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WIRELESS4D 2008 : 1st Workshop on Wireless Broadband Access for Communities and Rural Developing Regions

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Link: http://m4d.humanit.org/
 
When Dec 11, 2008 - Dec 12, 2008
Where Karlstad University, Sweden
Submission Deadline Oct 7, 2008
Notification Due Oct 31, 2008
Final Version Due Nov 15, 2008
Categories    wireless
 

Call For Papers

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CALL FOR PAPERS
1st Workshop on Wireless Broadband Access for Communities
and Rural Developing Regions - WIRELESS4D'08

Co-located at 1st International Conference on
"M4D" - Mobile Communication Technology for Development",
http://m4d.humanit.org/
December 11-12, 2008,
Karlstad University,
Sweden

Sponsored by E-CLIC (EU-regional funds)
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Broadband internet access is at present available only to a
small portion of the world's population, and there is a significant
penetration discrepancy not only between different countries but
also between different regions and areas within a given country.
In addition, there is a growing interest on the local community
and municipal levels to get broadband wireless access, but the
number of options regarding network and service providers, as well
as price and usage plans, is severely limited. However, affordable
broadband for all is a key requirement to bridge the digital divide
and to bring sustainable development to rural and developing regions
as well as to support communities and municipalities. Today,
existing technologies and plans for broadband access fail to address
key challenges in terms of cost, deployment, or power consumption in
order to bring broadband internet access to sparsely populated rural
areas or to the masses of developing countries.
While the focus of the general M4D conference is on multi-disciplinary
research addressing the social, political, cultural and educational
barriers to bringing ICT into developing regions, this workshop focuses
on the technical and economical aspects of enabling (broadband) wireless
internet access for rural and developing areas, as well as supporting
communities and municipalities. The goal is to bring together researchers
and practitioners and to serve as a forum for presenting and discussing
state of the art research, exchanging ideas and experiences, and
facilitating interaction and collaboration. Therefore, we are encouraging
contributions including but not limited to topics listed below:

* Cost-effective Rural, Urban and Community Wireless and Mesh Networks
* Long distance and low power wireless network deployments
* Power-Efficient Wireless Networks and Mobile Systems
* Opportunistic Communication Paradigms
* Social Networks meet Wireless
* Planning and Deployment of Community and Municipality Wireless Networks
* Business Models and Economics of Community and Rural Wireless Networks
* Applications and Services for Communities, Cross-layer design for localized communication
* Case Studies and Testbeds

Submission Instructions
Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a PDF version of an extended
abstract (maximum of 1000 words, in English) including figures, tables,
and results that provides enough details to assess the contribution of
the work. In addition to the paper submission, an abstract shall be
submitted through the EDAS system using as the main conference M4D 2008
and selecting the WIRELESS4D workshop. You can use directly the SUBMIT
PAPER link by no later than October 7th, 2008. Authors of accepted
papers are expected to present their paper at the workshop and register
at regular registration rates as indicated by the main conference.
Accepted contributions will be part of the M4D conference proceedings
and published on this website after the conference.

EDAS link: http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6821&
Template: http://m4d.humanit.org/images/stories/doc/m4d_template.doc

Important dates
Abstract submission due: October 7th 2008
Acceptance Notification: October 31st, 2008
Camera ready manuscripts due: November 15, 2008
Workshop date: December 11-12, 2008

Workshop Chair
Andreas J. Kassler, Karlstad University, Sweden

Industrial Support Chair
Thomas Michael Bohnert, SAP Research, CEC Zurich, CH

Program Committee:
Rui Aguiar, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Stefano Avallone, University of Naples, Italy
Suman Bannerjee, University of Wisconsin, USA
Elisabeth M. Belding, UC Santa Barbara, USA
Yahel Ben-David, Air Jaldi, India
Mathilde Benveniste, En-aerion, USA
Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Rome, Italy
Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland
Matteo Cesana, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Nicolas Chevrollier, TNO, Netherlands
Carla Fabiana Chiasserini, Politechno di Torino, Italy
Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK
Mischa Dohler, CTTC, Spain
Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA
Per Gunningberg, Uppsala University, Sweden
S. Keshav, University of Waterloo, Canada
Edward W. Knightly, Rice University, USA
Ibrahim Körpeoglu, Bilkent University, Turkey
As Madhukumar, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Prasant Mohapatra, UC Davis, USA
Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Jörg Ott, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Sergio Palazzo, University of Catania, Italy
Tapan Parikh, UC Berkeley, USA
Pedro M. Ruiz, University of Murcia, Spain
Vasilios Siris, University of Crete, Greece
Rahul Tongia, CMU, USA
Yan Zhang, Simula Research, Norway

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