CFP for Communication Software, Services and Multimedia Applications Symposium (CSSMA)

Symposium Co-Chairs

• Abdelhamid Mellouk
  Network and Telecommunication Dept & LiSSi Laboratory, University of Paris-Est Creteil Val de Marne (UPEC), France
  mellouk@univ-paris12.fr
  
• Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville
  Computer Networks Laboratory, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil
  granville@inf.ufrgs.br
  
• Naoki Uchida
  NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) Corporation, Japan
  uchida.naoki@lab.ntt.co.jp
  
• Djamal-Eddine Meddour
  Orange Labs, France Telecom, France
  djamal.meddour@orange-ftgroup.com
  

Scope and Motivation

The Communications Software, Services and Multimedia Applications Symposium will provide an international technical forum for discussing and presenting recent research results on any aspects of software, services, and multimedia communications. It aims at bringing together experts from industry and academia to exchange ideas and present results on advancing the state-of-the-art and overcoming research on the challenging issues related to the software design and system deployment of services over heterogeneous networks. Papers may present theories, techniques, applications, or practical experiences related to that.
For details about submission deadline, paper format, and on-line submission procedures, 2 please visit the main ICC 2011 page.

Main Topics of Interest

Network and Service Management and Provisioning

• Multimedia QoS provisioning
• Quality of Experience for rich communication services
• End-to-End quality of service routing algorithms
• Service creation, delivery, management
• Network management
• Virtual home environment
• Charging, pricing, business Models
• Triple play services
• Security and privacy in network and service management
• Service overlay networks
• Cooperative networking for streaming media content

Next Generation Services and Service Platforms

• Mobile services and service platforms including IMS
• Home network service platform
• VoP2P and P2P-SIP services
• Converged application/communication servers and services
• Location-based services
• Social networking communication services
• Advanced communication services and feature interaction

Multimedia applications and services including rich communication services, VoIP, IPTV, Gaming

• Multimedia delivery over wired and wireless networks
• Cross-layer optimization for multimedia service support
• Multicast, broadcast and IPTV
• Media streaming
• Peer-to-Peer services
• Scalability and reliability issues by multimedia applications
• Video quality assessment and impairment concealment

Software and Protocol Technologies for advanced service support

• Ubiquitous computing services and applications
• Networked autonomous systems
• Communications software in vehicular communications
• Web services and distributed software technology
• Distributed systems and applications, including Grid and cloud computing services
• Peer-to-Peer technologies for communication services
• Service overlay networks
• Context awareness and personalization

Technical Program Committee

• Abderrazek Abdaoui, Universite de Technology de troyes, France
• Shakeel Ahmad, De Montfort University, United Kingdom
• Toufik Ahmed, University of Bordeaux-1 / CNRS-LaBRI, France
• Brice Augustin, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, France
• Hakim Badis, Institut Gaspard-Monge, France
• Paul Baz, USTHA, Morocco
• Marcus Brunner, NEC Europe Ltd., Germany
• Patrick Cegielski, University Paris Est UPEC, France
• Joaquim Celestino Júnior, State University of Ceará, Brazil
• Eduardo Cerqueira, Federal University of Para (UFPA), Brazil
• Kai Chen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China
• Zhenzhong Chen, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Naveen Chilamkurti, La Trobe University, Australia
• Tasos Dagiuklas, Technological Educational Institute of Mesolonghi, Greece
• Michel Diaz, Laas CNRS, France
• Tarek Elfouly, Qatar University, Qatar
• Moez Esseghir, University of Technology of Troyes, France
• Olivier Festor, INRIA Nancy - Grand Est, France
• Mauro Fonseca, PUC-PR, Brazil
• Scott Fowler, Linköping University, Sweden
• Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, LIGM and ENSIIE, France
• Lisandro Granville, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
• Eren Gurses, University of Waterloo, Canada
• Herve Guyennet, University of Franche-Comte, France
• Said Hoceini, UPEC, University Paris-Est Creteil Val de Marne, France
• Christian Hoene, Universität Tübingen, Germany
• Jenq-Neng Hwang, University of Washington, USA
• Katsuyoshi Iida, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
• Usman Javaid, Vodafone Group, United Kingdom
• Wolfgang Kellerer, DOCOMO Communications Laboratories Europe, Germany
• Samee Khan, North Dakota State University, USA
• Abdesselem Kortebi, Orange Labs, France
• Vincent Lecuire, CRAN, Nancy-Université, CNRS, France
• Francis Lepage, Nancy University, France
• Shujun Li, University of Konstanz, Germany
• Zhu Li, Huawei Technology USA, USA
• Weisi Lin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Stephane Lohier, University of Paris-Est, France
• Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France
• Tun Lu, Fudan University, P.R. China
• Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontario, Canada
• Thomas Magedanz, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany
• Manuel Malumbres, Miguel Hernández University, Spain
• Mario Marchese, DIST- University of Genoa, Italy
• Tiziana Margaria, University of Potsdam, Germany
• Bertrand Mathieu, Orange Labs, France
• Djamal-Eddine Meddour, Orange Labs, France
• Abdelhamid Mellouk, UPEC, University Paris-Est Creteil Val de Marne, France
• Maria Luisa Merani, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
• Albena Mihovska, University of Aalborg, Denmark
• Toshiyuki Misu, NEC Corporation, Japan
• Osamu Mizuno, Kogakuin University, Japan
• Samer Mohammed, University Paris 12, France
• Lynda Mokdad, Université de Paris 12, France
• Nazih Moubayed, Lebanese University, Lebanon
• Hassine Moungla, Paris Descartes University, France
• Hassnaa Moustafa, France Telecom R&D, France
• Yoshihiro Niitsu, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan
• Yasuo Okabe, Kyoto University, Japan
• Nesrine Ouferhat, University of Paris XII, France
• Panagiotis Papadimitriou, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany
• Nihal Pekergin, University of Paris-Est, France
• Tinku Rasheed, Create-Net Research, Italy
• Jean-Pierre Richard, Ecole Centrale de Lille, France
• Yong Man Ro, KAIST, Korea
• Li Song, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China
• John Strassner, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), USA
• Naoki Uchida, NTT, Japan
• Sven van der Meer, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland
• Sonia Waharte, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
• Honggang Wang, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA
• Xiaotao Wu, Avaya Labs Research, USA
• Bashir Yahya, University of Versailles, France
• Chai Kiat Yeo, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Touati Youcef, University of Paris 8, France