M2MC 2012 - 2012 International Workshop on Machine-to-Machine Communications (M2MC 2012)

2012 International Workshop on Machine-to-Machine Communications (M2MC 2012)
'key' to the Future Cyber-Physical Systems
http://www.cps-cn.org/M2MC2012
In Conjunction with IEEE CIT 2012, October 20-22, 2012, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
http://www.ee.uestc.edu.cn/cit2012/
As a new business concept, Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications are born from original telemetry technology with the intrinsic features of automatic data transmissions and measurement from remote sources typically by cable or radio. M2M includes a number of technologies that need to be combined in a compatible manner to enable its deployment over a broad market of consumer electronics, and it offers a potential solution to the already saturated telecommunications market, with new services and applications, such as e-healthcare, smart city, smart grid, intelligent transportation, remote monitoring, and logistics. Such services and applications open a mass market and several business opportunities. With the capabilities of decision-making and autonomous control, M2M systems can be upgraded to Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). This requires development of novel solutions to efficiently serve a huge number of devices that interact autonomously at a global level. It also opens a wide research area for future M2M communications, including investigations on scalability, wide-area coverage, energy-efficiency, heterogeneity, cooperation, cloud computing, intelligent real-time control, and security.
Main topics of interest:
¨CScalable system architecture and components
¨CRadio access technologies and protocols
¨CDevice, resource, data, and service management for M2M
¨CCloud support for M2M applications
¨CSecurity, trust and privacy of M2M devices and services
¨CInternetworking protocols and mechanisms
¨CSemantic technologies for M2M ¨CM2M in vehicular ad-hoc network, smart robots, smart grid, home networks, healthcare, and manufacturing systems
¨CChannel and traffic models
¨CSensing, computing, and controlling technologies for M2M
¨CCyber-physical systems, cyber-transportation systems
Important Dates
Paper Submission: June 10, 2012
Acceptance Notification: June 20, 2012
Camera-Ready: July 20, 2012
Registration Deadline: July 20, 2012
Workshop Date: October 20-22, 2012
Authors Guidelines
Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press (indexed by EI). Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Authors must use IT2012-Submission-System* to submit both abstracts and pdfs. Authors must use the IEEE template for Conference Proceedings to prepare their submission. Documentation and style files (Word, LaTeX) can be found at the IEEE site. Submissions should be a maximum of eight (8) pages, including figures and references.
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Workshop Organising Committee
Chair: Min Chen, Seoul National University, Korea TPC Chairs: TBA
Co-Chairs: Jiafu Wan, South China University of Technology, China Publicity Chair: TBA
Additional Information
Please see the workshop website http://www.cps-cn.org/M2MC2012 and the IEEE CIT 2012 homepage http://www.ee.uestc.edu.cn/cit2012/index.php for additional information.