NETWORKING 2002
MAY 19-24
PISA, ITALY 
http://www.cnuce.cnr.it/Networking2002/

---> Submission deadline is extended to OCTOBER 31st 2001 

Call for papers

   The Networking series of conferences is the biennial International
   Conference on Networking of the IFIP Technical Committee on
   Communication Systems (TC6). Networking 2002 is the second edition of
   this conference --the first event was held in Paris, May 2000-- and is
   sponsored by the IFIP working groups on Network and Internetwork
   Architectures (WG 6.2), Performance of Communication Systems (WG 6.3),
   and Wireless Communications (WG 6.8).

   Networking 2002 is organized into three tracks:

     * Networking Technologies, Services and Protocols
     * Performance of Computer and Communication Networks
     * Mobile and Wireless Communications Systems

   The Networking 2002 technical program committee is soliciting papers
   describing original, previously unpublished, completed research, not
   currently under review by another conference or journal, addressing
   state-of-the-art research and development in all areas of computer
   networking and data communications. Topics of interest include, but
   are not limited to, the following:

     * Active and programmable networks
     * Analysis and simulation of networking protocols
     * BISDN and ATM
     * Broadband wireless access
     * Caching and delivery of streaming media content
     * Computer Networks Modeling and Simulation
     * Cryptography, Security and privacy
     * Internet and web applications
     * Internet Protocols over high-speed networks
     * Measurement studies of Web architectures and protocols
     * Mobile ad hoc networks
     * Mobile agents
     * Mobile Internet
     * Mobile networks architectures and Protocols
     * MPLS, MPLambdaS, GMPLS
     * Multimedia over Packet-based Networks
     * Multicasting
     * Multiple access protocols
     * Network measurements and testbeds
     * Optical networks
     * Pervasive computing
     * Power management

     * Quality of service
     * Quantitative Methodologies and Tools
     * Queueing Network Models of computer and communication networks
     * Queueing theory
     * Real-time Voice/Video Transport over IP Networks
     * Routing in ad hoc networks
     * Satellite networks
     * Self-organising network architectures and protocols
     * Switching and switch architectures
     * Scheduling
     * Traffic Engineering
     * Traffic management and control
     * Traffic Modeling and Characterisation
     * Web performance
     * Web Caching, Prefetching and Replication
     * Wireless local and personal area networks
     * Wireless 2G, 2.5G and 3G networks
     * Wireless sensor networks
     * Wireless and Mobile Networking and Computing
     * Wireless Multimedia systems
     * Workload Characterisation and Generation

Papers Submission

   Papers must be submitted electronically according to the instructions
   described in http://www.cnuce.pi.cnr.it/Networking2002/submit.html.
   Submitted papers should be approximately 20 double-spaced pages (use
   times 12pt as a reference). The cover page must contain an abstract of
   about 150 words, 3-5 keywords, name and affiliation of author(s) as
   well as the correspondence author's e-mail, telephone number, fax
   number and postal address. Because of the size limitation on the final
   manuscript, and to ensure that the reviewed paper and the final
   version have a similar size, please take into consideration that the
   final manuscript should be approximately 5000 words including tables
   and figures (each table and figure corresponds to 200 words). To make
   it easy to adhere to the final formatting standard use as a reference
   a 12-page manuscript formatted with the Springer-Verlag LNCS
   formatting standard, http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

Papers Publication

   All papers will be reviewed by the program committee. Accepted papers
   will appear in the conference proceedings published by Springer-Verlag
   in the LNCS series. Authors of selected papers will be invited to
   submit extended version of their papers for possible publication in
   special issues of:

     * Cluster Computing (Kluwer);
     * ACM/Kluwer Wireless Networks (WINET);
     * Performance Evaluation (North Holland).

Best Paper Award

   The technical program committee will select the conference best paper.
   IFIP-TC6 will provide a best paper award of $500.

Important Dates

   Full papers due: October 31, 2001 <--- NEW DEADLINE
   Notification: January 30, 2002
   Camera Ready due: March 15, 2002