The trend towards All-IP networks in fixed and mobile domains, also referred to as Next Generation Network (NGN) and Next Generation Mobile Network, and the increasing demand for the efficient support of multimedia services across various wireless and wireline access networks is accelerating globally. For example, with the intended role out of new wireless broadband access networks, such as the Long Term Evolution (LTE) or WiMax, the interworking with existing 3G, 2G and WLAN access networks becomes crucial. Alongside to the evolution of the wireline core network and emergence of new overlay control networks, such as the IP Multimedia System (IMS), also in the wireless domain intelligence is moving out of the different access networks into a common Evolved Packet Core (EPC).

This workshop on Future of Seamless Communications is intended to bring together academia and industry to debate on the research challenges related to integration and interworking of various access network technologies into an evolved packet core as well as the provision of multimedia services, such as voice and video services.

Authors are invited to submit original technical papers covering but not limited to the topics of interest listed below:

• EPC access network integration
• Dynamic Access Network Discovery and Selection
• 3GPP and non-3GPP access network integration challenges
• Cross access network mobility management
• QoS provision across multiple access network domains
• Charging and accounting issues in EPC
• Cross access network security issues and solutions
• Evolved Packet Core OA&M options
• Self organizing networks (SON) in EPC
• Future Internet research impacts on evolved packet core evolution
• EPC rollout and EPC evolution
• Next Generation Mobile Networks standardisation
• Next Generation Mobile Networks and NGN integration options
• Next Generation Mobile Networks prototyping and testbeds
• EPC benchmarking and testing
• Application Function options above EPC and integration into EPC
• Application provision optimization above EPC
• Applications driving Next Generation Mobile Networks adoption
• EPC and IMS interworking / substitution
• Voice service implementation in Next Generation Mobile Networks
• Mobile Cloud Computing


Submission Guidelines

The workshop will only accept original, previously unpublished papers. All papers should be submitted electronically through EDAS at http://edas.info. All papers should be written in English with a maximum length of six printed pages (10-point font). Maximum 2 extra pages are allowed with overlength charge. IEEE conference templates for Microsoft Word or LaTeX formats can be downloaded from http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/pubservices/confpub/AuthorTools/conferenceTemplates.html

An accepted paper must be registered before the registration deadline. An accepted paper must be presented at the workshop. Failure to register before the deadline will result in automatic withdrawal of the paper from the workshop proceedings and the program. All accepted and presented papers will be included in the IEEE GLOBECOM proceedings and IEEE digital library. GLOBECOM has the right to remove an accepted and registered but not presented paper from the IEEE digital library.