Second International Workshop on Personalized Networks
Call for Paper in PDF Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: April 15, 2007 (CLOSED) Notification of Acceptance: June 1, 2007 Camera-Ready Submissions: June 10, 2007 Contact Information Email: wpn@ewi.tudelft.nl General chairperson Ignas Niemegeers Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Program Co-Chairpersons Sonia Heemstra de Groot University of Twente, Netherlands Sai Shankar Qualcomm, San Diego, USA Magda El Zarki University of California, Irvine, USA Publicity Chairperson Paolo Bellavista Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy Technical Program Committee Paolo Bellavista Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy Milind M Buddhikot Bell Laboratories, New Jersey, USA Chun-Ting Chou Philips Research, New York, USA Carlos Cordeiro Philips Research, New York, USA Piet Demeester Ghent University, Belgium Sudhir Dixit Nokia, Boston, USA Minaxi Gupta Indiana University, USA Carmelita Görg University of Bremen, Germany K. V. S. Hari Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Frank den Hartog TNO, Netherlands Sonia Heemstra de Groot TI-WMC, Netherlands Geert Heijenk University of Twente, Netherlands Ramin Hekmat Delft University of Technology, Netherlands James Irvine Strathclyde University, Scotland H. S. Jamadagni Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Ernö Kovacs NEC Europe, Heidelberg, Germany Anup Kumar University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA Joy Kuri Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Guy Leduc Universite de Liege, Belgium Anthony Lo Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Ingrid Moerman Ghent University, Belgium Luis Muñoz 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 Neeli Prasad University of Aalbarg, Denmark Ramjee Prasad University of Aalbarg, Denmark Tarek Saadawi City University of New York, USA Paolo Santi CNR Institute for Informatics and Telematics, Italy Amardeo Sarma NEC Network Laboratories, Germany Sai Shankar Qualcomm, San Diego, USA Sirin Tekinay New Jersey Institute of Technology, New Jersey, USA Magda El Zarki University of California, Irvine, USA Djamal Zeghlache INT, Paris, France Organizing Committee Bảo Linh Đặng Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Ramin Hekmat Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Weidong Lu Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Martin Jacobsson Delft University of Technology, Netherlands R. V. Prasad Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Past Workshops Pernets 2006	Personalized Networks to be held in conjunction with The 4th Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networks and Services (MOBIQUITOUS 2007) August 10, 2007 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA http://pernets.org/ Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and the IEEE Digital Library *** Final Technical Program *** REGISTER HERE FOR THE WORKSHOP 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. To attend the workshop, you need to register. Registration is done via this website. If you register before July 7, you will get a discounted early registration fee. Submission Instructions NOTICE: Paper submission for this year's Pernets workshop is now closed. All paper submissions will be handled electronically. All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the technical program committee. Accepted papers will be made available in IEEE Explore and IEEE digital library. Authors should prepare an Adobe Acrobat PDF version of their full paper. Papers must be in English and not exceed 8 pages double column in IEEE conference format (US Letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches) including text, figures and references. The font size must be 10 points. Please follow the IEEE conference paper format as given in these templates: MS Word, LaTeX (Unix), or LaTeX (MS Windows). See sample manuscript as a visual aid for formatting and styles. Paper submission will be handled electronically by the COCUS Conference Management System. In order to submit a paper you must first create a COCUS account. Please go to the COCUS website: http://cocus.create-net.it/cocus/ Click on “Register” if you do not already have an account. Once you have an account, login and click on “Submit Paper”. Scroll down to find “PerNets 07”. Choose the “Submit a paper” link. Once the paper has been registered, please upload the manuscript by clicking “submit” on the right-hand side. After the paper has been uploaded successfully, the status of the manuscript will change to 'submitted', and you will also receive a confirmation email generated by the system. Further information about COCUS for authors is available here. Questions regarding the submission procedures can be sent to our email address: wpn@ewi.tudelft.nl. The First Workshop The First Pernets Workshop was held in conjunction with Mobiquitous - 2006 (San Jose) and was a success. We received 24 papers out of which we selected 8 Full Papers and 4 Posters. All the papers and posters were presented during the workshop. Many of the attendees came from Europe and one from Australia. At the end of the workshop, we had an informal session during which all the attendees were allowed freely to share their ideas about the workshop. Based on the feedback, we will be giving more credence to the implementation and measurements. If we receive more papers we will also be able to arrange an expo during the poster session.
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