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[MM-INTEREST] IEEE ICME 2009 Call for Workshop Papers
by Lexing Xie 03 Feb '09

03 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

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[Tccc] CFP: WiNMee 2009 Workshop on Wireless Network Measurements
by Anmol Sheth 03 Feb '09

03 Feb '09

Apologies if you receive multiples copies of this CFP. CALL FOR PAPERS ============================= The 5th International workshop on Wireless Network Measurements http://cmclab.rice.edu/~winmee/ June 26th 2009, Seoul, Korea Important Dates: ================ Papers Due: March 1st, 2009 Notification: April 1st, 2009 Camera Ready: May 1st, 2009 Workshop: June 26th, 2009 Overview: ========= In recent years we have witnessed a rapid adoption of local and wide area wireless technologies like ZigBee, 802.11n, WiMAX and 3G which is making the edge of the Internet increasingly wireless. To better understand the nature of the edge, it is important to evaluate these technologies in an operational environment via empirical measurements. While analytic simulation-based approaches are useful, they are often limited by the simplistic modeling of the wireless protocols and the error-prone wireless channel. In this workshop we would like to solicit short 6-page papers that advance the understanding of operational wireless networks through measurements in testbeds or the field. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: =================================================== * operational experience of the performance of wireless networks * challenges with wireless measurements * experimental (in) validation of assumptions in a wireless environment * metrics required in a wireless network for performance evaluation or wireless network troubleshooting * experience from building/designing wireless networks * descriptions of tools for building and/or managing wireless testbeds * techniques for scaling testbed * techniques for improving the repeatability of tests * techniques for validating the results obtained in the wireless testbed * methods for simplifying experiment setup and reconfiguration * methods to study mobility patterns Paper submission guidelines: ============================ Paper submissions will be handled electronically via EasyChair. Authors should prepare a PDF or a PostScript version of their full paper. Papers must be no longer than 6 double-column pages, font size not smaller than 11 points, using the standard IEEE format. Link to EasyChair: ================== https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?ccc=sAUQbm20MmGQ932mgxRb;iid=11541 Organization Committee: ======================= Workshop Chairs: Ashu Sabharwal (Rice University) Anmol Sheth (Intel Research) Technical Program Committee: =========================== Kevin Almeroth (UCSB, USA) Ranveer Chandra (Microsoft Research, USA) Romit Roy Choudhury (Duke University, USA) Sayantan Choudhury (Sharp Labs of America) Marco Gruteser (Rutgers University, USA) Ramakrishna Gummadi (MIT, USA) Martin Haenggi (University of Notre Dame, USA) Sassan Iraji (Nokia) Kyle Jamieson (University College London, UK) Ahmad Khoshnevis(IRCOMM, USA) Ravi Kokku (NEC Labs Princeton, USA) Thanasis Korakis (Polytechnic Institute of New York University, USA) Ratul Mahajan(Microsoft Research, USA) Amin Mobasher (Research in Motion) Vishnu Navda (Microsoft Research, India) Kave Salamatian (LIP6, France) Karim Seada (Nokia Research Center, USA) Aruna Seneviratne (National ICT, Australia) Salonidis Theodoros (Thomson, France) _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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IEEE GLOBECOM 09: Call for Papers
by Meetings＠comsocconferences.org 02 Feb '09

