature a highly selective technical program consisting of regular papers, short papers, and posters as well as specialized tracks at the intersection of business and technology. Topics Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, are solicited. The specific topics of the conference, related to wireless sensor networks and wireless multimedia sensor networks, include but are not limited to: * Sensor Application Programming Paradigms * Sensor Application Development Support Systems * Sensor Network Middleware * Novel Sensor Applications * Sensor Prototypes & Testbeds * Underwater and underground wireless sensor networking * Cooperative sensing * Capacity planning and admission control, especially for multimedia sensor networks * Resource management and QoS Provisioning * Resource and service discovery * Self organization and network management * Security, Privacy & Trust * P2P, overlay, and content distribution architectures for sensor networks * Mobile sensor networking, Vehicular sensor networks and protocols * Pervasive/embedded solutions * Data models oriented to wireless distributed applications * Distributed coordination algorithms including clustering and topology control * Localization, time synchronization, coverage, connectivity and deployment issues * Network Management and monitoring * Modelling, analysis and performance evaluation * Mesh networking connectivity to sensor networks Important Dates * Paper Submission Deadline: February 28th, 2009 * Notification of Acceptance: May 30th, 2009 * Camera Ready Deadline: July 1st, 2009 Publication The proceedings of S-Cube 2009 will be published by Springer as part of the new series Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (LNICST) and will be available through Springer's digital library. Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for inclusion in a special issue of ACM Monet. Submissions For submission instructions please visit the event website at http:// www.s-cubeconference.org. Organizing Committee -Conference General CoChairs: *Stephen Hailes University College of London, United Kingdom *Sabrina Sicari Università dell'Insubria, Italy -Technical Program Chair *George Roussos University College of London, United Kingdom -Local Chair *Gianluca Dini Università di Pisa, Italy -Publications Chair *Luca Mottola Bruno Kessler Foundation, Italy -Publicity Co-Chairs *Matteo Cesana Politecnico di Milano, Italy *Houda Labiod Telecom Paris, France -Web Chair *Pietro Colombo Università dell'Insubria, Italy -Steering Committee Chair *Imrich Chlamtac Create-Net, Italy -Conference Coordinator *Robert Varga ICST Sponsored by: ICST-http:// www.icst.org Technically co-sponsored by: CREATE-NET - http://www.create-net.org in cooperation with ACM SIGBED - http://www.sigbed.org IEEE UKRI - http://www.ieee.org.uk Università di Pisa - http://www.unipi.it -------------------------------------------------- You are reading ICST conference newsletter. 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[Cost290] [CFP] IEEE VTC2009-Fall - Submission Deadline: EXTENDED to 01 March 2009
by Ivan.Ganchev 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

IEEE VTC2009-Fall ANCHORAGE Connecting the Mobile World IEEE 70th Vehicular Technology Conference 20-23 September 2009 Anchorage, Alaska The 2009 70th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference will be held 20-23 September 2009 in Anchorage, Alaska. The conference will bring together individuals from academia, industry and government to discuss and exchange ideas in the fields of mobile, wireless and vehicular technology. The conference will feature world-class plenary speakers, panel sessions, tutorials, and technical and application sessions. and Propagation The technical program committee invites the submission of original, unpublished technical papers in one of the following areas: Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks Antennas and Propagation Cognitive Radio Green Radio Mobile Satellite and Positioning Systems Multiple Antenna Systems and Space-Time Processing Transmission Technologies Transportation Vehicular Communications Wireless Access Wireless Networks Wireless Services and Applications Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a 5-page full paper (or a 2-page extended abstract including results) through the conference web site http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2009fall/ Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks Two special paper prizes will be awarded for the best paper and best student paper. Student papers must have a student as the first author and major contributor. Key dates: Paper submission deadline: EXTENDED to 1 March 2009 Tutorial proposals due: EXTENDED to 1 March 2009 Acceptance notification: 15 May 2009 Final paper submission deadline: 12 June 2009 Kind regards, Dr. Ivan Ganchev, TPC member, IEEE VTC2009-Fall ********************************************** Dr. Ivan Ganchev, Dip.Eng., PhD, SMIEEE. Deputy Director, Telecommunications Research Centre, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland. ********************************************** _______________________________________________ Cost290 mailing list Cost290(a)cs.tut.fi https://mailman.cs.tut.fi/mailman/listinfo/cost290

