-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CFP:IFIP WG 6.8 Conference on Personal Wireless Communications Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 17:03:11 +0100 From: Raffaele Bruno raffaele.bruno@iit.cnr.it To: itc@comsoc.org itc@comsoc.org

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Conference Announcement and Call for Papers

*PWC 2003*

The Eighth International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications Sponsored by the IFIP WG 6.8 - Mobile and Wireless Communications http://www.iit.cnr.it/pwc2003

September 23-25, 2003 Telecom Italia Future Centre - Venice, Italy http://www.futurecentre.telecomitalia.it/eng/

PWC is the premier international forum for discussions between researchers, practitioners and students interested in the symbiosis of mobile computing and wireless networks. PWC 2003 is the eight conference of this series and is sposored by IFIP WG 6.8

The PWC 2003 technical program committee is soliciting papers describing original, previously unpublished, completed or on-going research, on topics. including, but not limited to, the following:

- Mobile Web Access - Mobile and Wireless Applications - Pervasive computing - Mobile and Wireless Networking - IP-based Mobile Networks - Mobility Management - QoS in the Mobile and Wireless Networks - Real-time voice/video over mobile and wireless networks - Multicasting in Wireless Services - Analysis, Simulation and Measurement of wireless and mobile systems - Mobile ad hoc networks - Wireless BAN, PAN and LAN - Wi-Fi - Third and Fourth Generation Systems - 3G/WLAN internetworking - Energy-efficient Protocols and Power Management

This year conference includes two special tracks to address hot topic issues: sensor networks and wireless security.

PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION =================================

Papers should neither have been published elsewhere nor currently under review by another conference or journal. For paper submission, please follow the submission instructions at: http://www.iit.cnr.it/pwc2003 All papers will be reviewed by the program committee members. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES ===============

Full papers due: February 10, 2003 Notification: May 10, 2003 Camera Ready due: June 10, 2003

GENERAL Chair: Enrico Gregori, IIT - CNR, Italy

GENERAL Vice-Chair: Fabrizio Davide, Telecom Italia, Italy

TECHNICAL PROGRAM Chair: Marco Conti, IIT - CNR, Italy

SPECIAL TRACKs PROGRAM Co-Chairs: Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Switzerland

Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA

PUBLICITY Co-Chairs: Raffaele Bruno, IIT CNR, Italy Alexandros Kaloxylos, University of Athens, Greece

STEERING COMMITTEE Members:

Imrich Chlamtac, University of Trento, Italy (Chair) Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Anthony Ephremides, University of Maryland, USA Guy Omidyar, National University of Singapore, Singapore Adam Wolisz, Technical University of Berlin, Germany

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Members:

Arup Acharya, IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA Eitan Altman, INRIA, France, Andrea Baiocchi, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Roberto Battiti, University of Trento, Italy Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer, UC Santa Barbara, USA Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Palermo, Italy, Andrew T. Campbell, Columbia University, USA Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Holger Karl, Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany Mohan Kumar, Univ. Texas at Arlington, USA Laura M. Feeney, SICS, Sweden, Gabor Fodor, Ericsson, Sweden Luigi Fratta, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Per Gunningberg, Uppsala University, Sweden Andrey Lyakhov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia, Martin Mauve, University of Mannheim, Germany Franco Mazzenga, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy Refik Molva, Institut EURECOM, France Hiroyuki Morikawa, University of Tokyo, Japan Michael Paterakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece Niovi Pavlidou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Apostolis Salkintzis, Motorola, Canada Ioannis Stavrakakis, University of Athens, Greece. Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada, Samir Tohme, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications (ENST), France Christian Tschudin, University of Basel, Switzerland Sami Uskela, Nokia Networks, Finland Andras Valko, Ericsson AB, Sweden Bernhard Walke, Aachen University of Technology, Germany