[ecoop-info] 3rd CfP: ICWMC 2012 || June 24-29, 2012 - Venice, Italy

[wael elmedany]

============== ICWMC 2012 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

ICWMC 2012, The Eighth International Conference on Wireless and Mobile
Communications

June 24-29, 2012 - Venice, Italy


General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/ICWMC12.html<https://webmail.uob.edu.bh/owa/redir.aspx?C=d0c4c9f57457421f8e8a0fd8a24f3692&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.iaria.org%2fconferences2012%2fICWMC12.html>

Call for Papers:
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/CfPICWMC12.html<https://webmail.uob.edu.bh/owa/redir.aspx?C=d0c4c9f57457421f8e8a0fd8a24f3692&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.iaria.org%2fconferences2012%2fCfPICWMC12.html>

- regular papers

- short papers (work in progress)

- posters

Submission page:
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/SubmitICWMC12.html<https://webmail.uob.edu.bh/owa/redir.aspx?C=d0c4c9f57457421f8e8a0fd8a24f3692&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.iaria.org%2fconferences2012%2fSubmitICWMC12.html>


Submission deadline: February 16, 2012

Sponsored by IARIA,
www.iaria.org<https://webmail.uob.edu.bh/owa/redir.aspx?C=d0c4c9f57457421f8e8a0fd8a24f3692&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.iaria.org>


Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals:
http://www.iariajournals.org<https://webmail.uob.edu.bh/owa/redir.aspx?C=d0c4c9f57457421f8e8a0fd8a24f3692&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.iariajournals.org>


Please note the Poster 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to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any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<https://webmail.uob.edu.bh/owa/redir.aspx?C=d0c4c9f57457421f8e8a0fd8a24f3692&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.iaria.org%2feditorialrules.html>


ICWMC 2012 Topics (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

    Micro-mobility and macro-mobility; 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; RFID systems (including readers and
transponders in LF, HF and UHF bands)

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



Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/ComICWMC12.html<https://webmail.uob.edu.bh/owa/redir.aspx?C=d0c4c9f57457421f8e8a0fd8a24f3692&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.iaria.org%2fconferences2012%2fComICWMC12.html>

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