(Paper submissions deadline is extended to March 30, 2012) - firm deadline

IEEE GLOBECOM 2012 will feature a comprehensive technical program including 12 Symposia and a number of Tutorials and Workshops. IEEE GLOBECOM 2012 will also include an attractive industrial and forum program featuring keynote speakers, various Business, Technology and Industry fora, and vendor exhibits. Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical papers for presentation at the conference and publication in the Proceedings. Proposals for Tutorials, Workshops, and Fora are also invited. Visit the IEEE GLOBECOM 2012 website, http://www.ieee-globecom.org/2012, for details and submission information.

–– IEEE GLOBECOM 2012 will feature the following 12 technical symposia. ––

Symposium on Selected Areas in Communications
Track: Access Systems and Networks
Ravi Subrahmanyan, Immedia Semiconductor, USA
Track: Power Line Communications and SmartGrid
Moises Ribeiro, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil
Track: Green Networks and Communication Systems
Michael Devetsikiotis, North Carolina State Univ., USA
Track: Data Storage
Zining Wu, Marvell, USA
Track: Satellite & Space Communication
Hiromitsu Wakana, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
Track: Tactical Communications and Situation Management
Kenneth Young, Telcordia, USA

Ad Hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium
Nidal Nasser, Guelph University, Canada
Stefano Basagni, Northeastern University, USA
Lynda Mokdad, University of Paris-Est, Créteil, France
Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, ENSIIE & CNRS LIGM Lab, France
Jianping Pan, University of Victoria, Canada

Communication and Information System Security Symposium
Wenjing Lou, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland
Shiguo Lian, France Telecom R&D, China

Communication Theory Symposium
Erik Perrins, University of Kansas, USA
Cheng Li, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Hyundong Shin, Kyung Hee University, Korea

Communications QoS, Reliability and Modelling Symposium
Fabrizio Granelli, University of Trento, Italy
Chonggang Wang, Interdigital, USA
Tetsuya Yokotani, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan

Communications Software, Services and Multimedia Symposium
Shiwen Mao, Auburn University, USA
Gene Cheung, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Brice Augustin, University of Paris, France
Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, UFRGS, Brazil

Cognitive Radio and Networks Symposium
Ahmed Kamal, Iowa State University, USA
Peter Jung, KommunikationsTechnik, Germany
Girish Chandra, TCS Innovations Labs, India

Next Generation Networking and Internet Symposium
Abdallah Shami, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Stefano Giordano, University of Pisa, Italy
James Sterbenz, University of Kansas, USA
Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Optical Networks and Systems Symposium
Tarek S. El-Bawab, Jackson State University, USA
Brigitte Jaumard, University of Concordia, Canada
Jun Zheng, Southeast China University, China

Signal Processing for Communications Symposium
Hsiao-Chun Wu, Louisiana State Univ., USA
Tomoaki Ohtsuki, Keio University, Japan
Ying-Chang Liang, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

Wireless Communications Symposium
Yi Qian, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Ravi Adve, University of Toronto, Canada
Yahong Rosa Zheng, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA
Lorenzo Mucchi, University of Florence, Italy
Angela Yingjun Zhang, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Wireless Networking Symposium
Linda Xie, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA
Walaa Hamouda, Concordia University, Canada
Yusheng Ji, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA

IEEE GLOBECOM 2012 will feature several prominent keynote speakers, major business and technology fora, and a large number of vendor exhibits. Submit your proposals to the IF&E Chair Narisa Chu at narisa.chu@ieee.org.

TUTORIALS
Proposals are invited for half- or full-day tutorials in communication and networking topics. Instruction about tutorial proposals will be available on the web. For enquiries,
please contact the Tutorials Co-Chairs, niuzhs@tsinghua.edu.cn, xun.luo@ieee.org.

WORKSHOPS
Proposals are invited for half- or full-day workshops in communication and networking topics. Proposals should be submitted to Workshops Co-Chairs, Nirwan.ansari@njit.edu,
ixue@asu.edu.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Contact the TPC Chair, Zhensheng Zhang, zzhang@ieee.org, the TPC Vice Chair Stefano Bregni, bregni@elet.polimi.it, or the IF&E Chair Narisa Chu, narisa.chu@ieee.org.


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Executive Chair
Pierre Perra
Executive Vice Chair
Doug Zuckerman
Technical Program Chair
Zhensheng Zhang
Technical Program Vice Chair
Stefano Bregni
Industry Forum & Exhibit Chair
Narisa Chu
Conference Operations Chair
Geoff Lenart
Symposia Co-Chairs
Abbas Jamalipour
Nei Kato
Tutorials Co-Chairs
Zhisheng Niu
Xun Luo
Workshops Co-Chairs
Nirwan Ansari
Guoliang (Larry) Xue
Publications Co-Chairs
Yang Yang
Tamer ElBatt
Student Travel Grant Chair
Hongchi Shi
TPC to IF&E Liaison
Nasir Ghani
GITC Advisor
Abbas Jamalipour
GIMS Advisor
Jerry Gibbon

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission: 15 March 2012
Tutorial Proposal: 15 March 2012
Workshop Proposal: 15 January 2012
Paper Acceptance: 1 July 2012
Camera-Ready: 1 August 2012

To be published in the IEEE GLOBECOM 2012 Conference Proceedings and IEEE Xplore®, an author of an accepted paper is required to register for the conference at the full or limited (member or non-member) rate and the paper must be presented at the conference. Non-refundable registration fees must be paid prior to uploading the final IEEE formatted, publication-ready version of the paper. For authors with multiple accepted papers, one full or limited registration is valid for up to 3 papers. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the IEEE GLOBECOM 2012 Conference Proceedings and IEEE Xplore®.