ICIN 2010 – Call for Papers
Submission Schedule
| 23 April 2010 | Extended abstract submission |
| 7 May 2010 | Final deadline for abstracts |
| 25 May 2010 | Acceptance notification |
| 30 June 2010 | Speaker registration |
| 30 July 2010 | Conference paper due |
Nowadays telecom service providers are rolling out significantly higher capacity to their subscribers through high speed DSL, optical networks and various wireless network technologies such as HSPA, LTE, or WiMAX. Truly new paradigms and applications are already available: users can find all sorts of computing and content resources in the networks, made available in the palm of their hand and in front of their eyes. The capacities are there, but a globally effective economic model has yet to emerge: audiences and advertising can play an enormous role but will never constitute the entire cake!
The focus of ICIN 2010 is on the networks, platforms and user devices becoming the apparently non-localised place where everything happens; new architectures and emerging business models have yet to mature to support different paradigms. Industry enthusiasm today focuses on mobile applications and application stores but will this model last? Will further transformations replace current trends? How will edge/core interaction, access evolution, and packet core evolution affect new services? What will be the impact of evolved packet core deployment or circuit switched fallback? The internet and telecom networks were traditionally designed to connect people and things; looking forward, the management of information (semantic web) and of new forms of interaction (evolved social networks), while respecting privacy and enforcing security, will be equally important.
In addition, ICIN 2010 will also be the right time to explore how the telecom industry ecosystem can be a major player for sustainable development around the world, including its role in emerging economies and for energy efficiency.
The ICIN Community
In its 20 years, ICIN has become an established industry event, addressing the important role of control in supporting evolving communications services, including its sharing between devices, core and edge platforms. ICIN 2010 will highlight how the future will open up as seen from both technical and business perspectives. In this environment, the challenge of creating new applications is like creating rich new tapestries from an ever-changing array of materials, techniques, and dyes. New applications are formed by weaving together emerging network capabilities, computational power, network and customer data, and content in valuable new and different patterns. With its reputation for quality and soundness of debate, ICIN provides a unique opportunity to explore these new raw materials and processes, together with some finished products made possible in this continually transforming world.
ICIN is both intimate and global, attracting delegates from operators, equipment and software vendors, systems integrators, R&D centres and universities, from more than 30 countries.
Topics of Interest
Submissions that reflect new thinking and offer new perspectives will be favoured. Submissions should be original work that is either technical or business oriented; commercial presentations will be automatically rejected. Submissions that are regarded as recycled presentations from other events or conferences will also be rejected. Topics include but are not limited to:
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The Telecom Landscape and Business Models
Disruptive ecosystems or simply new really efficient business models?
How global internet SPs go local and regional telcos go global
New markets for networks (e.g. Energy, automotive, health, M2M)
Multisided business models and how to deal with cannibalisation
Using subscriber data mining as a tool for new revenue paradigms
Security, trust and QoS as revenue generators
Value Creation and Innovative Charging
Application stores and developer programs
Exposing and monetising network features
Revenue management including charging and billing
How telecom can add value to social media, user generated content and social networks
Multisided business models including advertising and recommendation engines
The Network Fabric as a Smart Platform
Network and services architecture
How new business models change the network
How new network paradigms change the applications
Information technology (e.g. event processing) for weaving together networks and applications
Future internet (ad-hoc networks, P2P infrastructure, overlay vs underlying networks, car networks, internet of things)
Security, privacy, trust and identity management
Cloud computing, virtualisation, grid computing
Combining web 2.0/mashup and telco technologies
Service delivery platforms, service creation and service interaction environments
Databases at the core and at the edges
IMS and beyond, LTE/SAE evolved packet core
Network control aspects of next generation TV and video
Content delivery transformation
Management aspects of service delivery
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Service
E(verything) as a Service:
I(nfrastructure)aaS St(orage)aaS N(etwork)aaS P(latform)aaS S(oftware)aaS Internet on mobile
Internet and mobile applications fabric
Content and media services (including IPTV)
Home network and follow me services
Personal networks
IMS rich communication services and beyond
Localisation and augmented reality on the move
(Interactive) gaming
Mobile payment, mobile commerce
Enhancing the User Experience
Open devices and CPE
Personalisation and customisation
User interfaces and user interaction
User centric design inside the CPE and in the network
User behaviour studies
3-screens and other display devices
The impact of multi-access and network complexity on services
User-based blending of content and communication
Transforming Lessons from the Field
Early implementations and trials
Global solutions
Social networks
Huge platforms
IMS and SDP experiences
IPTV and mobile TV
Content and advertising implementations
And many more
Telecom Enabling Social Responsibility
Regulatory impacts
New domains for regulation (content, internet)
Security and privacy issues
Green, sustainable development
Low cost and smart solutions for emerging countries with potentially worldwide acceptance
Overcoming language barriers
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Submission Instructions
Papers for ICIN must be written in English and submitted electronically through the EDAS system. A short (50 word) abstract is required on registration of the submission. A detailed extended abstract should then be uploaded for review by the Technical Programme Committee. Detailed instructions for authors on using EDAS are at http://edas.info/doc/authors.html.
For ICIN 2010 extended abstracts are invited for three presentation categories:
- Technical Paper Sessions - the core of ICIN, constituting at least 80% of the programme
- Work in Progress Sessions - shorter contributions that report on work still in progress at the time of submission of the extended abstract
- Demonstration Sessions - 'enhanced poster sessions' with the ability to present multimedia demonstrations
All extended abstracts will be peer-reviewed and submissions may be accepted for oral presentation, poster or panel sessions. All presentation formats have equal status and all papers presented at the conference will appear in the conference proceedings (maximum length 6 pages). The ICIN 2010 conference proceedings will be published (electronically) within the IEEE Conference Publications Program and individual papers will be indexed within the IEEE Xplore digital library.
It is the formal policy of the IEEE to own the copyrights to all copyrightable material in its technical publications. The IEEE Communications Society – the technical co-sponsor of ICIN 2010 – therefore requires that IEEE be the sole copyright holder for material published in IEEE Xplore®. The IEEE Copyright Form can be viewed at: http://www.ieee.org/documents/IEEECopyrightForm.pdf. Authors will be requested to complete the IEEE Copyright Form electronically through the EDAS system when they submit their full paper.
Authors who plan to present an accepted paper must complete their paid registration at the speaker rate by the stated deadline. There is no refund for cancellation but substitutions may be made at any time prior to the event. The speaker rate is only available to accepted presenters in the programme (one presenter per paper). Co-authors participating in the event should register as delegates. ICIN Events reserves the right to exclude a paper from the programme and from the conference proceedings and from distribution after the conference if the paper is not presented at the conference.
Extended abstracts should be submitted electronically through EDAS at http://edas.info/N8600. Extended abstracts and full papers should conform to templates that can be downloaded from http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/pubservices/confpub/AuthorTools/conferenceTemplates.html.
ICIN 2010 will include keynote presentations from industry leaders, providing insights into strategic thinking within the communications industry, as well as panel sessions providing the opportunity for interactive debate with invited experts. Proposals for pre-conference or post-conference tutorials or workshops should be submitted to the chairman of the Technical Programme Committee by the Extended Abstract deadline of 23 April 2010.
For further information contact cfp@icin.biz
