Please note that high quality papers from this conference will appear in special issues of both ACM Wireless Networks (WINET) and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT). Please also note that IEEE and ACM have now approved of the technical co-sponsorhip of the conference. Proceeedings of Qshine will be published by IEEE and be listed on IEEE Xplore. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers - QShine 2005 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Second International Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks August 22 - 24, 2005, Orlando Florida USA Co-Sponsored by IEEE COMSOC (TCCC and TCPC), ACM SigMobile, Create-Net and ICST With corporate sponsorship from Bell Mobility, Canada, Ericsson, Sweden Paper Submission Deadline: March 15, 2005 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.qshine.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE ----- Recent technological developments in broadband high-speed networks, peer-to-peer networks, wireless and mobile networks, and grid computing have led to new challenging problems, such as providing QoS support to the emerging multimedia applications across both wired and wireless networks. This conference will focus on all aspects of QoS support for heterogeneous wired and wireless networks with the theme on cross-layer design. It will serve as a forum for researchers from both electrical engineering and computer science to present latest research results on QoS issues for both wired and wireless networks, with the hope that electrical engineers and computer scientists will work together to develop viable cross-layer design methodologies. The conference will feature prominent invited speakers as well as papers by top researchers in the field. Papers addressing QoS support, ranging from the link layer to the application layer, over wired and wireless networks are solicited. Authors are encouraged to submit theoretical and/or practical results of significance. The scope of the conference includes, but is not limited to: * QoS in WLAN, WPAN, WMAN and WiMAX (IEEE 802.11/15/16/20) * QoS in wireless sensor and ad-hoc networks * QoS in cellular and satellite networks * QoS support across heterogeneous wired and wireless subnetworks * MAC protocols with QoS support * Scheduling, resource management, queue management, and admission control * QoS in mobile environment, handoff * QoS routing and mobile IP * Traffic engineering and shaping * MPLS and GMPLS * Restoration and survivability * Transport protocols for end-to-end QoS support * Cross-layer error control and delay control * Cross-layer optimization for energy, network lifetime, and capacity * Topology control for QoS support in wireless networks * Wireless multimedia applications/services * QoS support with multi-mode radio * Middleware for QoS support * Security aspects of QoS systems * QoS pricing and billing * Variable and adaptive QoS * QoS modeling and measurement * QoS and differentiated services architectures, protocols, and systems * QoS specification, metrics, and analysis * QoS in peer-to-peer, grid, and overlay networks Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Papers of particular merit will be selected for consideration of a fast track publication in a special issue for ACM/Springer Wireless Networks (WINET) and a special section in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES --------------------------- Papers should not exceed 20 pages with 12 pt font, must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. All papers should be submitted electronically to EDAS system at http://edas.info/Conferences.cgi in Postscript or Adobe PDF format. Electronic submission instructions will be available at http://www.qshine.org/submission.html. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Submission Deadline: April 8, 2005 Notification of Acceptance: May 15, 2005 Camera-ready Manuscripts Due: June 10, 2005 Conference Dates: August 22-24, 2005 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- General Chair: Dr. Yuguang "Michael" Fang, University of Florida, USA fang@ece.ufl.edu Vice Chair: Dr. Hisashi Kobayashi, Princeton University, USA hisashi@princeton.edu Dr. Shigang Chen, University of Florida, USA sgchen@cise.ufl.edu Mr. Vic DiCiccio, Bell-University Laboratory, Waterloo, Canada Technical Program Chair: Dr. Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, University of Waterloo, Canada xshen@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Steering Committee: Dr. Imrich Chlamtac, President, CreateNet Research Consortium, Chair Dr. Michael Fang, University of Florida, USA, Co-Chair Dr. Hisashi Kobayashi, Princeton University, USA Dr. Ariel Orda, Technion, Israel Dr. Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, University of Waterloo, Canada Finance Chair, Ms. Karen Decker, Creat-Net/ICST, USA Publications Chair: Dr. Xiuzhen Cheng, George Washington University, USA Publicity Chairs: Dr. Jelena Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada jmisic@cs.umanitoba.ca Dr. Mihaela Cardei, Florida Atlantic University, USA mihaela@cse.fau.edu Poster Chair: Dr. Jianping Pan, NTT MCL, USA jpan@nttmcl.com Local Arrangement Chairs: Dr. Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida, USA, Chair turgut@cs.ucf.edu Dr. Lei Wei, University of Central Florida, USA, Co-Chair lei@ee.ucf.edu Registration Chair: Dr. Jun Cai, University of Waterloo, Canada jcai@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Industrial Sponsorship Chair: Mr. Yanchao Zhang, University of Florida, USA yczhang@dsp.ufl.edu Mr. Jianfeng Wang, University of Florida, USA jfwang@ufl.eduĦĦ Website/Information Chair: Mr. Hongqiang Zhai, University of Florida, USA zhai@ecel.ufl.edu ******************************************************** QShine 2005 TPC committee Chair: Dr. Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, University of Waterloo, Canada Sudhir Aggarwal, Florida State University Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy Gregor V. Bochmann, University of Ottawa, Canada Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy Andrew T. Campbell, Columbia Guohong Cao, Penn State University Jun Cai, University of Waterloo, Canada Xiuzhen Cheng, George Washington University Sunghyun Choi, National Seoul University Song Ci,University of Michigan-Flint Jun-Hong Cui University of Connecticut Sajal K. Das, University of Texas at Arlington Ehab Elmallah, University of Alberta, Canada Guangbin Fan, University of Mississippi Alois Ferscha, University of Linz, Austria Mohsen Guizani, Western Michigan University Zhu Han, University of Maryland at College Park Hossam Hassanein, Queens University, Canada Hussein Mouftah , University of Ottawa, Canada Hisashi Kobayashi, Princeton University Tho Le-Ngoc, McGill University, Canada Baochun Li, University of Toronto Geoffrey Li, George Tech Jiang (Leo) Li, Howard University Wei Li, University of Toledo Lavy Libman, Nicta Yibei Ling, Telcordia Jiangchuan Liu, Simon Fraser University Mingyan Liu, University Michigan at Ann Arbor Songwu Lu, UCLA King-Shan Lui, Hong Kong University Wenchao Ma, Microsoft Research Asia, China Brian Mark, George Mason University Jelena Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada Klara Nahrstedt, UIUC Mirela Notare Barddal, University of Brazil Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, UK Kihong Park, Purdue University Chunming Qiao, SUNY at Buffalo Aladdin O.M. Saleh, Bell Mobility, Canada Anthony Soong, Ericsson, USA Nikoletseas E. Sotiris, Computer Technology Institute, Greece Alex Sprintson, Caltech Violet Syrotiuk, Arizona State University Terence D. Todd, McMaster University, Canada Dapeng Wu, University of Florida Hongyi Wu, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Jie Wu, Florida Atlantic University Yang Xiao, University of Memphis Geoffrey Xie, Naval Post Graduate School Guoliang (Larry) Xue, Arizona State University Junshan Zhang, Arizona State University Qian Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia, China Xi Zhang,Texas A&M University Weihua Zhuang, University of Waterloo, Canada Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia