Flexibility in Broadband Wireless Access Network (FlexBWAN) Workshop

in conjunction with ICCCN 2011 August 1-4 2011, MAUI Hawaii

CALL FOR PAPERS

In the last decade telecommunication capabilities and subscriber usage have changed dramatically, especially for mobile Internet services. Mobile/Wireless accesses are typically preferred due to the intrinsic benefits they bring, especially for ubiquitous connectivity; on the other hand the emerging services, customers' expectations and providers' constraints, altogether, urge on full technical solutions, including features like QoS, Resource Management, Content Management, AAA. Nonetheless a wide range of complementary standards cover different issues and are expected to interwork, providing extensive connection opportunities. All in all Broadband Wireless Access Networks (BWA) are supposed to continue their growth and enhancement path towards a unified, ubiquitous and seamless multi-standard coverage. For this reason the workshop FlexBWAN mainly focuses on solutions providing smart techniques for the flexible adaptation and integration of existing wireless solutions, particularly those originally meant for best-effort access.

Download here the call for paper as PDF

Topics include, but are not limited to

• Service-Oriented Adaptation of Current and Future BWA Techs (e.g. UMTS, LTE, 802.16x, 802.22)
• Green Networking in BWA Network
• Heterogeneous Multi-Access Networks, Vertical and Horizontal Integration
• Self-Configuration and Self-Optimization in BWA Networks
• QoS and QoE in Mobile and BWA Networks
• Resource Management, Admission Control, and Scheduling in BWA Networks
• Broadcasting and Multicasting in BWA Networks
• Micro and Macro Mobility Management in BWA Networks
• BWA Network Management
• Capacity Planning and Traffic Engineering in BWA Networks
• Characterization of BWA Traffic
• Traffic, Mobility and Channel Models in BWA Networks
• Design and Evaluation of Testbeds and Field Trials
• Experiences/Lessons from Recent Deployments
• Alternative Network Deployments, Dense Networking for Wireless Access purpose
• Cross-Layer Optimization Concepts and Experimental Evaluation

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline: March 18, 2011
Acceptance Notification: 25/04/2011
Camera Ready Due: 13/05/2011

Paper Submission Guidelines

• Submitted manuscripts must be formatted in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font) and must be submitted via EDAS ( http://edas.info//N10091 ) as PDF files.
• The manuscripts should be no longer than 6 pages.
• Submitted papers may not have been previously published in or be under consideration for publication in another journal or conference.
• The Technical Program Committee reserves the right not to review papers that either exceed the length specification or have been submitted or published elsewhere.
• Accepted papers will be published in proceedings that will be available through IEEE Xplore. Papers that are not presented at the conference by one of the co-authors will not appear in IEEE Xplore.

Technical Program Committee

• Fabrizio Abrate - Istituto Superiore Mario Boella - Italy
• Tankut Acarman - Galatasaray University - Turkey
• Jeremy Blum - Penn State University Harrisburg - USA
• Anna Brunstrom - Karlstad University - Sweden
• Alessandro Buresta - Istituto Superiore Mario Boella - Italy
• Claudia Campolo - University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria - Italy
• Marceau Coupechoux - TELECOM ParisTech - France
• Marco Di Felice - University of Bologna - Italy
• Eryk Dutkiewicz - Macquarie University - Australia
• Rob Evans - National ICT Australia - Australia
• Lorenzo Favalli - University of Pavia - Italy
• Jorge Finochietto - Universidad Nacional de Cordoba - Argentina
• Marco Fiore - INSA Lyon - France
• Timotheos Kastrinogiannis - National Technical University of Athens - Greece
• Kun-chan Lan - National Cheng Kung University - China
• Xianfu Lei - Southwest Jiaotong University - China
• Nitin Maslekar - Esigelec Irseem - France
• Luca Muscariello - Orange Labs France Telecom - France
• Rui Rocha - Technical University of Lisbon - Portugal
• Yantai Shu - Tianjin University - China
• Arunkumar Thangavelu - Vellore institute of Technology - India
• Weidong Xiang - University of Michigan - USA

General Chairs

Riccardo Scopigno, Ph.D. Networking Laboratory (BWA) Istituto Superiore Mario Boella (ISMB) Via P.C. Boggio, 61 - 10138 Torino - Italy Tel: +39 011 2276 603 Fax: +39 011 2276 299 E-mail: scopigno [at] ismb.it

Yunxin (Jeff) Li, Ph.D. ATP Research Laboratory NICTA 13 Garden Street Eveleigh, NSW 2015 - Australia Tel: +61 2 8306 0741 Fax: +61 2 9376 2027 E-mail: Jeff.Li [at] nicta.com.au

Andrea Vesco, Ph.D. Networking Laboratory (BWA) Istituto Superiore Mario Boella (ISMB) Via P.C. Boggio, 61 - 10138 Torino - Italy Tel: +39 011 2276 610 Fax: +39 011 2276 299 E-mail: vesco [at] ismb.it