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Minutes 2006/2
by Radford, Peter 19 Feb '07

19 Feb '07

Ladies and Gentlemen Please find attached the minutes of the Paris meeting. Please, again, accept my apologies for the considerable delay in preparing and sending these. I should like to thank Otto, Pedro and Ioannis (T), for assistance with these in areas where my notes were deficient (but any errors are my responsibility). Regards Peter Peter Radford UK Representative and Secretary to TC6 E: Peter.Radford(a)LogicaCMG.com <mailto:Peter.Radford@LogicaCMG.com> T: +44 (0) 7770 395506 (M) T: +44 (0) 20 7446 4248 (O) T: +44 (0) 1245 262328 (H) 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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ACM/SIGMOBILE MobiOpp 2007: Call for Papers
by Chiara Boldrini 19 Feb '07

19 Feb '07

Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP =============================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS First International Workshop on Mobile Opportunistic Networking MobiOpp 2007 sponsored by ACM/SIGMOBILE in conjunction with ACM MobiSys 2007 http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/mobiopp07 jointly organized by IIT-CNR, Italy UCLA, USA June 11, 2007 Puerto Rico, USA Opportunistic Networks are one of the most exciting evolutions of the legacy Mobile Ad hoc Networking (MANET) paradigm, in which the assumption of complete paths between data senders and receivers is released. Opportunistic Networks enable users' communication in disconnected environments, in which island of connected devices appear, disappear, and reconfigure dynamically. The network is thus extremely dynamic, and is formed by the evolving contacts among mobile devices, and among connected clouds of devices. In this view, legacy-Internet connectivity is just a particular connectivity opportunity. Opportunistic Networks thus encompass the features and methods of delay or disruption tolerant networks (DTN). They are very suitable to support the pervasive networking scenario, in which a huge number of devices carried by users and embedded in the environment communicate wirelessly without requiring any pre-existing infrastructure. By enabling end-to-end communication without requiring complete paths, Opportunistic Networks are much closer to real pervasive networking scenarios, with respect to the legacy MANET paradigm. Original contributions are solicited, related to systems and protocols design, development and analysis, in all areas related to Opportunistic Networking. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Architectures for opportunistic networks * (Killer) applications for opportunistic networks * Middleware services in opportunistic networks * Dissemination and replication techniques for opportunistic networks * Resource management techniques for opportunistic networks * Transport and reliability issues in opportunistic networks * Routing issues in opportunistic networks * Wireless link design and optimisation for opportunistic networks * Opportunistic Networking in Wireless Sensor Networks * Security issues in opportunistic networks * Trust and cooperation in opportunistic networks * Mobility models for opportunistic networks * Tools and techniques for designing, analyzing and building opp. networks * Opportunistic networks testbeds and measurements * Opportunistic networks performance modeling PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Papers must not be already under submission for any other publication. Paper submissions for regular papers must be limited to 8 pages including text, figures, references, and appendices; single- or double-column are fine for submissions. The font size used in the text of your submission must not be smaller than 10 points. Papers significantly exceeding the maximum length of 8 pages will be automatically rejected. Submission implies the willingness of at least one author to attend the workshop and present the paper. PLEASE CHECK OUT THE WORKSHOP WEBSITE (http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/mobiopp07) FOR THE COMPLETE INSTRUCTIONS. Extended versions of workshop selected papers will be considered for possible fast track publication on the Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal (Elsevier). IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission March 7, 2007 (11:59pm PST) Notification April 15, 2007 Camera-ready due April 25, 2007 Workshop date June 11, 2007 ORGANISING COMMITTEE General Co-Chairs Marco Conti IIT-CNR, Italy marco.conti(a)iit.cnr.it Mario Gerla UCLA, USA gerla(a)cs.ucla.edu Program Co-Chairs Andrea Passarella IIT-CNR, Italy a.passarella(a)iit.cnr.it Giovanni Pau UCLA, USA gpau(a)cs.ucla.edu STEERING COMMITTEE Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA Mani Srivastava, UCLA, USA PUBLICITY CHAIR Chiara Boldrini, IIT-CNR, Italy TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Giuseppe Anastasi, University of Pisa, Italy Levente Buttyan, BUTE, Hungary Tracy Camp, Colorado School of Mines, USA Jiannong Cao, The HK Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Augustin Chaintreau, Thomson, France Ling-Jyh Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Serge Fdida, University Pierre et Marie Curie, France Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Switzerland Per Gunningberg, Uppsala University, Sweden Srinivasan Keshav, University of Waterloo, CA Jean-Yves Le Boudec, EPFL, CH Vincent Lenders, Princeton University, USA Brian Levine, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA Christoph Lindemann, University of Leipzig, Germany Margaret Martonosi, Princeton University, USA Cecilia Mascolo, University College London, UK Kenichi Mase, Niigata University, Japan Martin May, ETH, Switzerland Refik Molva, Eurecom, France Lionel Ni, The HK University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Joerg Ott, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Kaustubh Phanse, Uppsala University, Sweden Konstantinos Psounis, University of Southern California, USA Chunming Qiao, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA Christian Rohner, Uppsala University, Sweden Ant Rowstron, Microsoft Research, UK Kave' Salamatian, EPFL, Switzerland Mani B. Srivastava, UCLA, USA Violet Syrotiuk, Arizona State University, USA Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge, UK Ellen W. Zegura, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA -- ==================================================== Chiara Boldrini MobiOpp 2007 Publicity Chair Institute for Informatics and Telematics (IIT) Italian National Research Council (CNR) Via G. Moruzzi, 1 - 56124 Pisa, Italy phone: + 39 050 315 3504 (direct) email: chiara.boldrini(a)iit.cnr.it ====================================================

