[ifip-tc6] Another Kouvatsos Event

Dear colleagues,

I got the Call for Papers of another "Kouvatsos event" (HET-NET 03, July 21-23, Ilkley, UK); see below.

It is claimed that the event is "supported by IFIP WG6.2" but this is a little doubtful. At least the event is not in our calendar.

There is a really enormous list of committee members (151 without the organizing committee!) but apart from Guy Pujolle (who may not even know about that) there seems to be no single TC6 member in the list! As far as I remember we have always had problems with the way of how these conferences are organized - and we have at least asked that the series should be international, i.e. that it should be held sometimes also outside of Ilkley, UK.

Augusto: Do we get sponsorship fee and/or royalties from this event? Did we get such contributions from the Kouvatsos events in the past? I believe that we should discuss that in Budapest.

Best regards Otto

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Second Announcement and call for papers

FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKING CONFERENCE ON PERFORMANCE MODELLING AND EVALUATION OF HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS

(HET-NETs '03)

Supported by

. IFIP WG6.2 on Network and Inter-network Architectures; . British Computer Society (BCS) Performance Engineering Specialist Group; . Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEE, U.K.); . EUROPEAN COMMISSION - IST and NoE Programmes; . ACATS FORUM, ATS Network Consortium Proprietary, EU; . SIEMENS AG (Germany); . MOTOROLA (U.K.); . SOLINET GmbH (Germany); . ERICSSON (Hungary); . ALCATEL SEL AG (Germany); . VODAFONE (Germany); . 4PLUS Technologies SA (Greece); . TELETEL Telecoms & IT (Greece); . INFORMS Applied Probability Society (U.S.A); . Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC, U.K.); . Telecoms Dept., National Technical University of Athens (Greece); . Wire Communications Laboratory, University of Patras (Greece); . Inst. Informatics & Telecoms, NCSR "Demokritos" (Greece); . School of Informatics, University of Bradford (U.K.);

Monday 21st - Wednesday 23rd July, 2003 Craiglands Hotel*, Ilkley, West Yorkshire, U.K.

(* The Craiglands is a delightful Victorian country hotel on the edge of the beautiful Yorkshire Dales and near the famed Ilkley Moor.)

Over recent years a considerable amount of effort has been devoted, both in industry and academia, towards the performance modelling, evaluation and convergence of multi-service networks of diverse technology, such as IP, ATM, MPLS, D-WDM, IPO, WLL, xDSL, Metro-WDM, Gigabit Ethernet, WLAN, Ad-hoc as well as GSM, GPRS, 3G UMTS mobile systems and all-optical networks. However, many interesting and important traffic engineering, technological and performance issues need to be addressed and resolved before a global and wide-scale integrated broadband network infrastructure can be established for the efficient support of multimedia applications. Of crucial importance is the design and dimensioning of the next generation Internet with quality of service (QoS) guarantees including the creation of generic evaluation platforms capable of measuring the performance of heterogeneous networks, services inter- operability and applications. Moreover, robust quantitative methodologies are needed, such as those based on novel queueing network models, neural networks and stochastic Petri nets, leading to both credible and cost-effective approximations and algorithms for the performance prediction of heterogeneous networks. These powerful and realistic tools applied to the analysis of other types of discrete flow systems, such as computer systems, transportation networks and flexible manufacturing systems, may also be, by analogy, of relevance.

The aim of the First International Working Conference on Heterogeneous Networks (HET-NET '03) is to contribute to fundamental research in networks of diverse technology and internetworking issues and focus on their performance/reliability modelling and analysis. The event is staged under the auspices of the proposed EU Network of Excellence (NoE) Euro-NGi for the design and dimensioning of the 3G Internet and beyond in collaboration with two major industrial on the main EU consortiums related to two current IST projects in the field, namely, IASON focusing on the design and development of performance measurement platforms for heterogeneous networks and EVOLUTE dealing with seamless multimedia services over all IP-based infrastructures. As in earlier performance modelling and evaluation ATM & IP events in Bradford and Ilkley, U.K., the Working Conference provides the friendly and informal atmosphere in which participants from all over the world introduce new concepts, exchange novel ideas and establish new operational solutions and research initiatives. In particular, delegates are encouraged to address

. Traffic Engineering and performance modelling aspects of existing and emerging Internet technologies towards the convergence of telecommunications, multi-service networking and broadcasting;

. Design and development of performance evaluation platforms for multi- services inter-operability and heterogeneous networks;

. Methods and solutions for seamless mobility and heterogeneous mobile network optimization, capacity utilization and resource management, based on enhanced performance against traditional and current state of the art mechanisms;

. Analytic and simulation methodologies for QNMs and SPNs with self- similar and multi-fractal traffic models of long-range (LRD) versus short-range (SRD) dependence and their approximation, with tolerable accuracy, by simpler traffic processes.

