Feature topic on “QoE management in emerging multimedia services”

IMPORTANT DATES

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 20, 2011
NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: January 15, 2012
FINAL MANUSCRIPT: March 10, 2012
PUBLICATION DATE: April 2012

“QOE MANAGEMENT IN EMERGING MULTIMEDIA SERVICES”

The realization of the paradigm of Internet anywhere, anytime and any-device and the diffusion of end-user multimedia devices with powerful and user-friendly capabilities such as smartphones, tablets pc, mobile gaming terminals and ebooks, are leading to the proliferation of a significant amount of emerging multimedia services: immersive environments, mobile online gaming, 3D virtual world, book/newspaper consumption, social networking, IPTV applications, just to cite a few. Some of these services have already reached a major market success, such as the case of newspaper/magazine mobile readers and smartphone multimedia apps. Their success could be achieved especially because a user-centered approach has been followed to design the whole process of content production, service activation, content consumption, service management and updating. Indeed, the quality of the user experience, the perceived simplicity of accessing and interacting with systems and services, and the effective and acceptable
hiding of the complexity of underlying technologies are determining factors for success or failure of these novel services, as well as graceful degradation. The management of the Quality of Experience (QoE) is then undoubtedly a crucial concept in the deployment of future successful services, and it is straightforward to be understood as well complex and stimulating to be implemented in real systems. The complexity is mainly due to the difficulty of its modeling, evaluation, and translation in what for more than a decade we have been mainly dealing with (partially in its substitution), that is the Quality of Services (QoS). Whereas QoS can be now easily measured, monitored and controlled at both the networking and application layers and
at the end-system and network sides, the quality of experience is something that is still quite intricate to be managed. The practice in evaluating the QoS can be exploited in evaluating the QoE, but it is just a starting point for a complete QoE management procedure, which should encompass at least the following activities: monitoring of the experience of the user when consuming the service, adapting the provisioning of the content on the basis of the varying context conditions (e.g. network status, user behavior, user
profile, environment), predicting potential experience level degradation, and masking quality degradation due to abrupt system changes. To have a complete control of the final user experience, all these tasks need to be performed in a coordinated way and their real effectiveness depends on the validity of the adopted user perception model.

Objectives The purpose of this special issue is to present to the magazine’s audience a concise, tutorial oriented reference of the state-of-the-art, current and future research challenges and trends on the management of QoE in emerging multimedia services. To achieve this goal the special issue seeks original research and review papers that survey and present new ideas, leading-edge research prototype development, trials and early deployment, and performance evaluations in the following areas: * Definition of QoE (Quality of Experience) for emerging services * Relationship between QoE and QoS
* Architectures for the management of the QoE in emerging multimedia services
* Offline and online prediction and evaluation of QoE * QoE-oriented multimedia traffic management * QoE-oriented multimedia source and channel coding * Testbeds for performance evaluation of QoE-oriented systems
* Middleware solutions for QoE management * Adaptive and self-configuring solutions for QoE management * Advanced, scalable service-aware QoE-oriented traffic control and management
* QoE management in heterogeneous networks

Prospective authors should follow the IEEE Communications Magazine manuscript format described in the Authors Guidelines
(http://dl.comsoc.org/livepubs/ci1/info/sub_guidelines.html). All articles to be considered for publication must be submitted through the IEEE Manuscript Central (http://commag-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com). Guest Editors:
* Luigi Atzori, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, Italy
* Chang Wen Chen, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo, NJ, USA
* Tasos Dagiuklas, Technological Educational Institute of Mesolonghi, Greece * Hong Ren Wu, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia

Lisbon, Portugal 29th June 2011

* Important Dates:
- 31 March 2011: Submission of workshop paper
- 18 April 2011: Notification of acceptance
- 2 May 2011: Submission of camera-ready paper
- 29 June 2011: Workshop at EuroITV 2011 in Lisbon

Workshop web site: http://dcti.iscte.pt/events/qoemcs2011/

In recent years, it has been realized that the success of multimedia services or applications relies on the analysis of the entire user experience (UX). The relevance of this paradigm ranges from IPTV to video-on-demand systems offering professional TV and user-generated content that is consumed and produced ubiquitously. To obtain a pleasurable and ubiquitous user experience a large amount of aspects have to be taken into account. Major challenges in this context include the identification of relevant UX factors and the quantification of their in influence on Quality of Experience (QoE).