02 Feb '09

.279.0.11250"> .279.0.11251">IEEE GLOBECOM 2009 Call for Papers IEEE GLOBECOM -- the premier telecommunications events -- covers the entire range of communications technologies, offering in-depth information on the latest developments in voice, data, image and multimedia. IEEE GLOBECOM will feature 11 Technical Symposia, Tutorials, Workshops, a Design & Developers Forum and the Communications EXPO, including various Business, Technology and Industry fora, and vendor exhibits. We invite you to submit papers for IEEE GLOBECOM's acclaimed .279.0.11252">Technical Program in the following areas of communications: .279.0.11253">- Ad Hoc, Sensor & Mesh Networking  .279.0.11254">- Next Generation Networking & Internet .279.0.11255">- Information System Security .279.0.11256"> - Optical Networks & Systems .279.0.11257">- Communication Theory .279.0.11258"> - Signal Processing .279.0.11259">- QoS, Reliability & Performance Modeling .279.0.11260"> - Wireless Communications .279.0.11261">- Communications Software & Services .279.0.11262"> - Wireless Networking - Selected Areas: .279.0.11263">Cognitive Radio Networks, .279.0.11264">Access Systems & Networks, .279.0.11265">  Consumer Networks, .279.0.11266">Data Storage and .279.0.11267">Satellite & Space Communications .279.0.11268">Submissions are also welcomed for Tutorials and Workshops. .279.0.11269">Tutorials: Proposals are invited for half- or full-day tutorials on conference topics. .279.0.11270">Workshops: Proposals are invited for half- or full-day workshops on conference topics. For a list of topics, proposal guidelines and submission instructions, .279.0.11271">click here Call for Papers and Proposals.279.0.11272">SUBMIT NOW >> PAPER SUBMISSIONMarch 15, 2009TUTORIAL PROPOSALMarch 15, 2009WORKSHOP PROPOSALMarch 15, 2009ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATIONJuly 1, 2009CAMERA-READY PAPERSAugust 14, 2009 IEEE GLOBECOM Â© 2009&email_id=%23%25%29GF%0A width=1 height=1>

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CFP: Special Session on "Advances and Future Directions in WiMAX Networks" in MOBILIGHT 2009
by Periklis Chatzimisios 02 Feb '09

02 Feb '09

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) C A L L F O R P A P E R S ============================= Special Session on "Advances and Future Directions in WiMAX Networks" organized in conjunction with The 1st International Conference on Mobile Lightweight Wireless Systems (MOBILIGHT 2009) 18-20 May 2009, Athens, Greece http://www.mobilight.org/ Important Dates: ================ Full Paper submission due: February 25, 2009 Notification of acceptance by: March 9, 2009 Camera ready paper due: March 16, 2009 Scope: ====== In the fast-changing and promising field of wireless communications, researchers and industry try to come up with new technologies that satisfy the ongoing demand for faster data rates with longer transmission ranges. WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) is an emerging wireless communication system that can provide broadband access with large-scale coverage. This technology can be used as "last mile" or "first mile" broadband access to deliver various services to clients. Concurrently, WiMAX¢s attributes and properties open the technology to a wide variety of multimedia and high bandwidth-demanded applications. Thus, Quality of Service (QoS) is a crucial issue for multi-hop WiMAX networks. The Special Session will try to connect the broadband access communications industry, operators, producers, researches and academia to present novel ideas, protocols, algorithms, frameworks, advances and schemes in order to cover the uprising fields of future wireless communication. Topics: =================== Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - WiMAX Communication Standards, Services and Applications - Multimedia QoS and Traffic Management in WiMAX - Voice and Voice over IP in WiMAX Networks - Performance Analysis of WiMAX - Simulation Software, Models and Testbeds for WiMAX - Routing in WiMAX - MAC/PHY layer techniques - Radio Resource Management, Admission Control and Scheduling - Wireless Optical Broadband Access Networks based on WiMAX - User and Network Security in WiMAX - Interoperability aspects (fixed/mobile LANs/MANs, 3G/4G, WANs) - Mobile WiMAX and applications Paper submission: ================= All submitted papers should describe original, previously unpublished work and will be subject to a rigorous peer-review. Accepted papers will be published by Springer in the MOBILIGHT Conference Proceedings and made available online through the Lecture Notes of ICST (LNICST). Please visit http://www.mobilight.org/ for submission guidelines. The Best Paper of this Special Session will be invited to a Special Issue about WiMAX in prestigious International Journal. Special Session organizers: =========================== Panagiotis Sarigiannidis, University of Western Macedonia, Greece Periklis Chatzimisios, University of Macedonia, Greece

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CFP: Special Session on "Advances and Future Directions in WiMAX Networks" in MOBILIGHT 2009
by Periklis Chatzimisios 02 Feb '09

