NTS 2014 - Special Track on New Technologies & Services

The New Technologies & Services Track will focus on all novel aspects of technology, applications and services development to help create pathways for the development of common goals in convergent networks environments. The purpose of this Track is to bring together researchers, engineers, and students from academia and industry, to discuss, to share their experiences, and to exchange and disseminate expertise and new ideas on theoretical and practical deployment aspects of new technologies, next generation networks, and new trends, architectures and protocols for multimedia and audio-visual services as well as smart services (user-centric, personalized, contextualized, etc.).
Over the last three decades the Internet has undergone massive transformations, migrating from a relatively focused scientific research network to a ubiquitous and pervasive communications medium for the masses. This change has been brought about by immense research progress in all layers of the network hierarchy, i.e., ranging from new applications, to service-aware networking protocols and hardwares allowing for a host of new research challenges and business opportunities.
Submissions are solicited in, but are not limited to, the following topics:
New generation Internet, Post IP and IPv6
NGN architectures, protocols and services management and delivery
Web 2.0 applications and IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystems)
Next generation systems & Service-oriented techniques
IPTV and content distribution networks
User-centric networking and services
multimedia indexing and retrieval
Personalized access to media systems
Context/content-aware services
Smart Homes and E-Health
Web Commerce & Services, Data models, Web searching & querying
Web Mining & Web Semantics
Web service based Grid computing and P2P computing
Advanced identification techniques (Biometrics, RFID, etc.)
Virtualization technologies for grid and parallel computing.
Interactive media, voice and video, games, immersive applications
Network virtualization, virtual private networks (VPN), and services
VoIP protocols and services
Web Performance
Support for Streaming and Real-time Media
Wireless Multimedia Services and Applications
Service Portability across Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Networks
Service Provisioning Platforms & Service Roaming
Traffic and Service Charging
Content Networking: Caching, Content Distribution, Load Balancing, etc.
Content-based networking: caching, distribution, load balancing, resiliency
Mobile/wireless content distribution
New Technologies & services Program co?chairs
Jose M. Alcaraz Calero - University of Valencia, Spain
Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
Munir Majdalawieh ? Zayed University, UAE