(AINTEC) 2009

The 5th Asian Internet Engineering Conference (AINTEC) provides an international technical forum for experts from industry and academia, especially aiming at addressing issues pertinent to the Asia and Pacific region with vast diversities of socio-economic and networking conditions while inviting high quality and recent research results from the global Internet research community. AINTEC 2009 follows the four successful editions held in Thailand.

The conference is single-track and features a technical program with significant opportunities for individual and small-group discussions among a diverse set of participants. The technical sessions will include invited talks by leading experts, presentations of papers, demos, posters and pre-conference activities ( 20th Asian School on Computer Science on 15-16 November 2009; Future Internet Workshop on 17 November 2009 ).

AINTEC 2009 solicits high quality papers that improve digital communications in diverse situations, represented as "Challenged Networks".

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to the followings:

Networking technologies in developing regions
Emergency networks and dependable infrastructures
Ad hoc and sensor networking and applications
Wireless and mobile networks
Delay and disruption tolerant networks
Autonomic and situated communications
New networking paradigm and architecture
Location management and positioning
Internet measurement, analysis and modeling
Peer-to-peer and overlay networks
Multimedia systems and applications
Network operations and management

Submissions must be original, unpublished, and not have been submitted to another conference or journal for publication. Papers must be submitted in electronic format following the instructions provided on the AINTEC web site and must be less than 8 pages in the 10pts "SIGCOMM format". AINTEC' 09 proceedings will be included in the ACM Digital Library. Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted for publication in the conference proceedings, at least one of the authors will register and present the paper in the conference.

Guidelines for Submission of Camera Ready Version and Author Registration:

The conference proceedings will be published by the ACM Digital Library. The deadline for submitting the camera-ready version of your paper is October 8, 2009. Please try to submit it earlier if possible.

Completed copyright form:

Manuscripts must be accompanied by a signed copyright form.
Please download the form from: http://www.acm.org/pubs/copyright_form.html

The form must be signed by the first named author. Send the form by postal mail or FAX to the following address:

Wit Hmone Tin Latt
Internet Education and Research Laboratory (intERLab)
Asian Institute of Technology,
P.O.Box 4, Klong Luang,
Pathumthani 12120, Thailand
Fax: +66 (0) 2524 5375 or +66 (0) 2524 6618
Manuscript PDF files:

b-1) a PDF file of your paper (see the formatting guideline)
b-2) a text file of meta data used for the Digital Library

In addition to the paper, a file in text format containing the title of the paper,
name(s) of author(s), affiliation(s) and e-mail address(es), paper abstract, and the ACM Computing Classification sections (Categories, General Terms and Keywords)
MUST be submitted. (see "http://www.acm.org/class/1998/" for the ACM Computing Classification.)
Please submit these from the following page:
http://www.interlab.ait.ac.th/aintec09/camera-ready/fileupload.php
Conference Registration

For accepted papers, at least one of the authors has to register and present the paper in the conference. Please Click here for Conference Registration.

** Important note**: Authors of accepted papers must pay for their registration on or before the camera ready version deadline.

Formatting Guidelines:
All submissions must adhere to the format and size constraints indicated below. Submissions that do not comply with these requirements will not be reviewed.

Submissions MUST be no more than eight (8) pages in 10 point Times Roman (or equivalent font).
This length includes everything: figures, tables, references, appendices and so forth.
Submissions MUST follow ACM guidelines: double column, with each column 9.25" by 3.33", 0.33" space between columns.
NOTE: For the submission, you are strongly encouraged to use the modified 10pt ACM SIG-alternate latex template available "here"
The paper MUST be submitted in PDF format.
Make sure that the output has been formatted for printing on LETTER (8.5" by 11") size paper.
No header or footer information (page numbers, names, report numbers, etc.) should appear on the pages.
The title of the paper, name(s) of author(s), affiliation(s) and e-mail address(es) should appear on the first page (either at the top of the page or in a footnote).
Right after the abstract and before the introduction, there must be the mandatory ACM Computing Classification sections (Categories, General Terms and Keywords).
(see "http://www.acm.org/class/1998/" for teh ACM Computing Classification.)
The ACM copyright strip should be present on the paper's front page and include the following information:

AINTEC'09, November 18-20, 2009, Bangkok, Thailand.
Copyright 2009 ACM 978-1-60558-614-4/09/11 ...$10.00.

