-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] PWC 2004 Announcement and CFP Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 14:39:14 +0100 From: Alex Slingerland a.slingerland@ewi.tudelft.nl Organization: Technical University of Delft To: Alex Slingerland a.slingerland@ewi.tudelft.nl

Conference Announcement and Call for Papers

PWC 2004 The Ninth International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications September 21-23, 2004 Technical University of Delft, Delft, The Netherlands http://www.pwc2004.irctr.tudelft.nl/

Sponsored by the IFIP WG 6.8 - Mobile and Wireless Communications

PWC provides an international forum for discussions between researchers, practitioners and students interested in new developments in mobile computing and wireless networks. PWC 2004 is the ninth conference of this series and is sponsored by IFIP WG 6.8, and will be held in Delft, the Netherlands. The conference will consist of three days of scientific presentations, and a poster session presenting on-going projects.

To strengthen the social aspect of the PWC 2004 conference, the Local Organizing Committee has organized an event which includes a visit to De Porceleyne Fles, the best known producer of the famous Delftware pottery. This visit will be followed by a guided boat tour through the town's picturesque canals and dinner at De Prinsenkelder, an excellent restaurant in the historical town center.

The social program offers you the possibility to acquaint yourself with a number of aspects of historical Delft. It will take place on Wednesday September 22 from 4 p.m. Participation is optional and will cost EUR 55.

Call for papers ---------------

The PWC 2004 technical committee solicits papers describing original, previously unpublished, completed or on-going research. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Mobile and Wireless Networking - IP-based Mobile Networks - Mobility Management - Evolution of 3G Systems - Future Generation Systems - Integration of Heterogeneous Mobile and Wireless Networks - QoS in Mobile and Wireless Networks - Ad Hoc Networks and Networks of Ad Hoc Networks - Self-organization of Wireless Networks - Personal Area Networks, Body Area Networks, and Personal Networks - Wireless Sensor Networks - Wireless LAN - Ultra-Wide Band and Short-range Networks - Energy-efficient Protocols and Power Management - Security and Privacy in Mobile and Wireless Networks - AAA (Authentication, Authorization and Accounting) in Mobile and Wireless Networks - Transport layer issues in Mobile and Wireless Networks - Analysis, Simulation and Measurement of Mobile and Wireless Networks - Cross-layer design in Mobile and Wireless Networks - Mobile and Wireless Applications

Paper Submission and Publication --------------------------------

PWC 2004 solicits

- regular papers (max. 10 pages) describing completed research, - short papers (max. 5 pages) describing early results and novel ideas, and - posters describing on-going research projects.

Authors must state that their regular or short paper has not been published elsewhere nor is under review by another conference or journal. Submission instructions for papers and posters will appear on the conference web site: http://www.pwc2004.irctr.tudelft.nl/

All papers will be reviewed by the technical program committee members. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings and will be published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series ( http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/ ) . Authors are required to attend the conference and present their paper.

Regular papers will be considered for the Best Paper Award (EUR 750 prize). Papers with a student as primary author will be eligible for the Best Student Paper Award (EUR 500 cash prize). To be eligible for an award, the paper must be presented by the primary author. For further details on this, please see the paper submission instructions when they appear on the web site.

Registration ------------

Registration is required to participate in the conference. Early registration for PWC 2004 closes July 21st 2004. For regular participants early registration is EUR 400, and late registration is EUR 500. Student prices are as follows: early registration is EUR 250, after which registration is EUR 300. Registration at the conference itself is also possible, and costs EUR 550. Further details on the registration procedure will appear on the PWC 2004 website, when registration opens.

Important Dates ---------------

Full papers due: 1 Apr 2004 Notification of acceptance: 1 Jun 2004 Final paper due: 1 Jul 2004 Early registration deadline: 21 Jul 2004 Conference: 21 Sep 2004 - 23 Sep 2004

Committees ----------

General Chair:

Ignas Niemegeers, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands

Vice Chair:

Sonia Heemstra de Groot, Twente Institute for Wireless and Mobile Communications and University of Twente, The Netherlands

Organizing Committee:

Nico Baken, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands Wendy Murtinu, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands Ignas Niemegeers, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands Homayoun Nikookar, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands Ad De Ridder, IRCTR, The Netherlands Nan Shi, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands Alex Slingerland, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands Mia van der Voort, IRCTR, The Netherlands

Steering Committee:

Sonia Heemstra de Groot, Twente Institute for Wireless and Mobile Communications and University of Twente, The Netherlands Petri Mahonen, University of Aachen (RWTH), Germany Ignas Niemegeers, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands

Technical Program Committee:

Arup Acharya, IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA Chris Blondia, University of Antwerp, Belgium Andrew T. Campbell, Columbia University, USA Augusto Casaca, INESC, Portugal Piet DeMeester, Ghent University, Belgium Laura Marie Feeney, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden Luigi Fratta, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Rajit Gadh, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Switserland Carmelita Gorg, University of Bremen, Germany Sonia Heemstra de Groot, Twente Institute for Wireless and Mobile Communications and University of Twente, The Netherlands Frans Kaashoek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Mohan Kumar, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Anthony Lo, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Petri Mahonen, University of Aachen (RWTH), Germany Hiroyuki Morikawa, University of Tokyo, Japan Luiz Munoz, University of Cantabria, Spain Ignas Niemegeers, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Homayoun Nikookar, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Niovi Pavlidou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Ramjee Prasad, Aalborg University, Denmark Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Rahim Tafazolli, University of Surrey, UK Samir Tohme, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications (ENST), France Christian Tschudin, University of Basel, Switzerland Magda El Zarki, University of California at Irvine, USA

Further Information -------------------

For further information, please see http://www.pwc2004.irctr.tudelft.nl/ or contact Mia van der Voort, w.l.vdvoort@irctr.tudelft.nl .