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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Apologies if you receive multiple
copies<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=2><STRONG><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">FIRST</SPAN></STRONG><FONT
color=#000000><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></B><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Call for
Submissions<o:p></o:p></SPAN></STRONG></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=2><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">IC<SPAN
style="COLOR: black">DT</SPAN></SPAN></STRONG><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">
2006</SPAN></STRONG><o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=2><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">International Conference on Digital
Telecommunications </SPAN></STRONG><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=2><st1:country-region
w:st="on"><SPAN lang=EN-AU
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU"><STRONG>Côte
dAzur</STRONG></SPAN></st1:country-region><FONT face=Arial><SPAN><STRONG>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">France</st1:place></st1:country-region>, August 30</STRONG><SPAN
class=163391511-15032006><FONT color=#0000ff> <STRONG><FONT color=#000000>-
September 2</FONT></STRONG> </FONT></SPAN><STRONG>,
2006</STRONG></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A
title=http://www.iaria.org/conferences/ICNS06.html
href="http://www.iaria.org/conferences/ICNS06.html"></A></SPAN></FONT></FONT><SPAN><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">For submissions, go on the IC<SPAN
style="COLOR: black">DT </SPAN>2006 page at <A
href="http://www.iaria.org/conferences/ICDT.htm"><FONT
color=#000000>http://www.iaria.org/conferences/ICDT.htm</FONT></A> </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">and click </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-AU
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU"><A
href="http://www.iaria.org/conferences/SubmitICDT06.html"><FONT
color=#000000>Submit a paper</FONT></A>.<SPAN
class=025533808-07032006></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Important
deadlines:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Full paper
submission<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 3">
</SPAN>April 5, 2006<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Authors
Notification:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 3">
</SPAN>April 25, 2006<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Camera
ready, full papers due: <SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2">
</SPAN>May 15, 2006<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black">The International Conference on Digital Telecommunications
(ICDT 2006) initiates a series of special events focusing on telecommunications
aspects in multimedia environments.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The scope of the conference is to focus on the lower layers of systems
interaction and identify the technical challenges and the most recent
achievements. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="COLOR: black">The conference will serve as a forum for
researchers from both the academia and the industry, professionals, and
practitioners to present and discuss the current state-of-the art in research
and best practices as well as future trends and needs (both in research and
practices) in the areas of<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>multimedia telecommunications, signal processing in telecommunications,
data processing, audio transmission and reception systems, voice over packet
networks, video, conferencing, telephony, as well as image producing, sending,
and mining, speech producing and processing, IP/Mobile TV, Multicast/Broadcast
Triple-Quadruple-play, content production and distribution, multimedia
protocols, H-series towards SIP, and control and management of multimedia
telecommunications. <SPAN class=163391511-15032006><FONT
color=#0000ff> </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-US"><FONT
size=2>We welcome technical papers presenting research and practical results,
position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such as
those being discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia, survey
papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of the above topics
short papers on work in progress, and panel proposals.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoBodyText3 style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-US"><FONT
size=2>The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of
concepts, state of the art, standards, implementations, running experiments and
applications. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which
are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but
not limited topic areas. Industrial presentations are not subject to these
constraints. Tutorials on specific related topics and panels on challenging
areas are encouraged.</FONT></SPAN></o:p></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> ICDT
2006 will offer tutorials, plenary sessions, and panel sessions. The ICDT 2006
Proceedings will be published by <SPAN class=025533808-07032006>the
</SPAN>IEEE Computer Society<SPAN class=025533808-07032006> Press</SPAN>, posted
on <SPAN class=025533808-07032006>the </SPAN>Xplore IEEE system, and
indexed by SCI. </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The conference has the following
specialized events:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">MULTE 2006: Multimedia
Telecommunications <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-language: JA">SIGNAL
2006: Signal processing in telecommunications <SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><st1:stockticker
style="BACKGROUND-POSITION: left bottom; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(res://ietag.dll/#34/#1001); BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat-x"
tabIndex=0 w:st="on"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">DATA</SPAN></st1:stockticker><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> 2006: Data
processing<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">AUDIO 2006: Audio
transmission and reception systems<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">VOICE 2006:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Voice over packet networks
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">VIDEO 2006: Video,
conferencing, telephony<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">IMAGE 2006: Image
producing, sending, and mining<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">SPEECH 2006: Speech
producing and processing<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">IPTV 2006: IP/Mobile
TV<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">MULTI 2006:
Multicast/Broadcast Triple-Quadruple-play<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">CONTENT 2006:
Production, distribution <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">HXSIP 2006: H-series
towards SIP<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">MEDMAN 2006: Control
and management of multimedia telecommunications</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN><FONT
face=Arial size=2> </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We welcome technical
papers presenting research and practical results, position papers addressing the
pros and cons of specific proposals, such as those being discussed in the
standard fora or in industry consortia, survey papers addressing the key
problems and solutions on any of the above topics short papers on work in
progress, and panel proposals. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 6pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-language: FR">The
topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state
of the art, standards, implementations, running experiments and applications.
Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under
review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited
topic areas. Industrial presentations are not subject to these constraints.
Tutorials on specific related topics and panels on challenging areas are
encouraged. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Regular
papers<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Only .pdf
or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received papers will
have a unique ID sent to the contact author by the EDAS system when submitting.
</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p><FONT
color=#000000> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Final author manuscripts will be
8.5" x 11" (two columns IEEE format), not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages
allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found via
anonymous FTP site at: <A
href="ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/8.5x11%20-%20Formatting%20files/instruct.pdf"><FONT
color=#000000>ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/8.5x11%20-%20Formatting%20files/instruct.pdf</FONT></A>
<BR><BR><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Once you receive the
notification of paper acceptance</SPAN>, you will be provided by the IEEE CS
Press an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to
submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of
acceptance.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Technical
marketing/business/positioning presentations</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">The
conference initiates a series of business, technical marketing, and positioning
presentations on the same topics. Speakers must submit a 10-12 slide deck
presentations with substantial notes accompanying the slides, in the .ppt format
(.pdf-ed). The slide deck will be published in the conferences CD collection,
together with the regular papers. Please send your presentations to <A
href="mailto:petre@iaria.org"><FONT
color=#000000>petre@iaria.org</FONT></A>.</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Tutorials</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Tutorials provide overviews of
current high interest topics. Proposals can be for half or full day tutorials.
Please send your proposals to <A href="mailto:petre@iaria.org"><FONT
color=#000000>petre@iaria.org</FONT></A> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Panel proposals:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The organizers encourage scientists
and industry leaders to organize dedicated panels dealing with controversial and
challenging topics and paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their
guests and manage that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our
deadlines. Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating
their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the panel, as
well as short biographies.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">For more information, </SPAN><SPAN
lang=IT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: IT"><A
href="mailto:petre@iaria.org"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT
color=#000000>petre@iaria.org</FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Workshop
proposals<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We welcome workshop proposals on
issues complementary to the topics of this conference. Your requests should be
forwarded to</SPAN><FONT face=Arial size=2> </FONT><A
href="mailto:petre@iaria.org"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT
color=#000000>petre@iaria.org</FONT></SPAN></A><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>
<SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Committees:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">ICDT Advisory
Committee:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Tulin Atmaca, <st1:stockticker
style="BACKGROUND-POSITION: left bottom; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(res://ietag.dll/#34/#1001); BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat-x"
tabIndex=0 w:st="on">INT</st1:stockticker>, France<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Claus Bauer, Dolby Laboratories,
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">USA</st1:place></st1:country-region> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><st1:PersonName w:st="on"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Petre
Dini</SPAN></st1:PersonName><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">,
Cisco Systems Inc., <st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region> //
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Concordia Univ.</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region></st1:place>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute
<st1:State w:st="on">Alsace</st1:State>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">France</st1:place></st1:country-region>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Mihai Nadin, <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Texas</st1:PlaceName> - <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Dallas</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Gerald Schaefer, <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Nottingham</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Trent</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceName>, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Charalabos Skianis, University of
the Aegean, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Greece</st1:place></st1:country-region><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Hans-Jürgen Zepernick, Blekinge
Institute of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Technology</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Sweden</st1:country-region></st1:place>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Thanh van Do, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Telenor</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Norway</st1:country-region></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=IT
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: IT">Carlos Becker
Westphall, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">ICDT 2006 Technical Program
Committee:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Ralf Ackermann, <st1:City
w:st="on">Darmstadt</st1:City> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">University of Technology</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Ozgur B. Akan, <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Middle East</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Technical</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Ankara</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Turkey</st1:country-region></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=IT
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: IT">Antônio
Marcos Alberti, INATEL, Brazil<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=PT
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: PT">Maria Teresa
Andrade, Universidade do Porto, Portugal <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=PT
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: PT">Regina B.
