Abbas Jamalipour

University of Sydney, Australia
Email: a.jamalipour@ieee.org

Heinrich Stüttgen

NEC Europe Ltd, Germany
Email: stuttgen@netlab.nec.de

Pascal Lorenz

University of Haute Alsace, France

Email: lorenz@ieee.org

Endorsed by IEEE Communications Society Technical Committees on:

Communications Switching and Routing

Satellite and Space Communications

Communications Systems Integration and Modeling

Enterprise Networking

IMPORTANT DATES

Complete Paper Manuscripts Due: 25 September 2005

Acceptance Notification: 31 December 2005

Camera-Ready Manuscripts Due: 15 February 2006

Symposium Description

Next generation mobile networks are characterized through the integration and convergence of wired and wireless networks. Third generation wireless cellular systems such as UMTS and cdma2000 will include other emerging technologies for broadband Internet access such as hot spot services or ad hoc multi-hop access networks, to provide a wire-line compatible service to mobile Internet users. In addition the integration of new technologies like sensor networks, broadcast technologies like DVB, or the support of moving networks on trains or busses poses interesting challenges. New standards such as IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX), IEEE 802.20, and IEEE 802.21 are emerging to provide new broadband access services in the next few years. Many researchers around the world within academia and industry are working on defining and development of the next generation mobile networks.

An advanced core network is required to interconnect all those networks in a seamless and transparent fashion. Managed quality of service, secure VPNs, broadcast and multicast services are only a few of the new services provided. New Internet style application oriented signaling protocols like SIP are finding their way into mobile and fixed networks to support creation of new services, which are desperately needed to bring profitability to an expensive infrastructure. In general the high cost of mobile network deployment emphasizes the need to charge for traffic and services, as well as for improved self-organization, areas not yet well developed in the Internet.

The next generation network will be seen as a new initiative to bring together all heterogeneous systems under the same framework, where the service shortcoming of one system can be complemented by other systems. Network convergence is therefore regarded as the next major challenge in the evolution of telecommunications technologies and the integration of computer and communications.

Next Generation Mobile Networks Symposium will focus on all aspects of next generation mobile network architecture and try to gather the state-of-the art research activities in this important field. In particular it will address the evolution of today’s Internet, the PSTN and third Generation Mobile Networks to a future multi-platform and multi-service ubiquitous network. It will focus on network architecture, protocols and service platforms, addressing areas such as the evolution towards 4G mobile networks, the integration of heterogeneous network technologies like fixed, mobile and satellite access, content distribution and streaming, QoS, multicasting and, operational aspects of next generation networks like management, charging and service provisioning.

Topics of Interest (in alphabetical order)

· 4G mobile network architectures

· Ad hoc wireless networks

· Application specific protocols

· Call admissions and congestion control

· Content distribution networks

· DVB and DAB techniques

· Hybrid wireless communication systems

· IMT2000 and beyond cellular systems

· Internet over satellite

· Internetworking heterogeneous wireless/wire-line networks

· Mobile ad hoc routing

· Mobile Internet technologies

· Mobile IP techniques

· Mobile quality of service management

· Mobility, location and handoff management

· Multimedia QoS and traffic management

· Multi-protocol architectures and devices

· Network Control and Signaling

· Network resource management

· Network topology adaptive control

· Packet and all-IP network design

· Performance of E2E protocols over wireless networks

· Proxies and middleware for wireless networks

· QoS and media streaming support

· QoS routing in wireless networks

· Routing in Fixed and Mobile Networks

· Routing in multi-hop, ad hoc and sensor networks

· Self organization of networks

· Sensor networks

· Service middleware and open interfaces

· Service provisioning platforms

· Service roaming and VHE

· Satellite for NGN

· Terrestrial-satellite integration scenarios & techniques

· Traffic and service charging

· Transport protocols for wireless

· VoIP protocols and services

· Wireless LANs protocols and standards

· Wireless multicasting

· Wireless network security and privacy

· Wireless switching and routing techniques

· Wireless system optimization techniques

Instruction for Paper Submission

Paper submission to this symposium is part of normal paper submission of ICC2006. Please check the ICC2006 main page for complete instruction.

Technical Committee Members (in alphabetical order)

Arup Acharya (IBM Research)

Ralf Ackermann (TU Darmstadt)

Nirwan Ansari (NJIT)

Albert Banchs (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

Hendrik Berndt (DoCoMo Eurolabs)

Torsten Braun (University of Berne)

Marcus Brunner (NEC Europe Ltd.)

Augusto Casaca (INESC)

Han-Chieh Chao (National Dong Hwa University)

Thomas Chen (Southern Methodist University)

Alexander Clemm (Cisco Systems, Inc.)

Arek Dadej (University of South Australia)

Gerard Damm (Alcatel)

Sajal Das (University of Texas at Arlington)

Marc Emmelmann (Technical Univesity of Berlin)

Mario Freire (University of Beira Interior )

Xiaoming Fu (University of Goettingen)

Kurt Geihs (University of Kassel)

Fabrizio Granelli (Univ. of Trento, IT)

Hossam Hassanein (Queens University)

Merkourios Karaliopoulos (TELETEL S.A.)

Nei Kato (Tohoku University)

Sastri Kota (Harris Corporation)

Bjorn Landfeldt (The University of Sydney)

Georgios Lazarou (Mississippi State University)

Damien Magoni (Universite Louis Pasteur)

Mario Marchese (University of Genoa)

Ahmed Mehaoua (University of Versailles)

Abdelhamid Mellouk (University Paris XII)

Jelena Misic (University of Manitoba)

Vojislav B. Misic (University of Manitoba)

Seshadri Mohan (Univ. of Arkansas at Little Rock)

Antonella Molinaro (University of Calabria)

Mario Munoz (Carlos III of Madrid University)

Jose Marcos Nogueira (Federal Univ. of Minas Gerais)

Algirdas Pakstas (London Metropolitan University)

Giovanni Pau (University of California Los Angeles)

Xavier Perez Costa (NEC Europe)

Samuel Pierre (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal)

Yi Qian (Univ. of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez)

Jens-Peter Redlich (Humboldt University Berlin)

Marcelo Rubinstein (Univ. do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)

Apostolis Salkintzis (Motorola)

Behcet Sarikaya (Univ. of Northern British Columbia)

Burkhard Stiller (University of Zurich and ETH Zurich)

Danny H. K. Tsang (Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Tech.)

Shahrokh Valaee (University of Toronto)

Carlos Becker Westphall (Federal Univ. of Santa Catarina)

Vincent Wong (Univ. of British Columbia)

Xiaotao Wu (Columbia University)

Tadeusz A Wysocki (University of Wollongong)

Yang Xiao (University of Memphis)

Dong Xuan (Ohio State University)

Guoliang Xue (Arizona State University)

Miki Yamamoto (Osaka University)

Homayoun Yousefi'zadeh (University of California at Irvine)

Seyed Zekavat (Michigan Technological University)

Xi Zhang (Texas A&M University)

Jun Zheng (University of Ottawa)

Weihua Zhuang (University of Waterloo)

Martina Zitterbart (University of Karlsruhe)

Symposium on Next Generation Mobile Networks