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The Eleventh International Conference on Networking and Services ICNS 2015 May 24 - 29, 2015 - Rome, Italy |
| Call for Papers |
ICNS 2015 continues a series of events targeting general networking and services aspects in multi-technologies environments. The conference covers fundamentals on networking and services, and highlights new challenging industrial and research topics. Ubiquitous services, next generation networks, inter-provider quality of service, GRID networks and services, and emergency services and disaster recovery are considered.
IPv6, the Next Generation of the Internet Protocol, has seen over the past three years tremendous activity related to its development, implementation and deployment. Its importance is unequivocally recognized by research organizations, businesses and governments worldwide. To maintain global competitiveness, governments are mandating, encouraging or actively supporting the adoption of IPv6 to prepare their respective economies for the future communication infrastructures. In the United States, government’s plans to migrate to IPv6 has stimulated significant interest in the technology and accelerated the adoption process. Business organizations are also increasingly mindful of the IPv4 address space depletion and see within IPv6 a way to solve pressing technical problems. At the same time IPv6 technology continues to evolve beyond IPv4 capabilities. Communications equipment manufacturers and applications developers are actively integrating IPv6 in their products based on market demands.
IPv6 creates opportunities for new and more scalable IP based services while representing a fertile and growing area of research and technology innovation. The efforts of successful research projects, progressive service providers deploying IPv6 services and enterprises led to a significant body of knowledge and expertise. It is the goal of this workshop to facilitate the dissemination and exchange of technology and deployment related information, to provide a forum where academia and industry can share ideas and experiences in this field that could accelerate the adoption of IPv6. The workshop brings together IPv6 research and deployment experts that will share their work. The audience will hear the latest technological updates and will be provided with examples of successful IPv6 deployments; it will be offered an opportunity to learn what to expect from IPv6 and how to prepare for it.
Packet Dynamics refers broadly to measurements, theory and/or models that describe the time evolution and the associated attributes of packets, flows or streams of packets in a network. Factors impacting packet dynamics include cross traffic, architectures of intermediate nodes (e.g., routers, gateways, and firewalls), complex interaction of hardware resources and protocols at various levels, as well as implementations that often involve competing and conflicting requirements.
Parameters such as packet reordering, delay, jitter and loss that characterize the delivery of packet streams are at times highly correlated. Load-balancing at an intermediate node may, for example, result in out-of-order arrivals and excessive jitter, and network congestion may manifest as packet losses or large jitter. Out-of-order arrivals, losses, and jitter in turn may lead to unnecessary retransmissions in TCP or loss of voice quality in VoIP.
With the growth of the Internet in size, speed and traffic volume, understanding the impact of underlying network resources and protocols on packet delivery and application performance has assumed a critical importance. Measurements and models explaining the variation and interdependence of delivery characteristics are crucial not only for efficient operation of networks and network diagnosis, but also for developing solutions for future networks.
Local and global scheduling and heavy resource sharing are main features carried by Grid networks. Grids offer a uniform interface to a distributed collection of heterogeneous computational, storage and network resources. Most current operational Grids are dedicated to a limited set of computationally and/or data intensive scientific problems.
Optical burst switching enables these features while offering the necessary network flexibility demanded by future Grid applications. Currently ongoing research and achievements refers to high performance and computability in Grid networks. However, the communication and computation mechanisms for Grid applications require further development, deployment and validation.
The conference has the following independents tracks:
ENCOT: Emerging Network Communications and Technologies
CGNS: CLOUD/GRID Networks and Services
UBI: Ubiquitous mobile services and protocols
SERVI: Multi-technology service deployment and assurance
NGNUS: Next Generation Networks and Ubiquitous Services
COMAN: Network Control and Management
MPQSI: Multi Provider QoS/SLA Internetworking
SDN: Software Defined Networking
EDNA: Emergency Services and Disaster Recovery of Networks and Applications
DEPLOY: Deploying the Future Infrastructures
CGOBS: CLOUD/GRID over Optical Burst Switching Networks
APP: Users, applications, and business models
We solicit both academic, research, and industrial contributions. We welcome technical papers presenting research and practical results, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such as those being discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia, survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of the above topics short papers on work in progress, and panel proposals.
Industrial presentations are not subject to the format and content constraints of regular submissions. We expect short and long presentations that express industrial position and status.
Tutorials on specific related topics and panels on challenging areas are encouraged.
The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.
All topics and submission formats are open to both research and industry contributions.
