9th European Conference on Fixed Wireless Networks and Technologies  (ECRR9)

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23 - 25 June 2008, Prague, Czech Republic

About

The European Conference on Fixed Wireless Networks and Technologies has organized successful conference events for more than 20 years. Previous Conferences: The 9th Conference will be held in Prague, Czech Republic. The event will be held at the Czech Technical University (CTU) in Prague.
The ECRR is co-located with European Wireless 2008 (EW2008). Please notice that the paper submission procedure for ECRR is different than the one for EW2008. See instruction at the bottom of this page.

Purpose

The purpose of the conference is to provide a Forum for the discussion of the most recent developments in the field of Fixed Wireless Networks and Technologies taking account of the wide range of new services and emerging applications including nomadicity. The conference will also address architectural and planning criteria required to meet the performance and economic targets for new and established services.

ECRR Contributions

Authors are invited to provide original contributions on the following subject areas targeting both access and transport aspects:

1. Applications and Economics

Wireless solutions for fixed services' applications
Fixed wireless solutions for mobile services' applications  e. g., feeder to mobile infrastructure
Fixed wireless access for bridging the "digital divide"

2. Spectrum management, spectrum efficiency and regulatory aspects

General management aspects of fixed service spectrum
Strategies and experiences of Standardization and Regulatory Bodies
Technical and Economic aspects relevant to an efficient usage of the spectrum
Impact of European spectrum regulatory regimes including the impact on spectrum availability of liberalized licensing and technology neutrality

3. Access Networks (including WiMAX): architectural, service requirements and performance aspects

Standardization of new Fixed Wireless Access systems
Systems and Network architectural aspects including meshed and adaptive networks
High data rate application
Fixed wireless systems for IP /Ethernet and packet data
QoS requirements and performance of packet data over radio, including VoIP and multimedia services
Impact and experiences of UWB on Access Networks, e.g. on WiMax

4. Backbone Networks: architectural, service requirements and performance aspects

Role of fixed radio in the backbone networks
Impact of new access services on the backbone radio architecture and performance
In field results

5. Equipment technologies

Technologies for the improvement of spectrum efficiency (e. g. space time coding, MIMO and mitigation techniques)
New technologies for reduced power emission (e,g. UWB)
Integrated microwave technologies
Antennas
Radio channel characteristics and countermeasure technologies
Multiple access schemes for Multipoint systems

6. Planning and deployment aspects

Radio network planning tools
Deployment experiences
Interference aspects
Impact of environmental constraints
Impact of new performance standards on radio networks

7. TMN aspects

Experiences on fixed radio integrated in the Telecommunications Management Network
Impact of new services provisioning on management solutions

The Scientific Committee encourages further proposals and contributions subject to consideration for inclusion in the conference program.
The conference is expected to take place in single plenary sessions (i.e. no parallel sessions) during the all three days.

ECRR Scientific Committee

Sandro Dionisi (Telecon Italia - Scientific Committee Chair)
Laurent Bellot (HARRIS Stratex Networks)
Bonin, Jean Pierre (Alcatel Lucent)
Giovanna d'Aria (Telecom Italia Lab)
Flood, Ian (Ofcom)
Ingvar Henne (NERA Telecommunications)
Khaled Fazel (Ericsson)
Berthold Lankl (University of Federal Armed Forces - Munich )
Pekka Linna (Teliasonera)
Vladimir Minkin (NIIR, Ministry for Communication and Informatization of the Russian Federation)
Hans Peter Petry (Detecon International)
Mats Ohman (Teliasonera)
Marcello Salerno (Nokia Siemens Networks)
Erik Stilling (Telia Denmark)
Torbjorn Tanem (Telenor)

ECRR Important dates

The deadline for reception of synopsis is January, 19th 2008 (extended to 15 February 2008). The synopsis shall have at least 1000 words. Authors will be advised of the acceptance of papers by February, 28th 2008. A document template for the final paper will be provided at that stage. The deadline for the reception of the final paper will be May, 3rd 2008.

ECRR contribution submissions

The synopses have to be sent electronically to ecrr@ew2008.org. The synopsis shall have at least 1000 words.

Conference web

www.ew2008.org

Jan Sykora, last update 11.6.2008