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[CFP] [TICS] Topics on Internet Censorship and Surveillance 2020
by Vasilis Ververis 11 Sep '20

11 Sep '20

Hello, We have a new call for papers that may be of interest to some of you. Please feel free to share widely. Thank you! Online version: https://tics.site/cfp/ # TICS 2020 **Co-located with the [2020 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT 2020)](http://wi2020.vcrab.com.au/), to be held online.** ## Introduction Over the past years there has been a greater demand from large-scale players such as governments and dominant media companies for online censorship and surveillance, as an understandable reaction against hate speech, copyright violations, and other cases related to citizen compliance with civil laws and regulations by national authorities. Unfortunately, this is often accompanied by a tendency of extensively censoring online content and massively spying on citizens actions. Numerous whistle-blower revelations, leaks from classified documents, and a vast amount of information released by activists, researchers and journalists, reveal evidence of government-sponsored infrastructure that either goes beyond the requirements and scope of the law, or operates without any effective regulations in place. In addition, this infrastructure often supports the interests of big private corporations, such as the companies that enforce online copyright control. Mobile networks are particularly vulnerable to the above points. Due to the nature of their deployment, few actors can achieve far-reaching results, and end-users are left unprotected; we are interested in tracking developments that, without sacrificing functionality and convenience, allow end-users to get control on the amount and breadth of information generated, stored and processed on them. TICS is a special track the area of Internet censorship, surveillance and other adversarial burdens to technology that bring in danger; to a greater extend the safety (physical security and privacy) of its users. Proposals for TICS 2020 should be situated within the field of Internet censorship, network measurements, information controls, surveillance and content moderation. ## Workshop topics The goal of TICS is to raise awareness around the implications of network interference, by inviting researchers from complementary disciplines to consider the effect of their own domain on online censorship and surveillance. Along those lines, we invite submissions that address the following topics: * Research on technologies and policies that build upon advancements on the field of web intelligence to imply blocking, limitation or distortion of the availability of network services and online content * The application of web intelligence concepts such as behavioral modeling, data mining, and social network analytics to target groups and individuals by law enforcement agencies and private corporations * The implications of algorithmic and AI-assisted user content classification (such as for identification of hate-speech, copyright, or disinformation) * Novel techniques that leverage web intelligence to defend netizens against censorship and surveillance, or privacy enhancements to the existing AI infrastructure to mitigate these threats * Measurement methodologies that detect network interference or content moderation based on crowd knowledge or web analytics * The socio-economic consequences and implementation limitations and fallacies of upload filters and recommendation systems * Business models and amendments to legal frameworks which promote the use of web intelligence in ways that build a pluralistic, private, and human-centric experience without violating user freedoms * Privacy on mobile networks * Network measurements * Radio frequency communications * Data leaks * Surveillance * Backdoors into carrier equipment (base stations, antennas, switches, software) * Law enforcement * Telcos security and advance persistent threats * Network espionage and nation state threats (e.g. "operation Soft Cell") * Middleboxes / DPI * Content regulation * Wiretapping * Net neutrality * Data retention * GDPR * Device/radio blocking (Network IMEI) * Ownership of infrastructure, and community-operated networks * Spectrum sharing * License-exempt spectrum ## Important dates * Paper Submission due: September 15th, 2020 * Notification to authors: October 15th, 2020 * Final, camera ready papers, due: November 15th, 2020 * Workshop date: December 14th, 2020 ## Paper Submission **[Paper Submission Page](https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2020/wi20/scripts/submit.php?subarea=S0… Submitted papers should be limited to a maximum of 8 pages in the standard ACM 2-column format.\ The ACM Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines can be found at: <https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template> ## Committees ### Program Chairs * Vasilis Ververis, Humboldt University Berlin, vasilis(a)tics.site * Marios Isaakidis, University College London, marios(a)tics.site * Gunnar Wolf, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, gwolf(a)tics.site You can contact all of the chairs by addressing your mail to: <chairs(a)tics.site> ### Program Committee * Chrystalenni Loizidou, University of Nicosia * Keith McManamen, Psiphon * Will Scott, University of Michigan ## Past Workshops - [2019 (Valencia, Spain)](https://tics.site/2019) Best regards, ~Vasilis

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ACM MobiCom 2020 Mentorship Program: Call for Applications
by Mandalari, Anna Maria 05 Sep '20

05 Sep '20

SIGMOBILE is launching its second Mentorship Program at MobiCom 2020. The goal of this program is to enable SIGMOBILE student members to get a chance to interact with senior researchers, either one-on-one or as a small team of 2 students. All mentoring sessions will be conducted online. To be eligible for participation, you must be: 1. currently enrolled as a graduate student (M.S. or PhD) 2. a registered attendee at ACM MobiCom’20 3. available on all days of the main conference: Sep 21 - Oct 24 Applications are now open. If you are interested, please fill the Mentorship Program Application Form<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc2RNXyt7ZilLorecdEJCmnjCgFp2yP-9h…> by September 10th, 2020. The application requires you to upload your most recent CV and a Mentorship Statement. The Mentorship Statement must be no longer than one US letter-sized paper (8.5in X 11 in), with font size no smaller than 10 points. Your statement must consist of the following: 1. Research interests 2. Expectations from the program: If you have specific mentoring needs, please specify here. For example, please indicate if you are currently applying to industry and/or academia and are looking for a mentor to guide you in that aspect. 3. Who would you like to meet: If you would like a specific researcher as your mentor, please indicate so. We cannot guarantee that you will be paired with a mentor of your choice. 4. Availability: Please indicate if you are available on Workshop Days in addition to the Main Conference Days. Important Dates: Deadlines Dates Applications Due September 10th 2020 Acceptance Notifications September 15th 2020 Mentoring Schedule September 15th 2020 For further questions, please contact Mariya Zheleva or Shubham Jain at: mobicom2020mentorship(a)gmail.com We hope you will enjoy this wonderful opportunity. We look forward to seeing you at the virtual MobiCom!

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2 x Open Faculty Positions at the University of Glasgow
by Angelos Marnerides 25 Aug '20

25 Aug '20

Dear colleagues, I hope you are all keeping well. We have 2 x permanent faculty openings (L/SL/R levels = -US tenured- Assistant/Associate Professor) at Glasgow's School of Computing Science in topics that span across theoretical computer science and computer systems. Networked systems is one of the areas where applications are particularly encouraged. Deadline is 2nd October 2020: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CBF834/lecturer-senior-lecturer-reader-glass-fat… Please consider applying or/and spreading the word, and do not hesitate to get in touch for informal enquiries. With thanks, Angelos ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Angelos K. Marnerides (BSc, MSc, PhD, MIEEE, MACM) Associate Professor in Secure Networked Systems School of Computing Science University of Glasgow web: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~akm/ The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401.

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Reference metro-area IP/MPLS deployments, with underlays
by Etienne-Victor Depasquale 19 Aug '20

19 Aug '20

Hello, I'm new to this list ... I hope that I've understood the scope correctly. I'm looking for reference implementations of IP/MPLS operator networks within ***the metro area***, that do not abstract the underlay (underlying transport). To clarify, I would like to see the underlying multiplexing technology, whether it's wavelengths, OTN, statistical using long-reach Ethernet (e.g. 10GBASE-ER), SONET/SDH. Can anyone suggest a pointer? Sincerely, Etienne -- Ing. Etienne-Victor Depasquale Assistant Lecturer Department of Communications & Computer Engineering Faculty of Information & Communication Technology University of Malta Web. https://www.um.edu.mt/profile/etiennedepasquale

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RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund - Submit your application today!
by Gergana Petrova 19 Aug '20

19 Aug '20

Dear colleagues, We would like to remind you that the call for applications for the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund will close on 23 August, at 23:59 UTC. Through the Community Projects Fund, the RIPE NCC offers funding of €250,000 in total for projects that work to improve the operation, resilience and sustainability of the Internet, with a focus on tools and services benefitting the technical community in our service region. If your project works for the ‘good of the Internet’, and you would like to apply for funding, please make sure to submit your application before the deadline. You can find detailed information about the Community Projects Fund here: https://www.ripe.net/support/cpf Best regards, Gergana -- Gergana Petrova External Relations RIPE NCC

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ACM SIGCOMM Traffic Manipulation Attacks and Defences (ManTra) 2020
by Shulman, Haya 14 Aug '20

14 Aug '20

Dear colleagues, today (14 August) between 16:00 and 22:00 (Germany timezone) takes place the first workshop on Traffic Manipulation Attacks and Defences, ManTra 2020. The workshop takes place digitally through Zoom. The goal of the workshop is to foster research on traffic manipulation attacks and defences and to bridge the gap between academia, industry and standardisation organs. The scope of the workshop includes understanding the landscape of traffic manipulation attacks, learning about the attackers (cyber criminals, security agencies, govts...), inferring vulnerabilities, ... and devising countermeasures, including challenges towards their deployment on real Internet networks. Full details are available on the workshop web site. The workshop is open to all SIGCOMM participants; so far SIGCOMM has way over 1000 registered participants. The registration is still open and highly affordable. The first ManTra workshop features talks from top researchers and expert practitioners in the area and is chaired by Haya Shulman and Radia Perlman. The program of the workshop is here: https://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2020/workshop-mantra.html Click on the talks' titles to read the abstracts. I encourage all who are interested in the topic to join us today and interact with our renowned speakers and program committee. The recordings of the ManTra workshop will be available through ACM SIGCOMM after the event. The ManTra workshop is sponsored by the ATHENE National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity in Darmstadt. Best, Haya Shulman and Radia Perlman -- Dr. Haya Shulman Division Director Cybersecurity Analytics and Defences Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology SIT Rheinstraße 75, 64295 Darmstadt, T. +49-6151-869505 / M. +49-160 96249718 https://sites.google.com/site/hayashulman

