Proceedings of the 2003 IFIP/ACM Latin America conference on Towards a Latin American agenda for network research

Abstract

Welcome again, this time in La Paz, Bolivia, to LANC 2003, the IFIP/ACM SIGCOMM Latin America Networking Conference. ACM SIGCOMM and the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP TC6) have joined to make this event a reality after positive feedback from the first ACM SIGCOMM Workshop for Latin America in 2001, San José, Costa Rica. We are also receiving collaboration and sharing publicity with the Centro Latinoamericano de Estudios en Inform´tica and its conference CLEI 2003. In LANC 2003 we continue to pursue a double objective. The first is to strengthen bridges among researchers in Latin America and other regions to enrich the potential of ACM SIGCOMM and of data network research. The second is to support a forum for discussion of research issues specific to Latin America. The conference program mixes papers about Network Design, Routing, Wireless Networking, Network Applications, and QoS with two invited talks and several tutorials. The key note speech by Guy Pujole covers the important subject of access networks. Since Latin America recognizes that access to the Internet is a major development priority, this key note speech is both timely and welcome. As an encouraging sign, we received 28 papers, against 18 in 2001, and accepted 14, against 7 accepted in 2001. I am pleased to say that we have a greater and wider representation of research from Latin America this time around. I hope you will all enjoy our conference program and many fruitful conversations with the researchers, academics and students that we have brought together at La Paz. I also look forward to your continued interest in the future of this effort.