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COMSWARE 2008

The Third International Conference on COMmunication System softWAre and MiddlewaRE January 7-10, 2008

Co-Sponsored by IEEE COMSOC and Create-Net Technically Co-Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE (approval pending) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

THE THIRD International Conference on COMmunication System softWAre and MiddlewaRE (COMSWARE) will be held in Bangalore, India in January 2008 following the successful first and second COMSWARE. COMSWARE is a premier international conference dedicated to addressing emerging topics and challenges in Communications Software. The goal of the conference is to create a world-class gathering of researchers from academia and industry, practitioners, business leaders, intellectual property experts and venture capitalists, providing a launch pad for new innovative business and technology. The conference will include a highly selective technical program consisting of regular papers, short papers, and posters as well as specialized tracks at the intersection of business and technology. Focused workshops, tutorials and panel discussions will be held on emerging topics to allow for a lively exchange of ideas. International business and government leaders will be invited to share their perspectives, complementing the technical program. Demos and exhibits of new products and software solutions from academia and industry along with a tour of the leading IT companies in Bangalore will provide additional opportunities for exchange of ideas and collaboration. Join us for COMSWARE 2008 in Bangalore.

Topics of interest include, but not limited to: - Network-based applications (VoIP, instant messaging, P2P, streaming, location-based service) - Wireless/mobile networking (3G/4G, WLANs/WPANs/WMANs, mesh/relay networks, sensor networks) - Software advances in wireless communications (cognitive radios, dynamic spectrum access, SDR) - Wireless operating systems and mobile platforms - Security in communication networks - Grid computing software - Storage area networks - Next generation web architectures - Advances in Internet architecture and protocols - Innovations in operations and management of large networks - Vehicular Telematics - NextGen Business Models in Communication

The instruction on the format for the papers will soon be available at the conference website http://www.comsware.org

Paper Submission Deadlines Paper Submission: August 1, 2007 (5 PM, US EDT) Notification of Acceptance: October 1, 2007 Camera-Ready Submission: November 1, 2007

Select papers from COMSWARE 2008 will be published in ACM’s Springer Mobile Network Technical Journal (MONET)

General Chairs Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National University, South Korea, schoi@snu.ac.kr Jim Kurose, University of Massachussettes, USA, kurose@cs.umass.edu Krithi Ramamritham, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India, krithi@cse.iitb.ac.in

Technical Program Chairs Uday Desai, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India, ubdesai@ee.iitb.ac.in Giridhar Mandyam, Qualcomm, USA, giridhar.mandyam@yahoo.com Rajeev Rastogi, Bell Labs Research, India, rastogi@alcatel-lucent.com

Steering Committee Co-Chairs Imrich Chlamtac, University of Trento, chlamtac@create-net.it (Chair) Rajeev Shorey, GM Research, India, rajeev.shorey@gm.com (Co-Chair) G. Venkatesh, SASKEN Technologies, India, gv@sasken.com (Co-Chair)

Workshop Chairs Farooq Anjum, Telcordia Research, US, fanjum@telcordia.com Ajay Bakre, Intel, India, ajay.v.bakre@intel.com Anand R Prasad, DoCoMo Lab, Europe, prasad@docomolab-euro.com

COMSWARE Business Chair Gene Landy, Ruberto, Israel & Weiner, P.C., USA, gkl@riw.com

Panel Chairs Rajeev Koodli, Nokia Research, USA, rajeev.koodli@nokia.com Narasimha Reddy, Texas A&M University, USA, reddy@ece.tamu.edu Huzur Saran, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, saran@cse.iitd.ernet.in Shrikant Naidu, Motorola, India, shrikant@motorola.com

International Advisory Committee Chair Sanjoy Paul, Rutgers University, USA, sanjoy.paul@gmail.com

Demos/Exhibit Chairs Rahul Mangharam, CMU, USA, rahul@cmu.edu

Publicity Chairs Chan Mun Choon, National University of Singapore, chanmc@comp.nus.edu.sg Falko Dressler, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, dressler@ieee.org Taekyoung "Ted" Kwon, Seoul National University, South Korea, tkkwon@snu.ac.kr Nagi Naganathan, LSI, USA subranagi@gmail.com