AFIN 2009 - The First International Conference on Advances in Future Internet AFIN 2009

The First International Conference on Advances in Future Internet AFIN 2009


We are in the early stage of a revolution on what we call Internet now. Most of the design principles and deployments, as well as originally intended services, reached some technical limits and we can see a tremendous effort to correct this. Routing must be more intelligent, with quality of service consideration and 'on-demand' flavor, while the access control schemes should allow multiple technologies yet guarantying the privacy and integrity of the data. In a heavily distributed network resources, handling asset and resource for distributing computing (autonomic, cloud, on-demand) and addressing management in the next IPv6/IPv4 mixed networks require special effort for designers, equipment vendors, developers, and service providers.

The diversity of the Internet-based offered services requires a fair handling of transactions for financial applications, scalability for smart homes and ehealth/telemedicine, openness for web-based services, and protection of the private life. Different services have been developed and are going to grow based on future Internet mechanisms. Identifying the key issues and major challenges, as well as the potential solutions and the current results paves the way for future research.

AFIN 2009, The First International Conference on Advances in Future Internet, opens a series of events dealing with advances on future Internet mechanisms and services. The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, standards, implementations, running experiments and applications. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas:

Internet Mechanisms
Internet protocols
Routing /multicast, on-demand, QoS-routing/etc./
Access control /multi technology/
Algorithms for broadband infrastructure
Address management /locator-location paradigm/
Recovering and fault-tolerance
In-network processing
Distributing computing /autonomic, on-demand, cloud/etc./
Context-aware and context recognition
Data-centers and nano-centers
Information processing /distribution, discovery, sharing/
Virtualization
Overlay infrastructure
Intelligent Web services
Service-centric networking

New Internet tooling
Integrate IPods, iPhones, Xboxes, and TiVos
Deliver IPTV, Triple-play and Quadruple play
Knowledge and social networks through Google map, YouTube and FaceBook
Knowledge dissemination and discovery
Distributed gaming
Web 2.0 and Semantic Web
Interactive television
Virtual 3-D videoconferencing
Telepresence

Challenging features
Internet computing
Distributed feature interaction
All-IP versus protocol translation
IP simplified network management
Security, trust, and privacy
Network stability under topology change
Delay-tolerant IP networks
Trustworthy Internet
Mobile computing
Ubiquitous computing
Reliability
Resilience
Scalability
User and service mobility
Wireless QoS
Traffic engineering
Network planning
Intermittent services
Virtualization
Self-management and control

Internet services and applications
Internet and private networking
Internet and smart homes
Internet and Web services
Internet and tracking systems
Internet and ehealth/telemedicine
Internet and sensor networks
Internet and financial applications
Internet and kids education
Internet and body-networks
Network-as-a-platform

INSTRUCTION FOR THE AUTHORS

The AFIN 2009 Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and on-line via IEEE XPlore Digital Library. IEEE will index the papers with major indexes. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to one of the IARIA Journals.

Important deadlines:

Submission (full paper) January 20, 2009
Authors notification February 25, 2009
Registration March 15, 2009
Camera ready March 20, 2009

Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received papers will be acknowledged via an automated system.

Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11" (two columns IEEE format), not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found on the Instructions page. Helpful information for paper formatting can be found on the here.

Once you receive the notification of paper acceptance, you will be provided by the IEEE CS Press an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance.

Poster Forum

Posters are welcome. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the track/workshop preference as "POSTER : Poster Forum". Submissions are expected to be 6-8 slide deck. Posters will not be published in the Proceedings. One poster with all the slides together should be used for discussions. Presenters will be allocated a space where they can display the slides and discuss in an informal manner.

Work in Progress

Work-in-progress contributions are welcome. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the track/workshop preference as "WIP: Work in Progress". Authors should submit a four-page (maximum) text manuscript in IEEE double-column format including the authors' names, affiliations, email contacts. Contributors must follow the conference deadlines, describing early research and novel skeleton ideas in the areas of the conference topics. The work will be published in the conference proceedings.

Technical marketing/business/positioning presentations

The conference initiates a series of business, technical marketing, and positioning presentations on the same topics. Speakers must submit a 10-12 slide deck presentations with substantial notes accompanying the slides, in the .ppt format (.pdf-ed). The slide deck will not be published in the conference¡¯s CD collection. Please send your presentations to petre-AT-iaria.org.

Tutorials

Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. They should be about three hours long. One page with the title, tutorial summary, and a short bio are expected. Please send your proposals to petre-AT-iaria.org

Panel proposals:

The organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their guests and manage that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our deadlines. Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the panel, as well as short biographies.

For more information, petre-AT-iaria.org

Workshop proposals

We welcome workshop proposals on issues complementary to the topics of this conference. Your requests should be forwarded to petre-AT-iaria.org.