CFP : The Ninth International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications PWC 2004

CFP : The Ninth International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications PWC 2004
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Deadline extended to April 5th. --------------------------------- Conference Announcement and Call for Papers PWC 2004 The Ninth International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications September 21-23, 2004 Technical University of Delft, Delft, The Netherlands http://www.pwc2004.irctr.tudelft.nl/ Sponsored by the IFIP WG 6.8 - Mobile and Wireless Communications PWC provides an international forum for discussions between researchers, practitioners and students interested in new developments in mobile computing and wireless networks. PWC 2004 is the ninth conference of this series and is sponsored by IFIP WG 6.8, and will be held in Delft, the Netherlands. The conference will consist of three days of scientific presentations, and a poster session presenting on-going projects. To strengthen the social aspect of the PWC 2004 conference, the Local Organizing Committee has organized an event which includes a visit to De Porceleyne Fles, the best known producer of the famous Delftware pottery. This visit will be followed by a guided boat tour through the town's picturesque canals and dinner at De Prinsenkelder, an excellent restaurant in the historical town center. The social program offers you the possibility to acquaint yourself with a number of aspects of historical Delft. It will take place on Wednesday September 22 from 4 p.m. Participation is optional and will cost EUR 55. Call for papers --------------- The PWC 2004 technical committee solicits papers describing original, previously unpublished, completed or on-going research. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: - Mobile and Wireless Networking - IP-based Mobile Networks - Mobility Management - Evolution of 3G Systems - Future Generation Systems - Integration of Heterogeneous Mobile and Wireless Networks - QoS in Mobile and Wireless Networks - Ad Hoc Networks and Networks of Ad Hoc Networks - Self-organization of Wireless Networks - Personal Area Networks, Body Area Networks, and Personal Networks - Wireless Sensor Networks - Wireless LAN - Ultra-Wide Band and Short-range Networks - Energy-efficient Protocols and Power Management - Security and Privacy in Mobile and Wireless Networks - AAA (Authentication, Authorization and Accounting) in Mobile and Wireless Networks - Transport layer issues in Mobile and Wireless Networks - Analysis, Simulation and Measurement of Mobile and Wireless Networks - Cross-layer design in Mobile and Wireless Networks - Mobile and Wireless Applications Paper Submission and Publication -------------------------------- PWC 2004 solicits - regular papers (max. 10 pages) describing completed research, - short papers (max. 5 pages) describing early results and novel ideas, and - a limited number of posters, describing on-going research projects. Authors must state that their regular or short paper has not been published elsewhere nor is under review by another conference or journal. Submission instructions for papers and posters will appear on the conference web site: http://www.pwc2004.irctr.tudelft.nl/ All papers will be reviewed by the technical program committee members. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings and will be published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series ( http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/ ) . Authors are required to attend the conference and present their paper. Regular papers will be considered for the Best Paper Award (EUR 750 cash prize). Papers with a student as primary author will be eligible for the Best Student Paper Award (EUR 500 cash prize). To be eligible for an award, the paper must be presented by the primary author. For further details on this, please see the paper submission instructions when they appear on the web site. Registration ------------ Registration is required to participate in the conference. Early registration for PWC 2004 closes July 21st 2004. For regular participants early registration is EUR 400, and late registration is EUR 500. Student prices are as follows: early registration is EUR 250, after which registration is EUR 300. Registration at the conference itself is also possible, and costs EUR 550. Further details on the registration procedure will appear on the PWC 2004 website, when registration opens. Important Dates --------------- Full papers due: 5 Apr 2004 Poster proposal due: 20 May 2004 Notification of acceptance: 1 Jun 2004 Final paper due: 1 Jul 2004 Early registration deadline: 21 Jul 2004 Conference: 21 Sep 2004 - 23 Sep 2004 Committees ---------- General Chair: Ignas Niemegeers, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands Vice Chair: Sonia Heemstra de Groot, Twente Institute for Wireless and Mobile Communications and University of Twente, The Netherlands Organizing Committee: Nico Baken, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands Laura Bauman, IRCTR, TU Delft, The Netherlands Wendy Murtinu, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands Ignas Niemegeers, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands Homayoun Nikookar, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands Ad De Ridder, IRCTR, The Netherlands Nan Shi, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands Alex Slingerland, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands Mia van der Voort, IRCTR, The Netherlands Steering Committee: Carmelita Gorg, University of Bremen, Germany Sonia Heemstra de Groot, Twente Institute for Wireless and Mobile Communications and University of Twente, The Netherlands Petri Mahonen, University of Aachen (RWTH), Germany Piet DeMeester, Ghent University, Belgium Ignas Niemegeers, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands Technical Program Committee: Arup Acharya, IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA Chris Blondia, University of Antwerp, Belgium Andrew T. Campbell, Columbia University, USA Augusto Casaca, INESC, Portugal Piet DeMeester, Ghent University, Belgium Laura Marie Feeney, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden Luigi Fratta, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Rajit Gadh, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Switserland Sonia Heemstra de Groot, Twente Institute for Wireless and Mobile Communications and University of Twente, The Netherlands Mohan Kumar, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Anthony Lo, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Petri Mahonen, University of Aachen (RWTH), Germany Hiroyuki Morikawa, University of Tokyo, Japan Luiz Munoz, University of Cantabria, Spain Ignas Niemegeers, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Homayoun Nikookar, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Niovi Pavlidou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Ramjee Prasad, Aalborg University, Denmark Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Rahim Tafazolli, University of Surrey, UK Samir Tohme, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications (ENST), France Christian Tschudin, University of Basel, Switzerland Magda El Zarki, University of California at Irvine, USA Further Information ------------------- For further information, please see http://www.pwc2004.irctr.tudelft.nl/ or contact Mia van der Voort, w.l.vdvoort@irctr.tudelft.nl .

