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Call for Submissions The 5th International Conference on Networking, ICN'06 April 23-26, 2006 - Mauritius

(see http://www.iaria.org/conferences/ICN06.html)

Submission date: October 10, 2005 Notification date: November 10, 2005 Camera ready: December 10, 2005

The ICN 2006 comprises the following tracks:

Track 1: Types of communications Track 2: Networking technologies Track 3: Network metrics and evaluation Track 4: Network control and signalling Track 5: Network monitoring and management Track 6: Next generation networks Track 7: Special networks Track 8: Emergency services and disaster recovery

We are inviting your contributions to the conference with some of the following:

- Distribute the Call for Papers - Submit papers - Organize a special session - Propose a panel or tutorial

Submit: http://www.iaria.org/conferences/SubmitICN06.html

The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press and posted on IEEE Xplore portal. Industry is also welcome to participate with special contributions.

We look forward to collaborate with you on making "ICN 2006" a successful and enjoyable conference.

Topics suggested (but not limited to): Communication theory Communications switching and routing Communications modelling Communications security Computer communications Distributed communications Signal processing in communications Multimedia and multicast communications Wireless communications (satellite, WLL, 4G, Ad Hoc, sensor networks)

Next generation networks [NGN] principles Storage area networks [SAN] Access and home networks High-speed networks Optical networks Peer-to-peer and overlay networking Mobile networking and systems MPLS-VPN, IPSec-VPN networks GRID networks Broadband networks

Quality of service, service level agreement [QoS/SLA] Reliability, availability, serviceabiliy [RAS] Traffic engineering, metering, monitoring Voice over IP services Performance evaluation, tools, simulation

Network, control and service architectures Network signalling, pricing and billing Network middleware Telecommunication networks architectures On-demand networks, utility computing architectures

Applications and case studies NGN protocol design and evaluation NGN Standard Activities [ITU, TMF, 3GPP, IETF, etc.] NGN Device Instrumentation

Network Management, scheduling and policy NGN policy-based control Networks policy-based management Management of autonomic networks and systems INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received papers will be acknowledged. The files should be sent via http://www.iaria.org/conferences/SubmitICN06.html

Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit full-length manuscripts for inclusion in the proceedings to be published in IEEE Press. Papers must be structured according to the instructions of IEEE. Authors Instructions and should not exceeding 10 pages. The formatting instructions can be found via anonymous FTP site at: ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/8.5x11%20-%20Formatting%20files/instruct.pdf

The deadline for submission of the paper is October 10, 2005 with notification of acceptance by November 10, 2005. Submission of camera-ready paper is by December 10, 2005.

For more information please contact: conf@iaria.org, petre@iaria.org

Check our Web page at http://www.iaria.org/conferences/ICN06.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 October 10, 2005. Please submit proposals to petre@iaria.org.

Yours sincerely, - Damien Magoni, Louis Pasteur University, France, magoni@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr ======================================