June 2003 - ifip-tc6 - lists.rwth-aachen.de

*****SPAM***** Military-Communications-CFP-Special-Issue-ComNet
by erdal＠itu 24 Jun '03

24 Jun '03

CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue of Computer Networks (Elsevier) on Future Advances in Military Communications Systems & Technologies Since the end of the Cold War there have been numerous advances in the Telecommunications Technologies that support the tactical operational support of modern military personnel. The requirement today is for rapid deployment of military assets in remote parts of the world, often in environmentally hostile geography. This places an ever-increasing dependence on Information and Communications Technology to provide real-time fault-tolerant QoS command, control and data management over fixed and freespace communications transport infrastructures. The ability of the modern combatant to have an array of 'on-board' sensor feeds to various components of the central command and control stack using a combination of HF Radio, SATCOM, spread spectrum or IP protocols places added pressure on the communications stack to provide an fully integrated network management solution for the Digital Battlefield. Key services that need to be provided include: node and network mobility (NEMO, MIP), request admission control, energy efficient device operation (e.g. IP address management or DNS), intelligent QoS-based network resource provisioning, error-free physical and MAC-layer protocols and robust security. In all of these sub-level communications technologies there is a challenge to provide more effective topology transition and data management mechanisms in order that any ad-hoc network can self-heal without impacting user data communications sessions after exception condition events have been detected. This special issue of Computer Networks is intended to foster the dissemination of high quality research in Integrated Mobility and Ad-hoc Networking in Military Networks (e.g. dealing with geolocation, rapid deployment of real-time intelligence data gathering). In recent years this has become an area of great interest with sessions at NOMS, MILCOM, and IFIP/IEEE IM as well as papers in COMNET, IEEE and ACM Journals. It is the objective of this special issue to publish papers presenting methodology, performance, and methods for providing/increasing mobility and the ability to configure an ah-hoc network at the necessary levels of QoS in support of military operations. This performance can be shown by analysis, simulation or implementation with preference being given to papers providing comparisons of alternatives used via air, land and sea. Only technical papers describing previously unpublished, original, state-of-the-art research, and not currently under review by another conference or journal will be considered. We solicit papers covering a variety of topics related to Future Advances in Military Communications Systems & Technologies including, but not limited to: Mobility Management in Tactical Networks Routing Protocols for the Digital Battlefield Supporting Mobility in Topology Transition Networks Address Allocation & Management in Hostile Networking Environments Security Architectures for Ad-Hoc Networking Tactical Self-organising Sensor Networks QoS Resource Provisioning for MANET Emerging SATCOM systems and architectures Physical and MAC-Layer Protocols Intelligent Agents for Network & Data Management Network Switching Architectures and Protocols Modeling and simulation of tactical communications systems Real-time Fault Tolerant Protocols Quantum Key Distribution in SATCOM Authors should follow the Computer Networks (Elsevier) manuscript format described at http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/comnet. Prospective authors should initially submit a PDF version of an Extended Abstract of their proposed paper topic and relevant details (not to exceed three pages) to Professor Gerard Parr at: gp.parr(a)ulster.ac.uk by Thursday 31st August 2003. On review of the extended abstracts complete manuscripts will be invited according to the following timetable :- Manuscript Due : Friday 31st November 2003 Acceptance Notification : Friday 23rd February 2004 Final manuscript Due : Friday 16th May 2004 Publication Date : October 2004 Guest Editors: Professor Gerard Parr Chair in Telecommunications Internet Technologies Research Group School of Computing and Information Engineering University of Ulster Coleraine Campus Northern Ireland United Kingdom BT52 1SA Tel: +44 (0) 28 70 324131 Fax: +44 (0) 28 70 324916 E.mail: gp.parr(a)ulster.ac.uk Dr David Robinson Senior Engineer/Scientist KIS COM MSIN QinetiQ, Malvern, PC316 United Kingdom LTC Dr. Erdal Cayirci Director of Combat Models Operations Department Turkish War Colleges Yeni Levent, 80625 Istanbul Turkey Dr Jadranka Alilovic-Curgus Research Scientist Boeing Research Laboratories The Boeing Company Seattle, USA Dr. David H. Hughes Physicist US Air Force Research Laboratories /IFGC 525 Brooks Rd. Rome, New York, USA

