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[Tccc] PerCom 2010 Work in Progress CfP Extended Deadline

2009-12-17T00:26:00.000-08:00

Call for Work in Progress Papers

8th IEEE International Conference
on Pervasive Computing and Communications
(PerCom 2010)

Mannheim, Germany, March 29 - April 2, 2010

Submission deadline EXTENDED to 21 December 2009.

The work-in-progress (WiP) session, included in PerCom for the fifth
year, gives its participants an opportunity to present and discuss early
and emerging results and bring about novel research questions,
approaches, and directions. The specific aim of the WiP session is to
provide a forum for timely presentation, discussion and feedback for
novel, controversial, and thought provoking ideas. All selected papers
will be presented as posters in a special WiP conference session and
included in PerCom workshop proceedings to be published by IEEE and
included in the digital library

Contributions are solicited in all areas of pervasive computing research
and applications. Papers are expected to report on early or ongoing
research on any aspect of pervasive computing and communications. Novel
approaches and results are especially sought for as is ongoing
experimentation.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Innovative pervasive computing applications
- Software engineering aspects of pervasive computing
- Middleware services and agent technologies
- Human computer interaction
- Social and economics aspects of pervasive computing
- Wearable systems
- Ambient ecologies
- Multimodal sensing and context for pervasive applications
- Pervasive sensing, perception and semantic interpretation
- Pervasive opportunistic communications and applications
- Enabling technologies for pervasive systems (e.g., wireless BAN, PAN)
- Positioning and tracking technologies
- Virtual and immersive systems, cognitive pervasive architectures
- Adaptive, autonomic and context-aware computing
- Mobile/Wireless computing systems and services in pervasive computing
- Energy-efficient and green pervasive computing
- Communication architectures for pervasive computing
- Ad hoc networks for pervasive communications
- Sensors and RFID in pervasive systems
- Social and economic models for pervasive systems
- Submission Guidelines:

Authors are requested to submit original, unpublished manuscripts in
standard IEEE proceedings format (two-column format with a 4-page limit
including figures, tables, and references) in PDF format that include
contact information of all the authors to the submission site
http://edas.info/index.php?c=8269

If you have any questions, please send email to percom2010-wip@cti.gr

The submitted manuscripts will be reviewed by the WiP Program Committee.
The authors of accepted papers will present their work during the main
conference in a special WiP poster session and must register for the
conference. The papers of the WiP session will be published in the
proceedings of the Eighth Annual IEEE International Conference on
Pervasive Computing and Communications.

Important Dates:

Paper submissions: December 21, 2009 (23:59 EST) FINAL
Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2010
Camera-ready copy due: January 29, 2010
Conference date: March 29 - April 2, 2010
IEEE PerCom 2010 WiP Co-Chairs:

Achilles Kameas, Hellenic Open University & Computer Technology
Institute, Greece
Jörg Ott, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

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Re: [Tccc] comparing/reverse-engineering conferences

2009-12-16T21:17:00.000-08:00

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Virgilio wrote:
...
> Considering the above, and inspired by Prof. Schulzrinne's comments I
> propose the following "challenge" to everyone:
>
> "reverse-engineer" Globecom '10!!
>
> By this I mean that each tries to propose a budget to re-do Globecom'10.
> The locaton, if not Hawaii, should be as similar as possible, and the
> total cost of attendance should be considered (flight from a nearby major
> hub, expected accommodation costs, etc). I suppose 10 days to come up with
> the "fantasy" budget would be reasonable, and then the community somehow
> chooses a "winner" (prise? collective admiration!). Do you agree that this
> exercise would be interesting and valuable (and very much in accordance
> with the quoted suggestions above)?

This is not a bad idea at all. Anyone is welcome to put together a
candidate meeting. Budget items for Globecom should include what
attendees have come to expect at IEEE meetings, which consists of (at
least):

- Internet access
- SVGA projectors in each room
- room for 7+ concurrent tracks, each of 100 people
- room for a keynote/plenary session of 800 people
- microphones for the speakers (typically wireless)
- screens for each of the track rooms, as well as for the
plenary room
- registration support (website for advance registration,
at least 1 person full-time on-site)
- poster session support (buy/rent 30 poster boards, 30 stands)
- continental breakfast, AM coffee break, buffet lunch
(including seating area), PM coffee/cookie break
- evening reception
- banquet dinner
- proceedings handling (even if on-line)

FWIW, this is more than just a paper exercise. Globecom has a website
with information on site selection. Here's some information from the
site selection committee chair, Rob Fish:

"Yes, GIMS website is open to the public. People interested in how
conference venues are selected should go to http://www.comsoc.org/GIMS
and then select "Site Selection" button on left. This provides an
overview of the site selection process and procedures for the selection
of future GLOBECOM and ICC's. Also of interest is the Decision Matrix
button which shows the decision points for various milestones from
Conference minus 48 months, until the conference and after. GLOBECOM
and ICC are pretty large conferences, so these processes may be a bit
more formal than what is required for the smaller conferences that many
in TCCC also attend."

Joe

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[Tccc] comparing/reverse-engineering conferences

2009-12-16T19:23:00.001-08:00

hgs@cs.columbia.edu writes:
> First, I think it's fine to say "IEEE should run a leaner ship" - as long
> as the suggestions are concrete and realistic, rather than vague
> generalities - ....
> Those dissatisfied with the current society sponsorship model (as opposed
> to simply wanting to improve it) are also welcome to organize their own
> events, and to make it more reputable and cheaper than the existing
> alternatives.

Dear all:
Concerning above suggestions by Prof. Schulzrinne, and considering lack of
essential data (spreadsheet), I have made some simple inquiries, and
arrived at some potentially useful information/ideas:

I checked out websites of a couple of major conferences organised by major
US professional societies, to see how they do things. I took a quick look
at the website of the Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association
to be held in a few weeks. This is a major professional society, of
world-class standing which I think is fair to compare against the IEEE. I
did find some rather striking facts:
a) Their registration fee is only USD75 for NON-members (a bit less for
members).
b) Meals not included of course, but luncheon-type meals available for ca.
USD50 each (To compare to typical ComSoc events, 3 lunches and reception
would add about $200, for a total registration of... $275 for
NON-members).
c) Headquarter hotel, a Marriot property, only $99/ singles, $119doubles,
and plenty others offered at the similar rates.
D) All this in downtown of a major US city (easy/cheap transport): Atlanta.
Unreal?:
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA/Annual_Meeting/pdfs/Registration_Form_2010.pdf
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA/Annual_Meeting/pdfs/Housing_Rates_2010.pdf
By comparison, Globecom'09 registration ranged from $600 (Lmtd. ComSoc
members) up to $1220 (late NON-members). Headquaters hotel started at
$189.00
The most recent major IEEE- ComSoc event held in Atlanta seems to be
WCNC'04. Even back then, registration ranged $625-$875 and Headquarters
hotel started at $189.

Now, some might say that because this society is outside engineering its
costs are not relevant. I do not see why, but still looked at the website
of the 2009 annual meeting of the ASCE (civil engineering) recently held
in Kansas City Marriott Downtown:
http://content.asce.org/conferences/annual2009/registration.html
Registration started at $445 for regular members (including 1 recept, 2
breakfasts, 2 luncheons), but only at $225 for "younger members" (recent
grads?) and $85 for students (apparently ALL enjoyed same meal privileges)
-- probably younger members and students were the vast majority, so the
average registration paid may have been close to that paid by the
economists! -- . A dinner ($95) and a "theme party" ($15 to $45) were
optional.

Considering the above, and inspired by Prof. Schulzrinne's comments I
propose the following "challenge" to everyone:

"reverse-engineer" Globecom '10!!

By this I mean that each tries to propose a budget to re-do Globecom'10.
The locaton, if not Hawaii, should be as similar as possible, and the
total cost of attendance should be considered (flight from a nearby major
hub, expected accommodation costs, etc). I suppose 10 days to come up with
the "fantasy" budget would be reasonable, and then the community somehow
chooses a "winner" (prise? collective admiration!). Do you agree that this
exercise would be interesting and valuable (and very much in accordance
with the quoted suggestions above)?

Wmbr,

Virgilio

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Re: [Tccc] Could the NSF be legally entitled to a huge refund from the IEEE?

2009-12-16T18:43:00.001-08:00

I'm not a project grant officer, but the basic funding model for conferences has not changed in at least twenty years. Also, conference travel reimbursements seem to be handled similarly by US and non-US grant agencies (and universities), including agencies much closer to your home institution, such as the DFG and EU. Given that the basic model is not secret, the likelihood that there is some unexplored territory yielding a possibility of a "refund" is, to put it mildly and charitably, remote. The basic model is "reasonable and customary", rather than a specific cost model. After all, grant agencies routinely pay for computing systems provided, at a tidy profit, by commercial entities, or travel on commercial air carriers. They do not request "refunds" from Lufthansa, Dell or Apple for such services. Whether the entity is for-profit or not seems entirely irrelevant, except to the tax entity that governs the not-for-profit entity. (For what it's worth, it's IEEE and ACM that prohibit for-profit conferences under their sponsorship; as far as I can tell, there is no prohibition against a grant-funded scholar attending a for-profit event, as long as the event has the appropriate scholarly function and other normal travel guidelines are observed.)

Thus, respectfully, this is a non-productive inquiry. This is thus my last note on this particular topic.

