[Tccc] Workshop on Telecom Economics, Engineering and Policy at ITC24 [Deadline Extension]

Piotr Cholda cholda
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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