BWIA 2008

DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED!

BWIA 2008:
2nd International Workshop on Broadband Wireless Internet
Access, to be held in conjunction with WiMob 2008

http://www.scs.ryerson.ca/iwoungan/BWIA2008/

Technically sponsored by Université d'Avignon,
IEEE France Section, and IEEE Computer Society

Oct. 12, 2008, Avignon, France


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@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: June 30, 2008
Acceptance notification: July 20, 2008
Camera-ready submission: August 30, 2008
Workshop date: October 12, 2008

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