Call for Papers para el GRC: enero 2007

domingo, 28 de enero de 2007

CFP: JSAC Special Issue on "Game Theory in Communication Systems"

CALL FOR PAPERS (pdf version @

http://www.jsac.ucsd.edu/Calls/GameTheorycfp.pdf)

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC)

Special issue on "Game Theory in Communication Systems"

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Game theory is a formal framework with a set of mathematical tools to
study the complex interactions among interdependent rational players.
For more than half a century, game theory has led to revolutionary
changes in economics, and has found important applications in politics,
sociology, psychology, and transportation. Recently, there has been a
surge in research activities that employ game theory to model and
analyze a wide range of problems in modern communication systems. This
is mainly due to (1) the emergence of the Internet as a global platform
for computation and communication, which has sparked the development of
large-scale, distributed and heterogeneous communication systems; (2)
the deregulation of the telecommunication industry and the dramatic
improvement in computation power, which make it possible for various
network entities to make independent and selfish operational decisions;
and (3) the need for robust designs against uncertainties modeled as
games between the user and a malicious nature. Game theory can help us
better understand various complicated communication systems and design
more efficient, scalable and robust communication protocols and resource
allocation algorithms.

The aim of this issue is to bring together the state-of-the-art research
contributions that address the major opportunities and challenges of
applying game theory to understanding and designing modern communication
systems, with emphasis on both new analytical techniques and novel
application scenarios. We seek original completed and unpublished work
not currently under review by any other journal/magazine. Topics of
interest include (but are not limited to):

* Game theoretical analysis/design of communication networks
- Wireless resource allocation
- DSL spectrum management
- Network pricing
- Peer-to-peer and overlay networks
- Medium access control, routing, and congestion control
- Information theoretical analysis
- Cognitive radio networks
- Security and privacy

* Minimax robustness in communication systems
- Minimax/maximin formulations
- Worst-case robust designs
- Saddle-point optimizations
- H-infinity designs

* Emerging game-theoretical models in communication systems
- S-modular and potential games
- Stackelberg and Wardrop equilibria
- Coalition games and Nash bargaining models
- Multi-stage and repeated games
- Incentive compatible mechanism design (e.g., auction)

* General game-theoretic methodologies and techniques
- Efficiency loss compared with optimization model (i.e ., price of
anarchy)
- Games of imperfect or asymmetric information
- Effects of bounded rationality
- Learning mechanisms in games
- Computation of Nash, correlated, and market equilibria
- Preference elicitation and winner determination in combinatorial
auctions

Prospective authors should follow the IEEE J-SAC manuscript format
described in the Information for Authors
(http://www.jsac.ucsd.edu/Guidelines/info.html ). All papers should be
submitted in the PDF format (less than 1Mbyte in file size after
compression) to EDAS (tentative submission plan, might change later),
according to the following timetable:

Manuscript Submission: August 1, 2007
Acceptance Notification: January 10, 2008
Final Manuscript Due: April 1, 2008
Publication: 4th quarter 2008

Guest Editors:
* Jianwei Huang, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University
* Daniel P. Palomar, Dept. of Electronic & Computer Engineering, Hong
Kong University of Science & Technology
* Narayan B. Mandayam, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering,
WINLAB, Rutgers University
* Stephen B. Wicker, School of Electrical & Computer Engineering,
Cornell University
* Jean Walrand, Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences,
University of California, Berkeley
* Tamer Basar, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, CSL, UIUC

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Department of Electrical Engineering
Princeton University
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IEEE Network -- SI on Wireless Mesh Networks

IEEE Network Magazine Special Issue on
Wireless Mesh Networks: Applications, Architectures and Protocols

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Wireless mesh network (WMN) technologies have been actively researched
and developed as key solutions to improve the performance and services
of wireless personal area networks (WPANs), wireless local area networks
(WLANs), and wireless metropolitan area networks (WMANs) for a variety
of applications, such as voice, data and video. Compared with mobile
ad hoc networks (MANETs), wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and
infrastructure-based mobile cellular networks, WMNs are (1) quasi-static
in network topology and architecture, (2) not resource constrained at
mesh routers and (3) easy and flexible to deploy. These technological
advantages are especially appealing to the emerging market requirements
on future wireless networks and services, such as flexible network
architecture, easy deployment and self-configuration, low installation
and maintenance costs, interoperable with the existing WPAN, WLAN and
WMAN networks, support of multiple radios and access methods,
hierarchical mobility management, ability to attain efficient frequency
reuse, high system capacity, reliable multi-hop and multi-path
communications. Potential applications of WMNs include broadband home
networking, community and neighbourhood networking, enterprise
networking, building automation, health and medical systems, public
safety and security systems, intelligent transportation systems,
emergency/disaster networking, metropolitan area broadband Internet
access and so on. This wide range of applications have different
technical requirements and challenges in the design and deployment of
mesh networking architectures, algorithms and protocols. This special
issue aims to systematically address a variety of technical challenges
and advanced solutions in the design, implementation and deployment of
mesh networking algorithms, equipments and applications.

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Scope of Contributions
======================

This special issue will present the state-of-the-art applications of
WMN technologies and the corresponding technical advances in the design
and deployment of feasible network architectures and protocols. We are
soliciting original survey and research articles written in a tutorial
manner comprehensible to the non-specialists. Contributions from
academic researchers, industrial engineers, equipment manufacturers and
service providers are all very welcome and will go through an open call-
for-papers and a rigorous peer review process. Specifically, topics of
interest include:

* Applications and usage scenarios, such as neighbourhood and community
networking, campus and enterprise networking, emergency and instant
networking, and wireless broadband Internet access services

* Network design and planning, such as homogeneous and heterogeneous
network architectures, tradeoff study of computation, storage and
bandwidth requirements for real implementations, techniques to ensure
network reliability, scalability and interoperability

* Network management and operation, such as self-configuration, self-
management, self-healing, low overhead control protocols for discovery,
establishment and maintenance of mesh networks

* Resource management algorithms and communication protocols, such as
MAC protocols, routing protocols, end-to-end QoS support and system-wide
admission control algorithms

* Performance analysis and optimisation, such as network capacity,
coverage, fairness, energy efficiency, frequency reuse and interference
management

* Standardization and internetworking of WPAN-, WLAN-, WMAN- and
cellular-based wireless mesh networks

* Mesh platforms, such as testbed experiments, design and deployment of
mesh nodes and networks with multiple radios, channels and antennas

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Manuscript Submission
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The special issue will consider original research and survey articles
prepared in accordance to the guidelines of the IEEE Network magazine
(http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/net/ntwrk/authors.html) written in a tutorial
manner comprehensible to the non-specialists. The manuscripts must be
written in English and submitted electronically in PDF format with a
separate cover letter, which contains the paper title, authors,
affiliations, contact information, a 250-word abstract and 3-5 keywords,
via email to Dr. Yang Yang (YangYang@ieee.org) before the deadline.
Please prepare your manuscript in single-column and double-spaced format
with the font size larger than 10 points.

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Important Dates
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* Paper submission due date: April 15, 2007

* Notifications of acceptance: August 15, 2007

* Final version ready: October 1, 2007.

* Publication of the special issue: First Quarter 2008

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Guest Editors
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* Dr. Yang Yang, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering,
University College London (UCL), London WC1E 6BT, UK. Email:
y.yang@ee.ucl.ac.uk

* Dr. Konstantina Papagiannaki, Intel Research Pittsburgh CM2, 4720 Forbes
Avenue, Suite 410, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. Email:
dina.papagiannaki@intel.com

* Professor Song Ci, Department of Computer and Electronics Engineering,
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 200B Peter Kiewit Institute, Omaha,
NE 68182, USA. Email: sci@engr.unl.edu

* Professor Sherman Shen, Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo
Ontario

[manet] SPECTS07: 10Th Anniversary < One Month for paper submission!

