Dear all,
I will attend the Bangkok meeting. However my travel schedule is still being
worked out.
Best regards,
Ignas Niemegeers
-----Original Message-----
From: Otto Spaniol [mailto:spaniol@informatik.rwth-aachen.de]
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 16:56
To: ifip-tc6(a)informatik.rwth-aachen.de
Subject: [ifip-tc6] Invitation for meeting 2002/2
Dear all,
please find enclosed the formal invitation to meeting 2004/2 in Bangkok
(Thailand);
Nov. 21+22, 2004.
Another formal invitation letter will be sent by Vilas Wuwongse, our
national
delegate from Thailand.
Please inform Vilas and myself about your attendance and about your
travel schedule.
Best regards
Otto
We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.
EWSN 2005
2nd European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks
Istanbul, Turkey
January 31 - February 2, 2005
http://www.ewsn.org/
CALL FOR POSTER PAPERS
OVERVIEW OF WORKSHOP
After the successful completion of the 1^st European Workshop on
Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2004) in Berlin, Germany during Jan.
19-21, 2004, the 2nd European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN
2005) will take place in Istanbul, Turkey during Jan. 31–Feb. 2, 2005.
The goal EWSN 2005 is to bring together researchers from different
backgrounds, from hardware to applications, to create a forum where
cross-layer integration, novel solutions for specific problems, and the
future development of WSN functionalities can be discussed.
POSTER SESSION
The poster session enables authors to present their recent and ongoing
research in an interactive environment where authors and session
participants will be able to discuss and exchange ideas on recent
research topics.
We encourage contributions to the poster session with papers describing
original work in the same interest areas of the workshop including (but
not limited to):
· Hardware for WSN: transceiver concepts, wakeup radio, antenna design,
system integration, process and cost of manufacturing, battery
technology, energy scavenging.
· Communication protocols: MAC and link layer problems, routing and
transport protocols tailored for WSN, redundancy, data aggregation, and
mobility support; gateways to fixed Internet; providing functionalities
like localization and synchronization.
· Source coding techniques appropriate for WSN to support data fusion.
· Middleware for WSN: Configuration and installation support, lookup of
available functionalities, group communication, distributed algorithms
in WSN, harmonizing node-centric and data-centric addressing,
integrating WSN in middleware architectures like .NET.
· Security: primitives for appropriate cryptographic protocols, secure
system engineering.
· Applications of WSN: novel applications and their requirements such as
medicine, environment control, etc.; experiences with real-world
applications.
· What part will WSNs play in realizing the visions of ubiquitous
computing & communication and ambient Intelligence.
· Prototypes, field studies, and testbeds: novel sensor node prototypes,
measurements within sensor network testbeds.
· Modeling of WSN: models for WSN load/applications, mobility or channel
models.
SUBMISSION DETAILS
The submitted papers should be original papers on complete or ongoing
recent work that have not been previously published and are not
currently under review by another conference or journal. Manuscripts
must be formatted according to the IEEE single-space double-column
standard conference format, except the font size, which must be 11 pt.
The maximum length of the manuscript is 4 pages, including text, figures
and references. All submissions must be in PDF or PostScript format, and
they should be sent by e-mail to both poster session co-chairs. The
submission should also include contact information of the corresponding
author.
The poster papers will appear in the proceedings of the workshop.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline:
December 1, 2004.
Notification of acceptance:
December 20, 2005
Camera-ready papers:
January 7, 2005
EWSN 2005 Conference:
January 31 - February 2, 2005
ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE
General Chair:
Erdal Cayirci
Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
TPC Co-Chairs:
Sebnem Baydere,
Yeditepe University, Turkey
Paul Havinga,
University of Twente, Netherlands
Poster Co-Chairs:
Ezhan Karasan,
Bilkent University, Turkey
Ibrahim Korpeoglu,
Bilkent University, Turkey
FURTHER INFORMATION:
For inquiries regarding poster sessions contact
Ezhan Karasan
(ezhan(a)ee.bilkent.edu.tr)
Ibrahim Korpeoglu
(korpe(a)cs.bilkent.edu.tr)
For general inquiries:
info(a)ewsn2005.org
Workshop website:
http://www.ewsn.org/
Dear Otto,
My plans are to attend the meeting, arriving to Bagkok from Chenai (india)
on November 21 very early in the morning and leaving Bangkok on November 23.
Best regards
Ramon
> Dear all,
>
> please find enclosed the formal invitation to meeting 2004/2 in Bangkok
> (Thailand);
> Nov. 21+22, 2004.
> Another formal invitation letter will be sent by Vilas Wuwongse, our national
> delegate from Thailand.
>
> Please inform Vilas and myself about your attendance and about your
> travel schedule.
>
> Best regards
> Otto
> [attachment][attachment]
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Ramon Puigjaner
Universitat de les Illes Balears
Departament de Ciencies Matematiques i Informatica
07122 PALMA (Spain)
Phone: +34-971173288 Fax: +34-971173003
e-mail: putxi(a)uib.es
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Otto, Vilas
I'm very sorry to have to say that I will not be able to attend the TC6
meeting in Bangkok next month.
(The British Computer Society funds my attendance at one meeting in each BCS
financial year. This year's funds went on the Athens meeting, as the BCS
prefers that I go to the "nearest" meeting, if there are several to choose
from.)
I hope you have a "good" meeting
Regards
Peter
Peter Radford
UK Representative to IFIP TC6
T: +44 20 7446 1281
M: Peter.Radford(a)LogicaCMG.com <mailto:Peter.Radford@LogicaCMG.com>
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Dear all,
the event request forms provided by IFIP are awful. This feeling is shared
by everyone. Nobody is able to give half way correct information about the
conference budget. This is a lot of unneccessary burden for TC and WG chairs.
I promised to simplify that scheme and the first result is found in the
attachments.
There is:
- an empty sheet (don't care about the #DIV!0 in the before last line;
it will disappear when you fill the form)
- and a virtual example.
You may and should play around with the forms and tell me whether you
find them easy enough to use.
WG chairpersons should give it to prospective conference organisors.
Some comments are in order:
1. The document has been kept as simple as possible (fool-proof, hopefully).
You have to fill in only the figures in frames (light blue colours).
The other figures (in light yellow) will then automatically be calculated.
2. A very crude approximation of registration fee is used:
Only for full paying participants, no early bird registration, no
special rate for members of diverse societies, no student fee etc.
It would be impossible to have those concrete figures well before the
event.
Thus if you estimate for example that the total registration fee
by students might be identical to, say, 10 full paying participants
then you should increase the number of expected full paying
participants accordingly. Similar for the variable expenses
per participant.
3. "Contingencies" are meant to be a reserve just to be on the safe side.
They are - according to IFIP - 10 percent of the variable cost
per participant and could, of course, be already taken into
account there. Nevertheless, since these costs are automatically calculated
we can leave it in the document.
4. "Break even number of participants" should be clear but since I have
been asked several times about this:
This is the minimum number of full paying participants which will
be needed if the conference should not make a deficit (and if
all other parameters are valid).
You will see that it is wonderfully easy to play around and to determine
registration fees, fixed expenses,.. which are meaningful and which
may end up with a reasonable surplus.
It might be that the break even number will turn out to be negative!
In that
case you will have a serious problem with your budget: either the
registration fee is too low or ....
5. I didn't nclude information about loan and grants (since IFIP says that
in such a case "a more detailed budget information is needed). If you
want I can add a few lines for that purpose (and also for different
categories of registration but my first purpose was to keep
the document as simple as possible).
6. Conferences (and the sponsorship fee to IFIP) are calculated in full days;
thus if the conference lasts 2,5 days then the fee to IFIP will be calculated
on a 3-day basis.
Now:
Please check the new forms and give me your comments within the next two weeks
(improvements, modifications, what is missing, what should be deleted,...).
I would then formally approve the new sheets in Bangkok and tell IFIP
secretariat that we will not any more use the old bullshit versions.
Best regards (and have fun with the new sheet)
Otto
[Apologies for multiple postings]
1st Call for Papers
5th IEEE International Workshop on
Algorithms for Wireless, Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
(IEEE WMAN 05)
April 4-8, 2005, Denver, Colorado, USA
(Omni Interlocken Resort)
To be held in conjunction with IPDPS 2005
Supported by the IEEE Computer Society
http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~boukerch/ipdpswman.html
SCOPE:
The field of wireless and mobile computing is an important research
challenging area, that emerges from the integration among personal
computing distributed computing, cellular technology and the Web. This is
possible due to the continuously increasing interaction between
communication and computing, which is changing the information access from
the current reactive ``anytime anywhere'' into the incoming proactive
``all the time everywhere'' approach. Nowadays, there is a large variety
of networks spanning from the well-known cellular networks to
non-infrastructured wireless networks such as mobile ad hoc networks and
sensor networks.
This scenario raises a number of interesting, and difficult, algorithmic
issues in diverse areas such as location management, resource allocation,
ubiquitous information, network connectivity, reliability and security,
and energy consumption.
This workshop is intended to cover contributions in both the design and
analysis of discrete algorithms and the system modelling in the context of
mobile, wireless, ad-hoc, and sensor networks. In particular, it aims at
bringing together the practitioners and theoreticians of the field. We are
seeking for papers that are original, unpublished and not currently under
review. The objective of this workshop is to bring together leading
technologists and researchers in these ``critical areas'' of research in
order to have a forum for discussing fundamental challenges, identifying
future perspectives, and exchanging ideas about ongoing research.
Authors are solicited to submit original unpublished manuscripts for this
workshop. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings (by IEEE CS
Press) of the IPDPS workshops.
TOPICS:
The scope of this workshop includes, but is not limited, to:
* frequency and channel assignment algorithms
* cryptography and security
* distributed algorithms
* pricing modeling and solutions
* algorithms for satellite communications
* mechanisms design and cooperation enforcement
* algorithms and modeling on satellite and radio networks
* algorithms for resource management in mobile, wireless and ad-hoc networks
* data management on mobile and wireless computing
* algorithms for single-hop and multiple-hop packet radio networks
* routing, and communication primitives in ad hoc and sensor networks
* synchronization and scheduling issues in mobile and ad hoc networks
* energy saving protocols for ad hoc and sensor networks
* complexity analysis of algorithms for mobile environments
* caching and prefetching for information access in wireless networks
* algorithms and modeling for tracking and locating mobile users
IMPORTANT DATES:
Workshop Paper Due: November 20, 2004, 5pm EST
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: December 22, 2004
Camera-Ready Paper Due: January 15, 2004
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND PUBLICATION:
Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished
research and recent developments in the topics related to the WMAN
workshop. The length of the papers should be a maximum of 10 double-column
single-spaced pages including figures and references on 8.5 by 11 inch
paper using at least 10 point font (based upon IEEE Proceedings Style).
Please remember that the final versions will be restricted to 8 pages.
We strongly encourage authors to submit papers electronically in PDF
format via EDAS. More information on how to submit your paper
electronically, will be provided later. Under certain circumstances, you
may submit paper in PDF format as an e-mail attachment to nikole(a)cti.gr
Note that once the paper gets accepted, it is MANDATORY that at least one
author should attend the workshop and present the paper.
The accepted papers will be published in the same printed abstract volume
and CD-ROM proceedings as other workshops of the IPDPS 2005 conference by
the IEEE Computer Society Press and IEEE online library.
General Chair:
Cristina M. Pinotti
Dept. of Computer Sciences and Telecommunications
University of Trento
ITALY
E-mail: pinotti(a)science.unitn.it
Program Committee Co-Chairs:
Azzedine Boukerche
SITE University of Ottawa
Canada
E-mail: boukerch(a)site.uottawa.ca
Sotiris Nikoletseas
Dept. of Computer Engineering and Informatics,
University of Patras, and Computer Technology Institute,
Greece
E-mail: nikole(a)cti.gr
Program Committee:
To be announced
Publicity Co-Chairs:
Ioannis Chatzigiannakis
Dept. of Computer Engineering and Informatics,
University of Patras, and Computer Technology Institute,
Greece
E-mail: ichatz(a)cti.gr
Mainak Chatterjee
School of Electrical Eng. and Computer Science
University of Central Florida,
USA
E-mail: mainak(a)cpe.ucf.edu
Steering Committee
Sajal K. Das,
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering,
University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Mohan Kumar,
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering,
University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email
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IFIP NETWORKING 2005 -- CALL FOR PAPERS
University of Waterloo, Waterloo Ontario Canada
May 2 - 6, 2005
Due date for submissions: November 8, 2005
Networking 2005 is the fourth event in the series of International
Conferences on Networking, organized by the IFIP Technical Committee on
Communication Systems (TC 6). Previous events were held in Paris
(France) in 2000, Pisa (Italy) in 2002, and Athens (Greece) in 2004.
Based on the success of this biannual event, IFIP TC 6 decided to hold
the Networking conference every year starting in 2005. Networking 2005
will take place between May 2 and 6, at the University of Waterloo,
Ontario, Canada. The conference is organized by the University of
Waterloo and sponsored by the IFIP working groups on Network and
Internetwork Architectures (WG 6.2), Performance of Communication
Systems (WG 6.3), Wireless Communications (WG 6.8), and Photonic
Networking (WG 6.10).
Networking 2005 will be structured along three tracks:
Networking Technologies, Services and Protocols
Performance of Computer and Communication Networks
Mobile and Wireless Communications Systems
For more information on topics of interest and submission guidelines,
please visit the conference Web page at:
http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/Networking2005/index.html
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[Apologies for multiple copies]
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
WEA 2005
4th International Workshop
on Efficient and Experimental Algorithms
Santorini Island, Greece
May 10 to 13, 2005
http://ru1.cti.gr/wea05/
The WEA Workshops are intended to be an international forum for researchers in the area of design, analysis, and experimental evaluation and engineering of algorithms, as well as in various aspects of computational optimization and its applications.
The three preceding Workshops in this series were held in Riga (2001),
Monte Verita (2003, http://www.idsia.ch/wea2003/)
and Rio de Janeiro (2004, http://wea2004.inf.puc-rio.br/).
The WEA Workshops are sponsored by the European Association
for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS).
TOPICS
Original research contributions are solicited covering a variety of topics including but not limited to:
- Algorithm Engineering
- Algorithmic Mechanism Design
- Analysis of Algorithms
- Approximation Techniques
- Branch and Bound Algorithms
- Combinatorial Structures and Graphs
- Combinatorial and Irregular Problems
- Communication Networks
- Computational Learning Theory
- Computational Optimization
- Computer Systems
- Cryptography and Security
- Data Structures
- Distributed Algorithms
- Evaluation of Algorithms for Realistic Environments
- Graph Drawing
- Heuristics for Combinatorial Optimization
- Implementation, Testing, Evaluation and Fine-tuning of Algorithms
- Information Retrieval
- Integer Programming
- Logistics and Operations Management
- Machine Learning and Data Mining
- Mathematical Programming
- Metaheuristic Methodologies
- Network Analysis
- Novel Applications of Algorithms in Other Disciplines
- On-line Problems
- Parallel Algorithms and Computing
- Railway Optimization using Algorithmic Methods
- Randomized Techniques
- Robotics
- Semidefinite Programming
- Simulation
- Software Repositories and Platforms for using Algorithms
- Telecommunications and Networking
- World Wide Web Algorithms
GENERAL and PC CHAIR
Sotiris Nikoletseas, University of Patras and CTI, Greece
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
- Edoardo Amaldi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Evripidis Bampis, University d'Evry, France
- David A. Bader, University of New Mexico, USA
- Cynthia Barnhart, MIT, USA
- Azzedine Boukerche, SITE, University of Ottawa, Canada
- Gerth Brodal, University of Aarhus, Denmark
- Rainer Burkard, Graz University of Technology, Austria
- Giuseppe Di Battista, Universita' degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy
- Rudolf Fleischer, Fudan University, Shanghai, P.R.C.
