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[Mycolleagues] CFP-Iterative Decoding and Cross-Layering Techniques for Multimedia Broadcasting and Communications
by Massimiliano Laddomada 25 Mar '08

25 Mar '08

%%% Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement %%%% Hindawi - International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdmb/ Call for Papers Iterative Decoding and Cross-Layering Techniques for Multimedia Broadcasting and Communications The explosive growth of multimedia applications over the Internet and the ever-increasing users' demands over commercial terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting all over the world call for efficient physical and cross-layer techniques able to mitigate the potential problems limiting broadband services over wireless networks. In this scenario, mobile multimedia is expected to be one of the key services of future wireless mobile networks. Meanwhile, recent advances in digital communications have paved the way to a variety of standards aimed at providing multimedia services over terrestrial broadband networks. To cite but a few, DVB-H, T-DVB, T-DMB, wireless LANs, and wireless MANs are some of the most recent standards enabling such technology. Iterative decoding techniques for both source, channel, and joint source-channel coding and decoding and cross-layering techniques have proven to be very effective for providing a viable means of achieving capacity-approaching performance at very reduced computational burden. The main aim of this special issue is to highlight state-of-the-art techniques on the most recent research advances enabling digital multimedia services over broadband wireless networks, focused on physical and cross-layering solutions. Novel contributions, previously unpublished, that are not being submitted to any other journal, are sought. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to, the following subject categories: Iterative decoding techniques for concatenated channel codes (turbo codes and serially concatenated codes) Iterative decoding techniques for joint source-channel decoding Novel capacity-approaching channel codes: coding strategies and efficient decoding algorithms Cross-layer modelling/analysis and optimization techniques Standardization activities on digital multimedia broadcasting protocols Space-time coding and decoding Novel MIMO solutions for counteracting multipath mobile channels Channel estimation and equalization Improved channel equalization techniques for SIMO and MIMO systems Experimental testbeds Hardware Implementation and SoC solutions Authors should follow the International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting manuscript format described at the journal site http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdmb Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com according to the following timetable: Manuscript Due: April 1, 2008 First Round of Reviews: July 1, 2008 Publication Date: November 1, 2008 _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Researchers] Extended CFP Globecom Ad Hoc, Sensor and Mesh Networking Symposium
by Profa Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare 25 Mar '08

25 Mar '08

============================================================================= CALL-FOR-PAPERS IEEE Globecom 2008: Ad Hoc, Sensor and Mesh Networking Symposium www.ieee-globecom.org/2008 November 30th- December 4th, 2008 New Orleans, LA, USA Deadline Extended : ===> March 31st (Firm Deadline) ============================================================================= TPC Co-Chairs: Prof. Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, boukerch(a)site.uottawa.ca Prof. Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, rboutaba(a)uwaterloo.ca Prof. Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Nirwan.Ansari(a)njit.edu Prof. Nidal Nasser, University of Guelph, nasser(a)cis.uoguelph.ca SCOPE Multi-hop wireless Ad Hoc and sensor networks are self-organizing systems formed by co-operating nodes within communication range of each other that form temporary networks. Ad hoc wireless networks allow anywhere, anytime network connectivity with complete lack of control, ownership, and regulatory influence. The last few years have witnessed a wealth of research ideas on ad hoc and sensor networks that are moving rapidly into commercialization and standardization. Such networks can be randomly and rapidly deployed and reconfigured and easily tailored to specific applications including entertainment, civilian, military, etc. Moreover, an ad hoc architecture is highly robust to node failure and can provide a high-level of fault tolerance due to nodal redundancy and its distributed nature. Furthermore, energy efficiency can be achieved through multi-hop routing communication. Bandwidth reuse can also benefit from dividing the single long range hop to multiple short hops with each hop having a shorter range. Several challenges face are standing in the way to achieving ubiquitous deployment of ad hoc and sensor networks. These include variable topology, device heterogeneity, limited power supply and the lack of effective energy-efficient design, lack of QoS and application support, etc. This symposium aims at providing a forum for sharing ideas among researchers and practitioners working on state-of-the-art solutions to the challenges above. We are seeking papers that describe original and unpublished contributions addressing various aspects of ad hoc and sensor networks. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: All submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of five (5) printed pages (10-point font) including figures, without incurring additional page charges (maximum 1 additional page). Standard IEEE Transactions templates for Microsoft Word or LaTeX formats found at http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/pubs/transactions/stylesheets.html. Alternatively you can follow the sample instructions in template.pdf at http://www.comsoc.org/confs/globecom/2008/downloads/template.pdf Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process and all submissions must be done through EDAS at http://edas.info/ Topics of Interest You are invited to submit original technical papers covering but not limited to the following topics. . Applications and Evolutions of Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Mesh Networks . Autonomic Networking . Wireless, Ad Hoc, and Sensor Devices . Physical Layer Design of Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Mesh Networks . Frequency and Channel Allocation Algorithms . Topology Control and Management . Algorithms and Modeling for Localization, Target Tracking, and Mobility Management . Architectures of Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing . MAC Protocols for Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Mesh Networks . QoS Provisioning in Medium Access Control and Routing for Ad Hoc and Mesh Networks . Analytical, Mobility, and Validation Models for Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Mesh Networks . Performance Evaluation and Modeling of Mobile, Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Mesh Networks . Integrated Simulation and Measurement based Evaluation of Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems . New Simulation Languages, Methodologies, and Tools for Wireless Systems . Analysis of Correctness and Efficiency of Protocols . Data Management, Data Aggregation, Data Dissemination, and Query Processing . Cryptography and Security Issues in Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks . Distributed Algorithms . Pricing Modeling and Solutions . Pervasive and Wearable Computing . Co-existence Issues of Hybrid Networks . Energy Saving and Power Control Protocols for Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Mesh Networks . Resource Management Algorithms in Mobile, wireless Ad Hoc and Mesh Networks . Synchronization and Scheduling Issues in Mobile and Ad Hoc Networks . Service Discovery for Wireless Ad Hoc, Mesh, and Sensor Networks . Cross-layer Design and Interactions . Mobile Service and QoS Management for Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks . Survivability and Reliability Evaluation and Modeling for Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Mesh Networks . Ubiquitous and Mobile Access for Wireless Mesh Networks . Security and Privacy Issues for Wireless Ad Hoc, Mesh, and Sensor Networks -- Esta mensagem foi verificada pelo sistema de antivírus e acredita-se estar livre de perigo. _______________________________________________ Researchers mailing list Researchers(a)mailman.ufsc.br http://mailman.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/researchers