2007 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and
Telecommunication Systems

SPECTS 2007
10Th Anniversary of SPECTS
http://eia.udg.es/SPECTS2007/

July 16-18, 2007
San Diego, California, USA

This annual international conference is a forum for professionals involved
in performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems.
Performance evaluation of computer systems and networks has progressed
rapidly in the past decade and has begun to approach maturity. Significant
progress has been made in analytic modeling, simulation, and measurement
approaches for performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication
systems.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Networking and Telecommunication Systems

Internet Technology
Quality of Service (QoS)
DiffServ/IntServ
MPLS/GMPLS
TCP
World Wide Web (WWW) Technology
Networking Techniques
Unicast and Multicast Routing
Congestion Admission and Control
Switching Techniques
Tele-traffic
Network Protocols
Network Management and Control
Network Capacity Planning
Network Architecture Evaluation
Service and QoS Pricing
Security and Authentication
Broadband Networks
High-Speed Networking
Optical Networks
Wireless Systems and Networks
Satellite Systems
UMTS
Mobile Networks/Computing
Ad-hoc Networks
Sensor Networks
Multimedia Communications and Applications

Computer Systems
Distributed Architectures
Client/Server
Distributed Systems and Agents
Parallel and Distributed Computing
Massively Parallel Systems
Cluster Computing
Grid Computing
Interconnection Networks
Computer Architectures
Microprocessors/Microcomputers
Memory Systems
High Performance I/O
Real-time Systems
Scheduling Schemes
Software
Software Performance, Evaluation, and Testing
Parallel Algorithms and Languages
Electronic Commerce
Hardware and Software Monitors
High-Performance Computing
Information Assurance
Reconfigurable Computing
Scientific Computing Algorithms
Workload and Traffic Characterization

Tools, Methodologies, and Applications

Parallel and Distributed Simulation
Verification and Validation
Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic Applications
Performance Optimization, Bounds, and Models
Queuing Systems and Networks
Scalability Studies
Integrated Modeling and Measurement
On-Line Performance Adaptation and Tuning
Process Algebra-Based Models
Mathematical Aspects and Integrated Design of Performance
Case Studies

General Chair
Mohammad S. Obaidat
Dept. of Computer Science, Monmouth University
W. Long Branch, NJ 07764, USA
Tel +1-732-571-4482
Fax +1-732-263-5202
E-mail: obaidat@monmouth.edu

Program Chairs

Jose L. Marzo
University of Girona, Spain
E-mail: joseluis.marzo@udg.es

Ljiljana Trajkovic
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
E-mail: ljilja@cs.sfu.ca

Helena Szczerbicka
University of Hannover, Germany
E-mail: hsz@sim.uni-hannover.de

Tutorials and Special Sessions Chair
S. Dharmaraja
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India
dharmar@maths.iitd.ernet.in

Awards Chair
Franco Davoli
University of Genoa, Italy
E-mail: franco@dist.unige.it

Publication Chair
Pawel Gburzynski
University of Alberta, Canada
E-mail: pawel@cs.ualberta.ca

Publicity Committee
Guoping Zeng, Nortel Networks, USA
E-mail: zenggu@nortelnetworks.com

Weiguang Shi, University of Alberta, Canada
E-mail: wgshi@cs.ualberta.ca

Hua Zhu, San Diego Research Center, CA, USA
E-mail: hua.zhu@sdrcinc.net

Essia H. Elhafsi, University of California-Riverside, USA
E-mail: essia@cs.ucr.edu

Abdelmajid Khelil, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
E-mail: khelil@informatik.tu-darmstadt.de

Antonio Pescapè, University of Napoli "Federico II", Italy
E-mail: pescape@unina.it

Local Arrangement Chair
Richard McDonald
RMC, USA
rmacd@ramlabs.com

Web Masters
Antonio Bueno
University of Girona, Spain
E-mail: jbueno@silver.udg.es

Michel J. Chinni
U. S. Army TACOM-ARDEC
E-mail: mchinni@pica.army.mil

Technical Program Committee
Abdullah Abonamah, Zayed University, UAE
Tricha Anjali, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Carlos Belo, Instituto de Telecomunicações-IST, Portugal
Noureddine Boudriga, University of Tunis, Tunisia
Maria C. Calzarossa, University of Pavia, Italy
Fernando Cerdan, Technical University of Cartagena, Spain
Tomaso de Cola, University of Genoa, Italy
S. Dharmaraja, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India
Floriano De Rango, D.E.I.S. Dept., University of Calabria, Italy
Rachid El Abdouni Khayari, University of the Armed Forces Munich, Germany
Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA
John Fox, Foxband Consultancy, UK
Laurent Franck, Telecom Paris, France
Sebastia Galmes, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
Daniel Garcia, University of Oviedo, Spain
Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK
Pawel Gburzynski, University of Alberta, Canada
Sami Habib, Kuwait University, Kuwait
Jarmo Harju, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Xavier Hesselbach-Serra, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Xiaoyan Hong, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Carlos Juiz, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
Krishna Kant, Intel, USA
Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessalonici, Greece
Ulrich Killat, Tech. Univ. of Hamburg, Germany
Michalis E. Kounavis, Intel Research, USA
Kevin Kwiat, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Veronica Lagrange M. Reis, HP Corp., USA
S. Kami Makki, University of Toledo, USA
Krzysztof Malinowski, Warsaw Technical University, Poland
Marek Malowidzki, Military Communication Institute, Poland
Petteri Mannersalo, University of Vaasa, Finland
Mario Marchese, University of Genoa, Italy
Pascale Minet, INRIA, France
Jelena Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada
Vojislav Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada
Snezana Mitrovic-Minic, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa, Canada

Ibrahim Onyuksel, Northern Illinois University, USA
Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, UK
Elena Pagani, Università di Milano, Italy
Georgios I. Papadimitriou, Aristotle University, Greece
Achille Pattavina, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Krzysztof Pawlikowski, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Gregory D. Peterson, University of Tennessee, USA
Stephen Pink, Lancaster University, UK
Michal Pioro, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Desa Polajnar, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada
Jernej Polajnar, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada
Ramon Puigjaner, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
Vicente Santonja, Technical University of Valencia, Spain
Barbara Sorensen, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Tatsuya Suda, University of California, Irvine, USA
Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Pere Vila, University of Girona, Spain
Manuel Villen-Altamirano, Telefonica, Spain
Bernd E. Wolfinger, Hamburg University, Germany
Guoping Zeng, Nortel Networks, USA
Michele Zorzi, Universit? di Ferrara, Italy

Paper Submission
Please submit your complete papers electronically to:
http://www.softconf.com/scs/SPECTS07/

Instructions for authors will be posted on the paper submission web site.
Submissions should not exceed 8-10 double-spaced, 8.5x11 inch pages
(including
figures, tables, and references) in 10 point fonts. Please include 5-10
keywords,
complete postal and e-mail address, and fax and phone numbers of the
corresponding
author. If you have difficulties with electronic submission, please contact
Technical Program Co-Chairs or the Local Arrangement Chair.

Extended versions of selected accepted papers at SPECTS 2007 will be
considered for
possible publication in scholarly journals.

Proposals for 1.5 hour tutorials should be sent to Tutorials and Special
Sessions
Chair. Tutorial abstracts along with keynote speeches abstracts will be
included in
the proceedings of the conference. Proposals for special sessions should
also be
submitted to the Tutorials and Special Sessions Chair.

