CFP : The Eigth International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications PWC 2003

CFP : The Eigth International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications PWC 2003
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Deadline extended to 23rd Feb 2003 Added: CALL FOR NEW IDEAS and EARLY RESULTS (Deadline april 27 2003) CALL FOR PROJECTS' PRESENTATIONS (Deadline april 27 2003) ---------------------------------- Conference Announcement and Call for Papers PWC 2003 The Eighth International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications Sponsored by the IFIP WG 6.8 - Mobile and Wireless Communications http://www.iit.cnr.it/pwc2003 September 23-25, 2003 Telecom Italia Future Centre - Venice, Italy http://www.futurecentre.telecomitalia.it/eng/ PWC is the premier international forum for discussions between researchers, practitioners and students interested in the symbiosis of mobile computing and wireless networks. PWC 2003 is the eight conference of this series and is sposored by IFIP WG 6.8 The PWC 2003 technical program committee is soliciting papers describing original, previously unpublished, completed or on-going research, on topics. including, but not limited to, the following: - Mobile Web Access - Mobile and Wireless Applications - Pervasive computing - Mobile and Wireless Networking - IP-based Mobile Networks - Mobility Management - QoS in the Mobile and Wireless Networks - Real-time voice/video over mobile and wireless networks - Multicasting in Wireless Services - Analysis, Simulation and Measurement of wireless and mobile systems - Mobile ad hoc networks - Wireless BAN, PAN and LAN - Wi-Fi - Third and Fourth Generation Systems - 3G/WLAN internetworking - Energy-efficient Protocols and Power Management This year conference includes two special tracks to address hot topic issues: sensor networks and wireless security. PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ================================= Papers should neither have been published elsewhere nor currently under review by another conference or journal. For paper submission, please follow the submission instructions at: http://www.iit.cnr.it/pwc2003 All papers will be reviewed by the program committee members. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES =============== Full papers due: February 23, 2003 Notification: May 10, 2003 Camera Ready due: June 10, 2003 GENERAL Chair: Enrico Gregori, IIT - CNR, Italy GENERAL Vice-Chair: Fabrizio Davide, Telecom Italia, Italy TECHNICAL PROGRAM Chair: Marco Conti, IIT - CNR, Italy SPECIAL TRACKs PROGRAM Co-Chairs: Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Switzerland Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA PUBLICITY Co-Chairs: Raffaele Bruno, IIT CNR, Italy Alexandros Kaloxylos, University of Athens, Greece STEERING COMMITTEE Members: Imrich Chlamtac, University of Trento, Italy (Chair) Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Anthony Ephremides, University of Maryland, USA Guy Omidyar, National University of Singapore, Singapore Adam Wolisz, Technical University of Berlin, Germany TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Members: Arup Acharya, IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA Eitan Altman, INRIA, France, Andrea Baiocchi, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Roberto Battiti, University of Trento, Italy Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer, UC Santa Barbara, USA Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Palermo, Italy, Andrew T. Campbell, Columbia University, USA Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Holger Karl, Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany Mohan Kumar, Univ. Texas at Arlington, USA Laura M. Feeney, SICS, Sweden, Gabor Fodor, Ericsson, Sweden Luigi Fratta, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Per Gunningberg, Uppsala University, Sweden Andrey Lyakhov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia, Martin Mauve, University of Mannheim, Germany Franco Mazzenga, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy Refik Molva, Institut EURECOM, France Hiroyuki Morikawa, University of Tokyo, Japan Michael Paterakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece Niovi Pavlidou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Apostolis Salkintzis, Motorola, Canada Ioannis Stavrakakis, University of Athens, Greece. Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada, Samir Tohme, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications (ENST), France Christian Tschudin, University of Basel, Switzerland Sami Uskela, Nokia Networks, Finland Andras Valko, Ericsson AB, Sweden Bernhard Walke, Aachen University of Technology, Germany --------------------------------- CALL FOR NEW IDEAS and EARLY RESULTS PWC 2003 The Eight International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications Sponsored by the IFIP WG 6.8 - Mobile and Wireless Communications http://www.iit.cnr.it/pwc2003 September 23-25, 2003 Telecom Italia Future Centre - Venice, Italy http://www.futurecentre.telecomitalia.it/eng/ PWC is the premier international forum for discussions between researchers, practitioners and students interested in the symbiosis of mobile computing and wireless networks. PWC 2003 is the eight conference of this series and is sponsored by IFIP WG 6.8 The PWC 2003 technical program committee is soliciting short papers on wireless and mobile communications that bring out interesting and novel ideas at an early stage in their development. The goals are to allow timely presentation and publication of these ideas. Short papers don't need to describe completed work, but the work should be advanced beyond the initial stages. Areas of interest include those that are listed on the conference call for papers, which can be found at http://www.iit.cnr.it/pwc2003 WHY should you submit a short paper? ------------------------------------ This is a great chance for disseminating early results of your research to a wide and competent audience. This will help to create awareness around your ideas, will give you relevant feedbacks and open some discussions in your research direction. WHAT you have to do NOW ----------------------- You must submit a short paper presenting your ideas. A short paper (maximum 2000 words) must clearly describe the subject of your research, the innovative ideas behind it, the results already achieved, and your further work. Proposals submissions will be reviewed for novelty and timeliness, relevance, technical correctness, and accuracy. Submissions should be sent by email to <pwc2003@iit.cnr.it> by April 27, 2003. Please use the following subject: "pwc2003 short-paper proposal". WHAT you have to do if the proposal is accepted ----------------------------------------------- Authors of accepted proposal will prepare a camera-ready version of the short paper to be published in the conference proceedings published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html In addition, youmust attend the conference to present your paper at the conference. 15 minutes will be assigned for each short-paper presentation. IMPORTANT DATES =============== Novel Idea proposal due: April 27, 2003 Notification: May 15, 2003 Camera Ready due: June 10, 2003 ----------------------------------------- CALL FOR PROJECTS' PRESENTATIONS PWC 2003 The Eight International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications Sponsored by the IFIP WG 6.8 - Mobile and Wireless Communications http://www.iit.cnr.it/pwc2003 September 23-25, 2003 Telecom Italia Future Centre - Venice, Italy http://www.futurecentre.telecomitalia.it/eng/ PWC is the premier international forum for discussions between researchers, practitioners and students interested in the symbiosis of mobile computing and wireless networks. PWC 2003 is the eight conference of this series and is sponsored by IFIP WG 6.8 The PWC 2003 technical program committee is soliciting extended abstracts presenting on-going research projects on wireless and mobile communications. Areas of interest include those that are listed on the conference call for papers, which can be found at http://www.iit.cnr.it/pwc2003 We are looking for projects performed either at a single-country level or involving several countries (e.g., European Commission projects) WHY should you submit a project presentation? --------------------------------------------- This is a great chance for disseminating the results of your project to a wide audience. Dissemination is the previous activity to exploitation, and could be considered as the market strategy to create awareness around your project. WHAT you have to do NOW ----------------------- You must submit an extended abstract presenting your project. An extended abstract (maximum 1500 words) must clearly describe the scope of the project, the innovative ideas behind it, partners involved, etc. In addition, if appropriate, please shortly present results already achieved. Extended abstracts will be reviewed for novelty, timeliness, and relevance for this conference. Submissions should be sent by email to pwc2003@iit.cnr.it by April 27, 2003. Please use the following subject: "pwc2003 project presentation". WHAT you have to do if the submission is accepted ------------------------------------------------- Authors of accepted submissions will prepare a camera-ready version of the extended abstract to be published in the conference proceedings published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html In addition, you have to prepare a poster presenting your project and attend the PWC2003 poster session to present your poster. A poster is a 1 meter x 1.25 meter rectangular board on which you can affix visually appealing material that describes your research. How you use this is up to you: you may choose to print out several 8.5"x11" or A4 sheets of paper (e.g., paper copies of overheads) and "tile" the poster board with these pages. Or, you may choose to print a single large sheet of paper describing the work and attach that to the poster board. Several document companies produce professional-looking posters from material produced on software like Powerpoint; you may want to use such a facility. IMPORTANT DATES =============== Project extended abstract due: April 27, 2003 Notification: May 15, 2003 Camera Ready due: June 10, 2003