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[IFIP-EC-NEWS] CfP: IWSOS 2008 - 3rd Int. Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems
by karin anna hummel 20 Mar '08

20 Mar '08

** 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 **************************************************** Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of the cfp. ************************ 1st CALL FOR PAPERS ************************ IWSOS 2008 3rd International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems - Self-Organizing Networks and Networked Systems - December 10-12, 2008 Vienna, Austria http://iwsos.ani.univie.ac.at/ Submission deadline (full papers): June 22, 2008 ********************************************************************* Workshop Scope -------------- IWSOS 2008 is the third workshop in a series of annual workshops dedicated to self-organization in networks and networked systems. The necessity for and expected benefit of self-organization is caused by the growing scale, complexity, and heterogeneity of future networked systems, like the future Internet. For example, these networks will consist of interconnected infrastructure-based, mobile ad-hoc, and sensor networks that could be spontaneously deployed in hostile environments, have a dynamic population and a potentially short life time. In spite of this, there will be stringent user requirements, such as resilience and real-time guarantees. Although self-organization is desirable for these kinds of networks, it is not yet clear to what extent self-organization can be exploited. Research into networked systems has recently started to systematically investigate self-organization, which has lead to a multitude of open research issues. The applicability of well-known self-organizing techniques to specific networks and networked systems has to be investigated, as well as adaptations and novel approaches inspired by, e.g., cooperation in nature and evolutionary dynamics, sociology, and game theory. Additionally, models originating from areas like feedback control and complex system's research, are required for these networked systems in order to analyze their controllability and emergent behavior. Aspects of engineering self-organizing networked systems should be studied that discuss paradigms like programmable networks, and tools and frameworks for deploying, testing, and monitoring self-organizing networks. The role of self-organization in the future Internet and the impact on its architecture is an important topic, as well as the application of self-organization in future intelligent transportation systems and vehicular ad-hoc networks. Building on the success of its predecessors, this workshop aims at bringing together leading international researchers to create a visionary forum for investigating the potential of self-organization for networked systems by including the following key topics (not a restricted list): * Self-organization and self-management * Self-configuration and self-optimization * Self-protection, -diagnosis, and -healing * Autonomic networking principles and practice * Control theory based models and approaches of self-organization * Feedback control in networked systems * Group-forming networks and techniques * Programmable and cognitive networks for self-organization * Visualization of network system state * Inspiring models of self-organization in nature and society (e.g., bio-inspired or based on game theory) * Risks in self-organization and risk management techniques * The (un-)controllability of self-organizing emergent systems * Quality of Service / service level agreements and self-organization * Resilience, robustness, and fault tolerance for networked systems * Security in self-organizing networked systems * Self-* sensor and ad-hoc networks * Self-* techniques in peer-to-peer networks * Self-organization of over- and underlays and in cross-layering * Self-* networks and networked systems for ubiquitous computing * Self-organization in heterogeneous network convergence * Evolutionary principles of the (future, emerging) Internet * Self-configuring place-and-play mobile networks * Self-organizing vehicular ad-hoc networks * Self-organizing multi-service networks and multi-network services * Methods for configuration and management of large, complex networks * Applications, e.g. the self-organizing home network * The human in the loop of self-organizing networked systems Important Dates --------------- * Paper submission deadline (full papers): June 22, 2008 * Notification of acceptance (full papers): September 1, 2008 Initial Submission (full papers) -------------------------------- IWSOS invites submission of manuscripts that present original research results, and that have not been previously published or are currently under review by another conference or journal. Any previous or simultaneous publication of related material should be explicitly noted in the submission. Submissions should be full-length papers up to 10 pages using the LNCS style, including all figures and references, and must include an abstract of 100 - 150 words. All papers must be submitted in PDF format. Submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the international TPC and judged on originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness. Accepted Full Papers -------------------- The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes for Computer Science (LNCS) series. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must attend IWSOS 2008 to present the paper. Steering Committee ------------------ * Hermann de Meer, University of Passau, Germany * David Hutchison, Lancaster University, UK * Bernhard Plattner, ETH Zurich, Switzerland * James Sterbenz, University of Kansas, USA * Randy Katz, UC Berkeley, USA General Chair ------------- * Helmut Hlavacs, University of Vienna, Austria Technical Program Co-Chairs --------------------------- * Karin Anna Hummel, University of Vienna, Austria * James Sterbenz, University of Kansas, USA Technical Program Committee --------------------------- * Marin Bertier, IRISA/INSA-Rennes, France * Christian Bettstetter, University of Klagenfurt, Austria * Ernst Biersack, Institute Eurecom, France * Georg Carle, University of Tuebingen, Germany * Tarik Cicic, University of Oslo, Norway * Alexander Clemm, Cisco Systems, USA * Costas Courcoubetis, AUEB, Greece * Simon Dobson, University College Dublin, Ireland * Stefan Fischer, University of Luebeck, Germany * Frank Fitzek, Univ. of Aalborg, Denmark * Michael Fry, University of Sydney, Australia * David Garlan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA * Indranil Gupta, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA * Hannes Hartenstein, University of Karlsruhe, Germany * Manfred Hauswirth, National University of Ireland, Ireland * Joseph L. Hellerstein, Microsoft Developer Division, USA * Matthias Hollick, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany * Amine Houyou, University of Passau, Germany * Wolfgang Kellerer, DoCoMo Lab Europe, Germany * Alexander V. Konstantinou, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA * Rajesh Krishnan, BBN Technologies, USA * Guy Leduc, University of Liege, Belgium * Baochun Li, University of Toronto, Canada * Marco Mamei, University di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy * Andreas Mauthe, Lancaster University, UK * Paul Mueller, Kaiserslautern University, Germany * Masayuki Murata, Osaka University, Japan * Ben Paechter, Napier University, UK * Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA * Christian Prehofer, Nokia Research, Finland * Lukas Ruf, Consecom AG, Switzerland * Mikhail Smirnov, Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany * Paul Smith, Lancaster University, UK * Marcus Schoeller, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany * Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos, ETH Zurich, Switzerland * Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Switzerland * John Strassner, Motorola Labs, USA * Zhili Sun, University of Surrey, UK * Kurt Tutschku, Wuerzburg University, Germany * Patrick Wuechner, University of Passau, Germany * Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Local Organizing Committee --------------------------- * Shelley Buchinger, University of Vienna, Austria * Alexander Adrowitzer, University of Vienna, Austria * Harald Meyer, University of Vienna, Austria **************************************************** ** 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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[Tccc] ACM SIGMETRICS Workshop on MAthematical performance Modeling and Analysis (MAMA '08)
by Mark S Squillante 20 Mar '08

