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                    Invitation and First Call for Papers
             epmcc 2001 in Vienna, February 20th - 22nd, 2001 
                                      
   Mobile communications is presently one of the most dynamic sectors of
   the economy. GSM, which has been driven by European engineers,
   scientists and industrialists, has replaced Coca-Cola as the brand
   with the widest distribution on earth.
   Now the introduction of the next generation in mobile communications,
   the 3rd generation, is impending. The ITU has recently approved five
   members of the IMT-2000 family (International Mobile
   Telecommunications 2000). The year 2001 will see first products on the
   markets in Japan and Europe. So it is a good point in time both to
   report and to learn about UMTS, cdma2000, and other standards.
   At the same time, research for wireless communication systems beyond
   the 3rd generation is in full swing. The door is wide open for a 4th
   generation, with various technologies being investigated, even if
   nobody can say for sure how this 4th generation will look like, what
   features it will have and what requirements it will set. Emerging
   technologies for multi-Mbit/s data rates will require higher carrier
   frequency bands than today. Wireless LANs, ad hoc radio networks, and
   short-range radio like Bluetooth present numerous challenges to the
   engineering community, but promise huge user benefit and commercial
   success, e.g. in wireless home networking. Applications and services
   have to be tailored to human needs, exploiting the capabilities of
   mobile radio but without disregarding the difficulties the radio
   channel presents.
   Besides transmission technology, networks will have to evolve to cope
   with the ever-increasing demand for mobility, resulting in
   sophisticated management strategies for heterogeneous networks. The
   mutual support of mobile communications and the Internet is set to
   change life-styles in Europe and elsewhere profoundly.
   Adaptivity, presently successfully applied in equalisation, modulation
   and smart antennas, will extend to higher network layers to guarantee
   quality of service..
   The series of European Personal Mobile Communications conferences was
   started 1995 in Bologna as a joint effort of European engineering
   societies and successfully continued 1997 in Bonn and 1999 in Paris.
   GSM technology and socio-economic factors have put Europe in a good
   position in the world-wide telecommunications race. The imminent
   enlargement of the European Union to encompass many countries that
   have always been a part of Europe will widen the applications of
   mobile communications even more. In these exciting times for
   manufacturers, operators and researchers alike, the


         4th European Mobile Communications Conference, epmcc 2001,
             in Vienna, Austria, in February 20th - 22nd, 2001,
                                      
   is set to establish epmcc as the leading mobile communications
   conference on a European scale.
   epmcc 2001 is pleased to host within its framework the 5th
   ITG-Fachtagung "Mobile Kommunikation", co-organized by
   Informationstechnische Gesellschaft (ITG) im Verband Deutscher
   Ingenieure (VDE).
   


Topics

Original papers are solicited in the following fields of mobile communications:

Radio Propagation and Antennas
1. Physical radio propagation
2. Channel models
3. Propagation in mm-wave bands
4. Smart antennas
5. Handheld antennas

Transmission Technology
6. Multiple access techniques
7. Packet radio
8. Source coding
9. Channel coding & equalisation
10. Modulation and synchronisation
11. Interference cancellation 
12. Multi-user detection
13. OFDM

Terminal equipment technology
14. Terminal Equipment
15. UMTS terminal equipment
16. Software radio
17. Bluetooth

Systems and Trials
18. Migration to 3rd Generation
19. IP based mobile systems 
20. Mobile satellite
21. Sky platforms
22. Wireless ATM
23. Wireless LANs and local loop
24. UMTS and EDGE trials
25. TETRA trials
26. Professional and specific systems

Networks
27. Adaptive mobile systems
28. Ad hoc networks
29. Network engineering and planning
30. Network architectures
31. Dynamic channel allocation
32. Handover algorithms
33. Fixed and mobile networks integration
34. Heterogeneity in future networks
35. Spectrum and frequency management

Applications and services
36. Mobile computing
37. Applications and services
38. Wireless access to the internet
39. Wireless multimedia
40. WAP and beyond
41. Service quality
42. Asymmetric communications

   
                                      
   Submission Dates:
   September 15th , 2000: extended abstract in one of the following formats: Word97, PDF, PS, Latex (3000 words, equivalent to 6 pages including figures, references, etc.)
   November 10th, 2000  : Notification of authors
   January 10 th, 2001  : Camera-ready manuscript due
   
                                      
   Contacts:
   Technical Program Information:
   techinf@epmcc.com Tel.: +43 1 58801-38936, Ernst Bonek, Chairman
   Technical Program Committee, Technische Universität Wien, Vienna,
   Austria (http://www.nt.tuwien.ac.at/mobile)
   Organisational Matters:
   orginf@epmcc.com Tel.: +43 1 5876373-23, Karl Stanka; +43 1
   5876373-24, Richard Valenta ÖVE, Eschenbachgasse 9, 1010 Wien