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ICSEA 2007 & ICSNC 2007 || August 25-31, 2007 - Cap Esterel, French Riviera, France
by IARIA Invitation 17 Feb '07

17 Feb '07

Call for Papers: ICSEA 2007 & ICSNC 2007 SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 25, 2007 Invitation: Please consider contributing to the conferences ICSEA 2007 and ICSNC 2007, as well as the associated workshop listed below. August 25-31, 2007 - Cap Esterel, French Riviera, France Please forward the Call for Submissions to the appropriate groups ======================================= CALL FOR PAPERS, PANELS, TUTORIALS - ICSEA 2007, The Second International Conference on Software Engineering Advances Site: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2007/ICSEA07.html - ICSNC 2007, The Second International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications Site: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2007/ICSNC07.html ______________________________________________________________ Place: Cap Esterel, French Riviera, France Important deadlines: Full paper submission, March 25, 2007 Author notification, April 20, 2007 Registration and Camera ready May 15, 2007 ______________________________________________________________ Featuring the workshop: - IRP 2007, The First International Workshop on Improving Research Productivity in Computing http://www.iaria.org/conferences2007/IRP.html ______________________________________________________________ Conference Topics: ICSEA Tracks (details in the CfP on site) Advances in fundamentals for software development Advanced mechanisms for software development Advanced design tools for developing software Advanced facilities for accessing software Software performance Software security, privacy, safeness Advances in software testing Specialized software advanced applications Open source software Agile software techniques Software deployment and maintenance Software economics, adoption, and education ====== ICSNC Tracks (details in the CfP on site) WINET: Wireless networks HSNET: High speed networks SENET: Sensor networks MHNET: Mobile and Ad hoc networks SESYS: Security systems MCSYS: Multimedia communications systems POSYS: Policy-based systems PESYS: Pervasive education systems ======================================== To be removed from this announcement list, please reply with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject field.

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CFP: IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Adaptive and DependAble Mission- and bUsiness-critical mobile Systems (ADAMUS'07) - Deadline extended to 1st March (hard deadline)
by Luca Foschini 17 Feb '07