Henning

On Dec 16, 2009, at 9:24 PM, Virgilio wrote:

> Dear Prof. Schulzrinne:
> While I believe that some aspects of your comments unfairly characterise
> mine, I do agree with other aspects. I will focus on potential common
> ground. Some of your comments/suggestions have prompted me to perform some
> basic inquiries, and obtain some potentially useful information and ideas,
> which I intend to share with you.
>
>> Just to add a few points to this discussion:
>>
>> First, I think it's fine to say "IEEE should run a leaner ship" - as long
>> as the suggestions are concrete and realistic, rather than vague
>> generalities
>
> I very much agree with you. It is always easy to criticise in the
> abstract, but proposing specifics and showing why they may help is quite
> another matter.
>
> On the other hand, it is difficult to make concrete proposals "blindly".
> In particular, as others have pointed out, itemised statements of revenues
> and expenses for conferences are not being made public. Since you are in
> touch with the IEEE president, could you kindly suggest to make possible
> the release of this information at least for a representative sub-set of
> recent major events? Then we could all study the information, and perhaps
> make specific suggestions. If confidenciallity agreements prevent certain
> information from being released, then specific items may be removed, with
> an explanation. Still the rest could be analised.
> Another reason to release such information is that, since a very large
> number of conference attendees are funded by public agencies, it seems
> that the general public (represented by the funding agencies) does have a
> legitimate interest in ascertaining that their funds are appropriately
> utilised.
>
> Anyhow, I understand that this information is not presently available and
> may take some time before it is. What to do in the mean time? I am
> separately making some suggestions.
>
>>
>> Those dissatisfied with the current society sponsorship model (as opposed
>> to simply wanting to improve it) are also welcome to organize their own
>> events, and to make it more reputable and cheaper than the existing
>> alternatives.
>> One can think of this as somewhat related to franchise models,
>> such as Hyatt hotels or Starbucks. In franchises, the franchisee pays for
>> the privilege of using the brand name, typically as a fraction of revenue.
>
> Electoral action sounds reasonable, but it is complicated especially when
> the voting population is relatively large, and heterogeneous. For
> instance, many IEEE members are practicing engineers who may not share the
> concerns and goals of academic research engineers (see migratory
> labor-force issues, for example)... nothing inherently wrong with that...
> it just complicates matters.
>
> I do agree with the basic model you propose, though: franchising.
> Business-owners do change ocassionally from a franchise firm to another
> (BK<-->McDonald, etc) and possibly to a new firm. Your suggestion is
> useful and deserves separate exploration.
>
>> I think the discussion will be more productive if
>> such accusations, implied or stated, are avoided - or, if you truly
>> believe in this, you should contact the NSF Inspector General, the entity
>> within the NSF responsible for such issues.
>
> I don't know which are the accusations you refer to. A lot of people have
> said or implied that IEEE (ComSoc) conferences are over-priced, for a
> variety of reasons (see record). I simply asked whether that could be
> ground for a funding agency (particularly the NSF, which had just been
> mentioned by Joe) to demand a refund from IEEE. I still believe that the
> basic question is legitimate and important, even if the wording may have
> been non-ideal, and that it deserves a definite conclusive answer. I
> understand that certain grant contracts from certain agencies indeed do
> have some language involving refunds.
> In any case, I respectfully suggest that it may be better that the IEEE
> itself request a legally binding opinion from the officer that you
> mention. If favourable, everyone would feel better (at least concerning
> that agency). If unfavourable, corrective measures could be implemented,
> including refunds if any. Often, self-reporting is viewed as a sign of
> good faith, and normally leads to lesser sanctions when applicable.
>
>
>> Finally, reserves and endowments are common ways that not-for-profits
>> smooth income and expenses, as well as leverage interest/investment income
>> to provide additional operating revenues.
>
> I basically agree with you. The issue is simply whether a contribution to
> IEEE endowment by paying some type of (alleged) "mark-up" over fair-market
> value for certain conference services is a legitimate use of research
> public funds(from any funding agency including foreign ones). The use may
> sound reasonable in principle. But it may not be consistent with the
> applicable regulations.
>
> Additionally, do consider that there may be other worthy endowments to
> contribute to. As an example, the endowments of the following respected
> institutions near IEEE (according to Internet sources) are/were:
> NJIT 70M and Stevens 115M, both appreciable lower than IEEE's.
> Brooklyn Poly (now part of NYU) had 173M, about same as IEEE's, and
> Illinois Tech 258M. But these are institutional endowments for an entire
> campus. The IEEE should probably be compared to the endowment's share of
> the correponding ECE department. Then the IEEE endowment starts looking a
> lot bigger.
>
> In any case, a reasonable person may argue that any public money that
> could somehow be transferred to the IEEE endowment (one way or another)
> should instead be transferred to some of the institutions mentioned (or
> many other worthy causes).
>
> With my best regards,
>
> Virgilio
>
>

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[Tccc] Call for Papers [CDN 2010]: Workshop in CCGrid 2010 (Submission Deadline: 21 December 2009)

2009-12-16T18:40:00.001-08:00

** The paper submission deadline for CDN 2010 has been extended to 21st
December 2009 **

(Apologies if you have received this more than once)

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5th International Workshop on
Content Delivery Networks (CDN 2010)
to take place during
10th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on
Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2010)
17-20 May 2010, Melbourne, Australia
URL: http://www.cloudbus.org/cdn/2010
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*** Papers Due: 21st December 2009 [Extended Deadline] ***

We are in the midst of an Internet computing revolution. One vision of
21st century computing is that users will access
Internet services and ?resource-hungry" applications (e.g., gaming,
streaming media etc.) over lightweight portable devices
rather than through some descendant of the traditional desktop PCs. In
this context, distributing and processing
Internet-based data in an efficient and cost-effective manner is a
challenging issue in Internet technology.
Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) have emerged to address this challenge
by offering infrastructure and mechanisms
to deliver content and services in a scalable manner. Nevertheless,
modern applications do not just perform retrieval
or access operation on content, but also create, modify and manage
content, and actively place them at appropriate locations.
To deal with such new requirements, more general Content Networks (CNs)
are being introduced. Design and implementation of
robust and efficient CNs in large-scale computing environments demand
for the use of emerging paradigms and software
technologies, such as Peer-to-Peer, Grid and the latest IT trend?Cloud
computing. The integration of these emerging
technologies in content delivery opens new perspectives in Internet
technologies, raising new issues in the architecture,
design and implementation of existing CDNs.

Areas of interest
CDN 2010 is intended as a forum for lively discussion of aggressively
innovative and potentially disruptive ideas
in all aspects of CDNs. The main theme of this full day workshop is
"Content Delivery in the Cloud".
CDN 2010 will capture new research trends and results in terms of
design, architecture,
and applications for content and service delivery in the Internet and
Clouds;
optimization for Cloud-based content delivery; and performance
measurement methodologies.
Position papers will be strongly favored.
Specifically, the areas of interest are the following (but are not limited):

* Cloud/Grid/P2P/Agent-based Content delivery and management on the
Internet
* Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications
* Service-Level Agreements (SLAs), business models and service pricing
* Content distribution internetworking scenarios, architectures and
methodologies
* Cross-platform interoperability
* Performance of application and service delivery in the Cloud
* Scalable, self-managing and autonomic Content Delivery Clouds
* Privacy, security, ownership and reliability issues

Program Chairs
* Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy, g.fortino@unical.it
* George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus, gpallis@cs.ucy.ac.cy
* Mukaddim Pathan, University of Melbourne, Australia,
apathan@csse.unimelb.edu.au
* Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Amazon.com, Inc., USA, swami@amazon.com

Local Chair
* Mukaddim Pathan, University of Melbourne, Australia

Publicity Chairs
* George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
* Mukaddim Pathan, University of Melbourne, Australia

International Program Committee
* Jemal Abawajy, Deakin University, Australia
* Arthur Berger, Akamai Technologies and MIT, USA
* James Broberg, University of Melbourne, Australia
* Nicolas Christin, Carnegie Melon University, USA
* Marios D. Dikaiakos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
* Zongming Fei, University of Kentucky, USA
* Demetrios Katsaros, University of Thessaly, Greece
* Ignacio M. Llorente, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
* Jaime Lloret Mauri, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
* Misha Rabinovich, Case Western Reserve University, USA
* Thomas Repantis, Akamai Technologies, USA
* Weisong Shi, Wayne State University, USA
* Ramesh Sitaraman, University of Massachusetts, USA
* Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA
* Spyros Voulgaris, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
* Norihiko Yoshida, Saitama University, Japan
* Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Advisory Committee
* Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia
* Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy
* Carlo Mastroianni, ICAR-CNR, Italy
* Carlos E. Palau, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
* George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
* Mukaddim Pathan, University of Melbourne, Australia
* Guillaume Pierre, Vrije University, the Netherlands
* Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Amazon.com, Inc., USA
* Athena Vakali, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Web Site and contact email for inquiries
* http://www.cloudbus.org/cdn/2010
* e-mail: cdn2010@easychair.org

Submission Guidelines
Original papers from the above-mentioned or other related areas will be
considered.
Please submit full papers: 6 pages maximum in IEEE CS proceedings style.
Papers can be electronically submitted using the link specified in the
workshop site.
Each submission will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the Program
Committee.

Publication
The workshop proceedings will be published by IEEE/ACM and distributed
at the CCGrid 2010 conference.

Journal Special Issue
Selected papers will be invited to a special issue of an international
journal.

Media Sponsor
HPCwire is serving as the Media Sponsor for CDN 2010. For each
registered attendees of CDN 2010, a complimentary 1-year subscription to
HPCwire will be provided.

Important Dates
21 December 2009: Submission of Papers
11 January 2010: Notification of Acceptance/ Rejection
25 January 2010: Submission of Camera-Ready Copies
17 May 2010: Workshop Takes Place

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Mukaddim Pathan
Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Lab
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
The University of Melbourne
Room # 5.30a, ICT Building, 111 Barry Street
Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria 3053, Australia.
Contact: +61-3-8344 1355 (Lab); +61-433349410 (Cell)
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E-mail: apathan@csse.unimelb.edu.au

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[Tccc] 1 DAY - CFP ISCC 2010 - 15th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications

2009-12-16T18:37:00.000-08:00

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Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.
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Important Deadlines:
Full Paper Submission: Dec. 18, 2009
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CALL-FOR-PAPERS
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15th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'10)
June 22 - 25, 2010, Riccione, Italy
http://www.ieee-iscc.org/2010/index.html
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Scope:
Continuing the tradition of this series of symposia, ISCC 2010 will provide
an international technical forum for experts from industry and academia
to exchange ideas and present results of ongoing research in most state of
the art areas of computers and communications, including the ones listed
below.
This year, special focus will be on the challenging issues related to the
creation, management, dissemination, and communication of information. You are
invited to submit a full paper, or a proposal for a panel/invited session, or
tutorial, related to the following topics of interest:

- Access Networks
- Bioinformatics
- Data Mining and Database Applications
- Network Design, Optimization, and Management
- Distributed Systems Architecture and Management
- Economic and Regulatory Issues
- E-Commerce and E-Services
- Peer-to-Peer Computing
- Grid and Cluster Computing
- Human Language Technologies
- Security and Cryptography
- Internet Services and Applications
- Internet Protocols Advances
- Communications Services and Management
- Distributed and Mobile Middleware
- Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures
- Digital Media Technologies
- Modeling and Simulation
- Digital Satellite Communications Service
- NGN Network Infrastructures and Management
- Network Reliability and Quality of Service
- Optical Networking
- Fault-Tolerance and Error Recovery
- Real Time Communication Services
- Routing and Multicast
- Image Processing and Visualization
- Software Engineering
- Standards Evolution
- Management of Telecommunications
- Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks Architectures
- Overlay and Programmable Networks
- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile Communications

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Submission Guidelines:

Papers should describe original work and should be no more than 7 pages,
in the IEEE double-column proceedings format including tables, figures and
references. Note that accepted papers up to 6 pages will be published with no
additional charge. Exceeding pages will be charged an additional fee.