It is envisaged that HET-NETs '03 will make an effective contribution to both structuring research in the performance modelling field and spreading the excellence worldwide.

General Chair . Professor Demetres Kouvatsos, Bradford, U.K.

Co-Chairs . Special Track for Performance Modelling Studies: Professor Daniel Kofman (Co-ordinator of NoE Euro-3Gi), Paris, France.

. Special Track for Performance Measurement Platforms: Dr. Michael Dopfer (Co-ordinator of EU IST Project IASON), Siemens AG, Germany.

. Special Track for Applied Innovation in Mobile Networks: Dr. Tim Charity (Co-ordinator of EVOLUTE), Motorola, Swindon, U.K.

. Special Track for Methodologies and Analytic Tools: Professor Ioannis Stavrakakis, Athens, Greece.

Provisional Scientific Committees

Special Track for Performance Modelling Studies Ake Arvidsson, Ericsson, Sweden Tulin Atmaca, Paris, France Monique Becker, Evry, France Andre-Luc Beylot, Toulouse, France Mark Bromirski, Zegrze, Poland Herwig Bruneel, Ghent, Belgium Olga Casals, Catalunya, Spain Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy Laurie Cuthbert, London, U.K. Error Gelenbe, central florida, U.S.A. Tamas Henk, Budapest, Hungary Helmut Hlavacs, Vienna, Austria Ilias Iliadis, IBM Zurich, Switzerland Villy Baek Iversen, Lyngby, Denmark Andrzej Jajszczyk, Cracow, Poland Laszlo Jereb, Budapest, Hungary Peter Key, Microsoft Research, U.K . Stefan Köhler, Wuerzburg, Germany Kimon Kontovassilis, Athens, Greece Ulf Korner, Lund, Sweden Paul Kuehn, Stuttgart, Germany Yoni Levy, AT&T Labs, U.S.A. Renato Lo Cigno, Trento, Italy Michael Logothetis, Patras, Greece Michela Meo, Torino, Italy Nicholas Mitrou, Athens, Greece Sándor Molnár, Budapest, Hungary Victor Netes, Komset, Moscow, Russia Michal Pioro, Warsaw, Poland Jonathan Pitts, London, U.K. Guy Pujolle, Paris, France Roberto Sabella, Ericson, Sweden Phuoc Tran-Gia, Wuerzburg, Germany Kurt Tutschku, Wuerzburg, Germany Michel Riguidel, Paris, France Maria Simon, Montevideo, Uruguay Geoff Smith, Strathclyde, U.K. Rob van der Mei, Telecom, Netherlands Jorma Virtamo, Helsinki, Finland Hideaki Yamashita, Tokyo, Japan

Special Track for Performance Measurement Platforms Frank Ball, Oxford, UK Miklos Boda, Ericsson, Hungary Arnold Eppler, Alcatel SEL AG, Germany Franz Erhart, Siemens AG, Germany Michael Esser, Vodafone, Germany Boris Grabner, Telekom Austria AG, Austria John Griffiths, London, U.K. Gerard Hebuterne, Evry, France David Hutchison, Lancaster, U.K Vangelis Kollias, Teletel SA, Greece Hanoch Levy, Tel-Avid, Israel Madjid Merabti, Liverpool, U.K. Lewis McKenzie, Glasgow, U.K. Raif Onvural, Allied Telelesyn Int., U.S.A. Roger Peplow, Natal, South Africa Guido Petit, Alcatel SEL AG, Belgium Andreas Pollok, Siemens AG, Germany Lisa Ritchie, Solinet GmbH, Germany Christian Schmitt, Solinet GmbH, Germany William Skelton, Solinet GmbH, Germany Patrick Thiran, Lausanne, Switzerland Spyros Tombros, 4Plus SA, Greece Speros Velentzas, Motorola, U.K. Norbert Vicari, Wuerzburg, Germany Helmut Weiser, Alcatel SEL AG, Germany Gerrd-Jouchin Wintterle, Alcatel SEL AG, Germany

