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CFP: IEEE ICC Symposium on Global Service Portability, April 28 - May 2, 2002, New York City

  CALL FOR PAPERS


            IEEE International Conference on Communications
                     April 28 - May 2, New York City
   (http://www.icc2002.com)

              Global Service Portability and Infrastructure
              for Virtual Home/Office Environments Symposium


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SYMPOSIUM THEME
Present day mobile systems focus heavily on the radio access segment,
with very little attention paid to mobility at the applications and
services level. Similarly, in the Internet arena, the standardization
efforts for mobility support have mostly focused on enabling the
roaming of a terminal identified by its network address. With rapid
growth in   Internet services and mobile hosts, it has become essential
to address new requirements in cases where a customer is roaming
between heterogeneous networks and providers. The customer should be
able to seamlessly roam between    terrestrial and satellite networks,
between wireline, wireless and ad-hoc networks, between pure Internet
or IP/ATM connections, and between home and office. Different
technologies
at the service level network level and hardware/physical level are
required to be supported to provide such scenario.

The purpose is to bring together engineers, practitioners, scientists,
as
well as industry professionals whose technical interests are global
service portability (VHE, MCPE/MCPN, Pervasive Computing,
Mobile-Commerce,
Open Architectures, APIs), personal area/home wireless networks (WPAN,
Bluetooth, HomeRF,..), self-organizing networks and wireless LANs
(IEEE 802.11, HiperLAN,  Wi-Fi..). The workshop is intended to be a
genuinely
interactive event with constructive development and exchange of ideas.


The list of topics of interest includes (but to limited to):

 Global Service Portability:
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 - Architecture & design for Virtual Home Environment (VHE)
 - Architecture & design for Mobile Customer Premises
Environments/Networks (MCPE/MCPN)
 - APIs -based solutions (Parlay, 3GPP Open Service Architecture (OSA)
for service portability
 - Service portability based on Mobile Execution Environment (MExE,
Java)
 - Inter-Service environment roaming architecture and solutions
 - Inter-Network roaming architecture and solutions to enable VHE
 - Interoperability in multi-provider access networks
 - Scalability and adaptation of user terminal to services and platforms

 - Agents, middleware support, and enablers for VHE
 - Address and naming portability related to VHE
 - QoS profiling, billing and Security issues in ensuring VHE
 - Related standards (3GPP, MWIF, 3G.IP, ETSI, IETF..)

 Nomadicity Management:
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 - Satellite/terrestrial integration for  roaming users
 - Architectures and support for 3G/4G nomadic applications
 - Micro-mobility, Macro-mobility, Global-mobility for nomadic/roaming
users
 - Distributed Resource Management for nomadic users
 - Multicast Management for nomadic users
 - Multimedia Management for nomadic users
 - Security Management for nomadic users
 - QoS support with IP mobility
 - Spontaneous (zero-configuration) network creation for nomadic
business users
 - MANET & Sensors Networks for nomadic users
 - Self-organizing architectures for nomadic users:  IP based, scalable
ad-hoc, multihop networks
 - Discovery Services
 - Access & Session Support

 Home/Office Architectures and Infrastructure
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 - Smart Spaces &  related applications in home/office
 - Home-API
 - Open Service Gateways
 - Home Audio/Video interoperability
 - Home Navigator, TV Box, TV-Anytime
 - Bluetooth wireless technology & experiments for home networks and
nomadic users
 - Wireless Personal Networks (IEEE 802.15) solution in home networks
 - Infrastructure issues: Lightweight WLAN ( 802.11, HomeRF, etc.),
HIPERLAN , IEEE 802.17,  Wi-Fi...
 - Coexistence between WPANs and WLANs in home/office networks
 - Hand-off protocols/solutions among tethered WPANs  in home networks
 - IP support  for  home/office  area networks
 - Optical backbone and wireless access support  for  nomadic users


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SUBMISSIONS

The paper submission schedule and process is the same as for the general
ICC 2002
conference. Be sure to indicate the Global service Portability and
Infrastructure
for Virtual Home/Office Environments Symposium as the target for your
paper on the
cover page and also list the relevant hot topic(s). See the ICC 2002
Call for Papers
for detailed submission instructions (i.e., schedule, paper-length,
etc.).

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IMPORTANT DATES
Complete Manuscripts Due: August 15, 2001
Acceptance Notification: December 17, 2001
Camera-Ready Manuscript Due: January 15, 2002

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SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZATION

Organizing Committee

Chair: Prof. Jong-Tae. Park, KNU, Korea
Vice-Chairs: Dr. Seshadri Mohan, Comverse
             Dr. Fawzi Daoud, GMD Fokus, Germany
             Prof. Dan Keun Sung, KAIST, Korea

Advisory Board Member

Salah Aidarous, NEC America
Veli Sahin, MARCONI Communications
Mehmet Ulema, Monmouth Internet Corporation
Mashayoshi Ejir, Fujitsu Ltd.


Technical Program Committee:

Bernard Aboba, Microsoft, USA
Claude Castelluccia, INRIA, France
Do van Thanh, Telenor, Norway
Guenter Karjoth, IBM Labs, Switzerland
Hamid Alikhani, Sony International, Germany
Hong-Yon Lach, Motorola Labs, France
Jayapalan Jay, Motorola, USA
John J. Barton, HP Labs, USA
Kazi Farooqui, AT&T, USA
Lieve Bos, Alcatel Bell, Belgium
Moh. Torabi, Lucent Technologies, USA
Odd-Wiking Rahlff, SINTEF, Norway
Paolo Conforto, Alespazio, Italy
Patricia Charlton, Motorola Labs, France
Ravi Jain, Telcordia, USA
Robert Mort, Alcatel Space, France
Stefan Gessler, NEC Labs, Germany
Terry Hodgkinson, BT, UK
Wang-Chien Lee, GTE, USA
Yamanaka Naoaki, NTT Labs, Japan
Rami Neudorfer, Comverse
Stanley Moyer, Telcordia Technologies
Cengiz Akgun, Telcordia Technologies
Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada
Ioanis Nikolaidis, University of Alberta, Canada
Kyungshik Lim, KNU, Korea
Ikjun Yeom, KNU, Korea
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This message is forwarded to members of the COSC/EEE/Management research 
group on networks at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, 
New zealand, and anybody else interested in research in this area

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		Associate Professor Dr Krzysztof Pawlikowski

	Department of Computer Science,  University of Canterbury
 			Christchurch, New Zealand
		
ph.  +(64) 3 3642 987 ext.7772  email:   krys@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz 
fax. +(64) 3 3642 569      URL:     http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~krys

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