This event is co-located with IWSSC 2009 (for more details see: http://iwssc09.dii.unisi.it/)

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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