17 Feb '07

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call-for-Papers ____________________________________________________________________________ Call for Papers: First IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Adaptive and DependAble Mission- and bUsiness-critical Mobile Systems ADAMUS 2007 In conjunction with the 8th Int. Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM'07) Helsinki, Finland, 18th June, 2007 ( WoWMoM web site : http://ieee-wowmom.tml.hut.fi/ ADAMUS web site : http://www.mobilab.unina.it/ADAMUS/ ADAMUS'07 cfp pdf : http://www.mobilab.unina.it/ADAMUS/CFP_adamus07.pdf) WORKSHOP SCOPE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A truly extended use of mobile computing technologies asks for effective software engineering techniques to design, develop and maintain mission- and business-critical applications over mobile environments. In recent years, we witnessed an increasing demand for mission- and business-critical applications over mobile environments. To overcome the intrinsic limitations of mobile devices and environments, a variety of research studies have produced a plethora of methods and proof-of-concept prototypes for supporting non-critical applications. However, it is still unclear whether current technologies, methods, and solutions can satisfy the challenging adaptability and dependability requirements of the emerging mobile mission- and business- critical systems and applications, such as mobile commerce, wireless control of robots, healthcare computing, and video-surveillance. To be effective, these applications must endorse provisions that allow them to continue the optimal distribution of their service despite the occurrence of potentially significant and sudden changes or faults in their infrastructure and the surrounding environment. Hence, it is becoming increasingly important: to devise conceptual models and paradigms able to mange and to express strategies and provisions for change tolerance and for cross-layer adaptation; to propose mechanisms to model, design, and develop adaptive and dependable systems; to provide analytical and simulation tools to measure a system's ability to withstand faults and optimally re-adjust to new environments; to develop design-/run-time solutions to identify and enforce optimal trade-offs between energy consumption, performance, safety, and security. The main goal of this first workshop is that of fostering exchange of ideas and lively discussions to reduce the gap between research achievements and industrial applications in the field of adaptive and dependable mission- and business- critical mobile systems and applications. Researchers and practitioners from the academia and the industry are encouraged to participate. High quality papers able to identify open issues, to discuss the limits and/or advantages of existing solutions, or to propose original and innovative techniques for adaptive and dependable mission- and business-critical applications over mobile environments are solicited for submission. The main topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: * Dependability and real-time adaptation requirements for mobile systems * Dependability measurement of mobile systems and services * Design principles, models, and tools for adaptive mobile systems * Mobile-enabled middleware for heterogeneous wireless networks * Middleware support for adaptation and dependability * Context data provisioning and modelling * Context-based adaptive infrastructures * Human-machine interaction and usability * Multi-device systems * Integration of heterogeneous software platforms and operating systems * Architectures for resource and network monitoring and adaptation * Cross-layer adaptation * Software dependability in multimedia systems over wireless media * Group communication and group membership services * QoS control and component scheduling * Standardization issues PAPER SUBMISSION ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ADAMUS 2007 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. Papers must be written in English and should not exceed 6 pages in IEEE proceedings style. All submissions will be handled electronically. Authors should submit a PostScript or PDF file through the submission Web site (http://www.mobilab.unina.it/ADAMUS/). Submission implies that at least one of the authors will register and present the paper. Accepted papers will appear in the WoWMoM'07 Workshops proceedings published on CD by the IEEE Computer Society Press. ____________________________________________________________________________ Important Dates: * Paper submission deadline (hard deadline): March 1, 2007 * Notification of acceptance: March 20, 2007 * Final camera-ready manuscripts due: April 7, 2007 ____________________________________________________________________________ ORGANIZERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Co-Chairs: - Chris Blondia, PATS group, University of Antwerp, Belgium - Marcello Cinque, Mobilab group, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy - Vincenzo De Florio, PATS group, University of Antwerp, Belgium - Filip De Turck, Intec group, University of Ghent, Belgium - Cristiano Di Flora, Nokia Research Center, Finland Publication Chair: - Luca Foschini, Mobile Middleware group, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy Technical Program Committee: - Stefan Arbanowski, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany - Andrea Bondavalli, Università di Firenze, Italy - Cristian Borcea, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA - Angelo Corsaro, SELEX-SI, Italy - Domenico Cotroneo, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy - Bart Dhoedt, University of Ghent / Intec, Belgium - Markus Endler, PUC-Rio, Brasil - Stephane Frenot, INRIA, France - Ibrahim Habib, CCNY, USA - Valerie Issarny, INRIA, France - Eija Kaasinen, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland - Wolfgang Kellerer, NTT DoCoMo Eurolabs, Germany - Konrad Klöckner, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany - Rodger Lea, University of British Columbia, Canada - Nguyen Manh Tho, Vienna University of Technology, Austria - Gianluca Mazzini, Università di Ferrara, Italy - Joe McCarthy, Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto, CA, USA - Ali Abu-Rgheff Mosa, School of Computing, Communications and Electronics, Plymouth, UK - Eric Pardede, Latrobe University, Australia - Enrico Rukzio, Lancaster University, UK - Sotirios Terzis, University of Strathclyde, Scotland - Francisco Valera, UC3M, Madrid, Spain - Sven Van der Meer, TTSG, Ireland - Katarzyna Wac, Université de Genève, Genève, Switzerland - Xinheng Henry Wang, Kingston University, UK -- _________________________________________ Luca Foschini PhD Candidate DEIS-LIA - Università degli Studi di Bologna Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna (ITALY) Ph.: (+39) 051 20 93541 Fax: (+39) 051 20 93073 E-mail: lfoschini(a)deis.unibo.it Web: http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/LucaFoschini/ _________________________________________

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ACM/SIGMOBILE MobiOpp 2007: Call for Papers
by Chiara Boldrini 16 Feb '07

