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Fifth IEEE International Workshop on<br>
Personalized Networks (PerNets)<br>
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to be held in conjunction with the<br>
IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2011) <br>
January 8-11, 2011 - Planet Hollywood, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br><br>
Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and the
IEEE Digital Library <br><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><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 and the
Internet of Your Things. 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. <br><br>
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. <br>
- Architectural framework of personalized networks <br>
- Personalized network applications <br>
- Personal communications in the next generation Internet <br>
- Personalized networks for rural areas <br>
- Context awareness <br>
- Internet of (your) things technologies <br>
- Resource, service and context discovery <br>
- Self-organization and adaptation <br>
- Addressing and routing <br>
- Interworking between PANs, ad hoc networks, etc, and
infrastructure-based heterogeneous networks <br>
- Mobility of personalized networks <br>
- Personalization of virtual resources <br>
- Cooperative and collaborative methods for personalized networks <br>
- Security, privacy and anonymity <br>
- Zero configuration methods and other enablers for ease-of-use <br>
- Dependability <br>
- Application-driven communication substrates <br>
- Personalized networks for group oriented networking <br>
- New QoS concepts in personalized networks <br>
- QoS across heterogeneous Networks and Devices <br>
- Mapping of functional requirements to physical devices and resources
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- Modeling and simulation of personalized networks <br>
- P2P paradigm in personalized networks <br>
- Innovative applications or prototypes and demonstrations of such person
centric applications are equally valued <br><br>
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<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 PDF to the EDAS paper submission website.
The first 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.
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You may submit your paper using this link
<a href="http://edas.info/N9114" eudora="autourl">
http://edas.info/N9114<br><br>
</a><u>Important Dates<br>
</u>Paper Submission
Deadline:<x-tab> </x-tab>August 24,
2010 <br>
Notification of
Acceptance:<x-tab> </x-tab>September 15,
2010<br>
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October 1, 2010<br>
Workshop
date:
January 9, 2011 <br><br>
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Contact Information: Email: m.jacobsson@ewi.tudelft.nl <br><br>
<u>General Chairperson<br>
</u>Ignas Niemegeers, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
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<u>Program Co-Chairpersons<br>
</u>Sonia Heemstra de Groot, Twente Institute for Wireless and Mobile
Communications, Netherlands <br>
Magda El Zarki, University of California, Irvine, USA <br><br>
<u>Technical Program Committee<br>
</u>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>
Mainak 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, Twente Institute for Wireless and Mobile
Communications, Netherlands <br>
Geert Heijenk, University of Twente, Netherlands <br>
James Irvine, Strathclyde University, Scotland <br>
Martin Jacobsson, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands <br>
H. S. Jamadagni, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India <br>
Theo G. Kanter, Mid-Sweden University, Sweden <br>
Vinay Kolar, Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar <br>
Ramakant Komali, Cisco Systems, San Jose, USA <br>
Ernö Kovacs, NEC Laboratories Europe, Heidelberg, Germany <br>
Anup Kumar, University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA <br>
Joy Kuri, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India <br>
Anthony Lo, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands <br>
Thomas Magedanz, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany <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>
Petri Liuha, Nokia, Finland <br>
Heung-Gyoon Ryu, Chungbuk National University, Korea <br>
Paolo Santi, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica, Italy <br>
Amardeo Sarma, NEC Laboratories Europe, 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>
Venkatesha Prasad, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands <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>
<u>Organizing Committee<br>
</u>Martin Jacobsson, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands <br>
R. V. Prasad, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands <br>
Jing Wang, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands <br>
Javad Vezifehdan, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands <br>
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Paolo Bellavista, Ph. D.<br>
<font size=2>Associate Professor in Computer Science Engineering<br>
EB Member of IEEE Communications, IEEE T. Services Computing,<br>
Elsevier Pervasive Computing, and Springer J. Network Systems Mgmt.<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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