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CALL FOR PAPERS
PWC 2003 The Eight International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications Sponsored by the IFIP WG 6.8 - Mobile and Wireless Communications http://www.iit.cnr.it/pwc2003http://www.iit.cnr.it/pwc2003 September 23-25, 2003 Telecom Italia Future Centre - Venice, Italy http://www.futurecentre.telecomitalia.it/eng/http://www.futurecentre.telecomit alia.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sposored by IFIP WG 6.8 The PWC 2003 technical program committee is soliciting papers describing original, previously unpublished, completed or on-going research, on topics.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 ================================= 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: http://www.iit.cnr.it/pwc2003http://www.iit.cnr.it/pwc2003 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 =============== 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 K. Ben Letaief, Hong Kong University (IEEE representative) Guy Omidyar, National University of Singapore (IFIP representative) 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, University of Roma "La Sapienza", Roberto Battiti, University of Trento, Italy Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer, UC Santa Barbara, USA Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Palermo, Italy Azzedine Boukerche, University of North Texas, USA Andrew T. Campbell, Columbia University, USA Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Raimo Kantola, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland 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 K. Ben Letaief, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong Andrey Lyakhov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia, Martin Mauve, University of Mannheim, Germany Franco Mazzenga, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pisa, 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 Bernhard Walke, Aachen University of Technology, Germany