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3rd IEEE WORKSHOP ON BROADBAND WIRELESS ACCESS
http://ieee-bwaws.nginet.de/ICC2008

co-located with

The 2008 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2008)
held in Beijing, China, from 19-23 May, the year of the Beijing Olympic Games
http://www.ieee-icc.org/2008
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AIMS AND TOPICS
Internet access is undergoing a fundamental change. A steadily increasing spectrum of services is attracting a rapidly growing number of users which, in turn, wish to access these services 'anytime and anywhere'. In order to meet this demand, Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) technologies are becoming extremely important and vendors and standardisation bodies respond to this development with new and powerful BWA technologies. Supporting transmission rates up to several megabits per second at distances far as tens of kilometres while providing full mobility support, these technologies provide the long-awaited means for delivering any telecommunication service over the Internet.

Although BWA technologies are rapidly maturing, they are far from being complete and optimised for such a versatile environment like the Internet. Consequently, BWA is currently receiving much attention by the research community. By organising this 3rd IEEE BWA Workshop, it is our intention to bring together and provide an international forum for this research community. In this line, the workshop programme covers various aspects of these technologies including but not limited to: 

●	Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks 
●	Cellular broadband technologies, UMTS, HSPA, LTE, etc.
●	Incumbent and Future BWA Technologies, 802.16x, 802.20, etc 
●	QoS in Mobile and BWA Networks 
●	Intercell Interference Coordination, Power Control and Load Balancing
●	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 
●	Cross-layer Optimisation Approaches 
●	Experimental Evaluation of Cross-layer Interactions 
●	Network Management, Self-optimizing Networks
●	(W)NGN Architectures and Trends
●	Multihop, relaying and repeater architectures
●	Design and Evaluation of Testbeds 
●	Multi-access Systems, Always Best Connected Networks, etc. 
●	Radio Resource Management and Optimisation of MIMO systems
●	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 ICC 2008 website. 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 ICC 2008 at the EDAS paper submission website EDAS and then selecting the workshop submission link. 

A separate cover sheet should show the title of the paper, the author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s), and the address (including e-mail, telephone, and fax) to which the correspondence should be sent. 

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
Submission deadline:		Dec 20 2007
Acceptance notification:	Jan 31 2008
Camera ready:			Feb 28 2008

GENERAL CHAIRS
Thomas Michael Bohnert, University of Coimbra, PT 
Dmitri Moltchanov, Tampere University of Technology, FI 

GENERAL CO-CHAIRS
Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, PT
Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Tampere University of Technology, FI

TPC CHAIRS
Dirk Staehle, University of Wuerzburg, DE
Gabor Fodor, Ericsson Research, SE

PUBLICITY CHAIRS
Khalid Al-Begain, University of Glamorgan, UK
Eckhart Koerner, University of Applied Sciences Mannheim, DE

TECHNICAL PROGRAMME COMITTEE
Mari Carmen Aguayo-Torres, University of Malaga, ES
Manuel Alvarez-Campana, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, ES
Robert Askwith, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Leonardo Badia, IMT Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies, IT
Francisco Barcelo-Arroyo, Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya, ES
Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Roma Tor Vergata, IT
Torsten Braun, University of Bern, CH
Matteo Cesana, Politecnico di Milano, IT
Tijani Chahed, Institut National des Telecommunications, FR
Nicola Ciulli, CPR (Consorzio Pisa Ricerche), IT
Marilia Curado, University of Coimbra, PT
Mazlina Esa, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, MY
Alexandre Fonte, Polytechnical Institute of Castelo Branco, PT
Giovanni Giambene, University of Siena, IT
Geert Heijenk, University of Twente, NL
Yahui Hu, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, PRC
Andreas J. Kassler, Karlstad University, SE
Jyrki Huusko, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, FI
Eckhart Koener, University of Applied Sciences Mannheim, DE
Remco Litjens, TNO Information and Communication Technology, NL
Saverio Mascolo, Politecnico di Bari, IT
Maja Matijasevic, University of Zagreb, RO	
Michael Meyer, Ericsson Research, DE
Dmitri Moltchanov Tampere University of Technology, FI
Sean Murphy, University College Dublin, IE
Maciej Nawrocki, Wroclaw University of Technology, PL
Marc Necker, University of Stuttgart, DE
Pedro Neves, Portugal Telecom Inovacao, PT
Ioannis Papapanagiotou, North Carolina State University, US
Georgios Paschos, University of Patras, GR
Markku Renfors, Tampere University of Technology, FI
Matthias Siebert, T-Systems, DE
Jorge Silva, University of Coimbra, PT
Paulo Simoes, University of Coimbra, PT
Vasilios Siris, University of Crete, GR
Alexey Vinel, St.-Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation, RUS
Jorma Virtamo, Helsinki University of Technology, FI
Cedric Westphal, Nokia, US
Kambiz Zangi, Ericsson Inc., US
Lin Zhang, Tsinghua University, PRC
Jorma Kilpi, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, FI
Xavier Perez-Costa, NEC Network Laboratories, NEC Europe Ltd., DE
Fernando Velez, University of Beira Interior, PT
Vasos Vassiliou, University of Cyprus, CY