miércoles, 19 de diciembre de 2007

[Tccc] CFP Special Issue of IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine on Practical Aspects of Mobility in Wireless Self-Organizing Networks

********************* CALL FOR PAPERS ********************

IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine

Special Issue on

"Practical aspects of mobility in
wireless self-organizing networks"

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Wireless and mobile computing advanced significantly in
the last decade. In particular, we now face the
possibility to spontaneously establish wireless self-
organizing networks, such as ad hoc, disruption-tolerant,
sensor, and wireless mesh networks. These spontaneous
self-organizing networks have been the focus of intensive
research activity in recent years. Spontaneous networks
arise from the cooperation of mobile devices in an ad hoc
fashion requiring no previous infrastructure in
place. A key point to couple research and real-life
applications in this context is to understand how mobility
(of devices, users, and applications) impacts practical
networking aspects.

The knowledge accumulated so far in the area of wireless
self-organizing networks is in general supported by either
simulation or theoretical analysis relying on strong
assumptions. The research community needs a step forward
and should definitely consider real aspects of mobility in
their protocols and algorithms. Such a situation is to be
compared with the one found for infrastructure-based
networks (e.g., cellular networks), in which mobility has
been thoroughly investigated (both theoretically and
through measurements) and properly incorporated in their
management architecture. In wireless self-organizing
networks, contrary to common belief, much is still to be
done in this domain, and definitive solutions are still
to emerge.

Mobility can no longer be seen as an issue to be hidden
from higher layers of the protocol stack, but as an
expected characteristic of today's communication systems.
In this context, it is of utmost importance to address
issues related to the impact of mobility as seen in
practice, covering characterization, modeling, and
applications of mobility in modern wireless networks. The
research community working on wireless self-organizing
networks has recently started giving more attention to
the practical mobility issues in this area. This may be
attested by the increasing number of initiatives worldwide
like the many measurement campaigns and the considerable
body of developed theoretical background work supported by
practical arguments (e.g., mobility models, mobility
increasing network capacity, relationship between node
mobility and wireless channel conditions).

The goal of this special issue is to help filling this gap
by presenting contributions ranging from the impact of
mobility on self-organizing networks to mobility-aware
architectures for self-organizing networks. As we intend
to focus on the practical impacts of mobility in wireless
self-organizing networks, papers presenting insights from
the applicability of mobility measurements and realistic
mobility models in this context are also expected. We will
be particularly interested in contributions that explore
mobility to improve the behavior of network protocols and
algorithms.

We are soliciting papers covering, but not limited to, the
following topics:

* Mobility-aware architectures for self-organizing
networks.
* Impact of mobility on self-organizing networks.
* Practical applicability of wireless testbeds and
mobility measurements.
* Realistic mobility models for self-organizing networks.
* Mobility-centric killer applications.


MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION

With regard to both the content and formatting style of
the submissions, prospective contributors must follow the
IEEE Wireless Communications guidelines at
http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/pcm/sub_guidelines.html.
Submitted papers must be original and must not be under
current consideration for publication in other venues.
Authors should submit a PDF format of their complete
papers via email to wmag@rp.lip6.fr.


SCHEDULE

* Manuscript Submission Due: February 15, 2008
* Acceptance Notification: June 30, 2008
* Final Manuscript Due: July 30, 2008
* Publication: December 2008


GUEST EDITORS

Marcelo Dias de Amorim
Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, France
Email: amorim@rp.lip6.fr

Artur Ziviani
National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC), Brazil
Email: ziviani@lncc.br

Yannis Viniotis
North Carolina State University, USA
Email: candice@ncsu.edu

Leandros Tassiulas
University of Thessaly, Greece
Email: leandros@inf.uth.gr
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[Tccc] CFP: TVT SI on Vehicle-Infrastructure Integration and Telematics Applications

