Please note that the IWAN 2006 CfP has been extended to May 21st.
Call for Papers: IWAN 2006
Eighth Annual IFIP TC6
Working Conference on Active and Programmable Networks
September 25-29, 2006
Paris, France
http://dnac.org/autonomic-networking/temp/Iwan.htm
Co-located with
SMARTNET'06 - INTELLCOMM'06 - WAC'06
as part of Autonomic Networking 2006
IWAN06 will be part of the "Autonomic Networking" conference, which is
the first international conference on all aspects of autonomic
networking (architecture, services, tools, security,
communications, ...). This conference groups four past events:
SMARTNET on tools for autonomic networking
(http://dnac.org/autonomic-networking/temp/SMARTNET.htm);
INTELLCOMM on autonomic management and services
(http://dnac.org/autonomic-networking/temp/Intellcomm.htm);
WAC on autonomic communications
(http://dnac.org/autonomic-networking/temp/WAC.htm )
and IWAN on active networks
(http://dnac.org/autonomic-networking/temp/IWAN.htm)
Active and programmable networking has, over the past several years,
laid the foundations of providing easy, but robust, introduction of
new network services to devices such as routers and switches by adding
dynamic programmability to network equipment. Network programmability
and service deployment architectures can bring the right services to
the customer at the right time and location. The methods and
technologies explored in active and programmable networking research
have helped realise the trend towards ad-hoc networks, autonomic
computing and communications, sensor networks and content-aware
distribution. Also, active and programmable networks will continue to
play an important role in future network architectures where the
Quality of Service aspects of performance, security and resilience are
crucial.
IWAN06 brings together members of various communities using active and
programmable network techniques to address the above challenges, and
it provides a forum for discussion and collaboration involving
researchers, developers, service providers and potential users. We
encourage the submission of papers that cover all aspects of active
network based communication, including foundations of robust languages
and security mechanisms, active transport, active services and service
deployment, active terminals, and active management. In addition, the
meeting will focus on relating active techniques to customer needs and
services. It is expected that most submissions will include proofs of
concept and/or quantitative results. However, we welcome high quality
descriptive contributions where the ideas are particularly novel or
where the concepts introduced are likely to influence the work of
others. Authors are invited to submit papers addressing, but not
limited to, the following active and programmable networking topics:
* Architectures and new concepts for programmability and
flexibility in networks
* Standardization of frameworks
* Secure and robust network operation
* Formal descriptions, analysis, and methodologies
* Self-organizing and self-managing networks
* Cognitive networks
* Design and development methodologies and tools
* Overlay networks
* Storage in networking
* Active and programmable technologies for Grids
* Security within programmable and active frameworks
* Applications and experiments
* Service creation, deployment, and management
* Programmable network elements and devices
* Network processor platforms
* Hardware and software platforms for autonomous infrastructures
* Mobile and ad-hoc networking; mobile platforms
* Programmability and software radios
* Content- and context-aware distribution
* Autonomic programmable networking
* Building complex systems
Information for Authors:
Submissions should describe original work (not submitted or published
elsewhere) and be 10 single-spaced pages (5,000 words) or less in
length. Submissions should include: title, authors, affiliations,
150 word abstract, and list of keywords. Identify the author
responsible for correspondence, including the author's name, position,
mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and email address. Authors
are requested to submit their manuscripts electronically through the
EDAS web site (http://edas.info/). The post-conference proceedings
are expected to be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in
Computer Science (LNCS) Series. The best papers are expected to be
published in the open access IFIP TC6 Journal on Networking available
free of charge in the IFIP Digital Library.
