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Call for Participation to 6th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services
by Ahmed Mehaoua 01 Sep '03

01 Sep '03

******************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ******************************************* Dear Colleagues, Sorry if you receive this message more than once. This is an invitation to participate to the 6th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS 2003) to be held at Belfast (North Ireland) from 7th to 10th September 2003. The researchers along with a veriety of experts in the field of network and service Management promise to provide a stimulating and informative meeting. So let's us this conference opportunity to share knowledge, discuss with researchers and with end users representatives, create collaborations, and improve our research activity and strategy to best fit the needs of next generation Internet. You are invited to visit our web site to look at the proposed high quality technical program, and proceed with registration and accomodation : http://ee-server.ee.qub.ac.uk/dsp/mmns2003/ Looking forward to welcome you in Belfast. Ahmed Mehaoua MMNS 2003 Publicity co-chair ************************************************************************************************************************************************ MMNS 2003 6th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services 7th - 10th September 2003, Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland Multimedia services over IP networks are proliferating at an enormous speed. There is also increasing demand for solutions which provide assured levels of service quality. All of these require novel paradigms, models and architectures for realising integrated end-to-end service management rather than managing network elements in isolation. Providing scalable Quality of Service (QoS) while maintaining fairness, along with secure and optimal network resource management are key challenges for the future Internet. These challenges apply to both fixed and wireless networks. The IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services will hold its sixth annual meeting from September 7th to September 10th, 2003 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. MMNS provides an intimate setting for discussion and debate. In just 6 years, MMNS has established itself as one of the premier conferences with a focus on the management of multimedia networks and services. The conference objective is to bring together researchers working in all facets of network and service management as applied to broadband networks and multimedia services. MMNS deals with all aspects of designing, developing and deploying networked multimedia systems and it serves as a forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art research and development results. MMNS 2003 will also include panel sessions in which experts offer their observations and opinions about current hot topics. The keynote speaker will be Professor Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology who will present a vision of future interplanetary network architectures. Professor Derek McAuley, head of Intel's recently formed laboratory at Cambridge, UK, will describe some of the new research being undertaken on global overlay networks and applications. The program committee is soliciting original papers describing research in the area of management of multimedia networks and services. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: a.. Active multimedia network management b.. Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks c.. Augmented and Virtual Reality Networks d.. Billing and Accounting e.. Cable multimedia network management f.. Content distribution internetworking g.. Deployment of multimedia services h.. Distributed multimedia service management i.. End-to-end IP multimedia network and service management j.. IP Video, streaming, interactive video service management k.. Middleware support for management l.. Multimedia network traffic engineering and optimization m.. Multimedia traffic management n.. Multimedia content protection o.. Multimedia session management p.. Multi-point, multicast services management q.. Network management models and architectures r.. Network programmability for multimedia services s.. Optical multimedia network management t.. Policy-based management for multi-media services u.. Provisioning of multimedia networks and services v.. QoS in WLANs w.. QoS management x.. Resource, performance and fault management y.. Security and Authentication z.. VoIP service management aa.. Web Services ab.. Wireless and mobile multimedia network management

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Final Call for Papers: IFM 2004
by Graeme Smith 01 Sep '03

