CFP: QShine 2009

[Simone Silvestri]

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Call For Papers

***   QSHINE 2009   ***

The Sixth International ICST Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for 
Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness

Sponsored by ICST

23-26 November 2009, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

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More information is available at the URL http://www.qshine.org
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The Sixth International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for 
Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness (QShine 2009) will focus 
on the research challenges associated to the design and implementation 
of large-scale wired and wireless networks and distributed systems. The 
aim of this conference is to bring together researchers and 
practitioners to present and share the latest results in the areas of 
performance,configuration, cross-layer approaches, scalability, 
resilience and survivability of large scale heterogeneous networks and 
distributed systems. Following the tradition of the previous QShine 
meetings, QShine 2009 will feature prominent invited speakers as well as 
papers by top researchers in the field.

Original papers addressing performance optimization and Quality of 
Service support, ranging from the link layer to the application layer, 
over large-scale wired and wireless networks and distributed system, are 
solicited. Authors are encouraged to submit theoretical and/or 
experimental results of significance. The scope of the conference 
includes, but is not limited to:

    * Quality of Service provisioning in wired and wireless networks and 
distributed systems
    * Design, implementation or architectures related to QoS-enabled 
networks and distributed systems
    * QoS routing in wired, peer-to-peer, overlay, and wireless networks 
and distributed systems
    * QoS-aware service composition in distributed systems
    * QoS in WLAN, WPAN, WMAN and WiMAX (IEEE 802.11/15/16/20)
    * QoS in wireless sensor and ad hoc networks
    * QoS support across heterogeneous wired and wireless sub-networks
    * MAC protocols with QoS support in wireless networks
    * Topology control for QoS support in wireless networks
    * QoS and survivability in mobile environments
    * Scheduling, resource management, queue management, and admission 
control
    * QoS adaptation, modeling and measurements
    * Game-theoretic aspects in wired, peer-to-peer, overlay, and 
wireless networks and distributed systems
    * Incentive engineering in wired, peer-to-peer, overlay, and 
wireless networks and distributed systems
    * Pricing, billing, and resource allocation in wired, overlay and 
wireless networks
    * Traffic analysis, traffic engineering, and traffic shaping in 
heterogeneous environments
    * Security protocols and algorithms in wired, overlay and wireless 
networks
    * Scalability of large-scale overlay and wireless networks
    * Resilience of overlay and wireless protocols
    * Cross-layer protocol design in wireless networks
    * Cross-layer performance optimization for energy, network lifetime, 
and capacity


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

* General co-chairs:   Novella Bartolini, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
                                Sotiris Nikoletseas, University of 
Patras, Greece

* Steering Committee Co-Chairs: Imrich Chlamtac,  Create-Net, Italy
                                Xuemin (Sherman) Shen,  University of 
Waterloo, Canada
                                Xi Zhang, Texas A&M University, USA

* Program chair:        Prasun Sinha, Ohio State University, USA

* Poster chair:            Romit Roy Choudhury, Duke University, USA

* Workshop chair:     Annalisa Massini, Sapienza University, Italy


* Local Committee Co-Chairs:       Alvaro Suarez Sarmiento, University 
of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
                                        Elsa Macias, University of Las 
Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

* Publicity chair:  Simone Silvestri, Sapienza University, Italy

* Conference coordinator:  Maria Morozova, ICST, Belgium



IMPORTANT DATES:

Full Papers due:             May 22, 2009, Friday, 5pm EST
Notification of Acceptance:         July 10, 2009
Camera-ready Manuscripts due:             September 5, 2009
Conference Dates:             23-26 November, 2009



SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

QShine 2009 invites submission of manuscripts that present original 
material and that have not been previously published or under review by 
another conference or journal. Prospective authors are encouraged to 
submit a PDF version of the full paper in ACM conference proceedings 
format, which are limited to 8 single-spaced two-column pages (including 
all figures and references) in a 10 point font.

Authors of submitted papers should select 1 or 2 keywords to allow a 
better classification and assignment of papers to reviewers. All paper 
submissions will be handled electronically through the ASSYST system.



PUBLICATION

All submitted papers will go through a peer review process. All accepted 
papers will be included in the Qshine 2009 Conference Proceedings. All 
accepted papers will be made available in Association for Computing 
Machinery (ACM) Digital  Library and then be indexed by Engineering 
Information (EI). Research papers of particular merit will be selected 
for consideration of fast track publication in a special issue of 
ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (pending).