IEEE GLOBECOM 2003

1-5 December
San Francisco, California
www.globecom2003.com

CALL FOR PAPERS AND TUTORIALS

GENERAL INFORMATION
GLOBECOM 2003 will be composed of six major Symposia, the traditional
GLOBECOM General Conference addressing a set of current com- munication
topics, and Tutorials and Workshops. You are invited to submit original
technical papers for presentation at GLOBECOM 2003 and publication in the
Conference Record. You are invited to submit proposals to conduct Tutorials
and Workshops.  Visit the website for further details.

GLOBECOM 2003 SYMPOSIA TITLES

Wireless Communications
Chair: Djamal Zeghlache (INT, France)
E-mail: djamal.zeghlache@int-evry.fr
Vice-chair: Josef Hausner (Infineon,
Germany)
E-mail: Josef.hausner@infineon.com
Tracks: Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks,
Wireless Multimedia, Satellite, Radio
Technology, 
Wireless LAN's and Broadband Wireless.

Optical Networking and Systems
Chair: Ibrahim Habib (CUNY, USA)
E-mail: habib@ccny.cuny.edu
Vice-chair: Anthony Boucouvalas  
(Bournemouth Univ., UK)
E-mail: tboucouv@bournemouth.ac.uk
Next Generation Networks and Internet
Chair: G.S. Kuo (Nat'l Chengchi University, Taiwan)
E-mail: gskuo@ieee.org
Vice-chair: Sherman Shen (Univ. of Waterloo,
Canada)
E-mail: xshen@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca

Communication Theory
Chair: Alex M. Haimovich (NJIT, USA)
E-mail: haimovic@njit.edu
Co-chair: Helmut Bölcskei (ETH, Swiss)
E-mail: boelcskei@nari.ee.ethz.ch
Signal Processing for
Communications
Chair: Tomohiko Taniguchi (Fujitsu, Japan)
E-mail: tani@flab.fujitsu.co.jp
Vice-chair: Ron Smith (TRW, USA)
E-mail: Ron.P.Smith@trw.com

Communications Security
Chair: Victor K. Wei, CUHK, Hong Kong
E-mail: kwwei@ie.cuhk.edu.hk
Vice-chair: Yile Guo (Nokia, USA)
E-mail: Yile.Guo@nokia.com


GLOBECOM 2003 GENERAL CONFERENCE TOPICS

Chair: Mohsen Guizani (UWF, USA)
E-mail: mguizani@cs.uwf.edu 
Vice-chair : Gang Wu (NTT DoCoMo, USA)
E-mail: wu@docomolabs-usa.com 

· Cable-Based Delivery & Access Systems
· Communication Switching and Routing
· Communications Quality & Reliability
· Communications Security and Authentication
· Communications Software
· Communications Systems Integration & Modeling
· Computer Communications
· Distributed Computing
· Enterprise Networking
· Gigabit Networking
· Information Infrastructure
· Interconnections in High-Speed Digital Systems
· Multimedia Communications
· Network Operations & Management
· Quality of Service
· Modeling and Simulation
· Satellite & Space Communications
· Signal Processing & Communications Electronics
· Signal Processing for Storage
· Speech Recognition
· Storage Networks
· Tactical Communication
· Voice Over IP
· Voice XML



IMPORTANT DATES

Complete Paper Manuscripts Due: 1 March 2003, 3am EST
Paper manuscripts should be submitted electronically, after 30 November
2002, by using the Online Submissions form on the GLOBECOM 2003 website.

Proposals to Conduct Tutorials and Workshops Due: 1 March 2003, 3am EST
Proposals should be sent electronically, after 30 November 2002, to the
Technical Program Chairs.


TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS

Proposals are invited for half- or full-day Tutorials and Workshops in hot
or emerging communication topics relevant to GLOBECOM2003. Proposals should
be sent electronically to the Technical Program Chairs.


GENERAL CHAIR
Terry Kero 
(Myaani Inc.)
E-mail: tkero@myaani.com
TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIR
Prof. Willie W. Lu  
(CUHK / Siemens)
E-mail: wwlu@ieee.org
TECHNICAL PROGRAM VICE-CHAIR
Dr. Norival Figueira 
(Nortel Networks)
E-mail: norival@nortelnetworks.com
CONFERENCE MANAGEMENT
Terrie Heikkila, CMP 
(Don Anderson Inc.)
E-mail: terrie@donanderson.com