ICWMC 2009 - The Fifth International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications ICWMC 2009

The Fifth International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications ICWMC 2009
The Fifth International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications (ICWMC 2009) in France follows on the previous events on advanced wireless technologies, wireless networking, and wireless applications.

ICWMC 2009 addresses wireless related topics concerning integration of latest technological advances to realize mobile and ubiquitous service environments for advanced applications and services in wireless networks. Mobility and wireless, special services and lessons learnt from particular deployment complement the traditional wireless topics.

We welcome technical papers presenting research and practical results, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such as those being discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia, survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of topics, short papers on work in progress, workshops and panel proposals.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, standards, implementations, running experiments and applications. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

Industrial presentations are not subject to these constraints. We expect short and long presentations that express industrial position and status.

Tutorials on specific related topics and panels on challenging areas are encouraged.

The following topics are suggested (but not limited to):

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

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

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

Enterprise mobility strategy
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)

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

INSTRUCTION FOR THE AUTHORS

The ICWMC 2009 Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and on-line via IEEE XPlore Digital Library. IEEE will index the papers with major indexes. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to one of the IARIA Journals.

Important deadlines:

Submission (full paper) March 20, 2009
Notification April 25, 2009
Registration May 10, 2009
Camera ready May 15, 2009

Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received papers will be acknowledged via an automated system.

Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11" (two columns IEEE format), not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found on the Instructions page. Helpful information for paper formatting can be found on the here.

Once you receive the notification of paper acceptance, you will be provided by the IEEE CS Press an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance.

Poster Forum

Posters are welcome. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the track/workshop preference as "POSTER : Poster Forum". Submissions are expected to be 6-8 slide deck. Posters will not be published in the Proceedings. One poster with all the slides together should be used for discussions. Presenters will be allocated a space where they can display the slides and discuss in an informal manner.

Work in Progress

Work-in-progress contributions are welcome. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the track/workshop preference as "WIP: Work in Progress". Authors should submit a four-page (maximum) text manuscript in IEEE double-column format including the authors' names, affiliations, email contacts. Contributors must follow the conference deadlines, describing early research and novel skeleton ideas in the areas of the conference topics. The work will be published in the conference proceedings.

Technical marketing/business/positioning presentations

The conference initiates a series of business, technical marketing, and positioning presentations on the same topics. Speakers must submit a 10-12 slide deck presentations with substantial notes accompanying the slides, in the .ppt format (.pdf-ed). The slide deck will not be published in the conference¡¯s CD collection. Please send your presentations to petre-AT-iaria.org.

Tutorials

Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. They should be about three hours long. One page with the title, tutorial summary, and a short bio are expected. Please send your proposals to petre-AT-iaria.org

Panel proposals:

The organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their guests and manage that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our deadlines. Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the panel, as well as short biographies.

For more information, petre-AT-iaria.org

Workshop proposals

We welcome workshop proposals on issues complementary to the topics of this conference. Your requests should be forwarded to petre-AT-iaria.org.