Dear colleagues,

Below is the call for papers for IEEE GLOBECOM 2009 Next-Generation Networking & Internet Symposium. Please kindly forward to your colleagues and students for considering submissions.

Thanks, Xiaoming

-------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers IEEE GLOBECOM 2009 Next-Generation Networking & Internet Symposium Honolulu, Hawaii, USA November 30 - December 4, 2009 --------------------------------------------------------------------

Symposium Chairs ================ Nasir Ghani, University of New Mexico (nghani@ece.unm.edu) Ashwin Gumaste, IIT Bombay/ MIT (ashwing@ieee.org) Xiaoming Fu, University of Goettingen (fu@cs.uni-goettingen.de) Deep Medhi, University of Missouri-Kansas City (dmedhi@umkc.edu)

Call for Papers =============== Over the last three decades the Internet has undergone massive transformations, migrating from a relatively focused scientific research network to a ubiquitous and pervasive communications medium for the masses. This change has been brought about by immense research progress in all layers of the network hierarchy, i.e., ranging from new applications, to service-aware networking protocols and hardwares, all the way down to physical transmission technologies (both wireless and wireline).

Now as the Internet continues to evolve and expand today, a host of new research challenges and business opportunities are beckoning. Of particular importance are emerging topics in the area of network heterogeneity, virtualization, services, and security. The growing cadre of wireless users is also adding another dimension into the mix and pushing to the forefront issues such as mobility management, content distribution, and self-organization.

Along these lines, the Next-Generation Networking & Internet Symposium of IEEE GLOBECOM 2009 will address some of these exciting new challenges and focus areas. Specifically, this event will solicit participation from both academic and industry researchers working in key areas of Internet design such as enabling technologies, services, architectures, and protocols. The overriding goal of this symposium will be to garner the collective experience and expertise of these researchers to help uncover the latest trends and directions for future Internet design. Another concurrent aim will also be to solicit new ideas on the future migration of the Internet, with regards to evolutionary or greenfield strategies.

The symposium will encourage the submission of novel technical studies as well as broader position and vision papers comprising hypothetical/speculative scenarios. Submissions must be conformant to the GLOBECOM 2009 guidelines and done via EDAS entry: http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6730&

Topics of Interest ================== The planned symposium topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

* Future Internet architectures * Heterogeneous multi-layer and multi-domain networks, wireless-wireline internetworking * Overlay networks and peer-to-peer networking * Network virtualization, virtual private networks (VPN), and services * Provisioning, monitoring, and management of IP services: traffic engineering, mobility support, etc. * Flow management: resource sharing, congestion control, etc. * Routing: unicast, multicast, anycast, etc (wireless, wireline) * Multihoming, network planning and optimization * Addressing and naming, especially in the presence of mobility and portability * Operational and research issues with IPv6 * VoIP protocols and services * Self-protecting networking * Switch and router architectures, performance, control, buffer management, packet scheduling * Network management methodologies and control plane design * Internet survivability and network resilience strategies * Mechanisms for self-organisation and autonomous networking * Traffic measurement, analysis, modelling, and visualization * Anomaly, intrusion, and attack detection/prevention * Policy based mechanisms and high-speed firewall technology * Packet classification and forwarding mechanisms at ultra-high link rates (terabits) * High speed and parallel processing architectures for next generation routers * Connecting mobile/wireless devices to the Internet * Converged networks and applications * Content-based networking: caching, distribution, load balancing, resiliency * Mobile/wireless content distribution * Internet applications including interactive media, voice and video, games, immersive applications * Internet signalling and service enabling protocols, including SIP, NSIS, HTTP, RTSP/RTP, etc * Privacy and/or security issues and intrusion detection in the Internet * Design methodologies for Internet services * Internet economics, pricing models, accounting, Internet growth modelling * IP Multimedia Subsystem: Architecture and design * Next-Generation Access Networking

Technical Program Committee =========================== Rui Aguiar University of Aveiro Portugal Sawsan Al zahr TELECOM ParisTech France Onur Altintas Toyota InfoTechnology Center Japan Chadi Assi Concordia University Canada Xiaofeng Bai University of Western Ontario Canada Andrea Baiocchi University of Roma "La Sapienza" Italy Marcus Brunner NEC Europe Ltd. Germany Ling-Jyh Chen Academia Sinica Taiwan Augusto Casaca Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon Portugal Grzegorz Danilewicz Poznan University of Technology Poland Wesley Eddy Verizon / NASA USA Andrea Forte Columbia University USA Qiang Fu University of South Australia Australia Stefano Giordano University of Pisa Italy Ivano Guardini Telecom Italia Lab Italy Hamed Haddadi Max Planck Institute for Software Systems Germany Jianhua He Swansea University UK Shun-Yun Hu National Central University Taiwan Pan Hui Deutsche Telekom Laboratories Germany Jason Jue University of Texas at Dallas USA Georgios Karagiannis University of Twente The Netherlands Samee Khan North Dakota State University USA Sudha Krishnamurthy Deutsche Telekom Laboratories Germany Fang-Chun Kuo University of Goettingen Germany Jun Lei University of Goettingen Germany Kang Li University of Georgia USA Bin Liu Tsinghua University China Telemaco Melia Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs France Joerg Ott Helsinki University of Technology Finland Jianping Pan University of Victoria Canada Panagiotis Papadimitriou Lancaster University UK Mario Pickavet Ghent University Belgium Miguel Ponce de Leon Waterford Institute of Technology Ireland Bruno Quoitin Universite catholique de Louvain Belgium Abdallah Shami University of Western Ontario Canada Haiying Shen University of Arkansas USA Lei Shi IBM China Research Laboratory China Minghui Shi University of Waterloo Canada James Sterbenz University of Kansas & Lancaster Univ, USA/UK Martin Stiemerling NEC Europe Ltd. Germany Suresh Subramaniam George Washington University USA Yongning Tang Illinois State University USA Jianping Wang City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China Wei Wei NEC Labs America USA Chuan Wu University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China Jing Wu Communications Research Centre Canada Canada Lisong Xu University of Nebraska-Lincoln USA Yang Xu Polytechnic University USA Yinghua Ye Nokia Siemens Networks USA Honghai Zhang NEC Labs America USA Weiyi Zhang North Dakota State University USA Si-Qing Zheng University of Texas at Dallas USA Yuezhi Zhou Tsinghua University China Piotr Zwierzykowski Poznan University of Technology Poland

Important Dates =============== PAPER SUBMISSION March 15, 2009 ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATION July 1, 2009 CAMERA-READY PAPERS August 14, 2009

For further details please visit IEEE GLOBECOM 2009 webpage: http://www.ieee-globecom.org/2009