Deadlines
Submission of papers: February 25, 2007
Notification of acceptance: April 22, 2007
Submission of camera-ready papers: May 20, 2007
Sponsored by The Society for Modeling and Simulation International
Technically Co-Sponsored by the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC)
Society.

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Abdelmajid Khelil khelil@informatik.tu-darmstadt.de
DEEDS Group Department of Computer Science
Hochschulstr. 10 D-64289 Darmstadt, GERMANY
Tel. +49-6151-16-3414 Fax. +49-6151-16-4310
http://www.deeds.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/khelil/index.html
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[Tccc] Advances in Multimedia Journal Special Issue: Multimedia Transmission over Emerging Wireless (Deadline May 1 2007)

Call for Papers

Advances in Multimedia Journal

Special Issue on "Multimedia Transmission over Emerging Wireless
Technologies"

The efficient delivery of multimedia applications and services over
emerging diverse and heterogeneous wireless networks (e.g., 2.5G/3G/4G,
Wi-Max, WLANs, PANs, adhoc, etc.) 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, amplifies the need to evaluate the conditions and
restrictions under which delivery of such services can be accomplished.
Furthermore, there are several research issues such as encoding
techniques, cross-layer optimization, error control, security require
considerable research effort so that appropriate solutions are designed
and developed.

The scope of this special issue is to present state-of-the-art research
and developing activities contributing to all facets of multimedia across
heterogeneous emerging wireless technologies (e.g., 4G, adhoc, Wi-Max,
etc.). This special issue aims to disseminate state-of-the-art research,
development, and novel solutions of multimedia transmission over wireless/
mobile-networked multimedia adhoc systems and technologies. The special
issue expects to receive contributions in the following research fields:
* Providing QoS over wireless networks (scheduling, call admission control
and rate control, packetization schemes, prioritization schemes)
* Protocols for efficient delivery of multimedia applications and services
over mobile networks
* New audio/video coding techniques over wireless networks
* Cross-layer techniques for multimedia communications over wireless
networks
* Performance evaluation of multimedia services via analysis, simulation,
and experiments (voice, video, interactive gaming)
* Design, implementation, and testbed/experimental results for wireless
multimedia systems
* P2P techniques for multimedia delivery over adhoc networks
* Mobile content delivery networking

Authors should follow the Advances in Multimedia manuscript format
described at the journal site http://www.hindawi.com/journals/am.
Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete
manuscript through the Advances in Multimedia Manuscript Tracking System
at http://www.hindawi.com/mts/, according to the following timetable:
Manuscript Due: May 1, 2007
Acceptance Notification: September 1, 2007
Final Manuscript Due: December 1, 2007
Publication Date: 1st Quarter, 2008

Guest Editors:
Stavros Kotsopoulos,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Patras,
Patras, Greece
Email: Stavros.A.Kotsopoulos@ee.upatras.gr

Tasos Dagiuklas,
Department of Telecommunications and Network Systems,
TEI of Mesolonghi,
Nafpaktos, Greece
Email: ntan@teimes.gr

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2nd CFP - IEEE Communications Magazine: Feature Topic on QoS Control in Next Generation Networks

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CALL FOR PAPERS

IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic on

QoS Control in Next Generation Networks

http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/cfpcommag0907a.htm
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In next generation networks, the service plane and the transport plane
will be decoupled and independent. This is clearly evident from
various emerging standards such as 3GPP IP Multimedia Subsystem, 3GPP2
Multi-Media Domain, ITU-T Next Generation Network, ETSI TISPAN, Packet
Cable Multimedia Architecture and Multi Service Forum. All of these
architectures have the following in common: (1) the service plane that
transfers service information (e.g., SIP, HTTP) and manages service
resources to enable advanced user services (e.g., IPTV, push-to-talk),
and (2) the transport plane that delivers end-to-end user packets and
manages transport resources. This architectural approach enables the
service plane and the transport plane to be developed independently,
and provides support for different access technologies based on fixed
(twisted copper cable, coaxial cable, fiber) and wireless media. A
critical component in these architectures is a logical entity that has
a northbound interface to the service plane and southbound interface
to the transport plane to provide the linkage between the two planes.
This entity has been called by different functional names including
policy server, policy decision function (PDF), policy and charging
rules function (PCRF), resource and admission control function (RACF)
and bandwidth manager. Although the entity also performs functions
such as charging control and security control, this Feature Topic will
only focus on QoS-related functions such as admission control, QoS
mapping from service plane (e.g., SDP) to transport plane (e.g., DSCP
marking, policing parameters, etc.), resource monitoring and resource
reservation, and gate control. While the standards development
organizations have been working on the protocol specifications, much
work is needed in the design and performance aspects of this entity in
order to provide end-to-end QoS services in a scalable manner. For
example, it is of interest to have concrete designs to handle
scenarios where end-to-end user packets traverse multiple domains,
each of which is managed by its own PDF. Papers that are tutorial in
nature are strongly recommended. Suggested areas include (but are not
limited to) the following subject categories:

* Overview and comparison of PDF functions in relevant standards
such as ITU-NGN, ETSI TISPAN, 3GPP/3GPP2 and Packet Cable

* Test beds, lab/field trials, and lessons learned from early
deployment

* Issues in overall QoS architectures with decoupled service and
transport planes

* QoS support at the service control function (IMS and non-IMS)
or at the policy enforcement function

* Multidomain admission control and end-to-end performance

* Transport plane performance monitoring such as TRC-FE in
ITU-NGN

* Policy rules and policy decisions

* Authorization, reservation and commitment of network resources
in pull and push models

* QoS mapping from service plane to transport plane

* Algorithms for optimizing transport resources, service
provisioning performance or other performance enhancement

Schedule:

Full manuscript due: March 1, 2007
Acceptance notification: May 15, 2007
Final manuscript due: July 1, 2007
Publication date: September 2007

Submission:

Authors must follow the IEEE Communications Magazine's guidelines for
preparation of the manuscript. Complete guidelines for prospective
authors can be found at
www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/sub_guidelines.html. All articles to be
considered for publication must be submitted through IEEE Manuscript
Central (http://commag-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com). Choose "September
2007/QoS Control in Next Generation Networks" from the drop down menu.

Guest Editors:

Indra Widjaja
Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
iwidjaja@research.bell-labs.com

Jun-Kyun Choi
Information and Communication University, Korea
jkchoi@icu.ac.kr

Alberto Leon-Garcia
University of Toronto, Canada
alberto.leongarcia@utoronto.ca

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CFP: ACM NOSSDAV 2007

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 17th International Workshop on Network and Operating
Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV 2007)
Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA
June 4-5, 2007
Sponsored by ACM SIGMM

http://www.nossdav.org/2007

Paper Submission Deadline: February 5, 2007

For seventeen years, NOSSDAV has fostered cutting-edge, state-of-the-art
research in multimedia and newly emerging areas such as networked games and
peer-to-peer streaming. The workshop environment encourages lively
discussion among participants and invites strong feedback for work in
progress. In 2007, NOSSDAV will be held at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA.

NOSSDAV invites submissions on all areas of multimedia computing and
networking and strongly encourages work in progress in emerging areas.
Papers grounded in high quality experimental research based on prototype
and real systems are highly valued. NOSSDAV will give extra consideration
to papers that aim to comprehensively validate previous work in some
topic within multimedia, propose new directions for research or call into
question existing conventional wisdom. Topics of interest include,
but are not limited to:

- Peer-to-peer streaming
- Networked games
- Sensor networks and architectures
- In-network stream processing
- Wireless and mobile multimedia systems
- 3D multimedia and tele-immersion
- Streaming 3D graphics and virtual worlds
- Application-level multicast
- Multimedia security
- Digital rights management
- Real-time operating system support for multimedia
- Multimedia middleware and frameworks
- Multimedia grids
- Programmable and GPU/SPU-enabled multimedia

A broad view will be taken in deciding what topics are within scope.
Please feel free to contact the workshop co-chairs if you are unsure
and wish to check if a particular paper or topic is within the workshop
scope.

