See: http://www.upperside.fr/wifivoice04/wifivoice04intro.htm

Wi-Fi Voice Conference 2004
25-28 May, 2004 - Paris - France
  	  	 
Achieving VoIP over WLAN


Today the voice over WLAN market is an extremely small and immature market
but is also one with a significantly growing amount of interest and
potential. Currently this application appeals to niche markets such as
education, healthcare and retail because they were amongst the first to roll
out WLAN networks. Proposing a voice service with handsets is seemingly a
natural outlet. In the longer term, all users of WLAN networks could
eventually find a business case within the context of interoperability
between WLANs and 2.5G and 3G networks.

Several recent vendor partnership agreements serve to illustrate the
interest of the telecom community in this nascent market.

The next step is to create the technical conditions necessary to allow this
market to experience the same explosion as WLAN for Internet access.

To begin with, vendors and service providers will have to reach agreement on
a viable standard. The IEEE started work in this direction by creating the
802.11e task force whose role will be to define QoS mechanisms for wireless
gear that gives support to bandwidth-sensitive applications such as voice
and video.

? What is the outlook for this market?
? What trials are being conducted?
? What are the legal directives shaping the market?
? What standardization bodies are involved and how advanced are they in their work?
? What architecture types are being proposed?
? What products are available today?

At the 2004 WiFi Voice Conference to be held in Paris on May 25 to 28, 2004,
distinguished experts and key players in the field will address these
questions with detailed and technical explanations.

A call for papers has been launched on-line, effective until November 15,
2003. The proposals submitted will be examined by a scientific committee.
  	  	 


Call For Proposals

The following list of topics is not exhaustive and authors may propose other subjects in keeping within the thematic framework.

? About regulation
? Standardisation process
? IEEE 802.11 overview
? IEEE 802.11e DCF & PCF enhancements
? Dual WiFi/cellular issues
? WiFi Voice market
? LAN Telephony market
? WiFi Voice first deployments
? WiFi Voice business model
? IP PBX and WiFi Voice integration
? WiFi Voice call path
? Call capacity per access point
? Security issues
? Architectures
? Handsets


Abstracts must not exceed one page. They may be submitted in PDF, HTML or
Word format by email at: info@upperside.fr or remi.scavenius@wanadoo.fr


DEADLINE

Deadline for turning in abstracts: November 15, 2003
Feedback from committee members: December 15, 2003