02 Feb '09

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) C A L L F O R P A P E R S ============================= Special Session on "Advances and Future Directions in WiMAX Networks" organized in conjunction with The 1st International Conference on Mobile Lightweight Wireless Systems (MOBILIGHT 2009) 18-20 May 2009, Athens, Greece http://www.mobilight.org/ Important Dates: ================ Full Paper submission due: February 25, 2009 Notification of acceptance by: March 9, 2009 Camera ready paper due: March 16, 2009 Scope: ====== In the fast-changing and promising field of wireless communications, researchers and industry try to come up with new technologies that satisfy the ongoing demand for faster data rates with longer transmission ranges. WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) is an emerging wireless communication system that can provide broadband access with large-scale coverage. This technology can be used as "last mile" or "first mile" broadband access to deliver various services to clients. Concurrently, WiMAX¢s attributes and properties open the technology to a wide variety of multimedia and high bandwidth-demanded applications. Thus, Quality of Service (QoS) is a crucial issue for multi-hop WiMAX networks. The Special Session will try to connect the broadband access communications industry, operators, producers, researches and academia to present novel ideas, protocols, algorithms, frameworks, advances and schemes in order to cover the uprising fields of future wireless communication. Topics: =================== Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - WiMAX Communication Standards, Services and Applications - Multimedia QoS and Traffic Management in WiMAX - Voice and Voice over IP in WiMAX Networks - Performance Analysis of WiMAX - Simulation Software, Models and Testbeds for WiMAX - Routing in WiMAX - MAC/PHY layer techniques - Radio Resource Management, Admission Control and Scheduling - Wireless Optical Broadband Access Networks based on WiMAX - User and Network Security in WiMAX - Interoperability aspects (fixed/mobile LANs/MANs, 3G/4G, WANs) - Mobile WiMAX and applications Paper submission: ================= All submitted papers should describe original, previously unpublished work and will be subject to a rigorous peer-review. Accepted papers will be published by Springer in the MOBILIGHT Conference Proceedings and made available online through the Lecture Notes of ICST (LNICST). Please visit http://www.mobilight.org/ for submission guidelines. The Best Paper of this Special Session will be invited to a Special Issue about WiMAX in prestigious International Journal. Special Session organizers: =========================== Panagiotis Sarigiannidis, University of Western Macedonia, Greece Periklis Chatzimisios, University of Macedonia, Greece

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Call for Papers: MobiArch 2009 (co-located with ACM MobiSys)]
by Lars Wolf 02 Feb '09

