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Fourth International Workshop on Personalized Networks <br>
<b>PerNets 2010<br><br>
</b>to be held in conjunction with <br>
The IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2010)
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January 9-12, 2010 - Harrah's Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
<a href="http://pernets.irctr.tudelft.nl/" eudora="autourl">
http://pernets.irctr.tudelft.nl/</a> <br>
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Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and the
IEEE Digital Library <br>
Paper submission via EDAS (please read the submission instructions below
first) <br><br>
CES
<a href="http://www.cesweb.org/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.cesweb.org/</a> will be held in Las Vegas during the same
period. <br>
Free Registration is open till 1st October 2009.<br>
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<u>Purpose of this workshop<br>
</u>The ubiquitous nature of wireless networks has spawned many
interesting applications that were unimagined hitherto. It has also
brought many challenges for the communication and networking community to
address. On one hand we see present day mobile devices are capable of
providing many services that required several devices before. For
example, most cell phones nowadays provide high speed data access, still
and video cameras, PDA functionality, etc. These advances in device
sophistication and service offerings, including wireless hotspots, have
made a difference in the way we communicate. With increased user mobility
and user's desire to always be connected, we have seen a growing interest
in Personal Area Networks (PANs) and Body Area Networks (BANs). These
networks can be tuned and applied meaningfully for individual users and
their requirements. On the other hand the Internet has changed our way of
interacting dramatically. These two major communication areas are having
an in-depth influence on the way we communicate; it is worth considering
them 'together' as the future communication vehicle. <br>
Personalized Networks is one such future oriented concept where we seek
to bring BANs, PANs, WLAN, sensor networks, ad hoc networks, home
networks, vehicular networks and the Internet together onto one platform
under one broader vision of future (4G) communication networks. The idea
is to enable continuous and seamless connectivity of all the personal
devices of a user, information sources, and network enabled controllers
in an unobtrusive way, regardless of where these entities are located -
be they local or remote. It is a microcosm of the persons themselves with
their associated accessories somewhere on the Internet. It is equivalent
to the Internet presence that has become a prominent concept in the last
decade. This advanced overlay network is strongly person oriented and
must be ad hoc, intelligent and must behave as a user-friendly virtual
intelligent personal assistant to its owner. It is a personal distributed
environment, global in scope that can co-exist on the present day
Internet with its active participation. Such a platform enables many new
applications, especially for users with rapidly changing communication
demands that often operate in various contexts simultaneously. It can
also provide the much needed user-friendliness to many services of today.
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There are numerous issues which are challenging to the communication
network community in realizing a Personalized Network. Most of them arise
from the lack of current technology to deal in a transparent way with the
dynamic and mobile nature of the entities, the unpredictable topology of
the network, the power constraints of the mobile devices, and the
heterogeneity of the networking and link-level technologies. Therefore,
creating a Personalized Network yields new architectures, protocols,
algorithms, platforms, middleware, etc. They take care of addressing,
routing, resource and service discovery, the self-organization of the
network, the localization of the devices/person, the complex security and
privacy requirements, the offering of context aware services and service
management. Many of these issues, ventured upon earlier under various
mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) and mobile network research initiatives,
need to be reconsidered in this case. These technologies have to meet
strict requirements with respect to user perception, viable business
models, usage of communication bandwidth, protocol complexity,
robustness, availability of links and infrastructure, dependability and
trust. <br><br>
<u>Scope of the submission<br>
</u>We seek original contributions which are aimed at finding solutions
to the problems that are outlined above towards realization of a
Personalized Network. We have identified the following major topics under
which we try to categorize the submissions. However, we will consider any
other original, interesting, and imaginative ideas and thoughts towards
meeting this goal of a Personalized Network.
