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http://www.ieee-globecom.org/2008/symposium/other.html
General Symposium on Selected Areas in Communications
IEEE GLOBECOM 2008
CALL FOR PAPERS
Brief Description
The IEEE GLOBECOM 2008 Symposium on Selected Areas in Communications will include topics related to all aspects of communications, which are not covered under the individual symposia. It will have specific tracks on Satellite and Space Communications, Emerging Technologies for Access and Home Networks, Data Storage, Cognitive Radio and Networks.
Important Dates
Papers submission DEADLINE EXTENDED: March 31, 2008 Notification of decision: June 28, 2008 Camera-ready deadline: August 15, 2008 Instructions for Authors
Papers must represent high-quality and previously unpublished work. Original research papers are solicited in all areas of computer and communications network security. All submissions will be handled electronically through the EDAS conference management system at www.edas.info and must be in PDF format, with a maximum length of five pages. A formatting template may be found at:
http://www.comsoc.org/confs/globecom/2008/downloads/template.pdf
Tracks and Topics of Interest
Power Line Communications • Channel Measurements and Modelling • Electromagnetic Compatibility • Modulation and Coding Techniques • Multicarrier, OFDM and Spread Spectrum Techniques • Information and Communication Theory for PLC • Multiple Access, Signal Processing, Detection Techniques • Multimedia Transmission and Signal Processing • Modem and LSI Design • Networks and Protocols • System Architectures • Access and In-Home PLC System • In-Vehicle Power Line Networks • AMR and Utility Applications • PLC Command and Control • Co-existence and Interoperability • Security in PLC • Emerging Technologies, Applications, and Services • Experimental Systems and Field Trials • Standards and Regulations Emerging Technologies for Wireless, Optical, Copper Access and Home Networks • Wireless Local Loop • WiFi, WiMax Networks • Broadband Wireless Access and In-Home Networks • Hybrid Wireless-wired LANs • FTTx and PON Technologies, Fiber to the Home, Premise, Curb, Desktop • Free Space Optic LAN-PAN Systems • Access over Fiber, Copper Cable and Hybrid Network Architectures • Long-reach Ethernet over Copper • xDSL and Dynamic Spectrum Management Emerging Technologies, Systems, and Applications • Home Networks: Technologies, Protocols, Management and Applications • Networked Appliances In-Home Networks • Residential Gateways, Municipal and Community Networks • Pervasive Access • Emerging Standards and Proposals • System Modeling and Performance Evaluation • Demonstrators and Experimental Trials • Regulatory Issues, Unbundling of the Access Network
Air Interface over Satellite Networks
• Adaptive Coding and Modulation for Satellite Communication Networks
• Fading Countermeasures over Satellite Networks
• Satellite Channel Management
• Power and Bandwidth Allocation Solutions over Satellite Networks
• Emerging Standards: DVB-S2, DVB-RCS, IP over Satellite
Internetworking, Architecture, Protocols and Applications in Satellite Networks
• PEP Architectures and Solutions
• QoS-oriented Solutions for DVB-S2, DVB-RCS, IP over Satellite
• Satellite Dependent (SD) and Satellite Independent (SI) Solutions and Interfaces
Gateways
• Satellite Gateway Optimization Algorithms
• Security in Satellite and Hybrid Networks
• New Protocols for Delay Tolerant Networks
• Deep-space Communication
Control and Algorithms for Satellite Networks
• Satellite Network Control and Management
• Control Architectures and Algorithms for Satellite and Heterogeneous Internetworking
• Control Schemes for Resource Allocation over Satellite Channels
3. Data Storage (Co-chairs: Dr. Bruce Wilson, Prof. Henry Pfister)
• Identification and Modeling of the Data Storage Systems as communications Channels
• Media Noise Characterization and Modeling
• Mitigating Nonlinear Effects (write precompensation and read nonlinearity correction)
• Detection Methods
• Modulation Codes
• Distance Enhancing Codes Suitable for Iterative Decoding
• Error-correcting Codes, Trellis Coding, and Turbo Codes
• Systems of Concatenated Codes
• Combined Equalization and Coding
• Equalization, Filtering, and Detection,
including Methods applicable to Channels with Data-dependent Noise and Nonlinearities
• Circuit Designs for Read/Write Channel Electronics and Coding
• Architectures for Iterative Decoding on Data Storage Channels
• Timing Recovery, Gain Recovery, and DC Restore Loops
• Detection, Signal Processing, and Coding of Servo Information
• Coding Bounds, Density, and Channel Capacity
• Data Compression for Digital Storage, including Audio and Video
• Multiple-head Systems
• Signal Processing for Optical Storage Systems
• Signal Processing and Coding for Emerging Data Storage Technologies, including
Holographic Recording, Probe Storage and Multi-level Optical Recording
• Cost versus Performance Issues surrounding Design of Storage Systems
• Hard Decision Error Control Codes for Storage including Coding for Disk Arrays
• Special Issues surrounding Signal Processing and Coding for Removable Storage
Devices Storage Area Networks
4. Cognitive Radio and Networks (Chair: Dr. Honggang Zhang)
• Spectrum etiquettes for dynamic spectrum access
• Spectrum policy reform and regulatory issues
• Spectrum markets
• Security issues in secondary spectrum sharing
• Fundamental performance limits of cognitive radio and networks
• Cognitive MAC, routing and application layer protocols
• Distributed detection of spectrum holes
• Coding for QoS support in cognitive radio
• Inter-operability and co-existence of diverse wireless networks
• Bio and AI-inspired algorithms
• Ultra-wideband cognitive radio and networks
• Simulation and modelling of adaptive wireless networks
• Platforms to implement cognitive radio and networks (e.g., software-defined radio)
• Cognitive radio testbeds
• Standardization efforts (e.g., IEEE 802.22, IEEE SCC 41)
• Applications of cognitive radio and networks (e.g., emergency networks)
5. Other related technologies
• Papers addressing communications issues not directly addressed in any of the ten
named symposia will be considered.
Sponsoring Technical Committees
IEEE ComSoc Cognitive Networks Technical Subcommittee (TCCN)
IEEE ComSoc Power Line Communications TC
IEEE ComSoc Transmission, Access and Optical Systems TC
IEEE ComsSoc Data Storage TC
IEEE GLOBECOM 2008 Selected Areas in Communications Symposium Co-Chairs
Bruce Wilson,
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