02 Feb '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Call for Papers: MobiArch 2009 (co-located with ACM MobiSys) Datum: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:05:55 +0200 Von: Joerg Ott <jo(a)netlab.tkk.fi> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Call for Papers The 4th ACM International Workshop on Mobility in the Evolving Internet Architecture (MobiArch 2009) ----------------------------------------------------- Co-located with MobiSys, 22 June 2009, Krakow, Poland http://user.informatik.uni-goettingen.de/~mobiarch/2009/ With the recent development of technologies in wireless access and mobile devices, user, terminal, and network mobility has become an indispensable component of today's Internet vision, and it is likely to continue in the near future, while affecting the whole architectural design of the future Internet. Yet, issues like efficient mobility management and optimization, locator-identifier split, multi-homing, security, wireless access and related operational/deployment concerns are still in their early stages of development. Moreover, the Internet architecture, its end-to-end principles, and business models will require rethinking due to the massive penetration of mobility into the Internet. For instance, an appropriate system that allows communicating with a mobile host requires addressing several fundamental issues with the Internet architecture, such as ability to locate the mobile host/service, preserving ongoing communications upon changes of locations, as well as efficient and secure handover management. As another example, the emerging wireless technologies may pose additional challenges to the Internet architecture since they introduce design principles different from the original Internet. MobiArch 2009 welcomes submissions, from both researchers and practitioners, in exploration of recent advances in architectures, protocols, and experiences with emerging technologies on various mobility issues over the Internet, with an emphasis on wireless infrastructures and mobility patterns for mobility support, new mobility protocols, service discovery, routing and location management, mobile network performance evaluation and modelling, multi-homing, security, architectural impacts and deployment considerations. Furthermore, the potential of usability of mobility services for connecting people and devices in developing regions of the world into the Internet infrastructure will be also explored. Topics of MobiArch 2009 cover all aspects of architectural issues and system support for mobility in the Internet, including but not limited to: * Impacts of new wireless technologies/services, networking technologies, and mobility patterns on the Internet architecture * Architectures and protocols for mobility support in the Internet, ranging from approaches in link, network, transport to session/application layers and cross-layer design * Location management, routing, locator/identifier split, multi-homing and load sharing issues * Security and privacy issues in mobility networks and impacts to Internet architecture * Architectures and mechanisms for wireless/mobile connectivity in extreme environments (e.g., remote areas, developing countries) * Performance issues with mobility in the Internet * QoS and middlebox issues in mobility networks and impacts to Internet architecture * Economic and deployment issues of mobility solutions (infrastructure and devices) * Impact of social aspects on mobility architectures, mobile application and protocol design * Technologies for mobile wireless access and interactions Submissions must present original results. Selected papers will be forward-looking, describe their relationship to existing work, and have impact and implications for ongoing or future research. Submitted papers must be no more than 6 pages long, two columns, with no characters in smaller than 10 point fonts, and must fit properly on US "Letter"-sized paper (8.5x11 inches). Margins must be of 1 inch on all edges (top, bottom, left, and right) of each page. All paper submission will be handled via EDAS (http://edas.info/7188). Papers will be reviewed single blind. Important Dates: Submission Deadline: 22 February 2009 Acceptance Notification: 31 March 2009 Camera Ready Due: 15 April 2009 Workshop Date: 22 June 2009 TPC Chairs: Joerg Ott Helsinki University of Technology (TKK) Kun Tan Microsoft Research Asia For more information, contact workshop co-chairs at mobiarch-chairs(a)informatik.uni-goettingen.de. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: Special Session on "QoS Provision in Wireless Networks" in MOBILIGHT 2009
by Thomas Lagkas 02 Feb '09

02 Feb '09

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) C A L L F O R P A P E R S ============================= Special Session on "QoS Provision in Wireless Networks" organized in conjunction with The 1st International Conference on Mobile Lightweight Wireless Systems (MOBILIGHT 2009) 18-20 May 2009, Athens, Greece http://www.mobilight.org/ Important Dates: ================ Full Paper submission due: February 26, 2009 Notification of acceptance by: March 8, 2009 Camera ready paper due: March 15, 2009 Scope: ====== Today, wireless networks are considered to be a significant and emerging part of the communication networks field. Modern wireless networks must support all kinds of services, and perform similarly to the wired networks. The pertinent example of these demands is the need to efficiently serve the traffic generated by the emerging multimedia network applications. Thus, wireless networks have to be able to support Quality of Service (QoS). QoS support in wireless networks is a challenging issue. Significant research has taken place the last years on this area. The Special Session will try to analyze modern methods of providing QoS support in wireless networks, explain all related issues, highlight the problems that arise when trying to provide different and demanding services over wireless networks, present the theoretical background, bring out related solutions given so far, and moreover, exhibit the latest research concepts and relevant ideas regarding near-future implementations. Topics: =================== Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - The need for QoS support / Modern wireless network applications that require QoS support - Traffic characteristics / classification / multimedia codecs features - Cross-layer solutions - Medium access control issues / concepts / algorithms / MAC protocols QoS support fundamentals (traffic differentiation, packet prioritization, resource allocation) - Current technologies and representative examples of QoS supportive wireless networks [WPAN / WLAN / WWAN protocols, Cellular telecommunication networks, Satellite communications] - QoS aware simulation techniques for wireless networks - QoS support at the physical layer - Power saving mechanisms - Future integrated solutions (e.g. 4G networks) Paper submission: ================= All submitted papers should describe original, previously unpublished work and will be subject to a rigorous peer-review. Accepted papers will be published by Springer in the MOBILIGHT Conference Proceedings and made available online through the Lecture Notes of ICST (LNICST). Please visit http://www.mobilight.org/ for submission guidelines. Special Session organizer: =========================== Thomas Lagkas, University of Western Macedonia, Greece _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: ICNP -17th IEEE Intl. Conf. on Network Protocols]
by Lars Wolf 02 Feb '09

