Call For Papers

SCOPE OF CONFERENCE
The 8th International ICST Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities will be held in Thessaloniki, Greece, 11-13 of June 2012, with the vision to bring together technical experts and researchers from academia, industry and government from all around the world to discuss experimental research infrastructures of the Future Internet.

TOPICS
Prospective authors are invited to submit high quality papers reporting results on activities related to the establishment of the research experimental infrastructures of the Future Internet.  In particular, the focus of the conference is on experimentation such as testing, verification, deployment, integration, management and federation of testbed facilities as well as experimentation oriented research based on implementation of novel schemes on research testbeds, including, but not limited to:

• Wired and wireless testbeds
• Ubiquitous network and sensor testbeds
• Monitoring in large scale testbeds
• Experimental facilities for large scale testbeds
• Large scale testbed federation
• Global connection and cooperation of heterogeneous testbeds
• Testbed and experimental equipment
• Next Generation Internet testbeds
• Next Generation optical network testbeds
• Testbed operation & management
• Innovative measurements methodologies & tools
• Testbed virtualization
• GRID, P2P and overlay testbeds
• Smart home and converged communication and multimedia services testbeds
• Configurable hardware/software platforms for testbeds
• Testbed tools for interoperability and benchmarking

WORKSHOP / TUTORIAL / INDUSTRY TRACK PROPOSALS
Proposals for workshop/tutorial tracks are solicited. Potential organizers are welcome to submit proposals to the respective Chairs.

Please send your proposals through email to the TPC chairs (cc-ing the General Chair).

For a tutorial proposal template please follow the corresponding link (Tridentcom_Tutorial_Template_2012.doc).

Workshop proposal deadline: 15 January 2012
Tutorial proposal deadline: 15 January 2012

DEMO/POSTER
An exciting demo/poster section will demonstrate the latest trends on testbeds experimentation and implementation. Potential presenters are welcome to submit their work to the respective Chairs.

Demo/Poster proposal deadline: 15 March 2012

PUBLICATION
Accepted papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (LNICST) series. The proceedings will be available both as paper-based copies and via Springerlink, Springer's digital library. In addition, the content of the proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in leading indexing services, including DBLP, Google Scholar, ISI Proceedings, EI, CrossRef and Zentralblatt Math, as well as ICST's own EU Digital Library (EUDL).

PAPER SUBMISSION
Regular papers are allowed up to 16 pages including all figures, tables and references. Papers should comply with the Springer LNICST format. For detailed submission instructions, please visit the conference website (http://www.tridentcom.org/2012/submission).

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