Special Track for Applied Innovation in Mobile Networks Erik Aarnaes, Teleplan, Norway Angeliki Alexiou, Bell Laboratories, U.K. Ana Garcia Armada, Madrid, Spain Nigel Baker, West England, U.K. Alejandro Beccera, Telefonica, Spain Rolf Birkenstedt, Telia, Sweden Fernando Casadevall, Catalunya, Spain Luc Deneire, Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France Jason Devaney, Roke Manor, U.K. Manuel Dinis, Portugal Telecom, Portugal Willie Donnelly, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland Stanislav Dzuban, Siemens, Austria Jorge Gato, Vodafone, Spain Felicita Di Giandomenico, Pisa, Italy John Farserotu, Csem, Switzerland Flavio Giovanelli, Cefriel, Italy Louagie Filip, Imec, Belgium Ayadi Jaouhar, Csem, Switzerland Nigel Jefferies, Vodafone, U.K. Jaakko Lahteenmaki, Vtt, Finland Joao Macas, Siemens, Portugal Thomas Magedanz, Focus, Germany Marcelo Manta, Nortel, Spain Anthony Marinidis, Telia, Sweden John Mertzanis, Space Hellas, Greece Raffaele Menolascino, Motorola, Italy Scott Moseley, ETSI, France Seppo Parkkila, Elisa, Finland Dirk Pesch, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland Viktor Owall, Lund, Sweden Nikos Pronios, Intracom, Greece Prasad Ramjee, Aalborg, Denmark Stephan Rupp, Alcatel, Germany Luis Munoz, Cantabria, Spain George Stassinopoulos, Ntua, Greece Dorgham Sisalem, Focus, Germany Zhili Sun, Surrey, U.K. Kostas, Vlahodimitropoulos, Cosmote, Greece Xie Yi, TMC of Ministry of Information Industry, China

Special Track for Methodologies and Analytic Tools Eitan Altman, INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France

Vladimir Anisimov, Kiev, Ukraine & GlaxoSmithKline, U.K. Simonetta Balsamo, Venice, Italy Chris Blondia, Antwerp, Belgium Sem Borst, Amsterdam, Netherlands Pavel Bocharov, Moscow, Russia Richard Boucherie, Amsterdam, Netherlands Onno Boxma, Eindhoven, Netherlands Alexander Brandwajn, Santa Cruz, U.S.A. Vicente Casares-Giner, Valencia, Spain Ram Chakka, Norfolk, U.S.A. Tadeusz Czachorski, Gliwice, Poland Lorenzo Donatiello, Bologna, Italy Peder Emstad, Trondheim, Norway Error Gelenbe, Duke, U.S.A. Nicolas Georganas, Ottawa, Canada Klaus Hackbarth, Santander, Spain Guenter Haring, Vienna, Austria Peter Harrison, London, U.K. Boudewijn Haverkort, Twente, Netherlands Frank Kelly, Cambridge, U.K. Peter King, Edinburgh, U.K. Ernest Koenigsberg, Berkeley, U.S.A. Udo Krieger, T-Systems Nova GmbH Germany Isi Mitrani, Newcastle, U.K. Jogesh Muppala, Kowloon, Hong Kong Mohamed Oul-Khaoua, Glasgow, U.K. John Schormans, London, U.K. Karl Sigman, Columbia, U.S.A. Haris Skianis, Athens, Greece Maciej Stasiak, Poznan, Poland Janos Sztrik, Debrecen, Hungary Yutaka Takahashi, Kyoto, Japan Nigel Thomas, Durham University, U.K. Tulio Tolio, Milano, Italy Manolo Villen-Altamirano, Telefonica I+D, Spain Sabine Wittevrongel, Ghent, Belgium Michael Woodward, Bradford, U.K. David Yao, Columbia, U.S.A.

Local Organising Committee Salam Assi, Bradford, U.K. Irfan Awan, Bradford, U.K Rod Fretwell, Bradford, U.K. Wie Li, Bradford, U.K. Geyong Min, Bradford, U.K. Is-Haka Mkwawa, Bradford, U.K. Kevin Smith, Bradford, U.K. Sotiris Tantos, Bradford, U.K. Athanasios Tsokanos, Bradford, U.K.

