[Tccc] Cannes, French Riviera --- IEEE PIMRC 2008 ---

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IEEE PIMRC 2008
Cannes, French Riviera, France
14-18 September 2008

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Overview:

The annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile
Radio Communications (PIMRC) is one of the premier conferences in the
wireless research arena and has a long history of bringing together
academia, industry and regulatory bodies. Today, it has become one of
IEEE ComSoc's flagship conferences in telecommunications.

The 19th edition of PIMRC will be held from 14-18 September 2008 in
glamorous Cannes, French Riviera, France, at the "Palais des Festivals
de Cannes" where traditionally the Cannes Film Festival is being held.
With Cannes being one of the most charming places on earth, we expect
this to be a truly special conference.

Focus:

PIMRC 2008 will provide a global forum for presenting the most recent
advances, the future technical challenges and business opportunities
that comprise the contemporary landscape in wireless communications. The
organizers endeavour to attract contributions covering not only
conventional areas of wireless communications (e.g., physical layer),
but also emerging areas with high potential for essential scientific and
societal impact such as wireless sensors for biomedical applications,
non-trivial pervasive computing services and ambient technologies. The
latter areas are expected to facilitate the development of a broad
vision of innovative future applications in wireless communications. The
high quality IEEE endorsed technical programme, will also include
tutorials, workshops, exhibitions, panel discussions and keynote
presentations from leading experts coming from the academic community,
industry, as well as regulatory and standardisation bodies.

Call for Papers:

Authors are invited to submit high-quality papers describing original
and previously unpublished contributions in a wide range of topics in
wireless
communications. These topics are clustered into the following three
major categories:

1) Physical Layer and MAC
2) Mobile and Wireless Networks
3) Applications, Services and Business Models

Papers should be in English, strictly not exceeding 5 double-column
pages. Authors should use the relevant IEEE template, ensuring an IEEE
Xplore compatible PDF-format. To access the full list of topics,
submission guidelines, as well as venue and travel information please
continue visiting www.pimrc2008.org, which will be updated over coming
months.

Preliminary Dates (tbc):

Full papers due: March 2008
Acceptance notice: May 2008
Final manuscript: June 2008

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ICST - Mobilware'08: first cfp

***** MOBILWARE *****
First International Conference on MOBILe Wireless MiddleWARE,
Operating Systems, and Applications

http://www.mobilware.org/
Jointly sponsored by Create-Net and ICST
Innsbruck, Austria, February 13-15, 2008
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The advances in wireless communication technologies and the
proliferation of mobile devices have enabled the realization of
intelligent environments for people to communicate with each other,
interact with information-processing devices, and receive a wide range
of mobile wireless services through various types of networks and
systems everywhere, anytime. A key enabler of this ambient intelligence
and unobtrusive connectivity is the advancement of software technology
in various communication sectors, ranging from communications middleware
and operating systems to networking protocols and applications.
This new international conference, MOBILWARE, is dedicated to addressing
emerging topics and challenges in various mobile wireless
software-related areas. The scope of the conference is the design,
implementation, deployment, and evaluation of middleware, operating
systems (OS), and applications for computing and communications in
mobile wireless systems. It aims to provide a high profile, leading edge
forum for researchers, engineers, and standards developers to present
their latest research, techniques, and experiences in the filed of
software technology for mobile wireless systems.

PAPERS: Original and unpublished research achievements in various
aspects of middleware/operating systems/applications are solicited.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- OS/middleware for embedded systems, wearable networks, and personal
area networks
- OS/middleware support for the integration of heterogeneous wireless
networks
- Middleware for mobile computing
- Middleware for QoS awareness, adaptation, and fault-tolerance of
mobile services
- Middleware for opportunistic networking in delay-tolerant mobile services
- Location-aware and context-aware mobile supports and services
- Mobility management and handoff management in heterogeneous integrated
networks
- Location and tracking supports and services
- Mobility-aware wireless service discovery, management, and delivery
- Intelligent and mobile agent technologies for mobile systems and services
- Human-computer interface and portable 3D graphics for mobile devices
- Middleware/applications for wireless sensor networks, vehicular
networks, home networks, and P2P systems
- Modeling and performance of mobile wireless services (VoIP, gaming,
P2P sharing, urban monitoring, …)
- Software supports for mobile military applications (navigation
modeling, 3D map representation, ...)
- Deployment and management supports for large-scale mobile services
- Policy, trust, security, and privacy issues for mobile wireless networks

POSTERS/DEMOS: The conference will include a poster/demo session to
highlight recent and on-going research, experiments, and provocative
ideas not yet published elsewhere. Poster/demo submissions will be
reviewed and summaries of accepted posters will appear in the conference
proceedings.

WORKSHOPS: Proposals for workshops are solicited. Potential workshop
organizers are requested to submit a proposal of at most 5 pages,
including a biographical sketch of each proponent, to the Workshop Chair
by September 1, 2007. Proposal evaluation will be based on the expertise
and experience of the proponents and on the relevance of the subject matter.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: All paper, poster, and workshop submissions
will be handled electronically. Please visit the conference website

http://www.mobilware.org for detailed submission requirements and
procedures.

PUBLICATION: All submitted papers and posters will be rigorously
reviewed by technical program committee members and invited reviewers.
All accepted papers and poster abstracts will be made available in the
ACM Digital Library (pending) and then be included in major article
indexing services. Extended versions of selected papers from MOBILWARE
will be published in a dedicated special issue of the Mobile Networks
and Applications (MONET) Journal.

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IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission Due Date: August 15, 2007
Notification of Acceptance: November 1, 2007
Final version due: December 20, 2007
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STEERING COMMITTEE
Imrich Chlamtac (Chair), Create-Net, Italy
Carl K. Chang, Iowa State University, USA

GENERAL CO-CHAIRS
Tuna Tugcu. Bogazici University, Turkey
Linda Xie, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR
Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION CHAIR
Zsuzsa Lanyi-Kaszab, ICST

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be confirmed)
G. Abowd, Georgia Inst. Technology, USA
O.B. Akan, METU, Turkey
K. Bur, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
C. Bisdikian, IBM T.J. Watson, USA
Y. Cai, Iowa State University, USA
R.H. Campbell, U. Illinois Urbana C., USA
J. Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
S. Clarke, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
E. Ekici, Ohio State University, USA
M. Gerla, University of California Los Angeles, USA
G. Giambene, University of Siena, Italy
T. Gu, Inst. Infocomm Research, Singapore
X. Gu, Tech. University Braunschweig, Germany
R. Hill, Indiana University, USA
L. Iftode, Rutgers University, USA
T. Kanter, Ericsson Research, Sweden
U.C. Kozat, DoCoMo Labs, USA
P.J. Keleher, University of Maryland, USA
P. Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France
T. Magedanz, Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany
G. Morabito, University of Catania, Italy
S. Nath, Microsoft Research, USA
P. Nixon, University College Dublin, Ireland
G.-C. Roman, Washington University St. Louis, USA
J. Taheri, University Sydney, Australia
A. Tripathi, University of Minnesota, USA
M. Youssef, University of Maryland, USA
F. Zambonelli, U. Modena&Reggio, Italy
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Paolo Bellavista, Ph. D.
Associate Professor in Computer Science Engineering
DEIS - Università degli Studi di Bologna
Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna (ITALY)
Tel# +39-051-2093866; Fax# +39-051-2093073
Email: pbellavista@deis.unibo.it
Web: http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/PaoloBellavista/

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[Tccc] Call-for-paper: IEEE INFOCOM 2008

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CALL FOR PAPERS
The 27th Annual Conference of the IEEE Communications Society
IEEE INFOCOM 2008
Sponsored by IEEE Communications Society
April 13-19, 2008
Phoenix, Arizona, USA

Conference URL: http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2008/

EDAS URL:

http://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=5065&

Author Guidelines:

http://cse.unl.edu/~byrav/INFOCOM2008/author-instructions.html

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Important Dates:
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Registration due: June 25, 2007, 11:59 PM PDT (required)
Full paper due: July 2, 2007, 11:59 PM PDT (firm)
Notification of acceptance November 12, 2007
Final version due January 15, 2008
Specialized Workshops April 13, 18, 2008
Conference Sessions April 15-17, 2008
Mini-conference April 14, 2008

Topics of Interest:
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The IEEE INFOCOM 2008 conference seeks papers describing significant
research contributions to the field of computer and data communication
networks. We invite submissions on network architecture, design,
implementation, operations, analysis, measurement, performance, and
simulation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the
following:

