Paper Submission Process

*** WIP Paper submissions closed ***

Full papers must contain the following:
Author's name, affiliation, postal and e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers. Authors are requested to ensure that these contact details are correct and it is your responsibility to ensure any changes are made available to the TPC Chair. If a submission is co-authored, the primary recipient of the correspondence should be clearly indicated. An oral presentation of 20 minutes will be allowed to successful students at the conference.

Work-in-Progress (WIP) papers must contain the following:
Author's name, affiliation, postal and e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers. Authors are requested to ensure that these contact details are correct and it is your responsibility to ensure any changes are made available to the TPC Chair. If a submission is co-authored, the primary recipient of the correspondence should be clearly indicated. An oral presentation of 15 minutes will be allowed to successful students at the conference, including time for questions and answers.

All full paper submissions should clearly indicate which topic and sub-topic they are addressing at the conference although the Technical Programme Committee (TPC) reserves the right to make changes. Note that papers that do not comply with the prescribed formats and deadlines will not be considered for review.

Submissions should be posted via the website. Receipt of submissions will be confirmed. If you do not get a confirmation within 5 working days, please contact the TPC Chair, David Browne at brownedr@telkom.co.za via email. The final deadline for submission of papers is 10 May 2009. Regrettably, no extension will be possible. Submission for the Work-in-Progress (WIP) papers is 7 June 2009. The results of all the reviews should be made available by 21 June 2009. Instructions to the successful authors regarding the submission of their respective presentations will be sent separately.

The TPC reserves the right to alter any of the deadlines. Members of the Technical Programme Committee consisting of academics and leading industry players will review each paper. The TPC member list will be available on this website.

Technical Programme Topics

Access Network Technologies xDSL (ADSL2/2+, SHDSL, VDSL2) Layer 1 Line Codes Ethernet in the First Mile 802.3ah Passive Optical Networks (GPON, EPON) Broadband Powerline (BPL) Radio Technologies Satellite Technologies Mobile Technologies (GSM, UMTS, CDMA) Wireless Local Loop (WLL) Wifi 802.11, WiMAX 802.16 Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) The Digital Home	Optical, Transport and Core Networks Access, metro, core transport CWDM, DWDM technologies Optical switching SDH, NG-SDH Networks ATM Networks Metro Ethernet Networks Core IP Networks ASTN, GMPLS
The Intelligent IP Edge Call Feature Servers Media gateways Trunking gateways Signalling gateways Application servers Voice over IP (H.248, SIP, H.323) Packetised voice (VoATM, VoIP) MPLS & IP QoS Design Broadband Aggregation Layer 3 VPN	Outside Plant Issues Cabinet Design Distribution Frames DC, AC power Lightning Protection Interference Automated MDF Optical and Copper cable testing
Network Services E-Commerce IN Services Web services Mobile services (WAP), M-commerce Fixed line SMS Speech Recognition Layer 2 VPLS Layer 3 VPN	Network Management & OSS eTOM, TMN Policy based management Service level agreements Subscriber management Systems integration Fulfillment, Assurance, Billing
Protocols SDH, NG-SDH (VCAT, LCAS, GFP, etc) ATM, Frame Relay Ethernet TCP/IP & Layer 3 Routing Protocols MPLS RPR Storage Area Network Protocols	Software Software Design Cryptography xHTML, XML, Java Web & Applications servers
Network Planning Network Design Considerations Dimensioning Rules Outside plant issues Planning issues	Network Engineering Equipment Engineering Issues Network Design (Traffic engineering, QoS) Dimensioning Rules Modelling and simulation
Standardisation Initiatives ETSI ITU-T, ITU-R, ITU-D IEEE ATM/FR/MPLS Forum DSL Forum Metro Ethernet Forum others	Innovation & Regulatory Telecommunications Developments and Inventions The South African Regulatory Environment Local & International regulations

Authors Notes

The following information is provided so that authors' papers can be successfully integrated to produce a CD-ROM and conference proceedings with a consistent look and feel. Please visit this page regularly as additional information could be added. Questions and comments can be forwarded to:

David Browne
SATNAC 2009 TPC chair
Tel: 012 311 2440
Fax: 012 311 4339
email: brownedr@telkom.co.za

Software
The SATNAC 2009 TPC requires that the documentation is submitted in Acrobat (pdf) version 4 compatible with no password or protection enabled.

