3rd International Workshop on Multiple Access Communications 13-14 September 2010, Barcelona, Spain

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• March, 1: The submission deadline has been extended to March 20, 2010

• January, 23: A new keynote is announced in the Program Section. Title: " Latest Advances in developing CDMA models " by Prof. Victor V. Zyablov.

• February, 7: A new tutorial is announced in the Program Section. Title: " OFDMA Radio Planning " by Dr. Slawomir Pietrzyk.

• February, 24: The MACOM proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

Aims and Topics

In 1961, Claude Shannon established the foundation for the discipline now known as "multi-user information theory" in his pioneering paper "Two-way Communication Channels", and later Norman Abramson published his paper "The Aloha System - Another Alternative for Computer Communications" in 1970 which introduced the concept of multiple access using a shared common channel. Thereafter for more than 40 years of study, numerous elegant theories and algorithms have been developed for multiple access techniques.

The aim of this workshop is to discuss both multi-user communications theory and multiple access techniques and standardization activities in areas related to PHY and MAC layer protocols - and their interactions - for contemporary networks. We intend to provide the experts from both the academic institutes and industry with an opportunity to present their state-of-the-art results and exchange the ideas on multiple access techniques and related areas:

• PHY-layer multiple access techniques: CDMA, OFDMA, etc.
• Link-layer MAC access protocols: duty-cycle, scheduled, random access, polling-based, etc.
• PHY/MAC cross-layer techniques;
• Multi-user information theory: broadcast, multi-access and (multiple) relay channel, multiuser detection, etc.
• Queuing theory, modeling and analysis techniques: stochastic models, Markov models, new simulation models and tools.

The MACOM 2010 event has special interest to address the new paradigms and theoretical foundations for future wireless communication systems. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Cognitive radio networks.
• Autonomic (self-*) and opportunistic networks.
• Cooperative wireless networks.
• QoS and radio resource management.
• Future Internet architectures considering cognitive, autonomic, cooperative, etc. solutions for wireless objects.
• Wireless Broadband Networks: PANs, WLANs, WIMAX, cellular (3G/4G) and satellite communications.
• Wireless Multi-hop networks: sensor and actuator, mesh, vehicular networks, etc.

Important Dates

• Submission deadline: 20 March 2010
• Notification of acceptance: 15 April 2010
• Camera-ready manuscript: 1 May 2010
• Registration deadline for authors: 15 May 2010
• Early Registration deadline: 1 June 2010
• MACOM 2010: 13-14 September 2010

Contact

All questions / proposals should be sent to the MACOM-2010 Workshop Chairs

Organizers & Sponsors

Organizers

• TTCN (Telecommunication Technologies and Computer Networks Group) / SPIIRAS (St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of RAS)
• NeTS / UPF (Networking Technologies and Strategies Research group / Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Technical Sponsors

• A.S. Popov's Society
• COMONSENS: Foundations and Methodologies for Future Communication and Sensor Networks. CONSOLIDER-INGENIO 2010 Program sponsored by the "Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion" of the Spanish Government.
• I-US : Information and control systems (Journal)
• Tecnalia-Telecom : technological corporation.
• FRUCT : Finnish-Russian University Cooperation in Telecommunications
• TARIFA/i2CAT : Foundation for Advanced Internet in Catalonia