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Call for Papers
11th International Conference on Telecommunications ICT 2004
August 01-07 2004
Hotel Vila Gale
Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil
http://www.ict2004.com.br/index.shtml


General Information. ICT was firstly initiated by King's College, London (UK) and is receiving    
the support of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE) and Institute of         
Electrical Engineering (IEE). Based on the initial success of Dubai in 1994, ICT has been held    
yearly in Bali (1995), Istanbul (1996), Melbourne (1997), Chalkidiki (1998), Jeju (1999),         
Acapulco (2000), Bucharest (2001) Beijing (2002), and Papeete (2003). Many scientists, students,  
professionals and technical staffs, representing a large variety of organizations such as         
universities, research institutes, telecommunication operators and industry have attained each    
previous ICT events. The 11th edition of ICT will be held in Fortaleza , Ceara , Brazil . ICT     
2004 will offer tutorials, plenary sessions, poster sessions, panels and exhibition               
opportunities.                                                                                    

ICT 2004 will cover a variety of challenging telecommunication topics ranging from background     
fields like signals, traffic, coding, communication basics up to large communication systems and  
networks, fixed, mobile and integrated, etc. Applications, services, system and network           
management issues will also receive significant attention.                                        
                                                                                                  
Topics of Special Interest. The topics include, but are not limited to:                           
                                                                                                  
A Information Theory and Coding Theory      B Optical Communications                              
A.1 Communication Theory                    B.1 Designing and Management of Optical Networks      
A.2 Information Security                    B.2 Optical Fiber Technology                          
A.3 Multimedia Information                  B.3 Optical Switching and Optical Interconnection     
A.4 Network Reliability                     B.4 Optical Photonic Technologies                     
A.5 Signal Processing                       B.5 Optoelectronic Components                         
A.6 Modulation                              B.6 Transmission System and Optical Networking        
                                            B.7 Passive Optical Networks                          
C Networking Theory and Technologies        D Telecommunication/Network Management and Services   
C.1 Broadband Communications and Networks   D.1 Broadband Access Network and Service              
C.2 Computer Communications and Networks    D.2 IP Service and Multimedia Service                 
C.3 Internet and Intranet                   D.3 Mobile Data Service                               
C.4 Mobile IP, VoIP                         D.4 Network Planning and Optimization                 
C.5 Network Security                        D.5 Telecommunication Network Interconnection Issues  
C.6 Next Generation Network Architectures   D.6 Telecommunication Pricing and Billing             
C.7 Programmable, Active Networks and       D.7 Telecommunication Regulation and Deregulation     
Mobile Agents                               D.8 Traffic Management, Traffic Control, Real-Time    
C.8 Protocol, Standards and Communication   Traffic and Quality of Service                        
Architectures                               D.9 3G and 4G Mobile Communication Service.           
C.9 Switching and Routing                                                                         
C.10 System and Network Performance and QoS                                                       
C.11 Traffic Engineering (MPLS, DiffServ,                                                         
IntServ, ...)                                                                                     
E Wireless Communications                   G Metro/Access Networks                               
E.1 Antennas, Propagation and Transmission  G.1 Future Proofing Access Topologies and             
Technologies                                Architectures                                         
E.2 Broadband Wireless                      G.2 xDSL, HFC, Gbit/s Ethernet, FTTH                  
E.3 Evolution from 2G to 2.5G, 3G and       G.3 DWDM in Metro. Access                             
Beyond                                      G.4 New Broadband Access Technologies                 
E.4 Microwave Devices, Circuits and Systems G.5 Interface and its Development                     
E.5 Personal Communications                 G.6 Residential Zone and its Future                   
E.6 Satellite and Space Communications      G.7 Co-operation between Metro Transport and Access   
E.7 Terrestrial Radio Systems               G.8 Wireless Access (WPAN, WLAN, WLL)                 
E.8 Mobility (IEEE 802.11 engineering,      G.9 Standardization (IEEE 802.15, IEEE 802.16)        
smarts devices)                                                                                   
E.9 Wireless Multimedia, Networks and                                                             
Systems                                                                                           
E.10 Wireless IP and Wireless ATM                                                                 
E.11 Cellular and Ad-Hoc Networks                                                                 
F Communication Software                    H Others                                              
F.1 Intelligent Network Theory,             H.1 EMC in Communications                             
Technologies and System                     H.2 Standardization (IEEE 802.17, Policies            
F.2 Object and Component Technologies in    models,....)                                          
Telecommunication Software                  H.3 Wireless over Optical                             
F.3 Network Management Theory               H.4 Multicast                                         
F.4 Network Operations and Management       H.5 Mobility Management                               
F.5 Telecommunication Protocol Engineering  H.6 Security                                          
F.6 Telecommunication Software Tools        H.7 Others                                            
                                                                                                  
These topics can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, standards, implementations,  
running experiments and applications.                                                             
                                                                                                  
Instructions for Authors. Participants are kindly invited to submit original papers addressing    
the topics in the area of telecommunications and networking for presentation and publication in   
the conference proceedings. While the submissions version may vary in length, accepted papers     
will appear in the conference proceedings, published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series,       
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html .                                                     
Authors'Instructions subpage (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html ) can answer most     
technical questions. Reception of the papers will be acknowledged by web site www.ict2004.com.br. 
ICT 2004 Program Committee members and their teams will carefully review each paper. The deadline 
for submission is February 14, 2004.                                                              
For more information click here                                                                   
                                                                                                  
