[Mycolleagues] Call for Papers -- the 8th IEEE Wireless Telecommunications Symposium (WTS 2009)

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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EIGHTH ANNUAL WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYMPOSIUM (WTS 2009)
www.csupomona.edu/wtsi

April 22-24, 2009, Crowne Plaza Hotel Prague, Czech Republic

Technical Co-Sponsor: IEEE Communications Society

We invite the submission of applied research papers to the 8th Wireless
Telecommunications Symposium, WTS 2009, which will be held April 22-24, 2009
at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Prague in the Czech Republic. For further
information, visit www.csupomona.edu/wtsi.

The Wireless Telecommunications Symposium brings together industry
professionals and academics from companies, governmental agencies, and
universities around the world to exchange information on advances in mobile
communications and wireless networking technology, applications, management,
and security. Past WTS participants have included Dr. Irwin Jacobs, Chairman
and Co-Founder of QUALCOMM; Mike Lazaridis, Founder, President, and Co-CEO,
Research In Motion; Dr. Charles Elachi, Director, NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory; and Dr. Vinton Cerf and Dr. Leonard Kleinrock, Internet
pioneers. Organizations represented have included Bell Laboratories,
Vodafone, Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Sprint Nextel, IBM, Ericsson, Nokia,
Alcatel-Lucent, NTT DoCoMo, T-Mobile, Motorola, Cisco, QUALCOMM, RIM, Palm,
Intel, Gartner, Forrester Research, The Carlyle Group, Arthur D. Little,
Jupiter Research, PwC, MITRE Corporation, Aerospace Corporation, Nortel, BBN
Technologies, KBS, KDDI, Broadcom Corporation, RBC Capital Markets, Ernst &
Young, JPL, the FCC, the NTIA, DARPA, the FBI, and Ofcom.

The theme for WTS 2009 will be "Global Wireless Communications: A View From
Europe". Other planned highlights of WTS 2009 include executive
presentations and keynote addresses; presentations of accepted academic and
practitioner research papers; panel discussions, including Future Directions
in Wireless Communications, Wireless Communications Investments and New
Ventures, Mobile Wireless Services and Applications; tutorials and
workshops; a poster paper session; a doctoral students' session. Refereed
proceedings will be published by the IEEE and be available on its Xplore
online publication system. The proceedings also will be distributed at the
Symposium via a CD. Awards will be given for the most outstanding paper
presented and best graduate and undergraduate student papers presented. Some
selected high quality papers from WTS 2009 will be considered for
publication in a special issue of the International Journal of
Interdisciplinary Telecommunications & Networking, IGI Global publisher,
pending their successful extension and an expedited review process.

Topic areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

Wireless Internet and Multimedia
Wireless Communications Investments and Ventures
Global Wireless Services and Business
3G/4G Wireless Networks & Systems
Mobile and Wireless Network Security and Privacy
Wireless Network Modeling, Algorithms, and Simulation Spectrum Management
and Policy
Ultra Wide-Band (UWB) Technology
Wireless Telecommunications Management
Spread-spectrum/CDMA/OFDM Technologies
GPS and Indoor Geolocation Systems
Satellite Based Systems
802.11, Bluetooth, and RFID
Mobile Platform Operating Systems and Architectures Integrated Wireless
Systems
Signal Processing in Wireless Systems
QoS and Wireless Network Reliability
Wireless IP and Home Networks
Broadband Wireless Access
Mobile and WLAN Interoperability
Mobile Cellular TV (DVB-H, DMB, MediaFlo)
Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks

All submissions will be refereed blindly. Submitted papers should not exceed
5000 words, including a 200 word abstract. At least one listed author on the
final paper must register for and attend WTS 2009 to present the paper and
have it published in the Conference Proceedings.

All manuscripts should follow IEEE Computer Society Press Author Guidelines:
ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/instruct.pdf

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IMPORTANT DATES:
January 19, 2009 Paper submission deadline
February 19, 2009 Notification of acceptance
March 19, 2009 Camera-ready submissions

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WTS 2009 PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS:
Dr. Jan Holub, Czech Technical University
holubjan@fel.cvut.cz
Dr. Izabella Lokshina, SUNY Oneonta
lokshiiv@oneonta.edu

WTS COMMITTEE CHAIRS:
General Chair: Dr. Steven Powell, Cal Poly Pomona
Program Chair: Dr. JP Shim, Mississippi State Univ.

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