* Ad hoc mobile networks
* Addressing & location management
* Broadband access technologies
* Capacity planning
* Cellular & broadband wireless nets
* Congestion control
* Content distribution
* Cross layer design and optimization
* Cyber-physical computing/networking
* Denial of service
* Delay/disruption tolerant networks
* Future Internet design
* Implementation & experimental testbeds
* Middleware support for networking
* Mobility models & systems
* Multicast & anycast
* Multimedia protocols and networking
* Network applications & services
* Network architectures
* Network control
* Network management
* Network simulation and emulation
* Novel network architectures
* Optical networks
* Peer-to-peer communications
* Performance evaluation
* Power control and management
* Pricing & billing
* Resource allocation & management
* Routing protocols
* Scheduling & buffer management
* Security, trust, & privacy
* Self-organizing networks
* Sensor nets & embedded systems
* Service overlays
* Switches & switching
* Topology characterization & inference
* Traffic measurement and analysis
* Traffic engineering, & control
* Virtual & overlay networks
* Web services & performance
* Wireless mesh networks and protocols

Submission:
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Authors should prepare a Portable Document Format (PDF) version of
their full paper. Papers must be no longer than NINE (9) pages, in
font size no smaller than 10 points, and must fit properly on US
"Letter"-sized paper (8.5 x 11 inches). Submission and formatting
instructions are available at:

http://cse.unl.edu/~byrav/INFOCOM2008/author-instructions.html

The deadline for registering the TITLE and the ABSTRACT of the paper
with the EDAS electronic submission system is June 25, 2007, 11:59PM
PDT and the deadline for submitting the complete PAPER is July 2,
2007, 11:59 PM PDT. See the above websites for detailed formatting
and submission instructions.

In the event that a paper cannot be included in the main conference
program, authors may be invited to submit an abbreviated version (5
pages) of the paper to be considered for inclusion in the IEEE INFOCOM
2008 mini-conference.

Organizing Committee:
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General Chair:
Douglas Merrill, Google, USA

General Vice-Chair:
Debanjan Saha, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA

Technical Program Co-Chairs:
Jennifer C. Hou, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Krishna Sivalingam, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA

EDAS Chair:
Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

Mini-conference Co-chairs:
K.K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T Labs Research, USA
Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

Publication Co-chairs:
Sergey Gorinsky, Washington University in Saint Louis, USA
Chonggang Wang, University of Arkansas, USA

Panel Co-chairs:
Guoliang (Larry) Xue, Arizona State University, USA
Junshan Zhang, Arizona State University, USA

Workshop Co-chairs:
Ehab Al-Shaer, DePaul University, USA
Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virginia Tech, USA

Poster Co-chairs:
Qian Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
Xi Zhang, Texas A&M University, USA

Student Activities Chair:
Chunming Qiao, SUNY at Buffalo, USA

Student Travel Grants Chair:
Vinod Vokkarane, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA
Hongyi Wu, University of Louisiana, USA

Infrastructure Chair:
Peter Baker, Google, USA

Public Relations Chair:
Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, University of Waterloo, Canada

Local Activities Chair:
Korianne Cremona, Google, USA

Local Arrangements Chair:
Naomi Devlin, Google, USA

Standing Committee Chair:
Harvey Freeman, HAF Consulting, Inc., USA

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[Tccc] CFP: SIMUTools 2008, first call

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SIMUTools 2008
First International Conference on Simulation Tools and
Techniques for Communications, Networks and Systems

March 3-7, 2008, Rhone-Alpes, France

http://www.simutools.org

Full Papers due: September 21, 2007
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CALL FOR PAPER
(pdf version: http://www.simutools.org/docs/CallForPaper.pdf)

SIMUTools 2008 is the first international conference focusing on
Simulation Tools and Techniques for Communications, Networks, and
Systems. The conference will address all aspects of simulation modelling
and analysis. Papers are sought on the topics of methodology, tools,
applications, and practices. Particular emphasis will be given to papers
that bridge multiple areas.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to
* Methodology/Simulation Art: Web based simulation, Agent based
simulation, Petri Nets simulation, Fluid flow simulation, Bond Graphs
simulation, Simulation-based Scheduling
* Application areas: Telecommunication, Network Security, Health Care,
Transportation, Manufacturing, Public Systems, Education and Training
* Tools: OPNET, NS-2, interconnected simulation platforms, ATDI ICS,
Qualnet, OMNET++, NIIST, open source tools

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in relevant
special issues of leading journals. Authors of accepted papers should
register and present their work at the conference. A poster session will
accommodate short papers and works in progress.

