ASIAN INTERNET ENGINEERING CONFERENCE (AINTEC) 2008

In cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM

ACM SIGCOMM

Organized by

Asian Institute of Technology

Sponsored by

ACM SIGCOMM

The 4th Asian Internet Engineering Conference (AINTEC) provides a 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 2008 follows the three successful editions held in Thailand but, first time, is in cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM. The conference proceedings will be published by the ACM Digital Library.

The conference is single-track and features a technical program with significant opportunities for individual and small-group among a diverse set of participants. The technical sessions will include invited talks by leading experts, presentations of papers, demos, posters and a pre-conference (19th Asian School on Computer Science on 16-17 November 2008).

AINTEC 2008 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 modelling
    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Submissions must be original, unpublished, and not have been submitted to another conference or journal for publication.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 10 pages in the 10pts "SIGCOMM format". AINTEC' 08 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, 2008. 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/aintec08/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 ten (10) 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'08, November 18-20, 2008, Bangkok, Thailand.
Copyright 2008 ACM 978-1-60558-127-9/08/11 ...$5.00.

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

\conferenceinfo{AINTEC'08,} {November 18--20, 2008, Bangkok, Thailand.}
\CopyrightYear{2008}
\crdata{978-1-60558-127-9/08/11}

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 AINTEC2008 proceedings

Important Dates:

Title and abstract registration	: July 22, 2008 23:59 UTC (extended from July 15)
Full paper submission	: July 29, 2008 23:59 UTC (extended from July 22)
Acceptance notification	: September 17, 2008
Final version due	: October 8, 2008

AINTEC2008	: November 18-20, 2008

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

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

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

Program Committee Co-Chairs:
Kenjiro Cho, IIJ/WIDE Project, Japan
Martin May, ETH, Switzerland
Jennifer Rexford, Princeton, USA

Program Committee:
Omar Abouabadalla, USM, Malaysia
Marcelo Dias de Amorim, UPMC Univ Paris 06, France
Paul Barford, U. Wisconsin, USA
Jan Beutel, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Chalermpol Charnsripinyo, NECTEC, Thailand
Maoke Chen, Tsinghua University, China
Chen-nee Chuah, UC Davis, USA
Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK
Anja Feldmann, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Polly Huang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Christophe Jelger, University of Basel, Switzerland
Sinchai Kamolphiwong, PSU, Thailand
Thomas Karagiannis, MSR, UK
Gunnar Karlsson, KTH, Sweden
Jim Kurose, U. Massachusetts at Amherst, USA
Youngseok Lee, CNU, Korea
Sue Moon, KAIST, Korea
Aki Nakao, University of Tokyo, Japan
Dave Oran, Cisco Systems, USA
Joerg Ott, TKK, Finland
Jitendra Padhye, Microsoft Research, USA
Craig Partridge, BBN, USA
Andrea Passarella, IIT-CNR, Italy
Sureswaran Ramadass, USM, Malaysia
Poompat Saengudomlert, AIT, Thailand
Jens Schmidt, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Aruna Seneviratne, NICTA, Australia
Kunwadee Sripanidkulchai, NECTEC, Thailand
Lakshmi Subramanian, NYU, USA
Kazunori Sugiura, Keio University, Japan
Nina Taft, Intel Research, USA
Jun Takei, Intel KK, Japan
Ryuji Wakikawa, Toyota ITC, Japan
Zhi-li Zhang, U. Minnesota, USA

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

Conference Grants:

With the support of ThaiREN, registration and travel grants for Thai participants: graduate students and faculty members.
Preferences given to the authors of selected papers in AINTEC 2008.

Please contact:
   Dr. Panjai Tantatsanawon
   Chair of ThaiREN.
   Email : panjai at su.ac.th

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'08) organized from 18 to 20 November 2008 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.ac.th
   - by fax at +66 2 524 5069
   - by mail to
      Coordination of the French cooperation at AIT
      External Relations and Communication Office
      Asian Institute of Technology
      PO Box 4 Klongluang
      12120 Pathumthani
      Thailand

Deadline for reception of the application: 1 October 2008

Notification of acceptance: 15 October 2008

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