[HiPEAC-announce] Personalized Networks (PerNets) cfp, within IEEE CCNC

[Paolo Bellavista]

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                                        CALL FOR PAPERS

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     Third International Workshop on Personalized Networks
                      http://pernets.irctr.tudelft.nl/

                to be held in conjunction with 
the IEEE Consumer Communications and
                 Networking Conference (CCNC 
2009) - http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2009/
         January 13, 2008 - Harrah's Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA


Accepted papers will be published in the 
conference proceedings and the IEEE Digital Library
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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. 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.

Four broader areas under which the presentations are classified:
    * Architectures and systems
    * End-to-end networking
    * Security and privacy
    * Operations, administration, management, and provisioning

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.
    * The architectural framework of personalized networks
    * Context awareness and support
    * 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
    * Security, privacy and accounting
    * Zero configuration methods and other enablers for ease-of-use
    * Dependability
    * Context-aware and application-driven communication substrates
    * Interactions between persons through their 
networks, federations of such networks
    * Handling of QoS across heterogeneous and 
dynamically changing link layers
    * New QoS concepts in personalized networks
    * 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 will 
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.

Contact Information
Email: wpn at ewi.tudelft.nl

General chairperson
Ignas Niemegeers, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Program Co-Chairpersons
Sonia Heemstra de Groot, University of Twente, Netherlands
Magda El Zarki, University of California, Irvine, USA

Organizing Committee
Martin Jacobsson, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
R. V. Prasad, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Publicity Chairperson
Paolo Bellavista, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy

Paolo Bellavista, Ph. D.
Associate Professor in Computer Science Engineering
EB Member of IEEE Communications and IEEE T. Services Computing
DEIS - Università degli Studi di Bologna
Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna (ITALY)
Tel# +39-051-2093866; Fax# +39-051-2093073
Email: paolo.bellavista at unibo.it
Web: http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/PaoloBellavista/  
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