[Tccc] Networks 2012 Rome: April 2 - Extended submission deadline

jrak@pg.gda.pl jrak
Mon Mar 26 11:22:09 EDT 2012


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                         Final Call for Papers

                             NETWORKS 2012

                 15th International Telecommunications
                Network Strategy and Planning Symposium

                    October 15-18, 2012, Rome, Italy

                       http://networks2012.fub.it/

                    technically co-sponsored by IEEE

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          Extended Paper submission deadline: April 2, 2012

  Paper submission webpage: http://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=11663
  Pdf version of call for papers: http://networks2012.fub.it/cfp.pdf
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 Networks 2012 is the 15th in the series of the Networks symposia. Since
 the first conference in Paris (France) thirty years ago, the meetings 
 have attracted world-class participants from all over the world, ranging 
 from telecom operators and regulatory and standard bodies, through 
 systems and software companies and research units from universities and 
 industry, to systems integrators. The consecutive meetings have been 
 held in Brighton, UK (1983), Innisbrook, USA (1986), Palma de Mallorca, 
 Spain (1989), Kobe, Japan (1992), Sydney, Australia (1996), Sorrento, 
 Italy (1998), Toronto, Canada (2000), Munich, Germany (2002), Vienna, 
 Austria (2004), New Delhi, India (2006) and Budapest, Hungary (1994 and 
 2008) and the last one in Warsaw, Poland (2010).

 The conference will focus on all the technologies, methods, strategies,
 normative and politics that are necessary to deliver the promise of the
 Network of the Future. Specific issues involve network design and 
 planning methods, routing, traffic flows, convergence related to 
 wireline and wireless infrastructures and to the platforms for video 
 (SD, HD, 3D) services.

 In contrast to general networking conferences here is significant place
 for presenting the experience of operators gained from various 
 migrations, convergences, introduction of new technologies, new 
 regulations, new standards, new paradigms, new architectures.

 The authors are encouraged to submit full papers describing original,
 previously unpublished research results, not currently under review by
 another conference or journal, addressing state-of-the-art research and
 development. All papers will be reviewed. Accepted papers are planned 
 to
 be included in IEEE Xplore. Extended version of papers of special merit
 will be published in a journal special issue.

 Paper submission will be done via EDAS. The total length of a paper 
 should not exceed 6 pages formatted according to the IEEE double-column 
 template.



 The topics cover, but are not necessarily limited to the following:


 1. Network Design and Planning Methods
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 - network design methods for multimedia services
 - network topology design and optimization at different layers:
   physical optical, media and control
 - Quality of Service, Quality of Resilience, performance and SLA
 - VPN design
 - ad-hoc networking
 - sensor networks and autonomic networks
 - end-to-end service performance evaluation
 - network security
 - critical infrastructures
 - network resilience: survivability, protection, restoration and
   availability
 - cost modeling and pricing
 - energy saving


 2. Migration to NGN and Mobile Broadband
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 - NGN and IMS architectures and solutions
 - migration steps to NGN based on economical evaluation and security
 - new services driving the evolution to NGN
 - migrating to multimedia/multiservice environment
 - VoIP solutions
 - migration alternatives from 2G to 3G/4G
 - IPTV solutions
 - interoperation across multiple domains
 - regulation and interconnection issues in NGN
 - Radio Spectrum exploitation


 3. Routing, Traffic Flows and Optimization
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 - multiservice traffic measurement, analysis, characterization and
   simulation at network level
 - multiservice flow matrix and aggregation methods
 - new signaling and control in multimedia/multisystems
 - P2P (peer-to-peer) traffic flows and implications on network demand
 - impact of GRID services
 - impact of mass market video services
 - intra-domain and inter-domain routing, traffic engineering,
   resilience
 - optimization process with technical and economic criteria
 - using game theory, meta-heuristics and LP/ILP
 - Routing strategies to reduce power consumption


 4. Convergence of Different Domains
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 - business strategy for convergence in competition
 - economies of scale at network, services, access, terminals and
   operation domains
 - triple play and multiple play; architectures and solutions
 - fixed-mobile-nomadic convergence
 - broadband mobile-broadcast/multicast convergence
 - IMS architecture and applications
 - addressing and numbering issues
 - home networking for triple play usage
 - impact of bundle offers and tariffs on customer attraction and
   business
 - cloud computing
 - Smart cities



 5. Role of New Technologies, Developments and Standards
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 - optical switching
 - new generation SDH, OTN
 - IPv6
 - carrier grade/class Ethernet: MPLS-TP, PBB-TE
 - 100 GbE
 - WiMAx and LTE (long term evolution)
 - xDSL
 - cable modem
 - FTTx and PON,
 - power line communication (PLC)
 - microwave point-to-point solutions
 - Cognitive radio
 - femtocells
 - free space optics
 - broadcast/multicast systems; DVB-T/H and the new DVB-SH
 - Impact of M2M networked devices
 - Impact on power consumption


