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CALL FOR PAPERS
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Third International Workshop on Personalized
Networks
http://pernets.irctr.tudelft.nl/
to be held in conjunction with the IEEE Consumer Communications and
Networking
Conference (CCNC 2009) -
http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2009/
January 13, 2008 - Harrah's Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and the
IEEE Digital Library
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Purpose of this workshop
The ubiquitous nature of wireless networks has spawned many
interesting applications that were unimagined hitherto.
It has also brought many challenges for the communication and networking
community to address.
On one hand we see present day mobile devices are capable of providing
many services that required several devices before.
For example, most cell phones nowadays provide high speed data access,
still and video cameras, PDA functionality, etc.
These advances in device sophistication and service offerings, including
wireless hotspots, have made a difference in the way
we communicate. With increased user mobility and user's desire to always
be connected, we have seen a growing interest
in Personal Area Networks (PANs) and Body Area Networks (BANs). These
networks can be tuned and applied meaningfully
for individual users and their requirements. On the other hand the
Internet has changed our way of interacting dramatically.
These two major communication areas are having an in-depth influence on
the way we communicate; it is worth considering
them 'together' as the future communication vehicle.
Personalized Networks is one such future oriented concept where we seek
to bring BANs, PANs, WLAN, sensor networks,
ad hoc networks, home networks, vehicular networks and the Internet
together onto one platform under one broader vision of
future (4G) communication networks. The idea is to enable continuous and
seamless connectivity of all the personal devices of a user,
information sources, and network enabled controllers in an unobtrusive
way, regardless of where these entities are located - be they local or
remote.
It is a microcosm of the persons themselves with their associated
accessories somewhere on the Internet.
It is equivalent to the Internet presence that has become a prominent
concept in the last decade. This advanced overlay network is strongly
person oriented and must be ad hoc, intelligent and must behave as a
user-friendly virtual intelligent personal assistant to its owner.
It is a personal distributed environment, global in scope that can
co-exist on the present day Internet with its active participation.
Such a platform enables many new applications, especially for users with
rapidly changing communication demands that often operate
in various contexts simultaneously. It can also provide the much needed
user-friendliness to many services of today.
There are numerous issues which are challenging to the communication
network community in realizing a Personalized Network.
Most of them arise from the lack of current technology to deal in a
transparent way with the dynamic and mobile nature of the entities,
the unpredictable topology of the network, the power constraints of the
mobile devices, and the heterogeneity of the networking and
link-level technologies. Therefore, creating a Personalized Network
yields new architectures, protocols, algorithms, platforms, middleware,
etc.
They take care of addressing, routing, resource and service discovery,
the self-organization of the network, the localization of the
devices/person,
the complex security and privacy requirements, the offering of context
aware services and service management. Many of these issues,
ventured upon earlier under various mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) and
mobile network research initiatives, need to be reconsidered in this
case.
These technologies have to meet strict requirements with respect to user
perception, viable business models, usage of communication bandwidth,
protocol complexity, robustness, availability of links and
infrastructure, dependability and trust.
Four broader areas under which the presentations are classified:
- Architectures and systems
- End-to-end networking
- Security and privacy
- Operations, administration, management, and provisioning
Scope of the submission
We seek original contributions which are aimed at finding solutions
to the problems that are outlined above
towards realization of a Personalized Network. We have identified the
following major topics under which
we try to categorize the submissions. However, we will consider any other
original, interesting, and imaginative ideas
and thoughts towards meeting this goal of a Personalized Network.
- The architectural framework of personalized networks
- Context awareness and support
- Resource, service and context discovery
- Self-organization and adaptation
- Addressing and routing
- Interworking between PANs, ad hoc networks, etc, and
infrastructure-based heterogeneous networks
- Mobility of personalized networks
- Security, privacy and accounting
- Zero configuration methods and other enablers for ease-of-use
- Dependability
- Context-aware and application-driven communication substrates
- Interactions between persons through their networks, federations of
such networks
- Handling of QoS across heterogeneous and dynamically changing link
layers
- New QoS concepts in personalized networks
- Mapping of functional requirements to physical devices and resources
- Modeling and simulation of personalized networks
- P2P paradigm in personalized networks
- Innovative applications or prototypes and demonstrations of such
person centric applications are equally valued
Why should you participate in this workshop?
Personalized Networks is a concrete vision of the future networks,
yet very current, in the field of communications.
It attracts researchers from both wired and wireless domains. This
workshop is an ideal platform to share a vision of
where we are heading, interact, and strongly advocate an exciting new
avenue for researchers and practitioners in the field
of communication. Further, the final program will consist of carefully
selected - with at least three peer reviews -
and high quality submissions with a large emphasis on new ideas rather
than incremental contributions to the field.
Submissions of shorter versions of full papers that can be submitted to
other conferences/journal in the near future are discouraged.
Contact Information
Email: wpn@ewi.tudelft.nl
General chairperson
Ignas Niemegeers, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Program Co-Chairpersons
Sonia Heemstra de Groot, University of Twente, Netherlands
Magda El Zarki, University of California, Irvine, USA
Organizing Committee
Martin Jacobsson, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
R. V. Prasad, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Publicity Chairperson
Paolo Bellavista, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy
Paolo Bellavista, Ph. D.
Associate Professor in Computer Science Engineering
EB Member of IEEE Communications and IEEE T. Services Computing
DEIS - Università degli Studi di Bologna
Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna (ITALY)
Tel# +39-051-2093866; Fax# +39-051-2093073
Email: paolo.bellavista@unibo.it
Web:
http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/PaoloBellavista/