IFIP MWCN2008 - Call for papers

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MWCN'2008**********************************

CALL FOR PAPERS
10th IFIP international Conference on Mobile and Wireless Communications
Networks (MWCN'2008)
September 29-30, 2008 --- Toulouse, France.
http://www.irit.fr/MWCN2008/

ABOUT MWCN'2008
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Wireless and mobile networks, applications and services are rapidly growing
areas that have attracted significant attention due to their potential
impacts on the quality of life in multiple domains (health, emergency
services, disaster recovery, commerce, shopping, TV, games…). To enable
wireless and mobile computing, it is necessary to integrate technologies
from the fields of distributed computing, networking, communications and
signal processing.

MWCN (Mobile and Wireless Communications Networks) and PWC (Personal
Wireless Communications) are two conferences sponsored by IFIP WG 6.8 that
provide forum for discussion between researchers, practitioners and
students interested in new developments in mobile and wireless networks,
services, applications and computing.
In 2008, MWCN and PWC are coupled to form the first edition of IFIP
Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC). MWCN and PWC topics are
revisited in order to make them complementary and covering together the
main hot issues in wireless and mobile networks, services, applications,
computing, and technologies.
MWCN'2008 is the tenth conference of this series sponsored by IFIP WG 6.8
and will be held in Toulouse (France) from 15 to 16 September 2008. The
conference will consist of two days of scientific presentations. Previous
events were held in Cork (Ireland) in 2007, Santiago (Chile) in 2006,
Marrakech (Morocco) in 2005, Paris (France) in 2004, Singapore in 2003,
Stockholm (Sweden) in 2002, and Recife (Brazil) in 2001.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
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The MWCN'2008 technical committee solicits papers describing original,
previously unpublished, completed or on-going research. Topics include, but
are not limited to, the following:

1.Architectures, protocols, and technologies for mobile and wirelessnetworks
- Wireless LAN, MAN
- Body area networks
- Personal area networks
-Cellular networks
- Satellite networks
- Ad hoc networks
- Wireless sensor networks
- Wireless actor networks
- Wireless mesh networks
- Short-range Networks
- Vehicle networks
- Technologies: UWB, GSM, UMTS, CDMA, WCDMA

2. Evolution of 3G Systems, 3G/4G networks, Future generation systems and
networks

3. Convergence
- Protocols and platforms for convergence
- Technology integration
- Quality of service mapping between technologies
- IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem)
- Integration of heterogeneous mobile and wireless networks

4. Multimedia and Multicasting
- Wireless multimedia networking
- Multicasting and broadcasting issues
- Multimedia session signaling in wireless/mobile environments
- Digital radio and TV broadcasting

5. Mobile computing
- Mobile networks and devices
- Mobility-aware architectures
- Mobility and roaming
- Nomadic computing
- Mobility tracking schemes
- Mobility management
- Realistic mobility models

6. Applications and services
- Mobile and wireless applications: health, environmental protection,
vehicle guidance, traffic information, infotainment, pervasive systems,RFID…
- Location-based services
- Mobile services
- Content management and distribution
- Context-aware wireless multimedia applications

PAPER PUBLICATION
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>>>> Proceedings publication: Springer IFIP series

>>> A maximum of 10 papers will be selected from accepted and presentedpapers
for publication in a special issue of Telecommunication Systems Journal.
www.springer.com/journal/11235/

IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper submission deadline: March 3, 2008
Notification of acceptance: May 5, 2008
Final paper due: May 26, 2008

CONFERENCE COMMITTEES
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General Chairs
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Michel Diaz, LAAS-CNRS (France)
Zoubir Mammeri, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse (France)

Steering Committee
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Georg Carle, University of Tübingen (Germany)
Pedro Cuenca, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha (Spain)
Guy Pujolle, University of Paris 6 (France)
Tadao Saito, Toyota Info technology Center (Japan)
Jan Slavik, TESTCOM (Czech Republic)
Otto Spaniol, University of Technology of Aachen (Germany)
Cormac J. Sreenan, University College Cork (Ireland)

Technical Program Committee
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Available at www.irit.fr/MWCN2008/

Organizing Committee
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G. Boudour (IRIT, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France)
D. Espes (IRIT, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France)
W. Masri (IRIT, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France)
J. Petit (IRIT, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France)
C. Teyssié (IRIT, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France)