CNSR 2011 - The 9th Annual Conference on Communications Networks and Services Research (CNSR2011)

The 9th Annual Conference on Communications Networks and Services Research (CNSR2011) will be held in Ottawa, Canada May 2-5, 2011. This year's conference is a joint venture of the University of New Brunswick (UNB), Carleton University and other sponsors.

The CNSR conference is an international forum for researchers in all fields of information and communication technologies to present and attend high quality technical papers and presentations, and join discussions with colleagues from over 40 countries. The conference has amassed a long list of distinguished keynotes and panelists. Previous CNSR conferences have received technical co-sponsorship from the IEEE Communications Society and the Association of Computing Machinery and the proceedings have been archived in the IEEE Xplore digital library.

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper, Tutorial and Workshop Submission Deadline: December 31, 2010
Notification of Acceptance: February 7, 2011
Final Manuscript Due: February 21, 2011
Registration Deadline for authors: February 21, 2011
Conference in Ottawa: May 2-5, 2011

Manuscripts must not be published or currently under review somewhere else. Submission instructions will be posted on the conference website.

*In order to have your paper included in the proceedings; a final camera ready paper must be uploaded and a full registration fee (not student registration fee) paid by February 21, 2011.

Future details regarding registration and accommodations will be posted to the conference website as details are finalized.

Topics
CNSR2011 invites technical papers describing original, unpublished research in the field of communications, networks and services from both academic and industrial participants. Topics include, but are not limited to:

Antenna Systems
Architectures for Voice/Data Services
Communication Systems
Cognitive Radio and Use of Spectrum White Space (Special Session)
Digital Broadcast Technologies
Emerging Communication Technologies
Intelligent Transceiving Architectures
Optical Networks
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
Signal Processing for Communication
Software Radios
Telecommunications and Energy (Special Session)
Vehicular Technologies
Ad Hoc Networks
Broadband Wireless and Access Networks
Cross-layer Design and Optimization of Networks
Information and Network Security
Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems
Mesh Networks
Circuits for multimedia communication
Multimedia communication algorithms and architectures
Multimedia synchronization
Joint processing of multimedia/multimodal signals and data
Compression, storage, and retrieval of multimedia data
Mobile Communication Systems
Network Data Mining
Network Management
Network Quality of Services
Overlay Networks
Protocol Design
Routing for Quality of Service
Sensor Networks
Web Data Mining
Wireless Security
Adaptive Web Systems
Critical Infrastructure Protection
Cloud Computing
Content Distribution Architectures
Infrastructure/Platform/Software as a Service
Multimedia Application Services
Service Computing
Service Oriented Architectures
Traffic Engineering and Modeling
Utility Computing
Web Information Management
Web Services
Networking with mulitimedia communication constraints
Multi-modality devices and systems for multimedia communication
Quality of Service Control and Network Optimization
Queueing Techniques and Network Performance Analysis
Multicasting Architectures
Efficient Network Simulation Techniques