-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Extended Submission Deadline for ISWCS 2009, September 7-10, 2009, Siena, Italy Datum: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:49:28 -0400 Von: conference-services@ieee.org Antwort an: giambene@unisi.it An: wolf@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de Referenzen: A12380789697241868135.wolf@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de

To: Members of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society ===

Dear Colleagues,

I am very pleased to inform you that on the basis of the many requests received, the Organizing Committee of ISWCS 2009 has decided a deadline extension to April 16, 2009 (SHARP DEADLINE) to submit extended abstracts (2 pages) or full papers (5 pages) to the 2009 International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS 2009) I am organizing in Siena, Italy, September 7-10, 2009. This event is co-located with the workshop IWSSC 2009 (http://iwssc09.dii.unisi.it/).

Instructions and templates: http://www.iswcs.org/iswcs2009/instructions.html

Please take a look at the ISWCS home page (http://www.iswcs.org/iswcs2009/) for details about the participation of prestigious plenary speakers.

The call for papers with all the details is below.

No further deadline extensions will be possible.

Thanks a lot for your interest in this event.

Sincerely,

Giovanni Giambene ISWCS 2009 General Chair on behalf of the Organizing Committee

********* CALL FOR PAPERS *****************************

The Sixth International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems "Broadband Ubiquity for Society Needs" ISWCS'09 Siena-Tuscany, University of Siena, Italy, September 7?10, 2009 URL: http://www.iswcs.org/iswcs2009/ For information: iswcs09@dii.unisi.it

Published papers will appear on IEEE Xplore

Important Dates: Submission deadline (extended abstracts of full papers): APRIL 16, 2009 (FINAL SHARP DEADLINE) Notification of acceptance: May 25, 2009 Camera-ready of accepted papers: June 22, 2009

This event is co-located with IWSSC 2009 (for more details see: http://iwssc09.dii.unisi.it/)

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This event is supported by the Vehicular Technology Society. Technical Co-Sponsorship by IEEE Communications Society.

The objective of this symposium is to provide a forum for researchers and technologists to present new ideas and contributions in the form of technical papers, panel discussions as well as real-world evaluation of many ideas in wireless communications and networking employed to support the needs of the Information Society. This sixth symposium, intends to bring together various wireless communication systems developers to discuss the current status, technical challenges, standards, fundamental issues, and future services and applications. ISWCS'09 seeks to address and capture highly-innovative and state-of-the-art research from the wireless industry as well as standardization advances. The scope of the conference includes a wide range of technical challenges encompassing wireless communications, quality of service support, wireless networking, cross-layer air interface design for improved performance, wireless broadband access, and cooperative networking.

IMPORTANT: the authors of the best papers of ISWCS 2009 will be asked to submit their journal-versions to the Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Journal (by Springer, http://www.springer.com/engineering/signals/journal/11036) that has devoted to us a special issue!

The topics of interest include but are not limited to the following one:

- Cooperative communication systems - Cognitive radio networks - Radio resource management - Wireless access techniques - Cross-layer air interface design - Mobile Internet - Wireless privacy and security - Wireless IP - Wireless network architecture and technologies systems - Digital signal processing - Standardization in working groups IEEE 802.11, 802.15, and 802.16 - MANETs - Vehicular Networks (VANETs) - End-to-End QoS provision - Coding modulation and equalization - DVB and DAB techniques - Novel wireless routing techniques - Mobility management - RFID networking - MIMO - Traffic control and engineering - Wireless Mesh Networking - Wireless sensor networks - Innovative services and applications

Paper Submission Guidelines:

Acceptance will be based on an extended abstract or a full paper. In case of an extended abstract submission, diagrams, results, and bibliography have to be provided to allow the reviewers to assess the contribution of your work. In addition to the paper submission, an abstract (approx. 150 words) shall be submitted. The submission has to be performed electronically by April 16, 2009 via the EDAS system; look at the instruction on the conference web site: http://www.iswcs.org/ISWCS2009/instructions.html. For information, please send email to the organization: iswcs09@dii.unisi.it.

Tutorials:

Proposals for tutorials should consist of a 1000 word summary plus a 150 word abstract with a cover page listing the details of the author(s); tutorial submissions should be made via email to iswcs09@dii.unisi.it by April 16, 2009. The social event will be organized in the surroundings (country-side) of Siena so that participants will taste the real Tuscany! For information, please send email to: iswcs09@dii.unisi.it.

Organizing Committee:

General Chair Giovanni Giambene, University of Siena, Italy

General co-Chair Yuming Jiang, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway

Finance Chair Boon Sain Yeo, SensiMesh Pte Ltd, Singapore

Technical Program Chair Rajeev Shorey, GM Research, Bangalore, India Technical Program co-Chairs Falko Dressler, University of Erlangen, Germany Archan Misra, Telcordia Research, USA

Panel Chair Maria Luisa Merani University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy

Tutorial Chair Andreas Kassler Karlstad University, Sweden

Publication Chair Paolo Chini, University of Siena, Italy

Web Chair Ciro Guariglia, University of Siena, Italy

Steering Committee Boon Sain Yeo (Chair), SensiMesh Pte Ltd, Singapore

Local Organizing Committee Giuliano Benelli, Giovanni Giambene, Paolo Chini, Samuele Giannetti, Snezana Hadzic, University of Siena, Italy

Conference Secretariat: Giuliana Pasquini, University of Siena, Italy, Tel: +39 0577232136, Email: pasquini@unisi.it

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