[Apologies for possible duplicates]
Dear Colleague,
The conference dates of CHINACOM2006
have been postponed one
week to Oct. 25-27, 2006.
Thanks and best regards,
Yabin
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CALL FOR PAPERS
CHINACOM 2006: First International Conference on Communications and
Networking in
Jointly co-sponsored by: Create-Net,
ICST
In cooperation with: ACM, SIGMOBILE,
SIGSAC
Technical co-sponsored by: IEEE,
IEEE APS, IEEE CVTC, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT),
University of Science and Technology of China, OBS/OPS Forum, and IEE
(pending), IEEE CS (pending), IEEE CSS (pending)
October 25-27, 2006
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CHINACOM 2006 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
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Ian Akyildiz,
Georgia Institute of
Yeheskel (Zeke) Bar-Ness,
New Jersey Institute of
Bob Brodersen,
Junliang Chen,
BUPT,
Roberto Coisson,
Italian Embassy in
Jon Crowcroft,
Leonard Kleinrock,
Hisashi Kobayashi,
Byeong
Gi Lee,
Guangnan Ni,
Institute of Computing
Hequan Wu, Chinese
Ya-Qin Zhang, Microsoft, USA
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STEERING COMMITTEE
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Imrich Chlamtac
(Chair),
Bo Li (Co-Chair),
HKUST,
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GENERAL CO-CHAIRS
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Jintong Lin, BUPT
President,
Khaled Ben Letaief,
HKUST,
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GENERAL Vice CO-CHAIRS
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Zheng Zhou, BUPT,
Yabin Ye,
Create-Net,
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TPC CO-CHAIRS
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Dongjin Wang, USTC,
Laurie Cuthbert, Queen
Mary,
Laurence T. Yang, St.
Francis Xavier Univ.,
Chunming
Qiao, SUNY at
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WORKSHOPS CO-CHAIRS
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Jing (James) Yang,
T. Russell Hsing,
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INDUSTRY SPONSORSHIP CO-CHAIRS
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Heather Yu,
Xiongyan Tang,
CNC,
Wenwu Zhu,
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PANELS CO-CHAIRS
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Pingzhi Fan,
Southwest
Stephan
Steglich, TU Berlin, Germany
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PUBLICATION CO-CHAIRS
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Zhensheng Zhang,
Tan Wong,
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PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS
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Tee Hiang Cheng,
NTU,
Zhongcheng Hou,
CIC,
Honggang Zhang, Create-Net, Italy
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LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR
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Luyong Zhang,
BUPT,
SYMPOSIA CO-CHAIRS
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Frontiers on Communications and Networking
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Haniph A. Latchman,
Hui-Huang Hsu,
Boon Sain Yeo,
Wavex Technologies,
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Optical Communications and Networking
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Yuanyuan Yang,
SUNY at Stony
Xue Chen, BUPT,
Jun Zheng,
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Wireless Communications and Networking
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Andreas F. Molisch,
Kazem Sohraby,
Jianhua
Lu, Tsinghua University, China
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Advances in Internet
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Hai Jin, HUST,
Qian Zhang, HKUST,
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Communications Theory and Signal Processing for Communications
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Ahmed H. Tewfik, Univ. of Minnesota, USA
Jing Tiffany Li,
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Networking Security and Information Assurance
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Madjid Merabti,
Liverpool John Moores Univ.,
Thomas Woo,
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The aim of CHINACOM is to bring together Chinese and International
players in networking and communications under one roof, building a showcase in
communications and networking research in
CHINACOM is being positioned as the premier international annual
conference for the presentation of original and fundamental research advances
in the field of Communications, Networks, and Internet Applications. The
conference will consist of Technical Symposia, and Workshops. The Technical
Symposia will describe significant research in all areas defined below; while
the Workshops will focus on development, applications and related business
issues.
