[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this emails] **** Submission Deadline March 13, 2009***** --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers The 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Performance Modeling and Evaluation in Computer and Telecommunication Networks (PMECT09) To be held in conjunction with 18th IEEE Int'l Conference on Computer Communication and Networking (ICCCN09), San Francisco, USA, August 2-6, 2009. http://www.rn.inf.tu-dresden.de/hwn/2009/PMECT/index.html Extended versions of selected high quality papers will appear in a Special Issue of the The Elsevier Journal of Computer and System Sciences (JCSS) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scope: There is tremendous research interest recently in the convergence of wired networks and wireless access systems and networks. Especially, recent development in wireless communication technologies and mobile networks has posed various challenges to the researchers in the field of performance modeling. These challenges require effective performance evaluation tools, techniques and methodologies to design new protocols and robust solutions before a global and wide-scale integrated broadband infrastructure of convergent multi-service networks can be established towards the next generation of network with efficient support of multimedia applications. As a result, performance modeling and evaluation has gained increasing importance. The purpose of this workshop is to provide an international forum for researchers and industry practitioners to present their state-of-art research on performance modeling and evaluation studies in all aspects of computer and telecommunication networks and to exchange ideas and explore new avenues of collaborations. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Performance modeling of TCP/IP, Wireless TCP, wireless IP computer networks Performance modeling and analysis of reliability, Quality of Service (QoS)and performance guarantees Performance-oriented design and analysis methods Performance measurements in real testbed The effect on performance of admission control and congestion control protocols Performance modeling of Security Protocol and System in low layers and high layers Performance issues in Wireless Video, Wireless Multimedia, Wireless Streaming Performance engineering tools, e.g. for tracing and workload characterization Traffic characterization for wired and wireless Performance modeling of Quality of Service provisioning in wired and wireless networks Performance modeling of Routing Algorithms, multicast routing in wireless networks Performance analysis and modelingof security techniques and methods for heterogeneous wireless networks Paper Preparation and Submission: Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently under review in any other conference or journal, and has not been previously published. Paper length should not exceed five-page technical paper manuscript. Please see author information page for submission guidelines at WiMob 2008 website (www.lia.univ-avignon.fr/wimob2008). Papers should be submitted in a PDF format through EDAS. Submissions should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliations, fax and telephone numbers and e-mail addresses. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. At least one author of accepted papers is required to register at the full registration rate. Important dates Paper submission deadline: March 13, 2009 Author notification: May 1, 2009 Camera-ready papers due: May 15, 2009 Author registration: May 15, 2009 Conference dates: August 2–6, 2009 General Co-Chairs Dr. Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK Dr. Lin Guan, Loughborough University, UK Program Co-Chairs Dr. Waltenegus Dargie, Technical University of Dresden, Germany Dr. Iain Phillips, Loughborough University, UK Publicity Co-Chair Dr. Xingang Wang, University of Plymouth, UK Dr. Alan Grigg, Loughborough University, UK Technical Program Committee Alan Grigg, BAE Systems, UK Alexander Schill, Technical University of Dresden, Germany Ben Y. Zhao, University of California , US Bogdan Ghita, University of Plymouth , UK David Parish, Loughborough University , UK . Fernando Cerdan, Polytechnic University of Cartagena , Spain Hamid Sarbazi-Azad, Sharif University of Technology , Iran Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki , Greece Jianhua Cao, Ericsson , Sweden Khalid Al-Begain, University of Glamorgan, UK Laksono Adhianto, Rice University, USA Mazen Tlais, Institut National , France Mark Withall, Loughborough University , UK Q. Meng, Loughborough Univeristy , UK Rubem Pereira, John Moores University Liverpool , UK Waltenegus Dargie, Tech. Uni. of Dresden, Germany Zuriati Ahmad Zukarnain, Universiti Putra Malaysia