Call for Papers

1. Selected Areas in Communications

The IEEE ICC 2009 Symposium in Selected Areas in Communications (SSAC) concentrates on new and emerging communication technology areas, including the ones that are not directly addressed in any of the ten named symposia. It offers a open forum for academic and industrial researchers to exchange the latest technical information and research findings on novel communication concepts, technologies, systems, and applications.

Topics of Particular Interest

• Vehicular Communications
  • MAC and PHY Layers for In-Vehicle Communications
  • MAC and PHY Layers for Inter-Vehicle Communications (DSRC, 802.11p)
  • Applications
  • Inter-Vehicle Applications
  • In-Vehicle Applications
  • Vehicle to Roadside Applications
  • Vehicular Networks
  • Architectures and protocols (e.g., WAVE, C2CC)
  • Mobility and vehicle traffic models
  • Market introduction and penetration
  • Security, privacy and liability
  • Real-world testbeds and field trials
• Situation Management in Communications
  • Situation Modelling, Awareness and Decision Support
  • Situation monitoring, reasoning and decision support
  • Predictive situation modeling
  • Situation ontology and semantics incl. semantic web
  • Formal methods and situation calculus
  • Learning and situation discovery
  • Information Fusion and Event Correlation
  • Multi-source, multi-resolution and hierarchical information fusion
  • Information fusion and situation awareness
  • Event correlation algorithms
  • Situation Management Architectures and Platforms
  • Multi-agent systems and distributed situation management
  • Collaborative models of situation management
  • Peer-to-peer architectures for situation awareness
  • Situation Management Applications and Experiences
  • Asymmetric, net-centric and tactical battlespace operations
  • Earth observations, disaster response and crisis management
  • Intelligent transportation, health care, and enterprise management networks
• Cognitive Networks
  • Policies and Economics
  • Spectrum policies and regulatory issues
  • Economic/Game theoretic analysis of spectrum markets
  • Network Protocols and Theoretical Foundations
  • Fundamental performance results of cognitive networks
  • Coding for QoS support (e.g., erasure coding)
  • Cognitive MAC, routing and application layer protocols
  • Spectrum sensing and etiquette
  • Cognitive networks security issues
  • Experiences
  • Test-beds and experimental results
  • Platforms to implement cognitive networks (e.g., software defined radios)
  • Applications of cognitive networks (e.g., public safety networks)
• Networked Medical Devices
• Enabling Technologies for Future Medical Devices
• Distributed Control and Sensing of Networked Medical Devices
• Medical Device Plug-n-Play Ecosystem
• Wearable, Ambient and Home-based Health and wellness Measurement and Monitoring
• Networking Support for Pervasive healthcare
• Home Networking and Services
• Home networks protocols and architectures
• Wireless and wireline broadband multimedia access
• TV-centric home networks, DTV, and home networked entertainment and games
• Residential gateways
• Home Networked Appliances and applications
• Data Storage
  • Information theory and coding for data storage systems and networks
  • Data detection and turbo processing techniques for storage channels
  • Storage channel and noise characterization
  • Synchronization, gain recovery, and equalization for storage
  • Circuit designs for read/write channel electronics and coding
  • Signal processing techniques for servoing and tracking
• Any other topic related to communications but not mentioned in any other symposium