16 Feb '07

Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP =============================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS First International Workshop on Mobile Opportunistic Networking MobiOpp 2007 sponsored by ACM/SIGMOBILE in conjunction with ACM MobiSys 2007 http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/mobiopp07 jointly organized by IIT-CNR, Italy UCLA, USA June 11, 2007 Puerto Rico, USA Opportunistic Networks are one of the most exciting evolutions of the legacy Mobile Ad hoc Networking (MANET) paradigm, in which the assumption of complete paths between data senders and receivers is released. Opportunistic Networks enable users' communication in disconnected environments, in which island of connected devices appear, disappear, and reconfigure dynamically. The network is thus extremely dynamic, and is formed by the evolving contacts among mobile devices, and among connected clouds of devices. In this view, legacy-Internet connectivity is just a particular connectivity opportunity. Opportunistic Networks thus encompass the features and methods of delay or disruption tolerant networks (DTN). They are very suitable to support the pervasive networking scenario, in which a huge number of devices carried by users and embedded in the environment communicate wirelessly without requiring any pre-existing infrastructure. By enabling end-to-end communication without requiring complete paths, Opportunistic Networks are much closer to real pervasive networking scenarios, with respect to the legacy MANET paradigm. Original contributions are solicited, related to systems and protocols design, development and analysis, in all areas related to Opportunistic Networking. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Architectures for opportunistic networks * (Killer) applications for opportunistic networks * Middleware services in opportunistic networks * Dissemination and replication techniques for opportunistic networks * Resource management techniques for opportunistic networks * Transport and reliability issues in opportunistic networks * Routing issues in opportunistic networks * Wireless link design and optimisation for opportunistic networks * Opportunistic Networking in Wireless Sensor Networks * Security issues in opportunistic networks * Trust and cooperation in opportunistic networks * Mobility models for opportunistic networks * Tools and techniques for designing, analyzing and building opp. networks * Opportunistic networks testbeds and measurements * Opportunistic networks performance modeling PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Papers must not be already under submission for any other publication. Paper submissions for regular papers must be limited to 8 pages including text, figures, references, and appendices; single- or double-column are fine for submissions. The font size used in the text of your submission must not be smaller than 10 points. Papers significantly exceeding the maximum length of 8 pages will be automatically rejected. Submission implies the willingness of at least one author to attend the workshop and present the paper. PLEASE CHECK OUT THE WORKSHOP WEBSITE (http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/mobiopp07) FOR THE COMPLETE INSTRUCTIONS. Extended versions of workshop selected papers will be considered for possible fast track publication on the Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal (Elsevier). IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission March 7, 2007 (11:59pm PST) Notification April 15, 2007 Camera-ready due April 25, 2007 Workshop date June 11, 2007 ORGANISING COMMITTEE General Co-Chairs Marco Conti IIT-CNR, Italy marco.conti(a)iit.cnr.it Mario Gerla UCLA, USA gerla(a)cs.ucla.edu Program Co-Chairs Andrea Passarella IIT-CNR, Italy a.passarella(a)iit.cnr.it Giovanni Pau UCLA, USA gpau(a)cs.ucla.edu STEERING COMMITTEE Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA Mani Srivastava, UCLA, USA PUBLICITY CHAIR Chiara Boldrini, IIT-CNR, Italy TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Giuseppe Anastasi, University of Pisa, Italy Levente Buttyan, BUTE, Hungary Tracy Camp, Colorado School of Mines, USA Jiannong Cao, The HK Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Augustin Chaintreau, Thomson, France Ling-Jyh Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Serge Fdida, University Pierre et Marie Curie, France Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Switzerland Per Gunningberg, Uppsala University, Sweden Srinivasan Keshav, University of Waterloo, CA Jean-Yves Le Boudec, EPFL, CH Vincent Lenders, Princeton University, USA Brian Levine, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA Christoph Lindemann, University of Leipzig, Germany Margaret Martonosi, Princeton University, USA Cecilia Mascolo, University College London, UK Kenichi Mase, Niigata University, Japan Martin May, ETH, Switzerland Refik Molva, Eurecom, France Lionel Ni, The HK University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Joerg Ott, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Kaustubh Phanse, Uppsala University, Sweden Konstantinos Psounis, University of Southern California, USA Chunming Qiao, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA Christian Rohner, Uppsala University, Sweden Ant Rowstron, Microsoft Research, UK Kave' Salamatian, EPFL, Switzerland Mani B. Srivastava, UCLA, USA Violet Syrotiuk, Arizona State University, USA Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge, UK Ellen W. Zegura, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA -- ==================================================== Chiara Boldrini MobiOpp 2007 Publicity Chair Institute for Informatics and Telematics (IIT) Italian National Research Council (CNR) Via G. Moruzzi, 1 - 56124 Pisa, Italy phone: + 39 050 315 3504 (direct) email: chiara.boldrini(a)iit.cnr.it ====================================================

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[IEEE WoWMoM'07] Call for Demos (Deadline: February 28, 2007)
by Luciana Pelusi 16 Feb '07

