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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
CHINACOM 2006
International Conference on Communications and Networking in China
Jointly sponsored by Create-Net, ICST, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), and OBS/OPS Forum
Technical Sponsorships (Pending): IEEE CS, IEEE CSS
In Cooperation with: ACM, SIGMOBILE, SIGSAC
October 16-19, 2006
Beijing, China
http://www.chinacom.org http://www.chinacom.org/
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CHINACOM 2006 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
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Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Tech., USA
Yeheskel (Zeke) Bar-Ness, New Jersey Institute of Tech., USA
Bob Brodersen, Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA
Junliang Chen, BUPT, China
Roberto Coisson, Italian Embassy in China, Italy
Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK
Leonard Kleinrock, UCLA, USA
Hisashi Kobayashi, Princeton University, USA
Guangnan Ni, Institute of Computing Technology, China
Hequan Wu, Chinese Academy of Eng., China
Ya-Qin Zhang, Microsoft, USA
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STEERING COMMITTEE
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Imrich Chlamtac (Chair), Create-Net, Italy
Bo Li (Co-Chair), HKUST, Hong Kong, China
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GENERAL CO-CHAIRS
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Jintong Lin, BUPT President, China
Khaled Ben Letaief, HKUST, Hong Kong, China
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GENERAL Vice CO-CHAIRS
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Zheng Zhou, BUPT, China
Yabin Ye, Create-Net, Italy
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TPC CO-CHAIRS
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Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier Univ., Canada
Chunming Qiao, SUNY at Buffalo, US
Bo Li, HKUST, Hong Kong, China
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WORKSHOPS CO-CHAIRS
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Jing (James) Yang, UTstarcom, USA
T. Russell Hsing, Telcordia, USA
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INDUSTRY SPONSORSHIP CO-CHAIRS
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Heather Yu, Panasonic, USA
Xiongyan Tang, CNC, China
Wenwu Zhu, Intel, USA
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PANELS CHAIR
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Stephan Steglich, TU Berlin, Germany
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PUBLICATION CHAIR
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Zhensheng Zhang, San Diego Research Center, USA
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PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS
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Tee Hiang Cheng, NTU, Singapore
Zhongcheng Hou, CIC, China
Honggang Zhang, Create-Net, Italy
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LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR
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Luyong Zhang, BUPT, China
SYMPOSIA CO-CHAIRS
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Frontiers on Communications and Networking
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Haniph A. Latchman, Univ. of Florida, USA
Hui-Huang Hsu, Tamkang Univ., Taiwan, China
Boon Sain Yeo, Wavex Technologies, Singapore
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Optical Communications and Networking
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Yuanyuan Yang, SUNY at Stony Brook, USA
Xue Chen, BUPT, China
Jun Zheng, University of Ottawa, Canada
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Wireless Communications and Networking
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Andreas F. Molisch, MERL,USA /Lund Univ. Sweden
Sherman Shen, University of Waterloo, Canada
Kazem Sohraby, University of Arkansas, USA
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Advances in Internet
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Hai Jin, HUST, China
Qian Zhang, HKUST, Hong Kong, China
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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, Lehigh University, USA
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Networking Security and Information Assurance
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Madjid Merabti, Liverpool John Moores Univ., UK
Thomas Woo, Bell labs, USA
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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 China.
China's information technology industry and research have been developing at an enormous pace in the last 20 years. Currently China has the largest wireless mobile and the second largest Internet subscriber population in the world. By the end of 2005, the mobile phone users have reached 388 million (19% of the world market), and the number will be over 500 million by 2008 and over 150 million will be multimedia applications. Internet users have exceeded 100 million (half of them are broadband service subscribers). The total sale of optical cables & fibers reached 15 million kilometers in 2004, with the sale of the whole optical communication facility market reaching 1.5 billion USD. Furthermore, business/market factors in this area in China are unique since they are Government driven and mixed with culture, technology, and market forces.
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
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
China Next Generation Internet (CNGI)
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 visit the conference website http://www.chinacom.org http://www.chinacom.org/ 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, 16-19, 2006
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