Advanced International Conference on Telecommunications

AICT 2006

February 19-22, 2006 - Guadeloupe, French Caribbean


Call for Papers

The 2nd Advanced International Conference on Telecommunications (AICT06) continues the AICT05 event held in Lisbon on 2005.

The main track, AICT 2006, covers a variety of challenging telecommunication topics ranging from background fields like signals, traffic, coding, communication basics up to large communication systems and networks, fixed, mobile and integrated, etc. Applications, services, system and network management issues will also receive significant attention.

The second track, SAPIR 2006, covers aspects related to partial and intermittent services (pi-services), i.e., relevant in environments characterized by high volatility and fluctuation of available resources, such as experienced in conjunction with component mobility or ad-hoc networking, where the notion of traditional service guarantees is no longer applicable. P2P, GRID, Clusters, Web Services, Delay Tolerant Networks, Service/Resource identification and localization illustrate aspects where some components and/or services expose features that are neither stable nor fully guaranteed. Examples of technologies exposing similar behavior are WiFi, WiMax, WideBand, UWB, ZigBee, MBWA and others.

The third track on E-learning and mobile learning, ELETE 2006, refers to on-line learning delivered over the World Wide Web via the public Internet or the private, corporate intranet, including mobile learning. It provides an overview of technologies, approaches, and trends that are happening right now. It focuses on the latest trends in e-learning and also on the latest IT technology alternatives that are poised to become mainstream strategies in the near future and will influence the e-learning and mobile learning environments.

The fourth track on teletraffic, TELET 2006, addresses teletraffic modeling and management. It covers traffic theory, traffic control and QoS, performance evaluation methods, network design and optimization of wired and wireless networks, and simulation methodology for communication networks.

We solicit both academic, research, and industrial contributions. AICT 2006 will offer tutorials, plenary sessions, and panel sessions. The AICT 2006 Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society and posted on Xplore IEEE system. A best paper award will be granted by the IARIA’s award selection committee. The Advisory Committee will periodically report special events relating to our community.

TOPICS OF SPECIAL INTEREST (but not limited to)

AICT 2006: Telecommunications

Information theory and coding theory
Communication theory, signal processing, modulation
Optical communications
Designing and management of optical networks
Optical photonic technologies
Networking theory, protocols, and technologies on next generation networking
Broadband communications and networks
Programmable networks, active networks and mobile agents, protocol & standards
Performance and QoS, Traffic engineering (MPLS, DiffServ, IntServ, etc.)
Telecommunication/Network management and services
Broadband access network and service
Network planning and optimization
Real-time traffic and QoS
3G and 4G mobile communication services
Wireless communications antennas & propagation & transmission technologies
Evolution from 2G to 2.5G, 3G and beyond
Personal communications
Wireless multimedia & networks & systems
Cellular and ad hoc networks
Metro/Access networks
Wireless access (WPAN, WLAN, WLL)
Standardization (IEEE 802.15, IEEE 802.16)
Web services communications, applications, and performance
Security and trust in Web Services applications
Platforms for Web Services based applications and services
Communication software and intelligent network theory
Object and component technologies in telecommunication software
Telecommunication protocol engineering and telecommunication software tools
Standardization (IEEE 802.17, Policy Models, etc.)
SOHO (Small Offices/Home Offices)

SAPIR 2006: Service assurance with partial and intermittent resources

Formal models for pi-resources
Pi-resources in ad-hoc, sensor, and overlay networks
Dynamic reconfiguration in ad-hoc networks & dynamic mapping in overlay networks
QoS and SLA violation for pi-services, Service dependency and discovery mechanisms
Physical discovery using smart pi-antenna models, Adaptive time-out discovery protocols
Admission control and prioritization in networks with pi-resources
Application scheduling, Optimal resource allocation
Traffic analysis, P2P traffic analysis, GRID traffic analysis
High availability for networks with pi-resources
P2P and self-adaptable applications
Context-aware and context self-adaptable pi-resources
Frameworks supporting location-aware and context-aware pi-applications
Security, Authentication, Authorization, Trust
User behavioral models for pi-resources
Routing, Bandwidth allocation and control 
Design of network pi-devices and pi-networks
Self-adaptive middleware, Agent-based pi-systems, Cluster networks,
Web-pi-services
Capacity planning under pi-resources
Self-stabilizing pi-resource-based systems
Wireless and mobile networks (WiFi/WiMax/WideBand/UWB/ZigBee/MBWA)
Management of intermittent resources, Service rating and billing
Self-detection, self-isolation, and self-healing with pi-resources
Metering and performance evaluation in pi-resource-based systems
Fault identification in systems with pi-resources