PAPERS: The conference invites original technical papers that were not
previously published and are not currently under review for publication
elsewhere. Topics include, but are not limited to:
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Symposium-Frontiers on Communications and Networking
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Bio-inspired networks
Nano-Networks
OSS/BSS/NGOSS
Future internet architecture design
Linear network coding
Cooperation diversity and cooperative coding
Autonomic communications/networking principles
Multimedia broadband networking for smart homes
Theory and algorithms of networking such as routing, congestion
control, traffic engineering, peer-to-peer/overlay and security
Power-line communications
Detection and iterative processing techniques
Theoretical foundations for network autonomics
Tools and techniques for designing, analyzing and building autonomic
networks and systems
Adaptive security and safety mechanisms for self-protection and
self-healing
Applications and services such as location-based services, VoIP, IPTV,
content services, L2/L3VPNs,
Cognitive communications and networking
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Symposium-Optical Communications and Networking
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Routing and wavelength assignment
ASON/GMPLS control plane
Traffic grooming and traffic engineering
Multicasting in optical networks
Optical Packet /Burst Switching (OPS/OBS)
Optical network protection and restoration
Optical switches architecture and performance
Optical grid
Passive optical networks (A/B/G/EPONs)
Optical network test beds and field trials
Hybrid wireless-optical metro/access networks
Signaling and monitoring in optical networks
Ultra-high-speed transmission systems (>40 Gb/s)
Modulation formats and coding
Signal processing and forward error correction
DWDM and CWDM transceivers and Transponders
Optical regeneration (including all-optical)
Fixed and reconfigurable OADMs
Chromatic dispersion and PMD compensation
Optical systems design and simulation
OE and passive devices’ applications
Optical Ethernet and new service paradigms
Impact of the physical-layer impairments on optical network design and
traffic engineering
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Symposium-Wireless Communications and Networking
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PCS, GPRS, EDGE, 3GPP, UMTS, IMT2000
CDMA, TDMA, OFDM, air interfaces
Handoff protocols & management
Smart Antennas, cell & capacity planning
Wireless LANs, mobile Internet
Network topology control
Flow & congestion control
TCP over wireless
Wireless multicasting
Chaotic broadband (wireless) communications
B3G/4G mobile network architectures
Wireless multimedia
Multiple and wireless access techniques
Wireless switching and routing techniques
Ultra-wideband (UWB) and Cognitive Radio
Resource allocation and interference management
Propagation and channel characterization
MIMO techniques, Space-time coding
Sensor and Ad hoc wireless networks
WiMAX and beyond WiFi
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Symposium-Advances in Internet
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Provisioning and management of IP services
Distributed Internet applications
Novel applications and new paradigms
Handling Internet dynamics/heterogeneity
Traffic measurement, analysis, modeling
Multimedia and Internet application
Pervasive/GRID computing
Platforms for rapid creation and deployment of network services
Design methodologies for Internet services
Emergency services
Services enabling protocols and extensions
Peer-to-Peer applications and technologies leveraging/supporting
peer-to-peer applications
Middleware for new Internet based applications
Converged networks and applications (including VoIP and 3G/NGN telecom
networks)
Applications leveraging content networking technologies delivering
applications on the Internet
Services over the wireless Internet
Security and privacy management in hosted Internet applications
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Symposium-Communication Theory and Signal Processing for Communications
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Adaptive Antennas
Adaptive Modulation and coded modulation
Broadcast channels
Channel estimation and modeling
Communications electronics
Channel Capacities
Equalization
Error Control Coding and ARQ
Interference mitigation and signal separation
Multiple access channels
Multiuser systems and multiuser detection
Network coding
Receiver techniques
Source coding and joint source-channel coding
Space-Time codes and MIMO
Speech and video signal processing
Synchronization
Signal processing algorithms
Signal processing for UWB
OFDM and multicarrier systems
Image processing for communications
Relay channels and user cooperation
Signal processing for data storage
Signal processing in wireless communications
Speech and video signal processing
Signal processing for multimedia
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Symposium-Networking Security and Information Assurance
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Power-reliability-security trade-offs in wireless networks
Cross-layer approaches to security
Mobile network security
Location aware security in mobile networks
Throughput-Security trade-offs in wireless networks
Secure group multimedia communications
Secure PHY/MAC/routing protocols
Distributed security systems
Secure cooperation in wireless networks
Jamming and counter measures
Attacks on security and vulnerability analysis
Application layer encryption
Digital watermarking and biometrics for secure information access
Capacity and security analysis of covert channels
Security Engineering
Security in large-scale environments
Security protocols
Security of ad-hoc/sensor networks
WORKSHOPS: Proposals for workshops are solicited. Potential chairs are
requested to submit a workshop proposal of at most 5 pages, including a
biographical sketch of each chair, to one of the Workshop Chairs by June 6th,
2006. Evaluation of workshop proposals will be based on the relevance of the
subject matter, and the expertise and experience of the chair.
SUBMISSION
INSTRUCTIONS: Conference language is English. Prospective authors are
encouraged to submit a PDF version of the full paper in IEEE conference
proceedings format, which are limited to 5 two-column pages in a font no
smaller than 10-points. All paper submissions will be handled electronically.
Please submit the paper through the COCUS System, http://cocus.create-net.it/cocus/welcome.do.
Please visit the conference website http://www.chinacom.org/submissions.html
for detailed submission requirements and procedures.
PUBLICATION: All submitted papers will go through a peer review
process. All accepted papers will be included in the CHINACOM 2006 Conference
Proceedings. All accepted papers will be made available in IEEE Xplore and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library
and then be indexed by Engineering
Information (EI). Accepted papers will also be recommended for a
special issue of a top journal.
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IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper Submission Due, May 1st, 2006 (Monday)
Notification of Acceptance, June 30th, 2006 (Friday)
Camera Ready Versions Due, July 31st, 2006 (Monday)
Conference Dates, October, 25-27, 2006
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