General Conference Focusing on Emerging Technologies

at Globecom 2007

Washington, D.C., November 26-30, 2007

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 23!

Co-Chairs

Wenjing Lou (WPI, USA, wjlou@ece.wpi.edu)
Alek Kavcic (University of Hawaii, USA, kavcic@spectra.eng.hawaii.edu)
John Buford (Avaya Labs, USA, buford@samrg.org)
Stefano Bregni (Polytechnic of Milan, Italy, bregni@elet.polimi.it) 
Wanjiun Liao (NTU, Taiwan, wjliao@cc.ee.ntu.edu.tw)

Scope

IEEE GLOBECOM 2007, with the theme "Innovate, Educate, Accelerate", will feature a General Symposium and 9 technical symposia. The General Symposium will only accept papers on topics not covered by these symposia. The focus of the General Symposium is on Emerging Technologies. Prospective authors are invited to submit original contributions on all aspects of emerging technologies in communications, including, but not limited to, the following topics of interest.

Information, Communication, and Network Security Track

  • 3G, 4G security
  • Ad hoc network security
  • Access control
  • Accounting and auditing
  • Anonymity
  • Applied cryptography
  • Authentication
  • Computer and network forensics
  • Data and application security
  • Distributed Denial-Of-Service (DDOS) attacks and countermeasures
  • Distributed systems security
  • Information hiding and watermarking
  • Internet security
  • Intrusion detection, localization, and avoidance
  • IPv6 security
  • Key distribution and management
  • Mesh network security
  • Mobile code security
  • Network security metrics and performance evaluation
  • Network traffic analysis techniques
  • Peer-to-peer system security
  • Security modeling and protocol design
  • Security policies
  • Self-healing networks
  • Sensor network security
  • Smart cards and secure hardware
  • Trust models and trust management
  • Vulnerability, exploitation tools, and virus/worm analysis
  • Web, e-commerce, m-commerce, and e-mail security
  • Wi-Fi security
  • WiMAX security
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    Power-Line Track

  • power-line communications: channel measurement and modeling, signal processing, modulation and coding, multiple access, modem design, protocols, system architectures, applications
  • optical access networks
  • xDSL and Dynamic Spectrum Management
  • long-reach Ethernet over copper
  • fiber to the home, premise, curb, desktop
  • wireless local loop
  • broadband wireless access networks
  • radio and optical wireless access
  • access over fiber, copper cable and hybrid network architectures
  • hybrid wireless-wired LANs
  • home networks: technologies, protocols, management and applications
  • networked appliances in home networks
  • residential gateways
  • in-vehicle networks
  • pervasive access
  • emerging standards and proposals
  • system modeling and performance evaluation
  • demonstrators and experimental trials
  • business cases of access networks
  • municipal and community networks
  • regulatory issues
  • unbundling of the access network
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    Data Storage Track

  • Channel identification and channel modeling
  • Media noise characterization and modeling
  • Mitigating nonlinear effects (write precompensation and read nonlinearity correction)
  • Detection methods
  • Modulation codes
  • Distance enhancing codes codes suitable for iterative decoding
  • Error-correcting codes, trellis coding and turbo codes
  • Systems of concatenated codes
  • Combined equalization and coding
  • Equalization, filtering and detection, including methods applicable to channels with data-dependent noise and nonlineariteis
  • Circuit designs for read/write channel electronics and coding
  • Architectures for iterative decoding on data storage channels
  • Timing recovery, gain recovery and DC restore loops
  • Detection, signal processing and coding of servo information
  • Coding bounds, density, and channel capacity
  • Data compression for digital storage, including audio and video
  • Multiple-head systems
  • Signal processing for optical storage systems
  • Signal processing and coding for emerging data storage technologies, including holographic recording, probe storage and multi-level optical recording
  • Cost versus performance issues surrounding design of storage systems
  • Hard decision error control codes for storage including coding for disk arrays
  • Special issues surrounding signal processing and coding for removable storage devices
  • Storage area networks
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    Peer-to-Peer Networking Track

