[Tccc] : CFP: Advances in IMS and related Services - Extended deadline

Dear colleagues,

the submission deadline for "Advances in IMS and related Services" has been
extended to May 15, 2009.

Regards,
Mauro Femminella

[Sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.]

*** Call for Paper: Workshop on Advances in IMS and related Services ***

in conjunction with

*** MobiMedia - 5th International Mobile Multimedia Communications
Conference - September 7-9, 2009: London, UK ***

The standardization process in the field of converging networks and
multimedia services has produced complex architectures for Next Generation
Networks (NGNs), the core of which is based on the Internet Multimedia
Subsystem (IMS). It covers most of classical communication paradigms, from
packet forwarding to circuit emulation. Nevertheless, some recent
communication models need a further intervention to make the IMS accessible
by them, with possible implications in the control plane of the network
architectures. For example, the inclusion of peer-to-peer communications and
distributed security techniques is a currently being investigated by
research projects, so as the management of efficient energy use of the ICT
infrastructures.

The aim of this workshop is to is to share research interests and recent
achievements on IMS, to promote cooperation among academia, industrial
research labs, manufacturers and operators. We are interested in
theoretical, experimental, and work-in-progress papers in all aspects of IMS
and related application services.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

1. IMS Applications and Services
- Advance Service Platforms for IMS
- User-generated Services and Contents
- Advanced messaging and presence services
- Service engines (e.g. Parlay, SIP Servlets, JSLEE Application Servers)
- Integration of open-source service components
- Interworking with service oriented technologies (e.g. Web Services)
- Interworking with legacy infrastructure
- Testbeds and Validation Platforms
- Charging

2. IMS Security
- Threats and Attack Modelling
- Content filtering devices, and security gateways
- Trusted service domain for third-party service deployment
- Network Domain Security, integrity protection, and access security
- Access control, authentication, nonrepudiation, and privacy
- Co-existence of authentication schemes
- Secure links between IMS control entities

3. Management, Resilience and QoS
- Subcriber profile management
- Interdependency Modelling of IMS core elements
- Advanced network management (efficient energy management, stabilization
of the IMS core)
- Support of P2P communications
- Performance related issues
- User mobility management
- High availability, reliability and jitter solutions for VoIP, NGN and
IMS systems
- End to end performance design and validation.

TPC
Gianluca Reali (co-chair), University of Perugia, Italy
Tasos Dagiuklas (co-chair), TEI of Mesolonghi, Greece
Georgios Kormentzas, University of Aegean, Greece
Elena Mugellini, University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland
Evangelos Palis, TEI of Crete, Greece
Yacine Rebahi, FhG Fokus, Germany
Mario Marchese, University of Genoa, Italy
Charis Skianis, University of Aegean, Greece
Dorgham Sisalem, Tekelec, Germany
Mauro Femminella, University of Perugia, Italy
Laurent Walter Goix, Telecom Italia, Italy

Important Dates
- Full Paper Due: 15th of May 2009 (extended deadline)
- Notification of Acceptance: 30th of June 2009
- Final Paper Due: 15th of July 2009

Submissions should be full-length papers of up to 5 pages (including all
figures and references) formatted according to ACM publication template. The
papers should be submitted electronically to Prof. Gianluca Reali
(gianluca.reali@diei.unipg.it) and Dr Tasos Dagiuklas (ntan@teimes.gr).

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