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CALL FOR PAPERS PERSONAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS PWC'2002 October 23, 24 and 25, 2002 Singapore http://www.cwc.nus.edu.sg/pwc2002/

Sponsored by Institute for Communications Research (ICR) National University of Singapore (NUS) International Federation for Information Processing IFIP TC6 In Co-operation with IEEE Communications Society Supported by IEE Singapore Centre

Mobile communications has created a major breakthrough in new telecom services worldwide during the last decade. It is expected that the number of global mobile connections exceed the number of fixed connections in the next five-year period. At the same time, the new IMT2000 compatible Third Generation (3G) broadband networks and services will be available. The data service breakthrough enabled by Internet will create new possibilities for mobile and wireless services. A lot of research is also targeted to wireless Internet services and IP-mobility.

The PWC'2002 conference will be a forum for tutorials, discussions and presentations of the new developments in mobile and wireless research. The conference is planned with one day for tutorials and two days for presentations. The following areas are included in the scope of the conference: - Wireless Access networks - Wireless LANs - Cellular networks - Digital microwave systems and networks - Digital radio and TV broadcasting - Satellite networks - Short range communications and applications - Mobile personal communications - Issues for Wireless Multimedia Networking - Radio Access Techniques for Broadband Mobile Communications - Technologies, Services and Applications - Design Issues and Performance Evaluation - Economic Issues

The topics can be examined from the viewpoint of architecture and protocols, modulation, coding and decoding, methods of communication functions (multiple access, error control, flow control, routing, etc.), security, implementation, user aspects, legal, economic, social, and human related issues.

The Personal Wireless Communications PWC'2002 conference belongs to an IFIP workshop and conference series arranged by IFIP TC-6 Working Group 6.8. The previous events were held in preceding years at Prague, Tokyo, Frankfurt, Copenhagen, Gdansk and Lappeenranta in Finland. The PWC'2002 event will be held in Singapore.

Organising Committee Kin Mun Lye, ICR, Singapore (Conference Chair) Koujuch Liou, ICR, Singapore Michael Chia, ICR, Singapore Jackson Lam, ICR, Singapore Beng Cheah, ICR, ingapore Guy Omidyar, ICR, Singapore (Tech Program Chair)

Technical Scientific Committee Nejik Al-Asedi, MIMOS, Malaysia Sonia Fahmy, Purdue University, United States of America Mario Gerla, UCLA, United States of America Mohammed Ghanbari, University of Essex, United Kingdom Hermann Helgert, George Washington University, United States of America Rudolf Jager, BetaResearch, Germany Jamshid Khun Jush, Ericsson, Germany Parviz Kermani, IBM Watson Research, United States of America Sastri Kota, Loral, United States of America Khaled Ben Letaief, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong Petri Mahonen, University of Oulu, Finland Gerard Maral, ENST, Site de Toulouse, France Jon Mark, University of Waterloo, Canada Marie-Jose Montpetit, Nokia, United States of America Mahmoud Naghshineh, IBM research, United States of America Kaveh Pahlavan, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, United States of America Ramjee Prasad, Aalborg University, Denmark Izhak Rubin, UCLA, United States of America Djamel Sadok, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil Mansoor Shafi, Telecom corp. of New Zealand, New Zealand Harsha Sirisena, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Do van Thanh, Telenor, Norway T.T. Tjhung, ICR, Singapore Oliver Yang, Universite d'Ottawa, Canada

Working Group 6.8 Arup ACHARYA, United States of America Sathish CHANDRAN, Malaysia Marco CONTI, Italy Franco DAVOLI, Italy Silvia GIORDANO, Switzerland Veikko HARA, Finland Takeshi HATTORI, Japan Sonia HEEMSTRA de GROOT, Netherlands Villy Baek IVERSEN, Denmark Ousmane KONÉ, France Pascal LORENZ, France Gerald MAGUIRE Jr., Sweden Olli MARTIKAINEN, Finland Ignacious NIEMEGEERS, Netherlands Guy OMIDYAR (PWC 2002 Tech Program Chair), Singapore Guy PUJOLLE, France Debashis SAHA, India Tadao SAITO, Japan Jan SLAVIK (WG 6.8 Chair), Czech Republic Otto SPANIOL, Germany Samir TOHME, France Andras G.VALKO, Hungary Adam WOLISZ, Germany Jozef WOZNIAK, Poland

Important Dates for Submission: Paper submissions deadline - May 15, 2002 Notification of acceptance - June 15, 2002 Camera Ready versions due - July 15, 2002

Guidelines for Submission: Papers are invited on the conference theme and related topics. Please submit extended abstracts, which after acceptance need to be expanded to full paper including figures. Accepted formats include Microsoft Word, PostScript and PDF. The submission of papers should follow the same format as stated in the IFIP publication at: http://www.wkap.com/ifip / http://www.ifip.tu-graz.ac.at/Tc6/

Authors must state that their paper has neither been published before nor currently being submitted elsewhere. The cover page must contain an abstract of about 150 words, name and affiliation of author(s) as well as the lead author's postal address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail. The language of the conference is English and papers must be in this language. Accepted papers will also be distributed on the conference's Lecture Notes from Kluwer Academic Publishers at: http://www.wkap.com/ifip

All submissions should be sent to: Technical Program Chair: Dr. Guy Omidyar, gomidyar@cwc.nus.edu.sg Telephone: +65 6870 9130

Tutorials: Proposals for Tutorials on interested topics on mobile and wireless communications networks are accepted after review.

Panels and Workshops: Proposals for Panels and Workshops on the above topics or other related topics are welcome. For information on submitting papers and proposals for workshops, panels, and tutorials to this conference, please contact: Technical Program Chair: Guy Omidyar, gomidyar@cwc.nus.edu.sg