01 Sep '03

------------------------------------------------------------- FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Fourth International Conference on Integrated Formal Methods IFM2004 http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/ifm2004 (submission deadline: 15th September 2003) -------------------------------------------------------------- April 5-7, 2004 Canterbury, Kent, England. Theme ------- Applying formal methods may involve the modelling of different aspects of a system that are expressed through different paradigms. This motivates us to research the combination of different viewpoints upon a system, either by the creation of hybrid notations, by extending existing notations, by translating between notations, or by incorporating a wider perspective by innovative use of an existing notation. The integration of formal methods promises great benefits for systems modelling and software development. Whichever approach is taken, significant issues can arise in areas such as semantic integration, the tractability of notations, the integration of tool support, the integration of proof systems, consistency and completeness. Issues arise equally in our modelling of systems at different levels of abstraction and the development of these models through the process of refinement. The scope of IFM2004 includes all aspects of integration of different notations, paradigms, and tools, including integration of state-based and behavioural formalisms, and the formal strengthening of informal notations (e.g., UML). Special sessions are planned on the themes of Unifying Theories of Programming as well as Testing, and submissions for these are welcomed. The necessity of tool support for formal methods is widely accepted. However, much existing tool support fails to exploit the advantages that formality brings. This year's IFM is therefore particularly interested in how integrating formal methods can facilitate tool support for the development process, either by integrating tools or exploiting the particular languages combined. The conference also seeks and welcomes contributions in related areas such as: hybrid systems, the embedding of one formalism within another, and the integration of formal methods with informal or semi-formal diagrammatic notations and structuring techniques. Submissions ------------ Submissions should be original work, not published or submitted elsewhere. Submissions may be up to 20 pages in length and should be prepared with LaTeX. Springer Verlag will publish the conference proceedings in the series 'Lecture Notes in Computer Science', and hence the submissions should be prepared using the 'llncs' package (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). The first page of the paper should contain an abstract of the paper, a list of keywords, the names, affiliations and emails of the authors. The contact authors should further provide their fax numbers as well as their phone numbers. The corresponding author should send by email a 'ps' or a 'pdf' form of the paper to the address eab2(a)ukc.ac.uk, with the subject line "Submission to IFM2004". If electronic submission is not possible, four hard copies of the paper should be sent to the address below: "IFM2004 Submission" Eerke Boiten Computing Laboratory, University of Kent Canterbury CT2 7NF ENGLAND. Important Dates ----------------- Submission deadline: 15th September 2003 Notification of acceptance: 30th November 2003 Submission of final copy: 15th January 2004 Conference: 5-7 April 2004 Invited Speakers ----------------- Confirmed invited speakers include: Ursula Martin, St Andrews University (http://www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/~uhmm/) and Tom Melham, University of Oxford (web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/people/tom.melham.html) and Tom Ball, Microsoft Research (www.research.microsoft.com/~tball/) Location --------- The fourth international conference on Integrated Formal Methods will be held at the University of Kent at Canterbury. The County of Kent is situated in the South-East of England, and the University sits on a hill over-looking the City of Canterbury and its world-renowned Cathedral. Accommodation for delegates will be provided on campus, other options for accommodation in Canterbury and the surrounding area can be found at: http://www.canterbury.co.uk/en/maps/index.html The conference dinner will be held at historic Leeds Castle. Travelling to Canterbury ------------------- Canterbury is within easy reach of London, as well as the international airports at Gatwick and Heathrow, and the international train station at Ashford. More information on how to travel to Canterbury can be found at: http://www.ukc.ac.uk/locations/canterbury/map1.html Program Committee --------------------- Didier Bert, Institute IMAG, Grenoble, France Eerke Boiten, University of Kent, UK Jonathan Bowen, South Bank University, London, UK Michael Butler, University of Southampton, UK Paul Curzon, Middlesex University, London, UK. Jim Davies, University of Oxford, UK John Derrick, University of Kent, UK Jin Song Dong, National University of Singapore John Fitzgerald, Centre for Software Reliability, University of Newcastle, UK Andrew Galloway, University of York, UK Chris George, United Nations University, Macau Wolfgang Grieskamp, Microsoft Research, Redmond, US Henri Habrias, University of Nantes, France Susumu Hayashi, Kobe University, Japan Maritta Heisel, University of Magdeburg, Germany Michel Lemoine, ONERA, Toulouse, France Shaoying Liu, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan Dominique Mery, LORIA, France Luigia Petre, Turku Centre for Computer Science, Finland Judi Romijn, Eindhoven University of Technology, NL Thomas Santen, Technical University of Berlin, Germany Steve Schneider, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Wolfram Schulte, Microsoft Research, Redmond, US Kaisa Sere, Abo Akademi University, Turku, Finland Jane Sinclair, University of Warwick, UK Graeme Smith, Software Verification Research Centre, Queensland, Australia Bill Stoddart, University of Teesside, UK Kenji Taguchi, University of Bradford, UK W J (Hans) Toetenel, University of Delft, Holland Heike Wehrheim, University of Oldenburg, Germany Kirsten Winter, University of Queensland, Australia Jim Woodcock, University of Kent, UK Program Committee Co-Chairs -------------------------------- Eerke Boiten, University of Kent, UK John Derrick, University of Kent, UK Graeme Smith, University of Queensland, Australia The conference is sponsored by BCS-FACS.

