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[Fwd: CFP: WNS2 2006 (organized within VALUETOOLS 2006, Pisa, Italy)]
by Lars Wolf 16 Mar '06

16 Mar '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP: WNS2 2006 (organized within VALUETOOLS 2006, Pisa, Italy) Datum: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 10:28:13 -0400 Von: Kejie Lu <lukejie(a)ece.uprm.edu> Organisation: UPRM An: <multicomm(a)comsoc.org> ========================================================== (We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message) ========================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS WNS2 Workshop on ns-2: the IP network simulator Pisa, Italy -- October 10, 2006 http://www.wns2.org/ SCOPE ----- In recent years, the ns-2 simulator has become one of the de facto standards (if not the standard) for the simulation of packet-switched networks, as attested by the number of research papers and IETF documents based on it, as well as by the wide scope of the networking technologies it handles. It is widely used in both academia and industry as a means of designing, testing and evaluating new and existing protocols and architectures, and it is also a very useful tool for educational purposes. The Workshop on ns-2 (WNS2) is a one-day event held in conjunction with VALUETOOLS, the First International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools (http://www.valuetools.org/). The main goals of the WNS2 workshop are: to bring together networking researchers from both academia and industry, to discuss recent advances, to identify future directions in network simulation, and to foster interdisciplinary collaborative research in this area. The workshop devotes special interest to the future evolution of ns-2, and its extension in novel research areas and networking technologies and scenarios. TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------ This workshop is mainly focused on the simulator in itself. We are especially looking for original contributions that go beyond the use of ns-2 "as is", and try to make it evolve. The following topics are of particular interest: - Development of new simulation models and features, especially in, but not restricted to, the areas of: * Mobile networks, 3G and 4G networks, WLANs, WPANs, WiMAX... * Delay-tolerant networking. * Congestion-control and transport-layer issues in long-fat networks. * Network mobility (NEMO). * Sensor networks. * Peer-to-peer systems. * Grid computing. - Large-scale network simulation and model-based simulation approaches. - Post-processing tools and GUIs for statistical analysis and visualization of simulation results. Other topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Validation of ns-2 behavior with experimentation and real data. - Comparative studies of ns-2 and other network simulation tools, both commercial and freely-available. - Parallel and distributed versions of ns-2. - Use of ns-2 in teaching networking concepts and techniques. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Submission Deadline: May 20, 2006 Notification of Acceptance: June 20, 2006 Camera-ready Manuscripts due: July 10, 2006 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- Technical Program Co-chairs: Tania Jim¨¦nez (LIA, France) David Ros (GET / ENST Bretagne, France) PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- Eitan Altman (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France) Chadi Barakat (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France) Armando Caro Jr. (BBN Technologies, USA) Thierry Ernst (Keio University, Japan) Sonia Fahmy (Purdue University, USA) Andrei Gurtov (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland) Qi He (IBM, USA) Polly Huang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Tom Henderson (Boeing, USA) Kun-chan Lan (NICTA, Australia) Saverio Mascolo (Politecnico di Bari, Italy) Nicolas Montavont (GET / ENST Bretagne, France) Giorgio Tonella (USI, Switzerland) Michael Welzl (Leopold-Franzens-University of Innsbruck, Austria) Lloyd Wood (Cisco, UK) SUBMISSION GUIDELINES --------------------- Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 8 pages in IEEE conference proceedings format (double-column, 11-point font size). Submissions must be in electronic format (PDF files). More details about the submission process will be available on the Workshop web page: http://www.wns2.org/ . Papers accepted for oral presentation, as well as papers accepted as posters, will appear in the workshop proceedings that will be distributed to participants in the form of a CD-ROM. The proceedings will also be available on- line through IEEE on IEEEXplore. ==========================================================

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[Fwd: [Multimedia 06] Call For Contributions]
by Lars Wolf 16 Mar '06