16 Feb '07

WoWMoM 2007 -- Call for Demos ============================= http://www.tml.hut.fi/IEEE-wowmom/demo.html Deadline: 28 February 2007 The demo track of IEEE WoWMoM 2007 solicits demonstrations in the world of wireless, mobile, and multimedia communications. We are looking for demonstrations of recent or ongoing research work that will showcase the research and inspire discussion and interaction with the attendees at WoWMoM 2007. We invite participation from both academia and industry demonstrating novel research results. Demonstrations will be presented in a designated demonstration slot in the conference program. The number of demos presented will be kept low in order to allow the full attention of the conference participants. WoWMoM 2007 will have a "Best Demo Award" based upon both the technical contribution and the demonstrator "showcase". Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * System prototypes and experiences * QoS for voice and video in wireless networks * IP-based wireless multimedia applications and systems * Multimedia multicasting and broadcasting * Handoff and mobility management * Seamless internetworking and self-organization * Network management and control * Context-aware wireless multimedia applications * Location mechanism and services * Content management and distribution * Multimedia applications and systems in vehicular, mesh, and ad-hoc networks Demo proposals shall be short papers of no more than 3 pages (IEEE conference template, font size no less than 10pt) which will be reviewed by the Program Committee. The proposals should introduce the background, describe the key contributions of the author(s), and state what the demonstrator will show. A one-page appendix shall provide a comprehensive description of the demonstration and list all the technical requirements such as equipment (to be brought by the presenters) and other resources (such as # WLAN channels, Internet access, etc.), and also include a description of the demo presentation, e.g., are visitors involved, is a prototype presented that can be used by visitors, etc. The short papers of the accepted demo proposals will be included as a conference supplement, published by IEEE. It serves to inform the audience of the details behind the demo, and as a permanent record of the demo. Both the short paper and appendix must be submitted as a single PDF document by 28 February 2007. Important Dates: Submission deadline: 28 February 2007 Acceptance Notification: 20 March 2007 Camera ready deadline: 15 April 2007 Conference date: 18-21 June 2007 Paper submission will be handled through EDAS: http://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=5262 Jörg Ott and James Scott IEEE WoWMoM 2007 demo chairs

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(WoWMoM 2007) Extended deadline for industry session
by Luciana Pelusi 16 Feb '07

16 Feb '07

We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies ==================================================================== *Industry Session Papers* at *IEEE WoWMoM 2007* June 18-21, 2007 - Helsinki, Finland http://ieee-wowmom.tml.hut.fi ==================================================================== *FINAL Call for Papers* Extended Deadline *Feb. 18* (extensions on case-by-case basis) ==================================================================== IEEE WoWMoM 2007 (http://ieee-wowmom.tml.hut.fi/) is one of the leading international conferences for networking, software systems and multimedia research in the wireless/mobile area involving both computer science and electrical engineering communities. The 8th edition of the WoWMoM conference is being held from June 18-21, 2007 in Helsinki, Finland. As part of an expanded involvement of industry researchers and professionals, WoWMoM 2007 is planning to organize a one-day *Industry Session*. Accordingly, the Industry session program committee is soliciting submissions of papers for this specially designated track, specifically targeting specific commercial applications of the following (non-exhaustive) research areas: * Middleware support for mobile multimedia * Mobile content distribution and authorization * Presence-awareness and multimedia signaling in provider networks * Service creation and provisioning for mobile applications * Broadcast/Multicast based applications and architectures * Power control and energy-efficient systems for pervasive communication * RFID/sensor applications in enterprise and provider networks * Innovative methods for charging/billing * Fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) systems * Network simulation and validation tools The Industry Session track is intended to specially highlight system experiences and proofs-of-concept in the areas of wireless communication and multimedia applications. We emphasize that submissions must still be ``research papers’’—in other words, articles merely describing product-specific features or implementation details are NOT being solicited. Like regular papers, the “industry session” papers will undergo a review process by an international TPC and will appear in the conference proceedings. However, the selection criteria for “industry session” papers are slightly different. In particular, papers should describe applications, prototypes or experiences of clear industry relevance. Papers with narrow algorithmic focus, marketing focus or only high-level design details are discouraged. A key goal of these sessions is to present systems-oriented research that exposes the academic and research communities to “real-life” issues and problems being faced in industry. Accordingly, papers will be evaluated, less on the novelty of specific algorithmic content, but by the originality and general applicability of insights that can be inferred from the authors’ implementation experience. Some details on the requirements and deadlines for this “track” are: *) Papers must be submitted in PDF format via the EDAS Website: http://edas.info/5197. Paper should be in double-column, 10pt IEEE format and no longer than 8 pages. (Details on formatting are available at: http://ieee-wowmom.tml.hut.fi/authorinfo.html). *) Deadlines: Extended Deadine: *** February 18, 2007 *** Paper submission (via EDAS) (Extensions to the Feb 18 deadline will be granted on a case-by-case basis--to avail of this extension, you MUST email a request for extension to the chairs ** BEFORE Feb 18 **). Reviews available: March 12, 2007 Final manuscripts due: April 6, 2007. More details on the committee/topics for “industry sessions” and up-to-date submission deadlines etc. are available at: http://ieee-wowmom.tml.hut.fi/industry.html. Giri Mandayam (Qualcomm Internet Services) Archan Misra (IBM Research) Industry session chairs, WoWMoM 2007