20 Mar '08

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS -- MAMA 2008 The Tenth Workshop on MAthematical performance Modeling and Analysis MAMA 2008 June 2, 2008 Annapolis, Maryland, USA Held in conjunction with SIGMETRICS 2008 http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~sigmet08/MAMAindex.html Sponsored by ACM SIGMETRICS The complexity of computer systems, networks and applications, as well as the advancements in computer technology, continue to grow at a rapid pace. Mathematical analysis, modeling and optimization are playing an important role in research studies to investigate fundamental issues and tradeoffs at the core of performance problems in the design and implementation of complex computer systems, networks and applications. The Tenth Workshop on MAthematical performance Modeling and Analysis (MAMA 2008) seeks to bring together researchers working on the mathematical, methodological and theoretical aspects of performance analysis, modeling and optimization. It is intended to provide a forum at SIGMETRICS conferences for talks on early research in the more mathematical areas of computer performance analysis. These talks tend to be based on very recent research results (including work in progress) or on new research results that will be otherwise submitted only to a journal (or recently have been submitted to a journal). Thus, part of the goal is to complement and supplement the SIGMETRICS Conference program with such talks without removing any theoretical contributions from the main technical program. This year's workshop will be held on June 2 (before the main SIGMETRICS technical program). In addition to the presentation of extended abstracts, the workshop will include time for informal technical discussions among the speakers and attendees. SUBMISSION INFORMATION April 18, 2008: Abstract Submission Deadline May 2, 2008: Acceptance Notification May 9, 2008: Final Abstracts for Workshop Aug 1, 2008: Final Extended Abstracts for PER MAMA 2008 encourages the submission of abstracts describing early research on the general mathematical, methodological and theoretical aspects of performance analysis, modeling and optimization. Authors are asked to submit 2-3 page abstracts, following the same formatting instructions as the main SIGMETRICS conference (refer to http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~sigmet08/cfp.html), before the above deadline. (NOTE that this is different from the submission guidelines in previous years.) Submissions violating these formatting guidelines will be returned without review. Abstracts should be submitted electronically, as an e-mail attachment, to mss(a)watson.ibm.com. Postscript or PDF is preferred, although other arrangements can be made by contacting Mark Squillante (mss(a)watson.ibm.com). Submissions will be reviewed by the MAMA program committee, from which a number of abstracts will be selected for inclusion in the workshop program. A version of the abstracts will be provided at the workshop. Extended versions of the abstracts will appear in a special issue of Performance Evaluation Review (PER), with a due date after the workshop making it possible for authors to incorporate the results of, or simply mention, any relevant discussions at the workshop. Note that there are no copyright issues with PER, and thus authors will have complete freedom to submit their work elsewhere. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Yuliy Baryshnikov, Bell Laboratories Sem Borst, Bell Laboratories, Eindhoven University of Technology C.S. Chang, National Tsing Hua University Ed Coffman, Columbia University Jim Dai, Georgia Institute of Technology Edmundo de Souza e Silva, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Nick Duffield, AT&T Labs Research Derek Eager, University of Saskatchewan David Gamarnik, MIT Ayalvadi Ganesh, Microsoft Research Leana Golubchik, University of Southern California Albert Greenberg, Microsoft Research Mor Harchol-Balter, Carnegie Mellon University Pete Harrison, Imperial College Alain Jean-Marie, University of Montpellier, INRIA Predrag Jelenkovic, Columbia University Guy Latouche, Universite Libre de Bruxelles Zhen Liu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Yingdong Lu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center John Lui, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Michel Mandjes, CWI, University of Amsterdam Vishal Misra, Columbia University Dick Muntz, University of California at Los Angeles Philippe Nain, INRIA Sindo Nunez Queija, CWI, TNO Philippe Robert, INRIA Evgenia Smirni, College of William and Mary Mark Squillante, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Don Towsley, University of Massachusetts David Yao, Columbia University Bert Zwart, Georgia Institute of Technology Additional information about the MAMA 2008 Workshop can be found at: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~sigmet08/MAMAindex.html For more information about the workshop, please contact Mark Squillante (mss(a)watson.ibm.com). Additional information about the SIGMETRICS Conference can be found at: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~sigmet08/index.html _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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ICST - CfP: MobiMedia 2008 Extended deadline 4.4.2008
by info＠icstconferences.org 20 Mar '08

