The CNSR2011 conference will take place at Carleton University in Leeds House (LE on Campus Map) in Rooms Leeds 118 and Leeds 124. The reception will take place at the Unicentre (UC) (Bakers restaurant, 4th floor). Please click here for Campus Map. All paper session information can be found in the FINAL PROGRAM.

Please park in P6 and enter the Tunnels and go right to Leeds 124 or enter Leeds House from the front door and head down to the lower level on the elevator.

Please note: if you arriving on campus from the Colonel By entrance, you will need to take University Ave all the way around the east side of the campus, past Athletics and then up to Campus Ave as there is currently construction outside the Residence Commons building which has Campus Ave running as a one way south.

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Campus directions to Leeds House

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.

Presentation and tour of the Communications Research Centre (CRC) on May 5th, 9am. (30 delegates maximum; sign up details below in RED)

We are pleased to announce the Communications Research Centre (CRC) has kindly offered a tour of its facilities during our CNSR 2011 Conference. Please join us in a presentation and tour of the CRC on the final day of the CNSR2011 conference, Thursday May 5th, 2011. The CRC is the government’s primary research lab for communications technologies. With over 200 top researchers, CRC has become a key centre of excellence for ICT research not only in Canada, but around the world. For further information please visit: www.crc.gc.ca

We would like to thank CRC for hosting this visit and thus enhancing and promoting the conference program.

**TO SIGN UP FOR THE TOUR**
CRC is a secure environment and therefore anyone visiting needs to be cleared through their security. Only a MAXIMUM OF 30 PEOPLE can be accommodated for the tour and it will be on on a first come, first serve basis so it is imperative you sign up as you COMPLETE YOUR CONFERENCE REGISTRATION!! The information as outlined in the registration process will be collected by CRC to have security clearances in place at least one month before the conference so PLEASE REGISTER BY MARCH 25th, 2011.

Canadian citizens will need to submit their names and their company affiliation and will need to bring proof of residence ie, drivers license.

Non Canadian citizens will be required to submit their names, place of birth, date of birth, and their passport information (country and passport number) and bring their passports with them to confirm their identity.

We can't accept last minute substitutes so please sign up only if you are guaranteeing your attendance.

Tutorials

We are pleased to announce the addition of TWO tutorials to the CNSR2011 Conference program!

Our morning session, presented by Dr Halim Yanikomeroglu (Carleton University), will be aimed at highlighting some of the emerging concepts and technologies along with the corresponding mathematical tools which are expected to facilitate the affordable provision of very high data rates with virtually ubiquitous coverage in beyond-4G wireless networks.

The afternoon session, New Frontiers in Monitoring and Troubleshooting of Next generation IP Networks, will be instructed by Dr Biswajit Nandy (Adjunct Research Professor, Carleton University and CTO, Solana Networks) and Mr Nabil Seddigh (CEO, Solana Networks). The objective of this tutorial is two fold: First, the tutorial will review control and management requirements for monitoring and troubleshooting of next generation networks. Second, the tutorial will discuss various new approaches to address the requirements mentioned earlier.

Further details on these tutorials can be found under Tutorials and to register please go to Registration.

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 14, 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.

CNSR 2011 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 Jan. 13, 2011.