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Deadline extended to 23rd Feb 2003

Added:
CALL FOR NEW IDEAS and EARLY RESULTS (Deadline april 27 2003)
CALL FOR PROJECTS' PRESENTATIONS (Deadline april 27 2003)


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Conference Announcement and Call for Papers

PWC 2003

The Eighth International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications
Sponsored by the IFIP WG 6.8 - Mobile and Wireless Communications
http://www.iit.cnr.it/pwc2003

September 23-25, 2003
Telecom Italia Future Centre - Venice, Italy
http://www.futurecentre.telecomitalia.it/eng/


PWC is the premier international forum for discussions between researchers,
practitioners and students interested in the symbiosis of mobile computing
and wireless networks. PWC 2003 is the eight conference of this series and
is sposored by IFIP WG 6.8

The PWC 2003 technical program committee is soliciting papers describing
original, previously unpublished, completed or on-going research, on topics.
including, but not limited to, the following:

- Mobile Web Access
- Mobile and Wireless Applications
- Pervasive computing
- Mobile and Wireless Networking
- IP-based Mobile Networks
- Mobility Management
- QoS in the Mobile and Wireless Networks
- Real-time voice/video over mobile and wireless networks
- Multicasting in Wireless Services
- Analysis, Simulation and Measurement of wireless and mobile systems
- Mobile ad hoc networks
- Wireless BAN, PAN and LAN
- Wi-Fi
- Third and Fourth Generation Systems
- 3G/WLAN internetworking
- Energy-efficient Protocols and Power Management

This year conference includes two special tracks to address hot topic
issues: sensor networks and wireless security.
 

PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
=================================

Papers should neither have been published elsewhere nor currently
under review by another conference or journal. For paper submission,
please follow the submission instructions at:
http://www.iit.cnr.it/pwc2003
All papers will be reviewed by the program committee members.
Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings.
 

IMPORTANT DATES
===============

Full papers due: February 23, 2003
Notification:   May 10, 2003
Camera Ready due: June 10, 2003
 

GENERAL Chair: Enrico Gregori, IIT - CNR, Italy

GENERAL Vice-Chair: Fabrizio Davide, Telecom Italia, Italy

TECHNICAL PROGRAM Chair: Marco Conti, IIT - CNR, Italy

SPECIAL TRACKs PROGRAM Co-Chairs: Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Switzerland

Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA

PUBLICITY Co-Chairs: Raffaele Bruno, IIT CNR, Italy
                                        Alexandros Kaloxylos, University of
Athens, Greece
 

STEERING COMMITTEE Members:

Imrich Chlamtac, University of Trento, Italy (Chair)
Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK
Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Anthony Ephremides, University of Maryland, USA
Guy Omidyar, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Adam Wolisz, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
 

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Members: 
Arup Acharya, IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA
Eitan Altman, INRIA, France,  
Andrea Baiocchi, Università di Roma "La Sapienza",    
Roberto Battiti, University of Trento, Italy   
Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer, UC Santa Barbara, USA              
Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Palermo, Italy,        
Andrew T. Campbell, Columbia University, USA   
Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Holger Karl, Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany   
Mohan Kumar, Univ. Texas at Arlington, USA             
Laura M. Feeney, SICS, Sweden, 
Gabor Fodor, Ericsson, Sweden  
Luigi Fratta, Politecnico di Milano, Italy             
Per Gunningberg, Uppsala University, Sweden    
Andrey Lyakhov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia,           
Martin Mauve, University of Mannheim, Germany  
Franco Mazzenga, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy 
Refik Molva, Institut EURECOM, France          
Hiroyuki Morikawa, University of Tokyo, Japan  
Michael Paterakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Niovi Pavlidou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece   
Apostolis Salkintzis, Motorola, Canada                 
Ioannis Stavrakakis, University of Athens, Greece.             
Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada,        
Samir Tohme, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications (ENST), France  
Christian Tschudin, University of Basel, Switzerland   
Sami Uskela, Nokia Networks, Finland   
Andras Valko, Ericsson AB, Sweden                              
Bernhard Walke, Aachen University of Technology, Germany       



---------------------------------
CALL FOR NEW IDEAS and EARLY RESULTS

PWC 2003

The Eight International Conference on Personal Wireless 
Communications Sponsored
by the IFIP WG 6.8 - Mobile and Wireless Communications
http://www.iit.cnr.it/pwc2003

September 23-25, 2003 Telecom Italia Future Centre - Venice, Italy
http://www.futurecentre.telecomitalia.it/eng/


PWC is the premier international forum for discussions between researchers,
practitioners and students interested in the symbiosis of mobile computing
and
wireless networks. PWC 2003 is the eight conference of this series and is
sponsored by IFIP WG 6.8


The PWC 2003 technical program committee is soliciting short papers 
on wireless and mobile communications that bring out interesting and 
novel ideas at an early stage in their development. The goals are to 
allow timely presentation and publication of these ideas. Short 
papers don't need to describe
completed work, but the work should be advanced beyond the initial stages.