16 Mar '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Multimedia 06] Call For Contributions Datum: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 13:21:36 -0500 Von: ACM Multimedia Committee <acmsigmm(a)fastmail.fm> An: Multimedia Recipient <WOLF(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> Greetings from the ACM Multimedia Committee. Enclosed is information about the 14th International ACM Multimedia conference. Please pass this CFP on to any interested colleagues. Subscribe/Unsubscribe information can be found at the bottom of this email. ------------------------------------------------ Call for Contributions The 2006 ACM Multimedia Conference Fess Parker's Double-Tree Resort Santa Barbara, California October 22-28, 2006 http://mmdb.ece.ucsb.edu/acmmm06/ ------------------------------------------------ Important Dates: Apr. 10, 2006 - Research Paper Abstract Submission Deadline (Absolutely Firm Deadline) Apr. 17, 2006 - Research Paper/Panel/Tutorial/Workshop Submission Deadline at 11 PM PDT (Absolutely Firm Deadline) May. 12, 2006 Interactive Art Program Long Paper/Exhibition Submission Deadline at 11 PM PDT Jun. 01, 2006 Short Paper/Interactive Art Program Short Paper/Open Source/Doctoral Program/Demo Proposal Submission Deadline at 11 PM PDT Jul. 01, 2006 - Notification of acceptance Aug. 01, 2006 - Camera-ready papers Aug. 12, 2006 - Advanced Registration Deadline ------------------------------------ General Information Multimedia 2006 invites your participation in the premier annual multimedia conference, covering all aspects of multimedia computing: from underlying technologies to applications, theory to practice, and servers to networks to devices. The technical program will consist of plenary sessions and talks with topics of interest in: (a) Multimedia content analysis, processing, and retrieval; (b) Multimedia networking and systems support; (c) Multimedia tools, end-systems, and applications; and (d) Foundational sciences of multimedia. Awards will be given to the best paper and the best student paper. In order to encourage sharing of implementations, this year will also initiate awards for best demo, best art program paper, and the best-contributed open-source software. Panels will consist of discussions on timely and controversial topics. Short papers will be presented in poster format and are an opportunity for researchers to present new work and ideas in an interactive setting. State-of-the-Art Tutorials by leading experts will precede the technical program. The full- and half-day offerings will span a wide variety of topics. New Foundational/Application track is a special sessions track containing papers, which establish foundational sciences and extend the boundaries of multimedia research. Technical Demos will include leading edge work in every area of multimedia technology and its application. An award will be given to the best demo. Interactive Art Program will include long and short papers describing interactive multimedia art works, tools, applications, and technical approaches for creative uses of multimedia content and technology. It will also include an art exhibition. Video Demonstrations allow researchers and artists to demonstrate their tool, system or application without having to bring the equipment for a "live" demo. Workshops on topics of great current interest to members of the multimedia research community will precede the technical program. The Doctoral Symposium is a venue for doctoral students to present their research and receive feedback from members of the multimedia research field. The Open-source Software Competition is a recent addition to the ACM Multimedia program and 2006 will be our third year in running the competition. ------------------------ Questions: Please feel free to email one of the General Co-chairs. Klara Nahrstedt - mailto:klara@cs.uiuc.edu Matthew Turk - mailto:mturk@cs.ucsb.edu ------------------------ *NOTE* - If you do not want to receive emails pertaining to the ACM Multimedia conference please reply to this message with 'REMOVE address' in the subject line (using the address at the bottom of this email). Colleagues can subscribe by sending a message with 'SUBSCRIBE' in the subject line to acmsigmm(a)fastmail.fm. ------------------------ --- This mail was sent to WOLF(a)IBR.CS.TU-BS.DE ---

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[Fwd: [ISCC06] CFP: ESAS 2006 (European SyWorkshop on Security and Privacy in Ad hoc and Sensor Networks)]
by Lars Wolf 16 Mar '06

16 Mar '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [ISCC06] CFP: ESAS 2006 (European SyWorkshop on Security and Privacy in Ad hoc and Sensor Networks) Datum: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 11:27:08 -0500 Von: Susanne Wetzel <swetzel(a)cs.stevens.edu> An: iscc2005(a)mail.ing.unibo.it ( Apologies for multiple postings) ========================================================================= ESAS 2006 (http://www.crysys.hu/ESAS2006) Third European Workshop on Security and Privacy in Ad hoc and Sensor Networks September 20-21, 2006, Hamburg, Germany in conjunction with the European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2006) Call for Papers ----------------- The vision of ubiquitous computing has generated a lot of interest in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. However, besides their potential advantages, these new generations of networks also raise some challenging problems with respect to security and privacy. The aim of this workshop is to bring together the network security, cryptography, and wireless networking communities in order to discuss these problems and to propose new solutions. The third ESAS workshop seeks submissions that present original research on all aspects of security and privacy in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. Submission of papers based on work-in-progress is encouraged. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: Privacy and anonymity Prevention of traffic analysis Location privacy Secure positioning and localization Secure MAC protocols Secure topology control Secure routing Secure in-network processing Secure context aware computing Attack resistant data aggregation Cooperation and fairness Key management Trust establishment Embedded security Cryptography for resource constrained applications Distributed intrusion detection Important Dates --------------- Submission deadline: May 29, 2006 Notification of acceptance: July 31, 2006 Workshop: September 20-21, 2006 Camera ready version: October 9, 2006 General Chair --------------- Dirk Westhoff, NEC Europe Network Lab, Germany Program Chairs -------------- Levente Butty?n, BME, CrySyS Lab, Hungary Virgil Gligor, University of Maryland, USA Publicity Chairs ------------------ Claude Castelluccia, INRIA, France Susanne Wetzel, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Program Committee ------------------ Imad Aad, DoCoMo Lab Europe, Germany N. Asokan, Nokia, Finland Sonja Buchegger, University of California, Berkeley, USA Srdjan Capkun, Technical University of Denmark Claude Castelluccia, INRIA, France Xuhua Ding, Singapore Management University, Singapore Roberto Di Pietro, Universita "La Sapienza" - Roma, Italy Hannes Hartenstein, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Yih-Chun Hu, University of Illinois UC, USA Markus Jakobsson, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA Frank Kargl, University of Ulm, Germany Yongdae Kim, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA Breno de Medeiros, Florida State University, USA Ludovic Me, Supelec, France Pietro Michiardi, Eurecom, France Gabriel Montenegro, Microsoft, USA Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Purdue University, USA Guevara Noubir, Northeastern University, USA Kaisa Nyberg, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Panagiotis Papadimitratos, EPFL, Switzerland Adrian Perrig, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Radha Poovendran, University of Washington, USA Frank Stajano, Cambridge University, UK Andre Weimerskirch, University of Bochum, Germany Dirk Westhoff, NEC Europe Network Lab, Germany Susanne Wetzel, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Jeong Hyun Yi, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea Instructions for Authors ------------------------- Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract of their original work. Maximum length for submissions is 8 pages. The preferred submission format is PDF or PostScript. Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors have published elsewhere or have submitted in parallel. All submissions will be refereed. Accepted papers should be presented at the workshop, in which case they will appear in the post-workshop proceedings. The final camera ready version should be sent in after the workshop and it must not exceed 15 pages. Further information on how to submit papers will be available here. Workshop Proceedings --------------------- As in previous years, the proceedings will be published by Springer after the workshop in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series (www.springer.de/comp/lncs/). Note that in order to be included in the proceedings, an accepted paper must be presented at the workshop. In addition, when preparing the final manuscript, the authors should take into account the reviewers' comments and the comments received at the workshop. _______________________________________________ Iscc2005 mailing list Iscc2005(a)mail.ing.unibo.it http://calvin.ing.unibo.it/mailman/listinfo/iscc2005

