Paper Submission Instructions

• General Requirements
• Deadlines and important dates
• Submission format
• Track Organization and Review Process
• List of Tracks and Descriptions

 VTC 2006 Fall will only accept submission of new, previously unpublished manuscripts.

Authors have a choice to submit either

• a 2-page extended abstract, including results and references
  or
• a 5-page full paper, including results, figures and references.

Authors are strongly encouraged to submit a 5-page full paper to facilitate the review process.

Paper submission is done only through the TrackChair paper review system, at http://vtc06f.trackchair.com

General Requirements

Full Papers may not be longer than 5 pages, including all text, figures, and references. Extended Abstracts should be no longer than 2 pages, including all text, figures, and references, and must contain sufficient information to allow reviewers to carry out a fair evaluations of the merits of the submissions.

All submissions must be accompanied by a 150-word abstract and by a list of keywords.

Papers must be submitted by the deadline date. There will be no exceptions.

Accepted papers MUST be presented at the conference by one of the authors, or, if none of the authors are able to attend, by a qualified surrogate. The presenter MUST register for the conference at one of the non-student rates offered, and MUST register before the deadline given for author registration. Failure to register before the deadline will result in automatic withdrawal of your paper from the conference proceedings and program.

There is no limit to the number of papers that can be submitted by the same author, but additional paper charges will apply starting from the second accepted paper presented by the same author at the conference.

Deadlines and important dates

Paper submission on TrackChair: February 16, 2006

Notification of Acceptance: May 1, 2006

Submission of Camera Ready Papers: June 9, 2006

Submission format

All papers should be submitted as Portable Document Format files (PDF). There is a size limit of 2MB. All papers must be written in English. The proposed generic template for typesetting your paper is the standard IEEE transaction style (see http://www.ieee.org/pubs/transactions/stylesheets.xml) or manuscripts following this sample.

Track Organization and Review Process

The VTC 2006 Fall conference is organized into 14 tracks that cover all technical areas relevant to the conference. Tracks 1 to 13 cover regular technical papers, whereas track 14 is intended for submissions from industry, presenting research and development issues and advances.

When you submit a paper to TrackChair, we require that you submit several keywords at the same time, which describe best the technical area of your paper. One of these keywords should be taken from the list of topics in the description of your track (see list below)

Note that keywords may also be expressions (e.g. "space-time processing"). In order to ease the review process, we ask you to accompany your submissions by as many keywords as possible. Keywords are free form, but you can always search for existing keywords of other users on TrackChair to make sure you keyword is relevant (in order to do so,

Each submission will be reviewed by at least two anonymous reviewers, who will have the technical expertise to assess its quality.

List of Tracks and Descriptions

 

Track 01. Radio Propagation

[1] Indoor/outdoor channel measurements
[2] Channel estimation
[3] Characterization and modeling
[4] Prediction and simulation tools
[5] Antenna Technology

Track 02. DSP for Multiple Antenna Systems

[1] MIMO systems
[2] Transmit/Receive diversity
[3] Beamforming;DOA estimation
[5] Space-Time processing
[6] Space-Time Coding
[7] Cooperative Coding
[8] Cooperative Diversity
[9] Distributed arrays

Track 03. Radio Access Techniques

[1] Multiple access; CDMA, TDMA and OFDM air interfaces
[2] Spectrum efficiency
[3] Ultra-wideband communications
[4] Multi-rate and multi-carrier communications
[5] Software radio
[6] Power control algorithms
[7] Wireless multicasting, DVB and DAB techniques

Track 04. Radio Resource Management

[1] Spectrum, channel and power allocation; power control;
[2] Handoff analysis; mobility management;
[3] Coexistence of multiple radio access technologies over licensed and/or unlicensed spectrum;
[4] Cross-layer design of wireless systems; etc.
[5] Scheduling
[6] Statistical multiplexing

