The Nineth International Conference on Networks ICN 2010 April 11-16, 2010 - Menuires, The Three Valleys, French Alps, France Submission (full paper) November 10, 2009 Notification December 13, 2009 Registration January 10, 2010 Camera ready January 16, 2010 Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to a IARIA Journal All tracks/topics are open to both research and industry contributions. Topics: 1. Communication theory 2. Communications switching and routing 3. Communications modeling 4. Communications security 5. Computer communications 6. Distributed communications 7. Signal processing in communications 8. Multimedia and multicast communications 9. Wireless communications (satellite, WLL, 4G, Ad Hoc, sensor networks) 10. Next generation networks [NGN] principles 11. Storage area networks [SAN] 12. Access and home networks 13. High-speed networks 14. Optical networks 15. Peer-to-peer and overlay networking 16. Mobile networking and systems 17. MPLS-VPN, IPSec-VPN networks 18. GRID networks 19. Broadband networks 20. Quality of service, service level agreement [QoS/SLA] 21. Reliability, availability, serviceabiliy [RAS] 22. Traffic engineering, metering, monitoring 23. Voice over IP services 24. Performance evaluation, tools, simulation 25. Network, control and service architectures 26. Network signalling, pricing and billing 27. Network middleware 28. Telecommunication networks architectures 29. On-demand networks, utility computing architectures 30. Applications and case studies 31. NGN protocol design and evaluation 32. NGN Standard Activities [ITU, TMF, 3GPP, IETF, etc.] 33. NGN Device Instrumentation 34. Network Management, scheduling and policy 35. NGN policy-based control 36. Networks policy-based management 37. Management of autonomic networks and systems 38. Vehicular Networks