To submit a paper, please use the EDAS submission server: http://edas.info/

For additional information, please contact the Technical Program Co-Chairs.

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Important Dates:

Full Paper submission: December 18, 2009
Notification of acceptance: March 12, 2010
Submission of camera-ready papers due: April 13, 2010
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Organizing Committee

General Chairs
Antonio Corradi, University of Bologna, Italy
Mahmoud Daneshmand, AT&T USA

Technical Program Chairs
Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy
Chi-Ming Chen, AT&T, USA
Hossam Hassanein, Queens?s University, Canada

Local Arrangement Chairs
Luca Foschini, University of Bologna, Italy
Davide Brunelli, University of Bologna, Italy

Finance and Registration Chairs
Reda Ammar, University of Connecticut, USA
Adel Elmaghraby, University of Louisville, USA

Plenary Chair
Jesús Carretero, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain

Publication Chair
Stefano Chessa, University of Pisa, Italy

Keynote Chair
Abdelhamid Mellouk, University of Paris-Est Creteil Val de Marne, France

Workshop Chair
Ilenia Tinnirello, University of Palermo, Italy

Tutorial Chair
Reza Peyrovian, AT&T, USA

Publicity Chairs
Periklis Chatzimisios, University of Macedonia, Greece
Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil

Web Chair
Mario Fanelli, University of Bologna, Italy

Steering Committee
Reda Ammar, University of Connecticut, USA
Antonio Corradi, University of Bologna, Italy
Mahmoud Daneshmand, AT&T Labs Research, USA
Adel Elmaghraby, University of Louisville, USA
Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa, Canada
Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida, USA
Ahmed Tantawy, IBM, USA

Re: [Tccc] Could the NSF be legally entitled to a huge refund from the IEEE?

2009-12-16T18:24:00.001-08:00

Dear Prof. Schulzrinne:
While I believe that some aspects of your comments unfairly characterise
mine, I do agree with other aspects. I will focus on potential common
ground. Some of your comments/suggestions have prompted me to perform some
basic inquiries, and obtain some potentially useful information and ideas,
which I intend to share with you.

> Just to add a few points to this discussion:
>
> First, I think it's fine to say "IEEE should run a leaner ship" - as long
> as the suggestions are concrete and realistic, rather than vague
> generalities

I very much agree with you. It is always easy to criticise in the
abstract, but proposing specifics and showing why they may help is quite
another matter.

On the other hand, it is difficult to make concrete proposals "blindly".
In particular, as others have pointed out, itemised statements of revenues
and expenses for conferences are not being made public. Since you are in
touch with the IEEE president, could you kindly suggest to make possible
the release of this information at least for a representative sub-set of
recent major events? Then we could all study the information, and perhaps
make specific suggestions. If confidenciallity agreements prevent certain
information from being released, then specific items may be removed, with
an explanation. Still the rest could be analised.
Another reason to release such information is that, since a very large
number of conference attendees are funded by public agencies, it seems
that the general public (represented by the funding agencies) does have a
legitimate interest in ascertaining that their funds are appropriately
utilised.

Anyhow, I understand that this information is not presently available and
may take some time before it is. What to do in the mean time? I am
separately making some suggestions.

>
> Those dissatisfied with the current society sponsorship model (as opposed
> to simply wanting to improve it) are also welcome to organize their own
> events, and to make it more reputable and cheaper than the existing
> alternatives.
> One can think of this as somewhat related to franchise models,
> such as Hyatt hotels or Starbucks. In franchises, the franchisee pays for
> the privilege of using the brand name, typically as a fraction of revenue.

Electoral action sounds reasonable, but it is complicated especially when
the voting population is relatively large, and heterogeneous. For
instance, many IEEE members are practicing engineers who may not share the
concerns and goals of academic research engineers (see migratory
labor-force issues, for example)... nothing inherently wrong with that...
it just complicates matters.

I do agree with the basic model you propose, though: franchising.
Business-owners do change ocassionally from a franchise firm to another
(BK<-->McDonald, etc) and possibly to a new firm. Your suggestion is
useful and deserves separate exploration.

> I think the discussion will be more productive if
> such accusations, implied or stated, are avoided - or, if you truly
> believe in this, you should contact the NSF Inspector General, the entity
> within the NSF responsible for such issues.

I don't know which are the accusations you refer to. A lot of people have
said or implied that IEEE (ComSoc) conferences are over-priced, for a
variety of reasons (see record). I simply asked whether that could be
ground for a funding agency (particularly the NSF, which had just been
mentioned by Joe) to demand a refund from IEEE. I still believe that the
basic question is legitimate and important, even if the wording may have
been non-ideal, and that it deserves a definite conclusive answer. I
understand that certain grant contracts from certain agencies indeed do
have some language involving refunds.
In any case, I respectfully suggest that it may be better that the IEEE
itself request a legally binding opinion from the officer that you
mention. If favourable, everyone would feel better (at least concerning
that agency). If unfavourable, corrective measures could be implemented,
including refunds if any. Often, self-reporting is viewed as a sign of
good faith, and normally leads to lesser sanctions when applicable.

> Finally, reserves and endowments are common ways that not-for-profits
> smooth income and expenses, as well as leverage interest/investment income
> to provide additional operating revenues.

I basically agree with you. The issue is simply whether a contribution to
IEEE endowment by paying some type of (alleged) "mark-up" over fair-market
value for certain conference services is a legitimate use of research
public funds(from any funding agency including foreign ones). The use may
sound reasonable in principle. But it may not be consistent with the
applicable regulations.

Additionally, do consider that there may be other worthy endowments to
contribute to. As an example, the endowments of the following respected
institutions near IEEE (according to Internet sources) are/were:
NJIT 70M and Stevens 115M, both appreciable lower than IEEE's.
Brooklyn Poly (now part of NYU) had 173M, about same as IEEE's, and
Illinois Tech 258M. But these are institutional endowments for an entire
campus. The IEEE should probably be compared to the endowment's share of
the correponding ECE department. Then the IEEE endowment starts looking a
lot bigger.

In any case, a reasonable person may argue that any public money that
could somehow be transferred to the IEEE endowment (one way or another)
should instead be transferred to some of the institutions mentioned (or
many other worthy causes).

With my best regards,

Virgilio

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[Tccc] CFP: WWIC 2010, 1-3 June 2010 at Lulea, Sweden

2009-12-16T18:15:00.001-08:00

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Call for Papers

8th International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications
(WWIC), June 1-3, 2010, Lulea, Sweden

http://www.ltu.se/wwic2010

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Next generation mobile networks will be based on Internet core networks
and wireless access networks. The need for efficient merging of the wired
and wireless infrastructure as well as the new multimedia services and
applications of next generation networks call for novel network
architectures, protocols and traffic-related mechanisms. WWIC addresses
research topics such as the design and evaluation of protocols, the
dynamics of the integration, the performance tradeoffs, the need for new
performance metrics, and cross-layer interactions.

The goal of the conference is to present high-quality results in the
field, and to provide a framework for research collaboration through
focused discussions that will designate future research efforts and
directions. In this context, the program committee will accept only a
limited number of papers that meet the criteria of originality,
presentation quality and topic relevance. WWIC is a single-track
conference which has reached, within 5 years, the highest level of
quality, which is reflected both in the level of participation as well as
the acceptance ratio and the amount and quality of submitted papers.

Conference topics

The conference objectives will be pursued through highly technical
sessions organized thematically and keynote talks offered by recognized
experts. Topics of interest to WWIC 2010 include (but are not limited to)
the following:

- AAA in mobile environments
- Ambient networks
- Ad-hoc mobile networks
- Blended network configurations
- Beyond 3G networks technologies
- Cross layer interactions
- Economical issues of wireless networks
- End-to-end Quality of Service support
- Handover techniques
- Heterogeneous wireless access networks
- Hybrid wired / wireless environments
- Integration of wired and wireless networks
- Mobile service level agreements / specification
- Mobility management
- Network design and network planning
- Network mobility
- Network coding in mobile networks
- Network security in mobile environments
- Performance evaluation of wireless systems
- Pricing, charging and accounting in wireless networks
- QoS routing in mobile networks
- QoS signalling in mobile environments
- Resource management and admission control
- Service creation and management for wireless
- Simulation for next generation mobile networks
- Traffic characterisation and modelling
- Traffic engineering
- Transport protocols and congestion control
- Wireless mesh networks
- Wireless multi-hop networks
- Wireless multimedia systems
- Wireless network monitoring
- Wireless sensor networks

Proceedings

The authors are encouraged to submit full papers describing original,
previously unpublished, complete research, not currently under review by
another conference or journal, addressing state-of-the-art research and
development in all areas of computer networking and data communications.

All papers will be reviewed and accepted papers will appear in the
conference proceedings, published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series.
Papers must be submitted electronically in the conference site. The
maximum size of papers should be 5000 words including tables and figures.
Please adhere to the formatting standard for a 12-page manuscript of
Springer-Verlag LNCS. The cover page must contain an abstract of about 150
words, 3-5 keywords, name and affiliation of author(s) as well as the
corresponding author's e-mail and postal address.

There will be a Best Paper Award.

