CALL FOR PAPERS

Networking 2012, the 11th event of the series of International
Conferences on Networking, sponsored by the IFIP Technical Committee on
Communication Systems (TC6).

May 21-25, 2012 - Prague, Czech Republic

Conference web: http://networking2012.cvut.cz/
Call for Papers (PDF):
http://networking2012.cvut.cz/shared/Networking2012_CFP.pdf

Important Dates
Abstract Registration: November 28, 2011
Full Paper Submission: December 12, 2011
Acceptance Notification: February 13, 2012
Camera Ready: February 27, 2012


As part of conference: 40th anniversary of IFIP TC6
Distinguished research leaders commemorate years of exciting discovery
and rising stars of the networking community share their outlook on the
past and future. Speakers: Louis Pouzin, Vinton G. Cerf (tbc), Jon
Crowcroft, Pablo Rodriguez Rodriguez, Dina Katabi and Adam Dunkels.


Topics:

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE
peer-to-peer networks, virtual and overlay networks, cloud-computing
architecture, network management and traffic engineering, internet of
things, addressing and routing architectures, evolution of IP network
architecture and protocols, green networking (energy and power
management), performance measurement, monitoring and traffic analysis,
resilient networks (fault tolerance, network recovery, self-*),
cross-layer design and optimization, mobility (user, device, service,
network), content-centric networks, broadband access technologies,
resource allocation, switching and routing, network virtualization

APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES
social networks, web architectures and protocols, middleware support for
networking, quality of experience, pricing and billing, authentication,
security, trust and privacy, anomaly detection, DoS detection and
mitigation, content distribution, advertising and media networks,
assistive networking, disaster-recovery networks, networking support for
SmartGrids

WIRELESS AND SENSOR NETWORKS
ad-hoc networks, mobile networks, cellular networks, sensor networks,
mesh networks, delay/disruption tolerant networks, opportunistic
networks, embedded systems, RFID-based systems, network-based
positioning and localization

NETWORK SCIENCE
network complexity, network neutrality, topology characterization and
inference, network modeling, robustness and vulnerabilities of network
infrastructures, emergence properties of real networks, dynamic
peer-to-peer network topologies, epidemic spread models, user behavior
inference, tools and techniques to design and analyze networks,
community detection and modularity optimization, game theoretic
approaches to communications and networks


Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by
Springer, in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.
http://www.springer.com/lncs
Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for fast track
publication in the Elsevier Computer Communications Journal.
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/525440/description

Organizers:

TPC Chairs
Li Erran Li, Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Joerg Widmer, Institute IMDEA Networks, Spain
Hao Yin, Tsinghua University, China

General Chairs
Robert Bestak, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Lukas Kencl, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

Steering Committee
George Carle, TU Munich, Germany
Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Pisa, Italy
Pedro Cuenca, Universidad de Castilla-la-Mancha, Spain
Guy Leduc, University of Liege, Belgium
Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University, USA