- Pierre Fraigniaud, CNRS, Universite Paris-Sud, France
- Mark Goldberg, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
- Juraj Hromkovic, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- Giuseppe Italiano, Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
- Christos Kaklamanis, University of Patras and CTI, Greece
- Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
- Ludek Kucera, Charles University, Czech Republic
- Shay Kutten, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
- Catherine McGeoch, Amherst College, USA
- Simone Martins, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brasil
- Bernard Moret, University of New Mexico, USA
- Ian Munro, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Sotiris Nikoletseas, University of Patras and CTI, Greece (Chair)
- Andrea Pietracaprina, University of Padova, Italy
- Tomasz Radzik, King's College London, UK
- Rajeev Raman, University of Leicester, UK
- Mauricio Resende, AT&T Labs Research, USA
- Maria Serna, T.U. of Catalonia, Spain
- Paul Spirakis, University of Patras and CTI, Greece
- Eric Taillard, EIVD, University of Applied Sciences of Western
Switzerland
- Dorothea Wagner, University Karlsruhe, Germany
- Stefan Voss, University of Hamburg, Germany
- Christos Zaroliagis, University of Patras and CTI, Greece
INVITED SPEAKERS:
- Christos Papadimitriou, University of California at Berkeley, USA
- Celso Ribeiro, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- TBA
STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIRS
- Klaus Jansen, University of Kiel, Germany
- Jose Rolim, University of Geneva, Switzerland
PROCEEDINGS AND JEA SPECIAL ISSUE
The Proceedings of WEA 2005 will be published in the Series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), by Springer Verlag.
Selected papers from WEA 2005 will be considered for
a Special Issue of the ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics
(JEA, http://www.jea.acm.org/).
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished
research and recent developments in the topics related to the Workshop.
Simultaneous submission to conferences with published proceedings is not allowed.
Papers should not exceed twelve (12) SINGLE-spaced pages of text,
using at least 11 point size type on 8.5 x 11 inch pages,
including references, figures, tables, etc.
It is highly recommended to use the Springer LNCS LATEX style format (www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).
Additional material may be added at a clearly marked Appendix
to be read at the discretion of the Program Committee Members.
Papers should be submitted electronically in Postscript (ps) or PDF format
by sending an e-mail attachment to:
wea05(a)cti.gr
All papers will be peer reviewed and comments will be provided to the authors.
Authors need to make sure that for each accepted paper at least one author will attend the Workshop.
IMPORTANT DATES:
- Submission Deadline: January 17, 2005
- Author Notification: February 28, 2005
- Final Manuscript Due: March 14, 2005
LOCAL AND HOTEL INFORMATION
Useful hotel and local information can be found at the following site:
http://wea2005.conferences.gr
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
- Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, CTI, Greece (Co-Chair)
- Rozina Efstathiadou, CTI, Greece, (Co-chair)
- Athanassios Kinalis, CTI and U. of Patras, Greece, Webmaster
- Lena Gourdoupi, CTI, Greece, Registration and Hotel
- TBA, Proceedings and Systems
Net-Con2004
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Network Control and Engineering for QoS, Security and Mobility
IFIP TC6 Conference
Sponsored by the following IFIP Working Groups:
WG6.2 (Network and Internetwork Architectures)
WG6.6 (Management of Networks and Distributed Systems)
WG6.7 (Smart Networks)
WG6.8 (Mobile and Wireless Communications)
Organised by the Universitat de les Illes Balears
Palma de Mallorca, Spain
November 2 5, 2004
GENERAL CHAIR R. Puigjaner, Universitat de les
Illes Balears (ES)
PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS D. Gaïti, Université Technique de Troyes
(FR)
S. Galmés , Universitat
de les Illes Balears (ES)
STEERING COMMITTEE A. Casaca, INESC (PT)
A.A. Lazar, Columbia
University (US)
Al-Naamany, Sultan
Qaboos University (OM)
O. Martikainen, Micsom
(SF)
G. Pujolle, LIP6 (FR)
J. Slavik, Testcom (CZ)
O. Spaniol, RWT Aachen
(DE)
TUTORIAL CHAIR J.-L. Ferrer, Universitat de les Illes
Balears (ES)
FINANCIAL CHAIR B. Serra, Universitat de les Illes
Balears (ES)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE A. Al-Naamany, Sultan Qabous University (OM)
F. Arve Aagesen,
Norwegian University (NO)
G. Bianchi, Universita
di Palermo (IT)
A. Benzekri, Université
Paul Sabatier (FR)
C. Blondia, Univestiy of
Antwerpen (BE)
R. Boutaba, University
of Waterloo (CA)
A. Casaca, INESC (PT)
O. Cherkaoui, UQAM (CA)
P. Cuenca, Universidad
de Castilla La Mancha (ES)
W. Dabbous, INRIA (FR)
F. Davoli, Univesita di
Genova (IT)
J. Domingo, Universitat
Politècnica Catalunya (ES)
O. Duarte, Universidade
Federal de Rio de Janeiro (BR)
A. El Sherbini, National
Telecommunication Institute EG)
J. Escobar, Centauritech
(PA)
L. Fratta, Politecnico
de Milano (IT)
G. Haring, Wien
Univeristät (AT)
D.-Y. Hu, Institute of
Network Technology (CN)
L. Huguet, Universitat
de les Illes Balears (ES)
V. B. Iversen, Technical
University of Denmark (DK)
F. Kamoun, Université La
Manouba (TU)
U. Korner, Lund
University (SE)
G. Leduc, Université de
Liège (BE)
G. Omidyar, Institute
for Communications Research (SG)
G. Pacifici, IBM, (US)
H. Perros, North
Carolina State University (US)
G. Pujolle (LIP6 (FR)
F. J. Quiles,
Universidad de Castilla La Mancha (ES)
R. Reda, Siemens AG (DE)
T. Saito, Toyota (JP)
B. Serra, Universitat de
les Illes Balears (ES)
J. Slavik, Testcom (CZ)
O. Spaniol, RWT Aachen
(DE)
Y. Stavrakakis,
Universtiy of Athens (GR)
Y. Takahashi, Kyoto
University (JP))
F. Tobagi, Stanford
University (US)
ORGANISING COMMITTEE L. Carrasco, Universitat de les Illes Balears
(ES)
I. Furió, Universitat de
les Illes Balears (ES)
M. Payeras, Universitat
de les Illes Balears (ES)
LOCATION
The sessions will be held at the Conference room (Sala dActes) of the
Guillem Cifre de Cologna building in the UIB campus (Valldemossa road km
7.5).
TRANSPORTATION
A bus will pick up the conference attendees at the official hotels at
08:15 to bring them to the conference site. At the end of the sessions a
bus will transport the attendees to the official hotels.
TUTORIALS
T-1
Internet Multimedia Applications: Challenges and Design
Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo (Canada)
Abstract
New multimedia networking applications such as entertainment video, IP
telephony, Internet radio, teleconferencing, interactive games, virtual
worlds, and others have known an explosive growth in the recent years.
These applications are highly sensitive to end-to-end delay and delay
variation. These particular service requirements suggest that a network
architecture that has been designed primarily for packet loss sensitive
data communication is not adequate for supporting multimedia
applications. A number of efforts to extend the Internet architecture to
provide explicit support for the service requirements of multimedia
applications are currently deployed. These efforts involve the
development of new standards for framing and controlling the
transmission of multimedia data, dedicated transport protocols, new
signaling protocols, and new network layer service abstractions. This
tutorial examines the key principles of the next-generation Internet
architecture being developed to support service classes that provide
quality-of-service (QoS) performance guarantees to multimedia
applications. This tutorial will also discuss policy-based networking as
the control component of next generation QoS-sensitive Internet.
Biography
Dr. Raouf Boutaba is currently an Associate Professor in the School of
Computer Science of the University of Waterloo. Before that he was with
the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University
of Toronto. Before joining academia, he founded and was the director of
the telecommunications and distributed systems division of the Computer
Science Research Institute of Montreal (CRIM). Dr. Boutaba conducts
research in the areas of network and distributed systems management and
resource management in multimedia wired and wireless networks. He has
published more than 120 papers in refereed journals and conference
proceedings. He is the recipient of the Premier's Research Excellence
Award, a fellow of the faculty of mathematics of the University of
Waterloo, and a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Computer Society. Dr.
Boutaba is the Chairman of the IFIP Working Group on Networks and
Distributed Systems, the Vice Chair of the IEEE Communications Society
Technical Committee on Information Infrastructure, and the Chair of the
IEEE Communications Society Committee on Standards. He is the founder
and editor in Chief of the IEEE ComSoc eTransactions on Network and
Service Management, on the advisory editorial board of the Journal of
Network and Systems Management, on the editorial board of the KIKS/IEEE
Journal of Communications and Networks, and the editorial board of the
Journal of Computer Networks.
T-2
MPLS and GMPLS Architectures
Harry Perros, North Carolina State University (USA)
Abstract
The Multi-Protocol Label Switched (MPLS) introduces a
connection-oriented structure into the otherwise connectionless IP
network. It was originally proposed for packet-switched networks, such
as IP networks, ATM, and Frame Relay. Subsequently it was extended to
generalized MPLS (GMPLS) which is also applicable to optical networks
and TDM networks. In this tutorial we will first explore the basic
features of MPLS and its signaling protocols: LDP, CR-LDP, and RSVP-TE.
Subsequently, we will describe the main features of wavelength routing
optical networks and introduce GMPLS.
Topics: 1. Main features of MPLS
2. Signaling Protocols (LDP, CR-LDP, RSVP-TE)
3. Wavelength routing optical networks
4. GMPLS
5. Extensions of CR-LDP and RSVP-TE for GMPLS
Biography
Harry G. Perros is a Professor of Computer Science, an Alumni
Distinguished Graduate Professor, and the Program Coordinator of the
Master of Science degree in Computer Networks at NC State University.
He received the B.Sc. degree in Mathematics in 1970 from Athens
University, Greece, the M.Sc. degree in Operational Research with
Computing from Leeds University, England, in 1971, and the Ph.D. degree
in Operations Research from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, in 1975. He
has held visiting faculty positions at INRIA, Rocquencourt, France
(1979), NORTEL, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina (1988-89 and
1995-96) and University of Paris 6, France (1995-96, 2000, and 2002).
He has published extensively in the area of performance modelling of
computer and communication systems, and he has organized several
national and international conferences. He has also published two print
books: Queueing Networks with Blocking: Exact and Approximate Solutions,
Oxford Press 1994, An Introduction to ATM Networks, Wiley 2001, and an
e-book Computer Simulation Techniques The Definitive
Introduction,2002. He is currently completing a textbook entitled
Connection-Oriented Networks, scheduled to be published in the Spring of
2005 by Wiley.
In 1995, he founded the IFIP Working Group 6.3 on the Performance of
Communication Systems, and he was the chairman from 1995 to 2002. As
from 2004, he is the chairman of the IFIP Working Group 6.10 on Optical
Networks. He is also a member of IFIP Working Groups 6.2, and 7.3, and
an IEEE Senior Member. He also an associate Editor for the Performance
EvaluationJournal, and the Telecommunications SystemsJournal.
His current research interests are in the areas of optical networks.
T-3
Evolution of ITU-T Authentication Services and the Standarization of
Authorization Mechanisms: From PKIs to PMIs
Javier López Muñoz, Universidad de Málaga (Spain)
Abstract
The objective of this tutorial is to present the problems of advanced
authentication and authorization services and how attribute certificate
and Privilege Management Infrastructure (PMI) concepts, evolving from
the traditional concepts of identity certificate and Public Key
Infrastructure (PKI), have been proposed by the ITU-T as the tool and
framework, respectively, for the provision of A&A services in many of
the new Internet applications.
