Workshop Organizers
Dr. Irfan Awan (co chair)
University of Bradford, UK
i.awan@scm.brad.ac.uk
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There has been tremendous interest recently in the convergence of wired (fixed) networks and mobile wireless and local wireless access systems and networks. B3G and 4G have been the very hot subject of much research and many standardization activities throughout the world. Many B3G/4G related technical committees are taking the initiative to produce enhanced proposals of radio transmission technologies, wireless applications protocols, All-IP wireless network architectures, super signal processing and advanced system prototypes for B3Gwireless and 4Gmobile. However, there are several performance issues that need to be addressed and resolved before a global and wide-scale integrated broadband infrastructure of convergent multi-service networks can be established towards the next generation Internet with efficient support of multimedia applications. The purpose of this workshop is to provide an international forum for researchers and industry practitioners to present their state-of-art research on performance modelling and evaluation studies in all aspects of wired and wireless networking and computing and to exchange ideas and explore new avenues of collaborations.
Performance studies in (but not limited to) the following topics are welcome:
- Open Fixed and Wireless Architectures
- Traffic characterisation
- Quality of Service provisioning in wired and wireless networks
- Analytical and numerical modelling, Queueing system and network models.
- Convergence of 3Gwireless and Internet, e.g. Secured Wireless Mobile Internet
- Radio Transmission Technology for B3G and 4G,
- Software Definable Base Station system for B3G and 4G, e.g. Super DSP, SRF, OBSI
- Enhanced services for B3G and 4G, e.g. wireless stream, e-commerce
- Re-configurability issues for flexible B3G/4G system platforms (RF and BB)
- 2G - 3G - 4G migration and evolution issues
- WLAN systems and Networks; Bluetooth, WiFi, HIPERLAN 2, WiMax, …
- Wireless Mobile ATM (wmATM) technologies, Broadband Mobile Wireless (BMW)
- Smart antenna, Antenna array, MIMO and Digital Beam Forming, etc.
- B3G/4G Wireless Applications Protocol, e.g. OMA, wireless-Java, MAP
- B3G/4G Satellite technology, Space Internet technology, On-Board Wireless
- Mobility management and handover issues
- Bandwidth on Demand issues, e.g. scheduler , resource allocation
- Access control, channel allocation, wireless packet, ...
- Routing Algorithms, multicast routing in fixed and wireless networks
- Ad-Hoc wireless issues, Wireless Router, Mobile Base-station
- OFDM, Turbo Codes, Smart Codes and Adaptive Modulations, etc
- Wireless Video, Wireless Multimedia, Wireless Streaming, etc
- Wireless TCP, Wireless IP, Wireless Security, Wireless OS, etc.
- Disaster response and survivability, security architecture, models and policies
- Security issues in low layers and high layers
- All-optical networks
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SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUES
Extended versions of the selected best papers will be published in the special issues of the following two prestigious journals.
Elsevier: "Journal of Computer and System Sciences" http://authors.elsevier.com/JournalDetail.html?PubID=622867&Precis=DESC
Kluwer Academic Publishers: "International Journal of Wireless Information Networks" http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/1068-9605/
Both issues will be published by December 2005.
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