TC 6 - Communication Systems

est. 1971, revised 1987 and 1991 Aims and Scopes
URL: http://ifip.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/ifip/tc/6

Chair
Prof. Dr. Guy LEDUC, BE
Université de Liège

Faculté des Sc. Appliquées

Département d’Electricité, Electronique et Informatique

Institut Montefiore

Grande Traverse,10 - Bât. B 28

BE-4000 LIEGE

Belgium
Tel. +32 4 366 2698
Fax +32 4 366 2989
e-mail: guy.leduc@ulg.ac.be

Vice-Chair
Prof. Ramon PUIGJANER, ES
University of Balearic Islands
Departament de Ciencies

Matem. i Informatica
Carretera de Valldemossa km 7.5
ES-07122 PALMA DE MALLORCA, Spain
Tel. +34 9 7117 3288
Fax +34 9 7117 3003
e-mail: putxi@uib.cat

Secretary
Dr. Peter RADFORD, GB
Logica
11 Roslings Close
Chelmsford
ESSEX CM1 2HA,

United Kingdom
Tel. +44 20 7446 4248
e-mail: peter.radford@logica.com

Special Consultant

Dr. Harry RUDIN, CH

IBM Zurich Research Laboratory

Säumerstrasse 4

CH-8803 RÜSCHLIKON

Switzerland

Tel. +41 44 720 3707

e-mail: hr@zurich.ibm.com

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Miquel Nicolau I Villa

Guenter Haring
Andre Danthine*
Kiril Boyanov
Jose Neuman de Souza
Raouf Boutaba**

Lorne G. Mason

Benjamin Barán

Robert Bestak

Otto Spaniol

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Villy Baek Iversen

Matti Latva-aho
Louis Pouzin*
Guy Pujolle

Ioannis Stavrakakis
Sarolta Dibuz
S.V. Raghavan
Tadao Saito
Ignatius G.M.M. Niemegeers
Finn Arve Aagesen

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Adam Grzech
Edmundo Monteiro

Francis Lee Bu Sung
Vilas Wuwongse
Farouk Kamoun (Obs.)
A .Lyman Chapin (ACM)
Arun Iyengar (IEEE)
Pieter Kritzinger

Jean Whiley

ex-officio members: WG Chairs
*) honorary member
**) additional member recommended by TC6

WG 6.1 (Architectures and Protocols for Distributed Systems)

est. 1973, revised 1982, 1999, 2000 Aims and Scopes
URL: http://www.run.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/IFIP/

Chair
Prof. Dr. Elie NAJM
ENST
Networks and Computer
Science Department
46, rue Barrault
FR-75013 PARIS Cedex 13

France
Tel. +33 1 4581 7709
Fax +33 1 4581 3119
e-mail: elie.najm@enst.fr

Vice-Chair
Prof. Dr. John DERRICK
University of Sheffield
Dept. of Computer Science
Regent Court
211 Portobello Street
SHEFFIELD S1 4DP, U.K.
Tel. +44 114 22 21800
Fax +44 114 22 21810
e-mail: j.derrick@dcs.shef.ac.uk

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Kerry Raymond
Guy Leduc
Gregor v. Bochmann
Luigi Logrippo
Alexandre Petrenko
Jacob Slonim
Rachid Guerraoui
Harry Rudin
Dieter Hogrefe
Stefan Fischer
Kurt Geihs
Reinhard Gotzhein
Hartmut Koenig
Stefan Leue
Jan de Meer

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David de Frutos Escrig
Lea Kutvonen
Martti Tienari
Ana Rosa Cavalli
Michel Diaz
Roland Groz
Gordon Blair
Howard Bowman
Joe Sventek
Ken J. Turner
Samuel Chanson

Miklos Boda
Sarolta Dibuz
Katalin Tarnay
Tommaso Bolognesi

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Alessandro Fantechi
Roberto Gorrieri
Diego Latella
Teruo Higashino
Myungchul Kim
Ed Brinksma
Piotr Dembinski
Krysztof Zielinski
Vinton Cerf *
Gerard J. Holzmann
Peter Honeyman
Carolyn Talcott
Richard L. Tenney
Pieter S. Kritzinger