20 Mar '08

We apologize if you have received multiple copies of this CfP ************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS MobiMedia2008 4th International Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference *** PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED: 4th of April 2008 *** ************************************************************* Sponsored by ACM, ICST, CREATE-NET and VTT MobiMedia 2008 Web-site: http://www.mobimedia.org Paper submission: http://www.cocus.eu 7-9th of July, Oulu, Finland Important Dates --------------- Full Papers due: April 4, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: May 2, 2008 Camera-ready Manuscripts due: May 24, 2008 Conference Dates: July 7-9, 2008 KEYNOTE SPEECHES: ----------------- Bartolome Arroyo-Fernandez, European Commission Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton Petri Mähönen, RWTH Aachen Scope ----- The development and deployment of the multimedia services and applications in mobile environments requires adopting an interdisciplinary approach where both multimedia and networking issues are addressed jointly. Different type of semantic characteristics of media, human interpretation of audiovisual information, coding standards and interaction with networking, mobility and security protocols are research issues that need to be carefully examined when proposing new solutions. The efficient delivery and deployment of multimedia applications and services over emerging diverse and heterogeneous wireless networks is a challenging research objective. The research efforts e.g. for the 3G/4G and 3G LTE visions of interworking among heterogeneous technologies to achieve multimedia session continuity, retain multimedia QoS characteristics etc., amplifies the need to evaluate the conditions and restrictions under which delivery of such services can be accomplished. The demand for efficient multimedia communications can be also seen as one of main driving forces towards the Future Internet and Post-IP solutions. The interoperability of applications, transport and network protocols and radio access, as well as the demand for improved quality of service and user experience, security and mobility support creates a challenging study field and also possibilities for research of novel communication protocols and methods towards the Future Internet. In addition for the technical challenges caused by the increased amount of multimedia usage and delivery through different community services, peer-to-peer networks, Web, Internet IPTV etc. the multimedia delivery is also affecting to industry value chains, commerce transactions between businesses (B2B), and business and customers (B2C). Within this scope, MobiMedia is intended to provide a unique international forum for researchers from industry and academia, working in multimedia coding and mobile networking fields to study new applications, solutions, and standards. Original unpublished contributions are solicited that can improve the knowledge and practice in the integrated design of efficient technologies and the relevant provision of advanced mobile multimedia applications. The conference key research areas include, but are not limited to * Application and channel coding paradigms, including for example joint source and channel coding paradigms, scalable video coding, wireless and ad hoc network solutions, ciphering and authentication. * Networking and transmission mechanisms including for example transport and network protocol solutions, cross-layer techniques, rate control and adaptation mechanism for video delivery, impact of mobility and heterogenous networks in multimedia delivery and p2p content delivery * Multimedia services, business models and concepts, including for example new business models and service concepts, trust and security paradigms for multimedia delivery, test beds and experimentation platforms for multimedia delivery. Papers ------ The conference invites original technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Topics include, but are not limited to: * Multimedia semantic characteristics in wireless, mobile and ubiquitous environments * Multimedia QoS in wireless networks * Extraction and usage of semantic information with multimedia * Performance evaluation of multimedia services * Multimedia Retrieval in wireless and mobile environments * Mechanisms supporting triple-play services in emerging wireless networks * Scalable Coding of multimedia in wireless and mobile networks * Cross-Layer techniques for multimedia communications over wireless networks * Joint source-channel coding * Multimedia services over ad-hoc and wireless sensor networks * Rate Control and Adaptation for wireless multimedia * P2P multimedia streaming in wireless and mobile networks * Transport protocols for multimedia in emerging wireless networks * Mobile Content Delivery Networks * Test and experimentation test beds for multimedia delivery * Impact of heterogeneous wireless network environment and mobility * Trust and security in multimedia delivery * Service concepts and new business models Technical program ----------------- The conference will also include invited panels to facilitate for exchanging ideas and discussion, and specific sessions and workshops on focused interest areas. Submissions of proposals on workshops and special sessions on emerging topics are invited. Paper submission and publication -------------------------------- MobiMedia 2008 invites manuscripts that present original materials not previously published in, or currently under review by, another conference or journal. Submissions should be full-length papers of up to 7 pages (including all figures and references) formatted according to ACM publication template. Full-length papers should report on completed work and will be considered for oral presentations. A separate abstract of no longer than 200 words should be submitted as well. Submissions will be judged by their originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series and will be made available in ACM Digital Library, as well as indexed by EI and ISI Index. Poster sessions and demonstrations ---------------------------------- MobiMedia 2008 invites the poster and demonstration session parallel with the main conference event. These short papers should report on work in progress or discuss open problems, and will be considered for poster presentations. A maximum of 4 page proposal for poster/demonstration presentation for the session should be submitted to the Poster Session co-chairs. For information on exhibit space or sponsorship opportunities, please contact the corresponding conference Poster and Demosession Chair, General Co-Chairs and Conference Organizing Co-Chairs. Workshops and special sessions ------------------------------ Proposals for one-day workshops or special session to be held in conjunction with the conference are solicited. A maximum of 2 pages should be submitted which include the workshop name, its scope and a list of topic of interests. Proposals should be submitted directly to Workshop Chair and to e-mail: mobimedia(a)willab.fi. STEERING BOARD: GENERAL CHAIRS: TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIRS: --------------- --------------- ------------------------ Imrich Chlamtac Jyrki Huusko Rahim Tafazolli Luigi Atzori Tapio Frantti Djamal Zeghlache Frank Fitzek -------------------------------------------------- You are reading ICST conference newsletter. To report any kind of abuse, please contact admin at icst.org. To unsubscribe, please visit the following page: http://icstconferences.org/unsubscribe.php?p=ggjzadyfjh and enter your email address.

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP - Communications Magazine - Advances in Cooperative and Relay Communications]
by Lars Wolf 19 Mar '08

19 Mar '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP - Communications Magazine - Advances in Cooperative and Relay Communications Datum: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:52:11 +0800 Von: Chin, Woon Hau <w.h.chin(a)ieee.org> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> Call for Papers IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic on Advances in Cooperative and Relay Communications In wireless networks, relays have been traditionally used to extend the range of communication systems. However, in recent years, other applications of relay communications have emerged. One such emerging application is to assist in the communication between the source and destination via some cooperation protocol. By controlling medium access between source and relays coupled with the appropriate modulation or coding in such cooperative schemes, it has been found that the diversity of the system can be improved. In multi-user systems, different users can also act as cooperative partners or relays to share resources and assist each other in information transmission, thereby creating a cooperative network. One other emerging application is the exchange of information between multiple users through relay(s). In such cases, by exploiting the knowledge of one's own transmitted signal, the throughput of these systems can be drastically increased. For cooperative and relay communications, the MAC layer also has many unique features. The MAC in this case, is concerned with more than one hop communication, is distributed and cooperative and works for multipoint-to-multipoint communication. The MAC also needs to have knowledge about network topology and account for node mobility. Accordingly, a new design of the MAC layer has to be devised to include new functionalities as well as MAC layer routing. With the large benefits to be reaped from employing cooperative and relay techniques, several standardization groups, such as IEEE 802.16 and IEEE 802.11, have started standardization processes to include such technologies into their prevailing standards. These efforts will no doubt attract even more interests from the academia and industry, advancing cooperative and relay technologies even further in the coming years. With interests from both the research and industrial communities gaining momentum, there is an urgent need to better understand as well as to keep track of cutting edge research in cooperative and relay communications. We plan this special issue to help address that need, as well as to help researchers looking to jump on the bandwagon. Therefore, the special issue will focus on recent advances as well as survey papers in cooperative and relay communications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following topics: . Cooperative algorithms and protocols . Partner(s) selection in cooperative relay and routing . Cooperative resource allocation and management . Relay strategies for cooperative communications . Cooperative and relay technologies applied to WLAN, WMAN and cellular networks . Multidirectional relaying . Distributed coding and modulation . Multiple antenna systems and protocols for cooperative communications . Information theoretic aspects of cooperative communications . MAC issues and MAC layer routing . Cross-layer approaches for joint PHY and MAC optimization Schedule: Full manuscript due: June 1, 2008 Acceptance notification: October 1, 2008 Final manuscript due: December 1, 2008 Publication date: February 2009 Submission: Authors must follow the IEEE Communications Magazine's guidelines for preparation of the manuscript. Complete guidelines for prospective authors can be found at www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/sub_guidelines.html. All articles to be considered for publication must be submitted through Manuscript Central (http://commag-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/). Choose "February 2009/Cooperative and Relay Communications" from the drop down menu. Guest Editors: Woon Hau Chin Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore w.h.chin(a)ieee.org Yi Qian National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA yqian(a)nist.gov Giovanni Giambene University of Siena, Italy giambene(a)unisi.it _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Mycolleagues] CFP: EURAIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networks: Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments]
by Lars Wolf 19 Mar '08

