|  | The Eleventh  International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications ICWMC 2015 October 11 - 16, 2015 - St. Julians, Malta  | 
     
          
       
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             Colocated with other events part of InfoWare 2015 Posters will be presented during the conferenceA Work in Progress track is available for preliminary workA Research Ideas track is available for ideas in early stagesA Doctoral Forum track is available for discussing and publishing early PhD thesis research  
             
               | Submission (full paper) | May 12June 4, 2015
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               | Notification | July 12July 13, 2015
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               | Registration | July 30, 2015  |  
               | Camera ready | August 30, 2015  |  ISSN: 2308-4219ISBN: 978-1-61208-433-6
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     All tracks/topics are open to both research and industry contributions.
     Tracks:
     Wireless Communications    Basics
     
       Coding & modulation & equalization; 
         Channel modeling and   characterization; 
         Equalization/Synchronization; 
         Transform-domain   communication; 
         Multiple access algorithms and schemes; 
         Antenna and RF   subsystems; 
         Smart antennas, adaptive antennas, MIMO and beam forming; 
         MIMO   and OFDM Based PHY Layer technologies; 
         CDMA Systems
     
      Radio Interfaces and Systems
     
       Radio communications systems; 
         Radio resource management; 
         Radio transmission   technologies; 
         Power and interference control; 
         Interference Cancellation for   Wireless Mobile Systems; 
         Power management for small terminals; 
         Energy   map; 
         Channel Measurement and Characterization
     
      Spectrum    Allocation and Management
     
       Spectrum efficiency analyses; 
         Dynamic spectrum access networks; 
         Spectrum   management; 
         Interference mitigation and management techniques 
     
      Circuits for Wireless    Communications
     
       Wireless ASICs; 
         Wireless technologies; 
         RF Design issues
     
      Wireless and Mobility
     
       Mobility management; 
         Location-based services and positioning; 
         Micro and   macro-mobility; 
         Mobility, location and handoff management; 
         Mobile and   wireless IP; 
         Wireless broadband mobile access; 
         Routing in multihop, ad hoc   and sensor networks; 
         Wireless multicasting; 
         Wireless mesh   networks; 
         Topology control in wireless
     
      Protocols    for wireless and mobility
     
       Wireless protocols, architectural and design concepts; 
         Protocols for air   interfaces and networks; 
         Wireless MAC protocols: Design and   analysis; 
         Transport layer issues in mobile and wireless networks; 
         Middleware   for handhelds and mobile services nodes; 
         Proxies and middleware for wireless   networks 
     
      Traffic    and congestion control, QoS, Resource Management
     
       Traffic Modeling and Analysis; 
         3G/4G Bandwidth on Demand; 
         QoS and   mobility; 
         End-to-end QoS; 
         QoS profiling and pricing; 
         Traffic   Engineering; 
         Congestion and admission control 
     
      Wireless    and mobile technologies
     
       Micro-mobility and macro-mobility; Wireless LANs; Home and          Personal Area Networks: Bluetooth, ZigBeee, etc; Wireless          MANs:802.16, 802.20; Wireless WANs: 2G/3G/4G; Mobile ad hoc          networks and multi-hop wireless; Sensor networks and          applications; Ultra-wideband and short-range networks; High          altitude platforms and satellites; Emergency wireless          communications; Wireless real-time communications; RFID systems          (including readers and transponders in LF, HF and UHF bands)
     
      Performance    Evaluation, Simulation and Modeling of wireless networks and systems
     
       Performance and QoS in wireless networks; 
         Radio channel modeling (wave   propagation and measurements); 
         Mobile/wireless networks modeling and   simulation; 
         Performance of end-to-end protocols over wireless networks 
     
      Management of wireless and    mobile networks 
     
       Mobility and QoS management; 
         Billing technologies and tools; 
         Policy Based   Management in wireless LANS and MANs; 
         Wireless and Mobile Network   Planning; 
         Mobile Database Access and Design
     
      Security    in wireless and mobile environment
     
       Security and robustness in wireless networks; 
         Privacy, Authentication   Authorization and Accounting  (AAA); 
         Encryption and Cryptography; 
         Key   Management Protocols; 
         Digital Rights Management and Multimedia Protection
     
      Networks    convergence and integration
     
       2G/3G/4G integration; 
         Convergence of 3G wireless and Internet cross-layer   design in wireless networks; 
         WLAN/3G/4G integration; 
         Wireless-wireline   convergence; 
         Heterogeneous Networks (WAN, Wireless MAN, WLAN); 
         IP Multimedia   subsystems (IMS); 
         Next Generation Network Architecture- mobility   issues; 
         Coexistence of mobile radio networks; 
         End to End QoS in   Heterogeneous environment; 
         Signaling for integrated wireline/wireless   networks 
     
      Applications    and services based on wireless infrastructures
     
       Mobile & Wireless applications & services; 
         Service discovery:   protocols and frameworks; 
         Personalized services and   applications; 
         Audio-visual and mobile multimedia applications; 
         Media and   content distribution over wireless networks 
     
      Standardization and regulations
     
       Position on standards & fora on wireless and mobile networks; 
         Wireless   Networks Standards and Protocols; 
         Communications regulations; 
         802.11 WLAN   Standards; 
         802.16 WMAN Standards; 
         3GPP and 3GPP2 standards; 
         HSDPA   Technology and Standards; 
         Next Generation Network   standards 
     
      Design    and  implementation 
     
       Emerging wireless technologies; 
         Cross-layer optimizations in wireless   networks; Design and implementation of mobile information systems; 
         Software   defined radio and re-configurability; 
         Joint PHY/MAC   design 
     
      Wireless and mobile network    deployment
     
       Business models on wireless networks; 
         Market trends and regional   developments; 
         M-commerce; 
         Lessons learnt for wireless deployment in   schools 
         Lessons learnt for wireless deployment in special   regions; 
         Specialized wireless networks; 
         Heterogeneous wireless network   deployment (e.g., combining 802.11, 802.16 and 3G networks)
     
     Cooperative and  Cognitive Vehicular Networks
     
        Architectures  and platforms of cognitive vehicular network; Distributed artificial  intelligence techniques for cognitive networks; Cognitive vehicular  routing  metrics and supporting protocols; Reduced complexity cognitive  networks;  Physical and MAC layer issues; Protocols design for cognitive vehicular  networks; Cross-layer optimization in cognitive networks; Security  issues for  vehicular and cognitive networks; Testbed experiment, applications and  new  advances; Cooperative vehicular networks; QoS provisioning in  heterogeneous  networks ; Managing vertical handover; Multihoming; IPv6 GeoNetworking;  Vehicular network architectures and protocols ; Cross-layer design and  optimization for vehicular networks and cognitive networks; Mobility  management  and topology control; Standardization and Development of vehicular  networks
     
     Convergence and social mobility
     
       Convergence of mobile networks with the Web 2.0; 
         Convergence on architecture and services; 
         Open service capabilities; 
         Open exposure of telco capabilities; 
         Open Web APIs, SOA and SDP); 
         Interworking strategies; 
         Mobile terminals as sources for User-generated content; 
         Architecture and services for user-generated content; 
         Auto-description and metadata synthesis for telecom-generated for user-generated content; 
         Social mobile networks; 
         User behavior profiling; 
         Social connections (social graphs, contacts, etc); 
         Services and architectures/solutions for social mobile services