During the past decades, owing to the simplicity of the Internet Protocol, the Internet has expanded in a scale almost beyond imagination. Almost any node can be connected easily to the Internet through either wired or wireless networks. The challenge has shifted from just making connectivity for users to providing them with flexible guaranteed communications. Unlike the wired networks, wireless networks are characterized by the high bit error rate depending on the user environment, and the long delay for long distance or cluttered communications. Furthermore, in heterogeneous networks, users would like to maintain seamless connectivity even when they are traversing between networks. This mobility requirement brings another challenging problem to IP since the original protocol was only designed for fixed networks where most of the nodes are bound to a sub-network and seldom change their locations. Fairness among connections, network utilization, and roaming issues, are some of the current major concerns.

     Traditional IP is readily exposed to attacks such as DDoS and Flooding, causing serious security threat to the integrity of the Internet. Current research has focused on how the future Internet will be shaped. One path to the future Internet is evolutionary by making the necessary modifications and adding some new functions to current IP; the other is revolutionary by possibly creating a suite of totally new network architecture and protocol.

     This symposium solicits original works from both academia and industry. Potential contributors are invited to submit their unpublished paper(s) addressing various aspects related to the Internet Protocol. Further details of the symposium can be found in http://conference.njit.edu/IP-globecom2007/. For submission instructions, please visit the IEEE Globecom 2007 Webpage at http://www.ieee-globecom.org/2007/.