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

 VTC 2007 Spring will only accept submission of new, previously unpublished manuscripts.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://vtc07s.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

Papers Submission Deadline, 30 September 2006
Notification of Acceptance, 7 December 2006
Camera-Ready Papers Due, 29 January 2007

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 2007 Spring conference is organized into 10 tracks that cover all technical areas relevant to the conference.

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

Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks

Ad-Hoc Networks and Wireless Sensor Networks, including: Medium Access Control; Routing and transport protocols; Performance and quality-of-service; Energy Management; Operating Systems; Network security; Information processing and aggregation; Middleware and programming; Simulation and emulation; Gateways and interworking; Deployment and experiences; Novel applications.

Ambient and Pervasive Wireless Systems

Ambient and Pervasive Wireless Systems, including: Pervasive Computing and ambient intelligence; New systems standards and platforms like IMS; Autonomic Communications/ platforms for proactive systems; Cross layer optimization; Mobile Middleware; Personalization; Service Architecture; Context Awareness, like context reasoning, prediction, modelling; Mobile multimedia; Experiments, trials & deployment; Innovative, mobile applications for important application domains like vehicular and health

Antennas and Propagation

indoor/outdoor propagation prediction , indoor/outdoor channel measurements, channel estimation, narrowband and wideband channel characterization and modeling, prediction and simulation tools, antenna technology, smart antennas, MIMO antenna systems, beamforming, space-time processing, distributed antenna arrays

Mobile Applications

Mobile services: IMS based services, location based services, presence based services, mobile multimedia services, DVB-H, DMS
Mobile applications: multimedia messaging, gaming, eHealth, emergency management, applications in vehicular environments
Service architectures/enablers and service middleware: web services, OSA/Parlay, IMS, service creation, context awareness, services for Ad Hoc networks, peer-to-peer services, service composition and orchestration, mobile service and application security.

Mobile Networks and Systems

3G (UMTS, CDMA2000, IMT2000), Beyond 3G, 4G mobile systems, Wireless LAN, MAN and WAN (IEEE802.11,16,20), regional wireless networks, wireless mesh networks, mobile network resource management, mobile/wireless quality-of-Service (QoS), mobile/wireless network security and privacy;
mobility, location and handoff management, mobile and wireless IP, wireline/wireless convergence, mobile/wireless network modelling, analysis and simulation.

Mobile Satellite Systems

mobile broadband satellite architectures; mobile broadcast systems; satellite bus/payload systems; ground (earth-terminal) systems; mobile, aeronautical, maritime systems; Ka-band and higher frequency systems; system integration and interoperability; use of small satellites clusters, hybrid orbits, and high altitude platforms (HAPs); DVB and Return Channel via Satellite (RCS) Networks; low earth orbit (LEO) communications satellite networks; satellite network control and resource management; traffic and quality of service (QoS) management, QoS-oriented solutions, satellite system capacity optimization; satellite based positioning for mobile applications

Transmission Technologies

modulation, source/channel coding, performance analysis, channel estimation, iterative processing, interference mitigation, multi-user detection, MIMO systems, equalization, synchronization, adaptive modulation and coding, MAC/PHY cross-layer design, software radio, ultra wideband systems

Transportation

intelligent transportation systems; rail signals, communication and control; vehicular electronics; vehicle traction power control/conversion; power systems, mobile/wireless communications for vehicular safety applications; wireless/mobile system applications for transportation control and routing; mobile/wireless systems for transportation logistics

Wireless Access

multiple access; CDMA, TDMA and OFDM air interfaces; spectrum efficiency; ultra-wideband radio access; multi-rate and multi-carrier communications; software radio technologies; power control algorithms; wireless multicasting, DVB and DAB techniques; spectrum, channel and power allocation; power control; coexistence of multiple radio access technologies; cross-layer design of wireless systems; scheduling and statistical multiplexing; performance evaluation

Wireless Value Chain

SW & HW design flows for fast time-to-market; wireless network design for developing regions; wireless network planning for cost minimisation; system-level reliability and maintenance of wireless networks; new business models for wireless services; economics of spectrum licensing; mobile virtual network operators; trials of novel market structures for wireless transport and services