********* COGNITIVE RADIO NETWORKS TRACK  ***********

        17TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
      COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS
              http://icccn.org/icccn08/
                  August 4 - 7, 2008
           St. Thomas U.S. Virgin Islands
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The Cognitive Radio Networks track of IEEE ICCCN 2008 solicits
original and unpublished work not currently under review by
any other conference or journal. The focus of this track is
to address the overwhelming demand for radio spectrum and
the ways to harness under-utilized parts of the spectrum.
The topic areas cover all aspects of networks and devices
that participate in dynamic spectrum access in a cooperative/
non-cooperative manner. This includes cognitive radio, spectrum
sensing, algorithmic and architectural support for cognitive
radio networks, efficient usage of licensed/unlicensed bands,
policy and regulatory issues on spectrum access, application
platforms, signaling and channel access schemes, economic models
such as games and auctions for dynamic spectrum access, and
emerging standards.  In summary, areas of interest include,
but are not limited to:

* Reconfigurable architectures and platforms for cognitive radio
* Emerging standards (e.g., IEEE 802.22, P1900 etc.)
* Economic models and pricing for dynamic spectrum access
* Brokering markets for secondary spectrum usage
* Trust and security mechanisms
* Wide-band spectrum sensing mechanisms
* Multiple access scheme for cognitive radio
* Radio resource management under opportunistic spectrum sharing
* Interference modelling/measurements and co-existence
* Ultra-wideband cognitive radio systems
* Cooperative and Self-organizing mesh networks
* Biological inspired mechanisms for cognitive radios management
* QoS support for cognitive radios
* Autonomics for cognitive radios and networks

IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper submission deadline: Feb 17, 2008
Notification of acceptance: May 12, 2008
Camera ready papers due: June 1, 2008

For submission instruction, please go to
http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6067&
and select the Cognitive Radio Networks Track.

SYMPOSIA TRACK CHAIRS/CO-CHAIRS
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Mainak Chatterjee, Univ. of Central Florida
Carlos Cordeiro, Intel Research
David Grandblaise, Motorola, France

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Edward Au               Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Kyung Bae               Virginia Tech
Cristina Comaniciu      Stevens Institute of Technology
Didier Bourse           Motorola
Natasha Devroye         Harvard University
Linda Doyle             Trinity College Dublin
Monisha Ghosh           Philips Research USA
Hiroshi Harada          National Institute of Information &
Communications Technology (NICT)
Ekram Hossain           University of Manitoba
Christophe Martret      THALES Communications
Ying-Chang Liang        Institute for Infocomm Research
Allen MacKenzie         Virginia Tech
Stefan Mangold          Swisscom
Frederick Martin        Motorola
Klaus Moessner          University of Surrey
Leila Musavian          University of Quebec, INRS-EMT
Saishankar Nandagopalan Broadcom Inc
R Venkatesha Prasad     Delft University of Technology
Shamik Sengupta         Stevens Institute of Technology
Yi Shi                  Virginia Tech
S. Srikanteswara        Intel
Martha Steenstrup       Clemson University/Stow Research L.L.C.
Ananthram Swami         Army Research Lab.
Xingang Wang            University of Plymouth
Jianfeng Wang           Philips Research
Alexander Wyglinski     Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Yuan Yuan               University of Maryland, College Park