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********************************************************************** ******** CCNC 2006 ******** ****** ****** **** Special Session on Autonomic Communication **** ** IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference ** * * * Las Vegas, Nevada, USA * * January 7-10. 2006 * * * * http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2006/ * * * * CALL FOR PAPERS * **********************************************************************

Scope of Special Session on Autonomic Communication: ====================================================

The Internet is facing ever-increasing complexity in the construction, configuration and management of heterogeneous wireless networks. New communication paradigms are undermining its original design principles. The mobile Internet demands a level of optimum that is hard to achieve with a strictly-layered protocol stack. All of these have put traditional design methodologies for the Internet under examination. Autonomic communication ( AutoComm ) represents a vision of using context-awareness and distributed policy-based control to achieve efficiency, resilience, immunity, and evolvability in large-scale dynamic communication infrastructure. Meeting the grand challenges of autonomic communication requires scientific and technological advances in a wide variety of fields, and intensive cross-disciplinary basic and applied research.

This special session will provide a forum for researchers working in the field of AutoComm to exchange ideas and seek synergies. The forum also aims to bring together academic and industry professionals for meaningful collaborations. In doing so, we hope to develop and nurture a community that work closely to contribute to the communication paradigms of the future Internet.

Topics solicited in this special session span a wide range of areas of interests including but not limited to:

- AutoComm in home networks - AutoComm in consumer communications - AutoComm in multimedia communications - Middlebox communications and AutoComm - Autonomic services - Autonomic signaling - Network architecture with AutoComm flavors - Holistic and systematic cross-layer design for AutoComm - Protocol engineering featuring self-* - Bio-inspired principles for AutoComm - Networked ecosystems - Self-organizing systems - Self-optimizing and self-tuning networks - Self-healing and self-protecting networks - Self-configuring networks - Self-governing and self-aware networks - Composable/Composite functional systems - Ecological models for AutoComm - AI and agent technologies for AutoComm - Adaptive control theories for AutoComm - Grid solutions for AutoComm - Network calculus and network coding for AutoComm - Cellular automatons for AutoComm - Swarm intelligence for AutoComm - Economic models for AutoComm - Learning and knowledge plane construction techniques - Situation/Context-awareness - Proactive monitoring and control - Rule and policy-based management - Fitness functions for AutoComm - Cost functions for AutoComm - Decision theories for AutoComm - Conflict resolution algorithms for AutoComm - Evolvability in AutoComm - AutoComm testbeds - Mobile code and network programmability

Important Dates: ================

Paper submission deadline : August 31, 2005 Notification of acceptance : September 30, 2005 Camera-ready version due : October 14, 2005

Session Co-Organizers: ======================

Jiang (Linda) Xie, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (jxie1@uncc.edu)

Xiaoyuan Gu, Technical University of Braunschweig (xiaogu@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de)

Holger Claussen, Bell Labs Wireless Research, Lucent (claussen@lucent.com)

Submission Instructions: ========================

Prospective authors are invited to submit regular technical papers or position papers. The later should present novel technologies at an early stage of development or share future vision. All the submissions should describe original, previously unpublished research, not currently under review by any other conference or journal. Manuscripts should not exceed 5 pages in double-column IEEE format. Please submit the paper through EDAS and send a notice to xiaogu@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de.

1. Log on to http://edas.info and click on "go to the current list of conferences and special issues". 2. Look under Accepting Submissions. Click on CCNC2006 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference. You will be directed to the paper submission page titled EDAS: IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference. 3. On the paper submission page, you will find a list of tracks/sessions. Choose "CCNC2006 special session technical papers" and click on the corresponding "submit paper" button (http://edas.info/Paper.cgi?c=4571). 4. Fill in the submission form. 5. Select "Autonomic Communication" from Track pull down at the bottom of the submission form. 6. Click on the "Submit" button. 7. Upload your paper. 8. Send an email notification to xiaogu@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de.

All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed. They will be judged with respect to their relevance, novelty, significance, correctness, and readability.