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[Fwd: [Tccc] ADAMUS'08 - IEEE WoWMoM Workshop - LAST CFP: deadline February 25]
by Lars Wolf 21 Feb '08

21 Feb '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] ADAMUS'08 - IEEE WoWMoM Workshop - LAST CFP: deadline February 25 Datum: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:07:04 +0100 Von: Luca Foschini <lfoschini(a)deis.unibo.it> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call-for-Papers-and-Demos ________________________________________________________________ Call for Papers and Demos: SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENSION Second IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Adaptive and DependAble Mobile Ubiquitous Systems ADAMUS 2008 In conjunction with the 8th Int. Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM'08) Newport Beach, CA, USA, 23rd June, 2008 Sponsored by NOKIA ---- WoWMoM web site : http://wowmom08.ics.uci.edu/ ADAMUS web site : http://www.adamus.ua.ac.be/ ADAMUS'08 cfp pdf : http://www.adamus.ua.ac.be/CFP_adamus08.pdf _______________________________________________________________ Important Dates (DEADLINE EXTENDED): * Full Paper and Demo submission deadline: February 25, 2008 * Notification of acceptance: March 17, 2008 * Demo Plans submission deadline: March 31, 2008 * Final camera-ready manuscripts due: April 4, 2008 ________________________________________________________________ WHAT'S NEW ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Submission deadline extended. - This year, ADAMUS will host a DEMO COMPETITION. The Best demo will be awarded with a special NOKIA hi-tech gift! - The BEST PAPER will be also awarded with another NOKIA gift! - ADAMUS'08 will open with a KEYNOTE TALK by Franklin Reynolds, NOKIA distinguished engineering fellow. See below for details. WORKSHOP SCOPE ---------------------------------------------------------------- A truly extended use of mobile computing technologies asks for effective software engineering techniques to design, develop and maintain novel ubiquitous services with challenging dependa- bility requirements in highly heterogeneous and error-prone mobile environments. To overcome the intrinsic limitations of mobile devices and environments, a variety of research studies have produced methods and proof-of-concept prototypes for sup- porting non-critical applications. However, it is still unclear whether current solutions can satisfy the challenging adapta- bility and dependability requirements of the emerging mobile ubiquitous services, such as mobile commerce, wireless control of robots, healthcare computing, and video-surveillance. Hence, it is becoming increasingly important: to devise con- ceptual models and paradigms for change tolerance; to propose mechanisms to model, design, and develop adaptive and dependable systems; to provide analytical and simulation tools to measure system ability to withstand faults and to optimally re-adjust to new environments; to develop scalable, maintainable, cost- effective middleware infrastructures able to support and ease the development of adaptive and dependable mobile ubiquitous services. Building on the success of the last year event, this workshop aims at fostering exchange of ideas and lively discussions in order to reduce the gap between research achievements and industrial applications in the field of adaptive and dependable mobile ubiquitous systems. Researchers and practitioners are encouraged to participate with high quality papers able to identify open issues, to discuss the limits and/or advantages of existing solutions, or to propose original and innovative techniques for adaptive and dependable applications over mobile environments. The main topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: * Dependability and adaptation requirements and open issues for mobile ubiquitous systems; * Design principles, models, and techniques for realizing dependable and adaptive mobile ubiquitous systems; * Context data provisioning and modelling, and context-based infrastructures; * Human-machine interaction and usability; * Multi-device and highly heterogeneous ubiquitous systems; * Cross-layer adaptation techniques; * End-to-end approaches to the quality of experience of mobile services; * Autonomous systems for adaptation and dependability; * Mobile-enabled middleware architectures and mechanisms for heterogeneous wireless networks; * Dependability and scalability of web technologies to ubiqui- tous systems; * Architectures for resource and network monitoring and adapta- tion to networks conditions; * Dependability measurement of mobile systems and services. DEMO COMPETITION, BEST PAPER, AND RELATED PRIZES ---------------------------------------------------------------- A Demo Competition (sponsored by NOKIA) will be conveniently scheduled to provide authors with the opportunity to run live demonstrations of their research and to interact directly with ADAMUS and other WoWMoM attendees that will be required