Araujo, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=PT
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: PT">Stefan
Arbanowski, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany <BR>Tulin Atmaca, <st1:stockticker
style="BACKGROUND-POSITION: left bottom; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(res://ietag.dll/#34/#1001); BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat-x"
tabIndex=0 w:st="on">INT</st1:stockticker>, France <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=PT
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: PT">Koichi
Asatani, Kogakuin University, Japan<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=PT
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: PT">Irfan Awan,
University of Bradford, UK <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dragana Bajic, <st1:City
w:st="on">University of Novi Sad</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Serbia</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Montenegro</st1:place></st1:country-region>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ES
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: ES">Luis Orozco
Barbosa, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Spain <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ES
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: ES">Claus Bauer,
Dolby Laboratories, USA<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ES
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: ES">Paolo
Bellavista, Università di Bologna, Italy <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ES
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: ES">Yolande
Berbers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ES
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: ES">Chatschik
Bisdikian, <st1:stockticker
style="BACKGROUND-POSITION: left bottom; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(res://ietag.dll/#34/#1001); BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat-x"
tabIndex=0 w:st="on">IBM</st1:stockticker> T.J. Watson Research Center,
USA<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ES
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: ES">Vasile
Bota</SPAN><SPAN lang=ES
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: ES">, Technical
University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ES
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: ES">Nizar
Bouabda, IRISA,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>France
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ES
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: ES">Torsten
Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ES
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: ES">Stefano
Bregni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ES
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: ES">Richard
Brooks, Clemson University, USA <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Wes Carter, Martel Europe,
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Wojciech Cellary, The <st1:City
w:st="on">Poznan</st1:City> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University
of Economics</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Poland</st1:country-region></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ES
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: ES">Tiziana
Catarci, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Han-Chieh Chao, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">National Ilan University</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Taiwan</st1:country-region></st1:place>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Claude Chaudet, ENST, France
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Thomas Chen, Southern <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Methodist University</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Liang Cheng, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Lehigh University</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Song Ci, University of <st1:State
w:st="on">Massachusetts</st1:State>, - <st1:City w:st="on">Boston</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">USA</st1:place></st1:country-region> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Hsiao-Hwa Chen, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">National Sun Yat-Sen University</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Taiwan</st1:country-region></st1:place>,<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>P. R. China <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ES
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: ES">Adrian
Conway, Verison, USA<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ES
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: ES">Pedro Angel
Cuenca Castillo, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ES
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: ES">Gerard Damm,
Alcatel - Dallas, USA <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ES
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: ES">Francisco
Delicado, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Spain <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><st1:PersonName w:st="on"><SPAN
lang=ES style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: ES">Petre
Dini</SPAN></st1:PersonName><SPAN lang=ES
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: ES">, Cisco
Systems Inc., USA // Concordia Univ., Canada <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ES
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: ES">Christos
Douligeris, University of Piraeus, Greece <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ES
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: ES">Schahram
Dustdar, Technical University of Vienna, Austria <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ES
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: ES">José Luis
González Sánchez, Universidad de Extremadura <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=PT
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: PT">Lisandro
Zambenedetti Granville, Federal university of Rio Grande do Sul,
Brazil<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Fabrizio Granelli, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Trento</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Italy</st1:country-region></st1:place>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Stefanos Gritzalis, University of
the Aegean, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Greece</st1:place></st1:country-region> <SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=PT
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: PT">Hélio
Crestana Guardia, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Rock Ha, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Ottawa</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region
w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Abdelhakim
Hafid, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of
Montreal</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region></st1:place></SPAN><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Ridha Hamila, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Etisalat</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, UAE <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Stefan Håkansson, LK (LU/EAB)
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Ericsson</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Sweden</st1:country-region></st1:place>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Frank
Hartung, Ericsson Research, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Germany</st1:place></st1:country-region><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Oliver
Heckmann, </SPAN><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">University</SPAN></st1:PlaceType><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Technology</st1:PlaceName></SPAN></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Darmstadt</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Germany</SPAN></st1:country-region></st1:place><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Mario Huemer, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Erlangen</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region></st1:place>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Georgi Iliev, Technical <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Sofia</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Bulgaria</st1:country-region></st1:place>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Sandor Imre, <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Budapest</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of Technology and <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Economy</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Hungary</st1:country-region></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Kai
Jakobs, </SPAN><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Technical</SPAN></st1:PlaceName><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:City w:st="on">Aachen</st1:City>'s
(RWTH)<SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">, <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Germany</st1:place></st1:country-region>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Xiang
Ji, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Kansas</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Raja Jurdak, <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">California</st1:PlaceName> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Irvine</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Hyun Kook Kahng, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Korea University</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Korea</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Markus Kampmann, Ericsson Research,
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Germany</st1:place></st1:country-region> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Rajgopal Kannan, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Louisiana State University</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Sokratis K. Katsikas, University of
the Aegean, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Greece</st1:place></st1:country-region><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Ousmane Koné, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Toulouse</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> <st1:stockticker
style="BACKGROUND-POSITION: left bottom; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(res://ietag.dll/#34/#1001); BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat-x"
tabIndex=0 w:st="on">CNRS</st1:stockticker> <SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Kimon
Kontovasilis, </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Demokritos Research Institute,<SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Greece</st1:place></st1:country-region> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">George Kormentzas, University of the
Aegean, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Greece</st1:place></st1:country-region> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Tasos Kourtis, Demokritos Research
Institute, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Greece</st1:place></st1:country-region><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Anastasios
Kourtis, </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Demokritos
Research Institute</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">,
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Greece</st1:place></st1:country-region> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Tho LeNgoc, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">McGill University</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dave Lewis, <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Trinity</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Dublin</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Ireland</st1:country-region></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Qilian Liang, <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Texas</st1:PlaceName> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Arlington</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=IT
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: IT">Joan Lluis
Pijoan, </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Ramon Llull
University, Spain<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Simona Lohan, <st1:City
w:st="on">Tampere</st1:City> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University
of Technology</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Finland</st1:country-region></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute
<st1:State w:st="on">Alsace</st1:State>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">France</st1:place></st1:country-region>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Ilias Maglogiannis, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Aegean</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Greece</st1:country-region></st1:place>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><st1:City w:st="on"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Shiwen Mao</SPAN></st1:City><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">, <st1:State
w:st="on">Virginia</st1:State> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Tech</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dario Maggiorini, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Milano</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Italy</st1:country-region></st1:place>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><st1:City w:st="on"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Tulin Mangir</SPAN></st1:City><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">, <st1:State
