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[Fwd: CFP: EURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing Special Issue on Visual Sensor Networks]
by Lars Wolf 02 Sep '05

02 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CFP: EURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing Special Issue on Visual Sensor Networks Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 02:26:35 -0500 From: Dr. Deepa Kundur <deepa(a)ee.tamu.edu> To: comm-theory(a)ieee.org, tccc(a)comsoc.org, multicomm(a)comsoc.org, itc(a)comsoc.org CC: Deepa Kundur <deepa(a)ee.tamu.edu>, Ching-Yung Lin <chingyung(a)us.ibm.com>, Chun-Shien Lu <lcs(a)iis.sinica.edu.tw> Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing Special Issue on Visual Sensor Networks Call for Papers Research into the design, development, and deployment of networked sensing devices for high-level inference and surveillance of the physical environment has grown tremendously in the last few years. This trend has been motivated, in part, by recent technological advances in electronics, communication networking, and signal processing. Sensor networks are commonly comprised of lightweight distributed sensor nodes such as low-cost video cameras. There is inherent redundancy in the number of nodes deployed and corresponding networking topology. Operation of the network requires autonomous peer-based collaboration amongst the nodes and intermediate data-centric processing amongst local sensors. The intermediate processing known as in-network processing is application-specific. Often, the sensors are untethered so that they must communicate wirelessly and be battery-powered. Initial focus was placed on the design of sensor networks in which scalar phenomena such as temperature, pressure, or humidity were measured. It is envisioned that much societal use of sensor networks will also be based on employing content-rich vision-based sensors. The volume of data collected as well as the sophistication of the necessary in-network stream content processing provide a diverse set of challenges in comparison with generic scalar sensor network research. Applications that will be facilitated through the development of visual sensor networking technology include automatic tracking, monitoring and signaling of intruders within a physical area, assisted living for the elderly or physically disabled, environmental monitoring, and command and control of unmanned vehicles. Many current video-based surveillance systems have centralized architectures that collect all visual data at a central location for storage or real-time interpretation by a human operator. The use of distributed processing for automated event detection would significantly alleviate mundane or time-critical activities performed by human operators, and provide better network scalability. Thus, it is expected that video surveillance solutions of the future will successfully utilize visual sensor networking technologies. Given that the field of visual sensor networking is still in its infancy, it is critical that researchers from the diverse disciplines including signal processing, communications, and electronics address the many challenges of this emerging field. This special issue aims to bring together a diverse set of research results that are essential for the development of robust and practical visual sensor networks. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): o Sensor network architectures for high-bandwidth vision applications o Communication networking protocols specific to visual sensor networks o Scalability, reliability, and modeling issues of visual sensor networks o Distributed computer vision and aggregation algorithms for low-power surveillance applications o Fusion of information from visual and other modalities of sensors o Storage and retrieval of sensor information o Security issues for visual sensor networks o Visual sensor network testbed research o Novel applications of visual sensor networks o Design of visual sensors Authors should follow the EURASIP JASP manuscript format described at the journal site http://www.hindawi.info/asp/ . Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the EURASIP JASP's manuscript tracking system at journal's web site, according to the following timetable. Manuscript Due December 1, 2005 Acceptance Notification April 1, 2006 Final Manuscript Due July 1, 2006 Publication Date 3rd Quarter, 2006 GUEST EDITORS: Deepa Kundur, Department of Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA; deepa(a)ee.tamu.edu Ching-Yung Lin, Distributed Computing Department, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, New York, USA; chingyung(a)us.ibm.com Chun Shien Lu, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan; lcs(a)iis.sinica.edu.tw

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[Fwd: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting (1-September-2005)]
by Lars Wolf 02 Sep '05

02 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting (1-September-2005) Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 21:12:41 -0700 From: Geoff Voelker <voelker(a)CS.UCSD.EDU> Reply-To: Geoff Voelker <voelker(a)CS.UCSD.EDU> To: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting (1-September-2005) ____________________________________________________________ Contents 1. Announcements EWSN 2006 2005-09-02 http://www.ewsn.org EUROSYS 2006 2005-10-08 http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/conference/EuroSys2006/ NSDI 2006 2005-10-10 http://www.usenix.org/nsdi06/ WWW 2006 2005-11-04 http://www2006.org (* = new this month) 2. Special Announcements SOSP'05 Registration SOSP'05 Work-in-Progress Session 3. About this list How to subscribe, unsubscribe, and submit requests for announcements. More information about SIGOPS can be found at the SIGOPS webpage: http://www.acm.org/sigops To view the HTML version of this page, go to: http://www.acm.org/sigops/announce/current.html ____________________________________________________________ Announcements EWSN 2006 Title: European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks Deadline: 2005-09-02 Webpage: http://www.ewsn.org Conference: February, 13-15, 2006 Contact: thiemo(a)sics.se Location: Zurich, Switzerland Synopsis: EWSN 2006, the European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks, is the third of a series of annual meetings focusing on the latest research in the rapidly growing area of wireless sensor networks. EWSN 2006 will be held at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, on February 13-15, 2006. Previous workshops were held in 2004 in Berlin, Germany, and in 2005 in Istanbul, Turkey. ____________________________________________________________ EUROSYS 2006 Title: 1st EuroSys Conference (EUROSYS 2006) Abstract: 2005-10-08 Deadline: 2005-10-15 Webpage: http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/conference/EuroSys2006/ Conference: April 18-21, 2006 Contact: eurosys_conf(a)cs.kuleuven.be Location: Leuven, Belgium Synopsis: EuroSys2006 is the first of a series of system conferences located in Europe. It welcomes submissions and attendance from all over the world. It will be held in Leuven, Belgium, April 18-21, 2006. EuroSys aims to bring together researchers from different areas of computer systems, who are otherwise spread over multiple conferences. As a result, we seek papers on all aspects of computer systems. We especially seek papers that cross the divide between areas. Papers should report, where possible, on the design, implementation, analysis, evaluation, and deployment of such systems. ____________________________________________________________ NSDI 2006 Title: 3rd Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '06) Abstract: 2005-10-10 Deadline: 2005-10-17 Webpage: http://www.usenix.org/nsdi06/ Conference: May 8-10, 2006 Contact: nsdi06chairs(a)usenix.org Location: San Jose, CA, USA Synopsis: NSDI 2006 focuses on the design principles of large-scale networks and distributed systems. Systems as diverse as scalable Web services, peer-to-peer file sharing, sensor nets, and distributed network measurement share a set of challenges. Our goal is to bring together researchers from across the networking and systems community--including operating systems, distributed systems, and computer networking--to foster cross-disciplinary approaches to our shared research challenges. NSDI seeks a broad variety of work that furthers the knowledge and understanding of the networking and systems community as a whole, continues a significant research dialog, or pushes the architectural boundaries of large-scale network services. ____________________________________________________________ WWW 2006 Title: 15th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW'06) Abstract: 2005-11-04 Deadline: 2005-11-04 Webpage: http://www2006.org Conference: May 22-26, 2006 Contact: chase(a)cs.duke.edu Location: Edinburgh, Scotland Synopsis: The WWW conference series is the prime venue for the latest ideas and developments about the Web. WWW2006 seeks original papers describing research in all areas of the Web. Topics include but are not limited to: Performance, Reliability and Scalability, Pervasive Web and Mobility, Search, Security, and Privacy. Submissions should present original reports of substantive new work. New for WWW2006: We solicit submissions of "position papers" articulating high-level architectural visions, describing challenging future directions, or critiquing current design wisdom. ____________________________________________________________ SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS Title: SOSP'05 Registration Summary: The 20th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP'05) will be held at The Grand Hotel, Brighton, United Kingdom on October 23-26, 2005. Register now at: http://www.sosp-20.com/registration.htm Early registration ends September 23, 2005. Online registration ends October 17, 2005. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title: SOSP'05 Work-in-Progress Session Summary: As in previous years, SOSP 20 will include a "Work in Progress" session. This session is intended to highlight the very latest, not-quite-ready-for-prime-time, research - including new approaches, new results, partial experiences, etc. Presentations will be selected in advance, based on an extended 1-page abstract describing the main points to be covered in the presentation. The WIP review committee will evaluate submissions according to the following criteria: * Contains new, interesting work, not previously presented. * Represents early work that is not yet ready for submission to a refereed conference or journal. * Student submissions meeting the above criteria will be explicitly favoured; however, submissions are not limited to just students. Deadline for WIP submissions (extended abstract): September 22, 2005 Notification of decisions: October 8, 2005 Information on how to submit a WIP can be found by following the link off of the SOSP web page, available at the following URL: http://www.sosp-20.com/wip.htm SOSP'05 WIP Review Committee Chair Liuba Shrira ____________________________________________________________ About SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE The SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE mailing list is intended to provide a low-volume channel that provides operating systems researchers and practitioners with information about upcoming events or other important announcements. In general, a message containing a group of such announcements will be sent about once per month with the subject line "SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting". On rare occasions, announcements of particular interest or urgency will be sent out with a different subject line, starting with "SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE supplemental posting" (for readers who wish to use mail filtering programs.) Finally, this mailing list is made available for use by publicity chairs of SIGOPS-sponsored conferences and the SIGOPS officers. To subscribe, send mail to LISTSERV(a)ACM.ORG with the following command (paste it!) in the body of the message: SUBSCRIBE SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE To unsubscribe, send mail to LISTSERV(a)ACM.ORG with the following command in the body of the message: UNSUBSCRIBE SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE To get more information about manipulating your subscription to this list, go to http://www.acm.org/infodir/services/listserv/doc.html To contact the owner of the list or to report a problem with the list, email SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE-request(a)ACM.ORG To request that an announcement be included in these mailings, go to http://sysnet.ucsd.edu/sigops/acm.html ____________________________________________________________ Geoff Voelker, SIGOPS Information Director

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[Fwd: PERVASIVE 2006: 2nd Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: PERVASIVE 2006: 2nd Call for Papers Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 14:25:37 +0200 (CEST) From: Rene Mayrhofer (PERVASIVE 2006 Publicity Co-Chair) <rene(a)soft.uni-linz.ac.at> To: <lars.wolf(a)rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> [We apologize if you receive this email multiple times. It is posted to a few mailing lists worldwide.] SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS PERVASIVE 2006 The 4th International Conference on Pervasive Computing The Burlington Hotel Dublin, Ireland May 7--10, 2006 http://www.pervasive2006.org/ PERVASIVE 2006 -------------- PERVASIVE 2006 one of the premier conferences in Pervasive Computing invites submissions for the 4th International Conference on Pervasive Computing to be held in Dublin Ireland from the 7th to the 10th of May 2006. PERVASIVE is an international conference held annually which aims to present significant research contributions in the area of pervasive computing technologies, systems and applications. The last three conferences in this series were held in Munich (May 2005), Linz/Vienna (April 2004) and Zurich (August 2002). It provides a forum for researchers, developers, and users throughout the world to present advances in computing technology toward new modes of operation (ubiquitous, continuous, and self-organised) and toward new usage models (ambient, context-aware, and closely integrated into human activities and environments). In addition to a highly selective single-track program for technical papers, PERVASIVE 2006 will include a keynote address, late breaking results, videos, poster presentations, workshops, demonstrations, an outreach public lecture and a doctoral colloquium. Authors are invited to submit manuscripts of original unpublished research work in all areas. Relevant topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * Device, communication, and interaction technologies for pervasive computing. * Pervasive sensing, perception and inference for context technologies. * Software infrastructure, middleware and frameworks for pervasive computing systems and environments. * Analysis, design, implementation and evaluation of pervasive systems and applications. * Deployment and management of pervasive systems and services and emerging industrial scenarios. * Pervasive computing interaction models, user interfaces * Personalisation and user experience reports in pervasive computing. * Privacy, security and trust in pervasive computing. Important Dates: ---------------- September 30, 2005 : Paper Submission Deadline December 16, 2005 : Notification of Acceptance/Rejection February 10, 2006 : Camera-Ready Paper Deadline May 7, 2006 : Workshops May 8 - 9, 2006 : Main Conference May 10, 2006 : Doctoral Colloquium Paper Submission: ----------------- For PERVASIVE 2006 we are soliciting high quality technical papers that describe original, unpublished research on pervasive computing. Submissions should report concrete, significant, and transferable results that help advance the state of the art in pervasive computing. All papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the PERVASIVE 2006 program committee and by additional expert reviewers from relevant research communities. PERVASIVE 2006 requires that submissions have not been published previously and that papers submitted are not under simultaneous review for any other conference, journal or other publication. Papers for PERVASIVE 2006 should be formatted according to the Springer-Verlag LNCS style. We solicit papers of up to 15 pages. All paper submissions will be treated as full papers but it is important that their length is appropriate for their content. Accepted papers will be allowed to submit revised versions upto 18 pages in their camera ready copy. Paper submissions have to be anonymized according to our Anonymous Submission Policy to facilitate blind review. Authors should take care throughout their paper that their identity and their institution's identity is not revealed. Ensure you read and follow the PERVASIVE 2006 Anonymous Submission Policy, before submitting. Full papers should be submitted via the EDAS system. Once logged in select the Pervasive 2006 conference to submit your paper. If you do not already have an account with EDAS you can register at http://www.edas.info/Conferences.cgi Conference Committee -------------------- General Chair Paddy Nixon, University College Dublin, Ireland Conference Chair Aaron Quigley, University College Dublin, Ireland Program Co-Chairs Ken Fishkin, Google Research, USA Bernt Schiele, Darmsadt University of Technology, Germany Late Breaking Results Co-Chairs Tom Pfeifer Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland Albrecht