to vote for the best demos (See below for demos submission guidelines). Best demos will be awarded with special Nokia gifts based on their review scores, on-site voting results, and technical program committee evaluation. The best full paper will be awarded as well with another Nokia gift, based on review scores. The BEST DEMO PRIZE will consist of a Nokia N95 8GB multimedia computer (http://www.nseries.com/products/n95_8gb/). The BEST PAPER PRIZE will be a Nokia N810 Internet Tablet device (http://www.nseries.com/products/n810/index.html). NOKIA KEYNOTE TALK ---------------------------------------------------------------- We are proud to announce ADAMUS 2008 will open with a Keynote Talk by Franklin Reynolds, distinguished engineering fellow at the Nokia Research Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. FULL PAPER AND DEMO PROPOSAL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ---------------------------------------------------------------- ADAMUS 2008 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. This year, ADAMUS seeks two different kinds of contribu- tion: full papers and live demonstration proposals. Live demon- strations must be accompanied by a short demo proposal descri- bing the demo and the related research activity. * Full papers must be written in English and should not exceed 6 pages in IEEE proceedings style. * Demo proposals must be written in English and should not exce- ed 3 pages in IEEE proceedings style. * Demo Plans: Authors of all accepted demo proposals must also submit a Demo Plan including a short description of the demo (text, video, poster) and a short report on infra- structure needs (power, network, physical space needed). All submissions will be handled electronically. Full papers and demo proposals should submit a PostScript or PDF file, including names and contact information of all authors, through the sub- mission Web site (http://www.adamus.ua.ac.be/) by February 20th, 2008. Submission implies that at least one of the authors will regi- ster and present the paper. The selection process will involve peer reviews and reviews by program committee members. All papers and demo proposals will be selected for the workshop based upon their originality, technical soundness, and relevance to the field of adaptive and dependable mobile ubiquitous systems. Notification of acceptance will be sent to contact authors by March 17th, 2008. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to provide the camera-ready version of the paper by April 4th, 2008. Authors of accepted demo proposals will be requested to provide demo Plans by March 31st, 2008, as well as the camera- ready version of the short demo proposal paper by April 4th,2008. All accepted papers (including both full papers and demo propos- als) will be published on CD by the IEEE Computer Society Press. ORGANIZERS ---------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Co-Chairs: - Chris Blondia, PATS group, University of Antwerp, Belgium - Marcello Cinque, Mobilab group, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy - Vincenzo De Florio, PATS group, University of Antwerp, Belgium - Filip De Turck, Intec group, University of Ghent, Belgium - Cristiano Di Flora, Nokia Research Center, Finland - Luca Foschini, Mobile Middleware group, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy Technical Program Committee: - Cristian Borcea, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA - Domenico Cotroneo, Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy - Bart Dhoedt, University of Ghent / Intec, Belgium - Chris Develder, University of Ghent, Belgium - Markus Endler, PUC-Rio, Brasil - Stephane Frenot, INRIA, France - Ibrahim Habib, CCNY, USA - Valerie Issarny, INRIA, France - Eija Kaasinen, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland - Konrad Klöckner, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany - Frederic Le Mouel, Inria, France - Nguyen Manh Tho, Vienna University of Technology, Austria - Gianluca Mazzini, Università di Ferrara, Italy - Ali Abu-Rgheff Mosa, School of Computing, Communications and Electronics, Plymouth, UK - Eric Pardede, Latrobe University, Australia - Massimiliano Rak, Università di Napoli, Italia - Oriana Riva, Institute of Pervasive Computing, ETH-Zürich, Switzerland - Enrico Rukzio, Lancaster University, UK - Sotirios Terzis, University of Strathclyde, Scotland - Francisco Valera, UC3M, Madrid, Spain - Sven Van der Meer, TTSG, Ireland - Katarzyna Wac, Université de Genève, Genève, Switzerland - Xinheng Henry Wang, Swasea University, UK -- _________________________________________ Luca Foschini, Ph.D. DEIS-LIA - Università degli Studi di Bologna Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna (ITALY) Ph.: (+39) 051 20 93541 Fax: (+39) 051 20 93073 E-mail: lfoschini(a)deis.unibo.it Web: http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/LucaFoschini/ _________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] [WISH-08] CFP
by Damien Sauveron 21 Feb '08

