[Mycolleagues] [Home Networking Track][IFIP WD 2008] - Extended Deadline: July 20 (Firm Deadline)

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         [Paper Submission Firm Deadline: July 20]

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            CALL FOR PAPERS: Home Networking Track
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   IFIP/IEEE Wireless Days 2008
                   Dubai, United Arab Emirates
                      November 24-27, 2008

                    Track on Home Networking

Conference web site: http://www-phare.lip6.fr/Wireless_Days/
Track web site: http://www-phare.lip6.fr/Wireless_Days/tracks1.html

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SCOPE

The track is focused on architecture, protocols design and
application for the control of the future domestic networks. Indeed,
domestic networks are evolving very quickly to become complete
networks. Tens and even hundreds of flows are going through this
network. Moreover, the flows are coming from very different machines:
from the telecommunication world, the Consumer Electronic industry,
and the domestic manufacturers. Networks to carry the different flows
are also very different going from wireless networks (WiFi, UWB,
etc.) to CPL networks via more classical Ethernet solutions. Finally,
equipments are very heterogeneous: TV, laptop, PDA, refrigerator,
sensor, RFID, etc.

The aim of this track is to provide an international technical forum
for experts from industry and academia everywhere in the world to
exchange ideas and present results of ongoing researches in home
networking. Topics include, but are not limited to:

- Wireless networks (Wi-Fi, UWB, ZigBee, 6LowPAN)
- Home Networking Routing Protocols
- PLC (HomePlug, OPERA, UPA, CEPCA, IEEE)
- PLC QoS Management
- DLNA, UPnP, Rally, etc.
- Internet-Box, set-top-box, bridge, gateway, etc.
- Access Networks (ADSL, VDSL, optical, etc.)
- Home Gateway
- DSL Forum, HGI, Home DVB
- Vertical handover
- Wireless QoS Management
- Home Network Security
- Ambient intelligence
- Autonomic Home Networking
- New Home Applications
- Performance & Experiment

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PAPERS SUBMISSION

Papers are to be submitted electronically on the EDAS web site of
the conference (http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6465&) in PDF format.
Please submit to the Home Networking track.

Submissions should be original and limited to 5 double-column pages,
and should follow IEEE paper templates. Paper with more pages can be
accepted however they need to be reduced to 5 pages for publication.

Conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE and will be available
through IEEExplore.

Best papers will be published in a special issue of the Annals of Telecommunications (Springer) Journal.

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IMPORTANT DATES

Extended submission deadline: July 20, 2008 (Firm Deadline)
Notification of acceptance: September 8, 2008
Camera-ready version: September 21, 2008

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TRACK TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

- Stefano Bregni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Stefano Galli, Panasonic R&D Company of America, USA
- Hossam Afifi, Institut Telecom, France
- Dominique Gaiti, University of Troyes, France
- Walter Grote, UTFSM, Spain
- Ulf Korner, University of Lund, Sweden
- Shengming Jiang, South China University of Technology, China
- Haniph A. Latchman, University of Florida, USA
- Thomas Luckenbach, Fraunhofer Institut FOKUS, Germany
- Sylvain Meyer, France Telecom, France
- José-Marcos Nogueira, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Tobias Ritzau, Sony Ericsson
- Yutaka Takahashi, Kyoto University, Japan
- Abderrahmane Lakas, United Arab Emirates University, UAE
- Mohamed Hassan, American University of Sharjah, UAE
- Fawaz Wissam, Lebanese American University, Lebanon
- Ken Chen, University of Paris 13, France
- Tuna Tuğcu, Boğaziçi University, Turkey
- Laurend Reynaud, Orange, France
- Elena Pagani, University of Milano, Italy
- Pedro Cuenca, Universidad de Castilla-la-Mancha, Spain
- Jean-Philippe Javaudin, Orange Labs
- Nadjib Achir, University of Paris 13

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SPONSORS

IFIP (http://www.ifip.org/)
IEEE Technical Co-sponsorship
IEEE Local Chapter Technical Co-sponsorship UAE