From sbmoon at kaist.edu Mon Jun 7 20:09:16 2010 From: sbmoon at kaist.edu (Sue Moon) Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 12:09:16 +0900 Subject: [sigcomm] ACM SIGCOMM Travel Grant Application Deadline Extended to 11:59pm PDT, June 12th Message-ID: <009401cb06b7$fc6e4ce0$f54ae6a0$@edu> Dear colleagues, We have received generous financial support for the conference this year, and can issue a large number of travel grants in various categories. To encourage more people to apply, we have decided to extend the travel grant application deadline for travel grants by a week to 11:59 pm PDT on June 12, 2010. Could you please encourage your students, summer interns, post-docs and junior faculty to apply for travel grants (all the various grants available, the rules etc. are available at: http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2010/grants.php We are well-positioned to issue a large number of travel grants. Please pass this information on to anyone who you think might be interested. Thanks, Ranjita, Sue, and KK ------------------------------------------------------------------- The travel grant application deadline for ACM Sigcomm conference, workshops and other associated events is extended to June 12, 2010, 11:59 PDT. Do consider applying! Please see the following URL for details. http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2010/grants.php Sigcomm is being held this year in New Delhi, India from August 30 through September 3. Several sources of grants are available for students and eligible faculty members/researchers from all across the globe. Support for SIGCOMM 2010 has been provided from the following organizations: 1. NSF will continue the tradition of sponsoring a number of US-based graduate students. Support will also extend to a limited number of US-based postdoctoral scholars. 2. Euro-NF funding is available for students studying in Euro-NF partner institutions. To qualify, a student must be a member of the Euro-NF team in a participating university and/or research center at the time of application. 3. ACM Sigcomm GeoDiversity travel grants are available for attendees in their early career (at most five years of full-time, full-level, non-postdoc, post-PhD employment) from under-represented countries, based on need, distance to the conference venue, and impact of their attendance in increasing the diversity of conference participation. 4. We are working on government support specifically for Indian students and researchers to attend Sigcomm. This includes PhD students, faculty and researchers at all universities in India. 5. The Sigcomm Executive Committee and various corporate sponsors have provided additional support to increase support for attendees across all categories. From Olivier.Bonaventure at uclouvain.be Thu Jun 10 11:43:42 2010 From: Olivier.Bonaventure at uclouvain.be (Olivier Bonaventure) Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:43:42 +0200 Subject: [sigcomm] Towards a SIGCOMM education community Message-ID: <4C11325E.7050701@uclouvain.be> Dear All, In 2002, an ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Computer Networking: Curriculum Designs and Educational Challenges was organized to discuss about the different approaches to organise a networking course. Since then, networking has continued to grow and besides an introductory networking course, university programmes often include advanced courses, seminars or special labs. Networking educators prepare lots of teaching material for these courses. Some of them spent countless hours to prepare detailed slides, collect reference papers or prepare labs or exercises. Unfortunately, many of these educational resources are often only used within a single university... To allow members of our community to share their educational resources, we launch a new interactive web site on http://education.sigcomm.org We encourage you to actively contribute to the SIGCOMM education community through this website by : 1. If you are a teacher or teaching assistant, you can post links to educational resources such as slides, exercices, lab experiments, bibliographies or pointers to tutorial papers, video or recordings of courses or seminars 2. If you are a student, researcher, network professional or teacher, read the educational resources linked on the web site, tag, rank and comment on them through the web site. To bootstrap the website, we sollicit first education resources that are appropriate for a first networking course at the undergraduate or graduate levels. We will issue later calls for education material that is suitable for advanced courses. Suggestions and comments are of course welcome. Olivier Bonaventure From mcvuran at cse.unl.edu Wed Jun 16 12:16:09 2010 From: mcvuran at cse.unl.edu (M. Can Vuran) Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:16:09 -0500 Subject: [sigcomm] Special Issue on Wireless Communication in Challenged Environments Message-ID: <4C1922F9.8010402@cse.unl.edu> [Apologies in advance, if you receive multiple copies] ========================================= Ad Hoc Networks Journal (Elsevier) Special Issue on WIRELESS COMMUNICATION IN CHALLENGED ENVIRONMENTS ========================================= Guest Editors: Mehmet Can VURAN, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Wendi HEINZELMAN, University of Rochester, USA Jun-Hong CUI, University of Connecticut, USA Gilles Y. DELISLE, Technology Integration Center, Canada Martine LIENARD, University of Lille, France Cedric WESTPHAL, DoCoMo Labs, USA ************* Paper submission deadline: July 9, 2010 ************** The recent advances in wireless communications and networking have motivated the use of these technologies in environments where no computer has gone before. More specifically, the ubiquitous data gathering, computation, and communication capabilities of tiny sensors motes, microprocessors, and mobile communication devices have recently been exploited in places such as underground mines, tunnels, and soil; underwater environments such as oceans and rivers; the outer space; and locations affected by natural disasters. Wireless communication in these challenged environments is characterized by the direct impact of the physical world environment on the communication and networking performance. Accordingly, the traditional definitions of communication channel, connectivity, network topology, packet route, or message delivery may no longer hold true. To provide the required guarantees for applications in these environments, a fundamental understanding of the environmental impacts on communication as well as the physical layer affects on higher layer protocols is required. Moreover, cross-layer solutions that address the challenges in these environments by incorporating the interactions between the environment and communication performance are beneficial. Consequently, environment-aware solutions that adapt to the changes in their environment can be realized. This special issue is dedicated to recent advances in communication and networking in challenged environments. Papers describing applications, protocols, analysis models, evaluation methods, and experimental studies are solicited. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Network architectures - Analysis models - Channel models - Resiliency, reliability, and robustness - Communication protocols (transport, routing, MAC, error control, security) - Cross-layer design and optimization - Localization solutions - Deployment scenarios and experiences in Challenged Environments including: - Underground (Mines, tunnels, and soil) - Underwater - Space - Disaster areas - Urban areas About the Ad Hoc Networks ----------------------------------- The Ad Hoc Networks is an international and archival journal providing a publication vehicle for complete coverage of all topics of interest to those involved in ad hoc and sensor networking areas. The Ad Hoc Networks considers original, high quality and unpublished contributions addressing all aspects of ad hoc and sensor networks. Submission format ----------------------------------- The submitted papers must be written in English and describe original research which is not published nor currently under review by other journals or conferences. Author guidelines for preparation of manuscript can be found at www.elsevier.com/locate/adhoc For more information, please contact the Editor-in-Chief: Ian F. Akyildiz (adhoc at ece.gatech.edu) Submission Guideline ----------------------------------- All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through Elsevier Editorial System (EES). The authors must select as ?Special Issue: Challenged Environments? when they reach the ?Article Type? step in the submission process. The EES website is located at: http://ees.elsevier.com/adhoc/ Guide for Authors ----------------------------------- This site will guide you stepwise through the creation and uploading of you article. The guide for Authors can be found on the journal homepage (www.elsevier.com/adhoc). Important Dates: ------------------------ Submission Deadline: July 9, 2010 Notification of Acceptance: October 4, 2010 Camera-Ready Papers Due: December 3, 2010 -- -- M. Can Vuran, Ph. D. Assistant Professor Cyber-Physical Networking Laboratory Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-0115 Office: 109 Schorr Center Phone: (402) 472-5019 Fax: (402) 472-7767 mcvuran at cse.unl.edu http://cpn.unl.edu/ From bdavie at cisco.com Thu Jun 17 12:48:56 2010 From: bdavie at cisco.com (Bruce Davie) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:48:56 -0400 Subject: [sigcomm] Hotnets Submission Deadline Message-ID: Note that the deadline for registering abstracts is 2 weeks away (July 2nd) Bruce Davie ============= ACM HotNets-IX October 20-21, 2010 Monterey, California, USA http://conferences.sigcomm.org/hotnets/2010/ Call for Papers The Ninth ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets-IX) will bring together people with interest in computer networks to engage in a lively debate on the theory and practice of networking. Continuing the HotNets tradition, the workshop will provide a venue for presenting and discussing innovative ideas that have the potential to significantly influence the community. The goal is to promote community-wide discussion of those ideas. We invite researchers and practitioners to submit short position papers describing such ideas. A paper could, for example, expose a new problem, advocate a new approach, re-frame or debunk existing work, report unexpected results from a deployment, or propose new evaluation methodologies. We especially encourage submissions of early-stage work and enticing but unproven ideas. Once fully developed and evaluated, the work may be relevant to conferences such as SIGCOMM, SOSP, SenSys, NSDI, MobiCom, PODC, or Infocom. HotNets takes a broad view of networking research. This view includes new ideas relating to (but not limited to) home and enterprise networks, ISP networks, sensor and personal area networks, wireless and acoustic networks, data center networks, peer-to-peer networks, network architecture, and disruption-tolerant networks. It encompasses all aspects of such networks, including (but not limited to) resource management, economics and evolution, robustness and security, mobility, interactions with applications, energy, measurement and diagnosis, and hardware. Position papers will be selected based on originality, likelihood of spawning insightful discussion at the workshop, and technical merit. Accepted papers will be posted online prior to the workshop and a workshop summary will be published in ACM SIGCOMM's Computer Communication Review (CCR), widely disseminating the ideas discussed at the workshop. Workshop Participation HotNets is an invitation-only workshop. To ensure an interactive atmosphere, attendance will be limited to around 60 people. Invitations will be extended per the following priorities: * one author per accepted paper, any speakers invited by the Program Committee, and the Program and Steering Committees, * co-authors of accepted and submitted papers, preferring students as available travel support allows, and * event-sponsor representatives and additional authors of submitted papers at the discretion of the Program Committee. Submission Instructions Submitted papers must be no longer than 6 pages (10 point font, 1 inch margins). All submissions must be blind: submissions must not indicate the names or affiliations of the authors in the paper. Only electronic submissions in PDF will be accepted. Submissions must be written in English, render without error using standard tools (e.g., Acrobat Reader), and print on US-Letter sized paper. Papers must contain novel ideas and must differ significantly in content from previously published papers and papers under simultaneous submission. Important Dates Abstract registration: July 2, 2010 (11:59pm EDT) Paper submission: July 9, 2010 (11:59pm EDT) Notification of decision: August 27, 2010 Camera-ready submission: September 27, 2010 Workshop dates: October 20-21, 2010 Organizing Committee: General Chairs: Geoffrey Xie (Naval Postgraduate School) Robert Beverly (Naval Postgraduate School) Program Chairs: Robert Morris (MIT) Bruce Davie (Cisco Systems) Program Committee: Bryan Ford (Yale) Albert Greenberg (Microsoft) Paul Francis (Max Planck Institute) Laurent Mathy (University of Lancaster) Ben Zhao (UC Santa Barbara) Eddie Kohler (UCLA) Vern Paxson (UC Berkeley) John Lockwood (Algo-Logic and Stanford) Ratul Mahajan (Microsoft)