[Tmrg-interest] CFP: 2nd IEEE WORKSHOP ON BROADBAND WIRELESS ACCESS (BWA)

[Thomas Michael Bohnert]

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        2nd IEEE WORKSHOP ON BROADBAND WIRELESS ACCESS (BWA)
                                (website will be online soon)
                                        
                                        colocated with

        5th IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference
                        IEEE CCNC 2008, January 2008, Las Vegas, Nevada
                                http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/

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CALL FOR PAPERS
Internet access is undergoing a fundamental change. A steadily increasing 
spectrum of services is attracting a rapidly growing number of users which, 
in turn, wish to access these services 'anytime and anywhere'. In order to 
meet this demand, Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) technologies are becoming 
extremely important and vendors and standardisation bodies respond to this 
development with new and powerful BWA technologies. Supporting transmission 
rates up to several megabits per second at distances far as tens of 
kilometres while providing full mobility support, these technologies provide 
the long-awaited means for delivering any telecommunication service over the 
Internet.

BWA technologies are yet in their infancy and one outcome is that many are far 
from being complete and optimised for such a versatile environment like the 
Internet. Consequently, BWA is currently receiving much attention by the 
research community. By organising this 2nd IEEE BWA Workshop, it is our 
intention to bring together and provide an international forum for this 
research community. In this line, the workshop programme covers various 
aspects of these technologies including but not limited to:

- Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks
- Incumbent and future BWA Technologies, 802.16x, 802.20, 802.11x, 3G/4G etc
- QoS in Mobile and BWA Networks
- Radio Resource Management, Admission Control and Scheduling
- Capacity Planning and Traffic Engineering
- Physical and Data link Layer Issues
- Characterization, Modeling of BWA Traffic, Mobility and Channels
- Large-scale and Heterogeneous BWA Evaluations
- Spectrum Management
- Interoperability Aspects (fixed/mobile LANs/MANs, WANs)
- Vertical and Horizontal Integration
- Micro and Macromobility Management
- Wireless Applications Support
- Cross-layer Optimisation Approaches
- Experimental Evaluation of Cross-layer Interactions
- Wireless Network Management
- (W)NGN Architectures and Trends
- Design and Evaluation of Testbeds
- Experiences/lessons from recent deployments


PAPER SUBMISSION
Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently under 
review in any other conference or journal, and has not been previously 
published. Paper length should not exceed five-page technical paper 
manuscript. Please see the Author Information page for submission guidelines 
in the CCNC website. The paper should be used as the basis for a 20-30 minute 
workshop presentation.
 
Papers should be submitted in a .pdf or .ps format by selecting CCNC'08 at the 
EDAS paper submission website EDAS and then selecting the workshop submission 
link.

A separate cover sheet should show the title of the paper, the author(s) 
name(s) and affiliation(s), and the address (including e-mail, telephone, and 
fax) to which the correspondence should be sent.

All submitted papers will be reviewed by up to three experts and if accepted,
published in the conference proceedings, which will be available at 
IEEEeXplore and registered in Engineering Index (EI).

At least one author of accepted papers is required to register at the full 
registration rate.

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission:                       29 July 2007 
Author Notification:                    14 September 2007
Camera-ready Copy:                      5 October 2007
Author Registration  Deadline:  10 October 2007
Workshop date:                          12 January 2008

GENERAL CHAIRS
Thomas Michael Bohnert, University of Coimbra, PT
Dmitri Moltchanov, Tampere University of Technology, FI

TPC CHAIR
Dirk Staehle, University of Wuerzburg, DE

PUBLICITY CHAIRS
Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Tampere University of Technology, FI
Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, PT

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Alexandre Fonte, Polytechnical Institute of Castelo Branco, PT
Cedric Westphal, Nokia Siemens Research Center, US
Eckhart Koerner, University of Applied Sciences Mannheim, DE
Eugen Borcoci, University Politehnica of Bucharest, RO
Francis Lee Bu Sung, Nanyang Technological University, SG
Francisco Barcelo-Arroyo, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, ES
Gabor Fodor, Ericsson Research, SE
Geng-Sheng Kuo, Beijing University of Post and Telecommunication, PRC
Georgios Paschos, University of Patras, GR
Geert Heijenk, University of Twente, NL
Giovanni Giambene, University of Siena, IT
Jorge Sá Silva, University of Coimbra, PT
Jorma Kilpi, VTT Research Centre, FI
Madjid Merabti, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Nelson da Fonseca, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, BR
Nicola Ciulli, Consorzio Pisa Ricerche, IT
Paulo Simoes, University of Coimbra, PT
Saverio Mascolo, Politecnico di Bari, IT
Sean Murphy, University College Dublin, IE
Torsten Braun, University of Bern, CH
Vasilios Siris, University  of Crete, GR
Vasos Vassiliou, University of Cyprus, GR
Xavier Pérez Costa, NEC Network Research Labs, DE