Call for Papers

PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS

SIXTH ANNUAL WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYMPOSIUM (WTS 2007)
www.csupomona.edu/~wtsi

April 26- 28, 2007, Kellogg West Conference Center, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California

Previous Co-Sponsor: IEEE Communications Society
Previous Technical Co-Sponsors: INFORMS Telecommunications Section in cooperation with ACM SIGMOBILE

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We invite the submission of applied research papers to the 6th Wireless Telecommunications Symposium, WTS 2007, which will be held on April 26-28, 2007 at the Kellogg West Conference Center at Cal Poly Pomona in Pomona, California. For further information, visit www.csupomona.edu/wtsi.

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. Charles Elachi, Director, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Michael Gallagher, Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration; and John Muleta, former Chief of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission. Organizations represented have included Bell Laboratories, Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Cingular Wireless, Sprint Nextel, IBM Research, Ericsson, Nokia, Lucent Technologies, NTT DoCoMo, T-Mobile, Motorola, Cisco, QUALCOMM, RIM, Palm, Intel, Gartner, Forrester Research, Arthur D. Little, Jupiter Research, PwC, MITRE Corporation, Aerospace Corporation, Nortel, Alcatel, KBS, Broadcom Corporation, RBC Capital Markets, Ernst & Young, JPL, the FCC, the NTIA, DARPA, and the FBI.

Planned highlights of WTS 2007 include executive presentations and keynote addresses; presentations of accepted academic and practitioner research papers; panel discussions, including Future Directions in Wireless Communications Research, Wireless Network Security, New Wireless Communications Ventures, Wireless Communications Investments, and Mobile Wireless Services and Business; tutorials and workshops; a poster paper session; 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. Applicable student papers are welcome. Awards will be given for the outstanding undergraduate and graduate papers submitted.

Topic areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

Wireless Internet, WML, 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
Indoor Geolocation Systems

Satellite Based Systems
802.11, Bluetooth, and RFID
Mobile Platform Operating Systems and Architectures
Integrated GPS/Wireless Systems
Signal Processing in Wireless Systems
QoS and Wireless Network Reliability
Wireless IP and Home Networks
Broadband Wireless Access
Mobile and WLAN Interoperability
DMB Cellular Networks and Applications

To submit papers and review guidelines, visit www.csupomona.edu/wtsi. All submissions will be refereed blindly. Submitted papers should not exceed 5000 words, including a 200 word abstract. At least one listed author on the final paper must register for and attend WTS 2007 to present the paper and have it published.

All manuscripts should follow IEEE Computer Society Press Author Guidelines:
ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/instruct.pdf

IMPORTANT DATES:

January 7, 2007	Paper submission deadline
February 15, 2007	Notification of acceptance
March 15, 2007	Camera-ready submissions
WTS 2007 PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS:
Dr. Michael Bartolacci Penn State University mrb24@psu.edu		Dr. Katia Passerini New Jersey Institute of Technology Pkatia@adm.njit.edu
WTS COMMITTEE CHAIRS:
General Chair: Dr. Steven Powell, Cal Poly Pomona		Program Chair: Dr. JP Shim, Mississippi State University