Performance Challenges for Efficient Next Generation Networks

The 19th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC19) has been held on 29 August - 2 September 2005 in Beijing, China.

198 papers have been accepted for presentation both in Plenary and Technical Sessions.

The best Student Paper was awarded to three PhD Students:

• Mark Necker, from the University of Stuttgart, for his Paper entitled A Simple Method for the IP Packet Service Time in UMTS Networks ;
• Wouter Rogiest, from Ghent University, for his Paper entitled Analysis of an Asynchronous Single Wavelength FDL Buffer
• Yi Xie, from the Sun Yat-Sen University of Guangzhou, for her Paper entitled A detection Approach of User Behaviour based on HsMM

As usual, a workshop on Developing Countries has been organized during 2 days.

Two Fellows of ITC who provided recognized scientific contributions on Teletraffic and devoted a number of years to the development of ITC received the ITC Lifetime Achievement Award:

• Professor Minoru Akiyama
• Dr. Clemens Pratt

The Proceedings of the congress have been published in China.