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Important Dates
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- Full Papers due: September 21, 2007
- Acceptance Notification: November 10, 2007
- Final Manuscript Due: December 10, 2007

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Submission Instructions
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Authors are invited to submit PDF versions of full papers of up to 10
pages in ACM conference proceedings format through COCUS
(http://cocus.create-net.it)

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Call for Workshops
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We solicit workshop proposals on new and emerging topics in Simulation
Tools and Techniques for Communications, Networks and Systems. A
proposal should focus on a specific theme of current interest seeking
for high-quality submissions. Proposals for one-day workshops to be held
in conjunction with the main conference are solicited and should be
forwarded to the workshops chairs workshop.simutools@icst.org by
*September 21, 2007*. Acceptance notification by *October 1, 2007*.

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Call for Panel Sessions
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Panel sessions proposals should be submitted to panel.simutools@icst.org
by *September 21, 2007*. Proposals should state the session title, a
description of the topic, and the names of key organizers and potential
panelists. Panel Session topics will be decided by *November 10, 2007*.

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Call for Exhibitors at EXPOTools
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In addition to the main technical program, the conference will hold a
parallel exhibition, EXPOTools. This will be a unique opportunity for
industry, researchers and professionals to exhibit simulation tools,
techniques and related products. For exhibitor information contact the
conference coordinator, Zita Rozsa, expotool.simutools@icst.org by
*February 8, 2008*.

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Call for Poster Session
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Authors are also invited to submit proposals for poster presentations.
Submit a ONE page extended abstract in PDF format to
poster.simutools@icst.org. Accepted abstracts will be published in the
Conference Proceedings. Participants in the Poster Session are required
to register and present their poster at the conference. Poster abstracts
are due by *December 10, 2007*. Acceptance notifications will be emailed
by *December 17, 2007*.

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Organization Committee
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General Chairs
Sándor Molnár, Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics, Hungary
John Heath, University of So Maine, USA

Technical Program Chairs
Charalabos Skianis, NCSR 'Demokritos', Greece
Olivier Dalle, Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS & INRIA, France

Steering Committee
Imrich Chlamtac, Chair, CreateNet, Italy

Workshops Chairs
Kejie Lu, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
Hua Zhu, San Diego Research Center, USA

Finance Chair
Karen Decker, ICST US

Publication Chair
Tricha Anjali, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

Publicity Chair
Thomas Watteyne, INRIA, France Telecom R&D, France

Conference Coordinator
Zita Rozsa, ICST Europe

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Program Committees
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To be announced.

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[Tccc] Mobimedia 2007-Submission Deadline is approaching!

C A L L F O R P A P E R S
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3rd International Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference
(M O B I M E D I A 2 0 0 7)

Supported by ACM, EURASIP
Nafpaktos, Greece, August 27 - 29, 2007

http://www.mobimedia.org

SCOPE
The successful development of multimedia services and applications in
mobile environments requires adopting an interdisciplinary approach where
both multimedia and networking issues are addressed jointly. Multimedia
semantic characteristics, Human Interpretation of audiovisual information,
extraction and usage of semantic information, coding standards and its
interaction with networking, mobility and security protocols are research
issues that need to be carefully examined when proposing new solutions.
Many are the applications that will be enabled by the new standards for
mobile networking, such as triple services for mobile networks, digital
television, video streaming, interactive gaming, navigation services,
context aware services, and immersive communications in virtual
environments. The efficient delivery of multimedia applications and
services over emerging diverse and heterogeneous wireless networks is a
challenging research objective. The research effort for the 3G/4G vision
of interworking among heterogeneous technologies to achieve multimedia
session continuity, retain multimedia QoS characteristics etc., amplifies
the need to evaluate the conditions and restrictions under which delivery
of such services can be accomplished.
Within this scope, MobiMedia is intended to provide a unique international
forum for researchers from industry and academia, working in multimedia
coding, and mobile networking fields to study new applications, solutions,
and standards. Original unpublished contributions are solicited that can
improve the knowledge and practice in the integrated design of efficient
technologies and the relevant provision of advanced mobile multimedia
applications.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Multimedia semantic characteristics in wireless, mobile and
ubiquitous
environments
* Multimedia QoS in wireless networks
* Extraction and usage of semantic information
* Performance evaluation of multimedia services
* Multimedia Retrieval in wireless and mobile environments
* Mechanisms supporting triple-play services in emerging wireless
networks
* Scalable Coding of multimedia in wireless and mobile networks
* Cross-Layer techniques for multimedia communications over wireless
networks
* Joint source-channel coding
* Multimedia services over ad-hoc and wireless sensor networks
* Rate Control and Adaptation for wireless multimedia
* P2P multimedia streaming in wireless and mobile networks
* Transport protocols for multimedia in emerging wireless networks
* Mobile Content Delivery Networks

General Co-Chairs
Tasos Dagiuklas
Dept. of Telecommunication Syst. & Networks
TEI of Mesolonghi,
Nafpaktos, Greece
Email: ntan@teimes.gr

Nicolas Sklavos
Dept. of Telecommunication Syst. & Networks
TEI of Mesolonghi,
Nafpaktos, Greece
Email: NSklavos@ieee.org

Technical Co-Chairs
Magda El-Zarki
Dept. of Information and Computer Science
University of California at Davis
Irvine, CA, USA
Email: elzarki@uci.edu

Rahim Tafazolli
Center for Communication System Research
University of Surrey
Guildford, Surrey, UK
Email: R.Tafazolli@surrey.ac.uk

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
* Ishfaq Ahmad, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
* John Apostolopoulos, HP, USA
* Pedro A. Amado Assuncao, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal
* Luigi Atzori, University Of Cagliari, Italy
* Pietro Camarda, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
* Homer Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
* Trista Chen, Intel Corporation, USA
* Reha Civanlar, Koc University, Turkey
* Ibrahim DEVELI, Erciyes University, Turkey
* Touradj Ebrahimi, EPFL, Switzerland
* Magda El-Zarki, University of California, USA
* Sergio Faria, Institute of Telecommunications, Portugal
* Frank Fitzek, Aalborg University, Denmark
* Moncef Gabbouj, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
* Mohammad Ghanbari, University of Essex, UK
* Christine Guillemot, IRISA, France
* Paola Hobson, Motorola Research Labs, UK
* Matthias Hollick, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
* Ebroul Izquoerdo, Queens Mary College, UK
* Wolfgang Klas, University of Wien, Austria
* Odysseas Koufopavlou, University of Patras, Greece
* Georgios Kormentzas, University of Aegean, Greece
* Stavros Kotsopoulos, University of Patras, Greece
* Inald L. Lagendjik, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
* Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain
* Maja Matijasevic, FER, Croatia
* James Modestino, University of Miami, USA
* Liam Murphy, University College Dublin, Ireland
* Thrasos Pappas, Northwestern University, USA
* Francisco Pereira, IST, Portugal
* Thomas Plagemann, University of Oslo, Norway
* Dirk Pesch, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland
* Wan-Chi Siu, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong
* Thanos Skodras, Hellenic Open University, Greece
* Ralf Steinmetz, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
* Thomas Stockhammer, Nomor Research, Germany
* Rahim Tafazolli, CCSR, UK
* Murat Telkap, Koc University, Turkey
* Micaela van der Schaar, UCLA, USA
* Dimitrios Vergados, University of Aegean, Greece
* Heather Yu, Panasonic Research, USA
* Jian Zhang, University of New South Wales, Australia

Paper submission and publication:

Mobimedia 2007 invites manuscripts that present original materials not
previously published in, or currently under review by, another conference
or journal. Submissions should be full-length papers of up to 7 pages or
short papers of up to 4 pages (including all figures and references)
formatted according to http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html.
Full-length papers should report on completed work and will be considered
for oral presentations. Short papers should report on work in progress or
discuss open problems, and will be considered for poster presentations. A
separate abstract of no longer than 200 words should be submitted as well.
Submissions will be judged by their originality, significance, interest,
clarity, relevance, and correctness. Papers will be submitted by
electronic submission through COCUS system: http://cocus.create-net.it.
All papers should be electronically submitted in Adobe PDF format.

Important dates:

- Submission of extended summaries: May 18, 2007
- Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2007
- Submission of camera-ready papers: July 2, 2007

Students award and grants:

Five student prizes will be awarded to the best papers authored by full
time students as first author.

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[Tccc] CFP: Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS 2007): Deadline July 16, 2007.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 3rd ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures

for Networking and Communications Systems

http://www.ancsconf.org

December 3-4, 2007

Orlando, Florida, USA

Sponsored by:

ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (SIGARCH)

ACM Special Interest Group on Communications (SIGCOMM)

IEEE Computer Society Tech. Committee on Computer Architecture

IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper registration and abstract: July 9, 2007

Submission deadline: July 16, 2007

Author notification: September 26, 2007

CONFERENCE OVERVIEW

ANCS is a research conference that focuses on the architecture and
design of hardware and software for modern communication networks. The

combination of increasing network bandwidth and expanding functionality
pose continuing and growing challenges for system designers. New
technology elements, including network processors, content addressable
memories, configurable logic and special-purpose components offer new
opportunities for meeting these challenges, but also raise a variety of
new issues. ANCS focuses on networking and communication in the broad
sense, including novel architectures, architectural support for advanced
communications systems, algorithms and protocols for advanced
architectures, software and applications

for next-generation networking architectures, and methodology and
benchmarking for evaluating advanced communication architectures. Our
emphasis this year will be on hardware and software elements in the
context of systems that enable networks to evolve and scale.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

* System design for future Network Architectures

* Network/communications processors

* Intelligent co-processors

* Router architectures

* Emerging Technologies (e.g., optical components, etc.)

* Switch fabrics/interconnection networks

* Link scheduling, processor/thread scheduling, switch scheduling

* Network adapters

* Application-specific networks (e.g., SAN, XML Switching)

* Programmable /extensible networks

* Secure communication

* Traffic management

* Packet classification

* Content inspection and filtering

* Energy-efficient designs

The PAPER DEADLINE for submissions is July 16, 2007 at 11:59PM PST (US).

ANCS will use double-blind reviewing, so submitted papers should not
include the authors' names. Paper registration and submission must

be done electronically through EDAS (edas.info). Registration, including
the abstract, must be completed no later than July 9, 2007 at 11:59PM
PDT (US).

All papers must be submitted in PDF format on letter-size paper.
Submissions must be viewable by Adobe Acrobat Reader (version 5.0 or
higher) and should not exceed 10 pages in ACM/SIG conference paper
format using 10 pt font. Submissions exceeding the maximum limit will
not be reviewed by the program committee. Camera-ready versions of the
accepted papers will be required to use the ACM SIG format
(www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html).

We encourage submissions containing original ideas. Like other
conferences, ANCS requires that papers not be submitted simultaneously
to any other conferences or publications; that submissions not be
previously published; and that accepted papers not be subsequently
published elsewhere.

Contact the program chairs with any questions at ancsTPC@arl.wustl.edu.

GENERAL CHAIR

Raj Yavatkar, Intel

PROGRAM CHAIRS

K. K. Ramakrishnan AT&T Labs Research

Dirk Grunwald, University of Colorado, Boulder

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Dan Blumenthal, UC Santa Barbara

Gregory Byrd, NC State U.

Srihari Cadambi, NEC Labs

Andrew Campbell, Dartmouth U

Fred Chong, UC Santa Barbara

Patrick Crowley, Washington U.

Will Eatherton, Cisco

Joel Emer, Intel

Kevin Fall, Intel

Manolis Katevenis, U. of Crete

T. V. Lakshman, Bell Labs

Kai Li, Princeton University

Ahmed Louri, Univ. of Arizona

Bill Mangione-Smith, Int. Ventures

Nick McKeown, Stanford Univ.

Robert Olsen, Cisco

Peter Onufryk, IDT

Vijay Pai, Purdue

Dhabaleswar Panda, Ohio State U.

Craig Partridge, BBN

Li-Shiuan Peh, Princeton Univ.

Rajeev Rastogi, Bell Labs

Dipankar Raychaudhuri, Rutgers

Scott Rixner, Rice University

Dimitrios Stiliadis, Bell Labs

Chuck Thacker, Microsoft

Jon Turner, Washington U.

Yin Zhang, UT Austin

M.Vachhranjani, Univ. of Colorado

Anujan Varma, UC Santa Cruz

Tilman Wolf, UMass Amherst

John Wroclawski, ISI

STEERING COMMITTEE

Alan Berenbaum, SMSC

Laxmi Bhuyan, UC-Riverside

Patrick Crowley, Washington U.

Mark Franklin, Washington U.

Haldun Hadimioglu, Polytech. U.

Nick McKeown, Stanford Univ.

