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
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.
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
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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
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
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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)
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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)
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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
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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:
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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
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
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
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
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
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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
