This message is cross-posted to several lists. Apologies for any duplicate postings. ======================================================= Call For Papers - Deadline: 10 April, 2008 IEEE International Workshop on WDN 2008 International Workshop on Wireless Distributed Networks

Date and Location: September 15, 2008, Cannes, France http://www.icwdn.org/wdn/ =======================================================

We would like to invite prospective authors to submit technical papers to IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Distributed Networks (WDN 2008), which will be held in conjunction with PIMRC 2008, 15 September, 2008, Cannes, France. Authors are encouraged to submit original, high uality research papers addressing the below stated areas.

* IMPORTANT DATES: *********************************** 10 April, 2008 Submission deadline *********************************** 19 May, 2008 Notification of acceptance 2 June, 2008 Final manuscript 15 Sept, 2008 Workshop

* SCOPE:

With diversification of wireless access technologies and their application fields, the role of wireless access is no longer the last hop terminal access, but also for repeating functionality such as mesh/multi-hop/ad-hoc/sensor networking. Thereby more complicated wireless networking, especially radio resource management is required to well organize whole the networks. In such cases, it is almost impossible to optimally conduct wireless resource management based on a centralized control policy. Rather, distributed and/or cooperative control techniques should be introduced in necessary parts in any layer, such as distributed antenna, cognitive radio, distributed MAC, and dynamic heterogeneous networking. To systematize an academic basis of this new research field and to discuss the adaptability of these new technologies to enhance the performance of wireless distributed networks (WDN), the workshop named WDN 2008 will be held. In order to achieve such purpose, we believe that cross layer discussions among researchers in the field of physical, MAC, and network layers are required. WDN 2008 will be held in conjunction with PIMRC 2008, as part of the conference workshops to make up various contributions as well as invited contributions from many research fields related to wireless distributed networks.

* TOPICS AREAS:

The main purpose of this workshop is to systematize an academic basis over the various topics in wireless distributed networks as listed below, and to discuss the adaptability of these new technologies to enhance the performance of wireless distributed networks.

- Application Ad-hoc network, Multi-hop network, Mesh network, Sensor network, Cognitive radio, heterogeneous network, and cooperative transmission system

- Technology Network coding, Super position coding, Cooperative sensing, Cooperative relay, Virtual antenna array, Distributed antenna system, BS or AP cooperation, Distributed RRM or scheduling, Distributed MAC, Distributed MIMO, Radio Spectrum Sensing, Spatial spectrum sharing, Cross layer optimization

- Theory Multi-dimensional Information theory, Convex optimization, Game theory, Graph theory, Bayesian network

* PAPER SUBMISSIONS:

Papers should be written following the PIMRC 2008 paper instruction. Papers should be written in English, not exceeding 5 double-column pages (overlength pages will be charged for). Please, submit your paper using EDAS before 10 April 2008.

* CONTACT ---------------- For more information, please visit the conference web site or contact the PR person: Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology Tel/Fax: +81 (0) 42 388 7483 Email: ume[AT]suzuki-lab.tuat.ac.jp Kenta Umebayashi Conference web site: http://www.icwdn.org/wdn/

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