Contributions are encouraged on, but are not limited to, the performance modelling and evaluation, including reliability and pricing, of

. QoS Protocols and Provisioning for Heterogeneous Networks; . Modelling and Analysis of Heterogeneous Internet Access; . Next Generation Internet Protocols over Heterogeneous Networks; . Switch Architectures for Heterogeneous Networks; . Inter-operability of Wireless, Terrestrial and Satellite Networks; . Multi-service Mobile and Optical Networks; . Multimedia Traffic Measurement, Management, Modelling and Characterisation; . Congestion, Flow and Call Admission Control Schemes; . Cell/Packet Level Scheduling and Resource Allocation Strategies; . Flow and Congestion Control Functions and Procedures; . QoS Routing, Load Balancing Techniques and Network Resilience; . Multimedia over Packet-based Networks; . Analysis of Queueing Network Models with Blocking, Neural Networks and Stochastic Petri Nets; . Parallel and Distributed Simulation; . Real-time Voice/Video Transport over Heterogeneous Networks; . Efficiency of Adaptation Layer and Transport Protocols; . QoS Performance Testing and Measurements; . Security Mechanisms effect on Heterogeneous Networks Performance; . Internetworking Issues and Experiments; . Other Performance Modelling Applications to Computer and Parallel Systems, Distributed Systems, Transportation Networks and Production Systems.

Based on the pattern established at the IFIP ATM & IP Working Conferences in Bradford (1994), Ilkley (1995-1998, 2000), Antwerp (1999) and Budapest (2001), the Technical Programme of the International Working Conference HET-NETs '03 will combine research and tutorial papers from industry and academia on current developments in the theory and practice of performance modelling and evaluation issues of heterogeneous networks worldwide. In addition, poster research papers will be solicited, industrial demonstrations will be organised and special sessions of practical industrial papers and research works in progress will also be included, as appropriate.

Prospective authors of HET-NETs '03 are invited to submit by

Monday the 26th of May 2003

. Research papers (for peer review) up to a maximum of 10 A4 size page (single spaced text);

. Technical abstracts of approximately 300 words for poster contributions, industrial papers of a practical nature or academic research works in progress;

. Proposals for tutorial papers on 1-2 A4 size pages (single spaced text);

for PC and peer selection review - to Mr Kevin Smith (Performance Modelling and Engineering Research Group, Tel: +44-1274-233919, Fax: +44-1274-233920) by using E-mail address of HET-NETs 03:

hetnets@scm.brad.ac.uk.

Please note all proposed submissions should be in English and be sent as E-mail attachments using postscript, msword or pdf file format and include, as key words, a list of topics under which the authors prefer their work to be classified and presented in a related session.

Following acceptance, authors will be notified via E-mail to prepare in camera ready form (single spaced text) the final versions of their papers for the

. HET-NETs '03 Technical Proceedings (ISBN to be announced) of full revised research papers up to a maximum of 10 A4 size pages which should be finalised according to the referees' remarks;

. Participants Volume of industrial papers and research works in progress of not more than 6 A4 size pages or shorter poster papers of not more than 3 A4 size pages;

. Participants Volume of tutorial papers of not more than 35 A4 size pages.

After the event, authors of mature work will also be invited to submit extended versions of their papers up to a maximum of 25 A4 pages (single spaced text) by

Friday the 1st September 2003,

for consideration, subject to a subsequent peer review, for publication in special journal issues on the performance modelling and evaluation of heterogeneous networks.

For further information prospective participants are welcome to contact Professor Demetres Kouvatsos, General Chair (e-mail: D.D.Kouvatsos@scm.brad.ac.uk, Tel.: +44-1274-233941) or, any of the co- chairs, namely Professor Daniel Kofman (e-mail: Daniel.Kofman@enst.fr), Dr. Michael Dopfer (Michael.Dopfer@siemens.com), Dr. Tim Charity (T.Charity@motorola.com) and Professor Ioannis Stavrakakis (istavrak@di.uoa.gr). ======================================================================= Note

There are two new special editions of the Journal of Performance Evaluation related to the theme of the IFIP HET-NETs '03 Working Conference, namely

. ATM & IP Networks: Performance Modelling and Analysis, Special Issue of the Journal of Performance Evaluation, Demetres Kouvatsos (Guest Ed.), North- Holland, Elsevier, 2002.

. Queueing Networks with Blocking, Special Issue of the Journal of Performance Evaluation, Demetres Kouvatsos and Simonetta Balsamo (Guest Eds.), North-Holland, Elsevier 2003.

The table of contents, abstracts and full-text PDF files of these special issues are available from the Journal's listing on

<ScienceDirect,http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01665316%3E. ========================================================================