As always, student participation is strongly encouraged. To
encourage a good mix of seasoned researchers as well as students, we
will be offering discounted registration for non-student co-authors
of a paper or other non-student participants associated with the
author of a paper (participants from the same institution).

Submissions (as well as the camera ready final versions of accepted
papers) should be no longer than 6 pages. We expect these
submissions to be the kernel of what will eventually lead to full-length
papers at high-quality conferences or journals.

This year, a few of accepted NOSSDAV papers with highest quality are
selected and their authors are invited to submit an extended version of
their papers to a special issue of ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal
(MMSJ). MMSJ is a well-known International journal, published by the
Springer Verlag, and sponsored by the ACM SIGMM organization. This journal
publishes new research results in the areas of multimedia systems,
multimedia networking, multimedia applications, multimedia security,
multimedia education, multimedia coding, and multimedia retrieval systems.

Program Co-chairs:

Reza Rejaie (University of Oregon)
Klara Nahrstedt (UIUC)

Important Dates:

Paper registration: February 5, 2007
Paper submission: February 12, 2007
Notification: March 31, 2007
Camera ready: April 19, 2007
Workshop: June 4-5, 2007

viernes, 26 de enero de 2007

IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN 2007)

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** The 15th IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks **
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* Princeton, New Jersey, USA *
* June 10-13, 2007 *
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http://www.ieee-lanman.org/

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* CALL FOR PAPERS *
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Sponsored by IEEE Communications Society
Published by IEEE Xplore
Submission, Review and Publication: Please submit 4-6 pages
extended abstract, including figures and tables,
or a 2 pages poster description
For details, please see: http://www.ieee-lanman.org/

IMPORTANT DATES
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Submissions Due: February 15, 2007, 8pm EDT
Poster submissions due: March 15, 2007, 8pm EDT
Notification of acceptance: April 16, 2007
Camera Ready: May 4, 2007
Workshop: June 10-13, 2007

Respectfully,

Stein Gjessing
LANMAN 2007 TPC Co-chair

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miércoles, 24 de enero de 2007

CFP: IEEE PIMRC 2007, Athens, Greece

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CALL FOR PAPERS AND WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

IEEE PIMRC 2007

18th IEEE International Symposium on
Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications,
September, 3-7, 2007, Athens, Greece

http://www.pimrc2007.org

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Conference Main Theme: Wireless Entropy

Overview

PIMRC 2007 provides 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 and
non-trivial pervasive computing services. 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.

PIMRC 2007 will be held in Athens, Greece, September 3-7, 2007 i.e. one
week following the peak of Greece's beautiful summer season.

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
(3,000 words), in Adobe PDF format (which is the only accepted format for
PIMRC 2007). 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 visit: www.pimrc2007.org

Important Dates

Full papers due: March 3rd, 2007
Acceptance notice: May 31st, 2007
Final manuscript due: June 16th, 2007
Conference dates: September 3-7, 2007

Call for Workshop Proposals

We solicit workshop proposals on new and emerging topics in wireless
communication and networks, services, and applications. 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. A proposal can be a maximum of 2 pages
long and should clearly identify the theme and specific topics of interest
which define the scope of the workshop. It should also stress how it intends
to provide more insight into the proposed topics with respect to the main
conference. The proposal should include the workshop chairs and a tentative
list of program committee members.

The organizers of approved workshops will be responsible for advertising
their workshops, inviting experts, reviewing submitted papers, and
collecting camera-ready copies of accepted papers. The rest of the
organizational details (registrations, workshop rooms, etc.) will be
covered by the PIMRC Organizing Committee.

Proposal Submission:

Please send workshop proposals in PDF format by March 1, 2007 to the
workshop co-chairs, Dr. Charalambos Skianis (skianis@iit.demokritos.gr), Dr.
Nikos Passas (passas@di.uoa.gr) and Dr. Nikos Papadakis
(nkpap@telecom.ntua.gr).

Important Dates:

Proposal submission due: March 1, 2007
Notification of acceptance: April 1, 2007
Workshop date: September 3, 2007

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CFP IEEE LCN 2007

LCN 2007
The 32nd Annual IEEE Conference on
Local Computer Networks (LCN)

http://www.ieeelcn.org

Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society (pending)
with support from the Telecommunications
Software & Systems Group (TSSG)/
Waterford Institute of Technology

Dublin, Ireland
October 15-18, 2007

CALL FOR PAPERS

=================================================================
IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper registration deadline: April 2, 2007
Paper submission deadline: April 9, 2007
=================================================================

LCN invites you to Europe for the second time in its history! The IEEE LCN
conference is the premier conference on the leading edge of practical
computer
networking. LCN is a highly interactive conference that enables an effective
interchange of results and ideas among researchers, users, and product
developers.
During 32 years of this conference, major developments from high-speed local
networks to the global Internet to specialized sensor networks have been
reported at this conference. We encourage you to submit original papers
describing research results or practical solutions in leading edge topics.
Paper topics include, but are not limited to:

Ad hoc and sensor networks Adaptive applications
Embedded networks Authentication, authorization, accounting
High-speed access networks Congestion and flow control
Home and SOHO networks Context-aware network services
IPv6 networks IPv6 deployment and migration
Local area networks Mobility management
Optical networks Multimedia and real-time communication
Overlay networks Network management
Peer-to-peer networks Network reliability and security
Personal and wearable networks Network traffic characterization
Storage area networks Performance evaluation/engineering
Ubiquitous networking Performance measurement and tuning
Wireless networks Quality-of-Service provisioning

Authors are invited to submit full or short papers for presentation at the
conference. Full papers (no more than 8 camera-ready pages, 10 pt font in
IEEE transactions format) should present novel perspectives within the
general scope of the conference. Short papers are an opportunity to present
preliminary or interim results and are limited to 2 camera-ready pages in
length. Short papers will be presented in a poster format and are published
in the proceedings. All papers must include title, complete contact
information for all authors, abstract, and keywords on the cover page.

PAPER SUBMISSION:
Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF. All submission
instructions will
be posted on the conference website. Please direct your questions to the
program co-chairs, Matthias Frank <matthew@cs.bonn.edu> and Ehab Elmallah
<ehab@cs.ualberta.ca>.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper registration deadline: April 2, 2007
Paper submission deadline: April 9, 2007
Notification of acceptance: June 25, 2007
Camera-ready paper due: July 23, 2007
Author registration by: July 23, 2007

WORKSHOPS:
A number of workshops will be co-located with the conference. Workshop
papers
will be published in the LCN proceedings. Information on workshops,
submission
deadlines and all other details will be posted on the conference web site.

