Edited by Fang He at 13:23 in 09/11/2007

Principles, Systems and Applications of IP Telecommunications (IPTComm'08)

• July 1 & 2, 2008 Heidelberg, Germany
• http://iptcomm.org/

Authors are invited to submit papers in the following and related areas:

• Convergent Services
• Collaboration including interactive television, networked music performance and multiplayer games
• Feature integration and interference
• Presence and event notification
• Service creation environments and languages
• Service architectures (e.g. Parlay, SIP Servlets, IMS) VoIP, NGN and IMS Security
• Intrusion and anomaly detection and protection for VoIP, NGN and IMS systems
• Denial of Service detection and prevention
• Security models of voice, video and text over IP services
• Detection, mitigation and prevention of SPIT, SPIM, Vishing
• Fraud detection and prevention
• Threat and vulnerability analyses of VoIP, NGN and IMS systems
• Content security and protection of media flows
• Security of VoIP supporting systems such as AAA and ENUM
• End-to-end security schemes
• Inter-provider trust and verification schemes
• Emerging security aspects in standards Management, Resilience and QoS
• Management of VoIP infrastructure and services
• P2P overlays for future telecommunication systems
• Resilience architectures (including P2P schemes)
• Traffic monitoring and QoS measurement of VoIP, NGN and IMS traffic
• Monitoring and testing tools for VoIP, NGN and IMS infrastructures
• QoS for voice and video
• VoIP and IMS system performance, reliability and scalability
• Load balancing for VoIP, NGN and IMS systems
• High availability solutions for VoIP, NGN and IMS systems Billing and Regulatory aspects
• Billing, AAA
• Emergency services (individual to authority, authority to individuals and to authority
• Regulatory aspects of IP-based telecommunication systems (NGN, IMS) and future evolutions to P2P
• Lawful intercept for VoIP, NGN and IMS systems (with open questions for P2P-based systems)

Author Information

IPTComm solicits full papers up to 12 pages in length, in two-column ACM conference format. All submissions must describe original research, not published nor currently under review for another conference or journal. The program committee will referee all papers, and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and in the ACM Digital Library (ACM approval pending).

Important Dates

Paper submission	28 March 2008
Notification of acceptance	2 May 2008
Camera ready papers	30 May 2008
Conference dates	1-2 July 2008

 

Conference Co-Chairs

Saverio Niccolini (NEC Laboratories Europe)
Pamela Zave (AT&T Labs Research)

TPC Co-chairs

Henning Schulzrinne (Columbia University)
Radu State (INRIA-LORIA)

Publicity Chair

Gregory W. Bond (AT&T Labs Research)