WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYMPOSIUM

Symposium Co-Chairs
Cheng Li, Memorial University of Newfoundland (licheng@mun.ca)
Robert Schober, Leading Chair, University of British Columbia (rschober@ece.ubc.ca)
Jingxian Wu, University of Arkansas (wuj@uark.edu)
Alberto Zanella, National Research Council (CNR) (alberto.zanella@ieiit.cnr.it)

Sponsoring Technical Committees
Wireless Communications
Radio Communications
Satellite & Space Communications
Signal Processing & Communications Electronics
Communication Theory

Scope
The ongoing goal of providing enhanced information services seamlessly and ubiquitously continues to drive wireless communications from both government and commercial perspectives.  This makes wireless communications not only a very vibrant area of research but also one of significant societal impact. Thus, both theoretical studies and practical techniques that promise to improve the performance of wireless networks are of extreme interest. The Wireless Communications Symposium will focus on such studies and techniques that reside at the physical layer (PHY) and combinations of the PHY with higher layers (i.e. cross-layer design).

Topics of Interest

• Wireless Communications and Enabling Technologies
      -  Relay assisted and cooperative communications
      -  Ultra-wideband communications (UWB)
      -  MIMO and multi-antenna communications
      -  Space-time coding and processing
      -  OFDM and multi-carrier systems
      -  Smart antennas
      -  CDMA, TDMA, FDMA air interfaces
      -  Detection and estimation
      -  Adaptive modulation
      -  Fading channels
      -  Propagation, antennas and channel characterization
      -  Diversity techniques and equalization
      -  Synchronization
      -  Modulation and coding
      -  Multi-user detection, signal separation and interference rejection
      -  Joint source-channel coding for wireless communications
      -  Channel capacity and network information theory
      -  Power control algorithms
      -  Broadband fixed satellite communications
      -  Mobile satellite communications
      -  DSP applications to wireless systems
      -  Wireless communications testbed development
   
• Cross-layer Design and Physical-layer-based Network Issues
      -  Cross-layer design
      -  Network coding
      -  Opportunistic scheduling
      -  Wireless multicasting
      -  Physical-layer aspects of mobility and localization techniques
      -  Hybrid wireless communication systems
      -  Broadband wireless access
      -  Physical-layer aspects of wireless LANs and PANs
      -  4G mobile network architectures
      -  Physical-layer aspects of GPRS, EDGE, 3GPP, IMT2000, UMTS
      -  DVB and DAB techniques
      -  Physical-layer aspects of cellular networks
      -  Coexistence in unlicensed spectra
      -  Resource allocation and interference management
      -  Fixed wireless broadband data systems
      -  Wireless video
      -  Bluetooth technologies and applications
      -  Spectrum efficiency and issues
      -  Wireless system optimization techniques
      -  Wireless multimedia
      -  Multiple access techniques
      -  Integration between satellite and terrestrial wireless networks

Note: The WCS Co-Chairs encourage authors to submit their manuscripts not related to the physical layer, particularly the wireless applications and services manuscripts, to the Wireless Networking Symposium, which is co-sponsored by the WC and RCC TCs. 

Technical Program Committee

Alhussein Abouzeid, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Sofiene Affes, Univeristy of Quebec, Canada
Mohamed Ahmed, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Sonia Aissa, University of Quebec, INRS-EMT, Canada
Wessam Ajib, University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada
Fady Alajaji, Queen's University at Kingston, Canada
Naofal Al-Dhahir, University of Dallas, USA
Arafat Al-Dweik, Etisalat University College, UAE
Attahiru Alfa, Univ. of Manitoba, Canada
Ali Almutairi, Kuwait University, Kuwait
Emad Alsusa, Manchester University, United Kingdom
Huseyin Arslan, University of South Florida, USA
Nallanathan Arumugam, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Vasilakos Athanasios, University of Western Macedonia, Greece
Fulvio Babich, University of Trieste, Italy
Saewoong Bahk, Seoul National University, Korea
Natarajan Bala, Kansas State University, USA
Mohammad Banat, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan
Norman Beaulieu, University of Alberta, Canada
Jalel Ben-othman, Universit̩ de Versailles, France
Nevio Benvenuto, University of Padova, Italy
Mauro Biagi, University La Sapienza Rome, Italy
Igor Bisio, University of Genoa, Italy
Steven Blostein, Queen's University, Canada
Holger Boche, University of Berlin, Germany
Azzedine Boukerche, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada
Mohammed Boulmalf, AlAkhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco
Michael Buehrer, Virginia Tech, USA
Alister Burr, University of York, UK
Jianfei Cai, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Hong Kong
Lei Cao, The University of Mississippi, USA
Jean-Francois Chamberland, Texas A&M University, USA
Shih-Yu Chang, National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan
Youssef Charfi, Osaka University, Japan
Sheng Chen, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Hui Chen, Vigina State University , USA
Yuanzhu (peter) Chen, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Xianbo Chen, Univ. of Okalahoma, USA
Wei Chen, Tsinghua University, P.R. China
Yunfei Chen, University of Warwick, UK
Jiming Chen, University of Electronic Scienceand Technology of China, P.R. China
Hsiao-Hwa Chen, National Sun-Yat Sen universuty, China
Julian Cheng, University of British Columbia, Canada
Marco Chiani, University of Bologna, Italy
Feng-Tsun Chien, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Woon Hau Chin, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Tzi-Dar Chiueh, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Ananthanarayanan Chockalingam, Indian Institute of Science, India
Peter H. J. Chong, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Xiaowen Chu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Vivien Xiaoli Chu, King's College London, United Kingdom
Giulio Colavolpe, University of Parma, Italy
Andrea Conti, ENDIF Univ. of Ferrara, Italy
Justin Coon, Toshiba TRL, United Kingdom
Giovanni Corazza, University of Bologna, Italy
Laura Cottattellucci, Eurecom, France
Felipe Cruz Perez, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico
Claudio da Silva, Virginia Tech, USA
Davide Dardari, University of Bologna, Italy
Zaher Dawy, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Prathapasinghe Dharmawansa, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Marco Di Renzo, CTTC, Spain
Wei Ding, Austin Peay State University in Tennessee, USA
Zhi Ding, University of California, Davis, USA
Rui Dinis, ISR-IST, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Mischa Dohler, France Telecom R&D, France
Lei Du, DoCoMo Beijing labs, P.R. China
George Efthymoglou, Univ. Of Piraeus, Greece
Serhat Erkucuk, Kadir Has University, Turkey
Tomaso Erseghe, University of Padona, Italy
Gianluigi Ferrari, University of Parma, Italy
Marco Ferrari, CNR, Italy
Jeffrey Foerster, Intel Research and Development, USA
Chuan Heng Foh, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Shengli Fu, University of North Texas, USA
Weihua Gao, Syracuse University, USA
Wen Gao, Thomson Inc., USA
Thierry Gayraud, LAAS-CNRS, Universit̩ de Toulouse, France
Paul Gendron, Naval Research Lab, USA
Wolfgang Gerstacker, University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany
Sinan Gezici, Bilkent University, Turkey
Ali Ghrayeb, Concordia University, Canada
Wes Gifford, MIT, USA
Andrea Giorgetti, University of Bologna, Italy
Dennis Goeckel, University of Massachusetts  Amherst, USA
T. Aaron Gulliver, University of Victoria, Canada
Zhengwen Guo, China Ocean University, China
Ozgur Gurbuz, Sabanci University, Turkey
Cenk Mustafa, Gursoy, UNL, USA
Mustafa Cenk Gursoy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Martin Haardt, Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany
Khairi Hamdi, University of Manchester, UK
Walaa Hamouda, Concordia University, Canada
Zhu Han, Boise State University, USA
Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton, UK
Jianhua He, University of Swansea, UK
Wendi Heinzelman, University of Rochester, USA
Are Hjorungnes, University of Oslo, Norway
Paul Ho, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Zhihong Hong, Communications Research Centre, Canada
Liang Hong, Tennessee State University, USA
Yao-Win Peter Hong, National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan
Ekram Hossain, University of Manitoba, Canada
Steve Hranilovic, McMaster University, Canada
Jiankun Hu, RMIT University, Austrialia
