From liqian at microsoft.com Mon Mar 3 17:56:06 2008 From: liqian at microsoft.com (Liqian Luo) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 17:56:06 -0800 Subject: [e2e] ACM SenSys 2008 - Call for Papers Message-ID: <715287EC0AFFA842B30C3431B73D1AE14EC98DE7C5@NA-EXMSG-C105.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> We apologize if you received multiple copies of this message! ************************************************************* Paper Submissions Deadline: *April 14, 2008* ************************************************************* Call for Papers ACM SenSys 2008 The 6th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems November 5 - 7, 2008 Raleigh, NC http://sensys.acm.org/2008/ ************************************************************* The 6th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys) is a highly selective, single-track forum for the presentation of research results on systems issues in the area of embedded, networked sensors. Distributed systems based on networked sensors and actuators with embedded computation capabilities enable an instrumentation of the physical world at an unprecedented scale and density, thus enabling a new generation of monitoring and control applications. This conference provides an ideal venue to address the research challenges facing the design, deployment, use, and fundamental limits of these systems. Sensor networks require contributions from many fields, from wireless communication and networking, embedded systems and hardware, distributed systems, data management, and applications, so we welcome cross-disciplinary work. We particularly encourage papers that extend the scope of the conference beyond wireless mote-class sensor networks and we seek contributions from a broad range of sensing-related fields, such as actuator networks, RFID applications, mobile ad-hoc networks, camera networks, and others. We seek technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research results. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Sensor network architecture and protocols - Sensor network algorithms such as localization, routing, time synchronization, clustering, topology control, and coverage control algorithms - Rich sensor systems leveraging RFID, mobile devices (e.g., cell phones), cameras, robotics, etc. - Failure resilience and fault isolation - Analysis of real-world systems and fundamental limits - Energy management - Sensor network planning, provisioning, calibration and deployment - Data, information, and signal processing - Deployment experience and testbeds - Data storage and management - Experimental methods, including measurement, simulation, and emulation infrastructure - Distributed actuation and control - Programming methodology - Applications - Operating systems - Security and privacy - Integration with back-end systems such as web-based information systems, process control, and enterprise software Program Co-Chairs ************************************************************* Margaret Martonosi, Princeton University Adam Wolisz, TU Berlin Sponsored by ************************************************************* ACM SIGCOMM, SIGMOBILE, SIGARCH, SIGOPS, SIGMETRICS and SIGBED; with support from NSF. Important dates ************************************************************* - Paper Registration and Abstract: April 7, 2008, 5pm US Eastern Time - Paper Submission Deadline: April 14, 2008, 5pm US Eastern Time - Notification of Paper Acceptance: July 18, 2008 - Camera Ready Paper Copy: August 25, 2008 All deadlines are firm; we will not honor extensions. Papers must be original, unpublished work not under consideration elsewhere. All submissions will be handled electronically and must be in PDF format, fitting length and formatting guidelines as directed on the submission webpage. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. The review process is double-blind and hence, all submissions must be anonymized. Selected papers of particular merit will be proposed for publication in the ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. For submission details, see the conference web site at http://sensys.acm.org/2008/ Demos ************************************************************* Demonstrations showing innovative research and applications are solicited. SenSys is very interested in demonstrations of technology, platforms, and applications of sensor systems. Abstracts of accepted demos will be published in the SenSys conference proceedings. Submissions from both industry and academia are encouraged. For submission details, see the conference web site. A call for demos with submission dates, etc., will be posted at a later point. Posters ************************************************************* Posters showing exciting early work on sensor systems are solicited. Areas of interest are the same as those listed in the technical call for papers. While