Wireless & RF

The Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have seen rapid growth and development in the recent past. This has led to their wide diffusion and application, increasing their economic and social impact, ultimately giving rise to a Knowledge-Based Society. ICT systems have become ubiquitous and pervasive today. The biggest challenge faced by researchers is not only to make such systems feasible, but also to make them secure and dependable. The aim of the Conference is to provide a stimulating forum for representatives from industry, academia and government agencies to share ideas, report findings and discuss products, thus defining future directions in these cutting edge technologies. The highlights of the Conference will include contributed papers, invited talks, vendor exhibitions, practical experience reports, tutorials, poster presentations and panel discussions on topics including but not limited to the following: • Distributed systems and computer networks • Adhoc networks • Wireless sensor networks • Location aware and power aware systems • Mobile agents • Ecommerce • Fault-tolerant systems • Information and network security • Web security • Trust modeling • Security measurement and analysis • Security testing • Multimedia communications • Storage networks

********************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS 9th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN 2008) January 5-8, 2008 Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India http://www.icdcn.org ********************************************************************* The 9th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking, ICDCN 2008, will be held at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, during January 5-8, 2008. Over the years, ICDCN (formerly known as IWDC) has become a leading forum for disseminating the latest research results in distributed computing and networks. Jadavpur University (http://www.jadavpur.edu), which hosts ICDCN 2008, is one of the premier universities in India with faculties in Arts, Sciences, Engineering and Technology, and is located in the historic and glorious city of Kolkata, where tradition and modernity blend in harmony. SCOPE: ----- Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished results are solicited in all areas of theory and practice of distributed systems and networking. ICDCN 2008 will be organized in two tracks - Distributed Computing and Networking. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Distributed Computing Track: 1. Communication and Synchronization Protocols 2. Distributed Algorithms and Architectures, their Analysis and Complexity 3. Distributed Operating Systems, Middleware, Databases 4. Experiments and Performance Measurements in Distributed Systems 5. Fault-tolerance and Self-stabilization 6. High Performance, Cluster and Grid Computing 7. Mutiprocessor and Multicore Architectures and Algorithms 8. Security in Distributed Systems 9. Shared and Transactional Memory, Concurrent Programming 10. Specification and Verification of Distributed Systems Networking Track: 1. Wireless Networks - Cellular, Ad hoc, Wireless LANs 2. Sensor Networks 3. Mobile, Pervasive and Autonomic Computing 4. Optical, Overlay and Peer-to-Peer Networks 5. Integration of Heterogeneous Wireless and Wireline Networks 6. Internetworking Protocols and Internet Applications 7. Network Reliability, Security and Privacy 8. Resource Management and Quality of Service 9. Performance Modeling and Evaluation 10. Traffic Engineering, Pricing, Capacity Planning and Network Management PAPER SUBMISSION: ---------------- A submission should report on original research that did not previously appear in a journal or a conference proceedings and has not been concurrently submitted to any other conference or journal. Papers should not exceed twelve single-spaced pages using at least 11-point font and one inch margins on all sides on A4/Letter size pages, including references, figures, tables etc. All papers must be submitted electronically through the submissions link in the conference website. Accepted papers will appear in a printed proceedings published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. Some papers that are judged to have limited merit may be accepted as short papers, with up to six pages in the proceedings. At the time of submission, authors should indicate if they wish to have their paper considered as a short paper if it is not accepted as a full paper. At least one author of each accepted paper must register and attend the conference. BEST PAPER AWARD: ---------------- Starting this year, a prize will be given to the paper that is judged by the Program Committee to be the best on the basis of its content and presentation. The Program Committee may decline to make the award or decide to split it. TUTORIALS AND KEYNOTE TALKS: --------------------------- There will be a full day of tutorials on the first day of the conference. The conference will also feature keynote talks from leading researchers in the field. Details of the tutorials and the keynote talks will be announced in the conference website (http://www.icdcn.org) later. IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------------------------------- Paper Submission Deadline: July 25, 2007 Notification of Acceptance: September 21, 2007 Camera-ready Paper Due: October 12, 2007 Conference: January 5-8, 2008 ---------------------------------------------------- STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIR: ------------------------ Sukumar Ghosh, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA GENERAL CHAIRS: -------------- Marco Conti, CNR, Italy Pradip K. Das, Jadavpur University, India Nicola Santoro, Carleton University, Canada PROGRAM CHAIRS: -------------- Prasad Jayanti, Dartmouth College, USA (Distributed Computing Track) C. Siva Ram Murthy, IIT Madras, India (Networking Track) Mainak Chatterjee, Univ. of Central Florida, USA (Vice-Chair, Networking Track) KEYNOTE CHAIR: ------------- Sajal Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA TUTORIAL CHAIRS: --------------- Sajal Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Sarmistha Neogy, Jadavpur University, India ORGANIZING CHAIR: ---------------- Atal Chaudhuri, Jadavpur University, India PROGRAM COMMITTEE: ----------------- Distributed Computing Track --------------------------- Marcos Aguilera, HP Lab, USA Lorenzo Alvisi, University of Texas at Austin, USA Soma Chaudhuri, Iowa State University, USA Nabanita Das, ISI, Kolkata, India Vijay Garg, University of Texas at Austin, USA Ratan Ghosh, IIT Kanpur, India Sukumar Ghosh, University of Iowa, USA Rachid Guerraoui, EPFL, Switzerland Arobinda Gupta, IIT Kharagpur, India Danny Hendler, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Maurice Herlihy, Brown University, USA Prasad Jayanti, Dartmouth College, USA Kamal Karlapalem, IIIT Hyderabad, India Rastislav Kralovic, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia Victor Luchangco, Sun Labs, USA Keith Marzullo, University of California, San Diego, USA Yoram Moses, Technion, Israel Alessandro Panconesi, University of Rome, Italy Sriram Pemmaraju, University of Iowa, USA Srdjan Petrovic, Google, USA Sergio Rajsbaum, UNAM, Mexico R. Ramanujam, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India Shrisha Rao, IIIT Bangalore, India Kannan Srinathan, IIIT Hyderabad, India Sam Toueg, University of Toronto, Canada Srikantha Tirthapura, Iowa State University, USA Krishnamurthy Vidyasankar, Memorial University of New Foundland, Canada Networking Track ---------------- Debopam Acharya, Georgia Southern University, USA Dharma P. Agrawal, University of Cincinnati, USA Arzad Alam, IIT Delhi, India Amiya Bhattacharya, New Mexico State University, USA Saad Biaz, Auburn University, USA Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada Mainak Chatterjee, University of Central Florida, USA Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, Polytechnic of Turin, Italy Samir R. Das, SUNY at Stony Brook, USA Kartik Gopalan, State University of New York at Binghamton, USA Isabelle Guerin-Lassous, INRIA, France Ashwin Gumaste, IIT Bombay, India Sridhar Iyer, IIT Bombay, India Holger Karl, University of Paderborn, Germany Taskin Kocak, University of Bristol, UK Rajeev Kumar, IIT Kharagpur, India Kevin Kwiat, Air Force Research Lab, USA Yonghe Liu, University of Texas at Arlington, USA D. Majunath, IIT Bombay, India B. S. Manoj, University of California, San Diego, USA Mahesh Marina, The University of Edinburgh, UK Ravi R. Mazumdar, University of Waterloo, Canada Prasant Mohapatra, University of California, Davis, USA Sukumar Nandi, IIT Guwahati, India Asis Nasipuri, University of North Carolina, USA Lionel Ni, Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Technology Marius Portmann, The University of Queensland, Australia Ramachandran Ramjee, Microsoft Research, Bangalore, India Manivasakan R., IIT Madras, India Romit Roy Choudhury, Duke University, USA Rajarshi Roy, IIT Kharagpur, India Pavan S. N., Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Vinod Sharma, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India C. Siva Ram Murthy, IIT Madras, India Vikram Srinivasan, National University of Singapore Pallapa Venkataram, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India ******************************************************************************

