Friday
Saturday
PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS
FIFTH ANNUAL WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYMPOSIUM (WTS 2006)
www.csupomona.edu/~wtsi
April 27- 29, 2006, Kellogg West Conference Center, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California
Previous WTS Technical Co-Sponsors: IEEE Communications Society and INFORMS
Telecommunications Section in cooperation with ACM SIGMOBILE
We invite the submission of applied research papers to the 5th Wireless Telecommunications Symposium, WTS 2006, which will be held on April 27- 29, 2006 at the Kellogg West Conference Center at Cal Poly Pomona in Pomona, California. For further information, visit www.csupomona.edu/wtsi.
The Wireless Telecommunications Symposium brings together industry professionals and academics from companies, governmental agencies, and universities around the world to exchange information on advances in mobile communications and wireless networking technology, applications, management, and security. Past WTS participants have included Dr. Irwin Jacobs, Chairman and Co-Founder of QUALCOMM; John Muleta, former Chief of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission; Michael Gallagher, Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration; Richard Lynch, Executive Vice President and CTO, Verizon Wireless; and Dr. Paul Mankiewich, CTO, Mobility Solutions, Lucent Technologies, and Senior Vice President, Networking Research, Bell Laboratories. Organizations represented have included Lucent Technologies - Bell Laboratories, Verizon Wireless, Gartner, SBC Communications, Cingular Wireless, Nextel, IBM Research, Ericsson, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, T-Mobile, Motorola, QUALCOMM, The MITRE Corporation, Nortel, SAIC, Broadcom Corporation, JPL, the FCC, the NTIA, the Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the FBI, and PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
WTS 2006 will feature invited presentations and keynote addresses by leaders and experts in the wireless industry, presentations of accepted academic and practitioner research papers, and presentations, panel discussions, tutorials and workshops, a doctoral students' session; and a tour of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory followed by a reception and keynote address by Director Dr. Charles Elachi. Refereed proceedings will be published by the IEEE and be available on its Xplore online publication system. The proceedings also will be distributed at the Symposium via a CD. Applicable student papers are welcome. Awards will be given for the outstanding undergraduate and graduate papers submitted.
Topic areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Wireless Internet, WML, and Multimedia
Global Wireless Services and Business
3G/4G Wireless Networks & Systems
Mobile and Wireless Network Security and Privacy
Wireless Network Modeling, Algorithms, and Simulation Spectrum Management and Policy
Ultra Wide-Band (UWB) Technology
Wireless Telecommunicat