the poster need not describe completed work, it should report on research for which at least preliminary results are available. For submission details, see the conference web site. A call for posters with submission dates, etc., will be posted at a later point. Workshops ************************************************************* Workshop proposals are highly encouraged in emerging areas related to sensor networks. A call for workshop proposals will be posted on the SenSys website. Organization ************************************************************* General Chair: Tarek Abdelzaher (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Program Co-Chairs: Margaret Martonosi (Princeton) Adam Wolisz (TU Berlin) Poster Co-Chairs: Philippe Bonnet (U. Copenhagen) Tian He (U Minnesota) Demo Co-Chairs: Kamin Whitehouse (U Virginia) Yunhao Liu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Local Arrangements Chair: Injong Rhee (North Carolina State University) Publicity Co-Chairs: Thiemo Voigt (Swedish Institute of Computer Science) Liqian Luo (Microsoft Research) Yoshito Tobe (Tokyo Denki University) Sponsorship Chair: Matt Welsh (Harvard) Web Chair: Ying Zhang (PARC) Registration Chair: Peter Corke (CSIRO ICT Centre) Finance Chair: Jie Liu (Microsoft Research) Workshop Chair: Andrew Campbell (Dartmouth) Student Award Chair: Sam Madden (MIT) Publication Chair: Joe Polastre (Sentilla) Steering Committee Chair: Andrew Campbell (Dartmouth) Technical Program Committees: Margaret Martonosi, Princeton Univ, PC co-chair Adam Wolisz, TU Berlin, PC co-chair Nirupama Bulusu, Portland State Mark Corner, Umass Rick Han, Colorado Adam Dunkels, SICS Deepak Ganesan, UMass Phil Gibbons, Intel Research, Wiliam Kaiser, UCLA Ralph Kling, Crossbow Koen Langendoen, TU Delft Sam Madden, MIT Lama Nachman, Intel Research Joe Polastre, Sentilla Ram Ramjee, Microsoft Research Kay Roemer, ETH Zurich Paolo Santi, Pisa Andreas Savvides, Yale Univ. Jack Stankovic, Univ. of Virginia Matt Welsh, Harvard Univ. Kamin Whitehouse, Univ. of Virginia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.postel.org/pipermail/end2end-interest/attachments/20080303/2f46d8bb/attachment.html From khan_rahim at rediffmail.com Tue Mar 4 23:01:45 2008 From: khan_rahim at rediffmail.com (rahim khan) Date: 5 Mar 2008 07:01:45 -0000 Subject: [e2e] pointers to pitfalls of using FTP to test network performance? Message-ID: <20080305070145.19736.qmail@f5mail-236-234.rediffmail.com> ? dear sir i need distributed power conrol in CDMA cellular system i m new student i dont know about the simulator please write mail for some code related to power control in cdma cellular system On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 Amy Wang wrote : >Thank you guys for the reply! > > Yes, I am asking about concrete data in supporting the claimed pitfalls in trying to use application performance to measure network performance. > > For example, how much variability introduced into FTP performance due to disk I/O access, and therefore it is not suitable to use FTP to measure network performance (link capacity). > > I have seen a lot of statements like that for ttcp or iperf related website but I haven't seen concrete data. > > thanks, > Amy > > >Joe Touch wrote: Amy, > >Amy Wang wrote: > > I am trying to collect a list of issues using FTP or windows file > > transfer to measure network performance in local area network setting. I > > would appreciate if anyone can guide me to the proper papers and > > internet links, > >If you're trying to measure packet performance, you might try a packet >generation tool, like netperf or iperf: >http://staff.science.uva.nl/~jblom/gigaport/tools/test_tools.html > >If you are trying to measure the performance of transferring a file, FTP >is a reasonable choice. Testing from a Windows system is useful when >that's the application you're trying to measure, but you'll probably get >better results from FTP - even to Windows hosts. > >However, I think you're asking more about the pitfalls in trying to use >application performance to measure network performance, which basically >translates into "how do I make my apps use the network well" - for that >purpose, Matt Mathis' work at PSC would be useful to consult: >http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/tcptune/ > >Joe > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.postel.org/pipermail/end2end-interest/attachments/20080305/6f5f2e06/attachment-0001.html From nanditad at stanford.edu Thu Mar 6 10:40:07 2008 From: nanditad at stanford.edu (Nandita Dukkipati) Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 10:40:07 -0800 Subject: [e2e] Call for Participation. Stanford Workshop on 'The Future of TCP: Train-Wreck or Evolution?' Message-ID: <91a1ede80803061040r6f8676a3k595bd48f8371c1f7@mail.gmail.com> THE FUTURE OF TCP: TRAIN-WRECK OR EVOLUTION? http://yuba.stanford.edu/trainwreck/ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Stanford