Dear Colleagues,

Please find below the Call for Papers for ICWMC 2009, The Fifth International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications, August 25-31, 2009 - Cap Esterel, France.

We would appreciate it very much if you could disseminate this CFP to your colleagues and students!

Best Regards,

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Call for Papers

The Fifth International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications (ICWMC 2009) in France follows on the previous events on advanced wireless technologies, wireless networking, and wireless applications.

ICWMC 2009 addresses wireless related topics concerning integration of latest technological advances to realize mobile and ubiquitous service environments for advanced applications and services in wireless networks. Mobility and wireless, special services and lessons learnt from particular deployment complement the traditional wireless topics.

We welcome technical papers presenting research and practical results, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such as those being discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia, survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of topics, short papers on work in progress, workshops and panel proposals.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, standards, implementations, running experiments and applications. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited topic areas.

Industrial presentations are not subject to these constraints. We expect short and long presentations that express industrial position and status.

Tutorials on specific related topics and panels on challenging areas are encouraged.

The following topics are suggested (but not limited to):

Wireless Communications Basics

Coding & modulation & equalization, Channel modeling and characterization Equalization/Synchronization Transform-domain communication Multiple access algorithms and schemes Antenna and RF subsystems Smart antennas, adaptive antennas, MIMO and beam forming MIMO and OFDM Based PHY Layer technologies CDMA Systems

Radio Interfaces and Systems

Radio communications systems Radio resource management Radio transmission technologies Power and interference control Interference Cancellation for Wireless Mobile Systems Power management for small terminals Energy map Channel Measurement and Characterization

Spectrum Allocation and Management

Spectrum efficiency analyses Dynamic spectrum access networks Spectrum management Interference mitigation and management techniques

Circuits for Wireless Communications

Wireless ASICs Wireless technologies RF Design issues

Wireless and Mobility

Mobility management Location-based services and positioning Micro and macro-mobility Mobility, location and handoff management Mobile and wireless IP Wireless broadband mobile access Routing in multihop, ad hoc and sensor networks Wireless multicasting Wireless mesh networks Topology control in wireless

Protocols for wireless and mobility

Wireless protocols, architectural and design concepts Protocols for air interfaces and networks Wireless MAC protocols: Design and analysis Transport layer issues in mobile and wireless networks Middleware for handhelds and mobile services nodes Proxies and middleware for wireless networks

Traffic and congestion control, QoS, Resource Management

Traffic Modeling and Analysis 3G/4G Bandwidth on Demand QoS and mobility End-to-end QoS QoS profiling and pricing, Traffic Engineering Congestion and admission control

Wireless and mobile technologies

Wireless LANs Home and Personal Area Networks: Bluetooth, ZigBeee, etc Wireless MANs:802.16, 802.20 Wireless WANs: 2G/3G/4G Mobile ad hoc networks and multi-hop wireless Sensor networks and applications Ultra-wideband and short-range networks High altitude platforms and satellites Emergency wireless communications Wireless real-time communications

Performance Evaluation, Simulation and Modeling of wireless networks and systems

Performance and QoS in wireless networks Radio channel modeling (wave propagation and measurements) Mobile/wireless networks modeling and simulation Performance of end-to-end protocols over wireless networks

Management of wireless and mobile networks

Mobility and QoS management Billing technologies and tools Policy Based Management in wireless LANS and MANs Wireless and Mobile Network Planning Mobile Database Access and Design

Security in wireless and mobile environment

Security and robustness in wireless networks Privacy, Authentication Authorization and Accounting (AAA) Encryption and Cryptography Key Management Protocols Digital Rights Management and Multimedia Protection

Networks convergence and integration

2G/3G/4G integration Convergence of 3G wireless and Internet cross-layer design in wireless networks WLAN/3G/4G integration Wireless-wireline convergence Heterogeneous Networks (WAN, Wireless MAN, WLAN) IP Multimedia subsystems (IMS) Next Generation Network Architecture- mobility issues Coexistence of mobile radio networks End to End QoS in Heterogeneous environment Signaling for integrated wireline/wireless networks