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MedHocNet'07 (March 5 - extended deadline ) June 13-15, Corfu, Greece
by Ioannis Stavrakakis 15 Feb '07

15 Feb '07

Dear colleagues, sorry for multiple copies, Ioannis ========================================= EXTENDED Submission Deadline: *March 5, 2007 * Workshop on June 13-15, 2007 - Corfu, Greece ================================================ *CALL FOR PAPERS* The Sixth Annual Med-Hoc-Net 2007 Workshop *** MEDITERRANEAN AD HOC NETWORKING *** June 13-15 2007, Corfu, Greece http://www.ionio.gr/~okon/medhocnet07 ******************************************************************** Ad hoc networks have attracted the attention of the research community in the last several years. By now, some of the early fundamental issues and challenges of ad hoc networking have been clearly assessed, while new ones emerge as a result of the ever expanding application domain of ad hoc networking. Current emphasis of ad hoc networking includes application scenarios (road safety, disaster recovery, sensors and actuators, etc.), autonomous organization and operation, optimization and control, service creation and support and middleware. Moreover, wireless mesh networking is emerging as an "ad hoc spin-off" aimed at extending and integrating the multi-hop paradigm with more traditional networking, which poses new and exciting technical challenges. Med-Hoc-Net 2007 is an established annual international workshop aiming to serve as a forum where researchers from academia, research labs and the industry from all over the world, meet to share ideas, views, results, and experiences in the field of ad hoc networking. Anything from theoretical and experimental achievements, to innovative ad hoc systems, prototyping efforts, and case studies is of interest to the Med-Hoc-Net community. The papers solicited in Med-Hoc-Net 2007 cover a variety of topics related to ad hoc networks, including but not limited to: - Novel multi-hop wireless network architectures - Routing algorithms and protocols - MAC protocols, scheduling, power control and radio resource sharing - Transport layer protocols for multi-hop networks - Middleware for ad hoc networks - Application driven architectures and protocols - Sensor network applications and protocols - Vehicular networks - Integration of ad hoc networks with wireless access networks - Implementations, testbeds, and prototypes - Technology related issues (IEEE 802.11, Bluetooth, ZigBee, IEEE 802.16, IEEE 802.20, etc.) - Self organization and network reconfiguration - Optimization models and algorithms - Autonomic Communications: paradigms and algorithms - Resource and service discovery - Call admission and traffic shaping policies for ad-hoc networks - QoS support - Security and privacy PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ================================= The members of program committee will referee all papers, and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Papers of particular merit will be published in the Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks journal. Manuscripts must be formatted according to the IEEE double-column standard format, (http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/procieee/authinfo.html) with the exception of the font size, which must be 11pt. Authors should use only standard fonts, i.e., Times Roman, Courier, Symbol, and Helvetica, or their equivalent. The maximum length of the manuscript is 8 pages, including figure, tables and references. Submission instructions: All papers in pdf format should be emailed to cdoulig(a)unipi.gr. The email subject should be: "MedHocNet07 Paper Submission". IMPORTANT DATES =============== EXTENDED Full Paper Electronic Submission: Monday March 5, 2007 Paper notification of acceptance/rejection: Tuesday April 3, 2007 Camera ready submission of full papers: Friday April 27, 2007 Conference dates: June 13-15, 2007 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ==================== General Chairs: Ioannis Stavrakakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Anthony Ephremides, University of Maryland Technical Program Chairs: Christos Douligeris, University of Piraeus John Baras, University of Maryland Local Arrangements Chair: Konstantinos Oikonomou, Ionian University Publicity Chair: George Kormentzas, University of the Aegean STEERING COMMITTEE Ian F. Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology Khaldoun Al Agha, Universite Paris-Sud Mario Gerla, University of California at Los Angeles Farouk Kamoun, Ecole Nationale des Sciences de l'Informatique Giovanni Pau, University of California at Los Angeles Guy Pujolle, Universite Paris 6 TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Emad Aboelela, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth Ozgur B. Akan, Middle East Technical University Onur Altintas, Toyota InfoTechnology Center Chris Blondia, University of Antwerp Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa Mischa Dohler, France Telecom R&D Eylem Ekici, The Ohio State University Gang Feng, University of Wisconsin Platteville Silvia Giordano, University of Applied Science - SUPSI Ibrahim Habib, City University of New York Nikos Komninos, Athens Information Technology Alessandro Leonardi, University of Catania Cecilia Mascolo, University College London George Michailidis, The University of Michigan Sotiris Nikoletseas, University of Patras and CTI Christos Panayiotou, University of Cyprus Symeon Papavasileiou, National and Technical University of Athens Fotini-Niovi Pavlidou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Harry Perros, NC State University Ravi Sankar, University of South Florida Dimitrios Serpanos, University of Patras Stavros Toumpis, University of Cyprus Vassilis Tsaoussidis, Democritus University of Greece Iakovos S. Venieris, National and Technical University of Athens Dimitrios Vergados, University of the Aegean Yannis Viniotis, North Carolina State University ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------- Ioannis Stavrakakis, Professor Advanced Networking Research (ANR) Group Communication Networks Lab (CNL) Department of Informatics & Telecommunications, University of Athens Panepistimiopolis, Ilissia, 157-84, Athens, Greece. Tel: 30-210-7275315 / Fax: 30-210-7275333 Email: ioannis(a)di.uoa.gr Home Page: http://www.di.uoa.gr/~ioannis/