19 Mar '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Mycolleagues] CFP: EURAIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networks: Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments Datum: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:26:41 -0400 Von: Weidong Xiang <xwd(a)umd.umich.edu> An: mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br CALL FOR PAPERS EURASIP JOURNAL ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS RECENT PROGRESSES IN WIRELESS ACCESS IN VEHICULAR ENVIRONMENT (WAVE) AND FUTURE VEHICULAR COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS: THEORETICAL ANALYSIS AND IMPLEMENTATION Wireless access in vehicular environments (WAVE) technology comes into sight as a state-of-the-art solution to contemporary vehicular communications, which is anticipated to be widely applied in the near future to radically improve the transportation environment in the aspects of safety, intelligent management and data exchange services. WAVE systems will fundamentally smooth the progress of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) by providing it with high performance physical platforms. WAVE systems will build upon the IEEE 802.11p standard, which is still active and expected to be ratified in April, 2009. Meanwhile, the VHF/UHF (700MHz) band vehicular communications systems are attracting increasingly attention recently. The fast varying and harsh vehicular environment bring about several fresh research topics on the study of WAVE systems and future vehicular communications systems, which include physical layer challenges associated with mobile channels, capacity evaluation, novel network configuration, effective media access control (MAC) protocols, and robust routing and congestion control schemes. The objective of this special section is to gather and circulate recent progresses in this fast developing area of WAVE and future vehicular communications systems spanning from theoretical analysis to testbed setup, and from physical/MAC layers’ enabling technology to network protocol. These research and implementation activities will be considerably helpful to the design of WAVE and future vehicular communications systems by removing major technical barriers and presenting theoretical guidance. This special issue will cover, but not limit to, the following main topics: · 700MHz/5.8GHz vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V)/vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) single-input single-output (SISO)/MIMO channel measurement and modeling, channel spatial and temporal characteristics exploration; · Doppler shift study, evaluation and estimate, time and frequency synchronizations, channel estimate and prediction; · Utilization of MIMO, space-time coding, smart antenna, adaptive modulation and coding; · Performance study and capacity analysis of V2V and V2I communications operating over both 5.8GHz and 700Mz; · Software radio, cognitive radio and dynamic spectrum access technologies applied to WAVE and future vehicular communications systems; · Mesh network and other novel network configurations for vehicular networks; · Efficient MAC protocols development; · Routing algorithms and congestion control schemes for both real-time traffic warning message broadcasting and high-speed data exchange; · Cross-layer design and optimization; · Testbed or prototype activities. * * *Submission:* We only accept relevant original drafts in a PFD format that are not at present under review by other journals. Each draft will receive a minimum of three reviews. Details about preparing and submitting your submission can be obtained through the following link. *Guest Editors:* * * Prof. *Weidong Xiang* University of Michigan, Dearborn, USA Email: xwd(a)umich.edu <mailto:xwd@umich.edu> Prof. *Javier Gozalvez* University Miguel Hernández, Spain Email: j.gozalvez(a)umh.es <mailto:j.gozalvez@umh.es> Prof. *Zhisheng Niu* Tsinghua University, China Email: niuzhs(a)tsinghua.edu.cn <mailto:niuzhs@tsinghua.edu.cn> Dr. *Onur Altintas* Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Co. Ltd, in Tokyo Email: onur(a)jp.toyota-itc.com <mailto:onur@jp.toyota-itc.com> Prof. *Eylem Ekici* Ohio State University, USA Email: ekici(a)ece.osu.edu <mailto:ekici@ece.osu.edu> * * *Deadlines* *Paper Submission Deadline*: April 1, 2008 *First Reviews*: July 1, 2008 *Second Reviews Deadline*: September 1, 2008 *Final Manuscripts*: October 1, 2008 *Publication*: November or December, 2008 -- _________________________________________________ Weidong Xiang, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, ECE Department, University of Michigan, Dearborn Tel: 313.593.5525 Email: xwd(a)umich.edu http://www-personal.engin.umd.umich.edu/~xwd/ _________________________________________________

