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         The Third International Conference on Digital Telecommunications  
             ICDT 2008  
           June 29 - July 5, 2008 - Bucharest, Romania  | 
       
     
     
     ICDT Advisory  Committee:
     Tulin Atmaca, INT, France
       Claus Bauer, Dolby Laboratories, USA
       Petre Dini, Cisco Systems Inc., USA  // Concordia Univ., Canada
       Mihai Nadin, University   of Texas - Dallas,   USA
       Gerald Schaefer, Aston University,  UK
       Charalabos Skianis, University of the Aegean,  Greece
       Nicolae Tapus, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest // IEEE Romania Chair, Romania
       Hans-Jürgen Zepernick, Blekinge Institute of Technology,   Sweden
       Thanh van Do, Telenor, Norway
       Carlos Becker  Westphall, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil 
     ICDT 2008 Publicity Chair
     Thomas Yan, Topix LLC,   USA  
     ICDT 2008 Technical  Program Committee:
     Chairs:
       Cebrail Taşkin, Turk   Telekom, Turkey
       Claus Bauer,   Dolby Laboratories,   USA
       Alex Galis,   University College London, UK
     Special Area Chairs:
       Krzysztof Walczak, The Poznan University of Economics, Poland,   [DATA]
       Wai Lok Woo, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK [SIGNAL]
       Stefan Arbanowski, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany [IPTV]
 
       Michael Stier, NEC Europe Ltd., Germany [IPTV]
       Patrik Osterberg, Mid Sweden University, Sweden [VIDEO]
       Sorin Georgescu, Ericsson   Research, Canada [MULTI]
       Daniel Négru, University of Bordeaux, France   [VIDEO]
     Andres Arjona, Nokia Siemens Networks, Finland [VoIP]
     Dimitrios D. Vergados, University of   the Aegean, Greece [MEDMAN]
     Gabriella Pasi, Università degli Studi di Milano - Bicocca, Italy   [STREAM]
     Saied Abedi, Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe LTD.(FLE), UK
       Ralf Ackermann, Darmstadt  University of Technology, Germany
       Ron Addie, University of Southern Queensland ,  Australia
       Ozgur B. Akan, Middle East   Technical University  Ankara, Turkey
       Akbar   Sheikh Akbari, University of Bristol, UK
       Antônio Marcos  Alberti, INATEL, Brazil
       Maria Teresa Andrade, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
       Regina B. Araujo, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil 
       Stefan  Arbanowski, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany
       Koichi Asatani, Kogakuin University, Japan
       Tulin Atmaca, INT, France
       Andres Arjona, Nokia Siemens Networks, Finland
       Koichi Asatani, Kogakuin University,   Japan
       Irfan Awan, University of Bradford,   UK
       Dragana Bajic, University of Novi Sad,   Serbia
       Luis Orozco Barbosa, Universidad de Castilla La   Mancha, Spain
       Claus Bauer, Dolby Laboratories, USA 
       Giovanni Bodini, Università degli Studi di Roma 'Tor  Vergata', Italy
       Vasile Bota,  Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
       Nizar Bouabda, IRISA,   France
       Torsten  Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland
       Stefano Bregni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
       Richard Brooks, Clemson University, USA
       Wes Carter, Martel Europe, UK
       Wojciech  Cellary, The Poznan University of Economics, Poland
       Han-Chieh Chao, National Ilan    University, Taiwan
       Thomas Chen, Southern Methodist    University, USA
       Liang Cheng, Lehigh University,   USA
       Song Ci, University of Massachusetts,  - Boston, USA
       Adrian Conway, Verison, USA
       Christopher Costanzo, George Washington University,  USA
       Antonio Cuevas, University of Stuttgart, Germany
       Gerard Damm, Alcatel-Lucent,   USA
       Dibakar Das, Motorola, India
       Francisco Delicado, Universidad de Castilla La   Mancha, Spain
       Petre Dini, Cisco Systems Inc., USA  // Concordia Univ., Canada