21 Feb '08

******************************************************************* We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. Please disseminate it to your colleagues that could be interested. ******************************************************************* The 2nd International Workshop on Intelligent systems and Smart Home (WISH-08) http://www.sersc.org/WISH2008 Sydney, Australia, December 10-12, 2008 Smart Home Environments (SHE) are emerging rapidly as an exciting and promising new area. In SHE, intelligent systems need to be deployed to provide user-centric services that can remotely access and control information appliances in the workplace as well as at home. In addition, the systems should provide services to enable working at home, remote education, remote diagnosis, on-line shopping, network gaming, and so forth to improve people’s quality of life. WISH-08 is a successor of the 2007 International Workshop on Intelligent Systems and Smart Home, Niagara Falls, Canada, August, 2007. The goal of this Workshop is to bring together the researchers from academia and industry as well as practitioners to share ideas, problems and solutions relating to all aspects of intelligent systems and smart home. To meet this end, we invite you to submit a paper for a presentation relevant to the core focus of WISH-08. Workshop Topics (including but are not limited to the following) I. Intelligent Systems - Ubiquitous and Artificial Intelligence - Environment sensing / understanding - Information retrieval and enhancement - Knowledge acquisition, engineering, discovery and representation - Mobile / Wearable intelligence - Data mining and Semantic web - Computer-aided education Entertainment - Metrics for evaluating intelligent systems - Frameworks for integrating AI and data mining II. Smart Home - Wireless sensor networks (WSN) / RFID application for SH - Smart Space (Home, Building, Office) applications and services - Smart Home network middleware and protocols - Context Awareness for Smart Home Services - Multimedia Security and Services in SH - Security Issues for SHE - Access control and Privacy Protection in SH - Forensics and Security Policy in SH - WSN / RFID Security in SH - Commercial and industrial systems & applications for SH SUBMISSION OF PAPERS and PUBLICATION - Both research and industrial papers are solicited. - The format of the manuscript can be obtained on the workshop web site http://www.sersc.org/WISH2008. - The papers must be submitted electronically through workshop web site. - The publication of a paper requires at least one of the authors to fully register and present at the conference. - Manuscripts that are previously published or being considered for publication elsewhere are not eligible to be considered for publication. - All the accepted papers of the WISH-08 will be published by IEEE CS. After a peer-review, some of the presented papers in WISH-08 will be published in a special issue of an international journal. - Distinguished papers accepted and presented in WISH -08, after further revisions, will be published in special issues on International Journal of Smart Home (IJSH) and Journal of Supercomputing. Important Dates - Paper Submission deadline June 08, 2008 - Notification of Acceptance August 31, 2008 - Final Manuscript Due Sept 15, 2008 Contact Please send e-mail to wish2008[at]gmail.com, PC Chairs or visit the workshop website at http://www.sersc.org/WISH2008 for further information. -- Damien Sauveron _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Mycolleagues] CFP: Journal of Annals of Telecommunications - Special issue on VIRTUALIZATION: TOWARS VIRTUALIZATION AT INTERNET SCALES
by omar cherkaoui 21 Feb '08

21 Feb '08

Dear colleagues, please consider the following CfP, and please apologise multiple postings. Best regards, Omar Cherkaoui , UQAM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Annals of telecommunications Special issue on VIRTUALIZATION: TOWARS VIRTUALIZATION AT INTERNET SCALES --------------------------------------------------------------------- The “Annals of Telecommunications“, published by Springer from 2008, announce a forthcoming issue on Virtualization: Towards Virtualization at Internet Scale. Virtualization has emerged as an active research area recently. While the majority of virtualization research and development is focused towards OS and server level virtualization, it has to evolve more globally into an Internet scale model where the network or Internet will be virtualized in a way that is yet to evolve. The concept of virtualization in various forms is prevalent in the networking world, such as VLAN, VPN, VPLS and lately with virtual routers. But virtualization may evolve into control, data and so-called knowledge plane virtualization and more global wide area virtualization involving control, data and knowledge planes and other new concepts of virtualization. This special issue will focus on exiting technology, as well new ones that will evolve virtualization technology at the Internet scale. Contributions are solicited on all aspects of Virtualization, including, but not limited to the following: • Virtual Network Infrastructures • Wireless virtualization • Architecture virtualization • Data plane virtualization • Control plane virtualization • Management plane virtualization • Knowledge plane virtualization • New Generation virtualized Networks • Protocol virtualization • Prototype • Experiment • Testbed Important dates: May 1, 2008: Deadline submission of the paper September 1, 2008: Author notification October 1, 2008: Final paper due Expected Publication: Beginning 2009 Guest Editors Omar Cherkaoui Cherkaoui.Omar(a)uqam.ca UQAM, Canada Masum Z. Hasan masum(a)cisco.com , CISCO, USA Guy Pujolle Guy.Pujolle(a)lip6.fr , UPMC -Paris 6, France Manuscript submission: Authors must submit their manuscript (single column, double-spaced) electronically in PDF format by email to the corresponding guest editor before the deadline. Please also include information about the manuscript (title, complete list of authors, corresponding author's contact, abstract, and keywords) in the body of your submission email message. Articles have to be in English, 15-25 pages each and will be peer reviewed by at least three experts working in the areas. _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Mycolleagues] CALL FOR PAPERS: ACCESSNETS 2008
by Yuanqiu Luo 20 Feb '08

