Deadline extended to 30th April.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
3rd European Conference on Universal Multiservice Networks
(ECUMN '04)
October 25-27, 2004 - Porto, Portugal
URL: http://www.co.it.pt/ecumn04.html
GENERAL INFORMATION
The European Conference on Universal Multiservice Networks (ECUMN) was born
in Colmar, France, under the sponsorship of SEE (Société de l'Electricité,
de l'Electronique, et des Technologies de l'Information). After the first
two successful venues in Colmar in 2000 and in 2002, the 3rd European
Conference on Universal Multiservice Networks (ECUMN '04) is moving to
Portugal and will take place at Hotel D. Henrique, in Porto (Oporto) from
Monday 25 to Wednesday 27 October, 2004. The conference is jointly organized
by Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT) and OE (Ordem dos Engenheiros), with
the technical co-sponsorship of IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Portugal
Section, EUREL and SEE.
The goal of the ECUMN conference is to bring together researchers from the
academia and practitioners from the industry in order to address network and
service convergence issues. The conference will provide a forum where the
academia shall be able to present up-to-date research results and the
industry describe emerging technologies and new research problems related to
them.
The conference scope has been extended to deal to put specific emphasis on
Service Provisioning, and Service differentiation issues. Graceful evolution
of Networks, new access schemes, flexible protocols, increased variety of
services, hybrid networks reliability, are some of the present and future
challenges that have to be met by the various technologies that will be
discussed during the conference.
A competition for the best student paper will be organized to recognize and
encourage excellence in graduate studies.
TOPICS OF SPECIAL INTEREST
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
- Evolution of Telecommunication Networks Architecture:
Next Generation Networks (NGN)
Active Networks
Optical Networks
Access Networks
Mobile Networks
Storage Area Networks
Network measurements and testbeds
- Protocols issues:
Multicast
Switching and routing
Signalling
Mobility management
Security and privacy
Real time and multimedia
- Service provisioning and deployment in a heterogeneous environment:
Intermediation
Network design and planning
Network management and control
Traffic engineering
Interfaces and Reference points
Flow control
- Service differentiation
Real time services over IP/IPv6
Pricing and real time billing
Traffic control and QoS
Service reliability, availability
Congestion and admission control
Replication system (caching, mirroring, CDNs, etc).
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline: April 15, 2004
Authors notification: June 15, 2004
Deadline for full-length camera ready paper: July 15, 2004
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
Papers must use single-column per page, double spacing, Times New Roman
style characters with 12-point font size, and should not exceed 4,000 words.
The top of the first page of each paper must include the title of the paper,
authors' names, position, address, telephone, e-mail of the author
responsible for correspondence and a list of four keywords. Submissions must
be made electronically through the paper submission page. All the
manuscripts must be written in English. Acceptable formats are Postscript,
Adobe PDF and Microsoft Word. Please use A4 paper format when formatting
your submission. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit
full-length manuscripts for inclusion in the proceedings with ISBN.
For more information please contact:
Mario Freire
Institute of Telecommunications
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Coimbra - Site II,
P-3030-290 COIMBRA
PORTUGAL
Tel.: + 351 239 79 62 36
Fax: + 351 239 79 62 93
E-mail: ecumn04@co.it.pt
Check our Web page at http://www.co.it.pt/ecumn04.html for the latest
information concerning the conference.
CONFERENCE COMMITTEES
General Co-Chairs
Prosper Chemouil (France) - France Telecom R&D
Annie Gravey (France) - Groupement des Ecoles des Télécommunications
Pascal Lorenz (France) - University of Haute Alsace
Mario Freire (Portugal)- Univ. Beira Interior/Instituto de Telecomunicações
Steering Committee
Prosper Chemouil (France) - France Telecom R&D
Annie Gravey (France) - Groupement des Ecoles des Télécommunications
Pascal Lorenz (France) - University of Haute Alsace
Jean-Gabriel Rémy - (France) Cegetel
Sylvie Ritzenthaler - (France) Alcatel
Pierre Rolin (France) - France Telecom R&D
Technical Program Committee
P. Bertin (France) - France Telecom R&D
F. Boavida (Portugal) - University of Coimbra
S. Bregni (Italy) - Politecnico Milano
P. Brown (France) - France Telecom R&D
E. Carrapatoso (Portugal) - University of Porto
P. Castelli (Italy) - Telecom Italia Labs
T. Chahed (France) - INT
M. Diaz (France) - LAAS-CNRS
N. Fonseca (Brazil) - Campinas University
A. Jamalipour (Australia) - Univ. of Sydney
N. Kamiyama (Japan) - NTT
S. Karnouskos (Germany) - GMD FOKUS
L. Lancieri (France) - France Telecom R&D
M. Maknavicius-Laurent (France)- INT
Z. Mammeri (France) - University of Toulouse
E. Monteiro (Portugal) - University of Coimbra
S. Oueslati (France) - France Telecom R&D
G. Petit (Belgium) - Alcatel
M. Pioro (Poland) - Warsaw University of Technology
S. Ritzenthaler (France) - Alcatel
A. Santos (Portugal) - University of Minho
R. Valadas (Portugal) - University of Aveiro
M. Villen-Altamirano (Spain) - Telefonica I+D
J. Yan (Canada) - Nortel
Organizing Committee
Carlos Salema (Portugal) - IST/Ordem dos Engenheiros/Institute of Telecommunications
Luís Sá (Portugal) - Univ. Coimbra/Institute of Telecommunications
Mário Freire (Portugal) Univ. Beira Interior/Institute of Telecommunications
Henrique Silva (Portugal) - Univ. Coimbra/Institute of Telecommunications
Joel Rodrigues (Portugal) Univ. Beira Interior/Institute of Telecommunications
Fernando Perdigão (Portugal) - Univ. Coimbra/Institute of Telecommunications
Rui Rocha (Portugal) - IST/Institute of Telecommunications
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