[cfp] CFP: IEEE ICC 2009 Communications Software and Services Symposium

25 Aug 2008


      IEEE ICC 2009
Communications Software and Services Symposium
June 14.-18. 2009, Dresden, Germany
CALL FOR PAPERS
http://www.comsoc.org/confs/icc/2009/cfp.html
Important Dates
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Paper Submission:		September 8, 2008
Acceptance Notification:	January 15, 2009
Camera-Ready Papers: 		March 1, 2009
Description
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The Communications Software and Services Symposium covers challenges
and advances for service support and delivery in fixed and mobile
communication networks.
These topics are particularly relevant for researchers, developers and
industries in the areas of networking and services covered by many
Technical Committees. The symposium will follow ICC2009 instructions for
paper submission, review, and session construction. Papers offering
novel research contributions in any aspect of Communications Software
and Services are solicited for submission to the symposium.
Topics of Particular Interest
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* Fixed and mobile service platforms
          o Mobile Services and Service Platforms including IMS
          o Fixed Mobile Convergence
          o Home Network Service Platform
          o Triple-Play and Quadruple-Play
    * Multimedia applications and services including VoIP, IPTV, Gaming
          o Multimedia delivery over wired and wireless networks
          o Cross-layer optimization for multimedia service support
          o Multicast, Broadcast and IPTV
          o Media streaming
          o Peer-to-Peer services
    * Software and Protocol Technologies for advanced service support
          o Web Services and distributed SW technology
          o Distributed systems and applications, including Grid
Services
          o Peer-to-Peer technologies for communication services
          o Service overlay networks
          o Context Awareness and Personalization
    * Network and Service Management and Provisioning
          o Multimedia QoS provisioning
          o Quality of Experience for End-to-End Communications
          o End-to-end Quality of Service Routing algorithms
          o Service Creation, Delivery, Management
          o Network Management
          o Virtual home environment
          o Charging, pricing, business models
Sponsoring Technical Committees
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IEEE ComSoc Internet TC
IEEE ComSoc Communications Software TC
Instructions for Authors
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Papers must represent high-quality and previously unpublished work.
Original research papers are solicited in all areas of communication
software and services. All submissions will be handled electronically
through the EDAS conference management system at edas.info and must be
in pdf format, with a maximum length of five pages.
For details please see
http://www.comsoc.org/confs/icc/2009/cfp_submission_proc.html
IEEE ICC 2009 CSS Symposium Co-Chairs
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Wolfgang Kellerer, DOCOMO Euro-Labs (Germany)
Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace (France)
Giovanni Pau, University of California at LA (USA)
Lars Wolf, TU Braunschweig (Germany)