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CFP-MilitaryCommunications-Reminder
by erdal＠itu 25 Aug '03

25 Aug '03

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

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[ieee-cnom] LANOMS'03 - Call for Participation (fwd)
by Carlos Becker Westphall 22 Aug '03

22 Aug '03

* Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement * LANOMS'03 3rd Latin American Network Operations and Management Symposium Iguassu Falls, Brazil September 4-6, 2003 IEEE ComSoc CNOM Technically Co-sponsored http://www.inf.ufpr.br/lanoms CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ---------------------- Registration is now open. Please register soon: there is a limit of 150 participants. Preliminary Program is now available at: http://www.inf.ufpr.br/lanoms/program.shtml Invited Talks: Evolution of IP/eBusiness Management - New Paradigm and SLA Masayoshi Ejiri, Fujitsu, Japan Management Challenges in an on demand environment Germán Goldszmidt, IBM, U.S.A. Integrating Latin American and European Research and Education Networks through the Alice Project Michael Stanton, RNP, Brazil Tutorials: Security and Mobility Management in the Embedded Internet Guy Pujole, Universite de Versailles, France Management for Next Generation of Wireless Networks and Services Mehmet Ulema, Manhattan College, New York, U.S.A. Over-the-air Device Management Paul Oommen, Nokia Research Center, U.S.A. Technical Sessions: Security Management Management of Mobile/Wireless and Ad-Hoc Networks Management Platforms and Frameworks Management of Networks and Services Network and Systems Monitoring Management of Service Level Agreements and Quality of Service The symposium will have only single-track Technical Sessions. Details can be found at: http://www.inf.ufpr.br/lanoms/technical_sessions.shtml ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNOM mailing list CNOM(a)lrg.ufsc.br http://www.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/cnom

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CFP - ICOCN 2003 Bangalore India, call for papers and participation
by Guy Omidyar 22 Aug '03

22 Aug '03

Second IFIP TC6 International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks ICOCN 2003 October 20, 21 and 22, 2003 Bangalore, India http://www.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/events/call-for-papers/icocn2003/index.htm The second International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks invites high-quality recent research results in the areas of optical communications, network components, architectures, protocols, planning, design, management and operation.

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SenSys2003Program-November5-7,2003
by erdal＠itu 19 Aug '03

