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CALL FOR PAPERS
3rd International Conference on Networking (ICN'04)
March 1-4, 2004  Pointe-à-Pitre,
Guadeloupe, French Caribbean

http://conf.uha.fr/ICN04.html


GENERAL INFORMATION
The 2004 International Conference on Networking (ICN'04) is sponsored by IEEE/Comsoc CSIM committee, IEEE/Computer and by IEE. ICN'04 is organized by academic, research and industrial societies will be held from Monday March 1, 2004 to Thursday March 4, 2004.
In order to encourage closer interaction between academic and industrial networking research communities, we solicit both academic research papers and industrial contributions. The 3^rd edition of ICN will be held in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe. ICN 2004 will offer tutorials, plenary sessions, poster sessions, panels and exhibition opportunities.

TOPICS OF SPECIAL INTEREST
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

Communications switching and routing
Communications modelling
Communications security
Computer communications
Multimedia and multicast communications
Next Generation Network
Network Management and control
Quality of Service
Wireless Communications (Satellite, WLL, 4G)
Voice over IP
Network, control and service architectures
Network signalling
Optical networking
Distributed communications
Traffic engineering
Telecommunication networks architectures
Performance evaluation, simulation
Mobile networking and systems
Applications and case studies
Protocol design and evaluation
MPLS, GMPLS

These topics can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, standards, implementations, running experiments and applications.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
Mail four papers OR E-mail preferably in PDF format your original paper (6 or 8 pages). All the manuscripts must be written in English. The top of the first page of each paper should include the title of the paper, authors' name, position, address, telephone and fax numbers, e-mail of the author responsible for correspondence and a list of four keywords. The deadline for submission of all extended papers is September 10, 2003 with notification of acceptance by October 10, 2003. Submission of camera-ready paper is by November 10, 2003.
Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit full-length manuscripts for inclusion in the proceedings with ISBN.
All hard copies papers should be sent to the following address:
Pascal LORENZ
University of Haute Alsace
34 rue du Grillenbreit
68008 Colmar, France
Phone: 33 (0)389202366 Fax: 33 (0)389202359 Mobile: 33 (0)632630204
E-mail: lorenz@ieee.org
Check our Web page at http://conf.uha.fr/ICN04.html for the latest information concerning the conference.
Best papers will be forwarded for consideration in a special issue of a journal. 

TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS
Tutorials and workshops provide overviews of current high interest topics. Proposals for half of full day tutorials are due by September 10, 2003.

INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
H. Abouaissa (France) - University of Haute Alsace
R. Addie (Australia) - University of Southern Queensland
K. Begain (UK) - University of Bradford
B. Bing (USA) - Georgia Institute of Technology
A. Brandwajn (USA) - University of California Santa Cruz
P. Chemouil (France)  France Telecom R&D
J.P. Coudreuse (France) - Mitsubishi
M. Devetsikiotis (USA) - North Carolina State University
S. Fdida (France) - LIP6
N. Fonseca (Brazil) - University of Campinas
E. Fulp (USA) - Wake Forest University
B. Gavish (USA) - Vanderbilt University
H. Guyennet (France) - University of Franche-Comte
Z. Hulicki (Poland) - University of Cracow
R. Israel (France) - IEEE
A. Jajszczyk (Poland) - University of Mining & Metallurgy
A. Jamalipour (Australia) - University of Sydney
S. Jiang (Singapore) - National University of Singapore
S. Karnouskos (Germany) - GMD FOKUS
G. Kesidis (USA)  Pennsylvania State University
D. Khotimsky (USA) - Lucent Bell Labs
D. Kofman (France) - ENST Paris
S. Kota (USA) - Lockeed Martin
D. Kouvatsos (UK) - University of Bradford
S. Kumar (USA) - Ericsson
G.S. Kuo (Taiwan) - National Central University
F. Le Faucheur (France) - Cisco
M. Lee (Korea) - Dongshin University
P. Lorenz (France) - University of Haute Alsace
Z. Mammeri (France) - University of Toulouse
N. Mastorakis (Greece) - Military Institutions of University Education
H. Mouftah (Canada) - Queen's University
G. Omidyar (USA) - Computer Sciences Corp.
M. Potts (Switzerland) - Martel
G. Pujolle (France) - University of Paris 6
S. Rao (Switzerland) - Ascom
A. Reid (UK) - British Telecom
S. Ritzenthaler (France) - Alcatel
P. Rolin (France)  France Telecom R&D
D. Sadok (Brazil) - Federal University of Pernambuco
R. Saracco (Italy) - CSELT
H. Tobiet (France) - NMG
V.A. Villagra (Spain) - University of Madrid
E. Vazquez Gallo (Spain) - University of Madrid
O. Yang (Canada) - University of Ottawa

IMPORTANT DATES
Extended papers deadline                September 10, 2003
Authors Notification:                   October 10, 2003
Camera ready, full papers due:          November 10, 2003