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The CHINACOM 2006 Organizing Committee

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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

CHINACOM 2006

International Conference on Communications and Networking in China

Jointly sponsored by Create-Net, ICST, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), and OBS/OPS Forum

Technical Sponsorships (Pending): IEEE CS, IEEE CSS

In Cooperation with: ACM, SIGMOBILE, SIGSAC

October 16-19, 2006

Beijing, China

http://www.chinacom.org http://www.chinacom.org/

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CHINACOM 2006 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

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INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE

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Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Tech., USA

Yeheskel (Zeke) Bar-Ness, New Jersey Institute of Tech., USA

Bob Brodersen, Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA

Junliang Chen, BUPT, China

Roberto Coisson, Italian Embassy in China, Italy

Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK

Leonard Kleinrock, UCLA, USA

Hisashi Kobayashi, Princeton University, USA

Guangnan Ni, Institute of Computing Technology, China

Hequan Wu, Chinese Academy of Eng., China

Ya-Qin Zhang, Microsoft, USA

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STEERING COMMITTEE

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Imrich Chlamtac (Chair), Create-Net, Italy

Bo Li (Co-Chair), HKUST, Hong Kong, China

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GENERAL CO-CHAIRS

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Jintong Lin, BUPT President, China

Khaled Ben Letaief, HKUST, Hong Kong, China

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GENERAL Vice CO-CHAIRS

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Zheng Zhou, BUPT, China

Yabin Ye, Create-Net, Italy

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TPC CO-CHAIRS

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Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier Univ., Canada

Chunming Qiao, SUNY at Buffalo, US

Bo Li, HKUST, Hong Kong, China

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WORKSHOPS CO-CHAIRS

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Jing (James) Yang, UTstarcom, USA

T. Russell Hsing, Telcordia, USA

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INDUSTRY SPONSORSHIP CO-CHAIRS

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Heather Yu, Panasonic, USA

Xiongyan Tang, CNC, China

Wenwu Zhu, Intel, USA

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PANELS CHAIR

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Stephan Steglich, TU Berlin, Germany

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PUBLICATION CHAIR

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Zhensheng Zhang, San Diego Research Center, USA

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PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS

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Tee Hiang Cheng, NTU, Singapore

Zhongcheng Hou, CIC, China

Honggang Zhang, Create-Net, Italy

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LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR

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Luyong Zhang, BUPT, China

SYMPOSIA CO-CHAIRS

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Frontiers on Communications and Networking

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Haniph A. Latchman, Univ. of Florida, USA

Hui-Huang Hsu, Tamkang Univ., Taiwan, China

Boon Sain Yeo, Wavex Technologies, Singapore

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Optical Communications and Networking

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Yuanyuan Yang, SUNY at Stony Brook, USA

Xue Chen, BUPT, China

Jun Zheng, University of Ottawa, Canada

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Wireless Communications and Networking

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Andreas F. Molisch, MERL,USA /Lund Univ. Sweden

Sherman Shen, University of Waterloo, Canada

Kazem Sohraby, University of Arkansas, USA

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Advances in Internet

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Hai Jin, HUST, China

Qian Zhang, HKUST, Hong Kong, China

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Communications Theory and Signal Processing for Communications

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Ahmed H. Tewfik, Univ. of Minnesota, USA

Jing Tiffany Li, Lehigh University, USA

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Networking Security and Information Assurance

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Madjid Merabti, Liverpool John Moores Univ., UK

Thomas Woo, Bell labs, USA

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The aim of CHINACOM is to bring together Chinese and International players in networking and communications under one roof, building a showcase in communications and networking research in China.

China's information technology industry and research have been developing at an enormous pace in the last 20 years. Currently China has the largest wireless mobile and the second largest Internet subscriber population in the world. By the end of 2005, the mobile phone users have reached 388 million (19% of the world market), and the number will be over 500 million by 2008 and over 150 million will be multimedia applications. Internet users have exceeded 100 million (half of them are broadband service subscribers). The total sale of optical cables & fibers reached 15 million kilometers in 2004, with the sale of the whole optical communication facility market reaching 1.5 billion USD. Furthermore, business/market factors in this area in China are unique since they are Government driven and mixed with culture, technology, and market forces.

CHINACOM is being positioned as the premier international annual conference for the presentation of original and fundamental research advances in the field of Communications, Networks, and Internet Applications. The conference will consist of Technical Symposia, and Workshops. The Technical Symposia will describe significant research in all areas defined below; while the Workshops will focus on development, applications and related business issues.