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by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lars Wolf 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

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[Tccc] CFP: Wireless Local Networks 2009
by Abd-Elhamid M. Taha 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

9th IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Local Networks 2009 http://www.wln09.prism.uvsq.fr/ held in conjunction with The 34th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN) 20-23 October, 2009, Zurich, Switzerland "Global Sustainability through Local Functionalities" || Scope || Wireless Local Networks (WLNs) play a major role in today’s world. From providing rich connectivity to realizing sensory and actuary applications, WLNs serve a wide range of applications. In its 9th year, the WLN workshop would like to focus on how such networks can be made to be energy efficient and cost effective, while maintaining high levels of service delivery quality. It is hence our aim to focus on both design and implementation aspects in networks that are sustainable, or that can be utilized to in making sustainable system. At the same time, we will maintain our open call in topics relevant to WLNs. With this spirit, we are soliciting works describing both theoretical and practical research endeavors. We also encourage visionary and experimental descriptions. Short reports on work- in-progress and demos will also be accommodated. || Topics || The following is a non-exclusive list of topics of interest: * Design and deployment guidelines. * Implementation and testbed issues. * Network management architectures. * Protocol design, including cross-layer and opportunistic approaches. * Wireless multihop networks, including mesh, ad hoc and sensor networks. * Wireless relay, including fixed and mobile elements. * Integration and coexistence issues. * Mobility management in both homogeneous and heterogeneous settings. * Resource management functionalities (CAC, reservation, scheduling, etc.) * Cognitive radios and dynamic spectrum networks. * Performance evaluation, including analytical, simulation and testbed approaches. || Important Dates || Submission registration May 12th, 2009 Submission deadline May 19th, 2009 Notification of acceptance July 7th, 2009 Camera-ready copy due July 28th, 2009 Registration Deadline July 28th, 2009 || Submission Guideliness || We seek original contributions that are have neither been previously published or currently under review. Authors can submit in either of the following categories: * Paper submissions. (up to 8 pages) Should describe complete works in a self-contained manner with the intent to give an oral presentation. * Poster submissions. (up to 2 pages) Reports on high-value recent results or work-in-progress with the intent to provide a poster presentation. * Proposal for demonstration. (up to 2 pages) Showcases practical and experimental implementations intended for industrial or commercial development in workshop’s general. Both posters and demonstrations will be presented in a joint session. All accepted submissions will be published in the LCN’09 proceedings and the ieeeXplore portal. || Workshop Cochairs || Jalel Ben-Othman PRiSM Laboratory,University of Versailles, France Abd-Elhamid M. Taha School of Computing, Queen’s University || Technical Program Committee || Mostafa Bassiouni, University of Central Florida Tarek Bejaoui, Mediatron Lab, Carthage University Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna Chun Tung Chou, University of New South Wales Ehab Elmallah, University of Alberta Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virginia Tech Essia H. Elhafsi, University of California Riverside Ashraf Hamad, Microsoft Corporation Mounir Hamdi, HKUST Jianku Hu, RMIT University Salil Kanhere, University of New South Wales Ashfaq Khokhar, University of Illinois at Chicago Justin Lipman, Intel Corporation Madjid Merabti, Liverpool John Moores University Lynda Mokdad, Université de Paris Dauphine Jogesh K. Muppala, HKUST Farid Naït-Abdesselam, Uni. of Sciences and Technologies of Lille Nidal Nasser, University of Guelph Ioanis Nikolaidis, University of Alberta Guevara Noubir, Northeastern University Octavio Ramirez, Univ of versailles Samer Samarah, University of Ottawa Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University Vassilis Tsaoussidis, Demokritos University Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida Véronique Vèque, University of Paris-Sud 11 Kui Wu, University of Victoria Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County Sherali Zeadally, University of the District of Columbia Zonghua Zhang, National Inst. of Info. and Comm. Technology _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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FWD: CfP "9. Innovative Internet Community Services"
by Lars Wolf 03 Feb '09

03 Feb '09

[apologies for cross-posting, please forward to interested colleagues ] ************************* 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS ************************* 9th International Workshop on Innovative Internet Community Systems I2CS 2009 http://www.i2cs-conference.org/ Jena, Germany, June 15-17, 2009 *********************************************************************** !!!!!!!! Paper submission is open - Deadline: Februar 15, 2009 !!!!!!!! Scope ----- "Tradition meets Innovation" is the promising motto of the 9th I2CS, dedicated to a bundle of interesting aspects around modern community systems. Discuss state of the art in an atmosphere of grand tradition: In Jena, Goethe, Schiller, Hegel, and Fichte left their mark on intel- lectual life, Abbe, Zeiss and Schott laid the foundations for economic prosperity. Germany's "Science City 2008" will provide an excellent venue for I2CS's conference and workshop topics. Due to the rapid evolution of web technologies and rich mobile devices ICT support for communities is possible on next quality level. Trying to achieve this, we challenge new research questions in a wide range of connected fields. In search of innovative solutions multi-discipli- nary collaboration among researchers and industry partners is essential. Hence, the goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers, experts, and practitioners from various areas related to novel Internet Community Systems. Topics ------ The selection of I2CS topics encompasses aspects of Internet Community Systems: foundations, technology, applications and socializations. The topics include, but are not limited to original work in the following areas: A) Foundations - Theories, models, algorithms for communities ---------------------------------------------------------- - Distributed algorithms and simulation models - Game theory, graph theory and cost models - Innovative communication protocols - Self organization and self stabilization - Security and privacy protection - Interoperability and IT-governance B) Technology - Distributed architectures and frameworks ----------------------------------------------------- - Service-oriented architectures for communities - Peer-to-peer and grid architectures - Distributed community middleware for Web x.0 - Software agents for community support - Adaptive cooperative information systems - Community management in ad-hoc environments - Information retrieval and distributed ontologies C) Applications and socialization - Communities on the move -------------------------------------------------------- - Mobile Internet applications' experiences - Context and location awareness - Personalization of components and tools - Personal social networks and user behavior - Social and business aspects of user generated content - Expert profiles, collaborative filtering and matching - Domain specific languages for semantic design Submissions ----------- We solicit submissions of unpublished papers presenting research results, industrial experiences and applications, as well as de- tailed specifications of open problems. Electronic submission is required. Full papers of no more than 10 pages written in English should be submitted as PDF files using the EasyChair conference system accessible via http://www.i2cs-conference.org/ (submission section) All submitted papers will be subject to a double reviewing process by the program committee. All accepted contributions will be included in the pre-proceedings of the I2CS 2009 in the series Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI) by the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI). Important Dates --------------- * Paper submission deadline : February 15, 2009 * Notification of acceptance : March 23, 2009 * Camera-ready copies : April 7, 2009 * Author/early registration : April 15, 2009 * Conference date : June 15 - 17, 2009 Organizing Committee -------------------- * Christian Erfurth, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany * Gerald Eichler, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Berlin, Germany * Volkmar Schau, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany Program Committee ----------------- S. Albayrak, TU Berlin, Germany H. Arnold, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany G. Babin, HEC Montreal, Canada A. Böhm, T-Systems, Germany T. Böhme, TU Ilmenau, Germany D. Chase, T-Mobile International, United Kingdom G. Eichler, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany C. Erfurth, FSU Jena / GI, Germany H. Fouchal, U Antilles-Guyane, France W. Halang, FU Hagen / GI, Germany G. Heyer, U Leipzig, Germany H. Höpfner, International U Bruchsal / GI, Germany P. Hunel, U Antilles-Guyane, France J. Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Science, Poland V. Kirova, Alcatel-Lucent, U.S.A. P. Kropf, U Neuchatel, Switzerland K. Kyandoghere, U Klagenfurt, Austria U. Lechner, UBW Munich, Germany F. Lehner, U Passau / GI, Germany P. Meesad, King Mongkut's UoT North Bangkok, Thailand A. Mikler, U Northern Texas, U.S.A. C. Prehofer, Nokia Research Center, Finland L. Rokach, Ben-Gurion University, Israel W. Rossak, FSU Jena, Germany H. Sack, HPI, U Potsdam, Germany V. Schau, FSU Jena, Germany H. Schilder, nexum AG / GI, Germany H. Unger, FU Hagen, Germany K.S. Tang, CityU Hong Kong, Hong Kong M. Welsch, IBM, Germany L. Wienhofen, SINTEF, Norway I2CS is organized by FSU and T-Labs and supported by Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI), Regionalgruppe Ostthüringen/Jena and Fachgruppe Mobilität und Mobile Informationssysteme (GI-MMS). For further details please check http://www.i2cs-conference.org/ regularly. Have a look at the preliminary program, now available. Kind regards Christian Erfurth, Volkmar Schau and Gerald Eichler

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[Fwd: CfP IWSNE'09]
by Lars Wolf 03 Feb '09

03 Feb '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP IWSNE'09 Datum: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 09:48:19 +0100 Von: Stefan Fischer <fischer(a)ITM.UNI-LUEBECK.DE> Antwort an: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE ============================================================================ IWSNE 2009 Call for Papers The 2nd International Workshop on Sensor Network Engineering (IWSNE'09) co-located with the 5th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Distributed Computing In Sensor Systems (DCOSS'09), June 8th-10th (workshop day: June 10th), Marina Del Rey, CA, USA http://www.itm.uni-luebeck.de/events/iwsne09/ ============================================================================ Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are heterogeneous networks that comprise tiny, resource-constraint sensor nodes, gateways and backend systems. Embedded into the environment, sensor nodes measure ambient parameters such as temperature, motion, etc. and gateways provide the integration with traditional networks while backend systems process and visualize received data. Application development for WSNs is complex as it unites the challenges of distributed applications and embedded programming. In addition, heterogeneity, unpredictable environmental influences and the size of the networks further complicate this situation. To master these issues, an engineering approach to all phases of a sensor network's life cycle is necessary. Developers and application providers require powerful development support including IDEs as well as debugging, simulation and visualization tools to develop, test, optimize, and deploy their algorithms, applications and protocols. Today, many of these issues are still unsolved; at least an integrated approach is missing. Particular topics of interest for papers to be submitted include, but are not limited to: * Hardware and software platforms * Analysis and design support * Middleware approaches * Simulation and testing environments * Deployment support * Integrated approaches * User-oriented approaches * Integration of multiple and hybrid sensor networks * New architectures ----------------------------------------- Important Dates ----------------------------------------- * Submission: March 15th 2009 * Notification: April 15th, 2009 * Camera-ready: April 25th, 2009 ----------------------------------------- Workshop Chairs ----------------------------------------- Stefan Fischer, University of Luebeck, Germany Dennis Pfisterer, University of Luebeck, Germany ----------------------------------------- Technical Program Committee ----------------------------------------- Thomas Michael Bohnert, SAP Research, Zürich, Switzerland Torsten Braun, University of Berne, Switzerland Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, RACTI, Patras, Greece Geoff Coulson, Lancaster University, UK Mesut Günes, FU Berlin, Germany Manfred Hauswirth, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Galway, Ireland Alexander Kröller, Braunschweig Institute of Technology, Germany Koen Langendoen, TU Delft, Netherlands Norbert Luttenberger, University of Kiel, Germany Peter Martini, University of Bonn, Germany Kay Römer, ETH Zürich, Switzerland Dirk Timmermann, University of Rostock, Germany Volker Turau, TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany ----------------------------------------- Submission Instructions ----------------------------------------- Full Papers (no more than 12 pages): This workshop will only accept for review original papers that have not been previously published and are not currently under review by any other conference or journal. Submissions must be in Adobe PDF format and not exceed 12 pages, including text, figures and references. We require that submissions conform to the IEEE Transactions journals and conferences style (cf. http://www.ieee.org/pubs/authors.html). All submissions will be handled electronically by sending an e-mail to iwsne09-submission(a)itm.uni-luebeck.de. The organizers can be contacted at iwsne09-chairs(a)itm.uni-luebeck.de. -- Prof. Dr. Stefan Fischer Universität zu Lübeck Institut für Telematik Ratzeburger Allee 160 D-23538 Lübeck, Germany Phone: +49 451 500 5380 Email: fischer(a)itm.uni-luebeck.de Fax: +49 451 500 5382 WWW: http://www.itm.uni-luebeck.de

