------------------------------------------------------------ 16th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON QUALITY OF SERVICE (IWQoS 2008)
June 2-4, 2008 University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands http://iwqos08.ewi.utwente.nl/ ------------------------------------------------------------
*** Abstract deadline: January 21, 2008 *** *** Paper submission deadline: January 28, 2008 ***
CALL FOR PAPERS
Since 1994, IWQoS has served as the prime annual workshop on Quality of Service, providing an international forum for the presentation and discussion of cutting edge research in the field. Building on the success of previous workshops, the objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners working in this area to discuss recent and innovative results, and to identify future directions and challenges in developing practical computer/communication systems where predictable, controlled, and robust performance is a central requirement. IWQoS has a long standing tradition of being highly interactive, while maintaining highest standards of competitiveness and excellence. The scope of the workshop covers the main and currently important aspects of QoS research, including related issues such as availability, reliability, security, pricing, resource management, and performance guarantees.
The program will include the following highlights:
- Key-note by industrial speaker - A session with short position papers - Key-note and invited paper
The session with short position papers will be highly interactive and leave much room for the audience to get involved. The short papers will go through the general reviewing process.
TECHNICAL PROGRAM
As in previous years, the workshop covers a broad spectrum of QoS issues in communications networking. IWQoS 2008 will particularly emphasize the increasing importance of application level QoS and perceived QoS, i.e., the quality of applications as experienced by the end users, which is usually expressed in terms of a 'mean opinion score' (MOS). Relevant topics for the workshop include the following:
- End-to-end QoS provisioning in heterogeneous network environments - Application protocols and QoS - QoS in overlay and peer-to-peer networks - QoS adaptation, adaptive applications - Perceived QoS for VoIP and multimedia applications - Mapping network performance to perceived QoS - Service-level agreements (SLAs) and QoS - QoS modelling for gaming applications - Measurement based QoS estimation and verification - QoS in wireless, mobile, ad hoc and sensor networks - QoS in context aware systems (also related to mobility) - End-to-end QoS signalling and support - QoS in home networks, intranets and Metro Ethernets - Operating systems support and end-system design for QoS
COMMITTEE
General chair: Boudewijn Haverkort, University of Twente
TPC co-chairs: Hans van den Berg, TNO Information and Communication Technology Gunnar Karlsson, KTH, Royal Institute of Technology
Local chair: Georgios Karagiannis, University of Twente
STEERING COMMITTEE
Nina Bhatti, Hewlett Packard Laboratories, USA Yan Chen, Northwestern University, USA Chen-Nee Chuah, University of California-Davis, USA Hermann De Meer, University of Passau, Germany Yang Richard Yang, Yale University, USA David Yau, Purdue University, USA
BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD
Award will be given at the conference to the best student paper, whose first author is a student at the time of the paper submission.
PROCEEDINGS
IWQoS invites submission of manuscripts that present original research results and that neither have been published nor are currently under review for another conference or journal. Any previous or simultaneous publication of related material should be explicitly noted in the submission. The proceedings will be published by IEEE ComSoc. We also solicit submissions for the short position papers session. The short papers will be included in the conference proceedings.
IMPORTANT DATES
- Abstract deadline: January 21, 2008, 11:59pm CET - Paper submission deadline: January 28, 2008, 11:59pm CET - Notification of acceptance: March 18, 2008 - Camera-ready papers due: April 8, 2008 - Early registration deadline and hotel reservation cut-off date: April 15, 2008 - Workshop dates: June 2-4, 2008 - Workshop reception and welcome party: June 1, 2008