Important Dates:
Submission deadline for papers: May 21, 2006
Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2006
Final Manuscript due: June 30, 2006
IWAN06 Meeting date: during the week of September 25-29, 2006
IWAN is sponsored by IFIP TC6/WG6.2 (Network and Internetwork
Architectures), WG6.6 (Management of Networks and Distributed Systems)
and WG6.7 (Smart Networks)
General Chairs: R. Kung (France Telecom, FR) and H. Zimmermann
(Ginkgo-Networks, FR)
Steering Committee:
David Hutchison (Lancaster University, GB)
Laurent Lefevre (INRIA, FR)
Bernhard Plattner (ETH Zuerich, CH)
James P.G. Sterbenz (University of Kansas, US, and Lancaster
University, GB)
Technical Programme Committee:
Co-Chairs:
G. Leduc (University of Liege, BE)
K. Calvert (University of Kentucky, US)
Members:
Alessandro Bassi (Hitachi Europe, FR)
Bobby Bhattacharjee (University of Maryland, US)
Matthias Bossardt (KPMG, Zuerich, CH)
Robin Braun (University of Technology of Sydney, AU)
Marcus Brunner (NEC, DE)
Hermann DeMeer (University of Passau, DE)
Spyros Denazis (Hitachi Europe, FR, and University of Patras, GR)
Erol Gelenbe (Imperial College London, GB)
Jim Griffioen (University of Kentucky, US)
Robert Haas (IBM Zuerich, CH)
Gisli Hjalmtysson (Reykjavik University, IS)
David Hutchison (Lancaster University, GB)
Laurent Lefevre (INRIA, FR)
Dave Lewis (Trinity College of Dublin, IE)
John Lockwood (Washington University, US)
Eckhard Moeller (Fraunhofer Fokus, DE)
Scott Nettles (University of Texas, Austin, US)
Danny Raz (Technion, IL)
Joan Serrat (UPC, Barcelona, ES)
James Sterbenz (University of Kansas, USA, and Lancaster University, GB)
Toshiaki Suzuki (Hitachi Ltd, JP)
Christian Tschudin (University of Basel, CH)
Tilman Wolf (University of Massachusetts, US)
Martina Zitterbart (University of Karlsruhe, DE)
(Apologies if you receive this call multiple times.)
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CALL FOR POSTERS and DEMOS
*Deadline: June 30, 2006, 5 pm EDT*
IEEE SECON 2006
The Third IEEE International Conference on
Sensors, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks
http://www.ieee-secon.org/2006/
Sponsored by IEEE Communications Society (www.comsoc.org)
Technically Co-Sponsored by AFCEA (www.afcea.org)
September 25-28, 2006
Reston, Virginia, USA (Near Washington DC's Dulles airport)
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To provide a forum for discussion and personal interaction between
presenter and participants, IEEE SECON 2006 will include poster and
demonstration sessions: works in progress, industry demonstrations of
new applications and techniques, practical implementations, military,
industrial and commercial developments, research testbeds and
demonstrations, recent research/implementation results, upcoming
research challenges, future directions, and novel approaches in the
fields of sensor, mesh and ad hoc communications and networks. One of
the key goals of this conference is to foster collaboration between
industry, government agencies and academia. Hence, participation of
researchers/developers from industry or governement agencies and
posters/demonstrations reporting joint work are especially encouraged.
Topics considered for posters and demo are, but not limited to:
* New architectures and protocols to support
communication, localization, time synchronization,
routing, data dissemination, and other distributed
services in heterogeneous, large-scale distributed,
mesh networks and sensor networks
* Novel algorithms and theories for management,
supervisory control, and monitoring of distributed ad
hoc networks, and techniques for the interpretation
and use of sensor data in decision-making processes
* Modeling and performance evaluation of large-scale
distributed ad hoc and sensor networks, practical
implementations and deployments, and real-world
experiences
* Theories and models on fundamental information and
communication aspects of wireless mesh and sensor
networks
* Mechanisms for authenticated, secure communication and
data dissemination in sensor and mesh networks
* Algorithms and protocols to support quality of service
in mesh and sensor networks, including admission
control, resource allocation and fairness, and
capacity planning
* Integration of sensors into engineered systems,
including novel techniques for on-sensor renewable
power sources, mechanisms for on-sensor
self-calibration and self-testing, and efficient
schemes to maximize accuracy and minimize false alarms
* Hardware platforms incorporating multiple sensors,
computation, actuation, and wireless interfaces
* Software platforms, middleware, and tools for mesh and
sensor network applications development, deployment,
and management
Submissions should be in the form of a proposal describing the main
contributions of the poster/demo and the merits of the proposed
ideas. If available, preliminary results can also be
included. Proposals will be evaluated mainly based on their potential
to stimulate interesting discussions, exchange of ideas and promote
collaborations.
A prize will be awarded to the best demo by a jury composed of
academic and/or venture capital participants.
Submissions should not be more than three pages (preferably IEEE
conference format, 2-column) in length. Demonstration submissions
should include the space requirements and/or any other
equipment-specific requirements. The documents must contain the
authors' names, affiliations, and contact information and the
designated corresponding author.
