First International Workshop on Personalized Networks
Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: April 9, 2006 11:59 PM (CET) (CLOSED) Notification of Acceptance: May 16, 2006 Camera-Ready Submissions: May 31, 2006 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 University of Twente, Netherlands Geert Heijenk University of Twente, 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 Piet van Mieghem 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 Ramjee Prasad University of Aalbarg, Denmark Tarek Saadawi City University of New York, USA 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 Ramin Hekmat Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Martin Jacobsson Delft University of Technology, Netherlands R. V. Prasad Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Call for Papers - the PDF version	Personalized Networks to be held in conjunction with The 3rd Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networks and Services (MOBIQUITOUS 2006) July 21, 2006 - San Jose, California, USA http://pernets.org/ Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and the IEEE Digital Library *** Final Technical Program *** 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 ponder. On the one hand we see present day mobile devices capable of providing many integrated services that only yesterday required several different devices. For instance, 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 the desire to be always 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 futuristic concept where we try 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 the 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 it must be ad hoc, intelligent and behaves as a user-friendly virtual intelligent personal assistant to the person who owns it. 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 outlined above towards 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 the goal of a Personalized Network. Addressing and routing Architectural framework of personalized networks Context-aware and application-driven communication substrates Dependability Handling of QoS across heterogeneous and dynamically changing link layers Innovative applications or prototypes and demonstrations of person-centric highly valued applications Interactions between persons through their networks, federations of such networks Interworking between PANs, ad hoc networks, etc, and infrastructure-based heterogeneous networks Mapping of functional requirements to physical devices and resources Modeling and simulation of personalized networks Mobility of personalized networks Multimedia services for personalized networks New QoS concepts in personalized networks P2P paradigm in personalized networks Resource, service and context discovery Security, privacy and accounting Self-organization and adaptation Zero configuration methods and other enablers for ease-of-use 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 would 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. Workshop Registration Registration for the workshop will be handled through the registration process of Mobiquitous. Submission Instructions 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 “Events' list”. Scroll down to find “PerNets 2006”. 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. Questions regarding the submission procedures can be sent to our email address: wpn@ewi.tudelft.nl.
Updated by: Martin Jacobsson, m.jacobsson@ewi.tudelft.nl.