You are invited to join us for a fast-paced, academic conference that will explore information technology and telecommunications topics in industry, government, and education. The conference program will include:

• Government, Industry, and Academic Presentations and Panels, including:
  • Government policy, regulation and technology speakers
  • Industry innovations and directions
  • Katherine Snow Award for Top Research Paper
  • Best Graduate Research Paper
  • Best Undergraduate Research Paper
• Technology Demonstrations and Tutorials
• The Annual ITERA Case Study Competition

ITERA is seeking abstracts, papers, and panel session proposals that address the diverse nature of theory and practice in the telecommunication and information technology fields. Topics that address the science, engineering, implementation, delivery, education, management, or security of networks and telecommunications services, policies, laws, economics, frameworks, protocols, performance, incumbent and emergent technologies are all encouraged and highly anticipated. For a detailed list of potential topics, please visit http://www.itera.org. Papers should be formatted according to APA guidelines or the ITERA formatting guidelines (available at http://www.itera.org).

For conference panels, tutorials, or demonstrations, submit a proposal detailing the importance of the suggested session to industry, education, or research; suggesting sub-topics or content for this proposed session; and applicability to the ITERA 2015 conference. This proposal should not be longer than two pages. Please email a proposal in MS Word or PDF format to the program co-chair at battaie@syr.edu.

Key Dates

Submission for authors will be at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ITERA2015/

Research Paper Competition

Papers can be submitted in one of the following categories (faculty, industry, graduate student, or undergraduate student). All papers submitted to the conference will be considered for awarding of the "Best Paper Award" in their appropriate category, issued at the discretion of the Conference Program Committee. The prestigious Katherine Snow Award and a monetary stipend will be awarded to the best paper in the faculty category.

Session Proposals

Proposals for special sessions, panel sessions, tutorials, etc. should be submitted in writing to the conference committee. These proposals should highlight the topic(s) to be presented and discussed as well as the target audience. Additionally, a listing of potential participants should be included where applicable.

Ongoing Research Track

A top priority of the ITERA conference is to provide faculty a flexible, yet high payoff venue for presenting their research. While we welcome the presentation of any stage of academic and industry research, it is our strong feeling that we can also serve our members by encouraging the presentation of new research approaches, proposed research, and ongoing research in its early stages. We encourage faculty doing research to use the conference as an opportunity to present work that is in the early stages of development. In those cases where material is submitted to the conference and it is the desire of the authors that the work be published by ITERA, the authors can be confident in claiming that the work has undergone a full peer review.

Student Research Track

An important feature of the ITERA conference is to provide select undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to present their research. This takes the form of the ITERA case study competition as well as individual paper presentations. ITERA sets aside a special track for undergraduate research presentations. Undergraduate students, with the approval of their advisor, are invited to submit papers on any information technology topics.

ABOUT ITERA

The Information and Telecommunications Education & Research Association (ITERA) is a nonprofit academic organization committed to the advancement of telecommunications science through excellence in research and education. Telecommunications science draws from multiple disciplines, including communication and information technology management, and policy. ITERA seeks to advance telecommunications science through the creation of multiple forums for telecommunications and networking professionals, educators, and researchers. The ITERA conferences began in 2002 as the Murray State University Telecommunications & Information Technology Conferences (TSM 2002-2004). The success of the Murray State conferences helped establish the foundation for the creation of ITERA and the annually held ITERA Conference.