Best Paper Award: "Optimum Power Allocation for Sensor Networks that Perform Object Classification" by Gholamreza Alirezaei (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Rudolf Mathar (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

 

The online payment of registration fees by credit cards is available at the ITC SSEEGN 22 website. Please remember to select ATNAC as the conference.

Draft Conference program is now available.

Submission of final versions of accepted papers

ATNAC 2013 is technically sponsored by IEEE Communications Society. The papers will be archived in the IEEE Xplore digital Library.

Presentation guidelines for our conference are now available to authors - please follow this link.

ATNAC 2013 will be held in conjunction with the 22 International Teletraffic Congress Specialist Seminar on Energy-Efficient and Green Networking (22 ITC SSEEGN)

Keynote Speakers

Professor Franco Davoli, (Bio and Keynote), (Presentation Slides), Laboratory of Telecommunications Networks and Telematics, University of Genoa, Italy, will talk on "Green Networking and Network Programmability: a Paradigm for the Future Internet?"

Dr Iain Collings, (Bio and Keynote), (Presentation Slides), Research Director, Wireless and Networking Technologies Laboratory, CSIRO ICT Centre, Sydney, Australia, will talk on "Energy Efficient Cooperative Wireless Networks."

Professor Abbas Jamalipour, (Bio and Keynote), (Presentation Slides), University of Sydney, Australia, will talk on "Wireless Distributed Networks for Cloud Communications."

Mr Prasan de Silva, (Bio and Keynote), (Presentation Slides), Telecom New Zealand, will talk on "The Evolution to LTE-B: Developments in 3GPP Release 12."

Dr Murray Milner, (Bio and Keynote), (Presentation Slides), Milner Consulting, will talk on "The Health Intranet of Things."

Professor Neville Watson, (Bio and Keynote), (Presentation Slides), University of Canterbury (website), will talk on "Smart Grids and the Future Electrical Network: Towards a Smarter, More Reliable and Resilient Power System"

Tutorial

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Markus Fiedler, Head of the Communication and Computer Systems Research Laboratory, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden, together with PhD student Selim Ickin will present a tutorial on "Quality of Experience versus energy consumption from the user's point of view"

Software Tool Demonstrations

Demos of software tools for studying telecommunication networks will be presented during a special session of the conference. Details can be found here.

Important Dates
Proposals for Special Sessions Deadline : 1st May 2013
Full Paper Submission Deadline : 24th June 2013
Paper Acceptance Notification : 9th August 2013
Final Paper Submission Deadline : 15th September 2013 (Extended)
Early bird registration deadline : 1st October 2013 (Newer deadline)
(Following this deadline change, for any payment at the higher rate made before the 1st October 2013 will be reimbursed the difference between the higher rate and the lower rate during the conference.)

ATNAC will include a conference best paper award and best paper authors will be invited to provide a paper to the 2014 special issue of the Australian Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering.

(Submission of applications to student grants-in-aid has been CLOSED)

Topics

With the increasing number of emerging robust networks, the challenge to design new networking protocols and techniques are never ending. With the imminent deployment of 4G and other emerging technologies, the demand for better service and quality has never been greater. ATNAC has been the international forum for researchers and engineers to present and discuss topics related to advanced telecommunication network technologies, services and applications. Novel contributions are presented in the form of keynote speeches by international experts, peer-reviewed technical papers, and posters. ATNAC 2013 seeks to address and capture highly innovative and state-of-the-art research from academia, communications industry and standardization bodies.

ATNAC is an international conference for the presentation of research outcomes covering timely and relevant aspects concerning optical, wired and wireless telecommunication networks and applications. Contributions are welcome on all advanced research and particularly (but not limited to) on the following topics:

Networks and Management
Internet Technologies
IPv6 Mobility and Vehicular Networks
Mobile Cellular and Wireless Networks
Network-Based Applications
Optical Communications
Wireless Sensor Networks

 

Topic Descriptions

Networks and Management

 

General topics related to networks and applications
Broadband Network Management
Regional and Remote Networks
Next generation network regulation
Communication technology fundamentals

 

Internet Technologies

In the current and the envisioned future Internet, a variety of new technologies and applications is emerging. New networking architectures and design concepts are to be developed which consider interactions with the real world, as well as emerging issues like socio-economic aspects. A holistic view is necessary which takes into account the network of the Future, the Internet of services, media and enterprise Internet, but also the Internet of Things. However, there are still significant challenges for the theoretical understanding and on the deployment of Internet technologies.

The goal of the Internet technology track is to bring together people from academia and industry and to stimulate discussions on future Internet applications and future wireline and wireless Internet architectures to accelerate their development. We seek papers describing original, previously unpublished research results.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Emerging Technologies:

Virtualization technology and programmability of FI elements
Service-oriented architectures and service composition
Future Internet routing schemes or transport concepts
IPv6 and its derivatives
Economic Traffic Management
Mesh networks, ad-hoc networks, sensor networks, femtocells
Self-configuring and self-optimizing cellular networks
Dynamic Spectrum Access and Cognitive Radio

Emerging Applications:

Content-centric networks
Social networks
Multilevel and location-aware mobile services
Cloud computing
Software as a service
Grid computing
Peer-to-peer networks and overlays
Multimedia support e.g. vehicle-2-X communications
Internet governance

Emerging Issues:

Network application awareness
Network management systems and control plane
Coarse-grained QoS solutions for scalable Future Internet services
Quality of Experience
Support of mobility of devices, users, sessions, networks, and services
Security and privacy mechanism
Flexibility to realize new innovations

 

IPv6 mobility and vehicular networks

 

Mobility management and topology control
Location-based services and positioning
Micro and macro-mobility
Mobility, location and handoff management
Mobile and wireless IPv6
IPv6 security
Wireless broadband mobile access
ad hoc and sensor networks
Wireless multicasting
Wireless mesh networks
Topology control in wireless networks
Physical and MAC layer issues
IPv6 GeoNetworking
Cross-layer design and optimization for vehicular networks and cognitive networks
Security issues for vehicular and cognitive networks

 

Mobile  & Wireless Networks

The field of mobile and wireless networks is a rapidly evolving area. Recent advances in technologies for emerging mobile and wireless networks, including mobile ad hoc networks, vehicular networks, B3G/4G cellular networks, among others, have the potential to enable many new mobile and wireless services and applications that can profoundly impact our lives in positive ways.

The goal of this track is to provide a forum for the presentation of new advances, ideas, and solutions from theoretical, experimental, and applied research to address specific new challenges and emerging issues concerned with this field. We seek papers describing original, previously unpublished research results.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Wireless access and routing protocols
Cross-layer design optimisation
Nature and bio-inspired approaches to networking
Network-based mobile positioning and tracking systems
Cognitive and cooperative principles for networking
Inter-working, integration, and convergence issues
Mobile social and ambient networks
Mobile and fixed wireless broadband access networks
QoS provisioning and resource management
Terminal and network mobility
Traffic engineering, congestion and admission control
Techno-economic analysis and business models for emerging networks
Novel network-enabled applications and services
Networking standards and regulations
Security and privacy issues

Network-Based Applications

Network-Based Applications are a fast growing area for network services.

The goal of this track is to provide a forum for the presentation of new advances, ideas, and solutions from theoretical, experimental, and applied research to address specific new challenges and emerging issues concerned with this field. We seek papers describing original, previously unpublished research results.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Network-Based Applications

Optical Communications

Optical communication technologies will continue to be increasingly important in supporting the future Internet's expected scaling requirements of billions of users, their IT needs and aggregated huge bandwidths. Over the last two decades, optical communication technologies have increased the transmission capacity per fiber by several orders of magnitude, achieving Tbit/s transmissions. If the data traffic continues to increase at the current progressional rates, a further increase in the transmission capacity of several orders of magnitude will be needed over the coming decades. This implies that future optical systems and networks should be able to support capacities well over Peta bit/s. However, the current technologies have already begun to reveal several fundamental limits; the electronic speed limit, the Shannon and quantum limit, and the IP bottleneck. The future technologies must overcome these limits ensuring sustainable growth of network traffic. The optical communications theme aims to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of significant progress of research, development and applications of cutting-edge technologies in optical communication devices, subsystems, systems and networks.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Next Generation Broadband Access Networks, Subsystems and Systems

Optical Ethernet, EPON/GPON, 10Gb/s Ethernet, 100Gb/s Ethernet
WDM Access Networks, WDM-PON
Wired/wireless convergence, Telecom/broadcast convergence, IPTV
Hybrid optical-wireless access networks, Radio-over-fiber
Higher order modulations and OFDM in optical access networks
Fiber-to-the-Home/Fiber-to-the-Curve (FTTH/FTTC)
Grid/cloud computing over optical networks

Next Generation Optical Networks, Subsystems and Systems

Optical core network architecture, design, control, and management
Optical cross-connect/add-drop multiplexers, ROADM, and switching subsystems
Optical packet/burst/flow switching networks and subsystems
Large capacity optical transmission, WDM, OTDM
OFDM, higher order modulations and advanced modulation formats in photonics
Impairments mitigations and performance monitoring techniques
Digital signal processing in photonics systems
Free Space optical communications

Optical Fiber, Components, and Devices

Fiber design, characterization, fabrication, installation,, and maintenance
Photonics Crystal fibers
Polymer/non-silica fibers
Optical active device and modules
Optical passive device and modules
Fiber Bragg grating, fiber lasers/amplifiers, MUX/DEMUX, and demodulators
Silicon photonics
Optical MEM

Wireless Sensor Networks

The field of wireless sensor networks is now getting more and more mature, but new design concepts, experimental and theoretical findings, and applications continue to emerge at a rapid pace. Furthermore, there are still significant challenges for the theoretical understanding and practical application of sensor networks.

The goal of the sensor networking track is to bring together people from academia and industry who have interest in the area of wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. We seek papers describing original, previously unpublished research results.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Networking protocols: MAC, routing, transport, next generation
Cooperative communication approaches
Cross-layer design and optimization
Broadcasting, multicasting, geocasting
Quality-of-service, reliability and fault tolerance, coverage and connectivity
Security
Supplementary services: localization, time synchronization
Body sensor networks
Operating Systems and Software
Middleware and Macroprogramming
Information and query processing
Prototypes, field experiments, testbeds
Theoretical limits, network scaling
Novel applications