WTS 2013 - TWELFTH ANNUAL WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYMPOSIUM (WTS 2013)

TWELFTH ANNUAL WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYMPOSIUM (WTS 2013)
April 17-29, 2013, Phoenix, Arizona USA
Technical Co-Sponsor: IEEE Communications Society

We invite the submission of applied research papers to the 12th Wireless Telecommunications Symposium, WTS 2013, which will be held April 17-19, 2013 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. For further information, visit http://www.csupomona.edu/wtsi.

The Wireless Telecommunications Symposium brings together industry professionals and academics from companies, governmental agencies, and universities around the world to exchange information on
advances in mobile communications and wireless networking technology, applications, management, and security. Past WTS participants have included Dr. Irwin Jacobs, Chairman and Co-Founder of
QUALCOMM; Mike Lazaridis, Founder and Vice Chairman, Research In Motion; Dr. Vinton Cerf, Dr. Robert Kahn, and Dr. Leonard Kleinrock, Internet pioneers; and Dr. Charles Elachi, Director, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Organizations represented have included Bell Laboratories, Vodafone, Verizon Communications, AT&T, Sprint Nextel, IBM, Ericsson, Nokia, Alcatel-Lucent, NTT DoCoMo, T-Mobile, Motorola, Vodafone, SK Telecom, Cisco, QUALCOMM, RIM, Intel, Gartner,
Forrester Research, The Carlyle Group, Arthur D. Little, Microsoft, PwC, MITRE Corporation, BBN Technologies, KBS, KDDI, RBC Capital Markets, Ernst & Young, JPL, FCC, NTIA, DARPA, FBI, and Ofcom.

The theme for WTS 2013 will be "Global Wireless Communications: Future Directions". Other planned highlights of WTS 2013 include executive presentations and keynote addresses; presentations of accepted academic and practitioner research papers; panel discussions; tutorials and workshops; a poster paper session; and a doctoral students’ session. Refereed proceedings will be published by the IEEE and be available on its Xplore online publication system. The proceedings also will be distributed at the Symposium via a CD. Awards will be given for the most outstanding paper presented and best graduate and undergraduate student papers presented. Some selected high quality papers from WTS
2013 will be considered for publication in a special issue of the International Journal of Interdisciplinary Telecommunications & Networking, IGI Global publisher, pending their successful extension and an expedited review process. Topic areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

Wireless Internet and Multimedia
Wireless Communications Investments & Ventures
Satellite Based Systems
WLANs, WPANS,and Femtocells
Global Wireless Services and Business
4G Wireless Networks & Systems
Mobile Operating Systems & Architectures
Wireless and New Generation Media
Mobile and Wireless Network Security and Privacy
Wireless Modeling, Algorithms & Simulation
Spectrum Management and Policy
Mobile & Cloud Computing
QoS and Wireless Network Reliability
Wireless M2M and Home Networks
Wireless Telecommunications Management
Mobile Cellular TV
GPS and Indoor Geolocation Systems
Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks

IMPORTANT DATES:
January 21, 2013 Paper submission deadline
February 18, 2013 Notification of acceptance
March 17, 2013 Camera-ready submissions

WTS 2013 PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS:
Dr. Willie Ofosu, Penn State University, USA wko1-AT-psu.edu
Dr. Ehsan Sheybani, Virginia State University, USA esheybani-AT-vsu.edu

WTS COMMITTEE CHAIRS:
General Chair: Dr. Steven Powell, Cal Poly Pomona Program Chair: Dr. JP Shim, Georgia St. Univ..