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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">[Apologies if you receive
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">CALL FOR PAPERS</DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">=============================================================================</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">The 5th
International Workshop on Wireless Networks and Multimedia (WNM-2014)</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Dalian, China -- 24-27 August
2014</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><A style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"
href="http://wnm2014.csp.escience.cn/">http://wnm2014.csp.escience.cn/</A></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">=============================================================================</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">***HIGHTLIGHTS***</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">1. To be held in conjunction
with The 14th ICA3PP-2014</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">2. The accepted papers of
this workshop will be included into the conference proceedings published by
Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, and will be indexed by EI</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">3. Distinguished selected
high-quality papers from the workshop, after further significant extensions,
will be recommended for submission and possible publication in the Special Issue
of an SCI-indexed international journal</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">4. The submission deadline is
20 April 2014</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">***INTRODUCTION***</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">The wireless communication
technologies have evolved quickly over the past years. As the explosive growth
in broadband wireless networks, multimedia applications will dominate the future
wireless communication society, resulting in non-trivial problems in terms of
available capacity, reliability, quality-of-service, delay, and
throughput.</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">To successfully support
wireless multimedia applications, it is necessary to improve the
state-of-the-art techniques (such as radio resource management, mobility,
handoff, and location management, etc.) in the multimedia transmission over
wireless networks in order to provide quality-of-service guarantees between the
end-users and achieve a high quality-of-experience for end-users.</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">This workshop will address
the important problems and challenges caused by the transmission of multimedia
applications over wireless networks. The workshop aims to bring together
computer scientists and engineers in different disciplines to share and exchange
their experience and ideas and discuss state-of-the-art and in-progress research
on all aspects of wireless networks and multimedia applications.</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">The topics of particular
interest include, but are not limited to: </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">•Ultra-Wideband
Networks</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">•Wireless Ad Hoc and Mesh
Networks</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">•Wireless Personal Area
Networks</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">•Wireless Local Area
Networks</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">•Wireless Sensor
Networks</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">•Wireless Metropolitan Area
Networks</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">•Cellular Networks</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">•WiMAX</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">•Optical Wireless Access
Networks</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">•Mobile Computing and
Wireless Communications</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">•Future Wireless Networks and
Protocols</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">•Multimedia Communications
and Services</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">•Congestion and Admission
Control</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">•Wireless MAC Protocols:
Design and Analysis</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">•Quality of Service
Provisioning</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">•Wireless Network Trust,
Privacy and Security</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">•Software Defined Radio &
Software Defined Networking</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">•Cross-Layer Design and
Adaptation</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">•Radio Resource
Management</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">•Mobility, Handoff and
Location Management</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">•Performance Modeling and
Evaluation</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">•Wireless and Mobile Network
Architecture</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">***IMPORTANT DATES*** </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Submission Deadline: 20 April
2014</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Authors Notification: 5 June
2014</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Final Manuscript Due: 30 June
2014</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Registration Due: 30 June
2014 </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Conference Date: 24-27 August
2014
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">***PAPER SUBMISSION
GUIDELINE***</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Prospective authors are
invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent
developments in the topics related to the workshop. Papers must be clearly
presented in English, must not exceed 14 pages in LNCS format, including tables,
figures, references and appendixes, with Portable Document Format (.pdf).</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Papers should be submitted
through the EasyChair paper submission system at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wnm2014.</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">All papers will be peer
reviewed and the comments will be provided to the authors. Once accepted, the
paper will be included into the conference proceedings published by Springer
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, and will be indexed by EI. Authors (at least
one) of any accepted paper are requested to register at the conference.</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Distinguished selected
high-quality papers from the workshop, after further significant extensions,
will be recommended for submission and possible publication in the Special Issue
of an SCI-indexed international journal</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">***WORKSHOP CHAIRS***</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Yulei Wu, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, China</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Geyong Min, University of
Bradford, UK</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Ahmed Al-Dubai, Edinburgh
Napier University, UK</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">If you have any question,
please do not hesitate to contact me at intl.wnm@gmail.com
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