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ICST - ICST - Modenets 2008 - Call for Papers
by info＠icstconferences.org 19 Mar '08

19 Mar '08

CALL FOR PAPERS MODENETs 2008 First International Workshop on MOdelling and DEsign of wireless mesh NETworks http://www.modenets.org In conjunction with Valuetools 2008 October 24, 2008, Athens, Greece In technical cooperation with ACM OVERVIEW: The aim of MODENETs 2008 is to bring together practitioners and researchers from both academia and industry in order to have a forum for discussion and technical presentations on the recent advances in analytical and simulation tools and techniques for performance evaluation and modeling of wireless mesh/multi-hop relay networking technologies. TOPICS: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * Simulations techniques and tools for large scale wireless networks * Queuing and scheduling theory applied to WMNs * Traffic analysis and modeling of existing and future WMNs * Network measurement techniques * Modeling of wireless ad-hoc, mesh and sensor networks PAPER SUBMISSION: Please visit the conference website (http://www.modenets.org) for detailed instructions. PAPER PUBLICATION: All submitted papers will go through a peer review process. All accepted papers will be be included in the Proceedings of MODENETs 2008 and published in the ACM digital library. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission due May 25, 2008 Notification of acceptance July 27, 2008 Final manuscript due August 31, 2008 CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE GENERAL CO-CHAIR: Yuanzhu Peter Chen (Memorial University of Newfoundland) Roberto Riggio (CREATE-NET) Sebastian Max (RWTH Aachen University) TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: See http://www.modenets.org -------------------------------------------------- You are reading ICST conference newsletter. To report any kind of abuse, please contact admin at icst.org. To unsubscribe, please visit the following page: http://icstconferences.org/unsubscribe.php?p=ggjzadyfjh and enter your email address.

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[Mycolleagues] CFP: First International Workshop on Modeling Mobile Applications and Services
by Nitendra Rajput 19 Mar '08

19 Mar '08

CALL FOR PAPERS First International Workshop on Modeling Mobile Applications and Services (M2AS’08 ) http://www.irpps.cnr.it/eventi/m2as08.htm held in conjunction with the 27th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2008) http://www.upc.edu/ER2008/index.shtml 20 - 23 October 2008 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain Aims and Scope The great diffusion and the growing demand for advanced mobile devices involves billions mobile phone users worldwide. Mobile devices are becoming central means for service delivery and future mobile services will very likely come. In fact, mobile devices can make services available anywhere, anytime, and in any format. That is, models, methods and technologies for the Mobile Communication, Mobile Web and services design are relevant discussion issues for providing the state of the research and new ideas and solutions in the research area. The objectives of the M2AS Workshop are to promote discussion on concepts, models, methods, languages and systems for designing mobile pervasive services, their technological standards and architectural solutions. List of topics The M2AS’08 Workshop invites researchers, engineers, services developers to propose their research and works in the field of mobile devices and services. Papers may deal on method, models, case studies, practical experience and technologies. Topics of the workshop include but are not limited to: Conceptual models for Mobile web and services Conceptual models of human computer interaction Device technologies Communication technologies Multimodal systems Mobile systems and services Usability evaluation methodologies for mobile pervasive application Interactive context-aware services on mobile devices User experiences, user studies Application and scenarios Workshop Organisation committee • Fernando Ferri, IRPPS-CNR, Rome, Italy (fernando.ferri(a)irpps.cnr.it) • Patrizia Grifoni, IRPPS-CNR, Rome, Italy (patrizia.grifoni(a)irpps.cnr.it) • Maria Chiara Caschera, IRPPS-CNR, Rome, Italy (mc.caschera(a)irpps.cnr.it) Program Committee Frederic Andres, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Paris Avgeriou, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Regina Bernhaupt, University of Salzburg, Austria Michela Bertolotto, University College Dublin, Ireland Antonio Fernández-Caballero, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Augusto Celentano, University of Venice, Italy Richard Chbeir, Bourgogne University, France Fang Chen, National ICT, Australia Deborah Dahl, Conversational Technologies, USA Alfred Dielmann CSTR, University of Edinburgh, UK Chirine Ghedira, Claude Bernard Lyon I University, France Ho-fung Leung, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Oscar Pastor Lòpez, Technical University of Valencia, Spain Paolo Merialdo, University of Roma Tre, Italy Amit Anil Nanavati, IBM Research, India Nitendra Rajput, IBM Research, India Thomas Strang, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Riccardo Torlone, University of Roma Tre, Italy Olga De Troyer, WISE, Belgium Iñaki Vázquez, University of Deusto, Spain Important dates Paper abstracts: April 6, 2008 Full papers: April 15, 2008 Notification: May 24, 2008 Camera-ready papers: June 21, 2008 Submission: All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. All submissions must be in English. Submissions should be in PDF format ( http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and must not exceed 10 pages in the final camera-ready format. Submitted papers need to be original and not submitted or accepted for publication in any other workshop, conference, or journal. The organizers will oversee a peer-review process for the submitted papers. Papers should be submitted to m2as(a)irpps.cnr.it _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Tccc] CFP : 14th Eunice Open European Summer School 2008]
by Rolland Vida 19 Mar '08

