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Third International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS 2009)

                Third International Conference on 
             New Technologies, Mobility and Security

       Technically Sponsored by IEEE COMSOC and IFIP TC6 WG

             December 20 - 23, 2009, Cairo - Egypt

                   http://www.ntms-conf.org/

Overview
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NTMS'2009 is the Third International Conference on New Technologies,
Mobility and Security that will be held from 20 to 23 December 2009 in
Cairo, Egypt. NTMS'2009 conference is technically sponsored by IEEE 
COMSOC, IFIP TC6 WG and IEEE Egypt.

NTMS'2009 aims at fostering advances in the areas of New Technologies,
Wireless Networks, Mobile Computing, Ad hoc and Ambient Networks, QoS,
Network Security and E-commerce, to mention a few, and provides a dynamic
forum for researchers, students and professionals to present their
state-of-the-art research and development in these interesting areas. The
event will be combined with tutorial sessions and workshops. Tutorials
will precede the main program, aiming at the dissemination of mature
knowledge and technology advances in the field. Two or more Workshops will
immediately follow the main conference, offering the opportunity for a
more focused exchange of ideas and presentation of on-going research
relevant to following tracks (More information and the full call-for-
papers can be found on the conference web):

Track 1 : Mobility
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Mobile 3G, 4G, LTE (Long Term Evolution), convergence (IMS, etc.) 
WiMAX, WLAN, DVB, WiFi 
PAN, BAN, WSN, UWB 
Wireless MAC protocols 
Media sensor and ad hoc networks 
Self-organizing of wireless networks 
Mesh networks and autonomic systems 
Optical networks and switching (new generation SDH, OTN) 
Satellite Systems 
Vehicular Communication Technologies and Systems 
Mobility management and Handover 
Scheduling Techniques for Wireless Systems 
Routing, QoS and scheduling 
Resource allocation management 
Analysis, simulation, measurement and performance evaluation 
Cross-layer network design and optimization 
Cognitive radio and smart antenna 
Testbed experiments, Mobile/Wireless Applications and Services 
Wireless and mobile multimedia systems 
Integration of heterogeneous mobile, wireless and wireline networks 
Mobility, location and handoff management 
Wireless services and middleware platforms

Track 2: Security
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Authentication protocols and services authorization 
Data and system integrity and confidentiality 
Availability of secure services 
Key Distribution and management, PKI and security management 
Trust models and Trust establishment 
Identity management, authentication and access control 
Deployment and management of computer/network security policies 
Monitoring Design for security, distributed Intrusion Detection Systems & Countermeasures 
Single and multi-source intrusion detection and response 
Traffic filtering and Firewalling 
IPv6 security, IPSec, Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) 
Privacy, contract agreements, and payment systems 
Prevention, Detection and Reaction 
Design, and Revocation of malicious parties 
Light-weight cryptography 
Quantum Cryptography and QKD 
Applications of Cryptography and Cryptanalysis in communications security 
Mobile code security & Security management 
Secure PHY, MAC, Routing and upper layer protocols 
Secure Cross layer design 
Secure naming and addressing (Privacy and anonymity) 
Network security metrics and performance evaluation 
Security modelling and protocol design 
Smart cards and secure hardware 
Biometric security: technologies, risks and vulnerabilities 
Information hiding and watermarking 
Vulnerability, exploitation tools, and virus/worm analysis 
Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks and countermeasures 
Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems 
Web, e-mail , m-commerce, e-business and e-commerce security 
Testbeds, performance evaluation and formal specification methods 
Virtualization for security and reliability 

Track 3: New Technologies & services
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New generation Internet, Post IP and IPv6 
NGN architectures, protocols and services management and delivery 
Web 2.0 applications and IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystems) 
Next generation systems & Service-oriented techniques 
IPTV and content distribution networks 
User-centric networking and services 
multimedia indexing and retrieval 
Personalized access to media systems 
Context/content-aware services 
Smart Homes and E-Health 
Web Commerce & Services, Data models, Web searching & querying 
Web Mining & Web Semantics 
Web service based Grid computing and P2P computing 
Advanced identification techniques (Biometrics, RFID, etc.) 
Virtualization technologies for grid and parallel computing. 
Interactive media, voice and video, games, immersive applications 
Network virtualization, virtual private networks (VPN), and services 
VoIP protocols and services 
Content-based networking: caching, distribution, load balancing, resiliency 
Mobile/wireless content distribution

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Submission Instructions
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Papers should be in English, strictly not exceeding 5 double-column pages
(3,000 words), in Adobe PDF format (which is the only accepted format for
NTMS 2009).

To access the full list of topics, submission guidelines, as well as venue
and travel information please visit: www.ntms-conf.org

IMPORTANT DATES
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Draft papers should be submitted by September 5, 2009 (Extended deadline)
Authors will receive the acceptance notification by October 5, 2009
Final papers for presentation should be sent before October 26, 2009
Tutorial Workshop (Instructor) Submission due : June 28, 2009
Deadline Notification of Tutorial & Workshop Acceptance : July 6, 2009

PROCEEDINGS & SPECIAL ISSUES 
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All accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Xplore.

The best papers of the Moblity Track will be considered for publication in 
Journal of Computer Systems, Networks, and Communications, Special issue 
on WiMAX, LTE and WiFi Interworking.

GENERAL CO-CHAIRS
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Khaldoun Al Agha - University of Paris XI, France
Gregory B. Newby - University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA

STEERING COMMITTEE
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Azzedine Boukerche - University of Ottawa, Canada
Mohamad Badra - LIMOS Laboratory, CNRS, France
Pascal Urien - TELECOM ParisTech, France
Stamatios Kartalopoulos - University of Oklahoma, USA
Houda Labiod - Telecom ParisTech, France

TRACKS & TRACK CHAIRS
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Mobility: Pascal Lorenz - University of Haute Alsace, France
--------  Joel Rodrigues - Institute of Telecommunications, Portugal

Security: Albert Levi - Sabanci Univ, Turkey
--------  Roberto Di Pietro - University of Roma Tre, Italy

New Technologies: Hassnaa Moustafa - France Telecom, Orange Labs, France
----------------  Amr El-Kadi - AUC, Egypt

KEYNOTE CHAIRS
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James Hughes, Huawei, USA

WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS
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Nicolas Sklavos - Technological Educational Institute of Patras, Greece
Ayman Ibrahim - Orange Lab, Egypt

TUTORIAL CO-CHAIRS
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Bertrand du Castel - Schlumberger, USA
Ayman Hassan - Orange Lab, Egypt

SPONSORSHIP CO-CHAIRS
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Amr Ibrahim - AUC, Cairo

FINANCE CHAIR
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Ibrahim Hajjeh - NEOVATION, France

LOCAL ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE CHAIR
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Ahmed Sameh - AUC, Egypt

PUBLICITY CHAIR
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Sherif Ali - AUC, Egypt