02 Feb '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: ICNP -17th IEEE Intl. Conf. on Network Protocols Datum: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 03:40:38 -0500 Von: Rahul Mangharam <rahulm(a)seas.upenn.edu> An: tccn(a)comsoc.org, tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu [Sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.] CALL FOR PAPERS ICNP 2009 17th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols October 13-16, 2009 Princeton, New Jersey, USA http://www.ieee-icnp.org/2009 ICNP, the IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols is the premier conference covering all aspects of network protocols. ICNP will be held in its seventeenth year at Princeton, New Jersey from October 13-16th, 2009. Papers with significant research contributions on network protocols are solicited for submission. Papers related to all aspects of network protocols including design, implementation, analysis, performance and specification are relevant. Papers must not be previously published nor under review in any other conference or journal. Only original papers that have not been published previously or submitted for publication and under review by another conference or journal elsewhere can be submitted. Papers containing plagiarized material will be subject to the IEEE Plagiarism policy and will be rejected without review. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ? Protocol design, implementation, testing and analysis. ? Measurement studies of protocol performance. ? Protocols for wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. ? Protocols for peer-to-peer networks. ? Protocols for specific functions such as routing, flow/congestion control, network management. ? Protocols for security, survivability and fault-tolerance. Papers must be directly relevant to protocols. Papers on general networking where protocols are only a secondary focus will be considered only if they are of exceptionally high quality. Papers will be subject to a double-blind review process. The identity of authors and referees will not be revealed to each other. To ensure blind reviewing, the authors' names and affiliations should not appear in the paper. Bibliographic references should protect the authors' anonymity. Papers should adhere to the IEEE format and should not be more than 10 pages. The font size should not be smaller than 10pt. Further instructions will be posted on the ICNP website (http://www.ieee-icnp.org/2009). Authors of accepted papers will be expected to register for the conference and the paper must be presented at the conference in order for the paper to appear in the conference proceedings. Important Dates: Abstract Submission: April 10, 2009 8:59 P.M. EDT Paper Submission: April 17, 2009 8:59 P.M. EDT (Hard Deadline) Notification of Acceptance: July 28, 2009 Camera Ready Version Due: September 4, 2009 Organizing Committee: Executive Committee: David Lee Ohio State University, USA (Chair) Mostafa Ammar Georgia Tech. USA Ken Calvert University of Kentucky, USA Teruo Higashino Osaka University, Japan Raymond Miller University of Maryland, USA General Chairs: K.K. Ramakrishnan AT & T Labs Research, USA Henning Schulzrinne Columbia University, USA Program Chairs: Timothy Griffin University of Cambridge, U.K. Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy University of California, Riverside, USA For more details, visit the conference webpage: http://www.ieee-icnp.org/2009 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] Elsevier International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection Special Issue on Secure Self-Organised Networking for Extreme Emergency Services
by ntan＠teimes.gr 31 Jan '09

