SCOPE OF WORKSHOP

The scope of the workshop is on requirements, modeling, simulation
and analysis of M2M applications, M2M communication systems, novel
transportation techniques and emerging standards. The characterization
and modeling of M2M applications in terms of technical and QoS
requirements, as well as in terms of traffic patterns is fundamental
for a deeper understanding of the impact on communication networks.
These insights open a wide research area for future M2M communications,
including investigations on scalability, wide-area coverage,
energy-efficiency, spectral-efficiency, cost-efficiency, heterogeneity,
cooperation, and security.

It is a pleasure to announce that Fiona Williams (Research Director,
Ericsson GmbH, Eurolab R & D) will give an invited talk on
"Communications for Smart Energy - a growing challenge!".

For the full paper track, we invite submissions of technical papers,
position papers, and case studies relevant to the workshop. Submitted
papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been
published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a
conference with proceedings. A special industry track is available
for papers which contribute new challenges, requirements and
applications from consumer M2M communication in the industry. We
especially encourage contributions from appliances industry, smart
grid providers and further consumers of M2M communications in order
to gain insight into the various requirements on M2M communications
from different sectors.


PAPER SUBMISSION AND REGISTRATION

Authors should prepare a PDF version of their paper not exceeding
8 double-column pages in IEEE conference format with a font size not
smaller than 10 points. The industry papers should be between 4 and 8
pages. Please submit the full paper for consideration to this workshop
via EDAS: http://edas.info/N12501

All submissions will be peer-reviewed. In case of an acceptance, the
final and camera-ready version has to take into account comments of
reviewers and needs to follow the template's requirements. Submission
implies that, if accepted, the author(s) agree to publish in the
proceedings and also that an author of the paper will register and
present it at the workshop. All accepted contributions will appear
as full papers in the ITC conference proceedings and require a
registration of at least one co-author as workshop participant before
the deadline. The registration and payment issues will be managed
by the organization of ITC 2012. The registration deadline of
the workshop is set to June 29, 2012.

Accepted papers will be made available in the ACM Digital Library.


IMPORTANT DATES

May 4, 2012: Paper submission deadline
June 8, 2012: Acceptance notification
June 25, 2012: Final version
June 29, 2012: Registration
September 7, 2012: Workshop


TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Anett Schuelke, NEC Laboratories Europe
Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Wuerzburg
Christian Wietfeld, University of Dortmund
Joachim Sachs, Ericsson Research
Stephan Haller, SAP Research
Sebastian Lehnhoff, University of Oldenburg
Catherine Rosenberg, Waterloo University
Klaus Kohrt
Kolja Eger, Siemens AG
Thomas Magedanz, TU Berlin/Fraunhofer FOKUS
Barbara Staehle, Fraunhofer IIS
Hitoshi Ueno, Fujitsu
Takeshi Kitahara, KDDI R&D Labs
György Dan, KTH Stockholm
Hans Van den Berg, TNO and University of Twente
Tetsuya Yokotani, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation


WORKSHOP ORGANIZER

Tobias Hossfeld, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Andreas Maeder, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany
Kohei Shiomoto, NTT Labs, Japan (Co-Chair)
Prosper Chemouil, Orange Labs, France (Co-Chair)

Contacts: Tobias Hossfeld, hossfeld@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de
Andreas Maeder, Andreas.Maeder@neclab.eu