The IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2011 will be held in Houston, Texas, USA, during 5 – 9 December 2011. Theme “Energizing Global Communications,” the conference will feature 12 Specific Symposia, Tutorials, Workshops, and the Industrial Forum and Exhibition. Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical papers for oral or poster presentations at IEEE GLOBECOM 2011 and publication in the Conference Proceedings.

To be published in the IEEE GLOBECOM 2011 Conference Proceedings and IEEE Xplore®, an author of an accepted paper is required to register for the conference at the full or limited (member or non-member) rate and the paper must be presented at the conference. Non-refundable registration fees must be paid prior to uploading the final IEEE formatted, publication-ready version of the paper. For authors with multiple accepted papers, one full registration is valid for up to 3 papers. Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE GLOBECOM 2011 Conference Proceedings. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the IEEE GLOBECOM 2011 Conference Proceedings and in IEEE Xplore®.

PLANNED TECHNICAL SYMPOSIA
Authors are invited to submit original technical papers for presentation at symposia and publication in the Conference proceedings from the following list:

Ad Hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium
Jiming Chen, Zhejiang University, China
Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida, USA
Sidi-Mohammed Senouci, Orange Labs, France
Jalel Ben Othman, Versailles University, France
Cognitive Radio Networks Symposium
Qing Zhao, University of California Davis, USA
F. Richard Yu, Carleton University, Canada
Alexander M. Wyglinski, Worcester Polytechnic Institue, USA
Natasha Devroye, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Communication Software, Services, and Multimedia Applications Symposium
Hsiao-Chun Wu, Louisiana State University, USA
Xianbin Wang, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France
Marcus Brunner, NEC Lab Europe, Germany

Communication Theory Symposium
Zhi (Gerry) Tian, Michigan Tech University, USA
Ali Ghrayeb, Concordia University, Canada
Riccardo Raheli, University of Parma, Italy
Qinqing Zhang, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Communications & System Security Symposium
Yi Qian, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, USA
Xinwen Fu, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA
Kui (Quinn) Ren, Illinois Institute of Techonogly, USA
Dijiang Huang, Arizona State University, USA

Communications QoS, Reliability, and Modeling Symposium
Tetsuya Yokotani, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan
Stefano Giordano, University of Pisa, Italy
Yu Cheng, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

Next Generation Networking Symposium
Yuanyuan Yang, SUNY at Stony Brook, USA
Anwar Walid, Bell Laboratories, USA
Zhenghao Zhang, Florida State University, USA
Qun Li, College of William and Mary, USA

Optical Networks and Systems Symposium
Maode Ma, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Mounir Hamdi, Hong Kong University of Sci. and Tech., Hong Kong
Vinod Vokkarane, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA
Jong-Dug Shin, Soongsil University, Korea

Signal Processing for Communications Symposium
Yunxin (Jeff) Li, NICTA, Australia
Hung Nguyen, The Aerospace Corporation, USA
Nallanathan Arumugam, King's College London, UK

Wireless Communications Symposium
Daji Qiao, Iowa State University, USA
Tony Quek, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Wei Song, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Xinbing Wang, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
Vincent Wong, University of British Columbia, Canada
Matti Latva-Aho, University of Oulu, Finland

Wireless Networking Symposium
Shiwen Mao, Auburn University, USA
Chonggang Wang, InterDigital Communications, USA
Sunghyun Choi, Stanford University, USA
Jian Tang, Montana State University, USA

Selected Areas in Communications Symposium
• Green Communication Systems and Network Track:
Jaafar M.H. Elmirghani, University of Leeds, UK
• Power Line Communications Track:
Ralf Lehnert, Dresden University of Tech., Germany
• Satellite & Space Communications Track:
Igor Bisio, University of Genoa, Italy
• Data Storage Track:
Alexandros Dimakis, University of Southern California, USA
• Access Network Track:
Xavier Fernando, Ryerson Commun. Research Lab, Canada
• Social Networks Track:
Neeli Prasad, Aalborg University, Denmark

TUTORIALS
Proposals are invited for half-day Tutorials on communications and networking topics. Please see the proposal template on the conference website. The Tutorial proposals should be submitted to EDAS for review.

INDUSTRIAL FORUM AND EXHIBITION (IF&E)
These forums are designed to deliver broad interest programming focused on telecommunication industry’s current practiced technology, major technology implementations, complex IT business systems, regulatory impact assessments, economic models, and engineering methods used by industry practitioners. One page proposals and/or full paper submissions addressing industry applications of communications and networking technologies are invited. The IF&E Proposals should be submitted to EDAS for review.

WORKSHOPS
Proposals are invited for Workshops on the latest technical and business issues on communications and networking topics. The Workshops proposals should follow the template given on the conference website and be submitted to EDAS for review.

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission: 1 March 2011
Tutorial Proposal: 14 January 2011
Workshops Proposal: 14 January 2011
Paper Acceptance: 1 July 2011
Camera-Ready: 1 August 2011