QShine 2009 - The Sixth International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness (QShine 2009)

Call for Papers

OVERVIEW
The Sixth International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness (QShine 2009) will focus on the research challenges associated to the design and implementation of large-scale wired and wireless networks and distributed systems. The aim of this conference is to bring together research and practitioners to present and share the latest results in the areas of performance, configuration, cross-layer approaches, scalability, resilience and survivability of large scale heterogeneous networks and distributed systems. Following the tradition of the previous QShine meetings, QShine 2009 will feature prominent invited speakers as well as papers by top researchers in the field.

PAPERS
Original papers addressing performance optimization and Quality of Service support, ranging from the link layer to the application layer, over large-scale wired and wireless networks and distributed system, are solicited. Authors are encouraged to submit theoretical and/or experimental results of significance. The scope of the conference includes, but is not limited to:

Quality of Service provisioning in wired and wireless networks and distributed systems
Design, implementation or architectures related to QoS-enabled networks and distributed systems
QoS routing in wired, peer-to-peer, overlay, and wireless networks and distributed systems
QoS-aware service composition in distributed systems
QoS in WLAN, WPAN, WMAN and WiMAX (IEEE 802.11/15/16/20)
QoS in wireless sensor and ad hoc networks
QoS support across heterogeneous wired and wireless sub-networks
MAC protocols with QoS support in wireless networks
Topology control for QoS support in wireless networks
QoS and survivability in mobile environments
Scheduling, resource management, queue management, and admission control
QoS adaptation, modeling and measurements
Game-theoretic aspects in wired, peer-to-peer, overlay, and wireless networks and distributed systems
Incentive engineering in wired, peer-to-peer, overlay, and wireless networks and distributed systems
Pricing, billing, and resource allocation in wired, overlay and wireless networks
Traffic analysis, traffic engineering, and traffic shaping in heterogeneous environments
Security protocols and algorithms in wired, overlay and wireless networks
Scalability of large-scale overlay and wireless networks
Resilience of overlay and wireless protocols
Cross-layer protocol design in wireless networks
Cross-layer performance optimization for energy, network lifetime, and capacity
Important Dates
Full Papers due:

Notification of Acceptance:

Camera-ready Manuscripts due:

Conference Dates:
May 15, 2009

July 1, 2009

September 5, 2009

October/November 2009 (tentative)

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
QShine 2009 invites submission of manuscripts that present original material and that have not been previously published or under review by another conference or journal. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a PDF version of the full paper in ACM conference proceedings format, which are limited to 8 single-spaced two-column pages (including all figures and references) in a 10 point font. All paper submissions will be handled electronically.

PUBLICATION
All submitted papers will go through a peer review process. All accepted papers will be included in the Qshine 2009 Conference Proceedings. All accepted papers will be made available in, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library (pending) and then be indexed by Engineering Information (EI).

Research papers of particular merit will be selected for consideration of fast track publication in a special issue of ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (pending).