CALL FOR PAPERS

WICON 2005 First International Wireless Internet Conference
July 10-14, 2005, Budapest, Hungary

http://www.wicon.org/

The Wireless Internet conference (WICON) is a premier international
forum for discussions between industrial and academic researchers,
practitioners, and students interested in the next generation Wireless
Internet. WICON represents the convergence point for several different
communities of academic and industrial researchers working in the
wireless-internet arena. High scientific quality combined with
industrial relevance constitutes the target of this conference.

The conference addresses all research topics related to the emerging
Next Generation Internet, aimed to provide seamless connectivity,
richer services, and better quality for wireless data users while
supporting heterogeneity in: (i) communication technologies (ranging
from high-bandwidth low error-rate pico-cells to low-bandwidth high
error-rate macro-cells); (ii) network architectures (cellular,
peer-to-peer, or other hybrid network models); and (iii) applications
(ranging from low-data rate non-real-time applications to high-data rate
real-time applications).

Next generation wireless Internet (also referred to as 4G) will be
driven by an explosion of pervasive computing and communications devices
resulting from advances in integrated circuits, displays, software
radios, embedded operating systems, wireless protocols, services and
software technologies. Technologies include, among others, IEEE 802.11,
802.15, 802.16, Mobile IP, micro-mobility protocols, IP paging, wireless
TCP, wireless IP QOS, mobile ad hoc networks, and the 3G architecture.
Focus will be on integrating different types of wireless networks with
wire-line backbone network seamlessly, and convergence of voice, and
data traffic over a single IP based core network.

WICON is soliciting papers describing original, completed or on-going
research previously unpublished and not currently submitted for
publication elsewhere, on topics, including but not limited to, the
following:

o Access technologies (from WBAN-WPAN to WMAN and cellular)
o Broadband on demand wireless Internet
o Connectivity for wired unserved areas
o Standards (IEEE 802.11, 802.15, 802.16, ..)
o Adaptive architectures
o Cross layering
o Seamless internetworking
o Handoff and mobility management
o Location mechanism and services
o Mobile Internet
o Energy management
o Quality of service
o Service network architectures
o Wireless protocol stacks
o Experiments and trials
o Context aware applications
o Security, authentication and privacy
o Pricing and billing
o Wireless Internet security
o Theoretical foundations
o Performance evaluation
o Analysis and simulation models

PAPER SUBMISSION:

Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers of no more than
8 pages IEEE double column format. Papers will be accepted only by
electronic submission through the EDAS system.

IMPORTANT DATES:

o Submission of extended summaries (to be received by): January 30, 2005
                                            extended to February 14, 2005
o Notification of acceptance:                           March 30, 2005
o Submission of camera-ready papers:                    April 30, 2005

TUTORIALS:

Proposals for tutorials are solicited. Evaluation of tutorial
proposals will be based on the expertise and experience of the
instructors and on the relevance of the subject matter. Potential
instructors are requested to submit a tutorial proposal of at most 5
pages, including a biographical sketch, to the Tutorial Co-Chairs,
Haiyun Luo (haiyun@cs.uiuc.edu). The deadline for tutorial
proposals is March 4, 2005.


ORGANIZATION:

General Co-Chairs:  Sandor Imre, BUTE, Budapest, Hungary
Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK

General Vice-Chair: Fabrizio
Granelli, Univ. of Trento, Italy

Technical Program Co-Chairs:
Renato LoCigno, Univ. of Trento, Italy
Jennifer Hou, Univ. of Illinois, U.S.A.