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Important Dates


Please note the following important dates for submission of papers:




SATNAC presentation template

The following template should be used for the presentation at SATNAC 2018

SATNAC PowerPoint template 2018



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.

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.

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. If too many acceptable Work-in-Progress submissions are received, some might be invited to display their research through a poster session.


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, John Lewis via email at johnl2@openserve.co.za The final deadline for submission of papers is 18
May 2018. 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 the website.


Technical Programme Categories and topics

Please note that the individual topics per paper category are meant to merely serve as examples and are not meant to be exhaustive


1. Standards, Regulatory & Environmental

ICASA, Department of Communications, ITU, ETSI, IEEE, Various Forums, Facilities, Cabling, Aircon, Power, Alternative Energy, Energy Efficiency, Fuel Cells, Lightning Protection, Interference, Radio Spectrum Utilization and Management


2. Management

Consulting, Outsourcing, SLA, Contract Management, OSS, BSS, Processes, NGOSS, ITIL, TMN, ITSM, NSM, Planning Issues, Policy Based Management, Subscriber Management, Systems Integration, Security and Privacy, Optimizing P2P / CDN networks, Visualization, Simulation for management support


3. Converged Services

IMS, Voice, Video, Presence, Mobility, Speech Recognition and Synthesis, IN Services, Voice over IP (H.248, SIP, H.323), Application Services, The Digital Home, Connection Management & Control Protocols, Multimedia Services, Media Servers, Trunking Gateways, Signalling Gateways


4. Internet Services & End User Applications

Mobile Apps, Internet, E-commerce, M-commerce, Web2.0, Software Design, Cryptography, xHTML, XML, Java, Internet Trust, Internet Security, Internet Performance, Virtual Collaboration, Telecommuting, Pattern Recognition, Network Security


5. Limited Range Communications

Ad-hoc, Wireless Sensor, Emergency Services, Smart Grids, RFID, WiFi, Bluetooth, Ethernet, Broadband over Powerline, Customer Premise Equipment, NFC


6. Access Network Technologies

Radio Technologies, Mobile (GSM, Edge, 3G, HSPA, LTE, WiMAX), Satellite, Wireline, QoS, xDSL, Passive Optical Networks, Software Defined Radios, Radio Propagation Studies


7. Core Network Technologies

MPLS, Core IP Networks, TCP-IP, VPN, Metro Ethernet, Transport, ASTN, CWDM, DWDM, Optical, Network Topology (Mesh, Self-healing, Autoconfiguring), Dimensioning Rules


8. Data Centre & Cloud

VMWare for Virtualisation, Desktop Virtualisation, Bring Your Own Device, Storage Area Networks, Web & Application Servers

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.

The following information is provided so that authors' papers can be successfully integrated to produce the conference proceedings with a consistent look and feel.
Questions and comments can be forwarded to:

John Lewis
SATNAC 2018 TPC chair
Tel: 012 311 5668
email: johnl2@openserve.co.za


Gys Booysen
Tel: 012 311 1952
email: gysb@openserve.co.za


Software
The SATNAC 2018 TPC requires that the documentation is submitted in Acrobat (pdf) version 9 compatible with no password or protection enabled.

Layout


The following Microsoft Word template of the document structure, styles and layout should be used to prepare your paper.
SATNAC_Word_Template_2018


Or make use of the folowing Latex Template

SATNAC_Template_2018

SATNAC_Template_2018.bib

SATNAC_Template_2018.tex


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. Booysen.pdf)

If more than one document is submitted, please identify the documents with a unique integer value after the author's name
e.g. Booysen1.pdf, Booysen2.pdf

Gys Booysen

Email: booysegj@telkom.co.za

Tel: 012 311 1952

Contact

Call for papers

Author’s notes

Papers must be uploaded onto the online database and access will be through 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 2018 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 John Lewis

The Review Process
The SATNAC 2018 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.

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