20 Feb '08

[Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ************************************************************** * CALL FOR PAPERS * * * * ACCESSNETS 2008 * * Third International Conference on Access Networks * * October 15-17, 2008, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA * * http://www.accessnets.org * * * ************************************************************** OVERVIEW: With the rapid growth of the Internet as well as the increasing demand for broadband services, access networks have been receiving growing investments in recent years. This has led to a massive network deployment with the goal of eliminating the bandwidth bottleneck between end-users and the network core. Today many diverse technologies are being used to provide broadband access to end users. The architecture and performance of the access segment (local loop, wired and wireless access networks, and even home networks) are getting increasing attention for ensuring quality of service of diverse broadband applications. Moreover, most access lines will no longer terminate on a single device, thus leading to the necessity of having a home network designed for applications that transcend simple Internet access sharing among multiple personal computers and enable multimedia support. Therefore, the access network and its home portion have become a hot investment pool from both a fin! ancial as well as a research perspective. The aim of the annual International Conference on Access Networks (AccessNets) is to provide a forum that brings together scientists and researchers from academia as well as managers and engineers from the industry and government organizations to meet and exchange ideas and recent work on all aspects of access networks and how they integrate with their in-home counterparts. AccessNets'08 is the third edition of this exciting event, which will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, on Oct. 15-17 2008. The conference will consist of technical sessions, workshops, and panels. The technical sessions will present original and fundamental research advances while the workshops and panels will focus on development, application, and related business issues in this hot and exciting area. TOPICS: The conference solicits original technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * FTTx and PON technologies * xDSL technology and DSM * Hybrid fiber coaxial (HFC) technology * Cable-based access technology * Powerline communication technology * Digital satellite access technology * WiFi and WiMax networks * Wireless mesh networks * Integrated wired/wireless networks * Long reach Ethernet * Home networks * Networked appliances * Hybrid wired/wireless LANs * Municipal and community networks * Network architectures and protocols * Medium access control * Cross-layer design * OFDM, OFDMA, CDMA techniques * MIMO techniques * Service convergence * Quality of service provisioning * Network scalability and upgradeability * Network survivability and security * Billing and management aspects * Business and regulatory aspects * Deployment/standardization statuses PANELS AND WORKSHOPS: We solicit panel and workshop proposals on hot and controversial topics in access networks. Proposals should be submitted to the panel and workshop co-chairs, respectively. Please visit the conference website for detailed instructions. PAPER SUBMISSION: Please visit the conference website (http://www.accessnets.org) for detailed instructions. Paper Publication: All submitted papers will go through a peer review process. All accepted papers will be included in the Proceedings of AccessNets 2008. * Selected best papers will be considered for publication in a Special Issue on Broadband Access Networks of IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communincations. * Selected outstanding papers will be considered for publication in Inderscience International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems. * Selected outstanding papers will be considered for publication in Inderscience International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission due April 1, 2008 Notification of acceptance June 15, 2008 Final manuscript due July 15, 2008 Workshop proposal due April 1, 2008 Notification of acceptance April 15,2008 Panel proposal due April 1, 2008 Notification of acceptance April 15,2008 CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE GENERAL CHAIR Hussein T. Mouftah, University of Ottawa, Canada TPC CO-CHAIRS Jun Zheng, University of Ottawa, Canada Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Tarek S. El-Bawab, Jackson State University, USA Ting Wang, NEC Laboratories America, Inc., USA PANEL CO-CHAIRS Alex Vukovic, Communications Research Center, Canada Wenye Wang, North Carolina State University, USA Industry Track Chair Frank Effenberger, Huawei Technologies, USA PUBLICATION CHAIR Chonggang Wang, University of Kansas, USA PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS Yuanqiu Luo, Huawei Technologies, USA Joao M. Santos, Nokia Siemens Networks, Portugal Tarik Taleb, Tohoku University, Japan IEEE LIAISON Mei Yang, University of Nevada, USA FINANCIAL CHAIR Karen Decker, ICST CONFERENCE COORDINATOR Tibor Kovacs, ICST LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR Mei Yang, University of Nevada, USA STEERING COMMITTEE Imrich Chlamtac (Chair), Create-net, Italy Jun Zheng, University of Ottawa, Canada Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE See http://www.accessnets.org _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Tccc] CFP: IEEE Network Special Issue on Implications and Control of Middleboxes in the Internet
by Xiaoming Fu 19 Feb '08