General Chair:
- Ken Christensen, University of South Florida
Program Chair:
- Matthias Frank, University of Bonn
Program Co-Chair:
- Ehab Elmallah, University of Alberta
Finance Chair:
- Frank Hübner, AT&T Labs
Local Arrangements Chair:
- Tom Pfeifer, TSSG, Waterford IT
Workshops Chair:
- Chun Tung Chou, University of New South Wales
Publication Chair:
- Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland, BC
Publicity Chair:
- Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa
Corporate Relations Chair:
- Declan O'Sullivan, Trinity College Dublin
International Advisors:
- Burkhard Stiller, University of Zürich and ETH Zürich
- Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada
- Sanjay Jha, University of New South Wales
Webmaster:
-Gary Kessler, Champlain College

Standing Committee:
- Joe Bumblis, BAE Systems
- Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada
- Gary Kessler, Champlain College
- Peter Martini, University of Bonn
- Burkhard Stiller, University of Zürich and ETH Zürich
- Tim Strayer, BBN

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lunes, 22 de enero de 2007

CFP: ACM MobiCom 2007, September 4-9 2007, Montreal, QC, Canada

CALL FOR PAPERS

MobiCom 2007
The Thirteenth Annual International Conference
on Mobile Computing and Networking

September 9-14, 2007
Montreal, QC, Canada

http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2007/

PERFORMANCE 2007 - CALL FOR PAPERS

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

PERFORMANCE 2007

The 26th IFIP WG 7.3 International Symposium on Computer
Performance Modeling, Measurement, and Evaluation

October 2-5, 2007
Cologne, Germany

http://rvs.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/performance2007/

Sponsored by IFIP WG 7.3 and the Computer Performance Foundation

The PERFORMANCE 2007 conference solicits papers on the
development and application of state-of-the-art analytic,
simulation, and measurement-based performance evaluation
techniques.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Performance-oriented design and evaluation of:
communication networks, mobile and wireless systems,
Internet servers and E-commerce systems, Web services,
Web architectures, peer-to-peer systems, grid computing,
computer architectures, database systems, operating
systems, software systems, distributed systems,
multimedia systems, file and I/O systems, memory
systems, real-time systems, and fault-tolerant systems.

* Techniques and algorithms: analytic modeling, performance
optimization, queueing analysis, stochastic scheduling,
model verification and validation, power analysis, hybrid
models, experimental design, system or network measurement
and monitoring, workload characterization, simulation,
and statistical analysis.

In addition to its traditional focus, this year we encourage
submissions focusing on implementation and experimental issues.

** SUBMISSION GUIDELINES **

PAPERS: Papers should not exceed 22 double-spaced pages
including figures, tables, and references. PERFORMANCE 2007
does not use a double-blind review process. Authors should
include their last names and affiliations on their papers.
A limited number of submitted papers will be accepted for a
poster session. Submissions must be made electronically as
Adobe PDF files through the Conference Web site
http://rvs.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/performance2007/
In case of problems, please send papers by email to
papers.perf2007@tlc.polito.it . Papers will be selected
on the basis of their originality, technical standards,
relevance, and clarity.

The conference has traditionally published accepted papers in a
special issue of a journal rather than a conference proceedings.
PERFORMANCE 2007 will continue this tradition. All accepted full
papers will be published in a special issue of the Performance
Evaluation Journal (Elsevier) and will be made available at the
conference.

TUTORIAL SESSIONS: Tutorial proposals, not exceeding 3 pages,
have to include title, abstract, duration (1hr 30min or 3hrs),
intended audience, assumed background of attendees, name,
affiliation, and a biographical sketch of the instructors.
Proposals should be sent to the tutorials chair
(tutorials.perf2007@tlc.polito.it).

** IMPORTANT DATES **

FEBRUARY 15, 2007, 11PM EST
- Title, abstract, and author affiliation due.
FEBRUARY 25, 2007, 11PM EST
- Submission of papers, hot topic proposals, and tutorial proposals.
MAY 25, 2007
- Notification of acceptance.
JUNE 20, 2007
- Camera ready copy due.

** INFORMATION AND INQUIRIES **
For additional information, please refer to the conference web
site at

http://rvs.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/performance2007/
or send email to the conference organizers at
info.perf2007@tlc.polito.it

** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE **

GENERAL CHAIR:
Christoph Lindemann, University of Leipzig (Germany)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS:
Marco Ajmone Marsan, Politecnico di Torino (Italy)
Prashant Shenoy, University of Massachusetts (USA)

TUTORIALS CHAIR:
Peter Buchholz (University of Dortmund)

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domingo, 21 de enero de 2007

CFP: JSAC Special Issue on "Game Theory in Communication Systems"

CALL FOR PAPERS (pdf version @

http://www.jsac.ucsd.edu/Calls/GameTheorycfp.pdf)

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC)

Special issue on "Game Theory in Communication Systems"

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

* Minimax robustness in communication systems
- Minimax/maximin formulations
- Worst-case robust designs
- Saddle-point optimizations
- H-infinity designs

Manuscript Submission: August 1, 2007
Acceptance Notification: January 10, 2008
Final Manuscript Due: April 1, 2008
Publication: 4th quarter 2008

Call for Workshop Proposal: IEEE ICCCN 2007

CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
16th IEEE Int'l Conf. on Computer Communications and Networks
(ICCCN 2007)
http://sa1.sice.umkc.edu/icccn2007/Workshop.htm
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, August 13-16, 2007

Approved workshops:

Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks 2007 (WiMAN)
Link: http://www.cs.iusb.edu/~liqzhang/WiMAN2007/index.htm

<http://www.cs.iusb.edu/%7Eliqzhang/WiMAN2007/index.htm>

Workshop on Multimedia Analysis and Processing 2007 (IMAP)
Link: http://www.ece.northwestern.edu/~haohong/imap2007/committee.html

<http://www.ece.northwestern.edu/%7Ehaohong/imap2007/committee.html>

Workshop on Performance Modeling and Evaluation in Computer and
Telecommunication Networks 2007 (PMECT)
Link: http://nets-www.lboro.ac.uk/pmect07/

*/Workshop on Networking Technology for Robotics Applications/*
Link: http://www.me.uvic.ca/~danielac/NeTRA.html

<http://www.me.uvic.ca/%7Edanielac/NeTRA.html>

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The 16th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and
Networks (ICCCN 2007) will be held at Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, from August
13 to 16, 2007. Five to eight workshops will be held in conjunction
with ICCCN 2007. The workshops aim to explore special topics and provide
international forums for scientists, engineers, and computer users to
exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results on
hot and broad topics on computer communications and networks. Workshops
for presenting papers from industrial companies and papers on
implementations of systems and services are also very welcome. Running a
workshop in association with ICCCN is of high visibility, since it is a
major
IEEE international event in the field. This is the first time in its
16 years history to embrace workshops. The proceedings of the workshops
program will be published either by IEEE Communications Society and
IEEE Digital Library or by Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

Topics covered by the ICCCN 2007 workshops will include, but are not
limited to:
* Mobile and Ad Hoc Networks
* Wireless Sensor Networks
* Quality of Service in Computer Networks and Systems
* Security in Computer Networks and Systems
* Multimedia Communications and Systems
* Power-aware Pervasive Computing
* Ubiquitous and Intelligent Services
* Distributed and Mobile Computing
* Scalable Internet Architectures and Services
* Grid and P2P Computing

Submission Guidelines and Publication:
In general, a workshop takes one day with 10 to 15 accepted papers and
presentations. Special arrangement is possible if a workshop program
goes beyond it, e.g., half-day workshop. Please send a workshop
proposal by Jan 30, 2007, to

Prof. Xiaobo Zhou cc to: Prof. Giuseppe
Anastasi
ICCCN-2007 Workshops Chair ICCCN-2007 Workshops Co-Chair
E-mail: zbo@cs.uccs.edu
<mailto:zbo@cs.uccs.edu> Email:
g.anastasi@iet.unipi.it <mailto:g.anastasi@iet.unipi.it>

Please note that the proposals will be reviewed in FCFS manner and we
will try to make the decision and send the notification back as soon
after they are received. For each approved workshop, at least one
organizer must commit to attending and running the workshop. Please do not
hesitate to send emails to the workshops chair if you have any questions.

