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Message from
the Program Chairs
It is with honor and
privilege that we welcome you at ICNP 2005. On its
thirteenth anniversary, ICNP is back in Boston for the
second time. The first time ICNP was held in Boston was
in 1994 and since then, the reputation of ICNP has
rapidly grown and ICNP has become one of the premier
conferences in the field of computer networking.
The goal of the conference is to present significant
research contributions to the field of network
protocols. The number and the quality of the submissions
remained high, commensurate with the competitive nature
of ICNP. In total we received 212 submissions from all
over the world. During the first phase of the review
process, each submission was assigned to at least three
program committee members. During the second phase, the
program committee members discussed the paper reviews
online to resolve conflicts and reach consensus as much
as possible. In the final phase of the review process,
the program committee met on June 25, in Boston, to
further discuss and make final decisions on the
acceptance of papers. Additional reviews were obtained
during and after the meeting, and so many papers ended
up with a total of four or five reviews. This whole
rigorous review process resulted in over 670 reviews.
Finally, 36 full papers were selected for publication
and presentation at ICNP 2005, resulting in an overall
acceptance rate of about 17%. This means unfortunately
that many high-quality papers could not be accommodated
into the program.
The selected papers constitute a solid program of
stimulating and timely topics on network protocols. They
are organized in sessions on traffic engineering, sensor
and ad-hoc protocols, routing in the Internet and ad-hoc
networks, congestion control, peer-to-peer and overlay
protocols, security and safety, wireless transport, and
protocol implementation and analysis.
The technical sessions are supplemented by a student
poster session, which had a separate call for
submissions and review process. We thank Professor
Michalis Faloutsos of UC Riverside for organizing this
poster session, and also thank other members of the
poster review committee.
In addition, the program features a keynote speech by
Professor Larry Peterson of Princeton University on �A
Strategy for Continually Reinventing the Internet�, and
an invited talk by Darleen Fisher of the National
Science Foundation on "NSF NeTS Initiatives on New
Architectures and Protocols".
For the first time, the program also includes a timely
workshop on "Secure Network Protocols (NPSec)" that is
held together with the tutorials to precede the main
conference. We would like to extend our special thanks
to Professor Sonia Fahmy of Purdue University for
serving as the NPSec 2005 general chair. She had
skillfully put together an outstanding organizing
committee and put in tremendous effort in all aspects,
including producing the NPSec proceedings and ensuring a
successful launch of this first ICNP workshop. We are
thankful to Professor George Kesidis of Pennsylvania
State University and Dr. Nicholas Weaver of the
International Computer Science Institute for serving as
the NPSec 2005 technical program co-chairs, and to all
members of the NPSec 2005 organizing and technical
program committees.
Many thanks go to Dr. Debanjan Saha of IBM research and
Dr. Nina Taft of Intel Research for their hard work in
seeking and reviewing tutorial submissions and putting
together a high-quality and timely tutorial program.
It would have not been possible to put together such a
strong program without the efforts and contributions of
all the authors and speakers, all members of the
steering and technical program committees, and the
additional reviewers. We thank them all.
Last but not least, we would like to extend our special
thanks to the general co-chairs, Professors Azer
Bestavros of Boston University and Jim Kurose of the
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and the
executive committee chair, Professor David Lee of the
Ohio State University, for their support. We also thank
Dr. Milind Buddhikot of Bell Labs for his efforts as
publicity chair, and Chani Johnson of Microsoft for his
tremendous help in setting up and maintaining the
web-based conference management system.
We hope that you will enjoy the ICNP 2005 program and
that you will have some time to enjoy all what Boston
has to offer!
Ibrahim Matta and Mohamed Gouda
ICNP 2005 Technical Program Co-Chairs
FURTHER INFORMATION:
Web site:
http://csr.bu.edu/icnp2005
E-mail:
icnp2005-org AT cs.bu.edu
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