19 Feb '08

Our apologies if you receive multiple copies. Please feel free to forward this CFP to related colleagues and students for information. --------------------------------------------------------- * Submission deadline is due in 10 days! * Call for Papers IEEE Network Magazine Special Issue on Implications and Control of Middleboxes in the Internet Important Dates =============== Manuscript Submission Due: March 1, 2008 Acceptance Notification: June 1, 2008 Final Manuscript Due: July 15, 2008 Special Issue Publication Date: September/October 2008 Call for Papers =============== Network Address Translators (NAT) and IP firewalls have been introduced to the Internet some time ago, and over the time become an integral part of the Internet architecture. Moreover, there are also other types of middleboxes, such as Virtual Private Network (VPN) gateways, Application Layer Gateways (ALG), Performance Enhancing Proxies (PEP) and web proxies. These intermediary boxes perform functions different from normal IP packet treatment, which can even change the content of packets or do rerouting of IP packets. There have been diverse views on the value of middleboxes. Some believe that middleboxes introduce problems for network applications as well as challenges to the traditional end-to-end Internet architecture. These issues range, for instance, but not limited to, from naming and addressing of nodes behind NATs, directionality of communication establishment, and performance impairments. On the other hand, many administrators and operators see the middleboxes represent an important part for their network operations. For example, firewalls are widely deployed with the intention of securing enterprise, campus and home networks, so as to block attacks to nodes or keep nodes from sending malicious traffic. The Internet community has acknowledged the emergence of the middleboxes and developed middlebox control and coordination protocols that allow end hosts (or application proxies) to learn about the presence of middleboxes and communicate their needs (i.e. required packet treatment) to those devices. A number of middlebox control protocols, such as UPnP, MIDCOM and STUN, have been developed over the years and are partially used in current deployments. The papers in this special issue will focus on the state-of-the-art research in various aspects of middleboxes and middlebox control mechanisms, which help to understand their impact to the Internet architecture and network operations, and how they can be further integrated, or leveraged for different purposes, such as load balancing and mobile network environments, among the others. Specifically, within the aforementioned context in Internet middleboxes and their control mechanisms, the special issue will present tutorials, surveys and original research articles (written in a tutorial manner readable by non-specialists) that cover the following subjects, but not limited to: * Middlebox-supported network architectures vs. other Internet evolution alternatives (e.g., IPv6) * Design and/or performance evaluation of middlebox software architectures * Control and coordination across middleboxes and their traversal mechanisms * Security, including authentication, authorization and accounting issues with middlebox control/traversal mechanisms * Scalability and performance studies of middlebox control/traversal mechanisms * Deployment scenarios and case studies (corporate, ISP, content providers, mobile environments etc.) based on middleboxes * Interaction and implications with other network protocols and components * Interaction and implications with end-to-end applications and services * Related standardization efforts Manuscript Submission ===================== With regard to both the content and formatting style of the submissions, prospective contributors must follow the IEEE Network guidelines for authors that can be found at http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/net/ntwrk/authors.html. Submitted papers must be original and must not be under current consideration for publication in other venues. Authors should submit a PDF format of their complete papers via http://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6198. Guest Editors ============= Prof. Xiaoming Fu Institute for Computer Science University of Goettingen Goettingen Germany Email: fu(a)cs.uni-goettingen.de Martin Stiemerling NEC Europe Laboratories Network Research Division Heidelberg Germany Email: stiemerling(a)netlab.nec.de Prof. Henning Schulzrinne Department of Computer Science Columbia University New York, NY USA Email: hgs(a)cs.columbia.edu ---------------------------------------------------- Any inquiry to this CFP? mailto:ieeenet-si@cs.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] Extended Deadline March 9: Cross-Layer Design and Optimization Track at ICCCN 2008
by Benyuan Liu 19 Feb '08

