[ieeetcsc-discuss] Call for papers: Workshop on "Broadband Wireless Internet Access 2008", Avignon, France

[iwoungan at scs.ryerson.ca]

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BWIA 2008: 2nd International Workshop on Broadband Wireless Internet
Access, to be held in conjunction with the 4th IEEE International
Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications
(WiMob 2008)

Technically sponsored by
University of Avignon, IEEE France Section, and IEEE Computer Society

Oct. 12, 2008, Avignon, France
http://www.scs.ryerson.ca/iwoungan/BWIA2008/

CALL FOR PAPERS:
Nowadays, there is a clear steep growth in research interests in wireless
and mobile communication systems as an inexpensive and promising means for
ubiquitous communications. Mobile broadband wireless is an important
sub-area of this research, which focuses on enabling physical layer
technologies to support third generation as well as future broadband
mobile systems. Even though this sub-area holds great promises for our
future, there are several challenges that need to be addressed. This
workshop focuses on all topics related to Broadband Wireless Internet
Access (BWIA), including Mobile BWIA, with emphasis on protocols,
architectures, algorithms, resource management, technologies,
applications, practical experiences, simulation results and analysis,
theory and validation. Expected topics include, but are  not limited to:
•	New architectures, technologies, protocols for broadband wireless access
•	Medium access control and QoS
•	Security and privacy issues
•	Service level agreements
•	Radio extension such as 802.xx (WiFi, WiMax, etc)
•	Modulation, coding and antennas (MIMO)
•	UMTS and extensions
•	Scalability and reliability issues
•	Wireless mesh networks
•	Optical wireless access networks
•	QoS in mobile and broadband wireless access networks
•	Radio Resource Management and call admission control
•	Capacity Planning and Traffic Engineering
•	Physical and Data link layer Issues
•	Space-time coding for broadband wireless Internet
•	Spectrum management
•	Interoperability aspects (fixed/mobile LANs/MANs, WANs)
•	Micro and macro mobility Management
•	3G/4G Wireless Technologies
•	Cross-layer interactions and optimization
•	Network and resource management
•	Experiences/lessons from recent deployments

PAPER SUBMISSION:
For instructions on how to submit a paper to BWIA 2008, please visit:
http://www.lia.univ-avignon.fr/index.php?id=458

Please also email the electronic papers to the Workshop Organizing Chair
at iwoungan at scs.ryerson.ca, using the subject title: "BWIA'2008 Paper
Submission".

All accepted papers will be included in the WiMob 2008 main conference
proceedings and published by IEEE. Authors of selected outstanding papers
will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for
consideration of publication in the International Journal of Communication
Networks and Distributed Systems (IJCNDS).

IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper submission:  May 19, 2008
Acceptance notification:  June 30, 2008
Camera-ready submission:  July 28, 2008
Workshop date: October 12, 2008