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Call for Papers MobiMedia 2006]
by Lars Wolf 16 Mar '06

16 Mar '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Call for Papers MobiMedia 2006 Datum: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 08:46:03 -0700 (MST) Von: Ali Bilgin <bilgin(a)ece.arizona.edu> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu ******* M o b i M e d i a 2006 **************** Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference (formerly MSAN) September 18-20, 2006 :: Alghero, Sardinia, Italy http://www.mobimedia.org ------------------------------------------------- ******** IMPORTANT DEADLINES ******************** ------------------------------------------------- Special session proposals: March 15, 2006 Submission of extended summaries: April 30, 2006 Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2006 Submission of camera-ready papers: July 10, 2006 ******** IMPORTANT NEWS ************************** -------------------------------------------------- keynote speeches: - Roberto Cencioni (Head of Unit INFSO E2, EC) and Albert Gauthier (DG Information Society, EC) on the 7th Work program and the EU IST vision - Leonardo Chiariglione on future standards on mobile multimedia Publication of accepted papers: - Conference proceedings will be available through IEEExplore (approval pending) - Extended versions of high quality papers on mobile video will be reviewed and considered for a special issue in the Signal Processing: Image Communications Journal. Workshops/symposiums/special sessions: - International Workshop on Broadband Wireless Access for ubiquitous Networking (BWAN 2006) - European Symposium on Mobile Media Delivery (EuMob 2006) - Special Session on 4G FORTHCOMING STANDARS AND MOBILE MULTIMEDIA SERVICES SCOPE -------------------------------------- The successful development of multimedia services and applications in mobile environments requires adopting an interdisciplinary approach where both multimedia and networking issues are addressed jointly. Multimedia data characteristics, coding standards functionalities, as well as network protocols performance and channel behavior are some of the key aspects that need to be carefully examined when proposing new solutions. Many are the applications that are going to be enabled by the new standards for mobile networking, such as packet telephony, video mail, video streaming, audio conferencing, interactive gaming, conversational navigation services, digital television, infomobility, and immersive communications in virtual environments. Some of these novel networking protocols and technologies include IEEE 802.11 (infrastructured, mesh, and sensor networks), 802.15, 802.16, UWB, DVB-H, Bluetooth, Mobile IP and its variants. Within this scope, MobiMedia is intended to provide a unique international forum for researchers working in multimedia and mobile networking fields to study new applications, solutions, and standards. Original unpublished contributions are solicited that can improve the knowledge and practice in the integrated design of efficient technologies and the relevant provision of advanced mobile multimedia applications. TECHNICAL PROGRAMS -------------------------------------- The technical program features two key-note speeches: from Roberto Cencioni (Head of Unit INFSO E2, EC) and Albert Gauthier (DG Information Society, EC) on the 7th Work program and the EU IST vision and from Leonardo Chiariglione on future standards on mobile multimedia. The conference will also include invited panels, to facilitate for exchanging ideas and discussion, and specific sessions and workshops on focused interest areas. Submissions of proposals on workshops and special sessions on emerging topics are invited. Please submit proposals to Technical Program Chairs and Workshop Chairs. PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION -------------------------------------- Prospective authors are invited to submit extended summaries of not more than five pages including figures and references. Papers will be accepted only by electronic submission through the conference web site. Conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE and will be available through IEEExplore (approval pending). Extended versions of high quality papers on mobile video will be reviewed and considered for a special issue in the Signal Processing: Image Communications Journal. STUDENT AWARD AND GRANTS -------------------------------------- A student prize of 1000Euros will be awarded to the best paper authored by a full time student as first author. Travel grants will be provided to students attending the conference. Additional information can be found at the conference website. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ----------------------------------------- General Co-Chairs: Luigi Atzori, University of Cagliari, ITA Ebroul Izquierdo, University of London, UK Steering Committee Chair: Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net, ITA Technical Program Co-Chairs: Ozgur B. Akan, Middle East Technical University, TUR Pascal Frossard, EPFL, SUI Publications Chair: Giovanni Pau, UCLA, USA Workshops Chair: Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA Radha Poovendran, University of WA, USA Panels Chair: Daniele D. Giusto, University of Cagliari, ITA Local Chair: Giaime Ginesu, University of Cagliari, ITA Publicity Co-Chairs: Gozde Bozdagi Akar, Middle East Technical University, TUR Ali Bilgin, The University of Arizona, USA Conference Management: Anna Rieger, ICST, Europe PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------------------------------- Ishfaq Ahmad, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Fatih Alagoz, Bogazici University Tricha Anjali, Illinois Tech., USA John Apostolopoulos, HP Labs, USA Mauro Barni, University Siena, ITA Gary Chan, HK University Raouf Boutaba, University Waterloo, CAN Homer Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Trista P. Chen, Intel Corporation, USA Reha Civanlar, Koc University, TUR Ed Delp, Purdue University, USA U.B Desai, IIT Bombay Christos Douligeris, University Piraeus, GRE Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA Minoru Etoh, Docomo Labs Moncef Gabbouj, Tampere University of Technology, FIN Zhihai He, University of Missouri, USA Paola Hobson, Motorola Research Labs, UK Markus Kampmann, Ericsson Research, GER Reginald Lagendijk, Delft University, NED Juan-Carlos de Martin, Politecnico Torino, ITA Giacomo Morabito, University Catania, ITA Jaudelice De Oliveira, Drexel University, USA A. Pakstas, London Metrop. University, GBR Fernando Pereira, IST, POR Beatrice Pesquest-Popescu, ENST, FRA Ramon Puigjaner, University Balears, SPA Guy Pujolle, LIP6, FRA Thomas Sikora, Technical University Berlin, GER Raghupathy Sivakumar, Georgia Tech, USA Eckehard Steinbach, TUM, GER Thomas Stockhammer, Nomor Research, GER M. Tekalp, Koc University, TUR Tuna Tugcu, Bogazici University, TUR Haohong Wang, Qualcomm Inc, USA Wenye Wang, North Carolina State University, USA Yao Wang, Polytechnic University, USA Jiang Xie, University North Carolina, USA Heather Yu, Panasonic Research, USA Avideh Zakhor, UC Berkeley, USA Magda El Zarki, UC Irvine, USA Qian Zhang, HK University, HK _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: IEEE GLOBECOM 2006: Call for Papers]
by Sven Jaap 15 Mar '06

