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Dear Colleagues,  

We would like to cordially invite you to join us at the ICCCN 2009 to be held in San Francisco, CA, USA on August 3-6, 2009. The event will provide you with the latest results on research, development and application of computer communications and networks!

We are looking forward to welcoming you in San Francisco!

Drs. Byrav Ramamurthy, Aggelos K. Katsaggelos, Song Ci, and Tilman Wolf
ICCCN 2009 General Co-Chairs and Program Co-Chairs 
http://www.icccn.org/icccn09/

----Highlights of the ICCCN 2009 Conference -----

ICCCN 2009 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
EIGHTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS

August 3 – 6, 2009
San Francisco Marriott, Fisherman’s Wharf
San Francisco, CA, USA
Sponsors: IEEE, IEICE, Microsoft, and Qualcomm 
http://www.icccn.org/icccn09/

ICCCN is a major international conference for the presentation of original and fundamental advances in the field of Computer Communications and Networks. It also serves to foster communication among researchers and practitioners working in a wide variety of scientific areas with a common interest in improving Computer Communications and Networks. The primary focus of the conference is on new and original research results in the areas of design, implementation and applications of Computer Communications and Networks. 

TECHNICAL PROGRAM

There are 44 technical sessions in total, including 15 sessions from 7 workshops. As part of this exciting technical/research program, ICCCN 2009 includes a sessions of presentations of top 5 papers (selected by Program Committee) and one of these papers will be selected to receive the "Best Paper Award" to be announced at the conference banquet. The paper acceptance ratio for ICCCN 2009 main program is 29.5%.
 
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Monday, August 3, 2009
Keynote I:  Green Computing: Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Information Processing Systems in an Energy-Constrained World
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Massoud Pedram (IEEE Fellow, ACM Distinguished Scientist)
Professor, University of Southern California

Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Keynote II:  Cyber-physical systems: linking sensing, networking, computation, and people
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jim Kurose (IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow)
Distinguished University Professor, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Keynote III:  The next wave in wireless technology: challenges and solutions
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Andrea Goldsmith
Professor, Stanford University
Co-Founder, Quantenna Communications, Inc.  

Thursday, August 6, 2009
Keynote IV: Why is P2P the most Effective Way to Deliver Internet Media Content?
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Xiaodong Zhang
Robert M. Critchfield Professor in Engineering, The Ohio State University

 DISTINGUISHED INVITED SPEAKERS

(1) Speaker: Prof. Nirwan Ansari (IEEE Fellow) 
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Title: Is It Congestion Or Denial of Service?

(2) Speaker: Prof. Yuguang "Michael" Fang (IEEE Fellow, NAE Member) 
University of Florida Research Foundation Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida 
Title: Securing Wireless Ad Hoc Networks: An ID-Based Cryptographic Approach

(3) Speaker: Dr. Krishna Kant
National Science Foundation / Intel Research
Title: Emerging Challenges in Distributed Virtualized Data Centers

(4) Speaker: Prof. Larry Peterson (ACM Fellow)
Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University
Title: Towards the Big "C" Cloud

(5) Speaker: Prof. George C. Polyzos
Professor, Athens University of Economics and Business 
Title: µ-Operators, User-Provided, Community, and Cognitive Networks in Open Spectrum Access

(6) Speaker: Prof. Weihua Zhuang (IEEE Fellow)
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo
Title: Cooperative use of P2P and Multicast for Video-on-Demand

PANELS

To be announced  

WORKSHOPS

1.   3rd Workshop on Performance Modeling and Evaluation in Computer and TeleCom Communications (PMECT) 
2.   2nd Workshop on Sensor Networks (SN) 
3.   2nd Workshop on Cognitive Networks and Communications (COGCOM) 
4.   1st Workshop on Multimedia Computing and Communications (MCC) 
5.   1st Workshop on Grid and P2P Systems and Applications (GridPeer) 
6.    International Workshop on Security, Privacy and Trust of Computer and Cyber-Physical Networks (SecureCPN) 
7.   International Workshop on Nano, Molecular, and Quantum Information Networks (NanoCom) 

WEBSITE and REGISTRATION

Please visit the web site (http://icccn.org/icccn09/registration.html) for the registration form and for more up-to-date information