While the convergence of data and communication networks and the prevalence of wireless communications had sparked many new applications and enabling architectures, there are still significant technical challenges in the areas of next generation communication system and multimedia services, including issues related to performance, security, reliability, scalability, mobility, interoperability, and deployment. IMSAA-10, which is sponsored by the IEEE COMSOC Society Bangalore, IEEE Communications Society HQ under process, supported and attended by multi-national corporations and academic institutions, is poised to provide a platform of collaboration to researchers, engineers and practitioners from academia and industry working in the domain of communication technologies. The conference will include a peer reviewed program of technical sessions, workshops, tutorials, and demonstration sessions. We welcome submissions for IMSAA's Technical Program in the following areas of telecommunications services and converged networking and not limited to:

Convergent Communications Services

- Content/Context-aware services

- Communication services and Web 2.0

- Social networking and communication services

- Virtual worlds

Security & Privacy toward Next Generation Communications System

- Privacy and information sharing

- User data security and privacy

- End to end security

- Security and privacy in P2P networks

- Authentication, Authorization, and Access control

Mobile Communications

- Mobile communication applications in 3G and 4G networks

- Mobile communication service architectures

Service models, architectures, creation, and management

- Service creation environments

- Feature interaction handling

- Compositional Services and Model Checking.

- Management of Next Generation Communication Systems

- Cloud computing

IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS)

- P2P and IMS (VoIP, Instant Messaging, Gaming)

- Integrating IMS and Web2.0 services (Mashups, Rich Internet Applications)

- Architectures and Runtimes for IMS Elements

- IMS Core Services

- IMS Mobility

- Case Studies and Status of IMS Deployment

- IMS Clients and Devices

Multimedia Streaming and Communications

- Multicast, Broadcast and IPTV

- Media Streaming

- Cross-layer Optimization for Multimedia Service Support

- Video Quality Assessment

Trials and testbeds

- Service Test and Validation Platforms

- Open Source Initiatives

- Benchmarking IMS Services and Applications

Next Generation Communication System (Wireless and Wired)

- Machine-type communication technologies (Internet of Things)

- User Equipment Technologies

- Traffic offloading techniques and performance

- IPv6 migration issues

- Qos for voice and video

- Smart Grid or Power Saving

All paper submissions are handled through EDAS:

http://edas.info/8901

The proceedings will be published in the IEEE Xplore digital library. IMSAA seeks original research work which is not yet published or submitted in any other conference or journal.

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IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission: 20th July 2010 (EST, USA)

Paper review notification: 15th September 2010 (EST, USA)

Paper camera ready: 5th October 2010 (EST, USA)

Demo proposal submission: 15th October 2010 (EST, USA)

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Chair: Ashutosh Dutta - Telcordia, USA

Vice-Chair: Sanjoy Paul - Infosys, India

TPC Co-chairs:

Sheshadri Mohan - University of Arkansas, USA

Yoshihiro Ohba - Toshiba, Japan

Xiaotao Wu - Avaya, USA

Publicity Co-Chairs:

Christian Makaya - Telcordia, USA

Rafa Marin Lopez- University of Murcia, Spain

Publication Chair:

Shweta Jain - Rutgers, USA

Service Provider Session Chair:

Sanyogita Shamsunder - Verizon, USA

Registration Chair - Jayanta Mukherjee, HP, India

Panel Chair - Yoshinori Kitatsuji, KDDI Labs, Japan

Finance Chair - C.M Abraham, IIITB, India

Steering Committee:

Nirwan Ansari

Henning Schulzrinne

Subir Saha

Debabrata Das