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                 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                     IEEE BROADNETS 2007

      The Fourth International Conference on Broadband
           Communications, Networks, and Systems

                Millennium Hotel Durham
		2800 Campus Walk Avenue
		Durham, NC, USA 27705-4479
                  Sep. 10 - Sep. 13, 2007

              URL: http://www.broadnets.org/2007

                     CO-SPONSORED BY:
        IEEE Communications Society (www.comsoc.org)
               Create-Net (www.create-net.org)

           Early Registration Ends Aug. 10, 2007

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SCOPE
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IEEE BROADNETS 2007 is an international conference focusing on broadband
communications, networks, and systems and covers the entire gamut of
next generation networks, communications systems, applications and
services. The conference will consist of three symposia: 

- Wireless Communications, Networks and Systems Symposium: 
Covers Mobility, Routing for multihop, Architecture and topology design,
Hybrid networks, Multimedia QoS and traffic management, Cross-layer
optimization, MAC and emerging physical layer technologies (UWB, MIMO)
for high-speed wireless networking

- Optical Communications, Networks and Systems Symposium: 
Covers WDM technologies, Ethernet and MPLS integration into the optical
layer, Next-Generation SONET/SDH, Optical and WDM communications
systems, Cross-layer design, SAN extensions, Optical grids,
Techno-economic aspects of optical networks

- Internet Technologies Symposium: 
Covers theory and practice of Internet technologies covering a broad range of
topics including, but not limited to: Routing, Scheduling, Congestion
control, Traffic engineering, Network modeling, Network measurement,
Network management, Network QoS, Network security, Overlay networks,
Peer-to-peer networks, Content distribution networks, Web technologies,
Media technologies (VoIP, IPTV, video streaming), Location-based
services; "Clean-slate" Internet architectures, algorithms, protocols,
and services.


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CONFERENCE PROGRAM
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The detailed conference program is available at http://www.broadnets.org/2007/

The conference features:

- 33 papers in the Wireless Communications, Networks and Systems Symposium
- 27 papers in the Optical Communications, Networks and Systems Symposium
- 32 papers in the Internet Technologies Symposium

- Keynote speech: Prof. Arun K. Somani (Iowa State University)
- Invited (Plenary) talks: 
	Prof. Kishore S. Trivedi (Duke University): "Survivability Quantification" 
	Wayne Clark (Cisco Systems): "Grid Computing as a Technology Incubator"
       
- Panels (to be announced soon)

Workshops:

- International Workshop on Optical Burst/Packet Switching
(http://www.obsmeeting.org)

- Workshop on Optical Cross-Layer Design
 (http://www.ece.virginia.edu/~optcom/broadnets/)

Poster/Demo session: 
- http://www.broadnets.org/2007/downloads/BNETS-2007-CFPD.pdf


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CONFERENCE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
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General Co-Chairs  
 Dr. George Rouskas, North Carolina State University 
 Dr. Ioannis Tomkos, Athens Institute of Technology
 
Wireless Symposium Technical Program Chair   
 Dr. Wenye Wang, North Carolina State University
  
Optical Symposium Technical Program Co-Chairs   
 Dr. Ibrahim Habib, City University of New York
 Dr. Mario Pickavet, Ghent University
 
Internet Technologies Symposium Technical Program Co-Chairs   
 Dr. Sonia Fahmy, Purdue University
 Dr. Manimaran Govindarasu, Iowa State University 
  
Panels Chair  Dr. Gigi Karmous-Edwards, MCNC  
   
Workshops Chair   Dr. Srinivasan Ramasubramanian, University of Arizona
  
Demo/Posters Co-Chairs   
 Dr. Shiwen Mao, Auburn University
 Dr. Jing Deng, University of New Orleans 
 
Industry Sponsorship & Exhibits/Demo Chair 
  Dr. Rudra Dutta, North Carolina State University 
  
Publicity Chair Dr. Arunita Jaekel, University of Windsor
  
Publications Chair  Dr. Shiwen Mao, Auburn University
  
Finance Chair Karen Decker, ICST 
    
Conference Organization Chair   Kitti H. Kovacs , ICST 
  
  
Steering Committee Co-Chairs 
  Dr. Imrich Chlamtac, University of Texas at Dallas
  Dr. Krishna Sivalingam, University of Maryland at Baltimore County 
  Dr. Thomas Hou, Virginia Tech
  Dr. Ioannis Tomkos, Athens Information Technology
  Brian J. Bigalke (Staff Liaison) IEEE Communications Society  

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