Layout

All papers must be in English
Full papers must be no more than 6 pages including abstract and biographies.
WIP papers must be no more than 2 pages including abstract and biographies.
All papers must start with an abstract of 250 words or less.
All papers must at least contain a biography of the principle author at the end of the document. Each biography must be limited to 50 words and should not contain a photograph.
Paper size: A4
Margins:
top/bottom 0.7" (1.78cm)
left/right 0.65" (1.65cm)
header/footer 0.3" from edge (0.76cm)
Format: two-column format, including figures and tables. Spacing between columns should be 0.2" (0.5cm)
Font type: Times New Roman
Text size: 10 pt
Footnote text size: 9pt
Paper title: 20pt
Authors name(s): 11 pt
Heading 1: Times New Roman, 10 pt, Small Caps
Heading 2: Times New Roman, 10pt, italic
Line spacing should be 1
Do not embed any fonts in the document
Do not number pages
Figures and tables must be labelled with clear captions

An example/template (IEEE Transactions format) of the document structure, styles and layout is available below or from the IEEE web site

IEEE Microsoft Word Template Example ( 82KB)

http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/transactions/stylesheets.htm

While every effort is taken to ensure that the layout of the paper is preserved when converting documents to pdf format or printing papers, the SATNAC TPC cannot be held liable/responsible for layout changes or printing anomalies.

Graphics
Please make sure that graphics are of an acceptable quality.
Ensure that all graphics are copied or embedded directly in the document. It is recommended that in order to insert images in MS Word, position the cursor at the insertion point and either use Insert | Picture | From File or copy the image to the Windows clipboard and then Edit | Paste Special | Picture (with "Float over text" unchecked).

Formulas and Equations
All equations and formulas should be placed in text boxes or within the specific equation editor. This ensures that formatting, characters and layout are fixed.

Document Naming Conventions
In order to correctly identify and catalogue the paper, the document must be named using the following convention:

<Principle author name>.extension (e.g. Browne.doc)

If more than one document is submitted, please identify the documents with a unique integer value after the author's name
e.g. Browne1.doc, Browne2.doc

Passwords
Do not password protect any files.

Compression
The SATNAC 2009 TPC will accept papers that have been compressed with the following compression types: Zip, RAR and ARJ.

Paper Submission

Papers must be uploaded onto the online database and access will be through the the SATNAC website before the relative submission closing dates. All emails to the TPC chair must contain the word "SATNAC" in the subject header.

Confirmation on Receipt of Paper
The SATNAC 2009 TPC will acknowledge receipt of documentation within 5 working days of receiving the documentation. If no receipt is received in this period, please contact the TPC chair David Browne.

The Review Process
The SATNAC 2009 TPC will review papers based on criteria as described in the following documents:

SATNAC Reviewers Form ( 16KB)

SATNAC Reviewers Form Appendix ( 14KB)

Although reviewers will know the details of the authors when the paper evaluations are performed, their professional integrity will ensure a fair process. Each paper will be reviewed by at least 3 experts. However, if an author would like his/her paper to be reviewed “double blind” then a second version of the paper should be submitted with the necessary information stripped out but the paper must still retain the same physical format.

Important: The TPC reserves the right to send all the submissions to a plagiarism search engine.

Viruses
All documentation received will be checked for viruses. However, it is the responsibility of the author to ensure that documents are free of viruses. Any document that is infected with a virus and cannot be recovered will be returned to the author, with a request that a clean copy be resubmitted.