Post Deadline CALL FOR PAPERS

18-th Tyrrhenian International Workshop on Digital Communications
Ischia island, Naples, Italy  September 9-12, 2007

Workshop theme: Wireless Communications

Overview.
The Tyrrhenian workshop on digital communications is devoted each year to a specific theme in the broad area of digital communications and its applications.
The workshop tries to provide a friendly environment that favors the exchange of ideas on the main research challenges in the field of the workshop theme.
After several years, the theme chosen by the steering committee of the workshop this year is wireless communications, that is reaching a new key turning point and is expanding into new research directions.
In recent years, a shift toward an all IP networking architecture has attracted the attention of the researchers. We are now at a turning point where multimedia communications is the major driver for any communication network. The new paradigm is Quality of Service in a multimedia communication network related to the specific services required. This is particularly true in the wireless section of a communication network, where we face the problems of a scarce bandwidth resource, a channel with a time varying behavior, the request of a low power consumption for the mobile terminal, and an increased bit rate demand per user. What we are foreseeing is that in the future a variety of wireless networking technologies will coexist to address different needs, such as, for example, a general cellular broadband wireless network (often denoted as 4G wireless system), and a variety of networks without infrastructure able to solve specific problems (sensor and ad hoc networks) that should be interconnected in order to transport the information everywhere. For all these networks we also have to consider Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting aspects together with the encryption of the message sent over the air, that are part of the security and QoS requirements across the networks. Wireless applications will be another important and challenging aspect for the future deployment of wireless networks.

Based on these facts, we have structured the workshop into five sessions:

-4G wireless systems
-Sensor and ad hoc networks
-Security in wireless networks
-QoS and efficiency in multimedia heterogeneous wireless networks
-Wireless system applications

These five sessions are complementary and interlaced with each other. Technical areas of interest for the workshop include (but are not limited to) the following:
modulation, coding, system impairments, channel modeling, MIMO and smart antennas, cross layer and radio resource management, protocols, routing in wireless networks, cognitive radios and networks, energy efficiency, multimedia wireless communications, Quality of Service architectures, security, architectures for security, key distribution, etc.

We are also specifically looking for the most advanced solutions for security and applications of wireless systems in many different environments, like multimedia communications, infomobility, health care, emergency situations, etc.

In order to have the opportunity to share the most recent results on the above topics we are opening a call for poster session with the publication of the results on a CDrom. Authors interested to participate to this new informal initiative are cordially invited to submit a long abstract of their proposal through the website. All papers submitted to the Workshop must not have been published in other technical conferences/journals.

Paper Submission Guidelines
Authors are invited to submit an extended summary of maximum 5 pages, including the main results (figures, tables), electronically in PDF format. Selection of the final manuscripts will be based on the extended summary.
The page format is specified in the sv-pagelayout.pdf, (for contributed volumes/multi-authors books) with font size 10.
Figures will be printed in black and white. Please take care that the minimum resolution for figures and photo is 1200 dpi.
Also, take care of the necessity of copyright permission for figures, tables published elsewhere.
The word template svlayout-contr-e.dot is available in the website.
For Latex users please access the latex folder to get the instructions to prepare your document by using font size 10.

Final manuscripts of regular papers will be limited to 15 pages following carefully the guidelines for paper submission. Final manuscripts to be considered for the poster session should be limited to 10 pages. The Proceedings of the Workshop will be published as a book by Springer.

The web page of the workshop will soon be available at
http://www.cnit.it/html/workshops/2007/index.html

IMPORTANT DATES:
Deadline for extended abstract: July 1, 2007
Notification of acceptance: July 20, 2007
Final manuscript submission: August 20, 2007

Workshop co-chairs
Shingo Ohmori, NiCT, Japan
Silvano Pupolin, University of Padova and CNIT, Italy

Technical Program Committee
Abbas Jamalipour, University of Sydney, Australia
Hiroyo Ogawa, NiCT, Japan
Anand Prasad, Docomo EuroLabs, Germany
Kato Shuzo, NiCT, Japan
Michele Zorzi, University of Padova and CNIT, Italy

Publicity chair
Stefano Basagni, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA

Publications chair
Tomaso Erseghe, University of Padova and CNIT, Italy

Call for Papers (closed)

Workshop Theme

The workshop theme for the year 2007 is Wireless Communications.

Overview
In recent years, a shift toward an all IP networking architecture has attracted the attention of the researchers. We are now at a turning point where multimedia communications is the major driver for any communication network. The new paradigm is Quality of Service in a multimedia communication network related to the specific services required. This is particularly true in the wireless section of a communication network, where we face the problems of a scarce bandwidth resource, a channel with a time varying behaviour, the request of a low power consumption for the mobile terminal, and an increased bit rate demand per user. What we are foreseeing is that in the future a variety of wireless networking technologies will coexist to address different needs, such as, for example, a general cellular broadband wireless network (often denoted as 4G wireless system), and a variety of networks without infrastructure able to solve specific problems (sensor and ad hoc networks) that should be interconnected in order to transport the information everywhere. For all these networks we also have to consider Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting aspects together with the encryption of the message sent over the air, that are part of the security and QoS requirements across the networks. Wireless applications will be another important and challenging aspect for the future deployment of wireless networks.

The Tyrrhenian Workshop on Digital Communications is devoted each year to a specific theme in the broad area of digital communications and its applications.
The workshop tries to provides a friendly environment that favors the exchange of ideas on the main research challenges in the field of the workshop theme.

After several years, the theme chosen by the steering committee of the workshop this year is wireless communications, that is reaching a new key turning point and is expanding into new research directions.

In recent years, a shift toward an all IP networking architecture has attracted the attention of the researchers. We are now at a turning point where multimedia communications is the major driver for any communication network. The new paradigm is Quality of Service in a multimedia communication network related to the specific services required. This is particularly true in the wireless section of a communication network, where we face the problems of a scarce bandwidth resource, a channel with a time varying behavior, the request of a low power consumption for the mobile terminal, and an increased bit rate demand per user. What we are foreseeing is that in the future a variety of wireless networking technologies will coexist to address different needs, such as, for example, a general cellular broadband wireless network (often denoted as 4G wireless system), and a variety of networks without infrastructure able to solve specific problems (sensor and ad hoc networks) that should be interconnected in order to transport the information everywhere. For all these networks we also have to consider Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting aspects together with the encryption of the message sent over the air, that are part of the security and QoS requirements across the networks. Wireless applications will be another important and challenging aspect for the future deployment of wireless networks.

Based on these facts, we have structured the workshop into five sessions:

• 4G wireless systems
• Sensor and ad hoc networks
• Security in wireless networks
• QoS and efficiency in multimedia heterogeneous wireless networks
• Wireless system applications

We are also specifically looking for the most advanced solutions for security and applications of wireless systems in many different environments, like multimedia communications, infomobility, health care, emergency situations, etc.

Interested authors are invited to submit their research papers according to the guidelines and timetable below. Authors could also submit work-in-progress papers, on topics still open for discussion in the area of wireless communications and its applications, to the poster session. All papers submitted to the Workshop must not have been published in, or submitted to, other technical conferences/journals.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Deadline for extended abstract: April 9, 2007
Notification of acceptance: April 30, 2007
Final manuscript submission: May 20, 2007