See: http://www.eurescom.de/summit2002/
EURESCOM Summit 2002
Call for Papers
Powerful Networks for Profitable Services
Heidelberg, Germany 21 - 24 October 2002
Conference Scope
In recent years we have become accustomed to the exponential growth of
the Internet traffic. To cope with this increasing volumes, the
diversity of traffic demands and the increase of user mobility, the
network infrastructure and supporting services have become
fundamentally more complex. The increasing commercialisation of these
networks demands a more robust, scalable and dynamic infrastructure.
Planning, controlling, managing and increasing the efficiency of these
complex systems represent a major challenge of the immediate future
for network operators and service providers.
However powerful they are, networks are only enablers, as users do not
see them and should not be aware of their existence. Users only
perceive their quality and capabilities through the applications and
services. Advanced services that meet real user needs and
expectations are essential to exploit the potential of the underlying
networks by realising increased revenues.
The objective of the EURESCOM Summit 2002 is to explore the
technologies for future networks, in the context of legacy situations
and emerging requirements. The conference will put the networks into a
broader context, i.e. adding the business related service aspects. It
aims to bring together the technology research community, the
telecommunications services and products experts as well as leading
telecommunications business personalities to share ideas and develop a
common vision.
The conference will focus primarily on advanced network issues, and
emerging network services and architectures. To include the business
issues, it will also address application services, terminals, users
and business cases that include the network dimension. This is a
comprehensive industry, technology and business event, which offers
in-depth sessions covering:
* Future network technologies
* Next Generation Network architectures
* Efficient IP transport
* UMTS and transition to 3G and beyond
* Network evolution including IPv6 transition strategies
* Quality of Service
* Security, safety and fraud
* Terminals and user aspects
* Services and applications providing the business case for networks
Topics
Original papers are hereby solicited on the following topics (but not
limited to):
Networking and infrastructure
* Broadband networks
* Content distribution networks (CDNs)
* Transport of IP (optical vs layer 3 restoration and protection, IP
peering at the optical level, etc.)
* Optical packet networks
* Handling of legacy traffic
* Access technologies
* UMTS and transition to 3G
* Fixed-mobile convergence
* Technology convergence
* Role and positioning of intelligence
* Infrastructure management
* Network control
* Network architecture
* Network planning
* Spontaneous networking (Mobile Ad Hoc networks, etc.)
* Scalability
* Dynamic resource allocation
* Traffic engineering, traffic characteristics
* Interoperability
* Satellite communications
* Bluetooth
* Home networks
1. Network evolution and quality aspects
* IPv6 (including transition strategies)
* End-to-end QoS (MPLS, Generalised MPLS, etc.)
* Integrating IP and IN
* Active networks
* Interconnection (incl. SLA)
* Strategies for 4G
Security, safety and fraud aspects
* Security infrastructures and services
* Security aspects of always-on
* Risk assessment
* Fraud management
3. Terminals and user aspects
* Ubiquitous/ Pervasive computing
* Bio-sensors, body networks
* Virtual communities
* Social aspects
* WAP & I-mode
* Personalisation
* Multi-modal user interfaces
* Voice/eye controlled user interfaces
* Remote control, security, observation
* Smart Cards and SIMs
* UMTS - New terminals, new user experiences
* Terminal convergence
* Terminal evolution
3. Services - the business case
* Service interoperability
* WLANs vs 3G - the winning solution
* Always On
* Location-based services
* Messaging
* Content and multimedia management
* Single/ multi-user games
* 3rd party development
* Service brokerage
* Business scenarios/ business models
* Billing, payment, transactions, charging
* Bandwidth and wavelength brokering
* New services for better business
* Customer owned fibre and wavelengths
Exhibition - experts meet experts
The conference will also host a comprehensive exhibition where experts
can meet experts and explore available and emerging products, devices
and tools that support the building of powerful networks of the
future.
Please send requests for exhibition space to summit2002@eurescom.de
Target audience
The conference positions itself between a purely scientific research
conference and a business-oriented conference. It aims to bring
together the technology research community, the telecommunications
services and products experts and leading telecommunications business
personalities.
The target audience consists of:
Data communications experts, network technology specialists, systems
engineers, telecommunication architects, business and product
planners, application and service developers, product developers,
visionaries, strategists, researchers, executives
from
Network operators, service providers, IT vendors, content providers,
manufacturers of IT/ telecom software/ hardware, application service
providers, academia and consultant companies.
Important dates
Submission of 800 -1500 words abstracts (2 to 3 pages)
05 March 2002
Notification of authors
07 May 2002
Final camera ready papers (max 8 pages or 4000 words)
24 June 2002
Instructions for authors
Submissions should be 800-1500 words abstracts summarising original
work. All the manuscripts must be written in English. The first page
of each paper should contain: the title of the paper, the name(s) of
the author(s), affiliation, address, e-mail and phone numbers of the
author responsible for correspondence. In addition, the first page
should include a list of keywords and main categories from the above
list as well as a summary of up to 100 words on the main achievements
presented in the contribution and the novelty of the work. It must be
clear from the abstract how it is going to be extended to a full
paper. It is recommended to have a paragraph outlining this at the end
of the abstract.
Submissions should be sent in electronic format, via the following
web-site:
www.eurescom.de/summit2002/submission
Acceptable formats are Word 97 and later versions and PDF. Please use
11 pt Times New Roman and A4 portrait format for your submission.
Further instructions on submission of papers can be found at the
EURESCOM Web site www.eurescom.de/summit2002.
Programme Committee
Technical Chair:
David Kennedy, EURESCOM GmbH, Germany
Peter Adams
BT, United Kingdom
Hendrik Berndt
DoCoMo, Germany
Valerie Blavette
EURESCOM, Germany
Miklós Boda
Ericsson Hungary, Hungary
José Bonnet
Portugal Telecom, Portugal
Alec Brusilovsky
Lucent, USA
Sid Chaudhuri
Tellium, USA
Brian Christansen
NATO C3 Agency, The Netherlands
Jean Craveur
France Télécom, France
Piet Demeester
IMEC - Ghent University, Belgium
Frank Effenberger
Quantum Bridge Communications, USA
Ove Faergemand
TDC Tele Danmark, Denmark
Pedro Falcao
Ebone, Belgium
Andrea Fumagalli
University of Texas, Dallas, USA
Linda Garbanati
SBC, USA
Andreas Gladisch
Deutsche Telekom AG, Germany
Andrew Houghton
European Commission, Belgium
Terje Jensen
Telenor, Norway
Ádám Kapovits
EURESCOM, Germany
Balázs Kiácz
ETSI, France
Latif Ladid
IPv6 Forum, Luxembourg
Alain Le Roux
France Télécom, France
Jukka Lintusaari
Nokia, Finland
Antonio Manzalini
Telecom Italia Lab, Italy
Dave Milham
BT, United Kingdom
Josef Noll
Telenor, Norway
John O'Reilly
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, United Kingdom
Elisabeth den Os
Max Plank Institute, Nijmwegen, The Netherlands
László Pap
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Martin Potts
Martel Communications, Switzerland
Marcelino Pousa
Portugal Telecom Inovaçăo, Portugal
Sathya Rao
Telscom AG, Switzerland
Roland Raschke
Fujitsu, Germany
Heinz Sauerburger
FH Furtwangen, Germany
Burghardt Schallenberger
Siemens, Germany
Richard Soley
OMG, USA
Paulo de Sousa
European Commission, Belgium
Paal Spilling
University of Oslo, Norway
Bill St. Arnaud
Canarie, Canada
Keith Start
Eircell, Ireland
Peter Stollenmayer
EURESCOM, Germany
Heinrich Stüttgen
NEC, Germany
László Szabó
Alcatel, Germany
John Vicente
Intel, USA
Richard S. Wolff
Telcordia, USA
Peter Zapf
Siemens, Germany
Organised by:
EURESCOM GmbH, Heidelberg
Further information can be found at the EURESCOM-Summit 2002 Web pages
(www.eurescom.de/summit2002) or through the following contacts:
E-mail: summit2002@eurescom.de
Phone: +49 6221 989-0;
Fax: +49 6221 989 209
Postal address:
EURESCOM
Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 35
D-69118 Heidelberg, Germany
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