  • Overlay architectures and topologies
  • Overlay maintenance algorithms
  • Overlay and application layer multicast
  • Peercasting and overlay content distribution
  • Federated and hierarchical overlays
  • One-hop and variable-hop overlays
  • Peer-to-peer SIP
  • Overlay support for mobile nodes
  • Measurement based overlays
  • Replication and load-balancing strategies
  • Service overlays
  • Peer-to-peer service/resource discovery
  • Tools for large-scale performance analysis
  • Distributed security techniques
  • Novel applications
  • Semantic routing
  • Advanced search and query techniques
  • Semantic search
  • Coupling of agent systems and P2P systems
  • Experience with deployed systems
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    Other Topics

    Topcis not covered in the above tracks will be organized in to a separate track.

    Guidelines for Submission

    Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently under review in any other conference or journal, and has not been previously published. Paper length should not exceed six-page technical paper manuscript. Please see author information page for submission guidelines at the Globecom 2007 website. Papers should be submitted in pdf format by selecting Globecom 2007 General Symposium at the EDAS paper submission website (http://www.edas.info). Select the "Information, Communication, and Network Security" track when submitting the paper. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. At least one author of accepted papers is required to register at the full registration rate.

    Important dates:

  • March 23, 2007 12:00 EST - Submissions due
  • July 1, 2007 - Notification of acceptance
  • Sept 1, 2007 12:00 EST - Camera ready copy
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    Technical Program Committee

