Energy in Communication, Information, and Cyber-physical Systems (E6) - Call For paper

Paper submission deadline: October 26, 2011
Workshop date: January 4, 2012
Workshop location: Bangalore, India

Energy efficiency as a means to sustainable high-quality life is currently of a high interest to the public, governments, and industry. The E6 (Energy in Communication, Information, and Cyber-physical Systems) workshop at COMSNETS 2012 focuses on energy efficiency in communication, information, and cyber-physical systems, as well as their computation, communication, sensing, and actuating components. Within this scope, the E6 workshop seeks original paper submissions on architectures, protocols, applications, services, systems, models, theoretical analysis, simulations, real-system experiments, measurements, and usage studies in such areas as:

1. Communication networks, including machine-to-machine communications, network virtualization, routing, transmission control, channel access, wireless and optical communication media;
2. End systems, including mobile phones, radio-frequency identification devices, robots, and other sensors and actuators;
3. Data centers, including cloud computing;
4. Electricity networks, including electricity generation, transmission, distribution, control, consumption, and metering;
5. Transportation networks, including vehicles, infrastructure, operation, congestion, navigation, and safety
6. Building automation, including homes and commercial buildings, lighting, heating, air conditioning, and other appliance control;
7. Economic and social factors, including financial rewards, social pressure, curiosity and other natural incentives.

The full-day workshop features a keynote speech by Prof. Prashant Shenoy from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. In addition to the keynote speech and regular paper presentations, the E6 program will include a panel discussion in one of the workshop focus areas.

The E6 workshop solicits paper submissions of up to 6 pages in length, including all figures, tables, and references. All papers must be electronically submitted via the E6 submission site http://netreviews.cs.wisc.edu/e6workshop2012/ in PDF. The proceedings will be published by IEEE Xplore and will include the final papers of up to 6 pages in length. All E6 technical papers must be associated with an author registration at the full rate. For authors presenting multiple papers, one full registration is valid for up to three papers. IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the workshop (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the workshop.

Each paper acceptance is subject to the conditions that the paper does not contain any plagiarized material and that the authors do not submit the paper material in parallel to another publication venue. Violations of these conditions will most likely result in rejections of the violating submissions or even already accepted papers.

Important Dates

1. Paper submission: October 26, 2011 (at 11 pm IST)
2. Notification of acceptance: November 16, 2011
3. Camera ready submission: December 2, 2011
4. Workshop: January 4, 2012

Co-Chairs

1. Sergey Gorinsky , Institute IMDEA Networks, Spain
2. Shivkumar Kalyanaraman , IBM Research, India

Keynote Speaker

1. Prashant Shenoy , University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

Technical Program Committee

1. Marco Ajmone Marsan, Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy and Institute IMDEA Networks, Spain
2. Vijay Arya, IBM Research, India
3. Sujata Banerjee, HP Labs, USA
4. Ken Christensen, University of South Florida, USA
5. Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK
6. Antonio Fernandez Anta, Institute IMDEA Networks, Spain
7. Sergey Gorinsky, Institute IMDEA Networks, Spain
8. Carmen Guerrero, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
9. Raj Jain, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
10. Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, IBM Research, India
11. Jasleen Kaur, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
12. Srinivasan Keshav, University of Waterloo, Canada
13. Ravi Kokku, IBM Research, India
14. Luciano Lenzini, University of Pisa, Italy
15. Ibrahim Matta, Boston University, USA
16. K. K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T Labs Research, USA
17. Catherine Rosenberg, University of Waterloo, Canada
18. Devasenapathi Seetharamakrishnan, IBM Research, India
19. Puneet Sharma, HP Labs, USA
20. Prashant Shenoy, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
21. Vijay Sivaraman, University of New South Wales, Australia
22. Rade Stanojevic, Institute IMDEA Networks, Spain
23. Leandros Tassiulas, University of Thessaly, Greece
24. Tuan Trinh, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
25. Arun Venkataramani, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
26. Harrick Vin, Tata Consultancy Services, India
27. Praveen Yalagandula, HP Labs, USA

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