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Sixth IEEE International Workshop on<br>
Personalized Networks (PerNets)<br>
<a href="http://pernets.irctr.tudelft.nl/">
http://pernets.irctr.tudelft.nl/<br>
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</a> to be held in conjunction with the<br>
IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2012)
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January 14-17, 2012 - Planet Hollywood, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
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Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and the IEEE Digital Library
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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 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>
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.
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<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.
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- 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
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- 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 <br>
- 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
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<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.
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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.
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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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<u>Important Dates<br>
</u>Paper Submission Deadline: August 15, 2011 <br>
Notification of Acceptance: September 15, 2011 <br>
Camera-Ready Submissions: October 1, 2011<br>
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Contact Information<br>
Email: martin@jacobsson.nl <br>
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General chairperson<br>
Ignas Niemegeers, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands <br>
Sonia Heemstra de Groot, Twente Institute for Wireless and Mobile Communications, Netherlands
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Program Co-Chairpersons<br>
Martin Jacobsson, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands <br>
Venkatesha Prasad, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands <br>
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Publicity Chairperson<br>
Paolo Bellavista, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy <br>
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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>
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
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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>
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Organizing Committee<br>
Javad Vezifehdan, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands <br>
<p>Paolo Bellavista, Ph. D.<br>
<font size="2">Associate Professor in Computer Science Engineering<br>
EB Member of IEEE Communications, IEEE T. Computers,<br>
IEEE T. Network Service Mgmt., IEEE T. Services Computing,<br>
Elsevier Pervasive Mobile Computing, and Springer J. Net. 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>
Web: <a href="http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/PaoloBellavista/">http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/PaoloBellavista/</a></font>
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