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PMECT07 @ IEEE ICCCN07, Hawaii, USA
by Lin Guan 15 Feb '07

15 Feb '07

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this emails] **** Submission Deadline April 1, 2007***** --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers International Workshop on Performance Modeling and Evaluation in Computer and Telecommunication Networks (PMECT'07) To be held in conjunction with 16th IEEE Int'l Conference on Computer Communication and Networking (ICCCN'07), Hawaii, August 13-15, 2007 http://nets-www.lboro.ac.uk/pmect07/ Extended versions of selected high quality papers will appear in a Special Issue of Elsevier Journal of Simulation, Modeling, Practice and Theory. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scope: There is tremendous research interest recently in the convergence of wired networks and wireless access systems and networks. Especially, recent development in wireless communication technologies and mobile networks has posed various challenges to the researchers in the field of performance modeling. These challenges require effective performance evaluation tools, techniques and methodologies to design new protocols and robust solutions before a global and wide-scale integrated broadband infrastructure of convergent multi-service networks can be established towards the next generation of network with efficient support of multimedia applications. As a result, performance modeling and evaluation has gained increasing importance. The purpose of this workshop is to provide an international forum for researchers and industry practitioners to present their state-of-art research on performance modeling and evaluation studies in all aspects of computer and telecommunication networks and to exchange ideas and explore new avenues of collaborations. Performance modeling and evaluation studies in the following topics are welcome, but not limited to: Performance modeling of TCP/IP computer networks Performance modeling of telecommunication networks Performance engineering tools, e.g. for tracing, workload characterization, operational analysis etc. Traffic characterization for wired and wireless networks Modeling and analysis of reliability, Quality of Service (QoS) and performance guarantees Performance-oriented design and analysis methods Quality of Service provisioning in wired and wireless networks Performance measurements in real testbed Medium access control protocols Admission control and congestion control protocols Performance evaluation of wireless sensor networks Performance modeling of Mobility management and handover issues Performance modeling of Bandwidth on Demand issues, e.g. scheduler , resource allocation Performance modeling of Access control, channel allocation, wireless packet, Performance modeling of Routing Algorithms, multicast routing in wireless networks Wireless Video, Wireless Multimedia, Wireless Streaming, etc Wireless TCP, Wireless IP, Wireless Security, Wireless OS, etc. Performance modeling of Security Protocol and System in low layers and high layers Paper Preparation and Submission: Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent developments in the topics related to the workshop. The proceedings of the workshop program will be published, as the ICCCN 2007 main conference, by IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Digital Library. An accepted paper must be registered and presented at the conference venue and must be limited to 6 pages (with an allowance of up to two extra pages at additional cost) in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font). Extended versions of selected high quality papers will appear in a Special Issue of Elsevier Journal of Simulation, Modeling, Practice and Theory. Any update will be posted on the ICCCN-07 Web site. Please contact the Workshop Co-Chair L.Guan(a)lboro.ac.uk with any questions. Paper Submission: EDAS (http://edas.info/) Deadline: April 1, 2007 Note: When login EDAS, please click submit paper tab, and then select ICCCN 2007 and click the associated submit icon, in the tracks page please select PMECT 2007 to submit your paper Important Dates: Submission Deadline: April 11, 2007 Author Notification: May 11, 2007 Camera Ready Copy: June 1, 2007 Author Registration due: June 1, 2007 Workshop Co-Chairs Dr. Irfan Awan University of Bradford Bradford, BD7 1DP, UK E-mail: I.U.Awan(a)Bradford.ac.uk Dr. Lin Guan & Dr. Iain Phillips Loughborough University Loughborough, LE11 3TU, UK E-mail: L.Guan(a)lboro.ac.uk; i.w.phillips(a)lboro.ac.uk Dr. Xingang Wang University of Plymouth Plymouth, PL4 8AA, UK E-mail: xingang.wang(a)plymouth.ac.uk Technical Program Committee Ahmed Al-Dubai, Napier University, UK Ahmed Bin Masoud Alkindi, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman Alawfi Khalid, Taibah University, Saudi Arabia Alex Liu, Michigan State University, USA Almudena P. Konrad Mills College, USA Ben Y. Zhao, University of California, US Bogdan Ghita, University of Plymouth, UK Darren Fawcett, Pace Micro Technology plc, UK David Parish, Loughborough University, UK. Fernando Cerdan, Polytechnic University of Cartagena, Spain F. Luo, Pace Micro Technology plc, UK Frank Ball, Bournemouth University, UK Hamid Sarbazi-Azad, Sharif University of Technology , Iran Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Jianhua Cao, Ericsson, Sweden Juan J. Alcaraz, Polytechnic University of Cartagena, Spain Jose Hernandez, UAM, Spain Kuo-Ming Chao, Coventry University, UK Kyungtae Kang, Seoul National University, Korea Laksono Adhianto, University of Houston, TX, USA Mazen Tlais, Institut National, France Mark Withall, Loughborough University, UK Mike Woodward, Bradford, UK Muneer Masadah, Glasgow University, UK M. Younas, Oxford Brooks University, UK Ning Lu, Macao Polytechnic Institute, Macao, China Qiang Ni, Brunel University, UK Q. Meng, Loughborough Univeristy, UK Raed AlShaikh, Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia Romdhani, Imed, Napier University, UK Rubem Pereira, John Moores University Liverpool, UK Steven Furnell, University of Plymouth, UK

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CfP Broadband Networking and Protocols , ICCCN2007, Hawaii, DEADLINE MARCH 1st
by Dr. Ra'ed Awdeh 15 Feb '07

15 Feb '07

CALL FOR PAPERS ICCCN 2007: 16TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS http://sa1.sice.umkc.edu/icccn2007 August 13 - 16, 2007 Turtle Bay Resort, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA Sponsors*: Technical Co-Sponsorship by IEEE TCCC and Nokia (*pending) Broadband Networking and Protocols Symposium (BNP) Broadband networking has evolved tremendously in recent years. On one hand, demand for broadband services has risen to an unprecedented height. On the other hand, the advent of revolutionary broadband networking technologies has opened up numerous exciting opportunities for research and development in new broadband network architectures, protocol design, media access, resource management, security problems, etc. This symposium focuses on recent advances in broadband networking and protocols that reflect various aspects in broadband network architectures as well as algorithms, protocols, and applications operated on broadband networks. It aims to foster the interaction of researchers and the exchange of new ideas by bringing together members of the networking and communications communities. The technical program of the symposium consists of regular papers and posters. We solicit original and unpublished research papers that address various aspects of BNP, including, but not limit to, the following topics: Broadband network architectures Broadband satellite systems QoS routing in broadband networks Security issues in broadband networks Multimedia broadband services: IPTV, VOD, etc Resource management architectures Multicast and broadcast protocols Multimedia QoS and traffic management QoS pricing protocols Broadband wireless access (BWA) Cross-layer optimization for broadband networks Performance analysis and evaluation Future requirements for broadband networks Submission of Manuscripts: Please follow the general submission requirements of ICCCN07. Important dates: Paper submission: March 1, 2007 Notification of acceptance: May 11, 2007 Camera ready papers due: June 1, 2007 Symposium Co-Chairs: Chin-Tser Huang University of South Carolina, USA huangct(a)cse.sc.edu Raed Y. Awdeh Sharjah University, Sharjah, UAE awdeh(a)sharjah.ac.ae Symposium Program Committee: Adnan Abu-Dayya, Cingular Wireless, USA Mahesh Arumugam, Cisco Systems, USA Eyas El-Qawasmeh, Jordan University of Science and Technology Irbid, Jordan Hesham El-Sayed, United Arab Emirates University, UAE Jose Luis González-Sánchez, University of Extremadura, Spain Sergey Gorinsky, Washington University at St Louis, USA Min Sik Kim, Washington State University, USA Taha Landolsi, American University of Sharjah, UAE Ying-Dar Lin, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Alex Liu, Michigan State University, USA Ai-Chun Pang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Gheorghe Spiride, Nortel Networks, USA Jian Yin, IBM Watson Research Center, USA Sherali Zeadally, University of the District of Columbia, USA S.Q. Zheng, UT-Dallas, USA

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