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INVITATION:

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Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the
appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and
publish original scientific results to ACCESS 2013.

The submission deadline is February 27, 2013.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended
article versions to one of the IARIA Journals:
http://www.iariajournals.org

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============== ACCESS 2013 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

ACCESS 2013, The Fourth International Conference on Access
Networks

July 21 - 26, 2013 - Nice, France

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2013/ACCESS13.html

Call for Papers:
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2013/CfPACCESS13.html

- regular papers

- short papers (work in progress)

- posters

Submission page:
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2013/SubmitACCESS13.html

Submission deadline: February 27, 2013

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA
Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org

Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.:
http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html

Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital
Library: http://www.thinkmind.org

Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term
of concepts, state of the art, research, standards,
implementations, running experiments, applications, and
industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete
unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other
conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic
areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions,
in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress,
Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and
Panels.

Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial
rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html

ACCESS 2013 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the
site)

NEXTACCESS: Next generation access technologies

    Interactivity, unlimited access and full-scale media support;
    Energy-aware and efficiency-oriented technologies;
    Sustainable access network business (standard DSL vs. fiber
    vs. wireless access); 3G/4G wireless technologies;
    Multiservice access (DSL, fiber, WiMAX, POTS); FTTH; Ethernet
    P2P vs. xPON; FTTx with VDSL2, or Ethernet, or DOCSIS 3.0;
    Radio extension, 802.xx (Wi-Fi, WiMax, etc.); LTE,
    LTE-advanced; IMT-advanced networks; Mesh and relay networks
    (IEEE 802.11s, IEEE802.16j, etc.); Quality of experience
    (QoE)

FEMTO: Femtocells-based access

    Femtocells architectures; Femtocells requirements ands
    specifications; Femtocells protocols; Femtocells services and
    applications; Traffic and QoS in Femtocells; Performance
    analysis in Femtocells; Femtocells control and management;
    Interoperability of Femtocells devices; Femtocells operation
    optimization; Femtocells specific solutions for mobility;
    OFDMA Femtocells: interference avoidance; Macrocell-Femto
    cell interference issues and mitigation; Macrocell-Femto cell
    handover strategies; WiMAX Fentocells; Standardization of
    Femtocells

BROADBAND: Broadband wireless Internet access

    New architectures, technologies, protocols for broadband
    wireless access; QoS in mobile and broadband wireless access
    networks; Broadcast and multicast support; Physical and data
    link layer issues; Medium access control, SLA and QoS; Radio
    resource management and call admission control; Space-time
    coding for broadband wireless Internet; Modulation, coding
    and antennas (MIMO); Spectrum management; Scalability and
    reliability issues; Wireless mesh networks; Capacity planning
    and traffic engineering; Security and privacy issues;
    Interoperability aspects (fixed/mobile LANs/MANs, WANs);
    Experiences/lessons from recent deployments

OPTICAL: Optical access networks

    Optical access network architecture design; Optical access
    network components and systems; New PON developments and
    testbeds; WDM and OFDM PON technologies; MAC and bandwidth
    allocation; RoF network architecture and MAC; RoF components
    and systems; Signal processing for new modulation formats;
    Optical spectral management; Multimode fiber technology and
    applications; Performance monitoring and diagnosis;
    Deployment and economic analysis

MOBILE WIRELESS: Mobile wireless access

    Mobile Broadband Wireless Access; Wireless/Mobile Access
    Protocols; Wireless/Mobile Web Access; Ubiquitous and mobile
    access; Mobile/vehicular environment access; Multi-Homing and
    Vertical Handoff; Localization and tracking; Context-aware
    services and applications; Context-aware protocols and
    protocol architectures; Interactive applications; Mobile and
    Wireless Entertainment; Mobile Info-services; Wireless ad hoc
    and sensor networks

DYNAMIC: Dynamic and cognitive access

    Dynamic spectrum access; Architectures and platforms for
    dynamic spectrum access networks; Spectrum sensing,
    measurement and models; Efficient and broadband spectrum
    sensing; Interference metrics and measurements; New spectrum
    protocols and models; Cognitive radio (cross-layer
    optimization); Multiple access schemes for cognitive radio
    networks; Radio resource management and dynamic spectrum
    access networks; Dynamic spectrum auction and economics;
    Business model, pricing, and regulations for dynamic spectrum

HOWAN: Hybrid optical and wireless access networks

    Multi-hop wireless mesh networks; Passive optical networks;
    Node architecture and design of hybrid optical and wireless
    networks; Emerging wireless/optical applications QoS
    management for hybrid access networks; PON and WDM-PON
    network experiments; Radio over Fiber (RoF); FTTx network
    architecture and applications; Routing and multicast over
    hybrid optical and wireless networks; Service resilience and
    availability of hybrid optical and wireless networks;
    Applications and evolutions of hybrid access networks;
    Network design, control, and performance in HOWANs; Capacity
    analysis, flow and congestion control in HOWANs; Optimization
    of hybrid optical and wireless networks; Evolution of HOWAN
    access networks Broadband wireless access in HOWANs; Security
    and privacy in HOWANs; New services and applications;
    Test-bed and prototype implementation; Standardization issues

COPPER: Copper Access

    Ubiquity via phone lines; Speed reaching 100 Mbps; DSL
    broadband access; Dynamic and joint optimization of resources
    (frequency, amplitude, space, and time); Attenuation and
    crosstalk bottlenecks; Management and control for the
    multi-user twisted pair networks

GIGATERA: Giga/Tera Access

    Multi-antenna technologies (MIMO, Beamforming, Antenna
    Selection, etc); RF/Antenna propagation (RF beamforming,
    Tera-Hz signal generation, Propagation); Interoperability
    aspects (fixed/mobile LANs/MANs, WANs); Signal processing for
    millimeter and Tera-Hz wireless systems; NLOS avoidance
    techniques; Cooperative networks, repeaters and relaying;
    Error correction, equalization; Space division multiple
    access; Coexistence and interoperability; OFDM versus
    single-carrier systems; MIMO in mm-wave and Tera-Hz systems;
    OFDMA processing; Spread spectrum techniques; High-efficiency
    medium access control (MAC) protocol; Neighbor discovery in
    directional wireless networks

CONTROL: Access Control

    Foundations for access control; Models for access control;
    Mechanisms for access control; Policy-driven and role-driven
    access control; Delegation and identity management;
    Privacy-drive control; Access control for advanced
    applications (cloud, autonomic, sensor, social networks,
    etc.); Standards for accesses control

NEUTRAL: Neutral Access Networks

    Open access networks; Network neutrality; Operator-neutral
    residential access technologies; Operator-neutral nomadic
    access technologies; Operator-neutral mobile access
    technologies; Operator-neutral CPEs; Internet access
    regulation; NANs design and management; Multi-gateway traffic
    management; QoS management in shared infrastructures; Routing
    and multicast in NANs; Broadband business models for NANs;
    Broadband pricing models for NANs; Broadband market analysis
    for NANs; IP traffic models for NANs; Edge routers for NANs;
    Identity management in NANs; NANS and Digital divide; NANs
    and Digital inclusion; Inclusive services and applications;
    NAN testbeds and case studies

LEGAL: Legal aspects on network and service access

    Network neutrality principle; Security and privacy rights;
    Institutional implications; Accessibility and social
    affordability; User responsibility

Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2013/ComACCESS13.html

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