Identity certificates (or public-key certificates) provide the best
solution to integrate authentication service into most applications
developed for the Internet that make use of digital signatures. However,
new applications, particularly in the area of e-commerce, need an
authorization service to describe what it is allowed for a user to do.
In this case privileges to perform tasks should be considered.
Authorization is not a new problem, and different solutions have been
used in the past. However, traditional solutions are not very helpful
for many of the Internet applications. Those solutions are not easy to
use in application scenarios where the use of identity certificates, to
attest the connection of public keys to identified subscribers, is a
must. In such scenarios, types of independent data objects that can
contain user privileges would be of great help. Attribute certificates
proposed by the ITU-T International Telecommunications Union X.509
recommendation in 2000 seems to provide an appropriate solution, as
these data objects have been designed to be used in conjunction with
identity certificates.
The use of a wide-ranging authentication service based on identity
certificates is not practical unless it is complemented by an efficient
and trustworthy mean to manage and distribute all certificates in the
system. This is provided by a Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI), which at
the same time supports encryption, integrity and non-repudiation
services. Without its use, it is impractical and unrealistic to expect
that large scale digital signature applications can become a reality.
Similarly, the attribute certificates framework defined by ITU provides
a foundation upon which a Privilege Management Infrastructure (PMI) can
be built. PKI and PMI infrastructures are linked by information
contained in the identity and attribute certificates of every user. The
link is justified by the fact that authorization relies on
authentication to prove who you are.
Although the framework described by ITU is a very good staring point, it
is certainly abstract, and leaves many open questions when
implementation issues are considered. Maybe that is the reason why PMIs
has not been widely deployed yet. For this reason, in this tutorial we
will explain in detail how PMIs have evolved from PKIs and establish
their similarities, we will study the insides of PMIs, and give
guidelines for their implementation and use in e-commerce applications.
The outline of this tutorial is: (i) The Authentication problem; (ii)
Identity Certificates and Certification Authorities; (iii) Public Key
Infrastructures and limitations to solve the Authorization problem; (iv)
Attribute Certificates and Privilege Management Infrastructures; (v) PMI
models; (vi) Other initiatives.
Biography
Javier López received his BSc and MSc degrees in Computer Engineering
from the University of Malaga in 1989 and 1992, respectively. After
working as network manager and system analyst in the industrial sector,
he joined the Department of Computer Science of the University of Malaga
in 1994. He received his PhD degree in Computer Science in 2000, where
he works as an associate professor. His current research activities
focus on the design of security-related infrastructures, namely PKI and
PMI, as well as on non-repudiation services for e-commerce and on the
design/analysis of e-commerce protocols. In this area, he has been the
Technical Manager of CASENET, a consortium of nine private companies and
research centers working on the V Framework Programme Research Project
Computer Aided Solutions to Secure Electronic Commerce Transactions.
T-4
Wireless Sensor Networks: State of the Art
Ozgur Baris Akan, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)
Abstract
The objective of this tutorial is to present the concept of wireless
sensor networks, which has been made viable by the significant
developments in wireless communications and microelectro-mechanical
systems technology, along with the communication and networking
challenges and the currently proposed solutions.
The tutorial will cover the following: (i) Introduction to Wireless
Sensor Networks and its applications; (ii) Application Layer; (iii)
Transport Layer; (iv) Routing Protocols; (v) Link Layer; (vi)
Conclusions.
Recent advances in Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) and radio
telecommunication techniques have enabled the production and deployment
of tiny intelligent sensors to collect collaborative information about
the physical environment. The collaborative effort of these networked
wireless sensor nodes may provide sensing capabilities in space and time
that surpass the achievements of current sensing systems. However, this
objective necessitates the efficient and application specific
communication protocols to assure the reliable communication of the
sensed event features and hence enable the required actions to be taken
by the actors in the smart environment. In this tutorial, the challenges
and the existing solutions for the design and development of
sensor/actor network communication protocols are presented. More
specifically, application layer, transport layer, network layer, data
link layer, in particular, error control and MAC protocols, are
explained in detail. Open research issues for the realization of sensor
and actor networks are also discussed.
Biography
Dr. Ozgur Baris Akan received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical
and Electronics Engineering from Bilkent University and Middle East
Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, in 1999 and 2001, respectively. He
received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2004
from the Broadband and Wireless Networking Laboratory at the School of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology,
Atlanta, GA. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of
Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Middle East Technical
University, Ankara, Turkey. His current research interests include
wireless sensor networks, next generation wireless networks, and deep
space communication networks.
NOVEMBER 2
08:00 Registration
09:00 TUTORIAL 1
Internet Multimedia Applications: Challenges and Design
Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo (Canada)
TUTORIAL 2
The MPLS and GMPLS Architectures
Harry Perros, North Carolina State University (USA)
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 TUTORIAL 1 and 2 (continuation)
12:30 Lunch
14:00 TUTORIAL 3
Evolution of ITU-T Authentication Services and the Standardization of
Authorization Mechanisms: From PKIs to PMIs
Javier López Muñoz, Universidad de Málaga (Spain)
TUTORIAL 4
Wireless Sensor Networks: State of the Art
Özgur B. Akan, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 TUTORIAL 3 and 4 (continuation)
NOVEMBER 3
09:00 Opening Session
09:30 Keynote Speech
Pervasive wireless networks engineering
Guy Pujolle, University of Paris 6 (France)
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Session 1: Network Policy
Configuration Model for Network Management
R. Deca, University of Quebec at Montreal & Cisco Systems, Inc., O.
Cherkaoui, University of Quebec at Montreal, & D. Puche, Cisco Systems,
Inc. (Canada)
On-line Control of Service Level Agreements
M. C. Penna & R. R. Wandresen, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do
Paraná (Brazil)
Revenue-aware Resource Allocation in the Future Multi-service IP
Networks
J. Zhang, T. Hämäläinen & J. Joutsensalo, University of Jyväskylä
(Finland)
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Session 2: Network Security
A Kerberos-based Authentication Architecture for Wireless LANs: Test
beds and Experiments.
