The Sixth International Conference on Networking

ICN 2007

April 22 - 28, 2007 - Sainte-Luce, Martinique


Call for Papers

The 2007 IEEE International Conference on Networking (ICN 2007) is organized and technically co-sponsored by IEEE/France, IEE, and by the International Academy, Research and Industry Association (IARIA). ICN 2007 is organized by and for academic, research and industrial partners.

We solicit both academic, research , and industrial contributions. ICN 2007 will offer tutorials, plenary sessions, poster sessions, panels, and exhibition opportunities. The ICN 2007 Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services. Best papers will be forwarded for consideration in a special issue of a journal. A best paper award will be granted by the IARIA award selection committee.

TOPICS OF SPECIAL INTEREST

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

1. Communication theory
2. Communications switching and routing
3. Communications modeling
4. Communications security
5. Computer communications
6. Distributed communications
7. Signal processing in communications
8. Multimedia and multicast communications
9. Wireless communications (satellite, WLL, 4G, Ad Hoc, sensor networks)
10. Next generation networks [NGN] principles
11. Storage area networks [SAN]
12. Access and home networks
13. High-speed networks
14. Optical networks
15. Peer-to-peer and overlay networking
16. Mobile networking and systems
17. MPLS-VPN, IPSec-VPN networks
18. GRID networks
19. Broadband networks
20. Quality of service, service level agreement [QoS/SLA]
21. Reliability, availability, serviceabiliy [RAS]
22. Traffic engineering, metering, monitoring
23. Voice over IP services
24. Performance evaluation, tools, simulation
25. Network, control and service architectures
26. Network signalling, pricing and billing
27. Network middleware
28. Telecommunication networks architectures
29. On-demand networks, utility computing architectures
30. Applications and case studies
31. NGN protocol design and evaluation
32. NGN Standard Activities [ITU, TMF, 3GPP, IETF, etc.]
33. NGN Device Instrumentation
34. Network Management, scheduling and policy
35. NGN policy-based control
36. Networks policy-based management
37. Management of autonomic networks and systems

These topics can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, standards, implementations, running experiments and applications.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received papers will be acknowledged.

Important deadlines

Full paper submission November 20, 2006
Authors notification December 22, 2006
Registration and camera ready January 15, 2007

The files should be sent via http://www.iaria.org/conferences/SubmitICN07.html

Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11" (two columns IEEE format), not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found on the Instructions page.

Once you receive the notification of paper acceptance, you will be provided by the IEEE CS Press an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance.

For more information please contact: conf@iaria.org

Technical marketing/business/positioning presentations

The conference initiates a series of business, technical marketing, and positioning presentations on the same topics. Speakers must submit a 10-12 slide deck presentations with substantial notes accompanying the slides, in the .ppt format (.pdf-ed). The slide deck will be published in the conference’s CD collection, together with the regular papers. Please send your presentations to conf@iaria.org.

Tutorials

Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. Proposals can be for half or full day tutorials. Please send your proposals to conf@iaria.org

Panel proposals:

The organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their guests and manage that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our deadlines. Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the panel, as well as short biographies.

For more information, conf@iaria.org

Workshop proposals

We welcome workshop proposals on issues complementary to the topics of this conference. Your requests should be forwarded to conf@iaria.org

 
 

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