Important dates

Submission deadline:.............. January 15, 2010
Notification of acceptance:..... February 28, 2010
Camera ready papers:...............March 15, 2010

Organizing Committee

General Chairs

Evgeny Osipov, Lulel University of Technology, Sweden
Andreas Kassler, Karlstad University, Sweden

TPC Chairs

Thomas Michael Bohnert, SAP, Switzerland
Xavier Masip Bruin, UPC, Spain

Steering Committee

Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland
Georg Carle, TU Mnchen, Germany
Geert Heijenk, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Peter Langendrfer, IHP Microelectronics, Germany
Ibrahim Matta, Boston University, USA
Vassilis Tsaoussidis, Demokritos University, Greece

Technical Program Committee

Onur Altintas, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan
Ozgur B. Akan, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Manuel Alvarez-Campana, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Leonardo Badia, IMT Lucca, Italy
Sergey Balandin, Nokia, Finland
Mortaza Bargh, Novay, Netherlands
Carlos Bernardos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University, USA
Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Thomas Michael Bohnert, SAP Research, Switzerland
Sem Borst, Technische Universiteit Twente, The Netherlands
Richard Boucherie, Universiteit Twente, The Netherlands
Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland
Rafaelle Bruno, IIT-CNR, Italy
Wojciech Burakowski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Maria Calderon, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Xiuzhen Cheng, George Washington University, USA
Bong Dae Choi, Korea University, Korea
Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada
Michel Diaz, LAAS-CNRS, France
Magda El Zarki, University of California, Irvine, USA
Giovanni Giambene, University of Siena, Italy
Jarmo Harju, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Geert Heijenk, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Markus Hofmann, Bell Labs / Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Haruki Izumikawa, KDDI R&D Laboratories, Japan
Yuming Jiang, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Ibrahim Khalil, RMIT University, Australia
Andreas Kassler, Karlstads University, Sweden
Byung Kim, University of Mass. Lowell, USA
Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Rolf Kraemer, IHP Microelectronics, Germany
Peter Kropf, University of Neuchtel, Switzerland
Dirk Kutscher, University of Bremen, Germany
Peter Langendoerfer, IHP Microelectronics, Germany
Kenji Leibnitz, Osaka University, Japan
Leszek Lilien, Western Michigan University, USA
Remco Litjens, TNO ICT, The Netherlands
Hai Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France
Andreas Mder, NEC Labs, Germany
Christian Maihfer, Daimler AG, Germany
Lefteris Mamatas, University College London, UK
Saverio Mascolo, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pisa, Italy
Dmitri Moltchanov, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Liam Murphy, University College Dublin, Ireland
Marc Necker, Universitt Stuttgart, Germany
Qiang Ni, Brunel University, UK
Ioanis Nikolaidis, University of Alberta, Canada
Guevara Noubir, Northeastern University, USA
Evgeny Osipov, Lulel University of Technology, Sweden
Philippe Owezarski, LAAS-CNRS, France
George Pavlou, University College London, UK
Utz Roedig, Lancaster University, UK
Theodoros Salonidis, Thomson - Paris Research Labs, France
Guenter Schaefer, TU Ilmenau, Germany
Jochen Schiller, Free University Berlin, Germany
Patrick Snac, ISAE, France
Dimitrios Serpanos, University of Patras, Greece
Vasilios Siris, Athens University of Economics and Business / FORTH-ICS,
Greece
Dirk Staehle, University of Wrzburg, Germany
Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Vassilis Tsaoussidis, Demokritos University, Greece
Hans van den Berg, TNO ICT / University of Twente, The Netherlands
Rob van der Mei, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, The
Netherlands
Piet Van Mieghem, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands
Alexey Vinel, Saint-Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation,
Russia
Miki Yamamoto, Kansai University, Japan
Evsen Yanmaz, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Chi Zhang, Juniper Networks, USA
Martina Zitterbart, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

Publicity Chairs

Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada
Zhisheng Niu, Tsinghua University, China
Yan Zhang, Simula Research, Norway

Local Organizing Chair

Laurynas Riliskis, Lulel University of Technology , Sweden

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[Tccc] IEEE Comm. Surveys & Tut., 4th Qu. 2009 issue

2009-12-16T17:39:00.001-08:00

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Dear Colleagues,

The Fourth Quarter 2009 issue of the IEEE Communications Surveys and
Tutorials
has been post at http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/surveys/public/2009/oct/

Please find the table of contents enclosed. The articles will also shortly
appear on IEEE Xplore at
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=9739

We are actively soliciting surveys and tutorials on any communications and
networking related topic for the upcoming issues. Please find the call for
submissions at http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/surveys/ and submit your
manuscripts
at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/comst-ieee/

Looking forward to your comments and submissions,

Nelson

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IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials
Volume 11, Number 4, Fourth Quarter 2009

Ioannis Papapanagiotou, Dimitris Toumpakaris, Jungwon Lee, and Michael
Devetsikiotis.
A Survey on Next Generation Mobile WiMAX Networks: Objectives, Features and
Technical Challenges
pages 3-18

Jérôme Härri, Fethi Filali, and Christian Bonnet.
Mobility Models for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks: A Survey and Taxonomy
pages 19-41

Aristides Mpitziopoulos, Damianos Gavalas, Charalampos Konstantopoulos, and
Grammati Pantziou.
A Survey on Jamming Attacks and Countermeasures in WSNs
pages 42-56

Aggeliki Sgora and Dimitrios D. Vergados.
Handoff Prioritization and Decision Schemes in Wireless Cellular Networks: a
Survey
pages 57-77

Lajos Hanzo II. and Rahim Tafazolli.
Admission Control Schemes for 802.11-Based Multi-Hop Mobile Ad hoc
Networks: A
Survey
pages 78-108

Chava Vijaya Saradhi and Suresh Subramaniam.
Physical Layer Impairment Aware Routing (PLIAR) In WDM Optical Networks:
Issues
and Challenges
pages 109-130

Thomas K. Paul and Tokunbo Ogunfunmi.
Evolution, Insights and Challenges of the PHY Layer for the Emerging IEEE
802.11n Amendment
pages 131-150

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Nelson L. S. da Fonseca
IEEE Commun. Surveys & Tut., EiC
http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/surveys
State University of Campinas
Institute of Computing
P.O. Box 6176
13084-971 Campinas, SP, Brazil
tel: 55-19-35215878
fax: 55+19+35215847
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[Tccc] First International Workshop on Advances in Emerging Wireless Networks and Systems (AEWiNS 2010)

2009-12-16T17:22:00.001-08:00

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Call for Papers

First International Workshop on Advances in Emerging Wireless Networks and
Systems (AEWiNS 2010)

in conjunction with FutureTech 2010 to be held from May 21-23, 2010 in
Busan, Korea.

http://aewins2010.99k.org

AEWiNS 2010 will focus on algorithms, protocols, architectures, and
applications with coverage of all layers that
will have a significant impact for the successful deployment of emerging
wireless networks and systems. The workshop will
provide an opportunity for academic and industry professionals to discuss
the latest issues related to advances in emerging
wireless networks and systems. The workshop is intended to encourage
cooperation among academicians and researchers and push
the theoretical and practical research forward for a deeper understanding on
the emerging wireless networks and systems.

Topics (include but are not limited to the following)

- Broadband wireless access networks - IEEE 802.11/802.16/802.20/802.22
- Wireless Mesh Networks
- Emerging ad hoc and sensor networks ?Bluetooth/ Zigbee/UWB
- Cognitive radio networks and spectrum assignment
- Emerging issues in 3G and 4G wireless networks
- Wireless Internet services and applications
- Cooperative wireless communications
- Architectures, protocols, and algorithms for emerging mobile and
wireless networks
- QoS management, resource allocation and interference management
- Mobility and location management in emerging wireless networks
- Cross-layer design and optimization
- Mobile Peer-to-Peer networking, systems and applications
- Multimedia over emerging wireless networks
- Data management on emerging mobile and wireless systems
- Energy saving protocols for ad hoc and sensor networks
- Cryptography, security and privacy issues in emerging wireless networks
- Performance analysis, modeling, simulation of wireless and mobile
networks
- Standardization, specifications and enhancements in the emerging
standards
- Recent trends in mobile and wireless applications
- Testbed, prototype, case studies related to emerging wireless systems

Workshop Chairs
- Bhed B. Bista, Iwate Prefectural Univ, Japan
- Binod Vaidya, Inst of Telecom, Portugal
- Arun Ranjitkar, Ajou Univ, Korea

International Advisory Committee
- Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Inst of Tech (FIT), Japan
- Young-Bae Ko, Ajou Univ, Korea
- Joel Rodrigues, IT, Univ of Beira Interior, Portugal

Publicity Chairs
- James Chang Wu Yu, Chung Hua Univ, Taiwan
- A. P. Sathish Kumar, PSG Tech, India

Technical Program Committee Members
- TBA

Important dates
- Full Paper Due: 21 December 2009
- Notification of Acceptance: 18 January 2010
- Final Camera-Ready Due: 15 February 2010
- Workshop Date: 21-23 May 2010

Paper Submission
Authors should submit full paper with 6 pages and short paper with 4 pages
by using Online systems for review. Please use
IEEE paper format.

Publication
The workshop proceedings will be published as part of the FutureTech 2010
conference proceedings published in IEEE
(pending). The selected outstanding papers will be published in SCI/E
Journals (to be confirmed).

Contact
For further information regarding AEWiNS 2010 and paper submission, please
contact at aewins2010@gmail.com
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[Tccc] Last week to submit: ICIMP 2010 || May 9-15, 2010 - Barcelona, Spain

2009-12-16T15:40:00.000-08:00

INVITATION:

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Note that we are entering the last week of submissions.

Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results.

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============== ICIMP 2010 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

ICIMP 2010: The Fifth International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection

May 9-15, 2010 - Barcelona, Spain

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/ICIMP10.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/CfPICIMP10.html

Submission deadline: December 20, 2009

Re: [Tccc] Improving submissions and all that...

2009-12-16T10:11:00.000-08:00

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Hi, Miroslav,

Miroslav Skoric wrote:
> Atiquzzaman, Mohammed wrote:
>
>> An objective of submitting multiple papers to a conference is "cost
>> effectiveness". For example, at ICC and Globecom, it costs you the same
>> to publish upto three papers - same travel, same hotel room, same food,
>> and one registration for all the papers :-)
>
> Related to the "cost effectiveness": It makes me wonder what this
> community considers as better solution for the multi-authors, a) up to
> three papers published at the same conference (at the same or similar
> cost), or b) single papers published at 2-3 separate conferences that
> might happen to be grouped in the same geographical area, say, in the
> same continent or so (of course, that time with an increased cost for
> the additional traveling :-) ).

