Message from technical program co-chairs

The 19th IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks features invited papers in addition to regular track papers from both industry and academia. We received 32 submissions for regular papers. After a careful review process, the technical program committee (TPC) selected 10 regular papers and 4 short papers for presentation in the workshop program, resulting in 31% and 44% acceptance rates, respectively. Each regular submission received at least three reviews. We also received 8 invited paper submissions from experts performing research in areas related to the theme of this year´s workshop: Seamless Services. We are very pleased to have the invited papers by Peng He, Thomas Mager, Paris Charalampou, Jean-Michel Dricot, Vanniarajan Chellappan, Dan Li, Gianluca Reali, Patrick Thiran and their co-authors. Each invited paper submission received at least two reviews.