CALL FOR PAPERS

Sixteenth National Conference on Communications (NCC)
NETWORKS SYMPOSIUM (One of Three Symposia)
January 29-31, 2010
www.ncc.org.in/ncc2010

Venue: Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai

Organised by:
Joint Telematics Group of IITs & IISc

Technically Co-sponsored by IEEE Comm Society (www.comsoc.org)
Accepted papers will appear in IEEE Xplore

Paper Submission Deadline: 02 October 2009

The Sixteenth National Conference on Communications (NCC 2010) will be held at Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) during January 29-31, 2010 along with pre-conference tutorials on January 29, 2010. The conference aims to provide a forum for researchers in communications, networking and signal processing and will feature technical paper sessions, poster sessions, tutorials and workshops. The conference will feature three symposia on: Communications, Networks and Signal Processing. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

Prospective authors are encouraged to submit their original research contributions to the following three symposia:

  1. COMMUNICATIONS

  2. NETWORKS

  3. SIGNAL PROCESSING

This CFP focuses on the NETWORKS symposium. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  •         Adhoc mobile networks
  •         Addressing & location management
  •         Broadband access technologies
  •         Capacity planning
  •         Cellular & broadband wireless networks, including WiMAX, 3G, 4Gs
  •         Congestion control
  •         Content distribution
  •         Cross layer design and optimization
  •         Cyber-physical computing/networking
  •         Denial of service
  •         Delay/disruption tolerant networks
  •         Future Internet design
  •         Implementation & experimental testbeds
  •         India-centric networking challenges and solutions
  •         Middleware support for networking
  •         Mobility models & systems
  •         Multicast & anycast
  •         Multimedia protocols and networking
  •         Network applications & services
  •         Network architectures
  •         Network control
  •         Network management
  •         Network simulation and emulation
  •         Novel network architectures
  •         Optical networks
  •         Peer-to-peer communications
  •         Performance evaluation
  •         Power control and management
  •         Pricing & billing
  •         Resource allocation & management
  •         Rural networking and applications
  •         Routing protocols
  •         Scheduling & buffer management
  •         Security, trust & privacy
  •         Self-organizing networks
  •         Sensor nets & embedded systems
  •         Service overlays
  •         Switches & switching
  •         Topology characterization & inference
  •         Traffic measurement and analysis
  •         Traffic engineering & control
  •         Virtual & overlay networks
  •         Web services & performance
  •         Wireless mesh networks and protocols

PAPERS:

Prospective authors are encouraged to submit full paper(s) for review. Only original papers which have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere will be considered. Please visit the conference website (http://www.ncc.org.in/ncc2010) for more details. Submission of papers is online via the Easy Chair website (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ncc2010). All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

This conference is being held under the technical co-sponsorship of IEEE ComSoc Society. Authors of accepted papers will have to sign the IEEE copyright form for the paper to appear on the IEEExplore.ieee.org site. Further, all accepted papers should comply with IEEE format requirement. The maximum manuscript length is five (5) A4 size pages. Template files for LaTeX (preferred format) and MSWord are available at the conference website.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Last date for paper submission:

02 October 2009

Acceptance notification:

20 November 2009

Last date for Camera ready paper:

18 December 2009

Deadline for registration:

1 January 2010
Last date for proposal for pre conference tutorial and workshop: 13 September 2009

Last date for proposal for pre conference tutorial and workshop: 13 September 2009

Networks Symposium TPC:

  Chair: Dr. Krishna Moorthy Sivalingam, IIT Madras  skrishnam at iitm dot ac dot in
  Co-Chairs: Dr. R. Manivasakan, IIT Madras  rmani at ee dot ac dot in
    Dr. Gaurav Raina, IIT Madras gaurav at cse dot iitm dot ac dot in

For additional information, please contact any of the above Chairs.