[Tccc] Last Mile: ACCESS 2013 || July 21 - 26, 2013 - Nice, France

Petre Dini petreatiaria.org
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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 2013.

The submission deadline is March 18, 2013.

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 2013 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

ACCESS 2013, The Fourth International Conference on Access Networks

July 21 - 26, 2013 - Nice, France


General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2013/ACCESS13.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2013/CfPACCESS13.html

- regular papers
- short papers (work in progress)
- posters
- ideas

Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2013/SubmitACCESS13.html

Submission deadline: March 18, 2013

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are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under 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 comply with the Editorial rules: 
http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html


ACCESS 2013 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

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Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2013/ComACCESS13.html
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