CALL FOR PAPERS

IEEE International Conference on ATM
ICATM'98
June 22-24, 1998 - Colmar, France

GENERAL INFORMATION

The 1998 International Conference on ATM (ICATM'98) is Technical Co-Sponsored by IEEE/ EN. ICATM'98 is organized by academic, research and industrial societies will be held at the Technical Institute, Colmar, part of the University of Haute Alsace, France from Monday June 22, 1998 to Wednesday June 24, 1998. The city of Colmar is ideally situated in the eastern part of France, near the German and Swiss borders. The city of Colmar has been working on its own Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) project, called OASICE, including LAN interconnection, PBX interconnection and interactive video. An exhibition illustrating these topics will be organized for industrial companies and development research institutes.
In order to encourage closer interaction between academic and industrial ATM research communities, we solicit both academic research papers and industrial contributions.
Papers should describe significant research as well as innovative development and applications relating to ATM.

TOPICS OF SPECIAL INTEREST

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

MPOA
LAN Emulation
IP over ATM
VLANs
High-Speed Routing
IP Switching, Tag Switching, Fast IP, IP Navigator, Aris ...
I-PNNI
NHRP
MPLS
IP and ATM over xDSL
Multicast ATM and Internet/Intranet
Wireless ATM
IP and ATM Telephony
Practical experiences results
Migration from IP to ATM
User applications

These topics can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, standards, implementations, performance, security and confidentiality, traffic management, running experiments, QoS (Quality of Service) and applications.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

Mail four papers versions of a 2000-word extended abstract summarizing an original work. All the manuscripts must be written in English. The top of the first page of each paper should include the title of the paper, authors' name, position, address, telephone and fax numbers, e-mail of the author responsible for correspondence and a list of four keywords. The deadline for submission of all extended abstracts is December 20, 1997 with notification of acceptance by February 10, 1998. Submission of camera-ready paper is by March 30, 1998.
Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit full-length manuscripts for inclusion in the proceedings.
All submitted papers should be sent to the following address:

Pascal LORENZ
University of Haute Alsace
IUT - Department GTR
34 rue du Grillenbreit
68008 Colmar, France
Phone: 33 (0)389202366 Fax: 33 (0)389202359
E-mail: lorenz@colmar.uha.fr

Check our Web page at http://iutsun1.colmar.uha.fr/ICATM98.html for the latest information concerning the conference.

TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS

Tutorials and workshops provide overviews of current high interest topics. Proposals for half of full day tutorials are due by December 20, 1997.

ORGANIZATION OF ICATM'98

International Advisory Committee:

K. Begain (Jordain) - Mu'tah University
D. Bonjour (France) - CNET
J.P. Coudreuse (France) - Mitsubishi
B. Gavish (USA) - Vanderbilt University
J. Halpern (USA) - Newbridge
R. Israel (France) - IEEE
S. Kumar (USA) - Ericsson
P. Lorenz (France) - University of Haute Alsace
J.J. Pansiot (France) - University of Strasbourg
M. Potts (Switzerland) - Martel
Z. Mammeri (France) - University of Le Havre
S. Moyer (USA) - Bellcore
R. Muraine (France) - Newbridge
G. Pujolle (France) - University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin
S. Rao (Switzerland) - Ascom
A. Reid (England) - British Telecom
S. Ritzenthaler (France) - Newbridge
P. Rolin (France) - ENST Bretagne
R. Saracco (Italy) - CSELT
R. Schneider (France) - University of Strasbourg
G. Swallow (USA) - Cisco
H. Tobiet (France) - Clemessy

Local Organizing Committee:

R. Blaes
P. Lorenz
H. Tobiet
M. Toussaint

IMPORTANT DATES

Extended Abstract due: December 20, 1997
Notification of acceptance: February 10, 1998
Deadline for full-length camera-ready manuscript: March 30, 1998