Check our Web page at www.ict2004.com.br for the latest information concerning the conference.    
                                                                                                  
Tutorials and Workshops. Provide overviews of current high interest topics. Proposals for half of 
full day tutorials are due by February 14, 2004.                                                  
                                                                                                  
Exhibition Proposal. Companies are invited to exhibit their software and hardware products. We    
provide a large promotion opportunity and a variety of ways for achieving it.                     
                                                                                                  
Panels Proposal. ICT 2004 organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize        
dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and paradigms. Panel           
moderators are asked to identify their guests and manage that their appropriate talk supports     
timely reach our deadlines. Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating  
their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the panel, as well as short     
biographies.                                                                                      
                                                                                                  
Important Dates                                                                                   
Submission due:                          February 14, 2004                                        
Notification of acceptance:              March 14, 2004                                           
Deadline for full-length camera-ready    March 31, 2004                                           
manuscript:                                                                                       
                                                                                                  
ICT 2004 GENERAL CHAIR                                                                            
Jose Neuman de Souza, UFC, Brazil                                                                 
ICT STEERING COMMITTEE                                                                            
Hamid Agvami, King's College, London , UK                                                         
Tulin Atmaca, Institut National des Telecommunications, France                                    
Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc. USA                                                               
Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace , France                                                
Farokh Marvasti, King's College, London , UK                                                      
ICT 2004 PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS                                                              
Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc. USA                                                               
Jose Neuman de Souza, UFC, Brazil                                                                 
TUTORIAL CHAIR                                                                                    
Augusto Casaca, IST/INESC, Portugal                                                               
PERMANENT INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE                                                        
Hamid Aghvami, King's College, London , UK                                                        
Rui L. Aguiar, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal                                                   
Marcelo Sampaio Alencar, UFCG, Brazil                                                             
Sonia Aissa, INRS-Telecommunications , Canada                                                     
Attahiru Sule Alfa, University of Manitoba , Canada                                               
Tulin Atmaca, Institut National des Telecommunications, France                                    
Bill Atwood, Concordia University , Montreal , Canada                                             
Michel Barbeau, Carleton University , Canada                                                      
Jose Marcos Camara Brito, National Institute of Telecommunications, Brazil                        
Augusto Casaca, INESC, Portugal                                                                   
Joaquim Celestino Junior, UECE, Brazil                                                            
Soumaya Cherkaoui, University of Sherbrooke , Canada                                              
Prosper Chemouil, France Telecom R&D, France                                                      
Xiaodong Chen, University of London , UK                                                          
Todor Cooklev, San Francisco State University , USA                                               
Luis M Correia, Technical University of Lisbon , Portugal                                         
Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA / Concordia University                                       
Afonso Ferreira, CNRS-INRIA , France                                                              
Nelson Fonseca, UNICAMP, Brazil                                                                   
Martin Haardt, Ilmenau University of Technology , Germany                                         
Mohammad Ilyas, Florida Atlantic University , USA                                                 
Wojciech Kabacinski, Poznan University of Technology , Poland                                     
Hyun-Kook Kahng, Korea University , Korea                                                         
Dae Young Kim, Chungnam National University , Korea                                               
Bill Lavery, James Cook University , Australia                                                    
Mike Myung-Ok Lee, Dongshin University , Republic of Korea                                        
Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace , France                                                
Leen Mak, Lucent Technologies, USA                                                                
Alan Marshall, The Queen's University of Belfast , UK                                             
Farokh Marvasti, King's College London , UK                                                       
Antonella Molinaro, University of Messina, Italy                                                  
Joao Cesar Moura Mota, UFC, Brazil                                                                
Djafar Mynbaev, The City University of New York , USA                                             
Nikolai Nefedov, Nokia Research Center , Finland                                                  
Mauro Oliveira, CEFET-CE, Brazil                                                                  
Guy Pujolle, LIP6, France                                                                         
Fabrizio Sestini, European Commission DG Information Society , Belgium                            
Sakir Sezer - Queen's University Belfast , N. Ireland , UK                                        
Said Soulhi, Ericsson Research, Canada                                                            
Jose Neuman de Souza, UFC, Brazil                                                                 
Maciej Stasiak, Poznan University of Technology , Poland                                          
Rahim Tafazolli, Surrey University , UK                                                           
Yoshitaka Takasaki, Tokyo University , Japan                                                      
George S. Tombras, University of Athens , Greece                                                  
Ioannius Tomkos, Athens Information Technology , Greece                                           
Wang Wenbo, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications , China                            
Carlos Becker Westphall, UFSC, Brazil                                                             
Mike Myung-Ok Lee, Dongshin University , Republic of Korea (ROK)                                  
Paul Walter Baier, University of Kaiserslautern , Germany                                         
Werner Mohr, Siemens , Germany                                                                    
Alex Galis, University College London , UK                                                        
Rossana Andrade, UFC, Brazil                                                                      
ICT 2004 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE                                                                     
Rossana Andrade, UFC, Brazil                                                                      
Paulo Cezar Barbosa, UNIFOR, Brazil                                                               
Joaquim Celestino Junior, UECE, Brazil                                                            
Ricardo Fialho Colares, UNIFOR, Brazil                                                            
Javam de Castro Machado, UFC, Brazil                                                              
Joao Cesar Moura Mota, UFC, Brazil                                                                
Mauro Oliveira, CEFET-CE, Brazil                                                                  
Jose Riverson Araujo Cysne Rios, UFC, Brazil