The workshop proposal should include following information:
1. Title of the workshop
2. Workshop organizer(s): name, affiliation, address, phone and fax
numbers, e-mail,
with the indication of the main contact person
3. Description of the workshop, content and dates
4. Expected number of papers to be submitted with marketing approaches
5. Draft Call for paper of the workshop
6. Tentative list of program committee members
7. Short bio of the main workshop organizers

Each workshop will start to distribute a call for paper after receiving
the approval notification. Papers submitted to each workshop should be
original, and, be peer reviewed by the program committee and external
reviewers of the workshop (if available). An accepted paper must be
registered and presented at the conference venue and must be limited to 6
pages (with an allowance of up to two extra pages at additional cost) in
standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font). Any
update will be posted on the ICCCN-07 Web site. Please contact the
Program Co-Chairs with any questions.

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jueves, 18 de enero de 2007

IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems 2007 (ISWCS'07)

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IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems 2007
(ISWCS'07)

17 - 19 October 2007, Trondheim, Norway

(http://www.iswcs.org/iswcs2007/)

- Sponsored by the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS)

- Technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc)

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Scope

---------

Wireless communications is at the centre of a new and passionate era of
telecommunications. The IEEE International Symposium on Wireless
Communication Systems (ISWCS) positions itself as a recognised and
dynamic forum for researchers and technologists to present and discuss
original ideas in all fields related to wireless communication systems.

Topics of interest

-----------------------

Authors are invited to submit papers that are not currently under review
by another journal or conference. Topics of interest include, but are
not limited to:

. 3G, 4G and beyond systems

. Antenna and RF subsystems

. Coding, modulation and equalization

. Convergence of wireless systems

. Cross-layer design and optimization

. Audio / video on wireless networks

. Experimental systems and field trials

. Fixed and nomadic wireless access

. Generic access networks (GANs)

. Heterogeneous wireless networking

. Intelligent transportation systems

. Location and positioning

. MIMO

. Mobility management

. Modeling, analysis and simulation

. QoS in wireless networks / systems

. Radio interfaces and technologies

. Radio resource management

. Relaying and user cooperation

. RFID

. Satellite & high altitude systems

. Security/privacy in wireless systems

. Service and middleware platforms

. DSP for wireless systems

. Software radio / cognitive radio

. Space-time coding and diversity

. Spectrum sharing and coexistence

. Traffic control and engineering

. UWB

. Wireless access techniques

. Wireless ad-hoc networks

. Wireless networks and systems

. Wireless comm. & net. in ITS

. Wireless / Mobile Internet

. Wireless LANs and PANs

. Wireless mesh networks

. Wireless network architectures

. Wireless net. information theory

. Wireless propagation and channel modeling

. Wireless switching and routing

. Wireless sensor networks

. Wireless services and applications

Submissions

-----------------

Both extended abstracts and full papers are welcome. For extended
abstracts, the length should not be longer than 2 pages, and for full
papers, not more than 5 pages (in IEEE two-column format, 10pt). Papers
must be submitted electronically via TrackChair
(http://iswcs2007.trackchair.com/). All submitted papers will be
peer-reviewed for their quality, correctness, originality, and relevance.

Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by
the IEEE and will be included in the IEEE Xplore digital library.
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit their extended
versions for inclusion in a planned special journal issue.

Tutorial Proposals

------------------------

Proposals for Tutorial are also being solicited and should be sent,
together with a one page summary and the presenter's biography, to the
Tutorial Chair (e-mail: al.orten@research.nera.no).

Organizing Committee

------------------------------

Conference General Co-Chairs:

- Yuming Jiang, NTNU, Norway

- Boon Sain Yeo, Wavex Tech., Singapore

- Victor Bahl, Microsoft Research, USA

Technical Program Co-Chairs:

- Matthias Pätzold, Agder University College, Norway

- James Irvine, University of Strathclyde, UK

- Daeyoung Kim, ICU, South Korea

Speaker Chair:

- Geir Øien, NTNU, Norway

Finance Chair & Publicity Chair:

- Javier Gozálvez, University of Miguel Hernandez, Spain

Tutorial Chair:

- Pål Orten, Nera Networks AS, Norway

Publication Chair:

- Yan Zhang, Simula Research Lab., Norway

Local Arrangement Chairs:

- Steinar Andresen, NTNU, Norway

- Harald Øverby, NTNU, Norway

Important Dates

---------------

Submission: 02 May 2007

Acceptance: 02 July 2007

Author registration: 03 Aug. 2007

Camera-ready paper: 03 Aug. 2007

Conference: 17-19 Oct. 2007
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IEEE Wireless Comm. Mag. Special issue on "Architectures and Protocols for Mobility Management in All-IP Mobile Networks"

Call for Papers

IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine

Special Issue on "Architectures and Protocols for Mobility Management in
All-IP Mobile Networks"

The success of next generation mobile networks will rely much on the degree
of seamless mobility support among heterogeneous technologies. Seamless
mobility is a many-faceted challenge that needs to be addressed to
alleviate
or eliminate today's restrictions on supported media, access technologies,
devices or vendors. As we move in this direction, maintaining reliability,
availability, quality of service and security at optimal levels across
different systems is extremely important. Most modern mobile access
technologies include advanced mechanisms for the support of intra-system
handover and mobility to ensure seamless service provision. These
mechanisms
require proper parameterization and real-time adjustment according to a
large range of traffic, QoS and channel conditions. On the other hand,
inter-system handover and mobility management across heterogeneous networks
are challenging problems that require efficient and reliable interoperation
of the various schemes deployed in the different systems. Furthermore,
simultaneous mobility must be supported, i.e., when both end hosts are
mobile and they move at the same time, the session should not be dropped
(as
may happen with Mobile IPv6). Recent efforts are focusing on providing
seamless handover and service continuity among access systems through close
coordination with the QoS support and resource management mechanisms.
Effort
is placed into architectures that integrate different access technologies
under a common IP backbone so that seamless mobility support will exploit
the benefits of each technology. Several standardization activities are
currently underway by different bodies. 802.21 is an IEEE emerging standard
that aims at enabling seamless handover between networks of the same
type as
well as handover between different network types, also called Media
Independent Handover (MIH). The standard provides information to allow
handing over to and from several popular networks through different
handover
mechanisms. 3GPP is defining mobility from circuit-switched to IMS
domain in
the form of voice call continuity (VCC) and seamless mobility between
different packet-switched domains belonging to existing and evolving 3GPP
access networks and non-3GPP access networks as a part of System
Architecture Evolution effort.

This special issue will be devoted to the architectures, protocols, and
mechanisms for mobility management and seamless handover support in next
generation mobile networks. We seek original, high-quality and previously
unpublished contributions, not currently under review by another
magazine or
journal. Contributions emphasizing recent advances and new research
directions are strongly encouraged. Areas of interest include, but are not
limited to:
- Handovers in IEEE 802.16e
- Handovers in Evolved UMTS
- Comparison between 3GPP and IETF MM protocols
- Mobility between 3GPP and non-3GPP radio access networks
- Fast Handovers for Mobile IPv6 (FMIPv6)
- Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 Mobility Management (HMIPv6)
- Mobile IPv6 Fast Handovers for 3G, WMANs and WLANs
- Mobility Management using Proxy Mobile IPv4/v6
- Localized Mobility Management
- Simultaneous mobility support (when both end hosts are mobile)
- Architectures and protocols for mobility management in heterogeneous
environments
- Seamless intra- and inter-system handover
- Media Independent Handovers (IEEE 802.21)
- Security issues / solution in mobility management
- Inter-domain mobility: AAA and other architectures and protocols

All submissions should adhere to the style of IEEE Wireless Communications
Magazine. Guidelines for prospective authors can be found on-line at
http://www.comsoc.org/~pci/. Electronic submissions in Postscript or PDF
format are strongly encouraged and should be sent to one of the Guest
Editors at the addresses indicated below. If electronic submission is not
possible, please contact the guest editors.