19 Mar '08

[Apologies for possible multiple copies] +---------------------------------------------------------+ | | | 14th Eunice Open European Summer School 2008 | | Telecom Bretagne, Brest, France | | | | September 8-10, 2008 | | <http://conferences.telecom-bretagne.eu/eunice2008/> http://conferences.telecom-bretagne.eu/eunice2008/ | +---------------------------------------------------------+ CALL FOR PAPERS (Submission deadline : May 1, 2008) Which networks for which services The number of network technologies has dramatically increased over the 10 past years. This growth concerns network architecture issues (operator-centric versus autonomous networks), access technologies (UMTS, WiFi, WiMax, ADSL, FTTH, etc.), and core network operation (IPv6, IMS, etc.). When a new technology appears, one question often remains unsolved: which services may be developed with this technology? This question raises several other issues: how are existing services impacted by this technology? Which new features are enabled by this technology? Is the technology appropriate to guarantee end-to-end quality of service? What is the evolution path between current network implementations and an implementation using this new technology? Is it possible to interconnect different technologies? How is security ensured if this new technology is implemented? The theme for the EUNICE 2008 summer school "Which networks for which services?" has been proposed to promote fruitful exchanges between academic institutions and Industry, who are equally concerned with the above issues. The Eunice Summer School is open to researchers from any institution, and we cordially invite all researchers to contribute with original submissions. Users and usage * User characterization and profiling * User-centric services * Quality of Experience * Social impact of services Services and Applications * Anonymity and privacy * Mobile services * Location and context-based services * Nomadic communications * Ubiquitous computing * Service architectures in future networks * End-to-End Quality of Service Networks and Infrastructures * Core networks * Radio access networks * Heterogeneous access networks * Ad-hoc and sensor networks Architectures and Protocols * Core and edge node architectures * Security protocols * Access control and Intrusion Detection * 3G and beyond 3G architectures * Cross-layer optimisation Theoretical and Formal Methods * Data fusion and Data mining * Formal methods for security * Protocol engineering * Network simulation * Performance PAPER SUBMISSION See instructions <http://conferences.telecom-bretagne.eu/eunice2008/instructions_to_authors/> http://conferences.telecom-bretagne.eu/eunice2008/instructions_to_authors/ IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline May 1, 2008 Notification of Acceptance June 15, 2008 Camera-Ready Paper due June 30, 2008 Early Registration Deadline June 30, 2008 Conference Sept 8-10, 2008 ABOUT EUNICE The EUNICE network ( <http://www.eunice-forum.org> http://www.eunice-forum.org) has been created to foster the mobility of students, faculty members and research scientists working in the field of information and communication technologies and to promote educational and research cooperation between its member institutions. The main goal of the EUNICE Summer School is to give researchers and particularly Ph.D. students the opportunity to present their work at an international level. In addition to the research paper presentations, a number of tutorials or invited talks, presented by experts in the field, will be given. CHAIRS * Annie Gravey, TELECOM Bretagne, France * Yvon Kermarrec, TELECOM Bretagne, France * Xavier Lagrange, TELECOM Bretagne, France TPC MEMBERS * Finn Arve Aagesen, U. of Trondheim, Norway * Sebastian Abeck, U. Karlsruhe, Germany * Arturo Azcorra, U. Carlos III of Madrid, Spain * Rolv Braek, U. of Trondheim, Norway * Carlos Delgado Kloos, U. Carlos III of Madrid, Spain * Jörg Eberspächer, Technical U. of Munich, Germany * Olivier Festor, INRIA Nancy, France * Maurice Gagnaire, TELECOM ParisTech, France * Edit Halász, Budapest U. of Technology and Economics, Hungary * Jarmo Harju, Tampere U. of Technology, Finland * Tamas Henk, Budapest U. of Technology and Economics, Hungary * Martin Köhn, U. of Stuttgart, Germany * Paul Kühn, U. of Stuttgart, Germany * David Larrabeiti-López, U. Carlos III of Madrid, Spain * Ralf Lehnert, TU Dresden, Germany * Maryline Maknavicius-Laurent, TELECOM SudParis, France * Maurizio Munafo`, Politecnico di Torino, Italy * Miquel Oliver, U. Pompeu Fabra, Spain * Aiko Pras, U. Twente, NL * David Ros, TELECOM Bretagne, France * Sebastia` Sallent, Polytechnic U. of Catalonia, Spain * Gwendal Simon, TELECOM Bretagne, France * Burkhard Stiller, U. and ETH Zurich, Switzerland * Robert Szabo, Budapest U. of Technology and Economics, Hungary * Samir Tohmé, U. de Versailles St Quentin, France WEB SITE <http://conferences.telecom-bretagne.eu/eunice2008> http://conferences.telecom-bretagne.eu/eunice2008 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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