*) honorary member

WG 6.2 (Network and Internetwork Architectures)

est. 1994, revised 2000, 2009 Aims and Scopes
URL: http://www.ifip.tu-graz.ac.at/TC6/WG/index.htm

Chair

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Georg CARLE

Network Architect. and Services

Institute for Informatics
TU München

Boltzmannstr. 3

DE-85748 GARCHING/München

Germany
Tel. +49 89 289 18030
Fax +49 89 289 18033
e-mail: carle@in.tum.de

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Helmut Leopold
Reinhard Posch
Aruna Seneviratne
Andre Danthine
Guy Leduc
Otto Carlos M. Duarte
Jose Neuman de Souza
Raouf Boutaba
Nicolas D. Georganas
Andre Girard
Torsten Braun
Werner Bux
Jean-Yves Le Boudec
Burkhard Stiller
Wolfgang Effelsberg
Paul J. Kuehn
Radu Popescu-Zeletin
Erwin P. Rathgeb
Otto Spaniol
Jordi Domingo-Pascual
Ramon Puigjaner

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Olli Martikainen
Jean Pierre Coudreuse
Serge Fdida
Gerard Hebuterne
Daniel Kofman

Guy Pujolle
James Roberts
Samir Tohme
David Hutchison
Demetres D. Kouvatsos
V. Pronototarios
Ioannis Stavrakakis
Danny Tsang

Miklos Boda
S.V. Raghavan
Marco Ajmone Marsan
Marco Conti
Luigi Fratta
Giorgio Ventre
Tadao Saito

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Yutaka Takahashi

Amine Benkiran
Andrzej Jajszczyk
Augusto Casaca
Serafim Nunes
Joao Rodrigues
Miklos Boda
Ulf Koerner
Lorne G. Mason
Arnon Tubtiang
Farouk Kamoun
Andrew T. Campbell
Mario Gerla
Bijan Jabbari
Marjory J. Johnson
Harry G. Perros
Catherine Rosenberg

James P.G.Sterbenz
Fouad Tobagi
C-K. Toh

WG 6.3 (Performance of Communication Systems)

est. 1994, revised 2001, 2010 Aims and Scopes
URL: http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/ifipwg63/

Chair

Prof. Marco CONTI

National Research Council

Institute for Informatics and Telematics

Via G. Moruzzi, 1

IT-56124 PISA

Italy

Tel. +39 050 315 3062

Fax +39 050 315 2593

e-mail: marco.conti@iit.cnr.it

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Guenter Haring
Chris Blondia
Luis Felipe M. de Moraes
Edmundo de Souza e Silva

Catherine Rosenberg
Ilias Iliadis
Andreas Pitsillides
Otto Spaniol
Khaled Fouad Elsayed
Sebastia Galmes
Ramon Puigjaner

Ilkka Norros
Tulin Atmaca
Raymond Marie
Guy Pujolle

Erol Gelenbe

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Peter Key

Demetres D. Kouvatsos
Kimon Kontovasilis
Nikolas M. Mitrou
Ioannis Stavrakakis
Tamas Henk
Sandor Molnar
Raphael Rom
Moshe Sidi
Domenico Ferrari
Luigi Fratta
Stefano Giordano
Konosuke Kawashima
Yutaka Takahashi

Boudewijn R. Haverkort
Hans van den Berg

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Bjarne E. Helvik

Michal Pioro

Ulf Koerner
Cem Ersoy
Ian F. Akyildiz
Anthony Ephremides
Andras Farago
Jim Kurose
Debasis Mitra
Harry G. Perros
William J. Stewart
Satish K. Tripathi
Kishor S. Trivedi
Yannis Viniotis
Pieter S. Kritzinger

WG 6.4 (Internet Applications Engineering)

est. 1979, revised 1991, 1996, 2000 Aims and Scopes
URL: http://www.ifip.tu-graz.ac.at/TC6/WG/index.htm

Chair
Prof. Dr. Schahram DUSTDAR

Vienna University of Technology

Distributed Systems Group

Director of Vita Lab

Argentinierstrasse 8/184-1

AT-1040 VIENNA

Austria

Tel. +43 1 58801 18414

Fax +43 1 58801 18491

e-mail: dustdar@infosys.tuwien.ac.at

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Anne Marie Vercoustre
Yanchun Zhang
Nicolas D. Georganas
Alberto O. Mendelzon
Michael R. Lyu
Stephan Fischer
Leandro Navarro
Ana Pont-Sanjuán

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Guy Pujolle
Helen Ashman

Christos Bouras
Cormac J. Sreenan
Fabio Vitali
Katsuo Ikeda
Ivan Herman
Wojciech Cellary

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Vilas Wuwongse
Andrei Broder
Yih-Farn Robin Chen
Fred Douglis

Arun Iyengar
Doug Tygar
Werner Vogels
Mary Ellen Zurko

WG 6.6 (Management of Networks and Distributed Systems)

est. 1986, revised 2001, 2006 Aims and Scopes
URL: http://www.simpleweb.org/ifip/

Chair

Dr. Aiko PRAS

University of Twente

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer

Science

P.O. Box 217

NL-7500 AE ENSCHEDE

The Netherlands

Tel. +31 53 489 3778

Fax +31 53 489 4524
e-mail: pras@cs.utwente.nl

Vice Chair

Dr. Olivier FESTOR

LORIA-INRIA Lorraine

Technopole de Nancy-Brabois-

Campus scientifique

615, rue de Jardin Botanique –

B.P. 101

FR-54600 VILLERS LES NANCY CEDEX, France

Tel. +33 3 83 59 30 66

Fax +33 3 83 41 30 79

e-mail: olivier.festor@loria.fr

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G. Chen
Pradeep Kumar Ray
Jose Neuman de Souza
José Marcos Silva Nogueira
Carlos Becker Westphall
Omar Cherkaoui

Raouf Boutaba
Ahmed Karmouch

Martin Karsten
Gary Kenward
Hanan Lutfiyya
Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin
Metin Feridun
Burkhard Stiller
J. Zeng
Marcus Brunner
Gabi Dreo-Rodosek
Kurt Geihs
Heinz-Gerd Hegering

Peer Hasselmeyer
Hiroyuki Okazaki
Jürgen Quittek
Ralf Steinmetz
Jürgen Schoenwaelder
Wolfgang Zimmer
Joan Serrat
N. Agoulmine
Ahmed Mehaoua
Guy Pujolle
Michelle Sibilla
David Hutchison
Antonio Liotta
Emil C. Lupu
Alan Marshall
Dave Milham
Gerard Parr

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George Pavlou
Morris Sloman
George Kormentzas
William Donnelly
Vincent P. Wade
Danny Raz
Enrico Bagnasco
Enrico Ronco
Roberto Saracco
Masayoshi Ejiri
Satoshi Hasegawa
Yoshiaki Tanaka
Makato Yoshida
James Won-Ki Hong
Seong-Beom Kim
Young-Tak Kim
Jong-Tae Park
M. Erradi
Mark Burgess
Chen Khong Tham
Kevin Almeroth
Ehab Al-Shaer
Nikos Anerousis
Mohammed Atiquzzaman
Claudio Bartolini
Joseph Betser
Greg Brewster
Nevil Brownlee
Paul J. Brusil
Serephin Calo
Thomas M. Chen
Alexander Clemm
Young Bae Choi
Roberta S. Cohen
German Goldszmidt

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Shri K. Goyal
Takeo Hamada
Masum Hasan
Joseph L. Hellerstein
Ahmed Helmy
C. Hood
Gabriel Jakobson
Gautam Kar
Alexander Keller
Aurel A. Lazar
Lundy Lewis
Kenneth J. Lutz
Manu Malek
J. Scott Marcus
Subrata Mazumdar
Deep Medhi
Giovanni Pacifici
Edward L. Pinnes
Christian Rad
Akhil Sahai
Veli Sahin
Adarshpal S. Sethi
Chien-Chung Shen
Rolf Stadler
John Strassner
Mehmet Ulema
John Vicente
Jim Warner
Robert Weihmayer
Bert Wijnen
S. Felix Wu
Yechiam Yemini
Alaa Youssef
Douglas N. Zuckerman
Jan Roos

WG 6.7 (Smart Networks)

est. 1996, revised 1998, 2001, 2007 Aims and Scopes
URL: http://www.ifip.tu-graz.ac.at/TC6/WG/index.htm

Chair
Prof. Dr. Simon DOBSON

University of St. Andrews

School of Computer Sciences

North Haugh

ST. ANDREWS, Fife KY16 9SX

Scotland,United Kingdom

Tel. +44 1334 46 1626

e-mail: sd@cs.st-andrews.ac.uk

Vice-Chair
Prof. Dominique GAITI
Univ. de Technologie Troyes
Inf. Syst. Engineering Dept.
12 rue Marie Curie, BP 2060
FR-10010 TROYES Cedex
France
Tel. +33 3 2571 5685
Fax +33 3 2571 5699
e-mail: dominique.gaiti@utt.fr

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Reda Reda

Joaquim Celestino Jr.
Mauro Fonseca
José Neuman
Manoel Penna
Monique Calisti
Bernhard Plattner
Omar Cherkaoui
Ahmed Karmouch
Georg Carle
Hartmut Koenig
Thomas Magedanz
Plamen Simeonov

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GB
GR

Joan Serrat

Olli Martikainen

Kimmo Raatikainen
Alessandro Bassi

Prosper Chemouil

Francine Krief
Guy Pujolle

Martin Vigoureux

Alex Galis

Alan Marshall

Joe Sventek
Nancy Alonistioti

Spyros Denazis

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NO

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Claire Fahy

Sven Van der Meer

Yutaka Takahashi

Finn Arve Aagesen
Mark Burgess

Terje Jensen

Ulf Körner

Rolf Stadler
Vilas Wuwongse
Henning Schulzrinne

John Strassner

John Vicente

WG 6.8 (Mobile and Wireless Communications)

est. 1996, revised 2002, 2007 Aims and Scopes
URL:http://www.ifip.tu-graz.ac.at/TC6/WG/index.htm

Chair

Dr. Pedro CUENCA
Univ. de Castilla la Mancha

Departamenta Informática ICLM
Escuela Politécnica Superior de Albacete
ES-02071 ALBACETE
Spain
Tel. +34 967 5999308

Fax +34 967 599224
e-mail: pedro.cuenca@uclm.es

Vice-Chair

Prof. Jozef WOZNIAK

Gdansk University of Technology

Faculty of Electronics

ul. G. Narutowicza 11/12

PL-80952 GDANSK

Poland

Tel. +48 58 472223

Fax +48 58 416132

e-mail: jowoz@pd.gda.pl

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Claudia Barenco

Otto Duarte

Mieso K. Denko

Ali Miri

Pierre Chevillat
Silvia Giordano

Robert Bestak

Lukas Kencl
Petri Maehoenen

Otto Spaniol

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Adam Wolisz
Villy Baek Iversen

José Villalon
Olli Martikainen

Khaldoun Al Agha

Ousmane Kone
Pascal Lorenz

Zoubir Mammeri
Guy Pujolle
Debashis Saha

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Marco Conti
Franco Davoli

Tadao Saito

Yongho Seok
Sathish Chandran
Sonia Heemstra de Groot
Ignatius G. M. Niemegeers

Augusto Casaca
Arup Acharya

WG 6.9 (Communication Systems for Developing Countries)

est. 2002 Aims and Scopes
URL:http://www.ifip.tu-graz.ac.at/TC6/WG/index.htm

Chair
Prof. Ana PONT-SANJUÁN
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
Departament d'Informática de Sistemes i Computadors
Camino de Vera, s/n.
ES-46022 VALENCIA
Spain
Tel. +34 963 879 215
Fax +34 963 877 579
e-mail: apont@disca.upv.es