University, CA, USA 1 April, 2008 IMPORTANT DATES REGISTRATION DEADLINE 17 MARCH, 2008 Spurred on by a widespread belief that TCP is showing its age and needs replacing - and a deeper understanding of the dynamics of congestion control - the research community has brought forward many new congestion control algorithms. There has been lots of debate about the relative merits and demerits of the new schemes; and a standardization effort is under way in the IETF. But before the next congestion control mechanism is deployed, it will need to be deployed widely in operating systems and - in some cases - in switches and routers too. This will be a long road, requiring the buy-in of many people: Researchers, product developers and business leaders too. Our own experience of proposing new congestion control algorithms has been met with the challenge: "Show me the compelling need for a new congestion control mechanisms?", and "What will really happen to the Internet (and my business) if we keep TCP just the way it is?" As a community, we need examples that are simple to understand, and demonstrate a compelling need for change. We call them the "Train wreck scenarios". Examples might show that distribution of video over wireless in the home will come to a halt without new algorithms. Or that P2P traffic will bring the whole network crashing down. Or that huge, high-performance data-centers need new algorithms. Whatever your favorite example, we believe that if we are collectively armed with a handful of mutually agreed examples, it will be much easier to make a business case for change. Or put another way, if we can't articulate compelling examples to industry leaders, then is the cost and risk of change worth it? The goal of the workshop is to identify a handful of really compelling demonstrations of the impending train-wreck. The outcome will be a set of canonical examples that we will use to persuade industry of the need for change. The whole purpose of the workshop it to focus on the problem, not the solutions. We are most definitely not interested in your favorite scheme, or ours. We will video the entire workshop and all the demonstrations, and make it publicly available on the Internet. We will make any proceedings and talks available too. The goal is to open up the demonstrations for public scrutiny and feedback after the event. The event is hosted by the Stanford Clean Slate Program and local arrangements will be made by the Stanford Computer Forum. The workshop has received offers of support and funding from Cisco Systems and Microsoft. The workshop will feature 8 demos, and 3 invited talks. You can find the agenda and the registration information at - http://yuba.stanford.edu/trainwreck/ *Please distribute to your research or product groups and others who would be interested in attending* From claypool at cs.wpi.edu Wed Mar 12 12:22:02 2008 From: claypool at cs.wpi.edu (Mark Claypool) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:22:02 -0400 Subject: [e2e] NetGames 2008 CFP Message-ID: <18392.11610.7822.529827@newsaagar.wpi.edu> ++++++++++++++++++++ NetGames 2008 Call for Papers ++++++++++++++++++++ Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games: NetGames 2008 October 21st and 22nd, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA http://netgames2008.cs.wpi.edu/ OVERVIEW ======== The 7th Annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games (NetGames 2008) will be held in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA on October 21-22, 2008. The sponsor is Worcester Polytechnic Institute with cooperation from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM SIGMM and ACM SIGCOMM). The NetGames workshop brings together researchers and developers from academia and industry to present new research in understanding networked games of today and in enabling the next generation of networked games of tomorrow. Submissions are sought in any area related to networked games. In particular, topics of interest include (but are not limited to) game-related work in: * Network measurement, usage studies and traffic modeling * System benchmarking, performance evaluation, and provisioning * Latency issues and lag compensation techniques * Cheat detection and prevention * Operating system enhancements, service platforms, and middleware * Peer-to-peer and scalable system architectures * Network protocol design * Mobile and resource-constrained systems * Augmented physical systems * User and usability studies, Group dynamics * Quality of service and content adaptation * Artificial intelligence * Security, authentication, accounting and digital rights management * Networks of sensors and actuators * Impact of online game growth on network infrastructure * Messaging and conferencing in games * Input devices, haptics and accessibility * Results that reproduce (or refute) previous published results Please feel free to contact