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Deadline extended to April 5th.
---------------------------------

Conference Announcement and Call for Papers

PWC 2004
The Ninth International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications
September 21-23, 2004
Technical University of Delft, Delft, The Netherlands
http://www.pwc2004.irctr.tudelft.nl/

Sponsored by the IFIP WG 6.8 - Mobile and Wireless Communications


PWC provides an international forum for discussions between
researchers, practitioners and students interested in new
developments in mobile computing and wireless networks. PWC 2004 is
the ninth conference of this series and is sponsored by IFIP WG 6.8,
and will be held in Delft, the Netherlands. The conference will
consist of three days of scientific presentations, and a poster
session presenting on-going projects.

To strengthen the social aspect of the PWC 2004 conference, the Local
Organizing Committee has organized an event which includes a visit to
De Porceleyne Fles, the best known producer of the famous Delftware
pottery. This visit will be followed by a guided boat tour through
the town's picturesque canals and dinner at De Prinsenkelder, an
excellent restaurant in the historical town center.

The social program offers you the possibility to acquaint yourself
with a number of aspects of historical Delft. It will take place on
Wednesday September 22 from 4 p.m. Participation is optional and will
cost EUR 55.


Call for papers
---------------

The PWC 2004 technical committee solicits papers describing original,
previously unpublished, completed or on-going research. Topics
include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Mobile and Wireless Networking
- IP-based Mobile Networks
- Mobility Management
- Evolution of 3G Systems
- Future Generation Systems
- Integration of Heterogeneous Mobile and Wireless Networks
- QoS in Mobile and Wireless Networks
- Ad Hoc Networks and Networks of Ad Hoc Networks
- Self-organization of Wireless Networks
- Personal Area Networks, Body Area Networks, and Personal Networks 
- Wireless Sensor Networks
- Wireless LAN
- Ultra-Wide Band and Short-range Networks
- Energy-efficient Protocols and Power Management
- Security and Privacy in Mobile and Wireless Networks
- AAA (Authentication, Authorization and Accounting) in Mobile and
         Wireless Networks
- Transport layer issues in Mobile and Wireless Networks
- Analysis, Simulation and Measurement of Mobile and Wireless Networks
- Cross-layer design in Mobile and Wireless Networks
- Mobile and Wireless Applications



Paper Submission and Publication
--------------------------------

PWC 2004 solicits 

- regular papers (max. 10 pages) describing completed research, 
- short papers (max. 5 pages) describing early results and novel
  ideas, and
- a limited number of posters, describing on-going research projects.

