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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic on Cooperative and Relay Communications]
by Lars Wolf 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic on Cooperative and Relay Communications Datum: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 18:10:31 +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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[Tccc] [IEEE CNOM] [PIMRC 2008] 1 month to submission deadline (fwd)
by Carlos Becker Westphall 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

===================================================================== IEEE PIMRC 2008 Cannes, French Riviera, France 15-18 September 2008 www.pimrc2008.org ===================================================================== Overview: The annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) is one of the premier conferences in the wireless research arena and has a long history of bringing together academia, industry and regulatory bodies. Today, it has become one of IEEE ComSoc's flagship conferences in telecommunications. The 19th edition of PIMRC will be held from 15-18 September 2008 in glamorous Cannes, French Riviera, France, at the "Palais des Festivals de Cannes" where traditionally the Cannes Film Festival is being held. With Cannes being one of the most charming places on earth, we expect this to be a truly special conference. For more details, please, visit www.pimrc2008.org. Focus: PIMRC 2008 will provide a global forum for presenting the most recent advances, the future technical challenges and business opportunities that comprise the contemporary landscape in wireless communications. The organizers endeavour to attract contributions covering not only conventional areas of wireless communications (e.g., physical layer), but also emerging areas with high potential for essential scientific and societal impact such as wireless sensors for biomedical applications, non-trivial pervasive computing services and ambient technologies. The latter areas are expected to facilitate the development of a broad vision of innovative future applications in wireless communications. The high quality IEEE endorsed technical programme, will also include tutorials, workshops, exhibitions, panel discussions and keynote presentations from leading experts coming from the academic community, industry, as well as regulatory and standardisation bodies. Call for Papers: Authors are invited to submit high-quality papers describing original and previously unpublished contributions in a wide range of topics in wireless communications. These topics are clustered into the following four major categories: * Fundamentals & Physical Layer * MAC & Cross-Layer Design * Mobile and Wireless Networks * Applications, Services & Business Approach Papers should be in English, strictly not exceeding 5 double-column pages. Authors should use the relevant IEEE template, ensuring an IEEE Xplorer compatible PDF-format. Important dates are: * full papers: 3 March 2008 * acceptance notice: 1 May 2008 * final manuscript: 2 June 2008 * presentation: 16-18 September 2008 To access the full list of topics, submission guidelines, as well as venue and travel information please visit www.pimrc2008.org. Call for Tutorials: Tutorial presenters are invited to submit high-quality tutorial proposals to Prosper Chemouil [prosper.chemouil(a)orange-ftgroup.com] by using the submission form provided online. Tutorials should focus on recent cutting-edge R&D topics and should be self-contained in nature. Important deadlines are: * tutorial proposal: 3 March 2008 * acceptance notice: 17 March 2008 * handout due: 1 September 2008 * presentation: 15 September 2008 Committee: The updated committee is available at www.pimrc2008.org --> Committees _______________________________________________ cnom mailing list cnom(a)inf.ufsc.br http://listas.inf.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/cnom _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Mycolleagues] [IEEE CNOM] JOURNAL OF NETWORK AND SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT = Contents - Vol. 16, No. 1, March 2008 (fwd)
by Admin 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

JOURNAL OF NETWORK AND SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT Contents Vol. 16, No. 1, March 2008 Special Issue on Management of IP Multimedia Subsystems Guest Edited by Thomas Magedanz, Edmundo Madeira, and Paolo Belavista THRESHOLDS Congestion Control in the Internet: Inspiration from Balanced Food Chains In the Nature Morteza Analoui and Shahram Jamali GUEST EDITORIAL Management Challenges and Solutions for IP Multimedia Subsystems Thomas Magedanz, Edmundo Madeira, and Paolo Belavista PAPERS A review of policy-based resource and admission control functions Christian Esteve Rothenberg and Andreas Roos Device Management in the IMS Jun Ma, Jianxin Liao, and Xiaomin Zhu Towards a Standardized and Automated Fault Management and Service Provisioning for NGNs N. Blum, P. Jacak, F. Schreiner, and P. Weik Supporting ubiquitous IMS-based teleconferencing through discovery and composition of IMS and web components Kevin Doolin, Robert Mullins, Rafael Morón Abad, Marta García Moreno, Telma Mota, Babak A. Farshchian, and Miguel Gómez REPORT Managing Next Generation Networks and Services: A Report on APNOMS 2007 Hiroshi Kuriyama, Kyung-Hyu Lee, G. S. Kuo, Shingo Ata, and Choong Seon Hong Bringing Autonomic Principles for Managing Next Generation Networks and Services - A Report on LANOMS 2007 José Neuman de Souza, Bruno Schulze, Jacques Philippe Sauvé, Edmundo Madeira, and Artur Ziviani Forthcoming contributions Call for paper: Special issue on Ontologies for Network and Systems Management _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Tccc] SPECTS 2008 - deadline approaching : February 25, 2008
by Farid Naït-Abdesselam 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP ========================================================================== 2008 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems SPECTS 2008 June 16-18, 2008, Edinburgh, UK http://atc.udg.edu/SPECTS2008/ This annual international conference is a forum for professionals involved in performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. Performance evaluation of computer systems and networks has progressed rapidly in the past decade and has begun to approach maturity. Significant progress has been made in analytic modeling, simulation, and measurement approaches for performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. SPECTS 2008 is sponsored by the Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS) and technically co-sponsored by IEEE Communications Society and IEEE SMC Society. =========================================================================== Networking and Telecommunication Systems Internet Technology Quality of Service (QoS) DiffServ/IntServ MPLS/GMPLS TCP World Wide Web (WWW) Technology Networking Techniques Unicast and Multicast Routing Congestion and Admission Control Switching Techniques Tele-traffic Network Protocols Network Management and Control Network Capacity Planning Network Architecture Evaluation Service and QoS Pricing Security and Authentication Broadband Networks High-Speed Networking Optical Networks Wireless Systems and Networks Satellite Systems UMTS Mobile Networks/Computing Ad-hoc Networks Sensor Networks Multimedia Communications and Applications Computer Systems Distributed Architecture Client/Server Distributed Systems and Agents Parallel and Distributed Computing Massively Parallel Systems Cluster Computing Grid Computing Interconnection Networks Computer Architectures Microprocessors/Microcomputers Memory Systems High Performance I/O Real-time Systems Scheduling Schemes Software Software Performance, Evaluation and Testing Parallel Algorithms and Languages Electronic Commerce Hardware and Software Monitors High-Performance Computing Information Assurance Reconfigurable Computing Scientific Computing Algorithms Workload and Traffic Characterization Tools, Methodologies and Applications Parallel and Distributed Simulation Verification and Validation Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic Applications Performance Optimization, Bounds, and Models Queuing Systems and Networks Scalability Studies Integrated Modeling and Measurement On-Line Performance Adaptation and Tuning Process Algebra-Based Models Mathematical Aspects and Integrated Design of Performance Case Studies General Chair Mohammad S. Obaidat Monmouth Univ., NJ, USA Program Chairs Jose Marzo Univ. of Girona, Spain Helena Szczerbicka Univ. of Hannover, Germany Program Vice Chairs Pawel Gburzynski Univ. of Alberta, Canada José Luis Sevillano Univ. of Seville, Spain Tutorials and Special Sessions Chair S. Dharmaraja Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India Awards Chair Franco Davoli Univ. of Genoa, Italy Publicity Committee Essia Elhafsi Univ. of California-Riverside, USA (Chair) Jong Hyuk Park Kyungnam Univ., Korea Farid Naït-Abdesselam Univ. of Sciences & Technologies of Lille, France Abdelmajid Khelil Technical Univ. of Darmstadt, Germany Local Arrangement Chair Graham Shanks Baesystems, UK Webmasters Antonio Bueno Univ. of Girona, Spain Michael J. Chinni US Army TACOM-ARDEC Deadlines Special sessions proposals: December 7, 2007 Submission of papers (and tutorials proposals): February 25, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: April 21, 2008 Final Camera-Ready Submission Due: May 5, 2008 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [MM-INTEREST] CFP - Interactive Art Program at ACM MM 08]
by Lars Wolf 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [MM-INTEREST] CFP - Interactive Art Program at ACM MM 08 Datum: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 16:26:30 +0100 Von: Frank Nack <nack(a)science.uva.nl> Antwort an: nack(a)science.uva.nl Organisation: Universiteit van Amsterdam An: MM-INTEREST(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG ACM Multimedia 2008 Interactive Art Program October 27 - November 1,Vancouver, Canada *CALL FOR EXHIBITION ENTRIES AND PAPERS* ACM Multimedia 2008 is the premier annual multimedia conference, covering all aspects of multimedia computing. The ACM MM Interactive Art Program seeks to bring together the arts and multimedia communities to create the stage to explore, discuss, and push the limits for the advancement of both multimedia technology through the arts, and the arts through multimedia technology. This fifth version of the Interactive Art Program will consist of an art exhibition and a conference track. We invite artists working with digital media and researchers in technical areas to submit their original contributions: • Conference track: we solicit papers describing interactive multimedia artworks, tools, applications, and technical approaches for creative uses of multimedia content and technology, and management of art-related media collections. Emphasis will be given to new works that describe the creative processes within art, in forms such as interactive experiences and creativity support tools. We also invite papers on works that are interactive, particularly works that exploit non-conventional human-computer interfaces or sensors in new and emerging areas. We strongly encourage papers with a strong technical content written by artists. Papers may be long (10 pages) or short (2 to 4 pages). Long papers are presented in front of an audience and short papers are presented in poster format. Deadline for full papers to the Arts Program Conference Track April 11, 2008 Deadline for short papers to the Arts Program Conference Track June 6, 2008 • Multimedia art exhibition: We seek artworks exploring the theme of “BorderZones" using multimedia to shift, traverse, intersect, and combine genres and modalities to provoke the emergence of new frameworks. We particularly seek interactive multimedia works that by combining multiple media, technologies, and novel technical ideas, realise strong artistic concepts that give a new perspective on the topic of the exhibition. Deadline for submission to the Art Exhibition: April 11, 2008 For further submission details please see http://mmart.iat.sfu.ca and http://www.mcrlab.uottawa.ca/acmmm2008/index.php?option=com_content&task=vi… <http://www.mcrlab.uottawa.ca/acmmm2008/index.php?option=com_content&task=vi…> Accepted papers and art works will be published in the ACM Multimedia Conference proceedings. Important Dates April 11, 2008 Long papers and art exhibitions submission deadline. June 6, 2008 Short papers submission deadline. June 27, 2007 Authors notification. July 20, 2007 Camera-ready papers. Program Chairs Andruid Kerne, Interface Ecology Lab, Texas A&M University, USA (andruid(a)cs.tamu.edu) Frank Nack, HCS, University of Amsterdam, NL (nack(a)science.uva.nl) Ron Wakkary, School of Interactive Arts and Technology Simon Fraser University, CA (rwakkary(a)sfu.ca)

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[Fwd: [Tccc] ICNP 2008: Call for papers]
by Lars Wolf 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] ICNP 2008: Call for papers Datum: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:28:07 -0500 Von: Ramana Kompella <kompella(a)cs.purdue.edu> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu [Sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.] CALL FOR PAPERS ICNP 2008 16th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols Orlando, Florida October 19-22, 2008 ICNP 2008, the sixteenth IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, is a conference covering all aspects of network protocols, including design, analysis, specification, verification, implementation, and performance. ICNP 2008 will be held in Orlando, Florida, on October 19-22, 2008. Papers with significant research contributions to the field of network protocols are solicited for submission. Papers cannot be previously published nor under review by another conference or journal. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 1. Protocol testing, analysis, design and implementation 2. Measurement and monitoring of protocols 3. Protocols designed for specific functions, such as: routing, flow and congestion control, QoS, signaling, security, network management, or resilience 4. Protocols designed for specific networks, such as: wireless and mobile networks, Ad hoc and sensor networks, virtual networks, and ubiquitous networks Papers must deal specifically with protocols. Papers of general networking nature where protocols are only a secondary focus will be considered only if they are of exceptional high quality and only a very limited number of such papers will be included in the technical program. ICNP will select an accepted full paper for the best paper award. For the first time, ICNP is using a double-blind review process. The identity of authors and referees will not be revealed to each other. To ensure blind reviewing, authors names and affiliations should not appear in the paper; bibliographic references should be made in such a way as to preserve author anonymity. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract registration: April 19, 2008 11:59 PM EDT Paper submission: April 25, 2008 11:59 PM EDT Notification of acceptance: July 29, 2008 Camera ready version: September 5, 2008 ORGANIZING COMMITTEES EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: David Lee, Ohio State University, USA (chair) Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Tech, USA Ken Calvert, University of Kentucky, USA Teruo Higashino, Osaka University, Japan Raymond Miller, University of Maryland, USA GENERAL CHAIRS: Sonia Fahmy, Purdue University, USA Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas, Austin, USA PROGRAM CHAIRS: Kevin Almeroth, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA K. K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T Labs Research, USA LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIRS: Ahmed Helmy, University of Florida, USA Cliff Zou, University of Central Florida, USA PUBLICATION CHAIR: Kamil Sarac, University of Texas at Dallas, USA PUBLICITY CHAIRS: Ramana Rao Kompella, Purdue University, USA James Minseok Kwon, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA WEB CHAIR: Ossama Younis, Telcordia Applied Research, USA STEERING COMMITTEE: Simon Lam, University of Texas, USA David Lee, Ohio State University, USA Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Tech, USA Ken Calvert, University of Kentucky, USA Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas, USA Teruo Higashino, Osaka University, Japan Mike T. Liu, Ohio State University, USA Raymond Miller, University of Maryland, USA Krishan Sabnani, Bell Labs, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE: See Web site. FURTHER INFORMATION: Web site: http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/fahmy/icnp2008/ E-mail: icnp2008(a)cs.purdue.edu _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] [AMIS-NET 2008] 1st CALL for PAPERS on Adaptive Multimedia and IPTV Streaming over P2P Networks
by Toufik Ahmed 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP **************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS Adaptive Multimedia and IPTV Streaming over P2P Networks (AMIS-NET 2008) Crete, Greece, 18 July, 2008 To be organized in conjunction with the International Conference on Telecommunications and Multimedia (TEMU 2008) http://www.temu.gr/2008/ To be held in Ierapetra, Crete, Greece on 16-18 July, 2008. **************************************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES Full papers due: 1 May 2008 Notification: 1 June 2008 Camera Ready due: 15 June 2008 Scope of AMIS-NET 2008: ======================= The advances in Internet, access technologies, availability of high bandwidth, new promising video encoding standards, and wide adoption of handy and portable media capturing devices have opened new opportunities to deliver high quality, on-demand, and interactive multimedia applications. In recent years, peer-to-peer (P2P) architecture has aroused much attention both in research communities and in industries. It has played a vital role in wide spreading growth of multimedia applications including Multimedia Streaming, Video on Demand and P2P based IPTV services. P2P networking is promising for its several favourable characteristics, such as self-organization, selfconfiguration, self-healing, easy maintenance, high scalability and reliable services. On the other hand, new media compression standards such as MPEG-4, H.264 AVC and SVC (Scalable Video Coding) have revolutionized the digital media industry by proposition high quality, bandwidth-effective, and scalable delivery of digital content to heterogeneous networks and terminals. These standards will be widely used for Video-on-demand, digital video via cable/satellite/DSL, video streaming for Internet and wireless, and IPTV. It is expected that IPTV, as a new emerging application, will have a great potential to generate new revenue to service providers. Till now, a number of architectures have been proposed for multimedia streaming and IPTV services, but still there is need for new optimized models, metrics, and methodologies to enhance the Quality of Service (QoS) for multimedia streaming and P2P-based IPTV services as a complete architecture. The effective contents delivery across the networks requires to intelligently adapting the digital contents in accordance to user preferences under the networks and terminals constraints with the efficient utilization of resources. The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for sharing knowledge and expertise towards recent advances and technical challenges in multimedia streaming and IPTV services over P2P networks and possible approaches for future envisioning of the services. We solicit original contributions of high quality papers that describe the recent advances in streaming architectures, multimedia adaptation, and multimedia transmission approaches that support multimedia streaming and P2P based IPTV services. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: o Multimedia Streaming over P2P networks o Architectures for P2P-based IPTV Service delivery o QoS mechanism for multimedia streaming and IPTV services o IPTV service and Home Networking o Media Streaming for IPTV o Deployment of IPTV services, case study, and new trends in IPTV o QoS measurements for Multimedia Streaming and IPTV o P2P performance evaluation and analysis o P2P organisation and overlay management o Scalable and network-aware video coding techniques o Business models for media streaming and IPTV o Cross-layer adaptation and optimisation for multimedia services Submission Information: ======================= Prospective authors are invited to submit full paper in PDF format by email to cskianis(a)aegean.gr. Please refer to the following link http://www.temu.gr/2008/author.html for instructions on the length and the paper format. Papers will be reviewed with the standard reviewing procedure (each paper being sent to at least 3 independent anonymous reviewers). Accepted papers will be published within AMIS-NET 2008 proceedings and will be considered for publication in forthcoming book volume on the topic. General Chairs ============== Toufik AHMED, CNRS LaBRI Lab. - University Bordeaux 1, France Charalabos SKIANIS, University of the Aegean, Greece _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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REALWSN submission deadline this Sunday
by Adam Dunkels 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

(Apologies for multiple copies of this message.) The REALWSN 2008 submission deadline is now less than one week away. Please note that this deadline is firm: no extensions are given! Important dates Electronic submissions due: 10 February, 2008 (FIRM DEADLINE - no extensions are given) Notification of acceptance: 3 March, 2008 Camera-ready copy due: 13 March, 2008 Workshop: 1 April 2008 The REALWSN'08 Workshop on Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks http://www.sics.se/realwsn08/ April 1, 2008 Glasgow, Scotland In conjunction with ACM EuroSys 2008 The purpose of the third Workshop on Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in the area of sensor networks, with focus on real-world experiments or deployments of wireless sensor networks. When working with real-world experiments or deployments, many new issues arise: the network environment may be composed of a variety of different technologies, leading to very heterogeneous network structures; software development for large scale networks poses new types of problems; prototype networks may differ significantly from the deployed system; actual sensor network deployments may need a complex combination of autonomous and manual configuration. Furthermore, results obtained through simulation are typically not directly applicable to operational networks and it is therefore imperative for the community to produce results from experimental research. Authors are invited to submit papers (5 pages, double column) for presentation at the workshop. Papers will be selected based on originality, technical merit and relevance. Published papers will also be published in the ACM Digital Library. All topics pertaining to real-world wireless sensor networks are of interest, including but not limited to: * Experiences with real-world deployments * Experimental validation/refutation of previous simulation results obtained by others * Real-world performance of self-organization and self-management * Debugging, testing, and management * Deployment and configuration * Applications in medicine, industry, science, environmental monitoring, etc. * Security and trust * Scalability in practice * Development and prototyping platforms * Operating systems, sensor network programming paradigms, and languages * Middleware for heterogeneous networks * Real-time and dependability issues * Hardware support for real-world sensor networks * Robustness at all levels: communication, software, hardware * Energy efficient protocols * Hardware and software methods for energy measurement and profiling Important dates Electronic submissions due: 10 February, 2008 Notification of acceptance: 3 March, 2008 Camera-ready copy due: 13 March, 2008 Workshop: 1 April 2008 Organizers Workshop Chair: * Thiemo Voigt, Swedish Institute of Computer Science Technical program committee chairs: * Adam Dunkels, Swedish Institute of Computer Science * Pedro José Marron, University of Bonn, Germany Technical program committee: * Muneeb Ali, TU Delft, The Netherlands * Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland * Nirupama Bulusu, Portland State University, USA * Saumitra M. Das, Purdue University, USA * Kasun De Zoysa, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka * Carlo Fischione, UC Berkeley, USA * Per Gunningberg, Uppsala University, Sweden * Wen Hu, CSIRO, Australia * Holger Karl, University of Paderborn, Germany * Koen Langendoen, TU Delft, The Netherlands * Luis Orozco, University of Castilla la Mancha, Spain * Gian Pietro Picco, University of Trento, Italy * Joe Polastre, Sentilla, USA * Utz Rödig, University of Lancaster, UK * Christian Rohner, Uppsala University, Sweden * Kay Römer, ETH Zürich, Switzerland * Vlasios Tsiatsis, Ericsson Research * Jochen Schiller, FU Berlin, Germany * Cormac Sreenan, UC Cork, Ireland * Arno Wacker, University of Duisburg, Germany -- Adam Dunkels <adam(a)sics.se> http://www.sics.se/~adam/

