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International Workshop on Communicating Objects<br>
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Machine to Machine for Mission-Critical Applications<br>
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August 17-20, 2014, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada<br>
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in conjunction with the<br>
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The 9th International Conference on Future Networks and
Communications (FNC 2014)<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-14/">http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-14/</a><br>
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Submission Deadline: March 30th, 2014<br>
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SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES<br>
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Machine To Machine (M2M) is the association of Information and
Communication Technology (ICT), with objects, making them "smart"
and communicating through different access network technologies in
order to give them the means to interact without any human
intervention with the information system of an organization or an
enterprise. The available today network technologies differ from
short rang communication such as Zigbee, ultralow-power Bluetooth,
UWB, and low-power Wifi to wide area networks such as 3G,
Femtocell, and LTE.<br>
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M2M communication technology is certainly in its early stage even
if we consider recent research advances in a large spectrum of
applications in many different areas such as E-health, smart
grid, automotive, telemetric, smart homes, environmental
monitoring, industrial automation. In addition, it also opens a
wide research area for mission-critical applications, which have
direct impact on the society and authorities such as border
surveillance, security monitoring, military operations, fire
emergency response, environment-oriented pollutions and land
security, emergency event and crisis intervention, and natural
disaster. These mission-critical applications impose their
specific and challenging requirements in terms of power,
bandwidth, latency, reliability, accuracy, security, and mobility.
Such challenges can cause problems on almost all layers of M2M
networks.<br>
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This workshop aims to gather researchers, engineers and
practitioners, both from academia and industry, as well as end
users, to present and debate recent M2M communication systems,
technologies, and applications applied to mission-critical
scenarios.<br>
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The central theme of COMMCA 2014 will be the exploitation of
available wireless and mobile technologies which are capable of
being used in object to object, machine to machine communications
for mission-critical applications. Topics of interest include but
not limited to the following:<br>
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• Novel M2M architectures, protocols and applications for
mission-critical applications<br>
• M2M Medium Access Control Protocols for mission-critical
applications<br>
• M2M mobility management for mission-critical applications<br>
• M2M wireless sensor networks for mission critical
applications<br>
• Advanced information/data management for mission-critical
applications<br>
• Mobile communication and networks for mission-critical
applications<br>
• Inter-networking protocols and mechanisms for
mission-critical applications<br>
• Security, Trust and privacy for mission-critical applications<br>
• Multi-hop wireless Networks for mission-critical applications
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• Cross-layer optimisation in M2M networks for mission-critical
applications<br>
• Reinforcement learning approach for mission-critical
applications<br>
• Technologies for WSNs in mission-critical applications<br>
• Coverage and connectivity issues in mission-critical
applications<br>
• Localisation issues in mission-critical applications<br>
• Field trials, testbeds, and standard activities in M2M
networks for mission-critical applications<br>
The topics suggested by the workshop can be discussed in terms of
concepts, survey, research, standards, implementations, running
experiments, applications, and practical case studies.<br>
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INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS<br>
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You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works
on above topics. Submitted papers must not have been published or
simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Please, indicate clearly the
corresponding author and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract
of no more than 400 words.<br>
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Publication: All COMMCA 2014 accepted papers will be scheduled for
oral presentations and will be printed in the conference
proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access
Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer
Sciences is hosted on <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.Elsevier.com">www.Elsevier.com</a> and on Elsevier content
platform ScienceDirect (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.sciencedirect.com">www.sciencedirect.com</a>), and will be freely
available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed
by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/">http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/</a><br>
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The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and
citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to
all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your
proceedings. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://dblp.uni-trier.de/">http://dblp.uni-trier.de/</a>). At least one author of each accepted
paper is required to register and attend the conference to present
the work.<br>
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SCHEDULE, IMPORTANT DATES<br>
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• Submission Deadline: March 30th, 2014<br>
• Authors notification: May 15th, 2014<br>
• Camera Ready papers due: June 15th, 2014<br>
• Workshop: August 17th-20th, 2014<br>
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WORKSHOP CHAIRS<br>
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• Dr. Bouabdellah Kechar<br>
LRIIR Laboratory, Oran University, Algeria<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Kechar.Bouabdellah@univ-oran.dz">Kechar.Bouabdellah@univ-oran.dz</a><br>
• Pr. Hafid Haffaf<br>
LRIIR Laboratory, Oran University, Algeria<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Haffaf.Hafid@univ-oran.dz">Haffaf.Hafid@univ-oran.dz</a><br>
• Pr. Congduc Pham<br>
LIUPPA Laboratory, University of PAU, France<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Congduc.Pham@univ-pau.fr">Congduc.Pham@univ-pau.fr</a><br>
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PUBLICITY AND WEB CHAIRS<br>
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• Dr. Ahcène Bounceur<br>
LABSTICC, University of BREST, France<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Ahcene.Bounceur@univ-brest.fr">Ahcene.Bounceur@univ-brest.fr</a><br>
• Dr. Zahia Bidai<br>
LRIIR Laboratory, Oran University, Algeria<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Bidai.Zahia@univ-oran.dz">Bidai.Zahia@univ-oran.dz</a><br>
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INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE<br>
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• Abdelhamid Mellouk, Paris-Est University, France<br>
• Najib Badache, USTHB-Cerist, Algeria<br>
• Bernard Pottier, University of Brest, France<br>
• Ahcène Bounceur, University of Brest, France<br>
• Bernard Tourancheau, University of Lyon 1, France<br>
• Boucif Amar Bensaber, University of Québec à Trois-Rivière,
Canada<br>
• Abderrezak Rachedi, Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée
(UPEM), France.<br>
• Malika Bourenane, University of Oran, Algeria<br>
• Mohamed Aissani, Military Polytechnic school, Algeria<br>
• Pham Congduc, University of Pau, France<br>
• Doan Hoang, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia<br>
• Nacera Ghoualmi, University of Annaba, Algeria<br>
• Hafid Haffaf, University of Oran, Algeria<br>
• José Machado Da Silva, University of Porto, Portugal<br>
• German Fabregat, University of Valencia, Spain<br>
• Mejdi Kaddour, University of Oran, Algeria<br>
• Bouabdellah Kechar, University of Oran, Algeria<br>
• Belkacem Kouninef, INTTIC Oran, Algeria<br>
• Maimour Moufida, University of Nancy, France<br>
• Serge Stinckwitch, IRD/UMI UMMISCO, Vietnam<br>
• Yacine Hadjadj Aoul, University of Rennes, France<br>
• Abdallah M'hamed, TELECOM & Management SUDPARIS, France<br>
• Selma Boumerdassi, CNAM, France<br>
• Samia Bouzefrane, CNAM, France<br>
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CONTACT<br>
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Dr. Bouabdellah Kechar<br>
Industrial Computing and Networks Laboratory (LRIIR) <br>
Faculty of Exact and Applied Sciences, Computer Science <br>
Department, Oran University PO Box 1524 El M’Naouar, Oran, Algeria<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Kechar.Bouabdellah@univ-oran.dz">Kechar.Bouabdellah@univ-oran.dz</a><br>
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