19 Feb '08

Due to many requests, the ICCCN 2008 Organizing Committee has decided to extend the paper submission deadline to MARCH 9, 2008. ========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS: Cross-Layer Design and Optimization Track ========================================================================== August 4-7 2008, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, USA Wireless networking technologies have been experiencing tremendous growth in the past decade. These technologies will fundamentally change the way we communicate, live, and fight wars. However, due to the inherent characteristics of wireless communication and networking (e.g., broadcast medium, node mobility, power constraint, fading, high bit error rates), traditional layered network architecture is often considered inadequate to achieve the full potential of the networks. Recently, cross-layer design approaches have been proposed to improve and optimize the network performance by breaking the layer boundaries and explicitly passing information from one layer to others. This allows for better decision making and system optimization on several layers jointly. The aim of this track is to bring together researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry in order to have a forum for discussions and technical presentations on the latest research and future research directions in the cross-layer design and optimization of wireless networks. We are seeking original and previously unpublished research papers addressing theoretical and application issues in the cross-layer design and optimization of wireless networks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas: * Strategy and framework of cross-layer design * Methodologies of cross-layer design * Joint PHY/MAC/network/transport protocol design * Resource allocation, QoS issue, and mobility issue of cross-layer design * Security issue in cross-layer design * Cross-layer design for emerging network scenarios (i.e., wireless ad hoc, sensor, mesh, and vehicle networks) * Interactions between network layers and related issues * Cross-layer protocol implementation and experiments * Hardware/software architectures for cross-layer protocol stacks * Modeling and performance evaluation of cross-layer system design * Joint optimization of wireless networks * Impacts of cross-layer protocol design Submission of Manuscripts: Please follow the general submission instructions on the conference website. Important Dates: Paper submission: March 9, 2008 Notification of acceptance: May 12, 2008 Camera ready papers due: June 1, 2008 Track Co-Chairs: Qing-An Zeng University of Cincinnati, USA qing.zeng(a)uc.edu Benyuan Liu University of Massachusetts at Lowell, USA bliu(a)cs.uml.edu Track Technical Program Committee: Bao, Lichun, UC Irvine, USA Cao, Jiannong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China Chen, Guanling, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Hidetoshi Yokota, KDDI R&D Laboratories, Inc. Japan Jia, Weijia, City University of Hong Kong, China Leung, Victor C. M., The University of British Columbia, Canada Li, Wei, Texas Southern University, USA Li, Xiaolong, Morehead State University, USA Li, Yingshu, Georgia State University, USA Liu, Yong, Polytechnic University, USA Mao, Shiwen, Auburn University, USA Masanori Takata, Shizuoka University, Japan Nakano, Koji, Hiroshima University, Japan Stojmenovic, Ivan, University of Ottawa, Canada Wang, Li-Chun, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan Wei, Shuangqing, Louisiana State University, USA Wu, Kui, University of Victoria, Canada Xing, Guoliang, City University of Hong Kong, China Yang, Laurence T., St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Yates, David, Bentley College, USA Zhang, Chun, IBM T.J Watson Research, USA Zhang, Honggang, Suffolk University, USA Zhang, Jingyuan, University of Alabama, USA _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] Call For Papers - MACE 2008 (Manwek 2008)
by Spyros Denazis 19 Feb '08

19 Feb '08

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[ISCC] Next Generation Networking Middleware (NGNM'08): cfp
by Paolo Bellavista 18 Feb '08