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[Fwd: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] CFP: ACM NOSSDAV 2009 --- Deadline extension: Feb 16, 2009]
by Lars Wolf 03 Feb '09

03 Feb '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] CFP: ACM NOSSDAV 2009 --- Deadline extension: Feb 16, 2009 Datum: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:22:03 +0800 Von: Kuan-Ta (Sheng-Wei) Chen <swc(a)iis.sinica.edu.tw> Antwort an: swc(a)iis.sinica.edu.tw Organisation: Academia Sinica An: icec(a)listserver.tue.nl ** IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING NEWS SERVICE ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** Send all news to: icec(a)listserver.tue.nl **************************************************** ** NOTE: Please reply to article's originator, ** not this IFIP EC News Service **************************************************** [Apologies if you receive this more than once] === [ ACM NOSSDAV 2009 ] === The 19th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video Williamsburg, Virginia June 3-5, 2009 http://www.nossdav.org/2009/ SPONSORED BY: ACM SIGMM in cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM and ACM SIGOPS * Important Dates Paper Deadline: Extended to 16 February, 2009 Notification: 20 March, 2009 Camera Ready: 6 April, 2009 * About NOSSDAV NOSSDAV 2009 will continue the workshop's long tradition of focusing on emerging topics, controversial ideas, and future research directions in the area of multimedia systems research, held in a setting that stimulates lively discussions among the senior and junior participants. It is also an established practice for NOSSDAV to encourage experimental research based on real systems and data sets. Public availability of source code and data sets is highly encouraged. The scope of NOSSDAV has evolved over the years. For NOSSDAV 2009, we would like especially highlight two new topics of interest: unconventional use of GPU for multimedia and multi-core processors support for multimedia. NOSSDAV 2009 continues to welcome submissions in the traditional topics of networked multimedia systems, operating system support for multimedia, and multimedia security and rights management. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * OS, middleware and network support for multimedia * Overlay networks for multimedia * Media streaming, distribution and storage * Web 2.0 systems and social networks for multimedia * Wireless and mobile multimedia systems * Media sensor and ad hoc networks * Grid/cloud computing support for multimedia * Embedded systems for multimedia * Multicore architecture support for multimedia * GPU for multimedia * Network processor support for multimedia * Tele-immersion and mixed-reality systems * Networked graphics and virtual environments * Networked games * Multimedia communications and system security * Digital rights management A broad view will be taken in deciding what topics are within scope. Please contact the workshop co-chairs if you are unsure and wish to check if a particular topic is within the scope of NOSSDAV. Submissions should be at most SIX pages in length using standard ACM proceedings style. We expect these submissions to be the kernel of what will eventually lead to full-length papers at high-quality conferences or journals. Authors of selected, high quality papers from NOSSDAV 2009 will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers to a special issue of ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal (MMSJ). ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Workshop Co-Chairs Dongyan Xu, Purdue University, USA Wei Tsang Ooi, National University of Singapore Local Arrangement Chair Ketan Mayer-Patel, UNC Chapel Hill, USA Publicity Co-Chairs Tristan Henderson, University of St. Andrews, UK Kang Li, University of Georgia, USA Kuan-Ta Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Technical Program Committee Kevin Almeroth, UC Santa Barbara, USA Grenville Armitage, Swinburne U. of Tech, Australia Ernst Biersack, Institute Eurecom, France Surendar Chandra, University of Notre Dame, USA Kuan-Ta Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Songqing Chen, George Mason University, USA Mark Claypool, WPI, USA Wu-chang Feng, Portland State University, USA Wu-chi Feng, Portland State University, USA Romulus Grigoras, IRIT-Toulouse, France Carsten Griwodz, University of Oslo, Norway Pal Halvorsen, University of Oslo, Norway JongWon Kim, GIST, Korea Baochun Li, University of Toronto, Canada Kang Li, University of Georgia, USA Yong Liu, Polytechnic University, USA Andreas Mauthe, Lancaster University, UK Klara Nahrstedt, UIUC, USA Ketan Mayer-Patel, UNC Chapel Hill, USA Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Purdue University, USA Sanjay Rao, Purdue University, USA Reza Rejaie, University of Oregon, USA Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech, USA Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University, USA Prashant Shenoy, UMass, Amherst Shervin Shirmohammadi, University of Ottawa, Canada Ralf Steinmetz, TU Darmstadt, Germany Lars Wolf, TU Braunschweig, Germany Zhenyu Yang, Florida International University, USA Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore **************************************************** ** To send and receive IFIP-EC-NEWS, go to ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** and subscribe directly **************************************************** ** News archives: ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/private/icec/ **************************************************** ** To join the IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING Group ** contact: g.w.m.rauterberg(a)tue.nl ****************************************************

