Call for Papers

The IPOM 2008 is the eighth in a series of dedicated events to Operations and Management in IP-based networks. Recently there is a heated discussion followed by highly ambitious, thus, high in risk, international research undertakings and programs, GENI and FIND in USA, FIRE in Europe, u-Japan in Japan to name a few, aiming at defining the Future Internet. Building on the success of the previous events, IPOM 2008 focuses on network management challenges for the current Internet as well as Future Internet Design (FIND). We are particularly interested in network management issues related to virtualization, mobility, service provision, security, multimedia, wireless networking, and P2P applications. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* Autonomic Network Management
* Managing and Troubleshooting Network Mobility
* Traffic Modeling, Measurement, Analysis, Engineering, and Visualization for IP Networks
* Managing Virtualization and Managing via Virtualization
* Management Issues related to GENI and FIND
* Large-Scale Internet-based Attack Defense via Management
* Botnet Management or Being Managed by Botnet
* Management Issues for Intra-/Inter-Domain Routing
* Self-Configuration, Self-Healing, and Self-Management
* IP-OM Interoperability
* Grid Networking Management
* IP services and network Provisioning & Restoration
* Charging and Accounting for IP Services
* Overlay Networks: Design, Operations & Management
* IP Multimedia Subsystems: O & M
* Quality of Service Management
* Management of Wireless Networks


SUBMISSION

Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or experiences. Late-breaking advances and work-in-progress reports from ongoing research are also encouraged to be submitted to IPOM 2008. Papers under review elsewhere MUST NOT be submitted to IPOM 2008. Authors are requested to submit either long papers or short papers (work-in-progress reports): 1) Long papers (up to 12 single-spaced single-column pages, including figures, tables, references and annexes), 2) Short papers describing work-in-progress (up to 6 pages, including figures, tables, references and annexes). Submissions exceeding the above mentioned paper size will not be reviewed and returned to the authors. Papers must be submitted electronically through the JEMS conference management system (only PDF files are accepted).

PROCEEDINGS

The IPOM 2008 proceedings will be published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. For more information regarding manuscript format, please visit the author's instruction links at LNCS Springer. An extended version of the best papers of IPOM will get a chance to be published in IEEE Trans. on Network and Service Management.

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

* Paper Registration: March 21 2008
* Submission: March 28 2008
* Notification: May 30 2008
* Camera ready: June 20 2008
* Workshop: September 22-26 2008