*** Deadline extended to December 5!!! ***

Call for Papers
Applied Telecommunication Symposium (ATS'04) 

Part of the 2004 Advanced Simulation Technologies Conference (ASTC'04)

Sponsored by:
The Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS)

April 18 - 22, 2004

Hyatt Regency Crystal City
Arlington, Virginia

The Applied Telecommunication Symposium (ATS) is an international forum for exchange of technical knowledge and presentation of original papers on the analysis of telecommunication systems and technologies. It is intended for professionals, engineers, software developers, managers, and others interested in cellular and packet traffic characteristics, analysis of telecommunication networks, and practitioners operating telecommunication networks. We are looking for innovative technical papers describing projects, applications, and research and development work pertinent to telecommunication.

The following tracks (with track chairs listed) will be held; the topics are representative of the track, but are not necessarily exclusive to that track:

Wireless
Chairs:
Dr. Hassan Rajaei, Bowling Green State University
Dr. Mohsen Guizani, University of Michigan
Topics:
CDMA
UMTS
GSM
2.5G/3G Wireless
Wireless Data
Cell Traffic
Network Performance and Engineering
Measurements
Special Session on WLAN RESEARCH with particular emphasis on QoS, routing, reliability, overload/congestion control, network security, and interworking with 2.5/3G systems.
   
Telecommunications Business and Regulation
Chairs:
Dr. George Kraft, Stuart School of Business, Illinois Institute of Technology
Topics:
Cost modeling
Call center operations
Billing models
E-commerce
   
Network Management and Security
Chairs:
Dr. Axel Lehmann, Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen
Dr. Wolfang Haidegger, Siemens/FTW
Topics:
Operations, Administration, Maintenance
Overload/congestion control
Load balancing
Influence of security measures on network performance
   
Networks and Multimedia
Chairs:
Dr. Aftab Ahmad, Norfolk State University
Topics:
Internet QoS Architectures
Network performance - analysis and simulation
Traffic characterization
Packet switch architecture evaluation
   
Modeling Techniques
Chairs:
Dr. Shakil Akhtar, UAE University, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates
Dr. Lev Sofman, Alcatel
Topics:
Simulation techniques
Acceleration methods
Traffic synthesis
Combined simulation/analytic procedures
Metro area design and modeling
   
Traffic Engineering with Protocols and Devices
Chairs:
Dr. Junaid Zubairi, SUNY at Fredonia
Dr. Chia J. Liu, AT&T Labs
Topics:
Traffic management and control
Traffic engineering architectures
Bandwidth management
GMPLS

Draft paper or extended abstract should be submitted to http://scs.proceedingscentral.com by November 1, 2003. Please indicate in the abstract for which track(s) you wish to have your paper considered for; note that the final track selection will be at the discretion of the ATS organizers. The abstract must include the author(s), e-mail address(es), and affiliation.

Deadlines
Abstract/Draft paper due December 5, 2003 (extended)
Notification of acceptance sent   December 29, 2003
Camera-ready paper due January 31, 2004

Conference Committee

General Chair

 Dr. Bohdan Bodnar
Motorola, Inc.

Co-Chair

 Dr. Hassan Rajaei
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH

Program Chair  

 Dr. George Kraft
Illinois Institute of Technology

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San Diego, California 92177
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