19 Aug '03

Below please find news and updates about The First ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems SenSys 2003 http://www.cens.ucla.edu/sensys03/ November 5-7, 2003, Los Angeles, California, USA Sponsored by: ACM (Sigcomm, Sigmobile, Sigarch, Sigmetrics, Sigops), and NSF * A preliminary program is available below and at http://www.cens.ucla.edu/sensys03/program.html * A limited amount of support for student travel is available. More information is at: http://www.cens.ucla.edu/sensys03/TravelSupport.htm The deadline to apply is Monday, August 25, 2003. Program Wednesday, November 5 ----------------------------------------------------------- 8:30 - 9:00 Opening and Awards 9:00 - 10:00 Networking Experience (Anish Arora) * Understanding Packet Delivery Performance In Dense Wireless Sensor Networks, Jerry Zhao, and Ramesh Govindan (USC) * Taming the Underlying Challenges of Reliable Multihop Routing in Sensor Networks, Alec Woo, Terence Tong (U. C. Berkeley), and David Culler (U. C.Berkeley & Intel Research) 10:00 - 10:30 Break 10:30 - 12:00 Coverage (Loren Clare) * Integrated Coverage and Connectivity Configuration in Wireless Sensor Networks, Xiaorui Wang, Guoliang Xing, Yuanfang Zhang, Chenyang Lu, Robert Pless, and Christopher Gill (Washington University in St. Louis) * Minimal and Maximal Exposure Path Algorithms for Wireless Embedded Sensor Networks, Giacomino Veltri (UCLA), Qingfeng Huang (Washington University at St. Louis), Gang Qu (University of Maryland at College Park), and Miodrag Potkonjak (UCLA) * Differentiated Surveillance for Sensor Networks, Ting Yan, Tian He, and John A. Stankovic (University of Virginia) 12:00 - 1:00 Lunch 1:00 - 2:30 Storage (Joseph Hellerstein) * Multi-Dimensional Range Queries in Sensor Networks, Xin Li, Young-Jin Kim, Ramesh Govindan (USC), and Wei Hong (Intel Research Laboratory) * GEM: Graph EMbedding for Routing and Data-Centric Storage in Sensor Networks without Geographic Information, James Newsome and Dawn Song (Carnegie Mellon University) * An Evaluation of Multi-resolution Storage for Sensor Networks, Deepak Ganesan, Ben Greenstein, Denis Perelyubskiy, Deborah Estrin (UCLA), and John Heidemann (USC/ISI) 2:30 - 3:00 Break 3:00 - 4:30 Invited Panel - Emerging Sensor Net Applications 4:30 - 7:30 Posters, Demos, and Reception - Sponsored by Intel Research Thursday, November 6 8:30 - 10:00 Platforms (Lakshman Krishnamurthy) * Bluetooth and Sensor Networks: A Reality Check, Martin Leopold, Mads Bondo Dydensborg, and Philippe Bonnet (University of Copenhagen) * DFuse: A Framework for Distributed Data Fusion, Rajnish Kumar, Matthew Wolenetz, Bikash Agarwalla, Jun-Suk Shin, Phillip Ward Hutto, Arnab Paul, and Umakishore Ramachandran (Georgia Institute of Technology) * TOSSIM: Accurate and Scalable Simulation of Entire TinyOS Applications, Philip Levis, Nelson Lee (UC Berkeley), Matt Welsh (Harvard University), and David Culler, (Intel Research & UC Berkeley) 10:00 - 10:30 Break 10:30 - 12:00 Management (TBD) * Timing-sync Protocol for Sensor Networks, Saurabh Ganeriwal, Ram Kumar, and Mani B. Srivastava (UCLA) * Tracking a Moving Object with a Binary Sensor Network, Javed Aslam (Northeastern University), Zack Butler, Florin Constantin, Valentino Crespi, George Cybenko (Dartmouth College), and Daniela Rus (MIT) * Overload Management in Sensor-Actuator Networks used for Spatially-Distributed Control Systems, Michael Lemmon, Qiang Ling, and Yashan Sun (Univ. of Notre Dame) 12:00 - 1:00 Lunch 1:00 - 2:00 Energy-Efficient MAC (Feng Zhao) * An Adaptive Energy-Efficient MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks, Tijs van Dam, and Koen Langendoen (Delft University of Technology) * Energy-Efficient, Collision-Free Medium Access Control for Wireless Sensor Networks, Venkatesh Rajendran, Katia Obraczka, and J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves (UC Santa Cruz) 2:00 - 3:30 Mini-tutorial: Foundations of Sensor Nets, Greg Pottie (UCLA) 3:30 - 4:00 Break 4:00 - 5:30 Dissemination (Adrian Perrig) * Minimum-Energy Asynchronous Dissemination to Mobile Sinks in Wireless Sensor Networks, Hyung Seok Kim (Seoul National University), Tarek F. Abdelzaher (University of Virginia), and Wook Hyun Kwon (Seoul National University) * Spatiotemporal Multicast for Sensor Networks, Qingfeng Huang, Chenyang Lu, and Catalin Roman (Washington University in St. Louis) * Matching Data Dissemination Algorithms to Application Requirements, John Heidemann, Fabio Silva (USC/ISI), and Deborah Estrin, UCLA/CS 7:00 - 8:00 Special Guest Speaker: Bruce Vaughn, VP of Research and Development, Walt Disney Imagineering * Faking Artificial Intelligence: Bringing Characters and Environments to Life 8:00 - 10:00 Discussion/Evening Social/Tours of design labs Location: Freud Playhouse, Macgowan Hall, School of Theater, Film and Television Friday, November 7 ----------------------------------------------------------- 8:30 - 10:00 Compression & Aggregation (Sergio Servetto) * Model Based Compression in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, Milenko Drinic (Microsoft Research), Darko Kirovski (Microsoft Research), and Miodrag Potkonjak (UCLA) * Application-Specific Compression for Time Delay Estimation in Sensor Networks, Lavanya Vasudevan, Antonio Ortega, and Urbashi Mitra (USC) * Secure Information Aggregation in Sensor Networks, Bartosz Przydatek, Dawn Song, and Adrian Perrig (Carnegie-Mellon University) 10:00 - 10:30 Break 10:30 - 11:30 Mini-tutorial: Industrial Standards 11:30 - 12:30 Congestion Control (Rich Martin) * CODA: COngestion Detection and Avoidance in Sensor Networks, Chieh-Yih Wan, Shane B. Eisenman, and Andrew T. Campbell (Columbia University) * Practical Lazy Scheduling in Sensor Networks, Ramana R. Kompella, and Alex C. Snoeren (UCSD) ------------- More information about the conference, including registration information, is available at the conference website: http://www.cens.ucla.edu/sensys03/

