[Mycolleagues] CFP: Broadnets 2008, London, Sep-11, 2008

                          BROADNETS 2008

            Fifth International Conference on Broadband

              Communications, Networks,and Systems

 

                           Sponsored by

                            CreateNet

 

                     Technically sponsored by

                **  IEEE Communications Society **

                              ICST

 

                       September 8 - 11, 2008

                             London UK

                      http://www.broadnets.org

 

 

            Accepted papers will appear on IEEE Xplore.

 

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

BROADNETS 2008 is an international conference focusing on broadband communications, networks, and systems and covers the entire gamut of next generation networks, communications systems, applications and services. The conference welcomes papers in three tracks, covering topics (including, but not limited to):

 

WIRELESS Track

MIMO and OFDM techniques * Modulation and coding schemes  * MAC protocols * Mobility management * Radio resource management * Packet scheduling algorithms * Routing protocols * Network architecture and topology design * Hybrid networks * Wireless traffic management * Cross-layer design and optimization * Wireless QoS * Multihop and relay networks * Mobile ad hoc networks * Wireless sensor and mesh networks

 

OPTICAL Track

WDM transmission technologies and systems * Optical cross-connects and optical packet and burst switches * Optical packet, burst and circuit switching networks * Optical access networks - FTTx networks and systems * Hybrid packet / circuit nodes and architectures * Radio over fiber based networks * FTTx networks and systems * Optical grids in access and core * SAN extensions *  Multilayer optical networks (incl. Ethernet, IP, G-MPLS technologies) * Cross-layer design (incl.

application layer dependence) * Reliable optical networking * Optical networking for green information and communications technology  * Traffic grooming and processing * Modelling and design of optical networks and systems * Network operations and management * Passive Optical Networks * Techno-economic aspects of optical networks * Demonstrations and field-trials.

 

INTERNET Track

Routing * Scheduling * Congestion control * Traffic engineering * Network modeling * Network measurement * Network management * Network QoS * Network security * Overlay networks * Peer-to-peer networks * Content distribution networks * Web technologies * Media technologies (VoIP, IPTV, video streaming) * Location-based services * "Clean-slate"

Internet architectures, algorithms, protocols, and services

 

 

PAPER SUBMISSION

 

Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 8 pages in two-column, no less than 10pt font, IEEE conference proceedings format.

Papers should be submitted only in PDF format.

 

Authors of accepted papers are required to register at regular registration rates in order for the paper to appear in the conference proceedings.  Accepted papers will appear on IEEE Xplore.

 

For instructions on how to submit a paper to BROADNETS 2008, please

visit:

 

http://www.broadnets.org/2008/authorkit.html

 

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IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper submission       : March 21, 2008 (Extended Deadline)

Acceptance notification: May 13, 2008

Camera-ready submission: May 30, 2008

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

 

General Co-Chairs

Izzat Darwazeh, University College London, UK Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA

 

TPC Co-Chairs

Piet Demeester, Ghent University - IBBT, Belgium Narasimha Reddy, Texas A&M University, USA Yang Yang, University College London, UK

 

Panels Co-Chairs

Gigi Karmous-Edwards, MCNC, USA

Wenbing Yao, Brunel University, UK

 

Workshops Chair

Shiwen Mao, Auburn University, USA

 

Publicity/Web Chair

Srinivasan Ramasubramanian, University of Arizona, USA

 

Posters/Demos Chair

John Mitchell, University College London, UK

 

Publications Chair

Arunita Jaekel, University of Windsor, Canada

 

Finance Chair

Karen Decker, ICST

 

Sponsorship Chair

Eva Wikonkal, ICST

 

Conference Coordination Chair

Kitti H. Kovacs, ICST

 

Steering Committee Members

Imrich Chlamtac, CreateNet (Chair), Italy Krishna Sivalingam, UMBC, USA Thomas Hou, Virginia Tech, USA Ioannis Tomkos, Athens Info. Tech., Greece Bruce Worthman(Staff Liaison), IEEE Comsoc