    Ehab Al-Shaer (DePaul University, USA)
Theodore Antonakopoulos (University of Patras, Greece)
Enzo Baccarelli (University of Rome, Italy)
Spiridon Bakiras (John Jay College, USA)
Feng Bao (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
Ayse Bener (Bogazici University, Turkey)
Mauro Biagi (University of Rome, Italy)
John Buford (Avaya Labs Research, USA)
Gerd Bumiller (iAd GmbH, Germany)
Rajkumar Buyya (The University of Melbourne, Australia)
Francisco Cañete (Universidad de Malaga, Spain)
Guohong Cao (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Jiannong Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ, Hong Kong)
Guanling Chen (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA)
Hsiao-Hwa Chen (National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan)
Shigang Chen (University of Florida, USA)
Thomas Chen (Southern Methodist University, USA)
Jay Cheng (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Michele Colajanni (University of Modena, Italy)
Giulio Colavolpe (University of Parma, Italy)
José Antonio Cortés Arrabal (Universidad de Málaga, Spain)
Bruno Crispo (Universita di Trento, Italy)
Yi Cui (Vanderbilt University, USA)
Marcello D'Amore (University of Rome, Italy)
Anwitaman Datta (NTU, Singapore)
Herve Debar (France Telecom R&D, France)
Jing Deng (University of New Orleans, USA)
Klaus Dostert (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
Zhenhai Duan (Florida State University, USA)
Arjan Durresi (Louisiana State University, USA)
Itamar Elhanany (University of Tennessee, USA)
Huirong Fu (Oakland University, USA)
Thomas Fuhrmann (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
Ayalvadi Ganesh (Microsoft Research, United Kingdom)
Luciano Paschoal Gaspary (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Rung-Hung Gau (National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan)
Wolfgang Gerstacker (University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany)
Christos Gkantsidis (Microsoft Research, United Kingdom)
Marco Gruteser (Rutgers University, USA)
Yong Guan (Iowa State University, USA)
Sghaier Guizani (University of Quebec a Trois Riviers, Canada)
Aaron Harwood (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Yao-Win Hong (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Yiming Hu (University of Cincinnati, USA)
Jiun-Long Huang (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
Ren-Hung Hwang (National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan)
Mehdi Jazayeri (Technische Universitaet Wien, Austria)
Yixin Jiang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
Vana Kalogeraki (University of California, Riverside, USA)
Noriaki Kamiyama (NTT Service Integration Laboratories, Japan)
Jens-Peter Kaps (George Mason University, USA)
Masaaki Katayama (Nagoya University, Japan)
Wolfgang Kellerer (DoCoMo EuroLaboratories, Germany)
Kwangjo Kim (Information Communication Univ, Korea)
Kazukuni Kobara (AIST, Japan)
Mario Kolberg (University of Stirling, United Kingdom)
Timo Korhonen (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)
Turgay Korkmaz (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)
Arvind Krishnamurthy (University of Washington, USA)
P. Krishnan (Avaya Labs, USA)
Younggoo Kwon (University of Konkuk, Korea)
Jiunn-Ru Lai (National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan)
Lutz Lampe (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Duan-Shin Lee (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
JengFarn Lee (Academia Sinica, Taiwan, Taiwan)
Ralf Lehnert (Dresden University of Technology, Germany)
Ben Leong (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Ka-Cheong Leung (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Albert Levi (Sabanci Univ., Turkey)
Jin Li (Microsoft Research, USA)
Qun Li (College of William and Mary, USA)
Wanjiun Liao (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Tsung-Nan Lin (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Xiaodong Lin (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Bin Liu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
Donggang Liu (University of Texas at Arlington, USA)
Ling Liu (Georgia Tech, USA)
Peng Liu (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Yunhao Liu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Alexander Loeser (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA)
Wenjing Lou (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)
Eng Keong Lua (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Muthucumaru Maheswaran (McGill University, Canada)
Marcus Marrow (Link_A_Media Devices Corporation, USA)
Andreas Mauthe (Lancaster University, United Kingdom)
Martin May (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Gianluca Moro (University of Bologna, Italy)
Antonino Musolino (University of Pisa, Italy)
Akihiro Nakao (University of Tokyo, USA)
John Newbury (Open University, United Kingdom)
Guevara Noubir (Northeastern University, USA)
Ai-Chun Pang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Nikolaos Papandreou (University of Patras, Greece)
Fotini-Niovi Pavlidou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Frank Piessens (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
Peter Pietzuch (Harvard University, USA)
Riccardo Pighi (University of Parma, Italy)
S. Prasanna (International Institute of Information Technology, India)
Riccardo Raheli (University of Parma, Italy)
Vijay Ramachandran (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)
Venugopalan Ramasubramanian (Cornell University, USA)
Mahalingam Ramkumar (Mississippi State University, USA)
Chinya Ravishankar (University of California, Riverside, USA)
Reza Rejaie (University of Oregon, USA)
Kui Ren (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)
Moises Ribeiro (Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil)
Roberto Rojas-Cessa (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
Keith W. Ross (Brooklyn Polytech, USA)
Humphrey Rutagemwa (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Thierry Sartenaer (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Christian Scheideler (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
Subhabrata Sen (AT&T Labs - Research, USA)
Seung-Woo Seo (Seoul National University, Korea., Korea)
Yan Sun (University of Rhode Island, USA)
Shinji Tanabe (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan)
Yazhe Tang (Xi'an Jiaotong University, P.R. China)
Andrea Tonello (University of Udine, Italy)
Wade Trappe (Rutgers University, USA)
Kurt Tutschku (Wuerzburg University, Germany)
Daisuke Umehara (Kyoto University, Japan)
Robbert van Renesse (Cornell University, USA)
Vijay Varadharajan (Macquarie university, Australia)
Oliver Waldhorst (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
Fujio Wanatabe (DoCoMo USA Labs, USA)
Sherry Wang (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Wenye Wang (NC State University, USA)
Klaus Wehrle (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Bruce Wilson (Hitachi, USA)
Matthew Wright (University of Texas at Arlington, USA)
Steven Wright (BellSouth, USA)
Eric Hsiao-kuang Wu Wu (National Central University, Taiwan)
Sau-Hsuan Wu (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
Yongdong Wu (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
Li Xiao (Michigan State University, USA)
Zhiyuan Yan (Lehigh University, USA)
Hao Yang (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)
Ping-Cheng Yeh (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Haifeng Yu (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Wenjun Zeng (Univ. of Missouri, USA)
Wensheng Zhang (Iowa State University, USA)
Harold Zheng (Johns Hopkins Univ., USA)
Sheng Zhong (SUNY  Buffalo, USA)
Jianying Zhou (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
Bo Zhu (George Mason University, USA)
Haojin Zhu (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Cliff Zou (University of Central Florida, USA)