Accepted authors of posters/demos will have a space in the poster/demo
session room to display their posters or exhibit their demos and
describe their work in discussions with interested attendees.
IEEE Communications Society policy states that all accepted SECON 2006
posters/demos must have at least one registration at the regular
rate. For authors co-authoring multiple posters/demos, one regular
registration is valid for up to three presentations.
Submission will be accepted until Friday, June 30th, 5 pm EDT for
demos and for posters. Please send the submission material to the
poster/demo chairs in pdf format, and make sure to include the first
author name and either POSTER or DEMO in the name of the pdf file:
Stefano Basagni Cedric Westphal
Northeastern University Nokia
basagni(a)ece.neu.edu cedric.westphal(a)nokia.com
Notification of Poster/Demo decisions: July 21, 2006. Accepted
Poster/Demo Presenters MUST register by August 31, 2006.
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3rd International WORKSHOP on
'Next Generation Networking Middleware'
(NGNM06)
in the scope of
Networking 2006
5th IFIP - TC6 Networking Conference
(http://www.ifip-networking.org <http://www.ifip-networking.org/> )
Date: May, 19 2006
Venue: University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
NGNM04 held on May 2004, in conjunction with Networking 2004 conference in
Athens, Greece, constituted a forum for the discussion of innovations and
recent advances in the design and construction of Internet middleware. Both
the requirements and expectations from various perspectives (i.e.,
networking, middleware and application level) were presented and analyzed.
NGNM05 held on May 2005, in conjunction with Networking 2005 conference in
Waterloo, Canada, focused on the identification of composite business
services running on an Internet middleware platform that allows
enterprises/networking actors to publish the services they provide, use
services available globally in a secure manner and automatically compile the
various services descriptions into executable processes. The special issue
on "Emerging Middleware for Next Generation Networks" of Computer
Communications journal complemented the success of NGNM04 and NGNM05.
NGNM06 targets to address the challenges of middleware platforms required
for new generation mobile/wireless heterogeneous radio networks and
services. Mobile/Wireless middleware is anticipated to increase the
performance of applications running across potentially mixed wireless
networks, to support multiple mobile/wireless devices, to provide continuous
wireless access to content and services, to ensure end-to-end QoS and secure
content and services delivery and to offer cross-system and cross-layer
optimization taking into account issues related to usage behavior, mobility
patterns, traffic profiling, network selection and relevant
horizontal/vertical handovers.
* Middleware support for micro/macro/multi-domain mobility
* Emerging Information Models and Frameworks (i.e., MPEG-21)
* Specification and enforcement of QoS
* Interworking between Heterogeneous Middleware Technologies
* Self-managing networks (self-healing, self-optimizing,
self-protecting and self-configuring)
* Programmable, Active and Adaptive Networks
* Wireless Grids Middleware
* Grid-enabled Networking Middleware
* Performance evaluation and modeling in Wireless/Mobile Middleware
* Middleware support for cross-system and cross-layer optimization
* Middleware security, including authentication and authorization
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
2006 International Workshop
"Towards the QoS Internet", To-QoS'2006
University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal,
May 19, 2006
To be held in conjunction with "2006 IFIP Networking Conference"
http://networking2006.dei.uc.pt/workshops.htm
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Workshop Purpose
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Providing Quality of Service (QoS) into the Internet requires implementation
at the network level a variety of mechanisms and algorithms dealing with the
call and packet handling, network resource managing etc. In addition, they
should operate at different time scales, from the time scale of milliseconds
for handling packets in the routers up till the longer time scale, say
hours, for performing some actions to manage network resources in an optimum
way. Furthermore, a signalling system is extremely required to inform the
network about the user-application needs. As a consequence, enhanced
QoS-oriented architectures mainly based on DiffServ concept are currently
investigated and tested in research networks. Anyway, to provide QoS we need
to make an essential update of current Internet infrastructure. The workshop
is aimed at presenting and discussing current activities in this area,
including the results coming from running research projects.
