MCECN 2011 - IEEE 2nd International Workshop on Mobile Computing and Emerging Communication Networks 2011 (MCECN'11)

IEEE 2nd International Workshop on Mobile Computing
and Emerging Communication Networks 2011 (MCECN’11)

http://mcecn.ntua.gr

December 5, 2011
Houston Texas, U.S.A.

Scope

The 2nd International Workshop on Mobile Computing and Emerging Communication Networks 2011 (MCECN’11) will take place in conjunction with the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2011) in Houston, Texas, U.S.A. in December 2011. This is an excellent opportunity to participate in two events that cover a wide range of research in mobile computing and next generation wireless communications.

Overview

Future communication networks have given rise to a new era in social environment and economic development. The increasing demand for new broadband wireless services combined with mobility requirements and demanding network restrictions constitute a challenging research environment. The demand for ubiquitous computing at transmission rates of the order of several megabits per second, for enhanced QoS guarantees supporting mobility and new multimedia services, necessitate innovative mobile computing architectures, efficient resource allocation protocols and accurate propagation models.
In future mobile wireless networks supporting multiple multimedia services with discrete QoS characteristics and various access technologies the convergence of communications with mobile computing designates the new research aspects. Hence, research areas such as channel estimation and propagation models, resource management and QoS provision, network design and systems interoperability, should be further investigated. Moreover, MCECN’11 will focus on technical issues related to heterogeneous networking, models, protocol and algorithms analysis, design and implementation, measurements and performance evaluation for mobile wireless communication systems and applications.
MCECN’11 serves as an open forum for researchers, developers and engineers in both academia and industry aiming at providing significant contribution in mobile computing and related topics. Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished works of high quality covering all aspects of Mobile Computing and Emerging Communication Networks. Areas of interest include but are not limited to the topics listed below.

Workshop Topics of Interest

Authors are solicited to submit complete unpublished papers in the following, but not limited to, topic areas:

? QoS in wireless/mobile systems
? End-to-End QoS
? Mobility management in wireless networks
? Modeling analysis and simulation
? Wireless access techniques
? Wireless propagation and channel modeling
? Wireless/Mobile network architectures
? Digital audio and video over wireless networks
? Experimental systems and field trials
? Wireless communication networks and systems
? Wireless system services and applications
? Security, scalability and reliability in wireless/mobile networks
? Wireless / Mobile Internet
? Wireless LANs and PANs
? Body wireless networks
? Wireless mesh networks
? Wireless Mobile ad-hoc networks
? Planning and standardization
? Cognitive radio networks
? Cross-layer design and optimization
? Heterogeneous wireless networking
? 3G, 4G, and beyond systems
? Systems interoperability
? Radio resource management
? Reliable broadcast/multicast wireless technologies for multimedia applications
? Performance evaluation of new wireless standards for high-quality entertainment environments

Proceedings

Submitted papers must represent original material which is not currently under review in any other conference or journal and has not been previously published. Paper length should not exceed five-pages. Please see the Author Information page for submission guidelines in the IEEE GLOBECOM 2011 website http://www.ieee-globecom.org/2011/authors.html. The paper should be used as the basis for a 20 minute workshop presentation. Papers should be submitted in a .pdf format by selecting Globecom 2011 at the EDAS paper submission website http://edas.info/ and then selecting the workshop submission link (MCECN’11).
All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three experts and, if accepted, will be published in the conference proceedings, which will be available at IEEE Xplore and registered in Engineering Index (EI). At least one author of the papers accepted is required to register at the full registration rate.

Important Dates

Paper submission: July 1, 2011
Notification of acceptance: August 12, 2011
Camera ready version and registration due: August 31, 2011

Contact:

Workshop General Chairs:

Georgios I. Tsiropoulos, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)
e-mail: gitsirop-AT-mail.ntua.gr

Dimitrios G. Stratogiannis, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)
e-mail: dstratog-AT-mail.ntua.gr

Eirini-Eleni I. Tsiropoulou, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)
e-mail: eetsirop-AT-netmode.ntua.gr

Technical Program Committee

Pantelis-Daniel Arapoglou, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy
Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada
Panayotis G. Cottis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Periklis Chatzimisios, Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece
Hongbin Chen, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, China
George Efthymoglou, University of Piraeus, Greece
Fabrizio Granelli, University of Trento, Italy
Ibrahim Habib, City University of New York, USA
John D. Kanellopoulos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Eirini Karapistoli, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Thomas D. Lagkas, University of Western Macedonia, Greece
Victor Leung, The University of British Columbia, Canada
Li Li, Communication Research Centre of Canada, Canada
Jia-Chin Lin, National Central University, Taiwan
Malamati D. Louta, University of Western Macedonia, Greece
Athanasios D. Panagopoulos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Lei Shu, Osaka University, Japan
George S. Tombras, University of Athens, Greece
Elias Tragos, Institute of Computer Science, Greece
Chih-Cheng Tseng, National Ilan University, Taiwan
Hsiao-Chun Wu, Louisiana State University, U.S.A.
Qin Xin, Universite Catholique de Louvaine, Belgium
Sherali Zeadally, University of the District of Columbia, USA
Liqiang Zhang, Indiana University South Bend, USA
Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
Wen Tao Zhu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. R. China
Weihua Zhuang, University of Waterloo, Canada