M. A. Kaafar, L. Ben Azzouz & F. Kamoun, Université de la Manouba
(Tunisia)
An efficient mechanism to ensure location privacy in telecom service
applications
O. Jorns & S. Bessler &, Telecommunications Research Centre Vienna, & R.
Pailer, Mobikom Austria (Austria)
Network Security Management: A Formal Evaluation Tool based on RBAC
Policies
R. Laborde, B. Nasser, F. Grasset, F. Barrère & A. Benzekri, Université
Paul Sabatier (France)
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 Session 3: Quality of Service
A Dynamic Cross Layer Control Strategy for Resource Partitioning in a
Rain Faded Satellite Channel with Long-Lived TCP Connections
N. Celandroni, ISTI-CNR, F. Davoli, CNIT and Universita de Genova, E.
Ferro & A. Gotta, ISTI-CNR (Italy)
Content Location and Distribution in Converged Overlay Networks
O. Unger, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and Zoran
Microelectronics, & I. Cidon, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
(Israel)
A Communication Architecture for Real-time Auctions
H. Kaffel Ben Ayed, S. Kaabi Chihi & F. Kamoun, Université de la Manouba
(Tunisia)
20:00 Reception at the Bellver Castle
Offered by the Palma Town Hall
NOVEMBER 4
09:00 Session 4: Invited Talk
Optical Burst Switching: Where do we go from here?
Harry Perros, North Carolina State University (USA)
10:00 Coffee break
10:30 Session 5: Wireless Networks
An Interference-Based Prevention Mechanism against WEP Attack for
802.11b Network
W.-C. Hsieh, Shu-Te University, Y.-H. Chiu, National Yunlin University
of Science & Technology, & C.-C. Lo, National Chiao-Tung University
(Taiwan)
Restricted Dynamic Programming for Broadcast Scheduling
S. Wang, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology and Taiwan
Police College, & H.-I. Chen, National Taiwan University of Science and
Technology (Taiwan)
Performance Comparison of Distributed Frequency Assignment Algorithms
for Wireless Sensor Networks
S. Waharte & R. Boutaba, University of Waterloo (Canada)
Fast Handoff Support in an IP-evolved UMTS Architecture
By L. Dimopoulou, G. Leoleis & I. S. Venieris, National Technical
University of Athens (Greece)
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Session 6: Posters
Toward an Intelligent Bandwidth Broker Model for Resources Management in
DiffServ Networks
R. Nassrallah, M. Lemercier & D. Gaïti, Université Technique de Troyes
(France)
A Learning and Intentional Local Policy Decision Point for Dynamic QoS
Provisioning
F. Krief & D. Bouthinon, Université Paris XIII (France)
Generic IP Signaling Service Protocol
T. T. Luu & N. Boukhatem, Télécom ENST Paris (France)
On Distributed System Supervision - A Modern Approach: GeneSys
J.-E. Bohdanowicz, EADS Space Transportation (France), L. Kovacs, B.
Pataki, MTA STAKI (Hungary), A. Sadovykh, Université Paris 6 (France) &
S. Wesner, Stuttgart University (Germany)
Multigroup Communication Using Active Networks Technology
A. Chodorek, Kielce University of Technology, & R. R. Chodorek, AGH
University of Science and Technology (Poland)
Policy Usage in GMPLS Optical Networks
B. Daheb, Université Paris 6 & Institut Supérieur dElectronique de
Paris, & G. Pujolle, Université Paris 6 (France)
Beyond TCP/IP: a Context-Aware Architecture
G. Pujolle, H. Chaouchi, Université Paris 6, & D. Gaïti, Université
Technique de Troyes (France)
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 Session 7: Intelligent Networks
Storage Capacity Allocation Algorithms for Hierarchical Content
Distribution
N. Laoutaris, V. Zissimopoulos & I. Stavrakakis, University of Athens
(Greece)
An Inference Algorithm for Probabilistic Fault Management in Distributed
Systems
J. Ding, FernUniversität Hagen (Germany) and Shanghai Jiao Tong
University (P. R. China), B. Krämer, FernUniversität Hagen (Germany), Y.