Schmidt Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Germany Woontack Woo KJIST, S. Korea Workshops Co-Chairs Vinny Cahill Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Thomas Strang German Aerospace Centre, Germany Video Co-Chairs Gavin Doherty Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Frederic Vernier l'Universite Paris-Sud, France Demonstrations Co-Chairs Kieran Delaney Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland Bill Yerazunis MERL, USA Doctoral Colloquium Co-Chairs Matthew Chalmers University of Glasgow, UK Joe Kiniry University College Dublin, Ireland Volunteers Co-Chairs Lorcan Coyle University College Dublin, Ireland Steve Neely University College Dublin, Ireland Publicity Co-Chairs Simon Dobson University College Dublin, Ireland Rene Mayhofer Johannes Kepler Universitaet Linz, Austria Webmaster Graeme Stevenson University College Dublin, Ireland Organising Committee Vinny Cahill Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Simon Dobson University College Dublin, Ireland Gareth Jones Dublin City University, Ireland Paddy Nixon University College Dublin, Ireland Gregory O'Hare University College Dublin, Ireland Tom Pfeifer Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland Steering Committee Alois Ferscha Johannes Kepler Universitaet Linz, Austria Hans Gellersen Lancaster University, UK Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland Albrecht Schmidt University of Munich, Germany Roy Want Intel Research, USA Program Committee Gregory Abowd (Georgia Tech) Matthew Chalmers (Glasgow) Michael Beigl (Karlsruhe) Nigel Davies (Lancaster) Anind Dey (CMU) Hans Gellersen (Lancaster) Ken Hinckley (Microsoft) Antonio Krueger(Muenster) John Krumm (Microsoft) Hideki Koike (University of Electro-Communications, Japan) Anthony LaMarca (Intel Research) Marc Langheinrich (ETH) Paul Lukowicz (ETH) Chandra Narayanaswami (IBM) Brian Noble (Michigan) Don Patterson (UC Irvine) Dan Russell (Google Research) Albrecht Schmidt (Munich) Paris Smaragdis (MERL) Thomas Strang (DLR, Germany) Joshua Smith (Intel Research) Mirjana Spasojevic (Yahoo) Yoshito Tobe (Dendai) Khai Troung (Toronto)

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[Fwd: September SigComm-Members Monthly Digest]
by Lars Wolf 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: September SigComm-Members Monthly Digest Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 08:08:50 -0400 From: Erich Nahum <nahum(a)turing.acm.org> Reply-To: Erich Nahum <nahum(a)turing.acm.org> To: SIGCOMM-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG Dear SIGCOMM Community Members: This is the September 2005 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's Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) has decided to relocate from New Orleans due to the events from Hurricane Katrina. The new location has not yet been chosen but will be announced as soon as possible here and at the conference Web site at: http://www.usenix.org/events/imc05/ People wishing to contribute to relief efforts can call 1-800-HELP-NOW or donate via the American Red Cross Web site at: http://www.redcross.org Thanks to everyone for making SigComm 2006 a great success, particularly Roch Guerin and the organizing committee. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Upcoming deadlines of Conferences and publications financially supported and planned by SIGCOMM: Call for Papers -- NSDI 2006 Submission Deadline: Oct 10, 2006 Conference Dates: May 8-10, 2006 Location: San Jose, California, USA URL: http://www.usenix.org/events/nsdi06/ Call for Participation -- IMC 2006 Conference Dates: Oct 19-21, 2005 Location: TBA URL: http://www.usenix.org/events/imc05/ Call for Participation -- HotNets 2005 Conference Dates: Nov 14-15, 2005 Location: College Park, Maryland, USA URL: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/jac22/cfp/hotnets05/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming deadlines of Conferences planned in cooperation with SIGCOMM: (Remember that you, as a SIGCOMM member, are eligible for the conference "member rate" even it it's an IEEE or USENIX conference.) Call for Participation -- Co-NEXT 2005 Conference Dates: October 24-27, 2005 Location: Toulouse, France URL: http://www.co-next.net ----------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming deadlines of other conferences and journals related to the data communications area: Call for Papers -- Workshop on Emerging Services Delivery Platforms Submission Deadline: Sep 23, 2005 Location: New Delhi, India URL: http://www.softplatforms.org Call for Participation -- MASCOTS 2005 Conference Dates: Sep 26-29, 2005 Location: Atlanta, GA, USA URL: http://www.mascots-conference.org Call for Papers -- Advanced International Conf. on Telecommunications Submission Deadline: Sep 30, 2005 Location: Guadeloupe, French Caribbean URL: http://www.iaria.org/conferences/SubmitGuadaAICT06.html Call for Participation -- IEEE BroadNets 2005 Conference Dates: Oct 3-7, 2005 Location: Lovely Boston, MA, USA URL: http://www.broadnets.org Call for Participation and Student Posters -- ICNP 2005 Conference Dates: November 6-9, 2005 Location: Lovely Boston, MA, USA URL: http://csr.bu.edu/icnp2005/ Call for Participation -- IWAN 2005 Conference Dates: Nov 21, 2005 Location: Sophia Antipolis, French Riviera URL: http://www.iwan2005.net Call for Participation -- IEEE Create-Net 2006 Conference Dates: Mar 1-3, 2006 Location: Barcelona, Spain URL: http://www.tridentcom.org ----------------------------------------------------------------- Removing Yourself from SIGCOMM Mailing List If your email address exactly matches the email address recorded on the SIGCOMM list (no forwarding), you can remove yourself with: mail listserv(a)acm.org with message body (not subject): unsubscribe SIGCOMM-MEMBERS If your email address does *not* match, mail me at infodir_sigcomm(a)acm.org, and I will work to remove you from the list.