Detailed Scope
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* Architectures for assuring QoS in the Internet
* QoS aware applications
* Enhanced Transport Protocols
* QoS routing
* QoS mechanisms in access and core networks
* Inter-domain aspects
* Classes of service
* Admission Control
* PHB mechanisms
* Monitoring and measurement systems
* Scalability
* End-to-end QoS
* Signaling systems
Workshop Organizer
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Wojciech Burakowski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Technical Program Committee
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Christof Brandauer, Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft, Austria
Torsten Braun, Technical University of Bern, Switzerland
Jose Brazio, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal
Franco Davoli, CNIT, Italy
Michel Diaz, LAAS, France
Michael Ditze, University of Padeborn, Germany
Olivier Dugeon, FTRD, France
Markus Fiedler, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden
Jose Enriquez Gabeiras, Telefonica I+D, Spain
Udo Krieger, Otto-Friedrich Universitat Bamberg, Germany
Michael Menth, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Michaela Meo, Politecnico Torino, Italy
Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pisa, Italy
Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Andrzej Pach, AGH, Cracow, Poland
Martin Potts, Martel, Switzerland
George Prezerakos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Stefano Salsano, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Halina Tarasiuk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Armando Ferro Vázquez, E.T.S.I. de Bilbao, Spain
Giorgio Ventre, Universita di Napoli, Italy
Manuel Villen, Telefonica I+D, Spain
Sabine Wittevrongel, Ghent University, Belgium
Call for Participation
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Performance Control in Wireless Sensor Networks,
a Workshop at the 2006 IFIP Networking Conference.
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Networking 2006 will take place at the University of
Coimbra, Portugal, between May 15 and May 19.
Detailed information
====================
http://networking2006.dei.uc.pt/workshops.htm
Goal and Overview
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The Performance Control in Wireless Sensor Networks Workshop will be a
full-day, peer-reviewed workshop on Friday, May 19, 2006. The aim of the
workshop is to bring together professionals from academia and industry to
discuss performance issues in wireless sensor networks.
Wireless sensor networks are currently the subject of intense research and
many prototype installations are currently investigated. These existing
sensor network installations have in common that they are not considered
time critical. No immediate action has to be undertaken as a response to the
received data. However, many future application areas of wireless sensor
networks such as plant automation and control, traffic management or medical
applications require this feature. In such environments, data has to be
transported reliable and in time through the sensor network. In other words,
performance guarantees regarding a variety of network parameters are
required. Due to the lack of appropriate models, components and protocols it
is currently very difficult to construct and operate a wireless sensor
network with a controlled performance. Thus, the commercial success of
wireless sensor networks in many application areas is unsure unless this
particular problem is understood and solved.
Topics of Interest Include:
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This workshop intends to bring together researchers and practitioners,
working on performance issues within wireless sensor networks. Areas of
interest include, but are not limited to:
* Models: Traffic models, channel models, mathematical models to
balance performance parameters in the network.
* MAC protocols: MAC protocols with deterministic behaviour, MAC
protocols to balance forwarding performance and energy consumption.
* Routing and topology control: Methods to stabilize network
topology, topology robustness.
* Data transport: Control of data transport delay and reliability,
methods to improve data forwarding performance in sensor networks.
* Operating systems: Performance optimization and control of
sensor network operating systems.
* Middleware and frameworks: Middleware/frameworks providing
performance guarantees for sensor network applications.
* Security: The impact of security features on network performance.
FMICS 2006 - CALL FOR PAPERS
Please visit: http://fmics06.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/
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* 11th International Workshop on *
* Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems *
* FMICS 2006 *
* 26th-27th of August 2006, Bonn, Germany *
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FMICS 2006 is co-located with Concur 2006.
IMPORTANT DATES
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Abstract: 26th of May 2006
Full Paper: 2nd of June 2006
Notification of Acceptance: 10th of July 2006
Final version due: 25th of July 2006
SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP
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The aim of the FMICS workshops is to provide a forum for researchers who
are interested in the development and application of formal methods in
industry. In particular, these workshops should bring together scientists
that are active in the area of formal methods and interested in exchanging
their experiences in the industrial usage of these methods. They also aim
at the promotion of research and development for the improvement of formal
methods and tools for industrial applications.
INVITED SPEAKERS
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Anna Slobodova, Intel
Edward A. Lee, Berkeley
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
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Lubos Brim (Masaryk Univ., Czech Republic) Co-Chair
Rance Cleaveland (University of Maryland, USA)
Wan Fokkink (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & CWI, The Netherlands)
Stefania Gnesi (ISTI-CNR, Italy)
Susanne Graf (VERIMAG, France)
David Harel (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
Klaus Havelund (Kestrel Technology, USA)
Thomas A. Henzinger (EPFL, Switzerland)
Leszek Holenderski (Philips Research, The Netherlands)
Stefan Kowalewski (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
Marta Kwiatkowska (University of Birmingham, UK)
Salvatore La Torre (Universita' degli Studi di Salerno, Italy)
Martin Leucker (TU München, Germany) Co-Chair
Tiziana Margaria (University of Göttingen, Germany)
Radu Mateescu (INRIA Rhône-Alpes and ENS Lyon, France)
Doron Peled (University of Warwick, UK)
Ernesto Pimentel (University of Malaga, Spain)
Andreas Podelski (Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Germany)
Don Sannella (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Joseph Sifakis (VERIMAG, France)
PAPER SUBMISSIONS
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Submissions must be made electronically through the FMICS Web site. There
are two categories of submissions:
A. Regular papers: Papers should be up to 16 pages in LNCS format, with a
clear abstract. Additional details may be included in a clearly marked
appendix, which will be read at the discretion of the program committee.
All submissions must report on original research. Submitted papers must
not have previously appeared in a journal or conference with published
proceedings and must not be concurrently submitted to any other
conference. Any partial overlap with any such published or concurrently
submitted paper must be clearly indicated.
B. Tool presentations: Submissions, not exceeding 4 pages using LNCS
format, should describe the implemented tool and its novel features. A
demonstration is expected to accompany a tool presentation.
PUBLICATION
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Accepted regular and tool papers will be published after the meeting
jointly with accepted papers from PDMC'06 in an LNCS volume.
As last year, the European Association of Software Science and Technology
will be offering an award to the best FMICS paper.
Call for Participation
First International Conference on Scalable Information Systems
(INFOSCALE)
30 May - 1 Jun 2006, Hong Kong http://www.cs.hku.hk/infoscale06/
The final program can be found from:
http://www.cs.hku.hk/infoscale06/techprog.html
Two workshops in conjunction with INFOSCALE 2006:
1. International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Information Management
(P2PIM06): http://p2p-im.org/
2. Infoscale Work in Progress Workshop (I-WIPW):
http://www.i-wipw.org/
For the main conference, there will be 14 sessions spanning 2.5 days
(May 30 - June 1) and featuring 45 presentations.
In the afternoon of June 1, participants are invited to join a guided
local tour of the city free of charge.
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INFOSCALE 2006
First International Conference
on Scalable Information Systems
30 May - 1 Jun 2006, Hong Kong
http://www.cs.hku.hk/infoscale06/
As the data volumes continue to increase and the ways of information
dispersion across the globe continue to diversify, new scalable methods
and structures are needed for efficiently processing those distributed
and autonomous data. Grid computing, P2P technology, distributed
information retrieval technology, and networking technology all must be
merged to address the scalability concern. This forum focuses on this
key merged domain and looks for new integrated solutions for this
diversifying world of information.
Conference Scope
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* Parallel Information Retrieval
* Scalable Distributed Information Retrieval
* Scalable Grid Information Systems
* P2P Systems
* Scalable Mobile/Sensor DB Systems
* Index Compression Methods
* Architectures for Scalability
* Networking for Scalable Information Systems
* Scalable Information System Applications (medicine, biology,
military, etc.)
* Evaluation Metrics for Scalability
* VLDB
* Data Mining
* Information Security
Publications
Original and previously unpublished technical papers are solicited for
presentation at the conference and publication in the proceedings.
Selected papers will be published in The International Journal of Grid
Computing: Theory, Methods and Applications
(http://ees.elsevier.com/fgcs/).