<ul>
<li>Architectural framework of personalized networks
<li>Personalized Network Applications
<li>Personal Communications in the next generation Internet
<li>Personal Networks for rural areas
<li>Context Awareness
<li>Resource, service and context discovery
<li>Self-organization and adaptation
<li>Addressing and routing
<li>Interworking between PANs, ad hoc networks, etc, and
infrastructure-based heterogeneous networks
<li>Mobility of personalized networks
<li>Security, privacy and anonymity
<li>Zero configuration methods and other enablers for ease-of-use
<li>Dependability
<li>Application-driven communication substrates
<li>Personalized networks for group oriented networking
<li>New QoS concepts in personalized networks
<li>QoS across heterogeneous Networks and Devices
<li>Mapping of functional requirements to physical devices and resources
<li>Modeling and simulation of personalized networks
<li>P2P paradigm in personalized networks
<li>Innovative applications or prototypes and demonstrations of such
person centric applications are equally valued
</ul><u>Why should you participate in this workshop?<br>
</u>Personalized Networks is a concrete vision of the future networks,
yet very current, in the field of communications. It attracts researchers
from both wired and wireless domains. This workshop is an ideal platform
to share a vision of where we are heading, interact, and strongly
advocate an exciting new avenue for researchers and practitioners in the
field of communication. Further, the final program would consist of
carefully selected - with at least three peer reviews - and high quality
submissions with a large emphasis on new ideas rather than incremental
contributions to the field. Submissions of shorter versions of full
papers that can be submitted to other conferences/journal in the near
future are discouraged. <br><br>
<u>Submission Instructions<br>
</u>Submitted papers must represent original material that is not
currently under review in any other conference or journal, and has not
been previously published. Paper length should not exceed five-page
technical paper manuscript. <br>
Papers should be submitted in a .pdf or .ps format to the EDAS paper
submission website. A separate cover sheet should show the title of the
paper, the author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s), and the address
(including e-mail, telephone, and fax) to which the correspondence should
be sent. All accepted papers will be published in the conference
proceedings. At least one author of accepted papers is required to
register at the full registration rate. <br><br>
<u>Important Dates<br>
</u>Paper Submission Deadline:
<x-tab> </x-tab><b>August 23, 2009<br>
</b>Notification of Acceptance:
<x-tab> </x-tab><b>September 21, 2009<br>
</b>Camera-Ready Submissions:
<x-tab> </x-tab><b>October 1,
2009<br><br>
</b><u>Conference Committees<br><br>
</u>General chairperson<br>
Ignas Niemegeers, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands <br><br>
Program Co-Chairpersons<br>
Sonia Heemstra de Groot, University of Twente, Netherlands <br>
Magda El Zarki, University of California, Irvine, USA <br><br>
Publicity Chairperson<br>
Paolo Bellavista, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy <br><br>
Contact Information<br>
Email: wpn@ewi.tudelft.nl <br><br>
Technical Program Committee<br>
Paolo Bellavista, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy <br>
Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada <br>
Milind M Buddhikot, Bell Laboratories, New Jersey, USA <br>
Mainik Chatterjee, University of Central Florida, USA <br>
Carlos Cordeiro, Intel, USA <br>
Frank den Hartog, TNO, Netherlands <br>
Piet Demeester, Ghent University, Belgium <br>
Sudhir Dixit, Nokia, Boston, USA <br>
Vasilis Friderikos, King's College London, UK <br>
Carmelita Görg, University of Bremen, Germany <br>
K. V. S. Hari, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India <br>
Hossam Hassanein, Queens University, Canada <br>
Sonia Heemstra de Groot, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
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Geert Heijenk, University of Twente, Netherlands <br>
Ramin Hekmat, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands <br>
James Irvine, Strathclyde University, Scotland <br>
Sumanth Jagannathan, Broadcom Corporation, USA <br>
H. S. Jamadagni, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India <br>
Theo G. Kanter, Mid-Sweden University, Sweden <br>
Vinay Kolar, RWTH Aachen, Germany <br>
Ramakant Komali, RWTH Aachen, Germany <br>
Anup Kumar, University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA <br>
Joy Kuri, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India <br>
Petri Liuha, Nokia, Finland<br>
Anthony Lo, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands <br>
Thomas Magedanz, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany <br>
Mahesh Marina, University of Edinburgh, UK <br>
Ingrid Moerman, University of Ghent, Belgium <br>
Klaus Moessner, University of Surrey, UK <br>
Luis Muñoz, University of Cantabria, Spain <br>
Ignas Niemegeers, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands <br>
Giovanni Pau, University of California Los Angeles, USA <br>
Jorge Pereira, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium <br>
T. V. Prabhakar, Indian Institute of Science, India <br>
Ramjee Prasad, University of Aalbarg, Denmark <br>
Neeli Prasad, University of Aalbarg, Denmark <br>
Heung-Gyoon Ryu, Chungbuk National University, Korea <br>
Amardeo Sarma, NEC Network Laboratories, Germany <br>
Koduvayur Subbalakshmi, Stevens Institute, USA <br>
Sai Shankar, Broadcom, San Diego, USA <br>
Sirin Tekinay, New Jersey Institute of Technology, New Jersey, USA <br>
John Thompson, University of Edinburgh, UK <br>
Stephen B Weinstein, CTTC, New Jersey, USA <br>
Magda El Zarki, University of California, Irvine, USA <br>
Honggang Zhang, Zhejiang University, China <br>
Djamal Zeghlache, INT, Paris, France <br><br>
Organizing Committee<br>
Martin Jacobsson, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands <br>
R. V. Prasad, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands <br>
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Paolo Bellavista, Ph. D.<br>
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EB Member of IEEE Communications and IEEE T. Services Computing<br>
DEIS - Università degli Studi di Bologna<br>
Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna (ITALY)<br>
Tel# +39-051-2093866; Fax# +39-051-2093073<br>
Email: paolo.bellavista@unibo.it<br>
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