you are invited to submit your contribution to Baltic Congress on Future Internet Communications - BCFIC Riga 2011 to be held in Riga, Latvia on 16-18 February 2011:
http://www.bcfic.org/
Important Dates
Extended paper submission: October 25, 2010
Acceptance notification: December 01, 2010
Camera ready: December 18, 2010
Kind regards,
BCFIC-2010 Chairs
Baltic Congress on Future Internet Communications BCFIC Riga 2011 will address all the challenges of building the Future Internet, which will be based on mobile, wireless and fixed broadband communications infrastructures. BCFIC Riga 2011 will become a stage for researchers, officials, decision makers, practitioners from the public sector and industry, people involved in other related initiatives and many others. The Congress will facilitate knowledge transfer to the community and practitioners by promoting results dissemination.
The Scientific Programme will incorporate all the components of Future Communication Networks including the topics Future Internet Technologies, Internet of the things, wireless networking for moving objects etc.
The Internet of the Future will incorporate a large number of autonomous wireless objects moving with diverse patterns and speeds while communicating via several radio interfaces. Examples of such objects may include humans, cars or unmanned aerial vehicles, with every object acting as a networking device generating, relaying and/or absorbing data. Achieving the Internet of the Future, will require global interoperability amongst objects/devices, not typically common place due to inherent features of today’s Internet. To overcome the current shortcomings, a number of research challenges have to be addressed in the area of networking, including protocol engineering, development of applications and services, as well as realistic use-cases. Applications, services, overlay networking will receive a special treatment within the Congress.
BCFIC Riga 2011 is Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Communications Society (pending) and IEEE Latvia Section.
BCFIC Riga 2011 proceedings will be published in IEEE Xplore and indexed in the correspondent databases (e.g. EI-index and others).
Core Thematic Topics of interest for Baltic Congress on Future Internet and Communications BCFIC Riga 2011 include, but are not limited to:
---Future Internet Technologies---
Ubiquitous computing and networking
Future Internet Architecture and Protocol Design
Scalable Architectures for the Real World Internet
Future Internet Self-Management Frameworks
QoS and QoE
Platforms and Middleware for Seamless Service and Content Delivery
Cloud Computing
Network Security
Green Communications
Energy-efficient networking
Privacy, security and reputation, Identity management
---Pervasive computing and smart environment---
RFID and Sensor Network Technologies
Architecture and platforms
Distributed and pervasive services
Personal and body networks, wearable computing
Semantic analysis
Metadata and Meta modeling
XML and Data Management
Knowledge Management
Web Security and Privacy
Cyber threats
Web Services and Web Engineering
Web Intelligence
Bio-inspired/Bio-oriented Networks
---Wireless Networking for Moving Objects---
End-to-end Quality of Service Support
Traffic Characterization and Modeling
Resource Management and Admission Control
Cross layer design, optimization and Interactions
Routing and Addressing
Network Security in Wired and Wireless
Network Management Applications
Services and Applications
Mobile Service Level Agreements and Specification
Mesh and Ad-hoc Networks
Wireless Multimedia
---Home networking---
Home Networks
ITU G.hn concept
Overlay Networks
Transport Protocols
Network Planning
Convergence of Broadcast and Communications Technologies
Solutions for Consumer Communications
Digital TV and Radio Broadcasting
Computing in Signal Processing
Intelligent Agent and Web Applications
Intelligent Control and Automation
---Mobile and Wireless Networks---
Cellular & broadband Wireless (3G/4G/5G)
Cognitive wireless networks
Cooperative communications
Ecological wireless networks
Multi-hop networks
Ad hoc networks
Sensor networks
Local dependent networks
Mobile computing
Analysis, simulation, measurement and performance evaluation
Congestion and admission control
Routing, Qos and scheduling
Satellite communications
Transport layer issues
Wireless multicast
Wireless IP
---Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs)---
Vehicle-to-vehicle, vehicle-to-roadside communications
Intra-vehicle communications
Vehicle-to-Internet communications
Mobility and vehicular traffic models
Information collection and dissemination
Analytical and simulation techniques
Experimental systems and field operational testing
Safety and non-safety related applications
Recent standardization efforts and problems (e.g. 802.11p)
Overview of the activities and status of the ongoing projects
Deployment strategies and predictions
---P2P technologies---
Advances in theoretical foundations of P2P
Security, trust and reputation in P2P
Performance analysis of P2P systems, applications and services
Quality of experience in P2P systems
Mobile P2P
---Social Networks---
Computational Aspects of Social Network
Security, data protection inside communities
Evaluation and benchmarking
---E-business---
e-Business system design and development
e-Payment and e-Commerce
Social and Legal Issues
Digital Ecology
e-Health
e-Governance
e-Entertainment
e-Journalism
e-Learning and virtual classrooms
Nets4Cars 2011 & Nets4Trains 2011 -- Call for Papers
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When: 22-24 March 2011
Where: German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Submission Deadline: 14 November 2010
The 3rd International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles (Nets4Cars 2011, http://www.nets4cars.org) provides an international forum on the latest technologies and research in the field of intra- and inter-vehicle communications (protocols and standards), mobility and traffic models (models, methodologies, and techniques), testing, and applications.
