INFORMS Technical Section on Telecommunications

The Eighth INFORMS Telecommunications Conference

March 30 - April 1, 2006
Dallas, Texas

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The Eighth INFORMS Telecommunications Conference will be held March 30 - April 1, 2006 at the Melrose Hotel, Dallas, Texas. In the tradition of the previous conferences, the Eighth Conference will focus on the theory and application of operations research to problems in telecommunications, with particular emphasis on new and emerging technologies.

Topics for the Conference include, but are not limited to:

Network Design
Survivability and Reliability
Protection and Restoration
Network Management
Congestion Control
Access Control
Routing and Scheduling
IP Networks & Performance
IP Services and Pricing
GMPLS and MPLS
Optical Networking
WDM
Gigabit Ethernet
LANs, MANs and Enterprise Networks
Cellular and Wireless Networks

Mobility and Nomadicity
Loss Networks
Video and Multimedia
Quality of Service (QoS)
Pricing of Service
Bandwidth Exchange and Trading
Revenue Management of Telecom Services
World Wide Web (WWW) Applications
Teletraffic Theory
Measurements and Traffic Characterization
Polling Models
Protocol Analysis
Simulation and Queueing Models
Optimization

Guidelines for submission:
Three kinds of submissions are invited: proposals for (i) an organized session with multiple presentations, (ii) a single presentation, and (iii) a tutorial presentation. An extended abstract in PDF is required for each talk (whether it is a single presentation or part of an organized session).
Proposals for organized sessions and tutorials can be submitted by email directly to one of the program co-chairs for a quick decision. All single presentation abstracts must be submitted via the online submission system.

Deadlines:
The official abstract submission deadline has passed. However, submitted abstracts will be accepted and scheduled in the program as space permits.