Peter Z. Onufryk, IDT

K. K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T Labs

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Asunto: ACM/Springer MONET CFP: Special Issue on "Advances in Wireless
Mesh Networks"
Fecha: Mon, 14 May 2007 16:38:19 -0500
De: Chonggang Wang <cgwang@uark.edu>
Para: itc@comsoc.org

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CALL FOR PAPERS

ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET)

Special Issue on "Advances in Wireless Mesh Networks"
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Wireless mesh networks facilitates the extension of local area networks
into wide areas and have emerged as a promising approach for future
network accesses. Prior efforts on wireless networks, especially
multi-hop ad hoc networks, have led to significant research
contributions that range from fundamental results on theoretical
capacity bounds to numerous practical routing and transport protocols.
Unlike ad hoc networks, however, mesh networks can serve as access
networks that employ multi-hop wireless forwarding by mesh nodes to
relay traffic to and from the wired Internet. The unique features of
wireless mesh networks pose challenges in designing affordable,
reliable, and sustainable network infrastructures. The critical issues
span a rich spectrum of issues from interference-aware channel
assignment, multi-hop routing, to reliable transport and infrastructure
optimization, many of which have to be revisited in this new context.

The purpose of this special issue is to archive the state-of-the-art
achievements in wireless mesh networking. We solicit original and
unpublished research papers in both theoretical studies and practical
protocol/architecture designs for wireless mesh networks, as well as
prototypes. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

- Theoretical performance analysis
- Network capacity and network coverage
- Scalable power management and topology control
- Cognitive radio-enabled wireless mesh networks
- Multi-channel and multi-radio MAC protocols
- Scalable and robust routing protocols
- Reliable and adaptive transport protocols
- Cross-layer design and optimization
- New applications over wireless mesh networks
- Secure communication protocols
- Resource management and traffic control
- Heterogeneous wireless mesh networks
- Cooperative communication for mesh networks
- Efficient transport design
- Network operation and management
- Mobility management
- Testbeds and trial systems

Publication Schedules:

- Manuscript Due: June 1, 2007
- Acceptance Notification: Oct 15, 2007
- Final Manuscript Due: Dec 1, 2007
- Publication Date: second quarter in 2008 (expected)

Submission Guidelines:

Only original, unpublished research papers will be considered.
Submission should be limited to 25 double space pages.

Prospective authors should submit their manuscript as to

http://mone.edmgr.com and select "Advances in Wireless Mesh Networks" as
the article type.

The online manuscript submission and review system for Mobile Networks
and Applications offers easy and straightforward log-in and submission
procedures. This system supports a wide range of submission file
formats: for manuscripts - Word, WordPerfect, RTF, TXT and LaTex; for
figures - TIFF, GIF, JPEG, EPS, PPT, and Postscript. PDF is not an
acceptable file format.

NOTE: In case you encounter any difficulties while submitting your
manuscript online, please get in touch with the proper Springer contact
by clicking on "CONTACT US" from the tool bar.

Authors are requested to download the Consent to Publish and Transfer of
Copyright form from the journal's online submission system (see the URL
provided above). Please send a completed and duly signed form either by
mail or fax to:

Journals Editorial Office
Springer Science+Business Media
Assinippi Park
101 Philip Drive
Norwell, MA 02061
Fax: (781) 878-0449

Please visit http://www.springer.com/journal/11036 and click on
"Instructions for Authors" for more information about manuscript
guidelines and submission.

Selected papers from WICON (http://www.wicon.org/) will also be included.

Guest Editors:

Bo Li
Dept. of Computer Sci. and Computer Eng.
Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. and Tech.
Kowloon, Hong Kong
bli@cse.ust.hk

Qian Zhang
Dept. of Computer Sci. and Computer Eng.
Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. and Tech.
Kowloon, Hong Kong
qianzh@cse.ust.hk

Jiangchuan Liu
School of Computing Science
Simon Fraser University
British Columbia
Canada
jcliu@cs.sfu.ca

Chonggang Wang
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
University of Arkansas,
Fayetteville, AR 72701
cgwang@ieee.org

Xudong Wang
Kiyon, Inc.
San Diego, CA 92121
wxudong@ieee.org

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*Pietro Manzoni*

http://www.disca.upv.es/pmanzoni
Departamento de Informática de Sistemas y Computadores UPV
Valencia SPAIN