[Tccc] Workshop on Telecom Economics, Engineering and Policy at ITC24 [Deadline Extension]
Piotr Cholda
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Fri May 18 16:31:42 EDT 2012
Call for Papers
Workshop on Telecom Economics, Engineering and Policy
Krakow, Poland
September 3, 2012
http://www.itc24.net/workshops/TelecomEconEngPolicy/
in conjunction with ITC 24:
24th International Teletraffic Congress
http://www.i-teletraffic.org
The workshop will address contemporary policy issues that are profoundly
consequential for the future of telecommunications. Examples are network
neutrality, spectrum allocation and national broadband infrastructures,
all areas of interest in the workshop. The policy decisions will impact
mobile and broadband service providers, content providers and equipment
vendors. Given the importance of engineering trade-offs based on
technical principles in policy making, we believe that the teletraffic
engineering community has important contributions to make to the
debates. For instance, networking expertise helps to reveal whether
perceived costs or benefits of existing practice are real or imaginary.
Similarly, knowledge of future technology trends helps to determine
feasibility and complexity of implementing certain regulatory regimes.
Analytical skills used to deal with engineering problems are typically
applicable to the formulation and solution of models of market
competition in providing communication services, and these are often the
basis of quantitative analyses. It is the goal of the workshop to
facilitate greater participation of the international teletraffic
community in discussions and subsequent policy-making for the industry.
The workshop intends to achieve this goal by bringing together diverse,
not yet necessarily well-connected, quarters of the technical community
that are studying fundamental questions underlying the current debates
and by informing the teletraffic community of these questions and
results to stoke further interest.
Professor Henning Schulzrinne, CTO, Federal Communications Commission,
will deliver a keynote talk.
Scope of workshop
We invite contributions on topics in which there is interplay between
economics, engineering and policy related to the telecommunications
industry. Contributions that reflect the multi-disciplinary nature of
the workshop scope are particularly welcome. Areas of interest include,
but are not restricted to, the following.
Network Neutrality. The goal is to examine the subject from a
multi-disciplinary perspective. For instance, what are technical and
performance considerations for and against network neutrality? What are
the implications for network evolution, investment incentive and market
structure? How does the neutrality requirement affect innovations of the
higher-layer applications? How to strike a proper balance between
efficiency of capacity usage and fairness in serving different users?
Spectrum: Allocation and beyond. The goal is to discuss different ways
to use spectrum more efficiently to accommodate increasing demand for
providing ubiquitous wireless broadband services. For instance, how to
shift exclusive access to certain spectrum from broadcasters to
broadband providers? How to facilitate shared use of spectrum with
technologies like cognitive radio? Should some spectrum be allocated for
open access, and if so, how to contain anarchy and the tragedy
associated with commons?
Development of national broadband infrastructures. The goal is to share
experiences of different nations. For instance, how do countries differ
in their approach to achieve nation-wide broadband penetration? Should
the national broadband network be managed as a public utility, a
regulated monopoly, or through a consortium of competing private
enterprises? How does an advanced broadband network infrastructure
affect national economy in general?
Paper Submission and Registration
Authors should prepare a PDF version of their paper not exceeding 8
pages with a font size not smaller than 11 points. Please submit the
paper to the Workshop Organizers with the name of the presenting author
indicated. Submission implies that, if accepted, an author will register
and present it at the workshop. The registration and payment issues will
be managed by the organization of ITC 2012. The registration deadline of
the workshop is June 29, 2012.
Accepted papers will be made available in the ACM Digital Library.
Important dates
Paper submission deadline EXTENDED: May 28, 2012
Paper submission deadline: May 18, 2012
Acceptance notification: June 15, 2012
Final version: June 25, 2012
Registration: June 29, 2012
Workshop: September 3, 2012
Workshop Organizers:
Debasis Mitra (Bell Labs, mitra at research.bell-labs.com)
Qiong Wang (Bell Labs, qwang at research.bell-labs.com)
Steering Committee:
Eitan Altman (INRIA)
Andrew Odlyzko (U. Minnesota)
Jon Peha (Carnegie-Mellon)
Henning Schulzrinne (FCC)
Rod Tucker (U. Melbourne)
Jean Walrand (UC, Berkeley)
Financial support provided by INRIA's MENEUR program for the workshop is
gratefully acknowledged.
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