----- Original Message ----- From: "Carlos Becker Westphall" westphal@orion.lrg.ufsc.br To: cnom@lrg.ufsc.br; lacomsoc@lrg.ufsc.br Cc: "José Neuman de Souza" neuman@lia.ufc.br Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 6:12 PM Subject: 11th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Telecommunications - ICT2004 - CFP

General Information. ICT was firstly initiated by King's College, London (UK) and is receiving the support of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE) and Institute of Electrical Engineering (IEE). Based on the initial success of Dubai in 1994, ICT has been held yearly in Bali (1995), Istanbul (1996), Melbourne (1997), Chalkidiki (1998), Taejon (1999), Acapulco (2000), Bucharest (2001) Beijing (2002), and Papeete (2003). Many scientists, students, professionals and technical staffs, representing a large variety of organizations such as universities, research institutes, telecommunication operators and industry have attained each previous ICT events. The 11th edition of ICT will be held in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil. ICT 2004 will offer tutorials, plenary sessions, poster sessions, panels and exhibition opportunities. ICT 2004 will cover a variety of challenging telecommunication topics ranging from background fields like signals, traffic, coding, communication basics up to large communication systems and networks, fixed, mobile and integrated, etc. Applications, services, system and network management issues will also receive significant attention.

Topics of Special Interest. The topics include, but are not limited to:

A Information Theory and Coding Theory A.1 Communication Theory A.2 Information Security A.3 Multimedia Information A.4 Network Reliability A.5 Signal Processing A.6 Modulation

B Optical Communications B.1 Designing and Management of Optical Networks B.2 Optical Fiber Technology B.3 Optical Switching and Optical Interconnection B.4 Optical Photonic Technologies B.5 Optoelectronic Components B.6 Transmission System and Optical Networking

C Networking Theory and Technologies C.1 Broadband Communications and Networks C.2 Computer Communications and Networks C.3 Internet and Intranet C.4 Mobile IP, VoIP C.5 Network Security C.6 Next Generation Network Architectures C.7 Programmable, Active Networks and Mobile Agents C.8 Protocol, Standards and Communication Architectures C.9 Switching and Routing C.10 System and Network Performance and QoS C.11 Traffic Engineering (MPLS, DiffServ, IntServ, .)

D Telecommunication/Network Management and Services D.1 Broadband Access Network and Service D.2 IP Service and Multimedia Service D.3 Mobile Data Service D.4 Network Planning and Optimization D.5 Telecommunication Network Interconnection Issues D.6 Telecommunication Pricing and Billing D.7 Telecommunication Regulation and Deregulation D.8 Traffic Management, Traffic Control, Real-Time Traffic and Quality of Service D.9 3G and 4G Mobile Communication Service.

E Wireless Communications G Metro/Access Networks E.1 Antennas, Propagation and Transmission Technologies E.2 Broadband Wireless E.3 Evolution from 2G to 2.5G, 3G and Beyond E.4 Microwave Devices, Circuits and Systems E.5 Personal Communications E.6 Satellite and Space Communications E.7 Terrestrial Radio Systems E.8 Mobility (IEEE 802.11 engineering, smarts devices) E.9 Wireless Multimedia, Networks and Systems E.10 Wireless IP and Wireless ATM E.11 Cellular and Ad-Hoc Networks

F Communication Software F.1 Intelligent Network Theory, Technologies and System F.2 Object and Component Technologies in Telecommunication Software F.3 Network Management Theory F.4 Network Operations and Management F.5 Telecommunication Protocol Engineering F.6 Telecommunication Software Tools

G Metro/Access Networks G.1 Future Proofing Access Topologies and Architectures G.2 xDSL, HFC, Gbit/s Ethernet, FTT G.3 DWDM in Metro. Access G.4 New Broadband Access Technologies G.5 Interface and its Development G.6 Residential Zone and its Future G.7 Co-operation between Metro Transport and Access G.8 Wireless Access (WPAN, WLAN, WLL) G.9 Standardization (IEEE 802.15, IEEE 802.16)

H Others H.1 EMC in Communications H.2 Standardization (IEEE 802.17, Policies models,..) H.3 Wireless over Optical H.4 Multicast H.5 Mobility Management H.6 Security H.7 Others

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

Instructions for Authors. Participants are kindly invited to submit original papers addressing the topics in the area of telecommunications and networking for presentation and publication in the conference proceedings. While the submission version may vary in length, the final version must be of maximum six pages long, should be printed on ISO A4 white papers, written in English in two-column format in times or a similar font, 10 points with 2.5 cm margins on all four sides. Subject of reasonable additional printing fees per page, longer papers will be accepted for publication. Reception of the papers will be acknowledged by web site www.ict2004.com.br. ICT 2004 Program Committee members and their teams will carefully review each paper. The deadline for submission is January 25, 2004.

