ACM Q2SWinet 2012: Call for Papers

[Maddalena Nurchis]

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                               CALL FOR PAPERS
     The 8th ACM* Symposium on QoS and Security for Wireless Mobile Networks
                               (ACM Q2SWinet 2012)
                             October 21st-25th, 2012
                                Paphos, Cyprus 
                       http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/q2swinet2012

Jointly held with the 15th ACM MSWiM 2012 Conference.

* ACM Pending upon Approval

           **** Paper Registration Deadline --- May 30th, 2012 ****                
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SCOPE AND OVERVIEW
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In recent years, wireless and mobile communication systems have become increasingly popular as an inexpensive and promising means for ubiquitous communications. In this scenario, the QoS provisioning and the management of network security have become crucial tasks to determine the success of future generation wireless mobile networks.This symposium calls for cutting-edge research achievements on the provisioning of QoS and Security in wireless and mobile networks. It also aims at increasing the synergy between academic and industry professionals working in this area.	

Authors are encouraged to submit full papers presenting new research related to theory or practice of all aspects of Quality of Service and Security issues in mobile and wireless systems. 

Topics of interest for ACM Q2SWinet 2012 include, but are not limited to:

+ Security in Wireless MANETs, VANETs, Sensor, Mesh and PCS Networks
+ Secure PHY, MAC and Routing Protocols					
+ Secure Cooperation-Based Systems and Services
+ Security for Cognitive Radio Networks
+ Intrusion Detection in Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networks
+ Privacy, anonymity and authentication
+ Trust Establishment
+ Cooperation and Prevention of Non-cooperative Behavior 
+ Incentive Aware Secure Protocol Design
+ QoS/QoE for Wireless Multimedia Networks and Systems
+ QoS/QoE for Wireless/Wired Hybrid Systems
+ QoS/QoE support and Mobility Management in Wireless Internet 
+ QoS/QoE-Aware Routing for Wireless Networks
+ QoS/QoE Metrics
+ Wireless Network Survivability
+ Wireless Systems Reliability
+ Field operating tests, Performance Modeling and Simulation Techniques
+ Real-time and QoS-aware Wireless Networks 

PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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Papers should neither have been published elsewhere  nor being currently under review  by another conference or journal. Manuscripts are limited to 10 pages, single  spacing,  double  column, and must strictly  adhere to the ACM template format. Guidelines  on  paper  submission  and  formatting  are available  at http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/q2swinet2012/. 

Submission is managed electronically through EDAS: http://edas.info/N12037

At least one author of each accepted paper must be registered for the symposium, in order for that paper to appear in the ACM proceedings and to be scheduled for presentation. Furthermore, authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the Symposium. 

IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper registration: May 30th, 2012
Paper submission:   June 5th, 2012
Notification:       July 15th, 2012
Symposium:          October 21st-25th, 2012


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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General Chair
   Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland	 

Program Committee Chairs
   Jalel Ben-Othman, University of Paris 13, France
   Raffaele Bruno, IIT, CNR, Italy

Program Committee (tentative)
   Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, State University of New York at Binghamton, USA
   Gergely Acs, INRIA, Rhone-Alpes, France
   Emilio Ancillotti, IIT-CNR, Italy
   Regina Araujo, Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil
   Jalel Ben-othman, University of Versailles, France
   Boldizsar Bencsath, Budapest University of Tech. and Economics, Hungary
   Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy
   Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada
   Roberto Cascella, INRIA, France
   Llorenç Cerdra-Alabern, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
   Matteo Cesana, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
   Bruno Crispo, University of Trento, Italy
   Roberto Di Pietro, Universita' di Roma Tre, Italy
   Falko Dressler, University of Erlangen
   Rosario Garroppo, University of Pisa, Italy
   Fabrizio Granelli, University of Trento, Italy
   Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece
   Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA
   Albert Levi, Sabanci University, Turkey
   Lynda Mokdad, Université de Paris 12, France
   Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland
   Stefano Paris, University of Bergamo, Italy
   Mahalingam Ramkumar, Mississippi State University, USA
   Peter Reiher, UCLA, USA
   Simon Pietro Romano, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy
   Susana Sargento, University of Aveiro, Portugal
   Ahmed Serhrouchni, ENST, France
   Sabrina Sicari, University of Insubria, Italy
   Vasilios Siris, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
   Avinash Srinivasan, George Mason University, USA
   Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida, USA
   Giacomo Verticale, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
   André Zuquete, University of Aveiro, Portugal
   Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia

Publicity Co-chairs 
   Victor Govindaswamy, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
   Maddalena Nurchis, IIT, CNR, Italy