CALL FOR PAPERS: INFOCOM'98

IEEE INFOCOM '98: Gateway to the 21st Century

29 March - 2 April 1998 Hotel Nikko, San Francisco, USA 17th Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies

Call For Papers

Authors are invited to submit full papers reporting results, strongly substantiated by mathematical analysis, experiment, implementation, or simulation, in all areas of computer communications and networks; however, more qualitative exploration of important architectural issues is also encouraged. A more detailed list of specific areas of interest can be obtained from the INFOCOM'98 WWW site.

SCHEDULE AND IMPORTANT DATES

• Full Paper Due: 15 July 1997
• Notification of Acceptance: 31 October 1997
• Camera Ready Version of Accepted Paper Due: 5 January 1998
• Conference: 31 March - 2 April 1998
• Tutorials: 29 - 30 March 1998

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

The first page of your paper should contain paper title, author name(s), complete address (telephone, fax, email) for all authors, indication of who is the corresponding author, abstract, followed by key words and optionally one or more areas of interest from the list on the WWW site. The paper should be limited to 20 pages excluding illustrations and 30 pages overall. We strongly encourage electronic submission of manuscripts in Postscript format. Please consult the INFOCOM '98 WWW site for electronic submission instructions. Hard copy submissions will still be handled on an exception basis, but require explicit permission from the Infocom'98 Technical Program Chair who can be reached at: Professor Ian Akyildiz Technical Program Chair, IEEE INFOCOM '98 School of ECE, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia 30332. (email) infocom98@ee.gatech.edu (phone) +1 404 894 5141 (fax) +1 404 894 0035 (FAXED SUBMISSIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED)

STUDENT GRANTS

You may qualify for a Student Travel Grant to defray some of your costs for presenting a paper at this conference. IEEE Communications Society will award a limited number of Student Travel Grants to full-time students who represent their accepted papers at INFOCOM '98. Please refer to the INFOCOM'98 WWW site for further details.

WORLD-WIDE WEB

Information on INFOCOM'98 is available through the World Wide Web at USA: http://www.comsoc.org/~infocom98 Europe: http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/research/infocom98 Asia/Pacific: http://www.iss.nus.sg/INFOCOM

INFOCOM'98 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

• General Chair: Roch Guerin, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center,Yorktown Heights, NY, USA.
• Vice General Chair: Henning Schulzrinne Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA.
• Technical Chair: Ian Akyildiz Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
• Publicity Chair: Ramesh Nagarajan, Bell Labs, USA.
• Publications Chair: Abhijit Choudhury, Bell Labs, USA.
• Tutorial Co-Chairs: Arvind Krishna, IBM, USA. Catherine Rosenberg, Nortel, UK.
• Panels Co-Chairs: David Tipper, Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA. Vittorio Trecordi, CEFRIEL, Italy.
• Local Arrangements Chair: Fred Bauer, SRI, USA.
• Financial Co-Chairs: Ariel Orda, Technion, Israel. Ioannis Korilis, Bell Labs, USA.
• INFOCOM Standing Committee Chair: Harvey Freeman, LANWORKS, Inc., U.S.A.

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