ConTEL 2009

Special Sessions

Special Sessions

Currently confirmed special sessions include:

• SS1: Optical wireless communications - deadline: Feb. 16 / Submission closed (details),
  organized by Erich Leitgeb, TU Graz, Austria, and Steve Hranilovic, McMaster University, Canada
  
  
• SS2: Mobile value added services - deadline: Feb. 16 / Submission closed (details),
  organized by Dragan Jevtic, University of Zagreb, Croatia, and Antun Caric, Croatian Agency for Post and Electronic Communications 
  
  
• SS3: ICT support in the e-health domain - deadline: Feb. 16 / Submission closed (details),
  organized by Babak Farshchian, SINTEF, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and Darko Huljenic, Ericsson Nikola Tesla, Croatia
  
  
• SS4: Optical Access - deadline: March 1 / Submission closed  (details),
  organized by Giorgio M. Tosi Beleffi, Italian Ministry of Economic Development - Communication Department (MED), Rome, Italy, and Antonio Teixeira, IT, Aveiro, Portugal; endorsed by FP7 NoE BONE and FP7 STREP SARDANA
  

SS1: Special Session on Wireless Optical Communications

Session organizers:

Erich Leitgeb, TU Graz, Austria
Steve Hranilovic, McMaster University, Canada

The interest and research in optical wireless communications continue to grow, however, this still remains an emerging technology with a number of technical challenges preventing widespread acceptance and implementation. The focusing and transmission of laser energy through the atmosphere and space involves problems related to signal reception, tracking, steering, pointing, laser-beam propagation, laser speckle, system design, and information processing. The effects of the atmosphere on optical wave propagation can often be the limiting performance factor in many optical system applications.

The objective of this Special Session is to provide a forum for researchers, product engineers, and systems developers to present and discuss the latest developments in optical wireless communications.

Papers are solicited on the following and related topics:

• Advances in communication system design aspects of optical wireless links
  
• Characterization and modelling of free-space optical data links
• Optical wireless communications in indoor environments
• Multi-input multi-output (MIMO) techniques applied to FSO
• Deep space and Inter-satellite optical links, Optical LEO-Downlinks
• Atmospheric effects on high-data-rate free-space optical data links (including pulse broadening )
• Long wavelength free-space laser communications
• Optical wireless Communications in 4G Networks
• Underwater optical wireless systems and Optical transmission in Marine Environment
• Optical wireless sensor networks
• Adaptive optics and other mitigation techniques for free-space laser communications systems
• Error correction coding techniques for the terrestrial and deep space optical channel
• Optical components for free-space laser communication systems
• Novel optical receivers and architectures to improve link SNR and reliability
• Effect of aerosols on laser beam propagation through the atmosphere
• Experimental demonstrations, tests, and performance characterizations in the laboratory and the field
• Terminal design aspects for free-space optical link (for satellite- or land-mobile-terminals)
• Integration of optical links in networking concepts (e.g. inter-UAV communications)

(Conference submission format, rules, and deadlines apply.)

SS2: Special session on Mobile Value Added Services

Session organizers:

Dragan Jevtić, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Antun Carić, Croatian Agency for Post and Electronic Communications

 

(Conference submission format, rules and deadlines apply.)

SS3: Special Session on ICT Support in e-health Domain

Session organizers:

Babak Farshchian, SINTEF, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Darko Huljenić, Ericsson Nikola Tesla, Croatia

The interest and research for applying ICT in our daily living continues to grow. The e-health domain is very challenging from the perspective of defining appropriate applications, as well as enabling general and global interoperability with unified data model and easy data sharing.

There is a lot of ongoing research and at the same time an increasing number of products that must focus on common interoperability and easy usability for the benefit of the end users.

As services and applications in the e-health domain emerge, many design and deployment challenges arise, such as: communication availability with high demands for sustainable and agreed QoS, security with respect to e-health specifics, and dynamic adaptation of e-health services to personal context. Further on, technological elements of the e-health services must respect the socio-economical conditions and enable complete solutions to operate anywhere and anytime around the globe. The e-health technology must support fighting the digital divide. The objective of this Special Session is to provide a forum for researchers, product engineers, and system developers to present and discuss the latest development and research in the e-health domain.

Papers are solicited on the following and related topics:

• Advances in communication systems design in e-health
• Standards compliance in e-health domain
• Characterization of application domains for the e-health
• Security mechanisms in e-health
• Personal health and body area networks for e-health
• Interoperability and data consistency issues in e-health domain
• Application of Ambient Intelligence in personal healthcare systems
• Decision support systems in e-health
• Communication devices in e-health domain
• Advanced architecture and data models to cover consistent e-health domain
• Broad care services domain in correlation with e-health
• Advanced applications and services in e-health domain
• Socio-economical impacts in developing and deploying e-health applications
• New trends in e-health applications

(Conference submission format, rules, and deadlines apply.)

SS4: Special Session on Optical Access

Session organizers:

Giorgio M. Tosi Beleffi, Italian Ministry of Economic Development – Communication Department (MED), Rome, Italy
Antonio Teixeira, IT, Aveiro, Portugal

The purpose of the Special Session is to provide a forum for exchange and debate of the latest research topics and developments in optical access systems. Passive Technologies, Green applications, True-Broadband application and services are some of the key concepts that will be addressed in this Special Session. The joint organization of this session by two European top level projects such as FP7 NoE BONE and FP7 STREP SARDANA represents an added value to have a look on the European broadband & future Internet view. All scientists, engineers, operators and institutions working in this broad area are invited to submit their research to the program of the Special Session. The program will include invited and contributed papers. /p>

Papers are solicited on the following and related topics:

• Optical transmission in access networks
• Optical switching in access networks
• Bandwidth scalability in access networks
• Resilient access architectures
• Advanced services supports
• Monitoring in the access
• Management
• Techno-economic studies
• Optical access deployment scenarios
• WDM in access
• Advanced modulation formats in access
• All optical signal processing in access
• Flexibility in access

(Conference submission format and rules apply. Submission deadline: March 1, 2009)