=============================================================== Call for Papers =============================================================== 25th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 25) Shanghai, China September 10-12, 2013 www.itc25.org =============================================================== Theme: Teletraffic in the Cloud ===============================================================

Since 1955 the International Teletraffic Congress (ITC) has provided a forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss innovations in telecommunications network design, performance evaluation, reliability, quality and traffic management measurements, and forecasting. ITC 25 continues this tradition, focusing on teletraffic contributions toward understanding the benefits and costs of emerging architectural shifts in the Internet. Specific traffic-related topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

A) Network technologies and applications ======================================== - Future networks design - Network virtualization - Software-defined networking - Data center networks - Carrier networks - Optical networks - Cellular networks - Wireless ad-hoc and mesh networks - Delay-tolerant networks - Sensor networks - Internet of Things - Application layer networks and overlays - P2P and distributed lookup - Content delivery networks - IPTV, WebTV, and HTTP-based streaming - Distributed, grid, and cloud computing - Web-services and SOA - Social networks and crowd sourcing - Tele-medicine, -education, -metry

B) Network planning, QoS, performance, and approaches ===================================================== - Network design methods - Capacity planning methods and tools - Planning for multi-carrier networks - Cross-layer design and optimization - Performance of wireless/wired networks - QoE, QoS, SLA, and GoS - Resource allocation and management - Optimization techniques - Game-theoretic models - Random graph models - Scheduling algorithms - Queuing and traffic models - Performance and reliability tradeoffs - Robustness and reliability issues - Simulation methods and tools - Self-optimization - Network coding - Pricing and billing - Business models for service deployment

C) Traffic measurement, management, and security-related issues =============================================================== - Network tomography - Big data traffic modeling and management - Traffic engineering - Dynamic bandwidth management - Intelligent adaptive routing - Location and mobility management - Multi-domain issues - Overload and congestion control - Admission control - Traffic and performance monitoring - Protection, switching, and restoration - Anomaly detection - Detection of DoS attacks - Attack mitigation methods - Worm and virus propagation - Epidemiological models - Privacy and trust - Energy efficiency - Green ICT

Important dates =============== Submission deadline: March 1st, 2013 Acceptance notification: May 3rd, 2013 Camera-Ready: June 10th, 2013

Sponsors ======== International Teletraffic Congress (ITC) China Institute of Communication (CIC) Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications (BUPT, China)

Organizers ========== Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications (BUPT, China) Tsinghua University, China

Supporters ========== Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, China

Honorary General Co-Chairs ========================== Gaofeng Zhu (Chinese Academy of Engineering, China) Xiongjian Liang (BUPT, China)

General Co-Chairs ================= Tingjie Lu (BUPT, China) Villy B. Iversen (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)

TPC Co-Chairs ============= Zhisheng Niu (Tsinghua University, China) Kurt Tutschku (University Vienna, Austria) Zhanhong Xin (BUPT, China) Moshe Zukerman (City University of HK, Hong-Kong)

National Organizing Committee Co-Chairs ======================================= Yu Pan (BUPT, China) Weihua Zhang (Shanghai Telecom, China) Deputy Co-Chairs: Yan Wan, Jing Zhang, Yumei Huo (BUPT, China)

International Advisory Council ============================== Chair: Prosper Chemouil (Orange Labs, France) Vice-Chair: Phuoc Tran-Gia (University of Wuerzburg, Germany)

Publicity Co-Chairs =================== Theophilus Benson (Princeton University, USA) Florin Ciucu (T-Labs / TU Berlin, Germany) Youngmi Jin (KAIST, Korea) Xinbing Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

Submission instructions ======================= Submissions are accepted only as PDF and must not exceed 9 double-column pages in IEEE conference format (font size no smaller than 10points). Further guidelines and templates are available at: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html

All authors listed in the PDF must also be listed in EDAS at time of submission. Submit papers in EDAS at: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=13275

Awards and Publication ======================= ITC offers two prestigious awards: a Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award. For a paper to be eligible in the latter category, the first author must be a student and presenter of the work.

The conference proceedings, consisting of both conference and workshop papers, will be available through IEEE Xplore.