-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [MMTC CFP] WPMC 2014 Datum: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 17:15:42 +0800 Von: Liang ZHOU liang.zhou@IEEE.ORG An: multicomm@comsoc.org multicomm@comsoc.org Kopie (CC): Luigi Atzori l.atzori@diee.unica.it, Ren Ping Liu Ren.Liu@csiro.au, eryk@IEEE.ORG, Jianwei Huang jwhuang@IE.CUHK.EDU.HK

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Call for Papers 17th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications

7-10 September 2014, Sydney, Australia http://www.wpmc2014.org/ Technically sponsored by IEEE ComSoc

--------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission page: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=16293 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Technical paper submission deadline: 7 April 2014 Workshop paper submission: 28 April 2014 Tutorial proposal submission deadline: 28 April 2014 Notification of Acceptance*: 23 June 2014 Camera Ready Submission: 21 July 2014 --------------------------------------------------------------------- * All accepted and presented papers in technical sessions, special sessions, workshops will be published in the conference proceedings and in IEEE Xplore.

The 17th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC'2014) will be held in Sydney, Australia under the technical sponsorship of the IEEE Communications Society. The WPMC symposia series were inaugurated in 1998, as a global platform which aims at enabling collaboration in the field of wireless multimedia communications. The theme of this year’s conference is “Orchestrating Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications”. In addition to high-quality technical sessions, the symposium will feature workshops and tutorials. It will also offer an exciting social program.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Technical Papers: * Wireless Communications and PHY* - Information and coding theory - Radio propagation and channel modeling - Advanced modulation schemes - Signal processing - Space-time coding and MIMO - Cooperative communications - Interference characterization - Cognitive radio - Green communications - Smart antennas

* Internet of Things and M2M Communications* - IoT and M2M communications devices - PHY design for IoT and M2M - Ad hoc networks and sensor networks - QoS and routing - Next generation home networks - IoT and M2M multimedia services - IoT and M2M enabling scenarios - Smart grid communications

* Wireless Networks* - Self-organizing networks - Cross-layer design - Wireless multicast and streaming - Multimedia QoS and traffic management - Mobility, location and handoff management - Localization for wireless networks - Cognitive radio networks - Spectrum sharing and coexistence - Wireless network security - Vehicular networks - Green wireless networks - International standards

* Communications Services and Multimedia Applications* - Mobile multimedia services - Emerging wireless and mobile applications - QoS and QoE for multimedia applications - Mobile social networks - Application security and privacy - Service oriented architectures - Cloud computing - User interfaces, user-machine interactions - Wireless health applications - Experimental trials and deployment

Workshops / Special Sessions Chairs: Mehran Abolhasan, Vijay Sivaraman * Nano communications (networking) - Terahertz channel modelling - Nano transceiver design and implementation - Transmission protocols and modelling

* Software Defined Networking - Network architecture and protocols - Security and QoS - Deployment models and scenarios

Tutorial Proposals are invited in the following broad areas: Chair: Guoqiang Mao - Wireless Communications and PHY - Wireless Networks - Internet of Things and M2M Communications - Communications Services and Multimedia Applications

*General Co-Chairs:* Ian Oppermann, CSIRO, Australia Eryk Dutkiewicz, Macquarie University, Australia Y. Jay Guo, CSIRO, Australia

*Honorary Chair:* Ryuji Kohno, Yokohama National University, Japan

*TPC Co-Chairs:* Ren Ping Liu, CSIRO, Australia Sanjay Jha, University of NSW, Australia Xiaojing Huang, CSIRO, Australia Hajime Suzuki, CSIRO, Australia