IEEE GLOBECOM 2008, New Orleans, LA, USA, Nov. 30th- Dec. 4th, 2008

• Prospective authors are invited to submit original and high-quality papers for the Data Storage track of the General Symposium at Globecom 2008.  Topics covered in this track include:

· Channel identification and channel modeling
· Media noise characterization and modeling
· Mitigating nonlinear effects (write precompensation and read nonlinearity correction)
· Detection methods
· Modulation codes
· Distance enhancing codes codes suitable for iterative decoding
· Error-correcting codes, trellis coding and turbo codes
· Systems of concatenated codes
· Combined equalization and coding
· Equalization, filtering and detection, including methods applicable to channels with data-dependent noise and nonlinearities
· Circuit designs for read/write channel electronics and coding
· Architectures for iterative decoding on data storage channels
· Timing recovery, gain recovery and DC restore loops
· Detection, signal processing and coding of servo information
· Coding bounds, density, and channel capacity
· Data compression for digital storage, including audio and video
· Multiple-head systems
· Signal processing for optical storage systems
· Signal processing and coding for emerging data storage technologies, including holographic recording, probe storage and multi-level optical recording
· Cost versus performance issues surrounding design of storage systems
·Hard decision error control codes for storage including coding for disk arrays
· Special issues surrounding signal processing and coding for removable storage devices Storage area networks

The deadline for submissions is September 15, 2008. Manuscripts should be submitted online at http://www.ieee-globecom.org/2008/technical.html. Please select the Data Storage track within the Symposium on Other Selected Areas in Communications. In addition to submitting your manuscript online please forward a copy to Bruce Wilson (Bruce.Wilson at hitachigst.com) and Henry Pfister (hpfister at tamu.edu).