Deadline Extension: ACCESS 2010 || September 20-25, 2010 - Valencia, Spain INVITATION: ================= Note that the submission deadline has been moved to April 30, 2010. Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results. ================= ============== ACCESS 2010 | Call for Papers =============== CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS ACCESS 2010: The First International Conferences on Access Networks, Services and Technologies September 20-25, 2010 - Valencia, Spain General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/ACCESS10.html Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/CfPACCESS10.html Submission deadline: April 30, 2010 Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org Publisher: CPS ( see: http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps ) Archived: IEEE CSDL (Computer Science Digital Library) and IEEE Xplore Submitted for indexing: Elsevier's EI Compendex Database, EI's Engineering Information Index Other indexes are being considered: INSPEC, DBLP, Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index Please note the Poster Forum and Work in Progress options. The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas. All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels. Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html ACCESS 2010 Tracks (tracks' topics and submission details: see CfP on the site) NEXTACCESS: Next generation access technologies Interactivity, unlimited access and full-scale media support; Energy-aware and efficiency-oriented technologies; Sustainable access network business (standard DSL vs. fiber vs. wireless access); 3G/4G wireless technologies; Multiservice access (DSL, fiber, WiMAX, POTS); FTTH; Ethernet P2P vs. xPON; FTTx with VDSL2, or Ethernet, or DOCSIS 3.0; Radio extension, 802.xx (Wi-Fi, WiMax, etc.); LTE, LTE-advanced; IMT-advanced networks; Mesh and relay networks (IEEE 802.11s, IEEE802.16j, etc.); Quality of experience (QoE) FEMTO: Femtocells-based access Femtocells architectures; Femtocells requirements ands specifications; Femtocells protocols; Femtocells services and applications; Traffic and QoS in Femtocells; Performance analysis in Femtocells; Femtocells control and management; Interoperability of Femtocells devices; Femtocells operation optimization; Femtocells specific solutions for mobility; OFDMA Femtocells: interference avoidance; Macrocell-Femto cell interference issues and mitigation; Macrocell-Femto cell handover strategies; WiMAX Fentocells; Standardization of Femtocells BROADBAND: Broadband wireless Internet access New architectures, technologies, protocols for broadband wireless access; QoS in mobile and broadband wireless access networks; Broadcast and multicast support; Physical and data link layer issues; Medium access control, SLA and QoS; Radio resource management and call admission control; Space-time coding for broadband wireless Internet; Modulation, coding and antennas (MIMO); Spectrum management; Scalability and reliability issues; Wireless mesh networks; Capacity planning and traffic engineering; Security and privacy issues; Interoperability aspects (fixed/mobile LANs/MANs, WANs); Experiences/lessons from recent deployments OPTICAL: Optical access networks Optical access network architecture design; Optical access network components and systems; New PON developments and testbeds; WDM and OFDM PON technologies; MAC and bandwidth allocation; RoF network architecture and MAC; RoF components and systems; Signal processing for new modulation formats; Optical spectral management; Multimode fiber technology and applications; Performance monitoring and diagnosis; Deployment and economic analysis MOBILE WIRELESS: Mobile wireless access Mobile Broadband Wireless Access; Wireless/Mobile Access Protocols; Wireless/Mobile Web Access; Ubiquitous and mobile access; Mobile/vehicular environment access; Multi-Homing and Vertical Handoff; Localization and tracking; Context-aware services and applications; Context-aware protocols and protocol architectures; Interactive applications; Mobile and Wireless Entertainment; Mobile Info-services; Wireless ad hoc and sensor networks DYNAMIC: Dynamic and cognitive access Dynamic spectrum access; Architectures and platforms for dynamic spectrum access networks; Spectrum sensing, measurement and models; Efficient and broadband spectrum sensing; Interference metrics and measurements; New spectrum protocols and models; Cognitive radio (cross-layer optimization); Multiple access schemes for cognitive radio networks; Radio resource management and dynamic spectrum access networks; Dynamic spectrum auction and economics; Business model, pricing, and regulations for dynamic spectrum HOWAN: Hybrid optical and wireless access networks Multi-hop wireless mesh networks; Passive optical networks; Node architecture and design of hybrid optical and wireless networks; Emerging wireless/optical applications QoS management for hybrid access networks; PON and WDM-PON network experiments; Radio over Fiber (RoF); FTTx network architecture and applications; Routing and multicast over hybrid optical and wireless networks; Service resilience and availability of hybrid optical and wireless networks; Applications and evolutions of hybrid access networks; Network design, control, and performance in HOWANs; Capacity analysis, flow and congestion control in HOWANs; Optimization of hybrid optical and wireless networks; Evolution of HOWAN access networks Broadband wireless access in HOWANs; Security and privacy in HOWANs; New services and applications; Test-bed and prototype implementation; Standardization issues COPPER: Copper Access Ubiquity via phone lines; Speed reaching 100 Mbps; DSL broadband access; Dynamic and joint optimization of resources (frequency, amplitude, space, and time); Attenuation and crosstalk bottlenecks; Management and control for the multi-user twisted pair networks GIGATERA: Giga/Tera Access Multi-antenna technologies (MIMO, Beamforming, Antenna Selection, etc); RF/Antenna propagation (RF beamforming, Tera-Hz signal generation, Propagation); Interoperability aspects (fixed/mobile LANs/MANs, WANs); Signal processing for millimeter and Tera-Hz wireless systems; NLOS avoidance techniques; Cooperative networks, repeaters and relaying; Error correction, equalization; Space division multiple access; Coexistence and interoperability; OFDM versus single-carrier systems; MIMO in mm-wave and Tera-Hz systems; OFDMA processing; Spread spectrum techniques; High-efficiency medium access control (MAC) protocol; Neighbor discovery in directional wireless networks CONTROL: Access Control Foundations for access control; Models for access control; Mechanisms for access control; Policy-driven and role-driven access control; Delegation and identity management; Privacy-drive control; Access control for advanced applications (cloud, autonomic, sensor, social networks, etc.); Standards for accesses control NEUTRAL: Neutral Access Networks Open access networks; Network neutrality; Operator-neutral residential access technologies; Operator-neutral nomadic access technologies; Operator-neutral mobile access technologies; Operator-neutral CPEs; Internet access regulation; NANs design and management; Multi-gateway traffic management; QoS management in shared infrastructures; Routing and multicast in NANs; Broadband business models for NANs; Broadband pricing models for NANs; Broadband market analysis for NANs; IP traffic models for NANs; Edge routers for NANs; Identity management in NANs; NANS and Digital divide; NANs and Digital inclusion; Inclusive services and applications; NAN testbeds and case studies LEGAL: Legal aspects on network and service access Network neutrality principle; Security and privacy rights; Institutional implications; Accessibility and social affordability; User responsibility ========== ACCESS 2010 General Chairs Elsa Mar�a Mac�as L�pez, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain �lvaro Su�rez Sarmiento, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain ACCESS Advisory Committee Alessandro Bogliolo, Universit� di Urbino, Italy Fabio M. Chiussi, Airvana, Inc., USA Mark Perry, University of Western Ontario/Faculty of Law/ Faculty of Science - London, Canada Shing-Wa Wong, Stanford University, USA ACCESS 20101 Research Institute Liaison Chairs Sradhi Chava, CREATE-NET, Italy Moshe Ran, H.I.T - Holon Institute of Technology, Israel ACCESS 2010 Industry/Research Chairs Alexander Klein, Technische Universit�t M�nchen, Germany ACCESS 2010 Special Area Chairs FEMTO Chair Fabio M. Chiussi, Airvana, Inc., USA Committee members: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/ComACCESS10.html ====================