       Satnam S. Dlay, University of Newcastle    Upon Tyne, UK
       Klaus-Peter Doerpelkus, Cisco Systems, Inc., Germany
       Christos Douligeris, University of    Piraeus, Greece
       Schahram Dustdar, Technical University    of Vienna, Austria
       Robert F. Erbacher, Utah State    University, USA
       Aytul Ercil, Sabanci University,   Turkey
       Gerardo Fernandez-Escribano, Univeristy of Castilla-La  Mancha, Spain
       Alex Galis, University College London, UK
       Luis Javier García Villalba, Universidad Complutense    de Madrid, Spain
       Sorin Georgescu, Ericsson   Research, Canada
       José Luis González Sánchez, Universidad de Extremadura, Spain
       Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, Federal university of Rio    Grande do Sul,   Brazil
       Fabrizio Granelli, University of Trento,   Italy
       Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean,  Greece
       Michael Grottke, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
       Hélio Crestana Guardia, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil
       Rick Ha,  University of Waterloo, Canada
       Abdelhakim Hafid,  University of Montreal, Canada
       Ridha Hamila, Etisalat University College, UAE
       Stefan Håkansson, LK (LU/EAB) Ericsson, Sweden
       Frank Hartung,  Ericsson Research, Germany
       Oliver Heckmann, University  of Technology. Darmstadt, Germany
  Erik Hellerud, Q2S / Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
       Eva Hladka, Masaryk   University, Czech Republic
       Mario Huemer, University of Erlangen, Germany
       Georgi Iliev, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria
       Sandor  Imre, Budapest University of Technology and Economy, Hungary
       Yuri Ivanov, Movidia Ltd, Ireland
       Kai Jakobs, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
       Xiang Ji, University  of Kansas, USA
       Qingchun Jiang, ANTs Software Inc., USA
       Norbert   Jordan, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
       Raja Jurdak, University of California - Irvine, USA
       Hyun Kook Kahng, Korea University, Korea
       Markus Kampmann, Ericsson Research, Germany
       Rajgopal Kannan, Louisiana State University, USA
       Sokratis K. Katsikas, University of the Aegean, Greece
       Ousmane Koné, University of Toulouse - CNRS
       Kimon Kontovasilis, NCSR "Demokritos", Greece
       Yongseo Koo, SKU,   Korea
       George Kormentzas, University of the Aegean, Greece
       Tasos Kourtis, Demokritos Research Institute, Greece
       Anastasios  Kourtis, Demokritos Research Institute, Greece
       Wen-hsing Lai , National Kaohsiung First University of  Science and Technology, Taiwan
       Hyungho Lee, ETRI,   Korea
       Wolfgang Lehner, Dresden University of Technology ,  Germany
       Tho LeNgoc, McGill University, Canada
       Dave Lewis, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
       Ying Li, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
       Qilian Liang, University of Texas - Arlington, USA
       Shouyin Liu, CCNU,   China
       Joan Lluis  Pijoan, Ramon Llull University, Spain
       Simona Lohan, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
       Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France
       Ilias Maglogiannis, University of Aegean, Greece
       Shiwen Mao, Virginia Tech, USA
       Dario Maggiorini, University of Milano, Italy
       Tom Malzbender, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, USA
       Pietro Manzoni, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
       Pedro Jose Marron, University of Bonn, Germany
       Marco Mattavelli, EPFL, Switzerland
       Ahmed Mehaoua, University  Paris 5, France
       Thiago Mello, Nokia Siemens Networks, Brazil
       Tommaso Melodia,  Georgia Tech, USA
       Marco Mesiti, University of Milano, Italy
       Hakam Mheidat, University of Toronto, Canada
       Francisco  Micó Enguídanos, Universidad de Valencia, Spain
