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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 7.5pt; background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font color="#0e698e" face="Times New Roman,serif"><span lang="en"><b>13th ANNUAL WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYMPOSIUM (WTS 2014)</b></span></font><font color="#0e698e" face="Times New Roman,serif"><span lang="en"><b><br>
April 9-11, 2014, Washington, DC, USA</b></span></font><font color="#0e698e" face="Times New Roman,serif"><span lang="en"><b><br>
Technical Co-Sponsor: IEEE Communications Society </b></span></font></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11.25pt; background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font color="#333333" face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;">We invite the submission of applied research papers to
the 13th Wireless Telecommunications Symposium, WTS 2014, which will be held April 9-11, 2014 in Washington, DC, USA. For further information, visit
</span></font><a href="http://www.csupomona.edu/~wtsi" target="_blank"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;"><font color="#006666"><b>www.csupomona.edu/~wtsi</b></font></span></font></a><font color="#333333" face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;">. </span></font></span> </div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11.25pt; background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font color="#333333" face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;">The Wireless Telecommunications Symposium brings together
industry professionals and academics from companies, governmental agencies, and universities around the world to exchange information on advances in mobile communications and wireless networking technology, business, policy, applications and security. Past
WTS participants have included Dr. Vinton Cerf, Dr. Robert Kahn, and Dr. Leonard Kleinrock, Internet pioneers; Martin Cooper, "Father of the Cell Phone"; Dr. Irwin Jacobs, Co-Founder and Chairman of QUALCOMM; and Mike Lazaridis, Founder and Vice-Chairman,
Blackberry. </span></font></span> </div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11.25pt; background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font color="#333333" face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;">The theme for WTS 2014 will be
</span></font><font color="#333333" face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;"><b>"Wireless Communications in a Connected World"</b></span></font><font color="#333333" face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;">.
Planned highlights of WTS 2014 include executive presentations and keynote addresses; presentations of accepted academic and practitioner research papers; panel discussions; tutorials and workshops; a poster paper session; and a doctoral students' session.
Accepted papers will be published in the main conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore. The proceedings also will be distributed at the Symposium via a CD. Awards will be given for the most outstanding paper presented and best graduate and undergraduate
student papers presented. Some selected high quality papers from WTS 2014 will be considered for publication in the
</span></font><font color="#333333" face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;"><i>International Journal of Interdisciplinary Telecommunications & Networking</i></span></font><font color="#333333" face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;">,
IGI Global publisher, pending their successful extension and an expedited review process. </span></font></span> </div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11.25pt; background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font color="#333333" face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;">Topic areas of interest include, but are not limited to,
the following:</span></font></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font color="#444444" face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;">Wireless Internet and Multimedia</span></font><font color="#444444" face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;"><br>
Satellite Based Systems</span></font><font color="#444444" face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;"><br>
Global Wireless Services, Business & Applications</span></font><font color="#444444" face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;"><br>
Mobile Operating Systems & Architectures</span></font><font color="#444444" face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;"><br>
Mobile and Wireless Network Security and Privacy</span></font><font color="#444444" face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;"><br>
Wireless Modeling, Algorithms & Simulation</span></font><font color="#444444" face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;"><br>
QoS and Wireless Network Reliability</span></font><font color="#444444" face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;"><br>
Mobile & Cloud Computing</span></font><font color="#444444" face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;"><br>
Wireless and Healthcare</span></font><font color="#444444" face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;"><br>
Mobile Cellular TV</span></font><font color="#444444" face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;"><br>
Spread-Spectrum/CDMA/OFDM Technologies</span></font><font color="#444444" face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;"><br>
RFID Systems & Applications</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font color="#444444" face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;">Wireless Communications Investments & Ventures</span></font><font color="#444444" face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;"><br>
WLANs, WPANs, and Femtocells</span></font><font color="#444444" face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;"><br>
4G Wireless Networks & Systems</span></font><font color="#444444" face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;"><br>
Wireless and New Generation Media</span></font><font color="#444444" face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;"><br>
Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks</span></font><font color="#444444" face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;"><br>
Wireless Network Modeling, Algorithms, & Simulation</span></font><font color="#444444" face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;"><br>
Spectrum Management and Policy</span></font><font color="#444444" face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;"><br>
Wireless M2M and Home Networks</span></font><font color="#444444" face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;"><br>
Wireless Telecommunications Management</span></font><font color="#444444" face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;"><br>
GPS and Indoor Geolocation Systems</span></font><font color="#444444" face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;"><br>
Mobile Cellular TV</span></font><font color="#444444" face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;"><br>
Underwater Acoustic networks</span></font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font color="#0e698e" face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><b>Important Dates</b></span></font></span></div>
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</span></font><font color="#333333" face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;"><b>January 12:</b></span></font><font color="#333333" face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;"> Initial
Full Paper and Tutorial and Workshop Submissions</span></font></span></div>
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</span></font><font color="#333333" face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;"><b>February 9:</b></span></font><font color="#333333" face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;"> Notification
of Paper and Proposal Acceptances</span></font></div>
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</span></font><font color="#333333" face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;"><b>March 9:</b></span></font><font color="#333333" face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;"> Final Camera-Ready
Submission</span></font></div>
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</span></font><font color="#333333" face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;"><b>March 9:</b></span></font><font color="#333333" face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;"> Registration
Payment Refund Request Deadline</span></font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font color="#0e698e" face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><b>WTS 2014 Program Committee Chairs</b></span></font></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font color="#444444" face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;">Dr. Qing-An Zeng, North Carolina A&T University, USA</span></font></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font color="#444444" face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;">Dr. Wei Cheng, Georgia Washington University</span></font></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font color="#444444" face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;">Dr. Steven Powell, General Chair, Cal Poly Pomona</span></font></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font color="#444444" face="Times New Roman,serif" size="2"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;">Dr. J.P. Shim, Program Chair, Georgia State University</span></font></span></div>
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