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Due to the requests of many authors, we have decided to
extend the deadline for iCOST 2012 to Thursday, 15 March.
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                  CALL FOR PAPERS

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International Conference on Selected Topics (iCOST’2012)
in Mobile & Wireless Networking
July 2-4, 2012, Avignon, France
http://www.lia.univ-avignon.fr/icost2012
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Technical co-sponsors: IEEE Communications Society and IEEE France Section.


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

- Prof. Ian Akyldiz, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
Talk: Internet of Nanothings

- Dr. Matt Hatton, Director Machina Research, London, UK
Talk: The impact of the machine-to-machine revolution



SCOPE

The International Conference on Selected Topics in Mobile & Wireless
Networking (iCOST’2012) will be held in Avignon. The ever increasing
market penetration of smart-phones, tablets, and netbooks, along with
the ubiquitous availability of wireless networks are deeply influencing
the way people live, work, interact, and socialize. However, the broad
popularity and diffusion of innovative services and applications tailored
at mobile users is also raising challenging research issues that require
us to rethink available mobile technology solutions to meet the emerging
needs of a broader and ever growing user base. iCOST’2012 aims at
addressing
recent research results on selected topics in Mobile & Wireless Networking
and to present their methodologies, models, technologies, systems, tools,
applications, work in progress and experiences.

Suggested topics include but are not restricted to:
* Cloud computing support for mobile services and applications
* Data center architectures and protocols
* Green communications models, architectures, and networking solutions
* Self-* networks, services and applications
* Content distribution networks
* Social networking solutions for pervasive and mobile environments
* Vehicular communications and vehicular ad-hoc networks
* Wireless-enabled Peer to Peer services and applications
* Internet of Things
* Machine type communications
* Context-aware middleware design, services and applications
* Long Term Evolution Engineering and Femtocells
* Emerging topics in wireless and mobile computing and communications
* Security, trust, and privacy in wireless/mobile communications
* Heterogeneous networks
* Communication networks and architectures for smart grids
* Resource allocation and interference management in Smart Grid networks


IMPORTANT DATES

Submission of papers (FIRM): 15 March, 2012
Notification to authors: April 15, 2012
Camera ready copies: May 1, 2012


INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors are required to submit anonymous, fully formatted, original papers
(PDF),
with graphs, images, and other special areas arranged as intended for the
final
publication.

Papers should be written in English conforming to the IEEE standard
conference
format (8.5" x 11" - US letter, Two-Column). The initial submission for
review
will be limited to 6 pages. The final manuscript for publication will be
limited
to 6 IEEE pages. Additional charges may apply for additional pages.

Each accepted paper must be presented at the conference by one of the
co-authors
or a third party, otherwise it will not be indexed and archived through
IEEExplore.

Only timely submissions through EDAS at http://edas.info will be accepted.
For more details, please visit the iCOST’2012 official website
(http://www.lia.univ-avignon.fr/icost2012).