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Re: [RACI-list] [GIGANET-MEMBERS] FW: RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund - Call for Applications 2020
by Prof. Ilan Talmud 14 Jul '20

14 Jul '20

Sorry. No idea I’m just the delivery person. Good luck ! Prof. Ilan Talmud, Ph.D. Department of Sociology, University of Haifa https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8642-9582 Phone: 972-4-8240992 Secretaries: 972-4-8240995/ 048249643/048249645 FAX: 972-4-8240819 Website: http://sites.hevra.haifa.ac.il/talmud/ Wired Youth: The Online Social World of Adolescence 2nd Edition Ilan Talmud, Gustavo S. Mesch Paperback £26.39 Hardback £96.00 Routledge May 22, 2020 Forthcoming Textbook - 201 Pages ISBN 9780815378846 - CAT# K339021 From: Raymond Mamattah [mailto:mamattah.raymond@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, 14 July 2020 12:42 To: talmud(a)soc.haifa.ac.il; raci-list(a)ripe.net Subject: Re: [GIGANET-MEMBERS] FW: [RACI-list] RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund - Call for Applications 2020 Hello Prof. Ilan Talmud, Please do you have any idea if they support Internet Governance initiatives in Africa? I would like to seek funding support for our GhanaSIG www.ghanasig.org <http://www.ghanasig.org> . Regards, Raymond Mamattah Founder and President EGIGFA www.egigfa.org <http://www.egigfa.org> On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 10:23 AM Prof. Ilan Talmud <talmud(a)soc.haifa.ac.il <mailto:talmud@soc.haifa.ac.il> > wrote: FYI Prof. Ilan Talmud, Ph.D. Department of Sociology, University of Haifa https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8642-9582 Phone: 972-4-8240992 Secretaries: 972-4-8240995/ 048249643/048249645 FAX: 972-4-8240819 Website: http://sites.hevra.haifa.ac.il/talmud/ Wired Youth: The Online Social World of Adolescence 2nd Edition Ilan Talmud, Gustavo S. Mesch Paperback £26.39 Hardback £96.00 Routledge May 22, 2020 Forthcoming Textbook - 201 Pages ISBN 9780815378846 - CAT# K339021 -----Original Message----- From: RACI-list [mailto:raci-list-bounces@ripe.net <mailto:raci-list-bounces@ripe.net> ] On Behalf Of Gergana Petrova Sent: Tuesday, 14 July 2020 10:54 To: raci-list(a)ripe.net <mailto:raci-list@ripe.net> Subject: [RACI-list] RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund - Call for Applications 2020 Dear colleagues, Are you working on or planning a non-commercial project that would benefit the Internet or the RIPE community? Apply for funding via the RIPE Community Projects Fund by 23 August: https://ripe.net/cpf For more than 25 years, the RIPE NCC has been supporting activities and projects for the “Good of the Internet”. Community-driven, non commercial work has been fundamental to the success of the Internet from its earliest days, and continues to play an important role in making the Internet resilient, secure and accessible for everyone. Under the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund, the RIPE NCC will provide up to EUR 250,000 per year to support projects of value to the operation, sustainability and resilience of the Internet, with a focus on tools and services benefitting the technical community in the Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia. Apply now to get your project funded! If you or your organisation is working on a new or existing project that fits the criteria below, and need some financial support to get it off the ground or keep it going, we want to hear from you! Is your project of benefit to the Internet, particularly the RIPE community? Is your project non-commercial in nature? Do you have a clear project plan and timeline? A few things to keep in mind: - Funding may be used to purchase equipment, but this cannot be the sole expenditure - Funding cannot be used for humanitarian aid, donations, or to encourage political reform - Funding cannot be used to provide scholarships or cover tuition fees - Funding cannot be used to support any form of commercial activity If you have any questions about applying, write to us at cpf(a)ripe.net <mailto:cpf@ripe.net> . Best regards, Gergana -- Gergana Petrova External Relations RIPE NCC _______________________________________________ RACI-list mailing list RACI-list(a)ripe.net <mailto:RACI-list@ripe.net> https://lists.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/raci-list

