The 5th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
Conference (IWCMC 2009)
21-24 JUNE 2009, LEIPZIG, GERMANY

IWCMC 2009 Website http://iwcmc.com/
Paper submission http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6827

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CALL FOR PAPERS

"Connecting the World Wirelessly"
The International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference
(IWCMC 2009) will be held on June 21-24, 2009. Under the theme of
"Connecting the World Wirelessly", IWCMC 2009 will target a wide spectrum of
the state-of-the-art as well as emerging topics pertaining to wireless
networks, wireless communications, and mobile computing. Continuing the
great success of previous IWCMC events, IWCMC 2009 is anticipated to attract
a large number of high-quality submissions and stimulate the cutting-edge
research discussions among many academic pioneering researchers/scientists
and industrial engineers/leaders from all around the world. Prospective
authors are invited to submit original technical papers to various IWCMC
2009 Symposia and workshops as listed below.

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IMPORTANT DATES

Submission: 20 Dec. 2008
Acceptance: 25 Mar. 2009
Author registration: 15 Apr. 2009
Camera-ready paper: 15 Apr. 2009
Conference: 21-24 June 2009

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Conference General Chair
Mohsen Guizani, Western Michigan University, USA

Conference General Co-Chairs
Peter Mueller, IBM, Switzerland
Klaus-Peter Fähnrich, University of Leipzig, Germany

Technical Program Chair
Athanasios (Thanos) Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece

Technical Program Co-Chairs
Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway

Jun Zheng, University of Ottawa, Canada

Publicity Chair

Shiwen Mao, Auburn University, USA

Publication Chair

Andreas J. Kassler, Karlstad University, Sweden

Local Arrangement Chairs

Wilfried Röder, University of Leipzig, Germany Karen Heyden, University of
Leipzig, Germany Martin Matzner, University of Leipzig, Germany

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FEATURES & INFORMATION

- A general symposium, ten specific technical symposia, seven workshops..

- Invited presentations, panel sessions, and pioneering keynote speakers .

- Conference Proceedings will be included in ACM/IEEE Digital Library
(pending approval).

- Selected papers will be further considered for possible publication in one
of two special issues of the Wiley Wireless Communications and Mobile
Computing (WCMC) and International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive
Communications Systems (IJAACS).

- There will be best paper and best symposium awards.

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SYMPOSIA

1. General Symposium
Honorary Chair: Xuemin (Sherman) Shen
Co-Chairs: Mehrdad Dianati, Xiaodong Lin, Jiming Chen

2. Communication and Information Theory Symposium Honorary Chair: Hamid
Sadjadpour
Co-Chairs: Seyed (Reza) Zekavat, Michael Rice, Athanassios Manikas

3. Computer and Network Security Symposium
Co-Chairs: Xiaojiang (James) Du, Raheem A. Beyah, Shigang Chen, Cliff Wang

4. Cross-Layer Optimized Wireless Networks Symposium
Co-Chairs: Thomas Michael Bohnert, Edmundo Monteiro, Lingyang Song, Baoxian
Zhang

5. MIMO Systems Symposium
Co-Chairs: Tarik Ait-Idir, Tolga Duman, Are Hjørungnes, Cheng-Xiang Wang

6. Mobile Computing Symposium
Co-Chairs: Kun Yang, Jie Li, Pingyi Fan, Dilip Krishnaswamy

7. Multimedia over Wireless Symposium
Co-Chairs: Toufik Ahmed, Christian Timmerer

8. Next Generation Mobile Networks Symposium Honorary Chairs: Victor Leung,
Javan Erfanian
Co-Chairs: Ekram Hossain, Richard Yu, Dusit Niyato Publicity Chair: Dongmei
Zhao

9. WiMAX/WiBro Services and QoS Management Symposium
Co-Chairs: Bechir Hamdaoui, Kyriakos Manousakis

10. Wireless LANs and Wireless PANs Symposium
Co-Chairs: Tarik Taleb, Cheng Li
Publicity Chair: Stepan Kucera

11. Wireless Sensor Networks Symposium
Co-Chairs: Yang Yang, Song Ci, Nidal Nasser

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WORKSHOPS

1. Advanced Mobile Computing Applications
Co-Chairs: Romano Fantacci, Daniele Tarchi, Francesco Tisato, Marco
Vanneschi

2.. Cooperative and Cognitive Networks
Co-Chairs: Merouane Debbah, Zhu Han, Sau Hsuan Wu

3. Mobile P2P
Co-Chairs: Xiaoming Fu, Christer Åhlund

4. Mobility and its Applications
Co-Chairs: Han-Chieh (Josh) Chao, Sherali Zeadally, Tin-Yu Wu

5. Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing
Co-Chairs: Do van Thanh, Mieso Denko

6. Planning and Optimization of Wireless Communication Networks
Co-Chairs: Jie Zhang, Richard Harris, Lingyang Song, Jijun Luo, Petri
Mahonen

7. Vehicular Communication Technology
Co-Chairs: Cheng-Xiang Wang, Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, Pedro M. Ruiz, Yuh-Shyan
Chen, Chih-Yung Chang, Tzung-Shi Chen, Sidi-Mohammed Senouci, Athanasios
(Thanos) Vasilakos

8. Autonomic Wireless Networking
Co-Chairs: Falko Dressler, Tommaso Melodia, Enzo Mingozzi