FutureNet 2011 - IEEE ICC 2011 Workshop on Future Network (FutureNet IV)

Today's Internet architecture is stifling innovation; restricting it mostly to the application layer. From a number of angles it appears that we have reached a point in the impressive development cycle of the Internet that now requires some major change.
In the past few years, there has been a renewed worldwide interest in future Internet architectures, leading to early-stage research programs such as NSF FIND/FIA in the US, FP7 in Europe and NWGN in Japan. The objective of these R&D programs is to evolve or re-architect the Internet protocol to improve security and usability, incorporate new optical and wireless technologies and better serve the next generation of content, mobile and pervasive network services. The International Workshop on the Network of the Future (FutureNet) is a platform for both evolutionary and clean-slate approaches for redesign of the Internet. The event will uniquely bring together approaches driven by mobile and wireless requirements, network virtualization, network self-management, content and sensor networking and discuss these from both a technical as well as socio-economic perspective.
Topics Of Interest
We solicit contributions that report early results addressing research challenges n topics related to the network of the future. Particularly, we want to identify and address issues with a very high potential for significant impacts on the way the network is functioning and being used. The workshop welcomes submissions from both researchers and practitioners but fresh ideas in the form of early results, position papers and systems papers are particularly welcome.

Areas of interest include but are not limited to:
Re-design and re-evaluation of today’s architectural principles
End-to-end virtualization of the network
Programmable network equipment such as routers
Alternatives to established technologies such as routing
New optical layer networking technologies
Self-management of networks
New media-aware transport services
New approaches to network security and user privacy
Mechanisms to interconnect extremely heterogeneous edge networks
Technology based on new communication paradigms
Enabling technologies for the Internets of Things
Machine-to-machine networking
Publish/subscribe network architectures
Policy and social issues in future architectures
Paper Submission Guidelines
All submissions to ICC 2011 Workshop on FutureNet IV should be written in English with a maximum paper length of five (5) printed pages (10-point font) including figures. Authors may submit an additional page (i.e., 6 pages total) if they agree to provide a one-page fee if the paper is accepted for publication. You may use the standard IEEE conference templates for Microsoft Word or LaTeX formats found at the IEEE website. PDF versions in A4 format have to be submitted via EDAS. Please follow the updates at the ICC 2011 Website .
Committee
General Co-chairs:
Masaki Aida (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
Joe Touch (ISI)
Rolf Winter (NEC Labs Europe)
Steering Comittee
Deep Medhi (University of Missouri)
Ryutaro Kawamura (NTT Labs)
Dipankar Raychaudhuri (Rutgers University)
TPC
Dirk Kutscher (NEC Labs Europe)
Gen Motoyoshi (NEC)
Joerg Ott (TKK)
Klaus Wehrle (RWTH Aachen)
Pasi Sarolahti (Aalto University)
Ryoichi Shinkuma, Kyoto University
Wolfgang Muehlbauer (ETH Zurich)
Yan Ma (BUPT)
Yoshiaki Kiriha (NICT/NEC)