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call-for-posters-sensys03
by erdal＠itu 24 Jun '03

24 Jun '03

ACM Sensys 2003 Student Poster Solicitation http://www.cens.ucla.edu/sensys03/cfposters.html The SenSys'03 conference solicits posters that highlight recent and on-going research by students. The poster session will provide a great chance for students to obtain feedback on ongoing research from knowledgable conference attendees. Areas of interest are the same as those listed on the technical call for papers. While the poster need not describe completed work, it should report on research for which at least preliminary results are available. The first author of a poster submission must be a student. Poster proposals must be submitted as a single pdf file with no more than 3 pages. The first one or two pages should contain an abstract describing the research content of the poster, along with title, authors, institutional affiliations and contact information. The last page must contain a thumbnail draft of the poster's contents. The deadline for poster submissions is July 11, 2003. Submissions will be reviewed, and authors will be notified of acceptance by July 29. Poster abstracts will appear in the conference proceedings. Please submit your poster proposal pdf file as an email attachment to sensys03-poster-chairs(a)isi.edu, with the subject line reading "Sensys Poster Submission" before the deadline. Any questions to the Student Poster Co-chairs Bhaskar Krishnamachari (USC) and Sylvia Ratnasamy (Intel Research) may also be directed to this address.

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IFIP Council minutes
by Augusto Casaca 24 Jun '03

24 Jun '03

Dear all, I am sending you the 2003 IFIP Council meeting minutes. Best regards Augusto

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Election of the TC6 Chairman
by Sarolta Dibuz 24 Jun '03

24 Jun '03

Dear All, I am not willing to stay on the ballot. I have increased responsibilities in my company so I cannot devote now as much time as necessary to be TC6 chairman. But of course I am looking forward meeting you on coming TC6 meetings Best regards Sarolta Dibuz -- Sarolta Dibuz Ph.D. Sarolta.Dibuz(a)eth.ericsson.se Test House (ETH/RUSC) Mobile: +36-30-202-6180 Ericsson Hungary Ltd. Tel: +36-1-437 7784 P.O.B. 107, 1300 Budapest, Hungary Fax: +36-1-437 7219

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RE: [ifip-tc6] Election of the TC6 Chairman
by Radford, Peter 24 Jun '03

24 Jun '03

I am "unwilling to stay on the ballot". I could not commit to attending all the meeting Best wishes to all Peter Peter Radford UK Representative to IFIP Technical Committee 6 T: +44(0)20 7446 1281 E: Peter.Radford(a)LogicaCMG.com -----Original Message----- From: Andre Danthine [mailto:Andre.Danthine@ulg.ac.be] Sent: 23 June 2003 22:12 To: TC6 Subject: [ifip-tc6] Election of the TC6 Chairman Dear TC6 Member, In Budapest, it was decided to start the procedure for the election of a new TC6 chairperson. We will follow the procedure initiated in White Plains for the 1997 election and improved for the 2000 election. The starting point of the procedure is to establish the list of eligible people taking into account the first three conditions: - national representative (Bylaws Condition) - attendance to at least one TC6 meeting among Saariselka, Lisboa and Hungary - conference organiser. Here is this list by alphabetical order of the country represented Danthine Andre Sousa Jose Neuman de Boyanov Kiril Mason Lorne Slavik Jan Iversen Villy Hara Veikko Tohme Samir Spaniol Otto Dibuz Sarolta Prati Giancarlo Saito Tadao Niemegeers I. Aagesen Fin Grzech Adam Puigjaner Ramon Khakhar Dipak Rudin Harry Radford Peter Chapin Lyman Iyengar Arun. Following the procedure, I ask all the people of this list to confirm their willingness to stay on the ballot. Staying on the ballot means, of course, a commitment - to attend all the meetings of TC6 and - to participate regularly in the Council and General Assembly meetings. In order to avoid any problem, I invite also all the people on this list who are not willing to stay on the ballot to clearly indicate their position. When the list of willing eligible people will be ready, we will start the last step before the vote: each candidate will have to prepare - a short CV with an emphasis to the TC6 related activities - a statement of interest for the TC6 Chairmanship postion. Why do they want to be chairman, what activities they intend to continue, to discontinue, to create, what will change in TC6 under their leadership. - a statement about the way they see the relationship between them (as TC6 chairman) and the Council and the General Assembly. These information will have to be sent directly to me. I will sort all these informations and prepare the final document which will allow each TC6 member to cast his vote for one of the candidate. If none of them get more than 50% of the votes, a second vote will take place with only the two candidates who received the greatest support on the first vote. The people eligible to vote are the national representatives and the WG Chairmen (one vote by WG). The vote will be carried by email with the help of the IFIP secretariat for counting the vote. Best regards Andre -------------- ANDRE DANTHINE INSTITUT MONTEFIORE, B28 Andre.Danthine(a)ulg.ac.be UNIVERSITE DE LIEGE URL: http://www-run.montefiore.ulg.ac.be B-4000, LIEGE (BELGIUM) -------------- ANDRE DANTHINE andre.danthine(a)ulg.ac.be INSTITUT D'ELECTRICITE MONTEFIORE, B28 UNIVERSITE DE LIEGE B-4000, LIEGE (BELGIUM) NETiDA 25, rue Henri Fays B-4160 Anthisnes (Belgium) _______________________________________________ ifip-tc6 mailing list ifip-tc6(a)lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE http://MailMan.RWTH-Aachen.DE/mailman/listinfo/ifip-tc6 This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you.

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INFOCOM 2004: Updates and Call for Papers
by Thomas Hou 21 Jun '03

21 Jun '03

July 1, 2003, the deadline for paper submission to IEEE INFOCOM 2004, to be held in Hong Kong, March 7 - 11, 2004, is rapidly approaching. The Call For Papers can be found at http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2004/. We are well aware that there is concern about SARS among some potential authors. However, the lifting of the travel advisories on Hong Kong by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the US Center for Disease Control (CDC) affirms that SARS is under control. There has not been any new SARS case in Hong Kong for the past several days. Of all the cities under WHO travel advisory in the rest of China, Beijing is the only one which remains on the list, although we expect it to be removed soon. While we continue to closely monitor the situation, be assured that we do have contingency plans. We will see what happens the rest of this year and will be prepared to reevaluate the situation in late November before the Advance Program is published. For now, we would like to reassure you all that IEEE INFOCOM 2004 will be held as planned. We encourage you to submit your work before July 1, 2003, and be considered to present your paper in a beautiful setting overlooking Hong Kong Harbor. You may also be interested to know that to welcome the world back to Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Tourism Board has prepared "coupons" to enhance overseas visitors' experience. These coupons will be available for download from the INFOCOM website soon, and you can redeem them when you come to Hong Kong next March. Call For Papers - Infocom 2004 -------------------------------------------- IEEE INFOCOM 2004 The Conference on Computer Communications March 7 - 11, 2004, Hong Kong The Twenty-third Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2004 Topics of Interest: ------------------- Original papers are invited on recent advances in computer communications and networking. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Ad hoc & sensor networks - Performance evaluation - Addressing & location management - Power control - Capacity planning - Pricing & billing - Cellular networks - Quality of service - Congestion control - Resource allocation - Content distribution - Routing - Multicast - Scheduling & buffer management - Multimedia protocols - Security & privacy - Network applications & services - Service overlay networks - Network architectures - Switches and switching - Network control by pricing - Topology inference - Network design & planning - Traffic analysis & control - Network management - Traffic engineering - Optical networks - Web performance - Peer-to-peer communications - Wireless LANs Executive Committee ------------------------------- General Chair: Victor O.K. Li, The University of Hong Kong Technical Program Co-Chairs: Marwan Krunz, University of Arizona Bo Li, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology International Vice Chairs: Jin-Fu Chang, National Chi-Nan University, Taiwan Jim Kurose, University of Massachusetts Amherst Lemin Li , University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Hiromi Okada , Kansai University, Japan Harry Rudin , IBM Research, Switzerland Izhak Rubin, UCLA Tutorial Co-Chairs: Wanjiun Liao, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Krishna M. Sivalingam, University of Maryland Baltimore County. Panel Co-Chairs: Kin Leung, Lucent Bell Labs Nicholas F. Maxemchuk, Columbia University. Keynote Speaker Chair: David Lee, Lucent Bell Labs, USA. Local Arrangement Co-Chairs: Paul Kwok, Open University of Hong Kong Jian-Liang Xu, Hong Kong Baptist University Finance Co-Chairs: Bruce Worthman, IEEE Comm Society Lawrence Yeung, The University of Hong Kong Publicity Co-Chairs: Mohsen Guizani, Western Michigan University Y. Thomas Hou , Virginia Tech Publication Co-Chairs: Steven Low, Caltech, USA. Zhengzhen Zhang, Waterridge Networks Internet Chair: Hui Zhang, Turin Networks Information Systems Co-Chairs: Jack Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Jiangchuan Liu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Corporate Patrons Chair: Hailson Yu, Versitech Ltd., Hong Kong Standing Committee Officers: Harvey A. Freeman, HeatSeekers Technology Partners Mark Karol, Avaya, Inc. Kazem Sohraby, Lucent Technolgies Important Dates: ------------------------ Full paper due: July 1, 2003 Notification of acceptance: October 30, 2003 Final version due: December 19, 2003 For information on paper submission instructions, please check http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2004

