[Tccc] Cfp: Int'l Workshop on Machine-to-Machine Communications @ GLOBECOM

Carles Antón carles.anton
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Call for Papers

IEEE GLOBECOM 2011 Workshop

International Workshop on Machine-to-Machine Communications
'Key' to the Future Internet of Things
In Conjunction with IEEE GLOBECOM 2011, 5-9 December 2011, Houston, 
Texas, USA
(Workshop homepage http://iwm2m.cttc.es)

The number of networked machines and/or devices is continuously 
increasing, changing the conventional perception of communication 
towards networks that are independent from human interaction. This 
results in a new paradigm on Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications 
towards the Future Internet of Things (IoT). M2M communications offer a 
potential solution to the already saturated telecommunications market, 
with new services and applications, such as smart city, smart grid, 
intelligent transportation, e-healthcare, remote monitoring, and 
logistics.  Such services and applications open a mass market and 
several business opportunities, whilst transforming the way 
communication systems are defined and operate. This requires development 
of novel solutions to efficiently serve a huge number of devices that 
interact autonomously at a global level. It also opens a wide research 
area for future M2M communications, including investigations on 
scalability, wide-area coverage, energy-efficiency, spectral-efficiency, 
cost-efficiency, heterogeneity, cooperation, and security.

Main Topics of Interest

This workshop aims to gather researchers, engineers and practitioners 
both from academia and industry (universities, research centers, network 
operators, regulatory bodies, service providers), as well as end users, 
to present and debate advanced M2M communication systems, technologies, 
and applications, with the perspective of current M2M-related 
standardization activities in 3GPP, ETSI, IEEE, and IETF. Specifically, 
but not exclusively, the workshop proposes to address the following 
topics related to M2M communication:

- Scalable system architecture and components
- Radio access technologies and protocols
- Spectrum management for M2M
- Resource management for energy-harvesting devices
- Channel and traffic models
- Internetworking protocols and mechanisms
- Cloud support for M2M applications
- Device management for M2M
- Data and service management for M2M
- Semantic technologies for M2M
- Mobility management for M2M
- Security, trust and privacy of M2M devices and services
-  New M2M applications, services, and business models
- Field Trials / Test-beds / Regulatory issues

Important Dates
Paper Submission: 7 July 2011
Acceptance Notification: 15 August 2011
Camera-Ready: 31 August 2011
Workshop Date: 9 December 2011

Author Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit original contributions that were not 
previously published or currently under review by any other workshop, 
conference, or journal. Papers need to be uploaded to the EDASGLOBECOM 
2011 workshop submission link (http://edas.info//N10893) for this 
workshop, and should follow the GLOBECOM 2011 paper submission 
guidelines. All submissions should be written in English with a maximum 
paper length of Five (5) printed pages (10-point font) including figures 
without incurring additional page charges (maximum 1 additional page 
with over-length page charge if accepted). Note that the maximum number 
of pages for a paper is 6; 5 pages plus 1 additional page allowed with a 
charge for the one additional page of USD100 if accepted. Papers 
exceeding 6 pages will not be accepted at EDAS, nor reviewed at 
all.Accepted papers will be published in IEEE Xplore. IEEE reserves the 
right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., 
removal from IEEE Xplore) if it is not presented at the conference.

Workshop Organising Committee:

Chair:
Rahim Tafazolli, University of Surrey, UK (r.tafazolli at surrey.ac.uk )

Co-Chairs:
Thierry Lestable, Sagemcom SAS, France (thierry.lestable at sagemcom.com )
Carles Ant?n-Haro, CTTC,Spain (carles.anton at cttc.es )
Trevor Gill, Vodafone Group, UK (trevor.gill at vodafone.com )

TPC Chairs:
Pirabakaran Navaratnam, University of Surrey, UK 
(p.navaratnam at surrey.ac.uk )
Peter Rost, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany (peter.rost at neclab.eu )

Publicity Chair:
Djelal Raouf, Sagemcom E&T, France (djelal.raouf at sagemcom.com )

TPC members:
Angeliki Alexiou, University of Piraeus, Greece
Stephan Saur, Alcatel-Lucent, Germany
Christian Ibars, CTTC, Spain
Walter Nitzold, Technical University of Dresden, Germany
Srdjan Krco, Ericsson, Serbia
Alexandru Petrescu, CEA, France
Serdar Vural, University of Surrey, UK
William Webb, Neul, UK
Herve Ganem, Gemalto, France
Bruno Cendon, TST, Spain
Masugi Inoue, National Institute of Information and Communication 
Technology, Japan
Jesus Bernat Vercher, Telefonica, Spain
Massinissa Lalam, Sagemcom E&T, France
Masood Maqbool, Sagemcom E&T, France
Marceau Coupechoux, Telecom Paris-Tech, France
M?rouaneDebbah, Sup?lec, France
Frank Zdarsky, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany
M?hdi Bennis, University of Oulu, Finland
Josep Vidal, UPC, Spain,
Marylin Arndt, Orange Labs, France
Mischa Dohler, CTTC, Spain
Guillaume Vivier, Sequans, France
Tarik Taleb, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany
Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada
Madjid Merabti, University of Liverpool, UK
Lutz Lampe, University of British Columbia, Canada
Hassan Hassanein, Queens University , Canada
Nelson Fonseca, University of Campinas, Brazil
Tomaso Melodia, University of Buffalo, USA
Sutharshan Rajasegarar, University of Melbourne, Australia
Nandana Rajatheva, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
Cagri Gungor, Bahcesehir University, Turkey


Additional Information
Please see the workshop website http://iwm2m.cttc.es and the GLOBECOM 
2011 homepage www.ieee-globecom.org for additional information.




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