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                  IEEE IC3N'2000  CALL FOR PAPERS
                 NINTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
               COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS
                      October 16 - 18, 2000 
           Imperial Palace Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada USA

                  (Website)

    Sponsored by IEEE Communications Society (tech. co-sponsor),
             Army Research Lab/Office, IBM, NOKIA, Siemens
                (pending approval of sponsorships)

ICCCN is a major international forum to present original and fundamental
advances in the field of Computer Communications and Networks. It also
serves to foster communication among researchers and practitioners working
in a wide variety of scientific areas with a common interest in improving
Computer Communications and Networks.

SCOPE:
The primary focus of the conference is on new and original research results
in the areas of design, implementation and applications of Computer
Communications and Networks. We invite you to submit papers that address
novel, challenging, and innovative results. The topics include, but are not
limited to:

Optical Communication Networks        Wireless/Mobile/Satellite Comm Networks
ATM Networking                        Internet Services/Applications
Wireless Multimedia Applications      Real-time Communications
Quality of Services (QoS) Issues      LAN/WAN Internetworking
Network Interoperability              Personal Communication Services
Network Control Management            Broadband Networks
Intelligent Networks                  Multicast and Routing Protocols
Network Security                      Media Access Control/Mobility Algorithms
Network Reliability                   High Speed Network OAM/Protocols
Video-on-Demand                       Data Traffic Engineering
Network Management/Billing            Global Infrastructure Network Evolution
Network Processor Technology          Performance Modeling/Analysis
Communication Software                Protocol Design/Validation/Testing
Networked Databases                   Network Architectures
Terabit optical switching/
routing architectures and signaling

SUBMISSION:
Authors are invited to submit complete and original papers. Papers that may
be submitted should not have been previously published in another forum, or
are not currently under review by another journal or conference. All submitted
papers will be refereed for quality, correctness, originality and relevance.
The program committee reserves the right to accept a submission as long,
short, or poster presentation. Of particular interest are papers which address
experiences with concrete Computer Communications and applications. All
accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Special
issues of journals containing outstanding papers from the conference are being
planned. Manuscripts should include an abstract and be limited to 5000 words.
Submissions should include the title, author(s), author's affiliation, e-mail
address, fax number and postal address. In case of multiple authors, an
indication of which author is responsible for correspondence and preparing
the camera ready paper for the proceedings should also be included. Electronic
submission is strongly encouraged (go to the end of this CFP for more information;
ps or pdf format is preferred. Please contact Dr. Park if you have to submit
with hard copies). Manuscripts should be submitted by Friday, April 24, 2000 to
ICCCN2000 website or contact program co-chairs with any questions:

  Dr. Ton Engbersen                 Professor E.K. Park
  IBM Research Laboratory           Computer Science Telecommunications
  Saumerstrasse 4                   University of Missouri
  8803 Rueschlikon                  Robert Flarsheim Hall, Room 534
  Switzerland                       5100 Rockhill Road
  apj@zurich.ibm.com                Kansas City, Missouri 64110 USA
  +41-1-7248302                     (816)235-1497; (816)235-5159(fax)
  +41-1-7248599 (fax)               ekpark@cstp.umkc.edu

IMPORTANT DATES:  Paper submission deadline : May 8, 2000
                  Notification of acceptance: June 26, 2000 
                  Camera ready papers due   : July 31, 2000

TUTORIALS:
Proposals are solicited for tutorials. Please email your proposals
in ASCII format by April 24, 2000 to one of the Program Chairs above.

WEBSITE:
Electronic paper submission system is up and ready (from March 1, 2000) to 
accept papers for the IEEE ICCCN2000 and please visit ICCCN2000 web site 
icccn.cstp.umkc.edu for more up-to-date information.
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                   I E E E   I C C C N 2000 ORGANIZATION
                   -------------------------------------

Honorary Conference Chair: Dr. Kia Makki, Univ. of Louisiana, Dept of EECE,
                           2 Rex Street, Lafayette, LA 70504, kia@usl.edu

Conference General Chair: Dr. Sudhir S. Dixit, Nokia Research Center,
                          5 Wayside Road, Burlington, MA 01803, (781)993-4607,
                          sudhir.dixit@nokia.com

Program Chairs: Dr. Ton Engbersen and Dr. EK Park (see above for addresses)

Local Arrange Chair: Dr. Jerry Stach, Computer Science Telecommunications,
                     University of Missouri, stach@cstp.umkc.edu, 816-235-2346

Publicity Chair: Dr. Mohammed Atiquzzaman, Dept of ECE, University of Dayton,
                 Dayton, OH 45469-0226 USA; (937)229-3183, (937)229-4529(fax),
                 MAtiquzz@engr.udayton.edu  or  atiq@ieee.org

Technical Program Committee:   (Last Name/First Name/Affiliation)
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    Abouaissa  A.            Atiquzzaman  Mohammed     Atlas  Alia
    U.of Tech. Belfor-       Univ. of Dayton           BBN Technologies
    Montbeliard
    
    Avresky  D. R.           Bestavros  Azer           Bhat  Kabekode V.
    Boston University        Boston University         Lucent Technologies

    Busovaca  Senad          Cao  Guohong              Casoni  Maurizio
    CA State U.,Sacramento   Penn State Univ.          Univ. of Bologna
    
    Chen  Thomas             Cheng  Albert M. K.       CHI  Chi-Hung
    SMU                      Univ. of Houston          Nat'l U. of Singapore
 
    Chin  Kwan-Wu            Choi  Young B.            Clauberg  Rolf
    Curtin U. of Tech.       COMPAQ Comp. Corp.        IBM Research

    Conway  Adrian           Curcio  Igor D.D.         Das  Samir R.
    GTE Internetworking      Nokia Mobile Phones       U. of Cincinnati

    Delp  Gary               Demeester  Piet           Douligeris  Christos
    IBM                      U. Of Gent - IMEC         University of Piraeus

    Dovrolis  Constantinos   Ersoy  Cem                Feng  Hui
    U of Wisconsin,Madison   Bogazici Univ.            NEC America, Inc

    Fernandez  Antonio       Fischer  Stefan           Fong  Simon
    U. Rey Juan Carlos       Int'l Univ.,Germany       Nanyang Tech. Univ.