Areas of interest include those that are listed on the conference call for
papers, which can be found at http://www.iit.cnr.it/pwc2003


WHY should you submit a short paper?
------------------------------------
This is a great chance for disseminating early results of your 
research to a wide and competent audience. This will help to create 
awareness around your ideas, will give you relevant feedbacks and 
open some discussions in your research direction.


WHAT you have to do NOW
-----------------------
You must submit a short paper presenting your ideas. A short paper
(maximum 2000 words) must clearly describe the subject of your research, the
innovative ideas behind it, the results already achieved, and your 
further work. Proposals submissions will be reviewed for novelty and 
timeliness, relevance,  technical correctness, and accuracy.

Submissions should be sent by email to <pwc2003@iit.cnr.it> by April 
27, 2003. Please use the following subject: "pwc2003 short-paper 
proposal".


WHAT you have to do if the proposal is accepted
-----------------------------------------------
Authors of accepted proposal will prepare a camera-ready version of 
the short paper to be published in the conference proceedings 
published by
Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html

In addition, youmust attend the conference to present your paper at 
the conference. 15 minutes will be assigned for each short-paper 
presentation.



IMPORTANT DATES
===============

Novel Idea proposal due: April 27, 2003
Notification:   May 15, 2003
Camera Ready due: June 10, 2003





-----------------------------------------
CALL FOR PROJECTS' PRESENTATIONS

PWC 2003

The Eight International Conference on Personal Wireless 
Communications Sponsored
by the IFIP WG 6.8 - Mobile and Wireless Communications
http://www.iit.cnr.it/pwc2003

September 23-25, 2003 Telecom Italia Future Centre - Venice, Italy
http://www.futurecentre.telecomitalia.it/eng/


PWC is the premier international forum for discussions between researchers,
practitioners and students interested in the symbiosis of mobile computing
and
wireless networks. PWC 2003 is the eight conference of this series and is
sponsored by IFIP WG 6.8


The PWC 2003 technical program committee is soliciting extended abstracts
presenting on-going research projects on wireless and mobile communications.
Areas of interest include those that are listed on the conference call for
papers, which can be found at http://www.iit.cnr.it/pwc2003
We are looking for projects performed either at a single-country level or
involving several countries (e.g., European Commission projects)

WHY should you submit a project presentation?
---------------------------------------------
This is a great chance for disseminating the results of your project to a
wide
audience. Dissemination is the previous activity to exploitation, and could
be
considered as the market strategy to create awareness around your project.


WHAT you have to do NOW
-----------------------
You must submit an extended abstract presenting your project. An extended
abstract (maximum 1500 words) must clearly describe the scope of the 
project, the innovative ideas behind it, partners involved, etc. In 
addition, if appropriate, please shortly present results already 
achieved. Extended abstracts will be reviewed  for novelty, 
timeliness, and relevance for this conference.

Submissions should be sent by email to pwc2003@iit.cnr.it by April 
27, 2003. Please use the following subject: "pwc2003 project 
presentation".


WHAT you have to do if the submission is accepted
-------------------------------------------------
Authors of accepted submissions will prepare a camera-ready version 
of the extended
abstract to be published in the conference proceedings published by
Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html

In addition, you have to prepare a poster presenting your project and
attend the PWC2003 poster session to present your poster.

A poster is a 1 meter x 1.25 meter rectangular board on which you can affix
visually appealing material that describes your research. How you use 
this is up
to you: you may choose to print out several 8.5"x11" or A4 sheets of 
paper (e.g., paper copies of overheads) and "tile" the poster board 
with these pages. Or, you may choose to print a single large sheet of 
paper describing the work and attach that to the poster board. 
Several document companies produce professional-looking posters from 
material produced on software like Powerpoint; you may want to use 
such a facility.


IMPORTANT DATES
===============

Project extended abstract due: April 27, 2003
Notification:   May 15, 2003
Camera Ready due: June 10, 2003