The "up to three" is a Comsoc rule related to the number of full
registrations paid per published paper. It isn't a limit on the number
of papers a single author can publish at a conference.

So far, we haven't seen evidence that limiting the pubs from a single
author would have a noticeable effect on available pub slots for other
authors.

As to "cost effectiveness", a single author who publishes multiple
papers at a single conference saves money on travel, hotel, and
registration (up to three papers), and saves time (both travelling and
attending). Sending many papers to a single conference could limit the
diversity of people who see their work, but that may not be all that
useful if the desired audience is the single meeting anyway.

Joe

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Re: [Tccc] Improving submissions and all that...

2009-12-16T10:01:00.000-08:00

Atiquzzaman, Mohammed wrote:

> An objective of submitting multiple papers to a conference is "cost effectiveness". For example, at ICC and Globecom, it costs you the same to publish upto three papers - same travel, same hotel room, same food, and one registration for all the papers :-)
>

Related to the "cost effectiveness": It makes me wonder what this
community considers as better solution for the multi-authors, a) up to
three papers published at the same conference (at the same or similar
cost), or b) single papers published at 2-3 separate conferences that
might happen to be grouped in the same geographical area, say, in the
same continent or so (of course, that time with an increased cost for
the additional traveling :-) ).

Miroslav

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[Tccc] ICC 2010 Workshop E2NETS, Deadine Extended to 11 January 2010

2009-12-16T06:46:00.001-08:00

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IEEE ICC-2010 Workshop on
Energy Efficiency in Wireless Networks & Wireless Networks for Energy Efficiency http://www.e2nets.tudelft.nl to be held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2010)
23-27 May 2010 Cape Town, South Africa
at Cape Town's International Conference Centre (CTICC).

The two seemingly distinct topics of E2NETS are very important for overall energy efficiency in the future. Instead of looking at them separately, it is useful to arrange a venue for the researchers and practitioners in these two fields to come together and interact. This workshop aims to build this cooperation. Energy Efficiency in Wireless Networks: According to the GESI study, the ICT sector contributes around two per cent of global greenhouse gas (CHG) emissions. To increase the competitiveness, energy efficiency (E2) must also be a design criterion of the network and service architectures.
Flexible networks that adapt their capacity to the requirements can lead to significant energy savings. Novel networking paradigms need to be introduced to assure that all components are used with maximum utilization. Green network architectures will be the cross-layer, cognitive and cooperative aggregation of techniques and mechanisms to provide a communication infrastructure where the energy consumption is minimized while guaranteeing the quality/grade of service required by the applications. Along with energy efficiency, spectrum utilization is to be optimized and radiation is to be minimized. Green networking is not only the evolution of legacy networking paradigms but also the revolution of the visionary hybrid networks which is the convergence of the heterogeneous wired, wireless and ad hoc networks. In this workshop, the following topics of energy efficiency in wireless networks are considered:
* Physical layer techniques, channel/network coding for energy efficiency.
* Methodologies /architectures for energy efficiency.
* Energy-efficiency measures.
* Energy-efficient flooding/multicast for service discovery.
* Collaborative/cooperative/cognitive networking protocols for energy efficiency.
* Algorithms for scheduling and resource management.
* Energy harvesting.
* Cooperative green communications for energy efficiency.
* User mobility modeling to predict and adapt to patterns.
* Hybrid fibre-wireless networks for energy-efficient delivery of wireless signals.

Wireless Networks for Energy Efficiency: To address the other 98 per cent of the global CHG emissions, wireless networks can be used to reduce the energy consumption of industrial/home/office environments/applications. For example, along with the research in low-carbon road transportation technologies, wireless networks can be employed to analyze the traffic jams and help navigators to find a suitable route leading to energy savings. To this extent, in this workshop the topics of wireless networks for energy efficiency consist of:
* ICT for minimization of the energy consumption of other systems such as transportation, houses, offices and industrial buildings.
* Energy efficient cloud computing, smart grids and emerging applications.
* Sensor networks for energy efficiency in industrial/harsh environments.
* Vehicular networks to reduce the CHG emissions.
* New designs of equipments/architectures for energy efficiency.
* Energy efficient virtualization of resources.

Accepted workshop papers will be available on the IEEE eXplore database and included in the CD proceedings of the IEEE ICC 2010.
Paper submission via EDAS, 5 pages IEEE format.
http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=8321&track=8419

Full papers due: Jan 11 2009
Acceptance notification: Jan 30 2010
Camera ready version: Feb 10 2010

General Chair
Ignas Niemegeers, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Publicity Chair
Hakan Delic, Bogazici University, Turkey

Technical Program Committee Chair
R. Venkatesha Prasad, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Technical Program Committee Co-Chair
Ertan Onur, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

What is different?

The format of the workshop consists of four sessions three of which will be dedicated to presentation sessions and posters. The remaining session will be slightly different from the usual chores such as panel or keynote. Here we have identified clearly two important groups, E2 in Wireless Networks and Wireless Networks for E2, which are interconnected and interrelated. Both have been currently looked into ýntensively, not only by researchers, but also by the industry. The recent trend is that the governments of various countries have started seriously encouraging ICT community participation in reducing the energy consumption, as well as energy wastage. Surely this has to be taken into account by the ICT community.

The pool of participants, including authors of papers, will be divided into the two groups, the E2 in Wireless Networks and Wireless Networks for E2. These two groups headed by senior academician/industrialist will hold separate discussions for 45 min. The mandate is to come up with a list of research ideas, as well as implementation strategies for the topics of their group.
Then they will present their ideas and discuss for the next 45 minutes with all of the participants.

This strategy should help in identifying issues quickly in a larger perspective. It is expected to help academics, industry and policy makers to quickly crystallize thoughts and work towards the important challenges and optimize their resources for this important challenge for future generations to come.
It is also expected that after the discussions the two groups bring forth a list of ideas for future project proposals. We will encourage the participants to team up and work together for their future proposals. The by-product of this exercise is that convergence of these two seemingly separate trends will start cooperation with each other.

Contact Information
R. Venkatesha Prasad, TU Delft, Netherlands r.r.venkateshaprasad@tudelft.nl <mailto:r.r.venkateshaprasad@tudelft.nl>
Ertan Onur, TU Delft, Netherlands, e.onur@tudelft.nl <mailto:e.onur@tudelft.nl>

Dr. Ertan Onur
TU Delft
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Wireless and Mobile Communications Group
Mekelweg 4
2628 CD Delft
PO Box 5031
2600 GA Delft
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F +31 (0)15 27 81774
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[Tccc] ICC 2010 Workshop E2NETS, Deadine Extended to 11 January 2010

2009-12-16T05:03:00.000-08:00

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IEEE ICC-2010 Workshop on
Energy Efficiency in Wireless Networks & Wireless Networks for
Energy Efficiency
http://www.e2nets.tudelft.nl
to be held in conjunction with the
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2010)
23-27 May 2010 Cape Town, South Africa
at Cape Town's International Conference Centre (CTICC).

The two seemingly distinct topics of E2NETS are very important for overall
energy efficiency in the future. Instead of looking at them separately, it
is useful to arrange a venue for the researchers and practitioners in these
two
fields to come together and interact. This workshop aims to build this
cooperation. Energy Efficiency in Wireless Networks: According to the GESI
study, the ICT sector contributes around two per cent of global greenhouse
gas (CHG) emissions. To increase the competitiveness, energy efficiency (E2)
must also be a design criterion of the network and service architectures.
Flexible networks that adapt their capacity to the requirements can lead to
significant energy savings. Novel networking paradigms need to be introduced
to assure
that all components are used with maximum utilization. Green network
architectures will be the cross-layer, cognitive and cooperative aggregation
of techniques
and mechanisms to provide a communication infrastructure where the energy
consumption is minimized while guaranteeing the quality/grade of service
required by the applications. Along with energy efficiency, spectrum
utilization is to be optimized and radiation is to be minimized. Green
networking is not only the evolution of legacy networking paradigms but also
the revolution of the visionary hybrid networks which is the convergence of
the heterogeneous wired, wireless and ad hoc networks. In this workshop, the
following topics of energy efficiency in wireless networks are considered:
* Physical layer techniques, channel/network coding for energy efficiency.
* Methodologies /architectures for energy efficiency.
* Energy-efficiency measures.
* Energy-efficient flooding/multicast for service discovery.
* Collaborative/cooperative/cognitive networking protocols for energy
efficiency.
* Algorithms for scheduling and resource management.
* Energy harvesting.
* Cooperative green communications for energy efficiency.
* User mobility modeling to predict and adapt to patterns.
* Hybrid fibre-wireless networks for energy-efficient delivery of wireless
signals.

Wireless Networks for Energy Efficiency: To address the other 98 per cent of
the global CHG emissions, wireless networks can be used to reduce the energy
consumption of industrial/home/office environments/applications. For
example, along with the research in low-carbon road transportation
technologies,
wireless networks can be employed to analyze the traffic jams and help
navigators to find a suitable route leading to energy savings. To this
extent, in this workshop the topics of wireless networks for energy
efficiency
consist of:
* ICT for minimization of the energy consumption of other systems such as
transportation, houses, offices and industrial buildings.
* Energy efficient cloud computing, smart grids and emerging applications.
* Sensor networks for energy efficiency in industrial/harsh environments.
* Vehicular networks to reduce the CHG emissions.
* New designs of equipments/architectures for energy efficiency.
* Energy efficient virtualization of resources.

Accepted workshop papers will be available on the IEEE eXplore database and
included in the CD proceedings of the IEEE ICC 2010.
Paper submission via EDAS, 5 pages IEEE format.
http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=8321&track=8419

Full papers due: Jan 11 2009
Acceptance notification: Jan 30 2010
Camera ready version: Feb 10 2010

General Chair
Ignas Niemegeers, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Publicity Chair
Hakan Delic, Bogazici University, Turkey

Technical Program Committee Chair
R. Venkatesha Prasad, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Technical Program Committee Co-Chair
Ertan Onur, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

What is different?