31 Jan '09

We apologize for multiple receipts of this CFP. ------------------ International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection (Elsevier Publication) Special Issue: Secure Self-Organised Networking Infrastructures for Extreme Emergency Services Debates about emergency services usually diverge into discussions about most prominent catastrophes (e.g. earthquakes, flooding) and terrorist attacks. Such events tend to create a crisis and panic on the society. In such events, self-organized networking infrastructure (i.e. ad-hoc, wireless mesh) can be deployed in a secure and reliable manner in case of infrastructure network collapse so that an appropriate crisis handling management can be applied. This strategy coordinates all the available resources in terms of public services (i.e. police, authorities, hospital, fire-brigade etc) so that this crisis is resolved smoothly. While these extreme events surely represent some of the most demanding scenarios for emergency services, in order to fulfill the requirements of modern societies, research and development in the area of emergency services need to address a much broader scope. The handling of extreme emergency applications will often involve the establishment of self-organised networking environment in order to provide applications and services among the rescue workers. ------------------ Topics ------------------ The aim of this special issue is to seek original and unpublished research papers in the following areas: - Self-Organised Network architectures (e.g. ad-hoc, mesh, PAN etc) for extreme emergency applications and services - Modeling and Simulation of Self-Organised Critical Infrastructures - Security protocols, solutions and tools for extreme emergency network architectures - Attacks and countermeasures for self-organised networks - Complex application scenarios - Service Continuity and Resiliency - Secure Multimedia Communications in Extreme Emergencies - P2P Overlay and Coordination Support - Standards and Initiatives for Emergency Networks and Applications (e.g. IEEE, IETF, etc) ------------------ Submission Instruction ------------------ Authors should follow the Elsevier International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection manuscript format instructions as described at the journal’s site http://ees.elsevier.com/ijcip/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript in pdf format through the Elsevier portal http://ees.elsevier.com/ijcip/ by uploading their paper at the special issue track. ------------------ Schedule ------------------ Paper Submission Deadline: 30th of August 2009 Notification: 30th of January 2010 Publication Date: June 2010 ------------------ Guest Editors ------------------ Ass. Prof. Tasos Dagiuklas, Department of Telecommunications Systems and Networks Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Mesolonghi, Nafpaktos, Greece Email: ntan(a)teimes.gr Dr Christos Politis Wireless Multimedia Networking Research Group Faculty of Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics Kingston University London, UK, E-mail: c.politis(a)kingston.ac.uk _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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CFP: IEEE GLOBECOM 2009 NGNI Symposium
by Xiaoming Fu 30 Jan '09