15 Mar '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: IEEE GLOBECOM 2006: Call for Papers Datum: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:44:16 -0500 Von: ComSocConferences(a)comsoc.org Antwort an: <Conferencesx(a)comsoc.org> An: Conferencesx(a)comsoc.org 49th Annual IEEE Globecom Conference and the 1st Annual IEEE COMMUNICATIONS EXPO ** March 17 (11:55pm US EDT) -- Deadline for EDAS full paper submission ** See http://www.ieee-globecom.org/2006/papers.html Call for Technical Expo Program See http://www.ieee-globecom.org/2006/expo.html Proposals for Design & Developers Forum, ACCESS‘06 Business Forum, Telecom Business Forum, and Tutorials & Workshops Due: 15 May 2006, 11:59 pm EST. Invitation to Prospective Exhibitors If you intend on participating in the conference in anyway or will be attending, go to http://www.ieee-globecom.org/2006/exhibits.html To unsubscribe from this IEEE Communications Society Meetings and Conferences mailing list, go to: http://www.comsoc.org/confs/unsubscribe.html or send a blank email message to conferencesx-remove(a)comsoc.org. You can also request removal by mail. Please send a note with your email address and the list name (Conferencesx(a)comsoc.org) to ComSoc List Removal - IT 3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor New York, NY 10016 USA

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[Fwd: E-NEXT.members: CFP: IEEE JSAC on Cross-Layer Wireless]
by Lars Wolf 13 Mar '06

