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Wireless Communications & Networking

Co-chairs
Dr. Sastri Kota, skota@harris.com
Prof. Shahrokh Valaee, valaee@comm.utoronto.ca
Dr. Boon Sain Yeo, boonyeo@ieee.org
Dr. Yi Qian, Yi.Qian@ece.uprm.edu

Scope:
With the steady recovery of the telecommunications industry sector, more 3G cellular mobile systems are being rolled out with increasing multimedia-oriented services and applications. More hotspots are planned and/or deployed leading to the proliferation of Wi-Fi wireless LANs. In addition, with the rapid emergence of WiMaX (IEEE 802.16), which provides wide area high speed access with the possibility of mobility support proves to be exciting and promising. In research laboratories, higher speed but shorter range radio systems such as Ultra Wideband (UWB) are under intense development, along with the concepts of pervasive computing and communications using wireless ad-hoc and sensor networks. The objective of this symposium is to provide a platform for researchers and technologists to present new ideas and contributions in the form of technical papers, panel discussions as well as testbed implementations and real-world evaluation of many ideas in wireless communications. To ensure complete coverage of advances in wireless communication and networking technologies for the current and future systems, the wireless communications, networks and systems symposium seeks original contributions in, but not limited to, the following topical areas.

Topics of Interest:

  • PCS, GPRS, EDGE, 3GPP, UMTS
  • IMT2000
  • Bluetooth Technologies & Applications
  • CDMA, TDMA, OFDM, air interfaces
  • Error and Link Control
  • Power Control Algorithms
  • Interference Avoidance
  • Multi-user Detection
  • Spectrum Efficiency & Issues
  • Handoff protocols & management
  • Traffic Management
  • Call admissions control
  • Smart Antennas
  • Mobile QoS
  • Cell & Capacity Planning
  • Wireless LANs
  • Mobile IP
  • Mobile Internet
  • Wireless Capacity
  • Network Topology Control
  • Flow & Congestion Control
  • TCP over Wireless
  • Ad hoc wireless networks
  • Mobile Ad Hoc Routing
  • Wireless multicasting
  • Wireless Service Discovery
  • Location Management Techniques
  • Satellite Communications
  • 4G Mobile Network Architectures
  • Wireless Multimedia
  • Multiple and wireless access techniques
  • End-to-End QoS
  • Mobility management
  • Radio resource management
  • Wireless switching and routing techniques
  • Wireless services and applications
  • Hyrbid wireless communication systems
  • Wireless system optimization techniques
  • DVB and DAB techniques
  • Ultra-wideband communications
  • Adaptive modulation
  • Resource allocation and interference management
  • Diversity techniques and equalization
  • Modulation and coding
  • Multirate and multicarrier communications
  • Space-time processing
  • Signal separation and interference rejection
  • Detection and estimation
  • Propagation and channel characterization
  • DSP applications to wireless systems
  • Fading countermeasures
  • MIMO systems
  • Space-time coding
  • Sensor networks
  • Sensor efficient protocols and algorithms
  • WiMaX
  • UWB
Homepage: http://www.ece.uprm.edu/~yqian/globecom2006wireless/globecom2006wireless.htm

Technical Program Committee

Ravi Adve, University of Toronto, Canada
Dharma Agrawal,
University of Cincinnati, USA
Ramon Agusti, Universitat Politechnica De Catalunya, Spain
Sonia Aissa, University of Quebec, INRS-EMT, Canada
Fatih Alagoz,
Bogazici University, Turkey
Ana Garcia Armada, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
Nallanathan Arumugam, National University of Singapore
Kesh Bakhru, Cubic Defense Application, USA
Seema Bandyopadhyay, University of Central Florida, USA
Khaled Ben Letaief, HKUST, Hong Kong, China
Antonio Capone,
Politecnico di Milano
, Italy
Narcis Cardona, Universidad Politecnica De
Valencia, Spain
Mainak Chatterjee, University of Central Florida, USA
Ning Chen , Georgia Tech, USA
Maggie Cheng,
University of  Missouri-Rolla, USA

