Call for papers

4th IEEE WORKSHOP ON BROADBAND WIRELESS ACCESS (BWA)


4th Dec. 2008, New-Orleans, US, http://ieee-bwaws.nginet.de/GLOBECOM2008/

colocated with

IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM 2008)

Nov.-Dec. 2008, New-Orleans, US, http://www.comsoc.org/confs/globecom/2008/




AIMS AND TOPICS

Internet access is undergoing a fundamental change. More powerful devices and lower cost radio technologies are facilitating the transition to the Mobile Internet in which users can access a diverse range of services and applications anytime, anywhere. However, the huge increase in demand that this brings cannot easily be met by current radio access systems. Hence, there is a need for more powerful, more efficient, higher speed, lower cost radio technologies for Broadband Wireless Access.

There is much energy within the community to develop more advanced BWA technologies - activities span the wireless domain, ranging from more advanced antenna technologies to co-operative relays to mesh networking systems and many more: future networks will likely employ some mix of these different mechanisms. We anticipate that this 4th workshop will continue the series of successful workshops, providing a forum for new research results and reports on practical experience working with innovative technologies in the domain of Broadband Wireless Access. The workshop, then, is soliciting contributions including but not limited to topics listed below.

• Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks
• Incumbent and Future BWA Technologies, 802.16x, 802.20, UMTS, etc
• QoS in Mobile and BWA Networks
• Radio Resource Management, Admission Control and Scheduling
• Capacity Planning and Traffic Engineering
• Physical and Data link Layer Issues
• Characterization, Modeling of BWA Traffic, Mobility and Channels
• Large-scale and Heterogeneous BWA Evaluations
• Spectrum Management
• Interoperability Aspects (fixed/mobile LANs/MANs, WANs)
• Vertical and Horizontal Integration
• Micro and Macromobility Management
• 3G/4G Wireless Technologies
• Applications Support
• Cross-layer Optimisation Approaches
• Experimental Evaluation of Cross-layer Interactions
• Multimedia Support
• Network Management
• (W)NGN Architectures and Trends
• Design and Evaluation of Testbeds
• Experiences/lessons from recent deployments



PAPER SUBMISSION

Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently under review in any other conference or journal, and has not been previously published. Paper length should not exceed five-page technical paper manuscript. Please see the Author Information page for submission guidelines in the IEEE GLOBECOM 2008 website www.comsoc.org/confs/globecom/2008/index.html. The paper should be used as the basis for a 20-30 minute workshop presentation. Papers should be submitted in a .pdf or .ps format by selecting Globecom 2008 at the EDAS paper submission website EDAS and then selecting the workshop submission link.

All submitted papers will be reviewed by up to three experts and if accepted, published in the conference proceedings, which will be available at IEEEeXplore and registered in Engineering Index (EI).

At least one author of accepted papers is required to register at the full registration rate.

IMPORTANT DATES

• Paper Submission: July 01 2008
• Author Notification: September 08 2008
• Camera-ready Manuscript: TBD - No later than October 01 2008



GENERAL CHAIRS

• Thomas Michael Bohnert, SIEMENS CT, tmb [at] nginet.de
• Dmitri Moltchanov, Tampere University of Technology, moltchan [at] cs.tut.fi

CO-CHAIRS

• Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, edmundo [at] dei.uc.pt
• Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Tampere University of Technology, yk [at] cs.tut.fi

TPC CHAIRS

• Dirk Staehle, University of Wuerzburg, staehle [at] informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de
• Gabor Fodor, Ericsson Research, gabor.fodor [at] ericsson.com

PUBLICITY CHAIRS

• Andreas Kassler, Karlstads Universitet, andreas.kassler [at] kau.se
• Sean Murphy, University College Dublin, sean.murphy [at] iname.com
• Christian Schwingenschloegl, Siemens CT, Christian.Schwingenschloegl [at] ei.tum.de

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

• Mari Carmen Aguayo-Torres, University of Malaga, ES
• Mazin Al-Shalash, Huawei, USA
• Manuel Alvarez-Campana, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, ES
• Leonardo Badia, IMT Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies, IT
• Francisco Barcelo-Arroyo, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, ES
• Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Roma Tor Vergata, IT
• Mathias Bohge, TU Berlin, DE
• Torsten Braun, University of Bern, CH
• Georg Carle, TU Munich, DE
• Eduardo Cerqueira, University of Coimbra, PT
• Matteo Cesana, Politecnico di Milano, IT
• Tijani Chahed, Institut National des Telecommunications, FR
• Lei Chen, Linkoping University, SE
• Nicola Ciulli, Consorzio Pisa Ricerche, IT
• Michael Devetsikiotis, North Carolina State University, US
• Hans Einsiedler, Deutschen Telekom Labs, DE
• Alexandre Fonte, Polytechnical Institute of Castelo Branco, PT
• Giovanni Giambene, University of Siena, IT
• Ilkka Harjula, VTT Research Centre, FI
• Geert Heijenk, University of Twente, NL
• Christian Hoymann, Ericsson, DE
• Yahui Hu, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, PRC
• Ju Wook Jang, Sogan University, KR
• Markku Junti, University of Oulu, FI
• Juha Karjalainen, University of Oulu, FI
• Eckhart Koerner, University of Applied Sciences Mannheim, DE
• Ming Lei, Intel PRC Research Center, PRC
• Hui-Tang Lin, National Cheng Kung University, TW
• Remco Litjens, TNO Information and Communication Technology, NL
• Ian Marsland, Carleton University, CA
• Saverio Mascolo, Politecnico di Bari, IT
• Andreas Heinrich, Siemens CT, DE
• Maja Matijasevic, University of Zagreb, HR
• Tadashi Matsumoto, University of Oulu, FI
• Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pisa, IT
• Karl Molnar, Ericsson, USA
• Maciej Nawrocki, Wroclaw University of Technology, PL
• Marc Necker, University of Stuttgart, DE
• Pedro Neves, PT Telecom Inovacio, PT
• Afif Osseiran, Ericsson Research, SE
• Claudio Palazzi, University of Padova, IT
• Agisilaos Papadogiannis, Orange, FR
• Ioannis Papapanagiotou, North Carolina State University, USA
• Georgios Paschos, VTT National Research Centre, FI
• Giovanni Pau, UCLA, USA
• Xavier Perez-Costa, NEC Network Laboratories, DE
• Markku Renfors, Tampere University of Technology, FI
• Alexande Sayenko, Nokia Research Center, FI
• Roel Schiphorst, University of Twente, Netherlands
• Rainer Schoenen, RWTH Aachen, DE
• Matthias Siebert, T-Systems, DE
• Jorge Silva, University of Coimbra, PT
• Paulo Simoes, University of Coimbra, PT
• Vasilios Siris, FORTH / University of Crete, GR
• Hsuan-Jung Su, National Taiwan University, TW
• Fernando Velez, University of Beira Interior, PT
• Alexey Vinel, Saint-Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation, RU
• Cedric Westphal, Docomo Labs USA, USA
• Marcus Windisch, TU Dresden, DE
• Qiang Wu, Qualcomm, USA
• Hong-Chuan Yang, University of Victoria, CA
• Di Yuan, Linkoping University, SE
• Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, NO
• Ji Zhu, Qualcomm, USA
• Andreas Ziller, Siemens CT, DE
• Tarik Taleb, Tohoku University, JP
• Lisandro Granville, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, BR
• Marcos Katz, VTT Technical Research Centre, FI
• Khalid Al-Begain, University of Glamorgan, UK