TRIDENTCOM 2012 - 8th International ICST Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities

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Category Communication; Internet and World Wide Web; Testbeds; Networking

Deadline: February 01, 2012 | Date: June 11, 2012-June 13, 2012

Venue/Country: Thessaloniki, Greece

Updated: 2012-01-18 21:22:16 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

11-13 June 2012

Thessaloniki, Greece

www.tridentcom.org

SCOPE OF CONFERENCE

The 8th International ICST Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities will be held in Thessaloniki, Greece, 11-13 of June 2012, with the vision to bring together technical experts and researchers from academia, industry and government from all around the world to discuss experimental research infrastructures of the Future Internet.

TOPICS

Prospective authors are invited to submit high quality papers reporting results on activities related to the establishment of the research experimental infrastructures of the Future Internet. In particular, the focus of the conference is on experimentation such as testing, verification, deployment, integration, management and federation of testbed facilities as well as experimentation oriented research based on implementation of novel schemes on research testbeds, including, but not limited to:

- Wired and wireless testbeds

- Ubiquitous network and sensor testbeds

- Monitoring in large scale testbeds

- Experimental facilities for large scale testbeds

- Large scale testbed federation

- Global connection and cooperation of heterogeneous testbeds

- Testbed and experimental equipment

- Next Generation Internet testbeds

- Next Generation optical network testbeds

- Testbed operation & management

- Innovative measurements methodologies & tools

- Testbed virtualization

- GRID, P2P and overlay testbeds

- Smart home and converged communication and multimedia services testbeds

- Configurable hardware/software platforms for testbeds

- Testbed tools for interoperability and benchmarking

PUBLICATION

All submitted contributions will undergo peer review. Accepted papers will be presented at the conference and published in the TridentCom Conference Proceedings and by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes of ICST (LNICST). The proceedings will be available both in book form and via the SpringerLink digital library, which is one of the largest digital libraries online and covers a variety of scientific disciplines. LNICST volumes are submitted for inclusion to leading indexing services, including DBLP, Google Scholar, ACM Digital Library, ISI Proceedings, EI Engineering Index, CrossRef, Scopus and Zentralblatt Math, as well as ICST's own EU Digital Library (EUDL).

PAPER SUBMISSION

Regular papers are allowed up to 16 pages including all figures, tables and references. Papers should comply with the Springer LNICST format. For detailed submission instructions, please visit the conference website (http://www.tridentcom.org/2012/submission).

WORKSHOP/TUTORIAL TRACK PROPOSALS

Proposals for workshop/tutorial tracks are solicited. Potential organizers are welcome to submit proposals to the respective Chairs.

DEMO/POSTER PROPOSALS

An exciting demo/poster section will demonstrate the latest trends on testbeds experimentation and implementation. Potential presenters are welcome to submit their work to the respective Chairs.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline: 1 Feb 2012

Notification deadline: 30 March, 2012

Camera-ready submission deadline: 30 April, 2012

Workshop/Tutorial proposal deadline: 15 January 2012

Demo/Poster proposal deadline: 15 March 2012

Conference date: 11-13 June, 2012

CONFERENCE COMMITTEES

General Chair

Thanasis Korakis, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, USA - University of Thessaly, Greece

TPC Chairs

Max Ott, National ICT Australia

Michael Zink, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

Poster/Demo Chair

Ivan Seskar, Rutgers University, USA

Workshop/Tutorial Chair

Leandros Tassiulas, University of Thessaly, Greece

Student Travel Grant Chair

Serge Fdida, UPMC, France

Publication Chair

Gentian Jakllari, Université de Toulouse, France

Publicity Chairs

Timur Friman, UPMC, France

Aki Nakao, University of Tokyo, Japan

Web Chair

Stratos Keranidis, Center for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH), Greece

Local Arrangements Chair

Stavroula Maglavera, Center for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH), Greece

EAI Conference Manager

Matteo Fuoli, EAI, Italy

Steering Committee

Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net, Univ. Trento, Italy

Thomas Magedanz, TU Berlin, Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany

Csaba A. Szabo, BUTE, Hungary