Call for Papers
The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Broadband Convergence Networks (BcN 2007) http://www.bcn2007.org/ May 21, 2007, Munich, Germany (In conjunction with IEEE/IFIP IM2007)
Scope: In Broadband Convergence Networks (BcN), also known as Next Generation Networks (NGN), various types of convergence will take place such as convergence of wired and wireless networks, and convergence of telecommunications and broadcasting. For broadband end-to-end mobile networking, the broadband wired networks (such as IP/MPLS with DWDM optical networks) will be converged with wireless networks (such as IEEE 802.11e Wireless LAN, 802.16 Wireless MAN (WiBro, WiMax) and 3G/4G wireless cellular networks). Also, the IP-based telecommunication network will be converged with broadcast network to provide IP-based high-quality broadband multimedia broadcasting and multicasting. Several countries of strong Internet infrastructure are going to provide initial BcN commercial services soon.
For efficient service provisioning on the broadband converged networks, well-designed and implemented network operations and management functions with traffic engineering are essential. ITU-T had been operating a special expert group called FGNGN (Focus Group on Next Generation Networks) to provide the architecture of NGN, and currently working on the network operations and management issues actively in Study Groups SG-13 and SG-11. IETF has some working groups on network operations and managements of IP/MPLS networks, but the operations and management for integrated networking with wired & wireless, telecommunication and broadcasting networks has not been actively covered yet.
Following the successful ¡°1 st IEEE International Workshop on Broadband Convergence Networks (BcN2006)¡± (April 7, 2006, Vancouver, Canada, in conjunction with IEEE/IFIP NOMS2006), the goal of this workshop is to gather people with different backgrounds to share the current status of standardization and technology development of BcN, to discuss challenges and possible solutions in the broadband networking for QoS-guaranteed real-time multimedia services on BcN. Areas of interest include the architectures, applications, and management issues of BcN.
Topics of interest for this workshop include, but not limited to, the following: - Architecture and Standardization - Applications and Service Provisioning - QoS Management - Traffic Engineering - Inter-domain Networking - QoS-guaranteed multimedia service provisioning across broadband wired & wireless networks - Converged networking issues for telecommunication and broadcasting - Broadband Access networking with hybrid fiber optic and wireless network - Security issues on the convergence networks - Accounting and Billing - Seamless service provisioning with roaming and handover - Regulatory Issues - Automated resource management and service provisioning - Signaling for Application Sessions and Networking - Virtual Networks and Operators
Paper Submission : Authors are requested to submit a paper up to 12 pages (single-spaced single-column pages, LNCS series format). The contribution must be original and unpublished. Papers must be submitted online in a PDF format via the ¡°Paper Submission¡± link that can be found on the BcN 2007 webpage. Paper format must follow the LNCS style available from Springer-Verlag (see the author's instructions for Springer's LNCS series). The selected paper will be published in proceeding with an ISBN number.
Co-Chairs: Young-Tak Kim, Yeungnam Univ. , Korea Dong-Myun Lee, KT, Korea Nazim Agoulmine, University of Evry , France
Advisory Committee Dong-Myun Lee, KT, Korea Idir Fodil, France Telecom R&D, France TBD, ETRI, Korea TBD, MIC, Korea Kyung-Hyu Lee, ETRI, Korea Masayoshi Ejiri, Fujitsu, Japan Doug Zuckerman, Telcordia, USA James Hong, POSTECH, Korea
Technical Program Committee Marcus Brunner, NEC Europe, Germany Choong-Seon Hong, Kyung Hee University, Korea Sven van Der Meer, Waterford Institute of Technology, Irland Alan Marshall, Queen University of Belfast , UK Lionel Fiat, Alcatel, France Yacine Ghamri, IIE, France John Strassner, Motorola, USA Milla Huusko, VTT Technical Research Center of Finland , Finland Makoto Yoshida, Univ. of Tokyo , Japan Al Vincent, NTIA , USA Raouf Boutaba, U. of Waterloo , Canada Alberto Leon-Garcia, U. of Toronto, Canada Veli Sahin, Sahin Assoc., USA Memhet Ulema, Manhattan College, USA Christian Rad, AT&T, USA Carlos Westphall, Santa Catalina Federal University , Brazil Jos¨¦ Marcos Silva Nogueira, Federal University of Minas Gerais , Brazil Il-Soo Ahn, SAMSUNG Electronics , Korea Jae-Hyung Yoo, KT, Korea Seong-Beom Kim, KT, Korea Young-Myoung Kim, KT, Korea Dong-Sik Yun, KT, Korea Tae-Sang Choi, ETRI, Korea Chae-Sup Lee, ITU-T, Swiss
Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: Jan 31, 2007 Notification of acceptance: Feb 28, 2007 Final Camera Ready Paper due: March 31, 2007 Workshop (preferred date): May 21 (Monday), 2007
Organization, Sponsorship, Patron: Organized by KNOM, MIC, KT ( Korea Telecom), ETRI, FT ( France Telecom) Sponsored by IEEE CNOM Supported by Anysolution, Wareplus, EzNetSoft TBD, Europe, USA , Japan
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