[Mycolleagues] Call for Papers for the 21st International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 21)

Call for Papers

21st International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 21)
"Traffic and Performance Issues in Networks of the Future"
15-17 September 2009 – Paris, France
http://www.i-teletraffic.org/itc21

TOPIC

ITC brings together researchers interested in understanding and improving the way traffic is handled in communication networks. The current rapid evolution of these networks, under the impulsion of proliferating broadband applications, new usage models and advances technology, calls for a continuous reappraisal of traffic management procedures and mechanisms.

In parallel with the requirement to improve network efficiency and performance by incremental steps, there is currently considerable activity worldwide on the design of new architecture principles and concepts for future networks. How will technological innovations and content-centric networking impact our ability to control traffic flow? What architectural elements and business models are needed to finally meet user expectations for quality and security of their communications in a cost-effective way? Such traffic and performance issues related to the networks of the future are the focus of ITC 21, the next  ITC plenary congress that will take place in Paris in September 2009.

ITC 21 solicits submission of papers with original contributions relating to traffic and performance issues in computer networks and communication systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, architectural design for traffic efficiency, impact of advances in wired, wireless, and optical technology, network planning and operation, traffic measurement and modelling, performance monitoring, new applications, test bed experiments, and performance evaluation methodology.

See http://www.i-teletraffic.org/itc21/call-for-papers/

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline:        February 1st, 2009

Acceptance notification:    May 1st, 2009

Camera-ready due:           June 1st, 2009

Conference:                     September 15-17, 2009

SUBMISSION

Submitted papers must be unpublished and currently not under review for any other publication. All paper submissions will be handled electronically in EDAS via the ITC 21 submission page.

Authors should prepare a Portable Document Format (PDF) version of their full paper, which must be no longer than 8 double-column pages in IEEE format with font size no smaller than 10 points. Please refer to http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/authors/transjnl/index.html for details. Papers that are not compliant with the requirements may be declined without review.

All accepted contributions will be full papers with oral presentations. To guarantee the high visibility of the conference, the availability of the proceedings through IEEE Xplore is under IEEE approval. Extensions of best papers will be published in a special issue of the international journal "Annals of Telecommunications".

Please note that ITC offers a general Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award. The eligible student must be first author and presenter of his paper.

ORGANIZATION

General Chair

    Prosper Chemouil, Orange Labs, France

General Vice-Chair

    Daniel Kofman, Institut Telecom ParisTech, France

TPC Co-Chairs

    Fabrice Guillemin, Orange Labs, France

    Michael Menth, University of Wuerzburg, Germany