See: http://www.iaria.org/conferences/ICNS/ICNS2005/GeneralInformation/GeneralInformation.html
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International Conference on Networking and Services
Silicon Valley, USA
September 25-30, 2005

Manifesto:

The ICNS 2005 initiates a series of events targeting general networking and
services aspects in multi-technologies environments, building on the success
ICN events are acquiring. The conference covers fundamentals on networking and
services, and highlights new challenging industrial and research topics.
Convergent services, next generation networks, inter-provider quality of
service, and GRID networks and services, are now considered aside sensors and
ad hoc networks.

We welcome technical papers presenting research and practical results, position
papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such as those being
discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia, survey papers
addressing the key problems and solutions on any of the above topics short
papers on work in progress, and panel proposals.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts,
state of the art, standards, implementations, running experiments and
applications. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which
are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but
not limited topic areas. Industrial presentations are not subject to these
constraints. Tutorials on specific related topics and panels on challenging
areas are encouraged.

Important dates:
Deadline for submissions 	May 1, 2005
Deadline for tutorial/panel 	May 15, 2005
Notification of acceptance 	May 30, 2005
Camera-ready due date 		June 20, 2005
Conference 			September 25-30, 2005


 1. Papers:

    Topics:

       1.

          Communication theory
       2.

          Communications switching and routing
       3.

          Communications modeling
       4.

          Communications security
       5.

          Computer communications
       6.

          Distributed communications
       7.

          Signal processing in communications
       8.

          Multimedia and multicast communications
       9.

          Wireless communications (satellite, WLL, 4G, Ad Hoc, sensor networks)
      10.

          Storage area networks [SAN]
      11.

          Access and home networks
      12.

          High-speed networks
      13.

          Optical networks
      14.

          Peer-to-peer and overlay networking
      15.

          Mobile networking and systems
      16.

          MPLS-VPN, IPSec-VPN networks
      17.

          GRID networks
      18.

          Broadband networks
      19.

          Network, control and service architectures
      20.

          Network signaling, pricing and billing
      21.

          Network middleware
      22.

          Telecommunication networks architectures
      23.

          On-demand networks, utility computing architectures
      24.

          Applications and case studies
      25.

          Next generation networks [NGN] principles, frameworks, architectures
      26.

          NGN protocol design and evaluation
      27.

          NGN Standard activities [ITU, TMF, 3GPP, IETF, etc.]
      28.

          NGN device instrumentation
      29.

          NGN policy-based control
      30.

          Network management, monitoring and control
      31.

          Network resource scheduling
      32.

          Networks policy-based management
      33.

          Management of autonomic networks and systems
      34.

          Service-oriented architectures
      35.

          Service definition, bundling, deployment
      36.

          Quality of service, service level agreement [QoS/SLA]
      37.

          Classes of services and QoS
      38.

          Service agreement violations
      39.

          Service migration
      40.

          Reliability, availability, serviceability [RAS]
      41.

          Traffic engineering, metering, monitoring
      42.

          Voice over IP services
      43.

          Service performance evaluation, tools, simulation 

    Other relevant topics are certainly welcome; please contact petre@iaria.org
to discuss the relevance of a topic not listed above.

    Conference flyer (printer friendly for posting; includes subtopics):

    For posting in your departments, please use this conference flyer.

2. Technical marketing/business/positioning presentations:

 

The conference initiates a series of business, technical marketing, and
positioning presentations on the same topics. Speakers must submit a 10-12
slide deck presentations with substantial notes accompanying the slides, in the
.ppt format (.pdf-ed). The slide deck will be published in the conference’s CD
collection, together with the regular papers. Please send your presentations to
petre@iaria.org.

 

3. Tutorials:

Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. Proposals can be
half or full day tutorials. Please send your proposals to joeljr@ieee.org and
petre@iaria.org

4. Panels:

Proposals on controversial and challenging topics are expected. For details,
please see Instructions for Authors section.