The 16th IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICON 2008) will be held in New Delhi, India from Dec. 12th to 14th, 2008. The Conference will provide a forum for representatives from industry, academia and government agencies to share ideas and discuss the innovations in the area of computer networks and communications. ICON 2008 will have one day of Tutorials and two days of Paper & Poster Presentations besides lectures by eminent speakers. Contributions in the form of papers describing original research, surveys and/or applications and practical experience are invited on the topics including, but not limited to, the following:

• Application layer protocols
• Flow and Congestion control
• Multicasting
• Network fault-tolerance and reliability
• Network I/O and storage area networks
• Network issues for multimedia, web and gaming
• Network middleware
• Network pricing and billing
• Next generation networks
• Optical and photonics networks
• Peer-to-peer and overlay networking
• Policy based networking
• Privacy, security, DOS and defenses
• Quality of Service
• Routing, switching and addressing
• Scheduling and resource management
• Traffic Engineering and Network management
• Wireless LANs and PANs
• Mobile ad hoc and mesh networks
• Wireless Sensor networks
• E-commerce