Deadline extended to Nov 15th, 2005.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
2005 IFIP NETWORKING CONFERENCE
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada 
2-6 May 2005
http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/Networking2005

Sponsored by IFIP TC6, IFIP WG6.2, IFIP WG6.3, IFIP WG6.8

Networking 2005 is the fourth event in the series of International
Conferences on Networking, organized by the IFIP Technical Committee on
Communication Systems (TC6). Previous events were held in Paris (France) in
2000, Pisa (Italy) in 2002, and Athens (Greece) in 2004. Based on the
success of this biannual event, IFIP TC6 decided to hold the Networking
conference every year starting in 2005. Networking 2005 will take place
between May 9 and 13, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The conference is
organized by the University of Waterloo and sponsored by the IFIP working
groups on Network and Internetwork Architectures (WG 6.2), Performance of
Communication Systems (WG 6.3), and Wireless Communications (WG 6.8).

Networking 2005 will be structured along three tracks:
- Networking Technologies, Services and Protocols
- Performance of Computer and Communication Networks
- Mobile and Wireless Communications Systems

Networking 2005 will include a peer-reviewed program of technical sessions,
panels, tutorials, and workshops. The technical program committee is
soliciting papers describing original, previously unpublished, completed
research, not currently under review by another conference or journal,
addressing state-of-the-art research and development in all areas of
computer networking and data communications. Topics of interest include, but
are not limited to, the following:
 
- Active & programmable networks
- Broadband wireless access
- Caching & delivery of streaming media content
- Cellular networks (2G, 2.5G, 3G & beyond)
- Cryptography, security & privacy
- High performance grid networks
- Home networking
- Intelligence in networks
- Internet & web applications
- Internet pricing & economic models
- Internet protocols over high-speed networks
- Measurement studies of web architectures & protocols
- Mobile ad hoc networks
- Mobile agents
- Mobile networking & computing
- Mobile networks architectures & protocols
- Mobility models
- MPLS, MPLambdaS, GMPLS
- Multicasting
- Multimedia over packet-based networks
- Multiple access protocols
- Network design & capacity planning
- Network management systems
- Network measurements & testbeds
- Network modeling & simulation
- Networks of actuators
- Optical networks
- Peer-to-peer networks
- Pervasive computing
- Power management
- Quality of service
- Quantitative methods & tools
- Queuing network models of computer & communication networks
- Queuing theory
- Real-time voice/video transport over IP networks
- Routing in ad hoc networks
- Satellite networks
- Scheduling & resource allocation
- Self-organizing network architectures & protocols
- Service overlay networks
- Switching & switch architectures
- Traffic engineering
- Traffic management & control
- Traffic modeling & characterization
- Web caching, pre-fetching & replication
- Web performance
- Wireless local & personal area networks
- Wireless multimedia systems
- Wireless protocols
- Wireless sensor networks
- Workload characterization & management


Paper Submission: All papers will be reviewed and accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings,
published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. Papers must be submitted electronically (see
http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/Networking2005). The maximum size of papers should be 5000 words including tables
and figures. Please adhere to the formatting standard using as reference a 12-page manuscript of Springer-Verlag
LNCS: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. The cover page must contain an abstract of about 150
words, 3-5 keywords, name and affiliation of author(s) as well as the corresponding author's e-mail, telephone
number, fax number and postal address. There will be a Best Paper Award for the best submitted paper as well as
a number of student travel grants.

Tutorial Proposal Submission: Proposals for tutorials are solicited. Potential instructors are invited to submit a
tutorial proposal of at most 3 pages, including a biographical sketch, to one of the tutorial co-chairs by December 1,
2004.

For more information, visit the conference www site: http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/Networking2005

Important Dates
Full paper due: November 8, 2004
Notification of acceptance: February 7, 2004
Final version due: February 28, 2005