-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Fw: ECUMN'04 Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 16:50:26 -0000 From: Mario Freire mario@di.ubi.pt Reply-To: Mario Freire mario@di.ubi.pt To: itc@comsoc.org

CALL FOR PAPERS

3rd European Conference on Universal Multiservice Networks (ECUMN '04)

October 25-27, 2004 - Porto, Portugal

URL: http://www.co.it.pt/ecumn04.html

*GENERAL INFORMATION*

The European Conference on* *Universal Multiservice Networks (ECUMN) was born in Colmar, France, under the sponsorship of SEE (Société de l'Electricité, de l'Electronique, et des Technologies de l'Information). After the first two successful venues in Colmar in 2000 and in 2002, the 3rd European Conference on* *Universal Multiservice Networks (ECUMN '04) is moving to Portugal and will take place at Hotel D. Henrique, in Porto (Oporto) from Monday 25 to Wednesday 27 October, 2004. The conference is jointly organized by Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT) and OE (Ordem dos Engenheiros), with the technical co-sponsorship of IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Portugal Section, EUREL and SEE.

The goal of the ECUMN conference is to bring together researchers from the academia and practitioners from the industry in order to address network and service convergence issues. The conference will provide a forum where the academia shall be able to present up-to-date research results and the industry describe emerging technologies and new research problems related to them.

The conference scope has been extended to deal to put specific emphasis on Service Provisioning, and Service differentiation issues. Graceful evolution of Networks, new access schemes, flexible protocols, increased variety of services, hybrid networks reliability, are some of the present and future challenges that have to be met by the various technologies that will be discussed during the conference.

A competition for the best student paper will be organized to recognize and encourage excellence in graduate studies. ** *TOPICS OF SPECIAL INTEREST*

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

- Evolution of Telecommunication Networks Architecture: Next Generation Networks (NGN) Active Networks Optical Networks Access Networks Mobile Networks Storage Area Networks Network measurements and testbeds

- Protocols issues: Multicast Switching and routing Signalling Mobility management Security and privacy Real time and multimedia

- Service provisioning and deployment in a heterogeneous environment: Intermediation Network design and planning Network management and control Traffic engineering Interfaces and Reference points Flow control

- Service differentiation Real time services over IP/IPv6 Pricing and real time billing Traffic control and QoS Service reliability, availability Congestion and admission control Replication system (caching, mirroring, CDNs, etc).

*IMPORTANT DATES*

Paper submission deadline: April 15, 2004 Authors notification: June 15, 2004 Deadline for full-length camera ready paper: July 15, 2004

*INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS* * * Papers must use single-column per page, double spacing, Times New Roman style characters with 12-point font size, and should not exceed 4,000 words. The top of the first page of each paper must include the title of the paper, authors' names, position, address, telephone, e-mail of the author responsible for correspondence and a list of four keywords. Submissions must be made electronically through the paper submission page http://www.co.it.pt/ecumn04/submission.html. All the manuscripts must be written in English. Acceptable formats are Postscript, Adobe PDF and Microsoft Word. Please use A4 paper format when formatting your submission. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit full-length manuscripts for inclusion in the proceedings with ISBN.

For more information please contact: Mario Freire Institute of Telecommunications Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Coimbra - Site II, P-3030-290 COIMBRA PORTUGAL Tel.: + 351 239 79 62 36 Fax: + 351 239 79 62 93 E-mail: ecumn04@co.it.pt mailto:ecumn04@co.it.pt

Check our Web page at http://www.co.it.pt/ecumn04.html for the latest information concerning the conference.

*CONFERENCE COMMITTEES*

*General Co-Chairs* Prosper Chemouil (France) - France Telecom R&D Annie Gravey (France) - Groupement des Ecoles des Télécommunications Pascal Lorenz (France) - University of Haute Alsace Mario Freire (Portugal)- Univ. Beira Interior/Instituto de Telecomunicações

*Steering Committee* Prosper Chemouil (France) - France Telecom R&D Annie Gravey (France) - Groupement des Ecoles des Télécommunications Pascal Lorenz (France) - University of Haute Alsace Jean-Gabriel Rémy - (France) Cegetel Sylvie Ritzenthaler - (France) Alcatel Pierre Rolin (France) - France Telecom R&D

*Technical Program Committee * P. Bertin (France) - France Telecom R&D F. Boavida (Portugal) - University of Coimbra S. Bregni (Italy) - Politecnico Milano P. Brown (France) - France Telecom R&D E. Carrapatoso (Portugal) - University of Porto P. Castelli (Italy) - Telecom Italia Labs T. Chahed (France) - INT M. Diaz (France) - LAAS-CNRS N. Fonseca (Brazil) - Campinas University A. Jamalipour (Australia) - Univ. of Sydney N. Kamiyama (Japan) - NTT S. Karnouskos (Germany) - GMD FOKUS L. Lancieri (France) - France Telecom R&D M. Maknavicius-Laurent (France)- INT Z. Mammeri (France) - University of Toulouse E. Monteiro (Portugal) - University of Coimbra S. Oueslati (France) - France Telecom R&D G. Petit (Belgium) - Alcatel M. Pioro (Poland) - Warsaw University of Technology S. Ritzenthaler (France) - Alcatel A. Santos (Portugal) - University of Minho R. Valadas (Portugal) - University of Aveiro M. Villen-Altamirano (Spain) - Telefonica I+D J. Yan (Canada) - Nortel

*Organizing Committee* Carlos Salema (Portugal) - IST/Ordem dos Engenheiros/Institute of Telecommunications Luís Sá (Portugal) - Univ. Coimbra/Institute of Telecommunications Mário Freire (Portugal) Univ. Beira Interior/Institute of Telecommunications Henrique Silva (Portugal) - Univ. Coimbra/Institute of Telecommunications Joel Rodrigues (Portugal) Univ. Beira Interior/Institute of Telecommunications Fernando Perdigão (Portugal) - Univ. Coimbra/Institute of Telecommunications Rui Rocha (Portugal) - IST/Institute of Telecommunications

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mario Marques Freire Assistant Professor Networks and Multimedia Group, Institute of Telecommunications Department of Computer Science, University of Beira Interior Rua Marquês d'Ávila e Bolama 6201-001 Covilhã, Portugal FAX: +351 275 319 888 Phone: + 351 275 319 891 Email: mario@di.ubi.pt mailto:mario@di.ubi.pt, mfreire@acm.org,mfreire@ieee.org mailto:mfreire@acm.org,mfreire@ieee.org URL: http://www.di.ubi.pt/~mario