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  Technical Program


The First IEEE LCN Workshop on
Network Measurements  

Tampa, Florida


To be held in conjunction with The 31st Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2006) November 14-17, 2006.

The LCN International Workshop on Network Measurements, will be held in conjunction with the IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN). The workshop will include papers and panels dealing with latest advances and challenges facing the  field. The expected audience will include networking researchers, practitioners, scientists and engineers   from industry, academia and government.


Topics of Interest:

Network measurements are crucial for operation, diagnosis, and characterization of complex networks. Accurate characterization is important for understanding the behaviour of networks and as well as for evaluating the scalability, reliability and performance of protocols. Measurements in wired and wireless domains as well as end-to-end and subnet measurements have received significant attention. Multiple challenges exist in these areas due to complex dynamics of the networks and also the difficulties in performing measurement itself. Wireless domain poses interesting research problems due to the external factors such as environment, while the broadcast nature of the medium allows for passive monitoring of the network. This workshop will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners interested in network measurements to discuss latest advances in the field.

High quality, previously unpublished work is solicited on the topics including, but not limited to:

  • Measurements on homogenous and heterogeneous networks
  • Physical layer characteristics and measurements for wireless networks
  • Implementation and operational challenges of wireless testbeds
  • Mobility models and traffic patterns
  • Wired and wireless domain measurements
  • Measurement tools
  • Bandwidth, capacity and delay estimation
  • Active and passive measurements at core nodes
  • End-to-end and/or application-level measurements over the Internet
  • Metrics for network characterization
  • Benchmark scenarios and results
Paper length should not exceed 10 pages. Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format via EDAS.  Papers will go through a thorough review process. The accepted papers will appear in the IEEE LCN conference proceedings.  

Proposals for panel sessions are also invited. Please send the proposal by the same deadline as for papers. 

Important dates

Paper submission deadline: June 29, 2006 (5pm EST) - HARD Deadline
Notification of acceptance: July 31, 2006,
Camera-ready paper due: August 25, 2006

General Chair:

Prof. Anura P. Jayasumana
Computer Networking Research Laboratory
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA

Program Chair:

Dr. Nischal M. Piratla
Network Research Group
Deutsche Telekom Laboratories
Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7
10587 Berlin, Germany
Program Committee:

Gianluca Iannaccone                   Intel Research, Cambridge
Roger Karrer                             Technical University of Berlin
Yu-Kwong Kwok                     University of Hong Kong
Maode Ma                                Nanyang Technological University
Dina Papagiannaki                      Intel Corporation
Antonio Pescape'                       University of Naples
Jens-Peter Redlich                     Humboldt University
Henk Uijterwaal                         RIPE NCC
Bing Wang                                 University of Connecticut
Petros Zerfos                             Deutsche Telekom Labs
Tanja Zseby                               Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS


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