The 6th International Conference on
Next Generation Teletraffic and Wired/Wireless Advanced Networking
NEW2AN 2006
http://www.new2an.org/

May 29 - June 2, 2006
St.Petersburg, Russia

CALL FOR PAPERS

About the Conference

Next-generation mobile networks will evolve out of existing wired and 
wireless networks of different nature by means of convergence, fusion
and mutual penetration; next-generation multimedia services in turn 
pose new requirements and challenges on treatment of traffic within 
communication networks. This forms a framework on harmonization of 
results obtained separately in different areas of network research 
like network performance evaluation, architecture and protocol design, 
and low layer network design. The conference goal is in the identification, 
investigation and integration of new algorithms, approaches, architectures,
methods and mechanisms to enable proper and efficient operation of a
next-generation IP-based mobile network. Special emphasis will be given 
to next-generation traffic issues, it indeed remains true that much 
uncertainty surrounds the future traffic features and volumes, mainly 
because of converged type of traffic resulted from converged network 
operation under converged services and applications. Moreover, wireless 
access networks and their interaction shall be widely examined and 
addressed throughout the conference.

Since the middle of the 1990s a sequence of seminars and conferences 
sponsored by International Teletraffic Congress (ITC) have been 
successfully organized in Saint-Petersburg. The meeting point between
east and west, the mutual history and experience can be seen and felt 
in the host country and the beautiful city.

Topics of interest

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

    * New Teletraffic and Network Traffic Challenges and Paradigms
    * Emerging Teletraffic Models and Tools
    * Traffic Classification and Characterization
    * Performance Evaluation of Mobile and Wireless Networks
    * Multidisciplinary Approaches for Traffic Analysis and Management
    * Traffic Engineering & QoS in all-IP
      Networks
    * Network Modeling, Simulation,
      Emulation and Tomography
    * Network Planning and Network Engineering
    * Resource Management and Congestion control
    * Overlay Networks
    * 3G and Beyond Networks
    * Autonomous Communications
    * Ad hoc and Sensor Networks
    * Wireless Mesh and Multi-Hop Networks
    * Heterogeneous Wireless Access Networks
    * Wireless Protocols
    * Mobility Management
    * Medium Access Control Protocols and Scheduling Techniques
        for Wireless Systems
    * Cross-layer Interactions
    * Applications for Multimedia-enabled Wired And Wireless all-IP Networks
    * Network Security
    * [Multimedia] Traffic Measurements and Testbeds
    * Pricing, charging and accounting for Wireless Technologies


Paper submission

Authors are invited to submit full papers in English of not more than 20 
double-spaced pages, 12 pt font size. All papers must include a title, complete contact 
information for all authors, and keywords on the cover page. The corresponding
author should be identified clearly. Papers must be submitted electronically
(in PDF format) via on-line submission procedure. Proceedings will be published
by LNCS Springer. Selected best papers will appear in a journal special issue.


Important dates

Paper submission January 16, 2006
Notification of acceptance March 05, 2006
Camera ready version March 19, 2006
Conference dates May 29 - June 2, 2006


The Conference is organized by

Tampere University of Technology (Finland) and BalticIT (Russia) in cooperation
with ITC (International Teletraffic Congress), Popov Society, IEEE St.Petersburg
BT/CE/COM Chapter, COST 290 and supported by NOKIA and Infosim GmbH.


For further and up-to-date information please visit official web page of the 
Conference http://www.new2an.org