2008-06-14

[Mycolleagues] CFP: IEEE BWIA 2008 (Deadline extended until July 10, 2008)

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The 2nd International Workshop on Broadband Wireless Internet Access (BWIA 2008)

held in conjunction with the 4th IEEE International Conference on Wireless
and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob  2008).
Avignon, France on 12-14 Oct 2008.


Important Dates:
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Paper submission:  July 10, 2008 (EXTENDED)
Acceptance notification:  July 30, 2008
Final Manuscript due:  August 21, 2008
Registration and full payment due: August 20, 2008
Workshop date: October 12, 2008


Scope:
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Nowadays, there is a clear steep growth in research interests in wireless
and mobile communication systems as an inexpensive and promising means for
ubiquitous communications. Mobile broadband wireless is an important
sub-area of this research, which focuses on enabling physical layer
technologies to support third generation as well as future broadband
mobile systems. Even though this sub-area holds great promises for our future, 
there are several challenges that need to be addressed.

This workshop focuses on all topics related to Broadband Wireless Internet
Access (BWIA), including Mobile BWIA, with emphasis on protocols,
architectures, algorithms, resource management, technologies,
applications, practical experiences, simulation results and analysis,
theory and validation. Expected topics include, but are
not limited to:

New architectures, technologies, protocols for broadband wireless access
Medium access control and QoS
Security and privacy issues
Service level agreements
Radio extension such as 802.xx (WiFi, WiMax, etc)
Modulation, coding and antennas (MIMO)
UMTS and extensions
Scalability and reliability issues
Wireless mesh networks
Optical wireless access networks
QoS in mobile and broadband wireless access networks
Radio Resource Management and call admission control
Capacity Planning and Traffic Engineering
Physical and Data link layer Issues
Space-time coding for broadband wireless Internet
Spectrum management
Interoperability aspects (fixed/mobile LANs/MANs, WANs)
Micro and macro mobility Management
3G/4G Wireless Technologies
Cross-layer interactions and optimization
Network and resource management
Experiences/lessons from recent deployments

Paper Submission
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Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently
under review in any other conference or journal, and has not been
previously published. Paper length should not exceed six-page technical
paper manuscript. Please see author information page for submission
guidelines at WiMob 2008 website (www.lia.univ-avignon.fr/wimob2008).
Papers should be submitted in a PDF format through EDAS.

Submissions should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliations,
fax and telephone numbers and e-mail addresses. All accepted papers will
be published in the conference proceedings. At least one author of
accepted papers is required to register at the full registration rate.

All accepted papers will be included in the WiMob 2008 main conference
proceedings and published by IEEE. Authors of selected outstanding papers
will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for consideration of 
publication in the International Journal of Communication Networks and 
Distributed Systems, Inderscience, U.K. 


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