Time Schedule
----------------
Manuscript Due: July 2, 2007
Acceptance Notification: Oct. 15, 2007
Final Manuscript Due: Dec. 17, 2007
Planned Publication Date: April 2008

Guest Editors:
----------------
Nikos Passas
Department of Informatics & Telecommunications
University of Athens
GR-15784 Athens, Greece
Tel: +30-210-7275651
E-mail: passas@di.uoa.gr

Apostolis K. Salkintzis
Motorola
32 Kifissias Ave.
GR-15125 Athens, Greece
Tel: +30-210-8172335
E-mail: salki@motorola.com

Daniel Wong
Assistant Professor
Malaysia University of Science and Technology
GL33, Block C, Kelana Square, 17 Jalan SS 7/26
47301 PJ, Selangor, Malaysia
Tel: +603 7880 1777x282
Email: daniel_wong@ieee.org

Vijay Varma
Telcordia Technologies
331 Newman Springs Road
Red Bank, NJ 07701, USA
Tel: +1 732-758-2811
Email: vvarma@telcordia.com

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IEEE Workshop on Autonomic Communication and NetworkManagement (ACNM'07)

CALL FOR PAPERS

1st IEEE Workshop on Autonomic Communication and
Network Management (ACNM'07), Munich, Germany

http://www.netlab.nec.de/acnm07/

In conjunction with the IFIP/IEEE Symposium on
Integrated Management (IM2007)

Paper Registration: January 31st, 2007
Submission: February 8th, 2007
Workshop: May 25th, 2007

*** AIMS & SCOPE ***

The purpose of this workshop is to present and to discuss new theories,
mechanisms and applications of Autonomic Communication - a new paradigm
for forthcoming networks in the fixed as well as the mobile world. The
focus of ACNM is on intelligent communication, network control and
management paradigms based on smart network and service elements that
are capable to automatically configure and organize themselves.
Autonomic networks will be able to sense their environment to perceive
these changes, to understand the meaning of these changes, and to react
in an intelligent manner through adaptation. This facilitates new ways
to perform network control, management, service creation, etc. Autonomic
networking naturally also applies to mission critical distributed
systems, since autonomic behavior allows for immediate reaction to
changes in the networking environment or context, and correction of any
(predicted) problems. Such behavior also facilitates fault-tolerance and
resilience.
ACNM offers a unique opportunity for researchers in this area to
exchange their research ideas and findings. The workshop will be held in
conjunction with IM2007, which draws many leading researchers in the
field of Network and Systems Management. It is co-sponsored by the IEEE
Communications Society (IEEE ComSoc) and the EU IST Project ANA.

*** TOPICS ***

The topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Autonomic network architectures and principles
- Paradigms, tools and techniques autonomic communication systems
- Control and management in dynamic/mobile network environments
- Self-management of communication systems and networks
(e.g., based on peer-to-peer principles)
- Policy control for autonomic networks & systems
- Sensing, monitoring and measurements for autonomic networks
- Advances in and application of control theory
- Self-co-operating peer-to-peer networks
- Self-organizing network elements, and administrative domains
- Self-X technologies
- Fault-tolerance and resilience
- Cognitive networking
- Plug and play networking components
- Knowledge based network control
- Bio-inspired networks and systems
- Experiences with self-X solutions
- Application of autonomic management to mobile and wireless
networking including 3GPP evolved UTRAN, SAE networks, etc.

*** IMPORTANT DATES ***

Paper registration deadline: January 31st, 2007
Submission deadline: February 8th, 2007
Notification of acceptance: March 16th, 2007
Camera ready due: April 9th, 2007
Workshop date: May 25th, 2007

*** SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ***

Papers must be original material, not currently be under review, and not
have been previously published by another conference or journal. They
must be written in English. They must follow the IEEE two-column
document style, limited to 6-8 US Letter size pages, with a main text
font size of no less than 10pt. Submissions must be in PDF format.
To submit your paper, please go to the JEMS system at
https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/ and select IM2007-ACNM.

*** WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS AND TPC CHAIR ***

Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada
Marcus Brunner, NEC Europe, Germany
Stefan Schmid, NEC Europe, Germany

*** PROGRAM COMMITTEE ***

Ahmed Karmouch, University of Ottawa, Canada
Alexander Keller, IBM Research, USA
Bela Berde, Alcatel, France
John Strassner, Motorola Labs, USA
John Vicente, Intel, USA
Daniel Bauer, IBM, Switzerland
David Hutchison, Lancaster University, UK
Rolf Stadler, KTH, Sweden
Lidia Yamamoto, University of Basel, Switzerland
Alexander Clemm, Cisco Systems, USA
Juergen Schoenwalder, International University Bremen, Germany
David Soldani, Nokia, Finland
Simon Dobson, University of Dublin, UK
Antonio Manzalini, Telecom Italia, Italy
Renato Lo Cigno, University of Trento, Italy
Martin May, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Guy LeDuc, University of Liege, Belgium
Mikael SALAUN, Frace Telecom, France
Alex Galis, UCL, UK
James Won-Ki Hong POSTECH, Korea
Joe Sventek, University of Glasgow, UK
Niranjan Suri, IHMC, USA
Randy Katz, UC Berkeley, USA
Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Spyros Denazis, Hitachi Europe Ltd, France & University of Patras,
Greece

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viernes, 12 de enero de 2007

IEEE JSAC Special issue on Delay and Disruption Tolerant Wireless Communication

CALL FOR PAPERS
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

DELAY AND DISRUPTION TOLERANT WIRELESS COMMUNICATION

Modern computer communication has been developed for providing conti-
nuous end-to-end connectivity. There are, however, communication services
that are tolerant to disruptions and delay and do not require or cannot
be given continuous connectivity. It is time to consider the unconnected
network.

This issue is dedicated to communication over wireless networks with inter-
mittent connectivity due to planned or unexpected disruptions that may
result in long delays for the communicating parties. Communication dis-
ruptions occur both in infrastructure and ad-hoc wireless networks. In
both cases, it is possible that mobile nodes cooperatively forward data
for one another through their own movements. The mobility patterns of nodes
affect thereby both the speed and reliability of data forwarding. Inter-
mittent communication occurs also in sensor networks due to, e.g., energy-
saving sleep cycles, and in deep-space communication and meteor-burst
communication. The communication services that may use such intermittent
and high-delay connections are characterized by a low degree of inter-
activity, e.g., broadcasting, messaging, and data collection. Opportunistic
strategies for caching and communicating may improve the performance in
terms of reduced delay and improved probability of delivery.

This issue of J-SAC is dedicated to technologies, systems designs and
analyses that contribute to the development and understanding of delay
and disruption tolerant wireless communication systems.

Original contributions, previously unpublished and not currently under
review, are solicited in relevant areas including (but not limited to)
the following.