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NOMS 2004 FINAL EXTENSION - Paper submission deadline extended to Sunday 31st August 2003
by Marcus Brunner 19 Aug '03

19 Aug '03

NOMS 2004 > (Please accept our apologies if you receive duplicates of this message) > > FINAL EXTENSION - Call for Paper > ***** Paper submission deadline extended to Sunday 31st August 2003 ***** > > > Network Operation & Management Symposium 2004 > "Managing Next Generation Convergence Networks and Services" > > Seoul Korea, 19-23, April 2004 > > See < http://www.noms2004.org/> for latest information > > > The 9th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2004) > will be held 19-23 April, 2004 at Seoul, Korea. Held in the even-numbered > years since 1988, NOMS 2004 will continue the established tradition of > NOMS and IM as the primary forum for technical exchange of research, > standards, development, systems integrator, service providers, and user > communities. NOMS 2004 will present the latest approaches and technical > solutions in the area of network operations and management. An exciting, > peer-reviewed program of technical sessions, tutorials, posters, panels > and vendor exhibits will address the ever-increasing interest in overall > management solutions for all types of communications and computing > networks, systems, services and enterprise applications. > The concept of network convergence has recently emerged as a new attempt > for the merging of telephony and data networks into a single, > multi-service network exploiting the ubiquity of the Internet Protocol. > For this increasingly attractive business model, in both wired and > wireless domains, strategic research is required to devise the best > integration architectures, operations and management solutions. This > creates a unique opportunity for the network operation and management > community to respond to the ever-increasing demand for network > resilience, security, quality-of-service and mobility management at > unprecedented scales. The NOMS 2004 provides the forum for discussing > these research challenges and many others inherent to the integrated > management of next generation converged networks and services. This year > NOMS 2004 will broaden the scope of previous IM and NOMS by expanding its > program to include a broader set of topics ranging from network operation > and management to network planning, service engineering and business > processes for network and service management. Special attention will be > given to experiences that emphasize lessons learned and reports on > practice from industry. > Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not > under review in any other conference or journal. Authors are also invited > to submit proposals for tutorials, panel discussions, poster > demonstrations, or birds-of-a-feather sessions. > > Important Dates: > Deadline for Submitting Papers: 31st August 2003 > Deadline for Tutorials, Panels and Posters: 1 October 2003 > Notification of Acceptance:15 November 2003 > Deadline for Submitting Revised Papers:15 December 2003 > Final Camera Ready Papers Due 15 January 2004

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*****SPAM***** SenSys2003-CallforApplicationsforStudentTravelSupport
by erdal＠itu 16 Aug '03

16 Aug '03

SenSys 2003 - Call for Applications for Student Travel Support Sponsored by National Science Foundation ********************************************************** The 2003 ACM SIGMOBILE International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2003), will be held in Los Angeles, CA, from November 5--7, 2003. Our goal is to assist fifteen to twenty (15-20) United States-based graduate students to attend this meeting. We anticipate that we will be able to reimburse up to $1000 to each award recipient, to cover travel, lodging, registration, and meals. All travel support is made possible by a travel grant from the US National Science Foundation. Participation in conferences such as SenSys is an extremely important part of the graduate school experience, providing the opportunity to interact with more senior researchers and be exposed to leading edge work in the field. Our goal is to enable the participation of students who would otherwise be unable to attend SenSys 2003. Details of the application process are presented below and can also be found at: http://www.cens.ucla.edu/sensys03/TravelSupport.htm Applications ********************************************************** An application for a travel award will consist of the student's vita, a letter from the student, and a letter from the student's advisor. The letter from the student should include: A brief summary of research interests and accomplishments to date; A description of areas reflected in the SenSys 2003 program that would impact the student's research; and Why the conference attendance is important to the student. In addition, the student's advisor should send a letter of recommendation to the committee, that includes: Confirmation that the student is a Ph.D. candidate in good standing; The suitability of the SenSys program material to the student's research area; Ways this particular student would benefit from attendance at the conference; and The strengths and potential contributions of the student. Deadlines and Selection Committee ********************************************************** Applications for the travel award should be sent electronically to Dr. Raghupathy Sivakumar (siva(a)ece.gatech.edu) to be received by midnight of Monday, August 25th, 2003. The recipients of the travel awards will be decided by a committee consisting of Dr. Raghupathy Sivakumar (Georgia Institute of Technology), Dr. Victor Bahl (Microsoft Research and Chair of SIGMOBILE), Dr. Bhaskar Krishnamachari (University of Southern California), and Dr. Erdal Cayirci (Turkish War Center and Istanbul Technical University). The awards will be announced by Friday, Monday, September 15th, 2003. Recipients will be required to accept the award by Monday September 22nd, 2003, so that alternates can be notified in the event that a recipient declines.

