ICCCN 2011 – Track on Broadband Access (BAT)
Access networking plays an instrumental role in delivering the end-user experience, and has become a critical component for delivering new services such as voice-over-IP, IPTV, video streaming/conferencing. As a result, related technology offerings have seen wholesale advances—both across the wired and wireless sectors. Most notably, developments in broadband high-speed optics and electrical technologies (such as active/passive optical access, xDSL, cable) have totally redefined traditional “voice-centric” access paradigms. In concert, a range of wireless technologies have also emerged to deliver unprecedented levels of connectivity and mobility, including cellular, wireless LAN/MAN, adhoc networks, etc. Along these lines, this track will focus on recent advances in the broadband access field and will seek original, unpublished articles in a wide range of sub-topics, including, but not limited to the following.
Track Topics
- Last-mile access networks, optical access network architectures
- Passive optical networks (PON), Ethernet PON (EPON), Gigabit PON (GPON), FTTx
- Broadband wireless networks, wireless mesh networks, adhoc networks
- Wireless LAN, MAN (802.11, 802.16), WiFi/WiMAX
- Wireless personal area networks (PAN)
- Cognitive radio (CR) networks, distributed resource/spectrum management
- Ethernet access networks
- Medium access control (MAC) protocols
- Convergence of wired and wireless networks, optical-wireless integration
- Hybrid fiber coaxial (HFC) systems
- Power line communications
- Home networks, network security
- Quality of service and survivability in access settings
- Applications and performance analysis (voice, video, multi-media)
Track Organizing Committee
Track Co-Chairs:
- Jorge Finochietto, Cordoba University, Argentina (jfinochietto@efn.uncor.edu.ar)
- Chadi Assi, Concordia University, Canada (assi@ece.concordia.ca)
- Nasir Ghani, University of New Mexico, USA (nghani@ece.unm.edu)
Track Technical Program Committee:
- Luciano Ahumada, Universidad Diego Protales, Chile
- Wessam Ajib, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada
- Chadi Assi, Concordia University, Canada
- Marwan Batayneh, IPITEK, Inc, USA
- Abderrahim Benslimane, University of Avignon, France
- Jun Cai, University of Manitoba, Canada
- Lin Cai, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Davide Cuda, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
- Alexis Dowhuszko, Aalto University, Finland
- Ken Duffy, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland
- Jad El-Najjar, Concordia University, Canada
- Georgios Ellinas, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
- Wissam Fawaz, Lebanese American University, Lebanon
- Jorge Finochietto, Cordoba University, Argentina
- Maurice Gagnaire, Ecole National Superieure des Telecommunications, France
- Nasir Ghani, University of New Mexico, USA
- Navid Ghazisaidi, Arizona State University, USA
- Pin-Han Ho, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Bas Huiszoon, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
- Arunita Jaekel, University of Windsor, Canada
- Juha Karjalainen, University of Oulu, Finland
- Martin Maier, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Canada
- Michael McGarry, University of Texas at El Paso, USA
- Xiong Naixue, Georgia State University, US, USA
- Ioannis Papapanagiotou, North Carolina State University, USA
- Yvonne Anne Pignolet, IBM Research, Zurich, Switzerland
- Martin Reisslein, Arizona State University, USA
- Roberto Rojas-Cessa, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
- Samir Sebbah, Concordia University, Canada
- Vijay Sivaraman, University of New South Wales, Australia
- Marc St-Hilaire, Carleton University, Canada
- Suresh Subramaniam, The George Washington University, USA
- Chunsheng Xin, Norfolk State University, USA
- Marcelo Yannuzzi, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain
- Zuqing Zhu, Cisco Systems, USA
Important Dates
| Conference paper abstract Due | Feb 22 (closed) |
| Conference paper Due | Feb 25 (closed) | Workshop paper Due | Mar 25 (Firm) |
| Acceptance Notification | April 25, 2011 |
| Camera-Ready Due | May 13, 2011 |
| Registration Due | May 13, 2011 |
Submission Link
Please note the submission guideline (http://icccn.org/icccn11/author.html) for ICCCN 2011.
- Submission link for BAT track: http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=9487&track=11535
- Submission link for all ICCCN tracks: http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=9487