13 Mar '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: E-NEXT.members: CFP: IEEE JSAC on Cross-Layer Wireless Datum: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:41:30 +0000 Von: Cormac J. Sreenan <cjs(a)cs.ucc.ie> An: members(a)ist-e-next.net ---------------- CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications CROSS-LAYER OPTIMIZED WIRELESS MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS Submission deadline: May 15, 2006 Recent advances in wireless and mobile communications provide ample opportunities for introducing new services. Supporting multimedia applications and services over wireless networks is challenging due to constraints and heterogeneities such as limited battery power, limited bandwidth, random time-varying fading effect, different protocols and standards, stringent quality of service (QoS) requirements. Cross-layer design methodologies hold great promise for addressing these challenges and providing reliable and high-quality end-to-end performance in wireless multimedia communications. This issue solicits the state-of-the-art approaches and technical solutions in the area of cross-layer optimized wireless multimedia communications and networking. The issue will provide a compelling forum for researchers and practitioners to present their results. Original contributions, previously unpublished and not currently under review by another journal, are solicited in relevant areas including (but not limited to) the following: - Architectures for wireless multimedia communications - Multimedia delivery over various types of wireless networks (3G, 4G, ad hoc networks, WLAN, WMAN, or hybrid networks) - End-to-end QoS support for wireless networks - Multimedia delivery to energy-constrained embedded devices - Caching and content management in WLANs and WMANs - Interaction among medium access control (MAC), radio link control (RLC), and routing protocols for media delivery over multi-hop wireless networks - Wireless video sensor networks - Multimedia delivery for broadband vehicular networks - Secure multimedia communications - System prototypes and experiences with broadband wireless multimedia delivery Please note that submitted papers must explicitly address cross-layer design issues. Prospective authors should follow the IEEE J-SAC manuscript format described in the Information for Authors, at http://www.argreenhouse.com/society/J-SAC/Guidelines/info.html. Authors MUST submit their manuscripts through the Microsoft Conference Management Toolkit (CMT) at https://msrcmt.research.microsoft.com/COWMC2006/CallForPapers.aspx, together with a short abstract (approximately 150 words) in the CMT website form. In addition, the mandatory cover page is not included in the page count. The cover page should include paper title, abstract, list of keywords indicating the paper's topic area, authors' full names, affiliations with complete addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses. Please note potential authors should create their own accounts through the CMT peer review website before submitting manuscript(s). CMT will accept manuscripts in PDF format only. There will be one round of reviewers and acceptance will be limited to those papers requiring only moderate revisions. The following timetable will apply: Manuscript submission: MAY 15, 2006 Acceptance notification: November 1, 2006 Final manuscript due: December 1, 2006 Publication: 2nd Quarter 2007 Guest Editors: Chang Wen Chen Dept Elect & Comp Engr Florida Inst of Technology Melbourne, FL 32901 cchen(a)fit.edu Pascal Frossard Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Lausanne - 1015, Switzerland pascal.frossard(a)epfl.ch Cormac Sreenan Dept of Comp Science Univ College Cork Cork, Ireland cjs(a)cs.ucc.ie K. P. Subbalakshmi Dept of Elect & Comp Engr Stevens Inst of Technology Hoboken, NJ 07733 ksubbala(a)stevens.edu Dapeng Oliver Wu Dept of Elect & Comp Engr Univ of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611 wu(a)ece.ufl.edu Qian Zhang Dept of Comp Science Hong Kong Univ of Science & Tech Hong Kong qianzh(a)cs.ust.hk -------------------- +++ Posted to members-istenext by "Cormac J. Sreenan" <cjs(a)cs.ucc.ie> +++

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[Fwd: [Tccc] [CFP] Special Issue on Seamless Handover in Next Generation Wireless/Mobile Networks (Springer's International Journal on Wireless Personal Communication)]
by Lars Wolf 13 Mar '06

