Latin America Networking Conference 2005

1st Call for Papers

Sponsored by IFIP-WG6.9, Communication Systems in Developing Countries, in cooperation with ACM-SIGCOMM

Cali, Colombia
		October 10 – 14, 2005

LANC 2005 is organized by CLEI (Centro Latinoamericano de Estudios en Informática), sponsored by  IFIP WG6.9, Communication Systems in Developing Countries, and in cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM. LANC 2005 is co-located with CLEI 2005, CLEI’s annual conference (see http://www.clei2005.org).

General Chair
Ernst L. Leiss, U. of Houston (US)

Organizing Committee
Benjamín Barán, U. Nacional de Asunción  (PY)
Lyman Chapin, Interisle Consulting (US)
Juan Francisco Díaz, U. del Valle, Cali (CO)
Ernst L. Leiss, U. of Houston (US) 
Ana Pont, U. Politècnica de València (ES)
Ramon Puigjaner, U. de les Illes Balears (ES)

Program Committee
Benjamín Barán, U. Nacional de Asunción (PY)
Raouf Boutaba, U. of Waterloo, (CA)
Ramón Cáceres, IBM T.J.Watson Lab. (US)
Héctor Cancela, U de la República (UY)
Lyman Chapin, Interisle Consulting (US)
Mieso Denko, U. of Guelph (CA)
Yesid Donoso, U. del Norte (CO)
Ramon Fabregat, U. de Girona (ES)
Dominique Gaïti, U. Technique de Troyes (FR)
JJ Garcia-Luna, UCSC (US)
Lisandro Z. Granville, U. federal do Rio Grande do Sul (BR)
Günter Haring, U. Viena (AT)
Germinal Isern, U. Central de Venezuela (VE)
Villy Baek Iversen, Technical U. of Denmark (DK)
Koos Koen, Wits Business School (ZA)
Ernst Leiss, U. of Houston (US)
Greg Minshall, unaffiliated (US)
Djafar Mynbaev, CUNY (US)
Andrés Navarro, U. ICESI, (CO)
José Neuman de Sousa, U. Federal de Ceara (BR)
Miquel Nicolau, U d’Andorra (AD)
Dave Oran, Cisco (US)
Harry Perros, North Carolina State U. (US)
José M. Piquer, U. de Chile (CL)
Ana Pont, U. Politècnica de València (ES)
Ramon Puigjaner, U. de les Illes Balears (ES), Chairman
Guy Pujolle, LIP6 (FR)
Francisco-José Quiles, U. de Castilla-La Mancha (ES)
S. V. Raghavan, Indian Institute of Technology at Madras (IN)
Jennifer Rexford, ATT (US)
Daniela Rosu, IBM (US)
Gerardo Rubino, IRISA (FR)
Bartomeu Serra, U. de les Illes Balears (ES)
Edmundo de Souza e Silva, U. Federal de Rio de Janeiro (BR)
Otto Spaniol, RWTH Aachen (DE)
Yutaka Takahashi, Kyoto U. (JP)
Gonzalo Ulloa, U. ICESI (CO)
Alberto Valderruten (U. de A Corunha, ES)
Alfredo Viola, U. de la República (UY)
Conference goals
The Latin America Networking Conference 2005 will provide an international technical forum for experts from industry and academia everywhere in the world, but especially from the Latin American countries, to exchange ideas and present results of ongoing research in networking.
Topics of Interest
Topics include but are not restricted to:
•	Low cost access networks  
•	Sensor and actor networks
•	Low rate communications
•	National/Regional communication infrastructures 
•	Wireless and Mobile Networking
•	PC Cluster computation
•	Applications for productivity
•	Internet based applications
•	Network management
•	Network security
•	Optical Networks
•	Protocols and routing
•	Satellite communication systems
•	Next generation Internet and network architectures 
•	Peer-to-Peer communications 
•	Photonic networks 
Submission of papers that cover solutions of specific network problems of the Latin America region is especially encouraged.
Key Dates
* Deadline for Tutorial proposals			May 15
* Deadline for papers			May 22
* Notification of acceptance 			June 30
* Camera ready papers received			  Aug. 1
* Tutorials			Oct. 10-11
* Presentation of Accepted Papers			Oct. 12-14
Submission of Papers
Papers should be uploaded electronically, preferably in .pdf format, to the conference website: http://lanc05.uib.es . For general questions, contact lanc05@hotmail.com .
The first page must contain an abstract of about 150 words, name and affiliation of author(s), as well as the lead author’s postal address, telephone numbers, fax numbers, and e-mail.
Authors submitting a paper must state that it has not been published before and is not being submitted elsewhere. Full papers should have no more than 15 pages, and follow the style to be announced soon.
Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and distributed to the conference attendees. At least one of the authors must register at the regular fee at the conference and attend the conference to present the paper. Conference proceedings will be published by ACM SIGCOMM in its Digital Library (confirmation pending).
Submitted papers must be in English; accepted papers must be presented in English.
Tutorials
Proposals for half/full day tutorials are solicited: state subject area, level, goals and objectives, and give a short biography of the speaker(s). Proposals should be sent to the email address of the conference, to the attention of the chairman of the Program Committee.