See: http://www.univ-lille1.fr/workshop-cost273/

COST 273

Towards Mobile Broadband
Multimedia Networks

                 ANNOUNCEMENT  AND  CALL  FOR  PAPERS

                             Workshop on

                   BROADBAND WIRELESS LOCAL ACCESS

                        May 21-22, 2003, PARIS

                                FRANCE


General presentation:

The  workshop  is  aimed  at   presenting  and  discussing  the latest
scientific and technical advances intended for providing wireless high
data  rate  local  access, broadly understood to include, for example,
Wireless  Local  Area  Networks  (WLANs)  and  Wireless  Personal Area
Networks  (WPANs).  The integration/co-existence of these systems with
3G  cellular  networks  will also be discussed. This includes research
results  on  physical  layer, MAC, link and RRC layer issues, together
with  higher  protocols.  The  main  objective  of  the workshop is to
highlight  the  state of the art of the present technologies and their
limitations, the challenges to surmount for a massive success of these
technologies,  and  the  envisioned routes towards higher performance,
greater  social  benefit,  or  a  better  integration  in the world of
"ambient  intelligence".  The  relative positions of Europe, and other
countries outside Europe, regarding standards in these areas will also
be addressed.

 The  workshop  is  in particular focused on, although not limited to,
the subjects below:

Noise/interference mitigation
Advanced adaptive modulation and coding techniques
Multiple antenna and MIMO systems
Interoperability, reconfigurability and software radio issues
Advanced Radio Resource Management techniques in wireless networks
Spectrum pooling
Packet Scheduling and QoS in Wireless Systems
Power Management for low-energy terminals
Ad-hoc networking, heterogeneous and self-organizing networks
Broadband access in "hot spots"
Convergence with other systems (e.g. UMTS)

Researchers  of  both  academic  laboratories  and  industry  research
centres  will  be  very welcome, for a fruitful synthesis of practical
experience  and  fundamental  theory.  The workshop will also give the
opportunity  of the members of COST 273 to present and disseminate the
results of the work carried out within this Action.

Organisation:

The  workshop  is  organised jointly by ENSTA and University of Lille,
and  it  will  take place in Paris (France) from Wednesday 21 May 2003
morning  to Thursday 22 May noon (one day and a half). It will include
both  invited  and contributed presentations. The management committee
of  COST  273 will select contributions according to the usual quality
criteria. However it should be understood that the workshop is an open
event,  aiming  to  stimulate  a  topical  and  active  debate between
contributors and experts in the field from the academia, manufacturers
and service providers.

Submission and acceptance of contributions:

Contributions   should be sent by e-mail until March 21, 2003, in the
form of a camera-ready pdf file. Detailed instructions can be found in
information for author. An abstract between 100 and 200 words must be
sent separatly in .txt format including name and affiliation.

please  send your manuscript (.pdf) and abstract (.txt) as attachments
to workshop-submission@ensta.fr

The  acceptance  is expected to be notified to authors before April 7,
2003.  The  final program should be available on the workshop web site
by April 18, 2003. A final version of accepted papers may subsequently
be sent, no later than May 4.

 COST 273 Management Committee Meeting:

Fully registered members of the COST 273 action can participate in the
MCM, which will take place in ENSTA, Paris, from Thursday 22 May 14:00
pm  to  Friday  17:00  pm,  and  in   the  tutorials on Tuesday 20 May
afternoon.  COST members can obtain specific information, and register
for the meeting, through the COST 273 web site

Registration, fees and accommodation

information will be available soon

Venue:

information will be available soon