Call for Papers of SAINT2009 Workshop(6) - ConCom 2009

The First International Workshop on Concurrent Communication (ConCom 2009)
In Conjunction with SAINT 2009
Seattle, USA
July 20 - 24, 2009
http://infonet.cse.kyutech.ac.jp/conf/saint09/

CALL FOR PAPER

* THEME OF THE WORKSHOP

Communication pathways of the next generation networks will whiteness
two prevalent relaxations of singularity and persistence. The
relaxation of pathway singularity is related to the parallelism, which
allows data flows to be streamed concurrently. Through concurrency,
the performance contemporary file sharing systems, automatic backup
systems and content distribution networks will achieve exponential
growth. Moreover, concurrency will play a key role in future
bandwidth-intensive applications that involve the transfer of massive
data posing capacity demands reaching Gigabytes and yet Terabytes per
day. Such bandwidth-intensive applications include scientific
experimentations, High-Definition (HD) media distribution,real-time
distance learning, and telemedicine.

Pathway persistence is a fundamental principle, which mandates all
node/link hops to be active and available concurrently during the data
flow transfer.On the other hand, pathway intermittency is relaxation
of this principle,which does not mandate such concurrency. However,
data flow reachability must be guaranteed. Link and Hop intermittency
is now frequently appearing in a number of emergent communication
domains. Link intermittency is a physical characteristic of space
communication networks due to orbital rotation and occlusions. Hop
intermittency is also appearing to be intrinsic to vehicular and
aero-networks. It is believed that it is becoming an important issue
in emerging personal area networks (PAN) well. Intermittency is also
present in peer-to-peer domains. A fundamental feature of P2P is that
bulk of the clients are not logically connected 24/7. Thus, systems
need to provision for online/offline communication. In large volume
content distribution at the macroscopic level, pathways are logically
intermittent, but physically persistent. Such macroscopic
intermittency has been encountered in content distribution networks
(CDN). Large scale media distribution, cooperative backup and large
scale physics/science data distribution applications face such logical
intermittency.

Efficient route scheduling under concurrency and intermittency forms
an interesting research challenge. Classically, route can be computed
with various levels of knowledge. Interestingly, there is a strong
trend towards routing with knowledge about network resources and
circuit demand- especially in high performance and scientific
experimentation network domain. Internet2's Dynamic Circuit Network
(DCN) is one example where large volume connections can be planned
even at optical layer for scheduled massive data
transfers. Furthermore, space communication network and science
networks (such as ESNet) are experimenting with advance scheduling for
efficient and quality assured data transfer. This workshop will
address the key research issues related to architectural and protocol
design of concurrent computation exploiting pathway concurrency and
intermittency at the physical and logical levels. Furthermore, this
works also has special interest in on-demand scheduling-based
communication in this type of networks.

Topics of Interest:

Concurrent Communication Network Architectures

* Distributed Parallel Communication Networks
* Multi-stream transport Networks

On-Demands Scheduling-based Communication in Concurrent Communication
Networks
* On-demand Scheduling-based Communication Networks Architectures
* On-demand Scheduling-based Communication Protocol Architectures
* On-demand Scheduling-based Routing Algorithms
* On-demand Scheduling-based Routing Protocols
* On-demand Scheduling-based Data Transport Algorithms
* On-demand Scheduling-based Data Transport Protocols
* On-demand Scheduling-based Application Protocols

Intermittent Communication Network Architectures
* Space Communication Networks
* Disruption/Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs)
* Intermittently Connected Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (ICMAN)
* Vehicular Networks (VNets)
* Aerospace Networks (AeroNets)
* Personal Area Networks (PANs)
* Wireless Sensor Forwarding Networks
* Peer-to-Peer Content Distribution Networks CDN's
* Dynamic Circuit Networks (DCNs)

On-Demand Scheduling-based Communication in Intermittent Networks
* On-demand Scheduling-based Communication Networks Architectures
* On-demand Scheduling-based Communication Protocol Architectures
* On-demand Scheduling-based Routing Algorithms
* On-demand Scheduling-based Routing Protocols
* On-demand Scheduling-based Data Transport Algorithms
* On-demand Scheduling-based Data Transport Protocols
* On-demand Scheduling-based Application Protocols

* PAPERS AND AUTHOR'S KIT

Workshop papers should be within 4 pages, no extra page is allowed.The
Proceedings of the Symposium and the Workshops will be published, in
separated volumes, by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Please follow
the instruction on the web below where authors can find Page Form and
appropriate pointers for LaTeX Macros. Please visit SAINT 2009 Website
(http://infonet.cse.kyutech.ac.jp/conf/saint09/) and select )
Information for Authors

* PAPER SUBMISSION

Papers should be submitted on-line through my e-mail address
otahboub[atmark]cs.kent.edu or otahboub[atmark]kent.edu no later than
February 28, 2009. After a review process by Organizers and Program
Committeeof the Workshop, authors of accepted papers will be requested
to send its final manuscript to IEEE-CS press no later than April 30,
2009. So, authors are kindly requested to submit papers as early as
possible to facilitate a review process.

* IMPORTANT DATES

Workshop Paper Submission: Feburary 28, 2009

Workshop Paper Notification: March 31, 2009

Workshop Final Manuscript: April 30, 2009

Author registration due: TBD

Workshop: July 20 - 24, 2009 (exact date is TBD)

* REGISTRATION

It is the IEEE policy that accepted papers can be published only when
IEEE recognized that at least ONE author has completed FULL
registration for presentation. So, authors will be requested to
register along with the final manuscript. SAINT Conference
Registration fees include a copy of the Conference proceedings, a copy
of the Workshop proceedings, and admission to the Conference/Workshop
sessions.

* NOTE

The date and length (a full or half day) of the Workshop will be
decided by SAINT2009 Organizing Committee taking account of the number
submitted of papers, and be notified on the SAINT2009 web. Please also
note that, according to the SAINT2009 Organizing Committee, the
Workshop is subject to cancellation when the number submitted of
papers will not be enough.

* ORGANIZER

* Omar Y. Tahboub, Kent State University (otahboub[atmark]cs.kent.edu)

* PROGRAM COMMITTEE FOR PAPER REVIEW

* Ala Al-Fuqaha, West Michigan University Kalamazoo, USA
* Ali Abu-EI Humos, Jackson State University, USA
* Graciela Perera, Youngstown State University, USA
* Javed I. Khan, Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA
* Jinhua Guo, University of Michigan - Dearborn
* Kathy J. Liszka, University of Akron, OH, USA
* Dr. Muhammad Anan, Purdue University Calumet, USA,
* Min Sik Kim, Washington State University, USA
* Paolo Giaccone, Politecnico di Torino, Italy