As wide-area overlay network test-beds distributed across the world have shown their potentials as a viable means to explore unforeseen network architectures and services, overlay networks have become popular vehicles for experimenting with innovative network services and disruptive network architectures, since those services and architectures can be successfully deployed using overlay networks without changing the underlying networks. Recent trends that put forth overlay network research represent increasing interests in defining, evaluating, and deploying new network services and architectures among reseach community. It is also worth noting that the same overlay network research community proposes forthcoming national projects such as GENI and NGI in order to explore new generation network architectures, which encourage clean-slate thinking and exercise splendid ideas and experiences learned from overlay network research.
This symposium introduces this new era of overlay network research together with the projects such as GENI and NGI and aims at forming larger research community for exploring new generation information network and at encouraging international collaboration.

Organizers	Overlay Network Symposium Organizing Committee Hideo MIYAHARA (President, Osaka University) (Chair) Fumito KUBOTA, (Executive Director, New Generation Network Research Center, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology) Shunya YOSHIMI (Director, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, the University of Tokyo)
Co-Organizer	National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
In Cooperation with	The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC)
Technical Sponsors	IEICE Information Networks (IN) IEICE Network Systems(NS) IEICE Communication Quality (CQ) IPSJ SIG-OS IPSJ SIG-DPS JSPS 163rd Committee on Internet Technology (ITRC) IEEE Japan Council IEEE ComSoc Japan Chapter
Steering Commitees	Aki NAKAO (Associate Professor, The University of Tokyo) (Chair) Masayuki MURATA (Professor, Osaka University) Kiyohide NAKAUCHI (New Generation Network Research Center, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)
Language	Japanese / English (Simultaneous Translation Provided)
Registration	No Charge

» Inquiry on Symposium

Kiyohide NAKAUCHI
New Generation Network Research Center,
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
Address: 4-2-1 Nukui-Kitamachi, Koganei, Tokyo 184-8795 Japan
Phone:+81-42-327-5403, Fax: +81-42-327-6680

» Inquiry on Registrations

Miho Sakagami, Aiho SAITO
Overlay Network Symposium Office, ILCC Co., Ltd.
Address: Fukuyoshizaka Bldg. 4F, 2-17-44, Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 107-0052, Japan
Phone: +81-3-5562-3677