First Call for Papers

The 8th Conference on Communications Networks and Services Research (CNSR2010) will be held in Montreal, Canada May 11- 14, 2010. This year's conference is a joint venture of the University of New Brunswick (UNB) and McGill University. Enquiries should be directed to cnsr2010@unb.ca

The CNSR conference is an international forum for researchers in all fields of information and communication technologies to present and attend high quality technical papers and presentations, and join discussions with colleagues from over 40 countries. The conference has amassed a long list of distinguished keynotes and panellists. CNSR conferences have received technical co-sponsorship from the IEEE Communications Society and the Association of Computing Machinery and the proceedings have been archived in the IEEE Xplore

CNSR2010 invites technical papers describing original, unpublished research in the field of communications, networks and services from both academic and industrial participants. Topics include, but are not limited to:

* Antenna Systems
* Architectures for Voice/Data Services
* Communication Systems
* Cognitive Radio and Use of Spectrum White Space
* Digital Broadcast Technologies
* Emerging Communication Technologies
* Intelligent Transceiving Architectures
* Optical Networks
* Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
* Signal Processing for Communication
* Software Radios
* Vehicular Technologies

* Ad Hoc Networks
* Broadband Wireless and Access Networks
* Cross-layer Design and Optimization of Networks
* Information and Network Security
* Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems
* Mesh Networks
* Mobile Communication Systems
* Network Data Mining
* Network Management
* Network Quality of Services
* Overlay Networks
* Protocol Design
* Routing for Quality of Service
* Sensor Networks
* Web Data Mining
* Wireless Security

* Adaptive Web Systems
* Critical Infrastructure Protection
* Cloud Computing
* Content Distribution Architectures
* Infrastructure/Platform/Software as a Service
* Multimedia Application Services
* Service Computing
* Service Oriented Architectures
* Traffic Engineering and Modeling
* Utility Computing
* Web Information Management
* Web Services


Manuscripts must not be published or currently under review somewhere else. Submission instructions will be posted on the conference website. Selection of the CNSR2010 best paper award will be based on technical contribution