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ICN
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Cancun
Country
Mexico
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Abstract

We solicit both academic, research , and industrial contributions&#046; ICN 2008 will offer tutorials, plenary sessions, poster sessions, panels, and exhibition opportunities&#046; The ICN 2008 Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press&#046; Best papers will be forwarded for consideration in a special issue of a journal&#046; A best paper award will be granted by the IARIA award selection committee&#046; <b>Keywords:</b> 1&#046; Communication theory 2&#046; Communications switching and routing 3&#046; Communications modeling 4&#046; Communications security 5&#046; Computer communications 6&#046; Distributed communications 7&#046; Signal processing in communications 8&#046; Multimedia and multicast communications 9&#046; Wireless communications (satellite, WLL, 4G, Ad Hoc, sensor networks) 10&#046; Next generation networks [NGN] principles 11&#046; Storage area networks [SAN] 12&#046; Access and home networks 13&#046; High&#8211;speed networks 14&#046; Optical networks 15&#046; Peer&#8211;to&#8211;peer and overlay networking 16&#046; Mobile networking and systems 17&#046; MPLS&#8211;VPN, IPSec&#8211;VPN networks 18&#046; GRID networks 19&#046; Broadband networks 20&#046; Quality of service, service level agreement [QoS/SLA] 21&#046; Reliability, availability, serviceabiliy [RAS] 22&#046; Traffic engineering, metering, monitoring 23&#046; Voice over IP services 24&#046; Performance evaluation, tools, simulation 25&#046; Network, control and service architectures 26&#046; Network signalling, pricing and billing 27&#046; Network middleware 28&#046; Telecommunication networks architectures 29&#046; On&#8211;demand networks, utility computing architectures 30&#046; Applications and case studies 31&#046; NGN protocol design and evaluation 32&#046; NGN Standard Activities [ITU, TMF, 3GPP, IETF, etc&#046;] 33&#046; NGN Device Instrumentation 34&#046; Network Management, scheduling and policy 35&#046; NGN policy&#8211;based control 36&#046; Networks policy&#8211;based management 37&#046; Management of autonomic networks and systems