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[IEEE ICC'06] CFP for IPBN 2006 Workshop



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IPBN 2006 - CALL FOR PAPERS

 

1st Workshop on IP over Broadcasting Networks (IPBN)

 

ICC 2006 Headquarter Hotel

Istanbul, Turkey

Thursday, 15 June, 2006

 

In conjunction with the

2006 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2006),

Istanbul, Turkey, 11 – 15 June 2006

 

 

http://www.icc2006.org/index/workshop.html

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IMPORTANT DATES

    Full papers due:    March 10th, 2006

    Notification:       April 1st, 2006

    Camera Ready due:   April 10th, 2006

 

 

Scope of IPBN 2006:

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Present and future generation networks are offered as a combination of highly diversified technologies in the access, backhaul and core (e.g., wireless, mobile, fixed lines) enabling provision of heterogeneous services. To achieve interworking, IP arises as a key element for the realisation of a unified/fusion environment which enables the convergence/synergy between traditional and emerging technologies offering ubiquitous services to a variety of end users. Along those lines, a notion of convergence is lately achieved between the intrinsic technologically different Telecommunications and Broadcasting sectors. This convergence, witnessed both at technological and service levels, is mainly empowered by the evolution of broadcasting standards (DxB, ISDB, ATSC), the recent advances in fixed and mobile telecommunication technologies (xDLS, FTH, GSM/GPRS/UMTS, WLAN, WPAN), and by the progress in the field of ‘Interactive Broadcasting’. A broadcasting platform is not only seen as a medium to broadcast ‘bouquets’ of TV programs to a large number of viewers distributed over large geographical areas; its intrinsic characteristic to combine TV programs and IP services into the same transport stream, along with the large coverage area and the high bit rate capabilities, allow broadcasting platforms to constitute networking infrastructures, able to act both as an access network and a backhaul interconnecting distribution nodes, which provide connectivity to end-users via various types of access networks (e.g., GSM/GPRS/UMTS, WLAN, WPAN, xDSL).

 

The aim of this workshop is to attract state-of-the-art material in the field of highly diversified networks and systems where IP is the common core technology, acting as the 'gluing' factor, with specific focus given to Broadcasting Networks. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

 

* DxB, ISDB, ATSC broadcast networks

* Convergence of 3G/WLAN/WPAN and broadcast networks

* Management of heterogeneous systems

* Architectural and design aspects

* Cross system optimization

* Cross layer interoperability

* Interactive broadcasting

* Service and applications

* Mobility, security and Quality of Service provisioning

* Reliability, survivability, and resilience

* Business aspects and standardisation activities

* Legalisation and spectrum dividend

* Spectrum management

 

Submission Information:

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Papers must be written in English. Maximum paper length is 8 pages. As a visual aid for formatting authors should use the sample manuscript found at http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/confpub/auxfiles/sample_manuscript.pdf. IEEE editorial and typographical standards are described in “Information for IEEE Authors” by the IEEE Publications Department.

Authors are invited to submit their full papers (pdf or postscript format) by email to the workshop chair at skianis@iit.demokritos.gr.

 

Submitted works are to be considered for publication at the forthcoming Special Issue on 'IP over Broadcasting Networks' at the 'Computer Networks' journal (Elsevier Science).

 

Workshop Chair:

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Charalabos Skianis, NCSR ‘Demokritos

 

TPC Co-Chairs:

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Georgios Kormentzas, University of the Aegean

Evangelos Pallis, Centre of Technological Research of Crete