[CFP] IEEE LANMAN 2015

2015 IEEE International Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN)

Beijing, April 22-24, 2015

Call for Papers

IEEE LANMAN has an established tradition as a forum for presenting and discussing the latest technical advances in local and metropolitan area networking. Continuing that tradition, IEEE LANMAN 2015 invites cutting-edge papers spanning both theory and experimentation. Papers are solicited in all areas of networking, but in keeping with the current research trend, this workshop’s central theme is Software Defined Datacenters. The intimate single-track session format of the workshop encourages stimulating exchanges between researchers. The workshop is expected to be a forum for discussion of new and interdisciplinary ideas on architectures, service models, pricing, and performance. Speculative and potentially transformative ideas are particularly encouraged, as are studies reporting measurements from real-life networks and testbeds. Papers are solicited on any LANMAN topic including, but not limited to, the following:

• Novel data center network architectures
• Software defined data center networks
• Data center network virtualization
• Name-to-name communications and name-based abstractions
• Energy-efficiency in data centers
• Routing and transport protocols in data center networks
• Data center network pricing
• Resource allocation in data center networks
• Performance measurement and modeling of data centers
• Inter-data center network issues
• Reliable data center networks
• Machine-to-machine communications
• Access networks for densely located users
• Broadband wireless access, including WiMAX, LTE
• WiFi: roaming services, architectures, and performance
• Metropolitan and residential networks and architectures including Ethernet in the first mile, EPONs, FTTx, etc.
• Network management related to edge networks
• Heterogeneous wireless and ad-hoc networks
• Local-area and metropolitan-area network security
• LAN-based and MAN-based applications (gaming, distributed computing, media distribution to and in the home, enterprise applications, ambient technology, wearable-computing)
• Impact of sensors everywhere including homes

IEEE LANMAN 2015 solicits paper submissions of Regular Papers (up to 6 pages) and Short Papers (up to 2 pages). The short papers will be presented in a poster session. Also, some of regular paper submissions may be accepted as short papers by the TPC. The page limits include all figures, tables, and references. All papers must be electronically submitted in PDF according to the guidelines in the workshop website http://www.ieee-lanman.org. The proceedings will be published by IEEE Xplore and will include both short and regular papers presented at the workshop. Best Paper Award will be given to the paper(s) with the highest technical merit. The paper submission site is https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lanman2015.

All IEEE LANMAN 2015 technical papers and posters must be associated with an author registration at the full rate. For authors presenting multiple papers/posters, one full registration is valid for up to three papers/posters. IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper/poster from distribution after the workshop (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper/poster is not presented at the workshop.

Important dates:
Abstract Registration:              Feb 8, 2015, Sunday
Paper Submission:                    Feb 15, 2015, Sunday
Acceptance Notification:           Mar 15, 2015, Sunday
Camera-ready Submission:     Mar 31, 2015, Tuesday

Committees

General Chairs

Dan Li, Tsinghua University, E-mail: tolidan@tsinghua.edu.cn

Suresh Subramaniam, George Washington University, E-mail: suresh@gwu.edu

TPC Chairs

Nicola Blefari Melazzi, University of Rome, Tor Vergata, E-mail: blefari@uniroma2.it

Vishal Misra, Columbia University, E-mail: misra@cs.columbia.edu

Publicity Chair

Yuan He, Tsinghua University, Email: heyuan@tsinghua.edu.cn

Publications Chair

Dan Pei, Tsinghua University, Email: peidan@tsinghua.edu.cn

Web Chair

Tian Song, Beijing Institute of Technology, E-mail: songtian@bit.edu.cn

Steering Committee

Jack Brassil, HP Labs, Princeton, USA
Maria Papadopouli, University of Crete, Crete, Greece
K. K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park, USA
George Rouskas, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA
Kobus Van der Merwe, AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park, USA