Future-Net'09

18 June 2009, Dresden, Germany

Overview
The International Workshop on the Network of the Future (Future-Net'09), held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2009),  will discuss evolutionary as well as revolutionary new networking concepts from both a technical as well as an economic perspective.
The workshop is a platform for both clean-slate as well as evolutionary approaches for a redesign of the Internet. It will uniquely bring together approaches driven from mobile and wireless demands, network virtualization, network self-management, content and sensor networking and discuss these from both a technical as well as socio-economic perspective. 

Background
Today's Internet architecture is stifling innovation, restricting it mostly to the application layer. From a number of angles it appears that we have reached a point in the impressive development cycle of the Internet that now requires some major change. However, research and development in these areas is still at an early stage and the space of potential solutions is far from being explored.

Topics of interest
The workshop solicits contributions that report early results addressing research challenges in topics related to the network of the future. Particularly, the workshop aims to identify and address issues with a very high potential for significant impacts on the way the network is functioning and being used. The workshop welcomes submissions from both researchers and practitioners. Fresh ideas in the form of early results, position papers and systems papers are particularly welcome.

Submission details
Detailed instructions can be found at www.future-network09.org

Paper submission deadline
01 November 2008

Acceptance notification
15 January 2009

Camera-ready version due date
01 March 2009

Workshop date
18 June 2009, Dresden, Germany