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CALL FOR PAPERS 13th IFIP international Conference on Personal Wireless Communications (PWC 2008) October 1-3, 2008 --- Toulouse, France.
ABOUT PWC 2008 ----------------------------- Wireless and mobile networks, applications and services are rapidly growing areas that have attracted significant attention due to their potential impacts on the quality of life in multiple domains (health,
emergency services, disaster recovery, commerce, shopping, TV, games…). To enable wireless and mobile computing, it is necessary to integrate technologies from the fields of distributed computing, networking, communications and signal processing.
MWCN (Mobile and Wireless Communications Networks) and PWC (Personal Wireless Communications) are two conferences sponsored by IFIP WG 6.8 that provide forum for discussion between researchers, practitioners and students interested in new developments in mobile and wireless networks, services, applications and computing.
In 2008, MWCN and PWC are coupled to form the first edition of IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC). MWCN and PWC topics are revisited in order to make them complementary and covering together the main hot issues in wireless and mobile networks, services, applications, computing, and technologies.
PWC´2008 is the thirteenth conference of this series sponsored by IFIP WG 6.8 and will be held in Toulouse (France) from 1 to 3 October 2008. The conference will consist of three days of scientific presentations. Previous events were held in Prague (Czech Republic) in 2007, Albacete (Spain) in 2006, Colmar (France) in 2005, Delft (The Netherlands) in 2004, Venice (Italy) in 2003, Singapore in 2002, Lappeenranta (Finland) in 2001, and Gdansk (Poland) in 2000.
Performance of wireless networks is the major factor that determines their feasibility for the given set of application requirements. Performance has many different aspects, from different layers, and all of these are intimately related to topology, energy efficiency, management, user mobility, and security issues. The key goals of this improvement include Quality of Service (QoS) support mechanisms, efficient channel access mechanisms, security and energy saving mechanisms, etc. The effort to improve the wireless networks is linked with many technical challenges including compatibility with legacy networks, complexity in implementation, and practical values in real market, etc.
TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------------------- The PWC 2008 technical committee solicits papers describing original, previously unpublished, completed or on-going research. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
1. Management and control of mobile and wireless networks - Handoff management - Location management - Connection management - Bandwidth management and capacity enhancement - Resource and information management - Network and service management and control - Energy efficiency of protocols and devices and power management 2. Quality of service - QoS support in mobile and wireless networks - QoS for voice and video in wireless/mobile networks - Admission control - Routing and Scheduling in mobile and wireless networks 3. Security - Security and privacy in mobile and wireless networks - AAA (Authentication, Authorization and Accounting) in mobile and wireless networks 4. Internet - Wireless Internet - IP-based wireless/mobile multimedia services - IP-based wireless/mobile networks - Transport layer issues in mobile and wireless networks 5. Design approaches and methodologies - Network self-organization, adaptability, reconfigurability - Autonomic networking - Opportunistic networking - Cross-layer design in mobile and wireless networks 6. Software and middleware - Software engineering for wireless and mobile network/service development - Middleware support for QoS provision - Middleware support for network configuration and adaptation 7. Modeling and performance evaluation - Traffic and network modeling in wireless/mobile networks - Analysis and simulation of wireless/mobile networks - Evaluation of mobile network testbeds
BEST PAPER AWARD AND TRAVEL GRANTS ---------------------------------------------------------- A best paper award (500 EUR) and two travel grants (750 EUR each) will be awarded to PWC 2008 conference participants.
PAPER PUBLICATION ------------------------------
Proceedings publication: Springer IFIP series
A maximum of 10 best papers will be selected from accepted and
presented papers for publication in a special issue of International Journal of Business Data Communications and Networking www.igi-global.com/ijbdcn
IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: March 10, 2008 Notification of acceptance: May 13, 2008 Final paper due: May 30, 2008
CONFERENCE COMMITTEES ----------------------------------------
General Chairs -------------------- Zoubir MAMMERI, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse (France) Partick SENAC, ENSICA (France)
Steering Committee ------------------------ Khaldoun AL AGHA, Paris-Sud University (France) Robert BESTAK, Czech Technical University (Czech Republic) Pedro CUENCA, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha (Spain) Sonia HEEMSTRA DE GROOT, Twente Institute (The Netherlands) Ignacious NIEMEGEERS, Delft University of Technology, (The Netherlands) Tadao SAITO, Toyota Info technology Center (Japan) Jan SLAVIK, TESTCOM (Czech Republic) Otto SPANIOL, University of Technology of Aachen (Germany) Jozef WOZNIAK, Technical University of Gdansk (Poland)
Technical Program Committee ----------------------------------- Available at www.irit.fr/PWC2008/
Organizing Committee ---------------------------- G. Boudour (IRIT, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France) D. Espes (IRIT, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France) W. Masri (IRIT, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France) J. Petit (IRIT, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France) C. Teyssie (IRIT, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France)
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