TECHNICAL SYMPOSIA

• Other Selected Areas in Communications

Bruce Wilson, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, Bruce.Wilson@hitachigst.com
Henry Pfister, Texas A&M University, hpfister@tamu.edu
Mario Marchese, University of Genoa, Mario.Marchese@unige.it
Andrea Tonello, Universita' di Udine, tonello@uniud.it
Honggang Zhang, CREATE-NET, honggang.zhang@create-net.org

The IEEE GC 2008 Symposium on Selected Areas in Communications will include topics related to all aspects of communications, which are not covered under the individual symposia. Tentative topics are suggested below.

Topics of Interest

1.  Satellite and Space Communications

Air Interface over Satellite Networks
• Adaptive Coding Modulation for Satellite Communication Networks
• Fading Countermeasures over Satellite Networks
• Satellite Channel Management
• Power and Bandwidth Allocation Solutions over Satellite Networks
• Emerging Standards: DVB-S2, DVB-RCS, IP over Satellite
 
Internetworking, Architecture, Protocols and Applications in Satellite Networks
• PEP Architectures and Solutions
• QoS-oriented Solutions for DVB-S2, DVB-RCS, IP over Satellite
• Satellite Dependent (SD) and Satellite Independent (SI) Solutions and Interfaces
   in Satellite

Gateways
• Satellite Gateways Optimization Algorithms
• Security in Satellite and Hybrid Networks
• New Protocols for Delay Tolerant Networks
• Deep-space Communication
 
Control and Algorithms for Satellite Networks
• Satellite Network Control and Management
• Control Architectures and Algorithms for Satellite and Heterogeneous Internetworking
• Control Schemes for Resource Allocation over Satellite Channels

2.  Emerging Technologies for Access and Home Networks

Power Line Communications
• Channel Measurements and Modeling
• Electromagnetic Compatibility
• Modulation and Coding Techniques
• Multicarrier, OFDM and Spread Spectrum Techniques
• Information and Communication Theory for PLC
• Multiple Access, Signal Processing, Detection Techniques
• Multimedia Transmission and Signal Processing
• Modem and LSI Design
• Networks and Protocols
• System Architectures
• Access and In-Home PLC System
• In-Vehicle Power Line Networks
• AMR and Utility Applications
• PLC Command and Control
• Co-existence and Interoperability
• Security in PLC
• Emerging Technologies, Applications, and Services
• Experimental Systems and Field Trials
• Standards and Regulations

Emerging Techologies for Wireless, Optical, Copper Access and Home Networks
• Wireless Local Loop
• WiFi, WiMax Networks
• Broadband Wireless Access and In-Home Networks
• Hybrid Wireless-wired LANs
• FTTx and PON Technologies, Fiber to the Home, Premise, Curb, Desktop
• Free Space Optic LAN-PAN Systems
• Access over Fiber, Copper Cable and Hybrid Network Architectures
• Long-reach Ethernet over Copper
• xDSL and Dynamic Spectrum Management

Emerging Technologies, Systems, and Applications
• Home Networks: Technologies, Protocols, Management and Applications
• Networked Appliances In-Home Networks
• Residential Gateways, Municipal and Community Networks
• Pervasive Access
• Emerging Standards and Pproposals
• System Modeling and Performance Evaluation
• Demonstrators and Experimental Trials
• Regulatory Issues, Unbundling of the Access Network
 
3.  Data Storage

• Identification and Modeling of the Data Storage Systems as communications Channels
• Media Noise Characterization and Modeling
• Mitigating Nonlinear Effects (write precompensation and read nonlinearity correction)
• Detection Methods
• Modulation Codes
• Distance Enhancing Codes Suitable for Iterative Decoding
• Error-correcting Codes, Trellis Coding, and Turbo Codes
• Systems of Concatenated Codes
• Combined Equalization and Coding
• Equalization, Filtering, and Detection, including Methods applicable to Channels with
   Data-dependent Noise and Nonlinearities
• Circuit Designs for Read/Write Channel Electronics and Coding
• Architectures for Iterative Decoding on Data Storage Channels
• Timing Recovery, Gain Recovery, and DC Restore Loops
• Detection, Signal Processing, and Coding of Servo Information
• Coding Bounds, Density, and Channel Capacity
• Data Compression for Digital Storage, including Audio and Video
• Multiple-head Systems
• Signal Processing for Optical Storage Systems
• Signal Processing and Coding for Emerging Data Storage Technologies, including
   HolographicRecording, Probe Storage and Multi-level Optical Recording
• Cost versus Performance Issues surrounding Design of Storage Systems
• Hard Decision Error Control Codes for Storage including Coding for Disk Arrays
• Special Issues surrounding Signal Processing and Coding for Removable Storage
   Devices Storage Area Networks

4. Cognitive Radio and Networks
• Spectrum policy reform and regulatory issues
• Standardization efforts (e.g., IEEE 802.22, IEEE SCC 41)
• Spectrum etiquettes for dynamic spectrum access
• Inter-operability and co-existence of diverse wireless networks
• Fundamental performance limits of cognitive networks
• Platforms to implement cognitive networks (e.g., software definedradios)
• Cognitive MAC, routing and application layer protocols
• Distributed detection of spectrum holes
• Coding for QoS support in cognitive radio
• Simulation and modeling of adaptive wireless networks
• Security issues in secondary spectrum sharing
• Testbeds
• Spectrum markets
• Applications of cognitive radio and networks (e.g., emergencynetworks)

 5. Other related technologies

• Papers addressing communications issues not directly addressed in any of the ten
   named symposia will be considered.