-------- Original Message -------- Subject: ECUMN'2004- Call for Papers Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 15:56:09 -0000 From: Mario Freire mario@di.ubi.pt Reply-To: Mario Freire mario@di.ubi.pt To: tcgn@comsoc.org

*(*My apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP)

*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*

The authors should submit their original contribution as full paper, no longer than 10 pages, or as an extended abstract summarizing the original work. All the contributions must be written in English. The top of the first page of each paper must include the title of the paper, authors' names, address, telephone, e-mail of the author responsible for correspondence. Submissions must be made electronically through the paper submission page http://www.co.it.pt/ecumn04/submission.html. Acceptable formats are Postscript, Adobe PDF and Microsoft Word. Please use A4 paper format when formatting your submission.

Proceedings of ECUMN'2004 will be published by Springer-Verlag as part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html series. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit full-length manuscripts, which must be structured according to the instructions of Springer-Verlag. LNCS Authors Instructions sub page is available at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

For more information please contact:

Mário Freire

Institute of Telecommunications - Covilhã Lab, Department of Informatics, University of Beira Interior, Rua Marquês d'Ávila e Bolama, P-6200-001 COVILHA, PORTUGAL

Tel.: + 351 275 319891

Fax: + 351 275 319888

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

J. Craveirinha (Portugal) - University of Coimbra

M. Diaz (France) - LAAS-CNRS

N. Fonseca (Brazil) - Campinas University

A. Jamalipour (Australia) - Univ. of Sydney

N. Kamiyama (Japan) - NTT

S. Karnouskos (Germany) - Fraunhofer 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

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---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mario Marques Freire Assistant Professor Networks and Multimedia Group, Institute of Telecommunications Department of Informatics, 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 mailto:mfreire@acm.org, mfreire@ieee.org mailto:mfreire@ieee.org URL: http://www.di.ubi.pt/~mario

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