Dear Colleagues, Please consider the following Call for Papers, Posters, Tutorials, Special Sessions, and Exhibition, as a unique scientific and industrial opportunity to promote your results&solutions, or extend your market presence in telecommunication areas ( http://ict2001.ici.ro ). Any contribution at the conference and distribution of the CfP will be gratefully appreciated. Sorry for multiple receptions, if any. On behalf of the organizing committee, Petre Dini ICT 2001 General Chair & Technical Program Committee Chair Cisco Systems Inc. SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS (New deadlines) ICT 2001 International Conference on Telecommunications June 4-7 2001, Bucharest, Romania http://ict2001.ici.ro Marriott Bucharest Grand Hotel, Calea 13 Septembrie, 90 Bucharest 76122 Romania Phone: 40-1-403-0000 Fax: 40-1-411-2972 Technical co-sponsors: IEEE, ComSoc Current Committed Sponsors: RomTelecom, Cisco, Ericsson, Canad, Topex, Global One Communications The organizing committee of ICT 2001 invites you to contribute with scientific papers, poster papers, panels, tutorial, and exhibition proposals, considering the new deadlines, as shown below and at http://ict2001.ici.ro. CONFERENCE TOPICS The topics include, but are not limited to (see the detailed topic list on ICT 2001 web site): Communication Theory Signal Processing Antennas and Propagation Microwave Circuits and Systems Optical Communication / Photonics Technologies Satellite and Space Communications Broadband 3G Wireless Communications Communications Networks, Switching and Services Network Operations & Management Mobile Computing and Networking Multimedia Communications Internet Programmable and Active Networks Software Technologies in Communication Systems and Networks Important deadlines: Regular Papers: January 15th, 2001 - paper submission February 15th, 2001- notification of paper acceptance March 15th, 2001 - camera-ready version and early registration Tutorial and short courses: January 15th, 2001 - tutorial and short course proposals February 15th, 2001 - notification for tutorials and course proposals March 15th, 2001 - delivery commitment and early registration April 15th, 2001 - tutorial&courses handovers Poster&In-progress papers: January 15th, 2001 - poster and in-progress proposals February 15th, 2001 - notification for poster and in-progress proposals March 15th, 2001 - camera-ready version of presentations and early registration Panel&Special sessions Proposal: January 15th, 2001 - panel and special session proposals January 30th, 2001 - paper submission for special sessions February 28th, 2001 - notification for special sessions and panels March 15th, 2001 - camera-ready version of submissions and early registration Exhibition: February 15th, 2001- notification acknowledgement for exhibitions February 28th, 2001- early registration for exhibitions Grant application®istration: February 28th, 2001 - potentail attendees' application March 10th, 2001 - acknowledgement to applicants March 15th, 2001 - early registration ICT Grant Notice: ICT 2001 realizes that economic circumstances may impact some people ability to pay the full registration fee, the travel and accommodation expenses. For this reason some special circumstance categories have been established for certain geographic areas, countries, and attendees categories. ICT 2001 will support within the limit of its special budget, the participation to the Conference of several students, young researchers, academic people, eligible under ICT 2001 grant circumstances. Priority will be given to co-authors of the accepted papers, when one of the authors is also fully registered. For grant application, see "Grant application®istration" in the deadlines above. Contact Addresses Mail address: University "Politehnica" of Bucharest ICT 2001 P.O. Box 15-79 Bucharest, 76250 ROMANIA General information: 1. Teodor Petrescu (UPB), mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2. Dumitru Stanomir (UPB), mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3. Grazziela Niculescu (UPB), mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4. Sorin Zoican (UPB), mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Full, posters, in-progress papers: Cristian Negrescu (UPB), mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tutorials: 1. Alexandru Serbanescu (MA), mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2. Andrei Negulescu (AT&T), mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exhibition: 1.Gheorghe Minea (Canad), mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.Calin Popescu (TOPEX), mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Special Sessions: mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Panels: mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sponsorship: 1. Petre Dini (Cisco Systems), mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2. Florin Filip (RA), mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3. Victor Croitoru (UPB), mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4. Eugen