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP FAWN 2006, Pisa, Italy, March 2006: extended deadline]
by Lars Wolf 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP FAWN 2006, Pisa, Italy, March 2006: extended deadline Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 01:04:04 +0200 From: David Simplot-Ryl <David.Simplot(a)lifl.fr> Organization: IRCICA/LIFL, Univ. Lille 1 To: <manet(a)ietf.org>, <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu>, <arp(a)cines.fr>, <tarot(a)hds.utc.fr>, <rhdm(a)lip6.fr>, <alp-diffusion(a)univ-lille1.fr> Apologies in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS -- FAWN 2006 1st International Workshop On Foundations And Algorithms For Wireless Networking In conjunction with Fourth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Pisa, Italy, March 13, 2006 http://ares.insa-lyon.fr/fawn2006/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE ----- Mobile computing and communications devices will have an enormous impact on our lifestyle over the next several decades. Wireless connectivity with mobility support is an important enabling technology for pervasive computing and communications. The emergence of multi-hop wireless network (wireless ad hoc networks, sensor networks) and The mobility of distributed computing components raise a number of interesting, and difficult theoretical and algorithmic issues and will play a key role in development and progress of these emerging paradigms. FAWN 2006 is devoted to algorithms, theory and modeling in the context of mobile and wireless computing and networking. It is intended to be a lively meeting, covering many of the algorithmic aspects of this field ranging from optimization, computational geometry, spatial stochastic models for wireless communications, graph, random graphs, spatial point processes and stochastic geometry, discrete and continuum percolation, theory combinatorics and approximation algorithms. The workshop is intended to foster cooperation among researchers in mobile computing and researchers in discrete and distributed algorithms and offer an opportunity to discuss and express their views on the current trends challenges and state of the art solutions addressing issues in wireless computing and networking. The aim of FAWN 2006 is to show how theoretical and algorithmic aspects in the context of mobile and wireless computing and communications can be used to analyze and optimize key features of wireless networks like coverage, mobility, routing, capacity, scheduling, power control etc. TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------ Papers are solicited in all research and applied areas related to mobile and wireless computing and communications where discrete algorithms and methods are used, including, but not limited to: * Ad hoc networks * Channel assignment and management * Distributed algorithms * Distributed wireless sensor networks * Dynamic graph algorithms * Localization and location tracking * Media access techniques and protocols * Modeling and performance evaluation * Power aware protocol * Quality-of-service issues * Scheduling * Security/fault-tolerance issues * Self-configuration * Selfish behavior and cooperation * Spatial stochastic models * Synchronization * Topology control PAPER INSTRUCTIONS ------------------ Submitted papers must not have been published elsewhere nor currently be under review by another conference or journal. Submission instructions are published on the conference web site. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Full Paper Submission: October 1, 2005 *** NEW DEADLINE *** Acceptance notification: November 22, 2005 Camera-ready due: December 19, 2005 TECHNICAL COMMITTEES -------------------- General Chairs Pr. Eric Fleury, INSA Lyon/INRIA, France Pr. Shay Kutten, Technion, Israel Pr. Catherine Rosenberg, University of Waterloo, Canada Publicity Chair David Simplot-Ryl, LIFL, France Organization Chair Guillaume Chelius, INRIA, France Program Committee Francois Baccelli, INRIA/ENS, France Stefano Basagni, Northeastern Univ., USA Claude Chaudet, ENST Paris, France Jon Crowcroft, U. of Cambridge, UK Pilu Crescenzi, U. Firenze, Italy Timur Friedman, Univ. P.\&M. Curie, France Isabelle Guerin Lassous, INRIA, France Jaap-Henk Hoepman, Radboud Univ. Nijmegen, Netherlands Zvi Lotker, Centrum Wiskunde en Informatica, Netherlands Stephan Olariu, McGill University, Canada David Peleg, Weizmann Institute, Israel Andrea Richa, Arizona State Univ., USA Maria Jose Serna, Technical U. of Catalonia, Spain David Simplot-Ryl, LIFL, France Martha Steenstrup , Clemson Univ., USA Ivan Stojmenovic, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada Patrick Thiran , EPFL, Switzerland Christian Tschudin, Univ. Basel, Switzerland Jennifer Welch, Texas A\&M University, USA Peter Widmayer, ETHZ, Switzerland Prudence Wong, University of Liverpool, UK Janez Zerovnik, Slovenia _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: MultiSec 2005]
by Lars Wolf 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP: MultiSec 2005 Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:41:10 -0300 From: Laurence T. Yang <lyang(a)stfx.ca> To: discuss <discuss(a)ieeetcsc.org>, tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu CC: zhliu(a)uncc.edu ---------------------------------------------- The first IEEE International Workshop on Security and Pervasive Multimedia Environments (MultiSec 2005) (http://coitweb.uncc.edu/~zhliu/MultiSec05) to be held in conjunction with IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2005) December 12-14, 2005 Irvine, California, USA http://ISM2005.eecs.uci.edu/ Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society in cooperation with University of California at Irvine Pervasive multimedia environments provide users to access multimedia services anytime and anywhere. The resources limitations of pervasive devices and huge data amount make security a challenge. On the other hand, pervasive multimedia services enhance the mission of security and protection. For example, the collection of video surveillance data and/or sensor video data is useful