[Tccc] CFP: IEEE WCNC 2010 in Sydney, Australia

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IEEE WCNC 2010: Call for Papers
April 18-21, 2010
Sydney, Australia
http://www.ieee-wcnc.org/2010/
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IEEE WCNC is the premier wireless event for wireless communications
researchers, industry professionals, and academics interested in the
latest development and design of wireless systems and networks. Sponsored
by the IEEE Communications Society, IEEE WCNC has a long history of
bringing together industry, academia, and regulatory bodies. In 2010, IEEE
WCNC will be held on the beautiful side of the Darling Harbour in Sydney,
Australia. WCNC2010 will include technical sessions, tutorials,
technology/business panels, and exhibitions. You are invited to submit
papers in all areas of wireless communications, networks, services, and
applications. Potential topics are solicited in, but are not limited to,
the following categories:

I. PHY Track
• Interference characterization and avoidance for cognitive radio
• Multihop and cooperative communications
• Modulation, coding, diversity
• Equalization, synchronization, and acquisition techniques
• Space-time, MIMO, adaptive antennas
• OFDM, CDMA, spread spectrum
• Channel modeling and characterization
• Interference cancellation and MUD
• Iterative techniques
• Physical layer algorithms
• Information-theoretic aspects of wireless communications
• Ultra-wide bandwidth communication
• Machine learning for communication systems
• Signal processing for wireless communications

II. MAC Track
• Multiple access techniques
• Cognitive and cooperative MAC
• MAC for mesh, ad hoc, relay, and sensor networks
• Network information theory
• Radio resource management and allocation, scheduling
• Cross-layer design, cross-layer security
• Congestion and admission control
• Software defined radio, RFID
• MAC for multimedia
• Wireless MAC protocols: design and analysis
• B3G/4G Systems, WiMAX, WLAN, WPAN
• QoS provisioning in MAC

III. Networks Track
• Localization for wireless networks
• Network estimation and processing techniques
• Mesh, relay, sensor, and ad hoc networks
• Mobility, location, and handoff management
• Mobile and wireless IP
• Wireless multicasting, routing
• Multimedia QoS and traffic management
• Wireless broadcast, multicast, and streaming
• Congestion and admission control
• Proxies and middleware for wireless networks
• Wireless network security and privacy
• Performance of E2E protocols over wireless networks
• Interworking heterogeneous wireless/wireline networks
• Capacity, throughput, outage, coverage

IV. Services & Applications Track
• Emerging wireless/mobile applications
• Context and location-aware wireless services and applications
• Wireless telemedicine and e-health services
• Intelligent transportation systems
• Cognitive radio and sensor-based applications
• Content distribution in wireless home environment
• Wireless emergency and security systems
• Service oriented architectures, service portability
• SIP based services, multimedia, QoS support, middleware
• Innovative user interfaces, peer-to-peer services for multimedia
• Dynamic services, autonomic services
• AAA, application-oriented network management
• Regulations, standards, spectrum management
• Test-bed and prototype implementation of wireless services
• Personalization, service discovery, profiles and profiling

Call for Tutorials

Proposals for half/full day tutorials are also solicited based on the
topics listed above or others related to issues and opportunities for the
future of wireless communications, systems, and applications. Tutorial
presenters will receive compensation.

Call for Technology/Business Panels

Proposals are solicited for Technology/Business Application Panels in the
above mentioned topical areas or others related to business and
policy-related issues and opportunities for the wireless communications
industry.

Important dates:

Full Paper submission deadline: Friday 18 September 2009
Tutorial Proposal deadline: Friday 18 September 2009
Acceptance notification: Monday 30 November 2009
Final camera ready copy: Monday 4 January 2010

Technical Papers must be submitted via the EDAS Paper Processing System.
Details available at http://www.ieee-wcnc.org/2010/.

Organization:

General Chair: Abbas Jamalipour
Technical Program Chairs: Mansoor Shafi, Y. Jay Guo
IEEE WCNC Steering Committee Chair: Roberto de Marca
Conference Manager: Debora Kingston
TPC Vice Chairs – PHY: Hamid Jafarkhani, Iain Collings
TPC Vice Chairs – MAC: Kevin Sowerby, Hsiao-Hwa Chen
TPC Vice Chairs – Network: Nei Kato, Nirwan Ansari
TPC Vice Chairs – Service & Application: Tomohiko Taniguchi, Vasilis
Friderikos
Technology/Business Application Panels Chairs: Zhisheng Niu, Apostolis
Salkintzis, Tarik Taleb
Tutorials Chairs: Pascal Lorenz, Mischa Dohler
Publicity Chairs: Guoqiang Mao (Asia/Pacific), Jie Zhang (EMEA), Ekram
Hossain (Americas)

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