SCOPE
Authors are invited to submit papers presenting new research results related to the theory or practice of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) in the framework of the following main topics (not limited to):
* vehicle-to-vehicle, vehicle-to-roadside communications
* intra-vehicle communications
* vehicle-to-Internet communications
* new trends in VANETS, e.g. integration of electric vehicles in smart grid communications
* mobility and vehicular traffic models
* information collection and dissemination
* analytical and simulation techniques
* experimental systems and field operational testing
* protocol performance enhancements
* safety and non-safety related applications
* recent standardization efforts and problems (e.g. 802.11p)
* international harmonisation activities (e.g. Europe vs. US vs. Japan)
Nets4Trains: Nets4Cars 2011 will also host a track on Communication technologies for vehicles in the Railway Transportation (Nets4Trains). The aspiration of the 1st International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles in the Railway Transportation (Nets4Trains 2011) is to provide an international forum on the latest technologies and research challenges associated with the design and implementation of railway intra- and inter-vehicle communications (physical layer, protocols and standards), mobility and traffic models (models, methodologies, and techniques), testing, and applications.
Authors are invited to submit papers presenting new research results related to the theory or practice of intelligent railway transportation systems and railway vehicular ad hoc networks in the framework of the following main topics:
* train-to-train communications
* train-to-vehicle communications
* train-to-infrastructure communications
* intra-train communications
* train-to-Internet communications and multimedia applications
* train localisation using communication technology
* mobility and traffic models
* information collection and dissemination
* analytical and simulation techniques
* experimental systems and field operational testing
* protocol performance enhancements
* safety and non-safety related applications
* traveller information services
* multi-modal transport
SUBMISSION
Authors are invited to submit full papers comprising original work, not previously published, in English of max. 12 pages (or max. 8 pages for work in progress) in LNCS single-column format. All papers will be reviewed by an international program committee with appropriate expertise. Submissions must present original work that has not been previously published, and is not under submission else-where. The ideal submission should provide an insightful survey of existing work, introduce a radically new concept, or present concrete, significant, transferable research based on the implementation and evaluation of a working system. All papers submitted for review are subject to a double-blind review process, i.e. must not contain any information revealing the identity of the authors (anonymization). The final version of all papers must include a title, complete contact information for all authors, and key-words on the cover page.
A properly anonymized version of the paper has to be submitted to the Nets4Cars page at EDAS not later than the submission deadline listed below using the following link: http://edas.info/N9483
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission due: 14 Nov 2010
Notification date: 22 Dec 2010
Camera-ready due: 07 Jan 2011
Workshop: 22-24 Mar 2011
PUBLICATION
Accepted papers will be presented by their authors at the workshop to be held in the Munich area and published in the Springer Lecture Notes on Computer Science (tbc.). Registration for the workshop by at least one of the authors and presenting the paper is a mandatory requirement for having the paper included in the proceedings.
VENUE
The workshop will be held at the premises of the Institute of Communications and Navigation, German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich, Germany.
See http://www.dlr.de/kn
All participants of the workshop and any accompanying person may attend a free-of-charge tour though DLR after the workshop.
TECHNICAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE (confirmed members)
* Marina Aguado, University of the Basque Country (Spain)
* Onur Altintas, Toyota InfoTechnology Center (Japan)
* Atif Alvi, LUMS (Pakistan)
* Petros Belimpasakis, Nokia Research Center (Finland)
* Marion Berbineau, INRETS (France)
* Mohamed Boucadair, France Telecom (France)
* Torsten Braun, University of Bern (Switzerland)
* Marcello Caleffi , University of Naples "Federico II" (Italy)
* Eduardo Cerqueira, University of Coimbra (Portugal)
* Marilia Curado, University of Coimbra (Portugal)
* Andreas Festag, NEC Laboratories Europe (Germany)
* Fethi Filali, Qatar University Wireless Innovations Center (Qatar)
* Francisco Garcia, Agilent Technologies (UK)
* Javier Gozalvez, Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche. Uwicore Laboratory (Spain)
* Christophe Gransart, INRETS (France)
* Oleg Gusikhin, Ford (USA)
* Jerome Harri, EURECOM (France)
* Geert Heijenk, University of Twente (Netherlands)
* Muhammad Ali Imran, University of Surrey (UK)
* Sithamparanathan Kandeepan, CREATE-NET (Italy)
* Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Tampere University of Technology (Finland)
* Long Le, NEC Laboratories Europe (Germany)
* Fei Liu, University of Twente (Netherlands)
* Katrin Luddecke, DLR (Germany)
* Juliette Marais, INRETS-LEOST (France)
* Rashid Mehmood, Swansea University (UK)
* John Murphy, University College Dublin (Ireland)
* Brian Park, University of Virginia (USA)
* Cristina Rico-Garcia, German Aerospace Center (DLR) (Germany)
* Matthias Rockl, German Aerospace Center (DLR) (Germany)
* Paolo Santi, IIT-CNR (Italy)
* Divitha Seetharamdoo, French National Institute for Transport and Safety Research (INRETS) (France)
* Thomas Strang, German Aerospace Center (DLR) (Germany)
* Tsutomu Tsuboi, Renesas Technology Corp (Japan)
* Alexey Vinel, SPIIRAS (Russia)
* Michelle Wetterwald, EURECOM (France)
* Christian Wewetzer, Volkswagen Group (Germany)
* Nawaporn Wisitpongphan, King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok (Thailand)
* Yang Zhang, Pennsylvania State University (USA)
A PDF version of this CfP can be found at http://www.nets4cars.org/doc/CFP_Nets4Cars_2011.pdf