for monitoring. This workshop provides an international forum for academic, industry and government professionals to discuss recent progress in the above emerging research areas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Privacy and anonymity Trust management Video surveillance Quality of protection and QoS Secure multimedia information sharing Access control Cryptographic algorithms Information hiding and multimedia watermarking Key management and authentication Network security issues and protocols Case studies Risk and vulnerability assessment Commercial and industrial experiences Testbed and evaluation Biometrics Forensics Submissions The written and spoken language of MultiSec2005 is English. All submissions will be electronic, and details will be available on the web site. Full papers must not exceed 12 pages printed using at least 11-point type and double spacing. All papers should be in Adobe portable document format (PDF) or PostScript format. The paper should have a cover page, which includes a 200-word abstract, a list of keywords, and author's phone number and e-mail address. The accepted papers will be published along with Conference Proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Important Dates August 30, 2005 (extension: September 5) Submission of papers due September 14, 2005 Notification of acceptance of papers October 2, 2005 Camera-Ready copy of accepted papers due _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: Call for Papers: Distributed Multimedia Streaming at CCNC 2006]
by Lars Wolf 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Call for Papers: Distributed Multimedia Streaming at CCNC 2006 Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 21:53:22 +0200 From: Pascal Frossard <pascal.frossard(a)epfl.ch> To: <multicomm(a)comsoc.org> Please ignore if you already received this message ===================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 2006 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2006) January 7-10, 2006 - Las Vegas, USA Special Session on Distributed Multimedia Streaming Multimedia streaming is one of the most popular services on the current Internet. Its already-high demand is even on the rise as the Internet users have started to be familiar with peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies which enable them to share contents between one another directly. Streaming in the P2P manner, in contrast to the traditional client/server approach, takes advantage of existing end-system computational and networking resources, thus allowing economical clients to leverage their collective power to benefit the entire service community. However, multimedia content is resource demanding while user computing devices are not as powerful as are content servers. Consequently, designing a good decentralized streaming scheme in a large-scale peer-to-peer environment is challenging. The problem becomes more of a challenge due to the ad hoc behavior of peers; they can leave and join the system freely at any time. As people tend to work beyond their office desk, it is also expected that the next generation of communication networks includes rapid deployments of independent mobile users. With the emergence of wireless technologies such as IEEE 802.11 and Bluetooth, mobile users are enabled to connect to each other directly without any networking infrastructure such as the Internet and infrastructure-based wireless LANs. In other words, the users form a mobile ad hoc network (MANET). As multimedia streaming becomes an integrated part of an increasing number of applications and wireless networks are emerging to dominate the communication environment of the future, it is interesting and worthwhile to investigate multimedia streaming solutions for MANETs. There are many open issues regarding this investigation due to the deviation between the resource, energy, and bandwidth availability of ad hoc networks and the quality of service desired by multimedia streaming users. This special session seeks original contributions of high-quality papers that address novel systems challenges towards the success of multimedia streaming deployment in peer-to-peer, content distribution, and wireless ad hoc networks. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Signal processing/compression/information theories to support ad hoc multimedia streaming * Modeling, measurement, and performance study on ad hoc multimedia streaming * Internet P2P multimedia streaming * P2P multimedia content distribution networks * Ad hoc overlay solutions for multimedia streaming * Live streaming, video on demand, and video conferencing in wireless ad hoc networks * Network and transport protocols for streaming in wireless ad hoc networks * Management, QoS, and security aspects in streaming over wireless ad hoc networks * Streaming applications in sensor networks * Implementations of multimedia streaming in ad hoc networks Important Dates Paper submission deadline: September 5th, 2005 --- EXTENDED Notification of acceptance: September 30, 2005 Camera-ready version due: October 14, 2005 Special Session Co-Chairs Thinh Nguyen, Oregon State University (thinhq(a)eecs.orst.edu) Duc A. Tran, University of Dayton (duc.tran(a)notes.udayton.edu) Pascal Frossard, EPFL (pascal.frossard(a)epfl.ch) Information for Authors Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft papers preferably through EDAS (http://edas.info/), or by email to one of the co-chairs. Submitted papers must be original, unpublished work, and not currently under review for any other conference or journal. The first page of the paper should include the authors' names, affiliations, fax/telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses. The first page should also include a less-than-200-word abstract. The camera-ready version for an accepted paper will be no more than 6 pages in IEEE double-column standard format. Contributions will be reviewed by at least three referees from both the program committee and external reviewers for originality, significance, clarity, soundness, relevance, and technical contents on basis of papers.