 6. Network Planning Support Processes and Tools
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 - multilayer planning process
 - business planning methods and tools
 - optical network design tools
 - access planning methods and tools
 - NGN planning methods and tools
 - 3G planning methods and tools
 - OSS and BSS processes and tools
 - network management support tools


 7. Exhibition, Tools Demonstration




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 INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT AND SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

   General Chair
     Francesco Matera, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni (IT)

   Co-Chair
     Giorgio M. Tosi Beleffi,  MSE Dept. Communications - ISCOM (IT)
     Maurizio Mayer, AICT (IT)

   Committee Members
     Alberto Ciarniello, Telecom Italia Mobile (IT)
     Tibor Cinkler, BME-TMIT (HU)
     Oscar Gonzalez-Soto, ITU Consultant (ES)
     Joachim Gross, Vodafone D2 GmbH (DE)
     Wolfgang Gross, Telekom (DE)
     Richard Harris, Massey University (NZ)
     Akiya Inoue, Chiba Institute of Technology (JP)
     Bernard Liau, France Telecom (FR)
     Hyuk Lim, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (KR)
     Hussein T. Mouftah, University of Ottawa (CA)
     Ralf Nitsch, T-Systems Intl. (DE)
     Michal Pioro, Warsaw University of Technology (PL), Lund University
                   (SE)
     Gyula Sallai, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (HU)
     Rati C. Thanawala, Alcatel-Lucent (US)
     Andy Valdar, University College London (GB)
     Hideaki Yoshino, NTT (JP)

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 TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

   General Chair
     Marco Listanti, University of Rome "La Sapienza" (IT)

   Co-Chairs
     Franco Callegati, Universita di Bologna (IT)
     Dajana Cassioli, University of L'Aquila and RadioLabs (IT)
     Oscar Gonzalez-Soto, ITU Consultant (ES)
     Michal Pioro, Warsaw University of Technology (PL), Lund University
                   (SE)

   Tutorial Chair
     Andrzej Jajszczyk, AGH University of Science and Technology
                        (PL)

   Publication Chair
     Jacek Rak, Gdansk University of Technology (PL)

   TPC Members
     Nicola Andriolli (IT)
     Ake Arvidsson (SE)
     Andrea Baiocchi (IT)
     Wojciech Burakowski (PL)
     Franco Callegati (IT)
     Augusto Casaca (PT)
     Vicente Casares-Giner (ES)
     Piero Castoldi (IT)
     Walter Cerroni (IT)
     Piotr Cho?da (PL)
     Tibor Cinkler (HU)
     Walter Colitti (BE)
     Jaume Comellas (ES)
     Francesca Cuomo (IT)
     Zbigniew Dziong (CA)
     Joerg Eberspaecher (DE)
     Vincenzo Eramo (IT)
     Gerald Franzl (AT)
     Maurice Gagnaire (FR)
     Oscar Gonzalez de Dios (ES)
     Annie Gravey (FR)
     Claus Gruber (DE)
     Adam Grzech (PL)
     Richard Harris (NZ)
     Amer Hassan (US)
     Bjarne Helvik (NO)
     Meir Herzberg (IL)
     Wojciech Kabaci?ski (PL)
     Cristina Lopez-Bravo (ES)
     Guido Maier (IT)
     Markosz Maliosz (HU)
     Deep Medhi (US)
     Rashid Mehmood (UK)
     Marco Mellia (IT)
     Wojciech Molisz (PL)
     S?ndor Moln?r (HU)
     Annalisa Morea (FR)
     Raul Munoz (ES)
     Dritan Nace (FR)
     W?odzimierz Ogryczak (PL)
     Andrzej Pach (PL)
     Pablo Pavon-Marino (ES)
     Jordi Perell? (ES)
     Harry Perros (US)
     Josep Prat (PO)
     Franz Rambach (DE)
     George Rouskas (US)
     Sarah Ruepp (DK)
     Sebastien Rumley (FR)
     Marco Schiano (IT)
     Stefan Schnitter (DE)
     Dominic Schupke (DE)
     Juan Segovia (ES)
     Kaoru Sezaki (JP)
     Marina Settembre (IT)
     Nina Skorin-Kapov (HR)
     Salvatore Spadaro (ES)
     Krzysztof Szczypiorski (PL)
     Peter Szegedi (HU)
     J?nos Tapolcai (HU)
     Antonio Texeira (PO)
     Ioannis Tomkos (GR)
     Andy Valdar (UK)
     P?l Varga (HU)
     Alessandro Valenti (IT)
     Krzysztof Walkowiak (PL)
     Roland Wessaely (DE)
     Lena Wosinska (SE)
     J?zef Wozniak (PL)
     Di Yuan (SE)
     Xinpeng Zhang (CN)



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