============== ICWMC 2010 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

ICWMC 2010: The Sixth International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications
September 20-25, 2010 - Valencia, Spain

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/ICWMC10.html
Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/CfPICWMC10.html

Submission deadline: April 20, 2010

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org
Co-sponsored by: IEEE Spain, University 'Politehnica' Bucharest, La Maquinista Valenciana, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, IGIC

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
Publisher: CPS ( see: http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps )
Archived: IEEE CSDL (Computer Science Digital Library) and IEEE Xplore
Submitted for indexing: Elsevier's EI Compendex Database, EI's Engineering Information Index
Other indexes are being considered: INSPEC, DBLP, Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index

Please note the Poster Forum and Work in Progress options.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html

ICWMC 2010 Tracks (tracks' topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

Wireless Communications Basics
Coding & modulation & equalization; Channel modeling and characterization; Equalization/Synchronization; Transform-domain communication; Multiple access algorithms and schemes; Antenna and RF subsystems; Smart antennas, adaptive antennas, MIMO and beam forming; MIMO and OFDM Based PHY Layer technologies; CDMA Systems

Radio Interfaces and Systems
Radio communications systems; Radio resource management; Radio transmission technologies; Power and interference control; Interference Cancellation for Wireless Mobile Systems; Power management for small terminals; Energy map; Channel Measurement and Characterization

Spectrum Allocation and Management
Spectrum efficiency analyses; Dynamic spectrum access networks; Spectrum management; Interference mitigation and management techniques

Circuits for Wireless Communications
Wireless ASICs; Wireless technologies; RF Design issues

Wireless and Mobility
Mobility management; Location-based services and positioning; Micro and macro-mobility; Mobility, location and handoff management; Mobile and wireless IP; Wireless broadband mobile access; Routing in multihop, ad hoc and sensor networks; Wireless multicasting; Wireless mesh networks; Topology control in wireless

Protocols for wireless and mobility
Wireless protocols, architectural and design concepts; Protocols for air interfaces and networks; Wireless MAC protocols: Design and analysis; Transport layer issues in mobile and wireless networks; Middleware for handhelds and mobile services nodes; Proxies and middleware for wireless networks

Traffic and congestion control, QoS, Resource Management
Traffic Modeling and Analysis; 3G/4G Bandwidth on Demand; QoS and mobility; End-to-end QoS; QoS profiling and pricing; Traffic Engineering; Congestion and admission control

Wireless and mobile technologies
Wireless LANs; Home and Personal Area Networks: Bluetooth, ZigBeee, etc; Wireless MANs:802.16, 802.20; Wireless WANs: 2G/3G/4G; Mobile ad hoc networks and multi-hop wireless; Sensor networks and applications; Ultra-wideband and short-range networks; High altitude platforms and satellites; Emergency wireless communications; Wireless real-time communications

Performance Evaluation, Simulation and Modeling of wireless networks and systems
Performance and QoS in wireless networks; Radio channel modeling (wave propagation and measurements); Mobile/wireless networks modeling and simulation; Performance of end-to-end protocols over wireless networks

Management of wireless and mobile networks
Mobility and QoS management; Billing technologies and tools; Policy Based Management in wireless LANS and MANs; Wireless and Mobile Network Planning; Mobile Database Access and Design

Security in wireless and mobile environment
Security and robustness in wireless networks; Privacy, Authentication Authorization and Accounting (AAA); Encryption and Cryptography; Key Management Protocols; Digital Rights Management and Multimedia Protection

Networks convergence and integration
2G/3G/4G integration; Convergence of 3G wireless and Internet cross-layer design in wireless networks; WLAN/3G/4G integration; Wireless-wireline convergence; Heterogeneous Networks (WAN, Wireless MAN, WLAN); IP Multimedia subsystems (IMS); Next Generation Network Architecture- mobility issues; Coexistence of mobile radio networks; End to End QoS in Heterogeneous environment; Signaling for integrated wireline/wireless networks

Applications and services based on wireless infrastructures
Mobile & Wireless applications & services; Service discovery: protocols and frameworks; Personalized services and applications; Audio-visual and mobile multimedia applications; Media and content distribution over wireless networks

Standardization and regulations
Position on standards & fora on wireless and mobile networks; Wireless Networks Standards and Protocols; Communications regulations; 802.11 WLAN Standards; 802.16 WMAN Standards; 3GPP and 3GPP2 standards; HSDPA Technology and Standards; Next Generation Network standards

Design and implementation
Emerging wireless technologies; Cross-layer optimizations in wireless networks; Design and implementation of mobile information systems; Software defined radio and re-configurability; Joint PHY/MAC design

Wireless and mobile network deployment
Business models on wireless networks; Market trends and regional developments; M-commerce; Lessons learnt for wireless deployment in schools Lessons learnt for wireless deployment in special regions; Specialized wireless networks; Heterogeneous wireless network deployment (e.g., combining 802.11, 802.16 and 3G networks)

Cooperative and Cognitive Vehicular Networks
Architectures and platforms of cognitive vehicular network; Distributed artificial intelligence techniques for cognitive networks; Cognitive vehicular routing metrics and supporting protocols; Reduced complexity cognitive networks; Physical and MAC layer issues; Protocols design for cognitive vehicular networks; Cross-layer optimization in cognitive networks; Security issues for vehicular and cognitive networks; Testbed experiment, applications and new advances; Cooperative vehicular networks; QoS provisioning in heterogeneous networks ; Managing vertical handover; Multihoming; IPv6 GeoNetworking; Vehicular network architectures and protocols ; Cross-layer design and optimization for vehicular networks and cognitive networks; Mobility management and topology control; Standardization and Development of vehicular networks

Convergence and social mobility
Convergence of mobile networks with the Web 2.0; Convergence on architecture and services; Open service capabilities; Open exposure of telco capabilities; Open Web APIs, SOA and SDP); Interworking strategies; Mobile terminals as sources for User-generated content; Architecture and services for user-generated content; Auto-description and metadata synthesis for telecom-generated for user-generated content; Social mobile networks; User behavior profiling; Social connections (social graphs, contacts, etc); Services and architectures/solutions for social mobile services

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ICWMC GENERAL CHAIR
Jaime Lloret Mauri, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain

ICWMC Advisory Chairs
Silviu Ciochina, University 'Politehnica' Bucharest, Romania
Petre Dini, Concordia University, Canada / IARIA, USA
Jonathan Loo, Brunel University West London, UK
Tudor Palade, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Francisco Ramos, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
Manuel Sierra Pérez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid / IEEE Spain, Spain

ICWMC 2010 Research Institute Liaison Chairs
Nicolae Crisan, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Adrian Matei, Politehnica University of Bucharest / Orange Romania S.A., Romania
Jyrki Penttinen, Nokia Siemens Networks - Madrid, Spain / Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Tomi Räty, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland
Javier Del Ser Lorente, Tecnalia, Spain

ICWMC 2010 Industry/Research Chairs
José García, La Maquinista Valenciana, Spain
Jingli Li, TopWorx - Emerson, USA
Christopher Nguyen, Intel Corp., USA
Horia Stefanescu, Orange, Romania

ICWMC 2010 Special Area Chairs
Cooperative and Cognitive Vehicular Networks Area Chairs:
Yacine Khaled, Geenov, France
Jong-Hyouk Lee, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea // INRIA, France

Committee members: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/ComICWMC10.html