Yu Cheng,
University of Toronto, Canada
Soumaya Cherkaoui,
University of Sherbrooke, Canada
Yong Huat Chew, Institute for
Infocomm Research, Singapore
Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, Politecnico di Torino
, Italy
Woon Hau Chin, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Chia-Chin Chong, DoCoMo USA Labs, USA
Enrique Cuevas, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Jun-Hong Cui, University of Connecticut, USA
Sajal Das,
University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Jing Deng,
University of New Orleans
, USA
Floriano De Rango,
University of Calabria, Italy
Lei Ding, Cirrus
Logic, USA
Xiaodai Dong, University of Victoria, Canada
Xiaojiang James Du, North Dakota State University,
USA
Ashutoth Dutta, Telcordia Technologies, USA
Guangbin Fan,
Intel, China
Frank Fitzek,
Aalborg University, Denmark
Shengli Fu, University of North Texas, USA
Margarita Garcia, Universidad De Malaga, Spain
Giovanni Giambene, University of Siena, Italy
Javier Gozalves Sempere, Universitas Miguel Hernandez,
Spain
Sirisena Harsha, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Babak Hassibi,
Caltech, USA
Takeshi Hattori,
Sophia
University, Japan
Nidhi Hegde, France Telecom, France
Ian Henning,
University of Essex, UK
Xiaoyan Hong, University of Alabama, USA
Patrick Hosein, Ericsson Inc.,
USA
Ekram Hossain, University of Manitoba, Canada
Jiankun Hu, RMIT University, Australia
Rose Qingyang Hu, Mississippi State University, USA
Chin-Tser Huang,
University of South Carolina, USA
Sassan Iraji,
Nokia, Finland
S. Hamidreza Jamali,
University of Tehran, Iran
Yuming Jiang, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Andreas J Kassler, University of Ulm, Germany
Amir Keivan Khandani,
University of Waterloo, Canada
Dongkyun Kim, Kyungpook National University, Korea
Sooyaung Kim,
Chonbuk National University, Korea
Thierry Klein, Lucent Technologies, USA
Markku Kojo,
University of Helsinki, Finland
Witold Kryzmien,
University of Alberta, Canada
Victor Kueh, Fujitsu Laboratories of
Europe
Peter Langendoerfer, IHP, Germany
Matti Latva-Aho,
University of Oulu, Finland
Meejeong Lee,
Ewha Womans University, Korea
Cyril Leung,
University of British Columbia, Canada
Victor Leung,
University of British Columbia
, Canada
Teng Joon Lim,
University of Toronto, Canada
Kejie Lu, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, USA
Enyue Lu,
Salisbury University, USA
Yao Ma, Iowa State University, USA
Fumiaki Maehara,
Waseda University, Japan
Athanassios Manikas, Imperial College of Science , Technology and Medicine, UK
Jukka Manner, University of Helsinki, Finland
Murali Medidi,
Washington State University, USA
Maria Luisa Merani, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Mohamed Moustafa, Thebes Academy
, Egypt
Hajime Nakamura, KDDI R&D
Lab, Japan
Nidal Nasser, University of Guelph, Canada
Aradhana Narula-Tam, MIT
Lincoln Laboratory, USA
Ioanis Nikolaidis, University of Alberta, Canada
Zhisheng Niu, Tsinghua University, China

Ian Oppermann, University of Oulu, Finland
Kome Oteri, Freescale, USA
Theodoros Pagtzis, Fujitsu Labs Europe, UK
Antonio Pescape, University of Napoli "Federico II", Italy
Derk Pesch, Cork Institute of
Technology, Ireland
Hua Qian, Marvell Semiconductor,
USA
Robert Qiu,
Tennessee Tech University, USA
Ruibiao Qiu, F5 Networks, Inc.,
USA
Kinmo Raatikainen, University of Helsinki, Finland  
Dinesh Rajan, Southern
Methodist University, USA
Harri Saarrisaan, University of Oulu, Finland
Ahmed Safwat, Queen's
University, Canada
Gokhan Sahin, Miami University, USA
Jawad Salehi, Sharif
University of Technology, Iran
Oriol Sallent, Universitat Politecnica De Catalunya, Spain
Medy Y. Sanadidi, UCLA, USA
Robert Schober, University of British Columbia, Canada 
Shahram Shahbazpanahi, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
Nirmala Shenoy, Rochester Institute of
Technology, USA
Rajeev Shorey, General Motors Research
, India
Reza Soleymani,
Concordia University, Canada
Boon Hee Soong, Nayang Technological University, Singapore
Leszek Szczecinski, INRS - EM&T, Canada
Hideki Tode, Osaka University, Japan
Petia Todorova,
Fraunhofer FOKUS
, Germany
Ljiljana Trajkovic,
Simon Fraser University, Canada
Wipawee Usaha, Suranaree
University of Technology
  Thailand
M. Angeles Vazquez Castro, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Felix Jesus Villanueva, Universidad de Castilla-la Mancha, Spain
Jiangzhou Wang, University of Kent, UK
Ruhai Wang, Lamar University, USA
Shuangqing Wei, Louisiana State University, USA
Jingxian Wu, Sonoma State University, USA
Kui Wu, University of Victoria, Canada
Dapeng Oliver Wu,
University of Florida, USA
Alexander M. Wyglinski,
University of Kansas, USA
Enjung Xiao, The University of Texas at  Arlington, USA
Yang Xiao,
University of Alabama
, USA
Takaya Yamazato,
Nagoya University, Japan
Kun Yang,
University of Essex, UK
Oliver Yang, University of Ottawa, Canada
Halim Yanikomeroglu,
Carleton University, Canada
Hao Yin,
Tsinghua University, China
Su-Khiong Yong, Samsung Advanced Institute of
Technology, Korea
Shahram Yousefi, Queen’s University, Canada
Chao-Tang Yu,
Southern Taiwan University of Technology, ROC
Wei Yu, University of Toronto, Canada
Djamal Zeghlache, Institut National des Telecommunications, France
Hans-Jurgen Zepernick, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Honggang Zhang, Create-Net, Italy
Yahong Zheng, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA
Qinqing Zhang, Lucent Technologies, USA
Shengli Zhou, University of Connecticut, USA
Weihua Zhuang, University of Waterloo, Canada
Michele Zorzi, Università degli Studi di Padova
, Italy

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