    Frieder  Ophir           Fumagalli  Andrea         Garg  Rahul
    IIT, Chicago             U. of Texas-Dallas        IBM India Res.

    Golmie  Nada             Golshani  Forouzan        Gusat  Mitchell
    NIST                     Arizona State Univ.       ZRL

    Herkersdorf  Andreas     Hetzer Dirk               Hogrefe  Dieter
    IBM Zurich Res. Lab.     Deutsche Telekom          Institut fuer Telematik

    Hou  Jennifer            Houatra  Drissa           HU X.-D.
    Ohio State Univ.         CNET(France Telecom)      Chinese Academy of Sci.

    Huang Chung-Ming         Huang Yih                 Huynh D.T.
    Nat'l Cheng Kung U.      George Mason Univ.        U. of Texas-Dallas

    Jacob Lillykutty         Jain Raj                  Jakobs  Kai
    Nat'l U. of Singapore    Ohio State Univ.          Technical U. of Aachen

    Jennings  Esther         Jia  Xiaohua              Kao  Ming-Yang
    CA Polytechnic,Pomona    City U. of Hong Kong      Yale University

    Khalil  Ehab A.          Khendek  Ferhat           Kim  Jaime
    Menoufia University      Concordia Univ.           CA State U.,Northridge

    Kim Tag Gon              Koenig  Hartmut           Kone  Ousmane
    KAIST, Korea             Brandenburg U.of Tech.    Inst. Nat'l Polytech.

    Krishnamurthi Govind     Laurini  Robert           Lee  Gyungho
    Nokia Research Center    Claude B. Univ. of Lyon   Iowa State Univ.

    Levi  Albert             Li  J. Jenny              Liu  Kevin H.
    Oregon S.U./Bogazici U.  Telcordia Technologies    Telcordia Tech.
                                                                                
    Lorenz  Pascal           Luijten  Ronald P.        Makki Sam
    U. of Haute Alsace       IBM Zurich res. lab       Queensland U. of Tech.

    Manimaran  G.            Masuyama  Hiroshi         Modiano  Eytan
    Iowa State Univ.         Tottori University        MIT

    Moh  Melody              Mohan  G.                 Mohapatra  Prasant
    San Jose St. U./3Com     Regional Eng. College     Michigan State Univ.

    Mosse  Daniel            Carr-Motyckova  Lenka     Murthy  C. Siva Ram
    U. of Pittsburgh         Linkoping U.,Sweden       IIT, Madras

    Obaidat  Mohammad S.     Ozegovic  Julije          Paris  Jehan-Francois
    Monmouth Univ.           FESB Split                Univ. of Houston

    Peng  Wuxu               Pissinou Niki             Prakash  Ravi
    Southwest Texas St. U.   U. of Louisiana-Lafayette U. of Texas-Dallas

    Qiao  Chunming           Raghavendra  C. S.        Rahouma  Kamel Hussein
    SUNY-Buffalo             USC                       Univ. of Salzburg

    Ramamurthy  Byrav        Richardson  Paul          Rothermel  Kurt
    U. of Nebraska-Lincoln   U. of Michigan-Dearborn   U. of Stuttgart

    Sanneck  Henning         Saran  Huzur              Schaller  Sibylle
    GMD Fokus                IIT, Delhi                NEC

    Scotton  Paolo           Seckin  Gamze             Shiomoto  Kohei
    IBM Res. Div.-Zurich     Arizona State Univ.       NTT Network Lab.

    Sivalingam  Krishna      Somani  Arun K            Stojmenovic  Ivan
    Washington State U.      Iowa State Univ.          Univ. of Ottawa

    Su  David                Subramaniam  Suresh       Tseng  Yu-Chee
    Nat'l Institute of       George Washington U.      Nat'l Central Univ.
    Standards and Tech.
      
    Turck  Filip De          Vandalore  Bobby          Varada  Srihari
    University Of Gent       Ohio State Univ.          TranSwitch Corp.

    Wang  Zheng              Wigglesworth  Joe         Wolf  Michael
    Bell Labs                IBM Toronto Lab.          Daimler Chrysler Res.

    Xue  Guoliang            Yamamoto  Miki            Yang  Oliver
    Univ. of Vermont         Osaka University          Univ. of Ottawa

    Yang  Yuanyuan           Youn  Hee Yong            Yuan  Xin
    SUNY-Stony Brook         Info.& Comm. U.,Korea     Florida State Univ.

    Yun  Kenneth             Yurcik  Bill              Zeadally  Sherali
    U. of CA, San Diego      Illinois State Univ.      Wayne State Univ.

    Zomaya  Albert Y.
    U. of Western Australia
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