Track 05. Transceiver Technologies

[1] Modulation (signal shaping, constellation, design, etc...)
[2] Performance analysis (BER, capacity, outage,throughput, etc...)
[3] Coding/decoding (source/chanel coding/decoding, algorithms, complexity issues, etc...)
[4] Channel estimation (gain, carrier phase, frequency offset, synchronization, tracking and recovery, etc...)
[5] Iterative processing (turbo processing)
[6] Interference mitigation
[7] Multi-user detection
[8] Equalization
[9] Adaptive modulation and coding
[10] MAC/PHY cross-layer design

Track 06. Modeling and Simulation of Mobile Wireless Systems

[1] End-to-end system performance evaluation;
[2] Performance evaluation of cross-layer designs, e.g. PHY and MAC layer
interactions
[3] Modeling of the physical links and interference for the simulation of
wireless systems;
[4] Modeling of the MAC, Scheduler, and Higher Layers
[5] Modeling of the mobility, traffic; etc.

Track 07. Mobile Wireless Networks

[1] Wireless LAN, MAN and WAN;
[2] Regional Wireless Networks; Mesh networks;
[3] Mobile ad hoc Networks;
[4] Wireless sensor networks;
[5] Delay-tolerant networks;
[6] Wireless resource management;
[7] Wireless quality-of-Service (QoS);
[8] Wireless network security and privacy;
[9] Mobility, location and handoff management; Mobile and wireless IP;
[10]Middleware support for mobile and wireless networking;
[11]Wireline/wireless convergence

Track 08. Mobile Satellite Systems

[1] Mobile broadband satellite architectures, mobile broadcast systems,
[2] Satellite Bus/Payload Systems,
[3] Ground (Earth-Terminal) Systems,
[4] Mobile, Aeronautical, Maritime Systems
[5] Ka-band and Higher Frequency Systems,
[6] System Integration and Interoperability
[7] Use of small satellites clusters, hybrid orbits, and High Altitude Platforms (HAPs)
[8] Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) and Return Channel via Satellite (RCS) Networks, Emerging standards: DVB-S2, DVB-RCS, IPoS, …
[9] Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Communications Satellite Networks
[10] Satellite network control and Resource Management: Power and bandwidth allocation solutions, Resource management and reconfigurability, Traffic and Quality of Service (QoS) Management, QoS-oriented solutions, Satellite system capacity optimization

Track 09. Navigation and Positioning Technologies

[1] GNSS for navigation, E911 and cellular/PCS,
[2] GNSS aiding for cellular/PCS;
[3] Integrated Navigation Systems with Auxiliary Sensors
[4] Low Cost & MEMS Applications
[5] RFID,
[6] Multimodal location; etc.

Track 10. Next Generation Services

[1] Multimedia services/applications: Location based services, Presence based services, Multimedia Messaging, Gaming.
[2] Service Architectures/Enablers: Web services, OSA/Parlay, Service
creation, Context awareness, Services for Ad Hoc networks, Peer to peer services, Service composition and orchestration, Security.

Track 11. Electro-Magnetic Compatibility Issues for Wireless and Mobile

[1] Spurious emission and RFI
[2] Spectrum engineering
[3] EMC modeling and simulation
[4] EMC management and standards
[5] EMC testing and instrumentation

Track 12. Circuits and Devices for Vehicular Systems

[1] Filer and Amplifier Technology and RFIC
[2] New elements and devices for user equipments and access points/base stations

Track 13. Transportation

Intelligent Transportation Systems; Rail signals, communication and control; Vehicular electronics; Vehicle traction power control/conversion; Power Systems (Batteries, Solar cells, Fuel Cells...); etc.

Track 14. Vehicular Industry Technology Track

The objective of the VTC-Fall 2006 Vehicular Industry Technology Track is to attract papers addressing the industrial experiences related to recent wireless technologies. Such experiences can be industrial applications, prototypes, or proposed standards. Apart from a technological description, authors are encouraged to include a description of how the technologies will improves business, and to share their practical experiences and the lessons learned.