CALL FOR PAPERS AND TUTORIALS

IEEE 2003 Global Communications Conference
1 - 5 December 2003
San Francisco, CA, USA

- Paper acceptance notification -
*Paper Notifications started to go out as of 6/15/03 and will continue to be sent over the next 10-12 days as papers are evaluated. Thank you for your patience.

Additional Information for each Symposia
and the General Conference can be found under the links below.
GENERAL INFORMATION

GLOBECOM 2003 will be composed of six major Symposia, the traditional GLOBECOM General Conference addressing a set of current communication topics, and R&D Tutorials and Workshops. You are invited to submit original technical papers for presentation at GLOBECOM 2003 and publication in the Conference Record. You are invited to submit proposals to conduct R&D Tutorials and Workshops. Visit the website for further details.
GLOBECOM 2003 SYMPOSIA TITLES

WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
Chair: Djamal Zeghlache (INT, France)
E-mail: djamal.zeghlache@int-evry.fr
Vice-chair: Josef Hausner (Infineon, Germany)
E-mail: Josef.hausner@infineon.com

Optical Networking and Systems
Chair: Ibrahim Habib (CUNY, USA)
E-mail: habib@ccny.cuny.edu
Vice-chair: Anthony Boucouvalas
(Bournemouth Univ., UK)
E-mail: tboucouv@bournemouth.ac.uk

Next Generation Networks and Internet
Chair: G.S. Kuo (Nat’l Chengchi University, Taiwan)
E-mail: gskuo@ieee.org
Vice-chair: Sherman Shen (Univ. of Waterloo, Canada)
E-mail: xshen@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca

Communication Theory
Chair: Alex M. Haimovich (NJIT, USA)
E-mail: haimovic@njit.edu
Co-chair: Helmut Bölcskei (ETH, Swiss)
E-mail: boelcskei@nari.ee.ethz.ch

Signal Processing for Communications
Chair: Tomohiko Taniguchi (Fujitsu, Japan)
E-mail: tani@flab.fujitsu.co.jp

Communications Security
Chair: Victor K. Wei, CUHK, Hong Kong
E-mail: kwwei@ie.cuhk.edu.hk
Vice-chair: Yile Guo (Nokia, USA)
E-mail: Yile.Guo@nokia.com

GLOBECOM 2003 GENERAL CONFERENCE TOPICS


General Conference Topics

CHAIR: Mohsen Guizani
CHAIR :(Western Michigan University)
E-mail: mguizani@cs.uwf.edu

• Cable-Based
• Delivery & Access Systems
• Communication Switching and Routing
• Communications Quality & Reliability
• Communications Security and Authentication
• Communications Software
• Communications Systems Integration & Modeling
• Computer Communications
• Distributed Computing
• Enterprise Networking
• Gigabit Networking
• Information Infrastructure
• Interconnections in High-Speed Digital Systems

VICE-CHAIR: Gang Wu
VICE-CHAIR: (NTT DoCoMo, USA)
E-mail: wu@docomolabs-usa.com

• Multimedia Communications
• Network Operations & Management
• Quality of Service
• Modeling and Simulation
• Satellite & Space Communications
• Signal Processing & Communications Electronics
• Signal Processing for Storage
• Speech Recognition
• Storage Networks
• Tactical Communication
• Voice Over IP
• Voice XML


TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS

Proposals are invited for half-or-day Tutorials and Workshops in hot or emerging communication topics relevant to GLOBECOM2003. Proposals should be sent electronically to the Technical Program Chairs.
IMPORTANT DATES

Complete Paper Manuscripts Due:
8 March 2003
Paper manuscripts should be submitted electronically, after 15 November 2002, by using the Online Submissions form on the GLOBECOM 2003 website.

Proposals to Conduct Technical Tutorials and Workshops Due:
1 March 2003, 3 am EST
Proposals should be sent electronically, after 15 November 2002, to the Technical Program Chairs.


GENERAL CHAIR
Terry Kero (Myaani Inc.)
E-mail: tkero@myaani.com

TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIR
Prof. Willie W. Lu (CUHK / Siemens)
E-mail: wwlu@ieee.org

TECHNICAL PROGRAM VICE-CHAIR
Dr. Norival Figueira (Nortel Networks)
E-mail: norival@nortelnetworks.com

CONFERENCE MANAGEMENT
Terrie Heikkila, CMP (Don Anderson Inc.)
E-mail: terrie@donanderson.com