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Dear Colleagues,  

On behalf of the Organizing Committee of Net-Con'2003 on Network Control and Engineering for QoS, Security and Mobility,
We are pleased to invite you to participate in this conference which will be held on 13-15 October 2003, at Muscat, OMAN.
The tutorials will be on  October 11-12, 2003.

Attached below is the first call for papers  and more details can be found at the conference home page: 
http://www.squ.edu.om/eng/ie/net-con2003/index.html

We are looking forward to meeting you in Muscat, Oman.


Sincerely,

Dr Hadj Bourdoucen and Dr Ahmed Al Naamany,
Conference co-Chairs,
Information Eng. Dept at Sulatn Qaboos University
POBox 33, Al Khodh, 123 Muscat, OMAN
Tel: 968 515 330

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1^st CALL FOR PAPERS AND TUTORIALS
Net-Con2003

Network Control and Engineering

for QoS, Security and Mobility
IFIP and IEEE Conference, Muscat, OMAN
Conference: October 1315, 2003
Tutorials: October 11-12, 2003

Jointly Organized by Information Engineering Department at Sultan Qaboos University, Communication Research Center and IFIP TC6 (WG 6.2, WG 6.6 and WG 6.7)

The intention of the conference is to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and findings in a wide range of areas related to network control and network engineering. Suggested topics for papers included, but are not limited to, the following topics:

Quality of Service
Policy-based management architecture
Programmable network and Active networks
Intelligent agent
QoS Control and QoS Engineering
Traffic measurements and monitoring, Traffic engineering in converging networks
Traffic modeling and simulation
Quality of Service provisioning, Network planning and optimization
Process, methodologies, and tools for network control
Policy models for system management, Provisioning of policies
Policy frameworks for active networks, mobile systems,
e-commerce
Integrating policies into existing systems and environments
Business rules and organizational control
Extensions and refinements to policy standards
Distributed game control
Case studies of applying policy-based technologies

Mobility
Mobility control and mobility engineering
Policy models for mobility

Virtual Home Environment (VHE)

Pervasive/ubiquitous/wearable mobile systems
Security and privacy issues for mobile and wireless systems
Mobility and QoS management
Control schemes in ad-hoc networks
Personal area networks QoS and security
IEEE 802.11 engineering
Smart devices
Smart cards, security and mobility

Security
Security control and Security engineering
Configurable security policies
Cryptography protocols
Policy models for security
Distributed trusted infrastructure
Water marking for flow control

International Chairs
Prof. G. Pujolle, LIP 6  France
Prof. I. Zaabalawi, University of Sharjah  UAE
Prof. Nauro Oliviera , CEEFET  Brazil
Prof. A. Casaca , INESC  Portugal
Prof. O. Spaniol, Aachen University  Germany
Prof. D. Gaiti, UTT  France

Important Deadlines
April 30^th, 2003 Papers due
May 2^nd, 2003 Tutorials, panel proposals due
June 1^st, 2003 Authors notified of acceptance
July 1^st, 2003 Final papers due


Submission
Authors are requested to submit their paper up to 15 pages, written in English and formatted as indicated in the Net-Con'2003 website:  http://www.squ.edu.om/eng/ie/net-con2003/index.html . Submission of papers must be in electronic format (e-mail) to Dr. Lazhar Khriji (lazhar@squ.edu.om)

Proposals of Tutorial sessions should be submitted by e-mail to Dr. Ali Al-Lawati (lawati@squ.edu.om).

Information
If you have any comments or requests, please feel free to submit them to: naamany@squ.edu.om or lazhar@squ.edu.om