w:st="on">California</st1:State> State University at <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Long Beach</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ES
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: ES">Pietro
Manzoni, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Pedro Jose Marron, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Stuttgart</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region
w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Marco Mattavelli, (Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology) EPFL, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Switzerland</st1:place></st1:country-region> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Ahmed
Mehaoua, </SPAN><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">University of
Versailles</SPAN></st1:City><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">,
<st1:country-region
w:st="on">France</st1:country-region></SPAN></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ES
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: ES">Tommaso
Melodia, Georgia Tech, USA <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ES
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: ES">Marco Mesiti,
University of Milano, Italy <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ES-TRAD
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: ES-TRAD">Francisco
Micó Enguídanos, Universidad de Valencia, Spain</SPAN><SPAN lang=ES-TRAD
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: ES"> </SPAN><SPAN
lang=ES-TRAD
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: ES-TRAD"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ES
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: ES">Nader F. Mir,
San Jose State University, USA <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Ali Miri, <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Information</st1:PlaceName> Technology and Engineering
(<st1:stockticker
style="BACKGROUND-POSITION: left bottom; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(res://ietag.dll/#34/#1001); BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat-x"
tabIndex=0 w:st="on">SITE</st1:stockticker>), <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region></st1:place>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Refik Molva, EURESCOM, France
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Marie-Jose Montpetit, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Motorola</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Matt
Mutka, </SPAN><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Michigan State
University</SPAN></st1:City><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></SPAN></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Mihai Nadin, <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Texas</st1:PlaceName> - <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Dallas</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=FR
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: FR">Daniel Negru,
Université de Versailles, France <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Uyen Trang Nguyen, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">York University</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Sotiris Nikoletseas, <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Patras</st1:PlaceName> and <st1:stockticker
style="BACKGROUND-POSITION: left bottom; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(res://ietag.dll/#34/#1001); BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat-x"
tabIndex=0 w:st="on">CTI</st1:stockticker>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Greece</st1:place></st1:country-region>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Giorgio Nunzi, NEC Europe Ltd.,
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Germany</st1:place></st1:country-region> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Santashil PalChaudhuri, Meru
Networks, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">USA</st1:place></st1:country-region> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Evangelos
Pallis, </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Centre for
Techno logical Research of Crete, </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Greece
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Pubudu Pathirana, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Deakin University</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dmitri Perkins, <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Louisiana</st1:PlaceName> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Lafayette</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Samuel Pierre, Ecole <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Polytechique de Montreal</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region></st1:place>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Low Chor Ping, <SPAN
class=025533808-07032006> Information Communication Institute of
Singapore,</SPAN> <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Singapore</st1:place></st1:country-region> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Ednaldo Pizzolato, Universidade
Federal de São Carlos, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Brazil</st1:place></st1:country-region> <SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Ciprian Popoviciu, Cisco Systems,
Inc., <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">USA</st1:place></st1:country-region> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">George N. Prezerakos, TEI <st1:City
w:st="on">Piraeus</st1:City> // National Technical <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Athens</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Greece</st1:country-region></st1:place>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ES
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: ES">Francisco J.
Quiles, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Branimir Reljin, <st1:City
w:st="on">University of Belgrade</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Serbia</st1:country-region> and <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Montenegro</st1:country-region></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Kurt Rothermel, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Stuttgart</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region></st1:place>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Angelos N. Rouskas, University of
the Aegean, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Greece</st1:place></st1:country-region> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=PT
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: PT">Marcelo G.