The format of the workshop consists of four sessions three of which will be
dedicated to presentation sessions and posters. The remaining session will
be slightly different from the usual chores such as panel or keynote. Here
we
have identified clearly two important groups, E2 in Wireless Networks and
Wireless Networks for E2, which are interconnected and interrelated. Both
have been
currently looked into ýntensively, not only by researchers, but also by the
industry. The recent trend is that the governments of various countries have
started seriously encouraging ICT community participation in reducing the
energy consumption, as well as energy wastage. Surely this has to be taken
into account by the ICT community.

The pool of participants, including authors of papers, will be divided into
the two groups, the E2 in Wireless Networks and Wireless Networks for E2.
These
two groups headed by senior academician/industrialist will hold separate
discussions for 45 min. The mandate is to come up with a list of research
ideas, as well as implementation strategies for the topics of their group.
Then they will present their ideas and discuss for the next 45 minutes with
all
of the participants.

This strategy should help in identifying issues quickly in a larger
perspective. It is expected to help academics, industry and policy makers to
quickly
crystallize thoughts and work towards the important challenges and optimize
their resources for this important challenge for future generations to come.
It is also expected that after the discussions the two groups bring forth a
list of ideas for future project proposals. We will encourage the
participants to
team up and work together for their future proposals. The by-product of this
exercise is that convergence of these two seemingly separate trends will
start cooperation with each other.

Contact Information
R. Venkatesha Prasad, TU Delft, Netherlands r.r.venkateshaprasad@tudelft.nl
Ertan Onur, TU Delft, Netherlands, e.onur@tudelft.nl

*Dr. Ertan Onur*

*T**U **Delft*

*Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science*

*Wireless and Mobile Communications Group*

Mekelweg 4

2628 CD Delft

PO Box 5031

2600 GA Delft

T +31 (0)15 27 85201

F +31 (0)15 27 81774

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[Tccc] CFP: 5th International Symposium on Embedded Multicore Systems-on-Chip (MCSoC-10), San Diego, USA, September 13-16, 2010

2009-12-15T23:52:00.000-08:00

==================================================================

MCSoC-10

5th International Symposium on Embedded Multicore
Systems-on-Chip

in conjunction with
The 39th International Conference on Parallel Processing
(ICPP-2010)

San Diego, USA, September 13-16, 2010

http://web-ext.u-aizu.ac.jp/~benab/conferences/mcsoc-10/<http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://web-ext.u-aizu.ac.jp/%7Ebenab/conferences/mcsoc-10/&usg=AFQjCNELzl_9-IcUfq-yjZXvmLKv8cZRaw>
==================================================================

The International Symposium on Embedded Multicore Systems-on-chip
(MCSoC-10) aims at providing the world's premier forum of leading
researchers in the embedded multicore SoCs software, tools and
applications design areas for Academia and industries. Prospective
authors are invited to submit paper of their works. Submission of a
paper implies that at least one of the authors will have a full
registration to the symposium upon acceptance of the paper.

Areas of Interest

- Software for Embedded Multicore: Compilers, cross assemblers,
programming, memory management, object-oriented aspects, virtual
machines, concurrent software for SoCs,...
- Hardware for Embedded Multicore: SoCs, DSPs, hardware specification,
modeling, synthesis, low power simulation and analysis, reliable,
performance modeling, security issues, ...
- Embedded Multicore System Architecture: Multicore, Many-core,
reconfigurable platforms, memory management support, communication,
protocols, real-time systems,...
- Network-on-chip: NoC architecture, Power and energy issues in NoC ,
Application specific NoC design, Timing, synchronous /asynchronous
communication, RTOS support for NoC, Modeling, simulation, NoC
support for MCSoC, NoCs for FPGAs and structured ASICs, NoC design
tools,...
- Multicore Real-time Systems: Software, distributed real-time
systems, real-time kernels, task scheduling, multitasking design, ...
- Multicore Testing: Design-for-test, test synthesis, built-in
self-test, embedded test for MCSoC,...
- Multicore Practices & Benchmarks: Software, tools, trends, emerging
technologies, experience maintaining benchmark suites, representation,
tools, copyrights, maintenance, ...
- Packaging Technologies for MCSoCs
- RTOS for Embedded Muticore
- Applications for Embedded Multicore

Important Dates

- Full papers submission: March 12, 2010
- Acceptance notification: May 7, 2010
- Camera-ready papers: June 11, 2010
- MCSoC-10 & ICPP2010: September 13-16, 2010

Submission

Paper submissions should be formatted according to the IEEE standard
double-column format with a font size 10 pt or larger. Each paper is
strictly limited to 8 pages in length. Submissions should represent
original, substantive research results. We will not accept any paper
which, at the time of submission, is under review or accepted for
publication or has already been published in another conference or
journal venue.

All submitted papers to the MCSoC-10 should be submitted
ELECTRONICALLY. Click here to submit
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mcsoc10<http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://www.easychair.org/conferences/%3Fconf%3Dmcsoc10&usg=AFQjCNFFPGJJwIbMeefMiZQxQlsFuvR63Q>

Publications
MCSoC-10 symposium papers will be included in ICPP proceedings and
will be published in CD format available at the ICPP 2010 conference.
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[Tccc] CFP: 5th International Symposium on Embedded Multicore Systems-on-Chip (MCSoC-10), San Diego, USA, September 13-16, 2010

2009-12-15T23:43:00.000-08:00

==================================================================

MCSoC-10

5th International Symposium on Embedded Multicore
Systems-on-Chip

in conjunction with
The 39th International Conference on Parallel Processing
(ICPP-2010)

San Diego, USA, September 13-16, 2010

Areas of Interest

Important Dates

- Full papers submission: March 12, 2010
- Acceptance notification: May 7, 2010
- Camera-ready papers: June 11, 2010
- MCSoC-10 & ICPP2010: September 13-16, 2010

Submission

[Tccc] [MCSoC-10] Full papers submission: March 12, 2010

2009-12-15T23:36:00.000-08:00

===================
MCSoC-10 Call for papers
===================
*
5th International Symposium on Embedded Multicore Systems-on-chip (MCSoC-10)
*
in Conjunction with ICPP 2010
San Diego, California, USA, Sept. 13-16, 2010.
*
*Important Dates:
- Full papers submission: *March 12, 2010*
- Acceptance notification: May 7, 2010
- Camera-ready papers: June 11, 2010
- MCSoC-10 & ICPP2010: September 13-16,2010

** Web page: http://www.u-aizu.ac.jp/~benab/conferences/mcsoc-10/

===================
The International Symposium on Embedded Multicore Systems-on-chip (MCSoC-10)
aims at providing the world's premier forum of leading researchers in the
embedded multicore SoCs software, tools and applications design areas for
Academia and industries. Prospective authors are invited to submit paper of
their works. Submission of a paper implies that at least one of the authors
will have a full registration to the symposium upon acceptance of the paper.
*
Areas of Interests*
* Software for Embedded Multicore: Compilers, cross assemblers,
programming, memory management, object-oriented aspects, virtual
machines, concurrent software for SoCs,...
* Hardware for Embedded Multicore: SoCs, DSPs, hardware specification,
modeling, synthesis, low power simulation and analysis, reliable,
performance modeling, security issues, ...
* Embedded Multicore System Architecture: Multicore, Many-core,
reconfigurable platforms, memory management support, communication,
protocols, real-time systems,...
* Network-on-chip: NoC architecture, Power and energy issues in NoC,
Application specific NoC design, Timing, synchronous /asynchronous
communication, RTOS support for NoC, Modeling, simulation, NoC support
for MCSoC, NoCs for FPGAs and structured ASICs, NoC design tools,...
* Multicore Real-time Systems: Software, distributed real-time systems,
real-time kernels, task scheduling, multitasking design, ...
* Multicore Testing: Design-for-test, test synthesis, built-in self-test,
embedded test for MCSoC,...
* Multicore Practices & Benchmarks: Software, tools, trends, emerging
technologies, experience maintaining benchmark suites, representation,
tools, copyrights, maintenance, ...
* Packaging Technologies for MCSoCs
* RTOS for Embedded Muticore
* Applications for Embedded Multicore
**
* Submission*
Paper submissions should be formatted according to the IEEE standard
double-column
format with a font size 10 pt or larger. Each paper is strictly limited to 8
pages
in length. Submissions should represent original, substantive research
results.
We will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under
review or
accepted for publication or has already been published in another conference
or journal
venue. All submitted papers to the MCSoC-10 should be submitted
ELECTRONICALLY.
*
Publications*
MCSoC-10 symposium papers will be included in ICPP proceedings and will be
published
in CD format available at the ICPP 2010 conference.
*
Contact*
For further information, please contact: benab@u-aizu.ac.jp
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[Tccc] cfp:International journal of Network Security & Its Applications (IJNSA)

2009-12-15T22:36:00.000-08:00

International journal of Network Security & Its Applications (IJNSA)
                      http://airccse.org/journal/ijnsa.html
                              ISSN 0974 9330 (Online)
                                   0975 - 2307 (Print)

Scope & Topics

The International journal of Network Security & Its Applications (IJNSA) is a
quarterly open access journal that publishes articles which contribute new
results in all areas of the computer Network Security & its applications. The
journal focuses on all technical and practical aspects of security and its
applications for wired and wireless networks. The goal of this journal is to
bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to
focus on understanding Modern security threats and countermeasures, and
establishing new collaborations in these areas.
Authors are solicited to contribute to the journal by submitting articles that
illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and industrial
experiences that describe significant advances in the areas of Security & its
applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following
        Network and Wireless Network Security
        Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Security
        Peer-to-Peer Network Security
        Database and System Security
        Intrusion Detection and Prevention
        Internet Security & Applications
        Security & Network Management
        E-mail security, Spam, Phishing, E-mail fraud
        Virus, worms, Trojon Protection
        Security threats & countermeasures (DDoS, MiM, Session
         Hijacking,Replay attack etc,)
        Ubiquitous Computing Security
        Web 2.0 security
        Cryptographic protocols
        Performance Evaluations of Protocols & Security Application

Paper submission

Authors are invited to submit papers for this journal through e-mail ijnsa@airccse.org
Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this Journal.

Important Dates

Submission deadline:     15 January 2010
Acceptance notification: 15 February 2010
Final manuscript due:    30 January 2010
Publication date:        determined by the Editor-in-Chief

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Re: [Tccc] Could the NSF be legally entitled to a huge refund from the IEEE?

2009-12-15T17:54:00.001-08:00

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> Hash: SHA1
>
> Hi, Virgilio,
>
> Virgilio Rodriguez wrote:
> ...
>> At the end of the day, the IEEE still has "net assets" (reserves) of
>> US$158 millions, which seems atypical for a professional society.
>
> The IEEE is a professional society *and* a standards organization.
> However, as has been pointed out, it compares to the ACM in assets.
>
>> Now, I don't know as much about the NSF as others in this list. However,
>> it is my impression that the NSF mission does not include providing
>> "buffer" funds for private corporations (even if they are "non profit"),
>> so that they are immunised against future uncertainties or market
>> fluctuations.
>
> The NSF pays for us to attend meetings. They understand that meetings
> sometimes result in a profit, and other times result in a loss. They
> don't have issue with this, provided (generally) that the meeting is
> organized by a non-profit entity.

>From the IEEE own report, it is clear that conferences are yielding a net
monetary benefit, and a subtantial and increasing one, in the millions.

My suggestion was that it was relevant to the discussion to know what the
NSF thinks about these issues, including legal/contract aspects and the
possibility of their requesting a refund.

It was a direct and clear statement, which is on record.

Now, you indicate that you know what their position is. If so, fine.

I appreciate your response.

Virgilio

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[Tccc] IEEE INFOCOM 2010 Workshop on Cognitive Wireless Communications and Networking

2009-12-15T14:40:00.001-08:00

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.

IEEE INFOCOM 2010 Workshop on Cognitive Wireless Communications and
Networking

March 15-19, 2010
San Diego, CA, USA

http://www.csit.carleton.ca/~fyu/CWCN10/index.htm

Scope:

The radio frequency spectrum is becoming a scarce resource. Conventional
fixed spectrum allocation cannot utilize the resource efficiently. Cognitive
radio is a novel technology which improves the spectrum utilization through
detection of unused radio spectrum and dynamic spectrum allocation.
Cognitive wireless communications and cognitive wireless networks have
potential to bring tremendous economic benefits to both customer and telecom
operators. In recent years, cognitive wireless communications and networking
arouse wide interests from both academia and industry. Many
interdisciplinary research efforts and prototyping work are going on,
including, spectrum sensing, coexistence mechanisms, medium access, QoS
provisioning, environment awareness, cross layer techniques, upper layer
studies, policy and pricing, signal processing, information theory,
artificial intelligence, etc. The Workshop on "Cognitive Wireless
Communications and Networking" provides a forum for discussions of all these
most recent developments and brings together industry and academia,
engineers and researchers. The Workshop is in conjunction with IEEE
Infocom'2010 (IEEE Sponsored) conference (http://www.ieee-infocom.org/)

Topics:

The Workshop invites submissions on the following topics (but not limited
to):

+ Flexible, dynamic and opportunistic spectrum access
+ White space networking
+ QoS provisioning and resource management in cognitive radio networks
+ MAC, routing and transport protocols for cognitive radio networks
+ Cross-layer optimization of cognitive wireless networks
+ Multiple access scheme for cognitive radio
+ End-to-end modeling and performance of cognitive wireless networks
+ Collaborative radio resource, spectrum, power management, resource
optimization
+ Cognitive radio devices, reconfigurable elements, evolution from software
defined radio to cognitive infrastructures
+ Pricing and billing for cognitive radio devices and services
+ Authorization and authentication of cognitive radio devices
+ Pilot channels, radio enablers in support of cognitive infrastructures
+ Cognitive 3G/4G/5G, wireless wide area infrastructures, short range
networks, mesh topologies
+ Cognitive radio in IEEE 802.22 wireless regional area networks (WRANs)
+ Security of cognitive wireless networks
+ Signal processing for cognitive wireless networks
+ Information theory for cognitive wireless networks
+ Solutions for protecting primary users
+ Spectrum sensing mechanism and protocol support
+ Synchronization and channel estimation for cognitive radio
+ Cooperative theory, game theory and causal reasoning for cognitive
wireless networks
+ Interdisciplinary research for cognitive wireless networks
+ Energy management for cognitive wireless networks
+ Standards, policy and regulation for cognitive wireless networks
+ Military cognitive wireless networks
+ Experimental test-beds and results

Contribution format:

The authors are encouraged to submit full papers describing original,
previously unpublished, complete research, not currently under review by
another conference or journal, addressing state-of-the-art research and
development. All submissions should be written in English with a maximum
paper length of six (6) printed pages (10-point font) including figures.

Paper submission:

http://edas.info

Schedule:

+ Full Paper Submission: Jan. 5, 2010
+ Notification of Acceptance: Feb. 5, 2010
+ Camera-ready version + Author Registration: Feb. 25, 2010

Organizing Committee:

Co-Chair:
Victor C. M. Leung
The University of British Columbia, BC, Canada
http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~vleung/
vleung@ece.ubc.ca

Co-Chair:
Victor Bahl
Microsoft Research, WA, USA
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/bahl/
bahl@microsoft.com

TPC Co-Chair:
F. Richard Yu
Carleton University, ON, Canada
http://www.csit.carleton.ca/~fyu/
richard_yu@carleton.ca

TPC Co-Chair:
Ranveer Chandra
Microsoft Research, WA, USA
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/ranveer/
ranveer@microsoft.com

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[Tccc] CFP: Wireless Sensor Networks Symposium - IWCMC 2010 - Deadline extended to January 15, 2010!

2009-12-15T12:18:00.000-08:00

The 6th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
Conference (IWCMC 2010)

Caen, France, June 28 – July, 2010

Wireless Sensor Networks Symposium

Call for Papers

http://people.hofstra.edu/Habib_M_Ammari/WSN_Symposium.html

Symposium Description

As one of the technical symposia of the 2010 International Wireless
Communication and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC10), Wireless Sensor
Networks Symposium is dedicated to addressing the existing and emerging
technical challenges in the design, analysis, development and
implementation of wireless ad hoc, sensor and mesh networks.

The goal of this symposium is to bring together people from academia and
industry who have interest in the area of wireless ad hoc, sensor and
mesh networks. Particularly, this symposium's focus is on the theory and
practices that address the challenges related to the design, analysis,
and implementation of algorithms, protocols, architectures, and
applications for wireless ad hoc, sensor and mesh networks.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Applications, operating system, and middleware support
• Cross-layer design and optimization methods
• Energy-efficient transport, network, and MAC protocols
• Event detection, classification and tracking
• Fault-tolerance, self-healing, and reliability
• Group and cooperative communications
• Location discovery and time synchronization techniques
• Measurements and practical experiences from prototypes and
testbeds
• Mobility support and management
• Multicasting, geocasting, and broadcasting
• Network coverage and connectivity
• Network scaling and limits
• Quality of Service issues
• Query processing and data aggregation
• Performance modelling and analysis
• Resource management algorithms
• Topology discovery, management and self-organization
• Trust, security, privacy and appropriate cryptographic protocols

Important Dates

• Paper submission deadlines: December 15, 2010
o Paper submission website:
http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6827
• Notification of acceptance: March 25, 2010
• Camera-ready version due: April 15, 2010
• Registration deadline for authors: April 15, 2010
• IWCMC 2010 Conference: June 28 – July 2, 2010

Symposium Chair and Co-Chairs

Chair
• Nidal Nasser, University of Guelph, Canada,
nasser@cis.uoguelph.ca
Co-Chairs
• Song Ci, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA,
sci@engr.unl.edu
• Habib M. Ammari, Hofstra University, USA,
Habib.M.Ammari@Hofstra.edu

Submission Guidelines

For this symposium, we are soliciting original papers describing
state-of-the-art research and development in the areas of wireless ad
hoc, sensor and mesh networks. The symposium will only accept for review
the original contributions that have not been previously published and
are not currently under review by any other conference or journal.
All papers are limited to five (5) printed pages, including text,
figures and references, and must be written in English and follow the
standard IEEE double-column format. The font size must be at least 10
points. All submissions will be handled electronically and must be in
PDF format.

All submitted papers would be judged based on their quality through a
double peer-reviewing process. Accepted papers will be published in the
Conference Proceedings of IWCMC10. Further instructions on paper
submission and formatting are available on the conference webpage
(http://www.iwcmc.com).

Paper submission Website: http://www.edas.info
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Re: [Tccc] Improving submissions and all that...

2009-12-15T12:04:00.000-08:00

Indeed somebody might have picked a poor example, but that is not the
question. It is not uncommon to see disproportional submissions and
acceptance of some "prominent" persons in some of out known conferences.
Given the tight acceptance budget, it suffices to have a handful of them
to count out a large number of emerging scientists.

By the way, I for one, do not believe in double-blind review. Given the
reality on the field, one is tempted to think this is rather a sort of
self-deception... Pardon my blatant use of this word.

Waltenegus

Mischa Dohler schrieb:
> Steve, all,
>
> Multiple submissions by the same author are not a big deal, I would
> guess. Victor, taking Vincent Poor as an example of having close to 100
> papers per year is a little an unfortunate example: from my times at
> France Telecom I can confirm that, apart from his high academic
> standard, he is certainly one of those who keeps a faily close
> connection to industry. His output just confirms that he runs the show
> efficiently and at high level.
>
> I still believe that charging authors some money *prior* to submission
> would significantly aid the situation. I have just checked, I have
> handled close to 300 papers this year, from which a large (rejected)
> fraction would have likely not been submitted if some initial fee had
> been charged. We could also use this money to pay reviewers to do a
> better job (without wishing to trigger another discussion on this now).
>
> Mischa.
>
>
> Bush, Stephen F (GE, Research) wrote:
>
>> I'm curious how many industry research folks are on this list and
>> whether their interests are (or should be) included in the discussion.
>>
>> Pumping out 97 papers in one year ... and if none of it reaches (or will
>> reach) society in a meaningful way is the classic example of why papers
>> and citations are not generally held in the highest regard (in industry
>> at least).
>>
>> Number of papers and number of citations are nice, but there should be
>> an equally weighted measure of meaningful transition to something
>> useful, at some point, with the tax payers' money. Something like an
>> industry citation of an academic paper counts for 10 university
>> citations... i.e. the idea has been found to actually be of value and so
>> weighted more.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: tccc-bounces@lists.cs.columbia.edu
>> [mailto:tccc-bounces@lists.cs.columbia.edu] On Behalf Of Joe Touch
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 11:59 AM
>> To: Victor Walrand
>> Cc: tccc@lists.cs.columbia.edu
>> Subject: Re: [Tccc] Improving submissions and all that...
>>
>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>> Hash: SHA1
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>> Hi, all,
>>
>> Victor Walrand wrote:
>>
>>> Take a look at the publication record of Prof. H. Vincent Poor's from
>>>
>>> Princeton for the last 2-3 years in DBLP.
>>>
>>> 2009 --> 56 papers
>>> 2008 --> 97 papers (!!!)
>>> 2007 --> 72 papers
>>>
>>> Is it really possible to author (or co-author) so many papers in a
>>> year?!?
>>>
>> I took a quick look. There are many papers with otherwise disjoint
>> author lists, and he appears to frequently be the last author. I'm not
>> sure how to interpret these results either, though.
>>
>>
>>> So are people just using his Princeton credentials to get papers
>>> accepted?
>>>
>> This presumes that his credentials are a contributing factor in
>> publication. Many of his co-authors are also from Princeton, however.
>>
>>
>>> Isn't it the responsibility of a co-author to at least be responsible
>>> for some of the content in a paper?
>>>
>> The IEEE doesn't have such a requirement, except vaguely in its Code of
>> Ethics. However, it's useful to note that all authors of a paper share
>> equally in all responsibilities of following republication rules and
>> anti-plagiarism.
>>
>> Joe
>>
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[Tccc] [CFP: ICDCS 2010 Workshop - Workshop on Sensor Networks(SN 2010)]