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RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund - Call for Applications 2020
by Gergana Petrova 14 Jul '20

14 Jul '20

Dear colleagues, Are you working on or planning a non-commercial project that would benefit the Internet or the RIPE community? Apply for funding via the RIPE Community Projects Fund by 23 August: https://ripe.net/cpf For more than 25 years, the RIPE NCC has been supporting activities and projects for the “Good of the Internet”. Community-driven, non commercial work has been fundamental to the success of the Internet from its earliest days, and continues to play an important role in making the Internet resilient, secure and accessible for everyone. Under the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund, the RIPE NCC will provide up to EUR 250,000 per year to support projects of value to the operation, sustainability and resilience of the Internet, with a focus on tools and services benefitting the technical community in the Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia. Apply now to get your project funded! If you or your organisation is working on a new or existing project that fits the criteria below, and need some financial support to get it off the ground or keep it going, we want to hear from you! Is your project of benefit to the Internet, particularly the RIPE community? Is your project non-commercial in nature? Do you have a clear project plan and timeline? A few things to keep in mind: - Funding may be used to purchase equipment, but this cannot be the sole expenditure - Funding cannot be used for humanitarian aid, donations, or to encourage political reform - Funding cannot be used to provide scholarships or cover tuition fees - Funding cannot be used to support any form of commercial activity If you have any questions about applying, write to us at cpf(a)ripe.net. Best regards, Gergana -- Gergana Petrova External Relations RIPE NCC

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ACM MobiCom 2020 Posters – Deadline Extension
by Mandalari, Anna Maria 08 Jul '20

08 Jul '20

ACM MobiCom 2020 (Virtual) Posters Session – Deadline Extension [ONLINE VERSION]<https://sigmobile.org/mobicom/2020/poster.php> =========================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES =========================================================================== Poster Submission Deadline: July 6 July 15 Notification: July 23 August 7 Camera Ready: July 31 August 14 =========================================================================== CALL FOR POSTERS =========================================================================== Following the long tradition of poster presentations, ACM MobiCom 2020 solicits submissions for the Virtual Posters Program that feature early research work and preliminary results. The MobiCom 2020 Poster Session will provide an excellent opportunity for initial feedback on your early research results and give your ongoing projects early visibility. The presenters are strongly encouraged to include their poster submission in the ACM MobiCom Student Research Competition: https://sigmobile.org/mobicom/2020/src.php We invite submissions on a wide range of mobile computing and wireless networking research, including but not limited to: * Fundamental understanding of mobile computing and wireless networking * Applications of machine learning to mobile/wireless research * Backscatter communication and wireless power * Mobile edge computing and cloud computing for mobile services Embedded and energy-harvesting systems * Experimental platforms and infrastructures for wireless/mobile research * Implanted and wearable computing * Intersection between mobile/wireless research, cloud computing, and software-defined networking * Long-range/Low-power wide-area wireless networking * Low-latency networking * Machine-to-machine communications * Millimetre wave and terahertz communications * Mobile data science & analysis * Mobile health * Mobile web, video, virtual reality, and other applications * Next-generation 5G mobile networks * Novel applications of wireless signals * Robotic and drone-based networking * Security and privacy issues/solutions for mobile/wireless systems * Sensing with radio, light, sound, and acoustics * Ubiquitous computing and mobile human computer interaction * Visible light communications * Wireless localization and tracking * Experimental large-scale testbeds for mobile networks * Performance evaluation of mobile networks, protocols, and systems =========================================================================== SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS =========================================================================== The posters should be submitted via hotCRP: https://mobicom20posters.hotcrp.com/ The submission should be formatted as a paper or extended abstract, describing the research to be presented in the poster and should be submitted as a PDF file of at most 3 pages, including all figures and references. Paper text blocks must follow ACM guidelines: double-column US letter size of 8.5 x 11 inches with fonts no smaller than 10 point size. The extended abstract must include the authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses. Any submission should include also the following: * Whether you would like the submission to be considered for the Student Research Competition * If you would like your submission to be considered for the SRC, there is the additional need to indicate whether any of the student authors is an undergraduate student. Note that if any of the authors is a graduate student, then the submission will be considered under the graduate category. All poster submissions will be reviewed by the Posters committee. If your submission is selected for the Poster Session, you should follow the recommendations to prepare and produce your “virtual poster”. Once your poster is accepted, we will include the abstract of your poster on the conference website and publish it in the main proceedings and the ACM digital library. =========================================================================== VIRTUAL POSTER SESSION INSTRUCTIONS =========================================================================== We will organize a virtual poster session as part of the MobiCom 2020 conference program. For each of the selected submissions for the poster session, we ask you to prepare the following: * A pre-recorded 1-minute presentation to be played during the poster session (part of the conference program); we will organize a live chat channel (e.g., using Slack), where the authors can receive questions and engage in discussions with the attendees. * A pre-recorded video of maximum 5 minutes explaining the poster at length, to be available offline on the conference webpage. This is mandatory for all poster, and specifically for those submissions entering in the SRC. =========================================================================== CONTACT =========================================================================== For further questions, please contact the Poster co-chairs: Andra Lutu (andra.lutu(a)telefonica.com) Giovanni Pau (giovanni.pau(a)unibo.it)

