IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference
(Held in conjunction with the International Consumer Electronics Show, January 8-11 2013)

Call for Papers - Technical Program

3D Imaging, Processing, Communication and Display

Intelligent and Emotion-oriented Computing

Mobile Devices, Platforms & Applications

Vehicular Communications & Networking: V2V, V2R, V2I, & V2U

Wireless Communications




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CALL FOR PAPERS

Technical Program Highlights:

Mobile Device, Platform and Applications
Chair: Ben Falchuk, ACS/Ericsson

Social Networking & Social Media
Chair: Henry Holtzman, MIT

Wireless Communications
Chairs: Angela Yingjun Zhang, CUHK
Wei Chen, Tsinghua University
David Grace, York University

Wireless Networking
Chair: Xi Zhang, Texas A&M University
Wei Yu, Towson University
Peer-to-Peer Networking and
Cloud-Based Content Distribution
Chair: Kurt Tutschku, Univ. of Vienna

Multimedia Networking, Services and Applications
Chair: Marie-José Montpetit, MIT

Smart Spaces and Sensor Networks
Chair: Damla Turgut, U. of Central Florida
Frederick T. Sheldon, ORNL

Security, Content Protection and DRM
Chair: Ton Kalker, Huawei
Vehicular Communications and Networking: V2V, V2I, V2R, and V2U
Chair: David Matolak, Ohio University

Green Communications
and Computations
Chairs: Xi Zhang, Texas A&M University
F. Richard Yu, Carleton University
eHealth, Ambient Assisted Living
Chairs: Artur Serrano, NST
Pradeep Ray, U. of New South Wales

Telepresence & Tele-robot
Chairs: Cha Zhang, Microsoft
Ruigang Yang, Univ. of Kentucky

Intelligent and Emotion-oriented Computing
Chair: Youngsang Choi, Samsung

3D Imaging, Processing, Communication and Display
Chair: Seungsin Lee, Samsung

Technical Program Details

Mobile Device, Platform and Applications
Chair: Ben Falchuk, ACS/Ericsson
• Mobile Platform and Mobile Applications
• Software Platforms and Development Tools
• Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Communications, Protocols, Applications, Test-beds
• Mobile Cloud Computing / Platform Issues and Techniques
• Mobile Operating Systems
• Test-bed Implementations and Results
• Emerging Platforms (e.g., Robot swarms, 60 GHz networking, etc.)
• Platform and Application Trustworthiness
• Application Marketplaces – Search and other Technical Issues
• Mobile Enterprise – Platforms and Applications
• Cloud and Mobile Information Technology (IT) for Enterprise
• Mobile Middleware
• New and Novel uses of Mobile Platforms
• Mobile Navigation
• Security of Mobile Platforms and Devices
• Performance-Oriented Design and Evaluation
• Privacy (e.g., Location, Social, Mobile App “Permissions”)
• Vehicular Networks – Mobile Devices, Frameworks, and Applications
• Location Services and Device Tracking
• Mobile Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
• Advances in Mobile Remote Access Technology

Social Networking & Social Media
Chair: Henry Holtzman, MIT
• Social network data (reality mining)
• Collaborative platforms and social recommendation
• New applications and services for social networks
• Social media on connected consumer electronics
• Novel connected consumer objects with embedded social networking
• Distributed architectures for social networks
• Performance and scalability of social networks
• Synchronization of information using social networks
• Identity management and personas

Wireless Communications
Chairs: Angela Yingjun Zhang, CUHK
Wei Chen, Tsinghua University
David Grace, York University
• Modulation, coding, and diversity techniques
• Cognitive radio and software defined radio
• Ultra-wideband communications (UWB)
• MIMO and multi-antenna communications
• Multi-user MIMO
• Space-time coding and processing
• OFDM and multi‐carrier systems
• Advanced equalization for single carrier systems
• Smart antennas
• Wireless air interface and link control
• CDMA, TDMA, FDMA, OFDMA air interfaces
• Detection and estimation
• Cross-layer design and physical layer based network Issues
• Security issues related to wireless communications
• Localization techniques
• Distributed multipoint, relay assisted, and cooperative communications
• Wireless communications testbed development
• Field tests and measurements
• Network coding
• Energy efficient techniques
• Large scale and distributed antenna cooperation
• Interference alignment and mitigation
• Signal processing for PHY
• Wireless optical communications

