See: http://www.anatel.gov.br/itc17/

               17th International Teletraffic Congress
            "Teletraffic Engineering in the Internet Era"
          Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, September 24-28, 2001         


      The purpose  of the International Teletraffic  Congress (ITC) is
to stimulate the development and application of Teletraffic Theory for
planning, engineering,  managing and  administrating telecommunication
networks.

      The  main objective  of ITC17th  is to  integrate the  academic,
research, operators and industry  telecom community, creating a proper
environment for  discussing and exchanging experiences  on teletraffic
matters.


Call for Papers
===============


      The Internet  Age features the  convergence of voice,  video and
data  technologies. It  requires radically  new approaches  to network
design. That  multi-service network  entails additional  challenges to
teletraffic engineers  like modelling burst packet  traffic, bandwidth
allocation  for  real  time   and  mass  data  applications,  resource
reservation and  routing algorithms, mobility  management, engineering
of  network  resources,  quality-of-service  guarantees,  pricing  and
economic investments.

      ITC-17 addresses the difficult problems of models and strategies
to cope  with the exploding  increase of  packet traffic, the  need of
high bandwidth in  the access networks, the interworking  of fixed and
mobile  networks  and  the  reliability  for  the  forthcoming  myriad
of  services. The  conference  theme "Teletraffic  Engineering in  the
internet Era" underlines the evolutionary  progress needed in the area
of Teletraffic Theory and Engineering  for the convergence of networks
and services.  The technical program will  include traffic performance
issues arising from the following fields:

  Access Networks
  B-ISDN, SDH and ATM
  Distributed Computing Platforms
  Economics, Regulatory and Technological Aspects
  Intelligent Networks
  IP Services, Quality of Service, Routing and Congestion Control
  Mobile Communication Networks including 3G Systems
  Ad Hoc Networking
  Mobility Management and Signalling
  UMTS Network Planning
  Wireless Communication
  Network Management
  Network Planning and Optimization
  Next Generation Networks
  Optical Networks and Elements
  Performance Analysis
  Performance issues related to traffic and price
  Queueing Theory
  Reliability and Survivability
  Resource Planning
  Traffic Management and Control
  Teletraffic Engineering Methods and Practices
  Traffic Modeling and Measurements and Simulation methods . 

            


Paper Submission Instructions

      Papers  should not  exceed 15  doubled-spaced pages  (about 5000
words), have  an abstract of  100-200 words, and be  original material
not previously published or currently under review.

      The title  page should  contain the authors'  names, affiliation
and contact details  (telephone, fax and e-mail). The  key contact for
correspondence must be clearly indicated.  It should also be indicated
up to three key  topics, among the ones listed in the  ITC 17 call for
papers , that best describe the contents of the paper.

      All other  pages should be marked  with the title of  the paper,
name of the corresponding author, and page numbers.

      Only electronic submission will be accepted. Papers should be in
PDF  or Postscript  format,  normal  paragraph 11  pt,  using one  the
following fonts:  Arial, Courier, Helvetica, Symbol,  Times, Times New
Roman;

      The  site  for  electronic  submission  is  not  available  yet.
Prospective authors  are encouraged  to send  e-mail to  the Technical
Secretariat so they can be notified as soon as the site is available.

      A camera-ready version will be required until June 1st, 2001.

      Submission  implies   at  least  one  author   will  attend  the
conference. Please adhere strictly to the submission timetable.

      Any  further  question  should  be  directed  to  the  Technical
Secretariat

  Nelson Fonseca

  ITC-17 Technical Secretariat
  State University of Campinas
  Institute of Computing
  P.O. Box 6176
  Av. Albert Einstein 1251
  13083-970, Campinas, BRAZIL
  e-mail: itc2001@ic.unicamp.br
  fax: +55 19 3788-5847

                                           

Student Paper Awards

      Papers submitted by students will  enter a student paper contest
with awards being made  to a maximum of 4 people.  To be eligible, the
student must be  the primary contributor and first  author. A covering
letter is required indentifying the paper as a student paper.



Working Language

      The working language of the  conference is English which will be
used for all printed material, presentations and discussions.

                                           

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITEE CHAIR 
  Jorge Moreira de Souza

  Lucent Zetax

  Al Maria Teresa 2000
  PO 272
  13278-181, Valinhos, SP
  Phone: + 55 19 3881 8187
  Fax: + 55 19 3881 8198
  e-mail: jmdsouza@lucent.com

                                           


Important Dates
Complete Manuscripts Due: January 29th, 2001
Notification of Acceptance Mailed: April 20th, 2001
Camera Ready Manuscript Due: June 1st, 2001