Scope

The Wireless Internet conference (WICON) is a premier international forum for discussions between industrial and academic researchers, practitioners, and students interested in the next generation Wireless Internet. WICON represents the convergence point for several different communities of academic and industrial researchers working in the wireless-internet arena. High scientific quality combined with industrial relevance constitutes the target of this conference.

The conference addresses all research topics related to the emerging Next Generation Internet, aimed to provide seamless connectivity, richer services, and better quality for wireless data users while supporting heterogeneity in: (i) communication technologies (ranging from high-bandwidth low error-rate pico-cells to low-bandwidth high error-rate macro-cells); (ii) network architectures (cellular, peer-to-peer, or other hybrid network models); and (iii) applications (ranging from low-data rate non-real-time applications to high-data rate real-time applications).
Next generation wireless Internet (also referred to as 4G) will be driven by an explosion of pervasive computing and communications devices resulting from advances in integrated circuits, displays, software radios, embedded operating systems, wireless protocols, services and software technologies. Technologies include, among others, IEEE 802.11, 802.15, 802.16, Mobile IP, micro-mobility protocols, IP paging, wireless TCP, wireless IP QOS, mobile ad hoc networks, and the 3G architecture. Focus will be on integrating different types of wireless networks with wire-line backbone network seamlessly, and convergence of voice, and data traffic over a single IP based core network.

WICON is soliciting papers describing original, completed or on-going research previously unpublished and not currently submitted for publication elsewhere, on topics, including but not limited to, the following:

Access technologies (from WBAN-WPAN to WMAN and cellular)
Broadband on demand wireless Internet
Connectivity for wired unserved areas
Standards (IEEE 802.11, 802.15, 802.16, ..)
Adaptive architectures
Cross layering
Seamless internetworking
Handoff and mobility management
Location mechanism and services
Mobile Internet
Energy management
Quality of service
Service network architectures
Wireless protocol stacks
Experiments and trials
Context aware applications
Security, authentication and privacy
Pricing and billing
Wireless Internet security
Theoretical foundations
Performance evaluation
Analysis and simulation models

Please join us in Budapest for WICON 2005!

Paper Submission

Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers of no more than 8 pages IEEE double column format. Papers will be accepted only by electronic submission through the EDAS system.

Important Dates

Submission of papers (to be received by): extended to February 14, 2005
Notification of Acceptance: March 30, 2005
Submission of camera-ready papers:April 30, 2005
Conference Dates: July 10-15, 2005