Call for Presentations

The Sixteenth Wireless and Optical Communications Conference

April 27-28, 2007, NJIT, Newark, New Jersey, USA

Conference Chair Mary Chan, Alcatel-Lucent Conference Organizer Qi Bi, Alcatel-Lucent Program Chairs Angela Chiu, AT&T Ying Hu, Alcatel-Lucent Zhengyu Huang, RSoft Guangying Li, Alcatel-Lucent Zhu Liu, AT&T Wei Luo, Broadcom Benjamin Tang, Alcatel-Lucent Bin Wei, AT&T Yudong Yao, Stevens Conference Coordinator Ying Hu, Alcatel-Lucent Sigen Ye, Alcatel-Lucent Publication Jianguo Chen, Agere Hong Zhang, InterDigital Fund Raising Allen Chen, Innovatech Solutions Pan Liu, Broadcom Local Arrangement Mengchu Zhou, NJIT Yanchao Zhang, NJIT Registration Xin He, Verizon Wireless Web Design/Database Manager Shuang Yu, Alcatel-Lucent Jie Hu, NJIT Public Relations Kevin Lu, Telcordia Shuang Yu, Alcatel-Lucent Kang Yueh, Crown Castle Haibin Huang, Conexant Steering Committee Mengchu Zhou, NJIT Wen-Ning Hsieh, DVI Comm. James Hwang, Lehigh Heather Yu, Panasonic Co-Sponsoring Associations · Chinese American Academic and Professional Society · Chinese Association of Science and Technology · Chinese Institute of Engineers - USA · IEEE Northern Jersey Section · Monte Jade Science and Technology Association · Photonics Society of Chinese Americans	The sixteenth Annual Wireless and Optical Communications Conference (WOCC) will bring together technical experts and business leaders from the North America and Pacific Rim to discuss multimedia, optical, and wireless communications technologies and business opportunities. The theme of WOCC 2007 is Convergent Communications over public mobile wireless networks, public fixed broadband wireline networks, and private customer premises networks. The integration of these three networks is the focus of a new next-generation network (NGN) providing convergent user-centric services that are no longer associated with the types of network access or content media. Instead, these convergent user-centric services will offer seamless delivery of multimedia applications including voice, data, image, and streaming video independent of any access technologies. The transport layer protocol is converging on Internet Protocol (IP) that propelled the growth of World Wide Web (WWW). The network and service providers will need to deploy standard-compliant converged networks and offer these new value-added services to save operational cost and grow their revenue. Convergent Communications can truly be considered as the enabler for the next phase of growth for the telecommunication industry. High quality presentations and papers are solicited in the areas of wireless networking, intelligent multimedia, optical communications, and network solutions. Interesting topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
	Wireless and Mobile Communications · Wide-area and fixed wireless communications · Wireless LAN/PAN · Convergence of fixed and mobile hybrid communication system · Low-power mobile end-devices and system-on-chip · Security in mobile and wireless networks · Sensor network and distributed mobile computing · Location-based services and positioning · Mobile and wireless applications · Fundamental research in mobile and wireless communications Network Solutions · Convergence architectures and solutions · Migration to NGN and mobile broadband · Network planning, design methods and tools · Position of new technologies in the network	Optical Communications · Optical network planning, designing, and modeling · Optical access/metro networks · Photonic switching system architectures and network elements · Optical passive/active components and devices · Optical network protection and restoration · Optical network applications Intelligent Multimedia · Multimedia indexing and search · Semantic-based multimedia analysis · Multimedia database · Multimedia content personalization · Multimedia content distribution · Peer-to-peer multimedia · IPTV technologies and services · Security of multimedia data · QoS for multimedia applications
	Submission Deadline: March 2, 2007 Notification: March 16, 2007 Submit the abstract/bio in Microsoft Word to one of the program chairs: · Wireless: Guangying Li, gli@alcatel-lucent.com Wei Luo, weiluo@broadcom.com · Network Solutions: Ying Hu, emilyhu@alcatel-lucent.com Benjamin Tang, btang@alcatel-lucent.com · Optical: Angela Chiu, chiu@research.att.com Zhengyu Huang, zhengyu05@gmail.com · Multimedia: Zhu Liu, zliu@research.att.com Bin Wei, bw@research.att.com Please refer to www.wocc.org for the abstract/bio template and additional information.