-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] International Conference on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing - Symposium on "Next Generation Mobile Networks" Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 23:59:20 -0400 From: Shahrokh Valaee valaee@comm.utoronto.ca Reply-To: valaee@comm.utoronto.ca To: tccc@cs.columbia.edu

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International Conference on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (ICWCMC 2006) Sheraton Wall Centre, Vancouver, Canada, July 3-6, 2006 http://www.iwcmc2006.cs.wmich.edu/

Symposium on “Next Generation Mobile Networks” http://conferences.ece.ubc.ca/ngmn2006/ CALL FOR PAPERS Scope: Next generation wireless mobile networks are characterized through the integration of different wireless access technologies and convergence of wired and wireless networks. Third generation wireless cellular systems such as UMTS and cdma2000 are expected to interwork with other broadband Internet access technologies such as hot spot services or multi-hop access networks (e.g., wireless mesh networks), to provide a wire-line compatible service to mobile Internet users. Standards such as IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX), IEEE 802.20, and IEEE 802.21 are emerging to provide new broadband wireless access services. Network convergence is regarded as a major challenge in the evolution of next generation wireless mobile networks. In general, due to the heterogeneity in the wireless access techniques and the requirement of providing multimedia services, the issue of QoS provisioning and enforcement in the future generation mobile networks will become a critical issue for the wireless access equipment vendors, networks service providers, and customers. Cross-layer transmission protocol engineering along with application-oriented signaling protocols, and creation of new services will be required for efficient network resource utilization and bring profitability to the service providers. The symposium on “Next Generation Mobile Networks” will focus on all aspects of next generation mobile network architecture and try to gather the state-of-the art research activities in this area. It will focus on network architecture, protocols and service platforms, addressing areas such as the evolution towards the so-called 4G mobile networks; the integration of heterogeneous network technologies such as fixed, mobile and satellite access; operational aspects of next generation networks such as resource management, mobility management, charging and QoS provisioning; performance analysis and optimization models. Symposium Topics: Topics include but are not limited to: * Next generation broadband wireless mobile network architectures and protocols * Heterogeneous wireless mobile networks * Internetworking among heterogeneous wireless and wire-line networks * Integration of 3G and broadband wireless networks (e.g., IEEE 802.16a) * Integration of 3G and meshed (multi-hop) wireless networks * Scheduling, call admission control, bandwidth adaptation, and error control protocols * Solar powered wireless mobile networks and protocols for energy efficiency * Pricing models for broadband mobile multimedia networks * Service provisioning through IP multimedia subsystem * Application-oriented protocols * Modeling, performance evaluation, and optimization techniques * Mobility, location and handoff management in heterogeneous mobile networks * QoS specification and metrics for mobile multimedia networks * Multimedia QoS and traffic management in mobile networks * Network resource management and QoS provisioning * Multi-protocol architectures and devices * Network control and signaling * Proxies and middleware for wireless mobile networks * Next generation broadband satellite systems * Terrestrial-satellite integration scenarios & techniques * Cross-layer protocol engineering for wireless mobile networks * Mobile multicasting * Wireless mobile network security and privacy * Authentication, Authorization, Accounting (AAA) over heterogeneous mobile networks * Emerging applications of wireless mobile networks (e.g., wireless telemedicine) Schedule: * Paper submission deadline: December 15, 2005 * Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2006 * Final manuscript due: May 30, 2006 Symposium Chair:

Victor C. M. Leung The University of British Columbia, BC, Canada vleung@ece.ubc.ca

Symposium Co-Chair:

Ekram Hossain University of Manitoba ekram@ee.umanitoba.ca Javan Erfanian Bell Canada javan.erfanian@bell.ca

Publicity Chair:

Shahrokh Valaee University of Toronto valaee@comm.utoronto.ca Technical Program Committee: Alhussein A. Abouzeid, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA (abouzeid@ecse.rpi.edu) Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, Politecnico Di Torino, Italy (chiasserini@polito.it) Gianluigi Ferrari, Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy ( mailto:gianluigi.ferrari@unipr.it gianluigi.ferrari@unipr.it) Ahmed Kamal, Iowa State University, USA (kamal@iastate.edu) Thierry E. Klein, Bell Laboratories – Lucent Technologies, USA (tek@lucent.com) Can Emre Koksal, EPFL, Switzerland (emre.koksal@epfl.ch) Alberto Leon-Garcia, University of Toronto, Canada (alberto.leongarcia@utoronto.ca) Baochun Li, University of Toronto, Canada (bli@eecg.toronto.edu) Ben Liang, University of Toronto, Canada (liang@comm.utoronto.ca) Jelena Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada (jmisic@cs.umanitoba.ca) Asis Nasipuri, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA (anasipur@uncc.edu) Ioanis “Yannis” Nikolaidis, University of Alberta, Canada (yannis@cs.ualberta.ca) Samuel Pierre, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada (samuel.pierre@polymtl.ca) Radha Poovendran, University of Washington at Seattle, USA (radha@ee.washington.edu) Behcet Sarikaya, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada (sarikaya@unbc.ca) Young-Joo Suh, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea (yjsuh@postech.edu) Kui Wu, University of Victoria, Canada (wkui@cs.uvic.ca mailto:wkui@cs.umanitoba.ca ) Xiang-Gen Xia, University of Delaware, USA (xxia@ee.udel.edu) Dongmei Zhao, McMaster University, Canada (dzhao@mail.ece.mcmaster.ca)

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