Yueh-Min Huang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, China
Defeng Huang, University of Western Australia, Australia
Brian Hughes, North Carolina State University, USA
Ali Humos, Jackson State University, USA
Taewon Hwang, Yonsei University, Korea
Gi-Hong Im, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea
Sarangapani Jagannathan, University of Missouri Rolla, USA
Lopez-Munoz, Javier, University of Malaga, Spain
Hai, Jiang, University of Alberta, Canada
Nihar, Jindal, Univ. of Minnesota, USA
Volker, Jungnickel, Heinrich-Hertz Institute, Germany
Markku, Juntti, University of Oulu, Finland
Thomas, Kaiser, University of Hannover, Germany
Stefan, Kaiser, DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany
Pooi-Yuen, Kam, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Kimmo, Kansanen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway
George, Karagiannidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Onur, Kaya, Isik University, Turkey
Dong In, Kim, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
Shalinee Kishore, Lehigh University,, USA
Joerg Kliewer, New Mexico State University, USA
Witold Krzymien, University of Alberta / TRLabs, Canada
Stepan Kucera, Kyoto University, Japan
Volker Kuehn, University of Rostock, Germany
Ricky Yu-Kwong Kwok, The University of Honk Hong, Taiwan
Lutz Lampe, University of British Columbia, Canada
Eddie Law, Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada
Long Le, University of Waterloo, Canada
Inkyu Lee, Korea University, Korea
Heung-No  Lee, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Zhongding Lei, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Cyril Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada
Victor Leung, The University of British Columbia, Canada
Tiffany Jing Li, Lehigh University, USA
Zongpeng Li, University of Calgary, Canada
Husheng Li, University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA
Jing Li, Lehigh University, USA
Yonghui Li, University of Sydney, Australia
Ying-Chang Liang, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Xue-Bin Liang, Lousiana State University, USA
Jie Liang, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Hai Lin, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
David Lin, National Chiao Ting Univ., Taiwan
Cong Ling, Imperial College London, UK
Jiangchuan Liu, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Lichuan Liu, Northern Illinois University, USA
Xian Liu, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA
Youjian Liu, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Zhiqiang Liu, University of Iowa, USA
Youjian (Eugene) Liu, University of Colorado, USA
Pavel Loskot, Swansea University, UK
Vincenzo Lottici, University of Pisa, Italy
David Love, Purdue University, USA
Sergey Loyka, University fo Ottawa, Canada
Kejie Lu, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, USA
Marco Luise, University of Pisa, Italy
Yao Ma, Iowa State University, USA
Xiaomin Ma, Oral Roberts University, USA
Amine Maaref, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, USA
Maurizio Magarini, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy
Ranjan Mallik, Indian Institute of Technology - Delhi, India
Yongyi Mao, University of Ottawa, Canada
Philippa Martin, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Barbara Masini, IEIIT-CNR, Italy
Neelesh Mehta, India Institute of Science Bangalore, India
Weixiao Meng, Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China
Xavier Mestre, CTTC, Spain
Jan Mietzner, Universit of British Columbia, Canada
Dong Min, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
Hlaing Minn, University of Dallas, USA
Jelena Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada
Vojislav Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada
Seshadri Mohan, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA
Hamed Mohsenian, University of British Columbia, Canada
Andreas Molisch, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory, USA
Stefan Moser, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Lorenzo Mucchi, University of Florence, Italy
Sami (Hakam) Muhaidat, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Kumudu Munasinghe, University of Sydney, Australia
Hidekazu Murata, Kyoto University, Japan
Leila Musavian, University of Quebec, INRS-EMT, Canada
Rohit Nabar, Marvell, USA
Arumugam Nallanathan, King's College London, England
Bala Natarajan, Kansas State University, USA
Ha Nguyen, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Aria Nosratinia, University of Texas, USA
Hideki Ochiai, Yokohama National University, Japan
Claude Oestges, Universitat Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Geir Oien, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway
Lisa Osadciw, Syracuse University, USA
Shumao Ou, University of Essex, UK
Sangheon Pack, Korea University, Korea
Matthias Paetzold, University of Agder, Norway
Zhengang Pan, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Enrico Paolini, University of Bologna, Italy
Evangelos Papapetrou, University of Ioannina, Greece
Suwon Park, Kwangwoon University, Korea
Gianni Pasolini, University of Bologna, Italy
Dongming Peng, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Erik Perrins, University of Kansas, USA
Dirk Pesch, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland
Lorenzo Piazzo, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
Koutsakis Polychronis, McMaster University, Canada
Shankar Prakriya , Indian Institute of Technology - Delhi, India
