Dear colleagues, 

Please accept our deepest apologies. My previous message included hyperlinks which did not show up correctly. You may see the corrected plaintext message below.
Thank you for your understanding.
Best regards,
B. Kantarci



IEEE WISEE 2019

7th Annual IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments
16 - 18 October 2019
Ottawa (ON), Canada
Website: https://ieee.org/wisee 
Financially co-Sponsored by: IEEE Region-1 (Northeast USA), IEEE Region-7 (Canada), IEEE Council on Radio Frequency Identification (CRFID), IEEE Ottawa Section, and IET Ottawa Local Network.  Technical Co-sponsor: IEEE Communications Society (COMSOC)
------------------------------ ------------------------------ --------------
Welcome to Ottawa ("The Silicon Valley North")!
------------------------------ ------------------------------ --------------
Ottawa is an important technology centre; recently, its 1800 companies employed approximately over 60K people. The concentration of companies in this industry earned the city the nickname of "Silicon Valley North". Most of these companies specialize in telecommunications, software development and environmental technology.
------------------------------ ----------------------
Call for Papers
------------------------------ ----------------------
Spaceflight involves critical sensing and communication in extreme environments such as planetary surfaces, space vehicles, and space habitats. These challenges overlap significantly with those found in many terrestrial examples of extreme environments such as extreme hot or cold locations, extreme high- or low-pressure environments, critical control loops in aircraft and nuclear power plants, high-speed rotating equipment, oil/gas pipelines and platforms, etc. All of these environments pose significant challenges for radio-frequency or optical wireless sensing and communication and will require the application of a broad range of state of the art technologies in order to generate reliable and cost effective solutions. Although challenges significantly depend on the environment, many sensing, communication, and statistical signal processing solutions can be applied to different scenarios, and researchers can be thus benefit from domain cross-fertilization.

This IEEE conference will bring together investigators from NASA, CSA, ESA, and other space agencies, along with aerospace and space defense industries and academic researchers, in an effort to understand and solve the emerging problems facing wireless sensing and communication in space and related extreme environments.

Full-length Research Papers (6 pages) and Poster abstracts (3 pages) are sought that address solution to problems in all areas of wireless sensing and communication in space and extreme environments related to spaceflight, including but not limited to the following:
Artificial intelligence and deep learning in space
Wireless sensors, systems, and networks
Delay and disruption tolerant networks
Network architectures, middleware integration, and data management
Big data processing and data fusion techniques
Wireless privacy, security and routing techniques
Localization, detection, classification & tracking methods
Antenna design and processing
Integrated vehicle systems and robotics
RFID devices and systems
Propagation modeling and channel description
Optical communication systems
Availability, certification, and spaceflight qualification for wireless devices and systems
Multi-carrier systems, spread spectrum techniques, cognitive radio networks, emerging technologies
High speed, low latency, multi-stream data techniques (full-duplex, LTE, MIMO)
Space cyber security
 
------------------------------ ------------------------------ ---------------
------------------------------ ------------------------------ --------------------
Important Dates:                
------------------------------ ------------------------------ --------------------
* Paper Submission Deadline: July 1, 2019
* Authors Notification: August 1, 2019
* Camera-Ready Papers Due: September 1, 2019
* Early-bird Registration Due: September 1, 2019
------------------------------ ------------------------------ --------
Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings:      
------------------------------ ------------------------------ --------
* Full-length Research Papers (6 pages)
* Posters abstracts (3 pages)
IEEE tools for manuscript preparation can be found at http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/authors/authors_journals.html .
Manuscript registration and submission link can be found at https://conf.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/start.pl .
 
Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore as well as other Indexing databases.
 
------------------------------ ----------------------
Organizing Committee
------------------------------ ----------------------
 
General Chairs
Abbas Yongacoglu, University of Ottawa
Mohsen Kavehrad, President of CRKC
 
Technical Program Chairs
Melike Erol-Kantarci, University of Ottawa
Abolfazl Razi, North Arizona University
 
Workshops Chair
Sreeraman Rajan, Carleton University
 
Publications Chair
Domenico Ciuonzo, University of Naples Federico II
 
Venue Chair
Claude D'Amours, University of Ottawa
 
Publicity Chair
Burak Kantarci, University of Ottawa
 
Secretary
Leenesh Kumar, Carleton University
 
Treasurer
Charles Rubenstein, IEEE USA
 
Registration Co-Chairs 
Fatemeh Afghah, North Arizona University
Zied Bouida, Carleton University
 
Webmaster
M. Hossain Mohammadi, McGill University
 
Steering Committee
Ali Abedi, Univ. of Maine
Amir Aghdam, Concordia Univ.
Charles Rubenstein, Pratt Inst.
IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications
http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/
TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications.
tccc-announce@comsoc.org
https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/