IEEE WCNC To Highlight Latest Advances In Wireless Communications And Networking
IEEE WCNC, co-located with the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association's (CTIA) WIRELESS 2008 trade show, brings together researchers and engineers from business, academia and government the world over. It will include technical programs, tutorials and panel discussions highlighting the future of wireless communications technologies, business applications and market trends. It offers nearly 600 technical presentations covering the best in PHY, MAC, networking and wireless services research and design.
Topics to be addressed at the meeting include: "New Opportunities and Challenges for Efficient Spectrum Utilization", "Emerging Wireless Technologies", "Relay/Mesh/Multihop Networks and Cooperative Communications", "Advanced Radio Resource Management Techniques", "Location-Based Services", "4G Networks", "WiMAX", "Advanced Antenna and Modern Technologies", and "Multi-User OFDM."
The conference keynote speaker will be Dr. Hakan Eriksson, Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, and head of Group Function Technology at Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson. Plenary session addresses will be given by:
- Dr. Young Kim, senior vice president of global standards and strategy at Samsung Electronics;
- Dr. Roger Marks, senior vice president of NextWave Broadband Inc; and
- Dr Joseph Mitola III, consulting scientist at MITRE Corporation and the founding chair of the Software-Defined Radio Forum.
IEEE WCNC 2008 registrants will gain free admission to CTIA Wireless 2008. As the largest, most comprehensive show of its kind, CTIA Wireless will include more than 1,100 exhibiting companies and over 40,000 attendees from 125 countries.
IEEE WCNC is the premier wireless event for wireless communications researchers, industry professionals and academics interested in the latest development and design of wireless systems and networks. It is the flagship wireless conference of the IEEE ComSoc, which has nearly 40,000 members and is the second largest of IEEE's 37 technical societies. Founded in 1952, IEEE ComSoc has become the major international forum for the exchange of ideas on communications and information networking.
For more information on the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, contact: Heather Ann Sweeney, IEEE Communications Society, 3 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016. Phone: (212) 705-8938. E-mail: h.sweeney@comsoc.org. Or visit: www.ieee-wcnc.org/2008.
IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conference to be Co-located with CTIA Wireless 2008 in Las Vegas, March 31 to April 3
SOURCE: IEEE WCNC