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The First International Workshop on Future Trends on Design and Analysis

for Dynamic Networks (FTDA-DN’08)

 
 
Hong Kong, China, 28 July 2008
 
in conjunction with Qshine 2008
 
http://www.qshine.org/workshops/IW_FTDA-DN_CFP.htm 
 
 Submission Deadline: April 30, 2008 
 
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Objective: This workshop aims as a forum for researchers working on the design modeling, analysis and performance evaluation of Dynamic Networks. Dynamic Networks can be characterized as networks subject to frequent changes in their structural or functional characteristics, or which are based on hybrid architectures that are supposed to cope with different classes of traffic or provide various classes of services. Examples of such networks are Wireless Ad hoc Networks (either Mobile (MANETs) or Vehicular (VANETs)), Mesh Networks and Sensor Networks; Differentiated services based Networking architectures; Hybrid Optical Network Architectures, etc. This Workshop will constitute a venue for these researchers to contrast their views of Dynamic Networks and discuss a common characterization and suitable tools for the design and analysis of such networks in view of the advances in wireless communication, Optical communication and sensor technologies among others.

Topics suggested to this workshop may include (not exclusively):

1. Dynamic Networks: Characterization, Design, Modeling and Performance Analysis

2. New Routing Techniques for Dynamic Networks: Polymorphic routing, Probabilistic routing, Content-based routing, partial information based routing, on demand probabilistic routing, proactive probabilistic routing, opportunistic routing, etc.

3. Dependability issues in Dynamic routing

4. Wireless, Mobile and Dynamic Network Architectures

5. Energy conservation, context awareness, resiliency in Dynamic Networks

6. Vital properties of Dynamic Networks: Services and Service discovery, self stabilization, self healing, self-organization and self-configuration.

Important Dates
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Paper submission due: April 30, 2008
Acceptance notification: May 25, 2008
Camera-ready due: June 8, 2008 
Workshop: July 28, 2008

Paper Submissions and Guidelines
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Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished 
research and recent developments in the topics related to the workshop. 
Submissions should include an abstract, key words, the e-mail address of 
the corresponding author. The length of the papers should be limited 
to 6 pages in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font) 
with at most two additional pages with extra charge.
 
Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment, that in case 
of paper acceptance, at least one of the authors will register and present 
the work at the workshop.  
 
All papers will be peer reviewed and the comments will be provided to 
the authors. All accepted papers will be published in the workshop’s 
proceedings. 
Papers with distinguished contribution from the workshop will be considered 
for fast-track journal publication along with the selected papers 
from the Qshine conference (see http://www.qshine.org/cfp.shtml for more details).
 
Please send your manuscript in Word document or PDF format to:
Adel Ben Mnaouer, 7th November University, Tunisia 
( abmnaouer@ieee.org; adel.benmnaouer@ensi.rnu.tn; adel_mnaouer@yahoo.com )
 
 
Organizing Committee
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Workshop Chair
Adel Ben Mnaouer, 7th November University, Tunisia ( abmnaouer@ieee.org )
 
Workshop Co-Chair
Abdelfattah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia ( Abdelfattah.belghith@ensi.rnu.tn ) 
 
 
Workshop Program Chair
Abdelfattah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia 
 
Workshop Program Co-Chair
Adel Ben Mnaouer, 7th November University, Tunisia
 
 
Publicity Co-Chairs
 
Achraf Gazdar, University of Manouba, Tunisia, ( achraf.gazdar@cristal.rnu.tn )
 
Naouel Ben Ali, University of Manouba, Tunisia ( naouel.benali@ensi.rnu.tn ) 
 
Hanen Idoudi, University of Manouba, Tunisia ( hanen.idoudi@ensi.rnu.tn )

Technical Program Committee

Abdelfattah Belghith                ENSI, University of Manouba, Tunisia

Jean Marie Bonnin                   TELECOM Bretagne, France

Miklos Molnar                         IRISA de Rennes, France         

Nizar Bouabdallah                   INRIA de Rennes, France

FengYuan Ren                          Tsinghua University, China       

Raymond Marie                        Univ. de Rennes, France

Guy Pujolle                              LIP6, Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, France

Piero Castoldi                          Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy

Jean Loup Guillaume                Université de Paris 6

Tarik Taleb Tohoku University, Japan

Cao Jiannong Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

Lami Kaya Sharjah University, UAE

Chuan Heng Foh Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Mohamed Younis University of Maryland, USA

Mohsen Guizani                        Kuwait University, Kuwait.

Chadi Barakat                          INRIA, France

Taieb Znati                              National Science Foundation, USA

Michel Diaz                              LAAS, France

Andreas J. Kassler Karlstad University, Sweden

Hosam Afifi                             INT, France

Mounir Hamdi                           Hong Kong UST, China

Kin Choong Yow                        Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Bernard Cousin                         IRISA de Rennes

Debashis Saha                          IIM Calcutta, INDIA

Abdelhakim Hafid                     Université de Montréal, Canada

Samuel Pierre                           Ecole Polytechnique Montréal, Canada

Mokhtar Aboelaze York University, Canada

Habib Youssif                          ISIT, University of Sousse, Tunisia

Adel Ben Mnaouer                     ESTI, 7th November University, Tunisia