[MLB-WIRELESS] Fwd: [Rgsouthern] Call for papers: Municipal Wireless Networks Workshop (CIIT 2007-IASTED)

[Steven Haigh]

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> From: ABDEL N ABDELAAL <aabdelaal at mail.unomaha.edu>
> Date: 20 January 2007 4:17:54 AM
> To: mesrnile at yahoo.com
> Subject: [Rgsouthern] Call for papers: Municipal Wireless Networks  
> Workshop (CIIT 2007-IASTED)
>
> The Sixth IASTED International Conference on
> Communications, Internet, and Information Technology
> ~CIIT 2007~
> July 2 – 4, 2007
> Banff, Alberta, Canada
> Workshop/Special Session
> Municipal Wireless Networks: Community-Driven Systems for  
> Ubiquitous Connectivity (MWN-2007)
> Hesham H. Ali and Abdelnasser Abdelaal
> College of Information Science and Technology
> University of Nebraska at Omaha,
>
> Omaha, NE 68182, USA
>
> Scope
> The focus of this workshop (or mini-track) is to address the topic  
> of municipal wireless networks and its related issues. Hundreds of  
> cities across the world (including New York, Austin, Seattle, and  
> San Francisco, the U.S.; Paris, France; Hamburg, Germany; and  
> Turku, Finland) have established open access citywide wireless  
> networks (www.muniwireless.com). These wireless systems have been  
> established by local communities to provide free or affordable  
> ubiquitous wireless connectivity to enhance municipal and  
> government services, bridge the digital divide, and improve the  
> business environment. Such community-driven solutions for  
> connectivity have evolved taking advantage of the free frequency,  
> the monotonic improvement of wireless standards (in terms of  
> bandwidth, security, and quality of service), and the social  
> capital in the society. Social capital such as donations, open  
> source software, free technical support, recycled equipment,  
> location hosting, and volunteer work is a significant driver for  
> municipal wireless communications. However, developing such local  
> and customized connectivity solutions have raised many technical,  
> social, economic, legal, and interoperability issues.
>
>
> This workshop is dedicated to researchers and practitioners to  
> present the latest research results and experience in the area of  
> municipal wireless networks. The purpose of MWN-2007 is to provide  
> a forum to exchange ideas, discuss solutions, address concerns and  
> share experiences among researchers, professionals, and application  
> developers from industry, academia and various communities  
> interested in municipal networks. As a unique opportunity to obtain  
> an insight on the leading technologies, MWN-2006 wants to collect  
> the visions from the community to address the important related  
> issues.
> Topics covered in this Workshop
> MWN-2007 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work.  
> We are primarily interested in position papers, vision papers, and  
> papers that address new challenges for wireless communications in  
> municipal and community networks. Prospective authors are invited  
> to submit manuscripts to Hesham Ali (hali at mail.unomaha.edu).  
> Workshop topics include but not limited to the following topics:
>
> ·         Open access wireless networks (public WiFi hotspots, mesh  
> networks, municipal wireless communications, P2P communications,  
> community networks, neighborhood networks)
>
> ·         The social capital and the diffusion of municipal  
> wireless systems
> ·         Implementation issues and best practices
> ·         Security and privacy issues
> ·         Societal applications ( M-government, civic engagement,  
> community services, development
> ·         Commercial applications ( e.g. mobile commerce,  
> advertising, improving the business environment)
> ·         Business models for different communities and different  
> settings
> ·         Economics of municipal wireless systems
> ·         FCC regulations and legal issues
> ·         VoIP phone access, gaming, WiFi enabled cars, P2P issues
> ·         Unix like systems, range extenders
> ·         Interoperability and coexistence issues between different  
> wireless standards( e.g. WiFi, WiMax, Bluetooth, RFID and sensor  
> networks)
> ·         Fixed mobile conversion issues
> ·         Location aware applications
> ·         IT recycling efforts
> ·         Performance evaluation criteria
> ·         Value proposition of open access wireless systems
> ·         The digital divide triangle: access, training and equipment
> ·         Smart radio technologies
> ·         Open source software
> ·         Academic institutions and municipal wireless networks
>
> IMPORTANT DEADLINES
> Submissions due
> February 15, 2007
> Notification of acceptance
> March 10, 2007
> Final manuscripts due
> April 1, 2007
> Submissions
> All papers submitted to MWN-2007 must be previously unpublished and  
> may not be considered for publication elsewhere at any time during  
> the review period. The manuscript must follow IASTED two-column  
> format with single-spaced, ten-point font in the text (for more  
> information, see www.iasted.org/formatting-final-page.html).  
> Authors are requested to submit their papers (in electronic form in  
> Microsoft Word (.doc), Postscript (.ps), or Adobe Acrobat Portable  
> Document Format (.pdf).), contact addresses, telephone number, fax  
> number, and e-mail addresses to Hesham Ali (hali at mail.unomaha.edu)  
> by February 15, 2007. Submissions will be judged on correctness,  
> originality, technical strength, significance and quality of  
> presentation. Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing  
> and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the  
> notification of acceptance.