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CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS<br>
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ICWMC 2012, The Eighth International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications<br>
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June 24-29, 2012 - Venice, Italy<br>
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General page: <a href="https://webmail.uob.edu.bh/owa/redir.aspx?C=d0c4c9f57457421f8e8a0fd8a24f3692&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.iaria.org%2fconferences2012%2fICWMC12.html" target="_blank">http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/ICWMC12.html</a><br>
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Call for Papers: <a href="https://webmail.uob.edu.bh/owa/redir.aspx?C=d0c4c9f57457421f8e8a0fd8a24f3692&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.iaria.org%2fconferences2012%2fCfPICWMC12.html" target="_blank">http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/CfPICWMC12.html</a><br>
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- regular papers<br>
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- short papers (work in progress)<br>
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- posters<br>
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Submission page: <a href="https://webmail.uob.edu.bh/owa/redir.aspx?C=d0c4c9f57457421f8e8a0fd8a24f3692&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.iaria.org%2fconferences2012%2fSubmitICWMC12.html" target="_blank">http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/SubmitICWMC12.html</a><br>
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Submission deadline: February 16, 2012<br>
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Sponsored by IARIA, <a href="https://webmail.uob.edu.bh/owa/redir.aspx?C=d0c4c9f57457421f8e8a0fd8a24f3692&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.iaria.org" target="_blank">www.iaria.org</a><br>
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Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: <a href="https://webmail.uob.edu.bh/owa/redir.aspx?C=d0c4c9f57457421f8e8a0fd8a24f3692&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.iariajournals.org" target="_blank">http://www.iariajournals.org</a><br>
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Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options.<br>
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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are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under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. <br>
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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.<br>
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Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: <a href="https://webmail.uob.edu.bh/owa/redir.aspx?C=d0c4c9f57457421f8e8a0fd8a24f3692&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.iaria.org%2feditorialrules.html" target="_blank">http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html</a><br>
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ICWMC 2012 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)<br>
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Wireless Communications Basics<br>
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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<br>
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Radio Interfaces and Systems<br>
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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<br>
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Spectrum Allocation and Management<br>
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Spectrum efficiency analyses; Dynamic spectrum access networks;
Spectrum management; Interference mitigation and management techniques <br>
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Circuits for Wireless Communications<br>
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Wireless ASICs; Wireless technologies; RF Design issues<br>
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Wireless and Mobility<br>
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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<br>
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Protocols for wireless and mobility<br>
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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 <br>
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Traffic and congestion control, QoS, Resource Management<br>
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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 <br>
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Wireless and mobile technologies<br>
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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)<br>
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Performance Evaluation, Simulation and Modeling of wireless networks and systems<br>
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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 <br>
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Management of wireless and mobile networks<br>
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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<br>
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Security in wireless and mobile environment<br>
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Security and robustness in wireless networks; Privacy,
Authentication Authorization and Accounting (AAA); Encryption and
Cryptography; Key Management Protocols; Digital Rights Management and
Multimedia Protection<br>
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Networks convergence and integration<br>
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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 <br>
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Applications and services based on wireless infrastructures<br>
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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 <br>
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Standardization and regulations<br>
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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 <br>
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Design and implementation<br>
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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 <br>
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Wireless and mobile network deployment<br>
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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)<br>
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Cooperative and Cognitive Vehicular Networks<br>
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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<br>
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Convergence and social mobility<br>
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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<br>
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Committee: <a href="https://webmail.uob.edu.bh/owa/redir.aspx?C=d0c4c9f57457421f8e8a0fd8a24f3692&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.iaria.org%2fconferences2012%2fComICWMC12.html" target="_blank">http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/ComICWMC12.html</a><br>
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