CoNEXT - Toulouse, France ------------------------------------ http://www.co-next.net info@co-next.net

October 24-27, 2005 Organized by IST E-NEXT in cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM

CoNEXT aims to become a major forum in the area of future networking technologies. By bringing together - under the umbrella of the Network of Excellence E-NEXT (http://www.ist-e-next.net/) - a number of successful workshops run by various networking communities, it will encourage much needed synergies between these communities.

CoNEXT is a joint conference series having its roots in QoFIS, NGC and MIPS. QoFIS and NGC are highly successful international workshops initiated by two European COST Actions, namely COST263 on Quality of Future Internet Services and COST264 on Networked Group Communications. MIPS resulted from the merging of two other major workshops, namely IDMS (concentrated on interactive and distributed multimedia services) and PROMS (focusing on protocols for networked multimedia systems); also the associated ICQT (Internet Charging and QoS Technology) workshop is integrated into CoNEXT 2005.

CoNEXT is designed as an open, multi-track conference aiming to attract longer-term studies and to contribute to the integration of networking research at the international level. Examples of relevant topics are:

* Autonomic Communications * Context Awareness * Crosslayer Integration * Dependable Networks * Experimental Networking * Identity Management * Internet Economics * Large Test-bed * Mobile Communication * Monitoring * Network Security * Overlay Networks * Scalability * Sensor Networks * Service Engineering * Traffic Engineering * User Perceived QoS * Wireless

Submitted papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted to another conference or journal for consideration of publication. Papers must be submitted in electronic format following the instructions provided on the CoNEXT web site. The workshop proceedings will be published by ACM. ToN will consider fast tracking the very best papers accepted for publication at CoNEXT

Important dates: Submission: May 6th, 2005 Notification: July 1st, 2005 Final version: August 19th, 2005

Conference chairs Michel Diaz, LAAS-CNRS, France Arturo Azcorra, University Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Patrick S=E9nac, ENSICA, France, (Organization chair)

Program chairs Philippe Owezarski, LAAS-CNRS, France Serge Fdida, University P&M Curie (Paris 6), France

Steering Committee Arturo Azcorra, University Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal Michel Diaz, LAAS-CNRS, France Christophe Diot, Intel research Cambridge, UK Serge Fdida, University P&M Curie-Paris, France Laurent Mathy, Lancaster University, UK Jennifer Rexford, AT&T Labs, USA Mikhail Smirnov, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Ioannis Stavrakakis, University of Athens, Greece Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Switzerland Giorgio Ventre, University of Napoli, Italy

Program Committee --------------------- Marco Ajmone Marsan, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Kevin Almeroth, UC Santa Barbara, USA Paul Amer, University of Delaware, USA Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Ernst Biersack, Institut Eurecom, France Olivier Bonaventure, Univ. Catholique de Louvain, Belgium Andrew Campbell, Columbia University, USA Mark Crovella, Boston University, USA Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, U K Walid Dabbous, INRIA, France Edmundo de Souza e Silva, Rio, Brazil Jordi Domingo-Pascual, Univ. Polit=E8cnica de Catalunya, Spain Constantinos Dovrolis, Georgia Tech, USA Otto Duarte, UF Rio do Janeiro, Brazil Wolfgang Effelsberg, University of Mannheim, Germany Hiroshi Esaki, University of Tokyo, Japan Anja Feldman, University of Munich, Germany Jarmo Harju, Tempere University of Technology, Finland Ian Graham, Endace Group, New Zealand G=EDsli Hj=E1lmt=FDsson, Reykjavik University, Iceland Farouk Kamoun, ENSI Tunis, Tunisia Gunnar Karlsson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden George Kesidis, Pennsylvania State University, USA Anne-Marie Kermarrec, IRISA, France Jim Kurose, University of Massachusetts, USA Guy Leduc, University of Li=E8ge, Belgium Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal Sue Moon, KAIST, Korea Andrew Odlyzko, University of Minnesota, USA Giovanni Pacifici, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Kihong Park, Purdue University, USA Thomas Plagemann, University of Oslo, Norway Douglas Reeves, North Carolina State University, USA Luigi Rizzo, Universita di Pisa, Italy Catherine Rosenberg, Waterloo University, Canada Matt Roughan, University of Melbourne, Australia Aruna Seneviratne, NICTA, Australia Cormac Sreenan, Cork Uni, Ireland Peter Steenkiste, CMU, USA Ralf Steinmetz, TU Darmstadt, Germany Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Piet Van Mieghem, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Andras Veres, Ericsson, Hungary Mary Vernon, University of Wisconsin, USA Yannis Viniotis, North Carolina State University, USA Ryuji Wakikawa, Keio University, Japan Lars Wolf, Technical University at Braunschweig, Germany