Workshop proceedings will appear through IEEE Explore.
Based on the success of its predecessor, the First International Workshop on CN and
FTTx, held in Dallas, TX in October 2003, COMNETS 2005 is
planned to cover the whole spectrum of issues related to community
networks and will integrate the main aspects of planning, design, implementation and
operation of community networks as well as first/last mile access
networking technologies.
Community networks have evolved during the last decade in North America
and, more recently, in Europe, from the concept of freenets or civic
nets to the idea of open access networks, and represent a dramatic
shift from the classical telecom infrastructures, service provisioning
methods and business models.
The design of community networks requires the solution of challenging
engineering tasks. The first
objective of the workshop is to address network technology issues. These
include the optimal combination of wire-based (fiber, copper, xDSL and
cable) and wireless technologies (WiFi, WiMAX etc.) for the access
part, the integration of the core/distribution and access networks, the
provisioning of end-to-end quality of service for multimedia and other
applications, the design of scalable applications and services tailored
to the bandwidth and the access quality.
On the other hand, CNs, often being created, owned and operated with
the participation of a local or regional government, are based on
specific business models and service provisioning methods. Thus, the second objective of the workshop is
to address the related business and
social issues that include business models for planning,
implementing, and operating CNs, legal/regulatory environment, planning
of e-government, e-health, e-learning services. Case studies from all
over the world are most welcome.
Original unpublished papers are solicited in areas including but not
restricted to the following:
- Guidelines for network design and
technology selection
- QoS support and service
differentiation
- Implementation/operation experience
- New technology testing experience
- Wireless community networks
- Wireline (PLC, Fiber, xDSL)
community networks
- FTTH, FTTP, FTTC and FTTN
technologies
- Legal frameworks: experiences and
new challenges
- Business oriented tests and case
studies
- Municipal fiber, customer owned
fiber networks
- Public-private ownership structures
- Killer applications for community
networks (e-gov, e-health applications, e-learning)
- Providing entertainment services
on CNs
- Case studies and experiences
Authors are encouraged to submit their original work through the COCUS system
(cocus.create-net.it).
Papers must be submitted by PST 11:59 pm 15th of July 2005. Papers can
be a maximum of 6 pages long and must be in IEEE 2-column format 10
point Times New Roman font. Additional pages would be considered in
exceptional cases.
Important Dates:
| July 15th 2005 |
Paper submission deadline |
| Aug 31st 2005 |
Acceptance notification |
| Sept 15th 2005 |
Camera ready papers |
| October 7th 2005 |
Workshop |
Organizing
committee:
General
Co-Chairs:
Ashwin
Gumaste (Fujitsu Laboratories, USA)
Hakki Candan Cankaya (Alcatel Research, USA)
Csaba Szabo (BUTE, Hungary)
Publicity:
Anupam Banerjee (Carnegie
Mellon University, USA)
Csaba Kiraly (CREATE-NET,
Italy)
Industry Liaison
Scott
Valcourt (Interop Laboratory, University
of New Hampshire, USA)
Steering Committee Chairs: Imrich Chlamtac,
CREATE-NET Research Consortium
Csaba A. Szabo (BUTE,
Hungary),
Co-Chair