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IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT) on
Vehicle-Infrastructure Integration and Telematics Applications
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For more than a hundred years, the benefits of personal and commercial
mobility, made possible by vehicular technology, have been a testimony to
the success of automobiles. Their collective presence --- more than a
billion registered cars, trucks and buses and growing in number --- places
a complex sustainability burden on society and on the planet through
factors such as roadway fatalities, fossil-fuel depletion, greenhouse gas
emissions & roadway congestion. During the past decade or so, there has
been a globally shared realization that in order to enhance the benefits
of automobiles and decrease their environmental footprint, the roadway
infrastructure and automobiles need to interact as part of an intelligent
transportation system (ITS). Coincident with the development of ITS, there
has been a much progress made with respect to transportation telematics
--- the interaction between automobiles and the infrastructure to deliver
services such as road-side assistance, automatic crash notification,
concierge assistance and vehicle health reports. There has been extensive
research & experimentation on both the underlying architectures and
technologies needed to fulfill the goals of ITS and deliver on the
expectations of telematics. A new era of vehicular technologies that
includes vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I)
communications is upon us, seeded by both (pre-competitive) public-sector
and private-sector funding. Examples include the dedicated short-range
communications (DSRC) radio under consideration in the United States (US)
for vehicle-infrastructure integration (VII) and a global system for
telematics (GST) chip-set in Europe. Examples of telematics or nomadic
device connectivity services include BMW's ASSIT in Europe, Ford's SYNC
and General Motors' OnStar, in the US and Toyota's G-Book in Japan.

Topics of Interest:
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- Vehicular technologies for intra-vehicle, V2V, V2I, extra-vehicle
networking & services;
- Vehicular technologies for connectivity to portable or nomadic digital
device & services;
- Vehicular technologies to enhance ITS and Telematics services.
- Microware radio & handover technologies for ITS and Telematics;
- Roadside system-level, board-level and chip-level electronics;
- Remote service provisioning and over-the-air vehicle software upgrade
technologies;
- End-to-end service delivery architectures, algorithms, protocols and
scalability;
- End-to-end quality of service, resource management, security & privacy;
- Rail transit vehicle interface and traffic management;
- Applications, including those relating to reduction in roadway
fatalities, fuel consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, roadway
congestion, digital entertainment & lifecycle maintenance;
- Results from large-scale experimental systems, test-beds and field
trials;
- Business models for ITS and Telematics.

Authors should follow the IEEE TVT manuscript format and submission
procedure which can be found at the IEEE TVT home page
http://transactions.vtsociety.org/ under Information for Authors. There
will be one round of reviews and acceptance will be limited to papers
needing only moderate revisions. Prospective authors should submit a PDF
version of their complete manuscript.

Important Dates:
Manuscript Due: January 1, 2008
Acceptance Notice: April 1, 2008
Final Manuscripts Due: May 15, 2008
Publication: September 2008

Guest Editors:
Dr. Tao Zhang
Chief Scientist
Applied Research
Telcordia Technologies
One Telcordia Drive
Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA
tao@research.telcordia.com

Prof. Char-Dir Chung
Graduate Institute of Communications
Engineering and Department of Electrical
Engineering
National Taiwan University
Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
cdchung@cc.ee.ntu.edu.tw

Dr. To Russell Hsing
Executive Director of Emerging Technologies
and Services Research Department
Applied Research
Telcordia Technologies
One Telcordia Drive
Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA
trh@telcordia.com

Dr. K. Venkatesh Prasad
Group & Technical Leader
Infotronics Research & Advanced
Engineering
Ford Motor Company
Research & Innovation Center, MD 3137
Room 3011B
2101 Village Road,
Dearborn, Michigan 48121, USA
kprasad@ford.com
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lunes, 17 de diciembre de 2007

CPF - 13th IFIP Conference on Personal Wireless Communications

********************************* PWC 2008 *********************************

CALL FOR
PAPERS
13th IFIP international
Conference on
Personal Wireless
Communications (PWC 2008)
October 1-3, 2008 ---
Toulouse, France.

http://www.irit.fr/PWC2008/

ABOUT PWC 2008
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Wireless and mobile networks, applications and services are rapidly growing
areas that have attracted significant attention due to their potential
impacts on the quality of life in multiple domains (health, emergency
services, disaster recovery, commerce, shopping, TV, games…). To enable
wireless and mobile computing, it is necessary to integrate technologies
from the fields of distributed computing, networking, communications and
signal processing.

MWCN (Mobile and Wireless Communications Networks) and PWC (Personal
Wireless Communications) are two conferences sponsored by IFIP WG 6.8 that
provide forum for discussion between researchers, practitioners and
students interested in new developments in mobile and wireless networks,
services, applications and computing.

