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Call for Papers

The first EuroNGI Conference

TRAFFIC ENGINEERING FOR THE NEXT GENERATION INTERNET

Rome 18-20 April 2005

This, the first conference organized by the Network of Excellence EuroNGI, will provide a forum for the presentation of high quality, peer reviewed papers relating to the modelling, design and engineering of the Next Generation Internet.

The NGI will build on the highly flexible and scalable infrastructure of the current Internet by providing added scope for differentiated quality of service, reliability and availability guarantees. The success of this evolution to a converged network, supporting existing voice, video and data services while remaining open to the development of future applications, depends largely on our ability to understand how perceived performance depends on the nature of the different kinds of traffic and how they share network resources.

The conference scope mirrors that of EuroNGI and covers network architecture, traffic engineering management and control, cost effective and reliable multi-layer network design, experimental evaluations, mathematical modelling and the evaluation of socio-economic impacts. Key issues to be addressed include how to realize the seamless integration of wireline and wireless technologies, how traffic engineering can be performed to optimize resource utilization and perceived performance, how QoS requirements can be guaranteed, how to make networks sufficiently reliable for critical applications, how to price different services to ensure adequate return on investment while meeting user requirements for simplicity and transparency.

Researchers are invited to submit original work on topics within this scope including the following:

  • Integration of fixed and mobile networks
  • Evolution to a unified control plane
  • Evolution of the IP network architecture
  • Infrastructure and management for new services
  • Network management
  • Congestion control
  • Traffic management
  • Traffic engineering
  • Routing in next generation networks
  • QoS in wireless networks
  • Multilayer optimization
  • Robustness of access networks
  • Methods for network resilience
  • Protection and restoration strategies and algorithm for next generation networks
  • Network design tools
  • Platforms and test beds for traffic engineering
  • Passive and active measurements
  • Traffic characterization
  • Performance models for new traffic paradigms
  • Spatial modelling
  • Methods for network optimization and control
  • Numerical methods and simulation
  • QoS from the user perspective
  • Cost models and pricing
  • Network security

For information about Manuscript submission, Author guidelines and Format requirements, please refer to the Submission section.

It is intended to publish extended versions of the best papers either in book form or as a special issue of a major networking journal.

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