A selection of outstanding papers is considered for a special issue of an International Journal.

Check our Web page at www.ict2004.com.br for the latest information concerning the conference.

Tutorials and Workshops. Provide overviews of current high interest topics. Proposals for half of full day tutorials are due by January 25, 2004.

Exhibition Proposal. Companies are invited to exhibit their software and hardware products. We provide a large promotion opportunity and a variety of ways for achieving it.

Panels Proposal. ICT 2004 organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their guests and manage that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our deadlines. Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the panel, as well as short biographies.

Important Dates Submission due: January 25, 2004 Notification of acceptance: February 25, 2004 Deadline for full-length camera-ready manuscript: March 25, 2004

ICT 2004 GENERAL CHAIR José Neuman de Souza, UFC, Brazil

ICT 2004 STEERING COMMITTEE Hamid Agvami, King's College, London, UK Tulin Atmaca, Institut National des Télécommunications, France Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc. USA Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France Farokh Marvasti, King's College, London, UK

ICT 2004 PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc. USA José Neuman de Souza, UFC, Brazil

PERMANENT INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE Hamid Aghvami, King's College, London, UK Rui Luios A Aguiar, Professor, Instituto de Telecommunicacoes, Aveiro, Portugal Marcelo Sampaio Alencar, UFCG, Brazil Sonia Aissa, INRS-Telecommunications, Canada Attahiru Sule Alfa, University of Manitoba, Canada Tulin Atmaca, Institut National des Télécommunications, France Bill Atwood, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Michel Barbeau, Carleton University, Canada Pierre Blanchard, OPT, French Polynesia Jose Marcos Câmara Brito, National Institute of Telecommunications, Brazil Augusto Casaca, INESC, Portugal Joaquim Celestino Júnior, UECE, Brazil Soumaya Charkaoui, University of Sherbrooke, Canada Prosper Chemouil, France Telecom R&D, France Xiaodong Chen, University of London, UK Todor Cooklev, San Francisco State University, USA Luis M Correia, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA / Concordia University Alfonso Ferreira, CNRS, France Nélson Fonseca, UNICAMP, Brazil Linda F. Garbanati, SBC Inc., USA Martin Haardt, Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany Toshio Ihara, Communications Research Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan Mohammad Ilyas, Florida Atlantic University, USA Wojciech Kabacinski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Hyun-Kook Kahng, Korea University, Korea Dae Young Kim, Chungnam National University, Korea Hak-Yong Kim, R&D Center, Corecess Inc., Korea Bill Lavery, James Cook University, Australia Mike Myung-Ok Lee, Dongshin University, Republic of Korea Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France Leen Mak, Lucent Technologies, USA Alan Marshall, The Queen's University of Belfast, UK Farokh Marvasti, King's College London, UK Antonella Molinaro, University of Messina, Italy João César Moura Mota, UFC, Brazil Djafar Mynbaev, New York City Technical College, USA Nikolai Nefedov, Nokia Research Center, Finland Mauro Oliveira, CEFET-CE, Brazil Guy Omidyar, Institute for Communications Research, Singapore Guy Pujolle, LIP6, France Fabrizio Sestini, European Commission DG Information Society, Belgium Said Soulhi, Ericsson Research, Canada José Neuman de Souza, UFC, Brazil Maciej Stasiak, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Rahim Tafazolli, Surrey University, UK Yoshitaka Takasaki, Tokyo University, Japan George S. Tombras, University of Athens, Greece Ioannius Tomkos, Athens Information Technology, Greece Wang Wenbo, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Carlos Becker Westphall, UFSC, Brazil

ICT 2004 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Rossana Andrade, UFC, Brazil Paulo Cézar Barbosa, UNIFOR, Brazil Joaquim Celestino Júnior, UECE, Brazil Ricardo Fialho Colares, UNIFOR, Brazil Javam de Castro Machado, UFC, Brazil João César Moura Mota, UFC, Brazil Mauro Oliveira, CEFET-CE, Brazil José Riverson Araújo Cysne Rios, UFC, Brazil

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