Mobile Wireless Communications enable the exchange of information in a real, or near real-time manner, without the constraint of a fixed point of access. Reliable and secure communications combined with constant and universal network availability, are key elements for the successful commercialization of the applications that utilize the wireless technology. However, new security challenges emerge due to the dynamic network topology, the open nature of the wireless medium, the resource constraints of the mobile devices and, possibly, the lack of a pre-deployed infrastructure. The workshop on Security for Mobile Wireless Communication (SeMIC), held in conjunction with COMSWARE 2008, seeks submissions from the academia and industry, that present novel approaches on addressing security issues for mobile wireless communications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Authentication and access control * Secure MAC/PHY protocols for mobile networks * Cooperation, fairness and incentive -based security * Key management for wireless/mobile environments * Trust establishment * Intrusion detection in mobile networks * Accountability for malicious behavior and resource misuse * Revocation of malicious parties * Secure location services * Privacy, anonymity and prevention of traffic analysis * Security in cognitive radios * Security in vehicular networks * Anti-Jamming techniques, and DoS Countermeasures * Vulnerability modeling and threat analysis * Security & privacy in RFID systems * Secure routing Paper submission instructions ============================= Submission of papers based on work-in-progress is encouraged. Submitted papers must not be previously published elsewhere or currently under review for any other publication. Please direct any questions regarding the paper submission process to the Program Co-Chairs. All submissions are limited to 6 PAGES in fonts no smaller than 10pt, and must be in standard IEEE double-column format. Each submission should start with the title, abstract, and names and contact information of authors. The introduction should give background and summarize the contributions of the paper at a level appropriate for a non-specialist reader. All paper submissions will be handled electronically via the COCUS system. Authors should prepare a Portable Document Format (PDF) version of their paper. Important dates ================ * Paper submission deadline: September 28, 2007 * Notification of acceptance: November 3, 2007 * Camera-ready papers due: December 3, 2007 * Workshop date: January 6, 2008 Technical Program Co-Chairs =========================== * Loukas Lazos, University of Arizona, USA * Mingyan Li, Boeing Phantom Works, USA Honorary Chair ============== * Radha Poovendran, University of Washington, USA Publicity Chair =============== * Krishna Sampigethaya, University of Washington, USA Technical Program Committee =========================== * Rana Barua, Indian Statistical Institute, India * Levente Buttyan, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary * Srdjan Capkun, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland * Bogdan Carbunar, Motorola Labs, USA * Reza Curtmola, John Hopkins University, USA * Rainer Falk, Corporate Technology, Siemens AG, Germany * Leping Huang, Nokia Research Center & University of Tokyo, Japan * Dijiang Huang, Arizona State University, USA * Iordanis Koutsopoulos, University of Thessaly, Greece * Jun Li, University of Oregon, USA * Donggang Liu, University of Texas at Arlington, USA * Guevara Noubir, Northeastern University, USA * Roberto Di Pietro, Università "La Sapienza", Roma, Italy * Wenyuan Xu, University of South Carolina, USA * Yanyong Zhang, Rutgers University, USA For further information, please contact Loukas Lazos (llazos@ece.arizona.edu or 520-626-0736) or Mingyan Li (Mingyan.li@boeing.com or 425-865-1027)