In 2008, MWCN and PWC are coupled to form the first edition of IFIP
Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC). MWCN and PWC topics are
revisited in order to make them complementary and covering together the
main hot issues in wireless and mobile networks, services, applications,
computing, and technologies.

PWC´2008 is the thirteenth conference of this series sponsored by IFIP WG
6.8 and will be held in Toulouse (France) from 1 to 3 October 2008. The
conference will consist of three days of scientific presentations. Previous
events were held in Prague (Czech Republic) in 2007, Albacete (Spain) in
2006, Colmar (France) in 2005, Delft (The Netherlands) in 2004, Venice
(Italy) in 2003, Singapore in 2002, Lappeenranta (Finland) in 2001, and
Gdansk (Poland) in 2000.

Performance of wireless networks is the major factor that determines their
feasibility for the given set of application requirements. Performance has
many different aspects, from different layers, and all of these are
intimately related to topology, energy efficiency, management, user
mobility, and security issues. The key goals of this improvement include
Quality of Service (QoS) support mechanisms, efficient channel access
mechanisms, security and energy saving mechanisms, etc. The effort to
improve the wireless networks is linked with many technical challenges
including compatibility with legacy networks, complexity in implementation,
and practical values in real market, etc.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
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The PWC 2008 technical committee solicits papers describing original,
previously unpublished, completed or on-going research. Topics include, but
are not limited to, the following:

1. Management and control of mobile and wireless networks
- Handoff management
- Location management
- Connection management
- Bandwidth management and capacity enhancement
- Resource and information management
- Network and service management and control
- Energy efficiency of protocols and devices and power management
2. Quality of service
- QoS support in mobile and wireless networks
- QoS for voice and video in wireless/mobile networks
- Admission control
- Routing and Scheduling in mobile and wireless networks
3. Security
- Security and privacy in mobile and wireless networks
- AAA (Authentication, Authorization and Accounting) in mobile and
wireless networks
4. Internet
- Wireless Internet
- IP-based wireless/mobile multimedia services
- IP-based wireless/mobile networks
- Transport layer issues in mobile and wireless networks
5. Design approaches and methodologies
- Network self-organization, adaptability, reconfigurability
- Autonomic networking
- Opportunistic networking
- Cross-layer design in mobile and wireless networks
6. Software and middleware
- Software engineering for wireless and mobile network/service development
- Middleware support for QoS provision
- Middleware support for network configuration and adaptation
7. Modeling and performance evaluation
- Traffic and network modeling in wireless/mobile networks
- Analysis and simulation of wireless/mobile networks
- Evaluation of mobile network testbeds

BEST PAPER AWARD AND TRAVEL GRANTS
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A best paper award (500 EUR) and two travel grants (750 EUR each) will be
awarded to PWC 2008 conference participants.

PAPER PUBLICATION
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>>>> Proceedings publication: Springer IFIP series

>>> A maximum of 10 best papers will be selected from accepted and
presented papers for publication in a special issue of International
Journal of Business Data Communications and Networking
www.igi-global.com/ijbdcn

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline: March 10, 2008
Notification of acceptance: May 13, 2008
Final paper due: May 30, 2008

CONFERENCE COMMITTEES
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General Chairs
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Zoubir MAMMERI, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse (France)
Partick SENAC, ENSICA (France)

Steering Committee
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Khaldoun AL AGHA, Paris-Sud University (France)
Robert BESTAK, Czech Technical University (Czech Republic)
Pedro CUENCA, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha (Spain)
Sonia HEEMSTRA DE GROOT, Twente Institute (The Netherlands)
Ignacious NIEMEGEERS, Delft University of Technology, (The Netherlands)
Tadao SAITO, Toyota Info technology Center (Japan)
Jan SLAVIK, TESTCOM (Czech Republic)
Otto SPANIOL, University of Technology of Aachen (Germany)
Jozef WOZNIAK, Technical University of Gdansk (Poland)

Technical Program Committee
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Available at www.irit.fr/PWC2008/

Organizing Committee
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G. Boudour (IRIT, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France)
D. Espes (IRIT, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France)
W. Masri (IRIT, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France)
J. Petit (IRIT, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France)
C. Teyssie (IRIT, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France)

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* Prof. Zoubir MAMMERI
* Paul Sabatier University
* IRIT - ASTRE Team
* 118 route de Narbonne
* 31062 Toulouse Cedex 9 - FRANCE
* Phone : 33 561 55 77 54
* Fax : 33 561 55 62 58
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miércoles, 5 de diciembre de 2007

ISWPC'08, Santorini, Greece

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON WIRELESS PERVASIVE COMPUTING 2008
Santorini, Greece
7-9 May 2008

http://www.iswpc.org/2008/

Technically Co-Sponsored By
IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
IEEE Signal Processing Society
IEEE Communications Society

************** Final Paper Submission Deadline : Decemeber 10, 2007
**************

Call for Papers

Wireless pervasive computing is a rapidly growing area that has attracted
significant attention due to its potential impact on the quality of life. To
enable wireless pervasive computing, it is necessary to integrate
technologies from the fields of distributed computing, networking,
communications and signal processing. The aim of this symposium is to
provide a platform for researchers in the area of wireless pervasive
computing and related areas to showcase their results, launch new ideas, as
well as to interact with other researchers.

The scope of the symposium, which is technically co-sponsored by several
IEEE Technical Committees, covers enabling technologies of wireless
pervasive computing. A series of panels and tutorials will also seek to
inform and invoke interaction among researchers.

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Topics of interest include but are NOT LIMITED to the following:
> Ad hoc and sensor networks
> Coding and modulation techniques
> Cognitive radio
> Cooperative communications technologies
> Cross-layer design
> Detection and estimation
> Diversity techniques & equalization
> Dynamic spectrum management
> Healthcare applications
> Interference management
> Interoperation of wireless systems
> Localization and tracking techniques
> Location management techniques
> Middleware
> MIMO systems
> Multimedia processing and systems
> Multirate and multicarrier communications
> Multi-user Detection
> Pervasive services
> Programmable radio
> Propagation and channel characterization
> QoS Support in wireless systems
> Resource management
> RF systems
> Security applications
> Signal processing
> Signal separation and interference rejection
> Switching and routing techniques
> UWB
> Wearable devices
> Wireless access techniques
> Wireless multicasting
> Wireless network architecture
> Wireless sensor networks
> Wireless systems

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PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Acceptance will be based on an extended abstract of up to 2100 words (three
pages in the standard IEEE conference format). The extended abstract should
include diagrams, initial results, and details required for the reviewers to
assess the contribution of your work. A short summary of approximately 150
words is also required at the time of submission of the extended abstract.
Extended abstracts must be submitted electronically via EDAS
(http://edas.info) before the submission deadline. Authors of accepted
papers must register at full rate by Feb 15 2008, for the papers to be
included in the proceedings.

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SPECIAL SESSIONS & PANEL SESSIONS
Proposals for Special Sessions and Panel Sessions are also being solicited.
Panel sessions are 60 minutes long. They present leaders in a particular
area discussing a topic of interest within the scope of the symposium.
Proposals for Special Sessions and Panel sessions should consist of 1000
words summary, a 150 word abstract, and a cover page listing the details of
the author(s), and be sent directly to the respective chairs.

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IMPORTANT DATES
Last date for submitting of papers, proposals for tutorials and panel
sessions: November 2, 2007
Notification of Acceptance: January 9, 2008
Last date for submission of camera-ready versions of accepted papers:
February 15, 2008

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CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

General Co-Chairs
Thanos Stouraitis
University of Patras, Greece

Boon Sain Yeo
SensiMesh, Singapore

Honorary General Chair
Anthony G. Constantinides
Imperial College London, U.K.

Technical Program Chair
Georgios B. Giannakis
University of Minnesota, U.S.A.

Technical Program Co-Chairs
Sajal K. Das
University of Arlington, U.S.A.

Woon Hau Chin
Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

Sponsorship Chair
Antonis Kalis
A.I.T., Greece

Publicity Chair
Athanassios P. Kakarountas
University of Patras, Greece

Panel Co-Chairs
Constantinos B. Papadias
A.I.T., Greece

Giovanni Giambene
University of Siena, Italy

Special Sessions Chair
Kostas Berberidis
University of Patras, Greece

Symposium Management
Matina Gika
matina.gika@meetingplanner.gr