NEUTRAL 2009 - NEUTRAL 2009, The First International Workshop on Neutral Access Networks

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Category NEUTRAL 2009

Deadline: March 30, 2009 | Date: August 23, 2009

Venue/Country: Cannes, France

Updated: 2010-06-04 19:32:22 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

NEUTRAL 2009 is scheduled to be in 2009 - along with the INTERNET 2009

conference

August 23-29, 2009 / Cannes, C?te d'Azur, France

NEUTRAL 2009: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/NEUTRAL.html

INTERNET 2009: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/INTERNET09.html

Submission deadline: March 30, 2009

INTERNET 2009 is Technically Co-sponsored by IEEE France

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org

Submissions will be peer-reviewed, published by IEEE CPS, posted in IEEE

Digital Library, and indexed with the major indexes.

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals:

http://www.iariajournals.org

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE AUTHORS

The NEUTRAL 2009 papers will be in the INTERNET 2009 Proceedings,

published by IEEE Computer Society Press, and posted on-line via IEEE

XPlore Digital Library. IEEE will index the papers with major indexes.

Important deadlines:

Submission (full paper) March 30, 2009

Notification April 25, 2009

Registration May 10, 2009

Camera ready May 15, 200

Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All

received papers will be acknowledged via an automated system.

Final author manuscripts will be 8.5\" x 11\" (two columns IEEE format), not

exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The

formatting instructions can be found on the Instructions page.

Once you receive the notification of paper acceptance, you will be

provided by the IEEE CS Press an online author kit with all the steps an

author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL

will be included in the letter of acceptance.

Manifesto:

In spite of the exponential growth of IP traffic, there is stagnation in

broadband penetration due both to the lack of suitable access

infrastructures and to the lack of significant demand (large enough to

motivate the investments). The prevailing access model, based on vertical

integration (for operators) and on flat-fee prices (for users), is often

inadequate to overcome the stagnation and to encourage investments and

innovation.

Open access networks (OANs) have been proposed as a means to bridge

digital divide and enhance Internet penetration by enabling a fair

competition among Internet Service Providers (ISPs) on a shared access

infrastructure. The key idea behind OANs is to achieve scope economies by

sharing investments and operating costs by using the access infrastructure

as an intermediate between users and service providers. Many technical

solutions have been proposed in the last years to make the access

infrastructure transparent to the end users. Transparency, however, is not

necessarily a benefit, since it impairs the positive externalities which

is typical of communication networks.

NEUTRAL 2009 deals with the idea of granting positive externalities to the

shared access infrastructure in order to enhance digital inclusion and

broadband penetration by triggering a positive feedback loop among users,

service providers, network operators, and investors. The access

infrastructure can be considered as a network per see, called \"neutral

access network\" ( NAN ), which provides internal services and possibly

exploits its territorial dimension in order to overcome the dichotomy

between \"on-line\" and \"off-line\" people. While in a traditional access

network, people who are not registered with any ISP are left out from the

so called \"information society\", NANs can provide an intermediate area,

which is logically placed \"before the Internet\", where on-line services

and applications can be made available to residential and nomadic users

who are not yet registered with any ISP. In principle, NANs could induce a

significant change in the value creation chain of broadband market, and

promote digital inclusion by allowing all users to enter a NAN and to

approach information technology starting from the services which are

either useful or familiar to them.

Achieving the NAN goal is a multi-faceted problem the solution of which

entails specific competences in the fields of access technologies, network

architectures, network management, distributed applications, traffic

modeling, marketing, behavioral economics, network regulation, and social

sciences.

NEUTRAL 2009 aims to gather the interdisciplinary competences required to

come out with a sound definition of NAN and to make a first step towards

the development of a full-fledged NAN model. NANs raise technical,

economical, legal, and social issues that are worth being systematically

discussed.

We solicit academic, industrial, and institutional contributions

discussing the idea of neutral access network in terms of position papers,

research efforts, protocols, testbeds, case studies, challenges, and

survey papers. Topics of interest (but not limited to) include:

Open access networks

Network neutrality

Operator-neutral residential access technologies

Operator-neutral nomadic access technologies

Operator-neutral mobile access technologies

Operator-neutral CPEs

Internet access regulation

NANs design and management

Multi-gateway traffic management

QoS management in shared infrastructures

Routing and multicast in NANs

Broadband business models for NANs

Broadband pricing models for NANs

Broadband market analysis for NANs

IP traffic models for NANs

Edge routers for NANs

Identity management in NANs

NANS and Digital divide

NANs and Digital inclusion

Inclusive services and applications

NAN testbeds and case studies

Contributions may be /see the site/

Regular papers

Posters

Work in progress

Technical marketing/business/positioning presentations

Tutorials

Panel proposals

For more information:

alessandro.bogliolouniurb.it

petreiaria.org