Bad news from MobiHoc?   There is still time to re-submit your revised
paper to IEEE BroadNets 2005 Wireless Networking Symposium.
Although the official paper registration date has passed, we have reset
the deadlines on EDAS for Wireless Networking Symposium so that
authors can still have a chance to re-submit their high quality papers
until April 1.

IEEE BroadNets 2005 is a ComSoc conference
http://www.comsoc.org/confs/index.html
and selected papers from the Wireless Networking Symposium will
be referred for fast track publication in ACM/Kluwer MONET journal.

We look forward to your submissions !
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CALL FOR PAPERS

Second Annual International Conference on Broadband Networks 
(BROADNETS 2005)
Broadband Wireless Networking Symposium  
October 3 - 7, 2005
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
http://www.broadnets.org

Submission Deadline: February 1, 2005
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SCOPE
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BroadNets 2005 is an international conference focusing on broadband
networking and covers the entire gamut of next generation networks
with high bandwidth available for both wireless and wireline networks.  
The conference will consist of the following three symposia:

** Broadband Wireless Networking Symposium: covers mobility,
   routing for multihop, multimedia QoS and traffic management,
   cross-layer optimization, MAC and emerging physical layer
   technologies (UWB, MIMO) for high-speed wireless networking.

** Broadband Optical Networking Symposium: covers WDM technologies,
   Ethernet and MPLS integration into the optical layer,
   Next-Generation SONET/SDH, as well as SAN extensions over
   DWDM/SONET/SDH.

** Broadband Applications/Services Symposium: covers middleware and
   service architectures for broadband applications, pervasive
   computing and ubiquitous communications, and universal broadband
   access for information services.

BroadNets 2005 will thus offer a unique forum for researchers from
academia, government and industry to share ideas and disseminate new
results in these important areas.  

This Call for Papers describes the details for the Broadband Wireless 
Networking Symposium ONLY. (Refer to the www.broadnets.org/2005 website 
for the details of Broadband Optical Symposium and Broadband 
Applications/Services Symposium.)  We are soliciting full papers in all 
research, development, and deployment areas on broadband wireless 
networking. Topics of interest include, but not limited to, the following:
 
- 3G/4G Systems
- Fixed Broadband Wireless Access
- Wireless Local Area Networks 
- Wireless Indoor & Home Networks
- Wireless Mesh Networks
- Wireless Sensor Networks
- Ultra Wideband (UWB) Networks
- Ad-hoc Networks
- Wireless Personal Area Networks
- Free-Space Optics
- Internetworking Heterogeneous Wireless/Wireline Networks
- Network Topology Management
- Unicast and Multicast Routing 
- Resource Management
- Neighbour Discovery
- MAC Protocol Design and Analysis including IEEE 802.11/15/16
- Software-Defined Radio
- Space-Time Processing, MIMO Systems
- Joint Physical/MAC Design
- Smart (directional) Antennas
- Power Control
- Mobility, Location and Handoff Management
- Routing in Multihop, Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks
- Multimedia QoS and Traffic Management
- Security Techniques and Systems

Conference proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society.
A set of selected papers from the symposium will be published in 
a special issue of ACM/Kluwer Mobile Networks (MONET) Journal.

IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission Deadline:            February 1, 2005 
Acceptance Notification:        May 1, 2005
Final Manuscript Due:           June 1, 2005 

PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
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Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 10 pages in IEEE
conference proceedings format.  Papers should be submitted in PDF 
format to the respective symposium through the EDAS system at 
http://edas.info/Conference.cgi.  


CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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General Chair:   
 Dr. Arun Somani, Iowa State University, arun@iastate.edu

General Vice Chair: 
 Dr. Thomas Hou, Virginia Tech, thou@vt.edu

Technical Program Chair- Wireless Networking Symposium:
 Dr. Sherman Shen, Univ. of Waterloo, xshen@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca

Technical Program Chairs - Optical Networking Symposium
 Dr. David Griffith, NIST, david.griffith@nist.gov 
 Dr. Srini Ramasubramanian, Univ. of Arizona, srini@ece.arizona.edu 

Technical Program Chairs - Services and Applications Symposium
 Dr. Malathi Veeraraghavan, Univ. of Virginia, mv@cs.virginia.edu  
 Dr. Admela Jukan, NSF, ajukan@nsf.gov 

Workshops Chairs: 
 Dr. Wendi Heinzelman, University of Rochester, wheinzel@ece.rochester.edu
 Dr. Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, byrav@cse.unl.edu
 Dr. Behcet Sarikaya, University of Northern British Columbia, 
              sarikaya@unbc.ca

Tutorials Chair:
 Dr. Steven Low, Cal. Tech., slow@caltech.edu

Panels Chairs:
 Dr. Surendar Chandra, Univ. of Notre Dame, surendar@cse.nd.edu 
 Dr. Rudra Dutta, NCSU, dutta@csc.ncsu.edu

Publicity Chairs:
 Dr. Bhaskar Krishnamachari, USC, bkrishna@usc.edu 
 Dr. Takeo Hamada, Fujitsu Labs of America, thamada@fla.fujitsu.com 

Website/Information Systems Chair: 
 Dr. Shiwen Mao, Virginia Tech, smao@vt.edu
  
Publications Chairs: 
 Dr. Ahmed Kamal, Iowa State University, kamal@iastate.edu 
 Dr. Hui Zang, Sprint Adv. Tech. Labs, hzang@sprintlabs.com

Exhibits and Sponsorships Chair: 
 Dr. Sai Shankar N, Philips Research USA, sai.shankar@philips.com

Steering Committee Co-Chairs:
 Dr. Imrich Chlamtac, UT Dallas, chlamtac@utdallas.edu 
 Dr. Krishna Sivalingam, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County,
                krishna@umbc.edu