Thursday, December 16, 2010

[DMANET] 2nd Call for Contributions to the SNOW Workshop

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The Second Nordic Workshop on System and Network Optimization for
Wireless (SNOW)

24-26 March 2011, Sälen, Sweden

webpage: http://snow.itn.liu.se

Call for abstracts

Important Dates:
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Abstract Submission: Jan. 5, 2011 (firm)
Acceptance Notification: Jan. 12, 2011
Registration Deadline: Jan. 25, 2011
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Workshop Dates: Mar. 24-26, 2011

The Second Nordic Workshop on System and Network Optimization for
Wireless (SNOW) aims at bringing together Researchers and Students from
the Academia working in wireless networking, primarily in the Nordic region.
This year, the Nordic SNOW Workshop aims to have a special focus on
broadband cellular access (HSPA, LTE/LTE-A, etc) and emerging wireless
networking paradigms such as collaborative and heterogeneous networking.
We further welcome presentations within a broad range of wireless
networking cross-layer optimization, from fundamental communication
performance analysis to considerations for multimedia QoS.
Our goal is to have a single track meeting with lively scientific
discussions and exchange of views, and to accommodate a wide variety of
backgrounds and research attitudes. The program will be organized in
such a way to promote networking activities between the participants,
including daily social outdoors activities like skiing.

We therefore invite for review submissions of up to 1-page abstracts of
technical presentations targeting, but not limited to the following topics:
- Asymptotic system properties (capacity, connectivity, coverage, delay)
- Cellular systems, 3G/4G, LTE-advanced, WMAN, WRAN, and other emerging
broadband wireless networks
- Inter-networking and integration of wireless heterogeneous and
multi-tier networks
- Performance engineering in HSPA, WLAN, MESH, LTE, and other cellular
or multitier technologies
- Wireless network planning, capacity analysis, and topology control
- Cognitive Radios and cooperative/opportunistic communications
- Self-organizing wireless networks
- Game theoretic models, pricing and incentives
- Resource management, mobility management, and admission control
- Energy efficiency and green communications
- Delay tolerant wireless networks
- Scalability and manageability of network architectures
- Automated planning and resource allocation in 3G HSPA (and beyond)
networks

Abstracts must be submitted electronically through the Nordic SNOW
workshop web page: http://snow.itn.liu.se


Keynotes:
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"MIMO systems revisited"
Ralf R. Müller, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

"LTE evolution and commercial network performance"
Eva Englund, Ericsson Research.


Organizing committee:
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-General co-chairs:
Di Yuan, Linköping University, Sweden
Matti Latva-aho, CWC-University of Oulu, Finland

-Advisory board:
Anthony Ephremides, University of Maryland, USA
Ryuji Kohno, Yokohama National University, Japan
Behnaam Aazhang, Rice University, USA

-Local arrangements:
Vangelis Angelakis, Linköping University, Sweden

Registration and Costs:
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Registration of accepted presenters and workshop attendants will be done
online through the workshop webpage. No registration fee will be
charged. Participants will have to support their own lodging and
transportation costs.

Venue and transportation:
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The 2nd Nordic SNOW workshop will take place at the Swedish ski resort
of Stöten in Sälen. Stöten has direct access to 27 individual slopes,
served by 15 ski lifts and provides snow guarantee up to the last week
of April: http://www.stoten.se/

A limited number of single and double rooms have been block booked (in a
package of 4 nights from 23 to 27 of March) at the Stöten Hotel and at
2- bedroom apartments in Stöten Mitt.
We strongly urge the participants to prefer the apartments in line with
the networking spirit of the workshop.
-- For details visit: http://snow.itn.liu.se

Travel information
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Stöten is mainly reachable through the town of Mora in Sälen.
From Mora, there is a 1.5 hrs drive by bus, or car rental. We shall
arrange to have 2 busses at two fixed times (to be announced) from Mora
on Wednesday March 23rd.
* Flying to Mora:
Operated by Nextjet: http://www.nextjet.se/
On Wednesday 23 March there are two direct flights from Stockholm's
Arlanda Airport (ARN) to Mora (MXX).
* By Train to Mora:
Operated by SJ: http://www.sj.se
There are train departures to Mora from the Stockholm central train
station every 45 minutes, with a trip duration ranging approximately
3:30 to 4 hrs.

Hope to see you in Sälen!

Di Yuan

Professor
Mobile Telecommunications (http://kts.itn.liu.se/mobile-telecom?l=en)
Department of Science and Technology (ITN)
Linköping University, Sweden
Phone: +46-11-363192; Fax: +46-11-363270; E-mail: diyua@itn.liu.se
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