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CALL FOR PAPERS

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Second International Workshop on Personalized Networks http://pernets.org/http://pernets.org/

To be held in conjunction with: The 4th Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networks and Services (MOBIQUITOUS 2007) August 6-10, 2007 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline: April 1, 2007 Notification of Acceptance: May 21, 2007 Camera-Ready Submissions: June 10, 2007

(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.

(Please visit http://pernets.org/http://pernets.org/ for more information and submission instructions)

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.

General Chairperson Ignas Niemegeers, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Program Co-Chairpersons Sonia Heemstra de Groot, University of Twente, Netherlands Sai Shankar, Qualcomm, San Diego, USA Magda El Zarki, University of California, Irvine, USA

Publicity Chairperson Paolo Bellavista, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy

Technical Program Committee Paolo Bellavista, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy Milind M Buddhikot, Bell Laboratories, New Jersey, USA Chun-Ting Chou, Philips Research, New York, USA Carlos Cordeiro, Philips Research, New York, USA Piet Demeester, University of Ghent, Belgium Sudhir Dixit, Nokia, Boston, USA Minaxi Gupta, Indiana University, USA Carmelita G rg, University of Bremen, Germany K. V. S. Hari, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Frank den Hartog, TNO, Netherlands Sonia Heemstra de Groot, TI-WMC, Netherlands Geert Heijenk, University of Twente, The Netherlands Ramin Hekmat, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands James Irvine, Strathclyde University, Scotland H. S. Jamadagni, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Ern Kovacs, NEC Europe, Heidelberg, Germany Anup Kumar, University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA Joy Kuri, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Guy Leduc, Universite de Liege, Belgium Anthony Lo, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Ingrid Moerman, University of Ghent, Belgium Luis Mu oz, University of Cantabria, Spain Ignas Niemegeers, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Giovanni Pau, University of California Los Angeles, USA Jorge Pereira, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium Neeli Prasad, University of Aalborg, Denmark Ramjee Prasad, University of Aalborg, Denmark Tarek Saadawi, City University of New York, USA Amardeo Sarma, NEC Network Laboratories, Germany Sai Shankar, Qualcomm, San Diego, USA Sirin Tekinay, New Jersey Institute of Technology, New Jersey, USA Magda El Zarki, University of California, Irvine, USA Djamal Zeglache, INT, Paris, France

Paolo Bellavista, Ph. D. Associate Professor in Computer Science Engineering DEIS - Università degli Studi di Bologna Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna (ITALY) Tel# +39-051-2093866; Fax# +39-051-2093073 Email: pbellavista@deis.unibo.it Web: http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/PaoloBellavista/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc@cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc