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 Please note  that, following many requests from  colleagues worldwide,
 the closing date for paper submissions has been extended to Monday the
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                 Final Announcement and Call for Papers 
   
                 FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKING CONFERENCE 
                                  ON
        PERFORMANCE MODELLING AND EVALUATION OF  HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS                            
                             (HET-NETs '03)


Supported by 

. EUROPEAN COMMISSION - EU Mobile Networks Programme;
. EPSRC - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, U.K.;
. INFORMS - Applied Probability Society, U.S.A;
. BCS - British Computer Society: Performance Engineering Specialist Group;
. IEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, U.K.;
. DEMOKRITOS NCSR, Inst. Informatics & Telecoms, Hellas;
. ACATS FORUM, ATS Network Consortium Proprietary, EU;
. TELETEL Telecoms & IT, Hellas;
. SIEMENS AG, Germany;
. MOTOROLA, U.K.;
. SOLINET GmbH, Germany;
. 4PLUS Technologies SA, Hellas;
. ALCATEL SEL AG, Germany;
. ERICSSON, Hungary;
. VODAFONE, Germany;
. TELECOMS DEPT., National Technical University of Athens, Hellas;
. WIRE COMMS. LAB., University of Patras, Hellas;
. SCHOOL OF INFORMATICS, University of Bradford, U.K.;
 
             Monday 21st - Wednesday 23rd July, 2003 
          Craiglands Hotel, Ilkley, West Yorkshire, U.K.

The aim of the First International Working Conference on Heterogeneous
Networks (HET-NETs '03) is to contribute to fundamental research in
networks of diverse technology and internetworking issues and focus on
their performance/reliability modelling and analysis. The event is
staged under the auspices of the proposed EU Network of Excellence
(NoE) "Euro-NGi" focusing on the design and dimensioning of the 3G
Internet and beyond and in close collaboration with two major EU IST
consortiums, namely, IASON dealing with the design and development of
performance measurement platforms for heterogeneous networks and
EVOLUTE investigating seamless multimedia services over all IP-based
infrastructures.

In particular, delegates are encouraged to address

. Traffic Engineering and performance modelling aspects of existing and 
  emerging Internet technologies towards the convergence of telecommuni- 
  cations, multi-service networking and broadcasting;

. Design and development of performance evaluation platforms for multi-
  services inter-operability and heterogeneous networks;
  
. Methods and solutions for seamless mobility and heterogeneous mobile 
  network optimisation, capacity utilisation and resource management, 
  based on enhanced performance against traditional and current state 
  of the art mechanisms;
 
. Analytic and simulation methodologies for QNMs and SPNs with self-
  similar and multi-fractal traffic models of long-range (LRD) versus  
  short-range (SRD) dependence and their approximation, with tolerable 
  accuracy, by simpler traffic processes.
  
General Chair
. Professor Demetres Kouvatsos, Bradford, U.K.

Co-Chairs
. Special Track for Performance Modelling Studies: Professor Daniel 
  Kofman (Co-ordinator of NoE Euro-3Gi), Paris, France. 

. Special Track for Performance Measurement Platforms: Dr. Michael Dopfer 
  (Co-ordinator of EU IST Project IASON), Siemens AG, Germany.

. Special Track for Applied Innovation in Mobile Networks: Dr. Tim 
  Charity (Applied Technology & Knowledge Engineering), Motorola, 
  Swindon, U.K.

. Special Track for Methodologies and Analytic Tools: Professor Ioannis 
  Stavrakakis, Athens, Greece.  

Contributions are encouraged on, but are not limited to, the
performance modelling methodologies and evaluation studies,
including reliability and pricing, of

. QoS Protocols and Provisioning for Heterogeneous Networks;
. Modelling and Analysis of Heterogeneous Internet Access;
. Next Generation Internet Protocols over Heterogeneous Networks;
. Switch Architectures for Heterogeneous Networks;
. Inter-operability of Wireless, Terrestrial and Satellite Networks;
. Multi-service Mobile and Optical Networks;
. Multimedia Traffic Measurement, Management, Modelling and
  Characterisation; 
. Congestion, Flow and Call Admission Control Schemes;
. Cell/Packet Level Scheduling and Resource Allocation Strategies;
. Flow and Congestion Control Functions and Procedures;
. QoS Routing, Load Balancing Techniques and Network Resilience;
. Multimedia over Packet-based Networks;
. Queueing Network Models with Blocking, Neural Networks and 
  Stochastic Petri Nets;
. Parallel and Distributed Simulation;
. Real-time Voice/Video Transport over Heterogeneous Networks;
. Efficiency of Adaptation Layer and Transport Protocols;
. QoS Performance Testing and Measurements;
. Security Mechanisms Effect on Heterogeneous Networks Performance;
. Internetworking Issues and Experiments;
. Computer and Parallel Systems, Distributed Systems, Transportation 
  Networks and Production Systems.


Prospective authors of HET-NETs '03 are invited to submit by

                  Monday the 9th of June 2003
 
. Research papers (for peer review) up to a maximum of 10 A4 size page   
  (single spaced text); 

. Proposals for tutorial papers on 1-2 A4 size pages (single spaced text);

. Technical abstracts of approximately 300 words for industrial papers 
  of a practical nature, academic research works in progress and poster 
  contributions; 

for PC and peer selection review - to Mr Kevin Smith (Performance
Modelling and Engineering Research Group, University of Bradford, Tel: 
+44-1274-233943, by using the E-mail address:

                   <hetnets@scm.brad.ac.uk>.

Please note all proposed submissions should be in English and be sent
as E-mail attachments using postscript, msword or pdf file formats and
include, as key words, a list of topics under which the authors prefer
their work to be classified and presented in a related session.

Following acceptance, authors will be notified via E-mail to prepare in
camera ready form the final versions of their papers.  After the event,
authors of mature work will also be invited to submit extended versions
of their papers up to a maximum of 25 A4 pages by

                    Friday the 1st September 2003,

for consideration, subject to a subsequent peer review, for publication 
in special journal issues on the performance modelling and evaluation of 
heterogeneous networks.

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Further details relating to HET-NETs '03 conference can be found in the
web site  http://www.comp.brad.ac.uk/het-net/call.html 
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