the conference chair, Mark Claypool (claypool at cs.wpi.edu), with questions as to whether the scope of a particular paper is suitable for NetGames. SUBMISSIONS =========== Submissions should be full papers with a limit of 6 pages (inclusive of all figures, references and appendices). Authors must submit their papers in PDF and use single-spaced, double column ACM conference format. Reviews will be single-blind, so authors must include their names and affiliations on the first page. Papers will be judged on their relevance, technical content and correctness, and the clarity of presentation of the research. Papers should not be under review at another venue nor previously published elsewhere. Submission of a paper for review will be considered an agreement that at least one author will register and attend if the paper is accepted. ORGANIZATION ============ WORKSHOP CHAIR: Mark Claypool (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Grenville Armitage (Swinburne University of Technology) Surendar Chandra (Notre Dame) Kajal Claypool (MIT Lincoln Labs) Wu-chang Feng (Portland State University) Wu-chi Feng (Portland State University) David Finkel (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) Carsten Griwodz (University of Oslo) Paal Halvorsen (University of Oslo) Brian Levine (University of Massachusetts) John Miller (Microsoft Research) Travis Schluessler (Intel Corporation) Anees Shaikh (IBM Research) Ooi Wei Tsang (National University of Singapore) Lars Wolf (Technical University Braunschweig) KEY DATES ========= Paper registration: May 4, 2008 (23:59 GMT) Paper submission: May 11, 2008 (23:59 GMT) Author notification: July 6, 2008 Camera ready: August 17, 2008 Workshop: October 21-22, 2008 ++++++++++++++++++++ NetGames 2008 Call for Papers ++++++++++++++++++++ From eugeneng at cs.rice.edu Tue Mar 18 07:26:07 2008 From: eugeneng at cs.rice.edu (T. S. Eugene Ng) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:26:07 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [e2e] CFP: Internet Network Management Workshop (INM) 2008 Message-ID: ======================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS Internet Network Management Workshop (INM) 2008 Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Communications Society Orlando, Florida October 19, 2008 http://www.cs.rice.edu/~eugeneng/inm08 ======================================================================= In many ways, computer network management remains the least understood aspect of computer networking. There is a lack of well-established principles for guiding the design of networks for manageability. There is also a lack of scientific theories for analyzing the state of a network and for the evolution of network state. The Internet Network Management (INM) workshop provides an opportunity to elevate participants' collective experience with IP networks into ideas, principles, and theories that can be leveraged in today's networks, or can be carried forward into the clean-slate design of future networks that intrinsically support management, rather than treating management as a bolted-on afterthought. The INM workshop seeks original and thought provoking ideas, case studies, experimental results, position papers, and clean-slate designs. Submissions concerning special-purpose networks, such as VoIP, content distribution, or mobile wireless networks are welcome. The workshop will provide a forum for the exchange of experience and work-in-progress discussions. Topics of Interest: * new abstractions for network configuration management * new control plane architectures * data plane mechanisms to support management * autonomous network management systems with predictive/proactive behaviors * ensuring stability and coherent behavior in distributed and/or autonomous systems * management of backbone, access, enterprise and home networks and network-based applications * techniques and experiments for evaluating network management architectures * experimental platforms that support network management research * comparisons between IP network management and ATM, SONET, or telephony management * defining and enforcing network borders * automatic and adaptive control of networks * cross-layer interactions, including IP/optical or applications/IP * hitless planned maintenance * fault and performance management Important Dates: Abstract Registration Deadline: 5:00pm EDT, June 6, 2008 Paper Submission Deadline: 5:00pm EDT, June 13, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: August 6, 2008 Camera Ready Deadline: September 5, 2008 Workshop Date: October 19, 2008 Program Chairs: Timothy G. Griffin (University of Cambridge) T. S. Eugene Ng (Rice University) Steering Committee: Albert Greenberg (Microsoft Research) Chuck Kalmanek (AT&T Labs) David Maltz (Microsoft Research) Richard Mortier (Vipadia) Geoffrey Xie (Naval Postgraduate School) Hui Zhang (Carnegie Mellon University)