CALL FOR PAPERS and INVITATION to ATTEND : 26th Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF26)

11th - 14th, April 2011, Doha, QATAR

Organized by the QU Wireless Innovations Center (QUWIC), Qatar

The theme of the WWRF26 Conference is: Wireless Solutions for Vertical Markets

Four Plenary Sessions with Invited Speakers will be Organized:

* Intelligent Transportation Systems
* Wireless for Smart Living (Environment, Utilities, Smart Cities)
* Middle East R&D Initiatives
* Mobile Health (m-Health)

A workshop discussing funding and collaboration opportunities for the new EC Framework Programme 8 will be held on April 14th.

We invite contributions to the Forum's Working Groups (WGs) and to the new ad hoc working group:

* WG1: Human Perspective and Future Service Concepts
* WG2: Services and Service Architectures
* WG3: Communication architectures
* WG4: New Radio Interfaces, Relay based Systems & Smart Antennas
* WG5: Short-range Radio Communication Systems
* WG6: Cognitive Networks and Systems for a Wireless Future Internet
* WG7: Security and Trust
* WG8: Spectrum Issues
* New ad hoc Working Group: Wireless for Emerging Economics

We invite researchers to share information and present results, with the intention of identifying open issues and providing examples of how to resolve those issues. Contributions including technical papers recounting recent research results and controversial but substantiated opinions that may influence the direction of future R&D work are solicited.

A selection of accepted papers will be presented at the conference, along with invited and keynote presentations. Contributions that are accepted for the conference may be published in WWRF Outlook (a series of white papers), the Wiley WWRF book series. The best papers from the conference will be included in a special issue of IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine.

Important Dates:

* Submission of extended abstracts: 31st January, 2011
* Notification of acceptance: 26th February, 2011
* Final papers: 28th March, 2011

For more information and to register, please visit the WWRF26 web page:
http://www.wwrf26.org