========================================================================= Call for Papers 14th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2006) Santa Barbara, California, USA November 12 - 15, 2006 ICNP 2006, the fourteenth IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, is a single-track conference covering all aspects of network protocols including design, analysis, specification, verification, implementation, and performance. ICNP 2006 will be held in Santa Barbara, California, USA on Nov. 12-15, 2006. Papers describing significant research contributions to the field of network protocols are solicited for submission. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Protocol testing, analysis, design and implementation - Measurement and monitoring of protocols - Protocols designed for specific functions, such as: routing, flow and congestion control, QoS, signaling, security, and resiliency - Protocols designed for specific networks, such as: wireless and mobile networks, Ad hoc and sensor networks, and ubiquitous networks Papers must be no longer than ten (10) pages in IEEE double-column format with standard margins and at least a 10 point font. They should be formatted for printing on US LETTER (8.5" by 11") size paper. Only electronic submissions will be accepted from the following URL. Papers must be submitted in PDF (Portable Document Format). http://www.ieee-icnp.org/2006/submission.html The details of the paper submission instruction are also shown. Papers cannot be previously published nor under review by another conference or journal. Longer submissions will not be reviewed. Please note the HARD deadline for registering the title and the abstract of the paper: 11:59pm Pacific Standard Time (PST), May 9, 2005. The deadline for submitting the actual paper (that has already been registered) is May 16, 2005, 11:59pm PST. ---------------------- Important Dates ---------------------- - Paper registration : May 9, 2006 - Paper submission : May 16, 2006 - Notification of acceptance : July 21, 2006 - Camera ready version : August 11, 2006 ---------------------- Conference Organizers ---------------------- Executive Committee : David Lee, Ohio State University, USA (chair) Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Tech, USA Ken Calvert, University of Kentucky, USA Teruo Higashino, Osaka University, Japan Raymond Miller, University of Maryland, USA Organizing Committee : General Chair : Kevin C. Almeroth, University of California Santa Barbara, USA Vice General Chair : David Yau, Purdue University, USA Program Chair : Teruo Higashino, Osaka University, Japan Panel Chair : Michalis Faloutsos, University of California, Riverside,USA Local Arrangement Chair : Elizabeth Belding, University of California Santa Barbara, USA Web Chair : Ben Zhao, University of California Santa Barbara, USA Publicity Chair : Supratik Bhattacharyya, Sprint Advanced Technology Laboratories, USA Poster Chair: Sonia Fahmy, Purdue University, USA Technical Program Committee : Sudhir Aggarwal, Florida State University, USA Kevin Almeroth, UC Santa Barbara, USA Ehab Al-Shaer, DePaul University, USA Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Tech., USA Anish Arora, The Ohio State University, USA Bobby Bhattacharjee, Univ. of Maryland, USA Bob Briscoe, British Telecom & UCL, UK Ken Calvert, University of Kentucky, USA Guohong Cao, Penn. State University, USA Ana Cavalli, Institut National des Telecommunications, France Shigang Chen, University of Florida, USA Chan Mun Choon, National University of Singapore, Singapore Jorge Cobb, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Reuven Cohen, Technion, Israel John Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK Magda El Zarki, UC Irvine USA Cristian Estan, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Sonia Fahmy, Purdue university, USA Michalis Faloutsos, UC Riverside, USA Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas at Austin, USA Timothy G. Griffin, University of Cambridge, UK Jim Griffioen, University of Kentucky, USA Roland Groz, INPG-ENSIMAG Lab, France Carl A. Gunter, UIUC, USA Takahiro Hara, Osaka Univ. Japan Ahmed Helmy, USC/ISI, USA Jennifer C. Hou, UIUC, USA Raj Jain, Washington University in St. Louis, USA Kevin Jeffay, UNC, Chapel Hill, USA Shudong Jin, Case Western Reserve University, USA Yoshiaki Kakuda, Hiroshima City Univ., Japan Harmut Koenig, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany Sandeep Kulkarni, Michigan State University, USA Tom La Porta, Penn. State University, USA T. V. Lakshman, Lucent Bell Labs, USA David Lee, The Ohio State University, USA Wang-Chien Lee, Penn. State University, USA Baochun Li, Univ. of Toronto, Canada Li (Erran) Li, Lucent Bell Labs, USA Victor O. K. Li, The Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Jorg Liebeherr, University of Virginia, USA Yow-Jian Lin, Telcordia Technologies, USA John C.S. Lui, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Ibrahim Matta, Boston University, USA Raymond Miller, Univ. of Maryland, USA Kihong Park, Purdue University, USA Thomas Plagemann, University of Oslo, Norway K. K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T Research, USA Jonathan Shapiro, Michigan State University, USA Hiroshi Shigeno, Keio Univ., Japan Raghupathy Sivakumar, Georgia Tech., USA Peter Steenkiste, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Terry Todd, McMaster University, Canada Joe Touch, USC/ISI, USA Jon Turner, Washington University in St. Louis, USA Hasan Ural, University of Ottawa, Canada Takashi Watanabe, Shizuoka Univ., Japan Thomas Woo, Bell Labs, USA Jianping Wu, Tsinghua Univ., China Dong Xuan, The Ohio State University, USA Hirozumi Yamaguchi, Osaka University, Japan Keiichi Yasumoto, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan David Yau, Purdue University, USA Bulent Yener, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), USA Lixia Zhang, UCLA, USA Zhi-Li Zhang, Univ. of Minnesota, USA Ben Y. Zhao, UC Santa Barbara, USA Steering Committee : Simon Lam, University of Texas, USA (co-chair) David Lee, Ohio State University, USA (co-chair) Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Tech, USA Ken Calvert, University of Kentucky, USA Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas, USA Teruo Higashino, Osaka University, Japan Mike T. Liu, Ohio State University, USA Raymond Miller, University of Maryland, USA Krishan Sabnani, Bell Labs, USA Further Information : Web site: http://www.ieee-icnp.org/2006/ E-mail: icnp2006-org AT cs.ucsb.edu =======