PAPERS: The conference invites original technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Topics include, but are not limited to:

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Symposium-Frontiers on Communications and Networking

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Bio-inspired networks

Nano-Networks

Future internet architecture design

Linear network coding

Cooperation diversity and cooperative coding

Autonomic communications/networking principles

Multimedia broadband networking for smart homes

Theory and algorithms of networking such as routing, congestion control, traffic engineering, peer-to-peer/overlay and security

Power-line communications

Detection and iterative processing techniques

Theoretical foundations for network autonomics

Tools and techniques for designing, analyzing and building autonomic networks and systems

Adaptive security and safety mechanisms for self-protection and self-healing

Applications and services such as location-based services, VoIP, IPTV, content services, L2/L3VPNs,

Cognitive communications and networking

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Symposium-Optical Communications and Networking

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Routing and wavelength assignment

ASON/GMPLS control plane

Traffic grooming and traffic engineering

Multicasting in optical networks

Optical Packet /Burst Switching (OPS/OBS)

Optical network protection and restoration

Optical switches architecture and performance

Optical grid

Passive optical networks (A/B/G/EPONs)

Optical network test beds and field trials

Hybrid wireless-optical metro/access networks

Signaling and monitoring in optical networks

Ultra-high-speed transmission systems (>40 Gb/s)

Modulation formats and coding

Signal processing and forward error correction

DWDM and CWDM transceivers and Transponders

Optical regeneration (including all-optical)

Fixed and reconfigurable OADMs

Chromatic dispersion and PMD compensation

Optical systems design and simulation

OE and passive devices' applications

Optical Ethernet and new service paradigms

Impact of the physical-layer impairments on optical network design and traffic engineering

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Symposium-Wireless Communications and Networking

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PCS, GPRS, EDGE, 3GPP, UMTS, IMT2000

CDMA, TDMA, OFDM, air interfaces

Handoff protocols & management

Smart Antennas, cell & capacity planning

Wireless LANs, mobile Internet

Network topology control

Flow & congestion control

TCP over wireless

Wireless multicasting

Chaotic broadband (wireless) communications

B3G/4G mobile network architectures

Wireless multimedia

Multiple and wireless access techniques

Wireless switching and routing techniques

Ultra-wideband (UWB) and Cognitive Radio

Resource allocation and interference management

Propagation and channel characterization

MIMO techniques, Space-time coding

Sensor and Ad hoc wireless networks

WiMAX and beyond WiFi

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Symposium-Advances in Internet

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Provisioning and management of IP services

Distributed Internet applications

Novel applications and new paradigms

Handling Internet dynamics/heterogeneity

Traffic measurement, analysis, modeling

China Next Generation Internet (CNGI)

Multimedia and Internet application

Pervasive/GRID computing

Platforms for rapid creation and deployment of network services

Design methodologies for Internet services

Emergency services

Services enabling protocols and extensions

Peer-to-Peer applications and technologies leveraging/supporting peer-to-peer applications

Middleware for new Internet based applications

Converged networks and applications (including VoIP and 3G/NGN telecom networks)

Applications leveraging content networking technologies delivering applications on the Internet

Services over the wireless Internet

Security and privacy management in hosted Internet applications

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Symposium-Communication Theory and Signal Processing for Communications

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Adaptive Antennas

Adaptive Modulation and coded modulation

Broadcast channels

Channel estimation and modeling

Communications electronics

Channel Capacities

Equalization

Error Control Coding and ARQ

Interference mitigation and signal separation

Multiple access channels

Multiuser systems and multiuser detection

Network coding

Receiver techniques

Source coding and joint source-channel coding

Space-Time codes and MIMO

Speech and video signal processing

Synchronization

Signal processing algorithms

Signal processing for UWB

OFDM and multicarrier systems

Image processing for communications

Relay channels and user cooperation

Signal processing for data storage

Signal processing in wireless communications

Speech and video signal processing

Signal processing for multimedia

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Symposium-Networking Security and Information Assurance

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Power-reliability-security trade-offs in wireless networks

Cross-layer approaches to security

Mobile network security

Location aware security in mobile networks

Throughput-Security trade-offs in wireless networks

Secure group multimedia communications

Secure PHY/MAC/routing protocols

Distributed security systems

Secure cooperation in wireless networks

Jamming and counter measures

Attacks on security and vulnerability analysis

Application layer encryption

Digital watermarking and biometrics for secure information access

Capacity and security analysis of covert channels

Security Engineering

Security in large-scale environments

Security protocols

Security of ad-hoc/sensor networks

WORKSHOPS: Proposals for workshops are solicited. Potential chairs are requested to submit a workshop proposal of at most 5 pages, including a biographical sketch of each chair, to one of the Workshop Chairs by June 6th, 2006. Evaluation of workshop proposals will be based on the relevance of the subject matter, and the expertise and experience of the chair.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Conference language is English. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a PDF version of the full paper in IEEE conference proceedings format, which are limited to 5 two-column pages in a font no smaller than 10-points. All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Please visit the conference website http://www.chinacom.org http://www.chinacom.org/ for detailed submission requirements and procedures.

PUBLICATION: All submitted papers will go through a peer review process. All accepted papers will be included in the CHINACOM 2006 Conference Proceedings. All accepted papers will be made available in IEEE Xplore and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library and then be indexed by Engineering Information (EI). Accepted papers will also be recommended for a special issue of a top journal.

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IMPORTANT DATES

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Paper Submission Due, May 1st, 2006 (Monday)

Notification of Acceptance, June 30th, 2006 (Friday)

Camera Ready Versions Due, July 31st, 2006 (Monday)

Conference Dates, October, 16-19, 2006

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