You can add the following lines to the latex source file.

\conferenceinfo{AINTEC'09,} {November 18--20, 2009, Bangkok, Thailand.}
\CopyrightYear{2009}
\crdata{978-1-60558-614-4/09/11}

For more details, please refer to the SIGCOMM CCR default author instructions at
http://www.sigcomm.org/publish/ccr-author-information
Note that the text size is 10pt in the AINTEC 2009 proceedings

Important Dates:

Title and abstract registration	: July 15, 2009 23:59 UTC (extended to July 22, 2009 23:59 UTC)
Full paper submission	: July 22, 2009 23:59 UTC (extended to July 29, 2009 23:59 UTC)
Acceptance notification	: September 17, 2009
Submission of Camera-ready	: October 8, 2009 (extended to October 9, 2009 23:59 UTC)

Conference	November 18-20, 2009 AINTEC 2009

Scientific Advisory Committee:
Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK
Jun Murai, WIDE Project and Keio University, Japan
Keith W. Ross, Polytechnic University of New York, USA
Randy Bush, Internet Initiative Japan Inc., USA
Surasak Sang-uanpong, APAN-TH, Thailand

Steering Commitee:
Kanchana Kanchanasut, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
Kenjiro Cho, IIJ and WIDE Project, Japan
Martin May, Thomson, France
Philippe Jacquet, INRIA, France
Serge Fdida, UPMC, France

General Chair:
Kanchana Kanchanasut, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand

Program Committee Co-Chairs:
Jens Schmitt, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Kensuke Fukuda , NII, Japan
Mario Gerla ,UCLA, USA

Program Committee:
Aki Nakao, Univ. of Tokyo/NICT, Japan
Andrea Passarella, IIT-CNR, Italy
Aruna Seneviratne, NICTA, Australia
Cesar Marcondes, Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos (UFSCar), Brazil
Chalermpol Charnsripinyo, NECTEC, Thailand
Christophe Jelger, University of Basel, Switzerland
Dario Maggiorini, University of Milan, Italy
Gunnar Karlsson, KTH, Sweden
Ivan Martinovic, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany
Jan Beutel, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Joerg Ott, TKK, Finland
Jun Takei, Intel KK, Japan
Kazunori Sugiura, Keio University, Japan
Luigi Fratta, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Maoke Chen, Tsinghua University, China
Marcelo Dias de Amorim, UPMC Univ Paris 06, France
Martin May, Thomson, France
Mohamed Anis Laouiti, Telecom SudParis, France
Pan Hui, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany
Polly Hung, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Poompat Saengudomlert, AIT, Thailand
Ryuji Wakikawa, Toyota ITC, Japan
Soon Y. Oh, UCLA, USA
Thomas Karagiannis, MSR, UK
Vincent Lenders, Armasuisse, Switzerland
Y. C. Tay, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Youngseok Lee, CNU, Korea

Publicity Chair:
Wasan Pattara-atikom, NECTEC, Thailand

Local Organizers:
Wit Hmone Tin Latt, AIT, Thailand
Patta Thamwanitkul, AIT, Thailand
Esmond Drew Esguerra, AIT, Thailand
Bebz Barry Abonales, AIT, Thailand

Conference Grants:

The French regional cooperation is pleased to offer a grant program in order to maximize the impact and visibility of the conference and to facilitate the participation of young researchers from ASEAN countries to the Asian Internet Engineering Conference (AINTEC'09) organized from 18 to 20 November 2009 in Bangkok, Thailand.

Who can apply?

Researchers aged less than 38 years old, originating from the ASEAN
region and having a paper accepted to the conference.

What does the Travel and Conference Participation Grant include?

return airplane transportation to Bangkok
accommodation cost for the duration of the conference
per diem allowance
conference registration fees

All other costs, including for example visa fees, local transportation, telecommunication costs, etc., are not covered by the grant.

How to apply?
a) Write a letter of application and attach the following documents:

- a CV, including your personal data, academic qualification and professional experience
- the notification of acceptance of your paper

b) Send the letter and attached documents to the Coordination of the French cooperation at AIT

- by email to frenchcoop@ait.asia and aintec-sec@interlab.ait.asia

Notification of acceptance: 31 October 2009

The grants will be allocated based on the individual merit of each application within the limit of the allocated budget for this operation.