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submission deadline to May 15, 2011.
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14th International Symposium on
Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications

October 3-6, 2011, Brest, France
http://www.wpmc2011.org
*final* submission deadline : May 15, 2011

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Sponsored by NICT, YRP, Technopole Brest Iroise, Brest Metropole Oceane
Technically co-sponsored by CNRS, IEEE ComSoc, IEEE Section France, SEE

The Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications Symposium (WPMC'11)
will be held in Brest, France. The WPMC symposia series were inaugurated
in 1998 at Yokosuka Research Park, Japan, as a global platform which
aims at enabling collaboration in the field of wireless information and
multimedia communications. Held in Asia, Europe and America, WPMC has
established itself as a unique global conference dedicated to wireless
multimedia convergence.

Continuing the series, the 14th International Symposium on Wireless
Personal Multimedia Communications will be held for the first time in
France. The theme of the Symposium is "Communications, Networking and
Applications for the Internet of Things". In addition to high-class
technical sessions, the Symposium will feature four workshops,
tutorials as well as product exhibits.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Transmission Technologies
* Opportunistic and cognitive radios
* MIMO techniques and smart adaptive antennas
* Multiplexing and multiple access schemes
* Radio propagation and channel modeling
* SDR and other implementation technologies
* Wireless optical communications
* Underwater communications

Wireless Networks
* Convergence of networks and future network topologies
* DTN, Ad-hoc and sensor networks
* Co-operative communications
* Techniques for capacity and range extension
* Wireless mesh networks
* Energy-Aware Network Architecture
* Cross layer optimization
* Radio resource management and spectrum management
* Broadcasting for Mobile applications
* Satellite mobile communications
* Trustworthy Networks, Privacy and Security Models

Applications and Services
* Experiments, trials and deployment
* User-centric services
* Quality of Experience
* Location and identification based services
* Mobile multimedia and mobile TV
* Wellness and healthcare
* Terrestrial and Maritime ITS applications
* Emergency telecommunications
* ICT for energy efficiency
* Communication and Network Technologies for new services
* Wireless Cloud

Systems and Regulation
* Mobile cellular systems future development
* Spectrum policies, sharing and coexistence
* Harmonization and systems coexistence


Submission guidelines
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Authors are invited to submit full papers (5 pages maximum) according
to the detailed instructions given on
http://www.wpmc2011.org/Submission_Procedure-583-0-0-0.html

Papers accepted will be published in the Conference Proceedings and
will be available worldwide through IEEE Xplore.

Authors of the 3 best papers of WPMC will be invited to submit an
extended version of their papers for publication in Annals of
Telecommunications.
Annals of Telecommunications is an international journal publishing
original peer reviewed papers in the field of telecommunications and is
indexed in ISI and Scopus Databases.
http://www.annals-of-telecommunications.com/

Organizing committee
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* General Chair
Paul Friedel, Vice-President of Images & Reseaux,
Director of Telecom Bretagne, President of SEE, France
* TPC Co-Chairs
Europe : Xavier Lagrange, Telecom Bretagne, France
Asia Pacific: Ryuji Kohno, Yokohama National University, Japan
Americas: Catherine Rosenberg, University of Waterloo, Canada
* TPC Secretary and publication chair
Ramesh Pyndiah, Telecom Bretagne, France
* General Affairs Co-Chair
Eric Vandenbroucke, Technopole Brest Iroise, France
Bertrand Guilbaud, Images & Reseaux cluster CEO, France
* Tutorial Sessions Co-Chair
Jean-Marie Bonnin, Telecom Bretagne, France
* Special Sessions Chair
Aymeric Poulain Maubant, Nereys, France

WPMC 2011 important dates
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Final Submission deadline: May 15, 2011
Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2011
Camera ready submission: September 12, 2011