CCNC

2nd IEEE International Broadband Wireless
Access Workshop

Internet access is undergoing a fundamental change. A steadily increasing spectrum of services is attracting a rapidly growing number of users which, in turn, wish to access these services 'anytime and anywhere'. In order to meet this demand, Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) technologies are becoming extremely important and vendors and standardisation bodies respond to this development with new and powerful BWA technologies. Supporting transmission rates up to several megabits per second at distances far as tens of kilometres while providing full mobility support, these technologies provide the long-awaited means for delivering any telecommunication service over the Internet.

BWA technologies are yet in their infancy and one outcome is that many are far from being complete and optimised for such a versatile environment like the Internet. Consequently, BWA is currently receiving much attention by the research community. By organising this 1st BWA Workshop, it is our intention to bring together and provide an international forum for this research community. In this line, the workshop programme covers various aspects of these technologies including but not limited to:

Topics areas:

Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks
Incumbent and Future BWA Technologies, 802.16x, 802.20, UMTS, etc
QoS in Mobile and BWA Networks
Radio Resource Management, Admission Control and Scheduling
Capacity Planning and Traffic Engineering
Physical and Data link Layer Issues
Characterization, Modelling of BWA Traffic, Mobility and Channels
Large-scale and Heterogeneous BWA Evaluations
Spectrum Management
Interoperability Aspects (fixed/mobile LANs/MANs, WANs)
Vertical and Horizontal Integration
Micro and Macro mobility Management
3G/4G Wireless Technologies
Applications Support
Cross-layer Optimisation Approaches
Experimental Evaluation of Cross-layer Interactions
Multimedia Support
Network Management
(W)NGN Architectures and Trends
Design and Evaluation of Test beds
Experiences/lessons from recent deployments

Keynote

The keynote speaker for this event will be Dr. Klaus-Dieter Kohrt from Nokia Siemens Networks. Dr. Kohry is the incumbent Vice Chairman of the UMTS Forum and will present a talk on UMTS.

Guidelines for Submission

Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently under review in any other conference or journal, and has not been previously published.

Paper length should not exceed five-page technical paper manuscript. Please see the Author Information page for submission guidelines in the CCNC website. The paper should be used as the basis for a 20 - 30 minute workshop presentation.
Papers should be submitted in a .pdf or .ps format by selecting CCNC'08 on the EDAS paper submission website and then selecting the workshop submission link.
A separate cover sheet should show the title of the paper, the author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s), and the address (including e-mail, telephone, and fax) to which the correspondence should be sent.
All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings
At least one author of accepted papers is required to register at the full registration rate.

Important Dates

Paper Submission:                       5 Sept 2007
Author Notification:                       14 Sept 2007
Camera-ready Copy:                     10 Oct 2007
Author Registration Deadline:       10 Oct 2007
Workshop date:                           12 Jan 2008
General Chairs
Thomas Michael Bohnert, University of Coimbra, PT
Dmitri Moltchanov, Tampere University of Technology, FI

TPC Chair
Dirk Staehle, University of Wuerzburg, DE

Publicity Chair
Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Tampere University of Technology, FI

Technical Program Committee
Alexandre Fonte, Polytechnical Institute of Castelo Branco, PT
Andreas Kassler, Karlstad University, SE
Bob Askwith, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Cedric Westphal, Nokia Siemens Research Center, US
Eckhart Koerner, University of Applied Sciences Mannheim, DE
Eugen Borcoci, University Politehnica of Bucharest, RO
Francis Lee Bu Sung, Nanyang Technological University, SG
Fernando Velez, University of Beira Interior, PT
Francisco Barcelo-Arroyo, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, ES
Gabor Fodor, Ericsson Research, SE
Geng-Sheng Kuo, Beijing University of Post and Telecommunication, PRC
Georgios Paschos, University of Patras, GR
Geert Heijenk, University of Twente, NL
Giovanni Giambene, University of Siena, IT
Jorge Sá Silva, University of Coimbra, PT
Jorma Kilpi, VTT Research Centre, FI
Madjid Merabti, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Marc Necker, University of Stuttgart, GER
Nelson da Fonseca, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, BR
Nicola Ciulli, Consorzio Pisa Ricerche, IT
Paulo Simoes, University of Coimbra, PT
Saverio Mascolo, Politecnico di Bari, IT
Sean Murphy, University College Dublin, IE
Torsten Braun, University of Bern, CH
Vasilios Siris, University of Crete, GR
Vasos Vassiliou, University of Cyprus, GR
Xavier Pérez Costa, NEC Network Research Labs, DE

Important Dates