In the particular scenario of ubiquitous production and consumption of content, context awareness and assessment of users’ expectations play an essential role. This is further justified by the emergence of new multimedia
enhancement techniques, notably 3DTV and Free Viewpoint.
In the support of ubiquitous QoE the acquired knowledge on the context and on identified parameters affecting users’ experience could be used to improve multimedia applications and their associated content delivery mechanisms.

* Workshop objectives
The objective of this workshop consists in collecting and developing know-ledge on the following three main topics defining the session structure
of the workshop:

- Context awareness for multimedia applications (video on demand, live broadcast,
3DTV, IPTV, social aspects, sensors, GPS, semantics, energy
efficiency)

- Content and context aware quality measurements (user generated& professional
content, live& on demand)

- Assessing and supporting QoE in ubiquitous scenarios
(constant and variable in influence factors).

* Research topics
The central research question of the workshop consists in determining key elements (including content and context information) for assessing and supporting QoE ubiquitously: These questions include, but are not limited to
the following topics:

- QoE in ubiquitous scenarios
- Context awareness
- Subj/ective and objective quality evaluation in the context of use, context-aware solutions
(situation specificity, interactivity, user-generated& professional content)
- Interplay between ubiquitous delivery and QoE support – 3D Multimedia and Free ViewPoint
- QoE support for interactive multimedia

* Submission
Workshop papers should not exceed a maximum length of four pages and follow the ACM Style Guidelines
- Word Template:
http://www.euroitv2011.org/images/stories/euroitv_pubform.doc – Instructions when using latex:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates
Please send your workshop paper to:shelley.buchinger@univie.ac.at

* Publication
Workshop contributions will be published in the Adjunct Proceedings of the EuroITV.

* Organizing Committee
- Shelley Buchinger, University of Vienna (AUT)
- Rui Jorge Lopes, Instituto de Telecomunicações and ISCTE-IUL (POR) – Satu Jumisko-Pyykkö, Tampere University of Technology (FIN) – Hans-Jürgen Zepernick, Blekinge Institute of Technology (SWE)

* Technical Program Committee (tentative list)
- Manora Caldera, Curtin University of Technology (AUS)
- Touradj Ebrahimi, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH) – Markus Fiedler, Blekinge Institute of Technology (SWE) – Helmut Hlavacs, University of Vienna (AUT)
- Harilaos G. Koumaras, University of Bordeaux (FR)
- Maulana Kusuma, Gunadarma University (ID)
- Hendrik Knoche, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH) – Patrick Le Callet, Université de Nantes (FR)
- Andreas Mauthe, Lancaster University (UK)
- Maria Paula Queluz, Instituto de Telecomunicações and IST (POR) – Bijan Rohani, Phybit, (SG)
- Burkhard Stiller, Universität Zürich (CH)
- Nitin Suresh, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)
- Junyong You, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NO)

4th Int. ICST Conf. on MOBILe Wireless
MiddleWARE, Operating Systems, and Applications
June 22-24, 2011 – London, UK

ANNUAL THEME
Towards Mobile Middleware Enablers for Seamless Service Provisioning http://www.mobilware.org/index.shtml

Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: February 1, 2011
Notification of Acceptance: April 15, 2011
Camera Ready Deadline: May 15, 2011
Conference Date: June 22-24, 2011

SCOPE OF CONFERENCE
The advances in wireless communication technologies and the proliferation of mobile devices have enabled the realization of intelligent environments for people to communicate with each other, interact with
information-processing devices, and receive a wide range of mobile wireless services through
various types of networks and systems everywhere, anytime. A key enabler of these pervasive and
ubiquitous connectivity environments is the advancement of software technology in various
communication sectors, ranging from communication middleware and operating systems to networking protocols and applications.

TOPICS
The conference solicits original technical papers, not previously published and not currently under review for publication elsewhere.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- New middleware concepts for mobile devices
- Cross platform application development
- Open terminal and network APIs
- End-to-end architectures for seamless service provisioning and deployment – Integration of heterogeneous wired and wireless networks and frequency bands – Interworking of mobile applications in mobile cloud environments – QoS awareness, adaptation, and fault-tolerance of mobile services – Opportunistic and delay-tolerant mobile and wireless networking – Location-aware and context-aware networking and computing
- Energy-efficient applications and services and OS air interface management – Mobility and handoff management
- Location and tracking supports and services
- Human-computer interface and portable 3D graphics for mobile devices – Novel applications and communication protocols
for wireless sensor networks, vehicular networks, and home networks – Modeling, simulation, and performance
evaluation of mobile wireless systems and services
- Trustworthiness, security, and privacy of mobile and wireless systems

PUBLICATION
Accepted papers will be published by
Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes of the
Institute for Computer Sciences, Social
Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
(LNICST) series. The proceedings will be
available in both soft and hard copies by Springer.

SPECIAL ISSUES
Selected high-quality papers will be invited to a
Special Issue of a prestigious journal in the
area, probably Springer Mobile Networks and
Applications (MONET) and/or Elsevier Pervasive
and Mobile Computing (PMC) Journals approval pending.

Steering Committee
Paolo Bellavista
University of Bologna (Italy)
Carl Chang
Iowa State University (USA)
Imrich Chlamtac
Create-Net (Italy)
Thomas Magedanz
Technical University Berlin (Germany)

Organizing Committee
General Chairs
Vladimir Getov
University of Westminster (UK)
Martin Sauter
WirelessMoves (Germany)

TPC Chairs
Stephan Steglich
Fraunhofer FOKUS (Germany)
Nalini Venkatasubramanian
University of California, Irvine (USA)
Qinghua Zheng
Xian Jiaotong University (P.R. China)

Publicity Chairs
Carlos Becker Westphall
Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil)
Panagiotis Chountas
University of Westminster (UK)

Web Chair
Carlo Giannelli
University of Bologna (Italy)

Conference Coordinator
Gergely Nagy
ICST

Local Chair
Alexander Bolotov
University of Westminster (UK)

Technical Program Committee
Allott Nick
Wholesale Application Community (UK)
Bonnin Jean-Marie
Telecom Bretagne(France)
Borcea Cristian
New Jersey Institute of Technology (USA)
Boussard Mathieu
Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs France (France)
Bu Jiajun
Zhejiang University (China)
Budimir Djuradj
University of Westminster (UK)
Caceres Marcos
Opera (Norway)
Cai Ying
Iowa State University (USA)
Cao Jiannong
Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HongKong)
Cheng Liang
Lehigh University (USA)
Dan Grigoras
University College Cork (Republic of Ireland)
Demeure Isabelle
Telecom Paris (France)
Dixit Sudhir
HP (India)
Dragehorn Olaf
University Kassel (Germany)
Economou Daphne
University of Westminster (UK)
Faeth Matthias
TNO (The Netherlands)
Fasbender Andreas
Ericsson (Germany)
Fu Xinwen
University of Massachusetts Lowell (USA)
Fuhrhop Christian
Fraunhofer FOKUS (Germany)
Gavras Anastasius
Eurescom (Germany)
Georgalas Nektarios
British Telecom (UK)
Giambene Giovanni
Università degli Studi di Siena (Italy)
Gunes Mesut
FU Berlin (Germany)
H. Glitho Roch
Concordia University (Canada)
Hesselman Cristian
Novay (The Netherlands)
Hirschfeld Robert
Hasso-Plattner-Institut Potsdam (Germany)
Holtel Stefan
flensburg.school for Advanced Business Research (Germany)
Hong Feng
Ocean University of China (China)
Jaokar Ajit
Futuretext (UK)
Ji Yang
BUPT (China)
Kanter Theo
Mid Sweden University (Sweden)
Kernchen Ralf
University of Surrey (UK)
Koolwaaij Johan
Novay (The Netherlands)
Krussel Steffen
Deutsche Telekom (Germany)
Ku Wei-Shinn
Auburn University (USA)
Kurze Martin
Deutsche Telekom (Germany)
Lachmund Sven
DOCOMO Euro-Labs(Germany)
Langendoerfer Peter
IHP Microelectronics (Germany)
Li Xiuqi (Suze)
University of North Carolina (USA)
Li Yan
Huawei (China)
Li Xiaolin
University of Florida (USA)
Lohi Mahi
University of Westminster (UK)
Minerva Roberto
Telecom Italia – Future Centre (Italy)
Moessner Klaus
University of Surrey (UK)
Nadeem Tamer
Old Dominion University (USA)
Nord Christian
Sony Ericsson (Sweden)
Ohsaki Hiroyuki
Osaka University (Japan)
Paul Andre
Fraunhofer FOKUS (Germany)
Quantz Joachim
ART+COM (Germany)
Shikh-Bahaei Mohammad R.
King’s College London (UK)
Raggett Dave
W3C (UK)
Ravi Nishkam
NEC Labs (USA)
Roman Gruia-Catalin
Washington University in St. Louis (USA)
Salden Alfons
Almende (The Netherlands)
Schwaiger Roland
Deutsche Telekom (Germany)
Sun Weiwei
Fudan University (China)
Taheri Javid
The University of Sydney (Australia)
Tao Xianping
Nanjing University (China)
Tarczynski Andrzej
University of Westminster (UK)
Tripathi Anand
University of Minnesota (USA)
Wagner Matthias
DOCOMO Euro-Labs (Germany)
Wang Xiaodong
National University of Defence Technology (China)
Xue Guangtao
Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China)
Zhu Yanmin
Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China)
Zambonelli Franco
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy)

Web site:http://www.euvip.org

This third edition of the workshop follows up on the success achieved by theprevious i.e. VISPA 2008 and EUVIP 2010. These latter attracted prominent speakers from around the world and provided a framework for fruitful discussions on different applications of signal and image processing techniques for emerging and challenging problems. Carrying on this tradition EUVIP 2011, will offer a forum for researchers and industrials to exchange ideas and discuss the recent advances in perceptually-inspired techniques for image and video processing with application to multimedia, visual pattern recognition, surveillance, and visual information security. This event will be composed by several invited senior talks, and technical papers presentations dealing with state of the art and new advances in visual information modeling, analysis, processing and communication methods. The workshop aims to promote exchanges between established researchers as well as to provide graduate students with an opportunity to have substantive interaction with experts in the field.

Topics of particular interest to EUVIP 2011 include, but are not limited to:

Computational Vision Models Video Analysis
Image and Video Quality Assessment Visual Tracking
Image and Video Enhancement Visual Data Mining
Color Image Understanding Biometrics
Color Image Processing Perceptual Digital Watermarking
Perceptual Image& Video Retrieval Perceptual coding
Multimedia Communication Multiview Processing

Following the tradition of previous successful EUVIP workshops, a PhDstudent poster session will be organized. For further information, please go to “Student Poster Session” at http://www.euvip.org

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: 15 February 2011
Notification of acceptance: 31 March 2011
Camera Ready Deadline: 15 April 2011

Paper submission:

LENGTH: You are allowed a total of 6 pages (4 miminum) for your document.This is the maximum number of pages that will be accepted, including all figures, tables, and references.

Double Blind Review: EUVIP2011 reviewing is double blind, in that authors donot know the names of the area chair/reviewers of their papers, and area chairs/reviewers do not know the names of the authors. Avoid providing information that may identify the authors in the acknowledgments (e.g., co-workers and grant IDs). Avoid providing links to websites that identify the authors. Violation of any of these guidelines will lead to rejection without review.

Please look at “paper submission link” at http://www.euvip.org

Technical Committee.

T. Aach (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
K. Abed-Meraim (Telecom Paris Tech., France)
D. Aboutajdine (Univ-Mohammed V, Morrocco)
A. Amira (Brunel University,UK)
S. Battiato (Università di Catania, Italy)
F. Battisti (University Roma Tre, Italy)
M. Bennamoun (Perth, Australia)
A. Bennaza (Sup?Com, Tunis, Tunisia)
J. Benois-Pineau (University Bordeaux, France)
B. Boashash (University of Qatar, Qatar)
A. Bouridane (Northumbria University, UK)
M. Cagnazzo (Telecom Paris Tech., France)
S. Colonnese, (Università ?La Sapienza?Roma, Italy)
F. Dufaux (EPFL, Switzerland)
I. Farup (Gjøvik University, Norway)
M. Gabbouj (TUT, Tampere, Finland)
J. Y. Hardenberg (Gjøvik University, Norway)
L. Karam (University of Arizona, USA)
D. Khalifa (Université Evry Val d’Essonne , France)
P. Le Callet (Polytech?Nantes, France)
M. Mitrea (Telecom SudParis, France)
A. Neri (University Roma Tre, Italy)
A. Ouamri (USTO, Oran, Algerira)
S. L. Phung (University of Wollongong, Australia)
T. Pun (Unversity of Geneva, Switzerland)
H. Saadane (University Poitiers, France)
A. Serir (USTHB, Algiers, Algeria)
K. Seshadrinathan (Intel Corporation in Phoenix, AZ, USA)
S. Susstrünk (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)
F. H-C Tivive (University of Wollongong, Australia)
E. Viennet (Université Paris 13, France)
H.R. Wu (RMIT, Australia)

Lisbon, Portugal 29th June 2011

* Important Dates:
- 31 March 2011: Submission of workshop paper
- 18 April 2011: Notification of acceptance
- 2 May 2011: Submission of camera-ready paper
- 29 June 2011: Workshop at EuroITV 2011 in Lisbon

Workshop web site: http://dcti.iscte.pt/events/qoemcs2011/

In recent years, it has been realized that the success of multimedia services or applications relies on the analysis of the entire user experience (UX). The relevance of this paradigm ranges from IPTV to video-on-demand systems offering professional TV and user-generated content that is consumed and produced ubiquitously. To obtain a pleasurable and ubiquitous user experience a large amount of aspects have to be taken into account. Major challenges in this context include the identification of relevant UX factors and the quantification of their in influence on Quality of Experience (QoE).

In the particular scenario of ubiquitous production and consumption of content, context awareness and assessment of users’ expectations play an essential role. This is further justified by the emergence of new multimedia
enhancement techniques, notably 3DTV and Free Viewpoint.
In the support of ubiquitous QoE the acquired knowledge on the context and on identified parameters affecting users’ experience could be used to improve multimedia applications and their associated content delivery mechanisms.

* Workshop objectives
The objective of this workshop consists in collecting and developing know-ledge on the following three main topics defining the session structure
of the workshop:

- Context awareness for multimedia applications (video on demand, live broadcast, 3DTV, IPTV, social aspects, sensors, GPS, semantics, energy efficiency)

- Content and context aware quality measurements (user generated& professional content, live& on demand)

- Assessing and supporting QoE in ubiquitous scenarios (constant and variable in influence factors).

* Research topics
The central research question of the workshop consists in determining key elements (including content and context information) for assessing and supporting QoE ubiquitously: These questions include, but are not limited to
the following topics:

- QoE in ubiquitous scenarios
- Context awareness
- Subj/ective and objective quality evaluation in the context of use, context-aware solutions
(situation specificity, interactivity, user-generated& professional content)
- Interplay between ubiquitous delivery and QoE support – 3D Multimedia and Free ViewPoint
- QoE support for interactive multimedia

* Submission
Workshop papers should not exceed a maximum length of four pages and follow the ACM Style Guidelines
(http://webhotel2.tut.fi/emmi/euroitv2010/node/37).
Please send your workshop paper to:shelley.buchinger@univie.ac.at

* Publication
Workshop contributions will be published in the EuroITV proceedings.

* Technical Program Committee (tentative list)
- Manora Caldera, Curtin University of Technology (AUS)
- Touradj Ebrahimi, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH) – Markus Fiedler, Blekinge Institute of Technology (SWE) – Helmut Hlavacs, University of Vienna (AUT)
- Maulana Kusuma, Gunadarma University (ID)
- Hendrik Knoche, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH) – Patrick Le Callet, Université de Nantes (FR)
- Andreas Mauthe, Lancaster University (UK)
- Maria Paula Queluz, Instituto de Telecomunicações and IST (POR) – Bijan Rohani, Phybit, (SG)
- Burkhard Stiller, Universität Zürich (CH)
- Junyong You, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NO)

* Organizing Committee
- Shelley Buchinger, University of Vienna (AUT)
- Rui Jorge Lopes, Instituto de Telecomunicações and ISCTE-IUL (POR) – Satu Jumisko-Pyykkö, Tampere University of Technology (FIN) – Hans-Jürgen Zepernick, Blekinge Institute of Technology (SWE)

Future Network & MobileSummit 2011 (previously ICT-MobileSummit) is the twentieth in a series of Annual Conferences supported by the European Commission, which regularly attracts over 600 delegates from industry and research to share experiences and research results, identify future trends, discuss business opportunities and identify opportunities for international research collaboration under the ICT Theme of Framework Programme 7 (FP7). It will thus contribute to showcasing European research in the field, and position it within the multiplicity of related initiatives supported in other regions of the world.

Future Network & MobileSummit 2011 will address all the challenges of building the Future Internet, which will be based on mobile, wireless and fixed broadband communications infrastructures. It showcases European research in the field, and positions it within the multiplicity of related initiatives supported in other regions of the world.

The Scientific Programme incorporates all the key constituents of Future Communication Networks including the themes Radio Access and Spectrum, Converged and Optical Networks, and Future Internet Technologies.

Supported by the European Commission and eMobility, the Future Network & MobileSummit’s reputation is based on high quality networking, plenary sessions that discuss strategic issues in core thematic areas, and paper sessions that showcase original results in all areas of mobile, wireless and fixed broadband communications systems and networks.

Future Network & MobileSummit 2011 is Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Poland Communications Chapter Krakow, IEEE Poland Computer Chapter and IEEE UK/RI Computer Chapter.

While European funded research results are of particular interest, innovative research funded commercially or at national level is equally interesting from a community perspective. The participation of representatives of leading commercial, research and regulatory organizations in the Conference Community ensures a stimulating and high quality networking environment.

Call for Papers
Important Deadlines:
Submission deadline for full papers: 10 December 2010
Acceptance decision: 29 January 2011
Final Paper Submission: 11 March 2011

The scientific programme for Future Network & MobileSummit 2011 is based on an open Call for Papers and the conference language is English.
Interested presenters are encouraged to prepare a paper of 6 – 8 pages and submit online by 10 December.
All papers are double blind reviewed. Please ensure that there are no contact details within the text of your paper submission for review (Word document or PDF), the properties of the file or the file name prior to uploading it onto the server. Please enter all authors and co-authors details as part of the online submission form. Please ensure that the paper uploaded by 10 December is your final version to be reviewed as all papers will be assigned to the TPC following the paper submission deadline.
All submissions will be double blind reviewed by the Technical Programme Committee and authors will receive feedback by 29 January. Accepted authors will then be invited to submit a final paper taking account of feedback provided for inclusion in the conference proceedings by 11 March.

