Last mile: ACCESS 2014 || June 22 - 26, 2014 - Seville, Spain

[ACCESS 2014]

INVITATION:

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Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to ACCESS 2014.

The submission deadline of February 19, 2014 is approaching.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org

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============== ACCESS 2014 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

ACCESS 2014, The Fifth International Conference on Access Networks

June 22 - 26, 2014 - Seville, Spain


General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ACCESS14.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/CfPACCESS14.html

Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/SubmitACCESS14.html


Contributions:

- regular papers

- short papers (work in progress)

- posters

- ideas

- presentations

- demos

- doctoral forum submissions


Proposals for:

- symposia

- workshops


Submission deadline: February 19, 2014

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org


Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals:  http://www.iariajournals.org

Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html

Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org


Please note the Poster 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 Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.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 2014 Topics (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


Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ComACCESS14.html


ACCESS Advisory Committee

Alessandro Bogliolo, Università di Urbino, Italy

Mark Perry, University of New England in Armidale, Australia

Abdulrahman Yarali, Murray State University, USA

Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University - Burnaby, Canada

Ronit Nossenson, Jerusalem College of Technology, Israel


ACCESS Industrial/Research Chairs

Deepak Kataria, IPJunction Inc. - Bridgewater, USA

Michael Bahr, Siemens AG - Munich, Germany

George Korinthios, COSMOTE - Mobile Telecommunications S.A. - Athens, Greece

Yunxin (Jeff) Li, IP Australia, Australia

Serena Elisa Ponta, SAP Lab - Mougins, France

Alejandro Cordero, Amaranto Consultores, Spain

Arief Mustain, PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia, Tbk, Indonesia


ACCESS Publicity Chairs

Andrzej Beben, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

Kwang Ok Kim, ETRI, Korea

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