CFP: IFIP WG 6.8 Conference on Personal Wireless Communications, Venice, Italy, September 23-25, 2003

["K. Pawlikowski" <krys@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz>]

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Conference Announcement and Preliminary Call for Papers

PWC 2003

The Eighth International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications
Sponsored by the IFIP WG 6.8 - Mobile and Wireless Communications
http://www.iit.cnr.it/pwc2003

September 23-25, 2003
Telecom Italia Future Centre - Venice, Italy
http://www.futurecentre.telecomitalia.it/eng/


PWC is the premier international forum for discussions between
researchers, practitioners and students interested in the symbiosis of
mobile computing and wireless networks. PWC 2003 is the eight conference
of this series and is sposored by IFIP WG 6.8

The PWC 2003 technical program committee is soliciting papers describing
original, previously unpublished, completed or on-going research, on
topics. including, but not limited to, the following:

- Mobile Web Access
- Mobile and Wireless Applications
- Pervasive computing
- Mobile and Wireless Networking
- IP-based Mobile Networks
- Mobility Management
- QoS in the Mobile and Wireless Networks
- Real-time voice/video over mobile and wireless networks
- Multicasting in Wireless Services
- Analysis, Simulation and Measurement of wireless and mobile systems
- Mobile ad hoc networks
- Wireless BAN, PAN and LAN
- Wi-Fi
- Third and Fourth Generation Systems
- 3G/WLAN internetworking
- Energy-efficient Protocols and Power Management

This year conference includes two special tracks to address hot topic
issues: sensor networks and wireless security.


PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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Papers should neither have been published elsewhere nor currently
under review by another conference or journal. For paper submission,
please follow the submission instructions at:
http://www.iit.cnr.it/pwc2003
All papers will be reviewed by the program committee members.
Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings.


IMPORTANT DATES
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Full papers due: February 10, 2003
Notification:   May 10, 2003
Camera Ready due: June 10, 2003


GENERAL Chair: Enrico Gregori, IIT - CNR, Italy

GENERAL Vice-Chair: Fabrizio Davide, Telecom Italia, Italy

TECHNICAL PROGRAM Chair: Marco Conti, IIT - CNR, Italy

SPECIAL TRACKs PROGRAM Chair: Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Switzerland

PUBLICITY co-chairs: Raffaele Bruno, IIT CNR, Italy
                                       Alexandros Kaloxylos, University
of Athens, Greece


STEERING COMMITTEE Members:

Imrich Chlamtac, University of Trento, Italy (Chair)
Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK
Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Anthony Ephremides, University of Maryland, USA
Guy Omidyar, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Adam Wolisz, Technical University of Berlin, Germany


TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Members: TBD


-- 
Raffaele Bruno
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Publicity co-chair PWC 2003

Italian National Research Council - IIT Institute
Via G. Moruzzi,1 - 56100 Pisa, ITLAY
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phone: +39 050 3153078
fax:     +39 050 3152593
email: raffaele.bruno@iit.cnr.it
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This message is forwarded to members of the COSC/EEE/Management research 
group on networks at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, 
New zealand, and anybody else interested in research in this area

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		Associate Professor Dr Krzysztof Pawlikowski

	Department of Computer Science,  University of Canterbury
 			Christchurch, New Zealand
		
ph.  +(64) 3 3642 987 ext.7772  email:   krys@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz 
fax. +(64) 3 3642 569      URL:     http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~krys

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