Borcoci (UPB), mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can find details about the conference either visiting our conference site at http://ict2001.ici.ro or sending e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] CONFERENCE CHAIR Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA, SUA STEERING COMMITTEE Hamid Aghvami, King's College London, UK Alessandro Barbagli, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium Ioan Constantin, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania Mihai Draganescu, Romanian Academy, Romania Ion Dumitrache, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania Florin Gheorghe Filip, Romanian Academy, Romania Sergiu Iliescu, National Agency for Communications and Informatics, Romania Kenneth Laker, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA Farokh Marvasti, King's College London, UK Adelaida Mateescu, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania Nelu Mihai, CPlane, USA Radu Popescu-Zeletin, GMD-Fokus Berlin, Germany CONFERENCE VICE-CHAIRS Eugen Borcoci, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania Victor Croitoru, IEEE Romanian Communication Chapter, Romania Florin Gheorghe Filip, Romanian Academy, Romania Dumitru Stanomir, Technical Science Academy, Romania TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIR Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA, SUA TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Ion Banica, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania Eugen Borcoci, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania Florin Gheorghe Filip, Romanian Academy, Romania Stefan Iancu, Romanian Academy, Romania Eugen Staicut, ICI, Romania Dumitru Stanomir, Technical Science Academy, Romania TUTORIAL CO-CHAIRS Andrei Negulescu, AT&T, San Jose, USA Alexandru Serbanescu, Military Technical Academy Bucharest, Romania INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIAL CONNECTION CHAIR Ken Roberts, Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA, USA SILICON VALLEY PROMOTION CHAIR Bjorn Frogner, NetPredict, Menlo Park, CA, USA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY CONNECTION CO-CHAIRS Cosmin Dini, Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA, SUA Manuela Popescu, Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA, SUA ROMANIAN INSTITUTION CONNECTION CO-CHAIRS Ioan Constantin, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania Ion Marghescu, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania Wildebald Szabo, University "Transilvania" of Brasov, Romania ROMANIAN INDUSTRIAL CONNECTION CO-CHAIRS Vasile Baltac, ATIC, Romania Alexandru Borcea ARIES, Romania Gheorghe Minea, Canad Systems Impex s.r.l., Romania Ion Stanciulescu, CNSCC, Romania Vlad Tepelea, ANIS, Romania ORGANISING COMMITTEE CHAIR Teodor Petrescu, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania GENERAL SECRETARY CO-CHAIRS Stefan Iancu, Romanian Academy, Romania Grazziela Niculescu, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania LOGISTIC SECRETARIAT Grazziela Niculescu, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania SCIENTIFIC SECRETARIAT Cristian Negrescu, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania Sorin Zoican, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania FINANCIAL CO-CHAIRS Vica Dini, Kappa-Form, Inc., Montreal, Canada Elsa Sztojanov, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania EXHIBITION CO-CHAIRS Gheorghe Minea, Canad Systems, Romania Calin Popescu, Topex, Romania PUBLICITY AND PUBLICATION Octavian Fratu, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania Simona Halunga, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania ORGANIZING COMMITEE Romeo Ilie, ICI, Romania Gheorghe Minea, Canad Systems, Romania Grazziela Niculescu, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania Florin Mitrea, Canad Systems, Romania Adrian Paun, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania Eugen Preotu, ATIC, Romania Iuliu Szekely, University "Transilvania" of Brasov, Romania WEBSITE SITE CO-CHAIRS Iulia Mirescu, ICI, Romania Ciprian Niculescu, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania Cristian Toader, Canad Systems, Romania Technical Program Committee(*) Akbar Adibi, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran Nicolae Alexandru, Technical University "Gheorghe Asachi", Iasi, Romania Tulin Atmaca, Institut National des T�l�communications, Evry, France John William Atwood, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Paul Walter Baier, Kaiserslautern University, Germany Michel Barbeau, Carlton University, Canada Stella N. Batalama, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA Leo Van Biesen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Nils Bjorkman, Telia Research AB, Farsta, Sweden Vasile Bota, Technical Institute of Cluj-Napoca, Romania Stanislaw Budkowski, Institut National del T�l�communications, Evry, France Vasile Buzuloiu, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania Iancu Ceapa, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania Dalton Cheng, Alcatel, Richardson, USA Jun Kyun Choi, ETRI, Korea Silviu Ciochina, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania Sorin Cismas, IC Designer, USA Luis Correia, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Stefan Covaci, GMD-Fokus, Germany Vladimir Cretu, Technical University of Timisoara, Romania Victor Croitoru, University "Politehnica" Bucharest, Romania Valentin Cristea, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania Nicolae Cupcea, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania Jaime Delgado, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Hans-Peter Dommel, Santa Clara University, CA, USA Rachida Dssouli, Universit� of Montr�al, Canada Neculai Dumitriu, University "Politehnica" Bucharest, Romania Fareed Sepehry-Fard, Solectron Corporation, CA, USA Alex Galis, University College London, UK Roch Glitho, Ericsson Research Inc., Montreal, Canada Claude Gimenes, Institut National des T�l�comunications, Evry, France Liviu Goras, Technical University "Gheorghe Asachi", Iasi, Romania Voicu Groza, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada Martin Haardt, Siemens, Munich, Germany Kadri Hacioglu, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA Abdel Hakim Hafid, Telcordia, USA Mahbub Hassan, Monash University, Australia Anders Hedin, Nutek, Stockolm, Sweden Alexander Latour-Henner, MTI, Ireland Eric Horlait, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, France Antonio Iera, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Sergiu Iliescu, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania Dan Ionescu, University of Ottawa, Canada Alexandru Isar, Technical University of Timisoara, Romania Wojciech Kabaci�ski, University of Technology, Poland Masanori Kataoka, Hitachi Ltd., Japan Hyun-Kook Kahng, Korea University, Chungnam, Korea Dae Young Kim, Chungnam University, Korea Venkatesh Krishnaswamy, Lucent Technologies Bell Labs, Holmdel, USA Paul Labbe, Defence Research Establishment, Canada Tal Lavian, Nortel Networks. Inc., CA, USA Ileana Leuca, AT&T Wireless, Seattle, USA Xavier Logean, Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Swiss George Lojewski, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania Kambiz Madani, Electronic Systems, University of Westminster, UK Ion Marghescu, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania Alan Marshal, Queen's University at Belfast, Ireland Takis Mathiopoulos, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Pericles Mitkas, Colorado State University/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, USA/Greece Antonella Molinaro, University of Messina, Italy Eckhard Moeller, GMD-FOKUS, Berlin, Germany Ioan Nafornita, Technical University of Timisoara, Romania Keiichi Nakane, Hitachi Ltd., Santa Clara, USA Victor Neagoe, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania Nikolai Nefedov, Nokia, Finland Cristian Negrescu, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania Grazziela Niculescu, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania Lars Olsson, Lund University, Sweden Guy Omidyar, Computer Sciences Corporation, USA Arogyaswami Paulraj, Stanford University, Menlo Park, USA Niovi Pavlidou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Dorina Petriu, Carlton University, Ottawa, Canada Emil Petriu, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada Reinhard Posch, IAIK TU-Graz, Austria Didoe Prevedourou, Intracom S.A., Greece Kimmo Raatikainen, Nokia Research Center & University of Helsinki, Finland Pertti Raatikainen, VTT Information Technology, Finland Tatiana Radulescu, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania Omar Rafiq, Universit� de Pau, France Mika Rinne, Nokia, Finland Byeong-hee Roh, Ajou University, Seoul, Korea Mihaela Sabin, University of New Hampshire, USA Alexandru Serbanescu, Military Technical Academy Bucharest, Romania Nirmala Shenoy, RMIT University, Australia Zoran Skocir, University of Zagreb, Croatia Said Soulhi, Ericsson Research, Montreal, Canada Pradip Srimani, Colorado State University, USA Eugen Staicut, ICI, Romania Maciej Stasiak University of Technology, Poznan, Poland George Stamoulis, University of Crete and ICS-FORTH, Greece Ray Sundararaman, Lucent, USA Ioan Tabus, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Nicolae Tapus, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania Yoshitaka Takasaki, Toyo University, Kawagoe, Japan Gheorge Toacse, Transilvania University, Brasov, Romania Sebastiano Trigila, FUB, Rome, Italy Fred Truchetet, IUT, Le Creusot, France Hiroshi Yasuda, University of Tokyo, Japan Oh Ser Wah, ST Microelectronics Asia Pacific, Singapore Bengt Zdebel, Telia Research AB, Farsta, Sweden Sorin Zoican, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania Wilmut Zschunke, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany Hans-Juergen Zepernick, ATCRC, Australia (*) Note: members of Steering Committee and Technical Program Co-Chairs are implicitly considered as TCP members