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Re: Voucher scheme
by dipak.khakhar 20 Jun '03

20 Jun '03

Pls see the attachment. With best regards Dipak ***** At 19:26 2003-06-18 +0100, Augusto Casaca wrote: >Dear Dipak, > >Could you please send a mail to the TC6 list explaining once more the >voucher scheme so that some of our delegates can take advantage of it? > >Best regards > >Augusto

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IFIP vouches scheme
by Augusto Casaca 20 Jun '03

20 Jun '03

Dear colleagues, I send you the document with the IFIP voucher scheme, which can help delegates from developing countries to attend TC6 meetings. Best regards Augusto

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Complimentary registration at WITFOR
by dipak.khakhar 20 Jun '03

20 Jun '03

To IFIP GA, TC-Chairs, WG-chairs, TC-members, WG-members Member Societies. Subject: Complimentary registration at WITFOR 2003, Vilnius, Lithuania, 26-29 August Dear Colleagues, After popular demand WITFOR Steering Committee has decided to extend complimentary registration to WITFOR 2003 to IFIP Family. The goal of WITFOR is to prepare and help implement information development strategies and projects in the developing countries. This unique visioning conference will convene leading thinkers from around the world to discuss information and communication technology as a transforming force and to explore the possibilities, promises, and perils of our networked world. It is targeted to politicians and senior officials responsible for information development from both the developing and industrialized nations, representatives of non-governmental organizations, representatives of inter-governmental organizations, and business leaders. Governments of all countries in the world have been invited to send their delegations to WITFOR. As it can be noticed from www.witfor.lt, WITFOR is two and a half day meeting where eight commissions will be preparing proposals in different areas concerning information society. The final document will be the Vilnius Declaration aiming at advising governments on strategies for the use of ICT. WITFOR is an unique initiative by IFIP and we would like to be a part of it. Visit www.witfor.lt and register now. With best regards Peter Bollerslev Chairman, Steering Committee, WITFOR 2003

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RE: Bad news from UPC
by mnicolau＠andorra.ad 18 Jun '03

18 Jun '03

Dear all, I was certainly very shocked by these news. I had the opportunity to work with Olga at UPC during 5 years. I strongly support the suggestion of Harry Perros and Ramon. No doubt, Olga deserves it. Miquel ---------------------------------------- Miquel Nicolau i Vila Universitat d'Andorra Plaça de la Germandat Sant Julià de Lòria Principat d'Andorra (Europe) Tel. +376 841 806 Fax. +376 843 538 E-mail: mnicolau(a)uda.ad

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