Core Thematic Priorities for Future Network & MobileSummit 2011
- Access and Spectrum
- Next-generation Radio System Architectures and Protocols
- Cooperative Wireless Networking
- Advanced Physical Layer Techniques
- Cognitive and Reconfigurable Radio Systems
- Radio Spectral Coexistence and Future Frequency Bands
- Radio Network and Terminal Self-configuration and -management

Converged and Optical Networks
- WDM and long-reach Passive Optical Networks
- Mobile Access Networks based on Free-space Optical Technology including Infrared and Visible Light
- Next-generation Active Optical (P2P) Networks
- Gigabit Home and In-Building Networks
- Fixed-mobile Convergence including Infrastructure Convergence, Centralisation in Radio-over-fibre, Femto-cells and Supporting Solutions

Future Internet Technologies
- Future Internet Architecture and Protocol Design
- Scalable Architectures for the Real World Internet
- Future Internet Self-Management Frameworks
- Network Overlay, Virtualisation and Federation
- Future Internet Experimental Facilities and Benchmarking
- Platforms and Middleware for Seamless Service and Content Delivery
- Security, Trust and Privacy in the Future Internet

More information is available at
www.futurenetworksummit.eu/2011/default.asp?page=c4p

(ICCCN 2011)

http://www.icccn.org/icccn11/

Sheraton Hotel and Resort, Maui, Hawaii, August 1-4, 2011

Proposal submission: the sooner the better, no later than Nov. 15, 2010

IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN) will celebrate its 20th anniversary at Maui, Hawaii, August 1-4, 2011. Quality workshops are to be held in conjunction with ICCCN.

The workshops aim to explore special topics and provide international forums for scientists, engineers, and computer users to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results on hot and broad topics on computer communications and networks. Workshops for presenting papers from industrial companies and papers on design and implementations of systems and services are welcome. ICCCN is a premier international conference in the field and running a workshop in association with it is of high visibility.

The proceedings of the workshops program will be published, as the ICCCN 2011 main conference, by IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Digital Library.

The topics we are soliciting include, but are NOT limited to:

· Mobile Cloud Computing and Services

· Green communications and Networking

· Embedded and Real-time Networking Systems

· Cognitive Networking and Communications

· Next Generation Broadband Wireless Access Networks

· Virtualized Infrastructure Systems and Architectures

· Networking of Mobile Handheld Devices, Social Networking

· RFID and Internet of Things

· Smart Grids

· Security and Privacy in communications and networks

Submission Guidelines and Publication:

One workshop may take one day with 12 or more accepted and registered papers. Please send a workshop proposal by Nov 15, 2010, to

Prof. Liqiang Zhang and cc to: Prof. Waltenegus Dargie

Workshop General Chair Workshop General Co-Chair

E-mail: liqzhang Email: waltenegus.dargie

Please note that the proposals will be reviewed once received and we will try to make the decision and send the notification back as soon as possible. So submitting a proposal early has the advantage.

Particularly, early-bird proposals (by Oct. 15th) are encouraged and will be given higher priority.

For each approved workshop, at least one organizer must commit to attending and running the workshop on site. Please do not hesitate to send emails to the chairs if you have any questions.

