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PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS WTS 2007
SIXTH ANNUAL WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYMPOSIUM (WTS 2007)
www.csupomona.edu/wtsi
April 26-28, 2007, Kellogg West Conference Center, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Co-Sponsor: IEEE Communications Society
Previous Technical Co-Sponsors: INFORMS Telecommunications Section in cooperation with ACM
SIGMOBILE
We invite the submission of applied research papers to the 6th Wireless Telecommunications Symposium, WTS
2007, which will be held on April 26-28, 2007 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; Mike Lazaridis,
Founder, President, and Co-CEO, Research In Motion; Dr. Charles Elachi, Director, NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory; Michael Gallagher, Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information
Administration; and John Muleta, former Chief of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau of the Federal
Communications Commission. Organizations represented have included Bell Laboratories, Verizon Wireless,
AT&T, Cingular Wireless, Sprint Nextel, IBM Research, Ericsson, Nokia, Lucent Technologies, NTT DoCoMo, T-
Mobile, Motorola, Cisco, QUALCOMM, RIM, Palm, Intel, Gartner, Forrester Research, Arthur D. Little, Jupiter
Research, PwC, MITRE Corporation, Aerospace Corporation, Nortel, Alcatel, KBS, Broadcom Corporation, RBC
Capital Markets, Ernst & Young, JPL, the FCC, the NTIA, DARPA, and the FBI.
Planned highlights of WTS 2007 include executive presentations and keynote addresses; presentations of
accepted academic and practitioner research papers; panel discussions, including Future Directions in Wireless
Communications Research, Wireless Network Security, New Wireless Communications Ventures, Wireless
Communications Investments, and Mobile Wireless Services and Business; tutorials and workshops; a poster
paper session; a doctoral students' session. 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
Wireless Communications Investments and Ventures
Satellite Based Systems
802.11, Bluetooth, and RFID
Global Wireless Services and Bus