Tridentcom 2005

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Tridentcom 2005

First International Conference on
Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the DEvelopment of NeTworks
and COMmunities

Trento (Italy), February 21 - 25, 2005
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Important Dates

Full Papers due: *** September 5, 2004 ***
Notification of Acceptance:  October 20, 2004
Camera-ready Manuscripts due:  November 10, 2004

Sponsored by CreateNet/ICST
Co-sponsored by IFIP

Conference proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press.

web site with updated conference information:

        http://www.tridentcom.org/

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Scope

Telecommunication infrastructures play a vital role in modern society.
The advancements in the range of network service offerings, their
performance, quality of service, security, and ubiquity are relentless,
despite global economy fluctuations. The demand for high bandwidth
network infrastructures is continuously growing within both academic
and industrial sectors.

Grid computing is one of the many examples of the new emerging paradigm
 of networking characterized by huge data traffic flows, that require
an extremely high-performance network infrastructure. The need of high
speed is emerging also in mobile, wireless network environments, where
new wireless technologies promise data rates above 100 Mbps. Other high
bandwidth network examples include community access networks, on demand
optical networks and the Next Generation Internet.

To meet these challenges, experimental activities on infrastructures,
such as testing, verification, deployment, are pivotal for academic
researchers, developers, service managers and providers, as well as for
end users.
The management of research infrastructures is increasingly dependent
on a business model that optimizes their operational price/performance
ratio. For example, access to experimental infrastructures for real-life
applications by specific user communities would benefit all the
stakeholders involved: the end users, because of the experimental
evaluation of the provided services, the researchers and infrastructure
experimenters, because of the knowledge gained from case-study analysis,
and the infrastructure managers, because of the business exploitation of
the network.

The synergies created by opening research infrastructures to real life
users offer all parties involved an enormous development potential,
which needs to be thoroughly investigated and discussed. Tridentcom is
the first event that brings together all aspects related to experimental
telecommunication infrastructures, creating a forum where
telecommunication networks researchers, vendors, providers and users
can exchange ideas on past experience, requirements, needs, visions for
the establishment of such infrastructures.

Research on all aspects of testbed and research infrastructure operation
and management will find in Tridentcom its first forum for focused
discussion. High quality papers reporting on original research and on
experiment results addressing the above areas are solicited for
submission. The main topics of the conference are:

 Next Generation Internet Testbeds
 Next Generation Wireless Network Testbeds
 Next Generation Optical Network Testbeds
 Ubiquitous Network Testbeds
 Wireless Sensor Testbeds
 Testbed Operation & Management for User Communities
 Testbed Operation & Management for Research Communities
 Testbed Cooperation & Integration
 Innovative Measurements Methodologies & Tools
 Traffic Measurements Testbeds
 Software Tools to Support Distributed Testbeds / Virtual Laboratories
 Management of Massive Databases of Experimental Data
 Knowledge & Technology Transfer Procedures
 Security (AAA) Testing on Open Testbeds
 Social Impacts of Infrastructures
 Infrastructure Real-Life Applications
 Business Models for Infrastructure Budgeting & Planning
 Infrastructure Renting & Pricing Policies
 Vendors & Providers Partnerships

The meeting will take place at Trento, capital of the Trentino province,
heart
of recent and rapidly growing R&D initiatives in Computer Science and
Telecommunications, and surrounded by some of the most spectacular
skiing resorts in the Alps. Pauses in the conference program will allow
social activities and informal interaction among the participants.


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Organizing committee:

Conference General Co-Chairs:
        Roberto Battiti University of Trento
        Mario Gerla     UCLA

Vice General Co-Chairs:
        Marcos Rogerio Salvador CPqD Telecom and IT Solutions
        Marco Ronchetti University of Trento

Steering Committee Chair:
        Imrich Chlamtac University of Trento, UT Dallas, Create-Net

Technical Program Committee:
Co-Chairs:
        Javier Aracil Universidad Publica de Navarra
        Shivkumar Kalyanaraman Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
        Kenichi Mase Niigata University

Members:

Giuseppe Bianchi University of Roma Tor Vergata (Italy)
Ernst Biersack Eurecom (France)
Victor Castelo CSIC-RedIRIS (Spain)
Piero Castoldi Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (Italy)
Michele Crudele Universit Campus Bio-Medico di Roma (Italy)
Cem Ersoy Bogazici University (Turkey)
Alex Galis University College London (UK)
Giulio Iannello Universit Campus Bio-Medico di Roma (Italy)
Parviz Kermani IBM - Watson Research Center (USA)
Cees de Laat University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Xing Li Tsinghua University (China)
Thomas Magedanz FHI FOKUS (Germany)
Olivier Martin CERN (Switzerland)
Peter McBurney University of Liverpool (UK)
Saverio Niccolini Ecole d'Ingnieurs du Canton de Vaud (Switzerland)
Yoram Ofek University of Trento (Italy)
Yuji Oie Kyushu Institute of Technology (Japan)
Bjorn Pehrson KTH (Sweden)
Dipankar Raychaudhuri Rutgers University (USA)
Shiro Sakata Chiba University (Japan)
Rege Romeu Scarabucci CPqD Telecom & IT Solutions (Brazil)
Yuval Shavitt Tel Aviv University (Israel)
Michael Stanton RNP (Brazil)
Bill St. Arnaud CANARIE (Canada)
Csaba Szab Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Hungary)
Sven Ubik CESNET (Czech Republic)
Hisao Uose NTT (Japan)
Giorgio Ventre Universita` di Napoli Federico II (Italy)
Steven Willmott UPC (Spain)
Adam Wolisz Technical University of Berlin (Germany)
Thomas Ziegler FTW (Austria)

Panel Chair:  Michael I. Smirnov FHI FOKUS

Demo Chair:  David W. Walker  University of Cardiff

Publicity Co-Chairs:
        North America: Hakki Candan Cankaya Alcatel USA
        South America: Sandro Marcelo Rossi CPqD Telecom and IT
                       Solutions
        Asia: Shigeo Shioda Chiba University

Publication and Web Chair:  Piero Spinnato Create-Net

Finance Chair:  Dru Lundeng ICST

Local Organization Chair:  Sandro Pera  Create-Net

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