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!! New registration deadline: January 18, 2008
!! Extended submission deadline: January 25, 2008


                           Call for Papers

   2nd IEEE International Workshop on Bandwidth on Demand (BoD 2008)
                  http://www.csg.uzh.ch/events/bod08/

                In conjunction with IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2008
               http://www2.dcc.ufmg.br/eventos/noms2008/

                            April 11, 2008
                      Salvador da Bahia, Brazil

           "From Bandwidth on Demand to Networks on Demand -
        Bandwidth Trading in the Era of Network Virtualization"

Scope

The second BoD workshop follows the first successful workshop which was
held in conjunction with IEEE Globecom 2006. Driven by the recent
technical advances in telecommunications, especially in the area of
network virtualization and wireless mesh networks, as well as based on
the new potential of emerging peer-to-peer (P2P) and next generation
networking (NGN) concepts, the goal of this workshop is to take a fresh
and innovative look at the concept of bandwidth on demand (BoD).

The rapid technological progress in the area network virtualization,
mainly driven by new optical fiber technology and virtual router
infrastructures, is generating a new trend for "on demand" provisioning
of bandwidth or even whole networks for applications that require
short-term bandwidth assignments at large scale, such as large sporting
events or cultural open air activities. However, suitable business
models for "on demand" bandwidth services are currently missing.

The BoD 2008 workshop seeks original papers, both from industry as well
as academia, dealing with the technical, economic, and legal dimensions
of BoD mechanisms. The workshop will include presentations and
discussions of accepted technical papers, as well as invited talks and a
panel session.

Topics of Interest

* Technical design of scalable, reliable, and cost-effective bandwidth
trading infrastructures, including market mechanisms as a way to
increase efficiencies
    o Scalability of bandwidth trading mechanisms
    o Secure and reliable bandwidth trading mechanisms
    o IP-based and decentralized trading mechanisms
    o P2P trading infrastructures, distributed markets, P2P auctions
    o Management of bandwidth trading infrastructures
    o Provisioning of bandwidth on demand
    o Provisioning of networks on demand

* Economic studies and modeling of market and business models in carrier
and service provider networks
    o Economics of  networks on demand
    o Economic management of network virtualization
    o Game theoretical bandwidth on demand models
    o Cost and revenue models
    o Bandwidth on demand business models
    o Market liquidity aspects

* Resource allocation and provision in non-profit bandwidth trading
systems (economic modeling, incentive mechanisms, policies)
    o Neighborhood wireless mesh networks
    o Peer-to-peer Internet access sharing
    o Network testbed infrastructures (e.g., GENI, Planetlab)

* Industrial developments of new technologies that facilitate or create
impediments to bandwidth on demand
    o Network virtualization technologies
    o Wireless mesh networks
    o Network management aspects
    o Technical improvements in transport and data networks

* Legislative and regulatory issues related to the Telecom Act and in
comparison to other commodities markets such as the electric grid
    o Telecom legislation
    o Telecom regulation
    o Commodities markets
    o Legal issues of P2P trading infrastructures

Paper Submissions

Papers are solicited as full papers (in English), of no more than 8
single-spaced pages, each of which will be subject to a full review process.

Submissions must be in PDF and will be handled using the JEMS system.
Please refer to http://www.csg.uzh.ch/events/bod08/ for further
submission instructions or contact bod08@ifi.uzh.ch for additional
information. Those papers accepted will be published in the IEEE Xplore 
Digital Library.

Important Dates

    * Paper registration deadline:  January 18, 2008
    * Submission deadline:          January 25, 2008
    * Notification of acceptance:   February 15, 2008
    * Final versions of papers due: February 29, 2008
    * Workshop date:                April 11, 2008

Workshop Chairs

    * Panayotis Antoniadis, LIP6, France
    * David Hausheer, University of Zurich, Switzerland
    * Kohei Shiomoto, NTT Labs, Japan
    * Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Switzerland
    * Jean Walrand, UC Berkeley, USA

Program Committee

    * Aiko Pras, University of Twente, The Netherlands
    * Bruno Tuffin, IRISA/INRIA, France
    * Charis Kaskiris, University of California, USA
    * Chris Edwards, Lancaster University, Great Britain
    * Christian Hoene, University of Tuebingen, Germany
    * Costas Courcoubetis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
    * Dan Li, Huawei, China
    * George Huitema, TNO, The Netherlands
    * Giancarlo Ruffo, Universitŕ di Torino, Italy
    * Greg Bernstein, Grotto Networking, USA
    * György Dán, KTH, Sweden
    * Hajime Nakamura, KDDI R & D Labs. Inc., Japan
    * Hannes Hartenstein, University of Karlsruhe (TH), Germany
    * Huw Oliver, Research Consultant, Bristol, Great Britain
    * Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, UFRGS, Brazil
    * Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, UFRGS, Brazil
    * Lyndon Ong, Ciena, USA
    * Martin Karsten, University of Waterloo, Canada
    * Michael Menth, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
    * Oliver Heckmann, Google, Switzerland
    * Peter Reichl, Telecommunications Research Center, ftw. Vienna, Austria
    * Rahul Jain, IBM Watson Research, USA
    * Shigeo Urushidani, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
    * Shin'ichi Arakawa, Osaka University, Japan
    * Soichiro Araki, NEC, Japan
    * Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland
    * Vasilios Darlagiannis, EPFL, Switzerland
    * Young Lee, Huawei Technologies, USA
    * Zoran Despotovic, DoCoMo Euro-Labs Muenchen, Germany