www.accessnetworks.org

Scope:
The access area is represented by a technology alphabet soup spanning wired, wireless and legacy networks is seen to be rapidly emerging with a strong and sustained technological and business growth. Research has led to massive development and deployment in the access networking space leading to significant efforts in merging the bandwidth bottleneck between ever growing PC speeds and the high speed network core. In addition to broadband services, the access area also represents consumers that desire pervasive as well as ubiquitous services. Therefore, the access network is a hot investment pool from both a financial as well as a research perspective.

Accessnets is a forum that brings together scientists/researchers from academia and managers/engineers from the industry and government organizations to meet and exchange ideas and recent work in this emerging area of networking.

Accessnets will be held in the beautiful and historic city of Athens Greece in the Summer of 2006, between September 4 and 6.

Accessnets will have two technology tracks and a business track:

• Wired track: The wired track encourages researchers and industry to discuss recent work as well as upcoming ideas relegated to the field of wired access networks. Specifically papers are solicited to the areas pertaining to xDSL technology, Passive Optical Networking technology, Coaxial Copper technology, and Coarse WDM technology.
• Wireless track: The wireless track encourages researchers and industry to discuss recent work as well as upcoming ideas relegated to the field of wireless communication in the last mile and the last inch. Specifically, papers are solicited in the areas of fixed wireless broadband access (e.g. Wifi and WIMAX) and mobile network design and protocols as well as in the area of personal wireless networks.
• Business track: The business track will focus on issues pertaining to e-government, community networks, regulatory issues and public/municipal infrastructures. The business track will be a forum for exchange of ideas between communities and vendors as well as between communities themselves from technological, investment, regulatory and deployment perspectives. Industry leaders and community captains will be invited speakers in this track.

Call for papers:
Papers are solicited but not restricted to the following areas:

1. Passive Optical Networks
2. xDSL technology
3. Long Reach Ethernet over Copper
4. Standards for High speed short haul Ethernet
5. Fiber to the Home, Premise, Curb, Desktop, user
6. Coarse WDM
7. Powerline Communications
8. Coaxial Cable technologies
9. Hybrid Fiber Coaxial technologies
10. WiFi Networks
11. WIMAX networks
12. WIMAX subsystem design
13. OFDM issues in Wireless communications
14. Cross-layer design
15. Cross-Media Networks (Hybrid Media Networks)/ Independent Media Networks
16. Business case issues in Access Networks
17. Municipal and Community Networks
18. Regulatory Issues
19. Deployments in Access Networks
20. Management issues in Access networks
21. Billing consumers in the access area

Panels:
Panel proposals are solicited from researchers and industry for discussing hot and controversial topics in access networks. Please send panel proposals to panelchair@accessnets.org

Workshops:
Workshop proposals are solicited from researchers and industry for discussing focused issues that are immediately relevant to the growth of access networks. Please send workshop proposals to workshopchair@accessnets.org

Tutorials:
Tutorial proposals are solicited from researchers and industry for dissemination of first hand knowledge amongst peers and to the academic community as well as industry folks. Please send half day or full day proposal, a brief bio and previous tutorial expectation to tutorialchair@accessnets.org

Important Dates:
Call for Papers: December 25^th 2005
Submission Deadline: April 15^th 2005
Notification of TPC decisions: May 25^th
Registration and Camera ready upload: June 25^th.
Conference Dates: SEPT 04-06 2006

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