-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] International Conference on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing - Symposium on "Next Generation Mobile Networks" Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:30:18 -0500 From: Shahrokh Valaee valaee@comm.utoronto.ca To: tccc@cs.columbia.edu

International Conference on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (IWCMC 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 mobile networks are expected to allow subscribers to transparently access broadband multimedia services via multiple wireless and wireline access networks. Evolution towards next generation mobile networks is already taking place through the interworking of third generation (3G) cellular systems such as UMTS and cdma2000 with other broadband wireless access technologies such as WiFi hotspots and WiMax to provide mobile users with anytime anywhere access to broadband multimedia services over the Internet. The next generation mobile networks will also be shaped by emerging standards for wireless access from mobile terminals, e.g., IEEE 802.20, and for integration of heterogeneous wireless access networks, e.g., IEEE 802.21. Interworking of diverse wireless and wireline access technologies into a converged global network will provide many technical challenges. Due to the heterogeneity in the wireless access techniques and the requirements of 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 protocol engineering along with application-oriented signaling protocols, and creation of new services will be required for efficient network resource utilization and to bring profitability to the service providers. The symposium on “Next Generation Mobile Networks” will provide a timely technical forum for the dissemination of new results in this exciting research area. It will cover key aspects of B3G/4G mobile networks, particularly architectures, protocols and management techniques to coordinate heterogeneous wireless access networks and integrate them into a common core network, and services and applications that take advantage of this integrated network platform. Papers addressing areas such as protocol engineering, resource management, mobility management, handoff management, QoS provisioning, authentication, authorization and accounting, performance analysis and optimization models are encouraged. 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: January 30, 2006 * Notification of acceptance: March 30, 2006 * Final manuscript due: April 30, 2006

Symposium Chair: Victor C. M. Leung University of British Columbia vleung@ece.ubc.ca Symposium Co-Chairs: 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 Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, Politecnico Di Torino, Italy Gianluigi Ferrari, Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy Ahmed Kamal, Iowa State University, USA Thierry E. Klein, Bell Laboratories – Lucent Technologies, USA Can Emre Koksal, EPFL, Switzerland Sastri Kota, Harris, USA Alberto Leon-Garcia, University of Toronto, Canada Baochun Li, University of Toronto, Canada Ben Liang, University of Toronto, Canada Jelena Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada Asis Nasipuri, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Ioanis “Yannis” Nikolaidis, University of Alberta, Canada Samuel Pierre, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada Radha Poovendran, University of Washington at Seattle, USA Behcet Sarikaya, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada Terry Todd, McMaster University, Canada Young-Joo Suh, Pohang University of Science & Technology, Korea Kui Wu, University of Victoria, Canada Xiang-Gen Xia, University of Delaware, USA Dongmei Zhao, McMaster University, Canada

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