See: http://www.uwb4wi.org/

CALL FOR PAPERS

WICON Workshop on Ultra Wide Band for Wireless Internet

Co-located with WICON 2005.


The concept of Wireless Internet deals with the extension of applications and
services commonly available to wired internet users to the wireless domain.
Such an extension is a challenging task, given the peculiar characteristics
of the wireless medium. The possibility for users to move while accessing
internet services, for example, poses difficult issues, which must be
addressed by high layer internet protocols commonly conceived for fixed
network topologies. The transmission technique has nevertheless a key role in
the effective deployment of Wireless Internet; the wireless medium is in fact
characterized by a reduced reliability when compared to the wired one. As a
consequence particular care must be taken in the selection of appropriate
strategies for Physical and MAC/DLC layers in order to guarantee similar
quality in both wireless and wired domains. The ability of providing the
required Quality of Service (QoS) must be guaranteed also in the presence of
interfering sources. Within this framework, the key features of UWB, that is
precise ranging and positioning capabilities together with robustness to
interference, may boost innovation and favour the provision of flexible and
powerful services for home, office, and professional applications.

All papers will be subject to peer review. Final deadline for paper
submission is reported below, and will be strictly adhered to by the
Technical Program Committee. All accepted papers will be published in the
proceedings of the workshop. Selected papers will be considered for
publication in the Journal of Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET),
published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. Authors are invited to submit
original contributions on topics including, but not limited to:

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      UWB Devices
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      UWB Multi User Interference Modeling, in particular for Wireless Internet scenarios
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      UWB Coexistence issues in the Wireless Internet scenario
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      UWB Network synchronization
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      Resource sharing and allocation in UWB systems
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      UWB Ranging and Positioning
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      UWB Power-aware MAC design
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      Optimization of network organization through UWB-based position information
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      Admission control in UWB access networks
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      Power control issues in UWB networks
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      QoS management in UWB networks

Authors should prepare the manuscript following the guidelines for authors
described in the “Submission” section on the WICON website. Manuscript
submission should be done electronically through the conference website.
Authors should mention if their papers are meant for the workshop.

Deadline for Submission: February 28, 2005