ENCOT: Emerging Network Communications and Technologies
Access and home networks
Ad hoc networks
Application-specific networks (e.g. SANs)
Autonomic Networks
Delay-tolerant Networking
Distributed communications systems & applications
Energy-efficient networking
High-speed & optical networks
Mobile networking and systems
5G and LTE approaches
Multimedia and multicast communications
Networking Communication theory
Network modeling & simulation
Network monitoring techniques
Network security
Next Generation Networks (NGN)
Overlay networks
Peer-to-peer networking
Programmable and Active Networks
Sensor networks
Wireless and Satellite Networks
Content-oriented networks
Ambient environments
CGNS: CLOUD/GRID Networks and Services
CLOUD frameworks, architectures, computation, storage
GRID theory, frameworks, methodologies, architecture, ontology
Cloud and GRID infrastructure and technologies
CLOUD/GRID middleware
CLOUD computing, utility computing, autonomic computing, metacomputing
Programmable CLOUD/GRID
CLOUD services and applications
VIRTUALIZATION, modeling, and metadata
Resource management, scheduling, and scalability in CLOUD/GRID
CLOUD/GRID monitoring, control, and management
Traffic and load balancing in CLOUD/GRID
User profiles and priorities in CLOUD/GRID
Performance and security in CLOUD/GRID systems
Fault tolerance, resilience, survivability, robustness in CLOUD/GRID
QoS/SLA in CLOUD/GRID networks
CLOUD/GRID fora, standards, development, evolution
CLOUD/GRID case studies, validation testbeds, prototypes, and lessons learned
UBI: Ubiquitous mobile services and protocols
Frameworks, architectures, and languages for ubiquitous services
Queries, transactions and workflows in mobile and ubiquitous Networks
Algorithms for ubiquitous systems
SLA/QoS in ubiquitous services
Ontology-based services
Location-based services
Protocols and interaction mechanisms for ubiquitous services
Mobile services and service convergence
Service discovery mechanisms
Tracking in ubiquitous environments
Measurement, control, and management of ubiquitous services
Design and development of ubiquitous services
Wireless/mobile service delivery
SERVI: Multi-technology service deployment and assurance
Service-oriented architectures
Service definition, creation, bundling, deployment
Service reuse, composition and service feature interaction
Service orchestration and federation
Inter-provider service dependency
Intra-provider service dependency and service interaction
Service middleware and service development platforms (SDPs)
Service open architecture (SOA)
Profiling and service adaptation
Service privacy and security
Quality of service, service level agreement [QoS/SLA]
Service agreement violations
Mobile services and service migration
Reliability, availability, serviceability [RAS]
Service performance metrics
Traffic engineering, metering, monitoring
Voice over IP services
IP Multimedia services
Real-time/not-real-rime services
Real-time services over IP/IPv6
Service performance evaluation, tools, simulation
NGNUS: Next Generation Networks and Ubiquitous Services
Methodologies, development support, and tools for NGN and converging services
NGN and convergence of ubiquitous services
NGN frameworks, architectures, and concepts
NGN technologies and mechanisms
QoS/SLA, traffic in NGN
NGN transport/service layered capabilities and operations
NGN concepts for active, ad hoc, mobile, and wireless networks
3G, 4G, and 5G Mobile networks
Fixed/mobile networks integration and internetworking
Services and service differentiation over NGN
Managing ubiquitous services in NGN
NGN interworking, non-NGN interoperability, migration
Regulatory services in NGN and standard activities
NGN device instrumentation
NGN policy-based control
Next Generation Internet
COMAN: Network Control and Management
Network, control and service architectures
Measurement of stream characteristics (reordering, delay, losses, jitter, etc.)
