CONFERENCE PROGRAM REGISTRATION VENUE VISA

COMMUNICATIONS SOFTWARE AND SERVICES

Symposium Co-Chairs
Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace (lorenz@ieee.org)
Young-Tak Kim, Yeungnam University (ytkim@yu.ac.kr)
Biplab Sikdar, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (sikdab@rpi.edu)
Qian Zhang, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (qianzh@cs.ust.hk)

Sponsoring
Technical Committees
Internet
Communications Software
Network Operation & Management
Multimedia Communications

Scope
The Communications Software and Services Symposium covers challenges and advances for service support and delivery in fixed and mobile communication networks. These topics are particularly relevant for researchers, developers and industries in the areas of networking and services covered by many Technical Committees. The symposium will follow ICC2009 instructions for paper submission, review, and session construction. Papers offering novel research contributions in any aspect of Communications Software and Services are solicited for submission to the symposium.

Topics of Interest

  • Fixed and mobile service platforms
  • Mobile Services and Service Platforms including IMS and advances
  • Fixed Mobile Convergence
  • Home Network Service Platform
  • Triple-Play
  • Multimedia applications and services including VoIP, IPTV, gaming
  • Multimedia delivery over wired and wireless networks
  • Cross-layer optimization for multimedia service support
  • Multimedia multicast and IPTV
  • Multimedia streaming and multimedia delivery systems
  • Multimedia communication over ad-hoc/mesh/sensor networks
  • Peer-to-Peer multimedia streaming and on-demand service
  • Peer-to-Peer technologies for communication services
  • Quality of service (QoS) in multimedia communication
  • Quality of Experience (QoE) for End-to-End Communications
  • Software and Protocol Technologies for advanced service support
  • Web Services and distributed SW technology
  • Distributed systems and applications, including Grid Services
  • Service overlay networks
  • Context Awareness and Personalization
  • Network and Service Management, Provisioning and QoS
  • End-to-end Quality of Service Routing algorithms
  • Service Creation, discovery, delivery and management
  • Network operations and management
  • Security and privacy in network and service management
  • Charging, pricing, business models



Technical Committee

Abdelhafid Abouaissa, University of Haute Alsace
Fatih Alagoz, Bogazici University
Antonios Argyriou, Philips Research
Ali Begen, Cisco Systems
Jalel Ben-othman, Université de Versailles
Paolo Bucciol, Politecnico di Torino
Chang Wen Chen, State University of New York at Buffalo
Naveen Chilamkurti, LaTrobe University   
Stefano Ferretti, University of Bologna
Mario Freire, University of Beira Interior
Yang Guo, Thomson                    
Jarmo Harju, Tampere University of Technology
Markus Kampmann, Ericsson Research     
Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Jung-Shian Li, National Cheng-Kung University Taiwan
Shiguo Lian, France Telecom R&D Beijing 
Weiliang Liu, Qualcomm              
Damien Magoni, University Louis Pasteur  
Jelena Misic, University of Manitoba
Jose Oliver, Technical University of Valencia
Ertan Onur, Delft University of Technology  
Georgios Papadimitriou, Aristotle University
Hamid Sarbazi-Azad, IPM&Sharif University of Technology
Jose-Luis Sevillano, Universidad de Sevilla
Hideki Tode, Osaka Prefecture University
Chonggang Wang, University of Arkansas
Fan Zhai, Texas Instruments
Song Ci, University of Nebraska
Jiang (Linda) Xie, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Jiangchuan Liu, Simon Fraser University
Wenjun Zeng, Univ. of Missouri
Brendan Jennings, TSSG
Christos Bouras, CTI
Said Soulhi, Ericsson
Yangcheng Huang, Ericsson
Rocky K. C. Chang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
El-Sayed El-Alfy, KFUMP

Presentation Style
The Globecom 2009 Technical Program Committee will go through a rigorous process to review all the papers submitted and select the best ones among them. The accepted papers will be presented in the conference either in a lecture style or in a poster style format. This distinction has no relationship with the quality of the accepted papers whatsoever. It is purely due to the limitations of the conference rooms available for lecture style presentations. Papers will be selected for lecture-style or poster-style presentation, solely based on the need to ensure topic homogeneity in lecture-style sessions.   All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and IEEExplore without any indication of the presentation mode.