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  |     INFOCOM'98 - SEVENTEENTH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE     |
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  |               COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS                          |
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  |             Gateway to the 21st Century                        |
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  |              March 29 - April 2, 1998                          |
  |           Hotel Nikko, San Francisco, USA                      |
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  |        Sponsored by:                                           |
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  |          Computer Communications Technical Committees of the   |
  |          IEEE Computer and Communications Societies            |
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  CALL FOR PAPERS:

  Authors are invited to submit full papers reporting results, strongly
  substantiated by mathematical analysis, experiment, implementation,
  or simulation, in all areas of computer communications and
  networks; however, more qualitative exploration of important 
  architectural issues is also encouraged. A more detailed list of
  specific areas of interest can be obtained from the INFOCOM'98 WWW site.

  SCHEDULE AND IMPORTANT DATES:
 
  Full Paper Due                             -    July 15, 1997
  Notification of Acceptance                 -    October 31, 1997
  Camera Ready Version of Accepted Paper Due -    January 5, 1998
  Conference                                 -    March 31-April 2, 1998
  Tutorials                                  -    March 29-30, 1998

  SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:

  The first page of your paper should contain paper title, author
  name(s), complete address (telephone, fax, email) for all authors,
  indication of who is the corresponding author, abstract, followed by
  key words and optionally one or more areas of interest from the list
  on the WWW site. The paper should be limited to 20 pages excluding 
  illustrations and 30 pages overall.

  We strongly encourage electronic submission of manuscripts in
  Postscript format.  Please consult the INFOCOM '98
  WWW site for electronic submission instructions.  Hard copy
  submissions will still be handled on an exception basis, but require
  explicit permission from the Infocom'98 Technical Program Chair who 
  can be reached at:

  Professor Ian Akyildiz
  Technical Program Chair, IEEE INFOCOM '98
  School of ECE
  Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia 30332.
  (email) infocom98@ee.gatech.edu 
  (phone) +1 404-894-5141
  (fax)   +1 404-894-0035 

  STUDENT GRANTS:

  You may qualify for a Student Travel Grant to defray some of your
  costs for presenting a paper at this conference.  IEEE Communications
  Society will award a limited number of Student Travel Grants to
  full-time students who represent their accepted papers at INFOCOM '98. 
  Please refer to the INFOCOM'98 WWW site for further details.

  WORLD-WIDE WEB: 

  Information on Infocom'98 is available through the World Wide Web at
  USA:           http://www.comsoc.org/~infocom98  
  Europe:        http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/research/infocom98
  Asia/Pacific:  http://www.iss.nus.sg/INFOCOM

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  INFOCOM'98 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:

  GENERAL CHAIR                             VICE GENERAL CHAIR

  Roch Guerin                               Henning Schulzrinne
  IBM T.J. Watson Research Center           Columbia Univ.
  Yorktown Heights, NY, USA.                New York, NY, USA.

  TECHNICAL CHAIR                           

  Ian Akyildiz
  Georgia Institute of Technology                         
  Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

  PUBLICITY CHAIR                       PUBLICATIONS CHAIR
  Ramesh Nagarajan, Bell labs, USA.     Abhijit Choudhury, Bell labs, USA.

  TUTORIAL CO-CHAIRS                    PANELS CO-CHAIRS
  Arvind Krishna, IBM, USA.             David Tipper, Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA.
  Catherine Rosenberg, Nortel, UK.      Vittorio Trecordi, CEFRIEL, Italy.

  LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR              FINANCIAL CO-CHAIRS
  Fred Bauer, SRI, USA.                 Ariel Orda, Technion, Israel.
                                        Yannis Korilis, Bell labs, USA.

  INFOCOM STANDING COMMITTEE CHAIR:

  Harvey Freeman, LANWORKS, Inc., U.S.A.