The 28th Annual Conference of the IEEE Communications Society

April 19-25, 2009, Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL

The IEEE INFOCOM 2009 conference seeks papers describing significant research contributions to thefield of computer and data communication networks. We invite submissions on network architecture, design, implementation, operations, analysis, measurement, performance, and simulation.

Topics of interest

Ad hoc mobile networks
Addressing & location management
Broadband access technologies
Capacity planning
Cellular & broadband wireless nets
Congestion control
Content distribution
Cross layer design and optimization
Cyber-physical computing and networking
Denial of service
Delay/disruption tolerant networks
Future Internet design
Implementation & experimental testbeds
Middleware support for networking
Mobility models & systems
Multicast & anycast Multimedia protocols & networking
Network applications & services
Network architectures
Network control
Network management
Network simulation & emulation
Novel network architectures
Optical networks
Peer-to-peer networks
Performance evaluation
Power control & management
Pricing & billing
Resource allocation & management Routing protocols
Scheduling & buffer management;
Security, trust, & privacy
Self-organizing networks
Sensor nets & embedded systems
Service overlays
Switches & switching
Topology characterization & inference
Traffic measurement and analysis
Traffic engineering, & control
Virtual & overlay networks
Web services & performance
Wireless mesh networks and protocols

Important Dates

Paper registration: August 22, 2008
Full paper due: August 29, 2008
Notification of acceptance: December 22, 2008

Preliminary Organizing Committee:

General Co-Chairs
- J. Roberto Boisson de Marca (PUC-RJ, Brazil)
- Jim Kurose (UMASS, USA)

Financial Chair
- Célio Albuquerque (UFF, Brazil)

Local Arrangements Chair
- Rosa Leão (UFRJ, Brazil)

Publicity Chair
- Jussara Almeida (UFMG, Brazil)

Networking Facilities Chair
- José Rezende (UFRJ, Brazil)

Technical Program Co-Chairs
- Edmundo de Souza e Silva (UFRJ, Brazil)
- Thomas Hou (Virginia Tech, USA)
- Don Towsley (UMASS, USA)

Techical Program Vice-Chair for Information Systems (EDAS)
- Daniel Figueiredo (UFRJ, Brazil)

Publication Chair
- Artur Ziviani (LNCC, Brazil)

- Tutorial and Panels Co-Chairs:
Nelson Fonseca (UNICAMP, Brazil)
José A. Suruagy Monteiro (UNIFACS, Brazil)

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