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The First International Workshop on Broadband Wireless Access (BWIA'07)

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    GENERAL CHAIR
    Sudip Misra Yale University, USA
    PROGRAM CHAIRS
    Isaac Woungang
    Subhas C. Misra    		 Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
    State University of New York-Buffalo, USA
    PROGRAM CHAIRS
    Issa Traore University of Victoria, Canada

    Wireless communication technologies are undergoing rapid advancements. The last few years have experienced a steep growth in research interest in the area of broadband wireless access networks. Even though this area holds great promises for our future, there are several challenges that need to be addressed. The goal of this Workshop is to provide a forum for researchers, scientists and engineers working in academia and industry to share their experiences, new ideas and research results in the areas of broadband wireless access networks. Topics of interest include all aspects of broadband wireless access including, but not limited to:

    • New architectures, technologies, protocols for broadband wireless access
    • Medium access control and QoS
    • Security and privacy issues
    • Service level agreements
    • Radio extension such as 802.xx (WiFi, WiMax, etc)
    • Modulation, coding and antennas (MIMO)
    • UMTS and extensions
    • Scalability and reliability issues
    • Wireless mesh networks
    • Optical wireless access networks
    • QoS in mobile and broadband wireless access networks
    • Radio Resource Management and call admission control
    • Capacity Planning and Traffic Engineering
    • Physical and Data link layer Issues
    • Spectrum management
    • Interoperability aspects (fixed/mobile LANs/MANs, WANs)
    • Micro and macro mobility Management
    • 3G/4G Wireless Technologies
    • Cross-layer interactions and optimization
    • Network management
    • Experiences/lessons from recent deployments

    PAPER SUBMISSION:
    Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished work in PDF format to smisra.editor@gmail.com before the deadline date. Please follow the formatting information at http://www.accessnets.org/2007/kit.htm Please resubmit your paper if you have not received confirmation of its receipt within two days of submission.

    IMPORTANT DATES:

    Paper submission deadline: June 15, 2007
    Notification to the authors: June 25, 2007
    Final manuscripts due: June 30, 2007

    FURTHER INFORMATION:
    Further information regarding the Workshop or paper submission can be obtained from the Gereral Chair, Dr. Sudip Misra (e-mail address: smisra.editor@gmail.com).

    PUBLICATION:
    All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and will be made available in the IEEE Xplore.

    Authors of the best papers from the Workshop will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for consideration of publication in the International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems, Inderscience Publishers, U.K.

The First International Workshop on Microwaves and Photonics in Access Networks (MICPAN’07)

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    WORKSHOP CHAIR Xavier Fernando Chair, IEEE COMSOC Toronto Chapter
    PUBLICITY CHAIR Fasih Masood Secretary, IEEE COMSOC Toronto Chapter

    Topics of interest include but are not limited to
    • IEEE 802.16 and 802.20 wireless access networks
    • IEEE 802.11 in access networks
    • Public hot-spots and related issues
    • Distributed antenna wireless access networks
    • GPON and EPON networks
    • Fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) and Fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) access networks
    • Optical generation and processing of millimetre and microwave signals
    • Subcarrier multiplexed optical access networks, either passive or active
    • Multimode or polymer fiber based optical access networks.
    • Signal processing in access networks
    • Subcarrier multiplexed WDM access networks
    • MAC, Transport and Network layer issues in access networks
    • Free space optical access networks
    • Ultra wideband technology in access networks
    • Multimedia services over access networks and related issues

    PAPER SUBMISSION:
    Please follow the formatting information at http://www.accessnets.org/2007/kit.htm
    Please email the electronic papers to Conference Chair at xavier@ieee.org

    IMPORTANT DATES:

    Paper submission deadline: June 15, 2007
    Notification to the authors: June 25, 2007
    Final manuscripts due: June 30, 2007