See: http://www.comsoc.org/confs/wcnc/2005/
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           IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION AND NETWORKING CONFERENCE
                Sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society
                   13-17 March 2005 - New Orleans, LA USA

      - Preliminary Call for Papers, Tutorials & Business Applications
                                 Sessions -

   WCNC  2005 will most likely be co-located once again with the Cellular
   Telecommunications   Industry  Association's  premier  tradeshow  CTIA
   WIRELESS  2005.  WCNC 2005 will continue its tradition in offering the
   best    and    most   current   tutorials,   research   results,   and
   industry-oriented  technical  contents and perspectives on terrestrial
   wireless  communications and systems.  With the steady recovery of the
   telecommunications  industry  sector,  more 3G cellular mobile systems
   are  being rolled out with increasing multimedia-oriented services and
   applications.   More  hotspots  are planned and/or deployed leading to
   the  proliferation  of Wi-Fi wireless LANs.  In research laboratories,
   higher  speed  but  shorter range radio systems such as Ultra Wideband
   (UWB)  are  under  intense  development,  along  with  the concepts of
   pervasive  computing  and  communications  using  wireless  ad-hoc and
   sensor  networks.  To ensure complete coverage of advances in wireless
   communication  and  networking technologies for the current and future
   systems,  WCNC  2005  seeks original contributions in, but not limited
   to, the following topical areas:

   3G/4G wireless systems

   Wireless emergency/defense systems

   Wireless indoor and home networks

   Wireless ad-hoc networks

   Wireless sensor networks

   Wireless broadband networks

   WLAN, WPAN and WMAN

   Multiple air interface devices

   Wireless networked appliances/applications

   Software defined radio

   Wireless sensor devices

   Handset design/user interfaces

   Innovative user interfaces

   Multimedia QoS support and middleware

   Signaling for integrated wireline/wireless networks

   Wireless/Mobile IP

   Authentication, Authorization and Accounting

   Security techniques and systems

   Medium access control

   Radio resource management

   Handoff and mobility, micromobility

   Ultra wideband (UWB)

   Space-time processing, MIMO

   Power control and rate control

   Modulation, detection and channel equalization

   Multiuser detection

   Channel characterization and modeling

   Digital signal processing

   Industry views on future systems and networks

   Standards and regulation

   Information technology in wireless communications

   Economics and business cases

   CALL FOR TUTORIALS
   Proposals  for half/full day tutorials are also solicited based on the
   topics  above  or  others  related to issues and opportunities for the
   future of wireless communications, systems and applications.  Tutorial
   presenters will receive compensation.

   CALL FOR BUSINESS APPLICATION SESSIONS (BAS)
   Proposals   are  also  solicited  for  Technology  Panels  /  Business
   Application  Sessions  in the topical areas above or others related to
   business  and policy-related issues and opportunities for the wireless
   communications industry.

    WATCH OUT FOR DETAILS
   Details  of  each of the above (submission of regular papers, tutorial
   proposals  and  proposals for Technology Panels / Business Application
   Sessions)  will  be  available at http://www.wcnc.org/2005 in the near
   future.

   IMPORTANT DATES
   Technical Paper Submission Deadline    1 August 2004
   Acceptance Notification                15 November 2004
   Final Paper Submission Deadline        15 December 2004