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[Fwd: [Tccc] MCN-Infocom'08 -- Abstract Submission Deadline Feb-7 (few days left)]
by Lars Wolf 04 Feb '08

04 Feb '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] MCN-Infocom'08 -- Abstract Submission Deadline Feb-7 (few days left) Datum: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 17:29:51 -0500 Von: Mohamed Younis <younis(a)cs.umbc.edu> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> CC: 'Silvia Giordano' <silvia.giordano(a)supsi.ch>, 'Moustafa Youssef' <moustafa.youssef(a)gmail.com> 2nd IEEE Workshop on Mission-Critical Networking (MCN'2008) http://www.criticalnet.org/ In conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM'2008 Phoenix, Arizona, April 13-18 Abstract Submission Deadline Feb-7 "Mission-Critical Networking (MCN)" refers to networking for application domains where life or livelihood may be at risk. Typical application domains for MCN include critical infrastructure protection, emergency and crisis intervention, and military operations. Such networking is essential for safety, security and economic vitality in our complex world characterized by uncertainty, heterogeneity and emergent behaviors. MCN should comprise the best possible networking technology, infrastructure and services that may alleviate the risk and help save the lives of both the general public and the network users. As advances in pervasive computing, wireless communication, ad hoc and mesh networking and networked sensor systems continue, more opportunities are being opened to mission-critical networks to benefit from these technologies. A primary challenge to the operations of mission-critical networks is to deploy a communication network that is dependable, autonomic, secure, and rapidly deployable. In order to operate effectively, the deployed networks should support services such as location determination of authorized and unauthorized entities, audio and video communication, secure emergency calling and alerting, and in-situ and remote sensing and control in a secure and dependable manner. In addition, efficient operation of such networks that typically include numerous resource-constrained components may benefit from cross-layer optimization, cognition, resource engineering, visual analytics, and service-oriented architecture. Another key feature for mission-critical networking is to support interactions among multiple heterogeneous networks. This workshop solicits high quality technical contributions to the area of mission-critical networking. The manuscript must explicitly address relevance to MCN. Topics include, but are not limited to the following: . Smart environments and infrastructures . Rapidly deployable services and networks . Vehicular networks . Body sensor networks . Cognitive and autonomic networks, protocols, and services . Ubiquitous networking and services . Security, dependability, privacy, QoS and performance awareness and trade-offs . Sensor and actuator networks for information gathering and real-time control . Decentralized and peer-to-peer resource management and allocation . Trust management, security, interoperability, survivability and QoS support . Context-aware network and service management . Location determination and tracking . Energy efficiency . Admission, load and flow control . Visual analytics . Critical traffic and mobility analysis . Cross-layer design and optimization . Components and architectures for next-generation emergency calling and alerting . Network policy management . Testbeds, benchmarks, performance and experimental studies General Chairs . Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virginia Tech, USA . Henning Schulzerinne, Columbia University, USA Program Chairs . Hannes Tschofenig, Siemens AG, Germany . Moustafa Youssef, Alexandria University, Egypt Publicity Chairs . Silvia Girodano, University of Applied Science, Switzerland . Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Panels Chair . Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA Awards Chair . Ashok Agrawala, University of Maryland, USA . Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas, USA Technical Program Committee * Ehab Al-Shaer, DePaul University, USA * Nils Aschenbruck, University of Bonn, Germany * Cory Beard, University of Missouri Kansas City, USA * David Du, National Science Foundation (University of Minnesota), USA * Hossam Hassanein, Queens University, Canada * Wendi Heinzelman, University of Rochester, USA. * Sushil Jajodia., George Mason University, USA * James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA. * Deepa Kundur, Texas A&M University, USA * Victor Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada * Scott Midkiff, Virginia Tech, USA. * Nader Moayeri, NIST, USA * Farid Nait-Abdesselam, Univ. of Sciences and Tech. of Lille, France * Cristina Pinotti, University of Perguia, Italy * Jean-Jacque Quisquater, Catholic University, Belgium * Pedro M. Ruiz, University of Murcia, Spain * Krishna Sivalingam, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA * Robin Sommer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA * Doru Tiliute, University of Suceava, Romania * Gene Tsudik, University of California Irvine, USA * Stephen D. Wolthusen, University of London, UK * Naoki Wakamiya, Osaka University, Japan * Michele Weigle, Old Dominion University, USA Manuscript Submission Submitted papers must be unpublished and must not be currently under review for any other publication. All paper submissions will be handled electronically in EDAS. Authors should prepare a Portable Document Format (PDF) version of their full paper. Papers must be no longer than 6 pages and in font size no smaller than 11 points. Please refer to the INFOCOM manuscript preparation page for details and make sure the manuscript conforms to the format/font/page requirements. Manuscripts that are not compliant with the requirements may be declined without review. All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality through peer reviewing, where TPC members are invited to assess the scientific contributions of papers. For more information send email to info(a)criticalnet.org. Manuscript Submission Submitted papers must be unpublished and must not be currently under review for any other publication. All paper submissions will be handled electronically in EDAS. Authors should prepare a Portable Document Format (PDF) version of their full paper. Papers must be no longer than 6 pages and in font size no smaller than 11 points. Please refer to the INFOCOM manuscript preparation page for details and make sure the manuscript conforms to the format/font/page requirements. Manuscripts that are not compliant with the requirements may be declined without review. All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality through peer reviewing, where TPC members are invited to assess the scientific contributions of papers. Proceedings will appear in IEEE Xplore and INFOCOM CD. For more information send email to info(a)criticalnet.org. Important Dates Abstract Submission: February 7, 2008 Paper Submission: February 15, 2008 Acceptance Notification: March 10, 2008 Camera Ready Due: March 18, 2008 Workshop Date: April 18, 2008 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[cfp] MANWEEK 08-22– 26 September 2008- Samos Island, Greece
by ntan＠teimes.gr 04 Feb '08

04 Feb '08

Apologize if you receive multiple copies. ================================================================ MANWEEK 08 CALL FOR PAPERS ================================================================ 4th International Week on Management of Networks and Services 22–26 September 2008 Samos Island, Greece http://www.manweek.org/2008/ The conference will take place at the Doryssa Bay Resort (www.doryssa-bay.gr) in the Greek island of Samos situated in the Eastern part of the Aegean Sea, at a short distance from the coast of Asia Minor. Samos is directly accessible by air from major cities around the world. Manweek 2008 that is going to host six of the most reputable workshops and conferences in the area of management of networks and services: o DSOM 2008 - 19th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management o MMNS 2008 - 11th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services o IPOM 2008 - 8th IEEE International Workshop on IP Operations and Management o EVGM 2008 – 4th IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on End-to-End Virtualization and Grid Management o MACE 2008 – 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Modelling Autonomic Communications Environments o NGNM 2008 – 5th International Workshop on Next Generation Networking Middleware Important Dates MMNS, IPOM 2008 Submission: March 28 2008 DSOM, MACE 2008 Submission: April 28 2008 EVGM, NGNM 2008 Submission: May 17 2008 MMNS, IPOM 2008 Notification: May 30 2008 DSOM, MACE 2008 Notification: June 13 2008 EVGM, NGNM 2008 Notification: June 20 2008 Manweek 08 Conference: September 22-26 2008 ================================================================ MMNS 08 C A L L F O R P A P E R S ================================================================ 11th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services (MMNS 2008) “Management of Converged Multimedia Networks and Services” Co-chairs: -George Pavlou (University College London, United Kingdom) -Toufik Ahmed (University Bordeaux 1, France) -Tasos Dagiuklas (TEI of Mesolonghi, Greece) The 11th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services (MMNS) will be held in September 22 to 26, 2008 at the Doryssa Bay Resort (www.doryssa-bay.gr) on the Greek island of Samos (http://www.samosin.gr) as part of the 4th International Week on the Management of Networks and Services (Manweek 2008). MMNS will provide participants with a high quality and intimate setting for discussion and debate. The conference is sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 6.6 on Management of Networks and Distributed Systems, with technical co-sponsorship by the IEEE Communications Society and specifically the Technical Committee on Network Operations and Management (CNOM). SCOPE OF MMNS 2008 Since 1997, MMNS has established itself as a major conference for research and innovation in the