Rubinstein, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Pedro M. Ruiz, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Murcia</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Spain</st1:country-region></st1:place>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Debashis Saha, Indian Institute of
Management (IIM), <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=FR
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: FR">Jean-Michel
Sahut, </SPAN><SPAN lang=FR
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: FR">Groupe Sup de
Co La Rochelle and <st1:stockticker
style="BACKGROUND-POSITION: left bottom; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(res://ietag.dll/#34/#1001); BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat-x"
tabIndex=0 w:st="on">INT</st1:stockticker><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">, France <o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Gerald
Schaefer, </SPAN><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Nottingham</SPAN></st1:PlaceName><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Trent</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceName>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Stefan Schmid, NEC Europe Ltd.,
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Germany</st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Vojin Senk, <st1:City
w:st="on">University of Novi Sad</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Serbia</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Montenegro</st1:place></st1:country-region>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Charalabos Skianis, University of
the Aegean, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Greece</st1:place></st1:country-region> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Caterina Scoglio, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Kansas State University</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">David Simplot-Ryl, Université Lille
1, France<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Waleed Smari, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Dayton</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">John Soldatos, <st1:City
w:st="on">Athens</st1:City> Information <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Technology</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Greece</st1:country-region></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=PT
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: PT">Leonel Sousa,
<st1:stockticker
style="BACKGROUND-POSITION: left bottom; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(res://ietag.dll/#34/#1001); BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat-x"
tabIndex=0 w:st="on">IST</st1:stockticker>/INESC-ID,
Portugal<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dirk Staehle, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Würzburg</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region></st1:place>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Ivan Stojmenovic, <st1:stockticker
style="BACKGROUND-POSITION: left bottom; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(res://ietag.dll/#34/#1001); BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat-x"
tabIndex=0 w:st="on">SITE</st1:stockticker>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Canada</st1:place></st1:country-region>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Weilian Su, Naval <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Postgraduate</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType> - <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Monterey</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">Zhili
Sun, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Surrey</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Yutaka Takahashi, <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Kyoto</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Kyoto</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Japan</st1:country-region></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Ashit Talukder, Jet Propulsion
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Laboratory</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region
w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Tomo Taniguchi, Fujitsu Laboratories
Limited, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Japan</st1:place></st1:country-region> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Velio Tralli, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Ferrara</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region
w:st="on">Italy</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Murat Uysal, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Waterloo</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region></st1:place>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Thanh van Do, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Telenor</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Norway</st1:country-region></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Iakovos S. Venieris, National
Technical <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of
Athens</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Greece</st1:country-region></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dimitrios D. Vergados, University of
the Aegean, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Greece</st1:place></st1:country-region> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Krzysztof Walczak, The <st1:City
w:st="on">Poznan</st1:City> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University
of Economics</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Poland</st1:country-region></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Andy Ju An Wang, Southern <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Polytechnic State University</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=IT
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: IT">Carlos Becker
Westphall, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Hongyi Wu, <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Louisiana</st1:PlaceName> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Lafayette</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Qishi Wu, <st1:City w:st="on">Oak
Ridge</st1:City> National <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Laboratory</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Xiaotao Wu, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Columbia University</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Miki Yamamoto, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Kansai University</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Japan</st1:country-region></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Katsuyuki Yamazaki, KDDI Labs /
Kyushu Institute of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Technology</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Japan</st1:country-region></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Chihsiang Yeh, Queen's <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Moustafa Youssef, <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Maryland</st1:PlaceName> - <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">College Park</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Meng Yu, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Monmouth University</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Anne Ya Zhang, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Kansas</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Kenichi Yamazaki, <st1:stockticker
style="BACKGROUND-POSITION: left bottom; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(res://ietag.dll/#34/#1001); BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat-x"
tabIndex=0 w:st="on">NTT</st1:stockticker> DoCoMo, Inc., <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Japan</st1:place></st1:country-region>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=PT
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: PT">Lisandro
Zambenedetti Granville, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Hans-Jürgen Zepernick, Blekinge
Institute of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Technology</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Sweden</st1:country-region></st1:place>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Qing Zhao, <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">California</st1:PlaceName> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Davis</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ES
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: ES">Dong Zhou,
DoCoMo USA Labs, USA </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ES
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: ES"><FONT
face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </P><SPAN lang=ES
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: ES"><o:p>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN class=531232608-07032006><A
title=mailto:petre@iaria.org href="mailto:petre@iaria.org"><FONT
color=#000000>petre@iaria.org</FONT></A>, <A title=mailto:conf@iaria.org
href="mailto:conf@iaria.org"><FONT color=#000000>conf@iaria.org</FONT></A>, <A
title=mailto:dumitru.roman@deri.org href="mailto:dumitru.roman@deri.org"><FONT
color=#000000>dumitru.roman@deri.org</FONT></A> </SPAN></SPAN></P>
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