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European Wireless 2002
Next Generation Wireless Networks:
Technologies, Protocols, Services and Applications
February 26-28, 2002 – Florence, Italy
http://www.ing.unipi.it/ew2002
Sponsored by EUREL, AICA, VDE
General Chair:
L. Lenzini, Univ. of Pisa, Italy
Steering Committee Chair:
B. Walke, Aachen Univ. of Technology, Germany
Program Chairs:
J. Dunlop, Univ. of Strathclyde, UK
M. Luise, Univ. of Pisa, Italy
Panel Chair:
D. Grillo, Alcatel Italia, Italy
Tutorial Chair:
E. Mingozzi, Univ. of Pisa, Italy
Local Arrangements Chair:
G. Stea, Univ. of Pisa, Italy
Technical Program Committee:
A. Acampora, UCSD, USA
I. F. Akyildiz, Georgia Tech, USA
M. Ajmone Marsan, Poli. di Torino, Italy
A. Baier, D2 Vodafone, Germany
P.W. Baier, Univ. of Kaiserslautern, Germany
A. Baiocchi, Univ. “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy
S. Benedetto, Poli. di Torino, Italy
M. Bonuccelli, Univ. of Pisa, Italy
A. Cantoni, Univ. of West. Australia, Australia
G. Caire, Institut EURECOM, France
H. Chaloupka, UniWuppertal, Germany
S. Chia, Vodafone, USA
M. Conti, CNUCE/CNR, Italy
F. Davoli, Univ. of Genova, Italy
R. De Gaudenzi, European Space
Agency/ESTEC
J. Eberspächer, Munich Univ. of Technology,
Germany
K. Estola, Nokia, Finland
B. Evans, Univ. of Surrey, Guildford, UK
D. Everitt, Swinburne Univ. of Technology,
Australia
R. Fantacci, Univ. of Florence, Italy
G. Fettweis, Dresden Univ. of Technology,
Germany
B. Fino, CNAM, Paris, France
L. Fratta, Poli. di Milano, Italy
P. Godlewski, ENST, Paris, France
D. Grillo, Alcatel Italia, Italy
Z. J. Haas, Cornell Univ., USA
J. Hagenauer, Munich Univ. of Technology,
Germany
J. Holtzman, Qualcomm, USA
K. Kawashima, NTT-AT, Tokyo, Japan
W. Koch, Ericsson Eurolab Deutschland,
Nürnberg, Germany
R. Lehnert, Univ. of Dresden, Germany
K. K. Leung, AT&T Labs - Research, USA
P. E. Leuthold, ETH Zürich, SEV/ITG,
Switzerland
J. Lindner, Univ. of Ulm, Germany
W. W. Lu, Siemens AG, Munich, Germany
E. Mingozzi, Univ. of Pisa, Italy
W. Mohr, Siemens, Munich, Germany
J. G. Proakis, Northeastern Univ., USA
P. Robertson, DLR, Germany
I. Stavrakakis, Univ. of Athens, Greece
G. Stea, Univ. of Pisa, Italy
R. Tafazolli, Univ. Surrey, VCE, UK
H. Takagi, Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan
Y. Takahashi, Kyoto Univ., Japan
L. Taylor, Fantasma Networks, CA, USA
P. Tran-Gia, Univ. of Würzburg, Germany
W. Tuttlebee, Mobile VCE, UK
M. Zukerman, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia
CALL FOR PAPERS
Scope: The conference will bring together researchers and practitioners presenting the
most up-to-date results and achievements primarily in the following fields: advancement in
physical layers and MAC protocols for indoor/cellular narrowband networks and broadband radio access systems; architectures and related protocols for the interworking of fixed
and wireless (terrestrial and satellite) networks; Quality of Service (QoS) in wireless networks and/or in the internetworking environment; Personal Communication Systems beyond the third generation. Contributions of original work are solicited in, but not restricted
to, the topics as given below.
· Adaptive Antennas
· Advances in Source and Channel Coding
· Base Station Technology
· Broadband Wireless Access
· Fixed/Mobile Networks Integration and Interworking
· Indoor Channel Modeling, Wave Propagation and Measurements
· Integration of Broadcast Services into point-to-point
Mobile Systems
· Integration of Radiolocalization Systems into Wireless
User Terminals
· Integration of Terrestrial and Satellite Networks
· Interference Mitigation and Management Techniques
· Internet as a Core Network
· Location-Based Services
· Mobile Ad-hoc Networks
· Mobile Agents
· Mobile Internet
· Mobile/Wireless Networks Architectures and Protocols
· Mobile/Wireless Networks Modeling and Simulation
· Modeling and Simulation of Wireless Transmission Systems
· Multiple Access Schemes
· Power Management
· Quality of Service and Resource Allocation
· Routing in Ad-hoc Networks
· Short Range Communication Systems
· Signal Design for 4th Generation Systems
· Signal Processing Techniques for Equalization and
Channel Estimation
· Wireless LANs
· Wireless Multimedia Systems
All papers will be reviewed by the program committee. Accepted papers will be published
in the conference proceedings. Papers of particular merit will be proposed for publication
in the AEI European Transactions on Telecommunications and ACM/Baltzer Wireless
Networks journals.
Tutorials: Within the events of the European Wireless 2002, tutorials on different topics
will be organized. Details will be available in the final conference announcement.
Best Student Papers Award: Papers with a student as a primary author will be considered for the European Wireless recognition prize. Student authors must clearly indicate
with their submission that they would like to be considered for this award.
Important Dates: All paper submissions will be handled electronically, following the instructions reported in http://www.ing.unipi.it/ew2002. The program committee
will enforce the following schedule:
Paper submission due:
September 15, 2001
Notification of acceptance: November 15, 2001
Camera-ready version due: December 10, 2001
For More Information: Please refer to the conference Web site or send e-mail to
[email protected] with any questions or comments about the conference or for more
information.