Applications and services based on wireless infrastructures

Mobile & Wireless applications & services Service discovery: protocols and frameworks Personalized services and applications Audio-visual and mobile multimedia applications Media and content distribution over wireless networks

Standardization and regulations

Position on standards & fora on wireless and mobile networks Wireless Networks Standards and Protocols Communications regulations 802.11 WLAN Standards 802.16 WMAN Standards 3GPP and 3GPP2 standards HSDPA Technology and Standards Next Generation Network standards

Design and implementation

Emerging wireless technologies Cross-layer optimizations in wireless networks Design and implementation of mobile information systems Software defined radio and re-configurability Joint PHY/MAC design

Wireless and mobile network deployment

Enterprise mobility strategy Business models on wireless networks Market trends and regional developments M-commerce Lessons learnt for wireless deployment in schools Lessons learnt for wireless deployment in special regions Specialized wireless networks Heterogeneous wireless network deployment (e.g., combining 802.11, 802.16 and 3G networks)

Convergence and social mobility

Convergence of mobile networks with the Web 2.0 Convergence on architecture and services Open service capabilities Open exposure of telco capabilities Open Web APIs, SOA and SDP) Interworking strategies Mobile terminals as sources for User-generated content Architecture and services for user-generated content Auto-description and metadata synthesis for telecom-generated for user-generated content Social mobile networks User behavior profiling Social connections (social graphs, contacts, etc) Services and architectures/solutions for social mobile services

INSTRUCTION FOR THE AUTHORS

The ICWMC 2009 Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and on-line via IEEE XPlore Digital Library. IEEE will index the papers with major indexes. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to one of the IARIA Journals http://www.iariajournals.org .

Important deadlines:

Submission (full paper) March 20, 2009 Notification April 25, 2009 Registration May 10, 2009 Camera ready May 15, 2009

Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received papers will be acknowledged via an automated system.

Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11" (two columns IEEE format), not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found on the Instructions page. Helpful information for paper formatting can be found on the here http://www.iaria.org/formatting.rtf .

Once you receive the notification of paper acceptance, you will be provided by the IEEE CS Press an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance.

Poster Forum

Posters are welcome. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the track/workshop preference as "POSTER : Poster Forum". Submissions are expected to be 6-8 slide deck. Posters will not be published in the Proceedings. One poster with all the slides together should be used for discussions. Presenters will be allocated a space where they can display the slides and discuss in an informal manner.

Work in Progress

Work-in-progress contributions are welcome. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the track/workshop preference as "WIP: Work in Progress". Authors should submit a four-page (maximum) text manuscript in IEEE double-column format including the authors' names, affiliations, email contacts. Contributors must follow the conference deadlines, describing early research and novel skeleton ideas in the areas of the conference topics. The work will be published in the conference proceedings.

Technical marketing/business/positioning presentations

The conference initiates a series of business, technical marketing, and positioning presentations on the same topics. Speakers must submit a 10-12 slide deck presentations with substantial notes accompanying the slides, in the .ppt format (.pdf-ed). The slide deck will be published in the conference's CD collection, together with the regular papers. Please send your presentations to petre@iaria.org.

Tutorials

Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. They should be about three hours long. One page with the title, tutorial summary, and a short bio are expected. Please send your proposals to petre@iaria.org

Panel proposals:

The organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their guests and manage that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our deadlines. Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the panel, as well as short biographies.

For more information, petre@iaria.org

Workshop proposals

We welcome workshop proposals on issues complementary to the topics of this conference. Your requests should be forwarded to petre@iaria.org.