       Nader F. Mir, San Jose State University, USA
       Kim Moeller, University of Applied   Sciences - Osnabrueck, Germany
       Marie-Jose Montpetit, Motorola, USA
       Mihai Nadin, University of Texas - Dallas, USA
       Daniel Négru, University of Bordeaux, France
       Uyen Trang Nguyen, York University, Canada
       Sotiris Nikoletseas, University of Patras and CTI,  Greece
       Giorgio Nunzi, NEC Europe Ltd., Germany
       Patrik Osterberg, Mid Sweden University , Sweden
       Kumar Padmanabh, Infosys   Bangalore,   India
       Santashil PalChaudhuri, Meru Networks, USA
       Evangelos  Pallis, Centre for Techno logical Research of Crete, Greece
       Nikolaos Pantazis, The   Technological Educational Institute (TEI) - Athens, Greece
       Pubudu Pathirana, Deakin University, Australia
       Dmitri Perkins, University of Louisiana - Lafayette,   USA
       Béatrice Pesquet-Popescu, GET/ENST,  France
       Samuel Pierre, Ecole Polytechique de Montreal, Canada
       Low Chor Ping, Information Communication  Institute of Singapore,  Singapore
       Ednaldo Pizzolato, Universidade Federal de São Carlos,  Brazil
       Ciprian Popoviciu, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA
       Mithun Prasad, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
       George N. Prezerakos, Technological Education  Institute of Piraeus, Greece
       Francisco J. Quiles, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha,  Spain
       Branimir Reljin, University of Belgrade, Serbia
       Irini Reljin, University of Belgrade, Serbia
       Kurt Rothermel, University of Stuttgart, Germany
       Dan Romascanu, Avaya, Israel // IETF   Operations and Management Area Director
       Angelos N. Rouskas, University of the Aegean, Greece
       Marcelo G. Rubinstein, Universidade do Estado do Rio de  Janeiro, Brazil
       Pedro M. Ruiz, University of Murcia, Spain
       Debashis Saha, Indian Institute of Management (IIM), India
       Jean-Michel Sahut, Groupe  Sup de Co La Rochelle and INT, France
       Krishna Sankar, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA
       Gerald Schaefer, Aston University, UK
       Raimund Schatz, Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien, Austria
       Stefan Schmid, NEC Europe Ltd., Germany              
       Caterina Scoglio, Kansas State University, USA
       Vojin Senk, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
       Sergei   Semenov, Nokia, Finland
       Mei-Ling Shyu, University of Miami, USA
       David Simplot-Ryl, Université Lille 1, France
       Charalabos Skianis, University of the Aegean, Greece
       Waleed Smari, University of Dayton, USA
       Cyril Soldani, University of Liege, Belgium
       John Soldatos, Athens Information Technology, Greece
       Himanshukumar B. Soni, IIT Bombay, India
       Leonel Sousa, IST/INESC-ID,  Portugal
       Dirk Staehle, University of Würzburg, Germany
       Thomas Stockhammer, Nomor Research, Germany
       Ivan   Stojmenovic,University of Birmingham, UK
       Weilian Su, Naval Postgraduate School - Monterey, USA
       Zhili Sun,  University of Surrey, UK
       Yutaka Takahashi, Kyoto University Kyoto, Japan
       Ashit Talukder, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
       Tomo Taniguchi, Fujitsu Laboratories Limited, Japan
       Cebrail Taşkin, Turk Telekom, Turkey
       Velio  Tralli, University of Ferrara, Italy
       Guillaume Urvoy-Keller, Institut Eurescom, France
       Thanh van Do, Telenor, Norway
       Iakovos S. Venieris, National Technical University of  Athens, Greece
       Dimitrios D. Vergados, University of the Aegean, Greece
       Jose Villalón, University of Castilla La Mancha,  Spain
       Krzysztof Walczak, The Poznan University of Economics,  Poland
       Andy Ju An Wang, Southern Polytechnic State University, USA
       Carlos Becker  Westphall, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
       Hongyi Wu, University of Louisiana - Lafayette, USA