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[Fwd: CFP ADHOCNETS 2009]
by Lars Wolf 03 Feb '09

03 Feb '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP ADHOCNETS 2009 Datum: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 19:38:24 +0100 Von: Abdelmajid Khelil <khelil(a)INFORMATIK.TU-DARMSTADT.DE> Antwort an: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE [Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ************************************************************** * CALL FOR PAPERS * * * * ADHOCNETS 2009 * * First International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks * * Sept.23-25, 2009, Niagra Falls, Ontario, Canada * * http://www.adhocnets.org * * * ************************************************************** Sponsored by ICST OVERVIEW: Ad hoc networks, which cover a variety of network paradigms for specific purposes, such as mobile ad hoc networks, sensor networks, vehicular networks, underwater networks, underground networks, local area networks, personal area networks, home networks, etc., promise a broad range of applications in civilian, commercial, and military areas. The aim of the annual International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks (AdHocNets) is to provide a forum that brings together researchers from academia as well as practitioners from industry to meet and exchange ideas and recent research work on all aspects of ad hoc networks. AdHocNets¡¯09 is the first edition of this event, which will be held in Niagara Falls, Canada, in September 2009. The conference will consist of technical sessions, panels, and workshops. The technical sessions will present original and fundamental research advances while the panels and workshops focus on development and application issues in this hot field. HIGHTLIGHTS: * Prof. Ian F. Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology, will deliver a keynote address. * The best papers will be considered for publication in Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal. TOPICS: The conference solicits original technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Mobile Ad Hoc networks * Sensor networks * Vehicular networks * Underwater networks * Underground networks * Local area networks * Personal area networks * Body area networks * Home networks * Network architectural design * Network protocol design * Cross-layer design * MAC, routing, and transport protocols * Resource allocation and management * Network control and management * Power control and management * Topology control and management * Quality of service provisioning * OFDM techniques * MIMO techniques * Service discovery techniques * Node localization techniques * Data aggregation techniques * Time synchronization techniques * Network scalability issues * Reliability and fault tolerance issues * Security and privacy issues * Applications for ad hoc networks * Performance modeling and analysis * Experimental prototypes and testbeds PANELS AND WORKSHOPS: We solicit panel and workshop proposals on hot and controversial topics in ad hoc networks. Proposals should be submitted to the panel and workshop co-chairs, respectively. Please visit the conference website for detailed instructions. PAPER SUBMISSION: Please visit the conference website (http://www.adhocnets.org) for detailed instructions. Paper Publication: All submitted papers will go through a peer-review process. All accepted papers will be included in the Proceedings of AdHocNets 2009. The best papers will be considered for publication in Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper registration due March 25, 2009 Paper submission due April 1, 2009 Notification of acceptance June 30, 2009 Final manuscripts due July 15, 2009 CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE GENERAL CHAIR Jun Zheng University of Ottawa, Canada TPC CO-CHAIRS Scott F. Midkiff NSF and Virginia Tech, USA Shiwen Mao Auburn University, USA PANEL CO-CHAIRS Louise Lamont Communications Research Centre, Canada Tommaso Melodia SUNY at Buffalo, USA WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Charles E. Perkins WiChorus Corporation, USA Yan Zhang Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Tutorial Chair Xavier Fernando Ryerson University, Canada PUBLICATION CHAIR Hua Zhu ArgonST, Network Systems, USA PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS Dario Pompili Rutgers University, USA Fikret Sivrikaya Technical University of Berlin, Germany Xinbing Wang Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China CONFERENCE COORDINATOR Robert Varga ICST LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR Mieso Denko University of Guelph, Canada STEERING COMMITTEE Imrich Chlamtac (Chair) Create-net, Italy Jun Zheng (Co-Chair) University of Ottawa, Canada

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