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CALL FOR PAPERS

PWC 2003

The Eighth International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications
Sponsored by the IFIP WG 6.8 - Mobile and Wireless Communications
http://www.iit.cnr.it/pwc2003

September 23-25, 2003
Telecom Italia Future Centre - Venice, Italy
http://www.futurecentre.telecomitalia.it/eng/

PWC is the premier international forum for discussions between researchers, practitioners and students interested in the symbiosis of mobile computing and wireless networks. PWC 2003 is the eight conference of this series and is sposored by IFIP WG 6.8

The PWC 2003 technical program committee is soliciting papers describing original, previously unpublished, completed or on-going research, on topics. including, but not limited to, the following:

- Mobile Web Access
- Mobile and Wireless Applications
- Pervasive computing
- Mobile and Wireless Networking
- IP-based Mobile Networks
- Mobility Management
- QoS in the Mobile and Wireless Networks
- Real-time voice/video over mobile and wireless networks
- Multicasting in Wireless Services
- Analysis, Simulation and Measurement of wireless and mobile systems
- Mobile ad hoc networks
- Wireless BAN, PAN and LAN
- Wi-Fi
- Third and Fourth Generation Systems
- 3G/WLAN internetworking
- Energy-efficient Protocols and Power Management

This year conference includes two special tracks to address hot topic issues: sensor networks and wireless security.
 

PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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Papers should neither have been published elsewhere nor currently
under review by another conference or journal. For paper submission,
please follow the submission instructions at:

All papers will be reviewed by the program committee. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series

http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html

IMPORTANT DATES
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Full papers due: February 10, 2003
Notification:   May 10, 2003
Camera Ready due: June 10, 2003
 

GENERAL Chair: Enrico Gregori, IIT - CNR, Italy

GENERAL Vice-Chair: Fabrizio Davide, Telecom Italia, Italy

TECHNICAL PROGRAM Chair: Marco Conti, IIT - CNR, Italy

SPECIAL TRACKs PROGRAM Co-Chairs:

         Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Switzerland

         Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA

PUBLICITY Co-Chairs:

          Raffaele Bruno, IIT CNR, Italy

          Alexandros Kaloxylos, University of Athens, Greece
 

STEERING COMMITTEE Members:

Imrich Chlamtac, University of Trento, Italy (Chair)
Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK
Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Anthony Ephremides, University of Maryland, USA
Guy Omidyar, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Adam Wolisz, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
 

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Members:

Arup Acharya, IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA
Eitan Altman, INRIA, France,
Andrea Baiocchi, Università di Roma "La Sapienza",     
Roberto Battiti, University of Trento, Italy   
Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer, UC Santa Barbara, USA              
Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Palermo, Italy,        
Andrew T. Campbell, Columbia University, USA   
Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Holger Karl, Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany   
Mohan Kumar, Univ. Texas at Arlington, USA             
Laura M. Feeney, SICS, Sweden, 
Gabor Fodor, Ericsson, Sweden  
Luigi Fratta, Politecnico di Milano, Italy             
Per Gunningberg, Uppsala University, Sweden    
Andrey Lyakhov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia,           
Martin Mauve, University of Mannheim, Germany  
Franco Mazzenga, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy 
Refik Molva, Institut EURECOM, France          
Hiroyuki Morikawa, University of Tokyo, Japan  
Sergio Palazzo, University of Catania, Italy

Michael Paterakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Niovi Pavlidou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece   
Apostolis Salkintzis, Motorola, Canada                 
Ioannis Stavrakakis, University of Athens, Greece.             
Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada,        
Samir Tohme, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications (ENST), France  
Christian Tschudin, University of Basel, Switzerland   
Sami Uskela, Nokia Networks, Finland   

Andras Valko, Ericsson AB, Sweden                              

Hidetoshi Yokota, KDDI R&D Laboratories, Japan