The workshop proposal should include following information:

1. Title of the workshop

2. Workshop organizer(s): name, affiliation, address, phone and fax numbers, e-mail,

with the indication of the main contact person (no more than three chairs in one workshop)

3. A brief description of the content and technical issues

4. Planned format of the workshop, e.g. number of papers, sessions, keynotes, panels etc.

5. A description of the publicity and promotion plan

6. Tentative list of program committee members

7. Short bio of the main workshop organizers (up to 200 words)

Each workshop will start to advertise and distribute its CFP after receiving the approval notification.

Papers submitted to each workshop should be original, and, be peer reviewed by the program committee or external reviewers. An accepted paper must be registered and presented at the conference venue and must be limited to 6 pages in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font). More updates will be posted on the ICCCN-2011 Web site.

Important Dates:

Proposal submission due: Nov 15, 2010

Proposal notification due: Dec 1, 2010

Web page:http://networking2011.org/

Aim and Scope:

Networking 2011 is the 10th event of the series of International Conferences on Networking, sponsored by the IFIP Technical Committee on Communication Systems (TC6). The main objectives of Networking 2011 are to bring together members of the networking community from both academia and industry, to discuss recent advances in the broad and fast-evolving field of computer and communication networks, and to highlight key issues, identify trends and develop visions. The accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published
by Springer, in the Lecture Notes of Computer Science (LNCS) series. The technical sessions will refer to four main areas:

-Applications and Services:
web architectures and protocols, middleware support for networking, quality of experience, pricing and billing, authentication, security, trust and privacy, anomaly detection, DoS detection and remediation, content distribution, real time (live) content distribution, online social networks, networking aspects in cloud services

-Next Generation Internet:
peer-to-peer networks, virtual and overlay networks, network management and traffic engineering, internet of things, addressing and routing architectures, evolution of IP network architecture and protocols, green
networking (energy and power management), performance measurement, monitoring and traffic analysis, resilient networks (fault tolerance, recovery, self* ), cross-layer design and optimization, mobility (user, device, service, network), content-centric networks, broadband access technologies, resource allocation, switching and routing

-Wireless and Sensor Networks:
ad hoc networks, mobile networks, sensor networks, mesh networks, delay/disruption tolerant networks, opportunistic networks, embedded systems, RFID-based systems

-Network Science:
topology characterization and inference, robustness and vulnerabilities of network infrastructures, emergence properties of real networks, dynamic peer-to-peer network topologies, epidemic spread models, tools and techniques to design and analyze networks, inference and analysis of social networks, community detection and modularity optimization, game theoretic approaches to communications and networks – Important Dates:

Abstract due: November 26, 2010
Full Paper Submission: December 10, 2010
Acceptance Notification: January 31, 2011
Camera ready due: February 15, 2011 – Guidelines for Submission:

Authors are invited to submit full papers via the EDAS Conference Management System. Only original papers describing previously unpublished, not currently under review by another conference or jounal, addressing state-of-the-art research and development must be submitted.

All papers will be peer reviewed and accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, LNCS published by Springer-Verlag, in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.

Papers must be writting in English and should follow the instructions in the Springer template file available in both LaTeX and Microsoft Word format.

The first page should include paper title, an abstract of about 150 words, 3-5 keywords indicating the paper topic area and symposium, name and affiliation
of author(s) as well as the corresponding author’s e-mail and postal addresses.
Maximum paper length is 12 printed pages (10-point font). There will be a
Best Paper Award, as well as a number of student travel grants. Organising Committee

-General Chairs:
Ana Pont, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Pietro Manzoni, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

-Technical Program Committee Chairs:
Jordi Domingo-Pascual, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. BarcelonaTECH, Spain
Sergio Palazzo, University of Catania, Italy
Caterina Scoglio, Kansas State University, USA

-Honorary Chair:
Ramón Puigjaner, Universitat Illes Balears, Spain

-Steering Committee:
George Carle, TU Munich, Germany
Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Pisa, Italy
Pedro Cuenca, Universidad de Castilla-la-Mancha, Spain
Guy Leduc, University of Liège, Belgium
Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University, USA