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CALL FOR PAPERS (Submission deadline extended to August 22, 2005)

==================================================================            First IEEE International Workshop on Heterogeneous Wireless Networks: Resource Management and QoS                        (HWN-RMQ’06) http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2006/conf_program/hwn-rmq_workshop/index.htm                     In conjunction with IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC’06)          Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 7-10 January 2006 ==================================================================

Scope

The fourth generation (4G) of wireless communications is expected to integrate a potentially large number of different heterogeneous wireless technologies in what could be considered a huge step forward towards universal wireless access and omnipresent computing through seamless mobility. Even though 4G standard is currently not defined, there are many current outlooks that delineate the vision of the new wireless technologies. Based on the emergent trends of mobile communication, 4G will have larger bandwidth, higher data rates, smoother and quicker handoff and will focus on guaranteeing faultless service and seamless handoff across a multitude of wireless networks. The key concept is integrating the 4G capabilities with all of the existing mobile technologies. Special maneuvers will be necessary amongst different access systems in terms of horizontal (intra-system) and vertical (inter-system) handoff as well as seamless mobility, Quality of Service (QoS), dependability and security.

In this workshop, we solicit high quality papers from leading researchers that present state-of-the-art research in heterogeneous wireless networks dealing with resource management techniques and QoS provisioning.

Topics of Interest             Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Interworking with 2.5G, 3G, and other wireless networks - QoS provisioning for heterogeneous wireless networks - End-to-End QoS Architectures - Location, Mobility and Handoff Management - Seamless vertical handoff techniques between different wireless networks - Network selection criteria - Resource management/allocation - Bandwidth adaptation - Power control and management - Load, admission, and flow control - Architecture design alternatives for heterogeneous wireless networks - Performance analysis and experimentation of heterogeneous wireless networks - Pricing and billing issues - Security techniques and methods for heterogeneous wireless networks - Heterogeneous wireless networks applications and measurements - Simulation study of heterogeneous wireless networks - Scalability of heterogeneous wireless networks - Implementation and testbed experiments - Standardization activities for heterogeneous wireless networks - Heterogeneous multi-hop wireless networks

Important Dates

- Paper submission:                   22 August    2005 (new date) - Notification of acceptance:         15 September 2005 - Final Paper submission:             14 October   2005

Paper Submissions   Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently under review in any other conference or journal, and has not been previously published. Paper length should not exceed five-page technical paper manuscript. Please see author information page for submission guidelines at CCNC’06 website (http://www.ieee-ccnc.org). Papers should be submitted in a .pdf format through EDAS at http://edas.info/Paper.cgi?c=4602. Submissions should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliations, fax and telephone numbers and e-mail addresses. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. At least one author of accepted papers is required to register at the full registration rate.

Workshop Co-Chairs:

- Name       Nidal Nasser              Mieso Denko - E-mail     nasser@cis.uoguelph.ca    denko@cis.uoguelph.ca - URL http://www.cis.uoguelph.ca/%7Enasser%C2%A0 http://www.cis.uoguelph.ca/%7Edenko - Affiliation   University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada

Publicity Chair: Youssef Iraqi University of Waterloo, Canada iraqi@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca http://bcr2.uwaterloo.ca/%7Eiraqi/

Technical Program Committee (In progress)

- Khalid Al-Begain      University of Glamorgan             UK - Hakim Badis           University of Paris-Sud XI          France - Tarek Bejaoui         University of Paris-Sud XI          France - Jiannong Cao          Hong Kong Polytechnic University    Hong Kong - Soumaya Cherkaoui     University of Sherbrooke            Canada - Yuh-Shyan Chen        National Chung Cheng University     Taiwan - Javier Gozalvez       University Miguel Hernandez         Spain - Christian Hartmann    Technische Universitat Munchen      Germany - Youssef Iraqi         University of Waterloo              Canada - Anup Kumar            University of Louisville            USA - Wei Li                The University of Toledo            USA - Jelena Misic          University of Manitoba              Canada - Mohamed Ould-Khaoua  University of Glasgow               UK - Burkhard Stiller      University of Zurich and ETH Zurich  Switzerland - Abd-Elhamid M. Taha   Queen's University                   Canada - Ljiljana Trajkovic    Simon Fraser University              Canada - Duc A. Tran           University of Dayton                 USA - Shahrokh Valaee       University of Toronto                Canada - Quanhong Wang         Queen's University                  Canada - Kui Wu                University of Victoria               Canada - Jingyuan Zhang        The University of Alabama            USA - Weihua Zhuang         University of Waterloo               Canada