Our apologies if you have received multiple copies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers QShine 2004 - First International Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks 18-20/10/2004 Dallas, Texas, USA http://qshine.org/ Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE COMSOC TCCC, IEEE Dallas Chapter, and ACM. (*Approval pending on ACM) Scope Recent technological developments in broadband high-speed networks, peer-to-peer networks, wireless and mobile networks, and grid computing have led to newer challenging problems, such as providing QoS support to the emerging high-speed internet and multimedia applications across both wired and wireless networks. This conference will focus on all aspects of QoS support for heterogeneous wired and wireless networks. Papers addressing cross-layer design on QoS support for both wired and wireless networks are strongly encouraged. It will serve as a forum for researchers from both academia and industry for presenting recent research results in QoS issues for both wired and wireless networks. The conference features prominent invited speakers as well as papers by top researchers in the field. Please join us in Dallas for QShine 2004! Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance. The scope of the conference includes, but is not limited to: QoS in wireless local area networks QoS in sensor networks and wireless ad-hoc networks QoS support and mobility management in wireless Internet QoS in wireless and mobile multimedia QoS provisioning in mobile IP and IPv6 Scheduling policies for wireless networks QoS in current and emerging cellular and satellite networks Differentiated service in wireless multimedia networks QoS in broadband high-speed networks QoS in optical networks QoS support for Internet applications QoS across heterogeneous link technologies Middleware support for QoS provision Policy-based QoS differentiation Interactive broadband television, gaming, and video distribution Variable and adaptive QoS QoS modeling and measurement QoS routing, resource management, and admission control QoS pricing and billing QoS architectures, protocols, and systems QoS in web systems and storage systems QoS specification, metrics, and analysis QoS in peer-to-peer networks, grid and application-layer overlay networks Security aspects of QoS systems Publication Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Papers of particular merit will be proposed for publication in ACM / Kluwer Wireless Networks (WINET). Submission Guidelines Papers should not exceed 20 pages, must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. All submissions should be sent electronically in Postscript or Adobe PDF format. Electronic submission instructions will be available at submission instructions. Important Dates Submission Deadline: May 28th, 2004 Notification of Acceptance: July 26th, 2004 Camera-ready Manuscripts due: August 20th, 2004 Conference Dates: October 18-20, 2004 Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs Jorge Cobb (Univ. of Texas at Dallas) and Shigang Chen (Univ. of Florida) Sudhir AggarwalFlorida State University Giuseppe BianchiUniversity of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy Gregor V. BochmanUniversity of Ottawa, Canada Luciano BononiUniversity of Bologna, Italy Andrew CampellColumbia Guohong CaoPenn State University Xiuzhen ChengGeorge Washington University Sunghun ChoiNational Seoul University S. K. DasUT Arlington Ehab ElmallahUniversity of Alberta, Canada Alois FerschaUniversity of Linz, Austria Mohsen GuizaniWestern Michigan University Zhu HanUniversity of Maryland at College Park Hossam HassaneinQueens Univ CA Jennifer HouUIUC Bo LiHKUST Hong Kong Baochun LiUniversity of Toronto Wei LiUniversity of Toledo Yibei LingTelcordia Jiangchuan LiuChinese University of Hong Kong Mingyan LiuUniversity Michigan at Ann Arbor Songwu LuUCLA King-Shan LuiHong Kong Univ Jelena MisicUniversity of Manitoba, Canada Klara NahrstedtUUIC Sotiris NikoletseasComputer Technology Institute, Greece M. NotareBarddal Univ. Brazil Stephan OlariuOld Dominion University Mohamed Ould-Khaoua University of Glasgow, UK Kihong ParkPurdue Chunming QiaoSUNY at Buffalo Sherman ShenUniversity of Waterloo, Canada Violet SyrotiukArizona State University Terry ToddMcMaster Univ., Canada Dapeng WuUniversity of Florida Hongyi WuUniversity of Louisiana at Lafayette Jie WuFlorida Atlantic University Geoffrey XieNaval Post Graduate School Qian ZhangMicrosoft Research Asia Albert ZomayaUniversity of Sydney, Australia Organizing Committee General Chair: Azzedine Boukerche - Canada Research Chair in Mobile Computing and Networking, University of Ottawa, Canada Vice Chair: Michael Fang - University of Florida, USA Technical Program Co-Chairs Jorge Cobb - University of Texas at Dallas, USA Shigang Chen - University of Florida, USA Steering Committee Chair: Imrich Chlamtac - University of Texas at Dallas, USA Publicity Co-Chairs: Mirela Sechi M. Annoni Notare - Barddal University, Brazil Thomas Hou - Virginia Tech, USA Local Chair & Finance ChairHua Zhu University of Texas at Dallas, USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------