Prospective authors from both academia and industry are invited to submit high quality papers in two categories, Full Papers and Testbed Practices Papers, as well as demonstration proposals reporting on all aspects of testbed and research infrastructure operation and management, including, but not limited to:

Next Generation Internet and Clean Slate Protocol Stack Testbeds
GRID Testbeds and P2P Testbeds
Automonic Communications and Self-managing Network Testbeds
Next Generation Wireless Network Testbeds
Next Generation Optical Network Testbeds
Ubiquitous Network and Seamless Services Testbeds
End System and Sensor Testbeds
Smart Home and Converged Communication and Media Services Testbeds
SOA/Web 2.0 Services Testbeds
Next Generation Services Testbeds
Service Creation and Provisioning Testbeds
Next Generation Networks, IMS, and Quad Play Testbeds
Configurable Hardware/Software Platforms for Testbeds
Testbed Tools for Interoperability, Benchmarking and Traffic Measurements
Innovative Measurements Methodologies and Tools for Networks and Services
Industrial informatics
Wireless industrial communications
Networked industrial automation

The conference proceedings will be published as Springer LNICST electronically as well as in hard copy. The proceedings will be accessible via LNICST's dedicated website, which is coming soon. Authors are invited to submit Full Papers of up to 10 pages and Testbed Practices Papers of up to 6 pages, including references, figures and tables, formatted according to the LNICST format. Submission and format instructions are available on the website: http://www.tridentcom.org


Important Dates
Papers due (to be received by): October 1, 2008
Demo proposals due: November 1, 2008
Notification of acceptance: December 15, 2008
Submission of camera-ready papers: January 15, 2009