From peizhang at cmu.edu Sat Apr 19 20:43:02 2014 From: peizhang at cmu.edu (Pei Zhang) Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 20:43:02 -0700 Subject: [e2e] =?iso-8859-1?q?Call_for_Papers=3A_ExtremeCom_2014_-_The_Gal?= =?iso-8859-1?q?=E1pagos_Expedition_=28due_in_2_weeks=29?= Message-ID: <> Dear Colleagues, I would like to bring your attention at the ExtremeCom 2014 submission deadline of May 4th, 2014 ****************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS AND DEMOS Extreme Conference on Communication and Computing - The Gal?pagos Expedition ExtremeCom 2014 11-16 August, Gal?pagos Islands, Ecuador http://www.extremecom.org/ ****************************************************************** Important dates --------------- ---- Submission deadline: May 4, 2014 Notification of acceptance: May 26, 2014 Early registration deadline: June 7, 2014 Registration deadline: June 15, 2014 Conference dates: August 11-16, 2014 (tentative dates) ****************************************** Scope ------- The Extreme Conference on Communication and Computing (ExtremeCom) brings together researchers and practitioners in areas related to communications in rural, remote or other extreme environments, and computing in extreme operating conditions such as extreme temperatures and energy constraints, extreme quantities ("big data"), extremely large-scale systems, and extreme levels of threat and uncertainty, in order to gain experience and insight into the challenges that such environments pose for the network and the users. We welcome a broad range of topics concerning both technical and economical aspects, for example wireless communication, mobile computing, low power devices and protocols, delay tolerant networks and other networking paradigms, distributed computing paradigms, big data, distributed systems, cloud computing, business and services models, user experiences and web applications. Researches addressing computing challenges in general mobile environments (even not completely extreme) are also welcomed by the conference. Following on from the success of ExtremeCom 2009 - The Midnight Sun Expedition in Laponia, Sweden, ExtremeCom 2010 - The Himalayan Expedition in Dharamsala, India, ExtremeCom 2011 - The Amazon Expedition in Manaus, Brazil, ExtremeCom 2012 - The Swiss Alps Winter Expedition in Zurich, Switzerland, and ExtremeCom 2013 - The Volcanic Expedition in the Eyjafjallaj?kull Volcano region in Iceland, we present the ExtremeCom 2014 edition: The Gal?pagos Expedition. The conference will start with 3 days of excursions in the amazing nature of the Gal?pagos Islands. Along the way, participants will get to see and experience the islands and their plant and animal life, both above and beneath the surface of the ocean. The immersion will not only give a better idea of both the technical and user requirements of such a harsh environment, but it will also give many opportunities for informal research discussions between the participants. Participants that have their own software for scenarios like this will also, to as great an extent as possible, be encouraged to test and demonstrate it within this environment. After the excursions, there will be two days of paper presentations and demos. Focus will still be on informal research discussions, with the hope that the field experience will give participants the ability to discuss the topics in a new light. ***************** Submission Guidelines --------------------------- Participants should submit 6 page papers about ideas and visions about the topics of the conference or demo proposals to be shown during the conference. Visionary and thought-provoking papers that are likely to generate much discussion during the conference are especially solicited. The aim of the conference is to maintain an informal environment, where new research ideas can be discussed and developed. We also hope to have a demo session where participants can show their implementations and systems. If you want to show a demo, please submit a 2 page demo proposal using the same submission system as for conference papers. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. A selected set of top submissions will be fast-tracked to a special issue in a reputed SCI/E journal. We only accept PDF files, no greater than 6 pages in length (2 pages for the demos), including text, figures and references. Manuscripts should use the ACM templates (for LaTeX, please use Option 2 files), with 9pt fonts. Topics for the conference include, but are not limited to: Testbeds for large-scale sustainable testing of moobile communication systems Real deployments of networks in extreme environments Business and service models for networks in rural, remote, and other challenging environments Delay tolerant networking User experience research Big data research such as mining and modeling of mobility and social network Cloud computing for extreme scalability Mesh networks and sensor networks Low-power and intermittent-power protocols Mechanisms for emergency and urgent communications Distributed computing for mobile environments Networked applications and services Operating system and middleware support for mobile computing and networking Security, privacy, and trustworthiness of extreme communications Underwater networking Robotic communications and mobile augmented reality Due to logistics, the number of participants will be limited. Priority will be given to authors of papers and those who register first. **************************************************************************** * Organizers --------------- General co-chairs: Pan Hui, HKUST, Hong Kong / T-Labs, Germany Anders Lindgren, SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden Local conference operations chair: Carlos Herrera, Escuela Polit?cnica Nacional, Ecuador TPC vice-chairs: Jorge S? Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal Pei Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Sponsorship co-chairs: Filipe Mota Pinto, Instituto Polit?cnica Leiria, Portugal Carlos Egas, Escuela Polit?cnica Nacional, Ecuador Publicity chair: Fernando Ramos, University of Lisbon, Portugal Web chair: Fehmi Ben Abdesslem, SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden Technical Program Committee: Yahel Ben-David, University of California - Berkeley, USA Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal Elwyn Davies, Folly Consulting, UK Michael Doering, Bosch Research, Germany Stephen Farrell, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Marco Fiore, INSA Lyon/INRIA, France Roy Friedman, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Paulo Gil, University of New Lisbon, Portugal Sumi Helal, University of Florida, USA Bob Iannucci, Carnegie Mellon University SV, USA Christine Julien, University of Texas at Austin, USA Trevor Pering, Google, USA James Kwok, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Franck Legendre, Uepaa AG, Switzerland Marimuthu Palaniswami, Univ. Melbourne, Australia Andr? Rodrigues, University of Coimbra, Portugal Joel Rodrigues, University of Beira Interior, Portugal Anthony Rowe, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Milan Simek, University of Brno, Czech Republic J?rg Ott, Aalto University, Finland Kevin I-Kai Wang, Univ. Auckland, New Zealand Klaus Wehrle, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Lars Wolf, TU Braunschweig, Germany Lin Zhang, University of Tsinghua, China Steering Committee: Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK Avri Doria, Lule? University of Technology, Sweden Tristan Henderson, University of St. Andrews, UK Pan Hui, HKUST, Hong Kong / T-Labs, Germany Anders Lindgren, SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden **************************************************************************** From erozner1 at gmail.com Mon Apr 28 12:08:59 2014 From: erozner1 at gmail.com (Eric Rozner2) Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 14:08:59 -0500 Subject: [e2e] IEEE LANMAN Call for Participation Message-ID: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN) http://www.ieee-lanman.org/ DEADLINE APPROACHING Early Registration: April 28, 2014 CONFERENCE DATES May 21-23, 2014 Reno, NV USA DESCRIPTION IEEE LANMAN has an established tradition as a forum for presenting and discussing the latest technical advances in local and metropolitan area networking. Continuing that tradition, IEEE LANMAN 2014 invites cutting-edge papers spanning both theory and experimentation. Papers are solicited in all areas of networking, but in keeping with the current research trend, this workshop?s central theme is data center networking. The intimate single-track session format of the workshop encourages stimulating exchanges between researchers. The workshop is expected to be a forum for discussion of new and interdisciplinary ideas on architectures, service models, pricing, and performance. Speculative and potentially transformative ideas are particularly encouraged, as are studies reporting measurements from real-life networks and testbeds. Papers are solicited on any LANMAN topic including, but not limited to, the following: PROGRAM http://www.ieee-lanman.org/#program KEYNOTES Puneet Sharma from HP Labs Sudipta Sengupta from Microsoft Research Vishal Misra from Columbia University AREAS OF INTEREST Novel data center network architectures Data center network virtualization Energy-efficiency in data centers Routing and transport protocols in data center networks Software defined data center networks Data center network pricingResource allocation in data center networks Performance measurement and modeling of data centersInter-data center network issues Reliable data center networks Broadband wireless access, including WiMAX, LTE WiFi: roaming services, architectures, and performance Metropolitan and residential networks and architectures including Ethernet in the first mile, EPONs, FTTx, etc. Network management related to edge networks Heterogeneous wireless and ad-hoc networks Local-area and metropolitan-area network security LAN-based and MAN-based applications (gaming, distributed computing, media distribution to and in the home, enterprise applications, ambient technology, wearable-computing) Impact of sensors everywhere including homes POLICY All IEEE LANMAN 2014 technical papers and posters must be associated with an author registration at the full rate. For authors presenting multiple papers/posters, one full registration is valid for up to three papers/posters. IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper/poster from distribution after the workshop (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper/poster is not presented at the workshop.