Broadnets 2005 Wireless Networking Symposium

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Second Annual International Conference on Broadband Networks
(BROADNETS 2005)
Broadband Wireless Networking Symposium
October 3 - 7, 2005
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
http://www.broadnets.org

Submission Deadline: February 1, 2005
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SCOPE
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BroadNets 2005 is an international conference focusing on broadband
networking and covers the entire gamut of next generation networks
with high bandwidth available for both wireless and wireline networks.
The conference will consist of the following three symposia:

** Broadband Wireless Networking Symposium: covers mobility,
  routing for multihop, multimedia QoS and traffic management,
  cross-layer optimization, MAC and emerging physical layer
  technologies (UWB, MIMO) for high-speed wireless networking.

** Broadband Optical Networking Symposium: covers WDM technologies,
  Ethernet and MPLS integration into the optical layer,
  Next-Generation SONET/SDH, as well as SAN extensions over
  DWDM/SONET/SDH.

** Broadband Applications/Services Symposium: covers middleware and
  service architectures for broadband applications, pervasive
  computing and ubiquitous communications, and universal broadband
  access for information services.

BroadNets 2005 will thus offer a unique forum for researchers from
academia, government and industry to share ideas and disseminate new
results in these important areas.

This Call for Papers describes the details for the Broadband Wireless
Networking Symposium ONLY. (Refer to the www.broadnets.org/2005 website
for the details of Broadband Optical Symposium and Broadband
Applications/Services Symposium.)  We are soliciting full papers in all
research, development, and deployment areas on broadband wireless
networking. Topics of interest include, but not limited to, the following:

- 3G/4G Systems
- Fixed Broadband Wireless Access
- Wireless Local Area Networks
- Wireless Indoor & Home Networks
- Wireless Mesh Networks
- Wireless Sensor Networks
- Ultra Wideband (UWB) Networks
- Ad-hoc Networks
- Wireless Personal Area Networks
- Free-Space Optics
- Internetworking Heterogeneous Wireless/Wireline Networks
- Network Topology Management
- Unicast and Multicast Routing
- Resource Management
- Neighbour Discovery
- MAC Protocol Design and Analysis including IEEE 802.11/15/16
- Software-Defined Radio
- Space-Time Processing, MIMO Systems
- Joint Physical/MAC Design
- Smart (directional) Antennas
- Power Control
- Mobility, Location and Handoff Management
- Routing in Multihop, Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks
- Multimedia QoS and Traffic Management
- Security Techniques and Systems

Conference proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society.
A set of selected papers from the symposium will be published in
a special issue of ACM/Kluwer Mobile Networks (MONET) Journal.

IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission Deadline:            February 1, 2005
Acceptance Notification:        May 1, 2005
Final Manuscript Due:           June 1, 2005

PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
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Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 10 pages in IEEE
conference proceedings format.  Papers should be submitted in PDF
format to the respective symposium through the EDAS system at
http://edas.info/Conference.cgi.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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General Chair:
Dr. Arun Somani, Iowa State University, [email protected]

General Vice Chair:
Dr. Thomas Hou, Virginia Tech, [email protected]

Technical Program Chair- Wireless Networking Symposium:
Dr. Sherman Shen, Univ. of Waterloo, [email protected]

Technical Program Chairs - Optical Networking Symposium
Dr. David Griffith, NIST, [email protected]
Dr. Srini Ramasubramanian, Univ. of Arizona, [email protected]

Technical Program Chairs - Services and Applications Symposium
Dr. Malathi Veeraraghavan, Univ. of Virginia, [email protected]
Dr. Admela Jukan, NSF, [email protected]

Workshops Chairs:
Dr. Wendi Heinzelman, University of Rochester, [email protected]
Dr. Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, [email protected]
Dr. Behcet Sarikaya, University of Northern British Columbia,
             [email protected]

Tutorials Chair:
Dr. Steven Low, Cal. Tech., [email protected]

Panels Chairs:
Dr. Surendar Chandra, Univ. of Notre Dame, [email protected]
Dr. Rudra Dutta, NCSU, [email protected]

Publicity Chairs:
Dr. Bhaskar Krishnamachari, USC, [email protected]
Dr. Takeo Hamada, Fujitsu Labs of America, [email protected]

Website/Information Systems Chair:
Dr. Shiwen Mao, Virginia Tech, [email protected]

Publications Chairs:
Dr. Ahmed Kamal, Iowa State University, [email protected]
Dr. Hui Zang, Sprint Adv. Tech. Labs, [email protected]

Exhibits and Sponsorships Chair:
Dr. Sai Shankar N, Philips Research USA, [email protected]

Steering Committee Co-Chairs:
Dr. Imrich Chlamtac, UT Dallas, [email protected]
Dr. Krishna Sivalingam, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County,
               [email protected]

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