Committees

ICWMC Advisory Committee

Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA / Concordia University, Canada Francis Rousseaux, IRCAM, France

ICWMC 2009 Industry Reserch Chairs

David Lozano, Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo (R&D), Spain Jyrki Penttinen, Nokia Siemens Networks - Madrid, Spain / Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Ossama Younis, Telcordia Technologies, USA

ICWMC 2009 Publicity Chairs

Habib M. Ammari, Hofstra University, USA Yacine Benallouche, Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin, France Ioannis Vasalos, Newcastle University, UK

ICWMC 2009 Technical Program Committee

Chairs Xiang Gui, Massey University-Palmerston North, New Zealand

Jemal H. Abawajy, Deakin University, Australia Mohamed Abd rabou Kalil, Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany Tommi Aihkisalo, VTT Technical Research Center of Finland - Oulu, Finland Habib M. Ammari, Hofstra University, USA Adrian Andronache, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Ioannis G. Askoxylakis, Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), Greece Tarun Bansal, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Kamel Barkaoui, CEDRIC/CNAM - Paris, France Sofien Beji,RIADI-ENSI, Tunisia Yacine Benallouche, Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin, France Philipp Bostan, University of Mannheim, Germany David Boyle, University of Limerick, Ireland Ýdil Candan, Middle East Technical University - Kalkanlý Campus, Turkey Juan Carlos Cano Escriba, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Ionut Cardei, Florida Atlantic University, USA Hsing-Lung Chen, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology - Taipei, Taiwan Naveen Chilamkurti, La Trobe University - Melbourne, Australia Mohammad Mushfiqur Rahman Chowdhury, University Graduate Center (UniK) / University of Oslo, Norway Silviu Ciochina, 'Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania Nicolae Crisan, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania Pedro Angel Cuenca Castillo, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha - Albacete, Spain Karim Djouani, University Paris 12/LISSI Lab, France / F'SATIE/TUT - Pretoria, South Africa Paal Engelstad, University of Oslo / Telenor R&I, Norway Hossain Faisal Murad, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland Mahmood Fathy, University of Science and Technology - Tehran, Iran Ana-Belén García-Hernando, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Sorin Georgescu, Ericsson Research, Canada Xiang Gui, Massey University-Palmerston North, New Zealand Abdelhakim Hafid, University of Montreal, Canada Alan Harris, University of North Florida - Jacksonville, USA Vicente Hernández-Díaz, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Ning Hu, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China Magnus Jonsson, Halmstad University, Sweden Nevin Vunka Jungum, University of Mauritius, Mauritius Gyorgy Kalman, University Graduate Center (UniK) / University of Oslo, Norway Shahab Kamali, University of Waterloo, Canada Dragana Krstic, University of Nis, Serbia Johnson Kuruvila, Extreme Software, Canada Quan Le-Trung, University of Oslo [IFI/UiO], Norway Yihan Li, Auburn University, USA Qilian Liang, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Antonio Liotta, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Justin Lipman, University of Wollongong, Australia Valeria Loscrí, University of Calabria, Italy Yves Louet, SUPELEC, France David Lozano, Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo (R&D), Spain D. Manivannan (Mani), University of Kentucky - Lexington, USA Ion Marghescu University 'Politehnica' Bucharest, Romania José-Fernán Martínez-Ortega, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Gabriel Mateescu, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute - Blacksburg, USA Mohamed Moustafa, Arab Information Union / Akhbar El Yom Academy, Egypt Christopher K. Nguyen, University of Louisville, USA Homayoun Nikookar, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Josef Noll, UiO/UNIK, Sweden Carlos Enrique Palau Salvador, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Jyrki Penttinen, Nokia Siemens Networks - Madrid, Spain / Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Tomi Räty, VTT, Finland Reda Reda, ICTMC, Austria Robert Schmohl, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Avinash Shankaranarayanan, University of Applied Sciences Trier, Germany & Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU) Adão Silva, University of Aveiro /IT, Portugal Kuo-Feng Ssu, National Cheng Kung University - Tainan, Taiwan Radu Stoleru, Texas A&M University, USA Fatma Tansu, Eastern Mediterranean University, Turkey Rui Teng, National Institute of Information and communication Technology, Japan Ioannis Vasalos, Newcastle University, UK Enrique Vázquez Gallo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain Jose Villalón, University of Castilla La Mancha, Spain Natalija Vlajic, York University, Canada Naoki Wakamiya, Osaka University, Japan Xinbing Wang, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Yean-Fu Wen, National Chiayi University, Taiwan, R.O.C. Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois - Chicago, USA Qishi Wu, University of Memphis, USA Pei Xiao, Queen's University Belfast, UK Ossama Younis, Telcordia Technologies, USA

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