General Chair's Welcome

Dr. Sudhir Dixit Hewlett-Packard Laboratories India sudhir.dixit@{hp.com, ieee.org}

General Chair's Welcome It's my pleasure to welcome you to 5th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems (IEEE ANTS) 2011 in Bangalore, India. It is the only IEEE conference fully sponsored by ComSoc that is held every year in India.

ANTS is a unique conference in many ways: It has a very good mix of tutorials, industry sessions, panels, invited talks, and technical papers, both from the academic and industrial community. Every effort has been made to create a program that has a significant component of industry and business to encourage dialogue with the research community. The topics in this conference cover all aspects of networking, with papers or presentations on the latest happenings in those fields. The program features a large number of invited luminaries and prominent speakers from around the world.

The conference of this magnitude is not feasible without the outstanding contributions from many individuals, in particular all those in the organizing committee, the steering committee, and the Technical Programme Committee. The General Chair is indebted to many volunteers who made this event possible. I hesitate to name them as I am afraid I might leave some of them out. Nevertheless, I do want to acknowledge the following Organizing Committee members for their time and tireless efforts to make this conference a huge success: Technical Program Chairs Professor Byrav Ramamurthy and Professor Vijay Sivaraman, Industry Chairs Dr. Deepak Kataria and Dr. Srinidhi Saragur, Publications Chair Professor Srinivasan Ramasubramanian, Panels Chair Dr. Shiv Kalyanaraman, Website Chairs Professor Vinod Vokkarane and Mr. Sachin Shetty, Tutorials Chairs Dr. S.K. Sinha and Dr. Amitabh Saxena, Local Arrangements Chair Mr. R. Pavanesh, Publicity Chairs Dr. Ming Xia, Mr. Saigopal Thota, Dr. Ntsibane Ntlatlapa and Dr. Ashish Pandharipande. I also want to thank Professors Biswanath Mukherjee, Rudra Dutta and Krishna Sivalingam for guiding through the complexities of organizing a conference like ANTS. Finally, I want to thank all the tutorial instructors, keynote speakers, invited speakers, the panelists and the organizers and moderators of the panels for accepting our invitations and agreeing to share their experiences, ideas and visions of the future that is evolving so rapidly.

Last but not the least, we are grateful to our sponsors for the financial support provided by many organizations, namely Hewlett-Packard, LSI, Adobe, WWRF, NICTA, Alcatel-Lucent, Netgear, Huawei, Avaya, and IP Junction.

Welcome to Bangalore, India, and we hope you will enjoy the conference while renewing old friendships and building new ones with your fellow colleagues! We look forward to your feedback on the conference.

TPC Chairs' Welcome

Byrav Ramamurthy University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA		Vijay Sivaraman University of New South Wales, Australia

Welcome to Bangalore, the silicon valley of India, for the 5th IEEE ANTS 2011 conference. Once again, this year's ANTS includes a high-quality technical program combined with strong industry participation. We received 98 long paper submissions and 19 short paper submissions from over 10 countries. Each paper was reviewed by at least 2 (and often 3 or even 4) members of the technical program committee, and we accepted 34 long papers and 9 short papers for oral presentation, along with 9 papers for poster presentation. The acceptance rate for long papers was below 35%. The high-quality technical program reflects the growing importance of this conference to academic and industry researchers in India and worldwide. The program also features two invited papers and an invited talk from renowned researchers in Canada, Australia and the USA, and several keynote talks from influential executives from industry. To accommodate the growing number of high-quality papers being presented at ANTS, we have now organized the technical presentations in two parallel tracks, one covering wireless networking, and the other broadly covering wireline networks and applications. The papers are arranged in 12 sessions across three days. We also very proud to host a poster session and three exciting panel sessions on topics that are highly relevant to the current networking industry.

We would like to thank all of our 40 TPC members, who come from 12 countries, for their hard work and dedication in freely volunteering their time to review the paper submissions. We would also like to thank everyone in the organizing committee, particularly the general chair Dr. Sudhir Dixit, for the time and effort they have put in to ensure a high-quality program. Lastly, we would also like to thank you, the authors and attendees of IEEE ANTS 2011, for your support and participation. We sincerely hope that you will enjoy the IEEE ANTS 2011 conference experience.

Industry Chairs' Welcome

Deepak Kataria IP Junction		Srinidhi Saragur SJB Labs, Bangalore & Prometheus Consulting, India