ELETE  2006: E-learning and mobile learning on telecommunications

Architecture of learning technology systems
Advanced uses of multimedia and hypermedia
Technologies and architectures for mobile learning
Curriculum and training for mobile teaching and learning
Systems for mobile learning and teaching
Virtual mobile learning and collaborative mobile learning
Privacy and security in mobile learning systems
Social, administrative and organizational requirements for mobile learning
Services and applications of mobile technology in global education
Integrated learning and educational environments
National and international projects on e-learning and telecommunications
Remote and wireless teaching technologies
Navigational aspects for learning
e-Learning industry and universities programs
Anytime/anywhere e-learning and wearable network devices
Tutoring e-learning applications and services
Cost models for e-learning on telecommunications 
Satellite technologies for e-learning
Teaching e-learning methodologies and technologies
Adaptive e-learning and intelligent applications/tools
Learner modeling techniques for networked and mobile learning
Agents technology
Training e-learning teachers
Practical uses of authoring tools
Application of metadata and virtual reality
Game-based tutoring in e-learning
Collaborative learning/groupware
Intelligent tutoring systems
Internet based systems
Application of instructional design theories
Evaluation of learning technology systems
Methods, standards and devices for on-line laboratories
Standards related activities 

TELET 2006: Teletraffic Modeling and Management

Traffic and performance measurements
Traffic characterization and modeling 
Trends and patterns
Scaling phenomena
Packet and flow level models
Traffic control and QosS
Queuing theory and queuing networks
Performance evaluation
Scheduling and admission control
Reservation and priority mechanisms
Overload control
Broadcast and multicast traffic control
Analytical and numerical analysis
Network design and optimization of wired and wireless networks
Mobility and resource management
Traffic monitoring and management
Traffic engineering in multi-technology networks
Internet traffic engineering
Traffic grooming
Simulation methodology for communications networks
Simulation models and tools

INSTRUCTION FOR THE AUTHORS

The AICT 2006 Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services and on-line via IEEE XPlore Digital Library. IEEE will index the papers with major indexes.

Important dates:

Submission deadline October 16, 2005
Notification November 13, 2005
Camera ready December 1, 2005

Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received papers will be acknowledged via the EDAS system.

The files should be sent via http://www.iaria.org/conferences/SubmitAICT06.html

Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11" (two columns IEEE format), not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found on the Instructions page.

Once you receive the notification of paper acceptance, you will be provided by the IEEE CS Press an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance.

Technical marketing/business/positioning presentations

The conference initiates a series of business, technical marketing, and positioning presentations on the same topics. Speakers must submit a 10-12 slide deck presentations with substantial notes accompanying the slides, in the .ppt format (.pdf-ed). The slide deck will be published in the conference’s CD collection, together with the regular papers. Please send your presentations to petre@iaria.org. 

Tutorials

Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. Proposals can be for half or full day tutorials. Please send your proposals to petre@iaria.org 

Panel proposals:

The organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their guests and manage that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our deadlines. Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the panel, as well as short biographies. 

For more information, petre@iaria.org

Workshop proposals

We welcome workshop proposals on issues complementary to the topics of this conference. Your requests should be forwarded to petre@iaria.org .

AICT INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Tulin Atmaca, Institut National des Télécommunications, France
José Neuman de Souza, UFC, Brazil
Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc. USA
Mike Fisher, BT, UK
Claude Frasson, Université de Montréal, Canada
Pascal Lorenz, Université de Haute Alsace, France
Radu Popescu-Zeletin, GMD FOKUS, Germany
Pierre Rolin, INT, France
Siegfried Rouvrais, ENST- Bretagne, France
Said Soulhi, Ericsson Research, Canada
Pawel Szulakiewicz, PUT, Poznan, Poland

 
 

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