Special Session on Next Generation Communication Services

Scope

From a user perspective, communication services are evolving from monolithic teleservices (e.g. telephony) into fragmented and component-based services (e.g. PoC, messaging) that are aware of the context of the user. At the same time, networks are evolving towards NGN architecture that enables network convergence by providing ubiquitous and unified services through heterogeneous fixed (xDSL, cable) and wireless broadband access networks (e.g. WiMAX/WiBro, WiFi, 3G and beyond). From a technical perspective, communications services are facing major technical evolutions with SIP, IMS, NGN, and Peer-To-Peer Overlay Networks. The challenge for communication services providers are thus to adapt services to flexible usages through flexible service architectures, relying on re-usable components and structured with common models.

The purpose of this special session is to present and to discuss new paradigms, mechanisms and applications of Next Generation Communication Services. It offers a unique opportunity for researchers in this area to exchange their research ideas. This special session will be held in conjunction with ACM Mobility Conference 2008, an ideal vehicle for bringing together researchers, scientists, engineers, academics and students all around the world to share the latest updates on new mobile technologies that would shape the next generation of mobile systems and technology platforms. It is co-sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE.

Topics

The main topics of interest include:

  • Service Architecture
  • Service overlays
  • Service modelling,
  • Service enablers, composition and interaction.
  • Broadband Wireless Access
  • P2P architectures and services
  • Multicasting over wireless broadband networks
  • Communication Services on wireline/wireless networks
  • Context-awareness and user context for services
  • Wireless Multimedia and Mobile Internet Services
  • Experience from Overlay Wireless Networks testbeds

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline: 1 June 2008
Paper Notification: 4 July 2008
Final Manuscript Submission Deadline: 8 August 2008

Submission Instructions

Papers must be original material, not currently be under review, and not have been previously published by any conference or journal. All papers must be written in English. Authors are invited to submit their full length papers in pdf format complying to the ACM Digital Library. All submitted papers are peer reviewed by the members of the special session technical committee. The conference papers will be indexed in ACM Digital Library. Accepted work must be presented by one of the authors. Papers not presented will not be indexed. Please refer to the conference website for technical paper preparation guidelines and submission procedure.

Special Session Program Committee

  • Chair: Sunyoung Han, Konkuk University, Korea
  • Co-chairs: Sinchai Kamolphiwong, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand
    Quincy Wu, National Chi Nan University, Taiwan

Technical Program Committee

  • Stefan Arbanowski, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany
  • Emmanuel Bertin, France Telecom, France
  • Sandford Bessler, Telecommunications Research Center Vienna, Austria
  • Bruno Chatras, France Telecom, France
  • Noel Crespi, GET-INT, France
  • Julia Ge Yu, I2R, Singapore
  • Wolfgang Kellerer, DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe
  • Ernoe Kovacs, NEC, Germany
  • Joerg Ott, Helsinki University, Finland
  • Ai-chun Pang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
  • Hung-Keng Pung, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  • Rhia Trogo, De La Salle University, Philippines
  • Mika Ylianttila, University of Oulu, Finland