Wireless Networking
Chair: Xi Zhang, Texas A&M University
Wei Yu, Towson University
• Cellular systems, 2G/2.5G/3G/4G and beyond
• WiMAX, LTE, WMAN, and other emerging broadband wireless networks
• Networking issues in WLAN, WPAN, and other home/personal networking technologies
• Hybrid wireless and wired networks
• Satellite wireless networks
• Cooperative and relay wireless networks
• Body-based wireless networks
• Internet drive-through techniques
• Wireless networks for underwater and UAVs communications
• Delay tolerant wireless networks
• Wireless mesh networks
• Vehicular wireless networks
• Smart grid networks
• Cloud computing and data center networking
• Wireless Internet and mobile IP
• Wireless multimedia networks
• Service-centric and overlay networks
• Peer-to-peer wireless networks
• Location- and context-aware services
• End-to-end protocol, flow and congestion control
• heterogeneous wireless networks
• Resource and admission control
• Mobility, handoff, and location management
• Power management and control
• User cooperation and incentive schemes
• Cross-layer design and optimization
• Performance analysis and QoS provisioning
• Standardization activities of emerging wireless technologies

Peer-to-Peer Networking and Cloud-Based Content Distribution
Chair: Kurt Tutschku, Univ. of Vienna
• P2P Platforms, Algorithms and Architectures
• Overlay and Application Layer Multicast
• Peer-to-Peer VoIP and video conferencing
• Consumer Applications Enabled by P2P
• Resource and Content Sharing and Distribution
• Incentive Mechanisms in P2P Networks
• Reputation and Trust Mechanisms for P2P Networks and Cloud
• Overlay Networks
• Cloud Computing for Content Distribution
• Portability and Mobility of Content in Intermittent Consumer Networks and Clouds

Multimedia Networking, Services and Applications
Chair: Marie-José Montpetit, MIT
• Compression, processing and rendering
• Streaming protocols and applications
• Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE) measurement and analysis
• Multimedia services and applications over converged networks
• Network coding for caching and dissemination
• Network optimization for multimedia streaming and interactive gaming
• Service and topology discovery
• Smart, converged and networked television services and applications
• Field trials

Smart Spaces and Sensor Networks
Chairs: Damla Turgut, U. of Central Florida
Frederick T. Sheldon, ORNL
• Ad hoc, sensor, and vehicular networks
• Mobile and ubiquitous networking
• Context- and situation-awareness for smart spaces
• Real systems and testbed results for smart spaces
• Smart grid energy infrastructure cyber protection
• Smart grid security risk assessment and management
• Smart grid anti-tamper devices and architecture
• Security assurance/interoperability for energy delivery systems
• Scalable/trusted control (cyber-physical) systems security
• Renewable/distributed energy resources security (and management/control)

Security, Content Protection and DRM
Chair: Ton Kalker, Huawei
• DRM technologies and systems
• DRM usability (interoperability, payments, experience, awareness, and others)
• Media security (encryption, watermarking, tamper detection, and others)
• Hardware and software security (including trusted computing, obfuscation)
• Robust identification
• Security models & threat analysis (including mathematical models, traitor tracing)
• Privacy and anonymity
• Media usage and business models (interoperability, copyright, licensing, ownership, and others)
• Content protection and social media

