[Mycolleagues] Call for papers: 2nd International Workshop on Broadband Wireless Internet Access (BWIA 2008), Oct. 12, 2008, Avignon, France

BWIA 2008

2nd International Workshop on Broadband Wireless Internet Access, to be
held in conjunction with the 4th IEEE International Conference on
Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications(WiMob 2008)

Technically sponsored by
Université d'Avignon, IEEE France Section, and IEEE Computer Society

*October 12, 2008*
*Avignon, France*

/Web site: http://www.scs.ryerson.ca/iwoungan/BWIA2008//

*CALL FOR PAPERS:*
Nowadays, there is a clear steep growth in research interests in
wireless and mobile communication systems as an inexpensive and
promising means for ubiquitous communications. Mobile broadband wireless
is an important sub-area of this research, which focuses on enabling
physical layer technologies to support third generation as well as
future broadband mobile systems. Even though this sub-area holds
great promises for our future, there are several challenges that need to
be addressed.

This workshop focuses on all topics related to Broadband Wireless
Internet Access (BWIA), including Mobile BWIA, with emphasis on
protocols, architectures, algorithms, resource management, technologies,
applications, practical experiences, simulation results and analysis,
theory and validation. Expected topics include, but are
not limited to:

• New architectures, technologies, protocols for broadband wireless access
• Medium access control and QoS
• Security and privacy issues
• Service level agreements
• Radio extension such as 802.xx (WiFi, WiMax, etc)
• Modulation, coding and antennas (MIMO)
• UMTS and extensions
• Scalability and reliability issues
• Wireless mesh networks
• Optical wireless access networks
• QoS in mobile and broadband wireless access networks
• Radio Resource Management and call admission control
• Capacity Planning and Traffic Engineering
• Physical and Data link layer Issues
• Space-time coding for broadband wireless Internet
• Spectrum management
• Interoperability aspects (fixed/mobile LANs/MANs, WANs)
• Micro and macro mobility Management
• 3G/4G Wireless Technologies
• Cross-layer interactions and optimization
• Network and resource management
• Experiences/lessons from recent deployments

PAPER SUBMISSION:
For instructions on how to submit a paper to BWIA 2008, please visit:
_/http://www.lia.univ-avignon.fr/index.php?id=458/_
Please also email the electronic papers to the Workshop Organizing Chair
at/ /_/iwoungan@scs.ryerson.ca/_ <mailto:iwoungan@scs.ryerson.ca>, using
the subject title: /"BWIA'2008 Paper Submission". /

All accepted papers will be included in the WiMob 2008 main conference
proceedings and published by IEEE. Authors of selected outstanding
papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for
consideration of publication in the /International Journal of
Communication Networks and Distributed Systems (IJCNDS)/.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper submission: May 19, 2008
Acceptance notification: June 30, 2008
Camera-ready submission: July 28, 2008
Workshop date: October 12, 2008

*KEYNOTE SPEAKER: *
Professor Bharat K. Bhargava, Purdue University, USA
Topic: "/Collaborative Attacks in Networks/"

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Worshop Co-chairs:
Isaac Woungang, Ryerson University, Canada
Sudip Misra, Yale University, USA
Bharat K. Bhargava, Purdue University, USA
Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA

Publicity Chair:
Issa Traore, University of Victoria, Canada

TPC Members:
Alagan Anpalagan, Ryerson University, Canada
Abdelhamid Mellouk, University of Paris XII, France
Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Indian Institute of Technology, India
Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada
Bhabani P. Sinha, Indian Statistical Institute, India
Christos Douligeris, University of Piraeus, Greece
Geyong Min, University of Bradford, UK
Hai Liu, University of Ottawa, Canada
Han-Chieh Chao, Institute of Computer Science, Taiwan
Hamid Mcheick, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada
Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa, Canada
Hsiao-Hwa Chen, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Isaac Woungang, Ryerson University, Canada
Ismail Khalil Ibrahim, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Leszek Lilien, Western Michigan University, USA
Michaël Hauspie, University of Lille 1, France
Michel Barbeau, Carleton University, Canada
Paul J. Kühn, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Peter Widmayer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Raj Jain, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Rami Langar, University of Waterloo, Canada
Sudip Misra, Yale University, USA
Victor Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada
Xavier Fernando, Ryerson University, Canada