*****Apologies for multiple copies received****** ************************* CALL FOR PAPERS *************************** The Sixth International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems "Broadband Ubiquity for Society Needs" ISWCS'09 Siena-Tuscany, University of Siena, Italy, September 7-10, 2009 URL: http://www.iswcs.org/iswcs2009/ For information: iswcs09@dii.unisi.it Published papers will appear on IEEE Xplore Important Dates: Submission deadline (extended abstracts of full papers): March 16, 2009 Notification of acceptance: May 25, 2009 Camera-ready of accepted papers: June 22, 2009 This event is co-located with IWSSC 2009 (for more details see: http://iwssc09.dii.unisi.it/) *********************************************************************** Technical Co-Sponsorship by IEEE Communications Society This event is supported by the Vehicular technology Society The objective of this symposium is to provide a forum for researchers and technologists to present new ideas and contributions in the form of technical papers, panel discussions as well as real-world evaluation of many ideas in wireless communications and networking employed to support the needs of the Information Society. This sixth symposium, intends to bring together various wireless communication systems developers to discuss the current status, technical challenges, standards, fundamental issues, and future services and applications. ISWCS'09 seeks to address and capture highly-innovative and state-of-the-art research from the wireless industry as well as standardization advances. The scope of the conference includes a wide range of technical challenges encompassing wireless communications, quality of service support, wireless networking, cross-layer air interface design for improved performance, wireless broadband access, and cooperative networking. IMPORTANT: the authors of the best papers of ISWCS 2009 will be asked to submit their journal-versions to the Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Journal (by Springer, http://www.springer.com/engineering/signals/journal/11036) that has devoted to us a special issue! The topics of interest include but are not limited to the following one: - Cooperative communication systems - Cognitive radio networks - Radio resource management - Wireless access techniques - Cross-layer air interface design - Mobile Internet - Wireless privacy and security - Wireless IP - Wireless network architecture and technologies systems - Digital signal processing - Standardization in working groups IEEE 802.11, 802.15, and 802.16 - MANETs - Vehicular Networks (VANETs) - End-to-End QoS provision - Coding modulation and equalization - DVB and DAB techniques - Novel wireless routing techniques - Mobility management - RFID networking - MIMO - Traffic control and engineering - Wireless Mesh Networking - Wireless sensor networks - Innovative services and applications Paper Submission Guidelines: Acceptance will be based on an extended abstract or a full paper. In case of an extended abstract submission, diagrams, results, and bibliography have to be provided to allow the reviewers to assess the contribution of your work. In addition to the paper submission, an abstract (approx. 150 words) shall be submitted. The submission has to be performed electronically by March 16, 2009 via the EDAS system; look at the instruction on the conference web site: http://www.iswcs.org/iswcs2009/. For information, please s end email to the organization: iswcs09@dii.unisi.it. Tutorials: Proposals for tutorials should consist of a 1000 word summary plus a 150 word abstract with a cover page listing the details of the author(s); tutorial submissions should be made via email to iswcs09@dii.unisi.it by March 16, 2009. The social event will be organized in the surroundings (country-side) of Siena so that participants will taste the real Tuscany! For information, please send email to: iswcs09@dii.unisi.it. Organizing Committee: General Chair Giovanni Giambene, University of Siena, Italy General co-Chair Yuming Jiang, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway Finance Chair Boon Sain Yeo, SensiMesh Pte Ltd, Singapore Technical Program Chair Rajeev Shorey, GM Research, Bangalore, India Technical Program co-Chairs Falko Dressler, University of Erlangen, Germany Archan Misra, Telcordia Research, USA Panel Chair Maria Luisa Merani University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Tutorial Chair Andreas Kassler Karlstad University, Sweden Publication Chair Paolo Chini, University of Siena, Italy Web Chair Ciro Guariglia, University of Siena, Italy Steering Committee Boon Sain Yeo (Chair), SensiMesh Pte Ltd, Singapore Local Organizing Committee Giuliano Benelli, Paolo Chini, Samuele Giannetti, Snezana Hadzic, University of Siena, Italy Conference Secretariat: Giuliana Pasquini, University of Siena, Italy, Tel: +39 0577232136, Email: pasquini@unisi.it