CALL FOR PAPERS ICCCN 2007: 16TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS http://sa1.sice.umkc.edu/icccn2007 August 13 - 16, 2007 Turtle Bay Resort, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA Sponsors*: Technical Co-Sponsorship by IEEE TCCC and Nokia (*pending) Broadband Networking and Protocols Symposium (BNP) Broadband networking has evolved tremendously in recent years. On one hand, demand for broadband services has risen to an unprecedented height. On the other hand, the advent of revolutionary broadband networking technologies has opened up numerous exciting opportunities for research and development in new broadband network architectures, protocol design, media access, resource management, security problems, etc. This symposium focuses on recent advances in broadband networking and protocols that reflect various aspects in broadband network architectures as well as algorithms, protocols, and applications operated on broadband networks. It aims to foster the interaction of researchers and the exchange of new ideas by bringing together members of the networking and communications communities. The technical program of the symposium consists of regular papers and posters. We solicit original and unpublished research papers that address various aspects of BNP, including, but not limit to, the following topics: • Broadband network architectures • Broadband satellite systems • QoS routing in broadband networks • Security issues in broadband networks • Multimedia broadband services: IPTV, VOD, etc • Resource management architectures • Multicast and broadcast protocols • Multimedia QoS and traffic management • QoS pricing protocols • Broadband wireless access (BWA) • Cross-layer optimization for broadband networks • Performance analysis and evaluation • Future requirements for broadband networks Submission of Manuscripts: Please follow the general submission requirements of ICCCN07. Important dates: Paper submission: March 1, 2007 Notification of acceptance: May 11, 2007 Camera ready papers due: June 1, 2007 Symposium Co-Chairs: Chin-Tser Huang University of South Carolina, USA huangct@cse.sc.edu Ra’ed Y. Awdeh Sharjah University, Sharjah, UAE awdeh@sharjah.ac.ae Symposium Program Committee: Adnan Abu-Dayya, Cingular Wireless, USA Mahesh Arumugam, Cisco Systems, USA Eyas El-Qawasmeh, Jordan University of Science and Technology Irbid, Jordan Hesham El-Sayed, United Arab Emirates University, UAE Jose Luis González-Sánchez, University of Extremadura, Spain Sergey Gorinsky, Washington University at St Louis, USA Min Sik Kim, Washington State University, USA Taha Landolsi, American University of Sharjah, UAE Ying-Dar Lin, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Alex Liu, Michigan State University, USA Ai-Chun Pang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Gheorghe Spiride, Nortel Networks, USA Jian Yin, IBM Watson Research Center, USA Sherali Zeadally, University of the District of Columbia, USA S.Q. Zheng, UT-Dallas, USA