Anand Prasad, NEC, Japan
Yi Qian, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Puerto Rico
Ye Qiang, University of PEI, Canada
Robert Qiu, Tennessee Tech University, USA
Tony Quek, University of Singapore, Singapore
Redha Radaydeh, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan
James Ritcey, University of Washington, USA
Luca Rugini, University of Perugia, Italy
Brian Sadler, Army Research Laboratories, USA
Jawad Salehi, Sharif University of Technology, Iran
Fortunato Santucci, University of l'Aquila, Italy
Philip Schniter, Ohio State University, USA
Erchin Serpedin, Texas A&M University, USA
Alireza Seyedi, Rochester University, USA
Xuejun Sha, Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R.China
Hyundong Shin, Kyung Hee University, Korea
Osvaldo Simeone, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Birsen Sirkeci-Mergen, San Jose State Univ., USA
Christopher Snow, RIM, Canada
Daniel K. C. So, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Reza Soleymani, Concordia University, Canada
Min Song, Old Dominion University, USA
Umberto Spagnolini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Weifeng Su, SUNY Buffalo, USA
Bo Sun, Lamar University, USA
Hongxia Sun, Univ. of Calgary, Canada
Yan Sun, University of Rhode Island, USA
Himal Suraweera, Victoria University, Australia
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akshya swain, Univ. of Auckland, New Zealand
Jan Sykora, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czeck Republic
Leszek Szczecinski, INRS-EMT, Canada
Tarik Taleb, Tohoku University, Japan
Meixia Tao, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Zhifeng Tao, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA
Chintha Tellambura, University of Alberta, Canada
Cihan Tepedelenlioglu, Arizona State University, USA
John Thompson, University of Edinburgh, UK
Andrea Tonello, University of Udine, Italy
Velio Tralli, University of Ferrara - Italy, Italy
Charalampos Tsimenidis, Newcastle University, UK
Ufuk Tureli, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Sennur Ulukus, University of Maryland, USA
Murat Uysal, University of Waterloo, USA
Matthew Valenti, West Virginia University, USA
Sriram Vishwanath, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Giorgio M. Vitetta, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Azadeh Vosoughi, University Of Rochester, USA
Xinbing Wang, Shanghai Jiaotong University, P.R. China
Tianqi Wang, University of Rochester, USA
Ping Wang, University of Waterloo, Canada
Yu Wang, Univeristy of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Tsang-Yi Wang, National Sun Yat-sen University, China
Chonggang Wang, University of Arkansas, USA
Wei Wang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Tsang-Yi Wang, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
Pu Wang, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Xianbin Wang, Univ. of Western Ontario, Canada
Bin Wang, Wright State Univ., USA
Xianbin Wang, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Bo Wang, Motorola, USA
Li-Chun Wang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Wenye Wang, NC State University, USA
Shuangqing Wei, Louisiana State University, USA
Risto Wichman, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Sarah Kate Wilson, Santa Clara University, USA
Moe Z. Win, MIT, USA
Santipach Wiroonsak, Kasetsart University, Thailand
Vincent Wong, University of British Columbia, Canada
Kainam Thomas Wong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Kai Kit Wong, University College, United Kingdom
Kui Wu, Univ. of Victoria, Canada
Xuan-Li Wu, Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R.China
Hsiao-Chun Wu, Louisana State University, USA
Alexander Wyglinski, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
Henk Wymeersch, MIT, USA
Ariton Xhafa, Texas Instruments Inc., USA
Pengfei Xia, Samsung Electronics, USA
Xiang-Gen Xia, University of Delaware, USA
Weidong Xiang, University of Michigan - Dearborn, USA
Kun Yang, University of Essex, UK
Chenyang Yang, Beihang University, P.R. China
Hong-Chuan Yang, University of Victoria, Canada
Lie-Liang Yang, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Liuqing Yang, University of Florida, USA
Yu-Dong Yao, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Aylin Yener, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Raymond Yim, MERL, USA
Simon Yiu, Harvard University, Canada
Guosen Yue, NEC Laboratories America, Inc., USA
Maciej Zawodniok, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA
Seyed Alireza Zekavat, Michigan Tech University, USA
Quing Zeng, University of Cincinnati, USA
Baoxian Zhang, Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R.China
Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
Wei Zhang, Univ. of New South Wales, Australia
Weiyi Zhang, North Dakota State University,
Liang Zhang, Communications Research Centre, Canada
Jinyun Zhang, MERL, USA
Ying Jun (Angela), Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Wei Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Lian Zhao, Ryerson University, Canada
Dongmei Zhao, McMaster University, Canada
Xinsheng Zhao, Southeast University, P.R. China
Yahong Zheng, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA
Shengli Zhou, University of Conneticut, USA
Xu Zhu, University of Liverpool, UK
Weihua Zhuang, University of Waterloo, Canada

Presentation Style
The 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.