Vice Chair

Dr. Mieso DENKO

University of Guelph

Dept.of Computing and Information Science

ONTARIO N1G 2W1

Canada

Tel. +1 416 798 1331

Fax +1 416 798 3293

e-mail: denko@cis.uoguelph.ca

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Miquel Nicolau I Vila

Greg Kelaart-Courtney

Rodrigo Santos
Jose Neumann de Souza

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Raouf Boutaba

Benjamin Barán
Villy Baek Iversen

Ramon Puigjaner

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Siraj Ahmed Shaikh

Dimitris Varoutas
S.V. Raghavan

Augusto Casaca

WG 6.10 (Photonic Networking)

est. 1998 Aims and Scopes
URL: http://www.ifip.tu-graz.ac.at/TC6/WG/index.htm

Chair

Dr. Josep SOLÉ-PARETA

Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya
Computer Architecture Dept.
C/. Jordi Girona, 1-3
Mòdul D6 (Campus Nord)
ES-08034 BARCELONA

Spain
Tel. +34 93 401 6982
Fax +34 93 401 7055
e-mail: pareta@ac.upc.edu

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Harmen R. van As
Lorne G. Mason
Hussein T. Mouftah
Lars Dittman

Javier Aracil
Maurice Gagnaire
Dimitra Simeonidou

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Ioannis Tomkos

Tibor Cinkler

Franco Callegati
Fabio Neri

Achille Pattavina

Marian Marciniak

Andrzej Jajszczyk

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Jacek Rak
João Pires

Lena Wosinska
Rudra Dutta

Jason P. Jue
Biswanath Mukherjee
Galen H. Sasaki

WG 6.11 (Electronic Commerce - Communication Systems)

est. 2000, revised 2001 Aims and Scopes
URL: http://ifip.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/ifip/tc/6/wg/11

Co-Chairs

Prof. Wojciech CELLARY
The Poznan Univ. of Economics
Department of Information Technology
Mansfelda 4
PL-60-854 POZNAN
Poland
Tel. +48 61 848 0549
Fax +48 61 848 3840
e-mail: cellary@kti.ae.poznan.pl

Prof. Dr. Winfried LAMERSDORF
University of Hamburg
Department of Informatics
Faculty for Math., Informatics, and Nat. Sciences

Distributed and Information Systems (VSIS)
Vogt-Kölln-Str. 30
DE-22527 HAMBURG
Germany
Tel. +49 40 42883 2421
Fax +49 40 42883 2328
e-mail: lamersd@informatik.uni-hamburg.de

Prof. Reima SUOMI
Turku School of Economics and Business Administration
Information Systems Science
Rehtorinpellonkatu 3
FI-20500 TURKU
Finland
Tel. +358 2 4814 409
e-mail: reima.suomi@tse.fi

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Roland Traunmüller

Zoran Milosevic

Paula Swatman

Dirk Deschoolmeester

Americo N. Amorim
Manuel J. Mendes

Dimitri Konstantas

Reinhard Riedl
Katarina Stanoevska-Slabeva

Hans-Dieter Zimmermann

Narciso Cerpa

Lei Cheng

Jie Huang

Benxi Lao

Chen Ming

Zwachao Sun

Chun-hui Tan

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Haishan Tian

Weijun (Joe) Wang

Ruixian Yang

Jing Zhao

Rongying Zhao

Bo Meng

Markus Bick

Melanie Bicking
Rüdiger Grimm

J. Felix Hampe

Irene Krebs

Kai Rannenberg
Volker Tschammer

Maria Wimmer

Hongxiu Li

Harri Oinas-Kukkonen

Santosh K. Shrivastava

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Lefkada Papacharalambous

Despina Polemi

Spyridon Papastergiou
Aphrodite Tsalgatidou

Motohisa Funabashi

Ryoichi Sasaki

Kyoko Yamori

Kok-Wai Chew

Hans Weigand

Carlos Alberto

Jose Machado

Jose Neves

Regis Cabral

Farouk Kamoun

Rolf T. Wigand
Koos Koen