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----------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS

Broadband Wireless Networking Symposium 2004 Part of Broadband Networks (BroadNets) 2004 October 25 - 29, 2004 San Jose, California, USA

Submission Deadline: March 15, 2004 -----------------------------------------------------------------------

SCOPE -----

The tremendously successful annual OptiComm conference is being expanded and evolved into a new conference called Broadband Networks (BroadNets). Broadband Networks cover the entire gamut of next generation networking with ultra-high bandwidths available all the way from access networks (xDSL, Cable, EPON, Broadband Wireless, multi-Gigabit uplinks), regional and metropolitan networks to wide-area core networks.

The conference will consist of the following major symposia or tracks:

** Broadband Wireless Networking that is defined to cover high-speed wireless networking for access, regional and backhaul networks including backhaul capacity provisioning using wireless, including the WLAN networks and WMAN.

** Broadband Optical Networking, that is drawn from the traditional and well-established OptiComm conference, covering Optical Networking technologies including WDM networks.

AND

Optical Applications and Data, that covers topics including Gigabit Ethernet, Storage Area Networks, and Community Networks.

BroadNets 2004 will thus offer a unique forum for researchers from academia, government and industry to share ideas and disseminate new results in these important areas.

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This Call for Papers describes the details for the Broadband Wireless Networking Syposium ONLY. We are soliciting full papers in all research areas on broadband wireless networking. Topics of interest, but not limited to, the following:

- 3G/4G Systems - Fixed Broadband Wireless Access - Wireless Local Area Networks - WLAN Hotspots - Wireless indoor & home networks - Wireless Personal Area Networks including IEEE 802.15 - IEEE 802.16 (WiMax) Standards Activities and Products - Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks - Wireless Wide Area Networks - Free-Space Optics - Ultra Wideband (UWB) Networks - Ad-hoc networks - Cellular mobile/WLAN interoperability - System architecture

- Network Topology management - Neighbour discovery - Unicast and multicast routing - Quality-of-Service support - Security techniques and systems - Resource management

- Software-defined radio - Space-time processing, MIMO systems - Digital signal processing - Smart (directional) antennas - Power control

- Wireless emergency systems - Standards, Licensing and regulation - Interference mitigation for multiple access - Economics and business cases

IMPORTANT DATES ---------------

Full papers due: March 15, 2004 Notification of acceptance: June 7, 2004 Final manuscript due: July 7, 2004 Conference Dates: October 25 - 29, 2004

PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS -----------------------------

Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 20 double-spaced pages, including references, figures and tables. All submissions should be submitted electronically in Postscript or Adobe PDF format. Electronic submission instructions will be made available very shortly. Papers of particular merit will be considered for a special issue of ACM/Kluwer Mobile Networks (MONET) Journal.

PROPOSALS FOR TUTORIALS AND PANELS ----------------------------------

Proposals for tutorials and panels on broadband wireless networking and related topics are solicited.

Tutorial proposals should consist of: 1) title and outline of materials to be presented, 2) description of potential audience, 3) justification of why the proposed topic is interesting and timely and, 4) biographical sketch of the presenter(s). Please submit your proposals to the appropriate Chairs by May 1, 2004.

Panel topics should address innovative, controversial, or otherwise provocative issues of interest related to broadband wireless networking and communications. Please submit your proposals to the appropriate Chairs by May 1, 2004.

CONFERENCE INFORMATION ----------------------

For the general information about the organization of the BroadNet 2004 conference, please visit http://www.opticomm.org or contact one of the conference chairs listed below (more details will be added to the website shortly).

For information regarding the Optical Networking/Data-Applications Symposia that is part of BroadNets 2004, please visit http://www.opticomm.org/OptiComm2004/

CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------------------

BroadNets Conference General Chair: Dr. Raj Jain, Nayna Networks/Ohio State University, raj@nayna.com

Broadband Wireless Networking Symposium Co-Chairs:

Dr. Zhensheng Zhang, San Diego Research Center, zzhang@ieee.org Dr. Thomas Hou, Virginia Tech, thou@vt.edu

Publicity Co-Chairs:

Dr. Tim Ozugur, Alcatel USA, tim.ozugur@alcatel.com Dr. Gaoxi Xiao, Nanyang Technological Univ. Singapore, egxxiao@ntu.edu.sg

Local Arrangements Chair: Subhankar Dhar, San Jose State University, dhar_s@cob.sjsu.edu

Panels Chair:

TBA

Tutorials Chairs:

Dr. Surendar Chandra, Univ of Notre Dame, surendar@cse.nd.edu

Workshops Chair: Dr. Nasir Ghani, Tennessee Tech University, nghani@ieee.org

Exhibits and Sponsorships Chairs: Dr. Samrat Ganguly, NEC Labs, samrat@nec-labs.com Javier Aracil, Universidad Publica de Navarra, Spain, javier.aracil@unavarra.es

Steering Committee Co-Chairs:

Dr. Imrich Chlamtac, UT Dallas, chlamtac@utdallas.edu Dr. Krishna Sivalingam, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, krishna@umbc.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc@cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc