Subject: [ippm] INFOCOM 2004: Updates and Call for Papers

From: Thomas Hou <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 16:10:45 -0400

July 1, 2003, the deadline for paper submission to IEEE INFOCOM 2004,
to be held in Hong Kong, March 7 - 11, 2004, is rapidly approaching.
The Call For Papers can be found at http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2004/.

We are well aware that there is concern about SARS among some
potential authors. However, the lifting of the travel advisories on Hong Kong
by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the US Center for Disease
Control (CDC) affirms that SARS is under control. There has not been
any new SARS case in Hong Kong for the past several days. Of all the
cities under WHO travel advisory in the rest of China, Beijing is the only
one which remains on the list, although we expect it to be removed soon.
While we continue to closely monitor the situation, be assured that we
do have contingency plans. We will see what happens the rest of this
year and will be prepared to reevaluate the situation in late November
before the Advance Program is published.

For now, we would like to reassure you all that IEEE INFOCOM 2004
will be held as planned. We encourage you to submit your work before
July 1, 2003, and be considered to present your paper in a beautiful
setting overlooking Hong Kong Harbor.

You may also be interested to know that to welcome the world back to
Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Tourism Board has prepared "coupons" to
enhance overseas visitors' experience. These coupons will be available
for download from the INFOCOM website soon, and you can redeem them
when you come to Hong Kong next March.

Call For Papers - Infocom 2004
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IEEE INFOCOM 2004 The Conference on Computer Communications
March 7 - 11, 2004, Hong Kong
The Twenty-third Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and
Communications Societies
http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2004

Topics of Interest:
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Original papers are invited on recent advances in computer
communications and networking. Topics of interest include,
but are not limited to, the following:

- Ad hoc & sensor networks                      - Performance evaluation
- Addressing & location management      - Power control
- Capacity planning                             - Pricing & billing
- Cellular networks                             - Quality of service
- Congestion control                            - Resource allocation
- Content distribution                          - Routing
- Multicast                                     - Scheduling & buffer
management
- Multimedia protocols                          - Security & privacy
- Network applications & services               - Service overlay networks
- Network architectures                         - Switches and switching
- Network control by pricing                    - Topology inference
- Network design & planning                     - Traffic analysis & control
- Network management                            - Traffic engineering
- Optical networks                              - Web performance
- Peer-to-peer communications                   - Wireless LANs

Executive Committee
-------------------------------
General Chair:
      Victor O.K. Li, The University of Hong Kong
Technical Program Co-Chairs:
      Marwan Krunz, University of Arizona
      Bo Li, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
International Vice Chairs:
      Jin-Fu Chang, National Chi-Nan University, Taiwan
      Jim Kurose, University of Massachusetts Amherst
      Lemin Li , University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
      Hiromi Okada , Kansai University, Japan
      Harry Rudin , IBM Research, Switzerland
      Izhak Rubin, UCLA
Tutorial Co-Chairs:
      Wanjiun Liao, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
      Krishna M. Sivalingam, University of Maryland Baltimore County.
Panel Co-Chairs:
      Kin Leung, Lucent Bell Labs
      Nicholas F. Maxemchuk, Columbia University.
Keynote Speaker Chair:
      David Lee, Lucent Bell Labs, USA.
Local Arrangement Co-Chairs:
      Paul Kwok, Open University of Hong Kong
      Jian-Liang Xu, Hong Kong Baptist University
Finance Co-Chairs:
      Bruce Worthman, IEEE Comm Society
      Lawrence Yeung, The University of Hong Kong
Publicity Co-Chairs:
      Mohsen Guizani, Western Michigan University
      Y. Thomas Hou , Virginia Tech
Publication Co-Chairs:
      Steven Low, Caltech, USA.
      Zhengzhen Zhang, Waterridge Networks
Internet Chair:
      Hui Zhang, Turin Networks
Information Systems Co-Chairs:
      Jack Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
      Jiangchuan Liu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Corporate Patrons Chair:
      Hailson Yu, Versitech Ltd., Hong Kong
Standing Committee Officers:
      Harvey A. Freeman, HeatSeekers Technology Partners
      Mark Karol, Avaya, Inc.
      Kazem Sohraby, Lucent Technolgies

Important Dates:
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Full paper due:                 July 1, 2003
Notification of acceptance:     October 30, 2003
Final version due:                      December 19, 2003

For information on paper submission instructions,
please check
       http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2004