[Tccc] PerNets @ IEEE CCNC - 2012 (Deadline Extended: Sep. 19)

Martin Jacobsson jacobsson.martin
Fri Sep 9 09:23:10 EDT 2011


We have decided to harmonize the dates for Pernets with the other workshops in IEEE CCNC.
Therefore, the paper submission deadline has been extended until September 19, 2012.


Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this cfp.
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                               Sixth IEEE International Workshop on
                                  Personalized Networks (PerNets)
                                 http://pernets.irctr.tudelft.nl/

                                to be held in conjunction with the
                IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2012)
                  January 14-17, 2012 - Planet Hollywood, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and
the IEEE Digital Library Submission instructions at:
http://edas.info/N11047

Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline:        September 19, 2011 (extended deadline)
Notification of Acceptance:       October 14, 2011
Camera-Ready Submissions:         October 25, 2011
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Purpose of this workshop

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.

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.

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.

Scope of the submission

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.

- Architectural framework of personalized networks
- Personalized network applications
- Personal communications in the next generation Internet
- Personalized networks for rural areas
- Context awareness
- Internet of (your) things technologies
- Resource, service and context discovery
- Self-organization and adaptation
- Addressing and routing
- Interworking between PANs, ad hoc networks, etc, and
infrastructure-based heterogeneous networks
- Mobility of personalized networks
- Personalization of virtual resources
- Cooperative and collaborative methods for personalized networks
- Security, privacy and anonymity
- Zero configuration methods and other enablers for ease-of-use
- Dependability
- Application-driven communication substrates
- Personalized networks for group oriented networking
- New QoS concepts in personalized networks
- QoS across heterogeneous Networks and Devices
- Mapping of functional requirements to physical devices and resources
- Modeling and simulation of personalized networks
- P2P paradigm in personalized networks
- Innovative applications or prototypes and demonstrations of such
person centric applications are equally valued

Why should you participate in this workshop?

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.

Submission Instructions

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.

Papers should be submitted in PDF to the EDAS paper submission website
- http://edas.info/N11047 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.



General chairperson
Ignas Niemegeers, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Sonia
Heemstra de Groot, Twente Institute for Wireless and Mobile
Communications, Netherlands

Program Co-Chairpersons
Martin Jacobsson, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Venkatesha Prasad, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Publicity Chairperson
Paolo Bellavista, Universit? degli Studi di Bologna, Italy

Technical Program Committee
Paolo Bellavista, Universit? degli Studi di Bologna, Italy 
Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada 
Milind M Buddhikot, Bell Laboratories, New Jersey, USA 
Mainak Chatterjee, University of Central Florida, USA 
Carlos Cordeiro, Intel, USA 
Frank den Hartog, TNO, Netherlands 
Piet Demeester, Ghent University, Belgium 
Sudhir Dixit, Nokia, Boston, USA 
Vasilis Friderikos, King's College London, UK
Carmelita G?rg, University of Bremen, Germany 
K. V. S. Hari, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India 
Hossam Hassanein, Queens University, Canada 
Sonia Heemstra de Groot, Twente Institute for Wireless and Mobile Communications, Netherlands 
Geert Heijenk, University of Twente, Netherlands 
James Irvine, Strathclyde University, Scotland 
Martin Jacobsson, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands 
H. S. Jamadagni, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India 
Theo G. Kanter, Mid-Sweden University, Sweden 
Vinay Kolar, Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar 
Ramakant Komali, Cisco Systems, San Jose, USA 
Ern? Kovacs, NEC Laboratories Europe, Heidelberg, Germany
Anup Kumar, University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA 
Joy Kuri, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India 
Anthony Lo, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands 
Thomas Magedanz, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany
Ingrid Moerman, University of Ghent, Belgium 
Klaus Moessner, University of Surrey, UK 
Luis Mu?oz, University of Cantabria, Spain
Ignas Niemegeers, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands 
Giovanni Pau, University of California Los Angeles, USA 
Jorge Pereira, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium 
T. V. Prabhakar, Indian Institute of Science, India 
Ramjee Prasad, University of Aalbarg, Denmark 
Neeli Prasad, University of Aalbarg, Denmark 
Petri Liuha, Nokia, Finland
Heung-Gyoon Ryu, Chungbuk National University, Korea 
Paolo Santi, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica, Italy 
Amardeo Sarma, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany 
Koduvayur Subbalakshmi, Stevens Institute, USA 
Sai Shankar, Broadcom, San Diego, USA 
Sirin Tekinay, New Jersey Institute of Technology, New Jersey, USA 
John Thompson, University of Edinburgh, UK 
Venkatesha Prasad, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands 
Stephen B Weinstein, CTTC, New Jersey, USA
Magda El Zarki, University of California, Irvine, USA 
Honggang Zhang, Zhejiang University, China 
Djamal Zeghlache, INT, Paris, France

Organizing Committee
Javad Vezifehdan, Vijay S, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands


Dr. Martin Jacobsson

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Wireless and Mobile Communications Group
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Delft University of Technology

Tel:   +31 15 278 4950
Fax:   +31 15 278 1774
Email: martin at jacobsson.nl
WWW:   http://www.jacobsson.nl/






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