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[Fwd: IEEE ComSoc Conferences Update]
by Sven Jaap 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: IEEE ComSoc Conferences Update Datum: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:47:03 -0400 Von: CommunicationsSociety(a)comsoc.org An: IEEEM&C(a)comsoc.org <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed"> d471e5.jpg d47358.jpg The conferences listed below, sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society, have imminent deadlines. Go to <http://www.comsoc.org/confs>http://www.comsoc.org/confs for complete program information. d47362.jpg 2nd Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks 26 - 29 September 2005 / Santa Clara, California, USA <http://www.ieee-secon.org/2005>http://www.ieee-secon.org/2005 Early Registration Deadline: 2 September 2005!! Hotel Reservation Deadline: 9 September 2005!! Preliminary program, registration & hotel information now available! Program highlights include: Tutorials Technical Papers Poster Papers Demos Panels WiMesh 2005 Workshop Don't Delay - Register Today! d473b2.gif IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conference 3 - 6 April 2006 / Las Vegas, Nevada, USA IEEE WCNC 2006 seeks original contributions of papers encompassing 3G/B3G systems, WMAN, WLAN, WPAN, WBAN, broadband satellite systems, broadband fixed wireless systems, ad hoc and sensor networks. Tutorial and Technology / Business Applications Panel proposals are also sought. Submission deadline: 18 September 2005 For further details and/or a complete listing of topical tracks and submission instructions, please visit: <http://www.ieee-wcnc.org/>http://www.ieee-wcnc.org d473b2.jpg IEEE International Conference on Communications 11 - 15 June 2006 / Istanbul, Turkey <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2006/>http://www.ieee-icc.org/2006/ Submission deadline: 15 September 2005 Under the theme of 'Bridging Continents Through Communications, the technical program will consist of a general topic symposium, eight specific symposia, Business Applications and Executive Sessions, Tutorials, and Workshops. For the technical sessions, the ICC 2006 program committee is soliciting original papers describing state-of-the-art research and development in all areas of communications and networking. Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical papers for oral or poster presentations at ICC 2006 and publication in the Conference Proceeding. Proposals for Tutorials and Workshops are also invited. Visit <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2006>http://www.ieee-icc.org/2006 for the complete scope and symposia topics of ICC 2006. To unsubscribe from the IEEE Communications Society M&C mailing list send a blank email message to IEEEM&C-remove(a)comsoc.org. To subscribe to the IEEE Communications Society M&C mailing list send a blank email message to IEEEM&C-join(a)comsoc.org. You can also request removal by mail. Please send a note with your email address and the list name (IEEEM&C(a)comsoc.org) to ComSoc List Removal - IT 3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor New York, NY 10016 USA </div>

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[Fwd: CFP: Agile Radios and Cooperative Networking for Next Generation Wireless Networks]
by Lars Wolf 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CFP: Agile Radios and Cooperative Networking for Next Generation Wireless Networks Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:53:08 -0400 From: Carlos Cordeiro <carlos.cordeiro(a)philips.com> To: multicomm(a)comsoc.org Please distribute. We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. **************************************************************************************** * IEEE CCNC 2006 Special Session on * * * * Agile Radios and Cooperative Networking for Next Generation * * Wireless Networks (ARCON'2006) * * * * * * In conjunction with * * IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC) * *(http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2006/call_papers/spec_sessions/index.htm) * * Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 7-10 January 2006 * * * * Call for Papers * **************************************************************************************** SCOPE: ------ Agile or cognitive radios are being considered as one of the promising technologies for next generation wireless networks. Devices equipped with these smart radios can monitor and adapt to the radio environment in real time to optimize their performance. They may scan and opportunistically utilize unused radio spectrum bands, thus significantly increasing spectrum access and unleashing tremendous capacity for a plethora of new applications. Coupled with cooperative communication capabilities, these devices may interact with each other to provide spatial diversity so as to achieve higher throughput or save power. In this workshop, papers describing original and significant research contributions to the field of agile/cognitive radios, cooperative networking, and their applications are solicited. All submissions must describe original results that are not published nor currently under review by any another conference or journal. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: - Software defined radio (SDR) - Platform or prototype of agile/cognitive radios - Spectrum agile (SA) communications - Signal and feature detection - Coexistence and Interference mitigation - Medium access control (MAC) for SA communication - Network architecture for SA communication - Code and modulation design for spatial diversity - Partner detection and selection in cooperative communications - MAC for cooperative communications - Modeling and performance evaluation - Applications for SA or cooperation-based communications IMPORTANT DATES: ---------------- Paper Submission Deadline: 1st Oct 2005 Notification of Acceptance: 31st Oct. 2005 Camera-Ready Paper Due: 30th Nov. 2005 SUBMISSION: ----------- Papers should be submitted in PDF format through EDAS at http://edas.info/Paper.cgi?c=4602. Paper length must not exceed 5 pages. Please see author information page for submission guidelines at CCNC'06 website (http://www.ieee-ccnc.org). Submissions should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliations, fax and telephone numbers and e-mail addresses. When submitting the paper through EDAS, be sure to select "Agile radios and cooperative networking for next generation wireless networks" from the Track pull down at the bottom of the submission form. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. At least one author of accepted papers is required to register at the full registration rate. CO-ORGANIZERS: -------------- Sai Shankar N, Qualcomm Inc. (nsai(a)qualcomm.com) Carlos Cordeiro, Philips Research USA (Carlos.Cordeiro(a)philips.com) Chun-Ting Chou, Philips Research USA (Chun-Ting.Chou(a)philips.com) TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: ---------------------------- Chun-Ting Chou (Philips Research, USA) Carlos Cordeiro (Philips Research, USA) Elza Erkip (Polytechnic University, USA) Jennifer Hou (UIUC, USA) Xin Liu (UC Davis, USA) Stefan Mangold (Swisscom, Switzerland) Ashish Pandharipande (Samsung, Korea) Kang Shin (University of Michigan, USA) Andrej Stefanov (Polytechnic University, USA) Haitao Zheng (Microsoft Research, China)

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Wireless Measurements Workshop CFP]
by Lars Wolf 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] Wireless Measurements Workshop CFP Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:17:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Kevin C. Almeroth <almeroth(a)cs.ucsb.edu> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Second International Workshop on Wireless Network Measurement (WiNMee) (co-located with WiOpt) April 3, 2006 Boston, Massachusetts, USA http://www.winmee.org/ WiNMee 2006 will be the second international workshop on Wireless Network Measurement. The first workshop, WiNMee 2005, was held in Lago di Gardi, Italy and was highly successful with 32 submissions and 13 accepted papers. This year we hope to build on the success of last year by bringing researchers together to discuss the next generation of wireless network measurement research. Wireless networking has attracted much recent interest. Nonetheless, performance evaluation of wireless protocols, networks, and applications are still largely based on simulations. Only recently have researchers turned their attention to measuring real-world networks; building models based on real-world data and using testbeds to more realistically evaluate their proposed ideas. Accurate network measurements have proven to be a different and a greater challenge than in wired networks. Accurate data models that reflect the unique characteristics of wireless networks have also proven to be more of a challenge. Wireless network testbeds have proven to be yet another hard environments in which to work due to the many unique properties of the wireless medium. For example, results in wireless testbeds are often difficult to reproduce due to performance variations caused by location,weather, time of day, and other uncontrollable external variables.Testbeds are also challenging because implementing novel solutions often requires significant changes to the network as well as careful observation and measurement. The committee for WiNMee 2006 is soliciting 6 page papers that report on experiences obtained from operational wireless experiments, either in testbeds or in the field. Topics include: * Operational experience on the performance of wireless networks * Challenges with wireless measurements * Experimental (in)validation of assumptions in a wireless environments * Metrics for wireless network for performance evaluation * Wireless network troubleshooting techniques and recommendations * Experience with building/designing wireless networks * Description of tools for building and/or managing wireless testbeds * Techniques for testbed scaling * Techniques for improving experiment repeatability * Techniques for validating results obtained from wireless testbeds * Methods for simplifying experiment setup and reconfiguration * Mobility pattern implementation Important Dates Submission deadline: December 4, 2005 Notification deadline: January 26, 2006 Camera-ready due: February 26, 2006 Workshop: April 3, 2006 Submission Instructions Submitted papers should not exceed 6 pages in length and should be formatted in two columns with a point size greater or equal to 10. Workshop Chairs Kevin Almeroth (University California, Santa Barbara) Kave Salamatian (LIP6-University Pierre et Marie Curie) Technical Program Committee Kevin Almeroth, UC-Santa Barbara, USA Anish Arora, Ohio State, USA Chadi Barakat, INRIA , France Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer, UC-Santa Barbara, USA Andrew Campbell, Dartmouth , USA Ahmed Helmy, USC, USA Tristan Henderson, Dartmouth, USA Ed Knightly, Rice University , USA Josep Mangues, CTTC, Spain Konstantina Papagiannaki, Intel Research, UK Ashu Sabharwal, Rice University, USA Kave Salamatian, LIP6 , France Suresh Singh, Portland State University, USA Aruna Seneviratne, National ICT, Australia Thierry Turletti, INRIA, France Thomas Ziegler, FTW , Austria _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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