We invite the submission of applied research papers to the 11th Wireless Telecommunications Symposium (WTS 2011) to be held on April 18-20, 2012, in London, England, UK.
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The Wireless Telecommunications Symposium brings together industry professionals and academics from companies, governmental agencies, and universities around the world to exchange information on advances in mobile communications and wireless networking technology, applications, management, and security. Past WTS participants have included Dr. Irwin Jacobs, Chairman and Co-Founder of QUALCOMM; Mike Lazaridis, Founder, President, and Co-CEO, Research In Motion; Dr. Vinton Cerf, Dr. Robert Kahn, and Dr. Leonard Kleinrock, Internet pioneers; and Dr. Charles Elachi, Director, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Organizations represented have included Bell Laboratories, Vodafone, Verizon Communications, AT&T, Sprint Nextel, IBM, Ericsson, Nokia, Alcatel-Lucent, NTT DoCoMo, T-Mobile, Motorola, Cisco, QUALCOMM, RIM, Palm, Intel, Gartner, Forrester Research, The Carlyle Group, Arthur D. Little, Jupiter Research, PwC, MITRE Corporation, Aerospace Corporation, Nortel, BBN Technologies, KBS, KDDI, Broadcom Corporation, RBC Capital Markets, Ernst & Young, JPL, the FCC, the NTIA, DARPA, the FBI, and Ofcom.
The theme for WTS 2012 will be "Global Wireless Communications: A European Perspective". Other planned highlights of WTS 2012 include executive presentations and keynote addresses; presentations of accepted academic and practitioner research papers; panel discussions; tutorials and workshops; a poster paper session; and a doctoral students' session. Refereed proceedings will be published by the IEEE and be available on its Xplore online publication system. The proceedings also will be distributed at the Symposium via a CD. Awards will be given for the most outstanding paper presented and best graduate and undergraduate student papers presented. Some selected high quality papers from WTS 2012 will be considered for publication in a special issue of the International Journal of Interdisciplinary Telecommunications & Networking, IGI Global publisher, pending their successful extension and an expedited review process.
Topic areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Wireless Internet and Multimedia
Wireless Communications Investments and Ventures
Global Wireless Services and Business
3G/4G Wireless Networks & Systems
Mobile and Wireless Network Security and Privacy
Wireless Network Modeling, Algorithms, and Simulation
Spectrum Management and Policy
Ultra Wide-Band (UWB) Technology
Wireless Telecommunications Management
Spread-spectrum/CDMA/OFDM Technologies
GPS and Indoor Geo-location Systems
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802.11, Bluetooth, and RFID
Mobile Platform Operating Systems and Architectures
Integrated Wireless Systems
Signal Processing in Wireless Systems
QoS and Wireless Network Reliability
Wireless IP and Home Networks
Broadband Wireless Access
Mobile and WLAN Interoperability
Mobile Cellular TV
Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
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IMPORTANT DATES:
January 31, 2012: Paper Submission Deadline
February 21, 2012: Notification of Acceptance
March 18, 2012: Camera-Ready Submissions
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
See the website: www.csupomona.edu/wtsi
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WTS 2012 PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS
Dr. Michael Bartolacci
Penn State University - Berks, USA
mrb24@psu.edu
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Dr. Robert Stewart, Program Chair
Athlone Institute of Technology, Ireland
rstewart@aie.ie
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Technical Co-Sponsor: IEEE Communications Society |
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