Vehicular Communications and Networking: V2V, V2I, V2R, and V2U
Chair: David Matolak, Ohio University
• Physical & MAC layers: channels and propagation, IEEE 802.11p, DSRC/WAVE, enhancements, MIMO, OFDM, “application-driven” challenges such as low latency
• Networking: IEEE 1609, broadcasting/multicasting/unicasting, geocasting, ad hoc operation, interference in large aggregations of vehicles, capacity, resource management
• Simulations: PHY, MAC, V2V/V2R networking, V2V ad hoc networking, applications
• Operation/Deployment: field trials, economic models, infrastructure ownership/operation, security, “level of penetration” considerations
• Vehicle to Grid (V2G) for smart grid applications

Green Communications and Computations
Chairs: Xi Zhang, Texas A&M University
F. Richard Yu, Carleton University
• Energy efficient hardware, software, devices and designs
• Low energy consumption and low GHG emission
• Power/energy and spectrum efficient mobile communications, networks, and computations
• Energy efficiency and GHG emission metrics and measurements
• Standards, policy, and regulation
• Security of green communications and computations
• Experimental test-beds and results
• Pricing and billing for green communications and computations

eHealth, Ambient Assisted Living
Chairs:Artur Serrano, NST
Pradeep Ray, U. of New South Wales
• Wearable Medical Wireless Sensors
• Software Architectures for Ambient Assisted Living (Agent, SOA, Middleware, etc.)
• Autonomic Diagnosis and Situation Awareness (Fall, Activity, etc.)
• Context Awareness and Autonomous Computing to Support Independent Living
• Home based Health and wellness Measurement and Monitoring
• Home based Health Monitoring and Intervention
• Smart Home Applications and Services
• Security, Trust and Privacy
• Legal and Regulatory Issues
• Usability and Acceptability
• Personalized health and self help
• Patient – caregiver communication
• Behavioral change for improved health
• eRehabilitation
• User evaluation
• Coordination between informal and professional caregivers
• Patient access to health information
• Mobile health for ambient assisted living

Telepresence & Tele-robot
Chairs: Cha Zhang, Microsoft
Ruigang Yang, Univ. of Kentucky
• 3D Scene reconstruction
• 3D audio/visual synthesis
• Compression and streaming of 3D representations
• Stereoscopic and autostereoscopic display technologies
• Autonomous or remote-controlled robot hardware/software
• Applications in tele-medicine, tele-operations, remote sensing, etc
• Systems and User studies

Intelligent and Emotion-oriented Computing
Chair: Youngsang Choi, Samsung
• Emotion recognition, processing and expression technologies and applications
• Machine learning methods and applications
• Semantics and ontology engineering
• Question and answering technology
• Context‐aware systems
• Ubiquitous computing and ambient intelligence
• Sensing techniques, technologies, and applications
• User Modeling
• UI/UX

3D Imaging, Processing, Communication and Display
Chair: Seungsin Lee, Samsung
• 3D Imaging Systems
• 3D Contents Processing
• 3D Contents Transmission
• 3D Display Systems
• 3D Visual Perception and Quality Assessment
• 3D Contents Security and Digital Right Management
• 3D Contents Interaction
• 3D Services and Applications

Technical Paper Due: Aug. 31, 2012

Notification: Oct. 5, 2012

Camera Ready: Oct. 15, 2012

New Initiative Highlights

All general questions regarding to IEEE CCNC 2013 can be directed to Jin Li (jinl@microsoft.com) directly.
CCNC 2013 features a number of new initiatives to bring together academia and industries. These include:

Grand Challenge
Chair: Cheng Huang, Microsoft

Industry Session
Chair: Stan Moyer, Inventures

Demos (Chance to Show Demos in CES, to ~150,000 visitors)
Chairs: Frank den Hartog, TNO
Venkatesha Prasad, U. of New South Wales

Workshops
(with expanded scopes)
Chair: Alexandros G. Dimakis, USC

Tutorials
(Free to all attendees)
Chair: Sudipta Sengupta, Microsoft

Student Council
Chairs: Yanjiao Chen, HKUST
Vida Ferdowsi, U. of Missouri, Kansas


Excecutive Committee

General Chair
Eunsoo Shim, Samsung

Technical Program Chair
Jin Li, Microsoft

Steering Committee Chair
Robert S. Fish