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CALL FOR PAPERS

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MobiLight 2010
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2nd Conference on Mobile Lightweight Wireless Systems 10 - 12 May 2010
Barcelona, Spain http://www.mobilight.org

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Submission Deadline: 14 December 2009
Notification Due: 15 February 2010
Final Version Due: 15 March 2010
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| | Scope | |
Wireless communications are becoming increasingly pervasive, as the number
and spreading of portable wireless-equipped devices are exponentially
increasing (ranging from smartphones to handheld game consoles, from
personal digital assistant and personal navigation devices to still and
video cameras). This results in an unprecedented request for lightweight,
wireless communication devices with excellent usability and performance as
well as the ability to support added-value services in a highly mobile
environment - following the user everywhere he goes (at work, at home, while
travelling, in a classroom, etc.). 
Besides attractive business opportunities this opens up exciting research
and development areas.
This scenario clearly demands significant upgrades to the existing
communication paradigm in terms of infrastructure, devices and services to
support the ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, ANY DEVICE philosophy, introducing novel and
fast-evolving requirements and expectations on research and development in
the field of information and communication technologies. 
The core issue is to support wireless users' desire of 24/7 reliable network
availability and transparent access to "their own" personalized services.
In this framework and motivated by the interdisciplinary competences needed
to build successful lightweight wireless systems, the MOBILIGHT conference
will provide an international forum where practitioners and researchers
coming from the diverse areas involved in lightweight wireless systems
design and deployment will be able to interact and exchange experiences, and
thus realize cross-fertilization among the different worlds of academia,
research centers and industry.

Prospective authors are invited to submit original and unpublished technical
papers to the following tracks:

TECHNOLOGIES & ARCHITECTURES
- Wireless communication standards (IEEE 802.11, 802.15, 802.16/WiMAX,
802.20, Bluetooth, ECMA-387, wireless USB, LTE-Advanced)
- Next generation mobile networks (including vehicular communication)
- Mobile multi-hop networks, ubiquitous coverage
- Ad hoc, sensor and cooperative networks
- Pervasive and wearable computing
- Green communication, energy saving
- Wireless transmission (multi-/single-carrier, multi-antenna, multi-user,
modulation, coding)
- Lightweight devices architecture
- Internetworking and interoperability
- Protocol stack design (layering, cross-layering)
- Cognitive radio and software defined radio
- Self-organization and cooperation
- Compact and power efficient RF architectures for wireless devices

MOBILE SERVICES
- Anytime, Anywhere, Any device
- Interactive multimedia
- Ambient assisted living
- Usability and HMI
- Location and context aware services
- Seamless roaming
- Emerging and next generation services

BUSINESS MODELS, OPPORTUNITIES AND SOLUTIONS
- Architectures deployment
- Service provisioning
- Value-added services
- Business models
- Next generation lightweight devices
- Industry perspectives and market evolution
- Users¢ needs and requirements
- Available and emerging solutions

Workshops, Special Sessions and Tutorials
on the latest technical and business issues in topics of mobile lightweight
wireless systems are encouraged. Information on submission of proposals,
selection procedure etc. can be found on the conference website.

Publication
Accepted papers will be published by Springer in the MOBILIGHT Conference
Proceedings and made available online through Springer Lecture Notes of ICST
(LNICST). Selected high-quality papers will be invited to Special Issues in
prestigious International Journals.

Submission
All submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of
12 single-column pages including figures. All papers must be formatted using
Springer LNICST Authors¢ Kit
(http://manual.icst.org/index.php?page=conference-proceedings) and submitted
through the ASSYST paper management system (http://assyst-online.org).

Organizing Committee
* General Chairs *
Periklis Chatzimisios, TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece
Christos Verikoukis, CTTC, Spain

* Technical Program Chairs *
Ignacio Santamaría, University of Cantabria, Spain Massimiliano Laddomada, Texas A&M University-Texarkana, USA
Oliver Hoffmann, Dortmund University of Technology, Germany

* Tutorials Chair *
Ana García Armada, University Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

* Special Sessions/ Workshops Chairs *
Ioannis Chocliouros, OTE, Greece
Javier Del Ser, TECNALIA-Robotiker, Spain

* Publications Chair *
Jesús Alonso-Zárate, CTTC, Spain

* Publicity Chairs *
Marco Di Renzo, CNRS, France
Nizar Zorba, University of Jordan, Jordan 
Thomas Lagkas, University of Western Macedonia, Greece

* Panel Chair *
Luis Alonso, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Albert Banchs, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

* Local Arrangements Chairs *
Elli Kartsakli, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain Ferran
Adelantado, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain 
David Sanchez, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

* Conference Coordination *
Gergely Nagy, ICST

* Web Chair *
Eirini Karapistoli, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

* Steering Committee Chair *
Imrich Chlamtac, CreateNet, Italy