The annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) is one of the premier conferences in the wireless research arena and has a long history of bringing together academia, industry and regulatory bodies. Today, it has become one of IEEE Communication Society’s flagship conferences in telecommunications. In 2012, Sydney will host this important wireless event. PIMRC 2012 will include technical sessions, tutorials, workshops, and technology and business panels. You are invited to submit papers in all areas of wireless communications, networks, services, and applications. The instructions for authors will be posted on the conference website http://www.ieee-pimrc.org/2012/.

Track 1: PHY and Fundamentals
• Antennas and propagation • Modulation, equalization and coding • Signal processing for communications • MIMO transmission • Channel modeling and estimation • Synchronization techniques • Cognitive radio, ultra-wideband • Cooperative techniques • WLAN, WPAN, WBAN • Low-power transmission design • Enabling transmission technologies • Signal processing for wireless communications • Propagation models for high frequency channels

Track 2: MAC and Cross-Layer Design
• Multiple access techniques • Cognitive and cooperative MAC • Collaborative algorithms • MAC for mesh, ad hoc, relay, and sensor networks • Network information theory • Radio resource management and allocation, scheduling • Cross-layer design, cross-layer security • Software defined radio, RFID • Adaptability and reconfigurability • Wireless MAC protocols: design and analysis • B3G/4G Systems, WiMAX, WLAN, WPAN • QoS provisioning in MAC • IEEE 802.11/15/16

Track 3: Mobile and Wireless Networks
• Cognitive wireless networks • Cooperative communications • Ecological wireless networks • Multi-hop networks • Ad hoc networks • Sensor networks • Local dependent networks • Mobile computing • Analysis, simulation, measurement and performance evaluation • Congestion and admission control • Routing, Qos and scheduling • Satellite communications • Transport layer issues • Wireless multicasting, broadcasting, and geocasting • Mobile and Wireless IP

Track 4: Services, Applications, and Business
• Next generation digital home networks • Secure networking • Wireless robotics • Mobile multimedia services
• Authentication, authorization and accounting • Audio and video broadcast applications • In-car/intra-car communications • Millimeter wave applications
• Wireless telemedicine and e-health services • Emerging wireless/mobile applications • Context and location-aware wireless services & applications • Service oriented architectures, service portability • Innovative user interfaces, P2P services for multimedia • Personalization, service discovery, profiles and profiling • Wireless emergency and security systems • Cognitive radio and sensor-based applications