The 17th IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICON2011) will be held in Singapore. One day of tutorials and two days of technical presentations are planned for the conference. The conference will also include invited speakers and poster presentations. ICON2011 will provide an open forum for researchers, engineers and academia to exchange the latest innovations and research advancements on next-generation computer network architectures, protocols and algorithms (wired, wireless, ad-hoc, mesh, sensor), content networking and multimedia delivery technologies, as well as centralized and distributed networked systems, applications and services. Contributions describing original research, surveys and applications are solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

Application-layer protocols
Content distribution networks
Distributed multimedia systems
DLNA, uPnP and inter-networking
Flow and congestion control
Home LAN, Body and Personal Area Networks
Media and session handoffs and roaming
Multicasting and application-level routing
Multimedia networks and delivery
Network architectures and middleware
Network fault-tolerance, reliability
Network I/O and storage area networks
Network pricing and billing
Networking issues for multimedia, web and gaming applications
Networking issues in cloud platforms and data delivery
Next-generation networks
Novel networked systems, applications and services
Peer-to-peer and overlay networking
Quality of service / quality of experience
Resource and service discovery technologies
Routing, switching and addressing
Scalable media streaming protocols
Scheduling & resource management
Tools and techniques for network simulation and measurement
Traffic engineering and management
Wireless, mobile, ad hoc, mesh, sensor, optical and photonics networks