HOWAN 2009 - HOWAN 2009, The First International Workshop on Hybrid Optical and Wireless Access Networks

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Category HOWAN 2009

Deadline: March 20, 2009 | Date: August 23, 2009

Venue/Country: Cannes, France

Updated: 2010-06-04 19:32:22 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Wireless Access Networks

HOWAN 2009 is scheduled to be in 2009 - along with the INTERNET 2009

conference

August 23-29, 2009 / Cannes, C?te d'Azur, France

HOWAN 2009: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/HOWAN.html

INTERNET 2009: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/INTERNET09.html

Submission deadline: March 20, 2009

INTERNET 2009 is Technically Co-sponsored by IEEE France

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org

Submissions will be peer-reviewed, published by IEEE CPS, posted in IEEE

Digital Library, and indexed with the major indexes.

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals:

http://www.iariajournals.org

Hybrid Optical and Wireless Access Networks (HOWANs) consists of a

multi-hop wireless mesh network (WMN) at the front-end and an optical

access network, e.g., a passive optical network (PON) at the back-end.

PONs use inexpensive and passive optical splitters to divide a single

fiber into separate strands feeding individual subscribers. EPON is based

on the Ethernet standard, which comes with the added benefit of the

economies-of-scale of Ethernet, and provides simple and easy-to-manage

connectivity both at the customer premises and at the central office. A

wireless mesh network (WMN) is a communication network made up of radio

nodes organized in a mesh topology, which is reliable and offers

redundancy. The mesh architecture sustains signal strength by breaking

long distances into a series of shorter hops. Intermediate nodes not only

boost the signal, but also cooperatively make forwarding decisions based

on their knowledge of the network states. Compared with pure WMNs or PONs,

HOWANs provide a more cost-effective way for broadband access network

infrastructure and integrates the benefits from WMNs and PONs. For

example, the reliability, robustness and high capacity of PON is

integrated with the flexibility and cost saving of wireless networks.

However, as a hybrid of two distinct networks and technologies, HOWANs

post a lot of challenges for routing, survivability, service provisioning,

QoS, and network design and optimization.

The First International Workshop on Hybrid Optical and Wireless Access

Networks (HOWAN 2009) is a unique event for discussing open issues on

original research results in the areas of architecture, implementation,

optimization and applications of Hybrid Optical and Wireless Access

Networks (HOWANs).

The scope of this workshop is to act as a catalyst for a thorough overview

of hybrid optical and wireless access networks by providing a forum for

academia, industry and standardization organization. Therefore, the

workshop will focus on the near- to mid-term architecture, applications,

algorithms, and deployment.

We solicit papers covering various topics of interest that include, but

not limited to the following. All tracks are open to both research and

industry contributions.

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

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE AUTHORS

The HOWAN 2009 papers will be in the INTERNET 2009 Proceedings, published

by IEEE Computer Society Press, and posted on-line via IEEE XPlore Digital

Library. IEEE will index the papers with major indexes.

Important deadlines:

Submission (full paper) March 20, 2009

Notification April 25, 2009

Registration May 10, 2009

Camera ready May 15, 2009

Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All

received papers will be acknowledged via an automated system.

Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11" (two columns IEEE format), not

exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The

formatting instructions can be found on the Instructions page.

Once you receive the notification of paper acceptance, you will be

provided by the IEEE CS Press an online author kit with all the steps an

author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL

will be included in the letter of acceptance.

Contributions may be /see the site/

Regular papers

Posters

Work in progress

Technical marketing/business/positioning presentations

Tutorials

Panel proposals

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