Subject: ITC 18 - Call for papers

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CALL FOR PAPERS - CALL FOR PAPERS - CALL FOR PAPERS - CALL FOR PAPERS

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      |    18th International TELETRAFFIC CONGRESS    |
      |   Haus am Köllnischen Park, Berlin, Germany   |
      |        31 August - 5 September 2003           |
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      | "Providing QoS in Heterogeneous Environments" |
      |            http://www.ITC18.org               |
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CALL FOR PAPERS - CALL FOR PAPERS - CALL FOR PAPERS - CALL FOR PAPERS

ORGANIZATIONS AND HISTORY
International Advisory Committee
http://www.i-teletraffic.org/
ITG - Information Technology Society in the VDE
http://www.vde.com/vde/html/e/fach/itg/itg.htm

The ITC, founded in 1955, provides, through regular, now bi-annual
congresses, the main international forum for teletraffic
research and engineering. The purpose of the ITC is to stimulate the
development and application of teletraffic theory for planning,
engineering, managing and administrating telecommunication networks.
The analysis and control of traffic phenomena in such networks require
measurements, forecasts, as well as network management algorithms.
The ITC gathers teletraffic experts from research organizations,
universities, manufacturers, network operators and international
technical organizations yielding a well-balanced contribution from
theory and application. ITCs are organized so that researchers,
engineers, and administrators from telcos and data network operators
can interact and benefit from discussions and exchange of ideas. The
ITC also benefits from the social environment which allows for the
creation of new personal contacts between delegates.

CONFERENCE CITY
After 33 years, the ITC community meets again in Germany - in Berlin,
the old and new capital, a four million people meeting place of the East
and the West in the center of Europe.
Berlin is a city in transition, one that is not always easy to understand,
and which is often quite difficult to describe. However, no other city of
Germany reflects the historical events of the last few years to the extent
Berlin does.
More information: http://www.berlin.de/english

CONFERENCE VENUE
Close to the river Spree in the center of Berlin, the "Haus am Köllnischen
Park"is located just a few minutes walking distance from famous places
such as Alexanderplatz, Humboldt University, Gendarmenmarkt, Reichstag or
Brandenburger Tor.

"PROVIDING QOS IN HETEROGENEOUS EINVIRONMENTS"
The ITC 18 will be held in a transient phase where IP packet-switched
architectures migrate from being data networks only to also substituting
traditional circuit-switched networks.
Papers are welcome tackling the following topics:

NETWORK ARCHITECTURES AND TECHNOLOGIES
- Next generation networks
- Broadband transport networks
- Access networks
- Wireless networks and wireless LANs
- Heterogeneous networks and ubiquitous communication
- Web technologies
- Voice over IP
- Ad hoc and peer to peer networking
- Communication protocols

TRAFFIC CONTROL AND ENGINEERING
- Traffic engineering
- Quality of service provisioning
- Service pricing
- Overload control
- Traffic management
- QoS in multi-provider networks
- Service-aware admission control
- Traffic conditioning
- Routing
- Mobility management and signalling
- Network planning and optimization
- Network management
- Reliability and Survivability

METHODS AND TOOLS
- Traffic characterization and modelling
- Performance evaluation
- Queueing theory
- Scheduling
- Simulation methodology
- Traffic and performance measurements

IMPORTANT DATES
Full paper due                   : 31 December 2002
Notification of acceptance mailed: 16 April 2003
Camera ready paper due           :  1 June 2003

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Papers should not exceed 15 double-spaced pages (about 5000 words),
have an abstract of 100-200 words, and be original material not
previously published. The title page should contain the authors' names,
affiliation and contact details. The corresponding author must be
indicated.
Only electronic submission via the ITC18 homepage will be arranged.
Further information can be obtained on the ITC18 homepage via
http://www.ITC18.org.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION AND CONTACT ADDRESS
ITC 18
VDE Conference Services
Stresemannallee 15
D-60596 Frankfurt/Main, Germany 
Phone: +49 69 6308-202
Fax  : +49 69 9631-5213
email: [email-masked]

COMMITTEES

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Chair            : Joachim Claus, Deutsche Telekom AG, Bonn
Secretariat      : Volker Schanz, ITG/VDE, Frankfurt 
Conference Office: Rupert Rompel, VDE, Frankfurt

TECHNICAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Chairs:
Joachim Charzinski, Siemens, Munich
Ralf Lehnert, Dresden University of Technology
Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Würzburg 
Carmelita Görg, University of Bremen (Tutorials Chair)

INTERNATIONAL TPC	         NATIONAL TPC
Marco Ajmone Marsan, Italy       Dieter Baum, University of Trier
Åke Arvidsson, Sweden            Matthias Baumann, Dresden University of Technology
Khalid Begain, United Kingdom    Gunter Bolch, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Chris Blondia, Belgium           Andreas Brandt, Humboldt University 
Onno Boxma, The Netherlands      Joachim Charzinski, Siemens AG
Herwig Bruneel, Belgium          Jörg Eberspächer, Munich University of Technology
Olga Casals, Spain               Anja Feldmann, Saarland University 
Laurie Cuthbert, United Kingdom  Wolfgang Fischer, Cisco GmbH
Hermann de Meer, United Kingdom  Carmelita Görg, University of Bremen
Edmundo de Souza e Silva, Brazil Franz Hartleb, T-Systems GmbH
Zbigniew Dziong, USA             Boudewijn Haverkort, Aachen University of Technology
Khaled Elsayed, Egypt            Christoph Herrmann, Philips Research
Peder Emstad, Norway             Ulrich Killat, Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg 
David Everitt, Australia         Udo Krieger, T-Systems GmbH
Serge Fdida, France              Paul J. Kühn, University of Stuttgart 
Georges Fiche, France	         Ralf Lehnert, Dresden University of Technology
Markus Fiedler, Sweden           Georg Rößler, Tenovis GmbH&Co. KG 
Luigi Fratta, Italy              Stefan Schneeberger, Siemens AG
H. Richard Gail, USA             Hans-Peter Schwefel, Siemens AG 
Richard Harris, Australia        Michael Söllner, Lucent Technologies GmbH
Frank Hübner-Szabo de Bucs, USA  Michael Tangemann, Alcatel AG 
Villy Baek Iversen, Denmark      Sandra Tartarelli, NEC GmbH
Konosuke Kawashima, Japan        Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Würzburg 
Peter Key, United Kingdom        Kurt Tutschku, University of Würzburg
Daniel Kofman, USA               Bernhard Walke, Aachen University of Technology 
Yonathan Levy, USA               Ulrich Wellens, Vodafone GmbH
Xiong Jiang Liang, China         Albert Weller, T-Mobile GmbH 
Karl Lindberger, Sweden          Adam Wolisz, Berlin University of Technology
Michel Mandjes, The Netherlands  Martina Zitterbart, University of Karlsruhe 
Ian Marshall, United Kingdom
Debasis Mitra, USA
Sandor Molnár, Hungary
Jorge Moreira de Souza, Brazil
Arne A. Nilsson, USA
Ilkka Norros, Finland
Baron Peterssen, South Africa
Michal Pioro, Poland
Jim Roberts, France
Matthew Roughan, USA
Hiroshi Saito, Japan
Shohei Sato, Japan
Danny Tsang, Hong Kong
Hans van den Berg, The Netherlands
Rob van der Mei, The Netherlands
Manuel Villen-Altamirano, Spain
Jorma Virtamo, Finland
Y.T. Wang, USA
Pat Wirth, USA
Jim Yan, Canada
Hideaki Yoshino, Japan
Moshe Zukerman, Australia