30 Jan '09

Dear colleagues, Below is the call for papers for IEEE GLOBECOM 2009 Next-Generation Networking & Internet Symposium. Please kindly forward to your colleagues and students for considering submissions. Thanks, Xiaoming -------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers IEEE GLOBECOM 2009 Next-Generation Networking & Internet Symposium Honolulu, Hawaii, USA November 30 - December 4, 2009 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Symposium Chairs ================ Nasir Ghani, University of New Mexico (nghani(a)ece.unm.edu) Ashwin Gumaste, IIT Bombay/ MIT (ashwing(a)ieee.org) Xiaoming Fu, University of Goettingen (fu(a)cs.uni-goettingen.de) Deep Medhi, University of Missouri-Kansas City (dmedhi(a)umkc.edu) Call for Papers =============== Over the last three decades the Internet has undergone massive transformations, migrating from a relatively focused scientific research network to a ubiquitous and pervasive communications medium for the masses. This change has been brought about by immense research progress in all layers of the network hierarchy, i.e., ranging from new applications, to service-aware networking protocols and hardwares, all the way down to physical transmission technologies (both wireless and wireline). Now as the Internet continues to evolve and expand today, a host of new research challenges and business opportunities are beckoning. Of particular importance are emerging topics in the area of network heterogeneity, virtualization, services, and security. The growing cadre of wireless users is also adding another dimension into the mix and pushing to the forefront issues such as mobility management, content distribution, and self-organization. Along these lines, the Next-Generation Networking & Internet Symposium of IEEE GLOBECOM 2009 will address some of these exciting new challenges and focus areas. Specifically, this event will solicit participation from both academic and industry researchers working in key areas of Internet design such as enabling technologies, services, architectures, and protocols. The overriding goal of this symposium will be to garner the collective experience and expertise of these researchers to help uncover the latest trends and directions for future Internet design. Another concurrent aim will also be to solicit new ideas on the future migration of the Internet, with regards to evolutionary or greenfield strategies. The symposium will encourage the submission of novel technical studies as well as broader position and vision papers comprising hypothetical/speculative scenarios. Submissions must be conformant to the GLOBECOM 2009 guidelines and done via EDAS entry: http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6730& Topics of Interest ================== The planned symposium topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * Future Internet architectures * Heterogeneous multi-layer and multi-domain networks, wireless-wireline internetworking * Overlay networks and peer-to-peer networking * Network virtualization, virtual private networks (VPN), and services * Provisioning, monitoring, and management of IP services: traffic engineering, mobility support, etc. * Flow management: resource sharing, congestion control, etc. * Routing: unicast, multicast, anycast, etc (wireless, wireline) * Multihoming, network planning and optimization * Addressing and naming, especially in the presence of mobility and portability * Operational and research issues with IPv6 * VoIP protocols and services * Self-protecting networking * Switch and router architectures, performance, control, buffer management, packet scheduling * Network management methodologies and control plane design * Internet survivability and network resilience strategies * Mechanisms for self-organisation and autonomous networking * Traffic measurement, analysis, modelling, and visualization * Anomaly, intrusion, and attack detection/prevention * Policy based mechanisms and high-speed firewall technology * Packet classification and forwarding mechanisms at ultra-high link rates (terabits) * High speed and parallel processing architectures for next generation routers * Connecting mobile/wireless devices to the Internet * Converged networks and applications * Content-based networking: caching, distribution, load balancing, resiliency * Mobile/wireless content distribution * Internet applications including interactive media, voice and video, games, immersive applications * Internet signalling and service enabling protocols, including SIP, NSIS, HTTP, RTSP/RTP, etc * Privacy and/or security issues and intrusion detection in the Internet * Design methodologies for Internet services * Internet economics, pricing models, accounting, Internet growth modelling * IP Multimedia Subsystem: Architecture and design * Next-Generation Access Networking Technical Program Committee =========================== Rui Aguiar University of Aveiro Portugal Sawsan Al zahr TELECOM ParisTech France Onur Altintas Toyota InfoTechnology Center Japan Chadi Assi Concordia University Canada Xiaofeng Bai University of Western Ontario Canada Andrea Baiocchi University of Roma "La Sapienza" Italy Marcus Brunner NEC Europe Ltd. Germany Ling-Jyh Chen Academia Sinica Taiwan Augusto Casaca Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon Portugal Grzegorz Danilewicz Poznan University of Technology Poland Wesley Eddy Verizon / NASA USA Andrea Forte Columbia University USA Qiang Fu University of South Australia Australia Stefano Giordano University of Pisa Italy Ivano Guardini Telecom Italia Lab Italy Hamed Haddadi Max Planck Institute for Software Systems Germany Jianhua He Swansea University UK Shun-Yun Hu National Central University Taiwan Pan Hui Deutsche Telekom Laboratories Germany Jason Jue University of Texas at Dallas USA Georgios Karagiannis University of Twente The Netherlands Samee Khan North Dakota State University USA Sudha Krishnamurthy Deutsche Telekom Laboratories Germany Fang-Chun Kuo University of Goettingen Germany Jun Lei University of Goettingen Germany Kang Li University of Georgia USA Bin Liu Tsinghua University China Telemaco Melia Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs France Joerg Ott Helsinki University of Technology Finland Jianping Pan University of Victoria Canada Panagiotis Papadimitriou Lancaster University UK Mario Pickavet Ghent University Belgium Miguel Ponce de Leon Waterford Institute of Technology Ireland Bruno Quoitin Universite catholique de Louvain Belgium Abdallah Shami University of Western Ontario Canada Haiying Shen University of Arkansas USA Lei Shi IBM China Research Laboratory China Minghui Shi University of Waterloo Canada James Sterbenz University of Kansas & Lancaster Univ, USA/UK Martin Stiemerling NEC Europe Ltd. Germany Suresh Subramaniam George Washington University USA Yongning Tang Illinois State University USA Jianping Wang City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China Wei Wei NEC Labs America USA Chuan Wu University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China Jing Wu Communications Research Centre Canada Canada Lisong Xu University of Nebraska-Lincoln USA Yang Xu Polytechnic University USA Yinghua Ye Nokia Siemens Networks USA Honghai Zhang NEC Labs America USA Weiyi Zhang North Dakota State University USA Si-Qing Zheng University of Texas at Dallas USA Yuezhi Zhou Tsinghua University China Piotr Zwierzykowski Poznan University of Technology Poland Important Dates =============== PAPER SUBMISSION March 15, 2009 ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATION July 1, 2009 CAMERA-READY PAPERS August 14, 2009 For further details please visit IEEE GLOBECOM 2009 webpage: http://www.ieee-globecom.org/2009

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