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ACM MobiCom 2020 Call for Posters
by Mandalari, Anna Maria 01 Jul '20

01 Jul '20

ACM MobiCom 2020 (Virtual) Posters Session – Call for Submissions [ONLINE VERSION]<https://sigmobile.org/mobicom/2020/poster.php> =========================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES =========================================================================== Poster Submission Deadline: July 6 Notification: July 23 Camera Ready: July 31 =========================================================================== CALL FOR POSTERS =========================================================================== Following the long tradition of poster presentations, ACM MobiCom 2020 solicits submissions for the Virtual Posters Program that feature early research work and preliminary results. The MobiCom 2020 Poster Session will provide an excellent opportunity for initial feedback on your early research results and give your ongoing projects early visibility. The presenters are strongly encouraged to include their poster submission in the ACM MobiCom Student Research Competition: https://sigmobile.org/mobicom/2020/src.php We invite submissions on a wide range of mobile computing and wireless networking research, including but not limited to: * Fundamental understanding of mobile computing and wireless networking * Applications of machine learning to mobile/wireless research * Backscatter communication and wireless power * Mobile edge computing and cloud computing for mobile services Embedded and energy-harvesting systems * Experimental platforms and infrastructures for wireless/mobile research * Implanted and wearable computing * Intersection between mobile/wireless research, cloud computing, and software-defined networking * Long-range/Low-power wide-area wireless networking * Low-latency networking * Machine-to-machine communications * Millimetre wave and terahertz communications * Mobile data science & analysis * Mobile health * Mobile web, video, virtual reality, and other applications * Next-generation 5G mobile networks * Novel applications of wireless signals * Robotic and drone-based networking * Security and privacy issues/solutions for mobile/wireless systems * Sensing with radio, light, sound, and acoustics * Ubiquitous computing and mobile human computer interaction * Visible light communications * Wireless localization and tracking * Experimental large-scale testbeds for mobile networks * Performance evaluation of mobile networks, protocols, and systems =========================================================================== SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS =========================================================================== The posters should be submitted via hotCRP: https://mobicom20posters.hotcrp.com/ The submission should be formatted as a paper or extended abstract, describing the research to be presented in the poster and should be submitted as a PDF file of at most 3 pages, including all figures and references. Paper text blocks must follow ACM guidelines: double-column US letter size of 8.5 x 11 inches with fonts no smaller than 10 point size. The extended abstract must include the authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses. Any submission should include also the following: * Whether you would like the submission to be considered for the Student Research Competition * If you would like your submission to be considered for the SRC, there is the additional need to indicate whether any of the student authors is an undergraduate student. Note that if any of the authors is a graduate student, then the submission will be considered under the graduate category. All poster submissions will be reviewed by the Posters committee. If your submission is selected for the Poster Session, you should follow the recommendations to prepare and produce your “virtual poster”. Once your poster is accepted, we will include the abstract of your poster on the conference website and publish it in the main proceedings and the ACM digital library. =========================================================================== VIRTUAL POSTER SESSION INSTRUCTIONS =========================================================================== We will organize a virtual poster session as part of the MobiCom 2020 conference program. For each of the selected submissions for the poster session, we ask you to prepare the following: * A pre-recorded 1-minute presentation to be played during the poster session (part of the conference program); we will organize a live chat channel (e.g., using Slack), where the authors can receive questions and engage in discussions with the attendees. * A pre-recorded video of maximum 5 minutes explaining the poster at length, to be available offline on the conference webpage. This is mandatory for all poster, and specifically for those submissions entering in the SRC. =========================================================================== CONTACT =========================================================================== For further questions, please contact the Poster co-chairs: Andra Lutu (andra.lutu(a)telefonica.com) Giovanni Pau (giovanni.pau(a)unibo.it)

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