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HPSR 2008 International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing

http://www.hpsr2008.odu.edu/

May 15-17, 2008 Shanghai, China -----------------------------------------------------------------------

IMPORTANT DATES ---------------

December 14th, 2007 Abstract, title, author list on EDAS December 21th, 2007 EXTENDED Full Paper Submission February 18th, 2008 Acceptance Notification March 18th, 2008 Final Version Due

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ---------------

Authors are invited to submit original papers. Submitted papers must be unpublished, and must not be currently under review by another journal or conference.

Paper length should be up to 6 pages in two-column IEEE Transactions style, 10pt. Accepted papers that are longer than 6 pages will be charged with an over-length fee of $100 per page for the 7th and 8th pages. No paper may be longer than 8 pages.

Papers must be submitted electronically as PDF files through the EDAS system (http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=5683&).

Each submission must comprise a short abstract and a complete list of authors and their affiliations.

CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------

The goal of the 2008 International conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR 2008) is to identify new trends and presentations of the latest technologies in the area of high-speed, high-capacity, and high-quality switching and routing for both wired and wireless networks. The overall program of the HPSR 2008 event will be based on technical sessions for presentation of novel research results, tutorials presented by leading international experts, and posters presented by promising young researchers.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to

Switch and router architectures Routing protocols Packet scheduling algorithms Fault tolerant switch fabrics Reconfigurable switching High speed packet processors Routing in mobile ad-hoc networks Epidemic routing Routing in wireless sensor networks Optical packet switching Routing in peer-to-peer networks IP over optical networks Routing in wireless mesh networks Routing in cognitive networks Routing optimization Interference-aware routing WDM switching and routing Interconnection networks MPLS and GMPLS Protection and fast recovery Switch performance evaluation Security-enabled routing Multicast switching and routing High-speed network security Broadcasting in wireless networks Quality of services control Cooperative routing Traffic engineering and control Cross-layer optimization Network management