Please mark your calendar to attend the 59th Annual IEEE Broadcast Symposium to be held at the Westin Hotel
in Alexandria, Virginia on 14-16 October 2009.
The Symposium Committee seeks technical papers on the following topics:

 Technical issues associated with the termination of analog television broadcasting
 Repurposing of analog television broadcast transmitters
 Digital radio and television systems: terrestrial, cable, satellite, Internet, wireless
 Streaming, IPTV, VoIP, VoD, Mobile TV, Wireless Multimedia
 Wireless Broadband Networks; e.g., IEEE 802.22 Wireless Regional Area Networks (“WRANs”)
 Transmission, propagation, reception, re-distribution of broadcast signals
o AM, FM, and TV transmitter and antenna systems
o Tests and measurements
o Cable and satellite technologies:
• Interconnections with over-the-air broadcasters •Transport stream issues
• Re-purposing of navigational information
o Advanced technologies and systems for emerging broadcasting applications
o Reception:
• Software-based receivers • DTV and IBOC reception issues • Smart antennas for indoor use • Noisefigure
management in a home environment • Compression and modulation for mobile and hand-held
sets • Diversity reception under dynamic multipath • Frequency- and time-domain equalization •
Wireless home distribution
o Transmission:
• Dynamic sharing of bandwidth • Spectrum re-packing optimization • New extensions for the ATSC VSB standard

Call for Tutorials: Proposals for half-day tutorials are also solicited based on the topics listed above.

Call for Panels: Proposals are solicited for panels on technology, application, business, and policy-related issues and opportunities for the broadcasting industry.

Prospective presenters are invited to submit extended abstracts of 500-1000 words by e-mail to bts@ieee.org.

Please indicate that the abstract is submitted to the 2009 Annual IEEE Broadcast Symposium, and include the corresponding author’s full name and contact information including: Affiliation, address, e-mail, and phone number. Abstracts may be submitted at any time for consideration to be included in the 2009 Symposium technical program. Final deadline for abstracts is 15 May 2009.

For more information about the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society, visit our web site: www.ieee.org/bts