Call for Papers

ICNP is a highly selective single-track conference covering all aspects of network protocols including design, analysis, specification, verification, implementation, and performance. On its thirteenth anniversary, ICNP 2005 will return to Boston, the Intellectual Hub of the Universe, where it will be held in the historic Backbay area.

Papers describing significant research contributions to the field of network protocols are solicited for submission. Papers must be neither previously published nor under review by another conference or journal. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Protocol testing & analysis                 
Protocol design & implementation
Network measurement & monitoring  
Security & resiliency
Peer-to-peer / Overlay protocols  
Routing protocols
Wireless & mobile networks               
Ad hoc & sensor networks
QoS & signaling 
Flow & congestion control                           
Multimedia                                        
Distributed gaming

ICNP 2005 will feature:
 

- Best paper award
- Best papers forwarded to IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
- Keynote speech by Larry Peterson, Professor and Chair
                              of Computer Science at Princeton University
- Pre-conference workshops and tutorials
- Student poster session for ongoing work
- Travel grant program for students and minorities

Details will be posted on the conference web site as they become available.  

IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper registration:  May 6, 2005 (5pm PST)
Paper submission:  May 12, 2005 (11:59pm PST)
Tutorial proposal deadline:  June 3, 2005
Notification of acceptance:  July 15, 2005
Camera ready version:  August 5, 2005

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Tech, USA
Ken Calvert, University of Kentucky, USA
Teruo Higashino, Osaka University, Japan
David Lee, The Ohio State University, USA (chair)
Raymond Miller, University of Maryland, USA

STEERING COMMITTEE

Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Tech, USA
Ken Calvert, University of Kentucky, USA
Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas, USA
Teruo Higashino, Osaka University, Japan
Simon Lam, University of Texas, USA (co-chair)
David Lee, The Ohio State University, USA (co-chair)
Mike T. Liu, The Ohio State University, USA
Raymond Miller, University of Maryland, USA
Krishan Sabnani, Bell Labs, USA

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

GENERAL CHAIRS:

Azer Bestavros, Boston University, USA
Jim Kurose, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA

PROGRAM CHAIRS:

Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Ibrahim Matta, Boston University, USA

PANEL & TUTORIAL CHAIRS:

Debanjan Saha, IBM research, USA
Nina Taft, Intel Research, USA

PUBLICITY CHAIR:

Milind Buddhikot, Bell Labs, USA

STUDENT POSTER CHAIR:

Michalis Faloutsos, University of California at Riverside, USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Sudhir Aggarwal, Florida State U.

Kevin Almeroth, UC Santa Barbara

Paul Amer, U. of Delaware

Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Tech

Anish Arora, Ohio State U.

Ehab Al-Shaer, DePaul U.

Chadi Barakat, INRIA, France

Bobby Bhattacharjee, U. Maryland
Supratik Bhattacharyya, Sprint Labs

Milind Buddhikot, Bell Labs

John Byers, Boston U.

Andrew Campbell, Columbia U.

Ana Cavalli, INT, France

Jorge Cobb, U. Texas at Dallas

Mootaz Elnozahy, IBM Austin Research Lab

Magda El Zarki, UC Irvine

Sonia Fahmy, Purdue university

Michalis Faloutsos, UC Riverside

Tim Griffin, Intel Research Cambridge

Liang Guo, Motorola Labs

Khaled Harfoush, NCSU

Teruo Higashino, Osaka University

Jennifer Hou, UIUC

Shudong Jin, Case Western Reserve U.

Sandeep Kulkarni, Michigan State U.

Ahmed Helmy, USC/ISI

Chin-Tser Huang, U. South Carolina

Kevin Jeffay, U. North Carolina at Chapel Hill

TV Lakshman, Lucent,  Bell Labs

Simon Lam, U. Texas at Austin

David Lee, Ohio State U.

Wang-Chien Lee, Penn State U.

Nick Maxemchuk, Columbia U.

Klara Nahrstedt, UIUC

Prashant Pradhan, IBM

Kihong Park, Purdue U.

Sambit Sahu, IBM
Medy Yahya Sanadidi, UCLA
Udaya Shankar, U. Maryland

Michael Smirnov, FOKUS, Germany

Ioannis Stavrakakis, U. Athens, Greece
Peter Steenkiste, CMU

Terry Todd, McMaster University, Canada

Don Towsley, Umass Amherst

Joe Touch, USC/ISI

Hasan Ural, U. of Ottawa, CA

Geoffrey Xie, Naval Post Graduate School

Richard Yang, Yale U.

David Yau, Purdue U.

Zhi-Li Zhang, U. Minnesota

Lixia Zhang, UCLA

Ty Znati, NSF and U. Pittsburg

FURTHER INFORMATION:

Web site: http://csr.bu.edu/icnp2005

E-mail: icnp2005-org AT cs.bu.edu

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