2009-12-15T11:54:00.000-08:00

Our sincere apology if you receive multiple copies of this CFP

***************************************************************
----------------------Call For Paper---------------------------
***************************************************************

The Third International Workshop on Sensor Networks (SN 2010)
in conjunction with
The International Conference on Distributed Computing System
(ICDCS 2010), Genoa, Italy, June 21-25, 2010

URL: http://sest.vsu.edu/~hchen/conference/ICDCS_SN10/

As computing is gradually integrated with every aspect of our
lives and activities, sensing technology is becoming pervasive.
Sensing devices integrated with networking and computing components
can provide continuous inputs from monitoring their surroundings
and even internals. Actuating devices can also be integrated and
become new output devices. The advancing of sensing and networking
technology has created enormous opportunity for developing new
computer systems and applications of societal importance. Thus,
it is not a surprise that sensor networks have attracted many
researchers and practitioners in recent years. Nevertheless,
we believe the sensor networking and their systems and applications
have become a significant force that will reshape the landscape of
computing.

We were motivated to set forth a forum for researchers and
practitioners to exchange ideas in development of sensor networks
and their applications.

The Third International Workshop on Sensor Networks (SN 2010) will
be held in conjunction with the IEEE 30th International Conference
on Distributed Computing System (ICDCS 2010).

The workshop welcomes researchers, practitioners, and students to join
us in the workshop. The areas of interests include but are not limited
to the following:

* Media access control
* Topology discovery and management
* Localization
* Routing
* Network and battery lifetime
* Network coverage and connectivity
* Network scalability
* Security and privacy
* Quality of service
* Mobility management
* Self-organization
* Robustness, faculty-tolerance, self-healing, and reliability
* Two-dimensional and three-dimensional sensor deployment
* Integration of wireless sensor networks and the Internet
* Modeling and simulation
* Sensor network testbed design and development
* Data transportation, aggregation, and visualization
* Network monitoring
* MAC, PHY, routing, and applications of Underwater/Acoustic sensor networks
* MAC, PHY, routing, and applications of Body sensor networks

Highlights:

* Extended versions of selected best papers will be recommended for
possible publication in
the International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNet)

Submission:

Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished papers limited to
10 pages with 2 additional pages at $200 per page. Please see the Author
Information page for submission guidelines in the ICDCS 2010 website.

Important Dates:

Abstract registration: January 15, 2010 (Optional)
Paper Submission: February 10, 2010
Acceptance Notification: March 25, 2010
Workshop Date: June 21, 2010
Conference Dates: June 21-25, 2010

General Co-Chair

Jie Wu, Temple University, USA
Yang Xiao, University of Alabama, USA

Publicity Chair

Jiming Chen, Zhejiang University, China
Liang Zhou, ENSTA-ParisTech, France

Technical Program Committee Co-Chair

Hui Chen, Virginia State University, USA
Ming Li, California State University, Fresno, USA

Technical Program Committee

Habib M. Ammari, Hofstra University, USA
Regina Borges de Araujo, Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil
Chadi Assi, Concordia University, Canada
Jalel Ben-othman, Université de Versailles, France
Abdelmadjid Bouabdallah, Universite de Technologie - Compiegne, France
Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland
Raffaele Bruno, IIT - CNR Pisa, Italy
Sammy Chan, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Ruay-Shiung Chang, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan
Jiming Chen, Zhejiang University, China
Liang Cheng, Lehigh University, USA
Xiuzhen Cheng, George Washington University, USA
Yu Cheng, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Yuanzhu Peter Chen, Memorial University of New Foundland, Canada
Yun Won Chung, Soongsil University, Korea
Jun-Hong Cui, University of Connecticut, USA
Abdelouahid Derhab, Centre de recherche sur l'information scientifique et technique (CERIST), Algeria
Eryk Dutkiewicz, Macquarie University, Australia
Khalil El-Khatib, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
Vasilis Friderikos, King's College London, UK
Mona Ghassemian, King's Collge London, UK
Athanasios Gkelias, Imperial College London, UK
Youssef Iraqi, Khalifa University, UAE
Michael Lauer, Goethe-University of Frankfurt, Germany
Feng Li, Florida Atlantic University, USA
Sunho Lim, South Dakota State University, USA
Chih-Yu Lin, Asia University, Taiwan
Mingyan Liu, University of Michigan, USA
Xiaowen (Jason) Liu, Florida International University, USA
Yunxin Liu, Microsoft Research Asia
Qingming Ma, Juniper Networks
Petri H. Mahonen,RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Peter Martini, University of Bonn, Germany
Ahmed Mehaoua, University of Paris - Descartes, France
Bratislav Milic, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
Geyong Min, University of Bradford, UK
Jelena Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada
Alaa Muqattash, Olympus Communication Technology of America, USA
Mirco Musolesi, University of Cambridge, UK
M. Reza Nakhai, King's College London
Qiang Ni, Brunel University, UK
Jang-Ping Sheu, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Santosh Pandey, Cisco, USA
Susan Rea, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland
Rui M. Rocha, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
Roberto Rojas-Cessa, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Pedro M. Ruiz, University of Murcia, Spain
Salah Sharieh, McMaster University, Canada
Min Song, Old Dominion University, USA
Said Soulhi, Ericsson
Bo Sun, Lamar University, USA
Yutaka Takahashi, Kytoto University, Japan
Jian Tang, Montana State University, USA
Duc Tran, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA
Spyros Vassilaras, Athens Information Technology, Greece
Chonggang Wang, NEC Labs America, USA
Thomas Watteyne, France Telecom, France
Kui Wu, University of Victoria, Canada
Qishi Wu, University of Memphis, USA
Weiyao Xiao, Boston University, USA
Geng Yang, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Lie-Liang Yang, University of Southampton, UK
Shuhui Yang, Purdue University, Calumet, USA
Wenbing Yao, Brunel University, UK
Yinghua Ye, Nokia Simens Networks
Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
Moustafa Youssef, Nile University, Egypt
Hongqiang Zhai, Philips Research North America, USA
Weiyi Zhang, North Dakota State University, USA
Weihua Zhuang, University of Waterloo, Canada

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Re: [Tccc] Improving submissions and all that...

2009-12-15T11:52:00.001-08:00

Steve, all,

Multiple submissions by the same author are not a big deal, I would
guess. Victor, taking Vincent Poor as an example of having close to 100
papers per year is a little an unfortunate example: from my times at
France Telecom I can confirm that, apart from his high academic
standard, he is certainly one of those who keeps a faily close
connection to industry. His output just confirms that he runs the show
efficiently and at high level.

I still believe that charging authors some money *prior* to submission
would significantly aid the situation. I have just checked, I have
handled close to 300 papers this year, from which a large (rejected)
fraction would have likely not been submitted if some initial fee had
been charged. We could also use this money to pay reviewers to do a
better job (without wishing to trigger another discussion on this now).

Mischa.

Bush, Stephen F (GE, Research) wrote:
> I'm curious how many industry research folks are on this list and
> whether their interests are (or should be) included in the discussion.
>
> Pumping out 97 papers in one year ... and if none of it reaches (or will
> reach) society in a meaningful way is the classic example of why papers
> and citations are not generally held in the highest regard (in industry
> at least).
>
> Number of papers and number of citations are nice, but there should be
> an equally weighted measure of meaningful transition to something
> useful, at some point, with the tax payers' money. Something like an
> industry citation of an academic paper counts for 10 university
> citations... i.e. the idea has been found to actually be of value and so
> weighted more.
>
> Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tccc-bounces@lists.cs.columbia.edu
> [mailto:tccc-bounces@lists.cs.columbia.edu] On Behalf Of Joe Touch
> Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 11:59 AM
> To: Victor Walrand
> Cc: tccc@lists.cs.columbia.edu
> Subject: Re: [Tccc] Improving submissions and all that...
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> Hi, all,
>
> Victor Walrand wrote:
>> Take a look at the publication record of Prof. H. Vincent Poor's from
>
>> Princeton for the last 2-3 years in DBLP.
>>
>> 2009 --> 56 papers
>> 2008 --> 97 papers (!!!)
>> 2007 --> 72 papers
>>
>> Is it really possible to author (or co-author) so many papers in a
>> year?!?
>
> I took a quick look. There are many papers with otherwise disjoint
> author lists, and he appears to frequently be the last author. I'm not
> sure how to interpret these results either, though.
>
>> So are people just using his Princeton credentials to get papers
>> accepted?
>
> This presumes that his credentials are a contributing factor in
> publication. Many of his co-authors are also from Princeton, however.
>
>> Isn't it the responsibility of a co-author to at least be responsible
>> for some of the content in a paper?
>
> The IEEE doesn't have such a requirement, except vaguely in its Code of
> Ethics. However, it's useful to note that all authors of a paper share
> equally in all responsibilities of following republication rules and
> anti-plagiarism.
>
> Joe
>
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