General Chair
Xiaohua Jia, City University of Hong Kong
(jia(a)cs.cityu.edu.hk)
PC Chairs
Abdur Chowdhury, AOL (cabdur(a)aol.com)
Francis Lau, The University of Hong Kong (fcmlau(a)cs.hku.hk)
Frank Zhigang Wang, Cambridge-Cranfield High Performance
Computing Facilities (f.wang(a)cranfield.ac.uk)
Steering Committee Chairs
Imrich Chlamtac, CreateNet Research Consortium, Chair
Ophir Frieder, Illinois Institute of Technology, Co-chair
Publicity Chair
Jinli Cao, La Trobe University
Publications Chair
Scott Huang, City University of Hong Kong
Workshops Chair
Niki Pissinou, Florida International University, Chair
Tirthankar Ghosh, Vice Chair
Hao Zhu, Vice Chair
Local Arrangement Chair
Victor Lee, City University of Hong Kong
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Guest Editors: Eylem EKICI, Ohio State University
Leonard KLEINROCK, UCLA
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are proposed to observe remote
and inhospitable areas at close range. In recent years, WSN
applications based on simple sense-and-send type operations
are replaced by more sophisticated applications that require
guarantees from WSNs in communication and information
processing. While service guarantees in wireless ad hoc
networks have been researched in the past, these solutions
cannot be directly applied to WSNs due to limited resource
environment and large scale of WSNs. Solutions developed for
WSNs must not only cater to the requirements of applications,
but also conserve valuable energy resources of sensor nodes,
be adaptive to unexpected changes, and operate in loose
coordination with the rest of the network. These requirements
also highlight the need for cross-layer design and
interactions between sensor hardware, protocol layers, and
application middleware.
This special issue is dedicated to recent advances in the area
of wireless sensor networks. Papers describing protocols,
models, evaluation methods, and experimental studies of WSNs
are solicited for this special issue. Topics of interest
include (but are not limited to):
- WSN cross-layer protocol suites
- Real-time communication in WSNs
- Protocols for application-level service guarantees for WSNs
- WSN capacity modeling and analysis
- Application modeling for WSNs
- Application admission methods for WSNs
- Joint data processing and communication solutions for WSNs
- Fault-tolerant communication and data processing in WSNs
- Topology control and network reconfiguration
- Localization, synchronization, and mobility
- Security issues, solutions, and models
- Novel WSN architectures and applications
- Experimental and testbed studies of WSNs
Submission Instructions:
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Full papers must be submitted in PDF format by e-mail to
ekici(a)ece.osu.edu. Papers must be formatted in single-column
format, double-spaced, and use at least 11pt fonts. Papers
must not exceed 25 pages including references.
Important Dates:
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Submission Deadline: May 1, 2006
Notification of Acceptance: December 15, 2006
Camera-Ready Papers Due: February 15, 2007
Online Publication Date: April 2007
Journal Publication Date: September 2007
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Eylem Ekici
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Eng. Phone: (614) 292-0495
The Ohio State University Fax: (614) 292-7596
http://www.ece.osu.edu/~ekici E-mail: ekici(a)ece.osu.edu
Due to many requests,
the submission deadline is extended to May 2, 2006.
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ALGOSENSORS 06:
International Workshop on
Algorithmic Aspects of Wireless Sensor Networks
July 15 2006, Venice, Italy
To be held in conjunction with ICALP 2006
http://ru1.cti.gr/algosensors06/
SCOPE
Wireless ad-hoc sensor networks have recently become a very active
research subject due to their high potential of providing diverse services
to numerous important applications, including remote monitoring and
tracking in environmental applications and low maintenance ambient
intelligence in everyday life. The effective and efficient realization of
such large scale, complex ad-hoc networking environments requires
intensive, coordinated technical research and development efforts,
especially in power aware, scalable, robust wireless distributed
protocols, due to the unusual application requirements and the severe
resource constraints of the sensor devices.
On the other hand, a solid foundational background seems necessary for
sensor networks to achieve their full potential. It is a challenge for
abstract modelling, algorithmic design and analysis to achieve provably
efficient, scalable and fault-tolerant realizations of such huge,
highly-dynamic, complex, non-conventional networks. Features including the
extremely large number of sensor devices in the network, the severe power,
computating and memory limitations, their dense, random deployment and
frequent failures, pose new interesting abstract modeling, algorithmic
design, analysis and implementation challenges.
This Workshop aims to bring together research contributions related to
diverse algorithmic aspects of wireless sensor networks.