* Data encoding for partial and unordered delivery
* User studies of delay and disruption tolerances
* Opportunistic caching and pre-fetching for concealment of service
disruptions
* Mobility measurements, modeling and performance analysis
* Uni-, any-, and multicast routing protocols
* Congestion, flow and error control; per-hop and multi-hop solutions
* Security, privacy, authenticity and traceability of communication
* Energy saving strategies and power management
* Applications to personal communication, sensor networks, road-traffic
systems and industrial communication

Prospective authors should follow the IEEE J-SAC manuscript format
described in the Information for Authors under http://www.jsac.ucsd.edu/.
All papers should be submitted through CRP in PDF format at
http://www.dtnrg.org/jsac07, according to the following timetable:

Submission deadline: June 1, 2007
Acceptance Notification: November 1, 2007
Final Manuscript due: January 10, 2008
Publication: 2nd quarter 2008

Guest editors:

Kevin Almeroth Kevin Fall Gunnar Karlsson
Dep. of Computer Science 2150 Shattuck Avenue School of Electrical Eng.
University of California Intel Research KTH, Royal Ins. of Tech.
Santa Barbara, CA, USA Berkeley, CA, USA Stockholm, Sweden
almeroth@cs.ucsb.edu kfall@intel.com gk@ee.kth.se

Martin May Roy Yates
TIK WINLAB
ETH Zurich Rutgers University
Zurich, Switzerland Piscataway, NJ, USA
maym@tik.ee.ethz.ch ryates@winlab.rutgers.edu

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martes, 9 de enero de 2007

[Tccc] CFP remainder: 1st IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Autonomic Wireless AccesS (IWAS07)

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* IWAS07 Call For Papers
* 1st IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Autonomic Wireless AccesS (IWAS07)
* in conjunction with WoWMoM 2007, Helsinki.
* June 17th, 2007
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IWAS 2007 is soliciting original and previously unpublished papers
addressing research challenges and advances towards autonomic control
and management of future wireless access networks and systems. Access
network devices and wireless terminals are becoming more and more
complex, and they include support for multiple wireless technologies.
Access networks are dynamically optimized for applications under
different conditions, and service performance is affected by a large
number of parameters and control algorithms. From the end users
perspective, however, multi-access networks are desirable only if they
do not deteriorate the quality of experience. It is therefore of vital
interest to operators and vendors to minimize operational effort and
cost and add intelligence to terminals, network elements and management
tools through the adoption of Autonomic Communications and Computing
(ACC) principles for self-configuring and self-optimizing access systems.

The full CFP and other info is available at the WS site:

http://www.netlab.tkk.fi/IWAS2007/

Important dates:
* Full paper submission: January 20th 2007
* Notification of acceptance: March 3rd 2007
* Final papers due: March 24th 2007

Further information:
IWAS chairs (iwaschairs@netlab.tkk.fi)

on behalf of the IWAS 2007 chairs,
Jouni Karvo

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Special Issue on "Advances in Wireless Mesh Networks" ---ACM/Springer MONET

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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@uark.edu

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

viernes, 5 de enero de 2007

RV: [manet] CFP: IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2007)

Call for Papers

IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2007)
December 10-12, 2007
Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C.

http://ism2007.ncu.edu.tw/

jueves, 4 de enero de 2007

[manet] Call for Papers: MOBIQUITOUS 2007

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CALL FOR PAPERS

MOBIQUITOUS 2007
The 4th Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems:
Computing, Networking and Services

http://www.mobiquitous.org

August 6-10, 2007 - Philadelphia, PA
Co-sponsored by Create-Net and ICST
In Cooperation with ACM SIGMOBILE
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The combination of mobile and ubiquitous computing is emerging as a
promising new paradigm. Through the use of mobile devices and devices
embedded in the surrounding physical environments, users can be provided
transparent computing and communication services at all times and in all
places. The complexity of providing such services stems from the fact that
the communication devices and the objects with which they interact may
both be mobile. The implementation of such a paradigm requires advances in
wireless network technologies and devices, development of infrastructures
supporting cognitive environments, discovery and identification of
ubiquitous computing applications and services, and an understanding of
the cross-layer interactions between all of these components. The Fourth
Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems:
Computing, Networking and Services (Mobiquitous-07) will provide a forum
where practitioners and researchers coming from many areas involved in
ubiquitous solutions, design and deployment will be able to interact and
exchange experiences needed to build successful ubiquitous systems. Areas
addressed by the conference include applications, service-oriented
computing, middleware, networking, agents, data management and services,
all with special focus on mobility and ubiquitous computing.

PAPERS: Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished
research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, are
solicited. Technical papers clearly identifying how the specific
contributions fit to an overall working solution are particularly of
interest. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following feature
topics as applied to mobile and ubiquitous environments:

- Ubiquitous architectures, systems and applications
- Wearable computing and personal area networks
- Wireless technologies for mobile and ubiquitous
(Bluetooth, ZigBee, 802.15.x, WiFi)
- Wireless Internet access in ubiquitous systems
- Ad hoc and sensor networks support for ubiquitous computing
- Reconfigurability and personalization of wireless networks
- Wireless/mobile service management and delivery
- Security, privacy and social issues of mobile and ubiquitous systems
- Service and knowledge discovery, matching and composition mechanisms
- Location-based services and tracking in ubiquitous environments
- Context- and location-aware applications
- Agent technologies in ubiquitous, wearable, and mobile systems
- Context modeling, services and frameworks
- Toolkits, testbeds, development environments, and languages for
ubiquitous computing
- Rapid prototyping of ubiquitous applications
- Ontologies for mobile and ubiquitous computing
- Mobile and ubiquitous data management and processing
- Data replication, migration and dissemination in ubiquitous environments
- Queries, transactions and workflows in mobile and ubiquitous environments
- Multimodal interfaces (speech, video kinetic, tactile)

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: All paper submissions will be handled
electronically (see the conference web page for details). Authors should
prepare an Adobe Acrobat PDF version of their full paper. Papers must not
exceed 8 pages double column (US Letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches) including
text, figures and references. The font size must be at least 10 points.

PUBLICATION: All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the
international technical program committee. Accepted papers will be
published in the conference proceedings. Papers of particular merit will
be proposed for publication in the ACM/Kluwer Mobile Networks and
Applications (MONET) journal.

WORKSHOPS: Four workshops will be run in conjunction with the conference.
The purpose of these workshops is to discuss work in progress and explore
opportunities for new research related to mobile and ubiquitous systems:
computing, networking and services. Proposals for workshops should be at
most four pages in length and should be submitted to Dr. Suman Banerjee
(suman at cs.wisc.edu) by February 1, 2007.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Workshop Proposal Deadline: February 1, 2007
Paper Registration Deadline: March 13, 2007
Paper Submission Deadline: March 20, 2007
Notification of Acceptance: May 4, 2007
Camera-ready Manuscripts due: June 4, 2007

CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

GENERAL CHAIR:
Guohong Cao, The Pennsylvania State University

TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIR:
Robin Kravets, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:
Anind Dey, Carnegie Mellon University
Hui Lei, IBM Research

WORKSHOP CHAIR:
Suman Banerjee, University of Wisconsin-Madison

DEMO CHAIR:
Hao Zhu, Florida International University

POSTER CHAIR:
Al Harris, Universita di Padova
Dong Xuan, Ohio State University

FINANCE CHAIR:
Karen Decker, ICST

PUBLICATION CHAIR:
Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Purdue university

PUBLICITY CHAIR:
Antonio Capone, Politecnico di Milano
Wensheng Zhang, Iowa State University

LOCAL CHAIR:
Zhen Jiang, West Chester University of Pennsylvania

WEB CHAIR:
Hui Song, Penn State University

CONFERENCE COORDINATOR
Zita Rozsa, ICST

STEERING COMMITTEE
Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net (chair)
Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento
Tom La Porta, Penn State University
Francesco De Pellegrini, Create-Net
Chiara Petrioli, Universita di Roma "La Sapienza"
Krishna Sivalingam, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Michele Zorzi, Universita di Padova

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
See

http://www.mobiquitous.org

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