CALL FOR PAPERS
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Special Section on
"Deployment and Operation of New Internet Technology: Challenges and Approaches"

Submission Deadline: December 1, 2010 (HARD DEADLINE)
http://www.ieice.org/eng/s_issue/cfp/2011_8EB.pdf

The IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication
Engineers) Transactions on Communications announces a coming special
section on “Deployment and Operation of New Internet Technology:
Challenges and Approaches” to be published in August 2011.
The purpose of this special section is to exchange recent information
and to promote research, development for deployment and operation of new
Internet technologies and their advanced applications for sustainable
growth of the Internet. Emphasized topics include testbed, field trial,
and standardization of new Internet technologies. The special section
solicits paper submission from all people engaged in this field.

Scope: Scopes of the special section include, but are not limited to,
the followings:
・Testbed, Field trial, Standardization of new Internet technologies
・Protocol (IPv6, transport, transition), Routing, Addressing, DNS, DHT, Overlay, P2P
・Mobile, Wireless Internet
・Internet security, Internet operation/management/measurement
・Internet traffic/QoS
・Virtualization, Distributed network, Scale out technology, High-reliability, Fault-tolerance
・Internet application（Streaming, Social-media, Social-network）

The standard number of pages is 8 for a PAPER and 2 for a LETTER. The
maximum number of pages for the initial submission of a LETTER is 4. The
page charges are considerably higher for extra pages. Manuscripts should
be prepared according to the guideline in the "Information for Authors".
The latest version is available at the web site,
http://www.ieice.org/eng/shiori/mokuji_cs.html.
The term for revising the manuscript after acknowledgement of conditional
acceptance for this special section could be shorter than that for regular
issues (60 days) because of the tight review schedule. Papers will be
accepted only by electronic submission. Prospective authors are requested
to follow carefully the submission process described below.

1. Submit a manuscript and electronic source files (TeX/Word files,
figures, authors’ photos and biography) for publishing using the IEICE
Web site https://review.ieice.org/regist_e.aspx by December 1, 2010
(HARD DEADLINE). Authors should choose the [Special-EB] Deployment and
Operation of New Internet Technology: Challenges and Approaches as a
"Type of Issue (Section)/Category of Transactions" on the online screen.
Do not choose [Regular-EB].

2. “Copyright Transfer and Page Charge Agreement” and “Confirmation
Sheet of Manuscript Registration” must be sent by E-mail, FAX or postal
mail to the following address (guest editor of the special section) by
the above due date. There is a possibility that we shall withdraw the
manuscript without receiving them by the deadline, even if we have
received the manuscript by electronic submission. For additional
guidelines on manuscript preparation, please visit the web-page:
http://www.ieice.org/eng/shiori/mokuji_cs.html

Hiroshi Mineno
Department of Computer Science, Shizuoka University
Address: 3-5-1 Johoku, Naka-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 432-8011, Japan
TEL/Fax: +81-53-478-1491, E-mail: ia-eb11-sec@mail.ieice.org

Special Section Editorial Committee:
Guest Editor-in-Chief: Keisuke ISHIBASHI (NTT)
Guest Editors: Yoshinori KITATSUJI (KDDI Labs.), Hiroshi Mineno (Shizuoka Univ.)
Guest Associate Editors:
Shingo ICHII (Univ. of Tokyo)，Eiji KAWAI (NICT), Kazuyuki Shudo (Tokyo Tech.),
Hiroki TAKAKURA （Nagoya Univ.），Fumio TERAOKA (Keio Univ.), Kensuke FUKUDA (NII)，
Hiroshi YAMAMOTO (Nagaoka Univ. of Tech.), Yuji SEKIYA (Univ. of Tokyo),
Kenji FUJIKAWA (NICT), Kenichi YOSHIDA (Univ. of Tsukuba)

* Please note that if accepted, all authors, including authors of invited
paper, are requested to pay for the page charges covering partial cost
of publications. Authors will receive 50 copies of reprints.

* At least one of the authors must be an IEICE member when the
manuscript is submitted for review. Invited papers are an exception. We
recommend that authors unaffiliated with IEICE apply for membership. For
membership applications, please visit the web-page,
http://www.ieice.org/eng/member/OM-appli.html