ACCESS 2010 - The First International Conferences on Access Networks, Services and Technologies

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Category ACCESS 2010

Deadline: April 20, 2010 | Date: September 20, 2010

Venue/Country: Valencia, Spain

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

Call For Papers - CFP

ACCESS 2010 inaugurates a series of conferences dealing with access networks, services and technologies based on the previous NEUTRAL 2009 and HOWAN 2009 workshop treating particular access aspects. ACCESS 2010 aims to provide an international forum by researchers, students, and professionals for presenting recent research results on advances in networking access, including the newest emerging access technologies, broadband access, wireless access, copper access, optical access, mobility aspects, as well as optical/wireless combination and neutrality.

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.

Granting positive externalities to the shared access infrastructure in order to enhance digital inclusion and broadband penetration by triggering a positive feedback loop among users, service providers, network operators, and investors is an option. The access infrastructure can be considered as a network per see, called "neutral access network" (NAN), which provides internal services and possibly exploits its territorial dimension in order to overcome the dichotomy between "on-line" and "off-line" people. While in a traditional access network, people who are not registered with any ISP are left out from the so called "information society", NANs can provide an intermediate area, which is logically placed "before the Internet", where on-line services and applications can be made available to residential and nomadic users who are not yet registered with any ISP.

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.

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)

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

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

INSTRUCTION FOR THE AUTHORS

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to one of the IARIA Journals.

Important deadlines:

Submission (full paper) April 20, 2010

Notification May 25, 2010

Registration June 17, 2010

Camera ready June 17, 2010

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", not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found on the Instructions page. Helpful information for paper formatting can be found on the here.

Your paper should also comply with the additional editorial rules.

Once you receive the notification of paper acceptance, you will be provided by the publisher 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.

Poster Forum

Posters are welcome. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as poster. Submissions are expected to be 6-8 slide deck. Posters will not be published in the Proceedings. One poster with all the slides together should be used for discussions. Presenters will be allocated a space where they can display the slides and discuss in an informal manner. The poster slide decks will be posted on the IARIA site.

For more details, see the Poster Forum explanation page.

Work in Progress

Work-in-progress contributions are welcome. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as work in progress. Authors should submit a four-page (maximum) text manuscript in IEEE double-column format including the authors' names, affiliations, email contacts. Contributors must follow the conference deadlines, describing early research and novel skeleton ideas in the areas of the conference topics. The work will be published in the conference proceedings.

For more details, see the Work in Progress explanation page

Technical marketing/business/positioning presentations

The conference initiates a series of business, technical marketing, and positioning presentations on the same topics. Speakers must submit a 10-12 slide deck presentations with substantial notes accompanying the slides, in the .ppt format (.pdf-ed). The slide deck will not be published in the conference’s CD Proceedings. Presentations' slide decks will be posted on the IARIA's site. Please send your presentations to petreiaria.org.

Tutorials

Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. Proposals should be for three hour tutorials. Proposals must contain the title, the summary of the content, and the biography of the presenter(s). The tutorials' slide decks will be posted on the IARIA's site. Please send your proposals to petreiaria.org

Panel proposals:

The organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their guests and manage that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our deadlines. Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the panel, as well as short biographies. The panel's slide deck will be posted on the IARIA's site.

For more information, petreiaria.org

Workshop proposals

We welcome workshop proposals on issues complementary to the topics of this conference. Your requests should be forwarded to petreiaria.org.