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ECUMN'02- 2nd European Conference on Universal Multiservice Networks. 8-10 avr. 2002
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ECUMN'02 a été organisée par le Club 31 de la SEE du 8 au 10 avril 2002 à Colmar.
ORGANISATION The conference is organize by SEE (Société de l'Electricité, de l'Electronique, et des Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication) and is supported by France Telecom, Alcatel, Siemens (other supporters pending). The Steering Committee and the Program Committee include more than 60 international experts representing more than 40 companies and universities from nearly 20 countries. CONFERENCE SCOPE The goal of the ECUMN conference is to bring together researchers from the academia and practitioners from the industry in order to address network and service convergence issues. The conference will provide a forum where the academia shall be able to present up-to-date research results and the industry describe emerging technologies and new research problems related to them. ECUMN'02 is the second edition of the ECUMN conference and follows the first successful ECUMN conference held in Colmar, France in 2000. The conference scope has been extended to deal to put specific emphasis on Service Provisioning, and Service differentiation issues. Graceful evolution of networks, new access schemes, flexible protocols, increased variety of services, hybrid networks reliability, are some of the present and future challenges that have to be met by the various technologies that will be discussed during the conference. INFORMATION e-mail : p.lorenz@uha.fr HOTEL RESERVATION The reservation of your hotel should be done as soon as possible because there is a lot of tourists in Colmar during this period. To reserve your hotel, you can reserve at yourself (see the hotel booking information link on the web site). TOPICS Evolution of Telecommunication Networks Architecture : Next Generation Networks (NGN), Active Networks, Optical Networks, Access Networks, ATM and IP Networks, Storage Area Networks, Network measurements and testbeds Protocols issues : Multicast, Switching and routing, Signaling, Mobility management, Security and privacy, Real-time and multimedia Service provisioning and deployment in a heterogeneous environment : Intermediation, Network design and planning, Network management and control, Traffic engineering, Interfaces and Reference points, Flow control Service differentiation : Real-time services over IP, Pricing and real-time billing, Traffic control and QoS, Service reliability, availability, Congestion and admission control, Replication system (caching, mirroring, CDNs, etc...) |