13 Mar '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] [CFP] Special Issue on Seamless Handover in Next Generation Wireless/Mobile Networks (Springer's International Journal on Wireless Personal Communication) Datum: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 10:20:09 +0900 Von: Sunghyun Choi <schoi(a)snu.ac.kr> An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> CC: 'Aissi, Selim' <selim.aissi(a)intel.com>, 'Sunghyun Choi' <schoi(a)snu.ac.kr>, 'Ravikumar' <jravikumar2002(a)yahoo.com> Aplogies if you recieved this CFP multiple times. ---- Springer's International Journal on Wireless Personal Communication Special Issue on Seamless Handover in Next Generation Wireless/Mobile Networks Guest Editors Anand R. Prasad, DoCoMo Comm. Labs. Europe GmbH, Munich, Germany Selim Aissi, Intel Corporation, Portland, USA Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea Jeevarathinam Ravikumar, Consistel, Singapore Scope of Special Issue Mobile communication has evolved in a rapid pace from the introduction of Analog Cellular networks in 1980s. Technology has gone through tremendous changes in terms of security, access techniques, protocol stacks, bandwidth usage and also convergence into packet switching based on All-IP network from the conventional circuit switched techniques. Complexity has increased due to the introduction of different access technologies, available services, and other aspects as mentioned above during the telecom evolution for the past 20 years. Pressure is mounting to harmonize various technologies under a common IP backbone so that seamless handover can be provided that exploits the benefits of available radio access technologies. Seamless handover should be achieved not only for Inter-Technology but also for Inter-Operator handover. Operators and the consumers will be greatly benefited in terms of cost effectiveness, enhanced features, location independence and ease of use through the introduction of seamless heterogeneous handover mechanisms. Several standardization activities have already started working on technical solutions for seamless handover. One of the well known activities is that of next-generation networks (NGN) making use of IMS based solution for service provisioning and handover between fixed and mobile operators. Within 3GPP and 3GPP2, activities are on-going to provision handover between different technologies and recently, in 3GPP, between different domains. This activity within 3GPP falls under All-IP Network (AIPN) System Architecture Evolution (SAE)/Radio Access Network (RAN) Long Term Evolution (LTE). IEEE 802 is also looking into media-independent handover (MIH) in 802.21 while 802.11u is working on inter-technology handover. Handover enhancement within IEEE 802.11 is taking place within Task Group R (TGr). IETF has produced some solutions in the seamoby working group while further enhancements are being done in various other groups including mobopts, mipshop and mobike. Along with standardization activities, various operators and vendors are also involved in developing harmonized solution for heterogeneous networks, like, UMA. At the same time a lot of research and development activities are taking place by academia, research institutes and industries too. So far, the work has focused on one specific topic of handover such as security, QoS, and routing. However, the focus should be on developing an end-to-end network perspective that covers the whole span of the network from radio aspects to OSS aspects that includes value added services. With the above background, this special issue invites people to present papers on seamless handover in heterogeneous networks in the following (but, not limited to) areas: - Handover security - Solutions for mobility support - Charging and billing, and AAA infrastructure - Fraud Management across various networks - Access Control techniques in heterogeneous networks - QoS provisioning for inter-technology and intra-/inter-domain handover - Content provisioning and seamless use of VAS across different networks - Standardization activities - Testbed or measurement results Important dates Deadline of paper submissions: 15th May 2006 Notification of acceptance: 1st October 2006 Final Manuscripts Due: 1st November 2006 Publication of Feature Topic: February 2007 Submission Papers should follow the Springer format (11pt, single column, double spaced) and not exceed twenty pages including figures and tables. Manuscript should be submitted on-line at: <https://www.editorialmanager.com/wire/> https://www.editorialmanager.com/wire/ You MUST select article type: "Special Issue: Seamless Handover" Author information is available at: <http://www.springer.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-40109-70-35706624-000.h tml> http://www.springer.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-40109-70-35706624-000.ht ml Guest Editors Contact Information Anand R. Prasad DoCoMo Comm. Labs. Europe GmbH Landsbergerstrasse 308-312 80687 Munich, Germany E-mail: <mailto:prasad@docomolab-euro.com> prasad(a)docomolab-euro.com Selim Aissi Mobile Platforms Group Intel Corporation CO5-166, 15400 NW Greenbrier Parkway Beaverton, Oregon, 97007, USA E-mail: <mailto:selim.aissi@intel.com> selim.aissi(a)intel.com Sunghyun Choi School of Electrical Engineering Seoul National University Kwanak P.O.Box 34 Seoul 151-600, Korea E-mail: <mailto:schoi@snu.ac.kr> schoi(a)snu.ac.kr Jeevarathinam Ravikumar Consistel (Singapore) Pte Ltd 5 Jalan Kilang Barat, #08-01/03 Petro Centre Singapore 159349 E-mail: <mailto:jravikumar@consistel.com> jravikumar(a)consistel.com --- Sunghyun Choi, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Multimedia & Wireless Networking Laboratory (MWNL) School of Electrical Engineering Seoul National University Office: +82-(0)2-880-1753 Mobile: +82-(0)11-798-0180 Email: <mailto:schoi@snu.ac.kr> schoi(a)snu.ac.kr URL: <http://ee.snu.ac.kr/~schoi> http://ee.snu.ac.kr/~schoi _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: March SigComm-Members Monthly Digest]
by Lars Wolf 12 Mar '06

