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First Call for Papers
6th International Workshop on Internet Charging and QoS Technologies
(ICQT'09)
Associated Workshop of IFIP NETWORKING 2009
May 15th, 2009, Aachen, Germany
Scope
IP-based Next Generation Networks have gradually become reality,
creating numerous challenges for all stakeholders in the ICT sector.
While future business models and regulatory frameworks are still under
discussion, the provision of efficient charging support for the variety
of upcoming network technologies, including fixed networks, wireless
access networks, and mobile user support, has become of paramount
importance for realizing the economic potential of future convergent
architectures and services.
The resulting combination of technical and economic perspectives drives
many relevant research topics for application developers, business
architects, network and service providers, and customers. Especially the
identification of novel service charging solutions, the investigation
and evaluation of their technical feasibility, and the consolidation of
technical and economic mechanisms for enabling a fast, guaranteed, and
efficient charging of services is of fundamental importance for the
future evolution of the Internet and the telecommunications business in
general, and as such the central focus of the international ICQT
workshop series.
ICQT'09 is the sixth event in this series, following the highly
successful ICQT workshops in Vienna 2001, Zurich 2002, Munich 2003,
Barcelona 2004, and St. Malo 2006. The focus of ICQT'09 is on
Telecommunication Economics from a broad interdisciplinary perspective,
concentrating on the economics of future information and communication
infrastructures as well as the close relation between economics and
technologies in support of charging, quality-based pricing and business
modeling.
Therefore, authors are invited to submit work on issues related to, but
not limited by, the following list of topics:
· Telecommunication Economics · Monitoring, measuring, and
accounting
· Internet pricing, tariffing, and · Charging technologies for NGN
billing and IMS
· Network economics and economic · Management of Service Level
models for the Internet Agreements
· Cost, business and competition · Interdomain pricing
models for providers approaches
· Service charging models, · Network neutrality and
including grid and web services charging
· Pricing mobile and wireless · Security mechanisms for
services charging and accounting
· Charging for QoS, QoE and · Regulatory and legal aspects
security of SLAs and contracts
Papers and Submissions
Full papers are solicited in English, of no more than 12 single-spaced
pages, each of which will be subject to a full peer review process.
Submissions should already follow the author's guidelines as specified
below and must include: title, authors, affiliations, 100-word abstract,
and a list of at most five keywords. The corresponding author should be
identified, including name, position, mailing address, telephone and fax
numbers, and e-mail address. An electronic, PDF-based submission of
papers is mandatory.
The conference proceedings will be published as hard-copy and
electronically by Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, in the Lecture
Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series, and will be available during
the event. In preparing their manuscript, authors are obliged to follow
the LNCS guidelines strictly and without exception, including the 12
page limit (for more details see
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Post-conference journal
publication of selected papers is under preparation.
To register and submit your paper, please go to the ICQT homepage at
http://www.ftw.at/icqt
Important Dates
- Deadline for submissions: December 8, 2008. All papers have to be
registered by Dec 1, 2008.
- Notification of acceptance: January 31, 2009.
- Camera ready version: February 23, 2009.
General Information
The workshop will be organized on May 15, 2009, as a full-day event on
the last day of the IFIP conference NETWORKING 2009 which will be held
May 11-15, 2009, in Aachen, Germany. The registration for this event is
handled within the framework of NETWORKING 2009, see
http://www.networking-2009.org for further details.
For further information on ICQT'09 please visit http://www.networking-
2009.org/calls/ICQT.html or contact icqt09@ftw.at.
TPC Co-Chairs
Peter Reichl, Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (FTW), Austria
Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Bruno Tuffin, INRIA Rennes, France
TPC Members:
Eitan Altman, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France
Jörn Altmann, International University Bruchsal, Germany
Ragnar Andreassen, Telenor, Norway
Dominique Barth, University of Versailles, France
Nalan Gulpinar, Warwick Business School, U.K.
Heikki Hammainen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Peter Key, Microsoft Cambridge, U.K.
Patrick Maillé, Telecom Bretagne, France
Olivier Marce, Alcatel-Lucent, France
Robin Mason, University of Southampton, U.K.
Ravi Mazumdar, University of Waterloo, Canada
Maurizio Naldi, Università di Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy
Andrew Odlyzko, University of Minnesota, U.S.A.
Douglas Reeves, North Carolina State University, U.S.A.
Günther Schäfer, TU Ilmenau, Germany
Vasilis Siris, ICS FORTH, Greece
George Stamoulis, AUEB Athens, Greece
Nicolas Stier, Columbia University, USA
Yoshiaki Tanaka, Waseda University, Japan
Tuan Trinh Anh, Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Jean Walrand, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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