Authors must state that their regular or short paper has not been
published elsewhere nor is under review by another conference or
journal. Submission instructions for papers and posters will appear
on the conference web site: http://www.pwc2004.irctr.tudelft.nl/

All papers will be reviewed by the technical program committee
members. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings
and will be published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series (
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/ ) . Authors are required to attend
the conference and present their paper.

Regular papers will be considered for the Best Paper Award (EUR 750
cash prize). Papers with a student as primary author will be eligible
for the Best Student Paper Award (EUR 500 cash prize). To be eligible
for an award, the paper must be presented by the primary author. For
further details on this, please see the paper submission instructions
when they appear on the web site.


Registration
------------

Registration is required to participate in the conference. Early
registration for PWC 2004 closes July 21st 2004. For regular
participants early registration is EUR 400, and late registration is
EUR 500. Student prices are as follows: early registration is EUR
250, after which registration is EUR 300. Registration at the
conference itself is also possible, and costs EUR 550. Further
details on the registration procedure will appear on the PWC 2004
website, when registration opens.



Important Dates
---------------

Full papers due:		  5 Apr 2004
Poster proposal due:		 20 May 2004
Notification of acceptance:	  1 Jun 2004
Final paper due:		  1 Jul 2004
Early registration deadline:	 21 Jul 2004
Conference:			 21 Sep 2004 - 23 Sep 2004



Committees
----------

General Chair: 

Ignas Niemegeers, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands


Vice Chair:

Sonia Heemstra de Groot, Twente Institute for Wireless and Mobile 
         Communications and University of Twente, The Netherlands


Organizing Committee:

Nico Baken, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands
Laura Bauman, IRCTR, TU Delft, The Netherlands
Wendy Murtinu, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands
Ignas Niemegeers, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands
Homayoun Nikookar, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands
Ad De Ridder, IRCTR, The Netherlands
Nan Shi, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands
Alex Slingerland, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands
Mia van der Voort, IRCTR, The Netherlands


Steering Committee:

Carmelita Gorg, University of Bremen, Germany
Sonia Heemstra de Groot, Twente Institute for Wireless and Mobile
         Communications and University of Twente, The Netherlands
Petri Mahonen, University of Aachen (RWTH), Germany	
Piet DeMeester, Ghent University, Belgium
Ignas Niemegeers, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands


Technical Program Committee:

Arup Acharya, IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA
Chris Blondia, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Andrew T. Campbell, Columbia University, USA
Augusto Casaca, INESC, Portugal
Piet DeMeester, Ghent University, Belgium
Laura Marie Feeney, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden
Luigi Fratta, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Rajit Gadh, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Switserland
Sonia Heemstra de Groot, Twente Institute for Wireless and Mobile 
         Communications and University of Twente, The Netherlands
Mohan Kumar, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Anthony Lo, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Petri Mahonen, University of Aachen (RWTH), Germany
Hiroyuki Morikawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
Luiz Munoz, University of Cantabria, Spain
Ignas Niemegeers, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Homayoun Nikookar, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Niovi Pavlidou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Ramjee Prasad, Aalborg University, Denmark
Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada
Rahim Tafazolli, University of Surrey, UK
Samir Tohme, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications
         (ENST), France
Christian Tschudin, University of Basel, Switzerland
Magda El Zarki, University of California at Irvine, USA



Further Information
-------------------

For further information, please see
http://www.pwc2004.irctr.tudelft.nl/ or contact Mia van der Voort,
w.l.vdvoort@irctr.tudelft.nl .