Track 3: 1st Broadband Wireless (BW) 2008
Broadband is becoming one of the major driving factors for research and development in the wireless networking area as wireless technology is now competing with wireline both in the access and in the backbone. The trend in the access is towards OFDM-based systems, such as IEEE802.16 WiMAX or 4G LTE (Long Term Evolution). The backbone is mainly witnessing the arrival of mesh networking, be it on a local IEEE802.11s scale or on a metropolitan IEEE802.16f one. Other techniques for increasing bandwidth even further include MIMO and cooperation, on even longer ranges using relays.
The aim of this track is to bring together communities of interests in the area of broadband wireless networking, from the services point of view, the network architectures and protocols as well as lower layer techniques, both from academia and industry. The topics of interest include (but are not restricted to):
- Broadband wireless technology HSDPA, HSUPA, LTE, WiMAX, WiRAN
- Radio resource management
- Scheduling and queuing
- Quality of service
- Capacity planning and dimensioning
- New network architecture and operation
- Cross-layer modeling and design
- Heterogeneity and diversity
- Relay, cooperative and mesh networking
- Vertical, horizontal and diagonal handover
- Experiments, measurements and testbeds
- Spectrum management
- Cognitive radio
- Mobility and multihoming
- Interference control
- Pricing
Track Chairs
| Program Chair | Tijani Chahed | Telecom SudParis, France |
| Publicity Chair | Dario Maggiorini | University of Milano, Italy |
Technical Committees
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Pasi Lassila, HUT, Finland Laura Cottatellucci, Eurecom, France Rana Ahmed, American University of Sharjah, UAE Ahmed Al Naamany, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman Eitan Altman, INRIA, France Erdal Arikan, Bilkent University, Turkey Prasanna Chaporkar, IITB, India Salah Eddine Elayoubi, France Telecom, France Gabor Fodor, Ericsson, Sweden Jorge Garia Vidal, UPC, Spain Ayman Ibrahim, NTI, Egypt Hui-Tang Lin, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Samir Mohamed, King Fahd University, Saudi Arabia Theodoros Salonidis, Thomson, France Dirk Staehle, Wurzburg University, Germany Sami Tabbane, Supcom, Tunisia Stavros Toumpis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Olli Martikainen, Etla, Finland Matteo Cesana, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Foh Chuan Heng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Yabin Ye, Tsinghua University, China Antonio Capone, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Vincentt Gaulthier, TELECOM et Management SudParis, France Llorenc Cerda, UPC, Spain Aawatif Hayar, Eurecom, France Wessam Ajib, UQAM, Canada Mohamed Assaad, Supelec, France Mounir Frikha, Supcom, Tunisie Tania Jimenez, Univ. Avignon, France Arzad Kherani, IIT New Delhi, India |