Qshine 2007, August 14 - 17, 2007, Vancouver, British Columbia

Call for Papers

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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:

Important Dates for conference papers

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