       Qishi Wu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
       Xiaotao Wu, Avaya Labs Research, USA
       Zhongzhe Xiao, Liris, France
       Liu Xiang, Shanghai University , China
       Miki Yamamoto, Kansai University, Japan
       Katsuyuki Yamazaki, KDDI Labs / Kyushu Institute of  Technology, Japan
       Chihsiang Yeh, Queen's University, Canada
       Moustafa Youssef, Alexandria University, Egypt
       Meng Yu, Western Illinois University, USA
       Anne Ya Zhang, University of Kansas, USA
       Kenichi  Yamazaki, NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Japan
       Wai Lok Woo, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
       Zhongzhe Xiao, Liris, France
       Thomas Yan, Topix LLC,   USA 
       Pooneh Bagheri Zadeh,  Glasgow Caledonian University, UK
       Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, Federal University of Rio  Grande do Sul, Brazil
       Hans-Jürgen Zepernick, Blekinge Institute of Technology,  Sweden
       Qing Zhao, University  of California - Davis, USA
       Dong Zhou, DoCoMo USA Labs, USA 
     SARP: Software architecture research and practice 
     Farhad Arbab, CWI and Leiden University, Netherlands
Ali Babar, National ICT,   Australia
Azita   Bahrami, Armstrong Atlantic State   University, USA
Len Bass, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU),   USA
Manfred Broy, Technische   Universität München, Deutschland
Yoonsik Cheon,   University of Texas - El   Paso, USA
Paul   C. Clements, Carnegie Mellon   University, USA
Antinisca Di Marco, Università dell'Aquila, Italy
Petre Dini,   Cisco Systems, Inc., USA //   Concordia University,   Canada
Zhijiang Dong, Middle Tennessee State University, USA
Madjid Fathi,   Universität Siegen,   Germany
Robert France, Colorado State   University, USA //   Lancaster University,   UK
Emanuel Grant, University of North Dakota, USA
Jeff Gray, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Jiang Guo,   California State University - Los Angeles, USA
Ray R. Hashemi, Armstrong Atlantic State University, USA
Xudong He, Florida International University, USA
Christian   Heinlein, University of Ulm,   Germany
Carlos Juiz, University of Balearic Islands, Spain
Mira Kajko-Mattsson, Stockholm University and Royal Institute of   Technology, Sweden
Chung-Horng   Lung, Carleton University, Canada
Hassan Reza, University of North   Dakota, USA
Roshanak Roshandel, Seattle University, USA
Nary Subramanian, University of Texas - Tyler, USA
Atoosa P-J Thunem, Institute for Energy Technology - Halden,   Norway
Liguo Yu, Indiana University South Bend,   USA
     STREAM: Data streeam processing 
     David   Bernstein, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA
Petre   Dini, Cisco, USA
Richard   Kuntschke, TU München, Germany
Gabriella Pasi, Università degli   Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy
Krishna Sankar,   Cisco, USA
     TRACK: Tracking computing technologies 
     Richard A. Beck,   University of Cincinnati, USA
Eliane   L Bodanese University of London, UK
Michael Stier, NEC Europe Ltd., Germany
David   Chieng, BT,  Malaysia
Baek-Young Choi, University of Missouri - Kansas City, USA
Usay B. Desai, Indian Institute of Technology -   Mumba, India
Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA // Concordia University, Canada
Mícheál Ó Foghlú, Waterford Institute of   Technology,   Ireland
Abdelhakim   Hafid, University of Montreal, Canada
Paul Labbé, Defence R&D, Canada
Sylvia Lam,   Defence Research and Development, Canada
Li Li,   Communications Research Centre, Industry Canada
S.   N. Merchant, Indian Institute of Technology - Mumba, India
Liam Murphy, University College Dublin,   Ireland
Gerard Parr, University of Ulster - Coleraine, UK
Bryan Scotney, University of Ulster,   Ireland
Pierre   Valin, Defence R&D Canada - Valcartier // Univ. Laval // Univ. de Montréal, Canada
G. Venkatesh, Sasken Communication   Technologies Ltd., India
Kendall Wheaton, Defence Research and Development,   Canada