[Cesg-all] SMC-IT Miniworkshop: Next Generation Communication Infrastructure

[Adrian J. Hooke]

>Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 08:02:14 -0500
>From: Manikantan Ramadas <mramadas at masaka.cs.ohiou.edu>
>Subject: [dtn-interest] Call For Papers : SMC-IT Miniworkshop
>To: dtn-interest at mailman.dtnrg.org
>
>Hi folks,
>
>         We seek your participation in the workshop on "Next Generation
>Communication Infrastructure for Deep-Space Communications" we are
>organizing at the Space Mission Challenges for IT conference. The
>official CFP follows :
>
>Call for Papers
>
>Two day workshop on the Next Generation Communication Infrastructure
>for Deep-Space Communications to be held in conjunction with the
>Second International Conference on Space Mission Challenges for
>Information Technology (SMC-IT), July 17-21, 2006, Pasadena, California.
>
>Description
>
>In the coming decades, NASA is targeting an extensive study of the
>lunar environment along with continued robotic missions to Mars and
>other corners of the solar system.  The European Space Agency is
>developing plans for a similar venture with its Aurora project and
>countries such as China and India are considering lunar missions on
>their own. With the many fold increase in spacecraft beyond Earth
>orbit, the standard method of preplanned communication links for deep
>space elements has the potential to become complex and unmanageable.
>The goal of this workshop is to bring together mission operators, and
>managers, and researchers from the network and information technology
>community to discuss both near-term and long-term communication
>challenges.  By doing so, those on the front lines of the solar
>system exploration effort can provide first hand accounts of how
>missions currently operate while at the same time providing a
>"reality check" on future research directions.  At the same time,
>researchers from academia can provide insight into the substantial
>body of knowledge into the design of communication protocols,
>architecture, network-modeling and other areas that may have direct
>relevance to the deep space communication environment or have
>interesting applied value in unique ways.
>
>For this workshop we seek short abstracts of  novel ideas including
>those at their nascent stages of study from the following areas (not
>exclusively):
>
>Current relay communication architectures
>Deep space mission scenarios
>Delay and Disruption Tolerant Networking
>Novel network architecture, protocols, and paradigms
>Security infrastructure, models
>Scheduling, optimization, and management of communication infrastructure
>
>Abstracts need to be submitted by email to the Program Co-Chairs.
>Selected abstracts will be made available to all conference attendees.
>
>Important Dates :
>
>Abstracts (1-2 pages in size) due by April 3, 2006.
>Notification of Acceptance June 5th 2006
>Final Presentations due by July 3rd 2006.
>
>Program Co-Chairs
>         Leigh Torgerson, NASA/JPL, ltorgerson at jpl.nasa.gov
>         Manikantan Ramadas, Ohio University, mramadas at irg.cs.ohiou.edu
>
>Program Committee
>         Christopher Krupiarz, JHU/APL, Christopher.Krupiarz at jhuapl.edu
>         Shawn Ostermann, Ohio University, ostermann at eecs.ohiou.edu
>         Hans Kruse, Ohio University, kruse at ohiou.edu
>         Stephen Farrell, Trinity College Dublin, stephen.farrell at cs.tcd.ie
>
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>
>Please feel to mail us if you have any questions.
>
>Thank you,
>Mani.
>
>--
>"Always being cheerful and being happy takes you get closer to God than
>any prayer"    - Anonymous
>____________________________________________________________________
>
>* Manikantan Ramadas * IRG, OU * http://irg.cs.ohiou.edu/~mramadas *
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