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Holiday
by Augusto Casaca 14 Aug '03

14 Aug '03

Dear all, I am leaving on holiday and also to the IFIP GA. I will only answer to mails on September 5. Have also a nice holiday Augusto

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ACM MSWiM'2003 - Call for Participation
by Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare 14 Aug '03

14 Aug '03

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The Sixth ACM International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems September 19, 2003 San Diego, CA, USA. http://www.cs.unibo.it/mswim2003/ Westin Horton Plaza Hotel in San Diego, California In conjunction with ACM/IEEE MobiCom 2003 Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE 8.10 Welcome 8.20 - 9.20 Keynote Speaker presentation: Prof. Ramesh R. Rao, University of California, San Diego "Effective Bandwidth Aggregation over Multiple Interfaces for Real-Time and TCP Applications" 9.20 - 10.30 Session 1: Emerging Technologies: WLANs and WPANs "Markov-based Modeling of Wireless Local Area Networks" Syed Khayam and Hayder Radha Michigan State University, USA "On Flow Reservation and Admission Control for Distributed Scheduling Strategies in IEEE802.11 Wireless LAN" Ming Li, Balakrishnan Prabhakaran and Sathish Sathyamurthy University of Texas at Dallas, USA "On the Application of Traffic Engineering over Bluetooth Ad Hoc Networks" Sachin Abhyankar, Rishi Toshniwal, Carlos Cordeiro and Dharma Agrawal University of Cincinnati, USA 10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break 11.00 - 12.30 Session 2: Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks "Connectivity of Wireless Multihop Networks in a Shadow Fading Environment" Christian Bettstetter and Christian Hartmann Technische Universitat Munchen, DE "Flooding Strategy for Target Discovery in Wireless Networks" Zhao Cheng and Wendi Heinselman University of Rochester, USA "Energy-Aware Data-Centric Routing in Microsensor Networks" Xiuzhen Cheng*, Azzedine Boukerche** and J. Linus** * George Washington University, USA ** University of North Texas, USA "Simulation of Large Ad Hoc Networks" Valery Naoumov and Thomas Gross ETH Zurich 12.30 - 13.30 Lunch break 13.30 - 14.40 Session 3: QoS Provisioning "Performance Comparisons of Downlink Handoff Mechanisms for the WCDMA System in Microcellular Environments" Li-Chun Wang, Ming-Chun Chiang, Chung-Ju Chang, Ching-Yu Liao National Chiao Tung University "Opportunistic Scheduling for Wireless Systems with Multiple Interfaces and Multiple Constraints" Sunil Kulkarni Purdue University, USA "Assessing the User-Perceived Quality of Packet Voice in Networks with Mobile Users" Cristina Hristea Seibert and Fouad Tobagi Stanford University, USA 14.40 - 15.40 Short Paper Session 15.40 - 16.00 Best Paper Awards and Coffee break 16.00 - 17.50 Session 4: Mobile Wireless Networks "A Comparison of Network and Application Layer Multicast for Mobile IPv6 Networks" Anargyros Garyfalos*, Kevin Almeroth**, Joe Finney* * Lancaster University ** University of California at Santa Barbara, USA "Randomized Location Service in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks" Texas A&M University, USA "SMM: Mathematical Framework of a Scalable Mobility Model" Dharmayashdev Rai Basgeet*, Pascal Dugenie**, Alistair Munro*, Dritan Kaleshi* and James Irvine*** * University of Bristol ** Nexwave Solutions *** University of Strathclyde "Effect of Node Mobility on Highway Mobile Infostation Networks" Wing Ho Yuen*, Roy Yates* and Chi Wan Sung** * Rutgers University, USA ** City University of Hong Kong "Adaptive Range Control Using Directional Antennas in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks" Mineo Takai, Junlan Zhou, Rajive Bagrodia University of California at Los Angeles, USA 17.30 Closing Remarks/Workshop conclusion

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