12 Mar '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: March SigComm-Members Monthly Digest Datum: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 20:56:49 -0500 Von: Erich Nahum <nahum(a)turing.acm.org> Antwort an: Erich Nahum <nahum(a)turing.acm.org> An: SIGCOMM-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG Dear SIGCOMM Community Members: This is the March 2006 List Digest. If you want an announcement relevant to the computer networks research community to appear in this forum, please send me a message before the 1st of each month. - Erich Nahum infodir_sigcomm (at) acm.org SIGCOMM Information Services Director ------------------------------------------------------------------ SIGCOMM News SIGCOMM GEODIVERSITY TRAVEL GRANTS ACM SIGCOMM has created a travel grant to increase the geographic diversity of its flagship "Sigcomm Data Communications Festival". The grant sponsors selected attendees in their early career (at most five years of full-time, full-level [non-postdoc] post-PhD employment) from under-represented countries based on need, distance to the conference venue, and impact of their attendance in increasing the diversity of conference participation. The grant covers travel, lodging, and registration to the main Sigcomm conference. The committee strongly prefers applicants who are not paper authors (the committee believes that authors' home organizations should cover costs for authors). Poster authors, however, are encouraged to apply. Other criteria will include evidence of a serious interest in networking, as demonstrated by project experience. In most cases, no more than one applicant will be funded from each organization. ACM SIGCOMM encourages participation of women and under-represented minorities. The program commenced with a $20,000 USD grant to sponsor attendees to Sigcomm 2006 in Pisa, Italy. Interested parties are encouraged to submit an application to the current travel grant chairs for Sigcomm 2006. What is covered? Support is intended to fully cover travel (economy airfare), registration for the conference, lodging at the conference hotel (four nights), meals, and local transportation. The specific costs will vary for each applicant, and are not expected to exceed $2500 USD. Reimbursement details will be announced to award recipients. Who decides? Applicants are selected by the Sigcomm Travel Grant Committee. Application Process An application consists of: A. a 2-page application B. a supporting letter from the applicant's supervisor C. a supporting letter from a colleague NOTE: the applicant should submit only (A); (B) and (C) should be sent directly from the letter authors A. Application: Page 1: 1. Indicate their affiliation and any other personal information the applicant feels is relevant to support their case. 2. 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[Fwd: [Tccc] IWUAC 06 - deadline and research links]
by Lars Wolf 12 Mar '06

12 Mar '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] IWUAC 06 - deadline and research links Datum: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 00:57:25 +0100 Von: stefano salsano <stefano.salsano(a)uniroma2.it> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu One month left for paper submission... A page with links related to the workshop topics is available at: http://netgroup.uniroma2.it/Stefano_Salsano/IWUAC-06/research-links.html [Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement] ============================================================ INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON UBIQUITOUS ACCESS CONTROL http://netgroup.uniroma2.it/Stefano_Salsano/IWUAC-06/ To be held in conjunction with MOBIQUITOUS 2006 http://www.mobiquitous.org/ July 17-21, 2006 - San Jose, California, USA ============================================================ Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: April 10, 2006 Notification of Acceptance: May 10, 2006 Camera-Ready Submissions: May 30, 2006 (Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and the IEEE Digital Library) ============================================================ Background The access to resources or services located in "foreign" environments and owned by disparate entities is a painful process for mobile users. This is a significant deterrent to the ability to easily interconnect in a secure and spontaneous manner among disparate organizations. In fact, corporate wireless networks are generally run with severe access policies that do not offer access to guests. Public wireless networks typically do not support roaming agreements, so that users have to be a customer of the specific network provider or to "instantly" (and costly) buy access. Coalition access control encompasses mechanisms dealing with access between users and services of two or more different security domains. These mechanism are typically based on contractually or implicitly agreed collaboration between organizations. They are targeted to medium or long-term periods of inter-organizational coalition. Some real examples are supply chain management, international joint projects, logistics service, etc. The overhead to set up these mechanisms can be significant, as the access control mechanisms for resources of the participating partners require common inter-organizational agreements. The inter-provider agreements that allow users to roam across different wireless providers can be seen as a form of coalition access control. Work on the definition of architecture and protocols for inter-provider roaming is ongoing in several standardization fora or industry initiatives (3GPP, ETSI, ECMA, IRAP …) Spontaneous coalition access control investigates access mechanisms based on informally formed coalition scenarios. These informal coalition scenarios are strongly connected to particular contextual situations: for example communication sessions like calls, conferencing, and Instant Messaging (IM) or informal physical contacts that occur in meeting rooms, offices, and hallways. It is not possible to establish traditional "formal" cross-organizational agreements within these spontaneous coalition encounters. Anyway, access to local resources still need to respect corporate access policies. The notion of spontaneous coalition access implies an increase in the number of un-verified access points and presents a serious security issue. User mobility, wireless connectivity and the widespread diffusion of portable devices raise new challenges for ubiquitous service provisioning. Devices that participate in spontaneous coalition scenarios can introduce "new" foreign services into the environment; due to their mobility these device can change location changing the availability of resources and services un-predictably. Access control to resources is crucial to leverage the provision of ubiquitous services and calls for novel solutions based on various context information, e.g., user/device location, device properties, user needs, local resource visibility. ============================================================ Call for Submissions The workshop is interested in contributions addressing areas associated with mobile and ubiquitous architectures, infrastructure, data and services as related to Ubiquitous Access Control. Under the "Ubiquitous Access Control" definition, we encompass both the "traditional" inter-provider roaming scenarios and the more advanced "spontaneous coalition" scenarios. The workshop will bring together the more "practical" aspects of the former scenario with the more advanced research aspects of the latter. Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research, are solicited. Tutorial paper or papers reporting experiences of deployed systems or demonstrators are also welcome. The papers cannot be currently under review by another conference or journal. Topics include, but are not limited to the following: * Integration of Contextual Models with Security Models. * Models for Authentication, Trust, Authorization and Access Control in Ubiquitous Computing Environments. * Coalition Access Control Models. * Ontologies for Security Policies. * Distributed Access Control Architectures and Models. * Access Control and Trust Models for Ubiquitous Devices * Group management for ad-hoc communities * Peer discovery in Ubiquitous Computing Environment * Architecture and protocols for inter provider roaming in wireless networks * Experiences and test-beds for inter provider roaming A collection of links related to the workshop topics is available: http://netgroup.uniroma2.it/Stefano_Salsano/IWUAC-06/research-links.html ============================================================ How to submit a paper Information on paper submission procedure and page formatting instructions are available on the workshop web page. ============================================================ Co-organizers and TPC chairs Ramiro Liscano, University of Ontario, Oshawa, Canada Stefano Salsano, University of Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy Technical Program Committee Selim Aissi, Intel Corporation, USA Mahbubul Alam - Cisco Systems, San Jose, USA Michel Barbeau - Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Tim Finin - University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA Patrick Hung - University of Ontario, Oshawa, Canada Anupam Joshi - University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA Lalana Kagal - MIT, USA Larry Korba - National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada Markus Muck, Motorola Labs, France Filip Perich - Shared Spectrum Company, USA Anand Prasad - Docomo Eurolab, Munich, Germany Neeli Prasad - Aalborg University, Demmark George Prezerakos - Technol. Education Institute of Piraeus, Greece Fabio Ricciato - Telecomm. Research Center Vienna (ftw.), Austria Simon Pietro Romano - Universita' di Napoli Federico II, Italy Enrico Rukzio - Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Germany Michael Smirnov - Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Nick Tselikas - National Technical University of Athens, Greece Miquel Vargas - University of Ontario, Oshawa, Canada Luca Veltri - University of Parma, Italy Lixia Zhang - UCLA, USA -- ******************************************************************* Stefano Salsano Dipartimento Ingegneria Elettronica Universita' di Roma "Tor Vergata" Via del Politecnico, 1 - 00133 Roma - ITALY http://www.eln.uniroma2.it/Stefano_Salsano/ E-mail : stefano.salsano(a)uniroma2.it Cell. : +39 320 4307310 Office : (Tel.) +39 06 72597450 (Fax.) +39 06 72597435 ******************************************************************* _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Special Issue on Wireless Mesh Networks.]
by Lars Wolf 12 Mar '06