TOPICS
Contributions solicited cover a variety of topics including (but not
limited to):
* Models of sensor networks
* Methods for ad hoc deployment/topology control
* Energy management
* Data propagation and routing
* Localization
* Tracking
* Data aggregation/data compression
* Obstacle avoidance
* Power saving schemes
* Communication protocols
* Medium access control
* Security and trust
* Distributed computing issues
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
- Prof. P. R. Kumar, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS
Sotiris Nikoletseas, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece
Jose Rolim, U. of Geneva, Switzerland
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
- Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
- Azzedine Boukerche, U. of Ottawa, Canada
- Costas Busch, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
- Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece
- Andrea Clementi, U. of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy
- Josep Diaz, T.U. of Catalonia, Spain
- Tassos Dimitriou, Athens Information Technology, Greece
- Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion U., Israel
- Deborah Estrin, UCLA, USA
- Alfredo Ferro, U. of Catania, Italy
- Stefan Fischer, U. of Luebeck, Germany
- Pierre Fraigniaud, CNRS, U. Paris-Sud, France
- Jorge Garcia-Vidal, T.U. of Catalonia, Spain
- Chalermek Intanagonwiwat, Chulalongkorn U., Thailand
- Christos Kaklamanis, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece
- Miroslaw Kutylowski, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
- Jan van Leeuwen, U. of Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Alberto Marchetti Spaccamela, U. of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
- Sotiris Nikoletseas (Co-Chair), U. of Patras and CTI, Greece
- Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA
- Pekka Orponen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- Pino Persiano, U. of Salerno, Italy
- Jose Rolim (Co-Chair), U. of Geneva, Switzerland
- Christian Schindelhauer, U. of Paderborn, Germany
- Paul Spirakis, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece
- Philippas Tsigas, Chalmers U., Sweden
- Peter Widmayer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- Jiri Wiedermann, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
- Manos Varvarigos, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, Chair, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece
Athanasios Kinalis, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece
Giorgos Mylonas, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece
PROCEEDINGS
Accepted papers will be published in a hardcopy Proceedings Volume by the
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series of Springer Verlag. The
Volume will be pubished as a Post-Proceedings: authors will have the
opportunity to take advantage of the discussion at the event and
revise/finalize their papers before submitting camera ready versions.
TCS JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE
Selected high quality papers will be considered for publication in a
Special Issue on Algorithmic Aspects of Wireless Sensor Networks of the
Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) Journal.
PAPER SUBMISSION:
Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished
research in the topics related to the workshop. Papers should not exceed
twelve (12) pages of text using at least 11 point size type, including
references, figures, tables, etc. Additional material may be added at a
clearly marked Appendix to be read at the discretion of the Program
Committee Members.
Authors must submit their papers electronically via EDAS
(http://edas.info/).
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: May 2, 2006
- Author Notification: May 30, 2006
- Camera Ready Manuscript Due: July 27, 2006
SPONSORS
- The Research Academic Computer Technology Institute (CTI), Greece
(www.cti.gr)
- The TCSensor Lab of the University of Geneva, Switzerland
(http://tcs.unige.ch/)
- Athens Information Technology (http://www.ait.gr/)
- INTRACOM DEFENSE ELECTRONICS (www.intracom.com)
- The EU-FET R&D Project "Algorithmic Principles for Building
Efficient Overlay Computers (AEOLUS)"
(http://www.ceid.upatras.gr/aeolus/)
- Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS,
www.springe.com/lncs)
Dear TC6 member,
If you intend to attend Networking 2006 in
Coimbra, I want to let you know that I will chair
a panel on Broadband Access.
Please let me know if you would be interesed to
participate and on what aspects in particular.
I intend also to hold a small meeting of the
participants to the panel on Wednesday after the
end of the conference. Will you be free to attend
this meeting ?
I look forward to hear from you
Andre
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A one one-hour panel at Networking in Coimbra on Thursday May 18th at 16:10.
Trends and Research Issues in Broadband Access
For residential users, SMEs and teleworkers, the
broadband access to the Internet is through ADSL.
It allows best effort access to the Internet and
in many cases, VoIP services.
The trends to the triple play with broadcast TV
and Video on Demand require more bandwidth and
better QoS.
Which solutions will prevail ? FTTH, FTTC, . ?
PON or Active Ethernet ? Ethernet Transport or
Ethernet Service ? Cable operators or legacy
operators migrating to IP/MPLS ? Will Broadband
Access Operators also provide Contents ? Will
Broadband Access Providers charge Contents
Providers ?
Chair : A. Danthine, ULg, Belgium
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ANDRE DANTHINE andre.danthine(a)ulg.ac.be
+ 32 4 383 75 42
25, rue Henri Fays
B-4160 Anthisnes (Belgium)