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           First Announcement and Call for Papers

                International Conference on
Next Generation Teletraffic and Wired/Wireless Advanced Networking (NEW2AN'04)

   Organized by Tampere University of Technology (Finland) and
                  R&D Institute LONIIS (Russia)
   in cooperation with ITC (International Teletraffic Congress),
                      Popov Society and
              IEEE St.Petersburg Communications Chapter 

                     February 02-06, 2004
               R&D LONIIS, St.Petersburg, Russia
                    http://www.new2an.org/

The conference
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Modern multimedia services pose new challenges related to the
treatment of traffic within communication networks.  To build
next-generation telecommunication network, teletraffic theory and
advanced networking must be used.  The conference goal is the
identification and investigation of new models, architectures and
mechanisms to enable a new generation of IP networks.  Special
emphasis will be given to wireless networking, in particular the
handling and delivery of multimedia traffic in 2.5/3G networks.
Results which address collaborative problems between next generation
teletraffic and advanced networking are strongly encouraged. 

Since the middle of the 1990s a sequence of seminars sponsored by
International Teletraffic Congress (ITC) seminars have been
successfully organized by the R&D Institute LONIIS in Saint
Petersburg.  The meeting point between east and west, the experience
of both can be seen and felt in the host country, city and entity - R&D
Institute LONIIS.


Topics
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Paper submissions should address (but not limited to) one of the following topics:

- Next Generation Teletraffic Theory
- Overlay Networks
- Ad-hoc Networks
- 3G and Beyond Networks
- Delivery of Multimedia Traffic over IP in Wired and Wireless Environment
- Always Best Connected
- Horizontal/Vertical/Internal Handover Algorithms
- QoS Provisioning in Wired and Wireless Environment
- Medium access control protocols and scheduling techniques for future wireless systems
- Wireless Protocols
- [Multimedia] Traffic Measurements and Testbeds
- 4G Paradigms
- Applications for Multimedia-enabled Wired And Wireless Networks
- Traffic Engineering & QoS in all-IP Networks
- Multicast networks
- Traffic Classification and Characterization
- Resource Management and Congestion control
- Network Modeling, Simulation, Emulation and Tomography
- Network Planning and Network Engineering
- Authentication, Authorisation and Accounting (AAA)
- Business Models and Tariffing
- HAPs (High altitude Platforms)

Papers and submission
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Authors are invited to submit extended abstracts in English to the
conference. Papers should be not more than 3 single-spaced pages. All
extended abstracts must include a title, complete contact information
for all authors, and keywords on the cover page. The corresponding
author should be identified.

The Authors of accepted extended abstracts will need to produce camera
ready versions of the full papers (no more than 6 IEEE format
camera-ready pages), describing novel perspectives within the general
scope of the conference.

A best paper will be selected based on the quality of full paper and
the presentation.

The papers will be submitted electronically (in PDF format), at the
URL http://www.new2an.org. For further submission instructions contact
new2an@new2an.org or yk@cs.tut.fi for additional information.


Important dates
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Deadline for submissions of Extended Abstract : September 15, 2003
                   Notification of acceptance : October 20, 2003
                         Camera ready version : November 14, 2003
                             Conference dates : February 3-7, 2004

General information
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A registration fee of $400 (full) and $150 (student) will be levied
for the conference. Students are expected to prove their status by
means of identification at the registration. This price will include
the conference attendance, proceedings, lunches, coffee-breaks and a
social program.

Location, accommodation and social program
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A Russian ballet and winter event with traditional Russian meals will
be organized by the local host.

Accommodation
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Info will be available later.

Visa
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Russian Visa support will be provided by LONIIS.


Program Committee
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Khalid Al-Begain           University of Bradford, UK
Konstantin Avratchenkov    INRIA, France
Francisco Barcelo          UPC, Spain
Torsten Braun              University of Bern, Switzerland
Sergei Brusilovsky         LONIIS, Russia
Chrysostomos Chrysostomou  University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Georg Carle                University of Tuebingen, Germany
Giovanni Giambene          Universita degli Studi di Siena, Italy
Ivan Ganchev               Univ. of Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Andrei Gurtov              Univ. of Helsinki, Finland
Vitaly Gutin               Popov Society, Russia
Villy Baek Iversen         Technical Univ. of Denmark, Denmark
Jarmo Harju                Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland
Martin Karsten             Univ. of Waterloo, Canada
Farid Khafizov             Nortel Networks, USA
Denis Khotimsky            Lucent Bell Labs, USA
Yevgeni Koucheryavy        Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland (Chair)
Jae-Young Kim              Purdue University, USA
Kyu Ouk Lee                ETRI, R.Korea
Lemin Li                   Univ. of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Vladimir Lohmotko          LONIIS, Russia
Piet Van Mieghem           Delft Univ. of Technology, Netherlands
Ian Marsh                  SICS, Sweden
Ilka Miloucheva            Salzburg Research, Austria
Edmundo Monteiro           University of Coimbra, Portugal
Mohammad Obaidat           Monmouth University, USA
Mairtin O'Droma            Univ. of Limerick, Ireland
George Pavlou              Univ. of Surrey, UK
Zoya Revelova              LONIIS, Russia
Sergei Semenov             NOKIA, Finland
Manfred Shneps             Russia / Latvia
Mikhail Smirnov            Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany
Ioannis Stavrakakis        Univ. of Athens, Greece
Sergey Stepanov            IPPI RAN / MGTS, Russia
Burkhard Stiller           UniBw Munich, Germany and ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Christian Tschudin         University of Basel, Switzerland
Gennady Yanovsky           State Univ. of Telecommunications, Russia


Organizing Committee               Organizing Committee
Chairman, Honorary Member          Secretary
of Popov Society

Andrei Koucheryavy                 Alexandra Kourbatova
R&D LONIIS, Russia                 R&D LONIIS, Russia