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2006 - CALL FOR PAPERS 1st Workshop on IP over
Broadcasting Networks (IPBN) ICC
2006 Headquarter Hotel In conjunction with the 2006 IEEE International
Conference on Communications (ICC 2006), http://www.icc2006.org/index/workshop.html
********************************************************************* IMPORTANT DATES Full papers
due: Notification: Camera Ready
due: Scope of IPBN 2006: =================== 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: ======================= 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: ============== TPC Co-Chairs: ============== Georgios Kormentzas, University of the Evangelos Pallis, Centre of Technological Research of |