CALL FOR PAPERS
The 27th Annual Conference of the IEEE Communications Society
IEEE INFOCOM 2008
Sponsored by IEEE Communications Society
April 13-19, 2008
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Important Dates:
- Registration due: June 25, 2007, 11:59 PM PDT (required)
- Full paper due: July 2, 2007, 11:59 PM PDT (firm)
- Notification of acceptance November 12, 2007
- Final version due January 15, 2008
- Specialized Workshops April 13, 18, 2008
- Conference Sessions April 15-17, 2008
- Mini-conference April 14, 2008
Topics of Interest:
The IEEE INFOCOM 2008 conference seeks papers describing significant
research contributions to the field of computer and data communication
networks. We invite submissions on network architecture, design,
implementation, operations, analysis, measurement, performance, and
simulation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the
following:
- Ad hoc mobile networks
- Addressing & location management
- Broadband access technologies
- Capacity planning
- Cellular & broadband wireless nets
- Congestion control
- Content distribution
- Cross layer design and optimization
- Cyber-physical computing/networking
- Denial of service
- Delay/disruption tolerant networks
- Future Internet design
- Implementation & experimental testbeds
- Middleware support for networking
- Mobility models & systems
- Multicast & anycast
- Multimedia protocols and networking
- Network applications & services
- Network architectures
- Network control
- Network management
- Network simulation and emulation
- Novel network architectures
- Optical networks
- Peer-to-peer communications
- Performance evaluation
- Power control and management
- Pricing & billing
- Resource allocation & management
- Routing protocols
- Scheduling & buffer management
- Security, trust, & privacy
- Self-organizing networks
- Sensor nets & embedded systems
- Service overlays
- Switches & switching
- Topology characterization & inference
- Traffic measurement and analysis
- Traffic engineering, & control
- Virtual & overlay networks
- Web services & performance
- Wireless mesh networks and protocols
Submission:
Authors should prepare a Portable Document Format (PDF) version of
their full paper. Papers must be no longer than NINE (9) pages, in
font size no smaller than 10 points, and must fit properly on US
"Letter"-sized paper (8.5 x 11 inches). Submission and formatting
instructions are available at:
http://cse.unl.edu/~byrav/INFOCOM2008/author-instructions.html
The deadline for registering the TITLE and the ABSTRACT of the paper
with the EDAS electronic submission system is June 25, 2007, 11:59PM
PDT and the deadline for submitting the complete PAPER is July 2,
2007, 11:59 PM PDT. See the above websites for detailed formatting
and submission instructions.
In the event that a paper cannot be included in the main conference
program, authors may be invited to submit an abbreviated version (5
pages) of the paper to be considered for inclusion in the IEEE INFOCOM
2008 mini-conference.
Organizing Committee:
General Chair:
Douglas Merrill, Google, USA
General Vice-Chair:
Debanjan Saha, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
Technical Program Co-chairs:
Jennifer C. Hou, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Krishna Sivalingam, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
EDAS Chair:
Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Mini-conference Co-chairs:
K.K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T Labs Research, USA
Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Publication Co-chairs:
Sergey Gorinsky, Washington University in Saint Louis, USA
Chonggang Wang, University of Arkansas, USA
Panel Co-chairs:
Guoliang (Larry) Xue, Arizona State University, USA
Junshan Zhang, Arizona State University, USA
Workshop Co-chairs:
Ehab Al-Shaer, DePaul University, USA
Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virginia Tech, USA
Poster Co-chairs:
Qian Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
Xi Zhang, Texas A&M University, USA
Student Activities Chair:
Chunming Qiao, SUNY at Buffalo, USA
Student Travel Grants Chair:
Vinod Vokkarane, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA
Hongyi Wu, University of Louisiana, USA
TPC Meeting Arrangements Co-chairs:
Suresh Subramaniam, George Washington University, USA
Susan Cheng, George Washington University, USA
Infrastructure Chair:
Peter Baker, Google, USA
Public Relations Chair:
Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, University of Waterloo, Canada
Local Activities Chair:
Korianne Cremona, Google, USA
Local Arrangements Chair:
Naomi Devlin, Google, USA
Standing Committee Chair:
Harvey Freeman, HAF Consulting, Inc., USA