3rd CfP: ACCESS 2010 || September 20-25, 2010 - Valencia, Spain

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============== ACCESS 2010 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

ACCESS 2010: The First International Conferences on Access Networks, Services and Technologies
September 20-25, 2010 - Valencia, Spain

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/ACCESS10.html
Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/CfPACCESS10.html

Submission deadline: April 20, 2010

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org
Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
Publisher: CPS ( see: http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps )
Archived: IEEE CSDL (Computer Science Digital Library) and IEEE Xplore
Submitted for indexing: Elsevier's EI Compendex Database, EI's Engineering Information Index
Other indexes are being considered: INSPEC, DBLP, Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index

Please note the Poster Forum and Work in Progress options.

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unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, 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, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, 
Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html

ACCESS 2010 Tracks (tracks' topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

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)

FEMTO: Femtocells-based access
Femtocells architectures; Femtocells requirements ands specifications; Femtocells protocols; Femtocells services and 
applications; Traffic and QoS in Femtocells; Performance analysis in Femtocells; Femtocells control and management; 
Interoperability of Femtocells devices; Femtocells operation optimization; Femtocells specific solutions for mobility; 
OFDMA Femtocells: interference avoidance; Macrocell-Femto cell interference issues and mitigation; Macrocell-Femto cell 
handover strategies; WiMAX Fentocells; Standardization of Femtocells

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

CONTROL: Access Control 
Foundations for access control; Models for access control; Mechanisms for access control; Policy-driven and role-driven 
access control; Delegation and identity management; Privacy-drive control; Access control for advanced applications 
(cloud, autonomic, sensor, social networks, etc.); Standards for accesses control

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

LEGAL: Legal aspects on network and service access
Network neutrality principle; Security and privacy rights; Institutional implications; Accessibility and social 
affordability; User responsibility

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ACCESS 2010 General Chairs
Elsa María Macías López, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Álvaro Suárez Sarmiento, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

ACCESS Advisory Committee
Alessandro Bogliolo, Università di Urbino, Italy
Fabio M. Chiussi, Airvana, Inc., USA 
Mark Perry, University of Western Ontario/Faculty of Law/ Faculty of Science - London, Canada 
Shing-Wa Wong, Stanford University, USA 

ACCESS 20101 Research Institute Liaison Chairs
Sradhi Chava, CREATE-NET, Italy 
Moshe Ran, H.I.T - Holon Institute of Technology, Israel 

ACCESS 2010 Industry/Research Chairs
Alexander Klein, Technische Universität München, Germany 

ACCESS 2010 Special Area Chairs
FEMTO Chair 
    Fabio M. Chiussi, Airvana, Inc., USA 

Committee members: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/ComACCESS10.html
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