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************************************************************************* * Call for Papers * * * * 4th Conference on NEXT GENERATION INTERNET NETWORKS (NGI 2008) * * * * April 28-30, 2008 Krakow, Poland * * * *************************************************************************

WEBPAGE http://www.kt.agh.edu.pl/ngi2008

CONTACT ngi2008@kt.agh.edu.pl

TECHNICAL CO-SPONSORSHIP IEEE Communication Society IFIP TC6 (International Federation for Information Processing, Technical Committee 'Communications Systems')

OVERVIEW NGI 2008 focuses on the design, engineering, and operation of Next Generation Internet networks. It is organized by the Network of Excellence (NoE) Euro-FGI (http://www.eurongi.org), former Euro-NGI, that was initiated by the European Commission during the 6th framework program and will be continued in the next funding period. NGI serves as its main platform for interaction, dissemination, and collaboration. To stimulate discussions, NGI 2008 invites scientists and practitioners from industry and academia, and especially welcomes contributions from outside Euro-FGI.

To guarantee the high visibility of the conference, the proceedings will be available through IEEE Explore.

TOPICS Original papers on recent advances in next generation networking are invited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following areas: ** Applications and services * Applications for wireless sensor networks * Grid computing * Location-based and context-aware services * Network co-operation * Overlay networks and peer-to-peer ** Optical networks * Multi-layer networks * Routing & wavelength assignment * Traffic grooming and traffic engineering * Transport Ethernet, PON, WDM ** Wireless networks * Ad hoc and sensor networks * Cellular networks * Cross-layer design * Integration of fixed and mobile networks * WiFi and WiMax ** Network architecture * Access, regional, metropolitan, and core networks * Future Internet * Inter-domain issues * Network design, provisioning, and optimization * Network management and control * Network survivability and resilience * Routing: unicast, multicast, anycast * Security architectures and mechanisms * Testbeds and experimental evaluations ** Traffic engineering * Admission and congestion control * Performance evaluation of next generation networks * Quality of service (QoS) and quality of experience (QoE) * Service differentiation and multi-service support * Traffic measurement & modelling

SUBMISSION All papers must be submitted electronically by EDAS (http://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=5881&) as PDF according to the IEEE publisher format and must not exceed EIGHT double-column pages with a font of at least 10pt. All accepted contributions will be full papers with oral presentations.

IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: November 30, 2007 Acceptance notifications: January 31, 2008 Camera-ready due: February 29, 2008 Conference: April 28-30, 2008

ORGANIZATION & EXECUTIVE COMITTEE General Chair Andrzej Jajszczyk, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland

Advisory Board Augusto Casaca, INESC, Portugal Klaus Hackbarth, University of Cantabria, Spain Guenter Haring, University of Vienna, Austria Daniel Kofman, ENST, France Michal Pioro, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland James Roberts, France Telecom, France Gerardo Rubino, INRIA, France Roberto Sabella, Ericsson Lab Italy (CoRiTel), Italy Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Wuerzburg, Germany

Technical Program Committee Chairs Piotr Cholda, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Michael Menth, University of Wuerzburg, Germany