Network signaling, pricing and billing
Network middleware
Network management, monitoring and control
Network resource scheduling
Networks policy-based management
Management of autonomic networks and systems
Telecommunication networks architectures
On-demand networks, utility computing architectures
Traffic engineering
Impact of packet dynamics on application performance
Applications and case studies
MPQSI: Multi Provider QoS/SLA Internetworking
Architectures, frameworks, mechanisms for admission control and measurement
QoS in multi-provider and multi-technology networks
Service classes and multi-provider service class discovery
Service level agreement and service assurance in multi-provider environments
Carrier-class end-to-end SLA and QoS monitoring and management
Multi provider accounting/billing/cost sharing
Management, monitoring, and measurements in multi-provider networks
End-to-end QoS/SLA advanced network services in multi-provider networks
End-to-end QoS/SLA for multimedia applications and services in multi-provider networks
Security issues in multi-service provider networks
Business models for multi-providers under QoS/SLA constraints
Standards and fora activities
SDN: Software Defined Networking
SDN architectures
Openflow protocols
SDN switches and routers
SDN controllers
Network operating systems
SDN scalability
Virtualization
Flow based operation
Distributed Controllers
State distribution in SDN control
Fault tolerance in SDN
Secure and dependable SDN
Openflow vulnerabilities
Software defined Internet architectures
Scaling virtualized functions
Traffic engineering with SDN
Abstractions for SDN
Network programming languages
Information centric networking and SDN
SDN in cloud computing
SDN applications
SDN in wireless environment
Controller performance evaluations
Mobility solutions
EDNA: Emergency Services and Disaster Recovery of Networks and Applications
Theory on disaster-tolerant robust networks
Recovery by disruption resource procedures
Security issues with emergency services and disaster recovery
Networks resiliency methods
Formal methods for safety-critical systems
Networks emergency services
Public safety, reliable emergency communications, and applications
Response to the networks emergency services
Disaster prevention and recovery
Fighting mechanisms for disaster of networks and applications
Notifications and recovery in various network technologies
Customer protection and serviceability perception
Cost models and business impact
Cultural and legal aspects
Future advanced network development and evolution
Standards and guidelines
Lawful interception and defense strategies
DEPLOY: Deploying the Future Infrastructures
Advanced Topics and Latest Developments in IPv6
IPv6 Deployment Experiences and Case Studies
IPv6 Enabled Applications and Devices
Deploying large-scale Internet of Things (IoT)-based networks and services
Optical Network Infrastructures
Deploying 5G and beyond networks
Deploying sensor networks
Deploying wireless and wired body-networks
CGOBS: CLOUD/GRID over Optical Burst Switching Networks
Terabit burst switching
Burst assembly for IP DiffServ over optical burst switching networks
Optical network infrastructure for CLOUD/GRID
Synchronous stream optical burst switching
Optical burst switching based CLOUD/GRID architectures
Reliable optical burst switching for next-generation Grid networks
Optical burst switching for IP-over-WDM/DWDM
Customizable Grid-to-optical network
Ultra high capacity optical networks
Hybrid optical burst/circuit switched for CLOUD/GRID-enabled optical networks
Job scheduling in optical burst switching CLOUD/GRID networks
Architecture and middleware for CLOUD/GRID-Over-OBS
APP: Users, applications, and business models
Mobile user interfaces
Ubiquitous user-generated content (weblogs, wikis, etc.)
Mobile and ubiquitous computing
User modeling and personalization
Context- and location-aware applications
Toolkits, testbeds, development environments
Tools and techniques for designing, implementing, & evaluating ubiquitous networks and services
Constructing, deploying and prototyping of ubiquitous applications
Evaluation of user models for ubiquitous environments
On-line analytical techniques
Human-computer interaction in ubiquitous computing environments
Ubiquitous e-Development (business, science, health, etc.)
Case Studies
Emerging industrial/business/scientific ubiquitous scenarios
INSTRUCTION FOR THE AUTHORS
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to one of the IARIA Journals.
Publisher: XPS (Xpert Publishing Services)
Archived: ThinkMindTM Digital Library (free access)
Prints available at Curran Associates, Inc.
Articles will be submitted to appropriate indexes.
Important deadlines:
| Submission (full paper) |
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| Notification |
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| Registration | March 12, 2015 |
| Camera ready | April 10, 2015 |
Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received submissions will be acknowledged via an automated system.
Contribution types
- regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library]
- short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library]
- ideas: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
- extended abstracts: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
- posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
- posters: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]
- presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]
- demos: two pages [posted on www.iaria.org]
- doctoral forum submissions: [in the proceedings, digital library]
Proposals for:
- mini symposia: [in the proceedings, digital library]
- workshops: [in the proceedings, digital library]
- tutorials: [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]
- panels: [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]
FORMATS
Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received submissions will be acknowledged via an automated system.
Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11", not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found on the Instructions page. Helpful information for paper formatting can be found on the here. Latex templates are also available.
Slides-based contributions can use the corporate/university format and style.
Your paper should also comply with the additional editorial rules.
Once you receive the notification of contribution acceptance, you will be provided by the publisher an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance.
We would recommend that you should not use too many extra pages, even if you can afford the extra fees. No more than 2 contributions per event are recommended, as each contribution must be separately registered and paid for. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to ensure that the paper will be included in the conference proceedings and in the digital library, or posted on the www.iaria.org (for slide-based contributions).
CONTRIBUTION TYPE
Regular Papers (up to 6-10 page article -6 pages covered the by regular registration; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost- ) (oral presentation)
These contributions could be academic or industrial research, survey, white, implementation-oriented, architecture-oriented, white papers, etc. They will be included in the proceedings, posted in the free-access ThinkMind digital library and sent for indexing.
Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the appropriate contribution type.
12-14 presentation slides are suggested.
Short papers (work in progress) (up to 4 pages long) (oral presentation)
Work-in-progress contributions are welcome. These contributions represent partial achievements of longer-term projects. They could be academic or industrial research, survey, white, implementation-oriented, architecture-oriented, white papers, etc. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as work in progress. Contributors must follow the conference deadlines, describing early research and novel skeleton ideas in the areas of the conference topics. The work will be published in the conference proceedings, posted in the free-access ThinkMind digital library and sent for indexing. For more details, see the Work in Progress explanation page.
12-14 presentation slides are suggested.
Ideas contributions (2 pages long) (oral presentation)
This category is dedicated to new ideas in their very early stage. Idea contributions are expression of yet to be developed approaches, with pros/cons, not yet consolidated. Ideas contributions are intended for a debate and audience feedback. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as Idea. Contributors must follow the conference deadlines, describing early research and novel skeleton ideas in the areas of the conference topics. The work will be published in the conference proceedings, posted in the free-access ThinkMind digital library and sent for indexing. For more details, see the Ideas explanation page.
12-14 presentation slides are suggested.
Extended abstracts (2 pages long) (oral presentation)
Extended abstracts summarize a long potential publication with noticeable results. It is intended for sharing yet to be written, or further on intended for a journal publication. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as Extended abstract. Contributors must follow the conference deadlines, describing early research and novel skeleton ideas in the areas of the conference topics. The work will be published in the conference proceedings, posted in the free-access ThinkMind digital library and sent for indexing.
12-14 presentation slides are suggested.
Posters (paper-based, two pages long) (oral presentation)
Posters are intended for ongoing research projects, concrete realizations, or industrial applications/projects presentations. The poster may be presented during sessions reserved for posters, or mixed with presentation of articles of similar topic.
A two-page paper summarizes a presentation intended to be a POSTER. This allows an author to summarize a series of results and expose them via a big number of figures, graphics and tables.
Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as Poster Two Pages. Contributors must follow the conference deadlines, describing early research and novel skeleton ideas in the areas of the conference topics. The work will be published in the conference proceedings, posted in the free-access ThinkMind digital library and sent for indexing.
8-10 presentation slides are suggested.
Also a big Poster is suitable, used for live discussions with the attendees, in addition to the oral presentation.
Posters (slide-based, only) (oral presentation)
Posters are intended for ongoing research projects, concrete realizations, or industrial applications/projects presentations. The poster may be presented during sessions reserved for posters, or mixed with presentation of articles of similar topic. The slides must have comprehensive comments.
This type of contribution only requires a 8-10 slide-deck. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as Poster (slide-only). The slide-deck will be posted, post-event, on www.iaria.org.
8-10 presentation slides are suggested.
Also a big Poster is suitable, used for live discussions with the attendees, additionally to the oral presentation.
Presentations (slide-based, only) (oral presentation)
These contributions represent technical marketing/industrial/business/positioning presentations. This type of contribution only requires a 12-14 slide-deck. Please submit the contributions following the submission instructions by using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as Presentation (slide-only). The slide-deck will be posted, post-event, on www.iaria.org.
12-14 presentation slides are suggested.
Demos (two pages) [posted on www.iaria.org]
Demos represent special contributions where a tool, an implementation of an application, or a freshly implemented system is presented in its alfa/beta version. It might also be intended for thsoe new application to gather the attendee opinion. A two-page summary for a demo is intended to be. It would be scheduled in special time spots, to ensure a maximum attendance from the participants. Please submit the contributions following the submission instructions by using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as Demos. The Demos paper will be posted, post-event, on www.iaria.org.
Doctoral forum submissions: (up to 6-10 page article -6 pages covered the by regular registration; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost- ) (oral presentation)
There contributions refer to PhD dissertations, new PhD approaches, and PhD out-of-the-book thinking, etc. They will be included in the proceedings, posted in the free-access ThinkMind digital library and sent for indexing. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the appropriate contribution type Doctoral forum.
12-14 presentation slides are suggested.
Tutorial proposals
Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. Proposals should be for 2-3 hour long. Proposals must contain the title, the summary of the content, and the biography of the presenter(s). The tutorials' slide decks will be posted on the IARIA site.
Please send your proposals to tutorial proposal
Panel proposals
The organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their guests and manage that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our deadlines. Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the panel, as well as short biographies. The panel's slide deck will be posted on the IARIA site.
Please send your proposals to panel proposal
Workshop proposals
See http://www.iaria.org/workshop.html
Mini Symposium proposal
See http://www.iaria.org/symposium.html