12 Mar '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Special Issue on Wireless Mesh Networks. Datum: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 15:05:51 -0500 (EST) Von: Xudong Wang <wxudong(a)ece.gatech.edu> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu (As requested by many researchers, submission due date is extended to March 30, 2006. Please don't miss the new deadline. Thanks.) ==================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS SPECIAl ISSUE ON WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier) Journal http://www.elsevier.com/locate/adhoc/ Guest editors: Xudong Wang, Kiyon, Inc. Edward Knightly, Rice University Marco Conti, National Research Council, Italy Anthony Ephremides, University of Maryland ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wireless mesh networks consist of mesh clients and mesh routers. Mesh routers form a wireless backbone via multi-hop ad-hoc networking but with minimal-mobility. The mesh backbone provides network access for both wired and wireless clients including mesh clients, and enables the integration of various wired and wireless networks. Mesh clients can run as a mobile ad hoc network. However, in order to achieve much better network performance, it is always preferable for them to work under the coordination of mesh routers. Due to the existence of a mesh backbone, wireless mesh networks possess many advantages over other wireless networks, and are expected to be one of the most promising wireless networking technologies. Despite recent progresses in wireless mesh networks, many research issues still remain. This special issue is dedicated to state-of-the-art research achievements in the area of wireless mesh networking. The papers must focus on research problems that are specific to wireless mesh networking, rather than on generic topics of ad-hoc or multi-hop networking. This special issue will cover all aspects of wireless mesh networking. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Mesh network architecture and performance analysis Mesh network capacity Scalability issues and solutions Medium access control and routing protocols Protocol design for MIMO, adaptive antenna, reconfigurable radios, software radios, and cognitive radios Cross-layer design and optimization QoS and multimedia traffic over wireless mesh networks Topology, power, and mobility management Interworking between heterogeneous networks and adaptive protocols Network self-organization and self-configuration Trustworthy networks and security algorithms Incentives, cooperation, and reputation systems Testbed, deployment, and application practice Authors must submit their manuscripts through Elsevier Editorial System at http://ees.elsevier.com/adhoc/, and must choose article type as Special Issue-Wireless Mesh Networks. For detailed formatting instructions, please refer to the guidelines available at the AD HOC Networks journal web site, http://www.elsevier.com/locate/adhoc/. The review process will be based on a pre-review phase for screening papers out of the scope of this special issue, and a single round of technical reviews. Acceptance will be limited to those papers requiring only minor revisions. The key dates are listed as follows: Manuscript Submission Due Date: March 30, 2006 Notification of Acceptance: July 30, 2006 Final Camera-Ready Submission: September 1, 2006 On-line Publication Date: November 1, 2006 Publication Date: November 2007 =================================================================== _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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