WICON 2010 - 5th Annual International ICST Wireless Internet Conference

WICON 2010

The 5th Annual International Wireless Internet Conference
1-3 March 2010, Singapore

www.wicon.org

CALL FOR PAPERS


SPONSORS

Sponsored by ICST
Technically co-sponsored by CREATE-NET


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SCOPE

Wireless Internet is quickly emerging as a reality, thanks to the fast evolution of many wireless access technologies. Convergence of heterogeneous wireless networks and the next generation Internet further brings wireless Internet into a variety of application scenarios which provide mobile users with a wide range of highly demanding services, such as high speed data and real-time multimedia delivery. On the other hand, it is of critical importance to obtain a fundamental understanding of wireless Internet architectures and explore new services and solutions in order to achieve the ultimate goal of wireless Internet access any time anywhere.


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TOPICS

The Wireless Internet Conference (WICON) will continue to serve as a premier international forum to discuss novel research results related to the emerging Wireless Internet. WICON 2010 is soliciting both academic research and industry practice papers. Papers solicited in the WICON 2010 can be divided into FOUR tracks, PHY, MAC, Network and Service/Application tracks, and span a wide range of areas of interest including but not limited to:


1. Seamless Integration of Heterogeneous Networks
â?¢ Convergence and interworking of heterogeneous wireless networks
â?¢ Vertical handoff and seamless roaming
â?¢ Mobile P2P networking, systems, and applications
â?¢ Next generation Internet services and applications


2. Cross-layer Design and Optimization
â?¢ Clean-slate wireless Internet architecture
â?¢ Interaction among PHY/MAC, routing, and congestion control
â?¢ PHY-aware wireless scheduling
â?¢ QoS provisioning of Multimedia wireless networks


3. Wireless Access Technologies
â?¢ Multiple access technology (OFDMA, CDMA, and TDMA)
â?¢ WLANs, WiMAX, satellite, 3G and Beyond
â?¢ QoS management and traffic modeling
â?¢ Algorithm design and performance analysis


4. Multi-hop Wireless Networks
â?¢ Wireless sensor networks
â?¢ Mobile ad hoc networks
â?¢ Wireless mesh networks
â?¢ Cooperative and relay networks


5. Emerging Technologies and Applications
â?¢ Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET)
â?¢ Cognitive radio networks
â?¢ Bio-inspired networks
â?¢ Context-aware mobile networking
â?¢ Wireless body area networks (WBANs)
â?¢ Tele-medicine/e-health networks


6. Network Security
â?¢ Architectural support for security
â?¢ Security, privacy, and dependability issues
â?¢ Security in cooperative networks

7. Wireless Internet Platforms and Software
â?¢ Testbeds and simulation tools
â?¢ Middleware, operating system, and programming languages
â?¢ Experimental measurements



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SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

For submission instructions visit http://www.wicon.org/SubmissionInstructions.html


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INVITED PAPERS

WICON 2010 will include a number of invited papers from distinguished researchers with impressive outcomes on various advanced research topics or cutting-edge techniques.


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PUBLICATION

Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE/ACM (pending) International Conference Proceedings Series and will be made available in IEEE/ACM (pending) Digital Library, as well as indexed by EI. Selected papers will be published on a special issue of ACM/Springer MOBILE NETWORKS AND APPLICATIONS (MONET) journal.


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B2B EVENT
An industry B2B event will be co-located with WICON 2010. The B2B event will include invited talks by industry/technology leaders, business and product presentations, as well as exhibitions and demos.


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IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission due: 31 July 2009

Notification date: 24 September 2009

Camera-ready due: 15 October 2009

Workshop/Tutorial proposal due: 1 July 2009

Panel proposal due: 1 September 2009


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STEERING COMMITTEE
Imrich Chlamtac (Chair), CREATE-NET, Italy
Xudong Wang, TeraNovi Technologies, Inc. USA


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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Co-Chairs

Hsiao-Hwa Chen, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Mahmoud Daneshmand, AT&T Labs Research, USA

Technical Program Co-Chairs

Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
Chonggang Wang, NEC Labs of America, USA

For all members visit http://www.wicon.org/Organization.html


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RELATED CONFERENCES

To find out about other conferences in the field of future networks and communications visit http://www.icst.org/sibs/future_networks/