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*CALL FOR PAPERS*

*The 2**nd **IEEE International Workshop on*

*Broadband Convergence Networks (BcN 2007)*

http://www.bcn2007.org/

May 21, 2007, Munich, Germany (In conjunction with IEEE/IFIP IM2007)

*BcN2007 workshop Overview*

In Broadband Convergence Networks (BcN), also known as Next Generation Networks (NGN), various

types of convergence will take place such as convergence of wired and wireless networks, and

convergence of telecommunications and broadcasting. For broadband end-to-end mobile networking, the

broadband wired networks (such as IP/MPLS with DWDM optical networks) will be converged with

wireless networks (such as IEEE 802.11e Wireless LAN, 802.16 Wireless MAN (WiBro, WiMax) and

3G/4G wireless cellular networks). Also, the IP-based telecommunication network will be converged with

broadcast network to provide IP-based high-quality broadband multimedia broadcasting and multicasting.

Several countries of strong Internet infrastructure are going to provide initial BcN commercial services soon.

For efficient service provisioning on the broadband converged networks, well-designed and implemented

network operations and management functions with traffic engineering are essential. ITU-T had been

operating a special expert group called FGNGN (Focus Group on Next Generation Networks) to provide the

architecture of NGN, and currently working on the network operations and management issues actively

in Study Groups SG-13 and SG-11. IETF has some working groups on network operations and

managements of IP/MPLS networks, but the operations and management for integrated

networking with wired & wireless, telecommunication and broadcasting networks has not been actively

covered yet. Following the successful “1st IEEE International Workshop on Broadband Convergence Networks

(BcN2006)” (April 7, 2006, Vancouver, Canada, in conjunction with IEEE/IFIP NOMS2006), the goal of

this workshop is to gather people with different backgrounds to share the current status of

standardization and technology development of BcN, to discuss challenges and possible solutions in the

broadband networking for QoS-guaranteed real-time multimedia services on BcN. Areas of interest include

the architectures, applications, and management issues of BcN.Topics of interest for this workshop include, but

not limited to, the following:

- Architecture and Standardization

- Applications and Service Provisioning

- QoS Management, Traffic Engineering

- Inter-domain Networking

- QoS-guaranteed multimedia service provisioning across broadband wired & wireless networks

- Converged networking issues for telecommunication and broadcasting

- Broadband Access networking with hybrid fiber optic and wireless network

- Security issues on the convergence networks

- Accounting and Billing

- Seamless service provisioning with roaming and handover

- Regulatory Issues

- Automated resource management and service provisioning

- Signaling for Application Sessions and Networking

- Virtual Networks and Operators

*Paper Submission*

Authors are requested to submit a paper up to 12 pages (single-spaced single-column pages). The

contribution must be original and unpublished. Papers must be submitted online in a PDF format via the

JEMS (https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/index.cgi). You can also find the link in the BcN 2007 webpage

(http://www.bcn2007.org/). Paper format must follow the LNCS style available from Springer-Verlag (see the

author's instructions for Springer's LNCS series). The selected papers will be published in a proceedings with an IEEE ISBN number.

*Important Dates*

z Submission Deadline: *Jan. 31, 2007*

z Notification of acceptance: *Feb. 28, 2007*

z Final paper due: March 31, 2007

z Workshop held: May 21 (Monday), 2007

*Workshop Co-Chairs*

Young-Tak Kim, Yeungnam Univ., Korea (ytkim@yu.ac.kr)

Dong-Myun Lee, KT, Korea (dmlee@kt.co.kr )

Nazim Agoulmine, University of Evry, France (nazim.agoulmine@iup.univ-evry.fr)