Deadline Extension: ACCESS 2010 || September 20-25, 2010 - Valencia, Spa

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============== ACCESS 2010 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

ACCESS 2010: The First International Conferences on Access Networks, 
Services and Technologies
September 20-25, 2010 - Valencia, Spain

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/ACCESS10.html
Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/CfPACCESS10.html

Submission deadline: May 4 , 2010

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org
Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA 
Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
Publisher: CPS ( see: http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps )
Archived: IEEE CSDL (Computer Science Digital Library) and IEEE Xplore
Submitted for indexing: Elsevier's EI Compendex Database, EI's 
Engineering Information Index
Other indexes are being considered: INSPEC, DBLP, Thomson Reuters 
Conference Proceedings Citation Index

Please note the Poster Forum and Work in Progress options.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of 
concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, 
running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors 
are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under 
review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not 
limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in 
terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, 
Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: 
http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html

ACCESS 2010 Tracks (tracks' topics and submission details: see CfP on 
the site)

NEXTACCESS: Next generation access technologies
Interactivity, unlimited access and full-scale media support; 
Energy-aware and efficiency-oriented technologies; Sustainable access 
network business (standard DSL vs. fiber vs. wireless access); 3G/4G 
wireless technologies; Multiservice access (DSL, fiber, WiMAX, POTS); 
FTTH; Ethernet P2P vs. xPON; FTTx with VDSL2, or Ethernet, or DOCSIS 
3.0; Radio extension, 802.xx (Wi-Fi, WiMax, etc.); LTE, LTE-advanced; 
IMT-advanced networks; Mesh and relay networks (IEEE 802.11s, 
IEEE802.16j, etc.); Quality of experience (QoE)

FEMTO: Femtocells-based access
Femtocells architectures; Femtocells requirements ands specifications; 
Femtocells protocols; Femtocells services and applications; Traffic and 
QoS in Femtocells; Performance analysis in Femtocells; Femtocells 
control and management; Interoperability of Femtocells devices; 
Femtocells operation optimization; Femtocells specific solutions for 
mobility; OFDMA Femtocells: interference avoidance; Macrocell-Femto cell 
interference issues and mitigation; Macrocell-Femto cell handover 
strategies; WiMAX Fentocells; Standardization of Femtocells

BROADBAND: Broadband wireless Internet access
New architectures, technologies, protocols for broadband wireless 
access; QoS in mobile and broadband wireless access networks; Broadcast 
and multicast support; Physical and data link layer issues; Medium 
access control, SLA and QoS; Radio resource management and call 
admission control; Space-time coding for broadband wireless Internet; 
Modulation, coding and antennas (MIMO); Spectrum management; Scalability 
and reliability issues; Wireless mesh networks; Capacity planning and 
traffic engineering; Security and privacy issues; Interoperability 
aspects (fixed/mobile LANs/MANs, WANs); Experiences/lessons from recent 
deployments

OPTICAL: Optical access networks
Optical access network architecture design; Optical access network 
components and systems; New PON developments and testbeds; WDM and OFDM 
PON technologies; MAC and bandwidth allocation; RoF network architecture 
and MAC; RoF components and systems; Signal processing for new 
modulation formats; Optical spectral management; Multimode fiber 
technology and applications; Performance monitoring and diagnosis; 
Deployment and economic analysis

MOBILE WIRELESS: Mobile wireless access
Mobile Broadband Wireless Access; Wireless/Mobile Access Protocols; 
Wireless/Mobile Web Access; Ubiquitous and mobile access; 
Mobile/vehicular environment access; Multi-Homing and Vertical Handoff; 
Localization and tracking; Context-aware services and applications; 
Context-aware protocols and protocol architectures; Interactive 
applications; Mobile and Wireless Entertainment; Mobile Info-services; 
Wireless ad hoc and sensor networks

DYNAMIC: Dynamic and cognitive access
Dynamic spectrum access; Architectures and platforms for dynamic 
spectrum access networks; Spectrum sensing, measurement and models; 
Efficient and broadband spectrum sensing; Interference metrics and 
measurements; New spectrum protocols and models; Cognitive radio 
(cross-layer optimization); Multiple access schemes for cognitive radio 
networks; Radio resource management and dynamic spectrum access 
networks; Dynamic spectrum auction and economics; Business model, 
pricing, and regulations for dynamic spectrum

