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IEEE PIMRC 2008 Cannes, French Riviera, France 14-18 September 2008

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Overview:

The annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) is one of the premier conferences in the wireless research arena and has a long history of bringing together academia, industry and regulatory bodies. Today, it has become one of IEEE ComSoc's flagship conferences in telecommunications.

The 19th edition of PIMRC will be held from 14-18 September 2008 in glamorous Cannes, French Riviera, France, at the "Palais des Festivals de Cannes" where traditionally the Cannes Film Festival is being held. With Cannes being one of the most charming places on earth, we expect this to be a truly special conference.

Focus:

PIMRC 2008 will provide a global forum for presenting the most recent advances, the future technical challenges and business opportunities that comprise the contemporary landscape in wireless communications. The organizers endeavour to attract contributions covering not only conventional areas of wireless communications (e.g., physical layer), but also emerging areas with high potential for essential scientific and societal impact such as wireless sensors for biomedical applications, non-trivial pervasive computing services and ambient technologies. The latter areas are expected to facilitate the development of a broad vision of innovative future applications in wireless communications. The high quality IEEE endorsed technical programme, will also include tutorials, workshops, exhibitions, panel discussions and keynote presentations from leading experts coming from the academic community, industry, as well as regulatory and standardisation bodies.

Call for Papers:

Authors are invited to submit high-quality papers describing original and previously unpublished contributions in a wide range of topics in wireless communications. These topics are clustered into the following three major categories:

1) Physical Layer and MAC 2) Mobile and Wireless Networks 3) Applications, Services and Business Models

Papers should be in English, strictly not exceeding 5 double-column pages. Authors should use the relevant IEEE template, ensuring an IEEE Xplore compatible PDF-format. To access the full list of topics, submission guidelines, as well as venue and travel information please visit www.pimrc2008.org.

Important Dates:

Full papers due: 3. March 2008 Acceptance notice: 1. May 2008 Final manuscript: 2. June 2008

Committee:

1 PIMRC Steering Committee:

Prof Hamid Aghvami, King’s College London, UK (founder) Prof. Shuzo Kato, NICT, Japan Prof. Kaveh Pahlavan, Worchester Polytechnic Institute, USA Roberto de Marca, IEEE

2 PIMRC 2008 General Chairs:

Paul Friedel, Director of R&D, France Telecom, France Prof Hamid Aghvami, King’s College London, UK

3 Technical Committee:

TPC General Chairs:

Dr Mischa Dohler, France Telecom, France Prof Alain Sibille, ENSTA, France

Track #1: Fundamentals & PHY Chairs:

Prof Jean-Claude Belfiore, ENST, France Prof David Gespert, Eurecom, France Prof John Cioffi, Stanford, USA

Track #2: MAC & Cross-Layer Design Chairs:

Prof Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Rome, Italy Prof John Shea, University of Florida, USA Prof Carles Anton, CTTC, Spain

Track #3: Mobile and Wireless Networks Chairs:

Prof Ivan Stojmenovic, EECE, UK Prof Yuguang "Michael" Fang, University of Florida, USA Dr Fabrice Valois, INSA, France

Track #4: Services, Applications & Business Chairs:

Dr Babak Jafarian, Ortiva Wireless, USA Prof Luis Correia, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Prof Rahim Tafazolli, Surrey University, UK

Tutorial Chairs:

Prof Muriel Medard, MIT, USA Dr Prosper Chemouil, France Telecom, France

Panel Chairs:

Dr. Jorge Pereira, EC DG-INFSO, Europe Prof Frank Fitzek, Alborg University, Denmark

Workshop Chairs:

Dr Cedric Westphal, Nokia-Siemens Networks, USA Prof Branka Vucetic, Sydney University, Australia

Invited Papers Chairs:

Prof Giorgos Giannakis, University of Minnesota, USA Prof Guy Pujolle, LIP6, France

Special Sessions Chairs:

Dr Didier Bourse, Motorola, France René Roussille, SEE, France

Keynote Chairs:

Cengiz Evci, Alcatel-Lucent, France Christophe Le Martret, Thales Group, France

TPC Members:

to be announced on website

4 Organizing Committee:

Organizational Chairs:

Béatrice Valdayron, SEE, France Debora Kingston, IEEE, USA

Finance Chairs:

Christine Nora, IEEE France Section, France Bruce Worthman, IEEE ComSoc, USA

Publicity Chairs:

Chia-Chin Chong, DoCoMo USA Labs, USA Eric Fleury, INRIA, France

National Ambassadors:

Africa: Saurabh Sinha, University of Pretoria, South Africa Australia: Yonghui Li, University of Sydney Austria: Christian Bettstedter, University of Klagenfurt Brazil: Carlos B. Westphall, UFSC China: Huaibei (Barry) Zhou, Wuhan University Finland: Matti Latva-aho, Oulu University Germany: Gerhard Fettweis, TU-Dresden Italy: Roberto Verdone, Bologna University Iran: Masoumeh Nasiri, Sharif University Japan: Ryuji Kohno, Yokohama National University Poland: Maciej Nawrocki, Wroclaw University of Technology Russia: Alexander Korotkov, St. Petersburg State Polytech. Uni. Spain: Oriol Sallent, UPC Turkey: Hakan Delic, Bogazici University UK: Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton Sponsorship Chairs:

Prof Ramesh Pyndiah, ENST, France Dr Ian Oppermann, Nokia-Siemens Networks, Finland

Publications Chairs:

Periklis Chatzimisios, TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece Victor Kueh, British Telecom, UK

Web Chairs:

Thomas Watteyne, INSA/FTRD, France

5 International Advisory Committee:

R. Agusti, K.-C. Chen, L. Coreira, K.-P. Estola, G. Fettweis, S. Glisic, K. Gong, R. Kohno, M. Latvaaho, P. Leppanen, P. Mahonen, N. Morinaga, R. Prasad, O. Sallent, S. Sampei, E. Sousa, B. Walke