ICQT'09 2009 - International ICQT Workshop Series on Advanced Internet Charging and QoS Technology ICQT'09

6th International Workshop on Internet Charging and QoS Technologies (ICQT'09)
ICQT'09 is the sixth event in the series of international workshops on "Internet Charging and QoS Technologies", following the highly successful ICQT workshops in Vienna 2001, Zurich 2002, Munich 2003, Barcelona 2004, and St. Malo 2006. This year the workshop will be organized on May 15, 2009, as a full-day event on the last day of the IFIP conference Networking 2009 which will be held May 11-15, 2009, in Aachen, Germany.

Call for Papers
IP-based Next Generation Networks have gradually become reality, creating numerous challenges for all stakeholders in the ICT sector. While future business models and regulatory frameworks are still under discussion, the provision of efficient charging support for the variety of upcoming network technologies, including fixed networks, wireless access networks, and mobile user support, has become of paramount importance for realizing the economic potential of the future convergent architectures and services.

The resulting combination of technical and economic perspectives drives many relevant research topics for application developers, business architects, network providers, service providers, and customers. Especially the identification of novel service charging solutions, the investigation and evaluation of their technical feasibility, and the consolidation of technical and economic mechanisms for enabling a fast, guaranteed, and efficient charging of services is of fundamental importance for the future evolution of the Internet and the telecommunications business in general, and as such the central focus of the international ICQT workshop series.

The focus of ICQT'09 is on Telecommunication Economics from a broad interdisciplinary perspective, concentrating on the economics of future information and communication infrastructures as well as the close relation between economics and technologies in support of charging, quality-based pricing and business modeling.

Authors are invited to submit work on issues related to, but not limited by, the following list of topics:

Telecommunication Economics
Internet pricing, tariffing, and billing
Monitoring, measuring, and accounting
Pricing mobile and wireless services
Interdomain pricing approaches
Charging for QoS, QoE and security
Network neutrality and charging
Network economics and economic models for the Internet
Service charging models, including grid and web services
Charging technologies for NGN and IMS
Cost, business and competition models for providers
Management of Service Level Agreements
Security mechanisms for charging and accounting
Regulatory and legal aspects of SLAs and contracts

Paper Submission
Full papers are solicited in English, of no more than 12 single-spaced pages, each of which will be subject to a full peer review process. Submissions should already follow the author guidelines as specified below and must include: title, authors, affiliations, 100-word abstract, and a list of at most five keywords. The corresponding author should be identified, including name, position, mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address. An electronic, PDF-based submission of papers is mandatory.

The conference proceedings will be published as hard-copy and electronically by Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series and will be available during the event. In preparing their manuscript, authors are obliged to follow the LNCS guidelines strictly and without exception, including the 12 page limit. The Springer template file is available in both Latex2e and Microsoft Word format. Post-conference journal publication of selected papers is under preparation.

To submit a paper for ICQT'09, please login yourself at EDAS, navigate to the ICQT'09 workshop entry and click on the "Submit a paper" icon, which is located at the far right in that line. Or directly click on the link shown here, which requires your login as well.

General Information
The workshop will be organized on May 15, 2009, as a full-day event on the last day of the IFIP conference Networking 2009 which will be held May 11-15, 2009, in Aachen, Germany. The registration for this workshop is handled within the framework of Networking 2009, see the registration site for further details.