HOWAN: Hybrid optical and wireless access networks
Multi-hop wireless mesh networks; Passive optical networks; Node 
architecture and design of hybrid optical and wireless networks; 
Emerging wireless/optical applications QoS management for hybrid access 
networks; PON and WDM-PON network experiments; Radio over Fiber (RoF); 
FTTx network architecture and applications; Routing and multicast over 
hybrid optical and wireless networks; Service resilience and 
availability of hybrid optical and wireless networks; Applications and 
evolutions of hybrid access networks; Network design, control, and 
performance in HOWANs; Capacity analysis, flow and congestion control in 
HOWANs; Optimization of hybrid optical and wireless networks; Evolution 
of HOWAN access networks Broadband wireless access in HOWANs; Security 
and privacy in HOWANs; New services and applications; Test-bed and 
prototype implementation; Standardization issues

COPPER: Copper Access
Ubiquity via phone lines; Speed reaching 100 Mbps; DSL broadband access; 
Dynamic and joint optimization of resources (frequency, amplitude, 
space, and time); Attenuation and crosstalk bottlenecks; Management and 
control for the multi-user twisted pair networks

GIGATERA: Giga/Tera Access
Multi-antenna technologies (MIMO, Beamforming, Antenna Selection, etc); 
RF/Antenna propagation (RF beamforming, Tera-Hz signal generation, 
Propagation); Interoperability aspects (fixed/mobile LANs/MANs, WANs); 
Signal processing for millimeter and Tera-Hz wireless systems; NLOS 
avoidance techniques; Cooperative networks, repeaters and relaying; 
Error correction, equalization; Space division multiple access; 
Coexistence and interoperability; OFDM versus single-carrier systems; 
MIMO in mm-wave and Tera-Hz systems; OFDMA processing; Spread spectrum 
techniques; High-efficiency medium access control (MAC) protocol; 
Neighbor discovery in directional wireless networks

CONTROL: Access Control
Foundations for access control; Models for access control; Mechanisms 
for access control; Policy-driven and role-driven access control; 
Delegation and identity management; Privacy-drive control; Access 
control for advanced applications (cloud, autonomic, sensor, social 
networks, etc.); Standards for accesses control

NEUTRAL: Neutral Access Networks
Open access networks; Network neutrality; Operator-neutral residential 
access technologies; Operator-neutral nomadic access technologies; 
Operator-neutral mobile access technologies; Operator-neutral CPEs; 
Internet access regulation; NANs design and management; Multi-gateway 
traffic management; QoS management in shared infrastructures; Routing 
and multicast in NANs; Broadband business models for NANs; Broadband 
pricing models for NANs; Broadband market analysis for NANs; IP traffic 
models for NANs; Edge routers for NANs; Identity management in NANs; 
NANS and Digital divide; NANs and Digital inclusion; Inclusive services 
and applications; NAN testbeds and case studies

LEGAL: Legal aspects on network and service access
Network neutrality principle; Security and privacy rights; Institutional 
implications; Accessibility and social affordability; User responsibility

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ACCESS 2010 General Chairs
Elsa María Macías López, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Álvaro Suárez Sarmiento, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

ACCESS Advisory Committee
Alessandro Bogliolo, Università di Urbino, Italy
Fabio M. Chiussi, Airvana, Inc., USA
Mark Perry, University of Western Ontario/Faculty of Law/ Faculty of 
Science - London, Canada
Shing-Wa Wong, Stanford University, USA

ACCESS 20101 Research Institute Liaison Chairs
Sradhi Chava, CREATE-NET, Italy
Moshe Ran, H.I.T - Holon Institute of Technology, Israel

ACCESS 2010 Industry/Research Chairs
Alexander Klein, Technische Universität München, Germany

ACCESS 2010 Special Area Chairs
FEMTO Chair
    Fabio M. Chiussi, Airvana, Inc., USA

Committee members: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/ComACCESS10.html
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