CONFERENCE PROGRAM REGISTRATION VENUE VISA

SYMPOSIUM ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS
CONSUMER NETWORKS

Symposium Chair
Kwang-Cheng Chen, National Taiwan University
(chenkc@cc.ee.ntu.edu.tw)
Track Vice-Chair
Phone Lin, National Taiwan University (plin@csie.ntu.edu.tw)


Sponsoring
Technical Committee
Consumer Networks Sub-Committee

Scope
The Consumer Networks Track in General Symposium is organized with the scope that brings together researchers, developers, and practitioners from both academia and industry working in all areas of consumer communications and networking to ubiquitously networking consumer devices and sensors, digital right management and network security, smart living environments and robotic communications, and networked media technology over Internet (such as 3-D applications). Consumer Networks is considered as one major direction for IEEE ComSoc (according to 2003 ComSoc BoD meeting). We would like to bring in the latest technical solutions from networking consumer devices, to intelligent living environments, networking for health cares, robotic and vehicular networks, networked media technology such as 3-D contents, and those listed or not-listed in the following. We invite original papers to address technology and innovation, theory, implementation, applications and services, and interdisciplinary research in "consumer networks" track.

Topics of Interest

  • Internet Cognitive Applications, Services, and Enabling Technologies
  • Intelligent Living Environments: Architecture, Protocols, and Applications
         - Body Area Networks and Medical/Living/Health Applications
         -
    Home Automation and Machine Learning
         - Seamless Roaming Techniques and Heterogeneous Networking Technologies
  • Consumer aspects in vehicle networks
  • Robotic Navigation, Communications, and Networks
  • Consumer-friendly Security Models and Tools
  • Consumer aspects of communications security
  • Multimedia Networking and Applications, and Content Distribution
  • Networked Media Technology
         - 3-D over Internet and Wireless Networks
         -
    Resources, Database, and File Sharing
         - Overlay and Application Layer Multicast
  • Multimedia Streaming, QoS Protocols, Distributed Control
         - Image/Video Multimedia Networks
         -
    High-Definition Audio/Video Networking and IPTV
         - Multicast and Broadcast Multimedia Services: Architecture, Protocols, and Applications

Technical Program Committee
Hossam Afifi (Telecom SudParis, France)
Ray-Guang Cheng (National Taiwan University of Science & Technology, Taiwan)
Michael Fang (University of Florida, USA)
Wom King (SungKyunKwan University, Korea)
Ying-Chang Liang (I2R, Singapore)
Albena Mihovska (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Masao Nakagawa (Keio University, Japan)
Homayoun Nikookar (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)
Naohisa Ohta (Keio University, Japan)
Neeli Prasad (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Ai-Chun Pang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Shigenobu Sasaki (Niigata University, Japan)
Sumei Sun (I2R, Singapore)

Presentation Style
The IEEE GLOBECOM 2009 Technical Program Committee will go through a rigorous process to review all the papers submitted and select the best ones among them. The accepted papers will be presented in the conference either in a lecture style or in a poster style format. This distinction has no relationship with the quality of the accepted papers whatsoever. It is purely due to the limitations of the conference rooms available for lecture style presentations. Papers will be selected for lecture-style or poster-style presentation, solely based on the need to ensure topic homogeneity in lecture-style sessions.   All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and IEEExplore without any indication of the presentation mode.