Ottawa, Ontario May 2-5, 2011

The 9th Annual Conference on Communications Networks and Services Research (CNSR 2011) will be held in Ottawa, Canada May 2-5, 2011. This year's conference is a joint venture of the University of New Brunswick (UNB), Carleton University and other sponsors.

The CNSR conference is an international forum for researchers in all fields of information and communication technologies to present and attend high quality technical papers and presentations, and join discussions with colleagues from over 40 countries. The conference has amassed a long list of distinguished keynotes and panelists. Previous CNSR conferences have received technical co-sponsorship from the IEEE Communications Society and the Association of Computing Machinery and the proceedings have been archived in the IEEE Xplore digital library.

Paper, Tutorial and Workshop Submission Deadline:
December 31, 2010 January 10th, 2011 January 14th (5:00 p.m. EST, FIRM), 2011

Notification of Acceptance: February 7, 2011
Final Manuscript Due: February 21, 2011
Registration Deadline for authors: February 21, 2011
Conference in Ottawa: May 2-5, 2011

Manuscripts must not be published or currently under review somewhere else. Submission instructions will be posted on the conference website.

*In order to have your paper included in the proceedings; a final camera ready paper must be uploaded and a full registration fee (not student registration fee) paid by February 21, 2011.

Future details regarding registration and accommodations will be posted to the conference website as details are finalized.

CNSR2011 invites technical papers describing original, unpublished research in the field of communications, networks and services from both academic and industrial participants. Topics include, but are not limited to:

Antenna Systems Architectures for Voice/Data Services Communication Systems Cognitive Radio and Use of Spectrum White Space (Special Session) Digital Broadcast Technologies Emerging Communication Technologies Intelligent Transceiving Architectures Optical Networks Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Signal Processing for Communication Software Radios Telecommunications and Energy (Special Session) Vehicular Technologies Ad Hoc Networks Broadband Wireless and Access Networks Cross-layer Design and Optimization of Networks Information and Network Security Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems Mesh Networks Circuits for multimedia communication Multimedia communication algorithms and architectures Multimedia synchronization Joint processing of multimedia/multimodal signals and data Compression, storage, and retrieval of multimedia data

Mobile Communication Systems Network Data Mining Network Management Network Quality of Services Overlay Networks Protocol Design Routing for Quality of Service Sensor Networks Web Data Mining Wireless Security Adaptive Web Systems Critical Infrastructure Protection Cloud Computing Content Distribution Architectures Infrastructure/Platform/Software as a Service Multimedia Application Services Service Computing Service Oriented Architectures Traffic Engineering and Modeling Utility Computing Web Information Management Web Services Networking with mulitimedia communication constraints Multi-modality devices and systems for multimedia communication Quality of Service Control and Network Optimization Queueing Techniques and Network Performance Analysis Multicasting Architectures Efficient Network Simulation Techniques

Last updated Dec 22, 2010.