Dear colleagues, this is to inform you that the papers submission deadline of IEEE Latincom 2012 was extended to: *** AUGUST 7, 2012 ***
The conference will take place in Cuenca, Ecuador, in Nov. 7-9, 2012. For your convenience, please find the call for papers below. Best regards, Fabrizio Granelli ===== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 4th IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications 2012 (IEEE LATINCOM 2012) "SMART COMMUNICATIONS FOR A SMARTER WORLD" 7-9 November 2012 Cuenca, Ecuador http://www.ieee-latincom.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The 4th IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications (IEEE LATINCOM 2012) will be held in Cuenca, Ecuador on 7-9 November 2012. Cuenca (full name Santa Ana de los cuatro ríos de Cuenca) is the capital of the Azuay Province. It is located in the highlands of Ecuador at about 2500 m above sea level. The center of the city is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Trust site because of its many historical buildings. As the most important conference on communications in Latin America, IEEE LATINCOM 2012 will attract leading researchers from all continents and will provide an outstanding opportunity for the academic and industrial community to present their research in all areas of communications and networking. The theme of IEEE LATINCOM 2012 is SMART COMMUNICATIONS FOR A SMARTER WORLD. We encourage submission of technical papers especially on topics related to this theme. Papers will be peer-reviewed by the international TPC according to standard procedures of the IEEE Communications Society. Accepted papers will be presented at the conference in oral or poster sessions. Extended versions of best papers will be considered also for publication in a Special Issue of the IEEE Latin America Transactions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST Areas of interest include and are not limited to the following topics: SUSTAINABLE COMMUNICATIONS AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY - Smart Grid communications - Architectures and models for the Smart Grid - Smart Grid network and service management - Communications networks for the Smart Grid - Information security in the Smart Grid - Distributed generation and storage of energy - Field trials and deployment experiences - Trials and experiences of operators NEXT-GENERATION NETWORKING AND INTERNET - Communications and information security - Switching and routing - Optical networking and high-speed networking - Next-generation access networks - Future Internet - Traffic measurements - Overlay and peer-to-peer networks - Emerging standards, trials and demonstrations GREEN WIRELESS AND FIXED-LINE COMMUNICATIONS - Energy-efficient protocols and networks - Management of energy efficiency - Measurement of ICT energy consumption - Economy and price models - Communications technologies for green solutions - Communications for transport optimization - Communications for energy-efficient buildings - Supply chain management MOBILE AND WIRELESS NETWORKING - Ad Hoc, sensor and mesh networks - Cognitive networks - Wireless services and applications - Wireless network protocols, design and performance - Emerging standards, trials and demonstrations COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING - Communication theory - Data storage - Transmission, access and optical systems - Power-line communications - Radio communications - Wireless communications - Cross-layer design - Satellite and space communications - Signal processing and communication electronics COMMUNICATION SOFTWARE, SERVICES AND MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS - Service creation, discovery, delivery, management - Multimedia communications - Network operations and management - Charging, pricing and business models - E-health COMMUNICATION QOS, RELIABILITY AND PERFORMANCE MODELING - Communications systems integration and modeling - Quality and performance evaluation - Reliability of systems and networks - Standardization aspects of QoS and reliability - Network simulation techniques - Traffic engineering and traffic theory ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DEADLINES Submission of full papers: 7 August 2012 Submission of tutorial proposals: 7 August 2012 Notification of acceptance: 15 September 2012 Submission of camera-ready papers: 1 October 2012 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PAPER SUBMISSION We solicit submission of high-quality full papers reporting original and novel research results on all above topics. Papers must be written in English, unpublished and not submitted elsewhere. Full papers must be formatted as the standard IEEE double-column conference template and submitted exclusively in PDF on JEMS (https://submissoes.sbc.org.br) at the IEEE LATINCOM 2012 page. Maximum 6 pages are allowed for each paper, including all illustrations and references. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS Proposals are invited for half-/full-day tutorials on topics of interest of the conference. Proposals must be submitted on JEMS (IEEE LATINCOM 2012 page, Tutorial Track) and include title, abstract, full contact information, introduction to the subject, preferred length, past history, biography of the lecturer, detailed outline. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE GENERAL CHAIR Hector Fiallos E.Sup.Politecnica del Litoral, Ecuador TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Fabrizio Granelli University of Trento, Italy Lisandro Granville F. Univ. Rio Grande Sul, Brazil TUTORIALS CO-CHAIRS Boris Ramos E.Sup.Politecnica del Litoral, Ecuador Alberto Sanchez U.San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador PUBLICATIONS CHAIR Carlos Velasquez Corp.U.Minuto de Dios, Colombia FINANCE CHAIR Salomon Herrera STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIR Nelson L. S. da Fonseca University of Campinas, Brazil TECHNICAL PROGRAM ADVISOR Stefano Bregni Politecnico di Milano, Italy ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ADVISOR Jose-David Cely Distrital University, Colombia WEBMASTER Carlos A. Astudillo Trujillo University of Campinas, Brazil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ===== -- Fabrizio Granelli, Ph.D., Associate Professor DISI - University of Trento, Via Sommarive 14, I-38123 Trento (ITALY) Phone: +39 0461 282062 Fax: +39 0461 282093 Email: [email protected] | http://ucar.do/7pxp *Save our in-boxes!* http://emailcharter.org _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
