IC3N 2003 CALL FOR PAPERS

              TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
         COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS (IC3N'03)
                    October 20 - 22, 2003
                  DoubleTree Lincoln Centre
                       5410 LBJ Freeway
                     Dallas, TX 75240 USA
              Website: http://icccn.sice.umkc.edu

            Sponsored* by IEEE Communications Society
       Army Research Lab., IBM, Avaya Labs, NOKIA, Nortel,
              Telcordia, Univ. of Texas-Dallas
             (*pending approval of sponsorships)

ICCCN is a major international conference to present original and 
fundamental advances in the field of Computer Communications and 
Networks. It also serves to foster communication among researchers
and practitioners working in a wide variety of scientific areas with
a common interest in improving Computer Communications and Networks.
 
SCOPE:
The primary focus of the conference is on new and original research
results in the areas of design, implementation and applications of
Computer Communications and Networks. We invite you to submit papers
that address novel, challenging, and innovative results. The topics
include, but are not limited to:
  
Communication Software              Software Architecture
eCommerce                           Voice over LAN, IP, and/or ATM
Internet Services/Applications      Security/Reliability/Dependability
Protocols                           Network Interoperability
Network Control and Management      Multicasting
Intelligent Networks                Streaming Networks
Data Traffic Engineering            Performance
Network Pricing and Billing         Video-on-Demand
Networked Databases                 Network Architectures
Optical Communication Networks      Terabit Optical Technologies
Wireless/Mobile/Satellite Networks  Wireless Multimedia Applications
Cable Broadband Technologies        DSL Technologies
Mobile and Pervasive Computing      Network Processors
Multimedia Communication over       Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs)
          Converged  Networks

SUBMISSION:
Authors are invited to submit complete and original papers. Papers to be
submitted should not have been previously published in another forum, and
should not be currently under review by another journal or conference. All
submitted papers will be refereed for quality, correctness, originality
and relevance. The program committee reserves the right to accept a paper
as a long or short presentation. Of particular interest are papers that
address experiences with concrete computer communications/networks and
applications. An accepted paper must be presented by one of the authors
at the conference venue. These accepted papers will be published in the
conference proceedings by IEEE Press. All manuscripts must include an
abstract and be limited to about 5000 words total (which is about 6 pages
with font size 10 in standard IEEE camera ready format). For the paper
review process, a single space/single column format is encouraged.
Submissions also must include the title, author(s) and affiliation, e-mail
address, fax/phone numbers and postal address. In case of multiple authors,
indicate which author is responsible for correspondence and preparing the
camera ready paper for the proceedings. Electronic submission is strongly
encouraged (ps or pdf format is preferred). Manuscripts should be submitted
by Wednesday, April 30, 2003 to ICCCN2003 website (paper submission website
is open/ready to accept papers !!).

Please contact program co-chairs with any questions:

Ronald P. Luijten
IBM Research Zurich
Saumerstrasse 4
CH8803 Ruschlikon, Switzerland
lui@zurich.ibm.com
+41-1-724-8111 (voice)
+41-1-724-8955 (fax)

Prof. Luiz DaSilva
Dept of Electrical & Computer Eng.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
206 N Washington St. Suite 400,
Alexandria, VA, 22314
ldasilva@vt.edu
+1-703-535-3466 (voice)
+1-703-518-8085 (fax) 

IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper submission deadline : April 30, 2003
Notification of acceptance:  June 30, 2003
Camera ready papers due: August 1, 2003

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BEST PAPER AWARD: Starting from IC3N'03, ICCCN will select the best paper
                  each year and authors of the paper will be recognized at
                  the conference.
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TUTORIALS:
Proposals are solicited for tutorials. Please email your proposals
in ASCII format by May 31, 2003 to one of the Program Chairs above.
 
STUDENT FORUM:
We encourage submissions from students. Some travel assistance will
be available for students with top quality papers.
 
WEBSITE:
Please visit the ICCCN2003 web site http://icccn.sice.umkc.edu for
more up-to-date information. Paper submissions are being accepted
at this website.
 
General Chair: Dr. Russell Hsing (trh@research.telcordia.com)
               Dr. Eric Wong (ewong@utdallas.edu)