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CALL FOR PAPERS
IFIP/IEEE MWCN 2007 The Ninth International Conference on Mobile and Wireless Communications Networks
Cork, Ireland, 19 - 21 September, 2007
MWCN 2007 is the ninth annual international conference dedicated to advancing research on mobile wireless networks. In the past few years, there has been growing interest in integrating stand-alone mobile networks with infrastructured wireless networks to create more robust and adaptable wireless networks. To further encourage research in this area, the theme of this year's conference is:
** Convergence of Mobile Wireless Networks and the Internet **
You are invited to submit original papers to the conference for review. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
* Mobile network architecture * Resource and information management * Mobility support, protocols, and algorithms * Connection management * Applications * Mobile ad hoc networks * Wireless local area networks * Analysis and simulation of mobile networks * Evaluation of mobile network testbeds * Mobile network security * Quality of service * Advances in physical and MAC layers * Capacity enhancement techniques * Wireless Internet * Sensor networs * SDR and reconfigurability * Wireless LANs, PANs * Ultra wide band techniques and applicaitons * 3G/4G networks * Vehicular networks * Convergence issues
All papers should be submitted electronically in Portable Document Format (PDF). Submissions should be in English, and the maximum page length is 5 pages in no smaller than 10 point font. The name and affiliation of all authors should be included on the paper. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a 5-page IEEE conference style paper (including all text, figures, and references) through EDAS submission system (http://www.edas.info/).
IMPORTANT DATES ---------------
Submission deadline: April 2, 2007 Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2007 Camera-ready deadline: July 1, 2007 Conference: September 19-21, 2007
General Chairs Cormac J. Sreenan, University College Cork Dirk Pesch, Cork Institute of Technology
Technical Program Chairs Jyh-Cheng Chen, National Tsing Hua University Tao Zhang, Telcordia Technologies
Technical Program Committee Nazim Agoulmine, University of Evry Nancy Alonistioti, University of Athens Andre Barroso, Philips Research, Aachen Brahim Bensaou, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hakima Chaouchi, Institut National des Telecommunications Chien Chen, National Chiao Tung University Young-June Choi, University of Michigan Luis Correia, IST - Technical University of Lisbon Yi Cui, Vanderbilt University Sajal Das, The University of Texas at Arlington Klaus David, University of Kassel Luigi Fratta, Politecnico di Milano Vasilios Friderikos, King's College London Dan Grigoras, University College Cork Yao-Win Hong, National Tsing Hua University Youssef Iraqi, Dhofar University Shengming Jiang, South China University of Technology Houda Labiod, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications Shou-Chih Lo, National Dong Hwa University Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace Shiwen Mao, Auburn University Mahesh Marina, The University of Edinburgh Alan Marshall, The Queen's University of Belfast Steve McLaughlin, University of Edinburgh John Murphy, University College Dublin Ken Murray, Cork Institute of Technology Elena Pagani, University of Milano Neeli Prasad, Aalborg University Kimmo Raatikainen, University of Helsinki Susan Rea, Cork Institute of Technology Utz Roedig, Lancaster University Djamel Sadok, Federal University of Pernambuco Oriol Sallent, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Venkatesh Sarangan, Oklahoma State University Violet Syrotiuk, Arizona State University Yutaka Takahashi, Kyoto University Petia Todorova, Fraunhofer-FOKUS Eric van den Berg, Telcordia Technologies Guillaume Vivier, Motorola Labs Shun-Ren Yang, National Tsing Hua University Ossama Younis, University of Arizona Dongming Zhao, University of Michigan