Bai, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (P. R. China) & H. Chen, East-China
Institute of Computer Technology (P. R. China)
New Protocol for Grouping Data Using Active Network
A. Moreno, B. Curto & V. Moreno, Universidad de Salamanca (Spain)
21:00 Banquet
NOVEMBER 5
09:00 Session 8: Invited Talk
Event-to-Sink Reliable Transport in Wireless Sensor Networks
Özgur B. Akan, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)
10:00 Coffee break
10:30 Session 9: Performance Evaluation
An Algebraic Model of an Adaptive Extension of DiffServ for MANETs
O. Salem & A. Benzekri, Université Paul Sabatier de Toulouse (France)
Cross-layer Performance Evaluation of IP-based Applications Running over
the Air Interface
D. Moltchanov, Y. Koucheryavy & J. Harju, Tampere University of
Technology (Finland)
Collision Avoidance and Fairness Issues in Metropolitan Optical Access
Networks
N. Bouabdallah, Université Paris 6 and Alcatel Research & Innovation,
A.-L. Beylot, ENSEEIHT, & G. Pujolle, Université Paris 6 (France)
12:00 Closing Session
12:30 Lunch
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Call for Papers
MobiHoc 2005
6th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing
May 25-28, 2005, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
http://www.sigmobile.org/mobihoc/2005/
Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE
ACM MobiHoc is the premier international meeting dedicated to addressing
challenges emerging from wireless ad hoc networking and computing. Due to
the growing interest in the field this year's symposium will have an
expanded format that will include a highly selective, dual-track technical
program for the first time, as well as hands-on research demonstrations,
keynote, panel, and tutorials.
We invite paper, poster, and demonstration submissions on mobile ad hoc
networks, wireless sensor networks, and ad hoc computing systems, with the
focus being on issues at and above the MAC layer. Areas of interest
include, but are not limited to
· Applications, operating system, and middleware support
· Analysis and design of transport, network and MAC protocols
· Energy-efficient algorithms
· Location discovery and management techniques
· Network scaling and limits
· Measurements and practical experience from
experimental systems and testbeds
· Cross layer design
· Network resilience, fault-tolerance, and reliability
· Security and defense issues
· In-network processing, aggregation, and data dissemination
· Distributed actuation, control, and coordination
· Modeling, performance evaluation and QoS issues
PAPERS: Papers must report new results substantiated by experimentation,
simulation, or analysis. All submissions will be handled electronically
and must be in PDF format. Papers must not exceed 12 pages (US letter
size, 8.5-11 inches) including text, figures and references. The font size
must be at least 10 points. Accepted papers will be published in the
symposium proceedings. All submitted papers are judged based on their
quality through double-blind reviewing, where the identities of the
authors are withheld from the reviewers. Authors' names must not appear in
the paper or in the PDF file. Submitted papers must not be currently under
review for any other publication. Instructions on paper submission and
formatting are available on the symposium webpage. Please direct any
questions about the paper submission process to the Program Co-Chairs.
POSTERS: Posters presenting early work and preliminary results are
solicited. The poster session will provide an excellent opportunity for
initial feedback on early research results. Poster descriptions of no more
than 3 pages (US letter size 8.5x11 inches) using font size 10 should be
submitted to the Poster Co-Chairs before April 1, 2005. Please include the
words "Poster Abstract:" to precede the title on the cover page.
A selected subset of the poster abstracts will be published in
ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review.
DEMOS: Technical demonstration of experimental ad hoc networking and
computing systems are solicited. One-page demo descriptions, including a
list of any required supporting equipment, should be sent to the Demo
Chair before March 1, 2005.
TUTORIALS: Proposals for tutorials are solicited. Evaluation of proposals
will be based on the expertise and experience of the instructors, and on
the relevance of the subject matter. Potential instructors are requested
to submit a tutorial proposal of at most 5 pages, including a biographical
sketch, to the Tutorial Co-Chairs before January 15, 2005.
PANELS: Panels are solicited that examine innovative, controversial, or
otherwise provocative issues of interest. Panel proposals should not
exceed 2 pages, including biographical sketches of the panelists.
Potential panel organizers should contact the General Chair before
December 15, 2004.
IMPORTANT DATES: Paper registration: December 13, 2004 (5 PM US EST)
Paper submission: December 20, 2004 (5 PM US EST)
Notification of acceptance: March 27, 2005
Camera-ready version due: April 10, 2005
ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE:
General Chair
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P. R. Kumar
Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
prkumar(a)uiuc.edu
Program Co-Chairs
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Andrew T. Campbell
Columbia University
campbell(a)comet.columbia.edu
Roger Wattenhofer
ETH Zurich
wattenhofer(a)tik.ee.ethz.ch
Steering Committee Chair
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Nitin Vaidya
Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
nhv(a)uiuc.edu
Poster Co-Chairs
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Saswati Sarkar
University of Pennsylvania
swati(a)seas.upenn.edu
Songwu Lu
University of California, Los Angeles
slu(a)cs.ucla.edu
Demo Chair
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Scott Graham
Air Force Institute of Technology
scott.graham(a)afit.edu
Tutorial Co-Chairs
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Richard Hyong-Jun La
University of Maryland
hyongla(a)eng.umd.edu
Bhaskar Krishnamachari
University of Southern California
bkrishna(a)usc.edu
Publicity Chairs
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Sunghyun Choi
Seoul National University
schoi(a)snu.ac.kr
Marco Conti
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
marco.conti(a)iit.cnr.it
Robin Kravets
Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
rhk(a)cs.uiuc.edu
Finance Co-Chairs
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Srikanth Krishnamurthy
University of California, Riverside
krish(a)cs.ucr.edu
Raghupathy Sivakumar
Georgia Institute of Technology
siva(a)ece.gatech.edu
Registration Chair
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Prasun Sinha
Ohio State University
sinha.43(a)osu.edu
Web Chair
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Junshan Zhang
Arizona State University
junshan.zhang(a)asu.edu
Publication Chair
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Yongguang Zhang
HRL Labs
ygz(a)hrl.com
Local Arrangements Co-Chairs
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Xiang-Yang Li
Illinois Institute of Technology
xli(a)babbage2.cs.iit.edu
Haiyun Luo
Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
haiyun(a)cs.uiuc.edu
Wai Gen Yee
Illinois Institute of Technology
yee(a)iit.edu
