IFIP Wireless Days 2008
                    Dubai, United Arab Emirates
                          November 24-27, 2008
                http://www-phare.lip6.fr/Wireless_Days/

Conference Chairs:

Guy Pujolle, University of Paris 6, France
Khaldoun Al Agha, University of Paris 11, France
Mohammed Al-Mualla, Khalifa University of Science, 
                    Technology and Research, UAE

Steering committee:

Ian F. Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Pedro Cuenca, Universidad de Castilla-la-Mancha, Spain
Luigi Fratta, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA
Ulf Korner, Lund University, Sweden
Raouf Boutaba, Waterloo Univ., Canada

Scope:

IFIP Wireless Days Conference is a major international conference
which aims to bring together researchers, technologists and visionaries
from Academia, research labs and industry, engineers and students
to exchange, discuss and share their experiences, ideas and research
about theoretical and practical aspects of wireless networking. The
conference will include presentations of theoretical and experimental
achievements, innovative wireless systems, prototyping efforts,
case studies and advances in technology related to wireless networking
and communications infrastructures.

IFIP Wireless Days Conference program will include the following
five conference tracks:

Track 1: Second International Home Networking Conference
Track 2: Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
Track 3: Broadband Wireless
Track 4: Signal Processing for Wireless Communications
Track 5: Sixth Network Control conference (NETCON 2008) 
         "Special focus on wireless and mobility"

Important Dates:

Extended submission deadline: July 20, 2008 (Firm Deadline)
Notification of acceptance: September 8, 2008
Camera-ready version: September 21, 2008

Paper Submission:

Papers are to be submitted electronically on the EDAS web site of
the conference (http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6465&) in PDF format.
Please submit to the General Topics track if you are unable to
choose any of the other tracks. The TPC chair and vice-chairs will
assign the paper to the appropriate track.

Submissions should be original and limited to 5 double-column pages, 
and should follow IEEE paper templates. Paper with more pages can be 
accepted however they need to be reduced to 5 pages for publication.

Conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE and will be available 
through IEEExplore.

Best papers will be published in a special issue of Journals:.

- Ad hoc Networks (Elseiver)
- Telecommunication Systems Journal (Springer)
- Annals of Telecommunications (Springer)
- EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (Hindawi)

Contacts:

Track 1: Second International Home Networking Conference
Program Chair: Nadjib Achir, University of Paris 13, France 
               (nadjib.achir@l2ti.univ-paris13.fr)
Publicity Chair: Xavier Carcelle, Open Pattern 
                 (xavier_carcelle@yahoo.com)

Track 2: Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
Program Chair: Khaled Boussetta, University of Paris 13, France 
               (khaled.boussetta@l2ti.univ-paris13.fr)
Publicity Chair: Dario Maggiorini, University of Milano, Italy 
                 (dario@dico.unimi.it)

Track 3: Broadband Wireless
Program Chair: Tijani Chahed, Telecom SudParis, France
               (tijani.chahed@it-sudparis.eu)
Publicity Chair: Dario Maggiorini, University of Milano, Italy
                 (dario@dico.unimi.it)

Track 4: Signal Processing for Wireless Communications.
Program Chair: Ridha Hamila, Khalifa University, UAE 
               (ridha.hamila@tut.fi)
Publicity Chair: Arafat Al-Dweik, Khalifa University, UAE
                 (dweik@kustar.ac.ae)

Track 5: Sixth Network Control conference (NETCON 2008) 
         "Special focus on wireless and mobility"
Program Co-Chair: Olli Martikainen, ETLA, Finland 
                  (Olli.Martikainen@etla.fi)
Program Co-Chair: Reda Reda, Innovation Communication Technologies,
                  Austria (reda@ictmc.com)

Sponsors:

IFIP (http://www.ifip.org/)
IEEE Technical Co-sponsorship
IEEE Local Chapter Technical Co-sponsorship UAE