management of multimedia technology and networked services. The scope of the conference has been expanded in recent years to include management of emerging mobile and wireless networks. The objective of the conference is to bring together researchers and scientists from academia and industry interested in state-of-the-art management of converged multimedia networks and services across heterogeneous networking infrastructures, while creating a public venue for result dissemination and intellectual collaboration. The convergence of existing and emerging technologies such as broadband, mobile, and broadcast networks is considered as a promising opportunity for existing providers to increase theirs service subscriber base so that 4G vision and beyond becomes a reality. An important research effort is undertaken by main actors to face the multidimensional, in terms of transport technology, session signalling, and QoS provisioning, heterogeneity of Next Generation Networks (NGNs). Efficient management of these services is a key ingredient in the effort to provide cost effective, innovative services, and mass market solutions that are likely to become a major source of income for different stakeholders. The need to evolve management tools, solutions, platforms and methodologies to keep pace with emerging networks is at a critical juncture with the proliferation of mobile and wireless systems, intelligent and broadband networks, triple play (data/voice/video) convergence, and the integration of embedded computing and communications. The academic and industry research communities should unify forces to address the challenges of developing and operating converged multimedia networks and services. Inevitably, integrated management is a key element in addressing this challenge. The MMNS 2008 technical program committee is soliciting research papers in the broad area of network and service management that address new models, architectures and technological designs to enable multimedia and mobility proliferation in NGNs. MMNS 2008 intends to continue the success of the outstanding agendas of the past, and will emphasize and solicit novel research in the management of converged multimedia networks and services. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: • Management of media streaming and real-time service delivery • Management of wireless ad-hoc/mesh networks • Management of NGN/4G networks and services • Management of sensor and actuator networks • Management of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) • Multi-service/ multiple-play over IP (voice, video, data and mobility over IP) network management • Grid networking for multimedia • Cross-layer management • Multimedia in peer-to-peer (P2P) networks • Quality of service management in multimedia and mobile networks • Planning and optimisation of multimedia and mobile networks • IP Multimedia System (IMS) operations and management • Management of service delivery platforms • Management of content distribution networking • Distributed multimedia service management • Performance evaluation of multimedia and mobile services • Wireless/Mobile Multimedia broadcast/multicast technologies • Novel protocols for multimedia services • Multi-point, multicast service management • Seamless mobility of multimedia services • Pricing, accounting and billing for multimedia services • Management of trust and security for mobile and multimedia networks and services • Self-properties of multimedia and mobile networks and services • Network virtualization for network management and service provisioning • Remote over-the-air manageability in mobile networks • End-to-end management for multimedia transmission in mobile/wireless networks • Mobile platform architecture optimizations for management services • Network manageability across heterogeneous wireless networks • Novel network architectures for mobile network management services PAPER SUBMISSION Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or experiences. Late-breaking advances and work-in-progress reports from ongoing research are also encouraged for submission to MMNS 2008. Papers under review elsewhere MUST NOT be submitted to MMNS 2008. Authors are requested to submit either long papers or short papers (work-in-progress 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 4 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. PROCEEDINGS The MMNS 2008 proceedings will be published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. For more information regarding manuscript format please visit the author's instruction links at LNCS Springer. Awards will be presented to the best paper and to the best student paper at the conference. Furthermore, the best papers of MMNS 2008 will be invited to be submitted as extended versions to the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM). IMPORTANT DEADLINES Paper Registration: March 21 2008 Submission: March 28 2008 Notification: May 30 2008 Camera ready: June 20 2008 MANWEEK 2008 Conference: September 22-26 2008 MMNS 2008: September 22-23 2008

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