2nd European Conference on Universal Multiservice Networks


                              April 8-10, 2002

                               Colmar, France



                 http://iutsun1.colmar.uha.fr/ECUMN02.html


   This conference is jointly organized by SEE(Société de l'Electricité,
   de l'Electronique, et des Technologies del'Information) and University
   of Haute-Alsace, with the technicalco-sponsorship of IEEE and EUREL.
   It is supported by RNRT (Réseau National deRecherche en
   Télécommunications) and sponsored by Alcatel, Cegetel,  France Telecom
   and Siemens (other sponsorspending).



   Workshop Theme

   ==============


   The goal of the ECUMN conference is to bringtogether researchers from
   the academia and practitioners from the industry inorder to address
   network and service convergence issues. The conferencewill provide a
   forum where the academia shall be able to present up-to-dateresearch
   results and the industry describe emerging technologies and
   newresearch problems related to them.


   ECUMN'02 is the second edition of the ECUMN conferenceand follows the
   first successful ECUMN conference held in Colmar, France in2000. The
   conference scope has been extended to deal to put specific emphasison
   Service Provisioning, and Service differentiation issues.


   Graceful evolution of Networks, new access schemes,flexible protocols,
   increased variety of services, hybrid networks reliability,are some of
   the present and future challenges that have to be met by thevarious
   technologies that will be discussed during the conference.


   A competition for the best student paper will beorganized to recognize
   and encourage excellence in graduate studies.


   The list of topics of interest includes (but is notlimited to):


     - Evolutionof Telecommunication Networks Architecture:

               NextGeneration Networks (NGN)
               ActiveNetworks
               OpticalNetworks
               AccessNetworks
               MobileNetworks
               ATM and IP Networks
               Storage area Networks
               Network measurements and testbeds

     - Protocolsissues:

               Multicast
               Switchingand routing
               Signalling
               Mobility management
               Security and privacy
               Realtime and multimedia

     - Service provisioning and deployment in a heterogeneous environment:

               Intermediation
               Networkdesign and planning
               Network management and control
               Traffic engineering
               Interfaces and Reference points
               Flowcontrol

     - Servicedifferentiation

               Realtime services over IP
               Pricingand real time billing
               Traffic control and QoS
               Service reliability, availability
               Congestion and admission control
               Replication system (caching, mirroring, CDNs, etc).


   Important Dates

   ===============

     - ExtendedAbstract deadline:            September 28, 2001

     - AuthorsNotification:                       November 10, 2001

     - Cameraready, full papers due:        January 10,2002



   Tutorial Presentations

   ====================

   Tutorial presentations on the following topics shallbe given:

     - IP VirtualPrivate Networks (Marco Carugi, France Telecom R&D)

     - OpticalNetworking (to be announced, ENST-Bretagne)

     - Servicedeployments based on softswitch architectures (to be
   announced, Alcatel)

     - NextGeneration Networks (to be announced, Siemens)


   Instructions for authors

   ====================


   A 3000-word extended abstract, preferably in pdfversion, summarizing
   an original work finalized or in progress must be
   electronicallysubmitted at the following address:
   http://confs.enst-bretagne.fr/edas/P.cgi/ecumn02


   All themanuscripts must be written in English. The top of the first
   page of each papershould include the title of the paper, authors'
   name, position, address,telephone and fax numbers, Email of the author
   responsible for correspondenceand a list of at least four keywords.


   Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submitfull-length
   manuscripts for inclusion in the proceedings. Submission ofaccepted
   papers will also be carried out electronically and the procedure
   willbe notified to authors in due time.


   Committees

   ==========


   Co-Chairs

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   Prosper Chemouil(France) - France Telecom R&D

   Annie Gravey(France) - Groupement des Ecoles des Télécommunications

   Pascal Lorenz (France) - University of Haute Alsace


   ECUMN'02 Steering Committee

   ------------------------

   Prosper Chemouil(France) - France Telecom R&D

   Bernard Depouilly- (France) Alcatel

   Annie Gravey(France) - Groupement des Ecoles des Télécommunications

   Gérard Hébuterne(France) Groupement des Ecoles des Télécommunications

   Renato Israel (France) - SEE

   Pascal Lorenz (France) - University of Haute Alsace

   Jean-Gabriel Rémy- (France) Cegetel

   Sylvie Ritzenthaler - (France) Alcatel

   Pierre Rolin(France) - France Telecom R&D

   Bruno Valat(France) - Siemens

   Xavier Voisin(France) - Alcatel


   ECUMN'02 Program Committee

   ---------------------------

   H. Afifi - INT(France)

   F. Baccelli - ENSUlm (France)

   C. Blondia - University of Antwerp (Belgium)

   C. Brou - GMD-Fokus (Germany)

   F. Callegati - Univ. Bologna (Italy)

   P. Castelli - CSELT (Italy)

   D. Chiaroni - Alcatel (France)

   G. Dalle - Unisphere Network (France)

   Y. Deswarte -Laas-CNRS (France)

   C. Diot - Sprint Labs (USA)

   B. Doshi - Lucent- Bell Labs (USA)

   G. Fiche - Alcatel (France)

   M. Gibeaux - Bouygues Telecom (France)

   A. Girard -Univ. Quebec (Canada)

   F. Guillemin - France Telecom R&D (France)

   G. Hébuterne - INT(France)

   M. Ilyas (USA) Florida Atlantic University

   A. Jajszczyk (Poland) - AGH University of Technology

   A. Jamalipour - Univ. of Sydney (Australia)

   S. Jiang - Nat. Univ. Of Sing. (Singapore)

   F. Kamoun - ENSITunis (Tunisia)

   S. Karnouskos (Germany) - GMD FOKUS

   G. Kesidis - Penn. State Univ. (USA)

   D. Khotimsky - Lucent Bell Labs (USA)

   H.Y. Kim - K-JIST (Korea)

   D. Kofman - ENSTParis (France)

   U. Körner - Lund Institute (Switzerland)

   S. Kota - Lockheed Martin (USA)

   P. Kühn - Univ Stuttgart (Germany)

   S. Kumar - Ericsson (USA)

   G.S. Kuo - National Central University (Taiwan)

   J. Labetoulle -Eurécom (France)

   L. Lamti - Swisscom (Switzerland)

   L. Lancieri -France Telecom R&D (France)

   M.Maknavicius-Laurent - INT (France)

   Z. Mammeri - University of Toulouse (France)

   T. Martinson - Ascom (Switzerland)

   G. Omidyar -Computer Sciences  (USA)

   C. Onselaere -Siemens SRIT (France)

   G. Petit - Alcatel(Belgium)

   M. Pioro - Warsaw University of Technology (Poland)

   A. Probst - Siemens (Germany)

   S. Ritzenthaler - Alcatel (France)

   J.-L. Rougier - ENSTParis (France)

   H. Saito - NTT (Japan)

   B. Sarikaya - Univ. Aizu Tsuruga (Japan)

   F. Schroell - Siemens (France)

   S. Tohmé - ENSTParis (France)

   H. Van den Berg - KPN (Netherlands)

   M. Villen-Altamirano - Telefonica I+D (Spain)

   J. Yan - Nortel (Canada)


   Local Organization

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   Pascal Lorenz (France) - University of Haute-Alsace

   E-mail: lorenz@ieee.org

   University of Haute-Alsace

   IUT - Department GTR

   34, rue du Grillenbreit

   68008 Colmar, France

   Phone: +33 3 8920 2366

   Fax: +33 3 8920 2359

   Mobile: +33 6 0365 8042