Symposium on Next Generation Networks and Communications
Part of IEEE WirelessCom 2005
Sheraton Maui Resort, Kaanapali Beach, Maui, Hawaii, USA
June 13-16, 2005
http://www.ee.usyd.edu.au/~abbas/CFP/NGNC2005

Symposium Co-Chairs:
Abbas Jamalipour, University of Sydney, Australia
<a.jamalipour@ieee.org>
Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France <lorenz@ieee.org>
Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
<Nirwan.Ansari@NJIT.EDU>
Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, USA <pdini@cisco.com>

Scope:
Next generation mobile networks are characterized through the
integration and convergence of wired and wireless networks. Third
generation wireless cellular systems such as UMTS and cdma2000 will
include other emerging technologies for broadband Internet access such
as hot spot services or ad hoc multi-hop access networks, to provide a
wire-line compatible service to mobile Internet users. In addition the
integration of new technologies like sensor networks, broadcast
technologies like DVB, or the support of moving networks on trains or
busses poses interesting challenges. New standards such as IEEE 802.16
(WiMAX), IEEE 802.20, and IEEE 802.21 are emerging to provide new
broadband access services in the next few years. Many researchers around
the world within academia and industry are working on defining and
development of the next generation mobile networks.
An advanced core network is required to interconnect all those networks
in a seamless and transparent fashion. Managed quality of service,
secure VPNs, broadcast and multicast services are only a few of the new
services provided. New Internet style application oriented signaling
protocols like SIP are finding their way into mobile and fixed networks
to support creation of new services, which are desperately needed to
bring profitability to an expensive infrastructure. In general the high
cost of mobile network deployment emphasizes the need to charge for
traffic and services, as well as for improved self-organization, areas
not yet well developed in the Internet.
The next generation network will be seen as a new initiative to bring
together all heterogeneous systems under the same framework, where the
service shortcoming of one system can be complemented by other systems.
Network convergence is therefore regarded as the next major challenge in
the evolution of telecommunications technologies and the integration of
computer and communications. 
Next Generation Networks and Communications Symposium will focus on all
aspects of next generation mobile network architecture and try to gather
the state-of-the art research activities in this important field. In
particular it will address the evolution of today's Internet, the PSTN
and third Generation Mobile Networks to a future multi-platform and
multi-service ubiquitous network. It will focus on network architecture,
protocols and service platforms, addressing areas such as the evolution
towards 4G mobile networks, the integration of heterogeneous network
technologies like fixed, mobile and satellite access, content
distribution and streaming, QoS, multicasting and, operational aspects
of next generation networks like management, charging and service
provisioning.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 

*	4G mobile network architectures
*	Ad hoc wireless networks
*	Application specific protocols
*	Call admissions and congestion control
*	Content distribution networks
*	DVB and DAB techniques
*	Hybrid wireless communication systems
*	IMT2000 and beyond cellular systems
*	Internet over satellite
*	Internetworking heterogeneous wireless/wire-line networks
*	Mobile ad hoc routing
*	Mobile Internet technologies
*	Mobile IP techniques
*	Mobile quality of service management
*	Mobility, location and handoff management 
*	Multimedia QoS and traffic management 
*	Multi-protocol architectures and devices
*	Network Control and Signaling
*	Network resource management
*	Network topology adaptive control
*	Packet and all-IP network design
*	Performance of E2E protocols over wireless networks
*	Proxies and middleware for wireless networks 
*	QoS and media streaming support
*	QoS routing in wireless networks
*	Routing in Fixed and Mobile Networks
*	Routing in multi-hop, ad hoc and sensor networks 
*	Self organization of networks
*	Sensor networks
*	Service middleware and open interfaces
*	Service provisioning platforms
*	Service roaming and VHE
*	Terrestrial-satellite integration scenarios & techniques
*	Traffic and service charging
*	Transport protocols for wireless
*	VoIP protocols and services
*	Wireless LANs protocols and standards
*	Wireless multicasting
*	Wireless network security and privacy
*	Wireless switching and routing techniques
*	Wireless system optimization techniques
*	Next generation broadband satellite systems

Schedule:
Paper Submission Deadline: March 15, 2005 
Notification of Acceptance: April 15, 2005 
Final Manuscript Due: May 1, 2005

Paper Submission:
Full papers, limited to 6 pages, are accepted for submission to this
symposium. Papers must be original, have not been published elsewhere,
and are not currently under review for another conference or journal.
All papers must be in standard IEEE two-column format. Papers should be
submitted via the paper management site at
https://msrcmt.research.microsoft.com/WirelessCom2005. If you had any
problem in submitting your paper to the paper management site, please
send your paper in PDF format by e-mail to the Symposium Co-Chair, Abbas
Jamalipour a.jamalipour@ieee.org, with the subject of
NGNC2005-submission by the deadline. Submissions should include in their
email a cover page with authors' names, affiliations, fax and telephone
numbers and e-mail addresses. The email used for submission of paper
will be considered as the corresponding author. All papers will be peer
reviewed by at least three reviewers. At least one of the authors of
accepted papers must register and attend the conference.