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C A L L F O R P A P E R S =============================

Special Session on "QoS, Reliability and Performance Modelling"

organized in association with the

Sixth Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP 2008)

23-25 July 2008, Graz, Austria

Important Dates: ================ Full Paper due: January 27, 2008 Notification of acceptance by: April 1, 2008 Camera ready paper due: May 5, 2008

Scope: ====== CSNDSP 2008 is organizing a Special Session on "QoS, Reliability and Performance Modelling" aiming to offer the opportunity to leading researchers, industry professionals and academics around the world to meet, present latest research results and discuss future directions.

Topics of Interest: =================== All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by three independent reviewers, including a TPC member. Papers are solicited from, but not limited to the following topics:

- QoS in the Internet - QoS and Routing (MPLS, Multicast Service) - QoS Network Architectures and Network services - Standardization Aspects of QoS and Reliability - Traffic Modelling, Control and characterization - Performance Modelling - Queuing Theory - Network Design - Simulation and Measurements techniques - Tools and software for Performance Evaluation - Envisaged performance studies on Communication Networks and Distributed Systems

Paper submission: ================= Papers should describe original, previously unpublished work, not currently under review by another conference, workshop or journal. Please visit http://www.csndsp08.tugraz.at/ for submission guidelines. It would be helpful if authors mention the Special Session when submitting their papers. Further inquiries could also be directed to the Special Session organizers. All accepted papers will be available on IEEE Xplore.

Special Session organizers: =========================== Hind Castel, Institut National des Telecommunications, France Periklis Chatzimisios, TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece

Technical Program Committee: =========================== Gennaro Boggia (Politecnico di Bari, Italy) Tijani Chahed (Institut National des Telecommunications, France) Thomas Lagkas (Aristotle University, Greece) Ian Marsh (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden) Lynda Mokdad (University of Paris-Dauphine, France) Jalel Ben-Othman (University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University, France) Nihal Pekergin (University of Paris12, Creteil, France) Rouzbeh Razavi (University of Essex, UK) Luca Vollero (Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy) Theodore Zahariadis (TEI of Chalkida, Greece)