Qshine 2007

Call for Papers

OVERVIEW

The Fourth International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness (QShine 2007) will focus on the research challenges associated the design and implementation of large-scale wired and wireless networks and distributed systems. The aim of this conference is to bring together research and practitioners to present and share the latest results in the areas of performance, configuration, cross-layer approaches, scalability, resilience and survivability of large scale heterogeneous networks and distributed systems. Following the tradition of the previous QShine meetings, QShine 2007 will feature prominent invited speakers as well as papers by top researchers in the field.

PAPERS

The QShine program committee solicits original papers describing both experimental and theoretical results that address a wide spectrum of fundamental issues associated with the design and implementation of large scale heterogeneous networks and distributed systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

Quality of Service provisioning in wired and wireless networks and distributed systems
Design, implementation or architectures related to QoS-enabled networks and distributed systems
Scheduling, resource management, queue management, and admission control
Game-theoretic aspects in wired, peer-to-peer, overlay, and wireless networks and distributed systems
Incentive engineering in wired, peer-to-peer, overlay, and wireless networks and distributed systems
QoS routing in wired, peer-to-peer, overlay, and wireless networks and distributed systems
Traffic analysis, traffic engineering, and traffic shaping in heterogeneous environments
Middleware for wired, peer-to-peer, overlay, and wireless networks and distributed systems
QoS-aware service composition in distributed systems
Security protocols and algorithms in wired, overlay and wireless networks

Pricing, billing, and resource allocation in wired, overlay and wireless networks
QoS adaptation, modeling and measurements
Performance optimization in peer-to-peer and overlay networks
Scalability of large-scale overlay and wireless networks
Resilience of overlay and wireless protocols
Cross-layer protocol design in wireless networks
Energy-aware protocols and algorithms in wireless networks
Cross-layer performance optimization for energy, network lifetime, and capacity
Topology control for QoS support in wireless networks
QoS in WLAN, WPAN, WMAN and WiMAX (IEEE 802.11/15/16/20)
QoS support across heterogeneous wired and wireless subnetworks
MAC protocols with QoS support
QoS and survivability in mobile environments

Important Dates for conference papers

Full Papers due:
Notification of Acceptance:
Camera-ready Manuscripts due:
Conference Dates:

postponed to April 2, 2007
May 23, 2007
June 11, 2007
August 14-17, 2007

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Conference language is English. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a PDF version of the full paper in ACM conference proceedings format, which are limited to 7 single-spaced two-column pages (including all figures and refernces) in a 9 point font. All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Please visit the Submission page for detailed submission requirements and procedures.

PUBLICATION

All submitted papers will go through a peer review process. All accepted papers will be included in the Qshine 2007 Conference Proceedings. All accepted papers will be made available in , Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library and then be indexed by Engineering Information (EI). Selected papers from Qshine 2007 will also be recommended to a special issue of a top journal.

WORKSHOPS

QShine 2007 organizing committee invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. The purpose of these workshops is to discuss work in progress and explore opportunities for new research related to quality of service in heterogeneous wired/wireless networks. We solicit proposals from researchers and practitioners from all areas of networking and wireless communications. Topics of a particular interest are:

Innovative cross-layer techniques for wireless systems;
Mobility protocols in hybrid networks;
Heterogeneous sensor networks;
Vehicular ad hoc networks;
Cognitive networking;
Peer-to-peer networking;
Satcom/terrestrial interworking.

A workshop proposal should contain:

A brief description of the specific technical issues that the workshop will address;
The reasons why the workshop is interesting and timely;
A draft call for papers, including the workshop submission deadlines;
Tentative composition of the technical chair and the related committees.

Proposals for workshops should be at most four pages in length and must be submitted to Dr. Giovanni Giambene, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione - Università degli Studi di Siena, by Email: giambene at unisi.it

Important Dates for workshops

Deadline for proposals:
Notification of Acceptance:
Camera-ready Manuscripts due:
Workshops at Qshine Dates:

February 1, 2007
February15, 2007
June 15, 2007
August 14, 2007

Dates & News

Technical Program Updated

Camera-ready Manuscripts
~~June 1, 2008~~
June 10, 2008

Paper Submission Deadline
~~March 10, 2008~~
March 24, 2008

Notification of Acceptance
~~May 15, 2008~~
May 20, 2008

Workshop Proposal Deadline
January 15, 2008

Technical Sponsorship