[Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ************************************************************** * CALL FOR PAPERS * * * * ACCESSNETS 2010 * * Fifth International Conference on Access Networks * * November 3-5, 2010, Budapest, Hungary * * http://www.accessnets.org * * * ************************************************************** Submission deadline EXTENDED: May 30, 2010 OVERVIEW: With the rapid growth of the Internet as well as the increasing demand for broadband services, access networks have been receiving growing investments in recent years. This has led to a massive network deployment with the goal of eliminating the bandwidth bottleneck between end-users and the network core. Today many diverse technologies are being used to provide broadband access to end users. The architecture and performance of the access segment (local loop, wired and wireless access networks, and even home networks) are getting increasing attention for ensuring quality of service of diverse broadband applications. Moreover, most access lines will no longer terminate on a single device, thus leading to the necessity of having a home network designed for applications that transcend simple Internet access sharing among multiple personal computers and enable multimedia support. Therefore, the access network and its home portion have become a hot investment pool from both a financial as well as a research perspective. The aim of the annual International Conference on Access Networks (AccessNets) is to provide a forum that brings together scientists and researchers from academia as well as managers and engineers from the industry and government organizations to meet and exchange ideas and recent work on all aspects of access networks and how they integrate with their in-home counterparts. AccessNets 2010 is the fifth edition of this exciting event, which will be held in Budapest, Hungary, on November 3-5, 2010. The conference will consist of technical sessions, industry track, workshops, and panels. The technical sessions will present original and fundamental research advances while the industry track, workshops and panels will focus on development, application, and related business issues in this hot and exciting area. TOPICS: The conference solicits original technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Autonomy in access networks * Cable-based access technology * Cross-layer design * Deployment/standardization statuses * Digital satellite access technology * Dynamic spectrum access networks * FTTx and PON technologies * Green aspects of access networks * Home networks * Hybrid fiber coaxial (HFC) technology * Hybrid wired/wireless LANs * Integrated wired/wireless networks * Long reach Ethernet * Management issues in access networks * Medium access control * MIMO techniques * Municipal and community networks * Network architectures and protocols * Network scalability and upgradeability * Network survivability and security * Networked appliances * OFDM, OFDMA, CDMA techniques * Powerline communication technology * Quality of service provisioning * Service convergence * WiFi and WiMax networks * Wireless mesh networks * xDSL technology and DSM WORKSHOPS: We solicit workshop proposals on new and emerging topics in wired and wireless access networks, services, and applications. A proposal should focus on a specific theme of current interest that can attract high-quality submissions. Proposals for one-day workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference are solicited. A proposal can be a maximum of 2 pages long and should clearly identify the theme and specific topics of interest which define the scope of the workshop. The proposal should also include the workshop chairs and a list of (candidate) program committee members. PAPER SUBMISSION: Papers presented at this conference must be prepared according to LNICST style instructions. Both regular and invited papers are allowed to have up to 16 pages, including all figures, tables and references. Extra pages will incur additional charges. All accepted papers will be published by Springer in the ICST Lecture Notes (LNICST) series. Please visit the conference website (http://www.accessnets.org) for detailed instructions. IMPORTANT DATES: Workshop proposal deadline Extended to April 5, 2010 Paper submission due Extended to May 16, 2010 Notification of acceptance June 4, 2010 Final manuscript due August 31, 2010 CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE GENERAL CHAIR Gyula Sallai, Scientific Association for Infocommunications (HTE), Hungary CONFERENCE VICE CHAIR Robert Szabo, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary TPC CO-CHAIRS Hua Zhu, ArgonST, Network Systems, USA Sandor Imre, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary PANEL CHAIR Eduard Babulak, University of South Pacific, Suva, Fiji WEB CHAIR Attila Vidacs, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary PUBLICITY CHAIR Rolland Vida, Scientific Association for Infocommunications (HTE), Hungary PUBLICATION CHAIR Andrei Gurtov, Aalto University and University of Oulu, Finland CONFERENCE COORDINATOR Gabriella Magyar, ICST LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR Peter Nagy, Scientific Association for Infocommunications (HTE), Hungary STEERING COMMITTEE Imrich Chlamtac (Chair), Create-net, Italy Jun Zheng, Southeast University, China Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Gee-Kung Chang, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Tamer ElBatt, Nile University in Cairo, Egypt Maurice Gagnaire, ENST (TELECOM ParisTech), France Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College London, UK Paolo Giacomazzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Victor Govindaswamy, Texas A&M University - Texarkana, USA Kaibin Huang, Yonsei University, Korea Raj Jain, Univ. of Washington in St. Louis, USA David K Hunter, University of Essex, UK Ken Kerpez, Telcordia Technologies, USA Dusan Kocur, Technical Univ. of Kosice, Slovakia Polychronis Koutsakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece Sunil Kumar, San Diego State University, USA Chang-Hee Lee, KAIST, Korea Victor C. M. Leung, Univ. of British Columbia, Canada Ming Li, California State University, Fresno, USA Kejie Lu, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez Xun Luo, Qualcomm Inc, USA Maode Ma, Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore Martin Maier, INRS, Canada John Mitchell, University College London, UK Sagar Naik, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada Timo Ojala, Univ. of Oulu, Finland Garret Okamoto, Adaptive Communications Res. Inc., USA Nikos Passas, University of Athens, Greece Przemyslaw Pawelczak, University of California, LA, USA Martin Reisslein, Arizona State University, USA Djamel Sadok, Federal Univ. of Pernambuco, Brazil Mehmet Safak, Hacettepe University, Turkey Gangxiang Shen, Ciena Corporation, USA Driton Statovci, Telecom. Research Center Vienna, Austria Gaoxi Xiao, Nangyang Technological Univ., Singapore SiQing Zheng, Univ of Texas at Dallas, USA On behalf of the AccessNets 2010 Organizing Committee, Rolland Vida, Publicity Chair