18 Feb '08

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this cfp ****************************************************************************************** 5th International Workshop on Next Generation Networking Middleware NGNM 2008 (part of MANWEEK 2008, September 22-26) Samos Island, Greece http://magellan.tssg.org/2008/ ******************************************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS The fixed mobile convergence of telecommunication networks along with the telecom-IP network convergence have opened up prospects for a rich ecosystem of IP-based next generation converged network technologies and applications. Emergence of principles and practices like Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web 2.0, along with gradual adoption of industry standards like the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), and Java API for Internetworking (JAIN) is making this convergence possible. The challenges to the operators are to provide suitable interfaces to an increasingly complex and heterogeneous underlying wireless access landscape, typically consisting of cellular (e.g., UMTS, LTE, etc.), metropolitan area (e.g., WiMAX) and short range (e.g., WiFi) systems. Future telecom service providers, on the other hand, are expected to stem from the fact that a converged network needs to carry a multitude of high-bandwidth triple-play (voice, video and data) services over a single network that is much more distributed, multipoint, diverse, and interactive in nature. End users will interact with the network via sophisticated devices, and be able to select from a wide range of Quality-of-Service (QoS) options. To cater to these emerging service paradigms, network intelligence has to address several aspects including multimedia session management, coordination of multi-protocol connections, advanced security, etc. Multimedia content delivery over the Internet has been extensively researched. However, the related engineering problem is evolving into the problem of how to dynamically create content distribution infrastructures and services in the context of telco provider managed networks. To stay ahead in the competition and provide market leading offerings, carriers further need to enable a global ecosystem of third-party independent application developers to deliver converged services leveraging open standards-based service delivery platform. Finally, to establish a common architecture for the convergence among services and networks, standards and frameworks will be required to ensure the interoperability of networks and applications, and facilitate best utilization of the existing telecommunications infrastructure within the converged ecosystem. It is in this setting of an open services market with service operators, application developers as well as the IT infrastructure as stakeholders, that the role of middleware is crucial. Middleware-enabled rapid development and deployment of new applications allows early introduction of value-added services to attract new customers and retain existing ones. Established telcos often have a plethora of legacy systems, such as Intelligent Networks (IN), Business / Operational Support Systems (BSS/OSS), Web-based systems and SIP/IMSbased services, which can all interoperate through open interfaces provided by the middleware layer, allowing a seamless, autonomic interaction between them. The arguments for a middleware-oriented consolidation of services in the telecommunications service provider/carrier space are also largely applicable to the enterprise segment. There are, of course, differences in requirements and service expectations for corporate users as opposed to consumers; however, the trend towards consolidation of IT and telecom architectures is just as compelling. Further, middleware approaches can offer scalability and load-balancing capabilities to critical infrastructure components. For example, the roll out of distributed / federated presence-based applications will necessitate management of huge amounts of subscriber data residing in the middleware. Finally, there are challenges of enabling guaranteed QoS and seamless access to triple-play services. In the emerging heterogeneous networking environment, cross-layer and inter-system optimization studies are essential to guarantee that these challenges are met. In this regard, large-scale distributed experimental testbeds with real or virtual components interconnected through an efficient middleware can be leveraged to validate promising approaches, algorithms and mechanisms prior to commercial deployment. In this workshop, we seek original, unpublished papers on different aspects of middleware technologies for enabling Next-Generation Network (NGN) services and applications. Topics of submission include, but are not limited to: - Middleware architecture for converged networks - NGN middleware for triple play and quad play services - NGN middleware for ad hoc, mobile and wireless services - Middleware for NGN mobility support - NGN middleware adaptation to underlying technologies (e.g., cellular, metropolitan area and short range systems) - Resource Allocation and Heterogeneous Network Access in Converged Networks - NGN middleware for content distribution infrastructures and services - Middleware for peer-assisted carrier-grade content delivery. - Publish/subscribe middleware - Scalable, adaptive, and self-managing aspects of middleware - Converged networks policy-based management, monitoring, and control - QoS provisioning, service differentiation, accounting, and billing - Identity management infrastructures and anonymity support infrastructures - Trust, security and privacy issues - Presence and contextual data management - NGN middleware for context-aware applications - NGN middleware for collaborative/P2P applications - NGN middleware for enterprise applications - Middleware support for NGN inter-networking and interoperability with non-NGN systems - Middleware for distributed experimental testbeds with real or virtual components - Web Service/Grid-enabled middleware for converged networks - Service modeling and composition - Service deployment and orchestration - Programming paradigms, Web 2.0, and mashups PAPER SUBMISSION Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or experiences. Latebreaking advances and work-in-progress reports from ongoing research are also encouraged for submission to NGNM 2008. Papers under review elsewhere MUST NOT be submitted to NGNM 2008. Authors are requested to submit either long papers or short papers (work-inprogress reports), strictly in LNCS format (see below): Long papers (up to 12 single-spaced single-column pages) Short papers describing work-in-progress (up to 6 single-spaced single-column pages) Submissions exceeding the above mentioned paper size will not be reviewed and will be returned to the authors. Please see Submission for detailed instructions. IMPORTANT DEADLINES Paper Registration: May 10 2008 Submission: May 17 2008 Notification: June 20 2008 Camera ready: June 30 2008 Conference: September 22-26 2008 WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Thomas Magedanz (TU Berlin / FOKUS, Germany) Markus Muck (Infineon, Germany) Lambros Sarakis (NCSR Demokritos, Greece) Paolo Bellavista, Ph. D. Associate Professor in Computer Science Engineering IEEE Senior Member; IEEE Communications EB Member DEIS - Università degli Studi di Bologna Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna (ITALY) Tel# +39-051-2093866; Fax# +39-051-2093073 Email: pbellavista(a)deis.unibo.it Web: http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/PaoloBellavista/ _______________________________________________ ISCC mailing list ISCC(a)mail.ing.unibo.it https://calvin.ing.unibo.it/mailman/listinfo/iscc

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[Researchers] IEEE Globecom 2008: Ad Hoc, Sensor and Mesh Networking Symposium
by Profa Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare 17 Feb '08

17 Feb '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: March 15th, 2008 ============================================================================= 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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[Tccc] CfP (Deadline Extension): ACM SIGMOBILE MobilityModels'08 at MobiHoc'08
by Mirco Musolesi 17 Feb '08

17 Feb '08

Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP. -------------------------------------------------------------------- ***DEADLINE EXTENSION*** New submission deadline: 23 February 2008 (firm) -------------------------------------------------------------------- MobilityModels'08 First ACM SIGMOBILE International Workshop on Mobility Models for Networking Research Colocated with ACM SIGMOBILE MobiHoc'08 Hong Kong 26 May 2008 http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/mobilitymodels08/ *Scope of the Workshop* One of the key issues in the evaluation of algorithms, protocols and systems for mobile networks is modeling node mobility. Different types of models have been proposed in the last decade, from those founded on purely synthetic movements, such as the ones based on purely random movements of the nodes to the ones based aiming at reproducing the mobility patterns inside specific places like campuses or cities. In addition, efforts to collect real traces of people movement have been made and traces have been made available and used in simulators. Despite these efforts, the problem of understanding and modeling mobility, and, more specifically, human mobility remains of great interest for the mobile ad hoc networks community, as many questions are still unanswered and evaluation methodologies still unsatisfactory. New insights and more refined and realistic models are still needed, bringing together real world measurements and mathematical characterization of node mobility. These problems are of interest to anyone working on mobile networking, as these models are often at the basis of the performance evaluation, comparison, and validation of new approaches and solutions. We solicit the papers on mobility models for various wireless networks including MANETs, DTNs and vehicular networks. Papers on mobility characterizations based on real traces are also welcomed. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers working or interested in mobility modeling and characterizations. We wish to build a lively forum to propose and discuss recent advances in mobility modeling both from theoretical and practical point of views. The workshop will be opened to contributions from researchers tackling the research problems in this area from different perspectives, with the aim of discussing the many open issues in movement modeling trying to identify novel solutions to be investigated also by means of collaborations among the participants of the workshop. We will welcome especially highly innovative and/or controversial contributions, debunking existing results or confirming existing models by means of new experimental results. Papers providing key mathematical insights on open mobility modeling issues will also be highly appreciated. We invite to submit papers in the following areas: * Design, implementation and evaluation of synthetic and trace-based mobility models * Validation of synthetic models using real world traces * Mathematical characterization of human mobility * Analysis and characterization of dynamic network topologies * Mobility and connectivity modeling * Influence of mobility on radio characterization * Complex networks models for mobility modeling * Human mobility and social networks * Impact of mobility modeling on algorithms, protocols and systems performance * Network measurements and mobility characterization * Simulation tools and testbed for mobility simulation * Systems testing based on real world mobility traces * Mobility traces collection and data archive, including privacy issues * Mobility characterizations of real traces *Submission Format* Page length is up to 8 pages (10pt ACM format). The proceedings will be published by ACM and will be available in the ACM Digital Library. Papers should not be anonymized. Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF through EDAS. Instructions are available in the workshop Website. *Important dates* Submission deadline (EXTENDED): 23 February 2008 (firm) Notification to the authors: 18 March 2008 Camera ready version deadline: 24 March 2008 Workshop date: 26 May 2008 *Organization* Workshop Program Chairs Minkyong Kim (IBM Watson, USA) Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge, UK) Mirco Musolesi (Dartmouth College, USA) Workshop Program Committee Marcelo Dias de Amorim (LIP6/University Pierre et Marie Curie, France) Elizabeth M. Belding (University of California Santa Barbara, USA) Rainer Baumann (ETHZ, Switzerland) Augustin Chaintreau (Thomson Research Paris, France) Jon Crowcroft (University of Cambridge, UK) Nathan Eagle (MIT, USA) Mario Gerla (University of California Los Angeles, USA) Tristan Henderson (University of St. Andrews, UK) David Kotz (Dartmouth College, USA) Mehul Motani (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Brian Noble (University of Michigan, USA) Paolo Santi (IIT CNR, Italy) Giovanni Resta (IIT CNR, Italy) Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos (ETHZ, Switzerland) Milan Vojnovic (Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK) -- Mirco Musolesi Dept. of Computer Science, Dartmouth College 6211 Sudikoff Laboratory Hanover NH 03755 USA Web: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~musolesi _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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